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...mathematics professor has lost his second teaching job in a year and a half for what he alleges are his activities in fighting anti-Negro discrimination. He is Lee Lorch, who was notified in April that his appointment as assistant professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State College will not be renewed...
Penn State's dismissal of Lorch parallels the action of the City College of New York's Committee on Appointments in February, 1949. Lorch's department had recommended his promotion to assistant professor; the appointment committee voted four to two for what amounted to dismissal At Penn State, Lorch's reappointment was killed by vote of the College's trustees...
Both cases have turned up conflicting claims by Lorch and his administrative superiors. Lorch attributes the dismisals to his work as vice-chairman of a committee to end discrimination in Stuyvessant Town, a privately owned New York housing project; some of the organizations which have defended Lorch suggest that anti-Semitism may have entered into the firings. But both colleges deny this. A C.C.N.Y. spokesman said Lorch's anti-discrimination activities "had nothing to do with his non-reappointment," and James Milholland, acting president of Pennsylvania State College, has written the CRIMSON that his college's decision was "not based...
...Vera Lorch '51 will head next year's Radcliffe choral group, ex-president Mildred Blacklock '50 announced last night. Other new officers are: Christine Bosshard '51, vice-president; Judith Grose '52, secretary; and Joan Dexter '52, treasurer...
...College's opinion was revealed by Lesley Nichols, the Director of Public relations. He wired the CRIMSON: "Doctor Lee Lorch not reappointed by a unanimous vote of the Budget and Personnal Committee of the College. In my opinion his activities at Stuyvesant town had nothing to do with his non-reappointment...