Trustee Meeting
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, meeting in Hanover on April 13 in place of the annual spring meeting of the full Board, completed a routine docket of business that included two faculty promotions, the awarding of 63 degrees, and the acceptance of a number of faculty resignations. Present at the meeting were John R. McLane 'O7, chairman of the executive committee; President Hopkins; Edward S. French 'O6; and Dr. John F. Gile 'l6.
Faculty promotions were voted to Malcolm C. Henderson, from Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics, and to Andrew H. McNair, from Assistant Professor to Professor of Geology. Professor Henderson at present is on leave for special war research in California.
Formal acceptance of the resignations of eight faculty members was voted in the cases of the following: Bernard Brodie, Instructor in Government; Margaret R. Cusick, Instructor in Graphics; Roy L. Gale, Instructor in Physics; Piltti Heiskanen, Instructor in Physical Education; Ralph H. Twining, Assistant in Chemistry; Kenneth L. Roper, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology; Rita Walsh, Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics; and Harald Schutz, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Robert J. Beitel Jr., who resigned March 5 as Assistant Professor of Research in Physiological Optics in order to enter the Medical School as a student, was appointed Consultant in Research in Physiological Optics with the same rank. Another appointment was that of Elizabeth Nemiah Ladd, daughter of Prof. Royal C. Nemiah, as Associate in German for such period as she is needed by the Department.
The Trustee executive committee voted the Master of Arts degree to Spencer L. Baird Jr. '44, and upon recommendation of the Faculty awarded the following Bachelor degrees:
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE—I 946: Calvin H. Gurney, David E. Nassif, Bruce R. O'Brien, Henry W. Parker.
BACHELOR OF ARTS—I 944: Homer G. Bogart, 1945: Ralph Blackburn Jr., Channing E. Harwood Jr., James M. Knowles Jr., Richard M. Seybold. 1946: Edward A. Attix, William E. Beaven, Foster E. Bennett, Channing M. Bowen, Carlton H. Bremer Jr., James J. Brod, Thomas K. Burnap, Austin A. Chin, Milton Cooper, Joseph H. Davenport Jr., Douglas W. Frerichs, Howard C. Hewitt, Melvin F. Johnson Jr., Arthur Naitove. Richard B. Pringle, Fred W. Richardson, William R. Schillhammer Jr., Bert E. Schwarz, Manuel E. Soto, William C. Soule, David J. Stephenson, Ignatios J. Tickelis, Richard E. Turk, Guy W. Van Syckle, George H. Vogt, John H. Wolfe.
Twenty-five other Bachelor degrees were granted by the Trustees following the recommendation of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments, created by the Trustees for the handling of special wartime cases. These recipients, all Bachelors of Arts, were: 1939—Jerome Beatty Jr. 1942—Robert D. Buckalew, Glenn R. Green. Harold C. Harlow Jr. 1943—Paul R. Rill. '944~John W. Berry, John B. Churchill, Robert 6. Conroy, John W. Craig Jr., Thomas R. Crowder Jr., Donald D, Evans, Robert G. Gilchrist, Lowry C. Macbeth, Henry L. Marshall, David B. Parks, Gregory L. Rabassa, George W. Sawyer, William A. White. '94s—Robert P. Brundage, Thomas C. Davidson Jr., Robert J. Hausman, John D. McNamara. 1946—Dickson R. Loos, Edward E. Woolman. V-12, as with the Class of 1945—Paul J. Muller.
In accordance with a previous Trustee vote regarding degrees for medical students during the war emergency, A.B. degrees were also voted to Joseph A. Barss '45 and Edward B. Crane '45, who have completed the first year of medical school elsewhere.
