THE FACULTY
THE notice sent out about the Physics Department Colloquium said "Relativity Made Easy" in large type. Prof. Francis Sears, it went on, would present a new and illuminating approach to the transformation theory of Special Relativity. Lest the Department be accused of false advertising, in much smaller type the word "relatively" appeared between "made" and "easy."
NEW England seascapes and landscapes by Prof. Richard Wagner were featured recently in a one-man show at Boston's Shore Galleries. The exhibition of 28 recent paintings was the 22nd one-man show Professor Wagner had had since joining the Dartmouth Art Department in 1953.
THE appearance of Dartmouth faculty teams in major alumni centers has been tried in the past few years, invariably with great success. The most recent Lib- eral Arts Seminar, entitled "The Individual in Society," was staged for the students and teachers of Wellesley (Mass.) Senior High School, with Provost John W. Masland as moderator. Charles B. McLane '41, Professor of Russian Civilization, John L. Stewart, Professor of English, and Walter H. Stockmayer, Professor of Chemistry, were the faculty panel members. A full day's program - including the afternoon seminar, a WBZ radio program, a press conference, a TV talk on Cuba by Professor McLane, and an alumni dinner at night - was directed by John B. Kenerson '28, president of the Boston Alumni Association, and William B. Squier '40, president of the Charles River Club.
PROF. Richard Eberhart '26, poet in residence, was one of forty American poets and writers who were featured at a National Poetry Festival at the Library of Congress recently. The festival was called to mark the 50th anniversary of Poetry, a magazine founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. From 1959 through 1961 Professor Eberhart was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Professor Eberhart also appeared at Washington and Lee University as one of three poets brought there for special readings and lectures by the Glasgow Endowment Committee. The other poets were Robert Lowell and Howard Nemerov.
AT least three flowers bloomed recently Zv in Mr. Minow's "vast wasteland." Prof. John Kemeny was a panelist on David Susskind's "Open End" in a discussion of college admissions. Evelyn Stefansson, librarian of the Stefansson Collection, appeared on "Discovery" on New York's Channel 7; and Edgar H. Hunter '38, lecturer in architectural design, discussed "Prefabricated Systems and Housing" on a five-station educational television telecast.
PROF. Gresham Sykes, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, heads a ten-man Committee on Visiting Scientists of the American Sociological Association which is launching a visiting lecturer program under a grant from the National Science Foundation. The new plan sends some fifty sociologists to colleges for a series of brief visits starting this month. Its purpose is to offer colleges with limited sociology programs the advantages of visits by leading sociologists.
PROF. Joseph J. Ermenc of Thayer School has been made an honorary research associate at University College, London, for the current academic year. Professor Ermenc is in England on a National Science Foundation Fellowship working on the history of technology. His is the first NSF fellowship for studies in this particular area.
WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, has been appointed to the College's William Jewett Tucker Council. He was named to fill the unexpired term of Prof. Severn P. C. Duvall Jr., who was recently appointed chairman of the English Department at Washington and Lee.
Two members of the Economics Department participated in a special conference on urban economics at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Prof. Richard L. Pfister read a paper on "Expenditures on Vacations and Pleasure Travel." Prof. Martin Segal delivered a paper on "Occupational Wage Differentials in Major Cities." The conference was sponsored by the Committee on Urban Economics of Resources for the Future, a research organization established by the Ford Foundation. Professor Segal is a member of the special Committee on Human Resources charged with organizing such conferences.
George Z. Dimitroff (left), Professor of Astronomy, on a sabbatical world tour ofobservatories, shown in Moscow on December 5 with Peter Bridges '53 (c) and JackMatlock, former Russian Civilization instructor at Dartmouth, both of whom arenow second secretaries at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow.
