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

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RO THE PRESIDENT BERT FRANCIS GOHEEN, PH.D

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NEW IERSEY PRESIDENT,S xzooM May 1, 1961 To the Class of 1962: This 83d edition of the Bric-a-Brac records, through a series of telling glimpses, much of the wide variety of life and activity that marks current-day Princeton. As such this Bric has a great deal more than nostalgia to offer its readers. -- No individual can sample, during his undergraduate years, more than a relatively small part of all that Princeton offers. Even the most perceptive can catch, while in course, no more than a fraction of the sweep and flow of vital activity -- of intellectual searching and testing -- which characterizes the various departments of instruction and extends their outreach widely into the world of our times. The University as a community fosters the full life and embraces therefore for its students the values of play as well as of study, of self- chosen extracurricular as well as curricular pursuits. But at the center is a commitment to the life of the mind, in the free pursuit of truth, for the benefit of mankind. And it is here that a university exercises its most indispensable role in times of world-wide strain and tension such as these -- namely, by drawing on the best of the past to push forward our individual and collective capacities for forward looking and responsible action in a future where so much is unknown. This large and essential view is mirrored throughout the Bric-a-Brac and as such it provides a valued service to the University and to its readers I am therefore most happy at this opportunity to commend the editors of this volume of the Bric, and to recommend their product to all who may pause to peruse this-page. Sincerely,

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THE DEANS DR. lcRiQxtlAi1 S. l'llNlll-l became Dean ol' the College in 1955. Previously he had been a member of the English Department and during XVorld XVar ll served as both Assistant to the Dean ol the Faculty and as Secretary ol' the Committee on Scholastic Guidance. Under the direction of his ollice lalls the administra- tion ol' all undergraduate studies and various com- mittees and agencies which are concerned with the development ol the academic side of undergraduate activities. .Xlong this line the Dean ol the College is responsible lor the enforcement of the rules and standards connected with scholarship. Beliore joining the Princeton laculty, Dean Finch taught in the Department ol' English at Cornell Unia versity, from which he has a Master of .Xrts degree. He came to tl1is university in 15136 and alter the war served as Executive Secretary ol' the Princeton Program lor Servicemen returning to college. On the extra- curricular side, Dean Finch has been active on the Borough of Princeton's Board ol' Education and on boards ol' several other Princeton organizations. DR. lJoUc:1..'xs likown, Dean ol' the Faculty, came to Princeton as a member ol' the class ol' llllil, earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees here and then joined the laculty as an instructor ol Economics in l92l. AX member ol' President Hoover's Emergency Connnittee lor Employment during the early years ol the depres- sion, he was later one of the economists who aided in the planning ol the Social Security Act ol' I935. For several years he served the Government as an expert consultant on labor and during the war advised the XX'ar Department and the Secretary ol' State on James Douglas Brown matters in his lield. In l94ti Dr. Brown succeeded the late Dean Robert, K. Root as Dean ol the Faculty. He continued as Director ol the Industrial Relations Sec- tion in the Department ol Egonomics and Sociology until W55. As Dean ol' the Faculty he is responsible for the coordinaticni ol' curriculum, stall, and policy among the many academic activities ol' the llniversitv. Dean Brown also has authority over the departments ol instruction and other matters insolar as the el'l'ective- ness and duties ol the faculty are concerned. -IOS!-Ql'll CI.llf'l'OX lirotx, a member ol' the faculty since 15329, was named Dean ol' Princeton llniversity's School ol Engineering in l95fl. Dean Elgin realizes the importance to an engineering curriculum ol a broad base of both science and liberal arts as opposed to the approach to engineering through specialized technologies and skills, and the programs ol' study in the school reflect it. Alter receiving his Master ol' Science degree from the l7niversity ol' Virginia, Dean Elgin came to Prince- ton, where he earned his Ph.D. From l939 on he served as Chairman ol the Department ol' Chemical Engineering and l'rom l95l to 1954 was ,-Xssociate Dean ol the school. During Hlorld Il he served the government as a member ol the National Defense Research Committee and while on a leave of absence from the university, worked at the S.iX.M. Laboratories ol' the Manhattan Project. Dean Elgin is a Trustee ol the Proctor Foun- dation and is an active member ol' several national scientilic organizations. etennah St tnton Finch, Ph.D. Ph.D., Litt.D., L.H.D.. l,l.D. joseph Cllilton Elgin, Ph.D.