It is appropriate. therefore. that in this institution. famed for its bigher learning. its pursuit of truth. there will be at the helm one of the finest leaders in American research in his chosen specialty. I refer to Dr. Conrad A. Elvehjem. dean of the graduate school of the universityone of Americas top nutrition experts--an awardwinning researcher. On July 1. he will succeed another eminent scientist who. since 1913. has been identified with the splendid progress of the university. Dr. Edwin B. Fred. Dr. Fred will become president emeritus of the university. and professor emeritus of bacteriology. Dr. Elvehiem is a native of Wisconsin. the son of immigrants from Norway. He received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1927 and studied abroad at Cambridge University. He became an instructor at the university in 1925.
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