Hammond, the first head tutor of Lowell Houseand master of Kirkland House from 1945 to 1955,has had a long, distinguised career as a professorof classics. He is the Pope Professor of the LatinLanguage and Literature emeritus.

Hammond, 91, was a Rhodes Scholar. His manybooks on the classics include The City in theAncient World, Notes on the History of Sicily andAeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader forCollege Students.

Richard C. Levin

Levin, 46, was named the 22nd president of YaleUniversity last spring.

The Beinecke professor of Economics at Yale,Levin has been at the New Haven school more than24 years as a student and faculty member.

Levin took his undergraduate degree at StanfordUniversity in 1968 and studied politics andphilosophy at Oxford University, where he earned abachelor of literature degree. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1974 and was named to theeconomics faculty that same year.

The first Jewish president of Yale Levin hassaid his priorities include balancing theuniversity's budget, improving the physicalcondition of the campus and obtaining increasedpublic funding for the sciences.

In recent weeks, the president has increasedYale's financial commitment to the city of NewHaven, where he currently resides.

Sadako Ogata

Ogata, the United Nations high commissioner forrefugees, has emphasized support for humanitarianaid programs since her appointment in 1990.Recently, she has arranged several airdrops offood in Bosnia.

Other accomplishments of Ogata during herthree-year tenure include forming a plan forWestern nations to share the burden of the Haitianrefugee crisis, studying starvation in six Africancountries and tackling human rights issues in Iraqand Burma.

Ogata, a U.S. trained Japanese professor and aspecialist in human rights, was appointed highcommissioner by then-Secretary General JavierPerez de Cuellar.

Maxine F. Singer

Singer, a biochemist and president of theCarnegie Institute of Washington, is noted for herstudy of the human genome, the genetic blueprintof a human being.

A member of the Human Genome Organization,Singer Headed as a section on nucleic acidenzymology at the National Cancer Institute until1979, when she became the chief of the Laboratoryof Biochemistry there.