Six Faculty Members to Retire

PAUL SAMPLE '20, Artist in Residence, a robust athlete and boxing champion as an undergraduate, turned to painting while recovering from tuberculosis, 1921 to 1925. He developed his innate artistic talent by studying in New York and then in California, but mostly he worked on his own. He remained in California ten years, teaching part of that time at the University of Southern California, before going to Europe in 1936 and 1937. In 1938 he was invited to return to Dartmouth as Artist in Residence.

Paul Sample's studio in Carpenter Hall provided the focus for an informal creative program that embraced students, faculty, and townspeople in an ever-widening circle and laid much of the groundwork for the artistic "renaissance" Hanover enjoys today. Sample never taught formal art courses but freely gave his time to students who wanted to watch him paint or to try it themselves.

During his 24 years at Dartmouth, Sample has steadily produced oils and watercolors, enhancing his national reputation, winning major prizes, and getting represented in many important collections and museums, including the Metropolitan. He was elected to the National Academy in 1941. Among all his subjects, and they have ranged the world, New England scenes and people are most closely identified with Sample's painting. Although he is a native of Kentucky, this region is his spiritual home and no artist is better known as its interpreter.

EDMUND HENDERSHOT BOOTH '18, Professor of English, has spent his entire teaching career at Dartmouth, returning to the College for graduate study after World War I service and then becoming Instructor in English in February 1920. He received his Master's degree at Harvard in 1924 and later studied at Yale. He became an Assistant Professor in 1928 and a full Professor in 1942. He was co-author in 1937 of Earning Our Heritage, an introduction to the humanities and the language arts.

Professor Booth has taught the Chaucer course in recent years, although Dartmouth students know him best for his famous Shakespeare readings, given for all freshmen each year and rated as a campus institution. His greatest histrionic success perhaps has been King Henry IV, Part I, in which he plays the part of Falstaff and all the other parts too. Also as faculty counselor for Sphinx and Alpha Delta Phi he has won a wide circle of undergraduate friends.

Professor Booth served on the Dartmouth Athletic Council from 1935 to 1938 and currently he represents the faculty on the Alumni Council. He has been a trustee of St. Mary's in the Mountains, Littleton, N. H., which his daughter Lee attended. His son, Philip Booth '47, one of the country's leading younger poets, teaches English at Syracuse University.

BANCROFT HUNTINGTON BROWN, M.A. '31, B. P. Cheney Professor of Mathematics, this year completes his 40th year on the Dartmouth faculty. Beginning as instructor in 1922, he became full professor in 1931, and was elected to the Cheney Professorship in 1946. A 1916 graduate of. Brown, he took his M.A. there and taught at Harvard and Radcliffe while working for his Harvard Ph.D., awarded in 1922.

Professor Brown this year taught his 10,000th Dartmouth student. Most of these students took his famous Mathematics I course, and every one of the 10,000 will remember his lively approach to the subject and his off-beat examination questions: "If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will six hens lay in seven days?" A specialist in probability, he once wrote a learned paper on the probabilities in crap-shooting; and in light-hearted mood he propounded Brown's Theorem that the 13th of the month will fall on Friday more often than on any other day of the week (true), and invented some "Moon Laws" to prove that the Democrats would win in 1956 (they lost).

Professor Brown has written two math textbooks and has been mathematical editor for Harcourt Brace. Member of many societies, he was president of the New Hampshire Academy of Science in 1940-41 and vice president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1940-42. His son, John P. Brown '44, teaches the Classics at American University in Beirut.

Louis OMAR FOSTER, M.A. '43, Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Tuck School, joined the business school faculty in 1942 after thirteen years at Western Reserve University. He is a 1923 graduate of the University of Illinois, where he taught accounting for six years while earning his M.S. in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1929. At Tuck School his courses have dealt with corporation finance and taxes as well as with accounting, about which he has written a textbook, Introduction to Accounting (1941), and many articles.

Professor Foster was with the Rubber Branch of the Office of Price Administration in 1942 and continued as consultant to the OPA for some years after. In 1949 he was consultant in the controller's office of the Atomic Energy Commission, and later he was New England regional accountant for the Office of Price Stabilization.

Professor Foster is a trustee of the Dartmouth Savings Bank and has served Hanover as auditor for the Town, the Precinct, and the School District. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and in the summer he has served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, held at Tuck School.

JOHN GEROW GAZLEY, M.A. '34, Professor of History, has taught at Dartmouth for 39 years. A graduate of Amherst in 1917, he took his M.A. at Columbia the next year and, following war service, returned there to teach history for three years before coming to Dartmouth in 1923. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1926. Professor Gazley has specialized in European history and has had a special interest in international relations, in which field he helped to establish a major program at Dartmouth immediately after World War II. He has visited many other colleges as guest panelist or lecturer on postwar problems, and in 1953 he served on the civilian faculty of the National War College.

Professor Gazley has held many top faculty posts, including membership on the executive committee and the chairmanship of the History Department. From 1936 to 1941 he was chairman of the experimental course Social Science 1-2 required of all freshmen. His research and writing have centered on Arthur Young, 1741-1820, the English agriculturist, traveler and publicist, about whom he has lectured at the Universities of Liverpool, Bristol, and North Wales.

The younger of Professor Gazley's two sons, Lawrence J. Gazley, is a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1960.

GORDON HARKNESS GLIDDON, Ph.D. '26, Business Officer of Baker Library and Instructor in Physics, came to Dartmouth in 1923 as a graduate student in physiological optics and is one of the few holders of a Dartmouth Ph.D. With the Dartmouth Eye Institute (1919-1947), which was celebrated for the discovery of the eye defect aniseikonia and its treatment, Mr. Gliddon rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Research in Physiological Optics. He became Baker Library's business officer in 1946 and at that time also joined the Physics Department as instructor.

Dr. Gliddon is a 1915 graduate of the University of Rochester, where he earned his M.S. in 1918. He is also a graduate of the Rochester School of Optometry, where he taught from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1926. While in Rochester he was also a lens designer for the Eastman Kodak Co. Dr. Gliddon is the author of many articles in the field of optics, and is a member of several scientific societies. For 21 years, 1938 to 1959, he served as a Hanover Precinct Commissioner, with responsibility for the police department, street lighting, and trees.