Ford Will Be Lowell House Senior Tutor

The Corporation has continued its policy of appointing permanent members of the faculty to vacated Burr Senior Tutor positions by naming Franklin Lewis Ford, associate professor of History, as the new Senior Tutor in Lowell House.

Ford, whose appointment is for a five year period, will succeed Walter Muir Whitehill in Lowell. Whitehill, who has served as senior tutor since the Burr Plan was inaugurated in 1952, has been appointed as lecturer in History. Whitebill has remained as director of the Boston Athenaeum while serving as senior tutor. He will continue in that post in the future and as an associate of Lowell House.

Here Since 1953

The new senior tutor has been associated with Lowell since he came to the University from Bennington College in 1953. He served as an assistant professor of History until this year, when he was appointed to an associate professor-ship in absentia. Ford, who is now on a year's leave of absence studying in Germany, will assume his post in the fall.

A French and German scholar, Ford published his first book, Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, in 1953. He gives alternate courses in French and German history when lecturing.

Outgoing Burr Tutor Whitehill will lecture in History 160, Colonial American History to 1760, next spring. He will give the course in place of Bernard Bailyn, assistant professor of History, who will be on a year's leave of absence.

Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, yesterday commended the appointment of Ford, and said he was "delighted" to have him as Lowell's senior tutor.