A Roy Atherton of Thayer Hall and Longmeadow will head the 1944 Freshman Red Book board, it was announced last night.

The choice of the Chairman of the Yardling annual was made yesterday afternoon, after a week of combing over school records of Freshmen and personal interviews with likely candidates. Caspar W. Weinberger '31, Secretry of the Union, Eugene D. Keith '42, Student Council Representative for Freshmen Affairs, and a Council committee.

Worked at Exeter

Atherton, whose previous journalistic experience has consisted mainly of newspaper work at Exeter and at Springfield Classical High School, plans to get the Red Book Register out "well before Christmas, and by Thanksgiving if possible."

The Register, containing only pictures, names, addresses, and schools of the Yardlings, is published early this year by the Red Book board as a directory of the class. The Red Book itself, which appears in the spring about Jubilee time, is the only complete record of class activities until the Senior Album.

Business Manager Soon

To insure an early start on the Register, Atherton said, he will choose his Business Manager over the weekend, and will call out a business and advertising competition almost immediately. He expressed the hope that any interested Freshmen would drop in at Thayer 64 as soon as possible, although the formal opening of the competition will be delayed until next week.

With regard to the regular Red Book, the new Chairman sees a need for more candid shots characteristic of life in the Yard and he is planning to start a photographic competition in the near future so that fall activities as well as winter and spring will be included in the panorama. Union dances and scenes of guys and gals at the football games will receive generous pictorial space, he said.