Graduates State Candidacies For Overseers' Board

Harvard College graduates will vote in the next few months to elect five new members of the Board of Overseers. Ten candidates have been nominated for the positions, including United Nations specialist Ralph J. Bunche and New York investment banker John L. Loeb '24, donor of $1.5 million for the planned theatre and drama center.

Other nominees include Richard B. Wigglesworth '12, Ambassador to Canada; Hermon Dunlap Smith '21, president of Marsh and McLennan, a Chicago insurance firm; J. Edward Lumbard '22, Circuit Court Judge; and Garrison Norton '23, president of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Philip H. Theopold '25, partner in Minot DeBlois and Maddison, a Boston real estate firm; Fredrick M. Eaton '27, partner in Shearman, Sterling and Wright, New York law firm; John E. Lawrence '31, partner in the Boston cotton firm James Lawrence and Co.; and Albert L. Nickerson '33, president of Socony Mobil Oil Co. have also been nominated.