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JAY MARTIN jay Martin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, is both a teacher and a confidant of many of America's greatest writers. As a teacher, he is the lecturer in A.S. 59, a survey course which covers Twentieth Century Ameri- can fiction. As a confidant, Mr. Martin has carried on a wide rang- ing correspondence with many of the major American writers whom he lectures about. His correspon- dence with Henry Miller, for ex- ample, is probably as extensive as any from that difficult writer. Re- cently Mr. Martin was asked by Nathanael West's literary guardians to write the authorized biography of Mr. West. Having such an inti- mate acquaintance with the lives of American writers, Mr. Martin's lectures are both informative and sympathetic. Mr. Martin received his bach- e1or's degree from Columbia in 1956. He then went to Ohio State to study for a M.A. After he re- ceived his doctorate from Ohio State, he joined the Yale faculty as an Instructor in English and American Studies. Since then he has been named a Fellow of Silliman College and has served as Yale Faculty Club Lecturer. He was granted a Morse Fellowship for the academic year of 1963-64 and upon its termination was appointed an Assistant Professor in English and American Studies and Director of Undergraduate American Studies. He has published Conrad Aiken: a Life of his Art, a cririral ap- praisal of Aiken as a poet from the standpoint of the movement in his art indicating his growing self- awareness. Mr. Martin's other book is a study of the relation of American culture and literature between the Civil War and the First World War. In this book he views literature as a vehicle which moves radical ideas into the American mind and imagination which suggest new ways of facing major problems. .l.W.F. 5 5 t JAMES W. FESLER james W. Fesler, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, came to Yale in 1951 as Chairman of the Department of Political Science, after six years of wartime service on various government boards and after ten years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina. As Chief of the Policy Analysis and Records Branch of the War Produc- tion Board, and finally in 1945 as War Production Board Historian, he produced a 1,000-page report on Industrial Mobilization for War. Professor Fesler received his Political Science training at Berkeley fUniversity of Californiaj, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1935. Although the Yale College courses that Mr. Fesler teaches deal predominantly with the political institutions of the United States, his graduate teaching and research interests lie in the area of public ad- ministration. His most recent research has focused on comparative field administration, which is the study of governmental organization out- side a country's capital. In 1956 Mr. Fesler served as a consultant in field administration to the government of Vietnam and in 1961 as a consultant to the United Nations on decentralization in developing countries. Last year he was on leave studying administrative problems in France and England. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Public Administration Review, the journal of the American Society for Public Administration. NEIL W. CHAMBERLAIN Whether writing a book, experimenting with depth painting, or just having a friendly chat, Professor Neil W. Chamberlain exudes an enthusiasm for exploration and action in life. Born May 18, 1915, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Neil W. Cham- berlain prepared for his A.B. degree in journalism at Western Reserve University. However, while writing for The International News Serv- ice, he realized that he wanted to learn a great deal more about his subject-unions and management. Once more he pursued his studies, this time at Ohio State University. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1942, he became hooked forever to the academic life. By 1960, when he came to Yale, Professor Chamberlain had been on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review, served on the Executive Committee of Industrial Relations Research Asso- ciation, and completed eight major books. At present he is the Chair- man of Yale Economic Essays, a member of the Editorial Council of Management International, and a Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College. From a receptivity to the world of ideas, he has gained a broad un- derstanding of contemporary problems, ranging from world peace f The West in a World without Warj to the individual laborer fThe Labor Sectorj. In a recent article Retooling the Mind , he contends that as long as we treat the threat of automation as something to be met by reduced work weeks, longer vacation periods, accelerated retirement, or more aggregate spending, we are refusing to recognize the real nature of the problem. The solution, he believes, lies in developing a new conception of education, one which sees education as a process con- tinuing throughout a man's career, as much a part of his life as work. Professor Chamberlain's pet project is the relation of private busi- ness to the public sector. In determining how best to tailor public policy to such objectives as an increased GNP and decreased unemploy- ment, he is projecting the attempts of large corporations to plan their affairs into the context of our whole economy.

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FACULTY PROFILES DEANE KELLER Believing that representative painting is not a dead issue in 1965, Deane Keller, Professor of Painting, is a conspicuous minority of one on the Yale Art School faculty. He commented, The curriculum is unhappily narrow, permitting students to graduate with little or no knowledge in the vast field of representational art. VVhile an undergraduate at Yale majoring in anthropology and sociology, Mr. Keller completed two years of work in the Art School during his afternoons. Following a three year fellowship in Italy as a winner of the Prix de Rome in painting, he joined the Yale Arts faculty in 1929, and was appointed full professor in 1947. Mr. Keller's philosophy of painting is based upon the conviction that people, their actions and emotions, are the dominating theme for the painter. He is concerned not only with the subject matter, but also those who look at the painting, the public. Painting should be done for the enjoyment and enrichment of life, and should therefore be comprehensible to the people. Mr. Keller contends that there is no substance to the belief that true representational techniques are no longer valued, nor will he accept the fact that newer art forms such as abstract expressionism should deny completely the experience and heritage of the past. Most students come indirectly into contact with this man, whether they know it or not, whenever they see any of the many portraits of Yale professors and officials which he has painted and which now hang in many of the classrooms around the campus. ARTHUR W. GALSTON Last July, Arthur W. Galston, Professor of Plant Physiology, was appointed the new director of the division of biological sciences. This honor came as no surprise to Yale observers, since Mr. Galston's impact on the Yale scientific community has been nothing less than profound. His lectures in elementary biology, one of the most heavily subscribed undergraduate courses, combine a vigor and clarity with a more-than- thorough knowledge of a rapidly changing field. In the laboratory Mr. Galston is presently involved in an investigation of the mechanisms by which plant hormones and light produce their effects. The main question is one of biological amplification--how such a small amount of hormone or photon of light can alter form and activity to such a tremendous degree. A former Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow, Mr. Galston grad- uated from Cornell and received his Ph.D. from Illinois in 1943. After serving in the Pacific during World War II, he taught at Yale and then spent twelve years at the California Institute of Technology. He re- turned to Yale in 1955 as a full professor at the age of 35. Commenting on the new trends in biology, Mr. Galston recently noted that biology, classically, has been a survey of different types of plants and animals, by inference, the emphasis has always been on the differences between creatures. It is now possible to arrive at a ra- tionale of the living state, to give the student a feeling of what the living machine is like as a machine, explained by the basic laws of physics and chemistry. A.W.G.

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R.D. CHRISTOPHER TUNNARD America the Beautiful? It's fast becoming America the says Christopher Tunnard, Professor of City Planning. The areas decay, the suburbs sprawl, the need for planning is clear. Yale's answer to the growth of population reflectively si s some more coffee ROBERT DAHL In spite of his work and his reputation, Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor of Political Science, is one of the most active faculty members in campus activities. He takes his responsibility as a member of the University and civic community seriously and devotes an amazing amount of time and effort to these concerns. Yet he shies away from becoming a joiner , creating causes, and building a large student fol- lowing. This past year Professor Dahl was to be found right in the center of the two controversies that occupied the most student energies: Viet- nam and faculty tenure. He has been a frequent speaker, moderator, and advisor in the Vietnam meetings and was chairman of the Dahl Com- mittee , which produced the faculty's recommendation on the question of tenure in response to the Bernstein affair. In both cases his calm, closely reasoned, and rather unemotional approach has been in striking contrast to other more frantic efforts. For extremists, he is a constant disappointment. Mr. Dahl was born in Inwood, Iowa fpopulation 200j and moved to slightly larger Skagway, Alaska, when he was ten. One should never ask Where? a second time, he is the product of small town America and is not very defensive about it. His father was the town doctor. After graduating from the University of Washington, Mr. Dahl re- jected thoughts of a career in law, and came to Yale to continue study- ing political science. Before getting his doctorate, he spent a year as an intern for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. where he met his future wife. He returned to Yale after serving on the War Production Board and has been at Yale ever since. ugly, urban and then continues. The undergraduates are becorifing more interested in the city now. They have seen riots in the cities, they have seen the ugly commercial strips and they have seen de-humanized redevelop- ments. Now they are interested in humanism. City planning has had a very weak humanist tradition. Planners have traditionally been in- terested in efficiency: build highways, widen streets, throw up massive apartments. People are being forced to live like wasps in hives. Chris Tunnard was born i11 Victoria, British Columbia. In a lilting, cultured British accent he is glad to recount the story of his life. He earned a B.A. at Victoria College f Now I hear it's become a uni- versity j, took graduate Work with the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley College in Surrey, England, and then practiced as a landscape architect in London. In 1933 his first book appeared, Gardens in a Modern Landscape. Then, in 1939, he started teaching at the Harvard School of Design. Those were the days when you could 'pick up' city planning and teach it without any formal study. Mr. Tunnard came to Yale after the war and has taught city planning since then. He is currently Director of the Master of Urban Studies Program. N.W.C. L .. Wil .Y :asa mv! amp f C.T. ,Q