Show Board of Regents Appoints Neal Maxwell as Dean of Students tm 1 NEAL A. MAXWELL in Dean of Students ROBERT TRAVERS to direct research m REED M. MERRILL Psych Travers Will Head Merrill To Direct Neal A. Maxwell was named by the Board of Regents today as the new Dean of Students at the University of He will replace Willard W. who recently resigned his position at the Utah school to accept a similar responsibility at the City College of New The change will take place August The Regents also appointed Robert M W. Travers as Director of the Bureau of Travers will relinquish the headship of the Department of Educational Psychology in or- der to accept his new Reed M. Merrill was appointed head of the department of educational Maxwell has served since as assistant to the president at the University in since July of has been secretary to the Board of He is also an instructor in the field of political science and is the host and moderator of which is a weekly half-hour interview President A. Ray in commenting on the said that cultivation of human resources is necessary for sound economic and social Education of our youth is the key to our economic more important than material or development of any other The President added that Maxwell will do a fine job of fulfilling the responsibilities of the important position of Dean of Students and will help to create services that will assist in caring for individual needs of Maxwell graduated from Granite High School in 1944 and served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to He was a First Sergeant in the Infantry and participated in the Army Reserve as an officer in Military Intelligence from 1950 to He graduated with honors from the University of Utah in 1952 with a political science He received his masters degree in political science at the August 1961 From 1952 to he served with the Central Intelligence Agency and from 1954 through 1956 he was legislative assistant to Senator Wallace F. Maxwell returned to the University of Utah in 1956 as Assistant Director of Public Relations and in 1958 was appointed Assistant to the Travers has been an expert consultant for the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force at various times and has also been consultant on educational and psychological problems for several Dr Travers is a Fellow of the American Psychological a Fellow of the American Educational Research Merrill received his M.A. degress at the University of Utah and his Ph.D. degree from the University of He became Director of the Counseling Center in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah on |