Six Professors Reach Retirement

ELMER E. SMEAD, A.M. '44, will be completing 36 years of teaching at Dartmouth this June. He joined the College faculty as instructor in political science in 1934 right after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton. He had earlier earned an M.A. there in 1928, and his B.A. with honors was from the University of Akron in Ohio. Before coming to Hanover he had taught at Rutgers University, 1929-31. At Dartmouth he became an assistant professor in 1938 and Professor of Government in 1944.

Initially he selected government regulation of radio and television as his special area of interest, and in 1959 his book, Freedom of Speech by Radio and Television, was published by the Public Affairs Press. A few years later a Japanese edition was printed in Tokyo. The publication of his book led to his being asked to write a series of columns on government regulation of radio, television, and motion pictures for Variety, the show business newspaper.

Because of his expertise in the field, he was called upon to widen the scope of his teaching, and in December 1959 he instructed the Federal Communications Commission in its authority over the regulation of radio and television. Appearing before the FCC at hearings prompted by scandals over the rigging of television quiz shows, he told the agency that it could not avoid regulation of programming and cited a number of legal cases to back up his position. One columnist commenting on Professor Smead's testimony said, "No witness has ever given the Commission a better or more detailed course in the true meaning of the term 'censorship.' "

From government regulation of broadcasting he moved to the wider subject of government regulation of business, the focus of one of the courses he taught regularly. His years of research and teaching experience culminated last fall in the publication of the textbook, Government Promotion and Regulation of Business. It was described as "an insightful account of federal-state problems involved in regulation and their consequences." With retirement freeing him from his teaching duties, he plans to work full-time on a second edition of his textbook that is due to come out in 1972.

RAY NASH, A.M. '49, was described as "historian of the graphic arts, printer, teacher, and calligrapher" when he was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1956. He came to Dartmouth in 1937 as a lecturer in art and became an assistant professor in 1941 and professor in 1949. Since 1960 he has also been in charge of Dartmouth Publications.

During his years at Dartmouth he has taught lecture courses in Graphic Arts and conducted a workshop where his students gained practical experience in book design and layout, print making and methods of illustration, and presswork. They have spoken enthusiastically of "the delight in the graphic arts he instilled in each of us." For many students this course determined their choice of profession.

A native of Oregon, Professor Nash was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1928 and received an M.A. in art history from Harvard University in 1947. In 1937 he studied Flemish art in Belgium on a traveling fellowship, and in 1953 he returned there as adviser to the Plantin-Moretus Museum of Antwerp. For his services to Belgian education he was decorated an officer of the Order of Leopold.

In 1932, following newspaper work, he began his teaching career at the New School for Social Research in New York and established a graphic arts workshop there. While in New York City he also engaged in free-lance book design and writing.

Since coming to Dartmouth, he has continued his consulting and his interest in the history of graphic arts. He has written widely on this subject, and among his publications are Calligraphy and Printing in the Sixteenth Century and American Penmanship, 1800-1850.

Numerous honors have come to Professor Nash including an honorary doctorate awarded by New England College in 1957. Two years later he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his sabbatical leave, 1965-66, he was asked to lecture in bibliography at Oxford University, and last year he was elected to the ancient Society of Antiquaries in London.

DANIEL MARX JR. '29, Professor of Economics, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1941. After receiving his A.B. degree in 1929, he returned to his hometown of San Francisco and spent eight years in the shipping business. With this practical experience behind him,, he decided to investigate the theoretical side and began graduate study in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He continued his earlier interest from the business world and specialized in international trade and finance. Professor Marx reports: "The academic life, I soon discovered, was distinctly my cup of tea; and consequently I have remained in it ever since."

Beginning as an instructor in economics at Dartmouth, he became an assistant professor in 1944 and a full professor in 1948. From 1957 to 1962 he served as chairman of the Economics Department.

He has also been willing to contribute his expertise to solving problems outside of academia. During World War 11, he was a consultant for the Export Control Administration in Washington in 1941 and then chief of the Vessel Utilization and Cargo Reports Section of the War Shipping Administration in 1942-43. In 1949 he went to Paris as economic commissioner and special assistant to Ambassador Averell Harriman in the Economic Cooperation Administration program. That year he was also a member of U. S. delegation to the Committee on Development of Trade, Economic Commission for Europe.

In 1950-51 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to engage in a study of international shipping cartels at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He served on the senior staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President in 1956-57.

Numerous articles and three books have developed from his research. His International Shipping Cartels was published by the Princeton University Press in 1953. He is co-author of Ships and Sugar, also published in 1953, and The Industry-Government Aerospace Relationship, 1963.

For the past two years JOHN A. GRISWOLD, A.M. '49, Professor of Finance at the Tuck School, has been away from Hanover serving as visiting professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1946, following his discharge from the Army with the rank of major.

He was graduated from James Milliken University in Decatur, Ill., in 1929 and earned his A.M. degree the following year from Columbia University. From 1930 to 1932 he taught at Butler University before returning to Columbia to study for his doctoral degree, which he received in 1936. He served as an instructor in economics at St. Louis University, 1934-37, and then taught at the University of Oklahoma, where he was head of the finance department from 1937 to 1946.

In addition to teaching at Tuck School during the regular academic year, Professor Griswold since 1950 has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management held during the summer. For ten years he has also been a workshop discussion leader for the National Association of Credit Management. A specialist in financial management, he was a consultant to the New England Telephone Company in 1951, the Latrobe Steel Company in 1953, and the American Management Association, 1955-61.

Early in his career Professor Griswold wrote two books, A History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, published in 1936, and The Banking Situation, 1937. He has written several articles and a number of booklets in the Tuck School series on business and economic issues. In 1959 he contributed "The Teaching of Finance," to a business education survey published by the Carnegie Foundation.

Although technically retired next year, RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence, will still be teaching his poetry-writing courses in the fall and spring terms. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1956 and in 1968 was named to hold the Class of 1925 Professorship. He had earlier taught at the University of Washington, the University of Connecticut, Wheaton College, and Princeton.

Professor Eberhart brings to his students the experiences of a lifetime of writing poetry. He started writing when he was fifteen and continued in college. After graduating from Dartmouth, he studied in England at Cambridge University, where he received a B.A. in 1929 and an M.A. in 1933. He also studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1932-33. From then until World War II he served as a Master in English at St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. After his wartime service in the Navy, he became associated with the Butcher Polish Company, where he was vice president. During this entire period, he never stopped writing poetry, and at present he is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and drama. In 1965 the publication of Richard Eberhart: Selected Poems, 1930-1965 brought him the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

In addition, he has received several other awards including the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1959 to 1961 he was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, succeeding Robert Frost '96. In 1962 Professor Eberhart was co-winner of the Bollingen Prize from Yale University Library, and in February 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets with an award of $5,000, for "distinguished poetic achievement." Dartmouth conferred on him its Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1954, Skidmore in 1966, and the College of Wooster in 1969. One of this year's Dartmouth Bicentennial Events, the Marc Sickel Symposium on Poetry, in January, was staged in his honor.

He sees the academic atmosphere as "hospitable to poetry" and providing "a matrix from which poetry may spring." For the last fourteen years, through his poetry seminars at the College, Richard Eberhart has helped to create an environment in which young poets could develop and at the same time thrived as a poet himself.

J. ALBERT WOOD JR., A.M. '48, has been teaching at Thayer School since 1946 when he joined the faculty as Assistant Professor. He became Professor of Electrical Engineering two years later. Although he has specialized in circuits and systems, a colleague described him as possessing a "broad knowledge of electrical theory, machinery, and communications."

Professor Wood earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University in 1928 and went on to receive a Master of Science degree a year later from the University of Rochester. He then returned to Cornell to study for his Ph.D. in electrical engineering which he received in 1935.

He began his teaching career as an instructor at the University of Rochester, 1929-33. In 1935 he went to M.I.T., where he rose to the rank of assistant professor of electrical engineering before leaving for Dartmouth in 1946. During 1942-45 he served as a laboratory supervisor and assistant director of the M.I.T. Radar School.

In recent years at Thayer School he taught courses entitled "Intermediate Circuits" and "Circuits for Electronic Devices," both of which stressed laboratory work. Throughout his time at Dartmouth he has placed primary emphasis on his role as an instructor, for he believes that "teaching is the purpose of colleges."