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support is being made available fo Trustee Mary H. Donlon '20 the humanities. There is today no such evidence of concern with culture and the development of civilization Reports on University Problems through academic education, as there Miss Donlon, now chairman of the bating the issue whether a State Uni- is of concern with scientific education New York State Workmen's Compen- versity should be established. The and the development of production. sation Board, was first elected an Al- umni Trustee of the University in 1937 Federal Congress in 1862 had made Cornell alumni can influence opinion and re-elected in 1942 for a five-year available to the several States large and promote support for education in term. Last June, she was coδpted by the grants of western lands for the sup- the liberal arts as well as in science. Board for the term ending in 1951. port of higher education, and most of There is a tremendous lag, and the Vice-chairman of the Trustees' ex- ecutive committee, she presides at the States used the grants to establish consequences of a continued lag can- meetings of that committee since the new State colleges and universities or not lightly be dismissed. death of Alumni Trustee Albert R. to expand and strengthen existing Mann's Death a Loss Mann '04, is chairman of the annuity State institutions. New York, how- committee and a member of the law Under the wise leadership of a trio ever, turned over its allotment of the committee, Home Economics College of great leaders, Cornell has made real western lands to a newly chartered Council, and Industrial and Labor progress under exceptionally difficult Relations School Council. She was a privately endowed University. Cor- war and post-war conditions. Presi- member of the Library Council for its nell thus became unique among Ameri- first two years, was on the Trustee dent Edmund E. Day, Board Chair- can universities in deriving its finan- committee which recommended the man H. Edward Babcock, and Execu- cial support in substantial amounts present Department of Physical Edu- tive Committee Chairman Albert R. cation and Athletics, and on the com- both from private benefactors and Mann '04 deserve the grateful ap- mittee which set up tire Board on from the State and Federal Govern- Student Health and Hygiene, of which preciation of Cornell alumni. The sud- ments. she was an original member. She re- den death of Albert Mann on Febru- ceived the LLB in 1920; is the only woman to be elected editor-in-chief of Consider State University ary 21,, 1947, was a loss beyond the Law Quarterly, and held a Fraser Now the issue of a State University measure or repair. As his colleague in Senior Scholarship; is on leave as a is being debated again. A commission office during the term just ending, member of the New York City law elected with him in 1942,1 bespeak, as firm of Burke & Burke. She is a former is surveying the needs and resources of president of the Federation of Cornell New York State in higher education, the memorial he would most welcome, Women's Clubs and has served as a with particular reference to the sug- increased alumni interest in Cornell director of both the Cornellian Council gested need for a State University. problems and alumni support of Cor- and the Alumni Corporation; is a mem- nell needs. ber of Mortar Board and Alpha Omi- Cornell alumni may well settle down, cron Pi. some quiet evening or rainy Sunday, As I conclude my second term as with the Autobiography of Andrew Alumni Trustee, I wish to record my HE informative and comprehen- D. White and read especially those grateful appreciation of the oppor- Tsive annual reports of President chapters that recount the pressures tunity the alumni gave me to serve Day to Cornell alumni on the state of and problems in Albany eighty years Cornell in their behalf. I am privileged the University make unnecessary a ago. History may or may not repeat to continue that service by virtue of review here either of the notable itself. But whatever the eventual election last year as a Board Trustee. achievements or the tremendous diffi- policy decision is, Cornell alumni and culties during World War II and these especially those resident in New York first post-war years. State cannot afford to disassociate Presumably, the requirement that themselves from so important a prob- retiring Alumni Trustees shall report lem. By foundation and tradition, to their constituents on the com- Cornell has an important public pletion of their term is intended to obligation. keep the alumni advised, through Science Outweighs Arts their representatives on the governing board of the University, of the major Another policy problem in which problems that from time to time pro- alumni can influence decision is the foundly influence the future of the domination of higher education by University and in the solution of the physical sciences. which alumni opinion may participate. Expanding emphasis on scientific research for production (and for de- Alumni Opinion Helps struction) is diminishing emphasis on There are now at least two such education in the science and technique problems of great importance to of living peaceably together in fami- Cornell. They may be briefly surveyed lies and other communities of interest, in the space allotted for this report. in the State and the nation. Funds In the post-Civil war period, eighty are available for the research that years ago, the people and the Legis- supports and stimulates scientific edu- lature of New York State were de- cation. By comparison, scant financial TRUSTEE MARY H. DONLON '20 school records and subsequent Cornell far from here, whose scholastic standing is records of a number of young people from not very high ... I am heartily in accord a particular school provides our best with your idea of drawing more students Letters measure of that school's product. Such from outside of New York State .... I Subject to the usual restrictions of space and data will tell us the level of performance at hope something can be done in that direc- good taste, we shall print letters from sub- a given school necessary to assure success tion which I suppose is pretty definitely scribers on any side of any subject of interest at Cornell in the course the candidate has linked up with the formation of strong to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often chosen. The several College admissions secondary schools committees in the out- may not agree with the sentiments expressed, committees weigh all information bearing lying districts. —J. PAUL LEINROTH '12 and disclaims any responsibility beyond on the quality of a candidate's school, and that of fostering interest in the University. try to judge the candidate's scholastic I like this article! . . . record in terms of the school where that —BLINN S. PAGE '13 record has been made. . . . very much to the point, and I thor- The unfortunate circumstances in which oughly agree with all you say. I have seen Public or Private School? schools, colleges, and parents find them- enough of small-town high schools to real- persons have written in re- selves today, with a demand for college ize that in general the education they fur- sponse to Emerson Hinchliff's education from qualified secondary school nish is far inferior to private schools . . . seniors which cannot be met, permits the —GEORGE H. BARNES '14 column, ' ' Intelligence/ ' of May 1, in selection of only a portion of those can- which Hinchliff suggested that slightly didates who are thoroughly qualified I keep in close touch with 1,900 public lower-ranking students from good for admission. Cornell, along with her and private schools and visit some 300 sister institutions, is unable to find places of them yearly in my work with Telluride schools, both public and private, be for all those from any given school who are Association. Schools differ as widely in considered for admission to the Uni- up to standard; unable even to take the qualities and capacities as do individuals, vβrsity, and expressed his own opinion top-ranking candidate from every good and I never put a mediocre or bad school, tίiat most private schools do a better school. This problem is mentioned only to public or private, on my list. Years of prac- emphasize the fact that the denial of an tical experience, supplemented by the cold job of college preparation than do application in these crowded years can in judgement of probably forty directors of many public schools. Lack of space no way be considered as a reflection on the admissions at the better universities, prevents publishing these letters in candidate's school. It is distressing indeed have gone into the building of this list. full, but extracts from them are to Cornell that the many schools with There is more reasonable expectation of which we have had long and happy rela- finding gifted and well-trained leaders in printed below, with a statement from tions cannot be adequately represented in these schools than in others I might name. Herbert H. Williams '25, University our entering classes. A crowded school in an unfavorable en- Director of Admissions. The question —HERBERT H. WILLIAMS '25 vironment, staffed by over-worked or ill- of school preparation is important to I never noticed that the students from trained teachers, cannot dp so much for its the prep schools were any better than those students as can a school with small classes, the University in its efforts to select with carefully selected and highly-trained students who will make the best use from the public high schools in scholar- ship, etc. It seems to me that Cornell is teachers, and in a superior environment. I of the opportunities that Cornell Ivy League enough as it is. have noted that public schools in select offers. — Ed. —CHARLES H. LORD '11 suburbs of great cities usually turn out excellent graduates. As Director of Admissions at Cornell, I am under the impression that Cornell the writer is in no position to inject himself has been too willing to accept those easy My list of 1,900 contains many more into a discussion of public versus private to teach and too neglectful of the accom- private schools than their number in the school, but I do wish to point out some of plishment they might make with better country would indicate. Recent study of mechanics of the selection process here. timber though the scholarship might not all men who received scholarships from First of all, it should be observed that be so high . . . Telluride Association during a thirty-year the real distinction between schools is not —EDWIN E. SHERIDAN '11 period indicates that 21 per cent came from whether they are public or private, but private schools, yet no weight whatever is whether they are excellent, average, or I agree with you that we should give given the matter of whether a candidate poor in the quality of their college prep- more attention to getting boys from the comes to us from a public or a private aratory instruction and in the quality of good preparatory schools ... I believe, school. On a statistical basis, we should however, we should be very careful to have had about one per cent from private the student for whom they are responsible. discriminate between good preparatory There are superior public high schools, as schools. Three-fifths of all the presidents there are superior private schools. There schools and others, because I know of a of the Association during the same period are likewise average and poor schools in number of private schools, some not very were private-school men. both categories. I hold no thesis for any kind of a school, Less than 5 per cent of secondary school except a good one. I take a good man students attend the so-called private or wherever I can find him. If he has fine independent schools. It would be ridiculous character and personality, if he can do to feel that any large percentage of the distinguished scholarship, if he is a dem- total number of promising "college mater- onstrated leader among his fellows, and if ial" or "Cornell material" students in the he has promise of great future value, I'll country were to be found in this small frac- take him, public or private. However, tion of the school population, -pet us direct there are elements in favor of the private our thinking then, at a more logical dis- school. It is small; the largest has fewer tinction: that between the good school, than 700 men. Classes contain usually whether public or private, and the poor only ten or twelve students. Teachers are school. carefully selected. A student progresses In our admissions work at Cornell, in a as rapidly as his personal capacities per- single year, we may deal with applications mit: the bright man does much more than representing as many as 1,500 to 2,000 the dullard. Students have great individ- schools. We make a serious effort to know ual and group responsibilities. Every man these schools. Our files contain such in- in the school participates fully in sports, formation on each school as size of the organizations, and other activities. If he senior class, percentage of that class con- weighs only eighty pounds and aspires to sidered as "college material," the school's football, he plays football with teams of college recommending grade and passing eighty-pounders with a regular schedule of grade, its marking system, perhaps a rec- games. He even has the rudiments of a ord of the college to which its .graduates knowledge of what is going on around him normally go and in what numbers, and in the world. —ELMER M. JOHNSON '22 most important, a record of the perform- AT CHAPEL' Wesp To those of us who give much thought ance of graduates from the school who National Scholarship winner Robert W. and time as lay citizens to the strengthen- have attended Cornell in the past. Corrigan, Arts Freshman, opens the door ing and improvement of our public educa- Our chief effort in the selection process to the Chapel for the Rev. Edward D. tional system and who believe sincerely in is to choose students who can be expecte i Eddy '44, associate director of CURW. sound public education as an essential in- to graduate with respectable overall rec- Son of the rector of Grace and St. Peter's strument and expression of the demo- ords of performance. The accumulation, Church in Baltimore, Md., Corrigan plans cratic way of life, some of the implications over a period of years, of the secondary to become a minister. of Mr. Hinchliff's article are shocking. . . . 518 Cornell Alumni News It is no news to most of us that the function of the American public high school has changed from one of almost exclusively college preparation to one of preparing all An Old Grad Remembers the children of all the people to take their places in a democratic society as well- By Frank Sullivan '14 adjusted individuals, at least somewhat trained according to their capacities and interests. ... The accom- , State and Aurora. What times we I differ radically with Mr. HinchlhTs p a n y i n g III solution for avoiding the shortcomings of "Berry Patch" 1 students used to have in the "pit" at public education. Too many of those "who from the Al- jjj the Lyceum; carefree nights in the can afford it" have already adopted the umni Issue of III wonderful world of make-believe, private school as the badge of social ac- The Cornell p nights which for many of us were our ceptability and security for their children, Daily Sun, jj| and in my experience they are among May 2, is re- ||| first taste of the drama. It was at the those, all too often, who lead in holding printed by spe- jjj Lyceum I first saw Sothern and Mar- back public education by their demands cial permis- JU lowe in Macbeth, and Sothern and for economy in public expenditures and by sion. The au- JJJ Marlowe in Floradora, and Marlowe their complete lack of understanding of the thor desig- jjj functions of public education in a dem- nated himself 111 and Sothern in Juliet and Romeo. You ocracy. I fear that the University must as Class of 76, |i don't see tap dancing like that any bear some of the responsibility for this lack and was elec- ill more! of understanding on the part of its own ted to the Sun 1| I recall, too, those wonderful parties alumni. At any rate, American democracy board for his cannot afford such a solution. "Private" contribution. In keeping with his rem- at the Dutch after the theater, when and "elite" are words with a rather ugly iniscences of the early days of Cornell, Lillian Russell, or Lotta Faust, or reminiscence as applied to education in we give you here Frank Sullivans' Helena Modjeska, or some other this brave new post-war world we talked Senior picture. reigning belle of showdom would about so glibly just yesterday. I wonder come to town. We always drank how many of the Cornell war-dead died to \1[7HEN I was a Freshman at make Cornell safe for "private" and champagne from the star's slipper, or "elite" school products. * * Ithaca, the University was if we happened to be extra thirsty, Furthermore, I should like to see Mr. down where the town is now and from one of the football captain's Hinchliff's definition of "college material." Ithaca was up on the hill by Bailey goloshes. I should like to see statistics demonstrat- Hall. It was toward the close of a ing that the private school graduate is a Where are the golden lads who were more capable student, a better adjusted particularly frolicsome Spring Day regulars at those gay suppers? David individual with a more wholesome person- that the positions were reversed. The Starr Jordan never missed, and ality, and a more effective citizen (and I Board of Trustees, once the shift had neither did dear old Prof. Walter do not mean only financially) after gradua- been made, never bothered to remedy tion. What is there in the segregation of a Heasley. Leroy P. Ward, Kid Kugler, private or elite school which better pre- it. "Laissez faire!" counselled a Trus- and " Steve" Stevenson were always pares a person to live with understanding tee who had majored in French. present, and so was Dr. Hu Shih; in the non-rareified atmosphere of our every- Hiram Corson, Rym Berry, Gold- day world? Gesundheit! And dear old Professor win Smith, and myself comprised the Bishop, at that time doyen of the Also, if the admissions policies of Cor- Varsity crew that year, each man row- nell University do not include downright Department of Plant Pathology, discrimination, how can the percentage of ing four oars. There were giants in whom we students, with that unerring private school graduates be deliberately those days! Pearl White was the cox- increased as suggested by Mr. Hinchliff? instinct of the undergrad for pinning swain of our crew. Pearl White is not le nicknom juste on the Faculty, always If the admission criteria are sound and to be confused with E. B. (Andy) well-administered, why are not the candi- called "Morris G." But not to his dates best qualified by intellect, aptitude, White, former editor of The Sun. face, you may be sure! Then there was and personality already being selected? Pearl was fuller around here, and here, old Raymond Howes, curator of the And it they are, why aren't the private and Andy wore suspenders. Ah, there school students getting all the breaks to William Hazlitt Upson Numismatic which they are entitled as individuals? were Pearl Whites in those days! Collection, and William Hazlitt Up- —Mrs. ISABEL HOUCK KIDENEY '22 I'm afraid you lads will rue having son, at that time Raymond Howes I agree with your analysis of the private started an old grad on these memories, Professor of Ornithology. school vs. public school situation . . . but perhaps you will bear with me for —HERMAN F. SPAHN 723 a moment, or a week, for the sake of Will I ever forget the great revolt when the "Frosh," as Prof. George ... hits the nail on the head. The second Auld Lang Syne, and the Annex, and paragraph expresses what I have in mind Proctor Twesten, and Tar Young, and Lincoln Burr so happily dubbed them, much better than I could have put it. ... the Short Line to Auburn, and those refused to wear the traditional cap? —CHARLES E. BENISCH '24 trips up Buffalo hill after missing the Sure I will! jag car. (Buffalo Street ran up hill in One of my first and most lasting those days.) friendships at Cornell was with a Essex County Elects I shall never forget the September Jacob Gould Schurman who was PRESIDENT John C. Adams '26 afternoon I arrived in Ithaca. The President of the University. I would A of Hofstra College was guest Seniors were wearing their blazers and meet Dr. Schurman on the Campus, speaker at a meeting of the Cornell the Sophomores had just finished tip my hat and say "Good morning, Club of Essex County, N. J., May 16 Senior Singing over by Goldwin sir" and Dr. Schurman would return at the Rock Spring Country Club in Smith. Ah, there were Sophomores in my greeting pleasantly. How I used West Orange, N. J. those days! You don't get Sopho- to look forward to those bull sessions Vincent deP. Gerbereux '24 was mores like that nowadays. Can't get with J.G.! elected president of the Club Weight- the stuff! Dear old Sage Choir! I always man Edwards '14, Charles F. Hendrie On a crisp autumn afternoon, there thought it rather a pity that in the '18, James E. Brinckerhoff '17, Ches- was a tang to the air in the gymnasium middle of a cantata one Sunday, Dr. ter W. Ludlow '24, and Francis P. that somehow made a fellow feel lucky Henry Ward Beecher suddenly turned Keiper '26, vice-presidents; Harry M. to be alive. The good old Lyceum a tommy gun on the choir and liqui- Specht '43, treasurer; Henry S. Thom- Theater was still in existence, and dated the entire mass of nightingales, assen '40, secretary; and Frank I. Count Rogalsky and Lew Durland save for one mezzo-soprano, a lady Pope '41, corresponding secretary. stood then at the northwest corner of Vet student who, having heard of the June I, 1947 519 good dominie's unpredictability, had But it's deeper than that. I felt a taken the precaution to wear a sur- surface reaction; "Doc" sensed some- plice of chain mail. It was the first Intelligence thing "much more profound. His few machine gun we fellows had ever seen words, spoken in the hilarious atmos- and I recall how we crowded around phere of a Reunion Rally, pointed up Dr. Beecher after the massacre, plying By to me as nothing else could what he him with questions about the new- called the distinguishing characteristic fangled gadget and entreating him to of American colleges and universities: let us try it out on the Dekes. For this Reunion issue, I want to alumni loyalty. According to him, I remember those absurd things we hark back to a speech made at the these sons and daughters with their Bailey Hall rally in June, affection for Alma Mater will serve used to eat at the Co-op in Morrill A Thought Hall between classes. They were called 1939. better than any dynasty to assure con- From Dr. Hu Shih, "Doc" to tinuity of existence to their academic Wilbur Buds and, by Jove, they looked Hu Shih '14 like Wilbur Buds, but yum, how good his Classmates of 1914, mother. they used to taste. Good old Wilbur was then Chinese Ambassador to the Buds! I suppose they have all been United States. Highly distinguished as I can't lay hand on an apt saying eaten. a philosopher, man of letters, and edu- from Confucius. Hu Shih is good Final examinations! What larks cator, "Doc" came back to Ithaca to enough for me! they were! Much more fun than the receive a special "award for outstand- prelims, where the instructors served ing achievement" from his Class and only soft drinks and buns, and never then went up to Bailey to deliver the TBΠ Elects Thirty would slip us the answers. Does one speech to which I refer. It wasn't long, AU BETA PI, Engineering honor ever, one wonders, quite forget the but it contained a thought that has Tsociety, has elected sixty-two new girl one took to .one's first final? stuck in my mind ever since. members and, for the first time at What a fine body of men there was Impressed by the many and varied Cornell, accorded special recognition at Cornell in those days! In my Class manifestations of alumnal interest and to three women for high scholarship: for instance, all the men were over loyalty—there are serious aspects to Faith E. Gregory '46 of Norwalk, seven feet tall with the exceptions of Reunions, mixed neatly with the Conn., Billie P. Carter '48 of Hono- Tubby Sailor, John Wilkes Booth, e b u 11 i e n c e—"Doc" remarked that lulu, Hawaii, and Shirley A. Ogren Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and myself. China had had very important uni- '48 of Trenton, N. J. Only the weaklings of the Class were versities 2,000 years ago, but that Alumnus elected is Lewis B. Swift allowed to play football. It would not they had all been appendages of ruling '12 of Rochester, president of the have been fair to the other colleges to dynasties and that when the dynasty Taylor Instrument Co. and past- use our healthier Classmates. Leon disappeared, the university perished president of the Cornell Club of Czolgosz was voted Best Dresser of my with it. Rochester. Two members of the Fac- Class. It was Leon who later caused ulty were elected: Director Charles R. not a few raised eyebrows by shooting He had become forcefully aware of Burrows of Electrical Engineering President McKinley, though the two the impermanency of Chinese uni- and Professor George Winter, PhD versities through having had been excellent friends in college. Some '40, Civil Engineering. Graduate stu- Percy Field on the afternoon of a just been to Cambridge dent honored is Charles E. Schleckser, Universities to receive an honorary big game! The stands are jammed, Old Jr. of Belleville, N. J., who holds the the October air bracing, and the sun is degree at Harvard's ter- Eastman Kodak Fellowship in Elec- getting low in, if my memory serves, centenary. At that celebration, he re- trical Engineering. the west. It is the last minute of the counted, some 650 institutions of The new undergraduate members, last quarter and the bases are full. higher learning were represented by many of whom are returned veterans, Dartmouth, on our one-yard line, has delegates. The University of Cairo are George E. Stewart '39 of Tru- taken two of our pawns and a castle. was the oldest listed, going back to mansburg, Boris L. Oxman '42 of A groan from the crowd! Then, just about 1000 A.D. Bergenfield, N. J., Frederick H. Reu- as all seems lost, a flash of Red and "Doc" had represented several ter '42 of Garden City, Robert J. White oars in the distance, and we Chinese universities, and one would Kinner '44 of Elmira, DeWitt S. know that Mr. Courtney has done it naturally expect them to stand well Stillman, Jr. '44 of Joliet, 111., Morton again at Poughkeepsie! What a roar up on the list; yet the most ancient of Eydenberg '45 of Woodmere, David goes up from that crowd! I can hear them rated only about No. 450, as I K. Felbeck '45 of New York City, it now, or is that my blood pressure? remember his reference. David R. Hogin '45 of Scarsdale, Wil- They were wonderful days. Eheu, as liam W. Mendenhall, Jr. '45, son of Bull Durham was saying to me only I have visited quite a few universi- CURW Director W. W. Mendenhall, the other day, fugaces. Beer was a ties here and there, within and without Robert J. Millar '45 of Silver Springs, nickel a seidel at Hi Henry's. John the United States, including Md., Stephen Jeckovich '46 of Ni- Paul Jones had just introduced the the "big four" of the Middle agara Falls, Daniel C. McCarthy, Jr. Loyalty principle of jet propulsion into the ^ Ageg (0χford> the gorb0nne, '46 of Evanston, 111., Robert B. Par- mile run. With Carl Hallock in the oun S Salamanca, and Bologna), sons '46 of Ilion, James W. Hopkins White House under the name of Cairo itself, and the Universίdad de '47 of Birmingham, Mich., Ben-Ami Rutherford B. Hayes, the country was San Marcos in Lima, Peru, which Lipetz '47 of New York City, Philip happy and prosperous. Little did we last-named is older than Harvard. P. Page, Jr. '47 of Evanston, 111., dream that two wars and the Alumni When I attended the Sorbonne, I David F. Potter '47 of East Roches- Fund were just around the corner! thought it too bad that there were no ter, Stephen B. Profilet '47 of Cairo, Ah, well! Those were the days. Ex- athletic teams, to develop some 111., Albert A. E. Bock '48 of Philadel- cuse my emotion, but I wouldn't ex- school spirit and depopulate the cafe's phia, Pa., Robert S. Hamilton '48 of change the memory of those four a little. The same held true for the Oak Park, 111., Peter Harriott '48 of wonderful years at Hobart for all the Unίversίdad de Sevίlla. At the time, I Longmeadow, Mass., William Kaplan wealth of the Indies. pitied the boys mainly for what they '48 of Washington, D. C., Oscar C. were missing. Rohrmoser '48 of San Jose, Costa 520 Cornell Alumni News Rica, Richard F. Rundell '48 of ty-eight Sophomores will begin an persons in foreign service and others Greenville, and William L. North '49 eight-week southern cruise June 21 who plan to work in China. Professor of Pueblo, Colo. aboard a cruiser. Charles F. Hockett of the Division of Professor Dexter S. Kimball, Me- All these students will serve as Modern Languages will direct the chanical Engineering, Emeritus, ad- midshipmen with active-duty pay; course, with instruction by native dressed the initiates at the society's all are "regular" NROTC students Chinese speakers. A new curriculum annual banquet, May 21. who are paid $50 a month while in in rural economics and sociology is de- Last January, Tau Beta Pi initiated the University and are required to signed for theological students prepar- the following thirty-three new mem- take three summer cruises. Following ing for work in rural churches, and bers: Edward H. Berg '45 of Chelms- graduation, they will have two years through the Rural Church Institute, ford, Mass., Leonard W. Bertelsen of active duty in the Navy. twelve Eastern theological seminaries III '44 of Pittsburgh, Pa., Gino have agreed to allow credit for these Twenty-six Seniors with "contract" courses to their students. P. Cofacci '47 of Ithaca, Walter R. NROTC status will begin a three- Cromwell '46 of Kew Gardens, Ken- week cruise to southern waters June The regular Summer Session opens neth S. Edwards, Jr. '45 of Suffield, 19, as reserve midshipmen aboard July 1 and closes August 9. For Cor- Conn., David L. Eggers '42 of Larch- destroyers, with active-duty pay. nell undergraduates whose courses mont, Jerry Grey '48 of Brooklyn, Contract students agree to make but have been interrupted by the war and Wilbur 0. Gundlach '45 of Coral one summer cruise and are not ob- who register for the Summer Session, Gables, Fla., Alfred A. Hagedorn, Jr. ligated to serve on active duty follow- six additional weeks of instruction, '40 of Ithaca, Charles W. Hallagan '47 ing completion of their course. through September 19, will be offered of Newark, James B. Hudders '48 of in subjects most in demand. Under- Utica, Roger S. Jackson '44 of Har- graduates of other colleges and uni- vey, 111., Thomas R. Keene '42 of Summer Session Plans versities may enter the Summer Ses- Elkhart, Ind., Sanford Klion '46 of TNNOVATION in the regular Uni- sion only if they have completed two Westfield, N. J. Charles G. Mallery -* versity Summer Session this year years of college work. Courses offered '45 of Albany, Vincent Moscarella '45 is the participation of the State are of special interest to teachers and of Brooklyn, Hugh L. Myers '48 of School of Industrial and Labor Re- vocational workers, graduate students, Tunkhannock, Pa., Richard L. Qua- lations, with special courses on human and upperclassmen. sey '47 of Lake Bluff, 111., William J. relations in industry, workers' educa- Professor Charles W. Jones, PhD Rossi '47 of Lead, S. D., David E. tion, part-time cooperative programs, '32, English, is Director of the Sum- Rothschild '45 of Newark, N. J., Wil- and group discussion techniques. mer Session. Announcement giving liam F. Santelmann, Jr. '48 of Arling- Among other offerings for professional details of all courses, requirements for ton, Va., John D. Saunders '48 of workers seeking special training will admission, costs, and the Summer Great Neck, Stuart K. Sherman '46 be an intensive twelve-week course Session program may be obtained of New York City, Leslie V. Shute '48 in spoken Chinese, from July 1 to from the Summer Session office, of Mountain Lakes, N. J., William September 19, of special interest to Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca. A. Sklarz '46 of Brooklyn, David B. Spalding '44 of Fort Worth, Tex., William E. Speece '47 of York, Nebr., Robert L. Trimpi '46 of Chatham, N. J., George D. Ward '44 of Rochester, Richard J. Waiters III '47 of Buffalo, J. Coleman White '45 of LaPorte, Ind., and two alumni, Samuel Gar- mezy '13 of Manila, P. I., and Homer R. Seely '19 of Jackson Heights. Take Navy Cruises UMMER cruises will be made by S some sixty-five NROTC students, as part of their training in the Navy program. The cruises will integrate students from NROTC units through- out the country with those from the US Naval Academy, thus carrying out the new Navy policy of training three-quarters of all line officers at civilian institutions and the remainder at the US Academy. Four Seniors began an eleven- week cruise to north European waters, June 7, serving two-thirds of their time aboard a battleship and one- third on a destroyer. They are as- ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WIN HOME DESIGN PRIZES Weβp signed for training as members of Walter P. McQuade '44 of Port Washington and Eric H. Quell '44 of Forest Hills, the ships companies, with special returned Army veterans, pictured in the Architecture drafting room in White Hall with training in engineering, gunnery, and their fellow prize-winner, Linn Ericson '48 of Danbury, Conn., of $100 awards in a Chi- navigation. Seven Juniors, left with cago Tribune "Better Homes for Better Living" contest. Among 1600 contestants, Mc- Quade and Quell won prizes for their two joint entries of plans, elevations, and perspec- the same group for a nine-week tives of bedrooms, including furnishings and decorations. Miss Ericson's prize-winning cruise aboard an aircraft carrier, te entry was a water-color rendering of a combination dining and living room. Professional receive aviation indoctrination. Twen- adviser for the competition was Boyd T. Hill '20, a Chicago architect. June I, 1947 521 Veterinary Honors Ormsbee and Cooper were elected professor of Clinical Medicine and to Phi Zeta, Veterinary honor society, attending physician at the University ONOR Day exercises for the with five others: Louis C. Schimoler Infirmary and Clinic. Their home is Veterinary College were May 14 H '45 of Floral Park, Edward A. Rhode at 604 Mitchell Street, Ithaca. in the Willard Straight Memorial '48 of Amsterdam, John W. Kendrick Room. Dean William A. Hagan, MS '46 of Washington, D. C., Jane E. '17, presided; Professor Donald W. Whallon '47 of Kenmore, and John R. Baker '29, Veterinary Parasitology, Leahy '47 of Ithaca. presented prizes; and Dr. Richard E. Time Was . . . Shope of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research spoke on "Con- New Haven Has Graham Seventy-five Years Ago tributions to Human Medicine from /CORNELL Club of New Haven, June, 1872—Class Day exercises Research in Animal Diseases." The ^ Conn., meeting May 2 at the were held in Library Hall, with the program was followed by the annual Winchester Clubhouse, heard Uni- following programme: Music; opening dance of the Cornell junior chapter of versity Secretary Edward K. Graham, address by the president, John B. the American Veterinary Medical PhD '38, speak on Cornell traditions. Lawrence; essay by Herbert E. Cope- Association, of which Karl R. Rein- John H. Duncan '19 was elected land; music; oration by Fox Holden; hard '49 of Ithaca is president. president, succeeding Walter R. Dann music; poem by David Starr Jordan; W. A. Wentworth, secretary of the '22, who presided. Other officers are music; Class history by Jarrett P. Borden Co. Foundation, Inc., present- vice-president, Henry A. Pfisterer '29; Serviss; Class song. The Class then ed the Borden Veterinary Scholarship secretary-treasurer, Diedrich K. Wil- marched in procession to the Uni- of $300, for the highest three-year lers '36; and governors, M. Stanton versity Campus, where Timothy San- scholastic record in all Veterinary Fowler, Jr. '35 and Samuel D. Bogan derson, the Memorial Orator, in fitting studies, to Mary C. Hallenbeck '47 of '26. terms dedicated to the University the Hoffmans, who also won the Mary grove of elms planted by the Class Louise Moore Prize of $40 for the best Pittsburgh Women along President's Avenue, and the work in Bacteriology and the first CORNELL Women's Club of Pitts- memorial stone, on which is engraved Horace K. White Prize of $75 for the ^ burgh, Pa., met June 7 at the "Prima inter pares '72." The calumet best academic record. Second White home of Mrs. Jacob DeS. Freund was then passed around, and each Prize, worth $25, went to John H. (Lillian Myers) '96, and elected Mrs. member of the Class took a few Graves '47 of Hartsville, Pa. Walter D. Brown (Elizabeth Sch- whiffs. For the best work in Veterinary meck) '40 president, succeeding Mrs. Forty Years Ago Anatomy, the Addison D. Merry Charles F. Kells (Mary Klages) '24, June, 1907—Highlight of Reunions Prizes, worth $30 and $20, were who is moving to New York City. awarded to Muriel Osgood '48 of was the annual baseball game between Elizabeth R. Gass '41 was elected the alumni team and the Varsity, on Cumberland Center, Me., and Wil- treasurer of the Club. liam A. Greene '49 of Ithaca. Jane Percy Field. The grand parade to the Miller Prizes in Physiology, $25 and game, starting from State and Aurora $15, were won by Richard L. Heath Entomologist Dies Streets, was led by a small delegation of '92 men, carrying brooms. Then '49 of Ithaca and Reinhard. Charles PROFESSOR phmp A. Readίo, G. Bondy Prizes of $25 and $15, for * Entomology, died May 28, 1947, came the Class of '97, eighty strong, medicine and surgery of small ani- in Sayre, Pa., wearing white shirts and trousers, red mals, went to Clark A. Taylor '47 of after a two- neckties, and enormous straw helmets. Schenectady and John L. Phelps '45 month's ill- The '02 men wore grey shirts and of Ithaca. Anne Besse Prizes of $25 ness. white trousers. After them came '04, and $15 for medicine and clinical Widely gorgeous in an oriental costume of diagnosis were awarded to Elmer L. known for his orange and green, topped off with pig- Robinson '47 of Ballston Spa and research on tails. Behind them dragged the re- Benjamin P. Bonelli '47 of Saugus, blood-sucking mains of the famous Water Wagon. Calif. Benelli also won third prize of insects and on Bands played as the many-hued pro- $10, awarded by the New York State barb beetles cession marched around the cinder Veterinary Medical Society, for the associated path. The noisiest part of the parade best case reports presented for publi- with Dutch was furnished by "Kid" Kugler '03 cation to the Society's Veterinary elm disease, and a few of his Classmates, who News, first and second prizes of $25 Professor Readio came to the Uni- arrived with a toy express wagon filled and $15 going to William G. Schaer, versity in 1934 as assistant professor with firecrackers. Unfortunately, for Jr. '43 of St. Albans and Jack W. of Entomology, to initiate research on the first time in many years, the Bailey '47 of Madison, Wis. the entomological aspects of Dutch alumni team was beaten by the Var- sity, 4-0. "The result might have been James Gordon Bennett Prizes of elm disease. The following year he was promoted to professor of Eco- different if the umpire's eyesight had $25 and $15 for humaneness in hand- been better." ling animals were awarded to Cecil D. nomic Entomology, in charge of grad- Cooper, Jr. '47 of Avenal, Calif., and uate students in that field. Ten Years Ago John H. Reighley, Jr. '45 of Valley Professor Readio received the BS June, 1937—"A member of the Stream. Poultry Disease Prize of $50 in 1920 at Massachusetts State Col- Class of '07 who desires to remain went to Malcolm B. Carsley '47 of lege, the MS in 1922 and the PhD in anonymous, but whose name is Tay- Pittsfield, Mass., for his essay, "Black- 1926 at the University of Kansas, lor, thoroughly hoaxed the commun- head in Turkeys." Robert W. Orms- where he was associate professor until ity by introducing into the Reunions, bee '47 of Stockton, Calif., won the coming to Cornell. He was a member as old grads, three members of the Alpha Psi Prize of a $25 US Savings of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Gamma cast of "Naughty Naught" now Bond, as the graduate "best equipped Alpha, and Alpha Gamma Rho. His playing in New York. For two days to advance the standards of veteri- first wife died in 1943. His second, Dr, these talented thespians were vividly nary science." Helen Elston Readio '27, is assistant recalled by the vast majority of their 522 Cornell Alumni News Classmates. Professor Bull Durham Acquire New Buildings dent, Carlton H. Barrows, AM '33; remembered teaching one of them the vice-president, Rudolph L. Sittinger Odes of Horace in the spring of 1903. V\^AR-SURPLUS buildings and '15; secretary, William A. White, Jr. Mr. George Coleman remembered ** equipment worth some $500,- '40; and treasurer, Archie C. Burnett clearly giving the second one man- 000, requested by the University from '90. Ernest F. Bowen '12 was added dolin lessons. After the denouement, the Federal Works Agency, have ar- as a vice-president from Maine, and both Messrs. Durham and Coleman rived and are being erected on and two directors were elected for three- claimed that they were at no time de- near the Campus. The FWA bears year terms: Herbert H. Coe '30 and ceived, but were themselves acting in the cost of dismantling the buildings, James M. Goodwillie '42. aid of the deception. Number of per- transporting them to Ithaca, and re- sons who credited these disclaimers: 0. assembling them here. New York Mortar Board Elects "The weather was mostly humid State Emergency Housing Joint Board and disagreeable. Academic robes and has granted the University $58,000 TV/TORTAR Board, Senior women's Reunion blazers became sticky and for site preparations and installation *•*'*• honor society, carried on the clinging. One Trustee described him- of utilities. traditional candlelight ceremony in self as sweating in his silk gown at the A new airplane engine laboratory, Bailey Hall May 20, when eleven to contain much of the equipment now baccalaureate sermon "like a bank members of the Class of '48 were director under oath/7 housed in the basement of Morse Hall tapped for the chapter next year. "Observations of this and many [see the ALUMNI NEWS for November Two are daughters of Cornellians. The 1, 1946], is going up west of the To- other Reunions indicate that a re- new initiates: boggan House on Beebe Lake in an turning alumnus is just as sentimental Billie P. Carter of Honolulu, Hawaii, all-steel building with floor area of Chemical Engineering; editor Cornell as his feet. As long as the dogs hold up, 4,000 square feet, moved from Davis- Engineer, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Delta Epsilon he will clasp total strangers as well- president. remembered Classmates, parade end- ville, R. I. Martha J. Clark of Lakewood, Ohio, Four more such buildings have lessly, and weep copiously at each Home Economics; Ag-Domecon Council, come from Davisville to the new air- CURW women's activities chairman, rendition of the Evening Song. But port northeast of the Campus on Raven & Serpent; Delta Gamma. when the feet go, the Reunion is Helene F. Hano of Granby, Mass., Arts; Warren Road, to constitute a new air- practically over."—R.B. Willard Straight committee; Sigma Delta frame laboratory of the Graduate Tau. School of Aeronautical Engineering. Sylvia N. Kilbourne, Home Economics, daughter of Edwin I. Kilbourne ;17 and Council Finds for ROTC Two two-story barracks from West- Elizabeth Alward Kilbourne '18 of Ridge- erly, R. I., totaling 28,500 square feet, wood, N. J.; president of Balch III, Raven OTUDENT COUNCIL president are being erected on the tennis courts & Serpent; Delta Gamma. ^ Harold E. Saunders, Jr. '47 of behind Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ina Lifsitz of Paterson, N. J., Arts; Swissvale, Pa., has addressed an of- to be used by the College of Engineer- Cornell Bulletin news board, Desk Book ficial communication to the Board of assistant editor, vice-president of Balch I, ing for shops, laboratories, and storage Raven & Serpent; Sigma Delta Tau. Trustees and University Faculty, ex- of machine tool equipment. The Col- Mary E. Mears of Merion, Pa., Arts; plaining the findings of the Council lege of Home Economics will also use 1947 Cornellian assistant editor; Delta for its recent resolution favoring the a section of these barracks. Gamma. continuance of required military train- Mathilda G. Norfleet, Arts, daughter of Two more buildings from Davis- Mrs. Carrie Mason Norfleet Ίl of Beth- ing for Freshmen and Sophomores at ville, R. I., are going on the Faculty esda, Md. Cascadilla Hall vice-president, the University: tennis courts behind Rockefeller Hall, 1947 Cornellian business board; Kappa . . . After an investigation it was decided Alpha Theta. that the student Council is definitely in to be used by the Department of Beverly H. Pratt of Great Neck, Home favor of the compulsory ROTC training Physics; they will have a combined Economics; Sophomore Class Council, program for the following reasons: floor area of 8,500 square feet. The Circle president; Alpha Xi Delta. 1) The ROTC Department functions at Patricia A. Smith of Niagara Falls, Cornell in order to carry out the program Furnishings and laboratory equip- Home Economics; Balch II president; as set down by the War Department at ment for these buildings are included Kappa Kappa Gamma. Washington. in the grant. They are expected to be Lailita R. Stubbs of San Antonio, Tex., 2) Since the general curriculum offered ready for use next fall. Arts; Willard Straight board of managers, comes directly from said War Depart- Raven & Serpent; Delta Delta Delta. ment, it comes from those versed infinitely The FWA has also given to the Louise Van Nederynen of Castleton-on- more than any of us on military training. University the temporary structure Hudson, Home Economics; 1947 Cornel- 3) The main purpose of this training is which it erected on Sage Green to lian editorial board, Arete, Raven & to impress upon the students the necessity Serpent. for national security, and the obligations house the Diesel Engineering Labora- which each of us have in that connection. tory. Last fall, the Diesel engines and The new members elected Miss 4) The post-war program is better than equipment worth more than $2,000,- Smith president of the society; Miss it ever was before, and it is steadily im- 000 was given outright to the Univer- Hano, vice-president; Miss Norfleet, proving. sity by the Navy Department. secretary; Miss Van Nederynen, treas- 5) Constant additions of professors from the Cornell Faculty to the ROTC teaching urer; and Miss Lifsitz, Quarterly and lecturing staff is gradually rounding New England Gathers editor. out the general lectures on world military Ten members of the Class of '49 history affairs. /CORNELL Club of New England were elected to Raven & Serpent, 6) Furthermore, until the outcome of ^ met May 16 for a dinner dance at Junior women's honor society: Lois the Universal Compulsory Military Train- the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, ing Bill now before Congress, it seems ad- M. Birrell of Bronxville, Ann B. visable to uphold the present system since Mass. Approximately 100 persons Crowley of Torrington, Conn., Anne if the bill passes there would be no ques- were present. E. Dickinson of Etna, Joyce E. Gra- tion as to whether the training would be Speakers included Provost Arthur ham of LeRoy, Patricia M. Kendall mandatory or not. S. Adams, Director of Athletics Rob- In taking this stand, the Student Coun- of Buffalo, Marilyn C. Lee of Middle- cil believes it is doing its duty for its ert J. Kane '34, and Assistant Track town, Martha J. McKelvey of Ames, country and for its school. Furthermore, Coach Edward G. Ratkoski '35. Iowa, Clara A. Newell of Westfield, we are fully prepared to assist the Board Coach John F. Moakley was also Helen K. Osborne of Mount Lebanon, of Trustees and/or the Faculty in gather- present and was introduced. ing any further data which they might Pa., and Rosemily Petrison of Wil- deem necessary on this matter. All officers were re-elected: presi- liams ville. June /, 1947 523 May 22; lost twice to Manlius School, 9-5 on Hoy Field May 24 and 3-2 at By Manlius May 31; and played a 5-5 Slants on Sports tie in ten innings with Sampson Col- lege on Hoy Field May 27. This gave the team a season record of three Λ^/L but two of Cornell's sports squads completed their seasons by the victories, four defeats, and two ties. last day of May, with the tennis team compiling the top record: shar- ing with Yale the championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Crews Do Well Association. The teams did not meet in the regular schedule, and each won ARSITY crew broke even in two six matches and lost none. An effort to schedule a playoff for the title came Vregattas in late May, defeating to naught. Syracuse in record time on Onondaga The crews and baseball players will finish up this month. Lake, May 24, and losing to the Naval Academy by an estimated four feet on Tennis Ties at Top innings for a record of three victories Cayuga Lake, May 31. and nine defeats to tie with Dart- On Onondaga, the Varsity won by ENNIS team, coached by Rich- mouth for last place in the circuit. T ard Lewis, compiled a season's three lengths over a two-mile course in Cornell had strong hitting, but 10:46.8, bettering the 10:51.6 record record of thirteen victories and two lacked pitching. Cornell's final mark defeats. Cornell lost only to the Uni- set by Cornell in 1942. Syracuse was of .280 in team batting seems likely to timed in 10:59. The Junior Varsity versity of North Carolina in two lead the League when the final games matches on the spring training trip. also defeated Syracuse by three- are played by Harvard, Princeton, quarters of a length, but the Fresh- Richard Savitt '50 of East Orange, and Yale. As of May 31, Yale was N. J., the team's No. 1 player who is man eight lost by four and one-half second in team batting with .266. lengths. The Junior Varsity times ranked No. 5 in Eastern tennis and In winding up its League season, who was the national junior champion were 10:56.9 and 11:00, the Freshman Cornell played two doubleheaders in 11:06.2 and 11:24.5. two years ago, won twelve of his two days, losing to Yale, 1-3, and thirteen matches, losing only to Cayuga Lake was at its best for the winning, 3-1, at New Haven May 23 May 31 regatta, rowed on the west Seixas of North Carolina. and dropping two games to Harvard, In winding up its regular schedule, shore course finishing off the Ithaca 3-15 and 3-4, at Cambridge May 24, Yacht Club. All three races were at the tennis team defeated Pennsyl- before it met Pennsylvania in the vania, 7-2, at Philadelphia May 23; two miles. finale. In the Varsity, the two shells were Princeton, 6-3, at Princeton May 24; George D. Tesnow '49, taking over Colgate, 9-0, at Hamilton May 28; and never more than one-third of a length the catching assignment in the later apart, with Cornell taking the lead at Dartmouth, 8-1, on the Cascadilla League games, compiled a batting Courts May 31. the start, then yielding to the Mid- average of .474 in 9 hits in 19 times at shipmen. One-quarter of a mile from Cornell's Association victories were bat, but he will have no chance at the over Columbia, Dartmouth, Pennsyl- the finish, Cornell pulled up even and Charles H. Blair '97 Bat, emblematic the crews battled it out stroke for vania, Princeton, and the US Military of the League's individual batting and Naval Academies. stroke, with the Naval Academy hit- championship. A minimum of 30 at- ting a 39 beat in the blazing finish. The final standing of the teams: bats is required. W L PC The times were 10:34.4 and 10:35.4. Cornell 6 0 1.000 John Cordes '47, shortstop, also The Junior Varsity won by a half- Yale 6 0 1.000 missed qualifying as he picked up 10 length in 11:04, with the Naval Military Academy 4 2 .667 hits in 28 times at bat for a .357 Academy timed in 11:05.6. The Princeton 4 2 .667 average. This made Frank McArthur Naval Academy 4 3 .571 Academy plebes defeated the Fresh- Pennsylvania 2 5 .286 '48, center fielder, the top Cornell hit- man eight by one and one-half Columbia 1 5 .167 ter with 13 hits in 38 times at bat for lengths. The times were 11:09 and Harvard 1 5 .167 a mark of .342. 11:15. Dartmouth 0 6 .000 Thomas. R. Turner '50 was Cor- Savitt and Leonard L. Steiner '51 Cornell's 150-pound crews com- nell's best pitcher, winning two de- pleted their season May 24 by enter- of Brooklyn will represent Cornell in cisions and losing one. singles and doubles competition in the taining Yale and MIT on Cayuga. In team fielding, Cornell had a Yale won the varsity race by three- National Collegiate Athletic Associ- mark of .928, good for fourth place as ation championships in California, quarters of a length over MIT, with of May 31. Cornell another length behind in third starting June 23. Steiner played only The closing game on Hoy Field was in non-Association matches this sea- place. The times for the mile and five- a weird one. Five Cornell and two sixteenths: Yale 7:19, MIT 7:22, son. He was ineligible for league play Pennsylvania pitchers gave thirty-one because he is a civilian Freshman. Cornell 7:26. bases on balls and Cornell was charged In the Junior Varsity race over the Savitt will go to the coast as the with five errors. Cornell blew a 5-0 same course, Cornell defeated Yale by Varsity captain-elect for 1948. lead in the early innings and fought one and one-half lengths, timed in The Junior Varsity tennis team back to an 11-11 tie at the end of the 8:05. Yale's time was 8:12. MIT did made its only appearance May 23, de- ninth on McArthur's triple to left, not compete in this race. feating Bucknell Junior College, 9-0, scoring 2 runs. But Pennsylvania's The heavyweight Varsity, Junior on the Cascadilla Courts. Steiner, catcher, Antoni, exploded a double to Varsity, and Freshman crews will playing No. 1, won his match with drive in 2 runs in the tenth and scored compete at Poughkeepsie June 21, the loss of only one game. himself to end the game. where eleven varsity eights will row With three games left to play, the three miles. A week later, Cornell will In League Cellar team's record for the season was five race at 2,000 meters on Lake Wash- "DASEBALL team completed its victories and seventeen defeats. ington at Seattle, going directly from •*-* Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball The Junior Varsity baseball team Poughkeepsie June 22 with nine league season May 31 on Hoy Field, dropped a 5-4 decision to the Ithaca other crews on a special train, taking losing to Pennsylvania, 11-14, in ten College Junior Varsity on Hoy Field their own shells. 524 Cornell Alumni News Lacrosse Breaks Even and physical education department War Stories in Chicago at Brighton High School, Rochester. TACROSSE team completed its Pierce will coach the 150-pound ORNELL Club of Chicago, 111., -•—' season with an even break in two football team, first organized in 1936 C at its Thursday luncheon May 15 games, defeating Colgate, 14-6, on with Robert S. Grant '34, then a Law at the University Club, heard Theron Schoellkopf Field May 24 and losing School student, as coach. Alfred B. L. Rathje '41 talk on his experiences to the Military Academy, 2-14, at Wolff, Varsity boxing coach, was in as a counter intelligence officer on the West Point May 31. charge of the squad for five years Russian border of Korea. William L. Gaines '49, first attack, until he entered the Navy in 1942. C. Longford Felske '24 spoke on had a field day against Colgate, scor- The sport, suspended for three war "Navy Reminiscences," April 24. ing 7 goals. The goals against the years, was resumed last fall with Military Academy were scored by Robert L. Cullen as coach. Cullen New Yorkers Cavort James Epler '51, in home, and Elias will continue as an assistant Varsity W. Bartholow, Jr. '48, out home. football coach. WO hundred and fifty Cornellians The team finished with a season's Smith will become coach of Fresh- Tfrom the Classes of '97 to '47 record of three victories and four man soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, "cavorted and careened in enjoy- defeats. starting in September. He is a grad- ment" at the annual "Spring Day in uate of Rochester's Charlotte High Manhattan," May 23 at the Cornell Golfers Win, Lose School and of Springfield College in Club of New York. OLF team won and lost in two 1936. He will receive the Master's Following cocktails and dinner there G matches with Colgate, to finish degree in physical education at the was "much divertissement: dancing, its season with seven victories and University of Rochester this month. tin-type photographs on a bicycle- three defeats. Robert J. Kane '34, Director of built-for-two, wheels of chance oper- Cornell won over Colgate, 5 ^-3^, on Physical Education and Athletics, ated for the benefit of the Club's the sodden University course May 24, also announced that Hanley W. scholarship fund, accordian players, then lost, 4-5, at Hamilton May 28. Staley, assistant swimming coach, singers, and special entertainment by William D. P. Carey Jr. '47, the will take charge of the Beebe Lake that incomprable Savage Club team's No. 1 player, defeated Sewall swimming pool this summer. team," Charles A. Norris '24 and Carl of Colgate in the Ithaca match, but He will succeed Walter C. O'Con- Schraubstader '23. Chairmen of ar- lost to him at Hamilton. It was nell '12, Varsity wrestling coach, who rangements were Robert D. Guthrie Carey's second defeat in ten matches has directed swimming safety for '35 and Rudolph M. Triest Ίl. this season. twenty years, since before the official Officers of the Club for 1947-48 are swimming hole was moved from the president, Edwin T. Gibson '07; exe- power house to Beebe Lake in 1929. cutive vice-president, Charles H. Blair One Track Score O'Connell asked the Department to '97; treasurer, Wallace B. Quail '19; RACK team scored only a single be relieved from the summer assign- vice-presidents, William L. Kleitz '15, Tpoint in the Intercollegiates at ment. During those twenty years, Walter S. Wing '07, Walter R. Kuhn Franklin Field, Philadelphia, May 30 there have been no accidents or drown- '12, and Victor Emanuel '19; secre- and 31. New York University won ings at the pool. tary, John P. Nell '33; and librarian, the championship. Henrv P. deForest '84. Cornell's point was earned by Wil- liam S. Owen, Jr. '49 of Bluefield, W. Va., who was elected captain for Ill 1948 just before the meet. Owen placed fifth in the broad jump with 23 feet % inch. Owen achieved this mark early in the qualifying trials. A little later, iiii he pulled a muscle and was unable to compete in the finals. His qualifying mark was good enough, however, for the fifth place. Three other athletes went through the qualifying tests successfully but did not score in the finals. John E. Servis '49 threw the discus 139 feet 7J inches, and Bernard Bernstein '48 and Richard A. McCall '48 qualified in the 100- and 220-yard dashes, respectively. Servis improved his mark to 142 feet 7 inches in the finals, but it was not good enough for the first five places. He finished sixth. New Appointments WO coaches have been added to Tthe Department of Physical Edu- cation and Athletics: Edward I. FRESHMAN BROADCASTS Wesp Pierce, for eighteen years until 1946 Audrey E. Rossman, who entered Arts and Sciences this year with a National Scholarship, football and baseball coach at Ithaca continues her participation in radio broadcasting begun at Western High School, Balti- more, Md. With John D. Morris '45 of DeGolia, Pa., (at boom microphone) and Alan M. High School, and Ross H. Smith, for Strout '48 of Washington, D.C., (at console), she puts on a Radio Guild program in the eleven years director of the health Willard Straight Hall studio of WVBR ("Voice of the Big Red"). June 75, IQ47 525 1947 PROGRAM Oϊ

For location of Class headquarters and the various Class dinners, eating facilities on the Campus, and in- formation concerning messages and other services, see separate Program Card. All Reunion events are scheduled L on Eastern daylight saving time.

Friday, June 13 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reunion registration, Barton Hall. (All alumni are urged to register at Barton Hall, formerly the Drill Hall, whether or not their Classes are holding Reunions. Official count of Class atten- dance, as the basis for award of the Class Secretaries Association cups, is made only on the basis of those registered here before 3 p.m. Saturday.) 10:30 a.m. Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs executive committee meeting, Willard Straight Hall, Room 17 12 to 2 p.m. Luncheon for all alumni and Faculty, Barton Hall (Tickets at Barton Hall, 900 2 to 3:30 p.m. "Campus Caravan" bus tours of the Campus and vicinity, start from Barton Hall, west entrance (Free tickets for stated tours at Barton Hall information desk) 5 p.m. Alumni-Faculty Get-together, Willard Straight Memorial Room 5:30 p.m. Home Economics Alumnae Association annual meeting and supper, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall 6 p.m. Class dinners (see Program Card for locations) 7:30 p.m. Alumni & Senior singing, Goldwin Smith Hall portico 8:30 p.m. Dramatic Club presents "Ah, Wilderness!" by Eugene O'Neill, Willard Straight Theater (Reserved seats at Willard Straight desk and box-office, 90^) 8:45 p.m. Men's Glee Club Reunion show, "Strike Up a Song," Bailey Hall (Reserved seats at Willard Straight desk, Barton Hall, Baker Tower, $1.20) Saturday, June 14 7:30 a.m. All-Cornell Women's Breakfast, Clara Dickson Hall (Tickets at the door, $1) 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Reunion registration (All alumni are urged to register at Barton Hall, to assure credit for your Class attendance; official count is taken here only) 8:30 a.m. Architecture alumni breakfast, Johnny Parson Club 8:30 a.m. Association of Class Secretaries annual meeting, Willard Straight Hall Terrace Room Alumni-Faculty Get-together Opportunity is offered all alumni fessor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, to greet old friends of the Faculty Emeritus, is in charge, and many of and make new ones at an informal the resident emeritus professors and gathering in Willard Straight Mem- others from all Colleges and Depart- orial Room from 5 to 6, Friday. Pro- ments will attend. Refreshments. Chimes Ringings During the three days of Reunions, the Chimes in the Clock Tower will be played by the Chimemaster, Fremont J. McKenrick '45 of Ebensburg, Pa., at the following times: Friday, June 13 8:50 to 9 a.m. 11:50 to noon 5:50 to 6 p.m. 7:15 to 7:30 p.m. before the alumni and SenioQατ»i/~»rτ sίnffinSsingingf , ando n/ l +V>theo ^TΓ.trΛ n ϊ rί n Song" at close Saturday, June 14 9:50 to 10 a.m. 12 noon to 12:10 5:50 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 15 9:50 to 10 a.m., before the Alumni Memorial Service in Sage Chapel Monday, June 16 Before and after Commencement The Clock Tower and all other University buildings will be open for inspection by alumni and for them to find their friends, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. 526 Cornell Alumni News LASS REUNIONS Saturday June 14 10:30 a.m. Annual meetings of Cornell Alumni Association and Alumni Fund, for all alumni: report of Alumni Trustee elections and Presi- dent Day's "Report to the Alumni." 12 to 2 p.m. Luncheon for all alumni and Faculty, Barton Hall (Tickets at Barton Hall, QOjzi) 2 p.m. Grand "peerade" of Classes, Barton Hall to Hoy Field 2:15 p.m. Class group pictures, Hoy Field stands 2:30 p.m. Baseball, Colgate, Hoy Field 2:30 p.m. Annual meeting, Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, Wil- lard Straight Hall west lounge 4:30 p.m. Rowing pageant of alumni crews, Cayuga Inlet (Best vantage point for spectators is on the west bank of the Inlet, opposite the Varsity Boathouse, reached from Route 89, past the Lehigh Valley station) 6 p.m. Van Cleef Dinner for Classes '73 through '96 (except '92), Balch III dining room 6 p.m. Class dinners (see Program Card for locations) 8:30 p.m. Dramatic Club presents "Ah, Wilderness!" Willard Straight Theater (Reserved seats at Willard Straight desk and box-office, 90,0 9:30 p.m. Reunion Rally for all alumni: deluxe entertainment and award of Association of Class Secretaries cups, Bailey Hall 10:45 p.m. Savage Club meeting, 113 East Green Street Sunday, June 15 9 a.m. Quill and Dagger alumni breakfast, Willard Straight Hall Terrace Room 9 a.m. Sphinx Head alumni breakfast, Willard Straight Hall Rehearsal Room 9 a.m. Mortar Board alumnae breakfast, Balch II dining room 10 a.m. Alumni memorial service, Sage Chapel 4 p.m. Academic procession and Baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. James T. Cleland of Duke University, Bailey Hall 7 p.m. Senior Class Day and singing, Goldwin Smith Hall portico Monday, June 16 11 a.m. Seventy-ninth annual Commencement, Barton Hall

You Can Play Golf Alumni are invited to play on the is on Kline Road, north from Forest University Golf Course, which is one Home, where the professional is of the sportiest courses in this section, the Varsity golf coach, George Hall. designed by Robert Trent Jones '32, For reservations, telephone 3331 Ext. and opened in 1941. The Clubhouse 2306. Green's fee $1.

4'Campus Caravans" All alumni are invited to partake of guided bus tours of the Campus and environs, Friday afternoon, to see quickly and comfortably the University as it is today. Chartered busses will leave the west entrance of Barton Hall at 2, 2:30, 3, and 3:30, each with a resident Cornellian aboard to identify points of interest and answer questions on a Λ-^ ^^^^ one-hour tour which will include the new buildings, present and projected, such as Olin Hall of Chemical Engineering and the Engineering College development at the south end of the Campus, High Voltage Laboratory, Myron Taylor Hall, Administration Building, the projected Statler Hall, Savage Hall of the School of Nutrition, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies development, the several new and pro- jected buildings of the College of Agriculture, and the new Animal Breeding laboratories; temporary structures of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Office of Vet- erans Education, and the several housing developments for veterans; Clara Dickson Hail and Balch Halls for women; Cayuga Heights and the University golf course; the gorge's and University playing fields and farms. Tickets are free at the information desk in Barton Hall.

June 15, 1947 527 Plantations Quarterly Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis phar- maceutical firm of which University Cornell Alumni News PRING issue of The Cornell Plan- Trustee Nicholas H. Noyes '06 is vice- 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. S tations prints a radio broadcast president, makes the award annually FOUNDED 1899 about Cornell and the Plantations to the outstanding bacteriologist in enterprise given by P. M. Wagner, Published the first and fifteenth of the United States or Canada who is editor of the Baltimore Sun, from not more than thirty-five years of age. each month except first only of July Station WGY. It also contains a tri- and September; no issue in August. bute to the late Dr. Albert R. Mann Professor Umbreit received the BS, Owned and published by the Cornell Al- '04, broadcast from the same station MS, and PhD at the University of umni Association under direction of a Wisconsin, where he taught for five committee composed of Phillips Wyman by Jared Van Wagenen, Jr. '91, last '17, chairman, Birge W. Kinne '16, Clif- February. Professor Arthur A. Allen years before coming to Cornell in 1944 ford S. Bailey '18, John S. Knight '18, and '08, Ornithology, writes on photo- as acting associate professor. He was Walter K. Nield '27. Officers of the Alumni graphing and making a record of par- made associate professor in 1945 and Association: Elbert P. Tuttle '18, Atlanta, promoted to professor in 1946. Ga., president; Emmet J. Murphy '22, tridge drumming in Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. east of the Campus, and Professor Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions', Ralph W. Curtis '01, Ornamental Houston Organizes foreign, $4-50. Life subscription, $75. Horticulture, describes and pictures, Single copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are ORNELL CLUB of Houston, renewed annually unless cancelled. in the first of two articles, "Some C Tex., met May 27 at the Houston Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Viburnums for Northern Gardens." Club and elected Arthur R. Gilman '16 president, Olin G. Bell '25 vice- Assistant Editors: president, and Robert J. Koch '27, JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 Carrier in Puerto Rico ORNELL-Pennsylvania Club of manager of Morse Chain Co. office in RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 Houston, secretary-treasurer. The Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, C Puerto Rico met for dinner Club plans a barbecue in September 22 Washington Square North, New York March 7 at the Hotel Condado in San City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. Juan. Guest of honor, Alumni Trustee to start the year's activities. Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. Willis H. Carrier '10, chairman of the Carrier Corp. of Syracuse, addressed Pittsburgh Women the gathering, which also honored WELVE members of the Cornell See Yourselves! Luis Torregrosa '36, Miguel Ferrer- TWomen's Club of Pittsburgh, Pa., EW booklet of the Ivy League Rincon '37, and Francisco de Jesus meeting April 12 at the College Club N Alumni Magazines portrays '38. entertained six undergraduate women, graphically the results in advertising Antonio Rodriguez-Geigel, PhD '34, home on vacation, at a tea. The guests response which come to firms using president of the Cornell group, re- were introduced by Mrs. W. Denning the pages of the alumni magazines of ports the party a success. "Our wives, Stewart (Margaret Thorp) '12. Mrs. Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Har- daughters, and sons participated in Charles F. Kells (Mary Klages) '24, vard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and the celebrations." president, announced that the Club Yale. had raised $66.65 for the Federation A hunter [of Results] and his dog Geneva Has Visitors Scholarship Fund at a benefit dinner carry the reader through the twenty- INTERNATIONAL reputation of February 22 at the home of Mrs. four pages and the message of who are Emerson Venable (Regis Illston) '32. the 100,000 readers of this group of -1 the Agricultural Experiment Sta- magazines, where they are, and why tion at Geneva brought visitors from they buy the products and services three European countries during one Engineers Elect they see advertised here. Haled before week in April. From Paris came Roger ORNELL Society of Engineers, at a doubting judge, the hunter answers Thellier of the French Institute of C its annual meeting May 13, all objections unequivocally, and is Agronomy to look over the work on elected Carl F. Ostergren '21 presi- finally shown beamingly ''bringing fruit juices and note recent advances dent, succeeding Robert B. Lea '15; home the bacon." in fermentation studies. A. W. Billitt Creed W. Fulton '09, executive vice- The booklet, hand-lettered and and H. A. Stevenson of the Boots president; Paul 0. Reyneau '13, re- illustrated in two colors, is attracting Pure Drug Co. of Nottingham, Eng- elected secretary-treasurer; and Karl considerable attention among ad- land, spent a day observing research J. Nelson '38, recording secretary. vertisers and agencies. Its conception on plant nutrition and chemistry of and execution are the work of a insecticides. From Shell Oil Co. in special' committee of our ALUMNI Amsterdam, Holland, came P. C. Coming Events NEWS advisory board, appointed by Blokker and J. G. Ten Houten for Phillips Wyman '17, chairman of the latest information on oil sprays and NEWS committee. Max F. Schmitt petroleum research. SATURDAY, JUNE 21 '24 of J. Walter Thompson Co. was Poughkeepsie: Intercollegiate Rowing As- chairman and he enlisted the help of Wins Lilly Award sociation regatta William C. McKeehan, Princeton '24, ROFESSOR Wayne W. Umbreit, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 of his agency. Copy and layout were PBacteriology, has been awarded Ithaca: Practising Law Institute three-day produced by Charles A. Holcomb '18 the 1947 Eli Lilly & Co. prize of $1,000 course for lawyers opens, Myron of Alley & Richards Co., and Charles and a gold medal. He was chosen by a Taylor Hall L. Funnell '16 of Henry A. Loudon Co. jury representing the Society of Amer- SATURDAY, JUNE 28 took charge of design and production. ican Bacteriologists, the American As- Seattle, Wash.: International regatta, Subscribers may obtain the Ivy sociation of Immunologists, and the Lake Washington League "Results" booklet either from American Society of Experimental TUESDAY, JULY 1 the ALUMNI NEWS or from Birge W. Pathologists, for his investigation of Ithaca: Summer Session opens Kinne '16 at the Ivy League office, 22 the growth mechanisms of primitive SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 Washington Square, New York City bacteria which grow on inorganic Ithaca: Summer Session ends 11. compounds.

528 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

Torrential rains the end of May turned Flint, Mich., John W. Laibe '50 of Final Exams: June 2 to June 10. In Fall Creek, Cascadilla, and Six Mile Akron, Ohio, and Harry S. Wilbur preparation for which, students in into thundering rivers, brought Cay- '49, son of Harry S. Wilbur '14 of Ft. large numbers attended the annual uga Lake almost to the level of the Benning, Ga. Clarence F. Morse '14 Bustees' Ball, May 31 in the Willard famous 1935 flood, and inundated the of Ithaca Post 221, presented Ameri- Straight Memorial Room. lowlands at the south end of town. can Legion gold medals to Robert A. Families of veterans had to be evacu- Gold '50 of Allentown, Pa., and Paul Philadelphia Enquirer of May 15 pic- ated from an Ithaca College housing T. Carver '49, son of Kenneth Carver tured Professor Wayne W. Umbreit, project near the fair grounds. The '20 of Riverhead, for high scores in Bacteriology, receiving the Lilly Ithaca-Elmira road was under several pistol and rifle competiton. Award for outstanding work in bac- feet of water in some places, and a teriology. "The prize," according to Greyhound bus was marooned there. Book and Bowl has elected John D. the newspaper, "carries with it a Stewart Park was under water except Ogden '36, English, president; David plague and $1,000 check." John A. for small islands. On the Campus, B. Harris '48, son of John B. Harris Morrison '18 sends us a clipping and cellars were flooded in University '01 of Watertown, secretary; Pro- suggests that "it might be well to con- buildings, including Alumni House, fessor Wallie A. Hurwitz, Mathe- fine Dr. Umbreit in the isolation sec- damaging stored records. matics, treasurer; and John L. Hyde tion of the Infirmary until he recovers '48 of Ithaca, steward. from the plague, and to levy on the Ithaca College awarded two honorary $1,000 to cover expenses." degrees at its fifty-second commence- Reconversion note: Willard Straight ment May 31, the Doctor of Fine Hall veterans' committee, formed in Sigma Kappa, for the second straight Arts to actress Katharine Cornell (in December, 1944, to aid returning vet- year, has won the Panhellenic Council absentia), and the Doctor of Music erans, has disbanded. scholarship cup, leading the twelve to Charles Previn '09, musical director other sororities with a combined at Radio City Music Hall in New York Bird census of the Cayuga Basin,con- average of 79.91. City. Previn's visit to Ithaca was his ducted annually by Professor Arthur first in thirty-five years, and his A. Allen '08, Ornithology, broke all Eastman Stage was won by Donald second since receiving the AB at records May 18, an extremely rainy R. Holmes '45 of Newtonville, Mass., Cornell in 1909. At the commence- Sunday, when some sixty hunters, in- who spoke on "A Yankee Farmer ment exercises, he conducted the cluding students, Faculty and wives, Looks at World Peace," and was Ithaca College orchestra in one num- and alumni, spotted a grand total of awarded $100. Second prize of $25 ber. University Provost Arthur S. 183 different species. If you're in- went to Gustav F. Papanek '46 of Adams addressed the graduates. terested, Professor Allen will send you Elmhurst, for "A City Youth Changes the list; it includes such birds as the His Mind." Josh White, folksinger and guitarist, double-crested cormorant, three varie- gave an excellent concert in Bailey ties of heron, the Southern bald '86 Memorial Prize in public speak- Hall May 31, under the auspices of eagle, two cuckoos, Whitman's hermit ing, now reduced from $86 to $75, was the Student Council, which thereby thrush, and our old friend the yellow- won by Thomas R. Lang '48 of River raised enough to underwrite the ex- bellied sapsucker. Forest, 111. Speaking on "Who Re- penses of four Cornell delegates to the members Druggen?" he denounced National Students Organization con- the apathy towards hunger and suf- ference in Madison, Wis., beginning INTERFAITH Memorial Day noon fering which he termed the breeding August 30. Maxwell Finestone '50 of service in Sage Chapel was conducted ground for dictatorship and war. Ithaca was concert manager. by the Rev. Edward D. Eddy '44, Associate Director of CURW, who Woodford Prize in Oratory, worth ROTC horse show, June 1 and 2 on read an impressive litany; Rabbi $120, was awarded to Richard W. upper Alumni Field, was the largest Maurice H. Schatz, chaplain for Jew- Perlman '45 of Mount Vernon, May since the war, with sixty-nine outside ish students, who gave the memorial 14 in Willard Straight Hall. The win- horses entered, in addition to those prayer and the benediction; and ner spoke on "A Foreign Policy for ridden by students. Bleachers ac- Father Donald M. Cleary, Grad '38, the Future." commodated the onlookers. Colonel chaplain of Catholic students, who Ralph Hospital, Commandant of delivered the memorial address. The More prizes: Alice Sperduti, AM '43, ROTC, judged the jumping classes Sage Chapel Choir was conducted by of Bristol, Conn., won the Messenger and awarded trophies. Professor Donald J. Grout, Music. Prize of $220 for her essay, "Petrarch Sponsored by the Interfraternity on the Origin and Definition of President's Review of the ROTC, Council and CURW, the service was Poetry." Gloria M. Feldman '47 of May 29 in Barton Hall, was conducted well attended by students, towns- Jersey City, N. J., won the Bess Ber- to the ominous sounds of a violent people, and members of the Faculty, low Cohan Prize of $100 as the best summer thunder storm. In the ab- It was dedicated to Cornellians who students of Classics and English. sence of President Day, Provost gave their lives in two World Wars: White Prizes of $100 were awarded to Arthur S. Adams reviewed the cadets, "to those who in their lives fought for Fernando Cordoves '48 of Quito, five of whom received medals for life, who travelled a short while toward Ecuador, as the Spanish-speaking scholarship, leadership, and atten- the sun, and left the vivid air signed student with the greatest proficiency dance: Dolf L. Goldsmith '50 of New with their honor." Memorial Day in English; to Shirley Aroesty '48 of York City, Charles E. Wille '50 of was not a University holiday. Rochester and Helen J. Mihalyfi '48 Montgomery, William C. Brasie '50 of of New York City, for her Spanish. June 15, 1947 529 or disgusted, and pull out. "If we do Mrs. Mollie Stevens Smart, wife of pull out of Europe, there is nothing in Professor Russell C. Smart, Child The Faculty sight to prevent the sweep of Com- Development and Family Relation- munism to the English Channel and ships, has been issued by the College the Mediterranean," he added. The of Home Economics. Catherine Mack- challenge to young American busi- enzie summarized the bulletin in her nessmen is "to support constructive column, "Parent and Child," in the policies in international and domestic New York Times, May 25. affairs to rebuild a peaceful, pros- perous, and freer world." Ithaca chapter of the American Statistical Association has elected Association of American Medical Professor Joseph E. Morton, In- Colleges has elected Dean Joseph C. dustrial and Labor Relations, presi- Hinsey of the Medical College a mem- dent; Professor Walter F. Willcox, ber of its executive council for a two- Economics, Emeritus, vice-president; year term. and Professor Harry J. Loberg '29, Administrative Engineering, secre- Professor Leslie N. Broughton, tary. Professors Howard B. Meek, English, Emeritus, has been named to Hotel Administration, and Thomas the board of visitors for English for N. Hurd, PhD '36, Land Economics, 1947-48 at Union College, Sehenec- were elected to the executive com- tady. He will visit the College several mittee. times during next year to review the English program and offer advice and Mary Judith Crowe, nine-year-old suggestions for improvement. Profes- daughter of Professor Cyril F. Crowe sor Broughton received the AB and '34, assistant State leader of county University Trustee Horace C. Flan- the AM at Union College. igan '12 (above), senior vice-president agricultural agents, was killed in- of Manufacturers Trust Co., 55 Broad stantly when she was struck by an Professor Samuel W. Moore, Clini- automobile May 25 near her home on Street, New York City, was elected cal Surgery, Medical College, has the Ithaca-Dryden road. in May vice-chairman of the board. been elected secretary of the Society He joined Manufacturers Trust in of University Surgeons. Rollin L. Perry, AM '47, recently a 1931. Flanigan is a trustee of Dollar vocational adviser with the Veterans Savings Bank of New York and a di- Professor Frank A. Southard, chair- Administration guidance center at the rector of Amheuser-Busch, Inc., New man of the Department of Economics, University, has been appointed to England Public Service Co., and has been appointed by the Secretary the Counselors' Office as an assis- Stern Brothers. of the Treasury to supervise the tant counselor of students. He for- Treasury's international financial and University Trustee Mary H. Donlon merly taught at Corfu Central School, '20, chairman of the New York State monetary work. His duties in Wash- Waverly High School, and Beecher Workmen's Compensation Board, was ington begin July 15; he will be on Junior High School, Elmira; in the a speaker May 31 at twenty-fifth leave until the assignment is com- Army, was separation officer and di- anniversary ceremonies at Skidmore pleted. Some years ago, Professor rector of individual services at Billings Southard served as assistant director General Hospital, Fort Benjamin College in Saratoga. The general of monetary research in the Treasury theme of the four-day program which Harrison, Ind., and assistant personnel began May 29 was "The College and Department. In 1938, he was an officer at the Elmira Holding and economics analyst in the Department. Reconsignment Point, Horseheads. Education for Citizenship." During the war, as an officer in the Autobiography of Andrew D. White Navy, he was financial adviser to A daughter, Deborah Anne Samp- is reviewed in The Commonweal, a Allied Force Headquarters in the son, was born March 25 to Professor Catholic weekly, April 11, by Harry Mediterranean for two and a half Martin W. Sampson, Jr. '39, Ad- L. Binsse, who writes: "Sheer cir- years, and in the Southern France in- ministrative Engineering, and Mrs. cumstance introduced me to the two vasion was chief of economics and Sampson (Anne Beers) '39. They also comfortably sturdy volumes, pub- finance for the Seventh Army. have a three-year-old son, Martin W. lished in 1905 ... Mr. White, the first Sampson III. Professor Sampson is president and intellectual sire of Cor- Boys and girls who grow the best gardens in 1947 will receive bronze the son of the late Professor Martin nell University, wrote straightfor- W. Sampson, English; Mrs. Sampson wardly and pleasantly, if with a cer- medals bearing the likeness of Pro- fessor Liberty Hyde Bailey, Agricul- is the daughter of Mrs. Julia McCor- tain discursiveness general in his mick Beers '09. generation, and a leisurely perusal of ture, Emeritus, from the National Garden Institute. The L. H. Bailey his self-portrait has stimulated a National Commission on School number of reflections not so much up- Medal will supplant the General Douglas MacArthur Medal which has District Reorganization, of which on him as an individual but upon him Professor Julian E. Butterworth, Rural as a living epitome of the nineteenth been awarded for several years. In announcing the new medal, the Insti- Education, is a member, has published century at its best and most bene- "A Key to Better Education." The ficent." tute said it was honoring Dr. Bailey as "an inspiration and guide to all pamphlet is "a guide to school district Speaking in Elmira May 29 at the those who love to explore the mysteries reorganization based on the forth- New York State Junior Chamber of of the soil and plant life, be they young coming report" of the Commission. Commerce convention, Dean William or old, novice or experienced garden- It may be obtained at 15 cents a copy I. Myers '14, Agriculture, declared ers." from the National Education Com- that the greatest fear in Europe in re- mission, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., gard to the United States is that this "Living With Baby," bulletin by Washington 6, D. C. country will become discouraged again, Professor Helen Dudley Bull '11 and 530 Cornell Alumni News Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'88 AB—Edith Long lives at 315 REUNION CLASS SECRETARIES: '20 LLB—John R. Schwartz of 2 South Second Street, Yakima, Wash. July issue of the Alumni News will Rosalind Road, Poughkeepsie, was contain a full account and pictures of '99 ME—Ernest A. Drake, who general Reunion events. Brief reports recently appointed judge for Dutchess retired in 1935, returned to business and pictures of individual Class Re- County. unions are welcomed and will be pub- '21 BS—Ray E. Venman, a member temporarily in 1937. In 1942 he joined lished if received at the News office, 3 the W. H. Loomis Talc Corp., Gou- East Avenue, not later than Wednes- of the faculty of Murphy High School, verneur, in temporary capacity and day, June 18. Reports must be type- Mobile, Ala., was elected April 14 has continued to the present. He lives written, of not more than 750 words, secretary-treasurer of the Mobile and must be signed. Pictures must be County public school system. He be- at 11 West Main Street, Gouverneur. good glossy prints, with all persons in them correctly identified. gan working immediately with the '04 ME—Wickham H. Aldrich re- then incumbent secretary-treasurer tired as superintendent of the steam '11 ME—Chester S. Ricker, as di- who left the post May 15. For the last department (power plants and steam eighteen years, Venman has taught heating plants) January 1 after nearly rector of timing and scoring at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has business arithmetic and other subjects thirty-seven years of service with the at Murphy High School; has been Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. awarded $3,500,000 in prize money at the annual Memorial Day races there. custodian of the athletic fund and He lives at 2583 Wellington Road, other large accounts for the school. He Cleveland Heights 18, Ohio. His address is 424 Lincoln Road, Grosse Pointe 30, Mich. is married and lives at 114 Bienville '07 AB—Mrs. Dillon A. Cady Avenue, Mobile, Ala. '12—Adolph Menjou, motion pic- (Mary Butts) of Box 467, Elmira, has '22 BS—Ruth F. Irish, assistant to been elected president of the Elmira ture star, recently testified before the House un-American activities sub- the president of Union Dime Savings branch of the American Association Bank at Sixth Avenue and Fortieth of University Women. committee investigating Communistic activities in the film industry. Repre- Street, New York City, was elected '08, '07 LLB; '14—Edwin T. Gib- sentative J. Parnell Thomas, chair- president of the Savings Bank Women son has been elected executive vice- man of the subcommittee, quoted him of the Metropolitan Area at the an- president of General Foods Corp., as saying he believed the ''masters in nual meeting of the organization, 250 Park Avenue, New York City 17, Moscow" were attempting to use the May 21 in New York City. She is it was announced May 21. He joined movies to help overthrow the Ameri- president of the Federation of Cornell General Foods in 1933; was made a can Government because Hollywood Women's Clubs, and a director and vice-president in 1939 and a director is "one of the greatest mediums for member of the executive committee of last year. He is the new president of propaganda." the Cornell Alumni Association. the Cornell Club of New York. Also '22, '24 BArch—George W. Teare promoted was Burt C. Olney '14, a '14—Mrs. Persis Smith Smith is has been appointed director of con- divisional manager, who has been woman and home editor of The Rural struction for the Stouffer Corp., made a vice-president of the firm. New-Yorker, 224 West Tenth Street, operators of a restaurant chain. He New York City 14. She lives at 333 '09, '08 AB—Frederick A. Rice, was formerly a member of the Cleve- West Thirtieth Street, New York land, Ohio, architectural firm of publisher, is president and chairman City 1. of the board of Ginn & Co., Boston, Ockert & Teare, which has designed Mass. He lives at 23 Clairemont '17 BChem—Robert D. Abbott of several Stouffer restaurants. During Road, Belmont, Mass. 1665 South Cameron Avenue, Cov- the war, Teare was vice-president of ina, Cal., is vice-president and general the A. W. Hecker Co. '09 CE—Bertrand Weiss is presi- manager of The C. P. Hall Co. of dent of Progress Gas Co. and North '24—Haskell M. Thomas was elect- California, chemists. He is "doing a ed mayor of Florence, S. C., in April American Supply Corp., both of 225 bit of farming on the side on four and Broadway, New York City. He has and took office May 10. He lives at a half acres of oranges and avocados 520 South McQueen Street, Florence, been principally engaged in gas con- and enjoying it." struction designing and in installing S. C. liquefied petroleum gas and oil gas '18 BS—Ludwig S. Mayer of 230 '25 ME—Harold M. Catlin became systems throughout the country as Rhode Island Avenue, NE, Wash- manufacturing engineering manager head of the former firm. The North ington, D. C., is first vice-president for Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., American Supply Corp. is an equip- of the Writers League of Washington. Thompsonville, Conn., October 1. He ment export supply business for large '19 BS—Howard B. Ortner, former was previously associated with Day engineering projects throughout the Varsity basketball coach, has been & Zimmerman Inc., consulting engi- world. Weiss lives at 25 Fifth Avenue, elected executive secretary of the neers, of Philadelphia, Pa. He lives at New York City. His son, Donald Western New York chapter of the 930 Longmeadow Street, Long- Weiss, is a Junior in Mechanical National Basketball Officials Associ- meadow, Mass. Engineering; was cheerleader captain ation. He is director of Camp Otter '26 AB—New York State Federa- last year. for boys, Dorset, Ontario, Canada. tion of Growers and Processors Associ-

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June 75, 1947 531 ations has re-elected Donald B. Inger- at USFA, APO 777, Care Postmaster, Harold A. Dillenbeck '37 and Mrs. soll of Cortland a director, and New York City. Ruth Dillenbeck Kiligas '42. The named him secretary-treasurer of the '33 BS—Morton Adams of 7 High Pruddens live at 5 Marrow Avenue, Federation. Street, Sodus, is production manager Lockport. '26 AB—Mrs. Percy A. Fraleigh of Alton Canning Co., Inc., and '37; '37—Dr. David E. MacQuigg (Lucy Blackman) served as chairman manager of Burns Farms. He took and Mrs. MacQuigg (Barbara Sey- and hostess of the Cornell alumnae the positions in 1943 after ten years mour) '37 live at 195 Cook Avenue, group which attended " College Week" in Extension Service as county agent Meriden, Conn. Dr. MacQuigg be- for all college women of Vermont at in Wayne and St. Lawrence Counties. came head of the department of Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., Adams has three sons: "Sam, Mike, anesthesia at the Meriden Hospital May 16-17, held under the auspices of and John, ages ten, six, and four, May 1. the Vermont State Division of the respectively." '37 CE—The firm of Toro, Ferrer y American Association of University '33 CE—William G. Mitchell joined Torregrosa, architects and engineers, Women. Truscon Steel Co. April 1. His address of which Luis Torregrosa is a mem- '27 AB, '29 LLB—Curtis S. Bates is 436 Catalina Avenue, Youngstown, ber, has been awarded the contract for has become a partner in the law firm Ohio. the design and construction of sί 300- of Cadwallader, Wickersham & Taft, '33 AB, '35 LLB—Jack Norden, room sea-front hotel in San Juan, with offices at 14 Wall Street, New Jr. has been an assistant US Attorney Puerto Rico. The contract was given York City. for the Eastern District of New York by the Campania de Fomento In- '29 EE—Karl F. Kellerman of 15 since his release from the Army in dustrial, and the hotel will be under Macopsin Avenue, Upper Montclair, May, 1946. His office is in the Federal the management of Hilton Hotels N. J., was recently appointed execu- Building, 271 Washington Street, Corp. tive director of the Guided Missiles Brooklyn 1, and he lives at 55 Ray- '38 BS—George H. Batt is an in- Commission Joint Research and De- mond Place, Hewlett, L. I. secticide research chemist with Stanco Inc. in Elizabeth, N. J. He and Mrs. velopment Board, Washington, D. C. '35 BS—George Wattley, Jr. of 107 '29 BS—Russell J. Smith of 110 Batt, with daughter, Jane Hoide Monterey Avenue, Pelham 65, is Batt, live on RFD 1, Box 936, Rail- Ross Street, Batavia, is GLF district reservation sales agent for Eastern manager. He is married and has two way, N. J. Mrs. Batt is the former Air Lines. Dorris J. Hearney; she received the sons: Richard, thirteen, and Larry, '36 BS in AE(ME)—James C. nine. AB at Colby in 1942 and the AM at Forbes is an electrical engineer for Columbia in 1943. '31, '32 BChem, '33 ChemE—Vic- General Electric Co., Nela Park, tor K. Hendricks left Max B. Miller Cleveland, Ohio. Son of the late '38 BS; '39 AB—Michael J. Strok Co., lubricating oil refining engineers Walter H. Forbes '06, he lives at 1055 and Mrs. Strok (Helen Perkins) '39 in New York City, in February to be- Woodview Road, Cleveland Heights have a daughter, Susan Helen Strok, come assistant to the executive vice- 21, Ohio. born April 30 in Lock Haven, Pa., president of Pepsi-Cola Co., 47-51 where they live at 316 West Church '36 AB—Donald R. Hassell is Street. Mrs. Strok is the daughter of Thirty-third Street, Long Island City. financial writer for the New 'York He lives at 18 Standish Court, Tena- Professor Harold C. Perkins '15, Journal-American and does free-lance Engineering. fly, N. J. magazine writing on the side. He is '32 LLB—Lieutenant Com- chairman of the postwar gardens '38 AB; '38 AB—Jack A. Thomas mander John D. Hauselt, USNR, is committee in Dobbs Ferry, and and Mrs. Thomas (Muriel Cook) '38 with the Bureau of Ships, Navy De- "digging like mad in the good earth of 40 Wayside Street, Springfield, partment, Washington, D. C. He after three years in the Navy as Mass., have a son, Charles Owen entered the Navy in April, 1942. His LCI (L) skipper.'7 He and his family, Thomas II, born May 1. Fayette A. home address is 427 Sixteenth Street, which includes Sherry, six years, Kipp, Cook '08 is the Cornellian grand- Brooklyn 15. four years, and Don, four months, live parent. '32 ME, '33 MME — Jackson at 381 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry. "My '39 ME—Charles M. Hall is a sales- Hazlewood is an account executive only kick," he writes, "is that I can't man in the New York (Metropolitan) with Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc., ad- find suitable home for family which is marine area for Leslie Co. of Lynd- vertising agency, 1501 Euclid Avenue now jammed into a three-room apart- hurst, N. J. He lives at 6 Beekman Cleveland 15, Ohio. ment." Place, Fairlawn, Radburn, N. J. '32 AB—Joseph F. Porrino, who '36—Captain Ralph J. Mazza, + '39, '40 ME—Russell L. Hopping was a captain in the Army Air Corps Army Medical Corps, is in Japan. and Mrs. Hopping, the former Janet from April 13, 1942, until January 18, His address is 49th General Hospital, Cloud of Dallas, Tex., have a son, 1946, is now deputy commissioner of APO 1052, Care Postmaster, San William Russell Hopping, born May licenses for New York City. He is Francisco, Cal. 3 in Baltimore, MdV, where they live married and has two children: Joseph '37 BS—Lucia M. Angell has re- at 20-A Oak Grove Drive. Hopping Francis Porrino, two and a half years turned from the West Coast and be- is an engineer with Glenn L. Martin old; and Adeline Elizabeth Porrino, came May 20 secretary to Whitman Co. born February 17. He lives at 37 Daniels, assistant to the President of '39—Charles M. Scholz, Jr. is with Washington Square West, New York the University in charge of public re- the Pittsburgh, Pa., branch of Ameri- City. lations. She lives at 107 Cayuga can LaFrance-Foamite Corp. He is '32 AB—John H. Walker is in Mos- Heights Road, Ithaca. married, has a four-year-old son and cow as a correspondent for Time, Inc. '37 BS—April 10, a son, Douglas a one-year-old son, and lives at 221 He was previously in Vienna with Neil Prudden, was born to Mrs. East Lincoln Avenue, New Castle, the US Forces Austria for two years. Esther Dillenbeck Prudden and Wil- Pa. He was discharged from the Navy His wife and son are remaining in liam 0. Prudden. Their daughter, as a lieutenant in December, 1945. Vienna since it has not been deter- Ann, is two and a half years old. Mrs. '39 LLB—Charles M. Weber, dean mined how long he will remain in Prudden is the daughter of Arvin J. and professor of business administra- Moscow. Walker may be addressed Dillenbeck '11 and the sister of tion at New England College, Henni- 532 Cornell Alumni News ker, N. H., has accepted a position as »| ] n id i] i ti ti ci (i u t it a turn mi n n π t ti n H t π ι»f« ecturer on the business law staff at j the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Penn- Cornell University Press sylvania, Philadelphia. He will assume duties next fall. '40, '41 BS in AE(ME)—Wiliam T. is pleased to announce Cole is assistant to the president of Canton (Ohio) Malleable Iron Co., a the first periodical in the field \ partner in General Brass Sales Co. and vice-president of Canton Cast \ Products Co. His address is 1950 Mar- ket Avenue North, Canton, Ohio. '40 PhD—Paul A. Cundiff is chair- man of the English department at Sampson College, Sampson. He was in the service for four and a half years. Industrial and Labor '40 AB—Sculpture by Jason Seley was on exhibit at the American British Art Center in New York City from May 12 to May 31. It was Seley's first exhibition. '40—Kenneth E. Turner, Jr. has Relations Review changed from transportation engineer for General Motors truck and coach division in Pittsburgh, Pa., to general manager of Detroit Stage, Inc., De- ! 1 troit, Mich. He lives at 188 Oakland ! PUBLISHED FOR Avenue, Birmingham, Mich. Turner wrote May 14 that he would marry The New York State School of Industrial Celia Merrill of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., May 31. and Labor Relations, Cornell University '40 AB—Henry B. Vail, son of the late Roger S. Vail '06, is engaged to Carolyn King of Marion, Ohio, who graduated from Duke University in lliC liCilCW is dedicated to the improvement of in- 1945 and now attends the Katherine dustrial and labor relations and to the advancement of the pub- Gibbs School in Chicago, 111. lic interest. It will publish articles which contribute valuable '41 BS; '41 BS—George H. Becker, knowledge of the field. It will provide complete coverage of Jr. has received a certificate as a certified public accountant of New important developments in legislation, industrial training, York State. He is on the staff of personnel management, and other related subjects. It will re- Stover, Butler & Murphy, certified port on and review recent books, documents, research, and public accountants in Syracuse, but events of special interest. is on leave of absence from June 1 until October 1 while he manages the THE BOARD OF EDITORS invites the submission of articles, dis- Breezy Knoll Inn, a summer hotel in Pittsfield, Mass. Mrs. Becker (Har- cussions, research reports, correspondence, faculty and con- riet Howell) '41, daughter of Leon G. ference news items, and reviews of books and documents. Ad- Howell '14, and their two children, dress editorial correspondence to: Milton R. Konvitz, Editor, Barbara Lee and George III, will ac- company him to Pittsfield. INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW, Cornell University, '41 AB—Elizabeth A. Herrold of Ithaca, New York. 1 189 Summit Avenue, Summit, N. J., is a pharmacologist for Ciba Pharma- j THE FIRST ISSUE will be published in October, 1947. j ceutical Products in Summit. She also 5 is doing graduate work in biology at THE REVIEW will appear quarterly thereafter in the months of NYU. "About one-fifteenth of our re- January, April, July, and October. Annual subscription, $3.00; search staff here at Ciba are Cor- single issues, $1.00. Make checks payable to the INDUSTRIAL nellians," she writes, "which is a AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW and address to larger representation than those of other universities." '41 PhD; '38, '39 AB—Coleman J. Major and Mrs. Major (Marjorie Cornell University Press Shenk) '38 of 2252 Fifteenth Street, Wyandotte, Mich., have a daughter, 124 ROBERTS PLACE, ITHACA, N. Y. Marilyn Anne Major, born May 17. They also have a son, Roy, who will be two years old June 29. Since re- , , _ M_ m t , a π t , . ^ „ β M B IB a B . June 75, 1947 533 ceiving the PhD, Major has been with Sharpies Chemicals, Inc., and is now head of the plant investigation section of the chemical engineering You're in good company department. He recently returned from a trip through Germany, where he spent four months under the when you advertise in Technical Industrial Intelligence Di- vision of the Department of Com- THE IVY GROUP merce, studying certain phases of the German chemical industry. He made numerous trips into all four zones of American Telephone & Telegraph occupation. Bank of New York '41 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Edgar N. Equitable Life Assurance Society Jay (Rosalie Pittluck) have a son, General Electric Company Robert Laurence Jay, born February Guaranty Trust Company 10 and a four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Ellen. They live at 22 Til- Keepsake Diamonds rose Street, Lynbrook, L. I. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane ''41, '42 BS; '42—William H. Viel John Hudson Moore owns and operates a city pest control New England Mutual Insurance service company in Syracuse. He and Pan American World Airways Mrs. Viel live at 222 West Newell Street in Syracuse. They have two Philco Corporation children: Billy, nearly five years old; Pleasant Valley Wine and Christine Ann, ten months. As a Province of Quebec hobby they breed Boxer puppies; had a litter of seven last Christmas. Prudential Insurance Manoir Richelieu '42, '43 BS in AE(ME); '43 BS— Donald L. Bundy and Mrs. Bundy Rogers Peet Company (Laura Sigman) '43 live on RD 2, Traymore Hotel Jamison Road, East Aurora. Bundy Union Carbide & Carbon is an engineer with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Buffalo. Urbana Wine Company Western Electric Company '42 BS—Charles W. Jack, Jr. and Mrs. Jack of 822 Garson Avenue, Ro- chester 9, have a son, Neil Charles Your message to the 100,000 cover-to-cover readers of the Jack, born September 11. Jack is IVY LEAGUE ALUMNI MAGAZINES will pay for it- assistant sales manager for Metal Arts self many times over -because Co., Inc., in Rochester. '42 AB—Edward A. Kaufman and • there are more leaders among its readers they Mrs. Kaufman have moved to 23 have the money to buy your product they in- Derby Lane, Dumont, N. J. "We open fluence the purchases of important people and our new home to all our friends from Cornell," Kaufman writes. leading industries. '42, '47 BS—Richard S. Knight, * For information and rate card ask Cornell Alumni News who was lost February 18, 1945, while serving as a co-pilot in the Naval Air or write Force, was posthumously awarded the BS in Hotel Administration last February. Ivy League Advertising Office '42 BS; '43 AB—April 18, a daugh- 22 Washington Sq. N. New York 11, N. Y. ter, Marjorie Ellen Miller, was born to Harold S. Miller and the former Phone: GRamercy 5-2039 Janice Newman '43 of 33-09 158th Street, Flushing. Miller is in technical IVY LEAGUE ALUMNI MAGAZINES sales work for Industrial Tape Corp., New Brunswick, N. J. Columbia '42 BS; '42 BS—A second daughter, Cornell Patricia Ann Painter, was born in Dartmouth January to Dr. Samuel L. Painter Harvard and the former Lorraine Kuhn '42 of Pennsylvania 431 Maple Avenue, Cincinnati 29, Princeton Ohio. Dr. Pamter starts a medical residency at Dunham Hospital in and Yale Cincinnati this July. '42 BS—Brewster W. Terrell and Mrs. Terrell of 385 Main Street, West 534 Cornell Alumni News MEN'S GLEE CLUB PRESENTS STRIKE UP A SONG"

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Haven, Conn., have a son, Brewster ternship in medicine at the New York '43 AB, '44 LLB—Donald P. Yust Wilcox Terrell, Jr., born in April. Hospital and then been stationed at is an attorney and has his office at Mrs. Terrell is the former Mary Anne a Veterans Administration hospital at 306 Paul Building, Utica. Knox. Terrell is managing the Wilcox Ft. Bayard, N. Mex. He is still at Ft. '44, '47 AB—Victor A. Acer, Jr., Pier Restaurant at Savin Rock for Bayard. He is married to the former after graduation in February, joined the summer season. Mary Beach of Eau Claire, Wis., and Bovaird & Seyfang Manufacturing '42 BS in AE(ME)—Lynn D. Tim- they have a ten-month-old daughter, Co., Bradford, Pa., as assistant per- merman married Jane Leonard of Sally. sonnel director. The company manu- Winona, Minn., September 4. Son of '43 AB; '44 AB—Gael T. Douglass factures gas and oil well equipment. Lynn B. Timmerman '14, Timmer- (Gael T. Bunch) and Mrs. Douglass Acer's address is 86 Congress Street, man is a Ford dealer, under the firm (Marilyn Wise) '44 have a son, Paul Bradford, Pa. name of Timmerman Sales Co., in Wise Douglass, born May 6. They '44, '43 AB, AM, '47 MD—Dr. Lima, Ohio. live at 515 North Main Street, But- Richard M. Alexander, who gradu- '43 AB; '44 BS—A daughter, Mar- ler, Pa. Their name has been legally ated from the Medical College in gery Ann Abbink, was born April 25 changed from Bunch to Douglass. March, will begin a rotating intern- to J. Basil Abbink and Mrs. Abbink '43 BS; '42 BS—A son, David Earl ship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New (Barbara Brittain) '44, who live at Sipher, was born March 22 to Erton York City in July. He lives at 262 the Glen Springs Hotel, Watkins W. Sipher and the former Zelda E. Central Park West, New York City. Glen. Abbink is a student in the Mullen '42. The Siphers live on a '44, '46 BS; '45, '44 BS—Norman School of Business and Public Ad- dairy farm near Gouverneur (on W. Allen, son of George N. Allen '07, ministration. RD 2). is manager of Allenwaite Farms of 750 acres and 114 head of Holstein '43 BS; '44 BS—A daughter, Eli- '43 AB; '44, '45 AB—Barbara zabeth Joan Bonsteel, was born cattle in Easton. He and Mrs. Allen Wahl, graduate student at Columbia, (Gertrude Durfee) '45, with daughter, April 15 to Lawrence E. Bonsteel and was married March 30 in New York the former Kathleen Pierce '44 of Judith Lucille Allen, born December City to William B. Kaufman '44, son 30, live on RFD 1, Schaghticoke. RFD 1, Cortland. Bonsteel, who of Aaron Kaufman '19 and a student served as a first lieutenant in the at Columbia law school. Best man was '44 AB—Priscilla Dean is a busi- Army, was released last summer. Mrs. Allen Kaufman '46, brother of the ness analyst with the USSR division Bonsteel had expected to join him in groom. Mrs. Evelyn Wahl Frank '41, of the US Department of Commerce. Germany, but he came home instead. wife of Robert M. Frank '41, was Her address is 3711 Northampton '43 AB, '45 MD—Lieutenant * matron of honor. Their daughter, Street, NW, Washington 15, D. C. Hugh N. Bennett, Medical Corps, Lynn Frank, was flower girl. The '44, '43 BEE, '45 BME; '45, '44 AUS, since graduating from the Medi- Kaufman's address is 147 West AB—Robert H. Garmezy, engineer cal College, has served a year's in- Eighty-fifth Street, New York City. with Chrysler Corp. in Highland Park, June i5,1947 535 Mich., and Mrs. Garmezy (Caryl is working with the Navy and teaching Spoor) '45 have a daughter, Caryl at the Washington Musical Institute. Dawn Garmezy, born May 13. Sam- Rev. Horn's address is 212 East uel Garmezy '13 is the grandfather. Capitol Street, Washington 3, D. C. (iuntrll (ίluli The Garmezys live at 1149 East Mil- '45 BS; '44—Engagement of Nina ton, Hazel Park, Mich. Kuzmich, editorial assistant in the '44 DVM; '44 AB—Dr. David E. Department of Extension Teaching of ίfaro Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence (Frieda and Information in Home Economics, Diamond) '44 of Forest Hills have a to Roscoe C. Rose '44, who returned daughter, Ronnie Linda Lawrence, to the Campus last September after born April 13. three years in the Army, was announc- '44; '20 ME; '21 BS—William C. ed March 23. The wedding will take 1DΓ ?Ea0i Littlewood and his wife, the former place in September. Ruth Bosson, Radcliffe '48, are study- '45 BS—Deborah Personius is as- ing at the University of Lausanne in sistant director of home economics for Switzerland. Their address is Care " Junket" Brand Foods, Little Falls. Kt m f orfe, & $. Banque Suisse, Lausanne, Switzer- She lives at 534 Garden Street, Little land. Littlewood is the son of William Falls. Littlewood '20 of 166 Brampton Road, '46 BS; '46—Charlotte Liemer will Garden City, L. I., vice-president of be married to Alfred Gandler '46, now American Airlines in charge of engi- attending Flower Medical School, neering, and Mrs. Littlewood (Doro- New York City, June 22 in New York thy Cushman) '21. City. Miss Liemer is studying for the BARR & LANE, INC. '44 BS—Peter G. Millenaar was re- AM and has an assistantship in leased to inactive duty by the Navy bacteriology at Pennsylvania State March 1 and is now insecticide repre- College, State College, Pa. BUILDERS sentative for the Albany division of '46 BS in CE—William E. Okerson Shell Oil Co., covering New York is an engineer with the building di- State, Vermont, and part of Massa- vision of the engineering department chusetts. "We have bought a house in of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. Newark, and my wife, boy, dog, and His address is 108 Hamilton Street, myself will move in as soon as we get New Brunswick, N. J. possession," he writes. His present '47 LLB—Charles J. Sullivan has address is Box 404-D, Young Street joined the law firm of Winchell, at Belmont Avenue, Babylon. Macken & Goldwater, attorneys and New York '44, '45 BS—Lynette A. Ward, lab- counsellors-at-law, 625 Genesee Val- Ithaca Boston oratory assistant at the Geneva Ex- ley Trust Building, Rochester 4. His periment Station, attended the annual home address is 332 Mulberry Street, meeting of the Society of American Rochester 7. Bacteriologists in Philadelphia, Pa., '47, '46 BS—Barbara A. Bayer is May 12-16. Her address is 55 Hill- research assistant for the frozen foods crest Avenue, Geneva. division of the General Ice Cream Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. '45 B ME—Mason Britton, Jr. is Corp. in Schenectady. She is active Members New York Stock Exchange with Cincinnati (Ohio) Milling Ma- in the Cornell Women's Club of Al- chine Co. Address him Care L. B. bany. Her address is 1726 Wendell 15 Broad Street New York Harrison, 2368 Victory Parkway, Avenue, Schenectady. INVESTMENT SECURITIES Cincinnati 6, Ohio. '47 BS; '49—Mrs. Eleanor Beis- Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton Griffis ΊO '45 AB; '42 AB—Mrs. Carolyn wenger Crinnion of 312 East Veterans L. M. Blancke Ί 5 Willard I. Emerson Ί 9 Claggett Kervan and Sterling B. Place, Ithaca, has a son, Edward Blakeman '42 will be married June Vincent Crinnion, Jr., born March Jansen Noyes, Jr. '39 Nixon Griffis '40 28 in Pelham Manor, their home 21. Her husband is Edward V. Crin- BRANCH OFFICES town. Blakeman is a salesman for nion '49, Chemical Engineering. Albany, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Coty, Inc., New York City. '47, '46 BS—Iris M. Berman has Pittsburgh, Tr nton, Washington '45, '47 MD; '45, '44 BS—Dr. Rod- been since December 2 a member of ney H. Dusinberre of 349 Thirty- the reportorial staff of the Newark second Street, New York City, will Star-Ledger, 217 Halsey Street, New- intern at Strong Memorial Hospital ark 1, N. J. She lives at 812 Avenue Eastman, Dillon & Co in Rochester. Mrs. Dusinberre was C, Bayonne, N. J. April 2, Miss Ber- MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Marilyn Roesicke '45. man became engaged to Lawrence R. '45, '44 AB; '43 PhD—The Rev. Goodman, also of Bayonne, who Investment Securities James G. Horn received the BD at served in the Navy for three years, the Lutheran Seminary in Phila- nineteen months of which were spent DONALD C. BLANKE '20 delphia, Pa., in January and was or- overseas, and who is now with the Rep resentative dained; is now assistant pastor of the Gilbralter Corrugated Box Co., North 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. Church of the Reformation on Capitol Bergen, N. J. They expect to be Hill in Washington, D. C. Since he has married early in November. Branch Offices been in Washington, he has seen a lot '47 BS in EE—William R. Davies, Philadelphia Los Angeles Chicago of Dr. Wendell Margrave, PhD '43, Jr., a graduate student in the training Heading Easton Paterson Hartford former instructor in Music and di- course of Westinghouse Electric Corp., rector of the University Bands, who is at present at the East Pittsburgh, 536 Cornell Alumni News Pa., works of Westinghouse. His ad- dress is 2900 Dunran Road, Baltimore 22 (Dunbalk), Md. '47 AB—C. Stuart La Dow has joined the General Electric Co. in Schenectady; at present, he is in the accounting and finance department, taking the company's business train- ing course. He lives at 1635 Avenue B, Schenectady. features '47—Allen E. Dekdebrun, who re- Summer weight turned to Cornell for the second term after playing professional football BORSALINO HATS with the Buffalo Bisons in 1946, has signed to play for the Chicago Rockets next fall. He was voted the best player on the Buffalo Bisons last year.

Sorority Pledges HIRTEEN sororities pledged 168 Tnew members, after two weeks of second-term rushing. Each house had a quota of sixteen Freshmen and four Sop'homores or upperclassmen; most have continued rushing and pledging One of our world-famous light weight through this term. Borsalino felts makes a smart change-off on All told, 319 prospective sorors cool and cloudy days all Summer long. It will registered for "rushing: 240 Freshmen be your favorite next Fall, too. $20 and $25. and 79 upperclassmen. They first visited the various houses in small groups, thereafter accepted bids to In New York: And in Boston: Fifth Avenue Thirteenth St. Warren Street Tremont St. coffee hours, buffet suppers, and other αί 41st Street at Broadway at Broadway at Bromfield St. rushing parties. Panhellenic Council's only rule forbade any sorority mem- ber entering a rushee's room during the two weeks of formal rushing. Ex- penditures for parties were also limit- ed. Sorority bids and the rushees' choices were allocated just before pledge day, by a student in the Law WANTED: School. In the following list of pledges, all A young man with newspaper experience, preferably in his late twen- are Freshmen unless otherwise desig- ties or early thirties, to direct and develop the work of the news nated. bureau of a leading university. ALPHA EPSILON PHI: Anita Ades, Louis- ville, Ky.; Jane Applebaum, Cleveland He must be able to discern and properly present news, edit copy, Heights, Ohio; Elinor J. Behrman, Staten Island; Fay C. Binenkorb, Middletown; prepare feature articles and cooperate with local and national news- Eleanor Chernoff, Hartford, Conn. Arline papers, magazines, and radio. Broad interests, sound judgment, un- D. Cinamon '48, New York City; Phyllis A. Fein, Poughkeepsie; Joan B. Green- derstanding of good public relations, and ability to work congenially blatt, New York City; Grace M. Gribetz, with others are basic requirements. Brooklyn; Marion G. Holley, New York The man sought can earn more money elsewhere and is probably City; Shirle 7y A. Kabakoff, Rochester; Miriam Leis 49, Walden; Barbara Miller, already doing so. This position will pay him an adequate starting Jamaica; Louis E. Passerman, Mt. Kisco; Audrey R. Perla '49, Great Neck; Audrey salary, however. It offers wide scope for initiative and creative think- Roman, Hazelton, Pa.; Bernice B. Ruben- ing and carries with it the satisfactions of living in a university stein, Saranac Lake; Ruth M. Simon, Buffalo; Fannie Weiss '49, Buffalo; Judith community. H. Winkler, New York City. Please reply by letter stating qualifications, experience, references, ALPHA OMICRON Pi: Jean A. Feageans, Williston Park; Lucille T. Glabach, St. and minimum salary required. Albans; Patricia M. Haller, Niagara Falls; Naomi R. Knauss, Bethlehem, Pa.; Janet E. Lippincott, Syracuse; Barbara A. Mc- Cann, Massena; Eunice A. Morris '49, Address Box C, Constance Price, and Sarra M. Woodcock, Ithaca. ALPHA PHI: Susanah C. Bailie, Cannon- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ITHACA, N.Y. dale, Conn.; Inga H. Brauner and Virgi- nia L. Davenport, Ithaca; Catharine L. Dyer '49, Larchmont; Martha S. Galvin, Buffalo; Barbara B. Hunt, Canton; Mar- June /5, 1947 537 CORNELL HOSTS

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538 Cornell Alumni News jorie W. Leigh, Short Hills, N. J.; Mari- New York City; Leona P. Jurkiewicz, Bel- anne Nethercot, Birmingham, Mich. Eva lows Falls, Vt.; Janet H. McNeill, Al- RKO PATHE, INC. S. Potter, Buffalo; Sally Stroup, Roch- bany; Joan E. Noden, St. Albans; Nancy 625 Madison Ave. 333 N. Michigan Ave. ester; Elaine Treman, Ithaca; Sally Wal- O. Norton, Evanston, 111.; Beverly A. New York 22, N. Y. Chicago, 111. lace, Camillus. Paris, Rochester; Dorothy I. Patterson, STUDIOS: ALPHA Xi DELTA: Elizabeth A. Alex- Willsboro; Julia J. Rosenkrans '49, Me- New York City Hollywood, Calif. ander, Canisteo; Janice M. Briwa, Hud- dina; Jean L. Seguin, Canandaigua; Producers of Motion Pictures son; Patricia M. Coolican, Watkins Glen; Nancy C. Sprott, West Nyack; Elaine M. for Diantha J. Francis, Woodbury, N. J.; Taubman, Ithaca; Jean M. Thomas, Fair- Busine ss—Industry—Institutions view, Ohio. Gertrude E. Goellner, Buffalo; Bertha M. Training Merchandising Hall and Shirley A. Hobbes, Ithaca; Mar- SIGMA DELTA TAU: Joanna Goldfine, Labor Relations Education guerite E. Mott, Larchmont; Nancy E. Mount Vernon; Judith D. Goldstone '49, Fund Raising Public Relations Parks, Millerton; Muriel E. Randies, Florence B. Heyman, Blossom A. Hoff- "The Rooster Crows," our booklet on con- Schenectady; Rosemary G. Sheil '49, stein, and Frances J. Karmiol, New York tract pictures will be sent at your request. Saranac Lake. City; Geraldine R. Oberleder, Brooklyn; PHILLIPS B. NICHOLS '23 Shirley J. Rippen, Perth Amboy, N. J.; Sales Manager CHI OMEGA: Esther M. Aho, Lunen- Simone E. Sheerr '49, Elkins Park, Pa.; burg, Mass.; Nancy Aldinger, Newton Lorraine Vogeί, and Eve L. Weinschenker, Highlands, Mass.; Elizabeth Beers, West New York City. Hartford, Conn.; Frances A. Fausel, Hol- lis; Betty A. Fischer, Atlantic City, N. J.; SIGMA KAPPA: Helen J. Baker '48, Chloe L. Gray, Oradell, N. J.; Barbara A. Wauwatosa, Wis.; Ellen M. Forbes, ESTABROOK & CO. Homer; Elsie L. Frumerie '49, Pawling; Henry, Port Chester; Shirley J. Williams,. Members of the New York and Sennett. Jane Kimberly, Worcester, Mass.; Eli- zabeth A. Kunz, Hamburg; Sally A. Mor- Boston Stock Exchanges DELTA DELTA DELTA: Diana B. Amoss, rison, Watertown; Mary R. Saxtpn, Endi- Wheaton, 111.; Mary J. Baxter, Liverpool; cott; Mary H. Sears, Baldwinsville; Con- Sound Investments Mary A. Farrell, Brewster; Mary P. Glea- stance A. Semon, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Investment Council and son, LeRoy; Janet E. Hatch, Schenectady; Barbara J. Singleton, Lynbrook; Helen B. Merilyn Kennedy, Ridgewood, N. J.; Supervision Barbara A. Lynde '49, Wollaston, Mass.; Sorhus '49, Williston Park; Shirley A. Julia B. Palmer, West Newton, Mass.; Stewart, Saranac Lake; Anne P. Sullivan Roger H. Williams '95 '49, Rhinebeck; Jane A. Wigsten, Horse- Resident Partner New York Office Marian L. Schmidt '49, Rockville Centre; heads; Ruth M. Wilkinson '49, Kingston. Patricia A. Stroup, Westbury. 40 Wall Street DELTA GAMMA: Priscilla Cornwall, Hingham, Mass.; Sally E. Gumaer, War- saw; Marie L. Haldeman, Narberth, Pa.; Necrology Dorothy V. Kane '48, Bronxville; Anne J. SALES EXECUTIVE Lynn '48, New York City; Marilyn J. OR REPRESENTATIVE: MacDonald, Camillus; Marilyn Manley, '90 PhB—Anna Helene Palmie of Or- Cornell M. E. '25, with 20 years suc- South Nyack; Jean H. Miller, Rochester; mond Beach, Fla., June 12, 1946. She re- cessful non-technical sales experience Barbara A. Moore, Lyons; Elizabeth C. tired in 1928 after thirty-six years as a with one national industrial supplier, Parsons, Kenmore; Babette R. Tetter, teacher of mathematics in the College for currently Asst. Sales Manager; at 43 Elizabeth, N. J. Margaret E. Thompson, Women at Western Reserve University. seeking greater opportunity in Indus- Poughkeepsie; Mary R. Thompson, New Sisters, Marguerite T. Palmie '04 and the trial-Chemical-Specialty fields in Phil- York City; Carolyn E. Utter, Friendship; late Therese K. Palmie, '07 Alpha Phi. adelphia, Pa., area where resides. Martha C. Wells, Setauket. Desires responsible position with me- KAPPA ALPHA THETA: Mary E. Adams, '92—William Addison Clarke, retired dium sized local concern, or to repre- Bay Shore; Polly C. Armstrong, Hinsdale, certified public accountant, at his home, sent distant one. Write 111.; Idell C. Carey, Grosse Pointe, Mich.; 224 East Harrison Avenue, Maumee, Ohio, Jeanne M. Caulfield, Buffalo; Nancy B. May 12, 1947. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Box J, Cornell Alumni News Hubbard, Louisville, Ky.; Rebecca A. '96 BS in Arch—Samuel Richmond De- 3EastAve. Ithaca, N.Y. Leister, Scarsdale; Mari Lund, Glen view, Long of 28 Rochester Street, Bergen, for- 111.; Joanna A. McLeod, Cleveland, Ohio; mer Rochester and Buffalo architect, May Nancy Persons '49, East Aurora; Pauline 16, 1947. He did architectural work for B. Rogers, Au Sable Forks; Anne G. Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, Roch- CAMP OTTER Schnee, Columbus, Ohio; Lydia Schur- ester Gas & Electric Co., and National For Boys 7 to 17 man, New York City; Elizabeth M. Sever- Biscuit Co. of Toronto, Canada; directed IN MUSKOKA REGION OF ONTARIO inghaus, Haverford, Pa.; Phyllis C. Shaw, the construction of the Tonawanda High ENROLL FOR 1947 Nutley, N. J.; Marion L. Steinman, School. During the war, although com- HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director Rochester; Marilen R. Tarleton, Bing- pletely paralyzed in his left side, DeLong hamton; Harriett Washburn, Braden- worked six to eight hours daily in his Camp Otter, Dorset, Ont, Canada ton, Fla.; Constance M. Williams '49, Victory garden, from a chair. Deposit. '98—Clarence Knight Conard, civil en- KAPPA DELTA: Jane A. Bird, York, Pa.; gineer with the bureau of engineering of Margaret C. Caccamise '49, Rochester; the board of estimate in New York City OUR CORNELL Joyce J. Crandall, Ithaca; Mary D. 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June 75,1947 539 February 19, 1947. Son, James W. Wilkes, Jr. '46. '00 MD—Dr. Ludwig Paul Otto Woel- PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY fert, July 3, 1947, in New York City, where his address was Hudson View Gar- den, West 183d Street & Pinehurst OF CORNELL ALUMNI Avenue. After practicing many years in Brooklyn, he retired to devote his later life to copying the masterpieces of the world's great painters. Dr. Woelfert, who was a life-long admirer of the late Dr. NEW YORK AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. James Ewing, for many years a member of the Medical College Faculty, divided his estate equally between the Medical College and Memorial Hospital for the CELLUPLASTIC CORPORATION PHILIP A. DERHAM & ASSOCIATES Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, ROSEMONT, PA. New York City, which is sharing in con- struction of the James Ewing Memorial Injection & Extrusion PLASTICS Hospital. Holders DESIGN ENGINEERING '02 ME(EE)—Rud Bryant Hayes, su- MODELS DEVELOPMENT perintendent of electric service at the Uni- PHILIP A DERHAMΊ9 versity from 1903-16, March 24, 1947, in Plastic Containers Toledo, Ohio, where he lived at 3342 Chel- tenham Road. After leaving Ithaca, he 50 AVENUE L, NEWARK 5, N. J. was a mechanical engineer with A. Bentley ONE DEPENDABLE SOURCE & Sons Co. in Toledo for twenty years and Herman B. Lermer '17, President then with Pipe Trades Service Co., a, Bent- For ALL ley subsidiary. Theta Xi. YOUR MACHINERY NEEDS '04 ME—Sidney James Goldwater of 2701 Grand Concourse, New York City, New—Guaranteed Rebuilt William L. Crow Construction Co. May 11, 1947. Power Plant A Established 1840 Machine '04—Arthur Jacob Widmer, president Equipment ™ Tools of the Widmer Engineering Co. of St. 101 Park Avenue New York Louis, Mo., architects and engineers, Ever/filing from a Pulley to a Powerhouse April 30, 1947. His address was 212 South JOHN W. ROSS '19, Vice President Elm Avenue, Webster Groves, Mo. Son, Arthur J. Widmer, Jr. '44.

113 N. 3rd ST., PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. Ό7 CE—Robert Graham Ford, who was in the engineering department of the Penn- Frank L. O'Brien, Jr., M. E., '31 sylvania Railroad Co. for many years, The General Cellulose Co., Inc. April 11, 1947. Mrs. Ford lives at 19 West Converters and Distributors of Cellulose Ridley Avenue, Ridley Park, Pa. Brother, the late E. Kay Ford '10. Wadding and Absorbent Tissue Products BALTIMORE, MD. '07—Adah Hine of RD 2, Tuscola Road, Garwood, New Jersey Bay City, Mich., March 18, 1947. Alpha Phi. D. C. TAGGART >16 - - Pres.-Treas. ΊO DVM—Dr. Florence Kimball, for WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES many years night supervisor at the State University Hospital, Oklahoma City, STANTON CO.-REALTORS Engineers Okla., April 13, 1947. She lived on Route GEORGE H. STANTON '20 Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gustav J. Rβquardt '09 3, Box 220, Oklahoma City, Okla. Stewart F. Robertson A. Russell Vollmer '27 '10—Henry DeLand Strack of White Real Estate and Insurance Roy H. Ritter '30 Theodore W. Hacker'17 Plains, May 10,1947, in Owego. He was an attorney with White & Case, 14 Wall MONTCLAliFand VICINITY 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. Street, New York City. Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel: 2-6000 '13—William Andrus Frease of 58 Woodland Road, Asheville, N. C., Feb- ruary 16, 1947, in Florida. He was in pub- The Tuller Construction Co. WASHINGTON, D. C. lishing and advertising. Theta Delta Chi. '21 AB—Jerome Thomas Atkinson of J. D. TULLER,'09, President Box 264, Winnetka, 111., in August, 1946. THEODORE K. BRYANT He had been a buyer for R. H. Macy & BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, LL.B. '97-LL.M. '98 Co., Inc., New York City, and Mont- DOCKS * FOUNDATIONS gomery Ward Co., Chicago, 111. Delta Master Patent Law, G. W. U. '08 Tau Delta. WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively '22 CE—Samuel Burns of RD 4, Elk- A. J. Dillenbβck Ί1 C. P. Beylαnd '31 ton, Md., April 22, 1947. He was recently Suite 602-3-4 McKim Bldg. an engineer with the Arundel Corp., Con- C E. Wallace '27 No. 1311 G Street, N.W. solidated Engineering Co., and Hardaway 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. Co., contractors on US Navy bases, with offices in Baltimore, Md. '22 AB—Mrs. George Nichols, Jr. (Mar- ion McMillan) of 807 Auburn Avenue, KENOSHA, WIS. Buffalo, August 27, 1946. She formerly Your Card taught Latin in Schenectady. MACWHYTE COMPANY '43 MD—Dr. Benjamin Henry Morris, IN THIS DIRECTORY January 9, 1947, in Tucson, Ariz., where Manufacturer oί Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire, he was on the staff of the Southern Pacific Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord will be regularly read by Sanatorium and practiced medicine. He Literature furnished on request interned at Belluvue Hospital, New York 7,000 CORNELLIANS City, held a residency at Doctors Hospital JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 PRES. ft GEN. MGR. in New York, and a fellowship at the R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 Write for Special Rate Nicollet Clinic and Eitel Hospital in Min- Vice President in Charge oί Operations neapolis, Minn.

540 Cornell Alumni News Out of some cold figures, came a story to warm America's heart

"oτ LONG AGO, the Secretary of the United States "Early last fall, the magazines of this country—nearly a N Treasury studied a figure-covered sheet of paper. thousand of them, acting together—started an adver- tising campaign on Bonds. This, added to the continu- The figures revealed a steady, powerful upswing in the sale ing support of other media and advertisers, gave the of U. S. Savings Bonds, and an equally steady decrease in American people the facts . . . told them why it was Bond Redemptions. important to buy and hold U. S. Savings Bonds. But to the Secretary, they revealed a good deal more than "The figures on this sheet tell how the American people that, and Mr. Snyder spoke his mind; responded—and mighty good reading it makes. "If you give them the facts," he said, "you can always "Once more, it has been clearly proved that when you depend on the common sense and long-range judg- give Americans the facts, you can then ask them for ac- ment of the American people. tion—and you'll get it!" "The last few months have given us heart-warming proof What do the figures show? of that. On Mr. Snyder's sheet were some very interesting figures. "After the Victory Loan, sales of U. S. Savings Bonds They showed that sales of Savings Bonds went from went down—redemptions went up. And that was only $494 million in last September to $519 million in October natural and human. and kept climbing steadily until, in January of this year, "It was natural and human—but it was also dangerous. they reached a new postwar high: In January, 1947, For suppose this trend had continued. Suppose that, in Americans put nearly a billion dollars in Savings Bonds. this period of reconversion, some 80 million Americans And that trend is continuing. had decided not only to stop saving, but to spend the In the same way, redemptions have been going just as $40 billion which they had already put aside in Series E, steadily downward. Here, too, the trend continues. F & G Savings Bonds. The picture which that conjures Moreover, there has been, since the first of the year, an up is not a pretty one! increase not only in the volume of Bonds bought through "But the trend did NOT continue. Payroll Savings, but in the number of buyers.

How about YOU? The figures show that millions of Ameri- If you are eligible for the Payroll Plan, for your own sake cans have realized this fact: there is no safer, surer way on and your family's sake, get on it ... and watch your savings earth to get the things you want than by buying U. S. Savings mount up. Bonds regularly. If you are not eligible for the Payroll Plan, but have a check- They are the safest investment in the world. They pay you ing account, see your banker and get him to tell you about the $4 for every $3 at the end of 10 years. And you can buy them new Bond-a-Month Plan. automatically, almost painlessly today, through either of two Either of them will set you on the road to financial security, plans: and the happiness that comes with it.

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