The Faculty

CITING "a heavy series of institutional commitments which will keep me fully occupied during the next few months," Provost and Dean of the Faculty Leonard M. Rieser '44 has designated Associate Dean Frank Smallwood '51 as Acting Dean.

Dean Rieser will devote much time to the committee, appointed by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, which is studying the education of women at the College. He and Dudley W. Orr '29, a Trustee, are committee cochairmen.

The committee's charge is to make a "comprehensive and concrete review- study of Dartmouth's total existing and prospective program developments for the decade of the 1970's with particular attention to the question of the education of women at the College."

Professor Smallwood will be the principal administrator in the Dean's Office through August. Dean Rieser, who will be on campus most of this time, said he will continue to remain in contact with matters concerning the office and with individual faculty members.

GENE E. LIKENS, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, has been named a joint winner of one of ten professional-category Conservation Awards, made annually by the American Motors Corporation. He shares the award with F. H. Bormann, Professor of Forest Ecology at Yale and former Dartmouth professor. Recipients received bronze medallions at an awards banquet May 21 in Washington, D. C. Professionals also received a $500 honorarium.

The citation for Professors Likens and Bormann read: "You are honored for your intensive and continuous study into the impact of human activity on nutrient and water cycles." Their study was conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, operated by the U.S. Forest Service.

A key part of the study involved cutting the forest of a small watershed- ecosystem to determine the effects of removal of vegetation on the cycles. One watershed was clear-cut and measurements were taken regularly to determine effects on stream flow and fundamental chemical relations and on other important aspects of the ecosystem. Similar measurements on an adjacent undisturbed watershed furnished valuable comparative information. Their findings have provided quantitative evidence for judgments which previously had depended largely upon the intuition of observers.

The awards are presented annually by American Motors to professional and non-professional conservationists for dedicated efforts in the field of renewable natural resources.

AN organ and choir score, "Anthem for All Saints' Day," composed by the late Milton Gill, Associate Professor of Music and College Organist, has been published by the Sacred Music Press, Dayton, Ohio.... John W. Sommer '60, Assistant Professor of Geography, recently "played" the City I Game with White House Fellows at the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies; it is a lengthy computer simulation program on complex municipal issues which will be added to the growing library at the Kiewit Computation Center.

Two members of the English Department were on the "lecture circuit" during spring term. Professor Henry L. Terrie addressed installation ceremonies of the Cum Laude Society at Mt. Hermon School. Dressed in full academic regalia at their request, Professor Terrie, a specialist in the novels of Henry James' used the terminology of the novel TheAmbassadors in advising the Mt. Hermon students. Alan T. Gaylord, Associate Professor of English, delivered a lecture entitled "Towards a Film Criticism: A Serious Step Lightly Taken" at a meeting of the New England College English Association at Holy Cross.

DEAN John W. Hennessey Jr. of the Tuck School has been named to the Board of Visitors for the Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. The board is composed of prominent persons from education, industry, government, and the community.

PROF. Stephen G. Nichols '58 of the French Department has been awarded a post-doctoral grant-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is one of 31 scholars in the nation awarded the grant by the Council, a federation of national scholarly associations for the advancement of humanistic studies. It will enable Professor Nichols to travel in quest of primary material and underwrite publication of his current study entitled "Interaction of Art and Reality in the Creation of Medieval Latin and Vernacular Narrative Literature." The study focuses on the relationship of literature to society in the early Middle Ages, particularly acceptance of myth as historical fact in recited literature and its subsequent emulation.

FIVE scholars from four management teaching institutions in India attended an eight-week seminar on entrepreneurship with Prof. Wayne G. Broehl of the Tuck School. The seminar, financed by a Ford Foundation grant, is the first stage of a long-term study of the wide range of entrepreneurial patterns in India.

The visitors have joined with Professor Broehl, an authority on comparative business systems, to form a collaborative team. On-the-spot research begins this summer when they return to India. Professor Broehl plans to continue the study 0f Indian business firms, in the summers of 1970 and 1971.

During their spring term visit in Hanover the team explored historical and contemporary theories of entrepreneurship. In addition to using the Tuck faculty as a resource, they also met with authorities at Harvard and M.I.T. and interviewed executives representing a wide spectrum of New England businesses.

PROF. Henry B. Williams of the English Department, who is also director of the Experimental Theater at the Hopkins Center, created a symposium en- titled "The American Theater, a Cultural process" for the first American College Theater Festival at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. on May 2-5.

It marked the first time that eminent men and women, each fluent in his own area, congregated to deliver prepared papers covering all facets of the American theater. Professor Williams is a member of the board of directors of. the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) and a past president of the American Educational Association (AETA).

PROF. James A. Sykes of the Music Department was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar during the spring term. He spent several days at eight campuses, lecturing and meeting in seminars and with students individually.

During the winter term he traveled extensively in Europe, a continuation of his world-wide research for 19th-Century manuscripts. He worked at the British Museum in London and the Library of the Friends of Music in Vienna, home of the famous Brahms Collection of Robert Schumann manuscripts.

Professor Sykes made another stop abroad to bring the works of contemporary American composers to musically diverse cultures in Turkey. A March review in the newspaper Yeni Istanbul applauded his premiere piano concert devoted to the works of John Cage and Charles Ives.

AMONG American poets to be honored in an exhibition in the main branch of the New York City Public Library is Prof. Richard Eberhart of the English Department, Poet-in-Residence at the College. It will mark the 35th anniversary of the Academy of American Poets.

The exhibit, which runs from June 19 through September 26 at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St., includes poetry manuscripts, books, and photographs of eminent poets who have been awarded fellowships by their peers, including Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Allen Tate, and Eberhart.

The College of Wooster will bestow an honorary Doctorate of Letters on Professor Eberhart on June 9. He holds two other honorary Litt.D. degrees, from Dartmouth (1954) and Skidmore (1966).

ROY P. FORSTER, Ira Allen Eastman Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was the keynote speaker at the Bronfman Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Seminar held at Williams College on May 3. His topic was: "Physiological Adaptations in Diving and Burrowing Animals."

WITH George B. Pidot Jr., Assistant Professor of Economics, serving as program director, Dartmouth was host for the spring meeting of the New England Regional Science Association on May 10. The conference, attended by fifty persons from colleges, business, and government, was an indication of Dartmouth's interest in New England's regional problems. In addition to Professor Pidot, Dartmouth faculty members who presented papers or led discussions were Meredith O. Clement, Professor of Economics; Gerald L. Childs, Associate Professor of Economics; and John W. Sommer '60, Assistant Professor of Geography. Richard E. Wright '54, executive director of the New England Regional Commission, presented policy papers for discussion.

Alfred Wonderlick, Assistant Professorof Art, is exhibiting in a show called"Structured Art" at the DeCordovaMuseum in Lincoln, Mass. It includesmany of his highly original paintings,sculptures, and constructions from the exhibition at the Hopkins Center that attracted 10,000 visitors at Christmas time.

As a memorial to the late Provost of the College, the John W. Masland Lounge hasbeen established in Silsby Hall, home of the Government Department. In the abovephotograph, Government Professor Laurence I. Radway (I) shows the new periodicalracks to Emeritus Trustee Harvey P. Hood '18 and Mrs. Hood, who attended thededication ceremonies. Professor Masland, who was Provost from 1959 to 1967, diedlist August 3 while serving as education adviser in India for the Ford Foundation.

The first Dartmouth College BicentennialMedal struck in bronze by the U.S. Mintis presented to President Dickey by Rudolph Ruzicka (r), the designer. Morethan 1000 of the 5000 medals to be distributed after June 15 have already beenordered by alumni and others. More details and an order blank will be found onPage 11 of this issue.