THE FACULTY

PROVOST John Masland testified before a Congressional Armed Services Sub-committee in Washington Oct. 3 on legislation affecting ROTC programs. He testified on behalf of the American Council on Education in support of legislation sought by the Defense Department that would authorize a two-year program leading to a commission. He was asked to testify because of his research in this field which resulted in the publication of Soldiers and Scholars: Military Educationand National Policy and Education andMilitary Leadership: A Study of theROTC. On the first book he collaborated with Prof. Laurence I. Radway and on the second with Prof. Gene M. Lyons.

PROF. Richard Eberhart '26 of the English Department was recently named one of six honorary Consultants in American Letters to the Library of Congress for a three-year term, 1963-66. In 1959-61 he served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress while on leave from Hanover. Professor Eberhart also participated last month in a symposium on Chilean poetry held at Georgetown University. He delivered a paper on Vincente Huidobro and participated in discussions of Chile's two Nobel Prize poets, Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neurada.

PROF. Don Bartlett '24 attended the second U.S.-Japan Conference on cultural and educational interchange in Washington last month at the invitation of the State Department. As cultural attache in Japan in 1958-61 he had contributed to the planning of the first conference. Topics discussed were educational television, translations and abstracts, area studies and performing arts.

GOVERNMENT Department faculty members have been active lately. Profs. Kalman Silvert and Henry Ehrmann were panelists at the recent meeting of the American Political Science Association in New York. . . . Professor Silvert also took part in a conference on the Committee on Latin America organized by the Social Sciences Research Council. He also presented a paper Inflation and Growth at a conference held in Brazil and another at the New York meeting of the Society for International Development. . . . Prof. Laurence I. Radway returned to Washington for a short time in September as a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He had spent the 1962-63 academic year there as a visiting professor at the National War College and as a special consultant to the Secretary of Defense on problems of orientation for foreign military personnel brought to the United States for training. .. . Asst. Prof. John Donnell is currently doing research concerning policy questions in Communist Viet Nam for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State Department.

WARNER BENTLEY, director of the Hopkins Center, was cited by the New England Educational Theater Conference at its fall meeting for his work in the Center in bringing it from dream to actuality.

PROF. Albert Carlson of Geography described Dartmouth's program for training industrial developers and regional and urban planners at a meeting of the Northeastern Industrial Development Association's eighth annual conference at Boston's Statler-Hilton. The NIDA's Education Committee, of which he is chairman, has developed a plan to encourage the introduction of courses in other institutions.

A MILESTONE worthy of note here and now is being observed by the ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S Town & Gown columnist, Prof. Allen R. Foley '20. He addressed the student body of Babson Institute in Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 7. His topic: "Vermont Humor."

Professor Foley estimates that he has delivered talks on this topic some 300 times in the past ten years. The subject is not as frivolous as it may sound. Prof. Foley is interested in Vermont history and the humor exhibited in any region tells a historian a great deal about its people. The Vermont humor lectures are a by-product of this research and have become so popular that he can fill only a fraction of the speaking invitations he is tendered.

VISITING artist this fall is the British sculptor, T. B. Huxley-Jones of Chelmsford, England. Mr. Huxley-Jones is president of the Society of Portrait Sculptors of England, a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and an associate of the Royal College of Art.

As visiting sculptor Mr. Huxley-Jones works with advanced students in sculpture and maintains a studio in the Hopkins Center.

In addition to his portrait sculpture, Mr. Huxley-Jones has executed commissioned works for various fountains in England. Among them are the centerpiece of a new fountain in Hyde Park and a piece for Chelmsford's Central Park Memorial Garden.

Mr. Huxley-Jones is accompanied on his first trip to the United States by his wife, Gwynneth Holt, who is also a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a noted sculptor of ivory and wood.

PROF. Robert Huke '48 of Geography returned from the University of the Philippines this fall where he had taught on a Fulbright Grant and reported that during his year there nine Dartmouth alumni had stayed with him at various times. All had developed an interest in the area while at Dartmouth and one, Robert Reed '62, who had been a Senior Fellow in Geography, spent an entire year at the University. Professor Huke was recently appointed by the Association of American Geographers as a representative from New England to participate in a conference and continuing study group on the place of geography in the liberal arts curriculum.

WILLIAM E. SLESNICK, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, discussed "New Trends in Secondary School Mathematics" before a conference of the Maine Teachers Association at Bates College. ... Van English, Assistant Professor of Geography, discussed "Facts and Fantasies of the Amazon" before a meeting of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society in Gorham, Maine, last month. . . . Matthew I. Weincke of the Classics Department participated in the installation of a new pastor of the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Providence, R. I. He is chairman of New England Synod's College and University Committee. . . . Prof. George A. Taylor of Thayer School was a panelist at an international conference of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers in New York.

THREE faculty members have received a $59,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the effects that human activities might be having on a small watershed in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in West Thornton, N. H. The three, F. Herbert Bormann, Professor of Botany; Gene E. Likens, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Noye M. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Geology, will study the effects of pesticides, normal tree cutting and controlled burning. They hope their work will reveal both practical guidelines for land management and important principles governing the operation of any similar water system.

PROF. John Kemeny of the Mathematics Department lectured and conducted a seminar for mathematics faculty members in seven colleges in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia and Ohio from the comfort of his den in Hanover. It was part of an experiment supported by a $47,500 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Under the plan distinguished teachers from throughout the country are connected by two-way conference telephone to faculty assemblages throughout the country. Thus they can lecture and answer questions from many parts of the country. Professor Kemeny was the first such distinguished lecturer in the series.

T. B. Huxley-Jones