Dean Leighton Made Master of Dudley House; Large Scale Renovation of Yard Dorms Begins

Delmar Leighton, Dean of Harvard College, will leave that post to become the first Master of Dudley House, it was disclosed yesterday. Leighton's appointment as Master of the center for non-resident students will raise the status of Dudley to that of a regular House.

Alexander Welsh, tutor in English, has also been made acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor for Dudley.

At the same time, President Pusey announced the appointments of John U. Monro '35, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as the new Dean of Harvard College to replace Leighton, and of Robert B. Watson '37, Associate Dean, as Dean of Students. The appointments will become effective Dec. 1.

McDonald Succeeds Monro

Wallace McDonald, Director of Freshman Scholarships, will succeed Monro, and Fred L. Glimp, Assistant Director of Admissions, will succeed McDonald.

Leighton's decision to leave University Hall to become Master was made, he said, "on the spur of the moment." However, the move indicates the increased importance of Dudley in the Harvard community. "The time has come to give Dudley full status as a House," Leighton said.

President Pusey himself, he stated, has referred to Dudley as "the Eighth House." Leighton said he hoped to make the non-resident House into "a House unit comparable with but different from the residential Houses."

Decision on Dudley

A definite decision was made in 1952, he said, that the size of the College would not be restricted to those able to be housed by the University. For this reason, Leighton emphasized, "it is important that we should have a unit that is not limited to students of full residence."

Dudley has always been "a very useful device to take care of temporary groups of students who are wanted in Harvard, but for whom the College has no room," Leighton commented. The residential Houses, he observed, are inflexible units in providing space for students, while Dudley represents "an element of flexibility" in the housing system.

"New Era"

President Pusey, commenting on Leighton's appointment, called it "the recognition of a well-deserved status for our non-resident undergraduate body." He said he was confident of "a promising new era for the non-resident student at Harvard" under Leighton's leadership.

At present, Dudley House accommodates approximately 400 students from the greater Boston area, including a few married undergraduates. Leighton's only indication that the size or the facilities of the center would be increased was his reference to $1,000,000 set aside from the funds of the Program for Harvard College for the non-resident center.