Senior Valedictorian

SHARING the speaking honors with Mr. Monnet at the exercises on Commencement morning will be Harris B. McKee '61 of Carlisle, lowa, who has been chosen to give the valedictory on behalf of the graduating class of some 650 men. The Committee on Commencement picked him for this honor on the basis of his outstanding scholastic achievement, character, and campus leadership.

McKee, a Rufus Choate Scholar for four years, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the end of junior year. He is president of the senior class, a member of Palaeopitus and the Undergraduate Council, treasurer of Casque and Gauntlet, and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was on the varsity football squad for two years and was a member of the freshman and varsity track teams. McKee entered Dartmouth on a Wheelock Scholarship, and received the Churchill Freshman Prize as the outstanding man in his class at the end of freshman year. He is taking the combined business-engineering course at Tuck and Thayer Schools and is a member of the Army ROTC unit at Dartmouth.

Head Marshal of the 1961 graduating class will be Gilbert W. Low, Rhodes Scholar and president of the Glee Club. Also elected to serve as marshals are David H. Blake, chairman of Palaeopitus and former head of Green Key, and Oakley Winters, member of the track team and former vice president of Green Key.

Class Day speakers will be: Samuel P. Bell, Address to the College; Stephen Blank, Class Oration; Thomas K. Dalglish, Class Poem; Joel B. Heathcote, Address to the Old Pine; and H. Dutton Foster, Sachem Oration.