Fraternity Adviser Named

FRATERNITY OFFICER APPOINTED; DARTMOUTH NIGHT ON FEB. 26;HANO VER BROADCAST LISTED; 27TH CARNIVAL PROGRAM

The appointment of Davis Jackson '36 of Washington, D. C., as College adviser to fraternities, effective immediately, was announced by President Hopkins on January 14. The appointment was made public at the same time that it was communicated to Alvin E. Duerr of New York City, chairman of the special committee appointed by the national fraternities having chapters at Dartmouth to study the Hanters on an enlarged program of activities.

Mr. Jackson, although he will have offices in Robinson Hall, will be associated directly with the President's Office. President Hopkins indicated his intention to name a committee of administrative officers to serve in an active consultative capacity with the new adviser, included among whom he expected would be one member with expert financial training to assist Mr. Jackson in connection with fraternity financial problems.

The new appointment is in line both with the recommendations of the Committee for the Survey of Social Life in Dartmouth College, for strengthening the program of the fraternities during the recommended "trial period," and also with the wishes of the committee headed by Mr. Duerr, who urged the appointment of a college officer in close touch with undergraduate and fraternity life at Dartmouth to guide and assist in the development of projects in which the committee is interested and to initiate new projects for strengthening the chapters and increasing their contribution to undergraduate life.

RECENT GRADUATE PREFERRED President Hopkins indicated that after consideration of many different possibilities he had come to the conclusion that one of the most recent graduates of the. College would be in the best position to serve the purposes of the new fraternity office. In his letter to Mr. Duerr, the President gave emphasis to the fact that counsel and guidance of a committee of administrative officers would be available to the fraternity adviser.

Since his graduation last June, Mr. Jackson has been in Knoxville, Tenn., associated with the Tennessee Valley Authority. A native of Washington, D. C., he entered Dartmouth from the Vallejo High School of Vallejo, Calif., where his father a naval officer, was formerly stationed. He Was an honors student in Political Science and as president of the Dartmouth chapter of Sigma Chi directed the active program of that house.

President Hopkins stated that no attempt had been made to define the specific functions of the new office, in the expectation that these would have to develop through the fraternity adviser's relations with the Interfraternity Council and with the individual chapters, along the lines which would be most helpful to them.