Dean Bender Refuses Comment On Letter Recommending Schine

Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27 yesterday refused to comment on his letter, read into the Army-McCarthy hearing last Friday, which strongly recommended G. David Schine '49 for a Naval Commission.

Local TV viewers were startled when McCarthy, in a strange reversal of tactics, appealed to the authority of Bender--"an individual who holds a position much higher than Mr. Cohn or Mr. Carr."

In the letter which McCarthy read, Bender said in part, "I have known David for almost ten years. He was a student at Phillips Andover Academy when I taught there before entering the Navy in the last war."

"I believe that he has exceptionally strong qualifications for a naval officer. He has developed greatly in the last few years and is now a person a unusual, maturity and thoughtfulness.

"He has an unusual amount of initiative and imagination about affairs and has, I think, a promising future ahead of him. He is a good judge of human beings, and can work well with others. From the point of view of reliability intelligence, energy and initiative I can imagine few people better qualified for an officer's commission"