President Pusey has announced the apartment of a Yale classical scholar, Professor Bernard M. W. Knox, as Director of the new Center for Hellenic Studies, to be established in Washington, D.C.

Knox will assume full-time duties at Center on July 1, 1962, after four years search and writing. A leading authority on Sophocles, he is currently Professor of Greek Language and at Yale.

Director, Knox will guide a small number of resident Junior Fellows, who will be appointed annually to study at the Center. A group of Senior Fellows, acting on-resident advisors, will also work these younger scholars.

Knox is known for his book Oedipus of , a critical interpretation of Rex, for his translation of the published in 1959, and for his short studies on classical authors. He is also known across the country for his film lectures on the Oedipus trilogy, made for a secondary school television course.

A native of England now 46, Knox became an American citizen while serving U.S. army during World War II. He graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge University, and continued his studies of the classics at Yale after the receiving a Ph.D. in 1948. Since then, has been on the Yale faculty.