THE FACULTY
BENFIELD PRESSEY, Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has accepted an appointment as Visiting Master in English at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey next year. He will retire this June after 42 years on the Dartmouth faculty. He was chairman of the English Department in 1935-38 and has headed the College Film Program Committee since it was formed in 1959. He has taught courses in drama, Shakespeare, poetry, freshman English and advanced composition. In 1939 he launched a course in motion-picture writing, one of the first of its kind, after studying moviemaking on location in Hollywood for several months under Walter Wanger '15. Students in the course produced movies, from script-writing to actual filming and cutting.
Professor Pressey has been author or co-author of 21 textbooks, largely on drama, and has written many articles for periodicals, anthologies and reference works. For 25 years he contributed an article on American and British literature for The New International Year Book.
This will be Professor Pressey's second appointment at Lawrenceville. He previously was Visiting Master in English in 1945-46. The post of visiting master is designed to bring to Lawrenceville teachers with outstanding experience in their major fields of study.
DEAN of the Faculty Arthur E. Jensen took part in a conference on summer programs in higher education held recently at Columbia University. Representatives from 41 colleges and universities in the Northeast attended the conference, sponsored jointly by Dartmouth and six other schools. Dean Jensen was chairman of the afternoon session on "What Academic-Year Faculties and Students Expect of Summer Schools." The conference centered on the new trend toward providing summer study for students who wish to accelerate their undergraduate work or pack more preparation into the usual four-year span. Until recently summer schools were used primarily for making up courses missed or failed during the school year.
ARTIST Richard Wagner, chairman of the Art Department, was featured in a one-man exhibition at the Galleries National in Phoenix, Arizona, in March. Twenty-two Wagner paintings were shown in the two-week exhibition. Among the titles were "New Hampshire Bog," "Stone Fence in Winter," "Crosstown, Manhattan," "Desert Town," and "Cottonwood Canyon." The Phoenix collection includes several of Professor Wagner's paintings, but this was his first show at the galleries.
WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, was the guest of seven colleges in Pennsylvania and Maryland recently as a consultant on their Asian programs. He spoke at three convocations, held discussions with five faculty groups separately, and met with representatives of the seven colleges, including Gettysburg, Wilson and Hood in a joint conference. Professor Chan's visits were sponsored by the Asian Society of New York. Previously he had been to Denison University, lowa City College, Queens College and others as a consultant on Asian Studies Programs.
SYMPHONY music at Dartmouth has received an added stimulus this year through the appointment of Dr. Nathan Gottschalk '49 as conductor of the newly organized Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra. Violinist, conductor, and teacher, Dr. Gottschalk is assistant to the president, chairman of the string department and dean of the faculty at Hartt College of Music of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Dr. Gottschalk has served as assistant professor of violin and ensemble at Oberlin College in Ohio. In June 1956 he received the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts in the College of Music. He was the first recipient of the Albert Spalding Memorial Fellowship for string study at Boston University.
A native of Boston, Dr. Gottschalk has had as violin teachers Truls Lagerquist, Richard Burgin, Hugo Kortschalk, Albert Spalding, and Raphael Bronstein. He held a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, where he studied violin under Hans Letz and Felix Salmond. He received his Master of Music degree from Yale University. He was the founder of the new Manhattan String Quartet and has been a member of the Berkshire String Quartet, a member of the New Friends of Music Orchestra under Fritz Stiedry, the Chautauqua Symphony, and served as assistant concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. He is conductor of the Greenwood Music Camp Orchestra and co-director of the Hartt Symphony Orchestra.
Besides conducting the Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra this year, Dr. Gottschalk is serving as musical director and conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra in Greenfield, Mass., and as musical director of the Amherst Opera Company.
ROBERT W. DECKER, Assistant Professor of Geology, is back in Hanover this term after traveling 14,000 miles through twenty states and delivering 37 lectures as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He discussed the renewed activity on Anak Krakatau, a volcano in Indonesia, and the structural and petroleum geology of that country. The lectures were delivered before some 3,500 students in twenty universities and geologists of seventeen professional societies. Professor Decker recently spent eighteen months teaching at Bandung Institute of Technology and studying volcanic activity. During his stay he led a party of twelve geologists on an expedition sponsored by the Indonesian government to study Anak Krakatau. This island erupted from the sea in 1927 and intermittent activity since then has built a new island nearly a mile across and 500 feet high.
A MOUNTAIN and winter warfare instructor in the Dartmouth Army ROTC, Master Sergeant William R. Brown Jr., has been selected XIII U.S. Army Corps "Soldier of the Month" by a board of officers at Fort Devens, Mass. Major General William J. Verbeck, commanding general XIII Corps, made the award of $125 to Sergeant Brown in a ceremony at Corps headquarters recently. In addition Brown received an all-expense paid weekend trip to New York City the first week in April. Prior to his assignment at Dartmouth, Brown served as noncommissioned officer in charge of the Cold Weather Mountain School, Fort Greeley, Alaska. During the Korean conflict he was assigned to the 7th Infantry Division. During World War II he served with the 10th Mountain Division in the 1944 Italian Campaign.
WE record with deep regret the recent deaths of Elden Bennett Hartshorn '12, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, and of Norman Everett Gilbert '18h, Professor of Physics Emeritus. Both men were distinguished in their fields and have as tributes to their devoted teaching a large number of Dartmouth graduates who went on to professional careers in science.
