THE COLLEGE

THE Commencement Address at Dartmouth's graduation exercises on Sunday morning, June 11, will be delivered by Jean Monnet, the French statesman noted for his leadership in efforts toward the unification of Europe.

Mr. Monnet was the prime mover in conceiving, negotiating and establishing three special-purpose supranational agencies—the European Coal and Steel Community, the Atomic Energy Community, and the Common Market, all regarded as important steps toward the unification of Western Europe. He previously served as president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, and currently he is president of the Action Committee for a United States of Europe.

Mr. Monnet, a native of Cognac, France, has a public career that goes back more than forty years, to the days of World War I. He was the French representative on the Inter-Allied Maritime Committee, served as financial and economic consultant to several nations after the war, and in 1923 became the first Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations. During World War II he served his country in various economic and supply posts in London, Washington, and Algiers. After the war he headed France's great program of modernization and reequipment of industry.

Big Day for a Dartmouth Family: Col. Alan B. Shepard '13 of East Derry, N. H., and Mrs. Shepard, parents of Comdr. Alan Shepard Jr., the country's first astronaut, standing immediately to the right of President Kennedy at the White House, May 8, as their son received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's distinguished service medal. At the right is a close-up of young Shepard, a Naval Academy graduate, and his wife Louise chatting with the President after the medal-pinning ceremony. Mr. Shepard Sr. is a retired Army colonel.

Big Day for a Dartmouth Family: Col. Alan B. Shepard 'l3 of East Derry, N.H., and Mrs. Shepard, parents of Comdr. Alan Shepard Jr., the country's first astronaut, standing immediately to the right of President Kennedy at the White House, May 8, as their son received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's distinguished service medal. At the right is a close-up of young Shepard, a Naval Academy graduate, and his wife Louise chatting with the President after the medal-pinning ceremony. Mr. Shepard Sr. is a retired Army colonel.