Vice Presidential

Paul D. Paganucci '53, senior investment officer since last year, has been appointed a vice president of the College and chairman of the Trustees' investment committee. The appointment becomes effective July 1, when John F. Meek '33 retires from the position. At the same time, assistant legal affairs officer Cary P. Clark '62 will become College counsel.

A graduate of the Tuck School and of Harvard Law School, Paganucci was president and a partner with two Dartmouth classmates in the New York investment banking and brokerage firm of Lombard, Vitalis & Paganucci from its founding in 1961 until 1972, when he returned to the College as associate dean of the Tuck School.

As one vice presidential vacancy-to-come was filled, another was eliminated in an administrative shuffle. When Frank Smallwood '51, temporary vice president for student affairs since 1975, resigns in June to return to full-time teaching, his policy-level duties will be assumed by Dean of the College Ralph N. Manuel '58. With Manuel's promotion (he keeps his title of dean of the College), the Trustees also created a new position of dean of students, who will have special responsibility for upperclassmen.

This reorganization in the area of student affairs, particularly the part involving expanded duties for the dean of the College, aroused the ire of Warner Traynham '57, dean of the Tucker Foundation, who charged that the Trustees made the move "in order to circumvent the affirmative action plan which commits the College to advertising any vacancy and seeking out minority and female applicants. . . . The concern animating this group was that control of student affairs must lodge with a white male alumnus, otherwise apparently dire consequences must result." When Vice President Ruth Adams' position is abolished with her retirement, the vice presidential cadre will consist entirely of white male alumni. While conceding that the Trustees' action "carefully conforms to the letter of the affirmative action plan," Traynham called it "a gratuitous, offensive, and transparent ruse to circumvent its spirit." He was joined in his protest by the Women's Caucus and the Black Caucus.

President Kemeny, citing the major steps he has taken to advance affirmative action, denied the allegation, calling the reorganization supportive of the plan. He noted that the eliminated job, which was created in 1972, had always been held by a white male and that the move will bring assistant vice president Marilyn Baldwin and associate dean Alvin Richards, a black non-alumnus, up to a policy-making level.