MIT Speaker

BOSTON--Katharine Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Co., will be the speaker at MIT's 116th commencement, MIT President Paul E. Gray announced recently.

Graham was the publisher of The Post from 1969 to 1979, a period during which the newspaper took the lead in the Watergate investigation. She will be the first commencement speaker other than an MIT president since 1964, the Tech Talk, a campus newspaper, reported recently.