THE FACULTY
PROF. Louis MORTON of the History Department has been elected chairman of the board of the newly formed HERO (the Historical Evaluation and Research Organization). This group of diplomatic and military historians was formed to undertake special research projects in history. It consists of a fiveman permanent staff based in Washington and of many "associates" from the academic world. The latter are available to take on parts of a research project, but they remain on their own campuses. Its first contract is for a study of violations of arms agreements for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Professor Morton also recently accepted the general editorship of a 16-volume series on Wars and Military Institutions of the United States to be published by the Macmillan Company. Work has already begun on four of the volumes.
Meanwhile, his new book, Strategy andCommand: The First Two Years, was published by the Department of the Army on April 18, the 21st anniversary of the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. This is the second book Professor Morton has written for the Army's multi-volume history of the United States Army inWorld War 11. In the late 1940'5, while with the Office of Military History, he served as chief of the Pacific section and supervised the preparation of the series on the Army's operations in the Pacific.
THE work of E.H. (Ted) Hunter '38, Lecturer in Architectural Design at the College and a partner with his wife in the architectural firm of E.H. and M. K. Hunter, is featured in a traveling exhibition that opened last month. The exhibit consists of 53 panels showing residences, college buildings, public works projects, preparatory school planning, commercial buildings, and land development projects. It opened at the Paul Art Center at the University of New Hampshire and will be shown at the Hopkins Center during June. Later it will be exhibited at other colleges and in museums.
THE dramatic works of three English Department faculty members are being presented at the Hopkins Center this spring. Prof. John Finch's The Winner was given its first performances last month, and one-act verse plays by Profs. Richard Eberhart '26 and Thomas Vance are also part of the spring combinedarts program that centered on the Contemporary Arts and Religion.
DR. JACKSON W. WRIGHT '33 of the Medical School and the Hitchcock Clinic was recently named president-elect of the New Hampshire Medical Society and of the Council of the New England State Medical Societies. ... Another Medical School faculty member, Dr. Arthur Samuels, has been granted an Established Investigatorship by the American Heart Association. His research project deals with the experimental studies of changes in heart muscle enzymes in response to congestive heart failure.
GLEANINGS: Prof. Norman B. Doenges of the Classics Department was elected secretary-treasurer of the Classical Association of New England at the association's 57th annual meeting at Providence recently. ... Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 delivered the John E. Candelot Memorial Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Trinity College on April 18. He discussed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Wallace Stevens and their work. ... Dean Myron Tribus of the Thayer School has been named to the board of directors of the Spaulding Fibre Company, Inc., of Tonawanda, N. Y. The firm manufactures and fabricates laminated plastics, vulcanized fiber and fiber board products for industry. ... Gene M. Lyons, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and director of the Great Issues Course, presented a paper, "Enforcement Under Arms Control Agreements," at the Enforcement of Arms Control Symposium at Ann Arbor recently. The symposium was sponsored by the University of Michigan and the Bendix Corp. The papers were published in the Journal ofArms Control and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. ... Prof. Wing-tsit Chan served as chairman of a panel on East Asia at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society in Washington recently. He also attended the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia. ... Prof. Henry Ehrmann of the Government Department was a panelist at a meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies held at Harvard last month. He delivered three lectures at Oberlin College on the domestic and foreign policies of modern France, and also lectured at Smith College. ... Prof. Frank G. Ryder has been appointed chairman of Indiana University's German Department, the university announced last month. He will resign his Dartmouth post at the end of the academic year.
CHONG-SIK LEE, Instructor in Great Issues, has received a Social Science Research Grant of $2950 for studies this summer of the relations between Communist China and North Korea. He will do research at the Library of Congress, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. His book, ThePolitics of Korean Nationalism, is scheduled for publication this summer.
WALTER H. STOCKMAYER, Class of 1925 Professor of Chemistry, will direct an intensive two-week seminar in "Statistical Theory of Macromolecules" at the College this summer. The seminar is designed to give research workers, students, and teachers "an opportunity to attain a thorough working knowledge of the statistical mechanics of macromolecular systems in its present stage of development." The seminar is supported by a grant of $5600 from the National Science Foundation.
Carl L. Wilson, A.M. '35, Professor of Botany, who retires next month after 39 yearsof teaching, receives a pen and pencil set from student at the conclusion of his lase regular course, given in the winter term.
