The alumni have elected five new members to six-year terms on the University's Board of Overseers- including a woman for the first time in Harvard's 334-year history.

The 30 Overseers are, theoretically, the highest governing board of the University. In practice, however, the Board usually restricts itself to approving the decisions of the seven-member Corporation, the governing body which includes President Pusey and holds legal title to the entire University.

The new Overseers are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe; Louis W. Cabot '48, a Boston industrialist: Wade H. MoCree Jr., a Detroit judge: Donald Kennedy '52, a professor; and John J. Iselin '56, the former nation editor of Newsweek.

All the new Overseers were nominated by a committee of alumni appointed by the Overseers for the job. Candi-

dates not nominated by the committee may obtain a place on the ballot by collecting alumni signatures on a nominating petition.

Last year, two radical candidates- author Norman Mailer and Henry Norr '68, a member of SDS, ran for Overseer using the petition route. Despite a widely publicized campaign, including a telegram from Mailer to President Pusey on the morning of the April 10 police raid on University Hall, both were defeated by conventional nominees.