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Two Join Staff

October 1945
Article
Two Join Staff
October 1945

Two ADDITIONS TO the administrative staff of the College were made in September. George H. Colton '35 of Chatham, N. J., was named Alumni Fund Associate and Executive Secretary to the Alumni Council's expanding Committee on Class Gifts; and Davis Jackson '36, who was College Adviser to Fraternities before he resigned to serve with the Navy, has returned as Assistant to the Dean of the Col lege, with special duties related to the admission of veterans and, the work of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments.

Mr. Col ton as Alumni Fund Associate replaced Prof. George F. Theriault '33, who recently resigned from the post to devote full time to his teaching and studies in the field of sociology. Colton came to Dartmouth from the Western Electric Cos. of New York City. In his undergraduate years at the College he was president of Palaeopitus, a Senior Fellow and varsity football manager. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Casque and Gauntlet, Cabin and Trail, and Phi Beta Kappa. As an alumnus he continued his interest in Dartmouth, being secretary of his class from 1938 to 1939.

Mr. Jackson, who was first appointed to the College administrative staff in 1937 had been serving in Sydney, Australia, as Navy Receiving and Distributing Freight Officer for the Southwest Pacific. At the time of his discharge in August he held the rank of lieutenant, senior grade.

Mr. Jackson first left the College staff in 1941 when he was given leave to accept an appointment in the Priorities Division of the OPM from President Hopkins, who was in Washington as priority executive for all minerals and metals for the OPM. He enlisted in the Navy in that same year receiving his training at the Supply School at Harvard.