The Faculty
DESIGN is a major consideration in the Thayer School's concept of engineering education, so when a new member of the faculty won a national design competition his new associates could be expected to rejoice. The Thayer faculty passed the following resolution to honor Frederick J. Hooven, Adjunct Professor of Engineering, who will teach at Thayer during the spring term:
"The faculty of Thayer School points with pride to the achievement of our colleague, Professor Frederick J. Hooven, in winning first place in the 'duration aloft' contest among 10,000 entries from all over the world. We are highly pleased with his success and have now one more reason to look forward to having him here."
What's all the shouting about? Professor Hooven designed a paper airplane for the widely publicized contest sponsored by Scientific American magazine. His paper plane stayed aloft for 10.2 seconds, outperforming the second-place entry which was clocked at 9.4 seconds.
His paper airplane design, however, wasn't the reason he was invited to join the Thayer School faculty. Mr. Hooven is a former director of research planning for the Ford Motor Co. He was executive engineer for advanced engineering on the Ford Falcon (1960), Fairlane (1961) and the Thunderbird (1961). He holds about 50 patents and invented such varied mechanical and electronic devices as the crystal phonograph pick-up, a radio direction finder, the Shoran Bombing Computer, and many automobile innovations.
THE distinctly Canadian flavor that has been manifested about the campus in a variety of extracurricular activities since last fall is also finding its way into the curriculum this spring. Three professors from Canadian universities will be teaching at the College in the spring term and one will offer a course in the Sociology Department on "Canadian Society."
S. D. Clark, Professor and Chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of Toronto, will teach the survey course intended to provide a background for the understanding of Canadian culture, social structure, and social institutions. Professor Clark is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1943-44. Fie is the author of three books: Movements ofPolitical Protest in Canada 1640-1840,The Developing Canadian Community, and The Suburban Society.
Prof. P. B. Waite, Chairman of the Dalhousie University History Department, will teach in that department at the College. A native of New Brunswick who was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, he has written extensively on the early Confederation period.
Keith Spicer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, will teach in the Government Department. He was educated at the University of Paris and the University of Toronto and served as chairman of the Organizing Committee of Canadian Overseas Volunteers. He was a special assistant to Guy Favreau, President of the Canadian Privy Council, and is currently serving as an editorial writer for the Globe & Mail of Toronto and as a commentator on the French network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
PRESIDENT DICKEY has recently accepted appointments to two boards. The Secretary of the Navy appointed him to the 12-man Board of Advisers to the President of the U. S. Naval War College at Newport, R. I. The board's mission is to examine broad educational policies for the college which provides mid-career naval officers with advanced education in the science of naval warfare.
Earlier he was named to the National U. S. Committee for Montreal's World's Fair—EXPO '67.
PROF. Walter H. Stockmayer of the Chemistry Department has been elected to represent the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymer Chemistry on the Society's National Council. The council is the deliberative body of the 105,000-member society. Professor Stockmayer had also represented the division in 1952-53 and was on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of PhysicalChemistry, the ACS monthly, from 1959 to 1963.
FRANK SMALLWOOD '5l of Norwich, Vt., Associate Professor of Government, was named to the Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges recently by Governor Philip Hoff. The Board is responsible for Johnson, Castleton, and Lyndon State Colleges and for the Vermont Technical Institute at Randolph. The appointment is for a six-year term.
DONALD BARTLETT '24, Professor of Biography and of Japanese Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Lecturership for the 1967-68 academic year. He will spend the year in Japan teaching biographical studies at three Japanese universities— Japanese Women's University and Keio University in Tokyo and at another school to be named later.
These awards are made to American scholars to promote international understanding and strengthen our cultural ties with other nations.
PROF. Jacob P. Frankel has been named Associate Dean of the Thayer School. In this post he will work closely with Dean Myron Tribus and the Office of Development in devising new programs and in bringing new support to the school. Professor Frankel came to Hanover last fall from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1964 he received the Southern Campus Faculty Award which honored nine distinguished UCLA faculty members selected by a student-faculty panel.
Louis MORTON, Professor of History, was elected Vice President of the New England Historical Association at its meeting in Cambridge last month. He also chaired a panel.
PROF. John Finch of the English Department journeyed to Talladega College in Talladega, Ala., last month to deliver two lectures. At an all-college assembly he discussed "What's the Use of Poetry?" and at their honors banquet his topic was "What's the Use of Education?" The visit was another example of the growing cooperation between Dartmouth and the Negro college in Alabama.
