Orton H. Hicks '21 Named Vice President of College

ORTON H. HICKS '21, New York film executive, has been named Vice President of Dartmouth College, President Dickey announced last month.

Mr. Hicks, now a member of the board of directors of Loew's International Corporation, will be associated with President Dickey in all phases of the College's public affairs work, particularly in the fields of development, alumni activities, and public relations. He expects to assume his new duties June 1.

Mr. Hicks served as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in 1952-53. He is a member o£ the Board of Overseers of Tuck School from which he received a Master's degree in 1922.

After graduation he joined Eastman Kodak Company, where he pioneered the distribution of 16 mm. entertainment films for schools and institutions. Later he founded Films ' Incorporated, now a subsidiary of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films and the industry's largest 16 mm. film distributors. During World War II he served in the Army Signal Corps as a lieutenant colonel, and organized and directed the distribution of motion pictures to the armed forces overseas.

In 1945 Arthur Loew invited Mr. Hicks to join the board of Loew's International Corporation, and establish a world-wide 16 mm. distribution network.

Mr. Hicks married the former Lois Paddock in Rochester, N.Y., in 1924. They now reside at Shelter Lane, Locust Valley, N.Y. They have three children, Mrs. Milo Coerper, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. J.H. Smith Jr., Locust Valley; and a son, Orton H. Hicks Jr. '49, now with the U.S. Information Service in Norway.