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

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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.

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RO THE PRESIDENT BERT FRANCIS GOHEEN, PH.D

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1X'illiam D'Olier Lippincott, AB. Ernest Cordon, B.D.,S.'1'.M. Donald Ross Hamilton, Ph D When XX'i1.1.1Axi 1J'Oi.i1-LR l,IPPliNCO'l 1' was appointed to the newly created office ol' Dean of Students in 1954 he became one ol' the youngest Deans in the Univer- sity's history. As Assistant Dean of the College for the live years previous to his appointment, he had been in charge of the Administration's contact with the extra- curricular organizations. ,Xs Dean of Students he supervises the non-academic activities, including undergraduate social lile and stu- dent behavior. Chairman of many faculty committees, Dean Lippincott is best known to the undergraduate body as Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Dis- cipline and for those halted members of his oflice, the prof-tors. A member of the class of 1941 and an honor student in the Department ol Modern Languages and Litera- tures, Dean Lippincott went from Princeton into the Army and served 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 active in many local organizations. After one year as Presbyterian Chaplain of the XVest- minster Foundation, IQRN1-3s'r CoRDoN became Dean of the Chapel in 1955. He spent his undergraduate years at St. Andrews University and did graduate work at Edinburgh and London University, Hartford Theo- logical Seminary, and Clasgow University. Author of many articles in theological. educational, and popular journals, Dean Gordon has written a book ol' sermons, A Ijwirzg Faith for Today. He was a captain in the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers in Yllorld 1Var Il, and spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war after he was captured trying to escape from Sumatra. During this time he taught and served as a lay minister to his fellow prisoners. After the war he continued his studies and in 1950 was ordained a minister of the Church of Scotland. In the past years Dean Gordon has conducted special Religious Emphasis Meek services on several univer- sity campuses. He is also the founder and lirst Presi- dent of the Church Service Society of the USA., a Fellow of the Victoria Institute, and a member of various academic societies. In -july of 1958 DoN,xI.n R. l'lAXI1LTON succeeded Dr. Hugh Taylor as Dean of the Gradute School. Since 'joining the faculty in 19-lli he had taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in physics as well as conducting a variety of research projects. For two years his ability in his lield earned him the position of Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics. Dean Hamilton came to Princeton in the Class of 1935 and won Highest Honors in Physics qualifying for membership in both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He took his degree at Columbia University and spent over a year in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. The war followed, during which time he worked on high- priority research projects at the M. I. '1'. Radiation Laboratory. For a while connected with the Sperry Company, Dean Hamilton worked on the development of a special type of microwave vacuum tube, tl1e klystron. More recently he has been interested in the theory and observation of beta decay and with atomic-beam inves- tigations in the spins and moments of radioactive nuclei. He became a full professor in 1955.