Brother Act

Able, bald Everett Needham Case four years ago became a college president at 41; last week his kid brother, James Herbert Case Jr., made the grade the day before he turned 40. Jim Case took over at small, 159-year-old Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., 300 miles southwest of Brother Ev's Colgate. Chief speaker at the inaugural: Brother Ev.

Both of the Case brothers went to Hotchkiss and Princeton; both are ex-Watt Streeters (their father, Banker J. Herbert Case, was once chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York); both turned educators in their thirties.

Jim Case's first academic job (except for a year of teaching at Hotchkiss) was secretary of Brown University. In the Navy, assigned to help run an officers' training school at Ohio State, he worked toward a master's degree in philosophy in his spare time. Now the degree will have to wait. At Washington and Jefferson, which was founded by clergymen for clergymen's sons, his first goal will be to get the college something it has never had: a chapel.

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