To Head Wheaton
PROFESSOR A. HOWARD MENEELY, chairman of the Dartmouth history department, has been named President of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., to succeed President Edgar Park. Dr. Meneely will assume his duties on August 1, when Dr. Park retires after 18 years as head of the 110-year-old women's college.
Dr. Meneely was born in New York City on January 2, 1899. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Washington in 1921 and 1922 and took his Ph.D. at Columbia University, where he made a study of American History, Government, and Constitutional Law.
The Columbia University Press published Dr. Meneely's study of the activities of the War Department during the Civil War. He has also contributed to the Dictionary of American Biography, the American Historical Review, the Saturday Review of Literature, and has helped in the preparation of Ray Stannard Baker's Lifeand Letters of Woodrow Wilson.
He has been at Dartmouth since 1929, when he joined the faculty as an Instructor in History. He became an Assistant Professor the following year and was elevated to a full professorship in 1936, at which time Dartmouth awarded him the honorary faculty degree of Master of Arts. During the past year Professor Meneely has been head of a special sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy studying proposals for the postwar curriculum at Dartmouth.
