Miss Mongan Named Fogg Head; Bell Appointed to a Sociology Post

Miss Agnes Mongan has been appointed director of the Fogg Museum. She is the first woman to head a major museum in the United States.

Miss Mongan was acting director of the museum after John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, resigned to devote himself to research and teaching. She is also Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on Fine Arts.

Since she joined the staff of the Fogg in 1929, Miss Mongan, 64, has held the positions of Curator of Drawings, assistant director, and associate director.

Her field of authority is the master drawings of Italy and France. She has edited and written many catalogues of special exhibitions of drawings and many articles on drawings for French, English, Italian, and American publications. The Fogg's collection of prints and drawings is particularly distinguished.

During her years with the Fogg, Miss Mongan has been active with other college museums. She has served on the advisory council of the Colby College Museum of Art and on the visiting committees of the Smith College art Museum and the textile department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Formerly, she was hairman of the visiting committee of the Wheaton College Art Department.

She is an associate member of the American Association of Art Museum Directors and was one of the founding members of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee for the Chapelbrook foundation, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Miss Mongan received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1927 and her A.M. from Smith College in 1929. She holds honorary degrees from Smith and Wheaton Colleges.

Daniel Bell

In another recent faculty appointment, Daniel Bell, chairman of the Columbia Sociology department since 1958 and noted for his studies of public policy and higher education, has accepted the post of professor of Sociology at Harvard beginning July 1.

Although Bell will not start teaching until the Fall of 1970, he will spend next year in Cambridge doing research and writing.

Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1952. Bell spent several years as a journalist. He has been managing editor of the New Leader and Common Sense and worked for ten years as labor editor for Fortune Magazine.

Bell graduated from City College of New York in 1939 and received his Ph.D. in 1960 while at Columbia in the forties he taught for three years at the University of Chicago and also spent one year as a Fellow of the Center for advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences during the fifties.