Take Government Posts
Two MORE MEMBERS of the Dartmouth faculty turned to government service during the past month when Prof. Francis E. Merrill '26 of the sociology department became priority specialist for one of the industry branches of the Division of Civilian Supply, OPM, and Prof. Dayton D. McKean of the public speaking department accepted appointment as Deputy Finance Commissioner of New Jersey. Professor Merrill was already on first-semester leave at the time, while special leave for this and the next academic year has been granted to Professor McKean.
Professor Merrill is priority specialist for the Printing and Publishing Branch of the Division of Civilian Supply, and in this position serves under Prof. John W. Harriman of Tuck School, who is head priority specialist for the Division.
Professor McKean, whose appointment was announced by Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey, has long been regarded as a foe of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and is the author of The Boss: TheHague Machine in Action. He served as a member of the New Jersey Assembly from Mercer County in 1934 and 1935 and also wrote Pressures on the Legislature of NewJersey. Professor McKean was a member of the New Jersey Social Security Commission, which drew up the state's present social security act, and before coming to Dartmouth in 1937 was director of the Trenton district of WPA. He taught at Princeton from 1929 to 1937.
In joining the priority specialists staff in the Office of the Technical Consultant to the Director of Priorities, Professor Merrill will have close association with a number of Dartmouth men. Dr. Samuel S. Stratton '20 of the Harvard Business School fills the top position as Technical Consultant to the Director of Priorities, while within the subsidiary Division of Civilian Supply, John J. Moore Jr. '20 is priority specialist for the Electrical Appliances and Consumers' Durable Goods Branch, and within the Division of Materials, Stephen P. Dorsey '35 is priority specialist for the Nickel Branch. Professor Harriman is head priority specialist for the Civilian Supply Division, embracing nine different branches; and Prof. Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11 of Tuck School, although not connected with priorities, is in the same Division as chief of the Industrial and Office Machinery Branch.
