Faculty News
Two win Guggenheims Two Dartmouth faculty members have won prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Charles Wood, Daniel Webster professor of history, will use his fellowship to research a book on King Arthur, and Thomas Sleigh, a new member of the English department, will spend 1986-87 writing poetry.
Named reviews editor Jim Jordan, professor of art, has been named book review editor of The Art Bulletin, published by the College Art Association of America. The three-year appointment involves selection of books and reviewers and editing of reviews. The quarterly publication is considered the ranking periodical of art history in the country. Jordan himself has written books on Arshile Gorky and Paul Klee.
One in two hundred
Mary Kelley, associate professor of history, was recently elected to membership in the Society of American Historians. The group, whose membership is held at 200, encourages literary distinction in the writing of history and biography. Kelley's field is in- tellectual and cultural history, with emphasis on 19thcentury women's roles. Her most recent book, published by Oxford University Press, was Private Woman, PublicStage: Literary Domesticity in19th Century America.
Critics come to Hanover
Leading literary critics from around the country will be at Dartmouth this summer to participate in the School of Criticism and Theory. Founded ten years ago, the School just moved to the College from Northwestern. In the first session in Hanover, 65 young teachers and graduate students will study for six weeks with some of the world's foremost scholars in humanistic disciplines.
Book honored again
Yet another award has been garnered by Shakespeare in Sable, the muchhonored book by drama professor Errol Hill. A history of black actors in Shakespearean roles, the 1984 publication was recently named a winner of the Bertram L. Joseph Award for Achievement in Shakespeare Studies or Stage Production in America.
New registrar named
Thomas Bickel, professor of mathematics and computer science, will become registrar of the College, effective June 1987. He will be on leave during fall and winter terms next year and will assume the new post three months before the retirement of Douglas Bowen, who will become registrar emeritus. Bowen, a member of the chemistry department since 1945, has been registrar for 18 years. Bickel joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1967. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan.
Geist gets grant
Anthony Geist, assistant professor of Spanish, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to spend the coming academic year studying Spanish surrealist poetry.
$2.4 million from the VA
John Wasson, associate professor of clinical community and family medicine, will oversee a $2.4million study funded by the Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program to evaluate the usefulness of prostate surgery for men. The study, to be run jointly with a doctor in Wisconsin, will involve men treated for moderate symptoms of prostate enlargement at seven VA hospitals nationwide.
It's officially called Woodsmen's Weekend, but the annual collegiate display of logging skillsfeatures some tough competition in the women's events as well as the men's. In the 40th annualWoodsmen's meet, held in Hanover, ten schools took part in numerous events. Dartmouth's twomen's teams took second and third places and the two women's teams also came in second andthird. Here, making the chips fly, is an aptly-named Dartmouth competitor Karen Wood '88.
