Evening star., 1935-09-01
is ARE PROMOTED
ONG. .W.U.FACU[TY
Four Departments Of In.
struction Added in Plans
for New Term.

Sixteen members of the faculty OF
George Washington University have
been promoted to higher rank and
four new departments Of instruction
have been set up, effective with the
opening of the 1856 academic year.
it was announced yesterday by DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president.
Three associate professors have been
promoted to be professors, seven in
structors and two associates have been
made assistant professors. two asso-
ciateS have been made instructors and
one clinical assistant has been given
the rank of associate.
The new departments are: Depart
ment of experimental medicine, de-
partment Of business administration,
department of statistics and depart
rnent of Slavic languages and litera-
ture.
DIR. Johnstone Dean.
DR.. William Crane Johnstone, jr.,
who has been acting dean of the
Junior college has been made dean;
DR.. Edward Bright Vedder, professor
of experimental medicine. has been
named executive officer of the new
department of experimental medicine;
DR.. George Gamow, visiting professor
last year, has been named to perma-
nent post on the faculty as professor
of theoretical physics, and DR.. Ralph
Dale Kennedy, assistant professor of
economics, has been made executive
officer of the new department OF bust
ness administration.
Other promotions follow:
Ruth Harriet Atwell, from associate
professor of physical education to pro-
fessor; Frank Mark Weida, from as
sociate professor of mathematics to
professor of statistics and executive
officer of the new department Of
statistics; Warren Reed West. asso-
ciate professor of political science and
assistant dean of the School of Govern
ment, to professor of political science
and assistant dean.
Arthur Edward Burns instructor In
economics. to assistant professor;
Charles Edward Cook, instructor in
civil engineering. to assistant pro-
fessor; Helen Bennett Lawrence. in
structor in physical education. to as
sistant professor; John William Lee
instructor in pharmaceutical chemis-
try, to assistant professor: John Hugh
Lyons, associate in surgery. to assist
ant professor; William Henry Myer
instructor in physical education, to as
sistant professor; Herbert Herman
Schoenfeld, associate in neurology, to
assistant professor of surgery; George
Winchester Stone, instructor in Eng
lish. to assistant professor Robert
Ladd Thorndike, intructor in psychol-
ogy, to assistant professor.
Associate in English.
Douglas Emory Wilson, associate in
English, to instructor: Alma Fogelberg
associate in physiology, to instructor.
Leroy Lee Sawyer, jr.. clinical in
structor in oto-rhino-laryngology, to
associate.
Among the new faculty appointees
announced for the coming year are
Edward Teller, visiting professor oi
physics; Marvin Theodore Herrick, as
sociate professor of English; John B.
Whitelaw, assistant professor Of edu-
cation; Ira Bowers Hansen. assistant
professor of zoology; Donald Stevenson
Watson, instructor in economics; Will
liam r. Compton, instructor in law;
James w. Fulbright, Instructor in law;
Chester Ward, instructor in law: Wal
ter B. Kunz. instructor in chemistry;
Stewart E. Hazlet, instructor in chem
istry; Charles R. Naeser, instructor
in chemistry and Reinier Beeuwkes,
jr., instructor in civil engineering.