Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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. I' President JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER HI As an undergraduate Mr. Baxter was Editor-in-Chief of The Record, President of the Senior Class, President ofthe Student Council, Editor-in-chief of the William: Handbook, and Editor ofthe Gulielmemian,Gargoyle Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Varsity debating team. Among administrative and advisory posts he has held in the Federal Government are Director, Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Coordinator of Information, july 1941- june 19423 Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Services, june 1942-Feb. 1943, resigning to become Historian, Office of Strategic Services, 1943-46, appointed by Research and Develop- ment Board, National Military Establishment, to Committee on Plans for Mobilizing Science, 19483 Appointed by Secretary of Defense, Forrestal, to Service Advisory Board, 1949. Mr. Baxter has received the following honorary degrees: 1.l..D., Harvard, Amherst, 1938, Wesleyan University and University ofMaine, 1939, Hobart College, 1942, Bowdoin College, 1944, 1Villiams College, 1947g l.itt.D., Syracuse University, 1945, 1..H.D., Case lnstitute, 1948g D.Sc., Union College, 1949. He was awarded the Pulitizer Prize in History for his book Scientists Against Time in 1947. ln 1948, he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit. President Baxter is also the author of The Introduction of the lronclad Warship , Harvard University Press, 1933. He has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Historical Association, 1-938, President of the Society of American Historians, 1945, President of the ,Association of American Colleges, 1945, Chairman of the Commission on l.iberal Education, 1942-45, member of the Holloway Board, United States Navy, 1945-46, member of the Board of Visitors, U. S. Naval Academy, 1942 and 1947, Chairman, Board of Advisors, Historical Division, War Department Special Staff, and as a Trustee of Williams College, 1934-37, Radcliffe College, Phillips Academy, American Military lnstitute, and the World Peace Foundation. ' Mr. Baxter has been a Lecturer at the l.owell lnstitute, Boston, 1931, at Cambridge University, England, 1936, at the Naval1Yar College since 1932, at the National War College, since 1946, at the Post-Graduate School at .Annapolis since 1946, and at Annapolis at the Air War College, and at the Canadian Defense College. TIG...