J. P. Morgan Selected to Head Alumni Association for Year as Successor to Allston Burr

J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York City, a graduate of Harvard College in 1889, and head of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, bankers, has been chosen as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed Allston Burr, '89, of Boston, according to an announcement made public today.

Mr. Morgan was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1909 to 1915, and from 1916 to 1922. His election as president of the Alumni Association took place this week at the annual October meeting of its directors, who selected, as the two vice-presidents J. M. Morton, '91, of Fall River, United States District Judge in Massachusetts, and A. A. Sprague, '97, of Chicago, onetime chairman of the board of Sprague, Warner & Company, and now a director of that company.

H. C. Clark, '11, of Prides Crossing, who had been Acting General Secretary of the Association, was elected to the offices of General Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Clark is also Treasurer of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Executive Secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund.

George Whitney, '07, of New York City, a partner in J. P. Morgan & Company, was elected chairman of the standing committee to nominate Overseers of Harvard College, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Four members of this committee were named at the same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar of Boston and S. H. Wolcott, '03, of Boston, vice-president of the State Street Trust Company, a former director of the Alumni Association.