A FIVE-YEAR research grant totaling $40,250 has been awarded to Professor Roy P. Forster of the Department of Zoology by the U.S. Public Health Service. His project, titled "Cellular Aspects of Active Transport by Renal Tubules," is a study of the physical and chemical interpretations of substances' movements across cell membranes such as occur in kidney functions. The grant is for $8,050 a year for five years, and Professor Forster plans to work both at Dartmouth and, during the summers, at the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine. Professor Forster has been at Dartmouth since 1938 and has been doing research in this field for about twenty years. For the past six years his studies have been supported by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Two faculty members have received grants recently from the National Science Foundation. They are Robert W. Christy, Assistant Professor of Physics, who received a two-year grant of $28,500 for research on "Bleaching of X-Irradiated Centers in Alkali Halides," and John B. Lyons, Professor of Geology, recipient of an additional one-year grant of $1,150 for the study of "Systematic Compositional Variation in Metamorphic Minerals." Professor Christy, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1953, is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Physical Society. Professor Lyons' grant is for the continuation of work begun in 1956, also supported by the National Science Foundation. Educated at Harvard University, he joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1946.
HUGH M. DAVIDSON, Professor of Romance Languages, has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship for study in France next year. He will be associated with the University of Paris and Bibliotheque Nationale while doing research on the history of the discipline of rhetoric in France during the 17th and 18th Centuries. His fellowship is one of four made in the field of French literature and civilization for 1959-60. Professor Davidson said that his aim is "to see how poetic and philosophic values are derived and expressed in major literary works with the assistance of rhetoric, 'the art of persuasion.'" He has already started work on the project and recently published articles on Pascal and Descartes, the French philosopher-mathematicians.
Professor Davidson came to Dartmouth in 1953 from the University of Chicago where he was assistant dean of the college and chairman of the French staff. He has written extensively in his field and was the editor of a book, The Idea and Practice of General Education, published in 1950. He plans to leave for Paris with his family in January 1960 and will return in the fall.
JOSE M. ARCE, Professor of Spanish, has been appointed a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua. This Costa Rican group, like its parent institution, the Real Academia Espanola, concerns itself with the advancing of national literature and the arts with modern Spanish usage. Professor Arce was elected by a unanimous vote to take "Seat Q," left vacant by the death of Joaquin Garcia Monge, Latin-American educator and writer. The statutory requirement of residence in Costa Rica was waived in Professor Arce's case. He plans to visit Costa Rica this summer to make his address of incorporation. Later he will be appointed a "Correspondent de la Real Academia Espanola." Membership in the Academia is limited to eighteen and is considered one of the highest honors a Costa Rican can achieve.- Professor Arce was born in Costa Rica and was graduated from Columbia University. He did graduate work at the University of Madrid and at the Centro de Estudios Historicos in Spain. He has been at Dartmouth for almost thirty years.
ELIAS L. RIVERS, Associate Professor of Spanish, is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for study in Spain next year. He will study the sonnet in Spain from the 15th through the 17th centuries, the period of the Spanish Golden Age. Professor Rivers, who sails for Europe with his family in June, will live in Madrid. During the fall term he will also supervise the work of six Dartmouth students at the University of Salamanca, the first group of any size to go there under the Dartmouth Foreign Study Plan. In the spring of 1960, he plans to go to Italy to examine collections of Spanish Renaissance poetry in manuscripts held by libraries in Naples, Rome and Florence, and will make a side trip to Greece.
Professor Rivers has been interested in structural and generic aspects of the sonnet in Spanish poetry since his undergraduate days. Because of linguistic affinities and close literary relationships between Italy and Spain during the Renaissance, he has also devoted considerable work to the sonnet in Italy. While he is in Spain, Professor Rivers plans to locate and evaluate as many sonnets of this period as possible, both in manuscripts and in original editions, and to make a microfilm collection for comparison and critical study. Since the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid has the largest single collection of such material, he expects to work there intensively.
A native of South Carolina, Professor Rivers was educated at Yale University. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1952. In 1956 he was awarded a fellowship from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation for study of the sonnet in Spain's Golden Age.
PROFESSOR Ray Nash, lecturer in art and printing adviser to Dartmouth College, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A native of Oregon, Professor Nash joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1937. After his graduation from the University of Oregon in 1928, he worked on newspapers in California, Boston and Paris. He initiated work in typography and graphic art at the New School for Social Research, and later did graduate work at Harvard, specializing in prints and printing. This led to a fellowship from the Belgium-American Educational Foundation for research at the Plantin-Moretus Museum of printing in Antwerp, Belgium. Plantin House was established in Antwerp in the mid-sixteenth century by printer-publisher Christopher Plantin, and was operated for more than four centuries by his descendants.
Professor Nash is the author of numerous books and articles on prints, printing and bibliography. He has served as consulting typographer for several book publishers and as an editor of Print, a quarterly journal of the graphic arts. In 1956 he was awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in recognition of his work.
JOHN A. MENGE, Assistant Professor of Economics, has won a faculty fellowship to attend the 1959 Summer Institute in Social Gerontology at the University of California. He is one of forty scholars chosen from throughout the country to carry on research there on the phenomena of aging in American society. Professor Menge's particular topic will be the effects of an aging population on the growth of government expenditures. The fellowships were made possible through a grant from the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service.
A. LINCOLN WASHBURN '35, Professor of Northern Geology, was one of 35 of the nation's leading scientists and industrialists who attended the annual spring meeting of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel at Asbury Park, N. J., in April. The panel, established by the Secretary of the Army in 1951, assists the Secretary and the Chief of Staff in their joint responsibility to give the United States the most effective possible ground fighting force. Professor Washburn has been Director of the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1952.
PROFESSOR Louis Schneider of Purdue University will be Visiting Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth next year. Professor Schneider, who specializes in the sociology of religion, sociological theory and social stratification, will offer a seminar in the sociology of religion in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology this fall. The courses he will teach in the winter and spring terms will be announced later. Professor Schneider has been a professor of sociology at Purdue since 1954. In 1954-55 he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. He is currently president of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society and an associate editor of the American Sociological Review. He has written Popular Religion, aStudy of Inspirational Religious Literature in America, published last year, and Freudian Psychology and Veblen's Sociological Theory. He is the co-author of Power, Order and the Economy and is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals in his field.
AT the annual meeting of the New England Association of Social Studies Teachers held recently at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., Professor Robert E. Riegel of the History Department was one of the two principal speakers. His topic was "A Living Ideal: The MidNineteenth Century Woman."
RAMON GUTHRIE, Professor of Romance Languages, is the author of a volume of verse published recently by Macmillan Company. Graffiti presents a selection of poems which Professor Guthrie has written during the last twenty years.
MARTIN C. ANDERSON '57, assistant to the Dean and an instructor at the Thayer School of Engineering, has been awarded a $3,800 Ford Foundation Fellowship for predoctoral study in Industrial Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The grant was given under the Ford Foundation's Program in Economic Development and Administration.
IT is my sad duty to record yet another death in the faculty this year. Professor Richard B. McCornack '41 of the History Department died of cancer on May 14. A full account of his career will be carried in the July issue of this magazine, but I should like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the memory of one of Dartmouth's finest young teachers.
At the finals of the Interfraternity Hum Contest, President Dickey on behalf of the Collegeaccepts a portrait of retiring Dean Joseph L. McDonald commissioned by the undergraduates.Dean McDonald is seated at the left, and artist Paul Sample '20 at the right.