Department of Defense Nomination of Harold W. Chase To Be Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs.

The President today announced that he will nominate Harold W. Chase, of Minneapolis, Minn., to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. He would replace Will H. Tankersley, resigned.

Chase was born February 6, 1922, in Worcester, Mass. He received an A.B. (1939), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1954) from Princeton University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952.

Chase was an associate professor at Princeton University from 1952 to 1957. Since 1957 he has been a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Chase holds the rank of major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, and since 1976 has been a member of the Reserve Forces Policy Board.