S w a r t h m o r e COLLEGE BULLETIN, ALUM NI ISSUE JAN U ARY, 1974

Theodore Woo< Swarthmore Inaugurates Eleventh President

On a brilliant October day, as the tulip poplars shed their leaves around the assembled guests in the Scott Outdoor Auditorium, Theodore Wood Friend III was inaugurated the eleventh president of Swarthmore College. The simple ceremony presided over by Stephen G. Lax ’41, chairman of the Board of Managers, included two selections by the College Chorus, members of the orchestra, and guest instrumentalists, under the direction of Peter Gram Swing, and an address by President Friend. The academic procession was composed of members of the Board, Faculty, Student Council, and distinguished visitors. Among the nearly twenty college presidents who attended were those from Williams, President Friend’s alma mater; Pomona, which has an exchange program with Swarthmore; the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard, a number of nearby institutions, and some Quaker colleges. Some 50 other representatives from colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning also attended. In his address President Friend spoke of “the original aims of the College, of authority and responsibility in its current organization, of the principles of excellence and equality, and of reason and faith in the temper of all that we do here.” He found occasion to quote from the inaugural remarks of the sixth president of Swarthmore, Joseph Swain, in speaking of the relationship of the various con­ stituencies of the College to each other. “Perhaps because he, as I, came here from a state university, I easily share his perspective. In a time affected by a longing for new solutions, sometimes an unappeasable mania for the new, it is refreshing to find usefulness in the thought of a man speaking in 1902. In a direct statement to the undergraduates present at his installation, President Swain said: ‘Students of the College, but for you, none of us would be here. It is for your needs and it is to develop the possibilities in you that it exists.’ What was true then and before is still a truth for an institution such as this. Students are not merely transients here, but the object of the College’s purpose, and of the major concerns of the faculty. Students do not merely pass through, as do many in large universities; rather the College passes through them, and into their character. They become alumni, and upon their advice and inspiration and loyalty the welfare of the institution depends.” Stephen G. Lax ’41, chairman of the Board of Managers, shares a light moment with President Friend before the academic procession begins.

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After the ceremony, which included music by members of the chorus under the direction of Peter Gram Swing, President Friend greeted Student Council members Morgan Frankel ’76, Janis Palmer ’74, Mitchell Black ’74, and Bruce Toth ’75, and other well-wishers.

Photographs by Walter Hi Inaugural principals included (left) Sue Thomas Turner ’35, then secretary of the Board, and John W. Nason (Hon. ’53), eighth president of Swarthmore; (below) Board members Clark Kerr ’32, Edwin Bush ’49, Charles F. Barber, and Thomas B. McCabe, ’15, (bottom) James A. Perkins ’34, former vice-president of Swarthmore, and J. Roland Pennock ’27, Richter Professor of Political Science. W hat are the capital needs of Swarthmore College?

How much new money is the College going to need for programs, facilities, and endowment during the next several years? December 17,1973 ing Committee is composed of the E. Gilbert), reviews implications of How can Swarthmore maintain its ex­ President, chairmen of the major com­ the College’s academic program for cellence in an era increasingly perilous mittees of the Board, and three mem­ capital planning. These include capi­ for private colleges? The problem re­ bers of the Development Committee tal needs for program costs, physical solves itself partially into one of capi­ of the Board. “It must be emphasized needs^ associated with the academic tal needs. How much new money is that the DPGs make no decision. Ours program, and support of faculty re­ the College going to need for pro­ is a recommending and. advisory search and professional development. grams, facilities, and endowment dur­ body,” says Mr. Kohlberg. “The DPGs From this definition of function, the ing the next several years? Four will report their assessments, options, Academic Program DPG was in­ groups, meeting frequently on campus and recommendations individually to structed to consider such issues as: since September, have been develop­ the Steering Committee for coordina­ What will be distinctive and char­ ing ways of answering, and answers tion and integration into a compre­ acteristic in a Swarthmore education? to this question. The Development hensive report for the President and In pursuit of excellence should the [Planning Groups, or DPGs as they Board of Managers. The Board will College settle for only the highest | became known, are each composed of meet to consider our report sometime standards of undergraduate education members of the College’s several con­ this February.” in all elements of its formal academic stituencies— Board members, alumni, In a series of meetings over the program, or must it acknowledge pro­ administration, faculty, and students summer, the Steering Committee laid gram elements at once essential to —working in the arbitrarily separate out the guidelines for the DPGs: They and unsusceptible to excellence in the areas of Academic Program, Student were to accept certain working as­ kind of college Swarthmore is? Life, Physical Facilities, and Finance. sumptions. It was assumed, for ex­ What will be the characteristics of These groups have been testing and ample, that long-term economic con­ the faculty in the next decade, includ­ appraising a provisional list of ques­ ditions will continue to be favorable ing its size, quality, and makeup in tions prepared by the administration: and that there will be no involvement terms of age and rank, and what are Are there any specific needs that have in a major international conflict; that the financial implications of this pro­ been overlooked? What is most im­ inflation will continue at the present jection? portant and what is most urgent? rate; that the traditional American view What are the principal npeds for What directions may the College take of higher education as essential to the faculty development to serve the edu- in the future? What is happening in well-being of the country and its citi­ the financial environment? The DPGs zens will continue; that a somewhat [have been reviewing a number of ex­ smaller pool of qualified candidates pressed needs of the College with the probably will be available to privately purpose of focusing opinion and judg­ supported institutions and that com­ ment on them in the context of total petition for the best students will be institutional need and potential re­ keener; that the present favorable tax sources. They have met with repre- treatment for colleges and univer­ jsentatives of the various departments, sities will remain essentially un­ [With technical experts, with ardent changed. Finally it was assumed that proponents of and equally ardent dis­ Swarthmore will remain a highly sidents from various points of view, selective, relatively small, undergrad­ phis work will culminate in four re­ uate, coeducational, liberal arts col­ ports which will clarify needs, evalu­ lege, striving, as Board Member H. ate alternatives, and suggest order of Thomas Halloweil emphasized, “for [attention. Development planning, excellence in everything it under­ .while not as comprehensive as total takes.” mstitutional planning (like that which The Academic Program DPG, com­ M to Critique of a College in 1967), posed of the faculty Council on Edu­ paust result in a sense of priorities. At cational Policy, plus selected members [the same time, it must be flexible, of the Board of Managers and alumni Providing for opportunity or unex­ and students (chairman is Board pected turns of events. member Barbara Whipple Heilman | The Development Committee of the ’43; vice chairman is Provost Charles p°urd of Managers is the coordinating agent. An ad hoc Development-Plan- Nag Steering Committee was initially President Friend and Committee Chair­ organized by President Theodore man Kohlberg hear recommendations from the Steering Committee. Opposite Rend and chaired by Board Member page, Student Life DPG is presided over lJerome S. Kohlberg, Jr. ’46. The Steer- by Chairman Isabel Logan Lyon.

NhJARY, 1974 The Physical Facilities DPG in session. specifically to issues as homely and the vice chairmanship of Samuel T. tuitioi necessary as laundry service, security, Carpenter, Isaiah *V. Williamson Pro-1 ^ co cational purposes of the College, in­ switchboard service; as basic as the fessor of Civil and Mechanical Engi- struct] cluding leaves, teaching loads, facili­ need for more dormitory space and neering, is drawing up a tentative a cha] tation of research and scholarship? advising services; as far-reaching in “ critical path” projection of new and Will What uses are expected of techno­ implications for the College as stu­ renovated buildings needed at Swarth- tinue i logical aids, of computing, of libraries dent-faculty relations, the siting of more over the next decade, in order oi expect and laboratories of all kinds; what new athletic facilities, and potential physical priority, along with estimates gajns. prevalence of more-or-less independent space requirements of Drama and the of capital costs, and allowing for al- Sine work; what economies or added costs Dance. tematives. . into c in class size and format? Ultimately, the recommendations of Richard B. Willis ’33, member of expres What are the possible dimensions of Student Life DPG will influence the the Board and Treasurer of the Cor-port v various forms of off-campus work and recommendations and priorities of poration, is chairman of the FinanceLmpi( of inter-institutional relations? every other group—but within the DPG and Edward K. Cratsley, vice Hov How many and what kinds of stu­ limits of financial feasibility, academic president of the College, is vice chair- by a - dents will the College be teaching, soundness, and physical possibility. man. This group is concerned with the Facillt and for how long? The Physical Facilities DPG was annual operating budgets of the Col-draw What size enrollment should be charged to determine what clearly de­ lege and with capital fund require-sectors planned for, and what are the impli­ fined needs for physical facilities now ments for the next decade. It i|orren cations of increased enrollments? exist at the College, assuming no charged with developing five-year and p^y The group is reviewing capital change in enrollment for the next ten-year projections reflecting totallg10wj( needs for new and expanded academic decade, and considering what possible capital requirements for both of these programs; for new educational meth­ new requirements may arise in the time periods and showing an annual ods of a general nature (or expansions next ten years simply as a result of budget for the years 1978-1979 and! of these), including considerations of continued depreciation and obsoles­ 1983-1984. Optional annual budgets cence of present facilities, as well as will be developed. ^ equipment and administrative sup­ iHP port; for new or remodeled physical possible new demands. This group also The Finance Group is guided by | *▼ facilities; and for needs of the faculty, had to consider what additional phys­ number of assumptions such as thjf including the special funding of some ical facilities would be needed with an possible impact of inflation, optional, positions as well as of professional enlarged enrollment. student-teacher ratios, optional pot' development and research support. Drawing upon the advice of repre­ cies regarding leaves of absence, opj The Student Life Group (chairman, sentatives of all the College’s con­ tional student financial-aid ratios. Isabel Logan Lyon ’42 and vice chair­ stituencies, the Physical Facilities The group seeks answers to the#ii^ man William D. Quesenbery, Jr., dean Group, under the chairmanship of issues, among others: What are of admissions, has addressed itself Board member William F. Lee ’33 and financial implications of a rise ^ ngine

6 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISSOTAVUAB pressing need for a new boiler and a new water tower. It is the only DPG to have given thought to these items, Development-Planning Steering Committee of the Board of Managers but the agenda for this day’s meeting, Jerome S. Kohlberg, Jr. ’46, chairman November 16th, included items which Edwin M. Bush, Jr. ’49 involved the Academic Program and Julien Cornell ’30 Theodore Friend Student Life DPGs. Physical Facili­ H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr. ’29 ties members had already read the Barbara Whipple Heilman ’43 Stephen G. Lax ’41 minutes of other DPGs’ meetings William F. Lee ’33 which related to the items on their Isabel Logan Lyon ’42 Richard B. Willis ’33 own agenda; they had read reports and recommendations submitted by DEVELOPMENT PLANNING GROUPS concerned parties. At the meeting, Academic Program they reviewed whatever technical plan­ Barbara Whipple Heilman ’43, chairman ning had already been done and care­ Charles E. Gilbert, vice chairman fully questioned their guests, people William Berry ’74 Carroll G. Bowen ’48 who could explain what was needed James England and why. Patrick Henry Raymond Hopkins The first item on Chairman Lee’s Hugh Lacey agenda was the Science Library. Norman Meinkoth Crispin Miller ’74 Eleanor Maass, Science Librarian, Van Ooms outlined the need for an expanded Mark Pattis ’75 Steven Piker Le* " tuition to meet that of other compara- Science Library. “Du Pont Library William Poole ’30 1 P10- ble colleges, of the rising cost of in- opened at a disadvantage in 1960 be­ Nancy Robinson Posel ’51 Engi-j struction, of a continuing inflation, of cause of the logical decision to add Student Life tatiwja change in the size of the College? the engineering library to the physics, Isabel Logan Lyon ’42, chairman v and Swarthmore’s endowment con- William D. Quesenbery, Jr. vice Will mathematics, and chemistry collec­ chairman rarth- tinue to grow, and what are reasonable tions, and space had not been planned Clement M. Biddle ’31 Thomas H. Blackburn 3er of expectations of increase in capital for this. Du Pont is so overcrowded Gomer Davies mates gains ancj annual yield? that some of the material has had to John Devlin ’76 or alj Since the Finance DPG must take Mimi Eck ’76 be transferred to McCabe, thus re­ Alexander Henderson ’75 into consideration the capital needs ducing the scope and usefulness of Patricia Cotten Isbrandtsen ’43 >er of expressed by the other DPGs, its re- Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Jr. ’49 the material remaining in Du Pont. Jeanne Marecek Cor- port will probably be the last to be “Martin Biology Library is crowded David Newman ’76 nance completed. and unsupervised, producing problems W. Marshall Schmidt ’47 J. Edward Skeath ’58 . vice How a DPG works can be illustrated in security and service. The collection Physical Facilities chairjby a recent meeting of the Physical should be housed in the Science Li­ William F. Lee ’33, chairman th ^Facilities QroUp This group seeks to brary for reasons of supervision and Samuel T. Carpenter, vice chairman ! ^°jraw together the felt needs of all service as well as for the fact that Ellen Barry ’75 G. Lupton Broomell, Jr. ’37 quirejsectors of the College for space and there is a drawing together of disci­ William Cullen It if or renewal. plines such as biochemistry, ecology, Alan Gordon ’75 Sarah Lee Lippincott ’42 rall| Physical Facilities has already ac- environmental engineering, marine bi­ Joseph Oppe totalknowledged, among other things, the ology, and oceanography. There also Hedley H. Rhys these! Joseph E. Spafford is a need for ancillary services.” She Margaret Stone ’75 added that the present Science Li­ Elizabeth McCabe Thieme ’27 Deborah Townsend brary is not air-conditioned and is Finance uncomfortable for the increasing num­ Richard B. Willis ’33, chairman ber of summer researchers. Edward K. Cratsley, vice chairman Planning Engineer Joseph E. Spaf- John Boccio Morgan Frankel ’76 ford had brought to the meeting a set H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr. ’29 of three alternative plans, developed Charles Raff Bernard Saffran in February, 1971. He cautioned that Walter Scheuer ’48 costs are one-third higher now. Two of James Sheehan ’74 Walter T. Skallerup, Jr. ’42 the plans called for expanding the Ann Brownell Sloane ’60 present facility. Mrs. Maass spoke for Douglas C. Thompson ’62 the third plan, a design for a new Michael Warrell ’76 se ij^gtneering Professor Samuel Carpenter. structure between Martin and Du

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Pont. “It would bring all the science Broomell suggested that the group list remain accessible to students.) disciplines into a common community engineering needs in two categories, So the meeting proceeded. It closed and would also release needed space equipment and structural changes, and with a review of the Academic Prt in both Martin and Du Pont.” Letters await a more detailed report from gram DPG’s consensus on Dance, rtl from Norman Meinkoth, chairman of Searl Dunn. corded in the minutes of an earlit the Biology Department, about the The group then discussed Bartol of meeting, and led Chairman Lee pressing space needs for Biology in the Franklin Institute, whose 50-year comment that whether Dance receive Martin, and from Mark Heald and building lease will lapse in 1977. The academic credit or not, it still is an ini David Rosen, chairmen of the Physics DPG discussed the potential useful­ portant aspect of the Swarthmore prol and Mathematics Departments, re­ ness of Bartol as an interim home for gram and will need new facilities. | spectively, about needs for additional the administration while Parrish is This was a four-hour meeting. II space in Du Pont, were cited. The renovated as a permanent home for, Was one of eight held by Physical Fij group felt then that it had the in­ possibly, the Psychology Department. cilities DPG. formation it needed for its own de­ The next item on vthe agenda After the meeting, Ellen Barry ■ liberations and thanked Mrs. Maass brought into discussion considerations a political science major and one» for the very thorough series of reports of educational philosophy, the quality the three students serving on tli she had made available to them in ad­ of student life (recreational and edu­ DPG, said she was impressed by $ vance of the meeting. cational), logistical problems of time, enormous complexity of some of tk Second on the agenda was a discus­ space, use, and money. It was one of problems that the DPG is deal® sion of the long overdue renovation of many discussions on the proposed new with. “We must absorb great amouil Hicks and Beardsley Halls. Spokes­ physical education facilities. Willis J. of material for any one project, com man Sam Carpenter acknowledged Stetson ’33 and Eleanor K. Hess, di­ suit various experts in the given are that the buildings were sound— “Noth­ rectors of the Men’s and Women’s and then try to synthesize this ing is going to fall down.” But Hicks Athletic programs, were both present terial in order to make a judgmenj was built in 1918. “ It has exposed to discuss the nature of the facilities Many of these problems involve pres pipes, no acoustical treatment, bad needed and their optimum site on the ing concerns of the College communii floors, antique lighting, bad heating campus. They were scheduled to meet and a great deal of study has alreadj problems, and the roof has leaked with their departments at a later date been done on them. I realize that tM since I came in 1935.” Beardsley was and then would submit a joint recom­ recommendations the DPGs make v® built in 1907 and is also inadequate. mendation to the DPG. have tremendous impact on the devdj Searl Dunn, chairman of Engineering, “ Can you give us a separate heading opment of the College.” had sent a memo to the DPG pointing for ‘blue sky’ items?” asked the vice Ellen’s recognition of the grcj out the need for modern laboratory chairman of Student Life DPG, Bill amount of work done before a Df| and shop space to keep pace with en­ Quesenbery, who was sitting in on the meeting reflects only the tip of tlj gineering’s changing directions and meeting. “That would be helpful to iceberg. Since the process began 11 evolving relationship with other dis­ my group.” wards the end of September, thel ciplines. New technology requires new Faculty housing was on the agenda. have been almost weekly and sonfl laboratories and equipment and space Joe Spafford related that while there times twice-weekly meetings of j for individual projects. is no pressure at present for addi­ groups, plus three general meetii “Are we losing potential students tional rentals, there is great need to FROM THE TOP: Peg Stone, &J because of the age of our equipment?” replace antiquated houses that are ex­ Barry, and Hedley H. Rhys study n asked Chairman Lee. “Definitely,” re­ pensive to maintain. (At another meet­ liminary reports; Barbara Whipple pjj plied Sam Carpenter. “For example, ing, Student Life DPG was to con­ man; William F. Lee with Richarim Willis; Isabel Logan Lyon with Editf sider faculty housing from the point we need a bio-engineering lab. We need K. Cratsley; Stephen G. Lax, chan computer terminals as an adjunct to of view of keeping professors near of the Board of Managers. PhotogM learning.” Board member Lupton campus so that they and their homes by Walter Holt.

8 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI followed by dinner meetings. With a location will provide the greatest use Christmas deadline, the pressure has or which is simply more convenient. been intense. Considerable esprit de And to look at such seemingly simple corps has grown up. Behind the actual questions as: Do students really want meetings, too, was the coordination to swim after a game of squash? Would and support given by Vice President seniors rather have single rooms or Kendall Landis ’48 and his staff. live in co-op housing?” There was secretarial work to be done, Mimi acknowledges that “there cer­ too, and reams of material to be re­ tainly were problems: The large size searched, written, copied, and dis­ of each committee made meetings dif­ tributed. ficult to schedule; there was initial John Devlin and Mimi Eck, both confusion as to just what areas should ’76, are members of the Student Life be covered by the separate groups; Group. Both are enthusiastic about the and the exact nature of the recom­ DPG operation. Says Mimi: “I think mendations we were to make was the idea of planning groups which initially unclear. But in my Student draw on the skills and experience of Life Group I was impressed with the faculty, Board members, students, and very careful, well-informed, and even- alumni is an excellent one. I hope handed consideration given to the is­ these same groups will continue to be sues discussed.” involved in the evaluation of current Bill Quesenbery sums it all up this College policy and in setting goals for way: “Of course we never know what future development. specific effects an undertaking of this “The involvement of students in magnitude may generate, but I have planning is valuable both for the observed a rare and delicate— perhaps energy and ideas they bring and also uniquely Swarthmorean—balance be­ for their development of a sense of tween a confident reaffirmation of the long-range, responsible commitment to College’s traditional goals and an ad­ Swarthmore College as a community venturous reaching out for new hori­ and as a continuing institution.” zons. The entire enterprise is a demon­ John Devlin concurs and adds, stration of the continuity of the Col­ “What we are doing involves a myriad lege community and an admirable ex­ of financial and public relations con­ ample of President Friend’s concept of siderations, frustrating spatial and Swarthmore trustees as those who construction limitations, conflicting care enough to give the ‘attention of personalities, and working against their thought and the benefit of their tight deadlines. The Student Life energies.’ ” Group is making sure that all these pressures don’t overwhelm our basic Note: The assessments, options, and concern for the quality of student life recommendations of all of the De­ at Swarthmore. velopment Planning Groups were for­ “With other groups to deal with the warded to the Development Planning financial, physical, and academic side Steering Committee by early January of things, we’re free to consider al­ for coordination and integration in a ternatives which will meet the real comprehensive report to the Board of needs of the students, such as which Managers.

9 Traveling with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the author eats chicken heads, tries acupuncturLker

Accompanying the Philadel­ of English in their control phia Orchestra to China was tower. And then, suddenly, trea a truly overwhelming experi­ we are safely on the ground olde ence. Woody ’31 and I had in The People’s Republic ol patl read everything we could lay China! unbi our hands on and talked to After a tumultuous, claw one everyone we could find who ping, friendly welcome and no \ had been there; and we went our drive into the city, we’rel body rather tongue in cheek, not finally at our hotel and in oral in i really believing that half we’d spacious, if slightly shabby Hea read would prove to be true. room— plain, utilitarian fumij “Th We returned with the feeling tur6 and a large, overs tuffedj the that most of it certainly is armchair which seems to bet worl true, that we’ve witnessed a the status symbol in furniture tour: bit of what the 1972 group of in China, and abundant hot to i Quakers called, “an experi­ water in the bathroom. A tray “Nei ment without precedence.” on a coffee table holds el tatic For who could believe that in thermos of boiling water, a Di a nation of over 800,000,000 canister of tea, carafe of plain undo people there is now no starva­ water which we drink without pala tion, no crime, no drug traffic, a qualm, and two packs oi —wt and not one reported case of Chinese cigarettes— this is no the i venereal disease—and all of place to kick the smoking tesy this accomplished in a period habit. And so to bed at 7:401 looki By Barbara Batt Bond ’33 of 24 years! A.M. Hawaii time. colui But—to start at the beginning— the public address system: “Welcome The Chinese already know that hills, there had been only meager communi­ aboard Pan Am Flight E.O. 18, bound Woody has only two days before re­ look cation between the management of the for Peking with intermittent stops at turning home via Karachi and Paris- Chin Philadelphia Orchestra and our Chi­ San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, and they seem to know everything about Tree nese hosts-to-be in the months between Shanghai!” We pinched ourselves to each of us, and they are determined in tl the arrival of the official invitation see if we could really be Bobby and that Woody see everything possible hunc and the September 10th departure Woody Bond! of Peking during his short stay. So ol Fran date. It was all most frustrating, and There are two ways to travel—with we go early the next morning in off* relat: we knew, when we left, only that we and without the Philadelphia Orches­ little Shanghai car, government owned here would be in two cities, Peking and tra—and the former is certainly the of course— there are no private auto this Shanghai, and that there would be more fun! The instrumentalists have mobiles— with our chauffeur and Chi exter seven concerts, some including the a wealth of interests other than music, nese guide with whom we have an iw unde Chinese composition, “Yellow River we all walk up and down the plane mediate rapport. Her name is ChunM hold Concerto,” with a young Chinese aisle, the conversation is good, and and she is a graduate of the Univerj from pianist as soloist. That was it—no the hours pass rapidly. sity of Peking, married to a professoij from hotels, no schedule; we could be con­ The flights were all smooth except of architecture there. Chung has > [ any. tacted in emergencies through the for our landing in Shanghai in fog twelve-year-old son and a year-old many State Department in Washington. and dark. After repeated passes over daughter who is cared for by her hi# rest, And so on September 10th, finally the field, we hoped our excellent pilot band’s mother. Her own parents wer* all ft aloft, we heard the announcement over could understand the Chinese variety killed in the revolution. We

10 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISSüEJ ■tuckers community, and leaves with the unforgettable impression of what mankind can accomplish

control We visijt the Forbidden City; its tionships, and of course dating is a does sound ghastly. For some reason Idenlyl treasures are all housed in two of the foreign term to her. A couple may go there is absolutely no other flavor of *rounJ older palaces, rather off the beaten for a bicycle ride or a walk in the pop in the People’s Republic! At ban­ dIìc ol path, and treasures they are—quite park, but there is no demonstration of quets we are also served a sweet, but unbelievable, exquisite carved jade, affection in public except that shown rather pleasant local red wine, and, claw one piece six feet tall. Arid there are to the children. Marriage, as far as of course, the 140 percent proof Mao e ani no guards in sight anywhere. But no­ ceremony goes, seems to be only the Tai for the many toasts. It is lethal, we’u body would dream of stealing anything process of registering with the com­ but at least you know that the second in oui in this country. Over the Gate of mune committee or that of one’s resi­ you taste it. ihabby Heavenly Peace a Mao sign says, dential area, and there is absolutely Our State Department people feel furai] “The people, and only the people, are no divorce unless both parties agree. that the evening when Madame Mao stuffed) the force that make history in the Although Chung, like cadres and attended the concert may prove a his­ to bel world.” We mingle with the Chinese people with better jobs, is paid more, toric occasion in a small sense. Appar­ nituit tourists who are warm and friendly she must work at least a month yearly ently she has been the primary force i t hot to us, always smiling when we say with the peasants in the fields and in in the complete ostracism of all A. tray “Neehow” in our best sing-song imi­ the factory. Chairman Mao says this western music and art during the cul­ Id s ! tation of a Chinese accent. is absolutely necessary, for how else tural revolution and has never, since ter, a During the two days of our travels will she understand the problems of the that time, attended publicly a western ! plain under Chung’s guidance— to the other masses? Makes good sense to us! To performance. They feel that her com­ ithoiit palaces, Ming Tombs and Great Wall Chung, too, although one senses that plete public acceptance of this event, ;ks oli —we are continually impressed with she’s not absolutely wild about work­ with her picture surrounded by the is no the friendliness and warmth, the cour­ ing in the fields. orchestra appearing on the front page ìoking tesy of these people. The Great Wall The food is delicious, but if one is of the largest newspaper the following t 7:40 looks like a huge, prehistoric spinal squeamish one doesn’t inquire too day, may well signify the beginning column, winding over the tops of the closely about the ingredients in any of the end of this phase of the cul­ that hills, and these Chinese mountains dish. For everything is used. At our tural revolution. At first appearance »re re- look exactly the way they do in every . opening banquet, we go from course before the start of the concert, she aris-j Chinese painting one has ever seen. to course eating every bit of the Peking seems slightly intimidating and aus­ about Trees line every road, large and small, duck, feet and all, in various forms. tere, but she proves to be most gra­ mined ui the city and in the countryside, And at a luncheon at the summer cious. When I comment to her on the »ssible hundreds of thousands of new trees. palace, I am served the head of a wonderful things that are being done S o o i Frank Tenney, our chief of cultural chicken, cooked but intact. Sea slugs, in her country, she replies, “Yes, we n OU-'r relations in East Asia, who was last a rather slimy, grayish mess, prove have done wonderful things, but we wned here in 1947, can’t believe it. H e says to be the only dish during our entire have so very much more to do. And auto] this was all barren plain. Now it is visit that I dislike. Our breakfasts are we need your criticism and your sug­ l Chi extensively irrigated and every field is always western style with canned juice, gestions.” n in under cultivation. And all these trees excellent and very hot eggs and bacon, Each day the hotel blackboard an­ hung hold the water, keep down the dust toast, and always some sweet like nounces the suggested itinerary for niverj from the Gobi Desert and the winds chocolate layer cake, obviously planned that day. We are never under any fessoli from Mongolia. Birds? There aren’t in our honor. For drink there is al­ compulsion to go on these excursions, las >1 Frank says there haven’t been ways, always, always, on every occa­ and are free to wander around the ar-oldj in centuries, and DDT did the sion, beer and orange soda. It so hap­ cities at will. But each new visit I hufrj rest- It is no longer being used, and pens that I don’t care for either, but proves so stimulating that I don’t wen! ^ fertilizers are organic. one of the musicians suggests combin­ I want to miss a thing. On our next to We ask Chung about boy-girl rela- ing them and it works, although it last day in Shanghai, we can shop or

iSSUij jANUARY, 1974 11 visit a hospital or go to a factory may a man in this society. Discipli­ and early bed. That early rising-early workers’ residential area. Having al­ nary action is apparently done by bedtime seems to be common here, ready tried acupuncture when a Chi­ one’s peers, through residential or Both he and his wife feel, as do the nese doctor was demonstrating it at communal committees, and I think others of this age, that they have their the Summer Palace (and I can vouch this could be powerful medicine. place still in the scheme of things, and for the fact that that long needle isn’t There are hospitals in these areas that they are useful citizens. That is even felt when it’s inserted!), I with many clinics under them, and one thing that really gets to you on elect to see the residential area. each area has a cultural center with this trip: Every job is considered; This particular area houses 70,000 a movie theater (mostly North Ko­ equally important, and every person* people, most of whose working force rean and North Vietnamese films) plays his part in serving the people. is employed in the surrounding textile and, as far as I can see, the lone tele­ One could go on and on about the factory. It is the first of such areas vision set. many experiences of our all-too-short built in Shanghai, and there have been Kati Marton (TV journalist), her stay in China, and, of course, we 70 constructed since then with more cameraman, and I visit the home of a learned only the tiniest bit of all there going up all of the time. The buildings delightful couple— a man 62, just re­ is to know. Seeing the places about are quite attractive— two stories, brick, tired, and his wife 61 and their daugh­ which one has studied, walking on the surrounded by trees. We are greeted ter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. fabulous Great W all— that was all by the usual throngs of smiling, We walk up clean stairs and into their thrilling. But what W oody and I have; happy-looking people, clapping as we two immaculate rooms, small by been left with is so much more. Ad­ clap back. We first visit the day care American standards, each containing mittedly the internal situation before centers, for all the mothers work. An a double bed, several chests of drawers, Liberation was so bad for 80 per cent infant may accompany the mother to a table about cardtable size, and two of the people that only improvement the factory nursery where she has two straight chairs. I see no sign of a closet could result from any changes. But to hours during the day to feed and care in the apartment, and their personal spend even so short a time with a for her baby. From ages two through possessions all probably fit easily into people who show such unity of pur­ six the young are deposited at these the drawer space. There is an indoor pose, who are so hard working, have day care centers at 7 o’clock. Each toilet, but no wash basin. The kitchen such high moral standards, are so small room is in charge of three, is shared by four families, and each has completely honest, who have licked mostly young, women who are ob­ a two-bumer gas stove and a wok, and the problems of famine, drugs, and viously dispensing lots of tender lov­ two laundry tubs are also shared. disease which had plagued them over ing care to their small charges. The Our host has just retired—men may the centuries, and who are obviously children are as brightly clothed as the at 60, women at 50, on 75 per cent happy and so friendly to their fellow adults dully, and they look happy and of their pre-retirement pay—and he man—well, it leaves one with an un­ healthy and clean. They demonstrate is obviously counting his many bless­ forgettable impression of what it is their games and dances for us, and ings. For, as he tells us, he never possible for mankind to accomplish. the emphasis is all on helpfulness to owned any furniture before Liberation, Certainly excesses happened during the other fellow and on friendliness. and he and his wife were illiterate. the revolutions, and individuals do The national theme, “ Friendship first, Now he has all this—pointing with not have much freedom, but we look competition next” is stressed in every­ obvious pride to his few possessions. at the way we manage to abuse our thing they do— really quite beautiful He and his wife can read and write, freedom in our affluent U.S. society to see. Songs are entitled, “We are all and they are putting money in the and we wonder. Somehow there must Mao’s children,” “Chairman Mao says bank for travel to Peking and Hang­ be a way to apply to our own society we must make our bodies strong to be chow. His salary had been about $30 some of the good things we saw being better able to serve the people,” and monthly, but he pays only 4 yuan accomplished in China! “I dreamed I went to Peking to see (roughly $2) monthly for this apart­ Chairman Mao.” And even the adults ment. quote him with reverence. His day goes something like this: We visit one of the textile factories up at 5 A.M. and to the park to exer­ in this area and see the women work­ cise, to market (we see no sign of any ing side by side with the men on refrigeration), then to talk to the heavy machinery. In the army, in the children about conditions before Liber­ fields and factories, women do the ation; next comes breakfast and then same job as men and receive equal pay a political education meeting and vari­ for equal jobs. A woman may not ous chores in the community, lunch, a change her job at will, but neither long nap, free afternoon, early supper,

12 Scenes as the Philadelphia Orchestra toured China: counterclockwise, Barbara Bond and orchestra members sightsee in Peking’s Forbidden City; Music Director Eugene Ormandy and Barbara Bond chat with Hsu Tsing-Sheng, vice- chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanghai; Ormandy with Mme. Mao Tse Tung following a concert; Chinese pianist Yin Cheng Chung is congratulated by Maestro Ormandy after his performance of The Yellow River Concerto with the Orchestra. All right, To Yanks, Last spring semester I had the sopho­ in a canoe they are dangerous. Skea more blues. The freshness of Swarth- w here are Our adventures started before the asser more had worn off with the ordeal of kayak even touched water. The head-| rami first semester finals, and it seemed a you really mistress of a private school in Seattle the s desolately long stretch until gradua­ had heard about our proposed trip our ; tion. Just the thought of spending the and decided we should be stopped for ence next few years in McCabe Library going?” our own good. Mutual friends in- drinl made me restless, and it got to the formed us she was considering asking week point where the only reason I would the Washington Kayak Club to peti-| drow go to the library was to pore over the tion for a court injunction to enjoin Sh atlases. By Cabot Christianson ’75 us from attempting the trip. (She hadi we s Mike Northrop ’74 was looking for tried this tactic two years before when hensi an adventure too, so after discarding to do the trip. A Klepper is a sleek she heard a man planned to kayak J Club several harebrained schemes we collapsible kayak, faster and immeas­ alone across the Pacific Ocean. The- with thought about kayaking along the urably more seaworthy than a canoe, court denied the injunction, and the men coast from Seattle to my home in although space is cramped. When as­ kayak was found empty and over- tance Sitka, Alaska. A friend of mine in sembled, our kayak Savoir Faire was turned 24 hours later. Our trip wah chart Sitka had done it in 1932 in a canoe 17 feet long and weighed 65 pounds. nothing so foolhardy, but she still boat? and had written an article in the Even with 200 pounds of additional thought we wouldn’t make it.) Accord- and ( National Geographic. That was enough gear we averaged 25 miles per day. ingly, we prepared to put the boat in i Fo: to make the trip seem plausible, and Not only would we have been unable the water immediately. kdnj in short time we dared each other into to make such speed in a canoe, but a And so on June 1, equipped with belie\ it (although being a Minnesota farmer canoe would have been unable to sleeping bags, food, an infinite supply and r Mike had seen salt water only twice travel in some of the rough weather of plastic bags to keep things dry, 31 wj in his life and had never seen a kayak). the kayak easily handled. In a kayak, cubic foot of charts, and a letter ofj weatl We chose a two-man Klepper kayak 3-foot waves are exhilarating; whereas character recommendation from Deanj exam

14 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISS^5 To quell the sophomore blues, two students kayak 1,000 miles from Seattle to Sitka in forty days

Skeath [J. Edward Skeath ’58] we ashore on a sand bar extending four of people we met was for us the most the assembled the kayak on a launching miles off Vancouver). Our first adven­ rewarding aspect of the entire trip. iead- ramp, loaded the Savoir Faire, snapped tures included being stopped by the Fishermen, lighthouse keepers, and attle the spray cover around us, and began Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft various wanderers kept an eye out for trip our 1000-mile voyage. Our only audi­ (“You’re going to Alaska, are you? us: They were magnificent friends. I fori ence was a group of bemused beer All right, Yanks, where are you really Rejuvenated after the welcome day in- drinkers who warned us that only two going?” ) and camping out on the lawn of rest, we set off and soon arrived at -kin? weeks ago some local boys had of what turned out to be singer Joni the Yuculta Rapids. The Yuculta peti- drowned. Mitchell’s house (she wasn’t home). Rapids are the most treacherous ljofj Shivering in spite of the warm sun, The seas were amazingly calm. In waters on the north Pacific Coast, had we set off. W ho wouldn’t be appre­ five days we had seen whitecaps only where the tides meet that come from vhenj hensive with the Washington Kayak once, and we wondered if perhaps we both ends of Vancouver Island. The ayat | Club believing we wouldn’t make it, had wandered accidentally into a large 20-foot tidal range causes huge whirl­ The- with fishermen and experienced sea­ lagoon. Our fears were allayed on the pools to form, whirlpools large enough the son skeptical, and with such a dis- sixth day, though, when a storm hit to suck 70-foot commercial boats un­ )ver- t^ce to go that our 20 pounds of us in Lang Bay and forced us ashore der. Logs and other debris also get was charts took up half the stem of the all day for the only time of the entire sucked under and subsequently shoot still boat? My mother was beside herself, 40-day voyage. A semi-retired car­ upward through the water and into :ord- even my father was uneasy. penter living nearby exhibited hospi­ the air once they break loose from it in For five days we roasted in a blis- tality typical of that which we en­ the downward force of the whirlpool. fering sun on a glassy sea. W e couldn’t countered during the entire trip and Thus a log can at any time shoot with believe we were in the usually cold invited us into his house to dry out. randomly through the surface like a ppiy rainy Pacific Northwest, although Whenever we needed help, and often rocket from a submarine. In addition, y>a ^ Was just as well to have good when we didn’t, people offered us a the shape of the ocean bottom causes ¡r of ( leather to make our mistakes in (for spare room and a meal in their cabin the water to “boil,” as if a giant with )eaH| example, with our 3-inch draft we ran or boat. The openness and generosity swimming flippers were under water 3SUÍ JANUARY, 1974 15 and kicking with his toes pointed up­ vaguely of the one at the beginning of Bell ward. The trouble with boils is that the TV show “Hawaii Five-0.” Mike’s (wh they can take control of one’s boat exuberant “Yahooo!” changed abrupt­ wife and throw it against rocks or other ly to an “Oh my God!” when to our and one obstructions. horror the kayak was thrown -side and We asked a passing fisherman for ways like a skidding car on ice and advice on how to get through the we found ourselves broadside to the B: regu Rapids. He gave us plenty of advice waves at the bottom of the trough, 8:30 and in addition imparted some local The freezing water frothed around our and history. Several years ago three women waists, and without even looking up to read reporters from Time/Life had hired a see the wave we knew would be on us, padc man from Seattle to guide them on a we let go of all the sheets and bent ever trip from Vancouver to Prince Rupert over the kayak, bracing ourselves for butt in a Polynesian dugout canoe. Appar­ the impact. Split seconds later we day ently in an attempt to get some good were engulfed by paralyzing green ever pictures they decided to shoot the water that forced the boat completely knev Rapids at full current. The dugout under again and swirled around our on a capsized, and only one woman sur­ shoulders. Once the wave passed we good vived. bobbed to the surface like a cork, our We swallowed hard, thanked him mildly surprised that we were still 7 W( for his advice, and shot the Rapids a alive. Motivated by the inspiring forcei for £ few hours later at slack tide. As it of urgent necessity, we turned the or tv turned out the tidal change was only kayak 90° and made it to shore in a boat, three feet, which meant that the few short minutes. Once ashore we pean Rapids were calmer than on practically hugged each other, cried, laughed, and our any other day “of the year. Even so, stomped our feet to feel the good solid sleep the two-mile passage was spirited, and ground. ness we saw two-foot whirlpools every­ Later, we decided that it was the Pr where (also, the water temperature only time of the entire trip when we we’d dropped from 54° to 40°). felt we or our equipment was in any the i Part of the optional equipment on significant danger, and had to admit also our slender kayak was a cleverly-de­ it was due entirely to our own stu­ 1,OOC signed sailing rig, and once we were pidity. In fact we decided that sailing resto in Johnstone Strait we decided to try the kayak anytime was foolhardy Dixo: it out although neither of us was a since whenever the wind was strong rougl enough to be worth sailing in, the sailor. Before the trip we bought a trip. waves were so large that it was too “how to sail” booklet but never got Th around to reading it, figuring that dangerous. The Coast Guard estimates was j people had been sailing for centuries a 15-minute survival time in those Th waters (30 minutes with a life jacket) without instruction booklets. The first stark if one falls overboard, and with two few attempts were quite successful. or th people unable to hike out over the We enjoyed the change of pace and into side, and 200 pounds of equipment, made good time. Emboldened by our six fe we sailed only about 20 miles of the good luck we set sail one afternoon Keep entire 1000-mile journey. when the weather was somewhat in ef There are two unprotected stretches, gustier than before. The waves were eight of water between Seattle and Sitka: large, about four feet high, and we head. Queen Charlotte Sound and Dixon sailed up them and surfed/sailed No Entrance. Queen Charlotte was easy, down them. Of course by the time we fun a mainly because we accepted a 50-mik hit the trough of the wave we were Wash going pretty fast and would plow hitch across it on the beautiful Evej exhilj ning Star, a passing pleasure cruiser underwater, but the kayak is designed ured In a way we hated to do it, but we for that and is almost as stable under The were wet, cold, and stale at the time, water as it is on top of the water. kayal and the wonderful clam ch ow der of We were moving right along, making the w excellent time and enjoying ourselves Peggy Dole erased any misgivings are ri might have had. tremendously when we surfed down an uiake unusually large wave that reminded us We continued on through Namuj jANtL! 16 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISSUEJ Bella Bella, Pointer Island lighthouse ng of (where we met the lighthouse keeper’s [ike’s nipt- wife, a 23rd cousin of Queen Elizabeth and a direct descendant of Balthazar, ) our one of the Three Wise M en), Klemtu, ■side and on toward Prince Rupert. and By this time we had established a > the regular daily routine. We woke up at >ugh 8:30 or 9, made breakfast, broke camp, 1 our and packed the kayak so that we were i p to ready to go by 10:30 _or 11. W e n us, paddled all day, stopping ashore bent every so often for a snack of peanut s for butter or chocolate candy. During the * we day we told* each other stories, sang freen every song or song fragment that we stely knew, daydreamed, and tried to stay our on a constant course. We also spent a i we good deal of energy trying,to make cx>rk, * A ■*" nijTi our seats comfortable. Around 6 or still After landing the kayak (lower left) at 6, the adventurers made dinner, stretched 7 we started looking along the shore their legs, and crawled into their sleeping bags about 11 when darkness fell. force i for a good campsite. Within an hour the or two we would find a spot, land the in a boat, make a dinner of anything from So on we went. The conditions were It turned out that 26 of the middle ; we peanut butter to beef stroganoff, stretch perfect for surfing and we sped down 29 days of the trip were all or partly and our legs, and then crawl into our the waves so fast at times that I, in rain. (Rain is a fact of life in the Pa­ solid sleeping bags around 11 when dark­ the bow, simply stopped paddling and cific Northwest. Ketchikan averages ness fell. bent forward because no matter how 155 inches per year and occasionally the Prince Rupert was the fourth town fast I moved my arms I couldn’t keep makes the annual list of the ten rain­ i we we’d hit in '500 miles of traveling and up with the boat. Paddling at top iest spots in the world.) Fortunately, any speed, I was only acting as a brake. by the time we left Ketchikan we were dmit the first that was accessible by road, also the first with a population of over By this time the waves were aver­ experienced in the art of camping in stu- 1,000. We rested in Prince Rupert and aging eight feet, and one 12-footer had the rain, because we ran into the worst iling restocked in preparation for crossing passed (there’s a lot of water in 12 weather of the trip. Our cooking stove ardy feet). We had developed a rule of had conked out weeks ago, and since rong [ Dixon Entrance, reputed to be the thumb that waves were “big” if they it wasn’t worth the trouble to build the roughest stretch of water for the whole trip. blocked out the horizon at the moment a fire in the continual deluge, we went , too we were in the trough. This 12-foot four days without a fire of any sort íates The first day across Dixon Entrance and without a letup in the rain. This hose was glassy smooth. wave was so big it blocked out a 3000- foot mountain that was a mere three was no falling mist: This was a four- :ket) The second day wasn’t. As we miles away, and it was by far the larg­ day torrential downpour. With no fire, two started out the waves were only two we ate a lot of cold canned stews and the or three feet high but once we got est wave of the trip. peanut butter. lent, mto them they quickly increased to We were in the middle of a full gale : the six feet with an occasional eight-footer. on Dixon Entrance and no other boat Under such conditions there are Keep in mind that in a kayak one is, of any description was on the water. exactly two places where one can be effect, sitting on the water, so an ;ches 111 Twenty-one miles and three hours comfortable. The first is the kayak itka: eignt-foot wave is five feet above one’s later we decided we’d had enough and itself where the body heat from pad­ head. rixon let the waves throw us up on shore. dling was enough to warm the numb­ Now, we were doing the trip for 3asy, Fortunately they threw us onto a 20- ing cold water to the temperature of fun and adventure, not just to get from •mile foot-wide sandy beach nestled among tepid bathwater. We affectionately Washington to Alaska. We wanted the Em several miles of craggy, rocky coast. named this phenomenon the “wetsuit riser exhilaration of competing with meas­ We crawled into the welcome warmth effect.” The second comfortable place ured skill against measured danger. t we of our down sleeping bags and stayed was our down sleeping bags, which we time, The excitement and adventure in a in them for 14 hours until the storm wrapped in 3 or 4 layers of plastic ?r oí ^yak increases with the roughness of passed. The next morning all was calm bags during the day to keep them dry. ¡s we fhe water, and if the skill and danger and we paddled down Revillagigedo No matter how miserable a day might are reasonably balanced, their degree Channel and into Ketchikan late that have been, it didn’t seem so bad if we lilakes little odds. evening. amui (continued on page 49) ^UAEY, 1974 sstfl 17 18 Is

Thi the mo] THE COLLEGE No’ Grant Initiates Course Obs tele in Jewish Thought den cilii A grant of $2500 from the Beatrice F F Stone Memorial Fund, through the and Federation Foundation of Greater of t added, “This award will help with re­ Swarthmore Awarded Kenan Philadelphia, has helped initiate a The search that I’ve been engaged in now Professorship; Helen North, new course in the Religion Depart­ thre for several years which the College al­ ment, “History of Jewish Thought: Cur Classics Department Chairman, ready has supported very generously. Philo through Gersonides,” taught by fess Named to New Chair Since my work involves a great deal Rabbi David Wolf Silverman in the at Ì of traveling to visit libraries and spring semester of 1972-73. This year 188' archaeological sites in the Greek and Swarthmore College has been awarded one other new course in this field is lishi Roman world, it will be especially a William R. Kenan, Jr., Professorship being taught at Swarthmore: “The tele: welcome.” through a $750,000 endowment from Torah and Its Commentators” by men An authority on classical Greek lit­ the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Rabbi Ivan Caine. The erature and thought, Professor North Trust of New York City. Helen F. Interests among Swarthmore stu­ by i has been chairman of the Classics De­ North, Centennial Professor and chair­ dents relate to the national trend to­ mah partment at Swarthmore since 1959. man of the Classics Department at the ward ethnic studies. While the Black 1 port She received her undergraduate and College, will fill this new chair. Studies program is fairly well estab­ facti graduate degrees from Cornell Univer­ lished and women’s study is generally In accepting the grant from the Con sity and has also taught at Rosary limited to isolated courses, there is a Kenan chair trustees, President Theo­ orig College, Barnard, Cornell, and LaSalle. recent increased push toward Jewish dore Friend said, “The award honors the The Trust, which has endowed sev­ studies. For the first time, comple­ the college profoundly . . . nothing grap eral Kenan chairs at other educational mentary courses which may be taken could give me truer satisfaction in my and institutions, including the University at Bryn Mawr and Haverford are' new duties than the generous support with of Pennsylvania and the University of listed, including elementary and sec­ of the Kenan Trust, whose ideals so the North Carolina, derives from the estate ond-year Hebrew, history and litera­ splendidly coincide with ours.” A of William Rand Kenan, Jr., co-dis­ ture of Judaism, and readings in rab­ migl Ms. North, who has been teaching coverer of calcium carbide and its binic literature. “ Shalom,” the Jewish erati at Swarthmore for 25 years, has won derivative, acetylene gas. For more students organization, has become in­ the numerous awards and grants for her than 40 years he served as president creasingly active at Swarthmore dur­ Nor; scholarship and teaching. Most recent­ and part owner of the Flagler System ing the past two years. ly a recipient of a grant-in-aid from companies, a group of railroads, hotels, Swarthmore students have been able the American Council of Learned and utilities. for many years to take courses at Societies to examine Plato’s influence A substantial contributor to educa­ Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and the Uni­ in Byzantine rhetoric and literary crit­ tional institutions during his later versity of Pennsylvania. This year icism, she has previously won Ford, years, he was particularly interested in added to the formal programs of study1 Fulbright, Guggenheim, Danforth, and the quality of teaching. He made for­ at Pomona College, the University of A.A.U.W . research grants. In 1969 she mal provision for continuing this sup­ Grenoble, and the University of the was awarded both a national Harbison port after his death by providing for West Indies are three new exchange Prize for unusual accomplishments in the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable programs with Middlebury College, I college teaching and the Charles J. Trust and setting its goals with this Rice University, and Tufts University- Goodwin Award of Merit from the statement in his last will: “I have Students also are free to conduct American Philological Association for always believed firmly that a good their own student-run courses ® her book, Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge education is the most cherished gift Swarthmore, usually without academic and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature. an individual can receive and it is my credit. Another non-credit course Is In speaking of the new chair, Pro­ sincere hope that the provisions of the “Practical Horticulture,” offered on fessor North paid tribute to both the Article will result in a substantial campus by the Arthur Hoyt Scott Kenan Trust and College officials and benefit to mankind.” Horticultural Foundation.

18 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISS$ JANU. 1880's 6-inch Telescope S. Worth who studied under Miss Is Back in Business Cunningham and was an amateur astronomer. Then came C. Brooke The six-inch refracting telescope of Worth ’31, her son. Many are the the original observatory of Swarth- times he went at four in the morning more College is back in active use. with his roommate, Raymond H. Wil­ Now located on the roof of the Sproul son ’31, to observe eclipses of Jupi­ Observatory library, the 86-year-old ter’s moons or other phenomena with telescope is used once again for stu­ the six-inch. Ray Wilson became a dent instruction, and to widen the fa­ professional astronomer. The third cilities on Visitors’ Nights. generation is Michael D. Worth of For those who do not remember, the Sproul Observatory staff. He used and for those who do, a short history the six-inch when it was at Cunning­ of the instrument may be of interest. ham House and more recently in its The six-inch telescope was acquired present location to search for Comet through the efforts of Dr. Susan J. Kohoutek. Cunningham, Hon. ’88, the first pro­ In 1911 the Sproul 24-inch refract­ fessor of mathematics and astronomy ing telescope was installed, a gift of Power Lab Relegated to at Swarthmore from 1869 to 1906. In William Cameron Sproul, Swarthmore Museum or Scrap Pile 1887 a small obseiyatory was estab­ alumnus 1891, of Chester— who later lished on campus with the six-inch became governor of Pennsylvania. The The Electric Power Lab that filled telescope serving as the main instru­ old observatory continued to be used most of the second floor of Hicks Hall ment for instruction and enjoyment. by students and for instruction pri­ has been dismantled and the parts The optical components were made marily with John H. Pitman’s classes. either sold for scrap or donated to the by Alvan Clark and Sons, famous lens Dr. Pitman was a 1910 graduate of Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. makers the world over, in Cambridge- Swarthmore. Dr. Bernard Morrill, a mechanical port, Mass.; the mounting was manu­ When the Sproul Observatory li­ engineer and former chairman of the factured by the Warner and Swasey brary addition was completed in 1964, Engineering Department, arranged the Company „of Cleveland, Ohio. The provision was made eventually to dispersion. “The power lab,” he said, original observatory included not only mount the six-inch telescope on its “was no longer useful from the stand­ the six-inch, but a nine-inch astro- roof. In 1970, when the Arthur Hoyt points of both engineering practice graphic telescope, a transit instrument, Scott Horticultural Foundation took and pedagogy. Not only have science and a seismograph. The observatory up residence in the old observatory, and technology outrun the lab since with attached residence is known as the six-inch telescope was dismantled the construction of Hicks Hall in 1921, the Cunningham House. and stored in the Sproul Observatory. but the required sessions with the A personal genealogical footnote In 1972, Dr. Arne Wyller, a former power lab have been replaced by an might be mentioned here. Three gen­ Sproul Observatory staff member and optional course in power conversion, erations of Worths have enjoyed using later at the Bartol Research Founda­ which doesn’t take up the whole of the six-inch refractor. The first was tion, assembled the six-inch on the the second floor.” Nora Stabler ’03, later Mrs. George roof of Bartol to determine the view­ He pointed out that the lab was ing quality, preparatory to the instal­ built at a time when there were far lation of a 24-inch reflecting telescope more engineers to accommodate; be­ for solar research. Last summer, 1973, fore 1917, fully half of the men the six-inch was returned to the Sproul students at Swarthmore were engineer­ Observatory and mounted on the li­ ing majors. brary roof to serve again for student The Franklin Institute took its pick instruction and also for Visitors’ of the older devices, which were prac­ Nights. There is also an eight-inch tically antiques (some go back to Cassegrain reflecting telescope, a gift 1880). They took one large and three from Armstrong Thomas, an alumnus small electric motors which will be set who received an M.A. from Swarth­ up in a display on energy. It took five more in 1942. This telescope is also months to arrange a sale for the re­ used on Visitors’ Nights. These nights mainder, whose main scrap value lay are held on the second Tuesday of in the copper. every month during the school year, There are no definite plans for the October through May. large vacancy in Hicks Hall, though the 50-year-old building is due for a By Michael D. Worth general renovation.

^NUARY, 1974 19 Alumni College: Wasn't a similar bundle gave a thoughtful presentation of the Limits to Growth controversy that has what four years at Swarthmore were all about? developed since publication in 1972 of the book by that name sponsored Thursday night, all day Friday, and One woman was lucky to have a by a group calling itself The Club, of through lunch on Saturday. It was daughter now at Swarthmore, and she Rome. Briefly, the book states that just time enough to be a booster shot stayed in her room in Parrish. But the way things are going there will be of Swarthmore to alumni who had most alumni had to drive to motels, an “overshoot and collapse” of our gone off in 61 different directions which was unfortunate. On my walk productivity, population, food produc­ since the year each had graduated. up to breakfast, memories of struggling tion, in short, of our civilization, un­ I think it was symbolic that, com­ to make 8 o’clock classes made this less we make drastic changes. Drastic ing by car, we had so much trouble 9 A.M. starting time feel psychologi­ changes (the oil and energy crises finding the place. My husband kept cally earlier. Sharpies Dining Hall is and resulting changes in attitudes) teasing me as we kept crossing the brilliantly located below the glacial are in the headlines as I write. Baltimore Pike and Swarthmore Ave­ morain, once the last painful hump on Many scientists are concerned about nue again and again. But I teased the trip up to breakfast in Parrish. the moral and ethical aspects of what him back that Swarthmore was not they do, the impact of their scientific like Princeton, where he went and activities on the world as a whole. where we both recently attended But they don’t know how to find the alumni college. The Princeton campus answers to these vital questions. Simi­ can be seen for many miles around, larly, in the afternoon we were given and the attitude of the professors in­ an overview of the power sources tech­ volved in the alumni seminars could nology has made available to us, but be summed up as, “We are important who should decide what costs are and brilliant, and you are lucky to worth paying, and who should pay be here listening.” them? Vincent Boyer ’39, vice presi­ The University of Pennsylvania is dent of the Philadelphia Electric Com­ such a large school that, while you pany, mentioned that anybody who can’t lose it, few attending alumni questions, for any reason, the activi­ college there knew each other from ties of his company is called an “in­ before. For most, it was a series of tervener.” I felt that, although it was lectures available to them almost in interesting and helpful to find out the same way that many fine lectures what the scientific community was are available in a major city. doing, the important questions were By contrast, the Swarthmore atti­ being thrown back into the laps of the tude, reflected in the physical plant, nonscientists. So I sat in on the Plato the professors, the wonderfully open lectures. students I spoke to and the alumni, Since 1974 is the 2400th anniver­ was, “ Here we are, and within the sary of the birth of Plato, there has rules of the academic game, let’s ex­ been enough time to see the influence plore.” he has had on world development. An The Rod Rodgers Dance Troupe interdisciplinary staff explored Plato performed in Clothier Thursday night. and Political Theory, Plato and Reli­ They were experimental and very gion, and Plato and the Arts. I en­ good. The bottom of the program said joyed a sense of homecoming to hear the audience was invited to a recep­ the carefully researched and thor­ tion at the Black Cultural Center Over breakfast a lovely freshman oughly intelligent presentations of ma­ after the show. Well, there wasn’t any said she was taking courses called terial I had studied at Swarthmore. such place in 1957, so I followed “Village Myths” and “African His­ I became painfully aware of how everybody else. By twos and threes, tory” and wondered if she could at­ rarely I’ve found careful research and everybody started going into the dorm tend our alumni classes. I thought it intelligent presentations since. I lived in during my senior year! Rob­ would be fun to attend her classes, A fascinating, newly-uncovered aca­ inson House looked terrific with low but then I’d even had trouble deciding demic direction was frequently men­ lights, loud music, and a lot of rock between the two tracks offered alumni. tioned: the existence of a western dancing going on. I was signed up for “Technology esoteric tradition, with secret societies, We slept at the Wildman Arms, and Society,” my husband for “Plato.” that Platonists and the sixteenth-cen­ on the site of the old Strath Haven Inn, Professor Jay Anderson ’60, pro­ tury Neo-Platonists were deeply in­ between Mary Lyon and the Preps. fessor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr, volved with.

20 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISSUE How can I tie together all the loose Resources of Friends Historical ends of impressions, ideas, experiences and quests that these two days pro­ Library Serve Students, vided? Wasn’t a similar bundle what Historians, and Genealogists; four years at Swarthmore were really all about? But most people hope that Acquisitions Enrich Collection Swarthmore is a useful preparation The Friends Historical Library con­ Cataloging has been accomplished for for their future. How can all this help tinues to be used by large numbers hundreds of books while others have us now and tomorrow? of persons both from the Philadelphia been received and are still in process Swarthmore gathers and encourages area and from more distant places, of being cataloged. The staff scans open-minded, intelligent,- thoughtful according to a report by recently- catalogs of publishers in the United people who like to explore. It provides retired Acting Director John M. States and Great Britain in an attempt them with a variety of energizing Moore. Undergraduates from Swarth­ to obtain all new books dealing with stimuli. Its scientists, who by the more and neighboring institutions Quakerism and relevant subjects by nature of their work must concern seek material for their term papers; Quaker authors, and tries to fill exist­ themselves with the future, ask for students from other colleges and uni­ ing gaps in the collection as older ethical direction from the nonscien­ versities come during Christmas holi­ books become available, either by gift tists. The nonscientists have superb days or other vacation periods or to or purchase. Occasionally a significant skills in gathering the lessons of the make use of a mid-winter break. For record turns up quite unexpectedly, past. The utility executive becomes so example, a young woman from Ober- as when a Friend from Ohio brought accustomed to working with people lin spent two weeks reading in the in a record book containing the Min­ within his specialty that someone who early history of Quakerism. A young utes of Virginia Yearly Meeting, 1738 offers another viewpoint gets tagged man from a west coast college investi­ to 1758, which had been carried to “an intervener.” If a business, or gated Quakerism in Hawaii and Ohio by her pioneering great-grand­ governmental body, or scientific re­ another from St. Lawrence University father many years ago. search team needs specialized infor­ worked on Quaker settlements in Almost all yearly meetings through­ mation, it now consults an “expert” northern New York. out the world send their Proceedings or “resource person.” But what about The library is used also by graduate to the library, and annual reports are getting people from different view­ students doing research for advanced received from many Friends organiza­ points together right from the begin­ degrees and by mature scholars doing tions in this country and abroad. ning and continuing together all the research for books and articles. Topics way through? Shouldn’t an environ­ of research vary widely since the mentalist and a consumer be members library collects materials relating to Auto Accident Takes of the decision-making directorate of areas in which substantial numbers of Professor Emeritus Philadelphia Electric? Couldn’t the Friends lived and on subjects where research team that developed Limits Quakers have often shown concern Elizabeth Cox Wright to Growth have benefited from the par­ such as Indian rights, abolition, Elizabeth Cox Wright, professor emeri­ ticipation of a Platonist? Look how utopias, feminism, and prisons. Some­ well students on the decision-making tus of English, died November 10 in times individual Friends or other boards of schools have worked out. In a Wilmington hospital following an persons come to investigate the history the book publishing company where automobile accident in which she and of a particular meeting or Quakerism her husband Edward N. were involved I work, five of us contribute on a non- in a particular locality. A writer on the in Kennett Square. They had recently hierarchical basis of equality, as a Revolutionary War investigated the moved to Kendal at Longwood. team, each responsible for an area of use of meeting houses as hospitals af­ what needs to be done but making the ter the Battle of the Brandywine and Mrs. Wright joined the Swarthmore overall decisions jointly. other engagements. There is a steady faculty as a part-time instructor in The seminar system at its best, the call for assistance from genealogists 1930 and became full-time in 1932. Quaker “sense of the meeting” deci­ and other individuals interested in She became a full professor in 1951 sion process—how about up-dating family research. The resources of the and retired in 1964. these techniques from Swarthmore’s William Wade Hinshaw Index to She was a graduate of Wellesley tradition and applying them to, not Quaker Meeting Records and the College and received her M.A. and just Alumni College, but all the thorny records themselves which are available Ph.D. degrees from the University of situations/opportunities that we face? either in their original form or on Pennsylvania. She was the author “The questioner is part of the ques- microfilm provide information which of the book, Metaphor, Sound, and hon,” said one of the lecturers in the is utilized constantly. Meaning in Bridge's Testament of Plato track. Suppose the process of The Friends Historical Library has Beauty. finding the answer is the answer. made many significant acquisitions to Edward Wright survived the acci­ By Ruth Ellenbogen Flaxman ’57 its collections during the past year. dent with no serious injury.

January, 1974 21 Extern Program: "If I had raphy, to social work, architecture, thing, in order to eat.” q^, educational TV, advertising, ecology, had such an opportunity, Said an alumnus sponsor: “It’s a mer and educational sociology. good idea. Since my field tends to beI stuc I might well have chosen Evaluation of the current year’s pro­ romanticized in the lay mind, it’s es- con; gram brought the following comments: some other profession" pecially important to give students acti Said one student extern: “Keep the such exposure.” And another: “If I had Ma program going . . . It’s great to find had such an opportunity I might well “coi Came spring vacation last March and you’re in a totally correct field or have chosen some other profession.” mat 62 Swarthmore juniors and sopho­ vice versa before necessity strikes and Now the Extern Program is headed nan; mores fanned out over the country for you’re forced to find something, any­ for its third year. On campus, the in v the 1973 Extern Program. “Response passed expectation,” says If spor Judith K. Katz, director of the Office pagi of Career Counseling and Placement. ^ I should like to be considered as a sponsor for the Extern Program in March, 1974. Alui “We hoped for 50 applicants, got ^ slightly more than 100, and ended up 3 Name Class with 62 placements in places as far ”5 afield as Los Angeles, Boston, Louis- ^ Home address. "A ville, Cleveland, Chicago, and even ^ Occupation___ Lisi DeKalb, Illinois.” Most placements, “U however, were concentrated in the ^ Business address Gra< Boston to Washington, D.C., corridor. thin Tel. The Extern Program got its start in obje 1972 when 16 Swarthmore juniors with £ tuni Type of experience that I could offer an extern (opportunity for questions about life after College spent © voca their week of spring vacation finding observation and/or application)______term answers as externs in the pilot pro- Q. 1 cons gram sponsored by the Swarthmore Oi scho Alumni Association and the Office of ^ incoi Could this be extended to summer employment? Yes No Career Counseling and Placement. ^ and They were paired off with sponsors c/5 Could this be extended to full-time employment for graduates? Yes No eral (mostly alumni) who worked in the »- Return to: Alumni Office, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081 A students’ respective fields of interest. firms Evaluation took place at the pro- QJ jobs gram’s conclusion and resulted in this rS “Y01 year’s successful program. Thirty-four mak< of the 1973 extems were women and Alumni and students plan to set up a “resource correspondence file” cr\ adap in the Office of Career Counseling and Placement. This file would pro­ 28, men. Thirty-three participants flS want were juniors and 29 were sophomores. QJ vide interested students with names and addresses of alumni working titlec Approximately 45 per cent were in or *- in the field of the students’ interests. Through correspondence with was ] applying for the Honors Program. c/j these alumni, students would have the opportunity to learn about nec­ the d The larger number of 1973 externs essary preparation for the field, occupational opportunities in it, and and permitted a wider range of interests possible contacts for job placement in various geographical areas. The (six of the 1972 group were interested a- bacci I am willing to be a resource person. in law) and sample placements ranged +-• Clarl from working with doctors and law- Qj Name Class Amei yers, to externing on Capitol Hill with C The Home address a congressman, to working in some ^ challi aspect of psychology, telecommunica- o Occupation. the a tions and cable TV, to simultaneous £ for qi translating at the U.N., to an overview O Business address work of editing-publishing at T V Guide, 5^ Th Kind of assistance I am able to provide.. Simon-Schuster, American Heritage, 3 ings ( Village Voice, and the Washington ©^ °f ini Star, to photojournalism at the Na- from tional Geographic, to some aspect of ■— fund Return to: Alumni Office, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081. international business and applied q cretio economics, to ceramics and photog- ^ Fund

22 SWARTHMORE ALUMNI ISSUE Office of Career Counseling and Place­ years on the Board before becoming ’s a ment under Judith Katz is reviewing emeritus. o be j student applications and preparing to She was active in the McKim Com­ 3 es- contact alumni who are interested in munity Organization of Baltimore and ents acting as sponsors for the week of served as president of that city’s had March 11 to 15. As in a modified Young Women’s Christian Associa­ well “computer dating game,” she will tion. Her memberships included the on.” match the sponsor with the career Alumni Physicians Respond following organizations: American ided named by the student and the locale Friends Service Committee, Friends the in which he has evinced interest. to Premeds' Call for Help General Conference, Friends World __ If you are interested in acting as a Committee, Womens International sponsor, please complete the form on As the result of a questionnaire sent to League for Peace and Freedom, Balti­ page 22, and return it promptly to the 201 alumni physicians, 120 have gone more Womens Civic League, National 11 Alumni Office.* on record as wanting to help Swarth- Audubon Society, and Federation of more premed students with informa­ Garden Clubs. Her collection of paper tion, contacts, and opportunities with­ weights was the nation’s second larg­ I "A Different Drummer" in their field. The questionnaire, com­ est. piled by Joann Bodurtha ’74 for the I Lists Social Action Careers Junior Premed Advisory Committee, was sent to Swarthmore graduates Graduates who are looking for some­ from the classes of 1945 to 1965 who thing besides money as the primary are practicing medicine on the east objective of their job may find oppor­ coast between Massachusetts and tunities available, in the alternative Maryland. vocations of sociaf action. A broad A large majority said they would term, social action includes ecology, be willing to have Swarthmore pre­ consumerism, peace, experimental meds write to them with questions schools, aid to minority and low- about the medical profession and par­ income groups, mental rehabilitation, ticularly their specialty, and would be Friends Library and drug counseling, as well as gen­ willing to return to campus to discuss Gets New Director eral community action. their work with premed students. A study by Dale Larrimore ’72 con­ In addition, many of the physicians J. William Frost, formerly an assis­ firms that in many cases social action felt they could possibly provide a job tant professor of history at Vassar jobs must be created, not just joined. or a medical “experience” for a stu­ College, has been appointed director You must look for these ways to dent during summer school, the school of the Friends Historical Library at make your life more meaningful and year, or as part of the Extern pro­ Swarthmore College. He succeeds adapt your own life to the work you gram. A smaller percentage was will­ Acting Director and Professor of want to do,” says his report, which is ing to refer Swarthmore premeds to Religion John Moore, who retired in titled “A Different Drummer,” and doctors they knew for similar jobs or June. was published (mimeographed) under “experiences.” Frost, also appointed an associate the direction of the Career Counseling Premed Advisor and Associate Dean professor of religion, is a member of Placement Office of the College. of Admissions Douglas C. Thompson the Society of Friends and took his The report was prompted by the 1972 ’62 terms the response “gratifying,” undergraduate degree at DePauw baccalaureate address of Bronson and says he hopes to have the pro­ University. After a year at the Yale Ctark, executive secretary of the gram in effect during the current aca­ Divinity School, he entered graduate American Friends Service Committee. demic year. work in American history with a The theme of his talk was that many minor in African studies at the Uni­ challenging careers are to be found in versity of Wisconsin, where he was the area of social action and the need Elisabeth Bartlett Dies awarded a doctorate in 1968. He held for qualified persons to undertake such a Wisconsin regents fellowship at the Work is steadily increasing. Elisabeth Hallowell Bartlett, alumna University of Wisconsin and subse­ The report includes extensive list- and emeritus member of the Board of quently a John Carter Brown post­ mgs °f organizations within the fields Managers of Swarthmore College, doctoral fellowship at Vassar College. °t interest. It was financed by grants died September 4 in Lutherville, Md., In addition to numerous articles on r°m the President’s Discretionary after a long illness. She was 83. Quakerism and Colonial American the Lee and Campe Deans Dis­ Miss Bartlett received her B.A. de­ history, he recently published a book cretionary Fund, and the Scheuer gree from Swarthmore in 1912, with titled The Quaker Family in Colonial Tund for Economics. a major in English, and served 21 America.

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of Buffalo, Youngstown, and Fort Erie,

Philip W. Brickner ’50, M.D., F.A.C.P, editor, Care of the Nursing Home Pa-\ tient, Macmillan, 1971. A textbook/ sourcebook for in-service educational pro­ grams for nurse’s aides, nursing assist­ ants, orderlies, and attendants dealing with all phases of care of the aged in nursing homes.

Jay Katz with A lexan der C apron ’66 and Eleanor Swift Glass, Experimenta­ tion with Human Beings, Russell Sage Foundation, 1972. This nearly-1200-page tome presents material organized around an analytical framework for a compre­ hensive and systematic exploration of the human experimentation process, Through case studies the volume explores the problems raised by human research and the attempts that have been made | to resolve them.

B arry M. C asper ’60 and Richard J. Noer, Revolutions in Physics, W. W. Norton, 1972. While teaching introduc­ tory physics to non-science students, the | We welcome review copies and informa­ Dictionary of Music), executive editor authors learned that students may well tion about books by alumni and faculty. of the ten-volume Cultural Library, the become fascinated by a more penetrating The books are donated to the Swarth- Book of Knowledge, and several other view of selected topics instead of a super­ moreana section of the McCabe Library encyclopedias. ficial survey which they frequently find after they have been noted for this dull and confusing. Thus in this book t column. John M. A ustin ’48, Greatest College they focus on two related topics that I Football Upsets, Vol. I, 1921-1941 and revolutionized the science— Newton’s Vol. II, 1946-1970, Football Publications, theory of motion and Einstein’s con-1 Philip M. A llen ’53 and Aaron Segal, 1972. Mr. Austin recreates from news­ ception of space and time. They examine I The Traveler’s Africa, Hopkinson and paper accounts, play-by-play analyses, how different men in different times, Blake, 1973. Described as the first com­ and personal recollections of coaches and viewing the same phenomena, have seen prehensive travel guide to Africa, this players, the great upset games in college different things and have explained what | 972-page book covers every country on football. He considers in detail the nature they saw in different ways. Casper is the continent and answers virtually every of the upset, and the evidence and the assoc, prof, of physics at Carleton. question a prospective traveler might reasons for upset in each individual game ask. Its authors have lived and worked —was it the weather, the pep talk, or J o h n R. C h a m p l in ’61, editor, Power, throughout the continent. They write just an “ off day” for the favorite? Atherton Press, 1971. The scholarly de­ with an obvious affection for Africa, but bate over the aspects of power continues, show candor in dealing with social and H arriet Bender Barr ’44, LSD: Experi­ with experts still striving to obtain an political problems. ence and Personality (Wiley Series on exact understanding of what power really Personality Processes), John Wiley, is. The essays in this book clearly set Christine Parker A mmer ’52, Harper’s 1972. Describes differences among indi­ forth all the important arguments in the Dictionary of Music, Harper & Row, viduals in their reactions to LSD, taken lively dispute and focus on the essential 1972. This dictionary includes the most in an experimental setting, as a function question of whether or not the concept commonly used and needed musical of pre-existing personality differences. of power can be used to unify the study terms and considerable material on of politics. music history, with a view to explaining D onald Braider ’44, The Niagara, (Riv­ musical practice. Articles about com­ ers of America Series), Holt, Rinehart J u lien C o r n e ll ’30, Lexcetera, published posers concentrate on their works, and & Winston, 1972. Mr. Braider gives an by the author at Central Valley, NX charts identify them with important styles account of the source of the Niagara 1971. In a free and easy style, Julie*1 and periods and with notable examples of Falls, 35 miles of the most turbulent Cornell tells of his days in school and major musical forms, such as oratorio “white water” in North America, in practicing law. In Chapter II he reports and opera. Articles on musical instru­ history, geology, limnology, and ecology. that his mother graduated from Swarth- ments generally list some of the repertory A writer of the region, he traces the more in 1891 and many of her family for each instrument. Mrs. Ammer is an geological and historical evolutions of had also attended Swarthmore. He says> amateur musician and a lexicographer the river, as it began as a strategic “ I love this place. My ancestors loved it (editor of revised edition of the Harvard portage route, giving birth to the cities My wife and children love it. My grand-

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Erie, children will soon come to love it. We alternative to the conventional ideal- all love our ‘alma mater,’ the mother of ate professor of politics at Lake Forest ogical politics of the hawks and doves. College. the soul and keeper of the flame.” His message is timely in its implications following recent events in American dip­ J o h n C. G ifford ’90, On Preserving xmk/ Linda G ran t D e P a u w ’61, Documentary lomatic and foreign affairs. History of the First Federal Congress of Tropical Florida, University of Miami [ pro-1 Press, 1972. Dr. Gifford (1870-1949) be­ the United States of America, The Johns E lean o r F l e xn e r ’30, Mary Woilstone- issist-1 gan his career as New Jersey’s first Hopkins University Press, 1972. This first craft, Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, saling forester and was instrumental in estab­ volume of a projected 18-volume set 1972. Eleanor Flexner writes the first ed ir lishing historic national policies for the describes the legislative proceedings of major biography in 20 years on Mary preservation of America’s forests. This the First Congress, outlining step by Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication book, edited by Elizabeth Ogren Rothra, step the process by which the U.S. Sen­ of the Rights of Women, which influ­ * ’66 brings out his views on such current ate considered such precedent-setting enced generations of feminists, radical enia- controversies as urban crises and back- events as the adoption of the Bill of intellectuals, and flouters of eighteenth- Sage to-the-land movements, technology versus Rights, establishmentv of the Supreme century conventions. Ms. Flexner draws -page simplicity, imports and exports, pesti­ Court and the first cabinet positions, and ound on previously unused materials to ac­ cides and pollution, depletion and re­ the acceptance of Alexander Hamilton’s count for the transformation of the in­ npre- cycling, and preservation of vanishing n of economic program. Editor DePauw is telligent high-strung girl into the first lands and species. )cess. associate professor^ of history at George great advocate of women’s liberation. Washington University. lores D avid H apgood ’47, Diplomaism, Donald J o n a t h a n F. G a l l o w a y ’61, The Politics jarch W. Brown, 1973. “A generation ago, the nade I John D iebold ’49, editor, The World of and Technology of Satellite Communica­ tions, D. C. Heath, 1972. Examining the bachelor’s degree was a passport to elite the Computer, Random House, 1973. An status,” Hapgood writes, “ but now the impressive group of experts from a va­ worldwide implications of satellite com­ munications and the relationship between degree is rapidly depreciating.” Diploma­ •d J. riety of different fields are brought to­ ism is the disease, spreading rapidly in . W.! gether to survey the development of the technological innovations and U.S. do­ mestic and foreign decisions, this 250- America, of restricting entry to good jobs )duc- computer from its earliest days to the to those with academic degrees. Young page volume includes an evaluation of i, the present, and to anticipate some of the Americans are being forced to spend such landmark developments as the pas­ well future developments and controversies more and more of life’s most precious sage of the Communications Satellite ating that will accompany computerization in asset, time, to buy a product that is Act of 1962 and the establishment of an iper- coining years. steadily declining in value. The author is international organization for the owner­ find a senior editor of The Washington David V. Edwards ’62, Creating a New ship and management of communications book | Monthly and the author of books on that World Politics, David McKay, 1973. Dr. satellites. It also considers the degree Edwards, associate professor of govern­ Africa, the Peace Corps, and agricultural ton’s and kind of change in the behavior of development. con-1 ment at the University of Texas at men and nations caused by accelerated Austin, offers an incisive and practical mine communications. Dr. Galloway is associ­ John F. Hughes and A n n e O liver imes, H u gh es ’51, Equal Education, Indiana seen University Press, 1973. The original in­ what tent of the 1965 ESEA Title I was to 3r is provide better education for poor chil­ dren. The program was circumvented by traditionalists who used funds for thinly- uver, spread general aid rather than for pro­ r de- CMahon grams designed to help the poor. This iues, book pinpoints education’s basic problems i an and goes on to propose a strategy for eally solving the problems, with a major focus r set upon the rights and needs of each child. i the ntial J udith M a r k h a m H u gh es ’62, To the icept Maginot Line, The Politics of French tudy Military Preparation in the 1920’s, Har­ vard University Press, 1971. The decision France made in 1930 to fortify her north­ shed eastern border has usually been con­ a , sidered a tragic mistake, an example of alien bad planning and missed opportunities. and Not so, says the author, who offers a Dorts new view of how France’s military and irth- political leaders tried to safeguard their mily nation and why they failed. By setting says, France’s security measures against the d Ü backdrop of the country’s interlocking and- diplomatic and domestic problems, she

ISUE JANUARY, 1974 25 shows that what have been termed come capitalization application, and the Mantel divides her time between City Kati wrong calculations were unavoidable, the appraising of income properties. The College, where she is an assistant profes­ Islan reasoning behind them coherent, and the author is professor of finance and real sor of biology, and the American Mu­ is a 1 moral judgments that have so often con­ estate at the University of Connecticut. seum of Natural History. lonel demned French military policy inappro­ priate. Mrs. Hughes is assistant profes­ Jacqueline Lapidus ’62, translator, The Samuel Ogden ’20, Step-by-Step to Marked Men by Aris Fakinos, Liveright, sor of social studies at Harvard Uni­ Organic Vegetable Growing, Rodale harm versity. 1971. Aris Fakinos is a veteran of two Press, 1971. A how-to book, with helpful other political trials in Greece in which he was drawings and illustrations, for growing rhytl M argaret Parton H ussey ’37, Journey accused of libeling the state in a series vegetables without chemical fertilizers Mrs. Through a Lighted Room, The Viking of articles criticizing secret political ha­ and insecticides, by a man with 40 years’ name Press, 1973. Mrs. Hussey has seen at rangues delivered by army officers. He experience. Information for both the firsthand wars and riots, famine, massive fled Greece in 1967, when the colonels beginner and seasoned gardener on soil, political upheaval; she has covered mur­ staged their coup d’etat, taking his un­ plot location and arrangement, tools, and der trials and interviewed famous men finished manuscript of The Marked Men pest control. and women. In these memoirs she tells with him. The time of the novel is 1949, of her experiences and adventures the height of the Greek Civil War, but James S. Ottenberg ’39, and other mem­ around the world and in the more diffi­ it is an indictment of the current regime bers of the staff of The Child Study cult, uncharted regions of her mind and as well, for many of those now in power Association of America, You, Your Child, heart. One chapter recollects her im­ appear in the novel. and Drugs, 1971. Scope of the book is pressions as a student at Swarthmore. given through its chapter headings: “The This is Mrs. Hussey’s third book; pre­ Jonathan R. Lax ’71, Profiles of In­ Need for New Perspectives,” “Why viously she had received a nomination volvement, Human Resources Network, Youngsters Misuse Drugs,” “A Discrim­ for the Pulitzer Prize and other journal­ 1972. This reference book is an authori­ inating Look at Drugs,” “ Parental Re­ istic honors. tative source on what corporations and sponsibility,” and “Where to Go for Help nonprofit organizations are doing in the —Sources for Information, Counseling, areas of social action and social responsi­ and Treatment.” Mr. Ottenberg is ex­ bility. It describes in detail hundreds of ecutive director of the Child Study As­ social action programs in the areas of sociation of America, a private, non­ housing, drug abuse, employment op­ profit, national agency dedicated to portunities, consumerism, volunteerism, improving the quality of family and com­ Ì minority enterprise, and the environ­ munity life for all parents and children. ment, among others. Peter Passell ’66 and Leonard Ross, E lsie W illiams Lee ’33, Elsie Lee’s The Retreat from Riches: Affluence and I Book of Simple Gourmet Cooking, Arbor Its Enemies, The Viking Press, 1973. House, 1971. Paperback reprint by Dell, Passell and Ross challenge the major 1972. The author of Wingarden, The arguments against growth. They con­ Passions of Medora Graeme, A Prior Rogei tend that “ rapid growth has a raison I soys c Betrothal, and many other books has d’etre more pressing than the extension adopted a further interest, in cookery. | mu, a of the good life beyond Grosse Pointe. Califo D oris H erold Lund ’39, The Paint-Box Quite simply, growth is the only way the ii Sea, McGraw-Hill, 1973, illustrated. Ev­ America will ever reduce poverty.” within eryone knows water is blue. Or is it? Myth When Jane makes pictures of the sea world with her birthday paints, she finds the centui water can look red—or gold—or even finds 1 dark brown, like tea. What begins as an fen d ordinary summer vacation gradually aid a< turns into a time of discovery for Jane defian< Margaret Parton Hussey ’37 and her brother Jim. Mrs. Lund is the fish a author of numerous books for children, Seatth including Attic of the Wind, Did You Clark K err ’32, Marshall, Marx and E ver1, and I Wonder What’s Under. David Modern Times, Cambridge University Cotnpi Press, 1971. This famous educator and John K. M ahon ’34, The War of 1812, fiction economist examines the differences and University of Florida Press, 1972. A Propht similarities in views of Marshall and detailed narrative of the military opera­ years Marx, then goes on to study contempo­ tions in the War of 1812, both on land afivanc rary society, which he says is multi­ and on water. Through intensive analy­ aent ( dimensional in character. He discusses sis, Dr. Mahon tries to find out what serve n the importance of the status quo and really happened and what were the ®an ir Peter Passell ’66 pays particular attention to the re­ command decisions which caused affairs and e1 lationship of the American educational to go as they did. teen c system to the economic and social sys­ Jerry R. Ravetz ’50, Scientific Knowl­ aaderec tems, presenting at the same time his Linda H abas M antel ’60 and Margaret edge and Its Social Problems, Oxford advanc own concept of the causes of the student Cooper, The Balance of Living: Survival University Press, 1971. Dr. Ravetz is ism: ( dissent in the United States and through­ in the Animal World, Natural History senior lecturer in the history and phil' man tc out the world. Dr. Kerr is professor of Press, 1971. Like all animals, man must osophy of science at the University of Produc economics at the Berkeley campus of the adjust every day to the environmental Leeds. Here he discusses in detail the duce £ le qU University of California and chairman conditions around him, though he is variety of scientific experience, the of the Carnegie Commission on the Fu­ unique in his invention of outside means achievement of scientific knowledge, so­ serves ture of Higher Education. to meet these conditions. From one- cial aspects of scientific activity, science ’iitian celled organisms to the highly complex in the modern world, and the future of Man i W illiam N. K innard, Jr. ’47, Income systems of man, living things display an science. The conclusions are not skepti­ Wig Property Valuation, D. C. Heath, 1971. amazing variety of self-regulating mech­ cal or nihilistic, but maintain that the This textbook considers the background kuns\ anisms with which they respond to their continued health and vitality of science i'ard l of appraisal, income capitalization, in- individual needs and environment. Ms. require leadership of the highest order. 'atiUAE 26 SWARTHMORE a l u m n i ISSUE City Katharine Scherman R osin ’38, Two defeat and exile of Napoleon and the versity, focuses on the individual child ofes- Islands, Little, Brown, 1971. This book restoration of the Bourbons, the political and his encounters with his fam ily and Mu- is a quiet celebration of nature, a tale of climate of France was one of seething his peer group. He traces the develop­ lonely wild places where sea birds and unrest, intrigue, and dissent. A clandes­ mental course of those variables in the sea creatures and the flora of the shore tine and conspiratorial movement known > to child’s life that determine normal and and forest and swamp live together in as the Carbonari arose in the early deviant personality: affection, initiative, >dale harmony or strife, complementing each 1820’s with the aim of overthrowing the lpful self-control, conscience, cognition, sex, other’s existences in exquisitely balanced monarchy of Louis XVIII. The book fol­ wing aggression, peer relations, play, work, rhythms. Illustrations by the author. lows the movement from its beginnings izers and body image. Mrs. Rosin writes under her maiden to its ultimate failure, from plots to ears’ name. trials. The author is professor of history R obert H. W ilson ’31, Philadelphia, the at the University of Iowa. U.S.A.: A Land of Enterprise, Swarth- soil, more Press, 1973. “Nearly everyone and Edith Lent T aylor ’35, The Serpent knows about Philadelphia in the 1770’s,” Under It, W. W. Norton, 1973. A murder writes Robert Wilson. “Here is the Phil­ lem - mystery set on an imaginary campus in adelphia of the 1970’s.” This book un­ covers the invisible city of Philadelphia tudy Berkshire County. The implication of hild, guilt passes from one member of the Eng­ that bustles about its daily business without regard for the surface Phila­ >k is lish Department to another. The hero­ delphia, the stodgy, inbred, inferiority- ‘The ine leads the reader through a tale of complex city of W. C. Fields. It is a Why murder and detection as the ceremonies book to convince you that Philadelphia :rim- of academic pomp grind on. Mrs. Taylor Re- chairs the English Department of an in­ is a thriving place in which to locate a plant, a shopping center, or a corporate Help dependent school for girls in New York State. headquarters. ling! ex- W oodlief T homas, Jr. ’51, SPSE Hand­ C. Brooke W orth ’31, Of Mosquitoes, As- book of Photographic Science and Engi­ Moths, and Mice, W. W. Norton & Co., non- neering, John Wiley and Sons, 1973. Mr. 1972. Dr. Worth, entomologist and natu­ [ to Thomas edits this unique and compre­ ralist, offers in this book a wealth of 20m- hensive handbook. It was conceived by facinating information about natural his­ Iren. the engineering committee of the Society tory drawn from his observations of the animals and insects on his Cape May toss, of Photographic Scientists and Engineers and to provide a one-volume source of infor­ farm. He explains the reason why there mation that professional scientists and were six million mosquitoes per acre on L973. ! Katharine Scherman Rosin ’38 lajor engineers working in the broad field of his farm, and whence came the white mice behind his kitchen stove. con- photographic science and engineering Roger Sale ’53, Modern Heroism: Es- need on a day-to-day basis. Mr. Thomas lison jwys on D. H. Lawrence, William Emp- Valerie W orth ’55, The Crone’s Book ision supervises the Eastman Color Products and J. R. R. Tolkien, University of Section of the Photographic Technology of Words, Llewellyn, 1971. The crone of inte. storybooks who “has the words” to win California Press, 1973. Dr. Sale criticizes Division of the Eastman Kodak Co. way the individual merits of these authors love, confound the enemy, make the within the context of what he terms the Barbara W ertheim T uchman ’33, Still­ bread rise, and keep the home happy [%th of Lost Unity: a belief that the well and the American Experience in has actually existed, and still exists, in i »rid was once “whole” but in recent China, 1911-45, MacMillan, 1971. Previ­ some parts of the United States today. I centuries has gradually disintegrated. He ous works by this author have examined The author has personally collected ®ds that Lawrence, Empson, and Tol- World War I and the origins of the many of the spells given—To Send Away j ®n defied the implications of the myth world’s most violent century. Now she Mice and Rats, To Overcome Insomnia, and achieved a community as a badge of turns her attention to the sources of To Curse an Enemy, For Obtaining a œfiance. Dr. Sale is professor of Eng- American involvement in Asia. This Male Child—and has converted them at the University of Washington, brilliant narrative history and biography into poetry that is beautiful and mean- Seattle. is at once the story of our number one man in China, the fabulous “Vinegar ¡¡AVID S hear ’59, Cloning, Walker and Joe,” and of American relations with Company, 1972. Dr. Shear’s first science China over three decades—from the fall etion novel develops from accurate and of the Manchu empire to the rise of Prophetic science. The story is set 50 Mao Tse-tung. This is her third book to tos into the future, when two radical become a Book-of-the-Month Club selec­ advances have been made in the develop- tion. ^at of the human race. The first is to ^ man: Androids, which exactly mimic K enneth T uran ’67, and William Gil- in thought and feeling, appearance, dea, The Future is Now, Houghton, Mif­ even hopes and aspirations, have flin Co., 1972. The authors explore the tt created to perform the tasks con- career of George Allen, controversial owl- ®>ered too menial for man. The second coach of the Washington Redskins, who ford wance is a monument to man’s ego- expects total commitment and attention z is Cloning makes it possible for a from his players and full control of the jhil- 311 to have an exact replica of himself team from his owners. Mr. Turan and f Of Produced. Two plots intertwine to pro- Mr. Gildea, reporters on the Washing­ the ■ a mystery story which examines ton Redskins for the Washington Post, the 3e question, “ What is a person?” and examine the method of Allen, the kind of so- rves as a parable of man’s treatment coach who will do almost anything to 3nce "«man. win. e of >pti- B- Spitzer ’48, Old Hatreds and Charles W enar ’43, Personality Devel­ the oiing Hopes, the French Carbonari opment: From Infancy to Adulthood, snce 'Wrisf the Bourbon Restoration, Har- Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Dr. Wenar, pro­ •der. i University Press, 1971. After the fessor of psychology at Ohio State Uni­ Kenneth Turan ’67

SUE ^IJARY, 1974 27 ingful on the level of literature as well Geometry, Addison-Wesley, 1971. A text­ as in the occult sense. book.

R oger Y ouman ’53, and Arthur Shul- G. Constable and B ernard S. Sm ith, man, The Television Years, Popular Li­ associate professor of history, Libellus brary, 1973. A collection of photos and De Diversis Ordinibus Et Professionibus text recalling the major television pro­ Qui Sunt In Aecclesia, Clarendon grams from Howdie Doody to All in the Press, 1972. Edited and translated with Family. introduction and notes.

Betty H ershberger Zisk ’51, Local In­ W illiam C. E lmore, Morris L. Clothier terest Politics: A One-Way Street, Professor of Physics, and M ark A. Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. This study, like the H eald, professor of physics and chair­ others in “The Urban Governors” series, man of the Department of Physics, is based on data collected by the City Physics of Waves, McGraw-Hill, 1969. Council Research Project, Institute of The authors present an integrated treat­ Political Studies, Stanford University, a ment of classical wave theory at an in­ collaborative research and research-train­ termediate level. ing program. In this volume, Dr. Zisk focuses on how councilmen perceive K enneth J. Gergen, professor of psy­ chology, The Psychology of Behavior J. Roland Pennock ’27 Richter Pro-i themselves and their behavior in rela­ Exchange, Addison-Wesley, 1969. Part fessor of Political Science tion to local interest groups, how they conceive the political process and their of the “Topics in Social Psychology” Legal Philosophy), Aldine/Atherton, | roles in it, and how relations between series designed as an alternative to 1972. These 15 scholarly essays attempt broad introductory books. Directed their perceptions and attitudes and their to define coercion, to delineate its subt­ toward the student with no prior back­ behavior toward community interest ler forms, and to assess its use in bar­ ground in social psychology, the series groups influence policy output. gaining situations. covers the whole field, but has the ad­ vantage that each short book was writ­ D onald K. SweIarer, associate professor ten by an expert. Mr. Gergen has fo­ of religion, The Third World, Southeast Recent Publications cused on a relatively new topic in social Asia, Pendulum Press, 1973. Dr. Swear­ of the Faculty psychology, exchange theory. er discusses the regions of Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, South | B ernard M o rrill, professor of mechani­ Asia, and Southeast Asia from the per-1 R obert C. B annister, associate profes­ cal engineering, An Introduction to Equi­ sor of history, editor, American Values spective of societies and cultures in' librium Thermodynamics, Pergamon transition. | in Transition, Harcourt Brace Jovano- Press, 1972. A text for undergraduate vich, 1972. “Tune in, turn off, drop out,” engineering students that introduces the D erek T raversi, professor of English “Off the pig,” “Do your own thing.” science of thermodynamics using, in the literature, An Approach to Shakespeare, These slogans are a few of the symptoms main, statistical concepts as the vehicle Doubleday, 1969. Dealing with material of the alleged “crisis” of the past decade. for the study of macroscopic concepts. not included in the 1956 edition of bis This collection highlights points of view work, the first volume of the newly ex- J about six values that have been heatedly Donald G. Morrison, R obert C. M itch­ panded and revised third edition, From I debated in the past as well as the pres­ ell, assistant professor of sociology, Henry VI to Twelfth Night, sheds light I ent: personal freedom, marriage and the John N. Paden, and Hugh M. Steven­ on the playwright’s early work. By point-1 family, the melting pot, success, progress, son, Black Africa: A Comparative Hand­ ing out words, exploring images and un­ and the “ democratic system.” book, The Free Press, 1972. The authors derlying themes that recur in more ma­ bring together systematically distilled, ture forms in the later work, Mr. George J. B ecker, former chairman of comparable data on political, economic, Traversi provides valuable insight into | the Department of English Literature, and social variables for 32 independent Shakespeare’s development. The second | and Edith P hilips, Susan W. Lippincott African nations. volume, From Troilus and Cressida to Professor Emeritus of French, editors The Tempest, is a revision of the 1956 and translators, Paris and the Arts, A. I. Oparin, Genesis and Evolutionary edition and concentrates on the problem 1851-1896, from the Goncourt Journal, Development of Life, translated from the plays and tragedies. Cornell University Press, 1971. A com­ Russian by E leanor M aass, science li­ prehensive view of the literary and ar­ brarian, Academic Press, 1968. Profes­ N eal A. W eber, professor of zoology, tistic life in Paris during the last half of sor Oparin, the distinguished Soviet bi­ Gardening Ants, the Attines, American the nineteenth century. Hedley H. Rhys, ologist, has stimulated more interest and Philosophical Society, 1972. A complete professor of art history, provides an research in the study of the origins of and well-illustrated book about the gar- afterword on Japanese art and its in­ life than perhaps any other contempo­ dening ants. Dr. Weber recently was fluence on the painters of the day. rary scientist. In this work he considers awarded the John F. Lewis Prize by the the origin and evolution of living matter Society for his work. Leon B ramson, professor of sociology in light of recent findings and theories. and chairman of the Department of Philip M . W einstein, assistant professor Sociology-Anthropology, editor, Robert H arold E. Pagliaro, professor of Eng­ of English, Henry James and the Re­ M. Mdeliver: On Community, Society, lish editor, Irrationalism in the Eight­ quirements of the Imagination, Harvard and Power, University of Chicago Press, eenth Century: Studies in Eighteenth- University Press, 1971. Philip Weinstem 1970. Mr. Bramson has edited and writ­ Century Culture, The Press of Case examines the continual interplay be­ ten an introduction to a selection of Western Reserve University, 1972. A tween imagination and experience J® writings by “ the last of the Scottish wide variety of papers from the second James’s fiction through six representa­ moralists” who helped train a generation annual meeting of the American Society tive novels. of American sociologists over the span of for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in the two world wars. College Park, Md., in April, 1971. Catullus: Fragmenta, translated by Ceb® and Louis Zukofsky, music by Paul H einrich B rinkm ann, Albert L. and J. R oland Pennock ’27, Richter pro­ kofsky, associate in performance, Tm Edna Pownall Buffington Professor fessor of political science, and John W. gram Press, 1969. This is number Emeritus of Mathematics, and E ugene Chapman ’43, editors, Coercion (Volume in the series “ Contemporary Poetry be A. K lotz, associate professor of mathe­ XIV of the Nomos Series; Yearbook of to Music” by Turret Books, published te matics, Linear Algebra and Analytical the American Society for Political and a limited edition of one hundred.

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