BURDITT TO HEAD BROOKS HOUSE; SWIFT CHOSEN NEW VICE-PRESIDENT

Phillips Brooks House announced last night that George M. Burditt '44 of La Grange, Illinois, and Winthrop House has been elected president for the coming year, and that Richard N. Swift '44 of Bloomfield, New Jersey, and Adams House, will be vice-president.

Scheduled to take over their duties immediately, the new officers have been chosen three months ahead of the peacetime March date. They will serve, Army permitting, until June.

Burditt acted this year as head of the Social Service Committee of PBH and personnel director for the War Service Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Student Council, first marshal of the class, and captain of the basketball team.

Swift Sold Stamps

Swift was in charge of Bond sales for WSC and a member of the Social" Service Committee at Brooks House. He has also worked on cooperation in work of this kind with neighbouring colleges.

First official act of the new officers will be to choose next year's Cabinet, composed of the heads of most of the PBH undergraduate committees. They will then be in general charge of the new streamlined Brooks House-War-Service Committee war organizations.

Burditt, who was the first to bring this problem up and was instrumental in its solution, expects that the integration of these two groups will be his immediate problem. In addition, however, he is faced with the question of adapting Brooks House policies to heavy wartime demands and to the handicap of a depleted college.