Faculty

Dartmouth's commitment to environmental studies and its concern for enhancing understanding of forces shaping man's environment are underlined in at least three appointments announced over the summer.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald, distinguished geophysicist, author and public servant, recently resigned from the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to accept a twin appointment as the first incumbent of the new Henry R. Luce Professorship in Environmental Studies and Policy and as Director of the College's Environmental Studies Program.

Dennis L. Meadows, an authority on computer analysis of long-range social and economic problems who served as director of the Club of Rome's study of "The Predicament of Man" and co-authored the much-discussed book, TheLimits to Growth, resulting from that study, has accepted a joint appointment as an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering. At the same time, his wife, Dr. Donnella Meadows, another of the four coauthors of The Limits to Growth and coordinator of population studies for the Club of Rome project, has been named an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. The two scholars, both honor graduates of Carleton College and previously on the faculty of M.I.T., have specialized in research on systems dynamics, a new methodology utilizing the computer to simulate and analyze the long-term effects of basic forces on human ecology such as population growth, resource depletion, urban expansion, industrial and agricultural production, pollution and environmental policy.

Meanwhile, Stanley H. Udy Jr., a nationally known expert in the sociology of work in an industrial society and for the past 15 years a member of the Yale faculty, has joined the Department of Sociology as full professor.

Professor MacDonald came to Dartmouth in August after two and a half years as a charter member of the Council on Environmental Quality, established by Congress in 1969 in response to the environmental crisis. For the four previous years, he had been a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, while also serving the Secretary of State as a consultant and the Department of Commerce as a member of both the Commerce Technology Advisory Board and the U.S.-Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation. He also advised NASA in several areas, serving on the Lunar and Planetary Missions Board, the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Manned Space Flight, and the Science Advisory Committee.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, Professor MacDonald was named chairman of the Environmental Studies Board jointly by the Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in September shortly after his Dartmouth appointment was announced. He had chaired that board for two years prior to his membership on CEQ, and also served through the '60s on the Academy of Sciences Committee on Atmospheric Sciences and its Space Science Board.

His areas of special scholarly concern have ranged from the earth's interior to the origins of the moon and planets. For his book, Rotation of theEarth, he received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and was the founder and first editor of Reviews of Geophysics. He has been co-editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and is now associate editor of six other journals.

The Professorship in Environmental Studies and Policy is one of nine awards made to date under the Henry R. Luce Professorship Program, established by the Luce Foundation in memory of the late founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc. to encourage intellectual curiosity through broadly integrative and innovative programs in the humanities and social sciences. The award was made to Dartmouth to help establish an environmental studies program designed "not to produce professional 'environmental scientists,' but to open the minds of potential leaders in . . . many disciplines ... to the relations between man and his environment."

Prof. Dennis Meadows, who shortly after his appointment, received a $388,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of whether the United States with six per cent of the world population can continue to consume nearly half the world's natural resources, received his doctorate from M.I.T. in 1969, a year after his wife had received her Ph.D. from Harvard. He began his teaching career at M.I.T. and also served as a research associate in the program there on Management of Science and Technology and as director of the Industrial Management Center conference series on technological forecasting. He has been a special consultant to Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Prof. Donnella Meadows was a research chemist at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, 1967-68, and since 1970 had been a research associate in M.I.T.'s Department of Nutrition and Food Service and at the Harvard Center for Population Studies.

Professor Udy, who at Yale served as director of undergraduate and graduate studies in sociology and was a fellow at Branford College, is the author of the classic sociological monograph, Organization of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Production Among NonindustrialPeoples.

At Dartmouth, he will continue his research with Robert H. Guest, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Tuck School, into the social and psychological changes which have occurred over 20 years in the work force of a factory assembly line — an important part of the environment for a significant part of the population in a mass-production society. The research is supported by a grant from the Harvard Program on Technology and Society. In addition, Professor Udy is studying the social implications of standardized testing in American business and industry. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1958, eight years after graduating from that university with high honors.

Meanwhile, five familiar members of the Dartmouth faculty have been recognized for their excellence as teachers and scholars by appointment to endowed professorships dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The appointments fill all but nine of the College's 32 endowed professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Incumbents and their new academic titles are: Harold L. Bond '42, academic director of continuing education at Dartmouth and faculty head of the first Dartmouth Institute this past summer, named the Henry Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Languages and Literature; Lawrence E. Harvey, a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Edward Tuck Professor of French; Hans H. Penner, chairman of the Department of Religion, the John Phillips Professor of Religion; Thomas A. Spencer Jr., chairman of the Chemistry Department, the New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry; and Thomas H. Vance, the John D. Willard Professor of Oratory and English Literature.

Professor Bond, former academic director of Dartmouth's Alumni College, past chairman of the English Department, and authority on the works of Edward Gibbon, succeeds to a chair established in 1879 by a gift from Henry Winkley, an honorary degree recipient in 1880. Professor Bond, former faculty representative on the Alumni Council, has been a member of the faculty since 1946 when he returned from war service about which he wrote in his book, Return to Cassino.

Professor Penner, who joined the faculty in 1965 following the award of the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, succeeds to Dartmouth's oldest professorship. It was established in 1774, five years after the College was chartered, through a gift from John Phillips, a Trustee of the College and founder of Phillips Exeter Academy and one of the founders of Phillips Academy at Andover. Also a member of the Dartmouth Institute faculty, Professor Penner is an authority on the history of religions, especially the religious traditions of India. He is chairman of the faculty Committee for Educational Planning.

Professor Harvey, founding director of Dartmouth's Foreign Language School in Florence, Italy, and an authority on French literature, assumed the chair established by a gift from Edward Tuck, 1862, an international banker and financier whose benefactions to Dartmouth included the founding of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1900 as the nation's first graduate school of business in memory of his father. Professor Harvey, a graduate of Western Reserve University with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, joined the faculty in 1955.

The New Hampshire Professorship in Chemistry held by Professor Spencer was established by the Trustees in 1866. Professor Spencer was graduated from Amherst College in 1956 and received the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963, when he joined the Dartmouth faculty.

Professor Vance, a poet and playwright, succeeds to a chair established in 1890 by the gift of John D. Willard, 1819. A 1929 graduate of Yale, from which he also received an A.M. and Ph.D., Professor Vance has been on the faculty since 1940.

The Phillips, Tuck and New Hampshire professorships carry 10-year appointments, while the Winkley and Willard professorships are effective through to the retirement of each incumbent.

For Alexander Medlicott Jr. '50, appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor of English for the winter and spring terms will produce an academic family reunion. Professor Medlicott, a specialist in American literature who regularly teaches at the University of Connecticut, will find his elder son, Alexander III '72, a first-year student at Dartmouth Medical School, while his younger son, Peter, is a Dartmouth sophomore.

Henry L. Terrie Jr., chairman of the English Department for the past five years and a member of the faculty since 1952, has been named Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Humanities, succeeding William C. Scott who returned to full-time duties as Associate Professor of Classics and chairman of the Classics Department. Professor Terrie, a specialist in American literature, was graduated from Yale in 1943 and received an M.A. and doctorate from Princeton. He plans to continue to teach while serving as an associate dean.

Dr. Carleton B. Chapman, a vice president of the College and Dean of the Medical School, has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine founded by the National Academy of Sciences in 1970 as an institute of "individuals of distinction and achievement committed to the advancement of health sciences and education and to the improvement of health care." A former president of the American Heart Association, Dr. Chapman is also now chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Prof. J. J. Ermenc of the Thayer School of Engineering has been appointed to serve on the ad hoc panel on low power sources of the National Academy of Sciences. The panel was formed to advise the Space Research Organization of India on electrical power sources for energizing community TV sets in about 5,000 Indian villages for educational programs to be broadcast over two TV transmission satellites to be put in position over India by NASA. The experiment, expected to be operational in two years, is regarded as having potential for a "a great leap forward in enhancing the life possibilities of Indian peasants," according to Professor Ermenc.

To help provide a continuing review of issues involved in the public right to privacy and the maintenance of confidentiality of information in the Bureau of the Census, Economics Professor Colin D. Campbell has been appointed by Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson to be a member of the Census Advisory Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality. He also has been elected a director of the Thomas Jefferson Center Foundation at the University of Virginia. The foundation seeks to advance education and understanding in the social sciences between the nations of the West and East Europe.

Varujan Boghosian, Professor of Art whose artistry in transforming antique toys and "junk" into sculptured montages has earned him international renown, is the winner of one of seven art awards presented this year by the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award carried a prize stipend of $3,000.

The opening concert of the famed Warsaw Autumn Music Festival by the Warsaw Philharmonic on September 16 was conducted by Mario di Bonaventura, director of music at the Hopkins Center and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music.

During a wide-ranging European tour, he will also conduct in the World Music Festival in Graz, Austria, where he will give the world premiere performances of five new works, and then go on to Yugoslavia to conduct a repeat concert with the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra. In December, Maestro di Bonaventura, a leading interpreter of contemporary symphonic and other orchestral works, will be in Hungary to participate in the International Kodaly Conference at the invitation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In the summer of 1965, Professor di Bonaventura conducted an unprecedented retrospective of the works of Zoltan Kodaly, when the late Hungarian was composer-in-residence at Dartmouth's fifth Congregation of the Arts.

Prior to his European trip, Professor di Bonaventura spent the summer on a national survey for the Rockefeller Foundation preparatory to designing a recording program in American music aimed at revitalizing concert programming and encouraging public understanding and appreciation for the contemporary music repertoire.

Delo E. Mook II, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been named Master of the Choate Residence dorms for this academic year, and John W. Price, Assistant Professor of English, has been named the first Master of the River Cluster, the dorms at the west end of Tuck Mall.

Completed in Baker Library this summer was a memorial seminar room namedfor the late Dr. Andrew G. Truxal '35h, who taught sociology at Dartmouth for 20years until 1948 when he assumed the presidency of Hood College. The room, inwhich an Alumni College discussion group is shown above, was created andfurnished with funds from an anonymous alumni gift of $54,000 which will alsoendow a memorial library fund for the purchase of books in the field of sociology.