Education: Education: Feb. 11, 1966

Charles Odegaard, 55, Washington; One of the fastest climbers among the newer presidents, he is so active that his regents a few years ago ordered him to take a vacation. Recently, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him a three-month travel grant just to refresh himself—this week he is on the Mediterranean. Once a history professor, he moved to the Seattle post in 1958 from the deanship of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

O. Meredith Wilson, 56, Minnesota. A warm man with a dry humor and an analytic mind, he is an ideal moderator who manages to shape meetings toward his own preconceived intent, yet with a democratic touch. He is chairman of the Institute of International Education and National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children. He is a former history professor who was a Ford Foundation official and president of the University of Oregon before going to Minnesota in 1960.

Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing—but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus.

Katharine McBride, 61, Bryn Mawr. She probably belongs to more key groups than any single male president—ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation. She has served as president of the American Council on Education and the College Entrance Examination Board. A psychologist, she has led Bryn Mawr for 23 years. "This college is interested in progress for U.S. education and in working for it," she says. "Not just progress, but fast progress."

David Henry, 60, Illinois. A stiff individualist (he insists on spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home."

Lee DuBridge, 60, Caltech. Mild-mannered, soft-spoken and enormously proud of his school, Physicist DuBridge is constantly on the phone as a skilled broker between Caltech's scientific resources and the nation's ever-expanding demands for scientific knowledge. He is an adviser to NASA on manned space flight, a director of National Educational Television and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

William Friday, 45, North Carolina. An efficient organizer, he has been president of the South's best university for ten years, has pipelines to resources of all of the region's leading schools. He heads an advisory committee on relations between AID and universities, and chairs the President's commission on White House Fellows. A lawyer, he has spent most of his career at Chapel Hill.