A Woman Overseer

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 Harvard's highest governing board. But the Board usually restricts itself to approving the decisions of the seven-member Corporation, the governing body which includes President Pusey and Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 and holds legal title to the entire University. The Overseers meet only seven times per year.

The new Board members are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College; Louis W. Cabot '43, a Boston industrialist; John J. Iselin '56, vice president of Harper and Row; Donald Kennedy '52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; and Wade H. McCree Jr., a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit.

Mrs. Gilbert said of her initial nomination to the post that it reflected the changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, as seen in the proposed merger of the two institutions and the beginning of coed living last term.

"I think that in the past, Harvard was seen as a man's university," she said last Spring. "The explanation for my nomination now comes with the closer relationship with Radcliffe-it has nothing to do with me personally."

Ten candidates were nominated for the Overseer elections by a committee of alumni appointed by the Overseers for the yearly job. Candidates not nominated by the committee could have placed themselves on the ballot by collecting 200 alumni signatures, but none did so.

Last year, two radical candidates-author Noman K. Mailer '43 and SDS member Henry Norr '68-ran for Overseer using the petition route. Despite a widely publicized campaign, including a telegram from Mailer to Pusey on the morning of the April 10 police raid on University Hall, both were defeated by conventional nominees.

Two New Deans

Robert B. Watson's departure as dean of Students will precipitate a major Administration shakeup this Fall, informed sources in the Administration said last month.

Two men, the sources said, will divide the duties now held by Watson: Archie C. Epps, who is presently assistant dean of the College, and Charles P. Whitlock, now assistant to President Pusey for Civic and Governmental Relations.

Epps will become dean of Students and Whitlock will assume the title of associate dean of Harvard College, a newly created post.

Watson announced last January that he will resign his post this year. In January he will become director of Athletics, replacing Adolph W. Samborski, who will retire.

Whitlock's duties in the new position will include serving as chairman of the Administrative Board, which handles routine disciplinary matters.

The post of Ad Board chairman had traditionally been held by the dean of the College.

There was no information available about possible replacements for Whitlock, who has performed the sensitive task of handling Harvard's relations with the state and federal government during the past decade.

In his post as Chairman of the Ad Board, Whitlock will decide what punishment will be meted out to students who fall afoul of city authorities. Recent Ad Board cases have included investigation of charges against four students who were accused of tapping a pay telephone to connect an extension into a headquarters of last spring's strike against the war.