Faculty Notes

ON LEAVE FROM the College, two Dartmouth professors are devoting their full time to important wartime jobs that are concerned as well with the postwar world. Albert W. Frey '2O, Professor of Marketing in the Tuck School, has been appointed deputy director in' charge of general trade relations of the Surplus Property Office of the United States

Treasury. His new duties will involve him, with the rest of the organization's staff, in the disposition of the government's surplus war property, probably running into billions of dollars.

Eric P. Kelly '06, on leave from the Department of English, has been awarded for his work in Mexico with Polish refugees, one of the highest Polish honors, the "Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta." Mr. Kelly, who won in 1928 the Newbery Medal for the best children's book of that year, has recently had published The Land of the PolishPeople, a study of the country written for children.

Dean Frank W. Garran of the Thayer School has been reelected a trustee of Norwich University to serve a five-year term.

The marriage of Frank Maloy Anderson, Emeritus Professor of History, to Miss Maud Case of Minneapolis, Minn., took place on September 14 in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Professor and Mrs. Anderson, who were classmates at the University of Minnesota, will make their home in Hanover.

Two histories of American clipper ships written by Alexander Laing '25, Assistant Librarian, are on the new fall book lists. One is The Sea Witch reissued as a Murray Hill edition with illustrations by Gordon Grant. The other, a new book, is ClipperShip Men and is to appear in October. Mrs. Laing is also represented by her second book of verse.