Administration Revised; Dean to Retire

Reorganization of the administrative corps o£ the College, made necessary by the wish of Dean Craven Laycock to retire next fall, was put into effect with the opening of the new college year. The resignation of Dean Laycock, effective October i, 1934, was accepted by the Board of Trustees at its meeting on June 17, at which time the administrative changes were also voted. Professor E. Gordon Bill, formerly Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions, was elected to the newly created office of Dean of the Faculty, and Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23 was elected Assistant Dean of the College, a new post created in anticipation of Dean Laycock's retirement next fall. Robert C. Strong '24 was elected to succeed Dean Bill as Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions, while Albert I. Dickerson '3O was named to fill Dean Strong's former post as Executive Assistant to the President. Charles E. Widmayer '3O becomes the new Director of the News Service.

The reorganization involving the office of Dean of Freshmen was put into effect sooner than originally planned because of the recent appointment of Dean Bill by the Department of Labor in Washington to represent the public on a commission to effect the amalgamation of the Federal Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization. Dean Bill is now participating in the work of the commission in San Antonio, Texas, and will be absent from Hanover for two months.

Dean Laycock will retire next October after 38 years of continuous service with the College. Successively instructor, assistant professor, and professor of Public Speaking from 1896, the year of his graduation from Dartmouth, until 1911, he became Assistant Dean of the College in the latter year, and in 1913 assumed the office of Dean which he has held up to the present time.