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Kennedy To Speak Here
At Sponsors' Day Program

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury David
M. Kennedy will speak next month at the
annual Sponsor's Day program at the
University's Graduate School of Business
Administration.

More than 500 persons are expected
to attend the October 23 program, held
each year for the individuals and
companies who contribute to the support
of the graduate business school. Mr.
Kennedy will give the principal address
this year on the topic "The Economy: A
View From the Treasury."

Mr. Kennedy, former chairman of the board
and chief executive office of Continental
Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, was
appointed to his Cabinet post by President
Richard M. Nixon in 1969. The Treasury
Secretary will deliver his address at the
Sponsors' banquet in Newcomb Hall ballroom.

Earlier in the day, vice president of the
Sponsors organization and retired president of
Dan River Mills in Danville, William J. Erwin,
will review highlights of the school's first 15
years.

That afternoon, A.W. Zelomck, noted
economist and president of the International
Statistical Bureau Inc. of New York, will
present his annual forecast of the coming
business year.

Mr. Zelomck a well-known business advisor,
has been a visiting professor at the University
graduate business school since its opening in
1955.

Hugh J. Ewing III, 1970-71 president of the
business school's student organization, will
moderate a forum entitled "1971 Business
Forecast: How Sound a Recovery?"

Also during the afternoon, members of the
graduate business faculty will conduct seminars
on such topics as "Impact of Pollution Control
and Tomorrow's Supply and Cost of Funds,"
"Student Activism and the Problem of
Perspective," and "Security Analysis In (and
Not in) the Financial News."

For wives of participants there will be a
discussion of "Consumer Protection: How
Much of What Kind Do You Really Want?"

Presiding at the banquet will be Robert B.
Hobbs, president of the graduate business
school sponsors and chairman of the executive
committee, First National Bank of Maryland,
Baltimore, Mr. Kennedy will be introduced that
evening by University president Edgar F.
Shannon Jr.