Alumni Nominate 26 for 13 Offices

Neil H. McElroy '25, former Secretary of Defense, and H. Irving Pratt '26, general chairman of A Program for Harvard college, are among 26 graduates of the University named yesterday as candidates for election to major alumni offices this spring.

A total of 13 offices are open. Five of these are for members of the Board of the Overseers, six for Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, and two for members of the Harvard Fund Council.

Other nominees for the Board of Overseers are George A. Brownell '19, national vice-chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund, John Cowles '21, former president of the Harvard Alumni Association, James A. Singer '27, former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, Maurice Heckscher '28, director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and J. Hopkins Smith, Jr. '31, a director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Also, Charles F. Adams '32, chairman of the corporation committee of A Program for Harvard College, Theodore Chase '34, vice chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, and Gray Thoron '38, former secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Club of Austin, Texas.

Harvard degree holders will vote by mail during the spring on the candidates for all positions. The results will be announced on Commencement Day, June 16.