The Faculty

PROF. JAMES F. HORNIG, Chairman of the Science Division and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named Director of Graduate Study. As such he will be chairman of the Council on Graduate Studies, the primary faculty committee concerned with all aspects of graduate work outside of the professional schools. The Council's responsibilities have increased considerably following recent decisions of the faculty and the Board of Trustees to enlarge opportunities for post-bacca-laureate education.

Professor Hornig has taken over these duties from Leonard M. Rieser '44, who in addition to his assignment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been named Provost of the College.

DR. KURT BENIRSCHKE, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, was one of six guest lecturers at the University of Colorado's Medical Center. The guest lecturers presented a week-long program on human genetics for about 200 physicians, fellows, and medical students.

THE Wadsworth Publishing Co. has just published Congress in Crisis:Politics and Congressional Reform, by Roger Davidson and David Kovenock of the Government Department and Michael O'Leary, formerly of Great Issues. The book grew out of work the three, aided by students, had done in Washington in preparation for the first Orvil Dryfoos Conference on Public Affairs which centered on Congressional reform. They continued the work for the following two years and the results are being published in paperback. A hardback edition is scheduled for publication in January.

PROF. RICHARD EBERHART '26 of the English Department recently described a late summer trip to East Africa he had made at the behest of the Peace Corps with Dean Robert Shaffer of Indiana University. Their mission was to visit and talk to Peace Corps volunteers in the area. After a few days of bumping around Kenya in a Land Rover and in small planes, Professor Eberhart came away with a profounder respect for the work being done there by the volunteers. Professor Eberhart recently received a citation at the tenth annual New England Theater Conference held at Brandeis.

ANEW organ anthem by Milton. Gill, Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist, was played by the composer at the meetings in Norwich of the American Guild of Organists' Vermont Chapter. Specially commissioned for the meetings, the work was performed by a 100-voice choir and was based on Psalm137.

PROF. CHARLES B. MCLANE '41 of the Russian Civilization Department was a speaker at an international conference in Munich, Germany, on "The October Revolution: Promise and Realization." He told the 150 specialists from twenty countries gathered for the conference that the role of Marxist-Leninist ideology in Soviet policy-making is declining. Some long-range measures stem partly from ideology, he said, but day-today decisions are based on more pragmatic considerations.

A NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY scientist, Dr. Frank W. Patten, will teach a winter term course here in thermodynamics and collaborate with two Physics Department faculty members, Profs. William Doyle and R. W. Christy, in research on color centers in alkali halides.

PROF. COLIN CAMPBELL of the Economics Department appeared on a Canadian television program in London, Ontario, last month entitled TV Forum. With Canadian economists and students, he discussed minimum wages. ... Another economist, Arthur Corazzini, presented a paper, "The Decision to Invest in Technical Education," at the Institute of Human Relations of Pennsylvania State University. ... Prof. James Sykes of the Music Department presented a series of three lecture-demonstrations in Portland, Maine, for members of the Portland Symphony Women's Committee.

THREE research grants were announced last month. Prof. Ernst Snapper of the Math Department received a National Science Foundation award of $20,000 to support research on "Spectral Sequences of Groups." Prof. John J. Gilbert of the Biological Sciences Department was awarded $16,000 for research entitled "Environmental Effects of Reproduction and Development in Rotifers." Dr. William O. Berndt of the Medical School received a grant from the New Hampshire Heart Association for studies of gout.

FRANK SMALL WOOD '51, Associate Professor of Government, presented a paper, "Home Rule in a Metropolitan Age," at the 72nd National Conference on Government of the National Municipal League. ... Jacob Neusner, Associate Professor of Religion, was a panelist at a colloquium on "Judaism and Christianity" held at the Harvard Divinity School. Professor Neusner also presented a paper, "From Theology to Ideology: the Trans- mutation of Judaism in Modern Times," at Indiana University at a conference on "The Religious Institution and Modernism" sponsored by the American Universities Field Staff. Prof. Kalman Silvert of the Government Department, an AUFS lecturer, delivered the summation of the three-day conference as it con- cluded.

TEACHERS and teachers' groups continue to call on Dartmouth faculty members as speakers. Prof. Allen L. King of the Physics Department addressed a group of Maine physics teachers at Lewiston High School. Prof. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department discussed "Computers in Our Future" at Hall High School in Hartford, Conn. ... Prof. Richard Williamson, also of the Mathematics Department, discussed "Modern Math and the College Student" before the annual convention of the Franklin (Mass.) County Teachers. ... Professor Richard Eberhart '26 addressed the annual meeting of the New England Association of English Teachers.

DONALD A. CAMPBELL '44, Associate Professor of History and director of the NDEA Institute in U.S. History for secondary school teachers, was general chairman of the history section meetings of an NDEA Institutes conference in Washington. Basil Milovsoroff, Professor of Russian Language and Literature and director of the summer Russian Institute at the College, also attended the sessions.

JONATHAN MIRSKY, Assistant Professor of Chinese, participated in a series of meetings last month dealing with American foreign policy. Among the appearances were those at the University of Connecticut, Amherst, Exeter, N. H., and Longmeadow, Mass.

Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 (r) with Librarian Richard W. Morin '24 at thereception and exhibition honoring thepoet's winning the 1966 Pulitzer Prize.