Governor Scranton to be Principal Speaker at 208th Commencement William W. Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and ex-officio Trustee of the University, will deliver the prin- cipal address at the University's 208th Commencement Dr. Gerbner Becomes May 18, at 10:15 A.M. in the Municipal Auditorium, George Convention Hall. School's New Dean The U. S. Navy Band of the Third Naval District will Annenberg provide music for the occasion. The Annenberg School of Communications, after nearly On Sunday, May 17, Dr. Marvin Wachman, president a year of searching, named a new Dean this month. of Lincoln University, will deliver the Baccalaureate Ad- He is Dr. George Gerbner, associate professor at the dress. He will speak during the annual Baccalaureate Institute of Communications Research of the University of Service at 4 P.M. in Irvine Auditorium. Rev. Stanley E. Illinois. Dr. Gerbner will assume his duties July 1, suc- Johnson, Chaplain of the University, will direct the pro- ceeding Dean Gilbert Seldes, who retired as the school's gram, assisted by the men's and women's Senior Class head in the summer of 1963. In the interim Dr. Robert officers. E. Spiller, Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Litera- The Baccalaureate Service will include selections by the ture, has served as Dean. Baccalaureate Chorus under the direction of Bruce E. Acting Montgomery, Director of Musical Activities. A musical A native of Budapest, Hungary, who came to this coun- prelude, with Christopher McCutcheon at the console of try in 1939, Dr. Gerbner took his bachelor's degree in the Cyrus H. K. Curtis Organ, will be presented at 3:30 Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in P.M. in the auditorium. 1942, and his master's and doctorate at the University of Following the Baccalaureate Service, the Senior Class Southern California in 1951 and 1955, respectively. He and parents will be guests at the annual Senior Collation at has been at the University of Illinois since 1956. 5 P.M. on College Hall lawn. At the time The Almanac went to the list of Under a Cooperative Research Grant from the U. S. press, per- Office of Education, he has recently completed work as sons to receive honorary degrees at the Commencement director on a of "Mass Communications and exercises had not been completed. It will be published in project study the issue. Popular Conceptions of Education." In it he and his as- May sociates studied the portrayal, and factors influencing the portrayal, of teachers and schools in the mass media of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Van Pelt Library Receives Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the U.S.S.R. First AlA Honors for Dr. Gerbner is presently project director of a "Com- Design of Films and the Film Hero" under a Na- The University's new Charles Patterson Van Pelt Li- parative Study was out this month for honors in the tional Science Foundation Grant. The project, to be brary singled top in 1965, is an of the fictional second annual Library Buildings Award Program spon- completed analysis person- sored the American Institute of Architects, the ality structure of leading characters in American, French, jointly by Italian, Indian, Czechoslovak and Polish film American Library Association, and the National Book Yugoslav, Committee. production. A First Honor Award Citation was presented to Presi- Earlier, the new Dean was in charge of research on the dent Harnwell by J. Roy Carroll, Jr., national president of portrayal of mental illness in the mass media, as part of a the AlA, at ceremonies in the library building on Thurs- larger project devoted to study of popular conceptions of day afternoon, April 16. Carroll, a partner in the Philadel- mental illness, under a grant from the National Institute phia architectural firm of Carroll, Grisdale and Van Alen, of Mental Health. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3)

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English Dept. Sponsors Spruce Hill Sponsors Tour Members of the faculty and administrative staff have First Poetry Workshop been invited to take part in an Open House Tour spon- The University's first Poetry Workshop, a pioneer proj- sored by the Spruce Hill Community Association on Sun- ect of the English Department, was launched this month day, May 10. Approximately 14 places of interest in in the Dreiser Room of the Furness Library. University City, all within comfortable walking distance, Under the direction of Miss Jean Garrigue, noted poet will be open for the occasion. and recently one of the judges for the National Book The tour, part of the association's continuing effort to Award in poetry, the Workshop began its session April 2, promote Spruce Hill as a residential district of University and will continue for the balance of this semester. City, will begin at 2 P.M. sharp at the Divinity School, Dr. Allan G. Chester, Chairman of the English Depart- 42d and Spruce sts., where free, patrolled parking is to be ment, said in announcing the project that "the establish- provided during tour hours. ment of a poetry workshop on our campus marks a sig- Tickets are and include all admissions to $1.50 per person nificant step in the Department's continuing program as well as refreshments. They are available from the stimulate imaginative writing among our students. We are House Tour Committee, 4423 EV 6-3122, or who Osage ave., fortunate in obtaining the services of Miss Garrigue, may be purchased on the day of the tour. in addition to being a widely published poet of distinction, has had considerable experience as a teacher." LIBRARY AWARD (Continued from Page 1) Miss Garrigue, who is working with a group of about 14 students, is the author of five volumes of poetry, and has is a Pennsylvania alumnus and chairman of the Board of held many awards and grants, including those from the Fine Arts. Rockefeller Foundation, the National Institute of Arts and Associate Trustees of the University and members of the Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Board of Libraries and of the Board of Fine Arts witnessed She is the fifth visiting author to come to the Pennsyl- the in the J. Rosenwald Exhibition under presentation Lessing vania campus during the current academic year De- Hall, on the sixth floor of the library. The three groups had partment of English auspices. Others have been the novelist held separate meetings earlier in the day. and poet May Sarton, whose visit preceded Miss Garrigue's of the arrival a few Roth, Elizabeth The ceremonies were among the highlights city's by days; Philip Janeway, observation of National Week, held April 12-18. Denis Donoghue, and Archibald MacLeish, the latter in Library residence for a month. Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, University Professor of History and Director of Libraries, welcomed the guests and intro- duced Dr. Emerson Greenaway, director of the Free Li- Dr. Mitchell Heads University's brary of Philadelphia and a member of the National Book Committee executive board, and Donald Hunt, library New Human Resources Program career consultant at Drexel Institute of Technology and The University has launched a major new Human Re- executive director of National Library Week in Pennsyl- sources Program designed to assure equal opportunity in vania, who spoke briefly. education, human and industrial relations on its campus, A reception in the Rare Book Room followed the and has named Dr. Howard E. Mitchell as its head, presentation. President Harnwell announced this month. Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, the Philadelphia A psychologist who has been on leave from the Univer- architectural firm which designed the library, will receive sity, Dr. Mitchell returned to his duties here on April 1 a similar award at the 1964 AlA convention in St. Louis, with the new rank of Assistant Professor in the Graduate June 14-18. School of Education. During his absence he had served as The other winner of a First Honor Award in the college associate director for research and training of the Philadel- and was the Beinecke Rare Council for university library competition phia Community Advancement. Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. In his new capacity, Dr. Mitchell will coordinate student, and In citing the Van Pelt Library for first honors, the faculty administration concerns regarding equal op- awards termed it "an solution of the portunity in the areas of education, human and industrial jury ingenious prob- relations at lem of creating a large university library in scale with the the University. He plans shortly to convene a other academic series of meetings with representatives of various faculty buildings. and student "The library houses, in horizontal layers, three quite groups to assist in the development of the different units which in one structure: program. belong functionally Dr. the central reference and circulation services, and pro- Mitchell's work in this area will be carried on in vision for at the level of the collaboration with the University's Albert M. Greenfield undergraduates, beginning Center for Human Relations. entrances; next above, the research collections and the accommodations for advanced students and and, Before going on leave in February, 1963, he was Direc- faculty; tor of in under the roof, the special collections requiring a variety Research the Division of Family Study, Depart- of ment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine. ceiling heights. "The facade clearly expresses the functions within, fit- them a Law ting into unified whole," the jury concluded. Space Collection at Law Library Since its opening in June, 1962, the Van Pelt Library The Biddle Law Library of the University Law School has accommodated up to 5,000 students a day, compared has received from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Berger a special to the maximum capacity of 2,200 students in the old fund for the creation of a Space Law Collection, in memory Furness Library which it replaced. The Furness building of Anna and Jonas Berger. now houses the Graduate School of Fine Arts.

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Heart Assn. Names Dr. Cohn Cupp and Batten Elected Heads To Lifetime Research Post Of U. C. Science Center Corp. The American Heart Association this month named Paul J. Cupp and Harry A. Batten were elected presi- Dr. Mildred Cohn, Professor of Biophysics and Physical dent and vice president, respectively, of the University City Biochemistry, to the lifetime post of Career Investigator. Science Center Corporation late in March. The first woman to receive the award since it was begun The corporation was chartered last November to bring by the association 13 years ago, Dr. Cohn is the 11th into being a multi-industry research and development person now holding such a grant. center in University City. In a fruitful research career that already spans more is and chairman of Acme Markets, Inc. than two decades, Dr. Cohn, wife of a theoretical Cupp president physi- Batten is chairman of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., Philadel- cist and mother of three children, has made many valuable and co-chairman of the Greater contributions in fundamental which have phia advertising agency, biochemistry Philadelphia Movement. helped clarify the complex machinery through which the body cells make and use the chemical "fuel" they require Twenty-eight civic, business and educational leaders for their labors. were elected with Cupp and Batten to the corporation's board of directors. are: Dr. Cohn's new investigatorship provides an annual sum They to cover her entire salary, plus a $10,000 yearly grant to Gustave 0. Amsterdam, president and chairman of help underwrite the expenses of her laboratory. Its pur- Bankers Securities Corp. and chairman of the Philadelphia pose is to foster unrestricted research by medical scientists Redevelopment Authority; Charles E. Beck, president of of eminent ability and achievement. Philco Corp.; Richard C. Bond, president of John Wana- In recent years Dr. Cohn, the wife of Dr. Henry maker; Thornton F. Bradford, executive vice president Primakoff, Professor of Physics, has been concentrating of Atlantic Refining Co.; Edward G. Budd, Jr., president on studies to define in detail just how the cell fuel, a of the Budd Co.; William L. Day, chairman of the First substance called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, releases Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co.; Richardson Dilworth, the energy locked in its chemistry. former Mayor of Philadelphia, and Paul D'Ortona, presi- Muscles work and the heart beats, because of ATP. dent of City Council. The fuel also powers the construction of proteins, carbo- Also, Morris Duane, attorney; Wilfred D. Gillen, presi- hydrates, nucleic acids, and other life substances out of dent of the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania; F. Otto simpler chemical building blocks. Virtually every process Haas, president of Rohm & Haas Co.; Dr. William W. in the body requiring energy involves ATP. Scientists Hagerty, president of Drexel Institute of Technology; Dr. believe that a malfunction in the body's ATP machinery Gaylord P. Harnwell, President of the University of Penn- may underlie some diseases, among them certain heart sylvania; John C. Hetherston, the University's Vice ailments. President for Coordinated Planning; Edward Hopkin- In her investigation of ATP's relationship with the body son, Jr., senior partner of Drexel & Co., and former enzymes, Dr. Cohn is working with a new technique called chairman of the City Planning Commission; G. Joseph "nuclear magnetic resonance," or NMR, a powerful tool Keady, president of Philadelphia Steel and Iron Corp. which can measure, to a degree previously impossible, Also, Albert J. Nesbitt, chairman of ITT-Nesbitt, Inc.; very tiny changes in the chemistry and physical arrange- Howard C. Petersen, president of Fidelity-Philadelphia ment of biological substances. Trust Co.; Frederic A. Potts, chairman of the Philadel- "This is of immense importance in studying living sys- phia National Bank; R. Stewart Rauch, Jr., president of tems, because very minute changes in chemical environ- the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society; R. G. Rincliffe, ment and structure have profound physiological effects," chairman of the Philadelphia Electric Co.; Stuart T. says Dr. Cohn, one of the pioneers in the application of Saunders, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Mayor NMR to biochemical investigation. James H. J. Tate; Charles R. Tyson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Dr. Alfred H. Williams, Dr. Cohn took her bachelor's degree at Hunter College Co.; in 1931 and her Ph.D. in at Columbia former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Phila- physical chemistry and Morris Wolf, in 1938. She has worked closely with such Nobel Prize- delphia, attorney. winners in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics as Dr. "I have seldom seen so many leaders of large and suc- Harold Urey, Dr. Vincent DuVigneaud, and Drs. Carl and cessful enterprises united in a single venture," said Mr. Gerty Con, as well as in England with Nobel Laureate Cupp of his fellow-directors. "From their several positions, H. A. Krebs. She is now associated at the Johnson Foun- these men have all recognized that the Number One eco- dation here with its director, Dr. Britton Chance, a fore- nomic force in this country for years to come will be most in research. industry's application of new knowledge to the filling of figure biophysical human and national needs-and that this fact holds un- realized promise for the economy of the Philadelphia DR. GERBNER (Continued from Page 1) region." Dr. Gerbner has been a reporter and feature writer for President Harnwell, speaking on behalf of the Univer- the San Francisco Chronicle, has written free-lance ar- sity, declared that "we welcome the advent of the Uni- ticles, and was an editor and newscaster for the U. S. versity City Science Institute"-a wholly owned, non-profit Information Service. He is the author of many articles in subsidiary of the Science Center-"as an opportunity to scholarly journals, and is a member of several advisory carry the scientific capabilities of the academic community committees and research commissions in communications. a step nearer to the point where they are applied to social He and his wife have two children. and economic needs."

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Bob Kiphuth Begins Duties Hannah Named Comptroller The appointment of William M. Hannah of 100 Pine As Athletic Survey Director Tree Road, Radnor, as Comptroller of the University, was Yale's famed swimming coach, Robert J. H. ("Bob") announced by President Harnwell on February 25. Kiphuth, has been selected by the University of Pennsyl- Hannah comes to the campus from the Atlantic Refining vania to direct its survey of physical education and athletic Company where he has been consolidated accounting divi- plans and programs. sion manager. Earlier, he was a division comptroller with Kiphuth, who retired from coaching in 1959 and is now the Raytheon Company. professor emeritus of physical education at Yale, began A 1941 graduate of the University of Kentucky, Hannah his duties here April 13, shortly after his appointment is a certified public accountant and a member of the finan- was announced by Ernest Scott, chairman of the 12- cial Executives Institute, the American Institute of Ac- member athletic survey committee of the University. countants, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified The new director will athletic Public Accountants. study Pennsylvania's He succeeds Dr. Donald S. who in situation and will advise the survey committee on the Murray, January administrative and of the became Assistant to the President for Federal Relations. organizational composition Dr. had served as since 1961. physical education and athletic departments. He also will Murray Comptroller William J. Murdock served as Acting Comptroller prior inspect existing and planned facilities and advise the com- is Assistant and mittee on facilities for intercollegiate athletics, to Hannah's appointment. He Comptroller necessary Director of in the office. intramural sports, and physical education. Accounting Comptroller's Plans for the survey were announced in December by the executive board of the Trustees. The action was in line with a policy established in 1954 which recom- Trustees Revise Policy mended that Pennsylvania's physical education and ath- letic programs be reviewed at appropriate intervals in the On Scholarship Standing light of changing circumstances and conditions. A change in University policy, liberalizing the terms Kiphuth was selected by the Scott committee because of under which scholarship recipients may continue to hold his national reputation and outstanding stature in physical such grants, was approved by the executive board of the education and athletics. In December he was awarded a Trustees at its April 9 meeting. Presidential Medal of Freedom with the citation, "Teacher The change, approved by the University Council at its and coach, he has inspired generations of athletes with March meeting, provides that recipients of aid shall be high ideals of achievement and sportsmanship." required to maintain "an academic record satisfactory As a policy board, Mr. Scott's committee will work under the regulations of the undergraduate school in which closely with Kiphuth as he administers the survey. Both they are registered," rather than the C, or 2.0, average pre- he and the committee will confer with outside consultants viously required. The approved statement reads in full: who may be useful in shaping the survey and coming to "Undergraduate financial aid recipients are expected to proper determinations. maintain an academic record satisfactory under the regu- Based its own and and lations of the undergraduate school in which they are upon investigations experience a student on academic the program recommendations developed in conjunction registered; placed general probation with outside consultants, the committee itself will seek to by his school is not considered to be in satisfactory standing. is determined in June, on the basis of the make appropriate short and long term suggestions for "Eligibility of these recommendations at student's status at that time, for the full succeeding school implementation Pennsylvania. and is not redetermined on the basis of summer work At the conclusion, a will year, survey's comprehensive report or at the beginning of the spring term. In no case will aid be submitted to the University administration containing be revoked without consideration of the individual record the findings, basic program recommendations, and sug- and circumstances." gestions of the committee.

School of Social Service MCA Renews Writing Award The Music Corporation of America has renewed for a Conducts Institute second year the scholarship first offered in 1963 to a student interested in writing for the performing arts, The University's School of Social Work is conducting a according to Dr. Thomas Haviland, Associate Professor 10-week institute this spring at Harrisburg for 25 county of English in creative writing. child welfare workers from the Central Region of the The holder of the scholarship receives full tuition for Office for Children and Youth of the State Department of the college year and an additional $500 for incidental Public Welfare. The instructors are Dr. Roland Artigues expenses. MCA is now considering expansion of its and Dr. Herman Levin. The institute, which opened scholarship program by sending the recipient to its Holly- March 4, will hold an additional three sessions with child wood studios for summer study, transportation and living welfare supervisory, executive and field staff personnel, expenses paid. The scholarship is presently held by for coordination and evaluation of the program. Richard Watson, a senior in the College. On Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14, the School will Sophomores and juniors in the writing major who wish jointly sponsor with the Middle Atlantic Section of the to apply for the scholarship may obtain additional infor- National Jewish Welfare Board an advanced leadership mation from Dr. Haviland at Room 204, Annenberg School institute, to be held at the Faculty Club here. of Communications.

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in Philadelphia March 23-26 ... Dr. Al/red Senn, Chair- Other man of the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, was Among Things honored by his colleagues on his 65th birthday by a sur- L prise party at the Alden Park Manor on March 22. OUR AUTHORS: A collected edition of The Letters of CONGRATULATIONS: To Dr. James B. Pritchard, Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Dr. Frederick L. Jones, Professor of Religious Thought and Curator of Biblical in two vol- his a Professor of English, has just been published, Archaeology at the University Museum, on receiving umes, the Clarendon Press of Oxford and the Oxford decoration at the hands of Hussein I of Jordan during by King University Press in this country . . . Co-authors of a the latter's visit here April 13. The decoration was voted J. B. of Dr. Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing issued by by the Jordanian government in recognition Co. in are Dr. L. Kraeer Ferguson, Pritchard's contribution to the historical knowledge of Lippincott February he has Professor of Surgery in the Graduate School of Medicine, Jordan during seven archaeological expeditions and Mrs. Lillian Sholtis Brunner, of conducted there since 1951. formerly Supervisor Operating Rooms at University Hospital. role, Dr. Dr. Saul Sack, Associate Professor of Education, is the HONORS AND AWARDS: In a familiar Education W. Harnwell Professor of Industry in the author of a two-volume work, History of Higher George Taylor, in the Pennsylvania Wharton School, served early this month on the panel Pennsylvania, published recently by Johnson to seek a settlement of Historical and Museum Commission . . The McKinsey appointed by President Foundation Book Award was March 11 to Dr. the threatened nationwide rail strike . . . Earlier, Dr. presented Award" of the Adrian McDonough, Associate Professor of Industry, for Taylor received the "Pioneer Achievement and Frankford School Alumni Association on March 30 his recent work, Information Economics Management High as one of the five best books for manage- in the high school auditorium . . . Dr. Woodrow D. Systems, general Chief of the of ment published in 1963 ... Dr. Gerald Weales, Associate Schiosser, newly appointed Department Professor of has edited an entitled at Graduate Hospital, received an alumni English, anthology Otolaryngology Eleven Plays: An Introduction to Drama, published this citation April 10 from Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth- Disorders the town, for service to his month by W. W. Norton Co.... Clinical of Pa., outstanding profession. Heart Beat is the title of a new volume written by Dr. Samuel Bellet and Lea and Febiger. Dr. Frederick C. Gruber, Professor of Education, was published by elected recently to the Executive Committee of the Phil- TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS: Jerre Mangione, As- osophy of Education Society, of which he is program chair- sociate Professor of English, participated March 28 in the man for the Middle States section . . . Dr. Martin H. 1964 Conference on College Composition and Communi- Wendkos, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the cation held in New York City. He discussed the Univer- School of Medicine, has been elected this year to Fellow- sity's freshman composition program in a paper entitled, ship in the American College of Cardiology, the Council "A Program to Stimulate Writing." on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, Dr. Morse Peckham, Professor of lectured and English, and the Amercan College of Clinical Pharmacology March 18 at the Lehigh University English Colloquium on Chemotherapy. "Wordsworth's Notion of the Imagination," and on March 19 and 20 at the Humanities Workshop held for school The American Society of Mechanical Engineers honored superintendents at the State University of New York at Dr. Paul R. TrumpIer, Professor of Mechanical Engineer- Albany. There he took as his topic, "Alienation." him to the of Fellow in ing, recently by electing grade Dr. James E. Griffin, Assistant Professor of Physical that organization ... Dr. Anthony F. C. Wallace, Chair- of was elected re- Therapy in the School of Allied Medical Professions, at- man of the Department Anthropology, tended an invitational seminar on "Biomechanical Instru- cently to a one-year term as vice president of the section American Association for the Ad- mentation" at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., on anthropology of the March 3 ... Dr. deVries Klein, Assistant vancement of Science . . . Guy Anselmo, Jr., Assistant 31-April George Professor of Geology, participated in a Conference on Dean of Men, has received a letter of commendation from 4 at Island, Rear Admiral F. J. Becton, Commander of the Naval Estuaries held March 30-April Jekyll Georgia, for his effective work as and presented a paper entitled "Comparison of Ancient Reserve Training Command, and Recent Tidal Flat and Estuarine Sediments." Public Information Officer for the Navy's "Operation De- ployment East" last summer. Anselmo is a lieutenant in At the American Physical Society meeting held in Phila- the Naval Reserve . . . On March 9, Dr. Samuel Bellet, delphia on Thursday, March 26, Dr. Hiroshi Kimura, Re- Professor of Clinical Cardiology in the Graduate School search Associate in Metallurgical Engineering, presented of Medicine, was appointed to a Presidential Commission a paper on "Concentration of Vacancies in Gold Single to recommend steps to reduce the disability and death rate Crystals Deformed at High Temperatures." His co-author from heart disease, cancer and strokes . . . Dr. R. D. was Dr. Robert Maddin, Director and Professor of Metal- Matthews, who retires from the faculty of the Graduate lurgical Engineering ... At the same meeting Dr. Robert School of Education at the end of this semester, was Reynik presented a paper on "Self-Diffusion Theory of honored by his colleagues at a dinner April 23 in the Liquids," co-authored by Dr. L. A. Girifalco. Both are of Smith-Penniman-Harrison Room of Houston Hall the faculty of the School of Metallurgical Engineering ... Dr. William E. Stephens, Professor of Physics, was chair- Dr. W. Rex Crawford, Professor of Sociology and cur- man of the committee on arrangements for presentation rently a Fulbright Lecturer in Portugal, has completed a of the third annual High-Polymer Physics Prize of the series of lectures at the School of Social Science and Over- American Physical Society to Dr. Andrew Keller, of seas Politics, Lisbon, which that school has published in Bristol University, England, during the society's meeting book form.

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Dr. Derk Bodde, Professor of Chinese Studies, spent Dr. Frederick C. Gruber, Professor of Education, has three days in March as a Visiting Scholar of the University been invited to give two lectures this summer at the Uni- Center of Virginia, during which he lectured at Mary Wash- versity of Amsterdam, Holland, on American public edu- ington College, the University of Virginia, Sweet Briar cation and the training of teachers in America . . . Dr. College, Virginia Military Institute, Randolph-Macon Maurice A. Brull, Professor of Applied Mechanics, ad- Woman's College, Lynchburg College, and Hampden- dressed the Applied Mechanics division of the American Sydney College, on the subjects of "Confucianism," Society of Mechanical Engineers April 14 on "Modern "Taoism," and "China: Old Society and New Forces" Developments in the Theory of Shells" . . . During June Professor Louis B. Schwartz of the Law School spent the Dr. Martin H. Wendkos, of the School of Medicine, will month of February in India, in response to an invitation present papers at the 7th Interamerican Congress of Cardi- from U. S. Ambassador Chester Bowles to confer with ology in Montreal, and before the combined sections of American foreign service officers and Indian officials on Psychiatry and Medicine of the Hebrew University Medical problems in the regulation of business. School in Jerusalem . . . Dr. Man/red Altman, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, presented a paper Dr. MacEdward Leach, Professor of English, lectured on "Prospects for Thermal Energy Storage" in Cannes, on "Teaching the Short Story" at the annual spring meeting France, at the 6th AGARD Conference held March 16-20. of the Greater Philadelphia Council of Teachers of Eng- lish, held at the Bellevue-Stratford on April 11 . . . On March 24, Dr. Norman Kaplan, Associate Professor of Sociology, lectured on "The Values of Science, Scientists Shakespeare Memorabilia and Society" at the Colloquium on Science and Society at American University, Washington, D. C. . . . Dr. Albert In Professor of Anniversary Display Pepitone, Psychology, participated recently in The University joins this month in observing the 400th the European Conference on Experimental Social Psychol- of William birth with an exhibit held in Sorrento, At a of the anniversary Shakespeare's ogy Italy... meeting Phila- of many prized objects from the Horace Howard Furness delphia Suburban School Principals Association on March Memorial of 5, Dr. Eleanor S. Boll, of the Graduate School of Educa- Library Shakespeareana. tion, gave an address on "Adolescent Culture." On display from April 1 through April 24, the exhibit may be seen in a series of 17 cases within the Lessing J. Dr. Carl C. Chambers, Vice President for Engineering Rosenwald Exhibition Hall on the sixth floor of the Charles Affairs, attended an Institute for Engineering Deans spon- Patterson Van Pelt Library. The Furness Library is housed sored by the University of Southern California, Los in an area adjacent to the hall. Angeles, March 24-28 . . . Members of the Physics De- partment who assisted Dr. Stephens on the program com- Highlight of the exhibit is the Furness Library's set of mittee for the of the American each of the first four Folio editions. The first folio, dated Philadelphia meeting 1623, was Physical Society were Drs. Alan Heeger, Donald Langen- the first printing for many of Shakespeare's berg, and T. H. Wood . . . Dr. George Fisk, Associate plays. Other cases in the exhibit display works from which Professor of addressed members of the Re- Shakespeare drew information. Various forgeries of his Marketing, work search and Education Division of the U. S. Department of are also included. the Interior on 19 on March "Long Range Demand Pro- One of the Furness treasures, the 1709 Rowe jections of Leisure . . At Florida State Univer- Library's Spending". edition of Shakespeare's plays in the nine-volume set on sity in Tallahassee, Dr. A. Irving Hallowell, Professor is Emeritus of lectured March 17 on "The large paper, also being shown. It is one of perhaps six Anthropology, copies in existence. In a small satin-lined display case is Role of Dreams in Ojibwa Culture" . . . Dr. H. I. Gray, a of Associate Professor of Electrical in the Moore pair gloves reputed to have been Shakespeare's. The Engineering gloves, which have been traced back at least to School, served as a judge of mathematics and computers definitely at the Avenue Junior the mid-18th Century, were given to Furness by Fanny Kearny High School Science Fair Kemble, famed actress of the last held February 25 . . . Dr. Waldo R. Fisher, of the Bio- Shakespearean century. The special display also includes letters from Shakespear- chemistry Department, addressed the National Heart In- ean actors, Institute, Bethesda, March 4 on the results of his including Edwin Booth and Mrs. Kemble, to Md., the elder Dr. Furness, who assembled the 14,000-volume research, carried out jointly with Dr. Samuel Gurin, on Structure: collection as a working library. It was bequeathed to the "Lipoprotein The Demonstration of Covalently his son and namesake as a Bound Fatty Acids" . . . Dr. Sherman Frankel and Dr. University by memorial. Howard M. Brody of the Physics Department recently at- tended the conference held at the European Center of Nuclear Research, Geneva, on "Filmless Spark Chamber THE ALMANAC Techniques and Associated Computer Use" . . . Drs. Published monthly during the academic year by the Arthur B. DuBois, Richard H. Hyde, Robert L. Mayock, University for the information of its and Burton Zweiman, of the faculty of the School of Medi- faculty and staff cine, participated as panelists on WFIL-TV's Eye Witness The Editors are assisted by an Advisory Com- program March 10, entitled "The Air We Breathe" . . . Dr. mittee representing the Faculty, Administration, and Wilfred Malenbaum, Professor of Economics, organized a Personnel of the University. on "The Role of Government in Asian panel Economic Editor Frederic 0. Hyde Development" at the annual meeting of the Association Address Room 0-8, School for Asian Studies in March 22. He also read a Annenberg Washington, University of Pennsylvania Printing Office paper on "Government as a Schumpeterian Entrepreneur."