With the Faculty
JOHN FINCH, Assistant Professor of English, has been appointed Executive Director of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies at Salzburg, Austria, and has been granted a special leave of absence from Dartmouth, beginning in February, to perform this task. The Salzburg Seminar, at which an American faculty offers to young European scholars advanced instruction in aspects of American culture, will begin its third session in July. In the summers of 1947 and 1948 students from fifteen European countries participated in the Seminar, living together in Schloss Leopoldskron, the Reinhardt castle outside Salzburg, and studying such subjects as American history, economics, political science, literature and art.
Professor Finch, who taught at Salzburg last summer, says that a central premise of the Seminar is that genuine communication is now possible among the young intellectuals of Europe, whether they come from countries recently separated from each other by war or presently by political differences. An available motive for such communication is the long-starved curiosity of all Europeans about the culture of the United States. Those who have instructed at the Seminar in the past are convinced that whatever contribution American teachers can make to such a shared intellectual experience in Europe today is pressingly important, and it is with that conviction that Professor Finch has taken temporary leave of Dartmouth, possibly for as long as two years.
DURING a sabbatical leave which began this month and will take him away from Hanover until next September, Andrew H. McNair, Professor of Geology, will visit Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Iclaho, doing geological field work for an oil company. His work will consist of regional stratigraphy of an area that has as yet received little study by oil companies. The success of two recent "wildcat" wells has focused the attention of oilmen on the Colorado Plateau area as a possible future oil-producing region.
Professor McNair's work, undertaken in relation to his Dartmouth course in pe- troleum geography, will allow him to be- come acquainted with the new techniques developed in the past 15 years in the search for new oil fields and it will also enable him to resume work in sedimentary rock of the type he did previously in the Northern Rockies. During the war years and in the summers following the war he worked in a geological field considerably removed from stratigraphy—namely, New England beryl, mica- and feldspar-bearing pegmatites.
Professor McNair's sabbatical program will be an experience for the entire family, which will accompany him. They plan to live in a trailer, starting in the south in February and moving north with the oncoming of warmer weather.
AN experimental agency, originated by . Peter A. Cardozo '39 to help freshmen with their English themes, has grown into a full-fledged college bureau, designated as the Writing Clinic, to which men lacking in the fundamentals of written English are sent by instructors from all departments. Professor of Journalism Eric PKelly '06 who has been conducting the Clinic for the English Department is Director, and the work has increased to such an extent that Donald L. Cross, Instructor in English, who had previous experience in corrective writing at M.1.T., has been appointed Assistant Director for the College and Thayer School. The Clinic is working in association with the Faculty Committee on Student English, which is making efforts to raise the standards for written work in all departments of the College.
Last year some seventy men took advantage of the Clinic, in which the work is wholly by the conference method, but this year the number will be much larger.
NATHANIEL G. BURLEIGH '11, Professor of Industrial Management at Tuck School, has been recalled by the National Security Resources Board to serve as parttime consutlant with the title of Director of the Service Equipment Division in the Office of Production. Professor Burleigh headed this division during the war and now is working with officials on broad policy problems of the agency. Development of a stand-by industrial organization that could swing into wartime operation within 60 days is another objective of his Washington assignment. Professor Burleigh commutes by air between Hanover and Washington.
Ross STAGNER, Professor of Psychology, . specializes in the study of social and international conflicts, has recently had published a new edition of his Psychologyof Personality (McGraw-Hill) which first appeared in 1937.- He is secretary-treasurer of the Division of Personality and Social Psychology of the American Psychological Association and has written some fifty professional articles in addition to his book. Professor Stagner is on leave for the second semester and during part of that term will teach at the University of Illinois and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Two other members of the faculty who have had the satisfaction of published works recently are Clyde E. Dankert, Professor of Economics, and W. Byers Unger, Professor of Zoology. Professor Dankert's book is Contemporary Unionism in theUnited. States (Prentice-Hall, 1948), providing a brief history of trade unions in this country, an outline of their present structure and functioning, and a discussion of some of the problems associated with trade unionism, including racketeering and union-management relations.
Professor Unger is the author, with prof. Charles E. Moritz '32 of San Diego College, of A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology. This is a one-semester Manual adaptable for use in any elementary college zoology class.
TO MAKE OIL SURVEY: Andrew H. McNair, Professor of Geology, on leave, who this month starts a trailer expedition that will cover four western states.
