The Faculty
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT recently reported the addition of two new faculty members who are expected to strengthen the Department's offerings in two vital areas.
Henry L. Roberts, currently James T. Shotwell Professor at Columbia University's Institute on East Central Europe, will join the faculty in September. The other senior appointment is of Charles M. Wiltse, author of a widely acclaimed three-volume biography of John Calhoun. He will come to the College as Professor of History and as editor of the papers of Daniel Webster which the College is now collecting.
Professor Roberts has taught at Columbia for nearly 20 years and headed the Russian Institute there. He is editor of Slavic Review and book review editor of the quarterly, Foreign Affairs. He wrote Britain and the United States: Problemsin Cooperation, and Russia and America:Danger and Prospects and several other books in the field of international relations.
Professor Wiltse is currently chief historian of the U.S. Army Medical Service and has been writing the history of the Medical Service in World War II. Otherwise his chief interests have been nineteenth-century America. His three-volume biography of Calhoun was termed by another historian, C. Van Woodward, "the most comprehensive and satisfactory biography of any American of Calhoun's generation."
PROF. Richard Eberhart '26 of the English Department was commissioned to write a special poem for Winterfest, Boston's civic-cultural festival February 19-26. The special work was read on the opening day at a concert by the New England Conservatory Chorus. The poem by the Pulitzer Prize poet was one of several works especially commissioned for the week-long event.
JOHN C. GARRARD, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature, has won a special fellowship from the National Translation Center. It will assist him in his translation of works by the Russian historian and literary figure, P. V. Annenkov (1813-1887). Annenkov knew many prominent Russians of his time including Gogol, Belinsky, Herzen, and Turgenev - and Karl Marx. His memoirs have never before been translated into English. The Translation Center at the University of Texas offers a limited number of fellowships each year.
THREE chemists received grants recently to support their work. Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer received a grant of $65,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue his research on the Physical Chemistry of High Polymers. Prof. James F. Hornig and Charles L. Braun, Assistant Professor, were awarded $55,000 from the NSF for support of research entitled Energy Transfer in Molecular Crystals.
ANOTHER NSF grant of $24,000 went to George B. Saul II, Associate Professor of Biology, for the maintenance of a Mormoniella Genetic Stock Center. For the past several years, Professor Saul has maintained a stock of genetically pure wasps which have been used throughout the country in research.
THE NEW Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains articles by several faculty members. Wing-tsit Chan, Professor-Emeritus, wrote several covering aspects of Chinese philosophy, and Prof. Arthur Wilson did an essay on Diderot. Prof. Willis Doney wrote articles on Cartesianism, Nicolas Malebranche, and Arnold Geulinex, and Prof. Timothy Duggan discussed William Hamilton. Asst. Prof. David Sanford wrote a paper on Aquinas' Fourth Way.
FIVE faculty members participated in a three-day conference on The Requirements of Peace at the University of New Hampshire. It was sponsored by the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs, the University, and church groups. The participants included Profs. Louis Morton and Herbert W. Hill of History, and Richard W. Sterling, Henry Ehrmann, and Charles B. McLane of the Government Department.
THREE faculty members received grants last month under the new programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities designed to increase the "pool of effective and dedicated humanistic teachers and scholars, just as fellowships in the sciences have increased the nation's pool of outstanding scientists." About 300 were awarded nationally.
Prof. Franklin B. Zimmerman of the Music Department received a grant for Computer Coding and Indexing on Characteristics of Baroque Composers, Purcell,Handel and Monteverdi. He has been trying for several years to use the Kiewit Computation Center's facilities to trace musical themes through computation.
Richard L. Regosin, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, received a "fellowship for younger scholars." One hundred were given nationally. They average $85OO for eight months of study.
The third Dartmouth grant went to Thomas Vargish, Assistant Professor of English, who was given a summer fellow-ship.
DC. HEATH & Co., Boston publishers, have recently brought out an up-to-date version of Sommets Litteraires Francois, an anthology-history of French literature by Francois Denoeu, Professor-Emeritus of French. .. . Donald A, Campbell, Associate Professor of History, was a discussion leader at a conference of the American Historical Association centered on federal programs in education for historians.... A former Medical School faculty member, Dr. Manuel F. Morales, who is now professor of biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, has been appointed a member of the National Advisory Research Resources Council of the Division of Research Facilities and Resources of the National Institutes of Health.
JACOB NEUSNER, Associate Professor of Religion, has received a Summer Research Expense Fellowship for 1967 from the American Philosophical Society. This grant, his second from the APS, is to further work on A History of the Jewsin Babylonia IV. The Age of Shapur II.
HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theater, considers himself the first speaker to talk at the new theater at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. Professor Williams, president of the American Educational Theater Association, was chairman of a panel discussion on The Educational Theater Today shortly after the new facility there was opened. Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the noted director and the dedicatory speaker, actually spoke elsewhere on campus.
FRANK SMALLWOOD, Associate Professor of Government, lectured at the University of Toronto on "The Politics of Regional Government" recently. The lecture was one of a series at Toronto on Metropolis and Region.
Edward S. Brown '34, member of theThayer School faculty for 30 years andProfessor of Civil Engineering since 1945,has played other important roles in thelife of Hanover. Currently one of thetown's Selectmen, he formerly was PublicHealth Officer and for a great many yearswas Zoning Board chairman.
