Named Head of Occidental College

The ranks of Dartmouth men serving as college presidents will be increased on July 1, 1965, when Richard C. Gilman, '45, now Dean of Carleton College, becomes President of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He will succeed Dr. Arthur G. Coons, who retires on June 30.

Occidental, founded in 1887, is a well- known liberal arts college, with an enrollment of 1500 students and a faculty of more than 100.

Gilman has been Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., since 1960. Previously he had served as executive director of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, 1956-60, and before that as a member of the faculty of Colby College in Maine, 1950-56. During his first two years at Carleton he also was an associate fellow of the Council on Humanities at Princeton University. m

A consultant to the Ford Foundation for Special Programs in Education, Dean Gillan is also a trustee of the American Universities Field Staff. He is married to the former Lucille Young of Hanover and has four children.

A native of Cambridge, Mass., Gilman as a Dartmouth undergraduate was president of the Dartmouth Christian Union and the Dartmouth Press Club, and was a member of Green Key and Delta Upsilon. He served with the U. S. Navy in World War II and spent 14 months as an ensign aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. After the war he attended New College at the University of London, England, in 1947-48, and became a Borden Parker Bowne Fellow in Philosophy at Boston University in 1949. In 1952, while teaching philosophy at Colby College, he received his Ph.D. from Boston University.

Richard C. Gilman '45