Cowles Chosen Class Day Orator; 3 Commencement Speakers Named

The 1951 Class Day committee yesterday announced the selection of John Cowles, Jr. of Eliot House and Minneapolis as Class Orator and of John R. W. Smail of Kirkland House and Kent, Conn., as Ivy Orator for the Class Day exercises at 3 p.m. on June 19 in the Sever Quadrangle.

Mason Hammond '25, master of Kirkland House, announced the student Commencement Day speakers. John E. Rexine '51 of Eliot House and West Roxbury will give the Latin Oration. DeWitt S. Goodman '51 of Kirkland House and New York City will deliver a speech on "Blood Fractionation: Science in the Service of Man."

Roberts B. Owen, Jr. 3L of Ames Hall and New York City will talk on "Civil Rights in the Community of Nations."

The Class Day committee also picked Walter M. Aikman of Eliot House and Cazenovia, N.Y., as Class Chorister, W. Lyon Phelps of Eliot House and Bridgehampton, N.Y., as Class Poet, and Donald A. Hall of Eliot House and Hamden, Conn. as Class Odist.

A panel of four judges included Dean Bender, Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music.