Prof. Morse New Dean of Freshmen; A. I. Dickerson to Direct Admissions

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE is literally stopping the presses this month in order to include President Dickey's important announcement of August 8 concerning the successors to Dean Strong as Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions. After consultation with the Board of Trustees, President Dickey has appointed Stearns Morse, Professor of English, as Dartmouth's new Dean of Freshmen and has named Albert I. Dickerson 'go, Executive Officer of the College, to take over the duties of Director of Admissions. Both of these major appointments will become effective September 1.

In filling the administrative posts left vacant by the sudden death of Dean Strong, President Dickey and the Trustees decided that the work of the Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions had grown to such proportions as to require separate direction, and two offices have accordingly been created to replace the joint office which was established under Dean Bill in 1921 at the time of the adoption of the Selective Process of Admission.

President Dickey also announced that Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '96 would continue as Assistant Director of Admissions. Since the death of Dean Strong on June 8, Mr. Chamberlain, with the help of Profs. Robert M. Bear and Edmund H. Booth '18 of the faculty committee on admissions, has been handling the selection of men for the fall class of freshman veterans.

Professor Morse, one of the most popular members of the faculty, will continue to do some teaching in the Department of English in addition to serving as Dean of Freshmen. Through his freshman English courses he has acquired an intimate knowledge of the scholastic problems of the first-year students whom he will supervise, and for many years he has also been actively interested in the extra-curricular side of student life. He is now chairman of the Dartmouth Radio Council and is a faculty member of the special committee named by President Dickey last January to survey and propose revisions in the rules governing the conduct of Dartmouth undergraduates and their relations with the College.

A native of Bath, N. H., where he still maintains a farm, Professor Morse graduated from Harvard in 1915 and obtained his M.A. there the following year. During the next five years he had a varied career as tutor, employee of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, farmer, soldier with the U. S. Signal Corps in World War I, staff member of the NewRepublic, and representative of the educational department of Little, Brown and Company. He was head of the English department of the Morristown (N. J.) School for Boys from 1931 to 1923, and in the latter year joined the Dartmouth faculty as instructor.

Professor Morse received the Alfred A. Knopf Fellowship in Biography in 1944 and has just completed the manuscript of The Yankee Spirit, which deals with the lives of three almost unknown American enterprisers: Thomas Handasyd Perkins of the Clipper Era, John Murray Forbes of the Steam Age, and Fred Stark Pearson of the Electrical Age.

ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR WELL KNOWN

Dartmouth's new Director of Admissions is widely known among the alumni of the College, with whom he will continue to work closely in his new position. Mr. Dickerson has been a member of the administrative staff since his graduation from the College in 1930, serving first as assistant to President Hopkins and director of the news service, then from 1933 to 1945 as Executive Assistant to the President, and during the past year as Executive Officer of the College/One of his most important assignments with the College has been that of executive secretary of the Alumni Fund Committee of the Alumni Council, in which capacity he has for 14 years been the permanent executive head of Dartmouth's Alumni Fund and has had the major hand in the extraordinary record of Dartmouth's unparalled Fund, which reached an all-time high this past year. Mr. Dickerson will, at least for the present, continue as Executive Officer of the College, but he will be relieved of his Alumni Fund responsibilities.

In addition to his major administrative functions, Mr. Dickerson is chairman of Dartmouth College Publications; editor of The Bulletin which is distributed as a family report to key alumni workers; administrative representative on the Board of Proprietors of The Dartmouth, of which he was associate editor as an undergraduate; member of the Council on Student Organizations and of the Committee on Student Residence; and clerk of the Committee Advisory to the President. Until recently he also was a member of the board of directors of the Dartmouth Eye Institute.

He came to Dartmouth from his native city of Chattanooga, Tenn., and as a student was a member of Green Key, Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. Married in 1932 to Lucia Weimer of Lebanon, Pa., he has two sons, Inskip 12 and Gregory 9.

DEAN STEARNS MORSE

ALBERT I. DICKERSON '30