Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Professor Rkiiare) I ' matik lii ( kmir. oik- of the oulslaiuliiiu; litciaiy riiliis in the coiiiUi . is well known as aiilhoi ' of several collcclioiis of essays, tontril)uloi to lilciaiy journals, poet, anil lectiiicr. Professor Ulackmur joined the Creative Arts Program in I ' JIO. He has held GiiHgenheim fello vslii|)s twice, and has heeii a nieinber of the Institute of d anced .Stiid . This year ' s isiling Fellow in the Christian Gauss .Seminars, .Stan O ' Faoi.ain. is a renowned novelist, biogiapher. and critic, who re- ceived his graduate degrees at llai ard, the National I ' liiversitv of Iieland. and liinitv College of Dublin. . frei|iient contrilititoi to Holiday maga ine. Dr. O ' laolian is spending one car on campus leaching a (lass in creative writing and conducting a (iaiiss Seminar on I lie I ' liasuic l ' iiu i])le in the Novel. Chairman of the Departnieiu of Mathematics and the . lbcrt Baldwin Dodd Professor of Math- ematics since 1953. . i.bi Ri V. It CKi r joined the facullv in 1933 after receiving liis Ph.D. from the Piincetou Graduate School. During the .Second Woi Id War he was associate director of the Fire Control Research Gmup at I ' rinietoti. .Vssociated with several national mathematical oiganiia- tions. Dr. Tucker served as picsident of the Princeton chapter of the .American . ssociation of University Professors. Lmi.i K WiKiii. ,1 MKinbii nl ilu- facultv since I ' .lliT .nid Ch.iiiman ol the Depaitmeiu of I ' hiliisojiliv since I!I52, specializes in epistemology and conteuipoiaiy pliil iso])hv. He has written extensively on the history of philosophy and was co-author of the college text. .1 History of l ' liiliis(iph . versatile educator, Dr. Wood taught advanced malhem,iti(s inidci the Armed Forces training piograin during World War II.

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f Called lioiii a lescaich piojcct in Rome, Dr. Rens- sixi.AR W. l.ii. was appointed Chaiiinan ol llie Art Depart- ini ' Mi in l ' J5(). He is a recog- nized anlhorily on Renais- sance paiming and literature as well as a spciialist in both llie lileratiue and history of alt and architecture. .As a nieniher ol the C;lass of 1920, Dr. Lee won the Stinneckc Prize for Classics and shared the [innor I ' irst Honors Prize. Kor se eral years a member ol the Institute for Advanced Study, he was honored this year vith the Marquand Chair (il An and Arcliaeoloev. Ariiuir Menuix. Chairman of the Music Department, is recog- nized as one of the country ' s leailing authorities on the music of J. S. Bach. . prolific writer, he is a co-editor of the widely known Iliiiii Reader and a for- mer member of the Executive fkiard and Editor of the .Ameri- can Musicological Society, . mong the musical works Professor Mendel has edited are Hach ' s The Passion . ccording to St. John and Schutz ' s The Christ- mas Story . For seyenleen years Professor Mendel was conductor of the Cantata Singers of New York City. WintNry ). () iis. iIk- Andrew Elcming West Pro- fessor of Classics, has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1927 and is now the Chairman of the Classics Department. Graduating in the Princeton Class of 1925. he took both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the i;ni ersity. He was largely responsible for the establishment of Princeton ' s Council of the Hinnani- ties and was the driving forte in the de elopmcnt of the National Woodrow ' Wilson Fellowship Program. Joining the faculty in 1933 after two years as a National Research Council Fellow both here and at Cambridge, Dr, Samuel S. Wilks is now Professor of .Mathematical Statistics, In addition to his duties at the Lniyersity he has found time for a great deal of go ernment work. During the war he earned a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his work on anti- submarine warfare and has written Elonentnry Statistical Analysis, a te t- !i(Ktk used ill II I iijrl ■ ' I ,m1 11,1 Ir Mililsrs. Dr. C ARi, Him I ' ll, Piolcssor in the Department of Philosophy since 1955, specializes in the siienlilic and logical aspects relating philosophy to mathematics and the natural sciences, Dr, Hempel has been a consulling editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic since UHO, has contributed to this and other journals, and has written several books. Dr. Hempel teadies at both nndeigraduale and graduate levels.

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A lifelong sliulcril and aiiahsl ol Near Eastern Alfairs and the first Horatio Garrett Professor of Foreign Affairs, T. Cuvler Young was called to Princeton in 1947 as the Uni ersity expanded its program in Near F.astern Studies. Dr. Yonng, having dexoted his life to tlic sliidy of Persia, has come to know its pc()]jlc and customs as a mis- sionary and government official. Cnr- rently an . d ' i.sory Editor to the Middle East Jotinial and the president of the .American Friends of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Professor Yomig is one of the few Western scholars ever to be named a Knight of the Holy .Se|)nlchre. Having received his A.B. and graduate degrees from Princeton, Donald Dri.w Ectii-RX joined the faculty in 1929 and was made Professor of Art and . rchaeolog in 1916. He is especially noted for his study of the influence of socialism and communism on art and American life, and he co-authored Socialisiii in A inn icon Life, a two- volume study prejjared under a Rockefeller Grant. He has also written for the Art Bulletin, Speniliini, and other prominent publications. . n associate piofcssor whose special fields are contemporary Spanish roman- ticism and literature, Llr. Edmund L. KiNt; joined the faculty in 1916. A former director of the Mississippi State College Glee Club, Dr. King has had professional training in solo and en- semble singing, and was also a member of the Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs. He is the author of Guslavo Ailiiljilio Bequer: from Pninter to Poet, and the translator of Castro ' s The SliiKline of Spanish History. Associate Professor of Classics P.vui. C1olem. n- NoRTON combines research and teaching with his duties as Latin Scribe of the Ehiiversity. He teaches courses which range from the famous orations of Cicero to the informal reading of the New Testament in Greek. . graduate of Prince- ton and a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Cloleman-Xortoii is well known as the author ol Tivelre Tiibles, a treatise on Roman Law. 24