Faculty Men Return
FIFTEEN FACULTY MEMBERS who have been on leave of absence from Dartmouth for war service will resume their teaching duties with the College at the beginning of the winter term, November 5. The length of the leaves has varied from three years to one year and the men went to their war assignments from ten departments of the College: Psychology, Education, Sociology, French, English, Physical Education, Physics, Zoology, Geology and Biography.
The returning faculty members together with the branch of the Armed Forces or government with which they served during their leaves are as follows:
Prof. Ralph A. Burns, Department of Education, on leave since October 194 a to serve as a lieutenant colonel with the Army Air Force and the Office of Strategic Services; Prof. Michael E. Choukas '27, Sociology, on leave since March 1944 with the 0.5.5.; Prof. George E. Diller, French, on leave since October 19 j 2 as a major in the Army Air Forces; Prof. Harold M. Evans, Physical Education, on leave since February 1943 as a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve; John W. Finch, English, on leave since November 1942 as a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve; Prof. Ramon Guthrie, French, on leave since April 1944 with the 0.5.5.; Prof. John Hurd Jr. '23, English, on leave since December 1942 as a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve; Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, English, on leave since November 1942 as a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve; Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25, Sociology, on leave since September 1942 as a major, Army Air Force; Prof. Henry S. Odbert '30, Psychology, on leave since September 1942 as technical aide to the Committee on Selection and Training of Aircraft Pilots, National Research Council; Prof. Willis M. Ray ton, Physics, on leave since January 1943 to do research work for the government; Prof. Ross Stagner, Psychology, on leave since January 1943 as assistant personnel manager, Koppers Cos. of Pittsburgh; Prof. Richard E. Stoiber '32, Geology, on leave since June 1942 as a technologist for the War Department; Prof. Arthur M. Wilson, Biography and Government, on leave since January 1943 with the 0.5.5.; Prof. Frank H. Connell '28, Zoology, on leave since February 1943 as a major with the anti-malarial section of the Army Medical Corps.
Three other members of the college administrative and coaching staffs have also received their honorable discharges and have returned to Hanover during the past month.
Robert P. "Whitey" Fuller '37 is back as director of publicity for the Dartmouth College Athletic Council following three years' duty with the Navy in the Caribbean and this country. He held the rank of lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Re. serve at the time of his return to his Dartmouth post and was until the spring of 1945 attached to the Caribbean Defense Command in the Air Wing as senior ground officer.
John A. Rand '3B, on leave of absence as graduate manager of the Dartmouth Outing Club, was honorably discharged from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, in October. He was a Technical Sergeant at the time. During his three years' service he saw duty in both the Asiatic Pacific and the European-African-Middle Eastern Theatres and holds ribbons for both with one battle star on the first for the Aleutian Island engagement and two battle stars on the second for the North Appennine and Po Valley engagements. He also wears the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal, and the Medalha de Campanha from the Government of Brazil.
Walter Prager, who has been on leave from the College since 1941 to serve with the mountain troops, has returned to Hanover to resume coaching the Big Green skiers. At the time of his honorable discharge from the Army, he wa§, a First Sergeant with the 10th Mountain Division which saw action in Italy. Shortly before his return to this country, he won the first international ski meet held in Europe since the war. Coach Prager was recently married.
THE NEW HOPKINS' RESIDENCE at 29 Rope Ferry Road, where Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins will make their Hanover home after November 1. The house was formerly owned by the late Sydney E. Junkins '87.
