The Faculty
PROFESSORS ROBERT K. CARR '29 of the Department of Government and Frederick W. Sternfeld of the Department of Music have received Guggenheim Fellowships for original research.
Professor Carr will make "A Comparative Study of Civil Liberties in the United States and Great Britain." He plans to go to London next February and stay there until the fall of 1955. He will concentrate on interviewing Britains to sample some specific aspects of civil liberties, such as control of subversive activity, censorship of motion pictures and the right to a fair trial and freedom of the press. A well-known authority in his field, Professor Carr was executive secretary of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. His recent publications include two books on civil liberties, Federal Protection of CivilRights and The House Unamerican Activities Committee, and a third volume, The Supreme Court and Judicial Review.
Professor Sternfeld will leave for Europe this June to gather material for a book about "Music in the Movies." He plans to see and hear movies with outstanding musical scores produced over the past 25 years in London, Paris and Rome. At the same time, he will study various scripts and the manner in which music was specially written to go with them. Professor Sternfeld also plans to do much of his work in Hanover, at Baker Library, which contains one of the outstanding collections of movie scripts and scores in the nation. He writes, "I want to learn more definitely what you can and can not do with background and foreground music in the movies. I want to take a good look this summer at some of the great sound films and then see if some rules of criteria can-not be established." Professor Sternfeld is a frequent contributor to professional musical journals and he was in 1951 president of the Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College. He has been working for many years in the field of music and drama and has taught at various summer graduate schools and institutes.
ANOTHER member of the Department of Music will be in Europe this summer. Professor James Sykes has received a Fulbright Scholarship for research on presentday German composers, and in addition to this work he plans to teach at the University of Berlin and to play series of piano recitals in various cities in West Germany. Professor Sykes has played with the Tulsa and Denver Symphonies and has made several concert tours in this country and abroad. Recently in Hanover he conducted the Dartmouth Handel Society Chorus and Orchestra in a rewarding performance of Brahms German Requiem.
PROFESSOR JOHN FINCH of the English Department is the author of TheDownstairs Dragon, the comedy selected by The Dartmouth Players for their Green Key show. The play is concerned with a family who move to a museum after being evicted from their own home. The nature of the dragon, who apparently lives downstairs, cannot be reported as yet, for Professor Finch will not say, and the opening of the production is several days off. This is the second play by Professor Finch to be produced in Hanover. His WanhopeBuilding, which also played in New York, was very well received.
AN interview between two Dartmouth . Professors, Francois Denoeu of the French Department and Arthur M. Wilson of the Biography and Government Departments, was broadcast recently by the Voice of America over the entire French National Network.
The interview was recorded in Hanover by Almon B. Ives, Professor of Speech, and was entirely in French. It dealt specifically with Professor Wilson's biography of Diderot, the French encyclopedist, which received the Modern Language Association's Oxford Award last December. However, the professors branched out during the interview to talk of Dartmouth College and the Modern Language Association.
PROFESSOR FREDERICK J. DOCKSTADER, Curator of Anthropology in the Dartmouth College Museum, was invited to speak before the annual conference of the American Association of Museums, to be held at Santa Barbara, California, May 26-28. The title of his address was "Problems of Research in Science Museums." Dr. Dockstader is the author of a recent book, The Kachina and the White Man, in which he discusses the role of "spiritual middle-men" in the culture of the Hopi Indians of the Southwest Plains.
PROFESSOR Albert H. Hastorf of the Department of Psychology has been appointed a Fellow at the newly established Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto. The Center will operate for a five-year period beginning next fall, under a grant of 3½ million dollars from the Ford Foundation. Men from the field of sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science and economics will be brought to the Center, where individual projects and some joint work will be carried on. Professor Hastorf will be working in the general area of cognition, especially as it plays a role in inter-personal relations. He will be on leave from Dartmouth for the coming year.
DR. GEORGE F. THERIAULT '33, Professor of Sociology, has been recently appointed director of a study of the nursing situation in New Hampshire. The work will be initiated under the terms of a grant of $18,500 from the American Nurses Association Nursing Function Study, and the efforts of the committee will be directed at collecting more information about nursing practice as it is carried on in this state. The group hopes to complete its work by February, 1955.
THE promotion of Kenneth A. LeClair to Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Thayer School was announced fessor LeClair received his Master's degree in civil engineering at the University of Massachusetts in 1952, and in the same year he joined the Dartmouth faculty as an instructor. During the summer for the past few years Professor LeClair in addition to his regular duties with the College has been chief of party for Ebasco Services at the Littleton Dam Project, one of the major hydro-electric installations to be constructed in New England.
We regretfully record that Professor Philip Wheelwright of the Philosophy Department, who has been on a year's leave of absence, has resigned his position at Dartmouth. He joins the faculty at the University of California at Riverside, where, his Hanover friends and students hope, the warm sunshine will restore the health of his family. Professor Wheelwright has been at Dartmouth since 1937, an admired teacher and scholar. His colleagues and his many students are sensible of a real loss to Dartmouth.
THE late spring in a college professors year is an unusually busy time, and this spring in Hanover has been cold and wet. But the twentieth century teacher, buried under term papers and examination books, can end his column on a note of seasonal cheer by imagining that his thirteenth century counterpart, perhaps an Oxford master, stole a little time from his pile of Latin manuscripts to record the lines,
Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu - Sing cuccu!
It is with deep regret that we report the death of Dr. Kenneth N. Atkins, Professor of Bacteriology at the Dartmouth Medical School, on May 20. An In Memoriam article will appear next month.
Five Professors Who Retire This Month
DR. HARRY T. FRENCH '13 retires from active medical practice and teaching this month, after having been Professor of Neuroanatomy in the Dartmouth Medical School since 1938 and in practice in Hanover for more than 30 years. An account of his career appears in the 1913 class column.
ELDEN B. HARTSHORN '12, Professor of Chemistry, has taught at Dartmouth since 1913 and has been a full professor since 1929. He has headed his department's work in organic chemistry, and as a teacher has had the satisfaction of seeing many of his best students, with whom he still keeps in touch, go on to important work of their own in the field of chemistry. From 1918 to 1920 he was a Shevlin Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he took his Doctor's degree. In World War I he was with the Chemical Warfare Service, and ill the last war he directed research at Dartmouth in synthesizing new anti-malarial drugs.
LOUIS L. SILVERMAN, Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation, came to Dartmouth in 1918 after teaching at the University of Missouri and Cornell. He has for some years taught courses in calculus and been in charge of the coordinating course for advanced math students. Head of a musical family, Professor Silverman is an accomplished viola player and takes pride in his son, Raphael '36, a professional violinist. In 1950 he lectured at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as at Haifa and Tel Aviv. Next fall he will teach mathematics at the new Municipal College being founded in Tel Aviv.
JOHN PELENYI, Professor of Government, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1941 after resigning as Hungarian Minister to the United States when his native land became an Axis satellite in World War II. This year he has been on leave of absence to serve as President and Trustee of the Free Europe University in Exile near Strasbourg. With his background of twenty years of diplomatic service, Dr. Pelenyi taught courses in power politics, foreign policies and international relations, and was chairman of the faculty committee that developed the present inter-departmental program in international relations.
ERIC P. KELLY '06, Professor of Journalism, retires from teaching after a tremendously full and varied career. After fifteen years of newspaper and magazine work, he returned to Dartmouth as Instructor in English in 1921 and became Professor of Journalism in 1929. Along with hundreds of articles he has written fourteen books, one of which, The Trumpeter of Krakow, won the John Newbery Medal in 1928. Six of his books deal with Poland, where he was the first to lecture on American literature at the University of Krakow. Poland decorated him several times for his writings and his service in two wars, including direction of a Polish refugee village in Mexico, 1943-44. Professor Kelly has written a great deal about Dartmouth and was Managing Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE from 1928 to 1932, and Associate Editor for ten years thereafter. Among recent distinctions he was chairman or the Pulitzer Prize Committee on the Novel in 1952 l953.
FRANCIS LANE CHILDS '06, Winkley Professor of the Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature, is senior member of the Dartmouth faculty, with 45 years' service. In charge of English Honors for many years, he has taught early English literature, Shakespeare, and the Romantic poets. Active m alumni affairs, Professor Childs represented the faculty on the Alumni Council and for ten years was 1906 Class Secretary, serving as president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association from 1934 to 1936. Important faculty committee assignments have been his oyer the years, and the latest of these, since 1951, has been the chairmanship of the Committee Advisory to the Tucker Foundation, working to further the moral and spiritual life of the College. After retiring he will continue as part-time consultant to President Dickey on the work of the Tucker Foundation.
