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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT of NEWSLETTER Spring 1960 FARE.WELL AND HAIL

Dean Faigle bas well said that a University is a place where people grow. This is as true of the faculty as of students. Over the years several members of the staff have advanced to places of greater responsi­ bility elsewhere. Six Syracuse geographers· have become departmental cbainnen: Prof. Sidman P. Poole at Virginia, Prof. Joseph Van Riper at Harpur, Prof. Joseph A. Russell at Illinois, Prof. HenryM. Kendall at Miami, and Prof. Robert E. Dickinson at Leeds University. These promo­ tions have represented a real loss for the Department, but are also a tribute to the University. While each one bas left a gap in the faculty, the Department bas been most fortunate in its replacements.

Iast spring brought further promotions , Prof. Hibberd V. B. Kline, Jr. bas become Cbainnan of the Department of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh, while Prof. Don Bennett bas joined the University of Indiana. Prof. Kline's association with Syracuse goes back to his undergraduate days. Following his graduate work at Wisconsin he joined the staff as an Assist­ ant Professor in 1946, and was promoted to an Associate Professorship in 1949. His numerous trips to Africa have made him one of the leading specialist s on that continent. The hundreds of undergraduates and scores of graduate students who have worked with him look back with real appreci­ ation for his helpful friendship and able scholarship. The University's debt to Mrs. Kline is no less real; her hospitality was most gracious.

Prof. Bennett came to the campus as a graduate student, and received his doctorate from Syracuse i n 1957, after two years as a Ford Fellow in Netherlands and Indonesia. He then became an Assistant Professor and remained at Syracuse until his resignation last spring.

"The King is Dead, long Li ve the King ." So it is with royalty; so it must be in a University. While Syracuse keenly misses those who have moved on, the Department is happy to announce three new appointments. Two Associate Professors were named in September, and a new Assistant Professor joined the Depart ment in February, thus bringing the staff back to its usual number of nine. A few paragraphs on each will be found among the faculty activities , but the Department i .s happy to welcome Prof. Don Meinig from Utah, Prof. I:e.vid de Laubenfels from Georgia, and Prof. Pet er Gould from Chica go . At this point in thei r careers we feel that there i s none better anywhere .

"BAS I C READINGS I N GEOGRAPHY"

The Department of Geography at Syracuse has prepared a revised edition of the annotated listing of es s enti al works recommended for the Ph.D. i n geography. This list presents a number of standard geographic books t hat cover t he substance of geographic r esearch in each of the major fields . Copies of "Ba.sic Readings in Geography" may be obtained for $1.00 each; this i ncludes the cost of postage. THE STAFF

The Staff of the Department numbers nine members . Standing in the above photo, are Dean Eric H. Faigle, Professor Preston E. James (Chairman), and Maxwell Professor George B. Cressey. Seated are Professor Douglas B. Carter, Professor David de Iaubenfels, Professor John H. Thompson, Professor Donald W. Meinig, and Professor Peter R. Gould. Professor Eleanor E. Hanl on is on leave of absence with Resources for the Future, in Washington. Taken to­ gether the Staff has authored two dozen volumes and several hundred journal articles. For more than a decade it has been the custom for one member to be on research leave each year; this has resulted in extensive overseas travel and residence, now covering every continent but Antarctica. THE STAFF

DOUGLAS B. CARTER (Associate Professor; M.A. and Ph.D. Washington) con­ tinues his research in . He has recently published an article entitled "cation Exchange 'capacity of Different Soils" in Publications in Climatology. This year Professor carter will continue research on the Water Resources of Southwest Asia, with nine maps of climate, as his major interest. He worked last summer as a climatologist at the Iaboratory of Climatology in Centerton, New Jersey, and served as a Visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.

GEORGE B. CRESSEY (Maxwell Professor; M.S. and Ph.D. () Chicago; Ph.D. (geography) Clark; D.H.L., Denison) cannot be reported as being abroad recently, but still managed to be involved in numerous trips to New York plus Chicago, Washington, Michigan, Missouri, Arizona, and california. His new book entitled CROSSROADS; LAJID AND LIFE nr SOUTHWEST ASIA is to be published by Lippincott in the Spring and is the result of several years of field work in Swasia. Professor Cressey is presently involved in an investigation of The Deserts of Asia. His plans for the summer of 1960 call for attendance at the I.G.U. meetings in Stockholm and the International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow, to be followed by extensive travels in the Soviet Union and Southwest Asia. He also plans on a revision of his well-known Asia's Iands and Peoples. Professor Cressey's major administrative responsibility is his Presidency of the Association for Asian Studies. After this terminates in April he will become Chairman of the New York-New Jersey Division of the A.A.G.

DAVID J. DELAUBENFELS (Associate Professor; M.A. and Ph.D. Illinois) comes to the Department from the University of Georgia. His ma.in interest centers on plant geography, and his present research is concerned with the geographic properties of vegetation in humid west coast areas in order to determine geographical properties. Recent articles in plant geography of Professor Deiaubenfels include: "Parasitic Conifer Found in New caledonia" in Science; "Podocarpus Lucienii, A New Species from New Caledonia" in Brittonia; and "Australian F9rests Compared with the Vegetation of Similar Climatic Areas in the Americas" in the Annals of A.A.G. Professor Deiaubenfels and his wife, Gundrun, and children, Eric and Lucia, find the Syracuse winter season quite diff erent from that of Athens, Georgia.

ERICH. FAIGLE (Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Geography; M.A. Syracuse; Ph.D. Michigan) has his hands full with co=ittees. Even so Dean Faigle has continued to teach Canada and Wew York State in alternate semesters, but he does admit that committee and administrative work consume the greater amount of his t ime. Some of these are as Chairman of the Syracuse Athletic Governing Board, and Chairman of the State Education Department's Committee on General Edu­ cation. Aspects of Teacher's Certification. Along with Chancellor Tolley and Frank Ri chards, publisher, Professor Faigle recently presented the new NEW YORK STATE ATLAS to Governor Rockefeller. "Faigle' s Anecdot es " continue as a major feature of his courses. PEI'ER R, GOULD (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. No rthwestern) is the most recent arrival of the three new staff members, having commenced employment this spring semester. He has a regional interest in the African continent and just recently returned from field research under the auspices of a Ford and African Program grant in Gambia, Ghana, Togoland, Iahoney, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, the Valtaic Republic, and the Canary Islands , While in Africa he conducted studies measuring the transportation impact on under­ developed areas. Professor Gould, in addition to his regional interest, is especially interested in statistical techniques and transportation analysis. Katherine, born July 31, 1959, -is the other woman in his life besides his wife, Johanna. As evidence of his geographi cal s 1_)irit, Professor Gould plans to attend the I.G.U. meetings at Stockholm.

ELEANORE. HANLON (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Clark) is currently on leave for the academic year 1959-60. Mi ss Hanlon is now employed by Re sources for the Future, 1145-19th Street, N.W. , Washington 6, D.C., as a consul­ tant on conservation and water problems. Her address in Washington is: The General Scott, Apartment 116, Scott Circle. Before leaving for Wash­ ington, Professor Hanlon completed the new NEW YORK STATE ATL.AS, which has received state-wide recognition as an invaluable education source. last summer Miss Hanlon taught at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and traveled extensively in the West both going and returning to Syracuse. It is reported she took numerous colored slides to add to her collection. When teaching at Syracuse her course specialties are conservation, ,m.ter resources, and land use planning .

PRESTON E. JAMES (Professor and Chairman; M.A. Harvard; Ph.D. Clark) has continued work along his regional interest in Iatin America and in the promotion of geography in the United States educational system. Professor James has three books to his credit in 1959; the second edition of A GEOGRAPHY OF MAN; the third edition of LATIN AMERICA; and THE WIDE WORLD, A GEOGRAPHY, written in collaboration with Nelda Davis. He was also editor of NEW VIEWPOINTS nr GEOGRAPHY. His major activity at present is a map compilation program for Latin America, and the preparation of a book on the HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT. Travel has also consumed much of his time, In January 1959 he visited Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. Mrs. James, a geographer in her own right, continues to draw maps for her husband's publications; she was thus appropriately accorded the honor of election as a member of the Society of Women Geographers. The year 1960 calls for travel to various Latin American countries,

DONALD W. MEDITG (Associate Professor; M.A. and Ph.D. Washington) comes to the Staff from a teaching position at the University of Utah. In 1958 he was engaged on a research project at the University of Adelaide, South , While in Australia he published "The American Colonial Era: A Geographic Commentary" in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australian Branch, Professor Meinig is presently concerned with research on the of the Columbia Basin Country, in conjunction with his interest of historical geography of the Western United States, The Meinigs have three girls. JOHN H. THOMPSON (Professor; M.A. Colorado; Ph . D. Washington} utilized 1959 to continue his interest in manufacturing geography by publishing "A Map of Japan's Manufacturing" with Michihiro Miyazaki in the Geographical Review and '' A Map of the U.S.S. R. •s Manufacturing" in wi~ Richard IDnsdale. He has also prepared two maps with accompanying text for the NEW YORK STATE ATLAS. last summer the Thompson family travelled over 15,000 mllles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gaspe Peninsula, and while in the West, Professor Thompson taught one term at the University of Colorado. I>.lring the past year he served as Chairman of the New York-Ontario Division of the A.A.G., and is now engaged in writing a book on New York State. He has received a joint contract with the Economics Department to make a study of the economically depressed areas of New York State.

JESSIE WATKINS and AIMA OONNING continue in charge of the growing Lyman Hall Library. Although the number of map cases have more than doubled, they will soon be filled to capacity with 10,000 new maps from the Library of Congress. The Departmental collections now exceed 7,000 volumes and 6o,ooo maps. Both Mrs. Watkins and Miss Dunning are most helpful in providing assistance to students and staff, and make us feel that we have the best branch -library on the campus.

LILLIAN B. MOREY (Administrative Assistant) returned to Syracuse in December after several months in Milwaukee. It is a welcome sight to see her back at her desk answering telephone calls, writing letters and memos, and answering questions - all usually at the same time. She still manages to keep a smile on her face while helping the students with their many problems. All of us in the Department say "Welcome back, Mrs. M."

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

The Department will be well represented at the meetings of the A.A.G. in To.llas in April. All of the Staff expect to be present, with several of them presenting papers. The Syracuse Cocktail Party is scheduled for Monday afternoon, April 18. The 1961 meetings are scheduled for East I.ansing, Michigan, from August 28 to September 1. The New York-Ontario and Metropolitan Divisions of the A.A. G. have voted for merger and will now be known as the New York-New Jersey Division. Prof. John H. Thompson was formerly Chairman of the New York­ Ontario Division, and Prof. George B. Cressey is the Chairman of the newly founded Division. The annual two-day meeting will be held each fall, alternately Upstate and in the New York City Metropolitan area. The next meeting will be at Buffalo in the fall of 1960. GRADUATE STUDENTS

The above photo presents twenty two of the three dozen graduate students currently in residence. Reading down, and starting nearest the railing, the first file includes Charles Woolever, Herbert Lundin, Amiran Gonen, Jack Fisher, Iqtidar Zaidi, and Norman Schul. In the second file are Edward Easton, John Weeks, Richard Little, and Richard Lephart. The third file includes Donald Ba.con, Clement Padick, Dorothea Eisenberg, and Charles Howatson. The fourth file includes Jack Pollard, Ralph Brown, Gary Fowler, Rolf Sternberg, and Henry Williams. In the fifth file are Jack 1.9.mbert, Clarence Minkel, and John Katuramu. The current graduate group includes representatives from most of the pr:loci.p:1.l American dep:1.rtments of geography and from seven foreign countries. PRESENT GRAIUATE STUDENTS

HASSAN AL KHAYAT, from Baghdad, Iraq, received his M.A. from Syracuse in 1959, and is now a doctoral candidate. Ali taught high school in Baghdad for three years prior to his arrival in Syracuse~ His regional interest is naturally in Southwest Asia, with an urban concentra~ion. He had the misfortune to have an automobile accident near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania on November 27 and had to remain in the hospital in this city for several weeks with a broken leg.

DONALD R. BACON is a candidate for the M.A. Degree. Syracuse is his home, and he received his B.A. here. Don is interested in the U.S.S . R., and is looking for a job after June. He is married, and his wife, Mary Ann, takes care of their daughter, Deborah Lynn, while Don expends himself in the academic life.

BILL BROWN (candidate for M.A. Degree) is one of those who can boast of having received his bachelor's degree at Syracuse as well as being a resident of this city and then coming back for more in graduate work. Bill and wife, Dee, and three children plan to leave Syracuse to find employment.

RALPH BROWN, a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree, comes from Fast Stoneham, Maine. Ralph received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Buffalo. The United States is his regional specialization and transportation his topical interest. Palph was formerly a teacher at Buffalo, and has worked for the Security Department of Syracuse University. Harriet, his wife, and Bobbie Anne, their daughter, take care of the domestic aspects of Ralph's education.

EDWARD EASTON, a candidate for the M.A. Degree, comes from Rochester, New York. Ed had his undergraduate work at Valparaiso University. Last summer he attended the geography field camp at Potsdam. Ed holds an assistantship;was married on August 30, 1959 to Thltheda "Chita" Chaffer.

DORTHEA EISENBERG, from Brooklyn (without the Dodgers) Hew York, is a candidate for the M.A. She took her undergraduate degree at the State Teachers College at Oswego. Dotty formerly taught in the elementary grades and plans to return to teaching at Carle Place Public Schools, Long Island, in September 1960 after taking a trip to the southeastern sections of the United States. Dotty hopes to write her thesis on some aspect of Long Island.

JACK FISHER, a New Yorker ·from Cortland, is a candidate for t he Ph.D. He received his M.A. from Syracuse in 1958. His interests center on Eastern and . Jack has published "Political Decision: A Factor in the Changing Agricultural Geography of Yugoslavia" in the Journal of Geography, November 1959 and "Geography in t he United States, " co-authored with Professor J ames in the Thlssian Journal, Geography in the School, December 1959. Kit, his wife, and Jack hope to undertake field research in Poland and Yugoslavia in the summer of 1960 with a side trip to the U.S. S. R. if t he "gods from above" see fit to apportion a share of their funds t o' this purpose. GARY FOWLER, a recent acquisition from the United States Army for the 1957-59 period, is working toward the Ph.D. Gary had academic ambitions before his army service, receiving his B.S. from Eastern Illinois State College and his M.A. from Syracuse. Bis regional specialty is Moslem Africa, with agricultural colonization being his topical specialty. In connection with his Army tour in Libya, Gary did mapping and photo analysis. Bis wife, Barbara, is teaching geography in the North Syracuse School System.

BRUCE GLADFELTER is a candidate for the M.S.S. Degree from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Bruce received his undergraduate degree from Trinity College and holds an assistantship as well as being a resident adviser. He intends to continue his studies in 1960 toward an advanced degree.

AMIRAN GONEN comes to Syracuse from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. last year he held a IDlESCO fellowship in Japan. His home is Ka.rkur, Israel. Ami is a candidate for an M.A. Degree. His wife, Rivka, is an anthropologist, a useful combination for a geographer. The graduate students are infiltrating Ami with the American school procedures, and Ami is doing likewise with the philosophy of the Israel system.

CHARLES HOWATSON, from Victoria, British Columbia, is working toward the Ph.D.Degree. He received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia and has taught at Victoria College for several years. His regional interest is Canada (what else) and agri­ is his topical specialty. His wife, Jay, and his two boys, Allan and Ronald, will return to Victoria College with Charlie in September 1960 when he will resume his teaching duties.

THOMAS JOHNSON, from Wolcott, New York, is a candidate for the master's degree. In September Tom made the change from an undergraduate major in geography to graduate status, last summer he traveled in New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. -Tom ·expects to complete his thesis this year.

FLORA JORDAN, from Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies, is a candidate for the master's degree. She is currently the holder of a Thomas Watson Fellowship. Flora hopes to complete her degree and return to the West Indies by September 1960.

JOHN C. KATURAMU, from Jinja, Uganda, is a candidate for the M.A. Degree. John comes to Syracuse by virtue of a scholarship from the Institute of International Education. He has taught public school in Uganda, having received his B.A. from Makerere University College in that country, and intends to return to teaching after the receipt of his M.A. This summer John plans to attend the summer field camp at Potsdam, New York.

JACK E. LAMBERr comes from Honeoye Falls, New York. He received his B.A. from Syracuse in 1950 and since graduation has worked for Army Map Service and has served as Major in Western Europe while on a two year assignment with the Post Engineers. His wife, Jane, and children, Rex and Marlene, will accompa1.ny him to his next assignment at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he will be an instructor in the Engineer School. RICHARD A. LEPHART, a candidate for the M.A. Degree, comes from Arcanum, Ohio. Dick received his undergraduate degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is continuing this year as a resident adviser at Watson Dormitory.

EDWARD LIMOGES lives in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York City, and is presently undertaking research on his master's thesis. Ed received his B.A. from City College of New York, and has worked for the library of the American Geographical Society. His main interest centers around North America and urban studies.

RICHARD LITTLE (M.A. 1958 ) is continuing work toward the Ph.D. with regional interest in the United States and a topical specialty in . Dick's home town is Wheeling, West Virginia. He has stayed East for his education, receiving his B.A. at I'a.rtmouth. The family, consisting of Jackie, his wife, who is a California product, with Ricky (5) and Kathy (1) keep Dick jumping.

RICHARD LONSDALE, another of those rare individuals having the nickname of Dick, is presently struggling with his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Industrial Development in Western Siberia: A Geographical Analysis." He is receiving financial assistance from a Ford Foundation Fellowship and writes of his work in Moscow. In collaboration with Professor Thompson he recently published "A Map of the U.S . S.R. 's Manufacturing" in Economic Geography, January 1960. His wife, the former MILDRED JORDAN, is also a graduate of Syracuse, receiving her M.A. in geography in 1948. Dick received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from UCLA. With a regional specialty of the Soviet Union and a topical interest in manu­ facturing geography, Dick hopes to obtain a teaching position for the fall of 196o.

HERBERT LUNDIN, a Ph.D. candidate from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is completing his second year to-ward the degree. Herb received his bachelor's degree .from Wisconsin State College and holds a master's from the University of ·~ Colorado. His regional specialty is the Western United States, and he also has an interest in settlement geography. He traveled last summer in New England and Eastern Canada. Herb holds a graduate assistantship, and with the help of his wife, Dona, who teaches, manages to forge his -way through the web of graduate study.

CLARENCE (BUD) MINKEL, from Austin, Minnesota, is completing his doctoral dissertation. Bud received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Colorado State College. He and his wife, Jeanette, and children Tom (10) and Sandra (4), along with Javier Font (10), a Venezuelan boy who is living with the Minkels and going to school with Tom, recently returned from a year of field work in Venezuela. Bud was studying The Industrial Developnent of the Basin of Valencia with the financial assistance from the Thomas J. Watson and U.S. Steel fellowships. In Jarruary 1959 he was a delegate to the Pa.n American Institute of Geography and History Meetings in Quito, Ecuador. On their return to the United States the Minkels visited Curacao, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. After completing the dissertation, the Minkels will leave for Greely, Colorado, where Bud has accepted a position in the Colorado State University. ROBER!' MULLER, a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree, is from Rutherford, New Jersey. Bob went to Rutgers University for his undergraduate degree and received his M.A. from Syracuse in 1959, He is the recipient of a Uni­ versity Fellowship and is now working on Western Europe and climatology with snow analysis as his micro-concentration. Jeanne, his wife, keeps the home fires burning by supplying the extra-added financial contribu­ tions.

HASSAN NAJrn:, a candidate for the Ph.D. from Baghdad, Iraq, is presently completing his dissertation entitled "Agriculture in Iraq: Salt and Saline Problems." Hassan has taught high school in Iraq. He first came to this country in 1956 in order to take his master's degree at the Uni­ versity of Illinois, and after receiving it returned to Iraq only to return for study at Syracuse. He intends to fly to Iraq in the near future in order to join Su, his wife, and children Su Su and Basil, who returned in December. Hassan will tea.ch college geography in Iraq next year.

THEODORE (TED) OBERLANDER (M.A. 1956; Ph.D. in progress) is currently assisting Professor Cressey with his new book on Southwest Asia. Ted is interested in cartographically presenting a "geographically significant categorization of landforw.s based on a combination of genetic and empirical criteria." What this means is that Ted is developing a geo­ morphic diagram based on a new combination of factors. Some of his work was on exhibition at the Pittsburgh meeting of the A.A. G. With a regional interest in Southwest Asia and as a topical specialty Ted hopes to do field work in the Moslem World for his disser­ tation.

CLEMENT PADICK (M.A., U. C. L.A. ; dissertation in progress) returned in September from Fulbright Study in Germany, Austria, and other countries of Europe. Clem, a native of Reseda, California, is writing his disser­ tation on the water resources of the Volga Basin. In addition to his regional interest in the Soviet Union, he is specializing in landfonns and_ water resources.

MANJULA PATEL, a candidate for the Master of Arts Degree, comes from Baroda, . She received her B.A. from the University of Bombay and has a Master of Science degree from the University of Baroda. Miss Pa.tel taught school last summer and plans to continue work tmva.rd the Ph.D. after receiving the M.A. this year.

JUDITH PETERSml is currently completing work on her M.A. thesis. Judy now claims Syracuse as her home _tmm, but she origianlly came from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Her ):J.usband, Bruce, is doing graduate work in the Department of Mathematics. The Petersons have one child, Thomas, a year old. Judy's specialty is , and she drew the maps for the new Hew York State Atlas, recently completed at Syracuse University. JONATHAN POLLARD, known more generally as Jack, is a candidate for the M.A. Degree. He received his B.A. from Antioch College in Ohio. His home is Manchester, New Hampshire, and his stay at Syracuse is nearing the end, hopefully, as he is putting the finishing touches to his master's thesis, entitled "The Effect of Present Flood Control Measures on Iand Utilization of the Onondaga Valley, New York." He has worked as a com­ piler for the map department of the National Geographic Society.

JEROME (JERRY) RIORDAN, candidate for the M.A. Degree, re~eived his B.A. from Syracuse. His home town is also this fair city, and Jerry formerly worked for the New York Central Railroad. He is still single.

NORMAN SCHUL (Ph.D. dissertation in progress) comes from West Milton, Ohio. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Mi ami University, Oxford, Ohio. His regional interest centers on Southeast Asia with a topical specialty on settlement analysis. Norm is presently preparing to leave for the Philippines with his wife, Marianne, to con­ duct a settlement study of the Victorias Milling Company, Neg ros Occi­ dental, under the auspices of a grant from The National Academy of Sciences. He is presently a graduate assistant and last summer taught cultural geography at Buffalo. He plans to return to the campus in the Spring of 1961 to write his dissertation.

JOSEPH SHUMAN, JR. from Wellsville, New York,received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and is now a candidate for the M.A Degree. last summer Joe attended the geography field camp at Potsdam, New York, and afterwards worked with the Perny Knitting Company near Buffalo. Joe plans to write his thesis this year.

ROLF STERI'fBERG is working' on his dissertation, havine just recently passed his qualifying exams for the Ph . D. His previous degrees were from Ursinus College for the B.A., and Clark University for the master's. latin America and urban geography are his regional and t opical specializations. He recently completed a mineral map and accompanying text for the New York State Atlas. last summer Rolf spent several weeks in the Library of Congress procuring maps for the Departmental Library at Syracuse. Frances, his wife, teaches science in the Syracuse city school system. Rolf intends to finish his dissertation and go into research, preferably urban analysis.

JOHN WEEKS from West Wichham, Kent, England, is undertaking advanced training in geography. J ohn received his B.A. in geography from cambridge University and will receive his M.A. from Cambridge in 1961. His major interest is the historical geography of Europe arid the British Isles. John is on a Fulbright Travel Scholarship and holds a teaching assistant­ ship. Upon returning t o England in July he will take a position as a geography master at a public or grammar school. This is his first journey off the continent, and after visiting Vir ginia, New York City, and Washington reports, "I feel somewhat impressed." JEROLD (JERRY) WIDDISON, a real westerner from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree. J erry came to Syracuse via his under­ graduate training at the University of New Mexico and !llM. A. in geography from the University of Co lorado. His regional specialty is Latin America wi th a topical concentration in land use. His publications i nclude: "Historical Geography of the Middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico" in the New Mexico Historical Review and "Painted Cave" in the New Mexico Ma gazine. J erry traveled last year in Mexico and the United States Southwest. He presently holds a Watson Fellowship. His plans for 1960 call for field work and a dissertation on land use in Mexico.

HENRY G. WILLIAMS, JR. (candidate for the Ph.D. Degree) from Fayetteville, New York, is presently an Instructor of in the Syracuse College of Forestry. Hank received his undergraduate degree from Utica College, and his M.A . is from Syracuse. Hi s wife, Mary Elizabeth, and daughter, Sarah Christine (1) take care of the domestic aspect of the Wi lliam's household. Hank continues to carry out planning studies in several New York communities, having received training for this work from his former employment with the Syracuse City Planning Commission.

CHARLES WILLIAM WOOLEVER, better known as just plain Bill, is continuing in his second year toward the Ph.D. Bill received his under graduate degree from the State Teachers College at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and has an M.A. from Miami University in Ohio. He is a veteran of the seas, having been in the Navy from 1950 through 1954. Bill is speciali­ zing on India and Pakistan, having lived in India for the first 18 years of his life, and has a topical interest ~n manufacturing geography. He and Sara, his wife, better known as Keuka, pronounced Cookie, traveled throughout the West last summer. This year he intends t o continue re­ search on manufacturing in India.

IQTIDAR HASAIN ZAIDI, from Kararhi, Pakistan, is a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree. Iqtidar received his undergraduate degree from the University of Allahabad in India. and has two Masters' Degrees, one i:Q geography from the University of Sind (Pakistan) and another from the University of the Philippines in political science. His r~gional specialty is Southeast Asia with a topical interest in political geography . He is the holder of a Smith-Mundt-Fulbright award. Zai di has been a lecturer in geography at Urdlu Coll ege, University of Karachi. Having passed his qualifying exams, he is now planning to undertake field work on his doctoral dissertation.

VISITORS

The Department has had many guests during the past year. Among them have been Hans Carol, Erwin Raisz, Bogdar Winid and Antoni Kuklinski of Poland, and Joseph Roglic of Yugosla~ia.. Professo~ Wreford Watson of the University of Edinburgh is scheduled for a series of lectures in April. SUMMER FIELD COURSE

The application of field techniques toward the solution of selected geographic problems was the theme and purpose of the 1959 Syracuse Uni­ versity Geography summer field course. Perhaps few areas in New York State could present at close range as vivid an example of the changing cultural environment as that observed in St. Iawrence County, in the heart of the "North Country." The impact of the newly opened St. Iawrence Seaway was evident in the attitudes of the people as well as in localized industrial expansion. On the other hand, rural St. Iawrence County was a symbol of decadence and increased land abandonment. In this setting, students convened on June 15 to begin five weeks of intensive in-the-field observation into the geographic nature of these problems. Special emphasis was given the topics of land use and settlement. The group, under the direction of Professors John Thompson of Syracuse and John Brush of Rutgers, was quartered on the campus of Potsdam State Teachers College, which offered excellent dormitory and cafeteria facilities.

During the first two weeks the group was divided into two sections, each becoming e:ic:posed to general field techniques such as plane table sur­ veying, land use mapping, interviewing, and identifying various form and functional aspects related to settlement. All too numerous swamps way­ laid the determined efforts of the field mappers, and many a local resi­ dent sought to ease the burden with choice bits of information. During the last three weeks the group was divided into smaller sections, each selecting a specific problem dealing with either land use or settlement. During this project the members put to use all of the techniques previous­ ly encountered and presented a set of maps and an accompanying text.

In addition several trips were taken by the group: A reconnaissance of the St. Iawrence Valley, a day in the fietd with a representative of the Soil Conservation Service, another day with the County Agent, and trips through a paper mill and to the St. Iawrence Power and Seaway Proj­ ects.

These were a busy five weeks, almost every day actually being spent in the field. In addition many evenings were needed to record and analyze data accruing from the field observations. Although the camp seemed trying at times, in retrospect thinking clearly spells out the tremendous value of this kind of training . Experience in organizing, interpreting, and presenting the results of field observation, the necessity of getting along with colleagues, and the opportunity to become thoroughly familiar with a piece of the 's surface can be looked back upon as an impor­ tant phase of geographic training .

Potsdam has again been selected as the site for the 1960 summer. field course. Any inquiries about attending should be directed to the Department of Geography. GEOGRAPHY AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Graduate study in geography at Syracuse offers many unusual oppor­ tunities. Although certain "core seminars" and the summer field course are required of all students for the M.A. and Ph. D. degrees, the programs of training are formulated for each student individually. Beyond the Master's degree, the student is urged to move away from the conventional course units and to take an "individualized study program." Together with a staff advisor, each student selects five fields that he will be examined on for the qualifying examinations for the Ph.D. The history of geographic thought and one field outside geography are required, but the regional, topical, and technique fields are selected by agreement between staff and student.

With the increased demand for American leadership in intellectual affairs as well as in the practical problems of living, geography will be called upon for increasingly effective service. There can be no doubt that the demand for trained geographers will continue to grow. Positions are offered our graduates not only as university teachers, but also in the business fields of market research and transportation, and in government as city planners and intelligence specialties.

The Department is an integral part of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and thus enjoys close relations with the other social sciences. Courses in geography have been offered at Syracuse since the beginning of the century, and the Department enjoys high ranking on campus as well as nationally.

The primary objective of this department is the achievement of high standing in productive scholarship and recognized excellence in the train­ ing of graduate students for the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Every member of the staff holds the Doctor of Philosophy Degree and is recognized in the profession as a specialist in a regional and a topical aspect of geography.

The Syracuse Staff believes that effective graduate training must include specific research undertakings and independent reading and writing under the direction of a member of the staff. The geographers at Syracuse are creating a "community of scholars" made up of individuals learning about various aspects of geographic research and of groups working together toward the solution of specific problems. This plan of graduate work has been successful, even though some individuals find it difficult to adjust to training at such an adult level after long exposure to the undergraduate system of course units and hours of credit.

Field work is an essential part of most geographic research. All students must take the summer field course before undertaking field studies· on their own. The summer field course will.be held at Potsdam, New York, where changes in the "North Country" along the St. Iawrence Seaway can be observed. The course will be under the direction of Professors John H. Thompson and David J, Delaubenfels of Syracuse. Anyone interested in attending this course, or sending a student, graduate or undergraduate, can write to the Secretary, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, for a descriptive folder and application blanks. Persons who plan to do graduate work at Syracuse should take the field course, if possible, during the summer before commencing the graduate program. At Syracuse geography is still a subject that is studied out-of-doors.

Financial assistance is available for a number of qualified appli­ cants. Eight or ten Departmental Assistantships for teaching and research are available; most of these pay between $1,500 and $1,Boo, plus six hours per semester of free tuition. Among these are Watson Fellowships for the study of Latin America. A limited number of University Fellowships are also available for advanced students who already hold the M.A. degree; these pay $1,500 minus tuition. Also available are University Scholar­ ships which cover tuition only.

Applications for Assistantships, Fellowships, and Scholarships nrust be submitted before March 1, 1960 on forms supplied for this purpose, together with supporting papers. All appointments are announced early in April, 1960. Applicants are considered for the best appointments available, but should indicate the minimum which they would accept. Bulle­ tins, application blanks, and additional information may be secured by writing to the Secretary, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Syracuse 10, New York.

NE'WS FROM AROUND THE CAMPUS

Syracuse football occupied the spotlight in national news last fall. We are all proud of the Number One national ranking of the Orange, and of their success in the Cotton Bowl, but even more we like to view the ath­ letic accomplishment as another sign of a growing and progressing University. Chancellor Tolley continues to stress "excellence" in all fields.

-Pl,ans for expansion frequently occupy the headlines of the local papers. The building program has brought two dormitories on Mt. Olympus and one on Hendrick's Field, and will lead to a multi-million dollar communications center for Journalism, plus the construction of a Field House.

Old residents of Lyman Hall will find a number of changes. The north stairway has been removed and a series of new rooms have been created on each floor. The Megatherium is gone, and in its place are a series of cabinets for geology. Building 26 still stands (barely), and its lights still burn most of the night. FOFMER STAFF

DON C. BENNETT (M.A. '51; Ph.D. '57; Staff Member 195 7-59) Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, is enjoying the Midwestern area. Don is teaching courses on Southeast As ia, population, and settlement geography, and is also participating in the Humid Tropics Research Program. Professor Bennett is currently studying the residential settlement of Monroe County, Indiana. Joan, his wife, is busy learning Russian, and more importantly, is taking care of Janis, Eric, and Robyn.

RICHARD EDES HARRISON (Staff Member 1946-50) 313 Ea.st 51st Street, New York 22, New York. Rikky says he "feels like a one-armed paperhanger who is trying to do four walls at once." Hi s jobs include: earning a living as a cartographer, for which he completed a map of the Oceans for Fortune in the November issue; map editor of the Annals, where he has four maps lined up for publication; teacher and lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh; and as President of the Linnaean Society. The family are all well, including Libby, "the household executive," and the children ("large ones now") Nancy, Ross, and Sam.

HENRY M. KENDALL (Staff Member 1947-52) is Chaiiinan of the Depar tment of Geography at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He supports the geographic profession by being Chairman of the Publications Committee for the A.A.G., and is a member of the A.A. G. 's Council. During this fall semester he was a member of the three-man executive committee of the Arts and Science College. In 1960-61 Dr. Kendall will be on exchange with Professor Frank J. Monkhouse of Southampton University in the United JG.ngdom.

HIBBERD V. B. KLINE (Staff Member 1946-59) is now Chairman of the Depart­ ment of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh. The !Qines are living eighteen miles north of the city in a residential section having wonderful schools which compensates for the time spent commuting. Rib likes his new position very much, and is quite enthused over advancing geography at Pittsburgh.

CLYDE P. PATTON (Staff Member 1953-58) Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, is completing his second year at Eugene . Polly, his wife, reports that Oregon is a wonderful and relaxing .place in which to raise children.

DAN STANISLAWSKI (Staff Member 1942~43) Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, is continuing his research on Iberia, with Italy added. The academic year 1958-59 was spent in.Italy, Spain, and Portugal, with a few weeks in Austria, Yugoslavia, Corsica, and Sardinia. THE PERSONALITY OF POR'IUGAL is his most recent publication.

NEWS LE'Tl'ER

This Nsws Letter has been prepared under the direction of Professor George B. Cressey, with the assistance of Noman Sch~l. It is sent to all fll7I'Iller majors and graduate students and to friends of the Department. If there are omissions in our mailing list, please let us know. FORMER STUDEllTS

JAMES ACKER (M.A. 1 57) Quarters 4311A, U. S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, is teaching geography to the Cadets at the Academy. T'ne Department takes in 750 cadets each year, with full strength now attained in all classes. Katie and Jim took the two boys, Bill (8) and Phil (5), on a camping trip to the Southwest and Mexico last summer.

JOHN ALGER, R. D. 1/-2., Box 290-A, Huntington, New York, is presently in business although as he says, "Someday I shall return to the academic world." Frances is taking care of the children, Chris and Dolores. John is considering an offer with the State Department for a position in Cairo, Egypt.

ALBERT BALLERT (M.A. 1 40; Ph.D. Chicago) is Director of Research for the Great Lakes Commission, Rackham Bldg., Ann Arbor, Michigan. I{e has completed two articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica on the St. Iawrence River and the St. Iawrence Seaway, and has prepared an article on "Great Lakes Foreign Commerce" and the co!lIDlerce of the major canals of the world. He continues to teach a home-study course for the University of Chicago.

GABRIEL BETZ (D.S.S. '52) continues as Chairman of the Department of Geography at the California State Teachers College, California, Pennsyl­ vania. He conducted a 44 day European tour last summer, and has com­ pleted a 20 day cruise on active duty with the Navy in the Carribean. Karl (9) and Kathie (6) are keeping Mrs. Betz busy with the domestic duties.

WILLIAM BLACK (M.A. 1 48) Geographical Branch, Dept. 2, Mines and Technical Survey, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, Ontario. Bill spent last summer conducting an economic survey in the Mackenzie Delta and reports that it was on the chilly side as Aklavik registered a mean temperature for August of 41°. He is working on two papers, "An Analysis of the Iabrador Floater Codfishing" for the Annals and "Gulf of St. Iawrence Ice Survey, Winter 1959" for the Queen's Printer. Bill's three children are fine and are all being shaped into geographers.

ERICH F. BORDNE (M.A. 1 51; Ph.D. 1 54) Department of Geography, University of Pittsburgh, recently attended the Maxwell Graduate School Ianforth Seminar on Metropolitan Problems. Suzanne is now over one year old. Erich plans to attend the A.A.G. me~tings in To.llas.

ALBERT W. BROWN (D.S.S. '52) is Chairman of the Geography Department at Eastern Michigan College, Ypsilanti. The big news -Al has to report is that the correspondence and notes of Mark Jefferson, who was head of the department until 1939, have geen acquired by the college. Nine members are now on the staff. Al is personally involved with general curriculum and the building of the department. JOSEPH W. BROWNELL (D.S.S. 1 58) is Associate Professor of Geography, Cortland State College of F,d.ucation, Cortland, N. Y. Gregory William, born June 26, is the Brownell's first child. Joe spent last summer teaching at the University of Manitoba and managed a-side trip to Churchill after the close of the session.

RAYMOND BUTLER ('32- 1 36) U.S. Antarctic Program, 700 Jackson Place, N.W. Washington 25, D.C., reported to us from the U.S.S. Glacier cruising along the Ross Sea Barrier about half way from Little America IV on the way to McMurdo Sound. The ship will travel to New Zealand for fuel ahd then carry on research in the Bellingshausen Sea. Ray will return via South America in April.

BERNARD CEDAR, 16 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn 18, N. Y., is a Junior Planner with the New York City Department of City Planning. Bernie is still working on his thesis on the Newtown Creek Area in New York City. With the "teeming millions" surrounding him he is still single and reportedly no girl in sight.

ALEX S. CHAMBERLAIN (M.A. '53) 3193 Drew Way, West Palm Beach, Florida, is employed as a consultant in the 16,000 sq. mile central and southern Florida Flood Control District. Carol and Alex went to the Bahamas for a 10 day vacation and recommend that the "Out Islands" be seen while there.

HOWARD CHRISTIAH is teaching at the District of Columbia Teachers College, Washington, D.C. He was promoted to an Assistant Professorship in January 1959. Life and Living in the Chesapeake Bay Region is his most recent publication, one which grew out of a · travel study course conducted for the past two years, plus five years of field work. Howard hopes to return to Syracuse in 1960.

CHARLES CRUTI'ENDEN (M.A. '53; Ph.D. 1 58 ) 1621 North 40th St., Seattle 3, Washington, j_s employed as an analyst or report writer with Larry Smith and Co., an ·economic consulting firm. The western office in Seattle serves the area west of the Mississippi, with three other offices in the East. Barbara and Ki.in extend their invitation with Chuck "to drop in to see them if ever out this way."

PAUL DALRYMPLE (M.A. '52) Quartermaster Research and Development Labora­ tory at Natick, Mass., returned to the U.S. in December 1958 after two years in the Antarctic as a micrometeorologist at Little America Vin '57, and at the South Pole in •58. Paul recently received the "Meritorious Civil Service Award," the highest civilian award given by the Quartermaster Corps, and was in addition named Civil Servant of the Year. He is ·present­ ly directing the data analysis program at Natick. Ann (5) was joined by a sister, Nancy, in September.

ROBERT A. DAVIS (M.A. '50) 42 Melville Ave., Toronto l.f, Ontario, Canada, is planning to attend t he International Geographical Congress in Stockholm. SPERIDIAO FAISSOL (Ph.D. •56) Rua Guaguil, 120 Meier, Rio de Jane: Brazil, continues as a director of the Geography Division of The Brazilian National Council.

HOWAP.D H. FLIERL (Ph.D. '55) 12 Barthwick Ave., Delmar, N. Y. is still head of the Department of Geography at the State University in Albany.

BARRY N. FLOYD (Ph.D. '59) Assistant Professor, Iartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. is completing his first year in the teaching profession. Barry returned from Southern Rhodesia in the Spring of 1959 after two years in Africa and spent the next four months writing his dissertation. He then taught during the second summer session at Syracuse.

ARTHUR GABRIEL, JR., 310 Stratford St., Syracuse 10, N. Y. is Alumni Secretary for Syracuse University. His travels include "from Portland, Me. to Miami, Fla. to Los Angeles, Cal. to Minneapolis, Minn., and then to To.llas, Texas." His wife Janice takes care of the four children-­ Kathy, Art III, 1/ia.rtha, and Elizabeth.

VIAKALATHUR S. GANANATHAN (M.A. 1 48) is the Chairman of the Department of Geography, University of Poona, India. Gan is publishing in several Indian Geographical journals. He hopes to attend the I.G.U. meetings in Stockholm in Augus"!;. Lakslmi, his wife, encourages Gan in his geographic endeavors, especially since she was a former teacher of geography.

JAMES HALPIN (M.A. 1950) Box 432, R.D. 1, Vienna, Va. is emnloyed as a geographer by the Department of State. Jim reports his five children and his better half are fine.

HORST HANEFELD, 7 Aumunder Heide, Bremen, Gennany, recently completed his Doctor's dissertation on the "Relationships between glacial and preglacial forms in the Tug Hill Area, Black River, Upper Mohawk, and Oneida Valleys of New York." In July he made a trip to Switzerland. Horst reports he is still unmarried.

CATHERINE HEITZ (M.A. Miami; Advanced study at S.U. 1958) 34 D Gahl Terrace, Cincinnati 15, Ohio, teaches American History and World Geography at the Woodward Senior High. She reports "both the students and the staff are terrific, and I am enjoying my work tremendously. "

THADDEUS F. X. HIGGINS (1947-50) is Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Association in Pittsburgh. Ted serves as a consultant to NBC's series "Briefing Session," and an advisor to Station WIIC (Pittsburgh). He was the only local interviewer of Khrushev on his recent tour. On December 10 Ted was seen on TV interviewing Senator Kennedy. His family of five children - John (7); I:'e.n (6); Mary Clare (4); Rebecca (2); and Andrew (1) are enough to keep Ted and his wife occupied.

HOWARD HIRT (M.A. '51; Ph.D. '55) 14 McNab Dr., Columbia, Mo., is teach­ ing in the Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Missouri. Howard hopes to go to India in the sUilllller of 1960 to lecture at Delhi University. He is Vice President of the Missouri Council for Geographic Education, and a member of the A.A.G. Publication's Committee. His wife and daughter are well. JORDAN HODGKINS (Ph.D. '59) 9 JAunon Rd., Greenhills, Cincimiati 18, Ohio, continues in the Department of' Geology and Geography at the University of' Cincinnati. Joe reports he is happy to have completed the degree, and that his wif'e, Phylis, with daughters Jane and Priscilla, share his feelings.

RICHARD .F.HOUGH (M.A. 1957) lt-50 W. Gilman St., Madison, Wis., is a teaching assistant at the University of' Wisconsin. Dick plans to study Japanese this summer and to carry on f'ield work in Japan through 1961 ("the powers that apportion f'unds willing.") Before the Asian study, however, Dick plans to take his prelims.

CHIAO-MIN HSIEH (Ph.D. 1953) is with the Department of Geography at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He has been promoted to Associate Professor. His publications include "The Status of' Geography in COllllilUDist China" in the Geographical Review. and "Typhoons and Rice Cultivation in Taiwan" in the Proceedings of the I.G.U. Regional Conference in Tokyo, 1957. The manuscript of his book on the Geography of Taiwan has been completed. His daughter Eileen is now three. His wif'e, Jean, is also a Syracuse graduate.

ROBERI' HUKE (M.A. '50; Ph.D. '53) Dept. of Geography, Iartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., is now the Chainnan of the Department. His research in Bunna and the Philippines continues with a paper entitled "Population Changes in Thailand" under way. Bob has applied for a grant to carry on further research in Bunna during 1960-61.

HENRY HYMES (M.A. '50) and his wife, Anna, 1518--24th Ave. N., Nashville 8, Tenn., continue as a member of the Science Education faculty at Tennessee State University. A recent article of his appeared in The Broadcaster, publication of the Tennessee Education Congress, entitled "Geography, A Science of Human Society."

GEORGE F. JENKS (M.A. 1 47; Ph.D. '50) Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, Iawrence, Kan., is now an Associate Professor in the Department. His most recent research includes analyses of shading patterns used on maps and the use of graphs in geographic writing.

JAMES JEIDIDIGS, 1858 Chatfield Rd., Columbus 21, Ohio, joined the staff of Batteville Memorial Institute, 505 IG.ng Ave., Columbus last August. Jim is doing area economic analyses on Sudbury, Ontario: Nickel Capital of North America. His new project is concerned with the economic develop­ ment potentials for Alaska with the purpose of recommending transportation improvements to Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission.

MARI'IN E. JOHNSON (M.A. 1954) American Mission, Box 1111, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is on geography field work in connection with his doctoral dissertation at U.C.L.A. He is studying the urban geography of Addis Ababa under a grant from the National Research Council. Martin is accompanied by Cheryl, his daughter, and his wife, Marge. MRS. NOJMAlf K. KNAP'LA (Madeline Rotunno) (D.s.s.) 5675 Westbrook Rd., Minneapolis 22, Minn. ·Norman ia an electrical consu1ting engineer and Madeline is presently not engaged in geography as Gary (3) and Karen (6) keep her busy.

PERCIS LAL (M.A. '52) Hudson Memorial Girl's School, Kanpur, India, assumed the position of Manager in July 1959, She was formerly the Vice-Principal of Ial Bagh Higher Secondary School. A quote from The Indian Witness, official organ for the Methodist Church of South India, states, "Her willingness to serve in whatever capacity or place there is need is a wonderful trait."

DAVID C. LARGE (M.A. '52) Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, England, left the U.S. in June after teaching a year at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Ie.vid hopes to see some of the geographers in Stockholm at the I.G.U.

RICHARD LAWTON (M.A. '51) 1216 South First St., Aberdeen, S. Ie.kota, is an Assistant Professor of geography at Northern State Teach.ers College, Aberdeen. His daughter, Gail Elizabeth, is now one year old. Re hopes that one of his students will do graduate work in geography at Syracuse.

ROBERT LAYTON (M.A. Utah) Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, is attempting to finish his dissertation. He reports that B.Y.U. is adding a fourth man to the staff next year, and hopes to add a fifth, as all elementary education majors are required to take either anthropology or geography. The Dere,rtment will also teach Political Geography for the AFROTC. The Iayton' s have 2 boys and 2 girls.

CHARLES LINDBERG, 162 Highland. St., Worcester, Mass., is teaching social studies in Holden, Mass. He teaches four classes of world geography and one class of . This June Charles hopes to receive an Ed. M. degree from Worcester State Teachers College.

ROBERT LONG (M.A. 1943) is Associate Professor of Geology-Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Bob completed cartographic work this past summer for a report for the Atomic Energy Commission. He attended the seventh UNESCO conference in Denver in October, and the Southeastern Division of the A.A.G. in Gulfport, Miss. in the latter part of November.

BONNIE LOWE (M.A. 1955) resides at 18o6 0 St., Sacramento 14, california. She reports that her work is at the Department of Social Welfare of the State of California. Bonnie expects to take an exam for a research posi­ tion with the State.

ANDREW MARCH (M.A. '59) Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle 5, Washington, is working toward the Ph.D. Andy is taking Chinese in conjunction with his area of specialization. Sue, his wife, and Christopher (2) are in a co-op playgroup. GENE MARTIN (Ph.D. '55) Department of Geography and Geology, University of Oregon, Eugene, has just returned from Argentina where he conducted a seminar on geographic research methods as a Fulbright lecturer. His research activities are centered on Argentina with the settlement and population of the pampa. as his major focus . Gene reports that a Ph.D. program has been approved for next year at Oregon.

ANDREW J. MAZOLA (M.A.) is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Wayne State University, Detroit 2, Michigan. He is currently engaged in research on the bedrock topography of southeastern Michigan. last summer was spent in petrographic studies for the American Aggregates Corporation and in surveys of water, drainage, and sewage facilities of a six county area in southeastern Michigan.

VINCENT MAZZUCCHELLI (M.A. '51) is now at the San Fernando State College, Northridge, California.

ALBERT J.P. MCCARTHY is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington. Bert teaches courses on the Mediterranean, the Historical Geography of the United States, and Historical Geography. This summer was spent in Sudbury-French River area.

JOHN MCCLELLAN, Apt. 5, 1294 Thames St., Ottawa, Ontario, is presently employed as a statistician for the Census Office of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. A recent addition to the McClellan family is Charles Martin Yates McClellan, born March 26, 1959.

ROBERT B. MCNEE (M.A. '50; Ph.D. '53) Economics Department, City College of New York, 139 and Convent Street, New York City, continues teaching and will initiate a new course on the economic geography of the New York­ New Jersey Metropolitan Region as part of the school's program in New York area studies. last summer Bob spent a month at the Economics-In-Action Program of Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

ERNEST E. MELVDT (M.A. 1949; Ph.D. Northwestern) 2607 W. Jarlath Street, Chicago 45, Ill., is chief commercial and industrial land planner for Chicago. Carolyn and Ernie and their daughter, Carol Lynn, are happy with their new location in Chicago, having left Evanston in the pa.st year.

EDWARD MTIES (M.A. '50; Ph.D. •58) Assistant Professor of Geography and Geology, Valparaiso University,- Valparaiso, Ind., has been traveling quite extensively, going to the east coast last June, then to the University of Manitoba as a Visiting Professor, and then east again in September for the African Studies Association meetings in Boston. Ted writes, "Valparaiso is located just 50 miles from Chicago and all Syracusans and former Syracusans going east or west are most welcome to stop with us." Connie and Jamie echo Ted's invitation.

THEODORE MINDE (M.A. Int. Rel. '53) 206 Mt. Kemble Ave., Morristown, New Jersey, is with the newly created Marketing Division of the Mennen Company as Market and Consumer Analyst. Hi s wife, Lee, has presented Ted with a second son, Matthew, and they have purchased a brick house in the country and are painstakingly renovating it. MICHIHIRO MIYAZAKI (M.A. '57) 5644 Kam;I.-Tsuruma, Sagamibara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Jare,n, is continuing to tee.ch at Meiji Ge.lruin High School in Tokyo. He reports that last year he and his wife and two children climbed Mt. Fuji. He hopes to ·meet Dick Hough who is to be undertaking research in Japan.

ROBER!' B. MONIER (M .A. Social Studies '55) is currently Associate Professor of Social Studies at Plymouth Teachers College, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Upon medical retirement from the U.S.A.F. Captain Monier taught at Southern Illinois University. Bob is a consultant to the Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis, doing contractural research in aerial photographic surveying of urban complexes. The Moniers number six including Bob and wife, Helma, and the four boys Greg, Tu.vid, Steve, and Kenneth.

MALCOIM A, MURRAY (M.A. '50; Ph.D. '55) has returned to the Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,after spending the 1958-59 academic year as an exchange professor at the University of Southampton. Joan and the children, Douglas and Alan, report having enjoyed Britain.

GEORGE ORMAN (M.A. •58) 2815 Chaucey Dr., San Diego, Cal., reports the big news in the family was the arrival in May of twins, a boy, Bruce, and a girl, Sue Ann. George is now associate planner for San Diego in charge -0f the city's capital improvements program. He also reports that a complete land use inventory is made of each area requesting anne:xation and to deter­ mine whether or not the area will pay its way.

VERNON M. PARKINSON (M.A. '53) 60 Ketewa.moke Ave., Babylon, N. Y., is teaching citizenship education in the local High School. He reports no additions to the family and thus "the status quo is maintained."

EUGENE D. PERLE (M.S. '59), The Department of Geography at the University of Chicago has been the fortunate recipient of Eugene D. Perle for study toward the Ph.D. Gene reports that life for the Ph. D. is interesting, but he wishes to withhold further comment until he bas spent a few years at this occupation.

ROBERT PERRY, JR. (M.A. '50; Ph.D. Clark) 11 Crestwood Road, Paxton, Mass., is now professor and chairman of the department at Worcester State College. Bob is working on a high school text and is conducting research on New England agriculture. During the past summer the Perry family traversed New England and Canada. In April he gave a paper entitled "The Cropland Pattern of New England" before the Massachusetts State Teachers College Association.

GEORGE PHIPPEN (M.A. '52) 5026 Jackwood, Houston 35, Texas, has recently accepted a position as an economic geographer with the U.S. Study Commission. Previously he was employed by NENYIAC and the Corps of Engineers, New England Division, where he was chief of the Economics Section. JEROME P. PICKARD (Ph.D. •54) 8323 Tahoma Drive, Sil ver Spring, Maryland, continues as Research Director for the Economic Development Committee, Washington, D.C., Board of Trade. Mildred and his four daughters are all well. Jerry's metropolitan studies were featured in the Saturday Evening Post last fall.

PHILIP PORTER (M.A. '55) is Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His re~ent publications incl ude: "Benin to Bahia," a chronicle of the Portuguese J.i1npire in the South Atlantic in the 15th and 16th centuries; "Liberia" and "Monrovia" in the Encyclo­ pedia Britannica; and "Putting the Isopleth in Its Place" in the Proceedings of the Minnesota Academy of Science. Phil's· current research includes Liberia and statistical cartography. His wife Pat continues as director of Music at the First Congregational Church and takes care of the children, Janet (4) and Sara (3).

CAROL REAGLES, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, joined the Mathematics Department as a teaching fellow in September. She severed her connections with the Army before coming to Lexington and did not feel too sad about the change.

ROBERr REDDEN (D.S.S. •58), Chainnan of the Dept. of Geography at the College of Education, State University of New York, at Buffalo, reports that his staff has been enlarged to four, and teach some 800 students. Bob is President of the Faculty, and finds that his two boys consume most of the remainder of his time. He also reports the weather on a local T.V. station.

FRANK J. RINDENELLO (M.A. '55) 32 Allman Place, New Hartford, New York, is furthering the field of geography as he teaches at Proctor Hi gh School, Utica, New York. His two children, Francis Joseph (2) and Michele Ann (1), are keeping him busy.

J. LEWIS ROBINSON (M.A. 1 42) Dept. of Geography, . University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is the head of the new Department of Geography, separated -from Geology in 1959, The Robinsons gave an addition to the family, a daughter, Patricia Louise, to go along with .Iavid (13) and Jo-Anne (10). During the spring term he will be a visiting lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and will attend the I .G.U. meeting at Stockholm in August.

MALCOIM ROBINSON (M.A. •48) 6201-87th Ave., Hyattsville, Md. His wife, Ann Crist (M.S. •49), reports for Mac as she and 6 year old fuug are staying in Indialontic, Florida, while he tours Europe, th.e Middle East, and Africa for a government agency. Mac is visiting Leban!:m, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Tanganyika, the Union of South Africa, Angola, and the Congo.

JOHN H. ROSCOE (M.S. 1 41; Ph.D. Maryland) 3520 Arbutus Dr., Palo Alto, California, reports that he enjoys the sv.imming pool through the long California season. John is working with Lockheed Missiles and Space Division with responsibilities for the developnent and operation of reconnaissance satellites. His v.ife, Esther, just completed a tour of ten countries in Europe. mheir three children are all in school. STUART ROTHWELL (M. A. ' 52; Ph.D. 1 56) University of Mi ami, Coral Gables, Florida, spent five months in southern Brazil, carrying out a study on the ports of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande, and Pelotas supported by an Office of Naval Res earch contract. He returned t o teaching at the University of Miami in February.

IONALD ROZNOWS KI (M. A. Illinois). The New York State Bu r eau of Industrial Development has Donald Roznowski, 43 Co lonial Avenue, Albany, Few York, as its geographer. Don was program chainnan for the first joint meeting of the New York-Ontario Division and the Metropolitan Division of the A.A.G. at Vassar College in October 1959. The Roznowski' s have four children now with Joseph born September 6, 1959, joining Tom (8 ), Ellen (6), and Mary Fran (3).

· RICHARD RUGGLES (M.A . •47) Department of Geogra~hy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is on a one year leave-of-absence from the Depart­ ments of Geography and Slavic Studies . While at British Co lumbia Dick works on a Rus sian Research Project in connection with which he made a 36 day t our in the U.S.S.R. when he traveled 6600 miles. His itinerary included a tour from Ka.relia through Leningrad, Mo scow, Kiev, Kharkov, Stalingrad, Rostov, the Georgian Military Highway, Tblisi, Baku, and Sukhumi.

EDWARD SACKETT (M.A. 1 43) 370 Maple Avenue, West Vienna, Virgi nia, works in the Arlington, Virginia Office of the American Automobile Association as assistant office manager in charge of the Travel Department. Ed and his wife just returned from a four week tour of Mexico and report interesting scenery along the Pan American Highway to Mexico City.

RICHARD SCHAADT is currently an instructor of history and geography at Castleton Teachers College, Castleton, Vennont. He is married and has two girls.

ION SCHULENBERG (M.S.S. 1 59) East Genesee Street, Fayetteville, New York, reports that he took the big step on June 20, 1959. The former Olga Chester of Jamesville is the lucky girl. Tne honeymoon took t hem to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and San Jose, California. Don is teaching 9th grade geography at Onondaga Valley Academy.

RALPH SHAFFER (Ph.D. 1 58) 2401 Magnolia Drive, Wilmington 3, Delaware, is employed as a Market Analyist, Polychemicals Department, E. I . Dupont de Nemours and Company. His job is largely centered on the problems of marketing plastics abroad. Ralph is also on part-time loan to Dupont International for studying prospective plant sites for new plastic materi­ als.

ROIMAl-T SNEAD (M.A. '55) Department of Geography, Louisiana State Univer­ sity, Baton Rouge, has recently returned from field work for the disser­ tation along the Las Bela Coastal area of West Pakistan. He also visited Lebanon and other Southwest Asian points of interest. He reports that "the contrast between the old way of life and the modern developments appears to be one of the most striking phenomenon in the Middle "&I.st." r-u\YO SNYDRB is back in school working toward an M. C. P. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in t he Department of City and Regional Planning . On January 2 Betsey Fenton from Al bany, New York (Pembroke graduate) became his bride. Mayo says "my geography background seems to be held in high esteem by planning people everywhere."

FRANK STERN (M.A. '53) Department of Geography, Rhode Island College of Education, Providence, Rhode Island, report s that he enjoys the atmosphere in Providence. The Stern's home address is 91 Olney Avenue, North Providence 11, Rhode Island. Frank has moved from Carbondale, Illinois where he was at Sout hern Illinois University. He reports that the Rhode Island College of Education is a wonderful place, occupying a brand new campus on the edge of the city. Marion, his wife, and children (Lelle and Richard) share Frank's enthusiasm for their new environment.

LAWRENCE STERNSTEDI (M.A. 1 58) c/o .American Consulate, 7 Wynyard Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is t eaching geography in a secondary school in Sydney. After the end of the "spring term" in December he traveled in Tasmania for the summer months . larry is presently employed in the Department of Minerals at Canberra. He plans to return via Europe and will attend the Stockholm meetings. He sends warm greetings to all his friends saying, "I would like all to know that I am in full possession of the fact that no value could be placed upon that intangible--absolutely none. "

KIRK H. STONE (M.A. '37; Ph.D. Wisconsin) is Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Kirk is presently engaged in the third year of a four year project on High latitude Fringes of Settlement. The project brings to Wisconsin each year graduate student geographers from Scandinavia, Canada, and the United States who undertake field work in the Arctic.

ROBERT TMA, 2222 Washington Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, is now a 1st Lieutenant in the Af:my and will finish his tour Qf duty in May • . Most of Bob's time is taken up by their daughter Ginny, who his wife, Maryanne, reports is "quite a gal." The Tatas hope to return to Syracuse next fall.

JAMES W. TAYLOR (M.A. '50; Ph.D. '55 Indiana) Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Wisconsin State College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, served last year as President of the Wisconsin Council for Geographic Education, and has been editor of its Newsletter for two years. Avo, his wife, and Jim are going to the Northwest next sUDllller as Visiting Professor at Central Washington College in Ellensburg, Washington.

PE THAUNG (Ph.D. '55) Department of Geography, University of Pangoon, Fa.ngoon, Burma, is continuing work as an Associate Professor. Pe Thaung bas written a text book on the physical elements of geography for use by Bunnese high schoo.1 students. Mrs. Tbaung and daughter are doing well. EIMUND THOMPSON (M .A. '58) De:i_:,artment of Social Sciences, United States Mi litary Academy, West Point, is an Instructor in geography and history. Ed presented a pa.per in Pittsburgh entitled "Ma:oning and the State I dea: Malaya, A Case Study" and is now working on his D.S.S. dissertation, to be called ": Its Hature and Present Status in the United States." Janet presented Ed with number four, a boy, Harry William, on October 1. The Thompsons invite anyone to stop in and receive their guided tour.

MAZIE O. TYSON (M .A. Clark) is coordinator of the geography curriculum at A. and I. State University, Nashville, Tennessee. Ma zie reports her eyes are in bad condition and have forced her to stop work. This has unfor­ tunately postponed her plans to return to Syracuse.

ELI:?.ABETH VANDERBILT (M.A. '55) 828 Third Street, Apt. A, Santa Monica, California, has been employed as a typist and stenographer but doesn 't think much of this as her permanent life's work. She hopes to take courses at U.C .L.A. this year.

JOE VAH RI PER (M.A. '35) is Chairman of the Social Sciences Division at Harpur College in Endicott, Hew York. He reports that his physical geography text (McGraw Hi ll) is in press and should be out soon. This summer he intends to teach at the University of Manitoba and hopes to be overseas next year. Joe also reports that Harpur is to move to the new campus in the spring semester.

ROBERT VOSKUIL (M.A. '39) 2418 Benjamin, McLean, Virginia, is doing cartography with the government. Bob's latest trip was through We stern Europe where he visited major cartographic installations in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hetherlands, and England. Janet, his wife, Barbara and Jon are all fine and join Bob in extending "Best Wishes" to all.

FITZ R. WALLING (M.A. 1 49) is Director of Admissions at Bucknell Univer­ sity, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. A boy born October 6 joins Susan (2). Fitz reports that Dick Ruggles, on a year's leave of absence from British Columbia, recently visited them.

KEMPTON E. WEBB (Ph.D. 1 58) Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, reports the big news from the Mi dwest (since they had no football teams this year) is the birth of Rachel Drake Webb on October 12, 1959, In addition to promoting the "population expl osion" Kempton is teaching physical geography and the geography of Latin America. He spent a portion of last summer in Mexico. He has published his disser­ tation on Minas Gerais; a monography on Fortaleza's food supply, and has an article scheduled to appear in the Annals. Kempton is a contributing editor for the Brazil section of the IIandi:iook of Latin American Studies .

FRED WEILER (M.A. '59) State Supervisor, Bureau of Land Management, Spokana 1, Washington, is working on a recreation survey of the remaining public lands in Washington. He i£ a member of the University of Washington Advisory Board and has been appointed to the State Rural Development Committee. Fred likes to hunt and reports that pheasant, grouse, and quail were plentiful this year. FRED WERNSTEIYI' (M.A. '50; Ph.D. U.C.L.A.) Department o:f Geography, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, is now an Associ­ ate Professor. The children, Eric (6), carolyn (4), Kris (2) consume much of Fred's time, but he still manages to prepare climatic source books for Africa and South .America. He is working on a physical, cultural, and of the Philippines.

ANDREW WTISON (D.S.S. '55) Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, is Acting Head of the Department which will be organized within the framework of the College of Business and Public Administration. Geography will be an inter-disciplinary major along with six other majors in Liberal Arts. Andy is helping to organize a Master's Degree in Metro­ politan Planning which will be initiated next year.

LAUREllCE WOLF, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, hopes to complete his dissertation this year. Larry is working with the Cincinnati Census Tract Committee, the A.A.G. Census Advisory Committee, and is a consultant in the field of urban research. A second son, Jonathan, born September 13, 1959, has retired his wife Norma from employment.

WILLIAM C. WONDERS (M.A. 1 48; Ph.D. Toronto) and Lillian Johnson Wonders (M.A. 1 48) 11137-84th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, continues as Professor and Chainnan of the Department of Geography at the University of Alberta. A boy, Glenn William, born November 2, 1959, joins two sisters. Bill continues working on settlement studies of the Horth West Territories.

MARION I. vffiIGHT, Box 372, Route //3, N. Scituate, Rhode Island, is Chair­ man of the Social Studies Division and Associate Professor of Geography at Rhode Island College of Education, Providence. She r eports that her slide collection grew by 1,600 slides from a trip to Europe last summer. Marion made the trip in a VoDrnwagen Bus and reports that it was delight­ ful.

late Re;turns

CHARLOTTE DE GRAW CUNNINGHAM, 2405 S.E. 5th St., Po:npa.no Beach, Florida TIN HTOO, still at the University of Rangoon, but travelling widely J. ROWLAND ILLICK, now finishing his second year in Beiruy but r~t urning to Middlebury next summer by way of South Asia and the Pacific DAVE NALEY, with a picture of his three children CLYDE OHL, West Genesee High School, Camillus, New York MARIE ESTHER ROBLES DE TARLERA, Pedro F. Berro 1378, Apt . 2-P2, Pocitos, Montevideo, Uruguay ANITA GRUMET TRUEI'TNER, Ch~pion Paper Co., Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil