■Robert Harris, football coach at Northampton High School for two years, will leave the high school to take over as an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts. The Pittsfield native and former professional football player has tendered his resignation to the city school authorities effective as soon as they can find an adequate replacement.
■President Nixon received commemorative coins from members of the Whately Bicentennial Committee Tuesday in the White House. Accompanied by Rep. Silvio O. Conte, R-Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Farrick, James H. Lasalle Jr., Robert A. Rodriguez and Fred H. Bardwell presented the coins to the president.
■William McDonald, a physical education instructor at the JFK Middle School, has been appointed acting vice principal at the Jackson Street School. McDonald, a 15-year veteran of teaching Northampton, fills a slot left vacant when Richard Smith, vice principal, was named acting principal of Jackson Street last month.
■Joann Cicero Kreps of Amherst has been named executive director of the Sunnyside Childcare Center, a non-profit child care center located on the Smith College campus. The center has served the Smith College and Northampton-area community for more than 15 years.
■The developers of a proposed $15 million office park off Route 5 near the Clarion Hotel will present their plans to the Planning Board tonight, reviving a similar project discussed earlier this decade but never built. Plans call for two, side-by-side buildings on 4 acres on the south side of Atwood Drive.
■Marie Westburg has been appointed director of the Williamsburg Council on Aging, replacing Mary Wheelan who left the position after serving as director of the COA for eight years. A native of Seattle, Westburg moved to the East Coast to attend college.