Blackmun announced earlier this year that he will retire from the nation's highest court at the end of this term. Judge Stephen G. Breyer of Boston has been nominated to replace him. Bennett L. Carter

Carter, commonly known as Benny, is a musician,composer and conductor. Carter, 86, played with avariety of bands in his early career and led hisown band for 13 years. He composed and conductedmusic for many movies, including StormyWeather (1943),Guns of Navarone (1961), andSnows of Kilimanjaro (1952), in which healso appeared.

Carter received a Silver award from Esquire in1943 and a Gold award in 1946. He was a visitinglecturer at Princeton University in 1973, and hebecame a member of the music advisory panel forthe National Endowment of the Arts in 1976.

Albert H. Gore '69

Gore is in town both to give the Commencementaddress and to celebrate his 25th reunion.

Gore, 46, lived in Mower Hall and Dunster Houseas an undergraduate concentrating in government.He wrote his honors thesis on the impacttelevision on politics.

Immediately after graduating, Gore said he feltdisillusioned about politics and volunteered toserve in the Vietnam War in order to prevent hisfellow classmates and friends from fighting for acause in which they did not believe.

In Vietnam, Gore became a reporter, and when hereturned to the United States, he covered localpolitics for the Nashville Tennesseean.

In 1976, he was elected to his first term inCongress, winning a seat formerly held by hisfather, Albert A. Gore Sr. In 1984, Gore waselected to his first term in the Senate. InCongress, Gore took special interest inenvironmental policy, arms control, andinformation technology.

In 1988, Gore ran for president but failed towin the Democratic nomination. Declining to runagain in 1992, Gore was picked by PresidentClinton as his vice presidential nominee. As vicepresident, Gore has made much of "reinventinggovernment."

William H. Gray, III

Gray, the president of the United Negro CollegeFund and a former member of Congress fromPennsylvania, was recently named PresidentClinton's special envoy to Haiti. Gray, 52replaced Lawrence A. Pezzulo, who was forced toresign in April after efforts to return deposedPresident Jean- -Bertrand Aristide failed.

Gray, a Democrat, is assigned the task ofdevising plan to restore Aristide to power.Aristide, who was democratically elected, iscurrently living in exile in Washington, D.C.after being forced out of the country by a Haitianmilitary coup two years ago.

In Congress, Gray was the head of theCongressional Black Caucus and was the Housemajority whip. Gray, who served in the House for12 years, was the highest-ranking Black member incongressional history.

Gray left the House in 1991 to assume the Fundpresidency. Prior to his political career, he wasa Baptist minister and a lecturer. Gray willundertake his new government positions as aprivate citizen and will received no pay.

Mason Hammond '25