Retirement Nears for Seven Dartmouth Professors

JOSEPH L. MCDONALD, Dean of the College since 1952, retires after 35 years at Dartmouth, during which he has gained the admiration and respect of all who had the pleasure of knowing and associating with him. Born in Coldwater, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Indiana in 1915 and then went on to do graduate work at Columbia University. Before coming to Dartmouth in 1923 he had taught at St. Thomas College in St. Paul, Minn., the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Minnesota. In 1930 he was named Professor of Economics at Dartmouth and Professor of Foreign Trade at Tuck School.

Dean McDonald has traveled widely in Europe and Latin America, studying trade and related subjects, and in 1937 he was the principal agricultural economist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He is a member of the Royal Economic Society and the American Association of University Professors.

With Dean McDonald's retirement Dartmouth will lose a man who, as teacher for nearly thirty years and Dean for seven, has made thousands of Dartmouth men the beneficiaries of his wise judgment and inspiring example. From The Dartmouth, which occasionally chided him good-naturedly with such headlines as "Joe Says No," came the following tribute:

Dean McDonald is a gentleman whose sensitivity has established a tradition of leadership, guidance and friendship in the dean's office.... We are proud to have been students under him."

Dean McDonald's final year in office ends officially on August 1. Later that month he and Mrs. McDonald will leave on an extended trip through Europe, certainly a well-deserved vacation after 35 years of hard work and devoted service to Dartmouth.

ROYAL C. NEMIAH, Lawrence Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1919 and since that time has always been a great champion of the classical studies and tradition. A graduate of Yale in 1912, he also studied at the University of Gottingen in Germany. Returning to Yale, he received his Ph.D. in 1916. He is a member of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of New England, the American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, and Zeta Psi fraternity. His book, Selections from Ancient Greek Historians, was published by Scribner in 1939, and he is the author of articles and book reviews in various periodicals. At Dartmouth Professor Nemiah has taught Greek and Latin, as well as courses in classical civilization and the humanities. Many a fortunate graduate owes an expanded awareness of these dynamic fields to his inspiring tutelage.

KENNETH A. ROBINSON, Professor of English, was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1914 and received his Master's degree from Harvard in 1916. He joined the Dartmouth faculty the following year and in 1923 he was made a full professor. A specialist in Twentieth Century American fiction and drama, he is the editor of Essays Toward Truth and Contemporary ShortStories; and, in addition, many articles, short stories, and poems have borne his by-line in such magazines as Life, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's Magazine and others. He is a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Modern Language Association, the Players Club of New York City, Phi Beta Kappa, and Delta Upsilon. He is listed in Who's Who in New England and Who's Who in the East. Few Dartmouth men who ever took his English 96 course on Twentieth Century American literature will ever forget the "little red schoolhouse" lecture, Professor Robinson's reminiscences about early days of the American theater.

Next year Professor Robinson will journey a long way from Hanover to start teaching at coeducational Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.

HEWETTE E. JOYCE, Professor of English, was educated at Yale where he received his B.A. in 1912, his M.A. in 1915, and his Ph.D. in 1926. A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1919, he had begun his teaching career as an assistant in English at Yale and later had taught at the Noble and Greenough School and at Groton. He also has taught at Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English in the summer and served as director of the school from 1943 to 1945. The author of several articles and book reviews, he edited Modern Essays and Poems and Plays of Robert Browning. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America; the American Association of University Professors; the New England Association of Teachers of English, having served as president of the latter; the Elizabethan Club of Yale; and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. At Dartmouth he has taught courses in Chaucer and the Age of Milton, and for many years he has worked with English honors students.

LEWIS D. STILWELL, Professor of History, conductor of the famous "battle nights" series, and chronicler of Vermont history, will retire after 23 years at Dartmouth. After graduating from Amherst in 1914, Professor Stilwell went on to take his Master's degree from Harvard the following year, and in 1916 joined the Dartmouth faculty. He is a member of the American Historical Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi fraternity. He is the author of Migration from Vermont.

During World War I he served with the A.E.F. as a private in a medical detachment and saw action at Verdun and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. No doubt this first-hand view of war provided him with a wealth of material for his celebrated course in military history, known to many classes of Dartmouth men as the famous "battle-a-day" History 25. Many of the highlights of this course have been repeated for the local Hanover residents in the informal evening lecture series known as "battle nights."

IRVING E. BENDER, Professor of Psychology, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1915 and worked for many years as an executive with the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. before entering the teaching profession and coming to Dartmouth in 1926. In 1927 he was awarded his Master's degree by Dartmouth, and in 1935 he received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. His book, Motivation and Visual Factors, was published by Dartmouth College Publications in 1942. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, the Dartmouth Scientific Society, the American Anthropological Association, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi fraternity.

Professor Bender has made a number of studies on motivation, particularly that of college students and the transfer of their college attitudes to later life. In his most publicized study, he surveyed the Dartmouth classes of 1929 and 1930, finding significantly low divorce rates and other factors suggesting that strong class and college loyalty may be transferred to marital relations and later life. In retirement he plans to continue a broader study of the Class of 1940 in which he has been engaged for some years.

LUCIEN DEAN PEARSON, Professor of English, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1921. A graduate of Williams College in 1914, he received his Master's degree from Dartmouth in 1937; and, in addition, he has studied at the Hartford Theological Seminary, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary in New York, and the Universities of Strasbourg, Lausanne, and Munich in Europe. He is a member of the American Association of University Professors and Psi Upsilon fraternity. Among his writings is an article, "The Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns," in the Dictionaryof World Literature.

At Dartmouth Professor Pearson has taught Sixteenth Century and earlier English literature, and he also has conducted a seminar on Joseph Conrad.

"He has earned a place in that select company of greatdeans whose deepest satisfactions are gained by helpingstudents when the going is roughest." - President John Sloan Dickey.

"The ultimate end of the teacher is to enablemen to arm themselves to make decisions withcourage and to face life with nobility."

"With all its moments of near-insanity, teachinghas always been more fun than anythingelse I could imagine doing."

"The college is a classroom. In that classroomyou must talk plain, honest English and youmust know a whale of a lot. Never have I beenequal to this challenge, but it has been a lot offun to try."

"For the associations with men of learning;for friendships too deeply felt to speak of; and,by no means least important, association withyouth — for all these parts of a college teacher'sway of life I feel deeply grateful."

"I leave Dartmouth College with gratitudefor 38 years of hard work, warm, and stimulatingfriendships, and happy association with thebest things men have made."

"To teach and study human beings, especiallythe young, is a stimulating and gratifying experience."