Bolles' Crew Record Bright; His Choice Long Considered

It took ten weeks of meetings by a seven man ad hoc committee--with trips throughout the country--before the Corporation finally picked a man right in Cambridge to be Harvard's now Director of Athletics.

The Corporation's choice of Tom Bolles came as a mild surprise to observers of the selection process, because it is known that the ad hoc committee's original inclination was to favor a Harvard graduate less than 40 years of age. In fact, the committee's list of five possible choices, submitted to the Corporation, probably contained the names of three such men.

Bolles, however, had been strongly considered from the very start, it is reported, and remained on the list given the Corporation in mid-April by the Provost.

Many Meetings

Contrary to the usual ad hoc committee procedure, under which groups named to suggest permanent appointees meet only once or twice and then quickly disband, the athletic director committee held over a dozen formal and informal meetings before it decided upon its list of possible successors to William J. Bingham '16.

Appointed in February by President Conant, the committee was chaired by Provost Buck and included three members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletics (Francis Kernan, Jr.'24, Frederic C. Church '20, and Frederick S. Moseley '36) and Dean Bender and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House.