THE FACULTY

PROFESSOR Roy P. Forster of the Zoology Department has been named program director for regulatory biology in the Division of Biological and Medical Science of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D. C. In this capacity Professor Forster will administer research grants by the Foundation for the study of regulative processes in or gans and organs systems such as endocrinology and neurophysiology. Professor Forster has taken a year's leave of absence from the College, where he has taught since 1938. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, is a former director of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and section editor of Biological Abstracts. He has written more than fifty research articles and is a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Society of Zoologists, and the Society of General Physiology.

JAMES B. HYNE, who joined the Dartmouth faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a $13,000 research contract by the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC grant is for the support of basic research concerned with precision studies of the rates of chemical reactions through the use of radioisotopes. He also holds a Research Corporation grant of $2,200 for a study of the effect of solvent on chemical reactions in solution. Professor Hyne, a native of Dundee, Scotland, was educated at Queen's College, St. Andrew's University, Scotland, where he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1954.

ANEW book by Professor Wayne G. Broehl Jr. of the Tuck School tells the story of three Springfield, Vt., machine-tool manufacturers who successfully defied certain laws of economics. Titled Precision Valley, the book traces the histories of the Jones and Lamson Machine Co., the Fellows Gear Shaper Co., and the Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. The firms make various precision machine tools, the "master tools of industry" which are vital to all manufacturing.

Overcoming the disadvantages of a location far from other centers of production and sources of raw material and an unusual sensitivity to boom-recession cycles, the three companies survived to make a unique contribution to this industry and to the town of Springfield. The Jones and Lamson Machine Company came to Springfield in 1888, the Fellows Gear Shaper Co. was founded there in 1896, and the Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. in 1909. Professor Broehl’s study was supported by two research grants, one from the three companies and one from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

PROFESSOR Andrew H. McNair of the Geology Department has returned recently from the Far North, where he headed the first commercial oil-exploration expedition for Dominion Explorers Ltd. of Toronto. Using specially equipped light planes, Professor McNair and two assistants, Allen G. Ormiston of Stoneh am, Mass., a graduate student, and Stanley L. Dingman of Sharon, Mass., a Dartmouth senior, explored and mapped geological formations on several islands lying more than 1,000 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

With two Canadian pilots they operated out of Resolute Bay, a Royal Canadian Air Force base on Cornwallis Island, flying to other islands in the Archipelago, principally Bathurst. There they explored and mapped the geological formations of more than 5,000 square miles. This island lies some 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole. They also visited Devon, Ellef and Amund Ringes islands. During the three-month expedition, the group measured more than 40,000 vertical feet of rocks. They used aerial photos perpared by the RCAF as base maps. With planes which had a landing speed of only 35 miles per hour and were equipped with large low-pressure tires for the Arctic terrain, they flew as low as 25 feet over some areas and made more than 600 landings on unprepared upland surfaces.

This is the first time that the Canadian government has permitted commercial exploration of the area.

PROFESSOR Elmer Smead of the Government Department has started a series of columns of commentary on current topics in the field of governmental regulation of the entertainment industry for Variety magazine. The project developed from Professor Smead's recent book, Freedom of Speech by Radio and Television. Two columns have been published. "Politicians of Little Faith" was on the equality of opportunity for political candidates to go on the air in their campaigns for election, and "Bigger Than a Man's Hand" was on the threat of governmental regulation of television programs and the recent trends in self-regulation. He is planning a number of columns for fall publication. One which will appear soon is entitled "That Blue Pencil" and is on governmental censorship of moving pictures.

I REGRET to report the resignation of two senior professors of many years' service at Dartmouth. Both are Canadians who have taken positions at universities in their native land. Professor H. Gordon Skilling of the Government Department is now Professor of Government at the University of Toronto. Professor Trevor Lloyd of the Geography Department is now Professor of Geography at McGill University.

THREE NEW LADIES OF THE FACULTY are teaching at Dartmouth this year. Left, Mrs. Mane Morosoff, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and former teacher at Adams State College, is Lecturer in Russian Civilization. Right, Miss Grace E. Bates, graduate of Middlebury holder of the Ph.D. from Illinois, and Professor at Mt. Holyoke College, is Visiting Professor of Mathematics. Above, Mrs. Robert Kuller graduate of Barnard, whose husband is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is Teaching Fellow in Zoology.

THREE NEW LADIES OF THE FACULTY are teaching at Dartmouth this year. Left, Mrs. Mane Morosoff, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and former teacher at Adams State College, is Lecturer in Russian Civilization. Right, Miss Grace E. Bates, graduate of Middlebury holder of the Ph.D. from Illinois, and Professor at Mt. Holyoke College, is Visiting Professor of Mathematics. Above, Mrs. Robert Kuller graduate of Barnard, whose husband is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is Teaching Fellow in Zoology.

THREE NEW LADIES OF THE FACULTY are teaching at Dartmouth this year. Left, Mrs. Mane Morosoff, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and former teacher at Adams State College, is Lecturer in Russian Civilization. Right, Miss Grace E. Bates, graduate of Middlebury holder of the Ph.D. from Illinois, and Professor at Mt. Holyoke College, is Visiting Professor of Mathematics. Above, Mrs. Rob-er Kuller graduate of Barnard, whose husband is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is Teaching Fellow in Zoology.