Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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William D ' Olici Lippincott, A.B. EiiicM (.onion, li.l).. S. 1 .M. DoiKilil Ross Hamilioii, I ' li.l) When Wn.i lAM D ' Oi.ifr Lipimncoit was appoinkd lo ilic newly ciealed office of Dean of Stiulenis in 19 )! he became one of the youngest Deans in the Unixei- sity ' s history. As Assistant Dean of the College for the five years previous to his appointment, he had been in charge of the Administration ' s contact with the extra- curricidar organizations. As Dean of Students he supervises the non-academit acti ities, including undergraduate social life and stu- dent beha ior. Chairman of many tacidty tonuuittces. Dean l,ippincott is tiest known to the undergraduate body as Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Dis- cipline and for those hattecf members of his office, (he proctors. A member of the class of 19-11 and an honor student in the Department of Modern Languages and IJtera- tuics. Dean I,ip|jincott went from I ' rinceton into the Army and ser ed as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He saw action in the Pacific and rose to the rank of Major. Off campus he is aciixe in many local organizations. .Vfier cjue ear as Presbyterian Chaplain of the ' esi- minster I- oimdation, Ernkst Cordon became Dean ol the Cliapcl in 19. )5. He spent his imdergiaduate years at St. .-Xndrews University and did graduate work at Edinbingh and London University, Hartford Tlieo- logical Seminary, and Glasgow Universit . .Author of many articles in theological, educational, and popidar jomnals. Dean Gordon has written a book of sermons. A I.iTitiir ■III III for Tfxifiy. He was a captain in the .Argyll and Suilu i land High landers in World War If. and spent three and a hall years as a ])risoner of wai after he was captured trvini; to escape from Sumatra. Dining this time he taught and served as a lay minister to his fellow prisoners. .After the war he continued his studies and in 19,50 was ordained a minister of the Church of .Scotland. In the ])ast yeais Dean (iordon has conducted special Religious Emphasis Week serxices on seveial uni er- sity campuses. He is also the foiuider and first Presi- dent of the Church Ser ice Societ of the U.S., A., a Fellow of the Victoria Institute, and ,i nuiiibei ol ai ioirs academic societies. In |ul ol 19, )8 Do.NAi n R. Ilwinio.N succeeded Dr. Hugh la lor as Dean ol the (iraduate School. Since joining the faculty in 194(5 he had taught both undergraduate and graduate coinses in physics as well as (onduciiug a arici of research piojecls. For two years his aliility in his field earned him the position ol Cyrus Fogg Hiackett Professoi of PInsics. Dean Hamilton came to Princeton in the Class of f9; . ) and won Flighest Honois in ph si(s. cpialifving for membership in both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He took his degree at Cohunbia Uni ersitv and spent o er a year in llie Society of I•Vllo vs at Harvard. J he war followed, dining which time he worked on high priority research projects at the NLI. F. Radiation Laboiatory, For a while connected wnh the Sperry Clomiaany, Dean Hamilton worked on the dexelopmcnt of a s|)eciaf ty]X ' of miciowaxe aciunn tuf)e. the khstion. .More recently he has been interested in the theor and ol)ser ation of beta decay and with atomic -beam in es- ligations of the spins and moments of racfioactive nuilii. He became a fufi professor in 1955. 15

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THE DEANS Dr. Jeremiah S. Finch became Dean of the College in 1955. Previously he had been a member of the English Department and during World War f I served as both Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty and as Seaetary of the Committee on Scholastic Guidance. Under the direction of his office falls the administra- tion of all undergraduate studies and the various com- mittees and agencies which are concerned with the de elopment of the academic side of undergraduate activities. Along this line the Dean of the College is responsible for the enforcement of the rules and standards connected with scholarship. Before joining the Princeton faculty, Dean Finch taught in the Department of English at Cornell Uni- versity, from which he has a Master of Arts degree. He came to this university in 1936 and after the war served as Executive Secretary of the Princeton I rogram tor Sei icemeii returning to college. (Jn the extra- curricular side. Dean Finch has been active on the Borough of Princeton ' s Board of Education and on boards of several other Princeton organizations. Dr. J. Doii(;las Brown, Dean of the Faculty, came to Princeton as a member of the class of 1919, earned his Master ' s and Ph.D. degrees here and then joined the faculty as an instructor of Economics in 1921. A member of President Hoo er ' s Emergency Connnittee for Employment during the early years of the depres- sion, he was later one of the economists who aided in the planning of the Social Security Act of 1935. For several years he served the Government as an expert consultant on labor and during the war advised the War Department and the Secretary of State on matters in his field. In I91() Dr. Brown succeeded the late Dean Robert K. lioot as Dean of the I- ' aculty. He continued as Director of the Industrial Relations Sec- tion in the Department of Economics and Sociology until 1955. As Dean of the Faculty he is responsible for the coordination of curriculum, staff, and policy among the many academic activities of the University. Dean Brown also has authority over the departments of instruction anci other matters insofar as the effective- ness and duties of the faculty are concerned. Joseph Clifton Elgin, a member of the faculty since 1929, was named Dean of Princeton University ' s School of Engineering in 1954. Dean Elgin realizes the importance to an engineering curricidum of a broad Ijase of both science and liberal arts as opposed to the approach to engineering through specialized technologies and skills, and the programs of study in the school reflect it. After receiving his Master of Science degree from the University of Virginia, Dean Elgin came to Prince- ton, where he earned his Ph.D. From 1939 on he served as Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering and from 1951 to 1954 was Associate Dean of the school. Durin ' c)rld War II he served the overnment as a member of the National Defense Research Committee and, while on a leave of absence from the university, worked at the S.A.M. Laboratories of the Manhattan Project. Dean Elgin is a Trustee of the Proctor Foun- dation and is an active member of several national scientific organizations. Jeremiah Staiuon Finch, Ph.D. James Douglas Brown Ph.D., Litt.D., L.H.D., Ll.D. Joseph C:lilton Elgin, I ' ll I). 14

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Back Row: Riiklaiid, Hills, Osliorn, Leeb, an Dusen. Supplee, Carton. Wright. Fourth Rote: Blake, Hiingerford. Lourie, Love, Voorhees. Williams. .Savage, Billings. Third Row: Kipp. Case. Benv, .SchuUinger, Oates, Second Row: Kerr, Buchanan, Medina, Mole, Danford. Finney. Front Row: C.ulitk. Bedford, Belknap, Helm, President C.ohcen, Mathe , St. John, Corbin, Penick. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES RoiiKRT F. GOHEI-N Harold H. Helm Donald B. Kipp Presidrni nf the University ClKiiiiiKiii (if lite Exeriitix ' e Cdiniiiiltee Clerk of the Board TRUSTEES EMERITI ROBERT GARRETT JOHN .STUART PAUL BEDFORD CHARLES H. McILWAIN ALFRED T. CAR! OX . LLKN O. WHIPPLE FREDERICK. H. OSBORN SIEPHEX F. FORDVCE B. E. S. WELLS ' OORHEES ST. JOHN KERR HORACE K. CORBIN JOHN G. BUCHANAN TIMOTHY N, PFEIFFER HAROLD R. MEDINA TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO GO ' . ROBER r B. MEVNER ROBERT F. GOHEEN DEAN M. THEY HENRY P. VAN DUSEN JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. Ill HARVEY S. FIRESTONE. JR. ERNEST C. SAVAGE HAROLD H. HELM CHARTER TRUSTEES CHAUNCEY BELKNAP DOUGLAS HORTON DON.VLD B. LOURIE DONALD DANIORIH BRIAN P. LEEB HENDERSON SUPPLEE. JR. DONALD B. KIPP GEORCiE G. FINNEY (iKORGE P. BERRY WILLIAM A. KIRKLAND H R EV MOLE S. BARKSDALE PENICK. JR. R. (.WIN FOLI.IS RUDOLPH N. SCHULLINGER JA.MES F. OA lES, JR. EUGENE C. BL. KE TERM TRUSTEES S. WHITNEY LANDON PERRY FIALL RALPH G. HILLS F. TREMAINE BILLINGS, JR. ALUMNI TRUSTEES E ERETT N. CASE WILLARD J. WRIGH r H. CHAPMAN ROSE JAMES W. LEE, II JAMES M. STEWART LEWIS H. VAN DUSEN, JR, 16