Faculty

One of the scientists who will receive data from the first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTSA) as it orbits the earth to survey its natural resources and man's management of them is Dartmouth Geography Professor Robert B. Simpson.

A pioneer in the use of remote sensing devices from high-altitude aircraft to obtain an overview of land-use, particularly trends in urban and suburban development, Professor Simpson has been asked by NASA to study the photographs, digital images and other data from the earth-orbiting spacecraft for insights into the land use of "northern megalapolis."

More than 700 scientists submitted proposals to qualify to receive information from the first space-age "prospecting" probe of how man is shaping the face of his world, and only about half were chosen. The one-ton automated satellite will be lifted into polar orbit nearly 600 miles high by a Delta rocket from the Western Test Range, and data from its three vidicon cameras and multi-spectral scanner will be telemetered continuously to ground stations. The data will then be relayed to the NASA Data Processing Facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for processing and distribution to experimenters.

Professor Simpson, who last fall was awarded a $51,840 grant by NASA for the second phase of his high altitude mapping program, is being assisted in his work by Drs. David T. Lindgren and Van H. English, Dartmouth geographers who specialize in photo interpretation and cartography.

Varujan Boghosian, Professor of Sculpture and acting director of visual studies at Dartmouth, received one of seven art awards presented jointly by the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The seven winners, each of whom received a prize of $3OOO, were selected from a group of 30 artists invited to exhibit their works in the Academy's Art Galley in New York City for a month this spring. Professor Boghosian, who created a distinctive art form by combining antique dolls, cast-off croquet balls and other rummage items into fascinating three-dimensional montages symbolizing aspects of the Orpheus legend, is one of only two sculptors honored.

At first thought, there would seem to be little in common between the ancient Romans and early 19th Century New England farmers. But, according to Robert L. McGrath, Associate Professor of Art, "in the full range of human history" only those two peoples "are known to have applied painted decorations deliberately and consistently to the walls of their ordinary dwellings."

Professor McGrath points to the link across 1500 years and more than twice as many miles to open his handsome new book, Early Vermont Wall Paintings, 1790-1850, in which he not only surveys remnants of that early Yankee art form but compares them with Roman murals found at Pompeii and Herculaneum. For the aficionados, the book is generously illustrated by prints of more than 40 Vermont murals, many of which Professor McGrath "discovered" under layers of wallpaper in various old Vermont homesteads.

The book was published by the University Press of New England just, prior to the retirement of Victor G. Reynolds "'27, who came back to Hanover two years ago to found and direct the press as a $1-a-year-man after a full career in university book publishing.

The subject, rather than the author, of a second book is Richard Eberhart '26, the Class of 1925 Professor of English and poet-in-residence emeritus. The new book adding to the patina of critical praise already his is entitled Richard Eberhart by Bernard F. Engel, a member of the Michigan State University faculty, and has been published by Twayne.

Other books newly produced by the Dartmouth faculty include Economics Professor Colin D. Campbell's Introduction to Money and Banking, written jointly with Mrs. Campbell, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston; and the second edition of FiniteMathematics with Business Applications authored and revised by President Kemeny and Prof. J. Laurie Snell, of Dartmouth, Arthur Schleifer Jr., formerly on the Tuck School faculty and now with Harvard Business School, and Gerald L. Thompson of the Carnegie-Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. Meanwhile, a study by Economics Professor Lawrence G. Hines on the economic aspects of environmental issues is scheduled for publication by W. W. Norton next year.

Dr. Brunetta Wolfman of Kensington, Calif., a sociologist specializing in urban education, community development and minority group counseling, has been appointed assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She will assist the Dean of the Faculty on matters relating to the recruitment of women faculty members and faculty members from minority groups.

Dean Wolfman will also hold an appointment as Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and, in addition to her administrative duties, will teach in the Urban and Regional Studies Program and in the Department of Education.

A native of Clarksville, Miss., Dean Wolfman received the baccalaureate, master's and doctorate degrees in educational administration and urban education from the University of California at Berkeley.

She is married to Burton I. Wolfman, associate director of the Office of Analytical Studies at Berkeley since 1961, who is coming to Dartmouth as Director of Institutional Research and Analysis succeeding Prof. Charles A. Dailey, who has accepted a research appointment at Harvard University.

Another parallel appointment of a husband and wife has been made in the cases of Drs. Dennis and Donella Meadows, who collaborated in writing the popular but foreboding book, Limits of Growth, based on the Club of Rome study of the future of man and civilization. He was director of that study.

Dennis Meadows, an authority on computer analysis of long-range social and economic problems and member of the faculty at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at M.I.T., has accepted a joint appointment as an associate professor at Thayer and Tuck Schools.

Donella Meadows, also of has accepted an appointment in the sciences division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. A specialist in population studies, she will also continue to work with her husband in their research utilizing system dynamics, a new methodology in which computers are used to simulate, then analyze the long-term effects of the interactions of such varied social forces as population growth, resource depletion, urban expansion, industrial and agricultural production, and pollution.

Members of the Economics Departrnent continue to be tapped by a wide variety of agencies for their scholarly expertise. Prof. Martin Segal, chairman of the department, has been a consultant for the Agency for International Development (AID), U.S. Department of State, for which he prepared a report on the problems of labor compensation and employment in such wide-ranging countries as Turkey and Ghana. As the only economist on the Law of the Sea panel of the American Society of International Law, Prof. Meredith O. Clement has been examining the economic implications of various uses of the ocean and of institutional arrangements to be the subject of negotiations at a forthcoming conference by the United Nations. Professor Clement and Assistant Professor Alan L. Gustman have also just completed an econometric study for the U. S. Department of Education on the interactions of spending and enrollment in the nation's vocational and nonvocational schools. Closer to home Prof. Ben Branch has been a consultant to the Tourism and Development Corporation of New Hampshire.

Moving from economics to business administration, Frederick E. Webster Jr., acting associate dean of the Tuck School and a teacher of marketing, has been elected a director of the American Marketing Association. He is also a member of the association's Journal of Marketing.

For their celebration of the 154th anniversary of the historic Rush-Bagot Agreement and United States-Canada Goodwill Week, the Kiwanis Club of Montreal invited President Emeritus John Sloan Dickey to be guest of honor. Mr. Dickey, who this spring is teaching a seminar on History and Policy in the United States-Canadian Relationship, spoke on relations between the two North American neighbors, sharing a 4000-mile unfortified border. The Rush-Bagot Agreement, a cornerstone to the peace between the two nations, was signed April 28, 1818.

A Dartmouth sociologist has received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to teach and study at two Argentine universities under the international educational exchange program from July 15 to December 15. Prof. Bernard E. Segal '55 will lecture on research methods in sociology at the National University of Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata. He will commute between the two institutions which are 40 miles apart.

Dr. George D. Sorenson Jr., a cancerresearch specialist, has joined the facultyof the Medical School as Chairmanof the Department of Pathology andJohn IM Porte Given Porfessor ofCytology. He was formerly chairman ofthe pathology department at St. LouisUniversity School of Medicine and aNational Cancer Institute Fellow forstudy at the Cancer Research Institute,Paris.