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Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 of Albany, N. Y., was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1929 at a meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college.
While at Harvard Mr. Roosevelt was President of the CRIMSON and one of the three members of the Class Committee. He took an interest in politics and social service, working for the Political Club and the Phillips Brooks House. He was a member of the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding, the Institute of 1770, and the Signet Society.
He has shown always a keen interest in the University, being an overseer from 1918 to 1924.
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