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Volume 16, No.7, December 1982 CALTECH NEWS

pounds, became optional and were Three Caltech offered in the winter and spring. graduate programs But under this plan, there was an overlap in material that diluted the rank number one program's efficiency, blending per­ in nationwide survey sons in the same classrooms whose backgrounds varied widely. Some Caltech ranked number one - students took 3B and 3C before either alone or with other institutions proceeding on to 46A and 46B, - in a recent report that judged the which focused on organic systems, scholastic quality of graduate pro" while other students went directly grams in mathematics and science at into the organic program. the nation's major research Another matter to be addressed universities. stemmed from the fact that, across Caltech led the field in geoscience, the country, the lines between inor­ and shared top rankings with Har­ ganic and organic chemistry had ' vard in physics. The Institute was in become increasingly blurred. Explains a four-way tie for first in chemistry Professor of Chemistry Peter Der­ with Berkeley, Harvard, and MIT. van, "We use common analytical The report was the result of a equipment. We are both molecule two-year, $500,000 study published builders in our efforts to invent new under the sponsorship of four aca­ materials. We use common bonds for demic groups - the American Coun­ The Mead Laboratory is the setting for Chemistry 5, where Carlotta Paulsen uses a rotary probing how chemical bonds are evaporator to remove a solvent from a synthesized product. Paulsen is a junior majoring in made and broken." cil of Learned Societies, the American chemistry. Council on Education, the Social A redesign of the undergraduate Services Research Council, and the laboratory curriculum seemed to be National Research Council. It was in order. This task was undertaken funded by the Mellon-Ford and Sloan Students in the Mead Lab: primarily by member of the profes­ Foundations, the National Institutes sional staff Jane S. Raymond, direc­ of Health, the National Science "Like kids in a toy shop" tor of undergraduate laboratories, Foundation, and the National Acad­ and Professor of Chemistry John E. emy of Sciences. By Winifred Veronda Bercaw. The redesign was completed The evaluations were based on a in 1978. survey of 1, ISS mathematics and Chemistry 3A has convened for its The lab - dedicated just last In revising the curriculum Ray­ science professors, or about 8 percent first fall session in the new Mead spring - has its origin in the Febru­ mond and Bercaw (along with Der­ of all U.S. professors in those fields. Laboratory, and first-term freshmen ary 9, 1971, earthquake. Gates Labo­ van and Senior Research Associate The professors rated 228 institutions are recrystallizing thei~ unknown ratory - for many years the site of William P. Schaefer) set three goals: on "scholarly quality." Ratings were acids. freshman undergraduate chemistry • Emphasize modern instrumental based on scores from 0 to 5 . . ''I'm having a great time!" says instruction - was so badly damaged methods of analysis, separation, and The first report covers chemistry, freshman Harold Felton, who plans in the quake that it could no longer characterization; physics, mathematics, geoscience, to major in chemical engineering. be used. When space was solicited on • Integrate experiments tradi­ computer sciences, and statistics. ''I'm like a kid in a toy shop." an emergency basis, Chemistry 3 was tionally presented separately in Reports in the corning months will "This is the best lab I've ever been housed in ten different locations; organic and inorganic laboratories; rate universities on programs in in," says freshman Torn Tucker. "It other undergraduate chemistry labs and humanities, engineering, biological has everything you could possibly were also spread around campus. • Prepare students to begin work sciences, and social and behavioral need." About a year after the quake, in a research laboratory after a two­ sciences. And indeed, the laboratory is the work was begun on a new under­ year program. best that any undergraduate is likely graduate chemistry lab adjacent to Explains Bercaw, "We want stu­ to find, because the Clifford S. and Noyes Laboratory, and instruction dents who finish this program to be Ruth A. Mead Memorial Undergrad­ started there in the 1973 fall quarter. able to go right into a chemistry uate Chemistry Laboratory has been Meanwhile, the undergraduate research lab and do meaningful termed the most sophisticated in the chemistry curriculum was beginning work. Their background is almost country in terms of structure, instru­ a transformation. equal to that of first-year graduate mentation, and curriculum. The requirement for three terms of students." The program means that freshman chemistry lab - in effect some students may begin independ­ for many years - was reduced to ent research in their junior year. one term (Chemistry 3A) and all Please turn the page. freshmen were required to take it during the fall quarter. Chemistry 3B and 3C emphasizing inorganic com- Continued from page 1 search groups. Purchased through The new curriculum generated gifts from four corporations and a some controversy within the divi­ foundation (Varian Associates, IBM, sion. "Let's get them right into the Hewlett-Packard, Beckman Instru­ research labs," said some members, ments, and the Camille and Henry "and let them learn by doing. This is Dreyfus Foundation), the equipment what Caltech is all about." includes three nuclear magnetic "But," says Bercaw, "that ap­ spectrometers (two of proach requires that students be them new Varian 90 MHZ instru­ taught research techniques on a ments), two new Beckman infrared one-to-one basis. The big advantage spectrophotometers, two new of the new curriculum is that, when Hewlett-Packard gas chromato­ students do go into the research labs, graphs, and a new IBM liquid they already have a grasp on basic chromatograph. research techniques." . Raymond and Bercaw have won­ In the new curriculum, Chemistry dered whether entering Cal tech 3A stands alone while the other freshmen will appreciate the facility courses fit together in a sequence: and how special it is, or whether they Chemistry 4A features practical may simply presume it is typical of ; 4B, chromatography, college chemistry laboratories. But involving modern methods for sepa­ upperclassmen who can compare old rating compounds. Courses SA and B and new are outspoken in their get into sophisticated synthesizing enthusiasm for the new building. techniques. "They all say they'd like to come In the latter two courses, students back and take the courses over," says learn modern methods for making a Bercaw. And the program's mentors compound, and how to use a glove note that an increasing number of box and vacuum line as they work students in other options are taking with compounds that react with air. chemistry lab courses as options since They also are given exposure to the the Mead Lab became a reality. 111 Chemistry 3A, freshman Jeanine Gainey uses an analytic balance for accurate dete"mil1atiol1 latest methods of synthesizing or­ of the of the substance she is al1alyzil1g. Her TA (at right) is Stephan Witt, a graduate Meanwhile, Raymond is busy ganic, organometallic, and inorganic stude"t i" chemistry. developing new techniques and new compounds. experiments for the chemistry stu­ "The students who finish these using the exterior of the existing mentation. One is used, three terms a dents to perform. 'This is one of the courses know research techniques structure and completely reconstruct­ year, for students in Chemistry 3A, challenges in working with Cal tech and methodology," says Bercaw. ing the interior. The division gave the while the other serves students in the undergraduates," she says. "You have "They haven't refined the techniques, plan its solid backing and the build- more advanced courses . to work hard to keep ahead of them. but they're not intimidated by them. . ing became a reality, thanks to a gift AlI the work in the labs is done in And you get a lot of : they If they have to put their hands in a from the Mead estates. a hood, or (for some of the experi­ won't hesitate to let you know what glove box, they feel comfortable The result, its designers believe, is ments in Chemistry SA and B) by they think about the program or the about what they're doing. the most sophisticated undergraduate using a glove box or vacuum lines. materiaL" "This is a very ambitious pro­ lab in the in terms of Each student is assigned a hood and Some of that feedback comes from gram," he adds. "We expect the structure, instrumentation, and small lab bench; a sink is shared. Jonathan Parker, a senior chemistry students to assimilate a lot of Each hood is equipped with fixed major, enroIled faIl quarter in knowledge in a hurry." and variable , Chemistry S. But a major problem confronted "This is far and away the finest The result is the most water, air, steam, nitrogen, and house the creators of the new curriculum: It vacuum. There is no natural gas in undergraduate lab I've seen," he says. sophisticated undergraduate lab emphasized the use of the most the building. Heating mantles, oil "I can't imagine any other school modern instrumentation, and stu­ in the country in terms of baths, and steam baths substitute for going to the trouble or expense." dents were being taught in a "tem­ structure, instrumentation, and Bunsen burners. Each hood has its And with that the lab's creators are porary" lab with old equipment. curriculum. own filter to protect the central happy to agree. They conceived a building to go with vacuum system, and provision has the curriculum - one that could be been made for installing activated made a reality for $1.2 million by curriculum. They stress that not charcoal filters in the exhaust stream many universities could duplicate it, of each hood when that becomes AIChE gives both because of the expense of the necessary. equipment and the high ratio of The hoods are arranged around the posthumous award teaching assistants to students that perimeter of each laboratory room, to William Corcoran the program requires. The ratio while at the center is a -waIled varies from about 6-to-1 in room-within-a-room that houses alI The late William H. Corcoran, the Chemistry 3A to S-to-1 in 4B and ihstrumentation. Students can see Institute Professor of chemical 3-to-1 in SB. All the teaching assis­ from their work stations whether an engineering, has been honored tants in courses higher than 4A are instrument they need is available, posthumously with the 1982 Warren graduate students. and teaching assistants can monitor K. Lewis Award for contributions to Deceptively simple in its design, students at the hoods and in the chemical engineering education by the building consists of two rooms, instrument room from any point in the American Institute of Chemical essentially identical except for instru- the laboratory. (AIChE). Corcoran, who In the Chemistry 3A lab, the died in August, was chosen for his central glass-enclosed room houses a teaching and research achievements. basic set of beginning chemistry laboratory equipment. But in the second lab, where advanced courses are taught, students use instruments that are the envy of chemistry re- For example, he said, computer The national advisory committee graphics expert James Blinn, famous for the course includes movie produ­ for his animated films of the Voyager cer Frank Capra, BS '18; Shirley planetary encounters and his work Hufstedler, former Secretary of on the "Cosmos" series, is Education and a member of the creating computer-animated equa­ Cal tech Board of Trustees; Frank tions, space scenes, and other se­ Oppenheimer, PhD '39, director of quences for the series. the Exploratorium in San Francisco; Explained Goodstein, 'The series and other prominent figures in will also probe the history, spirit, and science communication and methods of science, and application education. of the basic laws of . For instance, we'll delve into the note­ books of Nobelist Robert Millikan to Industrial Associates show how he treated (or perhaps mistreated) data on his classic oil­ research conferences drop experiment that revealed the open to alumni charge of the . "We'll discuss how the laws of The Industrial Associates of conservation of angular Cal tech will sponsor these con­ help us understand hurricanes, fire ferences over the next several storms, and the shape of galaxies and months: Computer-graphics expert James Blinn (left) of ]PL and Caltec" Professor of Physics David solar systems. We'll show how basic January 17-18: Earthquake Re­ Goodstein play major roles in creation of a college-level introductory physics coLirse. laws are applied to navigation in search Affiliates Conference. This space, to black holes, and to under­ conference will discuss what might standing how can break wine happen if a repetition of the great and why the Tacoma Narrows earthquake of 1857 (magnitude 8+) collapsed. : were to take place on the southern "We hope to set a highly visible portion of the San Andreas fault. Caltech develops a physics standard of science communication for both teachers and students. We January 24-26: Multiphase Flows. course for educational television also hope to show that it's possible to Sessions will be devoted to subjects maintain academic rigor in such a such as combustion processes, the thermohydraulics of multiphase A science series combining the 'The Mechanical Universe" is one series, because we will include a solid flows, environmental multiphase visual resources of television with the of six television projects chosen by introduction to the mathematics flows, and multiphase flows in chem­ academic rigor of a college-level the CPB in Feburary out of 227 needed to understand classical me­ ical engineering processes. physics course is being developed by proposed. The six projects share the chanics. For example, will be . March 16-18: Frontiers of Catal­ Cal tech with a $1 million grant from first $5 million of $150 million in taught as part of the course. We ysis. This conference will examine the the Corporation for Public Broad­ funds donated by Walter Annenberg, won't assume that students have had implications of long-range fundamen­ casting (CPB)/ Annenberg School of former U.S. ambassador to Great calculus beforehand. tal studies for homogenous and Communications. Britain. "We believe the series is particu­ heterogeneous catalysis. Called 'The Mechanical Universe," Said Cal tech President Marvin L. larly important because American March 21-23: Conference on VLSI. the series will consist of 26 half-hour Goldberger, "We're quite excited by students today are poorly served by This conference will provide a forum programs, and will cover the stan­ the prospect of the series. David their science educations. They lag for current research in very large dard topics in an introductory college Goodstein is a renowned teacher behind students in Japan, in Western scale integration (VLSl) of electronic course in - for here, and his introductory physics Europe, in the Soviet Union, and . circuits, with contributions from example, the laws of motion and course has received accolades and there are signs that the situation here industry and from academic discovered by such scientists as awards from the toughest group of is getting worse, not better. institutions. Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. critics any science teacher could ever "Our schools are hampered by a May 10-12: Composites and Poly­ The series is being produced in face - Cal tech students. For exam­ lack of qualified science teachers. As mers. Polymers find increasing appli­ cooperation with The Corporation ple, in 1981, he was named one of a result, most students in the United cation in structural engineering de­ for Community College Television the outstanding teachers at the Insti­ States have foreclosed the possibility signs where both short- and long­ (CCCT). Caltech Professor of tute by the student body." (Goodstein of a career in science or science teach­ term load-carrying ability is a Physics David L. Goodstein will be was the recipient of an AS CIT award ing by the time they've reached the prerequisite. New developments in the project director and host. for teaching excellence.) tenth grade - thus propagating the the field will be explored. Under the funding arrangements, "We expect The Mechanical Uni­ problem into the next generation. There are no registration fees for Cal tech immediately received verse' to represent a benchmark in This is a vicious cycle that we must alumni, employees of Industrial $500,000 to produce a half-hour pilot both science education and the use of try to break." Associates member firms, and mem­ program for evaluation. The remain­ television as an intellectual tool. We According to Goodstein, 'The bers of the Caltech-JPL community der of the award was made under a look forward to it, both as educators Mechanical Universe" will be de­ and of other academic communities. requirement that the Institute obtain and as scientists." signed for use in conjunction with a enough additional funding to com­ Goodstein stressed that the series text and teaching aids to be devel­ plete the $2-million project. The pilot "will not consist merely of a series of oped for'the series. He expects it to is scheduled for completion in dry televised lectures." The programs prove valuable, both to students and January. will involve animation, local shoot­ to teachers, in high schools, commu­ ing, and "the full range of special nity colleges, colleges, universities, effects now common on television to and industries with continuing educa­ make the series attractive and tion programs. engrossing." Cal tech Professor of Theoretical Physics Steven C. Frautschi will prepare the text for science majors, and Professor of Mathematics Tom Apostol will oversee the mathemati­ cal content of the series. JPL imports VLSI design concepts by Mead

Carver Mead's class for Cal tech design skills in their jobs. They come undergraduates, EE 281, broke new from diverse technical backgrounds, in the early 1970s as it imple­ ranging from computer programming mented Mead's beliefs about the to reliability engineering. humanization of computers and the Says Whitney of Cal tech's expe­ creation of user-oriented machines. rience in VLSI, "Cal tech is at the In the course, undergraduates from a frontier in teaching VLSI design, variety of scientific and engineering developing computer-aided design disciplines received an intensive tools, and making fabrication capa­ introduction to microelectronics and bilities available to students and its applications, and then buih their faculty at universities and at systems own integrated circuits. houses like JPL. We want to apply Mead's goal was to create an essen­ this knowledge in our work." tially new class of scientists and Linda Getting, co-director of engineers: people with knowledge of Caltech's Silicon Structures Project, the technology of computers and hopes the educational program will microelectronics but not restricted by lead to a closer relationship between the shibboleths and taboos inherent JPL and Caltech in the development in each. These students went into of VLSI technology, with Cal tech conducting basic research and ]PL many different areas, taking their Kamal Soliman, electronic parts at JPL, displays the plot of a chip design on an AED knowledge with them, equipped to frame buffer and color monitOl: Soliman was a student Ihis fall in a course in VLSI design developing and testing the concepts build powerful special-purpose elec­ taught at ]PL by Called,s George Lewicki. that evolve in the Institute's labs. tronic machines: machines to make Such an arrangement would help people more efficient in their jobs loan for

In the last few decades, the capac­ The consequences could move the Ramo expressed concern over the and that almost half of these gradu­ ity within our society to store, country, politically, in one of two poor quality of science and mathe­ ate students are foreign citizens. process, and make use of informa­ directions, he suggested: toward a matics education in U.S. schools, and He also pOinted out that the U.S. tion, through electronic technology, tightly controlled economy if the over the low percentage of the U.S. spends 40 percent of its research and has increased enormously - and this government so chose - or toward population studying to become scien­ development budget for military­ capability affects the cost and quali­ an increasingly democratic system. tists and engineers, compared with oriented research, while Europe and tative performance of virtually every For example, he said that information the percentage in Western Europe Japan spend far more on research activity in which we are engaged, technology would make it possible to and Japan. He noted that, at Cal tech , with applications for the civilian Simon Ramo told members of The ask people to vote electronically on the percentage of students earning sector. As a result, he warned that we Cal tech Associates at the annual what government programs and PhD's in engineering is only two are setting ourselves up to be techno­ dinner in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. policies they would prefer. Such a thirds of what it was ten years ago - logically inferior. Ramo, who spoke on 'The system, he observed, "would prob­ Triangle of Society-Technology­ ably give us more democracy than Liberty," is co-founder and director we could stand." of TRW Inc., and chairman of the He pOinted out that, using the board of the TRW-Fujitsu Company. same technology, it would be possible A long-time friend of Cal tech, he is a for entrepreneurs to propose new Trustee, research associate, and products - and if enough people visiting professor. placed advanced orders, to build plants and begin production. Along with the benefits of the Foreknowledge of consumer demand revolution in information technology would decrease risks for entrepre­ will come tremendous problems and neurs, and initial purchasers could be adjustments for our society, he said, given a discount. " and we have no way of predicting Discussing the arms race between what these will be - just as we could the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Ramo not have predicted the way television expressed strong optimism that eventually would dictate our choice neither country will launch a nuclear of presidential candidates. war because both sides are keenly Ramo noted that inlormation aware of the consequences. technology can be used to make He noted that, in information Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Craig Norton attended The Associates dinner. commerce and industry more effi­ technology, the U.S. holds a clear cient and economical, through effec­ lead over Russia, and said that poten­ tive coordination of production, tially, we could use this superiority to shipping, and marketing. All of these defeat the Soviets, should they ever functions could be coordinated effec­ invade Western Europe, by develop­ tively with sources of supply through ing "smart" conventional weapons. electronic technology. "Imagine a These weapons would enable ground whole nation wired up in this way," systems to be deployed at a mini­ he observed. "What a tremendous mum risk to U.S. lives, and could economic difference this would make prove highly effective against an for the country." invading force .

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas (right) and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Bickford.

Mrs. Charles Thornton, a guest of Dr. and Mrs. Ramo; Dr. and Mrs. Ramo; Mr. Rodney Wi/­ Mr. Albert Burford, Mrs. Verno" Barrett, Mrs. Burford, Mr. Giles Hall. Iiams, a guest of Dr. and Mrs. DuBridge. Caltech was the first college or university to offer karate - another culture." and under Mr. Ohshima, it evolved as the most popular They have also demonstrated a sport on campus. capacity for integrity that is an im­ portant ingredient in the training. For example, Mr. Ohshima enforces one most popular sport on campus with By Winifred Veronda requirement that, before the end of up to 60 participating during a term. their first semester, students must As Joe Stupak recalls, karate was When the club celebrated its crouch down and then hop 10 times considered something of a cross anniversary last spring with a 25-year back and forth across the gym. They between "a weird oriental cult and a reunion, some 100 former members may take as long as they need but form of mayhem" when he enrolled came back from throughout the they must finish - because it is a in courses in Pasadena under a young United States. rule in karate that one must always teacher who had just arrived from (Their enthusiasm matches that of complete what one undertakes. ("In Japan. a dozen or so alumni in the Palo Alto karate you must be careful about the Stupak (BS '66, MS '69) was so area who practice two hours a day, goals you set," says Subbaiah, "be­ taken with the discipline, and with three or four times a week, on the cause you have to meet them.") the teacher, Tsutomu Ohshima, that Stanford campus with Jim Sagawa i'In all the years I have taught he asked Ohshima whether he would (BS '63), a black-belt alumnus of the here," says Mr. Ohshima, "only one be interested in teaching a class at Caltech Karate Club and president of person in my class ever cheated on Caltech. Intrigued with Caltech's Shotokan Karate of America, as their reputation, Ohshima eventually teacher. It is alleged that some of the this exercise. He hopped across only nine times, but told me ten. I realized agreed, and in 1958 the Cal tech alumni moved to the Bay Area be­ Karate Club became the first to form cause the karate group was there - he had done this, and I was surprised on a college or university campus. As including one who migrated west that he had cheated. Then I learned members of the first group, Cal tech from MIT.) that, although he was in the class, he alumni have had a strong influence Karate and the discipline it offers wasn't a Cal tech student." One of the reasons why karate has appealed to Cal tech students is that the discipline does not require supe­ rior athletic potential. Rather, it takes "At Caltech you can take physics from a person where he is and goes on to Feynman and karate from Mr. Ohshima." develop composure, clearer thought processes, deeper insight into one's mental capabilities, and more self on collegiate karate across the have been strong attractions for confidence - at the same time that it country. Caltech students, but the greatest is toning the body; strengthening Stupak was the first captain. "My attraction has been their teacher - coordination, building stamina, and form was remarkable," he says of his whom they address as 'Mr. quickening reflexes - as well as early days as a karate student. Ohshima" with a mingling of awe integrating the hemispheres of the "Several years later, after a good deal and affection. Floyd Herbert (BS '64) brain. of practice, it was suggested with remembers that "in a very real sense, Floyd Herbert, who describes some accuracy that I was the worst we were training to be like him. He's himself as "short," suffered from student Mr. Ohshima had ever had. a very admirable person. It became Mr. Ohshima welcomes alumni who have re­ asthma as a student, and says he Now he has been training students at an adage among students in karate turned to campus to celebrate 25 years of "had a vague idea that it would be a Ca lteeh karate. Caltech for 25 years, and I hope that that here we could take physics from good idea to learn self defense." He someone else has been able to claim Feynman and karate from Mr. sentimental attachment to Cal tech watched the Karate Club members that title." Ohshima." because it was the first school where perform and decided to get involved. The initial reception to karate This assessment is a valid one. A karate was offered, and it is the only 'The approach fascinated me," he within the athletics department was student of the founder of modern place where he is still in touch with says. "It's very intuitive and anti­ restrained (although Coach James karate, Master Gichin Funakoshi, beginners. He really enjoys this, deductive. Karate shows you how Nerrie greeted it with customary Mr. Ohshima holds a 5th degree because he knows how hard the you make physical models with your enthusiasm, Stupak recalls.) Until black belt - the highest awarded by students try." mind about the way things are hap­ 1964, students paid Ohshima them­ his teacher - and he is interna­ On the surface of it, an oriental pening, and how these models lead selves; that year it became a regular tionally recognized for his stature in martial art that emphasizes spiritual you into errors. part of the athletic program. the field. He is the chief instructor for and intuitive development at least as "For example, I remember how But there was no restraint in the Shotokan Karate in the United States much as physical capacity seems a once we were talking with Mr. Oh­ enthusiasm of Cal tech students, and and in five foreign countries, work­ strange discipline for rationally and shima about the physics involved in a over the years, karate evolved as the ing with advanced students and with analytically oriented Cal tech stu­ movement, and how the movement instructors. But only at Cal tech does dents. But the two seem to work as a would be constrained by physical he teach beginners. natural combination. The current Karate Club captain, With a warmth that matches his research fellow Malladi Subbaiah, capacity for discipline, Mr. Ohshima comments, "Mr. Ohshima has a 'observes, "We don't believe that real strength comes from physical ability, but from a person's total strength as a human being. We train both the mind and the body, and we work to devel­ op a clear consciousness. In karate, there is only one opponent - oneself - and Caltech students have a strong mental attitude. They push themselves hard. And while they may be physically less skillful than some others, they have a remarkable capacity to understand ideas from laws. Then he proceeded to demon­ "and this is its attraction for a lot of The Earth and Venus: strate the movement, and he proved people. You learn to face pain, fear that we were wrqng. Our reaction - whatever you need to face to get some surprising parallels was, 'He can't be doing that. We just through a situation. You take the proved by laws of physics that it's attitude that 'it hurts, but I'm going impossible.' . to do it anyway.' Besides the physical "Karate has had a tremendous skill and coordination, karate has The hot, sulfurous, cloud-shrouded One basis for the similarities be­ effect on the way I view life, on my helped me mentally to become more atmosphere of Venus would seem to tween the ch~mistriesof the two relationsbips with people, and on the aware of my surroundings and more have little in common with the more planets' atmospheres is that their way I face problems," Herbert adds. confident in them, to feel I can take benign atmosphere of Earth, but stratospheres are surprisingly similar, "In karate, you deal with a lot of care of myself if I need to." chemists have found some surprising according to the scientists. Their pain, and over the years this helped It is fall now, and a new group of and useful parallels between the two pressures and temperatures are about me learn to endure hardships of some 30 freshmen have converged for planets. the same despite the huge differences various kinds a lot better. I developed their first karate lesson under Mr. In a recent article in Science two. in the two planets at lower altitudes. psychological techniques for dealing Ohshima. Torsos range from those researchers from Caltech report that The Venusian atmosphere reaches with emotional as well as physical heavily developed by weight lifting the trace element plays a pressures 300 times that of Earth's at stresses. II to - more typically - those best similar role in the atmospheric sea level and temperatures of several chemistries of both Venus and Earth. hundred degrees. The scientists are William B. "A major point in this work is the DeMore, senior research scientist at importance of catalysts in the atmos­ JPL, and Yuk L. Yung, associate pheric chemistry of the planets," said professor of planetary science at Yung. "Substances like chlorine play Caltech. a role far out of proportion to their In the article, "Catalytic Processes concentration in the atmosphere. We in the Atmospheres of Earth and now have evidence that both Mars Venus," they discuss how chlorine and Venus, as well as Earth, show oxides on Venus and Earth control such effects." the conversion of both atomic oxy­ Yung said that another major gen (0) and ozone (0,) to molecular lesson of the studies is that the oxygen (0,). planets have proven valuable and valid laboratories for understanding This chemical reaction as it occurs the chemistry of the Earth's on Earth has received considerable atmosphere. attention because it is the basis for The scientists' work was based on fears that man-made fluorocarbons a combination of laboratory experi­ released into the atmosphere may ments - in which individual reac­ damage the stratospheric ozone layer. tions are studied and characterized - This fragile band protects life on the and mathematical modeling of the planet's surface, including man, from myriad of chemical reactions that damaging ultraviolet rays. occur in the atmosphere. According Venus could be said to represent an to the scientists, atmospheriC With advanced studeJ1 ts setting the pace, ["eshmen learn what Mr. Ohshima meani when he told extreme case of the effects of chlorine them, "You carne here to learn your own strength. Your opponent is yourself. Don't make any chemists have made great strides in excuses. on the atmosphere, according to the the last few decades in understanding scientists. Venus, unlike Earth, lacks the chemistry of planetary atmos­ large quantities of water in the form pheres in a systematic way. The Although he enrolled in karate to described as skinny or spare. Several of rain to remove atmospheric chlo­ understanding of the 200 or so funda­ learn self defense, Herbert has never Cal tech black belts assist Ohshima as rine. Thus the planet has a concentra­ mental chemical reactions that make used it for that purpose. He notes he leads the class, acting as role tion of chlorine over a thousand up atmospheric chemistry represents that karate students are taught not to models as they perform exercises, times higher than that of Earth. a body of knowledge thsolar system, another alternative, and that the After a vigorous 30 minutes, some ular oxygen on Venus, chlorine, in they said. average student should perhaps have students are turning pale around the another reaction, also acts to remove the occasion to use it only once in a lips, but no one has fallen by the it from the Venusian atmosphere. lifetime. Because it teaches courtesy wayside. Exercises have been intro­ Chlorine oxides catalyze the reaction and respect for opponents, Herbert duced; now it is time to speak of of 0 , with carbon monoxide to form notes that you become less "hot philosophy. carbon dioxide, according to the ASME honors headed" - and thus less likely to be "Here we are seeking oneness from scientists. Allan Acosta drawn into conflict in the first place. top to bottom," Mr. Ohshima tells The energy for this reaction comes Allan J. Acosta, professor of Karen Roberts (BS '74), an them, "-no mental blocks. Your from solar radiation that has been mechanical engineering, is the 1982 alumnus of the Karate Club, met her opponent is yourself. Don't make absorbed by sulfur compounds in the recipient of the American Society of husband, Jim Sagawa, when she any excuses. You came to learn your Venusian atmosphere. Thus, without Mechanical Engineers' Henry R. joined the group he teaches in Palo own strength. I consider that, when chlorine, Venus's atmosphere might Worthington Award. Acosta was Alto. Now she practices two hours a you come here, you are asking me to contain far more oxygen, although selected for his contributions in fluid night, four nights a week. "Karate push you, and I will do so." the level would reach nowhere near mechanics. isn't based on strength," she says, "Pass out but don't quit," he ad­ that of Earth's, said DeMore and monishes warmly. ''I'm an expert at Yung. resuscitation. I'll resuscitate you." "This removal of oxygen is analo­ And for freshmen facing four years gous to the process of smog forma­ of academic life at the Institute, Mr. tion in urban atmospheres on Earth," Ohshima's counsel will be practical said Dr. DeMore. "Both of the pro­ on more than one level. cesses are catalytic and in both cases they utilize 0 ,. However, on Venus . the 0 , is converted to carbon dioxide and on earth it's converted to ozone." 10

1959 field theory and to the theory of The Way it Was Karate was added to Cal tech ath­ elementary particles, notes letic program, in its first appearance April E&S. 1923 citizens should be persecuted the on a U.S. college campus. "Caltech Three-hundred-and-fifty-pound students are practicing this lethal art The Nobel Prize in physics is same way the Nazis have persecuted Eric Nord, "Big Daddy of the Beat­ once a week under the direction of awarded to Robert A. Millikan, the Jewish citizens of Nazi Cerm;my." niks," visits campus and talks to 150 executive head of Caltech, as the first Caltech graduates dine at the Tsutomu Ohshima from Tokyo, students in the Caltech Y. Martin Japan," according to February Engi­ scientist to isolate and measure the eighth annual Seminar Day on newly Carnoy, BS '60, reports in May E&S electron, reports developed processed foods especially neering & Science. that Nord talks about "the big scene The Institute receives a $2,500,000 on November 14. Explains Millikan designed for feeding Europe's hungry up in San Fancisco and how the L.A. gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation of his work, 'This discovery consti­ mill ions, according to the Star-News cats can make the same scene in and the Superior Oil Company for tutes a direct and convincing proof of on April 22. The foods were devel­ Venice, and how the nine-to-five construction of a new engineering the discrete or atomic character of oped by the Foods Research Depart­ scene is a drag." Carnoy reports that building, the Keck Engineering Labs, the force we call electricity." ment of the Department of Bio­ over the next few days, the increase at San Pasqual and Chester. The gift Meanwhile, in Stockholm, a young chemistry under the direction of in sandals worn and growing beards is the largest the Institute has ever Swedish scientist describes Millikan Professor Henry Borsook. is astounding, and undergraduates received for building purposes, re­ as "the most friendly person I ever Cal tech's war training program, sprout phrases like "Man, don't bug lates E&S in March. met. He gave me several hours of his under which more than 5,000 men me," and "He makes his scene and I Murray Cell-Mann, professor of make mine. Dig?" But midterms physics, is named 1959 winner of the approach and the campus returns to Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathe­ normal .... matical Physics for contributions to ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET

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June 30,1982 ASSETS Cash on Hand and in Bank ...... • . . ... $ 10.333.11 Investments: C.IT. Consolidated Portfolio. 647',150.23 Money Market Funds, ..... 72.242.96 Investment Income Receivable . . 11,000.00 Other Receivables . . , , ...... •...... 2.431.48 ?ostage Deposit and Deferred Expenses :c....:. . .:... . C-'-'-C-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-.:..:..: :..:..:...:... . .:...... :. . :.c" :":' :.c' :C' -'--'='-'-'-'-'-'-:..:.:. 620.67 TOTAL ASSETS ...... $743.778.45 =="--7=~~~~~'-'~~~~~' =" ~" """" .

LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND SURPLUS A ccounts Payable ...... • • • .... . $ 33,880.47 Deferred Inc()me: Annual Membership Dues paid in advance ...... 20.495.00 Investment Income from C.I.T Consolidated Portfolio. ,...... ,' 33.000.00 Lire Membership Reserve...... , ...... • ...... 647.102.93 Reserve for Dirl;'ctory ...... 49.58 Surplus. 9,250.47 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND SURPLUS ...... $743.778.45 A Caltee" football victory is commemorated in a 1923 editioll of t"e Los Angeles Times. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME, EXPENSES AND SURPLUS For the Year Ended June 30,1982 valuable time. I could hardly believe and women were trained for vital INCOME Dues of Annual Members. .. $ 63.106.00 I stood before the greatest research war jobs since October 1940, will lnvestmenllncome: C.I.T Consolidated Portfoli() 47,393.93 scientist of the present day." shut down on June 30, the Pasadena Money Market Fu nds...... • ...... 10.987.16 Star-News announces on April 27. Annual Sen,inar ...... , ...... 21.755.50 Program and Social Functions ...... 1 •• ••••• • ••••• •••• •• • ••• • •• 64.308.78 1945 Closing orders from Washington Class Reunions ...... 8.323.48 8.342.75 The FBI investigates a threatening affect 150 institutions throughout the Area and Chapter Meetings. TOTAL INCOME...... • • ..... $224.217.60 note sent to Linus Pauling of Alta­ United States. Under the program, dena, a research expert in explosives workers were trained at Cal tech in EXPENSES chemistry at Cal tech, and co-devel­ such skills as aircraft design, plastics, Publications...... $ 12.000.00 Annual Seminar...... • ...... 24,081.83 oper of oxypolygelatin, a blood industrial relations, and engineering Program iJnd Social Functions...... •...... 65,066.48 Class Reunions...... 13,241.22 plasma substitute, according to the mathematics. Area and Chapler Meetings. . ... , ...... 16,698.74 Pasadena Star-News on April 10. The J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of Student Programs ...... , ...... ,', ...... ,...... J6,954.96 Institute Secondary School Relations ...... 1,560.30 note apparently stems from the fact the atomic bomb project at Los Administration...... • ...... 41,537.39 Membership, ...... " .. ,...... 6,830.35 that Pauling has employed a Japan­ Alamos, leaves to resume his teach­ Directory...... 9,000,00 ese-American gardner, a young man ing duties at Cal tech, according to TOTAL EXPENSES. . . $206,971.27 recently released from a relocation the Star-News on November 4. On EXCESS OFiNCOME OVER EXPENSES ...... $ 17.246.33 Surplus (Deficit), june 30, 1981 , . . (7,995.86) center. The threat is the second act of November 14, Oppenheimer and 189 Surplus, June 30, 1982 ...... -..- .-..- .-----'-'-----' ..... $ 9.250.47 harrassment in four days. Earlier, a other scientists and humanitarians painting of a rising sun appeared on from Cal tech, Mount Wilson, and AUDITOR'S REPORT Pauling's garage door, inscribed, the Huntington Library send an open Board of Directors "Americans die but we love Japs." letter to President Truman urging a Alumni Association California Inst itute of Tt."Chnology Pauling terms the act one of "mis­ national commission to inaugurate I have examined the balance sheet of the Alumni Association, California Inst itute of Technology as of June 30, 1.982, and guided people who believe American national control of the bomb. the related statement of income, expenses and surplus (or the year then ended. My examination was made in accordance with "We are concerned about the future generall y accepted auditing standards. and accordingly included such tests of the (lccounting records and such other auditi ng procedures as 1 considered nl'Cessary in the circumstances. . of our country and of civilization In my opinion, the accompanying balance sheet and stalemen't of income, expenses and surplus present fairly the fina n­ itself if faced by another war," they cial position of the Alumni Association. California Institute. of Technology at June 30,1982. and the results of its operations for the year then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on

Calvin A. Ames Certified Public Accountant October 26, 1982 f '

1, ;, "The plays of Terentius (Terence), the youthful Roman playwright, have for centuries been the despair of old age and the joy of younglings," reported tI,e Big Tin .1930. "The play 'Andria'is no exception, replete as it is with shameless scandal and outlandish buffoonery." Members of the cast appeared in this Big T photograpll and if was reported that "Harold Roach, as Davus, was tl,e star of tile play. His antics kept the audience in a continual uproar."

As Creon, King of Thebes, Al Hibbs (BS '45, PhD '55) listens to citizens of Thebes and the pleas of his son, Haemon, to retract his sentence of deatl, for Antigone. Caltech drama revives a classic tradition

By Phyllis Brewster Greek or Roman drama was given, the plays were comedies, with the Greek drama returned to Cal tech feminine characters being imperson­ this fall after an absence of 40 years. ated by masculine persons, adding When the Institute's program in the considerably to the comic theater arts (TACIT) chose Sopho­ dimensions. cles' Antigone as its opening produc­ In 1925 Phormio (a Latin comedy tion, it was reviving a campus tradi­ written by Terence in the time of tion dating back to 1924. That year, Cicero) was presented at Culbertson according to the Big T, "a new depar­ Hall. The two female characters were ture in the annals of forensics at the played by Jack Fahs and Harold Institute occurred, with the presenta­ Sheffield, who, it was reported, tion of Phi/oetetes by the California "provoked more than the usual Gamma chapter of Pi Kappa Delta." laughter accorded female impersona­ The Caltech Drama Club presented the comedy "Curculio" in 1941 with Frank Fleck (BS '42) in This particular Sophocles tragedy tors." And when Plautus' The Per­ was chosen, reported the 1924 year­ the title role, and the Big T termed the production "a smashing hit which featured all the well­ sians was given the following year, known Tech annotations." Above: Richard Riddell (BS '44) and Myron Pollycove (BS '42) grap­ book, because of its entirely mascu­ the Big T declared that "the women ple with Clifford Truesdell (BS '41, MS '42) . line cast - "obviating the necessary in the production are always worth impersonations ... which are (al­ the price of admission alone." hovering above Culbertson Hall .. war emergency prevented sponsoring ways) accompanied by much loss of In addition to humor, the year must have chuckled to witness the the customary Greek play." And so, dramatic effect in a serious 1929 marked a momentary return to performance of his comedy, The a tradition of 17 years was laid to production." tragedy - Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Menaechmi - starring Cal tech's twin rest - at least temporarily. The performance was pronounced And in another departure from the students, Francis and Milton Clauser, Its revival this year was Horace a - and it was hoped that then five-year-old tradition, a real in the leading roles of the twin Gre­ Gilbert's idea, says TACIT's director, such a presentation would become an woman was cast as Jocasta, Queen cian gentlemen, the Menaechmi, Shirley Marneus. Gilbert, now pro­ annual event. of Thebes. And so it went, comedies and an fessor emeritus of business eco­ An annual event it did become, But in 1930, comedy was back, occasional tragedy, but every year a nomics, joined the Caltech faculty in but alas for serious productions, with Terentius' Andria, "replete as it classic play introducing a bit of the 1929 and is a longtime enthusiastic classical plays with all-male casts is with shameless scandal and out­ thought and feeling and life of the supporter of student drama on were in short supply. The forensics landish buffoonery" - and men men of ancient Greece - and campus. Recalling with pleasure the group turned to comedy. The follow­ playing women's parts. Rome. Please turn the page. ing year, and in fact, in almost all of In 1934 a Big T copywriter fanta­ But historical events were drawing the succeeding 17 years in which a sized that "the spirit of Plautus, the curtain, not only on the drama season, but also on most social and cultural activities on campus. The 1942 yearbook states simply that "the 12__

years of classic plays, Gilbert sug­ 1918: Frank Capra and friends storm Yosemite Valley gested the Greek revival, and Mar­ neus responded. Film director Frank Capra (BS '18), At two in the morning the all's traversing some very rough country Ironically, Marneus seriously who holds the longest unbroken clear signal was given and we left we reached the Mariposa Grove of considered producing Sophocles' string of motion picture Academy Pasadena happy and joyful in our big trees and the sights we saw there Phi/octetes - the 1924 first play - Awards in history, became the first ignorance, for we did not know what amply repaid us for any inconven­ as the revival opener. Eventually she director to have his name listed we would need or what we would iences experienced. Here we had rejected the idea, however, for the above the title of his pictures. But in encounter. Furthermore we did not lunch and then started for the Valley. very reason it was chosen that first this account of a senior trip to care. At Glendale we picked up Imler That night we slept out on Fish year - because of its all-male cast. Yosemite Valley in the 1918 Throop and then made for Tehachapi. We Creek, where we first were intro­ But Marneus did select a tragedy. Tech, he modestly signed his name at might here give the exact identity of duced to man's most pesky enemy, Why? the article's conclusion. The historic the parties concerned since the battle the mosquito, and oh, how warlike "Greek comedies tend to date," piece, "Seniors' Blowout(s), " is re­ is over and the censorship has been and bloodthirsty he was. One almost says the director. 'They are usually printed here with permission. lifted. The personnel was Sticht, thought it was a dirty Hun trick that political, and, although the situations Karge, Imler, Capra, Torgerson, put these tormentors in this favorite are universal, the humor depends on It often happens that people who Thomas and Weldon. Karge and place of nature. word play and on the current events are not particularly gifted with brains Imler were going only as far as That day we climbed mountains of those times." or imagination are struck suddenly Fresno; the rest were going through and entered the Valley by the Wa­ In the future Marneus would like with very brilliant and wonderful into Yosemite Valley. wona Road. The day was misty and to produce a politically updated ideas. Such an attack came upon The tires stood up well this side of rainy and our first peek at the Valley version of one of the Greek comedies several seniors of a sudden when they the desert, only two punctures early found it clothed in mist and clouds - for example, The Clouds - with planned a trip to the Yosemite Valley in the morning causing us any delay. through which Bridal Veil Falls shim­ current political situations substituted in a machine during the one lone But when we got on the long stretch mered mystically and ghostlike, for those of the fourth century Be. week of vacation. of concrete across the desert, their while bold El Capitan frowned However, Marneus says that would A Hudson 40 was dug up for the age and decadent condition showed through the haze. take someone a whole year to rein­ We found the Valley fairly populat­ terpret, and to date she hasn't found ed and thinking that the French chefs a "someone" with the talent and the at the camps were inferior 'to us in whole year. the culinary art, we nosed around looking for a camp. We had no tent and the ground was wet; we had no Caltech alumnus money and the hotels came high; so awarded Nobel CAPRA FRANK RUSSELL we were quite perplexed for the From Manual Arts High School nonce, but on running along a Prize in Physics Entered 1915 slightly frequerited road we carne B. . S. in Chemistry upon a cave that was formed by the Freshman Travel Prize Kenneth G . Wilson (PhD '61), a Student Body Secretary 3 falling of huge rocks from the cliffs Cornell University theoretical physi­ Junior Cia •• Vice-President above. It had a small and inconspicu­ cist, is winner of the 1982 Nobel Senior Class Sergeant-at-arms ous entrance and was full of jagged Editor The Tech 3 Prize in Physics. Wilson, who did his Glee Club I, 2. 3. and 4 boulders set at every angle on the thesis work at Cal tech under Murray Chern Club 2. 3. and 4 inside. Here we made our camp and Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, Dorm Club 2. 3. and 4. Pre •. 4 P. Gnome Club 2. 3. and 4 cooked our first meal. The comfort was awarded the prize for work on The.is--Conductivity of Picric of this cave was directly proportional how matter is transformed from one Acid and its Salt. to the wind, for as the wind blew, so state to another. the smoke went, and most of the Called " transitions," these time it went in our eyes. What crimes transformations involve such phe­ trip, which had five tires that were up wonderfully. The sun was pitiless. are committed in the name of nomena as water turning into water probably the ones that kept Noah's the wind was like the breath of a adventure! vapor under certain pressure condi­ Ark afloat or the ones on which fire-lunged dragon, while the con­ Since we were up there for a rest tions or iron losing its magnetic Caesar crossed the Rubicon, certainly crete made the soles of our feet we decided that at least three or four properties and becoming non-mag­ they were not built to carry the smoke. Bang, s-s-s-s-s, pop, whee-e­ hours a night should be given to netic at particular temperatures. precious load of bright and shining e-e-e-e, sowee-ee-ee, boom, went the sleep. In the day time we would hike At Cal tech, Wilson did his thesis seniors who leaned back in the seats tires. D-n, H-l, tires, went the around and in the evening we would on "An Investigation of the Low with all the air of pork barrel kings. seniors. We throttled the bus down to go to Camp Curry where entertainers Equati9n and the Chew-Mandelstam These same tires gave early signs of 20 per. Bang and out we would roll amused the crowd every night. Some Equations." Gell-Mann, the Robert their inability to stand the tremen­ and slap on another five-minute were good; others were poor. Each Andrews Millikan Professor of dous responsibilities, when four of vulcanizer. Down to 15, and a half night there would be also a firefall Theoretical Physics, won a Nobel the seniors, coming to the dorm mile further we would hear a long from Glacier Point which was right Prize in Physics in 1969. Feynman, dance on the eve of departure, made sweet whining sound, as if a shell over Camp Curry. A huge fire would the Richard Chace Tolman Professor their fair friends get out and help passed over us. More sweat, the air be built on the overhanging rock and of Theoretical Physics, won a Nobel shift tires, besides missing nearly half became blue and hot, and Karge then at night the ashes and burning Prize in Physics in 1965. the dances. would lose five pounds pumping logs would be pushed over. The fire the tire. fell about two thousand feet onto a To cut a long story short we might huge ledge below. say that the above performance was repeated eighteen (18) times, and that we know every garage between Pasadena and Camp Curry from buying a few more second-hand tires and tubes. Imler and Karge were let off at Fresno twelve hours late, while the rest of us traveled on to Madera, where we stocked up on food. After After the entertainment there After spending the next day cook­ when Cap sifted into the cave, threw punctures and blowouts and having would be a dance for about two ing three meals, back to the dance we himself on a rock and vehemently to send on two men in a passing hours. Here our party was very went, and Capra gave everybody to exploded, "D ~ n . " machine, so as to lighten the respon­ much in evidence. The fair sex was in understand the machine was his for When it carne time to leave the sibilities of the sadly overworked abundance; the Valley full of rom­ the night. The same girl was met and place we did so reluctantly, because it tires, the trip back was a repitition ance; we were out for a good time; the same question asked. She made had been one continual joy for us. [sic] of the trip up. At Saugus five of so what can you expect? Naturally him swear he had a machine and On the way out during the night we us had a huge steak apiece, and three some of our party had to fall, but the would take her safely home four were going down a steep mountain hours later saw us back in Pasadena, one that took the deepest plunge was miles down the Valley, for she had to road when we were confronted with not a sou in our pockets, tired, and Thomas. He met his Psyche early in go to work at eight in the morning. a huge bonfire right in the middle of sadder but much wiser. the week and he was lost to us for He swore amply, so she consented. the road. Around it were stretched FRANK R. CAPRA ever after. Weldon also nearly forgot When everything was over they half a dozen bodies of men ap­ "the girl he left behind," while Torgy migrated toward the machine, being parently asleep. For a while we was enraptured with a young girl in about the last to leave. The night was thought it was a hold-up, but as we LETTERS fiery red from Long Beach whom he beautiful and quiet while the Hudson approached one of the men woke up did not even speak to. Such was the was going well, so they settled down and seeing us let out some awful yells Dear Editor: effect the Valley had on the party. to the ordinary actions and conversa­ of fear as he drew back off the road. Anent the Great One, Albert Indeed even Sticht broke the usual ice tion common under the circum­ A few of us got out to investigate Einstein, (Caltech News, August, p.8) that surrounds him when the fair sex stances. (The editor wishes to inquire and we found that they were all be exposed to a fact that is less than is concerned and tripped the of Mr. Capra what is considered the dead-drunk; the one who woke up little known: fantastic and chattered nonsense with "ordinary actions" under these cir­ thought we were fiends from hell or During Dr. Einstein's stay at the best of them. cumstances.) About half a mile from something, it surprised him so. We Cal tech in 1932, I almost literally the starting point, however, the had on uniforms so we quickly bumped into him one night in front machine took a notion to stop. A ordered them to move and clear the A cold sweat broke out on Cap's of Throop Hall. It was quite dark, cold sweat broke out on Cap's brow road. Those that had still sufficient brow while the girl looked in­ and for a moment or so, he and I while the girl looked inquiringly. reason to grasp the situation helped were the only people in the universe. quiringly. Examination showed Examination showed the gas had run us in a staggering fashion to kick the I don't remember the specifics of the the gas had run out. out. The sweat grew colder. Three others off the road. They explained brief conversation that ensued, but i------miles to her house, four miles back to that they were loggers celebrating the l. the crux of the situation was simple camp, two in the morning and an Fourth. [, Capra pulled the prize boner, enough: The Great One was lost! He angry female on his hands. Quite a We picked up Karge and Imler at \ough. One night he met a fair asked me to direct him to the pickle. The conversation will not be Fresno and started on our return trip. ;harmer and she lived so far down Athenaeum! printed but it was well nigh dawn Aside from getting half a dozen more :he Valley that he offered to so much I recall taking him gently by the e.lconvenience" himself as to take her arm and leading him toward Califor­ irJme. Out they went into the starlit nia Street until we reached a point Ught looking for the machine. Alas, Prince Philip tours the Olive Walk from where the of the Athe­ ~S Hudson was no where to be naeum were visible. I then literally B~,md. In vain he looked while the pointed the one and only Albert th e: became impatient and sarcastic. Einstein in the direction whence came He offered a few lame excuses, but he the light and instructed him to set sail was the goat and the young damsel for it. went home with someone else . This is a fact, but I could never . Weldon had taken the machine on an "prove" it because he was the only exactly similar mission only afew other witness to the incident . , " moments before. Curses! But even he T. S. TERRILL, BS '33 did not find it all smooth sailing, for while being engrossed in the forms of Ed. no~e: This letter just arrived from flowers, girls, etc., he ran into a rope the offices of the California Tech with which stretched across the road to a confession that it had been lan­ keep autoists off, and tore off the guishing there for several months radiator cap. after a misdelivery,

Dear Caltech News Sports Editor: I have just read Sam Johnson's excellent letter on Tech football championships. He has, however, made one error when he calls the 1930 championship the first. The 1923 team also was conference cham­ pion. My brother Ray, who passed away May 5, played fullback on that team. ' Incidentally, the 1928 team missed a tie or win by one point in either of two games. It lost to Pomona 7-6 and tied Whittier 12-12, with wins over Occidental, Redlands, and San Diego State. ~ FRANK ALDERMAN, BS '30 H.R.H. Prince PI,i/ip, Ouke of Edinburgh, visited tl,e Caltech campus in September. Here in his role as president of the World Wildlife Fund-International and vice president of the International Uniorl for Conservatiol1 of Nature and Natural Resources, he took part in a conference in Beck­ mal1 Auditorium spol1sored by th e Cal tech-based LSB. Leakey Foundation and the World Wildlife Fu"d. He also found the time to stroll down the Olive Walk and discuss Tech and Techers with Edwin S. Munger (right), professor of geography and president of the Leakey Foundation. 14

Help us locate ALUMNI Alumni Fund these lost alumni announces additional ACTIVITIES area chairmen

Cal tech has no record of the ad- Edw;ml B. Wintt'rs, Je. tiS 1j7 Nortlm L. M()i~c MS 59 L..1i ·Chao Ying MS 47 Phl) 63 January 1 The Alumni Fund has selected 13 dresses of these alumni. If you know Yin-Ching Au 13548 Stanley Roth 13559 Annual Rose Parade Special. ClIp!, J. Bunce MS 48 J(J .~('ph M, (miley US 60 additional new area chairmen for the current locations of any of them, Tao-Hung Chu MS /18 MS 6J Continental breakfast in the 1982-83: Max Kreston, BS '50, River­ please relay the information to the Enr, 49 Ahlin N. Genku MS60 Albcl'l R. Clark MS 48 Ernest A. Isa<1cs BS 60 Athenaeum, 7:30-9:30 a.m.; side-San Bernardino; Robert Alumni Office. Uurgess F. Collins OS 48 Pierre E. Joffrcs MS 60 RobeI'I J _MacNeill MS 48 William A. Sino[( US 60 walk to Colorado Boulevard O'Connell, BS '51, North San WilJimn M. Tilgg::H1 BS 22 Leslie A. Sh.<; AS 60 and view the parade from Fernando; Robert Ross Staley, Willard l-l. Tracy OS 24 Peter A . T il t'~ tun Ex 43 Col. Albert E. MS 61 Willn;,d G. Thompson US 25 Emeslo Vicente MS 43 McCollam MSI18 Roland Killen MS 6'1 reserved seats, 9:30-11:15 a.m.; BS '42, MS '43, Palo Alto; Thomas Conrad J. Waller AS 25 Courthmu I.. George W. Roe, Jr. 13548 Et il;'nne Macke MS 61 buffet lunch in the Athenaeum Nathan E Scudder 13526 Washburn MS 43 John T. Slusher MS 48 Dwain J. Reed BS 61 Tarbet, BS '31, MS '32, Marin [ , .{~wis L. Smith MS 28 Warren H . Amster [JS 44 John S. Swain BS 48 MS 61 or bus to the Rose Bowl with Frank F. Peterson [JS 27 MS 47 Robert K. Swank MS 48 Clement C. Audet MS 62 County; Jerard Adams, BS '76, Francis C, Marlin MS 28 Eng 48 JmnE.'s E. Whitney MS 48 M ic hel M . Cousin MS 62 box lunch, 12 noon. Prices to be Michel D' Arbaumont Portland; Craig Zumbrunnen, KamH.I ..

Halley's Comet - last seen in 1910 - was sighted for the first time on its return trip through the solar system by two Caltech astronomers, staff astronomer C. Edward Dan­ ielson and graduate student David C. /ewitt. Circled in the photograph above, the comet was detected on October 16 with the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain and an extremely sensitive electronic camera. About a billion miles away when it was sighted, it will pass within 90 million miles of Earth in 1986, becoming one of the most brilliant objects in the sky. CALTECH Freshman Tom Tucker determines the melting point of a compound as he NEWS settles into Chemistry 3A in the new Clifford S, and Ruth A. Mead Memorial ' California Institute of Technology Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory. (See page I ,) 1201 E. California Boulevard Pasadena, California 91125 December 1982 Published for Alumni and Friends of the California Institute of Technology Volume 16, No.7, December 1982