Physics Project

BECAUSE of the difference in the functions of the two postwar construction projects planned by the College under the Ernest Martin Hopkins War Memorial Project, the committee seeking funds to finance the $500,000 addition to the Wilder Physics Building has been given an autonomous status. This committee under its chairman, Gerard Swope Jr. '29, last month started plans to solicit corporations, foundations and others who would not necessarily be concerned with the proposed Hopkins Center but are interested in the influence of the liberal arts college in the field of science.

Serving as executive secretary of this committee will be Ford H. Whelden '25, newly appointed Special Assistant on the Hopkins War Memorial Project. A lieutenant commander in the Navy during the war, Mr. Whelden was formerly with an investment brokerage firm in Detroit. His home is now in Norwich, Vt.