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111 7:l1is Issue

March

'955 Rochester shares in increased financial support of higher education by industry VOL XV, ... Historic Prince Street Campus buildings p]ac~d on sale ... Tuition-free No.4 exchange plan adds to Faculty benefits ... New supplies and accounts building under construction ... Noted violinist joins Eastman School Faculty ... Eastman School's new campus wins plaudits...... 36 ""'" & lea/Ilres

Editor Top 'nuclear physicists of free world meet at River Campus, photos. 7-11 CHARLES F. COLE, '25 "Island! Island!" by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi, '41, tells of life on the island of Majorca 12 Classnotes Editor Reflections on American Freedom by Sol M. Linowitz, UR Trustee. . 13 'DONALD A. PARRY, '51 Art Director LEE D. ALDERMAN, '47 7:l1e fjrllliltllte .:

Published by The Uni­ Professor Richard R. Powell, '11, describes his experience as director of Columbia versity of Rochester for University's Bicentennial Celebration...... 14 the Alumni Federation Dr. Richard O. Roblin, Jr., '30, plays key role in development of new drug for in cooperation with the treatment of congestive heart failure. .. 17 Federation's Publication Letters to the Editor...... 16 Committee:

J. R. COMINSKY, '20 elllSs Nates Chairman ALBERT H. THOMAS, '32 College for Men-pages 16-20; College for Women-pages 20-21; Eastman Vice-Chairman School of Music, page 21; Graduate School, pages 21-22; Medical School, Roy S. THRALL, '49£ Nursing School, University School, page 22. MRS, CYNTHIA ALLEN HART, '46N DR. STANLEY WIDGER, '37M HERBERT J. BRAUER, '47U On the Couer MRS, SHIRLEY DUTEMPLE An arresting study of Dr. J. Robert Oppen­ MORABITO, '38 heimer, director of the Institute for Advanced GEORGE 1. McKELVEY, '50 Study, Princeton, N. J., and wartime chief of Exemtive Secretary the atomic bomb project, taken at fifth annual Nuclear Physics Conference, River Campus,

Photo-Credits: Cover picture, Faces of Science, pages 10-11, by Leonard Maxwell, candid pictures of confer­ Published five times pel" year ence, pages 8 and 9, by Curt Barnes. in January, March, May, Sep­ tember and November at the Alliance Press and mailed with­ out charge to all alumni. Edi­ torial Office, 15 Prince Street, Rochester 3. N. Y. Entered as second class matter, Novem­ ber, 1952, at the post office at Rochester, N. Y. rite Ul1iversity

OR a long time President de Kiewiet panies. Unrestricted annual givmg by and univerSities on the basis of contri­ Fand other educational leaders have local corporations to the University now butions to their alma mater by individual been saying that the nation's future-in­ amounts to more than $125,000 as a re­ GE employees who are college graduates. deed its very survival-depends upon its sult of the Development Fund campaign, Through its Educational and Charitable colleges and universities; that the Amer­ and it is hoped that other firms as they Fund, the company will match contribu­ ican private enterprise system and inde­ complete payments on their capital gift tions up to $1,000 to their colleges and pendent universities are essential to each pledges will find it possible to make universities by any such graduates. GE other, and that the future of corpora­ annual contributions. has about 23,000 college graduates in its tions depends upon a sound economic total work force, scores of them Roch­ and social environment which in turn HERE have been three significant de­ ester alumni. velopments in the last two months in­ hinges on free and vital non-govern­ T 2-General Motors, with one of the mental institutions of higher learning, dicating that U.S. industry has become aroused to its responsibility to give far most comprehensive plans, intends to add "It is no accident," President de Kie­ more help than in the past to colleges and $2,000,000 a year to its support of high­ wiet said in his annual report for 1953­ universities-and therefore, as Ti171e er education in a program of four-year 54, "that this country has achieved her pointed out, to help itself. The Univer­ scholarships to students and grants to 306 colleges and universities, including greatness through a system of free enter­ sity of Rochester, along with many other prise in material development and free institutions, will benefit from these ac­ Rochester. Awards under the scholarship inquiry in the world of ideas, given di­ tions: phase of the program will range up to rection by the ideals of the Constitution $2,000 annually depending upon "dem­ and an adherence to a strong system of I-The General Electric Company's onstrated need." Two scholarships a year have been allocated to the UR. General moral principles. In yet more practical Corporate Alumnus Program will give terms, this nation exists at a time when grants of unrestricted funds to colleges Motors will add an amount equivalent to the trained mind, and a high order of (Please turn to next page) technical ability, are necessary for our survival. As Winston Churchill said to­ ward the end of the war, 'The future of the world is to the highly educated HE importance of continuing alumni financial support of their colleges races.' " T and universities is underscored by the experimental General Electric Cor­ porate Alumnus Program. Philip D. Reed, chairman of the Trustees of the GE Until recently, however, financial sup­ Educational and Charitable Fund, stated: port of universities by industry has been - "Today ... our colleges and universities need increased support. Their costs to a considerable extent of a restricted, are higher; their enrollments are larger and will become larger still; their quid pro quo nature-financing of a few physical plants are inadequate or outmoded; their teaching staffs are overtaxed scholarships and fellowships, or specific and all too often underpaid. These conditions exist in the face of mounting research projects closely related to the needs for more educated manpower-and more talented manpower-on the companies' own work. part of business, research, the professions and government. In our view, our free economy and society depend upon the educational process for survival and OCHESTER firms in 1953 took national growth. Rleadership in setting an example of "The true beneficiary of American higher education has been the educated continuing support of independent uni­ individual, and through him the organization of which he is a part. In almost versities through private enterprise in every instance, the true cost of that education has exceeded the tuition charged. their contributions to the University De­ It has therefore seemed to us that one of the major sources for continuing sup­ velopment Fund. The Eastman Kodak port of higher education must be the alumni. Company's million-dollar-plus gift, The "In establishing the Corporate Alumnus Program, as an additional element of Haloid Company's annual contribution our over-all education program, the Trustees of the General Electric Educational to establish and maintain the new and Charitable Fund hope to stimulate institutions, their alumni, and other Haloid Professorship in International business organizations to a new point of action. If a college or university is Economics, the substantial annual contri­ making the effort of soliciting from its graduates, who are employees, regular butions by the Rochester Gas & Electric contributions for funds devoted to the primary needs and objectives of higher Corporation, pfaudler Company and oth­ education, then we will undertake to make similar contributions through the ers are examples of the enlightened "in­ fund established for educational purposes." dustrial statesmanship" of Rochester com-

3 ?:lte Ul1iversity Historic Prince Street Buildings For Sale; Eastman School to Take Over Munro, Cutler (Continued from preceding page) "This land with these buildings is now art center of the University and the com­ the tuition rate in the form of a grant to for sale... Possession on or before Oc­ munity. each private college involved. President tober 1, 1955." The University also will retain the de Kiewiet termed the plan "a fine dem­ This advertisement, illustrated with Women's Faculty Club for use of the Art onstration of General Motors' leadership photos of the old buildings on the Prince Gallery, perhaps to house children's and responsibility" which "creates addi­ Street Campus to be disposed of in con­ classes, and Seelye House, long the home tional confidence in the American eco­ nection with the merger of the Men's and of the University's presidents, and for the nomic system." Women's Colleges this fall, appeared in past twenty years a cooperative student 3-The University of Rochester is Rochester and New York newspapers in dormitory, will be taken over by the among 138 privately-endowed colleges February. presaged the final days of Eastman School. and universities to share in a half-million It about half of the original campus, with Frederick D. Whitney, former vice dollar grant announced by the Standard its historic buildings dating back to 1861 president of the Lincoln Rochester Trust Oil Company of New Jersey. Eugene when Anderson Hall, the first structure, Company, has been retained by the Uni­ Holman, chairman of the board, stated was completed as the "college edifice." versity to show the buildings and to re­ that "the company believes that as a With them go the memories, dreams, fail­ ceive offers for their purchases. corporate citizen, it should, with all citi­ ures and triumphs of college generations The buildings to be disposed of are zens, help the nation's colleges and uni­ of the past ninety-four years. the following: versities to maintain and improve the also betokened the brilliant new era Anderson Hall, Sibley Hall, women's li­ high standards which will enable them to It which the University is entering, with its brary, built in 1874, Kendrick Hall, built meet the growing needs of our society." resources and educational programs in­ in 1913, Reynolds Chemistry Laboratory, The company has distributed sums rang­ tegrated and strengthened to meet the built in 1887, Carnegie Hall, built in ing from $2,000 to $5,000 per institution challenges and needs of today's complex 1911 as an engineering and classroom for purposes of undergraduate education, world-a world far different from and building, remodeled ten years ago as a with no stipulation on how the money is greatly more troubled than the relatively women's dormitory, and Eastman Labor­ to be used. The grant to the University uncomplicated one of those earlier years atory, built in 1906, all on the College of Rochester was $3,500. Standard Oil also announced that it in the Universitiy's progress. Avenue side of the campus; the Admin­ istration Office at 15 Prince Street, Cath­ was giving $50,000 to the Fund for Med­ A substantial part of the campus, with ical Education to aid financially pressed its attractive newer buildings will be re­ arine Strong Hall and Anthony Gym­ tained as a residence and social campus nasium, original home of the Women's medical schools. for the Eastman School of Music, which College; and three dormitories - Allton Discussing the importance of educa­ will take over Munro Hall as a dormitory tional support, Jersey Standard's board House at 493 University Avenue, Helen for men students, and Cutler Union. chairman said: Bragdon House, formerly the Delta Up­ Memorial Art Gallery also will continue "If it becomes a general practice on silon house, at 35 Strathallan Park, and the part of business organizations to share to function in its present location as the Castle House, 21 Prince Street. in the financial support of higher educa­ Work Underway to Reinforce Eastman Theatre Ceiling; tion, the cumulative effect over the years will be substantial and will represent a Cost to Eastman School Set at $100,000 major service to our country and to all 600 pounds. mankind." ORK is well along on a $100,000 2-Placing of three I-beams across each Total financial assistance given by the W project to reinforce the Eastman square in the network of steel beams company and its affiliates to American Theatre's ornamental plaster ceiling, a above the steel furring network, from education this year totals a million dol­ small section of which fell on December lars, including research grants, scholar­ 9, under a plan that engineers and con­ which the ceiling is suspended, and addi­ ships and fellowships. struction experts assure should guarantee tional support bars connecting the ceil­ its safety beyond question. ing and the furring. The furring con­ The plan, based on their reports and sists of channels and angles over the en­ Service Pins Awarded 300 recommendations after nearly two months tire ceiling, and in turn is attached by T THE fifth annual service award of exhaustive tests and studies, consists steel supports to the main roof girder A dinner, the University honored near­ of: system. ly 300 non-Faculty employees with from I-The addition of more than 3,000 3-Placing of steel rods through the ten to thirty-seven years of continuous steel wire hangers, consisting of four rosettes in each of the 180 ornamental loyal service. fourteen-gauge galvanized steel wires panels, fastened on the under side of the Twenty of the veteran employees re­ each, to supplement the 1,500 existing rosettes by metal discs and bolted to the ceived ten-year service pins from Ray­ jute-reinforced plaster hangers, increas­ furring above the ceiling. mond L. Thompson, Senior Vice Presi­ ing the ceiling's strength many-fold. The The cost of the project, which includes dent and Treasurer. The longest service steel hangers attached to each panel or reconstruction of the four panels that fell record is that of Gertrude Herdle Moore, coffer are capable of carrying loads of and redecoration of the entire ceiling, '18, Director of Memorial Art Gallery, 2,000 pounds, giving a combined safety will be borne by the Eastman School of who joined the Gallery staff as a college margin of nearly four to one. The actual Music, of which the theatre is an in­ student. weight of each coffer does not exceed tegral part.

4 Tuition-Free Exchange Plan Contributes Bigelow Award Given Significant Addition to Faculty Benefits Dr. Isabel Wallace

HE University has extended a signi­ sents an important benefit. RIEND and counselor of UR women Tficant new benefit to members of its Among the many institutions which Fstudents for the past twenty-six years, Faculty by joining with a group of more have joined the new tuition exchange plan Dr. Isabel K. Wallace, '16, is this year's than 120 colleges and universities in are Amherst, Bowdoin, Williams, Ben­ winner of the Fannie R. Bigelow award twenty-five states in a mutual tuition­ nington, Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, in recognition of her contributions to the free exchange of Faculty children and Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Oberlin, Prince­ cultural, civic and intellectual life of the children of administrative officers. ton, Rutgers, Hobart, Syracuse and Vassar. college and community. The award was At Rochester, full-time members of all Rochester has entered the plan with a presented at the annual Susan B. An­ Faculties with the rank of Instructor or five-year quota of thirty-five scholarships, thony Day dinner of the Alumnae Asso­ above are eligible. Benefits under the or approximately seven a year. This figure ciation on February 9. Faculty Children's Tuition Exchange Plan is based on a survey indicating that dur­ are restricted to undergraduate education, ing the next five years sixty children of A similar award to the outstanding un­ and it is likely that students drawn here Faculty members will reach college age. dergraduate went to Mildred C. Bigelow under the plan will study in the College Rochester has long been known as a of Englewood, N. J., a senior, holder of of Arts and Science and the Eastman leader among universities in the area of a Genesee Scholarship and a campus lead­ School of Music. When the University faculty-employee benefits. It was one of er throughout her college career. Presi­ enters into full participation, the tuition the earliest to participate in the Teachers dent of the women's student association waived will amount to 20,000 annually. Insurance and Annuity Association retire­ this year, and a member of Marsiens, When added to the 20,000 waived ment plan for non-teaching personnel, as senior honor society, she has served in annually under the plan in effect at the early as 1936, and recently its group life the campus YWCA, class offices, and the University for a number of years by insurance plan was liberalized so that campus radio station, WRUR, as well as which children of all Faculty members, twenty-five per cent more insurance is making notable contributions to the and of non-Faculty employees with five provided to all employees without addi­ Kaleidoscope productions as a member of years of service or more, are entitled to tional cost to them, and the maximum the cast, and successively assistant dra­ full tuition credits of $350 a semester for benefits were raised from $5,000 to matic director and dramatic director. She a maximum of eight semesters, this repre- $10,000. is co-author of the script for this year's K-scope production. Dr. Wallace, vocational counselor and placement officer for women, is a charter member and past president of the Cosmo­ politan Club of Rochester, a member and past president of 11 Solco, an organiza­ tion to promote study of the Italian lang­ uage and culture, a former member of the board of the Rochester YWCA, and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1951 she received the first citation pre­ sented by the Rochester Classroom Teach­ ers Association for her outstanding con­ tributions to the youth of Rochester. She received her master's degree at Bryn Mawr and her Ph.D. degree at the University New Supplies and Accounts Buildin9 Risin9 at Medica' Center of Chicago.

Integration of the University's business operations will become fully effective with The awards, consisting of silver trays, the completion in the early summer of a new $400,000 supplies and accounts build­ were presented by Helen Ancona Berge­ ing, located at the Medical Center behind the Medical School gymnasium and staff son, '38, Alumnae Association president. house. Work began in January. They are given each year in memory of The building, shown above in an architect's rendering, will house University main­ the woman who was closely associated tenance shops, a gar.age, the printing department, and general stores on the first with Susan B. Anthony in her efforts to floor. Offices of the University purchasing, accounting, and buildings and grounds raise funds so that women might be ad­ departments, now in scattered locations on the Prince Street, River, and Medical mitted to the University. Although her Center Campuses, will be on the second floor. surname is the same, this year's student With the opening of the new supplies and accounts building, the River Campus recipient is not related to Fannie Bige­ service building will be remodeled for University School of Liberal and Applied low. Muriel Nixon Rising, '49, was Studies, now located on the Prince Street Campus. The remodeling will provide Alumnae dinner chairman, and Ann Carl­ new University School administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories. University son, student dinner chairman. School will move to the River Campus next fall when the merger of the Women's (See back cover for photo of and Men's Colleges will take place. Dr. Wallace and Miss Bigelow)

5 rite University Joy Doesn't Bring Tears, Says UR Psychiatrist "There are no tears. of joy, only tears Feldman for adults weeping at "happy of sorrow," asserts Dr. Samuel Feldman, endings" are the reminder of happiness New Musical Honors Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the we missed in the past, guilt feelings of Accorded Dr. Hanson School of Medicine and Dentistry. our unworthiness of happiness, and the His declaration, made in a paper pre­ "delayed effect" where worry and tears HE cause of American music, which sented at a meeting of the American were repressed until the happy outcome. T is his abiding interest, was further Psychoanalytic Association in New York Noted Violinist Joins advanced by Dr. Howard Hanson, Di­ City in December, was the subject of news rector of the Eastman School of Music, stories and comment throughout the coun­ Eastman School Faculty on two occasions in February that brought try. His paper dealt with the phenom­ NoWN as a brilliant American con­ him grea't distinction. enon of adults crying at "happy endings" K cert violinist and exceptional teacher, He received the high honor of being to periods of concern, either in real life Joseph Knitzer has been appointed by chosen to open a series of four concerts or in the movies, literature, or similar Dr. Howard Hanson to the Eastman of American music with American com­ experiences. "Crying at the happy end­ School of Music Faculty as artist-teacher posers by the famed Symphony of the ing," he said, "probably starts when of violin to succeed the late Andre de Air, formerly the NBC Symphony con­ death is accepted as an inevitable fact." Ribaupierre, whose death is reported on ducted by Arturo Toscanini, and rated by Children, he noted, never weep over hap­ page . many as the finest symphonic orchestra of py events. For instance: N ow head of the department of all time. In the Carnegie Hall perform­ "The beautiful bride stands at the stringed instruments at Northwestern ance on February 13, Dr. Hanson con­ altar," he said. "This is the happiest day University, Knitzer comes to the Eastman ducted the orchestra in two of his own of her life. The bride does not cry. The School on a part-time basis for the cur­ works, "Serenade for Flute and Orches­ girl's parents, relatives and close friends rent semester to give instruction to ad­ tra," and his Second symphony. Other do cry. They say they cry because they are vanced students, but will assume the full­ numbers were "Comes Autumn Time" by happy for her or because they will lose time post in September. Leo Sowerby, "In Memoriam" by Doug­ a daughter through marriage. The writer For thirteen years Knitzer was head of las Moore, and "Poem and Dance" by believes they cry because deep down in the violin department of the Cleveland Quincy Porter. their hearts they feel that up to now the Symphony. He has appeared as soloist All works performed in the four Sym­ child was safe and protected by them, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New phony of the Air concerts were by Amer­ but from now on she enters a difficult, York Philharmonic, NBC, Detroit and ican Pulitzer Prize winners. Dr. Hanson uncertain future." Cleveland and other orchestras and has won the prize in 1944 with his Fourth As children, he explained, "we do not made a number of transcontinental con­ symphony. know that death will put an end to happy, cert tours. On February 18, he was a guest at the loving relationships. Gradually we learn His reputation as an unusually success­ premiere performance of his Sixth sym­ the bitter truth. Then, we do cry that ful teacher is borne out by the fact that phony by the Philadelphia Orchestra un­ happy childhood with its illusions is gone. a number of his students have won im­ der Eugene Ormandy, at whose request We cry for the sad end sure to come, portant national awards in performance, the work was written. The symphony was final separation from our loved ones." among them the National Federation of later to be performed in New York. Among other reasons given by Dr. Music Clubs Young Artist Award and the Naumburg Award. Knitzer himself won the coveted New Eastman Campus Called Cause for Satisfaction Naumburg Award in 1935 and the Schu­ bert Memorial Prize in 1936. He made (Editorial in the Rochester Times-Union, February 8) his Town Hall debut at the age of twen­ HE University decision to turn over more than half of the present Women's ty-two and his first solo appearance the T Campus to the Eastman School of Music will cause great jubilation at the same year with the Philadelphia Orches­ Eastman School, and considerable satisfaction to the city at large. tra under Leopold Stokowski. As a young The decision means that the area between Prince and Goodman Streets along man he studied for six years with the University Avenue will be retained unchanged and continue to be used for distinguished Leopold Auer, and later University purposes. with Louis Persinger, noted American The Eastman School will now be permitted to spread out in a campus atmos­ violinist. phere both in its residence requirements and in facilities for instruction. The Faculty Notes acquisition of Cutler Union gives the School not only another fine auditorium but also a center of student life and activities. Dr. Lewis D. Conta, chairman of the In its expanded plant, the School will feel that it never lived before. Division of Engineering, has been re­ Old timers will regret, of course, the decision to dispose of the half of the elected president of the Association of campus along College Avenue. Buildings which for many years w'ere the heart Engineering Colleges of New York State of the University are located in that half. The regret, however, will be entirely ... Dr. Arthur J. May, Professor of sentimental, and will be balanced by the understanding that merging of the History, sailed January 4 to begin eight men's and women's campuses is the best thing for the University and its students. months of research on the Hapsburg mon­ archy of Austria, under a Fulbright grant and a Guggenheim scholarship.

6 100 Top Physicists of Free World Meet at UR to Exchange Clues

Top physicists from research centers throughout the free world met at the River Campus for the fifth annual UR conference on high energy physics.

HERE arose from the River Campus for three days in Feb­ Truary almost palpable emanations of brain power when the most brilliant minds in the world of nuclear physics converged there from every important research center on five continents­ North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. This year's fifth annual gathering was particularly significant for the large number of scientists from throughout the free world. Of the 100 physicists who attended, thirty came from twelve foreign nations. The conferences were begun in a mod­ est way in 1951 under the leadership of Dr. Robert E. Marshak, Physics Department chairman and Harris Professor of Physics, with financial support from a small group of Rochester indus­ tries. The 1955 meeting was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, International Union of Pure and Applied Sciences, Dr. Homi Bhabha, of India (left), new U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and U.S. Office of Naval Re­ head of the world conference on peace­ ful uses of atomic energy, talks with URIs search, with continuing aid from the faithful Rochester group. Dr. Robert E. Marshak (eenter) and Dr. J. HAT the researchers in the relatively new science which Robert Oppenheimer, between sessions. W produced the atom bomb are interested in is the atomic nucleus-the unsolved mystery of the ultimate core of all par­ ticles of matter. They seek to know what holds the nucleus to­ gether and what are the natures of the spark-Wee partides which 7 (Continued from preceding page) shoot out of it when it is bombarded by energy or other sub­ atomic particles. During the three days, in conference sessions, in little groups of two and three men, in corridors, and at meals,· the scientists exchanged information on their theories and experiments. Some new discoveries were reported, some old ones discarded. The conference produced no outstanding single development, but many new experimental facts were disclosed, and some of the question marks of the past cleared up. But, as Dr. Morton F. Kaplon, able young leader of the UR's C03mic Ray Group, said, the process "raised more questions to which we don't yet know the answers." Many new experimental facts were reported from accelerators like the University's 240,OOO,OOO-volt cyclotron, and from studies of cosmic rays that penetrate the earth's atmosphere from outer space.

HE conference's contribution to eventual understanding of Dr. Emilio Segre, University of California, uses tinkertoy to T the atom's nucleus was summed up by Dr. J. Robert Oppen­ show Dr. Allan Bromley, of UR Physics Faculty, techniques of heimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Prince­ demonstrating how atom particles scatter under pressure. ton, N. J., and wartime chief of the atomic bomb project and later of developing its fearful successor, the hydrogen bomb, in this way: .'We have learned a lot. We have the feel of the territory we are working in." The conference glittered with the big names of the nuclear physics world. In addition to Dr. Oppenheimer there were two Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Isidor Rabi of Columbia University and Dr. Carl D. Anderson, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Homi Bhabha, chairman of India's Atomic Energy Com­ mission and newly-appointed president of the first world con­ ference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy to be held next August in Geneva (his appointment was announced by U. N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold just as the conference was con­ cluding) ; Dr. W. M. Powell, in charge of cloud chamber re­ search at the world's largest atom smasher, the Bevatron at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley; Dr. C. J. Bakker of The Netherlands, representative of CERN, European Center for Nuclear Research, which eventually will have one of the most powerful atom-smashing machines; Dr. P. B. Moon ·and Dr. Rudolf Peierls, two of England's top phy­ sicists, of the University of Birmingham; Dr. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University, who was director of the theoretical division Looking over luncheon choices in Todd Union are Y. Pal, of of the A-bomb project throughout World War II, and many Tata Institute, India, and M.I.T., R. H. Dalitz, of Cornell others. University, and M. G. K. Menon, of Bristol University, England.

Dr. George B. Collins (center), former head of UR Physics Department, now in charge of acceleration program at Brook­ haven Laboratory, holds forth to a dis­ tinguished group at lunch. From left, C. N. Yang, and F. J. Dyson, of Institute for Advanced Studies, Hans A. Bethe, Cornell, and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. UR Pioneered in Building Atom Smasher; Cyclotron Being Rebuilt After .20 Years

It was only seven years ago that Roch­ experiments with the purpose of learning ester's big cyclotron rated as the largest about the forces which exist between post-war atom smasher. Many larger ones fundamental nuclear particles. In addi­ have been built since then, and now Brook­ tion it has been run many hours in mak­ haven National Laboratory is planning ing radioactive tracer elements for work one with an awesome magnitude ten times in medical research carried out at the more powerful than the largest now in Medical Center and by other institutions use, the University of California's six­ throughout the country. It also has sup­ billion-electron-volt Bevatron. Dr. George plied radioactive tracer elements for the B. Collins, Physics Department chairman Chemistry Department and other physical from 1946 to 1950, is in charge of the laboratories. During most of World War Brookhaven accelerator program. The II, the "baby" cyclotron was used on the University of Rochester participates in Manhattan Project for the development the research there as one of the nine in­ of the atom bomb. stitutions in Associated Universities, Jne. While the high energy accelerators . ) The University of Rochester pioneered draw the most attention, the small cyclo­ Dr. Edward U. Condon (right), former in the bUi.lding of cyclotrons Its seven- tron is also vitally important in the low director of researc~, Corni~g Glass million-volt machine, then ~ne of the energy nuclear field, and in combination Works, and Dr. MaUrice Shapiro, Naval b' t f't k" d b f' with the 240,000,000-volt cyclotron and Research Laboratory, look over a re- 1 es 0 1 s. m, ec?an. opera mg m port on the new atomic experiments.' 35. nd untIl the begmnmg of World the program in cosmic ray studies, gives War II was the best known proton accel- the University well-rounded facilities for ") \ erator in the United States. The discovery exploring the whole range of nuclear of proton-induced fission of uranium, an energy. The "baby" cyclotron has been important step in the developments that rebuilt into a more complex, more flex­ eventually brought the atom bomb, was ible, and efficient atom-smasher under the made with this cyclotron, and its beam direction of Dr. Harry W. Fulbright, has been used in proton-proton scattering Associate Professor of Physics.

Dr. Enrico Fermi Missed At Physicists' Sessions

ARM friend and idol of his scientific colleagues, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Nobel W Prize winner, one of the chief architects of the atomic bomb and one of the great scientists of this century, was deeply missed at this year's fifth annual high energy physics conference at the River Campus. He died on November 28. "We miss him awfully, but we can all try to keep the spirit that he had," Oreste Piccioni, Brookhaven Laboratory, said Dr. Carl D. Anderson of California Institute of Technology who also is a and Jack Steinberger, Columbia, dis­ Nobel Prize winner. cuss an equation at the blackboard. At the 1952 conference, the University awarded the famed Italian nuclear physicist an honorary Doctor of Science degree at a special ceremony. Those attending this year's conference included several who were with Dr. Fermi during the wartime atomic bomb development, among them Dr. Oppen­ heimer, and Dr. Rudolf Peierls of the University of Birmingham, England.

9 These striking portraits are revealing studies of ~'me of the leading figures in the mysterious and challenging world of nuclear physics who gath­ ered at the River Campus January 31 through February 2 to exchange theories. experimental results of their research. Some, like Drs. Isidor Rabi of Columbia University and Homi Bhabha of India (page 7). will have key roles in the first international conference to be held in Geneva. Switzerland, in August on peaceful uses of atomic energy. While to the layman their cosmic de­ liberations seem hopelessly indecipherable. it should be remembered that out of such theoriz­ ing and experimenting came the development of the A-Bomb and the H-Bc:>mb, and the peaceful uses of atomic energy that hold much hope in the curing of disease. operating ships and plane;, and supplying power to cities and industries.

Island! Island!

Anne Sinclair Mehdevi is the author of the successful book, means that our water supply comes from what rain we can rrpersian Adventure," published tast year by Alfred A. Knopf, catch in canals on the eaves. The rainy season in Majorca is Inc. The LONDON TIMES, in a rare burst of enthusiasm} said short and sketchy, and we are constantly dropping plumb lines that it is lIironic for Englishmen to find tbe most illuminating into our two cisterns to see whether next Saturday's bath can be book in English on contemporary Persia written by an American; risked or not. If the cisterns run dry, we have to carry water no less ironic for both Englishmen and Persians to find it from a community cistern by burro cart at a cost which soon written by a woman." makes it evident that it would be cheaper to fill up with wine. The food items I've mentioned are the ones usually con­ BoUT three years ago my husband and I quit our jobs, sold our car, bundled up our three children and came to the sidered staples. If necessary, one can thrive on them, feeding a A family of seven on two and a half dollars a day. Any attempts island of Majorca. We were looking for a place where we could at variation run disproportionately high; if we should want an control things, instead of permitting things to control us. Our apple out of apple season, we pay anywhere from twenty to friends expressed envy and misgiving-envy because we were thirty cents a pound and get a worm or two for our trouble. going to an island paradise, as they called it, and misgiving Coffee costs a dollar fifty cents a pound all year round, and because our income was approximately $100 a month. We even then we are never sure it isn't mixed with chicory or tinted hoped to augment this income by "writing," though neither of cocoa beans. Eggs are variable; in summer they may cost as us had ever sold a free-lance article in our lives. The only acceptable ending, of course, to a half-baked adven­ little as two cents apiece, but the Mallorquin hens have never been taught to lay in winter, and a dozen eggs will run up to ture such as this is that we lived happily ever after. It is too sixty or seventy cents. soon to predict endings. But the Rochester Review has asked me for a works-in-progress report, as a warning and perhaps a LOTHING, shoes, toys and household goods are dispropor­ guide to other Alumni who may be nursing hope~ of similarly C tionately expensive and of inferior quality. But transporta­ kicking over the traces. tion is the biggest drain on the purse, and a strain on the nerves I can only give information about our particular paradise­ to boot. Majorca has been curiously laid out so that all roads the port town of Alcudia on the island of Majorca. But I'm lead like wheel spokes to Palma, the island capital, which hap­ convinced that island paradises have many attributes in com­ pens to be at the opposite end of the island from our town. If mon; my report could probably apply as well to self-exile on we wish to go, for instance, from our town to a town directly Capri, Tahiti or Zanzibar. north, we must go over thirty miles west to Palma, then turn IRST of all there is the cost of living. 'My husband and I around and come back along a parallel road which leads to the Fhave been able so far to augment our income as planned. town we want to visit. Taxis, most of them twenty and thirty .our family of five (and two servants) spend an average of year old models (Oaklands and Essexes) cost more than taxis $250 a month. The rent on our eight-room house is twenty­ in New York City. A ride from Palma to our town costs about five dollars a month, the servants' salaries vary from five to ten ten dollars because we have to pay the return fare even though dollars a month and the electric bill is about two dollars. Food we don't return. (The driver, I must admit, has a legitimate in season is also cheap-a cauliflower costs four cents, potatoes claim when he says he won't be able to pick up a return one cent a pound, oranges four cents a pound, bread five cents passenger.) a pound. Meat, the most expensive food item, costs about fifty Besides the taxis there is a Toonerville-like train which runs cents a pound. American cigarettes are fifteen cents a package only half-way across the island, and there are the local busses. (they are smuggled in from Tangier), and wine costs seven to Like the roads, the busses only go to Palma. Our town's bus ten cents aliter. leaves at seven-thirty every morning and returns at eight at This is the rosy statistical picture. Each item has its obverse night. The round trip costs about a dollar. As for driving your side. Our house, for instance; it's a blue-and-white villa perched own car, the gasoline is mixed with kerosene and raises havoc romantically on a piney cliff with a balcony overhanging the with the most durable engine. Anyway, the Spanish govern­ clear, green Mediterranean, and it looks worthy of a prince. ment frowns upon permanent residents who possess cars. Any It's not worthy, however, of a pampered American housewife. resident like ourselves must pay a 130 percent duty on the value It has no hot water, no ice box, no means of his car for the privilege of driving in of garbage disposal and no method for Majorca. This wouldn't be so disastrous winter heating except for a wood fireplace if the "value" were not determined by in one room. The kitchen is equipped Spanish authorities who are inclined to with a sink fashioned from hollowed-out deal in nothing lower than four cipher soapstone and a menacing iron stove that figures, no matter how old the car may be. functions on wood and patience. There is T'S easy to understand why my husband no telephone and no possibility of install­ I and I sometimes grit our teeth when ing one, because we would have to pro­ one of our well-meaning acquaintances in vide the poles and lines. Worst of all, America writes glowingly of his envy, the house has no running water. This describing our life as the idyll he imagines

12 t-~ By Sol M. Linowitz ~_. Reflections ~,~~~ Excerpts from an On American Iaddress given before ~~~~ \~ Iota Chapter, .. Freedom By '40 ~~" ,,\ , ...... _ U. Phi Beta Kappa Anne Sinclair Mehdevi. ti it. Our acquaintai1Ce never hears of the legion of nuisances, N THESE times of national anxiety and peril there is reason some of which I've described, that infest "unspoiled" places like I for grave concern that we have become badly confused as to ants at a picnic. There are days, in fact, when we can't spare a the real nature of the struggle and the place where the crucial thought for the sparkling sea and the cloudless skies. In other battle is being fought. For it is not in Korea, in China, or even words, I would advise people who daydream of escaping to in Western Europe that we are today facing our greatest chal­ primitive paradises not to consider it unless they are equipped lenge. The real, the vital battle is being fought where the deep- with a sense of humor} a steely nervous system and a knack for est battles are always fought-in the minds of men . making do. National power, real national power, depends upon Even those who possess these reserves sometimes find Majorca ideas and traditions and those things which are basic to a hard to take. For the worst thing about unspoiled retreats is nation's beliefs and aspirations. What a country believes and that they leave you unequivocally on your own, to do or not to why it believes it, the things for which a nation stands and why, do as you please. Absolute idleness is strong stuff. My husband these are vital considerations in evaluating the strength of the and I have seen any number of hope-filled exiles come and go. bond which holds a people together. In this respect, we who Most of them arrive with a nest egg, a head full of rebellious share the democratic idea have the touch of centuries, the heri­ fancies and all manner of magnificent plans about the books tage of the West's steady search for light and truth.... In they are going to write or the pictures they are going to paint the test of strengths, the free open mind has been our im­ or the soul-searching they are going to get done. But when mensely rich and powerful resource. they are confronted with the inescapable fact that they, and no HE bitterly distressing fact is, however, that precisely in this one else-no obligatory program and no social pressure-are in T area of the mind where our strength is and must be greatest charge of themselves, they aren't up to the self-discipline. Our we have been sapping away at our own sources. Men of great town offers no movies, no newspapers, no card players, no lung and muscle power in this country, off base and off balance, dances, no boxing matches, no pool hall. There are no English have sought to equate scholarship and intellectualism with dis­ books except those in our small, treasured library; there are no loyalty. By attack and innuendo, new ideas and free operations excursions, no boating parties. In fact, a visitor to our town will of the mind have been made suspect. The word "intellectual" probably find himself, for the first time in his life, bird-free. has become the rallying cry of the bully in our society. And Most of them prove undeserving of freedom. men and women of learning, alarmed by the fierceness of the Most make a show of getting into condition as soon as they chase and feeling themselves abandoned by the American peo­ arrive, swimming strenuously and sunning and hiking. But they ple, have scurried for spiritual air-raid shelter rather than stand never get into what they call condition, because they let their their ground. nerves be shot by little things like bad eggs and rancid butter We have seen these things happen in this country; have stood and no electricity. They begin to mope and hang around the by as the eroding smog of suspicion, fear and distrust has settled post office for mail which is at best irregular, and often gets lost over our colleges, our universities, our governmental employees, altogether. Especially letters with checks in them. our foundations, our churches, and countless other areas of our UR exiles inevitably begin to gossip and backbite each national life; have watched the cement of our society begin to O other just to keep occupied. In the end, they usually turn crumble; and yet have remained apparently unconcerned. ... to drinking. Cognac costs four cents a glass (not one of those ow did this come to pass? How could it happen that a slender thimble-fulls they give you in the United States) and, H people so steeped in the tradition of freedom of thought of course, the books never get written and the pictures never get and belief would be unmoved by the coarse dissipation of its painted. After seven or eight months of this regime our self­ greatest strength and richest birthright? The answer may be too exiles, sadder and shaken, usually slink off thoroughly ashamed clear-clearer than we wanted to see or want to believe. Here of themselves. They head for some' big, noisy city where they are a few signposts: At a recent meeting of the American Asso­ are happy to get a nine-to-five job where they won't be faced ciation for the Advancement of Science a paper was read pre­ with the responsibility of filling the hours with their own senting the results of a survey of popular understanding of the ingenuity. Bill of Rights in this country. One-third of the American peo­ If the picture I've sketched is unappealing, it isn't intended ple, the paper showed, do not know what the Bill of Rights is to be so. All paradises have their snakes. I only wanted to or the function it is intended to perform. And another one­ emphasize that the snakes, at least in Majorca, are usually work­ third, the survey found, apparently oppose the principles for ing from within. I don't wish to leave the impression that I which the Bill of Rights stands. ... hold myself and my family up as stalwart examples of firm character and determined derring-do. On the contrary, we often (Please turn to next page) think we had better pack up and get back to the carefree kind of life where we're told what to do, before we degenerate into A Trustee of the University, Mr. Linowitz is d leading Roch­ unreconstructable lotus-eaters. We will go back, probably, some­ ester attorney and moderator of the prize-winning television day. Only, of course, that book must be finished before we program, rrCottrt of Public Opinion," Long prominent in the return. I'll get to work on it any day now. But before I do, American Association for the United Nations, he is New York I'd better amble down and see what came in the mail today, and State chairman and past president of the Rochester Association, maybe drop in and have a beer at the Marino Bar. second largest in the nation.

18 Ref'~ctions_on American Freedom Columbia's Bicentennia (Continued from preceding page) Are these accurate reflections of the measure of our failure? Have we left so shockingly far behind us that which is most By Richard R. Powell. ·II precious in our heritage? Have we really managed to forget so very much about freedom at the very moment when we need Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University it most? OR a lawyer, teacher and writer to transfer his activities into ET us not deceive ourselves: The cement of our society will F a task characterized chiefly by administration and public L begin to bind again as it must only if we can regain an relations requires venturesomeness-if not foolhardiness-of a understanding of what we are and why-only if we can re­ high order. This was the transfer made necessary by my desig­ member what it is that has given our democracy its strength and nation in 1952 as the Director of the Bicentennial Celebration virility-only if we can once more put flesh and bones upon of Columbia University in the City of New York, then sched­ our freedoms-only if we can make certain that our principles uled to fill the calendar year of 1954. The task, so assumed, of justice and fair play born in the crucibles of war, despotism was challenging, and worth doing, and I shall never regret the and tyranny are made to shine bright and large again. ... time and stresses it entailed. It may be interesting to the read­ The Colonists ... put into the Bill of Rights a series of ers of the Review to learn a little about this enterprise and its magnificent restraints embodying what Norman Cousins has operation. described as "the only political philosophy which entitles and The crux of the year's success is to be found in the decision enables the individual to say 'No' to Government and get away made back in 1946, at the suggestion of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, with it." They fashioned these "thou shalt nots" of abuses they editor and publisher of the New York Times, that the cele­ had known and seen and never wished to know or see again. bration should' adopt for stress the theme of "Man's Right to What better statement of the deep and decisive difference Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof." As Mr. Sulzberger then between the form of government which we have brought into said to his fellow trustees: a 200th birthday is too important an being here and that of the Communist state than this one-that event to be accompanied only by jollification and ceremony; it here we have a fixed determination to avoid methods which will demands the doing of some task which transcends the institu­ produce a society "obnoxious to free men and women"? And tion itself, and such a task awaits our recognition. Too long the it is precisely because a society which is afraid, uncertain and United States, and all the well intentioned people composing anxious can carelessly destroy that which made it strong, that it, have contented themselves with negatives, denying that they there is an urgent need that the rules of justice and legal due have the vices attributed to them by opponents. It's time that process be widely known and broadly understood.... someone began to champion the positive values in the free way It is a basic and undeniable fact that in these times and in of life, to set people in this country and elsewhere thinking as this kind of a world when democracy has most at stake, we need to the content of these values and as to the steps needed for more zealous vigilance than ever before to assure that we do not their perpetuation and strengthening. This effort became the here create the kind of society which is "obnoxious to free men central focus of several years of planning and of one full year and women." What is desperately required as an essential part of execution. of the world struggle in which we are engaged is not fewer but more men free to think and act with requisite independence, I\VING a good idea is fine, but it becomes really significant wisdom and courage. What this country needs if we are to H only as it finds dissemination. Our theme could take on remain a land which is both free and brave is more great men education-wide, nation-wide, world-wide meaning only in pro­ to accomplish more great things, and this greatness must be of portion as we found means for reaching a substantial segment the mind and spirit and not merely of the voice or of the arm. of the minds and wills of those unaccustomed to thinking at We fail in this test-and fail utterly and abjectly-when we all, or unaccustomed to thinking in terms of social values. It become frightened and unnerved by whispers and shadows; would be relatively without effects if we reached only the al­ when we assume that eternal vigilance requires that we become ready converted, those who genuinely believed in human rights vigilantes; when we deny an auditorium to Bishop Bromley and who had faith in the power of truth to prevail, when given Oxnam because unfounded and unsupported charges have made an even chance. We had to go beyond this important, but him "controversial"; ... in short and in Walter Lippman's relativelYi small group, to those who live lives useful in many phrase, whenever we act as though we really believe that the ways, but largely unconcerned about the conflicting principles best way to prove you are not red or pink is to act yellow. and oppression. The founders of this republic ... understood that a truly This involved a highly complex problem in public relations. democratic nation could exist only on forthrightness, courage, It was handled by activities of many varieties. A direct appeal, confidence and, above all, integrity. This, they knew, would over the signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower, then president require people of a clear eye, an open mind, and an understand­ of the university, was sent to some 1400 heads of universities, ing heart. colleges, museums, libraries and learned societies throughollt These are some of the things we had better relearn in these the world. This was followed up, not only by further cor­ troubled times-and quickly. These are things which all of respondence, but by personal visits to important personages us-the bar, the press, educators and, indeed, all who are con­ throughout Western Europe and the Orient. The educationally cerned with our national survival-must make known and sound idea of engaging the eye as well as the ear was im­ understood throughout the land. For with them, and only with plemented by the manufacture of an esthetically beautiful and them, can we achieve our full strength as a nation. And with intellectually challenging exhibit for display throughout the them-and only with them-can we truly fulfill our American United States, on the bicentennial theme. destiny and win through to the tomorrow which can be ours. This exhibit consisted of a master set of sixty panels, for

14 elebration Directed by Richard R. Powell, 'II

To a University of Rochester alumnus, March, 1952, to December 31, 1954. Professot' Powell, a member of Colum­ After graduating from Rochestet', Pro­ bia University's law faculty since 192I, fessor Powell received his mastet" s de­ was assigned the t1'emendotls task of di­ gree at Columbia in 1912 and his law recting Columbia's 200th anniversary degree in 1914. He practiced law in celebration, which was world-wide in Rochestet' for seven years before joining scope and an event of momentous im­ the Columbia School of Law as assistant pact on the whole educational world. Its pt'ofessor. He was promoted to associate theme was IIMan's Right to Knowledge professor in 1923, and full professor in and the Free Use Thereof.J1 1924. Hundreds of universities, colleges, li­ Now, he writes the REVIEW, he is ,'e­ braries, museums and learned societies turning to teaching in the Law School and in all parts of the world cooperated in also to the completion of his six-volume advancing the bicentennial theme. The treatise on the rr Law of Real Property," observance centered around three aca­ on which he has been working for the demic convocations during 1954, at which past eight years, Four voltlmes already the heads of states, such as Queen Mot.her ductions as well as many othet' events were have been published. For a period of Elizabeth of England, the world}s lead­ seen and heard throughout the yeaf. seventeen yean-from 1927 to 1944-he ing educators, public servants, and others The great t'esponse to the obset'vance served as Reporter for the Topic Pt"Opel'ty were honored. The convocations empha­ was evidence of the success which under the American Law Institute. In sized Columbia's place in the state, in crowned Professot' Powell}s efforts, In this way his capacity for leadership be­ the nation and in the world. Special con­ the accompanying article} he describes the came known to educators, judges and certs, plays, and t'adio and television pt'o- scope of his task} which he directed ft"Om scholars tht'oughotlt the country.

which Professor Mark Van Doren prepared an accompanying individual freedom and the aggregate of goods summed up in brochure in which pictures of all sixty panels appeared. Dupli­ the phrase "a free way of life." cate sets of twenty-five broadly representative panels were pre­ HE Bicentennial had a second coordinate obective, namely, pared for loan to public libraries, conventions of teachers, of T the moving forward of the frontiers of knowledge in a unions and of scientific societies, and to other gatherings respectable number of the areas engaging the scholarly interests throughout the nation. Over 400 places made this display dur­ of a great university. This objective was served by some ten ing the twelve months of 1954. gatherings of the leaders of the world's thought on topics which, in part, cut across the boundaries of faculties and departments, Each of these displays provided an occasion for local radio, and, in part, did intensive jobs within the confines of a single television and press activities. The vast group of Columbia discipline. Of the latter type were conferences concerned with alumni organized for the purpose into thirty-three regional com­ nursing and geology. Of the former and broader type were con­ mittees served as the spark plugs for these scattered and useful ferences considering the impact of great cities on modern life, local discussions. The exhibit prepared for use in the United the eternal conflicts between centralization and decentralization States attracted the attention of the United States Information of govermental functions, the reconciliation of national and Service and Columbia was commissioned to prepare an exhibit international pulls in the economy of nations, the evolving prob­ on the same theme available for use in non-English speaking lems in education, health and social service, the philosophical countries. Fifteen sets of this foreign exhibit are now traveling unity of knowledge and the obstacles to the development of a into the remote centers of Africa, Asia, Australia and South responsible freedom in the Americas. By the interplay of minds America. gathered from Columbia, from other institutions in this and These efforts to touch the thinking of the world were success­ other countries, the basic purposes of all universities, and of ful beyond our fondest expectations. A scant sampling from the education as a world movement, were interestingly served. the press contains editorials on the theme in over 200 American It would not do to end this brief record of an ambitious newspapers. Radio and television programs brought the ideas, enterprise without a recognition of the complete dependence of without cost to Columbia, to countless millions of the inhabitants any movement on the capacities and idiosyncracies of indivi­ in this and other countries. A conservative estimate indicates duals. In students, in alumni, in faculties, in statesmen and that over 800,000 persons viewed our theme exhibit in the scholars of the world, the same gradations are discoverable. United States and Canada, and thousands more, throughout the Almost all are well intentioned; a happily substantial propor­ world have gained respect for an America proud of its heritage, tion are able to implement their good intentions, some are a but willing to recognize that it too has not yet fully attained. bit myopic. The whole is only a composite of its parts. For No one can yet evaluate the products of Columbia's stress on each of us, as an individual, it is important that he examine the positive values of the free way of life. This much, however, himself, as to the scope and content of his personal contribu­ can be said. A new interest has been kindled in a more in­ tion to the whole in which he functions. Only so can one pre­ clusive percentage of the population outside the Iron and Bam­ serve the integrity of self and the advance of society, charac­ boo Curtains, in those attitudes and practices which gave to teristic of our heritage. The Columbia family has gained along America the products of diversified inventions, the gains from these lines in the stresses of 1954.

15 letters to the Editor Dr. Richard O. Rob

The Review welcomes letters from its readers. Please keep them short. and Key Role in Develo address them to: The Rochester Review, 15 Prince Street. Rochester, New York. Dr. Richard O. Roblin, Jr., '30, who received his Ph.D. degree at Rochester in To the Editor: To the Editor: 1934, is credited with a key role in the We have been enjoying immensely a Herewith are random thoughts of doubt­ short visit by Dr. Edmund S. Nasset of ful poet!c value on the standardization of development of a remarkable new drug, the Physiology Department at the Medical the University's colors: Diamox, that holds out new hope for School and Mrs. Nasset. After talking "What flower for our College?" victims of congestive heart failure, re­ with Dr. Nasset last night I had an op­ The Dandelion, it was said, puted to be as great a killer as cancer. portunity of reading the November copy "What color is that flower?" Dr. Roblin's contribution was described of the Review which had just come and I could only hang my head. in an article, "Body Fluids-a Major which Dr. and Mrs. Nasset will enjoy Medical Problem," by J. D. Ratcliff, in reading today. Dr. Nasset, who is in "Shame !-no answer? Don't you know the November 26 issue of Collier}s. India this year as Fulbright Professor of then ?" "It was probably my last contribution Arts, Music, Medicine-were dumb. Physiology at the University of Lucknow, as a a research man," "Dick" Roblin ad­ is now having an opportunity to visit in "I will tell you, then!" said Science, vised the Review, "since I am now as­ other parts of India and has been stimu­ "Yellow Medium Cadmium!" lating our students and staff by taking sistant general manager of the Research part in the work of our physiology de­ Those who studied, those who played, Division of American Cyanimid Com­ partment and also talking to our students, The bright, the average and the bum, pany in New York City." In Decem­ postgraduates and staff on a number of Studied-played-not for the Yellow, ber he completed three months in the important subjects. Both Dr. and Mrs. But for Medium Cadmium. advanced management program at Harv­ N asset have been giving us their most ard Business School. He has been for valuable advice on some parts of our re­ Blue was the color of distance, many years a top chemist and researcher search plans and programs. It was of Of mountains and lakes and sky. at the Stamford (Conn.) Research Lab­ special interest to me that Dr. and Mrs. Reflected so well in our river oratories of American Cyanamid. He N asset went to Rochester and started to Or in a cooed's sweet smiling eye. wrote that he is looking forward to his work with Dr. John R. Murlin (Profes­ twenty-fifth Alumni Reunion in June. sor Emeritus of Physiology) in 1928, But Science with kindly precision, Pointing out that "this year some which was the year that Naomi (Hull Knowing our senses would fail, Carman, '25) and I (UR '21, and Cornell Came up with this colorful answer: 200,000 Americans will drown-not in Medical '26) started out from Rochester "PB three over twelve on the scale." oceans, streams or pools, but in their to India. The N assets have been able to own body fluids,"-and that the cause bring us up-to-date on staff changes, re­ Sing then for our College, its colors so often is congestive heart failure, the ar­ search programs and many other things fine- ticle explains that when diseased hearts of interest going on in Rochester which The Blue and the Yellow, long wave have brought back memories of our own on high! associations with the University before Their formula settled, their pedigree we came to India and at the various times signed, that we have been on furlough. Always the same to a loyal son's eye. College for Men We were especially sad to learn of the GERALD R. BARRETT, '29 Webster, N. Y. death of Dr. Raymond Dexter Havens. -1885 Both Naomi and I enjoyed courses with To the Editor: GEORGE W. STEDMAN, an Albany (N. Y.) him, and she was one of the favored stu­ lawyer for over sixty years, died in November dents who had an opportunity of working May I join other Alumni in congratu­ of 1954. Mr. Stedman was a graduate of with him as an assistant in correcting lating you on the recent issue of the Albany Law School and was active in private Rochester Review? I believe it ranks at practice until two years ago. For over forty papers. I took the course in American years he was a trustee of Colgate University literature which forced me to do a lot of the top of such publications, especially and served as director of many Albany banks. reading in the midst of my pre-medical with its splendid coverage of the con­ At one time he was a member of the New course which I have been glad of ever ference on United States-Canadian Eco­ York State Assembly. Surviving are his wife and a son, a partner in the Stedman law firm. since. nomic Relations. Also the novelty of photographing the -1895 Both of us enjoyed the Review and trip of the football team to the Williams Sixtieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, are heartily in favor of the changes which game was noteworthy. The reprint of 1955. are taking place in the University and in Matt jackson's richly deserved tribute to -1897 the Review which tells the story so well of Elmer Burnham was particularly pleasing, Tributes from President Eisenhower, Press the University which we feel has given us Secretary James c. Hagerty, former New York as it again stressed the ideal situation in Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and officials of such a good background for the work football and other sports at our Univer­ the Associated Press, helped to commemorate which we are trying to do here in India. sity, where those in charge of intercol­ the beginning of GEORGE B. WILLIAMS' fifty­ JOHN S. CARMAN, '21 legiate athletics have proved that it is first year as editor and publisher of the Geneva (N. Y.) Daily Times on January 1. Vellore, India not necessary to professionalize our teams -1900 (Dr. Carman is professor of surgery to produce our share of victories. More Fifty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, and acting director of the Christian Med­ power to them! 1955. ical College, Hospital and Nurses Train­ MATTHEW LAWLESS, '09 -1902 ing School.) Rochester} N. Y. DONALD MCPHERSON of Rochester died on

16 be a drug less toxic than the original I, '30, PI·ays sulfa ... Roblin, with the help of Dr. William Schwartz of Boston, and a large team of research men set out to find such g New Drug a drug. "Before the job was over, the re­ are unable to pump enough blood to the searchers had studied 6,063 sulfa prepa­ kidneys, those organs fail to excrete the rations-some of them from stocks al­ body's surplus fluid and it congests tis­ ready available in the laboratory, others sues. In congestive heart failure, life synthesized especially for the study and depends on a continual fight against the therefore new to the world. In the end rising tide of excess fluid. they came up with a drug which looked Diamox, according to the Collier's particularly promising. It had a name writer, is a new drug of the kidney-stim­ staggering to anyone but a chemist: 2 ulating type upon which doctors today acetylamino-1, 3, 4,--thiadiazole-5-sul­ mainly rely in combatting the condition, fonamide. Preliminary testing showed and "is already being hailed as a major means of ridding the body of sodium. that the new drug was virtually non­ medical discovery-one of immediate use At this point, Dr. Roblin took over the toxic and about 400 times as potent as to a million or more people." problem. sulfanilamide in slowing down action of In 1938, John Hopkins Medical School "He blocked out the problem before the kidney enzyme. Dr. Roblin handed researchers discovered that patients be­ him," Collier's stated. "Sulfanilimide the drug over to another company owned ing treated with sulfanilamide had in­ would help rid the body of salt-and the by American Cyanimid, Lederle Labor­ creased urinary output, which was asso­ water held by salt. But it was far too atories. Lederle shortened the name of ciated with increased output of sodium. toxic to use for this purpose; you would the new drug to Diamox and sent it out This indicated that a sulfa drug was probably kiJI a person with sulfa long to selected doctors for clinical trials. ... getting rid of the salt constitutent that before ridding him of any appreciable Almost from the outset Diamox was a caused most of the trouble in the body. amounts of water. remarkable performer." "There were no very good theories at "The situation might have looked Summing up, the writer states that the time as to why sulfa reacted in this hopeless to a nontechnical person, but Diamox "is not a headline-making drug" strange way," Ratcliff reported. "But in Roblin knew that the sulfa molecule like penicillin, or cortisone, but that none­ 1940 two British researchers found the could be remodeled and rebuilt into hun­ theless, "many physicians consider it one answer." It was a very complicated one, dreds, even thousands of sulfa cousins. of the most valuable medicines to find but the result was a new and better Maybe among these cousins there would its way into their satchels in recent years." e/ass ;Notes

January 15, 1955. He was a member of 1947 and in his research and development -1923 Delta Kappa Epsilon and is survived by his work, which began in 1950, he has worked DR. LOUIS L. LAPI, a founder of the Citi­ wife, Adeline. with the Detroit Edison group in the study of zens Club of Rochester, was honored recently -1903 nuclear fission and the development of a at a local dinner and dance. Many of the 600 reactor that can be economically used for the persons feting Dr. Lapi were ex-students to DR. HAROLD S. STEWART'S son, Harold, generation of electrical energy. Jr., a naval research laboratory physicist, has whom he taught English or immigrants who LAWRENCE C. LOVEJOY, professor of man­ been awarded a certificate of appreciation from became American citizens with the club's help. agement at New York University, is t~aching the Army for outstanding patriotic civilian His early classes in English, which he started business management and human relatlOns at as a DR freshman, later formed the nucleus service during Operation Castle, the nuclear the New York Insurance Society's Insurance and thermonuclear test conducted in the spring of the Citizens Club. School. of 1954 by the AEC's Pacific Proving Grounds. DR. WILLIAM H. (JACK) DUNN, a veteran The award is the highest the Army can make -1918 of two world wars, died at his New York to a civilian. Dr. Stewart, Jr., was cited tor GOODMAN A. SARACH.\N, Rochester lawyer home on February 12. He was fifty-six. Dr. instruments he designed and constructed. for many years, was recently appointed to the Dunn received his medical degree from Harv­ New York State Seventh Judicial District jus­ ard University and interned in Rochester be­ -1904 ticeship. He served from 1935 to 1945 as fore studying at Heidelberg University in Fiftieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, assistant United States attorney for the West­ Germany. At the DR, Dr. Dunn was a stellar 1955. Reunion Chairman: ARTHUR L. STEW­ ern District of New York. track star competing in the dashes and the ART, 143 Pelham Road, Rochester. -1920 broad jump. He was never beaten in the 100 -1910 Thirty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, yard dash and held the record for this event Forty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, 1955. for many years. He was a member of Alpha 1955. Reunion Chairman: RAYMOND B. -1921 Delta Phi. LEWIS, 1101 Commerce Building, Rochester 4. -1925 LIEUT. COL. JOHN Thirtieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, -1915 F. KELLOGG} JR., was Fortieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, awarded the Legion 1955. Reunion Chairman: JOHN G. SHAW, 3 Greenview Drive, Rochester. 1955. Reunion Co-Chairmen: EDWARD J. of Merit for meritor­ DOYLE, 270 Pelham Road, Rochester, MARION ious conduct in the -1927 C. BARRY, Knollwood Drive, Rochester. performance of out­ DR. HAROLD V. ACKERT recently received -1916 standing service in the degree of Fellow of the American College RICHARD E. KRUGER retired recently as man­ Korea. He had served of Dentists. The degree was conferred upon ager of the research and development work from October 1953 to Dr. Ackert in Miami, Fla. for the Rochester Gas and Electric Corpora­ June 1954 as com­ -1930 tion. He had served with the firm for thirty­ manding officer of Twenty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, eight continuous years. Kruger became r,en­ the 11 th Evacuation 1955. Reunion Chairman: CHARLES L. RES­ eral superintendent of gas manufacturing in Hospital in Korea. LER, 610 Melville Street, Rochester 9.

17 Four Deaths Sadden Univers When Professor Merrell joined the Faculty in 1899, he and Dr. Charles Dr. Laurence B. Packard Wright Dodge comprised the whole Bi­ EMEMBERED by his former students ology Department. While his teaching R at Rochester as a brilliant and stimu­ covered the whole range of biological lating teacher, Dr. Laurence Bradford sciences, his interests focused more and Packard, head of the UR History Depart­ more on botany as his career progressed. ment from 1920 to 1925 and for the past He was made Professor of Biology in thirty years professor of history at Am­ 1915, served as Professor of Botany and herst College, died January 14 at Am­ department chairman from 1933 until his herst, Mass. retirement in 1939. Dr. Packard would have been sixty­ Music was one of Professor Merrell's eight on January 20, and his death came greatest interests, and he organized and just five months before he was to re­ was the first director of the Men's Glee tire. He had been in poor health for Club. For many years he also was di­ several years and had been carrying a rector of music in several Rochester reduced teaching schedule. He was An­ churches. As a lighter musical diversion, son D. Morse Professor of History at he greatly enjoyed singing with "barber Amherst. shop" harmony groups. A graduate of Harvard College in Dr. William Dayton Merrell The son of the Rev. and Mrs. Jonathan 1909 with a Ph.D. degree from there in Dayton Merrell, Professor Merrell was 1921, Dr. Packard came to Rochester in born in East New York, now a part of 1913 as an Instructor and was promoted AST of the "nineteenth century" Fac­ Brooklyn, and attended schools in Mas­ to Assistant Professor in 1915, and de­ Lulty members who began their teach­ sena, Macedon and Morrisville, N. Y. partment head five years later. ing at Rochester before 1900 and one of After graduating from the University, he In his freshman and advanced courses, the two men who helped to lay the foun­ taught for a while in Beaver Dam, Wis., Dr. Packard taught more than half of all dations upon which the University's pres­ and then studied for his doctorate at the Amherst's alumni during his thirty years ent work in the biological sciences was University of Chicago, where he taught there. Former students now teaching at built, Dr. William Dayton Merrell, 91, for a year before coming to Rochester. institutions throughout the country last fall presented him a ((Festschrift," a vol­ Emertius Professor of Botany, died Febru­ Surviving are his son, Gregg J. Mer­ ume of original essays prepared in his ary 11 at the age of eighty-five. His home rell, '30; two daughters, Miss Margaret was in Pultneyville, N. Y. He was a Merrell, '26, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. honor. member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Ronald P. W. King of Winchester, Mass., The author of two books, "The Com­ Upsilon. - and a grandson. mercial Revolution," published in 1927, Class /Votes

HAROLD W. BROWN of Rochester died on -1935 -1939 KENNETH]. HOES­ December 3, 1954. A member of Delta Twentieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, Upsilon, Mr. Brown was employed as a super­ TEREY has been ap­ 1955. pointed credit office visor in the office of the paper mill for the supervisor for the Eastman Kodak Company. He is survived by -1936 Eastman Kodak Com­ his wife, two children and two grandchildren. GEORGE W. FENNEMORE has been appoint­ pany. A member of ed an officer of the U. S. Foreign Services by the firm since 1939, -1932 President Eisenhower. He will become a con­ Hoesterey has served as a correspondent in CMDR. CARL F. PAUL, JR., has completed a sul and secretary in the Diplomatic Service. Fennemore entered the Department of State the repair depart­ fifteen month tour of duty in the Far East as ment, a member of Legal Officer in the Staff of Commander Serv­ in 1940 and most recently was an officer in the office management ice Squadron Three. In this post, he. served the Division of International Conferences. From staff and performed the squadron and its personnel as adviser on 1944 to 1946, he served as a navy lieutenant. special assignments for the management staff. all matters pertaining to the law. For out­ standing work, Commander Paul was cited -1940 -1937 Fifteenth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, with a letter of commendation by Rear Ad­ The American Physical Society awarded the miral M. E. Murphy. A former Rochester 1955. Reunion Chairman: ROBERT PAVIOUR, Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize to 183 Main Street East, Rochester 4. attorney, Commander Paul was recalled to DR. LEROY APKER on January 28 in New active duty in 1948. ~orm~r A second child and first son, Steven, was York City. The award, named for the to Laborat~fles.' born on December 22 Mr. and Mrs. ED­ -1934 president of Bell Telephone IS WARD NAGY of Garden City, N. Y. made on the basis of "important contnbutlOns MORRIS c. VEIT was recently named Most to knowledge in solid state physics within the -1942 Valuable Citizen for 1954 in Bath, N. Y. The five years immediately prec~ding the awar~." DR. FRANKLIN T. BRAYER was released award was presented to him by GROVER BRAD­ Dr. Apker is head of semI-conductor studIes from active duty with the U. S. Naval Reserve STREET, the 1953 award winner. for the General Electric Research Laboratory. in January and has returned to his former

18 master, Eugene Ysaye, and in 1919 be­ y Community came acquainted with Dr. Paul White of the Eastman Faculty, who also was study­ and "The Age of Louis XIV," published He began his career at the Bausch & ing with Ysaye, and a firm friendship de­ in 1929, Dr. Packard was a founder and Lomb Optical Company and later be­ veloped. Coming to this country with associate editor of the Berkshire Studies came head of its drafting department. He the Belgian virtuoso in the early 1920's, in European History, and contributed to interrupted his work with Bausch & Mr. de Ribaupierre for short periods several journals. He was a member of Lomb to take an intensive course in draft­ headed the violin departments of the Cin­ Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon, the ing at Mechanics Institute, now Roch­ cinnati Conservatory and the Cleveland American Historical Association and the ester Institute of Technology, and later Institute, but returned to Switzerland to Societe d'Histoire Moderne of France. studied many years in night classes at the head the violin department of the Geneva During World War I he was a captain Institute and the University in subjects Conservatory for many years. with the 78th Division and later an in­ related to his work. telligence officer. He was with the Si­ Surviving are his wife, Edith; a daugh­ Despite his illness of several months, berian Expeditionary Force of 1917-19. ter, Mrs. Geraldine C. Johnson of Mid­ Mr. de Ribaupierre continued his class­ Surviving are his wife, the former land, Mich.; a son, Roger; a granddaugh­ room work at the Eastman School until Leonore Healey of Derby, Conn" whom ter; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Covell, last mid-November, and until his condi­ he married in 1927, and a daughter, Mrs. and two brothers, Morton and David. tion became critical, taught his advanced Harry Horrell of Chicago. students in his home at University Park, Andre de Ribaupierre imparting to young performers, as one of William D. Covell his colleagues said, "his deep understand­ HE Eastman School of Music lost a ing and love of music and his unique N OPTICAL designer for the Univer­ T revered member of its Faculty, and artistry on the violin." Dr. White de­ A sity's Institute of Optics for the past the music world one of its foremost violin scribed Mr. de Ribaupierre as one of the eight years, William D. Covell, fifty-four, virtuosos and teachers in the death on rapidly-disappearing group of violinist­ died on January 17 at his home in Pitts­ January 17 of Andre de Ribaupierre at colorists who specialize in a variety of ford, N. Y. the age of sixty-one. styles, a unique gift possessed by only In 1948, in collaboration with John Dr. Howard Hanson, Director of the a few performers. C. Evans, Assistant, Professor of Optics, Eastman School, persuaded Mr. de Ribau­ In several concerts of two seasons, Mr. Covell developed a precision camera pierre, then on an American concert tour, 1951-53, Mr. de Ribaupierre was first on a design of Dr. Robert E. Hopkins, to join the Faculty as visiting artist pro­ violinist of the Eastman String Quartet. Professor of Optics, and Donald Feder, fessor of violin in September, 1948. He His last appearance in Kilbourn Hall was a former optical designer at the UR In­ became a permanent member the follow­ in a recital with pianist Orazio Frugoni stitute. Designed for the Air Corps dur­ ing year. A native of Clarens, Switzer­ on February 9, 1954. ing Wodd War II, the camera contained land, he studied violin in Switzerland a lens more than two and one-half times from the time he was six years old. Surviving are his wife, Lise, and their faster than any previously existing and Paderewski, the great pianist, helped pre­ two daughters. The sisters flew to Roch­ could take clear and detailed photographs pare him for concert work when the ester from France to be with their par­ at great distances at night. Mr. Covell violinist was fifteen. Later, Mr. de Ribau­ ents just before Christmas. Both are music worked on the mechanical design. pierre became a pupil of the Belgian teachers in Paris.

posItIOn in the Department of Radiation Bi­ the technical staff of the Guided Missile Di­ as a chemical engineer by the Procter and ology in the Atomic Energy Project at the UR. vision, Hughes Research and Development, Gamble Company. He was a native of Roch· He had been stationed at the U. S. Naval Culver City, Calif. ester and a member of Tau Beta Pi. His moth­ Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Fran­ A son, Stephen, was born on November 29, er, his wife, two sons, two brothers and a cisco. to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN M. HARRIS of Grand sister survive. WALTER J. MOORE, JR., is controller of the Island, N. Y. -1947 S. H. George's Department Store in Knox­ HENDRICK C. VAN NESS, assistant professor A son, Thomas, was born on October 20 ville, Tenn. at Purdue University, recently presented a to Me. and Mrs. WILLIAM ORMISTON of Birm­ ROBERT S. GURNEY and Carolyn Gebhardt paper at the annual meeting of the American ingham, Mich. were married on January 25 in Palmerton, Pa. Institute of Chemical Engineers in New York. JOHN BAYNES was recently appointed foot­ -1943 -1946 ball coach at East Rochester High School. For the past eight years, Baynes was basket­ THOMAS F. CANNON, of the international JAMES G. SLOMAN and Stewart S. North ball coach at Clyde (N. Y.) Central School advertising division of the Eastman Kodak announce the formation of North and Sloman, where his teams won four Wayne County Company, was recently assigned to duties in Inc., insurance brokerage and agency office in Class B championships. Paris, France. White Plains, N. Y. The firm will maintain -1944 complete facilities for all forms of insurance ANDREW H. NEILLY, JR.} has been appointed A daughter, Susan, was born on November throughout the New York area and will main­ to the new post of manager of college sales 10 to Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED O. GINKEL of tain brokerage licenses in New York, Con­ at John Wiley and Sons, Inc., of New York. Rochester. necticut and New Jersey. Sloman attended Starting with the firm in 1947, Neilly was -1945 Cornell Law School and was formerly em­ promoted to assistant sales manager in 1951. Tenth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, ployed by New England Life Insurance Com­ -1948 1955. Reunion Co-Chairmen: JERALD D. BUL­ pany. He has been associated with the Stew­ A son, John, was born on November 17 to LOCK, 184 Montclair Drive, Rochester 17, 'lnd art S. North Company since 1953. Mr. and Mrs. HAROLD P. VAN COTTo Van PETER P. TOGAILAS, 3433 Ridge Road West, WALTER O. MURRER, twenty-nine, of Cin­ Cott recently left the Medical Research Lab­ Rochester. cinnati, Ohio, died on January 21, 1955. Since oratory of the U. S. Naval Submarine Base RICHARD D. HUDSON, JR., is a member of his graduation, Me. Murrer had been employed in New London, Conn., and is now with the 19 American Institute for Research in Pittsburgh. Kilmer, N. J. He entered the service in Sep­ A 1954 Ph. D. graduate from the University tember, 1953. of North Carolina, Van Cott and Madeleine ENS. ROBERT DE SMITH and Beverly J. Bouvier were married in October, 1953, in Wheeler, '55, were married in Rochester on --B Paris, France. December 18. JOHN L. PALERMO and Priscilla Pullen were NORMAN B. BROWN, JR., and Mary Ann LYS BASSETT, 45 Congress Avenue, Rochester married last November in Newburgh, N. Y. Randall were married in Urbana, Ill., on No­ 11. vember 22. Brown is a candidate for a Ph. D. -1954 degree at the University of Illinois. -1920 First Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, 1955. Thirty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, A son, Peter, was born on November 8 to Reunion Chairman: DONALD C. ANDERSON, the Rev. and Mrs. WILLIAM W. YOUNG. The 1955. Reunion Chairman: ELIZABETH GAY 141 Midvale Terrace, Rochester 19. AGNEW, 45 Meadowbrook Drive, Rochester 20. Rev. Mr. Young became minister of the Union ENS. DANIEL F. MURPHY, USN, died on Presbyterian Church in Scottsville, N. Y., in -1925 February 12 in Buffalo. He was twenty-two. Thirtieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, February. He had been minister of the Pres­ He was graduated with a B. S. degree in busi· byterian Church in Allegany, N. Y. 1955. Reunion Chairman: MARY CHANNELL, ness administration and won the Wall Street 57 Alliance Avenue, Rochester 20. Exposition Press, Journal and New York State Accountants Asso­ Inc., recently pub­ ciation awards. A member of Theta Chi, En­ -1930 lished "The Winners sign Murphy had become ill while on active Twenty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, and other S h 0 r t duty with the Navy. He is survived by his 1955. Reunion Chairman: MARY WILLIAMS Stories" by RAYMOND parents and a sister. McAMMOND, 1 Allen Parkway, Rochester. T. SHAFER, JR. Shafer -1933 is presently a sales­ The class extends best wishes to WILMA man for the Photo­ FONDA KING who was recently married. The stat Corporation 10 College for Women Kings' home is in Los Angeles. Pittsburgh and de­ GERTRUDE DOMRAS RAMEY is now living at votes his spare time 422 Colwell Court, Ridgewood, N. J. to the writing of -1935 short stories. -1905 Twentieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, -1949 Fiftieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, 1955. Reunion Chairman: KATHRYN ALBRECH JOHN F. HANRAHAN is managing the new 1955. Reunion Chairman: HELEN ROGERS SMITH, 263 Sherwood Avenue, Rochester 19. sales office in Memphis, Tenn., for the Dis­ CROSS, 32 Audubon Street, Rochester 10. MARION E. SULLIVAN has a new position tillation Products Industries division of the -1910 as proof reader for the trainee section of the Eastman Kodak Company. He has been with stenographic department at Eastman Kodak Forty-fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, Company. Previously she had been in the the company since 1949 and sales representative 1955. Reunion Chairman: FRANCES ANGE­ in the Chicago area since 1952. duplicating section of the same department. VINE KEEF, 345 Yarmouth Road, Rochester] O. -1938 -1950 A class business and social meeting was held on December 29 at the home of FRANCES A fourth child and third daughter, Marcia, Fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, ] 955. was born on December 31 to Coyne and A daughter, Nancy Lee, was born on Jan- SOMERS RIGGS, class president. Eight mem­ bers attended. It was announced that the class JANE CARHART O'BRIEN. uary 10 to Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD C. WIL­ MARJORIE KNOPF and V. Edward Alta­ LIAMS. contributed $192.50 to the 1954 Alumni Fund Drive. This figure represents 54% class par­ more were married in New York City on A daughter, Susan Elizabeth, was born on January 20. January 25 to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM DODEN­ ticipation and 175% of the quota. Tentative HOFF. reunion plans for June will include a meet­ -1940 In December, Navy Ensign ALFRED WEEKS, ing at the home of ELIZABETH FARBER BARRY Fifteenth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, JR., qualified as a carrier pilot after six land­ in East Bloomfield, N. Y., to be followed by 1955. Reunion Chairman: LORRAINE O. ings aboard the light carrier USS Monterey a dinner on Friday, June 10. SMITH, 184 Penfield Road, Rochester 10. in the Gulf of Mexico. Ensign Weeks is a -1912 "Communism Versus International Law" by ANNIE VANWYNEN THOMAS and published graduate of Cornell University Law School and FRANCES RULIFFSON TENNENT has retired by Southern Methodist University, has been passed his New York State Bar examination from her teaching position. She is living in in June, 1953. He received his navy com­ included in a group of fifty outstanding books Caledonia, N. Y. on American government. The U. S. govern­ mission in February of that year. FRANC BARR has retired but she still does ment has placed her book in strategic centers -1951 special assignments for the U. S. Patent Office as an example of excellent American writing. A daughter, Lisa Ann, was born on Novem­ in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Thomas is a graduate of the Sch001 of Eleven members of the class met for lunch­ ber 8 to Mr. and Mrs. FRANK ZAHNISER of Law at the University of Texas. Her husband Youngstown, N. Y. eon on January 8 at the home of MARGUERITE is a professor of law at Southern Methodist. PHILIP H. GERNER, JR., and Barbara W. A. CASTLE. Cook were married last fall in Summit, N. ]. MARGIE HALSTED HENDERSHOT writes that -1941 Gerner is with the investment banking firm of her husband expects to retire this year. Both BETTE MASON WALL and her husband, Dominick and Dominick, New York. of her daughters are married. Norman, of Englewood, N. ]., visited in PETER J. FREDRICKSON is living in Say­ EDITH BARKER SWIGART and her husband Rochester during the Christmas holiday season. brook Point, Conn., and serves as an assist­ took a trip to Alaska last summer. They now RITA WEINGARTNER WILLIAMS is living in ant engineer with the Vocaline Company of spend six months of the year in Winter Park, Park Ridge, Ill. Her husband, Walter, is em­ America, a firm specializing in small electric Fla. ployed by the Chicago office of the Eastman motors for lise in timers and advertising dis­ FRANCES GLOTZBACH STEVE reports that Kodak Company. plays. one of her daughters is in Japan and that her -1944 NATHAN H. BRANDT is a member of the son is a crew member of a schooner sailing A daughter, Deborah, was born on No­ news department at CBS in New York. to the Bahamas. vember 24 to Calvin and MARGOT HElLBRUNN -1952 RUTH SALTER RICARD took a trip to the BRAUER. EDWARD T. PETERSON, JR., recently gradu­ West Coast last summer. BETTY GILES BOOTH is living in Zeist, Hol­ ated from a comprehensive insurance course at -1914 land, with her husband and their son, Gregory. the home office school of the Travelers Insur­ IDA COHEN JACOBSTEIN (Mrs. Hyman D.) Booth is resident engineer in Holland for ance Company in Hartford, Conn. He is HOW died suddenly at her home in New Rochelle, the General Railway Signal Company of Roch­ associated with his father, an insurance broker N. Y., on December 31, 1954. For some years, ester. in New York City. His home is in Ridge­ Mrs. Jacobstein taught high school in Livonia, -1945 wood, N. ]. N. Y. She had been a New Rochelle resident Tenth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, 1955. ROBERT E. GROCHAU is president of the for the past twenty years. She is survived by Reunion Chairman: VIRGINIA BRAYER MACK, senior class of the Lutheran Theological Sem­ her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Murray Berdick 35 Stewart Drive, Rochester. inary, Philadelphia. of New York, two sisters, two brothers a:ld A second daughter, Pamela, was born on -1953 a granddaughter. December 13 in Boston to David and MADLYN DAVID H. PFLUKE is studying at the Uni­ EDITH TEARE BEALL (Mrs. Edwin K.) of ROWE RAAB. versity of Michigan College of Architecture Rochester, died in January, 1955. DR. JANE BERGGREN BLIZARD has been ap­ and Design. -1915 pointed to the staff of the New England In­ CPL. LAWRENCE R. TARTOW is a personnel Fortieth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, stitute for Medical Research, Ridgefield, Conn. clerk in the 1277th Area Service Unit, Camp 1955. Reunion Chairman: JOSEPHINE DE LA To accept this position, Dr. Blizard resigned

20 -1950 were married on January 1 in Lincoln, N. Y. Fifth Class Reunion, June 10, 11, 12, 1955. Roberts is director of music at the Canandaigua Reunion Chairman: JUNE LEVIN STORNEI.LI, (N. Y.) Veterans Administration Hospital. 38 Rockingham Street, Rochester 20. -1947 Bh·ths: BENNY B. KEMP is chorus conductor and A daughter, Carol Ann, on January 19, to teacher of piano and theory at San Diego State as lecturer in physics at the University of Edmund and MARILYN MERZ SOBOLEWSKI. College. For the past five years, he has been Connecticut. Following her graduation from A daughter, Mary, on December 13, to An­ head of the piano department of Friends Uni­ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with thony and ELIZABETH KINNEAR DAVENPORT. versity, Wichita, Kan. a Ph. D. degree in 1949, she first was. a A son, Douglas, on January 15, to Warren -1951 teaching fellow at M.I.T. and later was assIst­ and ADA McKEE GRABB. FRANK CIPOLLA is in his second season as ant professor of physics at Hofstra College, A daughter, Janet, on December 18, to a trumpeter with the Kansas City Philharmonic Hempstead, . Y. Welton and HELEN MEHLENBACHER McDON­ Orchestra and teaches at the North Kansas City -1947 ALD. High School. ANNA McLAIN RICHMOND and her husband, A daughter, Jean, on December 16, to MICHAEL J. CRINO and Isa Stableford were John, are living at 151 Fenimore Road, Mama­ Jeremy and HELEN BAKER CROUCH. married on December 18 in Tucson, Ariz. He roneck, N. Y. -1951 is studying engineering at the University of ANNE HALL BAXTER, her husband, Peter, SHIRLEY A. BRANDT and John C. Gouse Arizona. and their son, Greg, are living in Jackson­ were married in Rochester in December. ELAINE BONAZZI is studying with Stephanie ville, Fla., where Baxter is a naval aviator. Married: SALLY LEE BLACK and William Rupp in ew York City. For the past three JEAN HELMKAMP CRIPPS and her husband, Bierbaum. seasons, Miss Bonazzi has been leading mezzo Harry, are living at Snuff Mill Road, R. D. A daughter, Frances, was born on January soprano with the Arundel Opera Theater, a No.1, Hockessin, Del. 9, to Thomas and JOAN SIGLER HU]AR. summer stock opera group at Kennebunk Births: -1952 Port, Me. In 1954 she won an award from A daughter, Carol, on December 11, to the Concert Artist Guild and she has appeared Edwin and MARGARET GREENE KINDIG. KATHERINE CROOKSTON CARTER is teaching with the Oratorio Society of New York. in State College, Pa., where her husband, Bruce, A son, Daniel, on January 4, to Abram and -1952 STEPHANIE HENOCH BARCH. is studying for his M.A. degree in art educa­ LOIS FINCKE is assistant organist at Vassar A son, James, on December 17, to David tion at Pennsylvania State University. He ex­ College. and GLORIA KNICKERBOCKER BASYE. pects to teach in New York State next year. A son, Ronald, on November 30, to Richard ATHENA APANOMITH, a teacher in the Eliz­ -1954 and LOIS CLARK WRIGHT. abeth (N. J.) public school system, recently NANCY BOOKOUT is choir director at the A son, Scott, to Marvin and CAROLYN received a master of arts degree from Teach­ First Baptist Church, Cliffside Park, . J. HOLLEY BRITTON. ers College, Columbia University. Twins, Peter and Anne, on August 26 to KATHLEEN DIEM graduated last June from Warren and JOAN SCANLON BOLANDER. the Institute for Biblical Studies in Albany, A son, David, on August 6, to William and N. Y. Since September, she has been teach­ Graduate School EILEEN O'HARA BLAUW. ing in the extension department of the Insti­ tute. -1948 A son, Carleton, was born on December ELIZABETH G. GRIFFITH and David C. Titus 27, to NANCY DENNETT SPAULDING and her -1937 were married on ovember 13 in Rochester. husband. Their home is in Redwood City, H. KLYNE HEADLEY, new head of the de­ -1949 Calif. partment Of piano and composition at the Class news items should be sent to CAROL A son, David, was born on January 6, to Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle, LENDRIM WILLEMS, 15 Hotchkiss Circle, Pen­ Roger and JUNE MACNABB CASON of Davis­ Wash., is also music director of Bethel Pres­ field, N. Y. ville, R. 1. byterian Church in that city. He previously IRMABETH GOOD DITTMAR and her husband, A daughter, Mary, was born on December had been associate professor of music at the Albert, have moved to Billings, Mont. 16, to Raymond and PATRICIA RYAN GREENE. University of California. Births: -1953 -1938 A daughter, Wendy, on ovember 29, to Marvin and JOAN EpSTEIN SHULMAN. JANE F. GOUVERNEUR and Benjamin Ten DR. ILS Y. WESSELL, president of Tufts A son, Geoffrey, on December 2, to Leon Eyck were married in Rochester on December College, was recently elected to the board of and MILLICENT PRICE NEESE. 21. directors of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. A second child and first daughter, Suzanne, CAROLYN ANN MESSNER and Edward Beam on August 4, to Robert and EVELYN VOCK were married in Rochester on November 6. -1940 Their home is in Seneca Falls, N. Y. TURGE. DR. PAUL WEISS is a research physicist CHARLOTTE ZISKIND has been awarded a J. for E. 1. du POnt Company and is chairman scholarship of $850 by the College for Phy­ of the color committee of the Society of Mo­ sicians and Surgeons of Columbia University tion Picture and Television Engineers. The where she is a second-year student. latter organization is responsible for establish­ A son, Peter, was born on December 31 to ing specifications for color motion picture film, Bruce and LINDA WELLS DAVEY of Rochester. color cameras, studio lighting and other factors A daughter, Sheryl Ann, was born on De­ affecting the technical quality of professional cember 3 to Jerry and lYfADELINE ZIMMERLEIN movies. WARNOCK of Aberdeen, Md. -1941 Since 1947, WILLIAM H. SCHEMPF has been director of the music department and leader Eastma n School of the marching band at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. During the school year 1952­ 53, he attended the University of Vienna with a Fulbright grant on a leave of absence fron) -1936 Lehigh. ARTHUR LESSACK is associated with the New -1943 York Voice and Speech Institute and has done speech coaching for several Broadway shows. OSWALD G. RAGATZ is associate professor He received his bachelor and master's de­ of organ at Indiana University School of grees from New York University and is now Music. In addition to his studies at the East­ working for a Ph. D. degree at that institution. man School, he took graduate work at Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music -1943 the Juilliard Graduate School, and the Uni~ PAIGE BROOK is flutist with the New York versity of Southern California. He also is Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, He form­ organist and choirmaster at the First Presby­ erly played with the Buffalo Philharmonic and terian Church, Bloomington, Ind. the Little Orchestra Society in New York be­ WILLIAM J. COBURN is directing the Fort fore joining the New York Philharmonic. Lee (N. J.) Song Spinners. A former record­ -1944 ing engineer and music adviser in the record­ NORMAN E. ROBERTS and Betty Youngman ing department of G. Schrimer, Inc., of New

21 the Eastman School this falI as a candidate Disease Section of the Preventive Medicine Di­ for the degree, Doctor of Musical Arts. vision of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. e/IlSS !Votes FIRST LIEUT. DAVID For several years, he had been officer in charge C. GOODRICH is sta­ and director of research at the Naval Medical tioned on Okinawa as Research Unit Number 4, Great Lakes Naval a clinical psychologist Training Center, Ill. York, Coburn has also served previously as a at the Ryukyus Army radio music director. Since 1950 he has taught Hospital. A 1 9 4 8 privately in Englewood, N. ]., and at the graduate of Purdue Carnegie School of Music there. University, Lieutenant Nursing School Goodrich had been -1944 stationed at the To­ ANTHONY KOOIKER is pianist and teacher kyo Army Hospital of piano at Hope College, Holland, Mich. He before his present as­ -1945 previously served for four years at Central signment. A daughter, Mary Ellen, was born on De­ College, Pella, Iowa. cember 25 to Manderson and MARGARET GIL­ -1946 -1954 LIGAN PHILLIPS. ROWENA DICKEY is assistant professor of MILTON L. BEBEE, former assistant to the -1950 music at Louisiana State University and or­ head of the department of printing at Roch­ A third child and second son, John, was ganist at the University Methodist Church. For ester Institute of Technology, is now a mem­ born on ovember 25 to James and MARIE the past eight summers, she has been a mem­ ber of the Flack Advertising Agency of Syra­ LINDENMUTH ROOME. ber of the music faculty of the National Music cuse, N. Y. He is production manager there. -1953 Camp at Interlochen, Mich. RICHARD A. CAMPBELL and MARJORIE HELEN M. TICE and David L. Rogers were -1947 MATS IS were married last July in ashua, N. married in June, 1954. Rogers is a senior at ALFREDO P. CATEDRAL is dean of the Col­ H. CampbelI is serving in the Air Force while the UR Medical School. lege of Education, Central Philippine College, on leave from Raytheon Manufacturing Com­ Jo ANNE HICKMAN and Dr. Joseph E. Jaro Iloila City, and is director of activities pany's Radar and Missile Laboratory in Bed­ Duke were married on December 27 in Rock­ of the University Church. Catedral has re­ ford, Mass. His wife is a staff physicist at ville, Md. Dr. Duke is an assistant resident ceived degrees from Northeast Missouri State M. 1. T.'s Lincoln (Mass.) Laboratory. in psychiatry at Strong Memorial Hospital. Teachers College, the University of Missouri, DR. RICHARD W. MORSE, chairman of the VIVIAN E. GLEDHILL was among sixty-two Colgate Rochester Divinity School and Colum­ Ripon (Wis.) ColIege music department, died home and foreign missionaries commissioned bia University. A fifth child was born in on January 18, 1955. Dr. Morse obtained a by the Methodist Board of Missions on Jan­ 1953 to Dean Catedral and his wife Esperanz. B. A. degree from Oberlin College in 1934 uary 12 at the Scottish Rite Temple in Cin­ -1949 and an M. A. degree from Western University cinnati. She wiII serve under the Woman's GORDON M. EpPERSON, formerly a teacher in 1939. He is survived by his wife and four Division of Christian Service in Korea. She at the College of Puget Sound, is now on the daughters. has studied at the Kentucky Rural Nursing staff at Louisiana State University. During the A third child and first son, Ward, was born Association, Yale University Far Eastern lan­ summer he is a member of the staff of the to Dr. and Mrs. WARD WOODBURY on De­ guage department and the Scarritt ColIege for Transylvania Music Camp in orth Carolina. cember 20. Christian Workers, Nashville, Tenn. Epperson has studied at the Cincinnati Con· -1954 servatory of Music and the Berkshire Music M. CHARLINE HOPKINS and John C. Daniels Center. Medical School were married in Rochester on December 20. A recent issue of The Instructor, published Their home is in Rochester. by F. A. Owen Publishing Company of Dans­ RUTH ELIZABETH GRUBER and Hans H. ville, . Y., contained an article by IRENE Mettler were married on November 20 in AMISH VONDEBEN, a teacher in the Rochester -1938 Baldwinsville, N. Y. Their home is in Yoko­ public schools. LIEUT. COL. QUINTINO J. SERENATI was hama, Japan. -1950 ranking officer in a class of eighty-three medical officers which was graduated recently from the "Discovery No.5," a short story by ALICE School of Aviation Medicine, San Antonio, Tex. DENHAM} was published in March of this University School year, for sale at pocket book stands. It is her -1939 first published story. Miss Denham lives in DR. WILLIAM R. DUDEN died on Septem­ New York and works as a photographic model. ber 23, 1953, in a Detroit hospital. He was -1949 medical director at the Palo Alto Hospital, -1951 LAWRENCE VAN ISEGHEM recently opened Stanford University. He had been president DORIS HEDGES and Elbert M. Gallemore, his own accounting office in Canandaigua, N. of the California Hospital Conference, chair­ Jr., were married in August. Their home is in Y. For the past four years, he was associated man of the Professional Council-Western Hos­ Kearney, eb., where Mrs. Gallemore i~ a with the Rochester firm of Carl D. Thorny and pital Association and was a member of the member of the music faculty at ebraska State Company as a senior accountant. Van Iseghem California and American Hospital Associations. Teachers College. Her husband is a television also has served as an accountant with Strom­ engineer. -1948 berg-Carlson in Rochester. He is married and -1952 DR. BURTON M. COHEN has been appointed has three children. to the dispensary staff at Elizabeth (N. J.) ARLENE RENKES and Aimo Tulonen were -1950 General Hospital. Dr. Cohen is in private married last August in Finland where Mrs. ROBERT M. HOAG is attending Princeton practice in Elizabeth. Tulonen had been employed as a member of Seminary. the U. S. Information Service staff. She joined -1949 LEON C. CARSON is assistant superintendent this organization after a brief teaching career DR. FREDERICK M. GOLOMB and Joan E. of the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo. at Eastern Washington College, Cheney, Wash. Schneider were married in December. Dr. Following his UR graduation, Carson received Her husband was one of many Finns working Golomb previously served with the Army Med­ his master's degree in hospital administration with the ·Information Service in Helsinki. They ical Corps in Korea. from Columbia University. have iJow returned to this country where -1953 -1952 Tulonen plans to study journalism at North­ DR. HOBART M. BROCKWAY, JR., recently BRUCE W. REAMER is a cost accountant for western University. began private practice in Beacon, N. Y. A Kodak's processing laboratory in Fairlawn, Roy D. SWEET is a member of the voice graduate of Harvard University in 1949, Dr. .J. faculty at West Chester (Pa.) State Teachers Brockway served as house physician at Vassar -1954 College. Hospital in 1953 and part of 1954. RUTH G. STEWART was among sixty-two -1953 Medical Resident home and foreign missionaries commissioned FREDERICK M .• MILLER and Jessie Barr were CMDR. JOHN R. SEAL} U.S. ., was recently by the Methodist Board of Missions on Janu­ married in December in Bridgeport, Conn. awarded the Edward Rhodes Stitt Award for ary 12 at the Scottish Rite Temple in Cincin­ MILTON J. SCHLESINGER} JR.} is a research outstanding achievement in the field of anti­ nati. A graduate of the House of the Good associate at the University of Michigan. biotic medicine. The award was presented for Samaritan School of Nursing, Watertown, N. KENNETH W. ROBERTS is a chaplain's assist­ the first time by the Association of Military Y., Miss Stewart will serve the Woman's Di­ ant in the Army and is stationed at Fort Mon­ Surgeons of the U. S. and was sponsored by vision of Christian Service as a public health mouth, N. J. A graduate of Ithaca College Chas. Pfizer and Company, Inc., Brooklyn. nurse in Korea. She has been receiving orien­ and former organ soloist at Sage Chapel, Commander Seal, a Rochester intern from tation for the mission field at Scarritt College Cornell University, Roberts plans to return to 1937-38, is now head of the Communicable for Christian Workers, Nashville, Tenn.

22 will YOU be back! REUNION WEEKEND June 10·11·12, 1955

Reunion week-end means a good time for all who attend ... from class reunions to Commencement Smorgasbo'rd dinner with plenty to eat, no speeches. there is never a dull moment. The pictures on this page tell the story of a i'housand words.

Comfortable accommodations are available in the residence halls for alumni, alumnae, and their families at reasonable prices.

A varied program of fun, seriousness, and good fel­ lowship liberally seasoned with nostalgia makes this weekend an outstanding one for alumni of all divi­ sions of the University.

Check these attractions • Fraternity Reunions • Eastman Reception • Breakfast with Dr. and Mrs. de Kiewiet bove, Refreshment tent a favorite • Class Luncheons thering spot. Right, Lively action • Eastman Luncheon • University School Luncheon the Varsity-Alumni baseball game. • Varsity Baseball Game low, Clown band entertains with • Refreshment Tent ngs that bring back memories. • College Receptions • Outdoor Smorgasbord • Eastman Artists' Conceds o Street Dance • R.O.T.C. Commissioning • Baccalaureate • Commencement • Commencement Tea

Plan now to be in Rochester June 10-11-12. Reservation cards will be mailed in April. POSTMASTER: Return postage guaran­ teed by University of Rochester, Alumni Federation, Rochester 3, New York.

Dr. Isabel K. Wallace, '16, and Mildred C. Bigelow, '55, admire silver trays presented to them as winners of the Fannie R. Bigelow awards, for outstanding contributions to college life and community.