A new professorship at the Divinity School will honor John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington attorney and last year's Godkin lecturer.

O'Brian has headed the drive to raise $5,000,000 to revitalize the Divinity School. In 1950 a committee, led by him, recommended making drastic changes to create a center of religious learning.

O'Brian's friends have contributed $250,000 toward the professorship that will bear his name. His own gift to the Divinity School drive totaled $33,000.

Senior partner in the firm of Covington and Burling, O'Brian was general counsel of the War Production Board during World War II. In 1932, he ran for the Senate in New York against Robert F. Wagner.