Converted Faculty
IN PREPARATION FOR the V-12 Naval Training School, opening on July 5, a large group of Dartmouth faculty members are teaching in new fields during the present intersession or are enrolled in "refresher" courses which will enable them to carry some of the heavy teaching load in the new program. Still others are busy working up special Navy courses which are not part of the regular Dartmouth curriculum.
In all, well over a hundred faculty members are invcilved in this conversion program, and the fields covered include Physics, Mathematics, Engineering Drawing and Descriptive Geometry, History, Navig ation, Naval English, and Naval Organization. New courses required of V-12 freshmen and to be taught by the College faculty include Naval English, Historical Background of the Present World War, and Naval Organization. The second-year V-12 course on Naval History and Elementary Strategy is also being organized for July election.
Sixteen faculty members who have already completed the refresher course in Physics are serving as assistants in that subject during the present intersession, and six others are taking the regular elementary course so that they may join the staff of laboratory assistants. Among those now assisting in Physics is Mrs. Mildred Brode, reference librarian at Baker Library, who formerly taught at George Washington University and who was assistant physicist at the Bureau of Standards in Washington for five years. Mrs. Brode is the second woman teacher in the long history of Dartmouth; the other was Mrs. Norman Hapgood, who was enlisted to teach Russian during the last World War. Mrs. James F. Cusick, wife of the Dartmouth Economics professor, is preparing to assist in Descriptive Geometry, and may soon become the third woman to hold this Dartmouth distinction.
Faculty members now helping in Physics are Michael E. Choukas '27, Sociology; Henry M. Dargan, English; Allen R. Foley '20, History; Joseph B. Folger '21, Spanish; James W. Goldthwait, Geology; Ernest R. Greene, Romance Languages; Ralph P. Holben, Sociology; W. Stuart Messer, Classics; Frederick S. Page '13, Botany; Maurice Picard, Philosophy; Lauren M. Sadler '28, Physical Education; John B. Stearns '16, Classics; George F. Theriault '33, Sociology; Andrew G. Truxal, Sociology; Leon Verriest, French; and Elliott A. White '12, English. Those now enrolled in Physics 1 are Robert M. Bear, Psychology; Wing-tsit Chan, Chinese Culture; Clark W. Horton, Educational Research; Carl D. England, Public Speaking; Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Philosophy; and Harold E. Washburn '10, French.
Two faculty members now teaching Mathematics are Prof. Merle C. Cowden, German, and Prof. Charles J. Lyon, Botany. Others who have taken the refresher course and will be available to assist in July are Edwin M. Bailor, Psychology; Will iam W. Ballard '28, Zoology; Walter C. Behrendt, City Planning; Robert K. Carr '29, Political Science; William A. Carter '20, Economics; James F. Crow, Zoology; Robert H. Denison, Zoology; Warren E. Montsie '15, French; Robert E. Riegel, History; Charles L. Stone '17, Psychology; Philip E. Wheelwright, Philosophy; and John R. Williams '20, History.
J ' Faculty members now preparing to assist in the required V-12 course in Engineering Drawing and Descriptive Geometry are Chauncey N. Allen '24, Psychology; Walter C. Behrendt, City Planning; Louis P. Benezet '99, Education; W. Wedgwood Bowen, Zoology; Merle C. Cowden, German; Ellsworth D. Elston, Geology; James P. Poole, Botany; Harry W. Sampson '21, Physical Education; Elmer E. Smead, Political Science.
A group of 19 faculty members are preparing to teach Naval Organization, a one-hour course required of all V-12 freshmen and open to election by other V-12 trainees; and a larger group of 28 faculty members are preparing themselves to teach the College Training Program course in Naval History and Elementary Strategy. This latter course is being worked out by a committee of five, headed by Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the History Department, and including Profs. Louis P. Benezet '99, Leon B. Richardson 'OO, William A. Robinson, and Wayne E. Stevens.
Prof. Richard H. Goddard '21 is training a faculty group of five to teach the elective course in Navigation, listed by the Navy as desirable for all its reservists. This group includes Robert K. Carr '29, Political Science; Merle C. Cowden, German; Joseph B. Folger '21, Spanish; James W. Goldthwait, Geology; and Hugh S. Morrison '26, Art.
Approximately twenty faculty members are available to teach Naval English, and members of the Public Speaking Department and others will assist with the oralexpression part of the course. The History Department will be largely responsible for the required V-12 freshman course on the historical background of the present war, but faculty members from other departments may be enlisted to help out.
PHILADELPHIA MEMBER Philip H. Chase 'O7 reelected for a secondAlumni Council term.
