THE FACULTY

PROMOTIONS for nineteen faculty members were approved by the Trustees in April. Four professors, five associate professors, and ten assistant professors were listed.

Promoted to full professor were F. Herbert Bormann, botany; William M. Smith, psychology; J. Laurie Snell, mathematics; and Richard W. Sterling, government.

New associate professors are William P. Davis Jr., physics; Robert E. Huke '48, geography; David M. H. Kern, chemistry; Basil Milovsoroff, Russian civilization; and Melvin Spiegel, biological sciences.

The assistant professors are Roger H. Brown, history; William C. Calin, Romance languages; Joseph H. deRivera, psychology; Bernard Gert, philosophy; Milton Gill, music; Harry N. Scheiber, history; Robin J. Scroggs, religion; David Sices '54, Romance languages; Thomas A. Spencer Jr., chemistry; and John W. Zarker, classics.

FACULTY Fellowships have been, awarded to three faculty members for the 1962-63 academic year. This program, in its second year of operation, will allow the three recipients a full, uninterrupted year to devote solely to research or other scholarly or creative activities.

The Fellows are Edward Allen McCormick, Associate Professor of German; Frank Smallwood '51, Assistant Professor of Government; and John L. Stewart, Professor, of English.

They receive their regular full compensation and a grant of up to $2500 for travel and other expenses related to their work. The Fellowship Program, which is supported by the Alumni Fund, was inaugurated to increase the effectiveness of young teacher-scholars.

Professor McCormick plans to spend the year in Germany where he hopes to complete a book on Theodor Storm, 19th Century German novelist. Professor Smallwood plans a comparative study of English, Canadian, and American experiments in integrating forms of government in metropolitan areas. He will visit London, Toronto, and various American cities. Professor Stewart plans to complete a scholarly study of a group of modern writers and critics called "The Fugitives." The group was founded in the 1920's and includes Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom.

THE American Cancer Society has awarded Dartmouth a grant creating a research professorship that will support a scientist for his scientific lifetime. The grant is for Dr. Melvin V. Simpson, 41-year-old biochemist who is currently Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Simpson will be designated New Hampshire Division-American Cancer Society Professor of Biochemistry at the Dartmouth Medical School and will assume his new post here September 1.

Dr. Simpson's principal research interest is how cells manufacture their basic structural and functional components proteins. Protein synthesis apparently takes place in the cells in organized places in the cell. Evidence suggests that microsomes, tiny organelles found in the cytoplasm, are the main sites, but Dr. Simpson believes there are other organelles that control and allow protein synthesis and he hopes to identify them.

He was graduated from City College of New York in 1942 and after wartime service as a Navy physicist he did graduate work at the University of California. He subsequently taught and did research at Tufts Medical School and Washington University, St. Louis. He went to Yale in 1952 and except for a year as a National Science Foundation Senior Fellow in England he has been there since.

The Cancer Society established a $100,000 trust fund supplied from funds from the New Hampshire Division and will pay most the scientist's annual salary out of funds raised each year in its educational and fund-raising crusade.

Two research grants have been awarded to Dartmouth for studies of the use of electrically conducting gases in propelling spacecraft. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, are supporting the work to be carried out in the new Plasma Laboratory at the Thayer School. Robert C. Dean Jr., Associate Professor of Engineering Science, heads the research group that includes Agnar Pytte and William Davis of the Physics Department and Prof. Howard Emmons of Harvard.

Electrical propulsion engines are being developed for space navigation because they require much less fuel than chemical rockets such as the Atlas missile.

THE National Film Board of Canada recently spent four days filming interviews with Vilhjalmur Stefansson and a fellow arctic explorer, Henry Lawson, former superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Prof. Trevor Lloyd, formerly of the Geography Department, now at McGill University, served as interviewer. The Film Board plans to use the footage, which dealt with the past, present and future of the Canadian Arctic, in a documentary film and possibly for television.

PROF. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 is on sabbatical and research leave in Europe but has found himself with a busy lecture schedule too. He recently took two seminars at the London School of Economics to discuss "The Elite and Political Democracy; The Dilemma of Power in Modern Society." This is also the title of a book he hopes to complete soon for William Morrow & Co. He also lectured at the Belgian Ecole de Guerre on "Political-Psychological Warfare." In February he lectured before the Federation of British Industries at Ashridge College on "The Changing Nature of Our Society."

His principal effort, though, is devoted to finishing the book and undertaking a basic research project involving recent developments in European planning with special emphasis on British planning of central areas and the New Towns program.

F HERBERT BORMANN, Associate Professor of Botany, has been awarded a three-year, $23,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to continue his research on natural root grafting in pine trees. Professor Bormann has demonstrated that roots of two or more trees of the same species frequently unite by growing together. Using radioactive isotopes he traced the movement of water and food from one tree to another through these natural grafts. The grant will support his current studies of how grafted trees influence one another. He is trying to determine whether the trees are cooperative partners, hosts and parasites, or neutrals that have no appreciable effect on each other's growth. His preliminary results indicate that the. relationship between grafted trees changes as the stand grows older. The trees may remain equal partners or one may become dominant and the other suppressed and hemiparasitic.

THE American Association for State and Local History has awarded Harry N. Scheiber, history instructor, a grant to study "Internal Improvements and Economic Change in Ohio, 1820-1860." The grant is one of ten made to historians this year "to encourage the study, writing and publication of sound interpretive local history."

MATTHEW I. WIENCKE, Assistant Professor of Classics, delivered a series of lectures on the history and sculptures of the Parthenon under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America last month. His tour took him to The Johns Hopkins University and to the Institute's units in Washington, D. C., Richmond, and Lynchburg, Va. ... Walter Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor, discussed "Unperturbed Dimensions of Chain Polymer Molecules" at a meeting co-sponsored by the Four-College Seminar and the Polymer Research Institute at Amherst, Mass Prof. Wing-tsit Chan was recently named consultant to Gettysburg and five neighboring colleges for their China study program. The colleges received a $180,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to help faculty members incorporate Chinese and Indian material into their courses. Professor Chan also delivered a paper at the Round Table Conference on Chinese American Cultural Relations at the University of Maryland. More than 80 Chinese and American scholars participated. . . . Prof. Robert E. Huke '48 presented a paper dealing with "Agriculture and Rainfall in the Dry Belt of Central Burma" at a recent Conference of Southeast Asian Geographers at Kuala Lumpur. He was an official delegate and representative of the National Academy of Science and his transportation was paid for by a grant from the Office of Naval Research Kenneth W. Cooper, Professor of Cytology at the Dartmouth Medical School, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Academy's 182nd annual meeting in Boston on May 9. Dr. Cooper, who teaches courses in genetics and cytology and does research in cytogenetics, came to Dartmouth in 1959, prior to which he taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Colorado. He was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1944 and 1945. ... Mario di Bonaventura, newly appointed director of music for the Hopkins Center, was guest conductor at the Boston Pops Concert on May 16, when "Dartmouth Night at the Pops" was held. This was his first appearance in New England since 1960 when he was a principal performer at the Dartmouth Music Festival. He is coming to the College from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he has been conductor and music director of the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra. He has already begun work on musical plans for the opening of the Hopkins Center next November.

Dr. Melvin V. Simpson of Yale who willjoin the Medical School's biochemistryfaculty in September under a lifetimegrant from the American Cancer Society.