The Faculty
Richard H. Goddard '20, Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Shattuck Observatory, has been honored by the United States Weather Bureau for his twenty years of outstanding service as a voluntary unpaid weather observer. Since November 1, 1933, Professor Goddard has been taking daily weather readings, which have appeared among the official reports of the bureau. The Dartmouth weather station, which Professor Goddard supervises, was described by the Weather Bureau as"one of the best equipped university observatories in the country." In making the award, James K. McGuire, the New England Section Director, conveyed the congratulations of Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, to Professor Goddard for his long and distinguished public service.
JOHN W. MASLAND, Professor of Government, and Lawrence I. Radway, Assistant Professor of Government, have received negie Corporation of New York to finance a two-year study in the area of civil-military relations. Their study will be concentrated on the extent to which career military officers are utilized in positions in which they participate in the formation of national policies, the skills and attitudes that appear to be desirable in military officers who have such positions, and the extent to which cultivation of these skills and attitudes appears to be an objective in military education, training, and assignment processes. Professors Masland and Radway will not only examine what Annapolis and West Point teach and how they teach it; they will also study the public affairs programs at the Army, Navy, and Air War Colleges. In addition, they plan a large number of direct interviews with present and former members of the military establishment and with civilians serving special functions in the same general area. Professor Masland, who is on leave from the College during the present semester, is getting the project underway. Professor Radway will join him during the summer and will carry on the study in the fall when Professor Masland returns to his teaching duties in Hanover. They plan to continue alternating in this manner during the two-year period.
Lawrence G. Hines, Assistant Professor A of Economics, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Soil andWater Conservation. This periodical, formerly a quarterly but now bi-monthly, is published in Washington, D. C., and covers two major fields: the social and economic aspects of resource" use, and the technical aspects. Professor Hines is to serve as associate manuscript editor and as book review editor.
Lieutenant Colonel William B. M. J CHASE, Professor of Military Science and Commanding Officer of the Army Ordnance ROTC Unit, has been appointed from among the ordnance staffs of 32 colleges and universities across the nation to serve as Deputy Commander of the annual summer camp of the Army Ordnance Corps. Colonel Chase will act as the senior ROTC instructor for the six-week session, which will include a two-week bivouac on the Letterkenny reservation in Chambersburg, Pa., and a four-week training period at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.
Wing-Tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, travelled to Cleveland on March 30 to attend the annual meeting of the Far Eastern Association. While in Cleveland, Professor Chan delivered an address to the Chinese Student Association of Cleveland on the subject "Chinese Cultural Heritage and Its Future Under the Communists," showing that the Chinese Communists have been obliged to acknowledge the tremendous force of Chinese culture, despite all their attempts to suppress it.
Cecil A. Gibb Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, will be one of 44 visiting professors at the University of Wisconsin's 1953 summer session. Professor Gibb is chairman of Dartmouth's experimental course in "Human Relations," introduced this semester with an interdivisional teaching staff from the Departments of Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology. He also is teaching courses in "The Psychology of Industrial Personnel" and "The Psychology of Social and Industrial Conflict." Professor Gibb was graduated from the University of Sydney in Australia in 1935 and received his Ph.D. degree from the Univer- sity of Illinois in 1949. He taught in Sydney from 1949 to 1951, when he came to Dartmouth as Visiting Lecturer.
Wilfred Wedgwood Bowen, Director of the Dartmouth College Museum, will have the help of eight Girl Scouts next summer on a two-week survey expedition led by him in the country about the White Mountains. The girls, who will be campers at the Senior Girl Scouts' Camp Wynona at Fairlee, Vt„ plan to add to the Museum's information about small mammal life in the North Country. Specifically the Girl Scouts will collect and help delineate the distribution of various species of mice in the White Mountain area. Harold Moody '28 and his wife, directors of Camp Wynona, have made the arrangements with the Wilson Museum for the joint collection and research project.
Professor Bowen, who became associated with the Wilson Museum in 1934, when the College first began its comprehensive faunal survey of the country around the White Mountains, has conducted many expeditions, among them one in the Sudan, and one in East Africa; as well as others in Florida, New England and the Adirondacks.
