Henry V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, Chairman of the Council of the School of City Planning, authority on land-scape architecture, and editor of several architectural magazines, has been elected a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Hubbard succeeds the late Ferrucio Vitale.

The new trustee of the Academy is the editor of "City Planning", and of "Landscape Architecture." He was recently appointed Consultant on regional planning to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Professor Hubbard is also President of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a member of the Board of Directors of the Capital Park and Planning Commission, and of the Board of Directors of the National Conference on City Planning. He has also served as a member of Governor Ely's Special Zoning Commission.

The present American Academy was incorporated in June 1897 by a group of distinguished men including Charles Francis Adams '88, Charles W. Eliot, Frederick Law Olmstead '94, and Henry Lee Rigginson.