Digging Fossils

Robert G. Goelet '45 was unanimously elected president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City Monday night.

"I'm delighted--I feel like the kid who's been given the keys to the candy store," Goelet said last night.

Goelet said that as a freshman at Harvard he "spent hours gluing fossils and bones together in the dark basement of the Museum of Comparative Zoology." His Harvard education got him "off to a flying start," Goelet said.

Goelet's major duty as president of the museum will be to put together budgets, not fossils, Goelet said. The museum is currently faced with an $800,000 deficit and must raise an annual $14 million in operating expenses.