With the Faculty

JOHN H. WOLFENDEN, Professor of Chemistry, who came to Dartmouth this fall from Oxford University, has been awarded the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by the United States Government for the performance of meritorious service in the field of scientific research and development during the war. From 1941 to 1945, Professor Wolfenden served as Principal Scientific Officer for the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington.

The presentation ceremony was scheduled for November 25 at the residence of the United States Ambassador in London, but because of the presence of Professor Wolfenden in this country, the medal and citation were forwarded to him through the Adjutant General in Washington.

ANDREW G. TRUXAL, Professor of Sociology and one of the most popular members of the Dartmouth faculty, has been elected President of Hood College in Frederick, Md., and has submitted his resignation to take effect at the close of the present academic year.

Professor Truxal, who first joined the Dartmouth sociology department in 1928, has specialized in the study of the American family and is the author, with Prof. Francis E. Merrill '26, of The Family inAmerican Culture, which appeared last summer. He is recognized as one of the country's leading authorities in this field, having written and lectured widely concerning it. His special courses at Dartmouth deal with "The Family" and "Public Welfare."

Among important administrative assignments which Professor Truxal has held here, he served as a member of the threeman faculty committee which directed the operations of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty for a year and a half during the illness of the late Dean E. Gordon Bill. He also served as a member of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments to which the Dartmouth Trustees delegated full authority in the matters of admission, academic credit, and study programs for veterans. In community affairs, he has been a Selectman of Hanover since 1940 and is a trustee of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. He also is a trustee of Kimball Union Academy.

President-elect Truxal, 47 years old, is a native of Greensburg, Pa., and a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, class of 1920. After graduation he took the B.D. degree at the Eastern Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States, at Lancaster, Pa., and throughout his Dartmouth teaching career he has served occasionally as visiting preacher in nearby churches.

He returned to Franklin and Marshall in 1923 as instructor in history and two years later left for graduate studies at Columbia, where he took his Ph.D. degree in 1928. In that year he joined the Dartmouth faculty as instructor in sociology, becoming assistant professor in 1930 and full professor in 1935.

Professor Truxal was national president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 1940-42. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Sociological Society.

He was married in 1923 to Miss Deldee Groff of Lancaster, Pa. They have a son, John, Dartmouth '45, now a graduate student and instructor in electrical engineering at and a daughter, Noradel, 16, a student in Hanover High School.

JOSE M. ARCE, PROFESSOR OF SPANISH, has been granted special leave of absence, starting January 1, to enable him to join the staff of the U.S. Department of State s Chief of the Spanish Section in the Division of Language Services. In this capacity, Professor Arce will serve as an expert linguist and authority on the Spanishspeaking American republics. His appointment is expected to take him away from Hanover for about a year and a half.

A native of Costa Rica, Professor Arce has been at Dartmouth since 1928. His courses in Latin American literature and civilization, both in Spanish and in English, established Latin American studies at Dartmouth; and outside of the classroom he has tried to create on the campus a little world of Latin American activity and understanding. For eight years he was adviser to the Spanish language club, in which capacity he initiated the first plays in Spanish given in the College. Later he organized Ambas Americas as a center for Latin American students and activities and has been its adviser for nine years. He has served as the director of Inter-American institutes at Dartmouth and has been instrumental in bringing many distinguished Latin Americans and Spaniards to Hanover.

One of Professor Arce's special interests and accomplishments for the College has been the creation of a suitable Latin American collection among the books of Baker Library. Starting almost from scratch 18 years ago, the collection now numbers close to 10,000 volumes and is considered, quantitatively as well as for its organic treatment of the field as a fullfledged civilization, the most comprehensive of its kind in the college libraries of the country.

Professor Arce studied at Columbia University and, in Spain, at the University of Madrid and the Centro de Estudios Historicos. He taught at Columbia and Hunter College before coming to Dartmouth and has also been visiting professor, during the summer at Middlebury, Duke and Ohio State.

HERBERT W. HILL, Professor of History, was one of a small group of historians from Eastern colleges and universities invited by the Choate School to visit the school on December 6 to examine its history offerings and make suggestions for revising them. Choate School plans, through a new history program, to increase student interest and active participation in public service and national affairs.

RAY NASH, Lecturer in Art and director of Dartmouth's graphic arts workshop, has been named chairman of a national committee to conduct an expanded school and college program for the American Institute of Graphic Arts. To interest more students in the graphic arts, either as a personal interest or as a vocation, the Institute is developing its work in colleges through student chapters and has adopted a special student membership fee that is one-third of the normal rate. A new Dartmouth chapter in one of the first formed.

Professor Nash's committee is prepared to advise institutions wishing to establish courses in the graphic arts, including book design, prints, advertising design and layout, lettering and calligraphy, and posters. It it also ready to help undergraduate publications in matters of design and production.

In addition to his art courses and his direction of the extra-curricular graphic arts workshop, Professor Nash serves as typographical adviser to the College and is a member of the committee in charge of Dartmouth College Publications. He is one of the editors of Print and has served as juror of the Fifty Books and as chairman of the American caligraphy exhibition sponsored by the Grolier Club.

STATE DEPARTMENT LINGUIST: Jose M. Arce, professor of Spanish, who has been granted special leave to become chief of the Spanish section of the U. S. State Department's language service division.

NAMED HOOD PRESIDENT: Prof. Andrew G. Truxal of the sociology department, who will resign at the end of this year to become head of Hood College for women in Frederick, Md.