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...first Negro elected to the board of a major U.S. manufacturing company-U.S. Industries Inc., producer of automation equipment, with 1963 sales of $96 million. He is a partner in the Manhattan law firm that handles U.S. Industries' labor matters. A star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa student at Cornell, he later served as antitrust counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, became a campaigning Republican, and in 1959 was appointed a judge in New York City. As trim as a college athlete, Pierce still finds time to teach a law course at New York University; last January...
Conant, who is attending his fiftieth class reunion, will be the Orator at the Literary Exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. The Poet will be Theodore Morison '23, professor of English; Ralph N. Helverson, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Cambridge, will be the Chaplain...
Members of the class gained renown both in college and in later life. Among these are Richard H. Sullivan, First Class Marshal, who now is president of Reed College; James Tobin, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, who is a professor of economics at Yale and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; and Cleveland Amory, president of the CRIMSON and secretary of his class, who wrote The Proper Bostonians and is a commentator on American social life
...Harvard's Paul Dodyk, 26 (picked by Justice Stewart), is the son of a Ukrainian immigrant and Detroit auto worker, went to Amherst on a General Motors scholarship, made Phi Beta Kappa and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. At Harvard Law School, he ranked seventh in his class, was a law-review editor, and while still a student himself taught U.S. tax law to foreign students...
Forgetting the tradition that an August occasion is an empty occasion, President Bunting and President Pusey said some intelligent things about Phi Beta Kappa a week ago at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Radcliffe chapter...