Cramer Fellows

CRAMER FELLOWSHIPS for graduate study in the sciences next year have been awarded to two Dartmouth seniors and two members of the Class of 1939. The undergraduate recipients are Owen Chamberlain '41 of Philadelphia and Robert F. Thorne '41 of St. Petersburg, Fla., both of whom were awarded grants of $1,000. The graduate recipients are Wyman R. Vaughan '39, Dartmouth instructor in chemistry, who was granted $500, and Charles F. Spiltoir Jr. '39, assistant in biology at Williams, who was granted $1,000. The fellowships, granted on the R. Melville Cramer Foundation, are based on a fund now amounting to about $115,000 given by bequest of Dr. R. Melville Cramer '77 of New York City, and are awarded to Dartmouth graduates and others who have shown unusual ability especially in genetics or in original laboratory investigation. Awards are made by the President of the College upon recommendation of the Committee on the Cramer Foundation, including Dean Bill, Dean Neidlinger, and Halsey C. Edgerton, treasurer of the College.

Chamberlain, who is specializing in Physics, plans to go to the University of California next year for graduate study in nuclear physics, particularly as applied to the field of medicine. Thorne, a Botany major, will use his Cramer Fellowship to study at Cornell University next year, in the field of taxonomy of plants. Vaughan, who has continued his chemical research while serving as a member of the Chemistry faculty, plans to go to Harvard University next year for further study in the field of organic chemistry. Spiltoir, whose assistantship at Williams since 1939 has allowed him to do graduate work in Botany, plans to enroll at Cornell University next year for further work in the field of cyto-genetics.