James B. Tobias '41 of Dunster House will receive the Citizenship Medal of the Corporal Russell E. Hoyt Post 299 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Cambridge, Thursday morning at the veterans' Memorial Day exercises at the Weeks bridge.
The medal will be awarded for Tobias's attempt to rescue a three-year-old Cambridge child fallen through the ice on the Charles River March 14.
Dean Hanford and Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Harvard Corporation, will represent the University at the ceremonies, and the student body will be represented by a delegation headed by Blair Clark '40, Seth C. Crocker '41, Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Homer D. Peabody, Jr. '41, Phil C. Neal '40, and Ernest J. Sargeant '40.
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