THE FACULTY

THE former publisher of Cosmopolitan magazine is visiting artist at Dartmouth this fall. How did a magazine publisher come to art?

David Porter decided in the late 1950's that his hobby of painting was more important to him than publishing a magazine. He left New York for Italy to paint full-time and within two years had begun to win prizes for his work. Today, 14 years after his first paintings were shown in New York, his work has been exhibited in more than 50 group shows and 16 one-man shows.

As visiting artist he will teach an advanced painting course and will be available for informal work with art students. Later in the year a collection of his work will be shown at the Hopkins Center.

Most of Mr. Porter's recent work has been done in collage form, of which he says: "Every part of each painting is actually painted; only pieces of paper act as brush strokes. Once glued to the linen they are again transformed by water color, inks, or thin washes of oil paint applied over their original color. When the varnish is applied, the colored underpainting and glazes result in rich "transparencies. In most cases these paintings are varnished with liquid lucite, which eventually makes a permanent, washable surface. ... Despite the fact that the process involves collage, because each is meticulously painted, I consider them paintings."

A Chicagoan, Mr. Porter is self-taught except for some brief training in figure drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. He now lives in New York and has a studio in East Hampton, Long Island.

THE Tuck School recently announced the promotion of James Brian Quinn to be Professor of Business Administration. Professor Quinn recently returned from a year-long research trip to Europe where he studied the relationships between industrial and national planning.

THE Medical School also announced promotions for seven faculty members. Promoted were Dr. Lawrence Kilham, now Professor of Microbiology; E. Lucile Smith, Professor of Biochemistry; Dr. E. Elizabeth French, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology; Robert B. Hill, Assistant Professor of Physiology; Dr. Arthur Naitove '46, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Assistant Professor of Surgery; Dr. John F. Dietel, Clinical Instructor in Surgery (Obstetrics and Gynecology); and Dr. George E. Files, Clinical Instructor in Surgery (Urology).

RICHARD EBERHART '26, Poet in Residence and Professor of English, delivered the first annual Robert Frost Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State College last month. While there he also read his own poetry and discussed the poetry of Theodore Roethke, a contemporary who died about a year ago. While on the West Coast he also talked and read his poetry at the University of California's Berkeley and San Diego campuses.

PROF. F. H. BORMANN of the Biological Sciences Department recently delivered or collaborated in the delivery of three papers at the meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting at Boulder, Colo. Earlier in the year he attended an international conference on problems of the woody plant which dealt with the physiology, ecology, and genetics of perennial plants at East Mailing Research Station in East Maidstone, England.

THE National Science Foundation has made grants to two Physics Department faculty members to continue related research in solid-state physics. The grants totaling $68,500 were to Prof. Robert W. Christy and Prof. William T. Doyle.

The grants will support two more years of research on color centers in ionic crystals. This work has been under way at the College for the past six years.

Professor Doyle is on a leave of absence this year and will do part of his work at the University of California at Berkeley.

PROF. KALMAN H. SILVERT delivered a paper, "Youth and Politics in Latin America," at the Sixth World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Geneva. Earlier he addressed the Canadian Institute of International Relations at Banff, Canada. ... Prof. Arthur M. Wilson served as chairman of a session of the Franco-American Colloquium at Wilmington. The gathering was organized by the professional organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. Professor Wilson also was a member of a reading committee of the American Historical Associations's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. Among other things, this involved reading some 80 volumes that had been nominated for the prize. ... Prof. Laurence I. Radway participated in a panel entitled, "Bureaucrats in Politics: Public Servants and Public Policy," at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago.

... Prof. Henry W. Ehrmann was in charge of organizing a "specialist" meeting at the Sixth World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Geneva. ... David M. Kovenock, Instructor in Government, delivered a paper, "Communications and Influence in Congressional Decision-Making: Employing the Communications Audit Technique in a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee." ... lames Barros, Assistant Professor of Government, is engaged in research on the role of international organizations in the settlement of political disputes. He spent much of the summer working in the archives of the League of Nations in Geneva.

PROF. H. WENTWORTH ELDREDGE '31 of the Sociology and Anthropology Department was a guest of the Federal Republic of West Germany in September where he discussed trends in that country with leading German intellectuals. He was a panelist at a conference in October called by the Organization of Cornell Planners. His subject was "New Towns (satellite cities) in American Life."

PROF. LOUIS MORTON discussed the Civil War battle of Cedar Creek at Montpelier, Vt., October 19 before the Vermont Legislature. ... Donald A. Campbell '44, Associate Professor of History and Education, and Robert Tisdale of the English Department are consultants to the U.S. Office of Education Project to develop senior humanities courses for terminal high school students.