RETIRING FACULTY AND STAFF

ARTHUR DEWING '25, Professor of English, ends 38 .years of teaching this month to retire to his home in Norwich, Vt. For years he has been chairman of the Advanced Writing Course and for more years than that he has taught American Fiction, Composition, and Freshman English.

After graduation, Professor Dewing devoted two years to journalism, as a reporter on the city staffs of the ChicagoDaily News and the Boston Herald, and as a publicity writer in Detroit and Chicago. In 1928 he held the positions of an assistant architectural editor, assistant to the art editor, and editor of the index during the preparation of the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Coming to Dartmouth as an instructor in English in 1930, the following year he received a William Jewett Tucker Scholarship for study at Columbia University where he was awarded an M.A. in . 1932. He was made an assistant professor in 1937, and has been a professor since 1947.

Professor Dewing was the editor of This Our Purpose (Dartmouth Publications, 1950) a collection of the addresses and writings of President Ernest Martin Hopkins 'Ol. The project was authorized by the Trustees in 1946, and from then until 1950 he assembled and edited the material in close consultation with President Hopkins.

Professor Dewing was born in London and entered Dartmouth from Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass. He is married to the former Leslie Taylor, one of the Hanover area's best known musicians, and they are the parents of a daughter, Sara.

For ALEXANDER LAING '25, Professor of Belles Lettres, an end to student appointments at his office means more time to devote to several volumes he is writing, especially to his poems. Other pages to which Professor Laing's pen will be applied are those of the mid-monthly political letter, "Groundswell for the American Voter," which he co-edits. This is the most recent project in his liberal activism of many years.

Literature and liberalism were not indicated for Alexander Laing when he first came to Dartmouth intending to major in physics. The College has a memento of that period in the radio towers he helped build atop Wilder Hall. However, he decided to become a writer and to that end he shipped as an ordinary seaman and did editorial work in New York to accumulate the means to return to Hanover in 1929 and finish his first novel, End of Roaming. The same year he received the Walt Whitman Prize for poetry. A year as tutorial adviser in the English department and four years as adviser to The Arts followed, and then Professor Laing received a year's Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing and ethnographic study of the Pacific. He circled the world and, with more than his share of adventures, returned to Dartmouth in 1937 to the post of Assistant Librarian and subsequently Educational Services Adviser.

Of his 17 published volumes, his own favorite is JonathanEagle. His most recent book is Clipper Ships and Their Makers. The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, a mystery he "edited" in 1934, became a best seller and was re-issued in 1960 with the revelation that he had written it in collaboration with a medical student friend. His Sea Witch received a 25th anniversary edition in 1958, and this year will appear in a revised paperback edition. Works in progress include a biography of Commodore William Bainbridge and a history, The Pacific World.

He is married to the former Veronica Ruzicka, an artist whom he met after she had illustrated one of his books. His first wife was the late Dilys Laing, also a poet. His son, David '62, has done graduate work at Colorado and Harvard.

ARTHUR E. JENSEN, A.M. '46, Professor of English, will not be teaching "The King James Version of the Bible" next year but retirement from the classroom in no way means a retirement from campus, since he is the Coordinator of Plans for Dartmouth's Bicentennial.

Thus Professor Jensen continues his tradition of working for Dartmouth as teacher, planner, and administrator. He has been a faculty member since 1937 when he came to the College as an instructor in English. He became chairman of the Department of English in 1951 and had earlier been director and then chairman of the Great Issues Course. He served from 1955 to 1964 as Dean of the Faculty, returning to teaching after a 1963 sabbatical during which he and Mrs. Jensen went around the world.

A 1926 graduate of Brown, Professor Jensen taught English there while working for his M.A. degree, and left in 1931 to work for his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University. Next came three years on-the faculty of the University of Maine.

As Dean of the Faculty, Professor Jensen was a member of the Committee on Educational Policy which in 1958 instituted the three-term, three-course curriculum. From 1956 to 1961 he directed the summer Conference in Liberal Arts, a program he developed for Bell Telephone executives. He will continue to direct this executive development conference.

Professor Jensen was one of the original founders of the Ford Sayre Ski Council, and for some years was visiting professor at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. Many alumni remember him as a specialist in Victorian literature, although more recent ones may be closer to his freshman seminar in Hindu literature. He has also been in charge of Senior Fellows.

Prof, and Mrs. Jensen are parents of a son, Phillip, a San Francisco lawyer, and a daughter, Mrs. James D. Foch Jr. ('60).

Institutions which have awarded the English professor honorary degrees are Brown University, 1956; Long Island University, 1961; and Windham College, 1968, where he is educational consultant.

Registrar ROBIN ROBINSON '24, a most versatile gentleman, anticipates a retirement which will keep him quite as busy as his 40 years as teacher of mathematics and College administrator. June 30 will end a teaching career uninterrupted since 1928, but he will continue as registrar until August 31, preparing for his successor and clearing out his two offices in Bradley and McNutt.

Those who did not study mathematics under him should know him as the originator of the Robinson Reunion Plan, adopted in 1947, copyrighted as the Dartmouth Reunion Plan, and now used by many institutions. If a Dartmouth man graduated after 1957, he took the three-course, threeterm curriculum for which Professor Robinson worked out the calendar and schedule details.

A member of a real Dartmouth family, Professor Robinson is the son of the late Rev. Charles F. Robinson '90 (both father and son won the Thayer Mathematics Prize), and the nephew of five Dartmouth graduates including, as he enjoys relating, an aunt who received an M.A. in mathematics. His son, Peter '54, teaches geology at the University of Massachusetts.

Professor Robinson received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and studied further at the University of Hamburg. After a year on the Harvard faculty, he came to Hanover as an instructor in 1928 and was made a professor in 1942. He was chairman of the Department of Mathematics, 1943-47, and chairman of the Division of Sciences, 1951-55. From 1954 to 1956 he was director of the Great Issues Course.

Music is a good part of his life and figures in the future when he hopes to get to Munich and Vienna "to do some listening." He is the composer of several string quartets and a piano sonata, and was tympanist with the Handel Society Orchestra for twenty years. From his record collection he produced classical music programs for WTSL for a decade, and for years has conducted a music program for WDCR which he will probably continue.

G. WALTER WOODWORTH, Leon E. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School, foresees "a bit more time" in his rocking chair next year, but it will be a small bit in view of his projects for travel, writing, and revising at least one of his books. He and Mrs. Woodworth, who have moved several times in the last 15 years, consider the next year as an "informal sabbatical," and Norwich as their permanent home. Civic responsibilities Professor Woodworth will keep on with are trustee of the Dartmouth Savings Bank and member of the trust committee of the Norwich Congregational Church.

An authority on money, finance and banking, Professor Woodworth has written six books in this field. Published this year, his most recent, The Management of Cyclical Liquidityof Commercial Banks, was highly recommended by the reviewer to "bankers, government officials and members of Congress." Some of his other titles are The Monetary and.Banking System, The Detroit Money Market 1934-55, and The Money Market and Monetary Management.

He began his career as a financial expert with a B.A. from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1924, went on to an M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1925, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1932, after five years there as an instructor of economics. He taught at Dartmouth from 1930 to 1952, returned in 1962, and the following year was appointed to the Williams Professorship. In his ten-year absence from the College, he taught his field at the University of Michigan's School of Business Administration and at the University of Illinois.

Professor Woodworth is a member of the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Delta Sigma Pi. In his first period of Hanover residence he served on the Norwich Finance Committee and as chairman of the Norwich Development Association.

An affinity for the College and the area influenced Professor Woodworth to return in 1962, remembering, perhaps, that he had arrived the first time in 1930 with Professor Martin Lindahl, fellow graduate student at Michigan, fellow professor in retirement, and a close friend.

MARTIN L. LINDAHL, A.M. '40, Professor of Economics, holds wide recognition in many fields: transportation, public utilities, public power projects and river basin development, and corporations and antitrust policy. Probably most alumni recognize him as a teacher and co-author of Corporate Concentration and Public Policy, a textbook used at Dartmouth and many other institutions since 1942.

A 1924 graduate of Carleton College, economist Lindahl received his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He taught there and was a research fellow at The Brookings Institution before joining the College faculty in 1931. Dartmouth made him a full professor in 1940 and he was chairman of the Economics Department from 1953 to 1957 and chairman of the Public Administration program from 1959 to 1963.

He has been a consultant in his specialities at all governmental levels and an expert in public utility and railroad regulatory cases for twenty years. He is a member of the Research Advisory Committee and Transportation Committee of the New England Council, has been on the New England Governors' Committee on Public Transportation and the Transportation Council for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and served recently as chairman for the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association. He was employed as principal economist of the Board of Investigation and Research under the Transportation Act of 1940. Five years ago he updated the New England Council's case for the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad merger, and testified before the ICC.

Long-range plans for Professor and Mrs. Lindahl are curtailed by his commitment to teach a course in the third term next year, but there is a possibility that he may make a brief mission to Honduras for the Pan American Union of the Organization of American States. Meanwhile he has articles to add to his long list of publications, duties for the New England Council, and the prospect of returning to teach students in economics.

LAUREN M. SADLER '28, Assistant Professor of Physical Education, owns a 440-acre Norwich farm where he raises some beef cattle and runs a sugaring operation of 300 buckets. For the past nine years, he and his wife Laura have been working on a forest and land conservation project there and that is what they will continue to do when he ends his 40 year association with the College. In fact, their program may even expand because an adjoining farm is now owned by their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Tonseth. Their son, Peter, is a Chief in the Navy.

A Norwich resident since 1931, Professor Sadler undertook his first appointment at Dartmouth in 1928 as a student assistant. Previously he had worked in his home town of Elmira, N.Y., as a director of that city's 16 summer playgrounds. At Dartmouth where he majored in chemistry, he was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa, education fraternity; Alpha Chi Sigma, chemistry fraternity; Alpha Chi Rho, and the Dartmouth Scientific Society. He was captain of the gym team in senior year. His specialties under Coach Pat Kaney were the horizontal bar and parallel bars, in which he was outstanding enough to rank near the top in the intercollegiates. After graduation, his Dartmouth job in physical education permitted the continuation of his close relations with Pat Kaney until that noted Dartmouth figure-died.

He was a member of the Norwich School Board from 1943 to 1946, serving as chairman the last year; a member of the Boy Scout Committee of Norwich; chairman of the Cub Scout Pack Committee; and an original director of the Norwich Swimming Pool. A member of the Vermont State Guard from 1941 to 1945, he taught first-aid courses to the Guard and to the community during the war years, and doubled as a physics teacher to students in the Navy V-12 program.

He was chairman of the Physical Education Department for four years beginning in 1945, having been made an assistant professor in 1937. He is a charter member of the Ford Sayre Ski Council, and for two years directed the children's ski carnival.

Since 1950 Professor Sadler has taught classes in restricted physical education. Add the graduates of those classes to those of all his preceding courses and assume, at the very least, he has taught a lot of Dartmouth men to stand straighter. It is probable that his Norwich trees will be getting the same treatment.

In his career at Dartmouth since 1942, GEORGE W. SCHOENHUT, Associate Professor of Drama and Scenic Director for the Dartmouth Players, has experienced what he terms "an interesting period of transition in the theater," marked by the swing from realistic design to the most experimental. As designer of most of The Players' productions, Professor Schoenhut has been right in that swing.

His "swan song" for Dartmouth was the recent production of The Sorcerers. He rates as his most successful set the one he did for the 1955 production in Robinson Hall of Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival.

A 1930 graduate of Lehigh, Professor Schoenhut majored in English and journalism. For a time he became involved in reviving the family toy business (eventually a highly successful venture), all the while edging toward his preferred career in the arts. For a number of summers he worked as technician, designer, and producer in various theaters, and then began study for his master of fine arts degree at Yale, which he earned in 1948 on a year's leave from Dartmouth.

He began at Dartmouth as acting technical director for The Players, several months later was appointed instructor in English, and became an assistant professor of English, teaching a course in theater design and technical practice. In 1952 he left the English Department to spend the next ten years as scenic director for The Players. In 1963, following establishment of a Drama major, he returned to the faculty as assistant professor of drama, and became an associate professor the following year.

With their home on Valley Road and a summer home in Thetford, Professor and Mrs. Schoenhut will have two bases for their projected travels. They have already traveled widely in Europe, always with an eye on the local theater, and recall with pleasure the charm of the Finns and with displeasure the difficulties of getting to see the Drei Groschen Oper in East Berlin.

Professor Schoenhut looks forward to any number of activities in his field, none of them as yet definite. He has directed plays at the Caravan Theater in Dorset, Vt., including The Grass Harp, Glass Menagerie, and The Lady's Not forBurning, and was a consultant in the design of a stage for the Colby Junior College Theater. He is a member of the Theater and Dance Advisory Committee for the N.H. Commission on the Arts, and a member of Theater Resources for Youth, a state organization.

DR. JOHN B. McKENNA, who became the College's first full-time consultant in psychiatry in 1937, retires from that position this month but students may still see his familiar figure at Dick's House since he possibly will continue on a part-time basis. He may also continue as a consultant in psychiatry and neurology at the Veterans Administration Hospital, in White River Junction, where he has held that position since 1946.

A 1924 graduate of Providence College, Dr. McKenna received his M.D. in 1929 from Harvard Medical School. In 1929-30 he was a research assistant at Harvard Medical School's neurological laboratories and a graduate assistant in Massachusetts General's outpatient department. In the following years he rose from junior assistant physician to senior physician at McLean Hospital in Waverly, Mass., and before coming to Dartmouth he was also visiting physician to the neurological outpatient department at Massachusetts General Hospital and mental hygienist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

At Dartmouth, Dr. McKenna's services and titles have been many. He began as an instructor in physical diagnosis and clinical neurology at the Medical School, and he recalls that in those days he also assisted Dr. Dawson Tyson, presently chief of staff at the Veterans Hospital, in performing emergency brain surgery. From 1944 to 1946, his title was instructor in neuroanatomy and clinical neurology; 1946-47, instructor in neuroanatomy and psychiatry; and 1947-65, assistant professor. Since 1965 he has been Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neuroanatomy at the Medical School. Since coming to Dartmouth he has also been attending in Psychiatry and Neurology at Mary Hitchcock Hospital and as clinical psychiatrist at the Hitchcock Clinic.

Himself a victim of multiple sclerosis, Dr. McKenna has done research and published articles on its effects.

In some ways New Hampshire winter has been breathing down the neck of JEANETTE GILL, manager of the Dartmouth Dining Association, since she first came to Hanover 36 years ago: A blizzard is one of the quite possible emergencies which has led her to keep her college food inventory higher than those of less isolated institutions, and when winter and war combined to close the DOC House, she became a Marine. The climate can't have been too unfriendly, however, since with the exception of a winter month in Florida, she plans to keep right on coping with it in her Gould Road home.

In her years of providing delicious food, Miss Gill has discovered that "the easiest people to serve and care for are the alumni." She notes that student appraisal of college food changes radically for the better after graduation. For many years the person who managed Thayer Hall and fed some 2000 students a day, Miss Gill assumed a more supervisory role two years ago but retained responsibility for the DOC House and special College events.

A native of South Dakota, Miss Gill graduated from the University of Nebraska with a B.S. in home economics. She was one year on the staff at Nebraska, and then joined the University of Tennessee's department of Home economics in 1925. At Dartmouth, she first worked as manager of the DOC House at a time when Outing Club activities centered there, and for this reason knows most of the graduates of the '30s. She took over her present position in 1951.

In 1942 Miss Gill joined the Women's Marine Corps. Eight weeks of training at Holyoke made her a first lieutenant, and she became involved in feeding Marines at east coast bases, with offices alternately at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Washington, D.C. She left the Marines with the rank of major, and is now a lieutenant-colonel in the inactive Reserve. As for her future, she looks forward to a real rest and then a variety of activities including the Service Corps of Reserve Executives.