Dean David Appoints Austin as Professor

Dean Donald K. David yesterday announced the appointment of Robert Winthrop Austin, New York lawyer and former vice-president of Ponick and Ford Ltd., as professor of Business Admintration in the Business School. Austin takes office July 1, 1953.

He will teach courses in the legal aspects of business and in business responsibilities in America today. He has been serving on the faculty of the Business School since 1951.

Austin graduated with honors from Dartmouth College in 1929 and from the Harvard Law School in 1932.

Austin will continue as a director of Ponick and Ford Ltd. He was vice-president, secretary, and general counsel of the corporation between 1946 and 1950.