William Grosvenor Pollard

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The Rev'd William Grosvenor Pollard, Executive Director, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and Priest Associate at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was the graduation Speaker for the Class of 1964 in the 136th Commencement of the College and Bexley Hall on 7 June 1964. His address was entitled "The Two Cultures in Historic Perspective."

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the 1964 commencement ceremony.

William Grosvenor Pollard (1911 – 1989) was a physicist and priest. He started his career as a professor of physics in 1936 at University of Tennessee. In 1946 he championed the organization of the the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS). He was its executive director until 1974. He was ordained as a priest in 1954. He authored and co-authored a significant number of books. He was sometimes referred to as the "atomic deacon." In 1974 Phillip L. Johnson succeeded Pollard as the executive director of Oak Ridge Associated Universities.