Counsel to SEC

WILLIAM H. TIMBERS '37, with his appointment as General Counsel to the United States Securities & Exchange Commission, has added a new honor to an outstanding record begun in college. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth, Timbers was a Rufus Choate Scholar and Senior Fellow, and in 1936 was nominated one of the two representatives from New Hampshire in the Rhodes Scholar competition. After graduating magna cum laude from college, he attended Yale Law School where he was elected director of the Thomas W. Swan Barristers' Union, an award given for excellence in trial and appellate court work. He was also winner of the John Currier Gallagher Prize for the best brief submitted in the Law School moot court arguments in 1938.

After receiving the LL.B. degree from Yale in 1940, he practiced law with the firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland and Kiendl in New York. Since 1951 he has been a member of the firm of Cummings & Lockwood in Stamford, Conn.

Married to the former Charlotte Tanner, Timbers, his wife and their four children have made their home in Darien, Conn.