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Densen, Wienreb, Goodman Named To Faculty Positions

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Three new professors have been named to the Harvard Faculty. The appointments of Paul M. Densen, Lloyd L. Weinreb, and the Nelson Goodman will become effective July 1.

Deputy Administrator Paul M. Densen, of the Health Services Administration, City of New York, will become Professor of Community Health. Densen was also recently made Director of the new Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care. He will assume that post in the autumn of 1968.

The Center will study ways that medical care can best be delivered to the urban, suburban and rural areas of America.

Nelson Goodman, named Professor of Philosophy, is at the present time an outstanding contemporary philosopher and Research Associate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His two books, The Structure of Appearance and Fact, Fiction, and Forecast appeared in 1951 and 1955.

He gave the Alfred North Whitehead Lecture at Harvard and the John Locke Lecture at Oxford in 1962-63. In the following year Goodman was the 75th Anniversary Lecture of the American Geological Society. He is currently president of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.

Lloyd L. Weinreb, once a staff attorney to the Warren Commission, has been named Professor of Law. Weinreb was a law clerk for Justice Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court before coming to Harvard in 1965 to teach criminal law and criminal process.

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