Mrs. Bunting Will Become Radcliffe President in 1960

Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, a dean at Rutgers University, will become the next President of Radcliffe. The official announcement was made yesterday by Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, Chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, confirming the CRIMSON report of two weeks ago.

Mrs. Bunting will assume office on July 1, 1960, replacing Wilbur K. Jordan, who has been President of the College since 1943. Jordan announced his resignation last winter, and a special committee has been working for several months to select his successor. Over a hundred names were given at least some consideration.

Mrs. Bunting's present title is actually Dean of Douglass College. Douglass is an all-women's institution, operating within the general framework of Rutgers University. Mrs. Bunting, as Dean, is the highest official concerned exclusively with Douglass, her immediate superior being the President of Rutgers University.

"A Lot to Learn"

Contacted yesterday by telephone, Mrs. Bunting's first comment was "I know I've got a lot to learn about Radcliffe." She said that her first-hand experience of the College has been confined to a one-day visit.

Mrs. Bunting was reluctant to take a definite stand at this time on the question of "integrating" Radcliffe with Harvard. She did say, however, that she thinks it "at least quite possible that total integration may be the right thing for Radcliffe."

A widowed mother of four children, Mrs. Bunting has been at Douglass since 1955. Prior to that she had been associated with the Department of Microbiology at Yale.

She was graduated from Vassar in 1931, and took her Ph.D. in agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin three years later. She subsequently taught at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley, and Yale.