Luce, Harris Named Faculty, Administration Give University Professors Two faculty members were named $3 Million to University Professors by the Board of Capital Campaign Trustees during their meeting last A total of 1,630 faculty and staff the country couldn't ask for a more month. They are Dr. Robert Duncan members of the University of Pennsyl- heartwarming vote of encouragement." Luce, professor of psychology, and Dr. vania have given $3,288,682 anony- It is hoped that by the May Trustees Zellig Harris, professor of linguistics. mously to its Development Program, meeting, at least 75 percent of the faculty University professorships were estab- Wilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the and staff will have participated. lished at Pennsylvania in 1961 to honor University's trustees, announced in Leading the appeal among the aca- those faculty members who are particu- December. demic faculties is Dr. George 'W. Taylor, larly distinguished in scholarship and It is believed that this is the larg- Harnwell Professor of Industry and whose contributions to knowledge have est amount ever contributed by any noted labor mediator; among the medical been made in more than one discipline, faculty and administration to a campaign faculties, Dr. Richard H. Chamberlain, rather than in a narrow field of speciali- of this kind. Over 50 percent have con- chairman of the Radiology Department zation. Dr. Luce and Dr. Harris are the tributed to the campaign. in the School of Medicine; and among eighth and ninth scholars to be named Gillen said the faculty-staff gifts had the administrative staff, Dr. Donald S. University Professors. given the campaign "its greatest inspira- Murray, assistant to the president for Dr. Luce was graduated from Massa- tional lift." federal relations and professor of chusetts Institute of Technology with a "Our teachers and supporting staff statistics. B.S. in aeronautical engineering and ob- have told us in a most convincing way (continued on page 4) tained his Ph.D. in mathematics there that they believe in what we are doing," five years later. Before coming to Penn- he commented. "They set their own sylvania in 1959, he held positions at quota of $3,000,000. Having topped it, Appropriations Approved MIT, Columbia University and Har- they are shooting for more. Our vol- State appropriations to the University, vard. (continued on page 2) unteer workers and donors throughout totaling $11,227,845, were approved by the Legislature in the closing hours of its 1967 session. Limits The amount represents a five percent Proposal University Research reduction in the amounts recommended by Governor Shafer in his budget mes- To Which Are Publishable sage last spring. The cuts produced final Projects allocations of $2,004,800 to the School A proposal limiting University re- or revised to exclude such a requirement of Medicine; $1,352,800 to the School of search to projects whose results are pub- as rapidly as possible; in no event will Veterinary Medicine; $95,000 to the lishable was passed 106 to 35 by the any such contract or grant be renewed or University Museum; and $7,775,245 to Faculty Senate at their meeting Novem- extended for more than one year beyond the general operating fund of the Uni- ber 27. its present expiration, nor in any case versity. The bill, earlier adopted by the Uni- beyond June 30, 1970. The appropriations are for the 1967- versity Council, was proposed by Law The policy statement sets up new 68 fiscal year, which began last June School professor Paul Mishkin. Mish- proceduresthe in accepting, carrying out, 30th. Approval hadby been delayed kin is chairman of the Committee on publicizing and administrating research political deadlock over revenue measures Implementing University Policy in the projects. required to produce the funds. Conduct of Research Programs which The University, the statement says, State appropriations represent about 8 produced the policy statement. as a corporate entity" can accept only percent of the University's total operat- According to the statement, all exist- external research contracts "whose prin- ing income, but a substantially larger ing contracts of grants requiring formal cipal purpose is to produce results which proportion of the "core" budget for basic security notification will be phased out (continued on page 3) educational expenses.

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Council To Have Students Alumni Seminars Fels Institute Studies On Three Committees Prove Successful Use of System Analysis the A demonstration to evaluate The University Council voted Decem- Academic seminars conducted by project the use of advanced of ber 13 to admit undergraduate represent- University for alumni in Puerto Rico techniques sys- in atives to membership on three of its have proved so successful, similar sessions tems analysis solving major urban be held in other cities across the has been undertaken the committees-undergraduate affairs, plan- may problems by Fels Institute of Local and State Gov- fling and development, and continuing country. ernment its education and community services. The seminars, held December 1 and 2 through Government Studies The Council's action will allow two in San Juan, were conducted under the Center. The year-long project, which is student representatives to sit on each auspices of the Alumni Relations office. funded by a grant from the U. S. De- of and Urban Devel- of the committees. Only one student vote Eight faculty members participated, in- partment Housing is conducted in per committee will be allotted. However, cluding President Harnwell. opment, being cooperation with International non-voting students on each committee One of the most successful enterprises the City Managers Association, the American of will succeed to voting positions the fol- of this nature planned by the University, Society Officials, and the National Bu- lowing year. the Seminars drew over 800 participants Planning reau of Standards. Student representatives on the Com- in their two-day program. Approxi- According to Charles P. Cella, Ad- mittees had been recommended October mately 35 percent of those attending ministrator of the Government Studies 5 by the University Forum, an advisory were alumni and the rest interested Center, the will include two one- group of students, faculty and admin- business, government, and education project week for selected istrators. On November 22 the Steering leaders. symposia city managers and urban planning directors. Controlled Committee of the University Council The idea of the seminars originated experiments will be conducted involving voted to recommend the proposal. with alumni in Puerto Rico (numbering governmental policy bodies, city execu- 400) who wanted to sponsor an educa- tives and staff, faculty members of uni- tional which would be non- program versities near the cities chosen for the University Professors fundraising. A year's planning went into experiments, and research staff of the (continued from page 1) the seminars which from eight ranged Government Studies Center. Dr. Luce is considered one of the fore- labor relations to the cultural heritage The first of the symposia was held most theoretical in the and future of Puerto Rico. psychologists at the Municipal Services Building in members in the world today. He has done extensive re- Faculty taking part Philadelphia, November 12-17, with fif- included Dr. Irwin Friend, search in the application of mathematical program pro- teen city managers and sixteen planning in the social and behavioral fessor of economics and finance, who techniques directors from cities throughout the sciences, in and in the seminar on recent particularly game theory participated United States attending. in the U.S. financial mar- utility theory. The author of over 69 developments At the second symposium, to be held ket; Dr. Dan McGill, chairman and journal articles and numerous books, in August or September of 1968, results he is a member of the of of insurance, who Society Experi- professsor participated of the experimental projects will be eval- mental Psychologists and the American in two seminars, one entitled "Insurance uated and recommendations formulated. Academy of Arts and Sciences. -Property, Liability & Casualty" and Dr. Harris has been a member of the the other entitled 'Life Insurance"; and faculty since 1931 and received his B.A., Dr. Froelich Rainey, Director of the Robert McCorkle Dies; M.A., and Ph.D. here. He was the first University Museum who spoke at lunch chairman of the reconstituted Depart- and later took part in the seminar on the Head of Printing Office ment of Linguistics and served as such cultural heritage and future of Puerto Robert C. McCorkle, director of the for fifteen years. Rico. University's Printing Office since 1963, Dr. Harris has been concerned with Others participating included Dr. died November 16 at Graduate Hospital methods used in structural linguistics and Reavis Cox, professor of marketing, after being stricken at work the previous his work helped lay the groundwork for who took part in the seminar on market- morning. He was 36. transformational grammar. Particularly ing; Dr. John Lubin, director of the Before becoming Printing Office di- interested in the mathematical analysis Computer Center and associate professor rector, McCorkle was associated with of linguistic structure, Dr. Harris is cur- of industry who dealt with computeriza- A. Pomerantz & Co., printers, in Phila- rently attempting to convert chemical tion; Dr. Howard Mitchell, director and delphia. From 1955 to 1957 he was a notation into linear form and is respon- professor of Human Resources Program compositor at The Wistar Institute and sible for developing a research project who took part in the seminar on sociology in 1957 joined the printing office as as- on information retrieval that has been and human relations; and Walter Isard, sistant production manager later becom- going on for several years under federal chairman and professor of regional sci- ing production manager. auspices. ence who along with Drs. Friend, Cox, McCorkle was active in organizing Dr. Harris is a former President of and Mitchell participated in the semi- the American Association of College and the Linguistics Society of America, a nar entitled, "Some Aspects of Invest- University Printers. He received the past editor for the American Oriental ment in the Petrochemical Industry in Associate in Business Administration de- Society and a member of several other Puerto Rico." President Harnwell dis- gree from the University's 'Wharton organizations including the American cussed universities and their obligations School of Finance and Commerce eve- Philosophical Society. to the community at dinner the first day. ning division in 1961.

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Procedures Outlined for Conducting Research Projects (continued front page 1) ance, nor will it exercise any initiative All rules permitting classified theses clearance for such a r dissertations or research in will be freely publishable in the ordinary in seeking person. prepara- ion thereof shall be at once, manner of open research. . The statement also asks that faculty repealed members make effort to eliminate ut without prejudice to any student now The only acceptable restrictions, it every classified work from research mbarked upon such a project. notes, deal with protection of the iden- leading toward academic In view of the foregoing, the state- tity of a sponsor and of his privileged degrees. rnent "The will no input data according to normal standards says, University have 'the need to know' the con- of professional ethics. Longer tent of any classified input data received The University will consider permit- Government Agencies D individually responsible professors." ting delay but not denial of publication Abandon Secret Funding The allows for a period not to exceed one year for policy University faculty Twenty-one Government agencies to collaborate with commercial and in- patent purposes and not to exceed three pledged last month to abandon secret dustrial concerns, that all months for purposes of receiving a spon- providing funding of academic research on foreign uch work is the sor's comment on a publication. approved by department countries. :hairman, dean of the school and Provost The policy prohibits funding agencies released an In a report by inter-agency r appropriate vice-president. from exercising influence in the selection committee of the State 14 Department, The commercial firm is limited in the or promotion of faculty members, formu- guidelines were outlined aimed at clari- research imount of publicity it can give Uni- lating policy, or supervising any fying the use of government money in versity-involved projects. at the University. support of scholarly research. Among The statement includes the The University, however, may invite the rules laid down was the statement provision, formulated in earlier statements, allow- an outside agency to give advice on its that "the fact of government research for to the operations. support should always be acknowledged ing exceptions general policy and researcher." in national emergencies or in response The Federal government is required to by sponsor, university The have been to urgent needs. operate under the restrictions required principles accepted by the Central and for the execution of of all other agencies. The statement Intelligence Agency Responsibility calls the combination of the "scale and other intelligence branches as well as University research policy is delegated to the Vice Provost for scope of Government research activities major government departments (such Research (cur- as Health, Education and Welfare and rentl Dr. a special problem." John Hobstetter) who acts the National Science Foundation) in- with The statement refers to the former the advice of a faculty committee volved in support of academic research on research the policy-whereby the University was policy (presently joint in the social and behavioral sciences. Council-Senate Committee on treated as a company able to negotiate Imple- Projects involving the natural sciences Policy in the Con- conventional industrial-government con- menting University are not covered the nor is of tracts after clearance" by guidelines duct Research Programs). receiving "facility research that does not involve -as a source of conflict. foreign It is the duty of the Vice Provost areas. The new policy limits the involvement to submit for consideration by that com- The code does not have the legal au- of in industrial- mittee any proposed research contracts University personnel thority of an Executive order and con- work to an indivi- or grants which may raise any question government "strictly tains no provisions for enforcement. dual of non-compliance. capacity." Officials expressed the belief, however, and students "University personnel that having publicly endorsed the code classified data for who require access to no agency could safely continue a prac- Thomas Woody Library more effective pursual of their academic tice that has spread confusion and re- Dedicated in Dietrich research may, as individuals, apply for sentment in this country and abroad. The Thomas Woody Memorial Li- and receive security clearances and there- Among other points in the statement brary and Seminar Room, named for fore become individually responsible for of principles are the following: the late Dr. Woody of the School of classified data under applicable federal " The Government must not do any- Education, was dedicated November 30 statutes. In their individual capacity thing that would call into question the in the Penniman of Dietrich. they may prepare classified or restricted integrity of academic institutions. Library Mrs. was reports for sponsoring agencies. Faculty *Agencies should encourage open Woody present. members are urged to make this decision publication of the results of Govern- Dr. Woody, a member of the faculty with great care, however, since it is ment-sponsored research, though the for 41 years, was an educational histor- clear that restrictions on their ability "practical needs of the nation in the ian interested in comparative education. to communicate freely with colleagues, modern world" may require some The seminar room will be reserved for research students and classes may result secrecy. students both in the history of education in their diminished participation in the " Research projects should be designed and in comparative education. academic community." to advance general knowledge as well as Dr. Roy F. Nichols, emeritus professor The University will in no event re- meet immediate policy needs. of history, gave the main address, and " quire or suggest that any faculty member, The Government agency must in- James C. House, sculptor and associate student, academic or policy-making body form the scholarly institutions of the professor of fine arts, spoke on the art- officer obtain Government security clear- use to be made of the research. ist's conception of Thomas Woody.

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Capital Campaign In Third Year; 76% of Goal Reached (continued from page 1) Matter, buildings for the Graduate science; buildings for medical teaching School of Education, the School of Social and research and oral health sciences; Last month marked the third anniver- Work, the Psychology Department, the additional squash courts, and an addition sary of the campaign for $93,000,000 Moore School of Electrical Engineering, to James M. Skinner Hall, the Faculty for new buildings and endowment. and the physical sciences; Stiteler Hall, Club. The old main building of the Law Nearly 76 percent of the goal has been auditorium and classroom building; the School is being converted into a legal reached, Gillen reported. He said Dietrich Graduate Library Center; library and research center; Bennett $70,537,452 had been received from the Franklin Building, housing Uni- Hall, a classroom building, is being ren- alumni, parents, other friends, founda- versity service departments, and the Ber- ovated as headquarters for the English tions, business, and University personnel. nard F. Gimbel Gymnasium. Department. Dr. P. Harnwell, president, Gaylord A fine arts building will be completed The $93,000,000 goal is based on said the campaign had enabled the Uni- early in 1968 and the William M. I-loll- objectives requiring $58,000,000 in pri- versity to make a normal decade's pro- enback Center for military science and vate funds in the academic, or non- gress in three years. athletics next spring. medical, areas of the University and "We can see a materializing campus Under construction also are a center $35,000,000 in the medical sciences and such as once might have been thought for economics, sociology and regional health professions. in a as as Phila- impossible city large William L. Day, chairman of the he observed. "We have reached delphia," First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust the where the in point remaining gaps Company, heads the campaign for the the are outnumbered its Butler, Evans Direct program by academic objectives. Thomas A. Brad- achievements. Now we are to ready Development Programs shaw, president of the Provident Mutual close the gaps." Two new appointments in the develop- Life Insurance Company, is chairman of Ten have been major campus buildings ment office were recently announced. the medical campaign. completed and eight others started- John P. Butler, III, has been named di- Gillen expressed hope that the aca- many of them with the help of state and rector of annual giving at the University demic goal would be reached next spring federal the campaign was agencies-since and James D. Evans, Jr., has been named and the medical goal within the fol- announced November 29, 1964, Gillen director of the bequest and deferred lowing year. reported. In addition, 20 new professor- gifts program. have been or endowed. ships fully partly Butler is a native of Philadelphia, A of a corollary goal $2,000,000 year a 1955 graduate of St. Joseph's Prepara- in annual for current IBM Matchmaking giving operations tory School, and a 1959 graduate of the "one he said. is only step away," Yearly University of Pennsylvania. Proves Profitable use reached gifts for current $1,904,000 He joined the University development Two University of Pennsylvania sen- 30, a in the year ended last June gain staff in 1962. Prior to his new appoint- iors donated the proceeds of their non- of 39 since the percent Development ment, he served as, successively, assistant profit electronic matchmaking service- was announced. Program to the director of annual giving and pro- $93.50-to the University's Alumni In what Gillen called "other examples ject director, Capital Campaign Office, Annual Giving Campaign last month. of family loyalty," the University's pre- with responsibility for Philadelphia and Kenneth Furst, 21, and his partner, former trustees have sent and given the western and southern divisions of Abe Shore, 21, cleared that amount by alumni, $15,400,000 and Pennsylvania the U.S. While assistant to the director finding dates for 245 Pennsylvania un- including trustees, have contributed of annual giving, he was active in the dergraduates at 40 cents per match. $21,970,594. establishment and administration of the Every applicant to their Computer Dat- National foundations have given Committee for a Greater Pennsylvania. ing Service received the name of at least $10,844,500; corporations, $8,722,532; Evans joined the University staff in one suitable member of the opposite sex, parents of students, $174,470; and other 1960 as business administrator of the and some as many as eight. friends of the University, $13,520,024. chemistry department. In 1963, he was IBM lent time on a 7040 computer for In addition, $12,006,650 has been re- appointed assistant to the dean of the the high-speed matchmaking, and the ceived in bequests for program objectives. Law School for alumni affairs and de- boys designed the questionnaire, debugged The campaign totals do not include velopment. Prior to joining the Uni- the program and hired clerical help. To grants from public agencies. Gillen said versity, he served as president of the guard identities they gave each client a "partnership" of the General State Schuylkill Transit Company. a number, and in difficult cases they Authority of Pennsylvania with the Uni- In his new position, Evans aids bene- managed to achieve matches by choosing versity's private benefactors had been a factors of the University to establish which qualifications to make expendable. key factor in the progress of the building life income agreements, charitable trusts, Furst is a finance and accounting program. He said construction grants and bequests. major in the Wharton School, and Shore had also been received from various Evans is a native of Haverford and is a chemistry major in the College. Both federal agencies. was graduated from the Haverford registered with their own service, they The ten buildings erected since the School in 1940. He received a B.A. in said, but were too busy running the oper- campaign was announced are the Lab- 1944 from the University of Pennsyl- ation to take time to call the girls their oratory for Research on the Structure of vania, where he majored in economics. computerized "Dolly" found for them.

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1966-67 Fiscal Reports Authority Will Aid Penn To Build Low-Cost Housing Governor Raymond P. Shafer last sylvania Association of Colleges and "Illuminate a Paradox" month signed a bill creating the Penn- Universities. sylvania Education Facilities Stuart Carroll, Secretary of the Cor- The University of Pennsylvania last Higher which will facilitate the ac- poration, represented the University at month issued formal financial reports for Authority of low-cost student the bill's signing and presented the Gov- the fiscal year 1966-67 which, in the quisition housing by the ernor with a letter from President Ham- words of President Gaylord P. Ham- University. well thanking Shafer for his leadership well, "illuminate a paradox." The bill creates an organization sim- in getting the bill passed. "On the one hand are signs of growth, ilar to the New York State Dormitory evidence of the University's successful Authority, which has helped private col- pursuit of its mission," Dr. Harnwell leges and universities in New York to Students Receive said. "On the other is an increase in the construct more than $400 million in new of $12 Million in Aid gap between revenues and the costs facilities since 1955. The new Authority Students at the University received a operation." has the power to acquire land, construct, record $12 million in financial aid dur- Gifts, bequests, and grants from pri- improve and furnish buildings, operate ing the 1966-67 academic year, with vate sources totaled $21,013,944, second projects and lease and dispose of them. more than half of all full-time students highest in the University's history. The As explained by the Governor's receiving some assistance according to a figure was topped only by the previous office, the new Authority will not be report released by the office of student year's record of $23,494,228. limited to constructing housing units but financial aid. Almost 5,000 students in Current operating income increased will be able to finance and construct the graduate divisions and schools, pro- by more than $16 million over the pre- varied projects for non-profit institu- fessional schools, and special programs vious year, reaching $117,988,268. But tions and universities. received aid while 1,000 undergraduates current increased more expenditures by received aid equal to or exceeding full than $17 million, totaling $119,673,540. Under the terms of the bill, the tuition and fees. As a result, the deficit rose would float the bonds neces- operating Authority Preliminary reports for the 1967-68 from in 1965-66 to $1.685,272 to finance each and would $872,769 sary project academic year indicate that approxi- for 1966-67. then lease it to the school it. sponsoring mately 55 per cent of the incoming fresh- "a Dr. Harnwell, noting progressive The bill includes a clause that allows man class are receiving financial aid. from a shift in our operating position the Authority, with the consent of the The report notes that some of the in- modest five to a sub- surplus years ago schools involved, to combine the reserves crease in aid was partially due to revised deficit," declared that "this is a stantial out of lease rentals and divide them as College Scholarship Service (CSS) situation now familiar to all independent needed among the participating colleges. standards to provide financial aid to more colleges and universities, not excepting students from "middle income" families. The bill not only had the Governor's the most distinguished and most gener- The new CSS standards, scheduled for support but was also backed by the Penn- ously endowed." nationwide application with the class en- He attributed the problem in part to tering next autumn, have been in effect the response of colleges and universities at the University for two years. CSS "The critical years which have been to society's demands for "an increasing standards for student financial aid are forecast for at least a decade are now range of services, each rendered at a used by over 900 colleges and univer- here," Dr. Harnwell said. loss," and in part to increases in basic quite clearly sities. call for educational costs "at a rate which out- 'They the most conscientious "Students from 'middle-income' famil- strips the rise in available income from stewardship on the part of our institu- ies, those with income available for uses such sources as tuition and endowment." tions of higher learning, and they call other than maintenance of the household, also for "Students are no longer able to pay energetic and imaginative ap- frequently need financial aid because of the proportion of the cost which has in proaches to the problem of their support." special family expenses," explained the past been considered their fair share," The $21,013,944 in gifts, grants, and Douglas R. Dickson, director of student "At Dr. Harnwell said. the University bequests included those designated for financial aid at the University. "This more than half the full- of Pennsylvania, purposes other than current operating does not mean that families previously time students are financial for financial aid will receive receiving costs. The total represented more than eligible any assistance; increase in tuition requires less aid. Rather, this is an over-all ex- any 38,000 individual gifts, of which some a commensurate increase in the aid the pansion of the student financial aid 35,000 came from alumni. They ranged pro- receive. gram," he said. from the Ford Foundation's $4,000,000 The University's financial report The principal source of new financial for acceleration of Ph.D. programs in showed income of in tuition aid this was an increase of more $26,251,005 the humanities and social sciences to year and fees, an increase of about $3.5 mil- than $1 million in funds token contributions of a dollar or even budgeted by lion over the previous year. Expenditures the University. Commonwealth Scholar- for salaries totaled $65,507,757, an in- ships for members of the classes of 1969 crease of $8.4 million, while scholarships, Almost 31 percent of the total was and 1970 accounted for an increase of fellowships, and other student aid cost contributed by alumni. Other individ- approximately $300,000 and a federal $8,881,546 as compared to $6,523,009 uals gave about 22 percent, foundations Educational Opportunity Grant pro- in 1965-66. 33 percent and corporations 14 percent. vided an additional $76,800.

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Demand for Teachers, Sculpture From Solomons Dr. Roland Appointed Administrators Rises On Display at Museum Chairman of Neurology released from the Division A report Sculpture from the Eastern Solomon Dr. Lewis P. Rowland, a neurologist Placement indicates that of Educational Islands is now being shown in the Uni- who is widely known for his work on the and school ad- the demand for teachers versity Museum and will continue to be biochemical bases of inherited neurologic ministrators is increasing rapidly. on display through May. The pieces disorders, has assumed the post of chair- to Marette assistant According Quick, comprise a collection made by Dr. Wil- man and professor of neurology at the of and S. director placement, Ralph liam H. Davenport, curator of the Mu- University's School of Medicine. teacher counselor, Dierkens, placement seum's Oceania Section, who spent 14 Dr. Rowland also directs the neu- over 15,000 vacancies were reported to months living in the Solomons. rology department's Biomedical Center their office last year for elementary and Most of the 125 objects are religious for Clinical Neurological Disorders and secondary teachers. More than 1,000 and ritual pieces, including a dozen is chairman of the faculty committee job openings were reported for two-year large house posts carved to depict sacred charged with organizing a new inter- colleges and 7,550 university and admin- legends and myths; ritual food bowls departmental course in neurobiology in istrative jobs were available. used in communion rites with pagan the medical school. They point out that opportunities were deities; and commemorative sclupture The new chairman comes from Co- especially good for those interested in for the dead. lumbia University's College of Phy- school administration, particularly in the collection a sicians and Surgeons where he was pro- elementary, secondary, junior and com- Although represents traditional back hundreds of fessor of neurology. A member of the munity colleges. Because administrative style going some of the were commis- Columbia faculty since 1953, Dr. Row- vacancies in two-year colleges demand years, pieces sioned Dr. and land was Co-director of the Neurological less specialized competence and a broader by Davenport produced and artisans. The source Clinical Research Center at Columbia- base of academic preparation, increased by native artists of each and its fabrication and Presbyterian Medical Center for the placements were made in the general object mak- six areas of social sciences and physical iconography are well documented, past years. sciences. ing this one of the very few exhibitions of Coming to the University with Dr. art to be in the Rowland are Dr. Donald L. Positions in 41 fields of college teach- primitive presented neurologists United States for which the complete Schotland, associate Dr. ing and administration were reported to professor; cultural and uses Leon assistant and the office. Although the greatest number background, meanings Prockop, professor; of the as well as information on Drs. Penn and William Bank, of vacancies in college teaching were in objects, Audrey the artists, are known in detail. instructors. Dr. Schotland is a the field of education, the greatest in- cytologist and electron Dr. crease of jobs occurred in economics and microscopist. Prockop's fluid; he the various fields of applied economics. research concerns cerebrospinal will be in of the medical school's Average salaries for college teaching charge Publication Available clinical service at appointments in 1966-67 were $9,278 neurology Philadelphia General for men and $7,984 for women. Salaries The National Research Council has Hospital. ranges for men excluding administrative issued a publication, Fellowship and Re- appointments, were from $6,000 to search Opportunities in the Mathemat- $16,500; for women, from $5,800 to ical Sciences, listing awards available, $12,400. their closing dates and all other pertinent Saunders Receives information. It is available free from Gold Medal Award Dead; the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Dr. Sevag, 70, Is National Research Council, 2101 Con- Stuart T. Saunders, chairman of the the Railroad Famed Microbiologist stitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. board of Pennsylvania Company, received the eighteenth annual Dr. Manasseh G. emeritus pro- 20418. Sevag, Gold Medal Award of the Wharton fessor of medical microbiology at the School Alumni Society November 29 for and a researcher in drug- University and in the of sub- his ". . . in the resistant bacteria died November 23 at catalysis development distinguished leadership stances to prevent germs from resisting promotion of public understanding of the age of 70. drugs. He was the author of more than business, for his inspired performance in Dr. Sevag came to the United States 125 scientific papers and a contributor management, and for his personal con- in 1920 after earning a B.A. degree from to three textbooks. tributions to American business and St. Paul's College in Tarsus, Armenia. education." He attended Yale University for a year He was a fellow of the New York higher named chairman of the and received his Ph.D. in organic chem- Academy of Sciences and the American Saunders was istry from Columbia University in 1929. Association for the Advancement of Sci- board and chief executive officer of the After spending four years as a Rocke- ences and was a charter member of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in feller Fellow at the Robert Koch Insti- American Academy of Microbiology. In 1963. He is a director of two dozen tute in Berlin, he was appointed research 1965 he was one of the first foreign mem- companies, corporations, and founda- associate in bacteriology at the Univer- bers elected to the American Academy of tions, a board member of several colleges sity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Sciences. He founded the Armenian His- and educational foundations, and holds Dr. Sevag's primary research was in torical Research Association in 1963 and honorary degrees from ten colleges and the field of bacterial physiology, immuni- served as its first president. universities.

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The award for excellence in education was presented to him by Governor other Shafer at a dinner in Pittsburgh. Among things... Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid, profes- sor of chemistry, received the sixth Philadelphia Section Award of the AUTHORS: for the academic year 1968-69. Dr. Za- American Chemical Society at their Dr. Tristram P. Coffin, professor wodny will spend this spring semester at meeting in the University Museum last for In- of English, edited a collection of essays the Harvard University Center October. His award address was entitled, entitled An Introduction to American ternational Studies. "Silicon Chemistry - Is it Pseudo- to Folklore published by Basic Books this Dr. Donald S. Murray, assistant Organic?" month. Members of the faculty contrib- the president for federal relations, has Dr. Stuart W. Churchill, Carl V. uting to this book, based on the broad- been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the S. Patterson Professor of Chemical En- cast of a Voice of America Forum Series Eastern Association of College and Uni- gineering, received a citation from the on American Folklore, are Dr. G. Mal- versitv Business Officers. American Institute of Chemical Engi- associate in colm Laws, professor of English; Dr. Dr. Richard Kaplan, neers in November in recognition of his Don Yoder, associate professor of re- orthopedic surgery, was elected President six years of service as Director. In addi- of the State last fall. ligious thought; Dr. Kenneth S. Gold- Orthopedic Society tion, Dr. Churchill recently gave two More he read a at the stein, associate professor of folklore and recently, paper talks, one at a Graduate Seminar at 42nd of the Pan folklife; Dr. Hennig Cohen, professor Anniversary Congress Lehigh University and the other at a American Medical Association in Buenos of English; and the late Dr. MacEd- Graduate Colloquium at the Polytech- Aires entitled, "A of the Insertion ward Leach, emeritus professor of Study nque Institute of Brooklyn. of the Muscle." English. Semimembranosus A composition by George Rochberg, Dr. Edward P. Hutchinson, pro- chairman and professor of music, was re- HONORS: fessor of sociology, is the author of a cently performed by the Philadelphia Dr. Herman P. Schwan, new book entitled The Population De- professor Orchestra in the Academy of Music. of electrical received the Entitled bate, published by Houghton Mifflin engineering, "Zodiac," it was the first local Morlock Award of and Med- Company. Two other members of the Biological performance of the 12-cycle piece. ical for his contributions to after its sociology department have contributed Engineering Shortly performance here, the the field at the 20th Annual journal articles. Dr. Edward P. Fried- Conference composition was given its New York on in Medicine and by the orchestra a man, assistant professor, had his paper Engineering Biology premiere during guest "Age, Life of Institutionalization and held in Boston last November. Later in engagement at New York Philharmonic the month, he a lecture on Bio- Hall in Lincoln Center. Social Status in a Home for the Aged," presented and Medical at the published in the Journal of Gerontology. logical Engineering at But- TRAVELERS & Another paper, "Correlates of Marital International Meeting Harcourt SPEAKERS: ler Dr. Morton J. Selection" written by Dr. William M. Technological Institute in Kampur, Schussheim, profes- India. sor of initiated the second Kephart, professor, appeared in the city planning, Dr. Albert P. Seltzer, associate Journal of Marriage and the Family. Community Leadership Seminar for of at the Grad- business and civic leaders Dr. Thomas C. Cochran, professor professor otolaryngology at Wilkes Col- uate School of Medicine, of history, and Dr. A. Irving Hallo- and chief of lege, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in Oc- and reconstructive at St. tober. for the Seminar was well, emeritus professor of anthropol- plastic surgery Topic "Plan- ogy, were members of the Editorial Ad- Luke's and Children's Medical Center, ning for What ?" Dr. Schussheim also was honored the at in the visory Board for the new International by hospital recently participated conference of the In- a where an of his stitute of Medical Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences to be banquet unveiling por- Climatology in Phila- trait took Presented the medi- later in the month. His published in 1968 by Crowell Collier place. by delphia subject cal staff, the will be in was "The Social Climate of and Macmillan Company. In addition, portrait placed Cities." the Miss H. Bardman, twenty-eight faculty members are con- hospital lobby. Faye instructor tributors to the work. Dr. Thorsten Sellin, emeritus pro- in Women's Physical Education, was a fessor of sociology, received the insignia member of the United States Field and diploma of a Grand Officer of the Hockey Team which toured Germany APPOINTMENTS: Royal Order of the North Star at a din- in September and participated in the In- Dr. Otto Pollak, professor of sociol- ner given by the Ambassador of Sweden ternational Field Hockey Tournament ogy, has been appointed a member of in Washington, D.C. The Swedish and Conference held in Levurkusen, Task Force No. 4 of the joint Commis- Minister of justice presented the award Germany. sion on Mental Health for Children. to Dr. Sellin on behalf of his govern- Lt. Col. George F. Sawyer, pro- Dr. Lawrence D. Sher, assistant ment. Dr. Sellin also recently addressed fessor of military science, participated in professor of biomedical sciences, is cur- an International Colloquium on Capital a Reserve Officers Training Corps Con- of rently visiting profesor electrical en- Punishment held at the University of ference at the National War College at gineering at Pahlavi University in Iran. Coimbra, Portugal. Fort McNair last November to discuss Dr. J. K. Zawodny, professor of Dr. Roy F. Nichols, emeritus pro- and exchange views on current plans, po- science, has been invited political to be- fessor of history, was one of nine men tential problem areas, and continuing come Senior Member Associate of St. honored in November by the Governor's improvement of ROTC programs. Anthony's College, Oxford University, Committee of 100,000 Pennsylvanians. (continued on next page)

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ulation Studies Center, participated in a val Germanic literature at the University workshop on international demographic of Cincinnati in November. ilmong other things.. training supported by the United Na- Dr. Karl Rickels, associate professor tions' Technical Assistance Bureau and of psychiatry, chaired a symposium on Dr. David Solomons, professor of held in Denmark. Dr. Whitney also "Antineurotic Agents" and was one of accounting, presented a paper at a Sym- chaired two luncheon panels on fertility the principal speakers at the 6th Annual posium on Financial Reporting by Con- and mobility at the meetings of the Meeting of the American College of glomerate Companies which was held at American Sociological Association in San Neuropsychopharmacology held in San Tulane University in November. He also Francisco. He later presented a state- Juan, Puerto Rico last month. presented a paper on the same topic to ment to a special meeting on religion Dr. Daniel Perlmutter, professor of the Annual Meeting of the American and fertility and participated in a work- chemical engineering, presented a paper Accounting Association held at Pennsyl- shop on the plans for an enlarged social entitled "Bounding Chemical Reactor vania State University at the end of science program in UNESCO. Transients by Estimation of Growth or August. Dr. S. R. Pollack, associate profes- Decay Rates" at the Annual Meeting of Dr. Johannes Ipsen, professor of sor of metallurgy and materials science, the American Institute of Chemical En- epidemiology and medical statistics and and Mr. Michael Mmdcl, graduate gineers in New York last November. He acting chairman of the Department of student, presented a paper "Low Tem- was also chairman of a symposium on Public Health and Preventive Medicine, perature Oxidation of Titanium Films" reactor dynamics and control. Earlier, participated in a three day meeting of at the fall meeting of the Metallurgical Dr. Perimutter presented three talks, the New York Academy of Sciences Society, AIME, in Cleveland. one on "Stability of Distributed Param- with the Working Group on "Epide- Dr. Hsuan Yeh, director of the eter Reactor" at both the University of miology of Air Pollution and Human Towne School of Civil and Mechanical Massachusetts and Yale and the other, Disease." Twenty participants from the Engineering, served as the chairman of "Reactor Stability and Control," at the United States and twelve from abroad a session on "Energetics" at the Winter New Jersey section of the American In- took part. Dr. Ipsen opened the discus- Annual Meeting of the American Society stitute of Chemical Engineering. sion on "Episodic Morbidity and Mor- of Mechanical Engineers in Pittsburgh tality in Relation to Air Pollution." in November. At the same Dr. meeting, The 4lmanac is published Dr. Paul M. Lloyd, associate profes- Paul of mechani- Trumpler, professor monthly during the academic year sor of romance languages, attended the cal a to- engineering, presented paper by the University for the infor- International Conference on Biblio- with an for In- gether advisory engineer mation of its faculty and staff. graphical Form and Style held at Penn- ternational Business Machines on Corp. Suggested news items should State last month. the of sylvania University "Dynamics Synchronous-Process- be sent the 5th of each month Dr. is by Lloyd a bibliographer in Rumani- ing Turborators with Particular Refer- to: an for the Modern Associa- ence to Language Balancing-Part 2-Applica- MRS. LINDA KooNs, Editor tion. tion." Dr. Manfred Altman, professor News Bureau Dr. S. Thomas, research of mechanical chaired Dorothy engineering, a ses- 3451 Walnut St. director of migration for Population sion on "New Approaches to Technical Studies Center, was a discussion leader and Information Meetings Retrieval." University of Pennsylvania at a conference on Internal Dr. Otto Migration Springer, dean of the Col- Printing Office and Urbanization in Bangkok, Thailand. lege, delivered the Taft Lectures in the Vincent H. Whitney, director of Pop- field of Germanic linguistics and Medie-

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