Bundy Announces Four New Chairmen

Professors James J. Lingane, Oscar Handlin, and Walter J. Bate will become new departmental chairmen, while Professor Sterling Dow will take the chair of a permanent faculty committee, Dean Bundy announced yesterday.

Lingane, professor of Chemistry, will head that department, succeeding E. Bright Wilson, Jr. Handlin, professor of History, will become Acting Chairman of that department, replacing Myron P. Gilmore. Bate, associate professor of English and present Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, will succeed Herschel C. Baker as Chairman of the English Department.

Bate's successor as chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will be Sterling Dow, John L. Hudson Professor of Archaeology.

The new appointments would become effective on July 1, according to Bundy.