Adams Quits University Posts for Colorado Job

George W. Adams, director of the Summer School and Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will resign his University posts in august to take over the position of dean of Colorado College.

Appointment of Adams was announced by the president of Colorado College at Saturday's graduation exercises. Adams here yesterday confirmed his acceptance of the dean's chair, which has been vacant for almost a year. At Colorado Adams will also be a professor of History.

In addition to his Summer School and Graduate School posts, Adams is dean of Special Students, Director of the University Extension, and Fulbright Scholarship adviser. No decisions on successors for any of Adams' five posts have yet been made.

Served In Navy

Adams came to the University in 1945 after a wartime service in the Navy. In his first position here he assisted Dean Bender in the Counsellor for Veterans Office and shortly after became the Graduate School secretary. He later assumed his other four jobs.

As dean of Special Students, Adams was in charge of the University's program for the students taking courses at Harvard but not candidates for any degrees. The special University Extension courses are given in the afternoons and evenings under a grant of the Lowell Institute.

Taught at Lake Forrest

Adams received his M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in 1946, both at Harvard, after graduating from Illinois in 1927. Before entering the Navy he served as a history professor at Lake Forrest College in Illinois. At Harvard Adams gave several lectures in History 5b, now History 61.

The several positions now filled by Adams will probably not be assigned to one man but will be distributed, it was reported yesterday. Adams plans to leave Cambridge at the end of the Summer School term in August.