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YALE ADMINISTRATION • 1952 Alfred Whitney Grisvvold President Edgar Stephenson Furniss Provost Reuben Andrus Holden . . . Ass ' t to the President Carl Albert Lohmann Secretary Laurence Gotzian Tighe Treasurer Charles Hamilton Sanford ]v.. Business Manager Yale College William Clyde DcVanc Dean Richard Cushman Carroll .... Dean of Students The Freshman Year Norman Sydney Buck Dean Arthur Howe Jr Assistant Dean CORPORATION Alfred Whitney Griswold President The Governor of Connecticut ex officio The Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut ex officio School of Engineering Walter Jacob Wohlenberg Dean Loomis Havemeyer Registrar Board of Admissions Edward Simpson Noyes Chairman Donald Kimball Walker Manager of the Office of Adtuissions ALUMNI BOARD Edwin Foster Blair, ' 24 . Laurence F. Lee, ' 13L. . Waldo C. M. Johnston, Chairman , First Vice-Chairman Exec. Secretary Fellows Rev. rthur Bradford, L ing Olds, Lewis Weed, Robert Taft, Rt. Rev. Henry Sherrill, George Van Santvoord, Rev. Morgan Noyes, Dean Acheson, Charles Dickey, Morris Hadley, Fred- erick Davison, Wilmarth Lewis, Juan Trippc, Robert Stevens, Edwin Blair, Quigg Newton. Executive Committee Llenry Lovcjoy, ' 07, Charles Paul, ' 12, Victor Larson, ' 27S, A. Varick Stout, ' 26, Walter Williams Jr., ' 32S, Donald Rich Jr., ' 36, Villiam Belknap, ' 08, C. Gilbert Shepard, ' 13S, James Moulton, ' 20S, Howard Lipson, ' 26S, William Bascom Jr., ' 32, George Flinn Jr., ' 26S. Dean DeVane Dean Wnldeid ' C) Dean Buck 4

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While coniniemoratiiig the past . . . DlA LOOMIS ll.W LMLYLI . clad in cap and blue gown, with a lew sweeps oi his silver scepter cleared the curious onlookers from the front of Sterling Memorial Library. Minutes later an academic procession consist- ing of President Griswold, President Emeritus Seymour, President Conant of Harvard, and Lord fhilifax of Oxford LIniversitv, to men- tion onI a lew, slowK emerged from the building. Marching in the autumn sun through a crowd of perhaps nine hundred interested spectators, the column uound its way to Woolsey Hall to open ceremonies in honor of Yale ' s 250th anniversaiT. Inside, a large croud, including many standees, saw on the stage one hundred per- sonalities, among them Senator Robert Taft, who had recently announced his candidacy for Republican nominee in the coming presi- dential campaign. Also included on the stage were ilie members ol tlie Yale Corporation, delegates from thirty ' -eight sister institutions, and the masters of the ten residential colleges, as well as many others. Throughout the cere- monies there was an air of excitement, per- haps generated more by the squads of reporters, newsreel and television teams, than by bonafide members of the proceedings. The exercises opened with a prayer by the Right Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill and a song by the Yale Glee Club, Now Praise We Famous Men. Then President Griswold out- lined the histor - ot Yale from its conception at a meeting of Congregational ministers in September, 1701, at the home of Reverend Russell in Branford. Of these ministers, all except one of whom were Harvard graduates, he said: Thus they renewed on American soil the purpose that had been transplanted to it by A dignitaries to W ' oo .svi for i otli ear celebrations