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Ickes Speaks At Radcliffe's '49 Exercises

Ex-Cabinet Member Featured In Annex Graduation; Sperry Gives Baccalaureate Speech

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Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior, will give the main address at the Radcliffe commencement, 11 a.m. on June 22 in Sanders Theater, President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday.

Ickes was from 1933 until 1946 Secretary of the Interior in the cabinets of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Harry S. Truman and served during the war as Administrator of Solid Fuels. His grand-daughter, Elizabeth Ickes, is a member of the graduating class.

Commencement chaplain will be the Rev. Nathan W. Wood, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Arlington, whose daughter, Alice Wood, is also in the graduating class.

Sperry at Baccalaureate

Dean Sperry of the Divinity School and chairman of the Board of Preachers, will speak at the Baccalaureate exercise, Sunday afternoon, June 19, in Memorial Church. He will be assisted by the Rev. Henry B. Washburn, dean emeritus of the Episcopal Theological School, and vice-chairman of the Board of Preachers.

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