The Faculty
JAMES A. SYKES, Chairman of the Department of Music at Colgate University, has been elected to the Faculty as Professor of Music; he will also serve as Chairman of the Department of Music, succeeding Prof. Maurice F. Longhurst, who retires this year. Professor Sykes is a concert pianist; he has played in Town Hall, New York City, and has appeared as a soloist with symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. In 1945 he travelled to the South Pacific, Chinese, Indian, and North African theatres of war presenting concerts for the USO. In addition, he has been active in music education for the past twenty years. A graduate of Princeton in 1930, he took his master's degree in music at the University of Rochester in 1933. He served as Dean of the Lamont School of Music in Denver and as Chairman of the Department of Music at Colorado College before going to Colgate. He has been vice president of the National Association of Schools of Music and is a member of the Board of Officers of the Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College. Professor Sykes has already become a familiar figure at Dartmouth, since he has been a member of the visiting committee studying the College's music program during the past year, and has served as one of the guest judges for the finals of the Interfraternity Hum this spring. In addition to his chairmanship and course work at Dartmouth, Professor Sykes will direct the College's Handel Society Chorus.
JOHN G. KEMENY, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, has been elected to the Faculty as Professor of Philosophy. A native of Budapest, Hungary, Professor Kemeny did both his undergraduate and his graduate work at Princeton, where he received his doctor's degree in 1947. He has served as assistant to Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Studies and as Bicentennial Preceptor in Philosophy at Princeton. In addition to his work at Princeton, Professor Kemeny has also conducted a graduate seminar in mathematical logic at New York University. During the war he served with the Army for a year as a mathematician attached to the Los Alamos project. Professor Kemeny will be on leave, travelling in Western Europe, during the academic year 1953-1954, at the conclusion of which he will assume his duties at Dartmouth.
HUGH M. DAVIDSON, Assistant Professor of French and Chairman of the French Staff at the College of the University of Chicago, has been named Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. A native of West Point, Georgia, Professor Davidson did both his undergraduate and his doctoral work at the University of Chicago. While teaching at Chicago, he was appointed a Carnegie Fellow in General Education. He has also been serving lately as an Assistant Dean of the College at Chicago. He will begin work at Dartmouth in the fall.
ERIC P. KELLY '06, Professor of Journalism, served this year as Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Jury for the Novel, which awarded the prize to Ernest Hemingway for his novel The Old Man andthe Sea. This was Professor Kelly's second year as chairman. Also on the Jury were Prof. Carl W. Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism and Prof. Roy W. Cowden of the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. Beginning almost a year before the award was made, Professor Kelly and his colleagues were required to read and consider about 150 different novels submitted for the prize. In order to complete their deliberations by the time the award was to be made, they sometimes found it necessary to read at least a novel a day.
JOHN L. STEWART, Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded a Howard Fellowship of $5,000 by the Administrative Board of the Howard Foundation. The fellowship will make it possible for Professor Stewart to devote his full time to the completion of a book on the "Fugitives," a group of distinguished contemporary authors, which he is currently writing. He will be on leave from the College during the academic year 1953-1954, working in the New York area and in Europe. Professor Stewart, who has been at Dartmouth since 1949, has published two books, a study of technical writing and a critical anthology of essays, and has also written various critical and scholarly articles.
THE Department of Sociology has recently brought to Hanover a visitation committee of experts to make a study of its program and procedures and to advise the Department as to what areas should be explored in its offering of courses in the future. Chairman of the committee was Robert Redfield, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Other members were Leonard W. Doob '29, Professor of Social Psychology at Yale; Melvin Tumin, Associate Professor at Princeton; President Andrew Truxal of Hood College, formerly a member of the Sociology Department at Dartmouth; and Ronald Freedman, Professor of Sociology at Michigan.
JOHN N. WASHBURN '45, Instructor in Russian Language and Literature, has resigned from the Faculty in order to accept a position with the United States Government. Mr. Washburn will be doing intelligence work in Washington, D. C.
