Faculty
One newly endowed professorship and four academic chairs vacated by retirements have been filled by recent appointments announced by Vice President Leonard M. Rieser, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Fred Berthold Jr. '44, Professor of Religion and 1963 winner of the Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching, has been named the first Preston H. Kelsey Professor in Religion. The professorship was established in April of this year by a bequest of $750,000 from the late Preston H. Kelsey '25, prominent West Coast insurance executive.
A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with distinction in psychology, Professor Berthold earned both the Bachelor of Divinity degree (1947) and a Ph.D. (1954) from the University of Chicago, returning to Dartmouth as a member of the faculty in 1949. In the same year, he was ordained at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Utica, N. Y. In 1957, he was selected as the first Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and served until 1962.
The four named to previously established chairs are:
Herbert L. James, Professor of Speech and senior coach of debate whose Forensic Union teams have qualified more than a dozen times for the national tournament and won it three times in the decade of the Sixties, to the Israel Evans Professorship of Oratory and Belles Lettres.
Dr. Millett G. Morgan, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Thayer School of Engineering and an interna- tionally recognized authority on iono- spheric and magnetosphere physics, to the Sydney E. Junkins Professorship. Professor Morgan played a major role in U. S. activities for the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58 and in subsequent space studies by NASA.
Dr. Ernst Snapper, Professor of Mathematics who has written widely on various aspects of algebra and algebraic geometry, to the Benjamin P. Cheney Professorship of Mathematics.
Dr. Richard E. Stoiber '32, Professor of Geology and an authority on volcanoes and volcanic minerals and gases who has studied volcanic mountains on four continents, to the Frederick Hall Professorship of Mineralogy.
At the Medical School, Dean Carleton B. Chapman announced the appointment of Dr. Peter C. Whybrow as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. The British-born and educated psychiatrist, who came to Dartmouth two years ago as director of the Medical School's residency training program in psychiatry, will now administer the large department and its many programs with particular attention to gearing them to meet the needs of the school's new three-year M.D. program.
Several members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been cited recently for their authorship of scholarly works.
Lawrence E. Harvey, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, earned honorable mention in the James Russell Lowell Prize competition for his book, Samuel Beckett, Poet and Critic, published by Princeton University Press. Professor Harvey, an authority on contemporary French literature, initiated Dartmouth's Foreign Study Program in Florence, Italy, in 1968. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences during the past academic year after having been associate dean for humanities from 1967 to 1970.
Meanwhile, the book recounting the colorful career and tragic end of Charles Francis Hall, 19th Century arctic explorer, written by English Professor Chauncey C. Loomis Jr., has jumped the Atlantic and is scheduled to be published in England in January. Entitled Weird and Tragic Shores, the book, which was published earlier this year in the United States under the Alfred A. Knopf imprint, reads in part like a detective story—a century after the mysterious death of Hall. Professor Loomis, member of the Explorers Club, led an expedition in 1968 to northwest Greenland where, at Polaris Promontory, he located the lonely grave of the explorer who had died there in 1871. Forensic laboratory tests of the remains showed significant amounts of arsenic in Hall's fingernails and hair, confirming Professor Loomis' notion growing out of his scholarship that members of the Hall expedition had poisoned their strong-willed and cantankerous leader and that he had not, as first reported and long accepted, died of the rigors of his voyage. Now, in addition to being published on both sides of the Atlantic, the story of Hall's ill-fated bid to reach the North Pole is to be the subject of a documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
In the field of poetry, Robert Siegel, Assistant Professor of English, has won the Foley Award from America magazine for the best poem in the opinion of the editors published by them in 1970. The award, which carries a $250 stipend, was given for his poem "The Rock." Professor Siegel is overseas this academic year studying and writing poetry near Oxford, England.
Meanwhile, an article, "The Papers of Daniel Webster," written by Prof. Charles M. Wiltse, editor-in-chief of the first comprehensive collection of the papers of the great 19th Century American statesman and champion of national unity, appeared in the first issue of Source. The magazine, designed chiefly for librarians, is being published by University Microfilms, which pub- lished jointly with Dartmouth the microfilm edition of the Webster Pa- pers. Professor Wiltse is now engaged in editing a letterpress edition of the Webster papers, which he estimates will run 18 volumes. They will be published by the Harvard University Press.
Still in publications arena, David A. Baldwin, Associate Professor of Government, has been appointed an associate editor of The Journal of ConflictResolution, while an article by Michael P. Smith, an instructor in government, on "Alienation and Bureaucracy" has been accepted for 1971 publication in Public Administration Review.
The faculty, like Dartmouth alumni, are very much a part of the international scene, studying and teaching "round the girdled earth."
Six members of the faculty are away directing Foreign Study or Foreign Language Study Programs in as many places during the fall term. They are: Edward M. Bradley, Associate Professor of Classics, former chairman of the Foreign Study Program and former cochairman of International and Comparative Studies, in Italy teaching on the Roman World; Vivian Kogan, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, in Toulouse, France; Robert H. Russell, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, in Salamanca, Spain; Thomas S. K. ScottCraig, Professor of Philosophy, in Edinburgh, Scotland; A. Mosby Harvey, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, in Bourges, France; and A. Alexander Fanelli '42, executive assistant to the President, in Florence, Italy.
In recognition of his pioneering work in the development of the computer, Dr. George R. Stibitz, research associate in physiology at the Dartmouth Medical School, was one of the group of internationally renowned scientists invited by the British Computer Society and Royal Statistical Society, to attend a meeting in Britain commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of George Babbage, noted inventor, railroad developer and Cambridge professor who began working on rudimentary computers as early as 1820. The meeting was held in mid October. Meanwhile, Dr. Stibitz' pace-setting work in computer technology has also been recognized in an audiovisual display at the IBM Center in New York. Dr. Stibitz designed the first binary computer and conducted the first remote-controlled demonstration of the device at Dartmouth College in September of 1940.
To draw on his studies and experience in Africa, Nelson M. Kasfir, an instructor in government, was invited to speak to the Conference on Administrative Development in East Africa held in September at Arusha, Tanzania. Mr. Kasfir entitled his address "Towards the Construction of Theories of Administrative Behavior in Developing Countries." And this month, he traveled west to Denver to deliver a Paper to the African Studies Conference there on "A Comparative Study of State Formation in the Southern Sudan and Rwenzururu."
In other goings and comings, Wayne G. Broehl Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School, returned from his fourth summer in India doing research on entrepreneurship there, while Howard L. Erdman, Associate Professor of Government and co-director of the East Asia Language and Area Study Center, departed for India for a year's leave during which time he will be affiliated with the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad.
Back in England, Prof. James A. W. Heffernan of the English Department was a member of an international faculty of distinguished scholars who lectured this past summer at the annual Wordsworth Rydal Mount Summer School. The school was established last year to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English poet. Rydal Mount was William Words worth's home for the last 37 years of his life and is situated in Westmorland in the Lake District of England. Professor Heffernan's topic was "The Emergence of Landscape in English Romantic Poetry and Painting."
Two members of the Geography Department have traveled to other lands to share their knowledge. Assistant Prof. John W. Sommers, who has been making studies of the impact of urbanization on rural areas, was one of 100 delegates from around the world invited by the Weizman Institute on Science in Israel to participate in the ten-day biennial Rehovot Conference designed to bring science to the aid of developing countries. Then he flew to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to consult with officials of Economic Commission for Africa and the Organization of African Unity on recent trends in African urbanization. Meanwhile, Prof. Robert E. Huke '48, who has specialized in the economic geography of Southeast Asia, spent a month this summer at the International Maize and Wheat Center outside Mexico City, where Nobel Peace Prize-winner Norman Borlaug and others developed the miracle wheat which triggered the Green Revolution in much of the Third World. Professor Huke, who a year earlier had served as a visiting staff member at a companion research center, the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, was invited to the Wheat and Maize Center in Mexico to lecture on the economic and social impact of miracle rice in Asia and to gather data for two new courses he is developing at Dartmouth.
Although the site was in Chicago, his subject was distant when Henry B. Williams, Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theater, last month spoke to the Asian Theater panels of the American Theater Association on "Shinto Ritual: The Farmers' Kabuki." During the convention, Professor Williams was elected the first president of a newly created division of the association: The National Association of Schools of Theater (NAST), to be concerned with standards in theater education.
Three new admission aides at Dartmouth, appointed not necessarily in anticipationof coeducation, are (l to r) Mrs. Andrea Fisher, who comes from Columbia University on January 1 to be Assistant Director of Admissions; Miss Virginia Souleof Concord, N. H., and Miss Alison Bielli of Middlebury, Vt., both of whomjoined the staff last summer as assistants to the director.
