THE FACULTY
SEVEN years ago the Class of 1925 conceived an idea for a Class Faculty Fund to support the educational purposes of the College. The fund grew slowly at first, but the Capital Gifts Campaign, in which 75 per cent of 1925's gifts were allocated to the fund at the donors' request, and other special efforts raised the total to $344,520 by this spring.
The result was the establishing of an endowed faculty chair - the Class of 1925 Professorship - and the naming of Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer of the Chemistry Department to be its first occupant.
In a letter to Professor Stockmayer telling him of the Trustees' action in electing him to the professorship, President Dickey wrote:
"The Class of 1925 Professorship is a tangible witness of the generosity of a remarkable group of Dartmouth alumni who in addition to their other contributions to. the College have made a special point of raising funds to permit Dartmouth to have on her faculty men who bring both distinction and dedication to the teaching and scholarly work of liberal learning.
"In the view of all of us and the Trustees your appointment to this Professorship will personify the purposes of this chair both now and in the years ahead."
Professor Stockmayer is one of this country's distinguished physical chemists. These pages carried a profile of him in January ("Teacher-Scholar-Mountaineer"), but to recap briefly he is an M.I.T. graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, an M.I.T. Ph.D., and was a member of the M.I.T. faculty from 1937, except for two years at Columbia, until last spring when he came to Dartmouth. He has engaged in extensive research, principally in macromolecules, and has lectured and consulted for many professional groups and industrial firms. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and several other scientific associations and of the editorial boards of several chemical journals.
Ford H. Whelden '25, president of the Class, said, "From the time our Faculty Fund crossed the quarter-million-dollar mark it was the aim of the Administration and the Board of Trustees to establish a Class of 1925 Professorship and to award this to a distinguished teacherscholar of the type sought by the College in its quest for preeminence in the field of instruction.
"The Class of 1925, already highly gratified in establishing the largest fund of its kind in the history of the College, now takes additional pride in welcoming Walter Stockmayer to the 1925 Profes- sorship and wishes him unlimited success and happiness in his association with Dartmouth College."
A RTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Paul Sample '20 was awarded the Benjamin Altman Award at the National Academy of Design's 137th Annual Exhibition of Paintings in Oil, Sculpture, Graphic Art, and Water Colors. The award carries with it a prize of $2,000.
Professor Sample's prize-winning pajnting was entitled "Port-au-Prince, Market Place" and was hung along with the rest of the exhibit at the Academy's Fifth Avenue gallery.
FORTY years ago a freshman from Connecticut was a member of the first mathematics class that Bancroft Brown taught at the College. Last month that freshman, Sidney C. Hayward '26, now Secretary of the College, was on hand in class as Professor Brown identified David C. Adams '65 as his 10,000 math student. Professor Brown marked the occasion by presenting Adams with a reprint of his first published article, "Probabilities in the Game of 'Shooting Crap.'"
Many alumni took more than one class from Professor Brown, of course, but discounting this doubling up for the sake of comprehending the number, just consider that 10,000 former students represent about a third of the living Dartmouth alumni.
Most of his former students probably remember best his lively lectures and provocative, 'off-beat examination questions. Included among his students were many fellow faculty members to whom he taught mathematics so they could in turn teach it to the Navy V-12 students at Dartmouth during World War II.
It seems unlikely that the total will go much beyond 10,000. Professor Brown plans to retire in June.
A METALLURGICAL engineer and a nuclear-reactor expert will join the Thayer School faculty for the 1962-63 academic year. They are George A. Colligan of East Hartford, Conn., Associate professor of Engineering Science, and Graham B. Wallis of Dorset, England, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science. Both will hold concurrent appointments in the undergraduate Engineering Science faculty.
Professor Colligan will teach a materials course. He has been senior research metallurgist for the United Aircraft Corp., and has taught physical metallurgy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Hartford Graduate Center since 1959. Previously he had taught chemical and metallurgical engineering at the University of Michigan and has been associated with the General Electric Co., in Schenectady, N. Y., and the Farrel-Birmingham Co., in Ansonia and Derby, Conn. He was graduated from R. P. I. in 1950 and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan.
Professor Wallis will supervise graduate study and teach undergraduate engineering courses. He is currently employed in the Atomic Energy Program in Winfirth, England, where he is doing fundamental studies on the cooling of nuclear reactors. He was a United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Research Fellow at Cambridge University in 1959-61 and received his doctoral degree there last year. He was recently elected a Fellow of Cambridge's Trinity College, a rare honor for a man only 26 years old.
He was graduated from Cambridge with first-class honors in 1957 and earned a master's degree in 1959 at where he also was a research assistant. During his two summers in America he was associated with the Westinghouse Atomic Power Department and the Microtech Research Co., in Cambridge, Mass.
GERALD JAY GOLDBERG, Assistant Professor of English, has been granted a Fulbright Lectureship by the State Department for the 1962-63 academic year. He will go to the University of Zaragoza in Spain where he will study and lecture to advanced classes in American literature. Professor Goldberg is co-editor with his wife, Nancy Marmer Goldberg, of a new book, The Modern CriticalSpectrum. It will be published in June by Prentice-Hall.
WILLIAM T. DOYLE, Associate Professor of Physics, is studying magnetic and optical properties of color centers in a group of solids known as alkali-halide crystals. The work is supported by a $29,700 grant from the National Science Foundation and is an extension of his previous basic research.
These color centers are defects created when electrons are introduced into the crystal and move into spaces where negatively charged ions are missing. The studies are expected to produce detailed information about the crystal structures and serve as a testing ground for new ideas that may later be applied to more complex systems.
SUCCESS begets success - and coattailriders. Prof. Francis W. Sears, and a colleague, Prof. Mark W. Zemansky of City University of New York, have written two widely used physics textbooks. They've been so successful that now a Long Island publisher has come out with a book of answers (retail price $3.95) to the problems given in the books. This news caused a stir in educational circles and the authors branded it "pedagogically immoral." The New Bedford Standard-Times editoralized: "It is a situation more likely to evoke sadness than anger, for embodied within it is the suggestion that there are short cuts to learning and that the diploma is more important than the education."
Professor Zemansky will be a visiting professor at the College during the spring term.
PROF. Louis MORTON of the History Department presented a paper, "Soviet Intervention in the Far Eastern War," at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. He also lectured at the University of Chicago on "Civilians and Soldiers: Civil-Military Relations in the United States," and at the National War College on "The Impact of Political Decisions on Military Strategy."
Professor Morton also contributed two chapters to recently issued books. One entitled "Interservice Cooperation and Political-Military Collaboration appears in Total War and Cold War, edited by Harry Coles. The other, "Japanese Policy and Strategy," appears in American History: Recent Interpretations, edited by A. S. Eisenstadt.
A COLLEGE biologist, Edwin H. Battley, has received a $6,200 National Science Foundation grant to study how micro-organisms utilize food. He is attempting to establish chemical equations that will show the overall growth of micro-organisms on simple food substances containing a known amount of energy. He hopes to determine whether or not this principle of a predictable relationship is a natural law that applies to other micro-organisms. In addition to its biological significance, the research may have a bearing on the problem of providing food for astronauts on long space voyages. Photosynthetic micro-organisms or algae are currently thought to be the most likely source of food for space voyagers because they can use radiant energy from the sun to resynthesize food from carbon dioxide or other low-grade carbon compounds available in the space vehicle.
ALAN COOKE '55, assistant librarian of the Stefansson Collection, has been engaged to prepare a bibliography of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. The study is sponsored by the Centre d' Etudes Nordiques at Quebec's Laval University and is also supported by the Arctic Institute of North America. It entails a three-year contract totaling about $50,000. The bibliography is expected to be useful to scientists and industrialists who have heretofore lacked a comprehensive guide to present knowledge of the region.
PROF. LAURENCE I. RADWAY has contributed a chapter, "Military Behavior in International Organizations" to a new book, Changing Patterns of Military Politics. The book, a study of the NATO Defense College, is edited by Samuel P. Huntington of Columbia and published by The Free Press of Glencoe, Ill.
PROF. FRANK G. RYDER of the German Department has been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of German. This is the professional organization of teachers of German in American high schools, colleges and universities.
DR. HARRY SCHEIBER, Instructor in History, has been named outside examiner for the University of Rochester's Honors Program in History for 1961-62. He will administer written and oral examinations to candidates for honors in the undergraduate programs in American economic history and 20th Century American history.
PROF. HENRY W. EHRMANN of the Government Department will lecture at the Free University of Berlin in May at the dedication of a new building there, the Auditorium Maximm. His lecture, "Functional Changes of Democratic Institutions in the United States," is one of a series to be presented at the dedication and. broadcast over Radio Free Berlin. The building will house the Department of Political Science at the University.
SEVERN P. C. DUVALL JR., Associate Professor of English, has been named a faculty representative on the William Jewett Tucker Council. He was appointed by the Trustees to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Prof. John H. Wolfenden.
PROF. THOMAS VANCE of the English Department and his wife recently gave a reading of his verse play, Charade, over the educational television station WENHTV. He also read two poems from bis new book, Skeleton of Light.
The 10,000th mathematics student taught by Prof. Bancroft H. Brown (r) was recentlypresented a copy of Brown's first article, "Probabilities in the Game of 'ShootingCraps,'" which was published in 1919. The student is David C. Adams '65 fromWestmoreland, N. H. Professor Brown will retire this year.
