PROFESSORS Richard Eberhart '26, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and Louis Morton, noted military historian, have been named to two distinguished endowed professorships at Dartmouth College.
Professor Eberhart, Dartmouth poet-in-residence since 1956, will be the new Class of 1925 Professor. He succeeds Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, noted physical chemist and first incumbent, who recently was named first holder of the Albert W. Smith Professorship.
Professor Morton, former deputy chief historian of the Department of the Army, has been appointed to the Daniel Webster Professorship, succeeding Prof. Arthur M. Wilson, who retired last year.
Professor Eberhart, who holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University, taught at St. Mark's School and the University of Washington before joining the Dartmouth faculty.
His publications include 15 volumes of poetry, a collection of verse plays, and an anthology of war poems. Professor Eberhart, who has been Professor of English as well as Poet-in-residence at Dartmouth since 1956, was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems:1930-65. Earlier he won the Bollingen Prize for poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and the Harriet Monroe Award. His newest book, Shifts of Being, was published in May by Oxford University Press, New York, and Chatto and Windus, London. Caedmon Records recently released a recording of his works entitled, Richard Eberhart Reading HisPoetry.
Professor Morton, a 1935 graduate of N.Y.U., earned his doctorate at Duke in 1938 and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1960 as Professor of History following a variety of academic and professional assignments. His World War II experience culminated in his appointment as civilian deputy chief historian of the Department of the Army and general editor of a 12-volume history of the war in the Pacific Theater. Two of these, The Fallof the Philippines and Strategy and Command, he wrote himself.
In addition to his work on the history of World War II, Professor Morton has written a study of Colonial Virginia, and co-authored several other books, one of them, Schools for Strategy, with Gene M. Lyons, Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs at Dartmouth. Currently he is editing an 18-volume series entitled Wars and Military Institutions of theUnited States, published by Macmillan.
Active in professional affairs, Professor Morton has served as a director of the Social Science Research Council, on the editorial board of the Journal ofModern History, as consultant to the Office of Education, and on the Historical Advisory Committee of NASA. He recently was elected president of the New England Historical Association.
PROF. Arthur E. Jensen of the English Department became the second "most degreed" member of the faculty last spring when awarded an LL.D. by windham College, Putney, Vt. His other doctoral degrees are the Ph.D. he earned at Edinburgh University and two honorary degrees, an L.H.D. from his alma mater, Brown University, and a Litt.D. from Long Island University.
Top man on the faculty, in this prestigious department, is Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Professor Emeritus of Social Philosophy. He received his fifth doctoral degree in 1967 from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he was a visiting professor.
THIRTY-ONE members of the College and Associated School faculties were promoted in rank, effective July 1.
Elevated to full professor on the Arts and Sciences faculty were: Hannah T. Croasdale, Biological Sciences; Timothy J. Duggan, Philosophy; Joseph D. Harris, Physics; Donald L. Kreider, Mathematics; John W. Lamperti, Mathematics; John A. Rassias, Romance Languages and Literature; and Harry N. Scheiber, History.
Promoted to associate professor were: Edward M. Brown, Mathematics; Gerald L. Childs, Economics; Edwin Gittleman, English; Elisha R. Huggins, Physics; Darrel L. Mansell Jr., English; Victor McGee, Psychology; and John C. Wilmerding, Art.
Named to assistant professorships were: Jon H. Appleton, Music; James B. Atkinson, English; David C. Kubrin, History; Harry A. Makler, Sociology; John T. Paoletti, Art; Robert H. Siegel, English; Alfred L. Wonderlick, Art; and Edward A. Yonan, Religion.
The Medical School promoted the following to associate professor: Bernard J. Bergen, psychiatry; William O. Berndt, pharmacology; Dr. Miguel Marin-Pa-dilla, pathology; Dr. Henry E. Payson, psychiatry; and Roger P. Smith, toxicology. Robert Rosenstein was promoted from instructor to Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.
The Thayer School has promoted John W. Strohbehn to Associate Professor of Engineering.
Tuck School has promoted Christopher E. Nugent and Frederick E. Webster Jr. to Associate Professors of Business Administration.
DAVID C. HOEH, Associate Director of the Public Affairs Center, will challenge incumbent Republican Congressman James C. Cleveland of New London in the November 5 elections. He won the Democratic primary contest September 10 against Mayor Dennis E. Sullivan of Nashua, a last-minute, write-in candidate, and is on leave of absence this term in order to wage his campaign.
Hoeh, who managed Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary last March, was chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago. He gained national attention when he used his College I.D. card to prove the fallibility of the convention hall electronic admission machines. He was released from police cus- tody only after fellow delegates denounced his arrest and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley intervened.
PROF. Henry B. Williams, Director of the Experimental Theatre, was chairman of a panel on "A More Unified Theatre" at the annual convention of the American Educational Theatre Association in Los Angeles.
Professor Williams, who is the immediate past president of the American Educational Theatre Association, recently was appointed to the Advisory Board of the New England Theatre Conference.
PETER A. BIEN, Associate Professor of English, together with the Sotheby and Bywater Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford University and eight other scholars, recently founded the Modern Greek Studies Association. A specialist in modern English literature, Professor Bien is also the translator of and a leading authority on the Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
MARIO DI BONAVENTURA, Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, last month became the first American to conduct a Polish orchestra at the Warsaw Autumn, a festival of contemporary music in September. He worked with the Katowicz Symphony (the Great Polish Radio Orchestra).
The festival is sponsored by the International Society of Contemporary Music, His program included a recent work by Olivier Messiaen and compositions by Huber, Norgaard, and Minami.
PROFS. Forrest I. Boley and William T. Doyle of the Physics Department will visit colleges during the 1968-69 academic year to give lectures, meet with students, and consult with faculty members about courses and apparatus. They both will be repeat participants in the visiting scientists program sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics.
SEVENTY-ONE new faculty members, 54 in the College of Arts and Sciences and 17 in the Associated Schools, joined the Dartmouth teaching staff at the start of the 1968-69 academic year. Fourteen visiting professors will also be on campus during the year. The new teachers' departments, highest degrees, and titles are as follows:
AEROSPACE STUDIES—Lt. Col. Arthur B. Murphy, USAF, M.A. New York University, Professor of Aerospace Studies.
ANTHROPOLOGY—Hoyt S. Alverson, M.Phil. Yale, Instructor.
ART—Varujan Boghosian, M.F.A. Yale, Professor; B. Michael Boyle, Ph.D. Yale, Visiting Lecturer; Peter C. Bunnell, Ph.D. Yale, Visiting Lecturer.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES—James R. Gosz, Ph.D. Idaho, Research Associate; Nicholas J. Jacobs, Ph.D. Cornell, Lecturer; Elmer R. Pfefferkorn Jr., Ph.D. Harvard, Lecturer; Wayne Thornburg, Ph.D. Illinois, Lecturer.
CHEMISTRY—Yoshiaki Chikahisa, Ph.D. Tokyo Metro University, Visiting Fellow; Gordon W. Gribble, Ph.D. Oregon, Assistant Professor; -Stanley T. Murayama, B.S. U.C.L.A., Research Associate; Karel Sole, Ph.D. Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Fellow.
CLASSICS—Paul W. Wallace, A.M. Indiana, Instructor.
DRAMA—Errol G. Hill, D.F.A. Yale, Associate Professor; Richard W. Jeter, A.B. Bates, Instructor; Rolf T. Beyer, M.F.A. Yale, Visiting Assistant Professor.
EARTH SCIENCES—SamueI B. Bonis, M.S. Louisiana State, Research Associate; William J. Campbell, Ph.D. Washington Univ., Visiting Lecturer; Malcolm J. Hibbard, Ph.D. Univ. of Washington, Visiting Lecturer; James G. Moore, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, Visiting Lecturer.
ECONOMICS—Erwin A. Blackstone, Ph.D. Michigan, Assistant Professor; James C. Knowles, B.A. Williams, Instructor; Helen L. Ladd, M.Sc. London School of Economics, Visiting Lecturer.
EDUCATION—Barbara B. Ragle, B.A. Rad-cliffe, Research Associate; Dale F. Rowe, M.Ed. Harvard, Lecturer.
ENGLISH—Frank W. Brownlow, Ph.D. Birmingham, Visiting Associate Professor; John W. Price, Ph.D. Harvard, Assistant Professor; Dain A. Trafton, Ph.D. California at Berkeley, Assistant Professor.
GEOGRAPHY—John W. Sommer, Ph.D. Boston University, Assistant Professor.
GERMAN—Robert M. Browning, Ph.D. Princeton, Visiting Professor; Richard M. Macht, Ph.D. Indiana, Assistant Professor.
GOVERNMENT—Edward W. Gude, A.B. Dartmouth '59, Instructor; Michael P. Smith, M.A. Massachusetts. Instructor; Denis G. Sullivan, Ph.D. Northwestern, Professor.
HISTORY—Gene R. Garthwaite, B.A. St. Olaf, Instructor; Marysa N. Gerassi, Ph.D. Columbia, Assistant Professor; Leo Ou-fan Lee, M.A. Harvard, Instructor; Robert T. McDonald, A.M. Harvard, Visiting Lecturer; Peter G. Slater, M.A. Brown, Instructor.
MATHEMATICS—Mary K. Bennett, Ph.D. Massachusetts, Research Instructor; Kenneth P. Bogart, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology. Assistant Professor; Kenneth I. Gross, Ph.D. Washington Univ., Assistant Professor; David W. Roeder, M.A. California at Berkeley, Research Instructor.
MILITARY SCIENCE—Major Peter R. Bankson, B.S. M.I.T., Assistant Professor; Col. William H. Brinnon, B.E. Seattle University, Professor; Capt. William A. Scherr III, B.S. United States Military Academy, Assistant Professor.
NAVAL SCIENCE—Cm dr. Walter P. Carlin, B.S. United States Naval Academy, Associate Professor; Capt William J. Hurst, M.S. George Washington, Professor; Lt. Thomas E. Powers, B.A. Maine, Assistant Professor; Maj. Orlo Keith Steele, B.A. Stanford, Assistant Professor; LCdr. Stuart N. Templeton, B.S. United States Naval Postgraduate School, Assistant Professor.
PHILOSOPHY—Peter P. Kissin, B.S. Harvey Mudd, Research Instructor.
PHYSICS—John E. Walsh, M.S. (EE) Columbia, Assistant Professor.
PSYCHOLOGY—Charles A. Dailey, Ph.D. Michigan, Adjunct Professor; Charles Lewis, B.A. Swarthmore, Instructor.
RELIGION—Francis H. Cook, M.A. Cornell, Instructor; Gershon Greenberg, B.A. Bard, Assistant Professor; Charles H. Stinson, M.A. Catholic Univ., Research Instructor.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES—Andrew F. Campagna, M.A. Rochester, Instructor; James O. Crosby, Ph.D. Yale, Professor; Lincoln D. Hammond, Ph.D. Harvard, Assistant Professor; Albert A. Hyde, A.B. Dartmouth '64, Visiting Lecturer; David K. Loughran, A.B, Dartmouth '61, Instructor; Stephen G. Nichols Jr., Ph.D. Yale, Professor; Glyn P. Norton, Ph.D. Michigan, Assistant Professor.
SOCIOLOGY—Nicholas C. Mullins, Ph.D. Harvard, Assistant Professor.
MEDICAL SCHOOL—Thomas P. Almy, M.D. Northwestern, Professor (Medicine) and Chairman of the Department of Medicine; Thomas N. Clendenin, M.D. Harvard, Assistant Professor (Pathology); Gibbons G. Cornwell III, M.D. Pennsylvania, Instructor (Medicine); Charles M. Culver, M.D. Duke, Assistant Professor (Psychiatry-Medical Psychology); Nicholas Danforth, M.D. Albany, Instructor (Surgery); Elizabeth K. Gay, MSW California at Berkeley, Instructor (Psychiatry-Social Work); Evelio J. de Hoyos-Guevara, M.D. University of Nuevo Leon, Instructor (Pathology); Joseph W. Inselburg, M.D. Harvard, Assistant Professor (Microbiology); John F. H. Keighley, M.B. Cambridge, Assistant Professor (Medicine); Mack Lipkin, M.D. Cornell, Visiting Professor (Medicine); John C. Mithoefer, M.D. Harvard, Professor (Medicine) and Director of the Division of Cardiology; Stanley D. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Yale, Assistant Professor (Psychiatry-Sociology); Alberto Scornik, M.D. University of Buenos Aires, Assistant Professor (Biochemistry); Lester B. Salans, M.D. Stanford, Assistant Professor (Medicine).
THAYER SCHOOL—Hans Grethlein, Ph.D. Princeton, Associate Professor; Fred K. Manasse, Ph.D. Princeton, Associate Professor; Barnard E. Smith, Ph.D. Stanford, Professor.
TUCK SCHOOL—Gary R. Roodman, D.B.A. Indiana, Assistant Professor (Business Administration).
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At Class Day exercises in June John A.Rassias (l), Professor of Romance Languages,and Larry K. Smith, Instructorin History, were the first faculty recipientsof the Arthur Wilson TeachingPrize, established by Palaeopitus throughthe Milton Sims Kramer Fund. Theprize, for excellence in teaching, honorsArthur M. Wilson '40h, who retired lastyear as Daniel Webster Professor andtaught biography and government.
Charles J. Lyon, Professor of BotanyEmeritus (r), receiving the honorary Doctorateof Science from Middlebury College.He is a 1918 graduate of Middlebury.