Six Professors Retiring in June Comment on Students of Today

Six prominent Dartmouth professors, whose teaching service here ranges from 31 to 42 years, will retire at the close of this academic year. On the next three pages appear their invited comments on the students of today and how they compare with those they have taught over the years. Following are capsule biographies of the men retiring.

JOSE M. ARCE, A.M. '41, Professor of Spanish, began his Dartmouth career 33 years ago when he came from Hunter College as instructor. A native of Costa Rica, he graduated from Columbia in 1922 and did graduate work there and in Spain and France. He has stimulated interest in Latin America in both his teaching and extracurricular activities and has worked for years to build up Baker Library's fine collection in that field. He was Chief of the Spanish Section of the U. S. State Department's Division of Language Services in 1948-49, and as a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua he holds one of Costa Rica's highest literary honors.

ALBERT L. DEMAREE. A.M. '41, Professor of History, has been at Dartmouth since 1927, specializing in American history, and is the author of The American Agricultural Press. After four years as a Navy ensign, he graduated from Dickinson College in 1923 and took his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia. He returned to the service in World War II, spent three years with the Navy Department in Washington, and was the author of Naval Orientation (1945), a book used by NROTC units throughout the country. He holds the rank of Commander and lectures frequently on U. S. sea power.

ARTEMAS PACKARD, A.M. '34, Professor of Art, Harvard graduate of 1915, came to Dartmouth as an English instructor in 1924 after a period as soldier, aviator and writer. He was named Assistant Professor of Art in 1928 and became professor in 1934. In addition to his articles and short stories, Professor Packard edited and contributed to The Visual Artsin General Education and Our ArtisticWorld and edited several other works, ineluding the nine-volume The Individualand the World. He has been closely associated with the Museum of Modern Art.

BENFIELD PRESSEY, A.M. '30, Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has been a member of the Dartmouth English Department since 1919, teaching not only freshman English but advanced courses in the drama, Shakespeare, poetry and composition. In the '30s he inaugurated one of the country's first motion-picture writing courses. Graduate of Trinity in 1915 and holder of Harvard's A.M., he with others or alone has prepared for publication 21 textbooks, mostly in the drama, and for 25 years he has written the article on American and British literature for The New International YearBook. Next year he will be Visiting Master in English at The Lawrenceville School, a post he held once before, in 1945-46.

JOHN B. STEARNS '16. Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1927 after teaching Greek and Latin at Alfred, Princeton and Yale. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton. In addition to teaching the classics he also has taught Art Department courses in ancient art and archaeology. Professor Stearns is associate editor of ClassicalJournal and for many years he was an annual professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Prominent in Hanover civic life, he is presently Town Moderator.

CHARLES W. SARGENT '15. A.M. '16, Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School, has taught accounting at the business school since 1930, when he came from the University of Pittsburgh to be assistant professor. The teaching of economics at the University of Michigan was interrupted by World War I military service, and he then engaged in accounting and auditing in industry for nine years before resuming teaching at Pittsburgh in 1928. A specialist in cost accounting, he is co-author of a book in that field and has edited or contributed to other volumes on accounting and business management.