THE FACULTY

THE passing of 1964 also saw the passing of one of the most popular courses in recent College history. Prof. Hugh S. Morrison '26 delivered the final lecture in Art 1 (Architecture) early in December and thereby ended an era. During the 16 years since he began teaching the course nearly 40 per cent of all Dartmouth undergraduates have enrolled. That's 4,466 students or an average of 279 per course.

The foregoing statistics come courtesy of Clara M. Loring of the Registrar's Office. And the following quote comes from Professor Morrison: "I'm weeping no tears because of Art 1's demise. Times change, old people go out and new ones come in, and I have been a prime mover in trying to plan. . . new and better courses leading to a better future for the Art Department."

Art 1 in its revised form will be a more comprehensive course, covering more art forms than architecture, which was the focus of Professor Morrison's celebrated course.

PAUL T. SHANNON, Associate Professor of Engineering, conducted a two-day workshop at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., in January on a new computer language he has developed, PACER-PROTRAN. The name derives from Process Assembly Case EvaluationRoutine for Process Translation. It is a macro programming language for a digital computer and will be used to simulate the operations of a chemical plant.

The workshop is the opening phase of a chemical plant simulation study conducted by the Chemical Engineering Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada. This spring Professor Shannon will continue work with the study group which consists of chemical engineering faculty members and students at McMaster and professional chemical engineerings from throughout Canada.

The aims are to produce case-study data for teaching and research purposes and to test and evaluate PACER-PRO-TRAN. This is believed to be the first computer simulation of a chemical plant that will be available for widespread teaching use.

A $39,000 grant from the National Science Foundation has been made to a Chemistry Department group investigating Energy Transfer in MolecularSolids. James F. Hornig, Associate Professor of Chemistry, who was recently named Chairman of the Science Division, is principal investigator and is being assisted by Dr. Lowell Schwartz, Research Instructor in Chemistry, and several graduate students and undergraduate chemistry majors.

The grant is for continued support of a currently active research program which is concerned with the ability of certain organic crystals to conduct electricity when they are exposed to light.

WHEN he retires from Dartmouth in 1966, Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, will join the faculty of Chatham College in Pittsburgh.

Chatham College President Edward D. Eddy Jr, announced his appointment recently to a new endowed chair, the Anna R. D. Gillespie Professorship of Philosophy.

PROF. WALTER H. STOCKMAYER of the Chemistry Department has been named to a committee of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to study the questions involved in research support in chemistry.

The committee is compiling data on the present directions of chemical research, scientific opportunities in the immediate future, and the support and organization of basic and applied research in chemistry in universities, industry, and the Federal Government.

DR. ROBERT J. WEISS, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, delivered a paper, "Emotional Disturbance, Academic Potential and Withdrawal in a Male Undergraduate Population," at the meeting of the Academy of Psychoanalysis in New York recently Dr. Otis F. Jillson, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, served as chairman of a symposium on "Clinical Allergy" at a meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in Chicago. . . . Dr. Robert G. Fisher, Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, presented a paper on "Cerebral Atrophy" at a meeting of the Neurological Society in Miami.

At the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, held in New York, Associate Professor James M. Cox of the English Department presented a paper entitled "Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, J. D. Salinger, and Vernacular Humor." Gerald L. Childs, Assistant Professor of Economics, delivered a paper at the annual meeting of The Econometric Society in Chicago. Its title was "Estimation of Linear Decision Rules for Inventories of Finished Goods and Unfilled Orders."

PROVOST John W. Masland is on a leave of absence during the winter term in order to complete a study of manpower needs and educational capabilities in nine African countries. He spent several weeks in Africa during the summer and has now returned there. He is visiting countries in both East and West Africa during January, February and March as director of the study, which is being made by Education and World Affairs at the request of the Agency for International Development.

ELISE GRILLI, Professor of Oriental Art at Sophia College in Tokyo, has been a visiting lecturer during January. Her art collection, which contains works dating from the Third to the 20th Century and is primarily a teaching collection, has been exhibited at the Hopkins Center. There, according to Miss Grilli, the presentation has been as fine as in any of the leading museums throughout the world where her collection has been exhibited.

PROF. RICHARD P. UNSWORTH, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, discussed Dartmouth's Project Asia at a meeting at Yale of college representatives interested in the involvement of American educational institutions in programs in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India.

RALPH A. BURNS, Professor-Emeritus of Education, has been named Director of the Office of Evaluation Studies for Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.