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Four members of the College community, three professors and a senior, presented papers on Project COEXIST at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in New York City. Using the facilities of Kiewit Computation Center, Project COEXIST is a joint physics, mathematics, and engineering effort to develop written course materials which integrate computer uses into the undergraduate curriculum.

The major invited paper was presented by Arthur W. Luehrmann, Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics, who is director of the new Computer Educational Materials Development Center. Delivering other papers on different facets of Project COEXIST were Elisha R. Huggins, Associate Professor of Physics; John R. Merrill, Assistant Professor of Physics, and Gus H. Zimmerman III '71.

Professor Luehrmann also was awarded a Distinguished Service Citation by the Association in recognition of his "outstanding service" as Assistant Editor of the American Journal ofPhysics. His increased responsibilities at Kiewit forced him to resign from this editorial post he had occupied since 1966.

James H. Vignos, Assistant Professor of Physics, was appointed to succeed him as Assistant Editor. Prof. Forrest I. Boley of the Physics and Astronomy Department is editor of the AmericanJournal of Physics.

All in the Dartmouth family can derive much satisfaction from the continued leadership the College is providing in publication of one of the most prestigious scholarly journals in the nation.

Prof. Gene M. Lyons of the Government Department has begun a two-year leave of absence, during which time he will serve as Director of the Department of Social Sciences at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Heading a staff of 50, he will work with social scientists around the world in an organization responsible to 128 nations.

He envisions three major goals in his assignment: To find new ways to apply social science research to the problems of developing nations; to assist in the growth and diffusion of the social sciences through a world-wide network of research and training programs; and to work with scientists and scholars representing all fields in confronting such international issues as conflict, population, and pollution.

Professor Lyons, whose book TheUneasy Partnership was recently published by the Russell Sage Foundation, believes that his work at UNESCO will be both similar and dissimilar to that covered in the book. Subtitled "Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twientieth Century," the book was the result of a two-year tour as executive secretary of the National Research Council, a committee of the National Academy of Science charged with examining the role of social science research in the federal government

"Similar," he says, "because I will be working on the relation of knowledge to public policy-making, which was a central theme in my writing. Different because I will be looking at the problem internationally, rather than nationally, and not the least, because I will be trying to work with the problem and not just understand it, which is difficult enough.

"The relation of knowledge to the democratic process of decision-making is something we are still rightfully arguing and worrying about. Some people are concerned about 'experts' taking over. But I am just as concerned about our acting on the basis of myths, hunches, and guesses rather than reason and understanding."

J. Blair Watson, Director of the Office of Instructional Services, who is currently president of the University Film Association, attended a meeting in St. Louis, sponsored by the American Film Institute, to start organizing a confederation of the more than 15 regional film study groups which have developed around the nation in recent years. . . . Prof. John W. Lamperti of the Mathematics Department has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. . . . Prof. Richard W. Sterling of the Government Department at the International Studies Association meeting in San Juan delivered a paper on "Development as a Political Process." This was drawn from a book in which he attempts to develop a macropolitical theory of international relations, scheduled to be published next year by Random House-Knopf.... Richard W. Etulain, NHPC Fellow working on the Papers of Daniel Webster, is the author of an essay in Studies in the Novel, a journal of literary criticism published by North Texas State University.

Prof. Errol G. Hill of the Drama Department has been elected Chairman of Black Theater Projects by the American Educational Theater Association, which represents all forms of non-professional theater in the nation. He believes the appointment will greatly benefit his research into the black theater and his teaching of two courses on the subject at the College.

"I am delighted that the group had this confidence in me and in Dartmouth. Now I am connected with a group of educators—for the first time in direct touch with them—all of whom are working in black theater," says Professor Hill. One goal of the group will be publication of a semi-annual journal on black theater.

Professor Hill is the editor of a text on black playwrights of Africa, America, and the Caribbean, recently published by Prentice-Hall. A second manuscript on the carnival theater of Trinidad, his native land, has been accepted for publication by the University of Texas Press.

In assessing the black theater of Africa, Professor Hill, who spent 1965-67 in Nigeria, made some trenchant observations about mankind while comparing it with modern western drama.

"Western drama tends to concern itself with individual man. In African drama the individual tends to become less important than the community. This is because in Africa the people live closer to the land in extended families The responsibility to the family and the community is therefore much stronger.

"This historically is how drama began in all societies. It makes one niuch more aware of the functional importance of the theater rather than aware of its purely entertainment value." African theater, Professor Hill declares, has something to tell western man: it is a return to attitudes that in the West have become lost in the process of becoming educated and sophisticated.

"Western man has rather analyzed all feeling way away in his drama. I think that young people today feel this—they think there should be no divorce between art and life."

Promotions for three members of the Dartmouth College faculty of arts and sciences and two members of the Dartmouth Medical School have been approved by the Board of Trustees. The College faculty members, all teachers in the Social Sciences Division, were promoted from instructor to assistant professor. The two members of the Medical School were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor.

Those promoted are Michael P. Smith, government; Donald W. McNemar, government; Steven W. Dobson, economics; Nicholas J. Jacobs, microbiology; Dr. Peter C. Whybrow, psychiatry

Dr. Whybrow graduated from University College in London in 1959. He received the M.8., B.S. from University College in 1962 and was made an L.R.C.P. in England and an M.R.C.S. in London the same year. He served on the staffs of University College Hospital; St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey; and the Prince of Wales Hospital from 1962 to 1964 before coming to this country. He was a resident in psychiatry and an instructor and research fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina before joining the Medical School faculty here as an assistant professor in 1969.

Professor Jacobs received his B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1960. After teaching at Illinois, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, he joined the Medical School faculty as an instructor in microbiology in 1964, becoming an assistant professor in 1965. He has also served as a lecturer in the biological sciences at Dartmouth College since 1968.

A specialist in American parties and Politics, Professor Smith is a graduate of St. Michael's College (1964) who did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts. The latter institution granted him an M.A. in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1970. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1968 after three years as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts.

Professor McNemar is a student of international relations, specializing in the comparative politics of developing countries. He graduated from Earlham College in 1965 and received an M.A. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1970 from Princeton University. He was an assistant instructor at Princeton in 1968-69 and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1969.

Professor Dobson is a specialist in monetary theory and policy. He received a bachelor's degree in 1963, a master's in 1966 and his doctorate in 1970, all from the University of California at Berkeley. After being a teaching assistant at Berkeley in 1965-66, he was an economist with the Comptroller of the Currency, 14th National Bank Region, San Francisco, in 1966-67. He joined the Dartmouth

Prof. Robert W. Decker of the Earth Sciences Department re- cently completed a lecture tour of several West Coast schools under the aegis of the American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecturer Series. He was invited by the University of California at Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Cruz and the University of Nevada to discuss his recent studies on predicting "volcanic eruptions and the rifting of Iceland.

Grants totaling $26,270 have been awarded three departments at the College by the National Science Foundation to help undergraduates conduct research projects under faculty direction this summer.

The grants and their project directors are $7,800 to the Chemistry Department. Associate Professor Robert L. Cleland; $11,470 to the Biological Sciences Department, Professor David S. Dennison; and $7,000 to the Physics and Astronomy Department, Associate Professor John N. Kidder. Ten students will do research under the biological sciences grant, six under chemistry, and five under physics and astronomy.

They were part of grants totaling $3.9 million made to 251 colleges, universities, and non-profit research organizations. The NSF summer program enables undergraduates to conduct independent research under the guidance of established scientists.

Richard Eberhart '26, Class of 1925 Professor and Poet in Residence, is the subject of a biography, Richard Eberhart: The Progressof an American Poet by Joel H. Roache (Oxford University Press, 1971). The book is reviewed at length by M. L. Rosenthal in the March 6 issue of Saturday Review.

Quoting from the review: "Joel H. Roache's study of Richard Eberhart, apparently written with the poet's cooperation, centers on the steps by which he arrived at his 'status as an Established Poet.' We learn only a little from this book about Eberhart's subjective life and the quality of his art. We learn a great deal, though, about the facts of his career: the sequence and circumstances of publication, the influential relationships, the public readings, the academic posts and honors. . . .

"All this, stated coldly, has a dreary calculated aura about it, as though Eberhart were an 'operator.' Not at all—he is a man of good heart and dreaming spirit, though in his way he has been far from ineffectual angel. I have known a fair number of seraphs of that species. Their publishing arrangements are almost always precarious, their books are ignored by reviewers, and they are inhibited by a certain saving—i.e. losing—modesty and Flaubertian faith that the only thing one must do in one's own behalf is write. Eberhart has used his excellent initial advantages, his persistence and self-confidence, and his somewhat privileged set of relationships. He has—bless him!—eluded the publishing crisis and the near-blackout in the better-known weeklies of poetry criticism and reviewing that together have made it harder than ever for the poet to get anyone to notice his presence, let alone know what he is doing."

Professor Emeritus Alpheus T. Mason of Princeton will be Visiting Professor in the Government Department during the Spring Term. He will offer courses in American constitutional law and political and constitutional thought in the United States. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia and the University of California at Santa Barbarab since retiring from the Princeton faculty in 1968.