Faculty Promotions
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, at its annual spring meeting on April 20, voted promotions to twelve members of the faculty, appointed nine new men to the teaching staff for 1941-42, granted bachelor degrees to ten men, and approved leaves of absence for seventeen faculty members next year.
Upon recommendation of the Committee on Educational Policy, the Board also voted that hereafter the Department of Biology shall be divided into three separate departments of Botany, Physiology, and Zoology.
Eight faculty members were elevated from the rank of assistant professor to full professor. They are F. Cudworth Flint, English; Allan H. Macdonald, English; Albert L. Demaree, History; Herbert W. Hill, History; Jose M. Arce, Spanish; William D. Maynard 'll, Romance Languages; Warren E. Montsie 'l5, French; and Frank H. Connell '2B, Zoology. The four men promoted from instructor to assistant professor are: Ray Nash, Art; Joseph S. Tidd '2B, Botany; William M. Rayton, Physics; and Carl D. England, Public Speaking.
Among the faculty appointees, five will teach in the College proper, three in the Medical School and one in Tuck School. The first five include Walter Curt rendt, who returns to Hanover as Lecturer in City Planning and Housing, with the rank of Professor in the Art Department; Dr. John Clinton Adams, modern European historian at Princeton University, who joins the faculty as Assistant Professor of History to take over the field covered by Prof. Frank Maloy Anderson, retiring in June; Walter E. Bezanson '33 as Instructor in English; Jerry Donohue 111 '4l as Instructor in Chemistry; and Charles P. Hadley '4l as Assistant in Physics.
The Medical School appointments included those of Reginald K. House as Instructor in Pathology, Richard H. Barrett as Instructor in Pharmacology (Anaesthesiology), and Arthur S. Cain as Teaching Fellow in Pathology. The Trustees also ratified the appointment of Laura Jacques as Research Fellow in Pathology for the remainder of the academic year 1940-41, replacing Dr. Emil Schnap who was called to active duty in the Army Medical Corps.
The election to the Tuck School faculty was that of Charles J. Gaa, who will serve as Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance.
The Bachelor of Arts degree, as with the Class of 1939, was awarded to Ernest F. Fetske, Elizabeth, N. J., and David I. Walsh, Walpole, Mass. The degree as with the Class of 1940 was granted to Theodore L. Bartelmez, Chicago; George C. Leigh, Brookline, Mass.; Chappell Cranmer, Denver, Colo.; Paul F. Dyer, Norwood, Mass.; Edwin A. Halsey Jr., Washington, D. C.; Creighton D. Holden, Detroit, Mich.; Donald C. Schott, Montclair, N. J.; and William B. Squier, Newton Center, Mass.
BurLeave of absence for the full academic year 1941-42 was voted by the Trustees to W. Lawrence Eager '23, Assistant Professor of Political Science. First-semester leave was voted to five men: Churchill P. Lathrop, Professor of Art; Charles J. Lyon, Professor of Botany; John Hurd Jr. '22, Assistant Professor of English; John H. Cutler, Instructor in Spanish; and Francis E. Merrill '26, Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Second-semester leave was approved for eleven men as follows: Artemas Packard, Professor of Art; James F. Cusick, Assistant Professor of Economics; Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education; Edmund H. Booth 'lB, Assistant Professor of English; L. Dean Pearson, Professor of English; Andrew H. McNair, Assistant Professor of Geology; James L. Scott, Professor of German; Arthur B. Meservey 'O6, Professor of Physics; Irving E. Bender, Professor of Psychology; Alberto Vazquez, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages; and H. Wentworth Eldredge '3l, Assistant Professor of Sociology.
