The Faculty
THE College is beginning to feel the squeeze from cuts made in the non-military sector of new federal budgets. For the 1968-69 academic year only six National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowships were awarded to Dartmouth, compared with ten this year.
Nationally, the figure was cut from more than 6,000 fellowships to 3,328 next year. The fellowships pay the student $2400 annually plus $2500 annually to the institution for three years.
The reduction reflects a very serious cutback in federal support of graduate education. Most graduate-level departments depend on these fellowships for both graduate students and instructors.
At Dartmouth, where graduate programs are being considered in several new areas, faculty members expressed concern about its adverse effect on the developing curriculum.
The faculty's problem, in charting future courses, was compounded by recent Congressional revision of the draft laws. It orders the drafting of 26-year-olds first and abolishes the former deferment policy for graduate students.
Prof. James F. Hornig, Director of Graduate Study, has worked with the National Council of Graduate Schools in urging revision of the nation's draft laws. The Council is recommending adoption of a Selective Service lottery and the mixing of 26-year-olds with younger inductees.
SEVERAL faculty members recently were awarded National Science Foundation research grants. These were allocated under Great Society budgets and, here again, the future status of such funding is clouded.
William A. Reiners, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, received a $28,400 grant for a project entitled "Energy Flow and Mineral Cycling in Three Forest Ecosystems." A $20,400 grant was awarded Noye M. Johnson, Associate Professor of Geology, and Professor C. Vance Haynes of the University of Arizona for "Dating of Pleistocene Lake Eads Basin and Range Province."
Prof. John B. Lyons of the Geology Department was the recipient of a $5300 NSF grant to pursue research on "Dating Faults and Mesozoic Geochronology in New England." Renewal grants recently awarded were $40,000 to Prof. Richard H. Crowell of the Mathematics Department for "Topology of Knots" and $24,600 to John W. Lamperti, Associate Professor of Mathematics, for a project entitled "Limit and Representation Theorems for Stochatic Processes."
HARRY M. MAKLER, Instructor in Sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to return to Portugal where his research will involve a study of university students in social change, emphasizing the role of educational institutions in the social and economic development of a country. ... Prof. Frank Smallwood '51 of the Government Department opened a symposium on urban problems at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., with an address on "The Crisis of the Cities." ... Wilford F. Weeks, Adjunct Associate Professor of Geology and a CRREL staff member, has received the 1967 Army Research and Achievement Award from the Chief of Research and Development, Department of the Army, for his work in glaciology and geology.
IMPLEMENTATION of the new curriculum and limited four-year program at the Dartmouth Medical School moved a step closer to reality on March 1 when Dr. Thomas P. Almy assumed his new duties as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine.
One of the nation's foremost medical educators, Dr. Almy came from the Cornell University College of Medicine, New York City, where he had been Professor of Medicine since 1957. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1940 after earning his M.D. there. He was a Cornell undergraduate, too.
He has written about 90 scientific publications dealing with internal medicine and diseases of the digestive tract. He held appointments at the New York Hospital, Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Manhattan Veterans Hospital.
In announcing the appointment last fall, Dean Carleton B. Chapman of the Medical School said, "Dr. Almy is internationally known as a gifted teacher of medicine, a resourceful physician, and imaginative researcher. He brings to Dartmouth vast professional experience and accomplishment plus a profound concern for medical education in its broadest sense."
PROF. JAMES B. QUINN of the Tuck School has received an award for writing one of the best articles published in The Harvard Business Review in 1967. The $500 was given by the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research.
The article entitled "Technological Forecasting" was published in the March-April issue. Professor Quinn, writing in the preface, said: "For years technology has been the dominant force creating change in men's lives. Yet only recently have managers in public and private organizations realized the need to forecast technological change and its impact on their activities. Economic forecasts, market forecasts, financial forecasts, even weather forecasts have become standard tools of management. Someday soon, technological forecasting - now in its infancy - must become as accepted and useful as these other analytical devices."
This is the second McKinsey Foundation Award that Professor Quinn has won for an article in The Harvard BusinessReview. His previous prize-winner was an article entitled "Transferring Research Results in Operation."
WILLIAM E. SLESNICK, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received the Silver Beaver Award "for distinguished service to boyhood" from the Daniel Webster Council, Boy Scouts of America, at its annual meeting in Concord.
An active scouter since Cub Scout days 30 years ago, Slesnick has received several local and national awards. The Silver Beaver Award is the highest a Council can bestow. Until recently chief of leadership training in the Hanover area, he also serves on the executive board of the state-wide Webster Council and the national committee of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scout honor camper group.
Last summer he was on the staff of the World Jamboree in Farragut State Park, Idaho, where thousands of scouts assembled. Later he participated in the adult planning sessions of the World Scout Conference in Seattle.
