Annemarie Schimmel has been named professor of Indo-Muslim Culture.

Schimmel's appointment, announced in June, brings the number of women holding full professorships at Harvard to two. She will assume a chair donated by the late A. K. Ozai Durrani, a Pakistani chiefly known as the inventor of Minute Rice.

Blumenthal Flap

Richard D. Blumenthal '67 was offered, and then not offered, the post of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the Federal anti-poverty project which functions as a domestic peace corps, this summer.

Administration sources first leaked to the press on July 1 that Blumenthal had been offered the post. Had he accepted the $38,000-a-year directorship, Blumenthal-who lived in Leverett House and was Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON-would have become the youngest person to hold a major post in the Nixon administration.

However, after word reached reporters that Blumenthal had refused the job because he did not feel he could defend Administration policy in Southeast Asia, Donald Rumsfeld, director of the. Office of Economic Opportunity, explained that Blumenthal 1) had not really turned the job down; 2) had turned the job down for nonpolitical reasons; 3) had never been offered the job anyway.

Ford Returns

Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will return to Harvard this Fall to live in Quincy House.

Ford, who took a sabbatical leave in Europe last term, announced his resignation as Dean last Fall. During the April 1969 strike, Ford came under heavy attack from liberal members of the Faculty as a result of the publication in the Old Mole of a confidential letter to President Pusey in which he advised Pusey on ways to circumvent the Faculty's vote to curtail ROTC.

Ford was hospitalized a few days later for a mild stroke, but recovered completely before the end of the year.

He continued teaching as McLean Professor of American and Modern History even while serving as Dean.

Ford said in July that he doesn't feel that Harvard is as badly off as some have claimed. What is needed, he said, is for "Faculty and students to rally around and get on with the work."

Master of Dunster

Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English, will serve as Acting Master of Dunster House this year. Rosenblatt, who until last year served as Dunster's Senior Tutor, replaces Alwin M. Pappenheimer '29, professor of Biology.

Rosenblatt is also director of Expository Writing and a member of the Faculty Council. During the 1969 Strike he served on the Committee of Fifteen, the disciplinary body which preceded the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities.

In the same announcement, the University named John R. Marquand, tutor in History, as the new Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House.

Pusey on Unrest

President Pusey told the President's Commission on Student Unrest July 20 that the major reason for student unrest is that "many of the young people have a different view of the world and our society than most adults have."

"The great majority find the present state of society quite deficient," he said, adding, "They go further, many of them, and say the world is rotten."