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Board Appoints Faculty;
Medical School Expands

By James Beeghley
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

New faculty appointments were
recently disclosed by the Board of
Visitors, who met earlier this month to
vote on University matters including the
University hospital, the new track and
field, and the Medical education building.

Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, historian
and noted scholar of colonial American
literature and a leading specialist in
Eighteenth Century French literature,
will join the University faculty next fall
as Scholar-in-Residence in history,
government, foreign affairs and law.

David Levin, currently professor at
Stanford University, will join the faculty
as Commonwealth Professor of English,
while Mr. Lester G. Crocker will be William R.
Kenan, Jr. Professor of French.

Mr. Levin also will be a member of the
University Center for Advanced Studies.

John G. Garrard, professor of Russian and
chairman of the Department of Slavic
literature; Richard A. Green, lecturer in law,
and Mathias C. Klemen, visiting professor of
history, will join the University faculty next
fall.

Named to the Center for Advanced Studies
are Paul M. Fishbane, a specialist in high energy
theory, and S.G. Whittle Johnston, who is
visiting lecturer in government and foreign
affairs this year.

Two new assistant deans have been
appointed in the College of Arts and Sciences,
effective in September: Kenneth G. Elzinga,
assistant professor of economics, and Fred A.
Diehl, assistant professor of biology.

Jay L. Chronister, assistant professor of
education and director of the Center for Higher
Education, will be assistant dean for
administrative services in the School of
Education, beginning in September. Jacob C.
Levenson, Edgar Allen Poe Professor of English
will serve as chairman of the department of
English, beginning in September, while Jerry R.
Moore, assistant professor of education will be
chairman of the department of curriculum and
instruction.

The $9.1 million medical education building
currently under construction will be named for
the late Harvey Ernest Jordan, former dean of
the School of Medicine from 1938 until his
retirement in 1949.

The medical education building, expected to
be in use by fall, will house teaching and
research laboratories, lecture rooms, and
anatomy, physiology, pharmacology,
biochemistry and microbiology departments of
the medical school. Completion of the building
is a major factor in the medical school's plans to
increase its enrollment from 350 to 450 by
1973.

Tuition increases were also approved which
will increase from $585 to $700 for in-state
students, while out-of-state students will pay
$1,600 instead of $1,315.