LITTLE NAMED DIRECTOR OF U. S. CANCER SOCIETY

Dr. Clarence C. Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and of the University of Michigan, and University track star during his Harvard undergraduate days, has been appointed managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

At present he is in charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor, Me It was in view of his distinguished work in this field that he was appointed to fill the post of managing director.

Dr. Little was on the Harvard Track Team in 1908, 1909, and 1910, where his work with the shot helped the University to win in 1910 over Yale. Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth. He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.

Appointed Marshal in 1912

A graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1910, he received his S.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science in 1912, followed by the S. D. degree in 1914. During 1910-12 he was Secretary to the Corporation, and later assistant dean and acting University Marshal.

From 1922 until 1925 he was president of the University of Maine, and from that date until the winter of 1928 he held the presidency of the University of Michigan, when he resigned that post.

Dr. Little has held many positions of importance in the scientific world, both at Harvard and with the Carnegie Institution Station for Experimental Evolution. He is a member of the American Society of Naturalists, the American Society of Zoologists, the American Association for Cancer Research, the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the Eugenic Research Association. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Little has been active in the interests of birth control, as director of the American Birth Control League since 1925. In 1921 he was secretary-general and chairman of the executive committee of the Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York. At one time during the World War he was commanding captain of the Aviation Department, Reserve Corps, and later a major in the Adjutant General's department. He is the author of a number of articles on genetics and cancer research.