The Faculty
AT the annual spring meeting of the Board of Trustees eleven members of the faculty received academic promotions. Three were given the rank of full professor; six became assistant professors; and two members of Baker Library staff were voted the rank of assistant professor with faculty status.
Those promoted to full professorships are: Van H. English of the Geography Department, formerly a geographer with the Department of State, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1946; John B. Lyons, who became a member of the Geology Department in 1946 after graduate work at Harvard and service with the U. S. Geological Survey; and Karl A. Hill '38, named Professor of Industrial Management at Tuck School, where he has been on the faculty since 1946.
Faculty members promoted from instructor to assistant professor are: Jerome Taylor of the English Department, formerly on the faculty of the University of Chicago; Laurence I. Radway, of the Government Department, who completed graduate and undergraduate work at Harvard, coming to Dartmouth in 1950; Fran- Cis W. King, Associate in Counseling in the Personnel Bureau, who joined the Psychology Department in 1949; Robert G. Chaffee '36, Curator in Geology in the Museum since 1948, who took his graduate work at the universities of Pennsylvania and Columbia; J. Blair Watson, graduate of the University of New Hampshire and director of the Dartmouth College Films since 1945; Leonard E. Morrissey T'48, previously instructor in economics in the College and assistant to the Treasurer, who has been named Assistant Professor of Accounting at Tuck School.
Miss Ellen F. Adams, a graduate of Mount Holyoke with the B.L.S. degree from New York State Library School, who has been Assistant Librarian of Baker since 1930, was awarded faculty status with the rank of assistant professor; as was William R. Lansberg '38, who completed graduate work at the University of North Carolina and Simmons College and joined the Baker Library staff in 1951.
AWARDED a Guggenheim Fellowship under the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Dr. James F. Beard Assistant Professor of English, leaves Hanover in July for Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and other cities with universities and libraries to engage in research on James Fenimore Cooper, the American novelist. He will be on leave of absence for the year 1958-53.
Professor Beard's main purpose is to locate primary material, letters and documents which have never been collected. No scholars have ever attempted to run down and to catalogue these manuscripts.
Already a recognized authority on Cooper and a specialist in the American novel of the 19th century, Professor Beard has compiled a check list of 3,500 letters, papers, and documents relating to Cooper. He has been working on Cooper since 1943 when he first became interested in him while writing a doctoral dissertation at Princeton, which he finished in 1949.
Professor Beard has been concentrating on the present project for four years, and he hopes that his scholarly investigations will result in a definitive edition of the letters and an eventual biography.
JOSE M. ARCF., Professor of Spanish, has been granted a leave of absence for the academic year 1952-1953 in order to undertake a linguistic study of Costa Rica, his country of origin.
During the first semester, he will be working at Columbia University under the direction of Prof. Tomás Navarro, the outstanding authority in Spanish phonetics and director of the linguistic atlas of Spain and Portugal. Mr. Arce will pursue at Columbia an intensive training in thetechniques of linguistic geography.
The field work for the linguistic atlas of Costa Rica will be accomplished during the following eight months. It implies a systematic survey of the populated areas of the country with an eye to the regional peculiarities of the spoken Spanish.
Mr. Arce's preliminary investigations in the field will eventually lead to the publication of a study on the Spanish of Costa Rica. Similar scientific studies are being undertaken under the direction of Professor Tomás Navarro which, it is hoped, will in the end be coordinated and integrated in the definitive linguistic atlas of Spanish America.
AT the end of the academic year George W. Woodworth, Professor of Finance at Tuck School, will leave his present position to accept that of Professor of Banking and Investments at the University of Michigan's School of Business Administration.
A member of the Tuck School faculty since 1930, Professor Woodworth has achieved a national reputation in the field of financial education. His book The Monetary and Banking System, published in 1950, has been used widely as a text and reference volume. He is also the author of articles which have appeared in banking journals. Beyond his teaching duties at Tuck School he has served as a trustee of the Dartmouth Savings Bank, director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, and president of the Norwich Development Association.
A graduate of Kansas Wesleyan University in 1924, Professor Woodworth received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1932. From 1925 to 1929 he was Instructor in Economics there.
FRANCOIS DENOEU, Professor of French, has been elected president of the New Hampshire chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, according to a recent announcement of the Association. Familiar as a lecturer and teacher throughout the State, Professor Denoeu is the author of numerous books and articles on the teaching of French. He first joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1929.
DONALD A. SEARS, Instructor in English, has accepted an Assistant Professorship at Upsala College, East Orange, N.J., and will begin his academic duties there in the fall.
A graduate of Bowdoin in 1944, he received his M.A. from Harvard in 1948, when he came to Dartmouth, and will receive his Ph.D. from Harvard this month. A specialist in American literature whose doctoral dissertation is a cultural history of his native city of Portland, Maine, Mr. Sears will teach an upperclass course in American literature at Upsala. During his four years in Hanover, Mr. Sears interested himself particularly in undergraduate poets and succeeded in establishing in Baker Library the Poetry Room, which is equipped with machines, records, earphones, and selected volumes of verse.
