Retiring Professors

H. WENTWORTH ELDREDGE '31, Professor of Sociology, former chairman of the department and of the International Relations and the Urban Studies Programs, is retiring after 39 years on the Dartmouth faculty. Although he has taught at the College since completing his doctoral studies at Yale, Professor Eldredge's influence as an authority on political sociology and urban planning has carried far beyond Hanover. During World War II, he served the U. S. Departments of Justice and State as a civilian and the United States Army as an Intelligence Officer and a Planning Officer. He has been a consultant to several government agencies, including the White House, and a visiting professor at Harvard and Berkeley; he has lectured throughout this country and western Europe. The Eldredge bibliography includes Culture andSociety; The Second American Revolution, or The NearCollapse of Traditional Democracy; World Capitals: TowardGuided Urbanization and Urbanism, to be published next year; and the two-volume Taming Megalopolis, of which he was editor.

ANDREW H. MCNAIR A. M. '45, a pioneer in the last great period of exploration of Canada's Arctic archipelago, retires this month. Professor McNair came to Hanover in 1935 after earning his A.B. and M.A. at the University of Montana in his native state and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He became an associate professor in 1937 and was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from the College when he achieved full professorship in 1945. He served as department chairman for two terms and has been in wide demand as a consulting petroleum and earth minerals geologist. An early fascination with the Far North culminated in Professor McNair's close association with Vilhjalmur Stefansson at Dartmouth and his five research expeditions to the islands of the Canadian Arctic, the last three sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Although his health has curtailed such activities in recent years, Professor McNair s mapping and recording of the geologic structure of the area stand as important contributions to scientific knowledge.

DR. RALPH W. HUNTER '31, after relinquishing his duties as Clinical Professor of Medicine in Neurology at the Dartmouth Medical School January 1, officially retires the end of this month, only days after he completes his 19th and final-year as a Charter Trustee of the College. A Hanover native and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Hunter went on to Johns Hopkins University to complete his M.D. requirements. After internships in medicine and pediatrics at Hopkins, followed by residencies in medicine, pathology, and neurology in Montreal, Hanover, and Boston, he returned in 1939 to head the neurology section at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and the Hitchcock Clinic, positions he has held since with the exception of four years' Navy duty. He was director of the College Health Service from 1946 to 1955 and acting dean of the Medical School in the fall of 1965. In busy retirement, he will continue some clinical teaching and consulting work at the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction and serve as a neurological consultant at the Concord (N.H.) Hospital and as senior neurologist of the Convulsive Disorder Clinic for the N.H. Department of Health.

ALMON B. IVES A.M. '50, Professor of Speech, completes 33 years of service to the College when he retires this month: as departmental chairman from 1954 to 1958 and 1967 through the present; as a Comparative Literature professor; as director of the Freshman Orientation Program in 1961-62; as associate dean in 1962-63; as first director of the Program of General Reading from 1963 to 1965; and as a radio and television adviser. Professor Ives came to Hanover in 1939 after earning degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois State, and Northwestern University, and teaching on secondary and college levels in Illinois and Wisconsin. He served in the Navy during World War II and spent the year 1950-51 as a civilian consultant to the Army of Occupation in Japan. Professor Ives' long-time interest in the Far East has led to his participation in faculty seminars on Japanese Thought and Literature at Columbia, on Modern Japanese Civilization and Chinese Classics at Dartmouth, and at the Asian Institute of the University of Hawaii. He has twice undertaken travel-study programs in Hong Kong. Taiwan, and Japan.

JOHN C. "ADAMS A.M. '47, Professor of History and former chairman of the Departments of History and Russian Civilization, came to Dartmouth in 1941, after several years' teaching at Princeton. An authority on modern European history, with special emphasis on Balkan studies, he earned his A.B. at the University of Pennsylvania and his master's and doctor's degrees at Duke. Before joining the Princeton faculty, he was a post-doctoral fellow of the Social Science Research Council, attending the School of Slavonic Studies in London and visiting the Balkan countries. An undergraduate classics major, Professor Adams was first introduced to modern history in graduate school. The random assignment of a paper on "The Assassination at Sarajevo" became "the beginning of my life's work." The author of Flight in Winter, a history of the Serbian retreat in World War I, and several shorter works and the translator of the Russian book Leningrad 1941: The Blockade, he has also lectured extensively on the two World Wars, cold-war diplomacy, and Russian foreign policy. His Army service in the 1940s was with Military Intelligence and Signal Intelligence. He was awarded an honorary A.M. on his promotion to full professor in 1947.

ALFRED F. WHITING retires this month as Curator of Anthropology at the College Museum and Assistant Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, after 19 years' service at Dartmouth. A native of Burlington, Vt., he graduated from the University of Vermont in 1933, earned a master's degree in botany from the University of Michigan the following year, and went on for further graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Dartmouth, he was Curator of Botany at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, and, from 1951 to 1954, District Anthropologist for the Ponape District, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. He has written widely for museum and anthropological journals, particularly in the fields of ethnobotany and southwest Indian cultures.

When Wilbur Wright made his epocal circular flight in 1904, nobody much bothereduntil, three months later, the firsteyewitness report was published in an Ohiomagazine called Gleanings in Bee Culture. The: writer, A. I. Root, vividly describedthe "tremendous snapping and flapping"of the Wrights' creation which resembled"a locomotive that has left its tracks." Itwas, said Root, "the grandest sight."

May 1, 1964, when the Dartmouth time-sharing computer was first activated, wasan epocal day for computing and Dartmouth, but the event hardly represented agrand sight because it occurred at fouro'clock in the morning in the basement ofCollege Hall. There was no flapping orsnapping to thrill onlookers. There wasn'teven a hum.

Nevertheless, last month, ten years lateralmost to the day, the small band of veryyoung men who created and nurtured theDartmouth Time-Sharing System wererecognized as "pioneers" - the first sodesignated - at the annual National Computer Conference and Exposition inChicago. To receive the honor, nearly twodozen alumni - former undergraduatesand graduate students - joined PresidentKemeny and Professor Thomas E. Kurtz,co-developers of the system and co-authorsof the computer language BASIC, in thefirst reunion of those present at the creation.

In an auditorium in Chicago's McCormick Place several members of the Dart-mouth faculty discussed the time-sharingsystem's current capabilities - frommedical research to musical composition,from Project FIND, a program for handling complex administrative problems, tosimulated football games. They also talkedabout the "radical" philosophy which wasthe system's inspiration, the convictionthat the power of computing should - andwith ingenuity could - be made as easilyaccessible as books on a library shelf.

Then the pioneers, most of them stillyoung men and still dressing about the waythey did on campus, reminisced about theearly years. Robert Graham '42 was onhand, and filed this report.