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Albert W. Alschuler '62, of Quincy House and Aurors, Ill., will deliver the Class Oration on Class Day, June 13, and Robert E. Smith '62, of Dunster House and Rumford, R.I., will deliver the humorous Ivy Oration. It was announced last night...
...opponent, Lucia Marie Cormier, 48, is a stocky, even-tempered spinster, an ex-schoolteacher and the proprietress of a Rumford gift shop, a Roman Catholic of French Canadian descent, effective minority leader of the state legislature and the darling of Maine's resurgent Democrats. Lucia Cormier was chosen to oppose Margaret Smith for her sex-but before she could claim the senatorial-race plum she proved in the rough-and-tumble school of state politics that she could outshine the men around...
...CHARLES T. HOLROYD Rumford...
Challenger Cormier, who runs a stationery shop in Rumford (pop. 9,954), was a lukewarm Republican until 1945, when she dropped in on a Democratic town meeting "as something to do for an evening," liked the Democrats and their message. In 1947 she was elected to the state legislature, became Maine's Democratic national committeewoman (1948-56), rolled up a reputation as such a strong vote getter (especially among her fellow French Catholics) that she has run unopposed in recent elections...
...recipient, in his Rumford Medal Lecture, spoke on the evolution of the capacity of plants and animals to respond to light cues. Wald described the responses in terms of molecular or chemical mechanisms...