The Faculty
MARIO DI BONAVENTURA, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, returned for the winter term after a three-month tour of Europe during which he introduced the works of several American composers to European audiences.
He conducted the Hungarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Budapest in a series of four recording sessions. He also conducted the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra. In both he gave first performances of compositions by Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.
In Poland he held discussions with Witold Lutoslawski which led to the Polish composer's accepting an invitation to be a composer-in-residence at the Hopkins Center next summer during the Congregation of the Arts.
Films taken at the Hopkins Center last summer during the period that Zoltan Kodaly was composer-in-residence were shown on Hungarian television during his stay and made an excellent impression, he said.
Professor Bonaventura also visited Czechoslovakia, Germany and Yugoslavia and expects to introduce new American music in these countries on a tour next year.
PROF. John Hennessey of Tuck School is scheduled to be feted at a special awards luncheon in Chicago this month sponsored by the American College of Hospital Administrators. He will receive the 1966 Edgar C. Hayhow Award which is given annually to the author of the outstanding article published in Hospital Administration, the college's quarterly journal. His winning article was entitled "The Administrator and Policy Processes."
GERALD L. CHILDS, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been awarded a Brookings Research Professorship for 1966-67. The award from the Brookings Institution of Washington, D. C., covers a full year's salary and expenses to conduct independent investigations in economics. He will be on leave in 1966-67 to do research of "Asymmetrical Characteristics of Manufacturers' Inventory Behavior Over the Business Cycle." His aim is to discover whether manufacturers rely on different sets of criteria in planning the size of their inventories of finished products during different phases of the business cycle.
PROF. John T. Lanzetta of the Psychology Department was director of a week-long series of meetings of 15 American and European psychologists held in Nice, France, last month. The conference centered on "Conflict Resolution" and was an extension of meetings held in Hanover last August. They were sponsored by the College and the Office of Naval Research and had three aims: (1) to discuss social-psychological experiments on conflict resolution, (2) to identify areas in which more research is needed, and (3) to plan joint international research in this field. Psychologists from The Netherlands, France, Belgium, England, and the United States participated.
WINSLOW EAVES, Assistant Professor of Art, showed some 20 pieces of sculpture in the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Museum of the Arts last month. The exhibit was part of a three-man show arranged by the museum. Professor Eaves has completed about ten works a year for the past several years. Last year these included a portrait bust of Prof. Richard Eberhart '26, Mrs. Yu Fujiwara, wife of the visiting artist at the Hopkins Center last spring, and an abstract bronze commissioned by Dean L. Schmeekebier of Syracuse University.
JOHN A. MENGE, Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Director of Peace Corps-Dartmouth, directed a three-day conference on "The Negro Subculture in America" at Kinlock, Mo. The purpose was to give 35 Peace Corps trainees who are bound for Liberia an understanding of the root causes and consequences of the civil rights and segregation problems in this country and to enable them to discuss these matters with Liberians when they arrive. Kinlock is an entirely colored and relatively impoverished suburb of St. Louis. The trainees and staff lived with Negro families during the conference.
PAPERS by three faculty members were presented at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last month.
Prof. William W. Ballard '28, Sidney E. Junkins Professor of Biology, discussed "Formative Movements in Teleost Embryos" at a meeting sponsored by one of the AAAS member organizations, the American Society of Zoologists. It described how fertilized cells organize into embryos. A report by Robert A. Feldmesser, Associate Professor of Sociology, was presented at a session sponsored by the Council of Science Education. It dealt with work he is doing as executive director of Sociology Resources for Secondary Schools. Dr. Allen Munck, Associate Professor of Physiology, described the mechanism of adrenal steroid hormone action before a meeting of the Division of Medicine.
PROF. James Sykes of the Music Department, back from a globe-girdling concert tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department, reported that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE feature in October about the trip had alerted many Dartmouth men in foreign lands to his arrival. He was greeted warmly by alumni everywhere, he reported.
DR. ALAN HORTON, a specialist in Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian affairs for the American Universities Field Staff, spent much of January on- campus as a AUFS visitor. He was associated with Anthropology 82, a seminar on land tenure, and held discussions with faculty members and students on Middle Eastern problems.
Two Medical School faculty members were recently elected to represent New Hampshire in national organizations. Dr. Rodger E. Weismann, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, was named to the Board of Governors of the Fellows of the American College of Surgeons for a three-year term. Dr. Donald Andresen, Clinical Instructor in Medicine, is president-elect of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Heart Association.
