Commencement Speaker

ARTHUR H. DEAN, chief U.S. negotiator in the nuclear-test-ban talks in Geneva, will deliver the Commencement Address at Dartmouth College's graduation ceremonies on June 10. A specialist in international and corporate law, he has represented the United States in many negotiations, including the Panmunjom talks dealing with a political settlement in Korea.

Mr. Dean will address members of the graduating classes of the College, the Medical School, and the Thayer School, as well as faculty members and guests. The combined Commencement and Baccalaureate ceremonies on the Baker Library lawn Sunday morning will climax three days of graduation activity for the seniors, beginning with Class Day on June 8.

Mr. Dean has been characterized as a "hard bargainer who conceals a tough streak behind a cherubic exterior." He is a senior partner in the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in which John Foster Dulles was also a senior partner. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a native of Ithaca, N. Y., and was graduated from Cornell University in 1921. Two years later he also took his law degree at Cornell.

Mr. Dean was appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests with the personal rank of ambassador in March 1961. In 1958 and again in 1960 he was chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Law of the Seas Conference in Geneva.

He worked on the draft of the Securities Act of 1933 and was a member of the Dickenson Committee which recommended the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the enactment of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. He also was active in the drafting of the Bankruptcy Act of 1940.

He is general counsel to various investment banking, commercial banking, investment trusts, industrial, oil and public utility corporations. He was elected president of the American Society of International Law in 1961.

His son, Nicholas B. Dean, is a member of the Class of 1954.