Dr. Elliot C. Cutler '09, of Boston, has been elected Chief Marshal to lead the Alumni at the Commencement Exercises next June, it was announced after the meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association on Monday evening at the Harvard Club.

The post of Chief Marshal, which is traditionally awarded to some member of the class celebrating its twenty-fifth reunion, has in the past been held by such prominent men as President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and Walter S. Gifford '05, President of the Bell Telegraph Company, and was awarded last year to John Richardson '08, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts.

Dr. Cutler, who graduated from the Medical School in 1913, saw active service in the Medical Corps during the war, and was director of surgery at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland from 1924 to 1932. Since 1932 he has been a professor of surgery at the Medical School, and surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was also a member of the Board of Overseers from 1927 to 1933.