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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.

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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, , 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.

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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. Granville M. Read, Chief Engineer of E. I. du Pont University will be marked by a "Centennial Symposium de Nemours & Co., Inc.: "The Profile of Human on Modern Engineering", on Friday, November 11th, it Materials." was announced by Dr. Carl C. Chambers, Vice-President for Engineering Affairs. The afternoon program will include Dr. Elmer W. Executive Vice-President for Research and "We have spanned a century of technological revolu- Engstrom, tion," Dr. Chambers said, "in which Pennsylvania's fac- Engineering, Radio Corporation of America: "Automa- ulties, alumni and laboratories have at times been priv- tion"; Dr. Jay W. Forrester, Director of the Digital Com- ileged to perform historic roles. puter Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The extent of this revolution is symbolized by the "Modern Computers and the University"; and Foster L. subject matter of the Centennial Symposium-nuclear en- Weldon, Chief of the Home Defense Division, Army automation, gineering, computer development, operations Operations Research Office, The Johns Hopkins Uni- research and human materials." versity: "Operations Research and Modern Engineering.' The engineering achievements include the development sessions will be held at 10 A.M. and 2 of ENIAC, the first large-scale, general-purpose, electronic Symposium digital computer, which was completed by the Moore P.M. in the University Museum Auditorium. President School ten years ago. Harnwell will address the morning session, at which Dr. Carl C. Chambers will be Chairman. Dr. A. Norman At the symposium, a group of outstanding authorities will explore the vistas of atomic power, automation and Hixson, Assistant Vice-President, will serve as after- other advances in American technology. noon Chairman.

4 NOVEMBER 1955

Committee Formed to Help Mayo, Saul Elected Trustees Select Provost Dr. Charles W. Mayo, internationally known surgeon, has been elected a trustee of the University. Dr. Edwin B. Williams' desire to his Acting on resign an of a committee has Dr. Mayo, alumnus of Pennsylvania's School post as Provost of the University, faculty Medicine, is a of the Clinic, Rochester, been selected the Senate Committee on governor Mayo by Advisory Ap- Minnesota, which was founded by the late Drs. Charles pointments and designated by President Harnwell to advise on the selection of a new Provost. H. and William J. Mayo, his father and uncle, respectively. He is of in the Foundation Grad- the professor surgery Mayo This committee, meeting regularly, is undertaking uate School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota, task of thoroughly investigating and defining the job, and the criteria from this information to be used in editor-in-chief of professional journal, Postgrad- setting up iate Medicine, as well as a member of numerous medical the selection of a man, and making recommendations of those individuals who seem to fit these requirements. organizations including the Founders Group of the Ameri- can Board of Surgery. Faculty Suggestions Requested Maurice Bower Saul, Philadelphia attorney, has been elected a life trustee of the For the first time, the entire University faculty is asked University. to assist in the suggestion of a) specifications concern- Mr. Saul, a term trustee since 193 I, was chosen to ing the qualifications of a desirable Provost, and b) names serve the life trusteeship made vacant by the death on of persons thought worthy of consideration. August 20 of Dr. George Wm. McClelland, former presi- Careful consideration will be given to every suggestion dent and chairman of the University. and it is hoped that the names ultimately presented to A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Saul was graduated from will President Harnwell represent faculty opinion. Central High School in 1902 and from the University of Suggestions may be presented to any member of the Pennsylvania Law School in 1905. He is senior mem- committee which consists of William E. Arnold, Educa- ber of the Philadelphia law firm of Saul, Ewing, Remick, tion, Chairman; E. Sculley Bradley, College; Reavis Cox, and Saul, with which he has been associated since 1921. Wharton; Elizabeth F. Flower, John A. Goff, College; He is a director of the John B. Stetson Engineering; A. Leo Lavin, Law; Harry J. Loman, Company, the Wharton; Park H. Miller, Jr., College; Charles C. Price, Philadelphia Voluntary Defender Association, and The College; I. S. Ravdin, Medicine; and Otto Springer, School in Rose Valley. He is a former president of the Graduate Arts and Sciences. University Club, Philadelphia.

Williams to Resign from Provost Post Dr. Edwin B. Williams, Provost growth in Physics under my chair- of the University, will relinquish manship, and he has been a staunch that post January 31 to devote his colleague in my responsibilities as time to teaching and research. In President. I wish him every satis- making this announcement, Presi- faction in his return to his schol- dent T-larnwell commented: arly pursuits. "Dr. Williams' brilliant back- "All who are familiar with his ground of scholarly achievement invaluable contributions to the Uni- and his exceptional ability as an versity's development will share the administrator and coordinator have sincere regret with which the Trus- been reflected in every phase of the tees have complied with his request distinguished service he has ren- to be relieved of administrative dered as Provost. duties." Dr. Williams, a and in- "As a result, he has brought professor added and to a ternationally known scholar of Ro- prestige strength mance was elected high office which has been tradi- languages, prov- the entire Uni- ost in June, 1951, after having tionally regarded by of as one of acadenii: served successively as chairman versity key the Romance Languages Depart- leadership. ment and Dean of the Graduate "My personal debt to Provost School of Arts and Sciences. He Williams is very great indeed for will take a leave of absence from his support made possible the January 31 until next September.

5 NOVEMBER 1955

Tuition Exchange: Two Productions Coming Up Seven Months Later Mask and Wig Presents "Vamp Till Ready" In 1955, The Almanac announced the The Mask and Wig will present a special "University April University's of their new Till in Tuition Exchange. Night" performance production "Vamp participation Ready" on Tuesday evening, , at the Forrest Tuition Exchange is an organization composed of Theatre. nearly two hundred colleges and universities throughout This year's musical, a fast and colorful satire on the the country providing free tuition at any one of the mem- early days of movie making, was written by William Link ber institutions for a faculty child who would be eligible and Richard Levinson and boasts a tuneful score by for admission to an undergraduate school as a tuition- Ronald Lowden, Al Ross and Hank Ludlow. paying student. The principal aims behind the program, Tickets for the special performance will go on sale which was founded in 1950, are to permit faculty chil- on the campus about . Public sale will begin dren who could obtain free tuition at the institution at the Forrest box office one week before the show. Pur- either for the where the parent teaches to go elsewhere at no tuition chased at place, tickets "University Night" cost, and to the benefit of free tuition to children performance will sell at the reduced rate of $3.00 for give and who are not eligible to attend the college where the parent orchestra seats, $2.65 for mezzanine seats, four prices is a faculty member for reasons such as non-coeducation. from $2.25 to $1.00 for balcony seats. The reduced rates will to identi- Now, seven months later, a brief look at the statistics apply anyone showing fication cards indicating affiliation with the University. of our University's first term of membership might be in order. Pennsylvania Players Present "Our Town" Because of the late date on which Pennsylvania en- As their first of the the Penn- tered the most students-both major production year, program potential eligible sylvania Players will produce Thornton Wilder's "Our "exports" from our faculty families to other institutions Town". and from other schools to our "imports" campus-had Two of this memorable which be- already made commitments elsewhere. This condition performances play, should level off to within four or five came an American classic since it was first produced in gradually normalcy 1938, will be in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and years. given Spruce Streets, on Friday and Saturday evenings, December 9 After that time, experience in the program should and 10. indicate what our credit quota can be as well as our "Our Town" was produced by an older generation of "export" figure. Ideally, the two should be equal. Pennsylvania Players in 1939, shortly after the conclusion The of took in four of the original run of the play. Members of the cast of University Pennsylvania "import" 1939 have been asked for and current informa- students who are children of faculty members at Buck- pictures nell, Beaver, and Each of these stu- tion; this will be an important feature of the program for Adelphi Albright. the 1955 dents, however, had already been admitted here and production. had studied here at least one year. Therefore, it was Tickets for "Our Town" will be available in the office simply a matter of including them in Tuition Exchange of the Pennsylvania Players beginning the middle of No- upon application and extending to them the privilege of vember. free tuition. There were nine "exports" of children of our faculty to Brown, Pembroke, Dartmouth, Franklin and Marshall, Butcher Dorm Dedicated Denison, Roanoke and Ursinus. Of these, six already Dedication of the new Butcher Dormitory on October were students in the schools and the procedure followed 22 signalized the completion of the men's dormitory the same pattern as mentioned before. system as it was envisioned when the first units were built 60 Refusals to applications from Pennsylvania children nearly years ago. were received from Dickinson, Vassar, Barnard, Reed, Butcher Dormitory is the first to be dedicated of Mt. Holyoke, Princeton, Hood and Bucknell. In three adjoining men's residence halls built during 1954- nearly 55 and this fall. every case the refusals were due to the schools having occupied Together the three units close exceeded their credit limit for the year 1955-56. the final gap in the Big Quad and Triangle. At the dedication, Howard Butcher, 3d, Class of 1923, Announcement of our in the participation Tuition Ex- was the main speaker. His youngest son, Jonathan, change program is carried in the University Bulletin a ribbon across the Financial Aid for the Student at which is snipped symbolic doorway. (Another Pennsylvania son, Howard Butcher, 4th, is a freshman.) Watching distributed by the Office of Scholarships and Student was Howard Butcher, Jr., Class of 1898, father of the Aid to 2,500 secondary schools and more than 4,000 individual students. speaker. The dormitory was named in honor of the Butcher Questions from members of our University family family's long and close association with the University. should be directed to Douglas Root Dickson who is Liai- Other speakers included Robert T. McCracken, chair- son Officer for the University of Pennsylvania with Tui- man of the Trustees, President Harnwell and Gene D. tion Exchange. Gisburne, vice-president for student affairs.

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Dr. Albert Behrend, Associate in Surgery at the Grad- uate School of Medicine, has been elected to the Phila- Letters to the Editor delphia Academy of Surgery.

Special Price for Dr. Sculley Bradley of the Department of English gave the first lecture in the current series at Indiana University, Penn-Cornell Tickets at Bloomington, on October 13. His subject was "Walt Whitman: A of the Leaves Grass". Professor The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will make Century of is a member of the national Walt Whitman Com- available to all members of the University family-faculty, Bradley mittee, which has various activities and exhibi- students, administration staff, and and Grounds organized Buildings tions for the 1955 of the first of one-dollar ticket for the PENN-CORNELL centenary publication personnel-a Whitman's famous book on July 4, 1855. football game on Thanksgiving. Tickets may be purchased at the ticket office in Weight- man Hall, Franklin Field. Proof of employment or en- Dr. Kenneth E. Appel, Professor of Psychiatry, has been rollment at the University must be offered at the time of elected president of the Joint Commission on Mental Ill- The purchase. ness and Health, Inc. Commission, comprising rep- resentatives of leading national organizations and agencies In addition, the purchaser will be permitted to buy with primary interests in mental health, was formed in additional tickets for the members of his immediate September to carry out the Mental Health Study Act of family at the special rate of one dollar ($1.00) per 1955. person. JEREMIAH FORD, II Director The October 6th issue of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Information Leaflet tribute to Mrs. Elisa- Intercollegiate Athletics pays beth Lincoln Gordon on her retirement after 25 years of " We that all deans, directors, advisors, and service. Mrs. Gordon came to the University in 1929 suggest as a became Chief Executive Assistant of the other administrators disseminate this news as cataloguer, help widely in 1933-34, was made as Cataloguing Department Acting possible. Head of the Acquisitions Department in 1935, and De- partment Head in 1936.

Books by the Faculty: Dr. Paul Gemmill's Current Names in the News Introductory Economics, Harper and Brothers, New York; Dr. Louis I. Grossman's Root Canal Therapy, Lea and 5th, Dr. W. M. On October Krogman, Professor of Febiger, Philadelphia; Dr. Paul E. Boyle's Histopathology received the of Physical Anthropology, honorary degree of the Teeth, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia; Dr. Rexford Texas. The oc- Doctor of Laws from Baylor University, Hersey's Zest for Work, Harper and Brothers, New York. casion was a special convocation celebrating the Semi- Centennial of the founding of the Baylor University School of in Dallas, Texas. Dentistry Dr. Thomas M. McMillan, Professor of Clinical Medi- cine, was awarded the "Gold Heart" by the American Dr. Joseph Stokes, Jr., Professor of Pediatrics, was Heart Association at its 31st annual meeting on October named Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the 22. The highest honor the Association can bestow, the Playtex Park Research Institute. "Gold Heart" went to Dr. McMillan for "winning ac- and from scientists and Dr. John P. Hubbard, Professor and Chairman of the ceptance recognition physicians the world for the American Heart Association Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, throughout was re-elected a member of the Board of the Institute. and its program of professional education."

Dr. J. L. T. Appleton, Dean Emeritus and Professor of THE ALMANAC Microbiology of the School of Dentistry, was the recipient Published the academic the of a distinguished service plaque awarded by the Health monthly during year by the its and Welfare Council of Philadelphia. One of four men University for information of and so honored, Dr. Appleton represents dental health services faculty staff on this Council. The Editor is assisted by an Advisory Committee representing the Faculty, Administration, and Per- sonnel of the Dr. Norman Brown, Associate University. Professor of Metallurgi- Letters, items of news, and articles of interest to cal Engineering, has been selected to receive the Univer- the faculty and staff are earnestly solicited. sity of Pennsylvania 1955 Engineering Alumni Teaching Editor Bruce Award. Awarded annually by the Engineering Alumni Montgomery Public Relations Society, the honor is presented to an outstanding junior Address Office member of the engineering faculties.