The Faculty
RICHARD W. MORIN '24, Librarian of the College, was recently elected president of the New England Li- brary Association at the group's annual conference at Swampscott, Mass. He will serve a one-year term. Mr. Morin has been Baker librarian since 1950. Before that time he had spent a varied career as U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Paris, a lawyer in private practice, and a member of the U.S. State Department. He holds an M.A. from Dartmouth, an LL.B. from Harvard Law School, and he has studied at Oxford and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
PROFESSOR L. Gregory Hines of the Economics Department is doing con- sulting work in Washington on a part-time basis during the present semester. He will assume a full-time position in Washing- ton during his leave of absence the second semester of this year. With the title of Consultant to the Public Health Service, Professor Hines' duties will involve work in several areas. He will try to develop concepts and procedures to measure benefits and costs in water development projects, and he will assist in the preparation of a manual of economic analysis for the Public Health Service. He will also be the representative of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on the President's Interagency Water Resources Commission.
PROFESSOR H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of the Sociology Department served for six weeks this summer in the White House Executive Office as a consultant to William H. Jackson, Special Assistant to the President. In June he was flown by Military Air Transport Service to lecture to the 9th Course of the NATO Defense College on "The World Revolution of our Time," having previously spoken to the 8th Course in September 1955. He has been invited back to deliver two lectures to the 10th Course on December 17 and 18 on the general problem of "Policy Planning in a Revolutionary World."
PROFESSOR Robert M. Bear of the Psychology Department directed a seminar last summer on methods of reading improvement in Paris, France. Professor Bear, who is also supervisor of aptitude testing and of the Reading Clinic at Dartmouth, received the invitation from the of the Ateliers-Éicoles and the U.S. Information Office in Paris. The conference was composed of teachers, engineers in charge of training, and directors of training of nurses and social workers. Recently elected president of the New Hampshire Psychological Association, Professor Bear is the author of numerous articles on psychology and education.
THE new mathematics program at Dartmouth, described in this column last year, was the subject of several talks given recently by Professor John G. Kemeny, chairman of the Department. He spoke before a symposium sponsored by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, at the Mount Hermon School, and at a conference in New York, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The same program was also the subject of three lectures given during the summer by Dartmouth's Professor J. Laurie Snell at the Summer Institute for Mathematics at Williams College.
DEAN Arthur R. Upgren of the Amos Tuck School spoke at a session of the American Management Association's management course held recently at the Sheraton-Astor Hotel, New York. The session was part of a week-long unit of the regular four-week course in the basic principles, skills and tools of management sponsored by the 23,000-member management educational association. It was one of more than 700 meetings being held by AMA during the current year. Close to 70,000 executives will participate in the overall program.
DR. T. Richard Watson Jr. '37 o£ the Hitchcock Clinic, instructor in clinical surgery and the physiological sciences at the Dartmouth Medical School, has received a grant of $84,000 from the Na- tional Heart Institute for cardiopulmonary research. His grant is one of four grants totalling $226,000 made this month to the Hitchcock Foundation for Medical Research by the National Institute of Health. Dr. Watson, director of the Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory at the Hitchcock Hospital, will study problems of heart and lung disease, including such major considerations as cancer and tuberculosis. A portion of the grant provides for further development of the laboratory, one of the most complete of its kind in the New England area. Another part of the grant will be devoted to the development of young research assistants drawn from the Dartmouth College and Medical School student bodies.
ROBERT W. CHRISTY, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received a $1600 Cottrell Grant from the Research Corporation of New York for measurement of electrical conductivity of ionic crystals. Professor Christy is interested in learning whether conductivity along the surface of the crystal may be different from conductivity through its interior. Such crystals conduct electricity not as electrons, as in a copper wire, but as electrical charges in the form of ions migrating through the crystal.
THREE new assistant professors have joined the faculty of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Two of them, Robert S. Burger and Henry M. Piatt, will have active roles in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research program at Tuck. Professor Burger is research editor and Professor Piatt is assistant director of research and chairman of the research committee. The third, John D. Van Plarcom, who is on leave from the General Electric Corporation, will teach production. He has been with G.E. for three years, first in employee relations and then as a member of the faculty of G.E.'s advanced management course at Crotonville, N. Y. He had previously been in production engineering with the Sikorsky Helicopter Co., Northwest Airlines, and Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
Professor Piatt comes from Columbia University, where he taught "The Economics of Business in the Graduate School of Business Administration. He taught general economics and economic theory at Dartmouth in 1950-51. Professor Burger, primarily a newspaperman in the past, comes from the copy desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He has also been with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the St. Paul Dispatch, and the Rochester (Minn.) Post Bulletin, and has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Southern Illinois University.
PROFESSOR John W. Masland, chairman of the Government Department, and Professor Laurence I. Radway of the same department were panelists at the meeting of the American Political Science Association in September. Professor Masland has recently been appointed a member of the Committee on National Security Policy Research of the Social Science Research Council. He is also a consultant to the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School. Both men in addition to their teaching duties are presently engaged in reading proof of their study of military education, to be published soon.
MERLE L. THORPE JR. '51 has been appointed to the faculty of the Thayer School. He will be instructor in mechanical engineering and assistant to the dean. Mr. Thorpe received his Master's degree from the Thayer School in 1953, having taken his work in mechanical engineering there. Upon graduation from Thayer School, he joined the Linde Air Products Company as an engineer in their Research Division.
ALTHOUGH the death of Gordon Ferrie Hull, Appleton Professor of Physics, Emeritus, will be noted elsewhere in this issue, we wish to pay our respects to the memory of a distinguished colleague, one of the outstanding professors of Dartmouth's past.
Some New Faculty Faces
Colonel Clayton E. Hughes, USAF, joined the Dartmouth faculty this fall as Professor of Air Science and Commanding Officer of the Air Force RoTC Unit. A West Point graduate (1929), he came here from top-level Washington duties with the National Guard Bureau.
Colonel Harold N. Moorman, USA, is also new to the faculty as Professor of Military Science and Commanding Officer of the Army ROTC Unit. West Point graduate in 1938, he reported to Dartmouth from the Canadian National Defence College in Ontario.
F. Herbert Bormann, Assistant Professor of Botany, taught at Emory University, Georgia, for the past four years. A 1948 graduate of Rutgers, he received the Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1952.
Colin D. Campbell, Assistant Professor of Economics, formerly taught at R.P.I, and Drake, and comes to Dartmouth after two years with the Federal Reserve System. A Harvard graduate (1938), he received his Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1950.
Leon Gordenker, Instructor in Great Issues, was at Columbia for three years after serving as United Nations Public Information Officer, 1946 to 1953. Michigan graduate (1943) and former newspaper reporter, he took a Columbia M.A. in 1954.
Robert Z. Norman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, taught at Princeton the past two years after receiving his Ph.D. degree from Michigan in 1954. He was graduated from Swarthmore in 1949.
Klaus M. L. Penzel, Instructor in Religion, is a Th.D. from Union Theological Seminary (1956) and has also studied at Gottingen, Zurich and Heidelberg. Last year he was pastor of a church in Mexico.
