The Faculty
PERHAPS this is the season for poetry, but we would like to think the following contribution was inspired by our recent effort published in The FacultyBulletin. * It was penned by Prof. Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig of the Philosophy Department.
"This professorial body, day-pursuing (Like Jerome Bruner: "Essays with the Left-Hand") Is glad, indeed, oblivion is ensuing, Leaving behind, perhaps, an Ampersand!
Unless, of course, returning from Nepal Come January 1, I should discover Nirvana not extinction after all, But cooling-off of passions that appall."
P.S. I don't leave till December 10!
DAVID C. KUBRIN, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to spend the 1969-70 academic year researching in Great Britain. He will concentrate on 17th Century English cosmogony and the development of Newtonian metaphysics.
He will spend most of the year in London, working at the British Museum, the Royal Society and the Public Records Office. He will also spend some time at Oxford's Bodleian Library and the Cambridge University Library.
Professor Kubrin, thus becomes the fourth member of the History Department in recent years to receive a Guggenheim, one of the most prestigious fellowships in the American academic community. Others are Professors Louis Morton, David Roberts, and Henry L. Roberts.
PROF. S. Russell Stearns '37 of the Thayer School was a member of a 20-man United States delegation which attended a conference on engineering education in Paris sponsored by UNESCO. The 250 participants, all by invitation, represented 60 nations.
Professor Stearns's paper, on the development of engineering education at Thayer, was one of seven distributed in English and French as an official conference document.
JOHN W. SOMMER JR. '60, Assistant Professor of Geography, has received a $50,000 Title I grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for the education of small-scale retailers in New England.
He will direct the program which involves research and development of computerized stock and sales analysis. Laurence E. Goss Jr. '66, who will be returning to join the Geography Department faculty, will aid in the project.
PROF. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of the Sociology Department is the author of several recent articles. He contributed an essay on "Futurism in Planning for Developing Countries" to the November 1968 issue of The Journal ofthe American Institute of Planners. The 20th edition of Good Reading, edited by J. Sherwood Weber, contains his chapter I on "Anthropology and Sociology."
THE 1969 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets was recently ' awarded to Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 of the English Department. The Fellowship carries a $5,000 award.
The Academy's Board of Chancellors, who voted the award, are all eminent poets or critics. Recent Fellows were Mark Van Doren and Stanley Kunitz.
A non-profit membership organization, the Academy also sponsors the annual Lamont Poetry Selection contest and awards poetry prizes at 56 colleges. Its chief purpose is to stimulate interest in American poetry.
CARL F. LONG, Associate Professor at the Thayer School, has been awarded a $57,400 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the use of a time-sharing computer by officials in small municipal governments.
Major effort will be devoted to the identification of municipal problems, the writing of model programs or application of existing programs at the Kiewit Computation Center, and the demonstration of the system to town officials throughout New England.
Among the bread-and-butter areas Professor Long will explore and attempt to computerize for decision-making are water distribution systems, traffic distribution and control systems, highway and street maintenance and reconstruction scheduling, zoning for land use, and population growth and distribution.
VICTOR E. MCGEE, Associate Professor of Psychology, will move from the Arts and Sciences Faculty to the Tuck School at the start of the 1969-70 academic year. A member of the Psychology Department since 1962, he recently has been shuttling between Gerry Hall and Tuck where this year he taught the first-year computer course.
At Tuck he will be Associate Professor of Business Administration. He will teach in the areas of computers, quantitative methods, and marketing research.
* The poem chided the College's many modest professors who "in oblivion let their deeds expire" by not sharing their academic achievements with the entire College family through this column.
