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Elizabeth S. Fainsod, of Barnard Hall and Cambridge, was elected president of the Radcliffe Class of 1963 in a special three-way run-off election last week.
The special contest was held after three of the original ten candidates--Barbara W. Breasted, Mary S. Lowenthal, and Miss Fainsod--wound up in a virtual tie.
The new president, an American History major, is the daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Merie Fainsod. She succeeds Elizabeth J. Richmond '62 as head of the 'Cliffe senior class.
Victor L. Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, and G. Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson professor of Music, will speak at Radcliffe's 80th Commencement exercises.
Butterfield will make his address at the graduation ceremonies, to be held outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, June 13 at 11 a.m. Woodworth, who has led the Radcliffe Choral Society for a third of a century, will speak at the Baccalaureate Service June 12 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church.
Reamer Kline, president of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, will be chaplain for the Commencement.
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