Dartmouth and IGY
In addition to Prof. Millett G. Morgan of Thayer School, whose IGY activities are described in the sketch with his article, six other members of the Dartmouth faculty are actively involved in the international program.
Lincoln Washburn '35, Professor of Northern Geology, is a member of the U. S. National Committee for IGY, under the National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Huntington W. Curtis of Thayer School is a consultant on the lonospheric Physics Panel Advisory to the U. S. National Committee, and is Assistant Project Director of "WhistlersEast," under Professor Morgan. Willis M. Rayton, Professor of Physics, is Project Director of a program to measure ionospheric radio-wave absorption in the auroral zone (Knob Lake, Quebec) and in Hanover through the observation of galactic noise. And two other Thayer School faculty members - W. Cutting Johnson '33 and Blanchard Pratt '47, both research associates - are assisting in the "Whistlers-East" project.
Robert W. Kreplin '49, former teaching fellow in physics, is with the Naval Research Laboratory and is engaged in Project Vanguard, the dramatic IGY plan to launch earth satellites. Two other Dartmouth men participating in the satellite project are Arthur J. Mackey Jr. '55 and Roland M. Muller '55, both former electrical engineering students now with the Naval Research Laboratory.
With tWith the IGY articles in this issue, pictures and brief descriptions are printed for Lt. John Tuck Jr. '54, USN, commanding officer of the Navy support unit wintering over at the South Pole station with Dr. Paul Siple and his scientific party; Robert L. Long Jr. '56, one of the ten scientists manning the Wilkes Station on the Knox Coast of the Antarctic; and Lt. (jg) Stephen O. Wilson '55, USNR, recently returned to this country after serving aboard the USS Glacier, the Navy's newest and biggest icebreaker, which was in the thick of Operations Deepfreeze I and II.
A top Navy officer wintering over in Antarctica is Comdr. William F. Flynn '28, USN, commanding officer of "Detachment Bravo," a composite military unit of 19 officers and 152 enlisted men supporting American scientists in seven IGY research stations. Comdr. Robin M. HarHmann '40, USN, is public information officer on the staff of Rear Admiral George Dufek, USN, head of Operations Deepfreeze. Another Navy journalist, now back in this country, is Robert S. Yates '53 of the USS Arneb, which left Antarctica on February 16 and then spent two months tracking cosmic rays for IGY. Lt. (jg) Edward F. Boyle '53 recently returned aboard the USS Brough, a radar picket destroyer engaged in Operation Deepfreeze II.
Solar Project With this issue on the press, word has just arrived that, under Prof. George Z. Dimitroff, Dartmouth's Shattuck Observatory will join five other U. S. observatories in the world-wide solar flare patrol. Funds have been granted by the National Science Foundation to purchase a filter for the Observatory's 5-inch equatorial instrument for photographing the sun in H-alpha light. A regular program of observation will begin next October. Motion pictures of unusual activity will be made. Professor Dimitroff plans to maintain a radio patrol of the sudden enhancement of terrestrial atmospherics on 27 kc. which accompanies solar flares.
