The Faculty

JAMES M. Cox, Professor of English and a specialist in American literature, is the recipient of a 1969 E. Harris Harbison Award for distinguished teaching from the Danforth Foundation.

Professor Cox, currently working on a critical study of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was one of 20 outstanding teachers from colleges and universities across the country honored by the Danforth Foundation in ceremonies last month in St. Louis. The Harbison Award carries for each recipient a $10,000 cash grant to be used in that study or preparation he deems most helpful to his teaching or scholarship.

Professor Cox is the fourth member of the Dartmouth faculty to be honored by the Danforth Foundation since the award for distinguished teaching was established in 1962. Others are Prof. Fred Berthold Jr. '45, of the Department of Religion; Prof. Peter Bien, Department of English; and Prof. Joseph D. Harris of the Department of Physics.

The award is named in memory of the late E. Harris Harbison, former Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton and a former trustee of the Danforth Foundation. The award recognizes professors who have shown themselves to be "outstanding in the art of teaching, in the significance of their scholarly contribution, in their concern for the student as an individual, and in their commitment to ethical and spiritual values."

In the field of American literature, Professor Cox has concentrated especially on the works of Robert Frost, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allen Poe, in addition to those of Hawthorne. In 1966 his fulllength critical study of Mark Twain entitled, Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, was published by Princeton University Press, and he earlier edited a collection of essays on Robert Frost for Prentice-Hall's Twentieth Century Views series. His essays and articles also have appeared in Sewanee Review, Kenyon Review,Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, National Observer, and Saturday Review. A textbook, Third Day at Gettysburg, was published in 1959.

Professor Cox was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1948 after his college education was interrupted by World War II service in the U.S. Navy. He earned a master's degree from Michigan in 1949, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1955. Professor Cox first came to Dartmouth as an instructor in 1955. He returned to Indiana University in 1957, and came back to Dartmouth six years later as an associate professor.

RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of _ English and Poet-in-Residence, became the first American poet to read his work at installation of a university president when he participated in inaugural ceremonies for Morris B. Abram, second president of Brandeis University. The title of his poem was "The Goal of Intellectual Man." On a fall mid-western tour he read his poetry at Beloit College and St. Olaf's College. At Beloit he was a guest of fellow poet Bink Noll, a former member of the College's English Department.

JOHN G. GARRARD, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature, has been appointed director of the Institute of Critical Languages at Windham College. The Institute, established in 1960, each summer offers an intensive six-week Russian language course for undergraduate and graduate students.

ROBERT L. CLELAND, Associate Professor of Chemistry, last summer was a visiting researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. During the 1968-69 academic year he is a visiting professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France.

AN overflight of New England in early L November, directed by Robert B. Simpson, Associate Professor of Geography, will help produce a space-age map of the region, the latest tool in the regional planner's portfolio.

Flying two miles high, a National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) reconnaissance aircraft took mixed-media recordings, capable of detecting even commuter traffic flow and residency density. Some 18 college geography students checked data along the flight path.

The overflight constitutes a new research area in NASA's Earth Resources Satellite program, aiming towards an earth-oriented satellite in 1970. Objectives of the current phase of the College research project are an evaluation of the usefulness of specific sensors for population solving and preparation of aids to assist other specialists in interpreting similar imagery. As the instrumentation phase of the project is complete, the study of settlement patterns will be increased.

PROF. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department lectured at seven colleges during a November tour of Virginia. He is also serving as vice-chairman of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Computing.

A Polish edition of Professor Kemeny's book A Philosopher Looks at Science was recently published. Another book, BASIC Programming, written by him and his departmental colleague, Thomas E. Kurtz, has been re-issued.

PROF. William M. Smith of the Psychology Department was one of two Americans who lectured last summer at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference on "Perception" held at. the University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The unique five-day conference was attended by scholars and graduate students of NATO countries. Other lecturers represented Italy, Greece, Turkey, Holland, and Great Britain.

RICHARD D. TAYLOR, Assistant Professor of English, is the editor and author of an introductory essay to a new book entitled Frank Pearce Sturm: HisLife, Letters and Collected Work. Sturm, a writer-scholar and mystic, was a confidant of the Irish poet and playwright W. B. Yeats.

This biographical and critical study of Sturm assembles for the first time his major published works and includes the Yeats-Sturm letters. Known mainly through Yeats' occasional references to him as poet, scholar and mystic, Sturm's significance for literary history lies not only in his friendship and lively, though sporadic, correspondence with Yeats, but in his early sensitive interpretations of Baudelaire, and in his role as a poet of the Symbolist movement.

JAMES W. FERNANDEZ, Associate Professor of Anthropology, led a seminar on "African Society" attended by faculty from nine Central New York colleges at the College Center of the Finger Lakes, Corning. It was the second of seven monthly seminars at the consortium sponsored by Alfred University, Cazenovia College, Corning Community College, Elmira College, Hartwick College, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Ithaca College, Keuka College, and Wells College.

A RECENTLY published report, Physicsof the Earth in Space summarizes the work of a task force convened at Woods Hole, Mass., last August by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Millett G. Morgan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Dartmouth's Radiophysics Laboratory, was a member of the 31-man study group which spent two weeks reviewing the past decade of space research and mapping the directions that research on the physics of the earth's environment should take from 1968 to 1975. Recommendations were presented to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which had a large group of consulting scientists and engineers at the summer conference. The August study was the fourth in a series begun in 1962 to give guidance to NASA.

Professor Morgan, one of the country's foremost ionospheric physicists, has specialized in the study of mysterious ionospheric radio signals, one category of which is known as "whistlers." The study has involved a string of stations from Labrador to Antarctica, as well as specially designed receiver that was carried aloft by satellite in October 1965. For the International Geophysical Year 1957-58, Professor Morgan was chairman of the United States IGY Committee's Panel on lonospheric Physics.

JON APPLETON, Assistant Professor of Music, was one of four American delegates to the World Congress of Electronic Music at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, West Germany. He presented a paper entitled "Reevaluating the Principle

of Expectation in Electronic Music." Director of the Electronic Music Studio at the College, Professor Appleton presented the film Anuszkiewicz, produced while Richard Anuszkiewicz, the pop artist, was on campus last spring. Initiated as a special art project by Prof. Matthew Wysocki of the Art Department, the film was made under his direction by David Strohmeyer '68. Professor Appleton provided the musical score and Anuszkiewicz was artistic director.

Other recent European travelers were Profs. John W. Lamperti and J. Laurie Snell of the Mathematics Department. They spoke at a conference on "Markov Chains" at Oberwolfach.