New Faculty

THE SPRING TERM will open March 11 with the addition of four new members to the Dartmouth faculty: George Z. Dimitroff as Assistant Professor of Astronomy; Edwin A. Sherrard as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Thayer School; Stewart R. Wallace '4l as Instructor in Geology; and John C. Bill '47 as Assistant in Chemistry.

Professor Dimitroff, who received his Master's and Doctor's degrees in Astronomy at Harvard, acted, before the war, as superintendent of the Oak Ridge Observing Station, which he himself largely built up, at Harvard, Mass. He was also superintendent of the Observatory Shop, instructor in photography, assistant in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard, and in charge of the course in general astronomy at Radcliffe College. During the war, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy; he has recently returned from Tokyo, where he was sent by the Navy on a technical mission. Although Professor Dimitroff is interested in research, he enjoys and has been especially successful in the phases of his work involving teaching. He is married and has two children.

A graduate of McGill University, Professor Sherrard received his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1924. Until the war he had varied experience as a construction engineer, and from 1941 to 1945 was Assistant Chief Engineer of National Railways Munitions Ltd. in Montreal. Mr. Sherrard, who formerly lived in Norwich, is an accomplished musician and was at one time a first violinist in the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Wallace, who comes as Instructor in Geology, is a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1941. During his junior year in college he was president of the undergraduate Dartmouth Scientific Society. John C. Bill '47, son of Dean Bill, completed his college course with the winter term just ended.