THE FACULTY
PROFESSOR of English Thomas Vance is the author of a book of poetry which will be published in April by the University of North Carolina Press. Titled Skeleton of Light, the book contains poems written by Professor Vance over the past several years. Professor Vance teaches a course in contemporary British and American poetry, and some of his own poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker and the Hudson Review. He took his Ph.D. degree at Yale, and for a number of years has been at work on a book-length study of Dante, Shelley and T. S. Eliot.
MANY Dartmouth alumni will remember Lewis Mumford who was for a number of years Visiting Lecturer with the Art Department. Queen Elizabeth II has recently awarded him the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture on the recommendation of the Royal Institute of British Architects. A leading social historian and critic, Mr. Mumford is the eighth American to receive the award. It was given to him in recognition of his services to town planning and architecture through his numerous writings. His latest book, The City in History: ItsOrigins, Its Transformations, Its Pros-pects, is to be published this year. Mr. Mumford plans to be in England in June to receive the award.
THE valuable services of the American Universities Field Staff continued to be made available to Dartmouth through the recent visit of Dr. Louis Dupree, an authority on Soviet Asia. Dr. Dupree was available for a week to students and faculty for consultation and gave one public lecture in addition to assisting at seminars and classes related to his field. An anthropologist and a specialist on Afghanistan, Dr. Dupree visited Central Asia in 1959 during an American Universities Field Service assignment to Afghanistan. He first visited that country in 1949 and returned in 1950-51 as an anthropologist for the American Museum of Natural History. He was elected a research associate for the museum in 1959. Currently he is on leave from Pennsylvania State University where he is Associate Professor of Anthropology. He graduated from Harvard in 1950 and took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there in 1953 and 1954.
PROFESSOR Henry B. Williams of the English Department who is Director of the Experimental Theatre recently attended the annual meetings of the American National Theatre and Academy in New York. At these meetings Professor Williams was reelected for a three-year term to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of ANTA.
DR. Barry N. Floyd of the Geography Department was the featured speaker at the opening seminar of the annual alumni reunion of The Experiment in International Living held recently at the organization's national headquarters in Putney, Vermont.
DR. John G. Kemeny, chairman of the Mathematics Department, was one of three New Hampshire men to be named Outstanding Young Men of the Year by the state's Junior Chamber of Commerce. At ceremonies recently, Dr. Kemeny, Edward J. Abbott, chairman of the Portsmouth Housing Authority, and Leo Lesieur, Nashua City Solicitor, were presented with plaques by the state organization.
THE Governor's Council of New Hampshire recently approved Governor Powell's nomination of Professor of Psychology Chauncey N. Allen '24 to the Board of Examiners of Psychologists for the state. Professor Allen succeeds Professor Albert H. Hastorf.
ASSOCIATE Professor of Economics Colin B. Campbell was named a Director at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Dartmouth National Bank. Dr. Campbell was graduated from Harvard, and received an A.M. from the University of lowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has had experience as an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Campbell also was associated with the Statistical Department in the Government Finance Section and is the author of several articles published in economic journals.
FREQUENTLY talks by faculty members and their associates to local civic and business groups are of more than local interest and touch upon matters of wide concern to alumni. Two such talks were given recently in Hanover, one by Dr. Robert J. Weiss, Professor of Psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School, speaking before the Hanover Rotary Club, and the other by Professor of English Albert Kitzhaber to the Hanover P.T.A. A strong plea for an expansion of outpatient treatment of the mentally ill was made by Dr. Weiss, who discussed the wasteful and harmful effects on the patient and society of separating the mentally ill in old-fashioned asylums. "Fortunately, no longer are the monstrous mass asylums being built," he said. He told the group that even highly disturbed mental patients are now being treated at the hospital here in Hanover as regular patients and without special restraints. "The new building here in Hanover for psychiatric out-patients is a significant step in expanding the care of the mentally ill in this area," he said. "It has been made possible by generous contributions from individuals and organizations within the community."
Dr. Kitzhaber, who is at present conducting an exhaustive study of student writing at Dartmouth, was recently the director of a comprehensive examination of the Portland, Oregon, high schools. The final report of Dr. Kitzhaher's group will soon be published by the Ronald Press under the title Education for College. Speaking before the Hanover P.T.A., he outlined some of the challenging recommendations made by his study group to the Portland school system, several of which are now being put into effect. "The intellectual development of the student should be the prime concern of the modern high school. The schools should no longer be held mainly responsible for the student's social and emotional growth," he said. "The high schools should have as their central aim the imparting of subject matters such as history, science and math instead of the more abstract goals—the teaching of democracy, critical thinking, and social adjustment." Professor Kitzhaber was also critical of what is known as "whole child education" which his study group found in conflict with sound college preparatory work. He pointed out that the trend toward teaching health, morals, social adjustment, and good citizenship, while "noble in aim" had resulted in an unfortunate deemphasis on classic studies. Dartmouth alumni, and there are many of them who are members of school boards or who have children in or approaching high school, should find some highly stimulating and valu- able reading in Education for College, which will be published in March.
