Henry Luce Professorship

A five-year grant totaling $225,000 from The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., will enable Dartmouth College to establish a professorship in environmental studies. The new chair is to be named the Henry R. Luce Professorship in Environmental Studies and Policy, and under the terms of its creation there is the possibility of a five-year extension under a similar grant in 1976.

The award to Dartmouth, announced last month by Henry Luce III, president of the foundation, is intended to help establish an environmental studies program designed "not to produce profes- sional environmental scientists but to open the minds of potential leaders in many disciplines to the relations between man and his environment."

The professorship is one of four underwritten by The Luce Foundation in different areas of scholarship at four different institutions, to encourage academic innovation and flexibility. The other chairs are at Princeton University (political jurisprudence), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (civilization and foreign affairs), and Emory University (law and behavioral sciences). Earlier Luce Professorships were established at Cornell University, Hampshire College, and New York University.

President Kemeny has named a faculty committee to select the person to fill the Henry R. Luce Professorship at Dartmouth. James F. Hornig, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of the Faculty, is chairman, and other committee members are Profs. Charles L. Drake, environmental sciences; Lawrence G. Hines, economics; and James B. Quinn, business administration. Their choice is to be made by July 1.