THE FACULTY
VIRTUALLY everyone we asked - and we asked a great many - said, 'Try to get Jim Clancy for the Hopkins Center,' " Warner Bentley, director of the center, said. And so, with the enthusiastic support of the English Department and the Dean of the Faculty, they did. James Clancy of the Department of Speech and Drama at Stanford University will come to Hanover this summer to take up duties as Professor of English and Director of Theater for the Hopkins Center.
Professor Clancy brings to the post a long record of performing, directing, research, and writing in the theater. A native of Oakland, he was graduated from San Jose State College and received his master's and doctoral degrees from Stanford. From 1935 to 1957 he directed plans and taught acting, dramatic literature, and theory of the theater at San Jose and was instrumental in developing that colleg's fine drama department.
He was also engaged actively in summer-theater and stock-company presentations in the Bay Area during these years as producer, director, and actor. He went to the State University of lowa in 1957 where he directed several major productions and organized an experimental theater. In 1959 he received one of ten grants-in-aid awarded to theater directors by the Ford Foundation for a year's study in Europe. From 1955 to 1958 he was editor of the Educational TheaterJournal and he has written extensively on theatrical subjects for a variety of publications.
In the English Department he will be involved in the development of Dartmouth's academic major in drama. This new offering is designed to give students an accurate and imaginative concept of the art of the drama. The eight-course curriculum will consider drama as literature, as theater, and as a subject for scholarly research.
THE Harvard Travellers Club awarded its Gold Medal to Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson last month at a dinner meeting in Boston. The club was one of three original sponsors of Dr. Stefansson's third arctic expedition in 1913-18 which was later taken over by the Canadian government. The funds were returned to the original sponsors, but the Travellers Club inssted that Dr. Stefansson keep part of its contribution for pocket money on the expedition. The club also gave him a specially built rifle for the expedition. Dr. Stefansson has been a member of the club since 1903.
Two new verse plays by Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 were produced for the first time last month by drama groups in Cambridge and Philadelphia. The plays, Devils and Angels and The Mad Musi-cian, were given concert readings by the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge and produced by the Drama Guild and Philomathean Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Eberhart, who won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry this year, also went to Philadelphia to deliver the Leon Lecture at the University and to participate in a colloquium on "The Audience of Poetry" with the critic Kenneth Burke and Richard O'Connell, a young poet.
The two new plays are scheduled to be published this summer in Professor Eberhart's new book, Collected Verse Plays.
WING-TsiT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, presented a paper, "How Buddhistic is Wang Yang-ming" at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in Boston last month. The paper was derived from a chapter Professor Chan contributed to a book on the 15th Century Chinese philosopher. It is to be published in India and honors the Indian philosopher, D. M. Datta, on his 60th birthday.
WALDO CHAMBERLIN, Dean of Summer Programs, was a panelist at a meeting in Detroit last month of the American Society for Public Administration. The panel discussed "How Can the Administrative Operations of the United Nations Be Strengthened?" and "What Are the Special Problems of Organizational Administration in the Multi-Nation Organization?" On the same trip he attended a meeting of directors of summer college conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
PROF. Herbert W. Hill participated in a discussion of "New Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy" televised by WGBHTV in Boston and carried over a threestation educational television network in New England. ... Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor, was a featured speaker at an April seminar at Stevens Institute of Technology. His topic was "Molecular Conformation and Solu- tion Properties of Macromolecules." ... Watercolor paintings by Librarian Richard W. Morin '24 were featured in an exhibition and sale at the Doll & Richards gallery in Boston in March and April. Mr. Morin began painting seriously only recently and has been a pupil of Paul Sample '20. ... Prof. Ray Nash lectured on "The Humanistic Legacy to 20th Century Printers" to Renaissance Society members from the New England states and eastern Canada. His lecture in Williams College's Chapin Library was illustrated by a special exhibition. ... Robert W. Decker, Associate Professor of Geology, has been granted $1,100 by the National Science Foundation to defray travel expenses to Tokyo to attend the International Symposium on Volcanology. He will present a paper entitled "Magnetic Studies of Kilauea Iki Lava Lake, Hawaii." ... Provost John W. Masland has been appointed to the Civil War Centennial Commission by President Kennedy. He succeeds Vice Admiral Stuart H. Ingersoll who resigned.
Prof. James Clancy of Stanford who willbe director of theater at Hopkins Center.
