This year, eligible alumni voters will elect five members of the University's Board of Overseers and six directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the first week of April, and completed ballots must be received by noon on June 4, the Friday before Commencement. Election results will be announced on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Thursday, June 10.

Individuals may qualify for the ballot in two ways. First, a slate of nominees (eight for Overseer and nine for HAA Director) is put forward by the HAA Nominating Committee, a broadly representative group of Harvard graduates whose 13 voting members include three present or former Overseers as well as 10 other alumni and alumnae chosen by the HAA Executive Committee from among all Harvard graduates. Excerpts from this year's report of the HAA Nominating Committee appear on these pages.

Candidates may also be nominated by petition, that is, by obtaining a prescribed number of signatures from eligible degree holders. This year, prospective petition candidates had until Feb. 10, 1999, to gather and submit such signatures, in the manner set forth in the election rules.

All holders of Harvard degrees (including honorary), save for Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer.

Fuller information about all the nominees will appear in the materials circulated with the election ballots.

For Overseer of Harvard College (five to be elected), in ballot order:

Nominated by HAA Nominating Committee:

MARGARET A. HAMBURG, AB '77 magna cum laude, MD '83. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.

ERIC L. EVERSLEY, JR., EdD '76, CAS '73; BS '68, University of Minnesota; MA '70, University of Colorado. Executive Officer/District Superintendent of Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), Patchogue, N.Y.

JOSEPH J. O'DONNELL, AB '67, MBA '71. Owner, Chairman, Boston Concessions Group, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

KAREN GORDON MILLS, AB '75 magna cum laude, MBA '77, Baker Scholar. President, MMP Group, New York, N.Y.

THOMAS E. EVERHART, AB '53 magna cum laude; MS '55, UCLA; PhD '58, University of Cambridge, England. President Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Santa Barbara, Calif.

SHEILA JAMES KUEHL, JD '78; AB '62, University of California at Los Angeles. State Assembly member, 41st district; Chair, Assembly Judiciary Committee, Santa Monica, Calif.

RAJAT K. GUPTA, MBA '73; B. Tech. '71, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Managing Director, McKinsey & Co., Chicago, Ill.

ROLAND A. HERNANDEZ, AB '79 cum laude, JD '82. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Telemundo Group, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.

Candidate Nominated by Petition:

STEPHEN B. HRONES, AB '64 cum laude; JD '68, University of Michigan. Senior Partner, Hrones & Garrity, Boston, Mass.

For Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association (six to be elected), in ballot order:

Nominated by HAA Nominating Committee:

TRUDA CLEEVES JEWETT, EdM '83; George Washington University '55-57. Assistant Executive Director, The Children's Aid Society, New York, N.Y.

BARBARA J. CIGARROA, AB '78 summa cum laude; JD '93, Washington University School of Law, MSW '93, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Assistant District Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, El Paso, Texas.

RAY A. HAMMOND, AB '71 cum laude, MD '75, MA '84. Pastor, Bethel A.M.E. Church, Boston, Mass.

MARYANN TSANG FONG, AB '80 cum laude. Owner, Daryan International Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.

DAVID M. BALABANIAN, AB '60 magna cum laude, LLB '65 cum laude; B. Phil. '62, Oxford University, England. Lawyer, Chair of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP., San Francisco, Calif.

LOUISE REID RITCHIE, AB '73 cum laude; PhD '86, George Washington University. Founding Director, Florida Institute for Leadership Excellence; Associate Professor of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Fla.

CRAIG D. THOMAS, AB '74 cum laude; LLB '78, University of Alberta Law School, Canada. Barrister and Solicitor; Principal, Thomas, Rondeau, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

SETH P. WAXMAN, AB '73 summa cum laude; JD '77, Yale University. Solicitor General of the United States, Washington, D.C.

GREGORY A. STORCH, AB '69 cum laude; MD '73, New York University. Physician; Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.