Personnel-Business Appointments

Four new staff members in personnel and the business operation of the College were appointed during the summer.

Arthur F. Lindberg, personnel director at Brown University since 1963, became Director of Personnel at Dartmouth under a new administrative plan which divides responsibilities in the growing area of personnel relations.

Mr. Lindberg will be responsible for the recruitment of administrative officers and staff, the administration of the College's new job and salary plan, the building of a "skills bank" within the College, training and development for personal advancement, and the maintenance, of employment records.

He will share personnel responsibilities with Clarence M. Burrill, Director of Employee Relations, who will continue in that position, directing the administration of service personnel, union negotiations, and the administration of service and employee benefits.

A graduate of Oberlin College who earned a master's degree in English at Washington State University and taught there and at Oregon State before joining industry, Mr. Lindberg has been in personnel work since 1951.

William E. Hutchins, a University of New Hampshire graduate who has taken graduate work at Northeastern University and the University of Buffalo and studied in programs sponsored by the American Management Association, has been appointed to the newly established position of Director of Purchasing and Services. He has been most recently regional manager of the building services division of ITT's Service Industries in Durham, N. H.

Kenneth R. Cucuel and Robert S. Putnam have been named assistant comptrollers.

Mr. Cucuel, former assistant to the vice president of the Dartmouth National Bank, will be responsible for student accounts, the loan ledger, and accounts receivable. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers.

Mr. Putnam, who holds a B.S. degree in engineering management from the Air Force Academy and a master's degree from the UCLA Graduate Business School, will have as his major areas of responsibility systems, internal audit, statistical reports, and the budget in coordination with the budget officer.

Attracting a lot of close scrutiny this summer were a number of elm trees usedin a pilot project with a fungicide called Benlate, a hoped-for cure for diseasedtrees. To get the Benlate into the elm's circulatory system it was placed inplastic cups and tubes were bored into the trunk of the tree. The College has alsobeen spraying with methoxychlor each year since 1962, and it is hoped that the two-pronged attack will check Dutch elm disease on the campus.