1951

The mailman delivered all kinds of news and information this summer on '51ers and their activities which will all unfold here in the coming months. Mish Cohen, a rioted scholar in the philosophy of law and philosophy of the arts, has been named dean of humanities at the University of Southern California. He was selected following a nationwide search. Mish assumed the deanship in September and is responsible for the 18 schools, departments, and programs in USC's division of humanities one of three major divisions in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Mish was previously a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York and executive director of the program in philosophy at the Graduate Center there.

During his 30-year teaching career, Mish has taught at more than a dozen leading universities, including Harvard, Yale, and California at Berkeley, Since 1971 he has been the editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs, a journal of international reputation published by Princeton University Press that deals with substantive moral, legal, and political issues. He is a frequent contributor to journals in the fields of law, philosophy, and literature, and his byline has appeared in such magazines as New Statesman, Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, and the New York Review of Books. He has also written extensively about aesthetics and criticism, and he is a co-editor of Film Theory andCriticism, a book that is widely used in the teaching of film criticism.

Mish has received numerous academic honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University. His lectureships have included the Lowell Lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, and the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University. He has been a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar as well.

After Dartmouth, Mish received an M.A. from Harvard in 1953- His first postgraduate studies were at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he spent a year. Then, in 1955, he joined the ranks of Harvard University's most distinguished academics, assuming membership in Harvard's Society of Fellows. He completed his postgraduate work in 1958.

Dick Dunn, president of Gilford Instrument Laboratories Inc., has been named associate vice president of external affairs at Oberlin College, effective immediately. In his new position, Dick will be responsible for all fund-raising for gifts for current use. In making the announcement of Dick's appointment, Oberlin Vice President for External Affairs David W. Clark stated, "We are delighted to have a person with Mr. Dunn's background both in community leadership and in corporate management for this critical position."

After Dartmouth, Dick received the master of city planning and-the master of business and public administration degrees from Cornell University in 1953 anmd 1955, respectively. From 1958 to 1963 he was city manager of Oberlin. In 1963 he moved to Belleville, NJ, to become vice president and treasurer of the Eastwood-Nealley Company, and in 1968 he returned to Oberlin to work for Gilford, where he remained until he assumed his new position.

Dick has been a trustee of Oberlin's Allen Memorial Hospital since 1968 and was a founding board member of the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, subsequently serving as its president.

Mike Heyman, the chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, has been named an advisory member of Pacific Gas and Electric's 17-member board of directors. The advisors have to work two to three years before a full board vacancy occurs, but they attend all PG&E meetings and participate in all discussions and deliberations, only cannot vote.

Dick McFarland has been named 1983 United Way general campaign chairman for Minneapolis and is responsible for raising $25.9 million this year. Dick directs 20 campaign divisions, 30,000 volunteers, 1,200 more serving on various committees, and another 3,000 persons on the boards of participating agencies. In addition, he serves as a director of the Children's Heart Fund, the Guthrie Theater Foundation, Minnesota Wellspring, Rauscher, Pierce Refsnes Inc. of Dallas, and Texas and Securities Industry Automation Corporation of New York. Dick is president of Dain Bosworth, an investment banking firm. It is reported that Dick has a real love affair going with the city of Minneapolis.

Just in from the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Orange County is a front-page clipping about a proposal for a new Irvine, CA, Hospital. The article includes an excellent photo of Stan Van den Noort, dean of the College of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine, listening to the proposals which he whole-heartedly supports.

More next month.

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