The Faculty

PROFESSOR John Sloan Dickey was welcomed into the faculty ranks as a "master teacher" on the eve of his retirement from the College presidency on March 1.

The sentiment was expressed to the first Third Century Professor of Public Affairs in a resolution read by John W. Finch, the William R. Kenan Professor and Chairman of the Drama Department, on behalf of the Faculty Committee on Organization and Policy:

"It is time for teachers to say thanks to a teacher. For 25 years you have instructed us in the strict curriculum of leadership. From those first faculty meetings in which, with patience and passion you began to make us see the future of this institution as you saw it, to this last year when, in an hour of doubt and confusion, you spoke to us once more with courage and clarity, your premise has always been the necessity for excellence.

"From that premise, you have made large demands upon us, and encouraged us to meet them. You have shared your concerns with us, and treated us as partner. Always you have sought to instill in us your conviction that our great issue was Dartmouth's greatness. Finally, when some of us went out in search of your successor, we heard testimony from all quarters that the Dartmouth presidency is a position of national importance because you have made it so.

"Today we welcome you to our ranks with pride. Your credentials are impressive; we know because we have taken your course. You have taught us, by precept and practice, to define our obligations to our college, to our students and to each other. Now, as you leave the presidency, we recognize that during your years on this faculty, we have all been apprenticed to a master, and we are grateful."

Two members of the faculty have been appointed to endowed chairs by the Board of Trustees. Prof. Frank Smallwood '51 of the Government Department was named to the Orvil E. Dryfoos 1934 Memorial Professorship and Prof. James M. Cox of the English Department was appointed to the Avalon Professorship in the Humanities.

An authority on metropolitan government and urbanization problems, Professor Smallwood is also Associate Dean of the Faculty, Chairman of the Social Sciences Division, Director of the Public Affairs Center, and Coordinator of Regional Programs. Under a grant to the College, he is administering a major effort to inventory, mobilize, and coordinate elements of Dartmouth's human and physical resources, from medicine to the computer sciences, to support significant programs throughout Northern New England.

The Dryfoos Memorial Professorship chair was endowed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 of New York in memory of Orvil E. Dryfoos '34, a former College Trustee and publisher of The New York Times.

Professor Cox, who is the first Avalon Professor, is a scholar of American literature. Flis book Mark Twain: TheFate of Humor is considered one of the finest studies on Twain. He is working on a study of American autobiography and a book on Nathaniel Hawthorne. From the Danforth Foundation he received the 1969 E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching, which will enable him to take research leaves during the next two spring terms.

The Avalon Professorship in the Humanities was created through an endowment by the Avalon Foundation of New York, which was incorporated into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation last year. The Avalon Foundation was established in 1948 by Alisa Mellon Bruce to promote educational programs in the humanities.

GEORGE A. COLLIGAN, Professor of Engineering Sciences and Associate Dean of the Thayer School, will receive the Thomas W. Panghorn Gold Medal of the American Foundrymen's Society at the 74th AFS Congress and Exposition in Cleveland on April 8. This highest award bestowed by the Society will be presented to Professor Colligan "for outstanding technological contributions to the Society and the industry, particularly in the area of metal refractory reaction studies."

DR. RICHARD C. KARL, surgeon and teacher at the Cornell University Medical College, has been named chairman of the new Department of Surgery at the Dartmouth Medical School. His appointment virtually completes the academic reorganization necessary to introduce in September a new and streamlined three-year M.D. program.

Dr. Karl, who joins the faculty July 1, was graduated from Columbia in 1942 and received his M.D. from Cornell in 1944. Although most of his career has been at Cornell, he was in private practice in New York City from 1958 to 1962, specializing in general surgery. In 1963 he became director of the Cornell Surgical Division at Bellevue Hospital where he remained until 1967 when he accepted the assignment to establish an academic teaching surgical service at the North Shore Hospital, Manhasset, Long Island.

NOEL PERRIN, Associate Professor of English, is the author of Dr.Bowdler's Legacy, one of five books nominated for a National Book Award in the fine arts and letters category. Lillian Hellman's book of memories, AnUnfinished Woman, later was named winner of the award, considered by many as prestigious as a Pulitzer Prize.

Other nominees in the category were Richard Howard's Along with America, a collection of essays on modern American poetry; John Unterecker's Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane, and Gore Vidal's Reflections Upon a SinkingShip, a book of essays.

Professor Perrin's book, subtitled AHistory of Expurgated Books in England and America, was published last September by Atheneum.

PROF. Louis Morton of the History Department, in addition to holding the formidable duties of department chairman, has been active in professional circles. He attended a conference at Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he delivered a paper entitled "United States-East Asia Relations, 1937-41." As a member of the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Colleges, he attended a meeting in New Orleans.

He has been appointed chairman of a Committee on the Historian and the Federal Government which represents both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He also has been appointed a member of the Committee on Teaching of the American Historical Association. Last, but hardly least, Professor Morton received the Apollo Achievement Award from NASA.

PROF. Rod Alexander of the Drama Department lectured on "The Arts in Action" at Illinois State University as part of a month-long celebration of fine arts. His production of The GhostSonata, performed last fall by The Dartmouth Players, is one of three New England college productions nominated for performance this spring in the American College Theater Festival's national competition in Washington, D. C.

PROF. Charles M. Wiltse of the History Department has been appointed to the National Historical Publications Commission, which supports and stimulates the publication of historic manuscripts. Chaired by National Archivist James B. Rhoads, it includes a Supreme Court Justice, a Senator, a Representative, two government historians, two presidential appointees, and two historians selected by the American Historical Association.

Professor Wiltse, who is editor of The Papers of Daniel Webster, now in preparation, was appointed by the Association for a four-year term. He is widely known as the biographer of John C. Calhoun.

JOHN FARRER, Instructor in Music, who is conducting the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra this year, lectured at Williams and Mt. Holyoke Colleges on "Lutoslawski's Trois Poemes d'HenriMichaux." ... Dr. Stuart W. Russell, Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Medical School, was elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. ... Robert C. Reynolds Jr., Associate Professor of Geology, attended a select conference at the Manned Space Center which analyzed lunar rocks returned by Apollo 11.

PROF. John T. Lanzetta of the Psychology Department has been appointed editor of the Journal ofPersonality and Social Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association. He was on leave for the Fall Term at the Institute for Experimental Social Psychology at Louvain University, Belgium.

DR. Lester B. Salans, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical School, delivered two lectures at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on "Carbohydrate Metabolism in Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity." ... Alan T. Gaylord, Associate Professor of English, gave two lectures on "The City in Film" at Colby Junior College. ... Kenneth I. Gross, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, gave a colloquium at Wesleyan University entitled "Representation Theory of Compact Transformation Groups." ... Prof. Mario di-Bonaventura of the Music Department participated in the Pro Arte Symphony's "Symposium on New Music" at Hofstra University.

NINE electronic compositions by Jon H. Appleton, Assistant Professor of Music, are featured in a new recording entitled Appleton Syntonic Menagerie. On a Flying Dutchman label, the music ranges from quiet mood pieces to a fantasy created from the sounds of two babies crying. Three of his electronic scores were presented in recitals at Syracuse University and the University of Buffalo.

J ERE DANIELL '55, Associate Professot of History, participated in the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Philadelphia, serving as commentator in a session devoted to regionalism in the study of American history.

He will give the History Department's first regular course offering in Black History in the Spring Term and talked recently to several local groups on "Black Power and Race Relations.

At the last faculty meeting over which he presided, President Dickey was toastedin champagne and welcomed as a new professor. With him (l to r) are facultymembers Robert G. McGuire, Douglas M. Bowen, and Walter H. Stockmayer.

Frank Smallwood '51 (top) appointedto the Dryfoos 1934 Memorial Professorship, and James Cox chosen the firstAvalon Professor in the Humanities.

Frank Smallwood '51 (top) appointedto the Dryfoos 1934 Memorial Professorship, and James Cox chosen the firstAvalon Professor in the Humanities.