THE FACULTY
AT the heart of a good faculty's activities are its teaching functions. This fact frequently gets lost in these ALUMNI MAGAZINE reports of faculty doings simply because it's the rule, not the exception. So, before launching into the extraordinary, let's keep in mind that classes have been continuing during these mid-winter weeks and that a great deal of information has been passed on, a goodly portion of the Dartmouth classes of 1964 through 1967 have been stimulated, some even inspired. A few, of course, have been bored. But for the vast majority the teacher-student relationship has been rewarding - for both teacher and students. And so to the extraordinary :
PROF. Roy P. Forster of Biological Sciences has received two new honors recently. He was elected president of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a marine research station in Salisbury Cove, Maine. In addition he was appointed to a panel of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council to evaluate applications for National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. While at the panel's February meeting in Washington, he took time out to lead a seminar in renal physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Earlier in the year he had lectured on his research at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and at Harvard College.
PROF. Louis Morton of the History Department has been named general editor of a projected major series to be called Wars of the United States, the Macmillan Company has announced. Twelve of the volumes are now in preparation and the first is scheduled to appear in the spring of 1965. Professor Morton will also write one of the books dealing with World War II in the Pacific.
THREE Medical School professors have been in the news recently. Dr. Jackson W. Wright '33, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the College, has been elected President of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Dr. M. Dawson Tyson, Clincal Professor of Surgery, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, representing the New England Surgical Society. For the past six weeks Dr. Ernest Sachs Jr. has been teaching at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. He was one of three American neurosurgeons invited to help train Indian general surgeons in modern neuro- surgical diagnosis and treatment. India has only twenty neurosurgeons for its population of nearly half a billion.
PROF. Henry Ehrmann of the Government Department has been appointed a consultant to the International Affairs Program of the Ford Foundation. He will collaborate with Dr. James B. Conant in a survey of the social-studies teaching in the Berlin school system including junior colleges and teachers colleges. He will spend two weeks this month in Berlin visiting schools and conferring with school authorities and will return to Berlin for a second time this summer.
Professor Ehrmann also recently addressed a Graduate Faculty Colloquium at Yale on Constitutional Developments in Contemporary France."
PROF. William M. Smith of the Psychology Department has been awarded a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship for a year of research and study in California. In accepting the NSF grant he had to turn down a similar grant from the National Institutes of Health. From September to January he will work with Prof. Roger W. Sperry of the California Institute of Technology, a biologist who is studying neural organization and behavior. Currently Professor Sperry is working on the interrelationship of the two hemispheres of the brain in conjunction with learning and perception. From January until June, Professor Smith will work with Prof. Donald B Lindsley, UCLA psychologist. Professon Lindsley is an expert on the physiologic basis of emotion, perception and learning.
Professor Smith hopes to be able to apply some of their techniques to his own studies of delayed sensory feedback and the organization of behavior His studies have involved research on how a person behaves when he must guide his behavior by vision, but sees what he is doing a fraction of a second after he has done it. The delay has rather dramatic effects on behavior and also provides for studying the littleknown temporal organization of behavior.
ADANFORTH Teacher Grant for the 1964-65 academic year has been awarded to Robert G. Tisdale, Instructor in English. The grant will enable him to complete his doctoral dissertation on modern poetry for a degree from Yale. The Danforth program was established in 1954 to allow young faculty members to complete programs of doctoral study.
F. HERBERT BORMANN, Professor of Botany, on leave to participate in an Atomic Energy Commission program in environmental biology at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has found time to visit several centers of ecological research and to give seminars at Brookhaven, Rutgers, Duke, and the State University of New York on various aspects of his research on tree growth and intraspecific root grafting.
Professor Bormann has recently been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
FROM Hong Kong comes word of Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy. He is in Asia doing research under grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Philosophical Society. He has been kept busy, not only with his studies, but with extracurricular lecturing at various Asian institutions. Among them have been Hong Kong University, New Asia College, United College, and Chung Chi College. In addition he has prepared papers for various learned societies, including the Oriental Humanist Society and the annual meeting of the Chen Posha Society at which he was the principal speaker.
Chung Chi College made him an honorary member of its Institute of Far Eastern Research and he is preparing a course outline for the Institute at its request.
While he was in the Far East four of his books were published in this country.
He is now on a tour of Taipei and Japan, but plans to return to Hong Kong in April.
PROF. Michael Choukas '27, chairman of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, has been named a Research Fellow of Dartmouth's Comparative Studies Center. In late March he will go to Samos in the Aegean Sea to study* that island's folklore and tradiditions. During his five-month stay he expects to develop material for a course in modern Greek literature to be offered in the Classics Department next year.
THE visiting artist during the winter term is Paul Georges, a painter who lives on Long Island and maintains a studio in New York, where he is affiliated with the Allan Frumkin Gallery. Georges studied with Hans Hoffman at the University of Oregon and with Leger in Paris. He held a Longview Fellowship, won the Hallmark Purchase Award in 1961, and received this year's Carol H. Beck Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy, where a painting of his is now on display. He has had one-man shows at galleries in New York and Chicago. Newsweek said of Georges in 1962 that he "faced up to the struggle to establish a style of his own, during a decade dominated by the daring of the abstract expressionist painters. His work ... is painterly proof of his success."
JOHN P. AMSDEN '20, Professor of Chemistry, has been nominated to a newly created New Hampshire State Commission on Higher Education Facilities by Governor John King and the Executive Council. The commission will administer the state's participation in a federal matching program to support education construction projects.
PROF. Kalman Silvert of the Government Department has been acting as consultant for the International Relations Center at Indiana University and also recently addressed a seminar at Harvard on political developments.
THREE faculty members recently participated in the Visiting Scientists Program at Rutland (Vt.) High School. The three visitors under the program sponsored by the Northern New England Academy of Science were Profs. Thomas Roos and George Saul of Biological Sciences and Allen L. King of Physics.
MEMBERS of the Physics Department faculty attended the recent annual meetings of the American Physical Society and American Association of Phys- ics Teachers held in New York the last week in January. The Department was represented by Professors R. W. Christy, L. M. Rieser, W. P. Davis Jr., L. P. Howland, W. T. Doyle, A. Pytte, and E. Huggins.
The meeting provided an occasion for the first annual party in honor of graduates of the Department. Some thirty members attended a cocktail party held at The Dartmouth Club. All those invited had either a bachelor's degree or master's degree with a major in physics at the College. Among those attending were several distinguished graduates of the College, including Dean Ralph Sawyer '15, Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Michigan; Professor Stanley Ballard MA '28, formerly President of the Optical Society of America and Chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of Florida; Professor Owen Chamberlain '41 of the University of California, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments on the negative proton; and Professor Roy Anderson MA'4B, Chairman of the Department of Physics at Clark University. It was an impressive gathering of faculty and students and obviously initiated a tradition to be followed at future meetings.
