Radcliffe Graduates 249 At 83rd Commencement

249 members of the Radcliffe Class of 1965 were "admitted to the fellowship of the educated" at the college'es 833rd Commencement exercises in Radcliffe Yard yesterday morning.

79 per cent of the class graduated with honors, and six seniors received their degrees summa cum laude.

Before conferring the degrees, Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, acting President of Radcliffe, announced that the names have been chosen for the college's new library study-center and first unit of the Fourth House. The Susan Morse and Frederick Whiley Hilles Library and Mabel Daniels Hall will both be dedicated in the Fall of 1966, Mrs. Gilbert said.

Mary I. Bunting, Radcliffe's President who is currently completing a one-year term with the Atomic Energy Commission, delivered the Commencement address. She said that her year in Washington had served to strengthen her "conviction about the importance of thinking and working in an international framework for the benefit of mankind."

Commenting on the new methods of warfare which she observed as a member of the AEC, Mrs. Bunting said she felt only an international police force should be entrusted with the control of nuclear powers."

She added that talk of the Great Society had impressed her with the fact that modern resources may make it possible to "plan to improve the environment, to reduce misery and ignorance, and to enhance the quality of human experience on the scale that is far beyond any previously bought possible."

Women Needed

Stressing the need for educated women, she noted that the primary needs of modern society are in the fields that women have always entered--education and social innovation.

Mrs. Bunting pointed out that while 57 percent of the male employees in the AEC have college degrees, only seven percent of the females do. "It's not easy for the Commission to promote women to high positions, no matter how eager it may be to do so," she said.

In a new ceremony introduced at the exercises, Mrs. Gilbert presented "Founders Awards" to three alumnae "who have made distinguished contributions in their fields of activity." The awards were given to Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, a civic leader; Dr. Martha M. Eliot, a leader in child welfare, and Miss Mabel Wheeler Daniels, a composer.

Princess Christina of Sweden, who spent last year as a junior at Radcliffe, attended the ceremonies "to be with and congratulate" her former classmates.