THE FACULTY

FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS for the 1964-65 academic year have been awarded to five faculty members: L. Milton Gill, Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist; Lawrence E. Harvey, Professor of Romance Languages; Robert G. Hunter, Assistant Professor of English; Robin J. Scroggs, Assistant Professor of Religion; and Henry L. Terrie Jr., Professor of English.

These fellowships allow the recipients time off from their teaching duties so they may devote themselves solely to research or other scholarly and creative activities. They receive their regular compensation and a grant of up to $2,500 for travel and other expenses related to their work.

The Faculty Fellowship program was intended to help make young teacherscholars more effective. It was designed especially for those who have finished 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 recipients have made the following plans:

Professor Gill will spend the year in Germany composing organ works and studying with one or more of the top German organists. He has received several requests for new compositions since winning first prize in a national competition of the American Guild of Organists in 1962 and he hopes to write these during the year.

Professor Harvey plans to go to Italy to finish a work on Samuel Beckett, contemporary novelist and playwright, which he began in 1961-62 while on a Guggenheim Fellowship in France. He plans to complete the first volume of the work next year and do research on a second.

Professor Hunter will go to England to research a book about comedy and authority in the age of Shakespeare. In relating the art of comedy to authority, he plans to examine the attitude toward authority in Shakespeare's time by investigating legal records and other primary sources in Britain.

Professor Scroggs, whose field is New Testament theology, plans to go to Germany where he will study the theology of Paul in preparation for a book on the central aspects of Paul's thought.

Professor Terrie hopes to write a book in which he will develop a comprehensive theory of the novel, using as a focal point Henry James' "fusion" of picture and drama.

THIS is a Dartmouth-in-Nippon spring. In addition to President Dickey's visit (see The College section) two faculty members will be in the Far East.

Donald Bartlett '24, Professor of Biography and former cultural attache at the American Embassy in Tokyo, is spending the spring term there. He has received a stipend from the Comparative Studies Center which will help him prepare courses in the Japanese language and culture. He has also received a grant from the Board of Foreign Scholarships to do some research for them in Japan. Professor Bartlett was recently notified that he has been appointed adviser to the American Studies Foundation, which he helped to establish in Japan. The Foundation is believed to be that country's first educational foundation.

James F. Hornig, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is spending April in Japan as part of the National Science Foundation's Visiting Senior Scientists Program. The NSF is trying to foster a greater exchange of scientific information between the two countries. Professor Hornig and one other physical chemist, Prof. John Ferry of the University of Wisconsin, have been chosen for a "pilot run" to investigate possibilities for American scientists to work with Japanese physical chemists in Japan. If their report to the NSF indicates such visits are feasible, scientists from other disciplines will be sent to Japan to investigate opportunities for exchanges.

Two Government Department faculty members - Professors Kalman H. Silver! and Laurence I. Radway - spent part of March in Bellinzona, Italy, at a conference organized by the American Universities Field Staff to consider political developments in the new nations. Professor Silvert, a former member and lecturer for the AUFS, helped organize the conference. Professor Radway is codirector of the College's Comparative Studies Center.

ROYNST JOHN W. MASLAND is one of three candidates nominated for a new position on the Princeton Board of Trustees. that of Graduate School Alumni Trustee, according to the PrincetonAlumni Weekly. The new position was recently established by Princeton on the theory that "the Graduate School and its alumni ... should thus have a stronger voice at the policy-making level in recognition of the rapid Graduate School development now taking place."

Professor Masland earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1938.

AMERICA'S first Biosatellite scheduled to blast off late next year is scheduled to carry some grains of wheat from Hanover. Charles J. Lyon, Professor of Botany Emeritus, has been notified by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that an experiment of his concerning the behavior of plants in a gravity-free environment will be one of fourteen carried aboard this first effort to place biological experiments in orbit.

For several years Professor Lyon has been conducting plant-growth experiments in his laboratory, using a clinostat to simulate gravity-free conditions. The plants are rotated slowly on the clinostat on the theory that rotation would cancel out the effects of gravity on the movement of plant-growth regulators.

But no one can be sure that the plants will actually react to no gravity in exactly this way under real gravity-free conditions. If they do, the research can continue in earthbound laboratories much less expensively. If not, new ways will have to be devised to. study plants in space.

MATTHEW I. WIENCKE, Associate Professor of Classics, sailed for Greece March 6 and arrived in a nation saddened by the death of King Paul. Professor Wiencke holds a Fellowship in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies for archaeological research in Greece. He plans to tour current excavation sites on the mainland and islands and continue work on a publication dealing with the Parthenon sculptures. His wife, who accompanied him, will be engaged in work on finds from the University of Cincinnati excavation at Lerna near Corinth.

During Professor Wiencke's absence, Steven Lattimore '60, who is completing his doctoral work in archaeology at Princeton, is teaching his course in Roman archaeology.

CHARLES B. MCLANE '41, Professor of Government and Russian Civilization, will spend the 1964-65 academic year at University College of Sierra Leone at Freetown as a visiting professor. He will teach a course in Sino-Soviet affairs, do research on the political parties of six West African nations, and advise the University on acquisitions in these fields. The Littauer Foundation of New York provided the support enabling the University to invite Professor McLane to go there.

Two visiting professors will be teaching in the History Department during spring term. Samuel C. Chu '5l, Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, will offer courses in the history of "Traditional East Asia" and of "Modern East Asia." Hans Baron of the Newberry Library in Chicago and an authority on the Renaissance in Florence, will offer a seminar on "Topics in the Italian Renaissance."

PROFESSOR PAUL ZELLER was guest conductor of the State Chorus at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association last month. He conducted the chorus in a program of classical, modern and folk music.

BASIL MILOVSOROFF, Associate Professor of Russian Civilization, will again direct the Russian Language Institute for secondary-school teachers on the campus this summer. This is the fifth summer of the institute and some 40 teachers are expected to attend. ... John C. Donnell, Assistant Professor of Government, who has specialized in Vietnamese affairs, was called to Washington by the RAND Corporation last month to consult with the Department of Defense. ... Dr. Kurt Benirschke, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, delivered a paper on "Major Pathologic Features of the Placenta, Cord and Membranes" at a special symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine March 6.