The Faculty
A RTHUR J. CORAZZINI, Assistant Professor of Economics, is one of seven scholars who are assigned this year to federal agencies where they will analyze and evaluate government programs. They are the first group of Economic Policy Fellows appointed by the Brookings Institution under a Ford Foundation grant.
Brookings is conducting the program to encourage young economists to focus their professional research on public programs and policies. Corazzini, who has been assigned to the Civil Service Commission, will do a research project related to his work experience. The Civil Service Commission and the participating federal departments and agencies cooperated to assure that these temporary federal government assignments provide a challenging and relevant experience. The job assignments are all in Washington, D. C., home of the Brookings Institution.
PROFS. William T. Doyle and Forrest I. Boley of the Physics Department have been selected by the American Institute of Physics and the American As- sociation of Physics Teachers to be visiting scientists. They will visit campuses throughout the nation to lecture and meet with students and faculty members, discussing their research and teaching interests and the development of curriculums. Previously, both Professors Doyle and Boley and Prof. Francis Sears served as visiting scientists.
PROF. Matthew Wysocki of the Art Department and Edwin W. Owre, a new art instructor, judged entries in the fourth annual exhibit of Vermont artists at Norwich University. .. . Dr. Henry E. Payson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Dr. G. Donald Niswander, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, discussed the uses of LSD in research and as an adjunct to psychiatric therapy at the annual conference of the New Hampshire Social Welfare Council in Bedford. .. . The influential Washington Post, in an editorial criticizing Social Security Act inequities, quoted a study by Prof. Colin D. Campbell of the Economics Department and his wife Rosemary which showed that young people are bearing Social Security costs that are high in relation to expected benefits. . . . Myron Tribus, Dean of the Thayer School, has been named to the U.S. Commerce Department's Commerce Technical Advisory Board which counsels the Secretary of Commerce on the effective use of science and technology in promoting economic growth. .. . Prof. Lawrence G. Hines of the Economics Department has been ap- pointed an economic consultant to the Office of Policy Review at the U.S. Transportation Department.
SEVERAL books, written by Dartmouth economists, have recently come off the presses. A study entitled UnfilledOrders and Inventories A StructuralAnalysis by Gerald L. Childs, Assistant Professor of Economics, was published by the North-Holland Publishing Co. of Amsterdam, an international publishing house that has issued distinguished works in theoretical economics and econometrics.
The Duke University Press has pub- lished The Structure of the Defense Market, 1955-64 by William L. Baldwin, Associate Professor of Economics. Meredith O. Clement, Associate Professor of Economics, presented a paper on "Responses of Types of Consumer Service Expenditure Relationships to Postwar Cyclical Movements" at the summer meetings of the Econometric Society in Toronto. Houghton-Mifflin published a book, Theoretical Issues in InternationalEconomics written by Professor Clement and two former members of the Economics Department, Richard L. Pfister and Kenneth J. Rothwell.
PROF. Mario di Bonaventura of the Music Department, who is also Director of Music at Hopkins Center, is spending the fall and winter terms in Europe. He will conduct orchestras and lecture in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, and Great Britain.
He also plans to interview composers and performers, commissioning new musical works and extending invitations to participate in the Congregation of the Arts program in the future. This summer program, which just completed its fifth year, enjoys an international reputation.
Washington University music teacher Harold Blumenfeld, writing in the St.Louis Post-Dispatcli, said, "The summer performing forces at Dartmouth are an eminent faculty of virtuosi and more than 80 student musicians selected from conservatories and music departments across the land. The level of instrumental and orchestral performance is extraordinary."
While Prof, di Bonaventura is on sabbatical the 70-piece Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by John Farrer, a new Instructor in Music. A University of Michigan graduate, Mr. Farrer knows his way around Hopkins Center, having served as assistant conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra for the past two summers.
PROF. George F. Theriault '33 of the Sociology Department is on leave in French Canada this fall, in the wake of President de Gaulle's controversial trip ("Long live free Quebec"). He will steer clear of politics, but "from a sociologist's view also the pot is boiling," he said on the eve of his departure. He will spend the fall term in Quebec, and the winter and spring terms in France and England.
Professor Theriault, who is Lincoln Filene Professor of Human Relations, will make a first-hand study of institutional changes. He is particularly interested in the changing role of the church, the schools, and French Canadians in business and industry, within the federation. "Right now, French Canada is a perfect sociological laboratory," he said.
The Canadian leg of his trip, which began in the Maritime Provinces, is sponsored by the Comparative Studies Cen- ter. He will study archives in Europe, attempting to assess the policies of England and France toward settlement in the New World.
ROBERT H. GUEST, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Tuck School, has been awarded the $5OO P. S. Ross Award for the best article published in Business Quarterly, a Canadian management journal, last year.
The article's main thesis was "that in both structure and function we are reaching a critical stage of obsolescence. The complex . . . organization is simply too cumbersome either for generating new ideas internally or for responding to accelerated changes in the environment."
This was the second publications prize Prof. Guest has won in recent years. His book, Organizational Change: The Effectof Successful Leadership, was judged the best work on organization published in 1962 by the Organization Development Council.
HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theatre, presided over the 31st annual convention of the American Educational Theatre Association in New York City attended by 1400 delegates. He is currently serving as president of the Association which has 6000 members in colleges, universities, secondary schools, children's theatres and community theatres in the United States.
'He had a busy summer. As president of AETA, he attended the 12th International Theatre Institute Congress in New York City, the International Conference on Theatre Education and Development in Washington, D. C., Colloquium '67 in Montreal, and the National Council of the Arts in Education meeting at University Park, Pa.
Two Dartmouth psychologists, Associate Professor Thomas J. Tighe and Assistant Professor Rogers Elliott, received national publicity on a study which showed that it is easier to make people stop smoking by threatening their pocketbooks than by stressing the threat to their health.
They recruited volunteers on campus to put in $5O each and sign pledges not to smoke. The longer the volunteers abstained the more money they got back.
While only 15 to 30 per cent of smokers broken of the habit by other means stop smoking, the professors' method came up with 37.5 per cent long-term (3-18 months) success. Professors Tighe and Elliott's report to the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D. C., was carried by many of the nation's major news media.
A HIGHLIGHT of Convocation September 25 in Leverone Field House was the premiere of a new "Processional for Organ" written by Prof. Milton Gill, Chairman of the Music Department. Especially written for public functions at the College, the processional is constructed so that it can be used for processions of various lengths.
Professor Gill initially conceived his "Processional" in 1961 and began work on it in Germany in 1964-65 on a Faculty Fellowship. It is divided into four sections and a coda, each introduced by a fanfare-like passage.
