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and burn it down, lice and all." Later, CornelΓs Educational Pioneers Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey added his inspirational examples. Rice never James E. Rice '90 forgot how Bailey was so interested in his teaching that he often walked into BY EARL W. BENJAMIN Ίl the classroom starting his lecture be- fore he could close the door. This continues our series on the cooperation is the greatest force in pioneers who have blazed new Itrails When Professor Bailey became the material world." A few years ago, Dean of the College of Agriculture in in education at Cornell. Articles have I asked him to autograph his photo- 1903, he asked Rice to come back to appeared on President Andrew D. graph for my office. What did he White, Robert H. Thurston, Liberty Cornell as assistant professor of Poul- write? "The ability to cooperate is Hyde Bailey, James Law, and Edward try Husbandry, the first position of our best measuring stick, James E. L. Nichols '92. Others will be pub- that title to be established anywhere. Rice." lished in forthcoming issues. Rice accepted, and later being pro- Earl W. Benjamin was a student and colleague of Professor Rice for fifteen First Poultry Teacher moted to full professorship, remained years. Since 1922 when he resigned as While still an undergraduate, Rice until he became professor emeritus, professor of Poultry Husbandry at Cor- started writing for several agricul- July 1, 1934. During these three dec- nell, he has been successfully putting tural papers in the course of which he ades, members of the poultry staff to business use the principles and prac- reported the proceedings of the first were increased from two to more than tices in which Rice has been a leader. Farmers' Institute ever held in New thirty, with a corresponding increase Benjamin received the BSA in 1911 York State. During this time he made in the number of students taught and and stayed in the Graduate School and his first address, a talk on "The De- activities carried on. A $90,000 build- as instructor in Poultry Husbandry, re- velopment of the Egg" before the ceiving the MS in 1912 and the PhD in ing (later named Rice Hall), and aux- 1914. He was appointed assistant pro- Agricultural Association of which he iliary buildings were erected for the fessor in 1914, professor in 1920. For was president. At his own expense, he Poultry Department. thirteen years, his office has been in carried on the first poultry feeding It is significant that of men and wo- New York City, first as general man- experiments in any American college, men studying under Professor Rice's ager and treasurer of Pacific Egg Pro- in the third story of the old Red Barn. direction, at least twenty-eight have ducers* Cooperative, Inc., a marketing Upon graduation, Rice accepted Dean become heads of poultry departments agency for eggs from West Coast poul- Roberts's offer to remain one year as of colleges and experiment stations in trymen's cooperatives, and latterly as his assistant. At this time Rice taught executive representative of the Wash- the* United States and Canada. At ington Co-operative Farmers Associa- the first course in Poultry Husbandry least forty-five have been employed tion of Seattle. in this country, as part of the first in agricultural colleges and experi- Cornell winter course in Agriculture. ment stations in teaching, research, or T is the opportunity and responsi- extension and at least forty-one have bility of a great; University to build After leaving Cornell, Rice spent I about eleven years farming at York- been engaged in other educational and men and women. Cornell University governmental work, or as experts or has done a lot of such building and town, and supplemented farm work by delivering 1134 talks on Farmers' executives in commercial operations James E. Rice '90 is one of the good closely allied to the poultry and egg reasons why. Institute programs in four States. During this time, he became president James E. Rice was born March 12, of the Cornell Agricultural Experi- 1865, at Aurora, 111. His father and menter's League. his grandfathers, great grandfathers, and great-great grandfathers were In 1898, James E. Rice married farmers. Unusual family tragedies Elsie Van Buren and their six children, beset young Rice. His parents died, Ruth '23, Paul '25, James '31, John then his foster parents, before he was '32, Alice '34, and Elizabeth '36 were fifteen. Rustling for himself developed the chief motives for all family activi- his initiative and perseverance; he is ties during their twenty-eight years always trying new things, finding the of happy married life. Mrs. Rice died hidden hens' nests that others missed. in February, 1926. Rice always had a zeal for military Professor Isaac P. Roberts was a training and earned every possible strong influence for Rice during the military honor during his years at early days. When Rice asked him Granville Military Academy and Cor- about certain procedures for action nell. It took a deep love for agricul- at the College, he replied "You'll ture to cause him to decline an attrac- have to find out for yourself." Rice tive appointment to the regular Army. has been finding out for himself ever Entering Cornell in 1886, he im- since. Never forgotten too is Roberts's mediately organized a cooperative admonition that if the first Cornell student boarding club. His experi- poultry house which he authorized ences with the boarding club taught Rice to build, in 1891, became dis- him that "Next to love, the spirit of reputable he "would turn out the hens JAMES E. RICE '90 industry. Of these 114 men and wo- Professor Rice and Mrs. Louise E. War Casualties men, seventy-three have been on the Dawley, a longtime friend of the Cornell Poultry Department staff. family, were married October 31, 1936. INCE Pearl Harbor, the ALUMNI Among additional "firsts" credited Mrs. Dawley Rice has done much to S NEWS has reported the deaths of to Professor Rice are: help Professor Rice in his later work. 189 Cornellians in the armed forces, 1. He was first head of first separate Together they traveled over the including nine in this issue. Of these, college Department of Poultry Hus- United States and visited nineteen 100 have been killed in action; the rest bandry in America. In the words of Central and South American coun- died in training accidents or of sick- Dean Bailey, "I should not have tries in the interest of the Seventh ness, in the United States or overseas. cared to undertake it were it not that World's Poultry Congress and Exposi- In the first world war, 264 Cornellians we saw in Professor Rice a man who tion in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. This lost their lives in service. Twenty-six could organize and vitalize it and Congress and Exposition, of which alumni have been reported as missing make it a subject worthy of a college Professor Rice was general chairman, in action, thirty-one as prisoners of curriculum." attracted 850,500 visitors from every war. 2. He conceived and inspired at Cor- State in the Union and forty-one According to present information, nell the first organized Experiment foreign countries. the first alumnus to die in this war Station work in America on such sub- was Lieutenant Willard T. DeGolyer jects as constitutional vigor as an in- Fosters Farm Welfare '40, AAF, son of Calvin S. DeGolyer dex for egg production and reproduc- The Rice Public Debate Stage, the '10, and brother of Avery H. De- tion, ventilation of poultry houses, Elsie Van Buren Rice Home Eco- Golyer '39, Calvin S. DeGolyer, Jr. relation between body-type and pro- nomics Public Speech Stage, and the '44, and Mrs. Elizabeth DeGolyer ductivity of birds, and inheritance of Louise E. Rice New York State 4-H Niederhauser '41. Lieutenant DeGol- size, shape, and color of eggs. His re- Poultry Club Foundation at Cornell yer died February 9, 1942, in a plane search "firsts" as to methods of ap- round out a carefully-planned trio of crash near Montgomery, Ala., where proach to various problems are too endowed foundations for maintaining he was a flight instructor. numerous to list. in perpetuity an urge for improvement First to be killed in action was Lieu- 3. He was the first institute lecturer along those lines which Professor and tenant (jg) Jacques C. Saphier '36, on poultry husbandry in the United Mrs. Rice believe essential for prog- Navy Medical Corps, August 21, States. ress in agricultural welfare. 1942, in a Marine action on Guadal- 4. He started the first extension work Professor Rice's five great satisfac- canal. His wife, Dr. Laura Weber in poultry husbandry in the United tions have been the lives and accomp- Saphier '36, entered the Navy Med- States. lishments of his children and their ical Corps as Lieutenant (jg) a year 5. He organized the first poultry show families; the sound growth of Cornell later. for practical production qualities. University; the expansion and prog- Highest ranking alumnus to die in 6. He organized the first poultry judg- ress made in the field of poultry hus- the present war was Brigadier General ing school in the United States for bandry; the careers of the men and Charles H. Barth, Jr. '27, USA, training judges in practical production women whom he has helped to train; killed May 3, 1943, in Iceland, in the qualities. and the success of the Seventh World's plane crash which also took the life of Is Ardent Cornellian Poultry Congress and Exposition. General Frank M. Andrews, USA, Team work whether in athletics, He retired June 30, 1934; retired as commander of US Forces in the education, research, or any other work he said "To pull weeds out of the European Theatre. was his goal. His was a very special garden; go fishing; listen in the early delight when asked to talk to Fresh- morning to the birds and cockerels and men on "Cornell Spirit." He made pullets." Mrs. Rice and he spend six Rice '90 Endows Prizes them feel it and want to "yell" it. He months each year at their Appledale RUSTEES of the University knew what it meant, because as he Orchard home in Mexico, N. Y., and Thave accepted three endowments later said of his own Freshman emo- the other six months in Miami, Fla. presented by Professor James E. Rice tions, "I saw Cornell University—that On the occasion of his eightieth birth- '90, Poultry Husbandry, Emeritus, to thrill remains—it has never dimmed day, March 12, 1945, he was remem- perpetuate prizes for achievement in —a new world was opened to me—my bered by a flood of congratulatory agriculture and home economics. In- youthful dreams as a farm lad ac- messages from all over the country. come from the James E. Rice Founda- tually came true." Ever ready to show you around the tions will be used for three annual An active Rotarian, he created and orchards in Mexico or take you for a awards of $125 each, two of which developed the Tompkins County Im- game of golf in Miami, he is the same have been heretofore given by Profes- provement Association, was chairman now as when Jared Van Wagenen '91 sor Rice each year and the other is of the Boy Scouts and elder of his found him a "most delightful yellow- new. church for many years. He is secretary haired blue-eyed Sophomore with an The Rice Public Debate Stage was of his Class of '90, and a member of engaging smile and bubbling enthusi- established anonymously in 1928 as Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta fraternity, and asm. He is "Jimmy" to some, but al- the Farm Life Challenge Contest, the Ho-nun-de-kah, the College honor ways Professor Rice to me; his teach- prize given to the student winner in society, and of many other national ings struck too deeply to permit the the College of Agriculture of a debate organizations. name "Jimmy" to click. He uses agri- during Farm and Home Week on any In addition to writing more than culture as his tool, but he teaches us subject relating to agriculture. In 100 published bulletins and papers, love, loyalty, cooperation, integrity, 1935, the donor was disclosed and the Professor Rice is editor of the Poultry sincerity, stick-to-it-iveness, and an Stage received its present name. Like- Science Series of textbooks which in- undying faith that the American wise anonymously, in 1940, Professor cludes Poultry Breeding by Jull, and people will maintain our democratic Rice began offering annual prizes for Marketing Poultry Products by Ben- way of life, develop a more prosperous a Farm and Home Week speaking jamin and Pierce, and is joint author of agriculture, and live at peace with contest open to students in Home Practical Poultry Management by Rice the rest of the world. God bless him Economics. This is now endowed and and Botsford, and Judging Poultry for we need a lot more of him now and for named the Elsie Van Buren Rice Production by Rice, Hall, and Marble. all time. Home Economics Public Speech Stage. 388 Cornell Alumni News A new contest, endowed as the Louise Two To Join Faculty Maryland in 1927, and the PhD at E. Rice New York State 4-H Poultry Massachusetts State in 1931; and Club Foundation, has an annual prize PPOINTMENT of Professor Don- thereupon went to Minnesota. From for the boy or girl Poultry Club mem- A- aid J. Grout of the University of 1927-31, he was assistant entomolo- ber who does the best all-around Texas as professor of Music, Univer- gist in the US Bureau of Entomology. work, with emphasis especially on sity Organist, and director of the Sage He is a member of Sigma Xi and the leadership and successful poultry man- Chapel Choir has been announced, author of several books and bulletins agement. beginning next September. He will on insect control, including a widely- Making the gift to Cornell, Profes- succeed Professor Richard T. Gore, used text on Chemistry and Toxi- sor Rice pointed out that he wished to who has been University Organist and cology of Insecticides. encourage both teaching and research assistant professor of Music since 1939 New Department of Biochemistry, in the Colleges of Agriculture and and has directed the Choir the last authorized by the State in the College Home Economics, as they are exer- two years. of Agriculture, will be headed by Pro- cised in preparing for the debate and Professor Grout, born in Iowa, re- fessor Leonard A. Maynard, PhD '15, speech contests, and farm practice ceived the AB at Syracuse in 1923, Director of the School of Nutrition and farm life as thought out during the MA in 1932 and PhD in 1939 at and of the Federal Nutrition Labora- the year-long development of cnarac- Harvard, where he remained as in- tory on the Campus. ter and work upon which the 4-H structor and director of graduate Poultry Club award depends. He studies in music until he went to Messenger Lectures pointed out that he preferred doing Texas as associate professor, three for mankind now, rather than amass- years ago. "JV/TESSENGER Lectures on the ing wealth to leave to posterity. He has studied piano and organ both -L • A Evolution of Civilization for the in this country and Europe, and at spring term were given by Charles E. Cambridge worked with Archibald Kellogg, head soil scientist, US De- Detroit Speakers T. Davison, director of the Harvard partment of Agriculture, March 19, ORNELL Club of Michigan and Glee Club, and was director of music 21, and 23 in Olin Hall. C guests turned out forty strong for at the First Congregational Church A graduate of Michigan State Col- the second of the Club's new series of in Melrose, Mass. He has written on lege, Kellogg was professor of soils at monthly dinner meetings at the Uni- musicology for the professional jour- North Dakota Agricultural College versity Club in Detroit, February 21. nals and is at work on a History of from 1930-34, joined the US Depart- Speaker was Dean Paul M. O'Leary, Opera for publication in the Columbia ment of Agriculture in 1935 as chief PhD '29, of the new School of Busi- University Studies in Musicology. of the soil survey division, and became ness and Public Administration. Live- Beginning April 1, Harold H. Shep- head soil scientist in 1942. He is the ly discussion, presided over by Linton ard, assistant professor of entomology author of The Soils that Support Us Hart '14, president of the Club, fol- at University of Minnesota, becomes and of many papers and bulletins on lowed his talk. March 21 meeting was assistant professor of Insect Toxi- related subjects. His three lectures in addressed by Alumni Trustee Tell cology in the College of Agriculture. the Messenger series were "Soil and Berna '12, general manager of the He succeeds Professor T. Roy Hans- Environment", "Soils, Men, and Tech- National Machine Tool Builders' berry, who left the Entomology De- niques," and "The Future Role of Association. partment last July for the research Soil Science." The Club's program of dinner meet- laboratory of Shell Oil Co. at Mo- Messenger Lectures were estab- ings the third Wednesday evening of desto, Cal. lished at the University in 1923, with each month is designed to inform Professor Shepard has been recently a bequest from the late Hiram J. Michigan Cornellians, and their guests in Washington with the War Food Messenger '80 for "twelve lectures invited from among industrialists, Administration as senior industrial each year to be delivered by the ablest business men, and educators, of mod- specialist in the chemicals and fertil- non-resident lecturer or lecturers ob- ern developments in which the Uni- izers branch, on wartime leave from tainable." versity and alumni are taking part. Minnesota. He prepared a section on At the April 18 meeting, H. Edward insect control for a manual on pests Babcock, chairman of the University being issued by the War Department Great Outdoors Board of Trustees and director of the for Army post engineers. He received UARTERLY number of The GLF School of Cooperative Adminis- the BS at Massachusetts State Col- Q Cornell Plantations for Winter, tration in Ithaca, will speak on the lege in 1924, the MS at University of 1944-45, contains pictures by Profes- subject, "The Farmer Looks at Uni- sor Arthur A. Allen '08, Ornithology, versities." President Edmund E. Day and descriptions by Mrs. Allen (Elsa May 16 will discuss the new State Guerdrum) '12 of some of the birds School of Industrial and Labor Rela- which frequent the Cornell Planta- tions at Cornell. For next fall, the tions and the best places to look for Club has arranged for Delmar G. them. Professor E. Laurence Palmer Roos Ίl, vice-president of Willys- Ίl, Rural Education, writes of the Overland and inventor of the "jeep," Plantations as "A Natural Labora- to describe "Post-war Surface vs. tory," and Professor Ralph W. Curtis Air Transportation," September 19; '00, Ornamental Horticulture, con- Alumni Trustee Larry E. Gubb '16, tinues his seasonal series with pictures chairman of the board of Philco Corp. and descriptions of "Early Flowering and recently president of the Cornell Plants Important in New York Land- Alumni Association, "Radio and Tele- scapes." Editor of the quarterly, Pro- vision Prospects," October 17; and fessor Bristow Adams, Extension Serv- Lenox R. Lohr '16, president, Museum ice, Emeritus, writes on his visits to of Science and Industry, Chicago, 111., the botanical gardens of Kirstenbosch "Triggers to Mass Action," Novem- near Capetown, South Africa, and ber 21. OLD TROLLEY BRIDGE Buitzenborg near Batavia in Java. April /, 1945 389 The Cornell Plantations is published Clubs Inform Schools high schools, and nine undergraduate by the University in the interests of women from the University, February the great botanic garden, arboretum, NNUAL secondary schools party 23 at the home of Judith R. Marx '37. and wild-life preserve of that name A• of the Cornell Club of Essex Mrs. Loyal G. Tinkler (Marjorie Cole) which will occupy a tract of 1,000 County, N. J., was attended by four '21 is chairman of the Club's sec- acres east of the Campus. Alumni who members of the Faculty, March 9, at ondary schools committee. wish to receive the quarterly may have the Rock Spring Club in West it regularly upon request addressed to Orange, N. J. After dinner with four- Professor Bristow Adams, Roberts teen Essex County headmasters and Pittsburgh Orchestra Hall, Ithaca. principals and the Club's secondary OURTH of the University con- schools committee, Director of Ad- Fcerts, by the Pittsburgh Sym- Dυtchess Club Elects missions Eugene F. Bradford, Direc- phony Orchestra, attracted a capacity tor William L. Malcolm, PhD '37, audience to Bailey Hall, March 14. ΓflGHTEEN members of the Cor- Civil Engineering, Professors Loren C. Under the colorful direction of Fritz -*—' nell Club of Dutchess County, Petry, Botany and Director of Vet- Reiner, the orchestra was enthusiasti- meeting for dinner March 13 at the erans Education, and Emerson Hinch- cally acclaimed and called back for Nelson House in Poughkeepsie, elected liff, Assistant Alumni Secretary, met two encores after the set program. Herbert W. Saltford '33 president, with high school and preparatory The concert opened with the Overture succeeding Arthur T. Williams '34. school students, their parents, and to "Colas Breugnon" by Kabalevsky, George W. Kuchler, Jr. '12 was alumni; all told, some 165 persons and this was followed by the Bee- elected secretary-treasurer. were present. thoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major. The Faculty members discussed the Dances from Galanta by Kodaly fol- Gets "E" Award University in wartime, colored movies lowed the intermission, then the tone were shown, and refreshments were poem "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss, ΌLANT of the Pitometer Log Corp. A served. William F. Stuckle '17, presi- and the program closed with the at 237 Lafayette Street, New York dent of the Club, introduced J. Paul massive Prelude to Wagner's "Die City, received the Army-Navy "E" Leinroth '12, chairman of the sec- Meistersinger." for excellence in war production, at ondary schools committee, who acted ceremonies February 17 in the Wal- as master of ceremonies. Other mem- dorf-Astoria Hotel. Edward S. Cole bers of the committee, each of whom California Women '94, president of the corporation, de- works with assigned schools in his own /CORNELL Women's Club of South- veloped the Pitometer in 1896 as an district, are Clarence J. Pope '10, ^ ern California, meeting for dinner instrument to measure the flow of Joseph Kastner, Jr. '12, Henry A. March 13 at the University Club in water in the mains of Chicago, 111., Schwedes '12, Charles M. Bomeisler Los Angeles, heard Alumni Trustee and Terre Haute, Ind. In 1920, he '17, James E. Brinckerhoff '17, Clyde Alice Blinn '17 discuss the new School formed with a British firm the British Mayer '19, Wendell K. Webber '24, of Industrial and Labor Relations, the Pitometer Co., Ltd., and the next year Louis A. Winkelman '24, Aaron Van University's Russian program, and he sailed to Bombay, India, on a ship Poznak '25, and Sylvester J. McKelvy the increasing need for new gym- fitted with the instrument, which was '27. nasium facilities for undergraduate the first Pitometer log. US Navy March 10, Professor Hinchliff and women. ships began to use the Pitometer log Assistant Alumni Secretary Pauline The Club met during February at as a device to measure speed through J. Schmid '25 helped the Cornell Wo- the water in 1926, Frederick D. Her- the home of Mrs. Tema Shults Clare, men's Club of New York inform col- Grad '30-40, president, and discussed bert '97 representing the manufac- lege advisers from Metropolitan turers in negotiations with the Navy, plans for cooperating with the Cornell schools, invited this year instead of Club of Southern California in further- and Cole formed the Pitometer Log high school girls. Marion D. Jewell Corp. in 1927 to manufacture the ing the University's secondary schools '08, principal of Julia Richman High program. marine device. School, spoke on Cornell; Miss Schmid showed colored slides of the Campus; Memorial Lectures Hinchliff answered questions about Commends Book AN RENSSELAER-ROSE Lec- the University. Eleanor Middleton ROFESSOR Carl Becker's book, Vtures, honoring the late Profes- '35, chairman of the Club's secondary PCornell University: Founders and sors Martha Van Rensselaer '09 and school committee, presided. the Founding, is reviewed in New Flora Rose, Grad '07-08, Home Eco- Miss Schmid represented the Uni- York History for January, 1945. The nomics, Emeritus, co-directors of the versity March 7 at a college confer- review is by Mary E. Cunningham College of Home Economics from its ence at the Ridge wood, N. J., High '30, who is acting editor of this quar- founding in 1925, bring to the Campus School, where nineteen other colleges terly Journal of the New York State women who have achieved distinction and six junior colleges were also repre- Historical Association. She commends in their fields. Sponsored by the Col- sented. About eighty girls and their especially Professor Becker's chapters lege for the University community, parents attended, many returning on Ezra Cornell and President An- the lectures are on the general theme: that evening to enjoy slides of the drew D. White, as well as "the spark- "Women in the World of Tomorrow." Campus shown at the Ridgewood ling acid" of Becker's Charter Day Lisa Sergio, radio commentator and home of W. Dean Ferres, Jr. '20 and oration, "The Cornell Tradition: former secretary to Benito Musolini, Mrs. Ferres (Maurine Beals) '23. Freedom and Responsibility," which was to give the first lecture in the At a neighborhood secondary school is included in the volume. The whole series, March 28. Successive lectures party in Rutherford, N. J., March 9, book she characterizes as "an attempt will be April 4 and 11-, by Mary E. Miss Schmid showed the Campus to interpret the Cornell tradition in Sweeny, assistant director of the Mer- slides at the home of Mrs. Charles I. the light of its founding," and says it rill Palmer School, Detroit, Mich., VanWinkle (Anor Whiting) '28. is one that "every one of the 70,000 and by Margaret Mead, associate Secondary school tea of the Cornell alumni of Cornell University and curator of anthropology at the Ameri- Women's Club of Cleveland, Ohio, at- many of the wider fraternity who can Museum of Natural History. tracted fifteen girls from six nearby have at one time or another been 390 Cornell Alumni News touched by the spirit of the institu- tion 'far above Cayuga's waters' will want to own." Cornell University: Founders and Now in My Time! the Founding is published by the Uni- versity Press. It may be ordered at By (^^e^Wvcy^J^ $2.75, postpaid, from the Cornell Alumni Association, 3 East Avenue, ERE at Ithaca, the talk of in the forty-five years we've been Ithaca. H post-war changes at Cornel] hearing all about them at Campus has worked around to fraternities. teas. So far, administrators, teachers, But it still remains the inescapa- Women Study Foods and resident Greeks have been ble truth that the term marks of WENTY members of the Cornel] able to discuss this provocative the Brothers are, and for years TWomen's Club of Rochester met topic judicially and without heat. have been, lower than the average February 15 in the home service de- We wish you the same and many in the whole undergraduate group; partment of the Rochester Gas & of them! that the solvency of some of the Electric Corp. Mrs. Edwin K. Haas This talk of fraternities did not chapters should be a matter of con- (Beryl Polhemus) '32, president o'f the start here. It's been going on at cern to debtor and creditor alike; Club, introduced Ruth Landers '39, other foundations for some time, and that those little saturnalias who demonstrated the preparation of and not without progress toward we've referred to now seem to oc- food using substitutes for butter, agreement on remedial measures. cur—when they occur—more fre- sugar, and other scarce staples. At Amherst, an alumni committee quently inside the hushed portals after prolonged study of the ques- of the Lodge than down on the Prisoners' Club tion has recommended the aboli- flats or out around Monkey Run. tion of fraternities. Here at Ithaca, Your house is doubtless an ex- IVE Cornellians, all prisoners of all shades of opinion can come to- ception, but we're talking about F war in Germany, constitute an gether, at least on the preliminary the situation in its entirety! If unofficial Cornell Club in Luft III, proposition that if you are ever we are reasonably warm, then, in according to their "unofficial secre- going to tune the houses back into our search for the facts, you can tary," Lieutenant John B. Kernochen harmony with the educational and scarcely blame the University for '42, who writes the NEWS. He names social aims of the University, the feeling that if it is to surge onward William J. Galligan, Jr. '40, Gordon time to try it is right now when the and upward after the war, it could A. Bailey '42, Robert E. Hyatt '44, altar fires burn low on the wick, probably get farther, and do it and William R. Thompson '45 as "all the driveway has grown up with more quickly, if it didn't have to currently residing" in the camp, and weeds, and it's practically impossi- drag along the dead weight of some says that letters received from a num- ble for the bank to locate anybody of those Greek playboys. ber of Cornellians are "making the sufficiently Greek or secret to rounds here." Lieutenant Gardner serve a summons on. One way is to cut off this ball and M. Reynolds '40 is also thought to be "What'swrong with the houses?" chain of contented mediocrity with in the same camp. Lieutenant Ker- you ask, and we reply, "Not very one deft, surgical slash. Another is nochen may be addressed, "American much, but they're not particularly to make one more effort to urge the Prisoner of War 1791, Stalag Luft #3, useful, either." The influence of houses to realize their unquestioned Germany." most of them in recent years has educational potentialities. This tended to encourage no loftier aim thing is likely to come to a head Add Alumni Generals on the part of the Brothers than to any time now, and perhaps you'd stay in college, keep off probation, better be prepared. The least pain- WO more Cornell generals, Major and eventually, after four pleasant ful thing that can happen will be TGeneral Walter E. Lauer '19 and years, win through to a compli- to have representatives of your Brigadier General Donald P. Booth mentary degree that will qualify outfit called upon the carpet to say '28, bring to eleven the total of alumni them for membership in the Uni- things—to present plans—that will general officers now on active duty in versity Club. It isn't that the fra- justify the continued existence of the US Army. Two others, retired, ternities do any great harm, but Alpha Beta Pooh in the Cornell and a third, killed in a plane crash, it looks as if the atmosphere that that is to be. Doubtless you can make a total of fourteen Cornell gen- has prevailed in them acted more meet this situation, but other chap- erals in this war. Three hold the rank as a brake, and not at all as a spur, ters are likely to have a little of major general. Only one major upon the boys who start out with difficulty! general and two brigadiers from Cor- eager, intellectual curiosities. Anyway, this is no time to get nell were recorded in World War I. There's more to it than that, of mad. You can best serve your General Lauer commands the US course, but your reporter is not in- house and your University in the First Army's 99th Infantry Division, clined to accept the stories of go- impending crisis by being calm, which crossed the Rhine March 10 at ings-on at par. Little pint-size good-natured, helpful, and co- Remagen and captured six towns in saturnalias have always occurred operative. That's doubly true if the bridgehead. from time to time, and it's the nat- your name is on the back of the General Booth has just been award- ural tendency to regard them as fraternal note, or upon the face of ed the Distinguished Service Medal symptomatic of a general condition the peculiar instrument which guar- for his services in the Persian Gulf rather than as detached, unrelated antees the mortgage on the Lodge. Command, where from October, 1942, episodes. Undergraduate morals, Is it? Think hard. to December, 1944, he was succes- fraternal or otherwise, are precisely We're not really trying to start sively port director, commanding offi- where they were, we'd say, when anything. We just thought you cer, assistant chief of staff, and chief you were in college. They haven't might like to learn what's going of staff. Mrs. Booth (Rose Morrison) changed the least bit, apparently, on up here. '28 lives at their home, 280 Main Street Ridgefield Park, N. J. April 1,1945 391 Mich., were Captain Riehl, Urban, Murray, Klein, Reynolds, Iseman, and Di Stasio. Slants on Sports zj Other winter sports awards went to (Naval Reservists unless otherwise noted): than fifty at its first session with Basketball Athletes Get Outdoors Coach George K. James. Veterans Irwin Alterson, Gordon W. Harri- PRING came early to Ithaca, with available are Alfred W. Rothermel, son '46, Edward T. Peterson '48, John S temperatures in the 70's for a USNR, pitcher; John M. Tully, US- G. Kimball, William W. Matchneer couple of heart-warming days, and NR, and George E. Gates, USNR, '48, Walter D. Way '48, Robert C. the various squads seized the main catchers; and Thomas H. Baldwin, Burgess. chance. USNR, and James Beckett, USNR, Junior Varsity Basketball Lacrosse players led the procession infielders. Frederick S. Turk '48, Carl E. outdoors. They practiced on the hard- Unusual was the almost 100 per cent surfaced tennis courts on Upper Glasow, Aurelio G. Forenza, Diedrich turnout of Varsity basketball players Wienbarg, and William A. Tishman. Alumni Field, March 7. One week for baseball. They included Irwin Al- later, the crews rowed on Cayuga terson, USNR, Walter D. Way '48 Wrestling Lake and the baseball squad practiced who was on the summer squad in 1943, Donald B. Campbell '48, Carl W. on dry and well-drained Hoy Field. Edward T. Peterson '48, and Gordon Ferris, David H. Huntington, Phineas Trackmen ran on the Schoellkopf W. Harrison '46. The hockey team P. Kuhl, George Popik, Jack T. Ra- cinder track that same week. supplied Joseph F. Harron '48 and koski, USMCR, Fred E. Silberman The next week it rained and turned Glenn D. Goodfellow, USNR. '46, Benjamin G. Smith, Clifford Q. colder, but the promise of a warm Coach Harrison Sanford greeted Steinbach, USMCR, Thomas S. Stev- spring remained. Playing fields were only three veterans of last fall's squad: ens, Rodney G. Stieff, James 0. green and in excellent condition. newly-elected Commodore William Wynn. Heavy snow in late November stayed B, Richardson, USNR, who is now at Hockey on the ground all winter; a warm stroke of the Varsity; Donald R. John B. Rhodes, Joseph F. Harron blanket that kept the frost away. Peirce, USNR, at No. 6; and Jerrold '48, George C. Valette '48, Walter S. Thus the spring sports teams started F. Finch, USNR, at No. 7 in the Easley, Edmund T. Cranch, Fred- conditioning drills weeks ahead of Junior Varsity shell. erick G. Williams, Brendon P. O'- normal schedule, but they will have Hara, George H. Ebel, Glen D. Good- no competition until April 28 when fellow, John M. Ropes '47, Jay R. the track team competes in the Penn Spring Day Sports McEntee, Alexander D. MacCallum, Relays and the baseball team engages O PROVIDE a bigger Spring Jr., '45, Edward I. Best. the University of Rochester at Ro- TDay program May 19, the base- chester. ball double-header with Columbia has The lacrosse team, which lost only been transferred from New York City Basketball Award to the US Military Academy last to Ithaca and a US Naval Academy ASKETBALL team has been spring, also practiced in the Riding plebe-Cornell Junior Varsity crew B named the first winner of the Hall. Coach Ray Van Orman '08 race has been added. The Naval Acad- Alfred H. Seelbach Memorial Trophy greeted only three lettermen: Rodney emy, Columbia, and MIT varsities as outstanding intercollegiate squad G. Stieff, USNR, who was elected will also row on Cayuga Lake that in Upstate New York for 1944-45. captain; Edward J. Best, USNR, and day. The silver cup is offered by Ned Irish, John W. Hardy, USNR. Other play- acting president of Madison Square ers from last year's squad are David Swimmers Honored Garden, in memory of the coach who A. Nimick, USNR, Lawrence S. directed Canisius teams for eleven Sheets '47, Sewell J. Shugar, USNR, ARSITY swimming team, years. The trophy will remain in and Arthur Van Vleet, USNR. Vcoached by G. Scott Little and permanent competition; medals will Coach John F. Moakley directed a undefeated in twenty-one meets over be awarded the Cornell players. track squad of sixty at early workouts three seasons, won new honors last The award committee was com- in Bacon Cage, with several experi- month. posed of Dr. James H. Crowdie, Buf- enced performers from last year's Fifteen swimmers were voted the falo, chairman; Lou Alexander, Ro- spring and summer teams and this major "C" for a minor sport and seven chester; Lew Andreas, Syracuse; and winter's indoor team on hand. leading performers were sent to the William Reid, Colgate. Robert J. Among them are Paul Robeson, Jr. National Collegiate Athletic Associa- Kane '34, Director of Physical Edu- '48, jumper and shot putter; John F. tion's championships at the Univer- cation and Athletics, will be chairman Kandl '45, distance runner; Jay R. sity of Michigan, March 30 and 31. of next season's award committee. Bergen, USNR, and Eloy S. Gavras, Those who received the major "C" The team, coached by Emerald B. USNR, middle distance runners; (all Naval Reservists unless otherwise Wilson, won twelve of seventeen Roger Bissinger, USNR, and Mal- noted): games and was runner-up to Pennsyl- colm B. Carsley '46, field events; and Captain Ralph Riehl Jr., Richard vania in the Eastern Intercollegiate Calvin G. Brown '45, broad jumper. M. Holstein, USMCR, Clarence F. Ur- League. Cornell was undefeated in One of the newcomers is Gilbert J. ban, Paul C. Murray, USMCR, Paul Upstate New York competition. Bouley '46 of Jewett City, Conn., a L. Klein '46, Donald B. Iseman '46, Statistics announced by the League veteran of the Army Air Corps who Charles H. Reynolds '48, Wallace late in March disclosed that Cornell played football for Boston College in White, John D. Holmes, Joseph R. was the best defensive team in the 1941. He is a shot putter, six feet, two Di Stasio '48, James R. Del Signore, circuit, holding its opponents to an inches, and 235 pounds. He is also a John H. Muller, III, Ralph C. Ware average of 39.7 points a game. Alter- tackle and is expected to report for '48, Norman C. Merz '48, and Francis son was the League's top scorer with football at Cornell. C. King. 94 points on thirty-seven field goals The baseball squad numbered more Selected for the^trip to Ann Arbor, and twenty foul points. 392 Cornell Alumni News League coaches did not pick an all- Mrs. Grace Ίo Dies eating accommodations for women in star team this year, but other selectors many additional cottages and fra- were generally agreed that such a team ternity houses leaseά by the Univer- would include Alterson, Dallmar of sity. It also planned and operates the Pennsylvania, Skinner of Columbia, Navy mess hall on the Campus, and Leede of Dartmouth, and Kimball of Mrs. Grace herself did most of the Cornell or Carlson of Pennsylvania. buying of food and supplies for the extensive operations which she super- New Coach Arrives vised. The varied activities under her direction have provided employment DWARD C. McKEEVER, new for hundreds of undergraduates, and E head coach of football, brought she knew many students and their his family to Ithaca March 23, and parents. has moved into the house at 101 Dela- She was women's secretary of her ware Avenue which is owned by the Class of '10. In 1914, she was married Athletic Association and rented to the to John B. Grace '12, and they lived football coach. Spring football prac- on the Lake shore at McKinney's. tice is tentatively scheduled to start Her sister is Mrs. Thomas L. Jacobs April 2. Like all other coaches, Mc- (Ruth Fielden) '34, who is at the Keever between his football assign- University of California in Los An- ments will instruct in the University geles. physical training programs for Navy, AGE CHAPEL services were well Army, and civilians. Members of the attended by members of the Department of Physical Training and S Californians Meet Faculty, University officials and em- Athletics instructing staff who are ployees, and students, for the funeral IXTEEN members of the Cornell within draft age have deferment be- of Mrs. Anna Fielden Grace '10, S Club of Northern California, meet- cause the physical training programs University Manager of Residential ing for lunch at the Commercial Club are considered essential. Halls, who died March 22. She had in San Francisco March 7, heard Car- McKeever's arrival was preceded suffered a broken hip in a fall March 9, roll R. Harding '10, district director by appointment of five assistant in her home at McKinney's Point. of the Cornell Alumni Association, coaches: George K. James, Ray Van Since she succeeded the late Thomas describe a recent meeting of the Cor- Orman '08, Emerald B. Wilson, Rob- Tree '80 in October, 1923, as Manager nell Club of Tucson, Ariz., given in ert L. Cullen, and Pat Filley. of Residential Halls, Mrs. Grace had his honor. Filley, captain and guard of the been responsible for the housekeeping, Instead of the usual luncheon Notre Dame football teams of 1943 furnishing, and rooming arrange- speaker, Seibert L. Sefton '29, presi- and 1944, is the only newcomer. A ments in all University dormitories dent of the Club, called on each mem- native of South Bend, Ind., he was a and had run the women's dining ber present to give a brief sketch of high school football player and wres- rooms and all accompanying service his life: how he happened to attend tler there. In 1943 he was named on facilities. She received the AB in 1910 Cornell, and what brought him to all the leading all-America selections. and after a year of special work in California. He joined the US Marine Corps Re- Agriculture, she went to work for serve that year and after the football George Foote, manager of Sage Col- season went to Parris Island, S. C, lege, then the only women's dormi- Swift & Co. Grant for officer training. A knee injury tory, and who ran the dining room in RANT of $13,800 from Swift & brought a medical discharge, and he Sage. When Tree was appointed G Co., for restoring fertility in returned to Notre Dame where he Manager of Residential Halls in 1912, dairy cattle, assures continuation and played the 1944 season despite the Mrs. Grace continued as his assistant. expansion of research in this field handicap of the injury. As Tree's assistant, she had much which has been going forward for Coaches James, baseball, and Van to do with furnishing and organizing several years in the University's Agri- Orman, lacrosse, will not be available the dining and housekeeping services cultural Experiment Station. Director for spring football. of Prudence Risley Hall and the first Carl E. F. Guterman, PhD '30, ex- Two assistant coaches, Max Reed units of the men's dormitories, and plains that the present grant comes in and J. Russell Murphy, went with as manager was directly responsible recognition of the outstanding con- Carl G. Snavely to the University of for these and for Balch Halls, the tributions already made by Professor North Carolina. later men's units, Comstock Hall Sydney A. Asdell, Animal Physiology, converted from the former Faculty and will enable him to extend his in- apartments, and for the many out- vestigations. Hotelmen Elected lying cottages used to house women Sterility, which costs the nation's OTEL Administration alumni are students. She planned the buildings livestock industry $250,000,000 an- H officers of several regional hotel and organized and supervised the nually, has been combatted by hor- associations around the country. Re- operation of the University laundry, mone injections. The cow ranks lowest cently elected are Hjalmar L. Holt bakery, ice cream plant, meat market, of any farm animal in amount of hor- 734, president of North Dakota Hotel and frozen food storage plant at mone secreted for procreative pur- Association; Edward D. Ramage '31, East Ithaca which service not only poses. The horse, pig, and she.ep sur- president of Ohio Hotels Association; the dormitories but also Willard pass the cow; man ranks highest. Ruel E. Tyo '27, president of Cleve- Straight Hall, and which are recog- "The productive life of a cow averages land Hotel Association; and Clyde A. nized as the most modern and six years, only about half what it Jennings '25, vice-president of New efficient at any university. When should be," according to Professor England Hotel Association. President Sage College was vacated by women Asdell. "This is because of sterility and vice-president of Milwaukee Hotel students to accommodate the Navy, and udder troubles. We hope to be Association are Ernst Clarenbach, Jr. her department was responsible for able to increase this productive life '31 and Ray Smith, Jr. '32. fitting up and operating living and through our research."

April i, 1945 393 shot of which is to show that this humane and democratic conception of Books equality is an essential part of Ameri- Letters can moral and political tradition. Subject to the usual restrictions of space and There is no doubt of that. But it is good taste, we shall print letters from sub- By Cornelίians also an essential part of the European scribers on any side of any subject of in" tradition, also of the Chinese tradi- teresl to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the sentiments tion, and in fact of the tradition of all expressed, and disclaims any responsibility Equality of Man civilized people. As such, it derives beyond that of fostering interest in the from the religious and ethical teach- University, Are Men Equal? An Inquiry into ings of the world's saints and sages. the Meaning of American Democracy. Insofar as Europe and America are By Professor Henry A. Myers, PhD concerned, it derives from the Chris- ROTC Officers '33, English. G. P. Putnam's Sons, tian religion. In saying that "all men To THE EDITOR: New York City. 1945. ix+188 pages, are created equal, and are endowed Just a line to let you know how the $2.50. by their Creator with certain inalien- Cornell contingent at Fort Mon- Mr. Myers begins by contrasting able rights," Jefferson was merely mouth, N. J., is doing. Lieutenants the political philosophy of Mein formulating in secular terms the Chris- Ralph Bolgiano, Jr. '44, George R. Kampf, which rests on the fact of in- tian doctrine which St. Augustine ex- Fitzpatrick '45, and yours truly are equality among men and nations and pressed by saying that "all men are attending radio school, officers' divi- affirms that "equity is where the equal in the sight of God." Jefferson sion. Corporals Burton J. Schultz '46 strength is," with the political phi- knew of course that all men are not and Yale Solomon '44 are attending losophy of the Declaration of Inde- created equal; but he would have de- Signal Corps OCS. James D. Sowdon pendence, which declares that all men fended his assertion by saying that if '43 is now my ex-roommate, having are created equal and are endowed by men are in fact not equal in capacities, gone to Camp Shanks on temporary their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and advantages, the highest duty. About two months ago, Lieu- natural rights. Since he accepts the morality, both for the individual and tenant Robert B. Shaad '44 reported latter philosophy and its implications, for society, is to act always on the to Washington, «D. C, for Signal In- Mr. Myers is then confronted with assumption that all men should be telligence, while Lieutenant John F. the task that awaits all adherents of accorded, so far as is humanly possible, Whittemore '43 was transferred to the democratic faith: the task of de- the same opportunities and considera- the Infantry (Paratroops). The rest of fending the theory of human equality tion. To act on this assumption is, the gang (i.e. ROTC '44) is all over against the facts that so obviously both for the individual and for society, the world. We're all happy and still refute it. to do the will of God and to live the reminiscing. That men are not created equal in good life. —Lieutenant MORTON J. SAVADA '44 physical or mental or moral capacity is obvious. No one can deny it. Mr. Nevertheless, although the demo- Myers does not deny it. But he de- cratic doctrine of equality is Christian When Students Ate fends the theory of equality on the in origin, it rests on a different founda- ground that the specific qualities or tion. St. Augustine believed that all To ROMEYN BERRY: defects of an individual are not the men have immortal souls, which have Here in Florida, we read your "Now standard "by which his place in soci- nothing to do with their bodies or in- In My Time!" in the ALUMNI NEWS. ety should be determined." The telligence, and that the ultimate I have just finished reading the issue average man knows well enough that worth and destiny of every man de- in which you discuss student life, he is not the equal of many another in pends on this immortal principle, particularly student boarding houses. intelligence or skill; in a game of cards, which is the same for all men. Insofar Your reference to the low price for for example, or in the game of life. as the modern adherents of democratic board leads me to say that "now in He accepts that, but insists that the equality do not accept the Christian my time" for four years, 1886-90, I game be fairly played, so that he shall story of man's origin, nature, and ran a student cooperative boarding have the same chance as any other destiny, the statement that "all men club on Linn Street near University player to make the most of what in- are equal in the sight of God" has less Avenue. The cost per week per student telligence and skill he possesses. meaning, or none at all; so that they varied between $1.60 and $1.90. For Mr. Myers defends the doctrine of must fall back on experience and ex- my services as manager I received equality on the general ground that pediency as a defense of the ideal of free board. The same was true of the "a man's a man for a' that;" that men equality. landlady, her husband, and a hired are equal in the possession of a com- The question then becomes, does girl. We paid them 60 cents a week for mon humanity and that every man is experience indicate that the best each student boarder. That left $1 to entitled to be regarded by his fellows ordered society, for all and sundry, $1.3p for provisions. as having worth and dignity in his can be constructed by assuming that Having been reared on a farm, it own right, irrespective of his special all men are entitled to certain funda- was most natural that I should serve virtues or defects. He defends it, in mental rights, among which are life, milk and eggs freely; in fact, lavishly. short, on the only ground on which it liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Two pitchers of milk were on each can be defended: that it is not the Or does experience indicate that the table and the thirty students were ex- assertion of a fact but the declaration best ordered society can be constructed pected to drink freely, "on the house." of an ideal to be realized as well as by assuming that "justice is the right They did so. On Easter morning, we may be. of the stronger?" Mr. Myers at least served eggs in any style, ad lib. As In support of this defense, Mr. has no doubt that the first assumption might be expected, there was a free- Myers presents us With a running is the correct one.—CARL BECKER for-all egg-eating contest. When the commentary (and this makes the shells were cleaned away and counted, major part of his interesting book) on it was found that the score of John the ideas of the most distinguished Ithaca Protective Police have elected Ford '90 was sixteen eggs, and Henry American statesmen, poets, philoso- Claude L. Kulp, AM '30, captain, Eirsman had eaten twenty-four eggs, phers, and political writers; the up- succeeding Allan H. Treman '21. the last four taken raw. After break- 394 Cornell Alumni News fast, the winner was walked or run to also overtook the old steamers Fron- Buttermilk Falls to aid assimilation. tenac, Kellogg, and City of Ithaca. Lest anyone should undertake to Three others, the Mohawk, Iroquois, equal or exceed Henry Eirsman's egg- Time Was . . . and Commanche, were finally re- eating record, it should be understood moved from the Lake. that he was built like a gladiator. The Romeyn Berry '04 reports in Sport famous sculptor, Hermon Atkins Mac- Twenty-five Years Ago Stuff: "Quite the best thing of a Neil [instructor in Industrial Art, April, 1920—President and Mrs. frivolous nature that is done by un- 1886-89, and who later modelled the Jacob Gould Schurman sail for Tokyo, dergraduates in this day and genera- bronze statue of Ezra Cornell—Ed.], as members of an American mission tion is the Beaux Arts Ball, held every made a model in clay of Eirsman, invited to promote friendly relations spring over in the College of Archi- titled "Putting the Shot." It was between the United States and Japan. tecture. The subject of this year's placed in Sibley College museum as Dean Albert W. Smith '78, Mechani- ball was Ά Pilgrimage to Mecca.' The an example of perfect physical devel- cal Engineering, is acting President in box score follows: opment. I hope it still has a place in Dr. Schurman's absence. Number of men present 172 the University archives. Standing room only in Bailey Hall Number of men who designed Because Mr. MacNeil was niy in- St. Patrick's Day, when the Philadel- and constructed their own structor in Free Hand Drawing and phia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold costumes 151 Eirsman was a star boarder in my Stokowski, presented the fourth con- boarding club, I had opportunity to cert in the University series. Number of Sheiks 151 observe the sculptor at work with his Editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Number of men who ordered model. The statue was modelled in Sun this year is E. B. White '21. Sheik costumes from New clay and a plaster cast was molded York 21 therefrom. Eirsman's face, for per- Twenty Years Ago Number who received same 0 sonal reasons, was not a correct like- April, 1925—University has broken Number who received pirate, ness. Someone, it seems to me, should ground for the first two of six Faculty policeman, sailor, or George write a feature story of MacNeiPs life, apartment houses, on the property Washington costumes 21 since he should be considered as one between Thurston and Wait Avenues. Number of women present 153 of the distinguished Cornellians. The Hortbή, last of the Cayuga Number of women who neg- Life is one glorious memory after Lake passenger steamers, burned at lected the opportunity to another.—JAMES E. RICE '90 her Inlet pier, April 15, a fate which wear chiffon pants 0"

Fund Covers Country LUMNI FUND office mailed last How Well Do You Know Cornell ? A- week to some 10,500 Cornellians CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS PICTURE ? in thirty-two States west of the Mis- sissippi and south of the Ohio River, f ARBLE tablet on a Campus building and to those in Michigan, a map and bears this inscription: "Never yet share tables showing geographical distribu- of the Truth was vainly set In the world's wide tion of Fund contributors. Matthew fallow; After hands shall sow the seed, After Carey '15, president of the Alumni hands from hill & mead Reap the harvests Fund Council and chairman of a geo- yellow." This tablet is pictured here. graphical co-ordinating committee The subscriber who most accurately de- which functioned last year in fourteen scribes the location of this tablet, and gives, States, describes the work of the com- if possible, the source and significance of its mittee and explains the tabulated re- inscription will receive a copy of Professor port. The folder includes graphs of the Carl Becker's book, Cornell University: Founders and the Founding, with compli- Alumni Fund for the last ten years, ments of the Alumni News and University Press. showing increases both in number of Entries must be received by April 15. Judging will be done by the News staff, contributors and amount given. whose decision shall be final. In case of a tie, winner shall be determined by lot. Geographical solicitation for the No person living within twenty-five miles of Ithaca may compete. Correct answer Alumni Fund is intended to supple- to this "Campus close-up" and winner's name will appear in the Alumni News for May 1. ment the work of Class representa- tives in the States which are far re- RESULT OF MARCH 1 CONTEST moved from Ithaca or have compara- p subscribers recognized the tively few alumni. State representa- A device at right as carved in stone at tives who comprise the geographical about eye-level at the right side of the door co-ordinating committee are George into the north wing of Goldwin Smith Hall. H. Barnes '14, Alabama; Archibald B. But only three identified it completely as the Morrison '01, Florida; Dr. Charles C. pipette and testing bottle devised by Stephen Rife '25, Georgia; Otho M. Clark '14, M. Babcock as part of the Babcock Tester for Kentucky; Albert F. Fritchie '15, determining the butter-fat content of milk, and said also that that wing of Goldwin Smith Louisiana; Henry E. Epley '03, Michi- Hall was originally the Dairy Building. It was gan; Maurice W. Howe '16, Missouri; erected by the State in 1893, and classes in J. Lawrence Cooke '34, Nebraska; Agriculture were held there. Babcock was a graduate instructor in Chemistry, Howard E. Babcock, Jr. '36, New 1873-77, and invented the Babcock Tester after he went to the University of Mexico; Irving Perrine '07, Oklahoma; Wisconsin. Henry W. Wessinger '10, Oregon; Winner of the prize copy of Cornell University: Founders and the Founding was Tracy B. Augur '17, Tennessee; determined by lot among the three correct and complete identifications received. Charles C. Bintz '12, Utah; Julian J. The book went to G. Whitney Irish '29 of Valatie. Hast '15, West Virginia.

April I, 1945 395 Hastings-on-Hudson, student house- Engineers Meet president, Mrs. Samuel W. Hunter Cornell Alumni News (Thelma Emile) '45 of Staten Island, ORNELL Society of Engineers, FOUNDED 1899 Martha A. Stubbs '46 of Newport, C meeting March 12 at the Cornell 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. News, Va., and Katherine A. Byrne Club of New York, heard Alfred Published the first and fifteenth of '47 of Bayside. Marchev, president of Republic Avia- every month. tion Corp., discuss his recent 25,000- mile trip to every major Army base Owned and published by the Cornell For Co-op Education Alumni Association under direction of a in the South Pacific, with color pic- committee composed of Phillips Wyman MERICAN Institute of Coopera- tures. Latest films of the robot bomb- Ί7, chairman, R. W. Sailor '07, Birge W. A- tion, rejuvinated under the chair- ing of London were also shown to the Kinne Ί6, Clifford S. Bailey Ί8, and John manship of Dean William I. Myers 150 members present. S. Knight Ί8. Officers of the Alumni As- sociation: William L. Kleitz '15, New '14, Agriculture, after three years of York City, president; Walter C. Heasley, inactivity, has opened offices in Phila- Jr. '30, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. delphia, Pa., to foster education in Fifth for Trustee Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 cooperative organization. Dean Myers jΠMFTH candidate for election as Assistant Editors: was elected chairman of the Institute * Alumni Trustee of the University last September, and Charles N. Silcox is Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr. '19, whose JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 '22, secretary-treasurer of the Co- RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 nomination was filed at the Treas- operative GLF Holding Corp. in urer's office, March 19. LeBoeuf is Contributors: Ithaca, was elected secretary-treas- senior partner of the law firm of ROMEYN BERKY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 urer. New member of the Institute LeBoeuf & Lamb, 15 Broad Street, Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; board of Trustees is Warren W. Haw- New York City. foreign, $4.50. Life subscription, $75. ley, Jr. '14 of Batavia, president of Two Alumni Trustees will be elected Single copies, 20 cents. Subscriptions are the New York State Farm Bureau renewed annually unless cancelled. to take office July 1 for five-year Federation. As a gift from Willard Straight Hall and terms, by ballots mailed to all degree the Alumni Association to Cornellians in holders shortly after nominations the armed services, the ALUMNI NEWS is supplied regularly to reading rooms of Appeal Fraternity Cases close, April 1. Terms of George R. Army posts and shore stations of the Pfann '24 and Willis H. Carrier '01 Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, OTICE was filed March 23 by expire this year; their nominations upon request. N the University that it would ap- and those of Edward E. Anderson '17 Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, peal the decision of the late Supreme and Edward E. Goodwillie '10 were Birge W. Kinne '16, 420 Lexington Ave., Court Justice Ely W. Personius '98 previously reported. New York City 17, advertising repre- which upheld the legality of municipal Next issue of the ALUMNI NEWS sentative. taxes assessed against the Sigma Phi Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. will publish pictures and biographies and Psi Upsilon fraternity houses. of all candidates nominated. These houses are owned by the Uni- versity and were operated as chapter War Chapter houses under an agreement made by the University with the fraternity Coming Events OVER picture on the February 1 corporations when they wer'e built in Notices for this column must be received at C ALUMNI NEWS, of a group of 1933. Holding that the properties least five days before date of issue. Time and women student residents on the steps were actually operated for fraternity place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are of the Kappa Alpha house, brought a purposes and not strictly as Uni- printed separately as we have space. request from a member of the frater- versity dormitories, Justice Personius nity of the Class of '21 for an enlarged denied the University's application SATURDAY, APRIL 7 original of the picture and the names for a writ of certiorari to review the Ithaca: University concert, Egon Petri, of the girls. assessments levied in 1943 by the Pianist-in-residence, Bailey Hall, 8:15 Picture and names were duly sent Ithaca board of assessors headed by WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 to him, and further inquiry brings the Henry C. Thorne '10. Rochester: H. E. Babcock, chairman, Board of Trustees, speaks at Cornell information that they will be framed Appeal will be taken before the Club luncheon, University Club, 12:15 and hung in the house with the chap- Appellate Division, Third Depart- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 ter pictures, after the war. Our sub- ment of the State Supreme Court, in Detroit, Mich.: H. E. Babcock, chairman, scriber writes: Albany, probably in the term be- Board of Trustees, speaks on "The . "The walls of the Kappa Alpha ginning September 10. University Farmer Looks at Universities," Cor- house, as you may remember, are Attorney Allan H. Treman '21 and nell Club dinner, University Club, 7 adorned with many group pictures of his associate, L. Nelson Simmons '12, SATURDAY, APRIL 28 its members, all of which were taken represent the University and John Ithaca: University concert, Zino Frances- in the identical setting of your cover M. Parker '96 represents the fra- catti, violinist, Bailey Hall, 8:15 picture. It was quite a shock to me, ternities, with Ithaca City Attorney Rochester: Baseball, Rochester Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relays therefore, as probably it was to many Truman K. Powers '30 representing another 'Kap/ to see on the NEWS a the city. This is the first similar case SATURDAY, MAY 5 group of co-eds pictured in such a— to be brought in New York State. Ithaca: Track meet, Pennsylvania, Schoell- shall I say hallowed—spot. My im- The Sigma Phi and Psi Upsilon kopf Field, 2:30 houses south of the men's dormitories Hanover, N. H.: Baseball, Dartmouth, mediate reaction was that this picture two games must take its place with the others of have been used as Navy dormitories Cambridge, Mass.: Rowing, MIT the 'house/ hence my request. It shall since 1943. By agreement between Annapolis, Md.: Lacrosse, US Naval be framed, with the names appended, the University and the city, the Uni- Academy and hung some day, I hope, when fra- versity has deducted the amount of Hamilton: Tennis, Colgate ternities are no longer war casualties." taxes it has paid on them from its WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 The women residents pictured on usual annual contributions made to Hamilton: Baseball, Colgate our cover were Patricia C. Peck '45 of the city for services. 396 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

Nonstop airline service between Ithaca Pennsylvania, March 30, on the Jacob Five fingers pound out ALUMNI NEWS and New York City is here! Cecil S. H. Schiff Foundation. "copy" twice a month. The editorial Robinson '21, head of Robinson Avia- staff of three persons is thus equivalent tion, of Ithaca, will operate daily Palm Sunday vesβer service in Sage to one good one-handed typist; four trips to La Guardia Field and back, Chapel, arranged by the Department fingers are used for the front of the using four-passenger Fairchild planes, of Music, presented the Sage Chapel paper, and one impresses every char- with two-way radio and other stand- Choir of ninety voices, led by Profes- acter in Faculty, Necrology, and News ard equipment. sor Richard T. Gore, Music; a group of Alumni departments. of strings from the University Orches- Spring Day May 19 is to have a Bar- tra; and four vocalists, Hilda 0'- Dramatic Club try-outs attracted fifty ton Hall dance (which may have to Rourke, Anita E. W. Monsees '46, fledgling thespians to the stage of end at midnight), a Kite Hill carnival, George Lewis, and Thomas Tracy '31. Goldwin Smith B, March 22 and 23; a baseball doubleheader with Colum- forty-seven women and three men: bia, and a crew regatta with Colum- Curfew for dogs has been ordered by a soldier, a sailor, and one civilian. bia, US Na\ral Academy, MIT, and city officials in Ithaca "to prevent the Professor Alexander M. Drummond, possibly Harvard. spread of rabies from adjacent coun- Director of the University Theatre, ties." Section 115, Agriculture and sized up the prospective talent, as- Cornell's new football coach, Ed Mc- Markets Law: "Any peace officer shall sisted by Paul B. Pettit, AM '43. Keever, was officially welcomed to kill on sight any dog at large from Try-outs have been held in this room the Campus March 28 with a student sunset until an hour after sunrise," since 1908. Last term they were lim- rally in the Willard Straight Memorial will be enforced. Dogs are fewer on ited to men, and fifteen tried their Room. Robert J. Kane '34, Director the Campus now. luck. of Athletics, introduced "Smilin' Ed" to the cheering audience. John W. Baker, vice-president and Cornell veterinarian, Dr. Thomas general manager of The Ithaca Jour- Sheldon '07, made the front pages of Cornell Bulletin published March 16 nal from 1913-27, and-director of the the nation's press last month when he a "letter to undergraduate women" Empire State School of Printing here, announced the birth of "test-tube from Margaret A. Monteith '46 of died March 13 in Skaneateles, where twins" to President Roosevelt's dog, McLean, Va., ''resigning from my po- since 1939 he had been editor and Fala. Dr. Sheldon has given artificial sition as President of the Women's publisher of the weekly Skaneateles insemination at the Sheldon Canine Self Government Association due to Press. Hospital in Rhinebeck for twenty-five academic probation." Nancy B. Hub- years. bard '46 of Flushing, first vice-presi- Cayuga Heights residents met to nom- dent of WSGA, assumes the duties of inate village trustees March 19 at the Sergeant John Kelly, retired from president. home of Henry J. Shirey '25, and the State Police last August after elected the nominees, Wilbur S. Ran- twenty-three years with the force, Club 60, latest brainchild of the Stu- del '28 and Sherwood Holt, the follow- mostly in Ithaca, is director of a newly- dent Council's spirit and traditions ing day at the home of Village Clerk established information and guidance committee, was inaugurated March 17 James B. Trousdale '22, Assistant center of the Tompkins County Vet- in Warren Hall and moved to the Treasurer of the University. Such erans Service Agency, with offices on recreation room in Martha Van Rens- gatherings are usually held in the the second floor of the Court House. selaer Hall, March 24. Attendance is Cayuga Heights schoolhouse, but be- Kelly served two years with the Field limited to sixty couples, who spend the cause of the fuel shortage no evening Artillery in France during the last war. evening dancing to recorded music meetings have been held there re- and refueling on refreshments. Club . cently. The village, by the way, is free Mayor Charles D. Corwin '08, Re- 60 boasts "plenty of comfortable of debt for the first time in twenty- publican, of Groton, was re-elected furniture and entertainment supplied two years, street improvements hav- last month. by and for those present." ing necessitated several loans during that period. Bible study, led by members of the Public lectures: "Diamonds Tell a CURW staff, occupies the wesf lounge Tale," by Mrs. G. B. Hannaford of the "Yanks in the Orient," broadcast of Barnes Hall, Wednesday nights. Association of Diamond Industries, March 11 on the Blue Network from The Rev. Alfred L. Klaer, Presby- March 19, sponsored by the Depart- West China Union University in terian student pastor, discussed "The ment of Geology; "The Road to Full Chengtu (150 miles northwest of Who, What, and Why of the Old Employment," by Professor Julian Chungking), ended with students Testament," March 14 and 21; Rabbi P. Bretz, American History, Emeritus, singing their alma mater; although Avraham Soltes, Jewish, "The Proph- March 20, sponsored by the public the words were Chinese, the tune was ets and Job," April 4, 11, 18; the Rev. affairs committee of CURW "Goethe's "Far Above Cayuga's Waters." Allen C. Best, Methodist, "Psalms Attitude to Society," by Barker Fair- and Wisdom Literature," April 25, ley, professor of German literature at FOR LO! the winter is past, the bliz- and "Historical Background of the University of Toronto, March 26, on zard is over and gone the pussywillow New Testament," May 2; the Rev. the Goldwin Smith Foundation; and and crocus appear on the Hill; the John D. W. Fetter, Baptist, "The "The Electron Microscope and its Life and Teachings of Jesus," May 9 time of the chirping of robins is come; ; Application to Biological Problems," and the voice of baseball practice is and 16; and the Rev. Gerald B. O - by A. Glenn Richards, PhD '32, pro- heard in our land. Grady, Episcopalian, "The Life and fessor of zoology at the University of Teachings of Paul," May 23 and 30.

April I, 1945 397 correspondent John Lardner, in News- on Bataan under General Douglas week, February 19, telϊs of the Crof oot MacArthur and was taken prisoner Necrology Memorial Theater built on Anguar when the island fell. His home was at and dedicated to Lieutenant Crof oot; 99 Galatin Avenue, Buffalo. Telluride. "the best theater in the Pacific area," Richard F. Nelligan, retired associ- so the carpenters, cooks, medical ate professor of physical education at corpsmen, electricians, surveyors, Amherst College and instructor in blacksmiths, and soil analysts of the Gymnastics at Cornell from 1887-92, battalion who built it thought, until March 10, 1945, at his home in Am- the regimental commander ordered herst, Mass. He coached swimming the men to "strip it down to 'minimum and track at Amherst until his retire- facility' requirements." The order to ment in 1928. tear it down came three days later. " 'The two best units in my regiment '85—Arthur Francis Bardwell, in- have the dirtiest, plainest camp'," ventor of the first voting machine in the colonel said when Lardner with the United States, March 15, 1945, in two colleagues visited him at the re- Belchertown, Mass. In 1901 he won quest of the battalion's enlisted men. the John Scott Award of the Franklin " 'I'm against fancy trimmings. Seats Institute of Philadelphia, Pa., for his and a movie screen like other outfits votometer. should be good enough. And I satis- '87 BS—Lois Macy Otis, retired fied myself that these men used time teacher, of 123-5 Broad Street, Phila- and material that should have gone delphia, Pa., December 14, 1944. into their regular work'." An engineer Sister, Amy Otis '89, whose address is for the Alabama highway department, Pearson Nursing Home, South Street, Lieutenant Crofoot entered the Army Auburn. Kappa Kappa Gamma. in November, 1942. Mrs. Crofoot lives '40 AB—Major James Mont- + in Clayton, Ala. gomeryBostwick (above), Royal Ham- '90 LLB—Judge James A. Parsons, '29 BS—Helen Marie Whalen, ilton Light Infantry of the Canadian political advisor and counsel to the Army, killed in action in March, 1945. former Governor Alfred E. Smith, and teacher at New Hartford High School, February 22, 1945. Her home was at Overseas since November, 1941, he former judge of the New York State took part in the invasion of France Court of Claims, March 4, 1945, at his 1436 Genesee Street, Utica. Delta Gamma. and saw action in Belgium and Hol- home, 96 North Pine Street, Albany. land. He is the son of the late Henry He resigned from the Court of Claims '30 BS—Llewellyn Oscar Peabody, M. Bostwick '00; his mother lives in bench in 1936 because of ill health. agricultural teacher, August 28, 1944, Hamilton, Canada. His wife, the ΊO ME—George Franklin Pond, in Randolph, of poliomyelitis. Alpha former Jean Soule '41, is employed by vice-president and western sales man- Gamma Rho. United Air Lines in New York City, ager of Pneumatic Scale Corp., Ltd., where she lives at 325 West Twelfth '32, '35 AM, '41 PhD—Charles Street. March 13, 1945, in Chicago, 111., Parker Baker, former research associ- where he lived at 1320 North State ate in Physics, in October, 1944. Son '43—First Lieutenant Robert * Street. Brother, Willard F. Pond '05. of the late George R. Baker '95, he Jay Evans, test and transport pilot in Kappa Alpha. lived at 527 Riverside Drive, New the Air Transport Command, Decem- '18—Norman George Martin, civil York City. ber 13, 1944, from injuries sustained engineer at Bay way refinery of the in a mid-air airplane crash in Marra- Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, '35 MD-Captain Orrin Fluhr * kech, French Morocco. A former stu- March 15, 1945, in Colonia, N. J. Crankshaw, Army Medical Corps, dent in Agriculture, he entered the killed in action in Germany, February service in December, 1941. His home '20, '23 BS—Raymond Corbett 23, 1945. Veteran of several Pacific was on RFD #1, Corning. and European campaigns, he was an Shannon, entomologist and malarial '43—Captain Clayton S. Rock- * instructor of internal medicine at' expert, found dead, March 7, 1945, in more, USMCR, killed in action on Yale Medical School when he joined his hotel room in Port of Spain, Trini- I wo Jima, February 24, 1945. He went the Army in 1942. He had received the dad, where he had been engaged for overseas in February, 1943, and had Bronze Star and the Purple Heart; four years in anti-malarial work for participated in the Bougainville and home, 1 Euclid Avenue, Summit, N. J. the Rockefeller Foundation. He was Guam campaigns. He was in Arts and with the Bureau of Entomology, US '35—Captain James Millard * Sciences. Home, 37 Riverside Drive, Department of Agriculture, Washing- New*York City. Sigma Alpha Mu. ton, D. C, and the Smithsonian In- Pine, AUS, killed in action in France, stitution before joining the Rockefeller September 27, 1944. His home was in '44—Private First Class John * Foundation. He was credited with the Kingston. Chi Phi. Robert Dolezal, Army Air Corps, discovery of a new genus of mosquito, '38 AB — Second Lieutenant ir killed in an airplane crash, November Anopheles Gambiae, introduced into Robert James Huff cut, AUS, nephew 16, 1944, in Tripoli, North Africa. A Brazil from West Africa. of Howard B. Ortner '19, former Cor- former student in Hotel Administra- nell head basketball coach, killed in tion, he lived at 661 North Beech '23 AB—Robert Frayer Aldrich of Street, Wahoo, Neb. 42 Center Street, Chatham, in April, the Japanese prison camp at Cabana- 1944. Kappa Delta Rhυ. tuan on Luzon Island last August. '46—Second Lieutenant David + Secretary to the US High Commis- Henderson Richey, Army Air Forces, '23 AB—First Lieutenant David * sioner to the Philippines, Francis B. navigator of a Liberator bomber, lost Wilson Crofoot, Army Engineer Corps, Sayre, when war broke out, he stayed March 10, 1945, when his plane killed in action September 20, 1944, with the Army instead of returning to crashed into the ocean about seven on Anguar Island, Palau group. War this country with the staff. He served miles off Montauk Point, Long Island. 398 Cornell Alumni News He was stationed at Westover Field, Fifth Army in Italy. The division, neth Post, PhD '37, Floriculture, co- Mass. A student in Arts and Sciences composed of veteran skiers who operated in the work. when he enlisted in November, 1942, trained for several years in the United he lived at 66 Sutton Manor, New States, spearheaded the Fifth Army's Professor Lloyd P. Smith, PhD '30, Rochelle. Phi Gamma Delta. attack in the Mount Belvedere area Physics, has been appointed research southwest of Bologna. As brigadier director of RCA Laboratories, Prince- general commanding the division ar- ton, N. J. For the last three years he tillery of the Second Infantry Divi- has been working part-time at Cornell, The Faculty sion, General Hays went overseas in returning every two weeks from his October, 1943, first to North Ireland work with RCA. He is now on leave and then to Wales. He landed in of absence, but will continue as con- Graduate student loan fund as a France on D day plus 1, wading sultant on government work at the memorial to the late Professor Her- ashore from an LCI in water up to his University. bert H. Whetzel, Grad '02-04, Plant armpits, and spent 163 days in un- Pathology, is being raised by his broken combat in Normandy. He had Professor Kenneth B. Lane '35, sec- former students and associates. Pro- several narrow escapes, once when a retary of the Law School, resigned fessor Louis M. Massey, PhD '16, German dud landed two yards away, February 28 to enter the legal depart- Plant Pathology, reports that more on the other side of a hedgerow; and ment of Interchemical Corp., Empire than $800 has thus far been received again when the Germans dropped State Building, New York City. He from seventy-five contributors. mortar fire within twenty yards while previously practiced law in Buffalo; he was inspecting front lines. His was appointed to the Law Faculty in Rotary cutting knife which con- July, 1942. trols the contagious ring rot of pota- division smoked out 40,000 Germans toes has been designed and built by holed up in Brest; it also won the Lieutenant George H. M. Law- * Professor Louis M. Roehl, Sp '22, bitter battle for Hill 192 at St. Lo. rence, PhD '39, USNR, formerly as- Agricultural Engineering, and Louis From a tower built at St. Lo the night sistant professor of Botany and assist- C. Knorr, graduate research assistant before the attack was launched, Gen- ant to Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, in Plant Pathology. The ordinary type eral Hays observed the battle until Agriculture, Emeritus, at the Bailey of cutting knife spreads the disease; smoke obscured vision. Hortorium, is assistant flag officer once it has passed through a diseased on a ship in the western Pacific. potato, it may infect as many as the Professor Vincent du Vigneaud, next twenty-four healthy seed pieces. Biochemistry at the Medical College Egon Petri, Pianist-in-residence, re- The circular knife attached to the in New York, who received the Wil- turned February 16 from a concert cutting machine rotates by a motor liams H. Nichols Medal of the New tour to Vancouver and Victoria, Can- in a tank of boiling water and is dis- York Section of the American Chem- ada, Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., infected before each separate cut. ical Society, March 8 in New York Provo, Utah, Memphis, Tenn., Spring- City, for his work in determining the field, Ohio, Springfield, Mass., and Dr. Kenneth I. Greisen, PhD '43, chemical architecture of biotin, dis- Elmira. instructor in Physics, on leave, has cussed in his medal address "The Re- lationship of Structure to Biotin and Conducting a survey among em- been awarded a Frank B. Jewett Fel- ployees in a war industry of less than lowship by the American Telephone Antibiotin Activity." He announced development by himself and his col- 1500 workers, Professor .E. William & Telegraph Co. for investigation of Noland, PhD '44, Sociology and An- cosmic radiation to be carried on at leagues of new anti-biotins that de- prive several species of disease-pro- thropology, found that "in-shop" con- Cornell after the war. The fellowship, siderations, such as satisfaction with which is for one year, has a stipend of ducing bacteria of biotin, a powerful vitamin which they must have to live. one's job, healthy opinions of workers $3,000 with a further honorarium to regarding efficiency and attitudes of the institution where the work is done. The bacteria are fooled by the anti- biotins which resemble biotin in their management were the most influential Primary criteria are demonstrated re- factors in keeping absenteeism down. search ability of the applicant, the chemical structure but which do not have biotin activity. Deprived of their Other contributing factors are home fundamental importance of the prob- life, comfort on the job, life organiza- lem he proposes to attack, and the food, they are prey for the white blood cells which destroy them. tion (including morale), and com- likelihood of his growth as a scientist. munity attitudes. Illness accounted Dr. Greisen is now engaged in essen- for only 31.7% of the absences. tial war research in Santa Fe, N. M. Professor Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26, English History, and Mrs. Professor Arthur A. Allen '08, Orni- Professor R. William Shaw, Astron- Marcham took the oath as American citizens, February 5. Having received thology, will address the Audobon omy, and Director of the Fuertes Society of Detroit, Mich., April 28. Observatory, was elected March 8 the BA at Oxford in 1923, Professor commander of the Ithaca Power Marcham came to the Graduate Professor Alfred M. S. Pridham, Squadron, a chapter of the US Power School that year with the Boldt Fel- PhD '33, Ornamental Horticulture, Squadrons. He also received a certifi- lowship in History. was named secretary-treasurer of the cate of advanced pilot grade. Purposes New York State Nurserymen's Asso- of the squadrons are to establish a Professor William E. Blauvelt '25, ciation at its annual meeting in Ro- high standard of skill in handling Entomology, Extension, has devised chester in January. Professor Harold yachts, to encourage the study of the a method of killing insects on orna- B. Tukey, Grad '22-23, Pomology, science of navigation, and to co- mental plants by having the plant Geneva Experiment Station, was operate with government agencies itself supply the poison. Sodium elected an honorary director of the charged with navigational regulations. selenate, a white powder, is mixed association. with water and applied to the soil George P. Hays, Field Artillery * where it is taken up by the plant roots Professor Charles L. Hamner, Po- captain on the University ROTC and accumulates in the sap, foliage, mology, Geneva Experiment Station, staff, 1923-26, has been promoted to and buds. "The bug bites the plant and Mrs. Hamner have a daughter, major general and commands the and the plant bites back," Professor Wendy Sue Hamner, born January 9. 10th Mountain Division with the US Blauvelt explained. Professor Ken-

April iy 1945 399 Personal items and newspaper clip News of the Alumni about all Cornellians are earnestly sol

'92 CE—John C. I. Fish, retired reasonably good health, considering the real estate business for thirty- civil engineer and professor emeritus his experience. three years. He is now chairman of the of civil engineering at Stanford Uni- '05 ME—Lorenzo D. Speed has re- Illinois USO and a trustee of the Illi- versity, lives at 1336 Emerson Street, tired as general plant engineer of the nois Institute of Technology, the Palo Alto, Cal. He is co-author of The Michigan Bell Telephone System, Faulkner School, and the Lincoln Engineering Profession, published in after thirty-nine years in the tele- Memorial University. In the Negro 1941 by the Stanford University phone business. He lives at 8100 East housing field, he has pioneered as a Press. Jefferson Avenue, Detroit 14, Mich. successful developer and has led the campaign of the National Association '01; '22—Walter N. Brand, vice- '06 AB, '07 AM—Major Frank president and works manager of Al- of Real Estate Boards to encourage B. Crandall, Chaplain Corps, US entry into this field. len-Wales Adding Machine Corp., Army, who has been retired for dis- Ithaca, subsidiary of National Cash ability incurred in line of duty and '12 ME—Adrian Hughes, director Register Co., retired March 1. Form- has returned to his pastorate at the of research for the Baltimore Transit erly works manager for the Reming- Second Unitarian Church, Salem, Co., Baltimore, Md., has been named ton Typewriter Co. and manager of Mass., is taking graduate work for an industry panel member of the the Ingersoll-Rand Co., Easton, Pa., the PhD at Harvard Divinity School. Third Regional War Labor Board. he came to Ithaca in 1929 as acting His address is 25 Winter Island Road, '12 LLB—Walter R. Kuhn has been manager of Morse Products, staying Salem, Mass. elected the only honorary life member with the firm until Allen-Wales was '06 ME—Leon C. Welch, general of Squadron "C" Cavalry Club of organized in 1934. Roland G. Fowler manager of the lubricating and sales Brooklyn. He is a member of Oeland '22, who has been with National Cash technical service department of Stand- & Kuhn (John J. Kuhn '98), 115 Register Co. and its subsidiaries for ard Oil Co. of Indiana, Chicago, 111., Broadway, New York City. twenty-one years, succeeds him as addressed the Engineering Society of '13 BS—Dora L. Earl is agent for works manager. In 1926, after two Detroit, Mich., January 30, on "Pres- years with the Morse Industries, the New York Casualty Co. in Van ent and Future Developments in Etten. Ithaca, Fowler went to the company's Lubrication." Detroit office to handle sales and serv- '14 ME—Everett P. Gooch was ice, returning to Ithaca in 1927. He '08 ME—Conant Van Blarcom, Su- appointed March 15 a staff assistant was placed in charge of national sales perintendent of Buildings and Grounds at headquarters of industrial accounts and product development of the locally at Cornell from 1931-36, has been ap- division, Pittsburgh, Pa., office of manufactured typewriter in New York pointed by the trustees of Western Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- City in 1928; he built the first desk Reserve University to make a study turing Co. He was formerly account- models of the present line of Allen- of its entire physical plant from the ing manager for the transportation Wales adding machines. In 1930 he standpoint of new improvements and and generator division of the East returned to Ithaca to take charge of additions during the next twenty-five Pittsburgh works. years. His study will be concerned assembly and later final inspection '16 AB, '27 AM; '90-92 Grad— * and national service. with the location of the buildings. Since leaving Ithaca, he has been a Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Snyder, '04 AB—Henry C. Hasbrouck as- builder and mechanical engineer in son of Professor Virgil Snyder, Grad sumed his duties March 1 as account- Cleveland, Ohio. '90-92, Mathematics, Emeritus, is with the Army in France. ing director of the Edison Electric '09 CE—Newton C. Farr, chairman Institute, New York City, a newly- of the Alumni Association committee '16—Hiram C. Daggett is eastern created position. His principal work on Alumni Trustee nominations, was manager for D. W. Haering & Co., is in the co-ordination of activities of unanimously elected president of Ur- Inc., Chicago, 111., consultants to in- the several accounting committees of ban Land Institute January 25 at the dustry on scale and corrosion control. the Institute, and as consultant on annual meeting of the board of trus- He lives at 31 Nut Grove Street, accounting and regulatory matters. tees in Chicago, 111. Senior partner of White Plains. Formerly deputy chief accountant of Farr & Co., Chicago, he has been in '17 ME—William C. Bliss of 6320 * the New York State Public Service McPherson Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., Commission, his work from 1921-42 For reasons of security, complete mail- has been promoted to colonel. He was chiefly that of a consulting ac- ing addresses of members of the armed commands an Ordnance group of the countant for the centra] management forces, except those in training camps US First Army in Belgium. His unit of the Associated Gas & Electric within the United States, cannot be pub- lished. Designations of military units and was recently cited by Lieutenant System. His home is at 88 Douglas the addresses of Naval ships, although General Hodges for its part in resist- Road, Glen Ridge, N. J. required for postal delivery, may be of ing the German counter-offensive in great value to the enemy if published. the Ardennes. '04, '07 ME—James C. Rockwell, If therefore, you wish to correspond president of Manila Electric Co., was with Cornell friends in the services whose '17 BS—Dunbar M. Hinrichs of among the Americans rescued f rom names appear in the News without com- Essex, Conn., is mentioned as one of the Santo Tomas Japanese intern- plete address, the Alumni News will the eighty-six American Field Service undertake to forward letters from sub- ment camp. Officers of Manila Electric scribers. Seal your letter in an envelope volunteers now serving with the Co. in this country have received a bearing the full name and rank or grade, French First Army, which recently wire from General Douglas Mac- if known, of your correspondent, your own crushed the Colmar pocket west of return address, and first-class postage. the Rhine, by Technical Sergeant Arthur stating that arrangements for Mail this to us in another envelope and Rockwell to return to the United we will add the last-known address and Marvin Sorkin, writing from France States would be made at the earliest forward your letter. in the Syracuse Post-Standard, March possible date. He is believed to be in 8. Hinrichs was a member of the Cor- 400 Cornell Alumni News nell unit commanded by Captain Ed- '19 CE—Albert L. Dittmar is right Lawrence, Mass. He now lives at 270 ward I. Tinkham '16 which on May of way engineer for the Pennsylvania Ames Street, Lawrence, Mass. 24, 1917, was the first combat group Department of Highways at the cen- '31 BS, '32 MF—Louis C. Maisen- to carry the American flag to the front tral office in Harrisburg, Pa. helder is forester in charge of bottom- in the first world war. Sorkin says of '21 BS—Mrs. Caroline Parbury land hardwood research at the Delta him: "Now fifty years old, head of a Roedelheim moved March 1 from Experiment Station, Stoneville, Miss. family and retired from business, he's New York City to Box 268, Los He Λvrites that John R. Curry '24 is doing his part again, driving an am- Gatos, Cal. Her husband, Alfred M. his immediate superior, J. Winstan bulance." Overseas for more than two Roedelheim '95, died last August. Neely, PhD '35, is cotton geneticist at years, Hinrichs was formerly with the '21, '22 BChem, '30 PhD—Ray- the station, and that George R. British forces in the Middle East. mond H. Fleckenstein is research divi- Walker, PhD '40, is plant breeder for '17 BS; '48; Ί7 BS—Dr. Frederick sion head of the pigments department the Stoneville (Miss.) Pedigreed Seed A. Stenbuck of 182 Park Avenue, of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. at Co. Maisenhelder lives at 208 West Mount Vernon, is specializing in al- the Newport, Del., plant. He lives at Second Street, Leland, Miss. lergy. Besides the MD which he re- .1900 Lincoln Street, Wilmington, Del. '31—Lieutenant William A. Tyde- * ceived at Columbia, he holds the '22 PhD—Dr. Charles B. Jolliffe, man, Jr., USNR, is mine officer aboard MS from New York University and chief engineer of RCA Victor division, a mine destroyer in the Pacific. He the PhD from Columbia. He is the was elected March 3 vice-president of had previously served in the Pacific father of Mary E. Stenbuck '48. He Radio Corp. of America in charge of from September, 1942, to December, writes that he visited John Wϊgsten RCA Laboratories. 1943, when he was assigned to the '17 of Elmira last October. '23 BChem—Daniel R. Donovan is Navy Department in Washington, D. >17 AB; '20 AB—Sidney P. Howell, vice-president of Callite Tungsten C. He received the Bronze Star for head of the Red Cross in Massachu- Corp., Union City, N. J. He and Mrs. twelve months' duty on Guadalcanal, setts, will spend the month of April in Donovan, the former Grave V. Mur- and another Bronze Star for his par- Chicago, 111., directing the business phy of Bloomfield, N. J., have two ticipation in the defense of New division of the Community and War sons, Donald R. Donovan, Jr. and Georgia Island. Mrs. Tydeman lives in Fund. Mrs. Howell (Marcis McCart- Robert J. Donovan. They live at 100 Branch, N. J. Lieutenant Tydeman is ney) '20, is a nurse's aide at Hacken- Yantecaw Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J. the son of William A. Tydeman '03 of sack, N. J., Hospital, Bergen Pines, 856 Meixell Street, Easton, Pa. and Camp Shanks Veterans' Hospital. '25 BS—Harold I. Frederick, was presented the William Sample trophy, '31 DVM—Dr. Raymond C. Klus- '17 BChem—Samuel P. Wilson is highest award of the sales department sendorf, formerly in practice in Co- technical director of Varnish Products of Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, Mo., lumbia, Wis., is now associate editor Co., Cleveland, Ohio. His daughter, during ceremonies in Syracuse, March and assistant executive secretary of the Barbara Wilson '48, who was injured 5. The award was for outstanding American Veterinary Medical Associ- while skiing in Ithaca, has been re- sales achievement and service to agri- ation, with headquarters in Chicago. cuperating at their home at 3114 culture based on a long-term record. '32 CE—Fred B. Ferris is in the in- Washington Boulevard, Cleveland '26 CE; '28—Colonel David M. * dustrial engineering department of the Heights, Ohio. Dunne, Jr., engineer officer on the Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, 47—Harold C. Lenfest has been staff of Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Pa. He lives at the Greenwood Apart- appointed vice-president in charge of Eichelberger, commanding general of ments, Jenkintown, Pa. the New York office of Enterprise the US Eighth Army, has been '32 PhD; '31 AM, '34 PhD—Evans Engine Co. He was formerly eastern awarded the Bronze Star for "meri- B. Mayo and Mrs. Mayo (Velma district manager of the Diesel engine torious achievement in connection Knox), PhD '34, are in Ecuador. They division of American Locomotive Co. with military operations against the have two children, Ellen Mayo, born 48, '21 AB—"Gallery" in Advertis- enemy in New Guinea and the Philip- December 19, 1941, and Edward ing & Selling for December, 1944, is pine Islands." Mrs. Dunne (Kath- Knox Mayo, born last April 15. They devoted to a characterization of Henry erine E. Smith) '28 lives on Highland may be addressed Care Cotopaxi W. (Tex) Roden, written by Stanley Drive, Carlsbad, Cal., with their two Exploration Co., Apartado 655, Guay- Jones and captioned, "Dallas Boy." daughters, Joan McKie, sixteen, and aquil, Ecuador. '18, '21 WA—Robert E. Ryerson, Katherine Gail, twelve. '33 BArch— Major Robert M. * formerly general sales manager and '30 ME—James L. Paxton, Jr., Wagner is division engineer of the acting head of the eastern sales divi- president of Paxton-Mitchell Co., Pacific division of Air Transport Com- sion of Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Omaha, Neb., has announced the mand. His home is at 74 Wendel Ave- has been appointed a vice-president formation of a subsidiary corporation, nue, Pittsfield, Mass. of the company. He has been with the Paxton Diesel Engineering Co., in '33 AB—Captain Stephen J. * firm for eighteen years. Omaha. The new company is to spe- Daly, formerly in the advertising de- '19, '20 AB—Donald E. Brecken- cialize in the manufacture of diesel partment, E. I. du Pont de Nemours ridge of 141 Prince Street, West specialties and parts and diesel repair & Co., Wilmington, Del., is in the Newton, Mass., writes that Ensign service as well as general, machine Transportation Corps at Fort Hamil- Chapin B. Miller, husband of his shop business. ton, Brooklyn. daughter, the former Jane Brecken- '30 EE—Julius F. Siegel has re- '34—Captain Herbert Hoff- * ridge, was killed last June 24 in an air- signed as chief engineer of O. Decker heimer, Jr. is with the Eastern Com- plane crash on Mount Tamalpais near Co., Brooklyn, to become chief elec- mand in Russia. His home is at 4130 San Francisco, enrouteto Pearl Harbor. tronic engineer of Plymold Corp., Rose Hill Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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April /, 1945 401 '34, '39 BS in AE; '36 AB—Robert Bentley Shreve, born January 6 in Risley (Margery Utz) '40 of 19 Colony C. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg (Ella Temple, Tex., where Lieutenant Road, West Springfield, Mass., have Schillke) '36 and their children, Shreve is stationed at McClosky Gen- a daughter, Prudence Sage Risley, Wendy, nine, and Alan, two, have eral Hospital. His brother, Major born January 30. The child is named moved from Easton, Pa., to 25250 Thomas C. Shreve '41, is assigned to after her ancestor, Russell Sage's Tread well Avenue, Cleveland 17, the analysis and installations branch, mother, Prudence Risley Sage, for Ohio. Kellogg, who was standards Air Technical Service Command, whom Prudence Risley Hall was engineer with Consolidated Vultee Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. They named. Lieutenant Risley is the son Aircraft Corp., Allentown, Pa., is now are the sons of R. H. Shreve '02 and of Dr. Harry B. Risley '09. production engineer with the Perfec- Mrs. Shreve (Ruth Bentley) '02, who '38 AB—Mrs. Roger Vanderbrook tion Stove Co., Cleveland, Ohio. live at 50 Euclid Avenue, Hastings- (Ruth Becker), with her nine-months- '34 AB, '36 LLB; '39 AB, '41 * on-Hudson. old son, is at Fort Slocum, New Ro- LLB—Lieutenant Jacob I. Goldbas, '37 CE, '43 MCE; '37, '38 AB— * chelle, with her husband, Captain TJSNR, is in the Pacific. His brother, Edward A. Miller was appointed in Roger Vanderbrook, who is post Moses L. Goldbas '39, who has his January chief engineer of the newly- engineer. law office in The First National Bank formed building panels division of the '38 BS; '38, '40 BS—Lauren E. Building, Utica, has been coaching Detroit Steel Products Co. He lives Bly, district manager of eastern New boxing at the YMCA and the Boys' at 2250 East Grand Boulevard, De- York territory of GLF, has been Club, and helping stage boxing shows troit 11, Mich. He writes that Donald transferred from Batavia to Ithaca. for the wounded soldiers at Rhoads C. Osborn '37, at Artillery observa- He and Mrs. Bly (Elinore R. Wood) General Hospital. tion headquarters with General Pat- '38 live at 306 North Aurora Street, '35, '36 BS, '38 MS—Sergeant * ton's Third Army, has been promoted Ithaca. Henry T. Skinner, former propagator, to major. Ornamental Horticulture, is in Engi- '38 BS—Mrs. Charles P. Wells neers Camouflage Training Detail #1 '37 BS; '37 ME—Lieutenant Ed- • (Dorothy L. Hopson) is living with of the First Air Force. He travels over ward K. Clark, USNR, is head of the her mother at 15 Faville Avenue, the First Air Force area, training both commissary department at the Naval Dodgeville, while her husband, for- ground and flight crews in camouflage Base on Solomons Island, Md. His merly assistant professor of mathe- brother, Captain Vernon S. Clark '37, techniques. matics at Michigan State University, AUS, Ordnance, is in Burma. '36 AB, '40 MD; '41 BS in AE * is overseas. She has a one-year-old (ME); '02 AB—Lieutenant Robert '37 AB, '41 DVM; '40 BS; '09 * son, Robert Louis Wells. W. Shreve, Medical Corps, and Mrs. DVM—First Lieutenant Henry B. '38 ME—Technical Sergeant * Shreve have a daughter, Carolyn Risley, Army Air Corps, and Mrs. Robert L. Hoyt is overseas. His home

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Pres., Carl W. Badenhausen, Cornell '16 Vice-Pres., Otto A. Badenhausen, Cornell Ί 7 402 Cornell Alumni News address is 140 Fairview Avenue, '39-40, '42-43 Grad; '43 AB— • Stamford, Conn. Corporal Willard H. Whitcomb is sta- '38 AB—Joseph C. Noback is work- tioned at the Red Cross Blood Donor ing for the War Department in Wash- Center in Boston, Mass., handling and ington, D. C. He and Mrs. Noback testing whole blood prior to overseas and their two children, Melinda and shipment. He and Mrs. Whitcomb Roger, live at 4407 South Four Mile (Dorothy Goodwin) '43 live at 54 Run Drive, Arlington, Va. Chandler Street, Somerville 44, Mass. Mrs. Whitcomb, who has been travel- '38 BS—Captain John A. Faiella, • ing with her husband to various Field Artillery, is in Germany. He has places, was a research chemist and previously served in Ireland, England, laboratory librarian for Hammermill and France. Paper Co., Erie, Pa., a chemist for ΠΓΉIS magazine is pub- Kaufmann-Lattimer Co., and for the '38—Philip W. Hustis, who has 1) lished for people who been medically discharged from the Illinois Water Treatment Co., Rock- Army, is in advertising with John- ford, 111. take delight in the valleys stone & Cushing. His address is«7-13 '39 BS—Private William F. * and mountains, the villages Washington Square N, New York Fuerst, Jr. of 87 Nassau Street, New City. York City, writes from Italy: "I have and cities, and the people of '38 AB—George S. Stothoff lives at been over here now for about nine the Empire State, and for months. I came over with a heavy 50 Linden Place, Sewickley, Pa. He is Americans everywhere who with US Steel Corp. bombardment group, and late in Sep- tember I was transferred into the are interested in the lore and '38 AB; '09 ME—Mrs. William M. Signal Corps. I am in a company Baldwin, Jr. (Lucy A. Webb) of 4629 which handles the communications song which we have kept Mayίield Road, South Euclid, Ohio, for one of the Air Force wings. I have alive in our oral tradition. has a son, William Marsh Baldwin III. worked as cryptographer, teletype Mrs. Baldwin is the daughter of and telephone operator. However, James A. Webb '09. things do get kind of boring, and I miss getting up to Ithaca, but, at least, I do get the ALUMNI NEWS." ]Γ)ESPONSE from alumni '39 AB—Richard A. Lowe was -k graduated February 2 as a pilot from 1[\ to the first announce- Pampa, Fla., Army Air Field and ment of this new Quarterly, commissioned second lieutenant. He began cadet training last March after published by Cornell Uni- instructing for nine months at Carl- versity Press for the New strom Field, Fla. York Folklore Society, has '39 AB; '37 AB; Ίl ME— Lieu- * tenant (jg) Clinton L. Rossiter, US- been so enthusiastic that we NR, was home in February on a are attaching a coupon for twenty-nine-day leave after eighteen months aboard a battleship in the your convenience. Pacific. He has since returned to his ship. His brother, Ensign William G. Membership in New York Rossiter '37, USNR, is on an LST overseas. They are the sons of Winton Folklore Society, $1.50 an- G. Rossiter Ml of 4 Midland Gardens, nually, includes subscrip- '39 BS—Lieutenant (jg) Walter * Bronxvillew ' Foertsch, USNR, is shown above with tion to New York Folklore his wife, Betty, and their daughter, '39; Ίl ME—Corporal George * Barbara, after his return to the United H. Zouck, Jr. married Edith B. Burk Quarterly. Smgle copies 50 last July. He has been overseas in States. His ship, the destroyer Reid, cents. Checks should be was sunk December 11 in the Philip- Bermuda for two years. He is the son pines. Although it took with it more of George H. Zouck Ίl of 5409 Falls made payable to New York Road Terrace, Baltimore 10, Md. than a hundred pictures of young Folklore Society and sent to Barbara, it gave him a chance to get '40 BS; '40 AB—Lieutenant * home and see the baby for the first Burton F. Inglis, USNR, was seri- the Society at 124 Roberts time. The picture, which appeared in ously injured January 9 in an acci- Place, Ithaca, New York. the Rochester Democrat and Chron- dent while on a shakedown cruise in icle, was taken at the home of his par- the Atlantic. He was rushed to the ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Foertsch, Naval Hospital at Annapolis where it of 164 Curtis Street, Rochester. Lieu- was found that the bone over his tenant Foertsch has reported to Nor- right eye and his right cheek bone were folk, Va., for reassignment. shattered, that he had a compound NAME '39, '40 BS in AE—Lieutenant * fracture of both bones of his right arm, John H. Nevius, USNR, is an assist- a dislocated hip, and injuries to his ant maintenance officer of the Seventh right ear and about his neck*: and ADDRESS Amphibious Force in the Pacific. Mrs. shoulders. Mrs. Inglis (Georgina Sel- Nevius lives at 1806 Grant Street, zer) '40 teaches mathematics at Bain- Wichita Falls, Tex. bridge Central High School. CITY STATE April /, 1945 403 '40 BS—Marguerite H. Adams of '40—Mrs. Arthur M. Seymour 315 Cedar Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J., (Nina V. Jordan) is temporarily in was married February 4 to Lieutenant Abilene, Tex., with her husband, who Colonel Jay R. Stout, Army Air is stationed there in the Army. She Casίcabtlla Corps, who recently returned from has a daughter, Susan Jane Seymour, overseas duty. Stout graduated at who was two years old on March 16. Dartmouth in 1940. Her permanent address is 1308 Thirty- '40 AB; '40 BS —Alexander J. eighth Street, Sacramento 16, Cal. Cheney and Mrs. Cheney (Martha ESTABLISHED 1870 '41 BS—Gerald T. Clarke, who Atwood) '40 are parents of a daughter, was honorably discharged from the Carol Jane Cheney, born January 15. Army for wounds received in Tunisia, • The Cheneys, who live at 225 Beech- is now a control chemist at Charles 5 wood Avenue, Liverpool, also have a Phiyer Co., engaged in the manufac- A Regents two-and-a-half-year-old son, Peter ture of penicillin. A first lieutenant, Preparatory School Cheney. Cheney is employed at L. C. he received the Silver Star and the Smith & Corona Typewriter, Inc., Purple Heart. His address is 332 for Rapid Yet Thorough Syracuse. Palmetto Street, Brooklyn. '40 AB; '42 AB—Lieutenant (jg) * '41 AB—Captain Ellis Eisen's * Preparation for College Gordon G. Dale, USNR, is with a address is Headquarters, Officers' Naval construction battalion in the School, AGF Replacement Depot No. Pacific. Mrs. Dale (Margaret T. Ack- 2, Fort Ord, Cal. He writes that First erman) '42 teaches mathematics in Lieutenant Arthur B. Dutky '42, who San Francisco, Cal. She lives at 135 For Information about served in the African and Italian Thirteenth Avenue, San Mateo, Cal. Entrance and Credits campaigns, is an instructor at Fort '40—First Lieutenant Carl M. + Ord. He believes that Captain Rich- Fick, Eighth Army Air Force B-17 Inquire ard Knight '41, AUS, is in the South- Flying Fortress navigator, has been west Pacific, and that First Lieutenant awarded the third Oak Leaf Cluster Kalter Godfrey '42, who is engaged to C. M. DOYLE '02, to his Air Medal for "meritorious First Lieutenant Carol Hirsch '42, Headmaster achievement"" during heavy bombard- WAC, is in France. ment attacks in the air offensive 116 SUMMIT AVENUE against the enemy over Continental ITHACA, N. Y. Europe. Based in England, his home is at 37 Washington Square West, New York City.

CAMP OTTER 35th SEASON • '41 BS; '38 BS—Captains Her- * A Boys' Summer Camp bert Ernest and Michael J. Strok '38, pictured above, left and right respec- with a tively, have both received awards for outstanding duty. Captain Ernest, Cornell Background Quartermaster Corps, AUS, has won the Bronze Star for meritorious serv- ices in support of combat operations from November 22, 1943, to January i 20, 1945, in Italy. "Commanding a In its thirty-four years of con- field»bakery which has produced al- tinuous flourishing existence, most nineteen million pounds of bread Camp Otter on its own private Send for This 1945 Booklet in slightly less than two years of over- lake in the Muskoka Region of NO OBLIGATION seas service," the citation reads, "Cap- Ontario has demonstrated its in- tain Ernest ably led his company in tegrity, wholesomeness, and great popularity with boys, and has come the accomplishment of its specialized to be something of a Cornell institution. Each year the number of mission with a high degree of technical sons of Cornellians has increased, and not a few go on to enter Cornell. and military efficiency. He was instru- Enrolment is limited to 65 boys. Camp Otter has its own farm, mental in the initiation and develop- and a resident physician is always in attendance. ment of numerous improvements in bakery equipment which have mate- Write rially enhanced the effectiveness of HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director operations by field bakeries." Captain Ernest has also been presented the Athletic Director, Nichols Day School for Boys, Buffalo, N. Y. Grand Cross of Knight in the Order of the Crown of Italy by His Royal 404 Cornell Alumni News Highness, Prince of Piedmont, Lieu- J., has been transferred from Alaska tenant General of the Realm, Um- to the Western Front...... He has been beryo di Savoia, in recognition of for five months in the'paratroop sec- THE his work in feeding the liberating tion of the Infantry School at Fort COOP forces in Italy. Captain Strok has Benning, Ga. been awarded the Legion of Merit '42 AB; '39 BS—First Lieuten- * COLUMN by General Mark Clark for excep- ant Norman K. Brooks writes from tionally meritorious conduct in the overseas: "'Still with the French and performance of outstanding services still angry with the ALUMNI NEWS. I in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy from have received exactly two (2), yes I February 1, 1943, to September 9, said two, copies during the last four- 1944. As a Field Artillery liaison air- teen months. Is that just? Happier craft engineer, test pilot, and supply item: Captain Frank Boyle '39 (soon officer for all US Army Field Artillery to be major), my old ROTC instructor, liaison aircraft in the Mediterranean is in the same organization with me Theatre of Operations, Captain Strok here and shares my nonexistent copies built up an efficient supply and main- of the NEWS!" (Three changes of tenance system. He established a sup- ΛX7ELL, the Spring Term has overseas address within seven months * * begun, skis and hockey ply agency between the air and ground apparently delayed Lieutenant forces and created, against dishearten- sticks have disappeared, and Brooke's copies in catching up with we're putting out the tennis ing odds, an improvised depot which him. The NEWS mailing department handled both the supply and mainte- rackets and the baseballs. It and Army Post Offices do the best was a long, tough winter but it nance of artillery with the highest they can, and we hope that by now— efficiency. Captain Ernest writes: looks like an early spring. no recent change having been re- Quite a few of you noticed our "Margaret Bourke-White '27, who is ceived—these two Cornellians are en- at the front right now, Mike, and my- other ad on Courtney and Cor- joying all the issues they were eagerly nell Rowing and we've been self are going to throw a little reunion awaiting.—Ed.) in a few days." His home address is filling mail orders at $1.00, post- 110-120 Seventy-third Road, Forest '42 BS; '15 BS, '16 MS, '18 PhD * paid, and doing a little thinking Hills. Captain Strok's wife, the former, —Gustave F. Heuser, Jr., USNR, about Cornell books. Helen L. Perkins '39, lives at 209 iMw on duty in the Pacific, was pro- As we see it, Concerning Cor- Delaware Avenue, Ithaca. moted October 1 to lieutenant (jg). nell is about the only book He is the son of Professor Gustave F. which covers the entire history '41, '43 DVM—Captain Edward * Heuser '15, Poultry Husbandry. of Cornell and tjie last revision A. Majilton, Veterinary Corps, is a of this book was made in 1924. patient at the 142d Genera] Hospital, '42 BS—Ruth J. Hyde, American Twenty-one eventful years have Calcutta, India. He has a broken leg. Red Cross staff assistant, writes from passed since then, and no one Wales: "On the boat coming over I '42 BS in AE(ME); Ί5 CE— • has recorded their passage as discovered two Cornellians. We man- Lieutenant Richard H. Adelson, TJS- yet. Someone should write a aged to get the gang around the piano NR, on duty in the Pacific, has re- book without further delay, for to sing the Alma Mater at least once ceived a Commendation Ribbon "for we only have 48 copies of Con- each evening." Miss Hyde's home is outstanding service in the line of his cerning Cornell on our shelves at 1132 Cleveland Avenue, Niagara profession while serving as a director and when they are gone, we'll Falls. She is the daughter of the late officer of a heavy machine gun mount have to depend on hearsay. Tom B. Hyde >®8. on an aircraft carrier in the Western We've decided that the Co-Op Pacific.'7 "When the ship was attacked '42 AB—Sergeant Edward A. * has acquired quite a reputation by low flying enemy planes," the cita- Kaufmann, AXJS, is overseas in Italy. as a Book Store, for we have tion which was signed by Admiral His home is at 1137 Margaret Street, been receiving orders from serv- William F. Halsey reads, "he directed West Englewood, N. J. ice men from far-away places the fire oϊ his mount with great ac- '42 BS in AE (ME)—Willard S. for books on poultry raising, curacy, thereby assisting in the de- Levings is a refrigeration application bridge building, and all kinds of struction of an enemy torpedo plane." engineer for York Corp., York, Pa. I subjects. Perhaps YOU should Lieutenant Adelson, who was pro- He has been working on refrigeration make a note that we can furnish moted to senior grade lieutenancy problems for Wright Field, Dayton, Any Book that's in print and a October 1, is the son of Charles R. Ohio, Eglin Field, Fla., and Langley lot that are out-of-print, post- Adelson '15 of 34 Wensley Drive, Field, Va. paid to your mail box, but that Great Neck. '42 BS; '41 BS—First Lieutenant * we're sold out of Forever Amber '42, '43 BArch—Cynthia P. * Roger M. Merwin, liaison pilot with until May 1. Adams, USNR (WR), has been pro- the US Seventh Army, has been And perhaps WE should tell moted to lieutenant (jg). She is sta- awarded the Purple Heart for wounds you that the last 48 copies of tistical officer in Ship Superintend- received in September. He also holds Concerning Cornell are all bound ent's Office, New Construction De- the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf in red morocco; that they cost partment, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. Cluster for meritorious achievement $1.50, postpaid; and that we She has heard that Lieutenant (jg) in flight in France. Mrs. Merwin only lose $1.83 on every copy John Clay '43, USNR, is in the South (Cornelia E. Merritt) '41 and their that we sell! Pacific, and that Keith Rogers '43, eleven-month-old daughter live at 124 badly wounded in France, is now in a Catherine Street, Ithaca. hospital in England. '42 BME; '97 LLB—Lieutenant * THE CORNELL CO-OP '42 BME; '97 ME—First Lieu- * Joseph S. Mount, USNR, married (1945—Our Fiftieth Anniversary) tenant Wilbur F. Herbert, son of Virginia R. Powers of Bremerton, BARNES HALL ITHACA, N.Y. Frederick D. Herbert '97 of 187 Lor- Wash., at Vallejo, Cal., October 16. raine Avenue, Upper Montclair, N. Lieutenant Mount, previously sta- April Λ 405 tioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash., is now on PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. He is the son of the late Joseph E. Mount OF CORNELL ALUMNI '97 and Mrs. Mount who resides at 911 East State Street, Ithaca. NEW YORK AND VICINITY BALTIMORE, MD. '42 BME; '44, '43 AB—-Lieuten- * ant Leroy W. Long, Jr. and Mrs. RE A RET A *—Folded and interfolded facial tissues WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES Long (Ruth Wilson) '44 of 15 Law- for the retail trade. Engineers rence Circle, Portsmouth, Va., have a S'WIPES*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue, Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gυstav J. Rβquardf '09 daughter, Marilyn Long, born Octo- packed flat, folded and interfolded, in bulk or Richard F. Graβf '25 Norman D. Kenney '25 ber 19. Lieutenant Long is the son of boxes, for hospital use. Stewart F. Robertson A. Russell Vollmer '27 Roy H. Ritter '30 Theodore W. Hacker Ί 7 the late Leroy W. Long * 13 Mrs. Long FIBREDOWN*—-Absorbent and non - absorbent cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. is the daughter of Howard G. Wilson FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING—in '12. several attractive designs. WASHINGTON, D. C '42 BFA—Alice Scott is a mechani- FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING— cal draftsman at Stafford, Davies, For hospital and sick room use. THEODORE K. BRYANT Gogerty Naval Ordnance Test Sta- *Trade Mark rβg. U. S. Pat. Off. LL.B. 97—LL.M. '98 tion, Inyokern, Cal. She writes: "I THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. Matter Patent Law, Q. W. U. '08 have been working here in the middle QARWOOD, NEW JERSEY Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively of the Mojave Desert since June, D. C. Taggart Ί6 - - - Pres. Treas. Suite 602-3-4 McKIm Bldg. loving every bit of it: the job and the No. 1311 G Street, N.W. desert. Nearly every week end I go ROYAL MANUFACTURING CO. down to my apartment in Alhambra, PERTH AMBOY, N. J. KENOSHA, WIS. Cal., which is next door to the home GEORGE H. ADLER '08, Vice President MACWHYTE COMPANY of Dr. Clinton M. Baxter '41 and Mrs, Manufacturers of Wiping and Lubricating Baxter (Helen L. Munn) '41." Waste — Dealers in Wiping Rags, Spin- Manufacture of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord. ning, Felting and Batting Stocks, Clothing '42 BEE—First Lieutenant Harry * Clips, and Rayon Wastes Literature Furnished on request L. Tredennick, AUS, Signal Corps, is JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. "13 PRES. ft GEN. MGR. in the South Pacific. He married July R. B.WHYTE M.E. Ί3 STANTON CO.—REALTORS / 12 First Lieutenant Alvera Wood, Vice President fπ Charge of Operations GEORGE H. STANTON '20 Army Nurse Corps, who is stationed Real Estate and Insurance at Winter General Hospital, Topeka, Kans. MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Blair, Comings & Hughes, Inc. '43 AB—First Lieutenant Wil- * 16 Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel. 2-6000 521 Fifth Ave. Ham G. Dillon is a liason pilot with the Field Artillery in the Pacific. NEW YORK 17, N. Y. The Tuίler Construction Co. '43 AB—Lieutenant (jg) Albert * • S. Jaffe is engineering officer on an J. D. TULLER, Ό9, President AN ENGINEERING LST which has participated in the BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, SERVICE ORGANIZATION Morotai, Palau, Leyte, Mindoro, and DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS EXPORTERS & Luzon invasions. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS '43 MS—Mrs. Betty Sue Mc- • Cready Joiner has a daughter, Marion A. J. Dillenbeck '11 C P. Bβylαnd '31 C. E. Wallace '27 T. G. Wallace '34 Chas. H. Blair '97-'98, Pres. Joiner, born in February in Corvallis, Ore., where she lives at 2701 Arnold 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. Way. Her husband, Captain John Alfred Joiner, a former lawyer, is on Luzon, Philippine Islands. '43 DVM; '42 BS—A son, Robert Eastman, Dillon & Co. Joseph Paddock, was born last June Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 26 to Dr. Nicholas M. Paddock '43 Members New York Stock Exchange Investment Securities and Mrs. Paddock (Shirley B. Lewis) '42. They live in Machias where Pad- 15 Broad Street New York DONALD C. BLANKE '20 dock is a veterinarian. INVESTMENT SECURITIES Representative '43 AB; '45—First Lieutenant * 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. C. Royce Patton is executive officer of Jansen Noyes Ί0 Stanton Griff is Ί0 an advanced training company at L. M Blancke Ί5 Willard I. Emerson Ί9 Branch Offices Philadelphia Chicago Camp Howze, Tex., serving on tem- BRANCH OFFICES porary duty from the Tank Destroyer Albany, Chicago, Indianapolis: Philadelphia Reading Easton Paterson Hartford Direct Wires to Branches and Los Angeles Replacement Training Center, North Pittsburgh, Trenton, Washington and St. Louis Camp Hood, Tex. His sister, Elinor Patton '45, is a Senior in Arts and Sciences. ENGLISH WALNUTS CORNELLIANS IN SERVICE '43 BME—Richard C. Ryon of 11 SUPERB QUALITY SHELLED NUTMEATS Please be sure to notify us prompt- Heath Place, Garden City, Long Is- Postcard brings price list, etc. ly of address changes, to make sure land, is working in the research labo- you get your Alumni News ratories of Sperry Gyroscope Co. He BAY SHORE RANCH without interruption. is doing research on anti-aircraft fire Box 307, Sanfa Clara, California control. 406 Cornell Alumni News '43—Philip O. Works, Jr., AAF * Teheran, Iran, operated by the Pres- pilot, son of Philip O. Works '21 and byterian Board of Foreign Missions, Mrs. Works (Dorothy M. Sharp) '23, has arrived safely in Cairo, Egypt. A Here is Your was promoted to first lieutenant Janu- letter which her parents, Mr. and ary 3. He has a daughter, Penelope Mrs. Harold B. Underwood of 152 Catherine Works, born June 14. His Claremont Avenue, Schenectady, re- home address is 104 South Bradford ceived from her when she was in TIMETABLE Street, Dover, Del. Lisbon is quoted in part: "Lisbon is a '44—Mildred A. Bond was married beautiful city, warm, even in this time TO AND FROM ITHACA March 10 to Ensign Donald B. of year, palm trees and evergreens, French, USNR, in Rochester. Vir- pink, light blue, and cream colored Light Type, a.m. Dark Type, p.m. houses; fish women in peasant skirts Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. ginia L. Smith '44 was maid of honor. York Newark Phίla. ITHACA Mrs. Bond, who transferred in her and kerchiefs with high baskets on their heads; theater and just every- 11:05 11:20 11:10 6:34 Junior year to Purdue University on 6:52 7:08 7:05 2:35 thing. One seems farther from the war ί10:25 110:40 ί10:12 #6:17 a Curtiss-Wright scholarship, has t11:45 t11:59 111:00 °"7:13 been in the design and drafting de- than at home because Portugal is a partment of Curtiss-Wright Corp., neutral country. It seems funny to Lv. Ithaca Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca know that we are closer to the actual 2:40 5:30 10:05 12:56 Columbus, Ohio. V:17 oy10:03 8:30 11:37 fighting and these people go on living 9:30 12:50 10:35 1:23 as if the war didn't exist. But the con- 6:40 9:35 trast between the rich and the poor Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New here is terrific. You see lovely, glam- ITHACA Phila. Newark York orous women in beautiful fur coats, 1:28 9:20 8:49 9:05 1:02 8:25 8:29 8:45 black dresses, and extreme hats having •11:51 7:45 7:54 8:10 tea in the cafes or going to the concert ΊDaily except Sunday °Daily except Monday in evening clothes and then you see XSunday only ^Monday only dirty, undernourished children with- yOn Mondays only leave Ithaca 6:28 a.m., arrive Buffalo 9:85 a.m. out shoes, begging for a few centavos 'New York sleeper open to 8 a.m. at Ithaca, and at 9 p.m. from Ithaca or a little food. . . . The first night we Coaches- Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars; Cafe-Dining were here we went to hear 'The Mes- Car and Dining Car Service siah' (in Portuguese). . . . No one ever gets up in the morning in Portugal. The day begins about noon, luncheon Lehϊgh Valley from 12:30 to 2:30 o'clock, tea about 5, and dinner from 7:30 until 9:30, and Railroad then, if you go out in the evening, even to the 'movies', you go about 10 and come back late. There are all sorts of things for sale here one cannot buy in the States, things like refrigerators, cars, cameras, film. And shoes! . . . Yesterday some of us went to visit '44—Second Lieutenant William ^ the old Moorish castle here in Lisbon. Mearns III (above), AAF pilot, flew What a place! It made me think of the in his P-51 Mustang as part of the Crusades, but what really interested \(ι fighter cover for the bombing attack me was that I recognized some of the when nearly 1,000 B-17 Flying Fort- weeds that I had studied last year in resses of the Eighth Air Force blasted Botany that we had learned were of railroad yards and damaged the offices European origin." of Hitler, Goering, and the Nazi Air Ministry in Berlin. His group de- '44—Edward J. Whiting, who is * stroyed five German pick-a-back com- stationed at Camp Ritchie, Md., has binations on the mission, the first been promoted to technician fifth Service Men Attention! shot down by Eighth Air Force fighter grade. All Cornell men in service planes. Lieutenant Mearns's home is '45; '46 —Private First Class * at 511 Summit Avenue, Maplewood, Robert Anf anger, AUS, and Mrs. An- are invited to make the Cor- N. J. fanger (Marjorie Cohen) '46 live at nell Club their headquarters '44 BS—Barbara Palmer is teach- 150 West Seventy-ninth Street, New or meeting place when in ing home economics in Savona. From York City 24. Mrs. Anf anger is the New York. You are sure to March to September, she was with the daughter of David Cohen '14 and the find a Classmate or friend to New York State Extension Service as sister of Annette Cohen '41. cheer you on your way. assistant home demonstration agent '45; '45—Second Lieutenant iς Every club facility at in Syracuse and assistant 4-H agent Robert W. Bartholomay, Army Air reasonable prices, including in Washington County. Corps, is co-pilot of a B-17 in the bar service by "Dean" Carl '44 BS—Jacquelyn L. Townsend is European Theatre. Mrs. Bartholomay Hallock. a student dietitian at the Presbyterian (Frances Larrabee) is a Junior in Home Economics. Come and see us sometime, Hospital, 168th Street, New York and good luck! City, and is working for the MS at '45, '44 BS—E. Louise Flux is a Columbia University. dietitian for the Naval-civilian cafe- The Cornell Club of N.Y. '44 AB—Marjory N. Underwood, teria at Advance Base Depot, Davis- who will teach science and mathe- ville, R. I. Her father is stationed at 107 East 48th Street matics in the Community School in the depot. April /, 1945 407 '45, '44 BS; '45—Ruth B. Boyd * and Private First Class James J. Wilson '45 were married November CORNELL HOSTS 25 in the Marine Chapel in Quantico, Va. They are living in Quantico where WELCOME YOU Wilson is attending Officers' Training School. '45—Thomas W. Lins, who was ir reported missing in action December NEW YORK AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. 16, is a prisoner of war in Germany. His father, Everett W. Lins '20, of 8867 Carlyle Avenue, Miami Beach, Hotel Grosvenor Your Home in Philadelphia FIFTH AVENUE AT 10th STREET Fla., has received a letter from him and says that he is apparently in good For those who like the comforts of home and HOTEL ESSEX the fast-stepping convenience of health. A younger son, Donald Lins, 13TH AT FILBERT STREET is a Freshman at Cornell. a modern hotel "One Square From Everything" Every room with tub and shower 225 Rooms—Each With Bath '45; '46 —Radio Technician * Singles from $4 00 Doubles from $5.50 Air Conditioned Restaurants Third Class Donald N. Macllraith, Donald R. Baldwin, '16, President HARRY A. SMITH '30 George F. Habbick, Manager USNR, and Lois J. Austin '46 were Owned by the Baldwin Family married December 23 in Evanston, 111. They are living in Chicago, 111., HOTEL LATHAM Recommend your friends to where Macllraith is stationed at the Navy Pier prior to overseas shipment. 28TH ST. at 5TH AVE. - NEW YORK CITY The St. James Hotel 400 Rooms - Fireproof 13th and Walnut Sts. '45; '15 AB, '18 MD; '79 BS— * IN THE HEART OF PHILADELPHIA SPECIAL RATES FOR FACULTY Second Lieutenant Clayton Ryder II, AND STUDENTS Air-conditioned Grill and Bar pilot of a 15th AAF Liberator bomber, Air-conditioned Bedrooms has won the Air Medal for "meritori- J.Wilson Ί 9, Owner WILLIAM H. HARNED '35, Mgr. ous achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy." NEW ENGLAND Overseas since December, he has ten WASHINGTON, D. C. missions to his credit. He calls Vienna "just about the roughest target we Stop at the ... have on our list. It's about the last big concentration of Nazi industry and HOTEL ELTON it's protected with all the flak guns 7 1715 G Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. WATERBURY, CONN. they can muster. ' He is the son of Dr. "A New England Landmark" Morton Ryder '15 of 1 Grandview Avenue, Rye, and grandson of Clay- Bud Jennings '25, Proprietor CARMEN M. JOHNSON '22 - Manager ton Ryder '79. '45; '43 BS—Borden J. Smith is night manager and auditor at the CORNELL HEADQUARTERS in WASHINGTON A CHARMING NEW ENGLAND INN Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira. He and At the Capitol Plaza IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BERKSHIRES Mrs. Smith (Alice Chamberlin) '43 SINGLE from $2.50 DOUBLE from $4 became parents of a daughter, Betsy Henry B. Williams '30, Mgr. Jean Smith, September 10. They live # Iffll SIIAROX COiXIV. ROBERT A. ROSE 30, GENERAL MANAGER in Unit 9, Apartment 1-B, Victory % DODGE HOTEL Heights, Horseheads. '45, '44 BEE; '22 AB; '22 BS— * Ensign Robert B. Trousdale, USNR, CENTRAL STATES completed the pre-radar course at ROGER SMITH HOTEL Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., WASHINGTON, D. C February 28, and is now taking a four PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT 18 STREET, N.W. months' radar course at the Massa- TOPS IN TOLEDO chusetts Institute of Technology. Son Located in the Heart of Government Activity Preferred by Cornell men of Assistant University Treasurer HOTEL HILLCREST James B. Trousdale '22 and Mrs. A. B. MERRICK '30 MANAGER EDWARD D, RAMAGE '31 Trousdale (Ruth St. John) '22, his GENERAL MANAGER address is 401 Marlborough Street, Boston 15, Mass. Cornellians Prefer '47; '44 AB—Jane N. Casterline * and Lieutenant John F. Cushman '44, to patronize these son of Professor Robert E. Cushman, Government, were married March 6 CORNELL HOSTS in Sage Chapel. The bride's sister, the former Rhea L. Casterline '38, who was For special rates in this directory,, write 14 RESTAURANTS in Philadelphia, married to the bridegroom's brother, New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Sergeant Robert F. Cushman '40, two Detroit and Chicago .. . years ago, was matron of honor. Lieu- 3 East Ave., Ifhaca ELEVEN CORNELLIANS ON OUR STAFF tenant Cushman is a surveying in- structor at Fort Bragg, N. C. 408 Cornell Alumni News This tiny dot in the Pacific

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