The Faculty

ARTHUR E. JENSEN, Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Brown University in June. He is a member of the Class of 1926 at Brown. Dean Jensen was cited for his "long and successful career as scholar, teacher, and college administrative officer," and for his influence on educational developments at Dartmouth, including his directorship of the Great Issues Course.

Two Dartmouth faculty members were promoted to full professorships and six were voted the rank of assistant professor at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees. The full professors are Fred Berthold Jr. '45, of the Department of Religion, and Hugh M. Davidson, of the Department of Romance Languages.

GORDON FERRIE HULL, Appleton Professor of Physics, Emeritus, is shown describing to Prof. Willis M. Rayton the apparatus with which he and the late Ernest Fox Nichols in 1903 conducted at Dartmouth the famous experiment demonstrating that light exerts pressure. This proof was an important forerunner of the Einstein Theory. The apparatus, fallen into disrepair over the years, was reassembled by Professor Hull for the Physics Department, which displayed it in Wilder Hall in July.

With Professor Nichols, who later became President of Dartmouth, Professor Hull was able to determine that the noon sun on a summer day exerts a pressure of two and a half pounds for each square mile of earth on which it falls.

Professor Hull, now 84, has not been well this summer and is at present a patient in Dick's House.

Professor Berthold, who joined the faculty in 1949, received his B.D. degree at the University of Chicago in 1947 and studied at Columbia University the following year. He has been very active as a visiting preacher in New Hampshire and Vermont. Professor Davidson (Chicago '38) came to Dartmouth in 1953 from the University of Chicago, where he took his Ph.D. in 1946 and for the next seven years taught French and the Humanities.

The six men elevated to assistant professor are Norman A. Doenges (Yale '47, Ph.D. Princeton '53), the Classics; Edward J. Green (Indiana '49, Ph.D. Harvard '54), Psychology; Herbert L. James (Wichita '49, M.A. Ohio State '51), Speech; David C. Nutt '41, Arctic expert and expedition leader, Geography; James F. Tierney (Boston University '48, Ph.D. Brown '56), Government; and Frank S. Williamson Jr. (Middlebury '48, Ph.D. Wisconsin '54), Chemistry.

JOHN MCCARTHY, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, taught this summer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a two-week program in which more than 100 scientists and engineers from New England colleges learned to operate a huge electronic computing machine. Dr. McCarthy, an expert in preparation of data for use by the latest electronic computers, is one of twelve engineers and mathematicians who gave the course at the Institute's Karl T. Compton Memorial Laboratory. An International Business Machine will be installed there early next year for the cooperative use of 24 New England colleges. Dartmouth is among these. The program marks the opening of a cooperative venture to increase the number of scientists and engineers qualified to use modern computing machines and to learn more about their application to research problems in many fields.

WITH the beginning of the fall term 44 scholars join the faculty of the College. They are listed by departments.

AIR SCIENCE: Colonel Clayton E. Hughes, B.S. United States Military Academy; B.A. University of Oregon; Professor. Major George B. Echols, Assistant Professor.

BOTANY; F. Herbert Bormann, B.S. Rutgers, '48; M.A. Duke, '50; Ph.D. Duke, '52; teaching experience, Emory University, '52-'56; Assistant Professor.

CHEMISTRY: Eugene P. Damm Jr., B.S. New Bedford Institute, '56; Teaching Fellow. James G. Parr, B.S. Loyola College of the East, '56; Teaching Fellow. Sidney L. Phillips, B.S. Boston University, '53; Teaching Fellow. David S. Wulfman, B.S. University of Michigan, '56; Teaching Fellow.

ECONOMICS: William L. Baldwin, B.A. Duke, '51; M.A. Princeton, '56; teaching experience, Princeton, Instructor. Colin D. Campbell, B.A. Harvard, '38; M.A. University of Iowa, '41; Ph.D. University of Chicago, '50; teaching experience, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, '46-'47; Drake University, '49-'51; Assistant Professor. Meredith O. Clement, A.A. Yuba, 48; B.S. University of California, Berkeley, '50; Graduate Assistant, University of California, '51-'54; Instructor. Thomas J. Finn Jr., A.B. Boston College, '51; M.A. Harvard, '54; teaching experience, Harvard; Instructor. John A. Menge, B.A. University of Idaho, '49; teaching experience, M.I.T.; Instructor.

ENGLISH: Philip Cooper Jr., B.A. Tulane, '47: M.A. Columbia, '56; teaching experience, Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano; Instructor. Richard G. Eberhart '26; B.A., M.A. Cambridge University; Litt.D. Dartmouth, '54; Professor. Philip L. Handler, A.B. University of Miami, '52; M.A. Columbia, '56; teaching experience, C.C.N.Y.; Instructor.

GEOGRAPHY: Robert E. Huke '48 (returning), M.A. Syracuse, '50; Ph.D. Syracuse, '53; teaching experience, Dartmouth; Instructor. Philip M. James '56, Teaching Fellow.

GEOLOGY: W. Bruce MacKenzie, B.A. University of New Hampshire, '56; Teaching Fellow. Richard PI. Ragle, B.A. Middlebury, '52; graduate study at University of Minnesota and University of Oslo; Teaching Fellow.

GOVERNMENT: Ernest G. Miller, A.B. Whitman, '51; M.P.A. University of Washington, '53; graduate study at Princeton; Instructor.

GREAT ISSUES: Leon Gordenker, A.B. University of Michigan, '43; M.A. Columbia, '54; reporter for the Detroit Free Press, Associated Press, Detroit Times; U.N. Public Information Officer; Instructor. John M. Morris '56, Instructor. James H. Winter '49 (returning), M.A. Harvard, '51; graduate study at the University of Washington; Instructor.

MATHEMATICS: Marvin L. Bender '56, Teaching Fellow. John B. Fraleigh, BA. University of Vermont, '52; graduate assistant, Princeton, '52-'56; Instructor. Thomas E. Kurtz, B.A. Knox, '50; M.A. Princeton '53; advanced research at Princeton; Instructor. Robert Z. Norman, A.B. Swarthmore, '49; A.M. University of Michigan, '50; Ph.D. University of Michigan, '54; teaching experience, Princeton and Michigan; Assistant Professor. Richard E. Williamson '50, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, '55; teaching experience, Pennsylvania; Instructor.

MILITARY SCIENCE: Colonel Harold N.Moorman, B.S. United States Military Academy, '38; M.A. Laval University, Quebec, '42; Assistant Professor of French, Military Academy, '42-'46; Professor. Captain Paul M. Shanley, B.S. Fordham, '50; Instructor at Naval Gunnery School and Fort Dix; Assistant Professor.

MUSIC: Royal B. MacDonald, B.M. Westminster Choir College, Princeton, '50; "M.F.A. Princeton, '55; teaching experience, Princeton; Instructor.

PHILOSOPHY: Donald R. Loftsgordon, B.A. Occidental College, '50; M.A. Columbia, '51; graduate study, Columbia, '53"'56; Assistant.

PHYSICS: Harold C. Britt, B.S. Hobart, '56; Teaching Fellow. Porter James Jr., B.A. Fisk University, '56; Teaching Fellow. Edward F. Long, B.S. Muhlenberg College, '56; Teaching Fellow. William R. Miller Jr., B.A. Gettysburg College, '56; Teaching Fellow.

PSYCHOLOGY: Harry A. Burdick, A.B. University of Michigan, '51; A. M. Michigan, '52; Ph.D. Michigan, '56; Instructor. Kenneth T. Dinklage, B.A. Yale, '51; M.A. Harvard, '53; Ph.D. Harvard, '56; Instructor and Clinical Psychologist.

RELIGION: Klaus M. L. Penzel, theological studies at Gottingen, Zurich and Heidelberg; S.T.M. Union Theological Seminary, '54; Th.D. Union, '56; Assistant Pastor, Church of Westphalia, Germany, '53; Pastor, German Protestant Church of Mexico, '55; Instructor.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES: Stephane Nantier, M.A. Amherst, '48; graduate study, Columbia; teaching experience, University of Colorado, Columbia, Ford International Motor Co., Hofstra College, Amherst; Instructor. Paul R. Olson, A.B. University of Illinois, '48; A.M. Illinois, '51; teaching experience, Illinois and Harvard; Instructor.

NAVAL SCIENCE: Lieutenant Thomas H.Nugent, B.S. U. S. Naval Academy, '48; Assistant Professor. Lieutenant Commander Beverly D. Staser, B.S. U. S. Naval Academy, '54; Assistant Professor. Lieutenant J.G. William A. Young, Assistant Professor.

ASSISTANT Professor of Mathematics GeraldL. Thompson delivered a paper entitled "Introduction to Finite Mathematics" before the joint meeting of the American Sociological Association and the American Statistical Association in Detroit in early September. Professor of History Allen Foley '20 speaks on his muchloved topic, "Vermont Humor," at the annual meeting of the New Hampshire and Vermont State Medical Societies at Wentworth-by-the-Sea, Portsmouth, N. H., on October 8. Professor Leonard M. RieserJr. '44 of the Physics Department attended a Symposium on X-ray Microscopy and Microradiography in Cambridge, England, from August 16 to 20, at which he de- livered a paper. The Symposium was sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Alfred F. Whiting, Curator of Anthropology in the Museum, attended a Seminar on American Culture in Cooperstown, N. Y., in July, given by the New York State Historical Association.

The third edition of America MovesWest by Professor Robert E. Riegel of the History Department has come off the press recently. It is published by Henry Holt and Co. At the recent meetings of the American Institute of Biological Studies, Dr. F. H. Borman, recently appointed Assistant Professor of Botany at the College, presented a paper before the Ecological Society of America on the topic "Material Transfer Between Plants Through Adjacent Root Systems." Professor Charles J.Lyon, Chairman of the Botany Department, met with the Committee on Professional Status and Training of the American Society of Plant Physiologists. Dr. Gordon H. Gliddon, Business Officer of Baker Library, Instructor in Physics, and former officer of the Dartmouth Eye Clinic, spoke at the Eighth Annual Institute for Teachers and Professors of Mathematics, which was held recently at Williams College. His topic was "Aniseikonia — Unequal Images."

PROFESSOR WILLIS M. RAYTON of the Physics Department has received a grant of $15,000 from the National Academy of Science for the study of radio wave absorption in the upper atmosphere at high latitudes during the coming International Geophysical Year. Professor Rayton, who has recently returned from six months' study and research as Visiting Research Professor at the University of Alaska, will establish observation stations at Hanover and at Knob Lake, Quebec, to study the absorption of "cosmic noise" radio signals from outer space — by the earth's upper atmosphere.

PROFESSOR Roy B. Chamberlin, Fellow in Religion, who retired last June, has accepted a position as Visiting Professor of Humanities and Chapel Director at Talladega College in. Talladega, Alabama. By vote of the Trustees of the College, Professor Chamberlin and Professors Charles L.Stone '17 of the Psychology Department, Malcolm Keir of the Economics Department, Howard Dunham '11 of the Romance Languages Department, and LloydP. Rice of the Economics Department, all of whom retired in June, have been elected to the rank of Professor Emeritus.

PROFESSOR Lewis D. Stilwell of the History Department is cooperating with the Army officers at Dartmouth in a new course in military history. The course covers the whole story of American land warfare from Washington to Eisenhower. It is designed as the introduction to the Army's revised ROTC program.