Five Professors Who Retire in June
CHARLES L. STONE '17, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY Professor Stone, chairman of the Department of Psychology for several past terms and teacher of the large basic course in that department, came to Dartmouth as an undergraduate after being a school principal for six years. Upon his graduation in 1917 he remained with the College as instructor in his major field of psychology. In the ensuing 39 years he has taught this subject to thousands of Dartmouth men and has also become one of the faculty's respected leaders in matters of educational policy. As early as 1922 he was a member of the Committee on Educational Policy, and as chairman of that committee from 1944 to 1947 he directed the postwar revision of the curriculum in the form it essentially has today. Professor Stone is a foe of curriculum stagnation and also of haphazard curriculum growth. "Faculty members must be chosen and courses accepted and organized for some central and common purpose," he wrote in 1948. "Education is not a thing, but a relation to life, and that life is not an accumulation, but a fruition and a service."
MALCOLM KEIR, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS "Prof. Keir's Eccy," taught by one of Dartmouth's great teachers of the past forty years, has been immortalized in the song Where, Oh Where. The story has it that his class once refused to be dismissed for a Hanover fire but begged Professor Keir to keep on lecturing about the history and problems of labor. This is the subject he has taught at Dartmouth since joining the faculty as full professor in 1919. Previously he had taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took his B.S. in 1911 and his Ph.D. in 1916. Professor Keir has written nine books about American industry and labor, and has gained a national reputation as a labor economist. He was labor relations counsel with the War Department in 1917-18 and there worked with President Hopkins; in the early 1940's he was a member of the national textile wage board. Expert in his field, prolific writer, busy beyond the campus, Professor Keir still is known to Dartmouth men primarily as a memorable teacher one whose Eccy course was once described by The Dartmouth as "an adventure" and as basic to a liberal arts education.
ROY B. CHAMBERLIN, FELLOW IN RELIGION AND CHAPEL DIRECTOR Professor Chamberlin, graduate of Wesleyan in 1909 and of Union Theological Seminary in 1915, was alumni secretary of his alma mater from 1918 to 1921, after serving as a member of Foyers duSoldat among the French troops in World War I. He came to Hanover in 1931 as pastor of the Church of Christ and in 1925 he began his official association with Dartmouth as part-time chapel director. Two years later he became Chapel Director and Fellow in Religion with the rank of full professor. As Dartmouth's "chaplain" he has since officiated at many a service in Rollins and at nearly all the College's public ceremonies. Dr. Chamberlin (D.D., Wesleyan, 1927) for some years taught an English course in the Bible as Literature; since 1950 he has been giving his present courses in Religion in the Old and New Testaments, in the Department of Religion. With the late Prof. Herman Feldman of Tuck School, he prepared The Dartmouth Bible, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1950 as an edited and abridged version of the King James Bible. Two Dartmouth sons, Roy Jr. '38 and Fred '45, and a Dartmouth son-in-law, Dick Treadway '36, make still closer the ties with the College developed over the past 35 years.
HOWARD F. DUNHAM '11, PROFESSOR OF FRENCH Professor Dunham has taught French at Dartmouth for 42 years. Before joining the faculty as instructor in 1914 he studied at the University de Montpellier in France and taught at Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio State Universities. Later study, prior to his elevation to full professor in 1937, was done in Paris and at Harvard, Columbia and Oxford. Professor Dunham edited Quinze Contes Francais (Prentice-Hall, 1930) but has devoted his long academic career primarily to undergraduate teaching. In recognition of this, the French Government in 1951 awarded him the Palmes Academiques and named him Officier d'Academie at Lafayette Day ceremonies in Boston. In the Hanover community Professor Dunham is a celebrated gardener; he belongs to numerous state, regional and national societies and is an accredited iris judge. His son, Richard C. Dunham, is a member of the Class of 1939.
LLOYD P. RICE, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS Professor Rice, an authority on taxation and public finance, was graduated in 1913 from Wesleyan University, where he taught before coming to Dartmouth in 1920 as Assistant Professor of Economics. He took his Ph.D. at Harvard and received Dartmouth's honorary faculty A.M. degree in 1934, the year he became full professor. Among numerous services beyond the College, Professor Rice has been economist with the Federal Farm Board; chief economic analyst for the U. S. Tariff Commission, 1934-35, and the Department of State's Office of Philippine Affairs, 1937; and financial adviser to the Philippine Government, 1938-40. The State of New Hampshire has often drawn on his knowledge of taxation, and for the Town of Hanover, Professor Rice served as Finance Committee chairman from 1941 to 1947. Authoritative and effective teaching at Dartmouth, extensive speaking and writing, membership in a half-dozen national societies, and important government service are all part of Professor Rice's distinguished career.
