THE FACULTY

lAST year about this time the Faculty Notes column reported that while the things reported here are integral parts of the faculty's activities, few of them deal with the day-to-day job of teaching that is the heart of a college's function. Honors received, learned papers delivered, research completed, and grants awarded, it was reported, are the extraordinary and therefore news - and Faculty Note-worthy.

Later, in a conversation on Main Street, Joseph L. McDonald, DeanEmeritus and former economics professor, growled: "It's about time you recognized teaching."

A once-a-year tribute to good teaching is not enough, but let it be recorded here again anyway. Since the fall term opened, much knowledge has been passed on, much discussion stimulated and, in many cases, some real mind-stretching accomplished. Thank you, Dean, for the reminder.

A FACULTY member has pointed out that the November issue's Dartmouth Authors section called a new edition of a book by Prof. John H. Wolfenden New Medical Problems in AdvancedChemistry. The real title, we are informed, is Numerical Problems in Advanced Physical Chemistry. It was first published in 1938 and the revised edition was just brought out by the Clarendon Press. One of the eleven sections of the book is the work of Prof. Dorothy Hodgkin who recently won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Professor Hodgkin studied under Professor Wolfenden when he was at Oxford University. She visited Dartmouth in 1961 to address a Chemistry Department Colloquium at his invitation.

PROF. ELMER SMEAD of the Government Department also has a new edition of' a book coming out. His Freedomof Speech by Radio and Television has been translated into Japanese and is being published in Tokyo. The original publication of the book led to Professor Smead's being asked to write a regular column for Variety, the so-called "bible of show business." The study also led to his being asked to appear before the Federal Communications Commission to testify on radio and TV programing.

A NOTHER kind of honor came to Prof. A Albert S. Carlson of the Geography Department. He was elected president of the New Hampshire Covered Bridge Association at the group's October meeting. The association looks after the welfare of the 60-odd covered bridges in the state.

ANEW member of the faculty, Associate Professor Robert A. Feldmesser of Sociology, is executive director of a project, "Sociological Resources for Secondary Schools," sponsored by the American Sociological Association. The study is supported by an initial grant of $228,800 from the Course Content Improvement Section of the National Science Foundation.

The project's purpose is to prepare sociological materials for use in secondary-school instruction. The materials are expected to be used as units in sociology courses or as supplemental material in social studies courses such as civics and history.

Paul Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, on leave from the University of Virginia, is associate director of the project.

FRANK SMALLWOOD '51, Associate Professor of Government, delivered a paper on "Democratic Leadership and Urban Change" at the annual conference of the National Municipal League in San Francisco in November.... Prof. Allen L. King of the Physics Department is on sabbatical leave this fall studying lasers at the Hughes Research Laboratory in Malibu, Calif.... Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '3l of Sociology lectured at Harvard November 21 on "British New Towns."

AMONG recent grants to Dartmouth faculty members for scientific research were three from the Air torce Office of Scientific Research. Alexander Kaczmarczyk, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, will study "The Solution Chemistry of Polyhedral Boron Hydride Ions"; Prof. John Kemeny of Mathematics, "Functional Analysis and Probability Theory," and John N. Kidder, Assistant Professor of Physics, "Flow Measurements with Relations in Superfluid Helium." ... Walter H. Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor of Chemistry, has received a $46,400 grant from. the National Science Foundation for a continuation of his research entitled "Physical Chemistry of High Polymers." ... Prof. Robert W. Christy of Physics and Noye M. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Geology, have been given a $12,000 contract by the Atomic Energy Commission for a one-year study of "Thermoluminescence and Color Centers in Lithium Fluoride."

MEMBERS .of the Mathematics Department Faculty are continuing their missionary work. Prof. Ernest Snapper visited Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., last month to confer with faculty members and. administration officials on curriculum problems and administration. While there he also gave a convocation lecture on "Foundations of Mathematics" and several talks at local schools. Prof. Robert Z. Norman, who is serving as a program consultant for the Mathematics Association of Amerrica's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, visited LaSalle College in Philadelphia and the College of New Rochelle. Lie consulted on plans for revising curriculums. At LaSalle he also discussed the role of computing machines in undergraduate instruction and talked to mathematics majors.... Prof. J. Laurie Snell traveled to Princeton, where he talked in the Mathematics Department on "Examples of Martin Boundaries for Transient Markov Chains," and to Harvard where he discussed "Boundary Theory for Markov Chains" in the Statistics Department Prof. John Kemeny, currently on sabbatical leave, gave a series of talks in Vienna at the Institut fur Hohere Studien.

Col. William R. Donaldson (r), Professorof Military Science and Army ROTCcommandant at Dartmouth, receives theLegion of Merit at Fort Devens, Mass.