The Faculty
PROFESSOR Harold R. Bruce of the Department of Government was a member of a three-man Visitation Committee which recently surveyed the work of the Department of Government at Pomona College. The committee was asked to cover in its study the course offerings, staff personnel, methods of instruction, program of the departmental major, interrelations of courses, seminar and reading programs and new courses that should be added. The committee was asked to report to the president of the college, to the faculty committee on administration, and to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. While in California Professor Bruce also addressed the fall meeting of the Southern California Political Science Association which met in Los Angeles.
ASSISTANT Professor Robert E. Huke '48 of the Geography Department left in early November for Bangkok, Thailand, for the Ninth Pacific Science Congress, held from November 18 to December 9 at Culalongkorn University. A specialist in Southeast Asian affairs, Professor Huke presented a paper entitled "Tadagyi: Land Use and An Economic Problem in the Irrawaddy Delta." Tadagyi is a small settlement south and west of Rangoon, Burma, where Mr. Huke studied local conditions. He is one of three geographers from the United States chosen to address the Congress, and he will represent the Dartmouth Scientific Society and Lebanon College as well as Dartmouth. His journey is being supported in part by a grant from the National Research Council. The Congress is a gathering of member countries of the Pacific Scientific Association, sponsored by the Government of Thailand and the Science Society of that country. Government and university delegates from 49 countries representing many fields of the physical and social sciences will attend.
On his return trip, Assistant Professor Huke plans to stop in Jamshedpur, India, to visit the Tata steel works and in Saudi Arabia, where he will visit oil fields and some nomad encampments. He expects to return to Hanover late in December.
ANEW approach to scientific education was initiated at the College in early November when students from seventeen high schools in the New Hampshire-Vermont area attended a demonstration lecture in physics. The invitation to the high school students begins a new program of monthly lecture-demonstrations to supplement the high school physics course. The first lecture was given by Professor Francis W. Sears, who discussed Newton's three laws of motion. Dartmouth's participation in the project grew out of a recommendation by the National Association for the Advancement of Science. The association suggested that science teaching might be improved by a closer cooperation between high school and college science teachers. The NAAS report was "official recognition of a need, long apparent to educators in the field, for broadening elementary science education."
At a conference of faculty and high school science teachers held at the College early in October, Mr. Lionel Poulin of Proctor Academy at Andover, New Hampshire, urged that the College give lecturedemonstrations to supplement the work in the regular high school physics course. The College agreed to the using of its staff and facilities to begin the forthcoming series. The program given each month is to be an integral part of the high school course and is planned to coincide with the current phase of the students' study of physics.
THE promotion of James A. Browning '44 from Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering to Associate Profes- sor at the Thayer School was announced recently by Dean William P. Kimball '28. Professor Browning received his Dartmouth degree in 1947 and spent the following two years at Stanford University, where he received a Master of Science degree and was awarded the William Roberts Eckart Prize in Mechanical Engineering. An educational innovator, he planned and set up new courses in internal combustion engines and gas turbines at the Thayer School and participated in planning a new "shop course.
Two Dartmouth professors participated in interesting research projects in the far north during the past summer. Professor John Lyons of the Geology Department and Professor Huntington W. Curtis of Thayer School left McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey in late June on a trip to Thule, Greenland, via Goose Bay, Labrador. After a wait in Thule for proper weather, they went by helicopter to Angiussaq Lake, about 50 miles north of Thule. There they worked on the field phase of a Geology Department research contract sponsored by the Air Force.
Dr. Lyons returned to Hanover at the end of July, while Dr. Curtis went on to Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. His work there consisted mainly of the installation of an International Geophysical Year "whistler" station. Professor Curtis is a consultant to the Ionospheric Physics Panel for the IGY.
ANOTHER far-ranging faculty member, Professor Arthur M. Wilson of the Government Department, spent two weeks last May in the Soviet Union on a research project connected with his interest in Diderot. Professor Wilson and his wife recently gave a talk in the Tower Room of Baker Library, illustrating their "Impressions of Leningrad and Moscow" with kodachrome slides.
PROFESSOR of Comparative Literature Herbert F. West '22 is having a oneman show of his paintings at the Roerich Gallery, 319 West 107th Street, New York City, from November 17 to December 30. The show consists of thirty watercolors, six of them loaned by their owners. The subjects range from Hanover and Norwich scenes to paintings done on the Pacific coast. Included is "A Fisher of Men" which won a gold medal at the St. Lawrence Valley Show in Hamilton, N.Y. The gallery is open daily, 2 to 5, except on Saturday.
ASSISTANT Professor of Religion James F. Ross has- been appointed by President Dickey to nominate to the Danforth Foundation two or three candidates for their 1958 fellowships. The Danforth Foundation is established to assist men of outstanding academic ability and personality congenial to the classroom to attend graduate schools in preparation for careers in teaching.
Stephan J. Schlossmacher (center), Professor of German, met with this group of Dartmouth alumni in Frankfurt, Germany, in July. With him (l to r) are Robert L. Clark '40, Standard Oil Company representative; Martin A. Uebel '33, German teacher at Culver Military Academy, also visiting abroad; Robert C. Goodell '33, cultural attache with the American Consulate in Frankfurt; Leo Betz, exchange student in 1935-36, who is Play Director at the Municipal Theatre in Tuebingen; Warren H. Meredith jr. '37, American Express Company official in Frankfurt; and Fred H. Begole '41, manager of the Frankfurt branch of American Express.
