The Faculty
THE far-reaching effects of the Kiewit Computation Center were noted last month in the White House, in an engineering conference, and in the New York business community.
Two College mathematicians - Profs. Thomas Kurtz and John G. Kemeny - are members of the President's Science Advisory Committee on Computers in Higher Education. They were called to the White House for the release of the committee's report to President Johnson. While there Professor Kurtz was interviewed by CBS correspondent George Herman, Class of '41.
The Thayer School's Dean Myron Tribus, Prof. Paul Shannon, and S. A. Gembicki described the use of "TimeShared Computers in Design Education" at the IEEE meetings in New York.
Three Tuck School faculty members conducted a one-day conference in New York on "The Impact of Computers." Profs. J. Peter Williamson, Richard S. Bower, and Christopher E. Nugent described both the Dartmouth time-sharing system and the computer languages developed here, BASIC and LAFFF (Language for the Aid of Financial Fact Finders). This latter computer language was developed as an aid to those involved in analyzing data on publicly traded companies.
PROF. Henry W. Ehrmann recently was a consultant at a meeting at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif., on "The Politics of Smaller European Democracies." He was also named to the Program Committee of the 1967 meeting of the American Political Science Association and will be charged with organizing five panels on comparative parties and pressure groups.... Prof. Frank Zimmerman of the Music Department lectured at Brown University on "Sound, Sense and Image in Gabrieli, Marenzio and Monteverdi." ... Jacob Neusner, Associate Professor of Religion, has been elected an Associate in the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature for a two-year term. ... Frederick E. Webster Jr., Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School, served as a panelist at a Cathedral Conference of Business Ethics, sponsored by the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and the Wall Street Ministry of New York.
PROF. Louis Morton of the History Department has been named Chairman of the Program Committee for the annual three-day meeting of the American Historical Association in Toronto in December. The Association also appointed him chairman of its committee on The Historian and the Federal Government and a member of the Committee on Freedom of Historical Inquiry.
PROF. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department has been named National Lecturer for The Society of Sigma Xi and its affiliated society, the Scientific Research Society of America. He was scheduled to lecture on "Laws for Lawlessness" at nine society meetings in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Jersey, and Pennsylvania in April and May.
The scientific honorary societies wete scheduled to hear descriptions of both traditional and modern probability theory and how it provides a tool for me scientific analysis of random phenomena
PROF. William T. Doyle of the Physics Department has been named a Visiting Lecturer for the American Institute of Physics and the American Association of Physics Teachers. Last month he visited Middlebury College for lectures informal discussions, and to confer with faculty and students on curriculum and research problems. They expressed special interest in his research on the physical properties of color centers in ionic crystals.
PROF. Richard Eberhart '26 is spending the spring term teaching at the University of Washington. In writing to Hanover to find out when the alumni club meeting was scheduled in Seattle he reported: "It's great out here. I have 27 male and female verse writers and 40 in a modern poetry class."
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN recently published a new book by Prof. Meredith O. Clement and two former Economics Department faculty members, Prof. Richard L. Pfister, now at Indiana University, and Prof. Kenneth J. Rothwell, now of the University of New Hampshire. The book is a new survey of theoretical literature on current controversial issues in international economics and is directed toward upper-level college and graduate students. Its title is Theoretical Issues in International Economics.
An art show featuring the marine paintL ings of Robert Salmon (1775-1850) has received rave notices in Boston. The show was put together with the advice of John Wilmerding, Assistant Professor of Art, whose research, according to TheBoston Globe, has led to a renewed appreciation of Salmon's importance in American painting. Professor Wilmerding's book, Robert Salmon, Painter ofShip and Shore, is scheduled for publication this fall.
PROF. William T. Jackson of the Biological Sciences Department represented the Developmental Section of the Botanical Society of America at an interdisciplinary meeting sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Professor Jackson is secretary of the Developmental Section. Another biologist, Associate Professor A. E. De Maggio, has been elected representative from the Developmental Section to the Editorial Board of the American Journalof Botany. And a third biologist, William W. Ballard '28, Sydney E. Junkins Professor of Biology, recently received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation for research entitled "Morphogenetie Movements in Fish Embryos."
FOUR papers by Dartmouth Medical School faculty members were presented in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. A study by Dr. J. H. Pirch and others concerned "Behavioral Recovery During Chronic Reserpine Treatment." Another by P. Parson and Dr. M. V. Simpson involved "Studies on the Ciosynthesis of DNA by Isolated Mitochondria." Drs. George Margolis and Lawrence Kilham presented a paper called "Virus, Mitosis and Ataxia: Concept of Virus-Cell Interaction." A fourth, by Dr. R. P. Smith and Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge, concerned "Methemoglobin Reductases in Sulfide Poisoning."
DR. Frank Lane, Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology, was recently named a Fellow of the American College of Radiology.... Dr. Ernest Sachs Jr., Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, was appointed chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and Emergency Medical Services in conjunction with the New Hampshire Traffic Safety Commission.
THREE members of the English Department have new books out or accepted. The Princeton University Press has published Prof. James Cox's MarkTwain: The Fate of Humor. Prof. Edwin Gittleman's book about Jones Very, the 19 th century American poet, will be published this month by the Columbia University Press. The manuscript won the Ansley Award at Columbia. Prof. Thomas Carnicelli's study of the writings of King Alfred has been accepted by Harvard University Press. Friends speculate that Professor Carnicelli learned something from his research on the politician-king for he was recently elected justice of the peace in Strafford, Vt.
DARTMOUTH faculty members participate in many formal programs to help schools in Northern New Hampshire enrich their offerings. Informally, too, they advise various schools in the area. This contact with the College has come to mean a great deal, both to the schools and to Dartmouth. One schoolman, John Klimenok of Springfield, Vt., summed it up in a letter to the Springfield Reporter. He wrote:
"For the past few months, Springfield High School students and three faculty members ... have journeyed by school bus to Hanover, N. H., to listen to talks by noted physicists and other scientists at Dartmouth College.
"The lectures, which have been given on Friday afternoons, cover a wide range of scientific knowledge from experiments with heat to the ideas of relativity.
"Because the talks were extremely interesting and enjoyable, one readily learned the theories presented in each aspect of science. To add to the appreciation of the various subjects expounded upon, excellent experiments were performed for the audience which included students from area high schools. A few experiments were conceived as the lecturer spoke, pointing out the lecturer's informality and ability to extemporize.
"The lectures were most worthwhile and profitable because they gave the student a better insight into the different fascinating realms of science...."
DONALD CAMPBELL, Associate Professor of History and Director of Teacher Preparation, was one of twelve college professors who participated in a project for the National Institute for Advanced Study in Teaching Disadvantaged Youth. They sought ways to overcome the isolation of the college professor from the classrooms in which their students will soon be teaching. Professor Campbell taught a lOth-grade history class of educationally disadvantaged students at Hartford (Vt.) High School for two weeks. The results of his experiences and those of the eleven other college professors will be incorporated in a report to the Institute.
Ray Nash (r), Professor of Art, is congratulated by Belgian Ambassador AndreForthomme, upon receiving the Order of Leopold for outstanding service to Belgian scholarship, especially in connection with Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum
Chris Williams '68The villain, Dean Thaddeus Seymour, is flattened with custard pies in one of theskits in the annual Foley's Follies for the benefit of the Band. The jubilant figure inthe rear is the Tucker Foundation's Dean Charles F. Dey '52.
