Faculty Changes
SEVEN NEW MEMBERS were appointed to the Dartmouth College faculty at the annual fall meeting of the Board of Trustees and announcement was made at the same time of the promotion of four of the faculty and the election to the rank of emeritus professors of three professors who retired from active teaching this year. Nine of the faculty have resigned, and 16 have been granted leave for the present term.
The new faculty members are: Douglas M. Bowen, Cambridge, Mass., assistant professor of Chemistry, who comes to Dartmouth from Harvard; Thomas C. Doyle, Seattle, Wash., assistant professor of Mathematics, who comes from Stanford University; and Donald H. Morrision, Chevy Chase, Md., assistant professor of Government, who was administrative analyst and budget examiner at the U. S. Bureau of the Budget, before his Dartmouth appointment. The others who join the faculty as instructors, are: Frank G. Ryder, Minneapolis, Minn., who joins the German Department following service with the Navy; Ted Nordyke, Wichita, Kan., with the Physical Education Department following three years' duty in the Navy; Chief Specialist George H. Wittich, formerly of the V-12 staff at Dartmouth, now with the Physical Education Department; and William H. Harris, Toledo, Ohio, with the Physical Education Department for the Winter and Spring Terms.
The faculty members who have been promoted are: John Hurcl Jr. '22 and Arthur E. Jensen to full professors in the English Department, Carl D. England to full professor of Public Speaking, and John W, Finch, to assistant professor of English.
The professors elected to emeritus rank are Charles E. Bolser '97, of the Chemistry Department and Medical School, and Norman E. Gilbert and Charles A. Proctor '00 of the Physics Department.
The Dartmouth professors who are on leave are: Carl L. Wilson, Botany Department: William A. Carter '20; Bruce W. Knight, and Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Economics; Trevor Lloyd, Geography; Robert IC. Carr '29 and Elmer E. Smead, Government; Phillip E. Wheelwright, Philosophy; George V. Bohman, Public Speaking; McQuilkin DeGrange and George F. Theriault '33, Sociology; and Wing-tsit Chan, Chinese Culture.
Dr. Frederick P. Lord '98, professor of Anatomy, is on leave from the Medical School; John H. Minnich '28, professor of Civil Engineering, from Thayer School- and from Tuck School, Louis O. Foster professor of Accounting and Finance, and George W. Woodworth, professor of Banking and Statistics.
The faculty members who resigned at the close of the fall term were John C Van Buskirk, assistant in Chemistry; Francis A. Linville, assistant professor of Economics; Richard H. Somers, visiting lecturer in Mathematics; Robert J. Dela- hanty, professor of Physical Education; Elliott B. Noyes, who resigned as instructor in Physical Education to become track coach for the DCAC; Charles P. Hadley, instructor in Physics; Lt. Comdr. Homer Howard, USNR, assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics; William L. McLaughlin, instructor in Surgery, Medical School; and Norman E. Wilson, assistant professor of Electrical Engineering, Thayer School.
