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Ball's careers which he has pursued for nearly 50 years," the Rochester Times Union observed editorially. "To him can be credited more than one man's normal portion in shaping its present day form, substance and standards of excellence ... The presidents, faculty and fellow trus tees found him a tower of strength dur LaRoy Thompson, Treas. Under Mr. Thompson's leadership, the amount of sponsored research at the ing a great depression, a great war, and University doubled, rising from nearly a great inflation. The future, however, $3 million in 1949 to nearly $6 million whatever it may bring, holds fewer per this year. ils because of Mr. Ball's dedicated serv ice." He is a trustee and former chairman of the board of Associated Universities, His successor as Chairman of the Inc., an association of nine universities Board will be elected probably at the which operates Brookhaven National September meeting. Laboratory under contract with the At its annual meeting, the Board of Atomic Energy Commission, and the Trustees elected three new members, and National Radio Astronomy Observatory named three others as Honorary T rus . now being built at Green Bank, W. Va., tees after many years of faithful service. under contract with the National Sci Elected new Trustees were Kenneth B. ence Foundation. Keating, United States Senator from A native of Tilton, N.H., and a New York, who was graduated with graduate of Cornell School of Chemical Phi Beta Kappa honors from the Uni Engineering in 1943, Mr. Thompson versity in 1919 at the age of 19; Elmer OUNG (38) AND ABLE LaRoy B. was on the staffs of the University of B. Milliman, also of the class of 1919, Y Thompson, Associate Treasurer of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory and president of the Central Trust Company, the University since 1957, is the new the University of California's Los Ala and William S. Vaughn, vice president Vice President and Treasurer of the mos Laboratory, under the Manhattan and general manager of the Eastman University as successor to Raymond L. Project, during the years 1944-46. Kodak Company. Thompson (no relation), who retired Mr. Thompson is a director of the Named as Honorary Trustees were M. on June 30 after serving the institution Rochester Hospital Service Corporation Herbert Eisenhart, who was Chairman for 32 years. and of Rochester General Hospital. of the UR Board from 1945 to 1952, For the past two years, LaRoy Charles F. Hutchison, '98, Secretary of Thompson has worked directly with the Board since 1947, and Ernest A. Raymond Thompson in directing the Board Chairman Retires Paviour, '10, who was general co-chair University's financial policy. The an man of the University's Development OR ALMOST HALF of his entire exis nual budget for operating the educa Fund Campaign in 1953. F tence, Raymond N. Ball has been as tional, research and related programs is Samuel S. Stratton, '37, a member of sociated with the University of Rochester well over $22 million, and the physical the House of Representatives, who in as student, administrative officer, and assets are estimated at over $52 million. May was elected an alumni member of member of its Board of Trustees. A For this big task, LaRoy Thompson the Board for a six-year term, was in graduate of the University in 1941, he ducted into the Board at the annual brings to the University a well-rounded first joined its staff in 1919 as Alumni background of experience. He first meeting. Mr. Stratton is a member of Secretary, became Comptroller in 1923, Congress from the Schenectady district came to Rochester in 1946 as engineer then Vice President and Treasurer. and business manager of the 130-inch and a former Mayor of Schenectady. He resigned from the latter position Cyclotron Laboratory, going to Cornell in 1929 to become president of the Lin University in 1948 as engineer and re Hinman at Hull search assistant in the Physics Depart coln Alliance Bank and Trust Company, and has been a University Trustee ever ment. The next year he returned to The R. ROBERT B. HINMAN, a member University of Rochester as Coord'inator since. D of the University's English facul of Sponsored Research. He was named At the annual meeting of the Board ty for the past 11 years, will go to the Director of Research Administration in on June 5, Mr. Ball resigned as Chair University of Hull, England, for the 1954, and continued in that important man of the University's Board, but con 1959-60 academic year as R. T. French position until last January, when he was tinues as a Trustee. Professor of English at the British uni succeeded by David A. McBride, Jr. 'The University has been one of Mr. versity, under an exchange professor- VOL. XX, e'7.e~• 0.6 oe A GUST Published by The University of Rochester for the Alumni Federation in cooperation with the Publications Committ 1959 Florence Alexander Schoenegge, '24E; Marian McManus Spencer, '30, '31N; Dr. Roger Terry, '44M Editorial Office, University of Rochester, River Campus Station, Rochester 20, N. Y. Entered as second class mane 2 ship between the University of Roch Medicine since 1953, since 1955 as as a former Metropolitan singer, is giving ester and Hull. sistant professor of physiology. He is a up her Eastman School post because of With his wife and two of his three graduate of Rutgers University in 1945 her husband's health. He is Edwin children, Dr. Hinman will sail for Eng and received his M.D. degree at New Hinkle, a WVET announcer. They will land about September 1. The exchange York University College of Medicine in make their home in Phoenix, Ariz., program, financed by the R. T. French 1948. where Miss Antoine will be on the Company of Rochester and its associate Dr. Knapp, who holds three degrees voice faculty of the University of Ari in England, Reckitt and Colman, Ltd., from the UR, and received his Doctor zona. was established in 1953 and is believed of Education degree at Harvard in June, Dr. Wolf, a leading figure in optics to be a unique cooperative undertaking' also has an appointment as Assistant research, will direct research which will between industrial firms and univers Professor of Education, part-time. He is broaden the University's work in optics ities. Visits from Hull to Rochester take a specialist in the field of measurement through a small research group of post place in alternate years. During the past and statistics. graduate students and optics scientists academic year, Prof. Raymond 1. Brett, Miss Kaskos, a former Metropolitan which will examine the behavior of professor of English at the University Opera singer, is a contralto who sang light waves and radio waves. The work of Hull, was R. T. French Professor of leading roles at the Metropolitan and will be basic, but what is learned may English at the UR. was a featured concert soloist. She has prove of great value in providing a been professor of voice at the Univer better understanding of the worlds ew Faculty Appointments sity of Florida, and before that was on around us. For the past eight years he the staff of the University of Indiana. has worked with Dr. Max Born, winner IVE MAJOR NEW appointments on Miss Antoine, whom she replaces, also of the 1954 Nobel Prize in physics. Fthe faculty have been announced. They are: Dr. Alastair J. Gillies of New Ha UR Launches Research for Orbiting Observatory ven, Conn., as Professor of Anesthes iology and Chairman of the Division The University has been of Anesthesiology, and Dr. Julius J. awarded some $500,000 Cohen of the University of Cincinnati in research contracts College of Medicine, as Associate Pro for the design and construction of an fessor of Physiology at the Medical orbiting observatory. Center; Dr. Thomas R. Knapp, '52, Director of the Division for Group Research is '57G, as Director of the Testing and Dr. Harold Stewart, Counseling Service, as successor to Dr. (left), seen here with Joseph W. Cole, now Dean of Students James E. Milligan, (center), head of the on the River Campus; Miss Anna Kas Stellar Structu1'e Section kos, teacher of voice at the Eastman of the National Aeronautics and Space chool of Music, to replace Miss J0 Administration, and sephine Antoine, who joined the faculty Dr. Kenneth Teagarden, in 1957, and Dr. Emil Wolf, of Man (right), Assistant chester, England, as Visiting Associate Professor of Optics. Professor for two years in the Institute of Optics. A r- AMBITIOUS PROJECT to design throughout the University. Although Dr. Gillies, son of Dr. John Gillies, fl. and build an orbiting observatory the major work on the space satellite one of the foremost teachers of anes which will form the "heart" of an will be done in the optics field, a large thesiology in Great Britain, has been earth satellite has been undertaken by a contribution, the basic study of outer with Dr. Nicholas M. Greene at the new research division recently estab space to determine the conditions to be Yale University School of Medicine lished by the Institute of Optics. met by the high-flying optical equip since 1955, as assistant professor of an The basic component will be a rota ment, will come from the Department esthesiology and associate director of ting telescope designed to observe the of Physics and Astronomy. The division the department of anesthesia in the universe from 500 miles above the earth, also includes scientists in engineering, Grace-New Haven Community Hos eliminating the interference for view biology, and the Medical School.

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