Word: womacks
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...John Womack '59, professor of History, has been recommended by senior Faculty members to become the new History Department chairman and will assume the post on July 1. pending approval from Dean Rosovsky...
After graduating from Harvard. Womack went on to receive his Ph. D. in education here in 1963 and was hired as an instructor two years later. His area of expertise is modern Latin American history...
...Womack, who is on leave for the term, yesterday declined to comment before the appointment becomes official...
...this point Womack's appointment is just a formality" Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History and the current department chairman, said yesterday. According to MacCaffrey. Womack received a consensus among senior Faculty members who wrote letters to Dean Rosovsky stating their preference for the department chairman, in a routine procedure that takes place every few years...
...other professors who signed the letter are Everett I. Mendelsohn professor of the History of Science: Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government: Hilary W. Putnam. Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic: Richard C. Lawontin, Agassiz Professor of Zoology: John Womack, professor of History: Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology: Lee Rainwater, professor of Sociology: Erwin N. Hiebert, professor of the History of Science: Duncan M. Kennedy, professor of Law: Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies: George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus: and Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology