The Faculty
THREE professors in the Department of Romance Languages were honored by the French Government on October 31. Prof. Francois Denoeu was made Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, and Profs. Leon Verriest and Harold E. Washburn '10 were both decorated with the Palmes Academiques. The recently appointed French Consul General in Boston. Mr. Francois Charles-Roux, came to Hanover to make the awards. Professor Denoeu's decoration was in recognition of his military service to France during two world wars. In the First World War he served as a lieutenant in a machine-gun company, participating in all the major battles in 1918; he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for this service. During the Second World War he was a captain of infantry in the Maginot Line before the German breakthrough occurred. In addition to his military decorations, Professor Denoeu received the Palmes Academiques in 1949, in recognition of his intellectual and artistic contributions to French culture. He has published 18 books, including three novels, two plays, one book of verse, and twelve books designed to teach the French language.
Professor Washburn, who was awarded the Palmes Academiques for his distinguished contribution to France abroad as a teacher, also served as a lieutenant in France during the First World War; he was an interpreter at the headquarters of General Edwards of the 26th Division. The Palmes Academiques was presented to Professor Verriest for his long and devoted service as a teacher of French. In addition, Professor Verriest was for many years the Director of the Dartmouth French Club, which produced several French plays under his direction, and he has published two books, one a history of French literature and the other a collection of short stories in French.
DURING the first week in November, the Philadelphia Museum School of Art honored Prof. Henry B. Williams, Director of the Experimental Theatre, by presenting a one-man show of his scene and costume designs. The exhibit included about seventy drawings and photographs. Thirty of these were scene designs which Professor Williams has done either in connection with Players' productions or independently. Among the designs for the Players were scenes for Strindberg's TheFather, Shaw's Candida, Racine's Athaliah, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Corneille's Cinna, or The Mercy of Augustus. The projects which Professor Williams has done independently of any plans for specific production are based on an assumed ideal theatre, and include nine sets for Shakespeare s King John and six for Troylus and Cressida done after the fashion of Inigo Jones. The costume plates in the show, accompanied by actual samples of the materials used, were for The Merchantof Venice and The Lady's Not For Burning, both produced in Hanover last year. The same show will be presented in Chicago at the University of Illinois Art Gallery next March.
NATHANIEL G. BURLEIGH '11, Professor of Industrial Management and Acting Dean of Tuck School, has been granted a special leave of absence to accept the post of Dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Business Management which opens in Turin, Italy, next month. Professor Burleigh, who will serve for a sixmonth period, will also act as Professor of Production Management and Control on the teaching faculty.
The Institute, the first graduate school of business in Italy, is being sponsored by the Turin Manufacturers Association and directed by two of Italy's leading industrialists, Prof. Vittorio Valletta, president of Fiat, and Dr. Adriano Olivetti, president of the Olivetti Company, manufacturers of business machines. The Institute will conduct its classes in the Palace of Torino Esposizioni and will have an enrollment of sixty, including both graduate students and people already engaged in business. Its purpose is to teach American management methods to Italian business executives in an effort to increase productivity and raise the standard of living in western Europe. At the outset the teaching staff will consist of six American professors, each of whom will be responsible for one of the six major fields into which the work of the school will be divided. Each will have working under him two Italian assistants who are graduates of American universities, with the purpose of training them ultimately to take over the direction and instruction themselves.
Professor Burleigh will sail for Italy soon after Christmas. When his duties as Dean end in June, he will hold a series of consultations with Italian industrialists and will do some travelling in Europe before his return.
J EDWARD WALTERS, Professor of Management and Industrial Relations at Tuck School, has been appointed to deliver a series of thirty lectures on personnel management over a three-week period at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janiero. The lectures will be attended by teachers of personnel and related subjects from all universities in Brazil. The program will be under the direction of Alvaro Porto Moitinho, Professor of Administration in the Economics Department at the University of Brazil. While in Rio, Professor Walters will also address a meeting of Dartmouth alumni in that area, arranged by Frank F. Doten '23, Manager of the Gillette Safety Razor Company in Brazil.
PROFESSOR Emeritus William Stuart Messer, who retired last June after 33 years of service at Dartmouth as a teacher of Classics, has been appointed a Whitney Visiting Professor in the Humanities to teach during the spring semester of 1953 at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Professor Messer is one of six outstanding retired professors selected by the John Hay Whitney Foundation of New York for teaching and consultative responsibilities at certain small liberal arts colleges during the academic year 1952-1953.
CAPTAIN Thomas H. Tonseth, USN, has been appointed Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the NROTC Unit at Dartmouth, replacing Captain Murvale T. Farrar, USN, who has been assigned as senior officer of the general court marshal board of the Third Naval District in New York City. A graduate of the Naval Academy and the Naval War College. Captain Tonseth comes to Dartmouth from a highly varied career of sea and shore duties. Most recently he has served as Adviser to the Senior Naval Member, Military Staff Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations, and as Chief of Staff to Amphibious Group Four. Captain and Mrs. Tonseth have two sons, one of whom graduated from the Naval Academy last June.
HERBERT F. WEST '22, Professor of Comparative Literature, has a new book in preparation at the Beacon Press, to appear in the spring. Entitled RebelThought, the book is an outgrowth of Professor West's course, "Types of Rebel Thought," and of his thinking on this subject over a period of the last twenty years. It contains a series of studies of a selective list of naturalistic thinkers, such as Lucretius, Montaigne, and Dewey.
On October 27 Prof. Philip Wheelwright of the Department of Philosophy presented a lecture on "Statement and Meaning in Poetry" at Amherst College under the auspices of the Amherst Department of Philosophy. On December 2 he repeated the lecture at Syracuse University, where he was sponsored by the University Lecture Committee. While in New York, he also appeared at the University of Buffalo as a guest lecturer in a philosophy course.
Another member of the Philosophy Department, Prof. Maurice Mandelbaum '29, addressed the faculty and graduate students of the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins University on November 12. His topic was "The Philosophy of History," a subject on which he has written several articles and a book, The Problemof Historical Knowledge (1938).
On November 4, Robert K. Carr '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, presented a lecture on the topic "The Nature of American Government" at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
FRENCH PROFESSORS HONORED: The Government of France presented awards to three members of the French Department, October 31, in Hanover. Shown in the picture (I to r) are: Prof. Har- old E. Washburn '10, who received the Palmes Academiques; Prof. Francois Denoeu, being given the Legion of Honor, in recognition of military services in two World Wars; Francois Charles-Roux, French Consul General in Boston; and Prof. Leon Verriest, awarded the Palmes Academiques, with Mrs. Verriest.
NROTC COMMANDING OFFICER: Capt. Thomas H. Tonseth USN has been appointed Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the NROTC unit at Dartmouth, succeeding Capt. Murvale T. Farrar USN.
