RETIRING FACULTY

ALBERT S. CARLSON, A.M. '44, Professor of Geography, came to Dartmouth in 1929 and is senior member of the faculty in years of service. In the interim, he has had a significant influence not only on the College, but also on the surrounding communities and all Northern New England.

A specialist in economic geography, he teaches courses which emphasize work in the field as well as the classroom. Forest management studies on the College Grant and Mt. Washington, land-use mapping and surveying in the Upper Valley, and visits to industrial plants supplement text-books.

Professor Carlson graduated from Clark University in his native Worcester, Mass., where he also earned a master's degree in economics and a Ph.D. in geography. He received his honorary A.M. from Dartmouth when he attained the rank of full professor.

Retirement for Professor Carlson promises to be a busy one, since for many years the College has shared his abundant energies with widening circles of the North Country. For more than 25 years he has been executive secretary of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region Association, encouraging the orderly economic and recreational development of the area. A co-founder of Lebanon College, he has served since 1961 as President or Dean of the Faculty of the self-supporting adult education program.

He has been president of the New Hampshire Council of Regional Associations since 1959, is a former chairman and long-time member of the New England Council's Industrial Development Committee, and was a co-founder and director of the Connecticut River Watershed Council.

An indefatigable speaker and writer, Professor Carlson has urged sound land use and forest management, soil conservation, protection of streams and waterways, and industrial development suited to locale and terrain in books and articles and through speeches across the country.

Athletics are an indispensable ingredient of the Dartmouth Experience for Professor Carlson, who formerly coached freshman soccer and recreational basketball, ran the civilian sports program during World War II, and was until recently a soccer referee. Two proud mementoes of his final year of teaching are an autographed football inscribed to the "All Ivy-League Professor" from his students and the winning puck from the Dartmouth-Harvard hockey game.

Professor and Mrs. Carlson plan to remain in their Hanover home, easy visiting distance from their daughter in Lebanon and sons in Connecticut and Burlington, Vt.

BASIL MILOVSOROFF, A.M. '66, will bring his responsibilities as Professor of Russian Language and Literature to a memorable end this summer when he and his wife accompany a group of Dartmouth students to the Soviet Union. It will be Mrs. Milovsoroff's first trip to her husband's homeland.

Born in Siberia, Professor Milovsoroff came to this country as a student in 1927. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oberlin College, he became a free-lance sculptor and puppeteer. For 20 years, he toured the country, playing primarily art museums and children's theaters. His article "Reality With Strings Attached," published in 1955 in Theatre Arts, is regarded as a classic.

In the fall he will turn with renewed concentration to what has remained a cherished avocation during his teaching career. The emphasis will be on animated instructional films, researching and recording inanimate figures in striking motion, "an extremely sophisticated area, largely unexplored." Live performances no longer tempt him, mainly because they require spending too much time in large cities. A congenial atmosphere with facilities for experimentation in film is what he seeks.

Professor Milovsoroff first taught Russian at Cornell University during World War 11. He came to Dartmouth in 1957 as a language assistant, rising through the academic ranks to a full professorship in 1966, when the College conferred on him the honorary A.M.

He was responsible for the conversion of the Department of Russian Civilization to the Department of Russian Language and Literature in 1963, when it was transferred from the Social Sciences Division to the Humanities. He served as chairman from 1963 to 1967.

During summers from 1960 to 1967 he directed the Modern Language Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Russian, held at the College under the National Defense Education Act. An exception was 1962 when he was completing a year's leave of absence at Oxford University. During the summer of 1959 he taught an intensive Russian course at Indiana University, then accompanied the students to the USSR.

In retirement Professor Milovsoroff plans, in addition to film making, continued writing on the art of "the theater of images" and Russian phraseology. He and Mrs. Milovsoroff have two children, a married daughter in Newfoundland and a son, a physicist who has spent the past year in Europe.

Bicentennial visitors will remember the joyful sculptural satire on Eleazar Wheelock's arrival on the Hanover Plain which was displayed in the Hopkins Center Rotunda. Designed and assembled by Professor Milovsoroff, it adapted nature's indigenous shapes of flora and fauna to depict Wheelock's retinue and included visions of four aspects of campus life—the arts, the sciences, the faculty, and students.

HERBERT R. SENSENIG '2B this month completes 40 years of teaching in the Department of German. Four years after he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, he returned to Hanover from Germany with two important acquisitions: his Hungarian bride Mimi and the basic requirements for his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, which was officially conferred the following year.

An instructor when he joined the Dartmouth faculty, Professor Sensenig became an assistant professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1948. He was adviser to foreign students for many years and chairman of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments, set up to aid returning student veterans, in 1947-48. He was faculty representative on the Alumni Council in 1955-56. Mrs. Sensenig, a Ph.D. from the University of Munich, is a senior lecturer in English.

Successive return engagements in Euorpe, to work or to visit relatives and friends, have played a major" role in their lives. As a captain in military intelligence, Professor Sensenig was stationed at the Palace Hotel in Mondorph, Luxembourg, where he interrogated high-ranking Nazi prisoners detained there. He retains vivid recollections of Goering, Speer, Doenitz, and von Ribbentrop, among others.

In 1950 Professor Sensenig returned to Germany for two years as a university specialist with the Public Affairs Division of the U. S. Department of State, assigned to the office of Land Commissioner for Bavaria. Two Estonian girls, whose family Hanover area residents had helped during the war, returned with the Sensenigs, one to join their family of two sons on their Norwich farm, the other to live with the Paul Samples. Other youngsters have been welcomed to the family during the summer months, children brought from New York City through the Fresh Air Fund.

Retirement for Professor Sensenig will be a time of catching up on projects and plans postponed for lack of time in a busy teaching schedule. An avid horticulturist, he anticipates that the stepped-up pursuit of his favorite avocation plus normal chores on a 90-acre farm should keep him physically fit. For intellectual fare, he has an accumulated backlog of non-professional reading. A newly elected member of the Norwich Planning Commission, he will be an active participant in community affairs.

And, of course, there will be more travel: to visit Mrs. Sensenig's relatives in Hungary, their sons in Oregon and New Jersey, and former student advisees in Japan, where they have never been, and other parts of the world.

HENRY B. WILLIAMS, A.M. '50, Professor of English and Drama and Director of the Experimental Theater, has seen a lot of changes in his field in the 41 years since he started teaching at Dartmouth.

When he came to Hanover, fresh from Yale Drama School, as Instructor in English and Technical Director of The Players, there was no Experimental Theater, there was no Department of Drama, there were no drama majors, and the theater facilities were admittedly dismal.

Professor Williams has had an important hand in the changes. He has guided the fortunes of the Experimental Theater since 1946, directed the first drama majors in 1962, helped found the Drama Department three years ago, and has drawn full splendor from the studios and stages of the Hopkins Center.

An accomplished set and costume designer as well as director, Professor Williams went to the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art before entering the graduate program at Yale. He had finished his work at Yale before joining the Dartmouth faculty, but the M.F.A. degree was actually granted only in 1948, in retroactive recognition, after he completed requirements, before and after Army service, for an undergraduate degree from Harvard. Dartmouth promoted him to assistant professor in 1946 and to full professor in 1950.

It is his work with the Experimental Theater that Professor Williams has found most challenging and most rewarding. Intended originally to stage comparatively unknown classics, the theater soon became an important vehicle for the production of student-written plays. It resulted in the discovery and nurture of talents which were to have significant impact on the American theater.

Professor Williams' influence on educational theater has spread far beyond the Hanover scene. He was president in 1966-67 of the American Educational Theater Association, of which he remains a fellow. He has served on the board of directors and executive committee of the American National Theater and Academy. A founder of the American College Theater Festival, he was responsible for its Symposium on the American Theater at the Smithsonian Institution in 1969 and wrote the preface for its proceedings, which have just been published under the title American Theater: The Sumof its Parts.

Next fall will find Professor Williams away from Hanover, in response to his insatiable appetite for new theatrical experience and more theatrical knowledge, a quest which has taken him to England, France, and Italy in 1953; to Sweden and England in 1958; to Greece and Italy in 1962; and to Japan in 1960, 1966, and 1969. Where he and Mrs. Williams will spend the first term hasn't been decided, but wherever it is, there's sure to be theater. Where Henry Williams is, there's always theater.

CHARLES M. WILTSE, Professor of History, retires this month from the Dartmouth faculty, but he will continue his primary responsibility since he came to Hanover in 1967: the editorship of the Daniel Websters papers.

He completed one phase of the formidable task of making the first comprehensive collection of the letters, speeches, legal, diplomatic, and miscellaneous papers of Dartmouth's most illustrious son with the publication last year of a microfilm edition.

The second phase, the selection and editing of the most significant portion for the printed edition, is well under way, with the first volume of a probable 15 almost ready for the printer. Overall editor of the series, Professor Wiltse is directly responsible for the correspondence and speeches, which constitute the bulk of the papers. Alfred Konefsky, a recent law graduate, is editing the legal papers; Professor Kenneth E. Shewmaker of Dartmouth, the diplomatic.

The microfilm edition includes some 16,000 items, painstakingly collected from foreign governments and proverbial attic shoe boxes, as well as from major sources. About 6500 letters have yielded 4662 items to add to substantial holdings of Websteriana in the possession of Dartmouth, the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Histori- cal Societies, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives.

When Dartmouth lured Charles Wiltse from a long and distinguished career in government service, it offered not only the challenge of editing the Webster papers, but the opportunity to fill in the other side of a celebrated controversy in American history. Professor Wiltse is the author of a highly acclaimed three-volume biography of John C. Calhoun, Webster's chief adversary in the federalism-vs-states' rights conflict of the last century.

Professor Wiltse attended Marshall College and graduated from the University of West Virginia before entering Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1932. Marshall conferred an honorary degree on him in 1952, and he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1949-51. His doctoral dissertation was augmented into a book, JeffersonianTradition in American Democracy, the first in a long bibliography of scholarly work. He came to Dartmouth from a position as chief historian for the U. S. Army Medical Service. Earlier service in similar capacities with the War Production Board, the National Resources Board, and the National Production Authority and as assistant to the Director of Education for the National Youth Administration was interspersed with teaching and newspaper work.

Although Professor Wiltse will no longer be teaching, his work on the Webster papers goes on, and he and Mrs. Wiltse will continue to make Hanover their home.

Albert Sigfrid Carlson

Basil Milovsoroff

Herbert Rudolph Sensenig '28

Charles Maurice Wiltse

Henry Beates Williams