7 Men on Faculty Win Guggenheim Fellowship Grants

Among the 82 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships, totalling almost two hundred thousand dollars, that were announced yesterday, seven were awarded to members of the Harvard Faculty, and an eighth was awarded to a prominent graduate, John Dos Passos '16, author of "Manhattan Transfer," "USA," and other well known novels.

Those receiving the awards were Hugh C. Cutler, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Richard E. Schultes '37, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Lloyd A. Metzler, instructor in Economic, Gordon N. Ray, instructor in English, Marck Schorer, Briggs-Copeland Faculty Instructor in English Composition, Rolf Singer, research associate in Mycology, and Otto Benesch, research fellow and special lecturer at Wellesley College.

The Guggenheim Fellowships, usually amounting to $2,500 for a year, are granted to research workers, scholars, artists and others who have shown outstanding ability in their fields. Since its establishment 17 years ago the Foundation has granted 1,210 Fellowships with awards totalling $2,488,000. Ray and Schorer have both been awarded Fellowships before.