Public Affairs Center

EXISTING and newly developing programs in the study of public affairs at Dartmouth College will be consolidated in a new Public Affairs Center, beginning next fall. Plans for the center were approved by the Trustees at their spring meeting.

President Dickey has announced that Gene M. Lyons, Assistant Professor of Government, will serve as Director of the Public Affairs Center and will also be director of the Great Issues Course. In his new position he will hold the rank of Associate Professor of Public Affairs.

Plans for the center, to be based in Baker Library, call for Professor Lyons and his staff to:

(1) Assume responsibility for Dartmouth's Great Issues Course on a continuing basis. Since the inauguration of the course in 1947, the directorship has been rotated among senior faculty members in several fields.

(2) Inaugurate a series of faculty seminars and research projects to stimulate work on specific problems by men from various academic disciplines. For example, the problems of science and public policy might be attacked by physical and biological scientists, social scientists and humanists.

(3) Provide leadership for student activities related to public service. Dartmouth now offers internships for students which allow them to work and study in Washington, in state capitals, and in the New Hampshire Legislature.

The new director has studied and written extensively on public policy, especially in the national-security area. He was co-author, with Prof. John Masland, of Education and MilitaryLeadership (1959), a study of the armed services' ROTC programs. His other book, Military Policy and Economic Aid, was published this year. Currently he is associated with Prof. Louis Morton in a study of programs of education and research in the national-security field.

Professor Lyons was graduated from Tufts University in 1947 and took his doctoral degree from Columbia University. He was employed by the International Refugee Organization from 1948 to 1952 and by the United National Korean Reconstruction Agency from 1952 to 1956.