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Architecture Dean To Visit Here

Jose Luis Sert, retired dean of the
Harvard Graduate School of Design and
an early leader in the modern architecture
movement, will visit the University this
semester as Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation Professor of Architecture.

Mr. Sert was named by the
University's Board of Visitors to the chair
which was established in 1965 to bring teachers
of international distinction to the University's
School of Architecture.

"Until 1969 the very distinguished head of
one of the major schools of design, Mr. Sert has
had an enormous influence on architectural
education," says Joseph N. Bosserman, dean of
the University's architecture school.

The author of four books and numerous
other publications, Mr. Sert has served as
director of the New York Citizens' Housing
Council planning committee, chairman of the
Cambridge Planning Board and consultant to
the United Nations housing and planning
division.

Among his projects have been the Spanish
Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair, the
Macacht Museum in St. Paul de Vence, France,
the Holyoke Center, undergraduate science
center and married student housing at Harvard,
the American embassy in Baghdad and
extensive town-planning and housing projects
throughout the world.

In other new faculty appointments, Frank
G. Ryder will join the faculty in September as
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of German.
Currently chairman of the German department
at Indiana University, Mr. Ryder is a scholar of
18th and 19th century German literature and
the recipient of the Federal Republic of
Germany's Goethe Medal given for promoting
German studies abroad.

Joseph P. Stern will come to the University
for one semester next fall as visiting professor
of German. A specialist in 19th and 20th
century German literature, he is professor of
German at St. John's College, Cambridge
University.

Two current faculty members have been
named to chairs. Frederick C. Mosher will be
the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable
Foundation Professor of Government and
Foreign Affairs, while B.F.D. Runk will be
Samuel Miller Foundation Professor of
Experimental Agriculture and Forestry.

Beer Prize

Hans A. Schmitt will join the faculty next
September as professor of history and a
member of the University's Center for
Advanced Studies. Now at New York
University, he received the American Historical
Association's Beer Prize for his book, "The
Path to European Union: From the Marshall
Plan to the Common Market."

A husband and wife team, now on the
University of Wisconsin faculty but currently
on leave to teach at the University of California
at Berkeley, also will join the faculty next
semester.

Corporation Law

J.A.C. Hetherington, to become a professor
of law, is a specialist in corporation law, with
particular interest in the corporation's role in
modern society.

Eileen M. Hetherington, a developmental
psychologist, particularly interested in the
development of personality in children, will be
professor of psychology.

Two other faculty members were named to
the Center for Advanced Studies: Woodford D.
McClellan, associate professor of history and a
specialist in Russian and East European
history, and William C. Scitz, William R. Kenan
Jr. Charitable Trust of New York.