The Faculty
MARIO DI BONAVENTURA, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, is spending the fall term in Europe where he has been invited to conduct orchestras in five different countries. He will also be in touch with European musicians and composers about the Summer Music Program which Howard Klein of The NewYork Times recently termed a "major international festival... at the tender age of four."
In his absence, Alan Grishman of New York will work with the 70-piece Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra which is composed of musicians from 20 New Hampshire and Vermont communities as well as Dartmouth students and faculty members.
Mr. Grishman is a young concert violinist and conductor. He conducted the University of Texas Orchestra this past summer.
DARTMOUTH faculty members continue to be in demand at other schools, both here and abroad. It's a two-way street, of course, because Dartmouth attracts many distinguished visitors to Hanover where they teach and confer.
Among those who will be visiting other campuses and research establishments this year and whose activities have not been reported here previously are:
William W. Ballard '28, Sidney E. Junkins Professor of Biology, will be a Visitor at Stazione Zoological Laboratory, Naples, in March and April and at the University of Paris Marine Station at Roscoff from May through June.
Gerald L. Childs, Assistant Professor of Economics, has a Research Professorship at the Brookings Institution.
Richard Eberhart '26, Professor of English and Poet in Residence, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Washington for the spring term.
Robert H. Edgerton, Assistant Professor of Engineering, is affiliated with International Business Machines Corp. this year under the Ford Foundation's Residencies in Engineering Practices Program.
H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology, will be a Visiting Professor of City Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, during the spring term.
John W. Lamperti, Associate Professor of Mathematics, holds the title of Visitor at the Statistical Laboratory of Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology, is a Fulbright Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nice, France.
Angar Pytte, Associate Professor of Physics, is at Universite Libre, Brussels, Belgium, on a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship.
Thomas B. Roos, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, is studying at the University of Leiden Pathalogisch Laboratorium, The Netherlands, on a Public Health Services Special Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Bernard E. Segal '55, Associate Professor of Sociology, is in Argentina and Chile on a Foreign Area Fellowship sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Walter H. Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor of Chemistry, has been designated a Visiting Scholar by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Tokyo University of Education and the University of Kyoto for the fall term.
Ernest P. Young, Assistant Professor of History, is doing research in London, Taipei, and Australia on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship of the Social Sciences Research Committee.
MO. CLEMENT, Associate Professor of Economics, participated as a Senior Fellow in a conference on regional economic development organized by the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce. He discussed the potential contributions of public investment to the solution of the problems of lagging regional growth. Some 30 academic specialists, 30 research and administrative personnel from federal, state and local governmental agencies, and 20 graduate students attended the sessions at Williams College.... Associate Professor Frank Smallwood '51 of the Government Department has been named a research adviser to a special study on "Goals for Metropolitan Areas" sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development. Ralph Lazarus '35 is chairman of the study project.... John G. Garrard, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature, was resident coordinator for a student tour of Russia this summer. Ninety undergraduates from many American campuses participated in the six-week tour. Professor Garrard also presented a paper at the 10th Congress of the Federation Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes in Strasbourg, France in September.... David M. Lemal of the Chemistry Department delivered a series of six lectures at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He discussed "Modern Electronic Interpretations of Organic Reactions."
KALMAN H. SILVERT, Professor of Government, added fuel to two controversies affecting academic practices recently. In testimony before the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Government Research of the Committee on Government Operations he opposed scholars' becoming involved in the governmental process on these grounds: (a) "It is illogical...
to presume that excellent scholars necessarily have 'better' political passions than anyone else, (b) It is also fallacious to assume that scholarly competence is the same as, or can necessarily easily be transmuted into administrative skill, (c) The breakdown between academic and governmental spheres subtly threatens academic freedom by making commitment both too narrow and too widespread. (d) In social matters the scholar may find himself trammeled by an academic necessity to continue methodologically valid judgments of political policies and procedures in whose creation he has himself been involved."
In a second commentary on some current practices, he assailed the "survey sickness" of American researchers as a panelist at the New York convention of the American Psychological Association. The panel was discussing how various researchers were overrunning sources of information here and abroad and sending out questionnaires wholesale.
"We're all sick of visiting firemen," he said. "Imagine how sick foreigners are of American visiting firemen." He recalled that during a year-long stay in Argentina on a research project some 70 visitors from the United States had descended on him in search of data. "I passed the buck," he continued. "I gave them lists of other people to interview."
ROBERT E. HUKE '48, Professor of Geography, has returned from a four-month visit to Japan where he was engaged in research under a grant from the Comparative Studies Center. He has hopes of visiting Mainland China soon and he has received a passport clearance for such a trip. He is the second person in the United States to get such clearance. . . . Another geographer, John W. Sommer, has received a National Academy of Sciences grant to study urban markets in Senegal. He began the 15-month project last month.... Scene designs by Prof. George W. Schoenhut of the Drama Department for Shakespeare's TwelfthNight or What You Will and costume designs by Prof. Henry B. Williams for Shaw's In Good King Charles's GoldenDays were exhibited recently at the Yale Art Gallery. The exhibition by alumni of the Yale Drama School was held in conjunction with its 40th anniversary celebration. The work of participating alumni will become part of the permanent collection of the school.. .. Francois Denoeu, Professor of French Emeritus, has brought out a revised and enlarged edition of his book on the highlights of French civilization, L'Heritage Francais. It is published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
A SECOND edition of the highly successful textbook, Introduction toFinite Mathematics, by Profs. John G. Kemeny and J. Laurie Snell of Dartmouth and Gerald L. Thompson of Carnegie Tech was published recently. The first edition (1957) sold more than 130,000 copies and is being used in some 300 colleges in this country. It has been translated into six languages—Russian, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
ANEW member of the Mathematics Department faculty, James R. Geiser, was awarded the Goodwin Medal for "conspicuously effective teaching" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Geiser, who taught at MIT last year, has won a John Wesley Young research instructorship at Dartmouth for this year. The Goodwin Medal, established in memory of MlT's first Graduate School dean, is awarded to a graduate student each year, but "only when his teaching is recognized as effective beyond ordinary excellence." It includes a cash award of $500.
ROBERT SOKOL, Associate Professor of Sociology, discussed "The Radical Right: A Panel Study of McCarthyism and Birchism" at the Miami Beach meetings of the American Sociological Association.... Richard Eberhart '26, Professor of English and Poet in Residence, discussed "Poetry, the Sound, the Fury and the Dream" before the fall conference of the New England Association of Teachers of English in Portland, Me.... William A. Carter '20, Professor of Economics Emeritus, coordinated much of the Vermont-New Hampshire School of Banking's activities in Hanover in September and also addressed the group on "The Anti-Trust Laws May Get You If You Don't Watch Out." ... James Barros, Assistant Professor of Government, has been invited to the Princeton Center of International Studies to work on a study of the Secretaries-General of the League of Nations and the United Nations.... Thomas Vance and his wife, Vera, were the translators of poems by five contemporary Swedish poets appearing in the winter issue of ModernLiterature.... Dr. Ernest Sachs, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Robert Fisher, Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, have been named to the New Hampshire Traffic Safety Commission.
PROF. WILLIAM M. SMITH of the Psychology Department and Associate Dean of the Faculty is the new president of the New Hampshire Psychological Association. He moved up from President-elect a year early because the former president left the state. Professor Smith presented a paper, "Facilitation of Seeing Through Hearing: Some Further Experiments," at the Tri-State Psychological meeting in North Conway, N. H., in October. Virgil A. Graff, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a paper, "Spectral Sensitivity and Wave-Length Discrimination in the Turtle," at the same meeting.
AMONG recently announced research L grants to faculty members were the following:
William W. Ballard '28, Sidney E. Junkins Professor of Biology, for a study of "Development and Anatomy of Ambystoma"; to John B. Lyons, Professor of Geology, for "Origin of a Granite Gneiss in New Hampshire"; to Prof. Forrest I. Boley of Physics for "Experimental and Theoretical Studies in the Generation and Properties of Plasma Beam-Wave Interactions"; to Prof. William T. Doyle of Physics for "Magnetic and Optical Properties of Color Centers in lonic Crystals"; to Gene E. Likens, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, for "Heat Flow in Meromictic Lakes."
DARTMOUTH friends of Dr. Marc R. Gutwirth, former Lecturer in Classics at Dartmouth, will be sorry to learn of his death this summer in an automobile accident near Hamilton, N. Y. Born in The Hague 46 years ago, he was associate professor at Colgate University at the time of his death.
