Cramer Fellows

THREE CRAMER FELLOWSHIPS of $1000 each have been awarded for graduate study in the sciences next year to Donald de Forest Bauer '37 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; James Van Gundia Neel of the Dartmouth Zoology Department; and Robert Folger Thorne '41 of St. Petersburg, Fla. Both Bauer and Thorne have received the award before, Bauer in 1939 and Thorne last year.

The fellowships, granted on the R. Melville Cramer Foundation, are based on a fund now amounting to about 1115,000 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 '06, treasurer.

Bauer is completing his work for a medical degree at McGill University this year and plans to use the fellowship for clinical studies in medical genetics and research in human heredity at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N. C. Neel, a graduate of the College of Wooster, Ohio, took graduate work in the Dartmouth Medical School while a member of the Zoology Department and has been on leave of absence this year for bacteriological research at Columbia University. He will use his fellowship award for research in human heredity at the University of Rochester Medical School next year. Thorne will use his grant for further work in the field of economic botany at Cornell.