Donald Hornig, Harvard Overseer, Will Be New President of Brown

Donald F. Hornig '40, a member of the Board of Overseers, is expected to be named the fourteenth president of Brown University today.

The Brown Corporation will meet this morning to approve the selection of Hornig, who will succeed the acting president, Merton P. Stoltz.

"Higher education is the most challenging problem around right now," Hornig said last night. "What is going to happen in the next ten years in society will be determined not by old-timers like me, but by the college students of today."

Hornig is assuming Brown's top post at a time of extensive curriculum change there. The university recently voted to eliminate all required courses and all grades other than "satisfactory" or "no credit." Hornig said that he approves of the curriculum reforms as a necessary part of the changing nature of education.

"Part of the tradition of the university is that people have the right to express there views." he said. "And I will defend the right of everyone to protest, so long as he does not infringe upon the right's of others," he continued.

Hornig is presently a vice president of the Eastman Kodak Company and a consultant-at-large on President Nixon's Science Advisory Committee. After receiving a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in Chemistry in 1963, he served as a group leader in the Mannattan Project to develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, N.M.