Smallwood to Direct Rockefeller Center

Dr. Frank Smallwood, a distinguished political scientist and a member of the Dartmouth faculty for 23 years, will become the first director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.

The $5.3 million center, scheduled for completion July 1, will be dedicated in September in memory of the late Vice President and New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller '30.

Smallwood, the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs, was chosen after a nationwide search that screened more than 300 applicants and nominees. A 195 1 graduate of Dartmouth, Smallwood has held a wide variety of administrative and professional posts since returning to Hanover in 1957, after earning a master of public administration degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard.

He has served as vice president and dean for student affairs, co-chairman of the urban and regional studies program, associate dean of the faculty for the social sciences, acting dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and director of the Dartmouth public affairs center. Active in Vermont state affairs, the new director lives in Norwich, Vt., with his wife Ann, who is assistant dean of the College.