The Faculty
THE summer months in Hanover have been very active ones for the faculty. Without the pressure of classes and conferences, the professor has time for his research, or an opportunity to finish his book or to plan and work up part of a new course. The excellent library can usually supply him with all his materials, and uninterrupted stretches of time provide the necessary leisure. Hanover's cool days and nights are wonderfully conducive to work. Another feature, one which has become especially noticeable in recent years, characterizes the Dartmouth summer. This is the ever increasing number of scholars and writers from other institutions who come to Hanover to use the facilities of Baker. Most of these visitors this summer were conducting research of one kind or another; some of the younger men were completing their dissertations for the Ph.D. degree; others were preparing lectures and courses for next year; others were writing books. More than 46 different colleges and universities were represented by the visitors, some of whom came from as far away as the University of California and the University of Arizona. Among the many writers using Baker, Vincent Sheean and J. D. Salinger are known to most people; among the universities, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and N.Y.U. were most frequently represented. In addition to the Dartmouth faculty, more than one hundred visiting scholars and writers were "in residence" and added to the growing community of scholars who make Hanover their summer home. But as this is being written, the visitors have left; the Class of 1958 is arriving for the freshman trip; another hurricane is threatening New England, and in the individual offices of professors a pile of manuscript or a collection of notes offers testimony to the golden hours of study afforded by the now completed summer of 1954.
AT the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, five faculty promotions were announced. Dr. Paul R. Shafer was promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Shafer joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1948 after doing graduate work and teaching at the University of Wisconsin. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1947, he received his Ph.D. degree at Wisconsin in 1951. Harold L. Bond '42 was promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of English. He is a candidate for the Ph.D. at Harvard and has taught at Wellesley and M.I.T. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1947. Louis Menand III was promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Government. A graduate of Middlebury College in 1948, he received the Ph.D. degree in 1952 at Syracuse University. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1952, he had been a member of the faculties of Syracuse University and Vassar College. He had also been an Organization and Methods Examiner for the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. Robert Gutman was promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Sociology. After two years of graduate work at Columbia University, from which he received the A.B. degree in 1946, Professor Gutman joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1948. Elias L. Rivers was promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Spanish. A graduate of Yale University, from which he received the B.A. degree in 1948, the M.A. in 1950 and the Ph.D. in 1952, Professor Rivers joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1952. Prior to coming to Hanover he had been a member of the Yale faculty.
FIVE faculty members will be on leave for the coming year. Albert H. Hastorf, Assistant Professor of Psychology, will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, California. Richard B. McCornack '41, Assistant Professor of History, has specialized in South American history. On a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, he will study two terms at the University of Chicago, and then travel in South America to continue his research. Lawrence N. Hadley Jr., Assistant Professor of Physics, has also received a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education. He will study methods of teaching physics, and plans to travel extensively, visiting colleges and universities throughout the country. Frederick W. Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of Music, is now in London on a grant from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is doing research on dramatic music in Shakespeare. T. S. K. Scott-Craig, Professor of Philosophy, will continue his work with the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is Chairman of the Council's Faculty Work Committee.
On leave for the first semester to pursue various projects will be John B. Stearns '16, Professor of Classics, and Clyde E. Dankert, Professor of Economics. Arthur Dewing '25, Professor of English, will devote the first semester this year to research on Mark Twain; and Laurence I. Radway, Assistant Professor of Government, will continue his study of civil-military relations. Chauncey N. Allen '24, Professor of Psychology, will be working on a textbook during the first semester, and Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Assistant Professor of Religion, will be studying at Yale for the term.
NEW appointments to the faculty for the coming year will best be listed by departments. They are:
Air Science: Captain Robert L. Berg, Assistant Professor.
Botany: Raymond Barratt, A.B., Rutgers, 1941; M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1943; Ph.D., Yale, 1948; Assistant Professor.
Chemistry: David M. H. Kern, Harvard, 1946; Ph.D., University of California; Instructor. Frank S. Williamson Jr., Middlebury College, 1948; graduate study at the University of Wisconsin; Instructor. Teaching Fellows: Wilmon B. Chipman, Harvard, 1954; Roy C. De Selms, University of Washington, 1954; Kenneth W. Edwards, University of Michigan, 1954; James A. Magnuson, Upsala College, 1054.
Economics: Benjamin Chinitz, Yeshiva University, 1945; M.A., Brown, 1951 and Harvard, 1953; Instructor and Research Associate.
Education: William E. Bragner '30 has been appointed Lecturer in Education.
English: Lou B. Noll, Princeton, 1948; M.A., Johns Hopkins; graduate study, University of Colorado; teaching experience, Beloit College; Instructor. Thaddeus Seymour, Princeton and California, 1950; M.A., University of North Carolina; teaching experience, North Carolina; Instructor. Calhoun Winton, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of the South at Sewanee, 1948; M.A., Vanderbilt and also Princeton; Instructor; Robert M. Fisher, Williams College; M.A., Middlebury College; Harvard Law School; teaching experience, Proctor Academy; Instructor.
Professor William H. McCarter '19, Editor of Dartmouth Publications, will rejoin the English department this year.
Geography: Joseph C. Smutnik Jr., Dartmouth 1954; Teaching Fellow.
Geology: Robert W. Decker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949; M.S., 1950; Doctor of Science, Colorado School of Mines; teaching experience, University of Illinois; Assistant Professor. Richard E. McCrehan, Trinity College, 1952; Teaching Fellow. Walter G. Rockwood, Dartmouth and University of Massachusetts, 1954; Teaching Fellow.
Government: Richard W. Sterling, Yale, 1942; M.A., Yale; teaching experience, Yale; Instructor on the Internship Program. Mr. Sterling has been with the Foreign Affairs Advisory Committee of the Southern Regional Education Board during the past year.
Great Issues: Theodore R. Crane, Brown University, 1950; M.A., Harvard, 1951; candidate for Ph.D., Harvard; Instructor. Robert W. Winter, Dartmouth, 1947; graduate work and teaching, Johns Hopkins University and Bowdoin College; Instructor.
History: Stephen B. Baxter, Harvard, 1950; Ph.D. in English History, Cambridge University, 1954; Instructor. James H. Winter, Dartmouth, 1949; M.A., Harvard; further graduate work, University of Washington; Instructor. Both men are on the Internship Program.
Mathematics: James L. Snell, University of Illinois, 1947; M.A. and Ph.D., Illinois; teaching experience, Illinois and Princeton; Assistant Professor; Raymond M. Smullyan, attended University of Wisconsin; graduate work, University of Chicago; Instructor.
Military Science: Lt. Col. Harry W. Stulting, Professor (see below). Captain Rory'O More, Assistant Professor.
Music: David R. Fuller, Harvard, 1949; M.A., Harvard; teaching experience, Robert College and Bradford Junior College; Instructor on the Internship Program.
Naval Science: Lt. Commander George C. Talley Jr.; Assistant Professor. Lt. Herbert W. Moody; Assistant Professor.
Philosophy: Alan Ross Anderson, Yale University, 1950; M.A., Cambridge University, 1952; further graduate work at Yale; teaching experience, Quinnipac College and Yale; Instructor.
Physics: Four teaching fellows have joined this department: Robert J. Grainger, Bowdoin College, 1954; William E. Harte, Providence College, 1954; Stuart M. Johnson Jr., Dartmouth 1954; and Gary F. Miller, Pomona College, 1954.
Psychology: Edward J. Green, University of Indiana, 1949; M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard University; teaching experience, Harvard; Instructor. John W. McCrary Jr., William and Mary, 1949; M.A., Brown; candidate for Ph.D., Brown; teaching experience, William and Mary and Brown; Instructor on the Internship Program.
Romance Languages: Weston Flint, Harvard, 1947; M.A., University of North Carolina; further graduate study, Middlebury College and University of Madrid, Spain; teaching experience, Noble and Greenough School and University of North Carolina; Instructor on the Internship Program. Coleman R. Jeffers, Berea College, 1949; M.A. and Ph.D., State University of Iowa; Instructor in Spanish.
Russian Civilization: Edgar H. Lehrman, Cornell, 1948; M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia; teaching experience, Duke University; Instructor.
Sociology: Joseph Berger, Brooklyn College, 1949; M.A., Harvard, 1954; Instructor on the Internship Program.
Speech: Robert P. Friedman, University of North Carolina, 1948; graduate work, University of Missouri; teaching experience, Missouri; Instructor.
Zoology: George B. Saul 2nd, Pennsylvania, 1949; M.A. and candidate for Ph.D. Pennsylvania; Instructor. Edwin H. Cumings, De Pauw University, 1954; Teaching Fellow.
Two assistant professors have been appointed to the faculty of the Amos Tuck School. They are Prof. James P. Logan, who will teach courses in business policy, and Prof. Wayne G. Broehl Jr., who will teach courses in industrial relations. Professor Logan comes to Tuck School from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he has been a lecturer in management. A graduate of Princeton in 1943, he received the M.B.A. degree at Harvard in 1949. He has been studying for his Ph.D. degree at Columbia. Professor Broehl is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He received his M.B.A. degree at the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. at Indiana University, where he held the posts of Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Professor.
HARRY W. STULTING, Lt. Col., Ordnance Corps, U.S. Army, has joined the Dartmouth faculty as Professor of Military Science and Tactics. He relieves Lt. Col. William B. Chase, who will go to Tel Aviv, Israel, as Assistant Army Attache. Colonel Stulting comes to Dartmouth from two years' duty in Ankara, Turkey, as Ordnance Supply Officer on the Joint American Military Mission. Other facts about his career will be found with his photograph in this section.
DR. MILLETT G. MORGAN, director of research at the Thayer School left during August for The Hague to attend the General Assembly of the International Scientific Radio Union. Dr. Morgan is secretary and chairman-elect of the Union's Ionosphere Commission. An expert on the transmission of radio waves into the ionosphere and the propagation of ionospheric radio signals, Dr. Morgan and his associates at Thayer School have for a number of years been engaged in ionospheric research. They are now establishing a radio station in far northern Quebec to study the transmission of radio signals through the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, which are a cause of radio "blackouts" in the Arctic. At the conclusion of sessions of the radio union, Dr. Morgan attended the Physical Society Meeting on the Ionosphere at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, and returned to Hanover prior to the opening of college.
PROFESSORS Willis M. Rayton and Allen L. King of the Department of Physics and Assistant Professor H. W. Curtis of the Thayer School attended the 34th meeting of the New Hampshire Academy of Science at the New England College in Henniker. Professor Rayton was elected vice president for 1954-55 and Professor Curtis was elected secretary-treasurer. The next annual meeting is scheduled to be held in Hanover.
PROFESSOR ARTHUR O. DAVIDSON, chairman of the Education Department, has accepted the post of Vice President of Luther College in Decorah, lowa. Dr. Davidson was a member of the Luther faculty before coming to Dartmouth in 1948. At Luther he will head up a development program in which he will immediately be concerned with "alumni relations, fund raising, execution of a curriculum revision and a study of future building needs. He will be the chief administration officer of the college. A graduate of Luther in 1931, Dr. Davidson received his M.A. degree at Minnesota and his Doctor of Education degree at Harvard. Last June he was elected to a full professorship on the Dartmouth faculty.
WHILE some faculty members have been studying abroad or in American universities during the summer, Commander David C. Nutt '41, Arctic Specialist of the Dartmouth College Museum, again took his Blue Dolphin and a largely Dartmouth crew to the waters of Labrador. He sailed in June from Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to do hydrographic research for the U.S. Navy and the Arctic Institute of Northern America. This is the Dolphin's sixth annual trip to Labrador, and among the many results of Commander Nutt's work are corrected charts and maps of the coastline and adjacent waters. Although many of us may have complained of a wet cold summer, Nutt reports that this year "we had storm after storm, with gale winds, hard, driving snows and the worst ice in years off Labrador."
A NEW APPROACH to providing additional faculty housing was taken by the Collegethis summer when it erected, somewhat experimentally, four prefabricated houses in anewly developed area just off East Wheelock Street near Balch Hill. More may be addedlater if the first four work out successfully.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS by the Trustees included those of Donald L. Pyke (left) asAssistant Dean of Thayer School and of Karl A. Hill '38 as Associate Dean of TuckSchool. Pyke, who was Acting Dean this past year, is Assistant Professor of AppliedMechanics, and Hill, formerly Assistant Dean at Tuck, is Professor of Industrial Management.
