VOLUME 15, NUMBER 6 FEBRUARY, 1969

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Ruth Will CoordinateAgencies to CombatViolence in Area

President Gaylord P. Harnwell in De-cember named Henry S. Ruth, Jr., asso-ciate professor of law, to coordinateinstitutional, community and city govern-mental agency resources needed to combatviolence in the campus area.

Professor Ruth joined the Universityfaculty in 1967 after two years as DeputyDirector of the President's Commissionon Law Enforcement and the Administra-tion of Justice. From 1961 to 1965 hehad been on the staff of the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice in its Office of CriminalJustice and in the Organized Crime andRacketeering Section.

Cooperating with Professor Ruth willbe Louis B. Schwartz, Benjamin FranklinProfessor of Law, as well as representa-tives of University administrative andacademic departments which deal withprograms related to security and safetyproblems.

Professor Ruth's appointment is one ofa number of steps taken to provide ad-ditional security measures for the Univer-sity community.

University officials have met with rep-resentatives of the Philadelphia PoliceDepartment to discuss additional measuresto be instituted in cooperation with thePolice Department. Last fall additionalCity police coverage was provided in thearea.

Representatives of the University havealso met with a number of communitygroups to discuss joint action on a com-munity basis.The University's Campus Bus service,

inaugurated two years ago for the con-venience of students living in Universityresidences, has been extended to serveall members of the University living inthe area.

Its 6 p.m.-to-midnight schedule has beenextended to 5 p.m. to 12:42 a.m. and itsroute, which formerly ran to 40th Street,has now been extended westward to 45thStreet and south to Baltimore Avenue.Additional information concerning theschedule and route may be obtained fromMrs. Barbara Morris, assistant dean ofwomen, at Ext. 2596.

Construction will begin this year on a Graduate Center to be built on Walnut Streetbetween 36th and 37th Streets. Dining rooms, lounges, study rooms and recreation areaswill occupy the tall center portion while administrative and faculty offices will be locatedin the right wing.

Dr. Harnwell To RetireDr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of

the University of Pennsylvania, has pub-licly announced his intention to retire fromthe presidency of the University on oraround his 67th birthday on September29, 1970. Dr. Harnwell has said that theprecise effective date of his retirementshould be set so as to be convenient to hissuccessor.

At earlier meetings of the UniversityTrustees, Dr. Harnwell had reminded themthat in his initial agreements with the rep-resentatives of the Trustees, he had saidhe would raise with them the question ofretirement upon his reaching the age ofsixty-seven. At previous meetings he hadalso asked that the Trustees give early con-sideration to any desirable redefinition ofthe purview and responsibilities of theposition, its relationship to the Trustees andits Chairman and to the University's seniorsupporting administrative structure.A working committee on criteria and

procedures related to the selection of a newUniversity president is being establishedunder the chairmanship of William L.Day, chairman of the Trustees of the Uni-versity. This committee, which will includeTrustees, members of the faculty, andstudents, is expected to complete its workwithin five or six months, at which time asearch committee will be appointed.

in 1970Named to the working committee are

Trustees Henry M. Chance, II; Robert G.Dunlop; Paul F. Miller, Jr.; William D.Patterson; Ernest Scott, Esq.; and BernardG. Segal, Esq.The Faculty members serving on the

committee will be Dr. Charles C. Price,Dr. Ned B. Williams, Dr. Julius Wishnerand Bernard Wolfman. Dr. Price is chair-man of the University Council, Mr. Wolf-man is chairman-elect of the Senate, andDr. Williams and Dr. Wishner are the mostimmediate past-chairmen of the Senate.Student members of the working commit-tee are yet to be selected.

University CommunicationsCurrently Being StudiedA study of communications patterns

among University of Pennsylvania faculty,staff and students as well as with neighborsof the University in the West Philadelphiacommunity is now underway.

Miss Lillian G. Burns, planning coord-inator in the University's Office of Co-ordinated Planning, is executive directorof the study.

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Trustees Approve Additional

Faculty Appointments, Leaves

New faculty appointments and leaveshave been approved by the UniversityTrustees. These include:

Dr. Bernard R. Gerber, assistant pro-fessor of biology; Dr. Thomas E. Webb,assistant professor of psychology; Dr. H.M. Douty, visiting professor of industry;Dr. Hiroshi Takamori, assistant profes-sor, and Dr. C. West Churchman, adjunctprofessor, of statistics and operations re-search; Dr. Aaron Geilman, adjunct asso-ciate professor of transportation and re-gional science; Dr. E. Gerald Hurst, assist-ant professor of industry.

Dr. Robert H. Cagan and Dr. Irving M.Shapiro, assistant professors of biochem-istry; Dr. J. Kent Blasie and Dr. MartinPring, assistant professors of biophysics;Dr. Paul M. Fine, assistant professor ofchild psychiatry; Dr. Nicholas S. Gimbel,associate professor of surgery; Dr. MauriceR. Hilleman, adjunct professor of virologyin pediatrics; Dr. Hiroshi Kanai, visitingassociate professor of physiology; Dr.Richard R. Lindquist, assistant professorof pathology; Dr. Eugene N. Myers, as-sistant professor of clinical otolaryngology;Dr. Donald K. Carman, visiting assistantprofessor in periodontics; Dr. Harley C.Sullivan, Jr., assistant professor of peri-odontics; and Dr. Dudley E. Johnston,visiting associate professor of surgery.

Those granted leaves this semester inaddition to faculty members previouslylisted in the Almanac, are:-Dr. Craig C. Lundberg, assistant pro-

fessor of industry, who is taking residentialtraining at Esalen Institute in California.-Dr. Daniel Cohen, professor of epi-

demiology and public health, who is under-taking studies in.the. international aspectsof veterinary public health; this includesa program of activities with the WorldHealth Organization as a consultant inIndonesia, Thailand, India, Israel andprobably Europe;-Dr. Israel Live, professor of micro-

biology, who is associated with the StatensSeruminstitut in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Dr. Paul Trumpler, professor of

mechanical engineering, who is on vol-untary assignment in Iran under the Pah-lavi University Development Project.-Dr. Herbert 0. Grubel, associate

professor of finance, who is serving as aResearch Fellow at the Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia, givinglectures on the way at economic researchinstitutes in Karachi, Bangkok, KualaLumpur and Singapore.

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way semiconductors react with atmos-phere and liquids: "We're looking forpotential sensors of molecules and ionsin solution-to evolve new forms of de-tection," he explained.

Thus, the projects at the Solid StateLaboratory focus on both new materials,especially those useful in detecting infraredwaves, and new methods and techniquesof using such materials to sense the worldaround us.

In addition to a $50,000 high field,superconducting electromagnet expectedto be installed in the late spring, the lab-oratory also contains equipment that canmeasure electronic properties at temper-atures close to absolute zero (- 459 de-grees) and optical equipment that canmeasure from ultraviolet to infrared onthe spectrum.The Laboratory itself was constructed

in part with funds from the Ford Foun-dation and has obtained equipmentgrants from various electric utilities andelectronics firms. Its staff will includethree permanent professors, two visitingprofessors and twelve graduate students.It is located on the third floor of theGraduate Research Center of the MooreSchool.

Museum Exhibits Photographs,Artifacts From Its ExpeditionsFor almost 80 years, The University

Museum of the University of Pennsyl-vania has been carrying on research inevery corner of the world. In just the last3 years alone, it has sponsored more than25 expeditions in the field. Now a specialexhibit displaying major techniques ofarchaeology and finds of the Museum'sexpeditions is on view, free to the public,through Memorial Day.The exhibition, entitled "Where in the

World," is made up of photographs andartifacts representing the Museum's variousethnological and archaeological expedi-tions, including the conservation programat Tikal (Guatemala), deep wreck identi-fication off the coast of Turkey and artsand crafts in the Pacific Islands.The exhibit also shows digging opera-

tions at the Palace of Tell-Es-Sa 'Idiyehin the Jordan Valley, field work in Egypt,anthropology in the British SolomonIslands, archaeology in the Atigun Valley(Alaska), various work throughout SouthAsia, excavations at Yengema Cave,Sierra Leone, and proof that the longlost Greek city of Sybaris has finally beenfound.

The dedication of its new Solid StateElectronics Laboratory has been an-nounced by the Moore School of Electri-cal7 Engineering. The $250,000 labora-tory, one of the most complete of itstype, houses scientists and graduate stu-dents investigating new materials for futureuse in solid state devices such as transistorsand integrated circuits.

According to Dr. Jay N. Zemel, direc-tor of the new facility, the laboratoryhas a large number of single crystal thinMm growing evaporators. Investigatorswill grow and use these thin films tostudy various materials such as lead andtin chalcogenides and their alloys.

"Once we establish the properties of agiven material," Dr. Zemel points out,.,we can start thinking about possible ap-plications." The group is especially in-terested in sensors to detect heat radia-tion or laser beams in the various at-mospheric "windows." The work onsensors, he says, will have strong tieswith the Moore School's efforts in bio-medical engineering.

Dr. Zemel says the Laboratory willalso be studying phenomena occurring atsemiconductor surfaces. "Since transis-tors and semiconductor devices are oftenlimited by surface behavior, we're con-cerned with understanding how the elec-trical and optical properties of the ma-terials are affected by the surface."

Another area of interest involves the

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Objective of the study is to develop anoptimum model of communications whichwill provide the basis for specific recom-mendations for modification of the Uni-versity's existing communications patterns.The model is to include all University printand audio-visual communications media aswell as faculty, student and administrativegroups participating in communications.The study was recommended to Dr.

Harnwell by the President's Committee onUniversity Communications chaired byRobert Lewis Shayon, professor of com-munications. To begin the study, the Uni-versity has received a grant of $15,000from the Carnegie Corporation of NewYork, which regards the study as "poten-tially important not only to Pennsylvaniabut to other institutions."Communications patterns and problems

at a number of other institutions in thenation will be studied as comparisons.

New Solid State Electronics LabDedicated at the Moore School

A faculty committee consisting of Dr.Charles Price, chairman of the UniversityCouncil; Dr. Robert Davies, chairman ofthe Council's Committee on Research; andDr. Louis Girifalco, chairman of the Sub-committee on Relations with the ScienceCenter have been appointed by PresidentHarnwell to examine the May 1967 back-ground document on the University's rela-tionship to the development of the ScienceCenter.The committee was established in an-

swer to a demand made by the University'schapter of S.D.S. Earlier in the year S.D.S.had asked to see the document and wasrefused by the Trustees' who voted tomaintain the traditional confidentiality oftheir proceedings and not make the docu-ment public.

In order to avoid any apprehensions thisdecision may have caused, the Presidentexplained that he will ask the Trustees toallow the three-man committee to readthe document and report on it to the Uni-versity community.

OTHER DEMANDS PRESENTED

The S.D.S. chapter also presented sixother demands to the President. Thesewere:-That expansion of the University and

the allocation of its resources be made bythe University community as a whole;-That a portion of the University bud-

get be allocated for the needs of the sur-rounding community for such projects asthat community shall determine;-That the corporations represented on

the University's Board of Trustees providethe money necessary for the building of asignificant number of low-cost housingunits in Area III.-That the University City Science

Center provide land, housing and com-munity services for all people displaced bythem;-That the University City Science

Center have no classified, military relatedresearch or development contracts;-That if the University City Science

Center does not comply with demands fourand five, the University of Pennsylvaniasever all connections with it.

RESPONSE QUESTIONED

While questioning the value of respond-ing to "demands" as a format for rationaldiscussion, President Harnwell explainedthat he felt it important to clarify the sub-stantive questions raised by S.D.S.

In answering the first demand, that de-cisions be made by the University as awhole, the President said that one of thefirst problems was to define the "Univer-

sity Community as a whole." He ex-pressed the hope that this will be one ofthe outcomes of the Task Force on Gover-nance, now in the process of formation.

Regarding the request that a portion ofthe University's budget be allotted to thecommunity, Dr. Harnwell pointed out thatthe University is currently engaged inmany ways to meet the pressing needs ofthe community. "Ideas, staff expertiseand facilities-resources which in the longrun may be more significant than money-have been expended as well as Universityfunds in support of projects determined bycommunity groups."

PROGRAMS CITED

Such programs include The YoungGreat Society Adult Leadership and Train-ing Project in which Herman Wrice'sgroup developed objectives and the Univer-sity secured Federal funds, matched themout of its own resources and helped con-duct the course; Project Mantua in whichAndrew Jenkins of Mantua CommunityPlanners and his staff form plans forchanging the economic and social condi-tion of Mantua then use University facultymembers' advice and contacts to carry outtheir program (financial support for theproject comes from a private industrygrant to the University); and a trainingprogram in which YGS advisors andtwenty suburban women will join in aneducation program for white suburbia onthe problems of urban life, again usingFederal funds with a matching grant fromthe University.

There are numerous other projects, Dr.Harnwell said, some under way and othersin prospect, in which the University hasresponded to community requests. Sevenblack organizations recently initiated dis-cussion for a new kind of business trainingin the Wharton School and such a programhas just been started; black leaders con-cerned over the lack of minority repre-sentation in the building trades are workingwith the University to seek solutions tothis problem.

Replying to the demand that corpora-tions represented on the Trustees providemoney for low-cost housing, Dr. Harnwellreminded the S.D.S. chapter that Trusteesare elected as individuals and not asrepresentatives of corporations.

Admitting that the role of the businesscommunity is by no means complete, hewent on to point out a few programs inwhich business is involved, one of the mostdramatic being the recent compact withthe Black Coalition and the city's businessand financial leaders, starting with a $1million commitment to help carry out

projects developed by the black communityitself. Fifteen separate projects have beenapproved covering a medical center forMantua, a gang activities control programfor Northwest Philadelphia and severalrecreation and job training programs.

SCIENCE CENTER DISCUSSED

Commenting on the demand that theScience Center provide housing, the Pres-ident said that the Center's charter doesnot allow it to get into housing, communityservices or land use for housing: "It mustconfine itself to creating a research anddevelopment center in the area," he ex-plained.He did note, however, that the Center

has already returned to the RedevelopmentAuthority a triangle of land at 36th andFilbert Streets where some 80 apartmentunits are scheduled to be built by RenewalHousing, Inc., a corporation affiliated withthe Volunteer Community ResourcesCouncil headed by the Rev. Edward Sims.

In speaking of the Science Center, thePresident stated that research and develop-ment policy is a matter for the "UniversityCity Science Center Board of Directors todetermine and one which requires con-tinuing evaluation." He said that such anevaluation is now in progress and althoughhe felt it premature to comment at thistime, he did point out that the majorthrust of the Center's research effort is nowin the life sciences and he saw nothingwhich would blunt or negate that thrust.

As for pulling out of the Science Center,the President remarked that he felt it wouldbe manifestly self-defeating. "The Univer-sity can work more effectively with theother shareholding institutions of like viewsinside the corporate structure of the Sci-ence Center than as a withdrawn non-member."

MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE

In summarizing his views the Presidentexplained he by no means feels the Uni-versity is now completely fulfilling its re-sponsibility to the University neighbor-hood."An inventory of University-community

involvement projects is now being com-piled as a first step in measuring the dis-tance and direction we still have to go increating an appropriate environment," hesaid. "As I pointed out in my recentannual message, each university must ad-dress itself to striking a balance with re-spect to its resources and responses inregard to the public service role."He explained that Pennsylvania is now

engaged in doing precisely that in planningthe future character and mission of theUniversity for the decade of the seventies.

President Discusses Recent S.D.S. Demands

(Editor's Note: Because the followingletter speaks more eloquently than anyarticle based on it could, it is being pub-lished, with only slight editing, just as itwas received.)For ten weeks last spring, faculty and

students in the physics department carriedout a program aimed at teaching the basicprinciples of the radio to fifteen highschool students from West PhiladelphiaHigh School. The students, all but one ofwhom were black, were from all threegrades and were mostly underachievers(i.e., not well motivated). The fact thatonly a couple of the students who startedthe program failed to complete it, thoughit was completely voluntary, made us feelthat it was a success and is the reason weare writing this letter about it.The basic format of the program was

as follows: The students were broughtto the University each Saturday morn-ing for about two hours. During thefirst hour a faculty member would lec-ture on the basic physical principles ofthe radio. Six professors alternatedteaching the lecture-demonstration ses-sions, and six graduate students set upthe demonstrations.

During the second hour (often twohours) the students went into a labora-tory and built radio kits, the graduatestudents helping them with the construc-tion (although after a few weeks theywere there only as advisors).The actual program was essentially the

same as planned. Rather than outline thisprogram in this letter, we would insteadlike to make some comments about whatwe learned from giving the lectures.

First of all, it was not really clear fromthe beginning what the objectives of theprogram really were. Partly we hopedthat we might stimulate some of the kidsinto becoming interested in a future in

$45,000 Given in SupportOf Near East CenterGulf Oil Corporation has made a grant

of $45,000 to the University to supportthe work of its Near East Center. Paymentof the grant is being made over a three-year period.The Center, directed by Dr. Thomas

Naff, associate professor of near easthistory, offers courses in literature, history,the social sciences, politics, economics,Islamic law, geography, Muslim art andarchitecture, and training in Arabic,Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew languages.Courses are offered to both undergraduatesand graduate students, and to students en-rolled at other Philadelphia-area colleges.

science or engineering. But this was, ofcourse, a very secondary objective. Per-haps the primary motivation was to seeif we could hold their interest. If theygot interested in what we were trying tosay and had some fun learning aboutand building a radio, that would beenough. So the first challenge to facewas in the lectures.

The first lecture was an outline of whatwas to come and we stuffed it full of themost entertaining demonstrations wecould devise. Perhaps the biggest shockcame after about five minutes of lectur-ing when the students were asked a rhe-torical question about how the soundfrom a fist banging on the table reachedtheir ears. Instead of waiting for the lec-turer to answer his own questions as weare used to (teaching in a university),the students spoke up. Several of themhad comments. "Sound waves in the

Three More Offices MoveThe Office of Athletic Affairs, headed

by Dr. Harry Fields, and the Office ofCommunity Relations, headed byLeonard C. Dill, Jr., have moved toRoom 11 on the ground floor of Col-lege Hall. The Department of Philos-ophy has moved to 305 Logan Hall.

air," "Vibrating air," "waves"; the re-sponse was surprising and very encour-aging. After that it always became clearwhen they were getting snowed or boredbecause that was when they would quietdown. The only way to salvage the lec-ture was to stop whatever you had inmind and make contact again with them,by any means you could.

It was not too difficult to hold theirattention during the first few lectures,providing you kept them interacting andtalking. But later on it became moredifficult. This was undoubtedly due inpart to the newness wearing off. Also wemight have been getting less ingeniousabout demonstrations. Some of thethings we did in the beginning wererather entertaining (of course, it was thegraduate students who had to put theideas into working demonstrations).

For example, in the first lecture wewanted to show them how one couldtransmit some information on an electro-magnetic wave, e.g. on a light beam. Sowe used a Supremes record to modulatea neon bulb and sent the light throughsome lenses to a photo cell. Eventuallyyou heard the sound come out of a .loud-speaker on the other side of the room.The distortion was pretty bad but you

could tell it was the Supremes. Well,perhaps we were more impressed that itworked than they were, but things likethat really did put some life into the lec-tures. With a fair amount of time andsome proper equipment one could makea whole physics course around just whatis in a radio. It might be a very goodway to teach high school science.

After several weeks, in spite of thiskind of ingenuity, it became clear thatthe main drawing card was not the lec-tures but the radio construction itself.The kids picked up the necessary tech-niques for soldering and cutting wiresand learned very readily what the com-ponents were called. In the lectures wetried to teach them what the componentsreally did and that was more difficult.

Perhaps with more time in the lectureswe could have been more successful. Butthe combination of lecturing and thenbuilding seems to us to be a real potentialkey to success. Either one alonewouldn't be very effective.

After about seven weeks one of thefaster students finished his radio kit. Heturned it on and it worked perfectly.That was a great thing for all of us andwe figured we had it made. Well, someof the other kits were not built so well,so the graduate students had to reworkthem. When we finally finished after tenweeks, all the kits but one worked. Thekids wanted to keep coming and I thinkthat made us all feel rather good.

Obviously we all learned more thanthey did-about the radio and aboutNegro high school kids. But it's not clear-maybe those radio kits taken home toshow their parents and friends will domore for them than the satisfaction oftrying something new did for us.

Finally, we would like to thank thosewho helped make the program possible.Radio Electric (Mr. Herb Levinson)and Almo Scientific (Mr. Morrie Green)donated the radio kits; and the Collegeof General Studies (Dr. A. P. Hess, Jr.)made the funds available. Mr. MannyDoxer, Mr. John Rappolt, and ProfessorWilliam Stephens, all in the Physics De-partment, helped make the arrange-ments. Mr. Pete Parkinson and Mr. JimHobbs helped with the demonstrations andlaboratory equipment. The graduate stu-dents involved were Paul Chaikin, GaryGladstone, Art Epstein, Marjorie Kienin,and Rick Riillo. Mr. Harry Richman ofthe West Philadelphia High School Sci-ence Department was the key man behindthe scenes. Thanks also to the high schoolstudents who kept coming.

John Gardner

Tony JensenAlan Heeger

Doug ScalapinoDon Langenberg Bob Schrieffer

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Physics Faculty Discuss Teaching of High Schoolers

75 High Schoolers Now at UniversityStudying English, History and Physics

Seventy-five West Philadelphia HighSchool students have begun an inde-pendent study program in cooperation withvolunteer faculty members of the Univer-sity this semester, Walter H. Scott, princi-paloftheHighSchool,-hasannounce d

The 75 have been given released timefrom one regular high school class, to studythat same subject at the University. Tenth.graders are taking English, 11th graders,American History and 12th graders, phys-ics. Coordinator of the program is WestPhiladelphia High School English teacherBarry Slepian who is also a lecturer inEnglish at the University.

The English and American historyclasses started January 20 and the physicsclasses February 3. All will continuethrough May 1, meeting two hours a weekat the University. The students spend addi-tional study time in the University librariesand laboratories and in the High SchoolCultural Center when their released timefalls between other classes at the HighSchool.

Three-quarters of the students chosen

are above-average in the subjects of theirindependent study, Mr. Slepian said, withthe remainder "mild risk" cases whosework is expected to improve in the newsetting. Classes are limited to eight studentseach::

Teaching English to the tenth-graders isPeter Conn, instructor in English at theUniversity; William R. Adams, assistantdean of admissions at the University anda former high school English teacher; andThomas Gallagher, director of administra-tion of the Young Great Society and a1967 graduate of the University.

In American history, the faculty mem-bers are Dr. John L. Shover, associate pro-fessor of history; Dr. Seymour I. Mandel-baum, associate professor of city planning;Dr. Perry Viles and Dr. Michael Zucker-man, assistant professors of history; andTheodore Hershberg, instructor in history.Those conducting physics classes include

Dr. C. W. Ufford, professor of physics;Dr. M. Anthony Jensen, assistant professorof physics; and research associates Dr.Joel Cohen and Dr. Anthony F. Garito.

Three different programs meant to givestudents a realistic introduction to careerpossibilities in the health professions andto motivate them toward the educationnecessary for these careers are now beingoffered by the medical schools of the Uni-versity.

Currently, 76 Philadelphia high schoolstudents and 34 students from LincolnUniversity are working as lab assistantson campus, learning what goes on in lab-oratories that develop new drugs, probethe sub-microscopic world of the cell orlook for disease causes.

Dr. Helen C. Davies, assistant professor-otmiambiology who is spokesman for themedical school faculty committee that ar-ranged for two of the programs, puts itthis way:"We need more doctors, more nurses,

more therapists, laboratory technicians andother trained health professionals. Thebest way to get them is to interest youngpeople while they are still in high school,before they've decided on another career."She pointed out that many high schoolstudents aren't aware of health careers andtherefore don't take the necessary subjectsto prepare themselves.The first program got underway last

September and involves 27 students se-lected by West Philadelphia, Bartram andBenjamin Franklin high schools. Most ofthese young people were already in collegepreparatory courses, but were not neces-sarily science-oriented. The program,funded by a three-year grant from theJosiah Macy, Jr., Foundations, of NewYork City, makes it possible to pay thestudent an hourly "wage" for the 10 after.school hours they work at the School ofMed ohweaá,eel

In addition to their laboratory work,the students attend seminars and are takenon tours of various clinical departmentsso they will be acquainted with-the actualpractice of medicine.

39 STUDENTS VOLUNTEEREDA second program involves 39 students

from Simon Gratz High. School, most ofwhom live in the urban North Philadelphiaarea. The program is similar to the first,but students volunteered for it instead ofbeing selected. Twenty-one are workingin laboratories at the School of VeterinaryMedicine under the direction of Dr. M.Raja Iyengar, associate professor of bio-chemistry, and another 18 are at the Uni-versity's Graduate Hospital.Ten other high school students are

spending three hours each week withsenior computer programmer Hillel Bardin

in the Pharmacology department at themedical school, learning the elements ofcomputer programming. Mr. Bardin, incharge of programming for the pressureresearch laboratory of Dr. Christian J.Lambertsen, is instructing them on theapplications of computers in aerospace andundersea physiology. He is being assistedby Jeffrey Seld, a graduate student in bio-medical engineering.(The General Electric Time Sharing

System has contributed the time for thestudents to use the computer. Mr. Bardinhopes to expand the program to full-timestatus over the summer.)

LINCOLN STUDENTS GRADEDThe 34 Lincoln University students are

spending their month at the University inthree schools: 15 are in the veterinaryschool, 14 in the medical school, and fourin the dental school. Upon completion ofthis introduction to medicine program,each student will submit a report to Lin-coln University and receive both a gradeand credit for the experience.

While at Pennsylvania, the Lincoln stu-dents are working in laboratories and at-tending seminars. And they are being

encouraged to enter one of the healthprofessions upon completion of their un-dergraduate work.Most of the students are living with fac-

ulty families in Philadelphia. Severalparties are being given for them so theywill have an opportunity to meet inform-ally with medical students and faculty.

PROGRAMS UNUSUALDr. Davies said these programs are un-

usual because they are taking place duringthe school year rather than in the summerand that the students are actually doingresearch.

Dr. Alfred A. Gellhorn, dean of themedical school, is chairman of the facultycommittee that arranged the programs. Dr.Helen 0. Dickens, assistant professor ofobstetrics and gynecology and an associatedean, is coordinating the lecture programin the clinical departments. Dr. HarrisonMcMichael, assistant dean and assistantprofessor of pathology, is in charge of li-aison with the high schools.

The Macy Foundation grant, and giftsfrom Mr. and Mrs. Lessing Rosenwald andMr. and Mrs. I. M. Scott are aiding theUniversity in funding these programs.

Student Lab Assistants Learn About Health Careers

Penn Known for Underwater ResearchThe University of Pennsylvania was

assigned a major role in the Tektite projectbecause for over twenty years it has beena leading center of underwater research.

Dr. Christian J. Lambertsen, director ofthe Institute for Environmental Medicine,developed the underwater breathing ap-paratus that was used by Navy frogmenin World War II, and helped train thedivers who used it.

Dr. Lambertsen and other Universityscientists organized the three symposia onunderwater physiology that have beensponsored by the Office of Naval Researchin the last decade-symposia that have be-come the bibles of the field-and the Uni-versity has been a leader in basic researchin underwater physiology and has trainedmany of the leaders in the field. Three ofthe diving medical officer-investigators in-volved in the Sea Lab project are alumniof the environmental research laboratoriesof the University of Pennsylvania.The University has played a major role

in two milestones in undersea exploration.In 1947, University scientists proved thatmidget submarines could take off from fullsize submarines and return to them whilethe larger submarines were moving under-water-an event that has been comparedwith the first time an airplane successfullylanded on a carrier. (Dr. Lambertsenpiloted the one man submarine himself thefirst time it made a landing.)

In 1964, Penn scientists helped set arecord for sustained saturation diving thatremained unbroken for the next threeyears-a 432 foot, two day dive in whichUniversity scientists teamed with the ex-plorer and inventor E. A. Link. This wasthe second open sea saturation dive and thefirst that lasted more than a few hours.

For this operation, the University designedthe first deck decompression chamber de-signed to receive divers who have beenbrought up from the bottom in pressurizedcompartments.The Tektite project grew out of NASA

and the Office of Naval Research's interestin a psychological problem that is an im-portant aspect of manned space flight andundersea operation: the behavior of menwho are living in an environment in whichthey know they can't be rescued for sev-eral hours if an emergency takes place.NASA and the ONR were looking for

an easily-observed environment in whichmen could be "trapped" in the same waythey are trapped aboard space capsulesand under the sea. Dr. Lambertsen sug-gested extended, open-sea saturation divesin an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. Menliving in such an environment would beeasy to observe, since they would only befifty to a hundred feet below the surface,and at the same time they would be manyhours-or even days-away from rescue.Once a diver's system adjusts to the arti-ficial atmosphere of the habitat, that is, be-comes "saturated," it can take up toeighteen hours to make the transition from50 feet to normal environment.The experimental dive will also test

equipment, and give bio-medical research-ers valuable data. The aquanauts are allmarine biologists and geologists, and theywill be studying the ecology of the con-tinental shelf at first hand. The physiolo-gists and psychologists gathered at the sitewill be studying their reactions as they en-gage in work that can only be performedunder the sea. Such extensive testing willprobably open up the continental shelvesof the world.

Formica, Plexiglas StarIn Plastics Art ExhibitThe Institute of Contemporary Art's

first show of the new year, "Plastics andNew Art," is now on view in the ICAGallery in the Fine Arts Building. Theexhibit can be seen through February 25.

Both the formal East Coast and the"funky" West Coast styles are representedin the exhibition which includes morethan 40 works ranging from austere mini-mal shapes to fanciful, brightly colored,flamboyant inventions. The 20 artistswhose work are on view employ suchmaterials as polyester resin, polychromevinyl, Fiberglass, Formica and Plexiglas.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon-day through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m.on Sunday.

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Scientists Monitor AquanautsWho Are Underwater for 60 Days

This month four of seven aquanautscientists took up stations in a four-cham-ber "habitat" 50 feet beneath the surfaceof Great Lameshur Bay, St. John, VirginIslands. During the next 60 days, the teamwill work out of their underwater home tostudy the biological and geological aspectsof marine life and be studied themselvesin turn by biomedical teams on the surfaceusing remote-control monitoring devices.

Assisting in monitoring the subjects dur-ing and after their underwater operationwill be a University team of 11 medicalexperts, headed by Dr. Christian Lambert-sen, director of the Institute for Environ-mental Medicine. Before beginning theirunderwater adventure-known as Tektite1-the aquanauts spent a week at the Uni-versity Medical School being examined bythis same team.

During the seven-day period, known asBiomedical-Behavioral Control Week, themen were given tests to indicate whetherthey were physically fit for prolonged un-derwater stays. They were also checkedout for social and psychological adaptabil-ity to a confined, hazardous environmentand were taught to administer routinemedical examinations to each other, in-cluding blood tests and dermatologicalchecks.A complete medical and psychological

profile for each subject was drawn up dur-ing the control week and will be comparedto later monitoring records. Of particularimportance will be the analysis of the effectof prolonged inhalation of the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere by the crew.

Normally, helium-oxygen combinations

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-Dr. Richard A. Easterlin, professor ofeconomics, who is spending this semesteron a United Nations Mission to evaluateIndia's family planning program.-Dr. Schuyler Crammann, professor of

oriental studies, who accepted a NATOprofessorship in Denmark this semester;Dr. Cammann was the only Americanselected for a Denmark post.-Dr. S. Craighead Alexander, assistant

professor of anesthesia, who has beenworking in the Department of ClinicalPhysiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copen-hagen, Denmark.-Dr. Shakunthala Narasimhulu, assist-

ant professor of surgical research, who isAlexander Humboldt Visiting Professor atthe University of Giessen at the Physio-Iogisch-Chemisches, Institut of JustusLiebig.

are used for saturation diving, but heliumis a rare, expensive gas requiring extensiveuse of tanks and other equipment for sup-ply purposes. Nitrogen, on the other hand,is abundant enough to be extracted directlyfrom the atmosphere.Thus the Tektite project will be a test of

such a breathing mixture. If successful,nitrogen-oxygen saturation diving canprobably be applied on a wide scale.The Tektite I project is financially sup-

ported by the Navy, NASA and the De-partment of the Interior; the General Elec-tric Company designed and built the habi-tat for the crew.

Dr. Ehrenstein Dead at 69;Helped Develop The Pill

Dr. Maximilian R. Ehrenstein, emeritusprofessor of biochemistry at the Schoolof Medicine and chief of the Division ofSteroid Research at the Hospital, diedDecember 28. He was 69.

Dr. Ehrenstein's early work with thesteroids called 19-norsteroids is creditedwith being the basis of the developmentof modern oral contraceptives and of othertherapeutic agents. In 1944, he synthesizeda small amount of a steroid named 19-norprogesterone which is chemically re-lated to the natural female sex hormoneprogesterone.

Dr. Ehrenstein was born in Munich,Germany, and received his doctorate in1921 from the University of Goettingen,Germany, where he worked with thesteroid chemist and Nobel laureate, AdolfWindaus. He was a Rockefeller Founda-tion Fellow in Organic Chemistry at theUniversity of Zurich.

After holding several postdoctoral posi-tions, Dr. Ehrenstein became a regularfaculty member ("Privatdozent") of Fried-rich-Wilhelms University, Berlin, wherefor three years he taught medical chemis-try, and in 1934 accepted a position atthe Medical School of the University ofVirginia. In 1937 he came to the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, where he was namedfull professor in 1949.

Dr. Ehrenstein lectured frequently atthe Free University of Berlin, and since1963, had held the title of Professor ofPhysiological Chemistry on the medicalfaculty of the University of Hamburg.

In 1965, the Free University conferredan honorary degree of Doctor of NaturalSciences upon him, citing his investigationsof steroid hormones, and in 1966 thepresident of the Federal Republic of Ger-many awarded him the Officer's Cross ofthe Order of Merit because of the activerole he played in bringing about the ex-change of students between the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania and the Free Uni-versity of Berlin.

Dr. William Fontaine Dies;Taught in Philosophy Dept.Dr. William T. Fontaine, associate pro-

fessor of philosophy, died December 29at his home. He was 59.

Dr. Fontaine received his BA degreefrom Lincoln University in 1930 and hisPh.D. from the University of Pennsylvaniain 1936. He also attended Harvard Uni-versity and the University of Chicago. In1958 he was chosen lecturer of the yearby Penn's Ivy Club.

Among other things

APPOINTMENTS:DR. E. A. HILDRETH, chief of immuno-

logy in the department of internal medi-cine and associate professor of medicine,has been named Director of the Depart-ment of Medicine of The Reading Hos-pital. He began work in his new positionlast month.

AUTHORS:DR. RICHARD SCHWARZ, assistant pro-

fessor of obstetrics and gynecology, is theauthor of the book Septic Abortion re-cently published by J. B. Lippincott. Inaddition, Dr. Schwarz and his colleague,DR. JOHN EMICH, associate clinical profes-sor of obstetrics and gynecology, recentlyattended the American Association ofGeneral Practices in Las Vegas wherethey presented a scientific exhibit. Follow-ing the meeting, Dr. Schwarz spent a dayas a consultant in the Indian Services Hos-pital in Tuba City, Arizona and Dr. Emichpresented another exhibit at the AmericanOsteopathic Association in Miami.DR. MARTEN BROUWER, visiting asso-

ciate professor of communications, is theauthor of Stereotypen Als Folklore (inDutch) published by Vinkeveen, Amster-dam. An English edition by AcademicPress is due this year.DR. JOHN L. COTTER, visiting associate

professor of American Civilization, hascompiled and published The Handbookfor Historical Archaeology, the first suchoffering in English, based on the work ofhis graduate students since 1964. Dr. Cot-ter organized and chaired a symposiumon historical archaeology at the 1968Pennsbury Americana Forum and gavepapers on the topic of the future andteaching of historical archaeology at meet-ings of the Southeastern Historical SitesArchaeology at Tucson. Dr. Cotter wasfirst president of the Society for HistoricalArchaeology and editor of its first year-book, Historical Archaeology 1967.The Great Society Dictionary, written

by DR. EDWARD S. HERMAN, associate pro-fessor of finance, will soon be publishedby the Philadelphia Resistance and coverssuch topics as Vietnam and the GreatSociety.

DR. HERBERT G. GRUBEL, associate

The author of Reflections on Segrega-tion, Desegregation, Power and Morals,Dr. Fontaine's writings were published inthe Journal of Philosophy, the Philosophyof Science, the Harvard Educational Re-view, and Crescent Africaine and PanAfricanism.

professor of finance, is the author of therecently published book InternationalMonetary Order: Efficiency and PracticalAlternatives. His report, Foreigners inU. S. Science Manpower has been distrib-uted by the National Science Foundationwhile the paper, "The MBA EducationMyth" appears in this month's issue ofthe Journal of Business. During the monthof December Dr. Grubel delivered a paper,"The Interdependence of InternationalEquity Markets" (coauthored by KennethFadner) at the Econometrics Society meet-ings at Chicago.DR. HERBERT R. HAWTHORNE, emeritus

professor of surgery; DR. ALFRED S. FR0-BESES, associate professor of surgery; andDR. JULIAN A. STERLING, assistant profes-sor of surgery at Temple, are authors ofthe text, The Acute Abdomen and Emer-gent Lesions of the Gastrointestinal Tractrecently published by Charles Thomas.DR. GEORGE GERBNER, dean and pro-

fessor of communications, wrote the bio-graphy of Marshall McLuhan for theforthcoming edition of the EncyclopediaAmericana. His study of "Images AcrossCultures: Teachers in Mass Media Fic-tion and Drama," previously published inThe School Review, will be reprinted inScientific Investigations in ComparativeEducation, edited by Harold J. Noah andpublished by The Macmillan Co. Dr.Gerbner is also the author of the Intro-duction to the 1968-69 edition of Peter-son's Guide to Graduate Study in Com-munications.

DR. ALBERT P. SELTZER, associate pro-fessor of otolaryngology, has had the fol-lowing articles published in the Journalof the National Medical Association:"Skin Grafting by Magnetism," "Removalof a Massive Facial Keloid and Sub-sequent Skin-Grafting by Magnetism,"and "The Use of Magnets to MaintainCentralization of the Nasal Septum Fol-lowing Submucous Resection."

HONORS:JEFFERSON B. FORDHAM, dean of the

Law School, was elected the new presi-dent-elect of the Association of AmericanLaw Schools at its annual meeting lastDecember in New Orleans. He will serveas president-elect during 1969 and willbecome president of the Association in1970. Earlier in December, Dr. Fordhambecame a member of the Council of theAmerican Law Institute.

DR. FREDERICH V. BRUTCHER, Jr., as-sociate professor of chemistry, has beenelected a Fellow of the American Instituteof Chemists in recognition of his contri-

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Among other things

butions to organic chemistry. He wasreceived into Fellowship at the Sixth An-nual Fellows lecture held in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania in late October.DR. NOAH S. PRYWES, professor of

electrical engineering, has been elected aFellow by the Board of Directors of theInstitute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers. He was accorded this distinc-tion "for contributions in developing large-scale high-speed computers, educationalprograms in computer and informationsciences and computer applications to in-formation storage and retrieval."

DR. FROELICH 0. RAINEY, director ofthe Museum, was recently given a medalof the Italian Government by ProfessorGuiseppe Fotia, superintendent of anti-quities in Calabria. The award was givenduring a meeting in which the discoveryof the lost city of Sybaris was announcedby the two men.DR. HERBERT J. SPIRO, professor of

political science, has been selected byProfessor Bruce M. Russet, director ofthe World Data Analysis Program ofYale University, as one of "75 majorfigures in the discipline....of internationalstudies" whose recent publications are be-ing surveyed in an assessment of com-munication in the discipline.

STAFF APPOINTMENTS:ALFRED F. BEERS, business manager

for the School of Medicine since 1967,has been named to the additional post ofassistant comptroller of the University.Mr. Beers came to the University in 1966after working for the General ElectricCompany and the accounting firm of Peat,Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS:

DR. MARTIN BELLER, assistant pro-fessor of orthopaedic surgery, and DR.IRVIN STEIN, associate professor of ortho-paedic surgery, presented a paper on "An-terior Cervical Spine Fusion" at the Penn-sylvania State Medical Society 1968Scientific Session in Pittsburgh in lateOctober. Dr. Stein later presented twopapers in Tokyo at the XVI BiennialInternational Congress of the InternationalCollege of Surgeons: "Circulation of theFemoral Head in Dogs" and "AnteriorCervical Spine Fusion". Two other papers,"Complication of Paget's Disease" and"Evaluation of Tendon Repair with PlasticAdhesive Approximation Contrasted withSuture," were given by him in Osaka.

DR. FREDERIC ROLL, professor of me-chanical engineering, was an invited par-ticipant in the Engineering FoundationResearch Conference on "The Perform-ance of Full Scale Structure" which washeld last fall at Andover, New Hampshire.

DR. MITCHELL Lirr, associate profes-sor of chemical engineering, and DR.WARREN D. SEIDER, assistant professor,attended the 61st Annual Meeting of theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineersin Los Angeles last month where Dr.Seider presented two papers, one entitled"Confined Jet Mixing in the Entrance ofa Tubular Reactor," coauthored by Dr.Stuart W. Churchill, Carl V. S. PattersonProfessor of Chemical Engineering; andthe other entitled, "A Chemical Engineer-ing Calculating System for Use in Educa-tion," coauthored by Professor BruceCharnahan of the University of Michigan.Dr. Litt presented a paper, "An Experi-mental Study of Flow Instability on aRotating Disc," coauthored by D. T. Chin,a doctoral student at the University.

Dr. Churchill attended the Winter An-nual Meeting of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers in New York wherehe was named a member of the EditorialAdvisory Board of a new journal of trans-lations to be published by ASME andentitled, Soviet Research-Heat Transfer.Both he and DR. A. NORMAN HIXSON, Jr.,assistant vice president of engineering forgraduate studies, also attended a meetingof the Executive Committee of the Engi-neering Council for Professional Develop-ment; Dr. Hixson is a member of itsBoard of Directors.

DR. PAUL J. KORSHIN, assistant pro-fessor of English, read a paper entitled"The Genesis of Johnson's Letter toChesterfield" before the Group Meetingof English 8 (Literary Tendencies duringthe Second Half of the Eighteenth Cen-tury) at the Modern Language Associa-tion Annual Meeting last December inNew York. Dr. Korshin was also chair-man, for the second time, of the scholars'conference on Neoclassicism, which at the1968 meeting was called "Problems ofNeoclassicism: Theories of Imitation."

DR. MICHAEL JAMESON, professor ofclassical studies and chairman of thegraduate group in ancient history, spokeat the annual meeting of the Archaeologi-cal Institute of America in Toronto lastDecember on "Halieis - Porto Cheli,1968," discussing the past season's workat the University's joint dig with IndianaUniversity in Greece. During the workin Greece a skeleton was found which,according to DR. ELIZABETH RALPH whodirects the University's radio-carbon lab,dates back to about 7600 B.C., the ear-liest complete skeleton found in Greece.Before attending the meeting, Dr. Jamesonwas interviewed by the Voice of Americaconcerning the University's Center forAncient History.

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