Richard W. Morin '24, Named to be Librarian of the College

THE appointment of Richard W. Morin lege '24 as Librarian of Dartmouth College was announced last month by President Dickey. Mr. Morin, at present Executive Officer of the College, will succeed Nathaniel L. Goodrich, who retires in June after serving as Dartmouth's librarian since 1912.

In naming Mr. Morin to head its Baker Memorial Library, comprising 650,000 volumes and ranking as one of the foremost undergraduate college libraries, Dartmouth has chosen a man who combines broad cultural interests with varied experience in administration and public affairs. Educated at Dartmouth, Oxford, Harvard Law School, and Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, Mr. Morin formerly was with the U. S. foreign service in France, served for five years with the State Department in Washington, and also engaged in the practice of law in his native city of Albert Lea, Minnesota.

Since coming to Dartmouth in as Executive Officer, he has been concerned with both the academic and administrative work of the College. He is executive secretary and a member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the Great Issues Course, chairman of Dartmouth College Publications, and a member of the committee handling staff personnel classification and related matters for the library as well as the college in general.

The Baker Library was presented to Dartmouth in 1928 by George Fisher Baker as a memorial to his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1859. For some 20 years it has been a model among college libraries. With its open-stack policy, informal reading rooms, faculty studies, Tower Room for recreational reading, Treasure Room of rare books, graphic arts workshop, public affairs laboratory, and reserve book department for class assignments, Baker is in daily use by the college's 2900 students, 300 faculty members and numerous visitors.

Dartmouth's new librarian was active in the arts and dramatics as an undergraduate, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx. He attended Oxford in 1924-25, took his LL.B. degree at Harvard in 1928, and studied at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1928-29. For the next four years he remained in Paris as U.S. Vice Consul and then served for two years, 1933-35, with the Department of State in Washington. In 1935 he returned to his private affairs and law practice in Albert Lea, Minn.

In 1942 Mr. Morin returned to the Department of State for three years. He helped to establish the Offices of Public Information and Public Affairs and became the first Chief of the Division of Public Liaison and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs which then directed the international cultural and information work of the State Department.

At the San Francisco Conference to create the United Nations he was Public Liaison Officer to the American Delegation. In 1948 he came to Dartmouth to assume his present duties.

When he succeeds Mr. Goodrich on July 1, Mr. Morin will become the 14th in the line of Dartmouth College librarians which started in 1773 with Bezaleel Woodward.

With Mrs. Morin and their three daughters, he makes his home in Norwich, Vt. Daughter Joan is a student at Mt. Holyoke, while Anne and Sarah both attend Hanover High School.

NEW LIBRARIAN: Richard W. Morin '24, Execu- tive Officer of the College, who will succeed Nathaniel L. Goodrich as head of Baker Library.