THE FACULTY
PROMOTIONS in academic rank for 22 members of the faculty were announced last month. Three were ad- vanced to full professor, twelve to associate professor, and seven to assistant professor.
The full professorships were awarded to Lawrence E. Harvey of the Romance Languages Department, Henry L. Terrie of English, and Paul R. Shafer of Chemistry.
The newly named associate professors and their departments are William L. Baldwin, Economics; Meredith O. Clement, Economics; Richard H. Crowell, Mathematics; Joseph D. Harris, Physics; Herbert L. James, Speech; Thomas E. Kurtz, Mathematics; John A. Menge, Economics; Richard L. Pfister, Economics; Agnar Pytte, Physics; Vincent E. Starzinger, Government; Matthew I. Wiencke, Classics; and Richard E. Williamson, Mathematics.
The new assistant professors are Peter A. Bien, English; Elisha R. Huggins, Physics; Robert C. Hunter, English; Gene E. Likens, Biology; Chauncey C. Loomis, English; Sammy K. McLean, German; and Robert J. Poor, Art.
FACULTY Fellowships have been awarded to four faculty members for the next academic year. The fellowships, which are supported by the annual Alumni Fund, allow young faculty members time off to devote themselves solely to research or other scholarly or creative activity. Each recipient receives his regular compensation and a grant of up to $2,500 for travel and other expenses related to his work. The program was designed to help young teacher-scholars who have completed their formal educational preparation and established themselves as teachers but have not yet had a chance to give sustained time and energy to developing their scholarship.
The new Faculty Fellows are Peter A. Bien, Assistant Professor of English; William R. Crawford, Assistant Professor of English; Thomas K. Landauer, Assistant Professor of Psychology; and Vincent E. Starzinger, Associate Professor of Government.
Professor Starzinger plans to go to England to study attempts there to solve the problems of legislative apportionment. Professor Landauer plans to write and do research at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. His research centers on the human memory process and he also hopes! to study mathematics and physiology. Professor Crawford will go to England to study medieval rhetoric, especially as seen in the works of Chaucer. Professor Bien will go to Greece for the spring and summer terms of 1964. He hopes to complete a study of the Alexandrian-Greek poet, Constantine Cavaty, and to translate Nikos Kazantzakis' autobiographical novel Report toGreco into English.
Two faculty members are among the three new appointees to the William Jewett Tucker Foundation Council. Richard H. Crowell, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was named to a three-year term. He succeeds Robert H. Russell, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. Professor Crowell, Harvard '49 and Princeton M.A. and Ph.D., joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1958.
John W. Zarker, Assistant Professor of Classics, has been named for a one year term. He will serve in the place of Professor Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, who will be on leave.
The third new appointee is William M. Alley '2l of Hanover, retired investment banker, who succeeds Laurence G. Leavitt '25.
THE honorary Master of Arts degree was awarded to nine faculty members in private ceremonies in President Dickey's office recently. This traditional conferring of honorary degrees on members of the faculty who attain the rank of Professor with tenure saw the Master's degree awarded to F. Herbert Bormann, Professor of Botany; Robert W. Christy, Professor of Physics; Robert A. Guest, Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School; Charles B. McLane '41, Professor of Government and Russian Civilization; Gilbert H. Mudge, Dean of the Medical School and Professor of Experimental Therapeutics; William M. Smith, Professor of Psychology; J. Laurie Snell, Professor of Mathematics; Richard W. Sterling, Professor of Government; and Andrew Szent-Gyorgyi, Professor of Biophysics at the Medical School.
They became eligible for this honor at the beginning of the current academic year.
JAMES ROSATI, a musician turned sculptor, is Visiting Artist at the Hopkins Center and in the Art Department this term. Mr. Rosati played violin in the Pittsburgh String Symphony for two years and looked forward to a career in music. However, a statue by Donatello in the Carnegie Museum where the symphony practices caught his eye and he turned to sculpture. His works have been displayed in many exhibitions and museums both here and abroad.
THE chief auditor of the General Services Administration, Robert B. Brown, has spent parts of the past two months at the College as this year's Visiting Federal Executive. Mr. Brown participated in teaching courses, met with student groups to discuss the public service as a career, and also conferred with faculty members. He is the third government official to visit the College under the program inaugurated to strengthen ties between government and the academic community.
RICHARD WAGNER, Associate Professor of Art, had a one-man show of his work at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York last month. The show in the galleries which are in the Hotel Biltmore included 26 oil paintings and a group of paintings in plastic on paper, conte crayon and lacquer, and casein.
WILLIAM T. JACKSON, Associate Professor of Botany, and Thomas B. Roos, Assistant Professor of Biology, will direct Dartmouth's fifth annual Saturday Institute of Biology. This in-service training program for secondary-school teachers in New Hampshire and Vermont is supported by a $7,500 grant from the National Science Foundation.
This year's Institute, directed by Prof. Charles J. Lyon, concluded April 20 with a Hanover conference of more than 100 biology teachers from New Hampshire and Vermont. Fourteen sessions throughout the school year were held for 49 participating teachers, who concentrated on a new ecological approach to the teaching of biology.
THE Hanover community was saddened by the death of Rene FueloepMiller, former visiting lecturer at the College, at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on May 7. A member of the Hunter College faculty since 1954, Dr. Fueloep-Miller taught here from 1951 to 1954 and recently retired to his Hanover home on Ridge Road. A native of Rumania, he knew Freud, Lenin, and Rilke and wrote more than thirty books. Among the subjects of his writings were Bolshevism, Lenin, Rasputin, Gandhi. Dostoevski, and various aspects of philosophy, sociology, and the modern mind.
President Dickey and Prof. Ray Nash(c), Lecturer in Art and Director of theGraphic Arts Workshop, welcome LeonVoet, curator of the Plantin-MoretusMuseum in Antwerp, who lectured onsome of the Museum's graphic arts treasures displayed in the Hopkins Center.
