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THE AmERICAn IDSTITUTE FOR FOREIGn TRADE THUNDERBIRD CAMPUS PHOENIX, ARIZONA PRESIDENT'S REPORTrttS•• October 17, 1962 Posted in his office for all to see, Dr. Schurz dis played a yellowed clipping he obviously treasured, for Before this semester began, I sent a letter to all the he lived by its sentiment. incoming students covering the faculty changes for the coming semester. I am sure this is of interest to you. For just twenty years I had the fortune to work with him in varying relationships: for several times under "Dear Student: his direction, again as a colleague of equal rank, and even in a position to help direct his work. Through Even before you reach the campus, I would like to share troubled and sometimes difficult times and even through with you both the sad and good news about our faculty at some relatively peaceful periods, one constant charac The American Institute for Foreign Trade, teristic could always be counted on: his fiercely independent spirit, coupled with loving compassion The death of our Dean of the Faculty and Director of the toward other individuals. Department of Area Studies, Doctor William Lytle Schurz, was a tragic blow. He died on Thursday, July 26, 1962. On the cover page, stated by Dean Alfange, is the key, I have tried in the enclosed 'In Memoriam' to express - the creed by which he lived. something of our feelings. The following paragraph is an excerpt from a letter I Our faculty will be greatly strengthened by those who received from Mrs. Schurz on August 6, 1962: will be joining it in September. They are; "After all the long years of marriage - 37 - I knew Dr. Milton C. Towner, Dean and Professor of Asian my husband well, but have received some new insights Studies, has recently returned since his passing. I shall honor him forever, for his from ten years in Indonesia and superiority, his prodigious erudition, his accomplish has an academic background and ments in teaching, writing, and good fellowship with practical industrial experience his students, colleagues and friends; the most indus that fit him unusually for his trious man I have came across - with a character to new function at the Institute. match his physical strength. His wit and wisdom had a rare quality and originality so seldom come on. What His B. A. degree was secured at unforgettable conversations we have had, and always Coe College, Iowa, and his Mas with some spontaneous and delightful remark· to vitalize ters and Doctors degrees were his rema1·ks. He was tender, gentle and kind with all earned at the State University unprotected creatures - people or natural creatures. He of Iowa.In addition,he has done spoke his mind - his wonderful mind- on all sorts of a great deal of post-doctoral TOWNER unpopular subjects, and earned the suspicions of boobs work in college and university and slobs who could not understand. He loved b�autiful, administration, He taught for six years at the University vital women - fire-cracker Schurz - I called him. He of Missouri, and three years at the University of Chicago. was the archtype gentleman adventurer, He was a good He then transferred his activities to administrative work father and husband." and was a college dean, assistant to the president, direc tor of admissions, and college president. It is to Dr. William Lytle Schurz that the alumni, He became active in governmental agencies in the office faculty and staff, of The American Institute i�r of Scientific Research and Development of the National Foreign Trade dedicate the November 1962 issue uf Defense Research Committee and was successively assigned the News of Thunderbirds. to Colombia University, the University of California and Johns Hopkins. ���� He was Director of Training for the Carrier Corporation, then went to Korea as head of the training section of the President Economic Cooperation Administration, was appointed Direc tor of the College of Civil Defense Administration, and was called to assist the Indonesian government with a survey of teacher training aids. He established the first technical teacher training institute which became the pilot model for five other similar institutions estab lished while he was still in Java. Dr. Towner later went On behalf of Mrs. Marie Schurz, and the Institute, we to South Sumatra and developed a complete program of wish to thank the scores of Thunderbirds for their industrial education for the Standard Vacuum organization. messages of condolence on the death of Dr. Schurz. All such expressions of esteem from Dr. Schurz' graduates Mr. William P. Cochran, Jr. has been appointed Associate and academic colleagues will become a part of a bound Professor of Area Studies and International Relations at volume to be presented to Mrs. Schurz. The American Institute for Foreign Trade. He joins the * * * * * * * * * * * faculty with a long background of foreign service ex perience, beginning in 1928 and continuing until 1961. IN MEMORIAM He was graduated in 1924 from the Naval Academy, with distinction. Subsequently, he took graduate work at Through ROBERT H. KAHLEY June '47, we learned of the Temple University, Harvard University and the National death of his AIFT roommate, DICK VAN ATTA, of Elmira, War College. He served on the faculty of the Army War New York. DICK, a victim of cancer, passed away in College at Carlisle in 1950-52, as faculty adviser, October 1961. giving occasional lectures, leading seminars, and pre paring a course on international relations. * * * * * * * * * * * ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS His foreign service experience ranged from posts in New Zealand, Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Nicaragua, Budapest, The LOS ANGELES Thunderbirds, spearheaded by DOUG BUCK Brazil, Taiwan, and Sweden, to a$Signments in the MASTER and LEE WESTENDORF, are planning a November 16 �epartment of State. Here he served on the Trade Agree- get-together at the home of BARBARA WAGNER, 27658 Saddle ants Division and the Negotiating Committee for Road, Larga Vista, Rolling Hills. They have a real treat Czechoslovak Trade agreements; was Assistant Chief and in store, beginning at 7:30 p.m. If you know of any then Chief of the Division of Caribbean and Central Thunderbirds in the vicinity who are not on the Los American Affairs; on the Board of Examiners for Foreign Angeles mailing list, please have them contact DOUG at Service; and with the International Cooperation Adminis 1425 East Dorothy Lane in Fullerton, or LEE at Apartment tration CICA, now ALD) for the Evaluation Program. 205, 124 South Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia. Mr. Edward Gatewood Trueblood us as Associate The successful and impressive reign of TOBY MADISON, as Professor of Latin American President of the NEW YORK AIFT ALUMNI CHAPTER, has ended. Studies and International Rela At a recent meeti;g-of the Board of Governors, CARLOS tions at The American Institute SILVA '60, who has been an active member of the chapter, for Foreign Trade, received his was elected to succeed TOBY. We congratulate him on B.A.,summa cum laude,at Prince his rise to the presidency, and wish him luck. To TOBY - ton, and did graduate work at our sincere thanKS for a job well done. The NEW YORK the Ecole des Sciences Politi group hosted a dinner on November 2nd in honor of ques in Paris. President Carl A. Sauer, Mabel Erickson and Leo Hageman, who were in the city for the National Foreign Trade From 1928 on, he devoted thirty Convention. years as Foreign Service Offi * * * * * * * * * * * cer of the Department of State, entering as Vice Consul and retiring as Class I Officer, TRUEBLOOD This past summer, LEA NORONHA served on the staff of a Consul General and Counselor of Embassy. He served in six-weeks' language institute at St. Teresa's in Winona, posts or missions in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, Minnesota. The rest of the summer she spent visiting Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay in South America, T'birds from coast to coast, We regret that limited as well as Canada, France, Spain and India. After his space does not permit a full account of the many social retirement he was appointed Resident Representative of functions given in L�a's honor, nor a list of attending the United Nations Technical Assistance Board for Peru, Thunderbirds. Lea began her summer on the West Coast, and became Assistant Director of the International visiting with BEULAH MALLETTE '53 in Los Angeles. She Affairs Seminars Program of the American Friends Service spent five days in San Francisco, where she saw AMANDA.