Arrivals and Departures

Several changes in administration at the College were announced this summer. Professor of Physics Agnar Pytte has succeeded Leonard M. Rieser '44 as provost of the College. Rieser, also a professor of physics, is carrying out his previously announced intention to return to teaching after 23 years in administration at Dartmouth, during which he served as provost, as deputy provost, and as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Rieser has been designated Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Natural Sciences and will assume additional duties in connection with Dartmouth's international academic programs.

Pytte, former chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, former dean of graduate studies, and past associate dean of the faculty, has just completed 25 years on the faculty. A native of Norway, Pytte studied in this country at Phillips Exeter, Princeton, and Harvard, from which last he took both M. A. and Ph.D. degrees. He came to Dartmouth as instructor in physics in 1957 and was made full professor in 1967. His research interests include nuclear fusion as a potential energy source and theoretical plasma physics.

As provost, Pytte will be "the university officer responsible for operations transcending any single faculty of the College" and will supervise major academic centers such as the libraries, the computation center, the arts complex, the graduate programs and the Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Office of Instructional Services and Educational Research, as well as the Dartmouth Institute program for executives. The provost of the College also has oversight, with the president, of the Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

A newly created position, that of director of communications at the College, has been filled by John C. Heston '54, former senior vice president of the New York advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather. Heston is to have broad responsibility for external and internal communications at Dartmouth and will report directly to President McLaughlin. In announcing his appointment, pointment, the president said, "We exist in an environment where the effective transmission of information and ideas is essential to achieving our purposes. It requires a professional approach combined with a deep understanding of the nature of the institution. With his broad experience in advertising and public relations, internationally as well as nationally, John Heston brings the desired requisites to this new position. We feel fortunate to have him with us."

The new director of communications will supervise the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, news services, sports information, Hopkins Center and Hood Museum public relations, and the Office of Public Programs.

The offices of admissions and financial aid at the College have been restructured, and Alfred T. Quirk '49, director of admissions, has been named dean of admissions and financial aid. As dean, Quirk, who brings 20 years of experience in the Dartmouth admissions office to the new position, will report directly to President McLaughlin. Richard G. Jaeger '59, associate director of admissions, has been promoted to director of admissions. He and Harland W. Hoisington Jr. '48, director of financial aid, will report to Dean Quirk.

Richard R. West, dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, plans to step down from that position in June of 1983, a year before the expiration of his current term, in order to concentrate on teaching, research, and writing. He explained his decision as a reaction to the Tuck faculty's decision to postpone to the fall of 1984 an expansion in the student body, and President McLaughlin commented, "The decision to increase the size of the faculty and student body to prepare Tuck to meet the challenges of professional business administration education in the next decade is a major accomplishment, and I reluctantly agree with Dean West that his successor should, participate in the final planning leading to the implementation of this expansion."

West came to Dartmouth in 1976 from a position as dean of the school of management at the University of Oregon.