Staff Changes

With the.opening of the school year, a number of changes in the administrative staff were announced. Prof. Paul R. Shafer, chairman of the Department of Chemistry, has been appointed Associate Dean of the College for this year, as one of three administrators joining Dean Carroll Brewster. In his new position, he succeeds the Rev. Paul W. Rahmeier, who returns to his post as College Chaplain and adviser to the Dartmouth Christian Union.

Appointed Assistant Deans are Edward G. Williams '64, Olympic skier and a graduate of the Tuck School, and Mrs. Katharine Stevens, a graduate of Vassar and wife of Dartmouth Comptroller James W. Stevens '50. As special assistant to the Provost last year, she coordinated the enrollment of 70 women as special students participating in the Ten-College Exchange Program and her primary responsibility will continue to be in the area of special students.

Gunnard A. Nelson, Instructor in English since 1967, has assumed parttime duties in the Freshman Office as Assistant Dean. A 1960 graduate of Yale, he succeeds Assistant Professor of Russian George Kalbouss, who has resumed full-time teaching responsibilities.

Robert G. Barnum '63 has been appointed Assistant Business Manager. Holder of an M.B.A. from Stanford, he served as a financial analyst with General Foods Corp. until 1966 and then was in the U.S. Coast Guard until this year.

W. Leslie Peat, formerly assistant to the president at Hamilton College, has been appointed Assistant to the Treasur. He was graduated in 1962 from Hamilton and went on to Yale University where four years later he was awarded both an M.A. in American studies and a law degree from Yale Law School.