The Faculty

THREE members of the Dartmouth faculty have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for the 1970-71 academic year, an enviable record of academic distinction. They were among 286 selected from 2,313 applicants representing 81 colleges and universities. Criteria are demonstrated achievement and strong promise for the future.

Jon H. Appleton, Assistant Professor of Music, who also has received an Honorary Fulbright Fellowship, will compose electronic music in the studios of Swedish Radio, Stockholm. En route he will lecture this summer in ten European nations on development of electronic music in the United States under auspices of the American Specialists Program of the U.S. State Department.

Noel Perrin, Associate Professor of English, will be in Tokyo, Japan, conducting research for a book describing the circumstances surrounding the cessation of production of firearms in 1620, only 100 years after the Japanese invented the technique. Firearms were non-existent there for some 300 years, until introduced by Admiral Peary's men in the mid-19th Century.

Prof. Harry N. Scheiber of the History Department, working on a study entitled "Federalism, Public Policy, and the Economic Order in the United States, 1790-1890," will conduct research at several of the major American legal and historical libraries. Recently he had published in the American Historical Review an article entitled "At the Borderland of Law and Economic History."

PROF. Roy P. Forster of the Department of Biological Sciences has been appointed to the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Applied Physiology. He served as editor of these journals of the American Physiological Society from 1960 to 1966.

Professor Forster also is on the editorial board of the Journal of GeneralPhysiology, which he earlier served as associate editor, and has been editor of the Kidney Section of Biological Abstracts since 1947. He is a Lecturer in Physiology at the Medical School.

PROF. Allen L. King of the Physics Department chaired the spring meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society at Boston University.... A book on Wordsworth written by James A. W. Heffernan, Assistant Professor of English, has been included in "The Scholar's Library" of the Modern Language Association .... Dr. Raymond Sobel, Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Dr. Richard D. Baughman, Clinical Assistant Professor in Dermatology, delivered a paper on "Psoriasis and Stress" at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Washington, D. C.... Prof. Varujan Boghosian of the Art Department, under a Humanities Development Grant, will work in a studio at the American Academy in Rome during the next academic year. PROF. Barnard E. Smith of Thayer School and Jacques Pezier, a graduate student from France, conducted a course in decision analysis for 25 staff members of the U.S. Weather Bureau and the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. The one-week course covered such topics as applications of statistical decision theory to hypothesis testing and the design of experiments. Applications included verification of subjective forecasts, testing programs for seeding experiments, and economic utility of weather forecasts and hurricane tracking.

PROF. Errol G. Hill of the Drama Department has been awarded a Humanities Development Grant for the study of Afro-American drama and theater in preparation for a course he will be giving next year. First library stop was Atlanta University, where he also delivered two lectures on West African drama and Nigerian theater.

While in Atlanta this spring he also attended the opening night of his play, Dance Bongo, produced at Spelman College. He visited the Institute of the Black World with which the College's Black Studies Program has a working arrangement.

PROF. Henry W. Ehrmann of the Government Department was elected to the executive committee of the Conference Group on German Politics, an organization of American and European experts. He gave the keynote address at a meeting of the Group in Sacramento, Calif., held in conjunction with the Western Political Science Association.

He has contributed an article on "French Government and Politics" to the new revised edition of the Encyclopedia Americana and was elected chairman of the New Hampshire Conference of the American Association of University Professors.

DRS. Lucile Smith and Christopher J. Knowles of the Biochemistry Department at the Medical School delivered a paper at the International Congress of Microbiology in Mexico City entitled "Relationship between Substrate Transport and Respiration in Azotobacter vinelandii." ... Prof. Henry L. Roberts of the History Department is the author of a new book, Eastern Europe:Politics, Revolution and Diplomacy, published by Knopf. .. . Charles A. Dailey, Director of Instructional Research and Counseling and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, lectured on the evaluation and training of executives at the Salzburg Seminar, which seeks to present an objective view of the United States to European Fellows.... Dr. John C. Mithoefer, Professor of Medicine at the Medical School, participated in a symposium on cardiopulmonary disease at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.... Prof. Elmer Harp Jr. of the Anthropology Department and seven students will spend eight weeks this summer investigating prehistoric Indian and Eskimo sites in the Hudson Bay region.

THE first American textbook for studying modern (demotic) Greek was recently published as the product of three members of the College community: Prof. Peter A. Bien of the English Department, his wife Chrysanthi, and Prof. John A. Rassias of the Romance Languages Department. A free translation of its Greek title reads, "Cut out the nonsense and let's speak Greek."

Professor Bien delivered a lecture on "The Demoticism of Kazantzakis" at a meeting of the American-Hellenic League at the University of Pennsylvania and participated in a symposium on "Modern Greek Literature and Its European Background" sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Association at Princeton.

He was elected secretary of the Association and was reelected to its executive committee.

PROF. Richard Stoiber of the Earth Sciences Department was a guest lecturer for a ten-day geological symposium in Central America and El Salvador conducted by the Organization for Tropical Studies. The organization is composed of and supported by American and Canadian universities. Students from ten universities attended his lectures, concerned with ore deposits and related active volcanoes.

PROF. James Cox of the English Department was the principal speaker at a meeting of the New England American Studies Association at Wheaton College. He discussed the impact of black literature on the future of American literature.

Last fall he gave a paper on Hawthorne at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta. More recently, he was one of four speakers at the Literary Symposium at Vanderbilt University. Others on the program were poet James Dickey, R. V. Cassill, and Edgar Johnson.

PROF. H. Wentworth Eldredge of the Sociology Department presented a paper entitled "Education for Futurism in the U.S.A.: An On-Going Survey and Critical Analysis" at the Internaonal Future Research Conference in Kyoto, Japan. A preview presentation was made at Challenge IV: Environmental Forecasting Conference in Austin, sponsored by the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Texas.

Recent articles published by Professor Eldredge are "New Dimensions in American Urban Planning Education" in a Bulletin of the Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development and "Toward a National Policy for Planning the Environment" in the book Urban Planning in Transition.

CHURCHILL P. LATHROP, Professor of Art Emeritus, was cited in the reminiscences of a former student turned art collector, published in TheNew York Times and Women's WearDaily.

Morton D. May '36, at the opening of a New York gallery exhibition of his collection of 20th Century German paintings, said, "Professor Lathrop was all-important in my developing an interest in art. In conjunction with the modern art and architecture course, I began visiting the galleries in New York." Mr. May today owns perhaps the major collection of German expressionist paintings in the nation.

Professor of Belles Lettres Emeritus Alexander Laing '25 (l) and Professor ofRomance Languages Stephen Nichols Jr. '58 after the presentation of the portraitsculpture of Laing to the Poetry Room at Sanborn House. Sculpted by WinslowEaves, this head joins those of Ramon Guthrie and Richard Eberhart '26, allDartmouth poet-teachers whose audience extends beyond the campus.

Earth Day at the C & G House.