Polar Conference

Thirty-eight of the nation's leading experts on the Arctic and the Antarctic gathered at Dartmouth on December 18 and 19, under the joint auspices of The New World Foundation and the College, to discuss the need for establishing U. S. polar research centers to carry forward studies launched during the International Geophysical Year. The conference, presided over by Provost Donald H. Morrison, was held in conjunction with the Hanover meeting of the Committee on Polar Research of the National Academy of Sciences, of which President Laurence M. Gould of Carleton College is chairman. Four members of the Dartmouth faculty were conference participants and twenty-five more sat in on the discussions as observers.

L to r: Col. Bernt Balchen; Prof. A. Lincoln Washburn '35; Dr. Wallace W. Atwood Jr., National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Laurence M. Gould, President of Carleton College; Provost Donald H. Morrison, conference chairman; and Dr. Max Britton, Geography Branch, Office of Naval Research.

Enjoying a light moment are Dr. Hugh Odishaw, executive director of the U. S. National Committee for IGY; Col. Walter H. Parsons Jr., director of the U. S. Army Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment; and Dr. Ernest N. Patty, President of the University of Alaska. Behind them, center, are Thomas O. Tones, antarctic program director, National Science Foundation, and John Jones, polar research program officer, National Academy of Sciences; and, far right, Prof. Richard P. Goldthwait '33 of Ohio State.

Dartmouth's famous arctic consultant, Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and Fred Armstrong of the U. S. Steel Foundation were also participants.