THE FACULTY

PROFESSOR John H. Wolfenden has been appointed a faculty representative on the William Jewett Tucker Council at Dartmouth. The Board of Trustees named him to fill a vacancy for a term that expires March 1962. The Council meets every other week with Dean Berthold to advise on matters affecting the Tucker Foundation, the aim of which is to foster religious and moral awareness on the campus. Professor Wolfenden holds an endowed faculty chair, New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry. He was born in England and educated at Oxford University. He taught at Oxford and at Oberlin College in Ohio before coming to Dartmouth in 1947. During World War II he was principal scientific officer for the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington.

INTERESTING additions to Dartmouth's teaching faculty have been made over the past several years by the American Universities Field Staff, which has sent specialists from many fields for short periods of residence at the College. Most recent among them was John Hanessian Jr., a specialist in international law and administration of polar areas, who was in residence for two weeks at the end of October. From 1954 to 1958 he served on the staff selected by the National Academy of Sciences to prepare and execute the United States International Geophysical Year program. For the past two years he has been associated with the Institute of Current World Affairs, conducting research on polar problems in England, France, Scandinavia and the Soviet Union.

PROFESSOR Frank G. Ryder of the German Department has been named a member of the Foreign Language Advisory Council for the State of New Hampshire. This group, consisting of representatives of colleges, universities and secondary schools, will work with Andre Paquette of the State's Department of Education in the development and extension of programs in modern foreign languages in New Hampshire.

PROFESSOR Charles J. Lyon of the Botany Department has been awarded $32,000 by the National Science Foundation to continue his research in how auxin, a growth hormone, travels in leafy plants. The grant, entitled "Control of Auxin Transport in Leafy Shoots," is for three years. Professor Lyon will be assisted by Marjorie Neyland, Research Associate at Dartmouth. A room in Silsby Hall is being renovated to provide bioassay facilities for the studies. Miss Neyland, candidate for a doctoral degree from Radcliffe, will be in charge of this work. The new studies are related to previous work Professor Lyon did on growth of plants under gravity-free conditions. He found that under these conditions, auxin seemed to be unevenly transported in the shoots and stimulated excessive growth on one side causing the shoot to curve. The Gravity Research Foundation awarded him a $100 prize for an essay on the connection between gravity and auxin.

PROFESSOR of Geology Andrew H. McNair last summer led a six-man party on a ten-week expedition to the Canadian Arctic Islands. Three Dartmouth students were in the group whose prime purpose was to make semi-detailed geologic maps of Prince of Wales, Bathurst, Ellef Ringnes and Amund Ringnes Islands. The work was part of a study several oil companies are making to evaluate the petroleum possibilities of North America's largest untested but potentially productive oil province. Professor McNair and his party mapped some five million acres during the summer. They also were able to collect many fossils, which, added to the materials presently at Dartmouth, will give the College the most extensive arctic paleontological collection of any college or university in North America. The party found evidence, through marine and land reptile bones, fossilized plants and warm-water marine animals, that the North American Arctic had a tropical to warm climate until perhaps fifty million years ago.

BRUCE W. KNIGHT, Professor Emeritus of Economics, was the author of "The Case for Nixon" in a preelection debate printed by the St.Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday, October 23. The other side, "The Case for Kennedy," was written by Prof. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of Harvard. Following its St. Louis appearance, Professor Knight's article was reprinted by other newspapers.

Faculty and Friends WhoContributed to the 1960 Fund

Faculty Gliddon, Gordon H. Kaney, Patrick1 Brown, Bancroft H. Friends Gould, Clayton F. Hayward, William H. Robbins, Mrs. Lewis M. Wade, Preston Special, Honorary andAdvanced Baker, George S. Bass, Robert P. Boyden, Frank L. Chamberlin, Roy B. Clark, Grenville Cobb, Howard L. Cone, John C. Cummings, Damon E. Dargan, Henry M. Durfee, Carroll A. Fitkin, Mrs. Glenn L., Jr. Goyer, Wilbur L. Grainger, Robert J. Gregg, Hugh Hirst, Edgar C. Imus, Henry A. Kim, Kye Chil Leung, S. Kamsham Lovett, A. Sidney Magnuson, James A. Malik, Charles H. Malin, Patrick M. Martin, Joseph W., Jr. Moorman, Harold N. Pace, Frank, Jr. Parr, James G. Saltonstall, William G. Scott, Frank A. Shumway, Franklin P.2 Speight, Harold E. B. Stam, Colin F. Stetson, Harlan T. Sulzberger, Arthur Hays Thompson, Benjamin, Jr. Thompson, Homer A. Thomson, Earl W. Zuckmayer, Carl MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:1 Dudley A. Wilson, Jr.'44.2 Son, Carl E.Shumway '13.

Allen B. Ballard Jr. is Visiting Lecturer in Government for the fall term. Graduate of Kenyon College in 1932, he is a specialist on Russia and has studied in Moscow as well as at Harvard and Bordeaux in Prance.