Hood College - Touchstone Yearbook (Frederick, MD)

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THE PHESIUE T Another year is ending . . . now we feel we know our new president. We had known that he was a specialist in international relations and a graduate of Westminster College with a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship, and was a Lon- don correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publications. We knew he had had a promising and impressive life, both as man and scholar. We soon came to discover some lesser known facts. For instance, Dr. Elliott was involved in the establishment of the Fulbright Fellowship Program and the Depart- ment of Health, Education, and Welfare. He worked in Europe after the war as an analyst of bombing effects for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. The facts he gathered were later used in Dr. Randle Elliott the planning of the atomic bombing of Japan. As chief reports officer, under General Lucius Clay, he contributed to, edited, and supervised the policy clearance of the oHicial' reports published in the U.S. zone of Germany during the First year after the end of World War H. We learned that, while with McGraw-Hill, Dr. Elliott had two journalistic scoops: the first full report on Soviet jet mili- tary aircraft and the First full report on Britainls Four Year Plan for Post-War Economic Recovery. In April of 1962, he was awarded the Honorary LLD, Doctor of Laws, from his alma mater, West- minster College. But most important . . . we now know Dr. Elliott as a warm, concerned human be- ing. The facts have become related to the person. The person is actively planning a better Hood for students of the past, present, and future. 'LO

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I President Elliott receives a rlonation on behalf of Hood College from a representative of Sears Roebuck and Co. Dr. Elliott receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws from the President of Westminster College, Robert L. D. Davidson. Christmas greetings from Hood's first family.