Middlebury President

TO LEAD VERMONT COLLEGE

DR. SAMUEL S. STRATTON '20 resigned on December 15, 1943 from his position as Director of the Review Division in the Distribution Bureau in Washington to accept the Presidency of Middlebury College.

Dr. Stratton, on leave of absence from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, where he had been professor of Economics, has been working for OPM and WPB as assistant chief of the Bureau of Priorities.

His Chief, Donald M. Nelson, in his congratulatory letter said: "I am sure that the fact that you assume the direction of the college in time of war, endowed with the experience and point of view which come from having been for nearly two years in the center of a Government which has accepted the challenge to preserve freedom of thought and speech, freedom of religious worship, and freedom of the individual to follow his own conscience against the threats of our enemies, will give an extra measure of confidence to a college which, like all colleges, is trying to adjust itself to the necessities of war.

"I know that you share the point of view which President Hopkins of Dartmouth expressed when he was with us about a year ago, that if it were necessary he might have to place some of the ancient freedoms of his college on the shelf for the duration but that they would be plainly marked, to be taken down and put again to use as soon as the war was over."

Dartmouth joins Donald M. Nelson in wishing Sam Stratton the best of luck in his new position, and welcomes him back again to New England at the helm of a sister college.