The Faculty

PROF. Charles L. Drake of the Earth Sciences Department is serving as chairman of a committee which is planning the direction and policy of international geophysical research in the immediate future. In a recent report to the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, the committee recommended a program of investigations of the deep-seated foundations of geologic phenomena.

The Ad Hoc Committee on the Long-Range Program of Solid Earth Studies, in a report to the membership, referred to recent coordinated international studies which have revealed that the earth is not simply a radially symmetrical sphere, but that the upper 700 kilometers or more has significant lateral inhomogeneity. It recommended the following two research directions, as a follow-up to these discoveries:

"A better determination of the pattern of surface motions and deformations, especially those now occurring in the continents. Such deformation can now be precisely measured by several different methods.

"The mechanism by which the mantle provides the mechanical energy for surface motions. At present there exists no self-consistent theory that can account for these motions, principally because of our general ignorance of the physical state of the earth's interior. The relationship between these two parts is the central problem of geodynamics."

Professor Drake recently received two other professional distinctions. He was elected a counselor of the Geological Society of America and a member of its Panel on Scientific Direction.

DR. THOMAS P. ALMY, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Medical School, was one of three North American Professors of Medicine at the first of a series of postgraduate courses in internal medicine in San Jose, Costa Rica, jointly sponsored by the American College of Physicians and the medical faculty of the University of Costa Rica. He delivered four lectures, two in Spanish, on recent advances in the knowledge of digestive disease.

He met with several leading gastroenterologists in Costa Rica to whom he had given postgraduate instruction when at Cornell Medical College. They were among a group of more than 100 Latin American faculty members whose initial studies in the United States, under the combined auspices of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the American College of Physicians, were under his immediate supervision.

Dr. Almy is chairman of the Committee on International Medical Activities of the American College of Physicians, which for nearly 20 years has guided this program for the development of higher standards of internal medicine and medical education in Latin America.

GRAHAM B. WALLIS, Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences at the Thayer School, is the author of a text, One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow, published by McGraw-Hill.... Prof. James A. Sykes of the Music Department visited seven mid-western colleges and universities as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.... Prof. Allan U. Munck of the Physiology Department at the Medical School was named associate editor of the Journal of SteroidBiochemistry and delivered a lecture in the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School Charles T. Wood, Associate Professor of History, has been appointed a Danforth Associate, and attended a conference in Chicago to consider ways to further faculty-student relations on the Associates' home campuses.

FOR the past three years the Chemistry Department has sponsored a Visiting Speakers Program whereby it offers to send faculty members to some 40 colleges and universities in the Northeast. The host institution has the opportunity to choose the speaker and seminar topic from a list of the ten faculty members who participate in the program. These visits, at no expense to the host institution, serve to acquaint schools with the Chemistry Department's graduate program and also provide the opportunity to discuss problems in both undergraduate and graduate education at the various schools.

Colleges and universities visited by Dartmouth chemists during the 1969-70 academic year include Bates, Boston University, Bowdoin, Clark, Holy Cross, Middlebury, Providence, Rutgers, St. Michael's, Simmons, Wheaton, and Williams.

PROF. Forrest I. Boley of the Physics Department has been appointed to a second three-year term as editor of the American Journal of Physics. Arthur W. Luehrmann Jr., Assistant Professor of Physics, will continue to serve as assistant editor.

Professor Boley was a visiting lecturer at the State University of New York at Cortland. His visit was sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics whose program, now in its 13th year, seeks to stimulate interest in physics at smaller colleges.

THE capture of a small herd of musk ox on a bleak island in the Bering Sea, filmed by Chauncey C. Loomis Jr., Associate Professor of English, was shown over the CBS Television Network. Professor Loomis was on an expedition in 1966 headed by John J. Teal Jr. '42, now .associated with the University of Alaska where he is working with the captured musk ox to see if they can be domesticated as a boon to the Alaskan economy.

They were following up an idea enunciated by the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, arctic explorer and writer, who proposed that musk ox be domesticated and raised for their wool, regarded by many as the finest natural wool in the world.

Professor Loomis, whose academic sleuthing in North Greenland last year solved the 99-year-old mystery of the death of explorer Charles Francis Hall, has been in great demand. He lectured on Hall at Ohio State University, cosponsored by the Institute for Polar Research and the Department of Behavioral Sciences, and at the U. S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover.

DR. GEORGE MARGOLIS, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, delivered two papers at a meeting of the International Academy of Pathology and another at the meeting of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, both held in St. Louis. ... Prof. Harry N. Scheiber of the History Department was awarded the Ohio University Press Award, given by the Press for the most distinguished volume among its publications in the past two years, for his book Ohio Canal Era: ACase Study of Government and theEconomy. ... John Wilmerding, Associate Professor of Art, who is one of four trustees of the Wyeth Foundation of American Art, attended a White House dinner honoring Andrew Wyeth.... Dr. S. Marsh Tenney, Chairman of the Department of Physiology at the Medical School, was Visiting Professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University where he gave seminars in the Departments of Physiology and Medicine and delivered a lecture on "The Concepts of Time and Process in Nature," sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Science in Human Affairs.

JAY EVANS, Assistant Director of Admissions, has been appointed to the United States Olympic Kayak and Canoe Committee by the Board of Directors of the United States Olympic Committee. It was expanded by four additional members to represent whitewater slalom in anticipation of the planned inclusion of the sport in the 1972 Olympics.

The 11-man committee is charged with the task of presenting development proposals for both flat water and whitewater canoeing to the U. S. Olympic Development Committee. Mr. Evans will be responsible for drawing up the proposal to field a Whitewater team for the competition on the Isar River, near Munich, Germany, in August 1972.

He has been active in Whitewater racing for the past ten years. He was the National Senior Whitewater Slalom Champion in 1967, and was certified as an International Slalom Expert by the I.C.F. while coach of the 1969 U. S. Whitewater Team which won 12 bronze medals at the World Whitewater Championships in France. As adviser to Dartmouth's Ledyard Canoe Club he has developed three national champions in Whitewater racing in the past five years and is author of the book Fundamentalsof Kayaking, now in its eighth edition.