Faculty Appointments

JOHN HULTON WOLFENDON of Oxford University, England, will join the Dartmouth faculty next fall as full Professor of Chemistry, it was announced last month by President Dickey. Five other faculty appointments, including those of Maurice Mandelbaum '29 as Professor of Philosophy and of Richard B. McCornack '41 as Instructor in History, were also made known at the same time. The remaining three appointees are Walter Krause as Assistant Professor of Economics, Donald T. Wood as Instructor in Economics, and Lawrence N. Hadley as Instructor in Physics.

Professor Wolfendon, whose duties begin September 1, has been a Fellow and Tutor in Exeter College, Oxford, since 1928. During the war, from 1941 to 1945, Professor Wolfendon was Principal Scientific Officer for the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington.

He received his B.A. from Oxford in 1922, an M.A. from Princeton in 1925, and an M.A. from Oxford in 1926. He is the author of Numerical Problems in AdvancedPhysical Chemistry, published by the Oxford University Press in 1938, and of numerous articles in chemical journals. He has been chairman of the sub-faculty of chemistry at Oxford for the past two years and holds membership in the Chemical Society of London, the American Chemical Society, and the Faraday Society.

Professor Mandelbaum, who taught biography here in 1931-32, is coming to Dartmouth from Swarthmore, where for the past two years he has been Associate Professor and Chairman of the Philosophy Department. He joined the Swarthmore faculty in 1934 as instructor and became an assistant professor in 1938. During the past year he has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Professor Mandelbaum took his M.A. at Dartmouth in 1932 and his Ph.D. at Yale in 1936. He is the author of The Problemof Historical Knowledge, published by Liveright in 1938, and has written several articles.

McCornack, son of the late Walter E. McCornack '97, has specialized in Latin American history and will teach that field at Dartmouth. A Senior Fellow at Dartmouth, he took his M.A. at Harvard in 1942. He entered the Navy as an Ensign in the! Supply Corps in 1942 and served until 1946, when he returned to Harvard to work for the Ph.D. degree. At Harvard, McCornack has been the recipient of both a University Fellowship and a Woodbury Lowry Traveling Fellowship.

Professor Krause will come to Dartmouth from the University of Texas, where he is Assistant Professor of Economics. During the past year he has been economic consultant for the Dominican Republic. A graduate of the University of Oregon in 194 a, he took his M.A. there in 1943, another M.A. at Harvard in 1944, and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1945.

Mr. Wood, who also joins the economics staff, is a Harvard graduate, class of 1937. He was with the accounting department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for five years until he joined the Army Air Forces in 1942. Honorably discharged the following year, he began graduate study at Columbia University where he took his MA. and has completed all the Ph.D. requirements except for his dissertation.

Mr. Hadley, the new physics instructor, is now at Colorado State College. He graduated from Friends University in 1937, took his M.A. at the University of Oklahoma in 1939, and this year will receive his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he holds a Rackham Special Fellowship.

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