JOHN C. ADAMS Lecturer, Communism
A Dartmouth professor in the Russian Civilization and History Departments, Professor Adams received his Ph.D. from Duke University in modern European Diplomatic History with particular emphasis on Russia and the Balkans. During World War II he served with the Army in the Military and Signal Intelligence where he was awarded the Northern France Battle Star and the Bronze Star. He is the author of a book and several shorter studies in his field.
JUDITH ADAMS French Instructor
Miss Adams has recently been appointed a lecturer at Boston College where she will teach advanced French while completing her thesis for her Ph.D. in French at Harvard University. She has studied at the Lycee Michelet in France, has her B.A. at Oberlin and an M.A. at Radcliffe.
GAIL BOYLE Instructor, Physical Training
Miss Boyle is a Vermonter who received a B.S. degree from Springfield College. She has worked for the Brattleboro Recreation Department, the recreation department of the West Hartford public schools and currently is supervisor of girls' physical education at Otter Valley High School, Brandon, Vt.
GERARD BUCHER French Instructor
Mr. Bucher, a native of France, studied engineering at Lyon but later turned to the study of languages and literature and took a "certificate d'etudes litteraires generales" at the University of Strasbourg where he subsequently passed the "certificate de philologie anglaise" and the "certificate de litterature americaine." He completed the license-es-Iettres at Aix-en-Provence. In 1960 he taught French in the Arcadia Summer School in Maine and this past year has been at the University of Tiibingen, Germany, for the study of comparative literature.
OLIVIER RENE CHESAUX French Instructor
Mr. Chesaux is a Swiss whose native language is French. In Lausanne he trained at the College Classique and College Scientifique Con tonal and the Ecole Poly technique, coming to the states to receive his M.A. from the University of Maine. There he served as an instructor in the National Defense Act Institutes for four years. Teaching in New York State and Canada until 1961, he has since been an instructor and director of the Language Center of Ohio University.
ROBERT L. CLELAND Master Teacher, Chemistry
A graduate of Texas A. & M. College, Dr. Cleland received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship, Dr. Cleland continued his studies at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He was also the recipient of a Retina Foundation Public Health Fellowship. Dr. Cleland is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College.
ALAIN COHEN French Instructor
Mr. Cohen, a Frenchman, has been in North America since 1957. He took his B.A. at McGill University and is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has received advanced training as a teacher in the Department of French. He was an instructor in the Peace Corps Training Program at Dartmouth during the summer of 1963 for Guinea II.
MARLYN DALSIMER Instructor and Discussion Leader
Mrs. Dalsimer has her B.A. degree from Wooster College and her M.A.T. degree from Johns Hopkins University. A Peace Corps Volunteer, she has just returned with her husband from the Ivory Coast where they have been English teachers.
WILLIAM DALSIMER Instructor and Discussion Leader
A Peace Corps Volunteer during the last two years in the Ivory Coast where he taught English, Mr. Dalsimer and his wife Marlyn Dalsimer, also a Peace Corps Volunteer, have traveled extensively in West Africa from Liberia to the Congo. He has his B.A. degree from Middlebury College.
JACQUELINE DE LA CHAPELLE-SKUBLY French Instructor
A Parisian, Mme. de la Chapelle-Skubly trained at the Institut St. Genevieve before coming to the University of Bridgeport for her B.A. where she is completing studies for her M.A. and is an instructor in French. She has spent several summers in France doing independent study and research.
NADIA DOUBINS French Instructor
A native of England, Miss Doubins obtained her Matriculation from London University before going to France for several years of working and studying. She is now a French teaching assistant at University of California at Los Angeles where she is completing her Master's degree.
AUGUSTIN DOUOGUIH Cultural Informant
Mr. Douoguih left his home in Ivory Coast under the auspices of the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. He is presently an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
MADELEINE L. DUPERE French Instructor
Mlle. Dupere was born in Vietnam. Her early education was in a Franch convent and at Lycee de Jeunes Filles in Nice. She has lived in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. She has taught in several language schools in this country and is currently associated with the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va.
LINDA EISEN French Instructor
Miss Eisen, after graduating from Cornell University, taught and studied in Bordeaux, France, as a Fulbright fellow in 1960-61. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Johns Hopkins University where she taught French and is a Ph.D. candidate. This past year she taught French at Calhoun School in New York City. The summer of 1963 she was a member of the language staff for Guinea II at Dartmouth College and Columbia University.
GORDON ERICKSON Master Teacher, English as a Foreign Language
Mr. Erickson is director of the American Language Institute at New York University where he has been since 1958. He has his B.A. from the University of Oregon, his M.A. from New York University, and studied in England in 1951 under a Fulbright scholarship. Traveling extensively, he has spent time in France and Germany, the Near and Far East, and Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
SIMONE GAUTHEY French Instructor
Mrs. Gauthey was born in Algeria and has taught in Tunis, Brazzaville, and Saigon. She received her Licence de psychologie and her Licence de lettres modernes from the University of Algiers, her C.A.P.E.S. from the University of Paris and her D.E.S. from the University of Aix.
FRANCIS W. GRAMLICH Cross-Cultural Seminars
Professor Gramlich is co-director of Dartmouth College's new Comparative Studies Center which was established to explore ways to give students a better understanding of differing cultures. He was educated at Princeton University receiving his doctorate there in 1936. During the war he was an officer in the U.S. Navy serving as clinical psychologist. The 1962-63 academic year he did research at the C. C. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Gramlich has co-authored two textbooks and published a number of articles in professional journals.
DENISE HALARY French Instructor
Miss Halary has recently returned from Polynesia where she had a teaching post under the auspices of the French government. She is a native of Reims, France, where she attended college and completed the "baccalaureat" and passed the C.A.P. She has taught in Morocco and spent several years in Canada where she worked as correspondenttransla tor.
JOSEPH HARRIS African Studies Coordinator
Mr. Harris after receiving his B.A. degree from Howard University served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army and then returned to Howard for his Master's degrtre. He has taught at Howard, at Morgan State College, and in 1960-62 was a contract teacher of English as a foreign language in Guinea for the Agency of International Development. He has traveled extensively in West African countries and is a consultant for Choice: Books for College Libraries. He is Assistant Professor of African History at Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pa., and is writing his dissertation in African History at Northwestern University where he is completing studies for his Ph.D.
DOROTHY HASSFELD Instructor and Discussion Leader
Miss Hassfeld is an English teacher who taught in Toledo, Ohio, Spain, and Switzerland before going to Ogbomosho, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer where she taught English in the grammar school. While in Nigeria she also helped organize a public library, was a representative on the City Council, and taught at the Ibadan Technical College. She is a graduate of Ohio University.
DAVID HIBBARD Instructor and Discussion Leader
Mr. Hibbard has been a Peace Corps Volunteer teachin~ sciences and mathematics at an experimental school in Nigeria where he has also worked in a health clinic. He is in medical school and plans a career in International Health.
PAUL JANNOT French Instructor
A Frenchman, Mr. Jannot completed his "baccalaurcat" at Pau. After studying pedagogy and psychology at the University of Algiers, he taught for two years in that country and also completed two years of military service there. He also taught two years in Morocco and now is pursuing his graduate studies in Canada.
KENYON JONES Assistant Coordinator, Physical Training
Mr. Jones was with the U.S. Army ski patrol in Garmisch, Germany, after graduating from Springfield College. Subsequently he was Director of Physical Education at Lebanon High School, Lebanon, N. H., and at Hanover High School, Hanover, N. H. He has been waterfront director and staff member at summer camps, and in 1964-65 he will join the Physical Education staff of Dartmouth College.
ALBERT KODJO Cultural Informant
Mr. Kodjo, a pre-medical student at Seton Hall University, left his home in Togo three semesters ago. While at Seton Hall, he participated on the freshman soccer team.
LOUIS KPONTO Cultural Informant
Mr. Kponton taught English for two years in Togo's Normal School for teachers before coming to the United States. In addition to his undergraduate studies there, Mr. Kponton has lectured on his Togo home at Philadelphia's Temple University, where he is majoring in economics. He received his secondary school education in Ghana.
PAUL KROFSSIK Language Laboratory Technician
Mr. Krofssik is a high school teacher of French who has been active in the field of adult education. He has his B.A. from the University of Bridgeport, his M.A. from Middlebury College and has studied in Canada and France.
He has been a participant in the National Defense Education Act Institutes in New Britain, Conn., and Rennes, France.
LEONARD LANGELAND Instructor and Discussion Leader
Mr. Langeland has just returned from the Ivory Coast where he taught physics, chemistry and mathematics in the Lycee Classique, Bouake, as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is a graduate of Oberlin and has spent a year in France as one of a three-man team running a center for one hundred refugee boys.
MARIE-JEANNE MARCHAL Lycee Instructor
Madame Marchal was born in Paris and educated in France where she received the B.A. degree. A Canadian citizen, she has lived in Quebec City for some years and teaches French and French Literature at Marymount College. She is president of a benevolent society which for some years has been working in close collaboration with Canadian Federal and Quebec Provincial governments with the aim of solving the social and cultural problems encountered by New Canadians. She was educated and now teaches in the lycee system, and specializes in the teaching of French by means of the audio-visual method.
JOHN MCPHEE Instructor and Discussion Leader
A recent Peace Corps Volunteer in Tankanyika where he taught surveying and community development, Mr. McPhee has a special interest in East African affairs. He speaks Swahili fluently. At the University of California at Los Angeles, he has a Ford Fellowship in African Affairs and is planning a career in African Studies and Community Development.
KARL B. MICHAEL Physical Training Coordinator
Mr. Michael, a graduate of Dartmouth, has been swimming coach at his alma mater since ] 939. As an undergraduate, he competed as a diver and won both A.A.U. and N.C.A.A. titles in successive years. Subsequently he enrolled for graduate work at Yale University and while there also served as an assistant swimming coach. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, teaching swimming in the Nava] Aviation training program. Besides his work on campus, he has been active in this sport across the country and has held many executive and committee positions in the A.A.U. and N.C.A.A. Since 1948 he has been a member of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Committee. In ]956, he was selected as the Men's Diving Coach for the U.S. Olympic Team. He also served as Physical Training Coordinator for Peace Corps Training for Guinea II in 1963 at Dartmouth.
SIMON MPONDO Cultural Informant
Mr. Mpondo comes to Dartmouth representing the Cameroons. A student at the College of Liberal Arts at Tufts University, he has been elected a representative on the Student Council, the undergraduate governing body.
JOHN MURPHY Instructor and Discussion Leader
A Dartmouth College graduate and a former lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Mr. Murphy was a high school teacher in Maryland before going as a Peace Corps Volunteer to Gabon and to Tunisia where he taught Physical Education.
BIRGITTA NAESMAN French Instructor
A native of Sweden, Miss Naesman is a graduate of the University of Stockholm with her M.A. degree in French literature and linguistics. She has traveled extensively in France and at present is at Cornell University where she is teaching, and working on her Ph.D.
EDWARD NOMO-ONGOLO Cultural Informant
An undergraduate at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Mr. Nomo-Ongolo joins the staff well-qualified to teach about his country, the Cameroons. His command of the English language is excellent.
DAVID RANCH Instructor and Discussion Leader
A recently returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Senegal where he had been teaching, Mr. Ranch is a native of Worcester, Mass., and has his B.A. degree from Clark University in government and history.
JOHN RAND Director, Outward Bound
Mr. Rand is executive director of the Dartmouth Outing Club. He has his B.A. degree from Dartmouth and is a member of the advisory panel for Dartmouth's Northern Studies Program. An outstanding skier, he was in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II and served in the European Theatre and with the Infantry in the Pacific. He is the author of a book on skiing and has published several manuals on skiing and forest fire suppression.
JOHN A. RASSIAS Language Training Coordinator
Dr. Rassias is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bridgeport, his alma mater. He received a Fulbright scholarship for study in France where he earned the doctorate of the University of Dijon and later a certificate from Institut de Phonetique in Paris. Later he spent an additional year of study and research at the University of Paris and studied at Laval University in Quebec. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages to the Connecticut State Board of Education.
LUCIEN RICO French Instructor
A native of Algeria, Mr. Rico received his education through high school there. He came to the United States in 1954 and attended William and Mary College. After serving in the U.S. Air Force he continued his studies at the University of California at Los Angeles where he received his B.A. and is now a teaching assistant in French working on his advanced degree.
MARIA GEORGE SAGRIS French Instructor
After getting her B.A. at the University of West Virginia, Miss Sagris was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and studied at the University of Nancy in France. She was also a student at the Graduate School at Oxford and later received her M.A. from Radcliffe. She has worked for the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and taught this past year at the Commonwealth School in Boston.
JAMES SCHWEDLAND Field Director, Outward Bound
Mr. Schwed land is the Educational Officer of the Dartmouth Outing Club. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth and received a Master of Forestry Degree in Forest Management from Yale. During the war, he was in the U.S. Naval Reserve where he attained the rank of ensign. For a number of years, he was Assistant District Forester and then Research Forester for the Crossett Company, Crossett, Ark. During the summer of 1950-5], he was a member of the "Blue Dolphin" expedition to Labrador. He was a member of the staff which trained Guinea II for the Peace Corps at Dartmouth College in 1963.
FRANCIS W. SEARS Master Teacher, Physics Professor
Sears is chairman of the physics department at Dartmouth College and is co-author of two of the most widely-used college physics texts in the world. In 1962 he was awarded the Oerstad, a medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers "for notable con tributions to the teaching of physics." He has held many prominent posts in professional organizations and at present is on the governing board of the American Institute of Physics and is a consultant to the National Science Foundation on special projects in science education.
WILLIAM SLESNICK Master Teacher, Mathematics
Before coming to Dartmouth in 1962 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Coordinator of Mathematics at Hanover High School, Professor Slesnick was a member of the faculty of St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., for ten years. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he has an M.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma. He was granted a Rhodes Scholarship and subsequently received both a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University in England. He is the co-author of two secondary school textbooks in modern algebra.
RAYMOND SPRIGGS Instructor and Discussion Leader
Mr. Spriggs has recently returned as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Figai Secondary School in Sekondi, Ghana, where he was an instructor in English, history, and logic. He taught high school in Philadelphia after attending Howard University and receiving his B.A. from Lincoln University in 1960.
JAMES E. STONE Instructor, Physical Training
Mr. Stone received his B.S. degree from Springfield College. He is Athletic Director and coach of basketball and baseball at Mascoma Valley Regional High School in New Hampshire. Prior to this he was the athletic director at Tilton-Northfield High, also in New Hampshire where he coached baseball, basketball, and soccer.
EMMANUEL TOPONWEY
French Instructor
Mr. Toponwey was born in Dahomey, West Africa, where he graduated from the Ecole Superieure de PortoNovo. In Liberia he studied engineering and worked for a construction company. In this country he is associated with Brown Engineers of New York. He has taught French to two Peace Corps groups-Guinea I and Gabon II.
BARBARA WELLS American Studies and World Affairs
Dr. Wells has been Assistant Professor of Government at Skidmore College for the past three years. In September 1964 she will join the faculty at Mills College, Oakland, Cal., as Assistant Professor of Government. She received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Her area of emphasis in her doctoral studies was International Organization. Prior to joining the Skidmore faculty, she taught political science at Douglas College of Rutgers and was Assistant Director of Admissions at Pace College. She is a former staff member of the Foreign Policy Association and market researcher with Young and Rubicam. During the war years Dr. Wells was Statistician for the marketing division of the Committee for Economic Development.
PRESTON WHITE Master Teacher, Biology
Mr. White, a teacher at Brattleboro Union High School, was recently named the outstanding biology teacher in Vermont by the National Association of Biology Teachers. He is state consultant for the Biological Science Study Committee and recently addressed a national conference for college and universi1;y personnel. He holds a B.S. from Bucknell University with an M.A. from Teachers College at Columbia University and has done further study at New York University.
KENNETH WYLIE Instructor and Discussion Leader
A secondary school teacher of English and history as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone, Mr. Wylie has recently returned to this country where he will study for his M.A. degree in African History at Michigan University. He will be the member of a research team from there returning to West Africa in September.