The Faculty
THE American Council of Learned Societies offered ten post-doctoral fellowships this year in a nationwide competition.
Two of the ten were won by Dartmouth faculty members - Edward M. Bradley, Assistant Professor of the Classics, and Harry N. Scheiber, Associate Professor of History.
Others selected came from the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Yale, University of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Harvard, UCLA, and Pomona College.
The awards are designed to help young scholars in the humanities and social sciences to enlarge their range of knowledge outside their present specialities. The sponsoring organization is a private, non-profit federation of 31 national scholarly associations devoted to the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning.
With his one-year fellowship, Professor Scheiber plans to go to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. There he will study law, with special emphasis upon law and social process and upon 19th Century law of resource allocation and use.
Professor Bradley plans to spend most of his one-year fellowship in Greece. During the first part of his stay he will be associated with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens where he will study archaeological methods. Later he will apply this training to try to explain some little-understood passages in a work by the Eighth Century, B.C., Greek poet, Hesiod, called Theogony.
PROF. HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Director of the Experimental Theater, has been elected first vice-president of the American Educational Theatre Association. Professor Williams is also a member of the Executive Committee of the American National Theatre and Academy and serves on the Executive Board of the New England Theatre Conference.
As first vice-president he will be responsible for the program of the 30th annual AETA convention in Chicago next December.
JAMES BARROS, Assistant Professor of Government, has been awarded a six-month grant as a visiting scholar at the Geneva headquarters of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The grant from the Carnegie Endowment will enable him to do the initial research in Europe needed for a comparative study of the Secretaries-General of the League of Nations and the United Nations. He plans to leave for Geneva this summer.
HERBERT L. JAMES, Associate Professor of Speech, whose debating teams are having an unusually successful season (even for them), is serving as president of the Eastern Forensic Union this year.
Professor James will also be a co-director of the Forensic Institute at George-town University this summer. This will feature workshops for teachers and students in debate, oratory, extempore, and interpretation.
DR. ERNEST SACHS JR., Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, has gone to Turkey where he is serving as Visiting Professor of Neurosurgery from January 1 through May 1. Two years ago Dr. Sachs traveled to India where he served as visiting neurosurgeon at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, a remote village in southern India.
ROBERT DECKER, Associate Professor of Geology and expert volcanologist, has returned to the campus after a round-the-world trip during which he attended scientific meetings and visited scenes of activity in his field. He went to New Zealand for the meetings of the International Volcanological Association where he also visited sites of geotherinal-power experiments conducted by the government. He also stopped in the Philippines to visit Taal Volcano, scene of a violent eruption this fall which killed many Filipinos.
Professor Decker was also recently appointed American editor of the Bulletin Volcanologique, a publication of the Volcanological Association of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union.
Louis O. FOSTER, Professor of Accounting Emeritus at Tuck School, has joined the University of Florida Department of Accounting as a Visiting Professor for the winter trimester.
PROF. Louis MORTON of the History Department lectured on "Strategy and National Policy" at the University of California at La Jolla last month as part of the Mandeville Lecture Series there. Previous speakers have included Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Max Lerner, and Sidney Hook. He also served as Founder's Day speaker at Union College on "History, Historians and Foreign Policy." ... En route to Mexico on his sabbatical leave, Prof. Richard Eberhart '26, Poet in Residence and Professor of English, gave readings of his poetry at Syracuse University, Wooster College, the University of Illinois, and the University of New Mexico. He is the subject of a chapter in a new book, Contemporary American Poetry, by Ralph J. Mills Jr., published by Random House.
