Commencement Speakers

CHARLES H. MALIK of Lebanon, president of the United Nations General Assembly, will deliver the Commencement Address at Dartmouth's graduation ceremonies on Sunday morning, June 14. His address, following the awarding of honorary degrees, will be the main feature of the Commencement speaking program, which will include the traditional valedictory to the seniors by President Dickey and the valedictory to the College by John E. Baldwin '59 of Oak Park, Ill., Daniel Webster National Scholar and a brilliant student in chemistry.

Mr. Malik has visited Dartmouth before, as lecturer in the Great Issues Course in 1951. He became president of the U.N. General Assembly last September after long service as a Lebanese diplomat and educator. After graduating from American University in Beirut in 1927, Mr. Malik taught mathematics and physics there and then did graduate work at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1937. He returned to American University to teach philosophy.

Mr. Malik was named Lebanon's first ambassador to the United States in 1945 and was his country's delegate to the United Nations Charter Conference in San Francisco. From 1946 to 1952 he was Lebanon's delegate to the United Nations and served as president of the U.N. Economic and Social Council. He was Lebanon's minister of foreign affairs from 1956 until his election last year to head the General Assembly.