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...committee, composed of the eight class marshals and one representative from each of the Houses, has reduced the field--chosen in a poll of all seniors--down to a list of 19, headed by "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau...
...committee has other choices, and most of them seem to follow the traditional pattern. Last year saloon-keeper and comic Rodney Dangerfield spoke at Class Day, and this year's committee has a slew of comedians and other entertainment figures in mind if first choice Trudeau--a Yalie--declines to show...
...presidential adviser who served as vice chairman of the War Production Board during World War II, Elliott lectured a generation of undergraduates in Government I on the evils of totalitarianism and the need for a strongly armed America, as well as supervised the dissertations of Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Henry Kissinger, among others. "Whatever I have achieved," wrote the yet-to-be Secretary of State in 1963, "I owe importantly to his inspiration...
Lily Tomlin and Katharine Hepburn were among the 19 candidates the committee favored, Alter said. He added that if Trudeau is unable to come, the committee will then invite someone else...
Peter McLoughlin '79, co-chairman of the selection committee, said yesterday that Trudeau has been among the celebrities to turn down the offer in past years. "There's no money offered for the job, and sometimes it just comes down to being able to get a speaker because someone at Harvard knows them," he said...