Trustees Elect Five to Faculty Chairs

A member o£ the Dartmouth English Department since 1921, Professor McCallum is a specialist in early Victorian literature and is general editor of a six-volume anthology containing his translation of Beowulf and other Anglo- Saxon poems. He has written a biography of Eleazar Wheelock and edited another volume, Letters of Eleazar Wheelock's Indians. Three other books edited by him are The CollegeOmnibus, The Beginnings to 1500, and EssaysToward Truth. Professor McCallum received his A.B. degree from Columbia in 1914 and his M.A. the next year. He taught English at the University of Kansas and Princeton, where he got his Ph.D. in 1921, before coming to Dartmouth. His son, William L. McCallum, is a member of the Class of 1950. The Winkley Professorship he now fills dates from 1879.

Now in his 41st year of teaching at Dartmouth, Professor Pressey has given courses in composition and literature, but the drama, and especially that of the western world from Ibsen to the present, has been his chief interest. After a preparatory period in Hollywood in 1938-39, he inaugurated one of the first college courses in writing for the movies. He was an associate editor of Essays Toward Truth, and with Prof. E. B. Watson '02, since 1927 he has edited thirteen volumes of Contemporary Drama for Scribner's. Currently he is working on an extensive bibliographical work on the drama. Professor Pressey is a graduate of Trinity (1915) and the holder of a Harvard M.A. He taught one year at M.I.T. and served with the Marines, 1917-19, before coming to Dartmouth. James C. Pressey '50 is his son. The chair he fills dates from 1865.

Professor Wolfenden came to Dartmouth in 1947 from Oxford University, where he was chairman of the sub-faculty of chemistry. During World War II he had been in this country as principal scientific officer for the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1922, he also holds M.A. degrees from Oxford and Princeton, where he filled a visiting lectureship. Professor Wolfenden is the author of some thirty scientific papers in physical chemistry and also of a textbook, Problems in AdvancedPhysical Chemistry. He has served as chairman of both the Department of Chemistry and the Division of the Sciences, and had a leading part in planning the present three-term, three- course curriculum. The New Hampshire Professorship he now holds was established in 1888.

A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1940, Professor Gramlich is presently chairman of the Department of Philosophy and of the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy. The courses he is teaching this year include Twentieth Century Philosophy and The Philosophy of Human Nature, and he has also been a member of the inter-departmental staff teaching the course in Human Relations. A graduate of Princeton in 1933, he continued his studies there and received his M.A. in 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1936. Before coming to Dartmouth he was Professor of Clinical Psychology at Canisius College in Buffalo. Author of many articles for professional journals, Professor Gramlich is co-editor of the book Philosophic Problems, which is used as a textbook in many colleges. The Stone Professorship dates from 1879.

Currently chairman of the Department of Physics and president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Professor Sears came to Dartmouth as Visiting Professor in 1955. He had been professor at where he received his B.S. degree in 1921 and M.S. in 1924, and where he had spent his whole teaching career. He is co-author of College Physics and University Physics, two of the most widely used physics texts in the world. He also has written Optics,Electricity and Magnetism, and Mechanics,Heat and Sound, and is the co-author of Thermodynamics. During World War II Professor Sears headed the physics department of the U. S. Army University at Shrivenham, England. With National Science Foundation backing, he now heads a program to improve college physics teaching. The chair he fills dates from 1845.

JAMES DOW MCCALLUMWINKLEY PROFESSOR OF THE ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

WILLIAM BENFIELD PRESSEYWILLARD PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ORATORY

JOHN HULTON WOLFENDENNEW HAMPSHIRE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

FRANCIS WILLIAM GRAMLICHSTONE PROFESSOR OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY

FRANCIS WESTON SEARSAPPLETON PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS