THE FACULTY

NOT even laryngitis can stop a dedicated teacher. Prof. Charles J. Lyon was one of three lecturers at Brattleboro Union High School under a program sponsored by the Northern New England Academy of Science. He was to discuss the effects of weightlessness on plants, research described on these pages recently.

But he developed laryngitis. And he was scheduled to address six different botany classes. A little ingenuity turned the trick. He delivered the first lecture and had it tape-recorded. At the subsequent sessions he had the tape played back and he pantomimed the demonstration portion of the lecture.

PROVOST John W. Masland was a member of a five-man Presidential Advisory Committee that visited the White House recently to recommend the establishment of a National Academy of Foreign Affairs. President Kennedy told the group he shared their belief that education and training had "not kept pace with the profound changes that have taken place in the conduct of foreign affairs." He added that he would submit legislation to Congress to establish such an academy.

THREE new teachers joined the College faculty at the start of the winter term. Mischa Cotlar, an Argentinian who has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Buenos Aires, and La Plata University, is Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department. Martha Derthick, publications director and research associate at the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, is teaching in the Government Department. She was graduated from Hiram College and holds a doctoral degree from Radcliffe. Pall Ardal, a native of Iceland, is Visiting Lecturer in the Philosophy Department. A specialist in moral philosophy, he received his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh and has taught both there and in the Scottish Universities Summer School.

WILLIAM L. BALDWIN, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been awarded a Brookings Research Professorship for the 1963-64 academic year. He will devote full time to a study of the effects of national defense contract awards on the structure and performance of civilian markets. A related question - what weight should be given these effects in deciding whether to contract specific defense projects to private industry or to have them performed within governmental agencies? - will also be studied. Professor Baldwin expects to spend much of the year at The Brookings Institution in Washington and on the West Coast.

Two other Economics Department faculty members participated in the Allied Social Science Associations program in Pittsburgh over the Christmas holidays. Prof. Martin L. Lindahl, who has served as chairman of the American Economics Association's Transportation and Public Utilities Group, organized and chaired a panel on "Pricing and Resource Allocation in Transportation and Public Utilities." He was also chairman of the American Transportation Research Forum's meeting which considered "Railroad Mergers - What Will They Mean to Competition?"

Prof. Martin Segal was a panelist on the Industrial Relations Research Association's meeting on "The Impact of Employer Associations Upon Industrial Relations."

DR. RODGER E. WEISMANN, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Medical School, has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons. He will represent New Hampshire.

Two Humanities Division professors recently received grants that will take them to Europe later this year. Prof. Herbert F. West '22 will gather material in England this summer to complete a book on Great Britain from, as he says, "the point of view of a Yankee bookman." He plans to compare English and American writers, bookshops, museums, and other characteristics of the two countries in a "Menckenesque vein." He received a $2500 grant from the Verney Foundation of Bennington, N. H.

Matthew I. Wiencke, Assistant Professor of Classics, has a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies that will enable him to complete a study of Greek Parthenon sculptures. He will go to Greece for the 1963-64 academic year for this archaeological research. Professor Wiencke, an authority on the Parthenon Frieze, traveled to London last fall on a grant from the American Philosophical Society to have the Elgin Marbles photographed. These are strips of the frieze which Lord Elgin had removed and taken to London 1811.

WILLIAM P. DAVIS, Associate Professor of Physics, is co-director of a "Cooperative College-School Science Program" to be held at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., this summer. Studies in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics will be offered to high-aptitude secondary-school students, college undergraduates interested in teaching careers in science and mathematics, and to teachers of mathematics and science. The program is supported by a $36,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Another physicist, Prof. Allen L. King, has received an $18,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to direct a conference here on physical mechanics for college teachers. This will be one of a score of such NSF-sponsored conferences to be held throughout the country for college teachers of science, mathematics, and engineering.

Artist's rendition of the Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory, next step in the development of the Gilman Bio-Medical Center, shows a greenhouse on the roof. Construction begins this year. The Dana Bio-Medical Library is pictured in right background.

Rev. George Kalbfleisch, Director of Undergraduate Religious Life, examines aSteuben crystal vase presented to him at a dinner honoring him for fifteen years ofservice to the College. On hand were past and present officers of the DartmouthChristian Union, members of the faculty and administration, and other friendsof Mr. Kalbfleisch. President Dickey was present to express the College's gratitude.