College's Next Librarian Named

Edward Connery Lathem '51 will become Librarian of the College when Richard W. Morin '24 retires June 30 from the position he has occupied for the past 17 years, President Dickey has announced.

Associate librarian since 1960, Mr. Lathem pursues dual careers as librarian and scholar. Oxford University awarded him a doctoral degree in 1961 for his studies in English literary history and American colonial bibliography.

He was the main initiator of the project to edit and publish the Daniel Webster papers, and recently visited England for several weeks of research on Webster documents there. Mr. Lathem is the author and editor of books and articles on historic New Englanders including Webster, Calvin Coolidge, and Robert Frost, whom he knew as a very close friend and traveling companion.

Before joining the Baker Library staff in 1952, Mr. Lathem received an M.S. degree from the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is also a graduate of library institutes at Harvard and American University. Following his inclination toward local and state history, he has also found time to serve on various committees in that field. Until 1963 Mr. Lathem was for ten years the ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S literary editor as well as author of numerous articles on Dartmouth history. His wife is Dr. E. Elizabeth French, member of the Hitchcock Clinic, director of clinical diagnostic laboratories at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and assistant clinical professor in pathology at Dartmouth Medical School.

In his announcement, President Dickey noted that "Mr. Morin has brought Dartmouth's libraries to unprecedented levels of service and strength." During his tenure, the College's collection has increased from 665,000 to 930,000 volumes and loan transactions have doubled to 160,000 annually.

The retiring Librarian is a graduate of Harvard Law School and attended Ox- ford and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris prior to careers in law, the Foreign Service, and the State Department, before he came to Dartmouth.

The position of College Librarian is one of the oldest at Dartmouth, going back to 1773 when Bezaleel Woodward was named to the post by Eleazar Wheelock. Mr. Morin is the 14th Librarian in this succession.

Edward Connery Lathem '51