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Uncle Fred had met Mr. Ashley over at our house and asked his advice. Between them they had worked out a plan.
When I was a kid he used to stop at the house for a couple of days, sometimes for a couple of weeks. He used to bring me little souvenirs of his travels—Indian curios from Central America, a drum from Africa, coins and toys from Iceland and India, Portugal and Peru. He'd tell me about his adventures at sea, and we got along swell. Sometimes as he was leaving, Dad or Mother would urge him to "drop anchor" in our town, but he'd always smile and say maybe someday he would.
As Mr. Ashley himself said to Dad, "The most sensible thing for him was life insurance. It would build up a fund for his own old age, so he would never be a burden to you. If he died, it would help to repay you for all you had done for him."
'VE said it myself and you've probably Iuncle!" said it, too: "Gee, I wish I had a rich
Weeks or months later we'd get a card from him from Liverpool or Marseilles or Honolulu. He always said the same thing on his cards. "Arrived safely. This is an interesting port." A couple of months ago Uncle Fred died suddenly on an inbound Ireighter just outside of San Francisco. Dad got busy at once making all the necessary arrangements and assuming the expenses.
"Quite sure," Mr. Ashley said. "And your brother asked me—in case I ever had to get in touch with you about this— to give you two messages. First, that he hoped you would apply part of the money you will receive toward his nephew's education. And second, that he arrived safely in an interesting port . . . "
I had one for years and never even knew it. That is, I knew I had an uncle, all right, but—well, let me tell you what happened.
It was then that Mr. Ashley, a New York Life agent and a good friend of Dad's for many years, came over and told us what Uncle Fred had done.
My father's brother—Uncle Fred — was just a natural-born wanderer. He went to sea right after he got out of school and traveled around the world for years as an engineer on tankers and freighters and ships of all kinds.
It seems that back in the days when Uncle Fred used to visit us so often, he made up his mind to do something nice for me as a way of repaying Dad and Mom for the kindness they'd shown him over the years.
Mr. Ashley took some papers from his briefcase and gave them to Dad to sign. Dad looked at the top one, swallowed kind of hard and said, "Are you sure Fred carried this much life insurance?"
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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS of the Campus. This disadvantage is not as great as it may seem. There will be room for car parking by both Faculty and students. Veterinary students now take nearly all their work in the College, except for a few courses in the College of Agriculture. These classes will be reached just as easily from the new site as from the present one. The work formerly taken by Veterinary students in the College of Arts & Sciences is now nearly all taken during the two years of their pre-veterinary training.
New Veterinary College To Be Built by the State—This year's New York State budget contains an appropriation of $6,500,000 for construction of a new plant for the Veterinary College. This rendering by the architect, Isadore Rosenfield, shows the buildings which will rise on a new site at the east end of the Campus. Tower Road, where there is now housing for war veterans, comes into the picture at lower left and ends at the turn-around shown at the main entrance, between the auditorium wing and the Basic Sciences Building. Dean Hagan describes the layout and uses of all the buildings in his accompanying article.
To Build New Veterinary College By DEAN WILLIAM A. HAGAN, MS 517 PLANS for a new physical plant for the Veterinary College are now nearing completion. It is expected that the working drawings will be completed by September of this year, that contracts will be let during the early winter, and that construction will be begun early next spring. An appropriation of $6.5 million for its construction is in the current State budget. Early in 1951 the firm of Isadore Rosenfield,, hospital architects and consultants, of New York City,, was commissioned by the State to prepare the plans. Every member of the Veterinary Faculty has had a chance to make suggestions and criticize every detail of these plans as they have been developed. The plans thus represent the ingenuity and judgment of many people. There are a number of novel features not found in any other school. Elaborateness has been avoided and practical utility has been emphasized in all parts. The new plant will be attractive in appearance and its facilities for research and teaching in the basic and clinical sciences will be as good, or better, than those of any of the other veterinary schools of the world. Except for the Moore Laboratory, the present buildings of the College are antiquated and not suited to modern April 15, 1952
needs. James Law Hall and the present Surgical Clinic Building were constructed in 1895-96. They are the oldest Stateconstructed buildings on the Campus. At the time they were built, the Veterinary buildings were on the edge of the Campus and there was plenty of open land around them. Growth of the University has surrounded them with other facilities, leaving no room for exercise paddocks for animals, and not enough outdoor room for other activities. Plans for replacing about one-half of the present buildings were included in the post-war building program of the State. Architects prepared plans and budgetary provision for their construction was provided. These plans have been abandoned in favor of the newer idea of relocating the College and building an entirely new set of buildings, thus vacating the present site for use by the State School of Labor & Industrial Relations. The site of the new Veterinary College will be at the east end of Tower Road where the temporary veterans' village is now located. Here there will be the necessary room and a desirable greater degree of isolation. These advantages, plus that of an entirely modern and complete plant, completely outweigh the disadvantage of greater distance from the city and central portion
Drawing Shows Layout The accompanying drawing by the architect gives a good idea of the appearance of the new plant. What appears to be a single main building with many wings is, in reality, two buildings. At left, facing westward down Tower Road, is the Basic Sciences Building. The main structure has a north-south axis, across the end of Tower Road, with two wings extending eastward and an auditorium extending westward. The latter will have seats for 500 persons. The foyer of the auditorium also serves as the principal entrance to the entire building. The south half of the main wing (in foreground) will contain the administrative offices on the first floor and the College library on the equivalent of the second and third floors. The north half of the building will have laboratories and classrooms. The northerly east-west wing (at rear in the drawing) houses the laboratories of the Department of Anatomy and the Department of Physiology. The central wing to the east will be occupied by the facilities of the Department of Pathology & Bacteriology. This wing is connected, in the rear,, by an open but covered walkway to the autopsy laboratories and, beyond, to the Clinic Building. Clinics at Rear The Clinic Building consists of a north-south portion containing offices, classrooms, laboratories, examining, operating and radiology rooms of the Large Animal Clinic. The portion of this building which at the south (near) end extends westward toward the main building will accommodate the Small Animal Clinic. In this wing there will also be certain laboratories and offices, and suites of rooms for internes and residents who will be on night service. The main, or clients', entrance to the Small Animal Clinic will be at the west end of the building; the entrance to the 405
Large Animal Clinic will be on the south side toward the east end of this wing. Behind the Clinic Building and connected to it by a long covered breezeway are the large animal hospital or stable units, five in number. Behind these, as unattached buildings, are the garage and farriery, the central feed storage building, a dairy barn, a bull barn, and a small barn for experimental cattle. Two small detached buildings on the left in the rear are for experimental animals used by the pre-clinical depart-
ments in class and experimental work. Not shown in the present drawing but included in the plans is a detached duplex residence, located in the right rear, for two full-time clinic attendants and their families. The main structures will be constructed of reinforced concrete. A veneer of buff brick will be used on most of the main walls, but a few will be faced with red brick. The separate stable units will be built of concrete blocks. The style of architecture can be described, I suppose, as "modernistic."
Committees Suggest Delayed Rushing When Dormitories Can Be Built EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS of the problems of fraternity rushing at the University have brought recommendations looking toward the postponement of rushing until the Sophomore year, when the time comes that the University can provide adequate dormitories for Freshmen. April 9, the Faculty committee on student activities adopted and sent to the fraternity chapters concerned these resolutions: "1. That it is the considered opinion of this Committee that when adequate dormitory accommodations for men are available it will be in the best interests of the University to transfer the time of fraternity rushing to the opening of the Sophomore year. "2. That the breaking of ground for the construction of dormitories to accommodate about 1200 men shall be considered evidence that adequate dormitory accommodations will be available and in operation within three years. "3. That at the time of the breaking of ground for the construction of such dormitories this Committee will notify the fraternities that, beginning with the third September following, rushing of freshmen is to be discontinued. "4. That these resolutions be transmitted to the Interfraternity Council, and to any fraternities not members of the Council which now pledge Freshmen, for their consideration and for a report to this Committee." Present consideration of fraternity rushing arose from the concern of the President's conference of Deans and Directors which, in September, 1949, undertook a study of "Freshman orientation" at the University. It was early agreed that this study must encompass all experiences of the Freshman year, and the aspect of fraternity rushing was referred to the Faculty committee on student activities. This committee au406
thorized a subcommittee, with Professor Loren C. Petry, Botany, as chairman, and Professors George H. Healey, PhD '47, English, and C. Arnold Hanson, PhD '48, Industrial & Labor Relations, to make such investigation as it desired and report to the parent committee and to the Interfraternity Council. Three undergraduates designated by the Interfraternity Council met with this group. Beginning last November and concluding in January5 the Faculty subcommittee conducted a series of four hearings on the subject, open to all. It invited representaives of the students, Faculty, and University administration to discuss all aspects of rushing as it affects students, fraternities, and the University. At these hearings, two reports were presented by a committee of ten Seniors which had been appointed last October by the presidents of the Student Council and Interfraternity Council. This student committee, headed by Harry B. Coyle, Jr. '52, made an exhaustive analysis of present and possible systems of rushing and its members visited Dartmouth, Lehigh, Williams, and Lafayette to observe their rushing procedures. Finally, the committee presented three recommendations, which had been approved by the Student Council. These were: "1. That the initial [present] system of fraternity rushing at Cornell be continued. "2. That upon erection of dormitories incorporating social and recreational facilities, and an expanded counselling system, a deferred rushing system be instituted at Cornell. This assumes present conditions at that future time. "3. That the deferred system employed should be one of third-term, or Sophomore, rushing." When it published the Faculty committee's resolutions, the Cornell Daily Sun printed commendatory comments on them by chairman Coyle of the Student Council committee and by John C. Lankenau '52, president of the Council.
It also published the following statement from the steering committee of the Interfraternity Council: "Though Dr. Petry's report has not been officially presented to the Interfraternity Council as a group, the Steering Committee of the Council stands strongly in favor of initial rushing and feels that compulsory deferred rushing would be detrimental to the best interests of the University, its students, and the fraternity system." Editorially, the Sun said next day, in part: "Endorsement of deferred fraternity rushing by the Faculty Committee on Student Activities comes as a welcome, well-reasoned step toward a University way of life for the future Cornell Freshman. "The recommendation is the result of more than a year-and-a-half's patient investigation, discussion, and study. No interested individual or group was excluded from the committee's consideration of the problem, and none should be severely hurt by its recommendations. "Throughout its operation, the committee has given the utmost attention to proper procedure and sought to hear every possible side of the question. The opinion of the committee, in short, is an honestly 'considered' one. "Likewise, the committee's recommendations show careful respect for all interests and organizations involved in making any transition from the present system of initial fraternity rushing to first-term Sophomore contact and pledging. In allowing a three-year lapse from the date of initial ground-breaking for new dormitories to the time deferred rushing begins, the committee has given fraternities an adequate period for adjustment. It has also granted the University and interested students an opportunity to establish adequate counseling systems, dormitory club organizations, and all the other accompaniments of University living for future Freshmen. "Taken in broad context, the decision of the Faculty Committee on Student Activities recommending deferred fraternity rushing comes as an essential part of a general pattern to create a new way of University living, a way of living designed to aid the individual in his inital adjustment to the University, to create and maintain individual loyalty to Cornell, and, at the same time, to allow the greatest possible individual freedom in seeking the ends of higher education.
Cornell Plantations IN THE CORNELL PLANTATIONS quarterly issue for Spring, Professor Paul Work, MSA '13, Vegetable Crops, Emeritus, describes and pictures the "Vegetable Plantations" where hunCornell Alumni News
dreds of new varieties are tested and evaluated each year. Professor Laurence H. MacDaniels, PhD '17, Horticulture & Floriculture, tells of the lack of conservation practices in "New Caledonia: A Warning." Professor Ralph W. Curtis '01., Ornamental Horticulture, Emeritus, continues his series on "Plants for Birds and Gardeners." Another essay on his early farm life by the late Professor Walter King Stone, Architecture, is included. Editor Bristow Adams quotes several commendations of the magazine received from its readers.
Science Teachers Visit SPRING MEETING of the Southern Zone, New York State Science Teachers Association, brought thirty-seven teachers from neighboring schools to Rockefeller Hall, April 5. After their business session, Professor Guy E. Grantham, PhD '20, gave a demonstration lecture on thermal radiation. They visited the new Low - temperature Laboratory, where Professor Herbert F. Newhall, PhD '42, explained the operation of the cryostat in liquification of helium gas; and at Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Professor John W. DeWire showed them the synchroton in operation. Officers of the Association said it was one of their most interesting meetings.
Plan Medical Residence ARCHITECTS for F. W. Olin Hall to be erected as a student residence for the Medical College in New York are the firm of Rogers & Butler, of which Jonathan F. Butler '26 is a partner. Writing of the new building in the Medical College Quarterly for March, Dr. Preston A. Wade '22 says that it may be completed in 1954. A building committee of Faculty and students of the Medical College is headed by Dr. Lawrence W. Hanlon '35, Assistant Dean. It includes also Dean Joseph W. Hinsey, Edward K. Taylor, business manager of the College, and Drs. Edward J. Hehre '34, E. Cooper Person '35, and Robert F. Pitts. Students are represented by Leston L. Havens '52, Ward O. Griffen, Jr. '53, Robert A. Newton '54, Edward P. Williams '55, and Jane H. Walker '55 for the women. The student residence will be erected and furnished with a gift of $2,549,000 from the Olin Foundation, established by the late Franklin W. Olin '85, for whom it will be named. A Trustee of the University for many years, he gave Olin Hall for the School of Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering on the Campus at Ithaca, in memory of his son, Franklin W. Olin, Jr.'12. James O. Wynn, vice-president of the Olin Foundation, is the father of Dr. May 13 1952
Raise Fund for Deans' Portraits—To provide portraits of the late Albert R. Mann '04 and Carl E. Ladd '12 to be hung in the new Albert R. Mann Library of the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics, the Agriculture Alumni Association is raising a fund of $4000. Pictured from left above, with a recent portrait of Dean Liberty Hyde Bailey, are Dean William I. Myers '14 of the College; Monroe G. Babcock '30 of Ithaca, chairman of the committee; Professor Van B. Hart '16, Farm Management; C. Kenneth Bullock '25, recent president of the Association; and Director of Resident Instruction A. Wright Gibson '17, secretary-treasurer of the Association. With Myers, Babcock, and Hart, a fourth member of the portrait committee is Don J. Wickham '24 of Hector. Friends and alumni have thus far given about $1000 to the portrait fund. The Mann Library building is scheduled to be occupied this summer. Dean Mann headed the College from 1916 until he was appointed the first Provost of the University in 1931 and was succeeded by Dean Ladd. College of Agriculture photo
James O. Wynn, Jr. '47, who received the MD at the College last June. "Mr. Wynn has been deeply interested in the Medical College since his son was a student here," Dr. Wade writes," . . . it was Mr. Wynn who first contacted Dean Hinsey in regard to the preliminary plans in making the grant."
Noyes Add Lincoln Papers A LINCOLN DOCUMENT which provided one of the notable "scoops" of newspaper history is included in the latest gift of original Lincoln material to the University Library by University Trustee Nicholas H. Noyes '06 and Mrs. Noyes of Indianapolis, Ind. This rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Lincoln, resulted from a rush to issue the Proclamation on the promised date, January 1, 1863. The President finished writing it early that day and sent it to the State Department to be engrossed (copied in formal script). When the engrossed copy was delivered at the White House in mid-morning, Lincoln signed it before noticing a technical error in the closing lines. He had used the
phraseology of treaties: "In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed." He should have written: "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand . . ." Secretary of State William H. Seward hurried off to the State Department to have a corrected copy made. The revised copy was signed that afternoon, but in the meantime the Washington Evening Star somehow obtained the first version from the State Department, rushed it into type, and reached the streets with an exclusive story. No other newspaper printed the uncorrected text, since the authorized version was issued to catch the next day's papers. This copy used by the Evening Star and other Lincolniana were acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Noyes from the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln collection when it was sold in New York in February. Their gift will be added to the Nicholas H. Noyes Collections of Historical Americana which Mrs. Noyes gave to the University last year. It includes also original manuscripts of President Lincoln's message to Congress of 1862 on abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia and of part 407
of his last speech in his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate in 1858 against Stephen A. Douglas. Director Stephen A. McCarthy of the University Library characterizes the latest gift as adding "a new measure of here-and-nowness" for study of American history and in related fields. He points out that the Emancipation Proclamation copy is an especially valuable adjunct to the Library's May Collection of more than 10,000 items dealing with slavery and its abolition. Just before these Lincoln gifts, Mr. and Mrs. Noyes gave the Library a collection of more than 400 items relating to Booth Tarkington.
Senior Women Elect '52 WOMEN elected as president of their alumnae Class Patricia Thornton, daughter of George H. Thornton '21 of Rosemont, Pa. She has been the Senior Class women's president. Fraeda P. Aronowitz of Rochester is vice-president of the alumnae Class of '52; Judith E. Engle of Brooklyn is secretary; Nancy A. Radick of Preston Hollow, treasurer; and Janet L. Hofmann of Mount Lebanon, Pa., is Reunion chairman. Class correspondent for the ALUMNI NEWS is Phebe B. Vandervort, daughter of John Vandervort '22 and Mrs. Vandervort (Helen Bull) '26 of Ithaca, and Marylou Bussing of Edgewood, R.I., is Class Alumni Fund representative. These officers constitute the Class Council; they were elected to serve two years.
Friday and Saturday afternoons; and alumni-Faculty discussions, Friday afternoon. Friday at 2, there will be a baseball game with Colgate on Hoy Field; at 7:45 Friday, Seniors and alumni will have a "sing" at the Goldwin Smith portico; the Glee Club concert, "Take A Note," will be at 8:45 in Bailey Hall and the Dramatic Club will present a play at 8:30 in the Willard Straight Theater, Friday and Saturday evenings. Saturday morning, June 7, at 10:45 in Statler Hall auditorium will be the annual meetings of the Alumni Fund Council and Alumni Asociation, when the elections of Alumni Trustees will be announced and President Deane W. Malott will make his first "report to the alumni" on the state of the University. Following luncheon in Barton Hall, Reunion Classes will parade to Schoell-
Reunion Plans Progress PREPARATIONS for Class Reunions, June 6, 7, and 8, are going forward in the Alumni Office and by Class committees. Many of the scheduled Reunion Classes are well along with their plans for their own Class affairs during the three days. Registration for all Classes will open at central Reunion headquarters in Barton Hall at 9 Friday, June 6, and will continue until 3 p.m., Saturday. All Reunioners are urged to register, so their attendance will count for the official records. Luncheon will be served in Barton Hall, both Friday and Saturday. Class dinners will be in places assigned, both evenings. The younger men's Classes will be quartered in the dormitories along West Avenue; the Forty-five-year and the Forty-year Classes in Sage; and the Fifty-year Class of '02 and earlier Classes will be housed in Prudence Risley Hall. Women's Classes will be in Anna Cornstock, Balch, and Clara Dickson Halls. Popular features of previous Reunions will be repeated this year: "Campus Caravan" tours by bus from Barton Hall with local alumni as guides, from 2-4 408
Wilson Statuette Comes Here—Statuette of Alexander Wilson, early American ornithologist, recently assigned to the University by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa., is examined in its new home in the Fuertes Memorial Reading Room in Fernow Hall by Professor Arthur A. Allen '08, Ornithology, and Mrs. Allen (Elsa Guerdrum '12, research associate in Ornithology. Mrs. Allen's recent book, The History of American Ornithology before Audubon, published by the American Philosophical Society, inspired University Trustee Francis H. Sheetz '16 and Mrs. Scheetz to obtain the statuette for Cornell. Placed appropriately in a room where paintings by the late Professor Louis Agassiz Fuertes, greatest of all bird artists, decorate the wall and his book illustrations are used by students, this likeness depicts the "Father of American Ornithology" on a field trip, pausing to examine a dead bird held in his hand. It is the work of the celebrated sculptor, Alexander Calder, and was restored by Professor Victor E. Colby, MFA '50, Fine Arts. In front of the statuette is a set of Wilson's American birds, which was published between 1804 and 1814.
kopf to have their group pictures taken. Saturday afternoon, there will be an "old-timers" crew race from the Boathouse on the Inlet. All classes will gather for the Reunion Rally in Barton Hall at 9:30 Saturday night. Special Reunion meetings include the annual dinner of the College of Home Economics Alumnae Association, Friday at 6 in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall; breakfast for all Cornell women, Saturday morning at 7:30 in Willard Straight Hall and annual meeting of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs at 2:30 Saturday in Willard Straight Hall.
New Bird Record FLORIDA BIRD SONGS, a new ten-inch vinylite record for 78 rpm players, presents the songs of ten birds recorded in their native habitats and is available from Comstock Publishing Associates of Cornell University Press, Ithaca. The recording was made for the Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation by Professors Peter P. Kellogg '29 and Arthur A. Allen '08, who have previously made two other collections of bird songs and one of frog voices for the Foundation. They use a specially-equipped car to record the songs in the field. Florida Bird Songs includes the calls of Mockingbird, Cardinal, Florida Wren, Blue Jay, and Boat-tailed Crackle; the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, rarest of all birds in the United States; Florida Sandhill Crane, Limpkin, Barrel Owl, and the Chuck-wilΓs-widow. The record is priced at $2.50.
State Appropriations Up STATE-SUPPORTED divisions of the University will receive more than $10,000,000 State and Federal appropriations for operating expenses in the fiscal year 1952-53. This is about $660,700 more than came to the University from these sources last year. In addition, the State Legislature appropriated $6,500,000 for new Veterinary College buildings to be erected at the east end of Tower Road. The College will move there from its present location between East Avenue and Garden Avenue. It is expected that at least its newest building, Moore Hall, will be remodelled for use by the School of Industrial & Labor Relations. State appropriations for the year which began April 1 made provision for operating budgets of the College of Agriculture, $5,175,065 (including $100,000 for research and teaching in the School of Nutrition) College of Home Economics, $1,079,178; Veterinary College, $818,401; School of Industrial & Labor Relations, $777,697; and State Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Alumni News
Geneva., administered by the University, $886,699. These State appropriations total $83737,040 for current operations this year. In addition $1,269,452 will come from the Federal Government to the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics and the Geneva Experiment Station for teaching, research, and the Extension Services. State appropriations this year are $658,832 more than for 1951-52. $221,665 of this is for payroll increases, most of which come from a cost-of-living bonus of 6 per cent of basic salary authorized by the Legislature for all State employees in addition to continuing the graduated bonus which was in effect last year. Only nine new professional positions are allowed for in the State divisions, and but few additional clerical and maintenance workers.
Washington Club Elects CORNELL CLUB of Western Washington, at its recent annual meeting, elected as president Thomas D. Kelley '31, 505 Arctic Building, Seattle. Donald W. Exner '28 is vice-president; Robert W. Whiting '42, treasurer; John B. Stander '47, James L. Mayer '43, and Carl P. Irwin '49, assistant secretaries. The Club holds luncheon meetings the first Tuesday of each month. May 6 and June 3 luncheons will be at the College Club in Seattle.
Nursing Alumnae Executive SCHOOL OF NURSING Alumnae Association has its first full-time executive secretary in Marguerite Plow, 1930 graduate of the School. After serving as a private-duty nurse and head nurse of the medical ward at The New York Hospital, Miss Plow since 1947 has headed the alumnae registry for privateduty nurses at the Hospital. Her Alumnae Association office is at the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing 525 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York City 21.
Book on Finger Lakes THE UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, and Cayuga Lake are prominently treated by Arch Merrill, columnist of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, in a book of Finger Lakes sketches titled Slim Fingers Beckon. Illustrated with photographs of the region, the book was published last year by the author in Rochester. "The infinite scope of Cornell's explorations stirs the imagination," Merrill writes. "There is nothing jaded or cynical about this university and that is not entirely a matter of relative youth, April 15, 1952
but rather of the spirit. It was no coincidence that a Free World Youth Assembly was convened at Cornell last summer while Communist youth were
rallying in East Berlin. The wind that sweeps the hill above Cayuga blows fresh and free and clears the air of old taboos and tyrannies."
Alumni Fund Grows as Classes Work ALUMNI FUND for the unrestricted use of the University had increased to $298,216 the end of March from 5309 contributors, according to a report sent to Class representatives by Hunt Bradley '26, executive secretary. Of this amount, $117,275 had come this year in new gifts to the Fund and $180,941 was credited to the Classes from current payments on Greater Cornell Fund pledges. Bradley reports that the $18,541 received in Alumni Fund gifts during March is the third-largest amount ever given to the Fund in that month. The Fund record for April is $28,164, made in 1947, and Class committees were at work to exceed that goal this year. The Alumni Fund goal for the year which ends June 30 is $650,000 in unrestricted gifts, of which it is hoped $400,000 will come in direct contributions and $250,000 in credits from Greater Cornell Fund pledges paid. Most Class committees are increasing their active solicitation of Classmates as the end of the fiscal year approaches.
Special campaigns of this year's Reunion Class committees are bringing notable results. Among the four "older" Reunion Classes, '22 headed by Richard K. Kaufmann by March 31 had attained 58.5 per cent of its goal of $30,000; '17 with Ernest R. Acker as Fund chairman had reached 56.7 per cent of its $35,000 objective; '12 led by Charles C. Colman was at 55.7 per cent toward $40,000; and '27 under Franklin K. Bivins stood at 33.7 per cent of $25,000. Classes with Reunion goals of less than $1,000 for each year out of the University ranked in percentage of attainment with Edward A. Miller's '27 committee ahead at 76.2 per cent of $5,000; '42 with John C. Eddison as chairman, next at 67.2 per cent of $3,000; then '47, led by Herbert Roth, with 55.5 per cent of $2,000; and '32, under Bernard L. Falk, with 54 per cent of $10,000. The table following shows the status of the Alumni Fund, by Classes, for the year since last July 1 through March 31.
Cornell Alumni Fund, July 1, 1951 - March 31, 1952 CLASS 78-92 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
ALUMNI CREDITS FROM FUND GREATER CORNELL GIFTS FUND PAYMENTS
REPRESENTATIVES Combined Committees Mary R. Fitzpatrick
.. $
25 50 296 90
Harry J. Clark George S. Tompkins Allen E. Whiting Asa C. King Frederick B. Hufnagel Men's Committees Harvey J. Couch John C. Trefts Henry E. Epley William F. Bleakley Harry N. Morse Hugh E. Weatherlow C. Benson Wigton Herbert E. Mitler Newton C. Farr Harold T. Edwards William J. Thorne Charles C. Colman J. C. J. Strahan Robert H. Shaner DeForest W. Abel Edward S. Jamison Ernest R. Acker Paul C. Wanser Mahlon H. Beakes John B. McClatchy Sigurd B. Swanson Richard K. Kaufmann John J. Cole C. Longford Felske Abner Bregman H. Hunt Bradley Franklin H. Bivins
447
5,562 1,564 137 125
1,380 230
. .
1,090 572
. .
. .. ... . .
1,555 1,230 1,100 2,060 2,212 1,997 2,277 17,523 9,773 2,300 4,168 1,471 10,466 1,581 2,597 486
9,620 6,925 749 955 350
4,735 4,605
f
232 5,715 100 5,490 309 3,624 5,111 320 1,845 760 625 1,170 680 1,355 1,218 2,521 3,421 3,185 3,305 3,400 4,746 4,304 2,672 4,430 4,665 9,378 4,840 6,772 5,453 2,429 10,590 4,006 3,032 4,092 3,361 3,823
TOTAL $
,
DONORS
679 5,740 150 5,786 399 9,186 6,675 457 1,970
22 13 11 19 12 23 12 17 19
2,140 855 2,260 1,252 , 2,910 2,448 3,621 5,481 5,397 5,302 5,677 22,269 14,077 4,972 8,598 6,137 19,844 6,421 9,369 5,939 12,049 17,515 4,754 3,987 4,442 8,096 8,428
19 18 27 21 35 34 44 60 56 45 63 113 125 73 104 140 197 96 91 66 64 150 84 76 89 88 211
409
GLASS 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1.939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
REPRESENTATIVES H. Victor Grohmann Walter W. Stillman Charles H. Bell, Jr James B. Burke Bernard J. Falk Frederic J. Schroeder Paul J. McNamara John F. McManus Edward A. Miller William T. Mills Curtis B. Alliaume Kennedy Randall, Jr John C. Eddison William T. Dunn, Jr Blancke Noyes John B. Rogers III Charles C. Hansen Herbert Roth Neal L. Hospers Robert T. Dean Manley H. Thater Peter H. Rose
CREDITS FROM ALUMNI FUND GREATER CORNELL GIFTS FUND PAYMENTS 2,987 327 2,651 715 4,048 777 1,994 1,455 2,976 ... 2,426 2,635 50 2,706 267 2,269 1,049 2,211 275 2,025 1,792 2,194 38 2,325 333 2,068 235 1,304 65 1,092 938 1,949 82 912 90 887 16 516 27 667 435 1,424 346 284 95 310 35 150 50 $114,230
Women's Committees Elizabeth R. Andrews Mary Sullivan Lucy N. Tomkins Florence Marquardt Nellie H. Bingham Jane Cheney Landmesser . , Gertrude C. Hemingway , . Charlotte Baber Craven . . . . Nan Willson Bruff Dora Cohn Sanderson Lulu Smith Howard Annie Bullivant Pfeiffer . Ethel Fogg Clift Eva M. Haigh
35 10 41 45 20 17 10 25 16 132 30 150 141 25 15 5 106 25 36 140
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 Helen Irish Moore Marion Hess Shaver 1917 1918 Isabelle Hoag Van Tyne , , . 1919 Luella L. Williamson Alice Callahan Jensen 1920 Marie Reith 1921 Nathalie Cohen Davis 1922 1923 Katherine Slater Wycoff . . . 1924 Florence Daly Leona Schwartz Levy 1925 Dorothy Lampe Hill 1926 Susan H. Deegan 1927 1928 Melita Taddiken 1929 Josephine Mills Reis 1930 Caroline Dawdy Bacon 1931 Myrtle Uetz Felton 1932 Ethel Freeman Laine 1933 Ruth Vanderbilt 1934 Elizabeth Foote Roe 1935 Norma Nordstrom Junek . . . 1936 Marion Blenderman Brunn . Evelyn Carter Whiting 1937 1938 Elaine Apfelbaum Keats , . . 1939 Madeleine Weil Lowens Bette Limpert Mayhew 1940 1941 Grace Moak Meisel Rita Koenig 1942 1943 Miriam F. Hurewitz 1944 Nancy Green 1945 Eleanor B. Dickie 1946 Marjorie A. Montrose Margaret Newell Mitchell . . . 1947 1948 Beverly Pratt Schaufler . 1949 1950 Jane Applebaum 1951 Constance M. Pirnie Class Totals— Women •— Men Other Grand Total
410
56 65 83 125 190 35 30 105 128 15 25 23 5 34 5 37 125 222 77 45 37 19 21 160 122 2 18 27 20 43
$165,915
25 160 230 235 55 50 5 75 95 75 71 95 140 312
155 382 350 192 330 897 474 638 390 860 731 732 505 401 271 502 239 632 189 575 466 156 574 584 298 262 218 271 325 179 322 295
TOTAL 3,314 3,366 4,825 3,449 5,402 2,685 2,973 3,318 2,486 3,817 2,232 2,658 2,303 1,369 2,030 2,031 1,002 903 543 1,102 1,770 379 345 200
DONORS
92
77 116 122 141 61 81 113 85 137 80 79 92 64 127 99 52 51 29 95 81 19 19 6
$280,145
4,263
35 35 201 275 255 72 60 30 9-1 227 105 221 236 165 327 5 261 407 386 332 330 953 539 721 515 1,050 766 762 610 529 286 527 262 637 223 580 503 281 796 661 343 299 237 292 485 301 324 313 27 20 43
6 5 9 9 7 4 5 3 7 12 4 11 24 6 11 8 13 14 22 16 21 32 37 42 25 37 44 23 43 28 17 20 20 24 22 30 32 24 43 32 24 28 22 28 29 34 18 19 2 7 11
2,927 114,230 117
$ 15,026 165,915
$ 17,953 280,145 117
1,014 4,263 32
$117,275
$180,941
$298,216
5,309
$
Meet Cornellians Everywhere EDITOR: The fine letter by Elwyn E. Seelye '04 appearing in the March 15 ALUMNI NEWS calls to mind an incident that further illustrates the point that "you can't take the ΉilΓ out of the boy." A year ago last July, Mrs. Emmons and I vacationed at Waikiki. The manager of the Moana Hotel and his wife invited us to a cocktail party at their nearby home. Other guests of the Moana were present and the party soon became lively with the singing of old and new popular songs. I asked the lady at the piano to strike up the tune of "Give my Regards to Broadway." Immediately Mrs. Emmons and I intoned the parody so well known to all Cornellians. From an adjacent room came the good manager of the Moana, Lysle Guslander, Hotel Administration '40, who excitedly exclaimed "A man from Cornell!" A bond of friendship stronger than commonly exists between proprietor and guest was immediately established. Later when we spent a day and a night at Kona Inn on the "Big Island" (Hawaii) j we met the manager, A. Gwynne Austin, Hotel Administration '33. It seems that you meet Cornellians wherever you go, and without exception, more than a mild case of nostalgia develops when those "days on the Hill" are mentioned. —CLAUDE E. EMMONS '12 Suggestion for Improvement EDITOR: Having in the last forty years submitted several crackpot ideas to your columns, I may perhaps be permitted to do so again. I feel a lot more optimistic about Cornell than I have at times in the past, but there is always room for improvement. Consolidation, Affiliation, Decentralization, and Merger are the order of the day. A number of colleges have already tried it. Cornell is now scattered from Long Island to Buffalo, with joint projects in the Rockies and at Brookhaven. A long time ago there was even a "Cornell in China." The present suggestion is not to make Cornell larger. The parent plant at Ithaca seems to have reached a desirable maximum. The thought is rather to make better use of its resources and equipment. It should be reserved for advanced students and the standards of admission for these should be raised. At the same time, it is felt that the spirit and traditions of Cornell could be more widely disseminated. It would seem as if all of this could Cornell Alumni News
be accomplished by affiliation with outstanding undergraduate schools. Whether these should be in close proximity to Ithaca or widely but strategically scattered is another question. In any case, such schools could gain strength and support from a great mother institution. In turn,, they would .furnish a steady stream of outstanding students for higher work at Cornell. There would be many other advantages,, such as the exchange of faculty, library, and other equipment. It would tend to make Cornell a national institution of greater excellence and influence. —CHARLES WEISS '13 Suggestion For President's House
EDITOR: The following letter I have addressed to the Student Council committee which the ALUMNI NEWS reported was seeking suggestions from anyone interested : "Responding to your invitation to submit suggestions as to the 'best possible use for the President's House,' I would like to offer the following: That it be used exclusively and permanently as the offcial residence of the current President of the University; and for the following reasons: "A. This is in accordance with the expressed desire of Andrew D. White, co-Founder and first President of Cornell, who, incidentally, devoted a large part of his fortune and the best years of his life to further his ideas and ideals for which this University should stand. "B. The House is ideally situated for the purposes of a Presidential residence, and it is surrounded and saturated with the aroma of sacrifice, and blood, and sweat; a tradition which money cannot buy, nor time obliterate. "C. The House can be restored to its original and excellent proportions by removal of the library annex, built in 1911 for an extensive and valuable collection of historical books since removed to the University Library. I am not too familiar with its architectural features, but it is reasonable to suppose that its interior arrangement can be improved to conform with present-day requirements of housekeeping and entertainment. "D. As between the alternative, on the one hand, of an established, almost legendary dwelling, centrally located, conducted and maintained as an integral part of a great and constantly growing University; and the alternative, on the other hand, of incurring the disadvantages and uncertainties involved in the building or remodelling of another Presidential residence, such as may be dictated by the tastes and wishes of each successive President; in my own mind there could be but one solution." —CHARLES V.P. YOUNG '99
May 1, 1952
Now In My Time! BACK IN MARCH,, we had a piece in this space which dealt with the many modern improvements which have been visited upon College Town. Many "Now in My Times" bring a letter or two in amplification, correction, or dissent, but we were entirely unprepared for the avalanche of mail which that particular contribution brought down upon us. Many correspondents leaped gratefully on some previously forgotten, or dimly remembered, landmark or personality and from there went on for about six pages to reconstruct the amusing squalor of undergraduate life in College Town of their time. We got the clear impression that the vast majority of Cornell graduates had spent at least one year of their student days in the Huestis Street area and now value the experience. Another type of communication, emanating for the greater part from men who lived there in the nineties, indicated less gratitude for what our piece had recalled than irritation and resentment over what it had left out. One gaffer who had lived on Dryden Road in that early period enclosed a stamped reply envelope and requested a prompt answer as to the location of Pop's Place. What did Hank Norwood's Dog have that any other dog didn't have, and when did the East Hill House burn down? This man is well past eighty, to be sure, but could still recall every structure on Huestis down as far as Cook Street. Those three items, however, rang no bell and the void annoyed him. Another writer of a later period opened with but the briefest reference to the College Town piece, and then went on to elaborate on the life and times of Mr. Field, the barber, stressing his lavish use of bay rum both as a toilet accessory and as a tipple. We'd forgotten that point if, indeed, we'd ever known about it! All of which indicates the limitations of word-of-mouth history; the importance of the newly-created post of University Archivist, whose duties will be to collect, preserve, arrange, and index all sorts of material—including unconsidered trifles—which one day might become the basis of authenticated history. As a matter of fact, your reporter's contacts with College Town were brief. We lived there as a Freshman from September, 1899, to June, 1900,
and again for a two-year stretch while in the Law School. That's not very long and shows how dangerous it is to generalize; how important to define and limit the period and locality of which one speaks in retrospect. A reference to Pop's Place is meaningless to students of the nineties who assume that Hank Norwood's Dog was a pet and not a restaurant. So, too, Mr. Field, the barber, means little or nothing to anyone who graduated after 1914. It all demonstrates that this business of collecting, preserving, and writing about the evidences of the University's past is not a one-man job! It calls for sympathetic cooperation with the new Archivist and a respectful appreciation of the importance of trivial records which might form the link to help the future historian solve many puzzles. Who has a Souvenir Program of the Chlorine Banquet? We never saw one, but suspect that scores of them lie hidden away in the attics of Cornell ancients; some day to be burned up by their weary executors along with faded press-clippings dealing with the same event. Why don't you send them to the Archivist? It's safe to do that now, as it wouldn't have been fifty years ago. That's why the complete and accurate story of the Chlorine Banquet has never been written, as it should be, while there are still survivors around to check the copy. For a long time, nobody would talk about it. Indeed, one brave heart and steadfast soul dragged out many weary weeks in jail for contempt of court for refusing to chat about it to the Grand Jury. Weary weeks for him and anxious ones for some of his Classmates! And just the other day, a newlyarrived officer of the University found in his safe an old photograph of a youthful unknown which was meaningless to him, as it was to all others in the upper brackets of the current Administration. All that saved that picture from the trash heap was an Old Timer who crawled out of the expensive woodwork just in time to identify the subject of the portrait as the late Mario Menocal '88, former President of Cuba. And to think that only a few years ago, every little boy's stamp album held many portraits of Mario, just as the town was then full of men who knew all about the Chlorine Banquet and wouldn't admit it! Better send what you have to the University Archivist before it's too late! 411
skippers to win four of the twelve races. Walter M. Lewis '54 was the other Cornell skipper. In a regional regatta at the New York State Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, April 19 and 20, Cornell qualified for the Middle Atlantic championship regatta to be held at the Naval Academy, May 3 and 4. Captain Freeman had Peter Downey '53 as crew; the other Cornell dinghy was skippered by Peter Eising '54, with Lawrence L. Burckmyer '52 as crew. Cornell scored second to the Merchant Marine Academy.
Team Splits Baseball Start FINE WEATHER and excellent condition of Hoy Field marked both the opening of the baseball season, April 17, and Cornell's first game in the revised Eastern Intercollegiate League, two days later. The opening game was lost to Clarkson College of Technology, 6-5, but a 5-3 victory over Pennsylvania in the League (southern division) more than offset this. In contrast to the team's performance against Clarkson, the Pennsylvania game showed a big improvement in hitting and fielding, and the effective seven-hit, no-walk pitching of Richard W. Parker '53 was outstanding. Before going the route against Penn, Parker, a righthander who appeared in nine games last year and had a 3-1 record, had worked the first three innings against Clarkson without allowing a hit. Holding to his plan of giving his lessexperienced hurlers a few innings' workout, Coach Royner C. Greene replaced Parker with Walter P. Knauss '53 in the fourth, Cornell leading, 1-0. Sophomore, Richard L. Coddington took over to start the sixth inning, after Clarkson had scored twice and the Varsity led, 4-2. Coddington and Donald E. Unbekant '53, who replaced him in the seventh with one out and was charged with the loss, fell victim to a 4-run splurge in the seventh. Though Cornell came back with a run in the bottom half, it was unable to register in the last two innings. Clarkson pitcher Bill Chamberlain went all the way and allowed six hits. Three were by Co-captain Roger W. Chadwick '52, shortstop; two by Sophomore Lee E. Morton, right fielder; and one by Sophomore Donald Jacobs, third baseman. Chadwick had a triple and Jacobs a double for the team's only extra-base hits. A shirt-sleeved crowd of 2000, one of the biggest April baseball gatherings in years, watched the contest with Pennsylvania. Included were several hundred visitors for Freshman Parents Weekend. Though Parker's pitching highlighted the victory, the power hitting of William 412
J. Whelan '53, second baseman, the superb infield play of Jacobs, Chadwick, Whelan, and Vincent P. Giarrusso '53, first baseman, and the classy work of Co-captain Joseph W. Eberhardt '52, catcher, won the plaudits of the crowd time after time. Whelan had a pair of booming triples. His first set up Cornell's initial run in the second inning. He scored on a double by Gordon H. Gowen '52, left fielder. Whelan's second accounted for the winning run in the fifth. After the visitors had pulled ahead, 3-2, with a two-run output in the top half, Robert J. Keane '53, center fielder, singled, took second on a passed ball, and scored on Chadwick's double. Then Whelan blasted his triple to deep center field to send Chadwick across. The fifth run, good insurance, came in the seventh when Chadwick singled, stole second, and came in on Gowen's single. In all, Cornell reached the Pennsylvania pitcher, Karl Hey, for ten hits with Whelan, Chadwick, and Gowen getting two each. This was Cornell's fiftieth victory in a series starting in 1888; Pennsylvania has won seventy-four.
Polo Breaks Even THE POLO TEAM beat the Bogota, N.J., Club, 18-10, in the Riding Hall, April 12, and lost there, 14-13, to an alumni team of last year's co-captains, William D. Bair '51 and Edward Grano, Jr. '52, and Charles P. Grandal '51. Against Bogota, Maurice Houseman '54 led the scoring with 9 goals. Against the alumni team, Houseman, Captain Robert M. Diener '55, and James W. Leaton '53 scored 3 each.
Sailors Race CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB crews took fourth place among thirteen contenders in the invitation regatta of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., April 12 and 13. Norman D. Freeman '53, racing captain of the Club, was one of three
Lose Lacrosse Opener THE LACROSSE TEAM could hardly have run into more formidable opposition in its home opener, April 19 on Schoellkopf Field. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, perennial contender for national honors, displayed a relentless attack that ran up 23 goals to Cornell's 7. Led by Les Eustace, all-American attack man who scored 6 times, the visitors cracked the Varsity defenses in a furious first-half assault that ended in a 14-4 score. Registering twice each for Cornell were George W. Bogar '54, Edwin C. Gibson '53 and Cornelius C. Jones '53, with Co-captain Robert E. Vogel '52 completing the scoring.
I&LR School Aids Teachers FIFTY HIGH-SCHOOL teachers in the Troy area are learning about labor-management relations in a course being conducted by the Extension Division of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations. The eight-week course is part of a program set up at the School to help social studies teachers in New York State secondary schools gain a better understanding of industrial and labor relations and to assist them in developing material that they might use in their courses in American history or problems of democracy. "Pilot" institutes and courses on labor-management relations have already been held in the New York City, Poughkeepsie, Peekskill, and Fredonia areas. Professor Betty L. Barton came to the School last year to develop the program. In 1947, as social studies chairman at Pearl River High School, she developed a course on industrial and labor relations for use in the high school in cooperation with union and management leaders. During the summer of 1950, she taught a course at the University on development of material for secondary school teachers. As part of the program, the School is working on the development of possible textbooks on industrial and labor relations for use in secondary schools. Cornell Alumni News
conducts periodic surveys of literature and films in the field that might prove of interest to teachers, and mails listings of related materials to schools throughout the State. Members of the School will consult with high-school curriculum committees on course material. The Troy area course, ''Gaining an Insight into the Industrial Community," is being taught by Professor Barton Director Ralph N. Campbell of the Extension Division of the School; Morris lushewitz, secretary-treasurer of the New York City CIO Council; Emory Coughlin, industrial relations manager for Cluett, Peabody & Co. in Troy; Robert Lanzit, personnel and sales manager for Trojan Maid Co. in Troy; and Joseph Rotundo, associate professor of economics at Union College.
"The Family Reunion" PRESENTING T. S. Eliot's play, "The Family Reunion," the Laboratory Players of the University Theater did a difficult job well. They gave four performances, April 17-20, in the Willard Straight Theater. The lines are involved and the action is often diffuse, but good casting and the direction of Professor H. Darkes Albright, PhD '36, Speech & Drama, and his assistants, made it usually intelligible. The players were principally drawn from Professor Albright's course in "Ad-
vanced Dramatic Interpretation," and most of them are graduate students. Eleanor M. Ringer, Grad, as the aunt, Agatha; Janice A. Gravel '53 as the mother, Amy; Jarka Burian, Grad, as the beleagured youth, Harry and Carol
Parents of Freshmen Visit University PERFECT SPRING WEATHER and a wellarranged program for getting acquainted with the University made the first Freshman-Parents Week End a pleasant and successful occasion. Beginning Friday noon, April 18, and continuing through Saturday morning, 975 parents, invited by the University, registered at headquarters in Willard Straight Hall and were shown to lodgings obtained for them by their Freshman children. Some parents, it is thought, did not register, but those who did came from eighteen States, from as far away as St. Louis, Mo., and Milwaukee, Wis. To many of them, who are not alumni, this was their first visit to the Campus. A student committee headed by Jack R. Vinson '52 and William A. Morgan, Jr. '52 arranged with Faculty cooperation a program of activity for the visitors that gave opportunity to see all phases of the University and meet the special members of the Faculty most directly concerned with their own children. Friday evening, Freshmen, parents, Faculty
Navy Family—Rear Admiral Milton E. Miles, USN, staff officer with the Chief of Naval Operations, and Mrs. Miles (Wilma Jerman) '25 talk with their son, Midshipman Murray E. Miles '52, student commander of the University Naval ROTC unit. He is a fourth-year student in Engineering Physics. Another son, Charles H. Miles '55, Freshman in Civil Engineering, is also a Naval ROTC midshipman. During their visit here, Admiral Miles addressed the midshipmen and inspected a company of the NROTC. C.Hadley Smith
May 1, 1952
A. Rare '53 as the girl, Mary, carried out well the leading parts. The rest of the cast did well, and the setting of the English country house drawing room, by David Flemming, Grad, was cleverly designed and executed to lend credibility.
members, and others of the University including the student pastors of CURW, gathered at an "open house" at Willard Straight Hall. They saw the film, "Spring in Ithaca," and were briefly greeted in the Memorial Room by President Deane W. Malott and by Robert I. Landau, president of the men's Freshman Class. Special exhibits and tours were offered in most Colleges and Schools Saturday morning, with opportunity for parents to meet and talk with their children's Faculty advisers and others in their offices. Professor Guy E. Grantham, PhD '20, amazed and entertained some 700 persons with two performances in Rockefeller Hall of his lecture-demonstration, "Experiments in Physical Phenomena." About 150 attended a symposium on the work of the College of Arts & Sciences, where the speakers were Dean Paul M. O'Leary, PhD '29, Professors LeRoy L. Barnes, PhD '32, Physics & Biophysics, and Archie T. Dotson, Government, and John L. Munschauer '40, Director of the University Placement Service. Saturday afternoon, the visitors were guests of the University at the baseball game with Pennsylvania and lacrosse game with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. That evening, parents and Freshmen went to Bailey Hall for a special entertainment arranged for them. Alumni Secretary R. Selden Brewer '40, as master of ceremonies, presented the Glee Club singers and the Cayuga Waiters group, members of the Savage Club including John C. Mannix '53, magician, and brief talks by the Deans of Men and Women, Frank C. Baldwin '22 and Lucile Allen, and by the women's Freshman Class president, Arlene E. Aimone. After the show, guests were invited to a coffee hour at Willard Straight Hall. Many stayed to attend Sage Chapel Sunday morning, and for "open houses" in the women's dormitories, Sunday afternoon. An attractive souvenir booklet, telling much about the University and with messages especially addressed to the parents by the President, students, and Faculty members, was prepared for the occasion by the Cornell chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity. It is planned to make FreshmanParents Week End an annual affair. 413
Fifty Years Ago May, 1902—A private dormitory will shortly be erected on the west side of Huestis Street just south of the intersection of the street railway. This lot is at present disfigured by the ruins of the East Hill House which was burned down two years ago. The property was transferred by the present owner to C. L. Sheldon of Auburn for a consideration of something more than $10J000. . . . A more or less general agitation regarding the status of the Freshmen culminated last week in the recommendation by a committee appointed for the purpose of a set of rules to govern the conduct of the first-year men. These rules were printed in the Sun and at a mass meeting of the undergraduates were ratified. The rules as ratified by the mass meeting contain much that is old., such as barring the Freshmen from the downtown resorts, except under special conditions, and forbidding them to smoke on the Campus. The new regulations are a requirement that all Freshmen wear a cap of special design, refrain from wearing preparatory-school insignia, that they be not allowed to occupy seats in the boxes or the first three rows at the Lyceum except when accompanied by an upperclassmen. Twenty Years Ago May, 1932 — The Cornell Medical Center's magnificent new building in New York received two votes in a poll of fifty leading architects, to select the finest American edifice. . . . Mrs. Pearl Buck, AM '25, and Henry F. Pringle '19 have won Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished contributions to American literature. Dr. William C. Geer '02, who retired from business a few years ago and built a house and private laboratory in Ithaca, has invented a new method of hardening rubber which makes possible an unpainted golf ball. . . . Well, the regrettable Depression is at least conducive to Truth in Advertising. Under "Help Wanted" in The Sun, two Elmira girls advertise for worthwhile Cornell men to take them to social events at Cornell in May. "Since this is Leap Year, will bear all expenses." Lang's Garage, weary of blind enthusiasm, offers "Rattletrap Buick Coupe, 45,000 miles, Runs okay." And Christiance-Dudley's are selling briar pipes at half price on Mother's Day." Fifteen Years Ago May, 1937—Professor Carl Becker, History, predicts that the next general war will be about 1961. In a lecture recently, he said that since 1618 about 414
thirty years have been required to recover from a European war and to prepare for a new one, but recently the periods of peace have been longer. . . . Dr. Jacob G. Lipman '01, dean of the college of agriculture at Rutgers University, was one of the speakers at a recent alumni dinner in honor of Dr. Robert C. Clothier, president of Rutgers, in New York City. Dr. Lipman is quoted as referring to a professor as a man who "casts imitation pearls before swine," a dean as a man who is "not smart enough to be a professor but too smart to be a college president," and an alumnus as "one who holds the president and the faculty responsible for the success of the football team."
SATURDAY, MAY 3 Ithaca: Hotel Ezra Cornell, Statler Hall All-Ag Day, sponsored by Ag-Domecon Council Golf, Penn State, University course, 2 Baseball, Columbia, Hoy Field, 2:30 Track, Pennsylvania, Schoellkopf Field, 2:30 Freshman tennis, Manlius, Cascadilla courts, 2:30 Freshman, J-V, and Varsity regatta, Syracuse & Columbia, Cayuga Lake, 4 Annapolis, Md.: Tennis, Navy New York City: 150-pound rowing, Columbia Buffalo: Dean Melvin G. de Chazeau, Business & Public Administration, at Cornell Club dinner, Statler Hotel, 6:30 SUNDAY, MAY 4 Ithaca: Sage Chapel preacher, Rev. Marshall Laverty, Chaplain, Queens College, Kingston, Ont., 11 Student recital, Willard Straight Memorial Room, 4 "Music Makers" concert, Willard Straight Memorial Room, 8: 30 MONDAY, MAY 5 Ithaca: Goldwin Smith Lecture, "The Law of Trade Unions: An Aspect of National Labor Policy," Professor Leo Wolman of Columbia, member of the National Labor Board, Olin Hall, 8:15 TUESDAY, MAY 6 Ithaca: Watermargin lecture, Langston Hughes, poet, Willard Straight Memorial Room, 8 Merion, Pa.: Cornell Club of Philadelphia golf outing, Merion Golf Club WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 Ithaca: Golf, Colgate, 2:30 Tennis, Colgate, Cascadilla courts, 4:30 Philadelphia, Pa.: Baseball, Pennsylvania West Point: Freshman & Varsity lacrosse, Army THURSDAY, MAY 8 Ithaca: Dramatic Club presents "Awake and Sing," by Clifford Odets, Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 FRIDAY, MAY 9 Ithaca: Freshman track, Manlius, 4:30 Judge Marvin R. Dye '17 of New York State Court of Appeals & Dean Robert S. Stevens, Law, at Law Alumni Associ-
ation Reunion dinner, Statler Hall, 7 Dramatic Club presents "Awake and Sing," by Clifford Odets, Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 Octagon Club show, "Speak of the Devil," Bailey Hall, 8:30 Spring Day Carnival, "Midway," and fireworks, Alumni Field SATURDAY, MAY 10 Ithaca: Spring Day, "52 Hullabaloo" Fraternity races, Beebe Lake, 10 "Circus Train," float parade, across Campus and downtown, 11 Law Alumni Association annual meeting, Statler Hall, 10 Law Alumni Association Reunion luncheon, Statler Hall, 1 Baseball, Princeton, Hoy Field, 2:30 Lacrosse, Union, Alumni Field, 2 : 30 Dramatic Club presents "Awake and Sing," by Clifford Odets, Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 Octagon Club show, "Speak of the Devil," Bailey Hall, 8:30 "Carousel" dance with Ralph Flanagan orchestra, Barton Hall, 10:30 Princeton, N.J.: Varsity, J-V & Freshman crews in Carnegie Cup Regatta 150-pound rowing championships Track, Princeton West Point: Tennis, Army Annapolis, Md.: EIGA golf championships Geneva: Freshman lacrosse, Hobart Hamilton: Freshman golf, Colgate Freshman tennis, Colgate SUNDAY, MAY 11 Ithaca: Sage Chapel preacher, Rev. Theodore O. Wedel, Washington Cathedral, Washington, D.C., 11 Syracuse University Band concert, Library Slope, 4 Dramatic Club presents "Awake and Sing," by Clifford Odets, Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 Sampson: Baseball, Sampson Annapolis: EIGA golf championships MONDAY, MAY 12 Ithaca: Freshman baseball, Ithaca College, downtown Goldwin Smith Lecture, "British Universities since 1945," Vice-chancellor James F. Mountford of University of Liverpool, Olin Hall, 8:15 New York City: Tennis, Columbia Annapolis, Md.: EIGA golf championships TUESDAY, MAY 13 Syracuse: Baseball, Syracuse WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 Ithaca: Golf, Rochester, 2:30 Lacrosse, Syracuse, Alumni Field, 4:30 Tennis, Cortland, Cascadilla courts, 4:30 THURSDAY, MAY 15 Trenton, N.J.: Dean of Men Frank C. Baldwin '22 at Cornell Club dinner, Hotel Hildebrecht, 6 Van Etten: Coach George K. James at Penn York Cornell Club dinner meeting, Sandusky's Restaurant, 6:30 FRIDAY, MAY 16 Ithaca: Baseball, Navy, Hoy Field, 4:15 Freshman baseball, Manlius SATURDAY, MAY 17 Ithaca: Tennis, Princeton, Cascadilla courts, 2 Freshman track, Colgate, Schoellkopf, 2 Freshman lacrosse, Hobart, Alumni Field, 2 Baseball, Navy, Hoy Field, 2:30 Princeton, N.J.: Varsity, J-V & Freshman crews in EARC regatta State College, Pa.: Lacrosse, Penn State West Point: Golf, Army Heptagonal track meet
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An Undergraduate Observes . . . Fraternities May Rush Later DEFERRED RUSHING,, probably at the beginning of the Sophomore year, appears to be in store for the fraternities. Such was the recommendation of the Faculty committee on student activities, made after extensive study and a series of public hearings. The committee's proposal, which was made to the Interfraternity Council with a request for a report by next October, calls for deferred rushing to go into effect the third year after it is known that adequate new dormitory facilities for 1200 men will be constructed. There is general agreement by all concerned that removal of the present temporary dormitories is essential, and that they should be replaced by dorms which include social and recreation rooms. Whether the new buildings should also include dining facilities is not yet decided, especially since Cornell men did not show much enthusiasm for a University offer of regular meals in Cascadilla Hall next year. Although the question of deferred rushing has not yet been presented to an Interfraternity Council meeting,, the Council officers seem to believe that there are not enough potential fraternity men at Cornell to permit all fraternities to operate with memberships drawn only from the three upper Classes. Some houses, they believe, would have to close. A crowded agenda left the Student Council just time at its scheduled meeting to take one ballot in the process of selecting its officers for next year. At a special meeting the next day, Gordon B. Lankton '53 was elected president. Other officers will be James E. Strub '53, first vice-president; Nancy B. Helm '53, second vice-president (her second year in Council office) Stephen Greenberg '53, treasurer; and Inger Abrahamsen '54, secretary. The IFC postponed a vote on a resolution proposed by its discrimination committee which would have put the Council on record as opposing fraternity discrimination and discriminatory clauses, but objecting to legislative action by outside groups. The committee reported that (1) Nineteen fraternities (of fiftyone IFC members) have written regulations or rituals limiting membership on grounds of race, religion, or national origin. Three of these restrict membership to a minority group. (2) Thirteen of these nineteen favor removal of their clauses; two favor retention; and four
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are undecided. (3) Discrimination, as shown by fraternity membership, is much more widespread than are written clauses. Jewish members are rare in the so-called "Christian" houses, even those without clauses. Non-Jewish members in predominantly Jewish houses are more numerous, but still not common. Negro undergraduates are too few to consider in this way. The one-blackball admission system which is generally believed to be an essential part of the fraternity system makes it unlikely that there will be any radical changes in fraternity membership soon, so the discrimination committee is centering its attention on the removal of discriminatory clauses from fraternity regulations, with its long-range goal an educational program intended to change attitudes. The Student Council's discrimination committee (now known by the gentler name of the human relations committee) has also submitted its first report, which is essentially a factual summary of conditions here, as observed by the committee. In general, the committee found little formal discrimination, but a considerable lack of social equality -for minority groups. Robert A. Lazarus '53 won the '94 Memorial Prize of $94 with his defense of the proposition that mass communication media—radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and movies — are working to improve public tastes and morals. Cornell students from sixteen foreign countries participated in a "Meet Your Capital" tour of Washington and New York City during spring recess. The trip was arranged by Cornell United Religious Work and the joint National Councils of the YMCA and YWCA. FITTINGS for caps and gowns have begun, thus proving to the most unimaginative Senior that graduation is really at hand. Other evidences of the approach of this long-awaited event are the numerous agents and agencies busy dunning the prospective graduates for tickets, subscriptions, assessments, and contributions to a host of Senior Week events and plans. Not since the beginning of their Freshmen year have the members of the Class of '52 been approached by so many eager people, all anxious to extract money from them. Perhaps the feeling of being surrounded by outstretched palms isn't such bad preparation for life in the Great Outside World!
Conversion of the President's House to an art center for the University was recommended by a Student Council committee and approved by the Council. Built by President Andrew D. White in 1873 and bequeathed by him to the University as a home for its Presidents., the structure on East Avenue has been unoccupied since February, 1951. Local political observers got an insight into the point of view of the new Sun board when it ran a series of two editorials strongly supporting President Truman's action in taking over the steel industry to prevent a strike. Campus Charities drive, the only Campus fund-raising campaign allowed by Student Council to operate through personal solicitation, was nearing its goal of $6500 last week. Adding to the total were the proceeds f r o m "Makin' Whoopee," a show of Campus talent presented in Bailey Hall, April 18, by the Campus Charities committee. Frank Kavanagh, athletio trainer and softshoe dancer, acted as master of ceremonies. Staff of The Cornell Countryman will be headed by Phillips W. Foster '53 as editor, with Robert W. Snyder '53, business manager; T. David Bullard '53, managing editor; and Margot H. Pringle '53, feature editor. R. Bruce Archibald '55 was piano soloist with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra in a concert at White Plains, March 22, and played on the WNYC "Young American Artists" radio program, April 26. He and Janice Button '53, new WSGA president, were accompanists for the recent performances of "The Pirates of Penzance" by the Glee and Dramatic Clubs. Archibald is the son of Walter D. Archibald '20. Sebela Wehe, famous among CornelHans for years for her hand-written posters and continuous concerts in Military Hall, died early, in April at Willard State Hospital in Ovid. Robert A. Spillman '53 will be president of the Interfraternity Council next year. Other officers, elected April 20, are Eli Manchester, Jr. '53 and Webster David '54, vice-presidents; Robert Kennedy '55, treasurer; Robert Hoffman '53, Robert G. Rutishauuser '53, and Martin L. Simon '53, Senior representatives; and James Deane, Jr. '54 and William B. Pattison '54, Junior representatives. Roger W. Chadwick '52, co-captain of basketball and baseball, won the Cornell Daily Sun's annual trophy as the athlete "most exemplifying the best in the Cornell athletic tradition." The award was made at the annual Sun banquet in the Dutch Kitchen, April 4.
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of Trustees executive committee, is chairman of the Pacific Council of the Institute, of which the American Institute is one member. Professor Biggerstaff said, "With men like these, I don't think I am in bad company."
Members of a medical advisory board to the New York State Athletic Commission are Drs. John M. McLean '34 and Charles G. Child III '34, Clinical Surgery at the Medical College, and Dr. Max Moses '28, head of the medical department of Lederle Laboratories at Spring Valley. The board was appointed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, to assist in reducing serious boxing injuries. Dr. Fred Kern, Jr., instructor in Medicine and Public Health & Preventive Medicine at the Medical College, has been appointed director of the general medical clinic at Denver, Colo., General Hospital. Dr. Frank R. Smith, Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Medical College, is treasurer of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons. Professor Alfred L. Anderson, Geology, is credited by the Idaho Bureau of Mines & Geology with having discovered the large copper-cobalt deposits in the Blackbird District of Idaho. These deposits, which he found in 1942, it is estimated will supply at least one-fourth of the country's war and peacetime needs for cobalt, which is described at the "hottest" metal on the strategic list: essential for guided missiles, jet engines, and television. The deposits are now being worked by the Howe Sound Mining Co. with a mill of 600 tons a day, but the Government has requested that capacity be increased to 1000 tons and that smelters in Salt Lake City be enlarged to produce 3,000,000 pounds of cobalt a year. Professor Anderson came in 1939 from University of Idaho to teach Economic Geology. W. Robert Brossman, University Director of Public Information, presided at a discussion of "Current Criticism of Higher Education" at the convention of the American College Public Relations Association in Cleveland, Ohio, April 16-18. Professor Knight Biggerstaff, Chinese History and chairman of Far Eastern Studies, was named by Professor David N. Rowe of Yale, testifying at a Senate committee investigation, as one of a "small group" who "really ran" the American Institute of Pacific Relations Council when Rowe was a trustee of the Council. Professor Biggerstaff in an interview with the Ithaca Journal said he was "surprised and flattered" to be called a leader of the Institute; that he is one of forty-two trustees, had attended only two meetings in six years, and is not a member of the executive committee. He said that the Institute has maintained a high level in its presentation of research on the Far East. He pointed out that Gerard Swope, former president of Gerίeral Electric Co., is president of the American Institute of Pacific Relations and that Arthur H. Dean '19, chairman of the University Board
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Professor Herbert F. Wiegandt, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, will go in June and spend the fall term, on leave, as chemical engineer with Monsanto Chemical Co. in St. Louis, Mo. He is one of a few young men teaching chemical engineering in colleges and universities invited to work for Monsanto for brief terms to get firsthand experience in the industry. Edgar M. Queeny '19 is chairman of Monsanto Chemical Co. Professor Lynn A. Emerson, Industrial & Labor Relations, received from the State Vocational & Practical Arts Association its 1952 medallion. The award is made annually for outstanding service and contribution to vocational education in New York State. Mrs. Ernest Merritt, AM '26, widow of Professor Ernest Merritt '86, Physics, Emeritus, died March 31, 1952, in Clearwater, Fla., where she had spent the winter. She attended University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Sorbonne and College de France; had lived in Ithaca since their marriage in 1901. Before and since Professor Merritt's death in June, 1948, they collected clothing in Willard Straight Hall and sent it to needy persons in Europe. Their children are Mrs. Ralph H. Brandt (Louise Merritt) '26 of Pasadena, Cal.; Mrs. James G. Hodge (Julia Merritt) '29 of South Norwalk, Conn.; Mrs. John T. Emlen (Virginia Merritt) '32 of Madison, Wis.; Mrs. Jurg Wasser (Grace Merritt), Grad '35, of Belleaire, Tex.; and Professor Howard S. Merritt of University of Rochester. American Chemical Society has awarded the William H. Nichols Medal to Professor Frank H. Spedding of Iowa State College, formerly at Cornell, for his research on uranium. The medal is presented annually for original research in chemistry. Professor John W. MacDonald '25, Law, will lecture on the philosophy of criminal law at an Institute on Crime & Delinquency at St. Lawrence University, August 17-23. The Institute is sponsored by St. Lawrence and the State Departments of Correction, Social Welfare, and Mental Hygiene and the Division of Parole. Professor MacDonald will teach a course on "Legal Problems of the School Administrator" in the School of Education during Summer Session, July 7-August 16. Professor James G. Needham, PhD '98, Entomology, Emeritus, writes from Florida: "On my eighty-fourth birthday, March 18, I completed a preliminary study of a beautiful moth that I discovered here in January. It is a new species of Machlotica of the family Glyphipterygidae of Lepidoptera. Machlotica has not hitherto been known from North America. I have written its life history and habits. This is the seventh winter that I have enjoyed the excellent facilities of the Archbold Biological Station near Lake Placid, Fla." He was to return to his Ithaca home at 6 Needham Place, May 1.
Dean of Women Lucile Allen (center, above) was honored at a surprise luncheon given her by women students in Statler Hall, April 12. A gift from the women was presented to her by Fraeda P. Aronovitz '52, president of WSGA. Next September 1, Miss Allen becomes professor and dean of Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh. Since she came to Cornell in 1945, the offices of the Deans of Men and Women have taken on increasingly-important functions and she has been instrumental in training graduate students as counsellors in the women's dormitories. Veerman '52 The Rev. Richard B. Stott, Episcopal student chaplain, is chairman of the college work commission for the Diocese of Central New York. Leonard C. Urquhart '09, former professor of Structural Engineering, told the Lackawanna Cornell Club, meeting in Summit, N.J., April 17, of the problems solved in the design and construction of the northern eighteen miles of the New Jersey Turnpike. As a member of the engineering firm of Porter-Urquhart, Associated, he was assistant chief engineer for the firms responsible for that difficult section of the new throughway. Colonel Urquhart during World War II was chief of the engineering division of the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington and the Honolulu district. Professor Katherine M. Reeves, Child Development & Family Relationships, writes on "Challenge for Teaching" in the April issue of the publication, What's New In Home Economics. She suggests the need for schooling applied to living to keep the interest of youngsters in continuing through high school. Track Coach Louis C. Montgomery spoke at the weekly luncheon of the Cornell Club of Rochester, April 9. He showed motion pictures taken at the ICAAAA meet last spring, when Cornell won the championship. Robert L. Cushing, former professor of Plant Breeding, becomes, June 1, acting director of the Pineapple Research Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii. He succeeds Eugene C. Auchter '12, who has resigned as president and director of the Institute, but will continue as a consultant. Auchter went to Hawaii in 1945; was head of the Agricultural Research Administration of the US Department of Agriculture. Professor Cushing left the University last November to
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become assistant director of the Institute, having been a member of the Plant Breeding Department since 1943 except for two years, 1947-49, when he was with Hawaiian Pineapple Co. in Honolulu. Donald P. Gowing '49, who has been a graduate assistant in Botany and received the PhD in March, has joined the staff of Pineapple Research Institute as associate plant physiologist. John A. Lennox, who retired last June as professor in Extension Service and assistant State 4-H Club leader, has been appointed executive director of the newly-organized New York State 4-H Club Foundation, Inc. The Foundation will enlist private support to supplement the Extension Service 4-H Club program. Lennox manages Meridale Farms at Meredith. Professor James J. Gibson, Psychology, received the Howard Crosby Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists for outstanding work during the last year in experimental psychology, and especially for his book, The Perception of the Visual World. The Society was organized in 1904 by the late Professor Edward B. Titchenor, Psychology. Professor Henry E. Guerlac '32, History of Science, presided at a section meeting on "Science in Modern Europe" at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society at Brown University in Providence, R.I., April 4 and 5. His graduate students, L. Pearce Williams '48 and Harry Woolf, spoke, respectively, on "Scientific Education Under Napoleon" and "Observations of the Transit of Venus." Professor Thomas A. Ryan '33, Psychology, flew to England to speak before the Ergonomics Research Society in a symposium on fatigue, at the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield. He reported on "Muscular Potentials as Indicators of Effort in Visual Tasks." The first week of April, he attended meetings of the British Psychological Association at Oxford University. Paul V. Kepner, Grad '30-'34, who was a member of the Farm Management Extension staff as a graduate student, has been appointed assistant director of the Extension Service, US Department of Agriculture. Professor Edmund L. Worthen, MSA '08, Agronomy, Emeritus, married Mrs. Clarence M. Doyle, April 9. Mrs. Worthen is the widow of the late Clarence M. Doyle '02, who died in 1947 and was for many years headmaster of Cascadilla School in Ithaca. The first Mrs. Worthen died in 1948/ Professor Worthen's daughter is Mrs. Richard Sidenburg (Rachel Worthen) '32; Mrs. Worthen's son is James T. Doyle '37. They live at "The Weathervane" in Brooktondale. Professor Walter F. Willcox, Economics, Emeritus, gave a Goldwin Smith Lecture, April 7, on "Progress in the World War." He pointed out that success of the United Nations is limited by "world opinion" and said that under American leadership the UN has contributed to prevention of open political war. To carry on the "muffled war" by marshalling the free world's resources, he said the ally most needed is India. To win the "economic battle for the mind of man," he said the International
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Confederation of Free Trade Unions had grown in its second year to represent sixty countries with 50,000,000 members. He cited the American heritage as leading to the present fighting in Korea as "crusaders . . . to emancipate the world from slavery. . . ." In Kodakery, published by Eastman Kodak Co., Professor Donald J. Belcher, Director of Aerial Photography Studies, describes the techniques he has perfected to reveal ground conditions from aerial photographs. He has acted as consultant to industry and for military operations.
Professor Sawdon Dies PROFESSOR WILL M. SAWDON., MME '08, Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, teacher at the University for forty-one years, died April 1, 1952, at his home in Ithaca at 1018 East State Street. Professor Sawdon came to the U n i v e r s i t y as a graduate instructor in 1904 after teaching in Detroit, Mich., at Kansas State College, and at Armour Institute of Technology. He received the BS in ME at Purdue in 1898; was made assistant professor of Experimental Engineering here in 1908, professor in 1919. For many years, he was secretary of the Engineering Experiment Station; conducted research and directed graduate students especially in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. He was responsible for the leatherbelting laboratory when this was the only center of its kind in the country. He did wide testing of steam engines, radiators, and pumps, and published papers on radiation, heating, and ventilating. Retired in June, 1941, Professor Sawdon was recalled the next fall to teach mechanical laboratory courses for the Navy V-12 program. He was retired again in 1945. He was a member of the University Library committee and honorary chairman of the student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Sawdon was mayor of Ithaca in 1924 and 1925 and was a longtime member of the board of public works. He was a member of Sigma Xi and several professional societies. During World War I, he was inspector in the US Fuel Administration. He is survived by Mrs. Sawdon and five children: Mrs. Walter C. Guthrie (Lura Sawdon) '25, Agnes F. Sawdon '27, Mrs. Warren M. Taylor (Edith Sawdon) '31, George E. Sawdon '35, and Will W. Sawdon '35. Another daughter, Esther M. Sawdon '29, died in 1933.
Architects Direct Students VISITING CRITIC in Architectural Design is now R. Buckminster Fuller of New York City, .founder and chief engineer of the Dymaxion Corp. In this program, fourth-year students in Architecture work under practicing specialists from various fields. The critic assigns a shortterm project, often a job his own office has handled. Instead of teaching formal courses, he works directly with the students in the drafting room. Fuller, here from April 21-May 23, designed the Dymaxion house, shown at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and the post-war Dymaxion steel circular house. He is president of Fuller Research Foundation. He edited and published Shelter magazine and from 1938-40 was technical editor for Fortune. Other visiting critics in Architecture this year have been Abraham Geller '35, who had students design a restaurant, and Allen R. Kramer '41, who assigned a medical office building. Both are practicing in New York City.
Bristow Adams Fund Mounts BRISTOW ADAMS National Scholarship Endowment has reached $10,167.76 from 102 contributors, with $8,649.76 paid. Plans were announced last November by the Cornell Daily Sun board of directors for a fund of $25,000 to be raised through the University Development Office from former members of Sun boards. The Endowment will provide first a retirement income for Jessica Holland, who has been office manager of the Sun for many years, and thereafter the income will support one or more National Scholarships of $700 a year, to be named for Professor Bristow Adams, Extension Service, Emeritus. Foster M. Coffin '12, chairman of the Sun board of directors, points out that the average gift tp the fund thus far is about $100. Payments made before next June 30 will be pooled with the University's invested funds for the next fiscal year. The income will be used in increase the principal of the Bristow Adams Endowment until such time as Miss Holland shall retire. Many Sun alumni accompany their gifts with expressions of their high regard for Miss Holland and Professor Adams and say they hope to make additional contributions. One typical comment says, "I can think of no more pleasant occupation than to contribute, with the knowledge that this arrangement will assure Miss Holland a monthly income during her retirement and that eventually the funds will support a scholarship named for B.A. himself." 417
Personal items, newspaper clippings, or other notes about Cornellians of all Classes will be welcomed for these pages. Addresses as printed are in New York State unless otherwise designated. Certain Classes, principally those which send the ALUMNI NEWS to all members, have special columns written by their own correspondents. Each such column is designated at its beginning with its Class numerals. Material for those columns may be sent either to the NEWS for forwarding or directly to the respective Class correspondents, whose names and addresses follow: 1910 Men—Roy Taylor, Old Fort Road, Bernardsville, N.J. 1913 Men—M. R. Neifeld, 15 Washington Street, Newark 2, N.J. 1915 Men—C. M. Colyer, 123 West Prospect Avenue, Cleveland 1, Ohio. 1919 Men—Alpheus W. Smith, 705 The Parkway, Ithaca. 1920 Men—W. D. Archibald, 8 Beach Street, New York City 13. 1921 Men—Allan H. Treman, Savings Bank Building, Ithaca. 1922 Men—Edward K. Kennedy, 50 Broadway, New York City 4. 1932 Men—Joseph E. Comtois, 247 Hanna Bldg., Cleveland 15, Ohio. 1951 Men—Stuart Minton, Jr., 1160 Park Avenue, New York City 28. # * # '96 PhB, '98 LLB—James S. Truman owns and has practiced law since 1898 in the Old Academy Building in Owego, ("where John D. and William Rockefeller attended school; I cannot report equal success"), and is president of Owego National Bank. '05, '06 AB—Curt B. Muller had an article, "The Guise of Friendship," in The Word for September. Analyzing the solidarity of social relations, he wrote: "Our people suffer the handicaps which have been imposed upon American society, to wit: indisposition to rely solely upon intellectual exchanges about the cultural arts. In our country some program must be prearranged for any full afternoon or evening. . . . In America too many are mental slaves in deference to our moneyed aristocracy. . . . A fawning, catering conformist in all that is conventional or popular must sometimes realize himself to be an ignoble flunky. To be aware of a genuine friendship is one of the greatest boons that can be experienced in life." Muller is a patent attorney, with offices in the Society for Savings Building, Cleveland 14, Ohio. '07 LLB, '09 AB, '16 PhD—New book of humorous verse, The Tick Catches Up with the Tock, by Allen J. Thomas of RFD 3, Ithaca, will be published by Exposition Press, New York City. Thomas taught in schools in the Philippines, organized a school in Mexico, became an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., taught at Cornell and Connecticut College, and was postmaster at Scotch Plains, N.J.
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'08 Men—Class of 1908 held its eighth dinner for the New York Metropolitan area, April 2, at the Lotus Club in New York City. Present were Harry J. Leffert, Isidor E. Wolfe, Fayette A. Cook, Morris Rosevear, J. Wright Taussig, Herbert L. Trube, M. John Hartung, Meyer Davis, Ned Davidson, Herbert E. Mitler, and Seth W. Shoemaker, perpetual secretary of the Class. Anyone who has not received a notice and would like to have it sent, kindly communicate with Herbert E. Mitler, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York 17.—H.E.M. '08—Margaret R. Cuthbert, supervisor of public affairs for the National Broadcasting Co., will retire June 1 after more than twenty-five years in radio work. She began her career as director of speakers at WEAF, predecessor of WNBC, in 1924, and remained as an executive of the network when the station became the key of the newlyorganized NBC in 1926. For many years, she headed the women's and children's program division, developing and producing "Gallant American Women," "Echoes of History," and other series. In recent years, she produced "NBC Theater," which won a Peabody Award for excellence in drama. Miss Cuthbert has been cited for her work in radio by the New York League of Business and Professional Women, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Women's National Press Club. She is president of the New York chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. '09 ME—William G. Seyfang is managing engineer of the Board of Education in Buffalo, where he lives at 116 Dorcester Road. He is a member of the Buffalo Club, Buffalo Athletic Club, Aero Club of Buffalo, Rotary Club, Gyro Club, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers, Cornell Club of Buffalo, and Cornell Club of New York. '09 AB—Chief Judge Harold M. Stephens of the US Court of Appeals, Washington, D.G., wrote the foreword to a book published recently by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York City, called Risks and Rights in Publishing, Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Advertising, and the Theater. Albert C. Bean (above) is known to few of his Classmates, business associates, or employees by that name. It's "Ace" to 'most everybody and always was. Ace graduated in Arts and started out as a publisher's salesman. But he must have spent a good deal of time on the longer jumps between towns reading his own books, for he soon developed a vivid curiosity as to "why paint on steel fails to stop rust formation?" It took him quite a while to answer his own question and to find out what to do about it, but having done just that, he has been for the last thirty years president and owner of his own company
which manufactures at Kansas City Ace's patented line of "Inhibitive Primers, Coatings, Paints, and Preservatives" which now go around the world to protect surfaces in every type of climate. His son, "Ace, Jr.", Cornell '43, after destroyer service in the Mediterranean as a lieutenant ( j g ) is following in his father's footsteps as vice-president of the family organization, Tnemec Co., Inc., and as his week-end golf opponent. The Beans live at 6433 High Drive, Kansas City 5, Mo., and the plant is at 123 West Twenty-third Avenue, North Kansas City 5. In addition to Ace, Jr. there are two married daughters and so far five grandsons and two granddaughters. Ace, whom some will recall as a noteworthy cross-country runner at one time, still keeps himself physically active with golf and bowling, but that's just for recreation. His main hobby and amusement, he is careful to point out, remains figuring out new or improved coatings for tricky surfaces that are constantly creating new puzzles in industrial maintenance. When you're forty-two years out of college, it's rather nice to realize that things have worked out with you so that your chief amusement and your means of livelihood constitute your job—and your son's job. Clarence V. Lally lives at 2715 Steiner Street, San Francisco 23, Cal. He gives no business address at the present time. In World War I he saw submarine duty with the rank of lieutenant (jg). Thomas S. Hauck, after a varied career as an engineer, including an extended tour of duty with the Isthmian Canal Commission, is now a retired branch manager of the United States Plywood Corp., but continues to function as a salesman. He served in both wars: as a first lieutenant with the 603d. Engineers in Number I, as a captain and post engineer at Fort Eustace, Va., in Number II. The Haucks live at 5100 North Charles Street, Baltimore 10, Md. Norman Hughes lives at Powell's Point, N.C., and is superintendent of the welfare department of Currituck County. He formerly served also on the County board of education. Norm writes that most of his
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life has been spent "doing little things from day to day." That sort of occupation frequently adds up to a pretty useful and important life—for other people. '12 BS—James D. Brew is the new mayor of Holley. He was declared the winner in the March election in the village only after several recounts of the ballots; final tabulation: Brew, 285, Acting Mayor O'Mara, 284. Brew retired in 1948 as professor of bacteriology at University of Tennessee. He was assistant bacteriologist at the Geneva Experiment Station from 1912-16 and professor of Dairy Industry at Cornell from 1919-30. 1 Counting the twins as two IQ1 ^ times, standard procedure in J.yJ.O the trade, Lynn B. Curry has ΊVJ"P\T Become a grandfather for the JVl £έ JM fourth time. For more than twenty-five years he has been with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and its predecessor, in Harrisburg, Pa. At present his title is chief of utility engineers. Apparently, Lynn's family has competed to see how far they could wander from the home nest; for his oldest daughter lives in Iowa, another daughter lives in Minnesota, the youngest daughter lives in Texas, and Lynn, Jr., CE '47, is with Bethlehem Steel Co. at Bethlehem, Pa. He is reputed to have come with a shoestring and a collar button to Cornell, and I remember how he wrestled ashes and hustled what-not to work his way through with a cheerful outlook. Now he reports: "Enjoy life—no gripes." Two children call him "Dad" and two girls call him "Grand Pappy." Homer A. Bohall is supervisor, evaluation and training, Sharpies Solvents Corp., Wyandotte, Mich. Another Classmate in the field of chemistry is John L. Osborne, technical consultant with American Cyanide Co., Rockefeller Center, N.J. Home mail reaches Johnny at 226 Glenwood Road, Elizabeth 3, N.J. Daughter Mary, Cornell '43, jg in the Waves, married OSS paratrooper now major in the Army, training Rangers at Fort Benning. The young couple, parents of two children, 1 m., 1 f., spent nearly three years in Mukden, Manchuria, after the war. Another daughter Janet, Cornell '49, married Tom Turner '51, Cornell basketball star, and lives in Ithaca. '13 AB, '34 LLB—LaFayette W. Argetβ singer, Jr., who retired from the Army in June, 1950, as lieutenant colonel, JAGC, is practicing law in Watkins Glen. Because of the present international situation, Argy, grandfather to 1 m. and 1 f., has volunteered for further Army service and is subject to recall. John Henry Brodt is secretary and treasurer of Kaufman & Brodt, Inc., 228 North La Salle Street, Chicago, 111., who are manufacturers' agents of building specialties, including revolving doors, glass and slate blackboards, and X-ray protection. Jack lives at Evanston with his wife and one son. Two married daughters have provided him with a grandson and a granddaughter. Jack enjoys fishing and golf, but modestly or rea-
"Was twenty-six years in India with Socony; now retired and trying to live on a 43-cent dollar"; 1941 University Street, Eugene, Ore. Bill (Wm. C.) Collyer writes from San Francisco: "Getting old and a little deaf, but can still read a neswpaper without glasses, and the top of my head is still covered with hair even if it is a bit thin. I have dropped the several nicknames that I collected in school and am now known as Bill.'* Don (Donald) Smeallie is still drumming (up trade) along the Mohawk at Amsterdam. Says "with your sparkling list of officers and committee men, I don't see how you can miss." George Dorrance is "still living in Houston" (Could that be Texas, George?) "Would welcome any of the old Classmates if they ever get to this part of the country.'* Insurance. Three children, two grandchildren. CLASS CULTURAL CONTEST Brate (Braton R.) Gardner sends in dues and an extra five from Harrisburg, Pa. Category, Ithacan (Tompkins County) (Glad to hear from you, Professor.) Greek; Question: JOHN CHAGONA ONCE HAD John C. Jaqua writes from Winchester, fc HIS SHOES SHINED BY NlGK Ind.: "I have been canning tomatoes for Ί Q1 L PAP PAS (TIOGA STREET). WAS thirty-five years and can't quit. Two sons, jLs JW THIS HISTORICAL INCIDENT THE one married. No grandchildren, but hopeΛ/Γ17 \T ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE "WHEN ful—even for a new face in White House lYlljlN GREEK MEETS GREEK"? at Washington." •" Rube (Howard H.) IngerTom (Thomas J.) Nolan under date of soll writes: "I want my $5 back. No doubt March 1, 1952, writes: "Did some fancy I deserve the demotion which you awarded pheasant shooting with that fat boy Pennyme in the March 1 issue of the ALUMNI witt last week, and he brought me up to NEWS, but this isn't what I got. It so hapdate on recent doings." Address: Concrete pens that I am moving from Charlotte Plank Co., 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, where I have been southern regional marN.J. keting manager since 1931, back to PhilaJoe (J.S.) Hurley, North Spring Valley, delphia. For your further discomfort, I am happy to tell you that Ithaca, having At- Rockland County, says "Here's my five; you lantic stations in it, is now a part of my may tell the brethren that our four daughterritory and offers a good excuse to go ters and two sons have given us sixteen there at convenient opportunities on busi- grandchildren. Who can top that?" Bert (Albert S.) Crawford: "Have been ness." (The newspaper clipping regarding your promotion must have been fouled up, retired from staff of Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., where I have been neuroRube. Congratulations and best wishes!) Tossed off a couple with Tom Keating, logical surgeon for twenty-seven years. Now the insurance tycoon, when in New York joining the staff of the Thayer Hospital and Mansfield Clinic at Waterville, Me., as recently. neurosurgeon and neurologist." Tom tells me that Dan Wallinford is now Pat (Edward J.) Flannery, 513 Clark resident architect of El Rancho Adolphus, PO Box 910, Scranton, Pa. Plenty of horses Street, Waverly: "Another year has rolled around the rancho and Dan is doing a lot around. Nothing exciting has happened in of riding. Viva el gaucho! Play banjo on my young life, except that my daughter, who graduated from Cornell in June, 1951, horseback! got married in December." Tom also turns up a guy we have all Dues but no news from the following: wanted to hear from: Joe Donovan, CorCharles B. Watkins, 5604 Fourteenth Street, nell's immortal second-sacker, is in the ofN.W., Washington, D.C.; Alfred L. Boege fice of the Attorney General of the State of hold, Detroit, Mich.; James R. Rosenfeld, New York. Address: 291 Western Avenue, 98 Garden Road, Scarsdale; Samuel L. Albany. Ross, New York City; Glenn L. Fuller, Sam Rosey, who signs his questionnaire Spartanburg, S.C.; Dr. I. Cohan, 22 Wil"nee Rosenzweig, Lyceum-drummer boy," lett Street, Albany, 10; J. Richey Horner, is living in Washington, D.C. Under "hob- Jr., 22 Downing Street, Laconia, N.H.; W. bies" Sam says, "Have discarded my prac- F. Munnikhuysen, Koppers Building, Pittstice of encouraging pretty women." Directs burgh, Pa.; J. E. O'Brien, Rochester; C. E. "all Fifteeners to watch my son on the Sid Young, Youngs Express, 460 Factory Street, Caesar TV Show. He is the modern dancer Water town; Fred G. Alber, Rochester. "Jerry Ross" of the team of Fisher & Ross." (Note to ALUMNI NEWS Editor: Why not (Hope that is up-to-date; Sam, I don't have put that Colonial Airlines ad (see page 368, a television.) April 1 issue) "within reach" of 1915? We Count (Winslow A.) Cuthbert writes: need that babe more than 1923 does!)
listically says he will never be a golfer. Like most of us he is resigned to being—just a dub. Thurston V. V. Ely of Rutherford, N.J., has been elected v-p in charge of sales of Randolph Products Co. of Carlstadt, N.J. Thursty took Law at school, but has been sales representative for the company since 1934. Hermann ("Hage") Hagemann now supplies the missing dope: "moving to a nice new home in Afton Village, Florham Park. Health excellent, business good, enjoyment of life 100 per cent. Specialize in tennis court construction; silly business but somebody has to do it and I do well enough at it. Hie me to Squirrel Island, Me., each summer and to Florida in the winter. Tennis still good, golf passable, still hit the piano and pick the guitar. Score: 1 son, 1 stepdaughter, 2 granddaughters."
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5 16 ME—John S. Hoffmire has moved from Binghamton to 137 Loring Avenue, Buffalo; he took over as district manager for Sonotone in Erie and Niagara Counties, April 1. "One of the things that I will appreciate most in my transfer to Buffalo," he writes, "will be the association again with the Cornell Club of Buffalo. We lived in Buffalo from 1937-43, so I know what an active bunch the Buffalo group is." '16 AB—Cambridge (Mass.) ChronicleSun had this item about Anthony O. Shallna on the editorial page of its February 14 issue: "Attorney Anthony O. Shallna, of this city, Lithuanian consul at Boston, recently addressed St. John's Lodge, F & AM, oldest Masonic Lodge, on the topic 'Russia as Viewed by the Baltic Nations.' He presented exhibits showing the difference between Russia's words and deeds as they have affected the Baltic nations. Anthony tells us that while Russia does not recognize him as Lithuanian consul, 'Uncle Sam does'." Shalma's address in Cambridge is 305 Harvard Street. '17 Men—All copies of the 1952 Class Directory have been mailed, as have been all copies of the March issue of "The Call of 1917." Undelivered mail was returned from George F. Humphries, Old Morristown Road, Bernardsville, N.J.; Owen Laws, 5702 Kay Avenue, Baltimore, Md.; Frederick G. Palen, 405 Coral Way, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and John L. Hopkins, Bolton, Ga. Any information regarding these Classmates should be sent to the Class secretary or the Alumni Office. We are still trying to find Homer B. Albro whose last known address was 539 E. Parkway South, Memphis 4, Tenn. Reservations are coming in bunches for our Big Thirty-fifth, June 6, 7, and 8. Get your Classmate neighbors together and come in a group. This one will be our "Biggest and Best." You can't afford to miss the Campus in June and the chance to visit with your Classmates again. An extra attraction! Dr. Al Sharpe will be our Reunion guest on Saturday, June 7. All his old football, baseball, and basketball players will be back to see him again. Doc doesn't appear a day older than in 1913-14-15 when we were beating Penn on three succesive Thanksgiving Days. Flash! Roy J. Zander's Reunion reservation just arrived with his new address, 1241 Granville Avenue, Chicago 40, III—H.R.J. '17 AB—Assemblyman Wheeler Milmoe of Canastota has received Republican endorsement as candidate for New York State Senator from the 44th District. Milmoe is editor and business manager of the Canastota Bee-Journal. His son, Micheal W. Milmoe '53, recently became sports editor of the Cornell Daily Sun. '18—Nelson K. Hopkins of RD 2, Houghton, was elected an alternate director of the newly-organized New York State Yorkshire Breeders' Club. Twenty-four men turned out for the Class dinner at the Cornell Club of New York, April 10, and under the asupices of Dinner Chairman Bob Story, a good time was had by all. Ed Howard made a great hit with a new "glass eye" story told as only Ed could tell it.
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Also, Mike Hendrie, Hal Lalley, Story, Bill Emerson, and other freewheelers spoke briefly on topics ranging from snappy stones to eulogies of one kind or another. No speech exceeded 2 minutes 12V& seconds by actual stopwatch, and it seemed to be the most thoroughly enjoyable dinner that we have had in a long while. Various words of wisdom were followed by a colored movie of Campus life and vistas, and this was also thoroughly enjoyable. Unfortunately, our Union operator, John Hollis, couldn't seem to get any sound out of the film, but that seemed to make little difference to the congenial crowd. Ho Ballou '20 came to the dinner and duly paid his six bucks. Furthermore, he tried to steal Chilton Wright's Class Roster and we all suspected that Ho had worked his way in there to proselyte from our membership for the Class of 1920, which we feel certainly needs some of them. A couple of lost hats which became the topic of conversation the following morning indicates that the party ultimately broke up well along into the small hours of the morning. Bob Story is to be congratulated for his efforts and we hope to have further evidences of the "Story" touch in future years. Furthermore, Ed Carples feels that we might do something in the way of luncheon get-togethers in the New York area and has taken the job of seeing what can be put together. We wish him all kinds of success. —John C. Hollis At a prior meeting of the Class Executive Committee, conducted by President Willard I. Emerson, it elected to its membership for two years George Minasian, Chilton Wright, and Clyde Christie; and for three years Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., Robert K. Story, and B. John Shepard. These retiring members of the committee become members of the Class Advisory Council: Arthur Dean, Victor Emanuel, Parker Monroe, Mahlon H. Beakes, Rudolph R. Deetjen, and Dean C. Wiggins. In addition, the committee appointed to the Council Torsten Parke, Bruce Boehm, Andrew Jack, Ivan C. Dresser, Jacob Mertens, Jr., Robert H. Collacott, Donald D. Barnes, and Wallace P. Beardsley. It was agreed that members of the Executive Committee should usually not succeed themselves until after a year from expiration of their terms. A planning committee for the 1954 Reunion was appointed with Parker Monroe as chairman; its other members, Rudy Deetjen, Hal Lalley, John Ross, and Al Saperston. BUSYBODIES DIVISION (Public Nuisances Department): In addition to being chairman of Monsanto Chemical Co., Edgar M. Queeny is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and a distinguished artist with the camera. Ed and his team went on a four-month safari (8,000 miles) into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, armed with cameras. The expedition cost more than $300,000 and Ed came home with a fifty-minute color film, "Latuko," which he presented to the Museum. The natives in the tribal village studied (believe it or not) have fashions different from ours, customs and rites different from ours. The film has been shown in theaters in Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, and Mem-
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phis, and the proceeds have gone to the Museum. But the film cannot be shown in New York State because it's indecent, the State Board of Regents has decreed. Now that New York State is safe and the morals of its residents remain sound and unimpaired, your correspondent and some millions of other New York Staters can go about their wholesome affairs without running the danger that their ignorance about how people in Tirangole look and live will suffer head-on collision with information. The Empire State rules! Mrs. Grundy, forward forever! REPORTS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING, TRA-LA, DIVISION (Large Change Department): Avco Manufacturing Corp. had a current backlog of $300,000,000, University Trustee and Corporation Chairman and President Victor Emanuel told stockholders at the annual meeting in Wilmington, Del. As the Corporation moves further into defense production, the change-over process will delay volume production until late in 1952. The peak may be reached sometime in 1953. AT HOME ABROAD DIVISION (Department of Central America): The United Nations has sent Leonard Miscall to Ecuador as government adviser and consultant on public works, including the development of a highway system and of port facilities, and the opening of basic industries such as mineral deposits. This service is only Len's most recent in a long series of activities abroad (US Navy along the way): China, France, Germany, and Mexico, among others. And he hasn't neglected his home town, Ithaca, where he has been a member of the city's board of public works and chairman of the planning commission. '19 BS, '20 MS—Mrs. William W. Frank (Marian Priestley) of 326 Roberts Avenue, Glenside, Pa., writes: "never a dull moment, yet I don't really 'do' anything; occasionally help on the Red Cross Bloodmobile, etc." Her daughter, Virginia P. Frank '48, is now doing secretarial and other office work after taking courses at Temple University in accounting, finance, and economics. Her son, William, Jr., will graduate from Princeton, "his Dad's alma mater," in June. He toured with the Princeton Glee Club throughout the United States this spring. John McClatchy is working hard as 1920 representative of the Alumni Fund. Let us all support Johnnie and try to have 1920 rank high among the Classes. His address is McClatchy Building, Sixty-ninth & Market, Upper Darby, Pa. Class Treasurer, Joe Diamant, says that only seventy-two men have paid their dues so far this year. It is important to collect dues from as many Classmates as possible in order to support the group subscription to the ALUMNI NEWS which we are planning. To accomplish this, we are not increasing the annual dues. We are merely hoping to collect the same dues from more Classmates. Incidentally, we still need a few more underwriters before we can start this group subscription plan, so send your pledge in now. As this is being written, we are looking forward to a fine gathering at our 1920 Spring Dinner, April 22, which we will report on in detail in the next issue.
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A big, heavy 20-oz. pottery Stein with Cornell Seal on the body, Cornell University on lip, plain or nymph handle.
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Our Class President, Don Blanke, is serving on the Westchester County secondary schools committee. This committee, under the chairmanship of Selden W. Ostrom, has the job of screening those who apply to enter Cornell. It is important work and greatly helps the Admissions Office in Ithaca. William D. Ellis is with Southern Mills, Inc., at 585 Wells Street, SW, Atlanta, Ga. J. M. Moore of Cleveland sent in his ballot on the '21 Class constitution from IB Con Ltd., 3 Queen's Road, Bombay, India. William M. Welch 2d has been promoted to district manager of the North Philadelphia commercial district of Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, 1835 Arch Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa., and lives at 742 Sunset Road, Glenside, Pa. Frederic C. Lane sent in his ballot on the '21 Class constitution from 20 rue de La Baume, Paris VIII e, France. W. J. Gallman's ballot on the '21 constitution came from his office as American Ambassador at the American Embassy, Pretoria, Union of South Africa. C. Chandler Ross of 7924 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia 18, Pa., is with National Drug Co., 4663 Stenton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Arthur G. Pellman and his wife, Helen Weber Pellman '23, of 101 Lenox Aveune, Albany 3, have three children now at Cornell: Helen Louise '52, Arthur W. '54, and Sally '55. Art is chief accountant of New York Telephone Co., upstate, is a past president of the Albany Cornell Club, and active in civic affairs in Albany, being on various boards, hospital, bank, Fort Orange Club, etc., and active in church work. Dr. Maynard L. Bryant lives at 4 Edward Street, Montpelier, Vt. Dick Muller writes from 10931 South Hoyne Ave., Chicago 43, 111.: "Sorry I wasn't there last year; save me a place next time. See you in June, 1956." Alexander B. Thomson lives at 252 Riley Street, Buffalo 8. Sig Swanson, the '21 Alumni Fund representative, is with Apex Tool Co., at 325 Cherry Street, Bridgeport 5, Conn. Sherwood Vermilye lives at 93 Highwood Avenue, Tenafly, N.J. John J. Bradley lives at 190 Moran Road, Grosse Pointe Farms 30, Mich. Some new '21 addresses are: Frank H. Thomas, 916 Stuart Road, Westover Hills, Wilmington 6, Del.; Edward C. Gates, 23 Seminole Avenue, Lockhart, Ala.; Robert C. Burt, 544 Bonita Avenue, San Marino 9, Cal. .Willard W. Siebert, Ocean Drive, Vero Beach, Cal.; Warren A. Stevenson, R3, Box 85, Gainesville, Fla. '23 BS—"Xerography," a revolutionary development in the science of graphic reproduction, was described by John B. Hartnett, vice-president and a director of The Haloid Co. in Rochester, at the April 2 meeting of the Cornell Club of Rochester. '24 BS—After farming (and writing) for seven years on a 168-acre general farm near Waterloo, Philip Dorf sold the farm and moved to Ithaca in 1949. The Macmillan Co. has just accepted for publication his biography of Ezra Cornell, on which he spent two years, getting his information chiefly from the original sources in the
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University's Regional History Collection. Dorf has a son, David C. Dorf, Freshman in Hotel Administration, who "brought home a good lemon pie the other day, own make"; and another son, Daniel, who "is beginning to think that Hotel might be a pretty good course for him, too." Dorf's address in Ithaca is 101 Orchard Place. '24 AB, '26 LLB—Walter C. Kovner, chairman of the Miami Beach Housing Authority, 420 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 1, Fla., has been appointed a special assistant attorney general of the State of Florida, to aid in handling the anti-bookie law and land matters. Kovner is a director of the Miami Beach Bar Association, president of the Hillel Advisory Council of Greater Miami, and national grand warden of Beta Sigma Rho fraternity. '24 BLA—Carl F. Wedell, head of the school of horticulture at the State Institute of Agriculture in Farmingdale, has been appointed a director of the American Horticultural Council and chairman of its commission on horticultural education. '26—Robert G. Birkin married Jean Irving Reynolds in New York City, January 30. He is sales manager of Cleveland Crane & Engineering Co. and lives at 75 Hall Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. '27 ME—Frederick W. Parker, Jr. has been appointed executive vice-president of Timken-Detroit Axle Co. He has been with the firm for twenty-five years, serving successively as sales engineer, service manager, and assistant to the president. His address is Box 252, Highland Park, 111. '27 MS—Reserve grand champion of the Western regional chinchilla show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, in San Francisco, Cal., February 29-March 2, was an animal owned by Francis B. Stillman of 2996 South Twenty-third Street, East, Salt Lake City, Utah. The animal was also the grand champion of the chinchilla show in Denver, Colo., February 1-3. Stillman is a past-president of the NCBA. '28 MD—Dr. Arthur F. Mangelsdorff has been elected vice-president of the American Academy of Occupational Medicine. Address: 707 West Eighth Street, Plainfield, N.J. '29 AB—Dr. Isidore Stein specializes in cardiology in Brooklyn, where his address is 700 Avenue C. He has three children. '31, '32 BChem, '33 ChemE—Victor K. Hendricks is supervising the construction of an oil refinery which Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., is building for "SACOR," the only refining company in Portugal. His headquarters are in Dusseldorf, Germany, where the major portion of the engineering work is being done, but he also spends time at the office in Lisbon. The work includes the construction of a lubricating oil plant, a TCC cracking unit, a gas recovery and gasoline treating unit, and a catalytic polymerization unit, together with a power house, steam generating plant, water-cooling system, and waste-disposal system. His family is with him in Dusseldorf, where he may be addressed Care Hydrocarbon Mineralol, GMBH, 15-17 Furstenwall. '31, '32 ME—Robert P. Liversidge, with Philadelphia Electric Co. since he graduated, has been promoted to manager of electric operations for the firm. He lives at 202 Clwyd Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.
WHOOPERDO FOR '32 Keep those questionnaires coming in! First returns look good with about seven out of every ten making plans to get back. With the returns on hand we can develop some of our "outstanding" alumni. These aren't the finals but here is what you presently have to beat. TOP PAPA: Dr. Ray Allen 1-2-3-4-5-6-!; TOP TOPPERS: a three-way tie at 6' 4"—Lew Hartman, Mansfield, Ohio; Bob Eyerman, WilkesBarre, Pa., Charlie Nitchie, Haddonfield, N.J. SHORTY: Howard Fuller, Interlaken, at 5'4". TINY: Bill Thompson, Detroit, Mich, weighing in at 130. GRAMP: Walter Sanborn Jr., Monteco, Cal., with one grandchild. EDUCATORS: Freddie Trautwein with a daughter at Hofstra College and Howard Fuller with one in Geneseo State College (Imagine going there to see your daughter!}. GLOBE TROTTER: Bob Trier coming from Sarasota. To date twenty-four fraternities will be represented at our Reunion. That's another guarantee that you will be meeting many of your old close friends. Impressive, too, is the number of non-fraternity men who have signed up. As for the various colleges the ME's have taken the lead followed in order by Arts, CE's and EE's. If you misplaced the questionnaire, the fellow working day and night on this is Jack Hazlewood, 801 Bulkley Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Let him hear from you. If you will advance ten bucks of the Reunion Dues for preliminary expenses we won't have to bail him out to get him to Ithaca on time. '33 AB—Mrs. Arthur O. Pember (MaryEunice Chisholm) is the mother of Arthur O. Pember, Jr., five. Her father is Charles F. Chisholm '84. The Pembers live at 1238 Third Street, Lakeview, Ore. '34 AB—Jerome C. Leonard is an analyst for the Federal Government in Washington, D.C.; lives at 3080 South Abingdon Street, Arlington 6, Va. '34 BS—Andrew J. Nichols received the Doctor of Public Administration at Harvard in March. His address is 6518 Williamsburg Boulevard, Falls Church, Va. '35 EE—Robert R. Sprole and Mrs. Sprole of 101 Homestead Road, Ithaca, have a daughter, born April 4. '35 BS, '45 PhD; '40, '41 BS—Their third child, William Frederick Warren, was born to George F. Warren, Jr. and Mrs. Warren (Ann Fusek) '40, February 16, just about the time that their new home at 1130 Cherry Lane, West Lafayette, Ind., was completed. Warren, son of Mrs. Mary Whitson Warren '05 and the late professor George F. Warren '03, Agricultural Economics, is associate professor of horticulture at Purdue. '36 BChem, '37 ChemE—Charles F. Boschen is chemical supervisor at the DuPont Chamber Works in Deepwater, N.J. He lives at 13 Maplewood Avenue, Penns Grove, N.J. '36 BS—Schuyler R. Hafely of 422'/2 Sycamore Avenue, Modesto, Cal., is a busy man. Besides maintaining his own landscape service, he is county landscape architect for Stanislaus County, Cal., and in addition finds time to conduct evening classes in home landscaping at Modesto Junior Col-
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lege. The public improvement program of Stanislaus County includes the appropriate landscaping of a half-million dollars of new county buildings and is also very interesting because of two other planting projects which are both novel and farsighted. The first of these includes improvement plantings in a number of new regional and neighborhood parks and also roadside "oases" where hot and weary travelers can stop and rest and eat their lunches. In such vital improvement, Hafely has the hearty support of the women's organizations of the county. The second project, for years, has been a dream that the farsighted county supervisors are now determined to realize. This calls for a more abundant use of native trees and shrubs and the raising of these by the county. In reporting on this, the Stockton (Cal.) Record quotes Hafely as follows: "There are many beautiful California native plants that will stand the drought of the summer and the cold of the winter of our area and yet give us beauty and shade at all times. I I am thinking of what our streets and other public properties will look like fifty to sixty years from now."—Professor Ralph W. Curtis '01, Ornamental Horticulture, Emeritus. '37 AE(ME);'39 AB—Harold F. DeWitί and Mrs. DeWitt (Isabel Whiton) '39 have moved from Auburn to 101 Colonial Ridge, Moorestown, N.J.; he is now an engineer with RCA Victor in Camden, N.J. A daughter, Victoria Louise, was born to them last June 12. Mrs. DeWitt is the daughter of Mrs. Walter H. Whiton (Avice Watt) '04. '37—James D. Ireland, owner and president of Peters Creek Coal Co., Summersville, W.Va., has been made a director of Cleveland Clifts Iron Co. '39 ME, '44 PhD—George F. Carrier has been appointed Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering and head of the department of mechanical engineering at Harvard. Son of Charles M. Carrier '16, he was instructor in Machine Design at Cornell in 1943-44; became assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1946 and professor in 1948. '39 AB, '42 MD—After serving as assistant attending anesthetist at the Albany Hospital and as instructor of anesthesiology in the Albany Medical College for three years, Dr. Charles M. Landmesser has been promoted to attending anesthetist at the Albany Hospital and assistant professor of anesthesiology in the Albany Medical College. Also, March 26, he was awarded certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. and Mrs. Landmesser live on Old Niskayuna Road, Loudonville; have three sons: John Frederick, five years old, Charles Watson, two years, and William Henry, two months. The childrens' grandparents are Charles F. Landmesser '06 and Mrs. Landmesser (Jane Cheney) '06. '39 BS—Sidney N. Phelps became manager of the dining car department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, April 1, with headquarters in Sunnyside Yard, Long Island City. He had been department food manager since January, 1949. He lives at 60 Crescent Lane, Roslyn Heights, L.I. '40, '41 BS; '41 BS—Robert T. E. Schuyler is with McGraw-Hill Book Co., 330 West Forty-second Street, New York City 18. He and Mrs. Schuyler (Evelyn Knee-
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land) '41 live on Homestead Road, Darien, Conn. '41 BEE—Sam K. Brown, Jr. of 2730 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington 7, D.C., married Katherine G. Ledbetter, an alumna of Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.G., and a teacher at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, March 29, in Washington. He is with the research and development board of the Secretary of Defense. '41, '42 ChemE—William O. Nicoll is production supervisor for Imperial Paper & Color Corp. in Glens Falls. He lives at 14 Arbor Drive in Glens Falls; is president of the Adirondack Cornell Club. '42 Men—Hey, '42! Don't forget June 6 and 7 is the biggest Ten-year Reunion that ever hit the Hill. Cards are still coming in and even now it looks like we are on the way towards setting an attendance record for Ten-year Reunions. If you did not receive a card notifying you of the big event, write in immediately for your reservation. Fred Gutterman writes from New York City that he is up to his ears in work but will be on hand with bells on; Doc George Banister is coming up from the big city; Craig Adair is taking time off from his assistant sales manager job with L. H. Park Co., to wander up; Jim Muth is coming from Silver Springs, Md., and is apparently prospering from the coat size which he has requested; Lynn Timmerman of the refreshment committee is attempting to round up a sizeable number of Classmates from the Ohio region to make sure that no beer goes to waste; the Cleveland gang, John Dingle, Phil Astry, John String, Bob Ochs, Herbie Orbison, and Howie Williams, who comprise our uniform .committee, are all planning to make the big excursion; Joe Parker advises us he is moving to Toronto, Canada, June 1, but will be in Ithaca to lend active support to the refreshment committee. Red Bouton who now lives in Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J., (how do you pronounce that Red?), advises he will be on deck; Jerry Asher from Leominster, Mass., was so excited about the baby girl that was born February 29 that he forgot to check any of the information requested on his card, but knowing Jerry, we can expect him to show. Of course, Bob Hughes and Jim Kraker, our Class officers, will be present to make the required twohour after-dinner speech. Many others have been heard from and all are looking forward to a very enjoyable week end. You will receive a letter with further information in the very near future, but in the meantime look up a baby sitter, mortgage the old homestead, get out your saddle shoes, and plan on being in Ithaca the first week end of June.—Dick Thomas, Reunion Chairman, 202-203 Trust Co. Bldg., Meadville, Pa. '42 BCE—Joseph L. Boyer has sold his "beautiful old house in Hastings and moved West"; he was transferred April 1 to the main office of Timber Structures in Portland, Ore. (PO Box 3782). He hopes to "uncover" some Cornellians in the Northwest. '42 BS—From Major John S. Chesebro,^ USA, 0472784, Hq. Co. 2d Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment, APO 209,' Care Postmaster, New York City: "I'd very much like to be back for the Ten-year Reunion this year, but am not due back to the States until the end of the summer. Put me down
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as saying 'hello' to everyone, will you please?" '42 BCE—Lawrence E. Peterson, Jr. and Mrs. Peterson (Evelyn K. Hollister) '43 are the parents of a son, Paul Russell, born January 26, 1952. Peterson is a consulting engineer. They live at 758 East Avenue, Milwaukee 11, Wis. '43 LLB—Daniel J. Loventhal, formerly deputy assistant attorney general of New York State and attorney and sales manager for RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., has opened a law office at 153 West Seventy-second Street, New York City. '43 BS—Alwin J. Ward and Mrs. Ward have three children: Mary Jean, who was four years old in January; Jeff, who was two in November; and David, who was one December 23. Ward is with Pillsbury Mills, 313, Snell Building, Fort Dodge, Iowa. '44 PhD—James R. Donnalley, Jr. was recently promoted to manager of manufacturing for the silicone products department of General Electric Co. at Waterford. He lives on Hedgewood Lane, RD 1, Schenectady. '44 BCE—Martin L. Gleich is starting to build the first forty-two houses of an 118house tract under the Defense Housing Act. His address is 655 Stork Street, San Diego 14, Cal. '44 BSinChemE; '44 BS—A daughter, Patricia Anne Kimple, was born April 6 to Burl A. Kimple and Mrs. Kimple (Frances Ward) '44 of 1043 Lancaster Avenue, Syracuse. '44 BME; '46, '45 BS—Louis C. Kraus and Mrs. Kraus (Shirley Husson) '46 are moving, May 1, into their new home at 1811 Jennings Street, Bethlehem, Pa. They have two sons: John Alan, born May 30, 1949; and Paul Louis, bora October 29, 1951. Kraus reports that two days after the birth of little Paul, a daughter, Karen, was born to Dr. Charles F. Hesselbach, Jr. '44 and Mrs. Hesselbach (Margaret Husson) '45, Mrs. Kraus's sister. The Hesselbachs also have four-year-old twins, Bruce and Robert. '44, '45 BS—Mrs. Robert F. Witter (Lynette Ward) lives at 304 University Park, Rochester 20, and has a son, Frank Robert, bom November 2, 1950. Her husband, Dr. Robert F. Witter, former research associate in the biochemical division of the Department of Food Science & Technology at the Geneva Experiment Station, is on the staff of the University of Rochester. '45 AB—Mrs. Thomas F. Ruck (Gloria Langan) of 108 Lookout Avenue, Charleroi, Pa., has a daughter, Carol Ann Ruck, born March 6. She writes: "We have been in Charleroi since last August when my husband was transferred to the Charleroi plant of Corning Glass Works, where he is supervisor of training. λVe call Carol our new 'trainee'." '45 AB—"That's Life" on the theatrical page of the April 11 issue of the New York Daily News noted that Estelle Loring, who has been heard as a singer in several Broadway musicals, would head the floor show that began at Casa Seville, Franklin Square, L.I., that night. Estelle Loring is the stage name of the student who was here as Mrs. Estelle Levenback Gunsberg. '45 BS—A son, Steven Edward Armstrong, was born February 18 to Mr. and
Mrs. Neil A. Armstrong (Phyllis Storm) of RD 1, Holland Patent. '45 BSinCE—N. Bruce Weir is a research engineer with Electric Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia, Pa. He married Mary Johnson, TWA hostess from Philadelphia, last July 21 and they now live at 9336 Annapolis Road, Philadelphia 14. '46 AM—Richard W. Lalor, assistant professor of English at Champlain College, Plattsburg, is one of three college teachers in this country granted an internship in general education at the University of Chicago for 1952-53. At Champlain, Lalor is also assistant to the dean of academic administration, secretary of the faculty, course chairman of American literature, and a member of the executive committee on freshman courses in arts, letters, and philosophy. '46 CE—Chief engineer with ForcumJames Co., Dyersburg, Tenn., is Edward H. Lannom. He is married and the father of Edward H. Lannom, Jr., two. The Lannoms live on Dawson Street, Dyersburg, Tenn. '46 AB—A daughter, Meredith Lee Teich, was bom October 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley W. Teich (Patricia Snow) of Peakham Road, Sudbury, Mass. '47 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Braverman (Paula Gordon) of 1815 Boulevard, Jersey City, N.J., have a son, Gordon Louis Braverman, born February 8. '47 LLB—Frank J. Horton has become a member of the Rochester law firm of Moser, Johnson & Reif, 47 South Fitzhugh Street. He lives at 4 Laurelton Road, Rochester 4. '47, '46 BS—Mrs. William A. Mitchell (Margaret Newell) of 1583 Wrenford Road, South Euclid 21, Ohio, has a daughter, Jane Dickson Mitchell, born December 13. '47 MS—Kenneth L. Robinson received the PhD at Harvard in March. His address is Birchmount Orchards, Route 2, Wenatchee, Wash. '47 AB—Michael Eric Hirschberg was born January 22 to Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Hirschberg (Jean Sullivan) of 21 Plainfield Road, Albertson, L.I. '48, '49 BChemE—Walter L. Brenholtz has been made field engineer of Blaw-Knox Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., and assigned to the supervision of construction and the start-up of several new plants in the Mid-west and Southwest. His address is 306 Biddle Avenue, Pittsburgh 21. '48 LLB—Ogden R. Brown has been admitted as a partner into the law firm of Brown, Kelly, Turner & Symons, which has offices in the M&T Building, Buffalo. '48 AB—Flora W. Fay, a student at Harvard Graduate School of Design, was married March 30 in Cambridge, Mass., to John W. Wade, a graduate of Harvard and now with the architectural firm of Perry, Shaw, Hepburn, Kehoe & Dean, Boston, Mass. She is the daughter of Dudley W. Fay '14 of 104 Corson Place, Ithaca. '48 AB—"Another daughter, Elizabeth Anne, born February 2, 1952, to go with Jean Marie, April 12, 1948, and Edward, Jr., November 8, 1949," writes Edward T. Moore of 16 Hamlin Street, Cortland. "Mother of this outfit is Charlotte Smith Moore '48." Moore is a life underwriter with Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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'48 BChemE—Hugh L. Myers and Mrs. Myers of 352 Lynn Road, Springfield, Pa., have a daughter, Cheryl Renee Myers, born February 2. Myers is with Sun Oil Co., Marcus Hook, Pa. 48, '49 BME—George I. Roshkind, a student at Harvard Business School, writes that he will marry Barbara Goldberg of New York City, May 31, get the MBusAd at Harvard, June 19, and report back to the US Army as a reserve officer, June 21. He may be addressed Care Rein, 140 Riverside Drive, New York City 24. '48 BSinAE—Pfc. Jose Safdeye is an * instructor at the Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. His address is Box 317, Co. B, T. O. S., Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. '48 BS—Harold A. Sweet of 6 Ellsworth Avenue, Batavia, was elected a director of the recently-organized New York State Yorkshire Breeders' Club. '49 BSinCE—Joseph S. Gottlieb lives in Schenley Apartments, 4000 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. He is assistant superintendent and sales representative of Pennsteel Corp., processors of industrial scrap iron and steel, and assistant secretary of Linda Coal Co. '47 MSA, '49 PhD; '46 BS—John R. Ha= vis joined the staff of the Inter-American Institute of Agriculture Sciences, Turrialba, Costa Rica, last fall. He and Mrs. Havis (Lois Hutchinson) '46 live in a small house, called a "casida," with coffee bushes shaded by inca trees behind it and many ornamental trees, a banana tree, and a papaya tree around it; across from which sugar cane is grown and where they can see a volcano, which emits smoke occasionally, from the front porch. Their neighbors to the left are British and their neighbors to the right are Peruvians. In a long letter to friends, they sent these household notes: "Kitchen work is increased here because of inconvenient kitchens and also because added precautions are necessary to preparation of food for sanitary reasons. All fruit has to be washed and fresh vegetables treated by soaking in iodine or potassium permanganate before they are safe to eat. All drinking water has to be boiled and dishes scalded. Canned foods, though available, are high. Frozen vegetables are not available. Beef, which is plentiful and inexpensive, is bought at the local market, where one watches it cut from one of several carcasses hanging from the ceiling. We are fortunate that butter and pasteurized milk are delivered daily by the Institute dairy. Oranges, bananas, grapefruit, and pineapple are, of course, plentiful and inexpensive." '49 MS—Elmer R. Holzapfel and Mrs. Holzapfel (Ethel Quinn) announce the birth of a son, Jon Quinn Holzapfel, November 24, 1951. They live at 9010 Kenton Avenue, Skokie, 111. '49 BS—Edward J. Kinbacher is studying for the PhD and is a graduate assistant in agronomy at the University of California, at Davis. He received the MS at Purdue last June. '49 BME—John E. Lamp lives at 3340 North Summit Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.; is a sales engineer with the Louis Allis Co. '49 AB—Lieutenant Bruce W. Mack of ^r 310 East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, has arrived at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.
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