The Faculty

PROF. HENRY W. EHRMANN of the Government Department sped off campus immediately after commencement to assume the unique role of a scholar-journalist. Student unrest and mass strikes in France rocked the Fifth Republic just as his latest book, Politicsin France, was about to go to press.

He decided to see the mini-revolution for himself, and arranged a hasty trip to Paris. The book, including a postscript entitled "Summer 1968," was published in August when Professor Ehrmann was back and lecturing at Alumni College.

FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS for the 1968- 69 academic year have been awarded to six faculty members. The fellowships, inaugurated in 1961, provide young faculty members a year of study, research, and writing in their scholarly fields. The fellowship winners and their plans are:

Edmond L. Berger, Assistant Professor of Physics, who plans to pursue a program of study and research in theoretical elementary particle physics at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley.

James A. Epperson 111, Assistant Professor of English, who will spend his year in England continuing his research on the influence of French legalism on English constitutional theories of the Seventeenth Century and the relationship of legal education to Tudor-Stuart historiography.

James A. W. Heffernan, Assistant Professor of English, who will devote a year in England to his research on the English romantic period and the poetry of Wordsworth.

Bruce W. McMullan, Assistant Professor of Drama, who will use his fellowship to study the technological advances in theater, particularly design, functions, operations and utilization of electro-mechanical hydraulic servo-mechanisms. He will be based in Germany and travel to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Hans H. Penner, Assistant Professor of Religion, who will pursue research in "phenomenology of religion," a methodological procedure which provides an understanding of religion which is neither theological nor reductionist. Professor Penner, who will be in Germany and France, was also awarded a fellowship by the Society for Religion in Higher Education supported by the Danforth Foundation.

William C. Scott, Assistant Professor of Classics, who will remain in Hanover to study the oral nature of the Homeric simile. He will visit New York City and Washington, D. C., and possibly Paris, England, and Athens.

TEN OTHER College faculty members will spend the year off campus, pursuing suinga variety of academic work at universities around the globe. They are:

Prof. William L. Baldwin of the Economics Department, who is Visiting Professor of Economics at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand; Peter A. Bien, Associate Professor of English, who is doing scholarly research under a Danforth Foundation Harbison Award; Prof. Richard H. Crowell of the Mathematics Department, who is Visiting Professor fessorof Mathematics at Princeton; Prof. Lawrence E. Harvey of the Romance Languages Department, who is a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Florence, Italy; Ronald W. Maris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who is working on a National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Fellowship in Suicidology at lohns Hopkins University; Prof. Robert Z. Norman of the Mathematics Department, who is a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Engineering and the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru; Prof. Martin Segal of the Economics Department, who has a research appointment at the Economic Branch, International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland; Thomas J. Tighe, Associate Professor of Psychology, who is doing scholarly research under a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship; Prof. Matthew I. Wiencke of the Classics Department, who is Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; and Edward A. Yonan, Assistant Professor of Religion, who is Theologian-in-Residence at the American Church in Paris where, in preparation for a book, he is doing research on Paul Ricoeur, the French phenomenological philosopher.

PROF. RONALD F. WIPPERN has been appointed Associate Dean of the Tuck School, succeeding John W. Hennessey Jr., who became Dean on July 1. Dean Wippern's new duties include planning and administering the M.B.A. program. He will also have a principal role in planning and evaluating prospective new doctoral and executive development programs.

Professor Wippern holds the B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Colorado, and received a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1964. He did post-doctoral work at the Workshop in Research in Finance at Harvard University and taught at the University of Minnesota before coming to Tuck School in 1966 as assistant professor. He now is Associate Professor of Business Administration.

Two MEMBERS of the Anthropology Department participated in the VIII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. Prof. Elmer Harp Jr. read a paper on his recent research entitled "Optimum Scales and Emulsions in Air Photo Archaeology." Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25 delivered a paper on his current research in Alaska entitled "Prehistory of Healy Lake, Alaska." John P. Cook '59 of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, is collaborating with him.

The research programs of Professors Harp and McKennan are being supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Museum of Canada and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, respectively, and both men were awarded travel grants by the College.

HOWARD L. ERDMAN, Assistant Professor of Government, has been invited to join the Columbia University Seminar on "Tradition and Change in South Asia." The Seminar, composed of scholars from Columbia and other institutions across the nation, meets monthly during the academic year.

A specialist in the politics of India, Professor Erdman visited India in 1966-67 as a Senior Research Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies. His recently published book The Swatantra Party and Indian Conservatism has received critical acclaim in the United States and abroad.

He also recently was appointed to serve as co-director of the East Asia Language and Area Center at the College with Jonathan Mirsky, Assistant Professor of Chinese. They jointly planned the fifth annual New England meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on campus October 26, attended by more than 200 persons.

Donald Bartlett '24 (r), Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, while in Tokyo asFulbright Professor, watches U.S. Ambassador Alexis Johnson present to IchiroYano, executive director of the American Studies Foundation, the fnal payment of aU.S. grant totaling $242,000. Professor Bartlett, while U.S. Cultural Attache, and