The College
At Dartmouth's 201st Commencement on Sunday morning, June 13, the bachelor's degree will be conferred on approximately 720 seniors. Some 220 graduate students also will receive degrees from President Kemeny, officiating at his second graduation exercises since becoming President.
The Commencement Address will be delivered by Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist, whose masterful studies of the Negro problem in America and of poverty in Asia have made him world-renowned. He will be one of eight persons to receive honorary degrees.
The valedictory for the graduating class will be given by David M. Levy '71, a mathematics major and computing expert from New York City, who is the top-ranking scholar in his class.
Two Commencement Symposia have been scheduled for Saturday, June 12. One, in the morning, will deal with "The Role of the Sciences in the '70s" and will be moderated by Dean David V. Ragone of Thayer School. Among the panelists will be two Dartmouth brothers, Anthony L. Turkevich '37, John Franck Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, whose son Leonid '71 is graduating, and John L. Turkevich '28, professor of chemistry at Princeton University. An afternoon symposium will consider the question: "Can We Afford the Future?" It will be moderated by Trustee Dudley W. Orr 29 and will have as two of its panelists J. Irwin Miller, chairman of the board of the Cummins Engine Co., and Henry Bragdon, history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy.
