GENERAL EISENHOWER TO BECOME HEAD OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Evening Star, Issue 26137, 26 June 1947, Page 7

GENERAL EISENHOWER TO BECOME HEAD OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

(Rec. 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 24. General Eisenhower, chief of staff of the United States army, today accepted the presidency of Columbia University, New York City. The War Department issued a statement that General Ejservhower had accepted the position with the approval of the President and the (Secretary of War, and he would take over his new duties . when l\is official superiors released him from active army duty. The statement added that it was probable that if there was no radical change in the current outlook, this would be some time in the first half of 1948. General Eisenhower has been chief of staff since November 21, 1945. when

ho succeeded General Marshall, now Secretary of State. The War Department would not discuss who was likely to replace him, but General Eisenhower and other departmental chiefs have let it be understood that it will probably be General Omar Bradley, now the Veterans’ Administrator. Columbia University announced that General Eisbnhower had also been elected a member of the ‘Board of Trustees. Neither his salary nor those of his predecessors had been announced, but the post is believed to be the best paid of its kind in the world. General Eisenhower will be the thirteenth president of the university, which has nearly 30,000 students and a teaching staff of 3,466. When his predecessor, .Nicholas Murray Butler, retired in 1945, its capital resources were estimated at more than 233,000,000 dollars. Its real estate holdings include land in mid-town Manhattan on which the Rockefeller Centre stands. General Eisenhower is the second nfember of his family to become a university head. One of his brothers, Milton, is president of Kansas State College. Under a Congressional Act, General Eisenliower will remain a fivestar general for life. Thus, in addition to his salary from the university, he will receive ahout 15,000 dollars annually from the Government.