Olaf E. Ray, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the Seventeenth of May festival [Norway's Independence Day], has been in Chicago for about twenty years. During the first few years of this period he worked for the Amerika Line, studying law in his spare time. He graduated ten years ago from Lake Forest University, and since then has been practicing law in Chicago. Strongly interested in everything Norwegian, a good speaker and an active member of Norwegian society, he is to give the speech of welcome at the Seventeenth of May festival. The Reverend Ole Olsen, presiding elder for the Methodist Congregations in the Bergen District, will deliver the main oration at the festival. He is known to be an excellent speaker.