Faculty Appointments
THE APPOINTMENT of four new Assistant Professors was among several additions made to the faculty and administrative staff during the summer.
Lawrence G. Hines of Washington, D. C. has been named Assistant Professor of Economics and Byron S. Dague of Gainsville, Fla. has been appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering and Management at Thayer School.
New members of the Medical School faculty are Dr. Jan Nyboer of Hartford, Conn., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and Dr. Eugene Becker, formerly of Budapest, Hungary, Associate in the Physiological Sciences with the rank of Assistant Professor.
For the past year Professor Hines has been lecturing on economics at American University and has also been serving as an air intelligence specialist for the joint Army-Navy Air Intelligence Division. He received his A.B. degree at the University of Kansas and his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota.
A graduate of the Naval Academy, Professor Dague retired from the service in !945 with the rank of captain. Last year he was an assistant professor at the University of Florida Engineering School.
Professor Nyboer comes to Dartmouth from the Yale Medical School where he was clinical instructor in medicine and more recently instructor in physiology. He held a fellowship in cardiology at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Medical School from 1937 to 1941 and has also taught at the University of Michigan and Columbia University Medical Schools. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School.
A native of Budapest, Dr. Becker was Professor of General Biological Chemistry at the Agricultural University, Royal Hungarian Ministry of Education and Religion, from 1935 until 1944, yhen the Germans forced him to leave with their retreating armies. Earlier he had studied in the United States, first in 1931-32 under the Rockefeller Foundation, and again in 1934 under the Jeremiah Smith Foundation. He comes to Hanover from Germany.
Four new instructors in the English department are Judson S. Lyon '40, formerly instructor at Rutgers University; Edward A. Chalfant '42 of Rockville Center, N. Y.;, Edmund G. Miller '43 of West Newton, Mass.; and Peter Rudy of Buffalo, N. Y., formerly instructor at the University of Buffalo.
Other instructors appointed and their departments are: Thomas J. Murray '45 of Bridgeport, Conn., economics; Robert B. Dishman, formerly instructor in politics at Princeton, government; George E. Rice '45 of Pueblo, Colo., psychology; Cesar Grana of Berkeley, Calif., Spanish; Hanford L. Auten '32, former ophthalmologist at the Dartmouth Eye Institute, ophthalmology; and Edmund J. Byrkit '47 of West Englewood, N. J., civil engineering.
Six new teaching fellows are Henry M. De Angelis '47 of East Boston and John W. Howard '46 of Bloomfield, N. J., chemistry; John F. Murphy '48 of Cranston, R. 1., and Henry H. Woodard '48 of Weston, Mass., geology; Philip E. Hildreth '45 of Marlboro, N. H., zoology; and Foxhall A. Parker '48 of Katonah, N. Y., engineering.
Dr. Philip O. Nice of Colorado Springs, Colo, has been named Fellow in Cancer Pathology at the Medical School under the terms of a grant provided by the New Hampshire Field Army of the American Cancer Society.
Morrel H. Cohen of Boston, who graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in July, and Robert W. Terhune, of Detroit, Mich., a graduate of the University of Michigan, 1947, have been named research assistants in physics.
William Jewett of New Haven, Conn, was appointed Acting Technical Director of The Players. An Amherst alumnus, he has been stage and shop technician for the Yale Department of Drama during the past year.
Four members of the faculty resigned September 1. They were George V. Bohman, assistant professor of public speaking, who has accepted a similar position on the faculty of Wayne University, Detroit; Victor M. Powell, instructor in public speaking, who has been appointed to the faculty of Wabash College; Robert H. Denison, assistant curator of the Museum and Assistant Professor of Zoology, who has joined a group planning an expedition to Africa under the auspices of the University of California; and Wallace C. G. Fraser, Instructor in Mathematics, who has been named Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
FROM ENGLAND: John H. Wolfenden, former chairman of the sub-faculty of chemistry at Oxford University, has joined the Dartmouth faculty this fall with the rank of full Professor of Chemistry.
