Howard N. Smith Fills New Position of Comptroller

The recently created position of Comptroller of the University will be filled from July 1, 1942, by Howard N. Smith, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., the University announced yesterday.

Mr. Smith will supervise accounting, auditing, and other routine phases of the University's finances. He will be assisted by Roy V. Perry, Bursar, and Gordon P. Gills, Auditor.

Mr. Smith, a native of Washington, D.C., was registered as a certified public accountant in Massachusetts in 1924. He has been in the industrial banking business in Boston and leaves Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery to accept the Harvard position.