Five Get New Faculty Posts Over Summer

Five permanent additions to and three subtractions from the faculty roster took place during the summer months.

The Economics Department was the principal gainer, with two new members. Professor Arthur Smithies and Associate Professor Alexander Gerschenkron. Professor Smithies comes from the University of Michigan, where he obtained professorial rank in 1946.

During the war he served with the Board of Economic Warfare and was a consultant to the Office of Price Administration. Professor Gerschenkron has been chief of the foreign affairs section of the Federal Reserve System since 1947.

Government Service

Another appointee with a record of government service is Lincoln Gordon '33, who has been named Professor of Government and Administration at the Business School. Professor Gordon has been a consultant of the State Department on the European Recovery Program since July, 1947, and, since May, he has served as Acting Director of the Program Review Division of the Economic Cooperation Administration.

Professor Gordon has taught at Harvard since 1937, and has also held down the following posts: consultant with the National Resources Planning Board, principal economic analyst of the War Production Board, director of the Production Bureau of the W.P.B., and director of the Bureau of Reconversion Priorities of the Civilian Production Administration.

Two other appointments both raised assistant professors to permanent rank as associate professors.

Guerard, Mackey Advance

Professor Albert J. Guerard of the English Department and Professor George W. Mackey of the Mathematics Department were the two to be advanced. Professor Guerard has been at Harvard since 1938. During the war he did liason work between the French Army and the Office of Strategic Services.

Professor Mackey served with the Eighth Air Force and later worked on wartime mathematical problems at Columbia.

The three to leave the University were James G. Baker, associate professor of Astronomy; Gerhard P. Hochschild, former Benjamin Pierce Instructor in Mathematics who was named an assistant professor at the University of Illinois; and Richard W. Leopold, who resigned as assistant professor of History to accept an associate professorship at Northwestern.