The Faculty
Six assistant professors were awarded Dartmouth Faculty Fellowships for the 1968-69 academic year. These fellowships, which supplement the regular sabbatical leaves and outside awards, were inaugurated in 1961 to provide young faculty members a full uninterrupted year for study, research, and writing.
The recipients and their plans are as follows:
Edmond L. Berger, Assistant Professor of Physics, will do research in theoretical elementary particle physics at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.
James A. Epperson Ill, Assistant Professor of English, will spend his year in England continuing his research on the influence of French legalism on English constitutional theories of the Seventeenth Century and the relationship of legal education to Tudor-Stuart historiography.
James A.W. Heffernan, Assistant Professor of English, will devote a year in England to his research on the English Romantic period and the poetry of Wordsworth.
Bruce W. McMullan, Assistant Professor of Drama, will study the technological advances in theater, particularly design, functions, operations and utilization of electro-mechanical and hydraulic servo-mechanisms. Based in Germany, he will travel to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Hans H. Penner, Assistant Professor of Religion, will pursue research in "phenomenology of religion," a methodological procedure which provides an understanding of religion which is neither theological nor reductionistic. He expects to spend the year in Germany and, possibly, France. Professor Penner also was awarded a fellowship by the Society for Religion in Higher Education, a group supported by the Danforth Foundation.
William C. Scott, Assistant Professor of Classics, plans to remain primarily in Hanover devoting his time to an examination of the oral nature of the Homeric simile. He will make occasional trips to New York City and Washington, D. C., and visits to museums in Paris and England or Athens are also contemplated.
A NEW book by Prof. Wayne G. Broehl Jr. of the Tuck School was launched amid much fanfare at a luncheon April 11 in the New York Hilton. The announcement luncheon was sponsored by the National Planning Association, publisher of the book entitled United StatesBusiness Performance Abroad—TheCase Study of the International BasicEconomy Corporation.
Speakers at the luncheon, attended by many leaders in business and publishing circles, were Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, founder of IBEC; Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. Representative to the Organization of American States, and Professor Broehl.
One of the most interested luncheon guests was Rodman C. Rockefeller '54, a vice-president of IBEC who heads the largest division dealing with food processing and distribution. Professor Broehl's work on this project was sponsored in part by grants from the William K. Donner Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
The book describes the background and experience of the corporation launched by Governor Rockefeller in 1947. IBEC has grown into a worldwide network of businesses in 33 countries. Included are 52 supermarkets in South America, poultry breeding farms in 25 countries, mutual funds in six, and plants manufacturing various metal products in 12. In addition IBEC has built nearly 15,000 medium- and low-cost homes, mostly in Puerto Rico.
Research for the book led Professor Broehl to IBEC operations in Latin America during the summers of 1964 and 1965 and to their European and Asian operations in 1966.
THE following impressive list of faculty members received grants recently to pursue varied research projects: Mrs. Rhona P. Mirsky, Instructor in Biochemistry, $40,000 from the American Cancer Society to investigate the cell membranes of bacteria. .. . Ronald W. Maris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, a $70,000 National Institute of Mental Health grant to interview 800 families of recent suicides in Chicago to study the social dynamics of self-destruction. . . . Prof. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department, $57,000 from the National Science Foundation for research on "Potential Theory and Representation Theory for Markov Processes." .. . Bengt U. O. Sonnerup, Associate Professor of Engineering, $20,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a "Study of the Structure of the Magnetopause, Utilizing Satellite-Obtained Magnetometer Data." . . . David M. Lemal, Associate Professor of Chemistry, a $44,900 NSF grant for research entitled "Synthetic Approaches to Tetrahedranes and Prismanes.". . . John R. Merrill, Assistant Professor of Physics, $6,000 from Research Corporation to study the properties of solid states and solid state plasmas at extremely low temperatures. . . . Prof. Richard E. Stoiber '32 of the Earth Sciences Depart- ment, a $33,100 NSF grant for research on "Fumaroles in Guatemala and El Salvador."
ERROL GASTON HILL, a native of Trinidad, West Indies, has been appointed Associate Professor of Drama. He is the first Negro to receive a seniorlevel faculty appointment at the College.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before coming to the United States where he received M.F.A. and D.F.A. degrees from the Yale University School of Drama. He formerly taught at the University College of the West Indies, University of British Columbia, and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
"A playwright, actor and director, as well as a teacher, he embodies the combination of scholarship and creative energy that is the aim of our developing program in drama," said Prof. John Finch, chairman of the Drama Department. "As a result of his experience, his approach to drama is cosmopolitan and sophisticated. I look forward to working with him and seeing his plays performed on our Dartmouth stage."
The appointment of Professor Hill was approved at the January meeting of the Board of Trustees. He will join the faculty at the start of the 1968-69 academic year.
PROF. Ernst Snapper of the Mathematics Department lectured on "The Euclidean Group and the Concept of Angle" at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Philadelphia; another participant was George W. Best of Phillips Andover Academy, a Visiting Fellow this year, who spoke on "Foundations of Elementary Calculus." ... William D. Wu, Instructor in Art, lectured on Chinese landscape painting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.... Prof. F. David Roberts of the History Department delivered a paper entitled "Intellectual Development and Social Reform in Early Victorian England" at the annual meeting of the New England Conference on British Studies at Bowdoin College.
J P. FRANKEL, Associate Dean and . Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School, has been named Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., effective July 1. Professor Frankel since joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1966 has been active in courses dealing with the industrial development of emerging countries.
PROF. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary groups. Membership is limited to 2,000 persons and election is based on nomination by members.
Founded in 1780, it is a scholarly society of individuals proficient in the arts and sciences. Through publications and programs it promotes and encourages "knowledge of the antiquities of the United States."
Professor Kemeny recently gave the Cum Laude Society Lecture at Hebron Academy, Hebron, Me. He spoke on "The Future of the High Speed Computer."
PROF. Henry W. Ehrmann of the Government Department had an opportunity to see spring blossom in varied sections of the nation. In March he gave a lecture at Harvard, attended by Government Department graduate students and teachers.
He later participated in the annual meeting of the South Western Social Science Association in Dallas, Texas, where he gave a paper on new trends in the comparative study of parties and interest groups.
As president of the Dartmouth chapter of the American Association of University Professors, he attended the Association's annual meeting in Washington, D. C., April 26-27. He is also serving as outside examiner for honors graduates in political science at Oberlin.
DURING the past year of absence from the classroom Prof. Louis Morton of the History Department has conducted several ambitious projects. He was program chairman for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Toronto, Canada December 27-30. He was primarily responsible for the content of the 82 sessions, attended by 5,000 historians.
Subsequently he was elected president of the New England Historical Association at a meeting at Amherst College. He soon thereafter lectured on "Science and War" at the University of California at Davis.
Throughout the current academic year Professor Morton was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Studies at Harvard.
PROF. Robert E. Huke '48 of the Geography Department delivered a paper entitled "Capital Investment and Perception of Opportunity" at the annual Conference on Political and Social Geography in New York City.... Hannah T. Croasdale, Associate Professor of Biology, was elected to the Societas pro Funa et Flora Fennica of Finland.... Dean Karl A. Hill '38 of the Tuck School has been elected secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business.... Prof. Robert W. Decker of the Earth Sciences Department was elected vice-president of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section of the American Geophysical Union and has been appointed editor of the Catalogue of Active Volcanoesof the World, published by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior.
Prof. Wayne G. Broehl (r) with Laurence Rockefeller (l) and Rodman C. Rockefeller'54 at the New York luncheon given by the National Planning Association to markpublication of his book about the International Basic Economy Corporation.
Crane Brinton, noted Harvard historian,who is visiting professor this term, isshown at seminar on modern revolutions.
