ARTHUR H. KIENDL JR. '44, Director of the Office of Student Counseling and Assistant Dean of the College, will go to the University of Chicago on an extended leave of absence to study for the Ph.D. degree in student personnel administration and to be Director of the University House System.
Mr. Kiendl joined the College staff in 1948. In 1951, after completing his work at Columbia University, he received the M.A. degree in higher education admin- istration. He was Assistant to the Dean, then Assistant Dean, and last year took charge of the counseling program in addition to his other duties.
Henry Helgen, of Columbia University, will come to Dartmouth as Assistant Dean of the College and Acting Director of the Office of Student Counseling. A graduate of St. Olaf's College in Minneapolis, he has been a dormitory counselor at the University of Colorado; Admissions Counselor and Director of the Student Union at Ripon College, Ripon, Wis.; and Dean of Men at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S. D. This month he receives his doctorate in student personnel work from Columbia University, where he has been teaching in the freshman orientation course.
A former Marine Corps major in World War II, Mr. Helgen fought at Bougainville and Guam and served variously as a platoon leader, rifle company commander, and commander of a Marine Detachment aboard a ship. Mr. Helgen is married and has one child.
Eugene Hotchkiss III '50 will become Assistant Dean of the College. He has been Assistant to the Dean since joining the staff last July. Mr. Hotchkiss came to Dartmouth after serving as a lieutenant (jg) in the Office of Naval Intelligence and as an operations officer aboard a Landing Ship Tank.
Dean Kiendl, who has been adviser to various campus organizations and is a director of the Rowing Club, also has been a member of the Committee Advisory to the William Jewett Tucker Foundation for the advancement of the moral and spiritual life of the College.