Phelps Associate Grad School Dean

Reginald Phelps '30, lecturer in German, will take over the duties of associate dean of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences immediately and assume the title retroactively as of July 1, 1949, the GSAS announced yesterday.

Phelps has been secretary of the school since he returned from Columbia last fall. He will continue to serve as Director of the University Extension and as Dean of Special Students.

He was graduated from the College in 1930, with highest honors, and received the A.M. degree in 1932 and the Ph.D. in 1947. He taught at the University from 1931 until he entered war service in 1944. He was an assistant professor of German at Columbia last year.