Faculty
Dr. Kenneth G. Johnson, an accomplished teacher and researcher as well as medical services planner, has been appointed Chairman of the new Department of Community Medicine at the Medical School and Associate Dean for Community Medicine.
A member of the Cornell medical faculty before coming to Hanover on January 1, he is a recognized leader in the emerging field of community medicine, the primary concern of which is designing effective modes of delivering medical care.
Dr. Johnson has most recently been engaged in three significant and diverse projects: planning the total health care system for a new town being developed on Welfare Island in New York City's East River, establishing a health clinic in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, and establishing another health clinic in an isolated rural village in Jamaica, West Indies.
A cardiologist by training, his professional interest shifted to public health while he served as Chief of Medicine for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in 1964-67. The Commission's mission was to study the delayed radiation effects of persons who were exposed to the atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He was graduated from Manhattan College in 1944 and following naval service enrolled in the Downstate Medical Center where he earned his M.D. in 1950. He joined the Yale medical faculty in 1954 after internship and residency training at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center.
His wife, the former Marie-Louise Tully, is also a physician. Dr. Marie- Louise T. Johnson, nationally prominent for her contributions to the National Program for Dermatology and the U.S. National Health Survey, has joined the Dartmouth medical faculty as Associate Professor of Medicine (Dermatology). She will also be responsible for coordination of the Medical School's expanding program of continuing education for physicians throughout Northern New England.
Six members of the College faculty are listed in the first edition of Who's Who in the World, published by Marquis. The 25,000 persons whose biographies are published therein were selected for professional accomplishments in international circles.
Tendered this distinction were John Sloan Dickey '29, President Emeritus and Bicentennial Professor of Public Affairs; Henry W. Ehrmann, the Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science; H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology; Walter H. Stockmayer, the Albert W. Smith Professor of Chemistry; Eugen Rosen- stock-Huessy, Professor of Social Philosophy and Professor of Law, Emeritus; and Richard Eberhart '26, Class of 1925 Professor and Professor of Engish, Emeritus.
Richard Hodge, a New York sculptor and artist, has been appointed Coordinator of Exhibitions at the Hopkins Center. He will be responsible for a program of exhibitions outside the formal galleries. The galleries program at Hopkins Center is supplemented by displays in corridors, lobbies, the Barrows Rotunda, and outside the Warner Bentley Theater and Alumni Hall.
Mr. Hodge worked five years in the drawings and print department at the Museum of Modern Art and served for a year as librarian of the print section at the Lillie P. Bliss International Study Center. After attending Ohio State University, he engaged in private study in painting, sculpture and design in New York City. Four laminated wood spheres constructed by him as design objects have been accepted into the art lending service of the Museum of Modern Art.
As part of the gallery program, the College in February was treated to an impressive one-man show by Dennis Kowal, sculptor-in-residence for the Winter Term. The Jaffe-Friede Gallery presented more than ten works executed in Hanover in addition to a collection brought from the University of Illinois where he taught for the past four years.
Prof. Millett G. Morgan of the Thayer School has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the highest membership grade awarded in recognition of achievement in a particular field. The citation accompanying his election read: "For contributing to international radio science, to engineering, and to engineering education."
An expert on radiophysical aspects of the ionosphere, Professor Morgan played a major role in United States activities for the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58. He was chairman of the national committee's Panel on lonospheric Physics, one of 12 major scientific fields in the IGY program.
Professor Morgan, who is Director of the Radiophysics Laboratory at Thayer School, was in charge of "Whistlers East," an IGY program that made the College a collection point for data on whistlers, a natural radio signal believed to be caused by lightning discharges.
Prof. Henry W. Ehrmann of the Government Department has received a triple professional accolade, abroad and at home.
A Spanish edition of a book entitled Democracy in a Changing Society, which he edited and co-authored, Was published by Roble of Mexico City. The English edition was published in 1966.
The Free University of Berlin, where he taught in 1967, has invited him to return. He will be a Visiting Professor there during the Spring Term.
Closer to home, Little, Brown has published a second edition of his book Politics in France, initially issued in 1968. Professor Ehrmann reshaped much of the material in response to circumstances altered by the death last year of Charles de Gaulle.
Two members of the Medical School faculty recently participated in a pioneering electronic continuing education program sponsored by the Albany Medical College. Dr. Joshua B. Burnett, a member of the Hitchcock Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, and Dr. Edward D. Harris Jr. 'SB, Assistant Professor of Medicine, lectured on "The Complications of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Management" over a two-way radio network.
They appeared on three separate programs, beamed by FM radio to a total of 60 hospitals in New York and New England. Following a recorded introduction, they answered questions raised by the physicians assembled in various hospital auditoriums for these radio conferences.
