183rd Commencement To Take Place June 8
ON Sunday, June 8, approximately 585 seniors will be awarded, their degrees at Dartmouth's 183rd Commencement, bringing parents, alumni, and friends to Hanover for a weekend of graduation and reunion events.
The three-day program for seniors and their families begins on Friday afternoon, June 6, which also ushers in the reunion activities for the classes of 1887, 1892, 1897, 1902, and 1927. Class Day exercises will be held on the campus at 3:30 P.M.; in the evening President and Mrs. Dickey's reception for seniors, faculty, alumni and their guests precedes a Glee Club concert, scheduled at 9:15. A Band Concert at 10:30 and the Senior and Alumni Dance conclude the first-day activities.
The annual Commencement Luncheon and Meeting o£ the General Association of Alumni will be held Saturday noon, June 7, in the gymnasium. This year, in a change from custom, the mothers of seniors and the wives of alumni and faculty members will also be guests of the College at the luncheon and will attend the meeting of the General Association. Ernest Bradlee Watson, Dartmouth's Emeritus Professor of English, will deliver the Fifty-Year Address on behalf of his Class of 1902. Charles L. Hardy '27, president of the General Association, will be the presiding officer at the luncheon.
Events on Saturday afternoon include the Dartmouth-Brandeis baseball game, showings of Dartmouth movies, and fraternity reunions. Class banquets, a Band Concert, and a performance by the Dartmouth Players at 9:30 will take up Saturday evening.
Baccalaureate and Commencement Exercises will be combined on Sunday morning, June 8, at 11:00 in the Bema. In the afternoon memorial services will be conducted by some of the reuning classes.
As is customary, the Hanover Holiday will be held between the first and second reunion weekends, this year on June 9, 10, 11, and 12. The Holiday will have as the general topic for its 13th session, "The Arts and Sciences." The program, which consists of eight lectures, is as follows:
Monday, June 9, "Art and Artists in the Present Day," Artemas Packard, Professor of Art, 10:00 A.M.; "Looking at Art," Churchill P. Lathrop, Professor of Art, 8:30 P.M.
Tuesday, June 10, "The Painter Makes a Picture," Paul Sample '20, Artist in Residence, 10:00 A.M.; "The Spirit of Modern Architecture," Edgar H. Hunter Jr. '38, Assistant Professor of Art, 8:30 P.M.
Wednesday, June 11, "Our Diminishing Resources," Robert S. Monahan '29, lege Forester, 10:00 A.M.; "Was Malthus Right?" William W. Ballard '28, Professor of Zoology, 8:30 P.M.
Thursday, June 12, "Genes and the Wellbeing of Man," Edward A. Bevan, Instructor in Genetics, 10:00 A.M.; "Hiroshima Seven Years Afterward," Frank H. Gonnell '28, Professor of Zoology, 8:30 P.M.
Classes holding reunions June 13-15 are 1906, 1907, 1908, 1912, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1942. At the luncheon and meeting of the General Association of Alumni, Saturday noon, June 14, President Dickey will be a main speaker. With him on the program are Basil O'Connor '12, who will give the Forty-Year Address, and Mansfield D. Sprague '33, vice president of the General Association, who will preside at this occasion.
TO SPEAK FOR 1902: Ernest Bradlee Watson '02, Dartmouth's Emeritus Professor of English, will give the traditional 50-Year Address on June 7.
BASIL O'CONNOR '12 will address the reunion weekend meeting of the General Alumni Association, June 14, following luncheon at the gym.
EXPONENTS OF THE ARTS: Dartmouth faculty members who will speak on the Arts at Hanover Holiday, June 9-12, shown in Paul Sample's studio in Carpenter. L to r: Edgar H. Hunter Jr. '38, Churchill P. Lath rop, Artemas Packard, and Paul Sample '20.
Fabian Bachrach
ColPRESIDING OFFICERS: Charles L. Hardy '27 (top), president of the General Association of Alumni, will preside at the luncheon meeting, June 7. Mansfield D. Sprague '33, vice president of the Association, will preside at a similar occasion, June 14, during Reunion Weekend.
