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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ing in the early 20's. Preparing for a "prelim" after a twenty-five-year intermission was an experience that would have been painful if we'd been concerned about credits; but in our current frames of mind, it was nostalgia at its best. Ithaca is a delightful place in the summer. The Campus, the scenery, the lectures, concerts, and many other activities, the Library and the Faculty (which I never really got to know as an undergraduate engineer) proved far more relaxing and stimulating than we had anticipated. I recall that some years ago, the ALUMNI NEWS announced the
possibility of a short summer course for alumni. This idea was apparently discarded, but from our own experience I am sure that it would be a decided hit. I hope that it can be revived. The Author and Mrs. Reed—Here for the University Council meetings in October. Reed is president of Reed Rolled Thread Die Co. in Holden, Mass., inventor and manufacturer of machine tools. He received the ME in 1927; was a Varsity pole-vaulter; is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sphinx Head; was vice-president of the Cornell Club of New England and a member of the secondary school committee. He was vice-chairman of the Greater Cornell Fund campaign in the Worcester area. Their son is Howard B. Reed '55. C. Had ley Smith
Odyssey of an Alumnus BY A. BRADFORD REED '27 MRS. REED AND I like vacations that are different, and, in 1952, we were also looking for one that could be both long and inexpensive. We had just staged a wedding for our older daughter, so Mrs. Reed needed a rest, my pocketbook couldn't stand much more abuse, and we both wanted a change of scene with something to stimulate our thinking along new lines. I'd spent the summer of 1924 in Ithaca, working off an entrance condition, and ever since had carried a rosy dream of languid summer days on the Campus with lots of amusements and little real work to do. Mrs. Reed is interested in birds and painting, and for several years I've been trying to correct a deficiency in my knowledge of American history. Courses in these subjects appeared to be available, and all-in-all, we felt here was a vacation that met all our requirements. We didn't realize, however, how incongruous this idea might appear to others. On our first day in Ithaca, we ran into Froggy Pond '28, who was convulsed with the idea that "a damned en-
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gineer should be seeking at this late date to acquire a little culture." Then, when I registered for a course in Early New York State History with Mrs. Edith M. Fox '32, the University Archivist and Curator of the Collection of Regional History, she seemed slightly dazed that an industrialist would take six weeks off to inquire about living conditions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We learned later that as soon as I left her she phoned the Alumni Office to find if I was real or just another bogus Cornellian with a new dodge to get into her beloved collection and steal old autographs and stamps! Idyllic Summer at University Regardless of what others thought, we had a fine summer: one of the best I can recall. We lived at Willard Straight for far less than we would have spent at a resort hotel, and ate good meals at the University cafeterias at prices that were a constant source of amazement. Contrary to our early expectations, we became so absorbed in our courses that we worked far harder than I remember do-
Pursuit in New England An unexpected by-product of this vacation, that in many ways was more interesting than the vacation itself, got underway in January of this year. One morning, I found a letter on my desk from Mrs. Fox, my former professor, and now again in her regular position as University Archivist. Her opening sentence was, "I NEED YOUR HELP." The remainder of her letter, which was several pages long, can be boiled down to the following facts: Professor Burt Green Wilder, Zoology, an important member of the original Faculty and the last of that Faculty to retire, died in Boston in 1925, leaving nearly all of his property to Mrs. Frances Sharf, a nurse who had cared for him in his last years. Could I get a copy of the Will, to find out whether the Professor's papers were included in Mrs. Sharf's legacy? This was not difficult to do, and a photostat of the Will was soon forwarded to Mrs. Fox. Then came another letter asking if I would try to locate Mrs. Sharf. Mrs. Fox's latest information was that she lived in Fall River. This assignment looked interesting, so at the first opportunity I took a day off and went to Fall River. The telephone book contained no Sharfs, but a search through old directories in the Public Library revealed that the Sharfs had indeed lived there prior to 1941. Next, the City Clerk was appealed to, but he could not help. He suggested, however, that I try the Asses167
sor's Office. Here I found that a family who had shared a two-family house with the Sharfs still lived in town, and a call on them gave me my real first clue. This neighbor was able to tell me that the Sharfs had moved to Belmont, N.H., twelve years before; that Mr. Sharf had died about two years ago; and that Mrs. Sharf had been working as a nurse in the Laconia Hospital. I immediately set out for Laconia, 100 miles away, but a snowstorm forced me to turn back and postpone the trip to a later day. That week end, however, Mrs. Reed and I got to Laconia and, after some difficulty, located a filling-station operator who was able to tell us that Mrs. Sharf owned a farm back in the country, but that she was spending the winter with her married daughter in Providence. Success Crowns the Search We felt by this time that with all the moves the Sharfs had made, there was little likelihood that the papers would have been saved; but Mrs. Fox, to whom reports had been regularly made, urged us on and commissioned us to represent the University if the papers were found. Our interest was now thoroughly aroused, and on a stormy Sunday afternoon in February, we rang the bell of a modest apartment in Providence and asked the young lady who answered if Mrs. Sharf lived there and if we might come in. It was something of a problem to state our mission, when we were finally seated in their small living room with Mrs. Sharf, her daughter, son-in-law, two small grandsons, and a TV full of Hopalong Cassidy and inevitable gun duels. We found Mrs. Sharf a charming woman, however, and when, between pistol shots, we mentioned the word "Cornell," she knew at once what our mission would be and put us completely at ease. We then spent an exciting hour talking about Professor Wilder, his experiences at Cornell, and his friends on the Faculty. Mrs. Sharf had never been to Ithaca, but she has a remarkable memory and it was apparent that Dr. Wilder, who must have been a very difficult patient in his last days, had told her repeatedly about the University. I was kept on my toes trying to remember what I had read of Dr. Wilder, who had retired long before my time, and about the early history of Cornell. Much to our surprise, Mrs. Sharf had preserved all the papers, and though we did not press for an immediate answer to our invitation that they be donated to the University Archives, we did get the impression that the request would be sympathetically considered. As a final twist to our long chase, it developed that the illusive papers were stored in the closed-up farmhouse in New Hamp168
Makers Give Die-casting Machine—In the Foundry back of Sibley, a die-casting machine presented by Doehler-Jarvis Division of National Lead Co. for use by the School of Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering is inspected by (from left) Richard Parmenter '17, University Co-ordinator of Research; Frank J. Koegler, National Lead Co. vice-president and general manager of Doehler-Jarvis Division; Director Fred H. Rhodes, PhD '14, of the School; Assistant Dean of Engineering J. Eldred Hedrick; and Joseph A. Martino, National Lead Co. president. Machines of this type make castings in quantity for use in automobiles, aircraft, household appliances, and office equipment. Under the maker's program of cooperation with universities, of which Cornell is the fifth, they supply also the aluminum, zinc, and copper alloys from which to make castings and provide regular maintenance service and consultation for use of the machine. Professor Peter E. Kyle '33 supervises the Metallurgy work of the School. Clayton Smith, Photo Science
shire, and that it would be impossible to get to them until April or May, when retreating snows and mud would again make the roads passable. All of this was dutifully reported to Mrs. Fox, who was enthusiastic, saying she felt that the Wilder papers, next to those of Cornell and White, would be the most important in the Archives.
and this interesting project. Cornell offers its sons and daughters many opportunities for inspiration and pleasure after undergraduate days are over!
Return to Ithaca In due time the snow melted, the mud dried up, the papers were rescued and, on a fine week end in May, Mrs. Sharf, her daughter, Mrs. Reed, and I convoyed them to Ithaca. We were graciously received by President Malott, who thanked Mrs. Sharf on behalf of the University for her care of Dr. Wilder and for the preservation of his papers. Professor Howard B. Adelmann 5 2O, Dr. Wilder's current successor, showed us through the Department that Dr. Wilder formerly headed, with a special visit to the famous collection of human brains that Dr. Wilder started and which now includes his own. A luncheon at the Statler Club, as guests of Mrs. Fox, and a visit at the home of Professor Emeritus Albert H. Wright '04 and Mrs. Wright '09, who were pupils of Dr. Wilder's, concluded the week end
RESEARCH TRENDS is a new quarterly
Aeronautical Research report from the Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, of which Volume 1 Number 1, for Fall, 1953, has just appeared. Its first report, on "Research in Stalled Flight," is by Gifford Bull '42, project engineer in the flight research department of the Laboratory, who has the distinction of probably flying more hours in stalled flight than any other pilot. His findings since 1948 have come from research contracts of the Laboratory with the US Air Force. In the same issue, Maurice Kaushagen, assistant head of the physics department, explains "A Precision Flight Instrumentation System" which he has devised under contracts with the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Research Trends is published by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo 21. It lists other technical reports of the Laboratory. Cornell Alumni News
297 Children of Cornellians Enter University This Year CHILDREN and grandchildren of Cornellians who are known to have entered the University last spring and this fall number 291, according to the annual tabulation made by the Alumni Office. This is forty-eight more than the 249 found to have entered in 1952. It is about 9.6 per cent of the 3093 new students this year; last year, it was 8.7 per cent of those who entered. The information comes from that asked of all new students, to name their Cornell relatives. Some always neglect to do this, or leave out some, so additions to the lists are welcome to complete the University records and for publication. Twenty-one of those who entered this year reported Cornell parents and grandparents, and their University lineage is tabulated as "Three Cornell Generations." Last year, twenty-five new thirdgeneration Cornellians were found. Fourteen other entering students gave the names of alumni grandparents but not parents. Their names and those of their grandparents are Kathryn Cullings, Ernest B. Hammond ' 0 1 * ; Jean J. Freeman '56, Claude Durgan '08*; Robert E. Hoose, Arthur D. Hoose '10 and Mrs. Hoose (Edna Jenkins) '09*; Charles J. B. Macmillan, Charles J. Barr '93*; Sonia L. McConnell '56, Carl G. McConnell '15*; Ephraim R. McLean III, Edward Burns '03; Olga K. Osterholm, Leander A. Newman '08; Robert W. Page, Clinton Page '99*; Joan C. Pinckney '55, Harry M. Pinckney '09; John Reyna, Ysidro Reyna '97*; Christine Richards '55, Ellis L. Phillips '95; Sandra Shepard '55, Albert A. Lane ' 0 1 * ; Harold W. Talbot, Jr., Myron M. Crandall '89*; Peter B. Weeks, Edward Blair '05. These listings include only students who have entered the University in the calendar year 1953. They are Freshmen unless designated otherwise. Asterisks (*) denote alumni who are deceased and daggers (f) indicate step-parents.
Both Parents Cornellians Thirty-six of this year's new students reported double alumni parentage. Six of these are among the third-generation Cornellians; names of the other thirty are listed below with their fathers and mothers' names before marriage. Fortythree students of double Cornell parentage entered the University in 1952. PARENTS
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Bell, Raymond W. '20 William W., Grad Carol Curtis '21 Bonnett, Dr. Earl C. '18 Sara E. '54 Dr. Sara Froomess '23 Brown, Harold S. '28 Susan J., Grad Mary Fenner '28 Carr, Percy H., PhD '30 Robert H. S. Janet Noyes '29 November 15, 1953
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Clare, Stewart '32 Virginia Pettigrew '32 Anne B. '55 Collins, Edwin L. '24 Wilma Fernette '25 Edwin L., Jr., Grad Corbett, Thurston '26 Dorothy Reed '29 Lee T. Forgeng, William D. '30 Marguerite Mathie, AM '30 William D., Jr. Garrett, Philip C , Grad '26-7 Donald P. Mary T. Johnson '28 Gerken, Henry A. '25 Louise A. Elizabeth Vivarttas '25 Gibson, G. Harden '28 Philip H. '56 Barbara Neff '29 Gibson, H. James '30 Robert W. Mabel Austin '29 Gilbert, Edward S. '24* Dorothy M. Genevieve Hunt '25 Godwin, Ellery D. '29 Barbara S. Olive Hobarg '30 Hinman, E. Harold, PhD '30 Alan R. Katharine Fradenburgh '30 Kammerer, Granget L. '28 Henry G. Edna Schoonover '30 Knapp, Howard J. '29 George L. Florence Goodrich '27 Knowlton, Frank E. '25 Frederick F. Eva Reith '24 Lacy, James A. '28 Richard B. Ruth Barrett, AM '31 Manchester, Robert H. '23 Aletta E. Esther Ely '21 Merrell, Harold A. '26 Harold H. Charlotte Hopkins '25 Morse, Raymond C. '27 Raymond M. Lucille Armstrong '27 Newell, John M. '27 Elizabeth A. Hulda Goeller '30 Nitzberg, Frank '22 Louie Gilroy '35 Frances L.
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Parker, Charles E. '29 Isabel M. Korherr '32 Charles E., Jr. Rauh, George A. '24 Ysabel Muller '25 Robert A. Scudder, Fisk W. S. '38* Vida G. Walker '31 James F. Smith, Milton C. '32 Margaret Wilkinson '32 Milton C. Starr, John V., PhD '28 Rebecca Martin '27 Mary E. Steward, Frederick C , Grad '27-8 Anne Gordon, Grad '26-9 Frederick G. One Cornell Parent This year, 247 new students reported 244 fathers or mothers as alumni (three parents sent two children each). They accounted for 222 Cornell fathers and twenty-two Cornell mothers. Fifteen of the children are third-generation Cornellians. The other 232 appear below. CHILDREN
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Louis A. Abel, Louis H. '26* William E., Jr. Aherne, William E. '30 Alexander, Morris '33 Eugenie M. Allport, Hamilton '12 Walter F. Arend, Ralph W. '26 John G. Austin, Paul R., PhD '30 Theodore C. Peters, Herbert '24f J. S. Armour, Grad Babcock, Howard O. 14 Howard K., Grad Baier, Nathan H. '20 Henry G. Bailey, Rollin S. '26 Robert B. '56 Baker, Mrs. G. Robert, Jr. (Virginia Faddis) '28 Walter R. Beckwith, Raymond F. '28 Rodney F. Bennet, Robert H. '21 David S. Berger, Kenneth H. '26 Barbara A. Besemer, Martin C. '35 Shirley D. Bissantz, Edgar F. '24f Peter L. Newell Blair, John A. '28 Charles H. Blake, Thomas J. '11 Charles H. Blakely, Roger W., MS '24 Roger W., Jr. Blau, Dr. Albert '22 Eleanor M. Blauvelt, Arthur E. '26 Peter M. Bradley, George R., Jr. '31 George R. I l l
Three Cornell Generations GRANDPARENTS
Babcock, Fred '04* Bowen, George '73* Brane, Mrs. DeForest E. (Olive Olney) '01 Cook, Junius '93* Cornell, Ezra '87* Dean, Daniel J. '03 Goldberg, Samuel A. '14 Powell, George '85* Henry, Eugene '96 Hobbie, John A. '97 Ralph H. Bourne '04* Prussing, Rudolph E. '04f Jones, H. Roger '06
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Babcock, Monroe C. '30 Bowen, Kenneth H. '25 Brane, Dr. Charles M. '28
Bruce M. Babcock Charles K. Bowen Virginia O. Brane '55
Cook, William F. '25 Stagg, Norman G. '26f Crane, Robert B. '27* Almena Dean '30 Goldhaft, Tevis M. '35 Bryna Gilbert '38 Henry, Frederic T. '23 Henry, Guido R. '26 Hobbie, Thomas C. '25 Howe, Edward C , Jr. '28
Robert S. Cook Gail Cornell Donald D. Crane
Jones, Roger W. '28 Dorothy Heyl '29 Joyce, William, Jr. '27 Joyce, William '98* Kuntz, Wellington W. '97* Kuntz, David P. '26 Margaret Coppens '96 LaMont, Thomas E. '27 LaMont, George B. '98 Mary Snell '33 Leonard, W. R., PhD '34 Warren, Arthur '93* Elizabeth Warren, AM '28 McMillan, William D. '24 Rice, James E. '90* Ruth Rice '23 Nitchie, Charles D. '32 Nitchie, Charles C. '05 Sanford, Raymond P. '16 Sanford, Charles V. '87* Starche, Mrs. Christo G. Parrott, Mrs. Edward M. (Martha Parrott) '22 (Ruth Lee) '21f Watkins, Thomas D. '92* Watkins, Thomas D., Jr. '28
Linda A. Goldhaft Frederic T. Henry, Jr., Grad Guido R. Henry, Jr. Mary B. Hobbie Susan P. Howe Roger H. Jones Winifred Joyce David S. Kuntz George F. LaMont Ann R. Leonard Elsie R. McMillan '55 Charles D. Nitchie II Raymond P. Sanford, Jr. '56 Elini Starche Marylou Watkins '56
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Brinkley, Hugh M., Grad '15-'16f Charles H. McGee Brooke, Wilfred L. '26 John A. Bryk, Charles S. '22 Donald C , Grad Buckman, Samuel T. '26 Samuel T., Jr. Bullock, C. Kenneth '26 Martha A. Burgess, John P. '30 John E. Calloway, Robert W. '22 Shirley A. Carlos, Meneleo '24 Arturo R. Carr, Howard K. '34 Christine C. Cartright, Richard, AM '52f Maria M. Links Christina H. Links Chao, Yuen R. '14 Bella, Grad Clark, Daniel G. '29 Mary E. Cockcroft, Donald '21* James D. Cohn, George M. '25 Barry F. Corwin, Dr. Louis A. '19 Paul J. Cottrell, Caspar L., PhD '28 Thomas H. E. Covell, Abraham '16 Ruth G. Cowley, Raoul F. '21 Raoul A. Cox, Dr. Herbert M. '24 Robert M. Davis, Dr. Kenneth W. '34 Gerald L. de Castro, Anastacio F. '21 Jose M., Grad Dederick, Dr. Frederic V. ' 17 Robert G., Gr Houck, Philip E. '24*f John R. Dempsey Denhard, August A. '25 Lucy J. '55 De Ycaza, Rogelio E. '35 Rogelio R., Grad Dolloff, Richard C , MSEd. '50 Jean B., Grad. Durham, Frank J. '16 Carolyn F. Durea, Dr. Garrett D. '21 Cynthia A. Ebertz, Dr. Charles D. '35 Peter E. Edwards, Richard W. '28 Richard W., Jr. Eisenhart, Donald O. '23 Jay N. Elbert, Eli L. '34 Sarah R. Emptage, Gordon L. '28 Robert G. Espenscheid, Morris B., PhD '33 M. Sylva Failla, George '30 Stephen J. Fairbanks, Arthur L. '27 Carol L. Feledy, Mrs. C. F. (Mary Danielson) '29 Charles F. Felton, Mrs. William M. (Myrtle Uetz) '31 William M., Jr. Fenner, Mrs. J. Hubert (Helen Stevens) '23 Charles F. Field, Wendell E. '27 Joanne I. Fillius, Maurice W. '24 Carolyn A. Flint, Orin Q. '24 Marjorie L. Flynn, John E., PhD '29 Barbara A. Frey, William L. '25 Judith A. Gable, Lowell B. '08f John V. Kelly Gardner, Raymond H. '13 Robert L. Garman, Cameron G. '28 Harold W. Gilman, Robert L. '26 Joan Goldberg, Emil J. '21 David A. Good, Dr. Richard '29 Cecil R. Goodman, Benjamin S. '14 Henry A. Gorman, Neil A. '16 Jeffary A. Gormel, Bradley O. '31 Roger B. Gottlieb, Louis I. '28 Stephen S. Grandy, Clayton '17 Robert S. '56 Greene, Kingsley W. '27 Howard L. Greenleaf, Abbott H. '23 Emmett C. Haire, Elwyn D. '31 Rosamonde A. Hall, George E. '26 Robert B. Hand, David B., PhD '30 Clifford W. '54 Sylvia M., Grad Hanks, Elton K. '26 Kenneth P., Grad Hanselman, Edwin C. '27 David L. Harland, Edgar N., Grad '33 Edgar N., Jr. Haug, Waldemar H. '24 Peter T. Heasley, Walter C , Jr. '30 Diane W. Hendee, Edgar A. '33 Edgar A., Jr. Herkner, George W. '27 George W., Jr. Hill, Maury '17 Jane M. Hill, Lemuel L., PhD '41* Norman A. Hinchliff, Edward C. '26* Edward C. Hoffman, Edward J. '21 Margaret A. Holloway, John B. '29 Schuyler V. Hopkins, George T. '31 Duncan T. Howard, Frank L., Gr '25-8 Dorothy F. '56 Howes, Raymond F. '24 Bradford R. Howlett, Kenneth '27* Kenneth D. Hugo, Francis M. '97* Francis G., Grad Hurley, Mrs. Patrick J. (Maud Miller) '27 James R. Jacobson, Abraham A. '22* Suzanne, Grad Jeffres, Lawrence W. '23 Joyce M.
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Keating, Thomas F. '15 Thomas F., Jr. Keeffe, Arthur J. '24 Stephen D. Keller, Robert D. '30 Robert D., Jr. Kenyon, Walter B. '27 Alice M. Kirk, J. Stanley, PhD '31 Edward S. Kline, Mrs. Nelson S. (Rose Beckenstein) '23 Nelson S., Jr. Kneen, Ferris P. '29 Phillip H. Knight, Lester B. '29 Charles F. Kohm, Raymond A. '24 Raymond A., Jr. Lamb, Gilbert B. '27 Gilbert K. Lerner, Morris '25 Robert G. Levine, Herbert W. '28 Stephen W. Linehan, Michael D. '25 Michael D., Jr. Logan, Dr. Victor W. '27 Jonathan MacBeth, Donald D. '25 Thomas G. Maclay, Donald E. '17 John C. II Mallery. Roger H. '19 Roger H., Jr., Grad Maurer, Stewart A. '31 Stewart A., Jr. Maw, William A., Grad '22-3 Elizabeth J., Grad McCartney, Mrs. Joseph W. (Ida Hungerford) '27 Alan N. McCormick, Mrs. Francis P. (Mildred Aeschbach) '22 Mildred M. Mcllroy, Malcolm S. '23 Nancy W. McLaughlin, Dr. Robert R. M. '26 Robert R. '55 McMillan, William B. '22 Sewell L. A. Meagher, Mrs. Raymond E. (Florence Coupe) '19 Raymond E., Jr. Meaker, Arthur L. '27 Eleanor R. Virginia A. Meredith, Mrs. John H. (Mildred McFarland) '27 Jane E. Merz, Mrs. Alfred R. (Virginia Willits) '26 Joy J. Milhorat, Dr. Adolph T. '28 Thomas H. Miller, Carleton F. '14* Mary C , Grad Moore, Marion W. '20 William S. Mortola, Alexis J. '27 Sandra E. Murray, Earl W. '22 Robert B. '56 Neill, Edward E. '19 Mary C. Nelson, Mrs. Carlton L. (Irene Aldrich) '27 Marjorie L. Neuwirth, Isaac '14 S. Edward Oboza, Alfonso G. '22 Alfonso I. O'Brien, Henry L. '21 William J. Oehrlein, George J. '23 George J., Jr. Osborne, Paul V. '28 Patricia A. Otis, Philip S. '23 Philip S., Jr. Paddock, Dr. Arthur J. '21 William C. Paetow, Herman '12* Herman E. Palmer, Hoke S. '25* Daniel H. Palmer, Benjamin H. '23 Ray O. Parker, Mrs. Malcolm S. (Sara Mazza) '29 Mary A. Patterson, Ward S. '26* Albert A. Perlman, Sol '23 Alan P. Perregaux, Edmond A. '22 Edmond A., Jr. Peterson, Carl W. '20 Carl W., Jr., Grad Petrillo, William S. '25 Adele M. Pew, Thomas W. '26 Antonia Pietsch, Walter R. '24 Walter G. Pinkney, Charles L. '34 Charles E. Pirone, Pascal P. '29 Thomas P. Pone, Edwin K. '32 Edwin K., Jr. Post, George B. '18 John J. Pulver, Stanley '26 John S. Quillinan, Francis J. '24 John T. Quinn, George E. '23 Elizabeth M. Quinones, Salvador '21 Salvador, Jr., Grad Rapp, Paul E. '26 John P. Reusswig, Theodore F. '26 Judith C. Robinson, Ward S. '23 Van Ness D. Roeding, George C , Jr. '26 Bruce B. Rose, Clifford C. '12 Sally A. Rosenthal, Dr. Harold C. '25 Erik A. Sagal, Mark '21 Matthew W. Sanborn, Franklyn H. '06* George A., Grad Sarna, Mrs. Philip (Augusta Wolf) '22 John L. Scanlan, Joseph M. '26 Walter G. Schickel, Norbert H. '09 Louis E. '56 Schoonmaker, John L. '24 George D. Schroder, Andrew J. II '27 Andrew J. I l l Schumacher, F. William '30 William J.
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Seiler, Lewis P. '28 John C. Shapleigh, William C , Jr. '28 William M. Shapley, S. Reuben '28 S. Philip Singer, Herbert T. '27 Donald L. Soloway, Dr. David '26 Roger D. Speidel, William H. '16 William C. Spurney, Felix E. '23 Peter L. Steinbrenner, Julius F. '16 Elsa L. Steinmann, Edwin O. '24 Elinor M. Stevens, Mrs. Bernard (Esther Teich) '35 Ann Stewart, Mrs. W. Denning (Margaret Thorp) '12 Edwin C. '55 Stiles, Jared W. '29 Edward H. Sullivan, William L. '19* Francis P. Swift, Freeman R. '21 Hallock F. Tarbell, J. Harold, Grad '31-2f James V. Tarr, Dr. Leonard '26 Michael C. Taussig, Richard S. '24 Peter R., Grad Teeter, Lowell H. '18 Jon L. Terrazas, Frederico '16 Enrique G. Thomas, Robert M. '21 Robert C. Toan, Carlos J. '10 Margaret A. Tompkins, L. Alva '24 Mary A. Torbert, J. Guy '22 Joann M. Tregurtha, James D. '18 Paul R. Tuthill, John B. '32 Sally A. Tyler, John M. '27 Jon M., Jr. Uhl, Mrs. George F. (Bernice Bower) '23 Robert F. Unterman, Mrs. Benjamin (Lillian Terr) '29 Mara C. Vail, Carl W. '23 Carl W., Jr. Van Horn, Mrs. Dallas M. (Ruth Newman) '21 John M. Vant, Edgar H. '13 Edgar H., Jr. Wainger, Bertrand M. '25 Stephen Walinsky, Louis J. '29 Adam Walsh, Alexander H., Jr. '27 Alexander H. I l l Walter, Clyde B. '35 Clair E. Waters, Mrs. Charles R. (Grace Huntington) '27 Jeanne H. Weber, Richard E. '18 Susan A. Wedell, Carl F. '24 Jane Weiss, Henry '29 Richard S. Weiss, Milton '23 Stephen H. Whitaker, John O. '31 John O., Jr. White, Harvey E., PhD '29 Donald H., Grad White, Robert W. '15 Philip W. Whitney, Charles T. '30 Clarence C. Willard, Neil M. '18 Ethel R. Wilson, Dr. Harold A. '22 Joan A. Winkelstein Lawrence B. '29 Alan Wood, Franklin S. '23 Harmin V. Woodworth, Dr. Lemuel W. '29 Donald D. Zippin, Mrs. Leo (Frances Levinson) '29 Nina Zuehlke, Harold B. '29 Richard W. '56 Zurich, David W. '14 Paula M.
Savages Entertain SAVAGE CLUB of Ithaca entertained Homecoming alumni and others from Campus and town with two performances in Bailey Hall, October 16 and 17. As usually titled backwards, this "Niatretne Segavas" was again a talent-meeting on the stage, with unexpectedness and variety made the most of by the Club president^, Professor Edward H. Sargent, Jr. '39, Industrial & Labor Relations. Among the many and varied acts which he called the Brother Savages to perform, perhaps the most novel was a quartet of Allan H. Treman '21, George H. Butts '25, K. Scott Edwards, Jr. '45, and David E. Perlman '56 playing a "Dragnet" arrangement of "Drink to Me Only" on instruments contrived by
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Edwards from a cigar box, washtub, dishpan, and bedpan. In contrast, music was contributed by a string quartet, by the perennial Alfred F. Sulla, Jr. '29 with his banjo, and by Robert W. Benzinger '52 at the piano and Dwight E. Vicks, Jr. '54 with his trumpet. Edwards brought back his popular demonstration of verbal punctuation, and J. Duncan Sells '49 was soloist in the show's closing numbers of the classic "Toast to Heidelbaum" and the "Alumni Song." Alumni Secretary R. Selden Brewer '40 was chairman of the show committee and the director was Joseph A. Short, production manager of the University radio station, WHGU.
Cornell's Buried Treasure BY PROFESSOR GEORGE H. HEALEY, P H D '47, ENGLISH
his own pocket. That is the Library we brary is the wonder have today; that is the structure I am and the despair of talking about. Mr. Sage was properly Cornell. I t is an foresighted. For Cornell's 85,000 voloverwhelming para- umes, he built a house to hold 475,000 dox. It is our great volumes. He calculated, and he anglory; and our great nounced publicly, that his buildingembarrassment. It excites universal rev- would be adequate for just twenty-five erence; and universal scorn. It places us years. And his calculation was exactly among the half-dozen most distin- right. The capacity he planned was guished universities in the land; it also reached in precisely twenty-five years, places us in academic company of quite 1916. When the Library opened, Cora different kind. How are such extreme nell had 1300 students; it has almost views possible? It is of course because 10,000 now. He calculated staff room by "Library" one means two separate on the basis of 15,000 new books a year; things: a collection of books; and a last year, we added 40,000! In 1889, Loblaw Scholarship building. world book production was 75,000 volumes; last year, it was 250,000! In 1889, Cornell's Library — its collection of THIS YEAR'S Loblaw Scholarship for a student entering any College or School books—is a cultural treasure, a national the geographical interests of the Uniof the University was awarded to Rob- resource of the very first magnitude. versity were limited; today they are ert F. Kreinheder of Buffalo, Freshman Cornell's Library — its building — is a world-wide. And of course, Henry Sage in Arts & Sciences. Loblaw grocery hopelessly out-dated anomaly, ineffi- never designed his Library to perform chain, which operates stores in upstate cient, discouraging, and occasionally the prodigious task of circulating books New York and neighboring Pennsyl- maddening. It has long since failed to for home use by students. That unthinkvania, several years ago established the perform fully its great mission to the able heresy came only after years of scholarship at Cornell of $500 a year for University. It is a half-century past its stormy Faculty debate, and over the the entire undergraduate course, princi- prime. It is a quarter-century past its powerful opposition of the real Founder pally for its employees and their chil- proper retirement. To be sure, for many of the Library, Andrew D. White. And dren. of us, it is beloved and venerable; but it when the gates of general circulation is very old, and very cranky, and very were opened, the resulting deluge swamped the circulation system, which hard to live with! Lawyers Meet Here No one would be reluctant to see Cor- has never yet been bailed out. The reANNUAL MEETING of the Federation of nell judged by the quality of its collec- sulting short tempers and profane outBar Associations of the Sixth Judicial tion of books. But no one would be con- bursts are now a half-century old. District brought many Cornellians to tent to see Cornell, or its collection of Now mind you, none of this is the Myron Taylor Hall, September 12. Uni- books, judged by the quality of the fault of Henry Sage. His was a noble versity Attorney Allan H. Treman '21, building in which lies Cornell's treasure gift, nobly prompted. But he designed outgoing president, presided at the —in some senses, its very spirit—stifled, his Library to become obsolete in 1916, morning session, which featured a talk strangled, and strait-jacketed. The and, like its meticulous donor, it kept by Franklin R. Brown '07, president of building, in both meanings of the state- its engagement promptly. the New York State Bar Association, on merit, is unjust to The first in an "Relationships and Activities of the the books it conunending series of New York State Bar Association"; a tains. In that fact c r i s e s c a m e as movie, "Living under Law," with pre- lies the great disearly as 1904; at liminary remarks by John E. Berry '39, parity. A most disthat point, the Liexecutive assistant, State Bar Associa- tinguished visitor brarian still had tion ; and a discussion of the legal prob- from a great, rival room for books, lems of farmers by Professors Van B. Library recently but to utilize that Hart '16 and Stanley W. Warren '29, said it out loud: room he had to Farm Management, and Robert S. "The impression abandon systemSmith '42, Extension Service. Greetings is inescapable," atic classification; were extended by Tompkins County said he, "that the an inconsistency Judge Norman G. Stagg '26 and Dean that has grown for [Library has] not Robert S. Stevens of the Law School. kept pace with forty-nine years Professor Lewis W. Morse '28, Law other aspects of and is now almost School librarian, was in charge of tours the University's intolerable. Then of the School. came the great development. In Fiske bequests, deWilliam F. Santry '02, former Su- c h a n g i n g these m anding their c o n d i t i o n s , no preme Court justice now serving as offiown s e p a r a t e cial referee, presided at the afternoon half-way measures q u a r t e r s , and session. Armand L. Adams '31 made a will suffice . . . ." In 1889, Henry PROFESSOR HEALEY gave this graphic thence began the report as chairman of the committee to collaborate with other Bar associations. Sage, hard-head- summary of the plight of the Library at the wearisome and John M. Keane '41 of Binghamton was ed, devoted, and annual meeting of the University Council, h e a r t - b r e a k i n g October 2. He has succeeded the late Proelected treasurer of the district organi- loyal, swore that fessor Leslie N. Broughton, PhD '11, as process of throwzation. L. Nelson Simmons '12 was J e n n i e s h o u l d honorary curator of the Library's famous i n g o v e r b o a r d chairman of the arrangements commit- have her Library; William Wordsworth Collection, given and some part of the he built it out of tee for the annual meeting. increased by Trustee Victor Emanuel '19. Library to make November 15, 1953
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room for more shelves. In 1916, the building was full. In 1920, it was inconveniently full. In 1924, it was outrageously full. In that year the architects were summoned. They came ten years late, but they brought drawings, and talk, and hope, but nothing happened; and during the whole intervening twenty-nine years of more drawings, and more talk, and more hope, nothing ever happened, except that in 1937 the Buildings & Grounds Department filled in the southwest corner with a new stack. That was, of course, no solution; it was a desperate gesture intended only to buy time. Time ran out in 1945. Then, the very seminar rooms were surrendered. And then the great Collection itself was broken into. Thousands and thousands and thousands of volumes were removed, into storage. Not rubbish, you understand; there is almost none of that in a research Library. Not surplus. Not duplicates. But a useful, valuable quantity of our holdings. And no trivial part either, but a full 150,000 volumes: far more than our total possessions when Henry Sage opened the doors of his building! All the emergency measures taken since 1904 have been stop-gaps. They offer no real remedy against the slow, quiet, undramatic, almost invisible malaise that is costing us not so much anything that we have and can see vanish, but rather three things that we greatly want to have: rare books, the best scholars, the most promising students. For when the fastidious book-collector turns benefactor, he looks for a fastidious Library. And collections beget collections. And great collections attract scholars. And scholars attract other scholars. And fine scholars, be it remembered, attract fine students. And fine students, I take it, is what Cornell is chiefly about. Our Library, then, by its own very definition, has been obsolete since 1916. The challenge of that year has yet to be met. Over the world in that year, there were other challenges, and I cannot resist telling you how one of them got met; got met in a way that must have brought a ripple of pure mirth to the venerable Andrew D. White. For this is a story of Berlin, which he loved, and the British Government, about which he sometimes entertained reservations. In 1916, the Royal Family of Britain, deep in the war against Germany, had become sorely embarrassed about its own family title. It hardly seemed proper that the English King should bear a family name so utterly German as SaxeCoburg-und-Gotha. Their old name, they determined, would have to go. And it did so. The richly Teutonic Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha was changed-to the patriotically English name of Windsor. And Windsor it is, of course, to this day. 172
I don't suppose anyone quite expected the Germans to retaliate, or even saw how they could. But they did, and delightfully. For within a few days, the principal theater in Berlin, then in the midst of its Shakespeare season, blandly advertised that its forthcoming production was to be: "William Shakespeare's Famous Comedy The Merry Wives of S axe-Coburg-und-Gotha.''
Professor Rice '90 Dies PROFESSOR JAMES E. RICE '90, Poultry Husbandry, Emeritus, died October 25 in Miami, Fla., where he had made his home for some years at 540 Northeast Sixty-second Street. He was eighty-eight and had been blind for the last four or five years. Considered the "father" of the modern poultry industry and possibly the best known American poultryman in the world, Professor Rice was the first professor of poultry husbandry in America and head of the first college poultry department in the country. A native of Aurora, 111., he entered the College of Agriculture in 1886, immediately organized a cooperative student boarding club, and later kept the first experimental flock of chickens in any American college. After graduation, he remained at the University for a year as assistant to Dean Isaac P. Roberts. During that time, he taught the first course in poultry husbandry in the country. The next eleven years he spent farming at Yorktown and giving more than a thousand talks on Farmers' Institute programs. In 1903, at the request of Dean Liberty Hyde Bailey, he returned as assistant professor of Poultry Husbandry, the first position of its kind to be established anywhere. Two years later, he was made
professor and head of the new Poultry Department, in which position he remained until he retired in 1934. By his pioneer teaching at the University and the persistence of his research, Professor Rice did more than any other man to establish poultry breeding on a scientific and business-like foundation. He originated the idea that hens could be judged for egg production by their external physical characteristics, and that this could be made the basis for worth-while selection and improvement programs. His interest in the matter resulted in the Poultry Judging and Breeding School held at Cornell in 1918, and which has proved so valuable that it has been held every year since. He was also the originator of such noted organizations as the World Poultry Science Association, the Northeastern Poultry Producers' Council, and the Poultry Science Association. He was chairman of the US committee at the first World Poultry Congress in 1921 and president of the World Poultry Congress from 1934-48. He was the co-author of two textbooks and editor of Poultry Science Series published by John Wiley & Sons. Rice Hall bears his name, and the James E. Rice Memorial Poultry Library in Mann Library of the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics was created in his honor with funds raised by the poultry industry, friends, and former students. He established the Rice Public Debate Stage, the Elsie Van Buren Rice Home Economics Public Speech Stage, and the Louise E. Rice New York State 4-H Poultry Club Foundation. He was secretary of his Class, a member of Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, and Ho-Nun-De-Kah. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Louise Dawley Rice; two sons, James E. Rice, Jr. '30 and John V. Rice '32; three daughters, Mrs. William D. McMillan (Ruth Rice) '23, Mrs. Daniel A. Paddock (Alice Rice) '34, and Mrs. Cyrus W. Riley (Elizabeth Rice) '36. He was also the father of the late Paul K. Rice '35.
Student List Ready in the University this year appeared in less than a month from registration day and at once became a best-seller on Campus and College Town newsstands. The considerable task of correctly listing and printing the name, College, Class, and Ithaca address and phone number of each of the 9436 students here was accomplished under direction of John Warner, production director of the University Press. This year's book contains again the students' home towns, omitted for several years past and most welcome to many users who need that identification. Handy, too, are the addresses and teleDIRECTORY OF STUDENTS
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phone numbers of about 150 student organizations, besides fraternities and sororities, which have permanent headquarters, a keyed map of the Campus., and the year's University Calendar on the back cover. The Directory is sold at fifty cents by Cornell University Official Publication, Day Hall, Ithaca. The Directory of Staff for this year is scheduled to appear soon.
Appreciation of Treman '09 I think that Cornell University has suffered a most severe as well as sad loss in the death of Mr. Robert E. Treman '09, a life-long resident of Ithaca and a Trustee of the University since 1931. Except for intimates, I think very few people know of the significance of his contribution to Cornell, which also applies to the Treman family during a good part of the history of Cornell. Bob Treman was not only a loyal alumnus, but, more than any other person I personally have known, he worked to keep up the interest of alumni everywhere. I well remember his seeing me when he was raising the money for the First World War Memorial. Although I had not known Bob during my days as an undergraduate, his Class having been before mine, he personally talked to me about this Memorial, which not only caused me to contribute thereto, but intensified my interest in Cornell to such an extent that it has continued to play a most important part in my life. As nearly as I can recall, Bob raised the money for this Memorial almost singlehanded. He was always doing projects for Cornell, including Moakley House and the first fund in honor of the late H. E. Babcock, who was Chairman of the Board of Trustees, this fund being raised during Mr. Babcock's lifetime, and which is now incorporated in the H. E. Babcock Memorial Professorship of Food Economics in the School of Nutrition, and the research fund which is a part thereof. This letter is already too long, so I will not attempt to enumerate the many other causes Bob espoused in behalf of Cornell, but I want to add one more thing: Bob and Carolyn Treman for many, many years extended their hospitality not only to the Trustees on their visits to Cornell, but to hundreds of others who were interested in the University, thereby serving to bring them even closer to their Alma Mater. His influence was great, and he will be sorely missed.—VICTOR EMANUEL '19 EDITOR :
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Now In My Time! CORNELL, TOO, has its traditions; but the only tradition that has survived from the start and seems likely to endure through the ages is the tradition that it's silly to use pulmotors and stimulants to keep a moribund tradition alive, once it has ceased to satisfy undergraduate desires. One by one, the sacred traditions of another day have gone the way of the panthers and the timber-wolves hereabouts. The cider raids, the mud rushes, and the disorders of the Freshman Banquet have departed from the knowledge of young people and almost from the memories of old ones. Cap-burnings and Senior singing survive, but just barely. The most difficult task of the committee in charge has become to get anybody to participate, or even attend. So far, the passing of such institutions has occasioned no lasting grief and no more than a gasp of astonishment in a handful of the more sentimental among the aged who recall that all these things were once regarded as important. But now comes news of a demise that is likely to strike home to many a dowager and pantaloon: the Junior Promendae lies under sentence of death at the hands of the Student Council. Once a goldmine, it's been committing the unforgivable sin of losing money. True, a rehearing has been granted and it is not unlikely that the sentence may be modified, but it's obvious that anything along those lines will be no more than a temporary stay of execution. Already Junior Week had become the Junior Week End and the Prom the Junior Week End Dance! Whatever now emerges from the wreck of ancient institutions can be no more than the brief appearance of a ghost which has not yet found a satisfactory place to settle down. A new tradition, and a nice one not wholly unrelated to Junior Week and the Junior Promenade, has become the annual listing in this paper of those among the incoming Freshmen who have a Cornell background, together with their genealogical charts as in any well-managed studbook: those who possess one or more parents, grandparents, and now greatgrandparents, who preceded these on the voyage to gaunt and rocky Ithaca. Your historian annually studies that list with the closest scrutiny, striving to connect some otherwise-meaning-
less newcomer with his or her progenitors and sometimes with amusing discoveries. It gives a fledgling an entirely new significance when you recall that at the Junior Prom of 1903, you danced with his or her grandmother, or anyway hung around in the hope of getting a "blind extra." And it's that sort of thing which distinguishes the passing of Junior Week from the unlamented demise of cider-raids and mud-rushes. The latter concern only the current crop of students; the other perhaps colors the very existence of some members of the court which has now pressed the hemlock cup to the pallid lips of the Junior Promenade. In view of what has happened and is now happening, one is permitted to speculate on how many on this year's list of Cornell Freshmen would have been here, or anywhere, if Grandmother hadn't met Grandfather when she came to Ithaca for the Junior Prom of another era, when it was danced at Wilgus Hall or the Old Armory. There's that side to it, of course, unseen by the Freshmen or the Student Council, and it's a side that sticks in the minds of Campus-dwellers. But even the Campus-dwellers who have watched the trends will not too deeply mourn the passing of the Cornell tradition which once was Junior Week; was once a five-day group of individual houseparties, between terms, that had time for sleighrides and coasting and a little sleep; which amalgamated each day for concerts and ice carnivals and Masque performances and finally consolidated on Friday night in one big, concluding dance which was the Junior Promenade. The Campusdwellers who have watched events have realized that Junior Week has been dying on the vine for some years. They would admit, however reluctantly, that the Student Council was probably well advised in rooting it out and waiting for something else more in key with student desires to come up to take its place. But nothing will ever take its place in the minds and memories of many grandmothers, and now perhaps a few great-grandmothers, who still cherish in some locked cabinet a faded dance card and a pair of long yellow gloves that once were white, worn at a chain of events which led to the appearance of some name upon this year's list of Cornell Freshmen!
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Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock—Partners in science, as in life, by all revered as Scholars, Teachers, Writers, and dear to many a student generation by reason of their open home and helpful hearts . . ."
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Autobiography by Professor Anna Botsford Comstock '85. Edited by Professors Glenn W. Herrick '96 and Ruby Green Smith, PhD '14. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca. 1953. xiii + 286 pages, $4.50. It is most fitting that this life story of the Comstocks, which the author finished a week before her death and which appears thirty years later, should have been edited by Professor Herrick of Entomology and Professor Smith of the Extension Service, and published by the book enterprise which the Comstoeks started and gave to the University. For it was Professor John H. Comstock '74 who had built behind their Campus home the first Insectary in the world in which to study insects on living plants, and coined the name for it; and who attained world-wide fame as an entomologist and teacher of scientists. And it was Mrs. Comstock, first woman professor in the University, who helped to start the Extension Service as a lecturer in the old Farmers' Institutes and was partly responsible for bringing Martha Van Rensselaer as an Extension worker and to develop the College of Home Economics. Her early teaching of Nature Study; his summer courses in Entomology which were the forerunners of the University Summer Session; her learning the art of wood engraving to illustrate her husband's books and which brought wide recognition for the beauty of her work; their many books, together and separately, many of which continue as the leaders today; all these things and much more of the remarkable accomplishments of these great Cornellians are in this modest book. But it is also full of the real friendliness and joy of their early Campus home, of their devotion to each other, to their work, and to the students they trained to go on to their own successes. It is an intimate record of two dedicated teachers who helped many and took joy in doing so, and a charming picture of the early days of the University. No brief review can even summarize the innumerable contributions, here and elsewhere, which came from these two busy and productive lives. Mrs. Comstock's gentle story will bring new inspiration and pride to any reader. Fittingly indeed, the editors of the 1929 Cornellian dedicated their book: "To John 174
visions is forecast for this year and something more than $200,000 deficit is expected in 1954-55. To investigate possibilities of increasing scholarships and other grants to students, the President has appointed a committee of Provost Forrest F. Hill, PhD '30, Controller Paul L. McKeegan, Assistant Treasurer Ralph A. Miller, Dean of Men Frank C. Baldwin '22, Scholarships Secretary David B. Williams '43, and Director of Admissions Herbert H. Williams '25. It is reported that last year the University awarded 919 endowed scholarships totaling $612,523, supplementing 1025 State scholarships totaling $357,725. Loans were granted to fifty-one women and 874 men. 621 women earned room and board and 2615 men earned $432,174 from part-time jobs.
TUITION INCREASE of $50 a year for the endowed Colleges in Ithaca and increase of $15 a year in student fees for all Ithaca divisions were authorized by the Board of Trustees at its fall meeting, to take effect next July 1. Tuition cost will increase from $700 to $750 a year in Architecture, Arts & Sciences, Business & Public Administration, Engineering, Hotel Administration, Division of Unclassified Students, Law, Raise Other Fees and the Graduate School, except that The Trustees also instituted an appligraduate students concentrating their cation fee of $5 to be paid by all applistudies in any of the State-supported di- cants for admission, effective immedivisions will not be increased. College and ately. Director Williams estimates the University general fee will now range cost to the University of processing apfrom $70 a year in the endowed divisions plications at approximately $14 each. and School of Nutrition to $101 a year Last June, the Trustees authorized an in the Veterinary College. This fee is ap- increase in the registration fee for new plied toward costs of the Library, Clinic undergraduates from $30 to $45, effec& Infirmary, and Willard Straight Hall; tive next fall. This covers costs of mapays part of the extra cost of laboratory triculation and the former graduation courses and for administrative services; fee of $10 and provides a fund for unand supports Physical Education courses dergraduate and alumni Class activities, and some undergraduate activities allo- including three years of the ALUMNI cated by the Student Council. NEWS to all members, starting with the Tuition in the State Colleges of Agri- Class of '58. culture, Home Economics, Veterinary, and School of Industrial & Labor Relations is free to residents of New York and Seedmen Honor Alumnus stays at $300 a year for others and there is no change in the tuition of the School N E W YORK Foundation Seed Stock Coof Nutrition, Summer Session, or the operative, at its annual meeting, OctoMedical College and School of Nursing ber 19, in Statler Hall, elected Professor in New York. The last tuition increase Carl C. Lowe, PhD '52, Plant Breeding, was in September, 1952. secretary; re-elected Joseph W. Robson President Deane W. Malott notes that '18 of Hall, treasurer; and named Orincreases are made necessary by continu- son Robson '20 of Hall a director. Joing rise in operating costs. A deficit of seph Robson was one of two persons more than $600,000 for the endowed di- honored as the most valuable members of the cooperative. He was instrumental in its establishment in 1947. Professor Carl E. F. Guterman, PhD '30, Director of the University Agricultural Experiment Station, gave the principal address.
Watermargin Lectures to bring outstandingspeakers in the field of intergroup relations to the Campus has been established by Watermargin, Inc., educational group that operates an inter-racial, inter-religious living unit at the University. The Fund now amounts to $1100, profits from a Marian Anderson concert which Watermargin sponsored last spring, and will be added to from time to time. The Watermargin UniverLECTURE FUND
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sity Lecture Series will present one speaker each year for as long as the Fund lasts. The Faculty committee on lectures will administer the Fund, aided by Watermargin suggestions, manpower, and facilities. A Watermargin resolution specifies that the speakers must be persons "who have by their skill, knowledge, artistic ability, profession or position demonstrated that 'All Men are Brothers,5 the ideal for which Watermargin stands."
Club Federation Meets of Cornell Men's Clubs annual meeting in Ithaca, October 17, brought seventy delegates from thirtyeight Clubs in fifteen States. They spent the morning of Alumni Homecoming Day in Statler Hall auditorium, where much of the session was devoted to lively discussion of Cornell Club programs and problems. A panel of experts to answer questions was composed of George N. Brown '08, president of the Cornell Club of Essex County, N.J.; Federation President Milton G. Dexter '24, New England; Robert W. Storandt '40, Associate Director of Admissions; Lawrence R. Martin '31, president of the Cornell Club of Rochester; Past Federation President Alfred M. Saperston '19, Buffalo; and Alumni Secretary R. Selden Brewer '40. A report was given on the work of the undergraduate secondary - school committee, formed last spring, by its current chairman, Earl R. Flansburgh '53. Members of this committee work with Cornell Clubs to call on prospective Freshmen accepted for the University at home during vacations and conduct tours of the Campus for visitors here. Federation Award for the most effective Club program this year was voted by the executive committee to the Cornell Club of Rochester, with honorable mention to those of Juneau, Alaska, Korea, and Japan. The delegates elected Max F. Schmitt '24 president of the Federation, succeeding Dexter. An account executive in the New York City offices of Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency, he is vicepresident of the Cornell Club of New York and president of his Class and a former president of the Cornell Club of Westchester County and of the Association of Class Secretaries. New vice-presidents are George H. Stan ton '20, recent president of the Cornell Club of Essex County, N.J., and Adelbert P. Mills '36, president of the Cornell Club of Washington, D.C., and Brewer was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Elected to the executive committee are William H. Harder '30 of Buffalo and Meredith R. Cushing '44 of West Springfield, Mass. The Federation executive committee appointed as directors of the Cornell Alumni Association Matthew Carey '15 FEDERATION
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Club Federation Officers—Pictured at the annual meeting of the Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs are, from left, Vice-president Adelbert P. Mills '36 of Washington, D.C.; Secretary-treasurer R. Selden Brewer '40, University Alumni Secretary; President Max F. Schmitt '24, New York City; Past-president Milton G. Dexter '24, New England; and Vice-president George H. Stanton '20, Essex County, N J . C. Hadley Smith
of Detroit, Mich., Howard J. Ludington' 17 of Rochester, and Robert J. Koch '27 of Houston, Tex. It appointed Saperston to represent the Federation on the Alumni Association committee on Alumni Trustee nominations. Delegates were guests at dinner that evening with invited members of the Board of Trustees and the University, with President Schmitt as toastmaster. He introduced President Deane W. Malot t for a brief word of greeting. Entertainment was by the Cayuga Waiters and Charles R. Holcomb '55.
Seek Trustee Candidates DR. JOHN E. SUTTON,, JR. '15, chairman
of the Alumni Association committee on Alumni Trustee nominations, has written to about 600 officials of the member organizations of the Alumni Association asking for recommendations of potential candidates for Alumni Trustees by November 30. Accompanying his letter is a Question and Answer booklet concerning the purpose and function of his committee. "We trust," Dr. Sutton says, "that by this means the alumni will gain a more comprehensive knowledge of the work of their Alumni Association's Committee and will have their interest in the election of Alumni Trustees stimulated." At meetings in December and January, the committee will discuss the recommendations and make its endorsements of candidates to be nominated by April 1. "It has been the firm policy since the inception of the Committee," Dr. Sutton says, "to exclude from consideration only one category of alumni: those currently holding the position of Alumni Trustee." He emphasizes that "this policy does not indicate disapproval of the practice of retiring Alumni Trustees standing for reelection. The Committee believes that their previous nomination and election and their experience on the Board are prima facie evidence of their qualifications, and that the best interests of the University are served by limiting its endorsement to
'new talent,' and leaving the nomination and election of candidates where it belongs: with the alumni." The University Charter provides that candidates for election as Alumni Trustees shall be nominated by ten or more degree holders filing their nominations with the University Treasurer by April 1. Two Trustees are elected each year for five-year terms beginning July 1, by vote of degree holders. The terms of Elbert P. Tuttle '18 and John S. Parke '23 expire next June 30. Represents All Organizations Members of the committee on Alumni Trustee nominations and the organizations they represent are Mrs. Edwin S. Knauss (Dorothy Pond '18), Alumni Association board of directors; Dr. Preston A. Wade '22, Alumni Trustees; Harry V. Wade '26, Architecture Alumni Association; Richard J. Salisbury '49, Business & Public Administration Alumni Association; Halsey B. Knapp '12, Agriculture Alumni Association; Seabury S. Gould '38, Society of Engineers; Dr. Sutton, Medical College Alumni Association; Muriel R. Carbery '37, School of Nursing Alumnae Association; Marjory A. Rice '29, Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs; Albert E. Koehl '28, Society of Hotelmen; Franklin S. Wood '23, Law Alumni Association; Dr. George H. Hopson '28, Veterinary Alumni Association; Jansen Noyes, Jr. '39, Alumni Fund; G. Norman Scott '27, Association of Class Secretaries; Alfred M. Saperston '19, Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs; Mrs. Robert B. Crane (Almena Dean) '30, Home Economics Alumnae Association. The committee met in New York City, October 23, to organize for this year's work. A moment of silence in memory of Trustee Robert E. Treman '09 was observed. Information about the committee's work may be obtained from any member and suggestions of candidates for Alumni Trustees of the University will be welcomed by them or by the chairman, Dr. Sutton, 136 East Sixty-fourth Street, New York City 21. 175
Varsity Football Players at Work MEMBERS of this year's football squad are pursuing fourteen fields of study in six Colleges of the University. Twentyfour of them are in Arts & Sciences, majoring in eight Departments, one Senior double-registered in Law. Eleven players
are Engineering students; nine are in Hotel Administration; six in Agriculture; and two in Industrial & Labor Relations, This page is adapted from the Yale game program edited by Ben Mintz '43; photographs by Sol Goldberg, Photo Science.
At Boardman Hall (left), Professor Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26, History, meets (from left) R'ussel P. Zechman '54, E. Richard Meade '56, John H. Gerdes '54, Guy H. Bedrossian '55, Richard C. Jackson '56, and James K. Van Buren '56 of the Arts College.
Center picture shows Frank K. Hummel '54 (front) and J. Albert Sebald '54 at work in the Dairy Industry laboratory. Above are Professor Robert N. Allen '40, Engineering, at a lathe in Kimball Hall with C. K. Poe Fratt '54 and Captain William I. George '54.
Government majors Lloyd R. Walters '54, Theodore A. Marciniak '55, Paul T. Kalinich '54, and John R. Anderluh '56 (left to right) collaborate in preparing for a prelim in the University Library.
Professor Thomas W. Silk '38, Hotel Administration, discusses accounting in Statler Club Rathskeller with Don S. Kennedy '55, Daniel F. Begin '56, Leonard J. Oniskey '56, Ralph DeStafano '56.
Industrial & Labor Relations students Joseph L. Marotta '55 (left) and William J. Purdy '56 work in the School library with Professor Robert H. Ferguson, PhD '48, for his business history course.
In Sanitary Engineering laboratory of the School of Civil Engineering, Instructor Lawrence H. Sanford, MCE '51, sets up the microscope for John D. Braun'55 (with test tube) and Frank J. Ripp'55.
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Football Needs the Ivies BY ALLISON DANZIG '21 OF T H E N E W YORK TIMES
to Schoellkopf Field with a team rated among the East's best, and that is good for Cornell, regardless of the outcome of the game today. It is good for football in the Ivy colleges and for all football. Harvard^ too, is on the rise. Up New England way they talk about the freshman squad that found its way to Cambridge. Nothing like it has been seen on the banks of the Charles in years, they do say. That is the best shot in the arm the game has had in a longtime, even though coaches at other Ivy schools who had hoped some of the Cantab cubs would come their way may not feel it is anything to cheer about. Let's face it: There is only one Yale and one Harvard. Academically they are way up there in prestige. There was a time, too, and a long time, when they ruled the roost in football, so much so that Walter Camp condescended when he picked a man from any other school for his All-American team, and the H a r v a r d - Y a l e game was football's world series. YALE GOMES
Protection Against Professionals In the years since the war, the fortunes of the Crimson and the Blue on the gridiron have dwindled steadily and only a short time back it seemed that Harvard was going to follow the example of Chicago and withdraw from intercollegiate competition. Had it done so, Yale would have felt a strong tug in the same direction. It may not mean anything to the football foundries that have been turning out semi - professional champions for Yale and Harvard to drop out of the picture. But little do they realize how much it would hurt their racket. When, if ever, it should come to pass, that would definitely mark the beginning of the end for intercollegiate football. The influence of Yale and Harvard, with their immense prestige and vast alumni groups, upon the metropolitan press is beyond assaying. Once they withdrew from the intercollegiate lists, college football would cease to be the king of sports it has been for generations. Other schools would take their cue from them and the amount of space the newspapers devote to the game would dwindle rapidly. Professional football would take over and, so far as the New York, Boston, and Philadelphia press is concerned, college football would become a minor sport. So, to get back to our text, it is a healthy sign for football that Yale and Harvard are beginning to get back their Reprinted by permission from the official program of the Cornell-Yale football game, October 17.
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football muscles. Probably they will never be the Samsons they once were, and they do not expect to be, but the game's future now seems secure at New Haven and Cambridge. Columbia, too, has put a good team in the field, as has Cornell, and Princeton and Pennsylvania continue to remain strong. Ivy football is flourishing and that is football's salvation, for it is this group of schools, with their high standards and values, that must lead the way if the game is to survive. Eventually, more and more colleges will change their practices to conform to the Ivy code, playing only bona fide students, maintaining strict eligibility requirements, and limiting financial aids under faculty supervision. That is the direction in which the game must go if self-respecting institutions are to have anything to do with it. So it is vital to football that the Ivy schools keep playing the game and play it well. That does not mean they must have champion teams, but if a healthy interest is to be maintained on the campus, they must be encouraged to play it to their full capacity and win their fair share of games. Otherwise, apathy will set in, attendance will dwindle, deficits will pile up, and that will be the end. Spring Practice Ban Ill-advised The ban on spring practice that was imposed in 1952 by the Ivy group was a mistake. With the best of intentions but misguided idealism, the administrators of these schools imposed a heavy handicap upon their teams. They did it at a time when there was a hue and cry against the malpractices so common in college football and a clamor went up for a house-cleaning. Spring practice has nothing to do with the evils of commercialism and subsidizing, but the Ivy schools, which had put their houses in order years before, took it upon themselves to set a further example in de-emphasizing that was uncalled for. Of all the colleges that should have banned spring practice, if any, they were the last to have done it. With their proscribing of athletic scholarships and high academic requirements, their athletes are far more in need of coaching than the hand-picked stars who receive such lucrative inducements to play elsewhere. These high-priced players are ready to step up to the varsity with little tutoring. The run-of-the-mill material that largely makes up the Ivy squad needs more than the three weeks of pre-season training it gets to play the highly technical and skillful game that football is today. As one Ivy coach put it, "You
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either have to buy players or coach them." It is not fair to the players on Ivy teams that they must compete against opponents who have had so much more preparation than they are permitted. Aside from winning or losing, there is the matter of the satisfaction of the player in doing his best. If the game is worth playing at all, it is worth playing well. Spring practice gives him the chance to show at his best and, properly controlled, it has nothing whatever to do with over-emphasis.
Fraternity Pledges (Continued from last issue) DELTA UPSILON: Daniel J. Barafaldi, Aga-
wam, Mass.; Rodney F. Beckwith, Rutherford, N.J.; Cyrus Benson, Mamaroneck; Peter M. Blauvelt, Auburn; Robert A. Butler, Buffalo; Anthony B. Gashen, Hudson; David F. Davis, Wayland; Joseph M. Drum, Henrietta; Richard A. Gross, Buffalo; William E. Huffer, Toledo, Ohio; Thomas F. Keating, Jr., Pelham; George A. Kitchie, Ghent; Ronald J. Knasiak, Buffalo; David W. Loysen, Roslyn Estates; Roger D. Middlekauf, Jr., Lakewood, Ohio; David S. Nye, Poughkeepsie; Dominick N. Pasquale, Dobbs Ferry; John C. Seiler, Ruxton, Md.; Joel P. Shrank, Akron, Ohio; George E. Spofford III, Bristol, R.I.; Bush B. Steelman, Clifton, N.J.; Charles R. Tevebaugh, Akron, Ohio; Carl W. Vail, Jr., Ithaca. KAPPA DELTA R H O : Bruce L. Benson,
Binghamton; Lee T. Corbett, Jr., Rochester; David L. Hanselman, Ithaca; William H. Hudson, Warners; John P. Rapp, Brooklyn; Jerome A. Reid '56, Camp Hill, Pa.; S. Philip Shapley, Ithaca; John M. Van Horn, Rochester; James C. Vaughan, Kenmore; Donald A. Whittier, Pasadena, Gal.; William L. Zwerman, Ithaca. KAPPA N U : Alan I. Braun, Far Rockaway; Laurence A. Cooper, Yonkers; Stephen J. Emerman, Brooklyn; Herbert Feinberg, Brooklyn; Donald W. Fellner, Bronx; Michael A. Goldstein, Brooklyn; Robert Jacoby, Brooklyn; Melvin J. Lipetz, New York City; L. Lee Phillips, New York City; Leonard Rosen, Brooklyn; Sidney Suher, Holyoke, Mass.; Gilbert H. Weisbord, New York Gity. (Continued next issue)
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Beat Princeton, Columbia T H E WEATHER was delightful both days, but it was only partially responsible for the auspiciously bright, happy Saturday afternoons enjoyed by a great many Cornellians, October 24 and 31. A 26-19 taming of Princeton's football Tigers at Palmer Stadium, October 24, and the 27-13 whaling of the Lions of Columbia at Schoellkopf by the omnivorous Cornell Bears had something to do, too, with the pleasurable week ends. Two victories were all the Cornell team could achieve in all of last season, and it is the first time since 1949 that they had stopped the Tigers, so these were occasions of more than casual moment. In both games, it took a first score by the opponents to get the Cornellians under way. But once started, there were only brief but nevertheless real moments of anxiety about their superiority; although one's superiority has not always been insurance of victory in Princeton and Columbia games of the past. And these were not untypical Princeton and Columbia games. The victory over Princeton brought the record to 22-13-1 in favor of Princeton. The modern version, however, favors Cornell 10-9-1. That includes games from 1927. The previous games took place between 1891 and 1907. Cornell leads Columbia series 23-15-3.
Cornell 26, Princeton 19 The last time Cornell licked the Tigers was in 1949 at Ithaca, and scarcely anybody has done it since. But the last time Cornell beat Princeton at Princeton was in 1947, and it took a most extraordinary individual effort by one Lynn Dorset, AB '50, LLB '53, who had to set a new collegiate forward-passing record of ten completions in ten tries to develop a 28-21 victory for the first Lefty James-coached Cornell team. It took another brilliant individual to tie the coaching score at 3 and 3 between Charley Caldwell of Princeton and our Mr. James. One Richard C. Jackson '56 had his hands on the ball only four times and ran for two sixtyone-yard touchdowns to do the job this time. This eighteen-year-old hero had been laid low with a stomach ailment the day before and played less than ten 178
minutes in the big game, but the Duke of Athens, Pa., was an Indian summer's bad dream to the Princetonians. Princeton scored first at 4:56 of the second period. The first period was marked by the roughshod running of Princeton's captain and fullback, Homer Smith, and the equally roughshod defensive work of Red tackle C. K. Poe Fratt '54, end Stanley V. Intihar '56, end Bruce V. Brenner '56, fullback Guy H. Bedrossian '55, and guard James K. Van Buren '55, and the sixty-yard quick kick by E. Richard Meade '56. The Cornells had to be tough, because the Princetons were mad and on the rampage for vengeance after their walloping from Navy the week before. The tough defensive play of the Big Red contained the Tigers, first period, but they marched sixty yards in the second and, appropriaately enough, Captain Smith went over for the score, from the 1. Dick Martin kicked the point. At this point Cornell got started. Sophomore quarterback, eighteen-yearold William DeGraaf, started throwing the ball around as though he knew how; and he does. On four pitch-outs, three to Russell P. Zechman '54 and one to our boy, Jackson, the Red swooped around the Tigers for sixty yards. Zechman, on a DeGraaf throw-out, apparently went across from the 27, but was out of bounds on the 8. Bedrossian needed three times to take it over. DeGraaf missed the point. At half time, the score was 7-6 for Princeton. The half started with Princeton's celebrated sophomore halfback, Royce Flippin, throwing a long pass on first down. Billy DeGraaf, on a beautifully-timed interception, grabbed it on a dead run and was brought down by Princeton guard and last defender, Wendell Inhoffer, on the Tiger 24. On the first play, DeGraaf started running laterally to his left and, waiting until half the Princeton team descended on him, he threw to Zechman who scooted unmolested up the sideline and kicked the flag to make it 12-7. DeGraaf again failed to convert. Pandemonium took over in the fourth period. Jackson ran sixty-one yards to make the margin a safe one at 19-7. The Cornell partisans and the Cornell players relaxed and Franklin Agnew, a Princeton substitute halfback, ran the ensuing kickoff back eighty yards to the
3 where he was overhauled by Meade, and three plays later the score was 19-13. A few minutes later, Captain Smith ran fifty yards right through a gaping hole off Cornell's left guard slot and the score was tied up at 19-all. Then Jackson got busy again and ran through the Tigers again, and for sixty-one yards again. Wow! Princeton struck back and, passing and running, brought the ball to the 3. On the first play, Russell was thrown back to the 11. Smith made a yard through the middle and Emery's two passes were knocked down by Zechman and Brenner just as the game ended. The first Jackson touchdown run and the second were almost identical except the first was on a punt return and the second was on a pitch-out from DeGraaf. Both covered about sixty-one yards. Both times he ran to the right, eluded his early pursuers with a terrific burst of speed, negligently shook off three black shirts, slowed to wait for his blockers, cut back toward the middle where he picked up more blockers, feinted dangerously close to the sideline, and then cut toward the middle and was over. These were brilliantly executed by runner and blocking compatriots alike. Zechman took the ball eleven times and gained 99 yards. Bedrossian had a good day too, but was bothered with legcramps as a result of having been kicked in the calves early in the game. There were 24,000 spectators basking in the sunshine and about half of them were happy with the result. The lineups: CORNELL
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LE—Intihar, Rooney. LT—Oniskey. LG—Van Buren, DeStefano. G —Sebald. RG—Tsapis, Vadney. RT—George, Fratt. RE—Brenner, Mathewson. QB—DeGraaf, Bool. LH—Meade, Jackson. RH—Zechman. FB —Bedrossian, Walters. PRINCETON
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LE—Van Gytenbeek, Ledger. LT—Milano, Muys, R. Smith. LG—Torrey, Inhoffer, Peck. G —Henn. RG—Herbruck, Cunard. RT—Kovatch, Grotto. RE—Mathis, Di Renzo, Huseth. QB—Emery, Doub, Pitts, Hovde. LH—Frye, Flippin, Richards. RH—Russell, Agnew. FB—H. Smith, Martin. Cornell 0 6 6 14—26 Princeton 0 7 0 12—19 Cornell touchdowns: Bedrossian, Zechman, Jackson 2; points after touchdowns, DeGraaf 2 (placekicks). Princeton touchdowns: Smith 2, Emery; Point after touchdown. Martin (placekick). P STATISTICS : First Downs . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ....183 Rushing Yardage Passing Yardage 106 Passes Attempted . . 19 Passes Completed . . .. . . 10 Passes Intercepted by . . . ... 0 Number of Punts . .. . 6
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A mysterious stomach ailment hit five of the Cornell squad on Friday before the Princeton game. Besides the aforementioned Jackson, the others were Brenner, Bool, Meade, and Van Buren. In trying to discover the reason for the malady, which affected only those few, Trainer Frank J. Kavanagh was quizzing the squad members. Someone suggested it might have been the bacon served at Friday breakfast. Poe Fratt doubted it: "I had 12 slices and I feel O.K." Must have been something else! Cornell 27, Columbia 13 The score was closer than the game. As happened the week before, Cornell did not get going until the second period; but when it got started it looked fine, fine, fine. Billy DeGraaf came into his own as a T quarterback and a passer. He had already proved himself a solid defensive player and a strong runner. But his passing and poised play-calling in this game gave Cornell a balanced attack for the first time this season. As a result, the Red attack piled up 320 yards. For the second week, Dick Jackson scored two touchdowns, but it was DeGraaf and Bedrossian who stood out in the Cornell backfield. And Jackson did all right too. So did Russ Zechman and Dick Meade. But DeGraaf and Bedrossian were better. Bedrossian ran for 118 yards and DeGraaf passed for 109. Serving as captain in place of the hospitalized William I. George and also replacing him at tackle, Poe Fratt of Seattle, Wash., was a strong man on the line and Stan Intihar of Euclid, Ohio, Bruce Brenner of Dalton, Ohio, and James Van Buren of Atlanta, Ga., all showed to terrific advantage against the valorous but outmanned Columbia team. Columbia looked good in the first period and Cornell was hard pressed. Coach Little had his team ready, spiritually if not physically, but spirit was not enough. Columbia scored first. John Casella recovered a Zechman fumble on Cornell's 26. At 4:35 of the second period, Quarterback Dick Carr kept the ball and bulled it over. Columbia had been notably successful on short side slants off the left guard slot in bringing the ball to the 2, from where Carr carried it over. Cornell struck right back with terrific driving shots by Bedrossian, who finally broke free on the Blue 37 and ran all the way. After an initial entanglement on the line of scrimmage, only the fleet Columbian, Bob Mercier, touched him, but the hard-running Red fullback brushed him off. DeGraaf kicked the point. November 15, 1953
The next Red score came shortly after what appeared to be a bad call by the officials. There was an obvious Cornell offside on a fourth-down punt play by Carr, but the officials decided it was both teams off, so the play was run again. This time Carr juggled the ball momentarily and big Intihar and big Leonard C. Oniskey '55 got in and knocked the ball back to the Blue 16. On the fifth play, Jackson made it into the end zone. DeGraaf connected as;ain and it was 14-6. DeGraaf discovered soon enough that the wide plays which had worked so well against Princeton had been conspired against by Blue spies. So Bedrossian came into his own by running up the middle, and DeGraaf found that by easing up a little on the speed of his passes his receivers could catch them, so he completed seven of fourteen tries, as many as he completed in the previous three games. Jackson caught one of the DeGraaf beauties on a dead run for a thirty-yard TD and DeGraaf kicked the goal to make it 21-6. Lefty put in his second team and it started to move pretty well on the ground. Herbert J. Bool '54, the quarterback, decided to throw one and it was intercepted by the fast-moving Mercier and with the help of a couple of key blocks by injured center, Jerry Hampton, and left guard, Fred Bucci, he went all the way for sixty-six yards and a TD. Hoffman made the point and it was 2113. Lefty put his regulars back in the game. In sixteen plays, they went seventy-six yards and Zechman walked over from the 2. DeGraaf missed the point, but it made no difference for the count was as it finished, 27-13. There were 16,000 spectators. The line-ups: CORNELL
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LE—Intihar, Rooney, Kalinich. LT—Oniskey, Gerdes. LG—VanBuren, DeStafano. G —Murphy, Sebald. RG—Tsapis, Vadney. RT—Fratt, Purdy. RE—Brenner, Mathewson. QB—DeGraaf, Bool, D'Agostino. LH—Jackson, Meade. RH—Zechman, Morris. FB —Bedrossian, Walters, Alessi. COLUMBIA
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LE—Bonnano, Seitz. LT—Hoffman, Armstrong. LG—Bucci, Nunziato. C —Nelson, Hampton. RG—Opdyke, Dillingham. RT—Casella, Ginepra. RE—Hopp, Wellington, Mooney. QB—Carr. LH—Mercier, Giampietro. RH—Pirner, Priore. FB —Krebs, Benson. 14 Cornell 7 6—27 Columbia 6 0 7—13 Cornell scoring—Touchdowns: Bedrossian, Jackson 2, Zechman. Conversions: DeGraaf 3 (placements). Columbia scoring—Touchdowns : Carr, Mercier. Conversion: Hoffman.
STATISTICS: Cor. Col. First Downs . . . 15 12 921 108 Rushing Yardage (net) . Passing Yardage '. .' . 109 88 Passes Attempted . . 14 19 Passes Completed . .. 7 7 Passes Intercepted by . . . . . . . 3 1 Punts 5 6 Punting Av. (scrimmage) . . . . 42.8 31.7 Fumbles Lost ... 1 0 Yards Penalized . . 65 25
It was almost like two-platoon days as Coach James used twenty-five players in the Columbia game. He has been using about eighteen or nineteen in the others this year. Columbia's quarterback, Dick Carr, made two beautiful punts. A first-period kick of better than forty yards came to rest six inches from the goal. In the fourth, another rolled dead on the onefoot line. Poe Fratt was chosen by the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association as one of the "unsung heroes" of the week for his outsanding play in the Columbia game.
Runners Beat Champions BIGGEST UPSET cross-country victory in many years occurred October 24 as the Varsity defeated Syracuse, 24-31, over the Moakley Course. It was the first defeat of the year for the 1952 National Collegiate champions. Captain Ray Osterhout took first place for the Orange over the five-mile course in 26:16.6. Sophomore John J. Rosenbaum of Brigantine, N.J., brought the Cornell colors in second. The other Cornell point-scorers were Donald T. Farley '55, third; Captain Charles Trayford '54, fifth; James J. Klein '54, sixth; David Pratt '54, eighth. Cornell Freshmen defeated the Syracuse cubs too, 30-39, over the same course in an earlier competition. Charles Miner of Syracuse was first and Edward R. Mihm was second, for Cornell. The Varsity defeated Alfred, October 31, by a 24-37 score. Alfred's renowned Harold Snyder was first in 26:57. Rosenbaum '56 again was second. Captain Trayford was running alongside Snyder and Rosenbaum in the second mile when he lost a shoe and had to withdraw. Cornellians Klein, Paul W. Loberg '55, Richard L. Neilson '54, and Pratt finished fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, respectively.
Soccer Team Continues Wins UNDEFEATED, the Varsity soccer team gave Princeton a 3-1 beating at Princeton, October 24, and trounced Colgate at Hamilton, 5-0, on Friday, October 30. The Red had to come from behind at Princeton. Nicholas Cordero wasted no time as he kicked one for Princeton REMAINING
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at 2:37 of the first period. It was not until 1:50 of the second that Jaime Ginard '55 of Mexico City, Mexico, evened the count. He scored after taking a pretty pass from David L. Grumman '56, son of Leroy R. Grumman '16 and the former Rose Werther '19. At 15:35 of the same period, Oswaldo R. Lares '56 of Caracas, Venezuela, tallied after stealing the ball from the Princeton goalie. The third goal was made on a thirtyfive-yard kick by Eugene Holman '55 of Greenwich, Conn. Only reason the Colgate score was not larger than 5-0 was due to the fine goal tending of Colgate's Merrick. Ginard scored once and pulled a muscle. His substitute, Wolf Preschel '56 of Buenos Aires, Argentina, made two and Robert A. Hutchins '56 of Springfield, Mass., and Gene Holman each made one. The Freshman soccer team lost to Colgate at Hamilton, October 24, by a 1-0 score; defeated Ithaca College, 4-2, October 28; and lost to the Sampson Air Base varsity, 7-3,, October 31. The latter two were on Upper Alumni Field.
of creation as she stepped out the desired footprints in geometric forms, lifting high her knees and taking peculiar strides. When she had finished, she looked up to find herself surrounded by a crowd of pop-eyed students who had silently watched the whole performance and suspected they had a bad case of over-study on their hands. Some advanced calling the wagon, while others thought somebody ought to sit on her head and apply snow to the back of her neck.
Alumni To Hear Glee Club
GLEE CLUB will give concerts under auspices of Cornell Clubs in Philadelphia the evening before the football game with Pennsylvania and in New York City the day after Thanksgiving. The Philadelphia concert, November 25, will be at 8:30 in the main ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and will be followed by a dance. All Cornellians and their friends are invited, at $2.50 a person. After the game on Thanksgiving Day, alumni and their friends are invited by the Cornell Club of Philadelphia to a get-together in the main ballroom of the Warwick Hotel, whose manager is Paul J. McNamara '35. Admission is $1 for the Club scholarship fund. Forty Years Ago In New York City November 26, the November, 1913—Veterinary College Glee Club" will sing at 5 for students and dedicated its new hospital and clinical Faculty members of the Nursing School buildings, which have just been complet- and Medical College. A committee in ed at a cost of $140,000 Cornerstone the Nursing School is arranging for dinof the Athletic Training Quarters erect- ner "dates" from the students there for ed to the memory of Henry Schoellkopf members of the Glee Club. At 8:30 in '02 by his friends and to be known as the the auditorium of the Nurses' Residence Schoellkopf Memorial was laid. . . . Din- of The New York Hospital-Cornell ing room in Risley Hall is being complet- Medical Center, the Glee Club and that ed. . . . Golf championship of the Uni- of the Medical College and Nursing versity has been won by E. B. Prindle School will join in a concert for all Cor'15 of New York. . . . Medical College nellians and their friends. This will be endowed with $4,350,000 from an anon- followed by a reception and dance. ymous donor. . . . Cross country team The Glee Club appearance is sponsurprised everybody, except perhaps sored by the Alumni Association of New Jack Moakley, by winning the team York City, under a committee of Richchampionship in the intercollegiate run ard H. Wels '34, Arnold G. Landres '16, at Van Cortlandt Park in New York and Haig K. Shiroyan '25. Tickets for City. It was Cornell's thirteenth victory the evening concert and dance are $5 in fifteen years. each at the committee headquarters, Room 1407, 51 East Forty - second Twenty Years Ago Street, New York City. November, 1933—Margaret BourkeCornell Club and Cornell Women's White '27 lectured in Willard Straight on her Russian experience and showed Club of Buffalo will sponsor a concert her pictures. When she was in college, by the Glee Club there, December 11, at Miss B-W recounted, she sensed a pic- the Hotel Lafayette, with a dance folture in the lighted portico of Baker lowing, to benefit their scholarship Laboratory and the shadows thrown up- funds. Tickets are in charge of John H. on the snow by the austere columns Gridley '44 and Dorothea E. Underthereof. Late one winter night she wood '48. December 12, the Glee Club will give trudged up all alone to make the picture. The composition did not wholly please a concert in the Batavia High School, her. More pattern was indicated. The under sponsorship of the Cornell Womthing to have was some design in foot- en's Club of Batavia. Mrs. Barber B. prints on the snow. So for fifteen minutes Conable, Jr. (Charlotte Williams) '51 she was wrapped in the unconsciousness is chairman of arrangements.
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Ithaca: Concert, Professor John Kirkpatrick, pianist, Bailey Hall, 8:15 New York City: Varsity & Freshman cross country IC4A THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
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Ithaca: Schiff Foundation Lecture, C. H. Mortimer, limnologist, Olin Hall, 8:15 Dramatic Club presents "The Glass Menagerie," Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 New York City: Class of '19 luncheon, Hotel One Fifth Avenue, 12:15 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
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Ithaca: Dramatic Club presents "The Glass Menagerie," Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
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Ithaca: Freshman football, Pennsylvania, Schoellkopf Field, 2 Dramatic Club presents "The Glass Menagerie," Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 Rochester: Cornell Men's & Women's Clubs reception & dinner for President Deane W. Malott, Rochester Club, 120 East Avenue, 6:30 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Ithaca: Sage Chapel preacher, Dr. Robert J. McCracken, The Riverside Church, New York City, 11 Words & Music program of poetry & song, Professors Morris G. Bishop '14, Romance Literature, and Keith Falkner, Music, Willard Straight Memorial Room, 4: 15 Dramatic Club presents "The Glass Menagerie," Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
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Ithaca: University lecture by Dexter Perkins, John L. Senior Professor of American Civilization, on "The Declaration of Independence," Olin Hall, 8:15 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Ithaca: University lecture by Dexter Perkins, John L. Senior Professor of American Civilization, on "The Uses of Conservatism," Olin Hall, 8:15
Cornell Alumni News
An Undergraduate Observes . . . Social Customs Change has seen changes in its social protocol in the last few months that cannot help but stir feelings of pride in everyone who recognizes the status quo. At the onset of the fall term, there was an official undergraduate clamor, initiated by WSGA, for relaxation of chaperone requirements and apartmentparty regulations. This movement was directed at the Faculty Committees on Activities and Student Conduct. Late last month these committees, headed by Faculty Dean William H. Farnham '18, put full approval on unchaperoned apartment-parties and exchange dinners between men's and women's living units, with only a few minor restrictions as to time, place, and number of people in attendance. Concurrently, the IFC proclaimed that last Spring Week End was, without mincing words, a social and moral disgrace to the University. For the houseparties just past, the IFC made an honest and forthright attempt to curb the situation and to enforce a moral code of their own on those who overstepped the prescribed bounds. A great decrease in official complaints by guests, parents, and Faculty showed that the program had achieved its purpose handsomely. These two topics may seem to be working in opposition, but in truth, they are not. This fall marks the beginning of student control in basic social issues, and student formulation of Cornell's extant moral code. The Faculty has given the undergraduates the opportunity for selfregulation in social matters; the undergraduates, as a body, are enforcing their community principles on the few who care nothing for the good name of the University. It seems that the average crazy, mixed-up college kid is reverting to decency, and to the basic rule so often snickered at in the past: "A student is expected to show both within and without the University unfailing respect for order, morality, personal honor, and the rights of others." CORNELL
Time rolls around for compets to start drifting into publication offices, council meetings, and races for athletic managerial posts, while both the air and the younger minds among us are filled with pamphlets, handbills, posters, throwaways, and all other manner of tribute to the power of the written word. House and dorm bulletin boards are infested with these multi-colored tidbits — Try for the Sun, You'll Find a Home in a Student Council Committee, Join the November 15, 1953
National Guard, and the like—to the point that the confused Frosh and Soph cannot find the pricelist from the sandwich man without encountering a heartrending plea from the ping-pong manager. That any smooth-working organization can come from the multiple effects of such a hodge-podge is a tribute to the organizations themselves. Sixty students from Canadian colleges attended the recent College Exchange Week End on Campus. The program for the week end included attendance at selected classes on Friday, followed by coffee hours in living units. Saturday found the exchange students touring the Campus and having their ears pummelled at an afternoon jam-session at the Straight. A Saturday-night party closed the week end, which also included some participation in CURW United Nations Week End. Judging is the long suit of the College of Agriculture lately. Following the recent triumphs of the dairy cattle and livestock judging teams, the dairy products team took a fourth among twentythree American and Canadian universities. The Cornell team coached by Professor William F. Shipe, Jr., PhD '49, took first place in cheese and fourth place in butter. Norman H. Dobert '54 of Glens Falls was individual winner in cheese-judging. CHILL BLASTS from the northeast before eight o'clock put most Cornellians who walk across the Quad in a foul and humorless mood, especially at that hour of the morning. Not so for the Business School residents of McGraw Hall, however. McGraw has the distinction of the largest stone spheres atop its outdoor stair railings of any building on Campus. A note of color was added to my drab morning as I noticed that an unseen force had attached a girl's scarf around the knob, giving it an almost human appearance. An hour later, a cluster of Business addicts were engrossed in giving directions to another drawing a face beneath the babushka. The climax was obvious, but still gave several hundred Cornellians their morning smile. Just fifty minutes later on my way back to Sibley, I noticed a group of B&PA students with their arms around the figure, about whose shoulders was a tan corduroy sport coat (in the manner of an old family portrait). A co-ed was snapping a picture of the toothless, grinning, figure with her bevy of admirers; for all the world a plump, albeit jaundiced, peasant woman.
Destruction of the south steel goalpost at Schoellkopf after the Colgate game, which aroused Faculty, administration, and students alike to villification of "the tiny but vicious element of pranksters at Cornell," was admitted (quietly) to be the work of Colgate students. The Colgate Student Senate sent a handsome $200 check to cover the damage, and themselves were pleasantly surprised when the sum proved to be excessive and was partially returned by the Athletic Office. University Trustees approved the longawaited Men's Judiciary Board, and it will begin operation on men's conduct and misconduct immediately. Robert A. Spillman '53 of Bethlehem, Pa., chairman of the Board and former president of the IFC, expressed the hope that Board members will have their duties integrated in time to assume a full schedule by Thanksgiving. Student Council expects a moderate profit from Fall Week End, which was happily marked by a lack of injuries to students and only minor property damage. An estimated 2300 couples swayed with Ralph Flanagan Saturday night in Barton Hall, when Alpha Chi Rho was announced as the winner of the traveling beer mug trophy for the best overall lighting display; this is the second straight year they have captured the mug. Theta Xi and Phi Sigma Delta took first and second in the mechanical display division, with Pi Lambda Phi second in the non-mobile division, which was topped by Alpha Chi Rho. Doc Kavanagh, head trainer for Our Side, was recently the butt of what he would term a rather ill-begotten jest, but one which will give many ex-gridders a chuckle. While camped at Cayuga Preventorium, several team members captured and induced a large and un-Lifebouyed male goat to recline in the good Doctor's bed. Most perplexed over the outcome was the goat, who couldn't understand Kavanagh's apparent ire. Taking the stand that the United States must defend its international position by free trade, the Debate Association won its first debate, against Brooklyn College. Edward L. Skolnik '54 of Glen Ridge, N.J., took the initial affirmative and the rebuttal was handled by Jay Schwartz '55 of Racine, Wis. Thirty-five New York universities and colleges were represented at a studentfaculty conference sponsored by the World University Service. This organization is devoted to raising funds for student aid in the United States and many other countries. The WUS received approximately 45 per cent of the funds from last year's Campus Charities drive. 181
School here. From 1935-46, he was assistant professor of Education. In 1947, he was adviser to the military government in Germany.
Country Gentleman cover for October has a painting of Trustee Albert K. Mitchell '17 "at the command post" during cattle-shipping on his Tequesquite Ranch at Albert, N. Mex. "This distinguished cowman has also found time to serve agriculture in numerous ways," the paper says. "He is a member of the board of directors of the International Livestock Exposition (Chicago), and of the Western Stock Show (Denver). He has been president of the Hereford Breeders' Ass'n and president of the Quarter Horse Ass'n. A busy and useful man, caught in a typical pose by artist Robert Kuhn." Theodore P. Wright, Vice-president for Research, has been elected chairman for this year of the board of trustees of Associated Universities, Inc. The group of nine Eastern universities operates the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island, under contract with the US Atomic Energy Commission. Wright is president and chairman of the board of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo and heads the Committee for Transportation Safety Research and the executive committee of the Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center in New York City. Professor Arthur C. Dahlberg, Dairy Industry, summarizes in Country Gentleman for October the results of a nation-wide study on sanitary milk controls which he directed for the National Research Council and US Department of Agriculture. Titled "Dairymen! Here's a New Look at Milk Codes," the article was "told to" Professor William B. Ward, Extension Teaching & Information.
Sixth daughter and their seventh child, Helen Shaw, was born to Milton R. Shaw '34, Director of Residential Halls, and Mrs. Shaw (Ruth McCurdy) '37, October 11. The childrens' grandfather is Professor John C. McCurdy '12, Agricultural Engineering, Emeritus. "Still Waters," an oil painting by Professor John A. Hartell '24, Architecture, has been chosen by the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to be shown in their 1953 Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Orrin Drake, custodian in Sibley College, has retired after twenty-four years. Known to generations of Engineering students as "Drakey" or "Ducky" he remembers the Campus back through nearly all of his seventy-seven years. As a youngster, he often came to the Hill with his father, who owned a general store in Lansingville. He and Mrs. Drake, married fifty-four years, live on RD 1, Ludlowville. Walter E. Broderick '50 and Richard M. Gordon, Grad, have been appointed Extension field representatives of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations. Broderick is in the Capitol district with headquarters at the School's office in Albany. Gordon is in the western district, with headquarters in the Buffalo office. Professor Robert A. Poison, Rural Sociology, and his family have returned from a year's sabbatic leave in the Philippine
Islands, where they lived in Dumaguete and he taught in Silliman University and conducted research in recent technological changes in the Islands. Professor Poison expresses particular admiration for Filipino teachers, whom he terms "some of the hardest working people I've ever known." "The prestige of education is one thing we've taken to the Philippines. Families make real sacrifices, even mortgage their property, to keep their children in school." Professors Alvin A. Johnson and Adrian M. Srb, Plant Breeding, left in September for sabbatical leaves abroad. Professor Srb has been awarded both Fulbright and Guggenheim grants for research at the genetics laboratories of the University of Paris. Professor Johnson holds a Fulbright grant to lecture on plant breeding and Extension at the University of Salonica, Greece. Professor David C. Chandler, Limnology, resigned in August to become head of the department of limnology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Paul Wasserman has been appointed librarian and assistant professor of Bibliography in the School of Business & Public Administration. Graduate of CCNY with the MA from Columbia in business administration and library science, he was head of the science and industry division in the Brooklyn Public Library and a library consultant to Brooklyn Academy. James S. Van Horn, MA '53, former assistant director of the University Orchestra and A Capella Chorus, is now instructor in music and director of the orchestra at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.
Frances Wilson has been appointed assistant professor of Child Development & Family Relationships and will hold art classes for children and adults to supplement the observational and research facilities of the Home Economics nursery school. She has been at the Peoples Art Center of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Albert Shire has been appointed instructor and psychologist in the Department laboratory program. He was on the staff of the Veterans Administration mental hygiene clinic in Detroit, Mich. Professor Iva Mae Gross, Extension Service, who has been assistant State leader of 4-H Clubs since 1941, was married, August 23, to Holley B. Smoak. She has resigned from the University and they live on a farm at Meggetts, S.C. Philip G. Johnson, PhD '33, has returned to the University as professor of Rural Education after six years as specialist for science in the Division of Secondary Education, US Office of Education. He received the BS in 1923 and MA in 1931 at University of Nebraska and held the Charles Lathrop Pack Fellowship in the Graduate
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Shipboard Reunion—Pictured last summer on the SS Empress of France, bound for Liverpool and the International Veterinary Congress at Stockholm, are (from left) Professor Hadley C. Stephenson '14, Therapeutics & Small Animal Diseases, Emeritus, Dr. Roy C. Johnston '20 of Livingston Manor, Dr. Hugh S. Cameron '31 of Davis, Gal., Dr. Orland E. Helms '20 of East Randolph, Professor Myron G. Fincher '20, Veterinary Medicine (partly hidden), Dr. David Hopkins '30 of Brattleboro, Vt. (in front of Fincher), and Dean William A. Hagan, MS '17, of the Veterinary College.
Cornell Alumni News
Addresses which appear in these pages are in New York State unless otherwise designated. Class columns headed by Class numerals and the names and addresses of the correspondents who write them are principally those of Classes which have purchased group subscriptions to the NEWS for all members. Personal items, newspaper clippings, or other notes about Cornellians of all Classes are welcomed for publication. '97 PhB—Mrs. L. N. Nichols (Mary Josephine Genung) of 331 East SeventyFirst Street, New York City, received a gift from the Cornell Women's Club of New York, October 7, at a dinner honoring early graduates. A birthday cake inscribed to "Cornell's Nifty Nineties" was part of the celebration. Mrs. Nichols has worked at the Cornell Medical College for thirtytwo years. '98 AB—Dr. Mary J. Ross of 117 Murray Street, Binghamton, was named "outstanding general practitioner of 1953" by the Medical Society of the State of New York. She began practice in Binghamton in 1909 after receiving the MD from Johns Hopkins. '01 ME—Frank D. Newbury since August 18 has been Assistant Secretary of Defense (Applications Engineering), which he writes "is Government English for product design." Retired in 1951 after forty-five years as vice-president of Westinghouse Electric Co., Newbury is one of the six new Assistant Secretaries appointed by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson under the Reorganization Act of last June 30. He lives in Washington at The Westchester, 4000 Cathedral Avenue, Washington 16, D.C. Fortune for November, reporting on the "Pentagon Secretariat," pictures him as "by far the most venerable figure in the Pentagon" and says that "Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes hopes that Newbury will be able to re-engineer 20 per cent of common military 'hardware' for production on standard tooling, thereby reducing the frequent and costly demand on industry to tear its plants apart to make way for military items, only to retool back for their regular commercial business." '02 AB—George H. Hooker is an attorney with Kenefick, Bass, Letchworth, Baldy & Phillips, Marine Trust Building, Buffalo 3. '03 ME(EE)— "Look Applauds" Hannibal C. Ford in the October 20 issue of the magazine, for being "the genius behind the phenomenal 'mechanical brain' gunfirecontrol mechanisms aboard our naval vessels." He is pictured in his workshop and with a bronze eagle on the lawn of his Long Island home which he has contrived to revolve to face an approaching boat and emit piercing screams from an authentic recording. Ford Instrument Co., which he founded and from which he has now retired, has honored him with a Ford Fellowship of $4000 a year at the University for advanced study by promising young engineers. '05 ME—William J. Miskella is the owner of the Miskella Infra-Red Co., Cleveland manufacturers of ovens and appliances, and is adding a new blacklight department this year. His address is 7301 Grand Avenue, Cleveland 4, Ohio.
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'06, '07 ME—Warner D. Orvis, 14 Wall Street, New York City, spent some time in Zane Grey Lodge in New Zealand last March. Recently he received word from the Bay of Islands Swordfish and Mako Shark Club of Russell, N.Z., "that your mako shark, 584 pounds, was the largest caught during the season and won for you the Club cup, a miniature of which will be engraved and sent to you shortly. Your name will be placed on the Club cup which is displayed in our Clubroom." His 339-pound striped marlin was the biggest swordfish taken while he was in New Zealand. '08 AB—George H. Adler is a manufacturers' agent at 15 Rue de Naples, Brussels, Belgium.
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FRANK L. AIME
3804 Greystone Avenue New York 63, N.Y.
Thos. Riggs (Tom) Cox, ME (above with grandson), 250 West 23d St., New York 11, though he switched to hanking, still is rated by Wint Rossiter as "quite a person." We all do, for he is! Went with Albany Felt Co. till 1917, then into Army Ordnance, separated as Captain. Followed an active stretch ,as floor member, New York Stock Exchange, 1923-42, a grueling job, as Wint can testify; back into Ordnance for 2 years, retiring in '44 as Lieutenant Colonel. In '44, he went with Broadway Savings Bank, became its president in '46, still is. People are always looking for men who can carry the ball and will do a lot of the world's work besides regular business. Our Class has several, sas you have seen. Tom is one who can and will: director, State C of C, Empire State G of C, Atlantic City Sewerage Co.; president and director, (NY)
23d St. Assn.; director, (NY) Protestant Council and YMCA; elder, The (NY) Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church; chm., the Travelers Aid Fund. This all fits well with his undergraduate career when he was chairman of God'knows how many committees, Class vice-president 4th year, and president the Class Book. He had the reputation of knowing how to get work done and doing it. The training paid off. Hobbies are grandchildren and stamps. Tom attends Class affairs and assists substantially in its activities. He always has time to help the other guy. In November '52, he was appointed to a committee of 7 by the president of the (NY) Board of Education to evaluate the formula under which State aid is granted for operation of the city's public schools. In mid-October this year, he took ,a week off for a cruise to Havana. 750 N.Y. State savings-bank executives had their annual convention on board. He has a son and daughter, both married, 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters, a total right now of 15,004 hobbies. Anthony G. (Tony) Sacco, MD, 2200 New York Ave., Union City, N.J., has had a successful medico's career; takes it a little easier now. One beautiful Ithaca night in May, 1909, he tired of cramming Materia Medica and announced he was going up the Hill with a couple cronies and tear down the fence across the old road at the Library (after it was routed behind Morrill, etc.). As they passed the Library, having a fine walk, the threat forgotten, a figure left his seat on the fence, took up the lantern and moved toward them asking: "What are you doing here?" When Tony finally saw it wasn't Prexy himself with full telepathic powers but just another stude, he ran along with the gag and flopped on his back. The stude, winded from running to get there first, after a late start via College Ave., the trolley bridge, and East Ave., sat on Tony's chest. A. Graeme Darling, ME, 1445 Wendell Ave., Schenectady, industrial power engineer, has retired after 42 years with GE. A clipping via Whisper Heath and Andy Niven says he was honored at a dinner party early last October at the Edison Club. Graemmie was the tall guy with the red dome who played Varsity Lacrosse 3 years, sang basso on the Glee Club 4, and was on a slew of committees. He engineered the huge electric generating: station at the Ford River Rouge plant and other jobs. R. W. Hamlet, AB, Rancho Santa Fe, Cal., first spent a few months in New York with Lee Higginson & Co., brokers, then 10 years in China with SOCONY. They sent him to Europe in '23 where he lived in various places until '29. Back to New York 2 years as purchasing agent and after the merger with Vacuum Oil, was in the treasurer's dept. until retirement in '48. Norman R. Wyckoff, CE, 703 Indian River Dr., Cocoa, Fla., writes he is now "just an old retired exec, taking it easy in a mild climate." Norm spent 7 years with Erie R.R., 19 as civil engineer with the City of Detroit, and 6 to '48 with US Naval Air Sta., Cocoa. He obtained BCS in '25 and MCS in '26 at U. Detroit and JD in '30 at Detroit College of Law. '12 AB—George T. Ashton has been living in his old home fat 502 Cedar Lane, Swarthmore, Pa., with his sister since the death of his wife, July 13, 1953. 183
'12 ME—George P. Brockway retired after thirty years as purchasing manager for American Optical Go. He is a sales representative with Southbridge Sheet Metal Works. His address is Box 390, Southbridge, Mass. '12 AB—Gustav Egloff, director of research for Universal Oil Products Co., 30 Algonquin Road, Des Plaines, 111., left September 28 for Japan, where he will address the Chemical Society of Japan at its seventy-fifth anniversary celebration. He is the only American lecturer attending. Mrs. Egloff is the former Clara Mellor '98. '12 CE—Max Grossman, 3809 Ventnor Avenue, Atlantic City, N.J., has been reappointed for a four-year term as a member of the New Jersey State Water Supply Council. He is chairman of the committee operating the Delaware & Raritan Canal for New Jersey. 10 MSA, '12 PhD—Philip E. Smith, professor emeritus of anatomy at Columbia University, received a distinguished service award at the twenty-fifth anniversary of Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center, October 13, for his scientific contributions in relation to the function and structure of the pituitary gland and functional inter-relationships of the endocrine glands. Dr. Smith, who lives at 630 West 168th Street, New York City 32, is a past president of the Harvey Society and American Association of Anatomy and was managing editor of The American Journal of Anatomy. '12 AB—Mrs. Joseph J. Klein (Janet Frisch) spent two months in Italy, returning to her home at 101 Central Park West, New York City 23, September 17.
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M. R. NEIFELD
15 Washington Street Newark 2, N J .
It is now a custom that is becoming a Class tradition for '13-ers on Campus at Homecoming Week End each October to gather on Friday evening ,at the Ithaca Hotel for informal dinner and on Saturday morning at the Statler for Class business. All those present automatically become the Class Executive Committee. This democratic practice keeps membership in the Executive Committee open to the Classmate who has come back for the first time in years as well as to those who come regularly. In accordance with this pleasant custom, there gathered at 10 a.m. October 17 these men: Fred Norton, A. B. Genung, Jack Dittrich, Les Brady, Vic Underwood^ George Curtin, Beau Raymond, Joe Hinsey, Roy Clark, Charlie Newman., Louis Gons, Morris Neifeld, Jim Vaughan, Oliver Wood, John McCormick, and Jack Brodt. They heard reports on the 40th Reunion and that a small surplus had been turned over to Don Beardsley, Class Treasurer. The budget for the Reunion had been projected with great care. Some anticipated expenditures had not materialized because rain at the Reunion reduced beer consumption and eliminated Class pictures, but additional expenditures not provided for in the budget just about balanced them. Among these was a last-minute increase by the University in the charge per night for accommodations at Sage. (You can bla'me that on Republican lifting of rent controls.) Another unexpected charge for accommoda-
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tion was incurred because so many '13-ers (at least 70) showed up on Thursday, whereas the forecast was that few would be on hand before Friday. The early comers were a welcome omen to the Reunion Committee that attendance and other records were going to be exceeded, and the early comers had an extra measure of enjoyment and time in which to greet friends and relive experiences. At the meeting, there was spirited discussion of alumni loyalty and what the University might do to increase the proportion of alumni who become and remain active. A new departure should help in the early years after graduation. Included in student fees henceforth is a charge which will cover ALUMNI NEWS mailings to them for the
first three years after graduation. Once again, as in former discussions, the idea was advanced for some kind of informative "house organ" to be circulated several times a year gratis to all alumni. A card from Sessler about the difficulty (even for a charter member of Statler) of securing accommodations Homecoming Week End led to a timely discussion. Besides the general return of alumni, the Board of Trustees, Cornell Club representatives, and other officials put pressure on existing facilities. There doesn't seem much that can be done except to remind Classmates periodically to apply early for reservations. '13 has always been a pace setter in alumni matters. The Alumni Fund total gathered as a Class donation for our 40th Reunion will be a vigorous stimulant for succeeding Classes. In discussing this idea, it was felt that no action should be taken by the Class that might possibly interfere with normal Alumni Fund activity. For this reason, the concensus was to do nothing about a Class memorial as such. Harry Southard is to be asked to take over the Class column in the ALUMNI NEWS. Drowning out his howling protests, the Executive Committee voted loudly viva voce to make Morris Neifeld Alumni Fund Representative for '13. '14 BS—Elmer Snyder has had a change in his mailing address, although he is still at the same location. The new address is 2021 South Peach Avenue, Fresno, Cal. Snyder is in grape production and breeding, and stonefruit breeding and testing, US Department of Agriculture. '14 PhD—Frank E. Rice just returned from a four-month tour of Europe, where he was the official US delegate to the International Dairy Congress at The Hague. His address is 228 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111.
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CHARLES M. COLYER
123 West Prospect Avenue Cleveland 1, Ohio Dan Morse makes a plea for the amateur producers in the Class grandchild contest: "I note the 'grandchild contest' is still getting comments. God forbid that I start anything else without thorough market analysis. If you could only keep those he-men professionals out of the contest, the rest of us would have some fun. I cry 'quits', but anyway my daughter Ruthie ['53] and James J. Allen ['53] were married in June. Now I have my chance to keep pace with Terriberry, anyway." Address, 3 Sanborn Place, Winchester, Mass. Ralph P. Ripley has been named as a
member of the Real Estate Commission of Maryland by Governor Theodore R. McKeldin. This is the first time for a member of the Montgomery County Real Estate Board to be appointed to the four-year assignment, succeeding A. H. Siedenspinner of Riverdale. "Rip" is President of Ripley & Romer, Inc. with offices in Silver Spring and Gaithersburg; is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the Maryland Real Estate Association. He is on the Executive Council of the Realtors' Washington Committee of the National Association, a member of the Appraisal Institute, and belongs to the National Institute of Real Estate Brokers. He resides on Great Rails Road, Rockville, with his wife and two daughters. Bob (Robert B.) Lea has been elected Director-at-large of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He notes "nobody blackballed me, so I was elected." Bob was with the Sperry Gyroscope Co. from 1915 to 1948, when he transferred to the Sperry Corporation. He served as special assistant to the president until 1949 when he was made Co-ordinator of Exports. Bob has been a life member of ASME since 1946. S.O.S.! We're running short of news!
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HARRY F. BYRNE
123 William Street New York 7, N.Y. William Prescott is a publisher and printer, with Holstein-Friesian World at Lacona. He claims that a "God-given attack of phlebitis" resulted in his finding out that business could survive his absence, so winters in a 37-foot Schult Trailer, at Pasadena Trailer Court, St. Petersburg, Fla. All '16ers welcome as soon as the water hose has been hooked up. Says he has been 3. NEWS subscriber for years, but is much more interested now that our new program has started. Charles M. Levy reports a rather cozy past which embraced long years spent in Europe after World War I, with US Information Agency, "Voice of America," and all he asks now is retirement, ending up in Paris. How cushy can you be? Paul Sexton Hardy reports that he is still the pres. of Hardy & Hayes, the Pittsburgh edition of Cartier's and Tiffany's, and even there, that diamonds tare a girl's best friend. He also finds time to be a director of the Gemological Institute of America and the Athalia Daly Home, and president of the Children's Home of Pittsburgh. He reports that William S. Unger is now living in Dusseldorf, Germany, doing consulting engineering work there. Edgar Milton Smith is associated with the A.S.P.C.A. at 441 E. 92d Street, New York 21. He says," "I'm in the doghouse all of the time, whereas you fellows are only in the doghouse once in a while, I hope. Come up and see our Million Dollar Doghouse." Says many of his staff are Cornell Vets. James N. Butler is at 2 North Derby Avenue, Ventnor City, N.J., ,and a member of the law firm of Moore, Butler & McGee in Atlantic City, nearby. On the side, he runs two ancestral farms, raising scads of asparagus and tomatoes. Is vice-president and a director of Leeds & Lippincott who own Chalfonte-Haddon Hall on the Boardwalk. Also manages to vary the monotony with the girls in the annual Miss America Pageant, of
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which he is also a director and counsel. He is the bald-headed guy with the tape that you see in the pictures every year. Irving E. Altman conducts the Long Island Dog & Cat Hospital at 107 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, and what Audubon missed, Irving now knows. Has issued various papers on diseases of birds, and is pastpresident of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City. Sees D. S. Shindell and Dr. Harry Hodges frequently. If your parakeet limps, just see Irving! John P. Harding is at 21 Darwin Street, Rochester 10, and associated with Rochester Ordnance District, Department of the Army, there. Attended University of Marsielles, France, after Cornell, and has held numerous managerial posts with the government in the past. Says that he appreciates the NEWS very much and that someone had a good idea. Amen! John A. Carothers is at 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, 13, Pa. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology after Cornell and is busily engaged trying to reconcile the Dow Jones Averages with the ticker-tape readings, with Chaplin & Co. at 307 Fourth Avenue in his home town. George P. Spear, Jr. is at 33 Barry Place, Passaic, N.J., and is doing construction engineering work with New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. Walter Sturrock is at 15002 Terrace Road, E. Cleveland 12, Ohio, and is illuminating engineer in charge of technical publications with the Lamp Division of General Electric at Nela Park, Cleveland. Has issued many papers on the technical engineering problems of lighting, and is a past-president of Illuminating Engineering Society Council. Julian (Buddy) Fay reports on the Yale game of pleasing memory, and that a group of the '16 Mummy Clubbers were in town, with their wives, holding forth at the Clinton House, with Samuel (Booty) Hunkin, George (Biff) Rapp, Hamilton Vose, Murray Shelton, and Edward (Ted) Jamison on hand. Also had Fred Gillies '18 and Paul Miller '18 in tow, and with Hibby Ayer '14 at the piano. Says he tried to do one of his old tap-dancing routines, but his tibias wouldn't tib. They even had "Stuffy" from the old Senate and that sage of the Mahogany and Brass Rail Era still insists that there was no Class like '16. And what are the rest of you going to do about it? '17 ME—William C. Bliss, 1949 Flagler Avenue, NE, Atlanta 5, Ga., retired in May after thirty-five years in the Army Ordnance Department (active and reserve) as a colonel. He served overseas in World Wars I and II and received the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Croix de Guerre with Silver Star. He is now a special lecturer at Georgia Institute of Technology. '17 LLB—Leander I. Shelley, 30 Broad Street, New York City 4, sailed for Europe on the Queen Elizabeth, October 14, with Mrs. Shelley. His youngest daughter, Ann, was married last April. '18—Edmund S. Barrington, Apartment 1023, The Broadview, 116 West University Parkway, Baltimore 10, Md., has been promoted to district manager of Chesapeake Lamp Sales, Westinghouse Electric Corp. '18—In the August 31 issue of Newsweek, John S. Knight was pictured with Basil Walters, editor of the Chicago Daily News, one of Knight's group of four papers.
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Knight acquired the paper in 1944. This summer, The Daily News paid off the last of its $13,000,000 debt. Knight's other papers are The Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal, The Miami, Fla., Herald and The Detroit, Mich., Free Press. He is a former member of the publications committee in charge of the ALUMNI NEWS.
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ALPHEUS W. SMITH
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gene Durham, 1744 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, 111., is Director of the Methodist Student Foundation at Northwestern University, i.e., Methodist University pastor. He took this assignment in 1942 after 19 years as Methodist University pastor at Cornell, and serves also as Director of the Illinois State Methodist Student Movement. Gene was in charge of a 1953 tour to England and six countries on the continent. Mrs. Durham (Mary Porter) '22 also went with him on this tour, their second to Europe. He writes: "In London we saw Harold K. MacCorkle '27, out of the Army two years ago as a Major. He stayed on to do civilian work in Germany and is now in Oxford, England, doing civilian work for the Army. Just before we left London we got in touch with Earl Causey '41. He's a successful engineer working on a big project in Kent. He married a very lovely English girl whom we also met. It's beautiful here on the Northwestern campus these fall days, but we don't have the color or the hills of Cornell. Take ia good look at them for me." After 36 years of service in the United States Army, Col. Charles Ennis has retired. His address is no longer Governors Island, but is RD 1, Lyons, where he is a gentleman-farmer on an old family estate. Dr. Samuel Krauss is a practicing dentist at 1040 W. Broadway, Woodmere, on LongIsland. It takes at least 33 years of work to qualify as a genuine Oregon webfoot. Meet John M. Larson again, of 332 7th St., Springfield, Ore. He confesses that he was formerly a Jerseyite ("where there are no mosquitoes"). There're three Larson sons, two almost as tall as their dad, 6' 3". One is a graduate of the University of Oregon, which happens to be just across the river at Eugene. August Schmidt, 1510 Keyes Avenue, Schenectady, is application engineer with the General Electric Co. Gus has one daughter and one 7-year-old grandson. He spent part of last summer in Yugoslavia and other parts of Europe as delegate to the International Electrotechnical Com-
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WALTER D. ARCHIBALD
110 Greenridge Avenue White Plains, N.Y. Our Annual Fall Dinner was held Friday, October 23, at the Cornell Club of New York. Dinner was preceded by a meeting of the Class Executive Commitee which met to act on the resignation of our Class Secretary, Thorne C. Hulbert Thorne has done such a fine job that his resignation was accepted with real regret, but we had to recognize the pressure of his
business. Here's Thorne (left, above) talking things over with the chairman of our 1920 Alumni Fund Committee, John B. MeClatchy. John reported to our Executive Committee on the progress of the Alumni Fund effort of our Class. Your newly-elected Class Secretary is your correspondent, Walter D. Archibald. This is his last column, ,as your new Correspondent. S. Jack Solomon, was elected at
this same meeting. Here's a picture of Jack (otherwise known as Stew) with his microphone, getting a recording of the views of our Class officers, President Don Blanke and V. P. Dick Edson. Actually, Stew cirlated his "mike" around so that everyone at the meeting had something recorded on his tape. Then he played it back later in the evening, to the amusement of all. Our Big Thirty-five-year Reunion in 1955 was a major subject of conversation and our Reunion chairman, Kelly Sachs, came down from Hartford for the occasion. And with him came Allie Stolz, really of the Class of '18 but actually a duly-elected sergeant-at-arms of 1920. And from Wilmington, Del., came Jesse C. Cooper. Joe Diamant, our treasurer, gave a report that will go down in the annals of our memory as one of those rare documents that transforms dry figures and balances into a vibrantly amusing epic. Our previous treasurer, Henry Benisch, was there with his violin. And that old $5 balance from his old records was paid over in cash to Joe with much gusto and with proper witnessing on the part of the assembled Classmates! Ho Ballou told the Executive Committee of his work as chairman of the Q Class Division of the Alumni Fund. Ho was gradually recovering from the wedding of his daughter Carol to William K. Kapp, which took place in Bronxville, October 17, and at which 1920 was represented. It was a gala event in the social life of Bronxville! Spike Livingston, Bill Rurode, and Earl Purdy were on hand to enjoy the occasion. And our ALUMNI NEWS Group Subscrip-
tion Chairman, George Stanton, gave us a very encouraging report. Our Class has more members paying dues than ever be-
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fore, 184 to be exact. And since the dues help pay for sending the NEWS to the entire Class, the Classmates who sponsored this plan by underwriting the cost will only be called upon to pay $10 each this year. Also attending the dinner were Benjamin H. (Jerry) Gerwin, Whitelaw T. Terry, Don Hoagland, Ben Glasser, Joe Christian, and Frank Wade. Stew Solomon had made a new sound track for the beautiful movies that he took of our Class picnic held at Dick Edson's estate a year ago last spring. This was so well done and was so enjoyable that Stew had to play it over twice. He also showed his movies of our 30th Reunion, and even of our 20th too. What memories they all brought back! Among our Classmates at the dinner were Nat Baier, Sam Coombs, Louis Van de Boe, and David Leffler. And visiting us from the Class of '21 was Oliver E. Everett. All agreed that this was one of the most enjoyable dinners that 1920 had held. At the end of this, his last column, your correspondent wants to say adieu. He hopes you have enjoyed reading it as much as he has enjoyed writing it. Pleasant contacts with Classmates have made it an easy job. But he is happy in the feeling that Stew Solomon will do a much better job of being your correspondent. Good luck, Stew! '21 BS—Hilda Lee Goltz, 212 Morris Avenue, Buffalo, Buffalo's only woman radiation physicist, is an assistant at Roswell Park Memorial Institute. '22 ME—James C. Travilla, Jr., 6940 Columbia Avenue, University City 5, Mo., recently returned from a business trip to South Africa and Europe. He was in London at the time of the Coronation. Travilla is vice-president of General Steel Castings Corp. '22 Women—Mrs. Louis A. Winkleman (Helen Kinney), Longwood Avenue, Chatham, N.J., and her husband drove to Texas this summer, where they were joined by their younger son, iand then continued to Pocatello, Idaho, to visit their older son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild. Mrs. D. L. Copeland (Evelyn Miller), 14 Central Avenue, Cranford, N.J., is still busy with Girl Scout work. Her older daughter is studying at the Children's Hospital in Boston. Her younger daughter is a freshman at Skidmore. Mrs. Fred Kemp (Delia Dingle), 28 Princess Avenue, Lansing, Ontario, Canada, had a good reason for missing our Reunion in 1952. She tand her husband were in Europe for a three-month tour, the high spots being Edinburgh and Rome. Mrs. Robert W. Carter (Marion Von Beck) and her husband are at 3331 Union Street, Chili. Their older daughter, Jane, is working in Rochester and the younger daughter, Georgiana, is in her junior year at Agriculture & Technical Institute at Alfred.—Mrs. Francis P. McCormick (Mildred Aeschbach) '23 CE—Victor M. Cortina, Ingenio Consuelo, S.P. de Macoris, Dominican Republic, is staff civil engineer for West Indies Sugar Co.
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to enter Cornell to study Engineering in September, 1954. George lives at 225 West Sixth Avenue, Roselle, N.J., and has an office in Elizabeth. He is a surgeon on the staff of the Elizabeth General Hospital and the St. Barnabas Hospital in Newark, N.J. Clinton S. Maldoon is manager of the Zenda Farms, Clayton. With justifiable pride he points out that this is the largest beef cattle farm in the Northeastern part of the country. M. G. (Dex) Dexter married a Classmate, Jennie Curtis. They have a married daughter, Patricia, who graduated from Cornell in the Class of 1952. Her husband, Clifford A. Clark, graduated from Bowdoin in 1952. In addition to having been president of the Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs, Dex is a member-at-large of the Cornell University Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cornell Alumni Association. He is also a member of the Alumni Committee on Secondary Schools and Chairman of the Secondary School Committee of the Cornell Club of New England. Dex is a member of the Class Council. He is General Manager of the Eastern Plant of Service Caster & Truck Corp., Somerville, Mass. Dex has belonged to the Belmont (Mass.) Dramatic Club for 15 years. His most recent role was that of the captain in "Mr. Roberts." He lives at 23 Chilton St., Belmont, where he is a deacon at the Payson Park Congregational Church. Guy M. Nearing is a member of the Republican State Central and Executive Committee of Ohio from the Fifth Congressional District. His business address is 129 East Court St., Bowling Green, Ohio.
GeorgeS. Bibbins, EE, (above) is Program Transmission Engineer with the Long Lines Department of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. He has been with the company since he was graduated from Cornell. His son, Charles, is now in his 4th year at Cornell where he is majoring in Economics. He plans to get a Master's Degree in the Business Administration School in June, 1955. His daughter is a junior in high school and intends to attend Cornell. George lives at 32 Pine Terrace East. Short Hills, N.J.
D. W. (Don) McClure has just been made a vice-president of General Fireproofing Co., Youngstown, Ohio, where he lives at 483 Madeira Avenue. Don reports that his 30th wedding anniversary will arrive in December. They have a son Charles who graduated from Cornell last June and is now serving in the Armed Forces. Charles has a seven-month-old daughter. Don's daughter Susanne has been married for seven years and has two small boys. C. Longford (Pink) Felske is Treasurer of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., and also of the four subsidiaries of the company. Pink is only the second to be appointed to the office of Treasurer in the 44-year history of the company. Pink iand his family live in a farmhouse about seven miles from Kala-
As everybody knows, our esteemed Classmate, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (above), formerly a Representative in Congress, is now serving his second term as Senator from Missouri. When the 83d Congress convened on January 2, 1953, Tom was unanimously elected by his Democratic Senatorial colleagues to the office of Secretary of the Democratic Conference, one of the three top posts in the Democratic Senate organization. He was also chosen as a member of the Democratic Steering Committee and the Democratic Policy Committee, two of the most powerful Democratic Party committees. In the 83d Congress, Tom has retained his membership on the Senate Rules Committee and the Subcommittee on Privileges & Elections. In place of the Public Works Committee, he now serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee where he is a member of the subcommittees on Civil Rights, National Penitentiaries, and Trade with the Enemy. He is also a member of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee. Tom's introduction to national affairs came at the tender age of 13 when he was a page at the Democratic Convention in St. Louis in 1916, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for the Presidency. After graduating from Cornell with an AB degree in 1924, he attended Washington University in St. Louis where he received his LLB degree. Tom is a senior partner in the firm of Green, Hennings, Henry & Evans, the oldest established law firm in Missouri;
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Helen Small, 90 The Fenway, Boston 15, Mass., is enrolled at the Boston School of Occupational Therapy. Diane Elliot is attending Katharine Gibbs School in New York City, and is living at The Barbizon. Grace Patterson, c/o Hollis Brown, Star Route, Canton, is assistant home demonstration agent in St. Lawrence County. She has an apartment in a farmhouse three miles outside town and boards her horse on the farm. Jean Morrison, The Women's Union, 25 South St., Auburn, is working with Sooki Custom Mades in Auburn. Enid Spangenberger, 45-40 Browville Lane, Little Neck, is on the training squad for assistant buyers at Bloomingdale's in New York City. The program is intense due to the opening of a new store in Stamford, Conn., in February. Mrs. Robert A. Coler (Marga Simon), 60 Lancaster St., Albany, is with the Albany County Department of Health, City Hall, Albany 10. Mrs. James P. Childress (Barbara Williamson), 106 E. Lincoln St., Ithaca, is working at the Statistics Center, 320 Warren Hall, at Cornell. Elizabeth Charles and Claire Moran are two more from our Class who are working for Procter & Gamble: P.O. Box 599, Market Research Division, Cincinnati 1, Ohio. Mrs. Charles D. Busch (Ruth Chipman), Quonset 175, Logan, Utah, is a graduate student in the dept. of sociology at USAC in Logan, Utah. '54—Mary Dolores Daley of Ithaca w a s ^ married to Martin J. Fiala, June 6, in the Base Chapel at Fort Dix, N.J.
NECROLOGY '89 ME—Charles Sutherland Hamner, 6 Hillcrest Avenue, Summit, N.J., September 3, 1953. Until he retired twenty-five years ago he was a partner in Hamner & Moody, consulting engineers. For forty years, he was a member of the board of education of Elizabeth, N.J. Hamner's will made a bequest to the University of $10,000, unrestricted as to use. '93 BSinArch—Percy Crowley Adams, 3319 Quesada Street, NW, Washington 15, D.C., September 8, 1953. He practiced architecture for fifty-eight years and among the many buildings he designed are the Ithaca Post Office, more than thirty-five schools, the dispensary, officers' school, and barracks at Quantico, Va., and hospitals at Langley Field, Va., and Barksdale Field, La. He designed the stands used when President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated in 1917. Adams was a past-president of the District of Columbia chapter, American Institute of Architects. Son, Thomas E. Adams '32. Delta Tau Delta. '93 BL—Mary Catherine Markham, 129 West Sixth Street, Claremont, Cal., October 8, 1953. After receiving nurse's training at Bellevue Hospital, she went to the Panama Canal Zone with the first American medical division during the digging of the
Canal. She became a district nurse with Palama Settlement in Honolulu and later went with the American Red Cross to Siberia, then to Shanghai where she served with the US State Department and taught English literature in St. John's University. She was head of the poetry section of the American Association of University Women. '95 LLB, '96 LLM—John Chase Taylor, Middleport, December 15, 1952. From 1897-1903, he operated a furniture business in England. He had since practiced law in Middleport. '99 MD—Dr. Ernest Tutschulte, Midoaks Road, Monroe, September 5, 1953. He practiced medicine in Newark, N.J., for forty-three years before he retired to Monroe in 1950. '07 MD — Dr. Edward Montgomery Wellbery, RD 2, Richfield Springs, October 10, 1953. Before moving to Richfield Springs to go into private practice, he was chief surgeon for Bush Terminal Co. in Brooklyn. '06 AB—Mrs. L. Lee Lichtenstein (Elsa Esther Levy), 12 South Lee Street, Washington & Lee Apartments, Cumberland, Md., August 18, 1953. Sisters, Mrs. A. H. Kohn (Lilly Levy) '06 and Mrs. J. K. Liveright (Gretchen Levy) '09. '09 ME — William Clarence Morgenstern, 1899 Jackson Street, Oakland 12, Gal., August 3, 1953. He was formerly chief engineer of National Tube Works at Ellwood City, Pa., and recently was with Kaiser Steel Corp. in Oakland. Alpha Tau Omega. '15—Paul Runge, 14 East High Road, Port Washington, October 19, 1953. He was vice-president, treasurer, and a director of Certified Dry Mat Corp., 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City 20, a director of American Sand-Banum Co., Inc., Sigma Nu. '17—Lucien Wilbur Mueller, RD 6, DuClaire, Decatur, 111., October 7, 1953. He was chairman of the board of Mueller Co., valve manufacturers, and a director of Citizens National Bank, Decatur & Macon County Hospital, and the State Chamber of Commerce, and national councillor to US Chamber of Commerce. From 1943-45, he was assistant chairman of the shell industry integration committee for Chicago Ordnance District. Brother, Frank H. Mueller '27. Phi Gamma Delta; Quill & Dagger. '22 LLB—Albert Hale Lakin, 527 South Hobart, Los Angeles 5, Cal., October 11, 1953. He was with Warren Mortgage Co. of Emporia, Kans. '27 AB—Dr. Norman Robin Goldsmith, 230 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa., October 9, 1953. He practiced medicine in New York City and Lancaster. He was the author of numerous scientific articles and also wrote fiction and detective stories. Pi Lambda Phi. '41 AB —Joanne Heath, October 22, 1953. She was a reservations clerk for Trans-World Airlines in New York City. Father, the late Judge Riley H. Heath '12. Kappa Alpha Theta.
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