Faculty Notes

Dean Bill was the presiding officer October 15 at a dinner meeting of a Conference on Wartime Recreation called by Governor Blood in Concord, N. H,

Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, professor of Chinese culture, has been invited to be Resident Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College from October 15 to November 2. In addition to his lectures there on Chinese life and culture, he will also speak during this period at Pennsylvania State College and at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh.

Prof. Bancroft Brown of the Mathematics Department has been named a member of the special committee of the American Mathematical Society "to gather information as to the actual effect of the mathematical aspects of the Army and Navy Training Programs and to formulate suggestions for their improvement."

Faculty members returning from special leave to teach during the November term are Francis E. Merrill '26, assistant professor of sociology, and Dayton D. McKean and John V. Neale, both assistant professors of public speaking. Professor Merrill has been with the Bureau of Economic Warfare in Washington, Professor McKean has been serving as Deputy State Finance Commissioner of New Jersey, and Professor Neale has been teaching in the Government Institute at the University of Missouri.

Douglas Wade, College Naturalist, has recently been named editor of the New Hampshire Audubon Bulletin and chairman of the Conservation Committee of the Wilson Club, prominent national ornithological society.

Dean Frank W. Garran of the Thayer School on September 18 presided over the annual meeting and dinner of the New England Section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, of which he was chairman. Talks at the M.I.T. conference included one by Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett '10 of the Chemistry Department on the subject of V-12 instruction in that department at Dartmouth.