ROBERT MOSES IS CHOSEN AS 1939 GODKIN LECTURER

Robert Moses, Ph.D., New York City's scholarly Park Commissioner, will be the Golden Lecturer this spring, it was announced by the University yesterday. He will speak on April 21 and May 12.

Under the terms of the lecture foundation, which was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, the speaker must deal with some aspect of "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers, include Walter Lippmann and Heinrich Bruening.

Graduated from Yale, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, in 1909, Moses received his Master's degree from Oxford two years later and wrote his doctoral dissertation in political science at Columbia in 1915.

Moses entered the employ of New York City immediately thereafter, and has served it continuously. Although the work which he has pursued most consistently and to which he owes his popularity is in parks and city improvement, his positions have been many and varied.

After losing to Lehman in the 1984 gubernatorial contest, Moses was appointed to his present task of coordinating the city park and parkway systems by Mayor La Guardia. He is also head of the Triborough Bridge and Henry Hudson Parkway Authorities, and a member of the New York World's Fair Commission.