The New Dean of the College...

THE man to succeed Thaddeus Seymour as Dean of the College is Carroll W. Brewster, 32-year-old Graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, ft was announced by President Dickey on February 27.

Mr. Brewster, who carries on a three way career as Yale Law School lecturer, practicing attorney, and United States Commissioner in New Haven, also serves as secretary of the law school's graduate committee supervising foreign students and as vice president of the International Student Center in New Haven.

He is currently commuting to Dartmouth on a bi-weekly basis and plans to be at the College full time beginning in May. He will thus have a period of working with Dean Seymour, who announced his resignation from the deanship at the end of this college, year in order to return to teaching in the English Department and then subsequently was elected President of Wabash College, effective August 1.

Before entering upon his present activities in New Haven in 1965, Mr. Brewster spent three years in the Sudan, where at the age of 26 and as a member of the government he became legal assistant to the Chief Justice of that nation. His work in the Sudan, as an M.I.T. Fellow in Africa, also included being editor of the Sudan Law Journal andReports and visiting lecturer at the University of Khartoum.

His responsibilities in the Sudan took him to all parts of that newly independent nation, largest in Africa, to collect, organize, correlate, and annotate important judicial cases and decisions from the national, provincial, district, and even tribal courts. His editions of the SudanLaw Journal and Reports, 1961 to 1965, constituted for the diverse and often divided country the first truly indigenous body of unified legal precedent assembled since the Sudanese independence in 1956.

In carrying out this important task central to the continuing unity of the Sudan, Mr. Brewster not only learned to speak Sudanese Arabic but enthusiastically immersed himself in the different cultures and customs of the country. Writing about the M.I.T. Fellows in Africa (a small group of professional administrators and lawyers who became actual members of their host African governments), author John McPhee in an article in the March 5, 1966 issue of The New Yorker reported that Mr. Brewster's "accomplishments in the Sudanese judiciary would never have been possible if he himself had not become, in a sense, Sudanese. His admiration for the people of the Sudan began with his own superiors and expanded through all ranks, classes, and tribes. More than anything else, he was impressed by the Sudanese preoccupation with character. ... Because he was the only white in the judiciary, his career there would have been thought remarkable, even if he had achieved far less. As it happens, however, he became so much a part of things that members of the Sudanese judiciary still regretfully mention the exact date - December 7, 1964 — on which he left the Sudan."

Brewster was El Car-role to tribal nazirs all over the Sudan, and their friendship and admiration were no whit diminished by the aplomb with which the young American, when accepting their hospitality, could eat the raw liver torn from a sheep only a minute earlier and wash it down with a half-gallon bowl of camel's milk.

Dean-elect Brewster (no relation to Yale's President Kingman Brewster) was born in New York City, where his father, the late Carroll H. Brewster, practiced law, and where his mother is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at the New York University School of Medicine. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy for Yale, where he majored in history and was graduated magna cumlaude in 1957. After a year of graduate study at King's College, Cambridge University, he entered Yale Law School and received his LL.B. in 1961. He was editor of the Yale Law Journal, and as one of the outstanding members of his class he was invited to serve as law clerk during 1961-62 to William H. Timbers '37, Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court in Connecticut. He became an M.I.T. Fellow in Africa in 1962.

Among his community activities in New Haven, Mr. Brewster is president of Cornerstone, Inc., a charitable corporation founded to provide after-care facilities for persons recovering from mental health problems and drug or alcohol addiction. His wife, the former Ursala Mary Orange, is a psychiatric social worker at the Child Guidance Clinic in Waterbury, Conn. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she also holds the degree of Master of Social Work from Carleton University in Ottawa.

On the day his appointment as Dean of the College was announced, Mr. Brewster fielded questions at an informal press conference in Hanover. The Dartmouth editorially expressed itself as impressed and "rather encouraged" by his appointment. "Certainly one must credit him with a certain degree of courage," it went on, "for the job of a dean is one of the most difficult to be found anywhere. As Mr. Brewster remarked, a college dean today 'is at the vortex of most of the critical social problems of our age.' Dealing with these critical problems is no mean task, and Mr. Brewster is to be commended for his acceptance of the challenge."

It would seem not impossible for a man who was tested and pronounced shadeed by the Sudanese nazirs to win approbation again, even in the role of college dean.

Dean-elect Carroll Brewster at his Hanover press conference February 27.