VOL. 11, NO. 5 JANUARY 1965 Dr. Harnwell Announces Four Three Authors to be Guests Administrative Appointees Of English Dept. this Spring President Harnwell on January 6 announced four new Three well-known novelists and short-story writers will administrative appointments and promotions, effective at take part in the Visiting Authors program sponsored by the beginning of the calendar year. the Department of English during the present semester, Leonard C. Dill, Jr., who has directed alumni affairs it was announced recently by Dr. Allan G. Chester, Depart- activities at the University for the past 24 years, has been ment Chairman. named Associate Director of the Medical Bicentennial Ob- Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man and of servance, as a member of the staff of the Office of the Shadow and Act, will be on campus February 22-26 as a President. The Bicentennial marks the founding in 1765 member of the program. He will also give a Leon Lecture, of the School of Medicine, the nation's first medical school. on a subject to be announced, on the evening of Feb- Dr. Eugene P. Pendergrass is the Director. ruary 25. Robert F. Longley, former Dean of Men, has been ap- Mary Lavin, the Irish short-story writer, will follow Mr. pointed Acting Director of the University's Division of Ellison in the series, spending March 9-12 as a guest of Alumni Affairs. the department. Miss Lillian Burns, who is associated with the Planning May Sarton, novelist, poet and short-story writer, who Office, has been named to the post of Planning Coordinator. spent a week on campus during the spring semester of Francis M. Betts, Director of Houston Hall, has been 1964, will return March 22-April 2. As part of her campus made Assistant to the Vice President for Coordinated activity she will conduct a poetry workshop for creative Planning. Vice President is John C. Hetherston. writing students interested in writing poetry. Dill is a the 1928 graduate of University's College of Apart from the English Department program, Hortense Arts and Sciences. He was in the investment business and Calisher, the short-story writer and novelist, also will be an active alumnus, serving for 10 years as president of his an author-in-residence for the month of April. She is to class, before joining the University staff in 1940. be on campus under the auspices of students of the College Alumni activity, under his leadership, has involved wide for Women, and will reside at the Women's Residence Hall. participation of Pennsylvania graduates and is recognized as outstanding among privately endowed colleges and uni- versities in the United States. In 1952-53, Dill served as president of the American Alumni Council. He is active in civic affairs and on the boards of a number of business Senator Hill Addresses concerns, serving as board chairman of Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co. Founder's Day Convocation U. S. Senator Lister Hill of Alabama delivered the Longley was graduated from the College of Arts and prin- Sciences in 1955. for two in service cipal address Saturday, January 23, at the University's Except years military annual Founder's convocation in Irvine Auditorium. with the Army Security Agency, he has been associated Day with the University since that time, both in academic and Senator Hill, former Senate majority whip and co-author administrative posts. He has worked in the Alumni An- of the Hill-Burton Act, received the honorary degree of nual Giving program and was director of the New York Doctor of Laws at the hands of President Harnwell during and Suburban Area Development Committee from 1959 the convocation. to 1961, when he was appointed Dean of Men, a post he The program, traditionally held in mid-January to resigned this fall. observe the birthday of Benjamin Franklin on January 17, Miss Burns is a graduate of Hollins College and holds a was a major function in the series of events being held on (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 2) Dr. Jacob in India to Launch Dr. Stonesifer to Become Study of Policy Decisions Dean at Drew University Dr. Richard Stonesifer, Assistant to the Provost and Dr. Philip E. Jacob, Professor of Political Science, left 10 for India the Director of the College of General Studies, will leave Penn- December to initiate first phase of a five- at the end of the current semester to become Dean $545,000 cross-cultural of the social values sylvania year, study of the College of Liberal Arts at Drew University, Mad- which influence community leaders in the making of public ison, N.J. policy decisions. Dr. Stonesifer, who also holds the academic rank of Accompanying Dr. Jacob were Dr. Henry Teune, Assis- Associate Professor in the Annenberg School of Communi- tant Professor of Political Science, and Mrs. Jacob, who cations, came to Pennsylvania in 1963 from Franklin and assists her husband in his capacity as Director of the Uni- Marshall College, where he had been Assistant to the Presi- versity's Program of International Cooperative Research dent and Director of Public Relations. on Social Values and Political Behavior. A native of western Pennsylvania, he received his A.B. The study, to be conducted with the collaboration of degree cum laude at Franklin and Marshall in 1946. He political and social scientists from various American and took his M.A. at Northwestern University in 1947, and his foreign universities, is financed by a combination of grants Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. His under- from interested agencies. The largest of these, $400,000 is graduate career was interrupted by three years of service with the U.S. Air Force in the Second from the United States Agency for International Develop- England during ment, to finance the in India over a World War. While there he studied at Oxford and at Shri- exploratory phase venham American three-year period. University. He is the author of W. H. Davies: A Critical The Cultural Affairs Division of the U. S. State Depart- Biography, ment also has made available in and of numerous literary articles dealing with his specialty, $85,000 rupees for support British and American literature. of the first year of the study in India; $25,000 in dinars contemporary for the first in and in Dr. Stonesifer has been active in radio and television year Yugoslavia, $20,000 zlotys for since 1954, and is a member of the State the first in Poland. Other include $10,000 from Pennsylvania year grants Advisory Committee on Educational Broadcasting for the the McNeil Trusts of Philadelphia, to explore political of Public Instruction. behavior in the United States, and $5,000 from the Department National Science Foundation, for an inventory of relevant materials in this country. The study will focus on the identification, comparison Perkins Succeeds Dr. Bowden and measurement of those values held by community leaders which influence their policy decisions. It will be As Executive Director at HUP conducted along parallel lines in several countries and Ralph L. Perkins, Associate Director of University Hos- regions within countries, to secure cross-cultural compar- pital since November, 1963, has been named acting Exec- isons. During the first year it will concentrate on India, utive Director of that institution. His appointment was Yugoslavia, Poland and the United States, and on the announced December 11 by F. Markoe Rivinus, Chairman basis of this experience will be extended to other countries. of the Hospital's Board of Managers. Because research of this sort requires international Mr. Perkins succeeds Dr. John N. Bowden, who died scholarly cooperation, it will enlist the help of social sci- November 24. entists from different countries in the planning, conduct Before coming to the Hospital, Mr. Perkins had spent and evaluation of research. International teams will work 20 years as a career officer in the United States Public together at a community level, interviewing and codifying Health Service. From 1950 to 1963 he was administrative data with the help of computers. It is expected this process officer of the Staten Island Hospital in New York, the will strengthen native resources for social research applic- largest general medical and surgical hospital operated by able to political development. the Public Health Service. He has also held assignments Three of in West Virginia, Washington, D. C., Mississippi, Louisi- years preliminary study, financed by the Ford ana, Ohio and Maine. and Rockefeller Foundations, have been undertaken on this project by Professor and Mrs. Jacob. A native of Orono, Me., Mr. Perkins received his bach- elor's degree at the University of Maine in 1935, and an M.S. in hospital administration at Columbia University in 1950. He is a lecturer at the Columbia School FOUNDER'S DAY (Continued from Page 1) University of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, and a past or near campus this year to mark the 200th anniversary president of the school's alumni association. of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Hospital Founder's Day exercises were preceded on Friday, Administrators and a member of the American Hospital January 22, by the University's initial Medical Bicentennial Association and the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania. Scientific Conference, which brought to the campus scien- Mr. Perkins is the author of several articles for tific from hospital investigators this country and abroad to report publications. He has made numerous presentations at on their latest findings. American Hospital Association institutes, and at annual Panel topics included "Oxygen Transport and Hyper- meetings of that association. baric Oxygenation" and "Cardiovascular Disease." A sec- He is married and has two daughters.