Phi Beta Kappa Elects

In token of its 150th anniversary to be celebrated next October, the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected six alumni members, four honorary members, and 15 undergraduate members at its annual banquet on March 1. Prof. Howard Mumford Jones of Harvard University spoke at the banquet, on the subject of "The American Scholar Once More."

The new alumni members are Otis Hovey '85, engineer; Ernest W. Butterfield '97, Commissioner of Education in Connecticut; Nelson P. Brown '99, justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts; Arthur H. Ruggles '02, trustee of the College and nationally known psychiatrist; William R. Gray '04, dean of Tuck School and trustee of the College; and Boynton Merrill '05, leader among New England Congregational ministers.

Those elected to honorary membership were Samuel S. Drury, headmaster of St. Paul's School; John M. Mecklin, professor of Sociology at Dartmouth; Lewis Perry, headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy; and Kenneth Roberts, author.

Seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa were Willis L. Bennett, Pittsburgh; John D. Detlefsen, Swarthmore, Pa.; Josiah M. Fowler, West Roxbury, Mass.; Albert R. Gray, Gloucester, Mass.; William H. Greenwood Jr., Whitinsville, Mass.; Garrison Lowe Jr., West Hartford, Conn.; Mortimer L. Karp, Stamford, Conn.; Michael A. Petti, Brockton, Mass.; Dexter A. Smith, Lexington, Mass.; Carl W. Stern, Chicago; Russell B. Tompkins, Winchester, Mass.; Arthur W. Tucker Jr., Lynn, Mass; Anthony Turkevich, Chicago; Robert Turner, Maiden, Mass.; and Frederick H. Vogt, New London, Conn.

LUTHER S. OAKES '99 Of Minneapolis whose election as anAlumni Councilor from District IV for asecond term will take effect June 30.