Starting on July 1, 1975 the department has a new Chairman, Michael Ellis Fisher... Other news of the faculty includes the selection of Gordon G. Hammes by the Board of Trustees as a Horace White Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Gordon will be on sabbatical leave at the National Institutes of Health this coming year... I am sure his many friends will be happy to learn that Robert C. Fay has been promoted to Professor of Chemistry... Two new Assistant Professors have just joined the department. Dr. Barry K. Carpenter, an organic chemist was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale and Dr. Paul L. Houston a physical chemist was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of California, Berkeley.