New Alumni Directory, Out This Spring, Contains 93,300

Harvard has over 93,300 living alumni, most of whom are graduates of the College and come from the states of Massachusetts or New York.

These and other statistical facts are revealed in the latest revision of the Alumni Directory, issued this spring by the Alumni Records Office.

Of the University's 93,300 alumni, 38, 232 are graduates of the College; 18,304 of the Law School; 13,921 of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences; and 13,805 of the Business School, the Directory shows. University divisions boasting the fewest alumni are the Trade Union Fellows with 43 and the now-defunet School of City Planning with 25.

Oldest

Because of the recent deaths of members of the Class of 1867 and 1869 the oldest living alumnus is now Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 of Waltham. Every class since 1878 lists at least one living alumnus.

The Class of 1891 is the first class with 100 living alumni, and the Class of 1936 is the first class with over 1000. The biggest class is the Class of 1946 which numbers 1422 living alumni, according to the Directory.

In regard to the geographical distribution of Harvard's living alumni, the Directory found that 23,962 come from Massachusetts and 14,838 from New York. Following are California, Pennsylvania in that order, with Wyoming and Nevada bringing up the rear with only 58 and 67 alumni, respectively.

From out of the country, Canada, with 914, has sent the most men to Harvard, China has sent 424; England, 281; and Japan, 165.

The Task

Compiling the new Alumni Directory was a giant task that kept Alumni Records Director Peter E. Pratt '40 and a staff of 20 assistants busy for many months.

The current edition is a "war to peace" revision of the 1940 edition. Over 10,000 postcards went out last fall requesting address changes, and by April 35,000 had been returned. 7645 postcards have been due since 1940, and the Directory lists these 7645 men as "lost" alumni.