The Faculty

PROF. Douglas M. Bowen, A.M. '54, of the Chemistry Department will assume the duties of Registrar of the College next September. He will succeed Prof. Robin Robinson '24, Registrar since 1958, who is retiring.

A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1945, Professor Bowen will continue to teach chemistry on a part-time basis. He is a graduate of Harvard, where he took his Ph.D. in 1940 and was instructor in organic chemistry from 1940 to 1945.

Mr. Robinson, who also is Professor of Mathematics, supervised automation of the Registrar's Office. He was associate registrar when the machine registration system was installed in 1956.

In appointing Professor Bowen the administration continues a recent tradition of appointing senior members of the faculty to the Registrar's post. However, some changes in the office are planned. A new staff member will be added to handle the predominantly technical aspects of maintaining student records.

The Registrar also is the recorder of the faculty. As such he is responsible for conducting faculty elections and keeping minutes of faculty meetings.

DEAN of Freshmen Albert I. Dickerson '30 has been elected a trustee of Champlain College, a business junior college in Burlington, Vt. .. . Alan T. Gaylord, Associate Professor of English, presented a three-lecture program on "The Art of the Film" at Colby Junior College. . . . Army Col. William L. Nungesser, Professor of Military Science, was recently awarded the Legion of Merit. The presentation was made by Lt. Gen. Jonathan O. Seaman, First Army Commander. .. . Stephen V. F. Waite, Instructor in Classics, discussed "Classics and the Computer" at Williams College. .. . John Nevison, Coordinator of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing Project, spoke at the first national evaluation of computerized mathematics at the University of Denver.

ARTHUR M. WILSON, Professor of Government Emeritus, was honored by the French Government and made a Chevalier in the Order of the Palmes Academiques at a ceremony in the French Cultural Services headquarters in New York City. The decoration was bestowed by Monsieur Morot-Sir, the French Cultural Attache.

Mr. Morot-Sir praised Professor Wilson's contribution to the scholarship of 18th-century France as the author of works on Diderot and Cardinal Fleury. He also spoke of his role in furthering cultural exchanges between France and the United States.

Several Dartmouth alumni who are friends and former students of Professor Wilson attended the ceremony.

PROF. Frank Smallwood '51 of the Government Department was one of nine scholars presented a 1967 Governmental Research Association Award for distinguished research. He was cited for a paper on "Government Administration and Politics" delivered at the Centennial Study and Training Program last summer at York University, Toronto.... Mrs. Barbara S. Void of the Biochemistry Department at the Medical School has received a fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Her principal research area is "Chloroplast transfer-RNA." . . . Milton Gill, Associate Professor of Music, composed a choral and organ piece entitled "Psalm 137" for the. Vermont Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. It was first performed at the annual state choir festival.

JAMES W. FERNANDEZ, Associate Professor of Anthropology, who returned from Africa in early 1967, has been sought as a resource leader on the African revitalization movements. He read an invited paper on "Oral Data in the Study of African Religion" in June at an African Studies Conference at the University of Wisconsin. He spoke in October at a Conversation in the Disciplines Colloquium sponsored by the State University of New York. In November he gave a University Lecture at Cornell and addressed a graduate seminar at the Institute of Social Change at McGill University.

He also has continued to lecture bimonthly at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D. C. His article on "The Shaka Complex," published in Transition, was broadcast in its entirety over Denmark Radio last April.

Registrar-elect Douglas M. Bowen