UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Volume October, 1967

Dr. Ross New Faculty Members Proposes Travel Under Undergraduate Concept Fulbright Program Student protest movements on the (the professors of the faculty of arts) Seven University faculty members will college campus, a commonplace phe- formally incorporated into four 'nations' be teaching and studying in Europe at nomenon of the American educational to their national Even- according origin. various times during the current aca- scene in the 1960's, should have as their the masters elected a common rec- tually demic year under the U. S. Department the creation of a tor who . . . took ceremonial goal "self-governing precedence of State's Fulbright international ex- and student over the of Paris, the intellectually responsible Bishop papal change program. the in the of community." legates, archbishop faculty They are among 700 college profes- Dr. F. Ross, chairman of the and the and James theology, royal municipal sors selected by the State Department to of and associate . . . . The with its department philosophy governments faculty participate in the program. of at the rector determined the of the professor philosophy, speaking policy uni- The professors come from several dif- 6 Exercises for the not unlike our own. September Opening versity-a system ferent schools and departments of the 1967-68 academic "This . a year (Pennsylvania's structure . . was natural University, and their specialties cover a 228th), this as a solution to suggested consequence of enemies outside the aca- wide range of interest. They will study the sense of alienation on the continuing demic community: the local townspeople, in six different European countries. of students at part many undergraduate church, and government, all wished to The Fulbright winners are: Pennsylvania and elsewhere. profit and increase their own power at -Dr. Claude Welch, chairman and "We cannot . . . retrench on commit- the of the students. Since the expense Berg Professor of religious thought and ments and made," Dr. masters at Paris were already wisely largely foreigners, associate dean of the College of Arts and Ross said. "Yet we cannot in the had to and long they incorporate themselves Sciences, will be a visiting lecturer in run within the univer- in a common institution keep pace present join together 19th century Protestant theology at the structure with the factors which with their students in order to combat sity University of Mama, Germany. He will the alienate and isolate the undergraduate. predators. go on leave next spring. Dr. Welch, an Somehow the sense of loneliness, imper- "In Bologna," Dr. Ross said, "things ordained Methodist minister, came to sonality and defenselessness, not to men- were different. The masters of the fac- Pennsylvania in 1960 from Yale Univer- tion conflict in must be coun- objectives, ulty of law, which was the heart of that sity Divinity School. He is the author of terbalanced in order to the un- preserve university, were local citizens and were numerous scholarly articles, and wrote dergraduate's status as a partner in ac- more likely to ally with the landlords, three books: "In This Name: The Doc- quiring and dispersing knowledge." tavern-keepers, and mayors than with trine of the Trinity in Contemporary Dr. Ross suggested that this might the students. So the students ... banded Theology"; "Protestant Christianity, In- best be the creation of accomplished by together, electing their own rector to de- terpretation Through Its Development" a viable student community based on fend themselves against masters and mu- (with John Dillenberger) ; and "The "the marriage of Paris and Bologna." nicipality. Students swore an oath to Reality of the Church." That is, by combining the best features of obey the rector, and the rector entered -Dr. André Malécot professor of the two types of Western universities as into negotiations with town and masters romance languages, will be doing re- they originally existed in the early 13th in full knowledge that should he com- search in French phonetics at the Univer- Century. mand a cessatio (a strike and withdrawal) sity of Paris. Dr. Malécot was born in "Paris was primarily an organization the university would close, the masters Paris, and has returned there before for of students and masters, with the masters (continued on page 2) (continued on page 5)

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(continued from page 1) was, at the start, an extension of the and self-regarding actions. would lose their income, and the munici- preparatory school; its obligation to form "Philosophers and political scientists intellectual life pality would lose its most profitable cus- the moral as well as the alike have rejected the 'self-regarding'-- tomers. After several cessationes ... the was taken as obvious by all, including 'other-regarding' dichotomy as artificial students gained complete legislative the students. The American college, like and misleading. It is a matter of em- in loco power over the course of study, the the preparatory school, stood pirical fact whether or not your actions hours, the appointment of masters and parentis." have or have not deleterious (or bene- ficial) effects the even over the private lives of the pro- Dr. Ross said that this is the first upon community. Ap- fesors. anachronism that must be discarded, peals to a doctrine of moral individualism "In the 13th Century, whatever the "both as an object of rebellion for the are irrelevant; such appeals produce a problems of poverty, language, and mu- student and as a model for explaining false division of the class of actions which should be by the students them- tual jealousy among the students, they the duties of faculty and administrators." regulated did not feel alienated; they did not find "In fact the college does not stand in selves; such appeals ignore the possibility a student self- the university an impersonal automaton, loco parentis; we are not surrogate par- of truly encompassing even though Paris probably had 30,000 ents; we do not accept formal responsi- government, and seek instead to separate members at one time and Bologna 10,- bility for your moral training beyond the a small class of activities from any regu- 000. That falsifies the common doctrine that institutional size inevitably and by itself causes individual isolation." Dr. Ross explained that his proposition for "a marriage of Paris and Bologna" as a means of solving the internal divi- sions within the modern university was made in an effort to "develop a new form of student community: a self-regulating student community." "I do not want to hand over to student experiment the vital educational function which identifies the university; but we should hand over enough important power and responsibility to create a gen- DR. F. ROSS, left, chairman of the of and associate uine undergraduate society, one that has JAMES department philosophy professor of philosophy, and Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, President of the University, an identifiable life-style, with esprit de principal speakers at 1967 Opening Exercises held September 6. corps and lifelong loyalty." even to such an effort, In order begin incidental function of giving advice and lation at all." Dr. Ross that suggested intelligent prem- the necessity of restraining student ex- Dr. Ross said that once these premises ises would have to be selected, mistaken periment within the broad boundaries (i.e., that the university is not a substi- and anachronistic ideas would have to be required for the existence of a community tute parent or surrogate police power and eliminated, and student activ- organized of scholars. that all students' actions on campus, even would have to be evaluated in terms ity "Faculty and students are a partner- study habits and class demeanor, are best of its contribution to the effort. ship of professionals. That means the considered as other-regarding) are ac- Discard Anachronisms student community should have its own cepted, steps can be taken to permit the "The reason why students have not mores, its own ethics, and its own sanc- students to undertake as large a measure had more to do and say in colleges, and tions; that is what we expect of any pro- of control as possible, given the overall especially a larger measure of self-gov- fessional group; it's illustrated by our objectives of the university. This, Dr. ernment, is that historically American honor system." Ross feels, is more than a transfer of colleges and universities are not repre- A second anachronism which Dr. Ross government; it is the creation of a social sentative of early continental university said must be discarded is "the exagger- unit. life, but derive from later periods when ated moral individualism which supposes "For a real undergraduate community student power had been eroded through that some student practices are not sub- will eventually have to have its physical governmental support of the institutions. ject to community regulation." He cited plant, its housing, its dining, and its li- "Although early American colleges last year's Report of the Advisory Com- brary facilities patterned appropriately were usually administered and staffed by mittee on Student Conduct at Brown for an autonomous community; it's worth clergy, they bore in this respect only University, which said that it is wholly our giving some thought to that in the superficial similarity to the medieval uni- unfounded to assume that human actions years when the physical plant is rapidly versities. . . . In America the college are usefully divided into other-regarding expanding. Life in such a community

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will have to be directed by a body of ate environment (social, cultural and in- will begin on ten more buildings. students who have genuine legislative and tellectual) in which to acquire his educa- "The buildings which are opening this executive power. The organization of tion. year include a major addition to our li- facilities, and that government needs also to be "Naturally a self-contained student brary and study painting planned." community cannot be realized without architecture studios, an exhibition gal- Pretests and SCUE considerable foresight; nor can it be real- lery, an olympic-sized swimming pool Large numbers of American students ized without a long-range view of the and . . . a centralization of the offices of are already doing what they can to realize physical problems concerned. But its evo- various supporting service activities which workable approximations of this ideal, lution will not advance until the students are at present ill-housed and widely scat- according to Dr. Ross. So far there have convince themselves that it can eventually tered." been two chief avenues of student activ- be completed. Personally, I believe it to Other projects presently under con- ity: student demonstrations and student be inevitable. We should put our heads struction include new faculty offices, stu- committees on undergraduate education, together to make student autonomy a dis- dent research laboratories, and new hous- both of which Pennsylvania has experi- tinguishing excellence of our own Uni- ing for the Law and Medical Libraries. enced. versity." Those scheduled to begin this year in- "I'm not against protest; occasional Pennsylvania's Progress clude one which will contain experi- protest serves to control the level of static In his Opening Exercises address, Dr. mental theatres, music rehearsal rooms, in the communications upward and down- Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the activities offices in the performing arts, ward in society; persons limited in power University, outlined some of the steps al- and a multi-purpose, thousand-seat have no other source of direct pressure ready taken along the lines envisaged by theatre; and others which will house upon those who hold it. In addition, Dr. Ross. squash courts, a center for the human- in protest is a ritual idiom of the college Concerning student participation ities, bowling alleys, more faculty offices, generation, dignified with eight centuries decision-making processes at Pennsyl- residential spaces, a new University book of antiquity. But like most tools, protest vania, Dr. Harnwell noted that their store, expanded quarters for the Depart- is dulled with overuse, or if used where role is becoming increasingly important. ments of Music, Economics, Regional there is no immediate and circumscribed "This is true not only in such tradi- Science, and Sociology, and an addition grievance which can be corrected by tional areas as extra-curricular activities, to the Faculty Club. swift action. You can't create a new which have long been the prerogative of "Probably our most urgent unmet need social reality by demonstration. Student Government and various joint is in the student housing area, where we "The second and more constructive committees, but also in areas of more im- must provide several thousand new units. contribution by students is illustrated by mediate concern such as curricular re- We are at present, with participation by The Report of the Student Commit- quirements and major study programs. faculty and students, studying various tee in Undergraduate Education (SCUE Undergraduates sit as members of the alternative means of bringing these into Report) here at Pennsylvania .... That Committee on Instruction of the College being and are considering what mix of was constructive work. It originated in and the equivalent in the College for single rooms, double rooms, housekeeping the same idealism which calls the student Women. apartments, and eating accommodations, to protest in urgent cases, but it exhibits "In the effort to improve communica- would be best suited to the diverse desires a visionary self-momentum which stimu- tion between various segments of the and requirements of our student popula- lates genuine innovation. University community and to allow for tion." "I think we need a renaissance of study in depth of problems of mutual concern, last the Forum SCUE, but with a new objective: to con- spring University Carr Is Director struct a workable program for an auto- was created, composed of undergraduates nomous and intellectually vital under- representative of various- interests, mem- William L. Carr has been appointed graduate student community; to create a bers of the faculty and of the administra- director of the University's Office of In- new self-image of the student, wherein tion. The Forum includes among its ternational Services. the individual gives up his hankering to members the President, the Provost and Carr has served as acting director of be a part of a paternalistic family of pro- a number of academic deans. Although the Office since last summer. Prior to fessors and students and replaces that it is chaired by the Vice Provost con- that time, he served as assistant director with pride in his student colleagues. cerned with student affairs, the chairman beginning in 1964. "I want the students to plan their of its Steering Committee is, by design, He holds a bachelor's degree in inter- society in such a way that when a young an undergraduate." national relations and a master's degree person comes to the University he won't In outlining the status of new addi- in counseling, both from Stanford Uni- expect to become a personal associate of tions to the University's physical plant, versity. Before coming to Pennsylvania, the professors (which is statistically im- Dr. Harnwell said that six new build- he served an internship at the Bechtel In- possible), but rather will expect to enter ings will be opening during the 1967-68 ternational Center at Stanford, and was a self-contained student community which academic year; four other major projects international student director of the In- owes him and provides him an appropri- are under construction; and construction tervarsity Christian Fellowship, U.S.A.

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Lindback Recipients FACULTY APPOINTMENTS For 1967 Are Named The appointments of Dr. John N. Dr. Stephen S. Prokopoff, director of Eight University faculty members Hobstetter, professor of metallurgical exhibitions for the Institute of Contem- were named recipients of Lindback engineering, as vice provost for research, porary Art; Dr. Paul L. Niebanck, assist- Foundation Awards at the University's and Dr. William B. Castetter, associate ant professor of city and regional 211th Commencement May 22. director of the Educational Research and planning. The $500 cash awards, given in rec- Service Bureau at the University, as ognition of outstanding teaching, are Laboratory for Research on the dean of the Graduate School of made funds received from the acting Structure of Matter: Dr. Louis A. possible by Education, a list of Christian R. and F. Lindback highlight long faculty Girifalco, director. Mary appointments and changes made during Foundation. the summer months. School of Medicine: Dr. Gordon The 1967 recipients are: Dr. Hobstetter, who came to the Uni- N. French, assistant professor of medi- Dr. Joseph Bordogna, the Otto A. and in cine and associate dean; Dr. T. versity 1958, received a doctor of James Clarence C. Winterstein Assistant Pro- science degree in from Har- Brennan, Matthew J. Wilson professor metallurgy fessor of Engineering at the Moore vard in 1946. He has been of research radiology; Dr. Harold I. University School of Electrical Engineering. director of the Laboratory for Research Lief, professor of psychiatry and director Dr. Kenneth S. Goldstein, assistant on the Structure of Matter since 1960. of that department's Division of Family professor of folklore in the Graduate Dr. Castetter succeeds Dr. Morris S. Study; Dr. James M. Sprague, chair- School of Arts and Sciences and secre- Viteles, who is returning to his work as man of the department of anatomy. tary-treasurer of the American Folklore professor of psychology and who will re- School of Social Work: Edgar A. Society. tire in 1968 after 50 years' service at the Perretz, professor of social work and Dr. Christian Lambertsen, University. J. profes- associate dean. Dr. Castetter, a member of the Penn- sor of pharmacology and experimental at the School of Medicine. sylvania faculty since 1948, received his Wharton School of Finance and therapeutics bachelor's and master's degrees from the Commerce: Dr. Carl J. Friedrich, Dr. Peter C. Nowell, professor of University of New Mexico and his doc- visiting professor of political science. pathology at the School of Medicine. torate from Pennsylvania. Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, Jr., professor Other faculty appointments announced of history in the College of Arts and include: Sciences. recently Sliabel Is Named Dr. A. Schwarz, of College of Arts and Sciences: Dr. Gabriel professor New Director Of at the School of Medicine. A. Orville Dahl, professor of botany and neurology director of the Morris Arboretum; Dr. Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Robert Summers, associate profes- Philip DeLacy, professor and chairman sor of economics at the Wharton School Fred A. Shabel has been appointed di- of the department of classical studies; of Finance and Commerce. rector of intercollegiate athletics at the Dr. Richard C. Jeffrey, professor of Dr. Burton Zweiman, associate in University of Pennsylvania. He assumed philosophy; Dr. James W. Cornman, Medicine at the School of Medicine. his new duties in July. associate professor of Dr. philosophy; Shabel was as assistant direc- Stuart W. Churchill, the first Carl V. S. serving tor of athletics at the University of Con- Patterson professor of chemical engineer- necticut and recently retired as head bas- Medical Building ing. ketball coach at that school after four Cornerstone Laid Graduate School of Arts and Sci- successful seasons. Three of his court A cornerstone laying July 11 was a ences: Dr. Thomas Naff, associate teams made the NCAA tourney and in significant step in the construction of the professor of Near Eastern history; Dr. 1964 Shabel was selected as New Eng- University's medical teaching and re- Hiroshi Miyaji, assistant professor of land Basketball Coach of the Year. search building, which is rising at 36th Japanese; Dr. Dan Ben-Amos, assistant A 1954 graduate of Duke University, Street and Hamilton Walk. professor of folklore; and Dr. Russell Shabel served for two years as an officer The six-story structure, which will K. McCormmach, assistant professor of in the Air Force, where he was chief of house the School of Medicine's library the history of science. education for the 9th Air Force. and many basic and clinical research After a year as a sales trainee with laboratories, is scheduled for Graduate School of Education: occupancy ESSO Standard Oil Company, Shabel in the autumn of 1968. It will be named Dr. Richard A. Gibboney, pro- visiting returned to Duke as an assistant basket- in honor of Gen. Robert Wood fessor of education; Dr. Arthur A. Dole, Johnson, ball coach. He served in that capacity for chairman of the finance committee of professor of education. six years, before being named head coach Johnson & Johnson and son of the found- Graduate School of Fine Arts: at Connecticut in 1963. er of the company.

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Admissions Office Variety of Grants Given Lists For Steps For Faculty Children University Projects The John A. Hartford Foundation, be used in Philadelphia. Dr. Manfred The child of a whose person University Inc., has awarded a $159,276 research Altman, director of the Institute for position entitles him to receive a Faculty- grant to the School of Medicine for use Direct Energy Conversion, will be proj- Staff will receive preferential Scholarship in perfecting and evaluating a new ect director. consideration under either the early deci- method of diagnosing pulmonary em- Dr. J. K. Zawodny, professor of sion or admission regular procedures. bolism developed by Dr. Claude R. political science, and Dr. Mieczyslaw no serious character, mental, or Assuming Joyner, Jr., associate professor of medi- Giergielewicz, professor of Slavic, have emotional disorders, admission to the un- cine; Dr. Leonard D. Miller, assist- been awarded grants to conduct research schools will be assured if the dergraduate ant professor of surgery; and Dr. as part of a program on Slavic and East assembled academic credentials clearly Stanley J. Dudrick, an associate in European studies sponsored by the Amer- to in the chosen point good achievement surgery. ican Council of Learned Societies and the of this program study. Specifically, The University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Social Science Research Council. Dr. means that the rank in class, and grades Mawr College and the American Phil- Zawodny will research the Warsaw Up- courses taken, Board test results, College osophical Society have received a grant rising of 1944, and Dr. Giergielewicz and recommendation of the school when of $234,000 from the Josiah Macy, Jr., will study Polish versification. considered should not contain together Foundation to develop a joint program The Department of Sociology has re- identifiable indications of any possible in the History of the Biological Sciences ceived a grant from the National Insti- academic difficulty in relation to the cur- and Medicine. tute of Child Health and Human Devel- rent demands which are placed upon The University has received a $299,- opment for $131,397 to be distributed Pennsylvania undergraduates. 955 grant from the U. S. Department of over a three-year period to fund a special If one or more such indications of pos- Housing and Urban Development for gerontology program under the direction sible are then the candi- difficulty present, a one-year feasibility study of limited of Dr. Otto Pollak, professor of so- date will be evaluated on the same basis emission (polution) vehicles which could ciology. as those who have no University affilia- tion, except for the addition of specific points in the derivation of the non- scholastic rating. It should be recognized that the odds are generally against admis- (continued from page 1) berg School of Communications, will re- sion under these circumstances because study of acoustics and phonetics. He has search the effects of television on popular the median of the combined scholastic and had articles published in numerous schol- culture at the University of Birming- non-scholastic for those admitted ratings arly periodicals. ham, England. Dr. Meyersohn, is the will fall well above likely candidates -Dr. Albert Pepitone, professor of former director of the Center for the whose credentials lack full assurance of psychology, will be associated with the Study of Leisure at the University of solid achievement at the University. Institute of Psychology of the National Chicago. The Admissions Office is to prepared Research Council in Rome, Italy. The -Dr. Lee Peachey, associate profes- counsel with all chil- University-affiliated author of "Attraction and Hostility," he sor of biochemistry and biophysics at the dren and their and to reflect parents upon will assist in developing a cross-national School of Medicine, will be a Fellow of the relative chances for admission in program of experiments on the motiva- Churchill College of Cambridge Univer- terms of academic credentials. specific tions that underlie human competitive- sity, England. Dr. Peachey, formerly child who has Any eligible faculty-staff ness, productivity, and decision making. with Columbia University, will investi- in fact decided upon Pennsylvania as his -Dr. George Schoolfield, professor gate the role of calcium ions in muscle first-choice college before November 1 of of German and Scandanavian literature, contraction. the senior is year encouraged to file an will be doing research on Swedish litera- -Dr. John F. Bennett, assistant pro- decision in early application order to re- ture at the University of Helsinki, Fin- fessor of the history and philosophy of ceive a decision by early in December. land. Dr. Schoolfield has published nu- science in the Graduate School of Arts merous articles on the use of Swedish and Sciences, will lecture on biometry FPRI MEETING in bilingual Finland. Last year his trans- at the Institute for Advanced Studies The University's Foreign Policy Re- lation of 1-lagar Olsson's "The Wood- at the University of Vienna, Austria. search Institute was co-sponsor of a Con- carver and Death," a Swedish novel Dr. Bennett, formerly an instructor in ference on Transatlantic Technological from Finland, was published. biology at Stanford University, joined Imbalance and Collaboration held in -Dr. RoIf Meyersohn, associate pro- the Pennsylvania faculty in 1963. He is May in Deauville, France. fessor of communications at the Annen- currently writing three books.

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Contracts and Grants Total Three Retired Faculty Members $39,462,000 For 1966-67 Died This Summer Contracts and grants to the Univer- (USPHS) as Health Professions Educa- Three retired University professors sity in support of 897 research, training, tional Improvement Grants, from the died during the summer months: education and fellowship projects totaled National Science Foundation and the Dr. Gladys L. Palmer, emeritus re- $39,462,000 during the 1966-67 academ- American Cancer Society increased to search professor and former director of ic year from the federal government and approximately $1,514,000 in 1966-67 the University's Industrial Research other public and private sources. from approximately $1,112,000 in 1965- Unit, died June 27 at her home after a This amount represents an 11 percent 66. Funds from these grants support re- long illness. She received her doctorate increase-$1,733,000--over the $37,729- search and other activities in the Schools at Pennsylvania in 1924, and taught at 000 received from similar sources for 892 of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Den- Vassar and Hollins Colleges before join- projects during 1965-66, said Encel H. tal Medicine and Allied Medical Pro- ing the Industrial Research Department Dodge, director of the Officer of Proj- fessions and, to a varying extent, in in 1931. ect Research and Grants. The figures nearly every other department of the Dr. MacEdward Leach, emeritus pro- represent grants and contracts signed in University. fessor of English and a nationally known these periods, rather than amounts spent. scholar of folklore, died July 11 at the In many cases, the grants are for more Covey T. Oliver University's Hospital. He was chairman than one year. Gets Post In of the interdepartmental committee for Of the 1966-67 amount, $22,350,000 folklore until his retirement last year. went to the University's Division of State Department Dr. Leach, who was also president and a Medical Affairs for 582 research proj- Dr. Covey T. Oliver, professor of law fellow of the American Folklore Society, ects in the life and health sciences. at the University, was appointed by began teaching at Pennsylvania in 1920. Other University divisions receiving President Johnson in June to be Assistant Dr. Rudolf G. Schmieder, emeritus large numbers of grants and contracts Secretary of State for Inter-American professor of biology, died suddenly Au- include the College of Arts and Sciences Affairs. gust 23 at his home. Dr. Schmieder, who -$6,678,000 for 121 projects; the Dr. Oliver received a bachelor of arts retired as associate professor of biology on Wharton School of Finance and Com- degree from the University of Texas in July 1, began his teaching career at Penn- merce-$2,952,000 for 66 projects; and 1933 and a law degree three years later, sylvania in 1923. Engineering Affairs-$2,407,000 for 49 both summa cum laude. He holds a doc- projects. torate in law from Columbia University. New Addition For The U.S. Public Health Service was He served on the faculties of the Uni- Computer Center the largest single source of contract sup- versity of Texas and the University of The University's Computer Center port, in awarding $20,705,000 (52 per California (Berkeley) Law Schools be- has taken the first of two steps in a cent of the $39,462,000 total) to the fore assuming a full professorship in law planned computer expansion program University. An additional $4,002,000 at Pennsylvania in 1956. with the installation of an IBM System/ (10 per cent of the total), was funded He was a member of the United States 360 Model 40 Computer, valued at $1 by the National Science Foundation. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference million. Substantial increases were noted in in 1946. During World War II he was The Model 40 will supplement the amounts received from private industry, on the staff of the Board of Economic Computer Center's two IBM 7040's and foundations, the U. S. Public Health Warfare and served in various foreign their associated 1401's, which are now Service (USPHS) and U.S. Office of service posts in the State Department in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Education. from 1942 to 1949. He was U. S. ambas- The second step in the expansion pro- The University also received two new sador to Colombia from 1964 to 1966, gram will be the delivery this fall of a construction grants totaling $1,077,059 when he returned to Pennsylvania. large IBM System/360 Model 65 com- from the U.S. Office of Education to puter, valued at over $3 million. provide approximately one-third funding ANNENBERG of renovation costs for two buildings, MEETING RECORD FRESHMAN AID Bennett Hall and the older wing of the The Annenberg School of Communi- A record amount of $2,503,000 in Law School buildings. cations will host a National Content financial aid was offered by the Univer- Institutional grants from the National Analysis Conference November 16-18. sity to 1,270 members of the freshman Institutes of Health (USPHS) as Gen- The Conference will assemble leading class entering in September. eral Research Support Grants and Bio- theorists, researchers, and many active or Financial aid offered to freshmen this medical Science Support Grants, from potential users of advanced theory and year exceeded by $200,000 last year's the Bureau of Health Manpower technique. total, which was also a record.

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nisms in Molecular Aggregates" in San Puerto Rico in other Juan, May. Among things... Dr. W. Norman Brown, professor of Sanskrit and chairman of the South Asia Regional Studies program, served as president of the XXVII International APPOINTMENTS: Congress of Orientalists at that group's W. Dr. George Quails, professor of Eliot Stellar, professor of physi- meeting in Michigan in August. architecture, and Dr. David A. Wal- ological psychology, School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur H. Scouten, professor lace, professor of city planning, have and director of the Institute of Neuro- of English, was the Phi Beta Kappa been named by U. S. Department of logical Sciences, received the annual orator at Franklin and Marshall Col- Housing and Urban Development Sec- Warren Medal of the Society of Experi- lege in May. In April, Dr. Scouten spoke retary Robert C. Weaver to the Phila- mental Psychologists this spring for his on the English major program at the delphia Regional Advisory Committee on contributions to an understanding of the conference of the Pennsylvania College Design and Planning. brain mechanisms controlling food and English Association at Immaculata Dr. Herman P. Schwan, professor water intake in both animals and man. College. of electrical engineering, Moore School, Dr. Clarence T. Van Meter, senior Dr. Johannes of has been elected chairman of the IEEE research investigator at the Engineering Ipsen, professor AdCom Committee. Research Office, received an alumni epidemiology and medical statistics and Dr. Herman Beerman, chairman of the of professor award from the University of Pittsburgh acting Department and chairman, department of dermatol- School of. Pharmacy for 'distinction in Preventive Medicine, School of Med- School of icine, a on "The ogy, Medicine, has been elected his pharmaceutical career" in June. presented paper of the American of Cancer in Rela- president Dermatologi- Dr. Abram Cohen, assistant profes- Epidemiology Lung cal Association. tion to Tuberculosis" at sor of periodontics, School of Dental Pulmonary Eleanor J. Carlin, associate the 17th General of the profes- Medicine, has presented the alumni Assembly Jap- sor of physical School of Allied anese Medical Congress in Japan this therapy, award of the School's Alumni Society at Medical Professions, has been elected a He also to the its dinner in Philadelphia in June. spring. presented papers term trustee of Beaver College. Japanese Epidemiologic Society, the Dr. Roland J. Artigues, professor Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls, professor Danish Tuberculosis Society and the of social work and acting dean of the of preventive medicine and epidemiology, Medical of After School of Social Work, was presented Society Copenhagen. was elected president of the American to the United States, he an award by the Student Association of returning pre- Epidemiology Society in April. the School of Social Work at the Asso- sented a paper on "The Paradoxical H. Robert Cathcart, vice president ciations' spring dance in May. Epidemiological Relation of Lung Can- of Pennsylvania Hospital, was named cer and Tuberculosis" to the American Dr. A. Leo Levin, vice and president of the Hospital Association of provost of law, received the Yeshiva Epidemiologic Society in Boston. Pennsylvania in May. professor Mordecai Ben David Award Clarence Morris, of law, Louis B. Schwartz, professor of University's professor law, has been named director of the re- at the University's 36th commencement spent the summer at the University of ceremonies in New York in search and drafting staff for the Federal June. Colorado School of Law as the 1967 Commission on Reform of Federal Crim- Harriet M. Boyd, director and asso- Charles Inglis Thomson guest professor inal Laws. ciate professor of medical technology, of law. School of Allied Medical Professions, Dr. Paul Sloane, associate professor Dr. Haresh C. Shah, assistant pro- was named Medical Technician of the of clinical psychiatry, has been promoted fessor of civil engineering, Towne to emeritus senior Year at the annual meeting of the Penn- attending physician at School, was guest lecturer at seminars Albert Einstein Medical Center. sylvania Society of Medical Technicians held at Stanford University in May. He Dr. Reavis Cox, of mar- held at Pennsylvania State University in professor spoke on "Use of Entropy in Civil En- keting, Wharton School, is serving on April. gineering" and "Dynamic Stability of the 12-member executive committee of Miss Kathleen Carberry Quinn, Structures Under Stochastic Excita- the new National Marketing Committee director of the Pennsylvania Players, was tions." In July Dr. Shah spoke on "The of the U. S. Department of Commerce. honored for her 30 years' service to the Use of Entropy in Reliability of Meas- Players at a dinner given her by the urements" at the SAE/ASME/AIAA AWARDS: group in May. 6th Annual Reliability and Maintain- Dr. Russell L. Ackoff, professor of Conference in Cocoa Beach, statistics and operations research, Whar- TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS: ability Florida. ton School, received an honorary doctor Dr. Robin M. Hochstrasser, asso- of science degree from the University of ciate professor of chemistry, participated Dr. Leonard Nanis, associate pro- Lancaster, England, in July. in a symposium on "Excitation Mecha- fessor of chemical engineering, delivered

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American Association of Neuropathol- fessor of obstetrics and gynecology, Among other things... ogists in Atlantic City. School of Medicine, Division of Gradu- Dr. George Karreman, associate ate Medicine, was awarded a Fulbright professor of physiology, discussed "Con- Exchange Fellowship to tour Pakistan, a paper on "Current and Potential Dis- trol and Regulation" in an IBM seminar, Taiwan, Australia and the Philippines tribution in Cylindrical Geometrics: En- and "Cooperative Adsorption of Ions in in August and September, lecturing un- gineering Applications" at a symposium Biological Tissues" in a Texas Medical der the Department of State's Educa- in Dallas, Texas, in May. Center seminar, both in Houston, Texas, tional and Cultural Exchange Program. Dr. John 0' M. Bockris, professor in May. Dr. Svi Rin, associate professor of of chemistry, gave a talk on electro- Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang, professor Oriental studies, will be engaged in lin- chemical energy conversion at the Insti- and chairman of sociology, gave a lecture guistic research in the Near East during tute of Electronics and Electrical Engi- on "The Subculture of Violence" at the first seven months of 1968 under a neering in Albuquerque, N. M., in May. Nuffield College, Oxford University, in Fulbright-Hays Faculty Award for ad- Dr. Bockris was in Israel during Septem- June. The Subculture of Violence is also vanced research abroad. ber as a consultant to the Israeli Gov- the title of Dr. Wolfgang's new book, G. Holmes Perkins, dean of the ernment on electrochemical problems. co-authored by Professor Franco Ferra- Graduate School of Fine Arts and pro- Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer, cuti of the University of Rome. fessor of architecture, and Edmund N. assistant professor of history, was guest Dr. Frederick D. Ketterer, assist- Bacon, visiting professor of civic design, speaker at the initial Herman Wessel ant professor of electrical engineering, were participants in the Delos Sympo- Award presentation ceremonies at Elkins Moore School, and Dr. Frederick sium in Athens, Greece, in July. The Park Junior High School in suburban Roll, associate professor of civil engineer- Symposium brought together a small, in- Philadelphia in May. ing, Towne School, participated in a ternational group of people concerned Dr. John Durand, professor of eco- special Agency for International Devel- with the science of human settlements. nomics, and Dr. Vincent H. Whitney, opment program in India this summer. chairman of sociology and director of Dr. Ketterer's work involved instrumen- The Almanac is published monthly the Population Studies Center, partici- tation, while Dr. Roll was primarily con- during the academic year by the Uni- pated in a Conference on World Popu- cerned with experimental stress analysis. versity for the information of its lation Problems sponsored by the Gradu- Dr. Roll also attended the 1967 An- and staff. ate School of Business of Indiana Uni- nual Convention of the American Con- faculty news items should be versity in May. crete Institute in Toronto in April; the Suggested sent to: Dr. John T. McGrath, professor of Structural Engineering Conference of Editor pathology, School of Veterinary Medi- the American Society of Civil Engineers Acting News Bureau cine, gave a seminar on animal neurology in Seattle in May; and was recently ap- 3439 Walnut St. at Kansas State Veterinary School in pointed vice-chairman of ACI Committee June. Also during June, Dr. McGrath 209, Creep and Volume Changes in University of Pennsylvania presented a paper on cerebral lipidosis Concrete. Printing Office in the dog at the annual meeting of the Dr. Howard Balm, assistant pro-

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