| Show Kennedy Appoints McMurrin Utah Vice President Gets Education Post By United Press International President Kennedy today named Sterling M. professor of philosophy and academic vice president of the University of as U.S. Commissioner of AM pleased with the said in a statement to the have mixed feelings about leaving the University at this I hope that after my work in Washington is I will be able to return to the University as professor of McMurrin an understanding with President and Secretary I will probably take up work in March am very much appreciative of the attitude that President and chairman of the Board of Regents have taken in the matter of my leaving the University at this time of the year to accept the Washington the new commissioner McMURRIN was born in Woods He was graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles after his family moved to He did undergraduate work at the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of receiving his master of arts degree from Utah in 1937 and doctorate from the University of California in The new Commissioner's first teaching post was as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California from 1946 to Since he has been a professor at the University of serving also from 1954 to 1960 as Dean of the College of Letters and THE UTAH educator has written extensively on religion and He has specialized in the history of contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of |
