VOLUME15, NUMBER 4 DECEMBER, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Director, Advisory Board NamedFor Chemical Senses CenterA physiologist who is a world authority

on the sense of taste has been named di-rector of the recently organized MonellChemical Senses Center at the Universityand an 18-member national advisorycouncil has been appointed.Dr. Luther L. Terry, the University's

vice president for medical affairs andchairman of the Monell Center's nationaladvisory council, announced the appoint-ment of Dr. Morley R. Kare to the di-rector's post and as an ex-officio memberof the advisory council. Council mem-bers are from the fields of medical, den-tal and veterinary education, nutrition,public health and governmental agencies,and industry.The Monell Chemical Senses Center

was founded last February with the aidof a $1 million grant from the AmbroseMonell Foundation and matching fundsfrom the Veterans Administration, otherfoundations and private industry.The Center is the only institution of its

kind in the United States where investi-gators are brought together from manydisciplines in the first concerted group re-search approach to the chemo-receptionprocesses. Scientists on the Center's staffinclude physicians, dentists, veterinarians,biochemists, behavioral psychologists,ecologists, and biophysicists.

Dr. Terry pointed out that research onthe chemical senses has been a relativelyneglected field, yet it is related to a widerange of public problems. The world'severgrowing population needs newsources of palatable and nourishing food.Animals and insects who depend on thesense of smell and taste to find food andmates are threatened with extinction be-cause pollution is altering the odor oftheir environment. Investigation of thechemical senses may provide the know-how to preserve many important speciesand help maintain ecological balances innature.

Research on the chemical senses mayalso aid in the treatment of such medicalproblems as malnutrition and obesity.Dr. Kare's studies of the loss of taste inpeople who are undernourished has dem-onstrated that this loss is related to cer-tain vitamin deficiencies. On the other

hand, he has found that an individual'snutritive state affects his sense of taste.Taste diminishes when hunger is satisfied.The Center is temporarily located in

the Lippincott Building (25th & LocustStreets) but will move to its own build-ing adjacent to the campus at 34th andMarket Streets when construction iscompleted.

Dr. Kare comes to Pennsylvania fromNorth Carolina State University (Ra-leigh), where he had been professor ofphysiology since 1961. He has also beennamed professor of physiology in theUniversity's School of Veterinary Medi-cine.

Grant Will SupportDesign of UnmannedUnderwater VehicleThe first installment of a $228,251

grant that could give the state an impor-tant place in the development of ocean-ography was recently presented to theUniversity by Governor Raymond P.Shafer.Awarded by the newly organized

Pennsylvania Science and EngineeringFoundation - the Commonwealth'sequivalent of the National Science Foun-dation-the grant will support a uniqueproject in ocean engineering: the designof an unmanned underwater explorationvehicle that will explore the oceans inthe same way unmanned space vehiclesare exploring space."We believe this project can give the

State of Pennsylvania an important rolein the exploration of the oceans," ex-plained Dr. Hsuan Yeh, director of theTowne School of Civil and Mechanical en-gineering, where the project will be car-ried out.

"Several organizations are currentlyoperating manned underwater researchvehicles but no other organization hasannounced it is developing an unmannedvehicle. The project will make good useof research facilities we already have atthe Towne School and it will help us

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College To ExaminePhilosophy, PurposesA self-study of the University's College

of Arts and Sciences, its "educationalphilosophy and the needs of the times,"will be undertaken this year by a com-mittee of faculty members, students andadministrators.At the College's 400th faculty meeting

last month, acting dean Dr. William E.Stephens announced the formation of the13-member Committee on the Goals ofHigher Education in the College. Its chair-man is Dr. Herbert S. Wilf, professor ofmathematics.

Consideration of the socio-economiccomposition of future freshman classeswill be one of the committe's first con-cerns, Dr. Wilf said, "along with theassociated problem of making sure stu-dents are given sufficient help to enablethem to succeed here in spite of possiblypoor preparation."The committee has been asked to de-

fine the purposes of undergraduate educa-tion and the extent to which the Collegeis fulfilling these purposes, Dr. Wilf added.Other questions will be the relevance,

both short- and long-range, of the Col-lege's program and the role of the Collegein helping students to realize their indi-vidual intellectual potential.

Faculty members on the committee inaddition to Dr. Wilf are Dr. Richard S.Dunn, professor of history; Dr. Albert L.Lloyd, associate professor of German; Dr.Alfred J. Rieber, chairman and professorof history; Dr. Donald Ross Jr., assistantprofessor of English; Dr. Ingrid L. Wal-dron, assistant professor of biology; andDr. Julius Wishner, professor of psychol-ogy.

Representing the administration are Dr.John N. Hobstetter, vice-provost for re-search and-dean of the Graduate Schoolof Arts and Sciences; John A. Russell,Jr. vice provost for student affairs; andDr. Roger H. Walmsley, vice-dean of theCollege.

Students on the committee are AndrewClearfield, a sophomore in the College;Michael Lehr, a College senior; and MissAmy Veroff, a sophomore in the Univer-sity's College of Liberal Arts for Women.

Ophthalmologists should have a betterunderstanding of certain abnormalitiesof the eye-and may find it easier to di-agnose them-when Dr. Alan Laties andDr. David Jacobowitz complete theirstudy of the distribution of the chemicalNoradrenaline in the structure of theeye.The project should also add some sig-

nificant facts to our knowledge of therelationship between the eye and the au-tonomic nervous system.

Noradrenaline is the chemical thattransfers the nerve impulse from thenerve to the organs controlled by onepart of the autonomic nervous system;Dr. Laties and Dr. Jacobowitz are study-ing the chemical in the hope its distribu-tion will tell them which structures of theeye are controlled by the autonomicnervous system.

If opthalmologists know exactly whichparts of the eye are controlled by thoseparticular nerves, Dr. Laties explains,then it will be easier for them to examinean abnormal eye and decide if a flawedor damaged nerve is responsible for theabnormality. Damage to the nerves ofthe autonomic nervous system, he says,

Additional Appointments,Promotions ApprovedLast month additional appointments

and promotions for this year were ap-proved by the Trustees.

Those appointed include Dr. RobertH. Breinholt as assistant professor of in-dustry in the Wharton School, Roy A.Schotland as visiting professor of law inthe Law School and Dr. John S. Reif asassistant professor of epidemiology andpublic health in the School of VeterinaryMedicine.Those appointed in the School of Med-

icine include Dr. Carl T. Brighton as as-sistant professor of orthopedic surgery,Dr. William L. Dyson as assistant pro-fessor of clinical psychiatry, Dr. StanleyFahn as assistant professor of neurology,Dr. Lawrence A. Loeb as assistant pro-fessor of pathology, Dr. Peter V. Moul-der as professor of surgery and Dr. UlfNilsson as assistant professor of medi-cine.

Peter McCleary of the GraduateSchool of Fine Arts was promoted to as-sociate professor of architecture while inthe School of Medicine, Dr. Milton M.Cahn was promoted to associate profes-sor and Dr. Harry J. Hurley to profes-sor, of clinical dermatology. In the sameschool, Dr. Wilfred E. Fry has been des-ignated Emeritus Professor of ClinicalOphthalmology.

can result in abnormalities such as droop-ing eyelids, unequal pupils, and changesin the color of the eye pigment-signsthat are sometimes difficult to diagnosebecause they can be caused by othermore serious ailments.The two men have been working on

the project for several years. They arestudying the distribution of the chemicalin the eye by freeze-drying the tissues ofthe eye and analyzing them with histo-chemical techniques that involve treatingthe tissues with chemicals which revealthe location of the noradrenaline.They are also working on an improve-

ment in the technique that will give re-searchers an important new tool-a tech-nique that will let an eye investigatoranalyze one small section of an eye histo-chemically and then photograph an adja-cent section of the same eye tissue underan electron microscope.

"At the present moment," Dr. Latiessays, "you can do one thing or the otherwith the same piece of tissue but youcan't do both. The techniques we use toprepare the tissue for histo-chemical an-alysis make it impossible to study it un-der the electron microscope, and viceversa. With the improved technique, eyeinvestigators may be able to do correla-tion studies and correlate the chemistryof the eye with the fine structure thatcan be observed under the electron mi-croscope."

Dr. Jacobowitz is an assistant profes-sor of pharmacology and Dr. Laties is anassociate professor of opththalmology.Their project is being partially supportedby a grant from Research to PreventBlindness, Inc.

Geometrical PatternsOn View at Art Institute

Paintings in Al Held's new black-and-white, geometrical pattern style are nowon display in the Institute of Contem-porary Art. All of the twelve paintingsillustrate the artist's radical departurefrom the colorfield painting currentlydominant in New York City.

Colorfield paintings are composed oflarge areas of bold color, sometimes co-terminous with the canvas, sometimes inbasic geometrical shapes. Mr. Held's newpaintings instead have many interlockinggeometrical shapes painted in thick blackoutline against a white background andare far more complex compositions thanhis earlier works.

Al Held has been teaching art at YaleUniversity since 1962. His works will beon exhibit through December 26.

Study Hopes to ConfirmThat Neurons InteractDr. George L. Gerstein, associate pro-

fessor of biophysics and physiology, hasreceived a $92,672 grant from the U.S.Public Health Service for a study of theinteractions between neurons in thebrain.

Although it is known that informationpasses through the brain which cannotbe transmitted by a single neuron alone,researchers have never established exper-imentally that information is transmittedby groups of neurons acting together.

This is one of the basic propositionsDr. Gerstein's group hopes to verify.Some of the other basic questions theywill try to answer are:-Is there any relationship between

several neurons that are close togetherand the function they perform in thebrain? How much of a relationship isthere? What is its nature?-Do assemblies of neurons actually

exist? If they do exist, are they fixed intime or do they change? Do the connec-tions between neurons change with time?

Only a small number of laboratoriesare studying these questions, Dr. Ger-stein points out, and such work has onlybeen made recently possible through thedevelopment of smaller electrodes, newmathematical techniques and the use ofcomputers.

Grants Help Train StudentsIn Museum Field WorkA $395,000 Ford Foundation grant to

the University for the training of ad-vanced graduate students in archaeologi-cal field work at University Museum sitesaround the world enabled nearly fifty grad-uate students to participate in projects thislast summer and fall.The grant is the largest of 19 awards

announced in a new $1.5 million archae-ological program of the Ford Founda-tion. Extending over a five-year period,it will allow three groups of students tobe sent to sites outside the United Statesand Canada each year in the spring, sum-mer and fall-winter seasons.

Dr. Froelich W. Rainey, director ofthe University Museum and professor ofanthropology at the University's Gradu-ate School of Arts and Sciences, said thelarge award to Pennsylvania is probablybased on the scope of its excavation pro-gram which is larger than that of anyother academic institution in the U.S. orabroad.

Trainees have participated in under-water projects in Cyprus and Turkey, theexcavation of the submerged harbor atthe site of Halieis in Greece, and excava-tions in Guatemala, Ireland and Iran.

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Study of Chemical Should AidIn Diagnosis of Eye Abnormalities

Geology Dept. To TestTime-Measuring MethodThe Geology Department of the Uni-

versity has received a $44,992 grantfrom the Atomic Energy Commission toinvestigate the applications of what maybe the most sensitive time-measuringtechnique yet developed-the literaltracking of "atomic footprints" throughall the existing sands of time.The project, under the direction of Dr.

Henry Faul, chairman of the GeologyDepartment, involves the study of thephenomenon of spontaneous fission ofUranium 238 atoms in natural crystalsand glasses. While this phenomenon hap-pens rarely, it does so often enough, andwith sufficient force, to make a valuable'nuclear clock' for measuring the ages ofthe most ancient to the most recent rocksand for tracing the activities of earlyman as well.

Because of the widespread presence ofUranium, even if in very small amounts,fission-tracking techniques can be appliedto almost any crystal or glass.

Thus, a Uranium fission 'clock' has dis-tinct advantages over previously useddating methods, including the famousCarbon-14 system which not only de-stroys the sample, but works only on or-ganic, or previously living materials, upto 50,000 years old.The smallest particles, such as tiny

mica flakes or grains of Zircon whichcannot be seen with the naked eye, canbe dated by fission-tracking. And themethod's effectiveness in tracing humanpre-history has already been demon-strated by a General Electric researchteam which verified the 2-million-year-old hominid remains in Olduvai Gorgein Tanganyika.

Dr. Faul says his project will concen-trate on applying fission-tracking tech-niques to a suite of rocks of various agesand thermal histories (periods of heat-ing and cooling) to obtain a more per-fect understanding of both the systemand its limitations.

New Film Depicts One Dayin Life of Penn Campus"One Day," a 16-millimeter sound mo-

tion picture about the University ofPennsylvania, is now available for show-ings before University and off-campusaudiences. The color film runs 26 min-utes and two seconds, and reflects thekaleidoscopic variety of the University'sactivities in the course of a typical week-day.

Arrangements for booking the filmshould be made with Motion PictureServices, 3451 Walnut Street. There isno charge.

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Effort to Measure Income, Production LevelsJointly Sponsored by UN, UniversityThe United Nations and the Univer-

sity began in September a joint projectwhich should fill an important gap in thestatistical knowledge of the world econ-omy.

Dr. Irving B. Kravis, professor of eco-nomics, is directing an effort to measureincome and production levels and thepurchasing power of currencies of vari-ous nations. These data are needed toaccurately plan the allocation of aid tounderdeveloped countries, internationalregional economic integration, and,within a particular country, economicgrowth.The University has received a $350,-

000 grant from the Ford Foundation tofinance the establishment and operationfor three years of an "International Priceand Income Comparison Unit" to carry

Computer Model To AidArtificial Heart Study

Dr. Abraham Noordergraaf of theMoore School of Electrical Engineeringhas received a $94,211 grant from theU.S. Public Health Service for researchthat should be of fundamental impor-tance in the development of an artificialheart.The grant will provide support for the

next step in Dr. Noordergraaf's develop-ment of a computer model of the humancirculatory system. When the model isfinally completed-in about two years-it may speed up the development of anartificial heart by several years.

Engineers and medical personnelworking on the artificial heart will beable to use Dr. Noordergraaf's model inthe same way aeronautical engineers nowuse computer models of airplanes whenthey are designing new planes. Themodel will simulate the action of a realhuman circulatory system and the de-signers of the artificial heart will be ableto try out different designs without actu-ally building each possible model.The use of this technique in the air-

craft industry has saved millions of dol-lars and thousands of man-hours and itshould have the same effect on the de-velopment of the artificial heart.

Dr. Noordergraaf has been workingon his computer model for the last threeyears aided by eight full-time graduatestudents. He already has a model of thesystemic arterial tree and the pulmonaryarterial tree. The part of the computerthat will simulate the action of the heartis now under construction and the partthat will simulate the veins is now beingdesigned.

forward the project. The Unit will op-erate with the sponsorship of the UnitedNations and, if the project appears suc-cessful at the end of the initial three-year period, the U.N. will assume re-sponsibility for carrying on the work. Atthat point, the University Unit will bedissolved.

Dr. Kravis said the Unit has been es-tablished due to the lack of accurate dataon comparative levels of output and in-come in different countries. "As anytraveler knows, the official exchangerates often do not reflect the true rela-tive purchasing powers of different cur-rencies, and thus unknown margins oferrors are introduced into the compari-son," he explained.He pointed out that reasonably accu-

rate comparisons of inter-country differ-ences in production, incomes, and pur-chasing power of currencies are requiredfor a wide variety of purposes. They arevery useful in any effort to understandthe process of economic growth and de-velopment, and can be also useful forpolicy purposes at the international andnational levels."An appreciation of the differences in

the level of income is, for example, ofimportance in the allocation of aid andin judging its efficiency. It is relevantalso to international burden-sharingwhether for development or military ob-jectives," he explained.

Henry Bryans, Life TrusteeHonored by LRSM BuildingA plaque naming the first floor of the

Laboratory for Research on the Struc-ture of Matter for Henry B. Bryans, for-mer president of the Philadelphia Elec-tric Co., was unveiled recently at a spe-cial luncheon and dedication ceremonyfor the LRSM Building.

Mr. Bryans was graduated with a BSin Mechanical Engineering in 1907, andhas been a University trustee since 1942and a life trustee since 1955.

Board Chairman of Time, Inc.Awarded Wharton Gold MedalAndrew Heiskell, chairman of the

board of directors for Time, Inc. hasbeen accorded the nineteenth GoldMedal Award of Merit from the Whar-ton School Alumni Society. The GoldMedal has been awarded annually since1950 "for distinguished leadership in thepromotion of public understanding ofbusiness" and "personal contribution tothe progress of American Business."

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establish the nucleus of an ocean engi-neering center in this area, a center thatcould have a very beneficial impact onPennsylvania's economy."

Dr. Yeh pointed out that althoughmanned vehicles have reached the lowestdepths of the ocean-about 36,000 feet-they have been cumbersome vehicleswith limited maneuverability; the bestmaneuverable manned research vehicles-research submarines-can only godown a couple of thousand feet and staythere about twelve hours. The Engineer-ing School hopes to develop a vehiclethat can reach 30,000 feet and that canstay down indefinitely and maneuverover large areas.

University Museum One of Nineinvolved in internship ProgramThe University Museum is one of nine

museums in the country participating ina new Museum Internship program.Sponsored by the National Endowmentfor the Humanities, the program enablescurators of small museums and histori-cal societies to study for a year at largeteaching museums. During this periodthey are to learn techniques of preserva-tion, restoration and display of artifactsentrusted to their institutions.

Grant of $21/2 MillionAwarded to LRSMThe Laboratory for Research on the

Structure of Matter has been awardedan additional grant of $21/2 million dol-lars from the Advanced Research Proj-ects Agency of the Department of De-fense. The Laboratory has now receiveda total of $19 million from the Agency.

Dr. L. A. Girifalco, director of thelaboratory, describes it as an interdisci-plinary laboratory that brings togetherphysicists, chemists, metallurgists and en-gineers, providing them with equipmentthat can be found in only a few labora-tories in the United States.Some of the research now being con-

ducted at the laboratory includes workon super-conductivity in thin films; re-search on fundamental constants thatshould have important implications forelectrical standards; research on thestructure of organic materials and theirinteraction with radiation; research onfracture in materials-why do thingsbreak?-and even research on biologicaland dental materials involving both den-tists and metallurgists.

Unmanned vehicles will have manypractical uses, Dr. Yeh said. "They canbe used to explore the bottom of the seafor petroleum and minerals and they canbe used to gather information that willbe useful if we ever start farming thesea. An unmanned vehicle could followa school of fish indefinitely, for example."He points out that unmanned vehicles

can probably be used for underwatercargo transportation, too-a techniquethat should become very important in thefuture, "because of the advantages ineliminating the wave drag associated withsurface craft. And unmanned vehiclescould also be used in the search for miss-ing submarines, if we ever have anotherdisaster like the accident that recentlydestroyed the Scorpion," Dr. Yeh ex-plained.

Engineers and scientists at the TowneSchool are already working in severalfields that can be applied to the develop-ment of the proposed vehicle, Dr. Yehsaid. Towne School investigators haveworked on the dynamics and control ofunmanned space vehicles, and the Insti-tute for Direct Energy Conversion at theSchool is working on unconventionalpower sources, such as fuel cells.The Towne School also has an inter-

national reputation for its work withcomposite materials, Dr. Yeh said, animportant subject when you are design-ing a vehicle that will have to stand upunder huge pressures.The project will also include studies of

the interaction between water and under-water vehicles and structures, an aspectof the problem that will make good useof the Towne School's expertise in FluidDynamics.The Director of the project, Dr.

Maurice Brull, is professor and chairmanof the Graduate Division of EngineeringMechanics.Two other senior professors partici-

pating in the program besides Dr. Brullare Dr. R. P. Kroon, chairman of thegraduate division of mechanical engi-neering, and Dr. Sidney Shore, chairmanof the graduate division of civil engineer-ing.

Penn Nostalgia Revisited:Glee Club Album AvailableThe University of Pennsylvania Glee

Club has recently recorded an album, en-titled Afterglow, which includes twelvePenn songs plus additional all-time gleeclub favorites. The albums are availableat a cost of $4.45 and may be orderedby writing the Musical Activities Office,Irvine Auditorium, University of Penn-sylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.

Minicar to Cut Down onPollution, Parking ProblemsA preliminary mock-up of "Minicar,"

a hybrid vehicle aimed at cutting downair pollution, parking problems, andtraffic jams, was on view last month inthe University's Information Center.The car is part of the demonstration

urban transportation project now beingconducted for the U.S. Department ofTransportation by an interdisciplinaryteam of University investigators.The project is headed by Dr. Manfred

Altman, director of the Institute for Di-rect Energy Conversion. Its goal is todemonstrate the economic, social andtechnical feasibility of implementing sucha vehicle in the congested central busi-ness districts of Philadelphia and othermajor U.S. cities.

Other University units involved in theproject include the Electrochemistry Lab-oratory, the Department of Economics,the Department of City and RegionalPlanning, the Institute for EnvironmentalStudies, the Department of Civil Engi-neering and the Management ScienceCenter.

Additional state-of-the-art data onsmall vehicles, power trains, and hybridengines (engines that can switch easilyfrom one power source to another) hasbeen furnished by the General MotorsCorporation.The project was initially financed by a

$299,955 grant from the U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Develop-ment. According to Dr. Altman, afterthe switch-over in support from HUD tothe Department of Transportation takesplace, an operating prototype can be run-ning as early as January, 1969.

Veterinarians' ConferenceSet for February 3, 4The 69th Annual Conference of Vet-

erinarians, sponsored by the School ofVeterinary Medicine, will feature sessionsfor both small and large animal practi-tioners. The conference will be heldFebruary 3 and 4, 1969, at the BellevueStratford Hotel, Philadelphia.On February 3rd, the program will

feature aspects of medical and surgicaltreatment of abdominal problems. Thefollowing day's theme will be parasitol-ogy. On both days there will be generalsessions, as well as special simultaneoussessions on small and large animals.A dinner on February 3rd will follow

the scientific program.Conference chairman is Dr. Lawrence

R. Soma, associate professor of anesthe-siology. Program and housing informa-tion may be obtained by writing to: MissHelen Jarrett, assistant to the Dean,School of Veterinary Medicine.

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Human Organ PreservationObject of Research StudyA grant of $290,989 for continued re-

search in the preservation of human or-gans has been awarded to the UniversityHospital by the John A. Hartford foun-dation of New York City.

Principal investigator in the project isDr. Herndon B. Lehr, associate profes-sor of plastic surgery, whose ultimategoal is the establishment of transplantbanks-similar to blood banks-of hu-man hearts, lungs, kidneys, parathyroidglands and gastrointestinal tracts.Under a previous John A. Hartford

Foundation grant, a University Hospitalresearch team successfully froze and pre-served skin, small bowel and parathyroidglands. They also achieved short termpreservation of hearts in an organ cultureapparatus and believe it will soon be pos-sible to freeze hearts and lungs, preserv-ing them for long periods.Though efforts in kidney preservation

so far have not been successful, Dr. Lehrbelieves that the acquisition of equipmentto permit rapid thawing of large organswill lead to a method for successfullypreserving both the kidney and the liver.

Dr. Lehr's work has already enabledthe University Hospital to maintain thenation's first skin bank, making skingrafts readily accessible to patients withbums, ulcers or large wounds wherehealing is a problem.

Faculty Lounge DedicatedIn Fine Arts BuildingThe new William Cramp Scheetz Fac-

ulty Lounge in the Fine Arts Buildingwas dedicated in October. The second-floor lounge is the gift of Mr. and Mrs.William Cramp Scheetz, Jr., of Bryn Mawrand is named in memory of the architectWilliam Cramp Scheetz, who graduatedfrom the University in 1896.

Credit Union MembershipOpen to University Staff

For a 25 fee, University faculty, staffand their immediate families residingwith them, can apply for membership inthe University of Pennsylvania FederalCredit Union.

In addition to helping members makeregular savings, the Credit Union is aconvenient source for obtaining low-in-terest loans and may even pay dividendsup to 6 percent when the income is avail-able.

Those interested in learning moreabout the Credit Union should visit its of-fice at the rear of 3439 Walnut Street orphone Ext. 8539.

Center For Ancient HistoryTo Develop New MaterialsFor High School TeachersThe University's youthful Center for

Ancient History, established in 1967 bya grant from the National Endowmentfor the Humanities, has received an ad-ditional grant of $19,890 from the En-dowment to continue its three-part pro-gram. The Center will concentrate its ef-fort on a project to develop new mate-rials and programs for the teaching ofancient history in secondary schools.

Working with representative Philadel-phia schools-city, suburban, public andprivate-several members of the Centerare meeting with teachers of various sub-jects that deal with aspects of the ancientworld. The four cooperating schools areGermantown High, Germantown FriendsSchool, LaSalle High School and Abing-ton High, North Campus.

Dr. Michael H. Jameson, director ofthe Center, said that the goal is to makeavailable to secondary schools the newinformation and approaches producedby work at the university level. A num-ber of devices, from supplementary read-ing materials to audio-visual equipment,are being considered as possible teachingaids.The two other aspects of the Center's

work are a doctoral program in ancienthistory, the first such program in theUnited States, and a colloquium series.For each presentation, two guests are in-vited to discuss different aspects of a sub-ject. The theme of this year's colloquia,to begin in the spring semester, will be"The Influence of Ancient Iran."

The University Guarantees$21/2 Million in MortgagesThe University of Pennsylvania has

guaranteed approximately $21/2 million inmortgages since 1965 to help its person-nel buy and restore homes in the Univer-sity's West Philadelphia neighborhood.

Set up both to stabilize a declining res-idential area and to reattract the Univer-sity's families to the city, the plan hasenabled 110 families to buy property,with individual mortgages averaging$22,720.

Under an agreement with the FirstPennsylvania Banking and Trust Com-pany, the University guarantees long-term mortgages at the going rate forqualified personnel, covering up to 100%of the purchase price (as determined byappraisal) plus the cost of necessary re-pairs and rehabilitation.

Only homes in the area designated asUniversity City-roughly between 32ndand 52nd Streets south of HaverfordAvenue-are covered by the plan, andall property must be residential. If thebuyer sells his house or ceases to live init for more than four months withoutspecial agreement with the University,the entire mortgage falls due.

Most full-time employees of the Uni-versity are eligible for the guaranteedmortgage plan after three years' employ-ment, and two categories of personnelmay apply immediately on appointmentto the University: fully-affiliated, fully-salaried faculty members of assistantprofessor rank or above and full-timestatutory and senior administrative offi-cers.

Pennsylvania Press to Publish 15 PlaysIn MLA Shakespeare Variorum SeriesThe University of Pennsylvania Press orum Edition. In 1932, three University

has been commissioned by the Modem of Pennsylvania professors, together withLanguage Association's Shakespeare Var- a Yale University professor, first peti-iorum Committee to publish authorita- tioned the Modern Language Associationtive new texts for fifteen plays.to establish the Shakespeare Variorum

Seven of the plays have never beforeappeared in the Variorum series. Thecontract also calls for publication of sixbibliographies to accompany the re-pub-lication of texts established in the seriesbut currently out of print.

It was Horace Howard Fumess whobegan the Variorum series in Philadel-phia and in 1871 published the first playin the Edition, Romeo and Juliet. Mr.Furness, followed by his son, continuedthe editorial work, and twenty volumeswere published before the death of Mr.Furness, Jr. in 1930.

Since that time, the department ofEnglish at Pennsylvania has played a vi-tal role in the publication of the Van-

Committee to carry on the editorialwork.The MLA has directed the publication

of the Variorum since 1933, although thedepartment of English at Pennsylvaniahas continued to exercise the right to ap-prove the names of editors-a right be-stowed on it by the heirs of Horace How-ard Furness, Jr. in 1930.

With financial assistance from theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1934and from the Carnegie Corporation ofNew York in 1936, and with the cooper-ation of the J. B. Lippincott Companyof Philadelphia and New York, the MLAVariorum Committee has publishedseven additional volumes.

Alfred Rieber ReceivesE. Harris Harbison Award

Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, chairman of thedepartment of history, is one of ten fac-ulty members of U.S. colleges and uni-versities selected by the Danforth Foun-dation to receive the 1969 E. Harris Har-bison Award for Distinguished Teaching.The national award, named in honor

of the late Princeton University historyprofessor and Trustee of the Founda-tion, seeks to honor teacher-scholars whoexcel in the art of teaching, in the signifi-cance of their scholarly contribution, andin their concern for students as individ-uals.Each recipient of the award is pro-

vided with a $10,000 cash grant to usein whatever study or preparation hedeems most helpful to his teaching andscholarship, either in his own field or inrelated areas.

Dr. Rieber, a specialist in modern Rus-sian history, received his BA magna cumlaude in 1953 from Colgate University.At Columbia University, he earned hisMA and a Certificate from the RussianInstitute in 1954 and his Ph.D. in 1959.He joined the University of Pennsylvaniafaculty in 1965 as professor of history.

Travel fellowships have taken Dr. Rie-ber to France and the Soviet Union sev-eral times. He spent the academic year1965-66 on a leave of absence in Franceand the Soviet Union continuing his stud-ies of Russian political history of thenineteenth century.

Dr. Rieber is the author of severalbooks, including Stalin and the FrenchCommunist Party and The Politics ofAutocracy. He is now completing a forth-coming book, Railroad Politics and Mod-ernization.

Kimble Methodology AwardGiven to Dr. Harry Morton

Dr. Harry E. Morton, professor ofbacteriology and chief microbiologist atthe William Pepper Laboratory of theUniversity Hospital, has been chosen thewinner of the 1968 Kimble MethodologyAward.

Consisting of a cash prize of $1,000and a sterling silver plaque, the awardis made annually by the Conference ofState and Provincial Public Health Lab-oratories to give financial and public rec-ognition to outstanding contributions tothe development of new and better pro-cedures in the field of public health.

Dr. Morton was honored for contri-butions to medical technology that in-clude the development of media andtechniques for growing Mycoplasma, im-proved laboratory equipment-such asglass filters and culture tube closures-and visual aids for teaching methodology,such as films and slides.

Among other thingsAPPOINTMENTS:

DR. OTIS H. GREEN, professor of ro-mance languages, has been elected amember of the Board of Trustees of theHispanic Society of America; Dr. Greenhas for some years been a correspondingmember-and now member-of that or-ganization.

PRESIDENT GAYLORD P. HARNWELLhas been reelected Chairman of the WestPhiladelphia Corporation and was alsoelected to a three year term as a direc-tor. LILLIAN G. BURNS, planner for theCoordinated Planning Office, was electedSecretary.

DR. SAUL GORN, professor of electri-cal engineering, is currently serving onthe Council of the Association of Com-puting Machinery.EDMUND N. BACON, visiting lecturer

in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, hasbeen named Development Coordinatorfor the City of Philadelphia; Mr. Baconis currently Director of the City Plan-ning Commission.

DR. HERMAN P. SCHWAN, professor ofelectrical engineering, has been named aconsultant on Radar Hazards to the U.S.Naval Weapons Laboratory. Dr. Schwanis currently a member of the NIH-Na-tional Advisory 'Radiological HealthCouncil and member of the Board ofDirectors of the new Biomedical Engi-neering Society. He has also contributeda book chapter entitled "Microwave Bi-ophysics" for the text Microwave Power

University Council NewsNovember 13, 1968:

" The Steering Committee was author-ized to appoint a committee on Univer-sity City education to examine the mag-nitude and complexities of the problem,to explore alternative solutions and tomake recommendations with respect tothese solutions. The committee will in-clude representatives of University resi-dents of the area but will consult fre-quently with non-university members ofthe community. An interim report is ex-pected by April." The chairman of the Council's ad

hoc committee on student membership,Dr. John Brobeck, reported it will recom-mend that 30 students join the present 85member Council as full voting members.The 30 would include undergraduates and16 graduate students, apportioned amongthe various schools on the basis of one rep-resentative for each 600 students, withsome minor variations. Representativeswould be selected by student organizationsin schools where they exist and by electionelsewhere.

Engineering edited by E. Okress and tobe published by the Academic Press.

DR. DANIEL HOFFMAN, professor ofEnglish, was appointed to the Supervis-ing Committee of the English Instituteduring its September meeting at Colum-bia University.

DR. STEVEN C. BATTERMAN, associ-ate professor of engineering mechanics,was appointed Vice Chairman of ThePlasticity Committee of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers and was alsoelected to the Executive Committee ofthe Mechanics Division of the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education.DR. HELEN 0. DICKENS, assistant pro-

fessor of obstetrics and gynecology andhead of the Teenage Pregnancy Clinic,was recently appointed President-Electof the Pan American Medical Women'sAlliance. Dr. Dickens was programchairman for their recent 11th Congressheld in Philadelphia in October.

AUTHORS:DR. ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN, professor

of political science, is the co-author ofSoviet Works on Southeast Asia pub-lished by the University of Southern Cal-ifornia Press. He has also been ap-pointed to be the first Director of thenewly established Anspach Institute forForeign Affairs and Diplomacy.

DR. ROBERT F. EVANS, associate pro-fessor of religious thought, is the authorof Four Letters of Pelagius, just pub-lished by the Seabury Press of New Yorkand by A. and C. Black of London.

DR. ROBERT F. LUCID, assistant pro-fessor of English, has edited The Journalof Richard Henry Dana, Jr. for HarvardPress; the three-volume work is prefacedwith a 25-page introduction by Dr.Lucid.A Passion for Sicilians: The World

Around Danilo Dolci is the most recentbook written by JERRE MANGIONE, pro-fessor of English. Based on material thatProfessor Mangione gathered while inSicily in 1965 on a Fulbright ResearchFellowship, the current book has beenpublished by William Morrow Co.Nasal Vowels in Contemporary Stand-

ard Polish, An Acoustic-Phonetic Anal-ysis, written by DR. MARIA ZAGORSKABROOKS, associate professor of Slaviclanguages, has been published by Moutonand Co., The Hague.The book, Medieval and Renaissance

Studies, containing eight lectures pre-sented at the third session of the South-eastern Institute of Medieval and Renais-sance Studies in 1967, has been publishedby the University of North CarolinaPress. In it, DR. ROBERT M. LUMIAN-

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SKY, professor of English, analyzesthemes in medieval Arthurian literature.

SOL WORTH, associate professor ofcommunications, is the author of two ar-ticles, "Navajo Filmmakers" in The Jour-nal of American Anthropological Associ-ation and "The Development of a Semi-otic of Film" in the International Jour-nal of Semiotics. Professor Worth is alsoa consultant to the Division of MedicalCommunication, Department of Com-munity Medicine, Mt. Sinai Hospital inNew York; a member of the Board ofDirectors of the Flaherty Film Semi-nars; and a consultant to a project set-ting up a U.S. National film and ethnicfilm archive and training institute, spon-sored by the National Science Founda-tion and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

(It was incorrectly reported in the Oc-tober issue that "Late Paleozoic andMesozoic Continental Sedimentation,Northeastern North America" written byDr. George de Vries Klein was an article;it is a book.)HONORS:A plan for a memorial in New York

City commemorating the Six Million Jew-ish Martyrs has been designed by Louis I.KAHN, Paul Philippe Cret Professor ofArchitecture, and was on diplay at theMuseum of Modern Art in New York.

STAFF APPOINTMENTS:DOUGLAS C. GEARY has been ap-

pointed Senior Development Officer ofthe University. Geary, a graduate fromthe University in 1954, served as Asso-ciate Director of Medical Developmentof Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1967. Hewas Director of Development at WilliamPenn Charter School previous to thatand this last year was Director of Devel-opment at Germantown Academy.WILLIAM J. DRYE, JR., has been ap-

pointed an assistant comptroller of theUniversity. A graduate of the WhartonSchool, he has been with the universitysince 1957 and prior to his recent ap-pointment was assistant to the Univer-sity's Business Manager.

JAMES E. BEERMANN has been ap-pointed Sponsored Scholarship Officer inthe Office of Student Financial Aid. Mr.Beermann, who received his BS fromMorningside College in Iowa, comes tothe University from Syracuse Universitywhere he received an MS in StudentPersonnel Administration.Two others have been appointed as-

sistants to the Directors of Financial Aid.These are SUSAN R. CROLL, a 1968 grad-uate of the College for Women who iscurrently working toward a MS degreein Student Personnel Services and WIL-LIAM J. BESTIMT, who received his BAfrom Hiram College and is now a can-didate for the MBA in the WhartonSchool.

TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS:JOHN HONNOLD, professor of law, gave

the opening paper and chaired and par-ticipated in panel discussions at the Con-ference on Comparative Law held atMcGill University in Montreal in Sep-tember. This scholarly setting provideda sharp contrast from the meetings inChicago in which Professor Honnold hadjust participated as a McCarthy delegateto the Democratic National Convention.

DR. JOHN W. CARR, professor of elec-trical engineering, attended the Interna-tional Federation of Information Pro-cessing Societies Congress in Edinburgh,Scotland where he was joint chairman ofone of the sessions.

DR. S. D. G0ITEIN, professor of Ara-bic, read a paper at the Congress ofArabists and Islamists in Lisbon andstudied Cairo Geniza documents at thelibraries of Cambridge, Oxford and theBritish Museum.

DR. ENOS E. WITMER, associate pro-fessor of physics, presented a paper, "In-terpretation of Quantum Mechanics andthe Future of Physics," at the biennialmeeting of the Philosophy of Science As-sociation held in Pittsburgh in October.

Community Action ProjectDescriptions RequestedThose faculty and department chair-

men who have not yet forwarded de-scriptions of the Community ActionProjects in which they are engaged arerequested to do so as soon as possible.They should be sent to Mr. Donald

K. Angell, Vice President-Assistant tothe President,. 101 College Hall.

ROBERT LEWIS SHAYON, professor ofcommunications, spent three weeks in ma-jor cities of West Germany at the invita-tion of the German Federal Republic,observing television and radio broadcast-ing operation; he then went on to ob-serve broadcasting operations in Italyand England. Prior to his European trip,Mr. Shayon spent two days at SyracuseUniversity as Guest Professor of Televi-sion. He is currently busy on a new edi-torial of the "You Are There" radiobroadcasts, to be released by ColumbiaRecords, and has accepted an appointmentfor a three-year term as a member ofthe Audio-Visual Committee of the Na-tional Conference on Social Welfare.

DR. MORTON J. SCHUSSHEIM, profes-sor of city planning, opened the Com-munity Leadership Seminar in Wilkes-Barre with a talk on "Planning Methodsand Values." Earlier, he presented a pa-per on "Housing Goals and Programs" tothe Urban Policy Conference of Mem-phis, Tennessee, conducted by the Brook-ings Institution.

EUGENE MICHELS, instructor in phys-ical therapy, presented a paper on man-agement of low back problems at thefirst annual Institute of the CaliforniaChapter of the American Physical Ther-apy Association. Mr. Michels is cur-rently President of the Association.

DR. SAUL GORN, professor of electri-cal engineering, attended a committeemeeting on computer languages at theInternational Federation of InformationProcessing Societies which was held inCopenhagen.

DR. ROBERT J. NELSON, professor ofromance languages, was DistinguishedScholar in Residence at Queens Collegeof the City University of New York for aweek in October where he delivered twopublic lectures, "French Classicism: ABaroque View" and '"Dieu Cache, DieuVisible: Le Théâtre Classique." In ad-dition, he conducted an undergraduateseminar and one graduate seminar in hisfield of special interest, the literature andthought of seventeenth-century France,and met informally throughout the weekwith students, faculty and administrators.

DR. LEONARD NANIS, associate profes-sor of chemical engineering, attended thefall meeting of the Electrochemical Soci-ety in Montreal, Canada where he par-ticipated in a Symposium devoted to thezinc-silver oxide battery.DR. DON YODER, graduate chairman

of folklore and folklife and associate pro-fessor of religious thought, delivered apaper on "Folklife Studies and LocalHistory" before the American Associa-tion for State and Local History in Wash-ington, D.C. in September, and a paperon "Sectarian Costume Research in theUnited States" at the Summer Conferenceof the American Folklore Society held atUtah State University in Logan. The pa-per will be published in the conferencesymposium, Forms Upon the Frontier.

DR. JOHN PAUL BRADY, professor ofpsychiatry, visited a number of psychia-tric facilities in London and environs inOctober and lectured on behavioral ap-proaches to the treatment of psychiatricdisorders at Maudsley Hospital and St.Bartholomew Hospital in London and atCambridge University.JAMES 0. FREEDMAN, associate pro-

fessor of law, spoke on "The FinancialLiability of Welfare Recipients and TheirRelatives" at regional conferences of le-gal services attorneys in New Orleansand in Chicago conducted by the Na-tional Institute for Education in Law andPoverty.

DR. IRAJ ZANDI, associate professor ofcivil engineering, presented a paper on"Viscous Stresses on Turbulent ShearFlow" to the Fifth International Con-gress on Rheology which was held in

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Kyoto, Japan in October. He alsochaired a session on "Theory-Fluid Me-chanics." Earlier, in September, he pre-sented a paper to the National Confer-ence on Atmospheric Turbulence of theAmerican Meteorological Society in Bos-ton.

DR. ANTHONY JENSEN, associate pro-fessor of physics, attended the EleventhInternational Conference on Low Tem-perature Physics which was held in St.Andrews, Scotland last August. He waslater in Prague, Czechoslovakia to at-tend a Low Temperature ExperimentalPhysics Conference which was cancelledbecause of the political situation.Two other members of the depart-

ment, DR. WALTER SELOVE, professor,and DR. GINO SEGRE, assistant profes-sor, attended the XlVth InternationalConference on High Energy Physics inVienna, while a third member, DR.DAVID H. SHARP, assistant professor, at-tended the Fifth International Confer-ence on Gravitation and Relativity whichwas held in Tbilisi, Russia.BRUCE MONTGOMERY, director

ical activities at the University,of mus-lectured

on "The Composer Looks at Off-Broad-way" at the Cheltenham Adult EveningSchool, "Gilbert and Sullivan, The Satir-ists" for The Friends of Hebrew Uni-versity and "The Works of Bela Bartokand Hans Werner Henze" at the Today'sConcert Lecture Series of the Philadel-phia Orchestra.

DR. J. O'M. BOCKRIS, professor ofchemistry, organized the Electrodeposi-tion Symposium at the meeting of theInternational Committee of Electro-chemical Thermodynamics and Kineticsat Detroit. Professor Bockris also gavea plenary lecture at the Electrochemical

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Society symposium on "Preparation andPurification of Pure Metals" and ad-dressed the meeting on "The Mechan-ism of Electrodeposition."DR. GEORGE T. WOHL, professor of

clinical radiology and chairman of thedepartment of radiology at PhiladelphiaGeneral Hospital, and Dr. William Greenread a paper at the annual meeting ofthe American Roentgen Ray Society inNew Orleans dealing with the use of an-giography in acute abdominal emergen-cies.

DR. ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAFF, Jr., as-sistant professor of political science, inJuly lectured to Foreign Service Officersat a Seminar on Contemporary PoliticalSciences at the Foreign Service Institute;in September he presented three addi-tional lectures to mid-career ForeignService Officers at the Institute. He is theauthor of two articles, "Ecology and thePolitical System" which appeared inAmerican Behavioral Scientist in itsJuly-August issue and "Britain and TheEuropean Community, 1963-67" whichappeared in Orbis. He is also the co-author of "ELDO and European Tech-nological Collaboration: The Experi-ence of the European Launcher Devel-opment Organization" in the Septemberissue of the Journal of Common MarketStudies.

DR. JOHN R. SENIOR, associate profes-sor of medicine, was invited to addressthe Flemish Royal Academy of Medi-cine in Brussels during its 30th anniver-sary with a lecture "Bile Salt Alterationsand the Malabsorption of Fat." Duringhis visit he also presented lectures andseminars in London, Utrecht and Louvainon mechanisms of normal fat absorption,clinical assessment of maldigestion byglyceride output and alterations in smallintestinal pyrimidine precursor syntheticactivity in celiac disease.

DR. RICHARD KAPLAN, associate inorthopedic surgery, addressed the Inter-national College of Surgeons at its 16thBiennial International Congress in Tokyoin October.JAMES R. TAYLOR. lecturer in com-

munications, supervised a student sum-mer project to teach television to a groupof disadvantaged youths from the YouthDevelopment Center (a correctional in-stitute in Philadelphia) in June and Au-gust.

DR. CARL C. CHAMBERS, vice presi-dent for engineering affairs; DR. NOR-MAN A. HIXON, assistant vice presidentfor graduate studies for chemical engi-neering; and DR. STUART W. CHURCHILL,Carl V. S. Patterson Professor of Chemi-cal Engineering, attended the AnnualMeeting of Engineers Council for Pro-fessional Development in New Orleans,Louisiana.

Earlier, Dr. Churchill and DR. WAR-REN D. SEIDER, associate professor ofchemical engineering, attended the 10thNational Heat Transfer Conference ofthe American Institute of Chemical En-gineers and the American Society ofMechanical Engineers, held in Philadel-phia. Dr. Churchill was honorary chair-man of the Conference, co-author of apaper presented at the meeting andserved as chairman of another technicalsession while a number of graduate stu-dents served as session aides.

DR. CELSO-RAMON GARCIA, professorof obstetrics and gynecology, recentlyparticipated in the biennial meeting ofthe Latin-American Association of In-vestigators in Human Reproduction heldin Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. On his returnhe served as consultant for the FordFoundation with reference to FamilyPlanning Studies in the Caribbean area,visiting Puerto Rico and Haiti.