National Medal of Arts
Helen Hayes
actress, author
Gordon Parks
photographer, film director
I.M. Pei
architect
Jerome Robbins
dancer, choreographer
Rudolf Serkin
pianist
Roger L. Stevens
arts administrator
Obert C. Tanner
arts patron
Virgil Thomson
composer, music critic
Romare Bearden
painter
J. W. Fisher
arts patron
Ella Fitzgerald
singer
Dr. Armand Hammer
arts patron
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Lewis
arts patrons
Howard Nemerov
writer, scholar
Alwin Nikolais
dancer, choreographer