In Brief . . .
SINCLAIR WEEKS, former Secretary of Commerce, and Robert L. Oare '34, chairman of the board of Associates Investment Company, South Bend, Ind., have been elected members of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School. Mr. Weeks succeeds Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, whose second term expired June 30, and Mr. Oare takes the place of Kenneth M. Henderson '16, retired president of Ditto, Inc., who is now a lecturer at Northwestern University's School of Business Administration.
Guest lecturers in the Great Issues Course for the fall term are an unusually prominent group of national and world figures. In the order of their visits, they are: Hans Kohn, professor of history at CCNY; Thurgood Marshall, directorcounsel of the NAACP; James J. Kilpatrick, editor of the Richmond NewsLeader; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former president of the UN General Assembly and India's High Commissioner in London; Leon H. Keyserling, economist; James Reston, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times; James B. Conant, former president of Harvard, now making a national study of U. S. public schools; W. Willard Wirtz, former chairman of the National Wage Stabilization Board; William Proxmire, U. S. Senator from Wisconsin; Styles Bridges, U. S. Senator from New Hampshire; and William F. Buckley Jr., editor of National Review.
With the addition of the Class of 1959 in June, the alumni body of Dartmouth College now totals 29,658 living members. The total for the undergraduate College alone is 28,530. The central point among Dartmouth graduates now falls in the Class of 1941; among all alumni it falls in the Class of 1939. The senior member of the College's alumni is Dr. Edwin H. Allen '85 of Boston, who was 95 years old last April 16.
United Artists Records last month released nationally a new recording of Dartmouth and Ivy League songs by the Dartmouth Glee Club, directed by Paul R. Zeller. The long-play album is available in retail shops in both monaural and stereo versions.
