THE FACULTY
PROFESSOR MILLETT MORGAN of the Thayer School gave two lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently on the subject of "Radiation in Space." These were part of a symposium on "Space Environment" given during the spring term by the M.I.T. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The distinguished roster of symposium lecturers includes Dr. Harold C. Urey of the University of California; Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory; Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory; and Dr. Robert B. Leighton of California Institute of Technology.
Professor Morgan was guest editor of a special February 1959 issue of Proceedingsof the I.R.E. devoted to "The Nature of the lonosphere — an I.G.Y. Objective." The 300-page publication of the Institute of Radio Engineers included 26 papers on the ionosphere, including one on "Atomospheric Whistlers" by Professor Morgan and R. A. Helliwell of Stanford University. Further news concerning Professor Morgan is that he is serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of a new scholarly journal, Planetary and Space Science, which produced its first issue in January 1959. This international journal will publish original work on the upper regions of the earth's atmosphere, the planets and interplanetary space.
PROFESSOR FRANCIS E. MERRILL '26 of the Department of Sociology has been granted a Fulbright award to lecture in France during the 1959-60 academic year. He will lecture in French on contemporary American sociology and on the American family at the University of Bordeaux during the first semester and at the University of Rennes the second semester. The author or co-author of a number of books in the field of sociology, Professor Merrill has collaborated on Social Disorganization (fourth edition forthcoming); Society and Culture (with Professor H. Wentworth Eldredge '31); Marriage and the Family in AmericanCulture (with Dr. Andrew G. Truxal); Fundamentals of Social Science (with members of the Dartmouth Division of Social Sciences), and Social Problems. He is also the author of Social Problems onthe Home Front, a monograph sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, dealing with the impact of World War II upon selected domestic problems, and a forthcoming book, Courtship and Marriage (revised edition).
Professor Merrill has contributed to various sociological journals and served as associate editor of the AmericanSociological Review. He has traveled extensively in France, and in 1955 was the recipient of a grant-in-aid from the Social Science Research Council for a study of the French family.
A DARTMOUTH graduate who became a Jesuit priest will return to the campus for the 1960-61 academic year as a visiting lecturer. He is the Reverend Theodore V. Purcell, S.J., of the Class of 1933, now Associate Professor of Psychology and Industrial Relations at Loyola University of Chicago. His visit is sponsored by the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, which was established "to further the moral and spiritual purposes of the College." The Reverend Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, said that current plans call for Father Purcell to teach in the undergraduate departments of sociology and philosophy and graduate-level courses at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Father Purcell has specialized in management-labor relations. His book, The Worker Speaks His Mind onCompany and Union, published in 1953, is a study of employee attitudes. It was called a "notable contribution" to industrial relations by Time, the weekly newsmagazine. Father Purcell took his Master's degree at Harvard in 1949 and his Ph.D. there in 1952 in social and industrial psychology.
WINSLOW BRYAN EAVES, visiting sculptor at Dartmouth from 1953 to 1955, has rejoined the faculty on a part-time basis. His present teaching duties in the Art Department began at the start of the winter term. Mr. Eaves was born in Detroit, Michigan, and took his early art training at the Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Later he studied with several well-known sculptors, including William Zorach and Carl Milles. He attended the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. Mr. Eaves has won awards for his sculpture and ceramics from the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts and the Manchester, N. H., Art Festival, and in 1942 he won the Rome Competition. He taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, N. Y., from 1946 to 1949, before coming to Dartmouth for the first time. For the past three years he taught sculpture and ceramics at Syracuse University. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Eaves has held several one-man shows, including one in Utica, three in New York City and one in France.
RICHARD G. EBERHART '26, Professor of . English and Poet in Residence, read his poetry to an estimated 15,000 educators at Convention Hall, Atlantic City, at the recent convention of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. The topic of this, the 91st annual convention of the associations, was "Education and the Creative Arts." Professor Eberhart commented on his poems which he read and then spoke briefly on the importance of creating a taste for and appreciation of poetry in general.
"Poetry is essentially moral," he said, "in that the reading of the best poetry must make one a better person. The growing student should realize that only the best poems are preserved through the centuries; that there is a reason for this; that the reason is that man will not willingly let die his deepest insights into the meaning of life."
Professor Eberhart was a guest speaker also at the Public Affairs Conference held at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in early February. The subject of this conference was "American Culture: Chaotic or Creative."
PROFFESSOR HERBERT F. WEST '22 of the Comparative Literature Department delivered the Kate Hurd Mead Lecture at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia on April 7. His topic was "Rabelais, Sterne and Osier: Companions in Wit." The Mead Lectures are sponsored by the College of Physicians and Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Professor West was also honored at a formal dinner at which some of his writings were exhibited.
PROFESSOR of Philosophy T. S. K. Scott-Craig was moderator of the panel at the 17th annual Middlebury Conference held recently and devoted this year to "The Artist in Our Time." The literary arts were represented by the poet and critic Randall Jarrell; music and music criticism by Virgil Thomson; painting and its interpretation by Emily Genauer. According to Professor Scott-Craig, the conference and its panel, with some exceptions, seemed to favor the artistic achievements of the period prior to 1914 (as both freer and more significant for the human spirit) above works created under the strictures and pressures of the present moment.
ANEW faculty member, Mario di Bonaventura, has been added to the staff of the Music Department. Mr. di Bonaventura, a composer, theorist and conductor, assumed his duties as an instructor at the beginning of the spring term. He studied violin under Jacob Mestachkin, an assistant to Leopold Auer, teacher of Jascha Heifetz, and made his debut as a concert violinist at Town Hall in New York when he was 18 years old. In 1947 he studied composition under Mile. Nadia Boulanger in Paris. As a student of piano accompaniment on a scholarship at the Conservatoire Nationale in Paris, he won first prize in an international composition contest judged by Stravinsky, Copland, and Walter Piston; he also won the Dinu Lipatti Memorial Award for further study in Europe.
Mr. di Bonaventura studied conducting with Igor Markevitch at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1954 and participated in several Salzburg Festival concerts. He became official accompanist for the Conservatoire Nationale and assisted Mile. Boulanger in recording 15 th Century madrigals. Upon his return to the United States, he studied for a year with the Italian composer, Luigi Dallapiccola. Recently, he coached the Broadway casts of "Jamaica," "Oh Captain," and "Whoopup." At Dartmouth, he is teaching intermediate counterpoint, a course offered for the first time this year, and is directing the Handel Society Orchestra. He is also available for private instruction on the violin and viola to students and townspeople.
A bronze head of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic Consultant at the College, has been presented to the Stefansson Collec- tion at Baker Library. Modeled by Danish sculptor Eigil Knuth, the head was pur- chased through contributions from Paul Fenimore Cooper of Cooperstown, N. Y., the Dartmouth College Art Department, and The Friends of Baker Library. The Danish sculptor and archaeologist mod- eled the plaster cast of the head in four days when the Stefanssons were in Copen- hagen last year.
We have learned also that Dr. Stelanson will be featured in a new movie being We have learned also that Dr. Stefansson will be featured in a new movie being produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Portions of the 15-minute color documentary were filmed recently in Baker Library by Hector Lemieux, director-cameraman, and his associate, J. J. Parent, both of Montreal. Mr. Lemieux said the film is being issued to Canadian theatres in conjunction with the publication of the new Atlas of Canada by the Canadian Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. It is only the third such publication in Canada's history. Dr. Stefansson was one of Canada's major scientific explorers.
PROFESSOR ALBERT S. CARLSON of the Geography Department was a speaker at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held recently in Pittsburgh. He discussed the economic and geographic aspects of the Upper Connecticut Valley which recommend this area for industrial expansion.
THAVE the melancholy duty of recording yet another untimely death in the Dartmouth faculty. Professor George L. Frost 'si, widely popular and devoted member of the English Department, died suddenly while returning to Hanover after spring vacation. The news of his passing is presented elsewhere in this issue, but I should like to take this occasion to pay tribute to the memory of a fine Dartmouth teacher and dear friend, for gladly did he learn and gladly did he teach.
Title page of a rare 1645 first edition of Milton's poems, part of a collection given to Dartmouth by Walter J. Brownstone '28 and Clyde Brownstone '57 (see story p. 13).
