Administrative Staff Changes

Contributing to the summer's aura of activity, especially in Crosby Hall, were the goings and comings of administrative staff officers. Departing to assume new and more extensive duties at other institutions were Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, Director of Public Programs, who is now Director of Public Affairs for the Claremont Colleges in California; Raymond J. Buck Jr. '52, College Editor, who is now Director of Publications at the University of Connecticut; George O'Connell, Director of the News Service, who is now Director of University Relations at Fordham University; and David K. Martin '54, Associate in Development, who left to become Director of Information Services at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

These gentlemen were all based in Crosby Hall, and the raid on Dartmouth administrators was especially hard on the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, which lost its associate editor in Mr. Buck, its faculty editor in Mr. O'Connell, and its sports editor in Mr. Martin.

Other departures during the summer were those of Douglas D. Perkins '53, Assistant Treasurer of the College, who has become Assistant to the President at Bay Path Junior College in Longmeadow, Mass., and Assistant Dean Henry M. Helgen, director of the Office of Student Counseling, who has become Dean of his alma mater, St. Olaf College in Northfield. Minn.

To succeed Mr. Sandoe as Director of Public Programs the Colleee named Frederick L. Hier '44 of Cornish Flat, N. H., who in March returned from Vietnam, where for 18 months he was the USIA's director in the Corps II area. Earlier he had been the USIS Amerika-Haus director in Tuebingen, Germany. His other overseas assignments were with Radio Free Europe, the International Refugee Organization, and the International Rescue Committee.

Mr. Sandoe's move to the Claremont Colleges in California ended a 19-year period as Dartmouth administrator. He came to the College in 1948 as Alumni Fund associate and was executive secretary of the Alumni Fund from 1951 to 1957. In the latter year he became Assistant Director of Development, was promoted to Associate Director in 1960, and in 1965 became Director of Public Programs, as well as executive officer for the committees making plans for the Bicentennial. A resolution of tribute, adopted by the Alumni Council, appears with the 1945 class column.

To succeed Mr. Buck as College Editor, Josiah F. Hill '56, formerly assistant to the president of The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vt., has joined the staff. Mr. Hill, son of Professor Emeritus Herbert W. Hill, has been in the publishing and printing field since graduation, doing graduate work at N.Y.U. and then working for several book publishers before joining Stinehour in 1962.

Mr. Buck, whom he succeeded, was at Dartmouth for ten years, first as Alumni Fund and development associate and since 1962 as College Editor. In his new post at the University of Connecticut he is responsible for developing an overall program of university publications.

Mr. Martin's place as Associate in the Office of Development has been taken by Robert J. Finney Jr. '63, Tuck '64, who came in July after employment with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. Among his Dartmouth duties he is secretary of the Parents Committee for the Alumni Fund.

The Acting Director of the Dartmouth News Service is William R. Meyer, who came to Dartmouth last spring as assistant director, under Mr. O'Connell. Son of Kirt A. Meyer '30, he is a 1956 graduate of Allegheny College and most recently was with the Utica (TV. Y.) Daily Press.

Mr. O'Connell was News Service director at Dartmouth for ten years, after being reporter and editor for papers in Louisville, Ky., Lewiston, Idaho, and Spokane, Wash. At Fordham he will be in charge of public information, publications, and special events.