Luce, Harris Named

University ProfessorsTwo faculty members were named

University Professors by the Board ofTrustees during their meeting lastmonth. They are Dr. Robert DuncanLuce, professor of psychology, and Dr.

Zellig Harris, professor of linguistics.University professorships were estab-

lished at Pennsylvania in 1961 to honorthose faculty members who are particu-larly distinguished in scholarship andwhose contributions to knowledge havebeen made in more than one discipline,rather than in a narrow field of speciali-zation. Dr. Luce and Dr. Harris are theeighth and ninth scholars to be namedUniversity Professors.

Dr. Luce was graduated from Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology with aB.S. in aeronautical engineering and ob-tained his Ph.D. in mathematics therefive years later. Before coming to Penn-sylvania in 1959, he held positions atMIT, Columbia University and Har-vard. (continued on page 2)

Faculty, Administration Give$3 Million to Capital CampaignA total of 1,630 faculty and staff

members of the University of Pennsyl-vania have given $3,288,682 anony-mously to its Development Program,Wilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the

University's trustees, announced inDecember.

It is believed that this is the larg-est amount ever contributed by anyfaculty and administration to a campaignof this kind. Over 50 percent have con-tributed to the campaign.

Gillen said the faculty-staff gifts hadgiven the campaign "its greatest inspira-tional lift.""Our teachers and supporting staff

have told us in a most convincing waythat they believe in what we are doing,"he commented. "They set their ownquota of $3,000,000. Having topped it,they are shooting for more. Our vol-unteer workers and donors throughout

Proposal Limits University ResearchTo Projects Which Are PublishableA proposal limiting University re-

search to projects whose results are pub-lishable was passed 106 to 35 by theFaculty Senate at their meeting Novem-ber 27.The bill, earlier adopted by the Uni-

versity Council, was proposed by LawSchool professor Paul Mishkin. Mish-kin is chairman of the Committee onImplementing University Policy in theConduct of Research Programs whichproduced the policy statement.According to the statement, all exist-

ing contracts of grants requiring formalsecurity notification will be phased out

the country couldn't ask for a more

heartwarming vote of encouragement."It is hoped that by the May Trustees

meeting, at least 75 percent of the facultyand staff will have participated.

Leading the appeal among the aca-demic faculties is Dr. George 'W. Taylor,Harnwell Professor of Industry andnoted labor mediator; among the medicalfaculties, Dr. Richard H. Chamberlain,chairman of the Radiology Departmentin the School of Medicine; and amongthe administrative staff, Dr. Donald S.Murray, assistant to the president forfederal relations and professor ofstatistics.

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or revised to exclude such a requirementas rapidly as possible; in no event willany such contract or grant be renewed orextended for more than one year beyondits present expiration, nor in any casebeyond June 30, 1970.The policy statement sets up new

procedures in accepting, carrying out,publicizing and administrating researchprojects.The University, the statement says,

as a corporate entity" can accept onlyexternal research contracts "whose prin-cipal purpose is to produce results which

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Appropriations ApprovedState appropriations to the University,

totaling $11,227,845, were approved bythe Legislature in the closing hours ofits 1967 session.The amount represents a five percent

reduction in the amounts recommendedby Governor Shafer in his budget mes-sage last spring. The cuts produced finalallocations of $2,004,800 to the Schoolof Medicine; $1,352,800 to the School ofVeterinary Medicine; $95,000 to theUniversity Museum; and $7,775,245 tothe general operating fund of the Uni-versity.The appropriations are for the 1967-

68 fiscal year, which began last June30th. Approval had been delayedbythepolitical deadlock over revenue measuresrequired to produce the funds.

State appropriations represent about 8percent of the University's total operat-ing income, but a substantially largerproportion of the "core" budget for basiceducational expenses.

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Council To Have StudentsOn Three CommitteesThe University Council voted Decem-

ber 13 to admit undergraduate represent-atives to membership on three of itscommittees-undergraduate affairs, plan-fling and development, and continuingeducation and community services.The Council's action will allow two

student representatives to sit on eachof the committees. Only one student voteper committee will be allotted. However,non-voting students on each committeewill succeed to voting positions the fol-lowing year.

Student representatives on the Com-mittees had been recommended October5 by the University Forum, an advisorygroup of students, faculty and admin-istrators. On November 22 the SteeringCommittee of the University Councilvoted to recommend the proposal.

University Professors(continued from page 1)

Dr. Luce is considered one of the fore-most theoretical psychologists in theworld today. He has done extensive re-search in the application of mathematicaltechniques in the social and behavioralsciences, particularly in game theory andutility theory. The author of over 69journal articles and numerous books,he is a member of the Society of Experi-mental Psychologists and the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Harris has been a member of thefaculty since 1931 and received his B.A.,M.A., and Ph.D. here. He was the firstchairman of the reconstituted Depart-ment of Linguistics and served as suchfor fifteen years.

Dr. Harris has been concerned withmethods used in structural linguistics andhis work helped lay the groundwork fortransformational grammar. Particularlyinterested in the mathematical analysisof linguistic structure, Dr. Harris is cur-rently attempting to convert chemicalnotation into linear form and is respon-sible for developing a research projecton information retrieval that has beengoing on for several years under federalauspices.

Dr. Harris is a former President ofthe Linguistics Society of America, apast editor for the American OrientalSociety and a member of several otherorganizations including the AmericanPhilosophical Society.

Alumni SeminarsProve Successful

Academic seminars conducted by theUniversity for alumni in Puerto Ricohave proved so successful, similar sessionsmay be held in other cities across thecountry.The seminars, held December 1 and 2

in San Juan, were conducted under theauspices of the Alumni Relations office.Eight faculty members participated, in-cluding President Harnwell.One of the most successful enterprises

of this nature planned by the University,the Seminars drew over 800 participantsin their two-day program. Approxi-mately 35 percent of those attendingwere alumni and the rest interestedbusiness, government, and educationleaders.The idea of the seminars originated

with alumni in Puerto Rico (numbering400) who wanted to sponsor an educa-tional program which would be non-fundraising. A year's planning went intothe eight seminars which ranged fromlabor relations to the cultural heritageand future of Puerto Rico.

Faculty members taking part in theprogram included Dr. Irwin Friend, pro-fessor of economics and finance, whoparticipated in the seminar on recentdevelopments in the U.S. financial mar-ket; Dr. Dan McGill, chairman andprofesssor of insurance, who participatedin two seminars, one entitled "Insurance-Property, Liability & Casualty" andthe other entitled 'Life Insurance"; andDr. Froelich Rainey, Director of theUniversity Museum who spoke at lunchand later took part in the seminar on thecultural heritage and future of PuertoRico.Others participating included Dr.

Reavis Cox, professor of marketing,who took part in the seminar on market-ing; Dr. John Lubin, director of theComputer Center and associate professorof industry who dealt with computeriza-tion; Dr. Howard Mitchell, director andprofessor of Human Resources Programwho took part in the seminar on sociologyand human relations; and Walter Isard,chairman and professor of regional sci-ence who along with Drs. Friend, Cox,and Mitchell participated in the semi-nar entitled, "Some Aspects of Invest-ment in the Petrochemical Industry inPuerto Rico." President Harnwell dis-cussed universities and their obligationsto the community at dinner the first day.

Fels Institute StudiesUse of System AnalysisA demonstration project to evaluate

the use of advanced techniques of sys-tems analysis in solving major urbanproblems has been undertaken by theFels Institute of Local and State Gov-ernment through its Government StudiesCenter. The year-long project, which isfunded by a grant from the U. S. De-partment of Housing and Urban Devel-opment, is being conducted in cooperationwith the International City ManagersAssociation, the American Society ofPlanning Officials, and the National Bu-reau of Standards.According to Charles P. Cella, Ad-

ministrator of the Government StudiesCenter, the project will include two one-week symposia for selected city managersand urban planning directors. Controlledexperiments will be conducted involvinggovernmental policy bodies, city execu-tives and staff, faculty members of uni-versities near the cities chosen for theexperiments, and research staff of theGovernment Studies Center.The first of the symposia was held

at the Municipal Services Building inPhiladelphia, November 12-17, with fif-teen city managers and sixteen planningdirectors from cities throughout theUnited States attending.At the second symposium, to be held

in August or September of 1968, resultsof the experimental projects will be eval-uated and recommendations formulated.

Robert McCorkle Dies;Head of Printing Office

Robert C. McCorkle, director of theUniversity's Printing Office since 1963,died November 16 at Graduate Hospitalafter being stricken at work the previousmorning. He was 36.

Before becoming Printing Office di-rector, McCorkle was associated withA. Pomerantz & Co., printers, in Phila-delphia. From 1955 to 1957 he was acompositor at The Wistar Institute andin 1957 joined the printing office as as-sistant production manager later becom-ing production manager.McCorkle was active in organizing

the American Association of College andUniversity Printers. He received theAssociate in Business Administration de-gree from the University's 'WhartonSchool of Finance and Commerce eve-ning division in 1961.

JANUARY, 1968 3

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will be freely publishable in the ordinarymanner of open research. .The only acceptable restrictions, it

notes, deal with protection of the iden-tity of a sponsor and of his privilegedinput data according to normal standardsof professional ethics.The University will consider permit-

ting delay but not denial of publicationfor a period not to exceed one year forpatent purposes and not to exceed threemonths for purposes of receiving a spon-sor's comment on a publication.The policy prohibits funding agencies

from exercising influence in the selectionor promotion of faculty members, formu-lating policy, or supervising any researchat the University.The University, however, may invite

an outside agency to give advice on itsoperations.The Federal government is required to

operate under the restrictions requiredof all other agencies. The statementcalls the combination of the "scale andscope of Government research activities

a special problem."The statement refers to the former

policy-whereby the University wastreated as a company able to negotiateconventional industrial-government con-tracts after receiving "facility clearance"-as a source of conflict.The new policy limits the involvement

of University personnel in industrial-government work "strictly to an indivi-dual capacity."

"University personnel and studentswho require access to classified data formore effective pursual of their academicresearch may, as individuals, apply forand receive security clearances and there-fore become individually responsible forclassified data under applicable federalstatutes. In their individual capacitythey may prepare classified or restrictedreports for sponsoring agencies. Facultymembers are urged to make this decisionwith great care, however, since it isclear that restrictions on their abilityto communicate freely with colleagues,research students and classes may resultin their diminished participation in theacademic community."The University will in no event re-

quire or suggest that any faculty member,student, academic or policy-making bodyofficer obtain Government security clear-

ance, nor will it exercise any initiativein seeking clearance for such a person.The statement also asks that faculty

members make every effort to eliminateclassified work from research leadingtoward academic degrees.

Government AgenciesAbandon Secret Funding

Twenty-one Government agenciespledged last month to abandon secretfunding of academic research on foreigncountries.

In a report released by an inter-agencycommittee of the State Department, 14guidelines were outlined aimed at clari-fying the use of government money insupport of scholarly research. Amongthe rules laid down was the statementthat "the fact of government researchsupport should always be acknowledgedby sponsor, university and researcher."The principles have been accepted by

the Central Intelligence Agency andother intelligence branches as well asmajor government departments (suchas Health, Education and Welfare andthe National Science Foundation) in-volved in support of academic researchin the social and behavioral sciences.Projects involving the natural sciencesare not covered by the guidelines nor isresearch that does not involve foreignareas.The code does not have the legal au-

thority of an Executive order and con-tains no provisions for enforcement.Officials expressed the belief, however,that having publicly endorsed the codeno agency could safely continue a prac-tice that has spread confusion and re-sentment in this country and abroad.Among other points in the statement

of principles are the following:" The Government must not do any-

thing that would call into question theintegrity of academic institutions.*Agencies should encourage open

publication of the results of Govern-ment-sponsored research, though the"practical needs of the nation in themodern world" may require somesecrecy." Research projects should be designed

to advance general knowledge as well asmeet immediate policy needs." The Government agency must in-

form the scholarly institutions of theuse to be made of the research.

All rules permitting classified thesesr dissertations or research in prepara-ion thereof shall be repealed at once,ut without prejudice to any student nowmbarked upon such a project.In view of the foregoing, the state-

rnent says, "The University will noLonger have 'the need to know' the con-tent of any classified input data receivedD individually responsible professors."The policy allows University faculty

to collaborate with commercial and in-dustrial concerns, providing that alluch work is approved by the department:hairman, dean of the school and Provostr appropriate vice-president.The commercial firm is limited in the

imount of publicity it can give Uni-versity-involved projects.The statement includes the provision,

formulated in earlier statements, allow-ing for exceptions to the general policyin national emergencies or in responseto urgent needs.

Responsibility for the execution ofUniversity research policy is delegatedto the Vice Provost for Research (cur-rentl Dr. John Hobstetter) who actswith the advice of a faculty committeeon research policy (presently the jointCouncil-Senate Committee on Imple-menting University Policy in the Con-duct of Research Programs).

It is the duty of the Vice Provostto submit for consideration by that com-mittee any proposed research contractsor grants which may raise any questionof non-compliance.

Thomas Woody LibraryDedicated in DietrichThe Thomas Woody Memorial Li-

brary and Seminar Room, named forthe late Dr. Woody of the School ofEducation, was dedicated November 30in the Penniman Library of Dietrich.Mrs. Woody was present.

Dr. Woody, a member of the facultyfor 41 years, was an educational histor-ian interested in comparative education.The seminar room will be reserved forstudents both in the history of educationand in comparative education.

Dr. Roy F. Nichols, emeritus professorof history, gave the main address, andJames C. House, sculptor and associateprofessor of fine arts, spoke on the art-ist's conception of Thomas Woody.

Procedures Outlined for Conducting Research Projects

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Last month marked the third anniver-sary of the campaign for $93,000,000for new buildings and endowment.Nearly 76 percent of the goal has beenreached, Gillen reported. He said$70,537,452 had been received fromalumni, parents, other friends, founda-tions, business, and University personnel.

Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, president,said the campaign had enabled the Uni-versity to make a normal decade's pro-gress in three years."We can see materializing a campus

such as once might have been thoughtimpossible in a city as large as Phila-delphia," he observed. "We have reachedthe point where the remaining gaps inthe program are outnumbered by itsachievements. Now we are ready toclose the gaps."Ten major campus buildings have been

completed and eight others started-many of them with the help of state andfederal agencies-since the campaign wasannounced November 29, 1964, Gillenreported. In addition, 20 new professor-ships have been fully or partly endowed.A corollary goal of $2,000,000 a year

in annual giving for current operationsis only "one step away," he said. Yearlygifts for current use reached $1,904,000in the year ended last June 30, a gainof 39 percent since the DevelopmentProgram was announced.

In what Gillen called "other examplesof family loyalty," the University's pre-sent and former trustees have given$15,400,000 and Pennsylvania alumni,including trustees, have contributed$21,970,594.

National foundations have given$10,844,500; corporations, $8,722,532;parents of students, $174,470; and otherfriends of the University, $13,520,024.In addition, $12,006,650 has been re-ceived in bequests for program objectives.The campaign totals do not include

grants from public agencies. Gillen saida "partnership" of the General StateAuthority of Pennsylvania with the Uni-versity's private benefactors had been akey factor in the progress of the buildingprogram. He said construction grantshad also been received from variousfederal agencies.The ten buildings erected since the

campaign was announced are the Lab-oratory for Research on the Structure of

Matter, buildings for the GraduateSchool of Education, the School of SocialWork, the Psychology Department, theMoore School of Electrical Engineering,and the physical sciences; Stiteler Hall,auditorium and classroom building; theDietrich Graduate Library Center;the Franklin Building, housing Uni-versity service departments, and the Ber-nard F. Gimbel Gymnasium.A fine arts building will be completed

early in 1968 and the William M. I-loll-enback Center for military science andathletics next spring.

Under construction also are a centerfor economics, sociology and regional

Butler, Evans DirectDevelopment ProgramsTwo new appointments in the develop-

ment office were recently announced.John P. Butler, III, has been named di-rector of annual giving at the Universityand James D. Evans, Jr., has been nameddirector of the bequest and deferredgifts program.

Butler is a native of Philadelphia,a 1955 graduate of St. Joseph's Prepara-tory School, and a 1959 graduate of theUniversity of Pennsylvania.He joined the University development

staff in 1962. Prior to his new appoint-ment, he served as, successively, assistantto the director of annual giving and pro-ject director, Capital Campaign Office,with responsibility for Philadelphia andthe western and southern divisions ofthe U.S. While assistant to the directorof annual giving, he was active in theestablishment and administration of theCommittee for a Greater Pennsylvania.

Evans joined the University staff in1960 as business administrator of thechemistry department. In 1963, he wasappointed assistant to the dean of theLaw School for alumni affairs and de-velopment. Prior to joining the Uni-versity, he served as president of theSchuylkill Transit Company.

In his new position, Evans aids bene-factors of the University to establishlife income agreements, charitable trusts,and bequests.

Evans is a native of Haverford andwas graduated from the HaverfordSchool in 1940. He received a B.A. in1944 from the University of Pennsyl-vania, where he majored in economics.

science; buildings for medical teachingand research and oral health sciences;additional squash courts, and an additionto James M. Skinner Hall, the FacultyClub. The old main building of the LawSchool is being converted into a legallibrary and research center; BennettHall, a classroom building, is being ren-ovated as headquarters for the EnglishDepartment.The $93,000,000 goal is based on

objectives requiring $58,000,000 in pri-vate funds in the academic, or non-medical, areas of the University and$35,000,000 in the medical sciences andhealth professions.

William L. Day, chairman of theFirst Pennsylvania Banking and TrustCompany, heads the campaign for theacademic objectives. Thomas A. Brad-shaw, president of the Provident MutualLife Insurance Company, is chairman ofthe medical campaign.

Gillen expressed hope that the aca-demic goal would be reached next springand the medical goal within the fol-lowing year.

IBM MatchmakingProves ProfitableTwo University of Pennsylvania sen-

iors donated the proceeds of their non-profit electronic matchmaking service-$93.50-to the University's AlumniAnnual Giving Campaign last month.

Kenneth Furst, 21, and his partner,Abe Shore, 21, cleared that amount byfinding dates for 245 Pennsylvania un-dergraduates at 40 cents per match.Every applicant to their Computer Dat-ing Service received the name of at leastone suitable member of the opposite sex,and some as many as eight.IBM lent time on a 7040 computer for

the high-speed matchmaking, and theboys designed the questionnaire, debuggedthe program and hired clerical help. Toguard identities they gave each clienta number, and in difficult cases theymanaged to achieve matches by choosingwhich qualifications to make expendable.

Furst is a finance and accountingmajor in the Wharton School, and Shoreis a chemistry major in the College. Bothregistered with their own service, theysaid, but were too busy running the oper-ation to take time to call the girls theircomputerized "Dolly" found for them.

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Capital Campaign In Third Year; 76% of Goal Reached

JANUARY, 1968

1966-67 Fiscal Reports

"Illuminate a Paradox"The University of Pennsylvania last

month issued formal financial reports forthe fiscal year 1966-67 which, in thewords of President Gaylord P. Ham-well, "illuminate a paradox.""On the one hand are signs of growth,

evidence of the University's successfulpursuit of its mission," Dr. Harnwellsaid. "On the other is an increase in the

gap between revenues and the costs of

operation."Gifts, bequests, and grants from pri-

vate sources totaled $21,013,944, second

highest in the University's history. The

figure was topped only by the previousyear's record of $23,494,228.

Current operating income increased

by more than $16 million over the pre-vious year, reaching $117,988,268. Butcurrent expenditures increased by morethan $17 million, totaling $119,673,540.As a result, the operating deficit rosefrom $872,769 in 1965-66 to $1.685,272for 1966-67.

Dr. Harnwell, noting "a progressiveshift in our operating position from amodest surplus five years ago to a sub-stantial deficit," declared that "this is asituation now familiar to all independentcolleges and universities, not exceptingthe most distinguished and most gener-ously endowed."He attributed the problem in part to

the response of colleges and universitiesto society's demands for "an increasingrange of services, each rendered at aloss," and in part to increases in basiceducational costs "at a rate which out-strips the rise in available income fromsuch sources as tuition and endowment.""Students are no longer able to pay

the proportion of the cost which has inthe past been considered their fair share,"Dr. Harnwell said. "At the Universityof Pennsylvania, more than half the full-time students are receiving financialassistance; any increase in tuition requiresa commensurate increase in the aid thereceive.The University's financial report

showed income of $26,251,005 in tuitionand fees, an increase of about $3.5 mil-lion over the previous year. Expendituresfor salaries totaled $65,507,757, an in-crease of $8.4 million, while scholarships,fellowships, and other student aid cost$8,881,546 as compared to $6,523,009in 1965-66.

Governor Raymond P. Shafer lastmonth signed a bill creating the Penn-sylvania Higher Education FacilitiesAuthority which will facilitate the ac-quisition of low-cost student housing bythe University.The bill creates an organization sim-

ilar to the New York State DormitoryAuthority, which has helped private col-leges and universities in New York toconstruct more than $400 million in newfacilities since 1955. The new Authorityhas the power to acquire land, construct,improve and furnish buildings, operateprojects and lease and dispose of them.

As explained by the Governor'soffice, the new Authority will not belimited to constructing housing units butwill be able to finance and constructvaried projects for non-profit institu-tions and universities.

Under the terms of the bill, theAuthority would float the bonds neces-sary to finance each project and wouldthen lease it to the school sponsoring it.

The bill includes a clause that allowsthe Authority, with the consent of theschools involved, to combine the reservesout of lease rentals and divide them asneeded among the participating colleges.The bill not only had the Governor's

support but was also backed by the Penn-

"The critical years which have beenforecast for at least a decade are nowquite clearly here," Dr. Harnwell said.'They call for the most conscientiousstewardship on the part of our institu-tions of higher learning, and they callalso for energetic and imaginative ap-proaches to the problem of their support."The $21,013,944 in gifts, grants, and

bequests included those designated forpurposes other than current operatingcosts. The total represented more than38,000 individual gifts, of which some35,000 came from alumni. They rangedfrom the Ford Foundation's $4,000,000for acceleration of Ph.D. programs inthe humanities and social sciences totoken contributions of a dollar or even

Almost 31 percent of the total wascontributed by alumni. Other individ-uals gave about 22 percent, foundations33 percent and corporations 14 percent.

sylvania Association of Colleges andUniversities.

Stuart Carroll, Secretary of the Cor-poration, represented the University atthe bill's signing and presented the Gov-ernor with a letter from President Ham-well thanking Shafer for his leadershipin getting the bill passed.

Students Receive$12 Million in Aid

Students at the University received arecord $12 million in financial aid dur-ing the 1966-67 academic year, withmore than half of all full-time studentsreceiving some assistance according to areport released by the office of studentfinancial aid. Almost 5,000 students inthe graduate divisions and schools, pro-fessional schools, and special programsreceived aid while 1,000 undergraduatesreceived aid equal to or exceeding fulltuition and fees.

Preliminary reports for the 1967-68academic year indicate that approxi-mately 55 per cent of the incoming fresh-man class are receiving financial aid.The report notes that some of the in-

crease in aid was partially due to revisedCollege Scholarship Service (CSS)standards to provide financial aid to morestudents from "middle income" families.The new CSS standards, scheduled fornationwide application with the class en-tering next autumn, have been in effectat the University for two years. CSSstandards for student financial aid areused by over 900 colleges and univer-sities.

"Students from 'middle-income' famil-ies, those with income available for usesother than maintenance of the household,frequently need financial aid because ofspecial family expenses," explainedDouglas R. Dickson, director of studentfinancial aid at the University. "Thisdoes not mean that families previouslyeligible for financial aid will receive anyless aid. Rather, this is an over-all ex-pansion of the student financial aid pro-gram," he said.The principal source of new financial

aid this year was an increase of morethan $1 million in funds budgeted bythe University. Commonwealth Scholar-ships for members of the classes of 1969and 1970 accounted for an increase ofapproximately $300,000 and a federalEducational Opportunity Grant pro-vided an additional $76,800.

Authority Will Aid Penn To Build Low-Cost Housing

Demand for Teachers,Administrators RisesA report released from the Division

of Educational Placement indicates thatthe demand for teachers and school ad-ministrators is increasing rapidly.

According to Marette Quick, assistantdirector of placement, and Ralph S.Dierkens, teacher placement counselor,over 15,000 vacancies were reported totheir office last year for elementary and

secondary teachers. More than 1,000

job openings were reported for two-yearcolleges and 7,550 university and admin-istrative jobs were available.They point out that opportunities were

especially good for those interested inschool administration, particularly in

elementary, secondary, junior and com-

munity colleges. Because administrativevacancies in two-year colleges demandless specialized competence and a broaderbase of academic preparation, increased

placements were made in the generalareas of social sciences and physicalsciences.

Positions in 41 fields of college teach-

ing and administration were reported tothe office. Although the greatest numberof vacancies in college teaching were inthe field of education, the greatest in-crease of jobs occurred in economics andthe various fields of applied economics.

Average salaries for college teachingappointments in 1966-67 were $9,278for men and $7,984 for women. Salariesranges for men excluding administrativeappointments, were from $6,000 to$16,500; for women, from $5,800 to$12,400.

Dr. Sevag, 70, Is Dead;Famed Microbiologist

Dr. Manasseh G. Sevag, emeritus pro-fessor of medical microbiology at the

University and a researcher in drug-resistant bacteria died November 23 atthe age of 70.

Dr. Sevag came to the United Statesin 1920 after earning a B.A. degree fromSt. Paul's College in Tarsus, Armenia.He attended Yale University for a yearand received his Ph.D. in organic chem-istry from Columbia University in 1929.After spending four years as a Rocke-feller Fellow at the Robert Koch Insti-tute in Berlin, he was appointed researchassociate in bacteriology at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Sevag's primary research was inthe field of bacterial physiology, immuni-

Sculpture From SolomonsOn Display at Museum

Sculpture from the Eastern SolomonIslands is now being shown in the Uni-versity Museum and will continue to beon display through May. The piecescomprise a collection made by Dr. Wil-liam H. Davenport, curator of the Mu-seum's Oceania Section, who spent 14months living in the Solomons.Most of the 125 objects are religious

and ritual pieces, including a dozenlarge house posts carved to depict sacred

legends and myths; ritual food bowlsused in communion rites with pagandeities; and commemorative sclupturefor the dead.

Although the collection represents atraditional style going back hundreds of

years, some of the pieces were commis-sioned by Dr. Davenport and producedby native artists and artisans. The sourceof each object and its fabrication andiconography are well documented, mak-

ing this one of the very few exhibitions of

primitive art to be presented in theUnited States for which the completecultural background, meanings and usesof the objects, as well as information onthe artists, are known in detail.

Publication Available

The National Research Council hasissued a publication, Fellowship and Re-search Opportunities in the Mathemat-ical Sciences, listing awards available,their closing dates and all other pertinentinformation. It is available free fromthe Division of Mathematical Sciences,National Research Council, 2101 Con-stitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.20418.

catalysis and in the development of sub-stances to prevent germs from resistingdrugs. He was the author of more than125 scientific papers and a contributorto three textbooks.He was a fellow of the New York

Academy of Sciences and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Sci-ences and was a charter member of theAmerican Academy of Microbiology. In1965 he was one of the first foreign mem-bers elected to the American Academy ofSciences. He founded the Armenian His-torical Research Association in 1963 andserved as its first president.

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Dr. Roland AppointedChairman of Neurology

Dr. Lewis P. Rowland, a neurologistwho is widely known for his work on thebiochemical bases of inherited neurologicdisorders, has assumed the post of chair-man and professor of neurology at the

University's School of Medicine.Dr. Rowland also directs the neu-

rology department's Biomedical Centerfor Clinical Neurological Disorders andis chairman of the faculty committee

charged with organizing a new inter-

departmental course in neurobiology inthe medical school.The new chairman comes from Co-

lumbia University's College of Phy-sicians and Surgeons where he was pro-fessor of neurology. A member of theColumbia faculty since 1953, Dr. Row-land was Co-director of the NeurologicalClinical Research Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center for the

past six years.Coming to the University with Dr.

Rowland are neurologists Dr. Donald L.Schotland, associate professor; Dr.Leon Prockop, assistant professor; andDrs. Audrey Penn and William Bank,instructors. Dr. Schotland is a cytologistand electron microscopist. Dr. Prockop'sresearch concerns cerebrospinal fluid; hewill be in charge of the medical school'sclinical neurology service at PhiladelphiaGeneral Hospital.

Saunders ReceivesGold Medal Award

Stuart T. Saunders, chairman of theboard of the Pennsylvania RailroadCompany, received the eighteenth annualGold Medal Award of the WhartonSchool Alumni Society November 29 forhis ". . . distinguished leadership in thepromotion of public understanding ofbusiness, for his inspired performance in

management, and for his personal con-tributions to American business andhigher education."

Saunders was named chairman of theboard and chief executive officer of thePennsylvania Railroad Company in1963. He is a director of two dozencompanies, corporations, and founda-tions, a board member of several collegesand educational foundations, and holdshonorary degrees from ten colleges anduniversities.

AUTHORS:Dr. Tristram P. Coffin, professor

of English, edited a collection of essaysentitled An Introduction to AmericanFolklore published by Basic Books thismonth. Members of the faculty contrib-uting to this book, based on the broad-cast of a Voice of America Forum Serieson American Folklore, are Dr. G. Mal-colm Laws, professor of English; Dr.Don Yoder, associate professor of re-ligious thought; Dr. Kenneth S. Gold-stein, associate professor of folklore andfolklife; Dr. Hennig Cohen, professorof English; and the late Dr. MacEd-ward Leach, emeritus professor ofEnglish.Dr. Edward P. Hutchinson, pro-

fessor of sociology, is the author of anew book entitled The Population De-bate, published by Houghton MifflinCompany. Two other members of thesociology department have contributedjournal articles. Dr. Edward P. Fried-man, assistant professor, had his paper"Age, Life of Institutionalization andSocial Status in a Home for the Aged,"published in the Journal of Gerontology.Another paper, "Correlates of MaritalSelection" written by Dr. William M.Kephart, professor, appeared in theJournal of Marriage and the Family.Dr. Thomas C. Cochran, professor

of history, and Dr. A. Irving Hallo-well, emeritus professor of anthropol-ogy, were members of the Editorial Ad-visory Board for the new InternationalEncyclopedia of the Social Sciences to bepublished in 1968 by Crowell Collierand Macmillan Company. In addition,twenty-eight faculty members are con-tributors to the work.

APPOINTMENTS:Dr. Otto Pollak, professor of sociol-

ogy, has been appointed a member ofTask Force No. 4 of the joint Commis-sion on Mental Health for Children.Dr. Lawrence D. Sher, assistant

professor of biomedical sciences, is cur-rently visiting profesor of electrical en-gineering at Pahlavi University in Iran.Dr. J. K. Zawodny, professor of

political science, has been invited to be-come Senior Member Associate of St.Anthony's College, Oxford University,

for the academic year 1968-69. Dr. Za-

wodny will spend this spring semester atthe Harvard University Center for In-ternational Studies.Dr. Donald S. Murray, assistant to

the president for federal relations, hasbeen elected Secretary-Treasurer of theEastern Association of College and Uni-versitv Business Officers.Dr. Richard Kaplan, associate in

orthopedic surgery, was elected Presidentof the State Orthopedic Society last fall.More recently, he read a paper at the42nd Anniversary Congress of the PanAmerican Medical Association in BuenosAires entitled, "A Study of the Insertionof the Semimembranosus Muscle."

HONORS:Dr. Herman P. Schwan, professor

of electrical engineering, received theMorlock Award of Biological and Med-ical Engineering for his contributions tothe field at the 20th Annual Conferenceon Engineering in Medicine and Biologyheld in Boston last November. Later inthe month, he presented a lecture on Bio-logical and Medical Engineering at theInternational Meeting at Harcourt But-ler Technological Institute in Kampur,India.Dr. Albert P. Seltzer, associate

professor of otolaryngology at the Grad-uate School of Medicine, and chief ofplastic and reconstructive surgery at St.Luke's and Children's Medical Center,was honored by the hospital recently ata banquet where an unveiling of his por-trait took place. Presented by the medi-cal staff, the portrait will be placed inthe hospital lobby.Dr. Thorsten Sellin, emeritus pro-

fessor of sociology, received the insigniaand diploma of a Grand Officer of theRoyal Order of the North Star at a din-ner given by the Ambassador of Swedenin Washington, D.C. The SwedishMinister of justice presented the awardto Dr. Sellin on behalf of his govern-ment. Dr. Sellin also recently addressedan International Colloquium on CapitalPunishment held at the University ofCoimbra, Portugal.Dr. Roy F. Nichols, emeritus pro-

fessor of history, was one of nine menhonored in November by the Governor'sCommittee of 100,000 Pennsylvanians.

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The award for excellence in educationwas presented to him by GovernorShafer at a dinner in Pittsburgh.Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid, profes-

sor of chemistry, received the sixthPhiladelphia Section Award of theAmerican Chemical Society at theirmeeting in the University Museum lastOctober. His award address was entitled,"Silicon Chemistry - Is it Pseudo-Organic?"Dr. Stuart W. Churchill, Carl V.

S. Patterson Professor of Chemical En-gineering, received a citation from theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engi-neers in November in recognition of hissix years of service as Director. In addi-tion, Dr. Churchill recently gave twotalks, one at a Graduate Seminar atLehigh University and the other at aGraduate Colloquium at the Polytech-nque Institute of Brooklyn.A composition by George Rochberg,

chairman and professor of music, was re-cently performed by the PhiladelphiaOrchestra in the Academy of Music.Entitled "Zodiac," it was the first localperformance of the 12-cycle piece.Shortly after its performance here, thecomposition was given its New Yorkpremiere by the orchestra during a guestengagement at New York PhilharmonicHall in Lincoln Center.

TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS:Dr. Morton J. Schussheim, profes-

sor of city planning, initiated the secondCommunity Leadership Seminar forbusiness and civic leaders at Wilkes Col-lege, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in Oc-tober. Topic for the Seminar was "Plan-ning for What ?" Dr. Schussheim alsoparticipated in the conference of the In-stitute of Medical Climatology in Phila-delphia later in the month. His subjectwas "The Social Climate of Cities."Miss Faye H. Bardman, instructor

in Women's Physical Education, was amember of the United States FieldHockey Team which toured Germanyin September and participated in the In-ternational Field Hockey Tournamentand Conference held in Levurkusen,Germany.

Lt. Col. George F. Sawyer, pro-fessor of military science, participated ina Reserve Officers Training Corps Con-ference at the National War College atFort McNair last November to discussand exchange views on current plans, po-tential problem areas, and continuingimprovement of ROTC programs.

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Among other things...

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ilmong other things..Dr. David Solomons, professor of

accounting, presented a paper at a Sym-posium on Financial Reporting by Con-glomerate Companies which was held atTulane University in November. He alsopresented a paper on the same topic tothe Annual Meeting of the AmericanAccounting Association held at Pennsyl-vania State University at the end ofAugust.Dr. Johannes Ipsen, professor of

epidemiology and medical statistics andacting chairman of the Department ofPublic Health and Preventive Medicine,participated in a three day meeting ofthe New York Academy of Scienceswith the Working Group on "Epide-miology of Air Pollution and HumanDisease." Twenty participants from theUnited States and twelve from abroadtook part. Dr. Ipsen opened the discus-sion on "Episodic Morbidity and Mor-tality in Relation to Air Pollution."Dr. Paul M. Lloyd, associate profes-

sor of romance languages, attended theInternational Conference on Biblio-graphical Form and Style held at Penn-sylvania State University last month.Dr. Lloyd is a bibliographer in Rumani-an for the Modern Language Associa-tion.Dr. Dorothy S. Thomas, research

director of migration for PopulationStudies Center, was a discussion leaderat a conference on Internal Migrationand Urbanization in Bangkok, Thailand.Vincent H. Whitney, director of Pop-

ulation Studies Center, participated in aworkshop on international demographictraining supported by the United Na-tions' Technical Assistance Bureau andheld in Denmark. Dr. Whitney alsochaired two luncheon panels on fertilityand mobility at the meetings of theAmerican Sociological Association in SanFrancisco. He later presented a state-ment to a special meeting on religionand fertility and participated in a work-shop on the plans for an enlarged socialscience program in UNESCO.Dr. S. R. Pollack, associate profes-

sor of metallurgy and materials science,and Mr. Michael Mmdcl, graduatestudent, presented a paper "Low Tem-perature Oxidation of Titanium Films"at the fall meeting of the MetallurgicalSociety, AIME, in Cleveland.Dr. Hsuan Yeh, director of the

Towne School of Civil and MechanicalEngineering, served as the chairman ofa session on "Energetics" at the WinterAnnual Meeting of the American Societyof Mechanical Engineers in Pittsburghin November. At the same meeting, Dr.Paul Trumpler, professor of mechani-cal engineering, presented a paper to-gether with an advisory engineer for In-ternational Business Machines Corp. onthe "Dynamics of Synchronous-Process-ing Turborators with Particular Refer-ence to Balancing-Part 2-Applica-tion." Dr. Manfred Altman, professorof mechanical engineering, chaired a ses-sion on "New Approaches to TechnicalMeetings and Information Retrieval."Dr. Otto Springer, dean of the Col-

lege, delivered the Taft Lectures in thefield of Germanic linguistics and Medie-

val Germanic literature at the Universityof Cincinnati in November.Dr. Karl Rickels, associate professor

of psychiatry, chaired a symposium on"Antineurotic Agents" and was one ofthe principal speakers at the 6th AnnualMeeting of the American College ofNeuropsychopharmacology held in SanJuan, Puerto Rico last month.

Dr. Daniel Perlmutter, professor ofchemical engineering, presented a paperentitled "Bounding Chemical ReactorTransients by Estimation of Growth orDecay Rates" at the Annual Meeting ofthe American Institute of Chemical En-gineers in New York last November. Hewas also chairman of a symposium onreactor dynamics and control. Earlier,Dr. Perimutter presented three talks,one on "Stability of Distributed Param-eter Reactor" at both the University ofMassachusetts and Yale and the other,"Reactor Stability and Control," at theNew Jersey section of the American In-stitute of Chemical Engineering.

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January, 1968