THE FACULTY
PROF. JOHN H. WOLFENDEN of the Chemistry Department is one of three chemists selected for the 1964 College Chemistry Teacher Awards given by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. He will receive a medal, a citation, and a check for $1,000 at the annual meeting of the association in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., June 11.
The awards are made to recognize and honor outstanding chemistry teaching at the undergraduate level at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Another Dartmouth chemist, Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, won the award in 1960 while on the M.I.T. faculty. Another man close to Dartmouth, Prof. John Turkevich '28, now of the Princeton faculty, won the award in 1957.
Professor Wolfenden, New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, came to Dartmouth in 1947 from Oxford University where he was chairman of the Chemistry Subfaculty. During World War II he served as Principal Scientific Officer of the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington for which he received the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In announcing the awards Gen. George H. Decker, president of the association, said that the chemical industry has a deep and continuing interest in the education of chemists and chemical engineers.
"From the rich resources with which America is blessed the industry can obtain or synthetically develop the products required by our new economy," he said. "But it can't manufacture trained manpower. This is the proper function of colleges and universities, and particularly of their dedicated professors. Quality teachers are in short supply. Their numbers will never be adequate."
PROF. LAURENCE I. RADWAY of the Government Department was elected president of the New England Political Science Association at the association's April 25 meeting in Boston. He was vice-president last year.
The association, as the name implies, is composed of political scientists from institutions throughout New England.
PROF. JOHN L. STEWART, associate director of the Hopkins Center, will deliver the Commencement Address at his alma mater, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, on June 8. His address is entitled "Breaking the Mold: A New Approach to the Arts in Education." Professor Stewart was graduated from Denison in 1938.
SIDNEY LEES, Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School, is the first president of the newly formed Dartmouth chapter of Sigma Xi, national scientific honorary society. Other officers who were installed May 13 include Roy P. Forster, Professor of Biology.
The chapter has been formed by the ninety members and associate members who live in the Hanover area.
PROF. Louis MORTON delivered the third of a special series of lectures at Rice University, which are supported by a grant from the Sperry Hutchinson Foundation. His public lecture was entitled "The Era of the Cold War." Professor Morton is a specialist in military history and has recently accepted the general editorship of a 16-volume series on "Wars and Military Institutions of the United States" which the Macmillan Company is publishing.
PROF. RICHARD E. STOIBER '32 of the Geology Department has undertaken a study of metal-containing minerals collected from Central American volcanoes. The minerals are literally boiled off from the huge reservoirs of molten rock deep in the volcano craters and he hopes his studies will reveal important information about the geological make-up of the deep, otherwise inaccessible recesses of the earth.
ANEW volume of the French Encyclopedia contains an article on the United States by Prof. Henry W. Ehrmann, chairman of the Government Department. The new volume on "The State" was edited by Edgar Faure, former Premier of France, and is published by the National Ministry of Education of France. The Encyclopedia dates back to 1751 when first published by Diderot.
PROF. RICHARD EBERHART '26 of the English Department was one of eleven prominent writers and editors who participated in a "Careers in Writing" program at Boston College. With him on the panel on poetry were Howard Nemerov, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, and Dannie Abse, author of Golders Green. ... Professor-Emeritus Sidney Hazelton 'O9 was a featured speaker at the national convention of the American Red Cross. ... Prof. Carl F. Long of the Thayer School participated in a panel discussion of "Experiments in Engineering Education" at the national conference of the Association for Higher Education. ... Willard Hanna, American Universities Field Staff expert of Southeast Asia, visited the campus for ten days in May under the AUFS program.
PROF. WING-TSIT CHAN, currently on sabbatical leave in the Far East, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies for a three-year term. While in the Far East he has also been named an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Hong Kong and an honorary member of the Research Institute of Far Eastern Studies of Chung Chi College, now part of the new Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. John H. Wolfenden, who has won a1964 College Chemistry Teacher Award,for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
