THE FACULTY

THE initial grants under the College's new Faculty Fellowship program, made possible partly through Alumni Fund contributions, have gone to four faculty members: Harold L. Bond '42, Professor of English; Michel Benamou, Assistant Professor of French; Richard H. Crowell, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; and Timothy J. Duggan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

The program allows selected faculty members to devote a full, uninterrupted year solely to research and other scholarly and creative activities. Recipients receive their regular compensation and up to $2500 for travel and other expenses related to their work. The fellowships were conceived to give the faculty's teacher-scholars - especially the younger ones - time to initiate or further pursue promising research projects. The fellowships supplement the College's regular sabbatical leaves and such outside awards as those of the Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, and other fellowship programs.

Professor Bond travels to England to complete work on a critical biography of Edward Gibbon, author of The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire. Professor Benamou goes to France to work with contemporary writers in developing a critical theory of surrealistic poetry. Professor Crowell will spend much of his year continuing his studies and research in topology at Princeton. Professor Duggan goes to Edinburgh, Scotland, to do research on Thomas Reid, the Scottish philosopher.

NEW honors were conferred on several faculty members this summer.

Dean of the Faculty Arthur E. Jensen received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree at Long Island University's commencement exercises. He also delivered the keynote lecture at Davidson College's equivalent of Hanover Holiday.

John H. Wolfenden, New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at its 181st annual meeting in Boston. He is one of 1300 American members of the academy founded in 1780 to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people."

Prof. Richard H. Goddard '20, Director of Shattuck Observatory, received a U.S. Department of Commerce Service Award for his long service and for the College's "extremely important" contributions to weather observations for more than a century. Robert E. Lautzenheiser of Boston, state climatologist, presented the award and said that Dartmouth's weather records dating back to 1834 have been especially useful for studying climatic changes because its site has remained unchanged. Many other U.S. stations have changed location frequently. Professor Goddard has directed the weather-observation program since 1933.

Prof. Francis W. Sears, Appleton Professor of Physics, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at commencement exercises at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia.

Six research grants totaling $166,391 to College and Medical School faculty members have been announced recently. Two zoologists, a chemist, a physicist, an anthropologist, and a pathologist received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Foundation.

Prof. William W. Ballard '2B received $39,200 from the NSF for a project entitled "Morphogenetic Movements in Fish Embryos." He will attempt to trace how apparently identical embryonic cells shift, stretch, and move to become the fishes' muscle, nerve or kidney cells. He expects to chart the movements and develop a "fate map" that will show the ultimate destiny of cells in different areas.

David S. Dennison, Assistant Professor of Zoology, is investigating how growing plants respond to gravity and the effect light has on this response. His $47,900 NSF grant will allow him to advance the work started two years ago.

Robert W. Christy, Associate Professor of Physics, has a new $24,000 NSF grant to continue his studies of the optical and electric properties of ionic crystals. He has found that certain crystals do not behave as they theoretically should when subjected to X-rays. The work is expected to help physicists understand why and, because crystals' molecular structures can be charted in terms of simple electrostatic forces between ions, to shed further light on all solid-state physics.

The National Institutes of Health have awarded $23,825 to Thomas A. Spencer Jr., Instructor in Chemistry, for a project entitled "New Approaches to the Synthesis of Terpenes." He hopes to find a way to synthesize isopimaric acid so that the molecular structure can be studied.

Gordon Day, Research Associate in Anthropology, received $11,600 from the NAF to continue his studies of the language and culture of the Abenaki Indians. Dr. Day has collected considerable data about this vanishing Indian culture and his grant will allow him to analyze his findings.

Dr. Kurt Beriirschke, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, has a new $19,866 March of Dimes grant from the National Foundation to study a medical contradiction. The known laws of immunology say that the body rejects foreign tissues, yet placental cells in a pregnant mother, which have all the characteristics of a "graft," live in peace with the mother's tissues. Pregnant armadillos will be involved in the research.

A BOOK of poems, Skeleton of Light, by Prof. Thomas H. Vance of the English Department was published last month by the University of North Carolina Press. Distilled from the work of years, the volume is Professor Vance's first book of poems. Some have appeared previously in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Poetry, and The Yale Review. Professor Vance is now preparing a critical volume on Dante, Shelley and Eliot. He served as a naval officer in World War II and has taught at the Salzburg Seminar and at the University of Munich. Two medieval ballads in the poetry collection reflect his avocation of rendering Swedish poetry into English. He is aided in this by his wife who was born and educated in Stockholm.

FORTY-EIGHT new members have joined the College's faculty this fall, one with the rank of full professor. The latter is Henry W. Ehrmann, a political scientist from the University of Colorado. Professor Ehrmann has specialized in comparative politics, international relations, and jurisprudence of European interest groups and political parties. He was born in Germany, studied at the Universities of Berlin and Freiburg, and worked in Amsterdam and Paris as an associate of the International Institute of Social History. He came to the New School of Social Research in New York in 1940 and served as a consultant for the Office of War Information and the War Department during World War 11. He has been at Colorado since 1947.

Other new appointments are listed by departments.

ART: Robert J. Poor, A.8., M.A. Boston University, Ph.D. candidate, U. of Chicago, Instructor.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: Hinrich Harries, M.S., Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers, Part-time Instructor. Sadaaki Koizumi, 8.5., Ph.D. Tohoku University, Research Associate. Gene E. Likens, B.S. Manchester College,

M.S. Wisconsin, taught at Wisconsin, Instructor. Walter N. Strickland, B.Sc. University of Natal, Ph.D. U. of Glasgow, taught at Glasgow, Stanford, Research Associate.

CHEMISTRY: John E. Hearst, B.E. Yale, Ph.D. candidate California Institute of Technology, taught at C.I.T., Research Associ- ate.

ECONOMICS: Howard R. Bloch, A.B. Duke, A.M., Ph.D. candidate Princeton, Instructor. David B. Mirza, B.A. Earlham College, M.A. Northwestern, taught at Northwestern, Instructor. Kenneth J. Rothwell, 8.A., M.A. Western Australia, Ph.D. Harvard, taught at Harvard and Bucknell, Visiting Assistant Professor.

ENGLISH: Peter A. Bien, B.A. Haverford, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia, taught at Cultural Institute, Salonika, Greece, and Columbia, Instructor. John H. Chandler, A.B. U.C.L.A., B.D. Chicago, Instructor. Louis L. Cornell, A.8., M.A. Columbia, Instructor. Chauncey C. Loomis, A.B. Princeton, A.M. Columbia, taught at Vermont, Princeton, Instructor.

GEOGRAPHY: Gordon J. Fielding, B.A., M.A. Auckland, Ph.D. U.C.L.A., taught at U.C.L.A., Instructor. Alvin W. Urquhart, A.8., A.M., Ph.D. California (Berkeley), taught at Oregon, Instructor. Donald F. Lynch, 8.A., Ph.D. candidate Yale, taught at Helsinki, Assistant Professor.

GEOLOGY: Noye M. Johnson, B.S. Kansas, M.S., Ph.D. Wisconsin, taught at Wisconsin, Assistant Professor.

GERMAN: John W. Barthel, B.S., Ph.D. candidate Illinois, taught at Illinois, Instructor. Sammy K. McLean, A.B. Oklahoma, M.A., Ph.D. candidate Michigan, Fulbright Scholar, University of Wuerzburg, taught at Michigan, Instructor.

GOVERNMENT: George M. Belknap, M.A., Ph.D. Chicago, taught at Michigan State, California (Berkeley), Johns Hopkins, Visiting Associate Professor.

GREAT ISSUES: B. Vincent Davis Jr., B.A. Vanderbilt, M.P.A. Woodrow Wilson School, M.A., Ph.D. candidate Princeton, taught at Princeton, Instructor. Chong-Sik Lee, 8.A., M.A. U.C.L.A., Ph.D. California (Berkeley), taught at Berkeley, Colorado, Instructor. Charles T. Morrissey, B.A. Dartmouth, M.A., Ph.D. candidate California (Berkeley), Instructor.

HISTORY: Charles L. Hamilton, B.A. Hendrix College, B.A. Oxford, Ph.D. Cornell, Assistant Professor at University of Mississippi, Visiting Assistant Professor. Robert G. Landen, A.B. William & Mary, M.A. Michigan, M.A., Ph.D. Princeton, taught at Ball State College and Michigan, Assistant Professor.

MATHEMATICS: Eugene Albert, B.A., M.A. Brooklyn College, Ph.D. Virginia, taught at Union College and Virginia, Research Instructor. John W. Lamperti, S.B. Haverford, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor at Stanford, Visiting Assistant Professor. Donald R. Ostberg, A.B. Columbia, M.A., Ph.D. California (Berkeley), taught at Rutgers, Research Instructor.

NAVAL SCIENCE: Lt. Charles S. Besterman, B.S.F.S. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Assistant Professor.

PHILOSOPHY: K. Danner Clouser, A.B. Gettysburg, B.D. Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, M.A., Ph.D. Harvard, taught at Harvard, Instructor. William M. Ruddick, A.B. Princeton, B.A., M.A. candidate Oxford, taught at Harvard, Instructor.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Ronald L. Keenhold, B.S. Lehigh, taught at M.I.T., Associate. Ferdinand A. Geiger, B.A. Syracuse, Associate.

PHYSICS: Elisha R. Huggins, B.S. M.I.T., Ph.D. candidate California Institute of Technology, taught at C.1.T., Research Instructor. Mark W. Zemansky, B.S. City College of New York, A.M., Ph.D. Columbia, Professor at City College, Visiting Professor.

PSYCHOLOGY: W. L. Gulick, A.B. Hamilton, M.A. Delaware, Ph.D. Princeton, Associate Professor at Delaware, Visiting Associate Professor. David Marlowe, B.A., M.A. City College of New York, Ph.D. Ohio State, taught at Ohio State and Kentucky Medical School, Assistant Professor.

RELIGION: David H. Kelsey, A.B. Haverford, B.D. Yale Divinity School, M.A. Yale, taught at Yale Divinity School, Instructor.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES: George H. Bauer, A.B. Colorado, A.M. Indiana, Fulbright Scholar, Université de Grenoble, France, taught at Indiana, Instructor. Douglas A. Bonneville, B.A. Wesleyan, M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State, taught at Kenyon and Ohio State, Instructor. Jacqueline Boulon, degrees taken at Caen, France, and Paris, Professor au Lycée Pasteur, Besancon (Doubs), Visiting Lecturer. Colette Gaudin, degrees taken at Ecole Normale Superieure, Sorbonne, taught at College de St. lulien, France, and College Marie de France, Montreal, Lecturer. Thomas C. Meehan, B.A., M.A. Wayne, taught at Michigan, Instructor.

RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION: Peter Jarotski, B.S. Mikhaylovsk Artillery School, St. Petersburg, Russia, Instructor.

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY: Robert A. Dentler, B.S., M.A. Northwestern, M.A. American University, Ph.D. Chicago, taught at Dickinson and Kansas, Assistant Professor. Phillips Cutright, B.A. College of Wooster, Ph.D. Chicago, taught at Chicago, Roosevelt, and Washington State, Assistant Professor. Robert Sokol, B.A. Long Island, Ph.D. Columbia, taught at Boston University and Tufts, Assistant Professor.

TUCK SCHOOL: Arthur B. Moss, B.A. North Carolina, M.A. Columbia, Ph.D. Harvard. Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Associate Professor.

J. Peter Williamson, B.A. Toronto, M.B.A. Harvard, LL.B. Harvard. Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Associate Professor.

W. Robert Stevenson, B.A. Johns Hopkins, M.A. Wharton School, Edward A. Filene Memorial Fund Fellow at Tuck. Assistant Professor.

THAYER SCHOOL: N. D. Clarence, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. University of Natal, South Africa. Studies at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Chairman of Physics Department, U. of Natal. Visiting Professor of Engineering Science for fall term.

Thomas Laaspere, B.A. University of Vermont, M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell. Research Associate at Cornell. Assistant Professor.

Peter P. Gillis, B.A., Ph.D. candidate, Brown. Instructor in Engineering Science.

AMONG many out-of-this-world (both - literally and figuratively) summer assignments undertaken by faculty members have been Professor Millett G. Morgan's work at the University of Illinois and Professor Wing-tsit Chan's at the University of Hawaii. Professor Morgan advised the Department of Electrical Engineering under a Ford Foundation grant for engineering-faculty improvement. He discussed his ionospheric research with university faculty members who have recently begun studies of signals from extraterrestrial sources such as radio stars, satellites, and radar echoes from the moon. Professor Chan taught Chinese philosophy and contemporary Asian thought at Hawaii's famous summer session which enrolls some 8,000 students, many of them from the mainland.

THE History Department's fourth Faculty Seminar featured the discussion of Prof. John G. Gazley's forthcoming biography of Arthur Young. David Owen, Harvard history professor, was visiting commentator. Earlier seminars were devoted to papers by Profs. John C. Adams, on continuity in Russian foreign policy; Louis Morton, on American relations with Russia in the Pacific during World War II; and David Roberts, on the Victorian Poor Law. Visiting critics who participated included Profs. Robert K. Webb of Columbia and Ernest May of Harvard.

PROF. Frank G. Ryder of the German Department was one of a group of American professors and administrators who visited German universities and cultural institutions for a month this summer. Their visit was sponsored by the Foreign Office (Cultural Division) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Included in the tour were Bonn, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt.

A FORMER faculty member, Arthur O. Davidson, Professor of Education from 1948 to 1954, is the new president of Wagner College on Staten Island, N. Y. He had been vice-president of Luther College, Decorah, lowa, since 1954 where he headed a broad planning program that influenced developments in all seven colleges of the former Evangelical Lutheran Church, now part of the recently merged American Lutheran Church.

Prof. Richard H. Goddard '20 (I), honored for his long observatory service(see column 3), with officials of the U.S.Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau.

Prof. Thomas H. Vance of the EnglishDepartment, whose first book of poems,"Skeleton of Light," was published lastmonth by the North Carolina Press.