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...chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein...
...students a major voice in charting their studies ever since it opened in 1963. "We're not taking Leon because he's 23," says Dartmouth College Chaplain Paul W. Rahmeier, chairman of Franconia's trustees, "nor would we avoid him because he's 23." Botstein was chosen, the trustees maintain, because he was the best man. And he was not chosen by the board alone; a search committee of students, faculty and trustees interviewed him and recommended his appointment...
Mixed Results. For Botstein, who is completing his Ph.D. in history at Harvard and this year served as a special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education, Franconia will be a challenge, to say the least. Botstein will be the school's fourth president since 1963. Franconia's current president, Larry Lemmel, is quitting because the job kept him away from his family and scholarly pursuits...
...though the school was changed from a junior college to a four-year institution in 1965, it has still granted only 25 bachelor's degrees. Since scholarship funds are very limited, the annual cost ($3,800) discourages all but the well-to-do. In addition to these problems, Botstein must overcome the difficulties of his age. He will be younger than most of his faculty and some of his students as well...
Before the meeting at the AEC, the student delegation called on the Undersecretary of Defense in charge of Civil Defense in his Pentagon Office. Botstein says the visit "was as good as it could be, considering that he (the Secretary) was paid to do CD work...