PROF. HOLDEN RESIGNS THAYER SCHOOL DIRECTORATE

Professor Charles A. Holden '95 has resigned as director of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, to take effect at the close of the present academic year.

Announcement of the resignation was made early in January by President Hopkins. The formal statement reads: "For some time the various duties associated with rendering civic service have imposed an undue strain upon Mr. Holden, and his recent election as a representative to the New Hampshire Legislature is a typical case in point.

"In view of Mr.. Holden's urgent desire to be released from the responsibilities and obligations of administrative work, and in view of the painstaking labor which he has given at this point, his resignation has been accepted."

Public service has always been a dominant characteristic of Prof. Holden's life. He has served as chairman of the precinct commissioners of the village and on the board of selectmen for the town. During the war he was a member of the New Hampshire Committee of Public Safety and was executive secretary of the sub-committee on emergency help and equipment. Later he was in charge of the engineering instruction given to the College training detachment of the National Army.

In keeping with his genuine interest in anything affecting the welfare of the community he is a member of the corporations of the Dartmouth Savings Bank and of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. He has been vitally interested in the development of the state's water power. He is now New Hampshire correspondent of the water conservation committee and in 1921 was a member of the state commission on the conservation of water power. He holds membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Academy of Science, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineer Education.

It is expected that Prof. Holden will remain in Hanover and retain his connection with the College.