Bradley's New President

Harold P. Rodes '41, at the age of 34, was recently elected President of Bradley University by the unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees. For the past three years he has served as President of Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati, and will assume his new duties in Peoria, Ill., next

At Dartmouth "Dusty" Rodes was a Rufus Choate scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. Following his graduation summa cum laude, he taught at Bradford (Vt.) Academy, then entered the Marine Corps. He was wounded at Guadalcanal in 1942 and for the remainder of the war studied and taught in war-geared programs at the University of California. He then went to Yale to do graduate work, receiving the M.A. degree in 1946 and the Ph.D. degree in educational administration in 1948. Re" turning to California, he was Assistant Professor of Engineering and Assistant Director of Relations with Schools at the University of California at Los Angeles until 1951, when he accepted the presidency of the Ohio Mechanics Institute - the school once attended by Thomas A. Edison. There Dr. Rodes worked for a balanced program of liberal arts and technical subjects, an aim which is basic to his philosophy of education. In a recent interview he said, "Life is made up of concentrations and generalities. A university must prepare young men and women for the specifics and the generalities of life."

As president of Bradley University, Dr. Rodes will administer the affairs of a school which now numbers 2,300 day students and 400 night students, with a faculty of some 200 teachers.

In June 1941 Dr. Rodes was married to the former Edith Ann Wilde of South River, N. J., whom Fred Waring selected as "Queen of Sigma Nu" at the 1940 Dartmouth Winter Carnival. They have two daughters, Sandra 11 and Leslie 7; and three boys, John 4 and identical twins, James and Eric 3.

Dr. Harold P. Rodes '41 and Mrs. Rodes