Word: overseerers
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A committee chaired by Robert L. Hoguet '31, a retired Overseer, has proposed a series of changes in the procedures for the nomination and election of Overseers.
* Candidates for Overseer should be listed on the ballot either by lot or alphabetically, instead of by seniority as at present;
"The committee showed that they were not acting in good faith when they raised the number of signatures needed for an independent can- didacy," Cynthia Smith '61, an unsuccessful candidate for Overseer last spring, said last night. "This anti-democratic measure makes it much harder for those not nominated by...
Although Radcliffe alumnae were unable to vote until now, they have been permitted to serve as members of the Board of Overseers. In 1970, Harvard alumni chose the first woman Overseer when they elected Helen H. Gilbert '36 to the Board. Mary Bundy was elected the following year.
Other Search Committee members are Beth I. Best '47, president of the Alumni Association, Mary L. Bundy '46, chairman of the Board of Trustees; Frances Cooper-Marshal Donovan '28, second vice chairman; Anne M. Morgan '46, first vice president of the Alumni Association; Francis Keppel '38, Overseer of Harvard and...