lalle f lanlenll Leller. ARTICLES Remembrances of a Legend: Arthur J. May 4 la Ille Jack Keil '44 recalls his days as one of Prof. Ma y's students Enter the Ladies 7 dilar A chapter from Arthur May's soon-to-be -published "History of the Un iversity" To th e editor: Many times in your publications when Laser Fusion-the Answer to the Energy Crisis? 15 reference is made to "t he early da ys" of Some thoughts from the director of UR's Laboratory for the University, the date mentioned is in Laser Energetics the 1930's or 194 0's . So a fee ling of com­ pu lsion arose withi n me to des cribe what 'What Research is Really Like' 18 it was like w he n yo ung women were first A Rochester Plan project provides an opportunity for unde rgraduates ad mi tted to UR. I have recorded my memo­ ries of the early 1900 's (1909, to be exact) A Sampler from Three University Poets 22 w he n I entered as a freshman. Works by An thony Hecht, Jarold Ram sey, and Douglas Crase M y nam e wa s then Edit h Harris Allen, Dan (Sea)Coasts Along on Talent and Tall Tales 29 and I was g raduated o n June 18, 1913. Our Co mmencement was held at the How the Hamptons won th eir war for independence from th e Third Presbyterian Church, with Prof. United St ates Howard Minch in as the Grand Marshal of Eastman Discography: Faculty Soloists, Ensembles 32 the academic pr ocession . The baccalaure­ A list of available re cords by ESM performers ate se rvice was held th e previous Sunday nigh t at the First Method ist C hurch . I wa s 17 years old as a freshman in 1909, and the students were fro m Roch­ ester and surrounding areas of New York DEPARTMENTS Sta te . We used street cars, eit her the East Letters inside front cover Main Street or University Avenue line s, to Alumni Calendar , ," " 3 at tend the Prince Street Campus. T he main bu ilding was Anderson Hall , 3 Travel Corner ...... and most of our classes were held there. It Identity Crisis 34 looked old and venerable even w hen I en­ News Digest , ,, 35 tered it for the first tim e. The Universit y Alumnotes 38 had opened its doo rs to women just a few Obituaries 43 years earlier. I believe the first graduate Review Point " 44 wa s around 1902 or 1903. (It was 1902 ­ Ed.t T he story of Susan B. Anthony and Cover: The graduating clas s of 1903. her persistence in securing funds en ou gh , w hic h incl uded her life insurance, to per­ sua de th e trustees to open its doors to Rochester Review. Spring, 1977; Editor: Ronald C . Roberts; Asst. Edi­ wo men, is we ll kn own.She is now held in tors: Sue Bricker, Raymond A. Martino; Copy Editor: Karen Pitts; Art hig h hon or and esteem. Director: Jeffrey T. Hermann; Staff Photographer: Chris T. Quillen; T wo rather lar ge room s on th e fir st Alumnotes Editor: Ben Gray. Published quarterly by th e Un iversity of floor of Anderson Hall were assig ned to Rochester and mailed to all alumni. Editorial office, 107 Admin istration th e coeds . T he larger one, wa s a study hall. Bldg., Rochester, N.Y . 14627 . Second-class postage paid at Rochester, Oc casionally we put on dr am at ic produc­ N.Y. 14603. tio ns-all wo men of course, though some migh t ta ke the part of a man, donning one's fat her's or male re lative's attire. T he sma ller room was a parlor with a piano. We had man y imp ro mptu musicals with Nill (Margaret) Nearl y and He len Parker stru mming a ban jo or ukulele. We did a little da ncing, with one girl as suming th e part of a male partner. We also held Y.W . meetings in this room. Some of us wh o elle.ler had attended a student vo lunteer meet- ••e. ing at Cornell University with some of It also caused me to be called on perhaps a Herman LeRoy Fairchild conducted a the students , of the nearby Rochester little more frequently. most interesting geology class . Best of all Theological Seminary would go off every I enrolled as a classics major, so I had were the field trips to see the drumlins noon to some quiet place for a short many language classes. The professor of and Pittsford esker, which were discerni­ prayer that the world might be Chris­ German, Kendrick P. Shedd, or "Sheddie," ble from a pinnacle of sand left by the gla­ tianized in our or one generation. I was a great favorite. He had a zest and a cier at the end of the South Clinton Street believe John R. Mott who headed the flair for the unusual. He had a room on car line . One remark I remember of Prof. movement believed it was possible by the top floor of Anderson. We always Fairchild concerned the tardy students ar­ dedicated young people. There seemed opened our session by singing German riving late for his 8:00 a.m. class. He'd al­ to be some sort of a tie between the songs-in German, of course-and we ways say: "I see the three-handed people Theological School which was dubbed sang them lustily. He did a great deal for are arriving-right hand, left hand, and the "Angel Factory" and the University. the poor immigrant people who were pour­ little behind hand." Many of their students were regular at­ ing into Rochester by teaching them Eng­ Finally, how much I learned from Prof. tendants of various classes. Several were lish and citizenship in a night school class George Mather Forbes' psychology class! in my Greek class, also sociology. at one of the public schools. This prepared One idea was that if you wanted to create Tuition when I entered was a hundred them to become American citizens. interest, introduce the element of "new­ dollars a year. There were scholarships "Sheddie" composed many poems using ness." Preachers ought to be taught that. such as one where preference was to be old-time tunes for the melody. One we Also, if you want to remember some­ given to a member of the Second Baptist enjoyed singing concerned our librarian, thing, the laws of frequency and repeti­ Church. (Dr. Martin B. Anderson, an ear­ Mr. Phinney. It went something like this, tion should be used. A good "forgetery" is lier president, had been pastor of that to the tune Clementine: "Phinney's whisk­ nice to have, too. church.) ers, Phinney's whiskers, fuzzy wuzzy, thin Some of these pearls of wisdom have Our president was Dr. Rush Rhees, a and spare, they run races round the cases, become habits in my life through the in­ scholarly man who was also a former Bap­ float themselves upon the air ." fluence of those early-day University of tist minister. He was a very dignified man, Prof. Shedd was interested in the teach­ Rochester teachers. almost unapproachable and austere in man­ ings of Prof. Walter Rauschenbusch of the Ellen Allen Haglund '13 ner. His wife's father was, or had been, Rochester Theological Seminary faculty, Lindsborg, Kansas president of Smith College. They lived in who was awakening the consciences of the president's home, corner of University Christian people to the plight of children Avenue and Prince Street. Occasionally being employed long hours in sweatshop they would invite us to a very elegant re­ labor. His words and books were shaking ception where we wore long white kid complacent worshippers, and "Sheddie" gloves and as beautiful a dress as possible was so captivated by this voice in the wil­ for the occasion. Our dresses were long, derness that he went even a bit further. four inches from the floor, and our hair He made a statement that brought the (The following letter was sent to Prof. Paul was coiled on top of our heads. There was wrath of the UR president and trustees Gross, dean of graduate studies and professor of no informal attire for any occasion, unless when he said that the red flag was above biology at UK in response to his article en­ it was for a Halloween celebration in the every flag, even our own stars and stripes. titled "Guns, Genes, and Politics" in the Win­ unoccupied Warner Mansion near the His assertion was a bit rash, and the idea ter issue. Gross' reply follows.J Warner Observatory on East Avenue. that he was trying to convey-that the red At times the women students were en­ flag of brotherhood was above all national Dear Dr. Gross: tertained at the homes of some of our pro­ flags-was construed as Communistic, I have just read your article in the last fessors, including Arthur Sullivan Gale and he was dismissed from the University. Rochester Review with such great enjoy­ and John Rothwell Slater. Our classes The students were crushed. If only "Shed­ ment that I am moved to write you this were coed, but there was no mingling so­ die" could have said that brotherhood is note of appreciation. You have so clearly cially except for football games and college above nationalism.... But, I suppose, stub­ captured and stated the paradoxes which plays in the men's gymnasium. bornness on the part of both the Uni­ seem to be inherent in my own position When we first entered the University versity and Prof. Shedd prevented any on matters of this sort, that I feel we we had no one who supervised our activ­ reconciliation. I still have a warm spot in must have evolved very parallel ways of ities. But in about six months we acquired my heart for this excellen t teacher. thinking about them. a dean, Miss Annette Gardner Munro, I enjoyed my Greek classes with Prof. It is one of the tragedies of modern life who tried to make us "more ladylike." She Ryland Kendrick, an ardent admirer of the in this country and the Western world had a New England background with a ancient Greeks and their civilization. He that the definition of liberalism has been very soft cultured voice and was a perfect would say that the Greeks had every­ distorted to mean those who adhere un­ example of a real lady. On one occasion thing-even roller shades. questioningly to the current liberal ideol­ she was sorry to report to us that Prof. William C. Morey was a history teacher ogy rather than the notions of rational Raymond Dexter Havens told her that who was exceptionally brilliant, and one humanism which were its foundations as when the young ladies sat in his classes remark of his has stayed with me for over a philosophical and political movement. they crossed their knees and he could see 60 years. He called on one young man Our problems of social and political sur­ more than their ankles. There was no who usually was well prepared and a vival, indeed, may be centered on finding a more knee crossing in his English classes. good student. But this day he didn't know way in which the moderating influences of As my name began with A, I always had the answer and said: "I don't know." Prof. rationalism can grow and develop in the to sit in the front row, usually next to Morey said :"You ng man, don't tell me steam pipes which sometimes caused drow­ that you don't know. I'll soon find that siness if the lesson wasn't too interesting. out. Say something!" Ever since then, if asked to speak, I try to say something.

1 midst of forces which drive us toward po­ Their precious (in the literary sense) larization. approach only reinforces the old notion Letters of Tribute You may be sure I will keep your paper that women talk while men do. What in a file of cogent reprints and quote difference does it make if a woman is To Dr. Whipple from it often. .. . called Madame Chairman or Ms . Chair­ Scott N. Swisher, M.D. person? The important fact is that she At the time of the death of Dr. George Chairman, Dept. of Medicine is realizing herself by assuming a posi­ Hoyt Whipple last year, UR Medical Michigan State University tion of responsibility. School alumni were invited to write to Medical Resident '48 Finally, and from a linguistic point of the University to share their reminis­ view, unpopular usage cannot be chased cences of this Nobel laureate, physician , Dear Dr. Swisher: away with a cattle prod. Language does teacher, and scientist who had been dean indeed reflect culture and might be con­ Many thanks....It is particularly nice of the Medical School from 1921 to 1953. sidered a pro duct of it. Consider, for ex­ to discover that someone else got the ample, all the lexical additions created The full collection of responses is now point, i.e., not genes, nor guns, nor poli­ by the jet or computer ages . When cur­ available as a bound volume at a cost of tics, but precisely the philosophical issue rent words fail to express the great $2.50 each. Checks payable to the Medical (hence the names of those lads playing strides made by women and minorities, Center Alumni Association may be mailed with a knifer-c-how to use the instru­ new ones will evolve naturally. to Box 643, UR Medical Center, 601 ments of practical knowledge and of Meanwhile, let us not fail to see the persuasion for the long-term benefit of Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York forest for the he/shes! man without being destroyed by either, 14642. Be sure to include your name and Susan Burke Aglietti '66 and without having to believe in or teach address, and allow several weeks for de­ Orinda, California lies.... livery. Paul R. Gross Here are a few excerpts:

To the editor: It is pleasant and fitting to write The confidence of my distinguished of the memories of Dean George To the editor: former student, Dr. Lee Andrew Elioseff Hoyt Whipple, for in this manner It was a pleasant surprise to see the '55, in the quality of education offered to contribution of my former classmate Rochester undergraduates is not, he tribute can be paid to this great man. and friend, Sue Gurland, in the Letters writes (Rochester Review, Winter 1976), in­ Outstanding in my recollections to the Editor, Winter 1976 edition. So spired by the knowledge of the history of of Dean Whipple are two of his saying, I would like to disagree with her the English language possessed by Prof. many qualities that left a lasting basic argument. Rowland Collins. Prof. Collins, he says, imprint on my mind. I, too, believe in equal opportunity and ought to get his facts straight. The first was his gentle humor as would hope that one utopic day the best Prof. Elioseff ought to get his syntax he taught. I can still see the soft candidate would be chosen for each avail ­ straight, else my confidence in the quality able job, regardless of race, sex, heritage, sparkle in his eyes as he grinned of education offered to undergraduates over the top of his half-glasses at my or religion. In the beginning, the wom­ at the University of Kentucky will not be garbled, semi-correct description of en's movement rendered a great serv­ inspired. Let us hope he will try to keep a ice to this cause, creating an awareness not unsmiling face. Or let him hope to try angioneurotic edema. I had been of what might be called subliminal or to keep a not unsmiling face . Or let him unable to think of the term for this even unconscious stereotyping and dis­ try to keep a hopeful, not unsmiling face. form of edema so had told an anec­ crimination. However, some partisans Or let him hopefully try to keep a not un­ dote about a lady who was sensitive have carried the torch too long, burning smiling face. I am even willing to let him to coconut. He gently allowed that their own fingers in the process. Here I try to hope to keep a not unsmiling face. it was not much of a story but that refer specifically to those who would But, please, don't let him try to keep a my oblique approach to his question cleanse the language of sexual biases as hopefully not unsmiling face. an end in itself. had, indeed, come up with the Lewis White Beck proper answer. During the heyday of the "language Burbank Professor of Moral and The second quality was his self­ purge," I worked as a training officer in Intellectual Philosophy a bank. To avoid the risk of appearing University of Rochester discipline, expressed not in rigidity, discriminatory in employment prac­ nor in ostentation, but in the ele­ tices , the bank instructed me and my gance of simple truth. It seems to colleagues to expurgate orientation and me that from his self-discipline training manuals by deleting all gender­ sprang the traits that made him specific references. The number of (par­ outstanding in so many fields of don the expression) man-hours devoted endeavor. to this task was as incalculable as the total earnings of those so employed. Mostly, I shall remember his re­ How much more profitably that same fined but slightly amused nod as he money could have been spent in the re­ cruitment and training of qualified women! How can we blame men-or even "sisters"-for scoffing at the feminists' savage attack on the English language?

2 acknowledged the presence of yet another freshman medical student walking down the plain, unadorned, i alen a brick-walled corridor past his office. In his smile was a Yankee school­ March May boy and a Nobel Prize winner all 10-24 Alumni Tour-New Zealand, 5 In Rochester-Alumni Head­ wrapped up in one. It is good to re­ Australia, Tahiti liners Dinner, presentation member a man who smiled on life. 29 In Rochester-Alumni Lunch­ of Alumni Citations to Fac­ Dr. Charles R. Harris '40M eon, Professor Walter Oi, ulty featured speaker, University 6 & 7 In Rochester-Alumni Board Club, at noon and Council meetings (Riv­ I remember my initial interview er Campus, Eastman, Med­ at Strong Memorial Hospital when April ical, Nursing) I was applying for medical school. I 12 In Rochester-Alumni Lunch­ 8 University Commencement rode on a train from Delaware, Ohio, eon, Associate Professor to Rochester and was eventually Robert Nideffer, featured ushered into an office with walls of speaker, Gannett Lounge, stark brick, decorated only by a sign Anthony Halls, at noon reading, "Illegitimus non Carborun­ dum." Dr. Whipple turned his rather aged swivel chair around from a roll­ top desk and said, "Sit down, son. Do you like to fish 7" Fishing is my favorite avocation, and the entire interview consisted T a elill ner of a discussion of the relative merits Last Call for Copenhagen Hotel, with breakfasts daily. Visit of fresh- and salt-water fishing. It -June 17-25 or revisit the city with so many of was many years later that I learned $399 + 15% from New York and our own historic roots. See the that the Dean always preferred to Boston ($439 + 15% inclusive from English countryside. Relax in a talk about avocations when inter­ Rochester). Hotel Scandinavia, in pub. Take in the London theater. viewing prospective candidates for the heart of the city. Sightsee For further information or reserva- medical school. I think he was pro­ near or far by foot, bicycle, train, foundly interested in the type of tion forms, contact John Braund, auto, hydrofoil, or ship. Breakfasts Alumni Office, University of Roches­ person he was interviewing as well daily with real Danish pastry. as his scholastic record. ter, Rochester, New York 14627. London-October 23-31 Phone: (716) 275-3682. Dr. Russell E. Watts '51 Rochester departure and return­ $379 + 15%. New Westmoreland In a class that he attended (or con­ ducted), a student of medicine (who seemingly was falling asleep) was asked this question: "What is the function of the spleen7" The answer was: "Gosh, I did know what it was, but I have for­ gotten." Dr. Whipple's reply was: "My God, here is the only person in the world who once knew the function of the spleen, and he has forgotten it!" Dr. Charles H. Kosmaler '36M

Copenhagen, the Nyhaun District, 1973.

3 Remembrances Of a Legend: Arthur J. May .By John M. Keil Remember how he used to do it? Purposeful, thoughtful stride to the podium. The stage wait and baleful gaze as the audience settled down. Then the magic opening. And it wasn't what he said . It was how he said it that captured us. Arthur J. May was a master of the pregnant pause and climactic sentence. "Last owah (PAUSE) we examined (PAUSE) the rise and fall (LO NG­ ER PAUSE) of the Row-man Em­ piah," (WILD APPLAUSE, WHIS­ TLES, STOMPING OF FEET) He was delightful. The only other person whom I saw have the same effect on an audience was General Douglas MacArthur. He had just re­ turned from Korea, a martyr in some circles, and was speaking at a foot­ ball foundation dinner. He was extolling the virtues of the sport while urging that it not "become enmeshed in the tentacles of gov­ ernment bureaucracy." He ended the speech thusly, as I recall : ". ..and each fall as I hear the ping of leather against leather, there's a thumping in my chest, a lump in my throat, and a roar on my LIPS (PAUSE): 'well done, Mr. Football, U.S.A.!!!!'" (WILD APPLAUSE, WHI ST LES, STOMPING OF FEET, AND TENTATIVE CRIES OF MacARTHUR FOR PRESI­ DENT") The difference, of course, was that Dr. May knew exactly what he was doing and did it with tongue in cheek. I have a feeling that Gen­ eral MacArthur was deadly serious. To me, the beauty of Arthur May 'The first of June is the last of May' was not only the joy of listening to Arthur May him lecture, but also his great disci­ pline as a teacher. This facet of the

4 man had a most important influ­ And he criticized it thoughtfully ence on my life. Here's how it and thoroughly. Not only for content happened. and development-but structure In the fall of 1945 I returned to the and style as well. And I wrote and River Campus, a new war veteran, rewrote. (He seldom bought my first needing about 10 hours for my di­ draft.) The immediate result was ploma. I had settled on two courses the wipe-out of a budding romance and was nosing around for a third with a nurse from Highland Hospi­ when I ran into Dr. May outside of tal. It was either her-or Dr. May. Morey. No time for both-although I gave it "Ah, the citizen-soldier, enveloped a good try and lost (or perhaps won). in an aura of world-weary heroism, At any rate, by the end of the term returns once more to his native I was something of a Balkan expert. haunts welcome home Jack Keil." Enough, anyway, to encourage Dr. (ALL IN ONE BREATH) We talked of May to suggest that I consider a my life in the Air Force in Europe career in the State Department. and particularly about the Balkans. He had given me his insights and Dr. May was a Balkan expert and I expertise. He felt that it might be had grown interested in the area put to good use. through my experiences. Result: We But he also gave me something agreed on a course-"The Political else . A confidence, born of practice, History of the Balkans." in writing. And this ancillary benefit He was the teacher; I the class . John M. (Jack) Keil '44 is executive vice presi­ gave me the assurance to start in We would meet in his office in An­ dent of Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, lnc., in New the advertising business. And to derson every Saturday for three York City. keep writing for the past 30 years. hours. For the first week I was to We all remember his finishing read three books and be prepared to might expect (brilliant understate­ words at the end of each semester. discuss them and a number of re­ ment), so I would suggest that for But for me, they were not true. As lated subjects. I completed half the next week we read the books we I completed my course in that spring assignment. But I wasn't worried. were supposed to have read plus of 1946, the last of May was not the With the confidence of callow youth, three more on this slip of paper-and last of May. His influence has been I knew that I could dance through then prepare a l ,SOO-word paper on and will be with me throughout and around the assigned topics in The Religious Aspects of Montene­ my life .• our weekly session. gro Eighteen Ninety, et cetera. But it didn't work that way be­ Good day." cause there was no discussion. He And there it was. An assignment entered his office (I had arrived that started the reshaping of my life. early), nodded, and said, "Good The rest of the term was more of the morning, class ." I grinned and re­ same-three books and a l,SOO-word laxed. Then he started."First ques­ paper on a different subject each tion: What were the religious as­ week. Long nights in the stacks. pects of Montenegro, eighteen Reading, notes, organization, and ninety dash ninety five?" The then writing. It was hard-especially whole world changed. I stumbled the writing. and mumbled. Raised eyebrows and quizzically austere look. "Second question: What boyhood influences affected [osip Broz's later life at the turn of the century?" Muttering, stammering, perspiring. Then si­ lence . A few more questions with same response. Then: "I see that the class is not as prepared as one

S The daisy chain ceremony, a Women'5 College tradition begun in 1908.

6 eOLeR Loe Laoles

In the years between his retirement from universally, approved victory for the lard's at Troy, New York, and Mary the active faculty in 1964 and his death in general cause of feminism. Lyon's at South Hadley, Massachu­ 1968, Arthur ]. May researched and wrote British influences had touched off setts. On a more mature level, Ober­ his history of the University. a feminist commotion in the United lin College from its beginnings in the It has taken a number of years and the States in the 1840's that awakened 1830's welcomed women on a basis of help of many people to tailor Dr. May's a few spirited women and sophis­ equality with males. Several young manuscript, which was a 1,500-page docu ­ ticated men to the inequity of with­ ladies from the Rochester area who ment in first-draft form, to a finished product holding from females rights and ad­ studied at Oberlin in its first decades ready for publication. But this task has vantages accorded to males. At the developed into earnest advocates of been completed, and later this year A His­ time, women were unequal both feminine emancipation. A number of tory of the University of Rochester, in law and in fact in a country that other Ohio institutions copied the 1850-1962, by Dr. Arthur ]. May, will be gloried in being the land of equal Oberlin experiment in "joint educa­ published by Princeton University Press . opportunity. Even in well-to-do fam­ tion." Among the state universities, When the book is ready, details for order­ ilies, female education beyond Iowa pioneered in 1856 by authoriz­ ing copies will be carried in the Rochester learning the dance, cultivating social ing the enrollment of women along­ Review. For now, you 're invited to enjoy graces, and inculcating moral vir­ side men. the following chapter from the book, en­ tues was regarded as superfluous. Before the Civil War, colleges ex­ titled "Enter the Ladies": The Women's Rights Convention of clusively for women had also been 1848 at Seneca Falls, only 50 miles organized; one at Elmira, New York, from Rochester, imparted a modest chartered in 1852, claimed prece­ The struggle to obtain equal colle­ impetus to reform. Crusading femi­ dence. At LeRoy, New York, not far giate training for women at the Uni­ nists drafted there a "Declaration of from Rochester, a women's college versity of Rochester was lengthy, Sentiments" which listed among evolved by 1857 from a regional sem­ resourceful, discouraging at times, the major grievances the limita­ inary opened 20 years earlier. This and ultimately triumphant. Much had tions upon higher education for interesting phenomenon, called been written and said about the phys­ women; they demanded that the Ingham University, offered a full ical and intellectual inability of wom­ handicaps should be speedily re­ four-year course of study that cul­ en to profit from collegiate training moved. minated in the granting of a degree. and the folly of diverting them from Forward-looking American women preparation for household responsi­ educators, it is true, had established bilities. Opponents of collegiate coed­ several superior schools or "semi­ ucation approvingly quoted a French naries" for girls, such as Emma Wil- proverb: "A chicken that crows, a priest who dances, and a woman who speaks Latin are all headed for trou­ ble." They reasoned that women un­ ROCHESTER. N. y., SEP..ll.t -" _~_QL1 90 _ dergraduates would soften the insti­ tution, lowering academic standards because as weaker vessels they could not endure the strains of rigorous To THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, Dr.. study. While coeducation would fem­ inize the college, it would coarsen -TI/;:O~=:;=c -;, ~:~:,;i: -;;, : ~ ------~ ~ :~ ~~ ~~~~~ - ~-~-l-~ ~~- -__ ~~~-_ - -_ ~~~ ~- -__~~ __- : ~ ~ ~ _~ ~ _~ ~~-=- -~~5--- ~ --- the women, robbing them of natural DiplomaandCommencement Expenses (char/{td Graduating Class), ..._ charm and destroying their finer sen­ Analytical Chemistry , _ sibilities. Like so much else in the texture of the American way of life, :;:::~laIL~;:;;;::~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -\¥: ::: :: : "-' : : : : :: ~~w ::::: :: :: conventions inherited from Europe Geological Laboratory, -L .I~ - ()G1- .lJ.l_l ~9J. J__\--_ shaped attitudes on mature learning Gymnasium , ------LU- - - ~.=.- -0 ~ l~~ ------for women. Nevertheless, in 1900 rooted traditions and deep-seated ------. ------.------\- -~ ~ - - - _-'3-:i)-- prejudices were surmounted in win­ ning admission of women to the Uni­ Rta it't,1~~a?~ .L~_ --- __.__...__ ~:: 1!'..__ (..'ij ~ ~~( ~ _ ~ :_~~~~~ ~~ ~.~ ; _._.______versity. It was a broadly, though not a For til, ' Treasu rer

7 Two years after the founding of the University, a college for women was begun in Rochester. Known as the Rochester Female College or the Barleywood Female University, the institution enlisted the backing of community leaders, several of whom-Chester Dewey, John H. Raymond, John N. Wilder, Lewis H . Morgan, and Azariah Boody-had in­ timate bonds with the University. Morgan issued a prospectus appeal­ ing for subscriptions and containing the statement: "The want of suit­ able endowments not only prevents the multiplication of female semi­ naries of the highest grade, but also precludes them from bearing any comparison with our colleges and universities. There is no good reason why female education should not be as thorough, as systematic, and also as cheap as it is [for men] in our colleges." Boody, president of the Barleywood trustees, donated a site However, the record of this first Christ. The Cornell authorities did for college buildings with the stipu­ "university" exclusively for women set up a college for women in 1875, lation that construction should be was checkered, and in 1892 it closed. but male students for more than a undertaken promptly. The evanes­ After 1861 Vassar (with which of­ quarter of a century openly resented cent venture soon came to grief ap­ ficers of the University of Rochester the females and tended to hold parently because of financial strin­ had close connections), Wells, Smith, aloof from them. As early as 1884 a gencies. The Barleywood records Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr Colleges woman matriculated in the Cornell end abruptly in 1853, and the Boody appeared in rather rapid succession. engineering school; she was Kate property was then given, it may be Their curricula in the main slavishly Gleason of Rochester who subse­ recalled, to the University of paralleled the traditional classical quently shared in the operation of Rochester. offerings in men's colleges. her family's industrial plant. The earliest allusions in University No doubt the role that women literature to higher education for played during the Civil War, as farm women appeared in student publi­ workers and teachers at home, and cations of the early 1870's, when as cooks, laundresses, spies, couriers, Syracuse and Cornell Universities would-be [oans of Arc, and especially 'Just think of it, 400 girls were first admitting women. "A as nurses on the front, accelerated tidal wave of controversy" over co­ the progress of feminism as a whole cackling all at once.' education was sweeping the United and of female higher education in -President Anderson States, an undergraduate writer particular. Some American re­ commented before spouting stan­ formers identified the coming of dard arguments against the entry equal opportunities for collegiate of women to Rochester. The opin­ education with the coming of the ion of President Anderson on college millennium. Scarcely had Cornell training for women is suggested in University opened its doors than a remark he made on returning Rochester's most determined femi­ from a visit to Vassar: "Just think of nist, Susan B. Anthony, prophesied it, 400 girls cackling all at once." in an address on the Ithaca campus After hearing a lecture on higher that future generations would cele­ education for women, Anderson brate the equal admission of women commented that the speaker had to institutions of higher education avoided "the real difficulties of the as fervently as they commemo­ rated the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the birth of

8 problem: the impropriety of giving instruction on the relations of the sexes and the difficulty of giving true feminine culture in connec­ tion with the average college reci­ tation room whose tone and charac­ ter will be determined by rough young men." Yet, in the late seventies young women gained entrance to Satur­ day morning lectures by Anderson on art, by Gilmore on English litera­ ture, and by Lattimore on chemistry. The popularity of this innovation, as witnessed by the attendance, prompted an undergraduate editor to write, "By opening its doors to ladies our University would secure what it most needs, more students and more money." Fifteen ladies, he reasoned, could easily be accom­ modated without congesting the (Top photo] The women's basketball team of classrooms. By 1881 four women, ter ladies joined the Fortnightly 1906; the planting of ivy during Commen cement two of them from faculty families, Ignorance Club which cherished the Weekend was another early Women 's College had registered as special students in goal of other feminist societies in tradition . chemistry. That same year the will the community-full equality with of Lewis H. Morgan, a lifelong ad­ males. The Club initiated agitation Wyoming precedent, foes of the vocate of higher learning for women for coeducation at the University principle of the equality of the sexes in Rochester, bequeathed his resid­ and began to raise money to pay for dismissed their actions as merely uary estate to the University for a the training of women. President confirmatory evidence of the wild­ permanent Morgan Women's Edu­ Anderson frowned upon the move­ ness and wooliness of the West. cational Fund. (By 1909, when the ment. Once started, however, the Hardly had David J. Hill assumed proceeds finally became available, campaign continued until the trus­ the presidential office than several women were firmly established in tees agreed at last that the Univer­ societies of Rochester ladies-that the University and well on the road sity should do its part in educating became the Women's Political to gaining a separate college.) women. Equality Club, the Women's Ethical In Rochester, as elsewhere, the The feminist cause as a whole Club, the YWCA, and other groups­ crusade for women's rights was pre­ was given a boost in 1890 when intensified the demand for coedu­ ponderantly an urban phenomenon Wyoming, the first state to grant cation at the University and re­ of the better-educated elements of full suffrage rights to women, was quested that the trustees indicate society. In the mid-eighties Roches- admitted to the Union. When neigh­ how much money would be required. boring states soon followed the Mrs. Mary T. L. Gannett, wife of the

9 Unitarian minister, Mrs. Max Education of women along­ that 'if the Creator could risk placing Landsberg, wife of the rabbi at Tem­ sexes in such near relations, [he ple B'Rith Kodesh, and Susan B. side men, protested one thought] they might with safe ty Anthony marshalled the forces of letter-writer, would tend walk on the same campus and pu rsue embattled feminism. 'to make girls free and the same curriculum together.'" At While the University faculty over­ the party, Professor Lattimore echoed whelmingly favored the admission bold ....' the President's oblique blessing to of women and the trustees were the entry of women. Trustee Edward reportedly sympathetic, influential Mott Moore also endorsed that view, alumni voices loudly condemned The trustees, after exarrurung the cautioning, however, that Rochester the very idea of coeducation. Hill, proposition, simply resolved to post­ graduates were strongly opposed to who as president of Bucknell had pone a decision. The drive by the coeducation and that a minimum of witnessed in 1882 the admission of energetic women's rights organiza­ $200,000 would be required for addi­ women to collegiate status, adopted tions went on, and a second peti­ tional instructional facilities. Loud a somewhat ambiguous posture in tion attracted about 500 signatures. protests greeted his observation that Rochester. He ascribed the clamor Undergraduate opinion, as ex­ it was more important to educate to parents who could not afford to pressed in the Campus, was "hostile men, the breadwinners of families, send their daughters away to study to the admission of females to this than women. and to the militant disciples of Miss most sacred institution." In a satir­ On an earlier occasion, Moore had Anthony, of whom he was not overly ical vein, one unsympathetic corre­ shrugged off a suggestion that if the fond. While unwilling to commit spondent explained that because University were opened to women, himself on coeducation, the Presi­ "women can't kick" they would be Rochesterians would contribute dent expressed approval in principle entirely out of place at the Univer­ more liberally to its support. " 1do not of a coordinate college for women, sity. "T his is not a matrimonial say what might not be done when similar to newly created institu­ agency. Think of a Professor of Stock­ the institution is in better financial tions associated . with Harvard and ing Darning." Coeducation at Syra­ condition," he observed, "bu t with Columbia. The trustees would not cuse was deprecated as a "piteous defeat staring us in the face from be willing to embark on a venture wreck" and colleges exclusively for year to year, and when from year to of this character, Hill felt sure, unless women, it was con tended, were year we have to go begging to fr iends indispensable funds were first made plentiful enough to instruct all ladies of the University who live at a dis­ available. Undaunted, Miss Anthony who wished advanced training. Edu­ tance to make up the deficit, you can countered that, if women were cation of women alongside men, easily see that we do not feel like at permitted to matriculate, the mon­ protested a letter-writer, would once complying" [with the demand ey needed for a larger faculty and tend "to make girls free and bold. to admit women students]. Re­ more academic facilities would What are yo u going to do with such sponding to the implicit challenge, assuredly flow in . classes as [uvenal if we have co­ Rochester women active in · the "Will the door be opened?" in­ education? Just get a copy of [uvenal cause of higher education set about quired a Rochester newspaper head­ and read it." gathering subscriptions for funds, but line of June 13, 1890. That query was In October 1891 some 200 guests, their vision of getting enough money followed by a petition on coeduca­ leading University personalities to secure admission of women in tion which interested citizens might and other influential citizens among the autumn of 1892 faded. sign at several city locations. The them, attended a reception at the Between 1891 and 1893 several petition asked that the trustees Anthony home in honor of Elizabeth women audited classes and at least open the University to women with­ Cady Stanton, the nationally active two enrolled in special courses. Then out discrimination. Since one in women's rights champion. Barbed something startling happened. At six students at American colleges attacks were levelled against the the opening of college on September was a woman, "we believe that University for denying admittance 21, 1893, Helen E. Wilkinson, with coeducation is no longer regarded as to women. "It was rather aggravat­ the tentative approval of the Presi­ a doubtful experiment," the docu­ ing to contemplate those fine build­ dent, entered the freshman clas s as ment asserted. "Harvard with its ings and grounds," Mrs. Stanton a regular student in the classics annex, Columbia with its Barnard later wrote, "while every girl in course. This 22-year-old woman had College, Cornell, Syracuse, and other that city must go abroad for higher spent two years studying in prepara ­ institutions-all report satisfactory education. The wife of President tion for college work. She was in results"; there was no reason why Hill of the University had just pre­ fact the instrument with which the experience elsewhere should sented him with twins, a girl and Miss Anthony and her allies, who not be duplicated beside the Gene­ a boy, and he facetiously remarked paid her expenses, intended to break see. About 225 Rochesterians, from down the barriers against women all walks of life, attached their students. Hill told the press that Miss names to the petition. Nothing positive resulted from this gambit.

10 Wilkinson would attend classes "the same as the young gentlemen, only she will not be matriculated." Concerning the presence of Miss Wilkinson at the first chapel session of the academic year, a Rochester newspaper reported: "The appear­ ance of the 'co-ed' . .. shortly before chapel was called was the signal for an outburst of enthusiasm given vent in the old varsity yell, reworded to suit the occasion: 'Co-edgie, Co­ edgie, Co-edgie. Whoa Up! Parabalou! Rochester!" The unruffled pioneer walked through the noisy company of males and took a seat near the front of the chapel. Men clustered round her, but she ignored them and concentrated on the exercises. Cu­ riously, Hill adjured the undergrad­ uates in his chapel talk to "live like men and engage in all those exer­ cises which will give you strength and muscle and steadiness of nerves." On the whole the attitude of the undergraduates was distinctly un­ friendly toward Miss Wilkinson, and for weeks none of the profes­ sors called on her to recite, perhaps to avoid compromising the position of the University in the event the coeducation controversy was taken into a court of law. By agreement with the President, Miss Wilkinson disavowed any in­ tention of completing the work pre­ requisite for a baccalaureate degree. (She was listed in the catalogue under "Persons Pursuing Special Courses," and the name of the first coed does not appear in official rec­ ords of the college.) After attending classes for two years she was forced to withdraw for reasons of personal health, and in 1897, the year she would have completed her course, she died. The press remarked glow­ ingly upon her bravery and her mod­ esty, and her portrait adorned the Rochester home of Miss Anthony.

Photographs of unidentified early students of the Women 's College, including women of the class of 1905 posing before the as yet bare pedestal for the statue of Martin B. Anderson.

11 Rain threatens an early Convocation gathering. Miss Wilkinson's attendance had for women first collect $100,000. an effect, however, for the corpora­ Hearing of the trustee decision, tion ordered the faculty not to admit Miss Anthony exclaimed trium­ any more women unless and until phantly, "Glory, Hallelujah! This is they received specific instructions better news t:o me than victory over expecting to teach in our public from the trustees. A request by Pro­ Spain. It is a peace-victory, achieved schools." The record already achieved fessor Forbes that his own daughter only by the death of prejudice and by the University amply justified be permitted to study was turned precedents." generous investment in its future. down. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. For the financial solicitation, com­ Education for women was the Helen B. Montgomery, Wellesley mittees embracing the several re­ main item on the agenda of the alumna, an enthusiastic Commit­ ligious faiths were organized in the 1894 trustee meeting. Upon its con­ tee on the Women's Educational various wards of the City and con­ clusion a member of the Board dis­ Fund set about soliciting subscrip­ ducted a door-to-door canvass. Hun­ closed that sentiment leaned to the tions. In a public appeal for money, dreds of small gifts ranging from a organization of three divisions in Mrs. Montgomery summed up the quarter to five dollars were made. the University: the existing college, principal reasons for contributing. Yet, after a year of sustained effort a new college of science, and a third Part of the fund would be applied to only $29,000 had been collected. The college for women. Discussion con­ strengthening instruction in physics Montgomery committee begged tinued from year to year without and biology and in developing a more the University corporation to admit any positive issue until, finally, on distinguished scientific and techni­ a minimum of 10 women in the June 14, 1898, after an unusually pro­ cal department. Coeducation would fall of 1899 on the understanding longed and animated debate, the mean "a great deal in the way of that the drive for money would con­ trustees voted to make the Univer­ opportunity to teachers and those tinue until the prescribed $100,000 sity coeducational on the condition that the friends of college training

12 had been obtained. The trustees through the press, only $2,000 was awaited the ladies on the Prince flatly refused the request. Either acquired during the summer of 1900. Street Campus. They were given a because they thought $100,000 could Prospects for full success were ex­ dismal room in a corner of Anderson not be raised or because they really ceedingly dim, but the determined Hall, equipped with a few chairs and preferred a separate college for Susan B. Anthony, 81 years of age, nondescript pictures, as a place of women, certain Rochesterians rec­ would not be denied. From her study and rendezvous. There they ommended the abandonment of sister Mary she obtained $2,000; kept their coats, ate their lunches, the coeducation project. friends, including Minister Gannett and held meetings. Later a section In conformity with a fresh direc­ and his wife, pledged $4,000 more; of the first-floor corridor was con­ tive from the trustees, the college and another well-wisher guaranteed verted into a women's cloakroom faculty declined to receive women the remaining $2,000. When the and a kitchen was improvised for as regular students under any cir­ trustees revealed that this last guar­ coed use. cumstances. On the other hand, antee was not acceptable, Miss Women students found atten­ ladies might frequent classrooms or Anthony pledged an insurance poli­ dance at compulsory chapel "a tor­ laboratories as "visitors" with the cy on her life, valued at $2,000. This turing ordeal," for they were segre­ consent of a teacher. In approving, dramatic gesture sealed the trans­ gated on benches along one side of the professor acted as an individual action: $50,000 was in sight for the the room. "Our position demanded and in no way as a University official. University treasury. With additional modesty and unobtrusiveness," it If women "visited" laboratories, money that came in later, a sum in was said, "to prevent humiliating they paid the established fees for excess of $51,000 went to the trus­ occurrences." On the other hand, an materials they used, but they could tees and Miss Anthony's insurance anonymous coed ridiculed press not recite nor take class examina­ policy was returned to her. stories of "barbarous" masculine tions. Their names were not listed behavior and disclosed to a news­ in the college register, and certifi­ paperman that the initial year of cates indicating that study had been college life had proved pleasanter performed bore only teacher signa­ .. . the new President Rush than she had anticipated. Following tures. More than a dozen "visitors" a year of experience with coeduca­ carried on work at the college in Rhees described the ladies tion the new President Rush Rhees 1899-1900. as 'good students and described the ladies as "good stu­ At the trustee meeting on June dents and sensible women." The 12, 1900, the Montgomery commit­ sensible women.' double distinction of being the first tee reported that about $40,000 was president of the Students Association available to set coeducation in mo­ for Women and also the first woman tion. The ladies believed that a max­ to obtain a degree from Rochester, imum of $10,000 more might be In appreciation for her untiring a Ph.B., belonged to Ella S. Wilcoxen obtained. "We have done our best," and resourceful labors, young women '01 . She previously had attended it was explained .. .."We regret of Rochester joyfully serenaded Miss Geneseo State Normal School, and that it is no better. If the Board of Anthony in her home. Upon the for­ after graduation she became a high Trustees can suggest to us any meth­ mal opening of the college, women school teacher and a religious worker. od by which we can secure the entire matriculants assured her, "We feel For the most part, it appeared that amount, we will gladly continue a special debt of gratitude to you, the males hotly resented the pres­ the work." After another lively ex­ since it was your generous aid at the ence of the ladies. To the charge that change of views on coeducation and last that made the [financial] effort male hostility arose because the men a reassessment of the physical facil­ successful." At the funeral of Miss had to behave themselves in deco­ ities of the college, the trustees re­ Anthony in 1906, undergraduates rum with women around, a Campus solved, three members dissenting, formed part of the guard of honor and editor tartly replied that the man­ to admit women in September served as honorary pallbearers. ners and habits of the men had not 1900 "upon the same terms and When the academic term began altered one whit. "They were gen­ conditions as men, provided $50,000 in September 1900, 33 young women tlemen before and they are gentle­ is secured in good subscriptions by registered for classes. Six of them men still ....Many are bearing the that time." The announcement transferred from other institutions, presence of coeds 'as a necessary that the required dowry had been 15 enrolled in the first-year class evil.'''. cut in half elicited restrained joy along with 56 men, and 12 came as from among friends of higher edu­ special students. No royal welcome cation for women. Securing additional subscriptions of nearly $10,000 turned out to be an extremely difficult task. Although another stirring appeal for support was addressed to Rochesterians

13 14 nuclear generating plants. In 25 or Laser Fusion-the Answer 30 years those plants will generate the majority of our electrical power. To the Energy Crisis? That calls for a considerable invest­ ment in fission fuel, and fusion can be used for breeding that fuel. For What do you do for energy in a To learn more about it all, the example, a fusion process could be world in which natural sources are Review recently talked with Moshe developed that would permit re­ running out? For the 135 faculty J. Lubin, professor of mechanical using the unspent fuel in nuclear members, students, and scientists and aerospace sciences and of op­ fuel rods. There are a number of at the UR Laboratory for Laser Ener­ tics, and director of the Laboratory breeding schemes, and the applica­ getics (LLE) the answer is fusion­ for Laser Energetics. tions group at the Laboratory is tak­ the "burning" process of the sun. ing a close look at them with a view For over 25 years scientists have RR: Prof. Lubin, one of the goals of . toward zeroing in on the most worked to create miniature sun­ this project is the development of feasible. like furnaces on earth, without laser fusion as a clean, limitless, success. Because the fusion process energy source within 20 to 30 years. requires such high temperatures­ There are three questions in that RR: The third question is probably a on the order of 50 million to 100 mil­ statement. First, is it really limit­ loaded one. How clean is fusion? lion degrees-the tremendous ener­ less? Lubin: Harnessing any kind of nu­ gy of fusion cannot be contained by Lubin: The fuel burned in fusion­ clear energy results in some kind of any known material. deuterium-is available in sea water radioactive by-products at some point Researchers at LLE, an interdisci­ in essentially infinite quantity. So I in the technology. But, basically, the plinary teaching and research cen­ think we can call it limitless. fusion process has no long-lived ra­ ter in the College of Engineering and dioactive by-products. It can be the Applied Science, are working on an al­ RR: Will the United States be cleanest of all the nuclear energy ternative idea. Using multiple beams using fusion energy systems 20 to technologies. from a high-power laser, they heat a 30 years from now? solid fuel pellet of deuterium and tri­ Lubin: That depends on which ex­ RR: But many people, including tium to a million degrees or more, pert you talk to. But we think that some trained scientists, have talked vaporize the pellet, and trigger fusion fusion will be making significant about nuclear plants blowing up. reactions in the plasma (a gas so hot contributions to the energy econ­ How safe is fusion in terms of pos­ that its atoms have shed their elec­ omy of the United States by the sible explosions and environmental trons) before the reacting particles year 2000 to 2010. con tamination? can fly apart. Lubin: Unlike fission, fusion is not A new Laboratory building, soon RR: That's still a long way off. Isn't a chain reaction. What people are to open on the South Campus, will there some in terim use for fusion? concerned about in nuclear plants contain the world's most powerful Lubin: Yes, there is. This country is the possibility of a reactor getting laser system operating in an open is accelerating the construction of so hot that the chain reaction runs research project. Its full power, de­ away. If the fusion process gets livered in a billionth of a second, will too hot, it just naturally expands and be about 30 trillion watts-about 75 cools off until it reaches an equilib­ times the energy generated in the rium temperature again. It can't entire United States in that time run away. In any case, I think that span. ... basically, the fusion the fear of a runaway chain reaction But there's a long road to commer­ process has no long-lived in any controlled, energy-producing cial fusion plants. A complete under­ radioactive by-products. It nuclear process is not justified. It's a standing of the physics of fusion and red herring, really. In the opinion of development of a new technology can be the cleanest of all the majority of nuclear experts a for making the tiny fuel pellets (typ­ nuclear energy technologies. runaway reaction is not likely to ically only a few hundredths of an occur. inch in diameter) are just a few of the hurdles the staff at LLE must clear. And then there's the broad RR: What about the laser itself? Is fusion practical with today's lasers? question of keeping up with the Lubin: The answer to that is no­ scenarios for the country's energy and yes. It depends on whether future and understanding precisely we're talking about near term ap­ what part fusion can play. plications-things we11 see in the technological marketplace in 10 or

15 RR: You 've been describing a proj­ We can look for practical ect of really enormous scope. Can a applications of fusion tech­ university handle it? Shouldn't it be a government project, or even one nology well before it's ready for industry to do? for large-scale use. Lubin: Actually, it takes a partner­ ship of all of those organizations you mentioned. That's especially true in something as vital as the energy the reactor. It works scientifically, problem. Ideas like laser fusion are but there's a lot of engineering to do usually born in research environ­ before we have a commercially ments such as universities. But the viable system. But by using laser major horsepower in this country fusion technology to breed fuel is industrial. In our system, it's pri­ which would then be burned in the vate industry that has to make the reactor, we have a new, and eco­ decisions on what will work eco­ nomically attractive, system. So I nomically, and what will not. In­ think we can look for practical ap­ dustry has to decide what to bring plications of fusion technology well before it's ready for large-scale use.

RR: Prof. Lubin, the Laboratory is 15 years-or the large-scale use of also working on the development fusion plants for producing electric of an X-ray laser. How will that con­ power. Today's lasers, especially tribute to fus ion? those powerful enough for fusion Lubin: It's a separate program. research, are very inefficient. We Laser fusion is not the only program have to put more power into run­ at the Laboratory. We also conduct ning the laser than we produce by major research efforts in basic laser fusion. A fusion plant using current physics, in the fundamental physics lasers would be an energy consumer. of light interaction with matter, For a viable fusion plant, we'll need and in the development of an X-ray lasers 10 to 15 times more efficient laser. than the ones we have. And that means we need a major techno­ RR: What is the significance of an logical breakthrough. We need a X-ray laser? "Brand X" laser, and we have a Lubin: We could use it for investi­ group at the Laboratory working on gating structural changes in solids, that. including biological systems, while they were happening. It will allow RR: And in the near term? us to photograph events that happen Lubin: There we're dealing with in less than billionths of a second. to the marketplace. Government's a different set of numbers. Take a This is exciting for science. But an role is to finance some of the early plan like the one we mentioned X-ray laser will have the greatest developments, either in govern­ for breeding fuel for fusion reactors. impact on biomedical applications. ment laboratories, or in a university, For that, we consider the whole In principle, we could photograph or in industrial laboratories. But we system-how much energy does it protein molecules, or cancer cells in have to make sure that industry gets take to run it, how much energy a person's body. We could look at a the technology as quickly as possible does it ultimately generate. A laser tumorous growth without per­ so it can make up its mind about system for reusing the spent fuel in forming surgery. which way to go. fission rods can consume energy as long as the end result is to generate more power than the laser system uses. That equation works with the lasers we have in hand. And that kind of system, in effect, would solve a difficult technological problem. The concept of breeder reactors is to burn and breed fissionable fuel in

16 RR: Doe sn't that put a time limit Lubin: Harnessing these sources on the viability of the Laboratory for of energy is, of course, important. Laser Energetics? Solar energy in particular can be Lubin: No, because we have the used to heat your home, to heat wa­ kind of partnership I mentioned ter, to charge batteries in electric right here. The United States Energy automobiles when they come along. Research and Development Admin­ But it can never be looked to for istration is funding the construction powering industry or providing of our OMEGA TEN laser system the base load of electrical needs for so that it will be available to all re­ this country. At most, it could supply searchers in the field . The Laboratory possibly five to 10 percent of the en­ is a national users' facility, and as ergy we'll need in the year 2000. OMEGA TEN becomes operational we'll have people from all over the RR: So nuclear energy-fusion country using it as a research tool. energy-is the way to go? Industry is already involved. General Lubin: Nuclear energy makes the Electric, Exxon, and Northeast Utili­ universe tick. We're running out of ties are major sponsors of the Labora­ fossil fuel. Ultimately, what's left tory. And we have other sponsors will be economically more valuable who undoubtedly will play important for making clothing and building roles in the development of fusion­ supplies and other petrochemical New York ERDA and the Empire products than it will be for heating State Electric Energy Research Cor­ your home or running your auto­ poration. And they are all involved RR: How long does it take to train mobile. In my mind, there's no ques­ not only with funds, but with people. people who will be capable of deal­ tion that in the long run nuclear When fusion technology is ready for ing with fusion technology? energy will be running the world.• development for manufacture, they'll Lubin: It takes 15 to 20 years to be that much further ahead. train a new generation of scientists and technologists for a new area. We are well aware of that at the RR: If such complexity is needed to Laboratory. Basically, the Laboratory develop laser fusion, will it be pos­ is a teaching organization. The edu­ sible to arrange its technological cational aspect-the work of the transfer to developing countries? graduate and undergraduate stu­ Lubin: The technology that goes dents here-is as important as any­ with something as sophisticated as thing else we do. Fusion is still some laser fusion requires a significant way down the road; we 're really industrial and technological base. just beginning; and the students Unless a country has advanced tech­ working at the Laboratory will be nologically to the point of doing its going into other universities, where own laser research now, it probably they will train more students, and will not be ready to exploit this kind they'll be going into industry. I'm of facility. sure many of our students will be managing those industries develop­ ing fusion technology when it's ready for the marketplace. So, in ... there's no question that response to your question about the in the long run nuclear developing countries, my guess would be that they'd have to start energy will be running the training their people right now if world. they want to found their societies on this sort of technological base.

RR: We haven't mentioned other alternative sources of energy, such as geothermal energy and solar en­ ergy, which are very much in the news today. How important are they?

17 'What Research is Really Like'

18 work and that he's done a good job. Through phone calls and personal A 'Rochester These kids want the satisfaction of interviews, she was able to com­ Plan' Project going home at night and feeling pile a detailed family history of 88 that they've really helped someone of the JRA children. She then com­ Opens the Door that day ." pared the data with information on Not all project participants were a large control group with respect to plating slides and filling test tubes marital status of the parents, adop­ Can childhood trauma promote ju­ last summer. Projects ranged from tive status, and a number of other venile disease? Do hormones affect the study of acute coronary disease, variables. Her findings: 37.1 percent chemical sensitivity in mice? Is to computer-assisted ultrasound im­ of the JRA children were either ultrasound radiation an effective aging analysis of human fetal breath­ adopted or came from broken homes male contraceptive? ing, to a review of the theory and compared to about 14 percent in the These are just a few of the many practice of Chinese medicine. Some general population. perplexing and provocative prob­ students, like Monica Henoch, a biol­ The study does not prove that fam­ lems UR undergraduates set out to ogy major from Bayside, New York, ily problems necessarily precipitate investigate last summer. In a pro­ who graduated last spring, were childhood disease, Miss Henoch says. gram sponsored by the University's involved with studies that entailed What it does demonstrate, she be­ Rochester Plan, a $2.4 million proj­ a good deal of person-to-person con­ lieves, is that psychosocial factors ect underwritten by The Common­ tact. may play an important role in the on­ wealth Fund and dedicated to the Miss Henoch spent the summer set of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, a advancement of education in the determining whether psychological consideration that could affect the health sciences, 47 selected stu­ factors could somehow be responsible course of future research. dents were supported in a 12-week, for the onset of juvenile rheumatoid non-credit independent research arthritis URA), a crippling disease project of their choice. The objective? that affects children under the age To give undergraduates an oppor­ of 16. The cause of arthritis in chil­ tunity to explore their specific dren is a mystery, she said. But with '...a number of students health-related interests on a one­ the help of her sponsor, Dr. John to-one basis with a faculty member. concluded it's not the life Baum, director of Strong Memorial "The Rochester Plan summer pro­ for them.' Hospital's pediatric arthritis clinic gram is one way of letting students and one of the country's few experts do something more realistic in the in the field, she was able to uncover health professions than merely par­ a factor which may at least contrib­ ticipate in the classroom," Gail ute to the incidence of the disease. Miss Henoch, who is now em­ Young, chairman of the Rochester "It all started when a family coun­ ployed as an electroencephalograph Plan faculty steering council and selor noticed that a large number of technician at Monroe Community professor of mathematics, explained. children coming into the clinic to be Hospital, said her project taught her "Individual research projects help treated for JRA were either adopted quite a bit, not only about research the student to realize his aptitude or came from broken homes," Miss techniques, but about people as well. for working in the health professions." Henoch explained. This casual ob­ "At first I was a little scared­ For some students, this meant a servation led to a theory linking the there was so much interaction confirmation of their interest in a occurrence of the disease to family with strangers involved. But after a career in clinical medicine as op­ trauma-a theory whose validity she while I really learned to deal with posed to basic research. "One thing set out to test. Her job was to gather people, and the experience helped that happened this summer," Dean and evaluate data to determine me decide on a career in a people­ Harper, summer project coordina­ whether such a correlation was sta­ oriented health field ." tor and professor of sociology, said, tistically significant. Melissa Levy, a senior from Valley "was that students were able to "I went through the files of the Stream, New York, said she needed see what research is really like-and past 16 years and found 121 positive no help deciding upon a career. "I a number of them concluded that cases of JRA," she said. "I then sent knew I was going to medical school it's not the life for them. Many re­ a letter to each of the families in­ long before I applied for the summer alized that their real interest is in volved, informing them of the in­ project," she said . "Working in basic being clinicians-in helping people tent of the study and requesting more directly and seeing the results their cooperation." of their work quickly. It's like the pride a craftsman takes in his work. He works on a project for hours, but when it's done, he knows it's his

19 mouse oocytes or eggs are removed group, injecting them with a harm­ at different stages of their develop­ less saline solution. After sacrificing ment and examined for signs of the animals and removing their abnormality. However, since ma­ eggs, she found that mice treated ture female mice produce only with methotrexate produced eggs about 10 eggs at a time, researchers with more than three and one-half using this technique have been times as many chromosomal aber­ forced to sacrifice a large number of rations as did mice treated with animals in order to obtain enough saline. This is about the same num­ eggs for a significant evaluation. ber of aberrations normal mouse For this reason UR researchers Prof. eggs would exhibit under metho­ Allen H. Gates of the Department of trexate treatment. Her experi­ Obstetrics and Gynecology and Prof. ments demonstrated that eggs Catherine H. Donaldson of the De ­ produced by hormone-induced super­ partment of Biology developed ovulation were, indeed, susceptible methods whereby prepubertal mice to chemical disruption, hence show­ are induced, by the injection of two ing that the procedure developed hormones, to "superovulate" about by Ga tes and Donaldson is a via ble 45 eggs at a time. However, it one. was not known how much sensitiv­ Though justifiably proud of her ity to chromosomal alteration such contribution, Miss Levy found re­ eggs would display. If the treated search a tiring and often frustrating eggs showed no or little sensitivity pursuit. "1 missed the people and I research last summer just reinforced really hated killing animals," she my interest in the people-oriented explained. "I learned from this proj­ aspects of science." ect that research was definitely not She effectively began researching the life for me." She will enter med­ her project during the fall of her jun­ 'I was amazed at the talent ical school next fall. ior year with a reading course en­ and energy these students Not all summer projects produced titled "Gross Chromosomal Aber­ the same positive results shown by rations in Man-Nature Incidence displayed/ those conducted by Miss Henoch and Causal Factors." and Miss Levy . The goal of Rochester It is estimated that chromosomal Plan-sponsored investigators, like anomalies appear in at least 50 per­ that of all responsible scientists, cent of all human conceptuses, she was not necessarily to prove the explained. Most of these are aborted, to such chemicals as methotrexate­ a drug used in cancer chemotherapy validity of popular theories, but to but those that survive usually suffer uncover the truth. Hence, Frank severe mental or physical handicaps that induces a significant incidence of chromosomal aberrations-such Fernandez, a junior from Pearl River, such as mongolism and heart de­ New York, was not disappointed fects. Researchers have traditionally eggs would be inappropriate for the study of chromosomal abnormal­ when his experiment, designed to used mammalian models (typically determine whether ultrasound radi­ the mouse) to aid in their search for ities. If, on the other hand, treated animals produced eggs that were ation is a viable male contraceptive, mechanisms that may lead to these produced negative results. deformities. Under this method, sensitive to such chemicals, the pro­ cedure was valid . It was Miss Levy's job to find the solution to this prob­ lem under the guidance of project sponsors Gates and Donaldson. She began by treating about 30 specially bred mice with the two hormones and injecting them with methotrexate. She used an ap­ proximately equal number of hor­ mone-treated mice as a control

20 animals before and after radiation. Unhappily, his results showed that ultrasound is probably not the pana­ cea to overpopulation that some re­ searchers had hoped. The radiation seemed to have no significant ef­ fect on the animals' fertility and, in fact, might have been at least a contributing factor in many animal deaths. Though his research only served to help disprove what many considered a most attractive theory, he was more than pleased with his sum­ mer as a scientist. "1 really enjoyed the research," he said. ''I'd do it again if given the chance. 1 thought the summer program was run very well, especially when you consider that it was the first one the Roches­ ter Plan has organized." All in all it was a "stimulating, challenging summer, summarized project coordinator Dean Harper. "1 was amazed at the talent and energy these students displayed. One student we supported worked A few researchers have shown 40 hours a week on his Rochester that a reversible reduction in rat Plan project, 40 hours a week on an fertility is seen when the testicles outside job to earn money toward his are irradiated with certain amounts fall tuition, and still managed to at­ of ultrasound radiation. The prospect tend most of the optional activities. of using such a contraceptive tech­ The amount of work most people put nique on humans is, of course, in­ into their projects was incredible. triguing. But UR Profs. Ronald L. Sure, there were some administrative Urry of the Department of Urology bugs, but overall I'd say this is a most and Edwin L. Carstensen of the successful program, one that we plan Department of Electrical Engineer­ to continue next summer and for ing remained unconvinced. Other some time to come." . scientists have shown ultrasound treatments to be ineffective, and many believed the method to be potentially dangerous. Urry and Carstensen decided to test the theory themselves and enlisted Frank Fernandez to carry out the research. Fernandez started by checking the sperm count on 100 healthy rats to obtain a base level, then irradiated them with controlled doses of ul­ trasound. He then compared the amount of sperm produced by the

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22 It seems somehow that spring should be the season for poets and poetry-even if spring in Rochester often looks like the accompanying photograph. Therefore, with an eye on the calendar instead of on the cam­ pus snowbanks, the Review of­ fers for your enjoyment the following poems from three members of the UR Department Anthony Hecht of English. Anthony Hecht, John H. Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968 for his book The Hard Hours. This year, his third collection of poetry, Millions of Strange Shadows, will be published. Jarold Ramsey, associate pro­ fessor of English, has been at UR since 1965. His many hon­ ors and awards include the Jarold Ramsey 1973 Lillian Fairchild Award for his volume of poetry Love in an Earthquake and selection for the Borestone Mountain poetry Awards volumes of Best Poems for 1972 and 1974. Douglas Crase, visiting lec­ turer in English, is also a free­ lance writer and has had his poetry published in several na­ tional magazines. He also has written political commentary for Nation. Douglas Crase

SESTINA D'INVERNO by Anthony Hecht Here in this bleak city of Rochester, Where there are twenty-seven words for "snow," Not all of them polite, the wayward mind Basks in some Yucatan of its own making, Some coppery, sleek lagoon, or cinnamon island Alive with lemon tints and burnished natives, And 0 that we were there. But here the natives Of this grey, sunless city of Rochester 'The one thing indisputable here is snow' Have sown whole mines of salt about their land -From "Sestina d'Inverno," by Anthony Hecht (Bare ruined Carthage that it is) while snow Comes down as if The Flood were in the making. Yet on that ocean Marvell called the mind An ark sets forth which is itself the mind, Bound for some pungent green, some shore whose ersity Poets natives Blend coriander, cayenne, mint in making Roasts that would gladden the Earl of Rochester With sinfulness, and melt a polar snow. It might be well to remember that an island

23 Was a blessed haven once, more than an island, AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE by Anthony Hecht The grand, utopian dream of a noble mind. In that kind climate the mere thought of snow A small, unsmiling child, Was but a wedding cake; the youthful natives, Held upon her shoulder, Unable to conceive of Rochester, Stares from a photograph Made love, and were acrobatic in the making. Slightly out of kilter. It slipped from a loaded folder Dream as we may, there is far more to making Where the income tax was filed. Do than some wistful reverie of an island, The light seems cut in half Especially now when hope lies with the Rochester By a glum, October filter. Gas and Electric Co., which doesn't mind Such profitable weather, while the natives Of course, the child is right. Sink, like Pompeians, under a world of snow. The unleafed branches knot Into hopeless riddles behind him The one thing indisputable here is snow, And the air is clearly cold. The single verity of heaven's making, Given the stinted light Deeply indifferent to the dreams of the natives To which fate and film consigned him And the torn hoarding-posters of some island. Who'd smile at his own lot Under our igloo skies the frozen mind Even at one year old? Holds to one truth: it is grey, and called Rochester. And yet his mother smiles. No island fantasy survives Rochester, Is it grown-up make-believe, Where to the natives destiny is snow As when anyone takes your picture That is neither to our mind nor of our making. Or some nobler, Roman virtue? Vanity? Folly? The wiles That some have up their sleeve? A proud and flinty stricture Against showing that things can hurt you, A VOICE AT A SEANCE by Anthony Hecht Or a dark, Medean smile? It is rather strange to be speaking, but I know you are I'd be the last to know. there A speechless child of one Wanting to know, as if it were worth knowing. Could better construe the omens, Nor is it important that I died in combat Unriddle our gifts for guile. In a good cause or an indifferent one. There's no sign from my son. Such things, it may surprise you, are not regarded. But it needs no Greeks or Romans Something too much of this. To foresee the ice and snow. You are bound to be disappointed, Wanting to know, are there any trees? It is all different from what you suppose, RETREAT by Anthony Hecht And the darkness is not darkness exactly, But patience, silence, withdrawal, the sad knowledge Day peters out. Darkness wells up That it was almost impossible not to hurt anyone From wheelrut, culvert, vacant drain; Whether by action or inaction. But still a rooster glints with life, At the beginning of course there was a sense of loss, High on a church's weather-vane; Not of one's own life, but of what seemed The sun flings Mycenaean gold The easy, desirable lives one might have led. Against a neighbor's window-pane. Fame or wealth are hard to achieve, And goodness even harder; But the cost of all of them is a familiar deformity "Sestina d'Inverno," "A Voice at a Seance," "Auguries of Such as everyone suffers from: Innocence," and "Ret reat" are from Millions of Strange Shadows, An allergy to certain foods, nausea at the sight of blood, by Anthony Hecht, copyright © 1977 by Anthony E. Hecht, re ­ A slight impediment of speech, shame at one's own body, printed by permission of Atheneum Publishers. A fear of heights or claustrophobia. What you learn has nothing whatever to do with joy, Nor with sadness, either. You are mostly silent. You come to a gentle indifference about being thought Either a fool or someone with valuable secrets. It may be that the ultimate wisdom Lies in saying nothing. I think I may already have said too much.

24 'Now I think he's in some shoreless lake' MOTHER AND SON by Jarold Ramsey -From "Mother and Son," by [arold Ramsey - When her son vanished on a training flight over the Washington Cascades in 1943, a M idwestern woman sea rched for him every SPELL AFTER FRUSTRATIONS by [arold Ramsey summer for 2 0 years, without finding a trace. His plane was an SN-] "Harvard." What you do first is peel back some turf, exposing Mother one square foot or less of common earth, The first few summers I dreamed of finding him then hunker down at the edge beside his unscathed "Harvard" in a meadow, twiddle your knobs to sharp, and fine, and slow, camping out the War, my boy in whiskers! set up a close brown study Everyone I spoke with knew which meadow, and take in the show. so helpful, they put a scarf on every tree. Then suppose you forget yourself there, Now I think he's in some shoreless lake ; grow beside yourself, so calm in black muck his parts dissolve like sugar. the mind wanders off with the arms and legs­ Still, I want to be the one to find him, if the you that's left is ready to travel, what lives in him should have its grave in me. why, let them go let them go. Son Just lean forward and begin to roll your biases out Mother, Mother, rest your shuttling heart, like Dharma somersaulting to China the moment my tumbling airplane hit this lake like a Pawnee "Rolling Head" I found the place I had to be, the trees veering across the Plains, like Plato's met here concentrically for me . revolving tri-sexual wonders- Don't you know, the bones that grass grows just tuck under and bounce and tumble through or fishes swim, like mine, have quit until you gaily, momentously desire? Someday there'll be a war of love come to know. so great that all these mountain lakes will launch their drowned airplanes to the skies like loons: till then, Mother, only hope to find me when the colors of your grief run clear. In my ribs a fish flies now, and I am everywhere.

25 LANDBRIDGE by [arold Ramsey LOCALE by Douglas Crase

Born on the trail, I will die my lifetime further East. The sound of it is always there, Yesterday we burnt my father by a geyser, The fumbling of pigeons in the old barn: today at noon my daughter's child was born, a daughter. You'd think first of the wind If there is game enough ahead, I will let it live. But it's too specific of origin for that, The country here is rolling, treeless, dry, volcanic, At the same section of unused pulley track as it was throughout my father's journey. Somehow High in the peak where an open window was. we seem always to be moving without our bearings It is like that, interrupted now and then By the flap of exits and entrances, at the very heart of a vast but familiar province. Settling down sometimes in the burr When we stop the skylines sag impossibly beyond us, Of a plump snooze, but never stilled, when we move again they ring us like a bola. Though when I try to make it out The plants and creatures change, but our names for them It's dim as the pigeons in the mow and gray. suffice. It follows me and I suppose I've encouraged My father knew some thirty words for dust: he made The attention-when it goes faint a riddle, The more you take the more you leave behind. I try to listen harder, when it is loud No one has set foot backwards, westward, in my memory, I stare up at the bright dust to see our children learn to walk ahead, only ahead, Where it is coming from. For something to face God East in every action of their lives- Which is part of life it's attached so they were begotten by us, wry-necked, staring forward. In a funny way and yet there's no danger Of it ever flying off to someplace else. A year ago last spring we sent our son advancing If it wasn't for the racket the elevator through the families, keen-eyed, a rapid walker. Makes, the thump of wet bales falling That fall we overtook him: on a cairn we found In the haymow, you'd hear what I mean. a skull staring back, and under it, his beads. At night when the barn is vacant as the moon Is this a trail we tramp, or only waves of footprints? It will be unmistakable in the loft, Our son the walker, did he reach the front, a place Its ruffling outskirts tentative, where, it must be, one's every step demands decision? A tentative nest at an immanent remove. Did he see the long map my father's father spoke of? And did he meet, before he died, forgotten scouts who limped back crying No hope, we found a wall of ice? Or did they signal to him out of earshot, Here, We've found it, our home we've walked past history to find? CHELSEA SQUARE by Douglas Crase There are these remnants of what was local THREE HANDS by [arold Ramsey And planned-for in our lives, deep doorways Lingering, Greek details shut away in shadow My father's dead hand on the sheet: And brownstone in truncated strata so long a voyage, left the anchor. Hugging the island as if this were the afternoon My mother waving goodbye: her hand It was finally going to throw them off. learning to fly through its emptiness. In the aggravated geology of the city there are Whole neighborhoods having their ups and downs, This hand of mine, now: antic The thunderous bedrock erupts into planar bluffs before me, running out of touch. That split and glow, and somewhere around four On chill afternoons it seems the prodigious schist En masse from river to river will lift the city On mica cliffs, tunnels and bridges dangling, And sleek chips of isinglass fall away to sparkle All at once above the surface, one at a time. How long has it been since glacial assurances "Mother and Son ," by [arold Ramsey, first appeared in Lillabulero, Backed off to leave this split in the terminal and is copyrighted 1974 by Liliabulero. "Landbridge" first appeared Moraine through which the ocean rushed to maroon us in Poetry NOW, and is copyrighted 1974 by Poetry NOW. "Spell Among its estuaries and tidal straits? Right now After Frustrations" and "Three Hands" are copyrighted 1976 by [arold Ramsey.

26 The gulls rise like a thousand magnesium fires Among the incandescent sky-high towers. We have Touched the sun, if only with the horizon, And already in the cold streets night fills The formidable aftermath. Here and there At different levels around us the separate lights Appear, tiny as campfires on a distant hill. Out of reach across the river, dark and inevitable, The gathering mainland is beginning to breathe.

THE WINTER HOUSE by Douglas Crase At last I am in for the sure season: sage, Lovage, tarragon are dried and hung in easy reach, Tomatoes reduced to a manageable puree, a waste Of apple, pear and peach consolidated in labelled Jars, already gathering dust on the basement shelves. The light, longer along the ground than it is tall, Doesn't surround me anymore but seems independent From the earth, an element of day and not the definition Of it. The active scenery falls away. Sounds Skip long distances as if they were bouncing on A sparer curvature. Only a few sparrows, tenacious As little milkweed pods, cling to their dry footing In level November air. Otherwise, ripe things Have lessened their hold, gone to seed, disappeared, And in the middle of this remoteness I am alone. But there is something more to look at, after all, For just as every effect produces an equal and maybe Opposite effect, in the seasons there is a kind of law Of conservation of fullness and vision that takes over And as things disappear they leave behind the clear Outline of the immensities they occupied, their cool Horizons, the long months I need to orient myself To them. The pale certainties are inescapable: The outside light contracts, the inside one expands Out of necessity from this zero center, and all I have to do is look out the cold window to see Its idiosyncratic crystals grow, crinkling, In every direction over the frozen ground.

"Chelsea Square," "The Winter House," and "Locale," all by Douglas Crase, first appeared in POETRY. They are reprinted here with the permission of the editor of POETRY, and are copyrighted 1975 by The Modern Poetry Association.

'and all I have to do is look out the cold window' -From "The Winter House," by Douglas Crase

27 Government Troops Hurled Back At Asparagus Beach; Tourists Jubilant be known as SOUTH FORK. A Dan (Sea)Coasts Along congress is to be convened next week from among all the villages in order to On Talent and Tall Tales write a constitution. This is expected to meet in East Hampton Town Hall, Remember this, from a 1975 issue of Here are a couple of samples from which is far enough away from enemy Time magazine? the first issue in the series, reprinted troops to allow for a degree of safety. with the permission of Dan's Papers: Eventually, a Capitol building and Presidential residence for the new Hoaxer of the Hamptons The Mayors of the nine villages of country is expected to be constructed the Hamptons have this afternoon The front page of the East Hampton in the woods of North Sea. Real estate declared their independence from the Summer Sun and five sister weeklies prices here have not yet become United States. Meeting at a prepared published for the well-heeled vacation­ prohibitive. luncheon at Herb McCarthy's ers who flock to the east end of Long Is­ The Declaration of Independence, land was given over in its entirety re­ Restaurant in Southampton, the nine signed respectively by the mayors of cently to a letter from the police chiefof mayors concluded that they could no Montauk, Amagansett, East Hampton, nearby Bridgehampton. The lawman longer continue to tolerate the Sag Harbor, Southampton, Water Mill, asked that residents contribute raw meat injustices being heaped upon them by to local authorities to help feed a killer Bridgehampton, Hampton Bays, and the authorities down in Washington. shark roaming the area's beaches so that Westhampton Beach, reads as follows: its consumption of swimmers could be "All Washington does is tax, tax, tax," said Mayor Harrington from East cut back from one or two a day. KNOW YE by these presents that we, The papers forthwith received tele­ Hampton. "They do not understand the undersigned, do solemnly declare phone calls from the Wall Street Jour­ the problems of the tourist and agri­ that inasmuch as we are dissatisfied nal, the Christian Science Monitor. cultural economy of the Hamptons. with the current state of the United SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publi­ And they do not even allow us a States of America, as we are cations. If the inquisitors had been fa­ voice. Congressman Otis Pike, who is miliar with the weeklies, they would dissatisfied with our current our single representative in Wash­ have known that the letter, like much government and its high taxes without ington, has to handle as far west else that appears in the papers, was a representation, that we feel estranged as Patchogue. This is not adequate fake. The missive was the handiwork of from the goings on in the federal representation, and we can have no Dan Rattiner, 35, who publishes the six government, that we believe we are a summer papers and two others (a total of taxation without representation. We separate peoples, distinct in 64,000giveaway copies a week) and has have declared our independence." temperament and style from the rest a good time doing it. Mayor Harrington, who was of the peoples of this nation, we go speaking loudly to be heard over the The story went on to describe headlong into the future of air music of the Lester Lanin Orchestra, Rattiner, a 1961 UR grad, and the good conditioners and washing machines has been chosen as temporary times he has while making a without giving it a second thought, representative of the new country, to comfortable living. inasmuch as we feel that the federal Rattiner, who's one of eight alumni government cares not a whit what journalists who serve as an advisory happens to the South Fork, whether or committee (through the Trustees' not it is cut off and floats away, Council) for the Rochester Review, was 'The Mayors of the nine vil­ whether or not oil wells are drilled in hack at his typewriter as enthusi­ the ocean off our shores, whether or astically as ever this past summer. lages of the Hamptons have not superhighways and suburban­ Not one to allow the Bicentennial this afternoon declared their ization destroy our farmland and to slip by unnoticed-did anybody?­ independence from the resort areas, Dan treated his seaside readers to a THEREFORE, we solemnly resolve, as three-part series. First, the Hamp­ United States.' the nine elected representatives of the tons seceded from the Union. Next, villages of Montauk, Amagansett, East the war raged on. Finally, as one Hampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehamp­ might expect from Dan, the Hamp­ ton, Water Mill, Southampton, tons won and set up a monarchy. Hampton Bays, and Westhampton Beach, to form among ourselves a new nation, free from excessive taxation, in which every individual

29 shall have a free and equal voice in Beach, Westmoreland produced a lots of globes and maps and magazines. the government, and in which the variety of charts and graphs to show We destroyed them all." needs of the community will be the effectiveness of the American "That sounds like the Southampton attended to properly as they must be. action. Library," one of the reporters said. We hereby set our hands to this "According to reports from all our "Don't get smart," Westmoreland document in the name of truth, justice troops," Westmoreland said, "our body replied. and equality, representation and count for the enemy for yesterday was Westmoreland revealed that his consideration for all. one hundred and six. This is up fifteen troops were also engaging in a from the day before, although it is "pacification" and "indoctrination" The independence document, which seven less than the day before that." program of the natives. was originally drafted on a restaurant Westmoreland produced a graph to "These are simple people," tablecloth, was signed in magic marker show the fluctuations in the enemy Westmoreland said. "They really don't by those in attendance. Fred Goldberg body count. He also revealed that care which side wins the war, so long as of Amagansett, who had studied American casualties during the same they have a small business to run to calligraphy at Adelphi, did the actual period were seventeen, twenty-six, serve the tourists. Frankly, we feel that writing of the document. and nineteen respectively. by educating them to the American Several waiters assisted in typing up "At this rate, the enemy cannot last way of life, by giving them chocolate, a second copy of the Declaration of but a few more weeks," Westmoreland k-rations, and small change, we can Independence on a portable typewriter said. "It is only a matter of time before win them over to our point of view. in Herb McCarthy's office. Xerox we see the color of the light at the end Simply put, this is a battle for men's copies were then passed out to of the tunnel." minds." everyone in attendance. Westmoreland acknowledged that One of the biggest problems that the One of the copies of this document is the battlefront continued to be American troops had to deal with, expected to be sent to Jerry Ford, stabilized along the Shinnecock Canal, according to Westmoreland, was a new President of the United States, and he declined to comment on the enemy weapon called the potato sometime tomorrow. It was originally possibility of a South Fork Summer bazooka. thought that this could be accom­ Offensive which reportedly has been "This is something we have never plished by sticking the document in preparation by the enemy. seen before," he said. "We are not sure in the mailbox with proper postage "With our naval bombardments, our how to deal with it." and certified mail with return receipt smart bombs, and our rocket attacks, it The rebels have apparently been able requested, but inasmuch as the local does not seem possible that the enemy to create an extremely powerful post offices have been shut down in the can be organized enough to think weapon, using a regular anti-tank growing rebellion, this method was about launching an attack," he said. bazooka, gunpowder, and potatoes. abandoned. Instead, the document will "The Montauk Highway is under "The potatoes are fired wi th be delivered, under a white flag, to the constant attack. It is true that when we effective impact," Westmoreland said. National Guard troops of the United bomb it into smithereens in one place, "They get clogged up in our tank States already assembling at West­ they have it fixed up in another before tracks, in our jet fighter intakes, in our hampton County Airport. nightfall. Still, this vital supply line of mortar barrels. The potatoes do not Lunch consisted of fruit cup, salad the enemy has got to be virtually closed have the power to kill, but they make a with choice of dressing, chicken in off." terrible mess. Did you ever try to get sauce with rice, peas and carrots, apple While the front is stabilized, mashed potatoes out of a jet engine air pie, and coffee. Westmoreland said, he has continued intake?" the attack through the use of "search The First Army had already brought Rebels Thrown Back and destroy" missions. These consist the Third Division back from the front of armored patrols which cross the in order to train them in potato At South Fork canal in the dead of night, then drive up digging. Presumably they will be Over 100 rebel soldiers were killed in and down the Montauk Highway in returned to action in a few weeks with action around the South Fork enemy territory "searching and the express orders to infiltrate enemy yesterday, according to General destroying." Usually, these patrols lines and dig up all the potatoes to William Westmoreland of the United have returned to the safety of the west deprive the rebels of ammunition. States Army. Meeting with reporters side of the canal by morning. "That's the trouble with potatoes in in his command post, the former "On one such search and destroy the South Fork," Westmoreland Woolworth estate in Westhampton mission," Westmoreland said, "our lamented, "they are practically forces came upon and destroyed what everywhere. We could spend months we believe to be the enemy's central digging potatoes and still not get all of control headquarters. Located on Job's them. The rebels have a seemingly Lane, Southampton, right next to the inexhaustible supply of ammunition." Parrish Museum, it contained over ten • thousand books and documents, also

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Eastman Discography: Faculty Soloists, Ensembles

The production of "classical" mu­ most popular and commercially suc­ sic recordings has traditionally been cessful series of recordings ever governed not only by artistic con­ produced by a music school. The siderations/ but also by severe Eastman Wind Ensemble, an all­ financial limitations. From the earli­ student ensemble conducted by est days of commercial recording, Frederick Fennell and Donald Huns­ recording companies have been con­ berger/ gained international recog­ servative in their choices of repertory nition by its recordings for Mercury, and in the artists and ensembles they Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and have selected to record this reper­ Philips, encompassing repertories tory. The catalogues of the major from marches by John Philip Sousa record producers have included the to circus "Screamers" to British recordings featuring Eastman major symphony orchestras and "Band Classics" to music of the faculty members as soloists: opera companies and world-re­ avant-garde. John Beck, percussion (with Eastman nowned instrumentalists and singers Hanson's recordings of American graduates Joseph Werner and David performing essentially music from and other twentieth-century music McKay, pianists, and percussionist the "standard repertory." continued on the Columbia and Mer­ David Mancini); Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Musical It followed, then, that the record­ cury labels, many of which are now Heritage Society (to be released in ing industry was amazed in 1939 by being reissued on the Mercury Gold­ 1977). an announcement of the first major en Imports and Eastman-Rochester Helen Boatwright, soprano; Buxtehude: recording project to be undertaken Archives labels. Mercury (now Pho­ Cantatas, Magnificat, Urania 5-8018; by a commercial recording company nogram) Records is reissuing many Cowell: Toccata-with Kirkpatrick, and a professional school of music. of the Eastman Wind Ensemble rec­ Parisot, Smith, Columbia CSP AML­ R.CA. Victor had selected the Uni­ ords under Fennell's direction, and 4986; Handel: Chandos Anthems, Van­ versity's Eastman School of Music has begun a new series of recordings guard 227, 228, 229; Ives: Songs, to record a series of albums con­ by the Ensemble conducted by Don­ Overtone 7; Ives: Songs, Columbia M4­ ducted by the School's director, ald Hunsberger. 32504; Schubert: Mass #6 (with Musi­ ca Aeterna Orchestra), Decca 79422. Howard Hanson. Not only would the The most recently issued Eastman David Burge, piano; Berio: Sequenza IV; orchestra be made up of faculty and School records and recording proj­ Boulez: Sonata #1 two movements; students, but the selections would ects include the first recordings by Dalla-piccola: Quaderno musicale di not be drawn from the standard rep­ the Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Annalibera; Krenek: Six Vernessene; ertory. Rather, they would be music Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble, Stockhausen: Klavierstiick VIII, Can­ by 18 contemporary American com­ recordings featuring John Beck, dide CE 31015; Burge: Eclipse II; posers. associate professor of percussion, Crumb: Five Pieces; Martirano: Cock­ It was characteristic of Hanson to and Zvi Zeitlin, professor of violin; tail Music; Rochberg: Twelve Baga­ include music not only by his own the Vox-Turnabout recording of the telles; Wuorinen: Piano Variations, contemporaries, but by younger gen­ Eastman-Library of Congress produc­ Advance FGR-3; Burge: Sources IV (with Lois Burge, piano); Curtis-Smith: erations of Eastman composers, as tion of the first American opera, Rhapsodies; Chaitkin: Etudes; Hud­ well. One of these discs presented a The Disappointment; and the announce­ son: Reflexives; Frank: Orpheum, CRI brilliant young musician named ment by Phonogram Records of the SD-345; Crumb: Makrokosmos, Vol­ Joseph Mariano, who in 1974 retired first recording by the Eastman Ma­ ume I (1972) (Twelve Fantasy-Pieces from the Eastman faculty as one of rimba Band. After the Zodiac, for Amplified Piano), the world's most renowned flutists The following discography includes Nonesuch H-71293; Crumb: Night Mu­ and teachers. Another disc included a list of recordings by Eastman sic I, CRI 5-218; Music by Berio, Can­ the performance of a talented young School faculty members as soloists dide CE 31027; Schoenberg: Pierrot oboist, later to become an Eastman and a list of recordings of Eastman Lunaire, Concert Disc 232; Twentieth­ professor of oboe, Robert Sprenkle. School faculty chamber ensembles. Century Piano Masterpieces-Schoen­ berg: Suite, Op. 25; Webern: Varia­ In 1953/ another Eastman ensem­ The next issue of the Review will con­ tions; Berg: Sonata, Op. 1; Stravinsky: ble began what was to become the tain a list of recordings of music by Sonata; Hindemith: Sonata #2; Bartok: Eastman composers and recordings Sonata; Kodaly: Seven Piano Pieces, by Eastman student ensembles and Op, 11; Krenek: Sonata #4; Boulez: student-faculty orchestras. Sonata #2, Musical Heritage Society (to be released in 1977).

32 David Craighead, organ; Harrison: Con­ Bill Dobbins, jazz piano; Dobbins: Tex­ Yi-Kwei Sze, bass; music of Handel and certo; Adler: Xenia (with Eastman tures, Advent 5003. Mozart, Iramac 6529; Moussorgsky: graduate Gordon Stout, percussion), Frank Glazer, piano; Album Leaves, Con­ Songs and Dances of Death; Brahms: Crystal Records (to be released); cert-Disc 219; Beethoven: Trio, Op. 11, Four Serious Songs, Iramac 6501; Messiaen: L'Ascension; Franck; Men­ 3- Vox SVBX-580; Beethoven: Trio, Op. Schumann: Dicterliebe, Op. 48, Iramac delssohn, Artisan AR 303. 11; Brahms: Trio, Op. 114, Turnabout 6502; Tcherepnin: Songs on Chinese Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Crumb: 34108; Bloch: Piano Qn (Fine Arts Qt.), Poems, Op. 71, Iramac 6517. Ancient Voices of Children, Nonesuch Con. Disc 252; Brahms: Trio for Clari­ Francis Tursi, viola; Mozart: Six Quintets 71255; Crumb: Night of the Four net, 'Cello and Piano, 3-Vox SVBX­ (with the Fine Arts Quartet), Vox SVBX Moons; Voice of the Whale, Columbia 578; Busoni: Konzertstiick, Op. 31A, 557. M-32739; Druckman: Animus II, CRI with Berlin Symphony, Candide 31003; Zvi Zeitlin, violin; Rochberg: Caprice 5-255; Druckman: Dark Upon the Harp, Copland: Variations; Delio [oio: So­ Variations for Violin Solo, Musical CRI 167; Epstein: The Seasons (with nata No.3; Gershwin: Three Preludes; Heritage Society (to be released); Robert Freeman, piano), Desto DC Gottschalk: LaBananier; Shapero: Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and 7148; Falla: Three Cornered Hat (with Amateur Sonata No.1, Concert-Disc Orchestra, Op, 36 (with Bavarian the New York Philharmonic, Pierre 217; Dvorak: Piano Qn, Op. 81 (Fine Radio Symphony, Rafael Kubelik, con­ Boulez, conductor), Col. 33970; Foster: Arts Qt.), Con. Disc 251; Mozart: Qn, ductor), DGG 2530257. Songs, Nonesuch 71268; Gideon: K. 452 (NY Wind Qn.), Everest 3081; David Zinman, conductor; Bach: Piano Questions on Nature, CRI 343; Gideon: Riegger: Concerto for piano & winds Concerto No.1; Chopin: Piano Con­ Rhymes from the Hill, CRI 286; Ives: (NY Wind Qn.), Everest 3081; Satie: certo No.2 (with Vladimir Ashkenazy), Song for the Harvest Season, Nonesuch Choses vues a droite et a gauche (with London Symphony, London 6440; 71222; Ives: Songs, Nonesuch 71325; Millard Taylor, violin); piano music; Greig: Holberg Suite; Tchaikovsky: Rochberg: Tableaux for Soprano and songs (with Eastman graduate, mezzo­ Serenade in C with Netherlands Cham­ Eleven Pianos, Turnabout 34492; Ron­ soprano Elaine Bonazzi), Candide ber Orchestra, Philips 6580102; Mo­ sheim: Bittersweet; Easter Wings, CRI 31041; Satie: complete piano works, zart: Idomeneo Ballet Music; Les 301; Schoenberg: Book of the Hanging Vox SVBX 5422. Petits Riens Ballet Music with Nether­ Gardens; Schubert: Songs, Nonesuch Sydney Hodkinson, percussion; Bolcom: lands Chamber Orchestra, Philips 71320; Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Black Host (with Albright), Nonesuch 6500861; Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Nonesuch 71251; Shifrin: Satires of 71260. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 Circumstance, Nonesuch 71220; Var­ Donald Knaub, trombone; Wilder: Sonata (with Dechenne), Hague Philharmonic, ese: Offrandes, Nonesuch 71269; Wer­ for Bass Trombone and Piano (with Musical Heritage Society 1183. nick: Kaddish-Requiem, Nonesuch Barry Snyder, piano); Bach: Sarabande; 71303; Wernick: Songs of Remem­ Collery: Barcarolle et Chanson Bach­ recordings featuring Eastman brance with Philip West, oboe, English ique Jules Semier; Stevens: Sonatina; faculty chamber ensembles: horn, shawm, Nonesuch (to be re­ Borodin: Prince Igor's Aria; Adler: leased); Wolf: Songs, Nonesuch 71296; Canto II, Golden Crest RE 7040. Cleveland Quartet (violinists Donald Foster: Songs, Volume 2, Nonesuch Paul O'DeUe, lute; Instrumental Music Weilerstein and Peter Salaff, violist (to be released); Cole Porter: Songs, of the Middle Ages, Electrola C 063­ Martha Strongin Katz, and 'cellist Paul Columbia (to be released). 30 122; Music of the Minstrels, Tele­ Katz); Barber: Quartet, Op. 11; Ives: funken 641928. Quartet No.2, RCA ARL 1-1599; Thomas Paul, bass; Beethoven: Symphony Brahms: Clarinet Quintet (with Stoltz­ No.9, Sine Qua Non SQN-145; Berlioz: man), RCA ARL 1-1993; Brahms: The The Damnation of Faust with Ozawa, Three Quartets, RCA VCS-7102; Boston Symphony, 3-DGG 2709648; Haydn: Quartets, Op. 64, No .5; Op. 76, Handel: The Messiah-abridged (with No.2, RCA ARL 1-1049; Schubert: the Robert Shaw Chorale and Orches­ Octet (with Tuckwell, Brymer, Gatt, tra), RCA VCS-708I; The Messiah­ Martin), RCA ARL 1-1047; Schubert: complete, RCA LSC-6175; Varese: In­ Quartet No. 14; Mozart: Adagio and tegrales, Nonesuch 71269. Barry Snyder, piano; MacDowell: Sonata Tragica, No.1, Op. 45; Griffes: "The White Peacock" and Meinecke's "Mad­ am de Neuville's Favorite Waltz with Variations," Golden Crest RE-7063; Wilder: Suite for Piano; Prokofiev: Sonata No.7, Golden Crest RE 7058. Robert Sylvester, 'cello; Moevs: Vari­ azioni, CRI 5-223; Siegmeister: Fan­ tasy & Soliloquy: On This Ground, Orion 7284; Witkin: Chiaroscuro (with Carne), Opus One 10; Sonatas for un­ accompanied cello by Crumb, Hinde­ mith, Wellesz, Ysaye, Desto 7169.

33 Fugue in C, RCA ARL 1-0483; Beetho­ under the direction of Samuel Adler ncn ven: string quartets (complete), RCA and Robert Spillman; Turnabout TV-S (to be released); Mendelssohn: Octet 34449. in E-flat (with the Tokyo String Quar­ Eastman Quartet (Frank Glazer, piano; tet), RCA (to be released); Dvorak: Millard Taylor, violin; Francis Tursi, Quintet, Op. 81 (with Emanual Ax, viola; Ronald Leonard, 'cello); Brahms: piano), RCA (to be released). Quartets for Piano and Strings (com­ The Disappointment, a ballad opera by plete), 3-Vox SVBX 592. Andrew Barton, reconstructed by Sam­ Ives: Complete Chamber Music, Volume uel Adler and Jerald Graue; cast in­ I (with Frank Glazer, piano; Millard cluding Eastman graduates Elaine Taylor and John Celentano, violins; Bonazzi and Joseph Bias, Eastman Francis Tursi.. viola; Alan Harris, 'cello; faculty members Milford Fargo and Stanley Hasty, clarinet; and Arthur John Maloy, students, and Eastman Balsam, piano), 3-Vox SVBX 564. Philharmonia Chamber Ensemble Eastman Brass Quintet (Daniel Patrylak, Allen Vizzutti, and Philip Collins, trumpets; Verne Reynolds, horn; Don­ ald Knaub, trombone; Cherry Beaure­ gard, tuba); Renaissance Brass: music of Scheidt and Weelkes arranged by Verne Reynolds, Candide 31004. Music of Reynolds and arrangements of music by DuFay, Weelkes, Tye, La­ [eune, Fux, a d Posch (with John Beck, percussion, and Barry Snyder, piano), Mark (to be released).

To the editor: The two "innocent bystanders" in your I I! I Identity Crisis photo (Winter issue) are Iii isis Art Krohn at the far left and Bernard (B.Z.) Zions. The other two gentlemen, who seem to be washing the windows of the then-new women's dorm of the River Campus, are unfamiliar to me . However, they both seem to be totally engrossed in their work and are to be commended. David M. Levey '57 Jericho, New York (With this we end our first series of Identity Crisis photos. We'll now set about dredging up an­ other batch. In the meantime, if any alumni have old photos of the campus-or of campus folk­ which can beshared, send them along.-Ed.J

34 Specifically, Dr. Gajdusek, now with the National Institute of Neuro­ II logical Diseases & Stroke in Bethes­ da, Md., was honored for his work involving "slow viruses." lillil The viruses are believed either to cause minor and vague symptoms or to "sleep" in the body for years be­ One Man's Road: fore awakening to invade the brain, the nervous system, and other organs. From Rochester A slow-working measles virus, for example, could cause multiple sclero­ To Nobel Prize sis 20 years after it originated in the body. By HAL RITTER Dr. Gajdusek recalls his UR days When D. Carleton Gajdusek was with fondness. growing up in Yonkers in the 1930's, "I was very anxious to go there he scarcely heard of Rochester. A bril­ and I liked it very much," he said. "I liant student, he was fascinated by found it a beautiful school, and I've theoretical physics and had begun suggested to many students since work as a junior assistant at a re­ then to go there." search institute at the age of 8. Carleton Gajdusek He also said his UR days were im­ Gajdusek could have picked any portant to his career. college in the country to attend, and (This article appeared in the Times-Union "Rochester was in the forefront of by the time he was 16 he was leaning in Rochester. It is reprinted with the permission modern physics. This was the prewar of T-U staff writer Hal Ritter and the Gannett to Harvard. days and MIT (Massachusetts Insti­ Newspapers.-Ed.J One day, a famous mathematician tute of Technology) and Harvard and physicist at the institute, Dr. Wil­ and then began a career in research were not that important then." liam Youden, took him aside. that was culminated recently with Dr. Gajdusek said the "physics "He pointed out to me what I didn't the highest honor in his field-a No­ craze" didn't begin until after World know myself at 16, that the University bel Prize. Dr. Gajdusek was named War II. When he was at UR, from of Rochester had a major theoretical by the Royal Caroline Institute in 1939 to 1942, physics majors were physics department quite superior to Stockholm to share the 1976 Nobel rare. UR had "a half dozen or dozen" any other Eastern university or any Prize in medicine "for discoveries graduate students in physics and in the country," Gajdusek said. concerning new mechanisms for the "that was huge for those days," he That did it. Gajdusek came to UR, origin and dissemination of infectious said. went on to Harvard Medical School, diseases." Dr. Gajdusek said several UR pro­ fessors had a significant influence on him, including Viktor F. Weisskopf, Gajdusek Fifth DR Nobel Laureate an associate professor of physics; Ralph W. Helmkamp, a chemistry Dr. Carleton Gajdusek is the fifth Others associated with UR who professor; Curt Stern, an experimen­ Nobel Prize winner to have an associ­ have won prizes are: tal zoology professor; and David R. ation with the University. The first Henrik Dam, a senior research asso­ Goddard, an associate professor of was Dr. George H. Whipple, founding ciate at Strong Memorial Hospital botany. dean of UR's School of Medicine and from 1942 to 1945. Dam won a prize By the end of his third year at UR, Dentistry. Dr. Whipple, who died last in medicine-physiology in 1943 for in 1942, Dr. Gajdusek had enough year at the age of 97, shared a prize discovering vitamin K, the essential credits to graduate. He also had a in 1934 for basic discoveries in blood vitamin in blood clotting. Dr. Dam problem. regeneration that led to treatments died in Copenhagen on April 17, "My plan was to go to Cal Tech for pernicious anemia. 1976. and get a Ph.D. in physics and then The first UR student to win a Nobel Dr. Arthur Kornberg, a 1941 gradu­ go to medical school," he said. "But Prize was Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud, ate of the UR Medical School. Dr. the war years didn't make that very now a professor of chemistry at Cor­ Kornberg, now a professor of bio­ reasonable." nell University. Dr. du Vigneaud was chemistry at Stanford University, By 1942, the United States was graduated from the UR Medical shared a prize in medicine-physiology striving to develop an atomic bomb. School in 1927. He won a Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work in synthesizing The government was pouring all the in chemistry in 1955 for discovering nucleic acids, the fundamental chem­ resources it had into the Manhattan two hormones that aid childbirth and ical constituents of all living matter.• Project, the code name for the nuclear the regulation of vital organs.

35 project, and those resources included physics but I have to admit I ex­ That work by Dr. Gajdusek has all the bright, young physics gradu­ changed my (medical school) admis­ opened up research into slow viruses. ates the government could find. sion there for Harvard," he said. During his trips to the South Pa­ "Those of us who were young guys Dr. Ga jdu sek said he knew he cific, Dr. Gajdusek adopted 16 New starting out in physics were going to wanted to work in the biophysical Guinea boys and brought them to be forced into research work in phys­ side of medicine from an early age . the United States to educate them. ics with no choice," he said. So his enrollment at Harvard in 1942 "In the South Pacific, kids have Dr. Gajdusek was able to avoid that didn't change his career, just started many adopted parents," he said. by leaving UR a year early without a it earlier than planned. "They (his sons) are all from very re­ degree and enrolling at Harvard Med­ Dr. Gajdusek, who's 53, has been mote, primitive areas where they'd ical School. Because he had enough at the National Institute since 1958. have no chance to get an education." credits for a bachelor of arts in phys­ He began the research that led to his Seven of the boys have married ics, he received a degree along with Nobel Prize with experiments in­ and moved away, but nine of them the rest of his class in 1943. spired by a ra re disease he discovered still live with him in Bethesda. But by then he was far enough in a cannibal tribe in New Guinea. Dr. Gajdusek said he would use along at Harvard that the government The disease, called kuru, is a men­ some of the $80,000 that accompa­ decided to leave him alone. tal disorder that involves uncontrol­ nies the Nobel Prize to put his re­ Dr. Gajdusek said he applied and lable tremors and leads to death. Dr. maining adopted sons through college. was admitted to UR's School of Med­ Gajdusek suspected the disease was "I'm given more money that I can icine and Dentistry and that it "was being passed along when cannibal­ use for research," he said. undoubtedly my second choice for istic tribe members ate the brains of He said he has been back to Roch­ medical school." He said he knew their dead. He proved that by produc­ ester three times to lecture since he Dr. George H . Whipple, founding ing kuru in chimpanzees injected was a student. He also has worked dean of the school and a Nobel Prize with human brain material from closely with neurologists at Strong winner in 1934. dead tribesmen. The incidence of Memorial Hospital. The hospital also "Rochester was my first choice for kuru has declined since the tribes­ has provided brain biopsy material men gave up cannibalism. for use in his research, he said.•

Dr. Henderson Accepts Lasker Award for WHO Dr. Donald A. Henderson '54M, chief of the World Health Organiza­ tion's (WHO) smallpox eradication program, accepted the rarely given Albert Lasker Public Health Service Award on behalf of WHO for "virtu­ ally ridding the earth of an ancient international and insidious enemy­ smallpox." Dr. Henderson has recent­ ly been named dean of the School of Public Health and Hygiene at Johns Hopkins University. The Lasker Award to WHO in­ cludes a $10,000 check, a Lasker cita­ tion, and a statuette. The award was established in 1944 to honor those who have worked to "prolong Presidential Performance the prime of life, or to reduce the death and disability rates in the ma­ President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are joined by Robert Shaw, former director of the Robert Shaw jor diseases that kill and cripple," Chorale and currently music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, to enjoy a presentation by the Eastman School's Cleveland Quartet in the East Room of the Wh ite House during presidential according to the Albert and Mary inaugural ceremonies in January. Members of the Quartet, from left: Donald Weilerstein, Peter Salaff, Lasker Foundation. Twenty-five re­ Paul Katz, and Martha Strongin Katz. cipients have also won Nobel Prizes. Since 1966, Henderson has di­ rected WHO's campaign to bring 36 the incidence of smallpox down to zero. At the beginning of the cam­ Happy Birthday, paign there were an estimated 10 million to 15 million cases of the dis­ Elliott Montroll ease. Smallpox was considered en­ Prof. Elliott W. Montroll's 60th demic (na turally occurring) in 33 birthday symposium, "Statistical Me­ countries. chanics and Statistical Methods in Today, all endemic countries of Theory and Application," had to be the last 10 years are smallpox free, one of the most successful academic with Ethiopia, the disease's final gatherings of the fall season. Nearly stronghold, reporting its last known 200 old friends, colleagues, and stu­ case on August 9, 1976. dents flocked from as far away as The East African nation of Soma­ Australia to give Montroll their best lia, a nonendemic country, had the wishes and, not incidentally, to attend last two known cases of smallpox a series of lectures presented by emi­ discovered in October and Novem­ nent scientists representative of a ber. If no further cases are reported, wide variety of scientific disciplines. smallpox could become the first Symposium chairman Prof. Uzi disease ever to be totally eradicated Landman inaugurated the day's by man. World-wide surveillance events with a brief review of Mon­ will continue for the next two years troll's prolific career as a scientist to insure that the eradication of and humanist. "It would be futile," smallpox is permanent. EllioU Montroll Landman said, "to attempt to outline A 1950 graduate of Oberlin College, Prof. Montroll's life work in the short Henderson received his M.D. de­ time allotted me here. His contribu­ plinary research group established in gree from UR in 1954 and a master's connection with the Einstein chair. degree in public health from Johns tions have been so numerous and so diverse that his career is impossible Montroll's is an encyclopedic interest, Hopkins University in 1960. to encapsulate. This symposium was and, in Melissinos' words, "tran­ After an internship in medicine, modeled after Elliott's example-that scends the fields of pure chemistry he worked for several years in the is, it is an attempt to provide a forum or physics." While here, his research Epidemic Intelligence Service at for the hybridization and fruitful ex­ and that of other members of the In­ the Communicable Disease Center change of ideas." stitute have ranged from the analysis of the Department of Health, Edu­ of social phenomena (such as traffic cation, and Welfare, serving as Landman then gave each of the patterns) to the study of molecular bi­ chief of the Surveillance Section symposium's introductory speakers a ology, agriculture, and the theory of from 1961 to 1966. well-used horseshoe, explaining that solid state physics. In November 1965, when Presi­ although he is not a superstitious Montroll presented the final paper dent Johnson decided to offer assis­ man, "I've heard these things work of the. symposium. Entitled "Ran­ tance in smallpox eradication to 18 even if you don't believe in them." dom Walks in Nature with Internal countries of western and central After gracefully accepting and lay­ Degrees of Freedom," it is a discus­ Africa, Henderson was made direc­ ing aside his good luck token, Chan­ sion of the application of random tor of the program. He served in this cellor Wallis gave a brief history of walk theory to the development of a capacity for one year until he was URIs Department of Physics and As­ variety of physical systems, one of asked to assume direction of WHO's tronomy, and department chairman which is the interpretation of phe­ intensified program for global small­ Prof. Adrian C. Melissinos described nomena that have proved important pox eradication. Montroll's many contributions as a to the Xerox process. In a fine display Henderson is the author of more member of the physics faculty. of lecturing technique, Montroll con­ than 60 scientific publications deal­ Montroll came to the University in 1966 as Einstein Professor of Physics cluded his speech by unbuttoning his ing primarily with smallpox eradi­ dress shirt to reveal a T-shirt bearing cation as well as epidemiology and and director of the URIs Institute for Fundamental Studies, an interdisci- a copy of his own photograph, taken immunization of a variety of infec­ only days before by his son Andy.• tious diseases.•

37 1950 Ray C. Johnson ('54G), professor of engi­ neering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, wa,s recently appointed a visiting fellow by the UnI­ lu 11111111 versity of Salford in England for his pioneering work in the field ofoptimum mechanical engineer­ ing design.

1943 Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek has been 1951 Sallie Melvin has been named a vice i.er a.p. awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his president of the Chemical Bank, New York, "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the N.Y... .Donald W. Pearson has been elected a I Ilele. origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"; director of Central Trust Co. in Rochester. he shares the prize with Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg 1911 George Abbott directed "Music Is," a mu­ of the University of Pennsylvania Medical sical based on his own book, which in turn was 1953 Joe Ponazecki appeared in "Music Is," a School. . .. Ernest D. Courant (G), professor in the inspired by Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; the musical directed by George Abbott ('11), in New Institute for Theoretical Physics at SUNY (Stony production opened last December at New York's York.. ..Nancy H. Peterson has been chosen ex­ Brook) and senior physicist for Brookhaven Na­ St. James Theatre. ecutive director of the Niagara County, N.Y. Men ­ tional Laboratory, has been elected to lifetime tal Health Association... .Marlene Herr lindquist membership in the National Academy of Sci­ 1922 Dr. James Markin was honored recently has been appointed to the New York State Board ences... .Richard B. Secrest, a partner in the law by the Monroe County Medical Society for com­ of Electric Generation Siting and the Environ­ firm of Harter, Secrest & Emery, has been elected pleting his 50th year of medical practice. ment. . ..Born: to Daryl Dow and Fred Page, a a director of McCurdy & Co. , Inc. of Rochester. son, Frederick L., on May 21. 1929 Samuel Shulsky, King Features columnist 1944 G. Edwin Kindig has been appointed a and Hearst newspaperman, has been named the 1954 William Dooley performed in the Lyric manager of product design at Eastman Kodak Co. first recip ient of the New York Financial Writers' Opera of Ch icago production of Prokofiev's " T ~ e Association 's new award for "significant, long-run Love for Three Oranges" last December, and In 1945 Richard C. Mack has been named director contributions to the advancement of financial Poulenc's "Dialogues ofthe Carmelites" atthe Met of Kodak Park's new materials and planning divi­ journal ism." on Feb. 5....Albert H. Jacobson, Jr. was sion which has replaced the company's materials awarded a Ph .D. degree by Stanford University and production planning divisions.. .. "Year in the Dr. John N. Eggleston has been re-elected last June' he is currently a professor of industrial 1930 Country," an article byPatricia F. Dougherty, was secretary of the Connecticut Optometric Society. and syst~ms engineering at San Jose State ,Un i­ published in the December issue of "Instructor." . ..Charles F. Gosnell has been elected chairman versity.. .. Margaret D. Sovie has been appointed of the board of the Public Affairs Information associate dean for practice and associate profes­ 1946 Anne Keefe has leftWROC-TV in Rochester Service, Inc., of New York, N.Y. sor of nursing in UR's School of Nursing.... Frank to accept a position with KMOX, an all-news radio Hetherington ('64G), UR associate director of ad­ station in St. Louis; she now anchors a newscast 1932 Emanuel Goldberg ('35G) was honored missions, was recently elected treasurer of the and does interviews.. ..Dr. John l. Sawyers has recently by the Rochester Jewish Community National Association of College Admissions Coun­ been elected president of the Ten nessee Division Federation upon retiring as its president. selors... .The Very Rev. Canon William A. R. of the American Cancer Society. Howard has been named dean of the Western 1934 George G. Roth has been elected a vice New York Episcopal Chautauqua Deanery.. ..John 1947 Union College President Thomas N. Bon­ president of the Real Estate Board of Rochester, M. Strong has been promoted to the position of ner ('49G) has been appointed by New York Gov. Inc. clerical systems manager atthe American Security Hugh Carey to the State Board of Higher Ed~ca­ Bank in Washington, D.C.... Robert l. Walker has tion Services Corp. and was recently recognized 1937 Gerald B.Zornow has retired from his post been named senior officer responsible for elec­ bythe Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity as one ofthe 200 as cha irman of Eastman Kodak Co. tronic banking services at Ma rine Midland Bank, most distinguished alumni in its history.. ..Dr. Buffalo. John D. States, chief of orthopaedics atRochester 1938 Nils Wessell (G) has been appointed General Hospital and professor of orthopaedics at chairman of the Temporary State Commission on 1955 George l. H. Stone has been appointed UR, was recently awarded a 1976 safety award by the Future of Post-Secondary Education in New coordinator of annual giving at the University of the American Association of Automotive Safety for York State... .Susan B. Anthony, grandniece of Delaware....S. Anthony DeDeyn was recently his "pioneering efforts in automotive safety and the 19th-century feminist reformer, appeared named vice president of the new business de­ human injury tolerances." recently on the "$128,000 Question" Quiz show velopment department of Southeast Banks Trust and won $16,000 answering Questions on wom­ Co.. ..John W. Fulreader has been named 1948 Jerome E. Baier has been appointed to en's rights. town attorney for Perinton, N.Y. the Lay Advisory Board of St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md.. .. James W. Blumer has been 1939 Keirn C. Brown has retired from the State 1956 ary Fenwick performed an organ recital promoted to vice president of technical develop­ Department; he had been serving as counselor of at the Cadet Chapel at West Point last October ment and services at Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. , the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran... .Lorron during the Academy's homecoming weekend . Toledo. G. Caryl has been appointed finance director of .. . Donald S. Lyon ('68G) has been named man­ Chautauqua County, N.Y.... Frederick l. Witt has ager of materials at Goulds Pumps, Inc., Seneca 1949 Molly Bruckel Cole, mayor of Avon, N.Y., been named a corporate vice president of Scott Falls, N.Y....James F. Crum has been appointed has been appointed to the Council for the State Paper Co., Philadelphia, Pa . assistant division superintendent of iron producing University College at Geneseo.... Richard l. atU.S. Steel's Gary, Ind. Works... . Ronald Coplon Altier has been elected to the Board ofTrustees of 1941 George M. Mullen has been named the has been named divisional merchand ise manager Rochester's Nazareth College. New England Floor Covering Association "Man of for intimate apparel and children's wear at the the Year" for 1976. Wm . H. Block Co. in Indianapolis, Ind.

38 1957 Richard Leger has been transferred from 1963 Dr. Henry A. Remet has opened a private 1967 Hazel Lifton Kroesser has been hired by the San Francisco Bureau to the London Bureau of psychiatric practice in New York City.. .. Michael the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies to the "Wall Street Journal" and will be covering Af- ­ T. Boland ('75G), formerly UR associate director of serve as Personnel -Title IX-Affirmative Action Of­ rica, among other things... .Arden C. Norton has development, has joined the staff of Harvard Uni­ ficer.. ..Glenn Merry has been named general been named general manager of the Plastronics versity as associate director of planned giving.... manager of the poroplastic products division at division of Norwesco in Grundy Center, la.... Dr. Lawrence H. Tydings has been elected to Moleulon Research Corp., Cambridge, Mass.. .. Richard E. Hughs, associate dean of the faculty of fellowship in the American College of Obstetricians Donald Tobin has joined the staff of Cazenovia business administration of New York University, and Gynecologists.. .. John R. Rafferty has been Real Estate in Cazenovia, N.Y., and was recently was recently awarded the President's Distin­ promoted to director of Connecticut Mutual Life's appointed to the village's plann ing board ... . guished Service Award by University President annuity marketing department. .. . USAF Maj. Robert S. Towsner has been appointed associate John C. Sawhill; he was cited for "extraordinary William J. McKechney, an advanced weather of­ counsel, legal department, at Connecticut General service" in his contribution tothe effort to restruc­ ficer, has been transferred from Georgia Institute Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.. .. Robert A. ture the management of NYU . of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., to Bolling AFB in Huff (G) , professor of history at Hobart and Wil­ Washington, D.C. liam Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., has received 1958 Deanne Molinari, associate dean of stu­ the 1976 Faculty Prize forDistinguished Teach ing. dent affairs for housing and administrative ser­ 1964 John H. Seinfeld, professor of chemical · .. John C. Shank has been appointed assistant vices at SUNY (Purchase). has been elected presi­ engineering at the California Institute of Tech ­ actuary in the life, accident, and health actuarial dent of the Association of College and University nology, recently received the Allan P. Colburn division of the group department at The Travelers Housing Officers-she is the first woman presi­ Award of the American Institute of Chemical Insurance Cos. in Hartford, Conn.... Marriage: dent in the Association 's history. Engineers for "excellence in publications which Zachary M. Weiss and Linda J. Heller, on Aug. 29 promise to have influence on chemical engineer­ in Worcester, Mass. 1959 Barbara Friedman Nechis, who is listed in ing." ...Anne M. Scheuerman (G). associate the 1976 edition of "Who's Who in American Art," professor of health , physical education, and 1968 W. Frederick Craig (G). associate pro­ gave a watercolor demonstration at the National recreation leadership at Monroe Community fessor of printing at Rochester Institute of Tech ­ Academy of Design in New York City for the Na­ College in Rochester, is included in the tenth edi­ nology, was honored recently as West Virginia tional Association of Women Artists.. ..Thomas R. tion of "Who's Who ofAmerican Women ." . .. Navy Tech's Alumnus of the year... .Richard A. Forbes, Jr. has been appointed director of co­ Lieutenant Commander Ronald W. Ziolkowski is Buchroeder (G) has received his Ph .D. in operative education atTrenton State College, Tren­ currently attending the Naval War College at New­ optical sciences from the University of Arizona . ton , N.J. port, R.I.. . .Kelvin F. Tucker has been named · .. Dr. Drew M. Mittleman has finished a two­ manager of software services at Eastman Kodak year residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospita l 1960 Dane Gordon (G) , professor of philosophy Co. in Rochester. in Boston, Mass., and is now associated with and of religion at Rochester Institute of Tech­ the Dedham (Mass.) Medical Associates in the nology, has been appointed acting dean of the 1965 Robert Kurshan of Bell Laboratories has practice of general dentistry... .Dr. James R. Institute's College of General Studies.. .. James A. been the Kranzburg Visiting Lecturer in Elec­ Campbell has received an M.D. and is now a Beaudry (G) is the new president of the Illinois tronics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Tech­ resident in internal medicine at the University Sociological Association .. .. Robert H. Scheer­ nology-this year. ...Sally Charles Wedge, assis­ of Nebraska.... Mary Ellen Burris (G), director schmidt has been named manager of government, tant professor of education at Keuka College, of consumer affairs for Wegmans Food Markets, education, and medical marketing for Xerox was recently selected as a Danforth Associate Inc., has received the 1976 Matrix Award from Corp.'s information systems group.. ..Ann D. for the six-year period from 1976 to 1982.. .. the Rochester chapter of Women in Communi­ Weintraub ('69G) has been appointed acting Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom has assumed the cations, Inc., for her contribution to "greater principal of Lewis H. Morgan School 37 in duties of spiritual leader of Adat Shalom Syn­ understanding by or among people. ". .. Henry L. Rochester. agogue in Farmington Hills, Mich.. ..Barbara J. Marshall, a Kodak technical sales representa­ Berg (Goldberg), who is teaching history at Sarah tive, has been assigned a new sales territory 1961 Audrey Glode Campbell (G) has written a Lawrence College, has written a book, "The Re­ in the Queens area of New York City.. .. Deborah play,"Our Family Trouble: The Legend of the Bell membered Gate: Origins of American Feminism," K. Smith has been appointed manager, per­ Witch," which premiered in Nashville, Tenn., last which will be published this year by Oxford Uni­ sonnel and education, for the general services October. . .. Everett 1. Keech has been sworn in versity Press. Her husband, Arnold G. Schlanger division of Xerox Corp. in Rochester. ... Born: as assistant secretary of the Air Force forfinancial ('64), is general counsel and a member of the to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Campbell, a daughter, management.. . .The Rev. James M. LeGro has board of directors of the National Spinning Co., Mary Elizabeth, on Feb. 28, 1976; to Rona Jud­ been named the new executive director of Olm­ Inc... .John Clark has received a grant for jazz kowitz and Louis-Jack Pozner, a son , Zachary sted Manor, Western Pennsylvania Conference's composition from the National Endowment for the Blair, on Oct. 16in Albany, N.Y. Conference Renewal Center in Ludlow, Pa .... Arts. In 1976, he toured the Far East and Europe Suzanne Hoffman Bauer is the new president of with the Gil Evans Orchestra. 1969 David E. Scheim is currently a post­ the Long Beach, N.Y., chapter of Cancer Care. doctoral fellow in biomathematics at Los Ala ­ 1966 George F. Mack is assistant superinten ­ mos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.... 1962 John Muller has been named vice presi­ dent of the Geneva, N.Y., City School District. ... Ann Carol Brown (G) has been promoted to dent for academic affairs at Hillsdale College in Robert Edward Hahn has received his Ph.D. in manager of Wells Fargo Bank's WeliService Michigan... .Susan Mosher Stuard, assistant optical studies from the University of Arizona .... department in San Francisco.. .. Bruce W. professor of history at SUNY (Brockport), has Barbara J. Trombley ('67G) has entered Wesley Chambers (G) has been appointed to the staff published a collection of essays, "Women in Theological Seminary as a D.Min. candidate.. .. of UR's Memorial Art Gallery as assistant Medieval Society." .. .Gene F. Smith has been Vincent Byrne (G) has been named director of ad­ director for curatorial services.... Robert E. appointed manager of service technology for ministration for Xerox Corp. in Stamford, Conn. Mayer (G) has been promoted to vice president Xerox Corp. in Stamford, Conn. of administration at Case Hoyt Packaging Corp. · .. Marriage: AI Choate and Julie A. Gayk, on July 17 in Rush , N.Y.

39 1970 Albert W. Moore has been named vice 1973 Richard A. Cohen (G) received his J.D. president, corporate development and plan ­ degree from the University of Pennsylvania lall I ning, at Gleason Works in Rochester... .Otto H. Law School in May 1976 and is presently an Muller ('74G) has joined the Colgate geology associate with the Wilmi ngton, Del., firm of department as an assistant professor. . .. USAF Prickett, Ward, Burt, and Sanders....Martin 1934 Wayne Barlow ('35, '37GE), professor Col. Harry W. Ingold (G) is currently stationed Shapiro is currently employed as a sales cor­ and chairman of the composition department at at Croughton RAF Station , England, as com­ respondent, components division, at Union Eastman, has received an American Society of mander of the 2130th Communications Group. Carbide, Greenville, S.C.... Roger K. Handy (G) Composers, Authors, and Publishers award for has been appointed director of administrative 1976-77. 1971 William T. Marshall has received a services for Brigham City, Ut. .. .Randall I. Katz has received an M.A. in psychology, with master's degree in city planning from Harvard 1940 Ulysses Kay (GE) has written his first honors, from Western Michigan University... . Graduate School of Design, and is now studying at full-length opera, "Jubilee," which prem iered Marriages: Alan Dubin and Ellen Fenton ('74), the International Graduate School of the Un i­ in Jackson, Miss., last November. versity of Stockholm, Sweden; he can be reached on June 30, 1974.. ..Richard Reibstein and Susan Fisch ('76), on May 18, 1975.. . .Martin at Kungshamra 51/322, s-171 ·70 Solna, Sweden. 1941 Harold Meek is co-ed itor of the first Shapiro and Deborah Lamphier, on April 4, . .. R. Lincoln Keiser (G), a member of Wesleyan edition of Michael Haydn's "Double Concerto 1976.. .. Richard A. Cohen (G) and Eliza Gouver­ University's anthropology department, has been for Horn and Trombone " with small orchestra, neur ('76UC), on May 23, 1976, in Litchfield , promoted to associate professor....Richard published in Paris by Gerard Billaudot. Thomas recently received his Ph.D. in organic Conn.. ..Sandra A. Katz and Vance P. Lemmon , in Washington, D.C. chemistry from UCLA, and is now doing postdoc­ 1942 "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines," toral work at MIT. Aina Christine Saarie Thomas Jack Beeson's ('43GE) latest opera , has been 1974 Valerie L. Fodrowski received her mas­ is an administrative assistant at MIT... .Michael recorded on RCA by the Kansas City Lyric ter's degree in public health administration J. Roulan has been admitted to the New York Opera Company.... Norma Holmes Auchter from the School of Public Health at the Univer­ State Bar Association and is now engaged in the ('44GE) is currently an administrative assistant general practice of law in Geneva, N.y....Char­ sity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in May 1976, and piano teacher at the Hochstein Music lotte Mendoza (G), chairman of the education and is now a rogram analyst at the Depart­ School in Rochester; she also teaches part time ment of Health, Education, and Welfare in department at Colorado College, has been elected at SUNY (Geneseo). to the executive board of the Association of Washington ....Alan C. Hasselwander (G), mar­ Teacher Educators....James V. Griepenburg (G) keting and network vice president of Rochester 1945 Francis Johnson Pyle (GE), professor has been appointed assistant professor of chern­ Telephone Corp., has been elected a director of emeritus of theory and musicology at Drake istry at Eisenhower College.. .. Marriages: Robert Lincoln First Bank of Rochester. . ..Rev. Dr. University, has received an American Society J. Frosino and Joanne Nazzaro, on Nov. 27 in leonard I. Sweet (G) recently published his first of Composers, Authors, and Publishers award Rochester. ...Thelma J. Harrington (G) and book, "Black Images of America , 1784-1870." for 1976-77. Wayne Uter, on Nov. 27at UR 's Interfaith Chapel. . . .Marriages: Valerie L. Fodrowski and Lt. John J. Kirby, USN, on May 27, 1976, in Long Island. 1949 Robert Waterstripe ('50GE) performed 1972 Cecily Bart received an M.B.A. in fi­ . .. Bernice Man:us and William B. Samuels, on in leroy S. Williams' ('64G, '75G) "In a Wh ite nance/accounting from Northwestern University Aug. 15 in Great Neck, N.y... .Melissa Ann and Turbid Wake," a cantata for baritone solo­ in June 1976, and is currently working as a Hughes and Assis Miranda Flores, on Oct. 2 at ist-narrator, mixed chorus, and chamber or­ financial analyst at Texas Instruments in UR's Interfaith Chapel. chestra, in February 1976. Dallas.. ..After receiving his J.D. degree from the Albany Law School, David Caruso joined 1975 Jonathan R. Gordon recently qualified 1950 Donald Johanos ('52GE), associate the legal department staff of C. H. Stuart, Inc., as engineering officer of the watch at the DIG conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orches­ Newark, N.y....Charles L. Trowbridge (G) has prototype, and has assumed the post of reactor tra, directed the orchestra in a performance of been appointed field manager, equipment servo controls division officer on the USS James Mon­ "Autumn Images," a rondo by leroy S. Williams ices, for Eastman Kodak Co.. ..Kenneth W. roe SSBN 622 (Gold) ... .Joseph 1. Willett (G) ('64GE, '75GE) on Nov. 4 at Edinboro State Woodward (G), executive director of the Roch­ has been named an assistant treasurer of the College, Pa. ester Health Network, has been named by Gov. Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City.. .. Carey to the Public Health Council of the State Marriages: Daniel Richardson and Sharon 1951 Mezzo-soprano Elaine Bonaui sang the Bailey, on Oct. 2 in Rochester.. .. Andrea Skalny Department of Health. role of Moll Placket in an Eastman School/Library and Andrzej B. Rudczynski, last October. of Congress world prem iere of America's first ballad opera, Andrew Barton's "The Disappoint­ 1976 Frank Pasenello (G) has been appointed ment" (1767), at the Library in Washington last executive director of the Ontario County, N.Y. October and at Eastman 's Kilbourn Hall in Novem ­ Association for Retarded Children ... .Alan C. ber. Ms. Bonazzi delivered the "Testament of Turin has opened a private behavior therapy Eve," Jean Eichelberger Ivey's ('56GE) revision of practice in Wellesley, Mass.. .. Marriages: the Eden myth from a woman's point of view, at Steven D. Zimmerman and Holly R. Van Thof, Columbia University in November, and later that on Sept. 6 in Rochester (Mrs. Zimmerman attends the UR School of Nursing).... Brian E. Pasley and Barbara A. Weeden (GN), on Oct. 16 in Canandaigua, N.y.. .. Born: to Linda Waters Zusman (G) and Jerry Zusman , a daughter, Faye Alisha, on July 18, 1976.

40 month, she performed with the New York Phil­ Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Company of New York's production of Boro­ harmonic at Lincoln Center. ...Grant Fletcher Symphony Orchestra during the current season, din's "Prince Igor." (GE) recently completed "Celebration-of Times and has recorded works by Clementi, Schu ­ Past," a commissioned work forsymphony orches­ mann, and Reizenstein on the Orion Label. 1973 Christine Woehr is now a member of tra which was premiered by the Lafayette, Ind. the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the vi­ Symphony Orchestra last November. 1965 Jason Weintraub ('72GE) has been olist of the Columbus String Quartet, whose first appointed to the music faculty of the University violinist is Ronald Satkiewicl ('74E) . 1954 Donald Hunsberger ('59GE, '63GE), of Oklahoma. associate professor of conducting and en­ 1974 Soprano Elizabeth Richards ('76GE) sembles at Eastman, has received an American 1967 John B. VanBuskirk, pianist, spent six recently took third prize in the 25th Inter­ Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers weeks last summer as artist-in-residence at national Music Competition sponsored by the award for 1976-77. Manchester-in-the-Mountains, Ve rmont. All-German Radio at Munich, Germany.... Baritone Tonio di Paolo recently sang the title 1956 "View from Lookout Mountain," a new 1969 Darrell Handel (GE) is now teaching role in the United States premiere of Maurice work by Ken Josephson (GE), was performed composition and theory at the Conservatory of Valency's English version of Emmanuel Chab­ by the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra last Music at the University of Cincinnati; his rier's opera, "Le Roi Malgre Lui " ("The Reluc­ September. Josephson is an assistant professor composition, "Study of Two Pears, " was per­ tant King"), in a Juilliard American Opera of music theory at Shorter College in Rome, Ga. formed by the University of South Carolina Center production at the Juilliard Theater last ... Dorothy K. Payne ('67GE, '74GE) will be on Choir and won first prize in the 1976 Bela Bar­ November; Andrew Porter, reviewer of the "New leave from her position as assistant professor tok Choral Competition in Debrecen, Hungary. Yorker," wrote that di Paolo has "one of the of music theory at Eastman during the fall ... After spending a year as a visiting faculty most beautiful baritone voices-in timbre, in semester of 1977-78; she will use her Mellon member at the University of Wisconsin, Eau focus, in the way it moves from note to note Fellowship to complete a project related to her Claire, Michael Guiltinau is currently an in­ and spans the phrases-to be heard in this work in baroque keyboard performance prac­ structor of music at the University of Texas at country." ... Marriage: J. Tinker Aldridge and tices.. ..Jean Eichelberger Ivey's (GE) "Testa­ San Antonio.. .. Born: to Frederick Boyd ('71GE) Cheryl A. Pierce, on Oct. 9, 1976, in Canan­ ment of Eve," a work for mezzo-soprano, or­ and Mary Shannon Boyd ('70GE), a son, Fred­ daigua, N.Y. chestra, and tape, was performed by Elaine erick Remington, on July 25, 1976. Bonazzi ('51E) and the Columbia University 1976 Eric Ewazen is doing graduate work at Orchestra at Columbia last November. 1971 Karen Iannotti recently served as musi­ the Juilliard School. cal director and pianist for the Bel Canto Opera 1958 Concert pianist William Godley (GE), associate professor of humanities at the City College of Chicago, has been awarded a pro­ fessional diploma in interior design from Har­ rington Institute of Design in Chicago.

1959 Robert Cowden ('60GE,'67GE) has been named chairman of the music department at San Jose State University.

1963 Chuck Mangione has been traveling through the U.S. and Canada and recording with his quartet since playing to a full house at the Eastman Theatre last August.

1964 Two compositions by Leroy S. Williams (GE, '75GE) were premiered last year: "In a White and Turbid Wake," a cantata for baritone soloist-narrator, chorus, and chamber orches­ tra, basedon passages from Melville's "Moby Dick, " by Robert Waterstripe ('49E, '50GE), the Edinboro State College Concert Chorale, and the Erie Philharmonic, on Feb. 5, 1976; "Autumn Images," a rondo for chamber orchestra, by the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Donald Johanos ('50E, '52GE), on Nov. 4, 1976.. .. Robert Cowan (GE), of the pianist duo Yarbrough & Cowan, appeared with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tonio di Paolo '74 £ (center) as Henri, with James Tyeska as Laski and Susan Peterson as /slexina, in a Arthur Fiedler conducting, in a performance of scene from Chabrier's "The Reluctant King" at the Juilliard Theater last November. "Carnival of the Animals" in November; the duo is also scheduled to perform with the Oklahoma

41 1961 Dr. Robert Elliott Thompson (GM) has 1965 Catherine Dashevsky ('69GN) has been lUIedicine ilnd been appointed director of the nuclear medi­ appointed associate director of nursing at Rah ­ cine department at Memorial Hospital in way Hospital, Rahway, N.J. enli Ir, Johnstown, Pa . 1966 Helen cNerney (GN) , assistant pro­ 1935 Dr. Edwin W. Roberts has joined the 1963 Dr. J. Carolyn Zavarine has been fessor of nursing at the UR School of Nursing, med ical staff of Northern Oswego County named commissioner of health for the city served as a member of a panel discussing Health Services, Inc., of Pulaski, N.Y. of Newton, Mass. "Health Care as an Option-Not Merely an Al­ ternative" at the Coalition of Home Health Agen­ 1939 Dr. Mary S. Calderone, president and 1966 Robert Sutherland (GM) has been ap­ cies ' annual meeting in New York City last fal l. co-founder of the Sex Information and Education pointed associate professor of oncology in Council of the United States, was the keynote radiation biology and biophysics at the UR 1970 Marriage: Jane Marie Gaitley and Con­ speaker at a conference on human sexuality and School of Medicine and Dentistry and head of rad G. Collins, Jr., in Syracuse last October. sex education held last June at Shippensburg the Multimodalities Research Program at the State College in Pennsylvania.... Dr. Ernest W. UR Cancer Center. 1975 Marriage: Roseann Kolber (GN) and Saward, professor and associate dean of extra ­ Edward J. Roberts, last July. mural affairs at the UR School of Medicine and 1968 Dr. Bernard Cantor ('64) has been Dentistry, has been named to the New York State elected to fellowship in the American College 1976 Harriet Seigel (GN, '59, '60N), instruc­ Hospital Review and Planning Council. of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. tor in nursing at the UR School of Nursing, recently delivered a presentation entitled 1949 Dr. Robert D. Neubecker ('46) has been 1969 Kenneth H. Woodside (GM) has been "Education for Gerontological Nursing?" at the elected president of the med ical staff at Mercy appointed assistant professor of medicine at New York State Nurses Association Convention Med ical Center in Oshkosh, Wis.. .. Dr. Thomas the University of Miami (Fla.) School of Medi­ at Grossingers, N.Y. William Mou has been appointed dean of the cine. Charleston Division, West Virginia University Med ical Center; he is also serving as professor of 1970 Dr. James S. Ward .is operating the Tri­ med icine and community medicine. County Health Services Clinic near Union Grove, N.C. 1953 Dr. Donald Langsley has been named 1946 Josephine Craytor ('60G) was inducted professor and director of the Department of 1974 Dr. Tasneem Ismailji (MR) recently into the American Academy of Nursing at the Psych iatry at the University of Cincinnati Col ­ established a practice in ped iatric and adoles­ American Nurses Association 's annual meeting lege of Medicine.... Harold A. Neufeld (GM) , a cent medicine in Berlin, Mass. last September. biochemist at the Army Medical Research In­ stitute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, 1954 Peter D. Coutts has been elected to the 1975 Andrew M. Scala (G) is currently a Frederick, Md., is now teaching general bio­ board of the Independent Insurance Agents Asso­ resident in microbiology at the University of chem istry in the Hood College master's pro­ ciation of Ohio, Inc. Connecticut Health Center.... Marriages: Dr. gram in biomed ical science which he helped Steven E. Caplan and Karen Lee Mandwelle, to establish. 1957 Louis V. Messineo has been named on Sept. 4 in Rochester. . .. Dr. Richard P. White director of instruction and pupil personnel and Christine Mary Bogdanowicz, on Sept. 25 1954 Dr. Donald A. Henderson, former head services for the Tolland, Conn. school system. of the World Health Organization 's smallpox in Rochester. eradication campaign , recently was named 1958 James L. King ('62GU) has been ap­ dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of pointed supervisor, development coordination, Hygiene and Public Health.. .. John A. Hilcken technical services, color print and processing (GM) has joined the staff of the Virginia State r r i I organization, for Eastman Kodak Co. in Roch­ Health Department's Bureau of Tox ic Sub­ 1948 Margaret Helen Kelly has been ap­ ester. stances Information. pointed assistant director of the Victor Valley College (N.Y.) associate degree nursing pro­ 1966 Susan Halloran spent last summer as 1955 Dr. Saul S. Milles has been elected gram. the only paid Jimmy Carter staffer in upstate president of the Connecticut Society of Internal New York.. ..Joan R. Kurtz has been named Medicine for 1977-79.... Dr. Clinton B. Seeley 1956 Sally L. Collins has been elected a equal employment programs assistant, per­ has assumed the presidency of the medical director of Massachusetts Electric Co. sonnel relations, corporate relations for East­ staff at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose, man Kodak. Mass.. .. Dr. Denis McCarthy has been named 1960 Marjorie White (GN) received a Ph .D. sen ior medical director of Connecticut Mutual in sociology from Case Western Reserve Uni­ 1967 Mark E. Glogowski received a Ph.D. in Life Insurance Co. , Hartford, Conn. versity in 1976, and has joined the faculty of chemistry from the University of Arizona last the School of Nursing at the University of Wis­ September. 1958 Dr. David H. Smith has been appointed consin as an associate professor of pediatric professor and chairman of the UR Department nursing. 1968 Jane Welt was featured in a recent of Ped iatrics and pediatrician-in-ch ief of Strong "Harper's Bazaar" article on entertaining at Memorial Hospita l. 1962 Born: to imi Johnson and Inman home. Breaux, a daughter, Michelle, on Oct. 4, 1976.

42 1970 Upon her graduation from the School Noel Hawkins Kuhrt, '37, on Dec. 13 in Roches­ Academy and at the American Academy in of Law at SUNY (Buffalo) last May, Rosemary ter. Rome. Before joining the San Antonio Sym­ Vogt received the John W. Bennett Achieve­ Eva l. Wannemacher, '37, on Dec. 5 in Roch­ phony in 1951, he was director of the Oklahoma ment Award given to the graduate who "has ester. City Symphony Orchestra for 13 years. exemplified the highest standards of the pro­ Dr. John L Alhart, '38, on Sept. 28 in Rochester. fession by virtue of scholastic achievement, Catherine I.. Donoghue, '38, last September in Wilma Lord Perkins '18, a Phi Beta Kappa leadership, and dedication to the ideals of the Rochester. graduate and editor of the "Fannie Farmer Cook law." .. .David l. Georgenson has been elected Julie Neville Hutchinson, '39, on July 25 in Book" for 45 years, died Nov. 29 in Rochester. vice president and training director of Marine Laguna Beach, Cal. She was the wife of Prof. Dexter Perkins, re­ Midland Banks, Inc. Dorothy J. Marks, '40, on Nov. 30 in Rochester. tired chairman of the UR Department of History. Robert E. Fischer, '43, on Oct. 25. Mrs. Perkins became editor in 1929 of "The 1972 Stuart W. Jacoby is currently vice presi­ Mildred Freadrich Curtis, '44E, on Aug. 28. Boston Cooking School Cook Book," which was dent of Air Test Labs, Inc., Rochester, a firm Dr. William S. Davis. '46MR, on Oct. 4. originally written in 1896 by Fannie Merritt that tests air for toxic substances....Richard A. Dr. Edward T. Mulligan, '46M, on Nov. 12 in Farmer, aunt of Dexter Perkins whom she Ash has been named president of C. P. Ward, Rochester. married in 1918. Inc. Harriet Kumpey Miller, '47E, on July 15. "Mrs. Perkins was one of the most active and Leon J. Brown, '49, on Oct. 30. beloved members of the University community 1976 Marriage: Eliza Gouverneur and Rich­ Joseph A. O'Connor, '49E, on Oct. 21 in Gates, and she will be missed by all who knew her," ard A. Cohen ('73G), on May 23, 1976, in Litch­ N.Y. said President Sproull. "The esteem in which field, Conn. Margarete E. Nelson, '51, on Oct. 5. she was held was demonstrated in 1949 when Jack Dworin, '54G, on Aug. 17. the then University of Rochester Alumnae Asso­ James E. Kinsella, '54, on Dec. 14 in Rochester. ciation presented her its Fannie R. Bigelow Courtland W. Fiero, '55, on June 30 in Los An- Memorial Award as an outstanding alumna. geles. The citation praised 'her gracious friendliness Dr. Elliott Simon, '66, last October in England. and untiring work for many worthwhile organ­ Donald F. Rietz, '68, on Oct. 23 in Canan­ izations in her community' and noted that 'she Margaret Tyson Applegarth, '08, on Oct. 30 in daigua, N.Y. is a fascinating and willing lecturer, giving her New York City. Leo G. McGee, '70, on Aug. 20. time cheerfully and her influence wisely.''' Annis Dunn Brown, '08. Alice Mae Robinson, '10, on Dec. 6 in Rochester. George C. Curtiss, professor emeritus of Dr. Hiram H. Amiral, '11, on June 13. English who retired from the University in Dora E. Neun, '12, on Oct. 3 in Rochester. 1953, died Dec. 22 in Rochester. He was 89 Grace W. line, '14, on Oct. 1 in Fairport, N.Y. Illiluaries years old. Myrtle Bittner Merrell, '16, on Oct. 10. Regarded as one of the University's most Wilma Lord Perkins, '18, on Nov. 29 in Roches­ Victor N. Alessandro '37E, distinguished respected and popular teachers, Prof. Curtiss ter. musical director and conductor of the San An­ also was the mace-bearer for UR's academic William Burr Ketcham, '19, on Dec. 10 in Gene- tonio Symphony Orchestra and a trustee of the processions for many years. At his retirement, seo, N.Y. University, died Nov. 26 in San Antonio, Texas. he was presented a miniature silver mace. Eva M. Neun, '20, on Nov. 11. He was 61. Prof. Curtiss joined the University faculty in Basil R. Weston, '21, on Dec. 1. Alessandro was musical director of the San 1913 and left after two years to teach at the Angus M. Turner, '22, on Oct. 29. Antonio Symphony for 25 years until last June University of Arkansas. He returned to Roches­ Carolyne Mayers, '23, on Nov. 13 in Riverside, when he was named musical director emeritus ter to stay in 1918. He was appointed Roswell Conn. and left the position for health reasons. S. Burrows Professor of English in 1925 and was Myron Glaser, '24, last September in Baltimore, Honored many times for his achievements in named John H. Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Md. music, he became in 1948 the first Eastman English Literature in 1934. May Taylor Albelli, '25, on Oct. 11 in North School graduate to be awarded an honorary Prof. Rowland L. Collins, chairman of UR's Palm Beach, Fla. doctor of music degree by the University. English department, said, "George Chester Josephine Webster Deck, '25, on Oct. 30 in During his career, he received an honorary Curtiss, known lovingly as 'Red' Curtiss to Victor, N.Y. doctor of humanities degree from Southern generations of Rochester students, was a Elizabeth Watson Gaffney, '26, on Nov. 7 in Methodist University, two Alice M. Ditson passionately dedicated teacher of writing and Bethlehem, Pa. Awards from Columbia University for "distin­ literature for four decades. His vigorous style Lawrence A. Samuelson, '26, on Oct. 7 in Light­ guished service to American music," two citations of teaching was enlivened by his fondness for house Pt., Fla. from the National Association of American Com­ baseball and pool. Mr. Curtiss' influence on his Catherine Eaton Abele, '27E, on Oct. 12 in posers and Conductors, and a citation from the students was great and good. His work will Newton Highlands, Mass. National Music Council for "outstanding service to long be remembered by those he taught and Bruce E. Gramkee, '28, on Sept. 23. American music." even by those who have heard of his teaching Clarence F. Schmidt, '32GM, on July 8 in Chi- Alessandro was elected to UR's Trustees' at far remove." cago. Council, the top alumni advisory group for the A native of Chicago, where he was graduated Elvryn W. Thomas, '32, on Oct. 19. Board of Trustees, in 1966 and served for three from Robert Waller High School, he held a Harold W. Geschwind, Sr., '33E, on Oct. 27. years. He was elected to a six-year term as an bachelor's degree from Northwestern Univer­ William John Bingham, '34. alumni trustee in 1969 and became an honor­ sity and a master's degree from Harvard Uni­ Millard J. Noonan, '35, in Wyoming, N.Y. ary trustee in 1975. versity. He was a second baseman on North­ Herald A. Jones, '36E, on Aug. 9. After graduation from the Eastman School, western's baseball team and was considered Glenn David Swann, '36E, '39GE, on Oct. 26. Alessandro won a fellowship in conducting at to be one of the greatest players ever to attend Victor N. Alessandro, '37E, on Nov. 26 in San the Salzburg Mozarteum Academy and con­ the school. Antonio, Tex. tinued his studies at the Royal Santa Cecilia

43 This issue of the Rochester Review has included some poetry and some reminiscences. One alumnus combined both seven years ago when he first saw the Interfaith Chapel on the River Campus, a gift to UR from Gilbert ]. C. McCurdy and his wife, Virginia. The author is Bruce Lansdale '47, who with his wife, Elizabeth Krihak Lansdale '48, has guided the American Farm School in Greece for the past 27 years. At last spring's commencement ceremonies, the Lansdales re­ ceived a UR Citation to Alumni for their work with the Farm School, which introduces new agricultural methods to Greek farmers. Lansdale's reverie, transcribed and framed, now hangs in the Chapel. I guess lowe quite a lot To that place, The one up on the Riverbank. Friendships Glory memories on the football field Dr. Wiig teaching Chemistry, Old Professor Leet in Engineering, A. ]. May and beloved squeaky-voiced Dexter Perkins, Quiet moments of fascination back in the stacks Bull sessions in Burton Al Val. . . V-12 Navy Days Learning. .. Fun... But there was always something missing. It wasn't God, 'Cause He's anywhere you want to take time And look for him. It wasn't inspiration. .. 'cause you could find that In the quiet by the River. It wasn't love 'cause that grew so firmly Among friends. But there was something missing. It wasn't spirit... or mind... or body . It was a place where you could go along . In pairs ... or many To worship. " to take time to find The God in you ... and in others. It's not missing anymore. I saw it, last time I was there, Right on the Riverbank where it belonged Where others today can now find peace, Understanding, love, inside. Inside them And inside that simple jewel Which was always missing. I guess lowe quite a lot To the people who put it there For more reasons than anyone else knows.

44 Standing near the Class tree on their 50th reunion are six members of the Class of 1858. From left: Prof. Jacob S. Gubelmann of Rochester; Dr. Francis B. Palmer of Fredonia; Maj. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, a Rochester resident; Dr. Henry L. Morehouse of Brooklyn; Thomas Dransfield of Rochester; Dr. A. J. Padelford of Calais, Maine. These men believed in the University of Rochester and helped establish a tra­ dition of generous support from alumni. All were contributors to the Anderson Alumni Fund-the University's earliest alumni support program. Contributions from alumni continue to playa vitally important role in main­ taining excellent educational opportunities at UR. Support the University by con­ tributing through the 1976-77 Alumni Annual Giving Program....

If you have already responded to a mail or phonathon appeal this year, thank you! If you have not made a contribution for 1976-77 and would like to do so, mail your gift or pledge to: Alumni Annual Giving, Gift Office-Box R, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.