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VOL. XLIV, NO. 1.6 ITHACA, NEW YORK, APRIL 16, 1942. PRICE, 15 CENTS VETERINARIANS SUPPLY WAR SERVICES By Raymond F. Howes '24 Wartime needs of the armed forces and stantly expanding its use of horses. essential civilian services have created Our series on Cornell and World War Experience of the Russian army which is an acute shortage of veterinarians. This II continues with this description of thought to be using 1,000,000, the Ger- situation, officially recognized by the some of the war contributions of the mans who have approximately the same US Government, has resulted in Selective State Veterinary College. Previous arti- number in action, and the Japanese who Service headquarters recommending to cles of the series have dealt with the are known to have at least 500,000, has local boards the deferment of veterinary Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineer- demonstrated that horses, instead of students. It has also played a part in the ing, the ROTC, and the Medical College. being replaced by motorized cavalry and creation of the National Procurement and In succeeding issues, we shall publish artillery, have become necessary com- Assignment Service for Physicians, Den- similar stories and pictures of the other plements. In modern warfare, horses are tists, and Veterinarians, which has re- Colleges and services of the University. frequently rushed to the front in trucks sponsibility of placing available doctors and employed to cover terrain where in positions where they can be most use- forests or other obstacles make penetra- ful during the emergency. Dean William subject to immediate induction are asked tion by machines impossible. A. Hagan, MS '17, of the State Veterinary to volunteer through the Procurement College at Cornell is one of five members and Assignment Service for employment Protect Food Supply of the national advisory committee repre- with one of the cooperating agencies: the More important than the care of horses, senting veterinary medicine, and Dr. US Navy Hospital Corps, US Public however, is the service of veterinarians Raymond R. Birch '12. is the veterinarian Health Service, US Bureau of Animal in the Army and Navy as food inspectors. member of the committee for the Second Industry, the Federal Extension Service Approximately two-thirds of those on Corps Area which includes New York, and State extension services, the US De- military duty perform this function. They New Jersey, and Delaware. partment of Agriculture Marketing Serv- are charged with the inspection of all ice, Federal agricultural experiment sta- food of animal origin, such as meat, Students Approve Speed-up tions, the War Department—or for recom- milk, and eggs, which is to be consumed To do its part in meeting the need, the mendation as to how and where they by the armed forces. Specifications for Veterinary College has adopted a com- may be most useful in meeting "the these foods are set by the Quartermaster pulsory three-term, year-around acceler- over-all health needs of the nation" by Corps, but the Veterinary Corps has the ated program of instruction, which cuts augmenting "the personnel of civilian responsibility of making certain that the the length of the course from four to two institutions." specifications are met. During the recent and two-thirds calendar years. The Col- One of the reasons for the acute maneuvers in Louisiana, for example, the lege will graduate 12.0 men in the next shortage of veterinarians, according to Veterinary Corps inspected all the dairy two years instead of the eighty who Dean Hagan, is that the Army is con- farms which sold milk to the Army, would graduate refusing to accept under the former deliveries from un- schedule. This pro- sanitary producers. gram was adopted It also inspected after approval by all shipments of an overwhelming eggs and meat vote of the stu- products for qual- dents, who ex- ity and wholesome- pressed their wil- ness. Large quanti- lingness to make ties of meat were all the necessary condemned when sacrifices in order refrigeration in to be prepared for railroad cars was professional duty discovered to be at the earliest pos- unsatisfactory. sible moment. Members of the On graduation, Federal Meat In- men subject to in- spection Service duction under the and. private practi- Selective Service tioners in many Act are assigned areas are also in to the Veterinary demand to protect Corps of the Army civilian food sup- unless detailed to plies and prevent some other duty on sabotage. Dean recommendation of Dr. Seth D. Johnson '29 of the Veterinary College Faculty demon- Hagan, in a recent the Procurement strates acriflavine treatment for bovine mastitis. This is a new and address, pointed and Assignment promising method of relieving this infection, which seriously affects out that a very Service. Those not milk production. Fenner small amount of 342- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

the virus of any one of several Oriental entertained by Marie C. Call '41 and moved to Lafayette. Next fall's team diseases, if injected into a few cattle in seven other Cornellians discussing the will be his sixth. In 1940 his team won the Omaha or Chicago stockyards, might University. Mrs. Irving J. Call (Thelma nine successive games. Last season La- spread disease in a few weeks throughout Keitel) 'xy, president of the Club, intro- fayette defeated Muhlenberg, Gettys- the Middle West, where cattle are sent to duced the speakers. Chairman of the burg, Rutgers, Western Maryland, and be fattened, l^f not immediately diagnosed committee for the tea was Mrs. La Verne Lehigh and lost to Virginia, NYU, the and checked, such diseases might destroy F. Kruger (Marian Etzold) '36. US Naval Academy, and Brown. a large part of the nation's meat supply. The only sure defense is to have com- WEATHER HINDERS SPORTS petent veterinarians on the alert in all Adverse weather caused postponement meat-producing areas. About of Cornell's first Eastern Intercollegiate Three members of the Veterinary Col- ATHLETICS Baseball League game, with Yale at lege Faculty—Drs. Clement I. Angstrom, New Haven last Saturday, and forced Fred D. Maurer, and William S. Monlux the tennis and lacrosse teams, engaging —have already been given leaves for the US Military Academy at West Point, service in the Veterinary Corps of the SCORES OF THE TEAMS to play indoors. Army, and others may be called to active Both teams lost: in tennis, 6-3, and in Tennis lacrosse, 18-0. duty later. The College has been assured, US Military Academy 6, Cornell 3 however, that protection of the quality Only singles winner in tennis was of its instruction and research will be Lacrosse Leon C. Sunstein, Jr. '43. He defeated given careful consideration by the US Military Academy 18, Cornell o Tucker, 6-4, 6-2.. In doubles, Captain Government. Rugby Jerome I. Lieberthal '41 and William J. New York Rugby Club 10, Cor- Shaughnessy '42. defeated Buchanan and Research Doubly Important nell o Canella, 11-9, 11-10, and James B. Din- Few changes have been made in the re- neen '44 and Gordon B. Blatz '43 won search program, because control of de- from Orr and Philpott, 14-11, 6-4. The structive diseases that reduce food pro- ADD LAFAYETTE GAME matches were played on the concrete duction gains special importance in The football team will play nine games floor of the hockey rink. wartime. Little work is now being done next fall, with addition of Lafayette to The Varsity lacrosse team, led by Cap- on bovine tuberculosis, once a serious the schedule. Robert J. Kane '34, Acting tain Gordon H. Hines '42. of Timonium, menace to the nation's cattle, because Director of Physical Education and Md., never had a chande against the research during the last twenty-five years, Athletics, announced the game will be bigger, more experienced Cadets. The at Cornell and elsewhere, has decreased played September 2.6. It will provide four game was played in the Academy's new the incidence of the disease to four-tenths home games and will be Cornell's first field house. of one per cent. But research is going nine-game football season since 1917. forward on Bang's disease, which causes The baseball team opened its League The complete schedule for 1942.: loss of calves and of milk production; season with Columbia in New York City various parasites of animals which sap Sept. 2.6 Lafayette at Ithaca Monday. The postponed game with Yale their vitality and impair their health; Oct. 3 Colgate at Ithaca will be played as part of a double-header poultry diseases which decrease the sup- 10 US Military Academy at West on Hoy Field May 2.. ply of meat and eggs; and bovine mastitis, Point FENCING CHAMPION which strikes directly at milk produc- 17 Penn State at Ithaca tion. Improvement in treatment of Grace V. Acel '44 of Tarrytown, com- 14 Syracuse at Syracuse mastitis has been especially rapid in peting in the fourteenth annual Women's recent years, and much of the credit is 31 Columbia at New York Intercollegiate Fencing Association tour- given by veterinarians to the research at Nov. 7 Yale at New Haven nament at Hunter College, New York Cornell directed by Professor Denny H. 14 Dartmouth at Ithaca City, last week end, successfully defended the individual title she won last year as Udall Όi. Dr. Udall was awarded the 2.6 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia International Veterinary Congress Prize a William and Mary freshman. two years ago for his work on this The game with Lafayette resumes foot- Miss Acel, the daughter of Ervin Acel disease. ball relations which began in 1888, the of the New York Athletic Club, a mem- second year of Cornell football, and con- In research, as in active military serv- ber of the 1918 Olympic ferieing team tinued intermittently until 1919. Of the ice, cooperation with the Government, and of seven national championship saber twelve games played, Cornell won six and training of students, the State Vet- teams, won twenty-six of twenty-nine and there was one tie. The record: erinary College is doing its full share in bouts and helped Cornell tie with Hof- the nation's program to win the war. 1888—Cornell o Lafayette 16 stra »for second place in the team race, 1889—Cornell 2.4 Lafayette o decided on a won and lost basis in a ten- CLUBS ENTERTAIN GIRLS 1891—Cornell 30 Lafayette o college round robin. New Jersey State Cornell Women's Clubs of Middletown 1894—Cornell 2.4 Lafayette o was first with eight victories and one and Batavia gave teas during the spring 1895—Cornell o Lafayette 6 defeat—inflicted by Cornell. Cornell and recess to which they invited girls inter- 1897—Cornell 4 Lafayette 4 Hofstra won seven and lost two, and ested in attending the University and 1898—Cornell 47 Lafayette o Hunter was fourth with six victories undergraduate women who were at home. 1899—Cornell 5 Lafayette 6 and three defeats. At the home of Ella A. Holmes '98 in 1900—Cornell o Lafayette 17 On points scored, however, Cornell Middletown April i, Marian B. Conkling i9cα—Cornell 2.3 Lafayette o topped the field with 57, New Jersey '43 told the sixteen persons present of 1913—Cornell 10 Lafayette 3 State had 55, Hofstra 43, and Hunter 56. Campus activities and life at the Univer- 1919—Cornell 2. Lafayette ιτ Olive T. Wissel '44 of Rosedale was sity. Color pictures were shown. Chair- Coach at Lafayette, Edward E. (Hooks) judged as having the best fencing form. man for the afternoon was Fannie H. Mylin, succeeded Carl Snavely as coach The third Cornell team memberyMarion Dudley '15, president of the Club. at Bucknell when Snavely moved in 1934 E. Keller '43 of San Francisco, Calif., April 4 at the YWCA in Batavia, forty to the University of North Carolina. helped Miss Acel to the title by defeating alumnae and prospective Freshmen were After three years at Bucknell, Mylin two other outstanding contenders. Miss APRIL l6, 1942. 343

Keller won eighteen matches, lost FOUR WIN GRANTS lege, will conduct studies of the psychol- eleven; and Miss Wissell won fifteen and An alumna, a member of the English ogy of color vision. lost fourteen. Department, and two former instructors In the seventeen years since the Founda- at the University have received fellow- tion was established and endowed by the ODDS AND ENDS ships for creative work this year from the late US Senator Simon Guggenheim and Cornell has accepted an invitation to John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun- Mrs. Guggenheim as a memorial to their row, against Harvard, Syracuse, MIT, dation. These fellowships, usually of son, 12.10 fellowships have been granted Dartmouth^ and Boston University in $2.500 a year, are granted annually to re- with stipends totalling $^,488,000. Its the Rόwe Cup regatta on the Charles search workers, scholars, artists, and purpose is described as'' to search for and River, Cambridge, Mass., April 2.5. others who by their previous work have assist the development of future leader- An unofficial rugby team lost to the shown themselves to be persons of un- ship in fields which dignify, ennoble, and New York Rugby Club, lo-o, at Astoria usual ability. They are open to men and delight mankind." This year the Founda- Park, New York City, last Saturday. women of the United States, Canada, tion has notified its fellows that if they Cornell's outstanding players were Fred- and certain Latin American countries. are required for any national service in a erick A. Schaefer III '42. of Honojulu, This year, more than 1500 applications manner and of a kind such that their Hawaii, Carlos Caro *4x of Buenos Aires, were received, and eighty-two fellow- fellowship stipends would contribute to Argentina, and Captain John E. Laird, ships were awarded. the war effort, they may use the funds Jr. '42. of Scobeyville, N. J. Mrs. Edwin Mims, Jr. (Helen Sullivan) while doing the work which the govern- Another regatta has been arranged for '2.6 of Bronxville has received a continua- ment wants them to do. the 15o-pound crew.The lightweight oars- tion of her Guggenheim Fellowship of men will meet Columbia and Pennsyl- last year, for studies of the history of the OMAHA ELECTS vania on the Harlem River, New York democratic tradition of Spain. After she Cornell Club of Omaha, Nebr., has City, May 9, one week before their received the AB in 192.6, she returned for elected Edward T. Schimmel 'x7, presi- already-scheduled Henley regatta on study in the Graduate School with Pro- dent for this year. Secretary-treasurer is Carnegie Lake at Princeton. fessor Carl Becker, and received the AM J. Laurence Cooke '34. The Club meets in 1918. Her husband is the son of Pro- for luncheon the second Tuesday of each fessor Edwin Mims, PhD Όo, head of the month at the Blackstone Hotel, of which SPRING DAY APRIL 25 English department at Vanderbilt Uni- Schimmel is managing director. March Spring Day this year will be April 2.5 versity. luncheon was a joint meeting with not a University holiday as usual, but Dr. Craig R. Thompson, instructor in Dartmouth alumni, with motion pic- with a carnival on upper Alumni Field English since 1937, has a grant to pre- tures of last fall's Dartmouth football Saturday afternoon and a number of fra- pare an edition of Erasmus's Colloquia game. ternities planning houseparties for that Familiaria. He received the AB at COVER PICTURE week end. Theme of the carnival, ac- Dickinson College in 1933, the AM in Cover picture shows Louis C. Bufalino cording to the undergraduate committee, 1935 and the PhD in 1937 at Princeton; *4i set for a bunt in practice on Hoy is "North Woods Physical Fitness." It has published The Translations of Field. Catcher is Chandler Burpee, Jr. will be carried out with a wood-chopping Lucian by Erasmus and Sir Thomas '44, whose father, Chandler Burpee '17, contest and a footrace between students More, and contributed to several scho- played behind home plate for four years. and horses, in addition to the more larly journals. Batter up is First Baseman Louis J. familiar Spring Day carnival features. Two who were instructors here from Daukas '44, one of the team's best Chairman of the committee is Will D. 1930-33 have also received fellowships. hitters. Templeton '$L of Niagara Falls. Dr. Harold F. Cherniss, Classics, now Coach Mose Quinn has a Varsity squad Festivities will start Friday, April X4, associate professor of Greek at Johns of seventy out for practice this spring, with the annual spring concert of the Hopkins University, will prepare a sec- and more than 100 Freshman baseball men's and women's Glee Clubs, with ond volume of a work on Aristotle's candidates. Snowstorm last week forced Eric Dudley and Mrs. Dudley directing Criticism of Plato and the Academy. Dr. practice into Bacon Hall and caused can- and T. Nelson Magill '39 as guest soloist. Robert B. MacLeod, Psychology, now cellation of the first League game sched- That evening, too, the Dramatic Club associate professor at Swarthmore Col- uled with Yale at New Haven April n. will give a repeat performance of its orig- inal musical comedy, "Headin' for Havana," by Maurice H. Dell '42. and Charlotte S. Kornit '43, in the Willard Straight Theater. Navy Ball for the benefit of the ROTC Band will start in Barton Hall at n, with music by the bands of Glen Gray and Will Bradley. Athletic events of the week end will include a baseball game with Princeton Saturday afternoon, tennis matches with Miami University Friday and with Penn State Saturday, and Varsity and Fresh- man lacrosse games with Hobart Satur- day afternoon. Saturday night, the Dramatic Club re- peats "Headin' for Havana," and many fraternities will hold dances.

ALPHA PHI won the women's basket- ball championship for the second year, VARSITY CREW GOES DOWN THE INLET and a new silver cup, by defeating a Coach Harrison Sanford gives instruction in early practice as the shell heads for the Prudence Risley team, open waters of Cayuga Lake. Fenner 344 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

as 1934, when the YWCA was incorpor- BOOKS ated in the central organization. Now NOW, INΛίYTIME! the CURW represents men and women of By Cornellians every denomination on the Campus, in- . By Romeyn Berry eluding Christian Scientists, Friends, and Mormons. STORY OF THE CURW The Lackawanna has stopped running The process had been slow, but the Cooperative Religion at Cornell Uni- passenger trains to Owego. That's the final achievement, for that very reason, is versity. By Richard H. Edwards, former one that zigzagged up South Hill to the solidly based. The story of the CURW Director, CURW. The Cornell Coopera- Coddington Road. If you missed the offers further proof, if any is needed, that tive Society. Ithaca. $1.00. train at the depot you could catch it at such achievements of the democratic the Second Switch. How a pioneer non-sectarian Univer- process are worth the cost.—R. F. H. '2.4. sity, widely condemned as "Godless" A dozen years ago, the Lehigh Valley seventy years ago, has worked out its tore up its tracks south of East Ithaca on problems of religious education so suc- the E. C. and N. Nothing more than a cessfully that other universities now LETTERS shuttle service with Cortland is now look to it for leadership is a theme of Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good maintained up there to bring in coal and taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any building materials destined for East Hill; special significance today. Fortunately, side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The as the late President Livingston Farrand ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- to take out the Cornell football team writes in the Introduction, the account ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility when it goes to Hanover or Cambridge. of the Cornell program ' * comes from the beyond that of fostering interest in the University Some prejudiced and sentimental alum- pen of the man chiefly responsible for the ni will bitterly resent these changes. conception and its development. It was ANOTHER PAYS! What we shall miss most is the whistles. Mr. Edwards' broad grasp of and in- To THE EDITOR: It is true that from the farm where your sistence on fundamental truths and his The personal news items in the COR- reporter has lived for the last six years wise and tolerant handling of earnest and NELL ALUMNI NEWS always cause me to he couldn't hear any whistles at all on sometimes militant differences of opinion smile. Judging from personal experience, the Lackawanna, and only an occasional that finally brought about the successful they herald payment, at long last, of an- one on the Lehigh Valley. But that cooperation of the varied groups em- other year's subscription. Out of these makes no difference. A man who has braced by the United Religious Work. notices I can almost hear the sigh of lived his student days in Ithaca can hear It is the first example in my experience relief of the collection staff: "There's train whistles even when they don't exist. in an American university where Protes- one more we won't worry about until Once in a while on a still summer eve- tant and Catholic, Christian and Jew, and next time." ning at our farm, we can faintly hear the other religionists have been brought to- The year rolls around and the state- night freight on the Auburn division gether toward a common end. It is a very ment from the NEWS is likely to come at across the Lake moaning for King Ferry, cheering demonstration in these days of income tax time or after a disastrous Lake Ridge, Ludlowville; and that's international tension and misunderstand- night at poker or bridge—or just a bad enough to start going all the old train ing." night. So the offending reminder with whistles that haven't blown for years Seven of the nine chapters deal pri- its big, bold, black four-dollar sign is and years and years. marily with the present organization of shoved out of sight. Then again comes There are moments at Ithaca (you CURW, its properties, its constituent the polite plea and reminder, and each might as well face the facts) when one groups, its joint activities, its finances, time the four-dollar type grows bigger feels walled in by the encircling hills, and its relationships with organizations and bolder. trapped in a hole. This is peculiarly true off the Campus. These chapters describe Therefore, I refuse to have you adver- of homesick Freshmen and lovesick Soph- the breadth and strength of the CURW's tise your success in collecting from me. omores. On such occasions, you recall, influence with such completeness that I don't want you to notify my other in- the Chimes in the Clock Tower were no even those most closely identified with numerable creditors where I hang out and help; it was the train whistles that sub- the work will discover new facts on page may be found occasionally. Nor do I wish consciously assured you that any time after page. to reveal the fact that it takes more you could not stand it any longer it was From the beginning, as President courage to stay in my business these days quite possible to get out of here on short Charles Kendall Adams said in 1889, the than it does to face the Japs. notice and in any one of six different Christian Association had to depend The only satisfaction that I get out of directions. primarily on its own initiative. "It may life is the thought that I may yet be of There was the early morning whistle well be believed that in the early days some use to the U. S. A. This comforting to Aurora. You had to wake up before day- of the University the infant association thought comes out of something I heard light to hear that one, and a great many met with some discouragements. But no the other day, more or less authorita- did. The Heustis Street crowd never ailments or discouragements were able to tively, as to what they propose to do needed an alarm clock. They could arise impair its vigor or retard its growth. It with us who are to register in the grand- to the call of the Cannon Ball (the one seemed from the very first^o^raw ir- daddy draft on April 2.7. They propose that dragged in the New York sleeper) resistible strength from the atmosphere to take the gold out of our teeth, the blowing for the Second Switch; go to bed of freedom which has always surrounded silver from our hair, the tin from our to the groans and struggles of the night this University." ears, the lead from the seat of our pants, train laboring up past the Wheelman's Organized in 1869, by 1904 the Chris- and then throw us in the river. We will Rest and whistling for the Aurora Street tian Association was still a separate be beyond worry over rubber and sugar crossing at 10:10 p. m. You remember, men's group, although women students rationing and no cuffs on our trousers. of course, the blast at Willow Creek from had for a time taken part in its activities. Therefore, if the enclosed check doesn't the Lehigh's morning train that brought Not until 1919 did the Protestant bounce back, you may continue to send in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle; churches supply regularly appointed stu- me the NEWS until further "notice" be- the deep-throated bay of the Black dent pastors to share the work of the comes necessary.—ARTHUR S. COTINS Ίi Diamond tearing down the grade from CUCA; and formal affiliation of Jews the Danby peaks and warning the farmers We got permission to publish this, in lieu and Catholics took place ten years later. of a news item.—ED. to clear all those blind crossings along The women came back to the fold as late the Inlet Valley. APRIL l6, 1942. 345

Ithaca train whistles are not so widely ALUMNI FUND REPORTS tures, and charts show the number of celebrated in bad verse as are the bells. As Class Committees Start Cornell contributors in comparison with That was because all Sophomore poets those of Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and took at least one crack at the Cornell Starting the spring campaign for the Wellesley; the importance of the Alumni Chimes when their glands overcame University's Alumni Fund, the thirty- Fund in proportion to other University them, and "whistles" is a non-poetic first annual report of the Fund, for the income; and the standing of the Fund word that frightened off the youthful year 1940-41, was being mailed this week since 1930 both in amount and number of bards. But the train whistles worked in to some 50,000 Cornellians throughout contributors. under the skin more than most of us the United States. Faithful solicitation of Classmates by realize, and I dare say that scores of The forty-eight-page booklet includes members of Class committees is credited Cornell men and women in the flat the names of the 7,2.2.0 Cornellians who by President Goodwillie for the largest States still hear the Lackawanna coming gave a total of $ι 11,901.94 in unrestricted Alumni Fund and greatest number of con- down the hill from the Coddington Road gifts last year to meet current University tributors last year in more than ten years. every time the whistle blows on the Big expenses. These names are arranged by This year, many additional Class com- Four or the Chicago, Burlington & Classes, with for each Class the name and mittees have been organized of both men Quincy. address of the men's and women's Fund and women, with each member assigned If you are s,till fortunate enough to representative. Class charts show the specific Classmates to solicit for a suc- hear whistles in the hills, treasure your percentage of living members who gave cessful 1941-41 Alumni Fund which gift, for they won't blow any more in to the Fund, the number of members and closes June 30. Danby, Caroline, and Newfield. of donors, and the amount given. Just ahead of the annual report, some The booklet contains a message from 1300 Class committee members are re- CORNELL IN NEW YORK President Edmund E. Day and one from ceiving from the Alumni Fund office a Edward E. Goodwillie Ίo, president of leaflet of pertinent suggestions for the Cornell University was taken to New the Alumni Fund Council. Walter C. spring campaign. These are in the form York City early in April for the benefit Heasley, Jr. '30, executive secretary, de- of "Do's" and "Don'ts" for committee- of some 2.00 prospective Freshmen from scribes the functions of the Alumni Fund men, and the leaflet also contains a cam- the secondary schools of the Metropoli- office. "Cornell's Place in the War" is paign calendar. With it comes an order tan area. summarized in seven pages, with pic- card for supplies. About eighty-five schoolgirls and twenty alumnae attended a party given by the Cornell Women's Club of New MANY GIVE BLOOD TO RED CROSS York at the Barbizon Hotel April 4. Professor Blanchard L. Rideout, PhD '36, Arts and Sciences adviser, spoke on Cor- nell, and his talk was supplemented from the undergraduate women's point of view by M. Elizabeth Beach '41 and Winona W. Chambers '42.. Ray S. Ashbery '2.5, Alumni Field Secretary, showed motion pictures of the University, and these and Dr. Eugene B. Bradford, Director of Admissions, answered questions. Mrs. Roger M. Woolley (Virginia Van Vran- ken) '2.5, chairman of the Club's second- ary schools committee, presided at the meeting. Two days later, no boys who had been invited through their school principals and headmasters in New York City and suburban communities on Long Island, in Connecticut, Westchester County, and New Jersey were guests at the Cornell Club of New York. The three Ithaca visitors stayed over from the women's meeting and were joined by Director William A. Lewis, Electrical Engineer- ing; Professor Bristow Adams, Agricul- ture Publications; and Professor Howard For five days last week, a mobile blood donor unit of the American Red Cross from B. Meek, Hotel Administration. The Rochester set up in Willard Straight Hall, taking blood from student and Faculty boys had opportunity to talk with each volunteers for use of the Army and Navy. Above, Dr. Herbert Brown takes blood from of these according to their special College James M. Goodwillie '41, who is the son of Edward E. Goodwillie Ίo, president of the Alumni Fund Council. On the other cot waiting his turn is Norman B. Bassett '45, interests, and they:were shown Campus motion pictures and addressed by Charles son of Robert S. Bassett Ί6 of Buffalo. Next in line is Foster M. Coffin Ίz, Director H. Blair '97, past president of the Club, of Willard Straight Hall who recently became a grandfather. An undergraduate committee headed by Raymond Jenkins '41, president of the and by Professors Adams, Lewis, and Student Council, enlisted the community to give blood. For ten days, members of the Rideout, and Ashbery. Arrangements for Willard Straight Hall hostess committee and of WSGA registered volunteers, and they the party were in charge of David T. signed up 713 persons, with 88 more in reserve, for a quota set at 6x5. These young Wells '04, acting manager of the Cornell women also assisted in scheduling appointments, and served cigarettes and refresh- Club. Chairman of the secondary schools ments to the "patients" after the doctors had finished with them. Chairman of the committee is George R. Pfann '2.4. mobile blood donor unit committee in Rochester is Charles H. Schaaff, zd 'zy. Fenner 346 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

GORE IN ROCHESTER CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Cornell Club of Rochester is cooperat- FOUNDED 1899 ing with the Rochester chapter of the COMING EVENTS American Guild of Organists to sponsor Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed 3 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N. Y. separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell Published weekly during the University a recital by Professor Richard T. Gore, events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. year, monthly in July and August: University Organist, April 19 at 4 p. m. Contributions to this column must be received on or before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. thirty-five issues annually. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Roches- ter. Last year, a similar recital by Pro- Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni fessor Gore was greatly enjoyed by the SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Association under direction of a committee Ithaca: Baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Field, 2.130 composed of R. W. Sailor '07, Phillips Wyman community. Dramatic Club presents "Thunder Rock," '17, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30. Officers of Speaker at a meeting of the Club April by Robert Ardrey, Willard Straight the Association: Creed W. Fulton '09, 907 Theater, 8:15 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C., presi- 15 was Professor Ralph S. Hosmer, Forestry, who described "The Cornell State College, Pa.: Lacrosse, Penn State dent; Emmet J. Murphy '11, 3 East Ave., Annapolis, Md.: Tennis, US Naval Academy Ithaca, secretary; Archie C. Burnett '90, Arboretum." 7 Water St., Boston, Mass., treasurer. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.2, Ithaca: Golf, Syracuse, University course, 4:15 Subscriptions: $4 a year in U. S. and possessions; Hamilton: Varsity & Freshman baseball, Col- foreign, $4.50. Life subscription, $75. Single copies, MISS WERNER RESIGNS Cecilia Werner, social director of Wil- gate i/ cents. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless Memphis, Tenn.: Cornell social hour during cancelled. lard Straight Hall the last three years, American Chemical Society convention, Editor-in-chief R. W. SAILOR '07 last week announced her resignation the Room 2.09 Peabody Hotel, 4-6 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 end of this term. She will become dean FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Assistant Editor NAN W. BRUFF '09 of women at the Milwaukee (Wis.) Ithaca: Tennis, Miami, Cascadilla Courts, 4:15 Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 State Teachers' College. Spring concert, men's and women's Glee Assistant H. L. HOAG '40 Clubs, Bailey Hall, 8:15 Miss Werner came to Cornell the fall Dramatic Club presents "Headin' for Contributors: of 1939 from Teachers' College, Columbia Havana," by Maurice H. Dell '42. and ROMEYN BERRY '04 L. C. BOOCHEVER Ίx University, where she had received the Charlotte S. Kornit '43, Willard Straight R. F. HOWES f24 W. J. WATERS '17 MA in 1935 and was director of social Theater, 8:30 R. L. BLISS '30 Navy Ball, Barton Hall, n relations. She received the AB at Law- Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relay Games Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. rence College, Appleton, Wis., in 1931, SATURDAY, APRIL 15 and was head resident of a dormitory and Ithaca: Spring Day Freshman & Varsity lacrosse, Hobart, SUMMER COURSES LISTED assistant to the dean of women there. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alumni Field, 2.30 The University has published a sched- Tennis, Penn State, Cascadilla Courts, 1:30 Kappa Alpha Theta, and Mortar Board, ule of classes for the four Summer Ses- Baseball, Princeton, Hoy Field, 1:30 serving as adviser to the Cornell chapter. sions of i94i and for the summer term Spring Day Carnival, Alumni Field, 4:30 As social director of Willard Straight Dramatic Club presents 'Ήeadin' for in Engineering which begins June i. Hall she has been in large part responsi- Havana," by Maurice H. Dell '42. and Course times and instructors are listed Charlotte S. Kornit '43, Willard Straight ble for recent development of the Hall's for the first five-week Summer Session, Theater, 8:30 many activities, now run by twenty-one May 2.5 to June 17; the six-week Summer Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relay Games student committees comprising more Syracuse: Freshman baseball, Syracuse Session June 19 to August 8; the eleven- than 400 men and women. Cambridge, Mass.: Rowe cup regatta with week Summer Session June 2.9 to Sep- Harvard, Syracuse, MIT, Dartmouth, tember IT.-, and the second five-week Boston, Charles River Summer Session August 10 to September TUESDAY, APRIL 2.8 ix. Only courses in Chemistry, Military Ithaca: Freshman & Varsity baseball, Colgate, Hoy Field, 4:15 Science and Tactics, Physical Training, New York City: Class of '17 "Reunion Pre- and Physics are listed for the summer view" dinner, Cornell Club term June i to September 12.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 The schedule is obtainable from Pro- Ithaca: Freshman baseball, Manlius, Hoy fessor Loren C. Petry, Director of Sum- Field, 4:15 Syracuse: Baseball, Syracuse mer Sessions. Manlius: Freshman tennis, Manlius THURSDAY, APRIL 30 ALUMNI MEET DEBATERS Syracuse: Tennis, Syracuse Professor Wilbur E. Oilman '2.3 of the FRIDAY, MAY i speech department at University of Mis- Miss WERNER GREETS A SOLDIER GUEST Ithaca: Cornell Day souri invited to his home March 31 a Cecilia Werner (center), social director Golf League matches, University course, 4:15 ROTC Horse Show, Riding Hall, 8 number of Columbia Cornellians and of Willard Straight Hall, at the party others to meet the two Senior debaters, arranged by the Interfraternity Council SATURDAY, MAY 2. April ii for xoo soldiers from Pine Camp. Ithaca?Cornell Day James B. Tucker and Lawrence A. Knox, Freshman lacrosse, Syracuse, Alumni Field, who competed with a Missouri debate At right is Paul W. Leighton '42., chair- 1:30 team during a spring recess trip. man of the Hall's board of managers. Baseball, Yale, two games, Hoy Field, 1:30 Among the University of Missouri Miss Werner leaves in June to become Lacrosse, RPI, Alumni Field, -L .^Q Varsity tennis, Buffalo, Cascadilla Courts, faculty members and other guests were dean of women at Milwaukee State 2 : - 3° Professor Jesse E. Wrench '05, Patterson Teachers' College. Photo by Wail '42 Freshman tennis, Penn State, 2.:3o Bain, Jr. Ίo, Mildred G. Spicer, PhD '41, Golf League matches, University course, 4:15 Vedder M. Gilbert, AM '38, Eugene M. ROTC Horse Show, Riding Hall, 8 DELEGATES at a model Assembly of Annapolis, Md.: Rowing, US Naval Academy Baroody, PhD '40, Merl P. Moon Ί8, the League of Nations at Bryn Mawr Princeton, N. J.: Track meet, Princeton Lee S. Hultzen Ί8 and" Mrs. Hultzen were William E. Leuchtenberg '43, State College, Pa.: Freshman baseball, State (Betty Stout) '35, and Mrs. Edward H. Arthur D. Wiser '43, Howard J. Samuely College Weatherly (Anne Ferring), AM '34. '45, and William A. Williams '45. They Freshman track meet, Penn State Tucker and Knox met other Cornel- represented India. Wiser was chairman MONDAY, MAY 4 Detroit, Mich.: Cornell Club dinner to honor lians also at Iowa State College where of a commission on economic reconstruc- James W. Parker Ό8, president, ASME, they debated April i, and at Washington tion after the war which recommended Engineering Society Building University, St.. Louis, Mo., the next day. establishing a "world bank." APRIL l6, 1942. 347 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL ARMY TRUCKS brought 190 enlisted MEETING was called April 7 by Wil- men and ten officers from Pine Camp FRATERNITY COALITIONS voted liam E. Leuchtenburg '43 of forty Campus late Saturday afternoon for an overnight themselves out of existence for all time, organizations to form a Students' War stay at the University. The men were the Sun reported Monday morning, and Council, with the purpose of " coordinat- guests at fraternity houses and were en- Sunday evening the Interfraternity Coun- ing" all undergraduate war activities. tertained Saturday night in Willard cil amended its by-laws to provide Twenty-three organizations sent dele- Straight Hall, with a variety show and drastic penalties for houses "attempt- gates, and the Student Council at its next dance at which undergraduate women ing in any election to establish contacts meeting "adopted" the War Council and were hostesses. Officers had their own with other organized groups for the made it a committee of the Student dance at the Delta Upsilon house. The purpose of exchanging votes for mutual Council, with Richard G. Hirsch '44 as week before, the women arranged a tea advantage or for purposes deemed foul chairman. For its first job, the committee in Willard Straight, where they received play by the judiciary committee . . ." It organized a campaign to sell War Savings tips on Army etiquette from Mrs. Walter also provided for disqualification and Stamps and Bonds. E. Hopper, Jr. (Jeannette Ross) '37, recall of persons elected by such "unfair whose husband is detailed to the ROTC practices," and recommended similar SIX MEN were elected to the Willard here. Clayton S. Rockmore '43, chairman penalties in other elections than its own. Straight Hall board of managers for next of the committee for the Army week end, In April, 1939, the Sun first exposed the year. Twelve candidates were nominated left this week for active duty with the coalitions which are said to have con- by the present board, largely from those Marine Corps. trolled all Campus elections for several who had worked on student committees years. A "Trans-gorge" group com- of the Hall. All male members of the ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY of India pub- prised twenty-two houses, and a so- Hall were entitled to vote, and 10x5 did lished in a recent issue a description of called "Campus" coalition had twenty- so in the two days of balloting. To serve Cornell and student life here by Lalita E. six. one-year terms, the voters elected Barber Kumarappa '39. She lives now in Bom- B. Conable, Jr. '43 of Warsaw, George bay, where her father is professor of Geller, Jr. '43 of Harrison, Theodore B. social economy at Bisculla Graduate Farwell will discuss "The Relationship Hankoff '43 of Miami Beach, Fla., and School of Social Work. of Drama, Music, and Dance in the Con- Kurt R. Stransky '44 of New York City. temporary Scene." An exhibition of Members of the Sophomore Class elected FUERTES PRIZES in public speaking paintings has been arranged, and Sunday to serve for two years are Charles W. were won by Harvey E. Schock, Jr. '41 afternoon recital in Willard Straight Hall Pressler '44 of Lakewood, Ohio, and of Philadelphia, Pa., first prize of $80 will be of contemporary music. William W. Ward of Haddon Heights, for his address on '' Spot Welding Rather N.J. Than Riveting;" second of $40 by SAMUEL S. McCLURE '42., who has INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL presi- George B. Marchev '43 of La Grange, left the University to train as an Army 111., his subject "Radial Versus In-line Air Corps pilot, passed the mental ex- dent, the only nominee after the Council Aircraft Engines;" and third prize of $10 aminations within two points of the had changed its by-laws to abolish coali- by Albert J. Mangones '41 of Port-au- highest grade made by any applicant tions, is Julius L. Hoyt '43 of Walton. Prince, Haiti, who spoke on "Architec- here, the Army examining board has He was secretary-treasurer this year. ture in the Present Situation." Seven reported. Vice-president of the Council and chair- speakers were selected in preliminary man of the now-all-important judiciary SIXTEENTH INSTITUTE for Parent- committee is William D. Stewart, Jr. '43 competition by a committee of Faculty Teacher Leaders was held at the Col- judges. The contest, open to Juniors and of Edge wood, Pa. Edward D. Eddy '44 lege of Home Economics April 13-16. of Ithaca is secretary-treasurer. Seniors in Engineering and Architecture, State officers and members of the Faculty was endowed by the late Charles H. addressed the conference. LECTURES this week include the Mes- Baker '86 in memory of Professor senger lectures by Dr. Herbert M. Evans, Estevan Fuertes. JUNIOR CLASS of women has elected director of the Institute of Experimental Marian B. Conkling of Middletown, its Biology, University of California, April HOBBY SHOW in a glass case in the president. 13 and 15; Halvdan Koht, former profes- Willard Straight Hall lobby is attracting sor of history at the University of Oslo considerable attention. Last week it was VICE-PRESIDENT of Ithaca Rotary and Norway Secretary of Foreign Affairs, hobbies of students, including ship Club for 194^-43 is Professor Andrew L. The Basis and Development of National models, boomerangs, leather and other Winsor, PhD '2.9, Rural Education. Consciousness," on the Goldwin Smith handiwork. This week, the Faculty is Professor Benton S. Monroe '96, English, foundation, April 14; and George N. represented with a variety of their has been re-elected archivist, and Earl Shuster, president of Hunter College, collections. E. Atkinson, for many years a printer in "Dynamic Democracy," in the CURW Ithaca, begins his twenty-first consecu- Campus Forum, April 15. SYMPOSIUM on the arts has been ar- tive term as secretary of Rotary. ranged by the Dance Club April 18, with SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER April 19 delegates invited from nine up-State col- DEBATERS Lawrence Grannis and James is the Rev. Edwin M. Poteat, of Euclid leges. Doris Humphrey and Charles Kessler of Stanford University, on tour, Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio. Weidman with their group will give a met G. Truett Bunch '43 and Julian A. dance recital that evening. In the morn- Sobel '43 of the Cornell Debate Club in PRACTICE for Hotel Ezra Cornell in ing in the Old Armory, Weidman will Willard Straight Memorial Room April Willard Straight Hall May 9 will be ob- give a master dance lesson, and groups 9. The visitors argued the affirmative of tained by the student board of directors from visiting colleges will present orig- the question: "Resolved, that the de- when they go to Rochester April 2.3 to inal dances. After luncheon, John Martin, mocracies of the world should form a operate the Hotel Seneca for that day. dance critic of The New York Times, federation to implement the principles In mid-March, ten student directors ac- Professor Alex M. Drummond, Director of the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic companied Professor Howard B. Meek to of the University Theater, and Arthur Charter." No decision was announced. the Mid-west Hotel Show in Chicago, 111. 348 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

melodic material." Thomson continues, "Harris's work is not strange at all, it is Concerning only so because of its rather unprofes- Concerning sional surface tension. Inside it is as THE FACULTY familiar and welcome as something that THE ALUMNI oft was felt (and deeply) but never said Personal items and newspaper clippings before." about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited FRANK E. GANNETT '98, University Trustee, told members of the Republican Club of Southern Florida, March 31, '92. ME—Major HENRY C. NELSON has that the United States should create a NECROLOGY returned to Pine Grove, Falls Village, government department "to develop Conn., after spending the winter in Los domination of the air not only to win Angeles, Cal. He expects to return to his this war but to meet air competition '99 AM—VIRGINIA WALTON ALEX- Fifty-year Reunion in May. after the war. . . . This will be a long ANDER, March Ί.J, 1942., in Washington, '94 ME; '95—JAMES B. MITCHELL is a war. Boys now fourteen and fifteen years D. C. She received the AB at Vassar in brigadier general, US Army, retired. He old will be piloting our air forces. To-day 1889. She taught for many years in the and Mrs. Mitchell (MABEL STEBBINS) '95 we should be training not a few thous- Western High School, Washington, spent spent the winter at Hobe Sound, Fla. ands but millions. Every boy must be the summers with her family in Ithaca Mrs. Mitchell is the sister of ETHEL given an opportunity to learn to fly if and did graduate work in Summer STEBBINS'95. this country is to play a major part in Sessions of the University. She retired '95 ME(EE)—ELLIS L. PHILLIPS was the future. We must fly or perish." about three years ago. Sisters, Elizabeth recently awarded the honorary LLB at Alexander, Sp '03, the late Mrs. Mabel Southern College, Lakeland, Fla. TESTIMONY of Trustee Mary H. Don- Alexander Needham, Sp '97, the late Όi AB; '44—HELEN J. COUCH, daugh- long '2.0 before the ways and means Katherine Alexander '04; brother, Du- ter of HARVEY J. COUCH Όi, is a Sopho- committee of the House of Representa- rand C. Alexander Όi. more in Agriculture and is on the staff tives March 2.5 opposing mandatory joint of The Cornell Countryman. income tax returns of husband and wife Ό6—JAMES HARRY COSTELLO, March, was the subject of editorials in The New 1941, in Allentown, Pa. He was assistant '06 AB—ALICE J. DUBREUIL teaches at York Times March 2.6 and The New superintendent of the Bethlehem Steel Central High School, Washington, D. C. York Herald Tribune April z. Miss Co., Bethlehem, Pa., for many years. She is a writer of verse and her published Donlon appeared on behalf of the Na- For the last fifteen years, he was superin- works from I907-I94X number eighty- tional Federation of Business and Pro- tendent of the Lackawanna plant. He five. fessional Women's Clubs, was examined was a tackle on the Varsity football '09 AB—CHARLES PREVIN is head of by the committee for nearly two hours, team and was captain in his Senior year. the music department at the Pacific and her brief was filed for the record. Sphinx Head, Aleph Samach, Mummy Coast studios of Universal Pictures Co., She showed that the Treasury Depart- Club,Dunstan, Freshman Class president. Inc., Universal City, Cal. ment's proposal for compulsory joint re- Ίo AB—JAMES S. KING is one of turns by married couples would put an '09 LLB—LELAND STANFORD OSMUN, twelve employees of the International undue penalty on marriage, and that this November xo, 1941. He entered Law Electric Co. in the Far East who have would fall most heavily on persons of from the State Model School, Trenton, not been heard from since December and low and moderate incomes. N. J. He was associated with the law are now believed prisoners of the Jap- firm of Marsh & Wever, New York anese. He worked in the Harrison Lamp MILTON R. SHAW '34, dining rooms City, for two years before becoming, in Works and after service in World War I manager at Willard Straight Hall, and 1915, claims manager of the General went to China as an engineer. After a Mrs. Shaw (Ruth M. McCurdy) '37 Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corp., visit to the United States last year, he have a daughter, Jacqueline, born April 8. Ltd., 414 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, returned to Shanghai and then to This is their third child. Pa. He was a member of the New York Manila. His wife is living in Flushing. and New Jersey State Bars. PROFESSOR CLYDE W. MASON, PhD '2.4, 1912 MEN Chemistry, spoke before the Rochester '2.2. AB—HUBERT JOSEPH ROEMER, April Charles A. Dewey^ Class Secretary section of the American Welding Society, 5, 1942., in New York City, of pneu- Cornell Bldg., Pleasanΐville, N. Y. April 2., on "Crystallization Phenomena monia. He entered Chemistry from Scott ERNEST F. BOWEN, Class president, is in Metallurgy," illustrated with micro- High School, Toledo, Ohio. He was a with South Portland Shipbuilding Co. projection demonstrations. reporter for The New York Times for His address is 2.76 Brackett Street, Pόrt^ PROFESSOR J. HERBERT BRUCKNER, PhD several years before going to Paris in land, Me. '35, Poultry Husbandry, and Mrs. 19x3 where he was city editor of the WALTER S. FOGG is recovering from a Bruckner, of Ithaca RD 2., have a son Paris edition of the New York Herald long illness at his home, 67 East Plum- born April 6. and subsequently advertising manager. stead Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa. He is In 1935, he presided at Memorial Day Class editor. ROY HARRIS, Composer-in-Residence> services in the American military ceme- THOMAS S. MURRELL is working on a has been appointed composer-in-resi- tery at Fere-en-Tardnois. Returning to Government project. He is with Baker dence for the summer session at Colorado New York on the last American ship to Smith & Co., 730 Liberty Street, Rome. College, Colorado Springs. He will hold clear France in 1940, he was with the LAFAYETTE L. PORTER, of 600 Ridge a master class in composition. His Herald Tribune and recently on the ad- Avenue, Greencastle,. Ind., has been "Third Symphony" was performed for vertising staff of The American Weekly. commissioned a captain in the Army the third time in three "seasons by the He lived at 310 East Forty-fourth Street, Air Corps and reported for active duty Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie New York City. Phi Delta Theta, Sphinx at Mitchell Field, April 14. In World Hall, April 4. Virgil Thomson, New Head, Aleph Samach, Sigma Delta Chi, War I, he was an ensign in the USNR York Herald Tribune critic, in his column Cornell Daily Sun board, Widow editor; foreign submarine service. Mrs. Porter is April 5 designates Harris as "America's Cornell Club of Paris, Cornell Club of State Regent of the DAR in Indiana and most popular symphonist" and says New York. will keep their home in Greencastle . that his Third Symphony has "superb APRIL l6, 1942. 349

'14—Notice of the death of WILLIAM E. POPKIN which appeared in the ALUMNI CORNELL UNIVERSITY NEWS April 2. was incorrect. Popkin When wrote us April 7, on the letterhead of W. E. Popkin, Inc., fur dressers and You Go Eleven-Week dyers, 330-8 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn. '15 AB; '15 BS—HENRY W. MORRISON East or West, Summer Session and Mrs. Morrison (EUGENE F. WEBBER) live at 55 Raymond Avenue, Rutherford, Stop off N. J. Their son, MARVIN, is a Freshman June 29—September 12 in Agriculture. at

Freshmen admitted to the 1916 MEN CORNELL College of Arts and Sciences By Weyland Pfeiffer, Class Secretary DAILY AIR CONDITIONED TRAINS 2$ι Madison Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. may enter this Session and By WESTWARD Light type, a.m. EAST/YARD THE- CLASS is getting ready for its Read Down Dark typ , p.m. Rea

"C U. —in '42" CAMP OTTER A Good Place to Live By Herbert H. Johnston, Class Secretary 81 Tacoma Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. FOR BOYS 7 TO 18 BILL CRIM, Reunion chairman, has ap- 32nd Season pointed the following regional commit- tee chairmen: California, GUY B. WISER for Los Angeles and WALTER B. BALCH WHY CORNELL PARENTS PREFER for San Francisco; Connecticut, CHARLIE CAMP OTTER RAMSAY for Bridgeport and BILL VANDER- Location—In picturesque Muskoka re- BILT for Hartford; CHARLIE SHEPARD, gion, Canada, on its own private lake Washington, D. C.; GEORGE HOWELL, and with hundreds of lakes nearby for Florida; WALT LALLEY to cover Georgia fishing, canoe trips and camping. When you bring your boy and Alabama; Illinois, GEORGE ERWIN, Experience—Founded 1910. Director's to Ithaca, visit Sheldon Court, 19th season and the guide, Bill Crew- JR. for Chicago, PAUL STRICKER for De- son's, 26th. at the College Avenue en- catur; Indiana, YALE R. SHIVELY, JR.; trance to the Campus. Dependability—Over 1000 satisfied PAUL BLUNDON to cover Kentucky and campers and parents. The only private dormitory West Virginia; Maryland, BOB GRANT; Equipment—Permanent buildings, own designed as a home for stu- Massachusetts, PAUL ECKLEY for Am- camp farm, complete camp equipment. dents, we've been making herst and RON COURSEN, Boston. Crim Personnel—Carefully selected coun- Cornellians comfortable for himself and JIM VAN CAMPEN will take selors, mostly from Cornell University. care of Michigan. Oz PRIESTER has Iowa Resident physician and several special- thirty-eight years. and Minnesota, STEVE THEARD will ists. High grade type of boy, mostly sons of Cornellians. Before you come, write for cover Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar- our 1942 folder, with room Training—Quality instruction in all kansas. ELS FILBY has the State of camp activities and personal guidance. diagram and reasonable rates. Missouri. New Jersey is divided into six Happy Days—Plenty of fun and satisfy- Address: sections as follows: Newark, Maple- ing adventure. wood and Asbury Park, ROG MUNSICK; Economy—Lowest fee possible without Montclair, HAROLD BROADBENT; the sacrificing best in camp fun, health and SHELDON COURT Oranges, ART STERN; Paterson, DEGRAY leadership. Arthur R. Gongdon, Mgr. WHITE; Plainfield, CHARLIE BUNN; Tren- For booklet write: ton, DOUG DILTS. ITHACA, N. Y. HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, More committees next week. 109 Irving PL, Ithaca, N. Y. You will soon hear from your district Please mention the ALUMNI NEWS Please mention the ALUMNI NEWS 350 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

committee, so be prepared to give it all '2.4 AB; '2.6 AM—Mrs. James M. Sher- possible assistance. man (KATHERINE KEIPER) is chairman of CASCADILLA the board of directors of the Women's Ί8, '2.0 AB—ALBERT H. HOOKER, JR. Community Building, Ithaca. She lives SUMMER SCHOOL is a lieutenant colonel attached to the at 1x3 Willard Way. Mrs. EARLE H. office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare KENNARD, AM '2.6, is vice-chairman. Service, Washington, D. C. He was 'i5 ME; '2.7—R. HENCE YOUNG and Our summer session July 7— western sales manager for the Hooker Mrs. Young (FRANCES E;SPENCER) '2.7 live Electrochemical Co., Tacoma, Wash. August 21 will assist many students at 1656 West Bailey Road, Cuyahoga '19, '2.2. CE; '17 BS—THOMAS C. Mc- Falls, Ohio. toward admission to Cornell in DERMOTT has been transferred from Field '2.5 ME—FRED G. MORITZ is chief of September or to securing mathe- Artillery to the procurement division of volunteer participation of the Kent the Signal Corps, Washington, D. C. He matics credit required for V-1 County (Mich.) Defense Council of the and Mrs. McDermott (ANNEH. MORROW) US Office of Civilian Defense, 409-10 status in college. '17 live at 332.4 Military Road, Wash- Michigan National Bank Building, ington, D. C. Their daughter MARGARET Grand Rapids, Mich. is a Freshman in Arts. '2,6; '2.9 AB—BOARDMAN LEE, attorney and former special Tompkins County CASCADILLA SCHOOL judge and surrogate, has joined the legal Catalogue ITHACA, NEW YORK staff of the Price Control Division, OPM, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Lee (ELIZA- BETH GREGG) 'i9 and their two sons will move to Washington May i. '2.7, '2.9 BLA—RICHARD C. MURDQCK ESTABROOK & CO. is a Senior in Architecture, completing Members oί the New York and work for the BArch degree. He lives at Boston Stock Exchange 2.50 Renwick Drive, Ithaca. Sound Investments 'x8—Captain ANDREW I. IVANOFF is Investment Counsel and now assistant to the director of training Supervision at the Enid Army Flying School, Enid, Okla. He was Civil Aeronautics inspec- Roger H. Williams '95 tor at Huntington. Resident Partner New York Office '2.0 AB—HOSE A C. BALLOU (above), '2.9; '2.9 AB—Lieutenant K. DARBY 40 Wall Street now a lieutenant in the US Naval Re- GALLINGER is in command of a Navy serve, is a member of the Naval Aviation minesweeper off the Atlantic coast. His Cadet Selection Board, Third Naval Dis- wife (FRANCES LAPPEUS) '2.9, with her trict, with offices at no Broadway, New three children, has an apartment in her Hemphill, Noyes CS? Co. York City. He will help to select candi- mother's home at 71 Walnut Street, dates for commissions to perform special Binghamton. Members New York Stock Exchange duties in Naval Aviation. Secretary of '30 CE—SAMUEL WAKEMAN has been the Class of '2.0 and vice-president of the transferred from the New York office of 15 Broad Street . New York Cornell Club of Westchester County, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. to new Ballou for the last nine years has been shipyards under construction at Hing- INVESTMENT SECURITIES sales manager of Hemphill, Noyes- & ham, Mass. He is in charge of the build- Co. and was formerly with the National Jansen Noyes '10 Stanton Grίffis '10 ing and operating of the new plant. His City Bank. He is a member of Phi Kappa L M. Blancke '15 Willard !. Emerson '19 father was the late S. WILEY WAKEMAN Psi and Sphinx Head; was Senior man- '99, president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding ager of baseball. BRANCH OFFICES Co. '-LI—ETHEL FAULHABER (Mrs. Joseph '31 AB, '32. LLB; '32.—JULIUS F. Albany, Chicago, Harrisburg, Indicnapolis, P.) BROWN lives at Railroad Mills, Pitts- Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Treπ on, BRAUNER and Mrs. Brauner (RUTH E. Washington ford, just outside of Rochester. GORDON) '32. have a daughter, Andrea, 1921 MEN born in March. They live at x8 Cushman By Allan H. Treman, Class Secretary Road, White Plains. R. A. HEGGIE & BRO. CO. Ithaca, N. Y. '32. AB—JOSEPH M. YOUMANS, who MIKE (M. T.) GALBREATH is with was employed by an engineering firm in Jewelers to Comedians Since 1875 McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and may Manila, left there New Year's Eve and We still make Quill & Dagger, Sphinx Head, Majura, Mummy, Aleph Samach, and other be addressed care Business Week, 330 reported for active duty with the Cavalry pins and charms. Send us your orders. West Forty-second Street, New York but was transferred to the Engineers. 136 E. State St. Ithaca/ N. Y. City. '3z, '33 CE; '33 BS—WALTER M. JAMES S. (Jim) McGRAw is an archi- KUNSCH and Mrs. Kunsch (CHRISTINE tect in the Navy Department in Wash- RUMSEY) '33 of Danbury, Conn., have a ington, D. C., and lives on Old Dominion daughter, Joan Marcia, born March 30. Drive, East Falls Church, Va. CORNELLIANS '33 BS; '33 BS—EDWARD W. LAMBERT IN SERVICE '2.2. ME; 'Ί.O WA, '2.1 AB—LEONARD B. and Mrs. Lambert (ETHELYN SHOE- MAKER) '33 live on Lincoln Way, Plain- Especially Enjoy the COLT was recently elected president of the alumni corporation of Alpha Delta field, 111. They have two sons, Edward ALUMNI NEWS Phi succeeding ROGER W. HOOKER Ίo. W. Jr., three, and Rodney A. born last Special Rate of $ 3 with Your Colt's address is i Reservoir Avenue, October* 2.1. Own Subscription Providence, R. I. '34—CHARLES M. BODGER lives in APRIL l6, 351

Lompoc, Cal. where he raises flower seeds. He was running a farm, but the Government bought it to help in build- ing Camp Cooke, armored division $4.25 Bottle center. $46.50 Case '34 AB—Mrs. Ralph A. Whipple (JEAN E. CONNER) lives at 709 Church in New York Street, Germantown, Pa. Her husband is a salesman for Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. They have a daughter, Sharon, born last September 2.1. '35 AB—LEONARD Y. GOLDMAN is a second lieutenant at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Mass. 12 Years Old '35 EE—Lieutenant EARLE R. ELMER is stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska.

1937 WOMEN 4/5 quart...90 proof By Carol H. Cline, Class Secretary lOjj Cumberland Avenue, Dayton, Ohio STRAIGHT WHISKEY WHS pΓO- Mr. anel Mrs. J. EDWIN LOSEY (BERT EDWARDS) and daughter Mary Mar- duced in Canada early in 1929 and has since rested patiently garet are now living at 113 Howard Street, Ames, Iowa. Ed is with the De- in warehouse acquiring a seldom found aristocracy of flavor. partment of Agriculture, Division of Several years ago we set aside the limited quantity then remain- Farm Population and Rural Welfare. MERLE (ELLIOTT) and EARL OHLINGER ing, confident it would provide, after twelve years in cask, gener- are living at 1918 Greenwood Avenue, Highland'Park, 111. ous reward for those who desire the best in fine light whiskey. 1938 MEN By William C. Kruse, Class Secretary Kingsway Apartments, Wayne, Pa. IMPORTERS AND WINE MERCHANTS Word has come in that BOB HUFFCUTT Λ 1830 ^ enlisted in the Army February X3, 1942., and was in the thick of it on Bataan Penninsula. We certainly wish Bob all the luck in the world. He was in Manila as secretary to High Commissioner Francis Sayre, spent January and Febru- ary in Corregidor, and was invited to return to America with Sayre, but Bob The Big Red Band Plays On! decided to enter the Army. In a letter to Bob's parents Commissioner Sayre wrote, "I,t was such a splendid.decision on his part that I could not but admire him for it and at once I spoke to General MacArthur about him and secured for him a commission in the Army ... He was in excellent health when I left.'' IRA WILSON is not only an ensign in the USNR but he is now an engaged man too. The girl is Muriel Rubin of New York City. Can't give you any dope as Yes, the Ten Square Band plays on, at football and basketball yet about when the wedding will be. games, at ROTC reviews, at rallies, everywhere—always rousing ANTHONY C. MAIER has just been pro- the truest Cornell spirit! The band can play on because it is sup- moted to the rank of first lieutenant, US ported by the proceeds of the annual NAVY BALL. This year's Army. He is now on the faculty of the NAVY BALL will live up to a 31-year old record of great dances, Battery Commanders' School at Fort featuring in 1942 the music of Glen Gray and Will Bradley. Clip Sill, Oklahoma. the coupon below and help keep the band playing on! Mitchell Field recently announced that First Lieutenant WESLEY C. FRANKLIN, 1942 NAVY BALL Signal Corps, has been placed in com- IF YOU CAN'T attend and would like to help BARTON HALL, APRIL 24 mand of the 416th Signal Company. the Band, send your check with the coupon 1939 WOMEN and we will see that NAVY BALL COMMITTEE By Sally Splazn-Se$&ell, Class Secretary your ticket is given to Barton Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. 333 Springfield Avenue, Summit, N. J. some deserving student who could not otherwise Enclosed find check for $ (at $4.40 per ANNE MESSING writes from Bloom- attend — or to anyone field Hills, Mich., where she is teaching you wish to designate. couple tax included) for tickets to the 1942 Navy in the Kingwood School: '* Kingwood is Ball. Send tickets:

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just as beautiful as it seemed the first time that I saw it last May. It is neces- PROFESSIONAL sary to consciously stop and appreciate No Need the beautiful scenery, architecture, and DIRECTORY surroundings once in a while. My classes OF CORNELL ALUMNI To Leave are small and I have less teaching than I did in the public schools, but it is made The Buds up for by dormitory duty which is re- NEW YORK AND VICINITY quired of all resident faculty." HARRY D. COLE Ί8 Behind / CLASS OF 1941 REALTOR Women Business, Commercial and residential By Ruth E. Coΐhran, Class Secretary properties in Westchester County. Nowhere is New York lovelier in the Spring Appraisals made. than on beautiful lower Fifth Avenue, and 40$ Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y. nowhere are you likely to find more pleasure FLORENCE HOFFMAN writes that she's RKO Proctor Building Mount Vernon, N. Y. from your Spring visit to Manhattan than at assistant manager at the "Open Gate," REA RETA*—Fold d and Int rfold d facial tl w the Grosvenor. Our airy, broad-windowed cafeteria, gift shop, and snack bar of the for th r rall trad . rooms . . . the vernal neighborhood, so apart S'WIPES*—A soft, abiorb nt, dliposabl Hnu / from clamor and so convenient to both mid- Long Island College of Medicine. Her pack d Rat, fold d and Inl rfold d, In bulk or town and downtown . . . the inviting, fine- address: 116 Pacific Street, Brooklyn. box s, for hospital us . home atmosphere that brings so many New Flo relays RUTH MITCHELSON'S regards to FIBREDOWN'-Absorb nt and non-ob orb nt Yorkers to live with us ... and our attractive c llulos wadding, for hospital and commercial us . restaurant and smart little bar . . . these make the Class from the Long Island College FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING-in of the most routine visit an agreeable event. Hospital. s v ral attractlv d slgns. Why not let us brighten your spring trip to We hear from JANET HEANEY that she's FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING- New York? interning at the Jewish Hospital at 112.1 For hospital and sick room us . *Trade Mark reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Somerville Avenue, Philadelphia. THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. Hotel Grosvenor GINNY NEWTON was married to En- GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY sign Kenneth W. Tipping, US Naval D. C. Taggart Ί6 - - Pr s.- - Tr as. FIFTH AVENUE AT TENTH STREET Reserve, March 14 in Charleston, S. C. NEW YORK CITY JERRY HAMILTON has a job with Pan STANTON CO.—REALTORS All rooms and suites have tub and shower American Airways in New York City. GEORGE H. STANTON '20 bath and circulating ice water—Single from $3.50 to $5.00—with twin beds $5.00 to $8.00. Men Real Estate and Insurance JOHN L. SHEA '2.6, Resident Mgr. By Ensign Raymond W. Kruse, Class Secretary MONTCLAIR and VICINITY DONALD R. BALDWIN Ί6, Treas. i}i Washington Street, Brighton, Mass. 16 Church St., Montclalr, N. J., Tel. 2-6M Owned by The Baldwin Family LEONARD LEWIS is a recent arrival at Fort Sill, Okla., from Fort Bragg. The Army found good use for CLARK The Tuller Construction Co. BURTON, who was studying in South J. D. TULLER, '09, President America, by making him an adjutant at BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, The Bill of Rights the American Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. His mailing address is Embaiyada DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS Charter of American Liberty Americana, Rio. WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS News comes that JOHN T. PERRY, whom A. J. Dlll nb ck Ί1 C. P. B ylond '31 It deserves a place in every real American I assumed was back at Cornell for his C. E. Wαllαe 'Ϊ7 T. G. Wαlloc .34 home, office and school. You can now get C. E. B v 3 fifth year ChemE, is working as a chem- copies for yourself and your friends. Beauti- 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. ist for the Pittsburgh Coke & Iron Co. on fully printed in blue, red and black on vellum Neville Island. Johnny lives at 5856 paper 12 x 16 neatly framed. Send $1.00 Aylesboro Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. BALTIMORE, MD. each for as many copies as you want, to To quote a Phi Sigma Kappa article: "FRED W. SCHWARTZ, JR. of Pittsburgh WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH THE CAYUGA PRESS, INC. Wαt r Supply, Sewerage/ Structural, flew home from camp in Texas on Feb. 2.2., Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, 113 E. Green St., Ithαcα, N. Y. married Emily Montague of Philadel- Plans/ and General Consulting Practice. EZRA B. WHITMAN, C.E. Ό1 phia Feb. 2.4, and flew back to camp that G. J. REQUARDT, C.E. '09 same day. That may be called new B. L SMITH, CE. Ί4 Offic s In Baltimore and Albany, N. Y. THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY brevity in honeymooning." 24TH SUMMER SESSION JOHN NEMES has acquired a new ad- dress: Care Dept. Dairy Industry, Uni- * WASHINGTON, D. C. Advanced work or review for admission versity of California, Davis, Calif. to school, college or the services WALTER SCHOLL, another one of the THEODORE K. BRYANT July 7 - August 28 Staten Island crew, enlisted in the Army LL.B. '97—LL.M. '98 Inquire: Director oί the Summer Session Air Corps and was first sent to the Master Pat nt Law, G. W. U. '08 EXETER NEW HAMPSHIRE Oklahoma Air College where he was Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively captain of his company, had charge of 309-314 Victor Building his barracks, and finished the course KISKI SUMMER SCHOOL second highest in his class. He then KENOSHA, WIS. All subjects for college entrance avail- went to Randolph Field and was again able under regular Kiski faculty. Combi- in charge of his barracks, and this time MACWHYTE COMPANY nation of instruction with unexcelled re- was the only member of his company to Manufacturers of WIr and WIr Rop , Braided Wir Rope Sling, Aircraft Tl Rods, Strand and Cord. creational activities in beautiful Allegheny be chosen for the honor committee. He is foothills. Saltsburg, Penna. (35 miles east now at Foster Field (Class 42. D), Vic- JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3, PRES. ft GEN. MGR. of Pittsburgh on Route 80). toria, Tex., until April 30. A record like R. B. WHYTE, M.E. '13, Vic President in Charge of Operations that ought to make the Japs shudder!

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Your Home In Philadelphia HOTEL HOTEL ESSEX 13TH AT FILBERT STREET "One Square From Everything" John P. Mσsferson, '33, Assf. Manager 225 Rooms—Each With Bath Air Conditioned PARK AVE Slst 10 52nd STS NEW YORK Restaurants StonierRestaurants HARRY A. SMITH'30 . . MANAGER Cleveland: B. F. Capp '29, Louis J. Read'38. Detroit: Ernest Terwilliger '28, J. W. Gainey '32, J. Wheeler '38. The Grosvenor Hotel New York: R. W. Steinberg '29, L. W. Maxson '30, STEPHEN GIRARD HOTEL H. Glenn Herb *31, W. C Blankinship '31, R. H. CHESTNUT ST. WEST OF 20TH FIFTH AVENUE AT 10TH STREET Blaisdell '38, Bruce Tiffany '39. For those who desire Modern Comfort and Quietness Pittsburgh: N. Townsend Allison '28. PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. In a Convenient Location Nearest downtown Hotel to Penna. 30th St. 300 Rooms—all with tub and shower bath and B. & O. Stations Singlefrom $3.50 Double from $5.00 WILLIAM H. HARNED '35 Manager DONALD R. BALDWIN Ί 6 JOHN L. SHEA '26 Treasurer Manager Owned by the Baldwin Family ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. HOTEL LATHAM 28τH ST. at STH AVE. - NEW YORK CITY 400 Rooms - Fireproof CENTRAL NEW YORK SPECIAL RATES FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS A Cornell Welcome Awaits You J.Wilson'19, Owner THE HOTEL'CADILLAC Elm and Chestnut Sts. AKE this your home when you motor ROCHESTER, NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D. C. Mto New York. Park your car free, com- "Air Conditioned for Year 'Round Comfort" mute to the city and avoid traffic hazards, Urban A. MacDonald '38, Manager annoyances, and worries. DRUMLINS SYRACUSE The Beechwood Hotel Open Ml Year Round Summit, New Jersey CAFETERIA DINING ROOM TAPROOM Ben B. Adams, '37, Managing Director DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT Winter Sports On Route 97 to Ithaca... R. S. BURLINGAME '05, President Recommended by Bob Bliss Hotel Minisink Port JOHNS, N.Y. 1715 G Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C

For Luncheon—Dinner—Overnight CARMEN M. JOHNSON '22 - Manager H nry Sch!clc,Sp. '36, Manager

CENTRAL STATES NEW ENGLAND Wagar's Coffee Shop Stop at the ... Western Avenue at Quail Street on Route 20 HOTEL ELTON ALBANY, N. Y. WATERBURY, CONN. "A New England Landmark" Managed by Bertha H. Wood Bud Jennings '25, Proprietor

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CHARLESGATE Restricted Clientele In Detroit it's . . . CONVENIENT LOCATION THE WARDELL * HOTEL* QUIET, SPACIOUS ROOMS Woodward Avenue at Kirby Cornell and •A JI iί'MgBgJgitBΠl 650 ROOMS WITH BATH Transient & Residential VISIT REASONABLY IN BOSTON Robert J. Riley '24, Mgr. Robert Summers '41 Res. Mgr.

Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS It's reassuring these days to see those sturdy Bell System trucks along the highway. Ready to go anywhere They are mechanized motor units. Each has a highly skilled crew; each has its ...QUICKLY own tools, power and materials. They are ready and efficient and can be mobilized anywhere, any time. And there are more than 27,000 of them. This is just one way the Bell System is prepared to keep lines open and ready for war-time service — no matter when or where the test may come.

We'll keep 'em rolling wherever the war needs call."

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