Faculty Additions

FOUR APPOINTMENTS to the College faculty, three others to the teaching staff of the Medical School, and one to the Dartmouth Eye Institute have been announced by President Hopkins.

Reginald F. Brown, who has been Instructor in Spanish at New York University during the past year, will come to Dartmouth to fill the same position starting with the fall term. Jason W. Perkins '37 of Kimball Union Academy is serving as Instructor in Spanish during the summer freshman term; Prof. Howard O. Stearns 'l5 .of the Simmons College physics staff has joined the Dartmouth faculty as Instructor in Physics for the present semester; and James B. Thompson Jr. '42 of Fort Lee, N. J., has assumed the position of Instructor in Geology for the summer term.

The new appointments to the Dartmouth Medical School are John Milne '37 as Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, Scott F. Pedley '36 as Instructor in Medicine, and Jesse M. Gait '36 as Instructor in Medicine. In June, Rudolf Amann joined the staff of the Dartmouth Eye Institute as Research Associate in Physiological Optics.

Professor Brown, a graduate of the University of Liverpool, England, in 1932, received his Master's degree there in 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1939. He spent various periods of study in Spain from 1931 to 1935 and in the latter year was named a Fellow of the University of Liverpool. He taught at Columbia University from 1939 to 1941. His work at New York University during the past year has dealt with South American culture as well as with the Spanish language.

Dr. Milne received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and interned at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before coming to Hanover. Dr. Pedley, who interned at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, is a graduate of the New York University Medical School, while Dr. Gait received his degree from the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., and served his internship at the Lynn Hospital, Lynn, Mass. All three doctors are now on the staff of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Amann, who is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Bar, received an M.E. from the Technische Hochschule, Vienna, in 1931 and an LL.B. from Law School, Washington, D. C., in 1929.