New Faculty Members
THIRTEEN NEW APPOINTMENTS, including four members o£ the Class of 1944 and the wife of a Dartmouth professor, bring to a total of 214 the number of faculty members who are teaching in the V-12 Unit and the civilian College during the present summer semester.
Mrs. James F. Cusick, wife of Professor Cusick of the Economics department, became the third woman ever to teach at Dartmouth when she took up her duties July 5 as an instructor in Graphics. Other new Graphics instructors are John P. Cone, of Lyme, N. H., who is an associate of J. Fredrick Larson, the College architect; Oliver L. Lilley '30, former reference librarian at Baker Library; and W. E. Thamarus, a teacher at the Clark School here in Hanover.
In the department o£ physical education, Torrence W. Wenner, of Belmont, Mass., is a new instructor. Mr. Wenner is a graduate of Springfield College and, recently, has been in charge of physical education at the Belmont High School.
Walter Roach, former assistant professor in Speech and director of dramatics at Kansas State College, has come to Dartmouth to serve as an assistant in Play Production; and a new instructor in Music, Norman D. Rian, hag been appointed to assist on the teaching staff and to direct the glee club.
A new appointment to the Physics department is that of Nickerson Rogers '31 who, heretofore, has been a research fellow at the Dartmouth Eye Institute. He joins the College faculty as an instructor.
In the associated schools, the Dartmouth Medical School has announced the appointment of Dr. Julian P. Maes, of Baylor University in Texas, as assistant professor of Pharmacology.
The Chemistry department has the services of four men who have just graduated from the College in the Class of 1944. Acting as assistants for the department are Spencer L. Baird, Jr., of Amarillo, Texas, and Stanley Barr, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Also in the Chemistry department, but engaged in a special war project, are two new research assistants, Joseph A. Dammann, of Dayton, Ohio, and Ralph G. Beaman, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Robert J. Beitel, who has been in Hanover since last October as a member of the Bureau of Visual Science of the American Optical Company, has joined the Eye In- stitute staff as Assistant Professor of Research in Physiological Optics.
An Eye Institute promotion is that of Dr. Kenneth L. Roper, from instructor to Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology.
The resignation of Robert L. Veres '33, Instructor in Physical Education, has been announced. Mr. Veres has left Dartmouth to accept a position as recreational director with a large ship building concern on the West Coast.
At the same time it was announced that three more members of the faculty have been granted leave of absence. Almon B. Ives, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, has gone on active duty as a lieutenant (jg) in the Naval Reserve; Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism, is on leave in Mexico where he is doing work connected with Polish relief; and McQuilkin DeGrange, Professor of Sociology, is working for the OWI.
Three other faculty members who have been on leave have returned to the College to take up their teaching duties. They are Francis Denoeu, Professor of French; Oliver L. Lilley '30, Instructor in Graphics; and Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Instructor in Economics.
1918'S 25TH YEAR GIFT of $20,500 is presented to President Hopkins by David L. Garratt, chairman of the reunion fund committee, on behalf of more than 200 contributors in the class. This is more than double the amount of the next largest 25th year gift that has. ever been given to the College.
