Dr. Charles E. Odegaard '32 will take

over his new post as President of the University of Washington August 1. Dr. Odegaard, who has been Dean of the College of Literature, Sciences and Arts at the University of Michigan since 1952, is considered one of the outstanding younger educational administrators in the nation.

Dr. Odegaard received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1937 and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois where he remained, with the exception of naval service during World War II, until 1948. From 1948 until his appointment as a dean at the University of Michigan, he served as Executive Director of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers and in 1945 published "Vassi and Fideles in the Carolingian Empire."

He has been a member of the Commission of Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and in 1952 he was made an officer of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies.

A spokesman for the Board of Regents of the University commented on Dr. Odegaard's selection: "When the Board of Regents began its search for a new president of the University of Washington ... it set out to find the ablest and best-qualified educator in America who was available for appointment. In the selection of Dr. Odegaard, the Board believes it has achieved this objective."