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T.H.W. GEORGE B. SELIGMAN Since joining the Yale faculty in 1956, George B. Seligman, recently appointed Professor of Mathema- tics, has become closely involved with all the math courses as well as many courses in other departments. Mr. Seligman, as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mathematics, is largely responsible for the revisions of the mathematics curriculum, specihcally the re- vision which allows freshmen and sophomores to take more advanced courses if they have the ability. Professor Seligman, who took his B.A. at the University of Rochester, did graduate work here at Yale, receiving both an M.A. and Ph.D. He first taught at Princeton University where he notes mathe- maticians seem closer to the physicists than here. ln 1958-1959 he studied and lectured at the Uni- versity of Muenster in Westphalia, Germany, under a Fulbright Lecture Scholarship. Since his return to Yale he has taught such wide-ranging courses as introductory calculus and graduate level modern algebra QMathematics 100j. He has become an au- thority on Lie algebra, which , says Mr. Seligman, has moved in an algebraic direction , although its origin is in geometry. Oh, yes , he adds, It's pro- nounced like 'Lee'g that's what the New Haven papers say. .il -. TALBOT HOWE WATERMAN Talbot Howe Waterman, Zoology Professor, did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard University. He then served in the armed forces as a scientific consultant in the Pacific during World War II. He came to Yale in the fall of 1946. His field of research is the orientation of deep sea marine animals and, specifically, the relationships between the eye and orientation. This is primarily basic research as opposed to applied research, but it may eventually have much practical value. His research has been supported by the U. S. Government Oflice of Naval Research for 10 years. At the present time he is studying orientation by polarized light. This line of research may someday give clues to better ways of human orientation under water. Mr. Waterman is an ardent skindiver, and has done much of his underwater research in the Caribbean. Until a few years ago, he used to go to the Caribbean every summer for a type of recreational research. Until last year Mr. Waterman was a resident fellow of Trumbull College. As one of his favorite avocations is music, he used to have students up to play piano duets with him. He had and still has two pianos. He especially enjoys 20th century music, and doesn't really go for classical or romantic music. Feeling he has little time to spare, Mr. Waterman owns no tele- vision, hi-fi, or stereo. He would rather listen to a live concert, even though contemporary music is not often played, or play the music him- self. Another one of his hobbies is collecting graphic art. Again much interested in the contemporary, he has a large collection of pop and op art and sculpture. He still buys and collects, and is aghast at the thought of selling any of his collection. R.M.C. c ..'f. me -.1 .- QQ ,,: ,,q . ig ,151 ,, . . . . ai A , Wi G.B.S. 1 at 5 1 1 4? ' ar s . , 'A is QP ' if J f - fs, Q .Mfg . 'fiilfi 7-3 1XQ 5fT ...Q

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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

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JOHN M. BLUM Students who have taken History 35 have probably had the oc- casion to visit Mr. John M. Blum in Room 235 of the Hall of Grad- uate Studiesg although he would receive them cordially, rarely is he to be found in l1is office. Yet any Yale student can pick up a copy of the News, and at least once a week Hnd the name of M. Blum printed therein. How can Mr. Blum be so incredibly well-known? This man has gotten himself on so many committees even he cannot re- member them all, nor does he like to. One tries to forget that sort of thing, he says. Yet his activities have ranged from the Board of Directors of The Hotchkiss School to the Advisory Committee on His- tory for the Atomic Energy Commission. Although continually in de- mand by universities all over America, he took time out in 1964 to be Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University. A totally different aspect of his life involves membership on the University's Board of Athletic Control: occasionally early risers may see him on the tennis court at 6:30 in the morning. Receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University, Mr. Blum moved over to M.I.T. where he spent nine enjoyable years teach- ing history. lVhi1e an assistant professor there, he completed his study for the Ph.D. ln 1957 Yale invited him to join its faculty, and now, 111110 years after his appointment Mr. Blum is not o11ly Professor of History, but also Chairman of the department. His specialty is modern American History: his pet project at the moment is the third volume of From the Morgenthal Diaries. ROBERT M. COOK Mr. Robert M. Cook personifies the unexpected. As an Assistant Professor of Sociology, he dresses like a Yale student, yet has served as a defense counselman for Special Court Martials with the United State Marines. The boldly clefted features of his face hinge with an assured confidence in his abilities, but his manner is thoroughly re- laxed, which is all the more amazing if one considers the motorcycle helmet hanging behind his oflice door. After graduating from Rens- selaer with a B.E. in 1956, he married, took up surfing in California and Hawaii, and changed his mind about being an engineer. An avid guitar player, he found that his folk-singing had brought him close to the American people, hence, after leaving the Marines, Mr. Cook de- cided to study sociology at the graduate level. Superior work for his M.A. degree from Princeton gained him a special fellowship for inde- pendent study from the Social Science Research Council. Under the fellowship he spent 1963 studying historical methods with Sigmund Diamond of Columbia University and psychology, political science, and philosophy on his own. In 1964 he received his Ph.D. in sociology. As a result of Diamond's influence, Mr. Cook decided he would use an historical approach in his future teaching posts. Interested in the long term evolution of American society, and spurred on by what Upton Sinclair calls the cry for justice, he traveled to Selma, Alabama, last March. His participation in the pro- test march there has brought him to the conclusion that colleges in general, and Yale in particular, should strive to close the distance be- tween the studies of the classroom and the practical problems of the community. 'I7 E.S.M. J.M.B. EDMUND S. MORGAN The pigeons on the Old Campus don't in- terest me much, but some of the interesting birds I see out at my summer retreat in the White Mountains of New Hampshire do, muttered the short, wiry fellow who bears a striking resem- blance to Governor Bradford of Mayflower fame. 'fHave you spotted any rare species up there? Nooooo, just some beautiful birds. Who would ever have thought that E.S. Morgan, Professor of History, was a bird watcher? Nobody, judging from his prodigious output of literature on the period of American History from 1620 to 1789. Mr. Morgan stands up on the stage in 101 LC and almost moans out his lectures, punctu- ated with long uuuhs and pauses. His delivery is hardly that dreary, for practically every sen- tence he utters causes the class to smile or to roar, a11d the 'fuuuhs are merely pauses to re- capture attention. This world-renowned historian studied under li. Morrison and Perry Miller at Harvard, where he took his B.A. in 1937 and Ph.D. in 19-12. Edmund Morgan has written seven books on American Colonial History, and innumerable non-books , pamphlets, flyers and collections. His most famous is I3iriI1 of the Republic , which is read by practically every college history student. He taught first at Brown for nine years and has been with Yale for the past ten years.