Directs Eye Institute

JOHN PEARSON '11, former New England regional director for the U. S. Social Security Board, took over the post of administrative head of the Dartmouth Eye Institute on May 1. His appointment to this newly created office was announced by President Hopkins one week earlier.

The Dartmouth Eye Institute, of which Mr. Pearson is administrative director, has developed rapidly in recent years into one of the country's foremost centers of research and clinical treatment in the field of physiological optics. The Institute has grown out of the earlier Department of Research in Physiological Optics of the Dartmouth Medical School, and has attracted widespread attention for its discovery and treatment of the eye defect of unequal vision, known as aniseikonia. During the past year the Institute has considerably broadened its study and treatment of eye anomolies and diseases and has taken over the historic Choate House as its new research headquarters.

Mr. Pearson has long been active in the affairs of the College, having served as class agent, as a member of the Alumni Council, and as a frequent lecturer at the Tuck School. Born in Concord, N. H., 51 years ago, he entered the investment business in San Francisco shortly after his graduation from Dartmouth, and later was associated with Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador to France, in Cleveland. After ten years of investment banking, he spent a similar period in government administration and research and in 1932 assumed the position of managing director of The New Hampshire Foundation, a private fact-finding body collecting statistics and data on which to base social legislation. In 1936 he was appointed regional director for New England of the U. S. Social Security Board.

Mr. Pearson was appointed a trustee of the University of New Hampshire by Governor Spaulding in 1928. He was formerly president of the Chamber of Commerce in Concord, N. H., and was a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention in 1934. He will make his home in Hanover with his wife, the former Miss Margaret Withey of Grand Rapids, Mich., and a son, Edward, aged 15.

CLASS AND CLUB SECRETARIES WHO GATHERED IN HANOVER ON MAY 10 AND 11 FOR THE 36TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DARTMOUTH SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION. H. PHILIP PATEY '98, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION, IS SEVENTH FROM THE LEFT IN THE FRONT ROW.