The Faculty
BECAUSE of illness which has kept him in bed all summer, Prof. Herluf V. Olsen '32 has tendered his resignation as Dean of the Tuck School of Business Administration. On advice of his physician, he is also taking a year's leave of absence, after which he expects to be fully recovered and to resume teaching at Tuck School as Professor of Business Cycles and Forecasting.
Pending the appointment of a successor to Dean Olsen, the position of Acting Dean of the business school is being filled by Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, Professor of Industrial Management.
Professor Olsen will spend the greater part of the academic year 1951-52 in Hanover and will be available for consultation about Tuck School matters. His health is slowly improving and he plans to use the year of convalescence to prepare for new undertakings next fall in teaching, research and consulting work. Professor Olsen has been Dean of Tuck School since 1937 and before that was Assistant Dean for seven years and Acting Dean for a period of several months.
Professor Burleigh has been a member of the Tuck School faculty since 1919. He was Director of the Service Equipment Division of the War Production Board during World War 11, and in 1948 he became Consultant for the National Security Resources Board in Washington. He is secretary of the Class of 1911 and has long been active in alumni affairs.
THE Dartmouth faculty this fall includes the largest group of military instructors the College has ever had in peacetime. A total of 15 Army, Navy and Air Force officers are members of the teaching staff, providing instruction in the three ROTC programs now operating on the campus. At present, the Navy has eight staff officers of faculty rank, the Air Force four, and the Army three.
Lt. Col. William B. M. Chase, USA (West Point '37) is Professor of Military Science and Tactics this fall, as well as commanding officer of the new Army unit. Two new Assistant Professors in his department are Capt. George H. Altman, AUS (Texas A & M '42) and Capt. Jack Bramson, AUS (N.Y.U. '36).
Capt. Murvale T. Farrar, USN (Annapolis '23), who has replaced Capt. Willard M. Sweetser, USN, as commandant of the Navy ROTC Unit, has joined the faculty as Professor of Naval Science. Also new to this department are Lt. Col. Allan Sutter '37, USMC, Associate Professor; and Lt. Harry W. Files, USN (Maine '43) and Lt. John R. Lewis, USNR (Temple '43), both Assistant Professors of Naval Science.
As Professor of Air Science and Tactics, Col. Jack C. Hodgson, USAF, commanding officer of the new Air Force ROTC, also joins the Dartmouth faculty. Other members of the Air Science and Tactics staff are Major Francis J. Dillon Jr., USAF (Siena '51), Major Israel D. Siegel, USAF (Northwestern '41) and Capt. Robert A. Dalrymple, USAF (Maine '42), all of whom hold the faculty rank of Assistant Professor.
ALSO newcomers to the Dartmouth faculty this fall are one visiting lecturer, seven instructors and seven teaching fellows. The new appointees are:
CHEMISTRY: Charles J. Eby (Michigan '51), Teaching Fellow; Donald N. VanEenam (Michigan '51), Teaching Fellow.
GEOLOGY: Robert F. Gosman (Montana State '51), Teaching Fellow; John Snyder (Michigan State '51), Teaching Fellow.
GREAT ISSUES: Alexander Fanelli '42, Instructor.
MATHEMATICS: Charles A. Bergren (Pennsylvania '46), Instructor.
PHYSICS: Robert L. Hickok Jr. (R. P. I. '51), Teaching Fellow; John Vaughn (Fisk '51), Teaching Fellow; Pieter von Herrmann '50, Teaching Fellow.
RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION: Rene FueloepMiller (University of Cluj, Hungary), Lecturer.
ZOOLOGY: Edward A. Bevan (University College of Wales '47), Instructor in Genetics.
MEDICAL SCHOOL: Dr. Thomas P. Anderson (Oklahoma '40), Instructor in Physical Medicine; John A. Dudman (Reed '42), Instructor in Biostatistics; Dr. Robert G. Fisher (Rutgers '38), Instructor in Neurosurgery; Dr. Richard P. Sexton '41, Instructor in Plastic Surgery.
THAYER SCHOOL: Merle L. Thorpe '51, Research Assistant.
AMONG the faculty members resuming their teaching duties this fall after extended leave are Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology and Professor of Parasitology at the Medical School; John Finch, Assistant Professor of English; Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics; and Henry S. Odbert '30, Professor of Psychology.
Professor Connell returns to his teaching duties after a year's work in Japan with the National Research Council's Atomic Bomb Casualties Committee. He organized a parasitology department with diagnostic centers in the vicinities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with his headquarters in Kure, Japan.
Concluding his strenuous pioneer work as executive director and fund raiser for the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria, Professor Finch is resuming his instruction of Dartmouth students after an absence of five semesters. The Salzburg Seminar, founded four years ago at Schloss Leopoldskron, a castle near Salzburg where European students are enabled to study under American teachers, has proved successful as an international goodwill project.
Professor Marx, who went on from his position as assistant to Averill Harriman in the ECA in Paris to spend last year at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, has come back to the College after two years' absence. During the past year he has been writing on international shipping cartels and directing a study of Puerto Rican external transportation facilities and requirements. This summer he was a guest participant in The Jersey Roundtable, a three-day conference of business men and educators sponsored by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
As assistant head in the Technical Branch of the Interim Systems Coordination Facility, Professor Odbert's leave of absence kept him in Washington for one year. He worked under the direction of the Chief of Naval Operations and his duties included contact with consultants on survey techniques, human engineering and communication problems.
PHILIP WHEELWRIGHT, Professor of Philosophy, was honored this summer by the invitation from the University of Indiana to deliver the 15th series of lectures on the Mahlon Powell Foundation. His two lectures, July 24 and 26, dealt with "The Poetic Symbol" and "The Tragic Pattern."
Previous lecturers on the Mahlon Powell Foundation have included Professors William Ernest Hocking, Ralph Barton Perry and Roscoe Pound of Harvard, Wilmon Henry Sheldon of Yale, and Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary.
DAYTON D. MCKEAN, Professor of Government, has been elected president of the New England Political Science Association for the current year. A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1937 and a full professor since 1946, Professor McKean teaches courses in state and local government and in American parties and politics. A former member of the New Jersey State Assembly and, from 1941 to 1943, special assistant to Governor Edison of New Jersey, he is now chairman of the Democratic state organization in New Hamsphire.
THE following divisional and departmental chairmen have been appointed by President Dickey for terms which began July 1: DIVISIONAL CHAIRMEN—The Humanities, Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture; The Sciences, Robin Robinson '24, Professor of Mathematics; The Social Sciences, Joseph L. McDonald, Professor of Economics.
DEPARTMENTAL CHAlRMEN—Administration, Russell R. Larmon '19; Art and Archaeology, Hugh S. Morrison '26; Biography, Arthur M. Wilson; Botany, Carl L. Wilson; Chemistry, John H. Wolfenden; Classics, John B. Stearns '16; Comparative Literature, Vernon Hall Jr.; Economics, Clyde E. Dankert; Education, Arthur O. Davidson; English, Arthur E. Jensen; Geography, Trevor Lloyd; Geology, Andrew H. McNair; German, Raymond W. Jones; Government, Elmer E. Smead; Graphics and Engineering, Peter S. Dow; History, Allen R. Foley '20; Mathematics and Astronomy, Fred W. Perkins; Music, Maurice F. Longhurst; Philosophy, Maurice Mandelbaum '29; Physical Education, Harold M. Evans; Physics, Leslie F. Murch; Physiology, Clarence J. Campbell, M.D. '17; Psychology, Thodore F. Karwoski; Religion, Fred Berthold '45; Romance Languages, George Diller (acting chairman); Russian Civilization, Dimitri S. von Mohrenschildt; Sociology, Michael E. Choukas '27; Speech, Carl D. England; Zoology, Roy P. Forster.
As one of nine Interns in General Education selected for study under a Carnegie Corporation grant, Francisco Ugarte, Assistant Professor of Spanish, goes this fall to the University of Chicago, where he will give special consideration to a general course in the humanities and to the possibility of introducing general problems of language into foreign language courses. He has been granted a year's leave from the College.
The program for Internships in General Education, carried on for two years at Columbia, was expanded last February to include Chicago, Harvard and Yale. It is intended to give faculty members an insight into the field of general education and the opportunity to make contributions to it.
A native of Spain, Professor Ugarte served as chief translator and assistant to the Ambassador in the American Embassy in Madrid from 1933 until 1946. He has been at Dartmouth since 1946 and is the author of Introduction to Spanish Civilizetion in Spanish.
SERVING as program chairman for the James Fenimore Cooper Centennial meetings held in Cooperstown, N. Y., September 6 to 8, James F. Beard Jr., Assistant Professor of English, also read a paper on "Cooper and his Artistic Contemporaries." The meetings which were sponsored by the New York State Historical Association, the New York Folklore Society and the Society for Colonial History, observed the centennial of James Fenimore Cooper's death and sought reassessments of his contribution to American thought and tradition. Professor Beard, whose Doctoral work has been devoted to a study of the American author, is at present arranging a compilation of Cooper's letters.
RESIGNS AS DEAN: Prof. Herluf V. Olsen '22, who has been forced by ill health to resign as Dean of Tuck School. After a year's leave he will resume his teaching duties at the business school.
FIELD TRIP: Allen R. Foley '20 (second from right). Professor of History, represented Dartmouth on the summer NROTC cruise and is shown aboard the "USS Wisconsin" at Nova Scotia. Professor Foley is Director of the Great Issues Course this year.
