A Century's Worth of Scholars

When The College's Trustees met in June to send off the class of '92, they also awarded Darmouth's three retiring faculty members, sending them off with emeritus status. The three Leonard M. Rieser '44, Franklin Smallwood '51 and Robert L. Cleland had together dedicated 105 years of service to the College.

LEONARD RIESER served as the Fairchild Professor in the Sciences, dean of the faculty, provost, and eventually, director of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding. For several years he served as both provost and dean simultaneously.

Before coming to Dartmouth in'52, Rieser worked for the government's World War II physics efforts at Los Alamos. He had a hand in developing the initiator mechanism for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug.9,1945.

While at Dartmouth, Rieser became a leading voice among scientists for arms control. In 1972 he became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1985 he became chairman of the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the journal famous for maintaining the Chicago "doomsday clock."

Born in Chicago, Rieser lives with his wife, Rosemary, in Norwich.

cal economy and government from Harvard University in 1958. Following government

ment service, he joined Dartmouth's government faculty in 1959, serving as the Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs from 1967 to 1984. He then became the first Rockefeller Professor of Government.

During his tenure at Dartmouth he also worked as assistant to the president, director of the Public Affairs Center, associate dean of the faculty, acting dean of the faculty, and vice president for student affairs.

He is the author of five books on urban politics, planning, and government. Smallwood currently lives in Norwich, with his wife, Ann Logie, and his four children. He is politically active there, having once been a Vermont state senator and once serving as chairman of the Higher Education Planning Commission and the Board of Trustees of the Vermont State College.

ROBERT CLELAND graduated from Texas A&M in 1948, later earning an S.M.and a Ph.D.from MIT. He traveled to the

University of Leiden in the Netherlands as a Fulbright research scholar from 1958 to 1959. From then until the time he joined the Dartmouth chemistry faculty in 1960, Cleland was a U.S. Public Health Service special research fellow at the Retina Foundation, a medical research institute in Boston.

Rieser leaves us in peace.

Smallwood

Chemist Cleland.