THE FACULTY
PROF. FRED BERTHOLD JR. '45, Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, is one of five faculty members from throughout the country singled out by the Danforth Foundation for their devotion to excellence in teaching and close personal contact with their students. He was given one of the first Danforth Associate Awards which will allow him to devote much of the academic year 1963-64 to pursuing research at Harvard.
In announcing the awards, the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis said the program was an effort to encourage good teaching and to recognize the personal needs of college students. The Foundation hopes to call attention to the everincreasing need for emphasizing personal elements in education and to honor out-standing teachers who combine scholarship of high quality with skill in classroom teaching and an active concern for the intellectual, moral, and religious growth of students as individuals.
Professor Berthold and the four other winners appeared on a nationwide ABC television program, "Meet the Professor," on March 17. The group discussed the disparity of values concerning college teaching, research, publication, and other faculty relationships.
The award is part of the Danforth Foundation's program to strengthen higher education through its own programs and grants to colleges, universities and other educational agencies. The Foundation was established in 1927 by the late Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth of St. Louis.
Professor Berthold recently asked to be relieved of his duties as Dean of the Tucker Foundation to allow him to devote his full time to teaching and research.
PROF. HERBERT W. HILL of the History Department has been reappointed for a second term on the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He was first appointed in 1961 and is being reappointed for a three-year term.
The National Commission is appointed by the Secretary of State to help formulate programs and policies for UNESCO. Last fall Professor Hill was named to the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO General Conferences which met for six weeks in Paris.
Two members of Dartmouth's Army ROTC Detachment have been promoted to the rank of major. They are Capt. F. Philip Gross III '50 and Capt. Elmer W.B. Hassett. Both joined the faculty in 1960 and hold the academic rank of Assistant Professor of Military Science.
PROF. ALLEN L. KING of the Physics Department represented the State of New Hampshire at the first national conference of Regional Counselors in Physics held last month at Washington University in St. Louis. He presented a paper on "Teacher Education" before the two-day conference, sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. The Regional Counselors are working in each of the states to improve the quality of high school physics teaching. They were selected for their competence in physics, interest in improving physics teaching, and ability to work effectively in the state they represent.
A ONE-MAN show at Middlebury College's Art Gallery last month featured eighteen new paintings by Richard Wagner, Associate Professor of Art. The paintings were done in a new experimental technique. Some relate to ideas of space and are done in a combination of conventional drawing techniques with spray paint. Others include color travel sketches of scenes from the Southwest, the Virgin Islands, and the Maine Coast done in plastic paint on paper.
PROF. RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of English and poet in residence, read some of his poems as part of the inaugural exercises at the Rhode Island School of Design for its new president, Dr. Albert Bush-Brown.... Evelyn Stefansson, librarian of the Stefansson Collection, addressed the Franklin Society at McGill University and a graduate seminar on the Soviet Union regularly taught by Prof. Trevor Lloyd, formerly of the Dartmouth faculty. She also appeared on "Discovery 67" on the ABC television network.... Prof, and Mrs. Robert G. Landen and Prof, and Mrs. George F. Theriault '33 have been appointed faculty residents for the Choate Road dormitories for 1963. The Landens will live in the faculty residence adjoining Brown and Little Halls. The Theriaults will return to the Cohen and Bissell Hall residence where they lived in 1961-62. ... Prof. John Kemeny of the Mathematics Department will be one of eight panelists at an academic convocation at Boston College this month as the college celebrates its centennial. The theme is "The Knowledge Explosion: Liberation and Limitation." ... Arthur H. Lachen-bruch, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey for twelve years, will' join the Geology Department faculty for the spring term. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and took his doctoral degree at Harvard John W. Hennessey Jr., Professor of Administration and Associate Dean of the Tuck School, led a discussion of "Motivation in Organizations" at the recent 12th annual Institute for Maine Industry at Colby College in Waterville.... Prof. Henry Erhmann of the Government Department presented the French point of view on the Common Market as a panelist at the 10th Annual International Weekend at the University of Massachusetts.
Prof. Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Dean of theTucker Foundation, who has received aDanforth Associate Award in recognitionof excellence in teaching and personalconcern for his students.
