The Faculty

SHERMAN ADAMS '20 returns to his alma mater this month to teach in a seminar on "The Eisenhower Administration" given by the History Department. In ten sessions the former Special Assistant antto President Eisenhower will cover particular topics from the 1952 election to the various civil-rights decisions later in the administration.

Larry K. Smith, Instructor in the History Department who will be associated with Mr. Adams, said the course would be limited to 14 students and that there had been three applicants for each opening. The students will be required to complete a research paper, most of which will be based on the Adams papers which were donated to Baker Library.

Mr. Adams has been living in Lincoln, N. H., and has become interested in developing a ski area on Loon Mountain. Last year he conducted a weekly seminar on "The Executive Process" at the University of New Hampshire.

LEONARD M. RIESER '44, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Physics, has been elected chairman of the Commission on Science Education of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The commission was established by the AAAS in 1962 to improve science education by developing new curricula for elementary and secondary schools and colleges and by maintaining a clearinghouse for science education information. It publishes a newspaper, Science EducationNews, and a quarterly Newsletter and helps operate the Science Teaching Center at the University of Maryland.

As chairman, Dean Rieser will coordinate the commission's efforts to upgrade science education. One program attempts to emphasize the teaching of the "processes" of science (communication, drawing inferences, measurement, etc.) rather than the memorization of science "content." The commission is also developing guidelines for college curricula for future science teachers and bringing school administrators in contact with members of university faculties.

The commission is one of several established by the AAAS which has some 90,000 members and some 300 affiliated science societies.

reelected. Poems by Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 was one of the most distinguished books of poetry published last year, according to judges of the National Book Awards Committee. The committee selected seven books as finalists in their annual competition which offers a $1000 prize. Professor Eberhart also participated in a special tribute to the late Randall Jarrell at Yale University, a gathering The New York Times described as "a constellation of poets."

GEORGE E. DILLER, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, has been honored by the French government for his contributions to French education and culture. He was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes Academiques. Membership in the Order, established in 1808, is awarded for distinguished service to France in the fields of university teaching and fine arts. The Order is directed by an administrative council chaired by the French Minister of Education.

Professor Diller has taught at Dartmouth since 1936 and served as departmental chairman three times. He was instrumental in establishing the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in France in 1957.

WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, is conducting a weekly seminar on 15 th and 16th Century Chinese thought at Columbia for 22 doctoral candidates and faculty members from Columbia and other nearby institutions. Visiting scholars from Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan are also participating in the seminar. Professor Chan has also lectured recently at Indiana University, the University of Miami, Sweet Briar College, and the New York State University at Buffalo.

AN ALUMNI MAGAZINE article by Prof. L Richard Sterling of the Government Department published last July was reprinted in the magazine, Worldview.... Prof. Gene M. Lyons participated in the Atlantic Council Conference on Atlantic Relations held at Mt. Holyoke College recently and in a seminar on Science and World Affairs organized by the U.S. State Department in Washington. ... Another Government Department member, Prof. Kalman Silvert, is executive director of the study group on Political Leadership in Latin America organized by the Council on Foreign Relations. He also lectured to the Foreign Area Research Group and to the Foreign Service Institute in Washington recently. . . . Prof. Henry Ehrmann lectured at Amherst and at Connecticut College for Women on various aspects of present-day French politics.

THE American Council of Learned Societies has awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship to Jacob Neusner, Assistant Professor of Religion. He was one of 37 winners in a national competition. Professor Neusner plans to continue work on the third volume of his Historyof the Jews in Babylonia. The second volume, The Early Sasanian Period, is due to be published this fall by the E. J. Brill Press, Leiden, Holland.

THREE members of the Government Department—Professors Richard W. Sterling, Frank Smallwood '51, David M. Kovenock— and Bernard Segal '55 of the Sociology Department served as research consultants this winter to Southeastern Vermont Community Action, Inc., the coordinating agency for Poverty Programs in Windham and Windsor Counties. They designed, administered and reported a survey research project in six Vermont towns called "A Profile of Poverty in Southeastern Vermont." Its aim was to determine the size of the clientele for various existing and potential programs, as well as the attitudes of the poor toward self-help, community cooperation and governmental assistance, and the aspirations they held for themselves, their children and their communities.

THE March issue of The Reader's Digest contained a story of research conducted by Dr. Henry A. Schroeder of the Medical School. Called "The Metals Within Us," it describes the importance of certain metals the human body needs for good health. It was originally published in Today's Health, a publication of the American Medical Association. ... Research by another Medical School scientist, Dr. George Margolis, was reported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The report describes a test for oxygen poisoning under high pressure. The research, conducted with Dr. Ivan W. Brown Jr. of the Duke University Medical School, found that in dogs a special injury or cytoid develops in eyes when oxygen poisoning begins. Until this finding there was no dependable, repeatable test. It has important applications in space and underseas exploration.

HOWARD L. ERDMAN, Assistant Professor of Government, has received a grant from the American Institute for Indian Studies to enable him to conduct a year-long study of political development in the Indian state of Gujarat. The Dartmouth Comparative Studies Center will support supplementary work he plans to do in California and in London while he is en route to and returning from the Asian subcontinent.

Professor Erdman spent a year in India in 1962-63 on a Fulbright Scholarship.

PROF. Francis W. King of the Psychology Department has been nominated to the New Hampshire Advisory Commission on Health and Welfare by Governor John King (no relation).

PROF. Forrest I. Boley of the Physics Department was a visiting lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology last month. His visit was sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics as part of a broad, nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics. He lectured, met informally with students, and assisted faculty members with curriculum and research problems.

THREE research grants to faculty members have been announced recently. Roger H. Soderberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received a $33,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for work entitled "Structural, Magnetic and Spectral Studies of Metal Complexes." Dr. William O. Berndt of the Medical School received a five-year grant from the American Heart Association for "In Vitro Study of Transport Processes." Dr. Frances V. McCann, also of the Medical School, received a similar grant for her study of "Electrophysiology of Invertebrate Heart Muscle." Dr. McCann was a guest lecturer last month at the University of Vermont and at Trinity College.

DEAN Richard P. Unsworth of the Tucker Foundation discussed "Relativism and Theological Ethics" at a public lecture sponsored by the Clark University Cultural Affairs Committee last month. He participated in discussions in New York on sex education at a conference of the National Association of Independent Schools.... Prof. Louis Morton of the History Department lectured to Latin-American military officers attending the year-long course at the Inter- American Defense College in Washington on "Civic-Military Relations."... Prof. Charles B. McLane '41 of the Russian Civilization and Government Departments was featured in a debate on "Crisis in Vietnam: Two Viewpoints" at the recent directors' meeting of the New Hamp- shire Council on World Affairs. ... Prof. James Sykes of the; Music Department presented a piano concert at More College in Philadelphia.

Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien signs a contract calling for studies byThayer School of Engineering on management of research and development programs,and physical science factors in optical reading equipment, optimal design of lettersorting equipment, and voice recognition and computerization. Watching the signingof the one-year, $94,000 contract are Prof. Paul T. Shannon (c) of Thayer School andDouglas D. Perkins '53, Assistant Comptroller of the College.