THE FACULTY
FOR faculty members the holiday season means grading of fall-term blue books, a round of holiday get-togethers, and - increasingly - professional meetings. The holiday season is one of the few times when teachers throughout the country have an extended break, and as a result many of the learned societies schedule late December meetings. Scholarly papers are presented, shop talk exchanged, and that old friend from graduate school who is now teaching on the West Coast is greeted warmly.
A quick, more or less at-random check of departments at the College showed this year was no exception.
The American Historical Society met in Philadelphia. Among the papers presented was one by R. Burr Litchfield on The Tuscan Nobility in the 18th Century. Other History Department members who attended the meeting were John R. Williams, Louis Morton, F. David Roberts, Robert Forster, Robert G. Landen, Harry N. Scheiber, Herbert W. Hill, George I. Juergens, and Frank R. Safford.
Several departments were represented at the meetings of the Modern Language Association in Chicago. Prof. Lawrence E. Harvey of the Romance Languages Department presented a paper before the Romance Language section and also served as chairman of another panel. Also attending the meetings were Robert H. Russell and Francisco Ugarte of Romance Languages; Basil Milovsoroff of Russian Civilization; Edward A. McCormick, Sammy K. McLean, and John W. Barthel of the German Department; and Harold L. Bond, Gerald J. Goldberg, David C. Kaula, Richard A. Lanham, and David A. Hansen of the English Department.
The American Philological Association and the American Archaeological Assaciation met jointly in Pittsburgh. Representatives from the Classics Department were Norman A. Doenges (attending as secretary-treasurer of the New England Classical Association), John W. Zarker, Ned P. Nabers, Edward M. Bradley, and S. Michael Simpson.
At the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association were Timothy J. Duggan, David H. Sanford, Bernard Gert, and K. Danner Clouser.
Dr. Clarke T. Gray of the Medical School's Microbiology Department traveled to England for the meetings of the British Biochemical Society at the University of Leicester. He was one of five speakers at a colloquium on "Regulation of Microbial Metabolism."
The mathematicians were somewhat out of step. The American Mathematical Association met January 23-26, but chose a more salubrious clime: Miami, Fla. Dartmouth was represented by John G. Kemeny, Robert Z. Norman, Walter A. Rosenkrantz, Michael Voichick, and William E. Ritter.
PROF. Richard Eberhart '26 read six new poems at this winter's initiation ceremonies at Phi Beta Kappa's first chapter at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. The ceremonies were held in the candle-lit, restored Apollo Room of the Tavern where, in the presence of Thomas Jefferson, the Society held its first meeting in 1775. The six poems were from his forthcoming book, The Quarry, which will be published in April by the Oxford University Press in New York and Chatto and Windus in London. It contains sixty new poems written since Collected Poems was published in 1960.
This was Professor Eberhart's third Phi Beta Kappa reading in the past year. Previously he had appeared at Trinity College and Swarthmore.
ROBERT G. HUNTER of the English Department was selected by a committee of the graduate faculties of Columbia University as a recipient of the Clarke F. Ansley Award for the best dissertation of 1962-63. The Ansley awards are given annually by the Columbia University Press which will publish his dissertation, Shakespeare and theComedy of Forgiveness.
THREE faculty members have been appointed to the New Hampshire Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. All former Rhodes Scholars, they are Profs. Walter H. Stockmayer, Arthur M. Wilson, and William E. Slesnick.
Two professors have returned to the campus after spending the fall term in Europe with students participating in the Dartmouth Foreign Study Plan. Thomas E. Kelly, Instructor in Romance Languages, was in Dijon, France, and worked with students in Dijon, Caen, and Montpellier. Sammy K. McLean, Assistant Professor of German, conducted a comparative studies seminar for Foreign Study Plan students in Fribourg, Germany.
ROBERT W. DECKER, Associate Professor of Geology, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Said the D.O.C.'s executive director, John Rand '38, "Professor Decker's interests in the out-of-doors and his professional experience in field research will help considerably in furthering the educational program inaugurated with the recent staff appointment of James E. Schwedland '48.'
ALVIN O. CONVERSE of the Thayer School attended a meeting of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics at Palo Alto, Calif., and after the conference, presented a progress report on his research to the Technical Panel on Solid Propellant Combustion Instability at Menlo Park.
THE merger of town and precinct governments in Hanover resulted in some shuffling of appointive positions. Edgar H. Hunter '3B, Lecturer in Architectural Design, and Carl F. Long, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, were named to the Town Planning Board. Edward S. Brown Jr., '34, Professor of Civil Engineering, was reappointed to the Zoning Board of Adjustment and also as Town Health Officer. Dr. Philip O. Nice, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Medical School, was reappointed as his deputy.
CLARK W. HORTON, Consultant in Educational Research, has been named to a special committee of review by the College Entrance Examination Board. The committee will survey all English examinations prepared by the Board and submit findings and recommendations.
