Butterfield in New Post

Dr. Ernest W. Butterfield '97, until recently commissioner of education of New Hampshire, has resigned from that capacity to accept office as commissioner of education in Connecticut. He was appointed by the Connecticut State Board of Education as a result of recommendations received in a canvass of prominent New England educators.

Dr. Butterfield successively held principalships of various New Hampshire and Massachusetts high schools from 1897 to 1911, when he was appointed superintendent of schools in Dover, N. H. This was followed by appointment as deputy superintendent of public instruction in 1916. He has been commissioner of education in New Hampshire since 1917. The University of New Hampshire has awarded him its LL.D. degree. He has two sons now at Dartmouth.