Provost Eiseley Welcomes Wharton Gets $700,000 Grant Class of 1964 to Campus For Curriculum Development Revision of the Wharton School's curriculum, Provost Loren C. Eiseley welcomed nearly 1400 mem- begun the academic received a tremendous bers of the incoming class of 1964 to the University at during past year, the summer in formal opening exercises in Irvine Auditorium on Friday, boost from the Ford Foundation during September 16. the form of grants totalling $700,000. The not The freshmen, who had spent the preceding week funds, designed to support only undergraduate instruc- together in orientation programs on the campus and in curriculum development but research and graduate separate men's and women's camps at Green Lane, were tion in business and economics, constituted the most sub- joined in the noontime exercises by a substantial number stantial item in a list of 152 grants and awards, from 17 of upperclassmen, and by faculty members who took part individual foundations and agencies, received by the in the academic procession to the auditorium. University between June 30 and September 1. Their Dr. Eiseley told the incoming students that they had aggregate amounted to $1,500,000. purchased a ticket for travel into an unknown future. Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, Provost, who announced the Where the ticket would allow them to disembark, however, Ford Foundation grant, said the curriculum development would be the result, he said, of a series of what might be at Wharton will result in the establishment of new courses regarded as small and innumerable choices made along in such fields as science, mathematics, and behavioral their pathway through school. studies, as well as in business subjects such as accounting, He pointed out that in any entering class, statistics management, marketing, and finance. new will reflect the would show that within a comparatively few years some All the courses underlying phil- students will unknowingly have purchased a ticket to way osophy of the new Wharton School curriculum, approved stations of eminence in the fields of arts, letters, and in principle by its faculty, which recognizes that the nature demand men with science; to some shabby back alley of life where eventually and requirements of business leadership they will disappear; to a sane, happy, well-balanced life educational experience in a wide variety of disciplines, as or to psychological misery. well as in the social and business subjects directly relevant "In many cases these decisions, if we can use that to the conduct of business in a modern society. The list of and awards received phrase, are the indirect results of life habits becoming fixed grants by department members, below for the summer and confirmed during the impressionable years of college heads and faculty given but offers a cross- life," the Provost declared. He explained that it is in this months, is not complete, representative period, to a very considerable degree, that the student loses section: his childhood innocence, and, with the world's DR. ISAAC STARR, chairman, therapeutic research. School of knowledge from the U. S. Public Health Service for of and evil him, makes the choices Medicine-$12,889 good weighing upon of clinical methods of strength of the heart. which later lead to disaster or to development estimating greatness. DR. WILLIAM DUNBAR, associate professor of clinical medicine, University Hospital-$l04,043 from the Office of Vocational Re- habilitation for rehabilitation training and teaching in medicine. President Harnwell Heads DR. SAMUEL GURIN, chairman, biochemistry, School of Medi- cine-$77,408 from the U. S. Public Health Service for a study l.C.A. Survey Team in Iran of the biosynthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids. DR. ALBERT M. KLIGMAN, professor of dermatology, School of President Harnwell and three other members of the Medicine-$12,462 from the U. S. Public Health Service for University's faculty and staff returned to the campus in studies in allergic contract. early September from an extended stay in Iran, where they ELIZABETH M. RALPH, research associate, Physics Department- studied the feasibility of establishing an American-type $22,200 from-the National Science Foundation for C-14 measure- university in that country. ments of known age samples. (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on the next page) THE ALMANAC WHARTON (Continued from Page 1) Television Credit Courses DR. EMILY MUDD, professor of family study in psychiatry. Mar- riage Council-$21,347 from the Pennsylvania Department of To be Offered Second Year Health for studies in alcoholism. The University's College of General Studies will DR. RALPH SHOWERS, associate professor, Moore School-$40,545 collaborate with Station WCAU-TV for the second suc- from the U. S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratories for a study of electric and field cessive year in presenting "Television Seminar," a program magnetic components. DR. IRVING H. LEOPOLD, chairman, Graduate of college television courses for credit, this fall. ophthalmology. P. Coffin, Associate School of Medicine-$2480 from the National Society for the Beginning October 3, Dr. Tristram Prevention of Blindness for a of lactic ac- Professor of will 126-TV, a study dehydrogenase English, present English tivity in cerebrospinal fluid and aqueous humor. course in American Folklore, on Monday, Wednesday, and DR. W. NORMAN BROWN, professor of Sanskrit in the Graduate Friday from 6:30 to 7 A.M. School of Arts and Sciences-$178,983 from the U. S. Office Beginning Tuesday, October 4, Dr. Norman D. Palmer, of Education for the preparation of instructional materials in Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Inter- Hindi, Urdu, and Persian and of a handbook on modern Iran. national Relations program, will present Political Science DR. WILLIAM A. SHAW and DR. JACOB BECK, psychology depart- 50a-TV, a course in International Politics, on Tuesday and ment, College-$34,300 from the National Science Foundation for a of context effects in relation to and visual Thursday at the same hours. Three semester credits will study auditory for the Folklore course and two for that in Inter- perception. be offered DR. GEORGE L. GRAHAM, associate professor of parasitology, national Politics. Both may be applied by properly Veterinary School-$8669 from the U. S. Public Health Service enrolled students toward an undergraduate degree. for a study of speciation in the nematode genus Stronnyloides. The courses are open to all who have either a high DR. JOHN A. FLICK, chairman, microbiology, School of Medi- school diploma or are more than 19 years old and capable cine-$12,697 from the U. S. Public Health Service for a study of doing college-level work. Credit students are charged of the characterization of some antibodies. the usual University tuition fee. DR. CHARLES E. WILDE, JR., professor of embryology, School of Associated in the production and direction of the pro- Dentistry-$5000 from the U. S. Public Health Service for cancer will be Lewis Barlow, the new Director control program. grams University's DR. DALE R. COMAN and DR. LEONARD BERWICK, of Radio and Television, who succeeds Paul B. Blanshard, department of pathology, School of Medicine-$24,095 from the U. S. Public Jr. Mr. Blanshard resigned in July to take up educational Health Service for studies on the external cell surface. work with the Friends Service Committee in Nigeria. DR. JONATHAN E. RHOADS, professor of surgery, Graduate School Mr. Barlow received his Master of Arts degree at the of Medicine-$24,525 from the American Cancer Society for a Annenberg School of Communications here in June. From study of enzyme activity patterns during regeneration and neo- 1954 to 1959 he was senior producer at WGBH-TV, the plastic growth of rat liver. station of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting DR. E. A. GUTKIND, research professor of urban studies-$l500 Council in Boston. He was graduated from New York from the American Philosophical Society for a history of cities. DR. WILLIS J. wINN, Dean, Wharton School-$700,000 from the University in 1951. Ford Foundation for a study of curriculum reform. DR. WILLIAM L. C. WHEATON, director, Institute for Urban Studies-$106,375 from the Ford Foundation for a study of urban University Hospital Host renewal. DR. ROBERT D. DRIPPS, chairman, anesthesiology, Graduate School To Visitors from Abroad of Medicine-$40.084 from the U. S. Public Health Service for Hospital representatives from some 36 countries visited a study of general anesthetic agents. the of the of DR. R. L. SOLOMON, psychology department. College-$43.044 Hospital University Pennsylvania, September from the U. S. Public Health Service for and 13, as part of a two-week study tour sponsored by the conditioning training Association and the International experiments. American Hospital DR. ADRIAN M. McDONOUGH, associate professor of industry, Hospital Federation. Wharton School-$3500 from the National Tire Dealers and The University Hospital, one of the nation's first to be Retreaders Association for a study of productivity factors involved founded as a teaching hospital allied with a medical school, in the retreading industry. played host to a group of the 200 tour participants. Other DR. HAROLD S. GINSBERG, School of Medicine-$20,152 from the host institutions for the tour's one-day visit to Philadelphia Army Medical Research and Development Command, for studies were Lankenau, and the Veterans Adminis- in the purification, characterization, and synthesis of components Pennsylvania, of adenoviruses. tration hospitals. Pavilion, of DR. AARON T. BECK, assistant professor of psychiatry, School of Following lunch at Gates Memorial guests Medicine-$44,916 from the U. S. Public Health Service for a the University of Pennsylvania Hospital were conducted of correlates of medical center. Visitors study psychological depression. on tours of the University's pri- DR.