ERINNEu Du Molnar .. SCaELdt % Mask With so little money left, till we could afford was to pick up discarded type from the comparing room floor SENIOR AND ALUMNI ISSUE Vol LXXV BARRY COMMDNER COMMONER TO ADDRESS CANDIDATES Physiologist Barry Commoner will deliver the address today when the 1968 exercises of commencement close Grinnell College’s 12an academic year. A class of 250 candidates for bachelor of arts degrees will hear Dr. Commoner speak on "From Affluence to Survival" It the 2 pm. ceremonies on central campus. Dr. Commoner is director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washing- ton University, st. Louis, Mo., and also serves as a professor or plant physiology and as chairman of the botany de- partment. President Leggett will confer the en. degrees on the grad- uates and will award honorary degrees to Dr. Commoner (doc- tor or science) and three Grin- nell alumni — Dr. Dennis H. Kelly, '18 (doctor of science), Myron L. Koenig, ’32 (doctor or humane letters), and Dwight J. Porter, '38 (doctor of Laws). Dr. Kelly, a pediatrician, was a key staff member at ilhe Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital for Children in Des Moines for 27 years before ill- ness forced him to retire in 1955. He has authored numerous articles on the care and treat- ment of Infants and children, and since 1960 has edited the Journal of the lowa Medical Society. Last year, the iowa Medical Society presented him its an- nual award of merit in recog- niUion of his outstanding con. mbutions to medicine. A graduate or the North- western University Me d i c al School, Dr. Kelly is a member of the American Academy of Pediatricians, American Medi- cal Association, Alpha Omega Alpha medical society, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Grinnell Col- lege Advisory Council. An administrator with the De— partmeni of State’s Foreign Grinnell. Iowa, Friday. May 24. isoa BUSY SUMMER FOR 8&6 MEN RADIO TURNED ON Grimeii’s FM radio Station, KDIC, began operation Monday night. The lorwatt, noncom- mercial station. with studios in the northwest comer of Darby Gym, began broadcasting with a message from station mana- ger Al Cloud. The first six hours of pro- gramming Monday night in- cluded a soul music show with the Star of the East, Babak Armajani, a rock show with Ray Kanter and Mike Saeger, and a folk and rock Show with Barry Ancona. KDIC, 89.5 on the FM dial, can be picked up several miles from the campus, and plans to broadcast through the weekend The station will be closed dur- ing the summer. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllilllllllllulllllllllllllllllllllll Service Institute tor lo years, Koenig was named to his pres- ent position as dean for aca- demic relations in 1965. Before joining the institute's staif, he served as a cultural attache at the American Em- bassy in London for two years, and received special commen- dation for his work there from lormer Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and from the University of London. Dr. Koenig earned M, A. and Ph. D, degrees at the Univer- sity of lowa and was a mem- ber of the American history iaculty at George Washington University from 1945 to 1958. Porter, who has been am- hassador to Lebanon since 1965, joined the Department of State in 1948 and was named deputy director of the Displaced Per- sons Commission the following year. First secretary in the Ameri- can Embassy in London from 1954 to l956. he handled several other State Department assign- ments the next three years, in. cluding coordination of Hungac ian refugee relief. He served with the American Embassy in Vienna from 1959 to 1963, and then spent two years as an assistant secretary of state for administration be fore assuming his present as- signment in Beirut in 1965. Porter studied at. American University and was associated ___’—— COMMENCEMENT— (Continued on Page 5) TODAY 10:30 am. Vietnam Commencement Barber Plaza Speakers: Barry Commoner Douglas Dowd The south campus reception center will be ready for opera- tion this fall, according to 3&5 head Dale Hawn. Construction on the Physical Education Complex should be- gin this summer. The plans lor the structure, presently in the hands of the U. 5. Government, will hopelully be approved by Julie 1. Work should begin six weeks later. Huwn estimated twenty months as the con- struction time. in the planning stages are a new dormitory (where the pool is now), a central dining hall (east of Darby), and a museum (north of Barber Plaza). 13er has had a busy year of construction and repairs in addition to repairing damage from vandalism (which Hawn esilmates at $2,000 to $5,000 a year), changes were made in dormitories to meet the speci- fications oi the Fire Marshal’s report. The heating plant and the service building were completed in December as was the radio suation studio. New offices were created in Burling basement, the Reinsurance building on 5th Avenue was remodeled for ad- ministration use, and parking spaces were carved out of the grass on East Street, BBzG will be busy this sum- mer: installing a new master time clock for the campus;; fixing the Burling doors so they won’t break every time the wind blows; turning the service bureau into oiiices for the an- thropology department; creating four new resident adviser suites on north campus; doing minor repairs on 300400 north cam- pus rooms; remodeling cowles lounge; putting a new floor and exterior entrance on the Dibble laundry (the hole behind Dibs ble); putting new heat controls in south campus rooms; pro- viding new and better electricity tor north campus (the hole in tront or Langan); remodeling the bake shop; turning 1022 Park Street into two iaculry apartments; inspecting and re pairing iaculty housing; and razing the old heating plant. Proposed projects include: relighting Darby; putting new display cases in the science building (or the physics depart- ment; establishing an electron- ic paging system for EELG men and security forces; and re- modeling ARI-1. llllIllillillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllliilllllllllilllllllllllliillllllllllllllillllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllll m s. Album cover photo by Hot: Hodieml Grinnell's own Ann Kirschner and Dru McConaughy made their first album this Spring. The record. which in- cluded many songs written by the two girlsA sold out on campus within Iwo dayi. No. 12 ’58 GRAD PHI BETE SPEAKER Michael P. Goodrich, I 1955 graduate of Grinnell College, will speak on “involvement— Our ‘Now' Responsibility" at the Phi Beta Kappa tea and lecture at 4 pm. today in the South Lounge. Goodrich, a member of Phi Beta Kappa who was graduated with honors in history from Grinnell, is a Baltimore, Md, insuranceman who was select- ed as one of Maryland's five outstanding young men in 1967. A school teacher and coach ior five years tollnwing his grad< uation, Goodrich began working with Northwestern Mutual Life insurance Company on at part- time basis in 1960 and became a iulletime agent with the firm in 1963. The company’s youngest general agent, Goodrich is a re- cognized specialist in estam planning and a national Quality Award winner, and has been a consistent $2 million and over producer or life insurance sales. He has presented sales semi- nars throughout the country and has spoken at national meet- ings of Northwestern Mutual Life. Goodrich is also active in church and civic affairs in his community. He has an M. A. degree in history and education from the Johns Hopkins Uni. versity and has completed a majority of the requirements for a PhD. in education. IlllllillllllllllllllllillllIIlllilillllllllllllilllllllllllilllililllllllllilllllllll N0 GRADES AT ANTIOCH YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (CPS) — The faculty of Antioch College has voted to abolish grades, and replace them with a “credit/no credit” system of evaluating students’ work At present Antioch has an A—B~C—D-F grading scale. The new system, which was ap- proved hy the faculty May 7, requires faculty to give fairly detailed reports on the progresl of students in addition to as signing them “credit or no credit” for courses. The new plan was the result of a two-year study by the edu< cational policy committee, which was headed by Mrs. Ruth Churchill, director of testing at Antioch. According to Mrs. Churchill, the details of the new evaluation system are still being worked out: by her committee. She says. though, that faculty will be able to give comments on students. and also note their progress in the following six areas: skills and techniques, substantive learning, creative thinking. in- dependent thinklng. quantity of work and responsibility.