Wilfred Gillen Is Dead;Chairman of TrusteesWilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the

Trustees of the University since 1961,died May 1 at the age of 67.

Following his death the Trustees ofthe University at their May 3 meetingpassed a resolution which reads in part:

Courteous, firm, friendly, incisive in judg-ment, wise in guiding discussion in even themost complicated matters, Wilfred Gillen byhis leadership in University affairs earnedthe deep gratitude of all those within thecircle of the University of Pennsylvania fac-ulty, student body, alumni and friends. Fromhis graduation in the distinguished Class of1923 to his death two days ago forty-fiveyears later, the University was always closeto his heart. Elected a Term Trustee in1952 and Life Trustee in 1959, he wasawarded by the University the HonoraryDegree of Doctor of Laws in 1965, in ap-preciation of his invaluable service to theUniversity as well as his outstanding contri-butions to the welfare of city and nation inbusiness and civic affairs.Rising-from the position of Clerk in the

Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in1923 to its Presidency in 1949 (from whichposition he retired in 1965), Wilfred Gillenhas been outstanding in the business commu-nity. His contributions to the public welfarehave won for him LL.D. degrees also fromTemple University and Pennsylvania Mili-tary College, as well as honors and positionsof responsibility in many other educational,financial, business and civic organizations.The very recent successful completion of

the Academic portion of our great FundCampaign owes much to Wilfred Gillen'scontinued labors for that goal.To you, "Wil" Gillen, whose so recent loss

we can hardly comprehend, and whose spiritwe feel is still amongst us, this group of yourfellow-workers for the welfare of the Uni-versity expresses by this resolution ourwarmest affection and devotion. Your leader-ship has been a bright star in the history ofour University.

William L. Day, chairman of theFirst Pennsylvania Banking and TrustCompany, was elected to succeed Mr.Gillen as Chairman of the Trustees.

Medical School's Traditional CurriculumReplaced by Individualized ProgramThe University of Pennsylvania

School of Medicine, the nation's oldestmedical school, will soon abandon itstraditional medical curriculum in favorof a highly individualized program ofmedical education designed to meet thespecial needs and interests of each stu-dent enrolled.

The announcement was made by DeanSamuel Guriri during a Trustees' lunch-eon meeting on the 203rd anniversary ofthe medical school's founding. On May3, 1765, the University Trustees ap-pointed Dr. John Morgan as the firstmedical professor in this country, therebyestablishing the first medical school.Dean Gurin said the new curriculum

"makes it possible for each student to sethis own personal goal in medicine andtailor his course of study to achieve thatgoal."

Medical students permitted to concen-trate on areas that interest them will beable to take more advanced courses inclinical or non-clinical subjects and ob-tain the scholarly background for futurespecialization, the dean pointed out."We have 500 students in the medical

school, which means there could be 500different curricula," he stated. "In effect,we are transforming the traditional typeof medical training into an intellectualexperience in the atmosphere of a grad-uate professional school."The new curriculum plan was devel-

oped over the past two years by a fac-ulty committee headed by Dr. John R.Brobeck, chairman and professor ofphysiology.

Dr. Brobeck said that student interestin the curriculum changes has beenkeen, as evidenced by committee consul-tations with representative studentgroups during the final stages of curricu-lum formulation.

In anticipation of the curriculum

changes, an organized and extensivecounseling system has been developedand began functioning in September1967. Now each student has a regularfaculty person to turn to for advice."The function of faculty advisors is es-

sential to the success of the new curricu-lum," Dr. Brobeck said. "Each studentwill need continuing individual help todetermine what subjects he should studyto prepare for the medical career of hischoice." He noted that students also canreceive advice on personal matters andthat it is anticipated that the advisor pro-gram will help develop more meaningfulrelationships and friendships among fac-ulty and students.

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New Program Outlinedby Gordon N. French, M.D.

Associate Dean, Medical School

The School of Medicine will begin an ex-citing and challenging new curriculum inthe fall of 1968. All four classes will par-ticipate in changes developed by a facultycommittee over a period of years. Some ofthe principles of the plan are shared withthe forty or more other United States medicalschools which are revising their teaching pro-grams; these include shorter basic courses, in-creased elective time, broader choice of elec-tives, advanced credit for college work, earlyexperience in the clinical areas, and a majorfaculty advisory system. Beyond these, how-ever, the new Pennsylvania curriculum is in-tended to make the greatest practical use ofthe presence of the School of Medicine withina physically compact university of greatly di-verse fields of scholarship.For fifty years nearly all medical schools

have had a common, unchanging curriculumpattern: two basic-science years and two clin-ical years with a possibility of a month ortwo of clinical electives in the last year,chosen from a limited list. Presently the fouryears of school represent approximately half

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Faculty Promotions Effective July 1Faculty promotions approved by the

Trustees have been announced by theProvost's Office. The promotions becomeeffective July 1, 1968.

Listed below are those promotionswhich had been approved by April 2 ofthis year. Faculty promotions approvedafter that date will appear in the nextissue of Almanac.College of Arts and Sciences: Dr.

Benjamin S. P. Shen to professor of as-tronomy; Dr. Neville R. Kallenbach andDr. Yoshitaka Suyama to associate pro-fessors of biology; Dr. Madeleine M.Jouille to associate professor of chemis-try; Dr. Robert D. Bamberg, JerreMangione and Dr. James Rosier to pro-fessors of English; Dr. Robert F. Lucidto associate professor of English and Dr.Maureen Sullivan, Dr. Donald Ross,Dr. Ruth Widmann and John Widemanto assistant professors of English.

Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg and Dr.Richard S. Dunn to professors of his-tory; Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer toassociate professor of history; Dr. PeterFreyd to professor of mathematics andDr. John C. Fogarty to assistant profes-sor of mathematics; Dr. Norman E.Smith to associate professor of music;Dr. James F. Ross and Dr. Charles H.Kahn to professors of philosophy; Dr.Yu-Ii Pan to assistant professor of phys-ics; Dr. Robert A. Kraft to associatepro-fessor of religious thought; Dr. CiriacoM. Arroyo to professor of romancelanguages and Gerald J. Prince andDr. Nathaniel Wing to assistant pro-fessors of romance languages; and Dr.Maria Z. Brooks to associate professorof Slavics.

Graduate School of Arts and Sci-ences: Dr. George F. Bass to associateprofessor of classical archaeology.Graduate School of Fine Arts:

Dr. Harlan Coornvelt to associate pro-fessor of architecture (effective fromJanuary 1, 1968).

Schools of Engineering: Dr. JohnHale to professor of electrical engineer-ing (effective from July, 1967; this is asecondary appointment) and Dr. JosephBordogna to associate professor of elec-trical engineering; Dr. Steven C. Batter-man to associate professor of engineeringmechanics and Dr. Charles J. McMahonto associate professor of metallurgy andmaterials science.

School of Dental Medicine: Dr.

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Daniel Isaacson to assistant professor inocclusion; Dr. David E. Homer to as-sistant professor of operative dentistry;Dr. Malcolm A. Lynch to assistant pro-fessor of oral medicine; Dr. Jerome H.Sklaroff to assistant professor of ortho-dontics; Dr. Morris Bradin to associateprofessor of periodontics; Dr. SheldonR. Baldinger, Dr. Bernard M. Kaplo-witz and Dr. Seymour Pollock to as-sistant professors of periodontics; andDr. Byron E. Kern to associate professorof prosthetic dentistry.

School of Medicine: Dr. EdwardK. Pye to assistant professor of biochem-istry; Dr. Polly Feigl to assistant profes-sor of biophysics and assistant professorof medical statistics; Dr. Sylvan E. Stoolto assistant professor of clinical pediatricsand assistant professor of otolaryngol-ogy and Dr. Lillian P. Kravis and Dr.David W. Wood to assistant professor ofclinical pediatrics; Dr. Charles H. Palmto assistant professor of clinical psychia-try; Dr. David M. Reed to assistant pro-fessor of family study in psychiatry; Dr.Normal R. Klinman to assistant profes-sor of microbiology; Dr. Donna Mc-Curdy and Dr. Meyer Naide to assistantprofessors of medicine.

Dr. Henry A. Sloviter to research pro-fessor of neurosurgery; Dr. RichardStambaugh to assistant professor of ob-stetrics and gynecology; Dr. Irvin Steinto associate professor of orthopaedic sur-gery; Dr. Andrew P. Somlyo to associ-ate professor of pathology and Dr. Wil-liam L. Elkins and Dr. David Steinmul-ler to assistant professors of pathology;Dr. Michael E. Miller and Dr. GrantMorrow, III, to assistant professors ofpediatrics; Dr. Arnost Fronek to asso-ciate professor of physiology and Dr.Grace Mae Fischer to assistant professorof physiology; Dr. Herndon B. Lehr toassociate professor of plastic surgery; Dr.Brian H. Mayall to assistant professorof radiological sciences; Dr. Benjamin G.Brackett to assistant professor of researchobstetrics and gynecology and to assistantprofessor of physiology; and Dr. WilliamM. Parkins to professor of surgical re-search.

School of Veterinary Medicine:Dr. William Medway to professor ofclinical laboratory medicine; Dr. RobertM. Schwartzman to professor of derma-tology; Dr. Donald F. Patterson to pro-fessor of medicine and Dr. Karolus F.

Hobstetter, GrossAppointed DeansThe appointment of Dr. John N. Hob-

stetter as dean of the graduate school ofarts and sciences and of Dr. Neal Grossof Harvard University as dean of thegraduate school of education was an-nounced last month by President Ham-well. The appointments are effective July1, 1968.Dr. Hobstetter, the former director of

the Laboratory for Research on theStructure of Matter, will retain his pres-ent posts as vice provost for research andprofessor of metallurgy. He succeeds Dr.Michael H. Jameson who will continueas professor of classical studies and re-search associate in classical archaeologyat the University.

Dr. Gross, 47-year-old author of"Who Runs Our Schools?" and otherbooks on the nation's school system, hasbeen professor of education and sociol-ogy at Harvard, two positions he willhold also at Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gross succeeds an acting dean, Dr.William B. Castetter, associate directorof the Education Research and ServiceBureau at the Graduate School of Edu-cation.

Dr. Hobstetter joined the Universityfaculty in 1958 as associate professor ofmetallurgy and was promoted to fullprofessor in 1959. The following year hewas appointed director of LRSM and inJune, 1967, he was named vice provostfor research.

Dr. Gross joined Harvard in 1951.Director of Harvard's School Execu-tive Studies from 1952 to 1957, he hassince directed the National PrincipalshipStudy and has served as a research asso-ciate of both the Center for InternationalAffairs and the Center for Education andDevelopment at Harvard.

Bonn to assistant professor of medicine;and Dr. Benjamin Wolf to associateprofessor of microbiology.Wharton School of Finance and

Commerce: Dr. Michael K. Evans,Dr. Jere R. Behrman, Dr. Edwin Bur-meister and Dr. Robert A. Pollack toassociate professors of economics; Dr.John F. Lubin to professor of industry;Dr. J. Robert Ferrari to associate pro-fessor of insurance; Dr. Ronald E.Frank to professor of marketing; Dr.Oliver P. Williams to professor of polit-ical science; and Dr. David E. Lavin toassociate professor of sociology.

Over fifty faculty members have beengranted leaves for next year accordingto the Provost's Office. This number in-cludes only those leaves approved byApril 2 of this year; those granted afterthat date will appear in the next issue ofAlmanac.A list of faculty members granted

leave and what they will be doing fol-lows:College of Arts and Sciences:Dr. Ciriaco M. Arroyo, associate pro-

fessor of Romance languages, will be onleave during Fall term to undertake a re-search project which will lead to the pub-lication of a book tentatively entitled Elpensamiento de Unamuno;

Dr. Frank P. Bowman, professor ofromance languages will spend the yearin France completing research and writ-ing a book on the figure of Jesus inFrench political, religious and literarywritings between 1789 and 1848;

Dr. Herbert B. Callen, professor ofphysics, will spend spring term at He-brew University in Jerusalem continuinghis research for a book on the philosoph-ical foundations of thermodynamics;

Dr. Leonard S. Charlap, associate pro-fessor of mathematics, will spend nextyear at the Mathematics Institute in Ox-ford;Dr. Adolph C. Gorr, assistant profes-

sor of German, spring term will continuehis research on the field of Neo-classi-cism, especially in drama;

Dr. Alan J. Heegar, professor of phys-ics, will spend next year doing research inlow temperature solid state physics at theUniversity of Geneva in Switzerland;

Dr. Dell H. Hymes, professor of an-thropology, will spend next year as a Fel-low at Cambridge University in Englandstudying speech and language from ananthropological standpoint;

Dr. Madeleine M. Jouille, assistantprofessor of chemistry, in the fall termwill study new methods and techniquesin organic chemistry in the chemistry de-

partment of Columbia University;Dr. Charles H. Kahn, associate pro-

fessor of philosophy, next year will carryon research in his specialty.

Dr. Egbert Krispyn, associate profes-sor of German, will spend fall termstudying the evolution of the dramatic

genre in 20th century literature;Dr. R. Duncan Luce, professor of psy-

chology, will spend next year as a visiting

professor in the department of psychol-ogy at the Pontificia Universidade Cató-lica do Rio de Janeiro supported by agrant from the Pan American Union;

Dr. Robert M. Lumiansky, professorof English, will spend the year preparinga new edition of the Chester Mysteryplays at the University of Liverpool.

Dr. Carlos Lynes, Jr., professor ofromance languages, during the springterm will work at the Bibliothque Na-tionale and in the Doucet Collection atthe Bibliothèque Sainte Genevieve on astudy of Surrealist poetry;Jerre Mangione, associate professor of

English, will spend next year gatheringmaterial for an informal history of theWPA Federal 'Writers Project. He hasreceived a grant from the Rockefellerfoundation in support;

Dr. Jacob Nachmias, professor of psy-chology, will spend next year doing re-search in the Physiology Department atCambridge University in England;

Dr. Lajos Pukanszky, professor ofmathematics, will be visiting professor ofmathematics at Massachusetts Instituteof Technology next year;

Dr. Arnold G. Reichenberger, profes-sor of romance languages, will spendnext year investigating the classical tradi-tion of the Spanish Golden age, concen-trating on both lyric and epic poetry andon the theatre;

Dr. Relman to HeadDept. of MedicineArnold S. Relman, M.D., has been

appointed chairman of the departmentof medicine and the Frank WisterThomas Professor of Medicine effectiveSeptember 1.

Dr. Relman, 44, comes to Pennsyl-vania from Boston University School ofMedicine where he has been Conrad'Wesselhoeft Professor of Medicine, vicechairman of the department of medi-cine, and director of the Boston Univer-sity Medical Service at Boston City Hos-pital.A native of New York City, he re-

ceived his A.B. from Cornell Universityand his M.D. at Columbia UniversityCollege of Physicians and Surgeons.The author of numerous scientific ar-

ticles, Dr. Relman is internationallyknown for his work on the mechnismsthat regulate acidity in the body fluids.

Dr. Paul Rozin, associate professor ofpsychology, will spend next spring termwriting a book;

Dr. Douglas J. Scalapino, associateprofessor of physics, will spend next yearas a visiting professor in physics at theUniversity of California at Santa Bar-bara;

Dr. William H. Telfer, professor ofbiology, has been awarded a Senior Post-doctoral Fellow from the National Sci-ence Foundation to spend time at thedepartments of medicine and biology atthe University of Miami in a program offull-time research in collaboration withtwo other men;Dr. Harvey D. Winston, associate pro-

fessor of psychology, will spend springterm developing three theoretical papersin his field of research;

Dr. Don Yoder, associate professor ofreligious thought, will spend next springterm abroad in order to complete plansfor the first two years of a publication ofa new journal, American Folklife, ofwhich he has been named editor. Thisperiodical will deal with American folk-culture and its European roots;

Dr. Michael W. Zuckerman, assistantprofessor of history, has received a grantfrom the Social Science Research Coun-cil to spend fall term studying children'sliterature in late 19th century America.

Graduate School of Artsand Sciences:

Dr. Barry Eichler, instructor in ori-ental studies, will spend next year doingpostdoctoral work in old Babylonian lawat Yale University;Dr. Shelomo D. Goitein, professor of

Arabic, in the fall term will do furtherwork on his book, Mediterranean Peo-ple, Letters and Documents from CairoGeniza Translated with Introductionsand Notes, which is a companion volumeto his three-volume book, A Mediter-ranean Society.

Dr. Neil Leonard, associate professorof American civilization will work in thefall term on a book on literature in theother arts.

Graduate School of Education:Dr. William W. Brickman, professor

of education, will do research springterm on the history of internationalhigher education and comparativeteacher education, working both in the

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Research, Writing, Teaching Will Occupy Most Faculty Members(continued from page 3)

United States and Europe on variouscross-cultural influences involving higherinstitutions and learned individuals in theseventeenth century.

School of Dental Medicine:Dr. Gordon E. Levenson, associate in

the department of histology and embry-ology, will continue to be on leave until

August. He is doing research at Strange-ways Laboratory in Cambridge, Eng-land under a postdoctoral fellowshipfrom the National Institutes of Health;

Dr. Irwin I. Ship, professor of oralmedicine, is now studying and teachingat the Hadasseh School of Dental Medi-cine, Hebrew University, in Jerusalemand will be there through the fall term.

Schools of Engineering:Dr. Zvi 1-lashin, professor of applied

mechanics in the Towne School, willspend the year in the materials mechanicslaboratory at the Technion-Israel Insti-tute of Technology in Haifa, writing ahook and doing research;

Dr. Charles J. McMahon, Jr., assist-ant professor of metallurgy and mate-rials science, has accepted a Ford Foun-dation Residency in Engineering Prac-tice next year at General Electric Com-pany.

Dr. Herman P. Schwan, professor ofelectrical engineering, will spend nexts'ear in research and study at the MaxPlanck Institut für Physical Chemistryand the Max Planck Institut für Bio-physik, and at The Hebrew Universityin Jerusalem.

School of Medicine:Dr. Denis M. Abelson, associate pro-

fessor of medicine, has been on leave thislast semester undertaking research onDoppler-Cardiography at the Universityof London;Dr. Samuel Gurin, professor of bio-

chemistry, will spend next year doing re-search in marine biology and plans tofamiliarize himself with new areas of bio-chemistry;Dr. Sol H. Goodgal, professor of mi-

crobiology, has accepted an invitationnext year from the Institut de BiologiePhvyico-Chimique of Paris whose labor-atory offers an excellent opportunity toapply advanced biochemical and physicalchemical methodology to the solution ofmodern biological problems;

Dr. Chan Nao-Lui, professor of anat-

omy, has been on leave this term work-ing at the National Defense Medical Col-lege in Taiwan to extend his experiencein a neuropharmacological study of func-tion in the pain pathways and to assistin a training program in neural sciencesfor young postdoctoral students;

Dr. Warner F. Sheldon, professor ofpathology, will work at Luthern Hospi-tal in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, next yearto learn something of the practical as-pects of pathology as it operates in com-munity medicine.

School of Veterinary Medicine:Dr. Jacques Jenny, professor of ortho-

pedic surgery, is on leave until Octobervisiting clinics in Europe in search of ad-ditional information concerning thetreatment of longbone fractures in largeanimals.

Wharton School of Financeand Commerce:

Dr. Bernald F. Cataldo, professor ofbusiness law, will travel next spring andprepare new course material.

Dr. Francine R. Frankel, assistantprofessor of political science, will con-tinue as a research associate at the Cen-ter for International Studies at Prince-ton next year to complete her book ide-ology, Politics and Economic Develop-ment Planning in India. She also intendsto do preliminary work on a more gen-eral study of development strategies ofnew nations;

Dr. Morton Gorden, associate profes-sor of political science, will be Field Di-rector next year of an International Hon-

Lectureships AvailableTo American Faculty

Approximately sixty lectureships arestill available to American faculty mem-bers for 1968-69 at institutions of higherlearning in Europe, Asia, Africa, theMiddle East, and Latin America, accord-ing to James B. Yarnall, Faculty Ful-bright Adviser.

Grants are also available for univer-sity lecturing and advanced research for1969-70 in Argentina, Australia, Colom-bia and New Zealand. Applications arenow being accepted from American schol-ars; June 1 is the closing date.For more information contact the

Office of Fellowship Information andStudy Programs Abroad, 226 South 38thStreet, Phila., Pa.

ors program which brings 20 honorsJuniors from around the country to studyin selected major cities of the world. Dr.Gorden will visit Tokyo, New Delhi,Cairo, Jerusalem, Belgrade and Stock-holm to teach and do research in thecomparative politics of modernization;Dr. Edward S. Herman, associate pro-

fessor of finance, will spend the year inextensive investigation of U. S. externalinvestment, its growth in the 20th cen-tury, its geographic and industrial patternand the economic basis of its expansion;Dr. Walter Isard, professor of re-

gional science, will spend next year visit-ing Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton andother schools to become familiar withthe new theoretical ideas in the socialsciences;Dr. Philip Jacob, professor of politi-

cal science, will spend the spring termparticipating in a conference of scholars-in-residence who have been concernedwith the empirical exploration of politi-cal decision-making on a cross-nationaland interdisciplinary basis;

Dr. Adolph Matz, professor of ac-counting, will spend spring term teach-ing at Waseda University in Tokyo,Japan.Dr. Herbert R. Northrup, professor of

industry, will spend next year concen-trating efforts on research to ensure thesuccess of the Ford Foundation spon-sored study, "The Racial Practices ofAmerican Industry."

Dr. Henry Teune, associate professorof political science, will engage in re-search at the Center for InternationalStudies at Cornell University from Jan-uary 1, 1969 to December.

Dr. Karl Von Vorys, associate profes-sor of political science, has been on leavethis spring continuing research on politi-cal development and serving as an ad-visor to the Malaysian government underFord Foundation sponsorship;Dr. Charles M. Weber, associate pro-

fessor of business law, will spend fallterm preparing for his course, The Lawof Free Enterprise, and completing abook by the same title;

Dr. J. K. Zawodny, professor of politi-cal science, will spend next year as SeniorAssociate Member of St. Anthony's Col-lege in Oxford University where he willcomplete his three-year study of urbaninsurgency, focusing on the Warsaw up-rising.

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Medical School Curriculum(continued from page 1)

Nearly 200 elective courses, both pre-clinical and clinical, will be offered bythe medical school, and hundreds morewill be available in other University de-partments.Thus, the School of Medicine will be

in a position to educate physicians for thevariety of medical specialties. These in-clude:-The medical science researcher. The

combined M.D.-Ph.D. program will bereorganized and enlarged in cooperationwith the University's Graduate School ofArts and Sciences, to give better conti-nuity to the education of medical sci-entists.-The medical educator.-The specialist in administrative

medicine who will help improve medicalcare in public health programs, or whowill he in military medicine.-The family practitioner and the

clinical specialist who will practice witha group of other specialists to improvethe quality and continuity of patient carein the community.

Requirements for graduation are 32course units, with four units per termcomprising a full schedule. Requiredsubjects include eight course units in pre-clinical studies and eight units in clinicalsubjects, plus one unit in surgery or asurgical specialty. Up to three units maybe earned during each of three summersessions.

Students will be allowed as much flex-ibility as is feasible in the selection andorder of courses, Dr. Brobeck said. Somestudents may be given advanced stand-ing or may be excused from certaincourses on the basis of work alreadycompleted.He noted, however, each student will

be required to take at least four courseunits of elective work in courses ap-proved for credit by a pre-clinical de-partment and another four units ap-proved by a clinical department. By thistime, the student may have made hiscareer decision and can obtain additional Dr. Ferguson Dead;fundamental preparation. For instance, a Surgeon and Teacherstudent interested in surgery could take Dr. L. Kraeer Ferguson, a well-advanced work in anatomy and pathol-known surgeon and teacher of surgery,ogy in preparation for his residency.died April 7 at the Hospital of the Uni-

In addition to the fundamental curric- versity of Pennsylvania. He was 70.ulum changes, several new courses will Dr. Ferguson was emeritus professorbe offered in the medical school. Among and former chairman of surgery of thethem are biomathematics, computers inSchool of Medicine, Division of Gradu-medicine, statistics and introduction toate Medicine, and was retired chief ofreproduction.surgery at Graduate Hospital.

Associate Medical Dean Explains New Program(continued from page 1)

the formal medical training of physicianswho enter school from a variety of back-

grounds and who will enter a very wide va-

riety of careers. It is appropriate for theseschools to adapt their plan to the prior train-

ing, special interests, and skills of their stu-dents and to their particular long-range goals.The 90 odd medical schools in the country

and their immediate communities vary greatlyin character and resources. Some, for ex-ample, have unusual opportunities to developteaching in Family and Community Medicine.Others are too distant from their parent uni-versities to participate in their facilities.

Pennsylvania, however, has an almost uniqueopportunity to encourage its students to findrelevance to medicine in the whole range of

scholarship in a university.The School of Medicine's new curriculum

provides two full academic years of elective

opportunity: the equivalent of one semestermust be in clinical electives, and the equiva-lent of another semester must be in basicscience electives or research. Courses may betaken outside the School of Medicine in theother facilities of the University wheneverstudents have the time and are accepted forthis purpose by the school involved. Coursesmay be taken for credit toward the M.D. de-gree if, in the opinion of the student's advisorand the dean's office, they are relevant tomedicine within the context of the individ-ual's career goals. For example, engineering

Robinson NamedNew Dean of Men

Gerald L. Robinson last month wasappointed Dean of Men at the Univer-sity. He had been Acting Dean of Mensince August 1967.

Robinson previously served the Uni-versity as a member of the AdmissionsOffice staff from 1957 to 1960, as Vice-Dean of Admissions from 1960 to 1966,and as Director of Residence from 1966until his appointment as Acting Dean ofMen.

courses can be indispensable for the studentinterested in developing the technology of in-tensive care or of hemodialysis. The studentwith special interests in the problems of dis-tribution of Health Services may desirecourses in Sociology, or the Law School,

forming a heretofore unavailable scholarlybackground for a new career in medicine.

First-year students will have an opportu-nity a half a day each week to observe insmall groups a wide range of clinical circum-stances where the physician and the patientmeet: the operating room, the delivery room,the medical ward, a Naval Hospital, the mar-riage counseling clinic, a prison. A pilotstudy this past year suggests that this experi-ence helps the student recognize the relevanceof basic science courses to his clinical aims,and allows him a look at the potential breadthof medicine's favorable influence-often lostin the past by the third or fourth year.

Definitive clinical courses will be availablein the second year, in contrast to the tradi-tional third year arrangement, and the stu-dent may subsequently return to basic scienceelectives in his third and fourth years with anew perspective.The new curriculum places exceptional re-

sponsibilities on the Admissions Committee,and has, in addition, led to the establishmentof a 50 member Faculty Advisory Group.Each student normally will meet his advisorearly in his first year; this relationship willbe expected to continue through medicalschool and form the basis for fourth yearcounseling regarding internships, residencies,and fellowships.Many of these changes should lead to

greatly increased functional relationships be-tween the School of Medicine and the otherschools and divisions of the University.

Changes RecommendedIn Academic RegulationsThe University Committee on Aca-

demic Regulations has released an in-terim report in which it recommendschanges in the University's grading sys-tem, bachelor degree requirements andsemester course load requirements.The report has been sent to all mem-

bers of the College faculty, the adminis-trative officers of other faculties of theUniversity and the officers of the StudentCommittee on Undergraduate Educa-tion.

Faculty members wishing to make sug-gestions, criticisms or proposals for theconsideration of the Committee shouldsubmit them to its chairman, Dr. RogerWalmsley, professor of physics and ViceDean of the College, 116 College Hall.

APPOINTMENTS:The American Heart Association re-

centlv named Dr. Luther Terry, vicepresident for medical affairs, to a com-mittee of fifteen to study the moral andlegal implications of heart transplantsand similar experiments on humans.

Dr. Stuart W. Churchill, Carl V.S. Patterson Professor of chemical engi-neering, has been appointed to the Execu-tive Committee of Engineers Council forProfessional Development representingthe American Institute of Engineers. Hehas also been reappointed to a three yearterm as a member of the Committee ofthe National Academy of Sciences, Na-tional Research Council, Advisory to theArmy Research Office. In addition, apaper by Dr. Churchill, entitled "In-genieurhildung in den USA" and basedon his 1966 Presidential address beforethe American Institute of Chemical En-gineers, has been published in the VereinsDeutscher Ingenieure Nachrichten Dr.Churchill also gave two seminar talksrecently at Princeton University andCity University of New York.

Dr. Derk Bodde, professor ofChinese Studies, has been elected Presi-dent of the American Oriental Societyfor 1968-69, succeeding outgoing Presi-dent Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer, pro-fessor of Assyriology. At the same time,Dr. S. D. Goitein, professor of Arabic,has been elected Vice President of theSociety and will automatically becomepresident next year. Dr. Bodde has alsobeen elected a Director of the Associationfor Asian Studies for a three year termand has been appointed to a committeecreated by the University of Chicago toevaluate its program of Far Eastern Lan-guages and Civilizations.

AUTHORS:Robert Lewis Shayon, professor of

communications, has written an LP al-bum entitled "Invention of the Presi-dency," which recreates the constitutionaldebates of 1787. The record was pro-duced for American Heritage in con-nection with their series on the AmericanPresidency. He also wrote and producedtwo programs for the TV series, "You'veGot a Right," on the original and con-temporary significance of the Bill ofRights.The third edition of the book, "Teach-

ing Social Studies in the ElementarySchool," by Dr. Ralph Preston, pro-fessor of education and director of theReading Clinic, has been published byHolt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc.

Albert E. Rose, Jr., lecturer in com-munications, has produced two half-hourdocumentaries on Expo '67 and UnitedStates plans for a 1976 celebration; ahalf-hour program in Rome showing theelevating of Archbishop John Krol; anda half-hour documentary on the role ofAmericans in helping to restore Florenceafter its flood. He is currently editingthe musical score for a program "Now isthe Time" which deals with the Ameri-can Negro and his attitude.

HONORS:Dr. Erwin A. Gutkind, Senior Fel-

low in the Institute for EnvironmentalStudies, has received from the City ofBerlin its Prize for Architecture. He wascited for design of buildings and largehousing projects in Berlin, for advance-ment of the city's planning and for ma-jor contributions to the field of city plan-ning in general.

Dr. J. Robert Schrieffer, MaryAmanda Wood Professor of Physics, andDr. Leon N. Cooper, a former associateof his from Brown University, lastmonth received the Cyrus P. ComstockAward from the National Academy ofSciences for their work on the theory ofsuperconductivity.

Dr. Robert E. A. Palmer, associateprofessor of classical studies, has beenawarded a Grant-in-Aid from the Amer-ican Council of Learned Societies for aproject entitled, "Completion of a historyof Roman Metropolitan and ColonialVici and preparation of an edition of allepigraphic and literary testimonia."Dr. Henry L. Bockus, professor

emeritus of the Graduate School of Med-icine, recently received the Order of RioBranco, one of Brazil's highest awards,for his work in medicine. The award waspresented to him in a brief ceremony inthe consulate by Consul Helena Velhode Albuquerque.

Dr. Richard L. Solomon, professorof psychology, was awarded the HowardCrosby Warren Medal by the Societyof Experimental Psychologists duringtheir 1968 meeting for his ingeniousstudies which have contributed so

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greatly to an understanding of punish-ment, to a better theoretical understand-ing of conditioning and to the knowledgeof the long-term dispositions which con-trol human behavior.

"Fanfares," commissioned for the Set-tlement Music School's 60th anniver-sary concert and written by GeorgeRochberg, chairman and professor ofmusic, was premiered in March at theAcademy of Music.David C. Golibersuch, graduate

student fellow in physics, has beenawarded a National Science Foundationfellowship for postdoctoral work in solidstate physics at the University of London.Dr. Peter C. Nowell, professor and

chairman of pathology, and Dr. John E.Bevilacqua, assistant professor of neu-rology, were recently given awards fordistinguished teaching by the Under-graduate Medical Association on campus.

Dr. Robert Lumiansky, professorand chairman of English, was elected aFellow of the Mediaeval Academy ofAmerica last month during that group's43rd Annual Meeting, held on campus.

Dr. Donald E. Smith, associate pro-fessor of political science, has beenawarded a grant by the Social ScienceResearch council for research in LatinAmerica during this summer.

TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS:Dr. Paul M. Lloyd, associate profes-

sor of romance languages, last month at-tended the 12th International Congressof Romance Linguistics and Philology in

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Seven Faculty MembersAwarded Guggenheims

Seven Guggenheim Fellowships havebeen awarded to faculty members at theUniversity, ranking it seventh in the na-tion in the number of grants received.First was the University of California atBerkeley.Winners at Pennsylvania include:

Dr. Frank P. Bowman, professor ofromance languages; Dr. Alan JayHeeger, professor of physics; Dr. Dell H.Hymes, professor of anthropology; Dr.Robert M. Lumiansky, Avalon Founda-tion Professor in the Humanities andprofessor of English; Samuel Maitin,artist and lecturer in communications;Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., assistantprofessor of political science; and Dr.Marvin E. Wolfgang, professor of soci-ology.

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TRAVELERS: (continued)Bucharest, Rumania as the official repre-sentative of the Linguistic Society ofAmerica and of the University. Whilethere, he read a paper entitled, "L'actiondu substrat et la structure linquistique."Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer, curator

of tablet collections at the UniversityMuseum and Clark Research Professorof Assyriology, closed the three-day an-nual meeting of the American OrientalSociety in Berkeley, California with anaddress on "Sumerian Similes: Man'sFirst Literary Imagery." For much ofthe footwork on the paper Dr. Kramer

gave credit to Dr. Barry Eichler, in-structor in oriental studies.Dr. Donald S. Murray, assistant to

the president for federal relations andprofessor of statistics, earlier this monthparticipated in a Symposium and Work-

shop conducted by the Project for the

Improvement of Business Practices in

Predominantly Negro Colleges in Atlan-ta. The project is sponsored by the FordFoundation and the National Associationof College and University BusinessOfficers.Dr. Wilton Marion Krogman,

chairman and professor of physical an-thropology, this month gave a telelecture,via phone, to faculty and students ofGrand Valley State College in Michiganon "Physical Growth and the Develop-ment of Personality."Francis Betts, director of the Office

of Institutional Studies and Planning,recently presented a paper to the UrbanAffairs Conference which was held atLong Island University and was con-cerned with the role of the urban uni-versity and its part in the community.Mr. Betts has also served as a consultantto another seminar for college facultyon university development and urban re-newal.Robert Nelson, professor of romance

languages, presented a talk at SyracuseUniversity this month on "Moliere andRacine: Bi-Polarities in French Clas-sicism."Robert H. Mundheim, professor of

law, recently chaired a panel on Institu-tions and Law at the first annual Confer-ence of Institutional Investors. He laterparticipated, along with Dr. IrwinFriend, Richard K. Mellon professorof Economics, in a panel discussion on theImperfect Securities Markets sponsoredby the American Enterprise Institute forPublic Policy Research and the NationalLaw Center of George Washington Uni-

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versity. Last month, Mr. Mundheimgave a talk on corporate acquisition bytender offer at a program sponsored inPhiladelphia by the Philadelphia BarAssociation.William Adams, a teacher of Eng-

lish at West Philadelphia High Schooland a visiting lecturer in the English De-partment at the University, representedthe University at a national conference inWashington on Higher Education forthe Disadvantaged. The conference wassponsored by the Office of Economic Op-portunity.Dr. Howard Brody, associate pro-

fessor of physics, was the guest speakerat the Gloucester County Science Sym-posium last month.A one-man exhibition by G. Robert

LeRicolais, professor of architecture,has been exhibited at Columbia Univer-sity, the Architectural League of NewYork, Harvard and Rensselaer Polytech-nic Institute and will continue to be onexhibition during the summer. Dr. Le-Ricolais has also been giving a lecture ateach exhibit on "Notions on Form."Dr. Herbert G. Grubel, associate

professor of finance, attended a confer-ence on the Brain Drain at Ditchlev,Oxfordshire, England in February as oneof 30 experts from the United Kingdom,the United States and developing na-tions. While in Europe he conducted a

faculty-student seminar at the LondonSchool of Economics and the Jean Bap-tiste Say Seminar of the University ofNantes on the topic "Internationally Di-versified Portfolios: Welfare Gains andCapital Flows."Dr. J. O'M. Bockris, professor of

electrochemistry, visited Egypt, Indiaand Australia recently at the invitationof the National Research Council, Egypt,the University of New Delhi and theRoyal Australian Chemical Society tolecture on various aspects of fundamentalelectrochemistry.Dr. William C. Cohen, associate

professor of chemical engineering, re-cently attended the 63rd National Meet-ing of the American Institute of Chemi-cal Engineers in St. Louis where he pre-sented a paper, co-authored with J. K. S.Chio, "Multiple Steady States and Dy-namics of an Adiabatic Tubular Reactorwith Axial Mixing."

Dr. J. Martin Myers, associate pro-fessôr of psychiatry nd medical directorof the Institute (of the PennsylvaniaHospital) was moderator of the aftet-noon session of the 27th joint professional

staff meeting of the Hall-Mercer Hos-pital Corporation. Dr. Martin T.Orne, professor of psychiatry and di-rector of the Unit for ExperimentalPsychiatry, participated, speaking on "Ef-fect of 'Accidental' Interruption on Hyp-notic Experiments."Dr. William Brickman, professor

of education and Arnold Miller, assist-ant dean of admissions for the LawSchool, last month participated in a sym-posium at Wynnefeld Hebrew Schoolwhere they discussed "Government Aidto Non-Public Schools."

The mental processes by which chil-dren learn a language were explored atthe Fourth Annual Carnegie Symposiumon Cognition at Carnegie-Mellon Uni-versity last month. Dr. Carlota Smith,assistant professor of English, discussed"An Experimental Approach to Chil-dren's Linguistic Competence."

Dr. David C. Schwartz, assistantprofessor of political science and staffmember of the Foreign Policy ResearchInstitute, was keynote speaker at aWorkshop of the Metropolitan Associ-ates of Philadelphia where he discussed"Styles of Action in the Urban Crisis:On Not Being Locked-Out, Boxed-Inor Middled." He has recently spokenbefore several other groups including theWestern Psychological Association meet-ings in San Diego, a Symposium on Rev-olution at San Diego State College andthe Main Line School Night programwhere he lectured on political violence.He has also chaired the FPRI's Con-ference on Revolution Studies.Dr. Gino C. Segre, assistant profes-

sor of physics, last month discussed ele-mentary particle theory at the springcolloquium series sponsored by the Uni-versity of Virginia's physics department.Dr. Howard Balm, associate profes-

sor of obstetrics and gynecology andhead of the section on Gynecic Researchat Pennsylvania Hospital's Departmentof Obsietrics and Gynecology, presenteda paper last month at the InternationalSymposium on Biology of Reproductionin Mammals held in Nairobi, Kenya.The Symposium was sponsored by theAfrican Society for the Study of Fer-tility.While in Nairobi, Dr. Balm also

visited the primate research colony main-tained by the Southwest Foundation forResearch and Education of San Antonio,Texas. His itinerary also included ashort tour of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and

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Tunis, Tunisia for research into theproblems of population control in thesetwo African nations.Four members of the Wharton faculty

participated recently in an in-servicemeeting of school administrators whichcentered on theory and practice of schooladministration. Participating were Dr.James C. Emery, associate professorof industry, who discussed use of com-puter-based information; Dr. KennethD. Mackenzie, associate professor ofindustry, who spoke on the problems ofinnovation; Dr. William M. Evans,professor of sociology and industry, whospoke on administrative goals; and Dr.David Conrath, assistant professor ofindustry, who discussed decision-making.Herbert Howarth, professor of Eng-

lish, participated in an Irish LiteratureFestival at Pitzer College, Claremont,where he lectured on Lawrence Durrelland gave a reading of poems by Yeatsand others. While in the West he alsoserved at a Poetry Colloquium at Cali-fornia State Polytechnic College in Po-mona and, returning through the south-west, lectured on "British Writers of theSixties" at the University of Arizona andon "The Split in the British Novel 1900-1920" at Rice University in Houston.Dr. Frederic Roll, professor of civil

and mechanical engineering, attended theannual convention of the American Con-crete Institute in Los Angeles where hechaired one of the convention sessions onstructural models. At that session hepresented a paper, "Structural Models in

Australia."Dr. Seymour J. Mandelbaum, as-

sociate professor of urban history, spokeat a symposium on "The Crisis of ourCities" at Ithaca College in March.

Peter McCleary, associate professorof architecture, discussed curriculum con-tent at an Inter-University Conferencefor Educational Innovation in Architec-tural Technologies held last month atHarvard University.Dr. Charles C. Price, Benjamin

Franklin Professor of Chemistry, dis-cussed "Evolution, Order and Synthesisof Life" at the Philadelphia Patent LawAssociation in March.Dr. George L. Gerstein, associate

professor of biophysics and physiology,last month participated in the 1968 Wil-liam Pyle Philips Lecture Series in Neu-

rology sponsored by Haverford Collegewhere he discussed "Organization ofSensory Systems" and "Coding of Infor-mation and Models of Sensory Perform-ance."

Dr. Wayne L. Worrell, associateprofessor of metallurgy and materialsscience, recently conducted a seminar on"Some New Experimental Techniquesin High Temperature Research" at theUniversity of Utah in Salt Lake Cityand Lawrence Radiation Laboratory,Livermore, California. He also attendedan A.C.S. Meeting in San Francisco.Dr. Herman Beerman, professor of

dermatology, presided over the meetingof the American Dermatological Associ-ation last April in Dorado Beach, PuertoRico. As president, Dr. Beerman gavethe introductory address at their Work-shop held later in Chicago.

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AmongOtherThings things..Dr. Otis H. Green, professor of ro-

mance languages, read a paper at theSouthern Conference of Modern Lan-guage Learning at New Orleans, anotherat the 21st University of Kentucky For-eign Language Conference, and thismonth, a third at the Conference of For-eign Language Chairmen of the State ofVirginia in Charlottesville. He recentlywas made a member of the EditorialBoard of the new monograph book-series,Kentucky Romance Monographs. Anearly volume of this series will containreprintings of selected articles on Spanishliterature published in various journals byDr. Green.

STAFF APPOINTMENTS:William M. Alrich has been named

News Officer for the Wharton Schoolof Finance and Commerce and editor ofthe Wharton Quarterly. Alrich mostrecently served four years as a public re-lations account executive and prior tothat, served ten years as managing editorand editor of The Spectator, an insur-ance trade magazine.

The Almanac is publishedmonthly during the academic yearby the University for the infor-mation of its faculty and staff.

Suggested news items shouldbe sent b' the 5th of each monthto:MRS. LINDA KooNs, Editor

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May, 1968