Alden Named Ohio President

Vernon R. Alden, associate Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, has been named the fifteenth president of Ohio University. The 38-year-old Alden is the youngest president of the 12,000 student university since 1872.

Chicago-born Alden graduated from Brown in 1945 and received his Master's at the Harvard Business School in 1950. After serving on the admissions staffs of Brown and Northwestern, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1951.

Alden has called his chief worry as an educator "the massive problem of financing public and private education. I don't think that we are yet spending a sufficient percentage of our gross national income for that."