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served as a guard of honor for the coffin, the procession included former associates on the Board of Higher
Education and delegations from all three city colleges, and the honorary pallbearers were Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo,
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performing the ceremony. His children from his first marriage were Mrs. Sidney
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In 1928, Stroock received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from
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