PARKMAN ELECTED HEADMASTER OF ST. MARK'S ACADEMY

Francis Parkman '18, instructor in History and tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics was elected yesterday to the head-mastership of St. Mark's School of Southborough, and has accepted.

Parkman will succeed the Reverend Dr. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster for the last 36 years, who tendered his resignation on November 11. Parkman, when he takes charge of his new position, will find himself placed in command over a faculty of which half a dozen or more members taught him when he was a student at St. Mark's from 1911 to 1915. Parkman will assume his new responsibilities on September 1, when Dr. Thayer's resignation is effective.

Is Phi Beta Kappa

Parkman was one of the outstanding students while at St. Mark's, being honored with a monitorship there. He matriculated at Harvard in the fall of 1915 and completing his course in three years, he was graduated Magna Cum Laude and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society with the class of 1918. He was a John Harvard scholar for one year, held a Harvard College scholarship two years, and was elected in his senior year a member of the class committee.

He was, as an undergraduate, a member of the Harvard Yacht, Institute of 1770, D.K.E., Iroquois, Stylus, Signet, Fly, and Hasty Pudding clubs.

Rowed Against Yale

Parkman was a member of the Freshman crew in 1916 and two years later rowed on the Harvard University crew which whipped Yale in 1917. He is also a veteran, having enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps in the spring of 1918, shortly after the crew on which he rowed had taken Yale for another drubbing. He did not get across, spending most of his time at Paris Island, South Carolina, and at Quantico, Virginia. He came out, a second lieutenant, in February 1919.

For the next six years, Parkman was connected with various Boston business houses, and in 1925 returned to Harvard as assistant in the History Department, also doing some work in the dean's office.

In the academic year 1926-27, he served as assistant dean in charge of records and as instructor in history, and the next year he passed abroad as a Bayard Cutting fellow, mostly in Paris, carrying on research for his Ph. D. thesis, the subject of which concerns the early years of the French in Louisiana. Back at Harvard again in 1928-29, he served as instructor in history. He took his A.M. in February, 1929. He expects to receive his Ph. D. in June.