THE FACULTY
Two Dartmouth Medical School faculty members have been chosen for Research Career Awards by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. George Margolis, Professor of Pathology, and Dr. Lawrence Kilham, Associate Professor of Micro- biology, were chosen for the awards, according to the NIH, on "the basis of nationwide competition among candidates whose research has won the respect of scientific leaders in their fields."
The Research Career Awards were created to increase the number of stable, full-time career opportunities for scientists of superior potential and capability in the sciences related to health. The awards are to the Medical School and pay the full salaries of the scientists involved for the remainder of their research careers at the school.
Dr. Margolis came to the Medical School last September from the Medical College of Virginia where he had been chairman of the Department of Pathology. He earned his bachelor of arts degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1936 and took his M.D. at Duke University in 1940. He served his internship and residency in pathology at Duke University Hospital and after World War II service in the Medical Corps in Europe he returned to the Duke Medical School in 1947 as an Associate in Pathology. He was appointed Professor of Pathology in 1955, but in 1959 went to Medical College of Virginia.
Dr. Margolis has contributed 41 articles to various medical publications on a variety of subjects. He is currently engaged in an investigation of circulatory dynamics of the central nervous system under a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Kilham, who came to Dartmouth in 1961 (see adjoining article), was born in Brookline, Mass., and received his bachelor's and master's degrees at Harvard and his M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1940. After war-time service in the Army Medical Corps he returned to Harvard Medical School, but went to the National Institutes of Health laboratories in Bethesda, Md., in 1949. Except for single years spent in research at the Virus Research Institute of East Africa and the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., he had been at Bethesda until coming to Hanover.
PROF. JOHN FINCH of the English Department has been named a member of the national committee of the Shakespeare Anniversary Committee. The appointment was announced by Eugene R. Black, chairman and president of the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre at Stratford, Conn.
Two Geography Department faculty members presented papers at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at Syracuse last month. Prof. Albert S. Carlson discussed Dartmouth's courses in industrial location and planning under the title, "Geography in City Planning and Urban Studies." Prof. Martyn J. Bowden presented a paper at a special meeting arranged to honor John K. Wright's contributions to the history of geography. Dr. Wright, retired director of the American Geographical Society, lives in Lyme, N. H., and frequently consults with the Dartmouth department. Mr. Bowden's paper was entitled "Geographic Lore and Historical Geosophy: The Contribution of John K. Wright to the History of Geography."
Another Dartmouth geographer, Prof. Robert E. Huke '48, has been appointed to the Geography in Liberal Education Project. This special A.A.G. committee was formed to develop guidelines to strengthen geography's contribution to liberal education. The work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
THREE Chemistry Department members' long years of training and research in chemical combustion have resulted in a reverse kind of "breakthrough." The trouble at The Long Cabin, a year-round shelter at the 3300-foot level on Mt. Adams, was that there were already too many "breakthroughs" in a stovepipe. The chemists - Paul Shafer, Roger Soderberg and Walter Stockmayer - packed new stovepipe up the mountain to the shelter and installed it. Several weeks earlier Professors Soderberg and Stockmayer, along with Prof. Ernst Snapper of Mathematics, his son Jim and graduate student Donald Hill, had spent a smoky night there hurling imprecations at the old, well-riddled pipe. The pipe-fixing climbers report they were rewarded with a sunny, calm day for the ascent of Adams (5800 feet).
ROGER DAVIDSON and David Kovenock of the Government Department and Michael O'Leary of Great Issues have been awarded a $5,700 grant from the College's Public Affairs Center to continue and expand their research on Congressional reorganization. Their previous work provided much of the material for the discussions during the first Orvil E. Dryfoos Conference on Public Affairs held at the College in March.
PROFS. BERNARD E. SEGAL and Derek L. Phillips of the Sociology Department have been awarded a $57,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health for a three-year community study of attitudes toward illness and utilization of medical aid.
AMONG papers presented at the Eastern Psychological Association meetings in Philadelphia were two by Thomas J. Tighe, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and his wife. His concerned "The Effect of Overtraining on the Reversal and Non-reversal Shifts in Monkeys." Mrs. Tighe, a research associate in the Department, reported on "The Effect of Nonreinforced, Nonassociative Pretraining on the Relative Ease of Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Children."
Another psychologist, Assistant Professor Victor E. McGee, has recently been awarded an $18,505 grant from the Office of Naval Research for a study of "The Communication of Affect in Speech and Related Psychometric Problems." This involves examination of any aspect of speech that is not the verbal message itself - intonation, voice level, etc. He will have people listen to a sample of voices and scale them for such qualities as "happiness." When certain voices have been agreed on as being "happy," they will be distorted electronically to try to discover physical clues to their properties. The ultimate objective of the research is the electronic synthesis of speech.
BLAIR WATSON JR., director of Dartmouth Films and Audio-Visual Services, served as a juror for the 1964 American Film Festival in' New York. He judged a category called "Films for Public Relations for Nonprofit Organizations." He had been a judge in the "Art" category in 1955. ...Dr. Robert Weiss presented a paper on "Principles of Programed Instruction" at the Orthopedic Research and Education Seminar in Dallas. ... Prof. Kalman Silvert of the Department of Government discussed "The Effect of Castroism on Hemispheric Relations" at New England College at a meeting of New England social studies teachers. It was sponsored by the New England Council on World Affairs. ... William Slesnick, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, lectured on coordinate geometry at a meeting of the State Mathematics Conference.
PROF. GORDON SKILLING, a member of the Government Department from 1947 to 1959, has returned to the campus for the spring term. He is director of the Center for Russian and Bast European Studies at the University of Toronto.
THE will of the late Frank Maloy Anderson, Professor of History at the College from 1914 until 1941, created the Troyer Steel Anderson ('22) Fund for the American Historical Association. It will provide an award to be made once every ten years to the person considered to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of the association. Professor Anderson made two other bequests, one to the association's endowment fund and another to foster historical research.
Dr. George Margolis, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, who hasreceived an NIH Research Career Award.
