Education School Announces Three New Fellowships

The first Educational Fellowships of the Harvard Graduate School of Education were awarded yesterday to James D. Laurits, an Elgin, III., teacher, Simon Williams, former Dean of Lowell Textile Institute, and Professor R. Lee Hornbake of the University of Maryland.

These fellowships, which provide for a year of study at Harvard, are designed to enable deserving men and women in the educational field to enlarge their backgrounds and develop special fields of interest.

To Each His Own

"Each of these fellows will follow a program, individually designed under an advisor from the School of Education, to meet his own immediate and foreseeable needs," Dean Keppel explained, in announcing the awards.

Dean Keppel went on to tell how each of the three fellows and succeeding fellows will follow an individual study program in one of the divisions of the University, especially the Business School, School of Public Administration, Department of Social Relations, and the Psychological Laboratories.

James D. Laurits, 31, of Cleveland, received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yale in 1940. After three years in the Navy, he received his Master of Arts in Teaching from Chicago and has taught in the Elgin public schools for two years.

Simon Williams, 37, of New York, who has done extensive work in forestry textile research, will work in the field of general education.

R. Lee Hornbake of Coal Center, Pa., graduated from Pennsylvania State Teachers College and received his MA and Ph.D. from Ohio State.