Staff Appointment

JOHN R. SCOTFORD JR. '38 joins the administrative staff of the College on November 1 as Special Assistant on the Hopkins Center Program. His initial responsibilities will be in the Office of Development in Crosby Hall. In addition to general duties in this office he will assist in the formulation of plans for the Hopkins Center.

Scotford comes to Dartmouth from New York City, where he has been Senior Art Director at the Franklin Spier advertising agency for the past five years, handling the Doubleday and Scribner accounts. Previously he was connected with Donahue and Coe and was art director of Denhard, Pfeiffer and Wells and also of Moss Associates.

Son of the Rev. John R. Scotford '11, he is a native of Dallas, Texas, and attended public schools in Cleveland and Mt. Vernon, N. Y. After Dartmouth he was graduated from the Pratt Institute School of Fine and Applied Art in 1940. Scotford has been 1938's Head Class Agent since 1953 and last May was elected president of the Dartmouth Class Agents Association. He and Mrs. Scotford, the former Anne Hahn of Jamaica, N. Y., have three daughters.

The Hopkins Center program on which Scotford will work is in the planning stage at present. A preliminary design, to be presented to the Dartmouth Trustees in January for their approval, is being prepared by Wallace K. Harrison, noted New York architect.