l 96 7, Preston E. James, Chairman of the Department promoting geography at a meeting of the Social Studies Teachers at Richmond, Virginia. Copies ofthe publication shown are available from the Office of Education, Washington, D. C., at 35 cents each. 1 CONTENTS Page Geography at Syracuse . 3 Geography Club ........ 4 The Traveling School of Geography 4 Systems Seminar 4 The Staff . • . • . • . • • . 5 Former Staff . • • . • . • . • . • . 9 Graduate Students in Residence . • . • . • • . • • . • • . 11 Graduate Students Not in Residence . • . • . • . 17 Graduate Alumni • . • . • . • • • • • . • • 19 Graduate Student Associates . • • . • . • 35 Undergraduate Majors . 36 D.S. S. Majors in Geography . • • • . • . 43 Visitors and Lecturers. • . • . • • . • . • . • • . • 46 Degrees Granted 1966-67. 48 2 GEOGRAPHY AT SYRACUSE The Department of Geography is located in H. B. Crouse Hall at the center of the main campus of Syracuse University. A well-contained unit )n the third floor houses departmental and faculty offices, a graduate study room, cartographic laboratory, darkroom, map room, and kitchen facili­ :ies in this air-conditioned building. Departmental course offerings include those in general geography, re­ ?;ional, physical, cultural and economic geography; geographic techniques, md the summer field course, together with seminars and individual re­ ;;earch studies. The Department also participates in interdisciplinary Jrograms in Russian studies, Latin American studies, South Asian Stud­ les, East African studies, and the Doctor of Social Science Program. Each year the Department makes available to promising graduate students 1 number of assistantships and fellowships. Stipends and specialities rary. The achievement of the staff during the past year in the fields of schol­ trly writing and professional service has been outstanding and is reflected .n the prominent place geography at Syracuse holds among other depart­ nents throughout the country. During the past year the department had 49 graduate students in resi­ lence with 14 others not in residence who have been doing field research >r holding teaching positions while completing the dissertation. Three of hose in the field hold fellowship grants. Marilyn Silberfein is in Tanzania m a Ford Foundation Fellowship; Slell Fellowships are held by Irvin Roth vho is in Asia and Marvin Baker who is in Mexico. Thomas Wilbanks was twarded a National Science Fellowship and Richard Lewis holds a Mellon nstjtute grant. Other awards for 1966-67 'were as follows: United States ,teel Fellowship, James Allen; Watson Fellowships, Justin Friberg and \One Rupp; Maxwell Fellowship, Oliver Wilgress; NSF Traineeship, Jesse ~1iller; NDEA fellowships, Douglas Morris and Richard Scott. Graduate LSsistants were: Michael Antonelli, Molly Debysingh, Daniel Doeppers, rohn Donahue, Howard Smith, Roger Snyder, Walter stall, Richard Sy­ nanski, and Robert Thoresen. David Berry, an undergraduate major, is the 1967 recipient of the Na­ ional Council of Geographic Education award for excellence of scholarship. 3 GEOGRAPHY CLUB The Geography Club which has been inactive for many years was brought nto existence again by a freshman student who knows he wants to become a ~eographer. Fred Woods organized and planned the beginning steps for a 1ew Geography Club, and carried through to completing this important ·unction. Geared mainly to the interests of undergraduate majors in geog­ ·aphy, the Club is nevertheless of interest to students in the lower divi­ ,ion courses, and others. Guest speakers from geography and related 'ields were invited to lecture to the group, a constitution was drawn up and )fficers were elected. The Geography Club is once more functioning, hanks to Mr. Woods. THE TRAVELING SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY The Traveling School of Geography, under the auspices of Mr. Larrie Dean and Mr. Stephen Tweedie, left on 21 June for a two months trip :hrough Europe. The group, including Mrs. Dean and Mrs. Tweedie, stu­ :lents and others from various parts of the country, will travel by camping van into areas not reached by the average tourist. Countries included in the itinerary are: Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslo­ vakia, Yugoslavia, Italy, Monaco, France, Spain, Belguim, and Amsterdam. SYSTEMS SEMINAR At the beginning of the fall_semester, three graduate students-namely -Richard Symanski, Thomas Wilbanks, and Lakshman Yapa, formed a committee to set up an exploratory seminar on the application of systems concepts and techniques to geography. This was to be a continuation of an exciting and useful dialogue begun the previous spring under the auspices of Professor Karaska. Small, informal seminars were held throughout the semester, participated in by both faculty and staff. The objectives of the seminars were to review systems concepts and terminology; to in­ vestigate the nature, properties, and research techniques for dealing with spatial systems; and to investigate the identity, nature, ~d properties of the man-environment system as a system. 4 THE STAFF PRESTON E. JAMES, Chairman; Maxwell Professor; M.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Clark. Areas of scholarly interests: Latin America, history of geographic thought, and geography for elementary and secondary schools. In August 1966, Dr. James was honorary president of the Association of American Geographers and gave the annual presidential address at the banquet in Toronto. His paper "On the Origin and Persistence of Error in Geography" was published in the March 1967 Annals. In December he was awarded the David Livingstone Centennial Medal of the American Geo­ graphical Society for "scientific achievement in the field of geography in the southern hemisphere". In May he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti. He was appointed a member of the Committee on Geography of the Division of Earth Sciences, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. In January he lectured at the Naval War College, and conducted a graduate seminar at the University of Washington for two weeks. During the past academic year, since Professor Donald Meinig was on leave, Dr. James taught the freshman course in world geography. In April 1966, the third edition of "A Geography of Man" (Blaisdell) was published. The revised edition of "The Wide World" (with Nelda David - Macmillan) has also been published. ERIC H. FAIGLE, Vice President; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and of the School of Speech; Professor; M. S., Syracuse, Ph.D., Michigan. Areas of scholarly interests: geography of North America, Canada, and New York State. Dr. Faigle is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Manlius School; member. of the executive committee and of the board of directors of the Syracuse Chapter of the American Red Cross; member of the board of the Cerebral Palsy Association; member of the board of di­ rectors of the American Cancer Society; member of the State Education Teachers Association Advisory Board; and consultant for the Middle States Evaluation Committee. RICHARD E. DAHLBERG, Associate Professor; M.A., North Carolina; Ph.D., Wisconsin. Areas of scholarly interests: cartography, air photo interpretation, field methods, and agricultural geography. Dr. Dahlberg was one of seven geographers for the United States to have a paper on the program of the Third International Conference on Cartography, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in April. He was granted a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the year 1967-68 to carry on a research study of a problem in populatton mapping. Dr. Dahlberg attended :1. two-week NSF Summer Conference on Remote Sensing of Environment ileld at the University of Michigan, Institute of Science and Techniques. He taught in the NDEA Summer Institute in Geography at Syracuse; taught 5 two weeks in the instructional program in map and photo interpretation for a group of Peace Corps volunteers destined for conservation work in Bots­ wana; was elected chairman of the New York/New Jersey Division of the A. A.G. for 1967; developed a new course entitled the "Use and Evaluation of Maps and Photographs" for the Experienced Teachers Fellowship Pro­ gram; and was appointed editor of the Prentice-Hall World Atlas to suc­ ceed Joseph Williams. Work is underway on the third edition of the atlas. The Dahlbergs have a son, John Munro, born 2 August, 1966. DAVID J. DELAUBENFELS, Associate Professor; M. A., and Ph.D., Illinois. Areas of scholarly interests: Latin America, urban and vegeta­ tion geography, and climatology. Dr. de Laubenfels' work on the study of the "Variation of Vegetation Through Space" has progressed. This is a large research effort attempting to elucidate significant differences in vegetation from place to place. In connection with this, study of the coni­ fers of the Australasian rainforests is being done. Dr. de Laubenfels made a trip to Europe to use certain special libraries and the connected herbaria. The Department was made aware of the research being done because of the huge crate of specimens on loan from Holland which in­ truded on the departmental space! Publications include: "The Relation­ ships of Fitzroya cupressoides (Molina) Johnston and Diselma archeri", J. D. Hooker based on "Morphological Considerations", Phytomorphology; "World Vegetation" appendix E, A Geography of Man, Preston James, third edition; and "The Urban Landscape", "Syracuse", "Vegetation", "Soils", chapters in Geography of New York State, John Thompson. PETER V. GRECO, Assistant Professor (Dual-Education);