The Faculty
BYERS UNGER, Professor of Zoology, has been awarded an individual citation from his alma mater, Western Maryland College, "in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of teaching which reflect honor upon this college." The citation was made by President Ensor at a ceremony held in connection with the Mid-Century Convocation of Western Maryland College on November 18. Graduating summa cum laude in 1920, Professor Unger was class salutatorian. He received his M.S. degree from Lafayette in 1922 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1925.
A member of the Zoology Department at Dartmouth since 1925, Professor Unger is well known in scientific circles for numerous articles published on Protozoa. He is active in several professional societies. An able teacher, his example has influenced many of his students to take up research or academic careers in zoology.
ANTON A. RAVEN, Professor of English, . was elected faculty member of the Dartmouth Development Council at the November 13 meeting of the Faculty Council. In this post he succeeds Wm. Stuart Messer, Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, who was the first faculty representative on the Development Council, established last year to direct all current and long-range phases of Dartmouth's fund-raising program.
AMONG members of the Dartmouth faculty engaged in community and state activities related to their special fields of instruction, Chauncey N. Allen '24, Professor of Psychology, is one of the busiest. Since 1933 he has served as a consulting psychologist on problems of child development. Some of this work has been done locally, for the hosptial, public schools and individuals. Most of it, however, has been for public organizations in New Hampshire. The state has neither funds nor employed personnel to meet adequately all the demands made upon its services. The New Hampshire Children's Aid; the Department of Public Welfare, which includes the Child Welfare Service, aid to Dependent Children and other agencies; county and town groups; and the New Hampshire Catholic Charities are the organizations using Professor Allen's services. A majority of the problems deal with the pre-adoptive evaluation of children, as to whether or not they are good risks for adoption. Some fewer cases have been concerned with foster-home placement; predelinquent and delinquent troubles; school, home, and vocational adjustments.
Another active interest which Professor Allen has maintained along with his teaching is his affiliation, as Associate, with the Psychological Corporation of New York. This organization deals with public opinion and advertising research, and includes under Professor Allen's direction, consumer polling in the Hanover area.
Upon the subjects of both child development and advertising Professor Allen has been a frequent speaker, before women's clubs, Parent-Teachers groups, and business organizations.
IN RECOGNITION of his outstanding work in the field of pathology at the Mayo Clinic in 1946 and later at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, Dr. John B. Holyoke, Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, recently received the Sheard-Sanford award at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago.
A graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1940, Dr. Holyoke was appointed Assistant Pathologist at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in 1946, a position he holds in combination with his teaching duties at the Medical School.
SHARING in a study of New England undertaken by the National Planning Association to appraise the impact of federal policies on New England's economy, Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography, has accepted a place on the N.P.A. Research Advisory Committee.
As a neutral nonpartisan association of leaders in all segments of the national economy, the National Planning Association does not favor one region over another, and the merit of an economic survey under its supervision lies in its impartial approach. Widespread interest was aroused by the report of the NPA Committee of the South, which published a report on the economy of that region in June 1949- The New England project is being planned in reply to a formal request by U. S. Senator O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Joint (Congressional) Committee on the Economic Report.
Professor Carlson is a member of a committee composed of 25 leading social scientists from New England who, under the chairmanship of Dr. Sumner Slichter of Harvard and staffed by a full-time director of research, will be responsible for developing the actual report and overseeing the research. It is expected that its analysis entitled "The Impact of Federal Policies on the Economy of New England" will be completed by January 15, 1952.
ON leave of absence from the College for the first semester, Henry S. Odbert '30, Professor of Psychology, is in Washington acting as assistant head in the Technical Branch of the Interim Systems Coordination Facility. The group is operating under the direction of the Chief of Naval Operations, studying Combat Information Centers and tactical networks with a view to proposing the most suitable method of coordinating research, development and tests in these areas. The work will include a survey of the literature, systematic interviews with key personnel, and visits to facilities. Professor Odbert's duties include contact with consultants on survey techniques, human engineering and communication problems. During the year 1948-49 he served on the Secretariat of the Committee on Human Resources of the Research and Development Board in Washington, where he was responsible for coordinating and planning psychological research for the armed forces.
ONE of a group of 200 atomic scientists from 22 universities and 14 research institutions, Allen L. King, Professor of Physics, represented Dartmouth College at the technical symposium on nuclear physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, L. I., November 10 and 11.
The Brookhaven Laboratory is operated by Associated Universities, Inc., the organization through which universities and colleges of the northeast cooperate with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. It is a center for research in the nature and uses of atomic energy.
Professor King graduated from the University of Rochester in 1932, receiving his M.A. there in 1933 and his Ph.D. in 1937. He was the recipient of the Stoddard Prize in Physics and was a Research Fellow in Physics for 1935-36. Before coming to Dartmouth in 1942 he taught at Rochester and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
RAMON GUTHRIE, Professor of French, took part in an informal round-table discussion on Marcel Proust which was broadcast by CBS on Sunday morning, December 17. He was one of three men asked to take part in the weekly program "Invitation to Learning." The moderator, Lyman Bryson, is known to Dartmouth seniors as a favorite speaker in Great Issues.
Professor Guthrie, who teaches an upperclass course on Marcel Proust, is an authority on the writings of this author. On Armistice Day a year ago, Professor Guthrie was honored by the French Government to France. He has written numerous critical articles, a novel, and several translations.
FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT in teaching, Byers Unger, Professor of Zoology, has been cited by his alma mater, Western Maryland College.
