Prof. Masland Named Provost
JOHN W. MASLAND, Professor of Government, has been named Provost of Dartmouth College, succeeding the late Prof. Donald H. Morrison, who filled the post from 1955 until his death in March. President Dickey announced also that Leonard M. Rieser '44, Associate Professor of Physics, has been appointed to the newly created position of Deputy Provost. Both will assume their duties during the summer.
Professor Masland as Provost will have responsibility, under President Dickey, for the overall coordination and supervision of the academic affairs of the College and the three associated schools of medicine, engineering and business administration.
Professor Rieser, who will continue his work in physics, as Deputy Provost will act for the Provost in his absence and will assume primary responsibility under the Provost for administrative liaison on matters of educational policy and personnel with the departments of the Division of the Sciences.
Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Dean of the Faculty, will continue, under the Provost, in charge of administrative responsibilities for the Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. In addition, Dean Jensen will immediately assume responsibility for the development of comprehensive planning throughout the College looking toward the establishment of a fourth term in the form of a summer session as was recently approved in principle by the Dartmouth faculty.
Professor Masland, who has been chairman of the Department of Government since 1955, is widely known as an author and expert on national security policies, and his advanced courses have also dealt with the conduct of American foreign relations and with contemporary Far Eastern governments and politics. A native of Philadelphia, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College in 1933 and took his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1938. He taught at Stanford University for eight years before joining the Dartmouth faculty as full professor in 1946.
In 1942-43 Professor Masland was a divisional assistant with the State Department and he also served as Japanese-area instructor in Stanford's civil affairs and civil communications intelligence schools. After the war, he was with the International Secretariat of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945 when the U. N. charter was drafted, and in 1946 he was a government research expert at General Mac Arthur's headquarters in Tokyo. He has been visiting professor at Columbia University and a consultant to the first and second Hoover Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. In 1950 and 1951 he was director of studies at the National War College; and in 1957 he was named to the fifty-man State Department National Defense Executive Reserve, which has been designated to carry on the Department in case of atomic attack.
Professor Masland is co-author of three books: Soldiers and Scholars: Educationand National Policy (with Prof. Laurence I. Radway of Dartmouth), Education andMilitary Leadership: A Study of theROTC (with Prof. Gene M. Lyons of Dartmouth), and The Governments ofForeign Powers (with Philip Buck). He has also written many articles on government and politics for scholarly journals. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and The Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor Rieser, who has been chairman of the Department of Physics for the past two years, came to Dartmouth as an instructor in 1952 from Stanford University, where he was a research associate. In 1953 he was promoted to Assistant Professor and in 1957 he became Associate Professor.
A native of Chicago, Professor Rieser attended Dartmouth as a member of the Class of 1944 but received his B.S. degree from the University of Chicago in December 1943. During the war years he was an Army physicist and was assigned to the Manhattan District Project as research assistant, first at Chicago and then at Los Alamos. His work was in the field of nuclear physics, which he now teaches at Dartmouth.
After leaving the Army in 1946, Professor Rieser went to Stanford University as a graduate student and teaching-research assistant. He received his Ph.D. there in 1952 and in that same year was named instructor at Dartmouth.
Provost John W. Masland
Deputy Provost Leonard M. Rieser '44
