Trustees Meet

TRUSTEES HOLD FALL MEETING; DONALD L. BARR '18 NAMEDASSISTANT TREASURER; ALUMNI TRUSTEE NOMINATED

The Board of Trustees of the College met in Parkhurst Hall on October 21 for its annual fall session, taking up financial matters for the current academic year, approving recent changes in the faculty, awarding degrees, and hearing reports from its standing committees. Major item of business on the fall docket was the presentation of the financial report for 1936-37 and the budget for 1937-38 by Halsey C. Edgerton '06, treasurer of the College.

The trustees voted the title of Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages to Prescott Orde Skinner, who retired last June after 37 years of teaching, and accepted the resignations of George F. Thomas as Professor of Philosophy, Walter C. Behrendt as Visiting Lecturer in City Planning, and Hill R. Nettles as Instructor in Civil Engineering at the Thayer School, all effective before the start of the present academic year. They ratified the election of Philip E. Wheelwright as Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Dayton D. McKean as Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, and also ratified the appointments of Edmund W. Fenn as Instructor in Political Science, John F. Scully as Instructor in Education, starting the second semester of 1937-38, Robert F. Bigley as Instructor in Physical Education, Robert H. Denison as Assistant Curator of the Dartmouth College Museum, Edward S. Brown as Instructor in Civil Engineering in the Thayer School, Theodore Packard as Assistant in Play Writing and Play Production, J. Willcox Brown '37 as General Manager of the Dartmouth Outing Club, and Ross McKenney as Technician of the Dartmouth Outing Club. The trustees voted a change in the title of Prof. W. Wedgwood Bowen from Supervisor to Curator of the Dartmouth College Museum.

DEGREES AWARDED TO 14

The Bachelor of Arts degree was awarded to 14 members of past classes. The recipients were Leonard J. T. Shortell '35, Arthur K. Atkinson '36, Robert H. Murphy '36, John H. Dingle Jr. '37, W. Richard Ernest '37, Bernard Gutman '37, Raymond C. Hauschel '37, Frederic A. Kennedy '37, Max A. Polster '37, Thomas W. Prentice Jr. '37, Gandolph J. Rube '37, Harry R. Ryan Jr. '37, Justin M. Smith '37, and Thomas H. Wilson 2d '37.

Appointment of the standing committees of the trustees for the current year was announced by President Hopkins as follows: Executive Committee—Lewis Parkhurst '78, chairman; President Hopkins, Edward S. French '06, and Dr. John F. Gile '16. Committee on Degrees—Philip S. Marden '94, chairman; President Hopkins, John R. McLane '07, Victor M. Cutter '03, and Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles '02.

Committee on Investments—John R. McLane '07, chairman; President Hopkins, Clarence B. Little '81, William W. Grant Jr. '03, Victor M. Cutter '03, Edward S. French '06, and William J. Minsch '07.

All members of the Board, with the exception of Governor Francis P. Murphy '37h, ex-officio member, were present at the fall meeting.

His DEATH A SHOCK William B. Slater '14, Alumni Councilme?nber from Providence, R. I., who diedsuddenly at Mary Hitchcock Hospital,Hanover, on November 13, after severalmonths' illness with lung disease. He wasformerly president of the Rhode IslandAlumni Association and president of hisclass from 1929 to 1934, and was branchmanager of the Providence office of theBoston investment firm of Jackson andCurtis. He is survived by his wife, threedaughters, and two sons.