The Faculty
THE Hopkins Center has a new Director of Drama who will also serve as a drama professor in the English Department. He is Rod Alexander who has been senior Professor of Dramatic Art and Director of the Whitman Theater at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
He succeeds Prof. James Clancy who has resigned to join the drama faculty at Cornell University. Professor Alexander was due to assume his new duties early this month and prepare for the opening of the Dartmouth Repertory Company's summer season. He will direct Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and William Congreve's Love for Love.
Professor Alexander established the Whitman Theater and a major study program in drama there. He has directed at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, the Kansas City Summer Repertory Theater, and the Center Stage in Baltimore. He received awards from the Institute of Renaissance Studies for both his acting and directing at Ashland.
PROF. Louis Morton, who will be on leave next year as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, has been chosen as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in History for next year. He recently presented a paper at the Chicago meetings of the Organization of American Historians on "High Command in World War II: MacArthur and Eisenhower." At the Air Force Academy last month he read a paper on "History and the Policy Process."
THE American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced last month that Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 had been selected as a Fellow of the Academy. He was one of 91 distinguished Americans elected at the 187th annual meeting of the Academy, an international learned and scientific society founded in 1780 by John Adams.
PROF. Lawrence G. Hines of the Economics Department addressed the 10th Biennial Wilderness Conference sponsored by the Sierra Club in San Francisco on "Wilderness: Economic Choice, Values and the Androscoggin." ... Prof. William T. Doyle of the Physics Department continued his service as a Visiting Lecturer for the American Institute of Physics by lecturing and conferring at Gorham State College, Gorham, Maine, last month.... Prof. J. Laurie Snell was a guest lecturer at Monmouth College where he discussed "An Experimental Program Making the Use of High Speed Computers Part of the Basic Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum." ... Another mathematician, Prof. William E. Slesnick, lectured on "Performance of Advanced Placement Students in Colleges and Universities" at the National Conference on Advanced Placement in Mathematics. The meetings at the University of Georgia were sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board.
PROF. Henry Ehrmann of the Government Department is on leave for the spring term. He accepted a Visiting Professorship at the Free University of Berlin and is teaching there at the Institute of Political Science.... John G. Garrard, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature, delivered three papers last month. He discussed "Karamzin in Recent Soviet Criticism" at a Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky. He lectured on "The Russian Language Program at Moscow University" at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Central States Modern Language Teachers Association in Cincinnati and on "Censorship of Russian Writers, Past and Present" at the New England Conference on Modern Languages at M.I.T. ... Prof. Robert Huke of the Geography Department discussed "Shifting Cultivations in Southeast Asia" at Westfield State College as part of the Visiting Geoographical Scientist Program sponsored by the Association of American Geographers under a grant from the National Science Foundation.
PROF. Lawrence E. Harvey of the Romance Languages Department has been named Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities and Chairman of the Humanities Division. Prof. William Smith, Chairman of the Social Sciences Division and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences, served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences during the absence last month of Leonard M. Rieser '44, Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
JAMES L. CLAYTON, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the Solon J. Buck Award for 1966. The award honors the best article published in Minnesota History, the journal of the Minnesota Historical Society. It was entitled "The Growth and Economic Significance of the American Fur Trade."
DEAN Myron Tribus of the Thayer School of Engineering has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Carpenter Steel Company of Reading, Pa. Dean Tribus is also serving as Chairman of the section on "Energy Storage and Conversion Systems" of the Federal program to examine the possibilities of electric automobiles.
Two Dartmouth biologists have received grants from the National Science Foundation recently. Prof. David S. Dennison received a two-year grant of $44,300 to support a research project entitled "Photoresponses in Phycomyces." Richard T. Holmes, who will join the Department of Biological Sciences next fall, received a two-year, $22,800 grant to study "Breeding System Ecology of Calidris in a Subarctic Environment."
Prof. Rod Alexander has been named Director of Drama at the Hopkins Center.
