430 Women to Receive Degrees From Radcliffe

Two hundred and twenty-nine Radcliffe College seniors will make the long march from the Radcliffe Yard to Sanders Theatre this morning to receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees from President W.K. Jordan. In addition, Jordan will award 124 graduate degrees and 77 certificates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. The ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.

In keeping with a Radcliffe tradition, Lewis Mumford, philosopher and city planner, will deliver the commencement address. Mumford is the father of Radcliffe senior Alison Mumford, who is an A.B. degree candidate, magna cum laude.

J. Seelye Bixler, president of Colby College and Radcliffe trustee, will give the Invocation and the Benediction, and the Harvard Band will play at the exercises.

For the first time in the school's history, the PhD. candidates will wear red academic robes in the processional. This year Radcliffe will award 36 Ph.D.'s, the largest number ever granted from the school in any one year. Thirty-nine M.A.'s and 49 M.A.'s in Education will also be awarded.

Over one-half of the Senior Class will graduate with honors today. Sixty-eight will receive cum laudes; 41, magna cum laudes; and seven, summa cum laudes. Women receiving summas are Sandra Chrones, Oneonta, N.Y.; Joy Hambuechen, Huntington, L.I.; Margaret V. Means, Summit, N.J.; Cynthia M. Rich, Baltimore; Evelyn Janover, New York City; and Elizabeth Waddington, Bartlesville, Okla.

On the stage at Sanders Theatre will be Radcliffe trustees and officers and Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, representing the Harvard Corporation. Miss Nancy Campbell and Miss von Neumann will head the procession of seniors.