With the Faculty
ROBERT K. CARR '29, Professor of Gov. ernment, has been named Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, it was announced by President Dickey following the June meeting of the Board of Trustees. The chair was last held by the late Prof. James P. Richardson '99.
Professor Carr, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1937, served as executive secretary, of President Truman's Civil Rights Committee and was the principal author of the committee's report, To Secure These Rights. He has also written several books including Federal Protection of Civil Rights—Quest for a Sword, recently published by the Cornell University Press.
The Joel Parker Professorship of Law and Political Science was established at Dartmouth in 1883 by Joel Parker of Cambridge, Mass., a member of the Class of 1811.
PROMOTIONS FOR 17 members of the facculty were also voted by the Trustees at their June meeting. Twelve of these elevations were to the rank of full professor and the remaining five to assistant professor.
The new full professors and their departments are: Harry P. Bell, Economics; Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Economics; Richard E. Stoiber '32, Geology; Herbert R. Sensenig '2B, German; Francis W. Gramlich, Philosophy; Gordon F. Hull Jr. '33, Physics; Allen L. King, Physics; Henry S. Odbert 'go, Psychology; John V. Neale, Speech; Roy P. Forster, Zoology; Virgil Poling, Director of the Student Workshop with the rank of Professor; and James A. Wood Jr., Electrical Engineering, Thayer School.
Elected assistant professors were Lawrence N. Hadley, Physics; and four members of the Medical School faculty; Richard H. Barrett, Pharmacology; Henry L. Heyl, Neurosurgery; William C. MacCarty Jr. '33, Radiology; and O. Sherwin Staples, Orthosurgery.
Charles F. Camp '42, who has been assistant to the Dean of the College, was promoted by the Trustees to the position of Assistant Dean.
GEORGE L. SCOTT '25, Professor of Education, has resigned his Dartmouth faculty post in order to do personnel work with the Gulf Oil Corporation. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1940 and since that time has also been associated with the Personnel Bureau, in charge of placing Dartmouth men in teaching positions.
Two other resignations accepted by the Trustees last month were those of Arthur A. Bright Jr. '39 as Instructor in Statistics and Finance at Tuck School and of Renwick K. Caldwell as Instructor in Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School.
ARTHUR M. WILSON, Professor of Biog. raphy and Government, who served this past year as Associate Director of the Great Issues Course, will be visiting Professor at the State University of lowa this summer. There he will have a chance to compare notes with the university officers who are directing lowa's own Great Issues course, modelled in part after the Dartmouth experiment.
In the May 15 issue of Higher Education, Professor Wilson had an article entitled "Dartmouth's Venture in 'Great Issues.' "
SHORTLY before the close of the academic year, Philip Wheelwright, Professor of Philosophy, was invited to lecture at Yale before the sophomore class in ethics; which uses his textbook CriticalIntroduction to Ethics. With 550 sophomores in the course, plus a balcony audience, Professor Wheelwright found a portable lapel microphone practical as he delivered his lecture on "Self-Realization as a Moral Philosophy."
H GORDON SKILLING, Assistant Professor . of Government, left last month for Prague where he will complete a study of German-Czech relations begun there in 1937. A grant from the Social Science Relations Council is enabling him to undertake this summer assignment.
Professor Skilling, who came to Dartmouth last year after six years at the University of Wisconsin, began this special study during a residency in Prague in 1937-39. when war broke out he con" tinued his work at the University of London until 1940.
FRANCISCO UGARTE, Instructor in Spanish, has been appointed Senior Instructor of the Colby-Swarthmore Summer School of Languages, founded this year as the joint project of the two colleges and held at Colby in Waterville, Maine. Mr. Ugarte is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Madrid. He came to Dartmouth in July 1946 to take charge of a new intensive course in Spanish.
A number of other members of the Dartmouth faculty will take a busman's holiday this summer by teaching at other institutions. Among them are Irving Bender and Ross Stagner, both Professors of Psychology and both teaching .at the University of Oregon; Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History, who will be at the University, of Wisconsin; Dayton D. McKean, Professor of Government, teaching at the University of Colorado; and Robert M. Bear, Professor of Psychology, John W. Masland, Professor of Government, and Allen R. Foley '20, Professor of History, all of whom will be at Columbia University.
Almon B. Ives, Assistant Professor of Speech, will direct a radio workshop at the University of Vermont. This will be a practical course in producing, announcing and performing in radio programs.
RICHARD H. GODDARD '20, Professor of - Astronomy and Director of Shattuck Observatory, left last month for California to start the first half of a summer training cruise in the Pacific aboard the U.S.S. lowa. Dartmouth's representative, as guest of the Navy, during the second half of the cruise will be Albert I. Dickerson '30, Director of Admissions. He and Professor Goddard will observe the Navy's summer training program, involving both the regular Navy and college NROTC students. Dartmouth trainees are expected to be aboard the lowa.
LEAVES of absence, in addition to those J previously announced, have been granted by the Board of Trustees to Wingtsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture, for the full academic year 1948-49. and to the following men for the first semester of the coming year: Harry P. Bell, Professor of Economics; Willis M. Rayton, Professor of Physics; Peter S. Dow, Professor of Graphics and Engineering; and Carl L. Wilson, Professor of Botany.
A BIT OF MIRTH AND MERRIMENT AT 1918 TENT DURING THE SECOND REUNION WEEKEND
