The Faculty
DEAN KARL A. HILL '38 of the Tuck School has been named Dean of the Washington University School of Business and Public Administration in St. Louis, Mo. He will assume his new post July 1, terminating a distinguished 22-year career as teacher and administrator at Tuck.
He will direct a three-track program at Washington University: 175 undergraduates, 260 in the MBA program, and 30 doctoral candidates. The business school also runs management development courses for industries throughout the Midwest.
Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, in announcing the appointment, said, "For ten years one of the nation's leading graduate business schools has grown and witnessed innovation with Karl Hill as its dean. His acceptance of our offer makes me confident of our school's continued academic growth and renewal interaction with the community."
As announced by President Dickey in January, the new Dean of the Tuck School will be John W. Hennessey Jr., who joined its faculty in 1957. Since February 1962 he has been Dean Hill's chief aide, serving as Associate Dean.
DR. CARLETON B. CHAPMAN, Dean of Dartmouth Medical School, in late March testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health on behalf of pending federal legislation which would extend the life of the regional medical programs for five years. ... Ronald W. Maris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has been awarded a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Research and Training Fellowship to study suicidology at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School during the coming academic year. ... Donald A. Campbell, Associate Professor of History, participated in a panel discussion at Johnson State College, Johnson, Vt., on "Approaches to Writing a College or University History." ... Jon Appleton, Assistant Professor of Music and director of the new Griffith Electronic Music Studio at Hopkins Center, lectured on "Electronic Music Today" at Bowdoin College.
JEFFREY HART '51, Associate Professor of English, has been given a leave of absence for the spring term to accept California Governor Ronald Reagan's invitation to research speeches and act as a special adviser. He also expects to finish a book on C. S. Lewis while on his California sojourn.
COLLEGE anthropologists hosted more than 150 university colleagues from the U.S. and eastern Canada on campus April 5-7 at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association.
Five members of Dartmouth's Anthropology Department presented papers: Assistant Professor Hoyt S. Alverson, "A Formal Analysis of Fundamental Legal Relations"; Associate Professor James W. Fernandez, "The Future of the Shaka Complex"; Professor Robert A. McKennan '25, "Prehistory of the Yukon-Tanana Upland"; Adjunct Assistant Professor Alfred F. Whiting, "Hopi Tiponi and Clan History"; and Mary E. Wesbrook, "A Venture in Ethnohistory: the Journals of Rev. V. C. Sim, Pioneer Missionary of the Yukon."
William N. Fenton '3O presented a public lecture on "Hunting the Redskin in Europe." A former assistant education commissioner for the New York State Museum and Science Service and authority on the Iroquois, he is Professor of Anthropology at the State University at Albany.
Chief organizer for the three-day conference was Professor Elmer Harp Jr., chairman of the Anthropology Department.
A WORKING-TRAVELING spring vacation was spent by three members of the Dartmouth community on the alumni circuit. Henry L. Terrie Jr., Professor of English, and Donald L. Kreider, Associate Professor of Mathematics, joined by William Blanchard '68, reported on the current Dartmouth scene to the Rochester, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo Alumni Clubs.
Several faculty members recently received grants to study and lecture here and abroad. Prof. Lawrence E. Harvey of the Romance Languages Department has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to study comparative literature at the University of Florence, Italy. .. . Another Fulbright-Hays recipient is Prof. Robert Z. Norman of the Mathematics Department who will lecture at the University of Engineering and University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.... Peter Cocozella, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, was one of 184 young scholars in the nation to receive fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the relatively new (1965) federal agency authorized to promote scholarship, research, and public understanding of the humanities in the U.S.
CHAUNCEY LOOMIS, Associate Professor of English, delivered a paper before the Conference on Polar Activities in Washington, D. C., celebrating the opening of the Polar Archives Section of the National Archives.
He also spoke to the Explorers' Club on "Frobisher Bay and Charles Francis Hall." Professor Loomis is writing a biography of Hall, a 19th-century American explorer, and plans a summer trip to Greenland.
AN example of the College's modern, peripatetic professors is Charles T. Wood, Associate Professor of History. On February 14 he joined Robert Reich '6B and James Kenney '69 in a panel discussion on "The Problem of Drugs and the College Student" in Claremont, N. H., sponsored by the local B'nai B'rith.
Five days later he traveled to the University of Vermont campus in Burlington. There he delivered a paper to a history colloquium entitled "Church, State and St. Louis' Mise of Amiens: Limitations of Royal Sovereignty in Thirteenth Century France."
On March 29 he gave a paper on "The Mise of Amiens and St. Louis' Theory of Kingship" at the annual meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies in Ithaca, N. Y.
During the current spring term he is traveling once a week to Bennington, Vt., to be a visiting member of the Bennington College faculty.
A RECENTLY published anthology called Outsiders Inside Vermont (Stephen Greene Press) includes essays by such varied luminaries as Samuel de Champlain, Rudyard Kipling, and Noel Perrin, Associate Professor of English. As a New York City native Professor Perrin qualifies as an interloper in the Green Mountains, but he lives in rustic Thetford Center, Vt.
THE Earth Sciences Department was well represented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D. C. Dartmouth teachers and students teamed up, on several occasions, to give papers on joint research projects.
Prof. Richard E. Stoiber '32 and William I. Rose '66, an M.A. degree candidate, delivered a paper on "Recent Volcanic Activity, Santiaguito Volcano, Guatemala"; Prof. Noye M. Johnson and Michael H. Bothner, another M.A. candidate, on "Natural Radiation Dosimetry of Carbonate Deepsea Cores"; and Prof. Robert W. Decker on "Kilauea Volcanic Activity: An Electrical Analog Model."
Prof. James Cox of the English Department recently returned from the University of South Carolina where he lectured on Mark Twain's HuckleberryFinn and the University of Connecticut where his topic was American literature.
He will be off again soon to Amherst College for another American literature lecture.
Two members of the Mathematics Department participated in discussions at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Philadelphia.
Prof. Robert Z. Norman, participating in a junior college panel, reported on "Mathematics for University Parallel Students" and Prof. William E. Slesnick, addressing a senior high school section, spoke on "All Relevant Trigonometry in One Hour."
A KEY role in the first American College Theatre Festival, scheduled for early 1969 in Washington, D. C., will be filled by Prof. Henry B. Williams of the English Department, who is also director of the Experimental Theatre at Hopkins Center.
Thirteen regional committees will screen and nominate campus productions next fall. A central committee will review the regional presentations and select ten productions scheduled for presentation April 27-May 11 in two theaters provided by the Smithsonian Institution.
College companies will stay in Washington for six days to see other productions. Professor Williams will be in charge of arranging seminars and conferences on drama for the participants.
He has also been named to the committee which will organize and make final selections for the festival. The national group was chosen by the American Educational Theatre Association (AETA) and the American National Theatre Academy (ANTA). Professor Williams is a member of the executive committee of ANTA and past president of AETA.
The American College Theatre Festival will be sponsored by the Friends of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and American Airlines.
Arthur L. Mayer, who has returned to Dartmouth this spring to give his motionpicture history course for the fourth time, shown in Fairbanks Hall with Jason Metaxas '70 and Austin de Besche '68. The Dartmouth Film Society has dedicated itsspring film series to Mr. Mayer, who as author, publicist, and manager has had alifetime of experience in the motion picture world.
