THE FACULTY

THE Bollingen Prize in Poetry, one of this country's three major poetry awards, has been awarded jointly this year to Richard Eberhart '26, poet in residence and Professor of English at the College, and to John Hall Wheelock, a retired editor of Scribner's who now is a full-time poet. The $2,500 prize is awarded annually by the Yale University Library from a philanthropic trust created by Paul Mellon, Yale '29. It ranks with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award as one of the three top national prizes in poetry.

The award committee, headed by James T. Babb, Yale University librarian, said the award to Professor Eberhart was based on "many true poems and thirty years of vigorous imagination."

The prize was the latest of many honors to come to Professor Eberhart. He returned to the campus this fall from Washington where he was consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress for two years. He had succeeded another Dartmouth alumnus, Robert Frost '96.

Eberhart's 13th book is due to be published this summer by the North Carolina Press. His earlier books featured Eberhart the poet; this one features Eberhart the poetic dramatist. It is entitled Collected Verse Plays and contains the work he has done in this field in the past decade and an introductory essay on his methods of writing verse plays. One of the plays, "The Visionary Farms," was given its fourth production recently at the University of Cincinnati where Professor Eberhart delivered the Elliston Lectures.

PROF. GEORGE F. THERIAULT '33 of the Department of Sociology has been appointed the first Lincoln Filene Professor of Human Relations at Dartmouth. The newly created professorship is part of an enlarged program of instruction and research in human relations made possible by a $250,000 grant from the trustees of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation.

The Filene Endowment supports fackulty and student research projects in human relations, brings special lecturers to the campus, and supports conferences and publications in the human relations field.

As Lincoln Filene Professor, Mr. Theriault will direct the human relations course offered jointly by the Departments of Psychology and Sociology. He also teaches courses in race and minority relations and in the sociology of occupations and professions. Professor Theriault holds a doctoral degree from Harvard and has taught at Dartmouth since 1936.

DAVID C. NUTT '41 of the Geography Department has been elected to a second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Arctic Institute of North America. He had previously served as vice-chairman, treasurer, and chairman of the research committee.

The Institute promotes and supports polar research in the natural and social sciences. Its Board of Governors, composed of twelve Canadians and twelve Americans, determines and guides the Institute's policy. It is incorporated in the United States under the laws of New York and by Act of Parliament in Canada. Dartmouth has long been associated with the Institute. President Hopkins, Dean E. Gordon Bill and Trevor Lloyd were among its founders, and A. Lincoln Washburn '35 was its first executive director. Other Dartmouth men have served on its board and committees from time to time.

As the Institute's chairman, Comdr. Nutt traveled widely in the past year. He attended the Congress of the German Society for Polar Exploration in Munster and presented a paper on "Significance and Techniques in the Study of Gas Inclusions in Glacier Ice." He also participated in a joint Arctic Institute-Office of Naval Research review of arctic research facilities and programs that involved a trip to Thule and Camp Century and a special two-week Navy review flight to stations in Greenland, Arctic Canada, and Alaska in October.

THE chairman of the Department of Government, Prof. Laurence I. Rad-way, will spend the academie year 1962-1963 at Fort McNair near Washington as director of studies and a member of the faculty at the National War College. He was named to the post recently by the War College commandant. In addition to his administrative duties he will teach courses in national security affairs.

ANOTHER professor of government, Henry W. Ehrmann, has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship to France for next summer by the State Department. He will lecture on American politics at the Nice Seminar to a selected group of French graduate students. He will also serve as director of studies for the seminar which offers a curriculum in various problems of American politics and society. While there he will also lecture at the University of Aix-en-Provence's summer session.

The current issue of the French political-science journal, Revue Francaise deScience Politique, features an article by Professor Ehrmann on the relationship between interest groups and the bureaucracy of various Western democracies.

Professor Ehrmann was recently appointed to the Research Awards Committee of the Social Science Research Council. The committee administers grants to social scientists for work in behavioral-sciences research.

ANOTHER Fulbright Lectureship has been awarded to Robert E. Huke, chairman of the Geography Department. During the 1962-63 academic year he will teach in the Geography Department and the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines. He helped establish the Institute in 1955-56 and taught its first geography courses.

Professor Huke has a special interest in the geography of Southeast Asia. In addition to his previous appointment in the Philippines, he has lived and worked for extended periods in Burma. He recently presented a paper at the 10th Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu based on his research in Northern Burma. He discussed the impact capital investment had had on a Burmese village near the Chinese border. Some 2600 scientists from 52 nations attended the meetings.

THE Christmas holidays were blighted for Robert H. Russell, Assistant Professor of Spanish. A briefcase containing his completed thesis which he was about to submit to Harvard for his doctoral degree was stolen from his car while it was parked near Baker Library. The 360-page, handwritten document was the only copy he had and represented seven years of research work. The manuscript concerned the Spanish novelist, Perez Goldos, and would be of little monetary value to anyone else. News stories and advertisements carrying pleas to the thief have failed thus far to turn up the manuscript.

Professor Russell estimates that rewriting the thesis would require at least nine months since most of the specific references would have to be sought out again.

Richard Eberhart '26, Professor of English, to whom the coveted BollingenPrize in Poetry has been awarded.

George F. Theriault '33, Professor ofSociology, named Lincoln Filene Professor of Human Relations for 1961-62.