RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION

Raymond H. Trott was elected president of the Rhode Island Dartmouth Association at the annual dinner and meeting at the University Club April 10.

Trott succeeds William B. Slater. Other officers elected were vice-president, Louis H. C. Huntoon; secretary, Adam A. Sutcliffe; and treasurer, Edmund F. Carey.

Members elected to the executive committee were Edward G. Carr, C. W. F. O'Connor, E. T. Richards, E. M. Baker, and F. E. Sawyer. The association was addressed by Prof. Francis J. Neef of the College.

Prof. Neef, a member of the Dartmouth faculty for more than 15 years and once an instructor at Brown, recently was made head of the personnel bureau at Hanover. It was this phase of college administration he discussed.

Working on a voluntary basis, the personnel bureau endeavors to help each student determine for himself what there is in the college that interests him, Prof. Neef said. Its scope is not vocational but rather academic at the start, Prof. Neef pointed out, in that the personnel bureau endeavors to aid the boys find their likes and dislikes in the vast groups of studies. As freshmen they experiment with these studies and as sophomores try out the field more so that when the third year starts each student is well embarked upon his major study.

Closely allied with the personnel bureau is the physical fitness department with the services of a psychiatrist. The scholarship and loans department is also close to the personnel bureau. Dartmouth has consolidated these branches into one advisory committee of which Prof. Neef is chairman.