The Faculty

RUSSELL R. LARMON '19, Professor of Administration on the Benjamin Ames Kimball Foundation, was named by President Eisenhower on July 17 to be Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the new Department created by Congress and headed by Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby. He assumed his duties in Washington this summer and has been granted indefinite leave from his Dartmouth faculty position.

Professor Lartnon has been a member of the Dartmouth staff since graduation. He served as assistant to President Hopkins from 1919 until 1926 when he became Assistant Professor of Administration. In 1934 he was elected to his present professorship on the Kimball Foundation. An authority on administrative organization and management, he has served as adviser to several industrial firms and has been called to a number of important posts outside of the College. He was wartime chief of the Office of Price Administration in New Hampshire and more recently served as chairman of the board of the Rumford Printing Company, Concord, N. H.

HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Professor of English and Director of Dartmouth's Experimental Theatre, has just returned from a seven-month study of the modern and classical theatre in England, France and Italy. Spending most of this period in England, Professor Williams worked through the International Theatre Office in London and was able to attend a vast number of productions ranging from the academic drama of Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol to the professional stage at the Stratford and Abbey theatres. He reports that dramatic productions in British universities are similar in most respects to those in the liberal arts colleges in America. He emphasized the extraordinary vitality every-where apparent in the British theatre.

In France and Italy Professor Williams had an opportunity to study the ancient Roman theatres, especially those at Aries, Nimes and Orange. He was able to attend the Comedie Frangaise and to take in such diverse productions as a French version of Shakespeare's Richard II, and an Italian performance of II Trovatore, produced in the Baths of Caracalla.

DR. vilhjalmur STEFANSSON, Dartmouth's Arctic Consultant, sailed July 4 as a guest of the Danish Government on a tour of Greenland. Dr. Stefansson is an authority on life in Alaska and Western Canada, and this trip, sponsored by the Explorer's Club of New York, will permit him to make extensive comparisons of the conditions in Greenland with those in Alaska.

Another faculty member who spent his summer in the North was Prof. S. Russell Stearns '37 of Thayer School, who joined a group of scientists under government assignment doing secret physiographic research in Alaska.

After several years in Labrador, the Blue Dolphin sailed June 11 to spend the summer doing secret work for the Office of Naval Research off Bermuda. Headed by the College Museum's arctic specialist, Commander David C. Nutt '41, this is the fifth successive summer trip for the vessel.

AMONG newcomers to the Dartmouth faculty whose appointments have not already been reported is Visiting Professor Charles Kingsley Jr., who will join the Electrical Engineering staff at Thayer School lor the year. He received his S.B. in 1927, and his S.M. in 1932 from M.I.T. where he has since been a teacher. He is the co-author, with A. E. Fitzgerald, ofElectric Machinery (McGraw-Hill, 1952), and the co-editor and principal author of Magnetic Circuits and Transformers (Wiley, 1943). He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers., the American Society of Electrical Engineers, and of the Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi honorary societies.

In addition, eleven Assistant Professors, eighteen Instructors, and fourteen Teaching and Research Fellows have joined the faculty this fall. These appointments by departments are:

ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Richard E. Wagner (Colorado University, B.F.A. '50, M.F.A. '52), Instructor.

CHEMISTRY: James J. Korst (Illinois, B.S. '53), Teaching Fellow; C. Dennis Thron '53, Teaching Fellow.

CLASSICS: S. Frederic Will Jr. (Indiana, A.B. '49, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, '50-'51, candidate for Ph.D., Yale), Instructor.

ECONOMICS: Robert A. Kavesh (N.Y.U., B.S. '49; Harvard, M.A. '50; candidate for Ph.D., Harvard), Assi tant Professor; James B. Jones (Michigan, A.B. '50, A.M. '51), Instructor.

ENGLISH: Severn P. C. Duvall Jr. (Virginia, A.B. '48; Princeton, M.A. '51), Instructor; Hay- den B. Goldberg, (Bowdoin, A.B. '49; Colum- bia, M.A. '51; Cambridge University), In- structor: Kenneth Lewars (Columbia, B.S. '46, M.A. '47), Instructor.

GEOLOGY: William T. Elberty (St. Lawrence, B.S. '53), Teaching Fellow; John P. McDowell (Yale, B.S. '53), leaching Fellow; Charles A. Ratte (Middlebury, B.A. '53), Teaching Fellow.

GOVERNMENT: Herbert Garfinkel (Chicago, A.M. '50; candidate for Ph.D., Michigan State), Assistant Professor.

MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY: Gerald L. Thompson (lowa State, B.S. '44; M.I.T., S.M. '48; Michigan, Ph.D. '53), Assistant Professor; Thomas R. Brahana (Illinois, A.B. '47; Michigan, M.A. '50), Instructor; Robert G. Kuller (Swarthmore, A.B. '48; Michigan, M.S. '49), Instructor; Karel de Leeuw (Chicago, B.S. '50, M.S. '51), Instructor in Math and in Biostatistics at Dartmouth Medical School.

PHILOSOPHY: Hugo A. Bedau (University of Redlands, B.A. '49; Boston University, A.M. '51; Harvard, M.A. '53), Instructor.

PHYSICS: Robert Christy (Chicago, A.B. '42, M.S. '49), Instructor; Thomas M. Green III '50, Teaching Fellow; Leroy Hord (Whittier, A.B. '53), Teaching Fellow; Walter L. Lock-wood (Rollins, B.S. '53), Teaching Fellow.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES: Hugh M. Davidson (Chicago, B.A. '38, Ph.D. '46), Assistant Professor.

RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION: Jack Matlock (Duke, A.B. '50; Columbia, M.A. '52), Instructor.

SOCIOLOGY: Robert Gutman (Columbia, A.B. '46, candidate for Ph.D.), Instructor. Mr. Gutman has been reappointed after spending the past year at the London School of Economics studying demography on a social studies research grant.

SPEECH: Herbert L. James (University of Wichita, A.B. '49; graduate study at Ohio State and University of Florida), Instructor.

ZOOLOGY: John H. Copenhaver Jr. '46 (Wisconsin, M.S. "49, Ph.D. '50), Assistant Professor; James F. Welsh (Harper, B.A. '53), Teaching Fellow; M. Takir M. Rizki (Osmania U., India, B.S. '44; Muslim U., India. M.S. '46; Columbia, Ph.D., '53), Research Fellow on the Cramer Foundation.

GREAT ISSUES: Barry A. Marks '48 (Minnesota, M.A. '49), Instructor.

DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL: Dr. Thomas R. Watson Jr. '37 (College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, M.D. '41), Instructor in Clinical Surgery and Instructor in the Physiological Sciences; Dr. Robert J. Vanderlinde (Trinity, Duke, Michigan, A.B. '39; Duke, M.D. '42), Instructor in Medicine: Dr. Lewis H. Lambert '40 (Pennsylvania, M.B.A. '42; Tufts Medical, M.D. '50), Teaching Fellow in Anesthesiology; Dr. Thomas K. Burnap '45 (University of Southern California, M.D. '49), Teaching Fellow in Anesthesiology.

THAYER SCHOOL: Huntington W. Curtis (William and Mary, B.S. '42; New Hampshire, M.S. '48; lowa State, Ph.D. '50), Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Robert M. Jodrey (Worcester Polytechnic, B.S. '49), Instructor in Mechanical Engineering; Thomas H. Ritner '53, Teaching Fellow in Engineering; Walter G. Kroll '53, Graduate Assistant in Research.

TUCK SCHOOL: Marshall Robinson (California, A.B. '43; Ohio State, M.A. '48, Ph.D. '50), Assistant Professor of Finance and Assistant Director of Research; Robert L. Katz (California, A.B. '45; Stanford, M.B.A. '48; candidate for D.C.S., Harvard), Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Diran Bodenhorn (Chicago, B.A. '47, M.A. '48, candidate for Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of Business Statistics; Herbert C. Morton (Minnesota, B.A. '42, M.A. '50), Assistant Professor and Research Editor; Kenneth Davis (Wisconsin, Ph.B. '46, M.B.A. '47; candidate for Ph.D., Chicago), Assistant Professor of Marketing.

FOUR Dartmouth faculty members have been granted leaves of absence for the year. Judson S. Lyon '40, Assistant Professor of English, will be at Columbia where he will teach one course in Humanities and study the program in General Education at that University. John L. Stewart, Assistant Professor of English, will be working in New York and in Europe on his study of the "Fugitives," a group of contemporary American writers. His project is made possible by a grant from the Howard Foundation. Philip Wheelwright, Professor of Philosophy, will be Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Pomona College for the first semester and at the River-side branch of the University of California for the second semester. Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig, Professor of Philosophy, will continue his work with the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Professor Maurice Mandelbaum '29 of the Philosophy Department will be on leave during the first semester. He has just completed a book on ethical theory and is at work on a new study in which he will examine the presuppositions of nine-teenth century thought and their impact on the twentieth century. During his leave Professor Mandelbaum will reside in Cambridge and use the Harvard Library.

Other faculty members on leave for the first semester are Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History, who is at work on a college text of American history; John H. Wolfenden, Professor of 'Chemistry, who will be doing research at Oxford University; and Lawrence I. Radway, Assistant Professor of Government, who will continue his study of civil-military relations under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Professor H. Gordon Skilling of the Government department plans to complete his study of the impact of the Soviet Union on Czechoslovakia, a project undertaken when he was a senior fellow at the Russian Institute at Columbia in 1949. He will work in Hanover.

COLONEL JACK C. HODGSON, USAF, Professor of Air Science and Tactics and commanding officer of Dartmouth's AFROTC Unit, retired July 31 after 35 years of active duty. After serving with the infantry in World War I, he was commissioned directly from the ranks and in 1921 transferred to the Air Force. A specialist in air intelligence, he was air attache in Greece, Italy and Cuba and was commander of American forces in Canada during World War II. He directed the inauguration of the AFROTC program at Dartmouth two years ago and headed the unit with marked success up to the time of his retirement. A review in his honor was held July 31 at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the location of the Air University of the U.S. Air Force.

UNDER the new organization of the faculty instituted last spring, an Executive Committee of the Faculty was formed to take office September 1, 1953. This committee, which will handle a goodly share of faculty business, is composed as follows: Ex officio members President Dickey, Dean Morrison, Dean McDonald, Dean Morse, and the Divisional Chairmen, Professors Carter, Chan and R. Robinson; Members at Large Professors Marx, A. M. Wilson, Choukas and Gramlich; Members elected by the Divisions The Humanities, Professors A. A. Raven, R. C. Nemiah, F. G. Ryder; Social Sciences, Professors R. A. McKennan, J. F. Cusick, J. G. Gazley; Sciences, Professors A. H. McNair, J. H. Wolfenden, J. P. Amsden.

TO WASHINGTON: Prof. Russell R. Larmon '19, whom President Eisenhower has named Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

HEADS MUSIC DEPARTMENT: James A. Sykes, who has come to Dartmouth from Colgate to serve as Professor of Music and Chairman of the Department. A concert pianist, he is also a noted choral director.

For the publication year Harold L. Bond '42, Instructor in English, isfilling the post of Faculty Editor of the Alumni Magazine. He succeeds Prof. Judson S. Lyon '40, who is on leave for thisacademic year.