THE FACULTY
A MOST interesting and topical forum program in Hanover has been organized by a committee of faculty members in cooperation with the local committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Taking as its topic one of the great, if not the great, issues of our times, "National Policy in the Nuclear Age," the faculty committee has planned a six-session forum spanning the fall and winter terms. The forums will enlist the services of fifteen Dartmouth faculty members, as well as visiting specialists, from the fields of science, government and the humanities.
The first meeting was held on October 4, in Wilder Hall to discuss "Deterrence as a Basis of National Policy." Professor Eugene Lyons of the Government Department was chairman. Speakers were Louis Morton of the History Department, a specialist in military history, and Professor Everett Mendelsohn from Harvard, who is a research fellow in the Harvard-Rockefeller Project on Science and Public Policy. Professor John Wolfenden of the Chemistry Department chaired the second meeting, October 27, which focused on "New Forces in National Policy," with Christopher Wright, Research Director of the Columbia Council for Atomic Age Studies, and Professor Richard Sterling of the Government Department as speakers.
President Dickey will be one of three speakers on November 13, when the forum will consider "The Challenge to Democratic Institutions." Chairman will be Professor of Economics Daniel Marx '29. The final three sessions will take place in the winter term. Dean of the Tucker Foundation Fred Berthold '45 will be Chairman for the discussion of "Ethics, National Character and National Policy," and Professor L. M. Rieser Jr. '44 of the Physics Department will lead the discussion of "Arms Control as an Alternative to Deterrence," along with Provost John Masland. The last meeting on "What Should Our National Policy Be in the Nuclear Age?" will analyze the findings of the previous discussions and explore methods for encouraging a satisfactory national policy.
THE National Science Foundation has awarded a $32,300 grant to a Dartmouth Botany Department team to establish a national center for supplying fungi widely used in teaching and research. Prof. Raymond W. Barratt will direct the project assisted by William Ogata as associate investigator. Between 1,000 and 2,000 genetic strains of Neurospora and Aspergillus, fungi useful in teaching and research in genetics, biochemistry and biological analysis, will be collected and maintained. Scientists and teachers will be able to order stocks free of charge from lists published by the center. The fungi will be frozen, dried and stored in small vacuum-sealed glass tubes. This process, called lyophilization, successfully preserves cultures in a state of suspended animation for at least fifteen years. During the project different lyophilization techniques and other storage methods will be compared, to determine which is most efficient and economical. The project team also will work on development of strains with known genetic backgrounds and analyze certain mutant or "new" strains produced by radiation and certain chemicals.
ROBERT H. GUEST, an authority on technological change and its impact on industrial relations, has been appointed Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School. Professor Guest, currently Associate Director of the Technology Project, Yale University, assumed his new duties this fall. Dean Karl A. Hill said that Professor Guest brings to the Tuck School a wide research and teaching experience and that his interests would complement those of the other members of the Tuck faculty. Professor Guest has been at Yale since 1947 except for a term in 1958 as Nuffield Foundation Lecturer at Leeds University, England. He was a senior field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board from 1945 to 1947. During World War II he was with the Bureau of Naval Personnel and was a member of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy's Committee on Backgrounds of National Power. He has written five books, one of which, The Man on the AssemblyLine, was called one of "the 11 books of the year for men responsible for formulating the general policies of American business enterprises" by Harvard economist Sumner Schlicter in The Saturday Review.
THE Dartmouth History Department was host to some sixty delegates from twenty institutions of higher learning at the 15th annual conference of Northern New England Historians held at the College in early October. A conference highlight was an address by Professor Louis Morton, a new member of the Dartmouth faculty, on "Civil-Military Relations in the United States." A symposium on "Objectives and Programming within the Department of History" had as speakers Professor Thomas Reynolds of Middlebury, Professor Hans Heilbronner of the University of New Hampshire, and Professor Herbert W. Hill of Dartmouth.
HENRY HELGEN JR., Assistant Dean of the College and Director of Student Counseling, spent seven weeks at the University of Maine in Orono this summer as a member of the staff for a Guidance Institute sponsored by the National Defense Education Act. The Institute was established for guidance counselors in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
CHAIRMAN of the Government Department Laurence I. Radway attended the Annual Conference of the American Universities Field Staff held this year in Honolulu, Hawaii. Concerned with the topic, "The University and World Affairs," the conference drew educators from many countries in the East and the West. Professor Radway reported on a number of different programs at Dartmouth.
PROFESSOR Thomas Vance of the English Department presided at one of the meetings of the New England College Conference on English held at Simmons College on October 29. The topic was "Symbolism in French, English and American Literature," and the discussion was preceded by a paper read by John Malcolm Brinnen.
ASSISTANT Professor Severn Duvall of . the English Department was the featured speaker, along with Governor Powell of New Hampshire and Governor Stafford of Vermont, at the combined meeting of the New Hampshire and Vermont State Medical Societies held recently at Bretton Woods. Professor Duvall addressed the meeting on the topic, "The Tap-Root of Southern Attitudes towards the Negro." Professor Duvall, himself a Southerner, is a specialist in American literature and culture.
PROFESSOR of Russian Civilization Basil Milovsoroff represented the College at meetings in New York early in October designed to evaluate the Foreign Language Institutes conducted this summer on forty college campuses. Professor Milovsoroff was director of the Russian Language Institute held on the Dartmouth campus this past summer. It was supported by the Federal Government under the provisions of the National Defense Education Act and drew some forty secondary-school language teachers. At the New York meetings Professor Milovsoroff also participated in panel discussions of problems of planning summer programs. The NDEA institute directors met with the Modern Language Association to assess the achievements of the institutes. HAROLD L. BOND '42
The Rev. Theodore V. Purcell '33, S.J. (top), Visiting Lecturer on the Tucker Foundation, and Frank Brady '46 (below), Associate Professor of English, are two new members of the Dartmouth faculty this fall. Father Purcell, a psychologist and authority on industrial relations, has just had a new book, "Blue Collar Man," published by Harvard University Press. Professor Brady comes to Dartmouth from the English Department at Yale where he has been engaged in editing the Boswell Papers with Professor F. A. Pottle and others.
The Rev. Theodore V. Purcell '33, S.J. (top), Visiting Lecturer on the Tucker Foundation, and Frank Brady '46 (below), Associate Professor of English, are two new members of the Dartmouth faculty this fall. Father Purcell, a psychologist and authority on industrial relations, has just had a new book, "Blue Collar- Man," published by Harvard University Press. Professor Brady comes to Dartmouth from the English Department at Yale where he has been engaged in editing the Boswell Papers with Professor F. A. Pottle and others.
