STATE VETERINARY COLLECE A Statutory College of The State University at C o rnell U niversity ITHACA, N.Y.

“I call as fly the irrevocable hours, Futile as air or strong as fate to make Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers, Even as men choose, they either give or take.” James Russell Lowell

D e a r C o r n e l l ia n For almost a hundred years the waking hours of the Cornell com­ munity have been tolled on the four thousand pound bell in the library tower. In an earlier day the metallic music of this bell was a part of Veterinary College life. However, in our newer location it takes a crisp winter day and a gentle west wind to waft it to us. Poets have reminded us for whom the bell tolls, but what do its notes mean? In one sense the strokes are utterly contemporary; for nothing is more immediate than the “now sound of an accurate clock. It may be the clarion announcing the football game with Princeton or the knell which begins a final exam, but always it symbolizes the present tense. Yet there is also a symbol of timelessness and history in the striking of a bell — especially this particular bell. It was the gift of President and Mrs. Andrew Dickson White and bears the above quatrain, writ­ ten exclusively for it by James Russell Lowell. Moreover, it has marked the hours of seven Cornell presidents, eighteen presidents of the , two World Wars, four other American wars and scien­ tific discoveries which have transformed the planet. In certain significant ways Christmas can be compared with the ringing of a clock-tower bell. It summons us to a series of joys and responsibilities in the present tense: pageants and parties, worship and celebration, shopping and mailing, giving and receiving. But beneath and beyond these immediacies are intimations of history and eternity. For Christmas celebrates the birth of one who bisected the calendar and divided all of human history into B.C. and A.D. And though there are many noble religions for whom Jesus does not speak as final authority, surely all persons of mature, human concern find more compelling than ever His words: “Peace on earth, good will to men.” (3 * 5

In previous Christmas letters we have tried to summarize College activities de- ;a n u a R ]/ partmentally. This year, with time as an S m C C£J Cp p Sa underlying theme, it seems appropriate to report the developments of 1967 on a i

JANUARY “Well begun is half done,” says an old Korean proverb. Our calendar year was launched spectacularly by the 59th Annual Conference for Veterinarians. Sandy de Lahunta and his Program Committee selected topics with broad practitioner appeal, attracted vital speakers and interspersed twelve scientific demonstrations which combined to make one of the most successful conferences in College history. Record statistics confirm this judgment: 506 paid registrations; 936 total at­ tendance. Don Delahanty returned from a six-month assignment in Ascuncion, Paraguay, where he directed his abilities in surgery and Spanish towards teaching and curriculum revision at the National Veterinary College. Also back from a half-year sabbatic was Ellis Leonard whose energies had resulted in the completion of his textbook, Fundamentals of Small Animal Surgery. Illustrated by Marion Newson and pub­ lished by W. B. Saunders, the volume should be available in January 1968. With ten subdivisions and more than 100 employees, our Depart­ ment of Large Animal Medicine, Obstetrics, and Surgery exceeds several American veterinary colleges in size and budget. Therefore, the addi­ tion of Mr. Gilbert W. Hohwald as Administrative Assistant to Kenneth McEntee is a welcome one. Gil has a background in personnel work with a large insurance company and becomes our third departmental administrator (Jesse Shoemaker is in Physical Biology and Bob Hahn in Pathology). Ken McEntee and his colleagues are planning a major expansion of the teaching and postgraduate training program of the department. There are always newsworthy releases concerning Jim Gillespie, what with research grants, graduate students, and international in­ volvements. But his friends will agree that the arrival last month of a baby son, Ian Scott, takes precedence over all else. Our physical biologists are rightly proud of their new IBM on-line computer. Supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, this machine is wired expressly for biological research. Experimental results are instantaneously assimilated and on the basis of program­ ming, the computer determines the next steps to be carried out in the same experiment. This is the only facility of its kind on the Cornell campus and is available to the rest of the University on a “when available” basis.

FEBRUARY The international flavor of our College has been greatly enhanced by the return of S. Gordon Campbell as Assistant Professor of Veteri­ nary Microbiology. From his native Scotland he brought his profes­ sional degree and his manner of speech; from Ontario Veterinary College he brought an M.V.Sc.; at Cornell he earned his Ph.D.; and at Melbourne, Australia, he gained his teaching experience. It seemed mete and right, therefore, to make him chairman of our newly-formed Committee on International Programs. February ’67 marked the first time in more than 300 months that Lindley C. Kent’s hand was not at the tiller of the till. Stricken and operated on in late January he did not return to the office until March. Fortunately a long history of clean living was in his favor; and he has bounced back in good fettle with no perceptible weakening of his grip on College funds. A flurry of excitement hit the avian world during the winter with an outbreak of duck virus enteritis on Long Island. During the ensuing months Steve Hitchner made a total of eight trips to our Duck Disease Research Laboratory at Eastport and to Washington, D.C., to promote and effect a program of quarantine and vaccination. Mai Peckham diagnosed one case in central New York; but otherwise the disease seems to have been well-contained. More familiar and more costly is the arch enemy of the dairy in­ dustry, bovine mastitis, with which we have wrestled for years. And in the interest of improving our controls over this economic scourge, Steve Roberts and Dick Guthrie visited Reading, England, together with two professors from the Dairy Science Department in the College of Agri­ culture. Their impressions of a dry cow treatment technique were sufficiently favorable that we are seeking added financial support from Albany so that Seth Johnson, Line Field and their colleagues through­ out the state will be better armed than ever to attack the number one foe of our dairymen.

MARCH There is a story, probably apocryphal, about a biologically-oriented man who was asked to explain the meaning of “equinox.” His mind was far-removed from the orderly celestial phenomenon that intro­ duces Spring, and he exclaimed, “An equinox is a genetic impossibility.” An impossibility of sorts was accomplished by Cornell s hockey team during the Spring equinox. With Ellis P. Leonard as faculty advisor and William F. (Skip) Fuerst as patron saint, our skaters swept the eastern finals and then proceeded to win the national title in Syracuse. It was estimated that more than 4,000 Ithacans made the 55 mile trek to the championship game. Other memories of March are also extra-curricular. Our Yankee Clipper, Neil L. Norcross, found enough time away from his four graduate students and his research on equine infectious anemia and bovine mastitis to help complete the Ellis Hollow Ski Tow. And then there was the student observance of Francis H. Fox’s birthday, a phenomenon without parallel at Cornell. Very few people know exactly when Ezra Cornell or James Law were born; but the natal day of Dr. Fox seems to gain significance each year. It is gradually replacing April Fool and Guy Fawkes Day as an occasion for hi-jinks and shenanigans. Bombs and coffins are routine sights in the surgery lecture hall on March 11.

APRIL One of the constant users of our Department of Physical Biology’s on-line computer is Edgar L. Gasteiger who is experimenting on a most exciting frontier of science: the electrical activity associated with decision making. And collaborating with Ed for a year is Mario Decandia, M.D., from the staff of the University of Milan, Italy. What do you get when you cross a frog with a Volkswagen? Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it? Well it looks like one too. But whatever it is, it provides adequate transportation and good gasoline mileage for Leland Carmichael, one of our polylingual, cigar-smoking ambassadors from the Veterinary Virus Research Institute. A. Gordon Danks and his Admissions Committee have once again performed a painstaking task of winnowing and selecting in order that the 60 members of the class of 1971 might be chosen from 290 applicants. And assuming that brain power will be converted into productivity, this class will provide some of tomorrow’s outstanding veterinary leaders. We are very proud of the young men and women in the student body. Robert B. Hillman, whom many of you know as a hard-working ambulatory clinician, is a country gentleman during off hours. Rob has a private riding stable adjoining his attractive new home. Alex J. Winter is temporarily beset with a severe back ailment which restricts his physical activity considerably. But there is nothing wrong with his cerebral processes, as evidenced by the supplement which he has just received to his five-year federal grant for work on virulence mechanisms of Vibrio fetus. Model A Ford enthusiast John C. Thompson, Jr., in Physical Biology, has worked out a felicitous reciprocal arrangement with the Lansing High School. They let him use some of their students for nutritional studies and John serves as Chairman of the School Board. Incidentally, he tells us that one of their outstanding students is Wendell K. Loomis’ daughter, Sharon, who is in Holland for a year as an exchange student.

MAY Jack C. Geary in Radiology is as enthusiastic as a child with a new toy. Some toy! His image intensifier cost more than $40,000 and will permit prolonged fluoroscopy without danger to the patient or the operator. The image can be reproduced directly on TV monitors or stored on video tape for detailed study and restudy. To the best of our knowledge it is the first operational unit of its kind in any Ameiican veterinary college. Alison P. Casarett, Associate Director of our Academic Year Institute in Radiation Biology, has completed the manuscript for her book, Radiation Biology, which will be published by Prentice Hall early in 1968. And in this month, pathologist, Harvey J. Olander, has been attending out-of-town meetings which deal with his area of special interest: neo-natal diseases. N. Bruce Haynes, our one and only Extension Veterinarian, is col­ lecting impressive titles. Locally he has been appointed an Associate Professor of Veterinary Science; and nationally he is President of the American Association of Veterinary Nutritionists. One of the highlights of the academic year for the past generation has been the Honor Day Exercises at which time scholarship, clinical excellence, and other professional attributes of students are acknowl­ edged with cash awards. Since 1964 these recognitions have been combined with a sumptuous smorgasbord banquet through the gener­ osity of the Quaker Oats Company. At no other occasion do so many members of the Veterinary College family have a chance to dine together. JUNE Graduation Day saw 54 Comedians re­ ceive their D.V.M. degrees and go forth to join the ranks of approximately 1750 alumni currently in practice, government work, industry, and education. In terms of the need within our state and nation, this number seem unimpressive. However, this College has always given a priority to the quality of its graduates; and the positions and eminence of its alumni testify to a real degree of success. Even so, studies are now being conducted — at the behest of officials in Albany and Cornell — to de­ termine the implications and feasibility of expanded enrollment. Wolfgang O. Sack, our wax-plate embryo reconstruction expert, found it necessary to devote a major portion of his energies to expand­ ing Rooney’s classic Guide to the Anatomy of the Horse. The sole author of the original text, James R. Rooney ’51, shares credits for the expanded revision with Wolf Sack and Rob Habel. Of particular in­ terest to Cornellians is the fact that this volume incorporates many of the plates from an earlier Horse Dissection Guide by Grant Sherman Hopkins. Another ’51 graduate, John Baker, left a successful practice in In­ diana to become our seventh man on the staff of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in backland Haiti. His predecessor, Kenneth Platt ’66 came home briefly and then returned to an even more remote Haitian village, Grande Riviere du Nord. Cyril Comar spent the entire month in New Delhi, India, as a member of a consultant mission from the United Nations to establish a center for the use of nuclear energy in biology and agriculture. Bob Kenney and Henry Dunn are continuing their probes into problems and processes of bovine reproduction. Bob conducts studies on superovulation and embryo cultures while Henry’s cytogenetic work on freemartins has uncovered findings of noteworthy interest to human medicine. Emmett Bergman, captain of the ketone capers, is in his second year as a member of the Metabolism Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.

JULY Some folks tend to think of summer as a lull between spring and fall, but there is no lull at your Alma Mater! The advent of new staff members plus the peregrinations of the old ones gave us our greatest volume of news items in July, August, and September. Several of us attended the XVIII International Veterinary Congress in Paris. Howard Evans was elected Secretary General of the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists. Bob Habel represented splanch­ nology on the International Commission for Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature and then continued on to Vienna to spend a sabbatic year under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine. It was my privilege to speak on New Possibilities for Speciulization in Veterinary Medicine. This enabled me to sandwich in visits to veterinary colleges in Thessaloniki, Greece; Munich, Germany; and Dublin, Iieland. Back home Bob Kirk was receiving the much coveted Gaines Award at the AVMA Convention in Dallas; Ed Stevens was elected President of the American Society of Veterinary Physiologists and Pharmacolo­ gists; Dan Tapper was' notified that he had been awarded an NIH grant for his work in neural and behavioral correlates of skin sensibility. And the following appointments were made; John B. Tasker ’57, Ph.D. ’63, appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology. R. Kenneth Braun ’65, promoted from Interne to Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine. Ernest L. Bliss ’67, Medical Interne, Ambulatory Clinic. Edward R. Connor (California ’67), Interne in Large Animal Surgery. Ronald Higginbotham (Washington State ’67), Interne in Large Animal Surgery. John Mehling (Ohio State ’67), Medical Interne, Ambulatory Clinic. Maridelle Mehling (Ohio State ’66), Interne in Small Animal Surgery. Resley Soirez (Oklahoma State ’67), Interne in Small Animal Surgery. Tom Neal and Bruce Butler were re-appointed internes in Small Animal Medicine. Tom, a Texan, is enjoying the chance to ski; and Bruce is a whiz on the Dryden basketball court.

AUGUST There was an enthusiastic reference in the August 25th issue of Science to the work of Robert H. Wasserman, who is on the verge of identifying and isolating the protein which is involved in the transport of calcium across the gastrointestinal tract. As indicated pictorially on the center page, a substantial amount of construction is making an acropolis out of Snyder Hill. 3 he facility for receiving, quarantining and holding random source dogs cost us $90,000. The Leukemia Studies Laboratory represents a total payment of $212,000 by the National Cancer Institute. The Large Animal Isola­ tion Facility has been underwritten by the State in the amount of $516,000, and the $400,000 addition to the Veterinary Vims Research Institute comes from the Public Health Service and . Active in the planning of the first three of these structures has been

A. Virus Research Institute — Addition IILDING B. Large Animal Isolation Facility C. Leukemia Studies Laboratory D. Random Source Dog Facility E. Possible Site of Research Wing F. Probable Site of Lab. Animal Facility A ■4) TIME OF A. Virus Research Institute — Addition BUILDING B. Large Animal Isolation Facility C. Leukemia Studies Laboratory D. Random Source Dog Facility E. Possible Site of Research Wing F. Probable Site of Lab. Animal Facility Charles G. Rickard, inasmuch as his pathologists will be utilizing all of them in the months and years ahead. His main research interest, of course, has been in the Leukemia Studies Laboratory where he, Fer­ nando Noronha, and John E. Post will pursue their investigations of cancer in cats. John Post now has his Ph.D. degree and has been ap­ pointed Associate Professor of Veterinary Pathology. The first important use of the Isolation Building will be our assault cn Equine Infectious Anemia, a program in which Hans Adldinger and Neil Norcross are deeply involved. Alexander Zeissig is now the Direc­ tor of the Diagnostic Laboratory, succeeding Clyde I. Boyer, Jr., wbo is devoting full time to Laboratory Animal Medicine. The photographs in this letter are the handiwork of John F. Brock our Visual Aids Technologist. The aerial shots also required the aero­ nautical abilities of Fred Hiltz, Senior Research Associate in the De­ partment of Physical Biology. Our physiologists are regularly asked to address and join professional organizations outside the perimeter of veterinary medicine. Recently Alvin F. Sellers became an Associate of the American Gastroenterologi­ cal Association, the first veterinarian to be so honored. Lou Nangeroni, the Howard Hughes of Ithaca, has an interesting scientific project under way in which he is collaborating with Nobel Laureate, Vincent du Vigneaud, in the bioassay of synthetic posterior pituitary hormones and their analogs. Many a librarian would be undone at the simultaneous loss of her only Associate and her only Assistant. But Mia Reinap is made of sturdy fiber, and promptly grabbed Miss M. Karin Schlenk from Mann Library and Miss Carol L. Conover from Rutgers University to fill these respective positions. Alan Dobson, whose expertisse is in physical chemistry, was granted tenure by the University Trustees as Associate Professor of Veterinary Physiology. Julius Fabricant won a five-year NIH award for his work in isolating and identifying mycoplasma. Harold F. Hintz, a newly ap­ pointed nutritional biochemist in the College of Agriculture, will be spending full-time with Herbert F. Schryver in the Equine Research Program utilizing the limited converted student dormitory area known as The Boars Nest for laboratory space. Dorsey W. Bruner and his wife, Bea, returned from an 8,000 mile, six-week tour through Europe in which they visited 14 countries. Those of us on the home front always look forward to the end of August as the time for the return of our wandering faculty, for soon we must begin the fall term.

SEPTEMBER Not until a new school year begins do we fully comprehend the changes wrought by sabbatic leaves. Familiar faces vanish; other fa­ miliar ones re-appear chronologically a year older but rejuvenated by twelve months in a different environment. John Bentinck-Smith is back from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., bringing still another dependent with him. This gives him three children and puts him in a tie with Jim Gillespie - temporarily. Clyde I. Boyer, Jr., brings a year of experience in Laboratory Animal Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. The program which he will now initiate in this area is sorely needed in our College. Returnees from abroad include Fred Lengemann who was in Vienna organizing research on the use of radioisotopes in studies on animal reproduction and Ben E. Sheffy who worked in microbiology with the outstanding scientist Anton Mayr, at the University of Munich. Lennart P. Krook returned from a year at the Cornell Medical College with more than new knowledge. He brought a colleague, Per Ake Henrikson, D.D.S., as Visiting Professor of Nutritional Pathology for a year. Doctor Henrikson, erstwhile professor at the University of Stockholm and Gothenberg, is collaborating with Lennart in a marvel­ lous study on periodontal disease. As soon as the findings are published we anticipate a revolutionary rethinking about the etiology in this serious wo rid-wide disease problem! Gone for a year but not forgotten for a moment are Robert W. Kirk, Bruce W. Calnek, and Robert E. Habel. Bob Kirk is at Stanford en­ gaging in research in dermatology while his Cornell course work is being taught by John A. Mulnix. Bruce has also migrated to California and can be found (so he assures us) at the Naval Biological Labora­ tories in Oakland. And Bob Habel is probably becoming quite Vien­ nese. Carrying on as Acting Chairman of the Anatomy Department is our genial Secretary of the College, Howard E. Evans. Meanwhile Herman Meyer (Cornell Ph.D. ’57) has come on from Colorado to teach Bob’s applied anatomy course and to give our College a flavor of the old west (western Switzerland, that is). During this month, John F. Wootton addressed the American Chemi­ cal Society on Acetylation of Trypsin. George E. Ross, one of our able surgeons, has acquired a nice large home, considerable acreage and numerous out buildings on the Irish Settlement Road. Arthur L. Aronson lectured at the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association meeting on The Influence of Urine pH on the Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Drugs in Urinary Tract Infection. Parasitologist John H. Whitlock has bought a new boat and named it GHOTI with Whitlockian obscurantism. Take the “gh” sound from “enough”, the “o” sound from “women” and the “ti” sound from “nation”, and then take ....

OCTOBER Marion W. Anders is churning up more pharmacologic research than a motor boat in a bathtub and has just won another research award for a project entitled, Stereochemistry of Microsomal Drug Metabolism. Steve Roberts is taking a year off to revise his definitive text, Veterinary Obstetrics and Genital Diseases. We know for certain that it will be translated into Spanish for use throughout South America. Unconfirmed are the rumors of editions in Zulu, Sanscrit, and Welsh. Teaching Steve’s course and making his first visit east of the Mississippi is Dr. Leslie Ball, Acting Professor of Obstetrics and Breeding Diseases, who is on leave from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Bio­ medical Sciences at Fort Collins, Colorado. The weekly senior seminars began with Jack Lowe once again at the helm as chairman. Jack brings competence and conscientiousness to this important assignment. The arrival of John Cummings ’62, Ph.D. ’66, as Assistant Professor of Veterinary Anatomy ends a series of one-year appointments of dis­ tinguished visiting professors from Baltic countries. John has just com­ pleted his tour of military duty at Walter Reed Medical Research Center where he worked in neuropathology. He will be responsible for teaching histology. James A. Baker reports that the addition to the Veterinary Virus Research Institute is nearing completion (see picture). New appointees in the Department of Microbiology and working at the Institute are Helen Lee (Cornell Ph.D. ’67) as Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Max J. G. Appel (Cornell Ph.D. ’67) as Assistant Professor of Virology. The month ended, as it always does, with Halloween. But instead of goblins, we were visited by an Evaluation Committee from the Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Headed by George C. Christensen ’49, Ph.D. ’53, now Vice President for Academic Affairs, Iowa State University, the team made several con­ structive suggestions and offered many expressions of satisfaction with what they found. Offering an excellent cross-reference by meeting at the same time was our own Advisory Council.

NOVEMBER With the serious onset of frost, lowering temperatures and snow, three of our staff suddenly found important duties in southern climes. Phil Levine and Steve Hitchner went to the University of Buenos Aires to give a four week post-graduate course in ornithopathology under the auspices of the Pan American Health Association. Howard E. Quirk made his third visit to our operation in Descha- pelles, Haiti, and reports steady growth in the hospital health program and the many community development activities. Of special interest is the fact that Julian Strauss ’61, who had spent two years there after graduation, is returning to Haiti as Coordinator of the nation’s newly developing Agricultural and Veterinary College. Donald H. Lein is busily engaged in a program for eradication of vibriosis from an artificial insemination herd involving 300 bulls. Jay Georgi is in the process of building a new home on his plantation in Upper Danby Heights. Also, lie is in the process of preparing a well- illustrated book in parasitology. The Physiology Department is sporting a new Cary Spectrophotom­ eter through an allocation from the general College research grant. A versatile ratio-recoding instrument, it permits close study of enzy­ matic reactions taking place in the living animal.

DECEMBER After sharing a room with three other persons since mid-1965, Peter H. Craig is moving into his own quarters for experimental pathology in the Radiation Biology Field Laboratory on Warren Road. Also looking forward to a slight increase of his limited working space is our epidemiologist Robert F. Kahrs. Bob is planning a small flexible labo­ ratory in which he will conduct serological studies in the epidemiology of bovine virus diseases. Francis A. Kallfelz has cooked up a novel Christmas party for the faculty in The Box Car — a unique restaurant made out of several railroad box cars, cleverly combined and tastefully refurbished by the son of TV personality Garry Moore. Kyu M. Lee is preparing to teach a graduate course in cell culture techniques, an area in which he has exceptional expertisse. Francis H. Fox, Toastmaster General of the College, is patiently waiting to unveil the great Annual Conference for Veterinarians of 1968. We hope to see you there. In reviewing these highlights of 1967, I am impressed anew with the caliber of the personnel which our College has been able to attract and develop over the years. At the same time I can think of a host of others whom we have been unable to mention because of space limita­ tions, but whose talent and cooperative spirit contribute mightily to the success of this institution. We could not function at all without our staff of research associates, graduate students, experimentalists, secretaries, clerks, technicians, and caretakers. Then there is invaluable support and guidance from officials in the State University of New York and the State Budget Office in Albany as well as in Cornell’s Day Hall. And finally there is the pro­ fessional stimulus and concern which we receive from veterinarians near and far — most especially our alumni. We are fully aware that future fulfillment as well as past achieve­ ment depends on you.

EMERITI Just after we had dispatched the 1966 Christmas letter, Joseph A. Dye passed away quietly at his Ithaca home. It was my privilege to deliver a eulogy at the memorial service and pay tribute to a man who had run his course nobly and benefited our College greatly. Our other emeritus professors have obviously discovered Shangri-La or the Fountain of Youth; for they move about with an alacrity that is the envy of their successors. During the summer Peter Olafson and Myron G. Fincher returned from Ahmadu Bello University in Northern Nigeria just long enough to shake a few hands. Then Peter grabbed a plane for La Plata, Argentina, where he is teaching at the Institute of Pathology and Mike resumed consultations throughout the length and breadth of New York. “A great addition to the staff”, says Ken Mc- Entee enthusiastically. Donald W. Baker and Herbert L. Gilman have become wedded to warmer climes but are very active, according to all reports: Donald chasing parasites and Herb pursuing his equine interests. Hadley C. Stephenson and H. Hugh Dukes are likewise peripatetic and might be encountered in any airport — Steve off to raise funds for canine research and Hugh to speak at some august gathering. Hugh was recently honored by the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and will soon be receiving a degree from that institution. Time has been good to these men and we are the beneficiaries of their past and continuing greatness. “Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things Toward heaven thy native place.” —Robert Seagrave

Word of the deaths of the following alumni has reached us during the year:

F r e d e r ic V. D e d e r ic k ’17, Keene, New Hampshire

J ohn B. D r ew '07, Binghamton, N.Y.

H a r la n S. G u il e ’40, LeRoy, N.Y.

J ohn L. H a l l o r a n , J r. ’39, Clifton, Staten Island, N.Y.

I rv in g I. H e r t z e n d o r f ’65, Davis, California

J a m e s H. H e w it t ’09, Baldwinsville, N.Y.

R ic h a r d A. H i l l ’65, Rushford, N.Y.

E a r l e B. H o p p e r ’17, Berlin, Massachusetts

G eo r g e H. H o pso n ’28, Millbrook, N.Y.

E dw in R. J a ck so n ’08, Syracuse, N.Y.

C l y d e L. K e r n ’24, Scarsdale, N.Y.

M ac H e n r y M a b e y ’17, Cuba, N.Y.

E r w in V. M o ore ’17, Phoenix, Arizona

W e l l in g t o n E . P a r k s ’19, Lakewood, New Jersey

W a l t e r M. P e n d e r c a s t ’05, Syracuse, N.Y.

Louis C. P u r m e l ’32, Richmond, Va.

F r a n k H. W o o d r u f f , J r . ’17, Tavares, Florida tm cafe Francois Marie Arouet was born in Paris almost three centuries ago. Though dwarfed in body he became the literary giant of France. His pen name was Voltaire. In his Zadig, A Mystery of Fate, Zadig is asked by the Grand Magi, “What, of all things in the world, is the longest and the shortest, the swiftest and the slowest, the most divisible and the most extended, the most neglected and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little and livens all that is great?” “Time!” answered Zadig. “Nothing is longer, since it is the measure to eternity. “Nothing is shorter, since it is insufficient for the accomplishment of your projects. “Nothing is more slow to him that expects; nothing more rapid to him that enjoys. “In greatness it extends to infinity; in smallness it is infinitely divi­ sible. “All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it. “It consigns to oblivion whatever is unworthy of being transmitted to posterity, and it immortalizes such actions as are truly great.”

Once again we stand at the threshold of a New Year. Twelve months lie immediately ahead; and beyond them stretches eternity. Our wish for you, and for ourselves, is that the gift of time may be used joyfully and productively. Sincerely,