THE FACULTY

TWENTY-THREE faculty members have been promoted in rank, effective September 1. They include three professors, eight associate professors, and twelve assistant professors. The faculty members and their new ranks are: Harold L. Bond '42, Professor of English; Elias L. Rivers, Professor of Romance Languages; Harry T. Schultz '37, Professor of English; Hannah T. Croasdale, Research Associate with the rank of Associate Professor of Zoology; Robert Decker, Associate Professor of Geology; Norman A. Doenges, Associate Professor of the Classics; William T. Doyle, Associate Professor of Physics; Severn P. C. Duvall Jr., Associate Professor of English; William T. Jackson, Associate Professor of Botany; Robert Z. Norman, Associate Professor of Mathematics; Martin Segal, Associate Professor of Economics; Samir N. Anabtawi, Assistant Professor of Government; Pierre A. G. Astier, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages; William R. Crawford, Assistant Professor of English; Gerald J. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of English; Philip L. Handler, Assistant Professor of English; Martin Meisel, Assistant Professor of English; Edwin Noel Perrin, Assistant Professor of English; Thomas B. Roos, Assistant Professor of Zoology; Robert H. Russell, Assist ant Professor of Romance Languages; Robert G. Selim, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Alfred F. Whiting, Curator of Anthropology with the rank of Assistant Professor; and Brian F. Wilkie, Assistant Professor of English.

WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of ChiW nese Culture and Philosophy, attended the second annual meeting of the American Society for the Study of Religion in New York. The society was founded by a group of forty people from the United States and Canada, including Professor Chan, who were asked by the American Council of Learned Societies to consider how America could catch up with Europe in the study of religion. Four scholars from England, India, and Japan also attended the meeting as guests. The society is a member of the International Congress of the History of Religion and will act as host for the Congress meeting at Claremont, California, in 1965.

Two faculty members have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for next year. Dr. Lawrence E. Harvey, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, will study the writings of Samuel Beckett; and Dr. Leon A. Henkin, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, will study models of the, simple theory of types. The grants are awarded to assist the Fellows to further accomplishment in their fields through studies they have themselves proposed.

PROFESSOR of Geology Andrew H. McNair is one of twenty Americans selected to take part in the First International Geological Field Institute in Great Britain this summer. Together with representatives from twenty other countries, the group will study selected geological areas under the leadership of British geologists who have become specialists in research on classic groups of rocks and geological formations. The institute was organized by the American Geological Institute to give geologists first-hand experience with the rock strata in Great Britain which represent every period in geological history. Professor McNair says the experience will be particularly helpful in his work on the stratigraphy and geologic structure of the Canadian Arctic Islands, where he has spent the past two summers.

PROFESSOR of Anthropology Elmer Harp Jr. has been named Director of the Dartmouth College Museum starting in September. He succeeds W. Wedgewood Bowen, Professor of Zoology, who will continue as Curator of Zoology in the Museum, devoting full time to teaching and research. Professor Bowen is studying the distributional and evolutionary problems of various small mammals, particularly evolutionary problems leading to speciation in certain beach mice of the Gulf Coast. Professor Bowen has been at Dartmouth since 1934 and Director of the Museum since 1946.

In accepting the post Professor Harp said that the Museum's role as an educational resource would be emphasized. In the coming year, for example, the full teaching and research activities in anthropology will be consolidated in the Museum, and other departments are expected to make increasing use of its resources. Professor Harp came to Dartmouth in 1946 as Assistant Curator of Anthropology. He was named Curator of Anthropology in 1949 and has been a member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology since 1951.

THE Explorers Club of New York honored Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson at a special dinner at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at the end of April. Lowell Thomas was chairman of the dinner which also honored former President Herbert Hoover and Rear Admiral Donald MacMillan, explorer and leader of many arctic expeditions from 1908 to 1950.

Dr. Stefansson is a past president of the Explorers Club, a scientific and educational institution that actively supports exploration. He led several expeditions to the Arctic from 1904 to 1918 and has devoted his life since then to studying, writing, and lecturing about the future of the far north. He has been Arctic Consultant at Dartmouth since 1947.

PROFESSOR Robert E. Huke '48, chairman of the Department of Geography, will leave June 12 for Burma where he has a climate research project under way. During the summer of 1960 he visited Burma to train eleven weather observers and to set up appropriate recording stations. Existing data for Burma are concerned with the plains areas and population centers while the mountain regions and more remote parts of the country have not been studied in detail. Professor Huke's project is designed to fill in some of these gaps and will result in a monograph on Burma's climate. The work is being supported by a research grant from Indiana University.

MICHEL BENAMOU, Assistant Professor of French, attended a conference held recently on the application of linguistics to the teaching of languages, organized by the United States Office of Education. The conference was held in Washington for the faculty of Institutes for Teachers of Foreign Languages to be set up next summer. Professor Benamou will teach applied linguistics at the Colorado Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

AT the end of April and for the first week in May a one-man show featuring 24 paintings by Richard Wagner, chairman of the Art Department, was held at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. The collection represented "landscape moods of northern New England." Professor Wagner has had 22 one-man shows. His work has been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy; Museum of Modern Art; Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio; Madison Square Garden; Boston Arts Festival; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Annual American Graphic Arts and Drawing Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas; Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, and other art centers.

A NUMBER of faculty members have participated recently in academic functions of importance outside of Hanover. Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theatre Henry B. Williams lectured in early May at the Yale Drama School on "From Kagura to Kabuki - Japanese Theatre, 1960." Professor Elmer Harp Jr. of the Sociology Department participated in a symposium on Eskimo Archaeology at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held at Ohio State. Professors H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 and Gresham Sykes, also of the Sociology Department, took part in round-table discussions on "Urbanization and Suburbanization" at the Eastern SociologicaSociety meetings in New York. Professor Eldredge is Chairman of Dartmouth's City Planning and Urban Studies Program. Professor Francis E. Merrill '26, vice president of the society, was invited to be a member of the panel discussing problems and prospects for sociology in foreign areas, but was unable to attend.

Professor Merrill is the author of two books being published this spring. Social Disorganization (Harper) is the fourth edition of a college textbook that he and Dr. Mabel A. Elliot of Chatham College have written about social problems such as juvenile delinquency, crime, alcoholism, and mental problems. The second book is Society and Culture (Prentice-Hall), now in its third edition as one of the foremost texts in introductory sociology. Professor Merrill was a Fulbright Lecturer at two universities in France during 1959-60.

THE College has received a special grant of $15,00 from the American Cancer Society's New Hampshire Division to support pilot cancer-research projects proposed by faculty members of the Dartmouth Medical School and science departments of the College. The grant is part of a nationwide program to test promising new ideas to see if they merit full-scale development in the drive to eliminate cancer. Similar grants have been made to 73 other institutions under the American Cancer Society's Institutional Research Program.

A committee headed by Dr. R. Clinton Fuller, chairman of the Department of Microbiology, will administer Dartmouth's institutional grant. Other members of the committee are Dr. Shinya Inoue, chairman of the Department of Cytology and Anatomy; Dr. Peter von Hippel, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; and Professor Walter H. Stockmayer, Professor of Chemistry. They will screen applications from faculty members and budget funds for approved projects. Dr. Fuller said the pilot research program spans all the scientific fields which contribute to the basic understanding of cancer.

ASSOCIATE Professor Robert W. Christy of the Physics Department is the recipient of a $24,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his study of "Optical and Electrical Properties of lonic Crystals." Professor Christy's project, which he began five years ago, is expected to help shed further light on the mechanical and electrical properties of solids. Professor Christy explained that ionic crystals have always been important in the study of solids because their structures can be largely understood in terms of simple electrostatic forces between ions.

DR. GRESHAM SYKES, criminologist and Professor of Sociology, is teaching a five-week advanced training course for officers at the Vermont State Prison in Windsor. Some 35 prison officers are enrolled. The course, which opened April 4, consists of five lectures and discussion periods. Professor Sykes, who joined the Dartmouth faculty last fall, has been adviser to the governor's Committee on Prisons in New Jersey and served on the Board of Advisers to the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. He also taught at the Moran Institute, a summer school for law officers in New York State. He is the author of Society of Captives, published in 1958 by the Princeton University Press. Before coming to Dartmouth, Professor Sykes taught sociology at Princeton and Northwestern University and was visiting lecturer at Columbia and the University of California at Los Angeles.

PROFESSOR Herluf V. Olsen '22 of the Tuck School will take part in a three-year program sponsored by the National Council of Churches to consider the ethical implications of rapid economic change in this country. He has been appointed to one of six study commissions opening the program this spring. His group will study the impact of technology on work, employment and labor-management relations. The commissions will report their findings at the Fourth National Study Conference on the Church and Economic Life scheduled for November 1962. The National Council plans a church-wide program for local congregations in 1963-64. Some 400 persons, predominantly laymen, have been appointed to the study groups. Other aspects of the larger problem to be considered include the family and patterns of community behavior, the consumer's responsibility, economic power, and changes needed for the American economy to carry out its responsibilities in relation to the world economy.

FATHER THEODORE V. PURCELL, S.J. '33, Visiting Lecturer on the Tucker Foundation, was invited to address the New York Personnel Management Association in mid-April. His subject was "Ethics and the Personnel Man."