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Radcliffe '58 To Graduate Out of Doors

In the first outdoor commencement exercises in Radcliffe's history, President Wilbur K. Jordan will today confer 216 bachelor and 152 graduate degrees and 87 certificates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration.

An academic procession through the Radcliffe Yard will precede the ceremonies, which will be held at 11 a.m.

Barry Bingham, president and editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal, will deliver the commencement address. The Reverend Paul A. Kellogg, Rector of Christ Church, Dover, Del., will give the invocation and benediction. Both have daughters among the candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree, and Mrs. Bingham is a trustee of Radcliffe.

More than half of the senior class, 112 of the 216, will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English.

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Thirty-five students will graduate magna cum laude, Deborah C. Duff, Mrs. Sarah Millis McCoy, and Jacqueline Wei will receive their degrees magna cum laude with highest honors. Seventy other seniors will be granted the Bachelor of Arts, cum laude.

Radcliffe will award 27 Doctor of Philosophy degrees this morning. Including the degrees granted at mid-years, the College has awarded 40 Ph.D.'s this year, comprising the largest number ever given in one year. The Annex will also award 60 Master of Arts degrees, one Master of Science, and 64 Master of Arts in Teaching.

Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, will represent the Corporation of Harvard University on the platform in front of Longfellow with the Radcliffe officers and trustees.

Susan Olsen of Morristown, N.J., Class Marshal, and Mary-Alice Bauer of Wellesley Hills, Commencement Chairman, will head the procession of seniors from the steps of Agassiz to the Longfellow platform. Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman, Jr., College Marshal, will lead the college officers and trustees in the academic procession. Mrs. Hannah H. Gray is marshal for the graduate students, and Miss Karen Goukassow for the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration.

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