McCarter to Head Publications

WILLIAM H. MCCARTER '19, director of athletics at Dartmouth since 1937, will relinquish that post on July 1 in order to return to editorial work and teaching, it was announced by President Dickey last month. He has been named Editor of Dartmouth College Publications and along with these new duties he will teach courses in English composition beginning next fall. The return to academic and literary work has been under consideration by him for some time.

As Editor of Dartmouth College Publications, Mr. McCarter will be in charge of an expanded program of publication activities centering in Baker Library. Included in this program will be various library publications, works relating to the history of the College, and revision of the annual College bulletin series.

Before assuming the position of Director of Athletics, Mr. McCarter was Assistant Professor of English until 1935 and was Assistant Librarian from 1930 to 1937. It was while holding the latter post that he agreed to serve as Acting Supervisor of Athletics when the late Harry R. Heneage '07 was stricken with a heart attack in the fall of 1935. His capable handling of the athletic affairs of the College during the following fifteen months led to his being elected Director of Athletics on January 1, 1937, when Mr. Heneage resigned.

As executive officer of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council for nearly seventeen years Mr. McCarter not only has directed Dartmouth's participation in intercollegiate athletics but has earned for himself a prominent place in Eastern and national intercollegiate athletic organizations. He is currently vice president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and with only five more votes at its last convention would have become the first athletic director ever to head that organization, which traditionally picks a dean or faculty member as president. Mr. McCarter as chairman of the eligibility committee of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference has been a leading force in maintaining standards and drawing up the code now in operation. He has served as president of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association and has also headed the Eastern leagues in hockey, basketball, baseball, and swimming.

In tribute to the standards, the learning and the pungent wit Mr. McCarter brought to these intercollegiate groups, Irving Marsh wrote in the New YorkHerald Tribune on November 11: "The meetings and conventions of the Ivy Group, the EC AC and the NCAA, among others, will be much the poorer and the duller for his return to inside the walls of ivy. . . . It's really too bad for the NCAA and its objectives that McCarter wasn't elected president of that organization at the last convention."

After graduating from Dartmouth in 1919 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, Mr. McCarter was with the publishing firm of Ginn and Company for two years. In 1921 he returned to Dartmouth as Instructor in English and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1928. He took his Master's degree at Harvard in 1923 and was on leave in 1923-24 to study at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Oxford on a Richard Crawford Campbell Jr. Fellowship from Dartmouth.

Among his civic activities- in Hanover, Mr. McCarter from 1941 to 1946 was Precinct Commissioner and Police Commissioner.

Since the fall of 1952 Mr. McCarter has been the author of a monthly ALUMNI MAGAZINE column entitled TheHanover Scene. He will continue to write this column which has a wide readership among the 22,000 persons who receive the magazine.

WILLIAM H. McCARTER '19