Commencement Plans

WITH APPROXIMATELY 300 men expected to receive their diplomas, plans have been announced for the Commencement Exercises which will be held June 28-29. Included among the men to graduate are 100 NROTC seniors, 175 civilians, and an undetermined number of the 60 students who graduated last February, but who have been invited to return for the June ceremonies.

Due to the accelerated program and the return of GI students, the graduates will range in class from '38 to '47. However, students may permanently retain their original class designations despite the 1946 graduation date. Richard Morse '44, of Hanover, son of Prof. Stearns Morse, has been named to deliver the valedictory to the College at Commencement.

Speakers named for the Class Day Exercises, which open the two-day program at 4, Friday, June 28, on the campus, are: John K. Snobble '44, Welcome Address; Frederick C. Witzell '44, Class Orator; Luther R. Nelson '47N, Class Day Speaker; Philip E. Penberthy '44, Sachem Oration; and Whitcomb Wells '44, Address to the Old Pine.

Friday evening, June 28, at 8:30 President and Mrs. Dickey will be at home to graduates, alumni, faculty, and their guests. At 9:30 the same evening there will be a dance in the gymnasium.

Ceremonies on Saturday, June 29, will start with a meeting of the General Alumni Association, including seniors and their fathers, at 10:30 in the morning in Webster Hall. Addresses will be given by President Dickey, Robert Frost '96, poet, Meryll Frost '44, representing the seniors and Guy C. Richards '96, president of the Fifty Year Class. J. W. Embree, president of the class of 1921, will preside at the meeting.

The Commencement procession will form on the campus at 4:30 and will proceed to the traditional Bema setting in the College Park for the Combined Commencement and Baccalaureate Exercises. Following this will be the commissioning ceremony for NROTC seniors entering the regular Navy. Saturday's formal program will conclude with a Dartmouth Players' presentation, "Love Rides the Rails," in Webster Hall at 9.

Senior Class Marshals for the ceremonies will be Meryll M. Frost '44, Charles E. Holt Jr. '45, Charles E. Cooper '47N and Joseph F. Conley '46. Assisting the Commencement Committee, composed of Chairman Sidney C. Hayward, Prof. John B. Stearns and Dean Neidlinger, is a student committee of eight, headed by Snobble. Other members are: Swift C. Barnes '42, secretary; Charles W. Fendrich Jr. '47N, treasurer; Robert D. Brown '43, Walter G. Koontz '47N, John D. Knipple '47N, Nichol M. Sandoe, Jr. '45 and Walter A. Snickenberger '46.