The 81-year-old Randolph was a pioneer radical, civil rights, and labor organizer. In 1917 he helped found a Socialist magazine, The Messenger, which campaigned stridently against racism and economic exploitation of blacks.
In 1925, Randolph began organizing black railway workers into the fledgling Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. After a 12-year battle with railroad management, the Brotherhood won recognition in 1937 when it signed the first contract ever negotiated between a black union and white management.
He continued his organizing efforts into the sixties: in 1948, he sponsored a movement for mass refusals of induction into the Army by blacks - a move that was averted when President Truman signed an Executive Order banning segregation in the Armed Forces. He served as director of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is currently President Emeritus of the Brotherhood and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
Paton served until 1968 as President of South Africa's Liberal Party. His novel, Gry, the Beloved Country, published in 1958, received international acclaim as a protest against the racist system of South Africa. His other writings include Too Late, the Philanthrope and The Land and People of South Africa. Yale honored him with a Doctor of Letters degree in 1968.
Gardner is the author of The Art of T. S. Eliot and The Divine Poems of John Donne. She has been honored by Queen Elidabeth with the title of "Dame" - the women's equivalent of knighthood.
Senghor has been President of Senegal since its inception in 1960; since 1968, he has also served as Minister of Defense. He has published five volumes of verse in French and is the recipient of the Dag Hammarskjold Prize for his writing.
Farnsworth served as a member of the Commission headed by Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, which inquired into the causes of the student rebellion at Columbia in 1968. He has headed the University Health Services since 1954, and will be replaced next year by Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker.
Friendly has served as a Federal Judge in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1959. In 1960 he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Associated Harvard Alumni, and in 1964 he was elected to a six-year term on the Board of Overseers.
Kane was a member of the Harvard Corporation for 20 years, during the terms of Pusey and James Bryant Conant, until his retirement in 1970.
Loeb is know for his strong support for new buildings and endowment for Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Delbruck is credited with having revolutionized the science of molecular biology by his researches into genetics at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island during the 'Forties, when he was known as the leader of the influential "phage group." He also pioneered modern research into the nature of viruses.
Tange designed the Tokyo City Hall, the Stadium for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
Johnson, who has worked at Harvard since graduating from Simmons College in 1940, has served as administrative assistant to Deans or Acting Deans William Scott Ferguson, Paul H. Buck, McGeorge Bundy, Nathan Pusey (acting as his own Dean); Franklin L. Ford, Edward S. Mason, and John T. Dunlop.