Faculty

The English Department has contributed Dartmouth's two winners of the prized Guggenheim Fellowships announced last month for independent study during 1972-73.

They are James M. Cox, Professor of English and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, who will advance his study of American biography under the fellowship; and Associate Professor Thomas Vargish, who will work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction. They are among 372 scholars selected for the awards from among 2506 applicants in the 48th annual competition.

Professor Cox, who specializes in American literature, was honored in 1969 with the E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching by the Danforth Foundation. Professor Vargish, whose book on John Henry Cardinal Newman was published in 1970, is a former Rhodes Scholar.

In the 23rd annual National Book Awards competition, the judges cited Associate Professor Richard Sheldon, chairman of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, for the "excellence" of his translation from the Russian of an experimental novel entitled, ZOO, orLetters Not About Love, by Victor Shklovsky, a pivotal figure of early 20th Century Russian letters. The book was published last year by the Cornell University Press. Although the novel has appeared in five Russian editions and been translated into French, German and Italian, Professor Sheldon's is the first English translation. The book was first published in Berlin in 1923 when its author was living there as an exile from the then new Bolshevik regime. He later was granted amnesty by the Soviet government and returned to Moscow where he now lives.

Professor Sheldon is one of only two scholars to have received special citations, in addition to the winner, in the translation category of the competition. His translation of another Shklovsky novel, A Sentimental Journey, was published in 1971.

Dr. Carl F. Long, Professor of Engineering, has been named Associate Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering and chairman of the Department of Engineering Sciences, the division of the 101-year-old graduate school that offers engineering courses to undergraduates.

Dean Long, a member of the Thayer School faculty since 1954, succeeds Prof. George A. Colligan as associate dean. Professor Colligan, who received the Pangborn Gold Medal of the American Foundryman's Society in 1970 in recognition of research in the field of metal refractory reaction, returns full time to teaching and research. Dean Long holds baccalaureate and master's degrees from M.I.T, and a doctorate of engineering from Yale.

The international character of scholarship is dramatized by the travels of Dartmouth faculty.

William M. Smith, Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Social Sciences, is in Europe on a term sabbatical leave during which he will be lecturing in universities in four countries on his work on "delayed vision" in the general area of "feedback mechanisms and behavior organization," or how what one perceives effects attitudes and behavior. Lectures are scheduled at Louvain University, Belguim; Uppsala University, Sweden; the University of Muenster, West Germany, and the Institute for Perception in Soesterberg, The Netherlands.

Almost crossing paths, H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology and one of four American representatives on the Continuing Committee on the World Future Research Conference, is spending the spring term in the capitals of Europe on research on European city planning.

Professor Eldredge, whose recently completed book, World Capitals: Toward Managed Urbanization and Urbanism, is scheduled for publication by Doubleday in the fall, Will visit Paris, Nice, Cannes, Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, Dubrovnik, Helsinki, Stockholm, Rome, and London.

Meanwhile, on the home front. Philosophy Professor Willis F. Doney has received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, to spend the next academic year continuing his research on various aspects of the philosophy of Descartes. 17th century philosopher, scientist and mathematician regarded as the founder of analytical geometry, with particular reference to his ontological arguments supporting the existence of God.

As a Professor of English and an explorer, Chauncey C. Loomis Jr. knows well the four-line preface with which Hemingway introduced his moving short story, The Snows ofKilimanjaro.

That preface that set the scene and posed a question reads: "Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Nguje Ngai,' the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."

In an almost eerie echo of that account, first published 36 years ago, Professor Loomis, accompanied by Jesse Spikes '72, Dartmouth's lone Rhodes Scholar this year and a Senior Fellow, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to its third highest summit this past winter and high on the shoulder of the dramatic snow-capped mountain came across the carcass of a leopard. He also could not explain why the leopard, a jungle cat, was there or how it died.

Professor Loomis was in Kenya last term getting-first-hand background on the European settlement of that East African nation, for a planned book, tentatively entitled Marooned by Time.The Kenya Settlers, 1892-1972, while Mr. Spikes was there doing research on his Senior Fellowship project on indigenous East African literature.

For a writer and explorer who until now had concentrated on the Arctic, Subarctic and the remote Andean mountains of Peru, Africa represented a new milieu for Professor Loomis. Yet. he said, he found Kenya, with its wide- open sky above the high plains, as fascinating as anywhere he's been. He said that that equatorial land shares with the Arctic and the high South American mountains an awesome "sense of vastness which makes man aware he's working in a natural arena surrounded by natural powers greater than he is."

Professor Loomis plans to return to Kenya next year to complete his research.

While some of its faculty are overseas, Dartmouth also is host to several visiting professors, including three from Europe.

They are Steven Dedijer, director of the Research Policy Program at the University of Lund, Sweden, who as a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist, is teaching a College (interdisciplinary) Course in "Science, Social Problems and Policies"; Frank LI. Harrison, head of the Jaap Kunst Ethnomusicological Institute at the University of Amsterdam, who is a visiting professor of music; and Peter I. Bushneil, lecturer in mathematics at the University of Sussex, England, who will be a visiting associate professor of mathematics for 1972-73.

A native of Yugoslavia, Professor Dedijer earned a degree in mathematical physics at Princeton University in 934 and returned to Yugoslavia as director of its Institute of Nuclear Sciences and a member of that nation's Atomic Energy Commission. He said in an interview commenting on his leadership role in Communist Yugoslavia that he "is proud of having been a member of the Communist Parties of the United States and Yugoslavia from 1936 to 1955 and equally proud of having left them." He said that after becoming disenchanted with communism, he left Yugoslavia in 1961 and is now "politically completely unattached." He is a Swedish citizen, while his writer brother, Vladimir, author of The Beloved Land and The Battle Stalin Lost still lives in Yugoslavia.

In his various administrative roles, Frank Smallwood '51, the Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs, now stands astride the Connecticut River with one academic foot in New Hampshire and the other in Vermont. In addition to serving as the acting dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth, he was elected last month chairman of the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees. He had previously been vice chairman of the board.

Thirteen continues to be a significant number to John G. Kemeny, 13th President of the College. He just received word the other day that two of his books, Finite Mathematics and APhilosopher Looks at Science, have now been published in 13 languages with their recent publication in Czechoslovakian They already had been published in English, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, German, Dutch, Polish, and Hungarian. President Kemeny's 13th book, Man and the Computer: A NewSymbiosis, will be published in the fall by Charles Scribner's Sons.

A member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty who is also the town moderator of Hanover looked back on New Hampshire's recent first-in-the-nation primary and concluded that the new 18-to-21 voters, most of them Dartmouth students, voted responsibly.

Noting that the Presidential preferential primary election was coupled with traditional Town Meeting day and local elections in Hanover, Dr. Stuart W. Russell, Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical School, observed:

"I came away with the overall feeling that they (the under-21 voters) voted with a sense of real responsibility. Many of them did not vote for town officers or town matters about which they knew nothing. They voted only the Presidential primary ballot."

Election officials reported that they enrolled a total of more than 600 new voters in Hanover this year, of which it was estimated more than 400 were Dartmouth students, bringing total registration to 3853.

If early retirements were not already in vogue, they would have to be invented, according to John W. Hennessey Jr., Dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, in a keynote address at the 21st annual session of the Institute for Maine Business and Industry held recently at Colby College.

"The simple truth is that people are wearing themselves out faster than ever, especially in such formal institutions as business and the university," Dean Hennessey said, underlining the cumulative impact of the accelerating pace of change.

Yet, he predicted to top and middle managers from all parts of Maine, these "awesome changes" which have characterized the middle 50 years of this century—a period in which, he said, has been compacted "the bulk of the important scientific and technological discoveries in all man's history"—will "pale compared to the exponential growth in the remaining quarter century."

Obsolescence will become an increasingly real threat to managers in the years ahead, he said, stressing that graduate schools of business consider the future exponential rate of change "the major problem of a graduate professional school."

For more than a year and a half, William C. Scott, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Classics, has been the prime mover in an effort to generate support and interest in the increased production of classic Greek and Roman drama.

That effort is beginning now to produce results with the formation of a seven-college consortium of their departments of drama and classics not only to produce more Greek and Roman plays, but also to try to schedule them so more scholars can see them and so "increase the dialogue around these plays." With Dartmouth, the other cooperating schools are Brandeis, Brown, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Tufts, and Williams.

"The ancient Greek and Roman plays are good drama in their own right," commented Professor Scott, who also is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Humanities. "They represent an intriguing area of world theater and can be made to live and contribute to our time."

Dr. George D. Sorenson Jr., a cancer research specialist, has joined the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School as professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology and the John La Porte Given Professor of Cytology. Former chairman of the department of pathology at St. Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Sorenson is a native of Correy, Pa., and an alumnus of Pennsylvania State University. He received the M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College.

A three-man faculty team from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration conducted a twoday seminar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 14-15 as part of the graduate school's continuing education program.

The team consisted of Kenneth R. Davis, Professor of Marketing and chairman of the continuing education program; Associate Dean Frederick E. Webster Jr., Associate Professor of Business Administration and director of the M.B.A. program; and Leonard E. Morrissey Jr., Professor of Accounting.

The seminar was entitled "Managing Tomorrow's Markets" and was attended by 33 top executives primarily from subsidiaries of U.S. corporations in Puerto Rico.

Elmer Harp Jr. (I), Anthropology Department chairman at the College, is chairmanof the Archaeology Committee of the Arctic Institute of North America, which isreviewing studies along the route of the proposed Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. Withhim at the annual meeting in Anchorage are Robert A. McKennan '25 (c), ResearchProfessor of Anthropology at Dartmouth, and Helge E. Larsen, head curator at theDanish National Museum in Copenhagen, members of the committee.