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WHERE ROADS were once built a shovelful at a time . .. making of calcium carbide . . . from which comes acetylene today mammoth earth-movers handle a ton of earth at a gas for welding. Also, a chemical known as an amine pro- time. Mobile cranes swing 20 tons at the flick of a switch. vides a wetting agent for asphalt. . . speeding construction Giant crushers grind 150 tons of rock an hour. Traveling by making the asphalt stick more easily and firmly to its concrete mixers place entire batches as they go. crushed rock base. These are just a few of our improved powered tools of The people of Union Carbide produce these and many today that do a better job of construction faster and easier. other materials essential to today''s better building and con- They help provide us with critically needed new housing struction. They also produce hundreds of other materials and business buildings . . . with super-highways and air- for the use of science and industry, to help meet the needs fields for safer, smoother travel. And these tools are ours of mankind. today because of better materials . . . and continuing re- FREE: You are invited to send for the new illus- search. trated booklet, "Products and Processes,'" which Alloy steels, for example, give them greater strength to describes the ways in which industry uses L CC's Alloys, Chemicals, Carbons, Gases, and Plastics. resist shock and abrasive action . . . stamina to overcome the strain of day-by-day speed-up demands. And modern oxy-acetylene processes for welding and flame-cutting speed production of these better products of better steel. UNION CARBIDE Carbon is in the picture, too. In the form of electrodes, ΛJVD CAUB OJV CO HI* OMΛ TJOIT it's essential both to the production of alloy steels and the 30 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK 17, N. Y.

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UPPOSE, in the next year or two, a man can turn out a lot more goods in S some of the wizards in the atom- a day's work with the help of power splitting business discover how to put than he can without it. So, he becomes atomic power to work in industry. more valuable and his wages go up— Would that be good or bad? as history shows they have. FREE THE , If you're a coal miner or an oil field Not only that—but over a period of Send for this MlRAPj F' worker, for instance, it may sound like years the goods he makes are produced a pretty grim prospect. If all they need more cheaply, so prices can go down— interesting ' -^^^'ί to run a train or an auto is a pinch of as history shows they have. And the booklet today! uranium, they don't need coal or oil. result is that all of us can have more And, obviously, they don't need you. goods—more cars, more clothes, more food—by working more efficiently for Approved by So what do you do? To save your shorter hours. job, do you buck the development of representatives of Management, atomic power? That's why it's just common sense to Labor and the Public welcome any new source of power, any Well, your common sense tells you more efficient way of doing things, any In words and picture, it tells you that would be silly. What's more, so laborsaving machinery or better collec- —How our U. S. Economic System started does American history. tive bargaining. —Why Americans enjoy the world's high- History shows that when we first put est standard of living That's always been the free, dynamic —Why we take progress for granted the steam engine to work, it threw some American system of doing business. The people out of a job—temporarily. But —How mass production began system still has its faults. We still have —How we have been able to raise wages it made jobs for many times those sharp ups and downs of prices and jobs. people. When the gasoline engine came and shorten working hours But even as our system stands today, it —Why more Americans have jobs than in, it raised cain with the blacksmiths. has brought more benefits to more But there are more jobs today in one ever before people than any other system yet —Why the mainspring of our system is department of one auto plant than devised. productivity there ever were blacksmith jobs in the —How a still better living can be had for all whole country. THE BETTER WE PRODUCE But that's only part of it. Naturally, THE BETTER WE LIVE MAIL THE COUPON to Public Policy Com- mittee, The Advertising Council, Inc., Approved for the PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE of The Advertising Council by: 25 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y. EVANS CLARK, Executive PAUL G. HOFFMAN, For- BORIS SHISHKIN, Econo- Director, Twentieth Century merly President, Studebaker mist, American Federation of NAME. Fund. Corporation. Labor. ADDRESS. Published in the Public Interest by: The BE Goodrich Co. OCCUPATION- ALL ABOARD! FOR

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its own building in the side-hill, con- Newman '12 Gives $1,000,000 nected by a tunnel and shielded by thirty feet of earth and concrete. The synchrotron, designed and built For Nuclear Studies Laboratory by Professor Wilson and others of the IFT of securities valued at approxi- an area of scientific research which is Laboratory staff with funds from the G mately $1,000,000 from Floyd R. bound to have great significance in the Office of Naval Research, was first Newman '12 for the Laboratory of future of mankind," and announced operated last November 19, at relatively Nuclear Studies was announced at a that the laboratory which the gift low energy of about 5,000,000 electron Cornell dinner at the Union Club in supports will be named the Floyd New- volts. By February, it had been stepped Cleveland, Ohio, February 22. John L. man Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at up to produce electrons of more than Collyer '17, national chairman of the a forthcoming ceremony in Ithaca. 100,000,000 volts, and adjustments are going forward which are expected to Greater Cornell Fund campaign, an- The speakers were introduced by produce a beam of 300,000,000 electron nounced the gift and pointed out that it Charles B. Merrill '14, Greater Cornell volts and make possible the production brought the campaign total to more than Fund campaign chairman for the Cleve- of mesons, mysterious particles which half of the $12,500,000 set as the first land area. Guests included several Trus- are believed to hold together the nucleus objective to meet the most urgent needs tees of the University and Newman's of the atom. Production of mesons by of the University. The total February 1 son, John A. Newman '43, graduate of the synchrotron will make possible study had been reported at $5,375,000. Chemical Engineering, who flew from of their properties and interaction with Kilgore, Tex., where he is an exploitation Classmates Rally other particles and may yield the key engineer with Shell Oil Co. Newman spoke intimately of his ex- to the mystery of the atomic nucleus periences as a Chemistry student after Donor Built Oil Business which, although 10,000 times smaller he came to Cornell from Churchville The benefactor of the Newman Lab- than the atom, contains nearly all the High School in 1908. He mentioned his oratory of Nuclear Studies is a director atomic mass. sister, Mrs. Dallas M. Van Horn (Ruth of Ashland Oil & Refining Co. in Expect New Knowledge Newman) '21 of Rochester, called by Cleveland. He has been successful in the name several of his 1912 Classmates oil industry since he received the AB Director Wilson says that when the Cornell atom-smasher reaches its full and other friends and room-mates in in 1912. He went to Shanghai, China, α Bandhu fraternity who were present, for Standard Oil Co. of New York; potential, we will be disappointed if and said, "I gave the gift out of my returned in 1916 to join American no new phenomena turn up. Entering regard for Cornell, for my Cornell Petroleum Products Co. in Cleveland. a new energy region, as we are with our friends, my Classmates, President Day, In 1917, he went to France as a first 300,000,000-electron-voit gamma rays or and the Trustees. What I learned there lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps electrons, is like entering an unexplored was a great help to me." His ability to handle supply of gasoline and oil in land. We know roughly what to expect to make such a gift, he said, was prin- the First Army combat area; and was by extending present theories, but some cipally due to three Cleveland friends in charge of storage and shipment of of the theories make conflicting predic- and advisers who were the only non- gas and oil supplies after the Armistice tions or are uninterpretable. The old Cornellians at the dinner: his bankers, for the American Forces in Germany. laws of mechanics had to be modified Frank Horton and Owen Carlton, and He returned to American Petroleum his lawyer, James A. Weeks. There- Products Co. in June, 1919, and in 1925 upon, at the motion of Tell Berna '12, was an organizer and became secretary- the sixteen members present rose to treasurer of Allied Oil Co., which he vote these men honorary members of developed into one of the largest inde- the Class of '12 and the Class secretary, pendent oil producers, refiners, and Donald C. Kerr, duly conferred upon dealers. It was merged with Ashland Oil the three "The Order of the Green Hat" & Refining Co. in 1948, with Newman and vested each with the familiar Class becoming a director. Reunion headgear with white numerals. The $2,000,000 buildings and equip- Kerr then presented to Newman the ment of the Newman Laboratory of "first and only Class beer mug," which Nuclear Studies were officially dedicated had been especially designed for the last October 7. Erected on the knoll occasion by Carl V. Burger '12 and above the Forest Home road overlooking fashioned by Henry Bollman '12. Kerr Beebe Lake, the main building of five said this had been voted by the Class stones contains the most modern facili- with provision for a similar award to ties for research on the nucleus of the "any member of 1912 who gives the atom, radio-chemistry, and cosmic rays, University a million dollars." together with shops, stock rooms, li- President Edmund E. Day expressed brary, offices for the staff of eighteen the University's gratitude for "this Faculty members and twenty-four other magnificent contribution . . . from a technicians headed by Director Robert FLOYD R. NEWMAN '12 leader in industry," spoke of its import- R. Wilson, and control and detector Nuclear Studies Laboratory named for ance to the University's program "in rooms for the synchrotron which is in him will perpetuate his gift. into the new laws of quantum mechanics and added that "a strong nation gets tive branch, but said that a more closely- and relativity as the result of earlier loyalty [while] a weak nation fears knit organization of the departments exploration into new domains of nature. disloyalty." directly under the President is needed. Perhaps the presently-known laws of February 24, Edgar A. Mowrer, Pu- Concluding lectures were by Thomas electricity will have to be modified as a litzer Prize-winning foreign correspond- J. Hargrave, president of Eastman result of the work at high energy." ent of the Chicago Daily News, spoke Kodak Co., on "Industrial Mobiliza- on "Formulation of Foreign Policy." He tion," March 2; and the postponed talk Speakers Draw Crowds called President Truman's March, 1947, by Arthur S. Flemming of the Hoover speech which laid down the basis for the Commission, March 3. IRST part of the University sym- Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine Each of the lectures was followed by Fposium on "America's Freedom and the most important statement of US a panel discussion in which Faculty Responsibility in the Contemporary foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine. members, usually from the History and Crisis" ended March 3 with a talk on He said that this country is operating Government Departments, guests from " Administrative Reorganization" by on a unified and concrete foreign policy, other colleges, and, in one case, an Arthur S. Flemming who was originally possibly for the first time in history, undergraduate, asked questions of the scheduled to open the series, February 8. and that the State Department counts evening's speaker. Last few minutes of This part was on the general topic, on "containing" Russia and her satellites each session were reserved by chairman "The Strengthening of American Politi- 7 in the "cold war" victory in about two Edward W. Fox, Government, for ques- cal Institutions. ' years. In the language of the chess board, tions from the large audiences of students The symposium actually started with he said, the policy can be summed up and Faculty. an address by President Edmund E. as "West to play and checkmate East Speakers scheduled for the second Day, "pinch hitting," as he said, for in two years." While admitting that the series, on "Freedom and Responsibility Flemming, who was delayed on his way United States has improved the quality of American Agencies of Communica- to Ithaca. The President spoke on of its diplomacy greatly since 1939, he tion," were Professor Paul F. Lazarsfeld "University Administration and the De- said that revolutionary changes con- of Columbia, March 7; James W. Young, fense of Democracy." fronting us today call for even greater former vice-president of J. Walter February 15, Congressman A. S. Mike progress and that American foreign Thompson Co. and past-president of Monroney of Oklahoma, one of the policy is still woefully inadequate. He the American Association of Advertising original sponsors of the Congressional considers the only real hope of a free Agencies, March 11; Bosley Crowther, reorganization plan, outlined the Reor- and peaceful world to lie in American motion picture editor of The New York ganization Act and described some of leadership toward a greatly strengthened Times, March 14; Erwin D. Canham, the changes in procedure that have United Nations. This, according to his editor of The Christian Science Monitor, resulted from it. description, would take on many of the March 17; and Elmo B. Roper, Jr. of Thurman W. Arnold, former Assistant characteristics of a world federal gov- Public Opinion Research, Inc., the week Attorney General, spoke February 18 ernment. of March 21. on "The Loyalty Program." He warned Final week of the symposium's first a packed Willard Straight Memorial part began with a talk on "The Presi- Airline Expands Room audience against the growing fear dential Burden" by Don K. Price, NAUGURATION February 10 of that security and liberty are incom- executive assistant to Herbert Hoover. I. Robinson Airlines flights to Syracuse patible. Vigorously attacking some as- Price described the work of the Hoover was the latest step in the expansion of pects of the Federal loyalty program, he Commission and defended the American the line which has operated between branded them as "unjustified hysteria" Constitutional conception of the execu- Ithaca and New York City since 1945. It has expanded to cover most of the State with frequent and regular service and connect with other lines for. long- distance travel. A "family-fare" plan allows passengers to take along wives and children at half-fare the first three days of the week. Certification by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, September 19, made pos- sible the first direct airmail service for Ithaca. Since then, the line has steadily improved its performance record. In Oc- tober, Robinson's load factor was 37 per cent, highest among the eleven airlines in Robinson's class. Seven tons of airmail were flown during the first month as a carrier, and the figure was boosted to twenty-five tons by the end of the year. Though flights last spring and summer were reduced greatly to permit prepara- tion for airmail service and expanded traffic undtr CAA certification, the last quarter of 1948 saw 8,118 passengers flown, with the year's total almost 18,000. FLOYD NEWMAN LABORATORY OF NUCLEAR STUDIES Newly-installed omni-directional radio Main building, on the former site of the old University reservoir north of Bailey Hall, navigation and landing aids give added is connected by a tunnel, at rear, to a synchrotron building in the sjde hill below. Archi- safety and are expected to increase the tects were the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, of which Nathaniel A. Owings '27 is a line's percentage of completed flights, member. The Laboratory, officially opened last October 7, was built by the University to assure continuance of important atomic research bere. It is now named for Floyd R. Newman which during the difficult winter months Ί2, donor of $1,000,000 for it in the Greater Cornell Fund. of 1948 was 86 per cent. 332 Cornell Alumni News It is a fact that secondary schools vary he hewed out of the solid rock in 1831, widely in the quality of their physics serves a purpose unthought of by the Intelligence equipment and instruction. The resulting young millwright of 100 years ago. differences in preparation hold back, at Young Cornell had come to Ithaca first, the graduates of the poorer schools, in April, 1828, at the age of twenty-one, but after a term or two, individual walking the -forty miles from DeRuyter qualities of "grey matter" and assiduity with his carpenter's tools in a box on make up the difference, so there is no his shoulder. After working first as a Some people, including alumni, may lasting handicap for students who have carpenter, he was for a year a millwright think that an institution as large as the inherent capacity. Physics as taught in Otis Eddy's textile mill on the present Studentα* A *s Cornel,,l Universit, , Sy . must be, at Cornell brings the facts of life to most site of Cascadilla Hall. Then he was youngsters before they have been here hired by Colonel Jeremiah Beebe, pro- G a pretty cold and impersonal ... .. place. I have had experience two weeks! The saying now is among prietor of flouring and plaster mills students, I understand, not that some- at the foot of Fall Creek. In his book, Attention r , . , . , ~ Λ in business and industry, and thing "separates the sheep from the Ezra Cornell, the late Albert W. Smith I can truthfully say that there is more goats," but that it "separates the boys '78 described the building of the present earnest, soul-searching thought devoted from the men." Physics is a course that tunnel: to the Cornell product, Mr. and Miss does that! When Ezra Cornell was superintendent of * * * Beebe's mill at Ithaca, water for power Student; than I have ever seen by any development was conducted from the storage business organization. The College of Engineering at Cornell pond at the head of Ithaca Falls to the flour That is a broad statement; I am led requires its students to have two years and paper mills below by means of a wood- to make it after looking into reports of Set Hiεh of general Physics. Many en- stave flume attached to the overhanging e* A A gineering schools do not. Pro- rock-wall of the gorge, 100 feet or more scholastic troubles of some underclass- Standards 7 J~ , , , ,, above the stream below the waterfall. This men friends, especially in Engineering lessor Grantham has taught flume often developed leaks that involved and most specifically in their Physics elsewhere and knows many institutions delays in mill operation, and required repairs courses. Everybody knows that Physics in the United States and Europe; he in places of extreme danger. To eliminate delays and danger, young Cornell proposed courses are difficult, but one alumnus says that Cornell's standards in this that a tunnel should be driven through the just cannot understand why his son got respect are about on a par with those rock to conduct water directly from storage a term grade in the 60's and many of of MIT and California Institute of to wheels. At first the mill owners were the boy's pals also had difficulty with Technology, for example. doubtful; but eventually they endorsed the plan and put Cornell in charge of construc- Physics. Experience indicates that an Engin- tion. He had no experience in such work, I find that the average of all term eering Freshman who does not make at and at that time no advisers were available; least a passing grade in his introductory but with energy and wise foresight he under- grades in this boy's introductory Physics took the work. p, . course, required of all Engin- Physics course is pretty sure to have ysics j g students, was 70.92 trouble with his Sophomore subjects. At that time, no blasting had been done Makes eer n in Ithaca. Young Cornell observed rock for last semester. That would It becomes a nice question for the Them Work . ,. , ,, , ,, , . blasting on the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, Engineering College to decide, whether hired a man experienced in rock drilling, indicate that the stories we or not the Physics courses for its students and with five other men started work from hear about unduly low marks in Physics are unnecessarily exhaustive, and wheth- both ends and finished the tunnel in about courses may be exaggerations. six months. The headings met near the er standards might safely be lowered in middle with a deviation of less than two I find, too, that recitation groups do some other respect. inches. not exceed twenty students; laboratory The tunnel was put in service in 1831 sections, twelve. That is certainly per- and has fulfilled its function for more than sonalized instruction. Because of the 100 years. At the time of its completion, large number of Engineering students, Tunnel Helps Research Ezra Cornell was twenty-four years old. it is necessary to use quite a large OVER picture shows one of two In those pioneer days, this work would have been a distinguished accomplishment for a number of graduate assistants, but their C tents pitched in the tunnel along mature man of broad experience; it was teaching is carefully watched and the Fall Creek below the Stewart Avenue done by one who was just beyond boyhood. Department keeps only those who are bridge, to shelter electronic equipment The tunnel Us about 193 feet long through competent. Assigned work is identical used to study cosmic ray particles from solid rock, and is approximately thirteen feet high with an average width of about for all students, and the instructors the outer spaces of the universe. About ten feet. In addition to the tunnel, it was collaborate by each marking one ques- tp enter the tent in the picture is Donald necessary to make a sixty-foot rock cut, tion on all 475 examination papers, to E. Hudson, graduate assistant in the open above, at the, west end. assure uniformity of grading. Term Floyd Newman Laboratory of Nuclear For years this tunnel, approached from marks are arrived at by a formula which Studies. the end of Willard Way, was a favorite counts classroom work 30 per cent, These tents are on a platform over point of interest; but of late it has been laboratory 20 per cent, prelim grades six feet of water which flows to the mills closed to sightseers. It and the open 25 per cent, final examination 25 per cent. below Ithaca Falls. They protect from rock cut carry water around Ithaca I got this information from Professor moisture and biting winds about four Falls to Ithaca Gun Co. and the Kelly- Guy E. Grantham, PhD '20, who has tons of automatic recording equipment Forsyth paper mill near the highway charge of the course in question. He installed there this winter for study of bridge below. At this bridge also, is the showed me the comparative term grades mesons which constantly rain down site of the former grist mill once owned of students from all divisions of the upon the earth and are "filtered out" by Albert M. Hull, father of the late College of Engineering. The twenty from other cosmic ray particles by the Professor Charles H. Hull '86 and of students in Engineering Physics under- twenty-five feet of limestone which Mary J. Hull '88. The University standably outperformed all others they roofs the tunnel. Mesons, which are acquired this site and with it, the old were all in one section and averaged 80.7. hoped to be produced at even greater water turbine of the Hull mill. For the The instructor that taught that section intensity by the huge cyclotron on the last twenty years, a generator run by had another, from another Engineering knoll above Beebe Lake, are thought to this turbine has supplied auxiliary power division, which averaged 62.1. Students be the "glue" that holds together the to supplement the larger University are assigned to sections alphabetically. nucleus of the atom. power plant in Fall Creek gorge just Apparently, my alumnus friend's son Thus "Ezra Cornell's tunnel," which upstream from the Suspension Bridge. was in a weak group.

March i$y 1949 333 May 28 Boston University at Ithaca June 25 Intercollegiate Rowing Association On the Sporting Side By regatta at Poughkeepsie TRACK April 29 Penn Relays at Philadelphia 30 Penn Relays at Philadelphia Basketball Keeps Up trouble in running their streak to 14, May 7 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia February 26, when the Hartwick cubs 14 Heptagonals at New Haven OLUMBIA, defending champion of were defeated, 70-42. Acting Coach Bill 21 Princeton at Ithaca C the Eastern Intercollegiate Basket- Arrison '48 used eighteen players, eleven 27 ICAAAA at New York 28 ICAAAA at New York ball League, came to° Barton Hall, Feb- of whom landed in the scoring column. ruary 19, and walked off with a 58-50 Freshman victory. Cornell was always within strik- Spring Sports May 7 Colgate at Ithaca ing distance until late in the second half 14 Colgate at Hamilton when the Columbia set-shot artists, Skin- ARSITY baseball, tennis, and golf 19 Syracuse at Syracuse ner and Captain Marshall, went to work Vteams will travel southward for the 25 Manlius at Ithaca in earnest and sewed the game up with spring recess which begins March 26, LACROSSE their long shots. The. score at half-time opening a season which will include sev- April 13 Sampson at Sampson enty-seven Varsity events. Spring Day 20 Hobart at Geneva was Columbia 27, Cornell 24. Paul Ger- 23 Army at Ithaca win '51 was high man for the game with at Ithaca, May 21, will include a baseball 30 Union at Schenectady 19 points. Skinner and Marshall scored game with Pennsylvania, track meet and May 4 Cortland State Teachers College 17 and 16, respectively. The contest 150-pound crew race with Princeton, la- at Ithaca drew 7,500 spectators. crosse game with Colgate, and tennis 7 RPI at Troy matches with the US Military Academy. 11 Sampson at Ithaca Cornell lost to Syracuse for the-second 14 Dartmouth at Hanover The spring sports schedules follow: time, February 23 in Syracuse, 58-70. 18 Syracuse at Syracuse 21 Colgate at Ithaca Captain Hillary Chollet '50, however, BASEBALL 28 Pennsylvania at Ithaca was a hero in defeat, scoring 37 points; March 28 North Carolina State at Raleigh he broke the Cornell scoring record of 31 29 University of North Carolina at Freshman Chapel Hill April 30 Hobart at Ithaca established earlier by Paul Lansaw '50, 30 Wake Forest at Wake Forest May 7 Syracuse at Syracuse broke the State Fair Coliseum record of 31 Wake Forest at Wake Forest 11 Hobart at Geneva 36 set last year by Gabor of Syracuse, April 1 Quantico at Quantico 14 Kenyon at Ithaca and his 19 foul shots tied another Coli- 2 Georgetown University at Wash- 20 Syracuse at Ithaca ington seum record of Gabor's. Chollet's feat of 16 Clarkson at Ithaca TENNIS sinking 19 fouls in 23 attempts is a new 20 Hobart at Geneva March 28 American University at Washing- major record, according to the National 22*Navy at Annapolis ton 30 WiUiam and Mary College at Wil- Collegiate Athletic Bureau. 23*Columbia at New York 27 Rochester at Rochester liamsburg In this game, Cornell was "hot" in the 30 Syracuse at Ithaca 31 William and Mary College at Wil- first half and for about five minutes of May 7*Brown at Ithaca liamsburg the second. Then the Syracuse attack April 1 University of Virginia at Char- 9 Hobart at Ithaca lottesville really began to click and the Orange ll*Princeton at Princeton 14*Army at Ithaca 2 University of Virginia at Char- scored 13 points in three minutes to put 16 Duquesne at Ithaca lottesville Syracuse in the lead to stay. Cornell led 18*Harvard at Ithaca 23 Navy at Ithaca at the half, 34-29. Gerwin was the only 21*Pennsylvania at Ithaca 30 Harvard at Ithaca 24 Syracuse at Syracuse May 4 Cortland State Teachers College Cornell player besides Chollet to hit at Cortland from the field in the second half and he 27*Dartmouth at Hanover 28*Yale at New Haven 6 Princeton at Princeton threw in but one. Five different Syracuse June 10 Colgate at Hamilton 7 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia players were assigned to guard the Cor- 11 Colgate at Ithaca 11 Colgate at Ithaca 14 Yale at New Haven nell leader during the forty minutes. *Eastern Intercollegiate League Games. 16 Duquesne at Ithaca Harvard came close to winning its Freshman 18 Syracuse at Syracuse first League game of the season in Bar- April 23 Ithaca College at Ithaca 21 Army at Ithaca ton Hall, February 26. The Crimson tied 24 Colgate at Hamilton 29 Manlius at Ithaca 28 Dartmouth at Ithaca the score at 48-all with just twenty-four May 4 Sampson at Sampson seconds left. Tom Turner '50, however, 7 Manlius at Manlius Freshman 11 Colgate at Hamilton May 4 Syraeuse at Syracuse clinched the victory when he flipped in a 13 Syracuse at Ithaca 7 Manlius at Manlius one-hander from the side ten seconds 20 Syracuse at Syracuse 11 Colgate at Hamilton later. Cornell held a 14-point margin at 25 Ithaca College at Ithaca College 14 Syracuse at Ithaca half-time, but tired badly in the last part 26 Sampson at Ithaca 20 Sampson at Sampson 28 Colgate at Ithaca 25 Manlius at Ithaca of the game and just managed to hold on. 28 Colgate at Ithaca Harvard's McCurdy was high with 19 ROWING points. Turner led Cornell with 14, fol- Varsity & Junior-varsity GOLF March 31 Johns Hopkins at Baltimore lowed by Chollet with 12. It was Chol- April 23 Syracuse at Syracuse 30 Navy-Yale at Annapolis April 1 Quantico at Quantico let's last game in Barton Hall as a Var- May 14 Sprint regatta at Syracuse 2 Quantico at Quantico sity player. 21 Carnegie Cup regatta at Princeton 23 Canisius at Ithaca 28 Harvard at Ithaca 30 Syracuse at Ithaca Freshmen Take All June 25 Intercollegiate Rowing Association 6 Pitt - Army - Penn State at State regatta at Poughkeepsie College The winning streak of the Freshmen 7 Pitt - Army - Penn State at State had a close call against the Syracuse 150-pound College frosh in a preliminary to the varsity May 7 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 11 Syracuse at Syracuse 14 Championships at Princeton 13 Finals at Atlantic City battle. However, it was win number 13 21 Princeton at Ithaca 14 Finals at Atlantic City after two overtime periods, the score, 58- 16 Duquesne at Ithaca 57. Larry Goldsborough '52 was high Freshman 21 Colgate at Hamilton with 16 points, followed by Al Rose '52, April 23 Syracuse at Syracuse 28 Colgate at Ithaca 30 Navy-Yale at Annapolis brother of the Varsity's Jack Rose '50, May 21 Yale - Princeton - Pennsylvania at Freshman who racked up 15. The Frosh had no Princeton May 7 Manlius at Manlius

334 Cornell Alumni News May 14 Sampson at Ithaca The Junior-Varsity wrestlers ended course, with $87,000. $38,000 for the Army 25 Manlius at Ithaca their season by dropping a 21-10 decision game was high for Ithaca. 28 Colgate at Ithaca to Wilkes College. This gave the Juniors a record of one win in four starts. The Track Men Do Well Freshmen made it four wins of five New Clubs Organize LITTLE band of six men repre- matches by trouncing the Cortland WENTY-ONE alumni of Minne- A sented Cornell in the National AAU State Teachers frosh, 33-5, February 26. Tapolis and St. Paul, Minn., met for indoor track and field championships in dinner at the Minneapolis Athletic Club, Madison Square Garden, February 19, February 10, to organize a Cornell Club and took one blue ribbon and a second Swimmers Lose in that area. Guest at the meeting was place. Bob Mealey '51 was the winner of WIMMING team was defeated by Herbert H. Williams '25, University the 1000-yard run, beating France's 800- S the University of Pennsylvania in Director of Admissions, who was visiting meter Olympic champion, Marcel Han- Philadelphia, February 19, by a 42-33 secondary schools. Temporary Club offi- senne. Mealey's time was 2:13.9. Cap- score. Bill Hosie '49 won in the dive, cers are Don A. McLaren '16, chairman; tain Jack Servis '49 was second in the Dave Epstein '51 in the 150-yard back- R. Paul Sharood '30, vice-chairman; thirty-five-pound weight throw with a stroke, and Chuck Reynolds '49 in the and Thomas Dransfield III '34, secre- heave of 57 feet 8% inches. This throw 220-yard breaststroke. The Cornell tary-treasurer. was a scant 3 inches behind that of Sam 300-yard medley relay team of Captain In San Diego, Cal., J. William Fisher Felton, former Harvard star now wearing Bob Hill '49, Epstein, and Reynolds es- '05 has called a meeting, March 22, at the colors of the New York AC.Servis's tablished a new Cornell record for the the University Club, to consider recon- throw was a new Cornell record. The 8 event, winning in 3:03.4. stituting a Cornell Club there. Movies points scored by Mealey and Servis were The Freshman team defeated the Col- of the 1948 football season will be shown enough to give Cornell a third place gate frosh, 45-21, February 19, and con- and all alumni are invited to attend. behind Army and the NYAC. quered Sampson College the following A week later, the track men returned Saturday, 35-31. With these two vic- Alumni Available to New York to compete in the indoor tories, the Cubs avenged early-season ΓTNIVERSITY Placement Service IC4A championships. Servis again took defeats at the hands of the same two second in the weight event. It was his teams. ^ mails a regular bulletin listing its misfortune to run up against the meet's registrants, with their qualifications and outstanding performer, Jim Scholtz of Fencers Win, Lose preferences as to position and location, to business organizations that request Army, who broke the world's indoor rec- T7ΆRSITY fencers scored their first ord with a mighty toss of 60 feet Ί% the service. February 15 edition lists * victory of the season, February 19, forty men and women with experience inches. The Cornell captain had a re- when they defeated Columbia, 17-10, in spectable toss of 55 feet 11 inches. ranging from combustion engineering to New York City. Dick Smith '51 was a US Consular Service. More than half Mealey, although he won two preliminary triple winner in the sabre event. Cornell heats, was forced to fifth place in the indicate engineering experience and won the foils 6-3, the epee 6-3, and the training. They include also publicity 1000-yard run. Paul Robeson '49 finished sabre 5-4. in a five-way tie for third place in the agents, administrators, sales personnel, A week later, the US Naval Academy and lawyers. high jump with a leap of 6 feet 2J^ inches. defeated Cornell in a thriller in Barton Charley Moore '51 finished fourth in the Hall, 14-13. This brought the Midship- 600-yard run to become Cornell's only men through their seventh dual match other point winner. Cornell finished ninth undefeated. Smith was a triple winner Books in a field of forty-five, with Sy$ points. again for Cornell, as was Captain Stu Michigan State won the event with Paltrow '49. Cornell won the foil, 6-3, 35 34 points. and the saber, 5-4, but lost the epee By Cornellians event, 7-2. Wrestlers Take Two Wild Flower Guide RESTLING team journeyed to Sports Shorts WNew York City, February 19, to The Cornell polo team lost to Yale for Beginner's Guide to Wild Flowers. By defeat Columbia, 28-7. Pete Bolanis '51, the second time this season, February 19 Mrs. Ethel Hinckley Hausman '21. G. P. Captain Joe Calby '50, Jack Adams '49, at New Haven, by a 17-9 score. The Putnam's Sons, New York City, 1948. and Bob Hoagland '50 all scored falls. match was played before a capacity viii+376 pages, $3.50. Dick Clark '50 and Charlie Taft '50 won crowd of more than 500. The next Satur- If you find a flower and wish to know decisions, and Dan Cadiz '51 garnered day, Cornell pinned a second defeat on its name, or think you know it and wish Cornell's other 2 points when he wrestled the Princeton riders, 11-5. This match to verify your identification, you'll find his man to a draw. Walt O'Connell, Jr. was played as a part of a double-header it in this book. More than 1,000 wild '51, competing in the 175-pound class in in the Essex Troop Armory, Newark, plants are arranged by color of bloom, the place of injured Fred Reeve '49, was N. J. The Cornellians returned to their with a drawing of each by the author, its the only Cornellian to lose his match. own Riding Hall, March 2, for a game English and Latin name, description, The son of the ίate Coach Walter C. with the Ramapo Club, which Cornell habitat, range, and period of flowering. O'Conneli '1,1 came to the University in won, 18-16. An alphabetical index of both common February, 1948, after a term at St. Dick Savitt '49 lost to Bill Vogt, for- and scientific names is referred to these Bonaventure. mer Princeton captain, in the annual descriptions and further keyed for which February 26, Cornell overwhelmed the Buffalo Squash and Tennis Club tennis flowers should be picked sparingly or not Dartmouth wrestlers, 29-3, in Hanover, championships. Vogt was defeated for at all. The book is of compact size, for N. H. Bolanis, Bob Stedge '50, wrestling the title by Billy Talbert, a three-time handy use in the field. for Captain Calby, injured, Adams, winner. Mrs. Hausman taught nature study at Hoagland, Jack Foley '50, Reeve, and Football income for the 1948 season the University. She dedicates this book Clark all scored wins. Bolanis was unde- amounted to $260,300. Of this amount, to her husband, Professor Leon A. Haus- feated in seven successive 128-pound $99,000 was taken in for the five home man '14 of Rutgers University, whose matches. Lone winner for Dartmouth was games and $161,300 for the four away. Beginner's Bird Guide appeared earlier Captain Dolan in the 121-pound class. The Pennsylvania game was tops, of in the same format. March !$> 1949 335 Travellers Visit Schools Craig '12, Essex County, N. J.; Howard T. Critchlow '10, Trenton, N. J.; Mrs. Women Plan Club \X7ITH a view to attracting the best- M. Gregory Dexter (Jennie Curtis) '24, LUMNAE in Madison, Wis., met * * qualified students to the Univer- Boston, Mass.; John S. Gorrell '05, A January 18 at the home of Mrs. H. sity, admissions officers from the Campus Washington, D. C; Richard A. Graham Rowland English (Frances West) '18, have visited this winter 176 high schools '42, Milwaukee, Wis.; John R. Hawkins and discussed organizing a Cornell and preparatory schools in eighteen '28, Albany; Mrs. Frank C. Heath, Jr. Women's Club. Mrs. English showed States. Besides consulting with school (Constance Allen) '39 and W. Earl colored slides of the University. Those officials, these representatives have inter- Monson '15, Cleveland, Ohio; James D. present were Mrs. John T. Emlen, Jr. viewed and spoken to more than 3900 Johnson '30, Rochester; Richard N. (Virginia Merritt) '23, Helen F. Northup secondary-school juniors and seniors Knight, Jr. '41, Philadelphia, Pa.; Ray- '23, Mrs. Etlar Nielson (Sarah Dyal) '3.1, interested in Cornell, according to Robert mond A. Kohm '23, Nassau County; Mrs. Thomas Theis (Ruth McBride) W. Storandt '40, Assistant Director of Mrs. Everett S. Rademacher (Grace '41, Mrs. Janet Kelly Di Piazza '42, Admissions. Faculty members have rep- Corwin) '21, New Haven, Conn.; Martha Anna G. Marani '46, and Brina Kessel resented their specific divisions in a L. Rausch '47, Poughkeepsie; Mrs. '47. number of other school visits. Bernard A. Savage (Carmen Schneider) Storandt serves as executive secretary '27 and John C. Trussell '28, Chicago, Debaters Win, Lose of the Alumni Association standing com- 111.; Harold L. Schultz '21, Delaware; 'TUFT-HARTLEY Law arguments mittee on secondary schools, of which Mrs. Donald B. Stone (Ruth Hausner) -•* brought both victories and defeat Edward H. Carman, Jr. '16 is chairman '27, Schenectady; and Ernest C. Woodin, to Debate Association speakers in inter- and Mrs. Bernard A. Savage (Carmen Jr. '24, Westchester County. collegiate contests during February. Schneider) '27 is vice-chairman. This Arguing in favor of the present Law, committee has a nation-wide organiza- Long Island Women against Columbia Martin H. Hummel, tion which includes local secondary HIRTY members of the Cornell Jr. '49 of Bloomfield, N. J., and Richard school committees of thirty-two men's T Women's Club of Long Island at- M. Crane '50 of Brooklyn were defeated, Cornell Clubs and thirty Cornell Wom- tended a dinner meeting at the Hearth- but Hummel and Alvin L. Arnold '49 en's Clubs working with the Admissions stone Restaurant; Hempstead, February of Brooklyn won against Brown. In a Office to maintain contacts with schools 16. Speaker was Charles Salit from three-contest trip, Robert G. Van Duyne in their areas, give assistance to prospec- Sewanhaka High School in Mineola, '49 of Pine Brook, N. J., and William tive Freshmen, and visit schools, espe- exchange teacher in England last year. J. Vanden Heuvel '50 of Rochester cially at "college choosing" meetings. Club President Mrs. Wallace T. Smith defeated Harvard, and Vanden Heuvel Most school visits by representatives (Marian Walbancke) '23 presided. and George M. Baroody '50 of Geneva from the Campus have been arranged defeated Brown, speaking against the by these Club committees, cooperating Return to Shakespeare Act; then Vanden Heuvel and Baroody with the Admissions Office. Frequently, ΓΛ RAMATIC Club returned to Shake- lost to Holyoke, arguing against enact- also, they have sponsored luncheon and *-J speare, after an absence of twenty ment of the proposed Federal civil dinner meetings for schools officials, years, for its Junior Week production, rights program. discussion sessions with prospective ap- performed in the University Theater, Debaters for each match are chosen plicants, and special Club functions for February 4 and 5. The work chosen was by the Association as a result of contests invited secondary-school students. "Macbeth," as adapted by Thomas among themselves. Travellers for the University in this Wood Stevens, and the use of a modified program have included Herbert H. Elizabethan stage, which because it pro- Deny Communist Speaker Williams '25, Margaret C. Hassan '32, vides several areas requires no change of and Storandt from the Admissions Office; scene, reduced the playing time to one ESPONDING to an application of Pauline J. Schmid '25, Assistant Alumni hour and made possible two perform- R the Marxist Discussion Group, Secretary; Professor Blanchard L. Ride- ances each evening. Raymond F. Howes '24, Secretary of out, PhD '36, Assistant Dean of Arts The last Shakespearean productions the University, wrote on Washington's and Sciences; and Professor Leigh H. to appear on the University Theater Birthday the following letter to David Harden, chairman of the admissions stage were "Midsummer Night's Dream," G. Lubell '51 of New York City. This committee for the College of Agriculture. given in 1927 and featuring such now letter appeared in the Sun, February 24, This year, as an experiment, the well-known names as Franchot Tone '27 together with a column-long protest University Admissions Office is providing and Dan Duryea '28, and "The Merry signed by "Executive Committee, Marx- to Club chairmen information on all Wives of Windsor," with Duryea, Bar- ist Discussion Group": applicants from the respective areas. The Faculty Committee on the Scheduling nard Hewitt '28, and Sidney Kingsley '28 of Public Events, at its meeting February 21, Names of candidates are reported when in the cast. 1949, unanimously rejected the application their applications are received, and many The cast and production crew of the of the Marxist Discussion Group which pro- local chairmen interview applicants and 1949 Shakespearean effort did a good job. posed to invite Eugene Dennis, secretary of the Communist Party of America, to speak send in reports on them which are used, The staging was excellent. The players on the Cornell Campus during tne evening with the candidates' other records, by came back for three curtain calls, open- of Sunday, March 13, 1949. Mr. Dennis is the Faculty selection committees of the ing performance, and could have had a now under indictment and actually on trial various Colleges. Club chairmen are lot more. John H. Armstrong '49 of Elm- before a judge and jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New advised of the University decision on all hurst, 111., played Macbeth; Naomi R. York, along with ten other leaders of the such applicants, so the local committee Knauss '50 of Bethlehem, Pa., Lady Communist Party of America, charged with can handle the appropriate follow-up Macbeth; George L. Campbell, Jr. '49 of conspiracy to overthrow the government of with the candidate. Huntington, Duncan; and Mary Rita the United States by force. Saxton '50 of Endicott, the Gentle- Your application indicated that Mr. Den- Cornell Club secondary schools com- nis would speak on the subject "The Indict- mittee chairman cooperating in this woman. The play was directed by Louis ments and Democracy." In reaching its venture are Edward H. Carman, Jr. '16, V. Marsh, graduate assistant in Speech decision the Committee was guided by the Maryland; Edward M. Carman '14, and Drama, and produced by Professor conviction that a person under indictment Walter H. Stainton '19. William A. for so serious a charge and now standing Bergen County, N. J.; Darwin F. trial in a judicial procedure, commanding Carrell '23, Pittsburgh, Pa.; R. Harris Jewett, Jr., teaching fellow in Speech nation-wide and world-wide publicity, should Cobb '16, St. Louis, Mo.; John F. and Drama, was technical director. not be permitted to substitute the Campus 336 Cornell Alumni News of Cornell University for the legally consti- tuted courtroom as a forum to plead his case. To decide otherwise would be to condone a program of direct appeals to public opinion Now, in My Time! in an effort to influence the orderly and impartial process of trial by jury. The action of the Committee was taken unanimously, including the votes of two By student members. HIS year, the eights rowed on Dryden Road to the Swinging Bridge. Jersey Football Smoker Tthe Inlet in February. That is not Goldwin Smith, Andrew D., Teefy OOTBALL smoker of the Cornell unprecedented, but it's uncommon; Crane, Mr. and Mrs. Bells, and FClub of Union County, N. J., Feb- few ancient oarsmen ever saw the like. Truman Bells, too, have become ruary 14, in the grand ballroom of the At no time has ice formed on the meaningless names to the frustrated Hotel Winfield Scott, Elizabeth, was Lake as far out as the lighthouse. hockey squad; and all but meaning- attended by 125. President Louis J. The hockey squad gave up and put less alike to the group of brilliant Dughi '36 presented H. Stanley Lomax away their skates before Washington's young professors who have lately '23, radio sports commentator, who Birthday without having played a taken up the torch and are pressing finished his talk on Cornell football single scheduled match. Little on with it and to all the eager work- with the introduction of Coach George tots who got skiis for Christmas just ers in the Administration Building K. James. A talk on past and future sit and look at them and blaspheme. who swept in with the Gee Eyes. Cornell football was followed by "Lefty" All of which is respectfully reported If you don't count a handful of Old explaining movies of the 1948 season. as of press time and without prejudice. Timers who have been around long The Cornell records were played and Days enough remain for 'most any- enough to blend in inconspicuously refreshments were enjoyed. thing to happen. We recall one winter with the woodwork, I doubt if you Before the smoker, the Club board of in the early Twenties when, after the could find a single administrator of governors entertained the speakers and Navy had moved its small belongings any rank who could now identify twelve high school coaches at dinner. from the gymnasium to the boathouse Mr. and Mrs. Bells or describe the in February, the best skating of the manner in which they once upset Varied Jobs Offered season was enjoyed at Beebe on the equanimity of the entire com- Easter Sunday, April 1. That phen- munity at the Country Club all REATER variety than usual was omenon is burned upon your corre- summer and at Beebe Lake through noticeable in the opportunities G spondent's memory because thousands the cold months. And unless a new listed in the December Job Bulletin of University Historian is appointed and the University. Engineers, as usual, skated on glare ice that day without the Athletic Association being able buckles down to work pretty soon, were in greatest demand, with about there is grave danger that the saga half of approximately 125 openings to take one dime from the lot, the skating season having been officially of Truman Bells, already garbled, requiring engineering education or ex- will become an undocumented myth perience. Chemists and business admini- ended weeks before and Mr. and Mrs. Bells having transferred their mini- unknown to those called upon to stration personnel came next with about rule over us. fifteen each. Among the less routine strations from Beebe to the Country items were positions as a gun designer, Club. Your correspondent learns from bank vice-president, nutrition expert, We make no apologies at this time sources commonly regarded as reliable psychologist, and optical inspector. and place for dwelling upon a topic that if one were to utter at the Deans' Job Bulletins are mailed periodically so trite as the weather. The local luncheon nowadays a reference to to alumni registered with the Placement climate has ever been the subject most Truman Bells, Senator Murphy, Mrs. Service in Ithaca and New York City. discussed by academic persons of all Henry Shaler Williams, Jack Burns, January Bulletin listed fewer than 100 ranks at Ithaca in mid-March; that Husky Henry, Dinny McNamara, openings. In greatest demand were ex- along with casual references to cur- Mr. Gudstadt, or Benny Rich—any perienced men in engineering, business rent seasonal epidemics of mumps, one of those historical characters— management, and chemistry. Only posi- chicken-pox and pink-eye. Pink-eye he'd draw no responsive twitch on any tions offered recent graduates were in and kindred afflictions have been learned face about the board. That's sales. pretty well wiped out now by our rather a pity, we submit. Bring on competent medical staff, but the your bearded prophet, your learned Club Hears President weather remains to invite exchanges historian, and set him to work before PENING the after-dinner program of repartee between Campus wits when it becomes utterly impossible for one O of the Cornell Club of Toledo, they pass each other in the downpour. decade to talk to another on the basis Ohio, February 17, was a transcription We've no doubt that it was the climate of a common understanding! of the address, "Requisites of Leadership that such brilliant conversationalists And so we invite your attention to in the World Today," which had been as Goldwin Smith, Teefy Crane, and the weather; a topic of universal broadcast by President Edmund E. Day, Andrew D. talked about as they interest and a cheering one this February 5, from the annual luncheon looked out the west window of season. More than once has the base- of the Cornell Women's Club of New Cascadilla Place in March, 1870, and ball team practiced on the dry turf York. The recording of the President's waited for little Louis Bement to of Hoy Field at a time when normally talk and Herbert H. Williams '25, struggle up through the mud of Eddy the compets would be pushing wet Director of Admissions, were introduced street with the University's entire snow off the glass roof of the Cage. by the president of the Club, Marvin afternoon mail in a basket. Even so, there remain among us M. Wilkinson '32. Williams spoke on It takes a Mack truck now to querulous gaffers who recall longingly admissions and showed pictures of the bring up the mail—a fleet of them the March descent to Percy Field in Campus. About 100 guests, including sometimes when the alumni have been which one met the spring coming up. prospective Cornellians invited from wrought up by rumors—but the weath- In my time, snow banks became local schools, attended the meeting at er remains unchanged as a sure-fire pussy willows in twenty minutes on the Hillcrest Hotel where Edward D. topic of March conversation from the way down to Percy Field! Ramage '31 is general manager.

March !$> 1949 337 on their work and vote the best each MONDAY, MARCH 21 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS month. Professor Washburn is president Ithaca: Farm and Home Week opens of the Association; Donald W. Moore TUESDAY, MARCH 22 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. '31 and Dr. Orin K. CJiamplin '34 are Ithaca: Farm and Home Week speaker, FOUNDED 1899 vice-presidents; and J. Hubert Fenner, Morse Salisbury, Director, Public and who was for many years University Technical Information, Atomic Energy Published the first and fifteenth of each Commission, Bailey Hall, 2 month while the University is in regu- photographer, is treasurer. Mrs. Olive University concert, Robert Shaw Chorale, Northup Snyder '22 was a co-chairman lar session and monthly in January, Bailey Hall, 8:15 of the coordinating committee for the San Diego, Cal.: Cornell dinner, University February, July, and September. Ithaca exhibition. Club WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni "The purpose and function of art is Association under direction of a committee Ithaca: Farm and Home Week speaker, Ed- to make life a richer and finer experi- win G. Nourse '06, chairman, President's composed of Walter K. Nield '27, chairman, ence," says Professor Washburn. "It Council of Economic Advisors, Bailey Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey '18, should be the privilege of every person Hall, 2 John S. Knight '18, and Thomas B. Haire '34. Officers of the Alumni Association: Robert to know the pleasures and participate THURSDAY, MARCH 24 W. White '15, New York City, president; in the satisfactions that spring from the Ithaca: Farm and Home Week speaker, Judge exercise of the creative instinct. The Florence Allen of the Sixth District Emmet J. Murphy '22, Ithaca, secretary- Court of Appeals, Bailey Hall, 2 treasurer. Ithaca Art Association was founded New York City: Medical College Alumni Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; that it might be possible for more of us Day, lectures and "open house," Medical foreign, $4^0. Life subscription, $75. Single to know and enjoy these satisfactions. Center, 9-3:30 copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are renewed Membership is open to all. There are Annual meeting, Medical College Alumni Association, at the College, 3:30 annually unless cancelled. no restrictions as to age, creed, color, or Medical College Alumni Association dinner Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 conviction. Both the amateur trying his dance, Waldorf-Astoria, 7 first piece and the experienced profes- Assistant Editors FRIDAY, MARCH 25 sional artist are welcome, no matter Ithaca: Farm and Home Week ends RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 what his medium of expression. This SATURDAY, MARCH 26 HAROLD M. SCHMECK, JR. '48 exhibition, Self Portrait of a Community, Ithaca: Spring recess starts, 12:50 is our first. It was undertaken as a Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, Buffalo: Alumni Trustee George R. Pfann '24 22 Washington Square North, New York gesture of good will, to share with the at Cornell Club annual banquet, Hotel City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. community at large the pleasures we Markeen Printed at the Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. have known in creating these pieces." Albany: Glee Club show, "Daze of '49," Chancellors' Hall, 8:15, followed by a dance at Hotel Ten Eyck Tucson Invites Visitors SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Ithaca Artists Exhibit /CORNELL Club of Tucson, Ariz., Poughkeepsie: Glee Club show, "Daze of '49," TORE windows downtown and along ^* invites visiting alumni to attend Arlington High School, 8:30 S College Avenue the last week of its regular luncheons, the first Tuesday MONDAY, MARCH 28 February served as an extended art of each month at 12:15 at the Pioneer Bethlehem, Pa.: Glee Club show, "Daze of gallery to display more than 400 paint- Hotel. Professor A. Laurence Muir, '49," Liberty High School, 8:30; dance at Hotel Bethlehem ings, drawings, and sculpture done by PhD '34, of University of Arizona Eng- members of the Ithaca Art Association. Raleigh, N. C: Baseball, North Carolina lish department, is secretary of the Club. State Through the Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D. C: Tennis, American Uni- 121 business houses took part in this Nassau Talks Sports versity "Self-Portrait of a Community" by TUESDAY, MARCH 29 displaying the work of local artists along Λ NNUAL sports dinner of the Cornell Wilmington, Del.: Glee Club show, "Daze of with their regular wares. All that week, -**• Club of Nassau County at Felice's '49," Hotel DuPont, 8:30, dance follow- the exhibit was a general topic of con- Restaurant in Westbury was attended by ing 100 alumni and guests. Speakers included Chapel Hill, N. C: Baseball, University of versation, and most Ithacans made it a North Carolina point to see and exchange opinions on Football Coach George K. James, Hosea the artistic efforts of their friends and C. Ballou '20, president of the Cornell WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 neighbors. Emphasizing the Community Club of Westchester County, and H. Washington, D. C: Glee Club show, "Daze of '49," Constitution Hall, 8 aspect of the exhibit, members of the Stanley Lomax '23, radio sports com- Wake Forest, N. C: Baseball, Wake Forest Art Association took over the dining mentator. Coach James showed motion Williamsburg, Va.: Tennis, William & Mary room of the Ithaca Hotel on the night pictures of the 1948 football season. THURSDAY, MARCH 31 that it would be closed, for a "covered- President Otto M. Buerger '20 presided. Baltimore, Md.: Golf, Johns Hopkins dish supper" and to round out the Glee Club show, "Daze of '49," Maryland artistic aspect the Cornell Rhythm Club Casualty Co. Auditorium, 8:30 Wake Forest, N. C: Baseball, Wake Forest sponsored a " Symposium of Music" in Williamsburg, Va.: Tennis, William & Mary the High School auditorium, with local Coming Events FRIDAY, APRIL 1 musical organizations and artists per- New York City: Glee Club show, "Daze of forming. '49," Waldorf-Astoria, 8:30, dance follow- THURSDAY, MARCH 17 Life magazine sent photographers and ing Ithaca: "Freedom and Responsibility of Cuantico, Va.: Baseball, US Marine School staff writers here to cover the event, Newspapers," Irwin D. Canham, Willard Golf, US Marine School and has scheduled its story to appear in Straight Hall, 8 Qharlottesville, Va.: Tennis, Virginia Life of April 4. FRIDAY, MARCH 18 SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Ithaca Art Association was organized Ithaca: "Carnival of Music," Bailey Hall, 8:15 Washington, D. C: Baseball, Georgetown in September, 1947, with ninety mem- New York City: Class of '11 dinner, Cornell Charlottesville, Va.: Tennis, Virginia bers, principally those whg had taken Club, 6:30 Quantico, Va.: Golf, US Marine School Fencing Intercollegiates Cleveland, Ohio: Men's & Women's Cornell night school art classes taught by Pro- Princeton, N. J.: Swimming Intercollegiates Clubs' Cotillion, Country Club fessor Kenneth L. Washburn '26, Fine SATURDAΓ, MARCH 19 Arts. It now has about 200 members, MONDAY, APRIL 4 Ithaca: Track meet, Yale, Barton Hall, 8:15 including many Cornellians, who meet Ithaca: Instruction resumed after spring New York City: Fencing Intercollegiates recess monthly to exchange advice and criticism Princeton, N. J.: Swimming Intercollegiates 338 Cornell Alumni New On The Campus and Down the Hill

Pickets appeared on State Street before them. Sellers received 60 per cent of new- Recent visitors to Ithaca have included the Cornell Daily Sun offices, February book price, paid by the buyers plus a Basil Willey, King Edward VII professor 21, to protest the paper's "minimizing" service charge of a nickel or dime to of English Literature at Cambridge, who the Widow by printing notices about it cover expenses. $1,250 changed hands talked on "Uses and Methods of Literary in agate type. Placards bore slogans such during the sale. Chairman of the Book Study Today " Casimir Kuratowski, di- as "Has Free Speech left America?" and Exchange committee was William J. rector of the Mathematical Institute of "The Sun is Unfair to the Privileged Vanden Heuvel '50 of Rochester. Warsaw, who spoke on " Mathematics in Class!" The Widow pickets later paraded Poland since 1915;" and a wild doe which across the Quadrangle and through the Brotherhood Week was observed on the appeared suddenly downtown and re- Willard Straight Ivy Room where morn- Campus with a February 25 address by turned whence she came, unmolested by ing coffee and bridge addicts paid scant George Houser of the National Commit- the startled citizenry. attention. March issue of the Widow tee on Racial Equality, who spoke on continued its feud with the currently- "Good and Bad Ways of Working for Russian language teacher, from Hebrew crusading Sun with a cartoon cover show- Racial Equality" before a group of 100 University in Jerusalem, Mrs. Vera Dol- ing a red-faced Sun-spokesman, be- in Barnes Hall. He spoke under auspices janski, spent a February week observing megaphoned and with soap box, cranking of the committee on inter-group rela- teaching methods in the Division of a continuous stream of Suns from hand- tions which represents CURW and other Modern Language Studies. Professor organ. Banner headline said "Chicken interested student groups. After a mem- Doljanski took the PhD at Berlin Uni- Little Asserts Sky is Falling!" Cartoon ber of one Campus fraternity had Negro versity and was a Russian language was by Richard F. Koppe '49 of Dayton, friends as his guests at a chapter-house teacher for the British Army in Palestine Ohio. party, a resolution was introduced in during the war. house-meeting to prohibit such invita- "Cornell" type-face has been designed tions in the future. The motion was de- Honorary citizen of Ithaca is mayor by George Trenholm for Intertype Corp., feated, twenty-one to ten, and it was Christo Caravias of Ithaca, Greece. He of which Neal D. Becker '05, chairman of agreed that members should use their was given the honor by the Common the University Board of Trustees, is own judgment in extending invitations. Council following a similar compliment president. The modern Roman face is de- paid Mayor Bert T. Baker '97 by the scribed as "a subtle blending of prag- Explosion of the battleship Maine is the Greek city, earlier this winter. Both matic utility with cheerful friendliness subject of a letter recently given to the mayors, now citizens of both Ithacas, . . . achieving the poise and well-bred University Collection of Regional His- are continuing their year-old corre- self assurance of a modern miss." tory. Donated by Charles H. Pearson, spondence aided by interpreters. who wrote to his wife from Havana on Senior Smoker, February 23, featured the day of the historic blast, the letter Spring Day has been set for May 21 and beer, sawdust on the floor of the Old describes the explosion and speculates the Student Council has elected Robert Armory, and WOR sports commentator on its cause and probable effect on the N. Jacobson '49 of New York City, H. Stanley Lomax '23, who earlier gave American people. chairman of the committee in charge of his regular MBS broadcast from Ithaca. arrangements. New Trustee ruling sug- About 200 men of the Class of '49 heckled "Men's Wear," a course in Home Eco- gests evening classes to make up for student entertainers, drank less beer than nomics for men only, is designed to help those cancelled Spring Day morning. was expected, and laughed at a galaxy of students judge quality and suitability of jokes, celebrating their last term as garments and the care and grooming of Freshman Camps for men and women undergraduates. clothes. Twenty-seven men meet twice a next fall will be directed, respectively, by week with Professor Margaret L. Hum- James D. Hazzard '50 of Lansdale, Pa., Block from State Street to Green Street, phrey, Textiles and Clothing. and Nancy B. Hubbard '50 of Louisville, west of the business center, on which is Ky. They were elected by the camp the residence formerly occupied by Fitch policy board of CURW. H. Stephens '05 and Mrs. Stephens (Lucy SNOWSTORM which roared into Ithaca Kirkendall) '09, will be a city parking lot. March 1 brought diversion for student Over-fried eggs by the dozen and loss of The land has been purchased by the city spectators and exasperation to motorists records and equipment valued at $1,000 from The Ithaca Journal, which acquired at the steep curve on Campus Road back were results of a fire which destroyed the it for a projected new building, now of the Telluride house. Drivers home- field office of the University poultry farm abandoned. When demolition work be- ward-bound from the Hill were cheered on Kline Road. gan on the old Stephens residence, a by a crowd of at least thirty students as slate inscribed "Built 1846, slated '73" their cars slid across the banked pave- Housing inspection and a list of approved was found in the roof. Though more than ment to land bumpingly against the off-Campus rooms will be offered by the a century old, about 10,000 feet of its downhill curb. The audience shouted Residential Halls department next fall, original lumber, including several eight- encouraging but skid-producing advice as a service to landlords and students. by-eight-inch beams more than thirty such as "Use your brakes!" and "Give University approval of rooms was aban- feet long, are still considered usable. *er the gas!" One spectator, disappointed doned shortly before the war because of by the safe passing of several careful excessive demand. Current indication Book Exchange operated by the Student drivers, urged the next, "Come on, don't that the worst of the housing pinch is Council in Willard Straight Hall at the be afraid. Put on your brakes and skid!" over is seen in occasional Sun ads such as: beginning of the spring term transferred No serious accidents occurred and the "BOYS! Single and double room with 615 used books to buyers for the term's presence of the cheering section warned phone, bath; Collegetown; first week rent work. About 900 books were deposited drivers of the slippery curve. free." Such offers in Ithaca rooming for sale by owners who no longer needed houses have been rare in recent years.

March 15, 1949 339 the committee is surveying and will and University of Delaware and three evaluate for the Air Force Institute of preparatory schools association officials, The Faculty Technology programs at the Army in a panel discussion of " College Admis- Language School in Monterey, CaL, and sions" sponsored in Wilmington, Del., the Navy Language School and State March 3, by the Home and School Provost Cornells W. de Kiewiet has Department Language School in Wash- Association of Tower Hill School. War- been elected a director for four years ington, D. C. ren A. Beh '26 is president of the spon- of the American Council of Learned soring Association, which entertained Societies. For the last four years, he Mrs. Ervilla Lefever Beal, widow of about 100 heads of schools for this has been a delegate to the Council from Professor Alvin C. Beal, PhD Ίl, session. April 1, Admissions Director the American Historical Association. Floriculture, died at her home in Ithaca Williams will speak at the annual at 212 Kelvin Place, February 17, 1949. " Schoolmen's Week" conference of the Professor Peter J. W. Debye, Chem- Her daughter, Anne E. Beal '24, survives. University of Pennsylvania in Phila- istry, has been awarded the 1949 Willard delphia. Gibbs Medal of Professor Frank B. Morrison, Animal the Chicago sec- Husbandry, left February 13 for Argen- Professors Eleanor Emerson and John tion of the Am- tina, where he will help a group of W. McConnell '27, Industrial and Labor erican Chemical livestock producers establish an animal Relations, participated in panel discus- Society, one of experiment station. He planned to stop sions at workers' education conferences the nation's first at the Everglades Agricultural sponsored by the American Labor Edu- highest scienti- Experiment Station in Florida, then cation Service in New York City, fic honors, given fly to Quito, Ecuador, and thence to February 26-27. Donald J. Shank, annually to a Argentina. acting president of the Institute of chemist who International Education and former Faculty representative to the Board "because of his director of student personnel in the of Trustees for five years is Professor eminent work School, discussed "Labor Education in Herrell F. DeGraff '37, Land Economics, in, and original the Field of International Affairs." succeeding Professor Richard Bradfield, contributions Soil Technology. Representing the Fac- to, pure and applied chemistry, is Report on "Training Engineers to ulty on the Board of Physical Education deemed worthy of special recognition." Help Solve Materials Handling Prob- and Athletics for three years, is Professor He will receive the award at a meeting lems," given by Professor Harry J. Stanley W. Warren '27, Farm Manage- of the Chicago section, May 20. Nobel Loberg '29, Industrial and Engineering ment, succeeding Professor Laurence H. Prize winner in chemistry in 1936 and Administration, before the ASME, is MacDaniels, PhD '17, Horticulture; on one of the world's foremost authorities published in Paper Mill News for the Board of Student Health and on molecular structure, Professor Debye January 22 and in the magazine, In- Hygiene, for three years, Professor has been a leader in the rapidly-advanc- dustry and Power, for February. Charlotte M. Young, Medical Nutrition, ing branch of physical chemistry devoted succeeding Professor Perry W. Gilbert, Dr. A. Gordon Danks '33, formerly to the fundamental study of the struc- PhD '40, Zoology. professor of Veterinary Surgery and ture and particle size of high polymers, recently director of clinics at the college the multiple molecular structures mak- Professor Allan R. Holmberg, Sociol- of veterinary medicine of the University ing up rubbers, plastics, and fibers. He ogy and Anthropology, left February 13 of Illinois, is now professor of animal has been particularly active in the for Callejon de Huaylas, a mountain industry and farm manager at Bolton development of the technique known as valley which parallels the north coast Farms, Bristol, Pa. The farm is being light scattering. This scattering, or of Peru. Collaborating with the Institute developed as a research and clinical splashing, effect enables scientists to of Ethnology of the University of San teaching center for the college of veter- measure accurately the size of polymer Marcos, he will study the human and inary medicine of the University of particles too small to be seen even with social problems that arise as a result Pennsylvania. the most powerful microscopes. of transition to modern industrialization An article on the "Bill of Rights in Professor Dexter S. Kimball, Engin- in this region, inhabited by 1,000,000, the Draft Constitution of Israel" by eering, Emeritus, was invited for the many of them Quechua-speaking In- Professor Milton R. Konvitz, PhD '33, twenty-second consecutive year to ad- dians. When field work is completed, Industrial and Labor Relations, appeared dress the Engineers' Club of Phila- several Peruvian investigators may re- in the February 4 issue of The Recon- delphia, Pa., at a special luncheon, turn to Cornell with Professor Holmberg. structionist. Professor Konvitz reviewed February 15. His subject was "Freedom As part of a program in cultural anthro- Ploughshares into Swords, by A. P. and Responsibility," the title borrowed, pology which was instituted in 1947 with Chew, in the January 1 issue of the he explains, from the late Professor the support of the Carnegie Corp. of Saturday Review of Literature; Saving Carl Becker. The Club has two hon- New York, Professor Alexander H. American Capitalism, edited by Sey- orary members, Dean Kimball and Leighton has been working with Ameri- mour E. Harris, in the January 22 issue Herbert Hoover. can Indians in the Southwest and Pro- fessor R. Lauriston Sharp has been in of the same magazine; and UN Yearbook Professor E. Laurence Palmer '11, Siam since last summer. Professor Morris on Human Rights, in the February issue Nature and Science Education, is the E. Opler is planning a research trip to of the American Sociological Review. author of a comprehensive, one-volume India next fall. guide to natural history, Fieldbook of Daniel C. Williams '37, Syracuse Natural History, published by Whittle- Professor Maurice C. Bond '16, Mar- lawyer, is teaching a course on "Labor sey House, New York City. keting, on leave this term, went to the Relations: Case Analysis" this term in South and Southwest for February and the School of Industrial and Labor Professor J. Milton Cowan, director March. During April and June, he will Relations. of the Division of Modern Languages, work in the Federal Extension Service has been named to a committee of four in Washington, D. C. An article by Professor William F. civilian experts to advise on foreign Whyte, Industrial and Labor Relations, language training given for Air Force Herbert H. Williams '25 participated, appears in the January issue of The personnel. During February and March, with admissions directors of Yale, Smith, American Journal of Sociology. Based on 340 Cornell Alumni News a fourteen-month study conducted by an "Ivy League" field day and picnic M. Crocco, Ridgewood, N. J.; Thomas E. Halloran, Jr., Forest Hills; Edward C. Han- Professor Whyte of restaurants in the in the late spring. Chairman will be peter, St. Louis, Mo.; Donald J. Hayes, Ken- Chicago area, it is entitled "The Social S. Lee Sefton '29. more; William J. Jenkins, Indianapolis, Ind.; Structure of the Restaurant." Robert L. Johnson, Montclair, N. J.; Ken- Cites Player-Students ney E. Mallory, Olympia, Wash.; Seward J. Ogden, Jr., Forest Hills; Charles E. Platt, ONOLULU Advertiser columnist, Auburn; Robert W. Stevens, Lansdowne, Pa.; Minneapolis Symphony H Dan McGuire, in his February 18 Neil I. Van Vliet, West Orange, N. J.; column, "Chips From Diamond Head," Thomas W. Weber, Hinsdale, 111. TINDER the brilliant conducting of ZETA BETA TAU: George F. Gershell, Jr., ^ Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Minne- comments favorably on the academic son of George F. Gershell '21 of West Hart- apolis Symphony Orchestra, a familiar records of Cornell football players, as ford, Conn.; Peter Swerling '49, Beverly name in University Concert series, gave reported first in the ALUMNI NEWS and Hills, Cal.; Henry Cohen '50, Buffalo, Shel- by Emerson Hinchliff '14 in the January don Appel, Brookline, Mass.; Arthur P. a most enjoyable and roundly-applauded Mange, St. Louis, Mo.; Gary M. Siegal, performance in Bailey Hall, February 7. "Letter from Cornell." McGuire quotes Cleveland, Ohio. It was the last Ithaca appearance of from the "Letter," sent him by George ZETA PSI: Richard S. Luster, son of Carl A. Mitropoulos as conductor of the orches- C. Wallace '31, president of the Cornell Luster, Jr. '22 of Seattle, Wash., and grand- Club of Hawaii, and says: son of Richard M. Sellwood '95; Donald E. tra, for next season he becomes conductor Bortle '50, Oneida; Howard H. Campbell, of the New York Philharmonic, and the "In these days of all-out attacks on San Francisco, Cal.; George N. Farquhar, audience expressed its good-bye warmly. alleged overemphasis of football in high Hempstead; John P. Holmes, New York City Featured on the program was Sym- schools and colleges, 'tis indeed gratify- Rolland G. Monroe, Worcester, Mass.; An- ing to note that Cornell University, long tonio J. Muskus, Caracas, Venezuela; Philip phony No. 2 in B Minor by the Russian P. Skarr, Wauwatosa, Wis. composer, Alexander Borodin. Also per- noted for high standards of scholarship, formed were the overture to "Euryan- has apparently found the happy me- the," by Carl Maria von Weber; "Euralia dium. ... If colleges and universities Hungarica," four pieces for orchestra by in general follow Cornell's example, the Back When... anti-football forces will be beaten back Ernst Dohnanyi; and the suite, "Im- (From the ALUMNI NEWS of earlier days) pressions of Italy," by Gustave Char- within a few years. If they don't, we're pentier. bound to see an explosion like the Carnegie Report of 1928 which contained Twenty-five Years Ago New Jersey Women Meet direct charges of professionalism and March 20, 1924—A rock was blown over-commercialization against many through one of the glass doors of the ORNELL Women's Club of North- schools." C ern New Jersey met at the Westfield Telluride house last week by the force home of Mrs. Robert J. Bauer (Virginia Rochester Speaker of the blasting being done on the site Poole) '42, February 16. Twenty-five of the new Union [Willard Straight UNCHEON speaker at the regular members heard Irene M. Gibson '18 Hall]. ^ Cornell Club of Rochester luncheon, speak on her recent trip to France and L March 2, was Philip D. Rupert '20. Twenty Years Ago Switzerland as a member of the United Chairman of Draft Board 76 in Ro- March 21, 1929—The Student Coun- Nations Secretariat. Mrs. Dwight L. chester, he discussed "The Draft." cil, evidently maddened by the mockeries Copeland (Evelyn Miller) '21, president of The Sun, determined to show its of the Club, presided. Fraternity Pledges importance to the community by hold- Attend Inauguration {Concluded from last issue) ing a public meeting for the discussion THETA DELTA CHI: Dean F. Bock, son of of acute and incandescent issues. The TTNIVERSITY representative at the Dr. George F. Bock '18, Watertown; George problem of the cheerleading situation, *J February 12 inauguration of Ray- W. Holbrook, Jr., son of George W. Holbrook the problem of the cumbrous registra- mond N. Dooley as president of Lincoln '23 and grandson of Myrtle Wells Bradley tion system, and the problem of uniting '93, of Wellsville; Eliot W. Mitchell, step-son College, Lincoln, 111., was William C. of Harry Morriss '26 of New Canaan, Conn.; the various financial drives in a student Haynes '35. Former instructor in Bac- Gustave Pabst III, grandson of Joseph E. community chest were discussed with teriology at the Geneva Experiment Sta- Uihlein '01, New York City; Flavio D. Prado, spirit by the twelve undergraduates who tion, he is now at the US Regional Re- Sao Paulo, Brazil, grandson of Bento de attended. Almeida Prado 78; George W. Tall, Jr. Ill, search Laboratory in Peoria, 111. After son of George W. Tall, Jr. '14, Glenside, Pa.; The Architects revived an old custom serving as a captain in the Army Medical John M. Ash IV, Philadelphia, Pa.; Neil K. by holding a St. Patrick's Day parade. Corps in New Guinea, he returned to Banks, Jr., DePue, 111.; David H. Brooks, It consisted of a fifty-foot snake, which Cornell to take the PhD in 1946. New York City; John W. Ferguson, Engle- wood, N. J.; William B. Glover, Keene was harried off the Campus by a spirited Valley; Earl D. Lillydahl, Jr., Milwaukee, St. Patrick, with the incitements of James Goes West Wis.; Thomas J. Little, Riverdale-on-Hudson; music, the vociferations of green-smocked OOTBALL Coach George K. James Peter B. Mitchell, Middle town; Michael architects, and the applause of the Moore, Westport, Conn.; Cadwallader V. Fspoke at gatherings of West Coast Noyes, New York City; Oscar W. Ritten- student body. This function was sup- Cornell Clubs, January 11 and 12. house, Clinton, N. J.; Richard M. Ross, Jr., pressed some six years ago; no one Fifty members of the recently reorgan- New Rochelle; Redding K. Rufe, Chalfont, seems to remember why. ized Cornell Club of Washington attended Pa.; Joe L. Wannamaker, St. Mathews, S. C; a dinner at the Benjamin Franklin Stanley P. Wegryn, Elizabeth, N. J. Fifteen Years Ago THETA XI: Robert D. Anderson, son of March 22, 1934—Professor J. P. Hotel in Seattle to hear him talk on John D. Anderson ΊO of Garden City; David football and show highlights of the P. Beardsley, son of Wallace P. Beardsley Bretz, who takes turns with Professor 1948 season in movies. Club president '19 of Auburn and grandson of James W. C. L. Durham in running for Congress Norbert 0. Fratt '27 presided. Beardsley '91; Richard H. Clum, son of Har- on the Democratic ticket (heretofore a old H. Clum '23 and Florence Hess Clum labor of love in a district overwhelming- Flying to San Francisco, James re- '24 of Chappaqua; Robert A. Little wood, son peated his program at a dinner meeting of William Littlewood '20 and Dorothy Cush- ly Republican, but the way things are of the Cornell Club of Northern Cali- man Littlewood '21 of Garden City; Herbert now you can't tell any more), has been fornia. Sixty-three attended, the largest B. Pusch, son of Herbert V. Pusch Ί2 of appointed chairman of the Ithaca NRA Detroit, Mich.; Demosthenes G. Arvanites, Compliance Board. He succeeds Pro- number to turn out for a function of Newark, N. J.; Thomas W. Cashel, Hemp- the Club in several years. Club president stead; Robert S. Critchfield, Garden City; fessor J. E. Boyle, recently resigned. Lewis R. Hart '16 announced plans for Lloyd M. Forstall, Montclair, N. J.; Edward March if, 1949 341 Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

CLASS REUNIONS AT ITHACA, JUNE 10 & 11, 1949 '89, '94, '99, '04, '09, '14, '19, '24, '29, '34, '39, '44, '47 '94 LLB—Daniel W. Barmon's firm, drug, for which he received the American a director in addition to being vice- Barmon Brothers Co., Inc., dress manu- Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associa- president of Public Service Co. of facturers in Buffalo, is celebrating its tion Award in 1936. His address is Colorado. We wish "Tweedie" would fiftieth anniversary this year. General 7055 Wilson Lane, Bethesda 14, Md. tell us if he still plays a mean violin. What Ί3er does not remember now he offices of the company are at Fillmore Ί2 BS—Edward L. Bernays, public "sent" us at the Musical Clubs concerts Avenue, Broadway and Wilson Street, relations counsel, has been appointed in the old days? Buffalo 12. adjunct professor in public relations at '01 AB, Ίl PhD—An Emily Hickman New York University. Twenty-five years Barrett L. (Red) Crandall is executive Prize of approximately $80 has been ago, he was appointed a lecturer there secretary of the National Council for established at the New Jersey College to give the first course on public relations Community Improvement and is located for Women, New Brunswick, N. J., in at any American university. The Feb- in Washington, D. C. This nation-wide memory of the late Dr. Emily Hickman, ruary issue of Household contained an advisory organization was founded last who was professor of history there, by article, "Why We Behave Like Inhuman May to help local communities attain her brothers and sisters. The award is Beings," by Bernays. the better life for their citizens through for the "senior who has done most to efficient teamwork of all local civic bodies Ί2—Midwinter Reunion of the Class and utilizing their own facilities to the promote international understanding and of 1912 was held at the Grammercy good will on campus during her four best advantage. Other Cornell alumni Inn, New York City, February 11. are included in the notable list of trustees years at College." Professor Hickman Thirty members of the Class and two was the sister of Mrs. Frances Hickman and members of the advisory board. guests from other classes attended the Good for you, Red! Wilkins '08, Spencer E. Hickman '05, function presided over by Vice-president and Willis G. Hickman Ίl. Eddie Richardson has been inspired Walter R. Kuhn. Except for four mem- to rejoin the Class actives after many '02 AB—Mrs. Emogene Sanford bers who came from such places as Simons, examiner of Regents exam- years. He now lives in Littlestown, Pa., Ithaca, Philadelphia, Pa., Harrisburg, and is sales manager for Cambridge ination papers in English for the New Pa., and North Adams, Mass., all were Rubber Co. at Taneytown, Md. He York State Board of Regents for the New Yorkers. Guest for the first time writes that he travels a lot throughout last forty-five years, retired January 1. at a Class Reunion was William E. Moore the Eastern part of the US. Ithaca in She has left Albany and gone to live at who is totally blind. The midwinter June '53 is a "must" for him. 125 Beacon Street, Hartford 5, Conn. Reunion is an annual New York function Frank Addicks is vice-president and a '09 ME—James E. Webb of 2706 St. of the Class of 1912. director of New Jersey Bell Telephone James Parkway, Cleveland Heights 6, '12—C. W. Floyd Coffin of 60 East Co. and lives in Cranford, N. J. He still Ohio, is in his fortieth year as a realtor. Forty-second Street, New York City, is a credit to "Pinky" Williams who He has two daughters, Mrs. William H. has been elected a director of The Frank- taught us to letter in Sibley Freshman Baldwin, Jr. (Lucy Webb) '38 and Mrs. lin Society for Home Building & Savings, Drawing. Charles H. Acton (Mary Jane Webb) 217 Broadway. Those who attended our "35th" last '41, five grandsons, and one grand- Class of 1913 June will remember Bob (Unc) Whyte's daughter. His sons-in-law are RPI '36 bashful acceptance of the grand prize and Cornell '40, respectively. E. J. J. Kluge, Correspondent for "greatest number of grandchildren." Rm. 1205, 70 Pine St., New York 5, N.Y. ΊO CE—George H. Canfield retired Our volunteer sleuth reports that the Inspirational note: As at February 15, September 1 and moved to Cannon present number is nine! Can anybody 131 questionnaires received. More im- Beach, Ore. (Box 242). The Depart- tie that? "Unc's" achievements in all portant, however, 174 Classmates have ment of the Interior gave him a gold branches of endeavor have been so sent Treasurer Don Beardsley their medal for distinguished service with the meritorious that a profile is called for, regards and $5 or more. Thanks to the if space ever permits. Geological Survey for thirty-eight years. pioneers! But we still have a long way ΊO AB, '28 AM, '34 PhD—Professor to go. So, to those whose fountain pens Ί4 AB—Ernest A. de Lima is in land Samuel J. Plimpton of Worcester Poly- were not handy, won't you give Don development in Colombia. He has two technic Institute, husband of the former a thrill? After you've written him, it sons, who are in school in California, Ethel Williams, died December 29. Mrs. will be a lot easier to fill out the ques- and a daughter, who is married. For air Plimpton, daughter of the late Professor tionnaire. mail, his address is Apartado Aereo 165, Walter L. Williams, Veterinary Surgery, Charlie Hartzell, who has been prac- Cali, Colombia, S. A.; for ordinary mail, Emeritus, lives at 10 Bancroft Tower ticing law in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apartado Nacional 291, Cali, Colombia, Road, Worcester, Mass. for most of his adult life, writes that he S. A. Ίl MD—Dr. Nathan B. Eddy, nar- thinks this column is a "swell idea." Ί5 AB—Joseph M. Ostrow, son of cotics authority for the National Insti- Now, if we can get him to Ithaca in Emanuel M. Ostrow of Bedford, was tute of Health, Washington, D.C., was June '53! Clint Brown, Paul Maher, salutatorian and winner of the social elected in February chairman of the Bill Very, and others have said the same science prize of the January graduating expert committee on habit forming to Don regarding the whole idea. We class of Central High School, Phila- drugs of the world health -organization. have the makings of a really big snow- delphia, Pa. He was also among the Dr. Eddy has been a leader in investi- ball! group awarded the AB under the 100- gating new narcotics for control of pain Through the "Rocky Mountain News" year-old statute of Pennsylvania auth- in cancer. He was co-discoverer in of Denver we are informed that Marshall orizing the school because of its excep- 1936 of "metopon," a pain-suppressing M. (Tweedie) Koch recently was elected tionally high standards to award the

342 Cornell Alumni News degree to its graduates. Young Ostrow children. Hetch is a member of the his calendar to be present at the 30th has started work at the New York City ALUMNI NEWS advisory board. Reunion in June. office of the New York Central Railroad. '17 ME—DeGray White was included '20—Davis E. Geiger of RFD 2, He hopes to enter Cornell next fall. in the feature "Personalities In The Ashland, Ky., was elected recently a >16—Robert E. Galloway of 14 Morn- News," in the February 13 Newark member of the executive committee of ingside Park, Memphis, Tenn., has been (N. J.) Sunday News. He was re-elected the NationaΓ Society for Crippled Chil- appointed chief of the Economic Co- recently president of the First National dren and Adults, Inc. For the last three operation Administration mission to Bank of Butler, N. J., for his twenty- years he has been president of the Trieste. He was formerly president of fourth term. White is also president of Kentucky Society for Crippled Children. the Patterson Transfer Co. and the the Butler Coal & Lumber Co. and Cold '22 ME—Walker L. Cisler, executive Yellow Cab Co., both of Memphis, and Spring Lake, Inc., and secretary-treas- vice-president of the Detroit Edison Co., of the Galloway Coal Co., Birmingham, urer of Pequannock Paper Co. A former Detroit, Mich., consultant to the US Ala., and Memphis. member of the Savage Club and manager Atomic Energy Commission, and power of the Glee Club, he sings with the Butler consultant to the Economic Coopera- '17 AB—John Crosby devoted his Rotary Club chorus, the men's choir of February 15 "Radio in Review" column tion Administration, returned several his church, and a Montclair, N. J., months ago from Europe, where he gath- in the Herald Tribune to a story about barber shop quartet. Robert S. Byfield. It seems that Byfield ered data in order to make recom- wanted to hear the "America's Town '18 DVM—For the second successive mendations on the power needs for the Meeting of the Air" broadcast the week year, Dr. Don A. Boardman of Rome Marshall Plan countries. He stopped before he was to appear on the program, took first prize for his 29-3 corn at the first at ECA headquarters in Paris but he had promised to take his family International Seed Show in Chicago, 111. and then went to England, Germany, to the Winter Garden that night. Taking the Low Countries, Italy, Switzerland, '18 PhD—Dr. Donald K. Tressίer, and Greece. a portable radio along with him, he consultant on food freezing in Westport, escorted his family to the Garden, de- Conn., made the "Interesting People" '22 MS—Charles N. Silcox, manager posited them in their seats, and went section of the February issue of the of the seed and feed division of the Co- to look for a lounge where he could hear American Magazine. He was formerly operative GLF Exchange in Ithaca, was the program. "Well, there isn't any head of the Division of Chemistry and elected January 6 first vice-president of lounge at the Winter Garden," wrote professor of Food Chemistry at the the National Council of Farmer Co- Crosby. "The only conceivable places to Agricultural Experiment Station at operatives. catch a radio program in that theater Geneva. are a telephone booth in the lobby and '22 AB; '22 AB—David N. Dattel- a small, inadequate lavatory downstairs. baum was admitted into the firm of Mr. Byfield chose the phone booth, A. G. Becker & Co., member of the closed the door and settled down to New York Stock Exchange, January 1. listen. ... In a matter of minutes, a Irving H. Sherman '22 was admitted cop was at his elbow. 'What you doing?' into the firm some years ago. Their asked the cop. 'Listening to the radio/ head office is in Chicago, 111. said Mr. Byfield." After lengthy ques- '22—Paul B. Orvis has been granted tioning from outside the phone booth Wallace B. Quail, Class Correspondent a two-year leave of absence as head of and later in the lavatory, the cop, who 503 S. Main St., Middletown, Ohio the New York State Agricultural and had not heard of the program nor Byfield, Technical Institute at Alfred University, The Reunion is now about three decided to arrest him for vagrancy. Alfred, to direct food allocation for months away. Al Saperston and his Byfield was saved when someone an- European nations participating in the committee are working rapidly, and you nounced at the end of the program: Marshall Plan. His headquarters are in will soon have detailed announcements "Tune in again next week, when our Paris, France. subject will be 'Are Corporate Profits sent to you. The most important thing 7 for you to do right now is to mark your '23, '24 BS, '28 PhD—John C. Huttar, Too High? Our speakers will be Robert of Trumansburg, poultry specialist at S. Byfield, financial writer and member calendar that you are going to be in Ithaca this June. The next important the GLF in Ithaca, was elected in of the New York Stock Exchange, January vice-president of the Poultry Henry J. Taylor . . ." business is for you to let Al Saperston know that you are going to be present. and Egg Board, national consumers Ί7 AB—George J. Hecht, chairman This means answering all communica- education organization for the poultry of the American Parents Committee and tions promptly upon their receipt. Inci- industry. Recently, his son, Philip Hut- publisher of Parents' Magazine and dentally, Al Saperston's address is Lib- tar, a Trumansburg High School student, School Management, announces the erty Bank Building, Buffalo 2. won first prize in the annual Tompkins launching in January of a new news- There is quite a dearth of personal County American Legion oratorical letter of the Committee, entitled "Wash- news but a letter from Hub Hubbard contest. ington Report on Legislation for of Little Neck, New York, reports that '24 BS—Charles N. Abbey, who was Children." Published at least once a his daughter, Nancy Hubbard '46, was with the US Employment Service dur- month while Congress is in session, the married to E. F. Perryman '44 February ing the war, is now a senior agronomist newsletter reports on all legislation for 6. Among those present was Al Hay- with the Landscape Bureau of the New which the Committee is actively working ward, who (according to Hub) has York State Department of Public Works and also summarizes the other important partially deserted us for the Class of '21. in Albany. Since he and Mrs. Abbey Federal legislation that will affect Incidentally, Hub has already marked have not found a place to live in Albany

Use the CORNELL UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT SERVICE Administration Building, Ithaca New York Office, 107 E. 48th St. JOHN L. MUNSCHAUER '40, Director PAUL O. REYNEAU '13, Manager

March 75, 343 as yet, he lives at the University Club Orono, Me. A consultant to the pulp there and she, at 144 Main Street, and paper and chemical process indus- Salamanca. Mrs. Abbey, who was Flor- tries, he will continue to maintain ence Baker, former associate editor of offices at 500 Fifth Avenue, New York the ALUMNI NEWS, m working for the City 18. Agricultural Conservation Office in Sala- '28—Dinner for all men of the Class manca. Their son, Hobart A. Abbey, is who can attend will be at the Cornell a Freshman in Engineering. Club of New York, April 29 at 6:30. '24 PhD—Professor John P. Nafe has Make your plans now to attend and resigned as chairman of the department notify the chairman, Theodore W. of psychology at Washington University, Adler, 270 Madison Avenue, New York St. Louis, Mo., to devote his full time City.—J.D.P. to his research program in experimental '29, '30 CE; '34 BArch—Henry A. psychology and to his teaching. He has Pfisterer is co-author, with Harold D. been chairman since 1931, the year he Hauf, of the third edition of Design of joined the Washington faculty. Professor Steel Buildings, published in January Nafe was an instructor at Cornell from by John Wiley & Sons, New York City. 1922-24. From May, 1944, to September, Pfisterer, instructor in structural engin- 1945, he was director of a Government eering at the University from 1930-33, project for the US Office of Scientific is associate professor of architectural Research and Development. engineering at Yale University, New '25 BS—John M. Crandall is general Haven, Conn., and heads his own '32—Captain Charles E. Allen (above) manager of Pocono Manor Inn, Pocono, consulting engineering firm at 30 Whit- is enrolled in an air installations engin- Pa. ney Avenue in New Haven. January 30, eering special officer course at the he spoke on the weekly radio program, USAF Institute of Technology, Wright- '26—Edgar M. Huymans is vice- "Yale Interprets the News." He is Patterson AF Base, Dayton, Ohio. A president and general manager of Ruth- president of the Cornell Club of New weather officer and personal equipment raufϊ & Ryan, S. A., advertising, Paseo Haven. Edgar C. Taylor '34 is with officer in the China-Burma-India Theater de la Reforma 1, Mexico, D. F. He lives Pfisterer's firm. during the war, he was with the exhibit at Reina 77, Villa Obregon, Mexico, D. F . '31, '32 AB, EE—Frank B. McMullin, unit at headquarters of the Air Materiel '26 CE, '33 MS in Ed—John S. son of Frank V. McMullin '99, has joined Command at the Wright-Patterson AF Lusch is head of the science department the rate department of Ebasco Co., Base before entering the course. of Great Neck High School, 3 Patsy 2 Rector Street, New York City 6. '33 ME—A daughter, Rondo Lynn Place, Great Neck. Formerly with Gas Consumers Asso- Brown, was born January 21 to Ronald '26 AB—Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor, a ciation, he lives at 4039 Chestnut Street, C. Brown and Mrs. Brown, the former leading authority in X-ray research, has Philadelphia 4, Pa. Marian G. Godfrey of Ithaca and an been appointed assistant chief of the '31 AB, '32 LLB—Doris C. Mont- alumna of Ithaca College. Brown is a atomic and molecular physics division gomery has been appointed manager sales engineer for International Business of the National Bureau of Standards. and attorney of the pension business Machines Corp., 590 Madison Avenue, Since he joined the Bureau staff in department of the New England Mutual New York City, and they live at 19 1927, he has continuously headed the Life Insurance Co., Boston, Mass. Mattlage Place, Englewood, N. J. X-ray development program and will remain in his present capacity as chief '31, '33 BS—James E. Rice, Jr. was of the X-ray section. A former research re-elected in January president of the fellow at the University, Dr. Taylor Tompkins County Memorial Hospital assisted in the direction of research board of managers. Address: Egg and and development that led to the proxim- Apple Farm, Trumansburg. ity fuse while he was assistant chief of '31 LLB—Smith Simpson, US For- the Ordnance Development Division. eign Service officer, has been transferred From May, 1943, to January, 1946, he from Athens, Greece, to Mexico as first was chief of the Operational Research secretary and consul. Formerly a re- Section, Eighth Fighter Command, search assistant with the Social Science Ninth Air Force and Continental Air Research Council, special labor advisor Forces. In recognition of this service, and later junior administrator with the he was awarded the Bronze Star and National Recovery Administration, chief the Medal of Freedom. Dr. Taylor is of the Allied Nations Section of the War chief of the biophysics branch of the Shipping Administration, and a divi- Atomic Energy Commission; since 1931, sional chief in the Department of State, has been the sole American representa- Simpson entered the Foreign Service tive on the International Commission in November, 1944, and has also been on Radiation Protection and permanent stationed at Brussels. His home address secretary of the International Commis- is 2325 North Glebe Road, Arlington, Va. sion on Radiological Units, meanwhile '32 ME—Richard S. Stewart has been serving as the representative of the promoted to assistant to the executive Bureau on all similar national com- vice-president of Standard Oil Co. of mittees. Ohio in Cleveland. He joined the com- '33—Louis C. Edgar, Jr. (above) has '27, '32-'35 Grad— John.B. Calkin has pany in 1938 after six years with the been elected president of the E. W. been appointed director of the depart- Texas Co. in Texas, and since 1945 has Bliss Co., builders of stamping presses, ment of industrial cooperation and been operations manager for the manu- can machinery, and rolling mills, with associate professor of chemical engin- facturing department refineries and headquarters at the Toledo, Ohio, works. eering at the University of Maine, plants. At thirty-eight, he is the youngest 344 Cornell Alumni News president since Eliphalet W. Bliss founded the company ninety years ago. For the last three years, Edgar has been president of the H & B American Machine Co. '33, '35 BArch—Carl D. Schlacήter has established offices at 20 Church Street, Montclair, N. J., for general architectural practice. The Montclair Times of January 27 stated: "He enters 72 business for himself in Montclair after many years of varied architectural work which has taken him back and forth NORTH AMERICAN across the country and as far afield as the Canal Zone, where he designed the control towers for the new Third Locks Project of the Panama Canal." While BIRD SONGS ON SIX in military service during the war, Schlachter was chief designer in the Construction Office, Wright Field, Day- ton, Ohio, the office which handled VINYLITE RECORDS design of all Air Depot installations in continental USA. Mrs. Schlachter is the Recorded by the Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation, former Louise B. Martin, daughter of Augustus H. Martin '96. Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University '33 AB—Howard G. Schmitt has been These recordings, made in the birds* natural haunts, re-elected president of the Harvard bring the bird songs of America's woods, gardens, Business School Club of Buffalo and vice-president for business of the Har- fields, and prairies to your armchair. vard Club of Buffalo. He is president "This album will be of immense interest and value and treasurer of The Bishop Co., Inc., . . . to every bird lover.11—Science Review Niagara Frontier food terminal which has approximately 450 affiliated stores. Six ten-inch vinylite records, twelve sides, in an '34 AB—Nathan Goldberg is president attractive album. of Marine Fabricators Co., industrial steel fabricators, Perth Amboy, N. J. $8.50 Postpaid He lives at 105 Kearny Avenue in Perth Amboy; has two daughters: Susan, five and a half, and Janis, two and a half. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc. '34, '35 BS; '46, '48 BS—J. 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Pres., Carl W. Badenhausen, Cornell Ί6 Vice Pres., Otto A. Badenhausen, Cornell Ί7 America's finest since 1840 development committee of the Tompkins methods of natural child-birth. From at 4315 Tuckerman Street, University County Memorial Hospital board of the study they found that most women Park, Hyattsville, Md. managers. could have their babies with little or no '40 PhD—J. Howard Lambert is '37 PhD—Paul J. Findlen, fruit and anesthetic, and still not have unbearable assistant professor of industrial educa- vegetable marketing economist in the pain. The secret lies in a training pro- tion at the University of Illinois, in US Department of Agriculture, has been gram in which banishing fear is an Champaign. appointed program review officer to the important part. '40, '41 ME; '41 AB—W. Jordan Economic Cooperation Administration '37 AB—John F. Reilly, attorney in Severinghaus, staff member in South mission to Ireland. This is his second the law department of the Lackawanna Africa of the Institute of Current World international assignment since he re- Railroad, 140 Cedar Street, New York Affairs, New York City, and Mrs. signed as instructor in Marketing at City 6, was promoted to assistant gen- Severinghaus (Sarah Claassen) '41 live Cornell in 1942; in the summer of 1947, eral attorney January 1. He was released at 1 Rhodes Avenue, Parktown W, he was a member of the ten-member from the Army, with rank of lieutenant, Johannesburg, ToL, Union of South agricultural mission to Poland. He and in April, 1946, and joined the Lacka- Africa. Mrs. Severinghaus writes: "We Mrs. Findlen flew to Dublin early in wanna as attorney that July. have moved to the Golden City of Johannesburg for this year. Jordan will December and expect to be in Ireland '38 AB; '41 AB—David Beitler and a year or more. be studying South African industry and Mrs. Beitler (Eddie Burgess) '41 have I will learn to housekeep the South moved to 76-09 Thirty-fourth Avenue, '37 EE—Edward S. Acton and Mrs. African way, with native servants and Jackson Heights. Acton of 124 Radcliffe Road, Belmont all. We have a lovely house with swim- 78, Mass., have a son, Edward Archibald '38 AB—Dr. David Eden and Mrs. ming pool and tennis court." Acton, born February 16. This is their Eden of 1351 East Fortieth Street, third child and first son. Deborah is '40 BChem, '41 ChemE—Robert P. Brooklyn 10, have a son, Lawrence i seven and Emily is one and a half. Eden, born February 15. Ogden heads a department 'involved in transportation, material handling, stores, '37—Eve Merriam (Eva Moskovitz) '39, '40 BS—Barbara V. Bruen is and production scheduling" for Sharpies won the Collier's Star Award of the instructor in foods and nutrition at Chemicals, Inc., Wyandotte, Mich. The Week for the December 25 issue. The New York State Agricultural and Tech- Ogdens have two children: Bobbie, two $1,000 prize was given to her for her nical Institute in Morrisville. years, and Debbie, seven months. In a short story "Make Something Happen." '40 BS; '41 BS—Arthur E. Durfee, recent letter to Alumni Field Secretary '37 AB—Dr. Frederick W. Goodrich former assistant professor of Extension R. Selden Brewer '40, Ogden wrote: and Dr. Herbert Thorns .of the Yale Teaching and Information, has been "In case you haven't heard, Bob Press- University medical school .reported in promoted from assistant extension editor ing, who is now in Racine, Wis., with the November issue of the American to extension editor at the University of the S. C. Johnson Wax Co., is flying Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Maryland, College Park, Md. He and down to South America with his wife on their clinical study of the ideas and Mrs. Durfee (Martha Cross) '41 live for a few months on some kind of a

346 Cornell Alumni News wax problem for his company. This > C>e^(^g/C>c:y8/C>ey^ey3/C>(v'^^ should make two of the Class of '40 « chemical engineers down there, as I r understand Donnie Jacobs is in South America for Du Pont." '42, '32 BEE—Robert W. Sailor, Jr. and Ellinor 0. Jorgesson-Baumann were married January 14 in Doylestown. They live on West Oak Lane, Phila- delphia, Pa. Son of R. Warren Sailor '07, formerly editor-in-chief of the ALUMNI JLVI over the country Alumni of NEWS, and Mrs. Sailor (Queenie Horton) Eastern Universities continue to keep the '09, Sailor is a radio engineer in the preference they formed as Undergraduates development laboratory of the Philco for Rogers Peet Clothes. Co. and a graduate student at the That is why we make them conveniently available University of Pennsylvania. through well-known stores in many other cities ... in '41 MS in Ed—John C. Moore is addition to our own in New York and Boston and The taking graduate study in personnel Douglas MacDaid Shops in New Haven and Princeton. administration and training at Stanford Write for name of store nearest you. University. Address him care NROTC ALL ROGERS PEET CLOTHES ARE CUT ON unit, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. OUR OWN PATTERNS FROM OUR OWN WOOLENS AND HAND-TAILORED IN OUR OWN WORKROOMS. '41 BS—Mrs. Albert B. Smallwood (Jeannette Stannard) of 111 Clover Ridge Drive, Syracuse 6, has a second daughter, Jane Adele Smallwood, born February 21. '43 AB—Alfred F. De Leo returned in January, 1946, from two years of Army service in the Pacific. He saw action with the Americal Division in the Solomon Islands, Philippines, and In New York: Fifth Avenue at 41st Street Thirteenth Street at Broadway Japan as a lieutenant. Since then he Warren Street at Broadway has been working as a radio, screen, and And in Boston: Tremont St. at Bromfield St. I stage actor in New York City. He mar- ried Eleanor Van Horn of Westfield, N. J., July 23, and they live at 9 Stuy- vesant Oval, New York City 9, in the new housing development called Peter Stuyvesant Town. Enjoy Well-Loved Music with '43, '47 BS—E. John Egan married Shirley L. Varah, Syracuse '41, Febru- THE CORNELL RECORDS ary 26 in Syracuse. He is assistant Four 12-inch Records, two sides, with all the familiar Cornell Music, by catering manager of Williamsburg Inn the Glee Club, Band, and University Chimes. and Lodge, Williamsburg, Va., where William Batchelder '34 is assistant Complete in Attractively Bound Album, $6.75 manager. Including tax—Express Collect '43 AB—Jack A. Kaman, a third year student at the Yale law school, has been Record #1—Glee Club: Alma Mater, Evening Song, In The Red appointed a student director of the and the White school's moot court of appeals. His Record #2—GleeClub: Cornell, Alumni Song, Carnelian and White, address is 2567 Yale Station, New Crew Song, March On Cornell Haven, Conn. Record #3—Cornell Chimes: Alma Mater, Evening Song, Jennie '43 DVM—Dr. Leonard J. Larson McGraw Rag, Big Red Team, Carnelian and White, Fight for married Mary Weber of LaCrosse, Wis., Cornell September 22. They moved November 1 Record #4—Cornell Band: Cornell Victorious, Fight for Cornell, Big into their home they bought in Galesville, Red Team, March On Cornell, In the Red and the White, Alma Wis., Mater '43 AB—Paul J. Weaver, Jr. married Single Records to fill out your set, $1.50 each Margaret Tyler January 29 in Cincin- Including tax—Express Collect nati, Ohio. Son of the late Professor Paul J. Weaver, Music, he is with Procter & Please Order By Number Gamble in Cincinnati. '44 AB; '45 BS—Joseph Fath and Album Only, $1.25 Postpaid Mrs. Fath (Muriel Magid) '45 have a Quantities are limited, so get your order in NOW to assure delivery. daughter, Rebecca Fath, born February Specify quantities, exact items desired, and express shipping address and 2. They recently moved to Redfield enclose payment to Village, Building 16B, Apartment 1, Metuchen, N. J. Fath is a research chemist with the Montrose Chemical Cornell Alumni Association Co. of Newark, N. J. March 15, 1949 347 '44, '47 AB; '44 AB—A son, Clark R. ated from Mercersburg Academy and Sanford, Jr., was born February 27 in Catawa College. He served five years Ithaca to Clark R. Sanford and Mrs. with the Army in the South Pacific.

''"'"''^HM^^ . Sanford (Irmgart Kapernick) '44 of At Pittsburgh, he is a member of Delta 201 Highland Avenue. Sanford is a Sigma Delta fraternity. graduate student in Business Admini- '46 BA; '47 PhD—Anne G. Marani stration. became engaged to Otto J. Plescia, '44; '46, '45 AB—A daughter, Jane PhD '47, December 24. A research Elizabeth Kessler, was born February chemist with the Coca-Cola Export 15 to Richard F. Kessler and Mrs. Corp., New York City, since graduation, Kessler (Natalie Finkelstein) '46 of 32 she is now at the University of Wis- South Munn Avenue, East Orange, N. J. consin, Madison, Wis., where she is '44, '47 BME—Arthur M. Mattison completing graduate work in foods married Kathryn Rundquist, Beloit '47, chemistry. Plescia is a research chemist Practical November 20 in Rockford, 111. They with the M. W. Kellogg Co. in Jersey went to the Penn game on their honey- City, N. J. moon via Ithaca, stopping at the Alumni '46, '49 BME—Daniel C. McCarthy, Pension Office November 24. The Mattisons live Jr. entered a class in the field training at 1730 Cumberland Street, Rock- program of the Ford Motor Co., Dear- Planning ford, 111. born, Mich., February 14. The course '45, '48 BS—Andrew B. Murray mar- is a two-year one. During the long period of years ried Phyllis H. O'Connell, a graduate of '46 BS—Madeline Myers, daughter that pension and profit-sharing Colby College, January 2 in West of Dean William I. Myers '14 of the plans have been operated, a Roxbury, Mass. After a honeymoon in College of Agriculture, was married wealth of experience has been Washington, they are living at Hotel December 17 in Ithaca to Ralph L. Statler in Buffalo, where Murray is Hewitt, Jr. '50, Electrical Engineering. accumulated as to what is prac- personnel manager. tical and what is not practical, '46 AB—Mrs. Richard M. Schlemmer '45 AB—Margaret Picarazzi was mar- (Kathleen Smith), daughter of the late what is desirable and what is ried November 6 to Carroll Synder. Fred A. Smith '23, has been since May not desirable for both employer Her address is Prattsburg. research assistant to Dr. A. E. Parr, and employee. '45 AB—Mrs. Raymond C. Reidinger director of the American Museum of This Company has partici- (Sarah Reed) has a daughter born Natural History in New York City. pated in the development and, January 13, named Madeline Reed She lives at 17 Hampshire Road. Reidinger, for her grandmother, Mrs. '47 BS in I & LR—William J. DeWitt, as trustee, has been closely Madeline Church Reed '16, personnel Jr. is in the training program at the identified with the administra- supervisor for the State Colleges. Reid- Fred W. Means Heel Co. of the United tion of the pension and profit- inger, an alumnus of Princeton, is a Shoe Machinery Co. in Conway, N. H. sharing plans and trusts of a chemical engineer with Du Pont; they large number of business or- live at 1302 Cypress Avenue, Elsmere '47 BEE; '47 BME; '47 DVM—Eve ganizations in widely diversi- Gardens, Wilmington 182, Dei. Mrs. Freyer writes: 'Ί am now assistant to Reidinger is the daughter of the late the technical director of the Illuminating fied lines throughout the Professor Hugh D. Reed '99, Zoology. Engineering Society, 51 Madison Av- United States. '45 '47 AB—Clayton Ryder II is now enue, New York City, and I'm living an advertising and sales representative at Katharine House, 118 West Thir- We shall be pleased to send on in the apparatus department of the teenth Street. I've been seeing quite a request our booklets entitled: General Electric Co., 570 Lexington bit of Helene Klein '47, who just re- Pension Plan Fundamentals Avenue, New York City 22. January 15, signed from her job with the American Building A Retirement Plan he became engaged to Joan M. Coffey Institute of Mining Engineers to go on a six months' jaunt about Europe, and A Realistic View of Pension Costs '47 of Schenectady. Son of Dr. Morton Ryder '15 of 1 Grand View Avenue, Dr. Mary Hallenbeck '47, who is Rye, he is living at home. resident doctor at the Miller Dog & Cat Hospital, 136 West Fifty-third '46 BS in ME—Alfred E. Czerkas is Street, which is run by Dr. Clarence P. Guaranty a metallurgist in the roll coating de- Zepp Ί9." partment of the Kodak Park Works division of Eastman Kodak Co., Ro- '47 BS; '46 DVM—Barbara J. Hume Trust Company chester. and Dr. John R. Steele '46 were married '46 AB—Julia T. Kirkland is working recently. Their address is 166 Homer of New York at the English-Speaking Union, 19 West Avenue, Cortland. Capital Funds, $366,000,000 Fifty-fourth Street, New York City. '48—Greta N. Adams was married She is the daughter of J. Brackin Kirk- February 5 in Everett, Wash., to Wil- 140 Broadway land '18 and Mrs. Kirkland (Eleanor liam L. Wolfe, Washington State Col- New York 15 George) '20. lege '41. They live in Everett at 3231 Fifth Avenue at 44th Street '46 BS—Mildred B. Lincoln, daughter Broadway. New York 18 of John D. Lincoln '24 of Marion, Va., '47 AB; '19, '18 ME—Barbara A. Madison Avenue at 60th Street was married February 5 in Marion to Leinroth, daughter of Eugene A. Lein- New York 21 John B. Dovey of Mercersburg, Pa. roth '19 of Deep Dene and Burnside Rockefeller Plaza at 50th Street After a short wedding trip, the couple Roads, Villanova, Pa., is engaged to are living ^in Pittsburgh, Pa., where New York 20 Alfred S. Mehl, an alumnus of Prince- Dovey is attending dental school at the ton and a former captain in the Coast University of Pittsburgh. Dovey gradu- Artillery in the Aleutian Islands. 348 Cornell Alumni News '47 BS—L. Charles Lockwood man- ages the Bahamas Country Club, Nas- sau, Bahamas, in the winter, and Penn Super-fine British Woollens. New J. PRESS ranges, now Hills Club, Bradford, Pa., in the summer. in stock, are a treat to handle, a delight to behold, a boon to the tailor's needle, and a great pleasure to '48 BS in I & LR—Harry F. Boehmke wear. Incomparable from every aspect of textile ex- is with the time study department of the General Electric Co. in Schenetady. cellence, are box-loomed English clear worsteds, 8 to 9 ounce Huddersfield tropical worsteds, a multitude '48 BS in I & LR—William A. Busch of sporting effects in Real Shetland hand-woven home- married Shirley L. Thackeray of New spuns, and the sleekest gabardines made. Last, but in York City July 3. They live at 635 Aldershot Road, Baltimore 29, Md. no way outranked, are Flannels to add new lustre to Personnel director of Montgomery the West of England weaving fame. All of these may be Ward's retail store in Baltimore, Busch tailored Custom to Order or, more moderately priced, became wage and hour administrator at in our Special Cutting Department. Lit Brothers Department Store in Phila- delphia, Pa., after graduation, and left

in September •- to join Montgomery ίT Ward. 341 Madison Avenue Oiί?fllίϊl!ϊl!ΪnL^ 82 Mt. Auburn Street '48 BS—Patricia J. Finley, a /teacher cor. 44th Street cor. Dunster in the Cheltenham School District, New York Cambridge Philadelphia, Pa., is engaged to Edward R. Smith, Senior in Arts and Sciences. Her address is 128 South Twenty-second 262 York Street Street, Philadelphia, Pa. New Haven '48 BS—Mrs. John W. Hosie, Jr. (Sylvia Kilbourne), graduate student in Traveling Representatives visit regularly in the following cities: Nutrition, was pictured on the cover Buffalo Cleveland Philadelphia and the subject of a feature, "Home Detroit Pittsburgh 7 Charlottesville Economics Careers in the Making/ in Chicago Hanover St. Louis the February issue of What's New in Cincinnati Minneapolis Washington Home Economics. Daughter of Edwin Dates mailed on request I. Kilbourne '17 and Mrs. Elizabeth Alward Kilbourne '18, she is the wife of John W. Hosie, Jr. '49 and has two Cornellian brothers, Drs. Edwin D. Kilbourne '42 and Philip A. Kilbourne '43. The Hosies live in Ithaca at 205 Elmwood Avenue. Here is Your '48 PhD—Claude C. Marion is a WHEN YOU teacher trainer and acting dean at TIMETABLE Maryland State College, Princess Anne, MEET AGAIN Md. Mrs. Marion received the MS in TO AND FROM ITHACA 1947. Light Type, α.m. Eastern Std.Time Dark Typ , p.m. '48 AB—Richard H. Martens has entered the Kodak Park Works division Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. York Newark Phila. ITHACA of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, as a chemist in the paper department. When you meet again in Syra- 10:55 11:10 11:00 5:58 (x)11:45 12:00 11:00 7:44 '48 AB—Caroline E. Sowerbutt was cuse—to talk over old times— Lv. Ithαcα Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca married November 20 in Haledon, for business—a family party or a N. J., to Herbert G. Black. They spent 8:00 10:35 9:00 11:50 three weeks in Florida and Havana, week-end of fun—you'll want to 6:04 8:40 10:40 1:11 Cuba, before returning to live at the Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New Franklin-Maple Apartments in Ridge- be at Hotel Syracuse. Four fa- ITHACA Phila. Newark York wood. An alumnus of Lafayette College mous restaurants. Dancing at 1:17 8:20 8:19 8:35 and Fordham University law school, (y)11:59 7:45 7:44 8:00 dinner and supper. 6oo constantly Black practices law in Ridgewood. (x) New York-Ithαcα sleeping car open for occupancy During the war, he was senior field at New York 10:30 p.m.—May be occupied at modern rooms. Ithaca until 8:00 a.m. representative of the OWI with the (y)IίΛaca- New York sleeping car open for occupancy Psychological Warfare Branch of the at 9:80 p.m. L high Valley Traini use Pennsylvania Station in Army. Mrs. Black was formerly in the New York and Newark, Reading Terminal in Phila- personnel department of the Atlantic delphia. Mutual Life Insurance Co. in New Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars, Cafe-Loυngβ York City. Car and Dining Car Service '48 BS in CE—Richard L. Quasey is Lehigh Valley engaged to Mary O'Brien, secretary to OΪLJ1OE Professor Vernon Jensen, Industrial and Railroad Labor Relations, and sister of Richard SYRACUSE, N. Y. W. O'Brien, Jr. '49. The wedding will The Route of THE BLACK DIAMOND take place in April. Quasey is working

March 75, 1949 349 for the Phillips Drilling Co., 306 Milam program was dissolved in 1946, he was Building, San Antonio, Tex. appointed a midshipman in the Naval '48 BME; '48 BS—Skier on the cover Reserve program. At Cornell, Saunders of the December 15 ALUMNI NEWS was has served as battalion commander of ttαraU Oltofa Porter G. Stevens. He and Martha H. the NROTC, commander of the Navy Warren '48 were married July 10; they color guard, editor of the Derelict, stu- live at 1107 154th Place, Calumet City, dent publication of the NROTC unit, πf New 111. Stevens is with the development and Navy editor of The Cornellian. department of Standard Oil of Moline at Whiting and is taking an evening course at the University of Chicago.

'49 BEE—Sheldon M. Paskow and Necrology Mrs. Paskow of 1512 Fifty-fourth Street, Brooklyn, have a daughter, Emily Jane Paskow, born January 5. Paskow is an Francis X. Kramer, for twenty-nine years electrical engineer for the Arma Corp. stock keeper in Rand Hall of the College of ίfoni φorfe, ϊί. $. Engineering until he retired ten years ago, '49 AB—The US Marine Corps is died February 20, 1949, in Ithaca, where he lived at 301 West Lincoln Street. He was the getting a versatile officer in twenty-two- father of Francis J. Kramer '18. year old William F. Saunders, Jr., who was commissioned a Marine second '91—Maurice Hoopes, chairman of the board of directors of Finch, Pruyn & Co., lieutenant after his graduation in Feb- Inc., paper manufacturers in Glens Falls, ruary. Saunders has been in one uniform February 15, 1949. He had been with the or another ever since he was fifteen company since 1904 and president from years old. He was graduated in 1943 1909-42. He also was chairman of the board BARR & BARR, Inc. of the First National Bank of Glen Falls as a cadet second lieutenant at Carson and a director of several insurance companies Long Military Academy, New Bloom- there. Alpha Delta Phi. field, Pa. Then he joined the Marines. Builders '91 AB—Robert Owen Meech, veteran After training, he spent thirteen months stage character actor who had been living in the Marianas with the 3d and 5th at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, Amphibious Corps before returning to N. J., since March, 1933, January 30, 1949. the United States for assignment to the Member of the Players Club for forty years, Meech supported Otis Skinner in ' 'Kismet" • Marine V-12 unit at Cornell. When the and, with few interruptions, acted with Mrs. Fiske for more than twenty years in "A Night at the Inn," "Madame Sand," "Tess of the d'Ubervilles," "Salvation Nell," and New York other plays. '92 AB—Mrs. Henry H. Orendorff (Mar- Songs of Cornell garet Maynard) of 356 North Encinitas Ithaca Boston Avenue, Monrovia, Cal., January 29, 1949. She formerly taught Latin in the Canton, Contains all the songs that 111., high school. Cornellians sing—words and '93—Edward Theodore Williams, historian and former newspaper publisher, February 19, music. The only complete Cor- 1949, in Niagara Falls, where he lived at nell Song Book. 686 Chilton Avenue. In 1947 he published Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. The History of Northern New York, in collaboration with John T. Horton and Harry Members New York Stock Exchange S. Douglas. 15 Broad Street New York Substantially '94 AB—Charles Austin Wheelock, Febru- ary 16, 1949, in St. Paul, Minn. After many INVESTMENT SECURITIES bound in red fabrik- $2 years in real estate, loans, and banking, he Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton Griff is ΊO oid, stamped with became supervisor with the Federal Land L. M. Blancke Ί 5 Willard I. Emerson Ί 9 Post silver. Only Paid Bank of St. Paul in 1933. Son, Wilbur B. Jansen Noyes, Jr. 39 Nixon Griff is '40 Wheelock '33 of 367 Erie Street, St. Paul, BRANCH OFFICES Minn. Delta Phi. Albany, Chicago, Indianapolis Philadelphia '96—William Ogden Banks, inspector at Pittsburgh Trenion, Washington the US Customs House in New York City for many years, February 13, 1949. He lived at 85 Spring Valley Avenue, Hackensack, N. J. Eastman, Dillon & Co '97—Laurance Cassett Houston of London, MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Ohio, December 27, 1948. He helped to organize and was first president of the Investment Securities Madison County, Ohio, Farm Bureau and was for twenty years a member of the County DONALD C. BLANKE '20 board of health. Theta Delta Chi. Representative '99 MD—Dr. Frances Sage Bradley, one Send payment with order to 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. of the nation's first women physicians and a pioneer in rural health, February 12, 1949, at her home, 1910 Kalorama Road, NW, Cornell Alumni Assn. Washington 9, D. C. After practicing in Branch Offices Atlanta, Ga., for fifteen years, she entered Philadelphia Los Angeles Chicago 18 East Avβ. Ithaca, NΎ. child welfare work for the Government in Reading Easton Paterson Hartford 1915; retired in 1928. '03—Edwin Mahlon Bosworth of 1340

35Q Cornel/ Alumni News High Street, Denver, Colo., banker, January 25, 1949. Chi Psi. '05 ME—Harry Douglas Garretson, in- ventor and authority on high-tension X-ray circuits, February 12, 1949. He lived at 154-47 Ninth Avenue, Beachhurst, Queens. Garretson was vice-president and chief engi- neer of Waite & Bartlett, manufacturers of X-ray equipment, from 1912-35. He held CALDWELL more than forty patents for high-voltage X-ray equipment, and others for radar, steam-electric generators, and elevators. His SCOTT thaumathurge is used in hospitals to charge and discharge condensers for X-ray machines. From 1944-45 he was with the Navy and CONSTRUCTION the Hazeltine Corp., specializing on radar equipment. At the time of his death, he was consultant to the Manhattan Research Laboratory and the X-ray Manufacturing Corp. of America. '05, '06 ME—Joseph Henry Ramsey, con- sulting mechanical engineer and inventor, February 18, 1949, in Albany, where he lived at 86 Chestnut Street. He founded the Ramsey Chain Co. of Albany. Kappa Alpha. '05 LLB—William Lynn Ransom, inter- national law expert and senior member of the New York City law firm of Whitman, Ransom, Coulson & Goetz, February 19, A truly great hotel maintaining 1949, of a heart attack while attending a NEW YORK the finest traditions of Continental conference on research in international law service! A few minutes from at Harvard. A past president of the American FLORIDA Grand Central and Airlines Bar Association, recipient of its Gold Medal, CARIBBEAN and former editor-in-chief of the ABA Terminal. Famed Ritz cuisine Journal, he was chairman of the Associa- SOUTH & NORTH AMERICA in the Oval Room tion's special committee for peace and law and Oak Room. through the United Nations. In 1945, he was an adviser for the Permanent Court of International Justice of the San Francisco Conference that created the UN. Ransom MADISON AVE. AT 46th ST. was a former justice of the City Court of Frank L. Swadley, Gen. Mgr. New York. He organized the Cornell Law Association and was president for three years; was an assistant editor of the ALUMNI NEWS in 1903-4. He held several honorary degrees. Ransom lived at 65 Rockledge Drive, Pel- ham Manor. Sister, Pearl E. Ransom '09. Something new has been added by Son, William L. Ransom, Jr. '42. '08 ME—Christopher Paul Cox, president, ROBINSON AIRLINES of the Cox Distributing Co., Stewart Build- ing, Easton, Md., distributors of Sunoco products, February 16, 1949. Sigma Chi. One Way Flight from '08 ME—Alvah Alison Scott, in January, 1949, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he lived at ITHACA to CHICAGO 2549-B Tantalus Prive. He was manager of the Honolulu Plantation Co. and then general Only $38.45 (plus Fed. tax) manager, president, and a director of the Mutual Telephone Co. in Hawaii. Call Ithaca 3351 For Reservations and Information ΊO BS—George Inness Hartley, author and former research associate in Brazil and British Guiana for the New York Zoological Society, February 11, 194&, in Southampton, where he lived. His books included The Boy RKO Pathe ESTABROOK & CO. Hunters in Demerara, The Importance of COMMERCIAL FILM & TELEVISION Dept. Members of the New York and Bird Life, and The Lost Flamingos. Delta 625 Madison Ave., New York Tau Delta. Boston Stock Exchanges manager Ί5 BS—Drue (Druard) Nunez Allman, PHILLIPS B. NICHOLS '23 Sound Investments former instructor in Vegetable Gardening, Investment Counsel and February 3, 1949. He had been president of Allman Nurseries and garden writer for the MOTION PICTURES FOR Supervision Philadelphia Inquirer; was the author of BUSINESS Roger H. Williams '95 several books for florists. He was a former Resident Partner New York Office president of the Co-operative Cut Flower INDUSTRY Growers of the Philadelphia area. Mrs. All- INSTITUTIONS G. Norman Scott '27, Sales Manager man lives at 113 South Twenty-second Street, STUDIOS 40 Wall Street Philadelphia 3, Pa. Brother, Audrian P. Allman '18. Alpha Sigma Phi. NEW YORK HOLLYWOOD '15 ME—Louis duBois Rees of La Jolla, OUR CORNELL CAMP OTTER Cal., February 4, 1949. He had been a leather Eight distinguished alumni write manufacturer, a citrus fruit grower and about about their University For Boys 7 to 17 farmer, and an engineer with Consolidated Now reissued in new format IN MUSKOKA REGION OF ONTARIO Aircraft in San Diego. Brother, Arthur F. $1.00 a copy, postpaid from ENROLL NOW FOR 1949 Rees, Jr. '14. Chi Phi. Cornell Alumni Association HOWARD B. ORTNER' 19, Director 18 EAST AVE. ITHACA, N. Y. 567 Crescent Ave., Buffalo, 14, N. Y. '16—Frederick Emmons Niedringhaus, No- March 15, 1949 351 vember 7, 1948. He was with the Liberty Bell years president of Aetna Fireproofing Co., Trustee from 1911-31. Brother, Cameron S. Oil Co., 1430 South Vandewater Avenue, St. Inc., New York City, January 17, 1949. He Miller '27. Phi Sigma Kappa. Louis, Mo. Delta Tau Delta. lived at 65 Hillside Avenue, New York '32, '33 AB— John Haynes Bailey, July 5, *17—Robert Sawyer Page, poultryman and City 34. 1948, in Davenport, Iowa. He had been an farmer, May 1, 1948, in Keuka, Fla. Mrs. archeologist for the Champlain Valley Arche- '24 DVM—Dr. Trelford Simpson Miller of ciologal Society in Fort Ticonderoga. Page's address is PO Box 33, Keuka Park, 146 West Fifty-fourth Street, New York Fla. Alpha Sigma Phi. '48—David Gordon Boyce, student in City 19, December 20, 1948. He was the son Agriculture from 1944-47, June 25, 1948. '19 CE—Samuel G. Kaufman, for many of the late Dr. Frank H. Miller, University His home was on RD, Waterport.

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