Hale Champion

Hale Champion, former undersecretary of the Department of Health Education and Welfare, has become executive dean of the Kennedy School of Government.

Champion, vice president for financial affairs from 1971 to 1977 and a senior adviser to the K-School dean and President Bok, will help organize two upcoming training programs and work with the dean on the transfer of the City and Regional Planning Program from the Graduate School of Design to the K-School.

"In general, Hale will help bring order to our present structure," Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, said Wednesday. Allison added that the position of executive dean is a new one at the K-School.

Champion said yesterday that a "vast amount of original work and research and development remains to be done" in the field of public management and added that he "has worked with the Kennedy School from the outset" toward these goals.