The Faculty
PROFESSOR Carl L. Wilson of the Botany Department leaves for Australia this semester on a research grant from the National Science Foundation to collect primitive flowering plants. Specimens from only one family of plants will be collected by Professor Wilson. Approximately 300 species comprise the family, a considerable number of which grow only in Australia. Professor Wilson collects two sets of specimens, one preserved and the other dried. The preserved plants will be cut up into thin sections and studied under a microscope. This is the first anatomical study of this particular family of plants. The second, dried, set of plants will be placed in the College's Jessup Herbarium in a collection that already exceeds 50,000 botanical specimens. Locating the specific study areas by contacting Australian botanists, Professor Wilson plans to spend most of his time along the eastern coast of the island continent and in New South Wales, Queensland. On sabbatical leave for the entire semester, Professor Wilson returns to the College in the fall.
PROFESSORS Maurice Mandelbaum '29 and Francis W. Gramlich attended the meetings of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association held in Philadelphia recently. Professor Mandelbaum gave a paper in a symposium on "The Grounds of Moral Obligation." He was also elected Vice-President of the Division for the coming year.
PROFESSOR Albert S. Carlson, chairman of the Geography Department and Executive Secretary of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region Association, spoke at the seventh annual Connecticut Conservation Conference held recently at the Hotel Bond in Hartford, Conn. Professor Carlson summed up an hour's panel discussion on "Diversified Land Requirements" under the title, "What Is the Solution?" He is editor-in-chief of Economic Geographyof Industrial Materials and a former chairman of the Industrial Development Committee of the New England Council.
HERBERT GARFINKEL, Assistant Professor of Government, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science at the University of Chicago's 272nd convocation, in December. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Black March on the White House: the Negro March-on-Washington Movement in the Organizational Politics for the F.E.P.C."
ROBERT E. RIEGEL, Professor of History, has collaborated with the staff of Peshak Picture Productions of Chicago in the making of a movie temporarily titled, "The Opening of the Northwest Territory." The film is designed to explain this exciting phase of American history to junior and senior high school students. It will be released in the fall.
Lou B. NOLL, Instructor of English, spoke at the annual meeting of the Whittier Club at Haverhill, Mass., in December. Titling his talk, "Whittier and Our Condition," Dr. Noll sought to explain why "we have moved so far away from Whittier" and the kind of things he wrote. The reasons, he said, are tied up with "changes in poetic techniques - even in standards of honesty," and he saw in the break from the early standards "signs of a sort of malaise, a kind of ill health in our time."
ROBERT GUTMAN, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has received a grant for a period of 18 months from the Ford Foundation's Population Council to enable him to continue his researches into the history of American population growth. Professor Gutman, who has been granted a research leave by the College for the spring semester, plans to study population trends in Massachusetts during the nineteenth century. Massachusetts was selected for the study because that state kept the most reliable records during this period. His statistical study of births, marriages, and deaths, will fall into four parts. In the first, he will examine the system by which these vital statistics were registered; in the second he will measure their accuracy; in the third he will attempt to estimate what the trend really was; and in the fourth he will make interpretations based on the evidence. Professor Gutman plans to spend part of the semester in Cambridge, Mass., and his grant of $5,640 will be used for travel expenses and for student help in compiling his data on his return.
PROFESSOR Allen R. Foley '20 of the History Department is the subject of a "profile" in the January issue of Yankee Magazine. The article tells how this Massachusetts-born world traveler fell in love with Vermont, where he has "found more pleasure to the square foot than anywhere else in the world." It is written by Edward C. Lathem '51 of the Baker Library staff.
PROFESSOR Henry B. Williams of the English Department attended the annual meetings of the American Educational Theatre Association, held recently in Chicago. He was chairman of a panel discussion on the subject, "Educational T.V." Scene designs by both Professor Williams and George Schoenhut, Scenic Director of the Dartmouth Players, were exhibited at the Detroit Art Institute in a display of the work of Donald Oenslager of the Yale Drama School and that of some of his pupils.
DEAN Arthur R. Upgren of the Amos Tuck School has been appointed Frederick R. Bigelow Professor of Economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Dean Upgren, whose resignation at Dartmouth will become effective September 1,1957, also will direct the newly created Macalester Bureau of Economic Studies. He is the first man to be named to this distinguished professorship established by the F. R. Bigelow Foundation. At Dartmouth, Dean Upgren instituted a program of communicative business research under a grant from the Sloan Foundation and launched a series of newsletters and other publications for leaders in the nation's business and financial world. In addition to teaching at Macalester he will direct a program of similar activity. Dean Upgren joined the Tuck School faculty in September 1952, coming here from the faculty of the University of Minnesota Business School. At the time of his Dartmouth appointment he also had been vice president and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an economic consultant to the Minneapolis Star and Tribune newspapers. Prior to that he had been an associate editor of The Minneapolis Star.
Professor Carl L. "Wilson of the Botany Department has left for Australia on a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
