The Faculty
MARIO DI BONAVENTURA, Professor of Music and Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, has been named the first occupant of a new endowed faculty chair, the Arthur R. Virgin 1900 Professorship of Music.
Arthur R. Virgin 'OO has provided the funds to endow the new professorship. It is to be awarded to "a professor who has given high promise of notably contributing to music at Dartmouth College."
Professor di Bonaventura is currently on a six-month tour of Europe where he is conducting and lecturing in several countries and commissioning works for future summer music programs in Hopkins Center's Congregation of the Arts. He has been a member of Dartmouth's music faculty since 1962.
Long a supporter of the creative arts at the College, Mr. Virgin is a member of the Music Advisory Committee of Hopkins Center and has been a significant contributor to its music program. He and his wife, the former Jeannette Blake, are patrons of theater and music in New York City and Quebec where they founded the well-known Piggery Summer Theatre. Before his retirement in 1937 Mr. Virgin was with the Canada Bank of Commerce and served as its manager in North Hatley, Quebec.
RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of English and Poet in Residence, was one of a dozen contemporary poets who gave readings in Town Hall, New York City, November 12 in a program entitled "Poets for Peace." He also contributed "An Opinion" in Voices SpeakOut Against Vietnam, published in the fall by Simon and Schuster.
Poems by Professor Eberhart recently published are "The Enigma" in the November 18 issue of The New Yorker; "The Tomb by the Sea with Cars Going By" in the November 19 issue of the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine; and "Ball Game" and "To the Bad Poets" in the first issue, fall 1967, of New Amercan Review. Other writings are an essay, "Will and Psyche in Poetry," in A Celebration of Poets, edited by Don Cameron Allen (Johns Hopkins Press, 1967), and "Comment on Censorship" in Arts inSociety (University of Wisconsin, 1967).
Professor Eberhart's frequent readings of his own works on other campuses were extended during the fall term by visits to Miami University in Ohio, John Carroll University, and Louisiana State University.
Two Professors Emeriti of French made news recently - one was elected to membership in three Northern France historical and literary societies, the other had three poems published.
Prof. Francois Denoeu was elected to the Société pour las conservation des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais, the Société des antiquaires de la Morinie in Saint-Omer, and the Academie des sciences, lettres et arts of Arras.
He is writing a book on his native region of France entitled France-Nord,histoire, habitants. He plans to visit France this summer to complete research on the work which he hopes to publish in 1969.
Professor Ramon Guthrie was the author of three poems published in the Quarterly Reveiw of Literature. The poems were entitled "Suite by the River," "Keepsake" and "They Danced."
PROF. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of the Sociology Department hasn't had time to unpack his luggage lately. He has been speaking across the nation on the timely topic of urban affairs.
He lectured in July at Southern Oregon College and Operation Prometheus at Medford, Oregon, on "Remaking the Urban Environment." Early in the fall term he delivered three lectures at the University of North Carolina's Graduate Department of City and Regional Planning under the general title "Long-Range Planning" and "Macro-Planning in Territory and Function."
Back on the lecture circuit in December, he discussed "Urban Planning” at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Md. Last month he lectured on "The American Urban Mess" at Vermont Academy.
Professor Eldredge's anthology Taming Megalopolis was named the November selection of the Library of Urban Affairs' Book Club.
THE Nathaniel Leverone Field House, as a dramatic example of what can be done with reinforced concrete, a modern architectural medium, is the topic of a technical paper by Carl F. Long, Associate Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School. He presented the paper in English last September in Mexico City, Mexico, to an international audience attending the Congreso International sobre la A plication de Estructuras Laminares en Arguitectura.
Professor Long, opening the paper, said, "Construction in reinforced concrete is emerging from the initial phases of research and study of practical possibilities with this revolutionary material, and is becoming one of the principal factors of the great architecture of today and tomorrow.
"In the hills of Hanover, New Hampshire, the Dartmouth campus has been embellished in a manner that gladdens the heart of structural men and architects and inspires a pride in these professions. Engineering courage is where you find it and it is readily apparent in the soaring grace and beauty of the lamella arch of the Nathaniel Leverone Field House."
Mario di Bonaventura, first to hold theArthur R. Virgin Professorship of Music.
