Governor Saltonstall Succeeds Cutler as President of Alumni

Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 was elected President of the Alumni Association to serve for one year from the day after commencement at a meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association in the Harvard Club of Boston last night.

He succeeds Dr. Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley Professor of Surgery at the Medical School and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The Association numbers 79,000 alumni.

Elected Vice-Presidents to serve three years were Percy N. Booth '96, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Dr. William Barclay parsons '10, of new York City. Mr. Booth is a lawyer, a member of the firm of Booth and Conner, and has been the President of the Harvard Club of Kentucky for several years.

Parsons at Columbia

Dr. Parsons, a surgeon, is associate professor of Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and has been active as an officer of the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society and the Society of Clinical Surgery. He is a trustee of St. Mark's School.

Henry C. Clark '11, of Prides Crossing, was reelected Secretary of the Association, and G. Storer Baldwin '21, of Boston, a member of the firm of Burr, Gannett and Company, bankers, was reelected Treasurer.

Secretary of his Class

Governor Saltonstall served as Chief Marshal of the Commencement Exercises of the Alumni Association last June, when his class was holding its 25th reunion. The Governor is permanent Secretary of the Class of 1914.

While a student in the University, he handled the bow oar on the Varsity crew and held the position of Class Secretary. In 1917 he received his LL.B. degree from the Law School.

His political career has included positions as Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County, member of the Board of Aldermen of Newton, and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.