The Faculty

PROF. J. Brian Quinn of the Tuck School has been retained by two nations — the United States and Norway - as a consultant in the ordering of national scientific priorities.

He was named to the select United States Commercial Technology Advising Board which reports directly to the Secretary of Commerce. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Myron Tribus, former Dean of the Thayer School, is chairman of the committee whose task is to help improve the allocation of scientific and technological efforts in the private sector.

In Norway, Professor Quinn will be a consultant for the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research on a two-year project to establish Iong-range goals for science and technology. Using vacation breaks and the summer recess, he will visit Norway several times.

"It is the intention to benefit from my experiences in industrial technical planning, science policy formation in the U.S., and my European studies. Hopefully, my advice will help Norway avoid some pitfalls and develop a more effective approach to planning on its first try," he said.

Two young members of the History Department traveled west to deliver papers at professional meetings. Gene R. Garthwaite, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper entitled "Pastoral Nomadism and Tribal Power" at a conference at the University of California at Los Angeles devoted to study of the structure of power in Islamic Iran.

James Wright, Assistant Professor of History, attended the annual conference of the Western History Association in Omaha to deliver a paper entitled "The Political Response: Labor and the Colorado Populists."

PROF. Errol Hill of the Drama Department returned to his native Trinidad, West Indies, in mid-January to lecture on the pre-Lenten Carnival which attracts thousands of tourists to Port of Spain.

His four lectures marked the conclusion of a six-month celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the adult education program of the Trinidad Public Library. As a young actor and director, he lectured and staged plays in this program which brings culture to Trinidadians in informal, neighborhood settings.

Although the Carnival was imported in the late 18th century by French planters accustomed to celebrating Mardi Gras, and is held coincidentally - February 9-10 this year — the similarity stops there. Indigenous historic and ethnic forces have been so great, Professor Hill said, that it is recognized as the most idiosyncratic pre-Lenten carnival in the world.

He was intentionally scheduled to appear on the eve of the Carnival celebration. Other speakers in the series included Prime Minister Eric Williams and Roby Kidd, former director of the Canadian Adult Education Association.

DEAN John W. Hennessey Jr. of the Tuck School was a panelist in the opening discussion of a conference on "Management and Man in the Computer Age" in New York City sponsored by the National Industrial Conference Board. ... Prof. Charles L. Drake of the Earth Sciences Department served as Technical Program Chairman for the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Atlantic City. ... Gordon I. Silverman, Director of the Jewish Life Council, has been named to the Advisory Committee of the New Hampshire Commission on Human Rights. ... Dr. Akira Miyake, a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar in the Chemistry Department in 1963-65, has been named Acting President of International Christian University, Tokyo.

RESEARCH projects in the Chemistry „ Department were supported during the past year by a wide variety of grants, representing both the private and public sectors.

Corporate support included $10,000 from the Du Pont Co. for general departmental needs, $2,000 from the Monsanto Co. for general departmental support, and $5,000 from the General Electric Co. and $4,200 from the Goodyear Co. for the graduate program. The Lilly Research Laboratories granted $4,500 to Gordon W. Gribble, Assistant Professor, and $5,000 to Karl W. Kuhlmann, Assistant Professor, while the American Society for Testing Materials for Research granted $1,000 to Charles L. Braun, Assistant Professor.

The Public Health Service authorized two grants totaling $28,100 to Prof. Thomas A. Spencer Jr., and the National Science Foundation awarded the Department $9,120 for research by undergraduates during the summer recess. Individual recipients of NSF research grants were Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, $66,000; Prof. James F. Hornig and Professor Braun, $50,500; and Professor Gribble, $28,000.

PROF. William H. Smith of the Psychology Department has been appointed a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the World Book Encyclopedia. Previously he had served as a member of the Science and Technology Panel for the World Book.

THE world premiere of the musical rendition of four poems by Prof. Richard Eberhart '26 of the English Department was held December 3 in the Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City. The poems were set to music by Elie Siegmeister, the contemporary American composer.

A day earlier Professor Eberhart read his poetry at the Guggenheim Museum for the American Academy of American Poets. He appeared as recipient of the Academy's 1969 Fellowship Award.

THE works of Alfred L. Wonderlick, Assistant Professor of Art, have appeared in three recent group shows: "Salon '70" at the Ward-Nasse Gallery, Boston; "Prints and Drawings" at the Currier Gallery, Manchester, N.H., and "Posters by Artists" at the Finch College Museum, New York City.

Prof. Varujan Boghosian of the Art Department was also represented in the Finch College show. An impressive number of former Visiting Artists at the College was represented there, too: Robert Indiana, Don Judd, Nicholas Krushenick, Frank Stella, Julian Stanczak, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Anuskiewicz, and Friedel Dzubas.

THOMAS J. TIGHE, Associate Professor of Psychology, has been awarded a Research Center Career Development Award by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The five-year award is for the purpose of supporting his program of research on "Perceptual Learning."

December's severe ice storm destroyed twenty of the College trees.