The Faculty
PROFESSOR EMERITUS Eric P. Kelly '06 has been awarded the Kosciuszko Foundation Medal of Recognition for distinguished service to Polish and American culture. Presentation was made in October by Dr. Stephan Mizwa, president of the Foundation, who said it was in acknowledgment of Professor Kelly's nearly forty years of service to Free Poland and the Foundation.
ALBERT W. FREY '20, Professor of Marketing at the Amos Tuck School, has been named to head a study of the modern advertising agency by the Association of National Advertisers. He will be assisted by Kenneth R. Davis, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tuck School. Announcement of the study was made at the Association's 47th annual convention in Chicago. Professors Frey and Davis, with a committee of the Association, will investigate all phases of modern agency relationships with advertisers. Their findings are expected to have an important bearing on the methods of compensating advertising agencies in the future. Professor Frey, who has been at Tuck School since 1921, has served as deputy director of surplus property under the Commerce and Treasury Departments and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He is the author of Advertising, published by Ronald in 1947 and revised in 1953; the editor of Marketing Handbook (1947); and the author of How Many Dollars for Advertising, another Ronald Press book published last year.
AT the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, held recently at the Kresge Auditorium of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 of the Department of English was a member of the panel discussion concerned with Poetry and Science. Prof. F. Cudworth Flint, Chairman of the English Department, spoke at a symposium held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts under the auspices of the Boston Society of Aesthetics. His topic was "A Regionalist Policy in Aesthetics."
EDWARD C. LATHEM '51, Director of the Special Collections Division of Baker Library, is at St. John's College, Oxford, on a year's leave of absence. He is making an investigation of the publication of English literature in America during our Colonial period and of such American literary work as may have been published in England during the same period.
DR. JOHN H. COPENHAVER '46, Assistant Professor of Zoology, and Dr. Robert G. Fisher, Instructor in Neurosurgery at the Medical School, have received a grant of 119435 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness for a three-year research study of the choroid plexus. This is a small structure in the brain which produces the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. The project seeks to determine the enzyme action and cell metabolism involved in the production of spinal fluid. The work represents a joint effort by the College, the Medical School and the Hitchcock Foundation, research organization of the Hitchcock Clinic.
GASTON ELCUS, former violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has joined the Dartmouth College music staff as an associate artist. Mr. Elcus, who was born in Paris and has played with the major orchestras and outstanding artists of the world, will teach violin and will coach the string section of the College's Handel Society Orchestra on Thursday and Friday of each week. He also will teach the playing of chamber music and its direction. A member of the Boston Symphony from 1926 until 1952, he has had an illustrious career as a soloist and orchestral player. He first studied the violin under the celebrated Joseph Kramer in Amsterdam. He attended the Paris Conservatory, from which he was graduated with first prize in 1904. For fifteen years he was on the Commission of Examinations and Competitions of the Paris Conservatory. He also taught advanced classes in violin and chamber music at the Nantes Conservatory of Music.
