RETIRING FACULTY

Seven professors whose periods of service to the College range from 19 to 40 years, and total 217 years, close out their active teaching careers at Dartmouth on June 30. Their retirement deprives the College of a group distinguished for teaching, scholarship, and lasting contributions to the Dartmouth community.

DONALD BARTLETT '24, Professor of Biography and of Japanese Studies, is a teacher whose birthplace and origins have played an important part in the direction of his 40 years on the Dartmouth faculty. The grandson of Samuel Bartlett, Class of 1836, President of Dartmouth from 1877 to 1892, he was born in Japan where his father, Samuel Bartlett, Class of 1877, and mother were Congregational missionaries. After graduation from the College, he studied at Oxford University in England for two years on a special fellowship from the College, returning in 1927 to join the faculty as an instructor. Five years later he was awarded Dartmouth's A.M. degree, and in 1935 he was named as assistant professor with a promotion to full professor following three years later.

During World War II he served in the Office of Naval Operations and in the Pacific Theater as a naval officer. In 1958 Professor Bartlett, who speaks Japanese fluently, was granted a three-year leave of absence to serve as cultural attache for the U.S. Information Agency in Tokyo, supervising the agency's activities throughout Japan, directing concerts, lectures, art exhibits, and the cultural exchange program between Japan and the United States. It was during this stay in Japan that he was instrumental in founding The American Studies Foundation to foster the integrated study of American culture, economics, politics, and history. His return to Japan in 1964 as a Dartmouth Comparative Studies Fellow led to new courses for Dartmouth undergraduates, two of which he taught in addition to his courses in biography.

Professor Bartlett is an authority on General Joseph E. Johnston, a Confederate general, and is working on a biography of the general. Among his publications is a monograph entitled Dr. Wellsof Vermont. Next year he will be returning to Japan as a Fulbright Fellow to lecture in American history and biographical studies at Japan Women's University and Keio University. The, former Norwich, Vt., selectman's son, Donald Jr. '59, went to Dartmouth Medical School and Harvard Medical School.

MICHAEL E. CHOUKAS '27, Professor of Sociology, knew only his native Greek and some French when he emigrated to this country as a young man. He taught himself English by reading The New YorkTimes with the help of a dictionary evenings while working at a Greek newspaper during the day. His self-preparation was so thorough that he gained enough credits for college entrance in one year at Columbia Grammar School in New York, graduating at the top of his class and starring in athletics. After graduation from Dartmouth with summacum laude honors, he gained his M.A. at Columbia in 1928, returned to Dartmouth as an instructor in sociology in 1929, was promoted to assistant professor in 1934, gained his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1935, and was made a full professor in 1940. Early in his teaching career, this native of Samos Island, Greece, published his first book, BlackAngels of Athos, a sociological study of the monastic community at Mt. Athos.

His pre-World War II interests in propaganda and its use in those troubled times led to his introduction of a course on it at Dartmouth, one of the first of its kind in the nation. During the war Professor Choukas went to Washington, D. C., with the Office of Strategic Services, leaving there in 1945 as Chief of Plans and Production for Morale Operations. From this experience, and from his continued research on the subject, came the material for his most recent book, Propaganda Comes of Age, described by The Saturday Review as "a welcome addition to the literature of propaganda... based on scholarship, including careful documentation and thorough organization." Professor Choukas has also continued his interest in his native land, contributing articles to Hellenic journals, and in recent years has spent many months there doing research for the book Islanders of the Aegean: Samos which he is now writing. His son, Michael '5l, is the Headmaster of Vermont Academy.

HERBERT W. HILL, A.M. '41, Professor of History, has not only specialized in the history of U.S. foreign relations and of New England, he has helped make it. A New England Yankee from Massachusetts, he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard before coming to Dartmouth in 1928 as an instructor. Remembered by his former students for his wry good humor in the classroom, Professor Hill obviously relished teaching - and standing before audiences of all types. Since 1941, the year he was named a full professor, Herb Hill has been the moderator at Hanover's town meetings. No ivory tower viewer of history in the making, he was Grafton County Democratic chairman in the mid-forties, then state Democratic Party chairman, and then in 1948 his party's candidate for governor. In one of the closest races a Democratic candidate had run in the state contest until recent successes, Professor Hill lost to the Republican candidate, Sherman Adams '20. Twelve years later he was taking on the powerful incumbent Styles Bridges in the 1960 senatorial battle. Again he lost.

Although defeated twice in major bids to serve state and nation, Professor Hill was still busier than most in the public service. He was chairman of the New Hampshire Committee for the Hoover Report from 1947-58, a member of the Board of Governors for the Atlantic Union for nine years, a member of the Atlantic Council, planning adviser to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs for two years, one of seven public members of the State Department's Foreign Service Officer Selection Board, a member of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO (appointed by President Kennedy), a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 12th General Conference of UNESCO in Paris in 1962, Secretary of the N. H. Fish and Game Commission since 1948, a member of the N. H. Constitutional Conventions of 1948 and 1959 and of the U.S. Assay Commission and the N. H. Tax Commission, associate justice of the Hanover district court since 1956, president of the N. H. Historical Society, director of Hanover Holiday from 1936 to 1964, and many, many more. His son Josh is Class of 1956.

HARRY W. SAVAGE '26, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Secretary of the Dartmouth Medical School, has so many things going that folks in the north country weren't quite sure whether to call him judge, professor, secretary, mayor, doctor, or your honor until someone suggested that "Uncle Harry" would be just right. He came out of North Troy, Vermont, to graduate from Dartmouth and from the Dartmouth Medical School before going on to earn his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. He returned north to intern at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, then started his own practice of medicine in Lebanon the following year. In 1942 he gave up his practice to begin four years of wartime service as a medical officer. At the war's end he came back to the north country as an instructor of anatomy and assistant to the dean of the Dartmouth Medical School. Three years later he was an assistant professor and five years after that he was named Secretary of the school, in which role he has kept in close touch with former students.

"Uncle Harry's" life, however, was not confined to his favorite medical students and school. He was and is very much interested in the community in which he practiced medicine for so long - and in which he still resides. Very active in civic affairs, he was an associate justice of the Lebanon Municipal Court and president of the Lebanon Im- provement Society when in 1958 he was elected the first Mayor of Lebanon under its new City Council form of government. Later that year he was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to a full-time judgeship on the Lebanon Municipal Court, which meets every Friday, and he is now presiding justice. In 1963 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Anatomy. One important job not listed above must be noted specially: "Uncle Harry" is the reliable author of the Medical School Notes that appear in the DARTMOUTHALUMNI MAGAZINE.

DIMITRI S. VON MOHRENSCHILDT, A.M. '47, Professor of Russian History and Literature, was born in St. Petersburg in 1902 to a family of the Russian-Baltic nobility. After coming to the United States in 1920 he taught French briefly at a preparatory school until enrolling at Yale. In 1926, the year he became a naturalized citizen, he was awarded his first of two Yale degrees he now holds. Ten years later, at the midpoint in a career of free-lance editorial and research work for New York publications, he was awarded his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. It was in that year also that Columbia University Press published his book, Russia in theIntellectual Life of 18th Century France. Five years later, in 1941, Professor von Mohrenschildt founded The Russian Review which he brought to Hanover with him the following year on joining the Dartmouth faculty as a Visiting Lecturer in Russian Civilization. The Russian Review, which Professor von Mohrenschildt continues to edit, has steadily grown in influence as a scholarly quarterly dealing with Russian affairs and culture. He has written extensively for other scholarly journals in his field, as well as for his own Russian Review. He spent the winter term of 1961-62 in India lecturing on Russian history and culture, under the sponsorship of the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom and the Kaltenborn Foundation.

In 1947 Professor von Mohrenschildt was given the rank of full professor by the College. He became the first chairman of the College's Department of Russian Civilization when it was established in 1951 and has been an important factor in its growth and development since, just as he has with The Russian Review. Professor von Mohrenschildt's courses at Dartmouth have dealt primarily with Russian literature and civilization. This year, in addition to his literature courses, he has taught an introductory course in Russian culture and also a course in Russian intellectual thought.

ARTHUR M. WILSON, A.M. '40, Daniel Webster Professor of Biography and Government, began his long and distinguished teaching career as one of three on the faculty of a rural South Dakota high school. In 1924, two years later, the young graduate of Yankton College went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. With his newly gained degrees from Oxford and a bride, he returned to America's midwest in 1927 to teach history at Grinnell College. He entered Harvard two years later and was an instructor and tutor there while earning his Ph.D. in history. In 1933, the year he received his doctorate, he joined the Dartmouth faculty as an instructor in biography, a discipline he has described as "an easy way of opening up other important subjects." He had become Professor of Biography by 1940, and four years later he was voted the title of Professor of Biography and Government in recognition of his courses in political thought as well as biography. He has been Daniel Webster Professor since 1964.

Professor Wilson has established himself as one of the foremost authorities on Diderot, the French encyclopedist. In 1954 his manuscript of Diderot: The Testing Years, 1713-1759 won the Modern Language Association's Oxford Prize. When published in 1957 this biography also won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. He had won the same prize in 1938 for his book, FrenchForeign Policy Under the Administration of Cardinal Fleury,1726-1743. To his books Professor Wilson has added a great many articles in scholarly journals.

Twice a winner of Guggenheim Fellowships, a three-year veteran of the OSS in World War II, Great Issues Course director, Senior Fellowship program director, member of important faculty committees at Dartmouth, Professor Wilson has achieved much since his first teaching experience in South Dakota. And next year, after retirement, he will still be going strong - on Diderot and in the classroom at Columbia University.

JOHN H. WOLFENDEN, A.M. '51, New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, had an international reputation when he gave up his chairmanship of the sub-faculty of chemistry at Oxford University, England, to come to Dartmouth as a full professor in 1948. His textbook, Numerical Problems in AdvancedPhysical Chemistry, published by the Oxford University Press in 1938 (and published in a second edition in 1964), his numerous articles in chemical journals, his service as principal scientific officer for the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington, D. C., during World War II, his work in professional organizations, and his skills as a teacher were more than enough to assure Dartmouth it had made an outstanding "catch" in the days when the brain drain was only a trickle. Professor Wolfenden started right in teaching the large introductory chemistry courses as well as advanced courses in physical chemistry. He continued his research, most often in collaboration with his students. Along with his teaching and research, he served the College as chairman of both the Chemistry Department and the Science Division of the faculty and as a member on the Tucker Foundation committee and on other evaluative bodies.

Honors were destined for this native of Lancashire, Britain, in this country too. Soon after coming to Dartmouth he was awarded the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by the U.S. Government for his wartime service. In 1961 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1964 he was one of three awarded the Manufacturing Chemists Association Award for college teaching in chemistry. The award citation fittingly noted that Professor Wolfenden "views science not as an end in itself or as a producer of creature comforts, but as a vital philosophical activity of men."