DEAN KEPPEL DEPARTS FOR MILITARY JOB

Francis Keppel '38, Assistant Dean of the College and a proctor in Grays Hall, will leave for Washington this week to help in the National Defense program as secretary of the joint Army-Navy Committee of Welfare and Recreation.

Dean Keppel was making his plans in the capital last week, after being asked to take the job by the chairman of the Committee, Frederick Osborne. Although he will be working in Washington indefinitely, Keppel said that he expected to return to Cambridge on weekends.

In his post on the Committee, which was formed about a month and a half ago by Secretaries Knox and Stimson, Keppel said that he will strive to improve morale in the armed forces of the nation. His object is to solve entertainment problems of soldiers and to better the communities surrounding army camps.

Sorry to Leave

"I am extremely sorry to be leaving Harvard," he commented, "but I feel that I will be needed more in Washington." No predictions have been made yet as to who will succeed him.

For the past two years Keppel has been a "baby dean" in University 9. As an undergraduate himself, his numerous activities included being chairman of the Redbook Board, president of the Eliot House Committee, secretary of Phillips Brooks House and a member of the Permanent Class Committee.