THE FACULTY
EIGHT new faculty members, including a new dean, have joined the Medical School's staff for the 1962-63 academic year. Five are professors, one a visiting professor, another is an assistant professor, and two are instructors. Three received their educations in Europe.
In addition to Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge, Dean and Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, they are:
Herbert L. Borison, Professor of Pharmacology, B.S. City College of New York, Ph.D. Columbia; Roderick K. Clayton, Visiting Professor of Microbiology, B.S. and Ph.D. California Institute of Technology; Melvin V. Simpson, American Cancer Society Professor of Biochemistry, B.S. City College of New York, Ph.D. California; Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi, Professor of Biophysics and Es- tablished Investigator, American Heart Association, M.D. University of Budapest; Dick Hoefnagel, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, M.D. University of Amsterdam, Holland; John T. Gatzy, Instructor in Pharmacology, B.S. Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. University of Rochester School of Medicine; and Miguel Marin-Padilla, Instructor in Pathology, B.S. equivalent and M.D. Granada University, Spain.
PROF. Almon B. Ives has taken a leave of absence from the Speech Department to serve as interim Associate Dean of the College. He is filling in for Charles F. Dey '52, who was granted a year's leave to work with the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Dean Dey's duties had included work with the various overseas programs. His wife, Phoebe, and two children are with him in Mindanao, southernmost and one of the most primitive of the islands.
PROF. Herbert W. Hill of the History Department has been appointed by President Kennedy to serve on the U. S. delegation to the 12th General Conference of UNESCO in Paris this fall. He also was recently named as one of seven Public members of the State Department's Foreign Service Officers Selection Board. The board met in Washington last month to review and consider promotions for Foreign Service officers.
THE publishers of The Encyclopedia ofPhilosophy have asked Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, to join their international editorial board. The ten-volume, 5,000,000-word reference work is to be published jointly by Collier's Encyclopedia, The Free Press of Glencoe, Ill., and the Macmillan Co. in 1964. Professor Chan is responsible for articles on Chinese philosophy and has been asked to write the 10,000-word general article on the subject. He will assign other individual articles and expects to write several others himself.
A THIRD edition of Botany, a familiar textbook to many Dartmouth undergraduates over the years and one that is among the most used in botany classes throughout the country, was published this summer by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. The authors, Prof. Carl L. Wilson of the College's Department of Biological Sciences and Prof. Walter E. Loomis of lowa State University, rewrote much of the text. The new edition includes results of recent research in the classical aspects of botany and new findings in sub-cellular structure and function.
PROF. John G. Kemeny, chairman of the Mathematics Department, was the principal speaker at James Bowdoin Day, Bowdoin College's annual scholarship convocation last month. The exercises inaugurate Bowdoin's Parents' Weekend and are sponsored annually by the Bowdoin Fathers Association. Professor Kemeny predicted that mathematics would virtually revolutionize work in the social sciences in the next fifty years.
AGERMAN-born artist, Friedel Dzubas, will be the first visiting artist in a new program inaugurated by the Art Department this year. Mr. Dzubas studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts before coming to America in 1939. His paintings are included in many public and private collections. The Visiting Artist Program will bring a professional painter, sculptor or other artist to the campus each term as part of the overall planning for the enlarged activities in the arts to be launched with the opening of the Hopkins Center.
THE College has been awarded a $37,000 National Science Foundation grant to establish a national center to supply researchers with a tiny parasitic wasp widely used in studying the genetic effects of radiation. George Saul II, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, who has been engaged in research with this particular insect for several years, is organizing and directing the center. More than 200 genetic strains of MormoniellaVitripennis will be available to scientists and teachers working in genetics.
Another grant provides support for a mathematical research program involving methods of classifying abstract mathematical problems. Donald L. Kreider, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is directing the program which is supported by a $17,500 grant from the National Science Foundation. The two-year project is entitled "Quasi-constructive Ordinal Number Classes and Associated Problems in Hierarchy Theory."
PROF. Albert S. Carlson of the Geography Department, who is also executive secretary of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region Association, was a panelist at the annual conference of the Northeastern Industrial Developers Association in New York. . . . Prof. James Sykes of the Music Department traveled to East Germany during the summer to examine and study a collection of the writings and musical manuscripts of Robert Schumann, 19th century German composer. He was the first Westerner to be allowed access to the collection since World War II.... Prof. Wayne Broehl Jr. taught at a six-week seminar in Argentina this summer. The subject, "Business and Society," was taught to Argentinian graduate students in economics and young businessmen. Clarence Walton, associate dean of Columbia's School of Business, and Professor Broehl taught in tandem. The seminar was under State Department auspices, and the University of Buenos Aires and Columbia University conducted the program jointly.
Carl L. Wilson (r), Professor of Botany,at the coffee hour for faculty and seniors after the Convocation exercises.
