The Faculty
HARRY R. WELLMAN '07, who as Professor of Marketing and Personnel Officer at Tuck School prsved that he could pull prize jobs from the industrial pool as skillfully as he could land silver salmon in New Brunswick, was honored upon his retirement after 32 years of service at a testimonial luncheon attended by college officials, faculty and alumni, on January 19. Herman W. Newell '20, T'21, on behalf of all Tuck School graduates, presented him with three handsomely bound volumes containing 815 letters from Tuck men who had been in his classes.
President Dickey paid tribute to Professor Wellman as "a man who has given more good advice to more men than any other man associated with Dartmouth College." President-Emeritus Hopkins spoke of him as one "who has always had both wisdom and understanding."
In an article appearing in Collier's in July 1948.. Professor Wellman, whose fame as a teacher and placement expert extends well beyond Hanover, was called "Dartmouth's Streamlined Mr. Chips." Not only has he been concerned with educating stuents to be successful executives; he has maintained a close liaison with some 200 companies which take Tuck graduates for executive positions. Nor has he been content merely to place graduates in their first jobs. He has followed each career carefully, and analyzed it in terms of what he knows of the man's capabilities in relation to business opportunities. As a result he has been in demand as an adviser to graduates years out of Tuck School. He believes, and has gone to endless pains to act on this belief, that "no man should be classified and labeled without a diligent search for that which makes him different from his fellow men."
Another of his convictions—nobody is really poor if he is doing work he likes—is one he put personally into practice when he left his position as a vice-president with the Walter M. Lowney Co., in Boston, to come back to Dartmouth, with a substantial cut in income. He always thought this change was a gain, not a sacrifice. Besides the increased satisfaction of his work, he had time to play the piano, and to enjoy companionships, with summer vacations to fish in.
Professor Wellman's experience with jobs, good and bad, began early. He worked his way through college, doing everything from furnace tending to piano playing, yet finding time to write musical shows and the song that became Men ofDartmouth. After graduation he worked two years for the College, as supervisor of dormitories, and observed then the need of a placement and personnel service to help students find work. He obtained a first- hand knowledge of business openings in Boston when he later became secretary of the Retail Trade Board of the Chamber of Commerce, and subsequently of the Trade Extension Committee of the same organization. He went into business first as an advertising manager in Filene's.
It was his experience as a personnel worker during World War I, however, which determined him to go into teaching and placement. During the war his duties consisted of finding some useful activity for physical and psychological misfits; and his interest in the puzzle of matching men to jobs became stronger than ever.
His service in Tuck School has brought a cumulative reward of affectionate friend- ship with hundreds of Dartmouth men who took his courses and benefited from his advice and help. The gratitude of Tuck men was expressed in Mr. Newell's letter, which forms the introduction to Volume I and was read by him at the testimonial luncheon:
"We sincerely hope that the sum total of these messages will convey to you, in some measure, the feelings of all of us who have enjoyed your friendship, and who have benefited so much—not only from your instruction but also from your good counsel and advice.
"We all wish you a long and pleasant retirement—in the satisfaction of a good job well done. You have earned it. And we thank God for having given you to Dartmouth, to Tuck School and to us."
NEWCOMERS to the Dartmouth faculty who began their teaching duties at the start of the second semester are: George R. Phippen '48, Instructor in Geography; Irwin Swerdlow, Instructor in English; Joshua B. Burnett M.D., Instructor in Internal Medicine; and Ernest Sachs Jr. M.D., Instructor in Neurosurgery.
Phippen, following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1948, took graduate work at Syracuse University. Swerdlow, a graduate of New York University, received the degree of Master of Arts from both Columbia and Harvard, and the Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1951.
Both Dr. Sachs and Dr. Burnett have been residents at the Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Sachs during the year 1950-51, and Dr. Burnett from July 1948 until June 1951. Dr. Sachs, a graduate of Harvard College in 1938 and Harvard Medical School in 1942, interned in Vanderbilt University Hospital; was a resident in Surgery, then Neurosurgery, at the Lahey Clinic; and held a Fellowship in Neurophysiology at Yale University as well as one in Neurology at the National Hospital in London, England.
Dr. Burnett, a graduate of Harvard College in 1941, received his M.D. from the Cornell University College of Medicine in 1944. He was an intern in Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, 1944-45; and assistant resident there from September 1947 until June 1948. After three years as resident in Internal Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Burnett, since last July, was a resident in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
RAMON GUTHRIE, Professor of French, read a paper on "The 'Labor Novel' that Sinclair Lewis Never Wrote" before the Museum of the Academy of Arts and Letters at the opening of an exhibition in honor of Sinclair Lewis, February 1. The lead article by Professor Guthrie in the Sunday book review section of the NewYork Herald Tribune, February 10, was based on this paper.
Professor Guthrie, whose friendship with Sinclair Lewis brought him into years of association with the author in Europe and in this country, particularly when Lewis lived on a farm near Woodstock, Vt., qualifies him to describe the Lewis book, never written, which was tentatively entitled, The Man Who Sought God. The idea for the novel, carried about for years in Sinclair Lewis' imagination and planned out in detail, was a book in all respects except that when he sat down to write it, it invariably became some other book which was eventually published.
Well known as a critic and poet, Profes- Guthrie is also recognized as an authority on the writings of Marcel Proust, whose works he teaches in a special course for upper classmen.
A DISTINGUISHED Norwegian visitor to the College who came as a spectator of Winter Carnival, as well as a lecturer, was Prof. Fridtjov Isachsen of the University of Oslo, secretary of the Norwegian Geographical Society and editor of its journal Norsk Geografisk Tidsskift. An authority on the population and industries of Norwegian cities, Professor Isachen gave a public lecture and spoke to classes in Economic Geography and the Geography of Europe, where he was able to meet students interested in the Arctic. Several Dartmouth students have been welcomed by him to the University of Oslo.
This is his second visit to the United States. The first was in 1947 when as a visiting professor at Clark University he worked on a summer geographical field survey with Van H. English, Assistant Professor of Geography, and Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography, of Dartmouth.
Next August Professor Isachsen will be a leader of the Norwegian delegation at the World Congress of the International Geographical Union in Washington, D. C. Professor Carlson is a member of the program committee of the Congress.
IN TRIBUTE TO PROF. HARRY R. WELLMAN '07, who is now on leave from Tuck School prior to retirement this June, three bound volumes of letters from his former students were presented to him at a testimonial luncheon in Hanover, January 19. Shown (I to r) are Albert Bradley yls, member of the Tuck School board of overseers; Professor Wellman and President Emeritus Hopkins, holding one of the volumes; President Dickey; H. W. Newell '20, who presented the letters on behalf of Tuck alumni; and Prof. Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, Acting Dean of Tuck School.
