Meek Joins Staff

JOHN F. MECK '33, who on July 1 takes over the post of Treasurer of the College, will join the Dartmouth administrative staff about March 1 as special assistant to Halsey C. Edgerton '06, whom he will succeed. During the next four months he will absorb as much as possible of Mr. Edgerton's knowledge of the complex job of managing Dartmouth's finances, an assignment which the present Treasurer has handled with great skill for nearly 33 years.

Mr. Meek, who is leaving the Washington law firm of Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson and Shorb, lias devoted the past year to special work for the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, headed by Herbert Hoover. He is coming to Hanover directly after completing his assignment as executive secretary of the commit tee appointed by the Commission to study the organization of the federal government in the field of foreign affairs. During the war he was with the Bureau of Naval Personnel and had the major responsibility of negotiating and administering contracts for the Navy college training programs.

Mr. Edgerton will retire on June 30, one day after he reaches the voluntary retirement age of 65. He has been Treasurer since 1916 and a financial officer of the College for the past 42 years.

AT THE ALUMNI COUNCIL MEETING, held in Hanover in January, Roswell Magill '16 (left), who pre- sided, poses with (I. to r.) President Emeritus Hopkins, John L. Sullivan '21, Secretary of the Navy and member of the Council by virture of his chairmanship of the executive committee of the General Alumni Association, and Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College and also of the Council.