The Faculty
ROBERT C. REYNOLDS JR., Associate Professor of Geology, is on sabbatical leave and spending the spring term at the Atomic Energy Commission facilities at Oak Ridge, Tenn., working with scientists there on the absorption qualities of clay minerals. Another geologist, Assistant Professor Noye Johnson, is at the University of Arizona, Tucson, working on new age-dating methods based on thermoluminescence properties of certain minerals that give off light when heated. In their absence, Dirk Tenningsen of the University of Giessen, Germany, is a visiting professor in the Geology Department.
MARIO DI BONAVENTURA, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, was the keynote speaker at the Sixteenth Festival of Contemporary Music at Oberlin College. His address on The Ordeal of Contemporary Music before an all-college assembly was. part of a four-day program.
FOR the second time in three years a member of the English Department has won an Ansley Award from Columbia University. Edwin Gittleman was given the award for 1965 for his dissertation, Resurrection Verified: The EffectiveLife of Jones Very: 1833-1840. In 1963 Robert Hunter's dissertation on Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness was similarly honored. Columbia gives Ansley Awards each year in three fields for excellence in doctoral dissertations. The awards provide for publication of the work under a royalty contract by Columbia University Press. The recipients all completed requirements for doctorates at Columbia the preceding year. Mr. Gittleman's subject, Jones Very, was a 19th Century poet and friend and contemporary of Emerson and Thoreau.
THE Rev. George Kalbfleisch, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Union, presided at the 19th annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Chaplains at Northwestern University last month. The Rev. Mr. Kalbfleisch is currently president of the association. The conference centered on speaking the Christian faith, the new morality, academic ethics, and student rights.
HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theater, is spending the spring term in Japan gathering material for a course he will offer on The JapaneseTheater. Supported by a grant from the Comparative Studies Center, he plans to supplement basic material he gathered in 1960 on the traditional theater with studies of the modern theater and Japanese dances. After stops in Seattle and the University of Washington's Center for Asian Arts and the East-West Center at Honolulu, he began studies of the modern theater centered in the large cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka and of the ancient dances in Buddhist and Shinto shrines in more remote sections.
CHAUNCEY C. LOOMIS JR., Assistant Professor of English, has received a research associateship from the Smithsonian Institution of Washington for a year-long study of Charles Francis Hall, mid-19th century American arctic ex- plorer. His work will involve materials in Baker Library's Stefansson Collection, at the Smithsonian in Washington, and at Cambridge University, England. He also hopes to retrace the explorer's routes in Greenland and the Baffin Islands. Hall, a New Hampshire native and engraver and newspaper publisher, was much admired by Vilhjalmur Stefansson who adapted many of his ideas in his own exploration of the Arctic.
PROF. Francis E. Merrill '26 of the Sociology Department has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in France for the next academic year. He will lecture at the University of Nice and give a seminar on the Sociology of Literature, especially as evidenced in Balzac. The University Of Nice was formerly a branch of the University of Aix-en-Provence, but is now independent.
This is Professor Merrill's second Fuibright Fellowship. In 1959-60 he was a Fulbright lecturer at the Universities of Rennes and Aix.
VICTOR MCGEE, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a paper at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention in New York. Co-authored with Dean Myron Tribus of the Thayer School and John Kunz, a graduate engineering student, it examined "The Role of Entropy in Bayesian Analysis of Contingency Tables."... Walter H. Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor of Chemistry, was named a member of the Vermont Educational Buildings Finance Agency, a new board created by the 1966 Legislature. It was created to help nonprofit colleges and high schools borrow money from private sources at more favorable interest rates.... John Wilmerding, Assistant Professor of Art, lectured at Colby College and at Lincoln, Mass., in connection with the opening of exhibitions of the works of marine artist Fitz Hugh Lane. Professor Wilmerding has written a book about the 19th Century artist who is only now becoming recognized as a major American painter.
PROF. William P. Kimball '28 of Thayer School will join the headquarters staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers in the newly created post of Assistant Secretary of Education, the Society has announced.
He will be conceiving and coordinating activities of the 57,000-member society in the areas of career guidance, academic education, and continuing education. He will also work with the ASCE Committee on Engineering Education, with engineering and technological schools and with practicing engineers on the development of educational policies and procedures.
However, Professor Kimball will continue to serve the Thayer School as an adjunct professor in a consulting capacity. He will advise on the education program which has evolved from that established by the Thayer faculty in 1957 under his leadership as dean.
HOWARD L. ERDMAN, Assistant Professor of Government, participated on a panel on Indian foreign policy at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in New York. His paper on "Opposition Parties in Indian Foreign policy" emphasized the right-wing critique of government policy Prof. Richard E. Stoiber '32 of the Geology Department has been a Visiting Lecturer this past month for the American Geoloaical Institute at Laval University in Montreal and at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. His topic, "Ore Deposits and Volcanic Fumaroles," derives from research during the past three years in Guatemala and El Salvador Another geologist, Associate Professor Robert W. Decker, has also been on the lecture circuit for the American Geological Institute. He visited Bucknell and Rutgers lecturing on volcanoes and geophysics.
Frank Smallwood '51, Associate Professor of Government, was a panelist at the annual meeting of the American Society of Public Administration at the University of Maryland. The panel topic was "Research Strategy for Comparative Urban Studies."... Harvey Galper '59, Instructor in Economics, participated in the 12th annual Seminar on Central Banking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Dean Richard P. Unsworth of the Tucker Foundation and the Religion Department was a panelist at Wheaton College along with Prof. Bartlett Stoodley '29, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Wellesley College. The topic was "The Connection: Rebellion and Communications.".. . Prof. Charles B. McLane '41 of the Government Department lectured at the Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences on "Africa and the World Today."... Prof. Wing-tsit Chan discussed "Confucianism in Mainland China 1966" at Connecticut College.
