Graduate Fellowships

The award of ten fellowships for graduate study next year was announced by President Hopkins late in March. Five of these were Cramer Foundation Fellowships of $1,000 each for study in genetics and the other sciences, and the other five, valued at $900 each, were for graduate study in various fields. Six seniors, two alumni, a member of the Department of Physics, and a member of the Amherst faculty were among the recipients.

Those to whom the Cramer Foundation Fellowships were awarded were Richard Gerstell '33 of Harrisburg, Pa.; Ernest W. Hartung '38 of Hollis, N. Y.; Richard C. Jones '38 of Etna, N. H.; James W. Green Jr., assistant in Physics at Dartmouth; and Richard Blanc, assistant in Biology at Amherst College. Gerstell, Hartung, Jones and Blanc will continue their work in the field of genetics, while Green will carry on research work on the difraction of electrons.

Recipients of other graduate fellowships were Thomas W. Johnson '37 of Nahant, Mass.; William C. Chamberlin '38 of Chicago; Harry D. Heyboer '38 of Maple wood, N. J.; H. Telfer Mook '38 of Me tuchen, N. J.; and James H. Todd '38 of Greenwich, Conn. As recipient of the Fred DeMerritte Barker Fellowship, Johnson will continue his graduate work in History at the University of Chicago. Last year he was awarded one-half of the Henry Elijah Parker Fellowship. Chamberlin, who received the George E. Chamberlin Fellow, ship, will study Economics at Columbia next year. Heyboer, winner of the Richard Crawford Campbell Jr. Fellowship, -will study English literature at Yale; Mook recipient of the Charles O. Miller Jr. Fellowship, will spend next year in the study of English constitutional history at Cam. bridge, England; and Todd, winner of the James B. Richardson Fellowship, will study Geology at the University of Minnesota.