Provost postpones sabbatical

The provost of the College, Agnar Pytte, is postponing a nine-month sabbatical leave he'd planned to take during the 1986-87 sabbatical year. Pytte explained that last fall, he and McLaughlin had agreed on the leave-part of a program the president established for senior academic administrators. "I expressed appreciation for the opportunity," said Pytte, a physicist, who was to return for another four-year term as provost after the leave.

Just at the turn of the year, however, "the president asked me if I would be willing to defer my leave in view of the possible move out of town of the medical center, which I have been very involved with, and also in view of the departure of [Vice President] Paul Paganucci '53, which meant another long-term senior administrator leaving Parkhurst-and I agreed to do so."

"My sabbatical will be just as valuable to me if I take it some time later," Pytte concluded, though he said no definite date for the leave had been settled on yet.