The Faculty
WITH the opening of Dartmouth's 182 nd academic year, 22 new faculty members have joined the college staff, ten of them as teaching fellows. The new appointees are as follows:
ART Theodore R. Turner, Instructor (William and Mary College '43).
BOTANY Emory G. Simmons, Instructor (Wabash College '4l; M.A. DePauw University '46).
CHEMISTRY Edward H. House, Teaching Fellow (Princeton '50); George Y. Lesher, Teaching Fellow (University of Illinois '50); James G. Murray, Teaching Fellow (University of Michigan '50).
ECONOMICS—Henry M. Piatt, Instructor (University of Michigan '48; M.S. Columbia University '50).
EDUCATION LIoyd Naramore, Assistant Professor (Boston U. '44 M.A. Yale '49) GEOGRAPHY—Richard P. Momsen, Teaching Fellow (Dartmouth '45).
GEOLOGY James C. Ratte, Teaching Fellow (Michigan State College '50); Roy A. Stuart, Teaching Fellow (University of British Columbia '50).
GOVERNMENT Laurence I. Radway, Instructor (Harvard '40; M.P.A. University of Minnesota '43; I.A. Harvard Business School '43; Ph.D. Harvard University '50).
GREAT ISSUES Ray J. Rasenberger, Instructor (Dartmouth '49; Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs).
NAVAL SCIENCE James H. Stephens, Instructor (Roanoke College '41).
PHYSICS Dana C. Brooks, Teaching Fellow (Cornell '49); Russell B. Bryan, Instructor (Stanford '43; M.A. Harvard '48); Gordon Stamm, Teaching Fellow (Washington College '50); Wilfrid Wheeler, Teaching Fellow (Dartmouth '50).
PSYCHOLOGY—Edward H. McAlister, Instructor (Dartmouth '49).
ROMANCE LANGUAGES James C. Babcock, Professor (University of Arkansas '29; M.A. '30, Ph.D. '34 University of Iowa; Sorbonne).
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE John N. Washburn, Instructor (Dartmouth '46; M.A. Columbia University '47; Russian Institute, Columbia University).
SPEECH AIbert T. Martin, Instructor (Florida Southern College '49; M.A. Northwestern University '50).
ZOOLOGY Richard M. Hoar, Teaching Fellow (Dartmouth '49).
GORDON FERRIE HULL JR. '33, Professor of Physics, who will return to Washington next month to direct the electronics work of the Office of the Scientific Director, has had a full lecture schedule during his stay in England, with several engagements taking him to the Continent. Much of the material presented in his talks was based upon research done while Professor Hull was carrying out experiments at Dartmouth. As physicist representing the Office of Naval Research, Consultant on Electronics, he has had his headquarters in the American Embassy in London for the past year. His lecture entitled "Microwave and Optical Analogues," accompanied by experimental demonstrations, was given at 17 institutions from December 1949 through June 1950. Among them were the Sorbonne, the University of Grenoble, the University of Hamburg, the University of Heidelberg and the Technische Hochschules at Braunschweig and Munich. In England Professor Hull has lectured at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford and London.
EIGHT members of the faculty are now on leave for the entire college year and nine others for the first semester.
Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism, plans to spend the year doing research for a book about New England in the years 1880 to 1890. Maurice Mandlebaum '29, Professor of Philosophy, and Joseph Ransmeier, Assistant Professor of Economics, will both be at the University of Michigan, Mr. Mandlebaum as a Visiting Professor and Mr. Ransmeier as a student of law. The plans of Professor Louis Mathewson, of the Mathematics Department, are indefinite.
Others who will be away for the entire year continuing work already started are Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education, who is Chief of the Exchanges Division under the Office of Public Affairs in Germany; John W. Finch, Assistant Professor of English, who is director of the Salzburg Seminar; Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. '33, Professor of Physics, who is in England as consultant in electronics for the U.S. Navy; and Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology, who is in Japan studying atomic casualties for the National Research Council.
Paul Fisher, Assistant Professor of Economics, on leave for the first semester, has received a grant from the Social Science Research Council to carry on a research project on Works Council legislation in France. He did similar work in Germany during the summer under a State Department grant. Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics, is continuing work at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. George F. Theriault '33, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who is working on the dissertation for his doctorate, hopes to travel some in this country. John W. Masfand Jr., Professor of Government, is lecturing as a member of the civilian staff of the National War College in Washington; and H. Gordon Skilling, Assistant Professor of Government, is again Senior Fellow at the Russian Institute at Columbia.
Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics, is continuing work at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. George F. Theriault '33, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who is working on the dissertation for his doctorate, hopes to travel some in this country.
Other faculty members who are away for the first semester are James F. Cusick, Professor of Economics; Henry S. Odbert '3O, Professor of Psychology; Benfield Pressey, Professor of English; and Dimitri S. von Mohrenschildt, Professor of Russian History and Literature.
FREDERICK W. STERNFELD, Assistant Professor of Music, spent six weeks this summer as a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N. H., working on a study of film music dating from 1931 to the present time. Dartmouth is fortunate in having one of the best collections of film scores in the country, outside of Hollywood, and loans have been made to various other universities and colleges which offer work in this comparatively new field. Professor Sternfeld, chairman of the College Committee on Film Music, has published several articles on the subject, the most recent appearing in the April issue of the Musical Quarterly and the May issue of the Hollywood Quarterly.
