The Faculty

DARTMOUTH radiophysicists are continuing certain scientific experiments on Russian soil. This Russian soil is in Antarctica at a geophysical research station called Vostok. Prof. Leif Owren of the Radiophysics Laboratory, who is directing the project, explained that Vostok is near the terminus of the south geomagnetic pole. In this series of studies of solar particles this location and its opposite number at Kanak in Greenland provide the best places to record evidence of these relatively rare phenomena.

One of Professor Owren's associates, J. D. Jacobs, a graduate student in physics, will travel to Antarctica to set up the instrumentation for recording very low frequency audio-range emissions through which they hope to trace the solar-particle activity.

The project is part of a two-year (1964-66) study of earth-sun relations supported by the National Science Foundation under a general program called the International Years of the Quiet Sun. The Russian and Danish governments and Stanford University are cooperating in the studies.

DEAN Myron Tribus of the Thayer School recently participated in an unusual demonstration of the capabilities of the Kiewit Computation Center. He was at Heriot-Watt College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, discussing computers before a distinguished group of scientists there. He placed a call via a teletype to the Center in Hanover and typed out a problem. Within seconds he had a direct reply from Hanover.

Prof. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department also discussed computers as the featured speaker at the New England regional conference of the National Science Teachers Association. He predicted that within ten years every high school would have some kind of computer equipment and within 25 to 50 years it would be standard equipment in homes.

FREDERICK E. WEBSTER JR. '59, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School, has been awarded one of two silver medals given nationally for industrial marketing research. The award is sponsored by Industrial Marketing magazine and the G. D. Crain Jr. Foundation.

The award was based on his doctoral dissertation on the buying patterns within the defense industry. The study was financed in part by a doctoral research grant from the National Association of Purchasing Agents.

Professor Webster joined the Tuck faculty this fall from the Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration where he had been an Assistant Professor of Marketing. He received his M.B.A. from Tuck and his Ph.D. from Stanford.

DR. FRANK W. LANE JR., Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology at the Medical School, attending the International Congress of Radiology in Rome last month, described a method developed here of calculating radiation dosages for cancer patients.

The paper on A Computer Techniquefor Radiation Dosimetry was co-authored by Dr. George R. Stibitz, Research Associate in Physiology, and Richard Shaw, a Medical School student. It describes how the Kiewit Computation Center is used to determine the radiation dose around the intracavitary radium applicators.

Dr. Lane has been calculating radiation dosages for cancer patients using the remote input-output station at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He obtains information from the computer in minutes that formerly required weeks of calculation. In addition, the information is much more detailed.

The research project leading to development of this new technique was initiated by the Hitchcock Foundation and supported by the American Cancer Society. Dr. Lane directed the project and determined the physiological parameters and medical applications. Mr. Shaw did the computer programming with Dr. Stibitz as mathematics consultant.

JACOB NEUSNER, Assistant Professor of Religion, whose book History of theJews in Babylonia, Vol. 1, The ParthianPeriod was published in August, had another brought out in October. His Historyand Torah: Essays on Jewish Learning was published by Schocken Books of New York.

Professor Neusner was also recently appointed to the Committee on Jewish Affairs of the American Jewish Congress and elected to membership in the American Society for the Study of Religion. He serves on the editorial committee of the American Jewish Historical Society, as a contributing editor to Religious andTheological Abstracts, and as Judaica reviewer for Choice.

PROPAGANDA and its uses and abuses in the Western World is the subject of a new book by Prof. Michael E. Choukas '27, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. PropagandaComes of Age was published by Public Affairs Press of Washington, D. C. Professor Choukas, chief of plans and production of morale operations for the OSS in World War 11, writes of the nature of propaganda as both the academic sociologist and the OSS official who was involved first-hand. He discusses propaganda's nature, its context in history, its techniques, the birth of modern propaganda during World War II, and the relationship of propaganda to democracy, for good or ill.

CLARK HORTON, Consultant in Educational Research, has been named to the Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English. The council's membership lists 95,000 elementary, secondary and college teachers.

RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of English and Poet in Residence, had a new book of poems published last month. New Directions Press of New York brought out his Richard Eberhart:Selected Poems 1930-1965. This is a collection of 112 poems from 11 earlier works, ranging from A Bravery of Earth (1930) to The Quarry (1964). Twelve new poems are included.

DEAN RICHARD P. UNSWORTH of the Tucker Foundation was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual National Education Conference held at Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass. About 200 school and college representatives were on hand for discussions of problems facing students entering college.

RECENT grants to faculty members have included a $100,000 award from the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts to the Urban Studies Program and its director, Prof. Frank Smallwood '51. A major portion of the grant will be used to reactivate and expand the joint Dartmouth-M.I.T. Urban Studies Project which operated from 1960 to 1963. . . . Prof. Gene Likens of the Biological Sciences Department has received a National Science Foundation grant of $5,800 in support of research entitled "Geothermal Heat Flow in Meromectric Lakes."

DARTMOUTH'S freshman English program continues to attract interest. Noel Perrin, Assistant Professor of English, described it recently in a speech to the New England Council of Teachers of English, and Assistant Professors Philip Handler and Chauncey Loomis were invited to the Holderness School to discuss its impact on prep school work.

PROF. RICHARD S. BOWER of the Tuck School has been granted a Ford Foundation Fellowship to devote this year to a study of the financing of corporations. He was one of 183 scholars from 44 schools chosen for the awards.

Cogitation or weariness? President Dickey, with hand on brow, at a College ceremonywith Deans Albert I. Dickerson '30, Richard P. Unsworth, and Thaddeus Seymour.