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Visiting Professors Include
Yugoslav, Briton, German

Visiting professors who range
from a Yugoslavian economics
expert to a German city planner are
in residence at the University as the
fall term opens.

The appointments of five
visiting professors for one-year
terms were made at the summer
meeting of the Board of Visitors,
who also announced the promotion
of eight associate professors to the
rank of professor on the University
faculty, effective September 1.

Aleksander Bajt, a native of
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, has been
appointed visiting professor of
economics. Mr. Bajt was chief of
the department of prices for the
Yugoslavian Ministry of Industry
between 1947 and 1950. Since
1950 he has served on the law
faculty of the University of
Ljubljana, and has been dean since
1965.

Eric E. Sheldon will serve for a
year as visiting professor of physics.
Born in England, Mr. Sheldon
received his Ph.D. from the
University of London in 1955, and
has been active in experimental and
theoretical research at the Imperial
College of London. Since 1964 he
has been professor of physics at the
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology.

Two visiting professors of city
planning will spend the 1968-69
year at the University. Rosser H.
Payne, Jr., a Virginia native and
graduate of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, is a former planner for
New York City. He was principal
planner and deputy director of
planning for Fairfax County from
1954 to 1967. For the past year he
has been a private consultant.

Joining Mr. Payne will be
Merete M. Zimmermann, a native of
Berlin-Dahlen, Germany. She
attended the Academy of Art in
Stuttgart and holds a diploma from
the Technical University of Berlin.
Since 1964 she has been an
assistant professor at the Technical
University and has been active as a
private consultant.

Among the associate professors
promoted to professor is Richard
M. Brandt. A member of the
faculty since 1965, Dr. Brandt was
appointed professor of education.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he
received his D.Ed. from the
University of Maryland. He is an
expert on children's cognitive
development and educational
psychology.

Bruce A. Chartres has also been
on the faculty since 1965. An
expert on numerical analysis, Dr.
Chartres was made professor of
computer science. A native of
Adelaide, Australia, he received his
Ph.D. from the University of
Sydney in 1956.

Douglas T. Day, III, a member
of the English department who has
published the first extensive study
of Robert Graves as a poet, has also
been promoted to full professor.