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The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded its first annual Stuart L. Bernath Prize for a book on the foreign relations history of the United States to Kenneth E. Shewmaker, Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth.

Professor Shewmaker, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1967, was honored for his book, Americans and ChineseCommunists, 1927-45: A Persuading Encounter, published by the Cornell University Press in 1971.

A specialist in United States history, Professor Shewmaker is also an associate editor for the publication of the papers of Daniel Webster, concentrating on Webster's diplomatic career as U. S. Secretary of State and his foreign relations concerns as U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Professor Shewmaker is a 1960 graduate of Concordia Teachers College and holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

New director of the special program leading to the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) degree at Dartmouth is English Professor Alan T. Gaylord, an authority on Chaucer at one end of the scale and on the art of film as visual literature at the other. He succeeds John W. Ragle of the Education Department, who directed the founding of the program and resigned to accept the headmastership of Governor Dummer Academy.

Professor Gaylord, who is known to many alumni as academic director of the Alumni College from 1970 to 1972 and who is a member of the important faculty Committee on Educational Planning, will continue teaching in addition to his new duties.

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program was initiated at Dartmouth in the summer of 1970 and provides, advanced degree educational opportunities for experienced teachers, librarians or administrators in public or independent schools. It is designed so that candidates may obtain a MALS degree by studying in the program four summers and is intended to strengthen the candidate's background within the division embracing his or her major field of study and to broaden insights outside that division.

Professor Gaylord, a native Californian, was graduated magna cum laude from Pomona College in 1954 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1959. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1967 after one year as a visiting associate professor.

Dr. Henry A. Harbury, chairman of the department of biological sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara for the past four years and an authority on the structure and functions of proteins, has been appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School.

A Cornell graduate with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins (1953), Dr. Harbury started his academic career at Yale where for eight years he was director of undergraduate studies in biochemistry and from 1962 to 1963 served as acting chairman of the biochemistry department A former president of the Yale Medical Society, he received the 1964 Francis Oilman Blake Award as "the most outstanding teacher of medical sciences" at Yale.

Thomas E. Kurtz, director of the Kiewit Computation Center and a Professor of Mathematics, is chairmanelect of the Interuniversity Communications Council, a consortium of 114 universities and colleges established eight years ago to advance the use of computers and communications technology in higher education.

Professor Kurtz, co-developer with President Kemeny of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System and co-author of the versatile computer language BASIC, was elected to head the organization for a term at its recent annual meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich. He has been Dartmouth's representative to the council. From its headquarters in Princeton, N. J., the council conducts and coordinates joint research and development of projects involving computer technology, maintains a consulting service for member institutions, and publishes a quarterly bulletin.

Government Professor Richard F. Winters, a scholar of changes in political parties and their policies in the American states, has been appointed acting director of the Public Affairs Center at the College. He succeeds Thomas C. Davis, who recently resigned to accept appointment by recently elected Governor Thomas Salmon as Human Services Secretary for Vermont.

Professor Winters, a 1963 graduate of Southern Illinois University with an M.A. from the University of Hawaii, received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University last year. In 1969, the year he joined the Dartmouth faculty, he was named winner of the Sigma Pi Alpha Award for the best paper submitted to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The paper was published under the title, "Politics of Redistribution," in the June 1970 issue of the AmericanPolitical Science Review.

Two Tuck School assistant professors have received Upper Valley recognition for a course in allied their students have made some valuable contributions to several of the area's health agencies while also sharpening manazewent skills.

They are Gary. M. Roodman and Leroy B. Schwarz, who together teach a course called SAMS, an acronym for "Selected Applications in Management Science," and last term they gave their students research projects in the area of health services in New Hampshire and the Upper Valley.

Under the general guidance of the two teachers, the students applied concepts of management learned at Tuck School to analyze problems and suggest possible courses of action to help various agencies improve their services.

Projects included a study of the outpatient clinic of the College Health Service at Dick Hall's House, an analysis of the New Hampshire program for screening school children to detect problems in sight and hearing, a review of challenges facing the New Hampshire Heart Association, and the creation of a management model for establishing well-child clinics in the state, in accordance with guidelines set by the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Commenting on one of the projects, Dr. John H. Gundy, Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Dartmouth Medical School, said he was impressed not only with their logical, step-by-step analysis but also with the deep concern that the M.B.A. candidates showed for the human aspects of the problems they studied.

First visiting fellow ever selected by the White Mountain School (formerly known as St. Mary's-in-the-Mountains) in Littleton, N. H., is Noel Perrin, author and chairman of the English Department, who last month spent two days there after addressing the student body. Chairman of the board of trustees of the school is Sylvia Dickey, daughter of President Emeritus John Sloan Dickey, while Gil Tanis '38, Director of Continuing Education at Dartmouth, is also a trustee.

In a remarkable example of academic scholarship and initiative and old-fashioned persuasion, Jon H. Appleton, composer, Associate Professor of Music, and director of Dartmouth's electronic music studio, is currently conducting a Foreign Study Program course in the Polynesian island kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific.

Tonga, which only three years ago achieved its modern independence from Great Britain, contains 90,000 people inhabiting an isolated cluster of volcanic mountain islands thrusting out of the Pacific about 1000 miles north of New Zealand, 500 miles east of the Fiji Islands, and 450 miles south of Samoa. Because the international dateline bulges eastward there to include the kingdom, Tonga is the land' where time begins each day.

Beyond that claim to fame, it is scarcely known because the island government of King Taufa 'ahau Tupou IV discourages tourism to preserve its remarkable culture, which retains an ancient tradition of musical literature like that of ancient Greece.

Despite this deliberate insulation, Professor Appleton managed to win approval to bring a class of 15 Dartmouth undergraduates to Tonga for the winter term under the Foreign Study Program. A unifying theme of their studies will be the music and literary traditions of the Tongan people, while each student will also engage in his own individual study project, ranging from a study of volcanic gases to a study of human ecology in Tonga in terms of causes and limits to population growth.

Professor Appleton won the King's permission during a flying trip last March to Tonga for an audience with the King and his minister of education, Langi Kavaliku, a Harvard graduate and one of the few western-educated members of government, who came to know Dartmouth while a student at the Putney School in Vermont.

He persuaded them that the reports of the Dartmouth students would provide valuable insights for the government on how the Tongan culture looked to outsiders. On the advice of his minister, the King agreed on the condition that a copy of each student's report be made available to the Tongan government.

Although primarily concerned with music, Professor Appleton is also a scholar of comparative literature. Thus, he learned about Tonga, as perhaps the last outpost of an essentially undiluted culture based on a musical literature as both an art form and means of communication. He had been doing research on this manifestation in ancient Greece, where, he said, the Odyssey and Iliad were all written and initially recited in song. Because the song element of their story-telling art has died. Professor Appleton said he was eager to study it and record it in Tonga, where even a proposal of marriage today is not considered proper unless composed for singing and sung to the bride-to-be's parents.

Another current traveler is Leonard C. Rosen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, who is spending the winter and spring terms in France engaged in theoretical research on the evolution of neutron stars, also known as pulsars.

Professor Rosen, whose work is being supported by a Dartmouth Faculty Fellowship, is working at the Observatoire de Meudon with Dr. Evry Schatzman, professor of astronomy at the University of Paris and an internationally renowned astrophysicist and theoretician.

Professor Rosen, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1969, said that from his calculations he will be seeking to build a mathematical model of the pulsars and their mechanism for energy output. Pulsars, which were discovered only late in 1967, are neutron stars with a mass resembling that of the sun, but with a radius 100,000 times smaller than that of the sun. They emit pulsating energy at intervals more accurate than anything presently known in astrophysics.

After mathematics and teaching mathematics, the Boy Scout movement is the consuming interest of Math Professor William Slesnick. Recently his efforts in behalf of youth through the Boy Scouts was recognized with a presentation to him of the Silver Antelope Award at the Northeast Regional meeting in San Juan, Puerto, for "noteworthy and distinguished service to boyhood" in the region.

When the Slavic Department of Ohio State University decided they wanted to know about imaginative teaching methods in Russian, they invited George Kalbouss, Assistant Professor of Russian and Russian Literature at Dartmouth, to talk to them.

He went, but he let a video tape do his talking for him, for it contained his message—involvement. The video tape was of a puppet play produced by his class of second-term Russian language students on only the second day of his class this term—and on only 24 hours notice. On the first day of class, he assigned as homework for the next day the production of the 20-minute puppet play by a Russian Symbolist poet of the early 20th century—and for filming.

That clay and night, he estimates, each student put in 11 to 12 hours on the study of Russian, and came up with a credible performance—learning immense amounts not only about the Russian language but its literature as well. Their only head start was the fact that Professor Kalbouss had already made the puppets and puppet stage and was able to lend them those props. From letters he has received, they're still talking about the performance at Ohio State.

Professor Alan Gaylord of the EnglishDepartment is new director of the programleading to the MALS degree.