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Early Classes Dine Saturday morning was devoted to various Hymn") '90's Recessional) by W. Nelson The Class of '80 held its Sixtieth Reunion University functions, engineers' breakfast in Smith '90, and also the familiar "Song of the dinner in the Blue Room of Sage Saturday Sibley, Class Secretaries' annual meeting, and Classes" by Frank A. Abbott '90. evening, June 15. The dinner marked an in- a very instructive and interesting address by At the business meeting, action was taken novation in that members of the first ten President Day in Bailey Hall. Lunch was to make our Fifty-five-year Reunion in 1945 Classes were invited, to make a big family served by the University in Barton Hall. The another record-breaking event in attendance party. afternoon was devoted to a ball game on Hoy Lnd in entertainment. The Class enthusiasti- Professor Simon H. Gage 'J-J got busy and Field, open house at the Law School, and cally pledged to continue '90's record of over- rounded up old-timers of the "Gay Seventies." reception by the President and Mrs. Day at subscribing the Cornell Alumni Fund, of At the dinner were the only surviving mem- their home for the Class of '90 and all pre- which Archie C. Burnett is Class representa- bers of the first three Classes, namely John A. ceding Classes. All of the '85 delegation except tive. Rea '69 of Tacoma, Wash., Brandt V. Dixon Del Decker attended the dinner of the early Our members were kept in unusual dignified '70 of New Orleans, La., and Royal Taft '71 classes, '69 to '89 inclusive, in the Blue Room restraint by two trained marshals, each of of Dunmore, Pa. It would be a good guess they ^t Sage. After dinner the rally in Bailey Hall whom "loves a parade," George T. Long and are all more than eighty years young. Then was attended by Stevens, McCall. and Whaley. William R. Webster. Alexander B. Trow- came Professor Gage, and William F. E. Gur- Jim McCall went home after the rally and bridge kept on smiling while serving as di- ley '77 of Chicago, 111.; Professor Albert W. Stod Stevens and Jim Whaley left Sunday rector of finance and social secretary extraor- Smith '78, and Mrs. Willard Beahan (Bessie morning. dinary, at '90 Reunion headquarters. DeWitt) '78 of Cleveland, Ohio. Representing I greatly regretted that more of the Class Impressive "In Memoriam" exercises were the Class of '79 were Clayton Ryder, secretary, were unable to be present to enjoy two very conducted by John P. Deane. A resolution in Willis A. Ingalls, Mrs. Frank H. Severance interesting days.—C.E.C. memory of our loyal and illustrious Classmate, (Lena Hill), and Frank A. Wright, who un- former chairman of the Board of Trustees and fortunately became ill the day before and was Class of '90 Golden Jubilee Cornell benefactor, Justin DuPratt White, taken to the hospital. Forty-six members and fourteen guests re- was presented by Henry M. Eaton. With coffee served, Secretary Lee J. Vance newed their acquaintance with Classmates To carry on for the next five years, the fol- '80 arose and offered a toast to the veterans of and friends in Ithaca and revelled in the lowing officers were elected: Arthur N. the old Cornell guard, Rea, Dixon, and Taft, beauty and progress of the Campus and Gibb, chairman, 302. East State Street, Ithaca; whom he called "the three musketeers." He vicinity. William Dalton, vice-chairman, R.D. 2., Sche- said he had heard that Dixon was quite an One of the highlights of the three days' nectady; James E. Rice, secretary-treasurer, orator and he called on him to prove it, and events was Mrs. Day's garden tea party at Mexico, N. Y. sure enough, Dixon did. Vance notified which President and Mrs. Day extended their Thus ended another homecoming to the "Uncle Pete" Smith that the company was delightful hospitality to the old Cornell boys scenes of our University childhood, with their waiting to hear him read his latest poem about and girls of fifty and more years ago. wealth of happy memories mingled only with April bells—or was it about June wedding At our Jubilee Reunion dinner Professor sadness on account of those who were missing. bells? Professor Gage was asked to tell (off Charles L. (Bull) Durham, as always, sounded -J.E.R. the record, of course) how gay the "Gay a keynote of loyalty to Cornell. The following Seventies" really were in Ithaca. He pleaded toast list, quite representative of the Class, Class of'95 not guilty, as knowing nothing about night was presented by the chairman-toastmaster, The Class of 1895 celebrated its Forty-five- life, saying he went to bed in those days soon Archie C. Burnett: John F. Skinner, Dr. Ken- year Reunion with an attendance of forty-five after sundown. nedy F. Rubert, S. B. Fortenbaugh, Harry C. members of the Class present (the best attend- At this point, President Edmund E. Day Davis, Mrs. Emma Gilbert Shorey, and Joel ance in twenty years) and twenty-five members was introduced. The President congratulated E. Wads worth. of their families who came to enjoy the fun. the "old guard" on their esprit de corps, and An appropriate musical program of Class All voted it a memorable occasion, rilled with for their loyalty and affection for Cornell, and Cornell songs and national anthems was pleasure and interest from start to finish. which had brought some of them thousands sung, accompanied by Raymond Kruse '41 and Three of us had attended every one of the last of miles back to their Alma Mater. several other members of the Cornell Glee eight Reunions, four of us seven Reunions, six Secretary Vance said that a number of the Club. The musical program included two of us six Reunions, eight of us five Reunions, women present had made their marks in vari- original songs and music entitled "Exulta- and seven of us four Reunions, and almost all ous fields of endeavor and had set a high tion" (90's Processional) and "Twilight of the rest had attended the last two or three standard for their younger sisters to emulate. He asked Mrs. Beahan to tell something about her work and activities. She was followed by Mrs. Severance, who has had a long and notable career in educational and literary work. In closing, Vance referred to the recent popular play, "The Man Who Came to Din- ner, '' saying that this did not refer to James L. Knapp '80 whom he asked to explain why it had taken him sixty years to come to an '8o dinner. Knapp said he had come to every Class dinner in spirit if not in person. And so '80s Reunion passed into history. -LJ.V. Class of '85 Headquarters for the Fifty-five-year Reunion were in 15 East Avenue, the same location that we had for our previous Reunion in 1935. Besides the five shown in the Reunion picture we had as guests John H. Stevens and George N. Stevens of Hornell and George Knapp of the Louisville (Ky.) Law School, all of whom are relatives of Stoddard M. Stevens '85. Following luncheon in Barton Hall, Friday SURVIVING MEMBERS OF FIRST THREE CLASSES REVISIT THE CAMPUS afternoon was spent at headquarters renewing Here for Reunion week-end were John A. Rea '69 of Tacoma, Wash., the Univer- our acquaintances. The Class supper was at sity's oldest living alumnus, ninety-two June 18; Dr. Brandt V. B. Dixon '70 of New Sage Friday evening, and we attenαed the play by the Cornell Dramatic Club in Willard Orleans, La., ninety last February 2.7; and Royal Taft '71 of Dunmore, Pa., who will be Straight Hall. ninety-one next September 5. 462- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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Reunions, so we were old friends in more than the head of a large utility corporation, the may fill in sufficiently to move them toward one sense of the word. vice-president of the great car building com- similar enjoyment of coming Reunions of the This year we had an unusual attendance of pany, the head of one of the old and strong Class in 1942., '45, '47, and '50. wives and children. Steinacher led the '95 investment firms, the vice-president of a lead- Thursday began the story with almost a section of the parade with a three-year-old son. ing casualty company, a judge of the Supreme dozen of the clan gathered in Boldt Hall to He will be making the Big Red team in i960. Court—proof that man reaches a peak of revive the memories of scenes and things of the The '95 Reunions have created many family responsibility after sixty. days gone by. The gang was more than doubled friendships and bound us together more closely Harry Clark reported that the number of '95 by the following day, and Saturday swung into than ever, and this was evident in the family subscribers to the Alumni Fund had more pace with half a hundred or more registered— reunions. than doubled in the past year. the greatest gathering of 1900 men and women Several members of the Glee, Banjo and William E. Schenck, our Class secretary for many years. Mandolin Clubs of 1895 attended the Glee whose Clarion Call for the Reunion brought so The concert of the Musical Clubs Friday Club concert in Bailey Hall. They agreed that many of the Class back to Ithaca, will soon night was a great piece of entertainment, with it was a remarkable male chorus: well bal- publish and distribute a new Class Directory. two dozen from 1900 enjoying the thrills. anced, good tone quality, and thoroughly and —W. F. A. President Day made his usual excellent impres- artistically trained. Someone said that the Class of '00 sion Saturday morning and the big luncheon improvement over the 1895 Glee Club was To members of the Continuous Reunion brought together the greatest crowd of twenty indicative of the improvement in all depart- Club, these events come and go, but 1900's years or more, with the corresponding degree ments of Cornell University. Fortieth lives on and remains as a pleasant of pleasure. A forty-flfth-year Reunion finds a number dream that will not easily down. The joy of The essence was crystallized for 1900 in the who have reached the retiring age. The '95 the opportunity to overlook trials and tribu- Class dinner in Balch Hall, attended by fifty- Dunwurkin Club includes Andrews, Atkinson, lations of so many years and revert to the two. With Terry McGovern as toastmaster, Babcock, Greene, Mann, A. S. R. Smith, youthful life of glamorous memory is some- in rare form, passing out "sweets" to the Stratford, Vickery, and Martha Veeder. Mr. thing that will not respond to mere verbiage, sweets, suitable props to the good-looking and Mrs. Babcock made the Reunion their start but requires the intimate touch of personal Estabrook team, "prizes" to "Bachelor" of a four months' automobile trip to the Pacific experience fully to appreciate. Hemstreet, "Golfer" Bole, Architect Jackson, Coast. This story, then, becomes simply a matter "Traveler" Redfield, "Youngster" Gilchrist, But the workers were there too, to prove of record, and our only hope for the absent and with Gobbo Ayers, Chris Wilson, Ken that '95 is still hearty and virile. They included members is their fertility of imagination that Thompson, and Ben Nolan also featured in the 464 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS fun, the evening was all too short. Time was Friday evening, the Willard Straight Hall a sumptuous clambake including not only called for a phone message from Herb Mason, dining room department, in charge of "Jack" clams in every form but broiled lobster and a but the bell had to be rung for the Bailey Hall Shaw '34, served a delicious buffet supper complete chicken dinner following. How any- rally, and space is now too short to do full under the Class tent at McFaddin Hall, and one survived is a mystery, but more than zco credit to 1900's forty-year Reunion. Saturday evening under the same auspices, the partook and there were no fatalities. Several Just as the Class dinner came to a premature formal Class dinner with sixty men present members of the Faculty who were in the end, we now have to stop before we can tell was held at the Johnny Parson Club. High University when we were and some of the foot- the story—G. H. Y. point of the dinner was an exchange of tele- ball coaches were our guests. The afternoon graphic greetings with Dartmouth 1905 was spent at softball, pitching horseshoes, and Class of '05 Women (President Day's class) and the announcement just visiting, and we had coffee and sandwiches Seventeen of us came back to Sage to relive to his friends in Hanover that "Rufe" Day before the trek back to the Campus for Senior the old days—get acquainted and enjoy each had just been elected a regular life member of singing, the Musical Clubs concert, and Dra- other again. Cornell 1905. matic Club performance. We met Frances Johnson Croft's tall, fine- Every man present told of his first job after Later, the night was made hideous or en- looking son who has just finished his Fresh- graduation, what it was, and how much he joyable, depending on opinion of the singing, man year at Cornell. George, the other half, got. In addition to President Day, there were at the Class tent. "Joe," an accordion player was here too. We thought Marion Elliott brief talks by "Jim" Lynah, "Shorty" Waud, from Brooklyn brought by Fred Weisbrod, Schade's Janet, with her bright smile and Fred Scheidenhelm, Neal Becker, and Erskine could also make our piano walk on its hind lovely teeth, was a credit to Marion and Wilder, who also sang more beautifully than legs, lead singing, and swap lies with the best James. She is the last of Marion's three daugh- ever. The Class secretary was completely of us. He formally adopted the Class, and '15 ters to take degrees at Cornell. bowled over with surprise when "Sid" Ross- adopted Joe. Late in the evening at the dorms, Carolyn Crossett Holcombe, looking almost man on behalf of the Class presented "Bob" the coaches provided motion pictures of last as she did thirty-five years ago, was here with Butler with a copy of Andrew D. White's year's Ohio State and Pennsylvania games. her husband who is a professor of economics Autobiography, inscribed on the fly leaf with Front row seats were occupied by members of at Harvard. Adeline Kiep came early and a warm note of greeting signed by all the 1905 a bygone team that had also beaten the best stayed late. It was good to see her enthusiasm. men and women attending the Reunion. "Ed- in the Middle West and Pennsylvania, in 1914. Katherine Selden Kniskern has grown thinner die" Holmes led the singing until he fell from Under the management of Red Phoenix were and her hair is a beautiful gray. She has a great exhaustion and "Bill" Forbes Ό6, a guest of Chuck Shuler, Shorty Taber, Charlie Lahr, deal of dignity, and a keen wit that is delight- the Class, carried on. Al Williams, and Carl Philippi, backfield; Ed ful. Jess Whitney and Eliza Fancher Cottis Secretary Butler spoke briefly of the work Lautz, Ed Gallogly, Bob Mochrie, Al Me- could "feel" for each other. They are both of some of the absent members of the Class, haffey, and Bud Williams of the line; and un- women of size and importance and are bound among them Hendrik Willem VanLoon, numerable former scrubs. Talk about an old to make an impression on any gathering. honorary chairman of the Queen Wilhelmina fire horse smelling smoke—it did our hearts Mary Porter Smith, one of our most loyal Fund for Holland Relief. "Jim" Lynah imme- good to hear Gollogly's snorts! Reunioners, came up from the War Department diately started a subscription for the Class of After Saturday's Barton Hall luncheon, '15 in Washington. She threw away the cares of '05, with the result that $159 in cash was for- complete encircled the drill floor as the State and had a good time. Frances Evans warded to VanLoon with the affectionate parade formed for Hoy Field. In one inning of Martin and her husband, Harry, also a Cor- greetings of his Classmates. the ^baseball game there, one might have nellian, were with us. They have three Several members here had never before imagined the curtains pulled back over the daughters and a son. Jo Stolte May, carrying attended a Class Reunion, but unanimously years as Tom Keating, Joe Donovan, Shorty her years well, sang the "Alma Mater" and the members vowed that they would never Taber, Tom Bryant, Chuck Shuler, and Don "Evening Song" with enthusiasm. It was good miss another and before departing they laid Cooke all took the field at once for the odd- to hear her. Anna Smith Mabey came up from groundwork for the Fortieth in 1945. year team and pulled off several sparkling Sidney (not Australia). She had not been back —R. P. B. plays. in many years. The Campus was a revelation Every place was taken in Willard Straight to her. She will not let so many years go by Class of Ί 5 Silver Anniversary Hall Memorial Room for the Class dinner again without coming to a Reunion. Our Reunion slogan was "Once in a Life- Saturday night. Frosty Speiden, presiding, Nellie Bingham arrived from New York in time." This feeble attempt to describe the called to their feet our Classmates of the time to go to the Cornell women's breakfast event is only for the benefit of those who were Faculty and representatives of our teams, then in the big Memorial Hall at Willard Straight. unable to attend the Twenty-five-year Reunion, beloved Jack Moakley, Foster Coffin '12. of 1905 had a large round table and got a hand as words cannot portray the sensations of Willard Straight Hall, Emmet Murphy 'xi from the crowd when we raised our bright red those who were fortunate and sensible enough and Ray Ashbery '2.5 of the Alumni Office, taffeta, parasols with '05 in white on them. to celebrate our silver anniversary. and the new chairman of the Board of Trustees, Then, in real college style, we gave our old The efficient and unceasing work of Class H. E. Babcock. We presented to Matt Carey, yell, "One-nine-O-five-Cornell I yell 1905." Secretary Matt Carey brought the largest Class our Class secretary and Alumni Trustee, a We all looked and felt younger and gayer under registration on record. By Thursday night, testimonial inscribed in appreciation of twenty our red parasols. more than 100 had registered at Class head- years of tireless effort on behalf of the Class Josette Kinavan was pretty tired from an quarters in Baker dormitory and the benches and the University, capped by this Reunion attack of grippe and the closing weeks of and chairs, thoughtfully provided in the re- cited as "the best Reunion job ever done." school. However, she said she had a fine time. freshment tent just outside were being fully Matt's fitting response set the stage for an Clara Apgar came up the Hill from her home used, with Ballantine's best flowing freely. For address by President Edmund Ezra Day, who on West Court Street and was welcomed by the three days Classmates came by train, by car or gave us some appropriate plain facts straight girls so heartily that she too will be a per- bus, and perhaps some walked. Each as he from the shoulder. Throughout the dinner, petual Reunioner. Helen McNamara is prac- arrived was provided with a pith helmet with former Glee Club men at one table, led by ticing law in Binghamton. She is the same the Class numerals, a five-inch celluloid button Bunny Worrell, had us all singing until our Helen, with a flair for color schemes and artis- with his name plainly lettered, a blue blazer throats could stand no more. tic arrangement. if desired or not brought, a Class shield, a At the Reunion Rally in Bailey Hall, the The Savage Club Quartet made a big con- souvenir stein bearing his name, and a strip Class received public recognition and the tribution to our 1890, '05, Ό8, '09 women's of tickets for all Reunion events. Matt's brain- silver cup for having the largest attendance. dinner at Sage. They sang with us in the child, the "Button Box," was brought out Our hats are off to the women of ' 15 who came dining room and for us in the drawing room. Friday and Saturday, for each Classmate to back thirty-three strong under the able leader- Wes Thomas at the piano, Allen Treman, deposit according to his means and enjoyment, ship of Bertha Wood, enabling the Class to Bill Corcoran, and Truman Powers sharing the box delivered unopened after Reunion to increase by fifteen the former record for attend- honors in parts, solos, and clever acting. the University Treasurer for credit to the ance set by '13. Back at the Class tent, it was —E. E. P. Class Fund, from which expenses were taken. determined that Les Marks from Honolulu Besides the general Reunion program, the and Carlos Castillo from Yucatan had made Class of '05 Men Class had several noteworthy events of its the longest treks to Reunion. The evening More than sixty men of the Class of 1905 own. Most impressive was the Class memorial passed with singing, exchanging tales of the pronounced the Thirty-fifth Reunion the best service Friday in Sage Chapel in memory of last twenty-five years, and general good fellow- in the history of the Class. They began to the 136 of our Class who are no longer with ship, and by noon Sunday the exodus was drift in on Thursday and remained inseparable us except in our hearts. It was most ably con- under way back to homes and families. for all of the events on the Campus until Sun- ducted by Harold C. (Dutch) Kelleran, who Throughout Reunion, there was a noticeable day morning when, one by one, they said good- has a pulpit in North Tonawanda. His address relaxation from affairs of business. It is doubt- bye to each other and departed reluctantly for held the attention of the crowd which com- ful if anyone looked at a newspaper even with home. fortably filled the Chapel; we sang two hymns, world events as they were. We emerged from The Class attended both Friday and Saturday and Bill Pickslay sang a solo. the best party of our lives completely tired luncheons in the Drill Hall in a body and after From Class headquarters about noon Fri- - physically but amazingly refreshed in body, the Saturday luncheon paraded to Hoy Field day we embarked in every sort of motor soul, and spirit. The word is already out that with the other Classes and had their picture vehicle for Taughannock Park, where a com- we hope to have an informal Reunion every L mittee headed bv Harry Gordon had arranged June from now on, and beginning next Sep- JULY, I940 465

tember, members of '15 will find fellow-spirits tary. She read notes from 192.0 girls who could The Phi Psi bunch, having won the tin cup at dinner at the Cornell Club of New York not attend but who wished us joy, and Peg for the largest fraternal delegation to appear, (and we hope also in other cities) the fifteenth Hess Parrish's Class scrap book was circulated. were pleased to challenge the rest of the Class of every month. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of our to a softball game on the Thurston Avenue Class President Speiden and your reporter whole Reunion, with its interesting and ar- lawn. The afternoon exercise helped to clear saw most of the Classmates off for home, then tistic display of snapshots and biographical the atmosphere for the evening. went to Glenwood for a quiet dinner Monday data. University luncheons in Barton Hall gave night. There on the porch, looking across the Received after Reunion was a letter from us opportunity to mingle with the other Lake, they saw the moon come up over the Helen Huie Kwe, whose husband, Chi-ting Classes. Naturally, "Bennie" Benisch's brother towers oί the distant Hill. There is God-given Kwei (MS '2.0), teaches physics at the China Charlie, leading the 192.5 band, came in for a peace and quiet on that Lake of ours on a Inland Mission, Kiating, Szechuen Province, lot of applause and that is no applesauce. That spring evening that all the wars and jobs in China. Helen reported her family safe and well, '15 bunch is a swell crowd! eternity cannot disturb. Cornell is there, and no air alarms since early December until the The men of '15, mature looking in their will continue there on the Hill; a grand place end of April, a week before she wrote. Senior blue coats and overwhelming in num- to go back to and so very much ours, just as it That evening, those of us who were still in bers, impressed us with their dignified outlook was a quarter-century agoί '15s first twenty- town gathered at Agda's lovely home for a as they passed our headquarters and as we met five years have gone; may life be as good to us buffet supper and went to women's Senior them on various occasions. Their hospitality for the rest of the time. singing in Balch Court afterwards. We were to all Classes in their tent at the dorms was "Here's a toast to her we all love so well!" amused to hear "Give My Regards to Davy." most appreciated. Our Class must get a piano —H. C. E. Is this still popular with undergraduates, or player at its next Reunion! was it sung just for the alumni ? We voted '07 to be the best singers and Ίo Class of'20 Women Baccalaureate and Commencement took on to be grand fellows. Under the benign influence of Leo (where is an added significance against the background "Red" Ashton, Ben Reuther, and Kelly Leo, by the way?) the five-year-plan brought of world events of those very hours. The peace Sachs contributed in more than a monetary together thirty-seven women or '1.0 for our and beauty of Ithaca and the Campus seemed way to the general spirit of the occasion and Twentieth Reunion. Thanks to the efficient doubly precious, and I think we felt a certain Doc Iler's medicinal help came in handy. arrangements of the Ithaca committee, the kinship with the fine-looking young people in 1915 put on an exceptional rally at Bailey occasion was a great success. We were housed the academic procession. We, too, were in Hall and were fortunate in having the three in Risley and looked very gay with our 19x0 college during dark days in world history and living members of the classes of '69, '70, and ribbon badges, white dresses, green belts, and many of our contemporaries were claimed by '71 in attendance. I still hope that some day bubble necklaces. We went to every Reunion that terrible conflict. So we of the Class of '2.0 the host Class will have the "Alma Mater" event (some of us, anyway) and did a lot of looked at the Class of '40 with the hope and played on the chimes in Bailey Hall, which other things too—strolled along the Goldwin belief that Cornell had taught them some of was done during the Semi-Centennial Cele- Smith Walk, leaned over bridges, watched the the lessons we had learned there, and we bration. sunsets, talked with our old professors, ate a wished them well.—D. R. M. Reunions are great institutions. We should lot of lunch in the Drill Hall (I mean Barton have more of them but fortunately for some of Hall; we're a bit conservative about accepting Class of'20 Men us, they only come every five years (just get- changes) and visited all the time with each Rejuvenated like the Republican Party, ting over my cold).—H. C. B. other. The younger generation was well 1910 turned out a crowdi of fifty-three men in represented, every son and daughter a poten- spite of the total war and generally poor busi- '25 Women's Questions tial Cornellian. Some oί them indeed, are ness. This Reunion was a result of the sudden Were you too busy greeting 'x5ers at Barton already undergraduates. desire by many members of our Class to get Hall to count the fifty-two women who regis- Agda Swenson Osborn, retiring president of together and see each other again. There was tered? the Federation of Cornell Womens' Clubs, no committee. Everybody considered himself Did you see us glow when the men presented presided at the Saturday breakfast in Willard a vice-president, helping Kay Mayer, the life us with that enormous basket of flowers Straight Hall for all alumnae. Mary H. Don- president of our Class. while we sat beside them in the grandstand Ion, our 192.0 Alumni Trustee, spoke of recent Molding itself into the program as arranged to have our pictures taken? changes and achievements at Cornell, and at by the Alumni Secretary, who did a swell job, How did we rate that super-delicious Class the calls for "author" of the "Reunion Song," we enjoyed everything. There were a few dinner at Domecon that Ted Fessenden Sayles, Alice Smith took a bow. things we did ourselves that were not on the our Class treasurer, procured? The Class dinner was in the small dining program and maybe we should not mention After the Rally did you date, or were you at room at Risley. Alice Smith presided, and them. One was an informal dinner at the the midnight orgy in 95 Sage? Chairman Betty Cornell songs were accompanied by Helen Case Dutch. Another was the portable broadcaster Little Hoadley and Class Secretary Florence Foster's accordion. There were brief sketches which Jack Solomon brought along and which Dahme fed all oncomers hamburger and onion oί the life and works oί each girl present (oh Pete Lins' station wagon so well carried to sandwiches, told fortunes, and discussed old yes, we still call each other girls), then Mary every spot that we visited. times. Donlon told us of her work as Trustee, point- Probably the reception given "Orv" Daily Did we ever have better publicity than that ing out some of Cornell's peculiar problems and "Bub" Hill at the Lehigh station Friday edited by Marjorie Wilmot? as an institution partly tax-supported and afternoon will go down in history; seven Did you know that all the printed circulars partly endowed. It was refreshing to have her cars, over twenty men eating ice cream, greeted sent to the women of the Class and all the answer our questions not in administrative these two from the West. The rest of the group "Cornell '2.5 Host Class Welcomes You" jargon but in clear terms of student welfare from the Middle West would have come banners in the Drill Hall, Bailey, and Sage and vital problems of education. except for the sudden change in business. A were a gift of "Dahme," who is production The Sunday morning breakfast was at Old wire from Max Lippitt of Savannah, Ga., and manager of the Plampin Lithograph Co.? Hundred, an attractive colonial house south Paul Raymer of Chicago, who happened to Is the theory that pre-Reunion dinners in of Ithaca. Ruth Aldrich Hastings presided at meet at their daughters' graduation in Con- New York make for bigger and better Reunions an informal business session at which Agda necticut, telling us to reserve rooms, greatly a fallacy? Only half of the women who Swenson Osborn was made permanent secre- surprised us for neither had ever been back. attended the dinner party Edith Bennett

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Pagliaro gave the Class in her hotel, The sity, Dal Hogan who traveled the longest The Class banquet at Glenwood was fully Windermere, came back to Reunion; and they distance, from Oklahoma City, Class President attended; so fully attended, in fact, that the were coming anyway.—F. E. D. Bob Patterson for his interest and enthusiasm committee was not able to account for a few throughout (with a broken foot he came back dinners consumed by others who so enjoyed Class of '25 Men to Reunion on crutches), and Class Secretary the good spirits that they decided to reune Men of the Class began to arrive in Ithaca Barney Savage whose enthusiasm and ideas with us. Unfortunately, the banquet and Glen- Thursday for their Fifteen-year Reunion; most were everlasting and contagious. Neither wood were so enticing that few members of came on Friday, and by Saturday a total of 101 would this account be complete without a the Class attended the Reunion Rally in Bailey had registered. The Class was quartered in word of appreciation from all members of the Hall. Founders Hall, and here distribution of Re- Class who came back to Emmet Murphy, new With the Ten-year Reunion but a memory, union tickets and costumes was handled by Alumni Secretary, for his interest and helpful- the Class of 1930 looks forward with keen Class Treasurer Stu Richardson, with assist- ness in every possible way.—T. J. R. anticipation to 1945 when it will have the ance of Ben Hope. privilege of being the host Class. Those who Friday was a day of meeting old friends and Class of ' 30 Men returned for the Tenth carry home with them renewing acquaintanceships of former years. What 1930's Ten-year Reunion lacked in an unforgettable picture of the beautiful Besides the regular events of the Reunion numbers was certainly more than made up in Campus of their Alma Mater overlooking program many members of the Class planned the enthusiasm of the eighty-nine men who Cayuga Lake. It is their sincere hope that this their own entertainment of more informal returned. Alumni Secretary Emmett Murphy great University may develop and prosper as may differ with the committee on the attend- much in the next ten years as it has since that nature, including several golf foursomes at the day in June, 1930, when they went out into Ithaca Country Club Friday afternoon. ance figures; his "official" figures indicated that eighty-two returned, but the committee the world as graduates after four happy One of the highlights of the general Re- collected from seven additional members and years.—C. E. T., Jr. union luncheon at Barton Hall Saturday and we therefore report a total of eighty-nine. the parade from there to Hoy Field was Considering that Lan Harwood, the Reunion Class of '38 Women Charlie Benisch's impromptu and energetic chairman, was forced to resign in the middle Do you remember the slightly condescending leading of the Class of '2.5 band. At the inter- of April for business reasons and the Reunion attitude we adopted as Seniors toward alumnae class baseball game Saturday afternoon we plans passed on to another group, we feel that who came back with such gusto and acted were well represented on the team of the odd- the attendance was creditable. Certainly those slightly fanatic about Cornell and the Class of year ClasseSy with Buddy Davis at shortstop; who did return enjoyed themselves tremen- whateveritwas? Well, we take it all back. Tom Sterling, catcher; Tommy Thomas, third dously. base; and Charley Benisch, left field. Barney Sixty-five women from the "baby" Class Savage umpired the game. Particular mention should go to Jim Paxton returned to old haunts with just as much gusto and Bud Sharood for coming all the way from about everything in general as any Class we Our Class dinner Saturday night was at the Omaha, Neb., and St. Paul, Minn. The com- witnessed. Incidentally, our aggregation was Lehigh Valley House, downtown. The Class mittee was unable to present a prize to the next to the top for the women and we beat the band furnished music, and there were no one driving the longest distance because of the '38 men by four! speeches at all. The atmosphere was informal, argument between the two as to just which 'Way back in the fall of '34, we chose a blue the surroundings and company congenial, and one lived the farthest away. Some of the Class Scottie for a mascot—remember? He inspired it was a most enjoyable dinner which ended felt that Jim should receive the prize since the the costume for our first Reunion and now we with a parade of the Class into Bailey Hall Reunion cost him a mustache which he had think it such a good one—and that opinion where as host Class we had charge of the been growing for many months. is founded on the comments from other program. Before a packed house Stu Richardson Without any doubt, 1930 produced the Classes and even University dignitaries—that as master of ceremonies and Wen Webber as finest singing heard in Baker Dorm for many it looks as if it will be a custom. Scotch caps song leader led the crowd in an enthusiastic years. That old tenor song-bird, Jim Price, with '38 on the ribbons and tarlatans (they're and fast-moving program of songs and enter- teamed up with Mike Catalano, Trink Powers, the things that are thrown over the left tainment. George Dacks, Coke Allen, and other relics shoulder and tied on the right side) were worn Outstanding features of this Reunion were of Glee Club days in some fancy harmonies. with white. the colorful stickers, posters, and banners They were so good that they were actually Grace Johnson, Reunion chairman, was so designed by Florence Dahme '2.5 and given by hired out by some of the older Classes less effective she brought Clara Rhodes Rosevear her company, Plampin Litho Co., New York fortunate in talent. back from St. Louis, Mille Brooks up from City. Using the "Host Class Welcomes You" The Class took pardonable pride in the Washington, and Barbara Ives Weeks drove emblem in Cornell red and white, banners sterling efforts of Bill Cushman, its baseball in from Boston. The rest came from com- decorated Barton Hall and Bailey Hall, and captain, Carl Boies, and Ralph Higley to help paratively nearby points to enjoy the program posters and stickers were everywhere around win or lose the great baseball marathon at set up by "Johnnie" and her able assistants, the dormitories and headquarters tents, for Hoy field on Saturday afternoon. Bill, in Trudy Johnson and Betty Page. the Class of '2.5 and all other Reunion Classes. particular, received some fine coaching and Class headquarters in Sage were busy Friday This brief account of our fifteen-year Re- encouragement from a large percentage of the and Saturday with registrations and concen- union would not be complete without mention Class stationed with him in left field. No other trated catching up on all the news. Many of of the fine work done by all members of the Class so ably supported its athletes. the "business women" and "educators" ar- Reunion committee. Among these were Al Most of the activities of 1930 *were of rived Saturday morning, due to professional Gardner on costumes, Aaron Van Poznak on informal nature and "Stuffy" DeMunn pre- reasons. And a lot of the young-marrieds planning the Bailey Hall Rally, Ben Hope on sided over the beer tent with his usual effec- didn't arrive at all, for the same reasons. athletics, Stu Richardson on finances, Wen tiveness. When the Class as a whole was not After reminiscing over Senior sing Friday Webber on music and entertainment, Lou gathered together for a special event, indi- evening and then going to the Musical Clubs Thaler on the Class dinner and refreshments, vidual groups stuck closely together and I Show or the Cornell Theatre, bull sessions Ray Ashbery who coordinated all these activ- feel that this spirit of close friendship was the lasted as long as anyone could stay awake. ities with the Alumni Office and the Univer- characteristic feature of 1930's Tenth. About a dozen stout-hearted souls rose in

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BOARD MAKES CHANGES the president the last two years. During the World War he was executive officer Faculty Appointments and chief engineer of the USS R-16, The Board of Trustees at its June meet- commanding officer of the USS F-z, and ing re-elected for five-year terms as a division officer on the USS Arkansas, Trustees Henry R. Ickelheimer '88, Max- then taught mathematics and physical well M. Upson '99, and Walter L. Todd science in Denver high schools. Author '09. Ickelheimer has been a member of of The Development of Physical Thought, the Board since 1894, Upson since 19x5, he is chairman of the mechanics section and Todd was elected last June to com- of the Society for Promotion of Engineer- plete the term of August Hecksher, ing Education, former president of the resigned. Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science, It was announced that with the ap- fellow of the A A AS, and a member of proval of the War Department the basic Tau Beta Pi, Scabbard and Blade, and infantry unit of the ROTC would be Sigma Nu. discontinued beginning next fall. First- Dr. Petri is internationally known as a year students will hereafter be assigned student and teacher of the piano. He and either to the field artillery, ordnance, or Mrs. Petri fled their home in Poland on signal corps, and Sophomores who were the last train before the German in- this year in the infantry will next year vasion last fall, and visiting friends in be assigned to the field artillery, ad- Ithaca they were so delighted with the vanced infantry students continuing for '38 WOMEN PARADE ON HOY FIELD community and its surroundings that two more years. It had been determined they have settled here. Wherever he has that few students elected infantry and time for the 7:40 alumnae breakfast at Willard taught, in Holland, Germany, and Po- Straight Saturday—and were amazed at the officers say that men with field artillery land, pupils have come to him from all changes and activity that have gone on in two training can be more readily transferred over the world, and many artist-pupils short years. to infantry than vice-versa. Until the All 12.6 '38ers joined in the parade to Hoy are already following him to Ithaca. present organization of the ROTC after Field after the Barton Hall luncheon. Those Some of these will give two concerts at the World War, with most of the in- who braved a few thundershowers had their Willard Straight Hall during the Summer pictures taken and then were invited by the struction devoted to classroom work Session, and Dr. Petri plays in Bailey '38 men to a get-together—should we say beer and training in leadership, the former party?—down on the tennis courts in Casca- Hall July 18. dilla Gorge. Cadet Corps of the University was given only infantry drill. Changes in Agriculture The banquet capped the climax for the week- The Trustees received the resignation end. We dined in Sage and then were privi- leged to have Provost Peters tell us about Three Join Faculty of Dr. Cornelius Betten, PhD '06, as Cornell's plans for the future. He stayed with Newly appointed to the Faculty were Director of Resident Instruction in the us for a "quick quiz" on Classmates and their Dr. Peter J. W. Debye as professor of College of Agriculture, effective June 30, doings. In case you don't know, our figures Chemistry and chairman of the Depart- and appointed him as full-time Dean of show seventy-five married, and about twenty- eight of them are raising future Cornellians: ment, and Dr. Arthur S. Adams as as- the University Faculty, with enlarged they simply couldn't go anywhere else. sistant to the Dean of Engineering. Dr. duties comprising educational and stu- Since we now have a little money, Marge Egon Petri, formerly of Zakopane, Po- dent problems of the entire Campus. He Shenk will take over the purse and your life land, was appointed visiting lecturer in has been Director in the College of Agri- secretary continues. Music for the year 1940-41. culture since 192.2. and part-time Dean of The Bailey Hall rally was an inspiration in itself. After singing the "Evening Song" Dr. Debye, winner of the Nobel Prize the Faculty since 1932.. accompanied by colored slides of our Campus, in chemistry in 1936, is a foremost au- Effective July 1, Professor A. Wright '43 can't come soon enough.—M. E. D. thority on molecular structure. A native Gibson '17 became Director of Resident and citizen of Holland, he is director-on- Instruction in NEW ENGLAND "WASH" leave of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Agriculture, suc- Marked revival of spirit is reported at Physics at Berlin-Dahlem; was George ceeding Dr. Bet- this year's "Wash" of the Cornell Club F. Baker lecturer in Chemistry last term. ten. Gibson en- of New England, June 2.2. at the Assabet He has studied at Munich, Brussels, tered the College

Country Club, Stow, Mass., under the Luettich, and Oxford; taught at Munich, of Agriculture in * ^,v, chairmanship of Albert L. O'Banion '17, Zurich, Utrecht, Gδettingen, and Leip- 1913 from Albany superintendent of fire alarm systems in zig; has completed notable research and Business College,

Boston. experimental investigations. His son, received the BS ;/ Fifty-five sat at table for dinner, sing- Peter P. Debye, will be associated with in 1917, and ^-f|° ;Γ' ίv ing, and entertainment, after a soft ball him in research here. farmed in Vir- H?lt game between an even-year team cap- Dr. Adams will assist Dean S. C. ginia for four V \ί* tained by Newton C. Burnett '2.4 and one Hollister in the general area of academic years. Returning of the odd years captained by the Club development in the College of Engineer- as an instructor in 19x1, he became as- president, Norman F. Bissell '2.7. Peren- ing, coming to Ithaca August 1. A native sociate secretary of the College, receiv- nial Umpire George S. Tompkins '96 of Winchester, Mass., he studied at ing the MS in 1918. He organized and ruled that the "evens" won, 2.9-9. Norwich University and was graduated has had charge of the orientation course Tennis tournament was won by Arthur at the US Naval Academy in 1918, being given to all entering students in Agri- P. Bryant '00 and Milton G. Dexter '14, named the same year an honor graduate culture, and for several years has directed and award for best in horseshoe pitching of the US Submarine School. He received vocational guidance and placement, be- went to a team of Peter Ham '2.6 and the AM in physics at University of Cali- coming assistant professor in personnel Bissell. Golf prizes for the morning's fornia in 19x6 and the next year the DSc administration in 1934, professor in play went to James A. Pirnie '2.3 and at Colorado School of Mines, where he 1937. He is secretary-treasurer of the Burnett, low gross; Isaac L. Williams '2.6, became successively instructor, assistant' College of Agriculture Alumni Associa- and William V. Bassett '37, high gross; professor, associate professor, and pro- tion, a director and member of the execu- and William G. Mollenberg '14 and fessor of mechanics and has been fresh- tive committee of the Cornell Alumni Dexter, low net. man adviser since 192.8 and assistant to Association, member of Alpha Gamma 468 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Rho and former national president. He waiting list. Not infrequently one hears of a and Mrs. Gibson have two sons, A. studious Senior moving out to find quieter lodging with a friend of similar interests. But Wright Gibson, Jr. '41 and Philip B. LETTERS such a man does not move to a dormitory. By Gibson '43. Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good common report, the average fraternity house Professor Laurence H. McDaniels, taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any is at least as quiet and well-ordered as the aver- side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The PhD ' 17, resigned June 30 as professor of age dormitory. ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- We are informed that more than half the Pomology and pomologist in the Experi- ments expressed, and. disclaims any responsibility men students at the University live neither in ment Station to accept appointment as beyond that of fostering interest in the University. dormitories nor fraternity houses. While the head of the Department of Floriculture NEWS cannot speak for the University, it is and Ornamental Horticulture. Receiving reasonable to suppose that the University does want more dormitories if persons can be found the AB at Oberlin College in 1912., he APPRECIATION To THE EDITOR: to give them, to provide comfortable accom- came to Cornell that year as assistant modations for as many students as possible. During the Reunion I had plenty of in Entomology, became assistant and —ED. opportunity to discuss the new ALUMNI instructor in Botany, was made assistant NEWS. These talks, together with my professor of Pomology in 1919, professor long previous study, have convinced me in 192.3. He has traveled extensively DEAN BURDICK DIES that the ALUMNI NEWS is the very life- studying fruits and plants, is the author Professor Charles K. Burdick, Dean of blood of the great Cornell family. It of numerous scientific writings, is a the Law School for ten years until he should be in the hands of all alumni. member of Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha, resigned January 1, 1937, died in Ithaca How to accomplish this is a task for and Alpha Gamma Rho. June X2-, of coronary thrombosis. He had younger and more "streamlined" Cor- been in ill health for a year and a half Other Appointments nellians to work out. and had suffered an acute heart attack Succeeding Woodford Patterson '95, One of our distinguished alumni novel- •three days before. the Trustees appointed Edward K. Gra- ists told me that she enjoys getting the He was the son of the late Francis M. ham, PhD '38, acting secretary of the NEWS more than any other of the many Burdick, a member of the first Law University. Born in Chapel Hill, N. C, papers she gets. And our own well-known Faculty; received the AB at Princeton in he is the son of the late Edward K. Gra- writer, "Bennie" Nolan Όo, told me the 1904 and the LLB at Columbia in 1908, ham, president of University of North same thing. and joined the Law School in 1914 after Carolina, where he received the AB in Each subscriber can put in a good word 1933 and the AM in 1934. He became a having practiced in New York City and for the NEWS, and all others, once they taught at Tulane and University of graduate assistant in History at Cornell get it, will never miss reading it and so in 1934, held the President White Fellow- Missouri. During his service as acting enjoy a continuous Reunion. Dean, in 192.5-2.6, the Law School was ship in Modern History in 1936-7, since —WALTER NUFFORT ΌO 1937 has been assistant to President Day. made a graduate school, having pre- vously required but two years of uni- Appointed professor of Radiology in CONCERNING DORMITORIES the Medical College in New York is Dr. versity work, and in 192.9, while he was To THE EDITOR: Dean, it first gave advanced degrees. John R. Carty, MD 'xi, since 1931 I note the following statement in this radiologist-in-chief in The New York Dean Burdick had much to do with the year's Cornell Day program which has codification and revision of New York Hospital. After practice in New York been sent me: "Since there is an acute Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital State law; had been chairman of the lack of dormitories at Cornell, most State Law Revision Commission since its and Massachusetts General Hospital, fraternity men live in their houses after Boston, he was from i^yi)1- instructor inception. In 1931 he was appointed by the freshman year." Governor Roosevelt to the newly-formed and chief of clinic in radiology in the This statement seems to insinuate that Medical College. State Commission on the Administration it is only because of the acute lack of of Justice, and he was a member of the Promotions in the Faculty include dormitories that most fraternity men that of M. Slade Kendrick, PhD '14, executive committee and of the drafting live in their houses and that if there were committee wτhich prepared a report from associate professor of public finance more dormitories more fraternity men in the College of Agriculture and as- proposing creation of a State Judicial would live in them. If this is the policy Council and a Law Revision Commis- sistant professor of economics in Arts of the University it is news to me and I and Sciences to professor in both Col- sion. In 1934 Governor Lehman appointed don't like it. As far as I am concerned, him to the new Judicial Council, whose leges; and of Zoltan I. Kertesz from as- you may as well take fraternities off the sociate in research at the Geneva Experi- chairman was the late Cuthbert W. Campus if the men don't live in them, Pound '84. When the Law Revision ment Station to chief in research in else we lose 90 per cent of the training Chemistry. In the College of Agriculture, Commission was formed later that year, in cooperative living and tolerance they Burdick resigned from the Judicial Coun- five assistant professors were appointed have to offer. associate professors with indefinite ten- cil to accept its chairmanship and the I would appreciate hearing from you offices of the Commission were estab- ure: Ralph W. Cummings, Soil Technol- personally or via the NEWS as to whether ogy; Lowell C. Cunningham, PhD '34, lished at the University. Meanwhile, he the University wants more men's dormi- continued to teach international and Farm Management Extension; Melvin B. tories and if so for what reasons. Hoffman, PhD '34, Pomology Extension; constitutional law; was chairman of the —MILLETT G. MORGAN '37 Kenneth Post, PhD '37, Floriculture; and American Bar Association standing com- Stanley W. Warren '17, Farm Manage- So far as any policy of the University to- mittee on changes in statute law; and in ward fraternities is observable, it has always 1936 was special counsel to Governor ment. In the Veterinary College, Dr. been that of laisse^ fain. When fraternities are Donald W. Baker '2.9 was advanced from helpful, as they usually are, University ad- Lehman investigating charges' against assistant professor to associate professor ministrations have been grateful; when they District Attorney William F. X. Geog- of Parasitology, and Dr. Earl L. Brunett have occasionally become troublesome, the han of Kings County. University officials have been patient and long- He was an ardent champion of the '2.3, to associate professor of Poultry suffering. Diseases. The Cornell Day program, from which our League of Nations and spoke and wrote correspondent quotes, was written by an un- voluminously in defense of civil liberties. PRESIDENT of the Women's Debate dergraduate and represents an undergraduate's He was a consultant of the Wickersham view, which is, of course, by no means un- Commission on international law for the Club for next year is Joanne Heath '41, important. daughter of Supreme Court Justice Riley Fraternities seem to be getting along pretty League of Nations; served as special H. Heath Ίx of Ithaca. well, most of them keeping full houses and a counsel to President Roosevelt in the JULY, I94O 469

boundary dispute between Peru and but it's all unfortunately true. At a time With the tide going downriver and Ecuador. when most folk's nerves are a little on the wind coming up, the freshman crews He had taught at summer schools in edge, it's the part of good citizenship for were sent away only five minutes late. Columbia University, University of Chi- the individual not to bother too much They rowed in roughening water, Cor- cago, and Stanford; was a member of the about his right of free speech. Safer, too! nell moving into the lead quickly and Harvard Research in International Law; rowing easily and smoothly to the associate member of All Souls College, finish. Syracuse put up a battle in the Oxford University. He was a member of first half-mile, then faded as Princeton the Academy of Political Science, Phi About took over second place with a mile to go. Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, and many ATHLETICS Cornell's margin over Princeton, making national and international law societies; its first appearance in a Poughkeepsie author of several texts. Mrs. Burdick regatta, was close to two lengths. and three sisters survive. GREAT POUGHKEEPSIE RACE Junior varsity shells were at the start- The Varsity crew, co-favorite with ing boats on time, but it was evident RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH Washington, lost to the Western eight they were in for trouble. The freshening (R.B. in'' State and Tioga,'' Ithaca JournaΓ) by less than a length in the four-mile wind stirred whitecaps on the Hudson, There is a nice distinction between the race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Asso- and the men in the stake boats, as well legal right of free speech and the social ciation regatta on the Hudson River at as the oarsmen, found it hard to keep privilege of exercising it without re- Poughkeepsie June 18. the shells aligned. straint. No man learns that distinction The Freshman crew won handily in its Referee Julian Curtiss finally fired the in a university; he acquires the knowl- two-mile engagement to complete an un- starting gun. The oars, biting hard in edge, if at all, by attending the fifth defeated season. The Junior Varsity eight, racing starts, threw up a Niagara of grade of our public school in a tough or in a twice-rowed race, finished last over spray. It was obvious the crews could mixed ward. Only a little boy from a a three-mile course. not finish the race. good home who has talked out of turn To wind up a regatta day marked by First to go under was Washington, in at recess, and has been instantly popped rough water, delays, and the swamping the middle of the river. The oarsmen on the nose by another little boy for what of four of the six shells in the first at- rowed the boat right under and then sat he said, really grasps the social limita- tempt to row the Junior Varsity race, the quietly in water up to their waists, tions on the legal right of free speech in Cornell oarsmen elected John W. Kruse awaiting rescue by the coaching launch. America. It's a rather valuable bit of '41 of Davenport, Iowa, who rowed No. Before the first half-mile had been rowed, knowledge to possess in troubled times 4 in the Junior Varsity, commodore, to Syracuse and California were left behind. like these. succeed James A. Young, Jr. '40 of Out in front was Navy, trailed by Cor- It is true that the courts will uphold a Angelica. nell and Columbia. At the three-quarter- citizen in the exercise of his constitu- The order of finish and times of the mile mark, the referee's boat fired three tional rights of free speech, but somehow three races: shots: the recall. The crews paid no the courts never seem to be around when Varsity—Washington, 11'.42.; Cornell, attention. The referee sent the launches a voluble and argumentative citizen gets 11:45.6; Syracuse, 11:57; Navy, 13:02.; ahead to halt the race. Before the popped on the nose by a total stranger for California, 2.3:17; Columbia, 2.4:02.; Wis- launches reached the leaders, Columbia talking out of turn. Moreover, most consin, 14:06; Princeton, 14:09. went under, about a mile from the start. magistrates, while sound enough on the Junior Varsity—Washington, 18:07.1; Cornell finally stopped rowing. Navy, law, at some time or other attended the Navy, 18:13; California, 18:15.1; Syra- in front, was the last to quit. Navy's fifth grade and haven't.too much sym- cuse, Columbia, Cornell (the last three shell seemed lower in the water than pathy with people who talk' out of turn untimed). Cornell's, but both were able to row to and get popped on the nose for it; more Freshman—Cornell, 10:55.1; Prince- the haven of the east shore. fellow-feeling for the popper, mostly. ton, 11:01.6; Syracuse, 11:07.6; Colum- The referee postponed the varsity race None of this is right or just or legal, bia, 11:19.6. then until 8 p.m. The river quieted down,

ALUMNI AND SECOND-GENERATION CREW MEN AT THE BOATHOUSE AT POUGHKEEPSIE Photos by Griffith '29 Left: William H. Forbes '06, John L. Collyer '17, Randolph W. Weed '09, and Wilίiam H. Foote '06, former members of Cornell crews, with F. Ellis Jackson Όo, former manager, in front. Right: Walter O. Kruse '11 with his two sons, W. Nicholas Kruse '41 (left) who rowed No. 1 in the Varsity shell this year, and Commodore-elect John W. Kruse '41, who rowed in the Junior-Varsity boat. 470 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

and conditions were fair as the eight crew is Robert B. Tallman '42., son of The final standing of the teams: shells were sent away at about 8:15. Carl C. Tallman '07 of Ithaca. He suc- W L PC In gathering darkness, on a river ceeds Lewis A. Anderson '40 of Newark, Cornell 10 1 -9°9 slowed by a change in the tide, the shells N. J., who, overweight last season, Dartmouth 6 3 .667 Columbia 6 5 .545 headed for the finish line, with Syracuse coached the lightweight oarsmen. Yale 6 6 .500 the early leader. So fast was its start that APPOINT HALL GOLF PRO Princeton 6 6 .500 Syracuse led the field by a length in the Harvard 3 8 .2.73 Appointment of George Hall, coach of first half-mile, with Navy second, Wash- Pennsylvania 2. 10 .167 the golf team, as professional of the new ington third, and Cornell fourth. Young has signed a contract with the University golf course has been an- Baltimore club of the International These four crews quickly made up a nounced. Hall has been professional at the first division. At the mile mark, Syracuse League and has been assigned to Reading, Corning Country Club. Pa., one of the club's farm teams in the held its lead, with Navy second and Work is almost completed on the nine- Washington third. Cornell, fourth at Interstate League, of lower classification hole course, Robert J. Kane '34, assistant in professional baseball. Young was that point, began to pull up. Rowing to the Director of Physical Education and smoothly and at a low beat, the Cornell accepted after a tryout before club scouts Athletics, said, and the course will be at Rochester. shell crept past Washington and Navy ready for play next spring. Plans are into second place at the mile-and-a-half, being drawn for an additional nine holes. ODDS AND ENDS with Syracuse still a good length in The course was designed by Robert Trent Coach Carl Snavely, who with As- front. At two miles, the pace told on Jones, noted golf architect, and is located sistant Coach George K. James and Syracuse, and Washington moved into east of Kline Road, across from the Trainer Frank Kavanagh conducted a the lead. Cornell dropped back to third, Country Club of Ithaca course. with Navy fourth. Another half-mile coaching school at St. Lawrence Univer- Kane said that students will be re- sity June 14, will teach at another school of rowing brought Cornell again into quired to pay a small membership fee or, second place, a half-length behind Wash- at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, if they do not wish to become members, Tex., July 2.9-August 3. ington and a quarter-length, in turn, may pay a greens fee when they play. ahead of Navy in third place. Syracuse J. Robert Chalmers, Jr. '41 of Wil- had slipped back to fourth position. At BASEBALL RECORDS liamsville finished second to Desmond of the railroad bridge, the three-mile mark, Five Varsity players won places on the Villanova in the annual Eastern Inter- Washington held its margin over Cor- all-League team of the Eastern Inter- collegiate Outboard Association races nell, with Syracuse, picking up speed collegiate Baseball League chosen by on Seneca Lake at Geneva June 2.9-30. again, now in third place a length be- coaches at the close of the 1940 season. Chalmers scored 1,900 points to Des- hind Cornell. Cornell, the champion for the first mond's 2.,700. Arthur J. Wullschleger Then began as exciting a duel as the time since the League was organized '40 of Larchmont, the Association's Hudson has ever seen. Cornell moved up eleven years ago, placed Ronald E. Still- commodore and champion in 1938, did slowly on Washington, caught the man 'Δp- at second base, Captain George not compete. leaders, and went ahead into a lead of F. Polzer '40 at shortstop, Walter Scholl Harry L. Bill, Jr. '41 of Dayton, perhaps a half-length, with a half-mile '41 at third base, Kenneth G. Brown '40 Ohio, and Richard T. Meister '40 of yet to be rowed. Washington answered in the outfield, and Walter J. Sickles '41 Gates Mills, Ohio, were among the the challenge, drew even with Cornell, on the pitching staff. Scholl and Polzer, sixty-four qualifiers in the intercol- and regained the lead, only to meet a along with Harrison of Yale, were unani- legiate golf championship at the new challenge from the Varsity. But mous choices. Ekwanok Country Club, Manchester, Cornell's last spurt was not enough, and Selected on the second team was James Vt., the week of June 2.4. Both were Washington won in a battle of two great A. Young '40 of Cherry Creek, pitcher. eliminated in the first round of match crews. Other players receiving votes were Frank play. With spectators gone back to Pough- K. Finneran '41, catcher; Robert C. Coach Snavely won the Country Club keepsie and the river in darkness except Ochs '41, first baseman; and Charles S. of Ithaca's annual hole-in-one tourna- for the lights aboard the river craft and Bowen '40, outfielder. ment July 4. on the bridges, the Junior Varsity race Cornell produced most of the individual Cornell oarsmen living in and around was rowed. Only the officials saw it. pace setters in the League race. Pitchers Ithaca are among the members of the Guided by lights from the boats and with Sickles and Young were undefeated. newly-formed Cayuga Rowing Club. The floodlights at the finish, the crews rowed Scholl finished third in batting with an University has granted the Club permis- the race. They had refused a request of average of .350, led in runs batted in sion to use the Intercollege Boathouse on officials to postpone the contest until with fourteen, and tied Koepsell of the west bank of the Inlet and several the following day. Pennsylvania for the most stolen bases, shells. The Cornell boatings: eleven. Polzer led in total bases with Gregory G. Zitrides, Law '41, will be twenty-three; tied with Lendo of Dart- a member of the football coaching staff VARSITY: BOW, Richard G. Davis '41; 2., next fall. He is a graduate of Dartmouth W. Nicholas Kruse '43; 3, William E. Fisher, mouth for the most doubles, four; led in Jr. '40; 4, John C. Perry '41; 5, Franklin P. hits with sixteen; and topped the League and assisted with football coaching last Eggert '41; 6, Commodore Young; 7, John G. in runs scored, fifteen. fall. Aldworth '41; stroke, Richard K. Collins Cornell combined its good pitching '40; coxswain, Charles E. Boak '41. JUNIOR VARSITY: BOW, Edmund G. Miller with power at the plate, leading the PERUVIAN CORNELLIANS '42.; 2., Peter C. Foote '41; 3, Robert O. Gund- League with a team batting average of Listening to the Cornell-Pennsylvania lach '42.; 4, Commodore-elect Kruse; 5, .2.86. Among the League records tied Thanksgiving Day football game is oc- Christian J. Haller '42.; 6, DuBois L. Jenkins were: Runs batted in one game, Polzer, casion for a fiesta at "Chiclin," Peru's '43; 7, Philip C. Morse, Jr. '41; stroke, Robert 5. Chamberlain '42.; coxswain, Fred H. Guter- six; individual times at bat in one game, biggest hacienda or farm estate in man '42.. Brown, seven; and team times at bat in Trujillo. Here Rafael V. Larco y Hoyle FRESHMAN: BOW, Bruce Beh; x, George G. one game, forty-eight. '14, Constante D. Larco y Hoyle '2.7, and Holliday; 3, William W. Dickhart, III; 4, Among the pitchers the best earned- Javier Larco y Hoyle '2.9, nephews of the Robert S. Wood; 5, Herbert H. Wallower, Jr.; 6, Donald E. Kastner; 7, Edward S. Flash, run average was turned in by Young late Alberto Larco y Herrera '98, tune in Jr.; stroke, Joseph T. Lannman; coxswain, who, in forty innings, yielded 0.90 runs each year by short wave to Franklin Arthur R. Jones. per game. Sickles had an earned run Field in Philadelphia. New commodore of the 150-pound average of 3.04 per game. "Chiclin" comprises more than 2.1,000 JULY, 194O 471

acres, employs 1,000 persons, and houses three times that many. There are six FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS RETIRE schools, a hospital, theatre, 200, museum, Patterson '95 Becomes Secretary-Emeritus clubs, and stores, all operating in a fashion half American, half old-world. Five members of the Faculty were Wendell Anderson Professorship, en- "Chiclin's" soccer team (more like our elected emeritus professors by the Trus- dowed by his long-time friend, John W. football) holds the South American tees at their June meeting, and Wood- Anderson '89, championship and is divided into'' Penn" ford Patterson '95 was designated the with a gift of and "Cornell" squads. first secretary-emeritus of the University. $2.00,000 to the Professors Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, University last DESCRIBES ARTS COLLEGE Clark S. Northup '93, English, Frederick February. He has The College of Arts and Sciences has C. Prescott, English, and Albert E. written exten- published a booklet about itself, its Wells, Mechanical Engineering, retired sively in syntax, work, and its place in the University. from active service July 1 after many philology, and Well planned and printed, the booklet is years at the University. Professor Flora Latin literature. illustrated with photographs of the daily Rose, Director of the College of Home Known to life of the College and written in a lively Economics, resigned effective next Octo- thousands of un- style not usually associated with official ber 1 and was also elected to emeritus dergraduates and documents. Two extracts follow, from rank as of that date. alumni, Professor the twenty pages of enlightening—and WOODFORD PATTERSON has been secre- Durham is a favorite speaker at Cornell eminently quotable—text. tary of the University since December 15, gatherings, travelled over the country "Prospective students and the parents 1917, when he re- widely in 1919-2.0 in behalf of the Semi- of prospective students have the right to signed as editor Centennial Endowment Fund, has been ask of a college course that it fit the of the ALUMNI master of ceremonies at many a Spring student for his future life. They do well NEWS to accept Day and undergraduate meetings. He was to inquire if a cultural training is prac- the appointment. a member of the Athletic Council, adviser tical. The College of Arts and Sciences As University for wrestling and recently for rowing, will confidently reply that it may be Publisher he has was active in organizing the University highly practical. For in our competitive also been respons- Placement Bureau, in the adoption by society it is practical to possess the com- ible for the offi- the University of group insurance and its mon intellectual background of edu- cial publications present pension system, former president cated men and women. It is practical to of the University of the Cornell Co-operative Society, belong to that group which, by and and was manager member of many Faculty committees large, directs the thought and action of of the Cornell and of Chi Psi, Quill and Dagger, Savage the world. The intellectual background University Press and Comstock Pub- Club, Phi Kappa Phi. He has long been a of that group may be gained by private lishing Co. He remains as University Faculty marshal at Commencements and reading, observation of man's behavior, Publisher and has moved from Morrill the inauguration of two Presidents, and and stern reflection. But it is gained most Hall to a new office as editorial adviser was responsible with Professor Charles readily in a college of arts and with the University Press and Comstock V. P. Young '99 for the inauguration of sciences. ..." Publishing Co. on Roberts Place, where the Reunion Rallies, at the fifteen-year "The close association of the College W. Stanley Schaefer '2.8, former sales Reunion of their Class. with the other schools of the University manager, is now manager. He will continue his service to Cornell is of great advantage to the student. In his years at the University, Patter- associated with Provost H. W. Peters Thus, in Physics and Chemistry, cooper- son has become the court of last resort '14 in the interests of the Trustees' com- ation with the College of Engineering has both on matters of University history mittee on University development. brought about a development which and on printing and typography. He was Professor and Mrs. Durham have four would otherwise have been impossible. born in Newark Valley and has known Cornellian children, Mrs. Erwin J. Mc- The work in Biology, Botany, and Cornell at first hand for most of his life. Guire (Helen C. Durham) '2.9, Archibald Entomology, carried on in conjunction Receiving the AB in 1895,n e was a G. Durham '31, David H. Durham '36, with the College of Agriculture, has be- member of the staff of the New York and Forrest Durham '38. come so famous that it attracts students Sun until 1906, when he returned to PROFESSOR NORTHUP held the President from all over the world. The Depart- Ithaca as editor of the NEWS. AS Secre- White Scholarship from 1889-93, wnen ment of Fine Arts profits immeasurably tary, he has administered student loans he received the by its association with the College of and scholarships, had charge of Com- AB; taught Eng- Architecture. . . . The more advanced mencements and other University func- lish and Greek at students receive a particular stimulus tions, and has served on many Faculty Cascadilla School from their contact with Cornell's numer- committees. As a typographic designer until 1895 when ous graduate students, who communicate and editor he has established a note- he was appointed their maturer enthusiasms to the under- worthy reputation, frequently being con- assistant in Eng- graduate with the readiness that is only sulted by commercial publishers. He is a lish, received the possible to those nearly equal in age. member of Phi Gamma Delta. PhD in 1898, and This booklet has been prepared and PROFESSOR DURHAM has been at Cornell became professor published for the particular use and in- since 1896, when he entered with the AM of English in formation of schoolmasters, prospective from Furman University, winning a Uni- 1919. He engaged students, Cornellians who are teachers, versity Fellowship in Greek and Latin. in research at and Cornell Clubs. The edition is too The next year he was appointed instructor Munich and London in 1910-11, has pub- limited to permit its general distribution, in Latin, received the PhD in 1899, be- lished many books and articles, for years but any alumnus who wishes a copy to came assistant professor in 1901 and pro- has been a reader in English and at place in the hands of some particularly fessor in 1909. He studied at Leipzig and various times head reader and examiner desirable prospective student may obtain Munich in 1905-6, and Furman awarded for the College Entrance Examination it by writing Professor Blanchard L. him the honorary LittD in 192.2.. He be- Board. Since 1906 he has been a cooperat- Rideout, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca. came the first incumbent of the John ing editor of The Journal of English and 47*- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Germanic Philology. In 1938 he was pointed assistant professor of Machine tion; and Joan T. Rochow '40, represent- awarded the honorary BL at Wittenberg Construction in 191Z and professor in ing undergraduates. University. 1916, since 192.0 has been Sibley Professor After October 1 Miss Rose plans to Former president and for ten years of Mechanic Arts. Besides running the spend much of her time in travel. secretary of the Cornell Chapter of Phi Mechanical Engineering shops, he has Beta Kappa, he had been for thirty been much interested in industrial or- LUNCH AT SPRINGFIELD years one of ten senators of the national ganization and safety; is the inventor of Twenty members of the Cornell Club society, served six years as president of a high-voltage non-arcing switch. He is of Western Massachusetts met for lunch the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of Atmos, the ASME, and on short notice at the Hotel Sheraton, and has edited two volumes of Phi Beta American Foundrymen's Association. He Springfield, June 2.4. Peter Ham '2.6 pre- Kappa Orations and compiled a bibliog- will continue to live in Ithaca at 105 sided, reported the progress of the Club's raphy of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member Cascadilla Park, with Mrs. Wells and regional scholarship, and told of pre- of many learned societies^ former presi- their daughter, Mary L. Wells '41. liminary conversations for a concert by dent and for ten years graduate treasurer Miss ROSE came to Cornell as lecturer the Glee Club at Springfield next winter. of Quill and Dagger, member of Alpha in Home Economics in 1907 and with Romeyn Berry '04, in town to attend a Tau Omega, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Gamma the late Martha farmers' dinner in the evening, spoke Mu, and Sigma Tau Delta. Van Rensselaer briefly, and then for another hour an- He was the first editor of the CORNELL developed what swered questions about Ithaca and the ALUMNI NEWS and continued through the became the first Campus. first volume, 1899. He rejoined the staff college of home as associate editor in 1917 and remained economics in the ANOTHER MEDALIST until 1932.. He plans to continue his re- East and the sec- A third Cornellian, besides the two search in Ithaca; is now at work on a ond in the United mentioned in the ALUMNI NEWS May 16, revision of his Register of Bibliographies States. She was received one of the seventeen medals of of the English Language and Literature, co-director with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, first published by .the Cornell University Miss Van Rensse- Pa., May 15. William E. Woodard '96, Press in 19x5 and to be reissued next fall, laer of the De- vice-president of Lima Locomotive and on a volume, Myth and Poetry, to partment of Works, Inc., New York City, was be published by Oxford University Press. Home Economics in the College of Agri- awarded the Henderson Medal for "his Mrs. Northup is the former Carrie L. culture, helped to organize the College accomplishments in locomotive engineer- Myers '96; their children are Mrs. Olive in 19Z5, and since Miss Van Rensselaer's ing and his important contributions in Northup Snyder Ίz, Helen F. Northup death in 1932. has been its Director. She the field of steam locomotive design." '2.3, and Nicholas C. Northup '30. received the BS at Kansas State Agricul- Like Laurens Hammond Ί6, who we PROFESSOR PRES COΊT joined the Faculty tural College in 1904, was enrolled in the noted had received the John Price in 1897 as assistant professor of Rhetoric, Graduate School in 1908, received the Wetherill Medal, Woodard was recently was made assist- AM at Columbia in 1909, the PdD at selected by the National Association of ant professor of Albany State Teachers College in 1931, Manufacturers as one of its "Modern English in 1903, and the honorary DSc at Kansas State Pioneers." As also noted in the NEWS, professor in 1919. College in 1937. She has written and Maxwell M. Upson '99, University Born in Salina, spoken widely on nutrition, was for a Trustee and president of the Raymond Kan., he received time assistant home-making editor of Concrete Pile Co., received the Edward the AB at Har- Delineator, during the World War was Longstreth Medal of Franklin Institute. vard in 1894; State director of food conservation. In from 1895-97 was 192.3 at the request of King Albert she ORGANIZE HOSPITAL UNIT a graduate assist- conducted a study of the nourishment of Responding to a request from the War ant there and in- Belgian children, being decorated a Department, the New York Hospital structor in Eng- chevalier of the Order of the Crown. and Cornell University Medical College lish at Radcliffe Since 1932. she has been a member of the have organized General Hospital No. 9 College. He has taught courses in poetry New York State Agricultural Commis- for Army service during national emer- and composition; is the author of Poetry sion, is a fellow of the AAAS, and mem- gency, thereby perpetuating a wartime and Dreams, The Voeύc Mind, Poetry ber of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu, Pi service record of the Hospital which and Myth, editor of Selections from Lambda Theta, Kappa Delta Phi, Phi dates back to 1776. Jonathan Swift, Critical Writings of Upsilon Omicron, Epsilon Sigma Phi. Doctors volunteering for service with E. A. Poe, Prose and Poetry of the An oil painting of Miss Rose by Pro- the unit numbered three times the com- missions available, and all places were Revolution, Introduction to American fessor Olaf Brauner has been given to the filled within two weeks. Prose, Introduction to American Poetry, College by the staff. She was guest of In requesting the organization, the Hamilton and Jefferson. honor at a dinner at which tributes were Surgeon General of the Army, Major- He and Mrs. Prescott will continue to expressed by President Day; Professor general James C. Magee, cited the fine live in Ithaca, at 2. Grove Place. Mary Henry, who becomes acting Di- PROFESSOR WELLS was to have retired record of the New York Hospital's over- rector of Home Economics when she in June 1939, but seas unit in the last war, which as Base leaves October 1; by Dr. Albert R. Mann was prevailed Hospital No. 9 was located at Chateau- '04, former Dean of the College of Agri- upon to continue -^ roux, France. The new unit of forty-two culture and Home Economics and Provost teaching this officers, 12.0 nurses, and 410 enlisted men of the University; Dean Carl E. Ladd year. He came to ** ' *" ^ will be assigned to one of thirty-two Ίz, Agriculture and Home Economics; Sibley College in ,Vγ . general hospitals in the United States v Dr. Cornelius Bet ten, PhD '06, Dean of 1904 as foreman under the War Department's "protective the Faculty; Claribel Nye '14, formerly of the machine mobilization plan." of the College Faculty now at University According to preliminary plan, the shop, the next ; :. year became su- VI of California; Mrs. Whiton Powell chief of the surgical service, with rank perintendent of -^4| (Jeannette A. Gardiner) '2.6, president of of lieutenant-colonel, will be Dr. William shops, was ap- : ^^W the Home Economics Alumnae Associa- DeW. Andrus, Surgery, with Dr. Ralph JULY, I940 473

F. Bowers, Clinical Surgery, as alternate. asserting that human values cannot be Lieutenant-colonel and chief of the med- NOW IN MY TIME! measured in kilowatts; that Truth is ical service will be Dr. Bruce Webster, ever Beauty; Beauty, Truth. While over Clinical Medicine. Dr. Thomas P. Ma- By Romeyn Berry in the University Bull Barn one is made gill, Bacteriology, will head the labora- to ίeel the essential dignity of all sci- tory service, with rank of major. This time of year we expect to hear entific investigation; becomes awed by over the telephone: "I'm down at the all the things that must be done—that SERVE ASSOCIATION Ithaca Hotel. I've two hours to kill be- Science is prepared to do—to increase Dean S. C. Hollister, Engineering, has fore the Black Diamond goes. I've never the butterfat content of Posterity's milk. been elected president of the International really seen the University. Don't you That is our basic, quick tour of the Association of Ithaca, which sponsors want to take a little time off and show Campus. It may be varied slightly to in- the Cosmopolitan Club. Edgar A. Whit- me Cornell?" clude some significant manifestation of ing '2.9, assistant director of Willard the season, or to gratify any peculiar That's like saying to the kidney spe- Straight Hall, is treasurer, and Donald curiosity of the visitor. During Summer cialist, "I'm sailing for Panama this C. Kerr Ί L, University Counsellor to School, for instance, we try to squeeze afternoon. Please cure my diabetes in Foreign Students, was reelected secre- out an extra five minutes for a brief stop time for me to catch the four o'clock tary. Directors are Professors William L. at the outdoor swimming pool where boat." Malcolm, PhD '37, Civil Engineering; Fall Creek slips through its narrow slot But for the hurried traveler who can Howard B. Meek, Hotel Administration; into Bee be Lake—the swimming pool give no more than two hours, your re- E. Franklin Phillips, Apiculture; George which interprets so nicely the words porter has adopted a uniform tour. We H. Sabine '03, Philosophy; George M. graved on Gold win Smith's stone bench: take him, in turn and with no inter- Sutton, PhD '32., Ornithology; and "Above All Nations Is Humanity." mediate waits, to Sage Chapel, the White Lyman P. Wilson, Law. Right now, with Europe on fire and the Library, and the University Bull Barn. islands of the sea fanned hourly by the From those three things a visitor who wings of Death, you'll find representa- NAME RICE HALL possesses eyes to see and a mind to under- Culmination of a four-day meeting on tives of all the warring nations mingling stand should be able to sense dimly the the Campus of the Poultry Science As- at the swimming pool with all the ap- peculiar essence of Cornell. sociation of America were exercises June parent intimacy of a passel of fish worms The quiet aisles and the tempered 2.9 at which the Poultry Building on in a bait can. light of the Chapel reiterate to the atom Tower Road was formally named Rice smasher and the gerund grinder, "What Hall in honor of Professor James E. Rice profiteth it a man to gain every academic TWO ATHLETES PITCH HAY '90, Poultry Husbandry, Emeritus. Speak- recognition in his chosen field, if he (R.B. in" State and Ύioga,'' Ithaca Jotirnaί) ers at the ceremony are pictured and skimps his students, cheats a little, and Two weeks ago we put a piece in the named at right below. loses his own self-respect?" In the White paper on the desirability of keeping a Professor Rice organized the Poultry Library one feels the Greek civilization downstairs bedroom for middle-aged Department here in 1903 and for thirty- and the Italian Renaissance constantly haymakers too exhausted to climb stairs one years as its head he fostered poultry science and practice, becoming a world figure. He helped to organize the Ameri- can Association here in 1908, is president of World Poultry Science Association, and was general chairman of the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, last year. Still an active poultryman, he lives at Mexico, N. Y., his three sons, Paul K. Rice '2.5, James E. Rice, Jr. '30, and John V. Rice '32. running the Rice Egg and Apple Farm near Trumansburg. His daughters are Mrs. William D. Mc- Millan (Ruth V. Rice) '2.3, Mrs. David A. Paddock (Alice V. Rice) '34, and Elizabeth J. Rice '36. A message from Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- lace praised Professor Rice as '' one reason why Cornell is a great institution." More than 300 delegates from thirty- five States, District of Columbia, and Canada included many of Professor Rice's former students. At a dinner in Willard Straight Hall, with Professor Bristow Adams as toastmaster, the Poultry Science Association award of $100 for outstanding research of the year was an- nounced for Jacob C. Bauernfeind '36, POULTRY BUILDING NAMED FOR PROFESSOR JAMES E. RICE '90 who is an assistant in Poultry Husbandry. Speakers at the dedication exercises were (left to right) Professor Gustave F. He received it for work on vitamins and Heuser '15, master of ceremonies; W. S. Mapes, president, New York State Poultry growth of chicks. William A. Maw, Improvement Association; L. W. Taylor, president, Poultry Science Association; Grad '2.2.-3, of MacDonald College, Olney B. Kent '13, former member of the Poultry Department now in Chicago, 111.; Canada, was elected secretary-treasurer J. W. Kinghorn of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; Professor Rice; President Ed- of the Association, and Professor Louis mund E. Day; Dr. Cornelius Betten, PhD '06, Dean of the University Faculty; and Pro- M. Hurd, Poultry Husbandry Extension, fessor Liberty Hyde Bailey, Agriculture, Emeritus, and the first Dean of the State was elected a director. College of Agriculture. Fenner photo 474 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

at the end of the day, in order to go to Assembly from 19x0-2.2. and of the bed. Mr. Walter O'Connell, Cornell Uni- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Senate from 192.3-16, was chairman of versity wrestling coach, who is now so- the Senate committee on public educa- FOUNDED 1899 journing at Camp Singing Cedars, Ver- tion. He received the honorary degree mont, thus confirms our opinion: 3 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N. Y. Doctor of Pedagogy at the New York "After reading your column I decided Published weekly during the University State College for Teachers in 192.7 and that if you could pitch and mow hay I year, monthly in July and August: the Doctor of Laws at Alfred University could, and I was quite sure I would not thirty-five issues annually. in 1930. One of his three sons is W. need a bed on the first floor. Our esteemed Sterling Cole, member of the House of and mutual friend, Larry Hill, has a farm Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Representatives from the Thirty-seventh Association under direction of a committee up here and being short of help and anx- composed of R. W. Sailor '07, Phillips Wyman Congressional District which includes ious to get his hay in, I volunteered and '17, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30. Officers of Ithaca. was eagerly accepted. As a result I the Association: Creed W. Fulton '09, 907 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C, presi- can't help wondering why you bother to dent; Emmet J. Murphy 'n, 3 East Ave., ARCHITECTS' DIRECTORS get to the house at all. I didn't bother; Ithaca, secretary; Archie C. Burnett '90, Cornellians contributed one of the I just lay down in the hay and slept 7 Water St., Boston, Mass., treasurer. largest delegations at the recent American there." Subscription: $4.00 a year in U. S. and possessions; Institute of Architects convention at ALUMNAE AT FAIR Canada, $4.βjJ Foreign, $4.50. Single copies fifteen Louisville, Ky. Clement R. Newkirk '07, Thursday, July 15, has been designated cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance and are of Boggs & Newkirk, Utica, was elected renewed annually unless cancelled. "Cornell Day" at the College and Uni- a director of the Institute for a three-year versity Women's Center, New York Editor-in-chief R. W. SAILOR '07 term to succeed R. H. Shreve '02. of World's Fair. Fanny G. Selden Ίo is Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, New York chairman of a Cornell Women's Club of Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 City, whose term expired. New York committee in charge. Cornell Contributors: women will act as hostesses that day at BERRY GETS AWARD the Center. An afternoon program and ROMEYN BERRY Ό4 L. C. BOOCHEVER ΊI The ALUMNI NEWS received first tea is planned for all Cornellians. W. J. WATERS '2.7 R. L. BLISS '30 award for "features" among all college Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. alumni publications for its column RECEIVE UNION DEGREES "Now, In My Time!" by Romeyn Berry Honorary degrees were awarded to '04, at the annual conference of the three Cornellians at the commencement IMPERSONATOR 'PHONY' American Alumni Council at French Lick exercises of Union College, Schenectady, Norman L. MacLeod Ίi writes us Springs, Ind., June 16-19. The judges June 10. from Pasadena, Cal., following our re- selected Berry's column of November 16, Dr. Hu Shih '14, Chinese Ambassador port June 13 of the fraudulent Cornellian 1939, which dealt with the Ostrander to the United States, received the degree who had been impersonating MacLeod elms on the Campus, and the one of of Doctor of Civil Law. Professor George in New York City. The card used by the January 18, 1940, in which he philoso- H. Sabine '03, Philosophy, who becomes impersonator, MacLeod writes, "gave phized on the irreverence of not preserv- dean of the Graduate School September 1, an address in the Pacific Mutual Building ing names of familiar places and things was awarded the degree of Doctor of in Los Angeles which has been occupied as they were known to earlier generations Literature. Dr. Harold W. Thompson, by the same physician since the building of Cornellians. who became professor of English July 1, was constructed about twenty years ago, Attending the conference from Cornell received the degree of Doctor of Humane and a telephone number showing an ex- were R. W. Sailor '07, editor of the NEWS Letters. change that does not exist in Los An- and of the Council; Emmet J. Murphy Dr. Hu, commencement speaker and geles." He concludes that the man "was '11, Alumni Secretary; and Walter C. honorary chancellor of Union College just as 'phony' as his card." Heasley, Jr. '30, executive secretary of this year, stressed the importance of the Alumni Fund. disciplined thinking. "You are living in HEADS STATE EDUCATION a time of soul-stirring and heart-rending Dr. Ernest E. Cole '95 took office NEW CHICAGO OFFICERS events, of wars that threaten to destroy July 1 as Commissioner of Education Cornell Club of Chicago, 111., at its the very foundation of your government and president of the University of the annual meeting June 13 elected M. Mead and civilization," he asserted, "and you State of New York. Elected by the board Montgomery '14, president for the year are swamped on all sides by powerful of regents for his "unequalled knowl- 1940-41. Vice-presidents are Thomas S. water-tight ideologies, subtle propa- ege" of educational problems, he be- McEwan Ίi and Richard H. Sampson ganda, and willful falsifications of his- came also, ex-officio, a member of the '31; secretary, John C. Trussell '18; tory. In this whirlwind kind of a world University Board of Trustees. He suc- treasurer, Richard D. Vanderwarker '33. you are expected to form your judg- ceeds Dr. Frank P. Graves who retired Towner K. Webster, Jr. '03, Frederick M. ments, make your decisions, cast your July 1 after nineteen years as Commis- Gillies Ί8, and Frederic C. Wood '14 votes, and play your part. The only way sioner of Education; will serve until he were elected to the board of governors. in which you may hope to maintain some reaches retirement age of seventy next Webster reported as trustee of the Club mental balance and poise and to be able year. Scholarship fund a balance on hand of to exercise some independent judgment Dr. Cole has been a member of the $1,785.71. Alfred H. Hutchinson '09, of your own," he concluded, "is to train State Education Department since 19x6 chairman of the Scholarship committee, your mind and master a technique of free when he became counsel to the Depart- reported that five Chicago Cornell Club reflective thinking." ment and the University of the State of Regional Scholarships would be awarded President Dixon Ryan Fox said of New York. In 192.8 he was appointed to undergraduates at the University next Professor Sabine, that he combined Deputy Commissioner of Education. year. "patient assiduity with brilliant analy- He received the LLB in 1895 and that Two new songs by Herman B. Seely sis," and is'' acknowledged as the leading year was admitted to the Bar, but was '76, "Hill-Throned Fair Cornell" and American historian of the political and principal of public schools in Green- "Cornell Marching Song," were sung for ethical concepts cherished by mankind wood, Painted Post, and Addison before the first time and were commended by from the ancient Greeks to our own he began the practice of law at Bath in the Club for adoption and publication by contemporaries.'' 1916. He was a member of the State the Alumni Association. JULY, 1940 475 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL ITHACA FAMILIES, including many "STATION WHCU" is the new desig- members of the Faculty, are volunteering SUMMER SESSION enrolment by July nation of the University radio station, to provide security for children of war- 15 had reached 1,946, with expectation the letters representing "Home of Cor- ring Europe. A Faculty committee that late registrations and a few more nell University." The call letters were headed by Professor John C. Adams '2.6, unit courses still to start would bring it changed July 5 from the former WESG. English, and Mrs. Adams, has had nearly to last year's total of 2,062. Cold, With Michael Hanna as its new manager generous response from members of the rainy weather has interfered somewhat and Sidney Ten Eyck as program di- Faculty offering homes and support for with swimming and other sports; made rector, the station became a member of children of the faculties of Oxford and Willard Straight Hall a more-than- the Columbia Broadcasting System July Cambridge for the duration of the war. usually popular rendezvous. A succes- 1; will be frequently on the air for na- A committee of citizens headed by Mrs. sion of meetings and conventions has tional hook-ups. N. C. Epstein is bringing here for the kept the Campus busy even before the summer a score of underprivileged Summer Session opened July 8. Second EIGHT STUDENTS from countries at youngsters from New York City, some course for student pilots with the CAA war who are "stranded" here financially of whom are refugees. opened June 15 and the yellow training and politically discussed their problems planes are seen above Ithaca every day. informally over a CBS hookup from Sta- UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES have again Week after Commencement about 1400 tion WHCU July 13. The eight are from acted upon the question of military boys and girls were here for the State Syria, Egypt, Poland, Ireland, South training. Their decision is that until 4-H Club Congress; Hotel Administra- Africa, China, India, and Bermuda. further notice, all Freshman and Sopho- tion unit courses started June 24, and more men will continue to be required to we have had Rose Day at the gardens DELTA GAMMA house at 603 East enroll in the basic courses of the ROTC. June 29, a three-day school for highway Seneca Street has been purchased by The Trustees have also authorized Presi- superintendents, with this week a field Ithaca College for a dormitory. Next dent Day to inquire from the War De- day for certified seed growers and a year the sorority will rent from the Uni- partment whether extension of the Uni- three-day conference on nutrition, be- versity the house at 3 Grove Place, built versity's present activities is desired in sides the regular Summer Session fifty-two years ago by Professor Brainard any respect to further the government's activities. G. Smith, Oratory, and recently oc- national defense program. cupied by the family of the late Professor partment of Physical Education and Ernest W. Rettger. The former Delta DORMITORY for Varsity teams the Athletics here is being administered by Gamma house was once the home of nights before important home games, and Robert J. Kane '34, Lynah's assistant. William H. Sage, younger son of Henry for visiting teams other times, is being He and Mrs. Lynah (Elizabeth E. Beck- W. Sage and himself a Trustee and bene- made on the top floor of Schoellkopf with) '03 were at their daughter's home factor of the University. Memorial Building. About the half the in Cody, Wyo., for the summer when he former gymnasium has been partitioned was called to assist in the nation's SOARING CONTEST at Elmira June off, and forty comfortable beds will be defense program. 2.9-July 13 had three pilots from the installed. Ithaca Glider Club, Professor Cyril W. CORNELL RIFLE TEAM at the Reserve Terry '2.6, Engineering; Loren V. Petry SUSPENSION BRIDGE over Fall Creek Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg has '42., son of Professor Loren C. Petry, gorge has been painted gray-green, won again this year, for the fourth time, Botany; and Douglas H. Robinson, son giving it a new and attractive appear- the championship of the camp. Forty of Professor Gustavus H. Robinson, Law. ance. Seen from the Stewart Avenue students who have completed the first bridge, the slender span blends with the year of advanced infantry training in the REPUBLICAN nomination as special foliage along the gorge. ROTC outshot teams from sixteen other County judge and surrogate will be colleges and military schools; will repre- sought in the fall primaries by Fitch H. DRAFTED by William S. Kήudsen, his sent the Second Corps Area in national Stephens '05 and Arthur G. Adams '06. former associate in General Motors Cor- competition. Stephens is a member of the Republican poration, James Lynah '05 stopped in State committee; Adams was district Ithaca July 11 to confer with President ALUMNI NEWS office manager, Mrs. attorney for twenty-four terms. George Day and H. Edward Babcock, chairman Ruth Russell (Ruth Garling) '31, was Monroe, Jr. Ί8 of Dryden has an- of the Board of Trustees, then went to married June 2.8 to Charles Hartwig of nounced his candidacy for the Repub- Washington as coordinator of specifica- New York City. They will live in Ithaca lican nomination as Member of Assembly. tions for the National Defense Com- and Mrs. Hartwig will continue her His father, the late George E. Monroe, mission. Before he accepted appointment duties with the NEWS. while serving as Tompkins County As- as University Director of Physical Edu- semblyman from 1901-05, sponsored the cation and Athletics in 1935, Lynah was SUMMER SESSION instructor, Profes- bill which located the State College of for fifteen years an executive with du~ sor Charles T. Loram of Yale Univer- Agriculture at Cornell. Pont, became director of purchases and sity, died suddenly in his room in North a member of the general staff of General Baker Hall the night of July 8, of a ITHACA ranks among "the best Amer- Motors, retired from business in 192.9. heart attack. He was Sterling professor ican cities" according to a survey re- He was quoted in Washington as saying of education at Yale and director of cently concluded by Professor Walfred he knew many of the members of the graduate studies in the department of A. Anderson, PhD '2.9, Rural Sociology. Defense Commission and that it would be race relations. The Summer Session The city is outstanding in its low infant "very stimulating" to work with "these course in comparative education he was death rate; in the percentage of high energetic men." It is expected that once to have given was cancelled. His course school graduates and of persons in he has established and standardized in the philosophy of education is being schools; in the high value of its parks, purchasing specifications, the work of taught by Dr. Isidore A. Kayfetz, a resi-( schools, libraries, and recreational facili- his office there will be carried on largely dent doctor in the Summer Session who ties; and in the number of its homes by subordinates. Meanwhile, the^De- is principal of a "public school in Queens. which have electricity and telephones. 476 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Institute of Electrical Engineers. He en- tered Sibley College from Norfolk (Va.) NECROLOGY Academy. Concerning '03 FE—ROLAND D. CRAIG, April 2.0, THE FACULTY '81—DR. ERNEST HENRY COLE, May UL, 1940, in Ottawa, Canada. He was a forest 1940. He entered the Science and Letters inspector for the Dominion of Canada PRESIDENT EDMUND E. DAY and Major- Course in 1878 from St. Louis (Mo.) for many years. In 1905, he made the general Charles R. Reynolds, Surgeon High School, and remained one year. first forest survey in Canada, on Turtle General of the US Army, retired, spoke Zeta Psi; rowing; track. and Moosehead Mountains in Manitoba. June 13 at the 170th Charter Day lunch- Since 1930, he had been chief of the divi- '90 AB—DR. THOMAS BRAY SPENCE, eon of the Society of The New York sion of forest economics, Dominion June xo, 1940, at his home, 541 Third. Hospital, commemorating the granting Forest Service, in Ottawa. He entered Street, Brooklyn. He received the MD of a charter to the Hospital by King Forestry in 1901 from Ontario Agricul- in 1893 at the College of Physicians and George III, June 13, 1771. The Hospital tural College, where he had received the Surgeons, Columbia University, served is the oldest in New York and second in BSA in 1898. Gamma Alpha. his internship at the Methodist Episcopal America. Hospital, Brooklyn, and had been a staff '06 ME—CRAIG ADAIR, May 15, 1940. member of that hospital for many years. For many years he had been president MYRON C. TAYLOR '94, University He was also a consulting surgeon to St. and sales engineer of Adair-Day Corp., Trustee and President Roosevelt's repre- John's Hospital. A major in the Medical Philadelphia, Pa., sales agents for steel, sentative at the Vatican, underwent a successful operation in Rome, Italy, June Corps during the War, he was chief of iron, brass, and aluminum castings, 2.6, for removal of gallstones. Mrs. surgery at the base hospital first at tanks, and plate work. He entered Sibley Taylor flew to Rome with an American Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., and later at College from Wilmington (Del.) Mili- surgeon; was reported planning to return Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Calif. He en- tary Academy in i9ox. Theta Delta Chi. with Taylor when he is able to travel. tered Arts in 1886 from Penn Yan (N. Y.) Son, Craig Adair, Jr. '41. Academy. Cornell Medical Society. Brother, Henry Spence '91. '07—ARTHUR THOMPSON LOWRY, March PROFESSOR CARL L. BECKER, History, 15, 1940, at his home in Port Washing- contributes to the summer issue of the '93 ME, '94 MME—WILLIAM LOUIS ton. From 1907 to 1913, he was with the Yale Review a discussion and historical GARRELS, June 9, 1940, at his home, American Car and Foundry Company in summary of the ideology of democracy, Mason and Manchester Roads, Route 13, Berwick, Pa., from 1913 to 1933 with the under the title, "Some Generalities that Kirkwood, Mo. Since graduation he had Keystone Lubricating Company in Phil- Still Glitter." He sets forth the philoso- been a consulting engineer. He entered adelphia and New York City, and since phies of various types of government Sibley College in 1891 from Washington J933 he had been associated with the through the centuries, and concludes University, St. Louis, Mo. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- that ' * The case for democracy is that it '95, '00 ME(EE)—FRANK WARREN pany. For a time he was president of the accepts the rational and humane values COOL, February 11, 1940, at his home, school board in Port Washington. He as ends, and proposes as the means of 708 Susquehanna Avenue, Pittston, Pa. entered Mechanical Engineering in 1902. realizing them the minimum of coercion He had been a coal operator for many from Wyoming Seminary. Daughter, and the maximum of voluntary as- years. He entered Sibley College in 1891 Ruth Lowry '38. sent. ..." from Wyoming Seminary. Delta Kappa '09 AB—GEORGE KEYWORTH SHEARER, PROFESSOR FORREST F. HILL, PhD '30, Epsilon; Theta Nu Epsilon; Masque; May ix, 1940. For seventeen years he had Agricultural Economics, contributes to a football; track. Brother, the late Willard been president of Shearer's Service Stores symposium on '' Agricultural Policy and C. Cool Ί6. in York, Pa., and then treasurer and a National Welfare" in Fortune for July. 'φ ME—CALVIN JONES, February 14, member of the board of directors of Writing on "Financing Farm Tenants," 1940. From 1899 to 1906 he was vice- People's Drug Store in Washington, D. C. he suggests in lieu of the present govern- president and treasurer of the Birming- During the War he served in the Army at ment program of "permanently sub- ham Arms Co., Birmingham, Ala., and Fort Jay. He entered Arts in 1906 from sidized interest rates" one of "(1) expert since has been manager of the Little Gettysburg (Pa.) High School. Sigma farm management supervision at govern- Cahaba Coal Co., Piper, Ala. He en- Chi; Sphinx Head; Alembic; Varsity ment expense, and (2.) loans at the same tered Sibley College from Virginia Mili- football. rate of interest that other farmers pay with perhaps direct subsidies to reduce tary Institute in 1893. Theta Nu Epsilon; '32. PhD—RAYMOND EARLE DOUGLAS, interest rates until the tenant builds up Southern Club. May 18, 1940. He had been teaching at a 15 or 30 per cent equity in his farm. . ." Όo CE—FRANCIS JESSE ENGEL, April Z9, Houghton (N. Y.) College since 19x4 and 1940, after an illness of three and one- at the time of his death was professor of PROFESSOR JAMES G. NEEDHAM, PhD half years, at his home, 2.467 Twenty- biology and chairman of the division of '98, Entomology, Emeritus, one of the sixth Avenue, North, Seattle, Wash. For sciences and mathematics. He entered world's outstanding authorities on drag- thirty-four years he had been with the the Graduate School from the University onflies, has made two discoveries during Great Northern Railway in Spokane, of Michigan in 1930. his visiting professorship in biology at Wash., as assistant engineer. He entered '39, '40 DVM—ADAM GEORGE RICHT- the University of Puerto Rico. One is a Sibley College from Maryville (Tenn.) SCHEID, June 18, from injuries received in parasite of the gall-making midge on a College Preparatory School in 1897. an automobile accident near Syracuse common weed-yerba de clavo, or prim- rose willow. The other is a larva of a Όo ME(EE) — ViRGiNius DANIEL June 16. He entered Agriculture from new dragonfly found by Dr. Needham in MOODY, May 30, 1940, at his home, 375 Edmeston High School in 1935, trans- the Dominican Republic. Park Avenue, New York City. In 1910 ferring to the Veterinary College the next year. Alpha Psi. he started his own business and incorpo- R. HAYWARD KENISTON, formerly pro- rated it in 1917 as the Moody Engineering '41—KEITH TURNBULL HOYT, June 16, fessor of Romance Languages and Litera- Co., with offices in New York and Pitts- in an automobile accident near Syracuse. tures and Dean of the Graduate School burgh. In recent years he was consulting He entered Agriculture in 1938 from here, joined the faculty of the Univer- engineer for many American and foreign Central Square High School. Father, sity of Michigan July 1 as chairman of firms. He was a fellow of the American Floyd E. Hoyt Ί8, the romance languages department. He JULY, I94O 477

has been at the University of Chicago Corps Area, United States Army. They since he resigned as Dean of the Graduate Concerning live at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. School in 19x5. He came to Cornell in '02. MD—Dr. James S. Greene, who 1914 from Harvard; served abroad during THE ALUMNI operates the National Hospital for Speech the First World War as a YMCA secre- Disorders, Irving Place and Eighteenth Personal items and newspaper clippings tary, speaker for the Italian Ministry of Street, New York City, has received the about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. Propaganda, and as military attache of fourth medal to be awarded by the Amer- the American Embassy in Rome; was ap- ican Laryngological, Rhinological, and pointed Dean of the Graduate School in '78 BME—J. McKee Borden lives at Otological Society in its forty-six years 1913. 2. Avenue Henry Russell, Villa Le Bon of existence. Announcement of the award Gite, Pau, France. He will celebrate his was made at the annual meeting of the DR. JOSEPH Q. ADAMS, PhD '06, for- eighty-second birthday July 2.5. merly professor of English here and now Society June 7. director of the Folger Shakespeare Li- '80—John C. Water bury of 6988 Owen '03 ME—John H. Van Deventer, brary in Washington, D. C, received the Avenue, Chicago, 111., has retired from president and editor of Iron Age, writes honorary degree Doctor of Letters at the active business. on "A Seventeen Billion Dollar Market recent commencement of Amherst Col- '86 BS in Arch; 'Z3, '2.4 ME—Mrs. and How to Tap It" in Industrial Mar- lege. He has also been elected a member Sidney A. Saunders (Jessie Cassidy) '86 keting for May. The article was taken of the American Philosophical Society of and her husband are resident heads of from a previous address at the Mid-West Philadelphia. The Pelican, a large beach house owned regional conference of the National In- by Rollins College. Mrs. Saunders cele- dustrial Advertisers' Association, in PROFESSOR E. LAURENCE PALMER ΊI, brated her eightieth birthday recently. Chicago, 111. Rural Education, writes on "Atlantic She was one of the five founders of the '06 ME—Walton Van Winkle lives and Gulf Coast Shells" in Nature Maga- Cornell chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. at the University-Sequoia Club, Fresno, zine for June, and on "The Shell Game, She is the mother of Ralph Saunders '2.3. Calif. His business address is Bank of It's Fun" in the July issue. This summer Her address is Box 61, Coronado Beach, America, Fresno. he is driving to the Pacific Northwest, Fla. '08 AB, Ίi MD—Dr. Harry G. Bull to return about September 1. '87 BL; '91—Charles W. Horr is presi- has recovered from an illness of a year dent of the First Wellington Bank of PROFUSS,OR RICHARD T. GORE, Univer- and a half and has resumed the practice sity Organist, married Adaline I. Heffel- Wellington, Ohio. He and Mrs. Horr of medicine at 817 East State Street, (Mabel H. Hebard) '91 live at 561 South finger of New York City, June 2.5, in St. Ithaca. Main Street, Wellington. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University. '09—Francis B. Hynes was recently Mrs. Gore is a graduate of Barnard, '96, '97 BS, '98 AM—"The Humming appointed chief engineer of Crocker- member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Mu. Bird's Last Visit," a poem by Emma Wheeler Electric Manufacturing Co., She trained at the New York School of Bowers of Ithaca, has been accepted for Ampere, N. J., and placed in charge of Social Work and has been a case worker the 1940 edition of the World's Fair all engineering and research activities. with the youth consultation service of Anthology of Verse. She has had previous Hynes became associated with the com- the Church Mission of Help, New York works published in the 1939 World's. pany in 1910. He is a member of the Na- City. Fair Anthology, American Voices, Christ- tional Electrical Manufacturers Associ- mas Lyrics, and Homespun. ation. COLONEL JESSE C. NICHOLLS USA, Ret., '97 Grad—Hamilton P. Cady, since from I92.I-X7 Commandant of the ROTC, Ίi AB—John H. Sherman, who has 1910 chairman of the department of has gained fame as a hybridizer of been president of the University of chemistry, University of Kansas (Law- peonies and iris. His iris "Red Valor" Tampa (Fla.) since 1937, has resigned to was judged best in a recent annual rence), has resigned because of ill health. accept the presidency of Webber College, competition of new irises in Rome, '98 AB—Charles R. Cameron may be Babson Park, Fla. He had previously Italy, open to growers from all parts of reached in care of the American Con- practiced law in Chicago, 111., and had the world. His "Crimson Tide" was sulate, Manila, Philippine Islands. been professor of economics at the Uni- runner-up. In 1938 his "Wildfire" was '99 ME—The press reported that Cor- versity of Wisconsin and the University accorded 'the admiration of the jury,' nell University was bequeathed $10,000, of Minnesota and dean of the school of and in 1939 his "Blue Diamond" re- income from which is to be loaned to business administration at Lake Forest ceived a first-class certificate. second-year students, in the will of S. College. Wiley Wakeman, vice-president of Beth- '12. BSA—Carl G. Wooster is 4-H DR. CLEMENT I. ANGSTROM, Veteri- lehem Steel Company in charge of ship leader in Red Creek. nary, married Ellen F. Adams June UL. building, who died May 8. '12. AB—Mrs. Sidney Greenbie (Mar- Mrs. Angstrom is a graduate of Elmira '00 AB—Samuel W. Reaves, dean of the jorie L. Bars tow) has written a new College; has been employed in the De- college of arts and sciences at University book, which will be published in August. partment of Agricultural Economics. of Oklahoma for fifteen years, has resigned It is a biography of Anna Ellis Carroll, HENRY T. SKINNER, propagator in the that office. He remains as professor of an important Civil War figure during the Department of Floriculture and Orna- mathematics. administration of Lincoln. Other books mental Horticulture the last ten years, '01 LLB—Colonel William A. Turn- of Mrs. Greenbie's include In Quest of became curator July 8 of the Morris bull married Josephine Nolen June 12. in Contentment, The Arts of Leisure, Gold Arboretum of the University of Pennsyl- San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Turnbull is a of Ophir, Be Your Age, and American vania at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Before he graduate of the University of Texas and Saga. came to Cornell he was for a time at the a member of Chi Omega. Colonel Turn- '13 CE—Marcel K. Sessler married Arnold Arboretum in Cambridge, Mass. bull is judge advocate of the Eighth Florence L. Leach, a graduate of the

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University of Michigan and formerly -'19—Don B. Kimball is superintendent '2.5; '95, '96 BS in Ag—One of the director of music at Colby Junior College, of paper mills for the Eastman Kodak many pranks of Hugh C. Troy, Jr. was New London, N. H., June 15. They will Company; lives in Rochester at 1988 recently portrayed in a cartoon "Private live at "Riverbridge Farm," Lyme, N. H. Clover Street. He has two sons, Don Lives," by Edwin Cox. The syndicated '14 ME—Philip J. Kent writes on "The Kimball, Jr., sixteen, and Morton C. comic drew a policeman grabbing by Automobile Headlamp Problem" in the Kimball, thirteen. the shoulder a man with a park bench. Journal of the Society of Automotive 'zo CE—Olive W. Dennis, the second The caption read:'' Anything for a laugh. Engineers, for June. He discusses engi- woman to graduate from the School of Prankish New York artist Hugh Troy neering, maintenance, and use of the Civil Engineering, is the subject of a was arrested carrying a bench from new polarizing screens. Kent is chief biographical sketch by Mrs. Charles M. Central Park. To an incredulous magis- electrical engineer with The Chrysler Bregg recently published in Pittsburgh, trate the famed practical joker presented Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Pa. Miss Dennis is engineer of service a receipt from a department store proving the bench to be his property." Troy is '15 MCE—Jacob O. Jones has been pro- with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. the son of Professor Hugh C. Troy '95, fessor of hydraulics at the University of The title was created for her, and she is Dairy Industry, Emeritus. Kansas at Lawrence since graduation, the only one to hold it. "After almost with the exception of one year when he heart-breaking attempts to find a position 'z6, '2.-/ BArch—Jonathan F. Butler was a civilian employee of the War De- in her chosen field," writes Mrs. Bregg, has opened offices for the practice of partment, and five years when he was "Miss Dennis entered the bridge en- architecture at 101 Park Avenue, New professor at the University of Minne- gineering department of the B. & O. York City. sota. In 1938 he was on the National and somewhat later it was decided she 'z6 AB—Frank Podboy of Philadel- Water Resources Board. He writes that had the necessary qualifications—being phia, Pa., has a son, Richard Podboy, the budget did not permit an extended a woman and an engineer—to make born June 4. suggestions for the comfort and conven- trip for Class Reunions, "nevertheless '2.7 BS—Mrs. Clarence S. Luitwieler ience of women railroad patrons. This the old thrill is there, yet, when 'Far (Sarah L. Holcomb) has a third daugh- she has been doing for twenty years and Above Cayuga's Waters' comes over the ter, Elizabeth Ann, born February zo, she stresses the fact that her position is air waves as it did just a short while 1940. Mrs. Luitwieler is the new presi- wholly an advisory one, that she has ago." His family consists of a wife and dent of the Cornell Women's Club of never done anything but suggest, report- three children, a girl and twin boys; Boston, Mass.; lives at Z7 Duncklee ing directly to the president. Suffice to lives at 1642. Mississippi Street, Law- Street, Newton Highlands, Mass. rence. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau say, however, many of her suggestions '17 ME; '2.7 BS—Arthur C. McHugh Beta Pi, Theta Tau, and American So- have become actualities." is with Gibbs & Hill, Inc., New York ciety of Civil Engineers. '2.1 BS, '2.5 PhD—Miles H. Cubbon is City. Mrs. McHugh is the former Ruth '15, Ί6 BS—Superintendent of Peacock in the Soil Conservation Service office, O'Connor '2.7. Point, Locust Valley, the estate of Mrs. Center Building, Upper Darby, Pa. His 'z8 BS; '31 AM—James A. Lacy and H. P. Davison, Harvey McChesney has home is at 911 Concord Avenue, Drexel Mrs. Lacy, AM '31, have a son, Norman previously been manager of the farm of Hill, Pa. Hutchins Lacy, born March 16. They live Thomas Newbold at Hyde Park and '2.1 BS; '88 AB—Agnes Fowler, daugh- at 6iz East Seneca Street, Ithaca. superintendent of the estate of the late ter of Charles S. Fowler '88, is house- 'z8 AB—Charles L. Macbeth has a son, Judge Elbert H. Gary at Jericho. He is manager at Hudson Shore Labor School, John Douglas Macbeth II, born May 2.6, president of the Nassau County Farm & West Park, N. Y. 1940. Home Bureau Association and of the 'zz—Robert F. Redding is auditor of Glen Cove Rotary Club. His two sons the central agency, Singer Sewing Ma- 'z8, '31 BS, '32. MF; '32. MS—Louis C. are Harvey McChesney, Jr. '39 and James chine Co., 16 South Oakland Avenue, Maisenhelder is junior forester with the S. McChesney. Pasadena, Cal. Subscribing to the ALUMNI U. S. Forest Service, Mississippi National NEWS, he writes that he has been on the Forests, Jackson, Miss. He writes: "My CCKIIIELL Coast the last five years. "Since joining work is in the field of timber manage- ment, preparing timber management — 1941 the Singer Co. in July, 19x4, I have spent six years in Rio de Janeiro and Pernam- plans, timber appraisals, etc. We are 2S YEAR REUNION buco, Brazil; several more in New York planting this year 15,000,000 trees." Mrs. P City, and the rest out here." He is inter- Maisenhelder is the former Grace Jack- Ί6 AB—John Moffitt is manager and ested in promoting a "Clear view" son '3Z. They have a three-year-old son, owner of the Connecticut Hard Rubber mirror for trucks which, installed on the George Edward Maisenhelder. Address: Co., 407 East Street, New Haven, Conn. roof, gives the driver uninterrupted view 218 Columbus Street, Jackson. '17 BChem; Ί8 AB; '40—Claude F. of everything behind. It is the invention '29 AB—Jerome K. Ohrbach married Tears has been appointed general super- of a cousin who is selling them in Calif- Gladys Otey June 4 in New York City. intendent of the new 15,000-barrel-a-day ornia and Nevada. Mrs. Ohrbach is a graduate of Ohio State oil refinery being built for the Wood '2.3—Charles B. Cooper is co-author of University. River Oil and Refining Company at Wood Hawaiian Holiday, published by Dodd '19—Harry J. Russell, of R. D. 1, River, 111. The refinery is being designed Mead, with Larry Barretto. Cooper is Ithaca, has a daughter, born June 2.1. and built by The Winkler-Koch Engineer- also a trustee of the Library of Hawaii. '30 AB—Seymour Pike married Eleanor ing Co. of Wichita, Kansas, with whom He is married and has a son, Alexander Rudder recently in New York City. Tears is now associated. He and Mrs. Charles Cooper. He is a realtor and stock '31 PhD—George Bancroft, son of Tears (Gwendolyn H. Jones) Ί8 and broker; lives at 79 Merchant Street, Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, Physical their sons, Claude F. Tears, Jr. '40 and Honolulu, Hawaii. Chemistry, Emeritus, has a son, Wilder Stuart R. Tears, will move from Wichita '2.4, '2.5 LLB—Elliott W. Gumaer is Dwight Bancroft II, born April 16, at to Alton, 111., about September 1. vice-president and associate trust officer Allison Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. , Ί8 ME—Phillip S. Hill is district of the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit '31 PhD; '19 AB—Arthur Carson was sales manager for the Harbor Plywood Co., 5 Main Street, West, Rochester. inaugurated president of Silliman Uni- Corp., Chicago, 111. He is married and 'x4, '2.5 ME—Sylvan R. Hirsch is chief versity at Dumaguete, Oriental Negros, has three sons; lives at 735 Eighth Street, engineer of the Brunner Manufacturing P. I., March 12.. Mrs. Carson is the Wilmette, 111. Co., Utica. former Edith Scott '19. JULY, 479

'31; '04 MD; '05 MD—-Mrs. Neil A. Harty (D. Marcia Cottis) '31 has a daughter, Norma Joyce Harty, born January xo, 1939. The baby's grand- parents are George W. Cottis '04 and Mrs. Cottis (Eliza A. Fancher) '05. Mrs. Harty1 and her husband operate a private hunting and fishing club in the Lauren- tian mountains of Western Quebec known as the Buckhom Hunting and Fishing Lodge. Their mailing address is 2.54 Pembroke Street, West, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. '31EE—William S. Bachman, engineer in the radio and television department of the General Electric Co., Bridgeport, Conn., received the Coffin Award given by the company for outstanding accom- plishments in 1939. '32. AB; '32. AB—John A. Feick and Mrs. Feick (I. Hildegard Schloh) '32. have a son, Jack Schloh Feick, born February 13, 1940. They live on RFD 2. Allendale, N. J. '33 ME; '31* AB; Όo ME(EE); '03 AB; A REGENTS ACADEMY AT ITHACA '95 LLB—John A. Hunter, Jr. and Mrs. Hunter (Virginia Banks) '31, of Pitts- Its aim to make students really ready for the work and conditions of college. burgh, Pa., have a son, John Alexander Its methods emphasize mental processes and habits of work. Hunter III, born June 11. The baby is well Its administration aims at giving self reliance and initiative. supplied with Cornellian grandparents. Its program makes possible important saving in time. His paternal grandparents are John A. Hunter Όo and Mrs. Hunter (Έuphemia FIRST SEMESTER BEGINS SEPT. 16 P. Engle) '03, and his maternal grand- father is S. Edwin Banks '95. We Invite Your Inquiries C. M. Doyle '02, Headmaster '33 AB—Frederick B. Randolph of 92.1 North Tenth Street, Manitowoc, Wise, received the MA degree at Western Re- 35 %—Everett W. Adams of Ithaca Andrew Jackson now being built for the serve University, June 12.. Randolph RD 2. has a daughter, Ardis, born April United States Lines. Her mural depicts recently appeared in "Nine Pine Street" τ.!.. Adams is the son of Professor Bristow export and import trade. Miss Briggs presented by the Western Reserve Uni- Adams, Agriculture Publications, and taught last year at Scripps College, Clare- versity Players. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of the late mont, Calif.; next year will teach art in '34 AB—Nathan Goldberg married Professor Frank L. Fairbanks '09, Rural Westridge School for Girls at Pasadena. Rita E. Levine, a graduate of Drexel Engineering. She has painted a series of murals for the Institute of Technology in the class of '35 LLB; '36 LLB—A daughter, Elise Ithaca High School depicting the history '38, last October 15. Goldberg is with Maria Martin, was born April 2.8 to of Ithaca. Abarry Iron & Steel Co., 1000 State Lauman Martin '35 and the former N. '37; '36 AB—William C. Eisenberg Street, Perth Amboy, N. J. Jane Smith '36. Martin is with LeBoeuf, and Mrs. Eisenberg (Alice Bailey) '36 '34 DVM—Dr. John W. Terry has a Machold & Lamb, lawyers, at 15 Broad are the parents of a daughter, Lucy son, John Melvin Terry, born March TI. Street, New York City. Eisenberg, born October i9, 1939. They in Auburn. '36 AB; '39 PhD—Margaret M. Gainey live on Jordan Street, Skaneateles. '35 MS—A pavilion for receiving dis- and Sedgwick E. Smith, PhD '39, re- '37 BS—April 13, Jane Wilson was tinguished visitors and a 2.00-foot monu- search instructor in Animal Nutrition, married to Darville Moore of Hamden. ment "dedicated to democracy" are were married in Ithaca, June 6. Helen E. Mrs. Moore teaches homemaking in the outstanding features of the winning Gainey '38 of Washington, D. C. was South Kartright Central School. They design for beautification of Battery Park maid of honor. live in Hamden. submitted by James W. Breed of Rich- '36 BS; '36 BChem, '40 PhD—Barbara '38, '39 BS; '41; Ίo CE—John S. mond, Va., in the 1940 LeBrun Traveling J. Wilson was married June 2.2. in Sage Niederhauser '38, assistant in Plant Scholarship competition of the New Chapel to William P. Bebbington, for- Pathology, and Elizabeth DeGolyer '41 York Chapter of the American Institute merly instructor in Experimental Engi- of Castile were married June 7 in Sage of Architects. The award is $1400, for neering. Helen Rowley '34 was maid of Chapel. They left for California, where not less than six months travel and study honor and Donald G. Swenson '37 was Niederhauser will attend a Telluride of architecture in a country to be desig- best man. They will live in Charleston, conference and will return to Ithaca to nated by the jury. Breed was cited "for W. Va., where Bebbington will work for live later in the summer. Mrs. Nieder- his unique design in which he retained du Pont. hauser is the daughter of Calvin S. De the spirit and character of the old park, f Golyer Ίo of Castile. keeping the Aquarium and taking advan- '37, '38 BFA; '09 AB, '13 PhD; ii AB tage of the waterfront to place his —Adelaide Briggs, daughter of Professor '38 LLB; Όo LLB—Edward Harris, Jr. monument on a breakwater offshore." Thomas R. Briggs '09, Chemistry, and married May 8 in New York City Breed was graduated at the University Mrs. Briggs (Frances O. Ingalls) Ίx, has Jacqueline Stirlin of St. Prex, Switzer- of Pennsylvania School of Architecture won a competition to paint an over- land. Mrs. Harris attended schools in in 1934. mantel mural in the corridor of the SS Switzerland and England. Harris is the 480 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

son of Edward Harris Όo. He is with the was married to Tsuin Shen of Soochow, New York City, he was transferred to the law firm of Harris, Beach, Folger, Bacon, China, March 2.9, in Ithaca. Shen is a Boston, Mass., reservations department. & Keating in Rochester. graduate student in the Department of He writes the NEWS: "I am insidiously '38 ME—David Benjamin is engaged to Pomology, and Mrs. Shen is in the planning an air route through Ithaca so Jane Valentine of New York City. They Department of Vegetable Crcps. They I can come back for Reunions more will be married next fall. Benjamin is live at 806 East Seneca Street, Ithaca. easily." His address is 2.33A Woodside with the New York City Housing '40; '15 LLB—Flying Cadet Andrew Avenue, Winthrop, Mass. Authority. Krieger '40 is with the Air Corps train- '40 AB—Jean L. Striebinger will '38 AB—Albert S. Brown, Jr., in the ing detachment, Parks Air College, East spend the summer in California and next marine department of Johnson & Hig- St. Louis, 111. He is the son of Andrew year will be in Washington, D. C. Her gins, average adjusters and insurance E. Krieger '15. home address is Stop 36, Northfield brokers, 63 Wall Street, New York City, '40 BS—Robert E. Lee is in research Road, Northfield, Ohio. has been taking courses with the Insur- at the New York Botanical Garden this '40 BS; '09, Ίo CE; '39 MS—Mildred J. ance Society of New York, Inc. and at summer, and next fall will return to Cor- Wells, daughter of Jesse W. Wells '09, the Marquand School of the Central nell to work for the PhD in Floriculture. was married in Sage Chapel June 8 to Branch YMCA, in preparation for the '40 DVM; '40 BS—Edwin Leonard and John C. Ludlum, MS '39, senior assistant New York State examination for quali- Margaret E. Catlin are married and live in Geology. They will spend the summer fication as licensed insurance broker. at Tupper Lake, where Leonard has in Pocatello, Idaho, where Ludlum will '39 AB; '38 BS—Jean T. Moran, daugh- started veterinary practice. do field work in geology. After Septem- ter of Reverend Hugh A. Moran, Presby- '40 BS—John L. Lewis, Jr. works for ber 15, their address will be 52.2. East terian student pastor, was awarded the the GLF Exchange, starting July 1. He State Street, Ithaca. Woods Chandler Prize for scholarship lives in Rockroyal. '40 DVM; '19 DVM—Paul Kahl is and excellence in organ playing at the '40 AB—George R. Malby starts work assisting Dr. Clarence P. Zepp '19 of annual Commencement concert of the August 1 for The Aluminum Co. of Miller Dog and Cat Hospital in New Yale School of Music June 5. She studied Canada, in Montreal. York City. He may be reached at 136 organ at Cornell under Professor Luther '40 BS; '40 AB—A. Carl Moser marries West Fifty-third Street, New York City. M. Noss, who is now head of the depart- Dayle B. Faris July 15. His home is at '40 AB—James T. Kaplan will study for ment of organ at Yale. Her sister, Pauline 134-2.7 Fifty-eighth Avenue, Flushing. the AM degree at Teacher's College, Moran '38, is a student at the Yale Columbia University. His home is at 45 '40 BS—Donald R. Nesbitt is with Divinity School. Sheldon Street, Waterbury, Conn. American Fruit Growers, Inc., Kendall, '39 PhD—Archibald G. Delmarsh, Jr. Fla., beginning July 1. '40 BS—Saul M. Katz will be a graduate writes from the University of Wyoming, assistant in the Department of Sociology '40 BS in AE—Edward M. Prince Laramie, Wyo.: "During this past year and Anthropology at Cornell. His ad- spent the first part of the summer at his I have been teaching here and have en- dress is 2.01 Oak Avenue, Ithaca. home, 2.2.15 Harcourt Drive, Cleveland, joyed the high altitude (7x00 ft.) and Ohio, and August 1 will start work with '40 AB; '17 AB—William A. L. Kauf- outdoor life very much." Delmarsh and the Ingersoll-Rand Co. in Buffalo. He mann, son of Allan L. Kaufmann '17, a friend established a new record the was injured June 10 in an automobile plans to enter the University of Michigan week-end of June 1 when they scaled the accident near Ithaca. law school in September. His address is Grand Teton, most formidable of the 1001 East Jefferson, #609, Detroit, Mich. '40 AB—Phyllis Rah] son is engaged to towering peaks of the Teton mountains '40 DVM; '94, '95 LLB; '06 DVM— Arthur R. Eakin; to be married in July. and considered by climbing experts to Car let on R. Kelsey, son of Thomas Kel- Her home is on Milltown Road, Brewster. be the most difficult mountain to ascend sey '94, will work as veterinary assistant on this continent. The 14,000 foot climb '40 BS—Fred E. Riley is "raising big- to Dr. John V. Hills '06, 75 South Chapel was made earlier in the season than has ger and better cows for Blossom Hill Street, Gowanda. ever been attempted before. In thirteen Farm (Lebanon, N. J.) . . ." April 2.6 '40 BS in AE—Sigmund A. Kriegsman, hours, going up, Delmarsh lost twenty he married Ruth C. Crietz of Lebanon. Jr. has a position with Coca-Cola Bottling pounds. The descent was made in five '40 DVM; '2.6 DVM—Bernard W. Co., Redding, Calif. hours. Rosen, starting July 1, is in Far Rocka- '40 AB—Nicholas S. LaCorte, winner '39 BS—Dawn Rochow, who began way with Dr. J. Elliot Crawford 'z6. His of the '86 Memorial Prize, will attend the flying six months ago, has received a address is 2.95 Wat jean Court, Far Rock- Law School. His home is at 458 Union pilot's license from the Civil Aeronautics away. Avenue, Elizabeth, N.J. Authority. She is the first woman at '40 BS; Ίi BSA—Beverly Schwartz is '40 EE—Jonathan W. Lester is at Cornell to learn to fly in the government- with Hot Shoppes, a chain of restau- work for the Ohio Public Service Co. in sponsored classes. rants, in Washington, D. C. She lives in Massillon, Ohio, where he lives at 318 '39 CE—Dudley A. Saunders is pile Trumansburg, and is the daughter of North Avenue, N. E. and concrete inspector with Madigan- Lewis H. Schwartz Ίi. '40 BS; '40 BS—Elizabeth Lewis is Hyland, engineers, on the new belt park- '40 DVM—Herbert Shear started work engaged to Wilson S. Mitchell, Jr. She way in Long Island. Mail reaches him at with the Federal Bureau of Animal has a position as dietitian at Lochland 39 Wensley Drive, Great Neck. Industry in July. His address is 2.06-19 School, Geneva. Mitchell is manager '39 BArch—Theodore Hoffman is an Thirty-ninth Avenue, Bay side. of Valmount Farm, Oak Hill Road, architectural draftsman with Holabird '40 BS; Ίx BSA, '13 MSA; '12. AB; '39 Esperance. & Root, 333 North Michigan Avenue, BS; fii, '13 BSA—Anne P. Strahan, '40 BS—Frieda Mann will be with the Chicago, 111.; is at present working on daughter of James L. Strahan '12. and the University Department of Buildings and the new Technological Institute for late Bessie L. Edwards Ίx, is engaged to Grounds until October 1. Her home is at Northwestern University. George A. Kuchler '39, who is the son 403 Elm wood Avenue, Ithaca. '39 AB; '09, Ίo CE—George F. Unger, of George W. Kuchler '12.. '40 AB; '13 ME—Janet A. Mudge, Jr., son of George F. Unger '09, is at- '40 AB—Robert W. Storandt, recent daughter of Sterling W. Mudge '13, will tending Pratt Institute in New York editor of the Sun, received his degree at enter the Yale School of Nursing in City. the end of the first term. After a month September. Her home is at 11 The '40 Grad; '40 Grad—Miss Pei-Lan Kao in the American Airlines sales school in Place, Glen Cove. 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