A Teacher's Real Reward

Former Students Have Last Word in TributeTo Eleven Retiring from the Faculty in 1964

" 'Take Foley's Cowboy Course' - that was the student grapevine. Foley, with his gift for 'lrish' mimicry and humor had Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan stride through the lecture hall vigorously alive. But Al Foley did more than this. While he opened up the eyes of many students to what the nation had accomplished, more importantly, he stimulated them to explore where we had failed to achieve the American purpose of equality of opportunity for all citizens under freedom.

"As a perceptive man, he knew that a professor had to hold the interest of students before he could teach effectively. Yes, he was a first-class actor - to get real guts across. Many a research-oriented scholar needs what Al Foley has - too few have it.

"Equally important, he was always available to students. Countless are indebted to him for his friendly, helpful advice. Many of us could not have made it without his encouragement and his financial support - and his continued interest in us."

loiMSON '37 Professor of History University of Chicago

"Which part of 'her spell ... remains,' I wonder, because of our special respects and affections for individual professors? Prof. James F. Cusick, for example? Here in the hunk of girdled earth that is troubled Indonesia, meeting with a group of pedagogic missionaries whose personal feats prove that by no means is the awful situation hopeless, I remember when Jim Cusick guided us in our initial tour of the problems called Great Depression, then seemingly hopeless. No flashy analyst, gloomy critic, or glib reformer, he! Rather were we exposed to cosmic ideas re patience, persistence, dedication - above all, knowledge. How many 19-year-olds like this writer, learned first from him that academic research is (a) critical, and (b) considerably more than a phenomenon occurring in esoteric laboratories?

"Many like me, I know, benefited from wonderfully thoughtful conferences in his office, and from his and Margaret's generosity at home. Thus, through the years does a man teach that a perceptive economist can be also a sometime symphony musician and humanities scholar, and a remarkably useful citizen too."

FRANK C. NEWMAN '38 Dean of the School of Law University of California at Berkeley

"One tribute to Prof. John Williams is the number of alumni who share his sympathy for Abelard and Chartres and his skepticism for the unmitigated wonders of this century.

"In our Sputnik era the Middle Ages would hardly be expected to appeal to college students. Still, there is a good rule on campus that the subject of a course is not as important as its teacher. And John Williams has attracted students by his learning, his patience, and his critical devotion to his field. He has an amazing ability of infecting a class with his own quiet enthusiasm for an event or an idea. Most important, he takes a sincere interest in his students. He willingly undertook the task of Adviser to this Senior Fellow and gave me of his ideas and critical judgment to an extent that I am permanently and gratefully indebted.

"His interest in students and devotion to his field place Professor Williams in the best tradition of American teachers. He will be missed on campus."

HENRY W. WEISS '60 Graduate Student Harvard University

"Brown-eyed, wavy-haired, athletically trim, John Hurd belongs to the tradition of great Dartmouth professors. Apart from his many off-campus activities ranging from music and sports to a convivial appreciation for European wines. Jack has established a quiet reputation for being a devoted friend, a loyal alumnus, and a dedicated and inspiring teacher.

"Well aware of my interest in the trade of chimney-sweeping, Jack, during one stay in Vienna, as he did on many other sojourns in Europe, daily ransacked antique shops and bookstores to obtain items for my collection - one choice possession, a Hurd discovery, is an 18th Century wooden bust of St. Florian, patron saint of chimney-sweeps.

"When as a junior in 1930 I was burned out of the Green Lantern and anxious to study during part of the Christmas holidays, Jack and Eleanor, his staunch helpmate, invited me to be their houseguest. I thankfully accepted their gracious invitation.

"Since 1928, when Jack was a second-year instructor and I was in my second year, he has advised me on all kinds of important problems; and he continues to be a friendly mentor. Jack is the living spirit of what Dartmouth means to me."

GEORGE LEWIS PHILLIPS '31 Professor Diego State College

"I have known Prof. Robert E. Riegel of the History Department since the fall of 1935 when as an unusually bewildered freshman in his section of the required Social Science course I learned to admire both his breadth of knowledge and his skill in weaving together varied topics into a comprehensive unit. After many years of only occasional contact, some ten years ago we collaborated on a history text, The American Story, so my association with him covered almost thirty years.

"Bob Riegel is a topnotch historian whose catholicity of interest has ranged with major works in his original field, the West, to his latest love - women (The Feminist Movement of the Nineteenth Century).

"He is a man whose appearance and personality wear well - a superb and witty raconteur - a smoker switching back and forth from cigarette to pipe to cigar with equal relish - a murderously adroit bridge player - a good teacher, good historian, good friend."

DAVID F. LONG '35 Professor of History University of New Hampshire

"Professor Shaw - and what former student would ever refer to him in any other way than 'Professor'? - is one of Dartmouth's great teachers and Hanover's most beloved characters. Professor Shaw's chief interest always has been a sincere concern for his students in the noble tradition of the teaching profession, not a selfish preoccupation with his own career.

"On first contact, some students probably thought Professor Shaw a bit forbidding, as I did. His dignity and nononsense manner in the classroom may convey this impression. And it is a bit unusual for a professor to have his lecture notes on the inside of a small paper match book cover! But his 'Hello, Marsh' on the green never was perfunctory, and his students quickly realized that this professor was devoted to each of his charges. He soon knew each student by name (last names, always, in the English tradition of cordiality), and he remembered them. As the years pass, it is his great delight to recognize on his class lists the names of sons of his former students.

"Professor Shaw enjoys the respect, admiration, and appreciation of his students, and, as one of them, I know that I am joined by all the others in this heartfelt salute to our friend and teacher."

JOSEPH F. MARSH JR. '47 President. Concord College

"Two aspects of Prof. Francis W. Sears' personality are fondly remembered in the season of his retirement. They recall a treasured association with a great teacher whose concern was for his students - in every facet of their kaleidoscopic lives.

"The first is of a forceful lecturer. 103 Wilder shook as he went crashing, flashing, and exploding through the brilliant productions that were his lectures. The staid confines of didactic tradition crumbled and so did student apathy. He set the Dartmouth standard as he had elsewhere, not only for physics but also for a lively approach to learning in general.

"The second picture is of an inquisitive, friendly newcomer to Hanover. With his equally enthusiastic wife, he was an eager participant in many community functions. The Searses were often there for the glee club concerts and for the faculty cocktail parties. He would turn up along the senior fence in the spring or the bonfires in the fall. They were always accessible for the sharing of ideas.

"Professor Sears.was not a frustrated researcher, teaching only for support of his investigative projects. In and out of class and lab he made it clear that he was happy in his work, and that his students mattered a great deal to him."

DAVID MARTIN CARTER, M.D., '58 Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service Philadelphia, Pa.

"Herb West has probably taught more alumni and knows more alumni personally than any other member of the faculty. The main reason for this is that he is a dedicated teacher, and the students know it. Over the years Herb has successfully stimulated thousands of young men to think for themselves, to turn the corner to maturity, to develop intellectual curiosity, and they show their appreciation by calling on him when in Hanover, or through correspondence for years after graduation.

"Herb's sincere interest in his students is matched only by his love of Dartmouth. Over his teaching span he has traveled throughout this country and most of Europe, always talking to alumni groups or individuals about the Dartmouth he loves, spreading the gospel to non-Dartmouth people, many of whom only know the College through him.

"Another facet of his love for Dartmouth is the 25 years he has directed and nursed the Friends of the Dartmouth Library. Today the organization is a strong, nationally known adjunct of Baker Library and has accounted for gifts of rarities amounting to over a million dollars. Herb's only compensation for this is a job well done."

RICHARD H. MANDEL '26 Executive Vice President All-State Welding Alloys, Inc. White Ptains, New York

"The most vivid recollection of my association with Harry Sampson is of the impact of his personality and of his unfailing sense of humor. Never cutting, his humor was to the point. He used it to relieve a tight situation, to provide an example, to instruct and teach.

"It was always a pleasure just to be witb bim.

"He managed to bridge tbs gap of between himself and students and was accepted with respect, not alone for knowledge and experience, but also as a person. This is an uncommon trait. Harry has the ability to be himself and, in so being, was an inspiring teacher — not just ok knowledge — but also of bow to become a man."

H. DWIGHT MEADER '40 Consultant, Employee Compensation General Electric Co., New York

"In looking back upon my undergraduate days some thirty years ago, several events stand out. One of these was my association with Professor Perkins in his course on partial differential equations of physics. I was the only student to elect the course, but nevertheless he was willing, indeed enthusiastic, to give it. During that year I was introduced to most of the great treatises on mathematical analysis, and given a tremendous number of rather long and difficult problems to solve. Because of his clarity of exposition and insights into mathematical physics, I was able to solve the problems, not without a great deal of hard work, and gain a mastery of mathematical analysis which served as a basis for my career as a physicist ever since. It was Professor Perkins' unique capacity to stretch a student's mind to the limit that impressed me and I am sure others.

"Later as his colleague at the College, I frequently sought him out to discuss problems in mathematical physics. Always he gave generously of his time and thought, and invariably contributed to the solutions of the problems. Indeed the College is fortunate to have had him on the faculty and those of us who were his students and colleagues are deeply grateful to him. He has served the College, his students, and his colleagues in the finest tradition of the scholar-teacher."

GORDON F. HULL JR. '33 director of Research Baird-Atomic, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

"To those of us in the late '4o's and '50's who had activities in Robinson Hall, Wally seemed as essential a part of the creativity that went on there as Warner Bentley himself. Wally was everywhere at once: bent over in concentration as a portrait grew at his pen point; holding forth with a circle of students at the water fountain; making sure there was a seat for every ticket-holder and that every ticket-holder took a seat; acting out roles with great flourish as adviser to a fraternity play cast. It came as no surprise to learn that Wally also taught speech because he always spoke that way with a voice that was rich and with gestures that would please John Gielgud. Wally, in the tradition of the theater, made the move to Hopkins Center with ease and grace."

RAYMOND J. BUCK JR. '52 Dartmouth College Editor

ALLEN R. FOLEY '20 Professor of History. At Dartmouth since 1929.

JAMES F. CUSICK Professor of Economics. At Dartmouth since 1935.

JHON HURD '21 Professor of English. at Dartmouth since 1927.

JOHN R. WILLIAMS '20 Professor of History. At Dartmouth since 1926.

HARRY F.R. SHAW Professor of Economics. At Dartmouth since 1924.

ROBERT E. RIEGEL Professor of History.At Dartmouth since 1922.

HERBERT F. WEST '22Professor of Comparative Literature.At Dartmouth since 1922.

FRED W. PERKINS Professor of Matliematics. At Dartmouth since 1927.

HARRY M. SAMPSON '21 Assistant Professor of Physical Education.At Dartmouth since 1921.