With the Faculty
IN PREPARATION for a second semester course, Geography of the Air, which he is teaching, Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, recently visited the headquarters of two international agencies concerned with civil aviation—the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Air Transport Association, both of Montreal.
Professor Lloyd has also written an article, "Artie Air Transport in North America," which was published in the December issue of Air Affairs, a new international journal of aviation. The article describes the development of northern aviation in the past three decades and provides up-to-date information about commercial flying in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland.
A research study of the geography and administration of northern Canada, started in 1943 for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, has recently been completed by Professor Lloyd. In connection with the study he made special journeys to James Bay, Northern Quebec and Baffin Island in 1943, to supplement earlier visits to Hudson Bay and the Mackenzie Valley. During 1944-45 while on leave of absence from Dartmouth, Professor Lloyd served as Canadian Consul at Godthaab, Greenland, and made several long journeys reaching as far as 73° N. Latitude studying the geography and administration of this country for comparison with conditions in Arctic Canada.
PROFESSORS Andrew G. Truxal and Francis E. Merrill '26 of the Department of Sociology have just completed and sent to their publisher (Prentice-Hall, Inc.) the manuscript of a book entitled The Familyin American Culture. The book is primarily intended as a college textbook for courses in marriage and the family, but the subject is of such general interest that the publishers expect considerable demand outside university circles. Professor Truxal has for many years given a course in "The Family" at Dartmouth and this volume is an outgrowth of his work in that field. With several hundred married students in the present undergraduate body, instruction in the nature and functions of the family has a more than academic interest. Professor Truxal is also the author of Outdoor Recreation Legislation and Its Effectiveness.
In addition to the current work, Professor Merrill is the author of The HomeFront: A Study of War and Social Problems,, a monograph sponsored by the Committee on War Studies of the Social Science Research Council, which will be published this Spring by Harper & Brothers. He is also the editor and co-author of Fundamentals of Social Science (1946), in which he collaborated with four other members of the Division of the Social Sciences at Dartmouth, and the co-author of An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Professor Robert E. Riegel of the History Department and published in two volumes in 1941. Professor Merrill's first book is entitled Social Disorganization, published in 1934 by Harper & Brothers and revised in 1941.
DOUGLAS E. WADE, College Naturalist, served as chairman of the Education Session at the 12th North American Wildlife Conference held at San Antonio, Texas, February 3, 4 and 5. The Conference had representatives from Canada, Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, and Pan America, as well as the United States.
Mr. Wade will also serve, for the second straight year, on the Executive Committee for the 2nd New Hampshire Conservation Camp for Youth and Youth Leaders to be held at Bear Brook State Park, June 22-27. He is in charge of arranging the program for the camp and selecting the teaching staff.
THE ADDITION of three new men to the Economics Department this semester has strengthened and diversified Dartmouth's offerings in that field of the social sciences. Assistant Professors Paul Fisher, Joseph S. Ransmeier and Raymond H. Lounsbury are the new members of the department.
Professor Fisher, who is establishing a reputation for himself in the field of labor law, is a frequent contributor to the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Born in Vienna, Austria, Professor Fisher was awarded the law degree of J.D. from the University of Vienna in 1930. In 1934 he became an assistant to a professor at the University of Vienna, and following that was an assistant at William and Mary and Fordham and an instructor at the University of Maine. His last academic position was that of assistant professor at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., from 1943-46.
It is unusual to find a man teaching and farming and being successful at both of these demanding professions, but Professor Lounsbury has been able to accept that dual role satisfactorily. At the present time he spends the week in Hanover teaching and the weekends at his farm in East Burke, Vermont. A graduate of Wesleyan where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1925-26, Professor Lounsbury also holds the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. He has been an instructor at Cornell and the University of Illinois, an associate at the latter institution, and a professor at Alfred and Russell Sage College of Troy, N. Y. His last academic position was at Russell Sage where he taught from 1939-1946. During 1945-46 while temporarily in ill health, he turned to farming for his living.
Professor Ransmeier is an expert on the Tennessee Valley Authority, having published an authoritative volume on this governmental agency before the war. He graduated from Oberlin in 1936 with an A,B. degree and received his MA. from Columbia the following year and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1942. In addition to teaching economics at Vanderbilt University as an instructor, Professor Ransmeier has been a field fellow for the Social Science Research Council, New York City, and a research fellow for the Brookings Institute, Washington, D. C. In addition he has been an economist for the Office of Price Administration in Washington, and served three years with the Army during the war with the Office of Strategic Services and the Army Service Forces, being discharged with the rank of captain. He came to Dartmouth from a position as statistician of the War Department's General Staff in Washington.
UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP of the Office of Naval Research, Navy Department, Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. '33, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been working on a research project, the study of bridges between metallic electrodes and the formation of metallic arcs. The administration of the project is identical with similar ones sponsored by the Navy Department in other colleges and universities. The projects are independently conducted with supplies and money furnished by the ONR under a contract between the Navy and the college or university concerned. Professor Hull's project is the first contract of this type established at Dartmouth and opens the way for possible further projects in basic science. The ONR is paying for the services of two graduate students, William Baer and Henry Saltzman, who are acting as research assistants to Professor Hull.
PRODUCTION DATES have been set for the experimental showing of a play by John Finch, Assistant Professor of English. Theatre, Inc., will produce the play, Wanhope, at the Princess Theatre, New York City for a run from February 9 to February 16 inclusive. Originally titled The Wanhope Building, the play's name was changed last month when it went into rehearsal. A longer article on Professor Finch's play appeared in this section in the December issue of the MAGAZINE.
SCHOLARLY SPORTS FOLLOWER. In Francis E. ' Red" Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology and head of that Department, the Alumni Magazine claims to have one of the most erudite sports editors extant. In collaboration with Professor A. G. Truxal, he has recently completed a new book on the Family.
DRESSED FOR RESEARCH. Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, whose work on the geography of North America has taken him to many frozen lands, finds Hanover a good place to use some of his Arctic clothing. Next semester he will revive his popular course on the Geography of the Air.
THREE NEW MEMBERS OF THE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT this semester are (I. to r.) Prof. Paul Fisher, well known in the field of labor law; Prof. Raymond H. Lounsbury, who is doubling as teacher and Vermont farmer; and Prof. Joseph S. Ransmeier, whose published work has made him an authority on TVA.
