Faculty Notes
PROFESSOR WILLIAM KELLEY WRIGHT, Department of Philosophy, was recently elected president of the American Philosophical Association for the coming year, one of the highest honors in his field. He is the third member of the Dartmouth faculty to head the association, the other. two having been Professors Wilmon H. Sheldon, who was a faculty member from 1909 to 1920, and Wilbur M. Urban, here from 1920 to 1930. Professor Wright, who has long been prominent in the 50-year-old association of which he is now president, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1916. He has written several books on philosophy, the latest of which, published in 1941, is A History of Modern Philosophy. He is a former president of the American Theological Society.
H. Wentworth Eldredge, Assistant Professor of Sociology on leave, has been promoted from Captain to Major, headquarters of the 12 th Army Group overseas has announced. Major Eldredge has been with the G-3 Section, Special Plans, of Gen. Omar N. Bradley's staff. Entering active military service in September 1942, he went overseas in February 1943.
Dr. William T. McLaughlin '36, of the Urological Service at the Hitchcock Clinic, has been appointed Instructor in Surgery at the Dartmouth Medical School as of February 1. The new instructor graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1938 and received his M.D. degree at Columbia in 1940. Following his internship at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, he was resident physician at the Squier Urological Clinic from 1942 to 1944.
To the long list of degrees and honors conferred on Robert Frost, foremost American poet and Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth, by leading colleges and universities, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, has recently added that of Doctor of Laws. Mr. Frost, who attended Dartmouth from 1892 to 1893 with the class of 1896, received the degree of Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth in 1933, and has received the same honorary degree from Yale, Middlebury, Bowdoin, University of New Hampshire, Columbia, Williams, Bates, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, the University of Colorado and Princeton. He has a Master's degree from Amherst and the University of Michigan, and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Vermont.
Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography, was recently honored by election to the Association of American Geographers, an organization whose membership is limited to only a few hundred of the nation's authorities on geography. Professor Carlson has also been appointed secretary of the newly reorganized Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region Association which is concerned with the industrial and recreational development of the area. He was a guest speaker at the last meeting of the New England Council's Industrial Development Committee in Boston when he addressed the gathering of the region's business leaders on "Postwar Industrial Development in New England."
Bancroft H. Brown, Mathematics Professor and Director of Mathematics for the V-12 Training Program at Dartmouth, was guest speaker at the dinner of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England on March 31 in Boston. Professor Brown discussed the question, "Will Accelerated Programs Survive?" from the negative point of view.
The engagement of Miss Gloria May Hutchinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Hutchinson of West Lebanon, to Edward M. Korb, instructor in Physical Education at, Dartmouth, has been announced.
