LAMONT CHOSEN AS HEAD OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Thomas W. Lamont '92 of New York, international banker and partner of J. P. Morgan and Company, has been elected President of the Harvard Alumni Association. At the annual October meeting of the directors of the Association, he was chosen to succeed Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 as President.

Charles S. Pierce '95 of Boston, vice-president and general counsel for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Malcolm Donald '99, partner in the Boston law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, were named as the two vice-presidents of the Association.

Saltonatall Elected Treasurer

Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston was reelected treasurer. He is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

J. W. D. Seymour '17 of Cambridge, who is secretary for Alumni Affairs of Harvard University, was reelected to the office of Secretary of the Alumni Association.

Also reelected to his position was H. L. Shattuck '01 of Boston, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Mr. Shattuck is chairman of the standing committee to nominate overseers of Harvard College and directors of the Alumni Association.

Three New Men on Committee

Three new members of this committee have been named. One of them, M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87 of Boston, man of letters and noted biographer, is at present an Overseer of the College. W. G. Wendell '09, secretary of the Harvard Club of New York and Ralph Lowell '12 of Dedham were the other new men elected.

Mr. Lamont, the new President, has been for 12 years a member of the Board of Overseers. His second six-year term expired last June. He also served as President of the Associated Harvard Clubs in 1915 and 1916. More recently he was joint chairman, with Eliot Wadsworth '98, of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee.

Mr. Lamont is a member of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and is a trustee of Smith College and Phillips Exeter Academy. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Union College in 1924.