Evening star., 1947-09-28
Georgetown Appoints
Six TO Faculty Of
Graduate School

DR.. Otto Donner, a German econ
omist and statistician, and DR.. Frank
A. Valente, prominent American
physicist are among six new pro-
fessors whose appointment to the
graduate faculty in arts and sciences
at Georgetown University was an
nounced yesterday.
Compared with fewer than so stu
dents before the war, the Graduate
School will open its new term to-
morrow Monday with approx
%rnately 500 enrollees, Dean Hunter
Guthrie, S. j., said in indicating
the upward swing in graduate studies
of all kinds.
He said that Prof. Donner, who
came to the United States in July
from Berlin, will teach courses deal
ing with such matters as statistics,
labor economics, the business cycle
theory. DR.. Donner is widely known
In scientific circles for his writings
on these subjects. He was educated
at the University of Berlin and has
had extensive teaching experiences
there as well as at Kiel and Ham
burg Universities and the College
Of Business Administration.
known For Nuclear Work.
The Army is lending Dr.. Valente
to the university for the new aca-
demic year. He was associated with
Westinghouse Electric Corp. before
the war and worked on the Manhat-
tan Project in perfecting the atomic
bomb from its beginning. At George
town. he will give course of lectures
dealing broadly with nuclear ply
sics.
Other new faculty members were
announced as follows:
DR.. Eugene E. Oakes, who will
offer course in fiscal policy, taught
formerly at Harvard and Yale Uni
verSities in the field of public
finance. He was educated at North
western University and received his
Ph.D. degree from Harvard. DR..
Oakes served the Government in
Washington during the war and
now Is an economist with the Joint
Commission on Internal Revenue
and Taxation.
: Frederick G. Matheson, an in
structor in geography, will give
courses In the regional geography
OF Latin America and India He has
Travelled widely in both of those
areas. A graduate of Princeton,
pennsylvania and Clark Universities,
he has taught at Allahabed Agri-
cultural Institute in India, Haver-
ford College in Pennsylvania and
the Universities of Puerto Rico and
Pennsylvania.
DR.. Gill to Give Lectures.
The other two professors are DR..
Harry c. Gill, who will lecture on
problems of the British Empire and
the Danubian area, and DR.. Lewis
E. Warren, who will offer courses in
the history of chemistry and drug
analysis.
DR.. Gill was educated at St. Bren-
dams College, Clifton, England and
received B.A. degree from the
University of London. He taught
at Priory Gate School in England
and in Prague. He is a fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society and
member of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs in England.
During the war he served with the
Alp Ministry and later in laison
work for the Royal Navy in Wash
ington.
DR.. Lewis received his training in
chemistry at the University. of
Michigan. He has had many years
OF experience in research work.
Since his retirement he has lived in
Washington and now is engaged in
writing history of chemistry and
drug analysis.
The Graduate School is to occupy
new quarters provided for it in the
renovated building formerly occu-
pied by Georgetown Hospital, right
off the college campus. Dean
Guthrie returned recently from a
tour of Europe and attendance at
the International Study Week held
in Paris.