The Faculty

THE summer activities of the faculty have been many and varied as random notes from some of Dartmouth's instructors indicate. Robert W. Decker, Assistant Professor of Geology, was a consultant on uranium and oil in Colorado and Wyoming during the summer and spent some weeks on seismic studies for the Juneau Ice Field Research Project in Juneau, Alaska. Dr. Cecil Gibb, Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, had an industrial internship with duPont during the summer. Prof. James Sykes, chairman of the Music Department, was a member of a Faculty-Alumni Seminar on "Music in America" at Princeton in June. Prof.Francisco Ugarte of the Romance Languages Department was Visiting Professor in the Spanish School at Western Reserve University. Prof. Richard Wagner of the Department of Art and Archaeology was Visiting Professor in Painting and Drawing at the University of Colorado Summer School. Prof. A. Lincoln Washburn continued his work with the U.S. National Committee and the Executive Committee for the International Geophysical Year. Profs. Arthur E. Jensen, newly appointed Dean of the Faculty, and Hewette E. Joyce of the English Department were staff members at the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury. MacAlister Brown, Instructor in Government, was selected as one of five teachers to be Congressional interns in 1955"56 under the sponsorship of the American Political Science Association.

WITH the beginning of the fall term 37 scholars join the faculty. They are best listed by departments:

AIR SCIENCE: Major Gerald M. Henderson, Assistant Professor.

Lieutenant Francis X. Shea, Assistant Professor.

CHEMISTRY: George R. Gillooly, B.S. University of Michigan, '53: teaching experience, Flint Junior College; Teaching Fellow.

Thomas H. McGreevey, A.B. Dartmouth, '55; Teaching Fellow.

CLASSICS: Norman A. Doenges, A.B. Yale, '47; A.B. Oxford, '49; A.M. Princeton, '51; Ph.D. Princeton, '54; American School of Classical Studies, Athens; teaching experience, Princeton; Instructor.

ENGLISH: James M. Cox, A.B. University of Michigan, '48; A. M. Michigan, '49; Ph.D. Indiana University, '55; teaching experience, University of Michigan, Emory and Henry College, and Indiana University; Instructor.

Robert Y. Turner III, A.B. Princeton, '49; A.M. University of Chicago, '51: teaching experience, University of Chicago; Instructor.

GEOGRAPHY: John C. Hook, B.S. Teachers College of Conn., '50; A.M. State University of lowa, '54; Ph.D. lowa, '55; teaching experience, Iowa; Instructor.

Philip Shea, A.B. Middlebury College, '55; Teaching Fellow.

GEOLOGY: Gilbert F. LaFreniere, B.S. University of Massachusetts, '55; Teaching Fellow.

David B. Martin, B.S. Franklin and Marshall, '55; Teaching Fellow.

John W. Tremaine, A.B. Middlebury, '55; Teaching Fellow.

GOVERNMENT: James F. Tierney, A.B. Boston University, '48; A.M. Brown, '50; teaching experience, Brown, Rhode Island College of Education and Bowdoin College; Instructor.

MATHEMATICS: Edward J. Cogan, A.B. University of Wisconsin, '46: A.M. Wisconsin, '48; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, '55; teaching experience, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State; Instructor.

Irwin Fischer, B.S. City College, New York, '48; A.M. Harvard, '49; Ph.D. Harvard, '53; teaching experience, Harvard and University of Minnesota; Instructor.

Richard Goldberg, A.B. Swarthmore, '48; Ph.D. New York University, '54; teaching experience, City College, New York; Instructor.

MILITARY SCIENCE: Major Paul N. Horton, Assistant Professor.

MUSIC: Robert Kurka, A.B. Columbia, '46; A.M. Columbia, '47; teaching experience, City College, New York, Queens College; part-time Instructor.

NAVAL SCIENCE: Captain Clarence E. Dickinson, Professor. Lieutenant Walter L. Bally Jr., Assistant Professor.

PHILOSOPHY: Robert E. Dewey, A.B. University of Nebraska, '43; A.M. Harvard, '47; Ph.D. Harvard, '49; Institute for Philosophical Research; teaching experience, Harvard, University of Maryland; lecturer, Goucher College and Mills College; Assistant Professor.

PHYSICS: William P. Davis, A.B. Oberlin, '48; M.S. University of Michigan, '49; Ph.D. Michigan, '54; teaching experience, Michigan; Instructor.

John Dewdney, B.S. McMaster University, '47; M.S. McGill, '52; Ph.D. McMaster University, '55; teaching experience, University of Illinois, Sir George Williams College, and McMaster: Instructor.

William T. Doyle, B.S. Brown, '51; M.S. Yale, '52; Ph.D. Yale, '55; Instructor.

Donald H. Hensler, A.B. Western Maryland, '55> Teaching Fellow.

Hai Tung Li, A.B. Bowdoin College, '55; Teaching Fellow.

Francis W. Sears, B S., M.I.T., 1921; M.S., M.I.T., 1924; teaching experience, M.I.T.; Visiting Professor.

RELIGION: James F. Ross, A.B. Doane College, '49; B.D. Union Theological Seminary, '52; Th.D. Union, '55; American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem; teaching experience, Union Theological Seminary; Instructor.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES: Lawrence E.Harvey, A.B. Western Reserve, '48; A.M. Harvard, '51; Ph.D. Harvard, '55: University of Paris; teaching experience, Harvard; Instructor.

RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION: Jack F. MatlockJr., A.B. Duke, '50; Columbia, '53; Ford

Pre-doctoral Area Research Training Fellowship, 1954-'55; Instructor.

SPEECH: Herbert L. Paul, A.B. University of Virginia, '50; M.Ed. Virginia, '52; University of Florida; teaching experience, University of Virginia and Radford College; Instructor.

ZOOLOGY: Dana L. Abell, A.B. University of California, '49; teaching experience, California; Instructor.

Bruce A. Barron, B.A. Allegheny College, '55; Teaching Fellow.

William C. Grant Jr., A.B. Dartmouth '49; Ph.D. Yale, '53; teaching experience, Yale, Gettysburg, and William and Mary; Assistant Professor.

R. Peter Kernaghan, A.B. Dartmouth, '55; Teaching Fellow.

MUSEUM: Alfred F. Whiting, B.S. University of Vermont, '33; A.M. University of Michigan, '34; Curator of Anthropology.

RETURNING to Hanover after leaves of absence during the past year are sixteen Dartmouth teachers. Prof. Richard B.McCornack '37 of the History Department has been away for the past year. He was the recipient of a Faculty Fellowship from the Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation. He spent one semester working under Professor Robert Redfield of the Anthropology Department of the University of Chicago and then traveled to Costa Rica, Panama, and to every country in South America in the spring semester. He was studying the effect of American companies on the culture of the natives and paid special attention to the United Fruit installations in Panama and Costa Rica, the Cerreo de Pasco Mining Corporation in Peru, the Braden Copper Company in Chile, the Anderson-Clayton Cotton and Coffee Company in Santos, Brazil, and the Creole Oil Company in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Also returning after a year's leave are Profs. Albert Hastorf of the Psychology Department and T. S. K. Scott-Craig of the Philosophy Department. Professor Hastorf has been a Fellow at the Ford Foundation's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, and Professor Scott-Craig has been working with the National Council of Protestant Episcopal Churches. Prof. Robert K. Carr '29 of the Government Department returns from a semester in England where he was working under a Guggenheim Fellowship on a comparative study of civil liberties in the United States and Great Britain. Classroom duties will be resumed also by Prof.John Masland of the Government Department, who spent the preceding semester working on civilian-military relations, and by Prof. Daniel Marx 29 of the Economics Department, who continued his study of South American shipping. George E.Oilier, Professor of Romance Languages, is back from a semester in Southern France, Hugh S. Morrison '26, Professor of Art, has returned from Mexico; JohnHurd. '21, Professor of English, from Vienna and London; Herbert F. West '22, Professor of Comparative Literature, from the western United States and Europe; and Robert E. Riegel from teaching at the University of California.

Also terminating their leaves of absence are Profs. Bruce W. Knight of the Economics Department, W. Randall Waterman of the History Department, Edwin M.Bailor of the Psychology Department, and W. Byers Unger of the Zoology Department. Professor Unger made a study of preprofessional training in the sciences con- sidered most desirable for medical students. To secure this information and data on related topics, he conducted interviews at fifty American medical schools. Although the project was undertaken primarily to insure most advantageous preparation for Dartmouth students headed for a medical career, the results of the study will benefit such students in other colleges and universities as well. Medical school authorities have shown keen interest in the results of this investigation.

PROMOTIONS for four members of the faculty were announced too late for our last issue. The promotion of Miss Ellen F.Adams to the position of Associate Librarian with the rank of full professor marks the first time in College history that a woman has been named to this rank. Miss Adams joined the Dartmouth staff in 1919 after receiving her Bachelor of Library Science degree in 191-7 and serving in the Skidmore College library. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. Named to the rank of Assistant Professor were Miss Virginia L. Close, reference librarian, Edward C. Lathem '51, director of the Special Collections Division in Baker, and JosephF. Marsh '47 of the Economics Department. Marsh is the faculty resident in Cutter Hall.

ON leave of absence for the coming academic year will be Prof. William W.Ballard. '28 of the Zoology Department. He plans to spend his leave in Europe working on several studies in embryology and a text and laboratory manual for Vertebrate Morphology. Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Civilization, also on leave for the year, will continue his studies of Oriental religion and philosophy, spending about a year in Japan and three months in India. Prof. Frank G. Ryder will spend the year at various institutions in the East and Middle West, studying the influence of the non-curricular life of the college on the welfare of the curriculum and the ultimate effectiveness of education. George Z. Dimitroff, Professor of Astronomy, will study the latest astronomical developments in Europe. He will be concerned with "Radio Astronomy" developments in England and the Netherlands, and the "Electron Telescopes" at the Paris Observatory and at Pic de Midi.

Leaves of absence for the first semester have been granted to eight Dartmouth professors. Harry P. Bell, Professor of Economics, plans a study of the activities of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, CIO. He will be particularly interested in union organization on the national and local level. Kenneth A. Robinson, Professor of English, will continue his study of the American theatre of the early nineteenth century. He plans to use the materials in the theatre collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard University, the Players' Club, and various state historical societies, especially the Smith-Ludlow collection in St. Louis. Judson S. Lyon '40, Assistant Professor of English, plans a study of the intuitional psychology of the English Romantic poets. Elmer E. Smead, Professor of Government, will continue his work on business-government relations, while Allen R. Foley 'go, Professor of History, will travel in the Middle and Far West to visit historic sites, monuments and museums, in continuing his studies of the history of the West. Prof. Frederick W.Sternfeld of the Music Department, who has been on a Guggenheim Fellowship in England, will continue his studies of music in the movies and of Shakespearean music. Willis M. Rayton, Professor of Physics, has accepted appointment as Research Professor of lonospheric Physics at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska for one semester. He will devote himself to research activity in the electromagnetic theory. Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology, will study the work being done in France at the university and graduate level in sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales at the University of Paris and at other universities. He will continue his research project on the Middle-Class French Family, and for this purpose he has received a grant-in-aid from the Social Science Research Council.

HERBERT F. WEST '22, Professor of Comparative Literature, was elected president of the Thoreau Society at their annual meeting in July. He succeeds Dr. Yarmond Adams of Chapel Hill, N. C., head of the society since its founding in 1941.

ASSISTANT Professors Robert W. Christy of the Physics Department and PaulR. Shafer of the Chemistry Department are recipients of Frederick Gardner Cottrell grants from the Research Corporation of New York City for specialized studies in their respective fields. Professor Christy's project is entitled "lonic Conductivity in Thin Films," and Professor Shafer will be studying "The Synthesis and Configurations of the Isomeric Perhydrophenan-threnes and the Decahydronaphthalene-1, 2-dicarboxylic Acids."

THE nation's first Conference on Tissue Elasticity was held at Dartmouth in early September. Arranged by Prof. AllenL. King of the Physics Department and directed by Dr. John W. Remington, Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia, the conference was designed to increase knowledge among physicians, physiologists, chemists and physicists about the characteristics of living human and animal tissues. The conference was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and was attended by thirty scientists from all parts of the country.

PROF. Charles J. Lyon of the Botany Department in a series of research studies has demonstrated positively that finely ground granite is a good fertilizer for various plants. Professor Lyon, who has been conducting experiments in fertilizers, described his latest findings at meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences in East Lansing, Michigan. His work has been carried on with the aid of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission.