The Faculty
PROF. Robert H. Guest of Tuck School has been named a consultant for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a member of the Management Advisory Panel, he will be concerned with broad questions of organization and management at NASA.
He recently completed a study of the organization of post-lunar experiments under a National Academy of Sciences grant.
Professor Guest, who has a wide reputation as an authority on the process of change in industrial organizations, is a member of the New Hampshire Aeronautics Commission.
IN addition to his classroom duties, Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of the Sociology Department has been busy lecturing to urban affairs groups around the globe.
Last summer he delivered a paper on "Futurism in National Urbanization Planning" at the International Planning and Development Collaborative Seminar in Washington, D. C. It will be published by Praeger Press in a collection of essays on planning in developing nations. He then aided the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies in the inauguration of an urban affairs curriculum, both undergraduate and graduate, for a consortium of eight public and private universities in the nation's capital.
Later Professor Eldredge delivered three lectures at a seminar on national, regional, and urban planning at Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia. It was conducted by the American-Yugoslav Project of the Urbanisticni Institut.
In October he delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the American Institute of Planners in Pittsburgh. Entitled "Toward a National Policy for Planning the Environment," it will be published, along with other conference papers, by the Indiana University Press.
He. received kudos from the American Society of Planning Officials which listed Taming Megalopolis as one of the 43 paperback titles "around which a good planning library might be built." Professor Eldredge is editor of the book whose hard-cover edition was selected as the Urban Affairs Library selection-of-the-month for November 1967.
DR. John C. Mithoefer, a distinguished specialist in heart and lung diseases, has been appointed Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School. He will serve as director of the new Cardiopulmonary Division and will be the first full-time specialist coordinating research, teaching, and diagnostic services in this field at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
The Medical School thus took another significant step in its refounding. Last fall it began implementing its return to a four-year program granting both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, with enrollment due to increase from 96 to 160 students.
Dr. Mithoefer, a Brown and Harvard Medical School graduate, most recently was at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, N. Y., affiliated with Columbia University Medical School. He has done both basic research and clinical investigation, and his recent interests have been in the general area of the relationship between respiration and circulation. In pursuing his interest in the regulation of respiration at high altitude he has been a member of six expeditions in this country and in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes.
One of his outstanding achievements in clinical investigation has been the management of intractable asthma. He has shown that one of the consequences of a severe asthmatic attack can be the development of acidosis which then inhibits the response to treatment. He has shown that this acidosis can safely be corrected by the administration of sodium bicarbonate by vein. When this is done the beneficial effect of drugs used in the treatment of asthma is restored and the attack can be brought under control.
DR. Robert L. Vosburg of the Medical School was appointed to the New Hampshire Advisory Commission on Health and Welfare by former Governor John W. King. . . . Such fabled ports of call as Vienna, Bangkok, Djakarta, New Caledonia, and Fiji are on the itinerary of Robin Robinson '24, Professor of Mathematics and Registrar Emeritus, who currently is making a round-the-world tour with his wife.... Prof. Mario Di Bonaventura, Director of Music at the Hopkins Center, was a judge in the Portland (Me.) Symphony Orchestra's annual young artists competition.
PROF. Henry W. Ehrmann of the Government Department continues to keep the College Transportation Office busy by accepting many off-campus invitations. During the fall and winter terms he conducted faculty seminars at the University of Toronto and Yale University on "Collectivist and Participatory Democracy in Gaullist France." He also delivered an address on French domestic politics at the Brown University Conference on France.
He spoke to an institute of adult education leaders at Western Reserve University on student unrest in various nations. He will repeat the lecture at the University of Massachusetts.
Taking advantage of the break between the winter and spring terms, Professor Ehrmann will journey to Santiago, Chile. There he will deliver a paper on "The Role of Interest Groups in Political Development" at a round table organized under the auspices of the International Political Science Association.
In April he will deliver two lectures on the foreign policy of the French Fifth Republic at the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. On the same trip he will give an address at the University of Colorado during its annual Conference on World Affairs which he helped found more than 20 years ago.
THE dynamics of conflict in American cities were examined by Prof. Charles A. Dailey, Director of Institutional Research and Counseling, when he was the principal speaker at a recent three-day workshop on urban conflict at the Chicago Theological Seminary.
Addressing an assembly of ministers from many cities, he analyzed the early warning signals of conflict in the city and the use of conflict to get urban problems solved.
Professor Dailey cited the example of Rochester, N. Y., during the years 1964-67, as typical of a city which can become paralyzed until it evolves new types of leadership. A superb new corps of "urban mediators" eventually emerged in Rochester, he reported, and they proved able to apply patience and skill to resolving a shattering and potentially destructive racial crisis.
A behavioral scientist and author of the recent book, How to Make DecisionsAbout People, Professor Dailey assumed his newly created position at Dartmouth last summer and also became an adjunct member of the Psychology Department. He came from the American University in Washington, D. C., where he was a professor of behavioral sciences and director of the university's Research Center. There for the U.S. Department of Labor he conducted an evaluation of Project CAUSE, an investigation of the validity of counselor selection and training techniques used by 60 universities.
Prof. Jon Applet on, Director of the Dartmouth Electronic Music Studio in HopkinsCenter, discusses this ultra-modern field of music with four of his students: PierrePayne '70, William Sewall '70, Richard Felmeister '69 and Iver Olson '70.
