No. 2 November 1955

I Sec 34.65 E P L & R Milk VOL. 2, NO. 2 NOVEMBER 1955 There also should be some increase for part-time Funds for Salary Increases faculty members. For this some thirty-five or forty thousand dollars would be required. Requested All this is dependent upon an additional $800,000 The University of Pennsylvania has requested a from Harrisburg for "general maintenance." What, then, $1,200,000 increase over last year's appropriation from about the $940,000 realized from the increases in tui- the State, of which $800,000 would be used for so-called tion which became effective last July 1? "general maintenance," it was learned last week. A considerable portion of the approximately half Addressing members of the University Senate on Oc- million dollar expected deficit represented salary increases tober 24, President Gaylord P. Harnwell said that if made in anticipation of increased income. Of the balance, the increment was more than five hundred $127,000 has, in addition, gone toward salary increases granted, in the to the Provost and thousand of the $800,000 would be applied to salary departments reporting $68,000 for increasing salaries for teaching in the de- increases and other benefits-chiefly for teaching per- personnel be for the Schools partments reporting to the Vice-President for Medical sonnel. (The $400,000 balance would Affairs. of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Museum, etc.) In other words, irrespective of what the With the guidance of the results of the poll taken of Legislature may The Almanac, decide, the University has budgeted well over $200,000 faculty members last spring (see April for teacher boosts the current 1955), Dr. Hamwell said that the more than half-a- salary during year. million dollars would be broken down in approximately The December issue of The Almanac will carry a more the following way: $310,000 for salary increases for comprehensive picture of this and other problems facing teaching personnel, mainly "across-the-board" but partly the University administrators and their deeper, farther- for merit; $110,000 for improvement in the University's reaching implications for members of the faculty and contribution toward Teachers Insurance and Annuity staff. Association (this represents an increase from 5% to 71/2 %) for faculty and administrative personnel; $30,000 for salary increases for part-time teaching personnel; and Museum to $75,000 for salary increases for A-3 (clerical level) per- Explore Tikal sonnel. The jungle-bound "ghost" city of Tikal, Guatemala, Dr. Harnwell stated that one of the principal uses for largest and possibly oldest site of Mayan civilization, the funds, within this framework, would be to level will be explored and partially restored by the Univer- help Museum. the inequities between the various salary floors of teachers, sity schools and departments, and to help close the gaps be- Dr. Froelich G. Rainey, director of the Museum, said tween the average salaries at the University of Pennsyl- the project was intended to make Tikal the "finest archi- vania and those of other institutions of comparable size tectural monument of American Indian civilization avail- and character. able to the public." Under an agreement with President For he stated, he would like to see a new Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala, work will start about example, 15. floor established under each of the four major teaching January levels. These floors should be $4,000 for Instructors, Tikal, deep in the rain forests of the Peten region and $5,000 for Assistant Professors, $6,000 for Associate virtually deserted for nearly a millenium, is a foilage- Professors, and $7,000 for Full Professors. covered metropolis of skyscraper temples, lavish palaces, and reservoirs. He proposed a 5% increase for those "full-time" mem- dwellings, paved expressways long-dry bers who have term appointments and a 10% increase Occupied for 2000 to 3000 years up to about the 10th for those with permanent appointments if the resulting Century, A.D., Tikal was accessible only by mule-pack salary does not go over a ceiling of $10,000. until Guatemala built a nearby landing strip. THE ALMANAC 2 Introducing Charles Lee: Three Faculty Grants Announced An Editorial Ford Foundation Grant-In-Aid Program In The November issue of The Almanac marks the first The Behavioral Sciences anniversary of this faculty-staff publication. The Ford Foundation has announced a grant-in-aid this The Almanac has grown from an program for approximately one hundred scholars in the During year as untitled idea to an accepted source of reference for intra- "behavioral sciences" tentatively listed Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and university thinking and action. While it has not always History, Psychology, been the faculty and staff-or even its Editor- Sociology. Selections may also be made from professional everything and from "humanistic studies," or from have wanted it to be, its inception, general sentiment schools any scholars in research work that contributes to a seems to point out, was a major step in the right direc- engaged tion. scientific knowledge of human behavior. each, under the re- For the excellent and encouragement he The grants are to be $4,250 spent cooperation direction over an of time. has received during the year from the administration, cipient's unspecified period members of the and staff, his special advisory "The grant can be used at his discretion for any purpose faculty that will facilitate, or enrich his research. The committee, and other interested expedite, printers, photographers, is intended to other sources of funds friends of the University, the Editor is extremely grateful. grant supplement available to the recipient and not to displace them." Increased Public Relations staff responsibilities now These grants are not to be confused with the Faculty make it necessary that he limit his association with it Fellowship Program of the Fund for the Advancement to that of Managing Editor and turn over the editorial of Education. direction to a new Editor. The University of Pennsylvania will be permitted to It is with great pride and satisfaction, therefore, that nominate ten scholars to be selected from its "full-time" your Editor announces the appointment of Dr. Charles active in behavioral sciences The Almanac to become effective faculty currently (including Lee as the Editor of those currently on leave) regardless of rank or discipline. with the December issue. Application may be made by letter to Dean Roy F. Dr. Lee received his A.B. degree from the University Nichols, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bennett of in 1933, his M.A. in 1936, and his Ph.D. Pennsylvania Hall. The letter of application should describe the re- in 1955. He has taught at the University during several and future, and became a full- search work of the candidate, past, present, periods since his undergraduate days and the on which he to work. time Lecturer in 1949. specific project proposes It may be supplemented by exhibits of his work and by He was awarded the First Annual University of Penn- letters from those who are good judges of its value, or sylvania Award for Meritorious Achievement in Journal- of the applicant's potentialities. ism in 1944. He succeeded Carl Van Doren as Literary Editor of the Boston Herald in 1937. From 1940 until Applications will be screened by the Departmental rep- 1946 he was Editor of the Philadelphia Record, resentatives of the appropriate fields on the Divisional Literary the Graduate School. and Contributing Editor of the Evening Bulletin from Committees of 1947 until 1949. He currently writes a weekly column Nominations by the University must be submitted to for several newspapers and in addition contributes regu- the Ford Foundation by December 1. In order to afford the book re- - larly to time for deliberation by the Committee, all applications views of the New York should be in the Office of the Graduate School by Tues- Times and the Satur- / day, November 15, at 5:00 p.m. day Review. I An author of numer- National Science Foundation ous books and articles, The dates on National Science Foundation Fel- Dr. Lee also is familiar closing lowships for 1956-1957 are December 19, 1955 for post- to many regular radio doctoral and 3, 1956 for and television applicants January graduate listeners ("predoctoral") applicants. Application forms may be viewers in Boston and obtained from the Graduate School, 133 Bennett Hall. Philadelphia for his in- terview and programs Fulbright Awards spotlights on books. Announcements of Awards for 1957-1958 new Fulbright As he begins his are expected somewhat earlier than in previous years. work, Dr. Lee will he Applications will probably be closed by August 15, 1956. visiting many deans, di- Application, forms must be obtained from the Confer- rectors and department ence Board of Associated Research Councils, 2101 Con- heads. stitution Avenue, N. W., Washington 25, D. C. 3 The February, 1955 issue of The Almanac announced the estab- above. They are, left to right, front row: Theodore Bourns, Jr., lishment of new four-year undergraduate scholarships to be known Louie Gieszl, John Dwan, Gilbert McArdle, George Brown, as Benjamin Franklin National Scholarships. Edward McIntyre. Second row: Beverly Kissinger, Marjorie Hollinger, Sue Bogner, Elizabeth Spilman, Anne Lemieux, Georgia Awarded to secondary school graduates of exceptional ability Cole, Lawrence Johnson, Jr. Third row: John Dobbs, Leigh and promise who might not otherwise be able to study at the Kendall, David Sikarskie, Eugene Farris, Jr., William Segraves. University, the first recipients of the scholarships are pictured Walter McBride. Not shown: Carl Carman. and at the session will be Centennial to be Speakers topics morning Symposium Charles H. Weaver, Vice-President in Charge of the Held by Engineers Atomic Power Division, Westinghouse Electric Corpor- ation: "The Engineering of Nuclear Power Plants"; and One hundred of education at the years engineering Dr.

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