The Faculty
OF special interest this month are the plans for the International Geophysical Year in 1957, for two Dartmouth professors have been appointed to the United States committees which will take part in a program of coordinated research by 38 nations on some of the world's great scientific mysteries. A. Lincoln Washburn '35, Professor of Northern Geology, has been named to membership on the United States National Committee, and with twenty other outstanding American scientists will help direct the work of eleven technical panels studying in widely different scientific areas. Prof. Millett G. Morgan, director of research at Thayer School, has been elected chairman of the Technical Panel on lonospheric Physics of the U.S. National Committee.
American participation in the International Geophysical Year is under the joint sponsorship of the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. The extent of U.S. activity in the program is pointed up by the fact that this nation has mapped out a $13 million budget to be expended on scientific research. This will be allocated among the various technical panels.
Professor Washburn is also acting-chairman of the Geophysical Year's Antarctic Committee. As. part of its participation in this work, the U.S. will establish at least three stations in the Antarctic, one of them at the South Pole. In addition, Professor Washburn is a member of the Technical Panel on Glaciology, which will map out a program of research on glaciers both in the world's polar regions and in the temperate zones.
Professor Morgan, the chairman of the Technical Panel on lonospheric Physics, will be working with eight other scientists from various parts of the country. This panel, which represents one of the major technical fields of inquiry, has one of the largest programs and will be working on a two million dollar budget. The principal task of the panel two years in advance of the actual Geophysical Year program is to start the operation of thirteen additional ionospheric observatories in various nations of the world.
The other technical panels whose work will be coordinated by the National Committee are on world days, meteorology, geomagnetism, aurora and airglow, solar activity, cosmic rays, longitude and latitude, oceanography, rocket exploration of the upper atmosphere, and seismology and gravity measurement.
PROF. Henry B. Williams of the English Department, who is Director of the Experimental Theatre, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American National Theatre and Academy. Professor Williams, who is an authority on the English theatre, and who recently lectured on this topic at the University of Minnesota, will serve on the Educational Panel of the organization. The group is interested in developing a national theatre in our country and is chartered for this purpose by the federal government.
PROF. Richard E. Stoiber '32 of the Department of Geology attended the recent meetings of the Society of Economic Geologists at Chicago and presented a paper on the "Minerals of the Lake Michigan Copper Deposits." He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, Ind.
MARTIN L. LINDAHL, Professor of Economics, has recently been appointed to the New England Governors' Committee on Public Transportation. The committee represents each of the six New England states, and plans to make a survey of all forms of public transportation in the area.
ELIAS L. RIVERS, Assistant Professor of Spanish, has a part-time research leave this semester to complete work on a critical edition of the writings of the 16th century Spanish poet, Francisco de Aldana. Professor Rivers' book is designed for the general reader and for classroom use.
PROF. Robert Kavesh of the Economics Department spoke recently to the Entrepreneurial History Society at Harvard University on the topic "Businessmen in Fiction: The Entrepreneur in American Novels." Professor Kavesh's study involved several hundred novels since the Horatio Alger series, and it has been his aim to discover how American writers have por- trayed the businessman and why they have taken their different points of view. He also speculated on how the businessman will appear in writings in the future. Another member of the Economics Department, Benjamin Chinitz, spoke recently to students and faculty in a graduate seminar in economics at Clark University. His topic was "Some Aspects of a Growing Money Supply for a Growing Economy."
PROF. Frederick W. Sternfeld of the Department of Music has been working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton this year, and his activities have been varied and interesting. His book Goethe and Music was published by the New York Public Library in October, and in February and March he published articles discussing Don Giovanni and Othello in the Metropolitan's Opera News. In February he appeared along with Dame Edith Sitwell and Mrs. Pierre Monteux as an intermission guest on the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Faust. He has also lectured this spring at Columbia University and at Mount Holyoke and Hunter Colleges on the subject, "Shakespeare's Use of Dramatic Music." An article, "Contemporary Piano Music," was contributed by Mr. Sternfeld to the Notes of the Music Library Association.
THE already lively interest in poetry at Dartmouth has been further stimulated by a series of informal meetings called "The Thursday Poets," which has been held in the poetry room of Baker during the past month. At these gatherings local poets have read their own works. Among those appearing have been several faculty members: Prof. Thomas H. Vance and Mr. Lou B. Noll of the English Department, Prof. George C. Wood of the Romance Languages Department and Dr. Frederick Will Jr. of the Classics Department.
AMONG the faculty members on leave during the second semester, several can be found roaming 'round the girdled earth. Prof. George E. Diller of the Romance Languages Department is in Southern France, Prof. John Hurd '21 of the English Department is in Vienna, Prof. Hugh Morrison '26 of the Art Department is in Mexico, and Prof. Robert K. Carr '29 of the Government Department is in England. On the west coast of our own country Prof. Robert E. Riegel of the History Department is teaching at the University of California at Berkeley and Prof. Herbert F. West '22 of the Comparative Literature Department is travelling and speaking to alumni groups. In Hanover, Prof. John W. Masland continues his work on civilian-military relations, and Prof. Daniel Marx '29 of the Economics Department continues his study of South American shipping. Also on leave for the second semester this year are Prof. 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.
ALTHOUGH the death of Professor Anton A. Raven of the English Department will be reported elsewhere in this issue, it is perhaps not inappropriate to say here simply Ave atque vale to a beloved and greatly admired colleague.
FRATRES IN DOCTORIBUS is strictly true in the case of Robert W. Winter '46 (left),Instructor in Great Issues, and his brother James H. Winter '47, Instructor in History,both of whom joined the Dartmouth faculty this year. Robert previously taught historyat Johns Hopkins and Bowdoin; James, a former Master at Lakeside School in Seattle, isat Dartmouth on the Teaching Intern program.
