Revised D-Plan, New Dorm, Faculty Promotions OK'd
At their June meeting, the Board of Trustees took action on several items. They approved a faculty-endorsed revision of the D-Plan, they authorized preliminary steps for construction of a new dormitory, and they promoted 20 faculty members. The revised D-Plan will require 35 courses and 12 terms in residence for the A.B. degree. Beginning with the Class of 1988, students must be in residence both freshman and senior years as well as the summer of their sophomore year. This arrangement, which will increase enrollment, will add to a growing shortage of beds on campus. The shortage, incidentally, is partly due to current dorm renovation, where new social areas have been created in dorm clusters.
To redress this situation, the Trustees authorized plans for the construction of a new dormitory complex to be located either on East Wheelock Street across from the gym or on Tuck Drive behind Zeta Psi, Bones Gate, and Sigma Nu fraternities. With construction set to begin by summer 1984, plans call for the new complex to be built one wing at a time, with a potential living space for 300 students.
Another significant action was the appointment of four distinguished teacher/ scholars to endowed professorships recently established at the College. Russian professor Walter Arndt will become the first Fairchild Professor in the Humanities, with John Strohbehn holding the first Fairchild Chair in Engineering. John Walsh of the physics department will hold the first Sears Professorship in Physics, and John Baumgartner will be the first Kemeny Parents' Professor in Mathematics. The chairs were endowed respectively by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation; former Dartmouth physics professor Francis Sears and his wife Mildred; and three sets of non-alumni parents of recent Dartmouth students honoring former President Kemeny.
Sixteen other faculty members were also Promoted. Promoted to full professor with tenure were Gene Garthwaite, history; Steven Katz, religion; Werner Kleinhardt, German and comparative literature; and Delo Mook, physics and astronomy. Proved from associate professor to associate Professor With tenure were: Lynn Higgins, french and Italian; and Richard Joseph '65, Government and African and AfroAmerican studies. Promoted from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure were: Carol Fowler, psychology; Michael Green, history and Native American studies; Robert Gross, biology; Mary Kelley, history; Nancy Marion, economics; Beatriz Pastor, Spanish and Portuguese; Christine Perkell, classics; Horst Richter, engineering; John Scott, econom- ics; and Roger Sloboda, biology.
Prof. Frank Smallwood '51
