Appointments of the Week

Chemist James Stacy Coles, 38, appointed to succeed Kenneth C. M. Sills (TIME, May 24, 1948) as president of Bowdoin College. An expert on explosives, friendly "Spike" Coles got his Ph.D. at Columbia, became professor and later dean at Brown University, was voted by the girls at Pembroke (Brown's feminine adjunct) their most popular professor.

Psychologist Leonard Carmichael, 53, to succeed Ornithologist Alexander Wetmore as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, affectionately known as the "nation's attic." A Harvard Ph.D., Carmichael became a full professor at Brown at 29, moved on to be dean of the arts and science faculty at the University of Rochester, in 1938 was made president of Tufts College.

Art Professor Hugh F. McKean, 43, to succeed Paul A. Wagner as president of Rollins College. A longtime Rollins faculty man, McKean took over as acting president after the famous Rollins row, when Wagner tried to fire a third of the faculty as an "economy measure" (TIME, March 19, 1951 et seq.). Last week, McKean started off his term with the glowing announcement that he was out to get $10 million by 1960. First bit for the kitty: $100,000, donated by the college's friends and trustees.

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