With the Faculty
PROMOTIONS for 13 members of the Dartmouth faculty were approved by the Board of Trustees at their annual Commencement meeting. Four men who now hold the rank of full professor are H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology; Henry L. Duncombe Jr., Professor of Business Statistics, Tuck School; Alexander Laing '35, Assistant Librarian with the rank of Professor; and Ray Nash, Lecturer in Art with the rank of Professor.
Promoted to Assistant Professor were Judson S. Lyon '4O, English; Robert Dishman, Economics; Paul R. Zeller, Music; Albert H. Hastorf, Psychology; Francisco Ugarte, Romance Languages; Elmer Harp Jr., Curator of Anthropology in the Museum; Dr. Niels L. Anthonisen, Psychiatry, Medical School; Dr. Harry W. Savage '26, Anatomy, Medical School; and Dr. Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Dermatology and Syphilology, Medical School.
Robert G. Chaffee '43, formerly Assistant Curator in the Museum, now has the title of Curator of Geology in the Museum with the rank of Instructor.
THIRTY-FIVE men are new members -of the Dartmouth faculty as the College opens its 181 st academic year. This group almost exactly balances the 34 faculty members who left or retired at the end of the past year. The new appointees by departments are as follows:
ART-Hobert L. Williams (Amherst '48), Instructor
CHEMISTRY—Robert W. Belfit '49 and Luther K. Brice Jr. (Harvard '49), Teaching Fellows.
EDUCATION—Herman H. Richardson '29, Lecturer for the first semester.
ENGLISH—John L. Stewart (Denison '37), Assistant Professor; Harold L. Bond Instructor; Harold G. Ridlon Jr. (Tufts '48), Instructor; John A. Winterbottom (Western Ontario '32), Instructor.
GEOLOGY—W. Douglas Carter '49, D. Keith Lupton (Wyoming '49), James A. Noel (Lehigh '49), and Donald B. Wales '46, Teaching Fellows.
MATHEMATICS—WaIIace C. G. Fraser (Toronto '39), Assistant Professor.
NAVAL SClENCE—Captain Willard M. Sweetser, USN (Naval Academy '26), Professor; Captain Thomas Parran Jr., USMC (St. John's '41), Instructor; Lieut. Frank W. Adams, USN (Naval Academy '42), Instructor; Lieut. John H. Hooper, USN, Instructor.
PHILOSOPHY—Richard F. Kuhns '45, Instructor; Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Instructor in Religion.
PHYSICS—Robert W. Kreplin '49, Samuel R. Tarrant '48 and Clarence F. Luck Jr. (Buffalo '48), Teaching Fellows.
PSYCHOLOGY—Francis W. King (Bowdoin '40), Instructor; also Associate in Counseling in the Personnel Bureau.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES—SheIton T. Belsches (Richmond '47), Instructor in Spanish; Leon April (Brooklyn College '41), Instructor in Spanish.
SPEECH—Herbert L. James (Wichita '49), Instructor. ZOOLOGY—PauI R. Bjorklund '49, Teaching Fellow.
GREAT ISSUES COURSE—G. William Gahagan '35, Instructor; Dean S. Worth '49, Instructor.
MEDICAL SCHOOL—Dr. Walter B. Shelley (Minnesota '40), Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology; Dr. Lawrence S. Crispell (Yale '42), Instructor in Otolaryngology; Dr. John W. Schleicher '40, Teaching Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
THAYER SCHOOL—George A. Taylor (N.Y.U. '29), Assistant Professor of Engineering and Management; John P. Hatch (Duke '39), Instructor in Mechanical Engineering; James A. Browning '44, Instructor in Mechanical Engineering.
GORDON FERRIE HULL JR. '33, Professor of Physics, has been granted special leave of absence to accept an invitation from the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, to serve as Physicist in Europe for the coming year. Professor Hull will have his office in the American Embassy, London, and as Physicist representing the Office of Naval Research will be responsible for acquainting the Navy with and evaluating for them the researches in physics in the university, industrial and governmental laboratories in Britain and the Continent. Professor Hull will also give lectures abroad on some of the researches which he has been carrying on at Dartmouth. These researches, which the Office of Naval Research has supported during the past three years, are on the optical properties of microwaves and on the formation of electric arcs.
Professor Hull's work with microwaves, which are very short radio waves of a few inches in length, was begun during the war in connection with radar research while he was a member of the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In more recent years he has added his research on the initiation of arc discharges between separating electrodes.
Professor and Mrs. Hull and their five children sailed for England on the S.S.America September 21.
CAPTAIN WILLARD M. SwEETSER, USN, joined the Dartmouth faculty September 1 as Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, succeeding Captain Roger E. Nelon, USN, in that post and as commanding officer of the NROTC Unit. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, 1926; commanded a destroyer division during the war; and during his most recent tour of duty served as U. S. naval attache at Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Captain Sweetser had two tours of duty as Assistant Professor of Naval Science at Yale, and in 1934 completed a one-year course in the Russian language at Shanghai: After commanding the destroyer USSLardner and Destroyer Division 92 during the war, he was transferred to shore duty in 1945 and assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations as assistant to the head of the section working on research and development of new weapons. Captain Sweetser has been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and a special commendation by the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
UNDER a renewed contract with the Office of Naval Research, Dr. lMillett G. Morgan, Assistant Dean, will continue to direct Thayer School's ionosoheric research this coming year. He has announced plans for developing a field site on his farm in Etna and hopes to have in operation this fall a 100-foot self-supporting steel tower for the antenna system used in the research program concerned with certain phases of the problem of fading in short-wave radio reception.
Professor Morgan was recently appointed to the Institute of Radio Engineers Subcommittee on Theory and Application of lonospheric Propagation. Last spring he attended an antenna conference at the Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, as guest of the Bureau of Ships, presenting a paper on the instrumentation aspects of the research program at Thayer School and serving as chairman of a session on wave propagation. At the end of May Professor Morgan also served as chairman of one of the technical sessions at an lonospheric Conference at Pennsylvania State College sponsored by the college and the Air Force.
FRANCIS E. MERRILL '26, Professor of Sociology, is the author of Courtship andMarriage published this summer by William Sloane Associates. The book is a study in social relationships, its major premise being that in both courtship and marriage each person plays his part "according to the general expectations of his culture."
Professor Merrill, who received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago, is a member of the National Council on Family Relations. With Dr. Andrew Truxal, former Dartmouth professor and now President of Hood College, he is the author of The Family in American Culture. In 1948 he published Social Problems on the Home Front.
TREVOR LLOYD, Professor of Geography, was honored in July with the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Bristol, England, where he took his Bachelor of Science degree in 1929. Professor Lloyd spent the summer in Europe, principally in Norway, continuing the geographical study of the North in which he has been engaged for the past few years.
DOUGLAS E. WADE, College Naturalist, was one of the speakers at the international conference for the protection of nature held at Lake Success in August. His paper on "Colleges and Universities in Conservation" dealt with steps that colleges might take to forward conservation and drew on his experience as College Naturalist at Dartmouth. Leading conservationists from all over the world took part in the Lake Success conference which was held in coordination with the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, sponsored jointly by UNESCO and the International Union for the Protection of Nature.
VAN HARVEY ENGLISH, Assistant Professor of Geography and Map Librarian for the College, has been elected President of the New England Geographical Society. Professor English, who graduated from the Colorado State College of Education in 1936, joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall of 1946.
NEW NAVAL SCIENCE HEAD: Capt. Wiilard M. Sweetser, USN, who joined the Dartmouth faculty Sept. 1 as Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the NROTC Unit.
PHYSICIST FOR NAVY: Prof. Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. '33, who has been granted special leave to serve as Physicist in Europe for the Office of Naval Research. The picture above shows him at the University of Detroit where he recently lectured 10 the American Optical Society on microwaves.
