New President of Skidmore College

"Skidmore has been referred to as a girls' Dartmouth," wrote the editors of the 1968 Green Book - which adds interest to the news that a Dartmouth man, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. '42, will become the fourth President of Skidmore College on July 1.

Palamountain at present is the Provost of Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University and also Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University Graduate School. After graduating from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1942, he served four years as a Navy officer in World War II and then received his master's and doctoral degrees in political economy and government from Harvard University. During these years of graduate study he was a teaching fellow and tutor, and then Harvard appointed him instructor and a year later assistant professor in government. He also was senior tutor of Adams House.

President-elect Palamountain went to Wesleyan in 1955 as associate professor of government and became a full professor in 1959. He served as chairman of the government department in 1960-61 and was named provost in 1961. Among his writings are two books, "The Politics of Distribution" (1956) and "Government and the American Economy" (1959), of which he is co-author. He has been a consultant for the Brookings Institution and a grantee of the Social Science Council. He and his wife, the former Anne Tonnesen, have two sons, aged 13 and 6.

Palamountain, who lived in Lebanon, N. H., did not have far to travel to enter Dartmouth. As an undergraduate he was managing editor of The Dartmouth, a Senior Fellow, and a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and Alpha Delta Phi.

Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. '42