New President of Concord College

Joseph F. Marsh Jr., '47, Assistant Professor of Economics, took office August I as the new president of Concord College in Athens, West Virginia. A native West Virginian, Marsh was brought up in Athens where his father was president of the college before him from 1928 to 1945.

Entering Concord College as an undergraduate, he withdrew in 1943 to join the Navy and after serving in the V-12 program at Dartmouth he was commissioned an ensign in 1944 at the age of 19. He served as gunnery officer aboard the destroyer USS Hale and saw action in the Pacific theatre during the latter days of the war.

In 1946 Marsh re-entered Dartmouth, this time as a civilian, and completed his undergraduate education, graduating magna cum laude in 1947. He was a Rufus Choate Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was the commencement speaker for his graduating class. The following year, as a Class of 1926 Fellow, he studied at the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, and among other government duties at that time he was an assistant to the Hoover Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government.

Leaving Washington at the end of his fellowship term, he entered Harvard's Littauer School of Public Administration and two years later in 1950 he was awarded his Master's degree in public administration. A Rotary Foundation Fellowship and a Rotary Club Scholarship took him to Oxford for the next two years, and there he took up advanced research in British public administration. In 1952 he returned to the United States to join the Dartmouth faculty as a member of the Great Issues staff. Later he joined the Economics Department, where he specialized in courses dealing with labor economics. From 1954 to 1957 he served as faculty resident in Cutter Hall.

Joseph F. Marsh Jr. '47