Hennessy-Fiske said her speech would touch on women's issues, in particular.

"It's mainly dealing with the challenges that women are going to have to face in leaving this school that are particular to our point in time," said Hennessy-Fiske, who said her speech will touch on the upcoming millennium and Radcliffe's changing role in the University.

Since Class Day planners said they do not know whether the tradition will continue now that the colleges have announced their intention to merge, Hennessy-Fiske's speech may be the last Radcliffe oration.

"No one's really sure, but in case this is, it will probably say something like 'This could be the last one,'" said speech selection committee co-chair Kimble Poon '99.

Hennessy-Fiske, who is also a Crimson editor, said her speech will speak to students like a "voice in the crowd."

"I really wanted it to be something that would appeal more to people's personal experiences and to their unguarded selves than to their finely tuned academic minds," said Hennessy-Fiske, a social studies concentrator from Albany, N.Y.

Other speeches will touch on more humorous topics.