John C. Woodhouse '21 Is Trustee Nominee

AT the winter meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in Hanover on January 14, John C. Woodhouse '21 of Wilmington, Del., who completes his first full term as Alumni Trustee of the College on June 30, was nominated to succeed himself as a member of the Board.

Actual election of Trustees is the responsibility of the Board, and the nomination of Mr. Woodhouse by the Alumni Council, which acted in behalf of the alumni, will come before the Board at its June meeting. Other nominations by the alumni at large may be made in accordance with constitutional procedures quoted at the end of this article.

Mr. Woodhouse has had a distinguished career as research chemist with du Pont, beginning in 1928, and played a leading part in developing many of their successful products, including hydraulic fluids, automobile antifreeze, and nylon intermediates. In 1942 he became technical director of research concerned with inorganic chemistry, agricultural chemicals, and biological research; and in 1950 he was named director of reactor materials for the Atomic Energy Division of du Pont. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1927, and taught at Dartmouth and Harvard before joining the du Pont company.

Mr. Woodhouse currently serves as a member of the Board of Overseers of Thayer School. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Delaware in 1947-48 and a member of the Alumni Council from 1949 to 1952.