E. Francis Bowditch '35, assistant Dean of Harvard College, will leave here in June to become headmaster of the Park School, Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the fourth assistant Dean who has graduated into the headmaster class in the past 12 years.

The 26-year-old former Student Council President and Second Marshal of his class, who also earned letters in track and cross country while in college, will be the third head of the middle-western country day school.

Bowditch's teaching record includes two years on the staff of the Shady Hill School in Cambridge while he was still in College, and two years as a Latin and English instructor of Milton Academy, of which he is a graduate. In 1937 he came to University Hall as assistant Freshman Dean.

Bowditch Follows Precedent

Predecessors who have made similar shifts are Francis Parkman '19, head of St. Marks, Mitchell Gratwick '22, who was for a time head of the Nichols School in Buffalo, New York, and Geoffrey W. Lewis '32, who is in his first year as headmaster of Brown and Nichols. Many others of the University Hall staff have taught, or are now teaching, at preparatory schools.

Nothing this trend in his annual report last year, Dean Handford said, "This exchange of men between the College and secondary schools is of mutual benefit to both institutions and should be encouraged so far as practicable."