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Although moving with glacial slowness, Iceland is believed to be splitting apart and, in the process, may provide scientists with clues to the riddle of the structure and mechanics of movement of the earth crust, according to Robert W. Decker, Professor of Geophysics at Dartmouth, who shortly will be heading northeast to "where the action is."
Professor Decker, an authority on volcanoes and earth movements, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to lead a multi-university research team to Iceland this summer to remeasure 58 survey lines established in 1969. Their findings will indicate just how fast Iceland is splitting.
"The rifting activity in Iceland," he explains, "supports the hypothesis that large plates of the earth's crust are moving and should eventually provide important insights into the mechanism causing the earth to crack. ... The mechanism causing land masses to drift apart remains a mystery and may take a long time to discover. But the weight of circumstantial evidence indicates the world is in a state of constant change, and Iceland is definitely one of the best areas on earth to observe this phenomenon."
He said his team is particularly eager to note whether the 1970 volcanic eruption of Mount Hekla there has speeded the rifting process. The rifts under study, some of which are several miles long, 150 feet deep and 30 feet wide, are relatively young in terms of geologic time. Professor Decker says, although most of the cracks probably pre-date the 1,000 years of Iceland's recorded history.
If the theory of continental drift can be proved, man will have taken a big step toward reconstructing the earth's history in detail, Professor Decker said, underscoring the excitement in his research project. "And if this happens, scientists will be able to determine how natural resources were created and where they are located. This, in turn, could lead to the discovery of additional resources which today remain hidden within the earth."
Colin D. Campbell, Professor of Economics and an authority on money, banking and taxes, has been appointed by President Nixon to be a member of the interim board of directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association.
Legislation authorizing establishment of the association as a private corporation, which will raise its own funds by selling securities in the open market, was passed by Congress last year. Purpose of the association is to facilitate and encourage the lending of money to students for financing education, serving as a secondary market for U.S. government-guaranteed student loans.
Appointments to four endowed professorships, including one newly established "chair," were approved at the April meeting of the Board of Trustees and announced by Leonard M. Rieser, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
At the College, John Wilmerding, art historian and author whose books have helped spark the "discovery" of American art of the 19th century and earlier, was simultaneously promoted to the rank of Professor of Art and named to fill the Leon E. Williams Professorship at the College.
Professor Wilmerding, whose most recent book, Winslow Homer, was published last fall to critical acclaim and has already sold more than 15,000 copies, coincidentally also received word that he had been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1973-74 to enable him to write a comprehensive book on American art for the distinguished Pelican History of Art series.
In addition to his study of Homer's paintings in the context of the creative fabric of the 19th century, he is the author of seven other books on American art and artists, including Robert Salmon: Painterof Ship and Shore, and Fitz Hugh Lane, two beautifully illustrated volumes giving those important 19th century marine painters modern recognition.
The second incumbent of the Williams Professorship established at the College, Professor Wilmerding succeeds Emeritus Art Professor Hugh S. Morrison '26 an authority on American architecture and also an award-winning author for definitive book, Early American Architecture.
The Williams Professorship awarded Professor Wilmerding is one of two bearing that name established at Dartmouth one at the College and the other at the Amos Tuck School of Business Ad ministration - 10 years ago under the bequest of the late Leon E. Williams '15 of Wagon Mound, New Mexico, formenationally known tax authority.
Appointed to the second Leon E. Williams Professorship, dedicatee to the area of finance and banking and one of three filled at the Tuck School last month by action of the Trustees, is Willard T. Carlton '56, Professor of Finance and Economics and author of an intricately realistic computer-based banking Simulation game. This chair also comes with a term of ten years.
Professor Carlton, who holds an M.B.A. from Tuck School and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, joined the Tuck faculty in 1967 after teaching at Wisconsin, New York University, and Northwestern. He succeeds G. Walter Woodworth, who retired as the first Leon E. Williams Professor of Finance and Banking in 1968 after teaching at Dartmouth since 1930, except for a 10-year hiatus, 1952-62.
First incumbent of the newly established Nathaniel Leverone Professorship of Management is James Brian Quinn, a specialist in long-range scientific and technical planning and research management and a member of the Tuck School faculty since 1957.
He is the author of the book, Yardsticksfor Industrial Research Management, and contributor to several management books, including National Goals and Policies. published by the Select Committee on Government Research of the U.S. House of Representatives.
He has written widely for professional journals and is a frequent contributor to the' Harvard Business Review, winning its second Mc Kinsey Foundation for Management Prize for outstanding management articles of 1963.
He has also served as a consultant to the Norwegian government, and several agencies and departments of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce and Defense and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development He is a graduate of Yale University and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia.
The new professorship, also awarded for a term of 10 years, is named in memory of the late Nathaniel Leverone '06, Chicago industrialist, sportsman and philanthropist who pioneered in the modern development of the automatic merchandising industry as founding head of the Automatic Canteen Company.
Next to Dartmouth athletics, Mr. Leverone maintained throughout his life an abiding interest in the Tuck School and faithfully returned each year to lecture and counsel with students. Donor of the Leverone Field House, he and his wife, the late Martha (Ericsson) Leverone, also bequeathed substantial funds used to help make possible the new Ice Arena Auditorium and to endow the professorship in his memory at Tuck.
Wayne G. Broehl Jr., author, historian, authority on comparative business systems and a member of the Tuck School faculty since 1954, was named the Benjamin Ames Kimball Foundation Professor for a term of five years.
Professor Broehl, author of the authoritative history of the Molly Maguires, the Irish secret society prominent in the labor conflicts in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the 1870's, and several other books, becomes the second incumbent of the Kimball Foundation Professorship. He succeeds the late Russell R. Larmon '19, long-time Professor of Administration at the College and administrative adviser to the late President Hopkins of Dartmouth.
Professor Broehl is currently engaged in a major research project sponsored by the Ford Foundation to improve the effectiveness of management training programs in India, to which he expects to return for further research this summer. At Tuck, he teaches courses on World Food Problems, Management of International Business and Business Environment. He is chairman of the permanent Advisory Committee on Investment Objectives established a year ago by the Trustees to advise the Board on its general relationships with corporations and on investments having possible adverse impact on desirable social goals.
Professor Broehl received his baccalaureate degree from the University of Illinois, the M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and the Ph.D. from Indiana University.
A second member of the Dartmouth faculty to win a Guggenheim Fellowship this year is James E. Wright, Assistant Professor of History and a specialist in political history, who plans to undertake a study of New Hampshire Progressivism.
Nearly 3000 scholars and teachers applied for Guggenheim Fellowships this year, and only 349 were selected for the award.
Gene M. Lyons, Professor of Government, back on campus this year after a two-year leave in Paris where he served as director of the Department of Social Sciences of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is now being kept busy in the international community seeking to draw on his experience.
Professor Lyons, who last month spoke on International Technology Assessment at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, will be co-director of a seminar on "International Social Science" to be held in July at the Rockefeller Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy. And in August, he is scheduled to give a paper on "Politics Between Economics and Culture" at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Montreal
Professor Laurence Radway, also of the Government Department and a scholar of military education, spent two days last month at the Canadian National Defense College in Kingston, Ontario advising on policy and programs at the invitation of the commandant, Admiral S. Mathwin Davis.
Professor Radway, co-author of the book, Soldiers and Scholars: MilitaryEducation and National Policy, who has recently written articles on "The Future of ROTC" and "Recent Trends at American Military Academies," has been a consultant to governments and agencies of five countries - Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand - in addition to Canada. He also regularly consults for the separate U.S. military services and is a frequent lecturer at the various service academies and colleges.
Anyone wondering how the computer can be used in the social sciences now has an answer in detail between the covers of a new book, Time-Sharing Computation in the SocialSciences, by Edmund D. Meyers Jr., Associate Professor Sociology and director of Project Impress, just published by Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Discussing in the preface why it is valuable for sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists to learn about computing and computer programming, he says:
"While the knowledge could be justified on practical grounds, I think it is important to view the computer as an intellectual resource not dissimilar to a library, Although a book is static, a computer program permitting one to untangle the relationships among variables can be dynamic in that it provides the capability to examine and reexamine the available information. Both libraries and computers can contribute to the process of accumulating knowledge in the social sciences, and it is important to learn the effective use of both."
Added to the long string of recognitions and awards garnered by John Rassias, Professor of Romance languages and Literature and director of the popular Foreign Language Program Abroad, is his inclusion in the 1973 edition of Outstanding Educators of America.
