Faculty Additions

Two NEW faculty members took up teaching duties at Dartmouth at the opening of the second semester and three members resigned to join the armed forces. Added to the teaching staff were Alfred B. Jacob '3l as Instructor in Spanish and Arthur B. Hillegas as Instructor in Botany. Members of the faculty who went into war service were: Duncan A. McLarty, Instructor in Botany, a Canadian who joined the meteorological branch of the Canadian Air Service; Gwyn B. Lytton, Assistant in Geology, who entered an officers' training school; and Robert R. O'Brien '4l, Assistant in Philosophy, who joined the U. S. Army Air Corps.

The new Spanish instructor, Mr. Jacob, spent only one year in Hanover as an undergraduate. Going to Europe the following summer, he remained for the next two years at Woodbrooke, a Quaker study center in England. He entered Exeter College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1930 where, specializing in Spanish, he qualified for a degree in Modern Languages. Marrying an English girl who was also a graduate of Oxford, Mr. Jacob settled down for several years near Oxford until, 1936, he went to Spain to do emergency war relief work. In 1940, he left Spain and returned to this country where he taught at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., until coming to Dartmouth.

Mr. Hillegas, new member of the botany department, attended the University of Vermont, Columbia University and the University of Wyoming from which he received an A.B. degree in 1932. He received a Master's degree from Columbia University and, in 1939, a Ph.D. Before coming to Dartmouth, Mr. Hillegas served as an Assistant in Botany at Columbia and as a research assistant with the American Chicle Company.