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Photograph of Jerome C. Hunsaker, Professer Emeritus, right, with Nathaniel McLean Sage (lower left with glasses) at the Alumni Day luncheon in 1954.

Original caption: "Commencement and Alumni Day Activities in Brief

Kaleidoscopic events of Commencement and Alumni Day activities are shown in these selected views of events at the end of the school year. (Upper left) Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Commanding General, Camp Kilmer; Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation; and Brigadier General Kurt M. Landon, Chief of Staff, Air Research and Development Command, in Dr. Compton's office prior to R.O.T.C. commissioning excercises. (Upper right) Taking part in the baccalaureate service were: (left to right) President Killian, 1926; Professor Gilbert Highet, of Columbia University, who delivered the baccalaureate address; Dr. Karl T. Compton; and Dean of Students, E. Francis Bowditch. (Left) Leading the singing at the Alumni Day Banquet, as he has done many times before, was Orville B. Dennison, 1911. (Right) In serious discussion at the Alumni Day banquet are Ralph T. Jope, 1928, and (left) Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 1909, of New York. (Lower left) Nathaniel McL. Sage, 1913, (left with glasses), and Jerome C. Hunsaker, 1912, Professor Emeritus (right with wrist watch), gather a congenial group at the Alumni Day luncheon in Du Pont Court. (Lower right) President and Mrs. Killian, Dean and Mrs. Bowditch, and Dean L. Jacoby, President of the Class of 1954, receiving guests after the Commencement Day Luncheon in the Great Court. Additional photographs, as well as a complete report of the events of the 1954 Commencement and Alumni Day activities, are given beginning on page 471."

Used in: Technology Review, June 1954