New President of Oberlin
Robert K. Carr '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science at Dartmouth, has been named the ninth president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. On January 1, 1960, he will succeed William E. Stevenson, president of Oberlin since 1946, who has resigned in order to devote his remaining active years to public service and other areas of his special interest.
Professor Carr, a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1937 and a former director of the Great Issues course, is a recognized authority on civil liberties. In 1947 he was Executive Secretary of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. In 1955 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of civil liberties in England. From 1952 to 1954 he was vice president of the council of the American Association of University Professors, and last year he was on leave from Dartmouth to serve as general secretary of the A.A.U.P.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, where his parents still reside, Professor Carr attended public schools there and graduated from Dartmouth in 1929. A year later he received his Master's degree from Harvard, and was awarded the Harvard Ph.D. five years later in 1935- While working on his doctorate he taught at Oklahoma University and remained there until 1937 when he joined the Dartmouth faculty. He was made a full professor in 1944, and in 1948 he was named to the Joel Parker Professorship.
Professor Carr is the author of several books including: The SupremeCourt and Judicial Review, FederalProtection of Civil Rights: Quest fora Sword, and The House Committeeon Un-American Activities. In addition he has published many articles on civil liberties in leading newspapers and journals. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the national committee of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In August 1935, Professor Carr was married to Olive Grabill, a graduate of Wellesley, whose father, brother and sister all graduated from Oberlin. They have three sons: Norman, a graduate of Amherst, now at Columbia Law School; Elliott, a Dartmouth senior; and Robert, a sophomore at Harvard.
Oberlin, the first coeducational college and the first to admit Negroes, was founded in 1833. It is a nonsectarian, liberal arts institution with an enrollment of about 2,300. Its three departments include a College of Arts and Sciences, a Conservatory of Music, and a Graduate School of Theology.
Prof. Robert K. Carr '29
