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482 Cornell Alumni News VOLUME 56, NUMBER 16 MAY 15, 1954

chitecture, the critic and the composer, Contemporary Arts Festival contemporary modes of expression in the graphic arts, what is the future of Gives Varied Program on All Phases metaphysical poetry, and the layman and the arts of today. EIGHTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL of Contem- porary Painting and Sculpture: Which Committee for the annual Festivals of porary Arts brightened the Campus for Leads Which?"; and Richard Wilbur of Contemporary Arts has been made a a full two weeks, April 14-May 5. It Harvard, one of this country's outstand- standing committee of the University marked the first Festival participation ing younger poets, read some of his po- Faculty. It has Professor Hartell as of the Andrew Dickson White Museum ems and commented on them. Mrs. chairman and as members Professors of Art. Festival exhibitions were shown Robert Flaherty, widow of the docu- Robert M. Palmer and Robert H. Hull, in its galleries and twelve of the twenty- mentary film producer, described her PhD '45, Music; Professors Walter H. seven events listed on the attractive Fes- husband's work after a showing of his Stainton '19 and George A. McCalmon, tival calendar folder took place there. film "Moana," in the Willard Straight Speech & Drama; May Atherton and Special lighting and the tasteful back- Theater. Judith Hodge, Dance; Professor ground of the Museum made an excel- The Festival also included a dance Straight and Joseph Carreiro, Housing lent setting for the eight groups of art concert by Iris Mabry, with music by & Design Professor Victor Colby, MFA work exhibited. A group of mobile Ralph Gilbert, composer-accompanist, '50, Painting & Sculpture; Professor sculptures in metal by Alexander Cald- Physical Education for Women; con- Eric H. Quell '44 and Romaldo Giur- er, lent by the Curt Valentin Gallery, certs by musical groups including the gola, Architectural Design; Professor attracted a lot of attention. One, cryp- Walden String Quartet, Rochester Robert H. Elias, English; Director Rob- tically titled "Yellow W, Orange Y," Chamber Orchestra, University Orches- ert R. Wilson of the Laboratory of Nu- hung suspended in the entrance hall and tra, A Cappella Chorus, and Sage clear Studies; Professor Frederick G. five others were interspersed in the gal- Chapel Choir; and panel discussions on Marcham, PhD '26, History; and Direc- leries. A group of recent paintings by fantasy and humor in modern art, struc- tor Alan R. Solomon of the White Mu- Joan Miro, lent by the Matisse Gallery, ture and aesthetics in contemporary ar- seum. and a group of early 20th century paintings by Klee, Kandinsky, Marc, and other artists on extended loan from the Guggenheim Museum, were very interesting. A worthy display of Faculty tal- ent was evidenced in a group of paintings and sculpture that included the works of Professors Kenneth W. Evett and James O. Mahoney, Fine Arts, John A. Hartell '24, Painting & Sculpture, and Clara Straight, Housing & Design, and Instructor John R. Richards, Fine A. Arts. Also shown were an architectural exhibit from the New York firm of Har- rison & Abramovitz, contemporary glass from many countries on loan from the Corning Museum of Glass; and student work in painting, sculpture, and other mediums.

Speakers, Performers Appear Four lectures were an outstanding part of the program. Archibald MacLeish, poet and playwright, here as Forbes Heermans Lecturer, spoke on ''Poetry and the Modern Stage" before an audience which overflowed Olin Hall auditorium. MacLeish also participated in a panel discussion of the drama and his play, "This Music Crept by Me," was Rehearse for Festival Concert—Participants in the first program of the Eighth Annual read by a cast of staff and students. Wal- Festival of Contemporary Arts confer in Barnes Hall auditorium before the concert. Left to right are David Glazer of New York City, clarinetist; Professor Robert M. Palmer, ter Terry, dance critic of The New York Music (standing), whose 1952 composition "Quartet for Piano, Clarinet, and Strings" Herald Tribune, discussed "The Danc- was given its first Ithaca performance; Homer Schmitt, violinist, of the Walden String er's Heritage", Robert J. Goldwater, Quartet; Professor John Kirkpatrick, Music (standing), pianist; John Garvey, professor of art at Queen's College, con- violist, of the Walden String Quartet; and Robert Swenson, 'cellist, of the Walden String sidered the art circle dilemma "Contem- Quartet. Sol Goldberg, Photo Science 483 Club Delegates Gather

OFFICERS and members of Cornell Clubs met with the president and secretary of the Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs, Max F. Schmitt '24 and R. Sel- . •-;,1 ί den Brewer '40., in two regional meetings this spring to discuss Club activities. They talked of how to increase Club membership, local Cornell news, programs and timing of meetings, Club scholarships, work with secondary schools, and keeping information about local Comellians, both in cooperation with the Alumni Office and in Club di- rectories. Delegates Discuss Club Programs—At the Cornell Club of New York, April 19, repre- At the University Club in Chicago, sentatives from eleven Cornell Clubs of the area gathered for a regional meeting of the III, February 23, F. Waite Averill '28 Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs. From left, back row: Arnold G. Landres '16, Thomas represented the Cornell Club of Michi- F. Keating, Jr. '15, William M. Leonard '23, Earle C. Adams '28, Allan A. Cruickshank '33, gan and delegates from the Cornell Jesse M. VanLaw '27, R. Selden Brewer '40, Robert A. Escher '42, Frederick W. Diefϊen- Club of Milwaukee, Wis., were G. bach '27, Edward F. Culverhouse '49, George H. Stanton '20, Bartholomew M. Jordano '49, Milton G. Dexter '24, Adelbert P. Mills '36, Harold C. Rosenthal '25, Charles M. Champlin Salisbury '12, Arthur L. Slo- Reppert, Jr. '34, Meredith R. Cushing '44. Front row: Weightman Edwards '14, Earle N. cum '39, and Thomas B. Wilson '42. Scott '23, Haig K. Shiroyan '24, Nathan Moses '22, Hugh D. Leslie '42, Stanton F. Weissen- From the Chicago Club, John H. Brodt born '49, Edward M. Carman '14, George N. Brown '08, John P. Syme '26, Rudolph M. '13, Benjamin H. Weisbrod '14, James Triest '12, Edward M. Krech '27, Ezra Cornell, 3d. '27, Max F. Schmitt '24. S. Perkins '34, Richard D. Culver '36, Shirley C. Hulse, Jr. '37, Paul W. Rice '40, Peter M. Wolff '42, and Strabo V. "String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36," and Stewart Avenue, Phillips Hall of Elec- Claggett '43 attended. Beethoven's "Quartet in E flat Major. trical Engineering of which the founda- A dinner meeting at the Cornell Club Op. 127." It was the group's eighth tions are rising on East Avenue south of of New York, April 19, brought togeth- visit to the University since it was in Campus Road, the squash courts builder representatives of that Club and the residence here in 1946-47. The mem- ing given by Alumni Trustee Leroy R. Cornell Alumni Association of New bers are Homer Schmitt and Bernard Grumman '16, being constructed near York City with those of the Cornell Goodman, violinists, John Garvey, vio- Schoellkopf, Moakley House and the Clubs of Lackawanna, Bergen County, list, and Robert Swenson, cellist. enlarged eighteen-hole University golf and Essex County, N.J., Nassau County, course on Warren Road, the Agricultur- Westchester County, Dutchess County, al Engineering Building east of Alumni New England, Western Massachusetts, Reunion Plans Take Shape Field, and the start of the new Veterin- and Washington, D.C. Those present ary College at the upper end of Tower are pictured on this page. ESTIMATES coming to the Alumni Office Road. Teagle Hall with its modern and Before dinner, the executive commit- from Class Reunion chairmen indicate complete facilities for men's sports and tee of the Federation of Cornell Men's that perhaps 2500 alumni may come to physical training, will be open for alum- Clubs met to make plans for the annual the Campus for Reunions this year, ni inspection. A special exhibit in Thurs- meeting of the Federation in Ithaca, June 11 and 12. Besides the twelve ton Hall will show some of the interest- October 9. Classes whose numerals end in 4 and 9, ing and important work being done at from '94 to '49, the Class of '51, both the Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo. men and women, will return for the first The baseball team plays Colgate on Chamber Music Program Three-year Reunion ever held. Hoy Field Friday afternoon. Seniors and Most Classes will have distinctive, alumni will sing together at the Goldwin CHAMBER MUSIC concerts in the Uni- colorful Reunion costumes and their Smith portico at dusk, after the Class versity series next year will bring two several committees are planning for dinners. That evening, the Glee Club musical ensembles new to the Campus their special events such as Class dinners will present in Bailey Hall its successful and two others for return appearances. and picnics, memorial services, and do- spring recess show which it took to Quartetto Italiano will return Novem- ings in their Class tents and dormitory Mexico and the West Coast, "From Far ber 30, to open the series. The Mannes- headquarters. Above." Reunion week end perform- Gimpel-Silva Trio will make their first Registration for all alumni will open ances of the Dramatic Club in the Will- visit January 18. Its members are Leo- in Barton Hall Friday morning, June 11, ard Straight Theater will be "The Male pold Mannes, pianist; Bronislav Gim- and continue there until Saturday after- Animal" by James Thurber and Elliott pel, violinist; and Luigi Silva, cellist. noon. Only those who register there will Nugent. Juilliard String Quartet will return be counted for the awards to Classes for Home Economics Alumnae Associa- February 22. The series will close largest attendance and highest percent- tion will hold its annual dinner meeting March 14 with the other new ensemble, age of living members present. Lunch- Friday evening. Saturday morning will the Baroque Trio, whose members are eon will be served for all in Barton Hall be the traditional Reunion breakfasts harpsichordist Fernando Valenti, flutist both Friday and Saturday, and here will for all alumnae and for Faculty and John Wummer, and cellist Daniel Said- start the popular Campus Caravan bus alumni of the College of Architecture enberg. tours, with "barkers" provided to show and School of Civil Engineering, and a This year's Chamber Music Series the points of interest. new event, a breakfast downtown for closed April 13 with a concert by the These tours will give alumni oppor- alumni of The Cornell Daily Sun. At Walden String Quartet of University of tunity to see the Campus and its envi- 10:15 Saturday morning, at the com- Illinois in the Willard Straight Theater. rons comfortably. They will pass by the bined annual meetings of the Cornell They played Mozart's "Quartet in A new men's dormitories nearing comple- Alumni Association and Alumni Fund, Major, K. 464," Benjamin Britten's tion between the Baker dormitories and result of the election of Alumni Trustees 484 Cornell Alumni News will be announced and President Deane W. Malott will make his "report to the alumni." After luncheon in Barton Hall, Classes will parade with their bands and music, and Reunion group photographs Now In My Time! will be taken. Annual meeting of the Federation of WE KNOW A MAN who has spent most but its personnel runs pretty young Cornell Women's Clubs will be followed of his useful and interesting life in and sometimes seems incapable of by a general get-together of Faculty far places. He has not seen Ithaca grasping the importance of explain- members and alumni. Saturday evening, since his graduation in 1904, but is ing the obvious to Old Timers who after Class dinners all over the Campus, planning to get back for his Fifty- have been known to wait half an the Reunion Rally of all Classes in Bar- year Reunion next month. He wrote hour at the Lehigh Valley Station ton Hall will close the general program. your reporter about sleeping arrange- for a trolley-car that has not run for Sunday morning, Mortar Board, Sphinx ments. He was too old, he said, to more than twenty years. Head, and Quill & Dagger will hold take chances with a fraternity-house After they get here, Old Timers their traditional Reunion breakfasts. sofa while a Senior Week houseparty receive remarkable service from the Alumni of the regular Reunion was going on. Alumni Office, but its preliminary in- Classes will be housed together in Uni- After inquiry at the Alumni Office, formation sometimes assumes too versity dormitories, with headquarters we wrote our man that the Class much. How is Old Joe Doaks going rooms there and Class tents for the men would be housed at Prudence Risley to know, unless you tell him, that the near their quarters. Women and the and not to give the matter another Cannonball from Owego no longer older Classes will be accommodated in thought; everything had been ar- drags in a New York sleeper; doesn't the women's dormitories north of Trip- ranged. He replied, "Who is Pru- indeed, drag itself in any more? How hammer bridge, and many Classes are dence Risley? Is it a comfortable can you expect him to know, unless arranging for one or more joint gather- place and reasonably respectable?" you tell him in simple language and ings of their men and women. For many We cite this incident with no in- repeatedly, that the Sibley Dog has alumni, Reunions give opportunity to tention of ridiculing a mildly con- become a meaningless term now that renew old friendships with their Class- fused Rip Van Winkle, but merely to Willard Straight and the Statler Club mates and Faculty members and to remind the young persons who are have taken over its functions? Not make new ones. Some will stay over now running things around here that only have you got to tell him about Sunday for the Senior festivities and for quite a lot happened before they ar- the rise of Prudence Risley, along Commencement, Monday, June 14. rived, and that neither they nor your with the departure of the Cannonball reporter should assume that Pru- from Owego, the trolleys, and the Summer Offerings dence Risley means anything at all to Sibley Dog, but you've got to do it Old Joe Doaks. Indeed, when the tactfully so he won't get mad about all these young squirts spoiling the SUMMER SESSION this year offers a vari- Class of 1894 was in college, there University that once was his, and ety of special courses and workshops. was no way of getting from Sibley across the Fall Creek gorge except by thereafter go mean and stubborn and Dr. Benjamin Fine, education editor scrambling down a mountain-goat refuse to look at anything that wasn't of The New York Times, will lead a trail and up another on the far side, here when he was in college. conference on "Interpreting Education after risking one's life on a flimsy Rip Van Winkle was away no to the Public," August 1-6. Sponsored little footbridge over the stream. The more than twenty years; our man by the School of Education, the confer- only other choices were ^to go around will return after a full half-century. ence is the third in an annual series for by Forest Home or over the bridge You must bear with his temporary school administrators. The School of near Percy Field and up again. confusions. But twenty minutes will Education, in cooperation with the New The Triphammer bridge was not suffice to take him off the hands of York State Association of Secondary the Alumni Office and start him in School Principals, will also hold a three- opened until the summer of 1899, and nearly ten years were to elapse again where he left off. Rip Van day workshop, July 29-31, at which Winkle came back alone; and that school principals and advisors will dis- after our man left town before Pru- dence Risley Hall reared itself at the makes all the difference in the world. cuss the role of student councils in our Joe Doaks, once you get him in the public schools. north end. Joe Doaks '04 as an undergraduate got about systematically right pigeonhole, will join the com- Second annual executive develop- and pretty thoroughly, but the pany of three score other Rips who ment program of the School of Business chances are he never went north of will quickly shed the evidence of & Public Administration for engineers, the Fall Creek gorge unless he hap- their long sleep in the mountains and military men, and other professional pened to take part in an interfra- become again the lissome youths they people who are moving into executive ternity baseball game played on a were when the world was younger. positions, will be held July 19-August field that we can't quite locate now, It will take no longer than it does 27. School of Industrial & Labor Rela- but which mμst have included part the sun to clear the morning mists tions is offering six one-week workshops of the present site of Prudence Risley. and restore familiar objects to their covering personnel selection and place- How would anyone expect our cor- remembered form for the "Whiteys" ment, community relations, in-plant respondent to know about Bailey and "Baldys" to become again the communications, conference leadership, Hall or Barton, let alone Schoellkopf "Reds" and "Curlys" of another health, welfare and pension plans, and Field or the respectability of Pru- epoch. After that, the efficient mana- annual wage issues. To enable hotelmen dence Risley? gers will do well to let the Ancients to learn about all phases of their field, The Alumni Office does a magnif- guide their own affairs among scenes the School of Hotel Administration has icent job, we know, in anticipating familiar to themselves but uncom- programs ranging from one week to the and providing for every need in con- prehended by an Alumni Office entire seven weeks of the University nection with Reunions and other which can't quite visualize a Campus Summer Session. matters important to the Ancients, without Prudence Risley. Information may be obtained from the Summer Session office in Day Hall. May 15,1954 49$ Food Stores Aid Students Hall dance, baseball, lacrosse, and ten- Assistant Secretary of State, economic nis were other events on the program. affairs, 1946-52; Noah Mason, Repub- FOOD FAIR STORES will finance four Cornell chapter of Pi Delta Epsilon, lican Congressman from Illinois and scholarships of $250 a year each for journalism honor society, prepared an member of the House Ways & Means Freshmen entering the University next illustrated souvenir booklet for the par- Committee; Solomon Barkin, director fall from schools in New York City or ents. An exhibit on the new men's of research for the Textile Workers Nassau County. They will be awarded dormitories to be completed in Septem- Union of America; H. Harold Whit- by the University scholarship committee ber, arranged by Residential Halls in man, vice-president, overseas division, the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, was on the basis of civic interest, leadership, National City Bank of New York; Rich- looked at with interest. It included scholarship, and need and will continue ard L. Bowditch, president, US Cham- photographs and samples of furniture for the four or five-year course if the ber of Commerce Lewis L. Lloyd, chief and fabrics to be used in the rooms. holders' grades are satisfactory. Recipi- statistician & economist, Dow Chemical ents will be selected from incoming A Student Council committee headed Co. Howard S. Piquet, senior specialist Freshmen who apply for scholarship by Ellen G. Kemper '55 of Newark, in international economics, Library of aid. daughter of Mrs. Peter Kemper (Mary Congress, and a member of the Randall Commission on tariffs; Francis M. In addition to the grants to students, Fennell) '18, handled arrangements for the week end. Finn, manager of the foreign depart- Food Fair Stores will pay the University ment, Grace National Bank; and Pro- for administering the scholarships $250 fessors Chandler Morse, Economics, for each $1000 allotted in grants. The and Michael H. Cardozo, Law. Cornell scholarships are part of a simi- Consider World Trade lar program in New York, New Jersey, Students Run Program Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and REPRESENTATIVES from government, Florida, where Food Fair Stores, Inc. business, education, and labor discussed Praise for the conference from Presi- operates 194 supermarkets. "The Problems of the United States as dent Bowditch appeared in the April a World Trade Leader" at the Sixth 23 issue of Washington Report, pub- Annual Management Conference of the lished by the US Chamber of Com- Parents Visit Campus School of Business & Public Administra- merce. "What particularly impressed tion, April 15-16, in Statler Hall. Sev- me," Bowditch said, "was the fact that FAMILIES chatting together was a com- enty guests from outside the University the students themselves organize and mon sight on Campus, April 23-25, dur- came from more than sixteen compan- run these management conferences and ing the third annual Freshman Parents ies, five banks, and other organizations; the excellent job they do of it. ... I be- Week End. About 1000 parents re- they included a number of alumni. lieve more college and university stu- sponded to the 2200 invitations extend- Among the speakers arranged for by dent associations would profit by adopt- ed by President Deane W. Malott. the student committee were John H. ing, or adapting, the Cornell idea. It Davis, Assistant Secretary, US Depart- would serve to bring the national stu- The parents were welcomed by Presi- ment of Agriculture; Willard Thorp, dent body and the national business dent Malott at a convocation in Bailey community into closer relationships, Hall Saturday night. Raymond F. and business men who are trustees of Howes '24, former Secretary of the higher educational institutions might University now with the American consider suggesting the idea. The im- Council on Education and father of portant thing is to have the students Freshman Bradford R. Howes and Ray- shape the program, invite the speakers, mond T. Howes '55, responded for the and then run the show." mothers and fathers. He stressed the opportunities their sons and daughters Alumni in Business Advise have at Cornell. A Capella Chorus, the Cornellaires, accordionist Dominic A. Heading the committee in charge of Daddario '56 of Scarsdale, and magi- the "show" at the University was Har- cian John C. Mannix '56 of New York lowe D. Hardinge '53, graduate student City entertained the large audience. in Business & Public Administration. He is the son of Harlow T. Hardinge '16 of Friday afternoon, the vistors were York, Pa. An advisory committee in- taken on Campus tours by members of cluded Harold L. Bache '16, Edward S. the Junior men's honorary societies. In Jamison '16, Albert J. Eckhardt '19, the evening, at an open house at Anabel and Eugene M. Kaufmann, Jr. '26. Taylor Hall, they met University pastors and CURW staff and learned of extra- curricular life on Campus through a Jamaican Soilman Here—Granville student activities fair. Saturday, they F. F. Gayle (right), senior soil con- Folklore Writers visited classes and Faculty advisers. servation officer from Kingston, They also saw displays of student work Jamaica, is spending another term at NEW YORK FOLKLORE Quarterly for and were served coffee in various divi- the University at his own expense spring has long articles by Edith E. Cut- sions of the University. Professor Guy E. after his Foreign Operations Admin- ting, MA '46, and Mrs. Russell N. istration grant expired in February. Neyer (Jane Kimberly) '50 and a short Grantham, PhD '20, Physics, gave in He came to the United States last Rockefeller Hall his popular lecture, May to study soil and irrigation one by Professor Harold W. Thompson, "Some of Nature's Pranks." At a semi- practices in this country. He says English. Miss Cutting, a teacher and nar, "Current Problems in the Field of that instruction in Extension meth- secretary of the New York Folklore So- Industrial & Labor Relations," four ods at the University is probably the ciety, writes on "Folkways of Old I&LR students discussed major prob- best to be found anywhere. Gayle is Broome Co.: The Crocker Manuscript" lems in foμr fields, basing their presenta- pictured with Professor Alexander and Mrs. Neyer, on "Lore of Worcester, tions on their experience and education. H. Leighton, Sociology & Anthropo- Mass." Professor Thompson, editor of Women's dormitories held open house logy. the Quarterly, relates "Irish Lore from Sunday afternoon. A Willard Straight New York State's Capital District."

486 Cornell Alumni News GLASS REPRESENTATIVES Amount Donors Alumni Committees Intensify Efforts '08 Herbert E. Mitler 2,750 52 '09 Newton C. Farr 5,917 94 ΊO Harold T. Edwards 6,885 56 For Annual Gifts to University Ίl Williarn J. Thorne 1,930 81 GIFTS to the Alumni Fund for unre- Ί2 Charles C. Colman 5,795 100 stricted use by the University totalled Ί3 Morris R. Neifeld 13,604 119 $239,026 from 7857 contributors to '14 Robert H. Shaner 23,287 177 '15 De Forest W. Abel 4,963 126 May 1, President Willard A. Kiggins, Ί6 Edward S. Jamison 2,687 112 Jr. '21 reports. Ί7 Ernest R. Acker 7,004 140 "Because of Cornell's great need for Ί8 Paul C. Wanser 2,494 101 annual unrestricted gifts to help solve '19 Mahlon H. Beakes 13,750 127 its difficult financial problems, the ex- '20 John B. McClatchy 4,678 134 ecutive committee has set the Alumni '21 Sigurd B. Swanson 6,023 135 Fund goal for this year at $500,000, the '22 Richard K. Kaufmann 4,354 109 highest in its history," Kiggins says. "To '23 Franklin S. Wood 2,561 79 '24 Walter Rebmann 8,158 138 achieve this objective by June 30, the '25 Abner Bregman 4,324 76 end of the fiscal year, will require that '26 Norman R. Steinmetz 11,017 121 several thousand more Cornellians con- Discuss University Support—Leaders in raising funds to help Cornell meet budget '27 Franklin H. Bivins 3,765 116 tribute to the Fund in these two months. needs are, from left, Willard A. Kiggins, '28 Raymond F. Beckwith 2,714 91 More than 1500 loyal men and women Jr. '21, president of the Alumni Fund for '29 Walter W. Stillman 8,709 157 are giving generously of their own time annual giving; Alumni Trustee Edwin T. '30 Charles Herbert Bell 3,598 127 and energy as members of Class and Gibson '08, chairman of the University '31 James B. Burke 2,672 126 area committees, soliciting gifts now Council; and John P. Syme '26, chairman '32 Ben Falk 1,800 99 from their fellow-alumni to meet the for special gifts. '33 Charles S. Tracy 1,727 84 year's quota. The hard work of these '34 Frederick J. Schroeder 4,154 183 '35 Bo Adlerbert 1,326 72 dedicated solicitors and the generous with $623 reported to date. Next comes '36 James C. Forbes 1,983 119 support of alumni to the University can the Class of '24, led by Florence Daly, '37 Preston D. Carter 1,432 103 make this the most successful year in with $575. Class of '28, whose solicita- '38 George C. Wilder 1,438 110 our Alumni Fund history." tion is headed by Melita Taddiken, is '39 Alfred F. Dugan 3,231 171 in third place with $554. Fourth is '31, '40 Joseph E. Griesedieck 1,408 119 Reunion Classes Make Special Gifts '41 Kennedy Randall, Jr. 1,033 94 chairman, Mrs. Myrtle Uetz Felton, '42 Peter M. Wolff 1,101 116 Eight of this year's men's Reunion with $550. Class of '35, headed by Mrs. Classes, from the Forty-year Class of '43 John E. Slater, Jr. 1,191 122 Norma Nordstrom Junek, is in fifth '44 Blancke Noyes 2,272 183 '14 to the Five-year Class of '49, ac- place with $527. '45 John B. Rogers III 813 88 count for $65,338 of the Fund gifts re- Class of '47 committee headed by '46 Charles C. Hansen 652 82 ported. Chairman of this group, with '47 W. Barlow Ware 608 91 special anniversary quotas for their Re- Mrs. Margaret Newell Mitchell reports 90, the largest number of women con- '48 Alexander T. Stark 1,061 148 union year, is Hosea C. Ballou '20. '49 Robert T. Dean 1,775 239 tributing. Second place is held by the '50 Manley H. Thaler 1,144 146 The Forty-year Class of '14, whose '50 women, led by Mrs. Nancy Hub- chairman is Robert H. Shaner, leads all '51 Peter H. Rose 781 143 bard Brandt, with 78; third, '45 with '52 Harry B. Coyle 752 117 others so far with a total of $23,287. Eleanor B. Dickie, chairman, 68; '53 Robert E. Dailey 426 92 Next is the Thirty-five-year Class of '19 fourth, '46 with Marjorie A. Montrose, under chairmanship of Mahlon H. chairman, 64. Tied with 52 contributors Men's Totals $206,233 5,766 Beakes, with $13,750. Third place in each for fifth place are Mrs. Reis's Class Women's Committees: amount reported to May 1 is held by of '29 and the Class of '40, whose com- Όl Elizabeth R. Andrews 121 10 the Class of '13, whose new chairman is mittee chairman is Mrs. Bette Limpert '02 Mary Sullivan 368 14 Dr. Morris R. Neifeld, with $13,604. Mayhew. '03 Lucy N. Tomkins 525 28 Next comes the Class of '26, led by Nor- Amount and number of donors re- '04 Florence Marquardt 215 24 man R. Steinmetz, with $11,017; then '05 Nellie H. Bingham 102 10 ported to May 1 is tabulated for each the Class of '97, Walter Kelsey chair- '06 Jane C. Landmesser 125 10 Class below, with this year's Reunion man, with $9,152. In sixth place is the '07 Gertrude C, Hemingway 237 27 Classes shown in bold type. Twenty-five-year Class of '29, whose '08 Charlotte Babor Craven 263 22 committee is headed by Walter W. Still- '09 Nan Willson Bruff 194 25 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Amount Donors ΊO Dora Cohn Sanderson 154 18 man, with $8,709 reported. '76-'92 Ίl Lulu Smith Howard 179 19 In number of contributors to date, $ 837 33 '12 Annie Bullivant Pfeiffer 308 26 '93 Mary R. Fitzpatrick 604 27 the Five-year Class of '49, headed by '94 240 15 Ί3 Ethel Fogg Clift 96 13 Robert T. Dean, leads with 239. Tied '95 440 24 '14 Eva M. Haigh 172 14 for second place, with 183 contributors, '96 George S. Tompkins 720 28 '15 139 16 are the Twenty-year Class of '34, Fred- '97 Walter Kelsey 9,152 36 Ί6 Kathryn Francis Cooke 185 25 erick J. Schroeder, chairman, and the '98 Allen E. Whiting 1,102 32 Ί7 Marion Hess Shaver 232 16 '99 Asa C. King 1,087 28 Ί8 Maxine M. Musser 348 32 Ten-year Class of '44 under chairman- Ί9 Lucibel Downs Ward 325 28 ΌO ίl 1,784 38 ship of Blancke Noyes. Shaner's Class '20 Marian Irish Hodgkiss 316 23 of '14 holds fourth place with 177. It is Subtotals $15,966 261 '21 Marie Reith 317 24 closely followed by the Fifteen-year '22 Nathalie Cohen Davis 517 34 Class of '39, whose committee is headed Men's Committees: '23 Helen Northup 317 41 by Alfred F. Dugan, with 171. Still- '01 Harvey J. Couch 967 37 '24 Florence Daly 575 36 man's Class of '29 is in sixth place with '02 974 29 '25 Virginia Woolley 131 24 29 157 donors thus far. '03 Henry E. Epley 1,255 '26 162 23 '04 William F. Bleakley 2,335 36 '27 Marjorie MacBain 461 46 Leading the women's Classes in '05 George L. Genung 4,207 70 '28 Melita Taddiken 554 32 amount is '29, whose committee is '06 Hugh Weatherlow 3,305 75 '29 Josephine Mills Reis 623 52 headed by Mrs. Josephine Mills Reis, '07 C. Benson Wigton 7,428 68 '30 Caroline Dawdv Bacorl 447 48 May 15, 1954 487 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Amount Donors to 874 students totalling $110,655 and Lardner, and Perelman. He sheds a tear '31 Myrtle Uetz Felton 550 34 3092 students found jobs which paid over the decline of both poetry and light '32 Viola Goerner Freeman 425 50 them $568,403. Undergraduates thus verse in recent years. Robert Frost is our '33 Ruth Vanberbilt 365 43 received assistance to the value of $1,- only really popular American poet; our '34 Elisabeth Foote Roe 103 15 391,242. serious poets write deliberately for an '35 Norma N. Junek 527 46 Fellowships and scholarships were elite and despise the average reader. '36 Marion B. Brunn 343 32 awarded to 210 students in the Gradu- '37 Helen Fry 385 47 Fortunately, he does not despair, says a '38 Virginia Grant 365 33 ate School with value of $170,222. mid-form is taking shape, mentions E. '39 Madeleine Weil Lowens 442 62 About $91,000 of this amount was pro- B. White '21, David McGord, John '40 Bette Limpert Mayhew 385 52 vided by the University; the remainder Holmes, Phyllis McGinley, and says '41 Grace Moak Meisel 338 40 came from gifts and grants from in- they will hold the fort until "the Poet '42 Rita Koenig Tepperman 228 34 dividuals, corporations, and founda- arises, to fill our world with his over- '43 Miriam F. Hurewitz 101 17 tions. whelming music." '44 Nancy Green Stratton 275 40 * * # '45 Eleanor B. Dickie 414 68 '46 Marjorie A. Montrose 296 64 Sullivan Bites News is the other opus. '47 Margaret N. Mitchell 361 90 It carries no torch, bears no message, '48 Esta Wilcox 224 36 TELLΪGENCE except perhaps a protest '49 Barbara Ghristenberry 205 52 Sullivan against the so-called hu- '50 Nancy Hubbard Brandt 478 78 Bites News man interest or nature '51 Constance M. Pirnie 212 44 stories in the press. Frank's '52 Marylou Bussing 192 14 '53 Anne M. Gleason 299 46 dispatches tell of the dog that slept Totals through the fire and had to be rescued Two 1914 WRITERS, both pillars of The by the family; the cashier who took Women's Committees $ 16,232 1,797 New Yorker magazine, have enlivened Men's Committees 206,233 5,766 $5000 from the bank, the horse came in Combined Committees 15,966 261 things for me considerably at 50-1, and he bought the bank; the Other 595 33 Books by this spring with new books. "penniless man" who died actually '14 Men Professor Morris Bishop, penniless; the child who beat up his GRAND TOTALS $239,026 7,857 Romance Literature, whose father and was sentenced to a year in works are either very erudite or the Besides Dr. Neifeld, Class Alumni the kindergarten of a progressive complete opposite, has this time re- school; the Kentucky patriarch (100) Fund representatives new this year are turned to his old love, light verse, in A George L. Genung '05, Walter Reb- who knew all about the war and had Bowl of Bishop. Its sub-title is "Muse- not married a thu'teen-year-old gal; mann '24, Raymond F. Beckwith '28, um Thoughts and Other Verses," the Bo Adlerbert '35, Preston D. Carter '37, and the normal cat (from Winsted!) museum part of it being musings in who cornered a mouse and then ate it. Joseph E. Griesedieck '40, John E. verse on the accompanying illustration, Slater, Jr. '43, Alexander T. Stark '48, Half of the show are the illustrations by such as that of the Sumerian statue Sam Berman; they bring out the char- and Robert E. Dailey '53 for the men. (c.3000 B.C.) that deliberately winked. New women's Class representatives are acter, or lack of it, of the protagonists I liked the breathless poem about the beautifully. Mrs. Kathryn Francis Cooke '16, Mrs. ambitious motorist who risked life and * * * Maxine Montgomery Musser '18, Mrs. wife to get ahead of 7X-3824, only to Lucibel Downs Ward '19, Virginia land fine behind 9W-7679. Here's a They are both good books to have Grant '38, Esta Wilcox '48, and Anne lovely line: "The arch reproach, the lying around as conversation pieces. Gleason '53. winsome scream." A quaint conceit was Bishop's is published by Dial Press; Sul- Gifts collected by alumni working as to liken "II Penseroso" to a straight-life livan's, by Little, Brown & Go. members of regional committees in the insurance policy and "L'Allegro" to an towns and cities of upstate New York annuity. Treating the "Naughty Prepo- Industrialists To Study are credited to the contributors' Classes sition," he put Winston Churchill in the and included in this tabulation. This shade with this mellifluous combina- year, Alumni Fund committees are be- INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINARS to tion: "Up from out of in under for?" discuss problems of manufacturing ing organized in the areas of Buffalo, There is also a recipe for a hot punch planning and control, will be conducted Rochester, and Syracuse in addition to that sounds interesting. I catch here the at the University, June 15-18, by the forty-five smaller communities where flavor of Book & Bowl, that old student- Department of Industrial & Engineer- regional committees worked last year. Faculty literary-social club which still ing Administration in the School of flourishes and of which Morris has long Mechanical Engineering. The first of a Students Get Help been an ornament. projected series to be offered here, the # # * four-day program will include intensive ABOUT 6000 STUDENTS got financial as- For intellectual stimulus I recom- discussion sessions for men in industrial sistance through the University last mend his introductory remarks, spritely management and production. Separate year, it is estimated. The various offices but serious. He contrasts programs will be offered on industrial which award scholarships and fellow- Bishop light verse to poetry (heavy management, manufacturing engineer- ships, grant loans, and find jobs for stu- Discusses verse) as the moon to the ing, small plant management, work dents report the total value of assistance Verse sun. He pays a nice tribute measurement, and applied industrial given in 1952-53 at $1,561,464. to Franklin P. Adams statistics. Scholarships and grants were award- (F.P.A.), who inspired so many practi- Professor Andrew Schultz, Jr. '36, ed to 1820 undergraduates totalling tioners of the art and trained them in head of the Department, will direct the $712,184. Those to needy students, to- its principles and devices, these being industrial management sessions; Profes- gether with loans and part-time employ- strictness of form; incongruity, change sor Byron W. Saunders, manufacturing ment, are administered by a Faculty of pace, cunning intrusions; and logic, engineering; Kendall G. White '34, pro- committee on student aid, of which even though surprising and unconven- duction manager of Wico Electric Co., David B. Williams of the'staff of the tional. A la surrealism, he reports a sur- Springfield, Mass., the small plant man- Deans of Men and Women is executive humor growing up, noting as occasional agement sessions; Edward V. Krick, secretary. This committee granted loans surhumorists Frank Sullivan '14, Ring MME '52, the work measurement sem- 488 Cornell Alumni News inar, and Professor Robert E. Bech- hofer, the study of applied industrial Dickens and America—I statistics. Among many speakers from industry will be Alumni Trustee Walker BY LAURIAT LANE, JR., ENGLISH L. Cisler '22, president, Detroit Edison Co.; Rollin H. McCarthy '22, superin- THE UNIVERSITY gave to Anne Brown, the English maid tendent of manufacturing engineering, Library has recent- who accompanied them on the trip, is of Western Electric Co. Allan H. Mogen- ly received from particular interest because it contains a sen '23, industrial consultant; Lawrence William G. Men- pencil transcript in Dickens's own hand R. Martin '31, superintendent of pro- nen '08 a remark- of a letter to Columbus, Ohio, request- duction engineering, Camera Works, able collection of ing accomodations for the Dickens party Eastman Kodak Co. Charles W. Lake, first editions of the on their Western tour. Jr. '41, vice-president of industrial en- novels of Charles Dickens, with many While in America, Dickens was not gineering, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. other rare items relating to his life and only disappointed by much that he saw and Robert L. Staehle '45, vice-presi- writings. The following is the first of a but also angered by newspaper recep- dent, McCormick & Co., consulting en- series of short articles based directly on tion of his speeches on copyright. On his gineers. these materials. All the items mentioned return to England, he gave expression Conference fee is $100 a person, in- may be seen in the Rare Book Room of to this disappointment and anger in the cluding notebooks, printed materials, the Library. American Notes, which, while praising and most meals. Convenient rooms may "I am still haunted by visions of many aspects of American life, still con- be reserved. Further information may America," wrote Charles Dickens to his tained enough unfavorable comment to be obtained from Professor Robert E. friend and biographer, John Forster, infuriate readers across the Atlantic. McGarrah, PhD '51, 9 West Sibley September 13, 1841. Dickens was Not only this, but in his next novel, Hall, Ithaca. twenty-nine years old and had just fin- Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens again sati- ished his fifth major work, Barnaby rized American manners and behavior. Rudge. The strain of almost continuous The reaction from America was im- Play Russian Farce labor since the success of Pickwick mediate, and ranged from direct replies LABORATORY PLAYERS, composed of Papers, only five years before, had be- to parodies such as the Change for the members of an advanced class on dra- gun to tell, and Dickens, having made American Notes: "Letters from London matic interpretation, staged an admir- an agreement with his publishers to start to New York by an American Lady," able production of Nikolai Gogol's nothing new for the next twelve months, which deliberately misrepresented the "The Inspector-General," April 23, 24, was anxious to achieve some radical English people just as grossly as Dickens, and 25, in the Willard Straight Theater. change in his way of life hence the pro- or so the author conceived, had mis- It was skillfully directed by their teach- posed trip to America. represented the American. All this furor er, Professor H. Darkes Albright, PhD Dickens went on to say, "I think it in no way lessened Dickens's popularity '36, Speech & Drama. must be managed somehow," and Janu- as a writer, however, and his next book, This satirical farce-comedy which be- ary 4, 1842, he and his wife sailed from Dombey and Son, was not only pub- came the "national comedy" of Russia Liverpool, arriving at Boston January lished in Boston simultaneously with its concerns the visit of a government in- 22. After three weeks in Boston, they appearance in England, by the firm of spector to a town full of chiseling poli- proceeded to New York, where, on Bradbury & Guild, but was immediately ticians and petty grafters. Jarka M. February 14, a great ball was given in pirated in a cheap edition by H. Long & Burian, Grad, turned in a fine perform- their honor. Brother, of New York, as well as by ance as the supposed inspector-general. Probably the most remarkable of all many other American publishers. Seymour Rudin, PhD '53, English, was the newspaper accounts of Dickens's very good as the governor. William I. welcome to New York were those in the Oliver, Grad, was highly entertaining as New York Aurora, since reprinted as Midyear Degrees the snoopy postmaster, as were Barry P. The Boz Ball. It seems clear today that Wilson, Grad, and Elliot Gilbert, Grad, the articles in the Aurora, which in- THE UNIVERSITY conferred 282 de- as the town gossips. Eleanor Ringer cluded descriptions of how Dickens grees, February 3, 152 first degrees and Linn, Grad, and Sara M. Davis, Grad, would arrive in New York, how Dickens 130 advanced degrees. The AB was did well as the governor's wife and did arrive in New York, what would awarded to thirty-two; the BS, to forty- daughter. Charles F. Egbert '55 was happen at the ball, and what did hap- one in Agriculture, twenty-two in Home good as the superintendent of schools. pen at the ball, as well as a special re- Economics, sixteen in Hotel Adminis- Other members of the commendable port by the well-known writer and man- tration, and thirteen in Industrial & cast were Frank E. Thomas, Grad, Rob- about-town, N. P. Willis, were intended Labor Relations. Ten persons received ert W. Howard '56, Ian D. Elliot '50, as a burlesque of the real newspaper the BArch, seven the BME, four the assistant editor of the ALUMNI NEWS, accounts of the event. Many readers of BCE, one the Bachelor of Engineering George A. Sanborn, Grad, Lawrence B. the Aurora were quite unaware of the Physics, and two each the BFA, the BS Shaffer '54, Shirley K. Alger, Grad, burlesque, however. Among them was in Land Planning, and the BEE. The Henry L. Werner '54, Laura L. Ri- an anonymous gentleman from Boston LLB was awarded to seven. The PhD lander '54, Judah Best '54, Patricia A. who, under the pen-name of Sampson was granted to fifty-four, the MS to Milligan '54, and Gerald Gordon '55. Short-and-Fat, published Quozziana or thirty-eight, the MA to six, the MI&LR Letters from Great Goslington, Mass., to six, the MSinAgr to four, the MEd The Law Quarterly has elected Hamil- an "account of the Quoz Dinner and to four, the MSinEd to three, and the ton W. Budge '55 of San Francisco, Cal. Other Matters," which was itself an MAeroE to two. One each received the as editor-in-chief for 1954-55. He is a elaborate parody on the Aurora, and MArch, MME, Master of Nutritional graduate of Andover Academy and re- even included a lengthy communication Science, Master of Business Administra- ceived the AB at Stanford in 1950. from one N.P. Doubleyou. tion, Master of Regional Planning, and Members of the board who were under- Among the books Dickens acquired in Master of Engineering Physics. graduates here are John V. Schappi '51, America was Beauchampe, or the Ken- The BS in Nursing was conferred up- Ithaca; Robert Harris '53, Lawrence; tucky Tragedy, by William Gilmore on seven women in October at the and Thomas Hampson '51, Warren, Pa. Simms. This book, which Mrs. Dickens School of Nursing in New York City. May 15,1954 489 Water conditions were ideal. The Cornell lightweight Varsity and Fresh- man boatings: 150-POUND VARSITY—Stroke, John K. Hol- ton '56; 7, H. Andreas von Biel '54; 6, Paul A. Schempp '55; 5, William M. Farnham '55; 4, Frederick Van Duyne '54; 3, Richard T. Plummer '56; 2, Donald L. Corey '56; bow, Marcus P. Robbins '56; coxswain, Michael L. Lehrman '54. 150-POUND FRESHMEN—Stroke, William P. Burke; 7, Walter F. Allport; 6, Donald S. Grimm; 5, Benjamin P. Bole; 4, Todd Ken- nedy; 3, James S. White; 2, Peter Grimi; bow, Gordon L. Kraus; coxswain, James W. Rosborough.

Crews Do Well in Openers all the way. Navy went off to an early Baseball Team Wins Two lead, but Cornell did not permit it to become more than a length at any time. THE FIRST ROWING competition of the THE BASEBALL TEAM made up some- The Red was consistently overstroking year exhibited the Varsity rather splen- what for its inauspicious League debut the Midshipmen about 30 to 29, then didly in defeat as it gave the great Navy against Yale by sneaking a 7-6 victory 32 to 30, in the early part of the race. crew a blistering race right down to the past Brown at Ithaca, April 24, and During the fierce battle in the last half- wire and was only narrowly beaten. The then drubbing Columbia at New York, mile, however, the Navy stroke, Edward Freshman boat won in delightful style 13-5, May 1. Stevens, was forced to get the beat up and the Junior-Varsity took second to It was E. Richard Meade J56 of South Navy. The winning Third Varsity boat to 41 to ward off the fighting but tired Red challengers who finished with a River, N.J., Cornell's three-sport star, beat Syracuse. On Syracuse's Lake On- who scored the winning run in the ondaga, May 1, Wisconsin, Boston Uni- beat of 35. The ability of Navy to put on such a strong sprint was the margin Brown game in the last half of the ninth versity, and Syracuse were the other inning. With two outs and none on base participants in this five-crew regatta. of victory in this race as it has been so many times for Coach Russell Callow's and the score tied, 6-6, Meade singled Rowing over a well-behaved two- undefeated eight of three years. to right field. Then, with deliberateness mile course, the 1952 Olympic cham- The Freshmen showed tremendous and courage, he stole second base and pion boat, minus one, set a Lake Onon- power and surprisingly good form. after bothering Brown's hurler, Donald daga record of 9:57. A previous new Coach Loren SchoeΓs boat just seemed Enoch, for a while he proceeded to steal record had just been set by Cornell's to walk away from the others in the third. His kinetic speed made it impossi- fine Freshman eight with its 10:13.3 second mile. ble for the Bruin catcher, Lauber, to clocking that led Navy, Syracuse, Bos- Navy Junior-varsity crew beat Cornell beat him there with the ball. With the ton University, in that order. by a good three lengths. Wisconsin was stage thus set, Meade's fellow Sopho- Cornell won the first two of four about a length back in third place. more footballer, John R. Anderluh of races. The Third-Varsity won a dual The Cornell Varsity and Freshman Niagara Falls, demonstrated admirable race with Syracuse and then the Fresh- boatings: perspicuity by delivering a bouncing men went on to capture the next race single between second and short to drive by more than three lengths over a Navy VARSITY—Stroke, Peter W. Sparhawk '54; the firebrand across the plate with the 7, Frederick S. Erdman, Jr. '56; 6, Robert plebe boat which had stayed with the L. Bunting '55; 5, Richard J. Gomtois '56; winning run. Freshmen for the first mile but was left 4, Dan K. Silverberg '56; 3, Franklin G. Dill Brown had built up a commanding in their wake in the second. Syracuse '55; 2, John A. Blanchard '56; bow, Win- lead of 6-0 by the fourth inning, scoring throp B. Cody '55; coxswain, Edward M. edged out Boston by a few feet for third. Krech '54. 4 in the first and 2 in the fourth. It was Wisconsin did not compete in the fresh- FRESHMEN—Stroke, Philip T. Gravink; 7, not until the fifth that the Red both- man race. George F. Ford; 6, Todd Simpson; 5, Wil- ered the scorekeeper with anything but The course record of 10:16.9 set by liam J. Schumacher; 4, Clayton W. Chap- zeros. Lee E. Morton '54 hit a triple in man; 3, John M. Van Horn; 2, Robert W. the eighth to score 3 runs and tie the the Navy plebes of 1952 in the IRA Staley; bow, Benjamin S. Park; coxswain, Regatta was broken by Cornell and Carl W. Schwarz. game. His long ball was poled between Wisconsin varsity boats as well as that left and center field and rolled almost of Navy and by the Cornell Freshmen. Lightweights Start Against Princeton to the fence. Cornell's time in the varsity race was The 150-pound oarsmen made a fine Theodore A. Marciniak '55 of Wat- 9:58.8 as it was beaten by less than a showing against Princeton on Cayuga kins Glen had a rough time of it as length in 9:57 by the powerful Navy Lake, May 1, in winning the freshman starting pitcher. He received rather boat which was winning its twenty-third and the junior-varsity races and in los- brittle support, though, and all 6 runs straight race in three years. Wisconsin, ing only the big one, the varsity race, were scored off him. He was succeeded coached by Norman Sonju, formerly as- over the Henley distance of a mile and in the fourth by Joseph L. Marotta '55 sistant to Cornell's R. Harrison Sanford, five-sixteenths. of Brooklyn, who was in difficulty from was third in 10:12.6 as it nosed out Bos- Princeton displayed the form which time to time but always managed to es- ton. Syracuse was ten lengths back in brought it the Eastern lightweight cham- cape. fifth place. pionship last spring as it defeated the It was Navy's third race of the year Red Varsity by a little over a length. Jacobs Hits Over Fence and the first for Cornell. The Red Var- Princeton's time was 7:06; Cornell's, Captain Donald P. Jacobs '54 of sity, as well as the other Cornell boats, 7:09.5. Yonkers, a right-hand hitter, hit a home looked in fine condition. The Varsity The Red lightweight Freshman boat run over the right-field fence in the had four Sophomores and .was stroked won by the biggest margin as it opened fifth, the third Cornellian to clear the by Commodore Peter W. Sparhawk, up fifteen feet of open water to win in fence this year. Morton and G. Michael 165-pound, 5-foot-10 Senior, but it gave 7:17.5. The jayvees won in 7:18 by Hostage '54 performed the feat in the veteran Navy a determined challenge about a deck length. Sampson game, April 10. It took seven- 490 Cornell Alumni News teen years for a Cornell hitter to do it, 3B—Simek; HR—Hostage 2, McPhee 2, firsts in the javelin with 195 feet, 4V& Palladino. SH—Meade, Marotta 2, Freeman inches, second in the high jump with 6 the last one being Michael Stenach '37 5; SB—Meade; LOB—Columbia 8, Cornell in 1937. 9; DP—McPhee and Freeman; Marotta, feet, and second in the discus with 131 The Columbia victory was achieved Morton and Howard. SO—by Brown, 5, feet, 5!4 inches. Alan Kline of Penn won more easily, but it took a 7-run barrage Marotta 1, Grace 1, Marciniak 2. BB—off both dashes and ran on the winning Brown 6, Marotta 5, Grace 5; Winner—Ma- in the ninth to make it the one-sided rotta. Loser—Brown. HO—Brown, 7 in 6 relay team. Star Penn sprinter John win that it was. innings. Marotta 4 in 5Ys; Grace 6 in 3; Haines, still suffering from a pulled Senior Mike Hostage, renowned up Marciniak 3 in 3%. U—Argauer and God- muscle incurred in the indoor Hepta- to now as "the arm" because of his frey—2:33. gonal Games, ran in only the mile re- strong throwing and rather less for his A scheduled contest with Syracuse at lay. If he recovers, it is expected that he hitting, added two more home runs to Syracuse was rained out, April 28. Re- will be included to go to England by his string and knocked in 3 runs. He scheduled for May 3, it was again adjusting the assignments of the men was not alone in his liking for the pitch- rained out. who qualified so none will be replaced. ing offerings of Columbians Charles If Haines can compete, the adjustments, Freshmen Win First Grace and Charles Brown as the Cor- still unofficial, will make the team as nellians collected thirteen hits in total. The Freshman ball team won its first follows: Pitcher Joe Marotta was breezing regular game of the year by beating Syr- 100—Haines (P), Kline (P) along in fine style until Columbia bas- acuse, 2-1, at Syracuse, May 1. Theo- 220—Haines (P), Morris (C) ketballer, Ronald McPhee, hit a home dore A. Thelander of Indianapolis, 440—Sebald (C), Dadagian (C) Ind., pitched three-hit ball for the 880—Pratt (C), Weber (P) run in the sixth which bothered Joe Mile—Raudenbush (P), Browne (C) and he walked three men in a row to Freshmen. He fanned five and gave up 2-Mile—Farley (C),Loberg (G) load the bases with no outs. He was re- two walks. H. Hurdles—Booth (G), Mathewson (G) placed by Ted Marciniak who pitched L. Hurdles—Booth (C), Lattomus (C) P.V.—Beachley (C), Owen (P) beautifully for the rest of the game, al- H. Jump—Wechter (C), Lee (P) lowing but three hits and one run. Track Men Outclass Penn Javelin—Wechter (G), Lewis (G) William DeGraaf, another celebrated B. Jump—Allison (G, Todd (G) Sophomore footballer and usually the THE TRACK MEET with Pennsylvania at Discus—Intihar (G)s Wechter (C) Shotput—Gaspari (P) Fisch (P) first-string catcher, was superb as an Ithaca, May 1, had more than the ordi- s outfielder and hitter, although his nary significance. The makeup of the The summary of the meet: change to the outfield was occasioned squad representing Cornell and Penn Hammer throw—1, Albert Hall, C, 160 by an arm injury in pre-game fielding which will meet Oxford and Cambridge feet, 11 inches; 2, Frederick Weicker, G, 159 feet, 41/2 inches; 3, Peter Dirlam, C, 153 feet, practice. He made two spectacular in London, June 12, was decided on the V2 inch. catches and in the ninth drove in three basis of the first two finishers in the Mile—1, Paul Raundenbush, P; 2, Mich- men with a 425-foot double which fourteen events listed for this meet. ael Browne, G; 3, John Rosenbaum, G. Time bounced off the left field fence. Sopho- Only the hammer-throw of the regular —4:22.8. program of individual events is elimi- 440—1, Al Sebald, G; 2, Andrew Dada- more John G. Simek of Binghamton gian, C; 3, Richard Stanton, C. Time— filled in capably for DeGraaf behind nated from the London meet. 0:48.3. the plate and hit a triple and a single. Cornell won the meet by a wide mar- 100-yard dash—1, Alan Kline, P; 2, Law- Cornell's defensive play was superior gin, 951/2-44V/2, and gained twice as rence Lattomus, G; 3, John Morris, G. Time —0:9.9. in the Columbia game. Errorless ball many places on the team for England 120-yard high hurdles—1, MacAllister was marked by several magnificent as did Penn. Cornell qualified sixteen, Booth, C; 2, Richard Mathewson, G; 3, stops, including one double play. The Penn, eight. Ethan Weiss, P. Time—0:15. box score: There were several outstanding per- 880—1, David Pratt, C; 2, Frank Weber, formances in the meeting conducted on P; 3, Charles Trayford, G. Time—1:54 CORNELL (13) (new Schoellkopf Field record old record of AB R H PO A E a fast Schoellkopf track under ideal 1:54.4 set by William Bingham of Harvard Meade, 3b 4 2 2 110 weather conditions. David Pratt '54, in 1916). Anderluh, If 5 12 10 0 son of Professor Arthur J. Pratt '26, Shotput—1, James Gaspari, P, 45 feet, Jacobs, 2b 6 2 2 4 10 Vegetable Crops, and Mrs. Pratt (Ter- 7V4 inches; 2, Barry Fisch, P, 45 feet, 4 DeGraaf, cf 5 12 3 0 0 inches; 3, Frank Vadney, G, 44 feet, Ilί4 Morton, ss 3 10 3 4 0 race Morgan) '31, set a new Schoell- inches. Simek, c 5 2 2 3 0 0 kopf track record of 1:54.0. The old 220-yard dash—1, Alan Kline, P; 2, John Hostage, rf 4 3 3 4 0 0 record was held by long-time Harvard Morris, C; 3, Lawrence Lattomus, C. Time Howard, lb 3 0 0 8 0 0 athletic director, recently retired, Wil- —0:21.7. Marotta, p 10 0 0 2 0 High jump— 1, Wilfred Lee, P, 6 feet, 2 Marciniak, p 0 10 0 2 0 liam J. Bingham, who ran the 880 in inches (new meet record; old record of 6 1:54.4 in 1916. Captain MacAllister feet, 178 inches set by Walter Ashbaugh of Totals 36 13 13 27 10 0 Booth '54 set a meet record of 0:23.4 in Cornell in 1949); 2, Donald Wechter, C, 6 feet; 3, tie between Robert Boger and Thom- COLUMBIA (5) the 220 low hurdles, thus erasing the as Hibben, C, 5 feet, 10 inches. AB R H PO A E old mark of 0:23.7 set by J. Hamilton Two-mile—1, Donald Farley, G; 2, Paul Bookman, cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Hucker '37 in 1935. As an official, Wal- Loberg, G; 3, James Smith, P. Time—9:48. McPhee, ss 3 3 2 2 4 0 ter S. Ashbaugh '51 watched a Quaker, 220-yard low hurdles—1, MacAllister Dillingham, If 2 0 0 3 0 1 Booth, G; 2, Richard Mathewson, C; 3, Sherry, If 3 0 0 2 10 Will Lee, break his high jump meet rec- Ethan Weiss, P. Time—0:23.4 (new meet Palladino, rf 4 2 2 0 0 0 ord with a leap of 6 feet 2 inches. Ash- record; old record of 0:23.7 set by James Taormina, 3b 3 0 0 12 0 baugh's mark was 6 feet 17s inches. J. Hucker, Cornell, in 1935). Schappert, lb 3 0 1 10 .0 1 Albert Sebald '54 won the 440 in the Pole vault—1, Norman Beachley, C, 13 Wall, c 4 0 16 10 feet, 2V2 inches; 2, Robert Owen, P, 12 feet, Freeman, 2b 10 0 112 spanking time of 0:48.3, one of the best 6 inches; 3, tie between Alan Rose, P, and Biache, 2b 10 12 10 times ever registered for this distance on Robert SΠliman, C, 12 feet. Brown, p 3 0 0 0 3 0 Schoellkopf and by far the best in Se- One-mile relay—1, Pennsylvania (Peter Grace, p 10 0 0 10 bald's three-year Cornell career. His Berman, Alan Kline, John Haines, Frank Weber) second, Cornell. Time—3:32.5 Totals 32 5 7 27 14 4 teammate, Andrew Dadagian '55, was Broad jump—1, Richard Allison, C, 22 Cornell 010 032 007—13 about five yards behind him in second feet, 73Λ inches; tie for second between An- Columbia 200 002 100— 5 place. drew Dadagian and Peter Todd, C, 21 feet, RBI—McPhee 2, Palladino 2, Hostage 3, 9% inches. Anderluh, Simek, Marciniak, Meade 2, De- Donald W. Wechter '54 of East Au- Javelin—1, Donald Wechter, G, 195 feet, Graaf 3, Biache; 2B—Anderluh, DeGraaf; rora was high scorer for Cornell, taking 4!/2 inches; 2, Richard Lewis, C, 179 feet,

May 15s 1954 491 7V4 inches; 3, Wayne Ackerman, P, 171 feet, whelmed Hobart at Geneva, 23-5, May points. Colgate had 13, LeMoyne 9, 9J4 inches. 1. Robert W. Black, Jr. of Baltimore, Rochester 6. Discus—1, Stanley Intihar, G, 134 feet, 9V4 inches; 2, Donald Wechter, C, 131 feet, Md. made 7 goals. 5Vi inches; 3, George Ohntrup, P, 130 feet, 934 inches. Meet Tennis Nemesis Golfers Take Three Do Well in Relays VARSITY TENNIS team lost its first home GOLF TEAM won over Fordham, 7-0, Cornell's showing in the Penn Relays, match of the year to Princeton, April April 22; over Sampson, 7-2, April 28; 24, by a score of 8-1. Last year the only April 23 & 243 was unexpectedly good. and over LeMoyne, 7-0, May 1. The blot on an 18-1 record was the loss to The mile relay team of Lawrence Lat- Fordham and LeMoyne matches were Princeton. tomus '55, John F. Morris '55, Andrew on the University course; Sampson was Only Cornell point was made by the Dadagian '55, and Al Sebald won the beaten on the Seneca Falls Country Ivy event in 3:16.6. With Captain Mac doubles team of Captain Clyde F. Bar- Club course. ker '54 and Gilmore M. Rothrock '54 Booth in for Dadagian, these boys in defeating Pablo Eisenberg and Earl startled everyone, particularly heavily- Schulze. The summary: favored Morgan State College, by run- Sailors Win Again Singles: Pablo Eisenburg, P, defeated ning away with the 880-yard relay Clyde Parker, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3; Ted Togers, P, championship. The half-mile team, with CORINTHIAN Yacht Club sailors repeat- defeated Gil Rothrock, 6-3, 6-4; Ed Dailey, each man running 220 yards, won by 8 ed last year's victory in the Middle At- P, beat Gerry Barrack, 6-3, 6-4; Earl Schulze, lantic States Elimination Regatta at P, beat Harry Kirsch 6-3, 6-4; Roger Camp- yards over Morgan State in the respect- bell, P, beat Al Kegerreis, 6-3, 6-3; Walter able time of 1:26.7. Kings Point, May 1 & 2, by edging out Milburne, P, beat Charles Bernstein, 6-4, Dadagian placed second to John Cul- Webb Institute by one point, 83-82. 8-6. breath of Morgan State in 400-meter Others followed in this order: US Mer- Doubles: Rothrock and Barker, C, beat chant Marine Academy, Syracuse, N.Y. Eisenburg and Schulze, 6-1, 6-3; Dailey and hurdles and Richard S. Mathewson '55 DeVoe, P, beat Barrack and Iglehart, 6-2, was fifth. Time was 0:52.4. The team Maritime College, Stevens Tech, and 6-1 Campbell and Milbourne, P, beat Kirsch of Booth, Mathewson, George P. Ken- Army. Division A skipper, Peter W. and Greenburg, 1-6, 6-2, 6-0. dall '56, and James S. Gouinlock '56 Eising '54, was high man with two firsts, The team returned to its winning took third in the 480-yard shuttle hur- two seconds, a third, and two fourths. ways in defeating Sampson Air Force dles. Albert W. Hall '56 was fourth with Pete Barrett, a Cornell transfer to Webb Base, 17-2, May 1, at Ithaca. Rothrock, 157 ft. 6!/2 in. in the hammer throw and Institute, was second-high. Eastern Intercollegiate champion of Frederick E. Weicker '55 was fifth with The week before, April 24, Cornell 1952, did not compete in this match 154 ft. 6 in. The team of Paul W. Lo- won a dinghy sailing regatta on the and has decided to give up his place on berg '55, Michael J. Browne '55, Pratt, Genesee River at Rochester with 14 the team. and John J. Rosenbaum '56 was fourth in the four-mile relay. Only other time Cornell won the Calendar of Coming Events half-mile relay championship was in 1934 when Robert A. Scallan '36, Rob- Monday, May 17 Track, Colgate ert F. Linders '36, John Messersmith Ithaca: Dedication of Teagle Hall, 2:30 Freshman track, Colgate '36, and Robert J. Kane '34 took the Messenger Lecture, Professor Cornells B. Hanover, N.H.: Tennis, Dartmouth title. van Niel of Stanford, "Bacterial Photo- State College, Pa.: Lacrosse, Penn State syntheses," Olin Hall, 8:15 Syracuse: Freshman lacrosse, Syracuse Tuesday, May 18 Sunday, May 23 Lacrosse Team Fights Hard Ithaca: Freshman baseball, Colgate, Hoy Ithaca: Sage Chapel preacher, The Rev. Field, 4:15 Roy A. Burkhart, First Community Freshman tennis, Colgate, Cascadilla Church, Columbus, Ohio, 11 LACROSSE TEAM lost an overtime game Courts, 4:15 Concert, University Band, Library Slope, to Yale, 14-9, on Schoellkopf field, Rye: President Deane W. Malott, discussing 4:15 April 24. It was a rugged game, marked "Cornell of the Future," at Cornell Tuesday, May 25 Club dinner, Apawamis Club, 6 Ithaca: Baseball, Santo Domingo, Hoy Field, by the most exciting kind of play. The 4:15 favored Elis found it tough going against Wednesday, May 19 Ithaca: Baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Field, 4:15 Wednesday, May 26 a determined Cornell team. The Red Golf, Syracuse, University Course, 2 Ithaca: Tennis, Sampson, Cascadilla Courts, went ahead in the second period, 6-5, Freshman golf, Syracuse, University 4:15 and was able to keep a slim lead until Course, 2 Cortland: Lacrosse, Cortland 1:45 to go, when Bruce Lloyd made the Lacrosse, Syracuse, Upper Alumni Field, Potsdam: Baseball, Clarkson tying goal and the score remained at 4:15 Friday, May 28 Tennis, Colgate, Cascadilla Courts, 4:15 New York City: Track Intercollegiates 9-9 to the end of the regulation time. Messenger Lecture, Professor Cornells B. Yale made 5 goals in the overtime as van Niel of Stanford, "The Mechanism Saturday, May 29 the weary and spent Cornell team's de- of Photosynthesis," Olin Hall, 8:15 Ithaca: Spring term instruction ends New York City: Class of '40 dinner, Cornell Freshman baseball, Wyoming Seminary, fenses gave way. Club, 5:30 Hoy Field, 2:30 Golf, Sampson, University Course, 2 Richard H. Shriver '55 was high for Thursday, May 20 Tennis, Pennsylvania, Cascadilla Courts, Cornell with 3 goals. Charles S. Fiske Ithaca: Messenger Lecture, Professor Cor- 2 '55 made 2 and David L. Grumman '56, nelis B. van Niel of Stanford, "Photo- Freshman track, Wyoming Seminary, 2:30 Thomas M. Hopper '54, Daniel K. synthesis and Phototaxis," Olin Hall, 150-pound rowing, Pennsylvania, Cayuga 8:15 Lake, 3 Jemison '55, and John C. Perrollaz '54 New York City: Class of '21 dinner, Cornell Rowing, Pennsylvania, Cayuga Lake, 4:30 each made one. Club Hanover, N.H.: Baseball, Dartmouth May 1, the lacrosse team took the Friday, May 21 New York City: Track, Intercollegiates measure of Hamilton at Clinton by a Ithaca: Freshman baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Sunday, May 30 19-4 score. Grumman, Shriver, and Field, 4:15 Ithaca: Sage Chapel preacher, The Rev. Saturday, Ma^ 22 Arthur L. Kinsolving, St. James' Church, Hopper made 3 and George R. Pfann, 865 Madison Avenue, New York City, 11 Jr. '55 made 2. Ithaca: Baseball, Army, Hoy Field, 2:30 Hamilton: Golf, Colgate Monday, May 31 The Freshman lacrosse team over- Freshman golf, Colgate Ithaca: Final examinations begin 492 Cornell Alumni News Junior Week, not yet defunct, is now run by the Student Council. To remedy An Undergraduate Observes the lack of Class activity, the diehards of '55 revived the Junior Prom, in April, on the theme of the "Lost Weekend." In the Statler Ballroom, well-known outside entertainers kept a wide assort- Elections Occupy Campus presidency. Peter B. Dirlam '56 of ment of undergrads chuckling. Music Southbridge, Mass, will head the Out- was rendered by "The Cayugans," a INTEREST in major elections on Campus ing Club, while the Newman Club will newly-formed band under the leader- generally centers on the Student Coun- ship of Dwight Vicks '54 of Clinton. cil, largely because they create the most have Harold E. Sweeney '55 of Birm- ingham, Mich, as president. The Wellesley Octet gave The Cayu- din and confusion; and besides, every- gans twenty minutes of breathing time, one can vote. Although the total turn- but the first-line entertainment was pro- out this year was considerably below the Debate teams, after a two-week breath- er, won four times in Ivy League com- vided by Tom Lehrer, Harvard math last two years, Gill H. Boehringer '55 of professor, whose vocal antics and origi- Drexel Hill, Pa. had no trouble in set- petition in six days. Brown was defeated twice, in a home and home series, nal verse are becoming nationally pop- ting a new record for votes to a single ular and were particularly well suited to candidate for representative - at - large and Harvard and Princeton were the other victims. Cornell debaters were Undergrad digestion. Directors of the with 498 of the 2837 votes cast. Boeh- dance were Juniors Alan H. Spindler of ringer has been first vice-president of given different subjects in each contest, but the strength of the Debate Associa- Middletown, Ohio, and Barbara A. the Council, will be co-director of the Ramsey of Lake George. first co-ed Frosh Camp, is a member of tion seems to be its depth; only Presi- Red Key and a Midshipman in the dent Hugh H. Schwartz '54 of White- Naval ROTC. Also elected representa- stone participated in more than one of Latest innovation in conferences was tives-at-large were Joseph M. Levine the contests. One would think it might the Campus Conference on Education, '55 of Brooklyn, Donald P. Greenberg be a pall on the conscience to demand co-sponsored by CURW and Student '56 of Woodmere, Robert W. Black, Jr. the admission of Red China to the UN Council during the third week in April. '57 of Baltimore, Md., Robert W. Tay- on Monday, then blandly refute your- The conclave was planned around the lor '56 of Lawtons, Richard A. Strouce self Tuesday, but such duplicity at least same design as the annual Campus '55 of Bethlehem, Pa., Kenneth J. Kwit insures cheering for the eventual win- Conference on Religion, and featured '56 of the Bronx, Robert S. Attiyeh '55 ning team. discussion groups in living units and of Brooklyn, and Dorothy M. Giddings professors' homes concerning the stu- '55 of Lockport. George N. Riordan of Co-ed Freshman camp, which will op- dents' aims in acquiring education. Set- Brooklyn, Wolf Preschel of Buenos erate on a trial basis next fall, will have ting the tone for the student meetings, Aires, Argentina, and Charles F. James Paul G. Bradley '55 of Fredonia as busi- a Faculty panel discussed the same gen- of Rochester were elected presidents of ness manager and Gill H. Boehringer '55 eral issues. Don O. Noel '54 of Akron, the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Shirley L. San- Ohio, president of CURW, led the or- Men's Class Councils for next year. ford '55 of Westfield as co-directors. A ganizational efforts for the conference. Only one faux pas was evident in the December meeting of camp counsellors He reports that interest was high and election. An hour before poll-closing elected Ann E. Busch '55 of Buffalo as that the plan will be repeated next year. time, 200 ballots apparently blew into business manager and Flora Bell Smyers the gorge—at least they could not be '55 of Westfield, N.J., as director of the Anyone in doubt over the regard in recovered—and caused early closing of women's camp; with Denis R. Miller which Cornellians hold famous person- two polling places. '55 of Upper Montclair, N.J., as men's alities has only to note the annual sur- camp business manager. prise-package sale sponsored by Delta In other administrative bodies, Rob- Delta Delta. Eighty unopened pack- ert M. Walker '55 of Kenmore was Visitors to the Campus must previously ages donated by celebrities, from Myron chosen president of the Independent have felt that the Architects were a C. Taylor '94 to Sophie Tucker, changed Association, Frederick W. Rose '55 of rather anti-social group who shut hands in this year's sale and grossed Montclair, N.J. and Psi Upsilon will be themselves up in two garrets, appear- $455 for the sorority's scholarship fund. president of the Interfraternity Coun- ing on Campus only to cross from one This year's per package income im- cil, and Edward D. Fellman '55 of Mil- to the other, and who were seldom seen proved about 30 cents over 1953, but waukee, Wis. took all the marbles to and never heard. Now we all have a the gross receipts were almost $50 head the new Willard Straight Hall chance to see that the White Hall ten- lower. As a finger on the pulse of na- board of managers. ants don't spend all their time cutting tional preferences, Senator McCarthy out paper trees and drinking white edged out both Vice-President Nixon During the deafening roar of elections wine. A display of Senior projects in and Anne Baxter, $3.25 to $2.75, al- by undergraduate administrative bodies, Architecture was put up near the Ad- though you'd think someone would social and service clubs were inauspi- missions Office and the President's Of- have boosted Miss Baxter to $3.30 just ciously selecting their heads for the fice in Day Hall for all to admire and for spite. Bing Crosby brought one of coming year. The thirty-person staff of has attracted so much attention that it the high bids with a wallet for $5.25, radio station WVBR finds itself with has been continued as a semi-perman- but champion of the day was an original twenty officers for 1954-55 and Irwin ent exhibit. The displays bring the Pinocchio from Walt Disney for $11. A. Kaufman '54 of New York in the architectural approach down to the To everyone's dismay, there was no re- station manager's chair. New president layman's level by emphasizing different currence of last year's big event, when of the Debate Association is Harvey M. treatments of the same problem. In a packaged $10 bill from Trustee Emer- Hammer '56 of Passaic, N.J. After a particular, two designs for an island itus Taylor was purchased for $3. The riotous debate and campaign at Martha recreation center made me think a bit national sorority contributes fifty cents Van, leaving the Lounge in shambles wistfully of vacation time, with myself for every dollar collected by the sale, and all members disheveled, Jessica L. immobile on the beach in front of these and this was further augmented this Roberts '55 of Rochester staggered beautiful buildings, hardly seeing, let year by gifts of $50 each from Mr. Tay- home with the coveted Home Ec Club alone appreciating them. lor and from the local alumnae chapter.

May 15,1954 493 temperate fashion intended to enlighten as Public Administration, attended the sixth well as lead. His writing is clear and con- annual meeting of The Far Eastern Asso- cise and the 'Letters' leave little to be de- ciation in New York City, April 13-15. Pro- THE FACULTY sired in objectivity and completeness. They fessors Biggerstaff, Kahin, and Sharp must by their nature be of real interest to chaired sessions on problems of moderniza- the community served by WHCU and must tion in China, public administration in President Deane W. Malott was elected by their content lead to community im- Southeast and South Asia, and traditional a member of the Savage Club of Ithaca at provements. The editorial matter is of re- society in Southeast Asia, respectively; Pro- a regular meeting in the Club rooms on markable quality considering the difficul- fessors Goodall and Litchfield participated Green Street, April 25. His election, like ties under which newscasts are prepared." in Professor Kahin's session on public ad- that of all members, followed his "try-out' ministration; and Harry Benda, one of six- to demonstrate his fitness to the Brother Luther M. Noss, University organist and teen Cornell students who attended the Savages assembled. His offering was a topi- assistant professor of Music from 1935-39, meeting, read a paper on Indonesia. Other cal poem which he had composed on a has been appointed dean of the Yale school Cornellians on the program were Hu Shih day's notice, dealing with his invitation to of music, effective July 1. He has been '14 and Chao Kuo-chϋn '26. Professor appear and with the special talents and professor of music at Yale since leaving Sharp is a director of The Far Eastern As- foibles of many of the Club's members. It the University. sociation, Miss Gaskill is bibliography edi- won him unanimous election. tor of The Far Eastern Quarterly, and Pro- The Rev. George W. Hartman, father of fessor Kahin is a member of the advisory Professor Wilson G. Smillie, Public Professor John D. Hartman, PhD '33, Veg- editorial board of the Quarterly. Health & Preventive Medicine at the Med- etable Crops, died April 9, 1954, at Jessup, ical College, accepted a Lord & Taylor Ga. Award of $1000, May 3, on behalf of the Kips Bay-Yorkville Adult Counseling Cen- Professor Walter B. Carver, Mathemat- ter in New York City: The award, given ics, Emeritus, addressed the National annually for significant efforts to make Council of Teachers of Mathematics at its man's life richer, happier, and more pro- annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, April BACK WHEN: ductive, was presented to the Center for its 24. He discussed "Closely Packed Spheres." pioneering work in gerontology and geria- trics. The Center is sponsored jointly by Professor Jeremiah J. Wanderstock '41, Forty-Five Years Ago Hotel Administration, his wife, and four- the Medical College and the New York May, 1909—A Graduate School was City Department of Health. year-old son were injured- in a two-car, head-on collision, April 8, near Wurtsboro. established; Ernest Merritt '86 appoint- Two awards were won last month by Professor Wanderstock and his son were ed first Dean. ... A Cornell Dramatic Professor Clinton L. Rossiter '39, Govern- released from the hospital late last month. Club was organized a short time ago for ment, for his book, Seedtime of the Repub- Mrs. Wanderstock has been moved to a serious study of the drama and the pro- lic. April 20, President Grayson Kirk of hospital in Buffalo and is expected to re- duction of good plays. . . . Sampson Columbia presented him with the 1954 main in a cast for about two months. Fine Arts Prize established. . . . Cornell Bancroft Prize given annually by Colum- won both the varsity and the freshman bia "for distinguished writings in Ameri- Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation an- races against Harvard's crews on Cayu- can history." April 26, he was named win- nounced, April 6, the appointment of Pro- ga Lake. . . . The Huntington House at ner of the 1954 Book Prize of the Institute fessor Russell L. Cecil, Clinical Medicine of Early American History and Culture, at the Medical College, Emeritus, as its Park Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street a $500 award given annually for the best medical director. He will head the Foun- leased by the Cornell Club of New book on early American history before 1815. dation's program of research, medical and York. Reviewing the book in the Saturday Re- public education, and clinic establishment. view of July 18, 1953, Professor Leonard Thirty-five Years Ago W. Larabee of Yale called it "without ques- January issue of The Journal of Medical May, 1919—Delta Gamma sorority tion the best book available on the political Education contains an editorial, "The Na- ideas of those who founded the American tional Fund Carries On," describing a pa- bought the large brick house on East republic." The New Yorker termed it, a per presented last November by Dr. Jo- Seneca Street formerly occupied by Phi "brilliant example of creative scholarship." seph C. Hinsey, Director of The New York Gamma Delta and Gamma Eta Gam- Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, to a ma fraternities and thus became the Professor George H. Healey, PhD '47, group of New York industrialists. In the first of women's societies at Cornell to English, discussed "The Nineteenth Cen- paper, Dr. Hinsey pointed out the great own a permanent residence. . . . John tury as Seen by Andrew Dickson White, need for contributions to the support of Stambaugh '84 endowed a professor- First President of Cornell University" at medical education. "The greatest weakness ship of History at the University. . . . the spring meeting of the American Studies lies in the lack of funds for basic opera- Cornell Club of New York moved to 30 Association of New York State, April 24, tion, in which the largest item is faculty West Forty-fourth Street. at Union College, Schenectady. The pro- salaries," he said. gram, "The Role of the University in American Society During the Nineteenth Professor Roy G. Wiggans, PhD Ί5, Twenty Years Ago Century," was under the chairmanship of Plant Breeding, and his associates have May, 1934—W. Atlee Burpee, Jr. '17 Harold W. Blodgett '21, chairman of the produced a new hybrid popcorn which is has sailed for Europe to exhibit six department of English at Union. early-maturing, yellow, highly expansible, plants of the $10,000 nasturtium which and tender, and which can be grown in won the highest awards at the recent Charles J. Chatfield, news editor of Uni- New York's short season. Small samples of versity Radio Station WHCU, received the the seed were given to prospective growers flower shows in the large Eastern cities. 1953 Sigma Delta Chi Radio Newswriting during Farm & Home Week and a limited This double hybrid nasturtium was de- Award in Journalism, April 12, at a dinner amount of seed will be produced commer- veloped by David Burpee '17. . . . First in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York cially this season. Cornell Day, May 17, was attended by City. The award, which has been won in nearly 650 prospective Cornellians. . . . previous years by Elmer Davis, Cecil Ten members of the staff of the Depart- Cornell's strong and brilliant track Brown, and Alfred Warner, was based on ment of Far Eastern Studies: Knight Big- team literally swamped Pennsylvania on Chatfield's interpretive and analytical gerstafϊ, John M. Echols, Gussie Gaskill, Schoellkopf Field, 108-27, in the out- news commentary, broadcast daily over Grad '19, Frank H. Golay, Merrill R. WHCU and WHCU-FM. Chatfield was Goodall, George McT. Kahin, Lauriston standing of all Cornell victories in the cited for "making a genuine- contribution Sharp, Robert J. Smith, Wu Hsin-min, MA Cornell Day sports festival. . . . Kath- to his community in a regularly broadcast '49, and Isabella Yen, Charles Wolf who is arine Cornell and her company played 'Letter to the Editor' which discusses con- a visiting professor in the Department, and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" to a troversial local matters in a well-balanced, Dean Edward H. Litchfield, Business & crowded house at the Strand.

494 Cornell Alumni News became president of Lindsay Bros., Inc., the family company in the farm implement and equipment business. The company has k* ίr, been active in this field for the past 86 MEWS ..OF,THE AIΛJ! years, so L cannot claim much of the credit for building it. I had previously worked for Lindsay Bros., from 1919-28 and came Addresses which appear in these pages are in New York State unless otherwise designated. back with them in 1946. My wife is still Glass columns headed by Glass numerals and the names and addresses of the correspondents living and is even-tempered enough so that who write them are principally those of Classes which have purchased group subscriptions to I have a very enjoyable life." the NEWS for all members. Personal items, newspaper clippings, or other notes about Cor- Howard B. Drake, 8 Maple Ave., Friend- nellians of all Glasses are welcomed for publication. ship, writes, "George Griffiths and his wife and I and my wife drove down to Sarasota, '97 PhB, '03 MA, Ό5 PhD—Willard E. ing eighty-three women of my Class. We Fla., together in the latter part of January. Hotchkiss writes that he "spent several "suffer," of course, only in the imagination We had an enjoyable February vacation. days at the Statler Inn last autumn, meet- of the very young reuning Classes. With My wife and I are staying on until May 1, ing friends and reviewing recent develop- the conviction indoctrinated by our leading as I retired from active business January ments at Cornell." He was the founding mystery writers that senility begins at fifty, 1, last." dean of the graduate school of business at they view with distaste and dismay the suc- "I saw my regular three football games Stanford University and later was presi- cessful efforts of the "big olders" to re- this fall," writes Ike (I. Ellis) Behrman, dent of Armour Institute in Chicago, 111. juvinate their point of view. Support comes "plus the Columbia-Cornell game at Ithaca, He concluded his academic career by in- from newsy letters in addition to returned but didn't catch a glimpse of you. If you augurating a program of humanistic and questionnaries; financial aid from many have time on your hands, why not come social studies at Carnegie Tech. Hotchkiss "kept away," and assurance that only acts down and have lunch with me at the hos- retired in 1945 and now lives at the Univer- of God will prevent the advent of the pital?" For a number of years now, Ike has sity Club, 1333 Seventh Avenue, San Di- "hope-to-comes." been executive director of the Beth-Israel ego 1, Cal. While some of us devote our leisure to Hospital in Newark, one of the largest and '06 AB, '07 MA, ΊlPhD—John L. Rich, civic duties and keeping an eye on our de- best hospitals in New Jersey. His home ad- chairman of the geology-geography depart- scendants, many of us are still active in law, dress is 36 South Munn Ave., East Orange, ment at University of Cincinnati, was made medicine, scientific research, social service, N.J., and his office address at the hospital an honorary member of the American As- teaching, and even commerce. A goodly is 210 Lyons Avenue, Newark 8. sociation of Petroleum Geologists at the As- number live in far corners of the U.S.A. A note received from Wallace E. Cald- sociation's annual meeting in St. Louis, and abroad. A considerable group are globe well, Box 567, Chapel Hill, N.C., says, Mo., April 13. Professor Rich lives at 848 trotters and come home, apparently, to re- "Masonically, after serving as Grand Mas- Dunore Road, Cincinnati 20, Ohio. habilitate for the next trip and get acter of Masons in the State of North Carolina quainted with the latest grandchild. '07 BSA—Anson H. Rowe, Clarksville, and years as Grand High Priest, I am cur- writes that he enjoys reading the ALUMNI Fortunately, many of this season's trips rently Sovereign Grand Master of the NEWS. "Rym Berry first," he says, "then include Ithaca, some complete with hus- Grand Council of the Allied Masonic De- news of Classes '05 to '09, especially '07 . . . bands. So we can report twenty-five certain grees of the U.S. Professionally, I got out After that, everything else, even the ads. No reservations. As an experienced chairman a book, Readings in Ancient History, with news. Have considered myself retired for I should say three-fifths of the twenty-odd Professor McDermott of Pennsylvania several years. I spend my winters in the "hopefuls" will overcome all inhibitions (looks like sabotage to me, Wally), and a South and my summers on the farm my and obstacles. With favorable reports from World History for High Schools, with a grandfather bought in 1834." the men's chairman, Cy Weed, our expecta- Mr. Merrill. I have been granted leave for tion is for another 1909 record this year. the fall semester at University of North '08 Men—April 14, the Class of 1908 Interesting Class events in addition to the Carolina, and expect to go first to Copen- had a dinner at the Lotos Club, 5 East full-time program offered by the Brass hagen, where my son Bob '40 is consul. Sixty-sixth Street, New York City. Those Hats, i.e., Schmid and Brewer of the Alum- Then we will go to the Mediterranean and present were Edwin T. Gibson, William G. ni Office, should afford many an exhausted, spend the fall there. My daughter Martha Mennen, David A. Embury, J. Wright but never a dull moment. graduates from Cornell this spring, and we Taussig, Herbert L. Trube, Sidney D. Grid- We remind you that for 1909 there will hope to get up for the Reunions and Com- ley, Morris B. Rosevear, I. Erlich Wolfe, J. never be another Forty-five-year Reunion. mencement. My oldest son Ted, who did Edgar Davidson, Philip B. Hoge, George —Q.H.S. graduate work at Cornell in 1940-41, is an N. Brown, O. Howard Simonds, Warren engineer on Project Lincoln at MIT. Tell McArthur, Meyer Davis, and Herbert E. any 1910ers to stop by and see me, if they Mitler.—H.E.M. Roy Taylor Old Fort Road ever drive through Chapel Hill." '09 Men—Present indications are that ΊO Bernardsville, N.J. the Class of '09 is going to smash the 45- Frank L. Aime year record into atoms. At the present writ- Hank (Henry D.) Lindsay, 2421 North 3804 Grey stone Avenue ing, we know that 90 are coming back and Terrace Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wis., writes: New York 63, N.Y. it looks as if we may break the 100 mark. Ί1 "There is very little information I can pass There are a number who have not yet ad- on to you regarding the Class of 1910. I A vividly-colored postcard from Gene vised us as to what day they will arrive or have not checked any recent lists but I do Bennett at Waikiki Beach; a nice letter the size of their hat. (Note: This is head not think there are any other ΊO men in from Dr. V. Buencamino, 225 Concepcion, size on arrival.) The all time 45-year rec- Milwaukee or vicinity. I am sure I sent in Ermita, Manila, through his bankers; and ord at present is 73, made last year by '08, a biographical sketch of my life a year or from L. E. Gowling, Compania Cub ana De and that in itself was quite a record over two ago, and my life has not changed much Electricidad, Habana, both of whom took the previous one established by 1905 when since. I have a son, married and living in the trouble to get New York drafts to pay they had 53 back.—Cy Weed Milwaukee, who has a daughter and three dues. If all you boys had to do that, I won- '09 Women—Facing with fortitude our sons, and I have a daughter, Judith, who der! A rather enlightening letter from Carl approaching Forty-five-year Reunion in married last December and is living in New S. Coler, now in Turkey, who visited a June, I am sustained by the enthusiastic York. She is married to Richard L. Knight. textile mill in Tarsus, home town of Paul, support of my fellow sufferers, the remain- More recently, in January to be exact, I "the small-town boy who made good as

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May 15,1954 495 foreign sales manager for Christianity." Red Jacket, Herb says Grandpa painted Harry E. Southard Carl visited a home in whose court was a all the products of the firm a bright red and 3102 Miami Road well still being used and claimed to be the his successors, including Herb, have been Ί3 South Bend 14, Ind. original well Paul used. Carl went over doing the same thing ever since. Nobody there last December as one of a team of six mentions the fact that anything you sell to Well, folks, here's news: We have had the in the development of a management-train- farmers (and that is Herb's principal busi- first golden wedding for a member of our ing program. "It is a joy to work with the ness, domestic pumps and water condi- 1913 Class. Guess time really is marching Turk; their industry is expanding rapidly tioners) goes a long way if painted red. on! and they are hungry for scientific know- "Once about 40 years ago, we tried and Parkin Wong, who spent the regular how." Some comments: in 1450, the Turk were granted a patent on red-colored farm four years with our Class getting the AB cut off trade to the Far East, leading to the pumps, but after a year or so, the Patent and, liking Cornell so well, stayed on an- discovery of America. Some Spaniards, Office vacated the patent, we just couldn't other year to obtain the MA in 1914, cele- working on the theory that the world is make it stick." That was when Herb was a brated his golden wedding anniversary, No- round, bet money on the proposition and young jerk, just new with the company. vember 22, in Hong Kong, China. won a terrific amount of loot. Abraham left He had good training for the job: belongs After Parkin finished at Cornell, he re- a farm in what is now southern Turkey to to that famous crew of those golden years, turned to China and made a geological sur- find greener pastures in the West; he de- Class crew Sophomore year; Varsity crew vey which took him to Mongolia, Turk- veloped the concept of one God with justice Sophomore and Junior years, plus a slew estan, and the Malayan Straits. In 1923, as an attribute, and Christ, 2000 years later, of committees. Since then, president, Na- he went with American Express Co. and added the concept of love as a good basis tional Association of Domestic & Farm has been with them ever since. He became for relations with God and man; Muham- Pump Manufacturers and past-president or a leader in the Chinese community in Hong med, 700 years later, added the idea that director of several organizations, including Kong and was elected chairman of the So- there should be less class distinction. All Davenport Chamber of Commerce, Gray cial Welfare Advancement Association of these concepts are good; America was Iron Founders Society, Trinity Episcopal Shamshuipσ District. In 1953, he was founded by people who believed in them Church, and Rotary Club. His recreation is awarded a certificate of honor and a Coro- and America has become prosperous. In golf and bowling. Dad takes great pride in nation Medal by Queen Elizabeth in recog- the stone age, pharaohs invested surplus his sons, though they don't necessarily want nition of his long service to the public. manpower in pyramids; thus Cheops pur- to make pumps. Perry, 35, is TV producer The golden wedding dinner party was chased immortality. Nowadays, America and director of NBC, New York, and Her- given in the Kamling Restaurant, the invests some of her surplus in international bert R., Jr., 32, is a salesman for Nichols largest restaurant in Hong Kong, and the goodwill, replacing stone walls. Carl's let- Wire & Aluminum Co., Davenport, and guests occupied 150 tables on three floors terhead appears below. Address: Kavakli- lives in Pittsburgh, Pa. Herb says that he is of the restaurant. Among those present dere Socok 29, Ankara, Turkey. two years away from normal retirement, so were business leaders, judges, legislators, if he can make the grade, "it shouldn't be and government officials, all anxious to pay too long before we can see what it is like to their respects to their distinguished host live 'the life of Riley' a la Bill Simson and and hostess. Ray Heath." You remember that Bill was Varsity crew too, and Freshman and Var- sity football. Whisper Heath was just a track man and three-year Varsity basketball, so it's no wonder Herb yearns a little .--•-V,. for that Florida air and that cracker-bar- rel atmosphere.

Walter W. (Walt) Post, 623 Powers Bldg., Rochester, went through Ithaca High School and then spent two years as assistant to the Treasurer in Morrill Hall. After graduation, he spent one year in his uncle's law office in Ithaca, thence to Rochester, where he clerked until Jan. 1, 1914. He then opened his own office and has been there ever since. He enjoyed his trip to Los Angeles in '52, where he and the For a man who wanted nothing more wife visited Abe Mahon (NEWS Mar. i). than to be in the pump business, Herbert R. Ί2—Ralph Hinchliff writes that he is (Herb) Lafferty, ME, (above) certainly the father of five children and the grand- made the right start: at the bottom. He father of thirteen. During the summer Photo above shows Parkin and Mrs. came to work for Red Jacket Mfg. Co., months, he lives in Jefferson, Wis., which Wong wearing the same Mandarin gowns Davenport, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 he places as "between the Wisconsin Bad- in which they were married in 1903. (Con- (as if that were anything unusual) and, ac- gers and the Milwaukee Braves." He is the gratulations, Parkin, on being able to get cording to reports, got his hands very dirty brother of Emerson Hinchliff '14. into it!) During the party, which began at in the foundry and stuff. Right after gradu- six in the evening and lasted until late into ation, he came in on a full-time basis and '12 ME—Guy T. Morris is retiring at the the night, the host and hostess visited each has been with the firm ever since; executive end of this month after nearly thirty-five of their guests' tables, drinking toasts and veep in 1945 and president in 1952; only years as patent attorney with Bell Tele- chatting with their friends. Chinese opera firm he ever worked for. phone Laboratories, Inc., New York City. was presented continually on the second Herb explains that his grandpa, who He will live in Fort Myers, Fla., at 3420 floor and orchestras played repeatedly on founded the firm, knew Chief Red Jacket West Riverside Drive, and plans to take all three floors. Best wishes and congratu- and liked him. Red Jacket was a famous up "boating and fishing, for which the loca- lations, Parkin, to you and your wife from Seneca Indian leader who aided the colo- tion is so well fitted, but about which I am all your 1913 Classmates. Here's hoping nists in their struggle for independence in almost, totally ignorant." we get invited to your diamond wedding '76 and for his great deeds was awarded '12 ME-r-Oscar Seager, 145 Central Park celebration! the first Congressional Medal of Honor of West, New York City 23, has retired as We are indebted to James R. Gordon '18 which there is any record. In honor of Chief president of Six-Sixty First Avenue Corp. for this report of the first golden wedding 496 Cornell Alumni News Ballantine Beer watches your belt-line

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P. Ballantine & Sons, Newark, N. J. i, that light, bright, refreshing flavor!' of our Class, and to John P. Wagman '17 forced himself to spend three weeks in One who was coming, but can't, is Ed- for passing it on to us. Gordon and his wife Florida and got back just after the Buf- ward F. Watson. He had originally planned were guests at the party and he really had falo blizzard. He hadn't been to Florida for a vacation trip to Europe, ending in time the responsibility of representing not only twenty years and hardly recognized the for him to make Ithaca, but the Bell Lab- 1913 but also all Cornellians, for he wrote, place; saw Timmy Timmerman in Pom- oratories have requested that he extend his "as the only other Cornell man present on pano Beach and Bert Hendrickson in Brad- trip and visit various technical labs in Eng- this occasion, I had to drink an unlimited enton, both of whom are coming in June, land, Holland, Italy, and Germany, and number of special toasts on behalf of my though Bert's name wasn't listed. Chuck then meet the Lab president in Munich, less fortunate fellow-Cornellians." (I am was as impressed as I had been in '52 at June 28. Ed is doubly distressed because his sure, James, that you ably carried out your the hospital Bert built for Bradenton be- two sons, Theodore S. '51 of Plainfield, N.J. responsibility in true Cornell tradition.) tween trips to the No'th on law business. and Edward F., Jr. '51 of Williamsport, Have heard through Stub Shaner, Pa., are both re-uning as well and it would Emerson Hinchliff through Joe Iglehart, with a side mention have been a nice threesome. Ed sends his 400 Oak Avenue of Norm Stone, that Johnny Mcllvaine will best to the gang, especially Jim Munns, '14 Ithaca, NY. have a Freshman son on Campus next fall. Carlton Ward, Johnnie and Wendell Phil- "After three gorgeous daughters, now all lips, Ike Carman, Phil Kent, the two Hal- Here goes to bite a little into the back- grown up with families of their own," (Mac steds, Roof and the others, "one and all." log of accumulated items. Chuck Bassett's speaking) he had twins 18 years ago Closes with, "I will now be looking for- letter of April 26 furnished additional stim- and the boy has done well enough at Hav- ward to seeing you all at our 45th." There's ulus. It's certainly an attractive tentative erford School and in the College Boards so a forward-looking man for you! We're sor- Reunion program and the accompanying that he was promptly accepted by Cornell. ry, too, Ed. list of those who already plan to come back Congrats, John, and have the boy look us Paul Haviland sent me a delightful arti- and have let somebody know about it is up! It's interesting to me to see that an- cle from the Hartford Courant of April 6 even more attractive. There will be many other Illinoisan moved East along with me; entitled, "Judge Bordon's Art," said art be- more names. Let me add my two cents to he settled in a college town, too! Bryn ing that of toastmastering. Here's a sen- Chuck's invitation to those who have never Mawr, Pa. tence: "Judge Bordon is an extremely dan- attended a Reunion; you may think you Add to your Class Directory the name of gerous man up there behind a microphone, have lost touch and will be out of things, Thorp D. Sawyer, P.O. Box 161, Grass dangerous in the sense that he is likely to but I can assure you, from my observation Valley, Cal. Doc Peters discovered him steal the show away from any speaker." of our own and other Classes, that such a among the address unknown list, after 30- The judge in question is Abraham S. wandering prodigal feels at home imme- odd years below Panama. Returned home (Bunk) Bordon. Perhaps we had better call diately. Everybody lives at the dorms, not in '51, bought some acreage, and built him- on him for a sample at our Saturday night at fraternities, and it's just one grand self a house, though a bit south of his old banquet. Connecticut seems to breed '14 home-coming party. How about it, Herb home in Tacoma, Wash., so that he would speakers, with Carl Ward just around the Pope, of Sanford, Fla.? not be tempted to go back to South Amer- corner in Farmington and Edward J. Chuck has been taking his duties as Re- ica. Grass Valley is a mining town and (Pete) Daley, another judge, also a Hart- union chairman very seriously. He has Thorp is a civil and mining engineer, so fordian. Paul and Abe grew up together in made several trips to Ithaca, the latest, the location makes sense. Best of it is, he Hartford. Paul married Prof. Stone's April 20. He even, in order to assure that and his wife expect to drive East in June daughter, Julia Stone '13; a son of theirs he would be in tip-top physical condition, and will attend the 40th. graduated a few years ago, was a BMOH May 15,1954 497 while here and a nice boy. Which reminds Says "Its a far cry in both time and dis- Babcock, who is musical, has joined the me that I sat with Ike Neuwirth a week ago tance, but I am planning for the 1955 Re- Eastman Opera Company at Eastman at a baseball game; he was up for Parents union." School of Music. Week End, having a Frosh son. Our Tough Dues Collector, Walter (W. Wallace S. Young, Tracy Road, Waver- Bob Hendry writes from Honolulu, re- A.) Priester is chairman, Davenport City ly, is now president of Kasco Mills, Inc. gretting he cannot come, saying "I hope Plan Commission. "See 'American City' in Waverly. I saw Wally last fall with his the gang has a good time." It's a long swim January issue to see how good we are." charming wife at the Yale game and he at that. I may surprise him by going to (Modest fellow!) 1117 Davenport Bank told me quite a bit about his work in the Hawaii myself one of these years. Bldg., Davenport, Iowa. feed manufacturing business and particu- The prize letter, in closing, is one to Doc Bob (R.W.) White, Union Carbide larly about the television show that Kasco Peters from Dean Edward R. Stapley, Still- Bldg., New York City, sends Easter greet- has been putting on about dog food. Any of water, Okla.: "Tomorrow, April 4, I leave ings. you dog lovers that want a sample, write as leader of a party of three from our col- Russ (G. Russell) Thompson, 33-33 Wallace and he will send you one. Also lege for a six-weeks' trip which will take 164th St., Flushing 58, L.I., accounts for they have a marvelous book on dog care us around the world before our return. meeting up with few 1915's. "Either they're which sells for $1 and is well worth it. He About four weeks of this period will be getting old and not getting around, or I am, will send you a copy free and you can con- spent in Pakistan, both West and East Pak- but I never seem to cross trails with any of tribute the dollar to the 1916 fund. istan, making a quick survey of profes- them. (And personally, I refuse to accept Harry B. Murray, whose address is Vol- sional engineering, technical institute, and relegation to that category.)" ga 7, Mexico City, Mexico, has been living trade school education along with visits to Gil (G.V.) Anderson sends "best wishes in Mexico City since he graduated. He is and inspection of industries and the needs for the success of this year's program" to- a member of the Cornell Club of Mexico of industry in that country for the three gether with a little extra dough for the and he said that he hopes any Classmate or levels of education mentioned above. Al- Class kitty. Hotel Everglades, Miami, Fla. other Cornellians visiting Mexico City will though we shall be traveling as official rep- Rog (Roger W.) Clapp, P.O. Box 800, look him up. How about a report on the resentatives of Oklahoma A. & M. College, Winter Haven, Fla., sends a very interest- Glee Club concert in Mexico for our next the entire expense of the trip will be borne ing personal card bearing the following column, Harry? by the Ford Foundation on an itinerary legend: "Work fascinates me; I can sit and Henry D. Hukill, RR4, Box 317, South planned by their representatives. Enroute look at it for hours." Bend, Ind., is with Bendix Products Divi- to Karachi, Pakistan, we shall spend two A wise-guy friend (non-Cornellian) ap- sion in South Bend and is on the manage- days in Beirut, Lebanon, visiting American plies the needle in the following. He takes ment staff in charge of unit subcontracting University there. On the homeward trip the time to send me a clipping from Science in aviation parts and equipment. If busi- we are to spend a few days in Tokyo, vis- News Letter, March 20, 1954, regarding ex- ness doesn't keep him away, for the avia- iting some Japanese technical schools. Ex- periments being conducted by Professor tion parts business is tremendous, he is pect to be at the Class Reunion, June 11 Wm. A. Wimsatt of the Zoology Depart- planning to be at the next Reunion. & 12. Hastily, Ed Stapley." If he has ment. The head on the story read "Bats in Richard T. Muller, 51 Center St., Glen- caught his breath by June 11, he ought to Cornell Basement Studied in Hibernation." brook, Conn., is with Machlett Labora- have some interesting things to tell. The opening sentence was "Cornell Uni- tories, Springdale, Conn. He has written Shouldn't he get some sort of travel award versity has bats in its basement" and the a book on American Greenhouse Construc- from the Class, too; say a Ford or a Lin- jokester adds "In the belfrey too, if you ask tion and is quite an authority on that sub- coln? me." (Fine stuff!) ject. Dr. Carl C. Harvey, MD '16, writes that Charles M. Colyer Harry F. Byrne he is senior surgeon at the Middlesex Me- 123 West Prospect Avenue 123 William Street morial Hospital in Middletown, and at New York 7 N.Y. Connecticut State Hospital. He has two Cleveland 1, Ohio Ίό 3 Ί5 boys, both physicians, one who graduated Francis D. Martin, 2917 Claremont Rd., from Cornell Medical College in 1946. He Shaker Heights, Ohio, has an all-Cornel- also has a married daughter. His address is lian family: son, James W. Martin '49 Ho- 20 Silver Street, Middletown, Conn. tel; daughter Nancy, married to John R. W. R. Yorkey, 2550 Kemper, Shaker Owens '50 I&LR. Heights, Ohio, writes that he is sales man- Ferdinand George Hummel, 1942 North ager with Electric Controller & Manufac- St. Mary's St., San Antonio, Tex., puts in turing Co., Cleveland, Ohio. another modest plug for the sovereign State —Birge W. Kinne of Texas (see George Dorrance, Houston, '17 MA—Ernest F. Ling married Mrs. May 1 ALUMNI NEWS). He says, "Smallest Anne Chase Hawley, April 3, in Corning. fish caught in Texas still measure about 15 They reside in Corning, where Ling is inches, measured between the eyes, of manager of product engineering at Corn- course. No news except 25 years running ing Glass Works. the Sea Foam Laundry & Cleaners." '18 PhD—Donald K. Tressler partici- Brick (E.R.) Morse, 4204 Loch Raven pated in a symposium on methods for eval- Blvd., Baltimore, Md., is with the Canteen uation of nutritional adequacy and status Co. (with special reference to military rations), Fernie (Lloyd D.) Fernald is in the in- sponsored by the National Research Coun- vestment line at Springfield, Mass. He has cil, February 25-6, at the Oriental Insti- four sons: University of Virginia '51, Am- tute, University of Chicago. Tressler is sci- herst '52, Cornell '54, Hotchkiss '54. (What entific director of the Quartermaster Food & Container Institute for the Armed a pay roll!) Fernie says Bill Kent has a George S. Babcock (above) started with country home near Springfield. Home ad- Forces, Chicago, 111. His home address is Benzol Products Co. in 1916, making coal North Compo Road, Westport, Conn. dress; 30 Warren Terrace, Longmeadow, tar dye intermediates which were used in Mass. the manufacture of khaki-brown for uni- Alpheus W. Smith Charley (Charles) Lahr, 1746 Clarkson forms in World War I. He continued there 705 The Parkway St., Denver, 18, Colo., writes that the Glee until 1922 and, after one year's intermis- Ithaca, N.Y. Club put on a fine performance in Denver sion, came to Eastman Kodak Co. in Roch- '19 on their recent tour of the West; first since ester, where he is in charge of a chemical Caroline Jane, daughter of Fay C. Bai- 1915. process for the roll coating department. His ley (retired) and Mrs. Bailey, RD 4, Can- Hal (Wm. H.) Tyler, 633 South Berendo hobby is sacred music and, with the excep- ton, will be married in Canton, June 26, to St., Los Angeles, Cal., wrote "that he was tion of one year, he has played a pipe organ David Pratt, son of Professor Arthur J. "looking forward to the Glee Club Con- since before graduating from Cornell and Pratt '25, Vegetable Crops, and Mrs. Pratt cert.5' Hal notes Plupe (George P.) Rea's is still doing so. In 1942, he was president (Terrace Morgan) '31. Bride and bride- address: 3950 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles. of the Cornell Club of Rochester. Mrs. groom are Class of '54 (Ag.).

498 Cornell Alumni News Eugene W. Beggs, 37 Hamilton Road, tary, Presbyterian Mariners (a couples Glen Ridge, N.J., reporting: "At last Γm group), which holds its national convention a grandfather; proof, a red-headed boy June 21-25 at Estes Park, Col., and a past- named Walter Eugene Beggs. He's doing president of the Republican Club. fine! Son of Ensign Eugene W., Jr." Gene William Harrison, 1004 North Shore is fire commissioner of Glen Ridge and Drive, Carlsbad, N.M., is a cotton farmer chairman of the Progress Committee of and an employment-service operator. the Illuminating Engineering Society. Benjamin S. Hubbell, Jr., 4500 Euclid He'll report at this fall's convention. He's Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio, and his wife are putting in much work and having some ex- taking a new Mercury convertible aboard citement and a little fun. the "America," May 15, and will sail off M. Warren Benton, 3013 Marble N.E., for two months' research in ten European Albuquerque, N. Mex., life insurance sales, countries. Ben says, "I'm a firm believer in anticipates his 35th Reunion at Cornell and the great strength, soundness, and mission SMITH-CORONA - - - ROYAL his 33d at Columbia (Class of '21). of the USA." He's president, The Avenue Co.; president, The Hubbell & Blenes Co., For twenty years, Walter G. Blackburn, REMINGTON - - - UNDERWOOD 3456-B S. Utah St., Arlington 6, Va., has architects; and trustee, Euclid Avenue As- been special agent, F.B.I., assigned to the sociation. F.B.I. Laboratory in .Washington as a PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS handwriting expert. He'll retire, June 30, S. Jack Solomon to practice his profession in his own pri- 152 West 42d Street * vate laboratory at Rancho Santa Fe, Gal. '20 New York 36, N.Y. You're invited to drop in for a visit. His three grandsons (pere is son Gerard Slater) It has been said that when the occasion HEADQUARTERS are srreat-grandsons of Frederick R. Slater demands, I can use the Queen's English '94. with the scalding abandon that befits the Triangle Book Shop Thirty nineteeners attended April's copyright owners and that's just what I in- Class dinner at the Cornell Club in New tended to do in this column, because I had • York City, reports Ed Carples, engineer, not received any twittle-twattle (that Rocky Hill, N.J., and prime luncheon means gossip) from you twirling Twenty- TERMS mover. If you want to fly to Reunion from ites. But apparently some of you stopped New York City or vicinity, call Ed at EX spinning around long enough to drop me To your convenience 4-4600, Ext. 222 (New York Telephone a line. I'm very grateful and wish more of Co.). you would follow their example. Now, if Parmly S. Clapp, Jr., Room 100, 71 the photographers will dim their lights and Broadway, New York 6, is general traffic the committee allow me to proceed in my manager, Isthmian Steamship Co., a sub- own herky-jerky fashion, I'll tell you non- CHOICE sidiary of US Steel Corp. If you want to writers what's cookin'! send some cargo after you've read ISTHMI- New models—always AN below, see Parm: I(ndia, Pakistan, Cey- lon); S(audi Arabia, Iran, Iraq); Thai- Reconditioned models—when land, Burma); H(awaiian Islands); M(a- available laya, Philippines, China); I(ndonesia, In- do-China, Viet Nam); Alexandria, Leb- anon, Red Sea); N(orth Atlantic & Gulf Intercoastal). For going on these 35 years, Albert L. GUARANTEE Dittmar, 1106 N. 17th St., Harrisburg, Pa., has been with the Pennsylvania Depart- Backed by manufacturer and ment of Highways. For the last 30 years Triangle he's been at Harrisburg headquarters. He's right-of-way engineer of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. During 1953-54, Albert J. Eckhardt, 26 Stoneyside Drive, Larchmont, served as a REPAIRS member of the advisory committee to the student committee which planned and con- If you drop your typewriter let the ducted the Sixth Annual Management Triangle Repair Service fix it. Conference of the School of Business & To begin with, here's Kirk M. Reid, who, Public Administration, held on the Cam- since graduation, has been with the Gen- pus, April 15-16. Al was on the panel which eral Electric Lamp Division at Nela Park, RENTALS discussed "Problems of Private Foreign In- Cleveland. Golly! That's darn near 35 vestment." Conference theme was "The years! (This is a good spot to remind you For special needs the Triangle United States as a World Trade Leader." of our BIG 35 IN '55 REUNION.) Kirk's most Typewriter Rental Service fills the Son Al, Jr. '54 (Arts) won his "C" in fenc- interesting project during recent years was bill. $1.50 for a week—$4.00 for ing. the designing of a new technique of tun- Louis Frank, Hernan Cortes 152, Mexico nel lighting so when you enjoy driving a month. 10, D.F., is in the business of catching, proc- through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in essing, and exporting seafood to the USA. New York, or the Squirrel Hill Tunnel in Ciudad del Carmen Campeche: delicious Pittsburgh, you can thank him for making *fou!ll enjou tτadmq at the . . frozen shrimp. "King Brand" distributors: it so bright. Like Hank Benisch, Kirk still TRlλ NG L. E M, Alberte Seafoods, Chicago, 111.,, and Har- enjoys playing a good game of tennis, and Δ/L\\BAΔK lingen, Tex. Spare time avocations: family, in 1953, paired with his son Kirk Reid, Jr. books, music, and memories of loves, wars, '50 ME, won the Western Open father-son Evan J. Morris, Prop. and adventures overseas during some 20- doubles. The photo shows Kirk at his hob- odd years. by, Certified Tree Farm #305 of the Ohio 412 College Ave. Samuel C. Gist, Jr., 458 E. Jefferson Forestry Association. It comprises 75 acres, Ave., Pomona, Gal., is a furniture store 15 in Christmas trees and the balance in Serving Cornellίans Since 1903 owner. Children: 2 daughters, 1 son. One hardwood timber. Better place your Christ- grandchild. He's national executive secre- mas orders now. Also heard from Sam Alt- May 15,1954 499 house, who's been a real honest-to-goodness editor for the past 28 years. Being a member of the AAAA, (That's American Asso- ciation of Advertising Agencies, not a double Alcoholics Anonymous) Sam says he shrinks from publicity, which seems to Wedgwood Chinαiυαre be the rule with the men of '20. I make clear the difference between AAAA and AA because Sam suggests we organize a '20-"quart"-ette for the Reunion. Any of you ex-Glee Club men care to organize a barber-shop chorus? If so, my studio is Complete Assortment available for rehearsals. It's sound-proofed! In addition to a married son, who returned from Korea last Armistice Day, Sam also has an eight-year-old daughter. It seems Cornell Cups & Saucers, made by Wedgwood in that for 17 years, the sights on his rifle were not adjusted for elevation, or wind- England, with Cornell Border and Seal of the Uni- age, or something, sez he. Don't worry Sam, you're still on target! Jack Meadow, versity in Mulberry color, are now offered again Joe Diamant, and Jeff Kilbourne are back from Florida. Jack writes that Louis W. after being unobtainable for some time. They are Dawson and wife were also at Boca. If you can still get insurance, and want some, graceful teacups of special Wedgwood design. $40 Louis is president of the Mutual Life In- surance Co. of N.Y. Joe claims he caught a dozen, $4 a set for less than six, to one address. a seven-foot sailfish off Miami, and sent a photo to prove it. While in the Florida Keys, Joe met up with his daughter's in- laws, Al Perrine and wife, and before re- Cornell Dinner Plates, Mulberry to match with dec- turning caught up with daughter Judith '51 and husband Willy Joy '50, on their way orated Cornell Border, have twelve beautiful center back to Illinois. Cornell sure was well represented in Florida this season! Jeff breezed designs of Campus buildings: Crescent, Sage Chap- through town on his way back upState and I hear he bowled 23 consecutive strikes in el, Baker Laboratory, Myron Taylor Hall, Goldwin big pins. Just call him "Kegler Kilbourne" or better yet, just "Ham Hand!" Didja Smith Hall, Balch Halls, Clock Tower, War Me- ever hear of the Order of St. Hubert and Bar? (No, not that kind of a bar.) It's a morial, McGraw Hall, Willard Straight Hall, Ezra medieval order of knighthood with headquarters in Trieste and Florence, organ- Cornell Statue, Sibley Dome. $30 a dozen, less than ized in the fourteenth century, and devotes its efforts to charitable and cultural pur- six $3 each, to one address. poses. Well, among the six Americans recently decorated with that Order is our own Anthony Gaccione, who is now president of Toga Paper Stock Co. From Ohio, a most interesting and newsy letter from Prices Reduced To Close Out Stock Johnny Pflueger. "Fishhooks" Johnny also was in Florida, for three glorious weeks, and he too ran into a flock of Cornellians Only while present stock lasts, we can also supply Plates in Blue with down thar. The rest of the 1920 Clan, I am sure, Johnny, join me in expressing our Cornell Border, like above, at $25 a dozen, less than six $2.50 each. sorrow at hearing of the loss of your very Plates with same center designs in either Mulberry or Blue, and dear wife after your wonderful twenty- eight years together. With both your chil- white moulded Wedgwood Patrician pattern border, while they last, dren married, you are at least fortunate in having so many Cornell pals in Akron. are $20 a dozen, less than six $2 each. These items will not be con- Hope you enjoyed your trip to California tinued after present stock is sold. last month, to visit with your married daughter, and am sure you had a grand time with the grandchildren, Eddie and David Thomas. Just make sure, Johnny, that you fly back to Ithaca for our 35 in '55 Reunion next June, and I personally guarantee that you won't have a lonesome Orders will be shipped anywhere in the United States, safe delivery moment. Len Masius thought enough of guaranteed; express charges collect. Please list your exact choice of the column to write me air mail (1 shilling, 3 pence) all the way from London. Gee items. PRINT name & express address, and enclose payment to: "Hap," I thought for sure you were building a home in Jamaica, B.W.I. Had I known you had property near Ocho Rios, Cornell Alumni Association, Merchandise Diu. when I was down there last year I would have checked that lone tree on your acre- 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. age and sent you one of the coconuts. The Hill has changed a lot since you last visited there in 1932, and it's well worth seeing again. So, stop worrying about being AWOL from Berkeley Square and hop a 500 Cornell Alumni News plane back here for the Big Doings in '55. Bill Hill, have expressed a desire that this Gome back for the laughs! That goes for become an annual affair. The Ithaca mem- all of you long absent 1920-ites. Remember bers of last year's group would be happy to that laughter relaxes the heart, throws plan the event for this year if we receive What Parents Say more adrenalin into the blood for energy, sufficient response. How about letting tones up blood vessels, ventilates the lungs, George Hanselman, College of Engineer- about clears the mind, and decidedly prolongs life. ing, or Ted Baldwin, Dean of Men, reserve Laugh, and fool the undertaker! Thanks a place for you, your wife, and the kids? If for all the letters. Send in more! I'll be see- you cannot give us advance notice, contact ing you. "Abadoo!" either of us upon arrival.—G.R.H. CAMP OTTER George A. Boyd Duncan B. Williams "I still can't tell you how very 80 Maiden Lane 30 East 42d Street privileged my child is to be there and New York 38, NY. NewYorkl7 NY. every other child. God bless you and '21 '24 f thank you again and may this be the Some day, when your correspondent has best year yet at Otter." nothing better to do and is in a statistical frame of mind, he will sit down with the "From the boys' letters we feel Glass list in one hand and Who's Who in that both of them are having a won- the other, and find out the Glass batting derful summer. Their letters have average. Meanwhile, our comment in a been very enthusiastic about life at previous issue on 192 Γs gift to the Chem- camp and both speak well of their istry Faculty is helping to uncover other counselors." Classmates in Who's Who. Bruno V. Bitker is senior partner of Bit- "George looked wonderful on his ker & Marshall, attorneys at law, in his return from camp and is very anx- native city of Milwaukee, Wis. The middle ious to return next year and escort initial, by the way, stands for Voltaire, who his younger cousin into the joys of was the supreme embodiment of the Age living in the woods of Ontario." of Reason. Bruno was appropriately named. As early as ten years ago, he was "Jerry thoroughly enjoyed his awarded the City of Milwaukee citation many new experiences at Camp. His for distinguished public service and has Dad and I as well as everyone else since functioned as chairman of mayor's can see a big change in him. His committees on living cost & food conservation, on economics, and on human rela- teacher told me he is getting on bet- tions. His service to the State has included ter in school than last year and his the posts of special counsel to the Gover- favorite topic is camp." nor of Wisconsin and to the State Banking "Thank you for your kindness to Commission, and he was chairman of the Chick Norris and Carl Straubstader Jack. He is looking forward to an- State Public Utility Arbitration Board. In (above) about to get underway at the 1924 other summer at Otter. The food was 1949, he went to Geneva as delegate to the pre-Reunion dinner at the Cornell Club in International Conference on Local Govern- New York, March 24. best ever (needless to say an impor- ment. Bruno has one son, Robert Bitker. By now, you will have received Shorty tant factor) and he had the best time Dr. Sutherland Eric Rognvald Simpson Davis's letter with further details about the ever. I was proud of his achieve- died in Watertown, January 8. Eric, being Reunion in June. Shorty reports that all in- ments. My appreciation to you for the son of the professor of Physiology in dications point to a larger attendance than this is very great." Stimson Hall and living at home, was not our record one in 1949. Classmates from widely known in student circles. However, Texas and California have indicated their "Peter certainly is pleased with there came a day in 1918 when a certain intention to join the gang. An innovation camp. You have a wonderful camp, Army private was shown to his cot, one will be a cocktail party and dinner with an ideal camp site and everything among a crowded twenty, in the rounded the distaff members of the Class on Friday boys like." end of the Alpha Delt house. The private evening, June 11. We will be aided and "Dale's health improved consider- sank upon his cot in utter dejection and abetted by a Canadian bagpipe band of ten homesickness, whereupon a cheery voice pieces, and the costumes will be in keeping ably while he was at camp and he proffered consolation and friendship. The with the Scotch motif. Hoot Mon! If you had a most enjoyable time and wants voice was that of Eric. "So shines a bright have not already done so, please send your to go back next year." deed..." check for $30 to Walter A. Davis, 30 Wall "Mr. B. and I both feel that Mil- Donald F. Taylor of Glee Club fame is Street, New York City. ton had a very fine camping exper- a leading Albany veterinarian. His address '24 EE—Haig K. Shiroyan is assistant ience this year and each day he reis Dutch Village, Albany 4. engineer with Consolidated Edison Co. in Major General Lemuel Mathewson's ^ New York City. He is a trustee of Queens calls new incidents that happened new address is "Director, The Joint Staff, Public Library, president of the board of while there to assure us that he had The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C." It deacons of the First Congregational a wonderful summer." looks as though there might be a good story Church of Flushing, president of the "We were really surprised to see here. I'll try to find out when I'm in Wash- United Men's Clubs of Flushing, and vice- how much Billy had grown and we ington, May 20, if I have the time and the president of the Interfaith Society. He is nerve to get by all those sentries! secretary of the Cornell Alumni Associa- are proud of his basketball trophy as May 20, remember, is the night of the tion of New York City. Haig has published well as his certificate and badge for Class dinner at the Cornell Club of New a novel entitled The Green Bride. He has swimming." York. Your correspondent fully intends to three children, Richard, who is attending make it, even though he may have time for Cornell, Louella, and Lenore. only one cocktail. Lewis (Lew) M. MacNaughton is presi- For Booklet write to '22 Men—Last June, on Friday evening dent of DeGolyer & MacNaughton, Dallas, of Reunion week end, approximately Tex., where he lives at 4636 Meadowood HOWARD B. ORTNER '19 twelve members of the Class of '22, along Road, Dallas 20. Lew has two children, Director with other members of their families, held Bruce, who attended St. Lawrence Univer- an informal Class dinner in Ithaca. The sity, and Lewis, at Texas A. & M. Lew is 567 Crescent Ave. Buffalo 14, N.Y. event proved highly enjoyable and a num- a director of Republic Natural Gas Co., ber of those present, including President Southwestern Public Service Co., San Juan May 15,1954 501 Oil Co., The Pennroad Corp., and Trunk- January 1, 1952, at Lafayette, Ind. Trans- line Gas Co. He is a director of the Dallas ferred, December 16, 1953, to Bluefield Symphony Orchestra, Inc., a member of Telephone Co. ... as operating vice-presi- the Dallas Historical Society, the Dallas dent." His oldest son is a freshman at Petroleum Club, the University Club, and Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., but the Cornell Club of New York. he "hopes to make a Cornellian of his '24 Me—John C. Gibb is staff engineer youngest, aged seventeen." with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., New York City. His son Frank is a Cornell Senior. John is co-author of a book, Standards for Stationary Diesel Engines. His hobby is sailing and he is a member of the Port Washington (Long Island) Yacht Club. '24 BS—Philip (Phil) Dorf, who lives at 101 Orchard Place, Ithaca, has two sons, David and Daniel, the former being a member of the Class of '55. Phil lists his activities as teacher, farmer, and writer. His book, The Builder: A Biography of ENGINEERS Ezra Cornell, was published by Macmillan in!952. '24—Madeline D. Ross has come to the '25 BS—Colonel Wilber M. Gaige, Jr. * needed to attention of many through a long letter (above, right) receives the Legion of Merit printed in The New York Times of Janu- Award for his services in planning and work on new ary 30. As her topic was "The Costs of supervising transportation activities in Ko- Fund-Raising," and therefore one that is rea during 1952-53. The award is presented of interest to most Cornellians, particularly by Brigadier General Ralph I. Glasgow, in this spring season when all the Class Port Commander, San Francisco Port of Representatives and the University are Embarkation, where Colonel Gaige is pres- busy soliciting for the Alumni Fund, we de- ently stationed as director of administra- cided to call Madeline on the phone and tion. US Army Photograph find out how she came to be an authority '27, '28 ME—Wallace O. Leonard is on fund-raising and a little more about president of Wallace O. Leonard, Inc. and herself. She confided that last year as co- of Burr-Southern Corp., Pasadena 2, CaL, chairman with Edward R. Murrow, she where he lives at 615 Linda Vista Avenue. Grumman, nearing its 25th Anniver- ran the highly successful campaign of the sary, needs engineers to work on its Overseas Press Club to establish New York '28 PhD—New book, Armchair in the new experimental light-weight Naval City's first Press Center. As a result of this Sky, by Dorothy Kaucher, will be released fighter, plus other jet fighters, anti-sub campaign, a building has been purchased this spring by Exposition Press, New York planes, and amphibians. Grumman at 35 East Thirty-ninth Street and after City. The book describes her first ventures has openings for experienced aircraft remodeling, will be opened in the fall and as a commercial airline traveler. She is pro- engineers, and recent engineering dedicated to correspondents and photog- fessor of speech at San Jose Teachers Col- graduates. raphers who lost their lives gathering news lege and lives at 143 Bella Vista, Los Gatos, since the beginning of World War II. Mad- Cal. LAYOUT DESIGNERS AND DRAFTSMEN eline is a free-lance journalist and a public '29 AB—William Rogers is technical ad- Airfrαme Structures relations and fund-raising consultant. She viser on tunnel lining for the Sakuma Dam Equipment Installation is an active member of the Overseas Press Project near Nagoya, Japan. His address Detail Drafting Club and won her admission to it through is Nakabe Post Office, Iwata-Gun, Shizu- FLIGHT TESTING her services overseas toward the end of the oka, Japan. war and immediately after. For UNRRA Planners '30 AB, '33 LLB—Milton S. Gould is a she founded, edited, and published an illus- Analysts partner in the New York City law firm of trated fortnightly in English and French Computers Gallop, Climenko & Gould. He says that and produced copies from bombed German he has "three future Cornellians, the mid- HYDRAULICS printing plants. She received a citation for dle one showing promise of becoming a Systems Design this from General Sir Frederick E. Mor- halfback." Gould's address is 8 Hilltop Testing gan. She says that fund-raising and philan- Drive, Great Neck. STRUCTURES thropy have become big business; in fact, in terms of dollars it is now the fourth larg- '31 AB—Ernest R. Pope is deputy news Stress Analysis Static Testing est industry in the US. It concerns all of chief of the Voice of America's Munich Applied Loads us—the giver and receiver and yet the pub- Radio Center. His book, Munich Play- lic in general does not know nearly enough ground, on the life of Hitler and other Send resumes to Engineering Personnel Dept, about the mechanics and costs of fund- ranking Nazis, has just been re-published Interviews at Employment office* raising. For this reason she wrote her "Let- in a European edition and is currently be- ter to the Times" to be able to speak di- ing sold on the Stars & Stripes news stands rectly to the public. She says that since her for American military and civilian person- letter appeared, many charitable agencies nel in Germany. Address; American Con- have had it reproduced and are distributing sulate General, APO 108, c/o PM, New copies of it to their board members, con- York City. tributors, and any others concerned with '34 AB, '35 MS—John A. Bennett, chief costs. Madeline lives at 136 East Thirty- of the mechanical metallurgy section of the sixth Street, New York City. National Bureau of Standards, has received —Florence Daly'24 the Department of Commerce Silver Med- '25 ME—Frank A. Hoffman, PO Box al for Meritorious Service. The award was 17, Bluefield, W. Va., writes that he was made for "very valuable contributions in "granted early retirement from Interna- the field of metallurgical science and tech- GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT tional Tel & Tel Corp., January 1, 1952, nology, with particular reference to the ENGINEERING CORPORATION after twenty-six years, of which twenty- mechanism of fatigue failures in metals, three years were spent in foreign service. and for meritorious authorship." Bennett BETHPAGE LONG ISLAND NEW YORK Took job with General Telephone Co. of lives at 7405 Denton Road, Bethesda 14, Indiana as general plant superintendent, Md.

502 Cornell Alumni News '34 BS—Edward R. Keil, Blakeley Road, South Wales, has been appointed soil con- servationist with the New York State Soil Conservation Service in Syracuse. '36 AB—Mrs. Nelson B. Meadows Our 6th Gala Season (Betty Tierney), 111 Huntington Road, Port Washington, has two sons, Ronnie, fourteen, and Johnny, eight. Her husband THE is a builder in Manhasset under the name of Meadows-Tierney, Inc. '38 AB, '40 MA, '43 PhD—Gregory Pearce Detmold, five-year-old son of George E. Detmold, 4205 Matthews Lane, Kensington, Md., died April 9, 1954. Det- TIDES mold is dean of Gallaudet College, Wash- ington, D.C. VIRGINIA BEACH'S Pink Beach '38, '39 BS—Varnum D. Ludington is COTTAGE COLONY section head of product and process de- NEWEST LUXURY velopment with General Foods Central BOARDWALK HOTEL Laboratories, Hoboken, N.J. He was for- Tucker's Town, South Shore, Bermuda merly technical director of research and This is Bermuda at its best. Four- quality for the Clapp Baby Food Division ALL RESORT ACTIVITIES teen exquisite cottages and central of American Home Foods. EUROPEAN PLAN Club House, all facing the sparkling SEASON APRIL THROUGH blue water and powdery pink coral R. Selden Brewer NOVEMBER beach. A table for the gourmet, a Alumni Office, Day Hall wine cellar for the connoisseur, a '40 Ithaca, N.Y. refreshing change for the weary. DIRECTLY ON THE OCEAN Golf at Mid-Ocean Club, tennis There's still time for a last-minute change in plans if you haven't indicated and bathing at your door. A warm your intention to attend the grandiose 1940 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. welcome awaits you. spring dinner at the Cornell Club of New Colorful booklet and reservations York this Wednesday evening, May 19. PHONE 2121 from your Travel Agent or There's always room for a few more, so LEONARD B. BRICKETT make it if you can! American Representative News of our former football captain and OWNER-MANAGER Hotel Roosevelt tennis star, none other than Vince Eichler, New York 17, N.Y., MUrray Hill 9-3967 has just come announcing his election to BRUCE A. PARLETTE '32 the presidency of the Mohawk Valley Cor- nell Club. Vince is an attorney in Utica where he lives at 38 Jewett Place. After 12 years as a New Englander, during which he assimilated the local accent, Pete Wood has pulled up stakes and re- MORE THAN turned to his old hometown, Summit, N.J. He has been appointed Eastern manager for product sales of Sunkist Growers, with $22,000 offices at 99 Hudson Street, New York City. Pete, his wife, and two boys reside at 12 Colt Road in Summit. 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IF YOU DO NOT LIVE TO AGE 65, THEN AN AMOUNT An important role practiced by many OF AT LEAST $22,000 WILL BECOME IMMEDIATELY Cornell Clubs and individual alumni is PAYABLE TO YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR ESTATE. that of directing excellent prospective stu- By the way, the plan can be easily tailored to the amount of regular savings you can dents toward our Alma Mater. Merle Ro- afford, with corresponding adjustments in the sums payable. bie, who isn't deterred by the handicap of Details are yours without obligation by just mailing the coupon below: distance for he is on the other side of the world from Ithaca, is an excellent example SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA of one in this category. From Manila, 607 Shelby Street, Detroit 26, Michigan where Merle is vice-president of Colum- I should like to know more about your Special Income Plan, without incurring bian Rope Co., he sent cables and letters any obligation. regarding a candidate for admission to Cor- nell from the Philippines. In his last mes- NAME sage, it was good to note the final state- ADDRESS ment, "My wife Sally (Sally Gibson '40) Date of Birth.. and I are definitely planning to be back in Amounts quoted above are for men. A similar plan is available for women. Ithaca next year for our 15th Reunion." May 15,1954 503 Boy, oh boy, that's the best omen yet for 1940 in 1955! Just before the last issue of the ALUMNI Less than 5r hours to NEWS, Art Peters's notice for 1954 dues was mailed to all members of the Class. If 3 you have not already done so, will you please help keep Art in a happy frame of mind by remitting your check soon? And speaking of our worthy treasurer, it New-type CONSTELLATION is of special interest that Art and his family Service at tourist rates will take off in early summer for a three- months' sojourn in Europe to renew con- tacts and contracts for his export and im- The Isle of Dreams port business. His efficient secretary, Miss is within Your Reach Jane Prull, has promised to maintain our 1940 records in his absence and to make Cambridge-Beaches sure that Art's bank drafts from overseas are drawn on the proper account! SOMERSET, BERMUDA By the way, when sending in your dues, be sure to mail the card with news about A charming cottage colony with yourself. "No news is good news" does not private beaches and secluded coves. hold true in connection with our Class column. Your Classmates and friends are in- Breakfast served in your own pri- • Fastest service to terested in knowing what you have done, Bermuda vate cottage overlooking the sea... are doing, or contemplate doing. tea, cocktails and dancing in con- • Complimentary meals '42 AB—James A. Kiernan, Jr. is with genial company at the "Mixing aloft Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J. He writes © All flights depart— Bowl." that he now has one son and two daughters. La Guardia Field Superb swimming, fishing, sailing Kiernan's address is 124 Herning Avenue, Cranford, N.J. φ from La Guardia and water skiing. Nearby golf and Field every day at 11:00 A.M. tennis. '43 BSinAE(ME)—Charles A. Colbert, 2124 Beechwood Avenue, Wilmette, 111., is JOHN P. FAIELLA, Mgr. Hotel '38 Western sales manager of the folding car- For beautiful booklet in color, in- tons division, Robert Gair Co., Inc., Chi- COLONIAL formation and reservations: cago, 111. He is married and has one daughter, Nancy, aged two. AIRLINES See your travel agent or Leonard P. Brickett, Hotel Roosevelt, '44 Women—Have you sent in your res- Cα// ML/ 6-5500, or your travel σgent New York 17, N.Y. MU. 9-3967 ervation for our Ten-Year Reunion yet? CANADA—USA—BERMUDA Please hurry! We hope that those who haven't sent a "yes" or "no" are still considering. The response so far to the request for news and snapshots is wonderful. We will have a fine news bulletin board in Dickson during Reunion. We will definitely For Your Home have a Class picnic Friday night, near Beebe Lake, we hope, or in a dorm rec room if it rains. We will have a brief Class or Office meeting at the picnic. The following also plan to attend Reunion: Ruth Wilson Long, You'll be proud to show your Nanette Zorn Schneiderman, Jean Shaver Hansen, Frances Ward Kimple, Elizabeth friends the new Cornell Chair. With Haas Keeler, Lila Perless Savada, Ruth its authentic Emblem of the Uni- Brown Foy, Ethel White Dick, and Betty Gould Arnesen. versity in full color, it is popular Katharine Snell Sigety is food editor of with all Cornellians. the daily NBC-TV "Home Show" at 11-12. She prepares food on programs. She is also The Chair is sturdy and comfort- vice-president of Video Vittles, Inc., of which her husband, Charles E. Sigety, is able, built by New England crafts- president. They prepare and supply spon- men of selected northern hardwood. sors' foods used on several TV programs, including Garry Moore and Arthur God- CORNELL CHAIR It is finished in satin black, with frey shows. They do this at their home, 135 East Ninety-fifth Street, New York City. Shipped direct from Gardner, light mahogany arms and finely Mass., express charge collect. If you Jean Shaver Hansen has been married wish gift shipment, get cost at 30 striped in gold. Obtainable only eleven years to John M. Hansen '42. They pounds shipping weight from your from Cornell Alumni Association. celebrated their tenth anniversary last year local Railway Express office and by going to Bermuda. They have two chil- add to your remittance. Your card dren and live at 297 Western Avenue, West- can be enclosed; send with order. field, Mass. She teaches Sunday school, has ONLY a Brownie troop, and belongs to a garden club. Ethel White, now Mrs. Ronald F. Cornell Alumni Assn., Mdse. Div. $29-50 Dick of 101 Orchid Road, Levittown, 18 East Avenue, Ithaca, N.Y. writes that more has happened in her life in the last year than in all ten since gradu- For payment enclosed, ship Cornell Chair(s) at Use Coupon $29.50 each, express charges collect/My shipping address ation. The happenings include getting mar- is (please PRINT): ried and becoming curriculum co-ordinator for the intermediate grades at the school' Name...... ,..,..,., where she has been a fourth grade teacher Street^ No 504 Cornell Alumni. News

City.,.„„:...... :_„„„ State CAN-16 for four years. Lynette Ward Witter has R. Fitzpatrick is a major in the Air ^ two sons, Frank Robert, born November 2, Force. He recently completed four years in \Vive la difference!.. 1950, and Lester James, born March 18, Washington, D.C., attending command 1953. She lives at 304 University Park, and staff school, and is now in Alaska for Rochester 20. Another Ward, Frances two years. George has been married for Ward Kimple, has three sons and a daugh- three years and his address is 1804 AACS ter and lives at 1241 Glencove Road South, Wing, APO 942, c/o PM, Seattle, Wash. Syracuse. Her husband is Burl Kimple '44. Lester W. Calkins, Jr., 390 Tampa Avenue, Mrs. Townsend Keeler (Elizabeth Haas) Pittsburgh 34, Pa., writes that he is with has to her credit a daughter and three sons, US Steel Corp. in their methods planning one novel and several plays. Her husband, division. He is married and has a son, 5V2, Class of '42, is with American Agricultural and a daughter, 2 years old. Chemical Co. They live at 6 Powder Horn —Joseph D. Minogue ... when Hill, Wilton, Conn. Mrs. Garth P. James '46, '45 BSCE—Calvin G. Brown is a hy- (Louise Morris) has a third child, Eliza- draulic design engineer with the water de- it's made with beth. She has established a permanent home partment of the City of San Diego, Cal., in the Virgin Islands, where her husband is where he lives at 2345 Balsa Street. editor of the local publication, The Beach- comber, and she is a contributing editor. '47 BS—Mrs. Joseph R. Schulman (Joan TRIBUNO Her address is East End, St. Thomas, Vir- Weisberg) announces the birth of her first gin Islands. She is the daughter of Guy T. child, Gary, on November 16. Her husband Morris '12. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Baines is chief engineer at Davies Laboratories, an (Martha Ashcroft) welcomed their third electronics firm in Riverdale, Md. Address: son, Kevin Hays Baines, February 11. He 10704 Lockridge Drive, Silver Spring, Md. is the third grandson of A. Griffin Ashcroft '21. Address: 56 Wilson Avenue, Rowayton, Conn. Last but not least, Elizabeth Scheid- DRY for Martinis and Dry Manhattans elman Droz has a son, Martin Hayes Droz, born March 26, "who brings our present SWEET for regular Manhattans total to five boys and one girl." The family STRAIGHT OR ON THE ROCKS now lives at 58 Root Street, New Hartford. —Ruth Jennings, Reunion chairman

'45 Men—William H. Glaeser, 315 Wet- KIVOW more Road, Columbus, Ohio, is a research engineer in the engineering mechanics di- TRIBUJVO vision of Battelle Memorial Institute of Co- lumbus. He is married and has two boys. He reports that Jim Conboy passed his Bar examination last year. Jim is married and 21 2>Π}IfΦ£,jltC NEW YORK. N. X, SOLE AGENTS U.S.A has one son. John E. McCarthy is a sales engineer with Clark Bros. Co. (engines & compressors) in Tulsa, Okla. Jim was mar- Come to ried in 1950 and has one boy, two years old. He lives in Tulsa at 5433 S. Boston Avenue. Spencer M. Carter, Sutherville, Md., is J48 AB—Captain Paul G. Stavridis, * LaTroyincfi. married and has two daughters, 4V& and IV2 USMC (above), reported to West Palm years old. He is with the Mason & Carter Beach, Fla., March 12, to organize the 99th Insurance Agency in Baltimore. Special Infantry Company, a component of the Organized Marine Corps Reserve. iebee John R. Townsend received the PhD in Physics here in September, 1951, and has His home address is 1530 Chew Street, Al- been employed at General Electric Han- lentown, Pa. ford Works, Richland, Wash., ever since. '49 Women—Have you sent me the Re- He married Rita Walker '46 in 1948 and union information blank which was mailed now has two daughters. Isaac J. Levine, to you in April? Look for another letter 1417 E. College St., Iowa City, Iowa, is soon. It will give additional news about Re- for a Vacation a resident in internal medicine at Univer- union doings, as well as the chance to make sity of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. He re- room and costume reservations if you that is different... cently completed a two-year tour of duty haven't already sent them to me. (If we Every member of the family will as an Air Force flight surgeon, is married, missed you on the last mailing, drop me enjoy a Quebec vacation. Visit and has a son a year-and-a-half old. a line at 32 E. 38th Street, New York City metropolitan Montreal, Quebec Charles R. Gredler is now assistant in 16). The week end of June 11-12 promises —America's only walled city— the renowned sanctuaries and charge of Slavic cataloguing and Slavic to be a big one on the Hill and I hope to shrines. Fish and swim in the gifts & exchange at Widener Library, Har- see all of you '49ers back! beautiful rivers and lakes of the vard College. He received the MS in li- —Dot Rynalski Manser Laurentian Mountains, the East- brary science and lives at 119 Burlington ern Townships, the Gaspe Penin- '50 Men—The highlights of your Class sula. Everywhere in French- Street, Lexington, Mass. His wife, the for- executive committee meeting held at the Canada you will enjoy old-time mer Eloise Proper '45, teaches adult edu- hospitality and cuisine in com- Cornell Club of New York, May 3, will be fortable modern inns and hotels. cation classes in Lexington. They have four reported upon in the June 1 column. The sons. They also raise, can, and freeze all To help plan your vacation, write father of the late James P. Barry, Jr. wrote for free road maps and booklets their own fruits and vegetables and keep to the NEWS that "Seal & Serpent dedi- to: Provincial Publicity Bureau, ten hens. Parliament Buildings, Quebec cated a memorial plaque to the memory of City Canada; or 48 Rockefeller Fred Palmer, Jr., RD 1, Berlin Heights, my son, Jim Barry, who was killed piloting Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. Ohio, is district sales manager in Northern his jet plane, August 14, 1952, in Texas. LA PROVINCE DE Ohio for John Bean Division of Food Ma- . . . My wife and I attended with other chinery & Chemical Corp. Stanley Johnson members of our family and came away the is an engineer with New York Telephone proudest parents ever to leave your Cam- Co. A son, Jeffrey, was born last February. pus." Leon F. Fabbioli is an engineer at the Stan has also acquired a new home at 73 RCA Victor Division, Radio Corp. of Waldron Avenue, Glen Rock, N.J. George America, Camden, N.J. Last November,

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506 Cornell Alumni News Leon attended a new course in systems en- in care of the Central School there. Elea- gineering at the U. of P. Moore School of nor Marchigiani lives at 105 Roney Lane, The AUDUBON BIRD CALL Electrical Engineering. Donald H. Shafar- Syracuse, and is a dress and uniform buyer man announced the opening of his law of- for Dey Brothers. Charlotte Heinzelman, fice at 160 Broadway, New York City 38. 121 Maple Ave., Ithaca, was featured in Ten doors up the street at 170, Stuart the column, "Your Future," in the March Shamberg is employed as a lawyer with issue of Seventeen. The story was about Roy Berlin. William J. Vanden Heuvel is her work as the 4-H representative of Sim- in Bangkok as a military aide to the newly- plicity Pattern Co. She travels constantly, appointed Ambassador to Thailand, the visiting 4-H leaders and helping with sew- ...an amazing little de- Honorable William J. Donovan. Word has ing classes, clothing construction, and dress vice that really attracts it that Bill is a red-hot politician, even birds. Twist it ... a reviews. Her work in this field is not a sur- varietyof wild songbirds though he did spend election night with prise to her family, since her father is a answer! Handmade of Governor Stevenson. Robert C. Angus of professor in Extension and State assistant pewter and birch, sim- 343 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa., 4-H Club leader. Mrs. James C. Wilson ple to use, it's a perfect received the MS in agricultural economics (Shirley Heitkamp) lives at 595 Grove St. outdoor companion for at Penn State, January 27. Rod Robertson Ridgewood, N.J. She has a small daughter, children and grown-ups. is back at Cornell working on the MA in Lynn, and her husband is a banker in Pat- Used in Europe for cen- Speech & Drama. Rod wrote an article terson, N.J. Harriett Washburn is in Chi- turies. Ask for it at your concerning the type of work he did while cago doing advertising and sales promo- favorite book, gift, or in the Army called "The Social Work tion in the construction business. She lives garden shop ... or send Technician on a Closed Psychiatric in the Oak Crest Hotel, 1570 Oak Avenue, $1.50 to Ward," which appeared in the July-August Evanston, 111. —Sue Woodward Spence Roger W. Eddy Newington 5, Conn. 1953 issue of Medical Technicians Bulletin. '51 BCE—Norman F. Kirchner, 430 Mailed postpaid with instructions The following is from the I&LR Alumni Englewood Avenue, Kenmore 23, is an en- News: Paul R. Kaiser is personnel director gineer with T. H. McKay, consulting en- at St. Catherine's Hospital, East Chicago, gineers, Buffalo. Ind. Robert P. Crisara completed his graduate work at MIT and is now personnel '51, '52 BSinl&LR—Edward N. Madi- manager for Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., son married Nancy Ann Jones, in Indian- Orange, Cal. Frank Curran, former per- apolis, Ind., October 24. He can be reached A Summer of Music sonnel management instructor for Marine at 28-02 161 Street, Flushing. July 5 to August 15 Corps Institute, is now sales promotion co- Women: Phebe B. Vandervort THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL ordinator for American-Standard, 1807 1 8 concerts by the Boston Symphony Or- Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 7. Mark A. Monroe-Woodbury School chestra. Charles Munch, Music Director. Haskell, formerly an economist for a Phil- Monroe, NΎ, adelphia consulting firm, is now a Ful- THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER bright scholar in Australia. James D. Tre-^r Mr. and Mrs. George Forester (Barbara A six-week summer school of music con- nected with the Festival. Courses for ad- gurtha, Jr., Lt. (j.g.) USN, is on submarine Church) have a son, John-Scott, born March 31, 1953. "BJ." is working for her vanced students and music-lovers. duty out of the US Submarine Base at New Write for catalog & programs: London, Conn. Jim returned from a two- MA and secondary teaching credentials at University of California at Berkeley. The MISS C. BOSSLER month cruise in the Atlantic last March. Symphony Hall, Boston 15, Mass. Albert B. Bishop received the MS at Ohio Foresters' address is 2236 Blake Street, State last December 18. March 8, Harvard Berkeley 4, Cal. University awarded PhD's to William N. Mary E. Dean was married to Donald White, now at California Institute of Tech- A. Miller in Poughkeepsie, March 27, nology Crellin Labs, Pasadena, Cal., and 1954. Her husband is a senior at Babson The Ideal Stop to David G. White, who lives at 210 North Institute, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Jefferson Avenue, Wenonah, N.J. Ray As you can see, I need news of you and ANTRIM LODGE HOTEL your friends. Please write to me soon! "Zip" Zimmerman moved into a new home Roscoe, New York at 388 East Cassell Avenue, Barberton, Ohio, with his wife Pat and daughter, now Women: Mrs. D. Livingston GRACIOUS DINING 10 months old, after his discharge from the 260 East Broad St. Army. Ray is in the sales dept. of Yoder Westfield, N.J. Brothers, Inc. Congratulations are in order Carole Freedman was married, July 22, to Dick Savitt for his sensational tennis to Stanley E. Sacks, who is an attorney in play which enabled him to beat such stars Norfolk, Va. She'll be making the South KENT PLACE SCHOOL as Gardner Malloy, Vic Sexias, and Hamil- her permanent home. Her new address is ton Richardson to win the River Oaks Notable college preparation for girls since 1894. 466 Painter St., Norfolk. Give her a call, Excellent dramatics, arts, music and sports. Fire- tennis title in Houston, Tex., April 25. she says, if you are in the vicinity. proof residence for grades 6-12. Spacious campus. Dick, who works for Standard Oil in Hous- News of more future Cornellians is be- Miss FLORENCE R. WOLFE, Headmistress ton and plays tennis now only on week ginning to come in. Jim Livingston '51 and Summit, New Jersey ends, was the first unseeded player ever to his wife (Nancy Clark) have a daughter, win this title.—Rodger W. Gibson Joan Stuart, born March 1. Jim was just awarded a National Science Foundation '50 Women—Mrs. M. J. Block (Shirley scholarship, so they will be in Cambridge, Kabahoff) writes that her son, Jonathan Mass., at 64 Kirkland St., for another year Drew, was born in Munich, Germany, while he completes his work for the PhD OUR CORNELL Sept. 7, 1953. She also has a daughter, in physics at Harvard. Eight distinguished alumni write Lydia Susan, who was two, Nov. 7. Shirley March 26 marked the arrival of Kather- about their University can be reached c/o Capt. M. J. Block, ine Rose Davis, whose parents are Phil '50 D.C. 01916795, USAR Eur. Eng. Sch., and Mary (Pelton) '53. They now live on The Perfect Gift Book APO 172, c/o P.M., New York City. Mar- their own dairy farm in Kerhonkson and For Any Cornellian guerite Braschoss recently became engaged just love it. Mailed postpaid for $1 to Douglas Earle Reeder of Scarsdale, a Edith A. Skillicorn is assistant home graduate of Princeton University who from demonstration agent in Schenectady Coun- served with the Army of Occupation in Cornell Alumni Association Peggy Binenkorb became engaged tυ Germany. They plan a May wedding. Merchandise Div. Betty Ann Hollenbeck teaches home eco- Lawrence Scherr '50, April 24. The wed- 18 East Ave. Ithaca, N. Y. nomics in LaFargeville and her address is ding will take place in August. Now a stu- May 15, 1954 507 dent at Cornell Medical College, Lawrence Crossman ΊO, Ralph S. Crossman '11; sis- served as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy ter, Mrs. Spencer Young (Mary Cross- Hemphill, Noyes CS, Co. in the Korean area from 1950-53. man) '12. Jean Van Kleek was married, April 10, Members New York Stock Exchange '01—Katherine Elizabeth Mann, in June, to R. Shaw Pettΐgrew. The wedding took INVESTMENT SECURITIES 1953. She lived at 1055 North Kinsgley Jαnsen Noyes Ί 0 Stαnton Griffis Ί 0 place at the American Church in El Bosque,, Caracas, Venezuela. Barbara King Drive, Los Angeles 27, Cal. L. M. Blαncke Ί 5 Jαnsen Noyes, Jr. *3 of Syracuse was maid of honor. Jean's hus- '03 MD—Dr. William Hailes Palmer, Blαncke Noyes '44 band graduated from Bucknell and was a February 13, 1954. He was a physician for 15 Broad Street, New York 5, N. Y. captain in the Army in World War II. He many years in Providence, R.I., where he Albany, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, Harrίsburg, is with National Supply Co. of Venezuela. lived at 103 Betsy Williams Drive. Sigma Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Roz Zalutsky is a customer's woman with Alpha Epsilon. Dreyfus & Co., 50 Broadway, New York Reading, Trenton, Tucson, Washington, D.C., York '07 ME—Edward Hyndman Ford, in City, and also works in the research department. The first job means that she is January, 1954. He lived at 120 West Sec- registered with the New York Stock Ex- ond Avenue, Roselle, N.J. Kappa Sigma. Eastman, Dillon & Co. change to sell securities to customers. She '07—Jacob Mazer, Mayfair House, Ger- MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE is living with another girl in an apartment mantown, Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1954. at 63 East Fourth Street, Apt. 3B, New He was one of the inventors of the per- Investment Securities York City. forated building materials used for sound- Caroline Mulford, 134 W. Commerce St., proofing and was a founder of the Acous- DONALD C. BLANKE '20 Bridgeton, N.J., is an advertising represent- tical Society of America. Representative ative with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., '08—George Henry Raab, March 21, Inc., Wilmington, Del. More specifically, 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. 1954, at his home, 101 South Fourth Street, she is hostess at the DuPont Exhibit Cen- Allentown, Pa. He was in the sales depart- ter, Ground Floor, DuPont Bldg. She meets ment of Bethlehem Steel Co. for forty-two Branch Offices visitors, explains the products on display years before retiring in 1948. Philadelphia Chicago Hartford for that two-week period, gives lecture- Reading Easton Paterson demonstrations, does some display-design- '08 CE—John Hoyt Stevens, 200 East ing, and is now starting a newsletter for the Main Street, Gouverneur, June 4, 1953. exhibits section of the advertising depart- He was assistant civil engineer in the New ment. She has appeared on WDEL-TV, York State Department of Public Works and has her picture in the paper once or before his retirement in 1947. SHEARSON, HAMMILL έ CO. twice a month. Members New Jork Stock Exchange ΊO MD—Dr. Earl Vincent Sweet, 4 Ry- and other Principal Stock and Commodity Exchanges erson Avenue, Newton, N.J., March 10, INVESTMENT SECURITIES 1954. From 1929-47, he was a member of the medical board of Mutual Benefit Life NECROLOGY Insurance Co., Newark, N.J. He received H. STANLEY KRUSEN '28 the AB at Colgate in 1901 and was captain of the first Colgate basketball team. H. CUSHMAN BALLOU '20 '92—Floyd Kipp Smith, The Arcady, 14 Wall Street, New York Los Angeles 5, CaL, March 15, 1954. From Ίl CE—Frank S. Hopkins, March 26, 1929-31, he was president of Donner Steel 1954. He was owner of a civil engineering LOS ANGELES CHICAGO MONTREAL Co. in Buffalo, and, from 1931-36, was and surveying firm in Poughkeepsie, where PASADENA BEVERLY HILLS HARTFORD president of Donner-Hanna Coke Corp. he lived at 20 Cannon Street. Seal & Ser- DALLAS HOUSTON BASLE (SWITZERLAND) Until his retirement a few years ago, he pent. was a special representative for Republic Steel Corp. He was a past-president of the '12—Hollis Wescott Bell, February 25, Cornell Club of Buffalo. Phi Delta Theta. 1954, at his home in North Attleboro, Mass. Founded 1851 '14, '15 BChem—Clifford Stone Cooley, '94—Brigadier General Albert Ernest ESTABROOK & CO. Truby, US Army (Ret.), March 3, 1954. March 16, 1954. He had been with the New He received the MD at Pennsylvania in York City office of The Todd Co., Roches- Members of the New York and 1897 and was commissioned a second lieu- ter, since 1924. He lived at the Hotel Lath- tenant in the Medical Corps in 1898. Be- am, New York City 7. Alpha Chi Sigma. Boston Stock Exchanges fore his retirement in 1935, he served in '14—Emma Magdalen Hauth, Novem- Cuba, the Philippines, and Panama, where ber 17, 1953. She lived at 405 Twenty- he was chief health officer. He was the au- sixth Avenue, Altoona, Pa. G. Norman Scott '27 thor of Memoir of Walter Reed: The Yel- low Fever Episode, published by Harper & '15, '16 BS—Dr. Henry Otis Howgate, Resident Partner New York Office Bros. He lived at 145 Laurel Street, San April 2, 1954. He had practiced dentistry Francisco 18, Cal. for many years in Greenwich, Conn., where 40 Wall Street he lived at 31 Brookside Drive. Phi Kappa '95—Fred Edwin Riley, 74 Main Street, Sigma. Livermore Falls, Me., December 28, 1953. A civil engineer, he was for many years di- '16, '17 AB—Thomas Cram Whitehead, vision engineer for International Paper Co. 4 Radnor Circle, Grosse Pointe Farms 30, JAMES D. LANDAUER He spent several years in the Dominican Mich., March 7, 1954. He was founder Republic, starting cotton plantations and and president of Whitehead Stamping Co., ASSOCIATES, INC. building roads and bridges. Detroit, Mich. Kappa Alpha. Real Estate Consultants '00 AB—Margaret Clara Costello, 43 '17, '21 WA—Robert Emerson MacKen- North Twenty-second Street, East Orange, zie, March 17, 1954, at his home at 1905 501 MADISON AVENUE N.J., August 9, 1953. She had been a teach- Market Avenue North, Canton 4, Ohio. NEW YORK 22, NEW YORK er for forty-two years in Lincoln High Until his retirement in 1946, he was for twenty-two years president and treasurer John W. Aitken G. Crawford Eadie School, Jersey City, NJ. Princeton '27 Columbia '27 of Old King Cole Co., manufacturers of '00—Margaret Allan Crossman, 95 Wool- papier-mache products. Quill & Dagger. James M. Banner James D. tandauer sey Avenue, Huntington, March 28, 1954. Yale '30 Dartmouth '23 A teacher in the New York City public '49 BS—Peter Steele Roberts, March 21, Howard E. Drake schools for more than forty years, she re- 1954. His address was Rural Route 2, W. P. I. '21 tired eight years ago. Brothers, Donald M. Winnebago, 111. 508 Cornell Alumni News PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Parsons Engineering Corp. 4590 Beidler Road, Willoughby, Ohio OF CORNELL ALUMNI Dust Collectors Blast Cleaning Equipment Sheet-Metal and Welded Fabrication S. S. Parsons, Pres. S. S. Strong, V. Pres. M. E. '27 CECIL W. ARMSTRONG & ASSOCIATES Registered Professional Engineers

Λrgonne Road, Warsaw, Indiana SOIL TESTING SERVICES, INC. FOUNDATION INVESTIGATION AND REPORTS LABORATORY TESTS ON SOILS Telephones 860R, LD-23 SOIL TESTING APPARATUS Cecil W. Armstrong, General Manager John P. Gnaedinger '47 3529 N. Cicero Ave. Chicago 41, III. 1844 N. 35th St. Milwaukee, Wis. BENNETT MACHINERY CO. 1105 E. James St. Portland, Mich. Letcher W. Bennett, M.E. '24, Pres. Dealers in late rebuilt Metal Working STANTON CO.—REALTORS Machine Tools George H. Stanton '20 Office & Plant: 375 Alwood Road, Clifton, N.J. Telephone: PRescott 9-8996 Real Estate and Insurance New York Phone—LOngacre 3-1222 MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Church St., Montclair, N.J., Tel. 2-6000 CLINTON L. BOGERT ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Irvington Steel & Iron Works, Inc. Clinton L. Bogert '05 Ivan L. Bogert '39 Engineers, Fabricates, Erectors Button Publishing Co., Inc. GLENN SUTTON, 1918, President Water & Sewerage Works Somerset St., New Brunswick, N. J. Refuse Disposal Industrial Wastes Publisher of Drainage Flood Control Phones: New Brunswick 2-9840 New York: COrtland 7-2292 ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 624 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Lawrence Katchen, BCE '47, Vice Pres. Monthly circulation in excess oί 30,000 CONTRACTORS' ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT Construction Service Co. Monthly circulation in excess of 20,000 LANiER & LEVY METAL-WORKING Engineers & Constructors Consulting Engineers Monthly circulation in excess of 25,000 Air Con., Htg., Vent., Plbg., Elec. Design Lincoln Boulevard, Bound Brook, N.J. Organization Includes ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT Robert Levy '13 Monthly circulation in excess of 25,000 JOHN J. SENESY '36, President S. M. Shefferman '46 Fitzhugh Donnally, Jr. '43 Washington, D.C. office—Wyatt Building PAUL W. VAN NEST '36, Vice President 172 South Broadway, White Plains, N.Y. New York office—123 East 77th Street MACWHYTE COMPANY THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY Always Remember KENOSHA, WISC. Subsidiary of Wm. K. Stamets Co., Pittsburgh Manufacturer of Wire, Wire Rope, Braided Wire Rope "TNEMEC PRIMERS MACHINERY BUILDERS & Slings, Aircraft Tie Rods, Aircraft Cable and Assemblies. Literature furnished on request KILL RUST" GEORGE C. WILDER, A.B. '38, President ENGINEERS R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί 3, Vice Pres. JOHN F. BENNETT, C.E. '27, Sales Dept. COLUMBIANA, OHIO R. B. WHYTE, JR. '41, Ass't. Pit. Supt. TNEME/6? COMPANY, INC Wm. K. Stamets, Jr., BME '42, MME '49 PRESERVATIVE AND DECORATIVE

Expert Concrete Breakers, Inc. THE MAINTENANCE CO., INC. Established 1897 123 WEST 23rd AVENUE EDWARD BAKER, Pres. CONTRACTING ELECTRICAL, ELEVATOR NORTH KANSAS CITY 16, MO. Masonry and rock cut by hour or contract. & AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS A. C. Bean, Sr. ΊO, President Norm L. Baker, C.E. '49 Long Island City 1, N.Y. 453 West 42nd St., New York A. C. Bean, Jr. '43, Vice-President Wm. J. Wheeler Ί 7—President Howard I. Baker, C.E. '50 STillwell 4-4410 Andrew J. Huestis Ί 3—Vice Pres. Wm. J. Wheeler, Jr. '44—Asst. Treas. The Tuller Construction Co. THE ΌRKER CORPORATION J. D. Tuller '09, President Builders of Since 1864 HEAVY ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION Centrifugal Pumps and Hydraulic Dredges MORRIS MACHINE WORKS A. J. Dίllenbeck '11 C. E. Wallace '27 Cleveland 6, Ohio BALDWINSVILLE, NEW YORK 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N.J. J. BENTLY FORKER f26, President John C. Meyers, Jr. '44, Exec. Vice Pres. JOHN A. NEWMAN '43 TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GEMAU ASSOCIATES FOUNDED 1902 Consulting Petroleum Engineer GREENWICH, CONN. NEW YORK BOSTON Property Valuation, Reservoir Analysis PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO MATERIALS HANDLING W. B. Ball, ME Ί3, Vice-Pres. & Secretary Development & Management W. K. Shaw, CE Ί3, Director CONSULTANTS Thirty-four additional Cornell men presently 319 Gulf Building Houston, Texas on our Staff Stanley T. Gemar '26

PALMOR CONSTRUCTION CORP. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES B. S. GOODMAN CO., INC 357 Hempstead Turnpike Builders and Engineers Elmont, Long Island, N.Y. Engineers Specializing in Building Construction Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gustav J. Requardt '09 CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION 907 Broadway New York 10, N.Y. Roy H. Ritter '30 A. Russell Vollmer '27 ALgonquin 4-3104 Any Place—Any Time Thomas S. Cassedy Theodore W. Hacker Ί 7 Benjamin S. Goodman, C.E. Ί4, Pres. Floral Park 2-8534 R. Harold Paltrow '25 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. CORNELL MEN'S GLEE CLUB

WILL PRESENT

ITS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

1954 SPRING TOUR SHOW "FROM FAR ABOVE''

BAILEY HALL

FRIDAY, JUNE II, 8:45 P-IVL

TICKETS AVAILABLE:

At Barton Hall during Friday Reunion Registration

Willard Straight Hall Ticket Booth

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2 FOREST PARK LANE

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