Eliot Appointed Eliot Professor of Land Planning at School of Design

The grandson of a former University president was named yesterday to a professorship in the School of Design.

He is Charles William Eliot II '20, nationally known landscape architect, regional planner, and grandson of the late President Eliot. The chair he will assume is the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture named after his uncle, who was also a landscape architect.

Although there is a Charles W. Eliot Fund to endow instruction in landscape gardening at the Design School. Dean Sert said that this would not be used for Eliot. The Chair will be financed through the Robinson Fund instead.

The appointment will allow the School of Design to institute high-level courses in resources conservation and national planning, Dean Sert said.