TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Publication of Telluride Association
VOL. XXII, No. 4 ITHACA, NEw Yorm POST-CONVENTJON, 1 03()
Finance and Investments New Branch and Endowment Discussed The Finance and Investrn.cnts Committee had at its disposal The New Branch and the Endow throughout the year anrl TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Deep Springs Discussion Trustees have expressed jn:formally PUOLTSHFJD BY their satisfaction with the r esu Jts of TELLURIDE ASSOCIATION Dough the experiment. Your Cornn1ittee ITHACA, NEW YORK 11 Deep Springs will need an ap~ felt keenly the advantages in ou1· de Editor: R. M. Gonell propriation from us of approximately liberations accruing from the Presi Posl-ConvcnLion Editor: E. M. Johnson $10,000 this yem·," rend President dent's acquaintance with rcccmt John Whittle in his report to the POST-CONVENTION, 1936 problems at Deep Springs and Convention, "and I recommend that strongly recommends thnt the pn~c News Letter Contributions it be given. Theil' budget has been ticc be repeated next year. u Contributions for the support of tl'immed to an absolute minimum~ The Convention indicated the de the News Let.l-cr nre l'equcsted. They and their anticipated income still s.ire that the President of the Asso should be sent to E. M. Johnson, bears earmarks of the depression." ciation attend the next spring Trus tee meeting. t re nsure r f o L' the fund, at Ithaca, In agreement with President Whit New Y cir k, and receipts will be rc tle, the Convention Committee on Furthe>:, in order to insu t-e more tuTncd fortlnvith. Voluntary contri Deep Springs dec.lared through its complete understanding and coopera butions m·e d esirn b lc, since it makes Chairman H. C. Mansfield that "Deep tion between Deep Springs and the u lHl cccssat'Y an othcnvisc n ccessn ry Springs needs our financial support Association, the Convention pnssccl large expenditure of time and post and will apparently continue to do a resolution that Acting-Dean L. A. 11 age money. f:o unless and until it secures more Kimpton be invited to visit the Cor permanent endowment. Operating nell Branch at his convenience dur Rum Raises Ugly Head overhead has been cut to a minimum ing the coming school yea1·." of approximately $25,000. Deep The Convention also passed the "The question of alcohol in TeU ·Springs income seems to run a little fotlowing resolution: "Resolved, that uridc House raised its ugly head this over $20,000., .leaving the operating Telluride Association express to tbe year," said Pl'<~sidcnt Richard Rob deficit plus the cost of instruction Trustees of Deep Springs. through erts in his report on the Cornell to come from our contribution. Be their Chairman, Mr. H. R. ~Valdo, the Branch. "A group of members de cause of our feeling a few years ago renewed thanks of the Association sired permission to serve beer on cer that expenditures at Deep Springs for the continuing generous coO}Jet·a tain occasions in the House. Upon were too high, we beg-an the practice tion which p1·evails between the two consultation with University authori of appropriating "up to" $10,000. organizations in all matters pertain ties, who offered no objection, seeing no more of it to be used than needed. ing. to their common purpose., that beet· is now served in Wilh:n·d Our impr(•ssion now is that the Trus. Faculty Straight Hall (The CorneU student tees perhaps lean over backward in union-Eel.), the House gt·antcd this During Convention 1'vh·. Kitnpton attempting to return as much as pos permission in defiance of a Conven talked with several Association mem sible of our appropriation. Partic tion opinion of several years ago. bers concerning their avaUability as ularly in enlarging· somewhat the in The permission was later rescinded teachers at Deep Springs, and th~ structing staff and in building up the by the Branch, but the whole ques Deep Springs Committeemen gav~ library now that the removal of the tion should be once more exhumed this matter long consideration_ The Whitman Library makes additional and discussed by the Convention." Committee stated to the Convention shelf space available, your Commit Traditionally, the Association has that, due to the heavy mortality tee believes that we would welcome been against the use of alcoholic bev~ among the Student Body this year, a somewhat fuller use of the ·$10,000 crages by members, but various Con there will be a lal'ge number of new made available. If we wish to re~ ventions, specia!Jy in later years, men to be assimilated in the autumn. move this continuing charge from have discussed the subject in an ef "Moreover," said Chairman Mnns our budget, we should bend every fort to make practice and theory field, ''no one on the staff there has effort to help raise a larger endow bear some relationship to each other. had connections of long standing ment for Deep Springs. In the mean The 193 4 Convention discussed the with us. Mr. Kimpton v.dshes to time, we think no other part of our problem at length, And it was the maintain Deep Springs contacts with income is being gpcnt to better pur~ concensus of that Con vcntion that the Association generally and to have pose." the members of the Cornell B1·anch on lhe ground some one 'vho can The C o n v e n i o n ap.propriatcrl should comply with the By-Laws re t from his own experience supply guid garding the usc of and the posses $10,000, for the use of Deep Spring·s ance and .leadership in developing As sion of intoxicating liquors. How for the coming ycat· and indicated sociation traditions. He can. pny a cvet·, the 1036 Convention adopted that it would prefer to have more modest compensation to such a man. the following resolution: money expended on faculty ra.thet· We think the Association should Reso.lvcd, that the Cornell Branch than to have it returned to the As meet Deep Springs half way on this. 11 be authorized to amend its By-Laws sociation at the 1937 Convention. The Committee Chah·man com- so as to permit the use of alcoholic Cooperation plained of their inability to find an beverages in the House upon occa 11 This year a new experiment in Association man who "seen1s to feel sions to be deterlllinecl in advance cooperation with Deep Springs was the moral beauty of making "\vorldly by the Brancn in each instance, and tried," continued Chairman Mans interest subordinate to sense of that the Branch be held responsible field of the Deep Sp1·ings Committee duty." II' h I for the gentlemanly conduct of its lt1 t c attendance of our President "The Committee is sen sib I e of the members. 1 at the Trustees meeting· in May. The (Continued to Page 10) TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Finance and Investments Original Trust Securities With Accretions ( Cont·inned f-rom Pauc 1) Small blocks of STOCKS Cost deemed necessary. drug and food stocks were disposed 333J)OO Sht·s. Tellmidc l>owcr Co. Common $1.00 p. v ...... $2GS,306.8G of on the theo•·.v that they were good DGL Utah Fire C.lay Co. Common $50.00 p. v. G7,1G2.DO depression stocks, but would not in. 26 American Can Co. Common ...... 3,048.00 ct·ease eal'nings much in the future. 50 Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. Common ...... 10,.183.75 A general policy in favor of holding 50 tJ American Tobacco Co. ''B" ·$25.00 p. v ...... 5,0G8.75 stocl New Branch and Endowment Discussed if it were well ndnpted to the needs support the school and the expetlsivc (Continued of from Page 1) the Association. buildings which would be erected un a1·e considerably less than those in Ohlinger Plans Branch del· this plan. Un.)ess we could ob vo lvcd tain additional in pou ltt·y operations. "During- the past year, Mr. Ohling· endowment of arouucl ''Jn addition $400,000 to to these considern er, with the he.Ip and cooperation of supply this needed ad tions," continued ditional Chairman Lever Dr. Bunell and Mr. Johnson, drew income, the Association ing, "we might hnvc definite figures show up a plan for a prospective orchard have a white elephant on its jng that fruit operations of the right primary Branch in the Champlain hands dut·ing this period. type well lora ted have been consist Valley area. The Association's Pay-As-You-Go Bcs t ently profitable even through the de thanl Cornell Branch Report Prefern1.ent Ithaca, New York, were extended Several committees and ofllccn; The privileges of Telluride House, at took pot-shots at Corne II Branch, but to the following for the school ye~n 1936~37: the Editor thinks the report of Cor Walter Balderston Georg·e Mannet· nell Branch Pt·esident Robe1'ts the ':'Dt·. Hans Bcthe (2nd Term) Christopher Morley, Jr. most temperate nnd intimate, and it Robert Boochever Bruce Netschel't is published complete, because it in W. J. Bowman J. S. Niederhauser dicates both the weaknesses and ex Ji'. H. Bullen Andel'son Pace cellencies and the latent possibilities Dr. George L. Burr F. J. Rat·ig of the Branch as a social, education A. B. Campbell G. F. Reinhardt al, and cultut·al centet·. President J. S. deBect·s R. M. Roberts Robct'ts' comments on alcoholic bev T. S. Dunham R. M. Rust erng Judge Alschuler Writes Dimmler on S. F. Group Kunic Receives Cornell Judge Snmue.l Alschuler of the ''This last year I have enjoyed Degree U. S. Ci1·cuit Com·t of Appeals, of greatly the second-year course at the Miso Kunic, Czechoslovakian schol Chicago, writes to E. M. Johnson as Univ. of Califonlia Medical School ar selected by the Committee on follows: in San Francisco,'' said C. L. Dimm Gntduatc FeLlowships, has finished "Respecting your request that I ler when interviewed at Convention, his two years of work at Cornell Uni~ write something of my recollections "and in addition to rooming with two versity as lhc guest of the Associa of i.\lr. L. L. Nunn, [ recall a con old Deep Springers, E.liot Man and tion and has received his degree of vcrs£\tion with him sometime aftel' Owen Dickson, I have seen a num Master of Architectme. Kunie will n1y :fhst meeting with him, which bel' of west-coast Telluriders f1·om remain in Ithaca this summer, worl< was, I believe, in the year 1901. Be time to time. On several occasions ing on a report of his experiences in was telling me something of his early Chet Dunn bl'ought together quite America and his scholastic pursuits struggles with the problem of high n bunch from around the Bay, in at Cornell. power electrica.l transmission. I re,.. cluding Bob Aird, Henry Hayes, Don In September Kunic will retut·n to enD his statement that before his Falconer, \Vayne Clade, Hal Owen, Czechos\ovalda fo1· two or three project had been fully developed he Si Ross and his brother Bob, Mike months of practical wot·k in archi called on Thomas Edison, to whom Mal'l', and Owen Dickson. We were tecture before beginning his required he submitte!d his plans for such all glad to see Johnny and Mrs. John .. mi.litary service. He hopes to bP. able transmission, asking Edison's views son and Chan on their way to Deep to work in some field of architecture thereon. He said Mt·. Edison freely Spring·s in February, and to spend during his service period. discussed the mnttc1' and stated ns an evening in May with P. N. Nunn When interviewed by a News Lct hi>;. conclusion that the power could ns he retumed from Hono.lulu. Si tc)· staff nportcr, Kunic said, "I wish be transmittccl, but that it would be Ross is, by presidential appointment, to take this opportunity to cxpt·ess impractical since it would require sccretnry of this g,Toup over which my gratefulness to Telluride Asso coppcl' .lines as thick ns one's leg. Chet, by general agreement, presides ciation fol' making it possible for me NutHl srdd, "Mr. Edison, I'll cany it informally. Perhaps the new editor to broaden my knowledge ancl hori on n tcll'~raph wire." How prophetic, of the News Lette1· could prevnil on zon through the privilPg-es that I have nnd how cha1·ncLel·istic of Mr. Nunn. Si to supply him with news of next been granted at Telluride House." (1\Vhile my seventy-seventh year year's meeting-s. fmtls me still busy with the duties of "l\'like Man's many responsibilities Convention Appropriations my ofliciat position, the lengthened with the Owens Illinois Pacific Coast The 19!i6 Convention appropriated shadows of life's dcscencling sun bring Glass are increasing as a resu.lt of somewhat over $42,000.00. This in. me many hout·s of ret1·ospection. But the fine work he has been tul'ning cludes $11,500.00 for the op('ration uo memories an~ mot·e replete with out. Owen has taken enough time of Te.lluridc House, $5,GGO.OO for cash ]lieasurc n.nd interest than those of from the medical course at the U. C. prefcnncnt to men in different in IllY yc~ws of association with Mr. to join the 'bull fiddle1·s' in the Bo stitutions, the $10,000.00 for Deep Nunn, and of my experiences with hemian Club Orchestra. Bob Aird Springs, and $2,000.00 for repairs him and his associates from time to is at the Univ. of Cal. Hospital, in and maintenance of the Telluride time in Chicago and St. Louis, in neurosurgery. He has kindly helpeJ House. Sn.lt Lalce City and Ogden, in Pt·ovo me several times during the yem·. The money appropriated fo1· re ond Olmsted, in Cleveland and New "For the summer I am working· pairs and maintenance of the Hou~P York The L. L. Nlllms have been unde1· Dr. Walter C. Alvarez at the covers painting, new furnishings, and few nnd far between. \Vould there Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. about $250.00 worth of landscaping were more." This job keeps me in the clinic li a.\ong the north side of the premises. brary most of the time. I look for The University will expend nbout fif on Preferment Committee ward to entering the thircl-yem· class teen hundred dollars in addition at Harvard Medical School this Sep the beautification of that part of the "Due to the large number of ap tember." Campus which lies to the cast and to plicnuts this year," said Wayne Ban the north of the Telluride tennis niste•·, Chainnan of the Preferment court. Committee, "the Committee divided Convention Visitors into two pm:ts to interview them. The following Alumni and other New T. A. Directory 011e part interviewed membel's and guests attended Convention: W. L. The Cbnnccllor will issue n new those who had at some time beeH Biersach, H. W. Briggs, G. L. Burr, Te.lluride Directory early in August. resident at C01·ne1l Branch or Deep Harry Cnp.lan, Walter French, E. l\L This directory will be a pocket-size Springs. 'l'he other pal't investig·ated Johnson, D. S. Kimball, L. A. Kimp booklet with sufficient space for en outsiders. The cl'eam of the outsid ton, R. E. Montgomery, McRea Pal·k tering address changes. It is desired ers were then reintcrvicwed by the er Richard Robinson, E. A. Thor·n that the directory contain up-to-date Committee. It is felt that this full hiii, C. N. Whitman, and Francis addresses, and it is suggested that scheme, tlnough saving much time, Wormuth. any unrepol'ted changes during the makes the necessarily too hasty in Several parents, wives, and chil past few months be sent to E. M. ~estigation more thorough. We rec~ dren of m e mb e r s and Alumni Johnson, Tellut·ide Association, Itha ommend this. procedure to furthe1· dropped in from time to time. ca. Preferment Committees." 8 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Parker Addresses Engineers Bonham Campbell is working this President J. A. Whittle showed summer for th.e Detroit Edison Com during Convention eolor_-filn"ls of pic McRea Pm·ker, Tellul'ide Alumnus pany at Port Huron, Mich. He re~ tures which he took on his western nnd D i 1·ector of Schools of Cleveland, cent.ly spent a weekend in Canada trip this spring. 'fhe sections which add1·cssed the Clnve]and Engineel'ing with Goldwin Smith. aroused the g1·eatest interest wcr·e Society on April 21. Pat·kcr spoke the pictures taken at Deep Springs on the organization and operation of In accol·dance with the plnns of and at Olmsted- The Olmsted tllm Cleveland's public school system, the Convention, the upper floors was made just before the "\Vot·kmen with particular 1·eference to the of the Telluride House are being l'e beg-an demolition of the o]d Qual'tcrs problems invo.!ved in maintenance of painted. Bernt Olsson and Bui.lding·_ The destruction of this a plant which comprises 157 build Olof Swenson are doing the job. old building, which had such n pmt ings valued nt fifty millions. in the early days of the Association, Parker, accompanied by his 14- will be regt·ettcd by more thnn one year-old son John, attended Conven P. P. Ashworth has sent for the middle-ag·ed Pinhead. tion. Association files 'copies of an address by Geo. M. Gadsby, President and General Manager of the Utah Powe1' S. R. Levering, ex-President of the No New Alumni & Light Company, before the Annual Association and for two ye~n·s con The 1936 Convention was the first Roundup of Engineet·s at the Univer nected with the Farrn Credit Admin since the War which has dropperl no sity of Utah on April 9. In this talk istration, spent the 8th and 9th of men f1·om membership. At the close Mr. Gadsby outlined the work of Mr. July at Ithaca in connection with of the 1936 Convention there were Nunn and paid him a fine tribute for his official duties. 05 Association members; this num his pioneer work in the electrical in~ dustry. ber, with the four new members ad Oliver R. Cla1:k has been confined mitted at the 1936 Convention, since January in the Veterans' Hos makes a total of 69 members, the J. C. "Fat" Othus of the faculty pital in Sn.lt Lake City with a brokt;n most the A.ssociation has contained of Mechanical Engineering of the hip. In his telegram of g-t_•eeting·s to since the Great Purge of 1920, when University of Oregon spent two days the Convention, Clark repo-rted thDt the membership was cut from 100 to early in July renewing acquaintances the broken bone is slowly rncnding. 65 members. in Ithaca. He was on his way to Schenectady from Madison, where he Edwin C. Rust is attended the meetings of the Society spending the summer traveling in Europe before News Flashes for the Promotion of Engineering Ed~ he begins teacl1ing nt the As the Ne·ws Lctte1· goes to press, ucation. At Madison he met that College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, word comes that both Ward Fellows culturizer of plumbers, Paul Jones. at Va. An ex-Deep Sp1·ingcr. and Botlham Campbell will not teach At Schenectady Othus will spend Rust hns studied art at at Deep Springs during the coming five weeks attending the summer Cornell, at the Gran brook school yeat·. conferences of the General Electric Acndel!J.y, and at Yale Univer sity. Company for professors and other Alumnus C. L. Dickinson of Dry teachers of engineering· subjects. The den, N. Y., s_poke o"Ver WESG on July mornings will be devoted to sched John Olmsted and Mrs. Olmsted 11th on "Cash R1~sults ft·om Pasture uled class groups, and the afternoons left this country early in the spring Improvement." The Dickinson dairy are left free for the visiting of plants for the purpose of continuing study her-d is rapidly being improved, and and a bit of golf. Othus takes ovet· in Europe. They will return to the during the past year the milk pro a course in machine design at the University of California in the au duction per cow wlls two and one university this autumn. tumn, whet•c Olmsted is a n1ember half times that of the average of the of the faculty in history. On leave country. Among Dickinson's numer The following high school gradu from the University, Olmsted spent ous community intet·csts, he is on the ates have been invited to entel· Deep the last year at Cornell. Board of Education of the Virgil Springs in September: Eberhard Central School Heindch, Dubuque, Iowa; David Mc The broad expanse of la.:'\.vn nt the Connau!);hey, Claremont, Ca.l.; Rich Ithaca House no longer appears so E. M. Johnson delivered the com ard L. Moore, Seattle, Wash.; Robert formidable and expansive to Bel·nt mencement address at the Virgil Cen Morris, Milfol'd, Conn.; John Myers, Olsson. The BTanch this spring pur. tral School on June 23rd. Westport, Conn.; Roger L. Randall, chased f\. powe1• mower to rn ake easi Portland, Ot·e.; John M. Seyfarth, er an irksome task. Dr. H. C. Mansfield, of the Depart High.land Park, Ill. One more ad ment of Government of Yale Univer ditional man wil.l he invited. A meeting of the New Branch and sity, is spending the summer in Wash Endowment Committee 'will be held ington as a research consultant to Hal Waldo, eight-year-old son of in Ithaca the 25th nnd 26th of July the Presidcn t's Committee on Ad H. R. Waldo, su_tfercd a broken leg for the purpose of laying plans to ministrative Management. This Com in early June as a result of an atlto carry out the actions of the Conven mittee is to recommend some changes mobile accident. Recent report in tion. Methods of adding to the en in the organization of the national dicates that Hal is satisfactorily re dowment and details of beginning a administt·ation next year. covering. new branch will be discussed. TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER 9 New Branch and Endo·wment Discussed Original Trust Securities With Accretions j?·o'Hl. Pnge 5) (Continued (Contin-ued j-ro))t Pauc .1) Chancellor of the Association, shall constitute a N ev: Branch and Endow BONDS . $ ment Committee. $ 25,000.00 American Tel. & Tel. Co. S. F. 5s 1%0 ...... 24,158.00 3. Be it reso.lved, that the New 20,000.00 B. & 0. Ry. 1st Mtg. "C" 6s 1995...... 20,,130.00 ...... Brnnch ftlHl Endowment Committee 5,000.00 Canadian Natjonal 1<.y. 4 ~s 1957 ...... 5,037.50 ...... be, ~1nd it he1·eby is .authorized and 15,000.00 Chanin Building;, Cum. 4s 1945 ...... 0,751.50 ... . directed to take such steps as it may 5,000.00 Commonwealth Edison "F" 4s Hl8L ...... 4,7,13.75 .. deem desirable to encourage the 5,000.00 Conso1. Gas Co. of N. Y. Feb. 4 1/zs 1951...... 5,175.00 . making of g·ifts to Deep Springs and 15,000.00 Ellicott Square Co. 5s 1!)40 ...... 14,250.00 . to the Association,. and that the Cus 15,000.00 Graybar Building 5s 1946 ...... 11,100.00 . todinns be and they 11ereby are au 20,000.00 Great Northern Ry. 1st Mtg. "D" SlJ2s 1962 ...... 20,280.00 .. thorized and dit·ccted to accept, on 10,000.00 Hooket· Electro-ChemicHl Co. lst Mtg. S. F. Gs HJ53 0,817.6'1 1 ...... behalf of the Association, gifts or 25,000.00 International Commet<:e Bldg. 6 ,~ s 1943 ...... 25,375.00 ...... pledges of g·ifts to the Association, 26,000.00 Lincoln Building-, Corp. Cumul. Income 5lhs .... 25,000.00 .... . pt·ovi Finance and Investments 100 General Electric no par Cornell Branch Report 100 ·Glidden Co. (Continued f-rom Pa!)c 8) ( Cont 100 International ,inuecl from Pfl.ge G) tion, if they deem such action ad Cement Co. 50 Johns-Manvi\Je v isabl c." It is cxpe cte d that this Per.. Corp. Grad. Students 100 Paraffine Companies, Inc. no rnnncnt Finance Committee wiU keep "No estimate of the work of the par members and Alumni advised con grad uatc students in the House is 50 Owens-Illinois Glass Co. ceming investments through the possible, since they ate not in gen The Custodians were 11lso author,.. pag-es of the News Lette1'. eral required to take courses for ized to purcha~w, ''with the proceeds T. P. Bonda Due in '38 credit. However, fout· of the grad of any sales or redemptions of stocks "Our large commitments in the uate students in the House .,.. vel·e Ulti or bonds or with othe1· funds becom Tellul'ide Power Co. hHve often been versity Assistants, which may indi ing available during the year, bonds discussed," continued the Chairman cate sonle snu1.ll aptitllde on thci1· rated "A" or better by Fitch Bond of the Finance Committee. "The part. One of _the gt·aduate students, Record and stocks rated by Fitch at problem of refinancing their G% Mt·. Hm·old At,kinson, was a finalist "8" or better. bonds of Hl38 now conft'onts the i11 the Rome P1·ize Competition in Company. Although the Committee Landscape At·chitecturc. "-Vith t.h~ did not approve an increase of our Deep Springs Discussion increasing- 11ecessity of the doctor's holdings, it recommended that up to ( Cont-imwd from Pnr;e 2) clegTee in professional wo1·k outsidl.' $30,000. be made available to the relative jnjustice of applying sanc the usual fields of mediciJte, lnw, and Custodians for purchase of Telluride tions to any partictLla1· member in so on, we shall find a commensurate· Power Co. 6's of 1938. Thus we co order to draft him and is unwilling· ly greater demand on the p~H't oi opel'nte in a plan to avoid the ex to propose a,ny definite Convention 'l'ellu ride men to be supportecl no\. pense of a new issue of bonds, either action in that dil'ection. It recom only throug-h theil· bacca..Jaureate by extending· the date of the old mends Mr. Bonham Campbell and work, . but through tlu·ee or more ones or by effecting an exchange Mt·. Anderson Pace ns a team fot· the years of gt·ad unte study as ""elL. 'l'cll with the bond holders. 'l'he filet that job, and welcomes Mr. Campbell's nride Association has the l..·ight, nnd the redemption of bonds of appt·oxi suggestion that they n ego t i a. t e should firmly exercise it, to invcsti mately $125,000 held by others than directly with Mr. Kimpton. Your g,·ate thotoug·h ly the qua)ific a tiOllS of Deep Springs, Telluride Association, its membet·s Committee also recommends that the for graduate v ..rork 1 and, ulent and the most vague in their Monaghan, Franklin & Jay Pen vs. Scalpel ct·iticism. An attempt hns been made The Three Monks Press of New Hcprints of the following articles to run the House with as little in Haven on June 12th issued an edi by Dr. Root. B. Aird hn vc been terference with the .lives of the mem added tion limited to 247 copies of Some to the Association Ales: bcl·s as possible, which may hnvc re Convcr~a. tions of Dr. F1 ·a:nklin a.ncl E sulted in an apparent laxity. A smoke xpcw£m.ental EnceJ) h a ln {Jl"fl1>hy M1·. Jwy, the first publication !:iCnen of moral indignation, though of a with Anesthetic Ga~es, from th~ Ar manuscript wt·itten by John Jay usHally ratllct· ineffective, mig-ht have in chives of Snrucry, Feb., 103 G. Paris in gone fo.t to 1783~84. Fr1-1nk Monag·han, Experimentnl convince critics that the Ence1JhalournJJhy author of the recent excellent biog~ House wns operating in n healthy with An,cRUwUc Gases. reprintc-<1 raphy of John Jay, wrote the intro Telluride fnshion." hom the Proceedings of the Societ~· dnctory essay lo the Con,versaf, 1~ons. for Experimental Biology and Mccli The handsome booklet might have Jones, Pinhead .. Scourge, cine, 1034. This work was conducted come off Franklin's own pl'ess in Phil~ under grants f1·om the Chdstb1C Writes adelphia. Bre on Fund for Medica 1 Rese a :rch and "I teach a variety of courses and the Dudley Cates Fund for Ncnro subjects," wl"itcs Paul Jones, Profes logicnl ReseRrch in the Univ. of Calif. sor of English at Gorrell Gets Editorship Iowa State Col.Jegc, Medical 1 School. under date of Ap1·il 29. ' 0nc of my Robert M. Gorrell, Cornell senior StncHcs upon the 8-it-o of S f.inlltla specialties is It senior course in the from B1·emcn, Ind., wRs elected Edi Uon of Salivniion by I nt'l'·a7..?C n t,ricll wl'iting of technical papers, run in tol· of the Telluride News Letter for lco·ly l1z,jccted Piloca,?·pinc in Doys, cooperation with certain departments the coming year, to succeed the re from the Jow··nul oj' Phwr ;no.coloay in engineering. Then I teuch the til·ing Editor Balderston. Goncll modern nncl Expcrinwnt(tl The ra.]JClltics, novel-of course; masteT hfls worked at various jobs on his picces March, 1936. (In collaboration with of world literature: Plato, Vir father's newspaper and bring·s to the M. F. Montgomery) gil, Dante, Goethe, and Tolstoy; and News Let,ter more technical knowl Expe?cimentnl a course fo1· seniors in landscape edge and experience than any other Injection of Elh!ll Jllcohol architecture, tracing in literature the Editor we have had. Goncl.l begins into the Lmnba'r Subnrach development noicl Spa.cc, of mnn's attitude to wot·k this autumn on his Ph. D. in with Nc1.o·opu t;h.olouical Wind Shuli the l!mdscape. That last one English. He has had much experi cs , from the W es tern J o :unwl o.f is unique, I think! I've been doing ence in dt·arnntics, both play-writing Suroe·rtJ, Obsteh'ic.c; nnd Gy necolouy, considerable experimental J 'u.ly, 1035. wol'lc also and acting-; he is a member of the (In collaboration 'vith H. with freshmen, notably one experi Radio Guild. This spring he won the C. Naffziger, M. D.) ment which has established pretty Corson Browning Pri~e and is both These n rticles are not rc co l'Yl nlCJHlcd conclusively that composition can be Phi Beta Kappa nnd Phi Kappa Phi. fol' light summer rending·. taught just ns efficiently without 'l'hc News Lettc1· finished its sec~ reading and gmcling n.\1 the themes. oncl yeat· of self-support with all bills I suppose you know of the new f1·esh pnid and $10.43 in the bank. How num anthology Williams Films Real Stars edited by Hogrefe ever, clming the sessions of Conven and Jones, called Robley Intm·preti.nu Ex- tion the paper's financial agent co.l. C. Willian1s has just com 1Hwience, published by Ginn and lected enough from those attending· p.leted his thst yenr on the staff of ComtHmy? There's the a good book if f to start oft' the year with eighty dol Department of Astronomy at the do say so." University lm·s in the account. During the sum of Michigan and "vill next Barbara Jones yeae has just completed mer and early autumn those who continue his work. During the her (hst yc:w nt Iowa State in Home hnve not contl"ibuted for the coming past year, he aluminum-co a ted the Economics, and Betty large will be finished year will be given opportunity to do mirror at the o bserv a tory of with high school in one more year. so. F'ormel'ly, the Association and the University and will use this mir- Jon cs instructed in the preparatory the Alumni split between them the 1·or in his research. industrial branches of the Associa cost of the pub.lication, but individ During the summer Will in ms is tion, beginning at Bliss Branch in ual contl"ibutions spread the expense working· at the solar-tower at the. October, 1913 i he· during his four among a gTeater number. This saves McMath-Hulbert Obscrvnto1·y nenr yeal'S taug-ht Pinheads at the Beaver for widet· usefulness the money in Pontiac. This equipment is used to and Claremont Brnnches also. He the L. L. Nunn Memorial Fund of the obtain motion pictures of solar phe took his docto1·ate at Cornell on the Alumni Association. nomena, a new field whic-h hoJds novels of Hcnt·y James, and held an The Convention passed a resolu much promise for the future. The. i11structorship while doing graclua.te tion that nt least six numbers of the equipment is at pt·esent fully devel work. Between the time he instruct paper be issued during the coming oped, and Williams will act chiefly ed for the Association and the begin yent· and that a post-Convention as 3td Assistant to the Assistant Di ning of his work at Comell, he was number be published by the Chan~ rector. h en(l of the English Departl\\ent in ce\lor. The hope was expressed that During 103<1 Vincennes University Wllliams djd distin and a teacher a grcntcr number of mcmbel's and guished work in the developn'lent of at the Potter School for Boys in San Alumni wou.ld contribute personal his process of coating astl'onomicnl F1·nncisco. He was admitted to mem news and co1mmunica:tions pertain mirrors, and bcl·ship in the Association this invention has. added at the ing to the woyk of the Association 1915 Convention. mntet·ially to our ]cnowledge of the ~nd the Alumni org·anization. ~tars. TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER 13 Grad. Guests Invited at its discretion, two graduate schol Culbertson Writes ars to reside at Telluride House dur tee on Graduate William B. Culbertson, Charter The Com m i t ing the academic year 1937-38." Guests, composed of Professor Bun, Member of the Association and pres Dean Kimball, E. M. Johnson, the ent General Secretary of the Topeka (Kan.) Y. M. C. A., writes: J>t·csident nnd the Vice-President of A. House Re-insured Cornell Branch (this year Roberts T. I came here two and one-half Rnd Ohlinger), invited three men to In his report to the Convention, yeat·s ago to try to rebuild a badly be the g·uests of the Cornell Branch Treasurer Biersach stated that nrc neg.lected Association. Cmrent fi during the coming· school year. insmance on Telluride House and nances and capital indebtedness, Ha.lldot· 1-Iermannsson, Pt·ofessor contents fo1· five years was renewed along with program needs, were chal~ of Scandina-vian Languag-es and Lit at a cost of $606.00. One policy in Ienging. Finally, after 30 months all cratut·e, as well as Curato1· of the New Ym·k Coopc1·ativc Underwriters curt·ent bills and the opet·a.ting dell~ famous Icelandic Collection in the for $60,000 runs to Feb. 28, 1941, cit of years back were paid. Only Cornell Univet·sity Library, will be and one policy in Hon1e Mutual l<'ire tiH"ce days ago we began the difficult the guest of the Branch tiH"oughout InsUI'an ce Co. fo1· $GO,OO 0 runs to task of raising $20,000 to reduce the the yeat·. Dl'. 'William Drapet· Hm· March 16, 1941. mortgage to a point where we can kins, of the University of Chicago, handle it. Program participation it's will be om· guest during- · the first shows 105% increase. All in all 1 tern\ while he is lecturing at Cornell Mansfield Continues just routine, but have thoroughly the fight so far. About two on the Bai NewT. A. Members lows, YmTow, and Zalinski were for Alumni Get Invite mer members. The 193 6 C011Vention admitted to The Convention Edwin Paul Swatek, Jt., of Chica passed the follow mcmbel'ship four men, three of whom ing Resolution go, Illinois. He hac\ four years work in connection with its had attended Deep Springs. The wish to establish at the Roosevelt High School in Chi closer rel atio nsh ips M c m bersh ip Commit tee considered cago before attending Deep 'Springs with Aseociation Alumni and other the applications of 21 men, 14 of friends: for three years. His activities in. whom were present in person for in~ Be it resolved, high school were varied, and he p.\ans that the hospitality terview. Those admitted to member~ of Cornell to wo1·k in civil engineering. He is Branch of Telluride. As ship are: sociation be, and interesterl in the history of the Re hereby is, extend()d to mem Frederick Hamilton Bullen, of naissance and will continue this mo1·e bel'S of Te.lluride Association, Telludde Association Pueblo, Colol'aclo. Bu.llen spent foul' cultural rending. He will enter Cor Alumni, mem bers of Deep years at the Pueblo Centennial High nell with some 60 hours credit. He Spt·ings Student Body, and officers of these school, two years at Deep Springs, was born in D~cember, 1915, is of organizRtions upon visits RtHI has completed one year at Cor~ German-Bohemian origin, is 5'10" to Ithaca, New York, dut· ing nell University as the guest of the tall, nnd weighs 150 pounds. the academic year 193G-37 i and Association . He is interested in pub~ that such visitors be requested to lie administration as a vocation. Dur~ communicate, whenevc1· possih1c, i ng his year at· Cornell he has been Norton... Yarrow with the Secretal'Y of Cornell Bl'anch a member of Telluride Association prior to such of the Cornell Debate As Association member Clarence H. sociation. visits. Co-Editor of Areopagus, Yart·ow and Miss Mat·g·aret A. Nor and a member Those who have accepted the hos · of the Executive ton were married at Ann Arbor, pitality extended in this formidnblc Council of the American Student Michigan, on June 21. Union. Bullen's resolution, adopted from Convention scholastic average Mrs. Yarrow, known to many for· the year to Convention, have found the entcl' at Cornell was 85. He members of the Association, was is dark, tainment by no means so formll.l ami weig·l1s 165 pounds, is G' lJz" gl'aduated in 1934 from the Central stiff as the wonling of the invitation. tall, ancl was born in October, 1915. State Teacher's Colleg·e, and received A great deal of hearty good will and Chdstophel' Morley, Jr., of Roslyn her A. B. degree in 193G f1·om the friendliness lurks behind its stilted Heights, Long Island. Mor.ley had University of Michigan. lines. three years at the De Witt Clinton The Yarrows sailed for Europe. on Higl1 School ill New York City before June 27. They will travel through he entered Cornell as a freshman Belgium and Germany and wil.l .attend Kramm .. Read October, 1934. He was invited as summer school in Italy, in prepara Association member Dona\(] B. guest of Cornell Branch in February, tion for their year of work at the Read and Miss Dorothy E. Kramm 1935, and has been at the Honse dur University of Rome. Ynrrow, on an were manied on June 27 at the St:. ing the past year and a half. He Exchange Fe.llowship, will study the Agnes Chapel in New Yorl< City. plans to major in philosophy, mo1·e Fascist political theory, and Mr·s. Miss Kramm is a graduate of Bar for the intellectual discipline than Ym·1·ow will study history. nard Co.llege and is employed as so for a specific career. His tastes run cial assistant to the Dean of Bnrncml along the academic and intellectual, College. and these may lead him to the class Franco .. American Review Read acted as "Doctol'" at the room or the pulpit. Morley is Sec Out Bowery Y. M. C. A. during the pnst retary of the Book and Bowl, and his The first issue of The Fmnco year. F1·om July 20 to Aug. 30, he scholastic average for the yeat· was Amcrican Rcm:ew appeared in June. wi.\1 act as interne at the Lenox Hill 93. He was born in December, Among the members of the American Hospital in New York City; during 1916, is .light, weighs 150 pounds, Editorial Board of the Re,view is September, he will work in medicine and is 5'11" tall. Frank Monaghan, Association mem in the Out-patient Dept. of the Ncv·.' George Swayne Stewart, Jr., of ber in the Department of History at York Hospital. During the corning Norwalk, Ohio. From the Norwulk Yale. Monaghan, Secretary of the schoo.l year Read will do regula!' High Scl10ol Stcwm-t went to Deep Board nud Manag·ing Editor, w1·ite~ fourth-ycRr medical work at the Cor Spt·ings, where he remained three CUI't'cntly on the Franco~Amcrican nell Medical Colleg-e, years. He will enter Cornell this activities, ''It is a pleasure to 1·ecord The Reads will reside in New York autumn with junior standing; will the cstablish~rrent of an institution City. major in English but at the snmc lhat has ah-eacly given evidence that time fu.lfill the pre-medical require~ it wilt be of the greatest uti I i ty to ments fo1· Cornell Medical School. In all persons who wish to obtain ac No Minutes for Alumni high school his activities were numer curate, unbiased factua I information The economy measure of sending ous and divet·sificd. He was born in about almost every aspect of France no printed Convention Minutes to November, 1916, is of light complex and French life." Alumni wi.\1 again be followeUnited States Steel Corp, Com. $100.00 p. v ...... 4,078.00 25 " nell Branch to make reports not less States Steel Cot·p. Pt·efenec\ ...... 1,009.22 20 " United frequently than once every two Chemical, Inc·. Common, $5.00 p. v. 1,347.00 40 " Vick months to the Custodians concerning; Association, $7·01,840.13 the investments of the with their recommendations for ac- (Co-nf:innccl to Pn(Jc 10) ( Conti11-ucd lo Paue 9) 4 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER het· doubt than offset from the sn.1e of fntit. farm belonging to the Hazen Foun if this would be forthcoming. Even We see no reason why the dation near Haddam, Connecticut. enterprise if it were, however, it wou.ld involve need operate There is as a I oss during any a possibility that this could a period of six to eig·ht years at least period of its development. It is rcc· be obtained on quite favorable terms during which the Association would ognized, of if the Foundation course, that wjth crops were convinced of have to contl'ibute at least twelve to such as potatoes, :factors such as low the merit of its pt·ospective usc and fifteen thousand dollars a year to p~·ices_ mig·ht \ resu It in opel'ating at TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER a deficit during any given year. This dicates to enable immediate purchase Branch. Now we will turn to the would be otl'set, howeve1·, by operat of the site selected. Mr. Johnson general problem of ,·aising endow ing profits p·catly in excess of those and certain members of this Com tnent. \Vc heartily endorse the poli in the attached figures during- other mittee feel that if this proposition cy adopted at the 1935 Convention years. were p1·esented to certain individuals which was that active cffol't should Committee Asks Action there would be at least an even be carried out to ndse fut·ther en "We believe that it is desirable to chance that $20,000. or more could dowment, both for Telluride Associa pUl·chase the land and get the or be raised. tion and for Deep Springs. W c rec chard started as soon Rs necessary 3-If a total of $45,000. or mol·e ognize that the Tellul'idc Association on finances m·e. available. One chief became available to the Custodians endowment is sutftcient to cat·ry this the prcs~ut reason is that uncle1· the plan which and they were convinced that its own operntions on of Deep we recommend the schoo.l would not was sufficient to pu1·chase the proper scnle. This is not tl'ue needs addition. he started until about eig·ht years ty and pl'ovide adequate working Springs, which badly the number nfter the land was pu1·chased. I£ capital and that the enterprise after al endowment to improve of the instruction staff we should wait until we decide to purchase would be self-supporting-, and quality its operations have u school l'ight away, we would that they should pl'oceed to put·chasc and generally to make a competent successful. We believe that it lose a great deal since to putchase the site selected, employ more the development ITttlc <.liO'crcnce whether en an orchard entCl_·pl'ise of the type manager, and start makes gifts are made directly to which we would have under our plan of the Ol'chard enterprise. dowment not be locat the Association o1· to Deep Springs after eight years would cost certain,. 4-If donors should the difference between since as a prnctica.l matter interest ly as much as $200,000. while if we ed to supply $45,000. this difference :from both endowments is usee! had developed H o-urselves we should $30,000. and up by appropriations wherever it is most needed and will not have any gl·cate1· capital invest would be built e s s i v e Conventions ns be most productive. Furthermo1·e, ment than $60,000. We feel that a from s u c c available fo1· that purpose. while we deem it entirely possible to new primaty Branch is desirable as money was 5--Neccssary buildings for the establish and maintain a new Branch soon as possible, and we see no rea school would be erected pc1·haps six on a sound flnnncial bnsis without son for postponing its initiation after to eight years after the property was further endowment, it would be de th11t dRtc when sufficient funds are pmchased. In the meantime farm sirable from tile standpoint of devel availab!G for carrying the enter buildings already on the p1·operty oping this Branch as rapidly ns pos pt·ise th1·ough successfuLly. Anothel' would be adequate for the manager sible to have entlowment available reason - for ncting immediately is and all other needs. The school build the income of which could be used that land values have already risen ings would be et·ected by one of two for that purpose, nnd additional en nbout twenty pet· cent. over the methods. If necessary they could be dowment would increase the margin low and can be expect~ depression built f1·om profits from the orchard of safety in canying through the en at least another thir ed to l'ise enterp1·ise. This would mean post terprise to ultimate success. ty per cent. during the next four or ponement of building until perhap::; "~onccrning methods of raising During the present year five yen1·s. the tenth or twelfth year, and· even endowment we agt·ec with the repot't j)robably increase about they will at that time buildings would hnve to of the Committee appointed at the to ten per cent. eight be erected g1·adunlly ancl in unpre last Convention that the most appro Committee Presents Plan tentious fashion. If their erection priate source of contributions is from "We suggest for your considel'a was delayed until the twentieth year, members, Alumni, and friends of this tion that a feasible method to initi money should be available to appl·ox. Association, and that very consider ate and develop a branch of this type imate the architectural beauty and able amounts can be obtained from might well consist of the following completeness of Mr. Oh.ling·er's plan. the~.e sources. We herewith sub steps: In practice it is om· opinion that from mit resolutions embodying out· con b--An appropriation by this con about the sixth to eighth year with a clusions." feom the New going and p1·ogressive enterprise we vention of $20,000. Branch and Endowment Resolutions B1·anch Fund and $10,000. from the will be able to interest donors in sup In connection with 11cw Branch Ope1·ating Reserve Account to be plying the necessat·y finances for im and endowment matters, the Conven used l>y the Custodians for purchas mediate erection of buildings both tion adopted the fo.llowing resolu ing a site and beginning operations, adequate and architecturally satis tions: flnd that other funds aJ.'e factoi'Y· if they 1. Be it resolved, that this Con sufficient to make this step 6-From the tenth year on and flvailable vention endorse the principle of the and desirable. after the buildings are erected tht\ }n·udent establishment of a primary Branch this appropriation avail orchard enterprise should be able to 2-With in connection with a pt·ofitable, self of Mf. Ohlinger's take ca1·e of almost all, if not all, of able and copies sustaining agricultural enterprise. the site selected, a com the expenses of operating the school, plans and 2. Be it resolved, that the Presi by the President to including salaries of capable faculty mittee appoh1ted dent of the Association be, and he efforts to raise en men and other strictly scholastic ex supervise jointly hereby is, authorized and directed to establish a new Branch penditures. dowments and designate three membcl's of the As and fl'iends of Asks Endowment Increase would contact Alumni sociation, who, together with the 11 Up to this time we have been the Association with the proposal the Association and the re President of that they supply at least $20,000. and dealing specifically with problems of a new ( Contimwd to Paue D) as much mo1·e AS theh· inclination in- lated to the establishment 6 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER