THE FACULTY

1 EAVES of absence have taken three faculty members abroad this year. Prof. Van English of the Geography Department left in late October for South America. He will travel up the Amazon River to its origins in the Andes Mountains, then south to Chile and back across the Andes to Argentina. He will then travel to Uruguay and Brazil. Professor English's special field of interest is Latin America and he expects to gather firsthand information on many aspects of its economics and geography.

F. David Roberts, Assistant Professor of History, is spending the year in England to further his study of "The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians" which he hopes to have published as a book. He will use the resources of the British Museum and other libraries in Great Britain and plans to consult with British historians and others who are experts in the social and economic conditions of Victorian England. He received a grant from the Social Science Research Council to aid this study.

Basil Milovsoroff, Assistant Professor of Russian Civilization, will spend his year's leave in England and perhaps in Russia to collect materials and study other language-teaching methods. In England he will visit Oxford and the University of London, both of which have strong Slavic-studies programs, to observe their methods of teaching the Russian language and literature. In Russia he hopes to collect printed visual aids used in Russian schools to teach Russian to non-Russians and other materials that may help Dartmouth's Russian studies program.

Six new faces, including a husband and wife, have joined the Medical School faculty since June.

Two new associate professors are Dr. Lawrence Kilham and Dr. Virgil H. Ferm. Dr. Kilham took his 8.5., M.A., and M.D. degrees at Harvard, and served in the Army Medical Corps in World War 11. He was an Instructor in Epidemiology at Harvard from 1946 to 1949 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, the Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, East Africa, and at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. He was with the NlH's Division of Biologic Standards before coming to Hanover as Associate Professor of Microbiology.

Dr. Ferm received his B.A. from Wooster, his M.D. from Western Reserve, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Wisconsin. He served in the Army M. dical Corps and taught and did research at Wisconsin, Indiana, and Florida before coming to Dartmouth as Associate Professor of Pathology.

Dr. Robert Sokol, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of Socio ogy. He received his A.B. at Long Island University, did graduate work at Princeton, and won his Ph.D. at Columbia. He taught at Boston University and Tufts and was a research assistant at Harvard. Last year he was a Research Associate with the National Institute of Mental Health.

Michael and Valerie Anne Gal ton joined the faculty as Instructors in Pathology and Physiology respectively. Mr. Galton received his B.Sc., M.B. and B.S. from the University of London. He came to the United States as a Research Fellow in Obstetrics and in Pathology at Harvard. Mrs. Galton received her B.Sc. with honors and her Ph.D. at the University of London. She was a research associate at Harvard and the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory from 1959 to 1961.

Richard H. Rech, who is an Instructor in Pharmacology, took his B.S. at Rutgers and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Michigan. He was a U. S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellow in Utah from 1959 to 1961.

HANNAH T. CROASDALE, Associate Professor of Zoology, has been awarded $21,400 by the National Science Foundation for a two-year study of Alaskan algae. She hopes to identify and classify various desmids, primitive forms of plant life, and eventually publish a complete reference book on the subject. Professor Croasdale said that Alaskan desmids are especially interesting because vast areas of the new state were not covered by glaciers in the Ice Age and may have many species that exist only as fossils elsewhere. The study is expected to provide further clues to early conditions in the area.

She began her current research while on an expedition to Alaska ten years ago and has published articles that added about 300 species to scientific records.

PROF. Francis E. Merrill '26 of the Sociology Department was one of fifty leading social scientists and life insurance executives who participated in discussions of "The Changing American Population" at Arden House, Harriman, N. Y., early in October. The conference was sponsored by the Columbia University School of Business and the Institute of Life Insurance.

Another sociologist, Prof. Gresham Sykes, was one of eight social scientists asked by the American Council of Learned Societies to study the teaching of the social sciences in high schools and to recommend curriculum revisions. In addition he was chairman of a workshop on urbanism and suburbanism at a meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.

RICHARD EBERHART '26, who returns this year to be Professor of English and Poet in Residence after two years as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, was featured at the Second Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival last month. He gave one of the Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lectures and delivered one of the Bollingen Poetry Readings.

LOYD H. STRICKLAND, Assistant ProJ fessor of Psychology, has received a $2,225 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a form of human behavior known as the "Rebecca Myth." This phenomenon, named for the idealized first wife in the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, concerns the tendency to idealize someone who has left or died and to find fault with his successor. Typical "Rebecca Myth" sentiments are "Nobody could fill his shoes" or "Miss Jones was the best teacher I ever had." Professor Strickland expects his findings to be relevant to problems in personal and working relationships that frequently develop when a close association between a superior and a subordinate is broken and a new association is substituted.

PROF. Walter H. Stockmayer of the Chemistry Department is one of nine professors chosen to teach in the 1961-62 science and engineering course series for staff members of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. He will teach a two-week course in the physical chemistry of polymers at the company's Research Center in Texas.

PROF. Millett G. Morgan, Director of Research at the Thayer School of Engineering, was in Europe and South America in September to attend an international scientific meeting and participate in an airborne research project. He attended the International Scientific Radio Union's Symposium on Satellite Communications in Paris the week of September 18-22. He is secretary of the Union's U.S.A. National Committee.

On September 24 Professor Morgan joined Dr. G. J. Gassmann on a flight to South America aboard a specially equipped Air Force plane. The plane carried ionospheric-sounding equipment with which they investigated the guiding of high frequency radio waves along the flux of the earth's magnetic field.

FOUR faculty members and four emeri- tus professors are among contributors to the 1961 Collier's Encyclopedia. Dimitri von Mohrenschildt, Professor of Russian Civilization, wrote the section on Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov, Russian dramatist and statesman; Maurice Harari of History was the author of the article on Lebanon; Prof. Arthur Wilson of the Government and Biography Departments contributed the article on the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714), and Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, wrote the articles on Buddhism and the Indian scholar Guatama, its founder.

Emeritus professors who contributed included Earl R. Sikes, on Economic Planning and the Cooperative Movement; E. Bradlee Watson 'O2 on English drama and related biographies, and W. Benfield Pressey, a multiple contributor on literary subjects. Professor-emeritus John H. Gerould '90, who died this summer, contributed articles on biology and on Sagitta, a transparent arrowworm.

Prof. Albert R. Kitzhaber (left) of theEnglish Department shown at Ann Arbor, where he headed one of the sectionsplanning college summer institutes forEnglish teachers, to be sponsored by theCollege Entrance Examination Board.