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VOL. XLV, NO. ITHACA, NEW YORK, MAY 2.7, 1943 PRICE, 15 CENT PRESIDENT DAY REVIEWS WAR'S EFFECTS In Commencement Address to Class of 1943

Bailey Hall was crowded to the doors reported, it is estimated that approxi- versity life of which I warned when you first arrived have exceeded all expectations. Selec- with parents and friends of the Class of mately 650 first degrees will be awarded tive Service for those twenty years of age and '43, May Z4, when the graduate students and about 90 advanced degrees. These over came at the beginning of your Sophomore and Seniors in caps and gowns filed to the approximate numbers, with the 2.63 de- year, on September 16, 1940. Pearl Harbor and center section of seats reserved for them. grees awarded at the University's first our entry into the war came before you were through the first half of your Junior year. They were headed by the Class Marshals, midwinter Commencement last January, During the rest of that year, you faced all the Robert D. Ladd of Ithaca and Louis G. will bring the total number of degrees for difficult personal decisions involved in choos- Helmick, Jr. of Fairmount, W. Va. Next this year to approximately 1,408, as ing from among several possible courses of came the Deans and Faculty, marshalled compared with 1,439 for 1941-42.. action: directly enlisting in the Armed Forces for combat service; enlisting in one of the as for many years by Professors Charles This was actually the University's various training reserve corps set up by the L. Durham, PhD '99, and Arthur W. seventy-sixth Commencement, counting Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; Browne, PhD '03, and following them the one in January, but it is recorded as awaiting call by Selective Service; seeking deferment for further training after call by to the stage, the Trustees headed by the seventy-fifth annual Commencement Selective Service; volunteering for some form their marshal, Major Robert E. Treman since the University's opening, and was of civilian war service. Confronted with these '09, and President Edmund E. Day and its fifth in war time. several possibilities, you were given con- the Rev. William Byrne, rector of the President Cites War's Lessons flicting counsel from all sides, including the Church of the Immaculate Conception in highest Federal offices. You were told to stick President Day entitled his Commence- to your studies until directed by the Armed Ithaca, who pronounced the Invocation ment address "War Time Lessons for the Forces or their representatives to do otherwise. and Benediction. Class of 1943." He cited the troubled You were told that to stay in college was a The academic procession had formed at flagrant avoidance of your duty. It was not condition of the world and its effect on Goldwin Smith Hall in the warm sun of until well into your Senior year when, on the Class of '43 during their careers at November 13, 1942., the age for Selective Ser- a beautiful May day, and marched in Cornell. Closing, he referred to the out- vice was lowered to eighteen and, on De- column of twos from the north end of standing record of Cornellians in the first cember 5, voluntary enlistment was stopped Goldwin Smith up the slope across East and, on December 17, the Army and Navy world war and remarked that this day Avenue and up Reservoir Avenue and college training programs were announced, was the twenty-sixth anniversary of that that this confusion was brought to an end. around the circle to the Bailey Hall May 15, 1917, when a Cornell unit led by The perplexities which all of you—women entrance. Edward I. Tinkham Ί6 carried the first as well as men—have encountered since you Men Go To Armed Services entered the University have gone way beyond American flag in combat to the front in With Professor Richard T. Gore, any I could possibly have imagined when I France. Thε President's address follows: addressed you late in September, 1939. Music, at the organ, the program opened In late September, 1939,1 met with the Class Pays Tribute to Students with the singing of the national anthem. of 1943 as it first arrived on Campus. War had I welcome this opportunity to say publicly Colonel Edwin R. Van Deusen, US Army, come to Europe only three weeks before. We that college students the country over have commandant of the ROTC, called to had been seeing the first great Nazi blitz: the met the exigencies of this period in a way brutal conquest of Poland. In this setting of the their feet those members of the Class of that has done them everlasting credit. In- war abroad, I was expected to tell you how to evitably, they have shared in the general con- '43 who had completed the advanced go about your college work. Much of the ad- fusion and indecision. They have relt the full course and were to be candidates for vice I gave you at that time I do not recall. I impact of certain vacillations of govern- commissions, and Captain Burton W. do remember, however, that I told you this: mental policy, and have in consequence been at Your college days would be subject to great Chippendale, USN, called upon those times baffled and bewildered. But by and large distractions. You would find it very difficult to members of the Naval Reserve who are they have had one main purpose in mind: to study diligently. With the world on fire, you render the best possible service wherever this now to be ordered to active duty. Six would have to make supreme efforts to keep might lead. College men and women of this at work effectively. I urged you to stay stead- members of the Class who had com- generation will render valiant and distin- fastly on the job as long as you remained in pleted the requirements had received guished war service as always before. And that course. I advised you further not to become goes for the members of this Class of 1943 commissions as second lieutenants in the too much engrossed in the minutea of the war whether they have already gone into service— Officers' Reserve Corps. They are Fred L. news, but instead to try to get a clear over-all as more than half have—or have stayed on to view of the course of the war, and of important Gault of Evanston, 111., and Emery complete their courses of college training be- international and national developments. Polya of New York City, Field Artillery; fore moving into action. More than ever it was imperative for you to and Clyde H. Loughridge, Jr. of Lake- gain real understanding of current events. What of the other bit of counsel which I wood, Ohio, Charles G. Morrison of Your task as students at the University in gave to this Class on its arrival in September, Verona, N. J., Robert W. Sailor, Jr. of time of war thus involved a difficult combina- 1939? I hope that that, too, the Class has kept in mind. I hope that you have all, while avoid- Ithaca, and Peter J. Sundheim, Jr. of tion of formal resident course instruction on the one hand, and careful though informal ing undue absorption in the flood of war re- Buffalo, Signal Corps. Other Seniors of self-education on the other; all under condi- ports, kept fully informed of the major de- the ROTC will report in June for field tions of unprecedented distraction. velopments. On the assumption that we have training at officer candidate schools of Not for a moment shall I pretend that, on together maintained this kind of over-all September 2.6 and 2.7, 1939, when I so addressed view, what are we to conclude as to the course their respective branches. of world events during these four critical All candidates for degrees were pre- you, I foresaw clearly the nature of under- graduate life on the American campus over the years? sented this year by Dr. Cornelius Betten, four academic years which have since elapsed. Obviously, the question is much too large PhD Ό6, Dean of the Faculty, and they However, now that the record is in, I am in- and complex to answer fully on any such rose as degrees were conferred by Presi- clined to take the position that the counsel I occasion as this. Nevertheless there are con- gave you nearly four years ago is still worth tributions to the answer which I should like dent Day. Although the exact number of noting. I propose to say some things this to bring to your attention. I propose to do so degrees will not be known until final morning along the same line. in terms of certain observations which I have examinations which ended May 2.2. arc Clearly enough, the disturbances of Uni- come to associate in my own thinking with the 380 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS war developments of each of the academic the air attack on Britain and the drive over British fight alone when it was becoming in- years we have had together. ground through the Balkans. From September, creasingly clear that they were fighting for a The year 1939-40—your Freshman year— 1940, until the following spring, the people of cause which was also our own. Again it was was the year of the quick conquest of Poland, Great Britain were subjected to merciless being proved that the theory of isolationism the long months of ominous quiet from Octo- bombings. Throughout the same period the is neither realistic nor workable. ber to March, and the terrific Nazi spring conquering Axis armies drove south and south- drive ending in the subjugation of Denmark, east through country after country until they Russia's Aid Vital Norway, Holland, and Belgium, the explusion reached the Aegean. During this same period, The year 1941-42.—your Junior year—was of the British from the Continent, and the the United States, moved by the ominous war the year of the final unfolding of the Axis tragic collapse of France. developments in Europe, initiated its policy grand strategy of world conquest. Germany Peace Requires Unity of lend lease. declared war on Russia on June 2.1, 1941. The At least two great truths were written once Britian, America Stand Together drive for Moscow and Leningrad and through more on the pages of history in the course of The two observations I would make on the the Ukraine toward the oil fields between the these dramatic developments. First, it became events of this year relate to the two leading Black and Caspian Seas was then undertaken crystal clear that no nation can depend upon English speaking peoples: the British and our- with all the tremendous forces the Germans its own peaceful intentions nor upon its own selves. The marvelous behavior of the people could bring to bear. During this year, too, peaceful ways of life to keep it out of war. of Great Britain during the fall and winter of North Africa was made a major sphere of Peace is more than a matter of national policy 1940-41 was an immeasurable inspiration to action. By the end of the year, German and It is essentially a matter of world order. It free men the world over. No civilian popula- Italian forces were close to the city of Alex- finds no solid base in isolated national policy, tion ever more clearly demonstrated its ability andria and the entire valley of the Nile was however consistent and honest that policy to stand by and "take it." We may have had in great peril. Meanwhile, on December 7, may be. Second, it was made manifest during our differences with our British cousins from Japan had made its sneak attack on Pearl this same year that nothing so surely saps the time to time, but in the final reckoning we Harbor, and subsequently had conquered the strength of a nation as the lack of funda- may well be proud of the fact that we are near entire region of the South Pacific to Australia mental unity. It is all very well for the life of kin. The second observation, having to do in the south and India in the southwest. Ob- a nation to exhibit widely diversified interests with our own country, is related to this com- viously, the scheme of the Axis was to push and sharply partisan causes, provided there is a ment on the British. During 1940-41 it be- the Russians behind the Urals, to expel the strong common underlying loyalty. Appar- came quite evident that we were going to be British from the Mediterranean and the Suez, ently, France had been so torn by internal dis- drawn into the war. American public opinion to effect the union of the two European Axis sension as to have lost her effective unity. At was swinging steadily to the conclusion that powers with their Asiatic partner, overland peace, she might have survived and ulti- we should be in the war. The ideas which by southern Asia. It was a scheme that during mately regained her strength as a great power; pressed opinion in this direction were two: this year of 1941-42. met with appalling suc- at war, her weakness was so profound as to first, that sooner or later we should have to cess. That the Japanese were unable to con- lead to her quick and overwhelming defeat. fight the Axis powers and that we had better tribute in even greater measure to the fulfill- The year 1940-41—your Sophomore year— fight them while we had strong allies rather ment of Axis grand strategy is due in large than later alone; and second, that we could measure to the brave people of China. An in- was the year in which the Axis power was spiration to free men throughout the world, largely applied in two opposite directions: in not in good conscience stand by and let the China has been fighting for almost six years in the face of desperate odds. The two notes I would enter in the book of this third year of the war are, first, that our UNIVERSITY CHANGES DIPLOMA indebtedness to the Russians is beyond calcu- lation. No people ever staged a more heroic defense of their homeland, and none has ever exhibited greater national fighting spirit. Here THE TRUSTEES OF we have had an example of that indispensable national unity to which I have alluded. It is an CORNELL UNIVERSITY example which all fighting nations may well take to heart. Second, in this same year, it was AT ITHACA IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK made dramatically clear in our own experience TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE LETTERS MAY COME GREETING at Pearl Harbor that no nation, however powerful, is in complete charge of its own BE IT KNOWN THAT destiny. Prior to December, 1941, we Ameri- cans thought we could decide when and how [Name of Recipient] we went into the war, if we went in at all. At Pearl Harbor we learned that we were wrong. HAVING SATISFIED IN FULL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Each nation must shape its policies in the light of a great constellation of world forces. Full HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO THAT DEGREE WITH ALL THE RIGHTS PRIVILEGES knowledge of what these world forces are be- comes an indispensable means of shaping wise AND HONORS THERETO APPERTAINING IN WITNESS WHEREOF national policy. THE SEAL OF THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SIGNATURE OF THE PRESIDENT Victory To Be Complete ARE HEREUNTO AFFIXED The year 194^-43—your Senior year—has brought an unmistakable turning of the tide IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD of war. On every extended front, the drive of the Axis powers has been stopped, and on ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE several important fronts the enemy forces have been rolled back. In a series of great [Edmund E. Day] actions on the Russian front, at Wake Island, 'EMBOSSED SEAL PRESIDENT in the Solomons, in the Aleutians, and in OF North Africa, the full power of the United Nations has made itself felt. At least the Axis CORNELL powers have lost the initiative. Fundamentally UNIVERSITY _ the course of the war from now on will be dictated by the United Nations. Two conclusions I attach to this fourth Supplanting the diploma used for fifty The traditional gold seal with red and year of the war. First, I think we may now years, with its Old English lettering em- white ribbons is replaced in the lower confidently expect a final United Nations bossed on sheepskin 2.2.^2 inches wide by left corner by the seal of the University victory. That there are still tremendous 17 inches high, graduates beginning this sacrifices to be made is to be taken for granted; embossed on the paper. Committee but ultimately we may expect the terrifying year receive the new diploma reproduced responsible for the new design was com- attack which the dictators have made on above. Designed by Woodford Patterson posed of Edward K. Graham, PhD '38, modern civilization to be repelled, and the '95, Secretary-emeritus of the University, Secretary of the University, chairman, dictators themselves and their kind to be it is printed in a classic Roman type on exterminated. Secondly, we must all go along Dean George H. Sabine '03 of the Gradu- with the great pronouncement of the Casa- heavy rag paper stock of parchment ate School, and Dean Gilmore D. Clarke blanca Conference that the terms laid down in quality, 16 inches wide by 12. inches high, '^3, Architecture. final victory must be unconditional surrender. MAY 2.7, 1943

Four years of war have taught us all that there are certain forces at large in the world TWO ALUMNI TRUSTEES RE-ELECTED today with which there must be no compro- mise. We now know that we must not com- Four Other Board Members Continue promise with the ruthless application of brute force. We must not compromise with deceit At the annual meeting of the Cornell New member of the Board of Trustees and treachery as instruments of national policy. Alumni Association May 2.2., Foster M. by virtue of his appointment as New We must not compromise with the cynical Coffin Ίx, chairman of the canvassing York State Commissioner of Agriculture disregard of truth, of liberty, of honor, of justice, of rational and humane living among committee, announced that Thomas I. S. and Markets by Governor Dewey is C. men. Compromise with respect to these ideals Boak '14 and George H. Rockwell '13 Chester Dumond. He succeeds Commis- of human association is a deadly social poison. had been re-elected Alumni Trustees of sioner Holton V. Noyes who was in With respect to ways and means of human the University for the five-year terms to office since 1937. President of the State progress, there may be give and take. With respect to the fundamental purposes of human 1948. Both were elected for their first Farm Bureau and a fruit grower and endeavor, the lines must be held fast. We are terms five years ago. Boak has been a a farmer at Ulster Park, Dumond is also in one of the greatest crises of all human his- member of the executive committee of chairman of the State Conference Board tory. The issues that are involved test our the Board, was vice-chairman of the com- of Farm Organizations and a member of most fundamental loyalties. Let us make sure that we keep the faith; that we never lose mittee on buildings and grounds, and the New York State Emergency Food hope; that we fight with all we have for the chairman of a special committee to study Commission headed by H. Edward Bab- great purposes to which we Americans, young student housing. He is works manager of cock, chairman of the Board of Trustees. and old, have always been, and always will be, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New He is the father of C. Chester Dumond, irrevocably committed. Such is the common loyalty in which all free men are of one great Haven, Conn. Rockwell has been chair- Jr '36 company, the world over, time without end. man of the University Arboretum com- The Board of Trustees at its meeting mittee and a member of the committee on Commencement Day re-elected as Trus- SENIORS HOLD CLASS DAY buildings and grounds. He is an execu- tees for five-year terms Franklin W. Olin Class Day and the last Senior singing tive of United-Carr Fastener Corp., '86, Frank E. Gannett '98, and Ezra B. of the Class of '43 was an impressive Cambridge, Mass. Whitman Όi. occasion at the end of one of Ithaca's few Coffin announced that a total of 9,462. President of Western Cartridge Co., seasonable days this spring. The exer- ballots were cast, of which 186 were in- East Alton, 111., and affiliated com- cises at the Goldwin Smith Portico were valid, making 9,2.76 to be counted by the panies, Olin is the donor of Olin Hall of attended by parents and friends of the committee. Boak received 5,738 votes; Chemical Engineering in memory of his Seniors and by members of the Univer- Rockwell, 4,516; Mrs. R. C. Osborn son, the late Franklin W. Olin, Jr. '12,. sity, standing on the green, the usual (Agda Swenson) '10, 3,52.9; Margaret He was first coopted by the Board in Reunion costumes of returning alumni Bourke-White '2.7, 3,0x3; Henry R. 1934; has been a member of the commit- notable by their absence. Gundlach Ίi, 1,443. Besides Coffin, tee on buildings and grounds. Sunday afternoon, the Class Day members of the canvassing committee Gannett is the president of the Gannett exercises had been preceded by an were Mrs. Paul H. Underwood (Eva Co., Inc., Rochester, newspaper pub- academic procession of the Seniors, Humphrey) '03, Mrs. Nan W. Bruff '09, lishers. He was elected an Alumni Trus- Faculty, and Trustees to a stirring Professor A. Wright Gibson '17, and tee in 192.6, re-elected in 1931, and was Baccalaureate sermon in Bailey Hall by Arlene L. Nuttall '32.. coopted by the Board in 1933 to fill the the Rev. Bernard C. Clausen, pastor of Myron C. Taylor '94 was reappointed term of the late Roger B. Williams. He the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, to the University Board of Trustees last has been chairman of the Trustees' execu- Pa. week by Governor Thomas E. Dewey for tive committee and the budget commit- Now, as the sun travelled toward the his fourth five-year term. He is the donor tee for the endowed Colleges and a mem- hills across the Lake, Senior men and of Myron Taylor Hall, former chairman ber of the committee on University de- women gathered in their caps and gowns of the US Steel Corp., and in 1939 was velopment, budget committee for the on the steps of Goldwin Smith Hall for appointed by President Roosevelt his State institutions, and the Council for the their last meeting as a Class. From the special representative to the Vatican in College of Agriculture and Experiment opening of the Class Day program by Rome. He has been a member of the Stations. President Roy B. Unger of Cleveland Medical College Council. Whitman served two terms as Alumni Heights, Ohio, there was a note of remembrance and of pride for the many members of the Class of '43 who had left for the armed forces and are serving their country in all parts of the world. Ap- parent, too, was the ferling of pride that these Senior men would soon, almost without exception, be following their Classmates to points unknown. Songs were led by G. Truett Bunch of Bakersfield, Cal., and during the pro- gram two members of the Class, Dorothy M. Cothran of Gasport and Robert N. Murphy of Syracuse, sang "Cornell" and the "Alumni Song" accompanied by a double quartet of which George L. Swallow of Westfield was the leader. Class histories for the men and women were read by the respective historians, Jean M. Saks of Hackensack, N. J., and June E. Gilbert of Avon. Milton D. Coe '43 of Oswego passed on the traditional (Continued on page 387) THOMAS I. S. BOAK '14 GEORGE H. ROCKWELL '13 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Trustee, from 192.1 to 1931; has since THREE OF FACULTY DIE American Florists, an organizer of Pi been a member elected by the Board. Death claimed three members of the Alpha Xi, and member of Kappa Sigma Senior member of Whitman, Requardt & Faculty within four days since our last and Phi Kappa Phi. Massachusetts Smith, consulting engineers with prin- issue. Professor Edward A. White, Horticultural Society awarded him its cipal offices in Baltimore, Md., he has Floriculture, Emeritus, died of a heart gold medal in 1938, recognizing his in- been chairman of the committee on build- attack May 13 at Memorial Hospital in fluence in the advancement of floricul- ings and grounds and a member of the Ithaca where he was a patient for about ture. Major Kendall C. White '34, on executive committee. two months. The next day, Professor foreign service with the US Army, is his Earl L. Brunnett *Z3, Poultry Diseases, son and Barbara C. White '35, his HONOR PROFESSOR JACOBY died at his Ithaca home, 407 Kline wood daughter. Professor Henry S. Jacoby, Bridge Road, following a year of poor health. Dr. Burnett was a member of the staff Engineering, Emeritus, who retired in Dr. James Ewing, leading authority on of the Veterinary College since he re- •L^L-L after teaching in Civil Engineering cancer and for thirty-three years a mem- ceived the DVM in 19x3, first as in- for more than thirty years, was guest of ber of the Medical College Faculty in structor of diagnosis in Pathology and honor at a meeting of the Washington New York City, died there May 16 in Bacteriology and since 19x4 in Poultry Society of Engineers at the Cosmos Club Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Diseases, as instructor, assistant profes- in Washington, D. C., April 2.1. He was Cancer and Allied Diseases. sor, and associate professor. He received presented a certificate of award for "out- Professor White came to Cornell in the MS in 19x7; was a member of Sigma standing contribution to the advance- 1913 at the request of Dean Liberty Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Omega Tau ment of engineering knowledge and Hyde Bailey to organize the Department Sigma and of the American Veterinary practice and to the maintenance of a of Floriculture in the College of Agri- Medical Association and the Society of high professional standard." culture. Graduate of Massachusetts Agri- American Bacteriologists. His research Nineteen of Professor Jacoby's former cultural College in 1895, he had been a in controlling poultry diseases won students at Cornell attended the meeting commercial florist and taught at Texas wide recognition and he travelled ex- (see picture). The guest of honor spoke of A & M and Connecticut State College, tensively educating poultrymen to pre- his teaching days and memories of his returning to MAC in 1906 to organize vent diseases in their flocks; was the students. President Amadon of the the first department of floriculture. In author of a College of Agriculture Ex- Society recited some of the Professor's 19:2.3 the Department at Cornell was en- tension Bulletin on poultry diseases, and many achievements and remarked on his larged to include Ornamental Horti- recently contributed a chapter on chicken numerous books, copies of which were culture, and Professor White continued pox to a new book, Poultry Diseases, by displayed. Other speakers were Dean as its head until he retired in June, 1939. a number of authorities. He was business Roland P. Davis, PhD '14, of the Uni- He was an authority on the culture of manager of The Cornell Veterinarian. orchids, growing them for more than versity of West Virginia; Melvin S. Rich An outstanding authority on neoplastic thirty years and collecting them all over '05 who pointed out that students of diseases, Dr. Ewing led the medical pro- the world. His book, American Orchid Professor Jacoby had designed two of fession's campaign to impress the public Culture, has gone through three editions, Washington's modern bridges at Calvert with the importance of early diagnosis and he spent a year in 1939-40 lecturing Street and at Klingle Road, the Empire and treatment of cancer. Always out- on orchids at the University of Hawaii State Building in New York City, the spoken, he fought vigorously against the and collecting them in Java, the Philip- San Francisco-Oakland, Cal., bridge, and idea that there was any all-embracing pines, Siam, Burma, and China. He was the structural work of the Mellon Art "cure" for cancer, saying often that secretary of the American Rose Society, a Gallery in Washington; William G. "cancer is not a single disease, but a fellow of the Royal Horticultural So- Hoyt '09; and Addams S. McAllister, generic term covering a broad depart- ciety, chairman of the committee on PhD '05, assistant director of the Na- ment of biology and a universal property horticultural education of the Society of tional Bureau of Standards. of tissue cells." He became professor of Pathology at the Medical College in 1899, the year after it opened, having re- ceived the AB at Amherst in 1888 and the MD at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1891. In 1931 he became professor of Oncology at Cornell and was appointed director of Memorial Hospital, affiliation of which with the Medical College he had helped to arrange to broaden the work on can- cer of* both institutions. Amherst and five other universities awarded him honorary degrees; in 1933 he received the Janeway Medal of the American Radium Society, in 1936 the John Scott Medal of the Board of City Trusts of Philadelphia for "ingenious men or women who make useful inventions," in 1940 the Clement CORNELLIANS HθNOH PROFESSOR HENRY S. JACOBY AT ENGINEERS* MEETING Cleveland Medal of the New York City Cancer Committee, and in 1941 the gold- Nineteen alumni at meeting of the Washington Society of Engineers. Left to right, top row: Jacob Fruchtbaum '17, W. LeRoy Saunders '17, Major Thomas C. McDermott headed cane of the American Association '19, Martin F. Kunkel 'x6, William S. Graham Ί6, James A. Sourwine Ίi, James H. of Pathologists and Biologists awarded Cheston 'xi, William H. Barnard, Jr. '13, Herbert Ashton Ίi, Charles D. Shepar^ '17. for life to the man designated "dean of Front row: , Colonel Walter W. Burns Ό6, Melvin S. Rich '05, John S. pathologists." He had received several Gorrell '05, Addams S. McAllister, PhD '05, Professor Jacoby, Roland P. Davis, PhD foreign decorations and was the author '14, William G. Hoyt '09, Edward T. Gray Όi, Lesley Ashburner Ό6. of numerous textbooks and articles. MAY 17, 1943 383 GUBB DESCRIBES ALUMNI PROGRAM Fund Re-elects Goodwillie at Annual Meeting

With no Class Reunions in Ithaca this The President expressed himself as "im- Cornell is the place to send their sons and year, the annual meeting of the Cornell sensely heartened by the outcome of this daughters. And the sons and daughters must think it is the kind of place they would like Alumni Association and the Cornell year's Alumni Fund drive," and termed to attend. Alumni Fund Council, usually held in it ' 'evidence of the kind of response you It seems to me that the alumni form the best Bailey Hall, was a gathering of some can get from Cornellians if you present basis for building up Cornell relations with seventy Cornellians in the North Room the full situation effectively, plus the the public. We have sixty-odd thousand alumni scattered over the United States and in of Willard Straight Hall, May 2.2.. cumulative benefit of a greatly improved foreign countries. If this great body of alumni President Edward E. Goodwillie Ίo organization." "Cornell can do its war could be activated into talking and promoting of the Alumni Fund Council reported job," he said, "just as it has done the Cornell among all their friends and associates, that the Fund had reached $119,913 from traditional civilian job—with real dis- our public relations problem would be well on the way to solution. 5,066 contributors, as compared with tinction. This has been a year that has $6x,3i4 from 4,308 contributors last year impressed me as no other with realization Must Coordinate Groups at this time. He predicted that by the end of the tremendous resources of loyalty But if we are to arouse the alumni body to of the fiscal year, June 30, the total of and devotion that lie in Cornell." greater enthusiasm and greater interest in Cor- nell, we first must strive for complete unity Larry E. Gubb Ί6, president of the unrestricted gifts to the University would and coordination among all the alumni groups. reach at least $150,000 to meet the Alumni Association, outlined plans for There are today thirteen different alumni urgent needs of Cornell in this war year. increasing the effectiveness of alumni mechanisms: the Cornell Alumni Fund Coun- It was voted by the meeting to turn over interest in Cornell. His address follows: cil, the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, Association of Class Secretaries, the ALUMNI the Alumni Fund June 30 to the President It is a real privilege to have the opportunity NEWS, an organization of local men's Cornell and Trustees of the University for their of welcoming the alumni back today. It isn't Clubs as represented by our district directors, unrestricted use. exactly the kind of homecoming we have been and eight separate College associations. These used to. The predominance of Army and Navy organizations form a tremendous potential. Fund Council Officers uniforms throughout the Campus gives un- And the Cornell Alumni Association was Walter W. Buckley 'i5, chairman of mistakable evidence that Cornell is at war. formed in 1939 to coordinate these various or- We are all tremendously proud of the part the nominating committee, presented a ganizations. But there are still certain factors Cornell is taking in the war effort; but as we missing to make the unity of effort and the slate of Goodwillie for president of the see the changes that have occurred on the coordination complete. Cornell Alumni Fund Council, for re- Campus, they have a sobering effect, because One of these is the need for a closely knit election of Harold E. Edwards Ίo, we think of the many and varied problems the organization among the working staff at University executives are facing during this Mathew Carey '15, and Harold L. Bache Ithaca. It must be recognized that there is a period. Cornell is meeting these problems, ad- lack of continuity of effort in the volunteer Ί6 and election of William L. Kleitz '15 mirably, and will undoubtedly continue to elective officers of the various organizations. to succeed Charles T. Mordock '97 as do so. A person's term of office is necessarily short; vice-presidents, and Edward E. Anderson Alumni Can "Sell" Cornell and the frequency of his contacts with the '17, Clyde Mayer '2.1, and John S. Fair, other groups, due to geographic or other rea- The present-day pattern is pretty much out sons, is often very limited. So it falls on the Jr. '2.7 for three-year terms as members of the hands of the University and in the hands permanent working staff at Ithaca, who are of the executive committee succeeding of the Government. But after the war will familiar with University affairs, really to keep Henry W. Roden Ί8, George Munsick come the reconstruction period, which is most things moving. important. And just how this period is bridged *ii, and Buckley. The slate was un- will have a great effect on the future of Cornell. Staff, Finances Required animously elected, Goodwillie thus be- It must be remembered that the continuity will have been broken. Students who had only Therefore, the proposal has been made— ginning his third term as president of the and recommended by the board of directors of Fund. His report for this year will appear partially completed their courses will be con- sidering whether or not to return. Thousands the Alumni Association, by the executive in the next ALUMNI NEWS, together with of boys and girls will be choosing a future committee of the Alumni Fund Council, the tabulation of Alumni Fund gifts by alma mater. And, of course, we want the best ALUMNI NEWS committee, and by a represen- tative of the Federation of Women's Clubs Classes. ones to choose Cornell! I doubt if it is enough to provide the best (these being the four organizations most con- Day Reports on University educational facilities. Some way, somehow, cerned)—that a general executive secretary position be established as soon as it is prac- President Edmund E. Day reviewed through a public relations program, the people of this country must be made to know that ticable to do so. This general secretary would this "extraordinary" year of war dis- coordinate and work with the entire working ruption of the University, told of the staff of all the alumni groups in Ithaca. This working staff, to date, has been woe- arrangements so far made for the training fully undermanned and should be built up as of men for the Army and Navy, and paid quickly as possible. Of course, there are serious tribute both to the students and Faculty problems in attempting this; first, because of for continuing their work through this the draft; and second, because of the unavail- ability of >the right people to fill the right year of continued uncertainty. Prospects positions. are that by fall, he said, the University Walter Heasley has been doing an outstand- will have in Ithaca some 3,000 enlisted ing job. As you know, he has been acting in men in the Army and Navy programs, the dual capacity of general secretary for the the present 1,000 Reserve officers in the Association and executive secretary of the Fund. In addition, he has been doing a marvelous job Naval Training School, approximately in coordinating the work of all the organiza- 1,500 women students, and from 500 to tions, and the ALUMNI NEWS with Howard 1,000 civilian men students who are Stevenson's good cooperation. But additional either younger than eighteen or other- personnel is badly needed. Recently, through President Day's fine cooperation, Professor wise not subject to draft; a total of 6,000 John C. Adams joined the staff to help in local to 6,500 persons getting instruction. Cornell Club development and the secondary Financially, he said, this the present school work. This field has been neglected, year may prove to be "the most difficult and I am glad that Jack Adams can continue to stay on in this capacity. There is also much we shall have," because of the loss of feeling that Cornell women should have students since last fall and lack of men in greater representation in Ithaca. We hope that uniform to replace them immediately. PRESIDENT LARRY E. GUBB Ί6 sometime in the near future an assistant 384 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS secretary may be added to assist Heasley and alumni work and every phase of the alumni ordination program mentioned earlier; and I as a women's representative. activities, and because the NEWS is such a vital sincerely hope for the coming year that each I am presenting these to you as future plans part of alumni affairs, I feel it is essential that and every one of you will give this committee and objectives which we are working towards the chairman of the ALUMNI NEWS committee your most complete cooperation. but which may take some time to accomplish be made a member of the board of directors and Earlier in the year a placement committee under today's conditions. also a member of our executive committee. was appointed with William L. Kleitz as Another problem which has faced this or- chairman. This committee made a complete ganization has been the inability to present a To Work With Trustees and excellent report on the alumni placement consolidated budget and to arrange for the As to the desirability of having an Alumni problem, and this report was accepted by the necessary finances to plan constructively for Trustee of the University as a member of our Alumni Association. In brief, it was recom- the years ahead. It doesn't seem to me that, executive committee, it seems to me it would mended that the alumni placement office iri looking to the future, the individual groups of be a real step forward in bringing the alumni New York City be continued; that it be han- the alumni should be dependent upon the Uni- and the University closer together. It isn't dled through the University Placement versity to finance their activities. It rather the thought here that such a member would Bureau; and that an additional sum of $32.50 seems to me that the alumni body should necessarily speak for the Trustees; neverthe- be included in the Bureau budget for this strive for complete independence. less, being familiar with the problems and ob- purpose. For the present, however, it has been recom- jectives of the University, it seems to me it This had not as yet been acted on by the mended that a consolidated budget be prepared would greatly help coordinate the alumni Trustees, but it is my hope that they will and presented which will cover the complete thinking with the thinking of the University, approve this expense, because, as we look to operation of all the working staff in Alumni and, as a result, it would help direct alumni the future, it will be a very tangible way, over House at Ithaca. This recommendation has activities for the best interests of the Uni- the coming years, for the University to con- been approved by the directors of the As- versity. tinue to be of service to the alumni, both sociation, the executive committee of the Sixty thousand alumni, well organized, men and women. Fund, by a representative of the Federation of could be a tower of strength for Cornell, and Women's Clubs, and by the ALUMNI NEWS I am sure the executive committee would wel- Develop Cornell Clubs committee. And while the immediate cost, come the advice and guidance that would be A new committee was appointed this spring particularly if we add necessary personnel, forthcoming from a Trustee. Certainly for the composed of the seven district directors of the may be increased, the over-all saving by this alumni to do the most good for the University, Association with F. Ellis Jackson as chairman. coordination should be considerable. and the University to get the most good out Each director has been asked to assume re- Both the creating of the office of a general of the alumni body, there needs to be a very sponsibility for the development and advance- secretary and the matter of a consolidated close working relationship. I feel this may ment of local men's Cornell Clubs in his dis- budget will require changes in the by-laws to have been lacking in the past. Therefore, I trict. make them official. It is planned to present the would like to see the by-laws changed so that To my mind, this committee has perhaps the necessary amendments for vote at the next a Trustee would be a permanent member of the most important job to do of any affecting Cor- annual meeting of the association. Association's executive committee. nell alumni affairs, and should be one of the I feel that the Alumni Association should permanent standing committees provided for Alumni News Important be entirely independent and have complete in the by-laws. Working as a committee, this The executive committee of the Alumni freedom of operation in running its own affairs. group could function in the development of Association is the real operating committee that Hence the suggestion that only one Trustee be the men's Clubs in the same way that the represents the various alumni organizations. made a member of the executive committee. Federation functions in the development of the Being smaller than the board of directors, it is But it may well be that one Trustee member women's Clubs. Many of our men's Clubs are more flexible; and more frequent meetings can sitting with the executive committee is not in rather a bad state just now, principally be held. In my opinion, the executive commit- sufficient to bring about complete coordina- because of the draft and general wartime con- tee should meet at least every sixty days. tion between the University Trustees and the ditions. It is my hope, however, that this committee will be able to revive a great deal The members of this committee should be Alumni Association. Therefore, it might be very helpful if the Trustees were to appoint of interest in the local men's Clubs through- functional in their representation. I should like out the country. By interesting the older men to see the executive committee composed of from among their members a committee to take an interest in alumni affairs. Such a who are not as much affected by war to take nine members, as follows: the president of the the leadership in the various communities, we Alumni Fund Council, president of the Feder- Trustee committee could occasionally have joint meetings with the executive committee or should be able to establish and keep going the ation of Cornell Women's Clubs, president of nucleus of a good local Cornell Club in every the Association of Class Secretaries, president board of directors of the Alumni Association. It would seem to me that after a few such community where there are sufficient Cornell of one College association (representing the alumni to support one. eight associations), chairman of the district joint meetings were held, the cooperation be- directors' committee on local men's Clubs, tween the alumni and the University would be The closest relationship should be estab- chairman of the ALUMNI NEWS committee, one just about complete. lished between this committee and the com- Alumni Trustee of the University, the president Many of you have heard of the new com- mittee on secondary school work. The local of the Alumni Association, and a representa- mittee on Alumni Trustee nominations. This Cornell Clubs are the very foundation from tive-at-large. Most of these groups are pro- year, the committee decided not to make sug- which the secondary school program is pro- gestions for Alumni Trustee nominations. It moted. While the problem of getting the test vided for in the present by-laws. But there is no students to come to Cornell may be suspended provision for the chairman of the ALUMNI felt that the time was too short to work out for the time being, immediately the war is NEWS committee, either as a director or a all the problems that were presented. over, it will be one of the most important member of the executive committee. And there To understand the scope of this committee's problems the alumni should undertake and is no provision for Alumni Trustee repre- work, it is necessary to understand that under sentation. only well functioning local Clubs in all dis- the University Charter, any ten alumni may tricts will make this accomplishment possible. No organization is more vital in arousing nominate a candidate for Alumni Trustee. The directors of the Alumni Association re- the loyalty and interest of the alumni than is Therefore, our committee in its work of can- cently voted to discontinue the collection of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. It is the only vassing the field for the best qualified nom- dues from Cornell Clubs to the Association. means by which the majority of the alumni can inees for Alumni Trustees, does so with the Therefore, it is not necessary for a Club to keep in touch with affairs at Ithaca, and with understanding that this Charter right is not pay dues to be in good standing. It was the fellow Cornellians. abridged. feeling that the help of the over-all alumni The NEWS has done a fine job with what it However, there probably can be no greater body as represented by the working staff at has had to work with. It has been hampered contribution that this alumni body can make Ithaca should go out in support of the local by lack of both personnel and money. It is to Cornell than carefully to choose as Trustees Club, rather than having that process re- unbelievable that the NEWS can be gotten out men and women who are best fitted to con- versed. We also feel that much closer contact and cover as much news as it does with the tribute to the welfare of the University in and much more help can be extended to the small staff with which it is operated. conducting its affairs. local Clubs if and when we can build up the As I said earlier, there are roughly 60,000 Newton Farr and his committee are seeking necessary staff in the Alumni Office in Ithaca Cornell alumni and the NEWS covers less than the cooperation of all Cornell groups to find to carry on the work. jo per cent of these. This ratio must be in- the best-qualified nominees to represent the I hope that each of you when you return to creased. However, this circulation percentage alumni on the University Board of Trustees. your homes will do everything possible to stir is no lower than that of other universities who I don't need to tell you this requires the utmost up interest in your local men's or women's use the same methods of getting circulation. tact and diplomacy. Even so, it will be very Cornell Club. But if we want greater circulation, it will be difficult to work out, and will definitely need I have given you roughly the aims and ob- necessary constantly to study policies, and to the complete cooperation of the various jectives of your board of directors and execu- make changes in methods and perhaps in the alumni bodies. However, this job of selecting tive committee. If these plans meet with your NEWS itself as circumstances warrant. The nominees can be made much easier, in my approval, I hope we can whip them into shape NEWS certainly touches on every angle of opinion, if we can carry through the co- and prepare the necessary changes in the by- MAY 1943 385

laws to present at the next annual meeting. These changes in themselves will not accomp- FIRST ARMY STUDENTS ARRIVE plish a great deal. But I hope they can form the basis on which an even stronger body can Engineering College to Give Credit be built, so that the alumni contribution may grow greater and greater as the years go by to First contingent of 2.50 enlisted men ligion and social and political customs, our Alma Mater, Cornell. assigned to Cornell in the Army college monetary and law enforcement systems training program arrived May 18 and 19, of the countries covered. Of the group of Association Directors Meet and are quartered in Cascadilla Hall. 12.5 men, thirty each will study the Directors of the Alumni Association They are under command of Colonel Italian, German, and Czech language met for luncheon May n to hear a report Edwin R. Van Deusen and his staff of the countries and the other thirty-five will of the treasurer, Edgar A. Whiting '2.9; ROTC, and until their courses of special- be advanced students in one or more of of the ALUMNI NEWS committee by ized study begin June 14 they have a these languages. Chairman Phillips Wyman '17; a progress daily program of military drill and in- The other 1x5 men are here for special report of the committee on Alunmi struction and organized athletics and training in personnel psychology under Trustee nominations by Chairman New- physical training, with mess in the direction of the Adjutant General's ton C. Farr '09; to adopt a budget for Willard Straight cafeteria at special Office. They will be trained in testing alumni activities next year; and to hear a hours ahead of those open to the public. procedures, to handle personnel prob- report from Professor John C. Adams '2.6 All the men have had thirteen weeks of lems, interviewing, and to become ac- of his visits to Cornell Clubs this spring basic Army training at camps and sta- quainted with basic psychological facts in the interests of the secondary schools tions in the East. They were selected for on learning, color and night blindness, program. the courses here at the Army Special fatigue, and social psychology. Their Recommendation of the committee on Training Assignment and Reclassification instruction will be given by Professors Alumni Trustee nominations was ap- School at City College of New York. Harry P. Weld, Thomas A. Ryan '33, and proved that its membership be enlarged Half of this first group are assigned for Ralph K. White, Psychology; and from eight to thirteen to provide for one the program of area and language train- Thomas L. Bayne, Jr., PhD 'x6, and member to be chosen by and from each ing to fit them for duty in occupied Andrew L. Winsor, PhD ^9, Rural of the eight College alumni associations countries under the Office of the Provost Education. instead of only three as now provided to Marshal General. Cornell has been desig- Virtually all of the 151 male students rotate among the College associations for nated to give instruction for the area of in the Veterinary College have resigned four-year terms. Present membership of Central Europe and Italy, with Professor their reserve commissions as second lieu- this standing committee is Farr, chair- Cornells W. de Kiewiet, History, in tenants in the Army Medical Adminis- man, representing the directors of the charge of instruction. He and Professors trative Corps to enroll as privates in the Alumni Association; Albert R. Mann '04, Herbert W. Briggs, Government, Victor Enlisted Reserve Corps under a new plan Alumni Trustees of the University; Lange, German, George P. Adams, Jr., whereby they will remain in the College, Weyland PfeifTer Ί6, Association of Economics, Svend Riemer, Sociology and in uniform and with Army pay, and upon Class Secretaries; Harold L. Bache Ί6, Anthropology, with Professors Maria completion of their courses will be Cornell Alumni Fund Council; Katherine Bizzoni of Wells College, Lewis Gordon eligible for commissions as first lieu- Buckley Όi, Federation of Cornell of Hamilton College, and three others tenants. They too will be under command Women's Clubs; Allan H. Treman '2.1, yet to be selected, will give instruction of the Army officers here and will be Cornell Law Association; Dr. John G. in languages, geography, commerce, re- housed and messed at Army expense. Wills Ό6, Veterinary Alumni Associa- tion; and H. Victor Grohmann 'zδ, Cor- nell Society of Hotelmen. It was agreed that pending change in the by-laws, the other College alumni associations should be invited to designate representatives to meet with the committee: Home Eco- nomics Alumnae Association, Archi- tecture Alumni Association, Alumni As- sociation of the College of Agriculture, Cornell Society of Engineers, and Med- ical College Alumni Association. Directors and guests who attended the meeting were President Gubb, Good- willie, Whiting, Wyman, Farr, Adams, Mrs. R. H. Shreve (Ruth Bentley) '02., R. W. Sailor '07, Matthew Carey '15, A. Wright Gibson '17, Howard J. Luding- ton '17, H. A. Stevenson '19, Dr. Clar- ence P. Zepp '19, Mary H. Donlon '2.0, Mrs. Robert C. Osborn (Agda Swenson) '2.0, Ruth F. Irish '2.2., Walter W. Buck- ley '2.5, Mrs. Whiton Powell (Jeannette Gardiner) '2.6, and Walter C. Heasley, r J *3° ROTC STUDENTS SHOOT ON BARTON HALL RIFLE RANGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION and Alumni Under the eye of George Hughes {standing), armorer in the Department of Military Fund annual meetings May Ί.Ί. were en- Science and Tactics for twenty-six years, students practice on the indoor range. Left to livened by news that a daughter had been right are Alastair Nixon '44 of Westfield, George A. Gallagher '44 of Deposit, David born the night before to Walter C. Heas- A. Warren '44 of Bronxville, Melvin Cohen '44 of Chelsea, Mass., and John W. Ken- ley, Jr. '30 and Mrs. Heasley. Her name drick '46 of St. Petersburg, Fla. Lieutenant Raymond L. V. Pearson '41, FA, is in charge is Sheila Weston Heasley. of rifle instruction, with Sergeant Milton G. Everhart as range coach. Leviton '44 386 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

First contingent of 1,641 Navy enlisted groups in the Army Enlisted Reserve Dawson six in thirteen, for respective men for the college training program at Corps ordered to active duty totalled averages of .538 and .461. Cornell is expected to register for their about 700 men students. The College of In the non-league Syracuse game on academic courses July 2. and 3, with in- Agriculture dropped from 1107 students Hoy Field May 15, Cornell scored in the struction starting July 5. They will be last October to 569 April 2.7; Engineering first inning when Charles R. Robinson under command of Captain Burton W. from 16x3 to 1048; Arts and Sciences, '44 of Madison, N. J., was hit by a pitch, Chippendale, USN, and his staff of the from 1689 to 11x4; Hotel Administration, stole second, reached third on a hit by present Naval Training School; will be from 140 to 100; Law, from 65 to 40; Almquist, and scored on an infield out by quartered in fraternity and University Architecture, from 112. to 65; Home Eco- Captain Jerome A. Batt '43 of Buffalo. houses nearest to the Navy mess hall, nomics, from 519 to 448. Syracuse scored twice in the first half which is being enlarged by the Univer- Last week, 315 undergraduates in the of the fourth, but Cornell tied the score sity for their use. These men will pursue first year of the advanced ROTC course in the same inning when Dennis C. courses in the regular sixteen-week terms who had enrolled in the ERC were Redden '45 of West Hartford, Conn., was of the University, noo assigned to engi- ordered to Fort Niagara, 2.4^ in Field also hit by a pitch. He went to third on neering training, 442. in the so-called Artillery and Ordnance to report May 2.4 a sacrifice bunt by Edward S. Steitz '43 Navy basic training course, and 100 as and 2.5, and 72. in the Quartermaster of Beacon and scored on a single by John pre-medical students. Corps and Signal Corps to report May 6. M. Tully '46 of Memphis, Tenn. Syracuse made another run in the sixth, University May Give Credit They go in as privates, earmarked as officer candidates, and after twelve weeks but Cornell settled the outcome with a The College of Engineering announced at replacement training centers will be four-run rally in the seventh. Charles P. last week that it will grant degrees of detailed either to officer candidate Weiss '44 of Putnam, Conn., started with Bachelor of Science in Civil, Mechanical, schools, to specialized college training a single. Almquist singled, and Batt Electrical, and Chemical Engineering to programs, or to duty with the Army. sacrificed to put the runners on third and Navy men who successfully complete the second. A single by Dawson scored Weiss eight-term requirements of the V-iz and Almquist. Dawson stole second and curriculum, if they meet other Univer- Redden walked. Trying to catch Dawson sity and College requirements. The same About off second, Decker, the Syracuse catcher, degrees will be given to civilian students threw into center field when Hoeppel also who are not entitled to degrees of ATHLETICS misplayed the ball. Dawson scored and Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Mechan- Redden reached third on the play. ical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Steitz squeezed Redden home with a TIE FOR BASEBALL LEAD and Chemical Engineering but who com- sacrifice. plete the technical equivalent of the V-ix The baseball team tied for the cham- curriculum and have credit for a minimum pionship of the Eastern Intercollegiate TWO CREWS BEAT NAVY League by winning three of four games, of 142 credit hours of acceptable courses The Varsity crew defeated the US with four other games cancelled by ad- not including physical and military Naval Academy by a deck-length on the verse weather. training. Severn River at Annapolis, Md., May 15. A 3-2. victory over Princeton at Phila- No general University policy has been The Freshman eight won by an even delphia last Saturday enabled Pennsyl- adopted as to credit for other students in smaller margin, and the Junior Varsity vania to tie Cornell, each with a per- the Army and Navy college training crew lost by two lengths. centage of 750. Pennsylvania won six programs, but it is expected that credit On Cayuga Inlet the same day, the 150 games and lost two. Pennsylvania's ath- will be allowed to those who complete pound crew lost to Pennsylvania by ιJ4 letic director, H. Jamison Swarts, said the work successfully and wish to fit it lengths. Pennsylvania was willing to play off the into college requirements toward a de- All races on the Severn were at a mile tie with Cornell. gree. This provision is especially prob- and three-quarters, and Cornell won the Cornell's first doubleheader, with Co- able for students who are in the Navy varsity race by eight-tenths of a second. lumbia, was called off. Then Cornell split V-i and V-y classifications and who have One-tenth of a second separated the two with Pennsylvania and later won two the privilege, while they remain in freshman shells. The order of finish and games from Princeton. The team traveled college, of continuing their own special- to Hanover for two games with Dart- the times: ties along with as much as possible of Varsity: Cornell 9:48, Naval Academy mouth May ix, but stayed there only the V-I2. program. about five minutes because the grounds 9:48.8. Junior Varsity: Naval Academy 10:05, President Edmund E. Day forecast at were too wet for play. the Alumni Association meeting Satur- Cornell 10:13. day that the University will have 6,000 The final League standing: Freshman: Cornell 10:48, Naval Acade- to 6,500 students by next fall, including W L P C my 10:48.1. Cornell 3 i .750 The'Academy varsity pulled into the 3,000 Army privates and Navy seamen in Pennsylvania 6 2. .750 uniform, the present 1,000 Naval Re- Columbia 2. 2. .500 lead at the start of the race, but Cornell, serve officers in the Naval Training Princeton 2. 6 .2.50 rowing a steady 3X, overtook the Navy School, approximately ι,5oounder-gradu Dartmouth i 3 .2.50 shell and picked up a length lead. Going ate women, and 500 to 1,000 civilian men The abbreviated season will affect the into the stretch the Academy oarsmen students. Earlier, he had reported that individual titles, particularly the award- put on a terrific drive, hitting 40 strokes on April τη the total number of students ing of the Charles H. Blair '97 bat for the a minute, but could not overcome the at the University in Ithaca was 4,155, best average compiled by the hitters. In a deficit. as compared with 5,551 in February and normal year, thirty "at bats" were re- The Academy also took an early lead 6,385 last fall. Of the ^,130 students quired to qualify; this year, twenty were in the freshman race, but yielded it at who had left since last October, all but required. the half-mile mark. Cornell held a slim 12.0 are men. About 150 men were either Yet Carl W. E. Almquist '45 of Alden advantage all the way to the finish. called under Selective Service, left in and Norman J. Dawson '46 of Oak Park, Over a mile and five-sixteenths on the anticipation of being called, or were in 111., the League's leading hitters, did Inlet, Pennsylvania's lightweights led the Army Air Force contingent ordered to not have that many times at bat. Alquist all the way to win the Matthews Cup active duty early this term. Unassigned had seven hits in thirteen times at bat, for the fourth time in six years. The MAY 1.J, 1943 387

times: Pennsylvania 7:35, Cornell 7:36. Charles E. Shaw, Jr., Watson B. Smith, and Theodore J. Beyer '44 of New York SCORES OF THE TEAMS Lyman W. Warfield '43; John F. Kandl, Andrew D. Miller, Ward F. Moore, Charles City, who rowed at bow against the Baseball W. Pressler, and Clark R. Sanford '44; Robert Academy and in the Adams Cup regatta N. Adair, Jr., William R. Bromstedt, and Cornell 6, Syracuse 3 May i, was elected commodore of the Audenreid Whittemore, Jr. '45; John A. crew to succeed William W. Dickhart Rowing Mitchell and David A. Scott, Jr. '46; and to Manager Robert H. Antell '43. III '43 of Philadelphia, Pa. Beyer is in Cornell Varsity 9:48, US Naval- Veterinary Medicine. Academy 9:48.8 LACROSSE Naval Academy Junior Varsity William H. Chambers, John H. Eppler, James E. Keats, William J. Pape, and Wallace TRACK TEAM FOURTEENTH 10:05, Cornell 10:13 R. Seeley '43; Frank E. Barnes, George W. Scoring 8 points, the track team fin- Cornell Freshmen 10:48, Naval Bishop, Seth J. Campbell, Edward H. Carman ished in fourteenth place in the Inter- Academy 10:48.1 III, Samuel F. Caudill, Edwin P. Clement, Pennsylvania i5o-pound 7:35, Cor- John H. Hessey IV, and Robert A. Moore '44; collegiates at Triborough Stadium, New George W. Abbott, Willis G. Bradley, and York City, May 15. nell 7:36 Louis C. Schimoler '45; and to Manager John Captain Charles E. Shaw, Jr. '43 of Track B. Cummings '44. Scarsdale accounted for 7 points with Cornell fourteenth in Intercol- TENNIS second place in the 12.0-yard dash and legiates, with 8 points Gordon B. Blatz, John E. Slater, and third place in the i co-yard dash. Kelsey Francis J. Worcester '43; James B. Dinneen '44; Lacrosse Peter W. Stone and John H. Updegrove '45 of Princeton won both dashes, with Penn State n, Cornell 4 Hollis D. Young '46; and to Manager Fred- Conwell of NYU nosing out Shaw for erick J. Anderson '43. second place in the shorter race. Tennis Cornell 9, Columbia o GOLF Cornell's eighth point was scored by Louis G. Helmick, Jr. '43; Robert E. Dillon, Clark R. Sanford '44 of Potsdam with Golf Clarence H. Hutt, Henderson G. Riggs, and fifth place in the hammer throw. San- Syracuse 5, Cornell 4 Edwin M. Sampson, Jr. '44; John D. Keenan '45; Frank J. Thomas '46; and to Manager ford's throw was 141 feet 8 inches, as Robert N. Hustis '44. Fisher of Harvard won with 151 feet. NYU won the championship with 37 Against Columbia, playing on Casca- SKIING Wayne R. Evans, Philip B. Gibson, and points. Other scores: US Naval Academy, dilla Courts, Cornell won all but one John M. Lloyd '43; Richard S. Claassen and xi, US Military Academy 19^, New match in straight sets. Captain John E. George S. Peer '44; Robert T. Edmunds '45; Hampshire 15, Holy Cross 11, Penn State Slater, Jr. '43 of Yonkers had to play an and to Manager Robert H. Flack '43. ii, Columbia ιoj^, Princeton and Col- extra set to defeat Pei-Tse Hasu, 3-6, gate lo each, Michigan State 9^, Ford- 6-ι, 6-2.. ODDS AND ENDS ham 9, Pennsylvania 8J^, Cornell 8, The victory gave the team a .500 mark Everett F. Ferryman '44 of Sheridan, Virginia 7, Boston College, Dartmouth, for the season. It also defeated Penn Wyo., won the Potter Cup for novice Harvard, and Manhattan 5 each, Rhode State and lost to the two service acade- cross country runners in a series of races Island State 43/2, St. John's and North- mies. just completed. Morton Bogdonoίf '46 of eastern 4 each, Villanova 3, MIT x, Lynbrook finished second. The cup was Syracuse ij^, Haverford i, and Alfred GOLF TEAM LOSES donated by James Potter Ί6. and Temple y± each. The golf team wound up an abbrevi- Chancellor William P. Tolley of Syra- ated season on the University golf course cuse reported to his trustees that shrink- LACROSSE SEASON ENDS May 15, losing to Syracuse, 4-5. In the ing enrollment of civilian students made The lacrosse team lost to Penn State, only other dual meet, Cornell also lost to it doubtful that football and baseball will 4-11, in its last game of the season on Syracuse, 3^-5^) at Syracuse. be played next year. Syracuse and Cornell Alumni Field May 13. The visitors scored In the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf are scheduled for football October 9 on 5 goals in the second period to take a Association tournament, the team fin- Schoellkopf Field. commanding lead. Two of Cornell's ished sixth in a field of nine. goals were scored by Captain Robert A. Moore '44 of Brooklyn. The others were "C" AWARDS SENIOR CLASS DAY shared by Seth J. Campbell '44 and John Award of the "C" in six spring and (Continued from page 381*) H. Eppler '43, both of Baltimore, Md. one winter sports was announced last Class Pipe to its custodian for the Class Edward H. Carman III '44 of Balti- week by Robert J. Kane '34, Acting of '44, Edward D. Eddy of Ithaca, and more, goal guard, was elected captain Director of Physical Education and Wayne R. Evans of Utica delivered the to succeed Moore. Son of Edward H. Athletics: Class oration. Carman, Jr. Ί6, he is in Mechanical BASEBALL As the Seniors and the audience sang Engineering and is a member of Sigma Jerome A. Batt and Edward S. Steitz '43; Allen J. Albright, Edwin L. Bell, Pearne W. the last bars of the "Evening Song" Alpha Epsilon. Billings, Arthur R. Keston, Howard A. and paused in stillness, it came to them Parker, Jr., Charles R. Robinson, and Charles again from the men's quartet singing at TENNIS FINISHES FOURTH P. Weiss '44; Carl W. E. Almquist, Donald R. the far end of Goldwin Smith Hall and The tennis team closed its season May Clay, and Dennis C. Redden '45; Norman J. Dawson, Wilfred R. Loeser, and John M. Tully was picked up and repeated by the 15 with a 9-0 victory over Columbia '46; and to Manager George B. Marchev '43. Chimes in the Clock Tower as the sun and finished in fourth place in the Eastern sank behind West Hill and Seniors and Intercollegiate Tennis Association. ROWING Carl D. Arnold, William W. Dickhart III, guests scattered across the Quadrangle. With one match between the US Naval and William N. Kruse '43; Theodore J. Beyer and Military Academies left on the As- and William R. Hughes III '44; JohnW. Darrin, ALPHA PHI OMEGA, national service sociation schedule, the standing of the Roger A. Grant, John L. Phelps, James M. teams was: Shaw, and Pedro C. Towers '45; William J. fraternity, elected as Senior officers for W L Pts Rothfuss '46; and to Manager JesJ. Dall III '43. next year's chapter Charles L. Van Naval Academy 408 TRACK Arsdale of Castile, president; Samuel R. Military Academy 316 Earl W. Benjamin, Jr., Howard W. Blose, Pierce, Jr. of Glen Cove, vice-president; Princeton 316 Strabo V. Claggett, William G. Dillon, George Gilbert I. Smith of San Marina, Cal., Cornell i 2. 2. E. Hiebeler, Richard M. Junge, Paul M. Kel- Pennsylvania 030 sey, John F. X. Kennedy, Robert W. Larson, secretary; Laurence A. Quinlivan, Jr. Columbia 040 Benjamin E. Mintz, Robert A. W. Pullman, of Mamaroneck, treasurer. 38δ CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

rest of that particular tale goes. And it D. C. As a Senior, he was business man- FROM FAR BELOW . . . was the first trout Abe had caught since ager of the Widow; is a member of Zeta he was ten years old! Not content to call Psi and Quill and Dagger. His son is By Frank Sullivan '14 it a day, Abe and his guest then chal- Phillips Wyman, Jr. '41, now in officer lenged the Italian host at their inn to a training school of the Adjutant Gen- go at bocca, the national game of Italy, eral's Department, US Army, at Fort A Metropolitan blackout darkened but and trounced the daylights out of the Washington, Md. did not disrupt the annual meeting of the Italian and his partner. Ain't the Italians Cornell Society of Engineers which was having any luck anywhere! held at the Club on Wednesday evening, Ensign R. J. (Bibber) McNamara '37 NOW IN MY TIME! May 5. The dinner was over and the has been transferred from Washington to meeting had started when the air raid the Naval Indoctrination School at Fort By Romeyn Berry banshees began to ululate and the lights Schuyler and gets in the Club between went out. Since it would take more than jumping over five-foot walls, and such- There ought to be more of these little a blackout to rattle a Cornell engineer, like. brass markers around, more inscriptions the meeting continued calmly, the re- Bill Morrison '36, who has been in on stone. Too many pleasant things are tiring president, George N. Brown Ό8 Liberia for Pan-American Airways, is in unknown; too many important things are of New York making his valedictory New York awaiting another long- quickly forgotten in a university! The in the dark and a telegram from the new distance assignment, and is in the Club other day we ran across a girl who lives president, James Lynah '05, being read frequently. under the same circumstances, somehow. there and who didn't know that the fire- Edwin Ashley Salmon, chairman of places in Balch Hall are endowed. And the City Planning Commission of New WYMAN '17 IN NEW POST only a little before that we'd been York, spoke to the engineers on "Post obliged to straighten out the captain of War Works Planning" and Alfred Mar- the baseball team who thought that Lou chev, vice-president and general manager Gehrig's colossal sock (the point of its of the Republic Aviation Corporation, departure is marked on the fence at Hoy spoke on "Aircraft Production Today." Field) was the longest hit ever achieved In addition to Lynah as president, at Cornell. other officers were elected as follows: Ever since they started digging a hole Bernard A. Savage 'i5, executive vice- for Olin Hall we've been trying to get president; Paul O. Reyneau '13, secretary- the Board of Trustees to authorize a treasurer; William M. Reck '14, record- tablet or inscription in or near the north ing secretary. The nominating commit- wall of Sage Chapel to mark the final tee comprised George T. Minasian Ί8, resting place of a baseball hit by Frank- Wilton Bentley '98, and Herbert B. lin W. Olin '86 nearly sixty years ago, Reynolds '12.. which Dr. Frank Sheehan has demon- Charles H. Blair '97, chairman of the strated to have been the longest home- scholarship committee of the Club, has run hit ever made in these parts. But so sent to the members an interesting and far our efforts in this direction have met gratifying report of the Scholarship Fund with no success. Trustees always brush since its inception in 1935. Since that you off by muttered references to "budget time the New York Club has had the commitments," even when you offer to pleasure of awarding scholarships to Phillips Wyman '17, chairman of the go up there and cut the inscription your- nineteen young men, two of whom are ALUMNI NEWS publishing committee, self without it costing the University a still in the University and the remainder became May 14 director of publication nickel. mostly in the armed services. Since 1935 selling of the McCall Corporation, pub- And take those fireplaces! We asked the the sum of $17,701.93 has been collected lishers of McCalΓs, Redbook, Blue Book, physically attractive but mentally de- by the Club for these scholarships and to and other magazines. It was the twentieth ficient young woman who lived in Balch date $2.5,2.06.3 3 has been paid to the anniversary of his appointment as di- Hall if she knew that Allan Balch, who University. rector of circulation of the McCall Cor- with his wife—Janet Jacks that was— "While the status of these scholarships poration. His newly created position gave that building, was an old Varsity for the duration of the war is proble- gives him responsibility for both the oarsman who had negotiated one of the matical," Chairman Blair states, "they advertising and'circulation selling activi- early coaching contracts with Charlie have been so worthwhile from the point ties of the publishing house. Courtney? All we got in response was of view of the boys and the University, In addition to his work with the Mc- "who was Charlie Courtney?" Nor did that I know we will all want to continue Call organization, Wyman is a director she know that all those fireplaces she our subscriptions to this Fund so that we and secretary of the S-M News Co., a enjoys are separately endowed so that will be financially able to do whatever director of the Audit Bureau of Circula- the girls who follow her in Balch Hall the University desires." tions, and vice-president of the National for the next few hundred years may be One of this department's spies in the Better Business Bureau. He has been reasonably sure of having open fires Springfield, Mass., area sends in a report chairman of the Alumni Association irrespective of the whims of the Univer- of a remarkable trouting-outing of which committee directing the ALUMNI NEWS sity budget-makers. Howard A. (Abe) Lincoln Ίi, president since the committee was organized after Pretty smart people, those Balches! of the Bemis & Call Corporation, seems the Association acquired the NEWS in (Any Varsity stroke who could draw a to be the hero. Abe and our^special agent 1939. Before he joined the McCall or- contract that Charlie Courtney would went out one fine April day to a stream ganization in 192.3, he was for two years put his name to had to be pretty smart.) near Springfield. Abe's guest used noth- executive secretary of the Periodical They not only wanted fireplaces in their ing but the fanciest kind of trout flies Publishers' Association. During the last girls' dormitory, but they wanted the and caught nothing. Abe himself scorned war, he was associated with Herbert girls to have fires in them without hav- these friggeries, used a worm, and caught Hoover and Edgar Rickard in the US ing to go out and collect driftwood along the biggest—well, you know how the Food Administration in Washington, the storm-buffeted coast of Beebe Lake. MAY 1943 389

They provided for it, too, by setting up a ii each; '2.8 with 10; '05, Ό8, Ίz, and MEMORIAL TO DIEDERICHS'97 special fund the income of which was to '42. with 9 each; '2.0, 'zi, and 'z7 with A Diederichs Memorial Library in the be used to get firewood—plenty of fire- 8 each; '38 with 7^; '91 with 7; '78 and College of Engineering has been estab- wood—for the hearths of Balch Hall, and '17 with 6 each; '85 and '88 with 5 each; lished by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New for no other purpose. '15, '2.4, '2.6, and '46 with 4 each; '79, York City book publishers. Suggested That's a nice touch, if you ask me, and '04, and '34 with 3 each; '89, Ό6, and by Rudolph M. Triest Ίz, vice-president the gist of it ought to be inscribed some '37 with z each; '77, '8z, '84, '90, '95, of the publishing firm, the collection of place while Woodford Patterson is still '96, 'zz, '33, '35, and '36 with one Bond Wiley books on all branches of engineer- around to draft the inscription. One each; and the Class of '39 is credited with ing, science, and related fields will be a suspects that at some time or other, open one-half a $Z5 Bond. memorial to the late Professor Herman fires—or perhaps the absence of them— Diederichs '97, who died August 31, loomed large in the lives of the Balches 1937. A special bookplate will designate and that the memories found expres- HOUSE FRESHMAN MEN the volumes and they will have their sion, when the time came, in the Fire- In Sheldon Court own shelves in the College Library. wood Trust. The University last week completed arrangements to lease Sheldon Court at BONDED REUNIONS BOOM the College Avenue entrance to the Campus, and entering Freshman men will be housed there, with drawing for rooms for the summer term to be held June 15. Ray S. Ashbery 'z5, former Alumni Field Secretary of the University, will continue as resident manager of Sheldon Court. Dr. Eugene F. Bradford, University Reg- istrar, estimates that approximately 350 Freshman men and women will enter the University at the beginning of the sum- For Bonded Reunions to Commence- mer term, July i. Sheldon Court will ac- ment Day, May 14, alumni of forty-five commodate 107 men; Freshmen women Classes had given 344 Series F War Sav- will be housed and take their meals in ings Bonds of $2.5 or the equivalent in the two women's dormitories, Prudence cash, and additional War Savings Stamps, Risley and Balch Halls. for a total of $6,689.30. Bonds were com- Registration for all new and former ing in to the Alumni Fund office at an students for the sixteen-week summer increasing rate, more than $z,ooo having term will be July i, with classes starting been received in the last four days. July 5. A full term's program of instruc- In the five and a half weeks to the end tion will be offered in all Colleges except of the fiscal year, June 30, Dr. Lyman R. Agriculture and Veterinary and new Professor Diederichs was continuously Fisher '2.8, chairman of the Bonded Re- students will be admitted for regular associated with the University from 1893 unions committee and co-secretary of this Freshman work and to the first year of when he entered Sibley College with a year's Reunion Host Class, estimates that Law and the Graduate School. The sum- State scholarship as a student and ath- the total from Bonded Reunions may mer term will end October 2.3. lete, brilliant investigator and authority reach $2.0,000. on experimental engineering, teacher The University Summer Session of six and administrator in the College of Engi- These are gifts to the Alumni Fund weeks will start June 2.8 and run through representing money that would have been neering, and as the long-time mentor of August 6, with the usual selection of ap- Cornell athletics. He was the first in- spent to attend Class Reunions, aban- proximately 12.0 courses offered in the doned this year because of lack of housing cumbent, in 192.7, of the John Edson Graduate School, School of Education, Sweet Professorship in Engineering, and to relieve the country's crowded and the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, transportation system. The War Bonds awarded "for distinguished service." In Architecture, Agriculture, and Home 1931 he became Director of the Sibley and Stamps so given will be exchanged Economics, including unit courses of one for uninvested funds of the University School of Mechanical Engineering, and to three weeks in these Colleges and from 1936 until his death he was Dean of and held to maturity, thus releasing cash Hotel Administration. to meet current expenses. Series F War the College of Engineering. He was the Bonds may be purchased at any bank or A new course for teachers of physics author of several textbooks and many postoffice, the $15 denomination dis- and mathematics in secondary schools and articles, and with William D. Pomeroy '96 counted to $18.50. They should be made colleges to help them prepare their stu- he received»in 1930 the Melville Medal of payable to Cornell University, a Corpora- dents for scientific and technical work the American Society of Mechanical Engi- tion, Ithaca, N. Y. will open June 2.8 and continue for seven neers for a paper on ' 'The Occurrence and weeks to August 14 in the ESMWT pro- Elimination of Surge or Oscillating Pres- The Class of '09, which would not gram under auspices of the US Office of sure in Discharge Lines from Reciprocat- normally have held a Reunion in Ithaca Education. Director Walter L. Conwell ing Pumps." this year, leads all other Classes with 31 '09 of the ESMWT program says that Member of Sigma Xi and of many pro- Bonds given by its members. Next is the students in this course will be required to fessional societies, of Phi Sigma Kappa, Thirty-year Class of '13 with 2.7 Bonds, spend forty hours a week in classrooms Quill and Dagger, Tau Beta Pi, and Kappa followed by the Fifty-year Class of '93 and laboratories, with the object of Phi, he was president of the Athletic As- with 2,3. Another non-Reunion Class, integrating the teaching of mathematics sociation, 1913-15, was again elected Ί6, is fourth with zz Bonds; in fifth and physics and to study the applica- president in 1932., was chairman of the place is '07 with 2.0 Bonds; and sixth is tions of both to electronics, aviation, Trustees' committee which reorganized the Twenty-five-year Class of Ί8 with 18. and related problems. Tuition is free, the administration of athletics in 1934, Next is the Class of '13 with 16; fol- and applications are requested not later and became the first chairman of the re- lowed by '03 with iz; '14 and '41 with than July 7. sulting athletic policy board. 390 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Ί6 BChem—Louis EUGENE KNAUSS, April 2.5, 1943. He was treasurer of NECROLOGY Knauss Brothers, Inc., meat packers, since Concerning 1910. In World War I he was assigned to the Chemical Warfare Service. Kappa THE FACULTY '90 AM—Mrs. Clarence Houghton Psi. Brothers, Edwin S. Knauss 'xo, Esty (ROSAMUND ALMEDA FIELD), No- Walter P. Knauss '2.2.. Son, Donald F. vember 2.7, 1942.. She was graduated at PRESIDENT EDMUND E. DAY delivered Knauss '45. Vassar in 1888. Her husband was the late the Commencement address at the St. Lawrence University graduation exer- Clarence H. Esty '76. '2-i.CE—WALDEMAR POLACK was killed cises in Canton May 10 and was one of January 6, 1943, while working as an '93—JAY PRESTON BARNES, May 8, four to receive honorary degrees. 1943, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was mayor engineer for the Cayuga Construction Co. of Pittsfield from 192.8-31, and had served in Cuba. In 1941 he supervised the con- TRUSTEE FRANK E. GANNETT '98, as chairman of the Democratic city struction of Ledgecrest Defense Housing Rochester publisher, was one of several committee, city auditor, city treasurer, at New Britain, Conn., and construction men mentioned by Representative Ken- and chairman of the board of public of Pennypack Defense Housing at North nedy (D-NY) as capable of heading his works. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Philadelphia, Pa. for M. Shapiro & Sons proposed US Department of Industry of New York City. Before going to Cuba which would be separate from the Com- '94 ME(EE)—SHERWOOD SPENCER CUR- he was supervising construction for the merce and Labor Departments in the RAN, May 15, 1943, in Utica where he US Navy in the Canal Zone. cabinet. was a life-long resident. He was former vice-president of the Loyal Caledonian '2.7 CE—Brigadier General CHARLES iς COLONEL W. L. MITCHELL, formerly ^ Curling Club, Aberdeen, Scotland. HENRY BARTH, USA, May 3, 1943, in a of the ROTC staff, recently spent a thirty- plane crash in Iceland while on a tour of day leave with his wife and two sons in '95 PhD—ALBERT Ross HILL, May 6, the war zones with General Frank M. Ithaca. Colonel Mitchell for the last 1943, in Kansas City, Mo. He received Andrews, USA, who was also killed. He eight months has been in charge of the the AB at Dalhousie University in 1891. was graduated at the US Military Acade- combined American and Dutch troops on In 1898 he became president of the Uni- my, West Point, in 192.5, and was as- the island of Aruba, Dutch West Indies. versity of Missouri from which he re- signed to Cornell in 192.6-2.7 by the His American forces relieved the British signed after three years to go to Europe Corps of Engineers. General Barth had to guard Aruba, the site of many oil as director of foreign operations for the served in Hawaii and organized and refineries. His son, Robert J. Mitchell, is American Red Cross until 192.3. He was directed the civilian defense program in a Senior in Administrative Engineering president of the University of Oklahoma the Panama Canal Zone. In the Middle and another son, Walter L. Mitchell, Jr., in 192.4 and was later president of the East he was assistant chief of staff under is a Junior in Arts. Ward Investment Co. until 1938. General Andrews before being trans- DR. FOSTER KENNEDY, professor of ferred to London with his chief last '98, Όo ME—ALFRED ENGLERT, May Neurology at the Medical College in February. He had been commissioned a 3, 1943. He was instructor in Machine New York, speaking at the sixty-ninth brigadier general recently. Design at the University in 1905-06 after annual meeting of the American Neu- having been draughtsman for the Lidger- rological Association May 7, said that '2.8—CHARLES FRAZINE HAMILTON, JR., wood Manufacturing Co., New York "petty bothers," such as "lack of sleep March 7, 1943. In 1935 he was with City. For several years he was design and broken plans will produce more Carbo-Nitro Chemical Corp., South draughtsman at the US Navy Yard, neuroses among civilian population than Bend, Ind. About four years ago he re- Portsmouth, N. H. bombings from planes." turned to Franklin, Pa., of which he was '05 ME—ORANGE JAMES SALISBURY, a native. He was the son of Charles F. PROFESSOR OTTO A. REINKING, Plant January 2.2., 1943, at his home in Pasa- Hamilton '97. Pathologist at the Geneva Experiment dena, Cal. He was a mining engineer and Station, left May i for Costa Rica to proprietor of the Salisbury & Armstrong '31 DVM—Dr. PAUL DANA MARVIN, help establish quinine production in that Mining Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. April 18, 1943. He was a veterinarian in country. The new industry in Costa Rica Machias. Alpha Psi. Brother, John G. Ό6 LLB—MORRIS SAMUEL HALLIDAY, is an effort towards making the Western Marvin '30. May 16, 1943, in Cleveland, Ohio. A Hemisphere independent of outside native of Ithaca where he practiced law sources for its quinine supply. Govern- '34—JAMES BERKELEY ROBINSON, No- ment officials praised Dr. Reinking's until 192.0, he was Tompkins County dis- vember 5, 1942.. He lived at The Colonial trict attorney for two terms and State work on his recent mission to Central Apartments, noo Spruce Street, Phila- America to study banana diseases and Senator from 1915-18. He moved to delphia, Pa. Cleveland in 19x0 to become assistant fiber crops and requested his joining the vice-president of the Union Trust Co., Costa Rican mission because of his wide *4i—Lieutenant RAYMOND EDWARD ^ knowledge of Central American agri- and was president of the Union Com- JOHNSON, US Army, was killed January culture. merce Building in Cleveland at the time 2.0, 1943, in the Southwest Pacific. He of his death. Alpha Delta Phi. Father, left the University in 1940. His home was PROFESSOR DEXTER S. KIMBALL, Engi- the late Samuel D. Halliday '70. in Gloversville and he married Barbara neering, Emeritus, has been awarded the H. Evans of Gloversville, July 2.7, 1942.. Gantt Medal for 1943 "for outstanding '13, '14 BS—ERNEST VAN ATT A, May attainment in the teaching and practice 6, 1943, at his home in Spencer. For the '43—RICHARD STUART JANSEN, Febru- ^ of industrial management and for dis- last sixteen years he was an assessor in ary 2.8,1943, in Atlantic City, N. J., where tinguished contributions to its litera- the Town of Spencer. he had been for a month in the Army Air ture." The Gantt Medal was founded to '13 PhD; Ί6 MD—Dr. ELEANOR VAN Corps. He had completed the tests for commemorate the work of Henry L. NESS VAN ALSTYNE, September 17, 1942.. pilot and was stricken with epidemic Gantt who was Fred W. Taylor's prin- She was an instructor in Experimental meningitis. Lambda Chi Alpha. Father, cipal assistant in developing Taylor's Therapeutics in 1910-12.; had practiced Raymond R. Jansen '14, Marcellus. philosophies of industrial management medicine in New York City since 1917. which have had a profound influence on MAY zy, 1943 391

American methods of production. The started as a boiler room engineer in 1910. medal is awarded jointly by the Ameri- Concerning For twenty years he has been chief engi- can Society of Mechanical Engineers neer of Detroit Edison, has been vice- and the American Management Associa- THE ALUMNI president since 1935, was elected a di- tion. Dean Kimball has previously re- rector of the company in 1940. From Personal items and newspaper clippings ceived the Worcester Warner gold medal 1919-39 he was an Alumni Trustee of the about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. of the American Society of Mechanical University and he is a member of the Engineers and the Benjamin Carver Engineering College Council. Last year Lamme gold medal of the Society for the Όo LLB—JOHN T. McGovERN has he was president of the American Society Promotion of Engineering Education for been appointed chairman of Area 8, of Mechanical Engineers, and last May his work in industrial engineering. He New York City, Westchester County, he was awarded the Doctor of Engineer- recently returned from assisting in setting and Staten Island, of the Boys' Clubs of ing by Stevens Institute of Technology up a new division of industrial manage- America, Inc. He will arrange a program with a citation which emphasized his ment at Texas Agricultural & Me- for physical fitness and manual training responsibility for furnishing power to chanical College. for about 2.500 boys. The first meeting of "a main stronghold on the war produc- the Council at which he presided was tion front" and spoke of the respect and CAPTAIN LEWIS W. MORSE '2.9, on ^ held at the Cornell Club of New York affection in which he is held, not only leave as librarian of the Law School, has May 2.4 when he gave a dinner to the by his business associates but "by a been promoted to major and becomes di- presidents and superintendents of youth whole generation of mechanical engi- rector of libraries for the legal branch of organizations in his area. McGovern has neers whom he has inspired to sounder, the US Army. He has been in charge of the long been the sponsor of the Gramercy finer professional living by his philosophy central law library in the Judge Advo- Boys' Club in New York City. and basic wisdom." He has had re- cate's Office in Washington, D. C., since Ό6 CE—CHARLES S. RINDSFOOS, ^ sponsibility for the design, construction, last July. president of the Panohio Mortgage Co., and operation of Detroit Edison power PROFESSOR JAMES W. PAPEZ, Anatomy, Columbus, Ohio, has been granted a plants and is chairman of a board dealing and curator of the Wilder brain collec- leave of absence to accept a commission with priorities and transportation mat- tion, was invited to give the annual as lieutenant commander in the Civil ters. He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta, James Arthur Lecture at the American Engineer Corps, USNR. He is now as- Sigma Xi, and the Cornell Club of Museum of Natural History in New signed to Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Michigan; lives in Ann Arbor. York City, May τη. His subject is Va. During World War I he was engaged '09 ME—ALEXANDER M. HAMILTON is "Ancient Landmarks of the Human in building battleship ways at Brooklyn Canadian sales manager of American Brain and Their Origin." Navy Yard, shipyards for the Emergency Locomotive Co., with headquarters at Fleet Corp. in Philadelphia, and a sea the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Montreal, Can. JOSEPH Q. ADAMS, PhD Ό6, former pro- wall at Sandy Hook for the Army. He Ίo, Ίi ME—ROLLO BLANCHARD of fessor of English and now director of the was formerly an executive of The Founda- Irvington is vice-president of the Nep- Folger Memorial Library, Washington, tion Co. and later of The Jarrett-Cham- tune Meter Co. now building ordnance D. C., has been appointed the Rosenbach bers Co., New York City. Fellow in Bibliography at the University and air ports. He is also a member of the '07 CE; '45—CLARE D. MURRAY is a ^ of Pennsylvania for 1943-44 and will WPB Engineers Advisory Committee. general contractor in Syracuse where his deliver the Rosenbach Fellowship Lec- Ίi—Merriam S. Packard, daughter of address is 701 Westcott Street. His son, tures there next spring. WILLIAM G. PACKARD Ίi, of Bronxville, ROBERT M. MURRAY, was a Sophomore was married to Lieutenant Thomas B. in Civil Engineering until last March PROFESSOR PAUL M. O'LEARY, PhD '2.9, Hubbard, Army Air Forces, December 2.3. Economics, on leave for the last year as when he was called in the Army Air deputy APO administrator of rationing, Corps. He is at Keesler Field, Miss.; '12. ME—Cramp Ship Building Co., is quoted as predicting "less rather than address, 59 Tng. Group, Sq. 3o/Ήut 13. Philadelphia, Pa., of which JOSEPH P. more rationing" for the next twelve RIPLEY is chairman of the board, recently months. launched two submarines, the Dragonet and the Escolar, and two floating work- MRS. LUCY M. HACKMAN READIO, shops into the .Delaware River, all with- wife of Professor Philip A. Readio, in forty-three minutes. Officials said that Entomology, died at their home, 604 this was the first time in the current ship- Mitchell Street, Ithaca, May 5. building program for the Navy that so many craft had been launched in such a MRS. EMMA BRILL REDDICK, wife of short time by a private shipyard along Professor Donald Reddick, PhD '09, the Delaware river. Plant Pathology, died May 17, 1943. She '13 CE—JOHN M. DEMAREST has re- was the mother of Mrs. William T. signed from the WPB to join the Wright Thompson (Emmy L. Reddick) '34 of Aeronautical Corp, Paterson, N. J. He Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. A. L. Dounce lives at 366 Shelbourne Terrace, Ridge- (Ethel L. Reddick) '38 of Rochester. wood, N. J. CAPTAIN PHILIP L. LOOMIS '37, former '14 CE—ADRIAN K. WEBSTER married ROTC instructor, has completed training Mrs. William W. Kirksey last August 7. as an aerial observer at Brooks Field, Ό8 ME—JAMES W. PARKER (above) He is an engineer on a government project Tex., and will receive the silver observer was elected March 16 general manager in Texas and they live at 5709 Gaston wings after five weeks' gunnery practice. of the Detroit Edison Co., where he Avenue, Dallas, Tex.

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'15 BS, '37 MS; '45—RAY F. POLLARD examining a three-year-old child while a completed his twenty-seventh year as hidden observer records proceedings. Dr. Scoharie County agricultural agent in Amatruda is the daughter of Professor LAST CALL FOR Cobleskill, April 3. His son, RAY F. WILLIAM STRUNK, JR., PhD '96, English POLLARD, JR., is a Sophomore in Me- Emeritus. chanical Engineering. '2.4 BChem; '15 — HARRY J. HAON is in CAMP OTTER Ί6 PhD—Dr. JOSEPH V. DEPORTE, the electrochemicals department, E. I. Summer is on the way and soon head of the Division of Vital Statistics duPont de Nemours & Co. Inc., and is a that boy of yours will be out of of the New York State Health Depart- director of the Delaware chapter of the Red Cross. Haon's address is 2.506 Wil- school. In these war days, thought- ment, predicts that the present upward ful parents are giving real consider- trend in the birth-rate will not last be- lard Street, Wilmington, Del. ation to their boys' out-of-school cause of the declining number of mar- '2.5 BS, '2.6 MF — N. GARDINER + development and leisure time activ- riages as men go in the armed forces. BUMP, director of the Game Bureau in ities. Camp Otter has met this '17 ME—At the annual meeting of the the New York State Conservation De- problem for many Cornellians for stockholders of the B. F. Goodrich Co., partment since 1932., has been commis- so many years that each year the Akron, Ohio, in April, President JOHN L. sioned a captain in the Army and will be number increases! This year, boys COLLYER predicted that the sale of attached to the Adjutant General's staff from as far south as Puerto Rico, synthetic rubber tires to civilians should in administration of occupied territories. be possible in 1944 provided the United north to New England, and west '2.6 BS; '96— W. R. BURT of White * Nations continue to obtain supplies from to Chicago are already enrolled. Gates, R 3, Battle Creek, Mich., has India and Ceylon. He warned that the Many of these will eventually been commissioned a lieutenant in the country cannot afford to relax present enter Cornell and several are sons Supply Corps, USNR, and reported for restrictions until it is safely past the low of former campers. duty May 2.4 at Babson Institute, point in the national rubber stockpile. Wellesley Hills, Mass. He is the son of Staff Complete Ί8, 'Ί.I BS—Captain EUGENE B. ^ the late GEORGE R. BURT '96. SULLIVAN, USA, is now detailed to the '2.7 — Lieutenant JOHN M. TREBLE, ^ Our staff of carefully selected Inspector General's Department. He has counselors is now complete and in- USNR, is a gunnery officer in charge of completed a two-week orientation course harbor security at Aruba in the Carib- cludes "Tar" Young, founder of in the Office of the Inspector General, the camp and 18 years its director; bean. His address is APO 811, Care Fleet Washington, D. C., has returned to duty Post Office, New York City. Bill Crewson, guide and caretaker at Headquarters, New York Port of '2.8, '31 ME — EDWIN A. REED is with for 2.j years; Professor Van Doran Embarkation, Brooklyn. from Cornell and leader of the the US Cartridge Co., 4300 Goodfellow '19, 'ii BS—JAMES B. WILSON, football Ithaca Sea Scouts; Fred Goellner, Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. He lives at coach and director of athletics at Cani- former Scout director of a Long 62.8 Oakwood Avenue, Webster Groves, sius College, has been appointed director Island camp who will direct the Mo. of recreation and physical fitness at Bell handicraft program; Sidney Miles, '2.8 AB — Dr. SPENCER MYERS is in Aircraft Corp., Buffalo. Wilson coached physical director at Wellsville, Army Medical Corps. His home address football at the University of Buffalo N. Y. High School and former di- is Hampton Gardens, Ossining. rector of a boys' camp there; Don before going to Canisius College in 1938. 'z9 CE — Lieutenant WALTER C. it Gushing, four-sport athlete at 'xo—Brigadier General EDMUND B. ^ KNOX, Army Engineer Corps, is assigned Amherst, N. Y., High School and SEBREE has been awarded the Distin- to the US Engineer Office, Mobile, Ala. now a student at Cornell; H. guished Service Medal for his work as He has a son, Douglas S. Knox, born last Meng, specialist in nature study at chief of staff in organizing the task force January 2.6. Cornell. All these are natural and developing New Caledonia as a leaders who will leave a good im- military base, for his leadership on 'z9 AB, '32. LLB — HYMAN E. MINTZ print on your boy; each will have Guadalcanal when he commanded a de- has been appointed to the staff of New six boys under his supervision. tached force of Marines and Army troops York State Attorney General Nathaniel in actions at Koli Point, and for plan- L. Goldstein. He has practiced law in Director Ortner, starting his twen- ning and carrying out the seizure of South Fallsburg since 1932. and is a tieth year at Camp Otter, will soon bridge-heads on the Matanikau River. member of the Sullivan County Republi- be on his way to get the camp Between January i and February 9, he can executive committee. ready for the boys. Don't delay in commanded a division against the * '30 BS, '35 PhD; '30 BS— Captain * writing for the illustrated booklet, Japanese. After the troops were sent to ARTHUR T. RINGROSE is a food and nutri- for the limited enrollment of sixty the Solomons, the citation said, "his tion officer teaching in the Baker's and boys is rapidly being completed. personal courage and repeated presence Cook's School, working on master menus There are just a few places left. with forward elements of his division for the 8th Service Command. His address during combat inspired his troops to is SnC, AUS, Station Surgeon's Office, Fee for eight glorious weeks in- sustained effort." Fort Sam Houston, Tex. He was as- cluding riding is $xoo. 'i2., '2.5 AB—DONALD W. BROWN has ^ sistant professor of poultry at the Uni- versity of Kentucky, Lexington, where Post season camp for families and been promoted from private, first class, Mrs. Ringrose (GUERTINE TINKER) '30 boys afflicted with hay fever. In- to corporal, AUS, in North Africa. His and their three-year-old daughter, Louise formation on request. address is APO 9, Care Postmaster, New York City. J. Ringrose, are living. '31 — HOWARD L. BROWNING is with 'i3 AB, '2.6 MD; '96 PhD—Dr. Catherine Amatruda (CATHERINE the OPA regional office in Philadelphia, STRUNK), "second in command" to Dr. Pa. Howard B. Ortner 19 Gesell at the Yale University Clinic of '31 MS in Ed — MALVINA TRUSSELL is 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, N. Y. Child Development, is pictured in an associate professor of biology at Georgia article describing the work of the clinic Teachers' College. Her address is 10 West in the Saturday Evening Post for May 15, Kennedy Street, Statesboro, Ga. Please mention the ALUMNI NEWS MAY Z7, 1943 393

'3Z BS—AUSTIN W. CURTIS, JR., di- rector of the George Washington Carver Foundation, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., accepted a posthumous medal awarded June Bid April 17 to George Washington Carver, noted Negro scientist. The presentation June! The perfect month in town. When the trees are was made at the annual Teachers' Union out to the last fresh leaf, the window-boxes look like meeting at the Hotel Commodore, New mosaic strips against brownstone and concrete, and we York City, by Paul Robeson. break out the white shoes and chiffons, get used to the '33 AB, '37 MD—Dr. ABRAM S. * BENENSON of East Rockaway has been straws. promoted from captain to major in the If you want to make your stay in New York a memo- Army Medical Corps. He is an instructor rable one, come to The Grosvenor. In the heart of exclusive Washington in the department of sanitation at the Square, its spacious rooms, wide, airy windows, attractive dining-rooms, Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Major. Benenson was com- and lounge bar give comfort and service; its easy accessibility makes it ideal missioned a first lieutenant in the Medi- alike for work and play. cal Corps Reserve in 1937, was appointed Take advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend. Check in and get to the regular Army in 1941, and pro- settled. moted to the rank of captain in 1941. '34, '35 BS—EDWARD F. MURPHY ^r has been promoted at Pine Camp from Hotel Grosvenor first lieutenant to captain. His address is Northern District Shops, Pine Camp. Fifth Avenue at loth St., N. Y. City '34—Address of S/Sgt. PAUL HAM- ^ Single rooms from $4.00 Double rooms from $5.50 MOND is 38ιst SEFTA, Craig Field, Selma, Alma. He has been in the Army for two JOHN M. YATES, Manager years. '35—Address of Lieutenant JOHN ^ Donald Baldwin 'ι6 Pres. A. CUSTONS, JR. is APO 869, Care Post- y master, New York City. Owned by the Baldwin Family '35 AB, '37 LLB; '36 AB—THEODORE W. KHEEL and Mrs. Kheel (ANN SUN- STEIN) '36 have a son, Robert J. Kheel, born May i. Kheel is chairman of Regional War Labor Board No. i, New York City. Mrs. Kheel was assistant Cornell M.E. Writes . . . editor of the ALUMNI NEWS in 1936-37. They live at 556 Forest Avenue, New "Having greatly enjoyed Dean Rochelle. Ladd's and Mr. Eastman's book, I enclose my check for five dollars '36 BChem—JOHN C. RICH has been •£ for two more copies to be mailed promoted from second to first lieutenant to these two friends ..." at Daniel Field, Augusta, Ga., where he is commanding officer of the 4th Com- munications Squadron. He was with the Detroit Rex Products Co., Detroit, // You Know Mich. '36 AB, '40 MD; '36 AB—Silver * the Country, You'll Star has been awarded posthumously to Enjoy This Book Dr. JACQUES C. SAPHIER, lieutenant (jg), USNR, for "conspicuous gallantry" in a Marine action on Guadalcanal in which he was killed. The medal and citation were received by Lieutenant Saphier's Growing Up in The Horse and Buggy Days parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad J. Sahpier, 1062. Carroll Street, Brooklyn. Saphier By CARL E. LADD '12 and E. R. EASTMAN was associate editor of the Cornell Daily Dean Trustee Sun, captain of the golf team, and a College of Agriculture Cornell University member of Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior Preface by year. He received the John Metcalfe Polk Romeyn Berry First Edition Nearly Sold award for general efficiency in his four years at the Medical College. Mrs. USE THE COUPON TODAY! Saphier was LAURA E. WEBER,'3 6. 264 pages '37 BS—BETTY J. AUSTIN of Ithaca ^ Illustrated has been promoted from third officer to CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, 3 East Avenue, ITHACA, N. Y. second officer in the WAAC at Fort Des $2.50 Moines, la. Former woman's editor of postpaid Enclosed find $ for which please send me.... copies the Widow, Second Officer Austin is a of "Growing Up in the Horse and Buggy Days" at $2.50, postpaid a member of the press section'staί of the {Autographed copies furnished on request} Public Relations Officer, ist *WAAC Tr. NAME

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Center. She was an assistant in Exten- '40; '40—Lieutenant HARRY COPE- if '42.—Lieutenant (jg) HENRY A. if sion in the College of Agriculutre. LAND is in the Chemical Warfare Service CAREY, JR., USNR, has been presented a '37, '39 BS—RAYMOND A. LULL of if with the 9oth Motorized Division, Gold Star by President Roosevelt because Ithaca was commissioned a second lieu- Camp Barkeley, Tex. He and Mrs. of his citation for a second Distinguished tenant at the Army Air Force Bombardier Copeland (MARJORIE SAUTER) '40 and Flying Cross. The citation reads, "For School, Bug Spring, Tex., April ΊJL. He is their five-months-old daughter live at heroism in aerial combat as pilot in a now stationed with the 395th Bombard- 3x90 South Fifth Street, Abilene, Tex. fighter squadron in action against Japan- ment Group, Euphrata, Wash. '40 BChem, '41 ChemE—RALPH S. ese naval forces iri the Solomon Islands '38 CE—FRANCIS H. ASPINWALL is as- LUDINGTON, who was graduated "With area, October 5, and near Santa Cruz signed to the US Engineer District Office, Distinction'' in both BChem and ChemE Islands on October Z5,1942.." Lieutenant Whitehorse, Y. T., Can. His home ad- courses, has been awarded a graduate Carey was attached to the aircraft carrier dress is 1411 North Madison Street, Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. fellowship Hornet from which the planes took off Rome. at the University of Illinois for 1943-44. that bombed Tokyo April 18, I94Z. He is now giving aerial gunnery instruction '38 AB; '07 ME—Ensign JOHN E. if '40 BS—R. SELDEN BREWER, Class if in Seattle, Wash., while waiting assign- SLY, USNR, has been assigned to North secretary, will receive a commission as ment to an aircraft carrier. Carolina State College, Raleigh, N. C., lieutenant (jg) June 16. June 17 he will since last January ,18, when he was marry Josephine Trull of West Hartford, '42. AB; '41; '42. AB—MARJORIE graduated from the USNTS at Notre Conn. His address is Midshipman R. S. MAGZINER, ALICE MAUER, and BERLE Dame, Ind. His engagement to Ethel E. Brewer, USNR Midshipmen's School, 7x1 NEUWIRTH visited the Campus the week Weldon of Stovall, N. C., has been an- John Jay Hall, New York City. end of May 8. Miss Magaziner is a nounced. He was in the publicity de- statistician for a welfare agency in Phila- '40 AB; '42. AB—GORDON G. DALE, if partment of the Eastern States Farmers delphia; lives at 406 Woodbrook Lane, a student at the Harvard Business School, Exchange, Springfield, Mass. He is the Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. Miss has been awarded the Rochester Alumni son of FRED S. SLY '07, business manager Maurer is a chemist for Wallerstein Club Scholarship. He received a com- of American Artist, Watson-Guptill Laboratories, New York City; lives at mission in the Naval Reserve Supply Publications, Inc., New York City, who xo9~Z7 112. Road, St. Albans. Miss Neu- Corps last August. Mrs. Dale (MAR- lives at 149-40 Thirty-fifth Street, wirth is teaching biology at New York GARET T. ACKERMAN) '42. is a chemist at Flushing. University; lives at 1160 Cromwell the Hood Rubber Co. Avenue, New York City. '38, '39 BFA; '3z, '35 AB, '37 AM— * Mrs. Judson D. Wilcox (RUTH F. ROG- '41 BS in AE(ME)—ALVA KELLEY if '42.—Lieutenant THOMAS B. WILSON, if ERS) and her two children who have been has been promoted to captain of Ord- AUS, who was reported "missing in living in Ithaca, have gone to Santa nance. He spent a brief leave in Ithaca, action, North African area, since April April 2.8, with his wife and their infant Barbara, Cal. to join her husband Cap- 5," has since been reported a prisoner of daughter. Captain Kelley is stationed at tain JUDSON D. WILCOX '35 who is sta- war in Germany by the Adjutant Gen- tioned there with the 4th Armored Watervliet Arsenal. eral's Office to his parents, JOHN C. Division of the Army. '41; '42.—Captain CHARLES J. RA- if WILSON Ό6 and Mrs. Wilson (HELEN L. '39 AB—Mrs. Carl T. Haller, Jr., H ABUSER, Signal Corps, was graduated STONE) Ό6 of Milwaukee, Wis. Lieu- (MARGARET J. PADDOCK) has a son, Carl from the Army General Staff and Com- tenant Wilson is the grandson of the late T. Haller III, born May 4. The Haller mand School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Professor Emeritus JOHN L. STONE '74. April 9, and is now assigned to the Desert family lives at 712. Brinker Avenue, '43 BS—RUTH M. PICKER of 303 Sheri- Training Center. His address is Staff Latrobe, Pa. dan Boulevard, Mt. Vernon, has an- Officers Pool, ASF Hdq., Desert Training '39 LLB—Lieutenant (jg) JAMES if nounced her engagement to Dr. Norman Center, Banning, Cal. He writes that BUYOUCOS, USNR, is on duty with the J. Glucksman. Air Force and stationed at Quonset, R. I. Ensign CALVIN T. RAY '42., USNR, is stationed at the Engr. Branch, Bauer, '43—Flight Sergeant WILLIAM R. if He was a lawyer in Ithaca with ALLAN ORNDORFF, RCAF, has been promoted to H. TREMAN '2.1. VPB, Design Section, Bureau of Aeronau- tics, Washington, D.C., and that he lives warrant officer and is now stationed in 39—GLENN F. ROBINSON of Morris- Canada as an instructor. ville has a daughter, Sharon E. Robin- at 6000 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, son, born May 7. Md. '43—Naval Aviation Cadet ARTHUR if J. GALLAGHER of Northbrook, 111., has '39 MD; '36 AM; Ίi ME—Major * '41 AB—WILLIAM H. CHUPP has if been transferred to the Naval Air Train- Louis R. KENT, Army Medical Corps, is been commissioned a second lieutenant in ing Center, Corpus Christi, Tex. ROBERT regimental surgeon and commanding the Army Air Forces, Weather Bureau E. GALLAGHER '44, captain of the Varsity officer of the medical detachment of a Section, at Officer Candidate School, basketball team, is his brother. parachute Infantry regiment. He is en- Miami, Fla., and is on temporary duty gaged to Lois M. SCHOONOVER, AM '36, at Randolph Field, Tex. He is the son of '44—CHARLES S. McCoγ, JR. entered ^r of Marietta, Ohio. Major Kent is the son Professor CHARLES CHUPP, PhD '17, Plant the Army April 2.0 and is at Fort Bragg of STANLEY B. KENT Ίi of Port Wash- Pathology, Extension. for thirteen weeks' basic training, to- ington. '42. AB—SALLY A. RUDOLPH, formerly gether with HARRY E. KELLOGG '44, '40 AB; '40—Mrs. Jerome M. Cohen if with Associated Artists, is now making WENDEL F. KENT '46, and MALCOLM (LUCILLE BANDER) lives at Ί.J West the window displays for Wallachs, Inc., WEISKOPF '46. West Seventy-second Street, New York men's clothing, 542. Fifth Avenue, New '44—WILLIAM C. ARTHUR of Mead- if City. Her husband JEROME M. COHEN York City. She lives at 340 West Fifty- ville, Pa., is a first lieutenant, AUS, '40, is a lieutenant in the Signal Corps seventh Street, New York City. and is attending battery officers' course overseas. '42. BS—Naval Aviation Cadet CARL if at the Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, '40 BS—Lieutenant JOHN J. WHALEN ^r G. SNAVELY, JR., USNR, has completed Okla. He has been stationed at Fort AUS, on duty in the Southwest Pacific, the three-months course at Pre-Flight Ethan Allen, Vt. recently sent a battle-scarred Japanese School, University of North Carolina, '44—Private RICHARD O. JONES of if flag to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jere- Chapel Hill, and is now assigned for Milwaukee, Wis., is stationed at Camp miah J. Whalen, 2.03 Ridgedale Road, primary flight training to Naval Reserve Sibert, Ala. His engagement to Margaret Ithaca. He entered the Army as a reserve Aviation Base, Peru, Ind. He is the son H. Heminway of Watertown, Conn., has officer in 1941. of Coach Carl G. Snavely. been announced. 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