Officers of the day
On the eve of their graduation from Harvard College, three of the military’s newest officers received their commissions at a ceremony today (May 25) in a leafy, sunlit Tercentenary Theatre. It was the first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) class of Harvard students to graduate since the University lifted its 40-year ban on ROTC in March. Since 1976, student cadets and midshipmen from Harvard have drilled and studied with units based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year, Harvard had 19 undergraduates enrolled in ROTC. Honored were Army 2nd Lt. Christopher W. Higgins of East Setauket, N.Y., a social studies concentrator who will pursue an M. Phil. at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship; Army 2nd Lt. Aaron R. Scherer of Dover, Ohio, a government concentrator assigned to military intelligence school in Arizona; and Navy Midshipman James D. Reach of Lititz, Pa., who will train as an aviator. Michael G. Schoenen,...