THE FACULTY

DARTMOUTH'S Appleton Professor of Physics, Prof. Francis W. Sears, has been given the Oersted Medal, awarded annually by the American Association of Physics Teachers for "notable contribubutions to the teaching of physics." Some 3,000 scientists were on hand at the January 25 meetings of the A.A.P.T. and the American Physical Society when Professor Sears was honored and addressed the gathering on "The Most Important Thing."

In presenting him for the award, Dr. Leonard Olson, chairman of the A.A.P.T.'s Awards Committee, said the committee's task had been easy. "At our summer meeting I reported to the committee that an unusual number of our members had written to urge the nomination of Francis Sears. We ignored the protests of our fellow committeeman, Professor Sears, and the rest of us thus unanimously present Dr. Francis Weston Sears for the Oersted Medal, the highest award of the American Association of Physics Teachers."

Dr. Olson described Professor Sears' contributions as president of the association, as a teacher at M.I.T. and at Dartmouth, and in research as codiscoverer with the famous physicist, Peter Debye, of the Debye-Sears effect.

"Important as these contributions are," he said, "they pale into insignificance when compared with the outstanding accomplishments of Francis Sears as an author of physics textbooks. His threevolume Principles of Physics set new higher standards. . . . The abridgement of these . . . successfully retained the rigor and clarity of the original Principles. . . . Today I am told more than 1,150,000 copies of his books have been sold. This includes versions printed in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Serbo-Croatian, Korean, Arabic and pirated editions in Chinese and English available in Taiwan.

"Contemplate the impact of this achievement on physics education!"

Professor Sears was born in Plymouth, Mass., and was educated at M.I.T. He accepted a faculty appointment and remained there for 30 years before coming to Dartmouth in 1956 as a visiting professor.

"After experiencing the joys of being a 'frontiersman' (pre-Kennedy, that is), he found it difficult to leave this more rugged and challenging clime," Dr. Olson said. "His Dartmouth colleagues have since persuaded him to accept the chairmanship of their department."

Professor Sears' acceptance address is scheduled to be reprinted in the American Physical Society Journal.

PROF. Fred Berthold Jr. '45 who has combined teaching and scholarship with the deanship of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation for the past five years, will return to full-time academic duties beginning with the 1963-64 academic year.

President Dickey said that Professor Berthold had accepted the post originally with the understanding that he could continue his teaching and scholarly research. Dean Berthold now feels that the foundation's activities have developed so that the administrative and other duties will require increasingly more attention than he can give them. In asking to be relieved, Professor Berthold said, "While the foundation is just as dear to me as it was in 1957, my own vocation must include a larger measure of teaching and continued study."

President Dickey said, "Dartmouth will long be the beneficiary of the devoted, pioneering work Fred Berthold has done as first dean of the Tucker Foundation. Our confidence in the course he has set is great. We now look to him to play a leading part in selecting a successor who will press the work of the foundation forward on this course."

A DISTINGUISHED musical composer, performer and conductor who has spent two terms at the College will return to the campus this spring on a permanent basis. Mario di Bonaventura will become Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Music for the Hopkins Center. Mr. di Bonaventura spent the spring terms of 1959 and 1960 in Hanover when he taught courses, conducted and performed with various musical groups, and participated in the Dartmouth Music Festivals of those years.

He will teach courses in advanced theory and composition in the Music Department. As director of music for the Hopkins Center, Mr. di Bonaventura will co-ordinate the music programs for the center, conduct the Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra, direct music festivals, work closely with the Music Advisory Group, and develop an enlarged series of summer concerts.

Mr. di Bonaventura, who has been music director and conductor of the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra for the past three seasons, made his debut as a violinist at New York's Town Hall at age 14.

He studied violin under Jacob Mestachkin, an assistant to Leopold Auer, and composition under Nadia Boulanger, considered by many the foremost composition teacher of this era. He studied conducting under Igor Markevitch at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1954 and participated in several Salzburg Festival concerts. He also studied with the Italian composer, Luigi Dallapiccola.

Mr. di Bonaventura won the Lili Boulanger Award for Composition in an international competition judged by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Walter Piston. He also won the Besancon International Conducting Competition and the Dinu Lipatti Memorial Award for a year's study in Europe.

He studied at the Conservatoire Nationale de Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and Queens College.

He has performed with many musical groups, both here and abroad, including the Orchestre Nationale and Pasdeloup Orchestra of Paris, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, and the Besancon Orchestra of Besancon, France.

Last fall Mr. di Bonaventura was selected as one of a small number of young conductors to conduct the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a Conductors Workshop Program sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

PROF. Allen L. King of the Physics Department has been named its regional counselor for New Hampshire by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. In this post he will work with the educational authorities to improve high school physics teaching in the state.

Professor King is a former chairman of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and now serves on its board. He was also president of the New Hampshire Academy of Science in 1959-60.

NOEL PERRIN, Assistant Professor of English, recently participated in a conference on "Careers in Education and Education in Careers" at Williams College. He discussed careers in the creative arts.

DEAN Waldo Chamberlin was a featured speaker at the 14th annual Conference on Operations, Audit and Control of the National Association of Savings Banks, February 15-16, in New York. Dean Chamberlin discussed "United States and the Atlantic Community: Economic and Political Problems."

PROF. James G. Eayrs of the University of Toronto has been appointed Visiting Lecturer in Government for the spring term. He is a student of Canadian and international affairs and will come to Hanover this month from a lecture tour of Africa.

VIRGIL POLING, director of the student workshop, returned last month from French Morocco where he had spent two years working with a Technical Aid Mission for the State Department. Professor Poling left as the old workshop in Bissell Hall was being demolished to make way for the Hopkins Center. He is now making preparations for the center's completion and eagerly looking forward to using the new facilities there.

His two years in Morocco, however, were warmly rewarding, he reported. He spent a third of his time in the field helping the Arab artisans develop more efficient methods of producing their craft goods and this frequently led him far into the desert - "where camel caravans meet the trucks" - to confer with sheiks and their followers.

The Arabs and virtually all Africans are trying to bridge an economic gap of hundreds of years, he pointed out. American technical aid is well received and has created many friends for us there. "And 'The Ugly American' to the contrary, I found many serious, dedicated people working hard in technical aid."

THE Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded a four-year, $100,000 grant to two Dartmouth professors for related research projects in nationalsecurity policy. Prof. Louis Morton, a specialist in military history, and Prof. Gene M. Lyons, director of the Public Affairs Center, will direct the studies.

Professor Morton will study the World War II period and especially the major problems relevant to current and future military policy and strategy. Professor Lyons' research will focus on the strategic command and organization of international forces such as those of the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Books and articles on the studies are planned and the findings will also be introduced into new courses in the History and Government Departments and in the Public Affairs Center.

Francis W. Sears, Appleton Professor ofPhysics, who was honored with the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers in January.

Mario di Bonaventura, composer andconductor, who will join the Dartmouthfaculty as a professor and as director ofmusic for the Hopkins Center.