Fennell receiving an honorary Doctor of Music degree on October 15th, 1988 (exactly 55 years and 33 days after his initial arrival in Rochester on September 12th, 1933, as he wrote on the frame’s reverse side). At left, ESM Director Dr. Robert Freeman reads the citation from the honorary degree as Fennell and UR President Dennis O’Brien listen; at right, President O’Brien confers the degree and congratulates Fennell with a handshake. Immediately after the conferral, Fennell conducted the EWE in the concert’s opening selection.