Registrar-Elect

ROBIN ROBINSON '24, Professor of Mathematics, will become Associate Registrar with the opening of College next fall. He will become Registrar upon the retirement of Robert O. Conant '13 in 1958.

Professor Robinson as Associate Registrar will be in charge of a new machine system for academic records to begin in November, when the College will install four IBM sorting machines, expected to shorten appreciably the time required for processing records. The machine system will be used for the first time with the election of courses by students for the second semester. At the outset it will be used to record and process registrations, course elections, class lists and grade reports. If the machines prove effective in facilitating the handling of these records, they may be used later for the Offices of Admissions and the Comptroller.

Professor Robinson plans to continue teaching. He joined the faculty in 1928, receiving the Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1929. The author of numerous articles and texts on mathematical subjects, he served as chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1943 to 1947 and was chairman of the Division of Sciences from 1951 to 1955. From 1954 until February 1956 he was Director of the Great Issues Course. President of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Robinson is supervisor of college examinations.

The new Associate Registrar devised the Robinson Plan or Dartmouth Plan of reunions, now widely used by other colleges. He is as much at home with music as he is with figures and equations, being an accomplished student of music and the owner of a collection of more than 1300 classical records. He has written three string quartettes and other compositions, is tympanist for the Handel Society Symphony Orchestra, and is musical director for Hanover's radio station WTSL. His Sunday morning classical program is a popular radio feature.