With the Faculty
RIIHE LEADERSHIP of the Democratic Party -L in New Hampshire is definitely in Dartmouth faculty hands this fall, with Herbert W. Hill, Professor of History, running for the Governorship as the nominee of that party, and with Dayton D. McKean, Professor of Government, directing party affairs as the recently elected Democratic State Chairman.
Professor Hill, who is well known to alumni as the director of Hanover Holiday, received the Democratic nomination for Governor in the September primaries. He was named State Chairman two years ago after being active for many years in the Grafton County and state organizations.
The November race for the Governorship will be an all-Dartmouth affair, with former U. S. Congressman Sherman Adams '20 running as the favored Republican nominee.
Professor McKean, a Democrat of long standing, has been a candidate for the New Hampshire General Court from Hanover.
NINETY-FIVE MEMBERS of the faculty are serving as advisers for the freshman class this year, continuing a program which was inaugurated last year with the Class of 1951. Each adviser has an average of eight freshmen with whom he will keep in informal touch throughout the year, helping on academic or extracurricular problems if the need arises or, more likely, maintaining a social relationship.
The new advisory system is being repeated this year on the strength of the overwhelming approval of the experiment by the 95 faculty advisers who served last year. Assignment of advisees was made by Dean Morse before the opening of college this fall, and in most cases the faculty members were able to write to the freshmen at their home addresses. First meetings between freshmen and faculty advisers were held at homes or offices on Sunday, September 26.
RALPH A. BURNS, Professor of Education . and head of that department, has been granted special leave of absence so that he might accept a two-year assignment abroad as Head Education Specialist Officer for the U. S. Military Government in Occupied Germany. He was flown to Berlin last month to take over his civilian post, to which he was named by the Overseas Affairs Branch of the Army.
As head education specialist officer, under the U. S. military government's division of education and cultural relations, Professor Burns will administer the program for education specialists in the U. S. Occupied Zone. These specialists, in such fields as secondary-schools, curricula, teaching methods, testing, etc., are now working with German education leaders who are endeavoring to reorganize their educational systems along democratic lines. The American program, according to Professor Burns, is one of informing and cooperating with German educators and is not an effort to superimpose the American system upon a conquered country.
During the war Professor Burns was in the U. S. Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and serving as chief of the personnel section of OSS just before his discharge. Earlier in his three-year tour of duty he was a Major in the Army Air Forces and helped organize the School of Applied Tactics at Orlando, Florida, where he was director of the logistics department.
Professor Burns' largest course at Dartmouth has been taken over this term by Paul F. Poehler '30, headmaster of Clark School, who has been named Lecturer in Education, and by Ernest R. Hamilton '41 of the admissions office, who has been named Instructor in Education.
IN ORDER to bring some useful order out of the mass of statistical data provided by government and private statistical agencies, Walter Krause, Assistant Professor of Economics, has teamed up with Prof. W. Nelson Peach of Syracuse University to put together a 209-page compilation called Basic Data of the AmericanEconomy (Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Chicago, $2.00). Their book makes it easy for economics students, as well as business men, to follow the long-time trends in such fields as national income, population, natural resources, international trade, government expenditures, price levels, business fluctuations and agriculture.
Basic Data of the American Economy has no text, just 99 tables and 92 charts. To compile it Professors Krause and Peach waded through masses of statistical reports, and they did it, according to their brief preface, because economics students rarely learn about the data that is available.
ROBERT E. RIEGEL, Professor of History, provided the University of Wisconsin radio station, WHA, with excellent broadcast material this summer when he gave a series of 35 lectures there in his course on "American Biography Since 1865." The whole lecture series was taken down on a tape recorder and was broadcast by the campus station for the benefit of those who couldn't attend the earlymorning course. The series was broadcast a second time before the opening of the fall term, and a third broadcast, over FM, was also being planned.
George F. Theriault '33, Assistant Professor of Sociology, made a six-weeks survey this summer to determine the cost to New Hampshire of excessive use of alcohol. The study was made for the New Hampshire State Board for Alcoholics, and was aimed at determining the cost to the State annually in lost wages, public care of destitute families, care of habitual drunkards in jails and the state hospital, and illnesses which can be traced to excessive drinking. In making the survey, Professor Theriault contacted police chiefs, hospitals, clergymen, public and private relief agencies, doctors, judges and educators.
GOVERNOR HILL? This is the real thing but still a good political pose for Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the History Department, who received the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Hampshire in the Sept. 14 primaries. He is best known to alumni as the director of Hanover Holiday. His Republican opponent is Sherman Adams '20.
A TOP EDUCATIONAL POST in the U. S. Zone of Occupied Germany was given to Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education, last month when he took over the 2-year job of Head Education Specialist.
