New Presidents

Being dean has its rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research for the U.S.

Atomic Energy Commission. One of his main jobs at Rice will be to coordinate its scientific growth with that of its neighbor, the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft center near Houston.

> Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr., 47, was named Colgate University's tenth president, stepping up from the chairmanship of the political science department he has held at Williams since 1946. An expert on economic aid, Barnett served the U.S. foreign aid program in Italy from 1948 to 1953, and was counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. embassy in Rome in 1958 and 1959. At Williams, Barnett is chairman of Williams' Center for Development Economics, which each year trains a group of graduate students from developing nations.

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