Dartmouth Authors
Robert Heussler '46, British Rule in Malaya: The Malayan Civil Service and Its Predecessors, 1867-1942. Greenwood Press, 1981. 356 pp. The sixth volume of a series in which contemporary historians attempt to gain a clearer understanding of various facets of 19th-century European imperialism. Heussler's book focuses particularly on the officers of the Malayan Civil Service, "on their backgrounds and education, on the work they did in Malaya, and on the moral and professional precepts that developed in the course of the service's life." Author of four previous books on the British Colonial service in Africa as well as a recent history of the Dartmouth Squadron in World War 11, Heussler teaches history at the State University College of New York at Geneseo.
William Morgan '66, Portals. Bauhan, 1981. 20 pp. A collection of 13 stunning black-and-white photographs of architecturally significant portals ranging from a Carpenter Gothic doorway on a small church in Phippsburg, Maine, to the worn stone stairs leading to the Chapter House in Wells Cathedral, this limited edition is a by-product of Morgan's work as an architectural historian. It represents, he writes, "a microcosm of an abiding interest in the built environment ... as well as an expression of concern for the preservation of the best aspects of the designed world." Morgan teaches architectural history at the University of Louisville and is former architecture critic of the Courier-Journal.
Roland E. Brandel, Joseph E. Terracino, and Barry A. Abbott '72, Truth in Lending Compliance Manual. Consumer Bankers Association, 1981. 500 pp. This manual explains the basic purpose of the truth-in-lending act, the specific compliance steps involved in both open-end and closedend credit, and the major changes from the previous law on the subject. Abbott is a member of a San Francisco law firm.
Julia A. Hunter '79, ed. Anna May:Eighty-two Years in New England. Northeast Folklore Society, 1980. 104 pp. A significant contribution to the oral history of New England. The project began in 1977 when Julia Hunter chose to do a life history as a term project in a Dartmouth anthropology course taught by Professor Michael Dorris. Having discovered a willing, indeed enthusiastic, subject for her history in 82-year-old Anna M. Sevigny of Hanover and having been encouraged by Dorris to expand her modest initial project into material for a publishable book, Hunter eventually taped over' 24 hours of conversations with her subject. Collated, edited, and transcribed into print, Hunter's tapes comprise the self-narrated record of a woman's life which covered more than three-quarters of the 20th century.
