The Faculty
LEO SPITZER, Assistant Professor of History, recently spent three weeks in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to make arrangements for a new foreign study program in Africa. Under auspices of the Black Studies Program about ten Dartmouth students during the Spring Term will be in residence at the Fourah Bay College there, studying under the direction of Professor Spitzer, an African specialist and author of several studies of Freetown's social history.
Professor Spitzer recently presented a paper entitled "African Intellectual Reactions to Western Culture" at a conference of the Social Science Research Council in Washington, D. C.
JOHN G. GARRARD, Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, chaired a fall conference of contributors to a book, Russia and theWest in the Eighteenth Century, which he is editing. The conference, held in Hanover and sponsored by the Ameri- can Council of Learned Societies, was attended by scholars from a number of major American universities, as well as from England.
More recently, Professor Garrard delivered a paper entitled "The Emergence of the Authorial Personality in Karamzin's Fiction" at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in New Orleans.
DURING the past year an impressive number of members of the Chemistry Department were invited to deliver guest lectures at other universities or to participate in industrial research symposia.
Prof. Karl F. Kuhlmann lectured on 'Studies of the Nuclear Overhauser Effect" at the Eli Lilly & Co. Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, Ind. "A Total Synthesis of Elaeocarpidine" was the topic of a talk given by Prof. Gordon W. Gribble at the University of Nebraska. Prof. Thomas A. Spencer Jr. delivered a lecture entitled "Studies on Amine Catalysis" at the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, N. Y.
Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer delivered a series of five lectures at the University of Utah, entitled "The Statistical Mechanics of Maromolecules." This year he concluded assignments as a member of the National Research Council Advisory Panel of the National Bureau of Standards and as a member of the Visiting Committee, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory. He continues as a member of the National Science Foundation Chemistry Advisory Panel and a member of the Visiting Committee, Department of Chemistry, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
THE Citizens Task Forces, named by New Hampshire Governor Walter R. Peterson Jr. '47 to survey present and future problems confronting the state, relied heavily on the expertise of the Economics Department.
Prof. John A. Menge was chairman of a subcommittee on policy-making systems, while Professor Emeritus Martin L. Lindahl was chairman of a subcommittee which studied the effectiveness of the executive branch.
Prof. Lawrence G. Hines was a member of the subcommittee on environmental systems. Prof. George B. Pidot Jr. and Michael P. Smith, Instructor in Government, jointly authored a paper entitled "Protecting New Hampshire's Environment." Professor Pidot, who was a member of the executive branch study subcommittee, also wrote a lengthy study on taxation. His recommendation that a single state agency assume statewide responsibility for property assessing was strongly endorsed on the editorial page of the Concord Monitor. His tax study generated considerable interest, and he discussed it at the fall meeting of the New Hampshire Municipal Association. The Pidot study called the present methods "capricious taxation" wherein low-income families pay comparatively higher taxes than families that own more valuable property.
HOWARD L. ERDMAN, Associate Professor of Government, taught two courses on government and politics in India at the Harvard Summer School. He then proceeded to London where he was a visiting research associate at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. The Institute will publish his monograph on the political attitudes of the industrialists in the Indian city of Baroda.
AMONG recent grants, the Physics Department was awarded a two-year $24,900 grant by the National Science Foundation as half of a $49,800 program to improve elementary physics courses by the addition of new equipment. Elisha R. Huggins, Associate Professor of Physics, is project director.
John E. Walsh, Assistant Professor of Physics, was awarded $15,000 by the Research Corporation for support of research entitled, "lon Density Fluctuations, Conductivities and Electron Beams."
Dr. Leonard I. Malkin, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School, was awarded a $56,192 grant from the American Cancer Society for basic research in animal cell function. Research support from such private sources is becoming increasingly important. A budget freeze, instituted last year, has forced the National Institutes of Health to make a straight cut of individual grants by 15 percent, and in some cases 25 percent.
DR. CARLETON B. CHAPMAN, Dean of the Medical School, delivered the keynote address at a national symposium on "Exercise and the Heart" in Boston, attended by more than 500 physicians, physiologists and physical fitness directors. ... Prof. Albert S. Carlson of the Geography Department discussed "Towards a Better Use of Land" at a meeting of the New England Council in Manchester, Vt.... Charles A. Dailey, Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Director of Institutional Research, participated in a roundtable discussion on problems of employment among urban minority groups at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D. C.... Prof. Robert E. Huke '48 of the Geography Department is the editor of a book entitled Computer Assisted Instruction in Geography, pub- lished by the National Science Foundation.
A MEMORIAL hour of music for the late Prof. Milton Gill of the Music Department was given October 26 in Rollins Chapel. Returning from a concert tour, he was one of 32 persons killed October 25, 1968 in the crash of an airplane approaching the Lebanon Regional Airport.
The program featured two of his own works, an organ chorale-prelude WithBroken Heart and Contrite Sigh and a setting for chorus and organ of Psalm 130, Out of the Deep I Cry. Participants were the Handel Society Chorus conducted by Prof. James Sykes, who also led the Cantata Singers and an orchestral ensemble in a Bach work. Dale Carr '62, College Organist and former pupil of Professor Gill, played the organ.
IN addition to being host for the National Academy of Sciences meeting October 13-15, the College also provided much leadership for the proceedings. Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer of the Chemistry Department, a member of the Academy, was chairman of the entire event, assisted by Philip G. Krueger, Administrative Officer of the physical sciences departments.
One of the three major public symposia, entitled "The Exploration of Space - Manned vs. Unmanned," was conceived, organized and chaired by Prof. Millett G. Morgan, Director of the Thayer School's Radiophysics Laboratory. Professor Stockmayer organized and chaired another symposium on "Forms of Water" in which Hans E. Grethlein, Associate Professor of Engineering, delivered a paper on "Recovery of Water by Reverse Osmosis."
At other Academy sessions the following faculty members gave contributed papers: William O. Berndt, Associate Professor of Pharmacology; Gordon H. Gribble, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, in association with Profs. Robert M. Fitch '49 and C. H. Tsai of the University of Connecticut; Prof. William T. Doyle of the Physics Department, with Pieter Hoekstra of CRREL; Elisha R. Huggins, Associate Professor of Physics; Prof. David M. Lemal of the Chemistry Department, with Charles L. Braun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Volkhard Austel, post-doctoral fellow; Prof. Reese T. Prosser of the Mathematics Department; Richard H. Rech, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, with Paul D. Thut, graduate student at the Medical School; Oscar A. Scornik, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Prof. E. Lucile Smith of the Biochemistry Department, with Christopher J. Knowles, Research Associate in Biochemistry; and Professor Stockmayer, with William M. Gobush Jr., graduate student in chemistry.
Sinclair Weeks (c), former Secretary of Commerce and longtime friend of theCollege, with President Dickey and Librarian Edward C. Lathem '51 last monthwhen the Weeks Family Papers were presented to Dartmouth.
