Education: New Man for Athens

U.S. Schoolteacher Homer Davis helped found Athens College in 1925, saw the academy for Greek boys slowly increase its first enrollment of 15 students and endowment of $10,000, took over as president in 1930. Last week, from the U.S.-Greek-run school in Athens, which tenaciously survived the dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-41), successive occupations by Italians, Germans and British, and a painful postwar rebuilding, President Davis, 63, announced his resignation. President-elect, picked by Davis during a trip to the U.S. last month: Charles Marion Rice, 52, director of admissions and head of the English department (1941-57) at Connecticut's Choate School.

Schoolmaster Rice, who...