The Faculty

THE pervasive influence of the Dartmouth Mathematics Department on secondary schools throughout the country is easily observed, frequently discussed, but the full scope is not always easy to document clearly. The math faculty has prepared textbooks, consulted extensively with school districts on curriculum matters, conducted pilot programs for secondary schools on the computer here, and worked with the Mathematics Association of America on nationwide programs.

An attempt to compile some statistics recently showed that in the past year Math Department faculty members made 25 appearances at gatherings throughout the country, principally to address or consult with secondary-school teachers.

Among the activities were Prof. Donald L. Kreider's work in the Entebbe Mathematics Project at Mombasa, Kenya, in producing a mathematics curriculum for African primary and secondary schools; Prof. John G. Kemeny's address for the Association of Advanced Placement Mathematics Teachers; and Prof. Ernst Snapper's address before 2000 teachers at the general session of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. At the same meeting John C. Warren of Phillips Academy, Exeter, Mass., described "The Phillips Exeter Teletype under the Dartmouth TimeSharing System."

Other faculty members who were active included William Slesnick, David Kelly, Robert Norman, Robert Troyer, and Thomas Kurtz.

OUTSIDE activities have kept Prof. Wing-tsit Chan even busier than usual this spring. He chaired the session on "The Nature and Function of Buddhist Biography in East Asia" at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in New York. He participated in the fourth Weil Institute Conference of Scholars on Mysticism and Society in Cincinnati, and attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Religion, of which he is a founder. He presented a paper on "The Historic Chinese Contribution to Religious Pluralism and World Community" at the Second Conference on World Religions at the Princeton Theological Seminary and another on "The Neo-Confucian School of Early Ming Dynasty" before the International Conference on the Ming Dynasty Thought at the University of Illinois.

PROF. JOHN T. LANZETTA of the Psychology Department was one of 14 alumni honored by Lafayette College recently with Alumni Citations. All 14 were praised "as representative of alumni who through distinguished teaching and contributions to their disciplines have nurtured and enriched the minds of future scientists and engineers."

FROM a sister publication, the BrownAlumni Monthly, comes confirmation of what many have often suspected: "The 13th of the month is more apt to be Friday than any other single day of the week." This is Brown's Minor Theorem and its source is Bancroft H. Brown, Professor-Emeritus of Mathematics at Dartmouth and a Brown alumnus Class of '16.

Professor Brown wrote: "The essential fact is that our calendar repeats exactly every 400 years. Now, 400 years have 4800 months, and this number is not divisible by seven; hence, some day or days must be favored. It happens that the 13th is on Friday 688 times, on Sunday and Wednesday 687 times, on Monday and Tuesday 685 times, and on Thursday and Saturday 684 times."

SIR GEORGE PICKERING, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, has joined the Medical School faculty as a Visiting Professor of Physiology. He arrived in Hanover in early May and will remain through the late fall. Before assuming the Regius Professorship at Oxford, he had taught for 17 years at the University of London and was Professor of Medicine at St. Mary's Hospital. Sir George participated in the 1960 Convocation on the Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine and received Dartmouth's honorary Doctorate of Science.

ANOTHER Dartmouth coach was honored last month. Trustees, present and former team members, opposing coaches, alumni and friends were on hand at the Dartmouth Club in New York to honor Debate Coach Herbert L. James for the years of leadership he has given the Dartmouth Forensic Union.

Neil B. Danberg '66, president of the Forensic Union, presented Professor James with a plaque and recapitulated his record since Professor James came to the College in 1949.

Twice his teams have won the National Intercollegiate Debate Tournament (1960 and 1963) at West Point in competition with all other U. S. college debating teams. His teams have qualified for the annual national tournament 16 times and reached the elimination round in ten of those years, a record unequaled by any other school.

JAMES F. HORNIG, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Chemistry, spoke at a Clark University Chemistry Department seminar on "Photogeneration of Charge Carriers in Anthracene Crystals" last month. . . . Frank Safford, Assistant Professor of History, discussed "U. S.-Latin American Affairs" at a two-day institute for secondary-school teachers at Colby Junior College which was sponsored by the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs. ... J. Blair Watson, Director of Audio-Visual Service, served as a juror at the American Film Festival for the fourth successive year. The festival is sponsored by the Educational Film Library Association. .. . The Rev. Fr. Augustin P. Leonard, Visiting Professor of Religion, addressed the Fourth Conference for Scholars at the Frank L. Weil Institute for Studies in Religion and the Humanities. . . . Prof. Colin Campbell of the Economics Department was a panelist at the Ninth Annual Conference on Savings and Residential Financing in Chicago. He discussed "Interest Rates and Their Economic Implications." He reported that three of the 50 educators brought to the conference by the U. S. Savings and Loan League were Dartmouth alumni - Prof. William W. Tongue '37 of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle; Prof. Martin Anderson '57 from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia, and Prof. Peter O. Dietz '57 of Northwestern University.

DEAN of the Faculty Leonard M. Rieser '44, currently president of the New England Conference on Graduate Education, presided at the group's meetings at Clark University last month. David A. Baldwin, Assistant Professor of Government, discussed Foreign Aid: Public and Private Efforts" before the Sixth Annual International Affairs Institute sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association of the Lehigh Valley. . Prof. Charles B. McLane '41 of the Government Department lectured on "Contemporary Soviet Policy" at Kalamazoo College. . . . Prof. Gene M. Lyons was a senior participant at the U. S. Air Force Academy Assembly.

JACOB NEUSNER, Assistant Professor of Religion, delivered two lectures at the 11th Annual Institute on Religion at Toronto, "Judaism in a Secular Age" and "Judaism Faces the Secular City." The theme of this year's meeting was "Religious Communities in the Secular City" and the program also featured Prof. Harvey Cox of Harvard, author of The Secular City. Professor Neusner also discussed "Rabbi and Magus" at the Biblical Studies Section of the American Oriental Society meetings in Philadelphia.

PROF. JOHN G. KEMENY of the Mathematics Department again last month conducted a telephone lecture from Hanover. This time he was speaking to Alma College, in Alma, Mich., on "Discussion of Various Uses of Matrices." Through the telephone arrangement, he can lecture and respond to questions from students and faculty who might be many miles away.

Two Medical School faculty members - Michael Galton, Assistant Professor of Pathology, and Lawrence Kilham, Professor of Microbiology - reported on their research on "Chromosomes of 'Mongoloid' Hamsters" at the 50th annual meeting of the American Societies for Experimental Biology. They had observed that newborn Syrian hamsters developed a condition closely resembling human mongolism when inoculated with certain viruses. They concluded, however, that this was not a chromosome abnormality but was apparently an example of selective postnatal developmental arrest.

Prof. Herbert L. James, debate coach,shown with the 1963 national trophy,was honored by students and alumni at aNew York testimonial dinner last month.