Thanks for a good story, the last four para­ graphs of which could have been written, not in 1948, but certainly by 1950. George I. McKelvey '50, '58G Rochester Letters Claremont, California The story that 'RUR once "broadcast" an en­ tire football game with the transmitter off is Review likely an embellishment of the 1969 game at Alfred. Tom Bartunek and I arrived at the press University of Rochester box minutes before the game was to start (as Summer 1987 was our custom) and hastily set up our remote gear. After a quick call to the station for a time check, we started our call of the game, Tom doing the play-by-play. The Review welcomes letters Jrom readers and will use At the half, we again called for a time check as many ojthem as space permits. Letters may be edit­ only to find that we had connected to the wrong MAGnificent! 2 edJor brevity and clarity. telephone line. We had spent the first half chat­ The "new" Memorial Art Gallery ting to ourselves. All of this greatly amused the print journalists in the press box. Our station More memories of 'RUR A Gallery Sampler 8 manager, Jeff Portnoy, failed to see the humor. I was pleasantly surprised to find WRUR From Ihe MAG collection (Worse, Alfred won the game On a last­ featured in the Winter issue. The title, "The minute field goal, reputedly the fim by an Other Side of the Window," would have been Psycho-neuro-what? 10 Alfred kicker in some thirty years.) equally appropriate and descriptive in 1948. The new field of Portnoy was one of the driving forces behind The original WRUR studio was on the ground psychoneu roi mmunology acquiring the transmitter so cavalierly dismissed floor west side of Burton, and while some used as "antiquated but functional." But, then, we The Accidental Activist 13 the interior corridor access, the accepted route considered it a great advance when we retired Greenpeace chairman Peter Bahouth was through the window. I'm glad to learn not the old AM board, a vacuum tube RCA known only that WRUR thrives but that this tradition not so affectionately as "Mother," with a tran­ The Price of Genius 17 has survived, though I doubt anyone now on sistor Gates board. Demystifying Isaac Newton campus knows when it started. Another memorable broadcast was of a I jusl browsed through my considerable basketball game at Union in the late sixties. The Supreme Festival 22 file of WRUR memorabilia and discovered AT&T failed to arrange for the line we had The 1987 Commencement its thirty-ninth birthday was on February 10. ordered. Rather than go to alternative pro­ UnlikeJack Benny it will get older, but like him gramming, Rich Reiben sat in the FM studio Departments I trust il will continue to serve its audience for li,tening to a commercial station's broadcast yea~ beyond that magic number. Rochester in Review 26 of the game on a transistor radio. He then ren­ Alumni Gazette 34 dered his version of the game as an engineer (the same Portnoy, as I recall) played a continu­ Alumnotes 36 ous loop of crowd noise, adjusting the volume UR Where You Are 44 to suit the aClion. In Memoriam 48 Thanks for awakening the memories of an old 'RUR devotee. Alumni Travel 49 John Graham '70 Chaumont, New York I was 'RUR station manager in 1971 when the FM transmitter now described as "anti­ quated but functional" was switched on for the ROCHESTER REVIEW first time at 20,000 watts. I'll never forget Editor: Margaret Bond; copy editor: Erin the excitement generated by all the phone calls Dwyer; staff photographer: Jeffrey Gold­ from the enthusiastic new listeners who tuned berg; staff artist: Sean McCormack; in from as far away as Toronto (and the less­ Alumnotes editor: Shinji Morokuma; tban-enthusiastic new listeners who tuned in editorial assistant: Joyce Farrell; sports from Lattimore Hall on their mass spec­ information contributed by Tony Wells. trometers! ). Editorial office, 108 Administration Build­ Unfortunately, I left the broadcasting indus­ ing, Rochester. New York 14627, (716) try SOOn after graduation. However, I'll admit 275-2102. Published quarterly by to harboring a dusty old tape collection of a few the University of Rochester and mailed of my radio shows (including the FM sign-on to all alumni, "Rochester Review" is On the cover: Celebrating the opening ojthe ceremony). Maybe they'll come in handy if produced by the Office of University expanded Memorial Arl Gallery, Rockne Krebs's those of us who were in the control room that Public Relations, Robert Kraus, director. laser sculpture lIghts up the sky above the ~nden night ever get back together for a semi-official Office of Alumni Relations, James S. Brul Pavilion linking the Gallery with Cutler "'RUR Pioneers" reunion. (That'S a hint, if Armstrong, director, Fairbank Alumni Union. anyone out there is listening') Center, Rochester, New York 14627, Alan ("Barry Allen") Feinberg '72 (716) 275-3684 CREDITS Cover, Jeff Goldberg; page 8, left, Concord, Massachusetts Gary Graham, top right, David Henry, below POSTMASTER: Send address changes 10 It was great to see 'RUR getting the recogni­ "Rochester Review," 108 Adminislration right, James M. Via; page 9, top left, James tion it deserves (although sad to see that the old Building, Rochesler, New York 14627. M. Via, top right and below right, David transmitter still only puts out 1,000 watts). Henry; pages 13, 15, Randy Goodman; page I really enjoyed my time at 'RUR, which 17, illustration by Bruce LaFontaine; page 27, started me on the road to a career in broadcast Opinions expressed are those of the au­ courtesy ojEastman School; page 31, Alan journalism. I was happy to see that some others thors, the editors, or their subjects, and do Hodesblatt; page 33, Kelly Burgess; Alumni also used it as a springboard for careers in the not necessarily represent official positions Gazette photos courtesy ojsubjects; all others, media. of the University of Rochester. "Rochester Review" staffphotos. We always knew that someone was Oul there listening-even though no one complained when some of us used to whistle into the micro­ phone during the afternoon classical music program. [,Il never forget when we began a new pro­ gram called "Jazz in the Morning," which From started at 6 a.m. Monday-Friday. We didn't promote the show for the first week, because we wanted to see how it would go. That first exper­ imental day, I was the newscaster. Ten minutes The President after we went on the air, the phone rang. We had a listener, even though no one knew we were there' His comment about the show: "Hey man, you got any Grateful Dead:>" Dennis O'Brien Then there was the time one of our Dj's pretended to hang himself on the air at the end of a semester. He pre-recorded an elaborate One of the most widely discussed to all manner of beliefs and lives, rela­ "death" tape, complete with a bugler playing books on the state of higher education tivism turns out to be as empty as it "Taps." Security got so many worried phone in the past few months has been Pro­ is open. Believing in nothing closes calls they sent someone over, who threatened to knock down the door to the studio if the DJ fessor Allan Bloom's "Closing of the the mind to argument, and so all talk didn't unlock it and prove he was all right. American Mind." Bloom, a political and teaching becomes decorous chat­ Your story provoked a lot of happy (and some scientist and philosopher, teaches at ter. We live in an age of wallpaper strange) memories. Thanks. the University of Chicago. The basic philosophy. Steve Katz '79 argument of a long and often dense The basic thesis stated, the long London book is that American higher educa­ middle section of the book is a very Steve Katz is European coordinalorfor Assoctaled Press Radio Network, stationed in London - Editor. tion is failing its moral task of creating interesting, subtle, and wandering set citizens with civic virtue. Bloom's pre­ of observations of how modern phi­ What about AM? I was delighted to see WRUR (and scription (which he offers with only losophy has led us to this impasse of Jacqueline Volin) splashed across the front mild hope) is a return to the classical open-mindedness. A variety of philos­ page. However, as a former program director of texts of the tradition. ophers from Hobbes to Heidegger are WRUR-AM, I was disappointed to learn that Professor Bloom's analysis has evi­ considered in relation to the question AM is still viewed predominantly as a "training ground." Labeling WRUR-AM a training dently struck a responsive chord. It of the human community and the ground makes the staff members feel they are would certainly please Secretary of commonality of truth. If there is a not yet ready for "real" college radio. It is pre­ Education William Bennett who, protagonist in this array it is Nietz­ cisely this label that causes many AM people when he is not castigating university sche who, Bloom argues, was the one nOt to return their sophomore year unless they presidents for greed, is prepared to philosopher to take relativism seri­ get an FM slot. WRUR should utilize the AM staff's skills lambaste them for moral flaccidity. ously. There is no God - or truth, or right now. Perhaps AM is only a training As an old Chicago type myself who beauty; humanity has to make up ground because nobody is making an effort to taught in the old "Great Books" cur­ those things as it goes along. The make it something more. When WRUR is asked riculum, I have great sympathy for whole enterprise of modern philoso­ to playa party, send an AM programmer to do it. Havc AM jocks spin records live at popular much of Bloom's criticism. phy is contrasted to Plato and Aris­ places on campus. Get them involved in pro­ It is somewhat embarrassing, how­ totle and is viewed as conspiring duction. special programming, and the tcchni­ ever, to agree with such a disagreeable toward gradual erosion of the classical cal aspects of the station. book. Much of what Professor Bloom sense of truth and rationality. Nietz­ It takes morc than one year and has to be on­ says about everything from Rock 'n going. However, I think that the station man­ sche was serious when he attacked agement will find that the staff will be more Roll to Rousseau strikes me as "on the Socrates as corrupter of humankind. enthusiastic, other students won't laugh when mark" but for all that the book has a Worse thoughts for worse living they hear about WRUR-AM, and you'll have a grumbling tone that left me saying: through rationality. well trained. energetic staff that will come back "Now wait a darn minute.. Despite my general acquiesence to every year to continue making WRUR-AM/ FM what it is - the best organization on the As to agreement: I agree with the the bulk of Bloom's comments, I think River Campus' first sentence. "There is one thing a finally that there is a fundamental Forrest Strauss '85 professor can be absolutely certain error in his analysis that calls into Amherst, New York of; almost every student entering the question the whole Jeremiad. The And then there's URST university believes, or says he believes clue to Bloom's basic misperception is It was fun to read about the twentieth anni­ (Bloom has not discovered "he or she"] in the following interesting observa­ versary of URST (Spring '87 issue) Though I was only a backstage worker, I did have a that truth is relative." Having taught tion: "Contrary to the popular preju­ speaking part in that production of "Balls." Plato's "Republic" (in the Allan Bloom dice that America is a nation of unin­ I was one of the balls. Our voice parts were translation) last year, I cannot fault tellectual and anti-intellectual people, recorded at 'RUR- wc didn't speak above a that observation. The argument of the where ideas are at best means to ends, whisper- and, most important, I distinctly next 391 pages details the causes and America is nothing but a great stage remember that I was a ping-pong ball, not a tennis ball. the consequences of this modern rela­ on which theories have been played as Furthermore, we swung on black-painted tivism. It is assured relativism that tragedy and comedy." That is a pro­ wires manipulated (choreographed) by Vic brings about the closing of the Amer­ found half-truth. Every time I visit Becker up in the light booth. That was only one ican mind. Although relativism New York City I am reminded of a of the many shoestring solutions he dreamed up that summer, not the least of which was how to appears at first blush-and Bloom line from Saul Bellow (who wrote the doubts that anyone bothers to blush foreword for "Closing of the American (continued on page 47) these days - to be marvelously "open" Mind"). At one point a bewildered (continued on page 17)

Rochester Review J MAGnificent! By Betsy Brayer

The University's Memorial America. Three times since s the solemn Opening Day exer­ Art Gallery- affectionately then the Gallery has been A cises of October 8, 1913, drew known as "MAG" - was built in renewed and expanded. The to a close in the new building's august 1913 as a classical Renaissance most recent manifestation is a Hail of Casts, a football team in Dan­ "jewel box," the repository for knockout. delion Yellow burst through the doors, treasures of world art from This is how it all came snaking its exuberant way through the shrouds of antiquity and the startled ancient Egypt to contemporary about.

2 Rochester Review assemblage of frock coats and after­ noon dresses. This spontaneous display of ap­ proval signalled that the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester was now a reality. In a unique arrangement of town and gown - as the only university­ affiliated art museum in the country that is also a city art museum - the Gallery was founded, and three times later expanded, on the assumption that art was inseparable from edu­ cation. During a week-long Grand Opening celebration of the fourth manifestation earlier this year, some new and some old doors were un­ locked. Before the Gallery, the University Out of storage and into the light: For the first time in many years, the collection of contem­ had no storehouse for works of art. porary art is permanently on display-with plenty of breathing room around it. Students (and townies) could avail themselves of President Martin B. Library (which he, of course, had The classical shell, designed after Anderson's Saturday morning lectures built). A double sense of purpose per­ the Morgan Library in New York, had on art. Or they could study the plaster vaded Mrs. Watson's generous gift. little relation to use or space, and the casts of ancient Greeks that were scat­ (Under the terms of Mrs. Watson's director, George Herdle, was not con­ tered throughout the Prince Street gift, the University was to own and sulted about the plan. "What they Campus courtesy of the Class of 1880. maintain the Gallery as trustee for the did," Herdle's daughters have said, The building that opened to the people of the community "to foster a "was to draw up a beautiful facade gridiron fanfare on that campus in love and knowledge of art." That ar­ and then di vide the interior arbitrari­ 1913 came from an unusual coales­ rangement remains in force today, ly." The director's office was a tiny cence. Since 1872 the Rochester Art with the University providing about cubby behind the cloak room, the lec­ Club had searched for a permanent 15 percent of the Gallery's annual ture hall was woefully inadequate, and home for exhibitions. In 1904 Rush operating budget; the remainder is there was no provision for on-the-level Rhees, the University's third presi­ raised primarily through community delivery. Large objects had to be trun­ dent, had architects draw plans for an contributions in the form of member­ dled up two flights of Tennessee mar­ expansion of the Prince Street Cam­ ships.) ble stairs. The central and largest pus that included an art gallery and a George Herdle, president of the Art room was the skylit Hall of Casts music school. That same year a young Club, was named the Gallery's first di­ where those roving icons of antiquity, architect, James G. Averell, died. rector. A formal man in formal times, formerly scattered across the campus, Eight years later, Rush Rhees per­ Herdle would don his frock coat, not could now be enshrined. On either suaded that architect's mother, Emily just for opening day, but for subse­ side were three galleries for the in­ Sibley Watson, who was his friend and quent lectures as well, because it stallation or temporary exhibition of Prince Street neighbor, to memorial­ spoke to his perception of a museum paintings. The whole project cost ize her son by giving the University director's exalted mission in the com­ about $200,000. It sufficed (barely) for an art building. Mrs. Watson, art munity. eleven years. lover and collector, was the daughter "WORKMEN IN OVERALLS of Hiram Sibley, founder of Western ost art museums are erected AND YOU G INTELLIGENTSIA Union. His own art collection had M to house a collection, but here CREATE DEMAND FOR LARGER once hung, unappreciated by local was a building in search of one. And MEMORIAL ART GALLERY," the viewers, in the University's Sibley so the Memorial Art Gallery opened headlines of 1924 observed. One mem­ with its now legendary "five paintings, ber of that "young intelligentsia" was now director of the Gallery. Gertrude Facing page, below: Henry Moore's monu­ two plaster casts, and a lappet of lace." mental bronze "Vertebrae," a memorial gift Director Herdle latched onto that Herdle, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of in tribute to Josepb C. Wilson '31, is the "lappet of lace," given by a friend of the University in 1918, had succeeded centerpiece of the light-filled new sculpture Mrs. Watson, to start a decorative arts to her father's post upon his untimely garden. Facing page, top: The Gallery grows death four years later. She was the from left to right -the original 1913 build­ department while asserting that hence­ ing, the long and low 1968 addition, and the forth this would be an encyclopedic youngest museum director in the 1987 Vanden Brul Pavilion (distinguishable art museum rather than one of the country and one of only three women by its pyramidal roof line), which forms the link to the 1933 Cutler Union, now home to fashionable "gazing galleries" of the the Gallery's art school, offices, and library. period.

Rochester Review 3 to attain that position. She was to hold it for the next forty years. As part of the Greater University It's the "new" MAG Campaign for a new River Campus, "It's exciting, world class, and Among the new features: Mrs. Watson and her husband, James best of all, it's ours!" That's how A new main entrance, returned Sibley Watson, pledged $100,000 for Rochester's B. Forman Company for the first time in twenty years to an art gallery addition. Architects headlined its big display ad in the the University Avenue side of the McKim, Mead & White were hired, "Democrat & Chronicle" that her­ museum. with the imperious Lawrence Grant alded the reopened Gallery. That A glass-roofed sculpture garden, White, son of the late Stanford White, community sentiment was echoed new home to the Henry Moore in charge. by the D&C's editorial page, which "Vertebrae" and other twentieth­ For the next year and a half, the proclaimed, "Art Gallery is bigger, century bronzes. Gallery suffered the throes of con­ better, beautiful. .. in a word, a joy." New exhibition galleries for struction. In July, the newshounds Then there was Terry Meyer 'nG, nineteenth- and twentieth-century reported, "the din of big steam shovels who economically summed up the American art and for ethnographic digging up the campus is vying with person-in-the-street reaction with arts of Africa, Oceania, and the the University of Rochester summer "It's just wonderful!" Americas - added to two floors of lectures. " Viewed by some 28,000 enthusias­ "repainted, relit, and reshuffled" The two-story Fountain Court with tic visitors during the opening week galleries in the original 1913 build­ its clerestory windows, designed to ac­ festivities in early May, the "new" ing and the 1968 addition. commodate community events, and Gallery is an elegant, exciting show­ An imaginative and inviting chil­ the four new exhibition galleries sur­ case for the museum's collection of dren's "discovery room." rounding it, became the heart of the some 9,500 works of art, much of And, newly ensconced in Cutler expanded museum, which now also which is now seeing the light of day Union: administrative offices, the included a library and an auditorium for the first time in many years. The 17,000-volume Charlotte Whitney (where women undergraduates as late 46,000 square feet added by this lat­ Allen Library, and the art-filled, as the 194-0s, were assigned to attend est expansion represents a 60 percent elegant Gallery Cafe, a long-awaited compulsory chapel services). increase in exhibition space and full-service restaurant that is open Coinciding with the addition, the makes the present museum physi­ independent of Gallery hours. Gallery launched its first city-wide cally bigger than either the Guggen­ membership drive and netted 1,500 heim or the Whitney. members (originally there had been 250). Annual attendance rose to a high of 61,000, the Creative Workshop art school was started, and the collec­ Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Prince In 1927, as the men students were tions now numbered 318 items, in­ Street Campus, another building was preparing to leave for the River Cam­ cluding paintings, sculptures, tapes­ hatching that would eventually join pus, the trustees voted to use Mayor tries, antiquities, and embroideries. the menage known as the Memorial Cutler's sizable bequest to build a In 1932 Isabel Herdle, another Uni­ Art Gallery: Cutler Union, the house women's student union at Prince versity graduate (also Phi Beta Kappa, the mail chute built. Street. And because, during heated from the Class of 1927), joined the discussions at trustees' meetings, staff as associate director and curator. arly in the century, James Goold Cutler had argued that the River Because these were depression years, E Cutler, who, among his other Campus should be collegiate Gothic she shared a salary with her sister, roles, was an advocate of higher edu­ rather than "colonial" in style, his now Mrs. Gertrude Herdle Moore. cation for women, had sat next to wish was honored here. The style and material- "shot-sawn Indiana Like Gertrude, Isabel was to re­ Rush Rhees at a banquet in the old main at the Gallery until her retire­ Alumni Gym on Prince Street. "I limestone" - was"acceptable to Mrs. ment forty years later. Between them, should like to see some day on this Watson. . as harmonizing with the these two women shaped the museum campus a noble building, with a fine Art Gallery." and built much of its collection. And tower," Cutler told the University When it opened in September of they didn't do it with a Getty-sized president. "After I am gone, and Mrs. 1933, Cutler Union was heralded as budget and staff of a dozen curators Cutler has gone, you may find some "the most attractive and completely carefully monitoring the market. In­ provision for realizing such a desire." equipped student union in America" stead, with verve and perspicacity, Cutler was mayor of Rochester, and architecturally the rival of Yale's time payments and astute buying a University trustee, and a wealthy Harkness Memorial complex as the (plus rattling the tin cup when retired architect. He was wealthy watershed for the collegiate Gothic necessary, which was often), the because, early in his career, a client style. Herdles tracked down and brought had requested a means of getting "On the first Roor of Cutler Union home treasure after treasure for the outgoing mail from the ninth floor to a certain social refinement will pre­ growing collection. the ground floor. Cutler obligingly vail," announced the "Tower Times," designed and patented the mail chute whose offices were on the second floor now found in most public buildings.

4 Rochester Review and a world war-would intervene be­ tween the completion of the Fountain Court and the afternoon in September 1966 when Mrs. James Sibley Watson, Jr., daughter-in-law to the original donor, attacked the ground with a sil­ ver shovel, and a 30,OOO-square-foot addition, again doubling the size of the existing building, was under way. Those forty years had seen a quan­ tum jump in the collection after the first endowment for acquisitions took effect in 1938 with the purchase of the Gallery's "Vision of St. Hyacinth" by El Greco. Educational programming was boosted, ambitious exhibitions spilled into every available gallery, community programs mushroomed, even during the war years, and mem­ bership reached levels which placed it among the highest per capita for any community in the country.

lans for an expanded Gallery P were under way even before Gertrude Moore retired in 1962 and that gentle art scholar, Harris Prior, succeeded her. But the next two years, 1963-64, were ones of uncertainty as to whether the Gallery and its down­ town neighbor, the Eastman School of Music, might follow the College of Arts and Science to the River Campus (the women had joined the men in the mid-fifties). The matter of location eventually settled in favor of the status quo, plans for a new building on the Prince Street site emerged from a back-of­ the-envelope sketch by Carl F. W. Kaelber, Jr. of the Rochester firm of Waasdorp, Northrup and Kaelber (successors to the architects of Cutler Union). Designed in the International Modern style, the new wing harmo­ nized with the classic lines of that Above: Gerhard Marcks's 1938 "Nana" stands at the entrance to new galleries d'isplaying the early Renaissance jewel box, the 1913 collections of early twentieth-century European and American art. Behind is Milton Avery's building, while creating an unobtru­ "Haircut by the Sea," and on the wall at the right are the Braque and the Matisse. Below: sive link to that romantic hulk out of Ethnographic arts of Africa and the Americas have been moved out of a busy passageway and a Van Eyck painting, Cutler Union. into their own galleries designed by Mark Donovan, the Gallery's facilities and exhibitions When the project was finished, the manager, who took on the task of planning all the new installations. old student union was now separated from the museum building only by a along with the Sketch Club, the alum­ phers. (And now that the latest ex­ narrow driveway, and its cafeteria­ nae secretary, and the YWCA (pre­ pansion has made Cutler part of the where so many lunchtime hot fudge sided over by Mrs. Harper Sibley as Memorial Art Gallery complex, a sundaes had been consumed and so "religious advisor"). public restaurant has opened on its many "College Suppers" celebrated­ The basement cafeteria served as balustraded terrace, which overlooks a reemerged as ten bright and airy art restaurant to the neighborhood, a plant-filled sculpture court.) kind of Algonquin Hotel for Univer­ Forty years - including a depression sity, Gallery, and walk-in philoso-

Rochester Review 5 home to an uneasy cohabitation of casion," "Gallery Notes" decided, and the campus squirrels and the Creative all programs continued, culminating Workshop classes. The Brown House in a Gala Opening Ball. years were a marvelous exercise in Life goes on, and within ten years making do: a place where the master after the completion of the 1968 wing, bedroom became the director's office the collection had grown to the extent and boardroom, where a bathtub that the majority of the artworks were housed an ingenious filing system, again in storage, and those storage and where power failures stilled the areas were bulging. Larger and more typewriters whenever a coffee pot was elaborate exhibitions had displaced plugged in. the twentieth-century collection. The For the staff, preparation for the Gallery Store was shoehorned into two reopening was a race against time widely separated locations. and a nearly round-the-clock effort. The '68 addition had placed the In the end, there was a six-week main entrance on the campus side reprieve when the new front doors of the complex, and now the desire failed to arrive as ordered. was strong to return it to University The Grand Opening was finally Avenue and to effect the museum scheduled for Saturday, August 17, restaurant cut out of the 1960s budget. 1968. Ten minutes before the cere­ monies began, Harris Prior, the very or the third time, planning began proper director, was seen earnestly F for a "new Gallery," this one, like vacuuming the auditorium. Later, its two predecessors, to expand dra­ The Charlotte Whitney Allen art library as the crowd assembled out of doors matically on the space of the existing on Cutler Union's third Aoor displays an ap­ facing the dignitaries ensconced under facilities. This new plan would phys­ propriately Gothic ambience with its high, the new entrance portico, board presi­ ically connect the museum building to pointed ceiling rising above a two-level read­ dent Walter Strakosh rose to speak of ing room. Cutler Union, to which the adminis­ the beautiful weather that had blessed trative offices and the library would be this auspicious occasion. Yet even as studios, with a printing press replac­ transferred. Architect Frank Grosso, he spoke, the audience watched in ing the dishwasher and the dumb of Handler/Grosso pc., was retained fascination as great black thunder­ waiter serving as a flue for the kiln. to do the job. heads gathered behind him, and, as That 1960s expansion encompassed A capital campaign raised funds for the sudden storm broke, scurried into also a complete restoration of the orig­ the construction. The largest donor Cutler Union for the rest of the cere­ inal building, and the project went on to this - or to any other project in the mony. Even so, "the occurrence failed for a year and a half while the Gallery history of the Gallery - was Herbert to dampen the festive spirit of the oc- closed its doors to the public. W. Vanden Brul. During the hiatus, the collection variously went out on loan to other museums, to conservators at Oberlin for restoration, to bank vaults and The Gallery on the road warehouses. The heaviest pieces were If you are going to be in or near tacular exhibition of eighteenth­ stored in a great wooden igloo con­ Rochester at any time in the fore­ century French religious and histor­ structed in the Fountain Court into seeable future, a visit to the new ical painting very much in the grand which visiting scholars would occa­ MAG is something you won't want manner-will be at the jane Voor­ sionally make their way armed with to miss. hees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rut­ flashlights, to shout out their findings In the meantime, the Gallery gers University from September 6 to to fellow scholars stationed outside. (in part) may be coming to you. A November 8 and will then go on to Programs and activities were relo­ number of Gallery exhibitions are the High Museum in Atlanta from cated in a kind of "museum without already scheduled to travel across December 7 through january 29. walls" arrangement. Lecturers held the country over the next few years, "Survey of American Printmak­ forth in Cutler Union. The education making stops at cities along the way. ing," a selection of seventy works on department and library operated Director Grant Holcomb hopes paper drawn from the Gallery's col­ from the suburban Pittsford home that these traveling shows will also lection of 5,000 prints, will be seen of Michael Watson, grandson of the afford him an opportunity to meet at the Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gal­ donor. with University alumni, as he has lery of Niagara University this fall. already with the Southern Califor­ Among projected future traveling nia contingent in Los Angeles. exhibitions are a Monet show follow­ he administrative offices spent Among the traveling shows will ing a solo show by contemporary the construction period in the T be two that reopened the museum painter joyce Treiman that will go "Brown House," a Prince Street resi­ this spring: on to Los Angeles, Atlanta, and dence which once served as the Uni­ "La Grande Maniere" - a spec- Portland. versity's Faculty Club and then as

6 Rochester Review In 1985 Grant Holcomb, associate director of the Timken Gallery in San Diego and a scholar with a curatorial and professorial background, joined the Gallery as director. He has seen the project through to completion. The result, which opened in May of this year, is highlighted by the new 12,000-square-foot Vanden Brul Pavil­ ion, fronting on University Avenue, and an enclosed, sky-lit sculpture garden. With this new construction linking them, the original "Renais­ sance jewel box" now flows into the romantic Gothic building once half a campus away. "I felt the pavilion should be a bit of magic, a beautiful room, a strong architectural statement, and still it should relate well to the existing struc­ tures," says Frank Grosso. "Suddenly you have the impact of all these build­ ings coming together, reading as one structure made up of four parts. At night this coming together is rein­ forced by new lighting: on the original facade, under the trees lining the 1968 wing, a high-intensity light at the new entrance, and the Cutler tower all aglow."

he expanded museum's total T floor space of over 105,000 square feet makes it larger than either the Whitney or the Guggenheim. Among its many new exhibition areas is a children's "discovery room," where, among other delights, you can walk into and explore replicas of A life-size Roman sculpture from the second century A.D. greets visitors ascending the grand familiar paintings from the collection. stairway in the 1913 building. In newly "relit, refurbished, and reshuffied" galleries on this New homes have been found for the floor are the collections of ancient and classical art, the Oriental collection, and European collections of American painting and paintings and sculptures-including all the old favorites from the medieval, Old Master, and French Impressionist collections. sculpture from 1800 to the present, American folk art, ethnographic col­ On May 4, 1987, nearly seventy­ That triangular display radiating lections, prints, and drawings, and five years after the solemn Opening across the night sky illuminated a twentieth-century European art. Day ceremonies of 1913, the Univer­ unique partnership and recalls Mrs. Temporary exhibition space has been sity's art museum opened again. This nearly doubled. Watson's words, pronounced on April time there were no frock coats, and 12, 1913, that "the City of Rochester The spaces in Cutler Union-where little solemnity. The football team, be­ is finally to have an art museum. partitions are of immovable terra cotta ing out of season, did not attend. But vested in the University of Rochester," with no place to introduce or to hide the week-long celebration did include the seedling of a perennially growing new ducts - remain much as they were such lighthearted events as a visit and thriving institution in which both (except for their inhabitants: museum from a "bubble artist" who encased the University and its surrounding administrators replacing bobby-soxed delighted visitors (mostly youthful) in Rochester community now as then "co-eds"). The exception is the (17,000­ giant bubbles, the launching of hun­ volume) Charlotte Whitney Allen Li­ can take great pride.• dreds of helium-filled balloons carry­ brary on the third floor, in which the ing aloft artworks and messages from former attic was opened up to make the celebrants, and a display of a laser A TI artist as well as a writer, Betsy Brayer a two-story, two-level space with a sculpture which linked, by beams of created oTle ofthe "walk-in" paintings in the pointed ceiling and an appropriately brilliant light, the Gallery, the Univer­ Gallery~ new children's room. Gothic ambience. sity's River Campus, and the heart of downtown Rochester.

Rochester Review 7 A Gallery Sampler

A visit to the Memorial Art Gallery is like a walk through the history of art, from the ancient world to the immedi­ ately contemporary. Here is a sampling of its treasures, drawn from a collection designed "to foster a love and knowledge of art" among its dual constituency - the University and city com­ munities.

Thomas Ridgeway Gould (American, 1818-1881) "The West Wind," marble, 1876 Gift of the Isaac Gordon Estate

Above right: Bernard Duvivier (French, 1762-1837) Facing page, below: Thomas Hart Benton (American, "Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers," Mary Cassatt (American, 1845-1926) 1889-1975) oil on canvas, 1789 "Young Mother, Daughter, and Son," pastel "Boom Town," oil on canvas, 1927-1928 Marion Stratton Gould Fund on paper, 1913 Marion Stratton Gould Fund Marion Stratton Gould Fund

8 Rochester Review Greek, Mycenae (ca. 1275-1225 B.C.) Krater, terra cotta with paint R. T. Miller Fund

Peruvian, Chicama culture (ca. 1100­ 1470 A.D.) Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865) Burial Mask, gold "Old Woman with a Bible," ca. 1834 R. T. Miller Fund Beatrice M. Padelford Trust

A gift to the Gallery This small (roughly eight by ten inches) oil by Edouard Vuil­ lard entered the collection as the gift of the landscape architect Fletcher Steele. The subject, Lugne Poe, was a famous actor­ manager in the Paris of the turn of the century. Since 1913, the collection has been repeatedly enriched by simi­ lar gifts of works of art. Director Grant Holcomb notes that he and his curators are always happy to talk with potential donors con­ sidering making gifts to the Gal­ lery. You may write or phone him at 500 University Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607, (716) 473-7720.

Rochester Review 9 Psycho-neuroo 0 0 0-

By Stephen Braun • Can your mental state in­ who performed a ritualistic ceremony co-founders of the field. It was Ader fluence your physical health? to remove the curse that he said was at and Cohen who first demonstrated The short answer is yes, but the root of her problems. The curse, in a clear, reproducible fashion that he said, had been placed on her by a the brain can influence the immune exactly how much influence former boyfriend. system. and what Idnd of influence are Three weeks later she returned to As occurs rather often in science, questions being pursued by a the United States showing no signs of the discovery of the link between the group of University scientists. her former symptoms and two years brain and the immune system hap­ They are pioneering in a new afterward gave birth to a healthy girl. pened through a combination of acci­ The speed with which she recovered, dent and insight - in this case having field that goes by the ponder­ not just from the disease but from the to do with the mystery of the rats that ously polysyllabic name of side effects of some of the drugs she died. psychoneuroimmunology. was taking, was remarkable and not In 1975 Ader, currently 'eorge L. explainable by current medical theory. Engel Professor of Psychosocial Medi­ n 1981, "The Journal of the Amer­ The report illustrates at least two cine, was preparing laboratory rats for I ican Medical Association" printed things. It details a case of serious auto­ a later study by training them to avoid a most unusual report. It concerned immune disease that was, to all indi­ a sweet-tasting saccharin solution. He a twenty-eight-year-oJd Philippine­ cations, reversed by an alteration of did this by injecting' the rats with cy­ American woman who visited a clinic the victim's mental state. In addition, clophosphamide, a drug causing nau­ in Longview, Washington, complain­ by appearing in one of the country's sea, immediately after giving them ing of pain in her joints and a general premier medical journals, it indicates sweetened water. As expected, the rats weakness. Tests showed she had sys­ how seriously the medical "establish­ qt,;ickly learned to avoid the sweet temic lupus erythematosus, a disease ment" is taking such phenomena. stuff. in which the body's immune system The study of the mind's influence attacks healthy organs as though they on the immune system - once dis­ hen for several weeks the same were foreign invaders. missed as "fringe science" - is now a T rats were offered the sweetened After various drugs failed to restore full-Oedged and growing research field water without the injections. Again as her health, the woman sought the known by the polysyllabic name of expected, the rats' previously condi­ opinion of a second doctor. He con­ "psychoneuroimmunology." tioned aversion to the doctored water firmed the earlier diagnosis and rec­ The University has played a major wore off, a phenomenon called extinc­ ommended a vigorous regimen of role in the genesis of this field, and tion. more drugs to dampen her immune Rochester now enjoys one of the na­ But something odd was also hap­ system's misguided assault. Instead, tion's largest concentrations of exper­ pening. The rats that continued to she returned to her home village in a tise in the various disciplines that drink the sweetened water began to remote part of the Philippines. There together constitute it. fall prey to disease and die. What was she was treated by the local shaman, Leading Rochester's group are going on? In tracking down the cause, Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen, who could accurately be described as

10 Rochester Review Ader realized that the drug he had used to cause the nausea had the addi­ tional effect of suppressing the rats' immune systems. Yet they had been given only one injection of the drug, and that had occurred at the begin­ ning of the experiment. How could that one injection be causing illness several weeks later? Ader hypothesized that the rats had associated the sweetened water with the drug-and also associated its im­ munosuppressive effect. In essence, the animals had "learned" to suppress their own immune systems in response to sweet water. Repeated exposure to the saccharine-sweetened water evoked conditioned immunosuppressive re­ sponses, leaving them vulnerable to disease.

o test his idea, Ader teamed up T with Nicholas Cohen, professor of microbiology and immunology. To­ · . R b t Ader (left) and Nicholas Coben were the first to demonstrate in a clear, re­ gether they did further experiments P lOneers. 0 er h h d t with different animals, different con­ producible fashion that the brain can influence the immune system .. T~e group t ~y ea a Rochester enjoys one of the nation's largest concentrations of expertIse In the groWIng field of trol groups, and different environmen­ psychoneuroimmunology. tal conditions, checking all the while for measurable changes in the im­ The expansion of the Rochester smile. "If you don't have those illu­ mune system that could be ascribed group reflects this worldwide recogni­ sions, then you just have fun with it." to conditioned responses. They found tion and growth. The team of "psycho­ The Rochester group is also con­ clear evidence that the immune sys­ neuroimmunologists" who have joined tinuing its studies of stress and its tems of mice and rats could be influ­ Ader and Cohen incl udes neural sci­ effects on the immune system. Con­ enced by behavioral conditioning. entists David and Suzanne Felten; trary to popular opinion, they say, Their published findings were met a behavioral endocrinologist, Lee stress is not necessarily bad. with the kind of initial skepticism that Grota; and immunologist Shmuel "If you stress an animal, you don't comes naturally when centuries-old Livnat. automatically increase its susceptibil­ assumptions are questioned. Up to Another indication of the impor­ ity to disease," Ader says. "There are that time, your mood, attitude, or tance now attached to this field is the plenty of studies indicating that stress general mental state hadn't been con­ Rochester group's heavyweight cadre decreases susceptibility. Which only goes sidered an important factor in your of sponsors: the National Institutes of to show how much we don't know." health. The work of Ader and Cohen Health, the Office of Naval Research, suggested that it was, although it the National Institutes of Mental couldn't pinpoint exactly how impor­ ne way to fill in the blanks in Health, and RJR Nabisco. tant those factors might be. O what you don't know is by mak­ The Rochester researchers are cur­ Skepticism waned, however, when ing connections. And David Felten is rently pursuing the mechanisms un­ other scientists were able to reproduce one of those drawing in the missing derlying the conditioned responses their work. In 1981, Ader edited the lines. they have observed thus far. They'd book "Psychoneuroimmunology," a Felten's office, small to begin with, like to know more about how condi­ seminal work that helped define this recently became even more cramped, tioning affects the various kinds of new arena of inquiry. Researchers but he's not complaining. The cause white blood cells-such as helper and from around the world have entered of the congestion is a state-of-the-art suppressor T cells, B cells, and natural this field, which has been the subject Zeiss axiomat microscope - the Rolls­ killer cells. The task is difficult because of numerous recent national and in­ Royce of microscopes he says. It's a it involves the two most complex sys­ ternational meetings. device that will allow Felten and his tems of the body: the nervous system Earlier this year, the first issue of a co-workers to see with remarkable and the immune system. new journal called "Brain, Behavior, clarity the physical connections be­ "The complexity would really and Immunity" appeared. Edited by tween the brain and the immune bother you if you had any illusion that Ader, with Cohen and David Felten as system. within a lifetime you were going to associate editors, the journal will pro­ Felten, holder of a MacArthur solve all of this," Cohen says with a vide a needed international forum for articles about this new field.

Rochester Review II Foundation "genius grant" and a pro­ system are intimately connected. Re­ to have cured their own cancers purely fessor of neurobiology and anatomy, searchers have found similar relation­ by thought control. While he thinks it has for the past several years been ships in lymph nodes and the spleen, is likely that mental factors do play making a name for himself in scien­ where other masses of lymphocytes some part, Felten says there is no evi­ tific circles for his discovery that are stored. dence that people with developed or nerves from the central nervous sys­ advanced cancers can indeed cure tem are closely intertwined (or inner­ themselves. vated, as he and his colleagues put it) "Psychosocial factors probably play with tissues in several key areas of the "We have to be exceedingly their biggest role in the prevention of body's immune system. cautious. We may have an cancers in the first place or in healing Actually, it's been known for some intuitive feeling that mental them in their early phases," he says. time that nerve endings innervate the attitudes play a role in all lymph nodes, bone marrow, and other ther people in Felten's group tissues related to the immune system. disease, but that doesn't mean it's always true." O are working on related prob­ But it's been assumed that these lems. Sonia Carlson, a graduate stu­ nerves simply regulate the flow of dent, is showing that when the im­ blood to those tissues. mune system is challenged, changes Not entirely so, says Felten. By us­ In related studies, other investi­ occur in the hippocampus, hypothal­ ing powerful microscopes and special gators are finding that lymphocytes amus, and other brain structures. stains and dyes to make cells stand may respond to some of the same Denise Bellinger, a postdoctoral fellow, out, Felten and colleagues Suzanne chemicals that are used to transmit is probing the changes in the nervous Felten (his wife and an assistant pro­ nerve impulses, including norepineph­ and the immune systems that occur fessor of neurobiology and anatomy), rine and acetylcholine. Paralleling that with aging. Kurt Ackerman, a medical Shmuel Livnat, assistant professor of research, Felten and his colleagues Ph.D. student, is studying the relation­ psychiatry, and others have traced have noted that if they deplete the ship between nerve terminals and nerve fibers to fields of lymphocytes spleen and lymph nodes of their neuro­ specific types of lymphocytes in the (white blood cells) in the thymus, transmitter content of norepinephrine, spleen and the lymph nodes. spleen, lymph nodes, and bone mar­ the immune response of these cells The connections between your row. falls off dramatically. This suggests health and your emotions, your atti­ that the presence of some neurotrans­ tudes, and your mental state are ex­ ymphocytes are one of our main mitters is important for the proper tremely complex and hard to distill L defenses against invasion by functioning of the immune system. into a set of handy guidelines. Techni­ foreign bacteria, viruses, and harmful Although the brain and the im- cal as it has become, the field remains compounds. They do their defense m une system are clearly linked, the in its infancy and what is known is work by locking on to these foreign degree of the brain's influence is still dwarfed by what is not. bodies and then secreting molecules not clear. This is a point often glossed But whereas it used to be absurd to that eventually destroy the invaders. over in popular accounts of psycho­ ask such questions as "Does depres­ There are several kinds of lympho­ neuroimmunology. sion increase one's risk of cancer?" the cytes, each with a slightly different Indeed, Felten and others in the work of Ader, Cohen, Felten, and function. The different kinds are field say that misinterpretation and their colleagues now makes them well stored in different areas of the body. exaggeration of their work is a peren­ worth the asking.• Felten and his colleagues found nial problem. nerve fibers weaving through the "The field attracts a remarkable thymus gland, a pinkish-grey body array of fringe individuals," he says. Stephen Braun is the author ofprevious about the size of a walnut, located "They're interested in using little bits "Review" articles on Tourette's syndrome and on under the breastbone. This is signif­ of scientific information to substan­ the Medical Center's Pain Treatment Center. icant because a large and important tiate their pre-held beliefs about heal­ class of lymphocytes, T lymphocytes, ing. But we have to be exceedingly is developed in this gland. The accom­ cautious about what we claim. We panying presence of nerves spreading may have an intuitive feeling that throughout the thymus suggests that mental attitudes playa role in all the nervous system and the immune disease, but that doesn't mean it's always true." As an example of the distortions and exaggerations he encounters, Felten cites the claims of people said

12 Rochester Review The Accidental Activist

By Daniel M. Kimmel

Peter Bahouth '75 started out nouncing the existence of an elevator eter Bahouth may be the chair­ that is finally working again. to be a Boston lawyer. But he man of Greenpeace, USA- the P Bahouth clearly didn't take this job happened to open his practice American branch of the international for the perquisites of office. "When I in a building that housed the environmental organization - but you was in school," he recalls, "it was crass still have to climb three flights of stairs lunch spot frequented by the to say we were going to graduate and to get to his office near the Cambridge local Greenpeace activists. Now try to earn $50,000 a year. That wasn't campus of the Massachusetts Institute he's their national chairman. of Technology. Only when you get to the top do you discover a note an-

Rochester Review 13 as acceptable then as it is now." organization gets itself into a real services to the organization, some­ While Greenpeace's national head­ fight, the world takes notice. In 1985, times defending its members when quarters is in Washington, he prefers French agents planted a bomb aboard their nonviolent protests led to arrests. to work out of the New England re­ Greenpeace's ocean-going "Rainbow "I sort of got more and more involved gional office, which is just a subway Warrior," creating an international as time went on," he says, recalling his stop away from downtown Boston. furor that has yet to be resolved. By experiences in private practice as The comparative informality (he sinking the boat, which was protesting "frustrating." He saw a commitment shares his cell-like, uncurtained office French nuclear testing, France com­ to Greenpeace as his chance to do with an eight-button phone, a porta­ mitted what Bahouth terms "a totali­ some "social justice type of work" on a ble computer, and several cartons of tarian act against a peaceful organiza­ larger scale than handling individual supplies) also allows his dog Scorch to tion." cases. doze peacefully under his desk while Actually, he has held only three jobs Bahouth conducts his business or sits is concern is less for the boat in his life, of which he rates his law down for an interview- that is, during H than for the attempt to stifle practice last and his work with Green­ one of the infrequent intervals when open discussion over international en­ peace first. The other job? Working as a bartender in Todd Union, where, he he's not off somewhere attending an vironmental issues. Greenpeace has recalls with a laugh, his first assign­ international meeting, or lobbying a even carried out actions against the ment was to "clean up an awful lot of governmental agency, or on an air­ Soviet Union, prompting Bahouth to slop." plane shuttling from one to another. note, "We don't really recognize inter­ Greenpeace, a self-described "activ­ Today, at Greenpeace, he is involved national boundaries as being a stop to ist" organization, is perhaps best environmental problems. We learned with cleanups on a global scale. known for its direct actions in the that with Chernobyl, especially. You Bahouth stresses that his organization public arena, calling attention to the works at the national and interna­ issues with which it is concerned. This tional levels rather than at the grass has included everything from the in­ roots. "What we're trying to do is em­ terruption of whale hunts, by placing "If you see a wrong being power people to take action in their Greenpeace members in small boats committed, you bear witness own neighborhoods and communities between whalers' harpoons and their while Greenpeace works on the larger to it, and you can, you intended targets, to the hanging of a if picture." banner, protesting the nuclear arms take peaceful action to try Rather than concern itself with the race, from the scaffolding that sur­ and prevent it." cleanup of toxic-waste dumps, for ex­ rounded the Statue of Liberty during ample, as many local activist organi­ its repair. zations do, Greenpeace concentrates "That's a very small part of what on reducing the waste at its source. have to go places and you have to sort the organization is about," says "A lot of groups are talking about 'let's of ignore some of the political impli­ Bahouth, "but it's an important part. clean up dumps,' meaning 'let's put it We do try to get public attention to cations. " someplace else.' What we've been talk­ Bahouth would much rather talk specific issues. But that's not the reason ing about is that there's no place to put about his work than about himself, we do these things. The reason is a this stuff. What we've .really been try­ but he admits that much of his own belief in the philosophy of nonviolent ing to get across is a program of sense of social responsibility derives direct action that stands for this prem­ reducing the sources. In other words, from his undergraduate days at Roch­ ise: If you see a wrong being commit­ let's not make hazardous waste in the ester. He credits Professor Mary ted, you bear witness to it, and if you first place." Young and others in the history de­ can, you take peaceful action to try Bahouth argues that "there are cer­ partment for raising "social justice and prevent it." tain processes that companies can use issues" in classroom discussions. (An­ Greenpeace traces its inspiration to prevent the generation of waste." other useful legacy from his Rochester back to Gandhi and to the civil rights As a result of Greenpeace activity and education lies in the analytical meth­ and anti-war movements of the sixties. lobbying in this area, the New York ods he learned-very useful, he says, Bahouth notes that Greenpeace is State Environmental Commission has in "setting standards for corporate "probably the first organization to agreed to a program that Bahouth and government responsibility.") utilize that sort of tactic" in fighting calls a "huge, huge move" in the right Recently elected to a second term as for environmental issues. Such action direction: Companies will no longer Greenpeace USA's chairman, Bahouth is predicated on the idea that civilized be given permits to allow discharges of got involved with the organization al­ societies will not allow peaceful pro­ waste unless they first submit a plan most accidentally. After graduating testors to be brutally brushed aside. for reducing its sources. from Suffolk University Law School in (Or that they will be publicly shamed "I think the bureaucrats and politi­ Boston, he opened his own practice in in the international arena when they cians want to do their jobs," he says, an upstairs office over the place where do.) "but I think they're not always aware local Greenpeace activists met for For the most part, Greenpeace's tac­ of the seriousness of some of the prob­ lunch. tics have been successful. When the lems or of how the people feel." Things were slow for the new attor­ ney, and so he began volunteering his

14 Rochester Review On the waterfront: Bahouth and friend Scorch take a breather on the banks of the Charles, a step or two away from his Cambridge office. The purity of the world's waters is one of Greenpeace's major concerns.

As toxic waste has become a hot ambulance chasers," he says. "Some­ reenpeace is not always a wel­ issue, Greenpeace has joined with times it's nice to work on a project Gcome participant in the halls of other organizations to lobby for ac­ where you can maybe prevent prob­ government, however. Some officials tion. One of the things Bahouth en­ lems from happening in the first place. may feel like barricading the door joys about his work is collaborating "Antarctica contains more than 70 when they see Bahouth and his Green­ with people who discover that Green­ percent of the world's fresh water in peace colleagues coming because they peace's environmental concerns can an ice cap that is, in places, three continue to draw attention to prob­ have direct impact on their own lives. miles thick. It's very important in lems many would prefer not to notice. "There's a mailman's association terms of the food chain. What's hap­ Its success in New York is only a that has been very interested in our pening right now is that the countries small step in Greenpeace's larger project down in Antarctica because of that have laid claim to Antarctica are "Water for Life" campaign, which is Antarctica's effect on our weather up talking about resource development currently targeting the entire Great here. That's what we're trying to do: down there. Lakes region for action. "Basically build an international movement "Antarctica already has severe prob­ you're talking about the world's largest made up of hundreds of different lems just from the activities of man. enclosed body of fresh water. It's being groups of differing social strata and What do you think they do with waste polluted - there are fish being killed; financial positions and political down there? It just sits there. You there's waste being discharged at an beliefs. " throw a banana peel out your door enormous rate. As far as we're con­ and it's going to stay for a hundred cerned, that's a trespass on a public years. It just doesn't decompose. All resource. " s for Antarctica, which Bahouth the waste they're producing on the Greenpeace and Bahouth have their A describes as "the final continen­ tal wilderness in the world," Green­ bases goes into these big pits. It's scar­ work cut out for them. Besides the ring the continent." many companies that have their plants peace is attempting to halt develop­ ment there until the environmental Bahouth doesn't oppose all activity on the shores of the Niagara River or in Antarctica. "There's been a lot of on one of the lakes, Greenpeace must impact of these activities can be as­ certained. "I think it's important for scientific study down there that we also deal with the American and Ca­ support heartily. We want that study nadian governments, as well as those people who are concerned about the of the several states and provinces that environment not always to be seen as border the Great Lakes.

Rochester Review 15 coats - they all have their place in ou r environment. They all affect our lives Rocking the World individually. Whether it's the food In recent months Peter Bahouth While Bahouth continues to chain or the health of the planet, it's has been working on a project that, negotiate with various performers aU interrelated." at first glance, seems far off the up to the last minute, he already Greenpeace USA currently has on track from his work at Greenpeace. has commitments not only from the its membership rolls some 500,000 How, after all, do you get from di­ Western pop stars cited above, but people whose contributions provide its recting an international environ­ from several Soviet performers as sole support. Bahouth would like to mental organization to becoming well, some of whom will make the get that figure to over a million. And a rock-concert producer? trip to Washington. when he talks about that, he also talks For Bahouth, it was a pretty di­ "Don't think for a minute that about what he calls universal, nonpar­ rect route. the Soviet approval was easy to get tisan goals. On September 5, in an event to or that it was part of a propaganda "I want Republicans to support be broadcast around the world, such ploy," Bahouth says. "Strong ele­ Greenpeace. We aTe conservatives. musical luminaries as Bob Dylan, ments in the U.S.S.R. don't like the We're trying to preserve certain Peter Gabriel, the Pretenders, and fact that this event is happening." things, and that's a conservative view. Simple Minds will perform in a Although the goal is to address I want my parents to be part of concert tentatively billed as "Rock a worldwide audience about pro­ Greenpeace. I want people from the the World." tecting the environment, Bahouth Third World to be part of it. There's Greenpeace is sponsoring the doesn't want this to come across as something there for everybody." concert, which is where Bahouth a televised fund-raiser. "We want Nonetheless, Greenpeace remains gets into the act. As project coor­ people to have a good time." one of the most outspoken and flam­ dinator for the event, he has been In a memorandum to Greenpeace boyant of all the conservation groups. dividing his time between the United offices, Bahouth added, "We don't "Greenpeace takes a very hard line States and Europe as he has been want to use the musicians to get because we feel time is running out. making plans for it. He has let it be people to call in ten dollars. We What we like to see is that sometimes known that he wants nothing less want them to act as a bridge to the we can bring other groups a little bit than to, as he puts it, "go over the people watching the show- to get further along with us. We just add in heads of politicians and corpora­ the message across that it's up to us our activism." tions to find the answers to the envi­ individually to push governments There's no doubt it's not easy being ronmental crises facing the planet." and corporations to operate in a an activist in the eighties, but Bahouth What makes this more than just different manner from that day for­ remains optimistic. "I begin to see a another cause-related rock concert ward." real shift. I have a lot of people call is its locale - rather its double locale. Can a Rochester grad who just me - people who've gotten out of All those musicians will be broad­ happened to get involved with some school, made all this money, and then casting from two simultaneous sites: environmental activists save the realized that it hasn't really been the RFK Stadium in Washington and world with rock music? Tune in on answer for them. And they call me Lenin Stadium in Moscow. September 5 and find out. up and they say, 'I'm willing to chuck it all. Can I come work for Green­ peace?' " Greenpeace seems to have been the to continue until we know as much to is that Greenpeace is an environ­ right answer for Bahouth. He remains about the place as we possibly can. mental group that looks at the world intense about his issues but is relaxed Then let's talk about what can happen in an ecological sense." about himself, expressing regret only down there." about his many absences from his friend Scorch and none at all about Greenpeace is probably best known reenpeace subscribes to the the Saab that might by now have been for its work on species preservation, Gaea Theory, a name derived G sitting in his garage. ''I'm doing what particularly in obtaining a moratori­ from the goddess of the earth in Greek I need to do," he says, "and I'm lucky um on international whaling, as well mythology. "What the Gaea Theory is enough to be able to do it." • as in cutting back on the slaughter of saying is that the world is basically a baby seals. single organism. It relies on all its sep­ Asked if Greenpeace would be so arate parts for its health," Bahouth Daniel M. Kimmel 77 is a Boston-based concerned about creatures less majes­ says. tic than the whale or less cute than the writer who has appeared in "Film Comment, " "We feel very strongly about species "Saturday Review, "and the "Christian Science seal pups, Bahouth says, "We're not diversification. What we're trying to Monitor, " and was recently named a correspon­ doing this just for the aesthetic appre­ tell people is that all these different dent Jar "Variety" His last artideJor "Rochester ciation of nature. What it comes down species -whether you think they're Review" was on the unearthing ojthe 1984 time cute, or whether you think they're capsule. useful, or whether you like their

16 Rochester Review The Price of Genius

By Stephen Braun

o.o-c...... ---.---'_":!.._...=-4:...... ~_ ""f- t is a winter evening in the rural .... ,---,...,------I town of Cambridge, England, 1685. It is quiet, save for the occasional tolling of a church bell, and it is dark, save for the ruddy glow from fire­ places and candles. Most Cambridge residents are asleep, resting from harsh lives little changed from those of their medieval ancestors. Intellectually too, all but a handful of people in Cambridge and the rest of Europe remain mired in superstition or stale variations on philosophical themes created by long­ dead Greeks. It is one of those stubbornly inquis­ itive men who is awake tonight, as oblivious to the hour as he is to the tray of stone-cold food resting on a nearby table. He toils in a drafty second-floor room in one of the Gothic stone buildings of Cambridge University. Aside from his eyes, he isn't much to look at: average height, lean to the point of gauntness, long brown hair, delicate hands, pale skin, prominent nose. But his dark eyes speak of something less ordinary. Even when in close quarters, he seems to be gazing at some distant object. At the moment he is hunched over a desk covered with large sheets of paper. His quill pen scratches rapidly, producing page after page of words, numbers, lines, formulas, diagrams. Like Mozart scribbling to catch the sounds of the symphonies playing in his head, Isaac Newton is racing to put down on paper the grand synthe­ sis of mechanics, mathematics, and In 1687, Isaac Newton posium that brought together motion that has been ripening in his mind for the past three decades. It is published his monumental the nation's leading Newton a synthesis of such scope, power, and "Principia Mathematica" which scholars and revealed that the foresight that not until Einstein is was to revolutionize scientific "scientific deity" behind this there a name to be placed beside thinking. To celebrate the 300th towering achievement was no Newton's, anniversary of that event, the mere plaster saint but a man as Millions of people would one day University sponsored a sym- complex and as difficult as his use the ideas and methods Newton was recording that night to perform own scientific calculations.

Rochester Review 17 tasks as complex as calculating the young Isaac's birth. Within two years, these was a girl, Miss Storer (her first trajectory of a trip to the moon and as his mother married an elderly, well-to­ name has been lost to history), who mundane as figuring out the optimum do minister named Barnabas Smith was some years younger than Newton. shape for a loudspeaker cone. But on and, since Smith didn't fancy an in­ But Newton made doll furniture for this evening, scarcely a dozen people fant around the house, the baby was her and her friends and, according to in the world, looking over Newton's left in the care of his grandmother. an account by Miss Storer, later suf­ shoulder, would understand what he For nine years, until Smith died in fered a brief, adolescent infatuation was writing- and even fewer would 1653, Newton was essentially an or­ with her. agree with it. phan, and many historians trace his The issue of Newton's sexuality has, later personality traits to this trau­ perhaps understandably, largely been uch was the magnitude of New­ matic time in his childhood. ignored. But to those, such as West­ Ston's genius. Today, 300 years "Newton was a tortured man, an fall, who have pored over a lifetime of after the publication of the book that extremely neurotic personality who Newton's corr spondence, evidence was pouring out of his mind those teetered always, at least through mid­ of hi:i homosexuality- or at least his nights and days in Cambridge, New­ dle age, on the verge of breakdown," asexuality- seems clear. The tone and ton's place as one of the towering says Richard Westfall in his seminal content of letters between -ewton and figures in the development of human biography, "Never at Rest." "No one some uf his male friends, such as Fatio culture remains undisputed. Yet the has to stretch his credulity excessively de Duillicr, a young Swiss mathemati­ breathtaking scope and depth of his cian who came to London in large part achievements have also led to his dis­ to study under Newton, are highly suggestive of more-than-platonic rela­ tortion into a kind of scientific deity, "Millions of people would a man above men, a hero of scientific tionships. idealism. one day use Newton's ideas "I intend to be in London next It was to honor the work and de­ to perfonn tasks as complex week and should be very glad to be in mystify the man that a major sympo­ as calculating the trajectory the same chamber with you," Newton wrote to Fatio at one point. sium on Newton was organized at the of a trip to the moon and In 1693, Newton was thrown into a University in October of last year. as mundane as figuring the Though centered on the 300th anni­ virtual panic when he received a letter versary of the publication of Newton's optimum shape for a loud­ from Fatio indicating that he was ill. monumental "Philosophiae Naturalis speaker cone." "I last night received your letter with Principia Mathematica" (Mathemati­ which how much I was affected I can­ cal Principles of Natural Philosophy), not e press," he wrote in immediate reply. He closed the letter, "Your most the Newton Symposium sought to to believe that the second marriage affectionate anu faithful friend to examine many aspects of the man and and departure of his mother could serve you, Is. ewton." his work, including those that, until have contributed enormously to the But back to the young "ewton. very recently, never appeared in the inner torment of the boy already per­ After he finished grammar school, encyclopedias or history books. haps bewildered by the realization his mother wanted him to return to Among the examiners were four of the that he, unlike others, had no father." manage the family farm in Wools­ world's leading Newton scholars: Frank Manuel, both at the sympo­ thorpe. This was hardly a Newtonian 1. Bernard Cohen, Frank Manuel, sium and in published works, places cup of tea, and he proved as inept at Richard S. Westfall, and Ernan the remarriage of Newton's mother as farm life as he \ as uninterested in it. McMullin Much of the following the crucial episode in his entire life. Set to watch cattle, he would curl up portrait of Newton was drawn from In Manu I's psychoanalytical view, a with a book. Fortunately for :ewton the lectures they and others presented sense of deprivation dominated his ex­ and the world, his genius had been during the Newton Symposium. istence. Robbed of parents, he spent recognized by the master of his gram­ Isaac Newton lived to the ripe old his life finding surrogates on whom to mar school, a Mr. Stokes, and by his age of eighty-four, but his prospects at vent the rage he consciously and un­ uncle, William Ayscough. They suc­ birth were scarcely indicative of lon­ consciously felt toward Smith. ceeded in persuading his mother to let gevity. He was born early on Christ­ That Newton was at least a bit odd him prepare for entry into Cambridg,· mas Day, 1642, a tiny and apparently was obvious early on to those around University. premature baby not expected to sur­ him. He was recalled by one of his few vive. Two women, sent to a nearby childhood friends as "always a sober, town to fetch supplies for the infant, silent, thinking lad, and was never n 1661, when Newton arrived, were so sure he would be dead upon known scarce to play with the boys I Cambridge was already 400 years their return that they dallied on their abroad. " old. The scientific revolution begun way back. It was as a teen attending the Free b Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, of course, surprised them. Grammar School in the nearby town Descartes was in full swing, and the But his physical weakness was merely of Grantham that Newton had his first tremors caused by the new way of his first hurdle. He faced other diffi­ - and last - romance wi th a female. thmking were just beginning to rattle culties. His father, also named Isaac He was living with the town apothe­ the windows of institutions across ewton, had died three months before cary, a Mr. Clark, where three of Clark's stepchildren also lived. One of

18 Rochester Review Europe. Newton was to be the culmi­ universe as a massive system of parti­ radical and counter-intuitive propo­ nating figure in that revolution, but cles operating according to natural sition that light actually consists of as far as Cambridge University was law. streams of high-speed particles - an concerned, the revolution did not yet In 1665, Newton was graduated idea that fell to disfavor for centuries exist. The university remained a bas­ from Cambridge just as the plague until Einstein proved the existence of tion of Aristotelian philosophy, with hit, closing the university for two photons. its love of deduction from grand prin­ years. Students and faculty packed He examined the elements of circu­ ciples rather than induction from ob­ their bags and headed for the country lar motion and, applying his analysis servation and experiment. The earth to escape the contagious and lethal to the moon and the planets, derived was still the center of the universe, disease that spread most quickly in the inverse-square relation which and the planets revolved about it at­ populated areas. Newton headed states that a force acting on a planet tached to great crystalline spheres. home and spent his time in that pas­ decreases with the square of its dis­ Newton joined the other under­ toral setting laying the foundations for tance from the sun. He later general­ graduates in immersing himself in revolutions to come. ized this idea into his theory of uni­ Aristotle's work, but he quickly be­ versal gravitation, which says that all came attuned to the trickle of new uring the years he was away bodies, not just the sun and planets, ideas seeping into Cambridge from D from Cambridge, Newton are attracted to each other with a beyond the classroom walls. Free to moved beyond Descartes and began force obeying the inverse-square law. study largely on his own by the uni­ sketching the outlines of calculus, the The idea that Newton's gravita­ versity's tutorial system, Newton be­ most powerful tool yet devised for tional theory was inspired by the fall gan devouring the books of the new measuring and calculating nature. of an apple cannot be proved, but it thinkers. Within a little more than a But he also experimented with light makes sense to many scholars. New­ ton spent much of his time during year he had mastered all of mathe­ and optics, discovering that white matics to that time, including the new light was a mixture of colors which the plague years in the garden of his analytic geometry of Descartes. He themselves could not be further split mother's house, and a close friend of also learned and accepted the new me­ by a prism. From this he made the his later in life related that it was the chanical philosophy that viewed the fall of an apple in that garden that led

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Rochester Review 19 Newton to wonder if the same force "Principia." Newton's eminence lead into gold, that material goal was responsible for keeping the moon stamped the method with an authority hardly mattered to Newton. Rather, in its orbit. it never had before. he wanted to learn how and why dif­ But Westfall and others point out A fact not usually mentioned by ferent materials reacted with each that Newton didn't arrive at his gen­ proponents of Newton as a great bea­ other. He wanted to organize and eral theory of gravity all at once. con of scientific thinking, however, is systematize alchemy - a formidable Gravity was, and still is, an elusive that he was motivated to a large de­ task given its mystical and convoluted and somewhat mysterious thing, and gree by his belief in God. Newton the nature. Newton waffled considerably in his great scientist was also Newton the An acquaintance described Newton concept of it. He and many other great believer. as working nonstop for days at a time scholars puzzled over how bodies can in his lab, sleeping and eating very act on other bodies in the absence of e brought the same intense little. He often vaporized a number of material particles conveying the force. H curiosity to theology that he dangerous substances, including a (Einstein puzzled over this for a long did to the natural world. The mystery great deal of antimony and mercury, time too, concluding, finally, that of religion was simply another realm in the cramped quarters of his labora­ gravity wasn't a "force" at all but the for him to explore. Indeed, the divi­ tory in the garden beside his residence result of a warping of the space-time sion between religion and science that at Cambridge. In addition, he often continuum.) seems clear today hardly existed in tasted compounds to determine their In the end, Newton hit upon a po­ Newton's day. qualities, including many heavy met­ sition that remains, to this day, one Back at Cambridge after the threat als and other compounds now known of the cornerstones of science. He of plague was lifted, Newton spent to be toxic. decided that he didn't need to explain much of the 1670s trying to unravel exactly how gravity works if he could the Bible, writing hundreds of pages accurately measure the force itself and of notes, tracing the lineage of Biblical "By making observation and use it to predict such things as plane­ characters, drawing up tables for the tary orbits. proper interpretation of words, trying experiment the basis for "To us it is enough that gravity does to resolve apparent contradictions in theories of physical reality, really exist, and acts according to the the text. With characteristic attention Newton turned Aristotle on laws which we have explained, and to detail, he used his system of inter­ abundantly serves to account for all his head and laid the basis pretation to predict the second coming for an explosion of knowl­ the motions of the celestial bodies," he of Christ (it was to happen in 1867). said. All of this work, like so much else of edge." The idea that "it is enough" to dis­ his life, he kept secret from the world. cover the manner in which the uni­ If Newton's religious convictions verse operates and to learn ways of seem odd to a world accustomed to This cavalier attitude toward his expressing that manner mathemati­ viewing him as the model of scientific personal well-being wasn't confined to cally, remains alive today. By freeing skepticism, his obsession with alchemy alchemy. When he was interested in scientists from the need to explain the might seem odder still. light and optics, he sometimes took root causes of things, Newton gave Seen from his vantage point, of fearsome chances with his eyes. At one science a powerful spur. To be sure, course, interest in alchemy was per­ point he looked at the sun with one scientists still want to know the under­ fectly natural. Chemistry, as a dis­ eve until all pale bodies seen with that lying mechanics of phenomena such cipline, had barely separated from eye appeared red and dark ones blue. as falling apples, and that drive to alchemy and was in only rudimentary He did this, he said, to test the powers know continues to fuel research. But form. Alchemy, on the other hand, of fantasy. if scientists cannot fully explain a phe­ was centuries old, rich in mystical Newton carried on this wide range nomenon right now, it doesn't stop tradition, and ripe for experimenta­ of activity- theological, alchemical, them from using what they do know tion. To a man of Newton's curiosity mathematical, and optical - from the to predict and manipulate nature. In and intellectual power, alchemy was p;ague years through his return to Newton's time, this was not an obvi­ too good to pass up. Cambridge as a graduate student and ous approach. It's often thought that Newton then during his tenure there as Luca­ By making observation and experi­ dabbled in alchemy late in his life and sian Professor of Mathematics. At ment the basis for theories of physical then only because he wasn't dealing times the activities overlapped, while reality, Newton turned Aristotle on his from a full deck mentally. The truth is at other times he became focused head and laid the basis for an explo­ that Newton pursued alchemical work almost to the point of incandescence sion of knowledge. Of course, Newton both before and after his writing of on a particular interest. wasn't the firsr to think this way. Fran­ the "Principia" - in other words at the A major break in all research activ­ cis Bacon, a half-century earlier, was peak of his intellectual powers. And he ity came in 1684 with a visit from one saying the same thing. But few people did far more than dabble. His probe of his few friends, an English sea cap­ listened to Bacon, while practically of alchemy lasted for fifteen years and tain, scientist, and all-round good everyone was listening to Newton­ could have killed him. guy, Edmund Halley (known to us, of especially after publication of the Although one of the great goals of course, as the eponym of the comet). alchemists was the transmutation of

20 Rochester Review You probably couldn't find a man laws of motion, set forth in Book I, disliked. In 1705 he was knighted by more opposite in temperament to Newton derives formulas of the most Queen Anne and assumed the posi­ Newton. According to his contempo­ complex order and uses them to ex­ tion of patron to young scientists of raries, Halley was practically a Boy plain, among other things, the peri­ the time. Scout - generous, friendly, intelligent, odicity of comets, the revolution of Newton's reputation only grew as and brave. His considerable skills as planets, the eclipses of the moon and he aged. He published his "Optiks," a diplomat were tried to their utmost sun, the rise and fall of tides, and the based on his previous works, and by the shrill and intensely insecure fact that the earth is not a perfect oversaw new editions of the "Prin­ Newton. sphere but is flattened at the poles. Clpia." In August 1684, HaJley traveled to He estimates the mass of the sun and His job as warden, and later mas­ Cambridge to pose a question that planets and explains why the axis of ter, of the Mint kept him busy and was causing some disagreement the earth makes its own revolution suited his penchant for organization. among learned men in London: how once every 25,000 years. All this, of He ran a tight ship and was character­ to derive Kepler's laws of planetary course, plus calculus, mechanics, fluid istically tough on counterfeiters and motion from dynamic principles. dynamics, and a great range of other others attempting to cheat the Mint. After warming Newton up with some equations for specific tasks. He sent dozens to the gallows. small talk, Halley asked him what Finally, in July of 1687, the book curve would be described by the plan­ was finished. Almost overnight, New­ hen Newton died, in 1727, it ets if the attraction toward the sun was ton was a scientific superstar, exposed W was clear that society recog­ proportional to the square of the dis­ to the slings and arrows that accom­ nized the loss of one of the world's tance between them. pany fame. To a man as acutely sensi­ pre-eminent thinkers. All the gazettes "An ellipse," Newton said immedi­ tive to criticism as Newton, this was a and newspapers of the time carried ately. serious thing: When a few scientists, the announcement, with the "Political Halley was stunned. He asked among them Robert Hooke, the lead­ State of Great Britain" devoting three Newton how he knew, and Newton, ing light of the Royal Society, had pages to "the greatest of philosophers." casually, said he had calculated it criticized an earlier paper, Newton, (The word "scientist" was not used in years ago. Halley asked for the calcu­ reacting in unnatural rage, had with­ those days. Newton and others like lation, but Newton put him off, prom­ drawn from all contact with the him were called "natural philoso­ ising to send it later. Thus began the learned world for more than a decade. phers. ") "Principia." Now that Newton had been coaxed Still, a large part of Newton's life Newton recreated his calculations back into the limelight by Halley (who remained secret from the society that for Halley and sent them on. Halley had urged him on, soothed ruffled honored him. Only in recent years, received them with excitement and feathers, and even paid for publication with the surfacing of previously un­ urged him to elaborate. It turned out of the book), his high-strung personal­ known documents, correspondence, that Halley needn't have pushed very ity was being plucked again - and and notes, has a true picture emerged. hard. The task of responding to the with similar results. It took some The picture is not flattering, but nei­ inquiry sparked anew Newton's inter­ time, but by 1693 a combination of ther does it diminish Newton's great­ est in assembling the wide range of his strains from his academic and political ness as an explorer of the unknown. observations and ideas into a coherent position at Cambridge, conflict with Reflecting on the darker side of whole. Hooke (who at one point accused him Newton's personality, Westfall writes: "The excitement of the pursuit held of plagiarism), and a personal crisis "Even if it could be proved beyond him," Westfall writes of Newton's with Fatio unhinged Newton a second doubt that Newton was the leading work. "As further horizons continued time. He wrote wild letters to his whoremonger of London, the immen­ to open before him, he aJlowed them friends Samuel Pepys and John Locke, sity of his impact on the modern in­ to lead him on." telling Pepys he didn't want to see him tellect would remain unal teredo For The next two-and-a-half years are anymore and accusing Locke of entan­ me at least, the recognition of his practically a blank save for the "Prin­ gling him with women. (To their cred­ complexity as a man helps in under­ cipia." Newton wrote only a handful it, both men realized Newton was not standing the price his genius exacted. of letters and traveled outside of Cam­ well and dismissed his accusations.) I find it hard to reconcile the 'Prin­ bridge but once or twice. He was, The crisis passed and Newton re­ cipia' with a plaster saint." • quite simply, obsessed with his crea­ covered his sanity - though he never tion. again returned to sustained scientific work. Instead, he accepted a post as Stephen Braun, author of numerous articles in he "Principia" was dazzling. warden of the London Mint. This past issues of "Rochester Review, " is currently T Looking at the massive second allowed him to move to urban, intel­ trying his hand at broadcastjournalzsm at sta­ edition, published in 1713 (a copy of lectually active London and provided tion WGBH in Boston. which is owned by the University), him with a comfortable living. In you are numbed by the sheer bulk of 1703, his adversary Hooke died, and the thing. Page after page of intricate­ Newton assumed the presidency of the ly drawn geometric figures and rigid Royal Society, over which he presided logic flip by. From the three simple with a magisterial bearing and a de­ cided ruthlessness toward those he

Rochester Review 21 The Supreme Festival

This year's Commencement was the first in twenty years to be held out of doors. So how did it go? Joyfully.

hen William H. Masters W't3M and his wife and part­ ner, Virginia Johnson, received hon­ orary degrees at the 137th Commence­ ment this spring, Masters made a graceful response. He said he'd been to a great many commencements at other schools but "this is the best one I've seen. And," he declared, "I don't know when I've had a better time." That remark pretty much summed up the spirit of this year's Commence­ ment: the "supreme festival" -as Arthur May notes in his history of the U niversity- on Rochester's academic calendar. It was a joyous occasion, perhaps a bit more unbuttoned in spirit than in recent years because of the change in venue. For the first time since 1967, Commencement was held out of doors - in Fauver Stadium. Two factors made the change both necessary and possible: The size of the graduating classes was straining the capacity of the Eastman Theatre, and this year's lengthening of the academic calendar made fair weather more of a statistical likelihood than simply a desideratum. From Commencement speaker Anthony Hecht, poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning former professor of En­ glish, to the Eastman Wind Ensemble joyfully blasting out "The Stars and Stripes Forever," to the 2,300 grad­ uates and their 5,000 pride-filled friends and relations packed into Fauver Stadium-all the participants had a grand, grand time on that Sun­ day morning in May. The following pages will show you how it was.•

22 Rochester Review A bit of the bubbly In two varieties

The view from the stage Spectators overflowed from the stands onto the athletic field, where the ranks of gradu­ ates and faculty were seated facing the plat­ form party of trustees, deans, and other dig­ nitaries. For the first time in some years, all the schools and colleges but one joined in the general University Commencement. The ex­ ception was the Simon School, which gradu­ ated its students three weeks later. Millinery messages

Warm fuzzies

Rochester Review 23 A joy forever Among the 2,300 graduates on the field at Fauver Stadium was a special guest. He wasn't graduat­ ing himself- too much of an air head - but he'd spent some time sharing the college experience with a group of his senior friends - and it just seemed right for him to be there. That's why "Dude," a.k.a. "the Lemon Joy Guy," popped up among the newly minted bache­ lors during the Eastman Wind Ensemble's exuberant rendition Flowers of the "The Stars and Stripes For­ ever." A two-foot-high inflatable lemon derived from a TV com­ mercial, Dude had been living in Suite 420 in Fairchild residence hall. He arrived at Commence­ ment in a deflated state and got the big blow up in time to bounce around joyously-volleyball style - in response to the music. The folks in the stands above could see what was coming as Dude made his lighthearted way toward the stage from the back rows of the graduates through the ranks of advanced degree holders and into the hands of the faculty - at which point he made the pre­ dicted precipitous disappearance. But Dude is the type that bounces back. During the reces­ sional he made a conspicuous departure on the arm of history professor Bill Hauser. Was that the end of the Lemon Joy Guy? No indeed. When one of Dude's suitemates, history major Cathy Abata, went to her departmental diploma ceremony, there was a happy reunion when she found him seated prominently in the front row. Dude's taking the summer off, but he plans to be back on cam­ pus in the fall. He's already Double doctorate signed up to share a suite with a bunch of new seniors, to whom Human-sexuality expert William H. Masters '43 M and Virginia Johnson his wife and part­ ner, simultaneously receive the doctoral hood symbolizing their honorary degrees. Others he's all set to give tips on what honored, in addition to the speaker, Anthony Hecht (page 25, top), were Sir James Gowans, Commencement is really like. internationally renowned for his work in immunology; Robert Fogel, a noted authority on American slavery; and Harry B. Gray, whose research on electron transfer reactions has impor­ tant applications in the biological sciences.

24 Rochester Review Speaker In his address, poet Anthony Hecht, a former professor of English at Rochester, divulged a small secret: the reason his colleagues among the faculty always used to appear so Ratteringly attentive to the Commencement speaker. Seems they had a little pool going- on the length of the speech, timed, he said, right down to the last second. As for his own talk, Hecht removed the suspense at the start by announcing that it had been meticulously tailored to the required length-an announcement that appeared to detract not one whit from his audience's altenliveness.

Friends

Footnote When the administration requested that graduates protect Fauver Stadium's artificial turf by wearing shoes with a heel tread "no smaller than a U.S. quarter," some women protested that that would restrict them to a choice between "Grandma's orthopaedics or Aunt Millie's Dr. Scholl spe­ cials." Their comfy compromise: red hightops. Others sneaked by on modified spikes, following the reasoning that inRation easily equates a quarter with a nickel these days anyhow.

Rochesler Review 25 there: professor ofpsychology, ofneuro­ Breaking new ground biology and physiology, and of ophthal­ mology. He is also associate dean of All the brass - President O'Brien, the College of Arts and Sciences. Eastman School director Robert Free­ Rochester man Rochester mayor Thomas P. "Robert Sekuler has been a singu­ larly successful psychologist, teacher, Ryan, Jr., and Monroe County execu­ in Review and educational administrator," says tive Lucien Morin, augmented by the President O'Brien. "His research in­ real brass, the Genesee Brass ensem­ terests in psychology, neuroscience, ble, that is - gathered on a late after- cognitive science, and the human ag­ noon 10 ay amid the dump trucks ing process fit solidly into key areas of and the bulldozers on an empty lot research at Rochester." across the street from the Eastman Arts and Science dean Sekuler has taught at Northwestern School. since 1965. He earned his bachelor's The occasion? They were all there The College of degree from Brandeis and M.S. and for the ceremonial groundbreaking Arts and Science Ph.D. degrees in psychology from for Eastman Place, future home of will have a new dean Brown University. He was a U.S. Pub­ Eastman's Sibley Music Library. after the first of the lic Health Service Postdoctoral Fellow The eagerly awaited project was year. He is Robert at Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ announced last year. Sekuler, a psychol­ ogy in 1964-65. The four story, $IS-million struc- ogist who is now John Evans Professor Sekuler of Neuroscience at Northwestern University's College of The '88 Rochester Conference: It's "On Time" Arts and Sciences. The all-pervasive flow of time­ -Time as revealed through the He will succeed J. Paul Hunter, who through various definitions, from geological record has joined the University of Chicago varying perspectives-will be the -Time as a social construct that faculty. thematic current that runs through differs from culture to culture Considered an able academic ad­ next January's all-U niversity Roch­ -The significant rites of passage ministrator and a leader in research ester Conference. - going to school, getting your on visual perception, Sekuler has pub­ Timed to inaugurate the spring driver's license, graduation, mar­ lished widely on such topics as how semester, the week-long festival of riage you perceive movement, illusions of discussions, exhibits, concerts, and -Time travelers in film and litera­ perception, visual adaptation, and the demonstrations begins on Sunday, ture how and the why of afterimages. January 10. -And-by no means least-the His discovery in 1968, with one of "The theme is wonderfully rich ineffable question of eternity his students, that by exposing the eye with possibilities," notes President "We want our students to think to certain stimulus patterns you can O'Brien. "From researchers at our big during the Rochester Confer­ (temporarily) desensitize the visual Laboratory for Laser Energetics ence - to jump over fences that sep­ system to those particular patterns, who explore ultra-fast phenomena arate one discipline from another prompted a new line of research that to performers at our Eastman and discover the relationships be­ has become one of the most important School of Music who observe tem­ tween them," says Ruth Freeman, areas of research on vision. Since then, pos and rhythms, a sense of time University dean who heads the his work has spanned a wide variety of shapes the way all of us in the U ni­ Council. "'On Time' is the kind topics in visual perception, and he is a versity community think about and of subject that urges us to think leading authority on the effects of ag­ do our work. " creatively. " ing on sight. The Council on University Pro­ Freeman and her committee are He plans to continue his research at grams, the group charged with or­ soliciting recommendations for Rochester, where he also will be pro­ ganizing the conference, was not, at "On Time" programs and guest fessor of psychology and a member of press time, ready to announce the speakers. She will be happy to re­ the Center for Visual Science. names of individuals scheduled to ceive any you have to offer. Working in another area, Sekuler give presentations, but they have let A note to those who like to plan their also has special interests in computers it be known that they are consider­ time wisely: As a member of the Uni­ and in writing, and combined the two ing sessions based on themes like versity's extended family, you are in­ in a popular article on the teaching of the following: vited (indeed encouraged) to attend writing with the aid of computers that -How we measure time, from the "On Time" conference. So keep was published last year in "Psychology femtoseconds to light years the dates in mind: January 10-17. Today." - Biological time clocks - why In addition to his neuroscience ap­ some of us are morning people and pointment at Northwestern, Sekuler others are night owls also holds several other appointments

26 Rochester Review High rise for Eastman: The fourteen-story tower in this model anchors one corner of the new downtown living center planned for Eastman School students. To be designed by Herbert Newman Associates of New Haven, Connecticut, the S20-million complex will also include a four­ story quadrangle surrounding an open inner court. The student center will occupy the site of the old YMCA building, one block down Gibbs Street from the school and theater (with the new Y, already in place, at the corner of Main and Gibbs between them). The curved building in the foreground here is the model for the new Eastman Place, to be built on the west side of Gibbs Street. ture, designed by Macon-Chaintreuil neighborhood housing for 350 stu­ objects like quasars actually are. & Associates of Rochester, will give dents. The center is to be built on the Wolf's theory states that light com­ the library much-needed space for its site of the former YMCA, one handy ing from enormous distances may collection. already one of the most block north of the school. behave differently from light traveling comprehensive of any music school from sources nearer by, and may pro­ in the Western Hemisphere. Shrinking the universe duce a red-shift effect that can be Eastman Place will also accommo­ misleading. For years, scientists have measured date a number of commercial shops, This could mean that quasars are the size of the universe by using "red eateries, and offices, and the city's closer to us than previously believed­ shift" as their yardstick. The red shift Cultural Commission has funded the thereby shrinking, although probably is a manifestation of the Doppler addition of friendly greenery to the to no great degree, the supposed size effect you observe when the sound site: a three-story atrium enclosing a of our universe. waves of a thundering semi drop to a winter garden inside the building and lower frequency as it screams by you a public park-cum-plaza fronting on on the expressway. It gets its name Decor Main Street outside. from the characteristic shift of light Residence hall rooms come A joint venture of the city, the waves toward the lower, red end of the uniformly equipped with the basic county, the University, and Wilmur spectrum as an object in space moves necessities - four stark walls enclosing Associates of Rochester, Eastman away from the observer. bed, desk, and chair, plus maybe a Place is to be a central piece in the Because of this quality, astronomers few other essentials. But student long-planned revitalization of the have relied on red shift to judge dis­ rooms seldom remain stark, basic, or downtown "Metro District" surround­ tances in outer space. For example, uniform for very long. Toward the end ing the school. quasars (the name is short for "quasi­ of the spring semester we asked our Even before the groundbreaking, stellar") are gigantic starlike objects office intern, Peggy Herrmann '87, to much preliminary preparation for believed - on the evidence of their investigate some of the more unusual Eastman Place had been completed at unique red shifts - to lie at the outer examples of dorm decor on the River its Gibbs Street site, and construction, edges of the expanding universe. Campus. Following is her report: it is expected, will be finished in 1988. Now it turns out the "yardstick" "Tamson Kelly happens to be fond To follow next, as another vital may be of questionable value. In an of dinosaurs and says they are 'the up element of the metro-makeover, is the article published last spring in the and coming thing.' (Macy's in New new Eastman Student Living Center prestigious science journal "Nature," York City even has a whole section that will provide a new recital hall and Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Op­ devoted to them.) Kelly has inflatable meeting places as well as right-in-the- tical Physics, has cast doubt on the dinosaurs of all varieties hanging from conventional estimate of how far away

Rochester Review 27 the ceiling of her room. She also has pink dinosaur stationery as a running border along the top of the walls. "If Kelly ever cares to take a break from studying, she has a wind-up dinosaur to play with that she keeps on her desk. It spits fire. She can also write to her friends on her "pada­ sauros," a pad of notepaper in the shape of you know what. "Kelly, a freshman, says about her dinosaur decor, 'Most people think it's weird.' "Aside from the dinosaur parapher­ nalia, Kelly has a pink Aamingo and two plants named Ann Heiser Busch and Bud Weiser. "Philip Scaffidi and Dan Heyne­ man, freshmen living in Gilbert Hall, have covered their ceiling with black garbage bags and have attached the heads of dolls to them. (They cut Lofty goals: If you don't have room both to sleep and to study in your residence-hall quarters, them in half so they just show the pro­ build yourself some space. Rob Weissman '90 did just that, making good use of two-by-fours file.) Heyneman's closet is also covered and elbow grease to create a mezzanine-style sleeping loft that affords plenty of room for spreading out with books and computer below. Weissman's home-away-from-home is another by a hanging garbage bag with a doll's example of the dorm decor described by Peggy Herrmann '87 in her report below. head and hands poking through the middle of the bag. door, and they have a toy animal of director of nuclear cardiology for the "The roommates' idea, when they some sort called 'Ed, the Goopie Medical Center's Cardiology Unit, were decorating their room, was to Monster.' reports these findings in the "Ameri­ completely COver the blue-painted "When asked what inAuenced them can Journal of Medicine." walls. When they ran out of posters, to decorate their room in such a way, Although the known incidence of they used newspaper clippings and Szykman answered, 'No one is looking heart damage among cocaine users comic strips. Small pieces of fur can at what you are doing, so you can just appears low, Schwartz says this may be found taped to the telephone and go crazy.' I think they did." simply reAect the fact that doctors on the wall. may not always know when their "Heyneman sees their room decor Cocaine strain patients are users. He recommends as art. He says, 'Art has become the that physicians "vigorously seek" such act of that which is difficult.' Snorting, injecting, inhaling, or information. "Freshman roommates Simon Szyk­ otherwise ingesting cocaine produces "In addition," he says, "known a rush of euphoria, a sense of mastery man and Tim Baldanzi live in Susan cocaine abusers should be warned of and power, and a Aush of physical B. Anthony Halls. They decorated the potential cardiac risks incurred by their room 'little by little.' energy. Helping to produce these cocaine use." "Many of their hallmates make sensations is the heart, which, when it has been stimulated by cocaine, Jokes about their room being a zoo. Is war obsolete? Perhaps this is because Szykman and pumps faster and harder - raising Baldanzi have two mice, an aquarium blood pressure - to increase the There have been no wars between full of fish, and a pet tarantula named availability of oxygen to the brain the two superpowers during the past Boris. and muscles. forty years, and, with minor and Aeet­ "From their ceiling hangs a net It's not surprising, therefore, that ing exceptions, none among the forty­ holding soda-pop cans and tinsel. A cocaine users (such as basketball eight countrie~: that have the wealthi­ beer ball, long since emptied, hangs player Len Bias) occasionally die of est populations. close by and near that is a skull­ heart attacks. Researchers have now That may be one sign that major plastic, I hope. found that cocaine use can also cause wars-like once-fashionable dueling­ "The walls of the room are almost a less dramatic, but still serious, heart are becoming obsolete as a means of completely covered with posters and problem called cardiomyopathy - a resolving conAicts. advertisements. There are also some condition in which the heart has been So says John Mueller, professor of coloring-book pages decorating one of enlarged because of disease or dam­ political science, who will explore that the walls, with a dart board directly age. Cardiomyopathy can cause pro­ point of view in a new volume, "In beneath. They have their beds raised gressive weakening of the heart and Retreat from Doomsday: The about a foot from the Aoor. Headlines an increased risk of cardiac attacks. Obsolescence of Major War," to be cut from newspapers decorate their Ronald G. Schwartz, assistant pro­ published by Basic Books. In support fessor of medicine and radiology and

28 Rochester Review of his research, Mueller has received a academic excellence in the classroom program to earn a Certificate in Man­ 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship. and exceptional achievement outside agement Studies without giving up (Three other Rochester scholars it - in such categories as community the benefits of a full four-year degree have also received '87 Guggenheims: service, student athletics, journalism, in the humanities, the natural or Eugene D. Genovese, Distinguished science, and the performing arts, social sciences, engineering, nursing, Professor of Arts and Science, will be Merit finalist Colon is a 1986 New or musIc. working on a book on the life and York State Truman Scholar and a "The advantages of a liberal educa­ thought of Southern slave holders. founding member of the New York tion are beyond dispu te," says Provost Edward H. Thorndike, professor of State Youth Council. A resident Brian J. Thompson. "But so many of physics, will be at the Japan National advisor in Susan B. Anthony Halls, today's students plan careers in busi­ Laboratory for High Energy Physics he writes a column for the "Campus ness that instruction in economics, doing basic research for what will be Times" and, on the side, actively pur­ statistics, accounting, and computer perfectly understandable to his fellow sues volunteer work in the Rochester systems makes good sense, We wanted particle physicists as an "electron community. our students to have the best of both positron colliding beam experiment." Following graduation next year worlds. " The fourth winner is Eastman doc­ he hopes to enter law school and The program draws on the resources toral candidate Kamran Ince, who eventually, he says, go into govern­ of the University's William E. Simon also won a Prix de Rome - the third ment work. Graduate School of Business Adminis­ Eastman-trained student in the last tration, ranked last year by "Business­ three years to win the Rome prize.) Simon Summer week" magazine as one of the top "Tensions between the United twenty business schools in the nation. Summer classes for free? States and the Soviet Union spring Undergraduates will be able to That's right. Tuition-free summer from the Soviet commitment to a complete the management program classes are about to become a reality gradual process of world revolution, during two "Simon Summer" sessions for Rochester students who sign on for and the U.S. belief that this process or may combine the required courses the "Simon Summer." Beginning next threatens America's fundamental with their other studies during the year, undergraduates may use this values and security," says Mueller, regular school year. who adds that this tension is not likely The "Simon Summer" program is to escalate into full scale war. open to students from other institu­ "To achieve world revolution, the tions, too, but they'll have to pay the Soviet Union stresses methods like full $3,000 shot per summer. subversion, local uprising, riots, limit­ ed military and diplomatic pressure, When time is money and guerrilla and civil war. It doesn't "Degrees of Debt," laments seem to view major war as a viable "Forbes." "Federal Loans Tripled way to accomplish its objectives, be­ Since '76," proclaims "The New York cause the costs - even if the war could Times." "Bennett Proposes Reducing be kept nonnuclear - are likely to be Financial Aid to Students," warns too high," Mueller says. For much the "The Chronicle of Higher Education." same reasons, the United States wish­ The consensus in the headlines: es to avoid a major conflagration in A dean is inaugurated Our nation's students are finding it opposing the Soviet drive. The School of Nursing's second l-.arder and harder to put themselves Mueller believes that this shift dean since its founding in 1972 as through college -what with rising away from the historical propensity of a college of the University, Sheila tuition costs, dwindling financial aid, major powers to go to war with one Ryan was formally installed on increasing debts, and too many com­ another is a trend that began centuries June 4. In her inaugural address mitments to classes, labs, recitations, ago, and that it has been largely unaf­ she examined ways in which nurs­ and studying. fected by the existence of nuclear ing bridges humanity and tech­ Last year the Student Employment weapons. nology- focusing on the changing Office decided to do something about roles of nurses in the light of new the problem and established "Reach medical technology, on ways in Top student for Rochester" -a series of imagina­ which nurses can facilitate "life­ Robert Colon '88, a political science tive new programs that help students style" changes, and on how nurs­ major from Staten Island, is, accord­ earn money while they gain valuable ing and health care in general can ing to good authority, one of the top career-related experience. One of the promote well being. President college students in the country. new programs, Reach Enterprisers, O'Brien officiated at the ceremo­ The source? "Time" magazine, gives venturesome students a chance ny, and School of Nursing alumni which earlier this year selected him as to run their own businesses using a attended as part of their 1987 one of 100 finalists in its 1987 College revolving loan fund that provides seed reunlOn. Achievement Award competition. money for start-up. The 100 students- twenty winners Among those who have taken and eighty merit finalists-were advantage of the Enterprisers offer selected nationally on the basis of

Rochesler Review 29 are Priscilla Harris '87 and Suzanne Kavanaugh '89, who demonstrated their entrepreneurial spirit by setting up a business in which they have been making and marketing the "Memory­ clock." Their handmade product is a hardwood timepiece that can be per­ sonalized - for instance with the date and time of your child's birth, your graduation date, or the name of your alma mater. Memoryclock was invented by Bob Tucker, a former Eastman Kodak chemical engineer, who approached the University with an offer to supply students with parts and instructions for putting together the trademarked product, a task they can do right in their own dorm rooms. Tucker says that most schools haven't been using the most effective approach in finding jobs for students. "Universities have looked on students as laborers. But that approach doesn't make sense because labor isn't always as valuable without a degree, and stu­ dent labor isn't always accessible because of the demands of a full class Long-term memory: That's George Abbott '11, Rochester's celebrated centenarian, holding the schedule. student-made Memoryclock that President O'Brien has just given him. The picture was taken "The solution is for students to last year when Abbott was observing his ninety-ninth birthday, and the gift of the clock com­ memorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of his graduation. make a profit through a product, and Now that Broadway's legendary director-playwright-producer-actor has reached 100 (which for somebody to design the kind of he did, to considerable fanfare, inJune), he is settling back to doing what he likes to do best­ products students can make and going to work. Having spent some time in Cleveland in the spring directing revivals of his market through the University's "Broadway" and "The Boys from Syracuse," he planned next to go on to New York, where, he told a "Wall Street Journal" reporter, "I'm working on this pop opera: all singing without any economy. " dialogue. You know, that's the way they do it now." Tucker's solution has worked for Kavanaugh and Harris. During the partner now that Harris has gradu­ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's last academic year they earned over ated, hopes to expand into the com­ characterization ofJoanna Scott's $6,000 apiece. "I really need to have a munity with sales to realtors and unusual first novel, "Fading, My job," Kavanaugh says. "But I'm developers. She thinks a Memoryclock Parmacheene Belle." The twenty-six­ majoring in optics, and that's a very handmade by University students year-old Scott, who taught creative demanding program. It was a real would be a terrific gift for new home writing' at Rochester during the aca­ dilemma finding the time to spend to owners. demic year just past, tells her tale make ends meet. This opportunity is Always open to opportunity, through the furious voice of an aged great because I can make a lot of Kavanaugh adds that "anyone who fisherman who has just lost his wife money and yet do the work on my wants to find out more about Memory­ to cancer. The fishing metaphor that own time." clock can reach me easily-just call pervades the novel explains the title, Harris, who plans to follow a career the Student Employment Office." a reference to the "most taking" fly a in market research or new-product That number, if you're interested, is nineteenth-century fisherman could development, admits that the work (716) 275-2138. use. Lehmann-Haupt predicts that has been frustrating but exhilarating. Scott's "unusual imagination promises "Memoryclock has made me Newsclips a rich future of writing." aggressive. I've learned to deal with .Chicago Sun-Times: "There's an people, to be flexible, and to budget Readers of national publications, as easy way to stop people from gambling my time. I've gained the ability to go well as of scientific and professional on football and basketball games: out and sell the product, and through journals, regularly come across refer­ Cancel the sports." obody is going that I've gained communications ences to the scholarly activities - and to do that, for obvious reasons. Similar skills. " professional judgments- of people at reasons suggest caution in Congres­ The Rochester entrepreneurs so far the University. Following is a cross sional attempts to curb the insider­ have sold most of their Memoryclocks section of some of those you might trading abuses that have scandalized to various University offices. But have seen within recent months: Wall Street. That's the message from Kavanaugh, who will be getting a new .New York Times: "A blend of Gregg A. Jarrell, formerly the Secur­ the bucolic and the biblical" is ity and Exchange Commission's chief

30 Rochester Review The New York Daily News critic At the same time he cautioned that had the final say about the road show: the glowing reports coming out of "The concert was a lot of fun. Surely Mexico last spring- telling of a suc­ the sounds the Eastman Wind Ensem­ cessful treatment of Parkinsonism by ble produced were among the most transplanting adrenal cells into the rousing ever heard in Carnegie Hall." brains of two patients - shouldn't have .St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Mean­ other victims lining up at their physi­ while, Eastman composer Sydney cians' doors expecting an immediate Hodkinson, in a discussion following cure. "I think it's too soon to be sure a performance of contemporary mu­ how important this is," he told an­ sic, offered what music critic James other reporter (for Newsday). "There Wierzbicki termed "a memorable have been numerous examples summary statement" on the subject of throughout history where procedures modern composers. Wierzbicki wrote: are found to be not nearly as effective "Music these days takes many forms, as thought." Hodkinson said, and - obviously­ .New Orleans Times-Picayune: Once over lightly: Toss a raw egg from some pieces pose more challenges than The old adage "We learn from our the top of Wilson Commons protected only by drinking straws? Well, yes. It was the others. But the challenges themselves mistakes" is something neither high­ engineers' semiannual festival of (to non­ ought not to be regarded as criteria. school math students nor their teach­ engineering eyes) impossible feats. The A piece is not 'good' simply because it ers usually profit from, says Raffaela winning vehicle hit the target from eighty is 'understandable,' Hodkinson sug­ Borasi, assistant professor in the feet -with cargo intact. Humpty Dumpty should have known a Rochester engineer. gested; it is 'good' only to the extent Graduate School of Education and that it engages the listener's attention Human Development. Borasi remarks and elicits from him some sort of emo­ that most students care more about economist and currently a fellow at tional response." getting the right answer than thinking the Simon School. Wierzbicki then went on to say that about why it's the right answer-or the Jarrell's view was the su bject of an Hodkinson's 1983 string trio, "Alia wrong one. And teachers, she says, article by the Chicago paper's finan­ Marcia," performed earlier in the eve­ use errors to diagnose problems, but cial columnist and was repeated a few ning, with its "structural solidity, its rarely to encourage students to ana­ days later in an op-ed piece in the sonic richness, its rhythmic propul­ lyze their mistakes and to learn from Wall Street Journal co-written by Jar­ Slveness. . certainly proved engag­ them. The Associated Press item rell and Yale's John Pound, a former ing and response-provoking." reports that Borasi is conducting a colleague ofjarrell's at the SEC. .Harper's Bazaar: Stress is a won­ two-year study that she hopes will In the WSJ article, Jarrell and derful energizer, suggests an article on result in better educational materials Pound add that "the SEC's prose­ "Healthy Stress." The trick, of course, that will show both students and cution of the recent rash of inside­ lies in knowing how to control it. teachers how to profit from wrong trading cases, and the agency's ex­ Among the experts offering advice answers. planation of the Boesky sell-off, are in this piece is Michael Feuerstein, Street Journal: "Two hundred encouraging signals.. . The agency .Wall director of the Behavioral Medical appears to be narrowing the definition years ago, Thomas Jefferson sprained Programs at the Medical Center. his wrist and unwittingly gave the of insider trading to one that is eco­ Feuerstein recommends a social net­ nomically meaningful." Burgundy Tourist Board a reason to work on the job - as well as off-as celebrate," begins a WSJ report from Toronto Star: "A crack band in "an invaluable bu ffer." Frederick Fennell's day ([952-62), the Beaune, a major center for the pro­ "Colleagues," he says, "can function duction of Burgundy wines. It seems Eastman [Wind Ensemble] remains as a sounding board for shared prob­ that Jefferson was on a diplomatic a first-rate ensemble under Donald lems and concerns, offer positive feed­ mission in Paris at the time of the in­ Hunsberger, and the best of company back and constructive criticism. And for the man who is probably Ameri­ jury, and his doctor advised him to go most important, they can ward off the ca's greatest cornetist." This judgment south for a cure. This he did, spend­ sense of isolation, a big contributor to by music reviewer William Littler is ing a few days crossing Burgundy on harmful stress." typical of the admiring appraisals the way, where he undoubtedly sam­ .Houston Chronicle: A pioneer given to the EWE during its tour last pled the wine. working on the frontiers of brain re­ This journey apparently was spring with Wynton Marsalis (best search - studying the transplantation enough to inspire present-day Bur­ known, of course, as a world-class of nerve cells - Rochester's Don trumpeter). gundians to celebrate the 200th an­ Marshall Gash is frequently in the The EWE elicited similar praises niversary of the event by hosting a news. An article on his work in this with the simultaneous release of a dinner meeting of the Confrerie des Houston paper, for instance, quotes Columbia Masterworks recording of Chevaliers du Tastevin, which invited him as offering possible hope for suffer­ the lighthearted program with which its oenophile members from allover ers from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's they and their soloist toured. (The the world to attend. diseases, and even victims of serious It was a convivial occasion, the album, "Carnaval," is a romp through brain injuries. It is possible, he said, WSJ reporter noted, but, he allowed, turn-of-the-century concert-band that these patients may some day be Frank Shuffleton, associate professor music with trumpeter Marsalis trying helped by transplants of neural cells. his hand - er, lip - on the cornet.)

Rochesler Review 31 of English, had the last word about What a crew! our third president's taste in wine: "It The five-year-old Rochester crew was very nice of Burgundy to invite Update club scored big at Philadelphia's Dad us all, but I think Jefferson really pre­ In the Spring ferred Bordeaux." Vail Regatta on May 9 when the issue, we told men's coxed pair came in first in a Attention, readers: The Office oj Uni­ you about Patty versity Public Relations is asking its net­ seven-boat final, the men's lightweight Rupp '87, the four won a silver medal, and a Roch­ work ojalumni readers jor their help in Phi Beta Kappa ester rower was placed in the running compiling clippings ojpublished references to swimming champ for the national team. the University, its jaculty members, and its with fifteen The Dad Vail is the national cham­ alumni. When you come across such items, school records, thirteen state titles, pionship for smaller universities. This ifyou would take a minute to clip out the and fifteen All-American honors­ year's eighty competing teams- row­ article, zdentify it with the source and date all this with a major in molecular ing on the Schuylkill River before ojpublication, and send it along to the genetics and a 3.82 cumulative some 30,000 spectators - included Review (108 Administration Building, G PA (on the 4-.0 scale). Now she such major rowing schools as Temple, University oj Rochester, Rochester, New has acquired a couple of addition­ the Coast Guard Academy, Florida York 14627), the office would be grateful. al honors: an NCAA Postgraduate Institute of Technology, and the A number ojyou did just that ajter our last Scholarship, which she will use Uni e-rsityof ew Hampshire. request, and we thank you all. when she continues her studies at "Competition is tough and very the School of Medicine and Den­ uneven at Dad Vail," says Rochester Sports tistry this fall; and the University's coach Andy Medcalf. "At Temple, for first Amin-Salem Award for out­ UAA begins play instance, they have full-scholarship standing character and citizen­ rowers. This kind of competition The University Athletic Associa­ ship. The award was established makes our wins all the more tion, formed last year as "the aca­ by the friends and family of dramatic." Ayman Amin-Salem, a classmate demic eight" has had to change that The Rochester crew has competed who died in an automobile acci­ nickname. Now it's "the academic for the past five years at Dad Vail, but dent in his junior year. nine." The change came with the ad­ this is the first time the team has mission of Brandeis University, which reached the finals. joined the founding members in the Coach Medcalf- a strapping spring. Women's basketball at NYU Englishman who has served as head The major research universities that Jan 8 Jan. 23 Women's basketball at Chicago coach for the University of London constitute the UAA-the most geo­ Jan. 30 Men's basketball at NYU crew team - is enthusiastic about his graphically expansive Division III Feb. 13 Women's basketball at Carnegie team's potential. athletic conference in the country­ Mellon "Of the twenty-six team members share similar philosophies in both Feb. 19 Men's basketball at Emory Feb. 20 Men's basketball at Washington who rowed at Dad Vail, twenty-three athletics and academics. Aside from March 4-5 Men's & women's indoor track will be returning next year. This gives Rochester and Brandeis, members at Chicago (UAA cham­ us strong base to work from," he are Carnegie Mellon, Case Western pionships) says. April 22-23 Men's tennis at Brandeis (UAA Reserve, University of Chicago, "The Genesee is the best river for Emory, Johns Hopkins, New York championships April 22-23 Men's & women's outdoor track rowing I've ever seen." Medcalf says. University, and Washington Univer­ at Washington (UAA cham­ "There's no oth r boat traffic - whereas sity in St. Louis. pionships) The UAA begins play this fall. At home Here's the schedule: Sept. 25-26 Volleyball, Washington Sept 26 Football, Washington On the road Sept. 26 Men's soccer, Washington Oct 3 Men's soccer at Emory Oct. 12 Men's soccer, Case Western Oct. 7 Men's soccer at Carnegie Oct. 31 Men's soccer, NYU Mellon Nov. I Women's soccer, Emory Oct 10 Women's tennis at NYU Dec. 4 Men's & women's basketball, OCI. 12 Women's soccer at Case Brandeis Western Dec 12 Men's basketball, Case Western Oct. 17 Men's & women's cross-country Jan. 11 Women's basketball, at Case Western (UAA cham­ Washington pionships) Jan. 15-16 Men's & women's swimming, OCl. 17-18 Women's field hockey atJohns Johns Hopkins Hopkins (UAA championships) Jan. 22 Men's basketball, Emory OCI 18 Men's & women's soccer at Jan. 23 Men's basketball, Chicago Chicago Here's Rochester rower Andrew Fields '89 Jan. 30 Women's basketball, NYU OCI. 30-Nov 1 Women's tennis at Emory Feb. 12 Men's basketball, NYU with his family all morC or less in the same (UAA championships) Feb. 13 Men's basketball, Carnegie boat, sartorially speaking, "UR Crew Dad," Oct. 31 Women's volleyball at Mellon (tentative, may be "Mom," and "Sis" (Bill Kroner, Kitty Washington (UAA cham­ away) Kroner. and Sarabeth Fields) proudly iden­ pionships) Feb. 18-20 Men's & women's swimming tified themselves as such at the Dad Vails, Dec 12 Women's basketball at Case (UAA championships) where tbe Rochester crew gave them ample Western April 15-16 Men's golf (UAA cham­ cause for their pride. pionships)

32 Rochester Review on the Thames or in Philadelphia or Boston, you get a constant wash. Usually, we enjoy calm conditions. "And the Genesee is long: You can go for seven or eight miles continuous­ ly in one direction. And it's very pret­ ty, with all the trees and herons and the like." Besides, the River Campus coach adds practically, "You don't have to travel very far to get to it." A record year Building upon a by-now well-estab­ lished tradition, the 24-sport varsity program ended the 1986-87 season by chalking up its 11th consecutive cam­ paign above the benchmark 50 per­ cent winning rate. The year's compo­ site slate: 193-122-5, showing a tidy 61.1 percent success ratio. What's more, Yellowjacket squads captured first-place honors in 25 team competitions in play on invitational, association, state, and national levels - with a record 19 varsities represented in post-season play. Headlining these statistics were the achievements of Rochester's student­ athletes - 36 of whom earned a total of 57 All-American honors. Both of these figures established Yellowjacket single-year records. Olympics bound? Tom Tuori '87, may just be in the running for the next worldwide Olympics meet. He capped Spring roundup offhis brilliant Yellowjacket track career by winning the NCAA Division III title for the 1,500­ meter run, his sixth All-American honor. Now he has topped tlw.t achievement by qualifying The YeIlowjackets participating in for next year's U.S. Olympic team trials. At the New England TAC regionals in June, Tuori ran the spring sports program compiled the 1,500 meters in 3:41.65, neatly bettering the qualifying standard of 3:41.97. a successful season, producing AII­ American performers from five smashed the old national mark of 4:29.66. terim coach Colleen Doyle, the JacketS set a squads, including a national cham­ .Men's outdoor track & field: Head coach school record for most wins in a season - and in pion (runner Tom Tuori, see "track & Tim Hale's Yellowjackets ended up 9-7 in dual so doing achieved the first winning campaign field" below); four teams that partici­ meets, placed fourth at the 23-team Davidson (5-4) in the nine-year history of women's par­ Relays, earned themselves a sixth place (out of ticipation in the sport at Rochester. Pacing the pated in NCAA play; and a composite 20 squads) at the State Collegiate Track & Field Yellowjacket attack were graduate student Alice mark of 49-48-1. Sport by sport, here's Association championships, and finished 27th Andrews (18 goals & 6 assists), Katy Powers '90 how they did: (in a field of 101 teams) at the NCAA Division (18 goals & 6 assists), and Terry Jacobs '88 (21 !II outdoor national championships. • Men's tennis: Head coach Peter Lyman's goals & 2 assists). squad set a school record for most wins in a Tom Tuori '87 distinguished himself by join- .Men's lacrosse: The Rochester men under season on the way to a 15-7 dual-match mark. i ng the select grou p of six Ycllowjacket athletes the direction of coach Erv Chambliss were While they were about it, they captured the (in over a century of competition) who have saddled with a final 5-8 mark after three one­ 1987 Rochester Area Colleges Tournament and become national champions. Tuori did it by goal defeats during the middle of the season. finished in (best ever) fifth place at the NCAA winning the NCAA 1,500-meter race at 3:46.08, Attacker Tim Crocker '87 notched 29 goals and Division III national championships. Four achieving All-American distinction for the sixth 17 assists to pace the Yellowjackets in both de­ Yellowjackets received All-American acclaim: time in his illustrious collegiate career. partments, concluding his career ranked third the #1 doubles duo ofJoachim Hammer '88 .Men's golf: The Rochester linksters finished in all-time Rochester goals (90). assists (36), 4-1 in dual matches and took home first-place and Mark Frisk '87 (14-7 record, ranked ninth and points (126). nationally) and the #2 doubles team of Eric honors in four of the 12 tournaments on their .Baseball: Coach Dick Rasmussen's squad Lipton '87 and Scott Milener '90 (17-4 mark, regular-season schedule. Head coach Don ended up at 10-21-1. Hitting was the Yellow­ ranked #13 nationally). Smith's jackets tied for 11th place at the 21­ jackets' long suit - the team compiled a hefty squad NCAA Division III national champion­ .Women's outdoor track & field: This team .302 batting average paced by center fielder compiled a perfect 4-0 dual-meet mark, placed ships. Kurt Doyen '90 (.407), shortstop Mike Greg Perry '87 earned First Team All-Ameri­ second at the State WCAA Division III cham­ Klugman '90 (.333). designated-hitter Manny can honors for thc second straight year at the pionships, and finished 27th out of 61 squads Castilla '87 (.333, 9 homers, 33 RBIs), first championships by placing second out of 120 golf­ at the NCAA Division III outdoor national baseman Craig Fitzgerald (.321, Third Team ers with a 72-hok total of 72-73-71-77 -293, championships. In aJl, head coach Jacqueline Academic All-American in the CoSIDA col­ lc~c Blackett's squad broke eight school records. just five strokes over par and four strokes be­ division rankings with a 3.20 GPA as a At the NCAAs, Josefa Benzoni '88 placed hind the medalist. statistics/psychology major), and catcher second in the 1,500-meter run to earn AII­ .Women's lacrosse: Under the direction of in- Lou Beardall '87 (.316, 12 doubles) American status with a time of 4:27.31, which

Rochester Review 33 excimer was widely regarded at the time as an industrial tool, Srini made a startling discovery in experiments Alumni Gazette with biological tissue - instead of burning away living tissue, as most lasers do, the excimer caused tissue to chemically decompose. This meant that remarkably clean cuts, only a few millionths of an inch deep, could be made in living tissue without charring or damaging underlying or adjacent tissue. • Till we Met again: "I've never Christensen's nurturing hand. Boast­ To ophthalmologists, Srini's discov­ wanted to confine myself to just one ing a recital hall, classrooms, studios, ery meant that the excimer could be medium," says actress/singer Vicki and an art gallery, it now sponsors a used to alter the shape of the cornea, Brasser '79E, whose wide variety of programs in dance, with far greater precision and far considerable thes­ music, theater, and painting and plays fewer complications than previously ~.~~,~.- ~ pian credits include host to the Mohawk Valley Choral possible through conventional surgery. . ...' ;;.~.. - ...... ,'\ Broadway and off­ Society and an annual summer arts Though the technique has only re­ Broadway plays, live camp. Last year the center was a cently entered the experimental stages theater, and televi­ magnet for nearly 7,000 arts lovers in humans, doctors hope to use the sion commercials. So throughout the Mohawk Valley. excimer to sculpt the cornea, shaving we were justifiably Christensen was executive director off a millionth of an inch at a time to proud (but not at all surprised) to of the Third Street Music School flatten it to correct nearsightedness or hear that Brasser recently made her Settlement in New York City and an to steepen it to correct farsightedness. debut with the Metropolitan Opera in arts-management consultant when he Early experimental results are Strauss's "Die Fledermaus." decided to settle down in Little Falls promising. The excimer's precise cuts "It was wonderful performing with in 1982, sensing instinctively that the do not produce scarring and allow the stars like Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana area was "wide open" for artistic en­ cornea to heal perfectly clear. The Troyanos, and Judith Blegen," says deavors. Now he has hopes of starting sculpting process is also painless (Srini Brasser, who sang the role of Ida. major concert series and a fully pro­ often demonstrates this fact by using "Otto Schenk, the director, created a fessional chamber orchestra to provide the laser to etch a microscopic design really homey atmosphere. We even top-quality music for valley audiences. in his fingernail). So who knows, in had a grab bag on Christmas Eve. No doubt he'll pursue that dream as a few years, you may walk into your It was just a great experience1" vigorously as he did the center's open­ ophthalmologist's office and, like at "Die Fledermaus," with its new ing: "I came up from New York City your hairdresser's, say 'Just take a libretto, will become part of the Met's and I had that stupid New York men­ little off the sides, I've got a hot date regular repertoire for the 1987-88 sea­ tality- anything can happen." tonight." son, and Brasser has been asked back .TwinkIe in your eye: It is the .Fermi Award: In 1952, at the to repeat as Ida. In the meantime, dream of everyone of us with poor Brookhaven ational Laboratory in she's continuing on stage (this time eyesight - sit in front of a machine Upton, New York, scientists Ernest performing in the premiere of Ken for thirty seconds or so and, presto­ D. Courant '42G, '43G and his col­ Hill's "Phantom of the Opera" in change-o, walk away league M. Stanley Livingston made a St. Louis) and trying for some roles a perfect 20/20. No discovery crucial to the development on the big screen. more sitting on your of modern-day particle physics - the • Big Apple idea: "Coming up here only pair of glasses. "alternating gradient focusing prin­ and starting a nonprofit arts center in No more accidentally ciple" that was to prove basic to the the middle of a severely economically flushing your con­ design of today's advanced particle depressed rural area was sheer stupid­ tacts down the toilet. accelerators. ity. How the heck did I think I was That dream may It was to recognize this pivotal con­ going to support this thing?" Well, de­ soon be a reality. And you can thank tribution that Courant and Livingston spite his original misgivings, Robert Rangaswami Srinivasan '61F for that, were honored last December with the Christensen '62E, '64GE did get his bright eyes. 1986 Enrico Fermi Award, the highest arts center off the ground and it's now "Srini," as he is known, was work­ scientific honor given by the U.S. De­ doing quite well, thank you. The ing in 1981 at IBM's Thomas J. partment of Energy. Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts in Watson Research Center with an The award carries with it a Presi­ Little Falls, New York, has grown con­ "excimer" laser, a special laser that dential Citation, a commemorative siderably in the last four years under unlike conventional ones uses atoms gold medal, and a $100,000 prize for of two different elements to produce a each recipient. single-color beam of light. Though the

34 Rochester Review Born in Goettingen, Germany, the Rochester "Democrat and Chron­ group of distinguished blacks voted Courant earned his Ph.D. in physics icle. " into the National Black College Alum­ at Rochester and joined the perma­ To Paviour, George Eastman was ni HalJ of Fame at Atlanta University. nent staff at Brookhaven in 1948, the more than a name on a building A widely recognized expert in year after it was founded. Now senior facade. "I got to know him very well. health physics and one of the youngest physicist at Brookhaven, he has taken Went to his house frequently for lunch to ever hold a managerial position at time off at various times to also teach or dinner," says Paviour. "yVhen he the space agency, Earls was in excel­ at a number of universities, among would go away to Africa on a safari, lent company at his induction - others them Cambridge, Yale, and Prince­ or take one of those long trips way up named to the Hall of Fame this year ton. north, he would come back to Roches­ were the late Dr. Martin Luther King, The Fermi Award is named for the ter and ask me to come over and fill Jr.; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thur­ leader of the scientists who achieved him in on what had happened in town good Marshall; Metropolitan Opera the first self-sustained, controlled while he was away." star Leontyne Price; the late More­ nuclear reaction. (Ernie Paviour is not the only Roch­ house University president Benjamin .Ninety-nine and counting: Nearly ester alum entering into the exclusive E. Mayes; Atlanta businessman Her­ every weekday morning on the "Today" "One-Hundred Club." For news of his man]. Russell; and Grambling Uni­ show, bubbling weatherman Willard contemporary, George Abbott '11, see versity football coach Eddie Robinson. Scott ends his colorful prognostica­ page 30.) Kudos also to tions with the names of some people .Doctor, Doctor, give me the news: Barbara Zygmunt who have reached the one-hundred­ In the high-profile arena of medicine, Napholtz '77, whose years-of-age mile­ Daniel Keller '72, '80GM is more teaching expertise stone. We'll be lis­ often heard than seen. As the San was recognized when tening for Willard Diego correspondent for the Physi­ she was named a 1987 to mention Ernie cian's Radio Network, he's on the air Distinguished Teach­ Paviour's name nearly every hour of the day, every er by the Commission sometime after Pavi­ day of the week, with the latest medi­ on Presidential Scholars of the U.S. our's hundredth birth­ cal news from his southern California Department of Education. Napholtz day on May 26, 1988. beat. received a commemorative certificate That's right. Paviour, of the Class of A former postdoctoral student in at a special ceremony in the White 1910, is just one shy of the big centen­ the Department of Medicine at the House in June. nial. So why are we writing about him University of California at San Diego, And we applaud the achievement of this year? Well, partly to celebrate his Keller abandoned a career in medical D. Allan Bromley enviable longevity. And partly because research for a free-lance career report­ '52G, Henry Ford Bill Beeney '38 also wrote about him ing about it. When he's not assigned a 2nd Professor of this year. Rather unintentionally. story by PRN, Keller scours the lead­ Physics at Yale Uni­ Beeney writes in the "Brighton­ ing medical journals, taps research versity, who was Pittsford Post" that he'd been told sources for newsworthy items, and elected to member­ Paviour would be turning a hundred then tapes a report that is broadcast ship in the Brazilian this year. So Beeney, smelling a story, as part of an hour-long show. Reports Academy of Sciences dropped in for a chat. "I'll be ninety­ like Keller's provide physicians sub­ at its annual meeting in Rio deJaneiro. nine years old on May 26," said scribing to PRN with concise, aural Director of the Arthur W. Wright Nu­ Paviour. "Are you sure the number reviews of what's happening in the clear Structure Laboratory, Bromley coming up is ninety-nine?" asked a medical field. was elected "in recognition of his con­ startled Beeney. "Well, I was born in Keller eventually hopes to parlay tributions to nuclear physics and to 1888. How does that work out?" his reporting and broadcast experience the development of international sci­ An honorary trustee and recipient into a promotional post at a pharma­ ences." He is, among other distinc­ of the University's first Citation to ceutical company or into a medical­ tions, president of the International Alumni, Paviour spent most of his reporting position at a television Union of Pure and Applied Physics working years in his father's insurance network. and past president and chairman of business in Rochester, although writing .Honors: Our congratulatory the American Association for the Ad­ was his first love. He served as college greetings go first to vancement of Science. correspondent for the Rochester Julian M. Earls Shinji Morokuma '84 "Evening Times" during his University '66GM, chief of the days and after graduation continued Health, Safety, and to write publicity for many Rochester Security Division at organizations. Twice the legendary NASA's Lewis Re­ founder of the booming Gannett news­ search Center, who paper chain, Frank E. Gannett, of­ was among the first fered Paviour the publisher's post of

Rochester Review 35 reports that favorable reviews are coming in 1946 on his latest book, "Lincoln's Lee," a biography Robert E. Curtis '47G has retired after 12 of Samuel Phillips Lee, one of the key Union years as superintendent of the Gettysburg (Pa.) naval commanders of the Civil War. His "The Area Public Schools. He previously served as Alumnotes Sable Arm," about black troops in the Union superintendent of the Fayetteville-Manlius Army, was selected by "Civil War Times Illus­ Scnools in New York. trated" as one of the best 100 books on the war. Both of Cornish's works are available from the 1947 University Press of Kansas. Tadius J. Gult was elected president of the 1987 National Prestressed Concrete Institute, 1939 headquartered in Chicago. The organization, Consulting engineer Stanley J. Klein and his representing a 1I3-billion-a-year segment of the wife, Rosalind, report that they have returned construction industry, has more than 2,000 pro­ from a three-month foreign-aid assignment ducer and professional members worldwide. in Cairo, Egypt. Their mission was sponsored 1948 RC - River Campus colleges by the International Executive Services Corps William W. Young has retired after 36 years in G -Graduate degree, River Campus (IESC), a nonprofit organization that matches companies in developing countries requiring the ministry and 24 years as associate pastor at colleges the Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester. M - M.D. degree technical and managerial assistance with re­ tired executives of US. corporations who are He and his wife, Anne, are making their home GM -Graduate degree, Medicine and on Menlo Place in Rochester. Dentistry willing to volunteer their expertise. Since first R- Medical residency joining up with IESC in 1970, the Kleins have 1949 F- Fellowship, Medicine and Dentistry worked and studied in such countries as EI Last March, Gordon A. Allen G retired after E - Eastman School of Music Salvador, Mexico, Greece, Honduras, Ecuador, working 36 years in the Canadian pulp-and­ GE -Graduate degree, Eastman Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. What do paper industry, the last 21 years with Great N- School of Nursing they get out of it? "Besides the satisfaction of Lakes Forest Products Ltd. His position for GN -Graduate degree, Nursing contributing to the economic growth of a pri­ the past 12 years was directOr of environmental FN - Fellowship, School of Nursing vate company in the Third World, we exchange affairs. He reports that he and his wife, Jean, U- University College cultures with the many people we meet and plan to continue to live in Thunder Bay, GU- Graduate degree, University work with," they say Ontario. College 1940 1950 Julia S. Rankin has been reelected to the Con­ Alice E. Fruehan has been named president of River Campus necticut State Board of Education. She has been the Albany County Chapter of the New York a member of the board since 1978 and was a State Academy of Family Physicians Chairman 1914 member also of the faculty at the University of of the family practice department at Albany After winning a ribbon for the biggest hat at Connecticut from 1954 to 1971. Medical Center since 1976, she is also a mem­ his villa's hat social, Carleton K. Lewis took a ber of the academy's special committee on breather and dropped us a line from his home 1941 hospital privileges. in Port Charlotte, Fla. "I never dreamed I would John H. Manhold writes that he has just be so happy and comfortable in my 95th year," published his seventh book, "Handbook of 1954 he writes. "I gOt the most economical B.A. at Pathology" Recently retired as professor and Francis H. Dowling was reelected chairman Rochester by riding my bike to college, and I chairman of general and oral pathology at the of the Dutchess County (NY) Mental Hygiene still ride my bike." He reports further that his University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Board. Louise Carol Wade G has pub- sight has been restored "by the miracle of an Jersey after 31 years in medicine, Manhold is lished a new book, "Chicago's Pride," through implant" and he remains as active mentally and now clinical director for Woog International, the University of Illinois Press. physically as ever. a Swiss health-products company that is now expanding into the United States. 1955 1932 Lee I. Edwards has been certified as a A celebration was held earlier this year to honor 1944 Diplomate of the American Board of Ortho­ Emmett J. Schnepp, who retired after nearly Jacob E. Gair, a geologist in the US. Geologi­ dontics. He has a practice in Pittsford, N.Y., 25 years as a distinguished member of the cal Survey's Office of Mineral Resources, specializing in orthodontics. New York State Judiciary. Schnepp began as received the Meritorious Service Award - the Children's Court Judge in 1962 and was later second highest honor given by the Department 1957 elected Family Court Judge and then State of the Interior - in ceremonies at the US.G.S. Wayne E. Feely G, a research fellow at Rohm Supreme Court Justice. Gov. Hugh Carey National Center in Reston, Va. Internationally and Haas Co.. has received the company's Otto tapped Schnepp for the post of associate justice recognized for his studies on the origin and Haas Award for J986, in recognition of unique of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, distribution of iron and massive sulphide de­ and significant achievements in research. Feely where he served until his retirement. Active posits, Gair was cited for his outstanding record was cited for developing a new family of high­ in Rochester community affairs, Schnepp has in economic geology and for his substantial con­ technology negative photoresists that will be been a long-time member of the Nazareth tribution to a professional paper on mineral used to boost memory and increase calculation College Board of Trustees and has served as resources of the United States-one of the most speed in computers. its chairman since 1969. widely used publications in the history of the USGS. 1958 1938 Rev. Albert R. Gaelens G has been promoted Books and the Class of '38: "Sidewalk Contem­ 1945 from director of guidance to principal of St. platives" is the latest by Susan B. Anthony, Clifford E. Swartz '46G, '5IG, professor of Thomas High School in HoustOn, Tex. From grandniece of the famed Rochester suffragist. physics at SUNY Stony Brook, has received 1970 to 1977, he served as principal of Aquinas In it, Anthony draws on her experiences as a the annual Oersted Medal, the nation's highest Inscitute in Rochester. award for physics teaching. The medal was reporter, political exile, recovered alcoholic, 1959 contemplative, and convert to Catholicism to given at the 1987 joint annual meeting of the MarilynJohnson Burday reports that she present "a practical approach to spirituality American Physical Society and the American ear'led her M.S.W. from Syracuse University as the answer to a troubled world." The book Association of Physics Teachers. A prolific writer, Swartz has served as editor of the last May and plans to go hiking in the High­ is avadable from The Crossroad Publishing lands of Scotland this summer and work in Company And Dudley Taylor Cornish national magazine, "The Physics Teacher," since J967. Rochester thereafter. As for her kids - David graduated from Tufts in May; Andy has been studying at Rochcstcr; and Ruth has finished her freshman year at Williams College.

36 Rochester Review 1960 1962 accrediting association. Archer is director of Robert C. Bubeck 'nG was recently promoted Diane Gold Koenig was promoted from asso­ the Psychological and Vocational Counseling to the rank of captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. ciate to full professor of English at Columbia­ Center and professor of counsclor education An NROTC scholarship student as an under­ Greene Community College in Hudson, NY. and psychology at the University of Florida, graduate, he continued in the reserve program Her son Michael has finished his freshman Gainesville. . George V. Flagg is nOw pres- of the Office of Naval Research after complet­ year at Rochester. Linda Bord Winikow, ident and director of the National Guardian lng his active duty. As a civilian, he is senior a New York State senator, 38th District, from Corp., a national security-services company geochemist on the staff of the Regional Hydrol­ 1974 to 1984, is today vice president of human providing alarm and guard service. He is di­ ogist, Western Region, U.S. Geological Survey, resources and external affairs at Orange and rector also of the Deltona Corp., a developer in Menlo Park, Calif. This spring, Presi- Rockland Utilities, Inc., an electric and gas of Florida real estate. National Guardian, he dent Reagan approved the selection of Navy utility serving portions of New York State, New reports, is listed on the NASDAQ over-the­ Capt. James C. Doebler for promotion to Jersey, and Pennsylvania. She is responsible for counter-market exchange, and Deltona is the rank of rear admiral in the Navy's Civil the company's communications, government listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Engineer Corps, the only CEC officer to be and public affairs, and personnel activities. A Thomas Krakauer, executive director of the so recommended. Since last fall, Doebler had member of several community organizations North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, been vice commander, Pacific Division, Naval near her home in Spring Valley, NY., Winikow in Durham, was elected a board member and Facilities Engineering Command, in Pearl has earned many honors during her public serv­ 1987 vice president of the Association of Harbor, Hawaii. Melvyn Dubofsky is ice, including honorary doctorates from S1. Science-Technology Center, headquartered co-editor of a new book, "Labor Leaders in Thomas Aquinas College and Mercy College. in Washington, D.C. Christina Munson .\merica" (University of Illinois Press), which Schmidt, children's librarian since 1979 at tells the life stories of the men and women who 1963 Parkland Community Library near Allentown, led the American labor movement from Recon­ John J. Canning was named president and Pa., reports that she earned her master of li­ struction to recent times. Dubofsky is professor chief executive officer of Pitney Bowes Credit brary science degree last May from Kutztown of history and of sociology at SUNY Bingham­ Corp., the financial-services unit of Pitney University. Her husband, Henry Schmidt '63, Bowes, Inc. He was previously vice president- ton. '65GE, is professor of music at Muhlenberg external financing division. Bruce College, and both are active professional musi­ 1961 Hopkins repons that he's started a new job as cians playing in the Lehigh Valley Chamber John. A. C. Greppin, professor of linguistics general manager of Cal Coast Construction & Orchestra, the Allentown Sym phony, and the at Cleveland State University, was awarded a (nteriors, an insurance restoration company. Pennsylvania Sinfonia. Their SOn jonathan just grant by the International Research and Ex­ Richard Partch G was promoted from as­ finished his first year at Vassar, and Andy will change Board for work in the Soviet Union on sociate to full professor of chemistry at Clark­ be a sophomore in the fall. bilingual Armenian dictionaries. His studies son University. will be centered at the Matenadaran, located 1965 in Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In­ 1964 Greenwillow Books has redesigned and reissued cidentally, in addition to Armenian, Greppin As a representative for university and college "The Children We Remember" by Chana Byers can also read Greek, Latin, Gothic, three Old counseling centers, James Archer, Jr. was Abells '70G, first published by Kar- Ben Copies Iranian dialects, Hittite, Sanskrit, classical elected to the board of directors of the Interna­ in 1983 Abells's book is a powerful photoessay Hebrew, and Arabic. tional Association of Counseling Services, an about the children who lived and died during the Holocaust, with photographs culled from the Archives of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, in jerusalem. Abells is director of the Photo Moving? Making news? and Film Division of Yad Vas hem Archives and Harboring a comment you'd like to former archivist of the Video Archive for Holo­ caust Testimonies at Yale University. James Bardsley G has been appointed assistant pro­ make to - or about - "Rochester Review"? fessor of marketing at SUNY College of Tech- Let us know-we'd like to hear from you. The coupon below makes it easy. nology at Utica/Rome. "Everyone has good ideas," says David E. Dougherty G. "It's what Name Class _ you do with them that separates the successful Address _ entrepreneur from the idle dreamer." In his new book, "From Technical Professional to Entrepreneur: A Guide to Alternative Careers" U. Wiley & Sons), Dougherty. a former patent o This is a new address. Effective date: _ counsel, outlines the successful formulas devel­ (Please enclose present address label.) oped by prominent businessmen and attorneys My news/comment: _ that technical professsionals can use to screen, evaluate, and develop their ideas and expertise for substantial financial gain. Willa Baechlin Roghair reports that she and her husband, james, have been called to Barrow, Alaska, to be pastors of the Utkeagvik Pres­ byterian Church, part of Ahmoagek Larger Parish, an area about the size of Minnesota. Rudolph Rossman now holds the newly created position of vice president of corporate opera­ Note: Although we try to include all of the news items you send us, our long lead time (some­ tions and assistant to the chairman ~f Inter­ times two months or more) means that we receive many items after the deadline for the next mountain Gas Industries, Inc., in Boise, Idaho. issue has passed. So if you don't see your submission in print right away, please look for it in 1966 the following issue. We love getting your letters, welcome your comments, and appreciate the chance to print your news. Please keep on writing' Navy Capt. Robert W. Holst is commanding officer of Naval Reserve Unit Biomedical Emer­ (Mail to Editor, "Rochester Review," 108 Administration Building, University of Rochester, gency Response Team 106 in Washington, D.C. Rochester, New York 14627.) He also serves as chief of the Exposure Assess­ ment Branch, Office of Pesticide Programs,

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Rochester Review 37 River Campus (from page 37) to a three-year term on the editorial board of and Mary Kay Adams '80, a daughter, Anna "Computational Linguistics." the journal of the Elizabeth Dounce, on jan. 21. u.s. Environmental Protection Agency, also in Association for Computational Linguistics. Washington. K. Bradley Paxton G, 'lIG is 1971 general manager and vice president of the new­ 1969 Michael '72G and Leslie Hope Braun and ly renamed Electronic Photography Division of R. Pierce Baker is manager- marketing and their twin girls have returned to New York after the Eastman Kodak Co. Paxton's division, business development, Science Products Divi­ two years in Lexington, Ky. Mike reports that formerly the Consumer Electronics Division, sion, Corning Glass Works. . Charles W. he's still with IBM. now as director of focuses now on photographic systems for com­ Case G, dean of education at the University typewriter marketing for the United States. mercial and industrial applications. John of Iowa, has been appointed professor of edu­ Barbara J. Coffey is director of training in W. Wright, Jr. has been promoted from assis­ cational leadership and dean of the School of child psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, tant vice president to vice president for NCNB Education at the University of Connecticut. Tufts-New England Medical Center, in Boston. Corp., the largest bank-holding company in the A former assistant director of development at In September, she begins analytic training at Southeast. Rochester, he is a member of the prestigious the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Karen Holmes Group, the collective of deans of col­ F. Glenney was appointed director of commu­ 1967 leges of education at research universities. nity relations for the Bexar County (Tex.) Martin D. Begleiter was recently named the Hospital District. She was previously director first Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distin­ 1970 of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of San guished Professor of Law at Drake University John W. Graham has opened an office in Antonio. . Harper & Row has published Law School. He has also been named the Chaumont, N.Y., for the general practice of David Gottsegen's "A Manual of Painting American Bar Association Advisor to the law. J. Stephen Joyce '72G, a science Materials and Techniques," a 150-page refer- National Conference of Commissioners on teacher at North Quincy (Mass.) High School, ence text for artists. . Charles McCormick Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) on the Uni­ received a special honor from Massachusetts has passed the rigorous selection process and form Anatomical Gift Act. He writes that he Governor Michael Dukakis as part of a state­ has now earned the title of Registered School has attended meetings of the act's drafting wide science competition to encourage high­ Business Administrator from the Association committee and plans to attend the NCCUSLs school students to consider careers in biomed­ of School Business Officials International, the annual meeting in Newport Beach, CaliC., ical research and to salute teachers who have highest professional status that can be awarded where the particulars and ramifications of the inspired students in their science studies. joyce 10 a practicing school business administratOr. act will be debated. Mollie Heath Bowers was selected as the "most inAuential science McCormick is business manager of the Dekalb received the Dean james Teaching Excellence teacher" by his student Fred Cawthorne, a (111.) School District. Brian M. Miga has Award from the Robert G. Merrick School of finalist in the competition held in conjunction formed a general-law practice in Utica, N.Y., Business, University of Baltimore. A specialist with the centennial anniversary of the National under the name Miga, Haggas & Parker. in dispute-settlement services, she has also Institutes of Health. George Yung-Hsing Arnold D. Shuman G was appointed general been elected chairperson of Region 1, National Wu has won the 1987 Stuart Wilson Award manager of the photOn devices division at Academy of Arbitrators. . Peter C. Engle from the University of Connecticut Health EG&G, Inc., in Salem, Mass. Born: to '68G has been appointed vice president of man­ Center. Associate professor, Division of Diges­ Cary M. and Nancy Jacobs Feldman '73, agement informations systems at Computer tive and Liver Diseases, in the Department a daughter, jaclyn Gail, on Mar. 19. to Consoles, Inc., headquartered in Waltham, of Medicine at UConn, Wu plans to use the David Wiltschko and Sherry Bame, a son, Mass. Tzu Fann Shao G is vice president $10.000 grant for further research on cancer of Alex, on Nov. 19. of manufacturing at the Kopin Corp., a mar­ the liver. Born: to George H. Dounce '78G keter of semiconductors based in Taunton, Mass. 1968 Whoo Me? Lora Kaywin Block has nicely brought us up to date on her life since Rochester. She and Sure, why not? "Rochester Review" her husband, Robert S. Block '78R, and their needs everybody. If you want to help the daughters, Alexandra and jessa, have been "Review" become a bigger and better living in Bennington, Vt., where Robert is an magazine, join the chorus of alumni orthopaedic surgeon. 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38 Rochester Review 1972 and teaches English as a second language at Communications Department on the flagship Ralph K. Bellamy is coauthor of an article titled Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach. for the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. "The Supreme Court Issues Its First Decision Robert]. Massa '74G has been named to Omedetoh. Sheldon Zorfas '75G has been on Sexual Harassment" in the February 1987 the post of vice president for admissions and named a partner of Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon issue of "Hoosier Banker." He is a partner in financial aid at Trinity University in San An­ & Co., the national accounting and consulting Barnes & Thornburg, Indiana's largest law firm. tonio, Tex. He was previously at Union College firm. He has been a tax manager at the firm As president of Delighter Productions, in Schenectady, NY., where he served as direc­ s(nce 1983. Married: Julia B. Lederman Harry Delighter produces films, videos, and tor of financial aid and later as associate dean and Thomas]. DiGiacomo '73G, on Apr. 26. photographs, and some of his pics were selected of students. Susan]. O'Brien is a market- Born: to Joel A. and Deborah Ferdman to decorate the set for the new television series ing representative for Health Care Data Sys­ Drucker, a son, Robert Benjamin, on Feb. I. "L.A. Law." As president of Rochester's South­ tems of DeWitt, NY. She is responsible for . to Lesley and Robert B. Harris, a son, ern California Alumni Association, Delighter at­ marketing the company's Medical Practice David Andrew, on Oct. 15. tended the Los Angeles Phonathon and brought Management System for physician group prac­ with him a photo of himself on the set of "L.A. tices, primarily in the Rochester and Buffalo 1975 Law" with one of the series' stars, Harry Hamlin. areas. Ronald G. Schwartz '78M was Shirley Peterson Dutton earned her Ph.D. in Elinda B. Fishman G, '83G has been pro­ elected to fellowship in the American College geological sciences last December from the Uni­ moted to vice president and director of Meritor of Cardiology. He is assistant professor of med­ versity of Texas at Austin. During the spring Financial Group. David Mayers G has icine and of radiology and director of nuclear semester, she traveled the country as an Ameri­ been named the first Arthur E. Shepard Profes­ cardiology in the Cardiology Unit at Roches­ can Association of Petroleum Geologists Distin­ sor of Insurance at Ohio State University-the ter's Medical Center. Jose Scheinkman G, guished Lecturer, giving talks at geological first insurance chair established by the school. '74G has been named the first Alvin Baum Pro­ societies and universities (including Rochester) Linda Rozenbergs Parrish earned a pro­ fessor in the Department of Economics at the on sandstone diagenesis. . Joyce A. Hagin motion to vice president, corporate develop­ University of Chicago. H is research focuses on has opened her own dental practice in Hono- ment, at VM Software, Inc. in Reston, Va. economic models that accommodate changes lulu. Sue A. Jacobson joined the Rochester Linda Horvitz Post will hold a solo show over time. Born: to Monica and Stephen I&.w firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Fowler, of her paintings, pastels, and monotypes at the G. Gordon, a daughter, Alexandra Simone, on Randall and Wilson. Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City, from Jan. 6. to Alan and Gail Schecter Laufer, 1976 Sept. 19 to Oct. 17. Her works to be exhibited two sons and a daughter, Andrew Seth, Michael Laura Balsam married Steven F. Adler on include underwater visions of sea creatures, Lawrence, and Sarah Rebecca, on Mar. 22. Christmas Day, 1986, in New York City. The swimmers, and coral formations, and a series ceremony, incidentally, was performed by Judge of psychologically charged images based on 1974 T. James Bentley F, a senior research chemist Leon Deutsch, father of Nathaniel Deutsch '73. modern dance. About her previous show at the John E. Benitez G, former director of bi­ in the Agricultural Research Division of Ameri­ gallery, John Russell of the "New York Times" lingual education at D'Youville College, is now can Cyanamid Co., earned the Scientific Achieve­ wrote, "Linda Post's monotypes have to do with assistant director of the Office of Minority ment Award, the company's highest research un-self-conscious domesticities. The people in Affairs at SUNY Brockport. He works with the them loll about the house, looking pleasantly honor, for his work in 1986. Bentley discovered two new "repartitioning agents." One will im­ school's Leadership Development Institute and juicy, and are clearly as much at home with helps recruit and retain minority students. the artists as they are with one another." Post prove feed conversion and produce more lean meat and less fat in meat animals. The second . George Ross Fisher IV is a principal of invites all alumni to the opening reception Morgan Stanley, the New York-based invest­ on Sept. 19 at the Mary Ryan Gallery, 452 could eventually be used as an anti-asthma or anti-obesity drug for humans. Some of you ment banking firm. Molly Forman has Columbus Ave. Paula K. Most Randolph been touring the country as the only American more recent Rochester grads may be familiar and Douglas Randol ph were married Nov. 26, member- indeed the only foreign member­ with Cheesy Eddie's. the cafe and bakery that 1986, and are now living in Boca Raton, Fla. among the 100 dancers, singers, and musicians has become something of a local institution for Some equally good news from Patricia of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble Smiley, who married James W. Wilson onJune turning out Rochester's premier cheesecake. Well, the stuffs as great as ever, and owner Lee Gray G, '85G, an instructor in geology at 21. 1986, in Chicago and earned her Ph.D. in Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, received developmental psychology from the University Marjory David reports that business is boom­ ing and her cheesecake's reputation has spread one of the college's Sponsored Travel and Re­ of Chicago last March. She is currently a post­ search grants. Gray is conducting reconnais­ doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at to areas as far away as Texas, thanks in great part to her shipping service that sends three­ sance field work in the Devonian rocks of Champaign. . David Watterworth is chair­ northeastern Ohio. Fred Immermann is pound cheesecakes anywhere in the continental man of the 1987 Junior Achievement Board of a research statistician at Research Triangle United States. Deborah Ferdman Broward and South Palm Beach counties in Institute in Research Triangle Park in North Drucker was promoted to assistant vice pres­ Florida. He is a senior vice president of NCN B Carolina. His wife, Ann Herriott, is finishing National Bank of Fort Lauderdale. Born: ident and manager of the Government Securi­ ties Accounting Department at Oppenheimer & her doctorate in horticulture at North Carolina to Helen Sussmann Parker and Carl Parker State University in Raleigh. Diane '73, a son, Daniel, on Nov. 10. Co., Inc. . Karl L. Flaccus married Chris- tianne Balk in Fairbanks, Alaska, where they Silberstein Killory has been appointed general 1973 now make their home. Karl reports that Chris counsel of the Federal Communications Com­ David L. Baxter is manager of the new life­ has a book published by MacMillan (Bind­ mission, the first woman to hold that post. For insurance-consulting unit in Washington, D.c., wood) and teaches creative writing at the Uni- the last three years, Killory had been senior ad­ of Milliman & Robertson, Inc., one of the na­ versity of Alaska. Robert B. Harris has visor to Commissioner Patrick at the FCC. tion's largest actuarial and employee-benefit- been named an established investigator of the Bruce E. Meckling is a triathlete and coach of consulting firms. Jeffrey L. Bradley is American Heart Association. He continues his the Rochester Aardvarks amateur rugby team. dircctor of business research for the Copy research in biochemistry at Virginia Common­ When he's not going for a try or competing in Products Division of Eastman Kodak Co. wealth University/Medical College of Virginia. triathlons, he works as product manager for the Stephen G. Gordon runs his own general-law David Carl Mavor was born on Oct. 10 to sunglass division of Bausch & Lomb. practice in White Plains, NY. Daina E. Jim Mavor and Trina Novak. Trina reports David M. Richman '77G is a partner in charge Kojeles, of Addison, Ill., has been appointed that she's "retired" to full-time mothering. of' marketing for Cambridge Associates, a real claims attorney for the Claims Department of Sheldon Pollack is a lawyer in the Philadelphia­ estate investment and development firm based Zurich Insurance Co., U.S. branch, a member based firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr, and Solis­ in Hartford, Conn. Born: to Andrea Gilbert and Michael Berger, a daughter, lIyssa of Zurich Insurancc Group. Gerald P. Cohen. Mike Quinn earned his M.S. in Lunderville G will be included in the 21st edi­ electrical engineering from the Naval Postgrad­ Abby Berger, on Dec. 23. to Fred I mmer­ tion of Marquis's "Who's Who in America." uate School in Monterey, Calif. He and his mann and Ann Herriott, a son, Eric Herriott Wcstern Region, for 1987. Lunderville is pursu­ family are now stationed in Yokusuka, Japan, Immermann, on May 6, 1986. ing a mastcr's degree in Latin American history outside of Tokyo, where he is head of the (River Campus continued on page 40) at California State University at Long Beach

Rochester Review 39 River Campus (from page 39) Gail Schupak is practicing orthodontics in Thomas Cohen, on Apr. 15. .. to Greta Manhattan. . Sumner Schwartz received Williams Davis and Jonathan Mark Davis 1977 his D.D.S. degree from Columbia University, '78, a son, Benjamin Williams Davis, on Aug. 6, James P. Dougherty is division direclOr of has started a residency at Jamaica (NY) 1986 special products in the Business Sales Depart­ Hospital, and, with his wife, Lisa, is proud ment of the Atlanta office of Liberty Mutual parent to their first child, Douglas Ira, born 1980 Insurance Co. . It has been one heckuva Feb. 23. David Simon, a vice president Lenny Bart has been promoted to vice presi­ year for Ira M. Emanuel. He was appointed at Wells Fargo & Co., has been named head of dent of research at Lorimar-Telepictures Corp., assistant village atlOrney for Montebello, N.Y., product management in the headquarters of working on television programming and sales and assistant counsel to the Rockland County Wells Fargo Credit Corp., in Scottsdale, Ariz. research. Steven M. Goldman earned the (NY) Legislature. He has also opened his own . Jonathan D. Sones was named counsel to designation "Associate of the Society of Actu­ law firm in Suffern, NY, concentrating on the Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia. He is aries" in 1985 and is now actuarial manager at munici pal law, commercial litigation, and real an attorney associated with the law firm of Eugene M. Klein & Co., Inc. in Cleveland. property law. In addition, he's been selected for Gerber and Gerber in Norristown, Pa. . Scott J. Gordon '85G has joined Irving inclusion in the next issue of "Who's Who in David Tillman and his wife', Suzanne, will be Trust Co. as an officer, where he handles in­ American Law." Along the way, he met, and terest rates and currency swaps and structures relocating 10 Copenhagen, Denmark, this sum­ on May 24, married, Susan B. Edelstein, in mer, where David will be general manager­ hedging products for the bank's corporate New York City. Richard A. Josephson Nordic Area, for Elizabeth Arden, Inc. customers. Navy Ll. Gibson B. Kerr is in the middle of a cardiology fellowship at Married: Leslie Abramson and Arthur Miller earned an M.S. degree from the Naval Johns Hopkins Hospitals in Baltimore. There, on July 12, 1986. Gail Schupak and Daniel Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. his wife, Lori Cohen Josephson '78, is an Karron on May 24, in Merrick, NY . Born: Navy Ll. J. Christopher Legg has been se· educational consultant specializing in learning to Avi and Elise Pollack Negri, a daughter, lected the 1987 Junior Officer of the Surface disabilities. She conducts educational testing Ayelet, on May 11. Warfare Officers School Command. He serves and tutoring on a private basis, and teaches as an instructor in the command's Division religious school to children with special needs. 1979 Officer Course, Shipboard Management Divi­ Clifford P. Kubiak G, '80G, assistant pro­ Mark S. Bergman has transferred to the sion. Mary Catherine Matteson received fessor of chemistry at Purdue University, was Syracuse offices of Motorola Communications her A.A.S. in horticulture in 1982 from SUNY among 90 young scientists nationwide to re­ after being promoted to account executive for Morrisville and her M.S. in environmental and ceive 1987 Sloan Research Fellowships. Kubiak government markets. . George R. Brown forest biology from SUNY College of Environ­ is using his $25,000 award to study how 10 use '83M has completed his psychiatric residency at mental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. She is photochemistry 10 activate carbon dioxide to Wright State University in Ohio and has moved currently a research support specialist at the make more complex molecules. His research to San Antonio, Tex., where he is faculty psy­ New York State Agricultural Experiment Sta­ also focuses on using organometallic photo­ chiatrist at Wilford Hall Medical Center. tion in Geneva, under the direction of Cornell chemistry to develop "laser-writing" techniques Deberah S. Goldman has accepted a position University's School of Agriculture and Life for use in manufacturing semiconductor de­ at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Sciences. Her research involves protoplast vices. Nancy Lieberman has become a Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She fusion and fungi transformation to be used as partner in the New York law firm of Skadden, will be conducting clinical research on depres­ biological seed treatments. Patrick Masoa Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. She specializes sion and cocaine and alcohol abuse.... Since Okita finished his Ph.D. at the University of in corporate mergers and acquisitions. she earned her M.S.Ed. in communication dis­ Cincinnati last year and received the school's James L. Neuendorf is a second-year resident orders from SUNY New Paltz last December, Sunderman Award for Teaching Excellence in family practice at St. Joseph's Medical Susan Karnes Hecht has been working as a along the way. He is a National Research Center in Yonkers, NY Peter P. Stein, speech-language pathologist at St. Francis Council Postdoctoral Research Associate with a fellow in endocrinology at Yale University Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY Her husband, the Branch of Eastern Mineral Resources of School of Medicine, has been named one of five David M. Hecht earned his M.A. in clinical the U.S. Geological Survey, in ReslOn, Va. 1987 Pfizer PostdoclOral Fellows. The prestig­ and community psychology from Marist Married: Steven S. Bleecker and Rebecca ious award will allow Stein 10 continue his College last May and works as a community Ellen Ryder on Dec. 31. . Drew M. Powles research on the mechanisms by which insulin mental-health counselor at the Dutchess County and Andrea Lee Strawn on Feb. 14, in Chevy regulates protein synthesis in skeletal muscle. Department of Mental Hygiene. . After Chase, Md. Born: to Mary Kay Adams Born: to Richard A. and Lori Cohen graduating from SUNY Buffalo medical school and George H. Dounce '78G, a daughter, Josephson '78, a son, Adam Douglas, on in 1983, J. Keith Miller has completed his Anna Elizabeth Dounce, on Jan. 24. Dec. 25. to Lawrence and Deborah residency in neurology at the Dent Neurologic Thayer Reynolds '81G, a son, Alexander Institute in Buffalo. In July he began a one-year 1981 Thayer Reynolds, on Jan. 26, 1986. fellowship in clinical electroencephalography Thomas Bulger G, '85G, assistant professor of and epilepsy at the University of Illinois in English at Siena College, received a postdoctor­ 1978 Chicago. He and his wife of three years, Ellen, al fellowship of $2,000 from the Folger Shake­ Our belated but hearty congratulations 10 are expecting their second child in November. speare Library in Washington, D.C., which Leslie B. Dunner, who took third prize in the Lynne Rosenzweig earned her doclOrate houses one of the world's finest collections of second annual Arturo Toscanini International in clinical psychology in 1984 and is working Renaissance books and manuscripts. This Competition for Orchestra Conductors, in for the Illinois Department of Mental Health summer, Bulger is studying the classical and Parma, Italy. Dunner competed successfully and running a private practice in Chicago. continental traditions that influenced the com­ position of literary hymns. He will also review among 140 conductors from around the world. George M. "Bud" Seaman has finished as chicf He is the first American 10 receive the award resident at Beth Israel Medical Center in New unpublished manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, and the British and was the only American among the five York City and has started a practice in ob­ Museum in London. Ann Burch reports semifinalists. Dunner is on leave from his posi­ stetrics and gynecology in Fairfield, Conn. tion as assistant professor of music at Carlton Nancy Winter is coordinalOr of adolescent­ that she plans to enter the master's program in physical therapy at Columbia University this College of Music to serve as associate conduc- pregnancy prevention for the Monroe County fall. Ll. Wendy Hanig Chiado writes that lOr of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Some Department of Social Services in Rochester and news from Steven Feierstein of LexinglOn, coordinator also of the county's prenatal initia­ she is a student in the space systems operations curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School in Mass. He is employed as a marketing manager tive. This fall, she will be an instruclOr of pro­ M:>nterey, Calif. She and her husband, Lewis, at MASSCOMP and was married to Lisa gram planning and evaluation 10 graduate Bresenoff last January. He writes also, "Hello to students enrolled in the public-administration are the parents of a son, Seth Daniel, born Dec. 23. Since leaving Rochester, Francois all my friends and acquaintances who, like me, program at SUNY Brockport. Married: Dufresne De Virel G has been working as opti­ never send anything in to 'Rochester Review'!" George M. "Bud" Seaman and Mary Gallagher cal systems designer for Thomson-CSF Avionics Joanna Schiedler Nason is living in on May 10, J986. . Born: to Eric '80G and Division, in Paris. He has also gotten married Salem, Ore., where she is a quality·control Catherine Adams Cohen '80N, a son, Paul specialist with Adult & Family Services. to Isabelle Hilbert on May 18, 1985, and they now have a son, Guillaume, born May 12, 1986.

40 Rochester Review Kela G is a mechanical engineer at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY. . Ll. Paul M. Korycinski has reported for duty at the Naval Military Per­ sonnel Command in Washington, D.C., where the Plung_e----. he serves as allocations placement officer in the Allocation and Distributable Strength Projec- tion Branch. Carlos Herston Powers is engaged in a group dental practice near Wash­ ington, D.C., and he invites alums in the area to stOp in and pay a visit. He also encourages other minority alumni to write in to "Rochester Review." (We're looking forward to the response') Daniel E. Rivera finished his PhD. in chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and is now a research engineer with Shell Development Co. in Houston. . Ryan Russell had a solo exhibi- tion ofltalian landscapes and other paintings and drawings at the DeMatteis Gallery in Annapolis, Md. Russell, who studied and painted for six months in Florence last year, has more than 20 shows to his credit and will add another to that list with a one-man show in 1988 at the Philip Morris Corp. Gallery in Richmond, Va. Judith Miller Stewart was promoted to assistant vice president at Canandaigua (N Y.) National Bank. Born: to Katherine D. and Timothy Reed '85G, a son, Gregory Edward, on Nov. 15. . to • Would you like to makc a significant chari­ Join other pooled fund participants in Marilyn and Michael Rosen '83G, a daughter, Merritt Sheila, on Apr. 20. table gift but are concerned about losing su pporting valuable income from donated assets' 198.3 UNIVERStTY OF • Why not "plunge" into one of the Univer­ AHorney Robert C. Cordaro is a member of sity's three pooled income funds' ROCHESfER the law firm ofThomasJ. Foley, Jr. and Associ­ • Not only will you have the satisfaction of ates in Scranton, Pa. Eric R. Fliegel '85G making a gift to the University during and Catherine A. Voelker '86N were married For more information please write or call: on May 25, 1986 They are now living in Roch­ your lifetime, but in return for your plunge Jack Kreckel you come up with an income for life, no ester, where Catherine is an RN in the Ob/Gyn Associate Director of Planned Giving Service at Strong Memorial Hospital. Eric is capital gains tax (when you use appreci­ 350 South Avenue ated stock), and an income tax deduction. associate director for computing services at the Rochester, NY 14607 University's William E. Simon Graduate School • You have a special opportunity to make a (716) 454-3150 of Business Administration. Martha Parry gift to the University's Quadrangle Fund After July 30 you can call Fredette graduated from Boston University before December 31, 1987, and receive a !-800-MELIORA School of Theology with a master's degree in significant charitable deduction. (or 1·800-635-4672) church history and moved to Tucson, Ariz., where she is a customer service representative for Great American First Savings Bank. In be­ tween, she was married to William R. Fredette · Robert B. Gibbs earned his Ph.D. in bio­ and will complete an internship at the Medical onJune 7,1986. "Never a dull moment'" she logical sciences from the University of Califor­ University of South Carolina in August. In writes. A number of fellow Rochester nia at Irvine. He has accepted a position at September, he will begin a two-year NIMH grads were in the wedding party of Frymet S_ Rockefeller University, where he is continuing Postdoctoral Fellowship in law and psychology Fremson and Navy Lt. j.g. Randal A. Hare his research into brain-related diseases. at the University of Nebraska. Ronald '84 in July 1986 in New York City. Frymet is Michael K, Kaner is engaged to Barbara Seifer G, assistant professor in the Department a school psychologist in the San Jose (Calif.) Asteak, with a September wedding planned. of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown School District and Randal is a Navy pilot. Michael is in a private medical practice in University, has been named research biostatis­ They make their home in Campbell, Calif. Trevose, Pa. Barbara is an assistant district tician at Bradley Hospital, a psychiatric center Rena Gewirtzman of New York City and attOrney in NorthamptOn County, Easton, Pa. for infants, children, and adolescents, located David Schwartzbaum (son ofJerome Schwartz­ Jim McVea is a technical support specialist in East Providence, R.I. baum of Rochester's Department of Psychol­ for high energy physics at LeCroy Corp. He ogy) are planning to get married on Aug. 30. works on the company's data-acquisition and 1982 "'yes, we did meet on the subway'" she writes. high-voltage projects. After graduating Theresa Chafel graduated from SUNY (Tunnel of love). ElizabethJennison '87M, from GeorgetOwn University Law Center last Upstate Medical School in Syracuse and is now having just earned her M.D. from the Univer­ May, David M. Monde has become an associ­ a residenl in neurosurgery at the Cleveland sity, is beginning her internship in general ate of the Atlanta law firm of Hansell & Post in Clinic Foundation. Robert J. Fili earned surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital. "Still in the Litigation Department. Jeff Nylund his D.D.S. from New York University and is a Rochester after all these years'" Stephen has written us to apologize for missing the class resident at Booth Memorial Medical Center in Kasper earned an M.S. in biochemical phar­ reunion last year- he was unavoidably detained Flushing, N.Y Carrington W. Ewell is macology from SUNY Buffalo and has accepted for open-heart surgery. (Hey, don't worry about directOr of development for the Pennsylvania a position at Praxis Biologics in Rochester. it, OK?) He writes further that assuming the Opera Theater in Philadelphia. "It's a very chal­ Dick Keil is a reporter for the Associated wonders of medical technology, he plans to see lenging position and I stay extremely busy," he Press, covering local news and sports in Wash­ all his classmates in 1991 at the 10th-year re- reports. "My wife, Catharine, and I love this ington, D.C. "Greetings to track team members union. Randy Otto earned a Ph.D. in clin- city and we are quite happy here." Ajay (River Campus continued on page 12) ical psychology from Florida State University

Rochester Review 41 River Campus (from page 41) pn.D. at Stanford University. . Lt. Rich Bayard Van Rensselaer Robb, Jr. G is a O'Shea nas transferred from Camp Lejeune, private-banking officer for Signet Bank in tne from Classes of'80-'85'" . Gregory J. N.C., for a one-year tour at tne Marine Corps Metro Washington area. . Since earning his Malanoski is a recent Alpna Omega Alpna Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. . Roger M.E. degree in computer and systems engi­ graduate of tne Mount Sinai Scnool of Medi­ D. Phillips G, '86G is now a postdoctoral neering from Rensselaer Polytecnnic Institute, cine and will begin nis residency in internal researcn fellow (witn Carroll E Izard, Unidel Brion D. Sarachan nas joined tne General medicine at tne New England Deaconess Hos­ Professor of Psycnology) in tne Human Emo­ Electric Researcn and Development Center as a pital in Boston. He and Mount Sinai classmate tions Lab, Department of Psycnology, Univer­ computer-systems engineer. (Congrats, Rania.) Margaret Manion were married june 6, witn sity of Delaware. It indeed seemed like . Forest Strauss is working tnis summer for Rocnester classmates Douglas Mazezka, Paul Reunion Weekend at tne wedding of Karin tne Buffalo law firm of Gross, Shuman, Brizdle Vaskelis, John Hirs, Jeffrey Bond, James Leinwand '85 and Scott Tarbox, Apr. 4, in and GifiJian. He'll be starting nis tnird and last Ionata, and Mark Rudd in attendance at tne tne Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. Among year of law scnool at Buffalo tnis fall. ceremony and tne cnampagne reception. tneir 16 attendants were Darryl Powell, Ariel Ens. Eric P. Voge has completed the Military Mark Poskanzer '84G is director of tne Albany, Cudkowicz, Richard Higgins, Martha justice Legal Officer Course at the Naval jus­ N.Y., francnise of Tne Princeton Review, an Connoly '85, and Roma Razdan '85. tice Scnool, Newport, R.I. Ens. Barbara SAT coacning school based in New York City. Wentland is working in tne Pentagon for tne Douglas M. Roth earned his D.O. from 1985 Office of tne Cnief of Naval Operations, Navy New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and Wesley Balla G is history curator of tne Rober· Space Systems Division (OP-943). . Frank has begun his residency in internal medicine at son Center for tne Arts and Sciences in Bing­ Wu, of Fairfield, Conn., works as a grapnic Massapequa General Hospital. . Georgette namton, N.Y., wnere ne is coordinating tne designer, and in nis spare time, draws and Schmidt G, a French teacher at the Dugee development of a new permanent exnibit ex' paints works tnat ne cnaracterizes as "fuJi of junior High School in Baldwinsville, N.Y., has ploring tne nistory of Broome County over passion and fury." Married: Diane M. won a much-coveted award from the National 12,000 years. Tne exhibit is scneduled to open Mellberg and Mark K. Takita '86 on Dec. 27, Endowment for tne Humanities. Tne award in 1988. Deborah Zyblewski Blythe is a in Pottersville, N.). Wade S. Norwood and provides a fellowship to participate in the inten­ project engineer at Process Control Industries Lisa Gail Hardy '86 on Apr. 4, in Rochester. sive 1987 Summer Seminars for Secondary in Taunton, Mass.. Molly M. Bray and . Diane Carol Schindler and Grant David Scnool Teachers, focusing on the study and Alan R. Greenland were married Dec. 28. Werner on june 7 Debbie L. Zyblewski teaching of French, conducted by Rochester's MoJly is in ner second year of a pn.D. at tne and james Blytne on Aug. 30, 1986. own Pnilip R. Berk, associate professor of Molecular Biology Institute of UCLA. Alan is foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics. a member of tne tecnnical staff in tne optics 1986 Laryssa Sharvan is a thermal analyst witn laboratory of Hugnes Aircraft Co. Tne couple Amy Boardman Barnhart is working as a de­ TRW in Los Angeles. Sne announces her en­ is now living in tneir new condo in Culver City, velopment engineer witn a consulting firm in gagement to Dan Anderson, vice president of Calif. Navy Lt. j.g. WilliamJ. Snyder San Diego. "I loved the article on WRUR," sne marketing and sales for an L.A. -based computer and Lury J. Domingo were married june 20 in writes. "I was a Dj tnere and I sorely miss it." corporation. The wedding is set for Aug. I. Wasnington, o.c. Snyder is stationed at NAS 2nd Lt. Kevin F. McCarthy is stationed Robert J. Swartout was promoted to product Barber's Point, Hawaii, wnere he is a pilot witn at the Marine Corps Education and Develop- development officer at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Three ment Squadron, Quantico, Va. Ens. John National Bank and Trust. Married: David (VQ·3). Ens. John Friend, a naval flight S. McLauchlin has reported for duty at the Neumeyer and Lisa Siegel '84, on june 21, at officer at Miramar Naval Station in San Diego, Naval Air Station, Kingsville, Tex. . John Concord Academy, Mass. nas earned his "Wings of Gold" certifying nim Svisco G has been promoted to vice president a naval pilot. Pernaps Friend will meet up at Marine Midland Bank. He serves as contro!' 1984 someday witn Ens. William J. Jensen, wno retail operations group. Jim Aloise is still at Hugnes Aircraft, where he also earned nis "Wings of Gold" recently. is working witn two otner Rocnester grads on a Marcy Richer is an associate of tne Rocnester 1987 nign-energy laser pointerltracking system as agency of Massacnusetts Mutual Life Insur­ "153 -Days-Since- Graduation" Party, Oct. 24, during part of President Reagan's SDI program. He is ance Co., based in Springfield, Mass. Homecoming Weekend working part time on an M.S. in electrical engi­ neering. He's been married for over two years to nis wife, Debbic, and, ne reports, tney have a one-year-old son, Hooter, the black Labrador. PeterJ. Baumgartner and Karolyn M. Come home for Homecoming Solis were married Dec. 28, at a ceremony weJl .;.----- attended by members of tne Classes of '82, '83, and '84. Stephen E. Hocheder served as best man. The couple's son, Matthew Peter, was born Sept. 28. Lisa Janice Cohen earned ner master's degree in physical tnerapy from Columbia University and is working in the Comprenensive Pain Management Program at tne Hospital for Joint Diseases/Ortnopaedic Institute in Mannattan. Stephen E. Hocheder is studying for nis M.B.A. at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He re­ ports that he is planning a tour of Soutneast Asia with Colin E. Nass and James V. Kurkhill '83. . Stephen M. Kapner writes, "I finally made it to California and I am presently attend· ing Sierra Academy of Aeronautics, wnere I am studying to be a professional pilot. So mucn for cnemical engineering'" ... Joseph R. Macaluso is in nis tnird year as assistant director of stu­ dent activities at Hofstra University. In addi­ October 24-25 tion to news of nis May 2 marriage to Ann Varsity football & soccer + Annual alumni soccer game + Music Marie Russo, Macaluso sends congratulations to Susan Alters on her 1985 marriage to Daniel + Theater + Dancing at the Viennese Ball + And much, much more. Abramovitch. Alters, we near, is pursuing h'er To find out more. Call the Alumnz Office, (716) 275-3684.

42 Rocnester Review 1952 1966 Eastman School of Music Thomas C. Pierson GE writes that in the nrst Menzer Doud GE is supcrintendent of the 1938 1987 issue of "Time," a recording for which he llridgehampton (N.Y.) School District. O. Lee Gibson GE served as a judge at the sec­ wrote the liner notes was recognized as one of Brian Ellard '68GE, '73GE is musical director ond annual Louise n McMahon International the 10 Best Classical Recordings of 1986. The and conductor of the P.E.1. Symphony Orches- Music Competition in Lawton, Okla Gibson is album, "John Alden Carpenter: The Collected (ra in Charlottetown, Conn. "Symmetry a former president and founding editor of the Piano Works," was performed by Denver and Pitch-Duration Associations in Boulez' International Clarinet Society and professor Oldham and produced by New World Records. 'Le Marteau sans maitre'" is the title of an arti­ emeritus at North Texas State University. Pierson is a member of the music faculty at cle by Sleven Winick '68GE, '74GE, publlshed Texas A&I University in Kingsville. m "Perspectives of New Music," vol. 24, no. 2 1939 (Spring-Summer 1986). Winick is director of The North Carolina Symphony will perform in 1957 (he Georgia State University School of Music. Carnegie Hall this October, to honor the 70th Sydney Hodkinson '58GE wrote the music for birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert E. "Saint Carmen of the Main," a pop song fan­ 1967 Ward, North Carolina's leading contemporary tasia from the play by Michel Tremblay. The Mary Ray Johnson '69GE won the 20th an­ composer. Former president of the North work has been published by G. Schirmer and nual University of Florida Concerto Competi­ Carolina School of the Arts, Ward has been was given its premiere by the Banff Fine Arts t,on in piano and appeared with the university'S Mary Duke Biddle Professor of Music at Duke Centre Music Theatre in Alberta. Concert symphony orchestra last spring. At last report, University since 1979. pianist Martha Stonequist is the new city his­ she was on leave from Weber State College in torian for Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Ogden, Utah, where she is chairman of the 1941 piano area, to work on her Ph.n at the Univer­ Harold Meek presented a master class to horn 1959 sity of Florida. Paul Anthony McRae has students at the Eastman School last April. Re­ Frederick A. Mueller GE, professor of music been named musical director and conductor of tired as nrst horn of the Boston Sym phony Or­ at Morehead (Ky.) State University, was the Greensboro (N.C.) Symphony Orchestra chestra under Serge Koussevitzky and Charles honored by his colleagues across the state as and of thE Lake forest (III) Symphony. Munch, he was also first horn with the Boston winner of the 1987 Kentucky Music Educators Pops under Arthur Fiedler. In 1942-43, Meek Association "Teacher of the Year" Award among 1970 was nrst horn of the Rochester Philharmonic colleges and universities. Robert V. Coccagnia, principal clarinetist and conductor of the Meriden (Conn.) Symphony Orchestra with Jose Iturbi and Guy Fraser 1960 Harrison. While at Eastman he studied horn Orchestra, will be serving as conductor and Robert Washburn GE, dean emeritus of the music director of the orchestra next season. with Arkata Yegudkin. Crane School of Music at Potsdam College, has 1946 been included in the new edition of the "Grove 1971 William M. Jones GE, interim vice president Dictionary of American Music," Washburn's Lee A. Rothfarb has been appointed assistant of academic affairs at the University of Red­ work is described as exemplifying "neoclassical professor of music at Harvard niversity. He lands, Calif., has agreed to continue also as tonal idiom. Fast movements usually have reports that his book on Ernst Kurth will be interim president of the university. Jones, who sharp rhythmic profiles slow movements published in 1988 had retired as vice president for academic tend to be meditative." He now serves as senior fellow in music at Potsdam. 1972 affairs at Moorhead State University in Min­ Candace Baranowski-Sundby '74GE is a nesota, originally went to Redlands for one 1961 licensed real-estate salesperson in association year until a new vice president could be found. McCarrell Ayers '64G E, associate professor of with Robert Mark of New Windsor, N.Y. She However, he was asked to fill in last December music (voice) at Millsaps College in Jackson, continues her music career, which she began in after the death of the presidenl of the school. Miss., received his third citation from the col­ West Germany, France, and Switzerland, and 1948 lege for excellence in teaching. He also received performs often in the Hudson Valley area.. Some music news from Mary Jeanne van his second faculty study grant to participate in David Owens's "Five Duos for Two Horns" was Appledorn '50GE, '66GE, chairman of music the John Wustman Masterclasses for Singers performed at the University of New Hampshire composition and theory at Texas Tech Univer­ and Pianists, held at Valparaiso (Ind.) Un,ver­ in a special concert featuring horn works by sity. Her "Four Duos" for viola and violoncello sity. ThisJuly, he plans to attend the IO-day Northern New England composers. The two­ won nrst prize in the 1987 Texas Composers session in Cambridge, England, of the Inter­ part concert, sponsored by the International Guild Contest, and she received the award at a national Congress of Organists. He's also Horn Society, featured pieces by composers recital of the work as part of the annual conven­ scheduled a number of performances for the from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and tion of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. academic year, including the tenor solos in Massachusetts. Honegger's "K'ng David" with the Millsaps Her "Missa Brevis" for trumpet and organ was 1973 premiered in Russia by Anatoly Sclianin last Singers and members of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. Sandy Dackow 'nGE is supervisor of music March at the Saratov State Conservatory. The for the Ridgewood (1 I).) Public Schools and work's American premiere was performed by 1963 the new music director of the Ridgewood Sym­ Robert M. Birch, principal trumpet of the U.S. Roy E. Stillwell CE, '69GE is chairman of phony Orchestra. She recently conducted the Navy Concert Band, lasl May in Washington, the music department and fine arts division at 1986 New Jersey All-State Orchestra, the All nc Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss. He was South Jersey Junior High School Orchestra, the 1951 formerly chairman of the music department at N.). -NSOA Regional Festival Orchestra, and Among the works by Richard Willis CE, Tougaloo College. ,he Pa. -NSOA Regional Festival Orchestra, '65GE performed so far this year are "Three which also perfomed at the MENC Eastern 1964 Division Convention in Balrimore. Greek Lyrics" for chorus, at the national During the 1986-87 season, Joan Yarbrough convention of the American Society of U ni­ and Robert Cowan G E, duo pianists, present· 1974 versity Composers, Northwestern University; ed the world premiere of "Concerto for Two Yvonne Fisher 'nCE reports that she and her "Miraggi" for solo marimba, by Sergio Pianos and Orchestra" by American composer trio won first prize in the "Giovani Concertisti" Quesada at Baylor University; "Diversion" for Eugene Hemmer, with the Walla Walla Sym­ competition in Rome. Her husband, Mike band, at Baylor; "Tetralogue" for saxophone phony Orchestra, along with "Concerto" Applebaum 'nE, in addition to his television quartet, premiered at Baylor and performed (Op. 88a) by Max Bruch. They also performed and nlm work, performed last year with Gil also at the regional meet of the American Saxo­ the Bruch and "Scottish Ballad" by Benjamin Evans and Bobby Brookmeyer. Their daughter, phone Alliance; and "Three Songs from Blake" Britten w'th the Charlotte Symphony Orches­ Michelle Yvonne, was born July 3, 1986. at Baylor, with Joyce Farwell, soprano, and the tra. composer conducting. (Eastman School ofMusic continued on page 15)

Rochester Review 43 DR Where You Are

Applejackets (New York City) like other information on our group, please call Contacl: Jean Smilh '78 Diane McCarthy (718) 956-1538 Bay Area (San Francisco) New York harbor was the setting for our fifth Conlacl: Andrea LoPinlo '80 annual Summer Celebration on June 24. Over (415) 752-9302 100 Rochester grads and companions gathered Our Bay Area Alumni Association is grow­ aboard the SS Andrew Fletcher to drink in the ing all the time. We are pleased to announce view and listen to the "Toast to Friendship" that our fall event will be an exciting, romantic band. In late August Ihe place to be will be B.B.J. dinner-dance cruise on San Francisco Bay. Willoughby's on the Upper East Side. A bargain Notices will be sent to members. If you're not buy at $15 per - grads and UR friends will have a member, joining is easy and inexpensive. their own space, buffet, three hours of open bar, Simply call Andrea LoPinto. and a DJ. The next issue of our area Alumni Directory Our FaJl '86 reception, with guests of honor is planned (at this writing) for the end ofJuly. Harm Potter '38 and President O'Brien, was so members, and greeting new students as a win­ It's free to members-another reason for join­ ning combination that should become an an· successful and splendid that we have set October ing. We welcome new ideas and creative input nual cornerstone of our Association. 22 as our tentative date for this year's gather­ in the planning process. If you'd like to partici­ Another first coming up. which should also ing. Watch for details. In connection with this pate and be in the middle of the UR Bay Area become an annual event, will be an end-of­ event, we are now accepting nominations for network, give us a call. the John C. Braund Alumni Volunteer of the summer send-off social for new and continuing Year Award. Applejackets wishes to recognize Boston Meliora Club students. Direct relationships with students are an alum in the Greater New York area whose Conlael: Fran Ryu '83 important for alumni, for students, and for the volunteer activities best embody the spirit of (617) 965-2418 (evenings) University; we plan to keep a strong focus on the University of Rochester's goal to be a na­ Our Spring Reception featuring Provost our UR successors in the Delaware Valley. tionally recognized University of the first rank. Brian Thompson was terrific (eat your heart Our first local alumni directory is out and Call Jean Smith for details. out if you didn't make it). At this writing our proving useful to members. If you are nOt a Concerts In The Park goers, watch for blue summer ideas include: a picnic, bike hike, and member and would like a directory, just call and yeUow balloons. The Applejackets are harbor cruise. John and sign up. Then watch for news of a growin' and rollin' -join us. Contact Jean Our membership has grown to the 270 cruise we're looking at for fall. range, and we will enjoy welcoming more. Smith, Nadia Rollin, (212) 861-8335, or Rich Fort Myers (Florida) Please contact Fran if you would like to join, Waldor, (201) 963-8350. Contact: l>1ary Newman '67 help in planning, or participate in a variety of Atlanta (813) 936-8297 UR events and volunteer activities. Conlacl: Margery Ganz '69 We're already thinking about our fourth (404) 320-7793 Chicago annual UR Alumni Brunch in our February Our UR Atlanta Alumni Association is Con loci: Eileen Rhine winter sun. If you vacation here at that time or brand new. We were born on May 5, and have (312) 229-8500 (days) spend longer periods here but don't change already had a follow-up pro lem Steering Com­ A new Chicago UR Alumni Association was your address with UR records and would like to mittee meeting on June 9. Communication to formed in late April. A communique to all area check out our fun, call Mary. Our committee all Atlanta area alumni will follow, with plans alumni is in process, to relate preliminary plans will be happy to advise you of date, time, and for an initial event. If you would like to be and to seek feedback on interests. Our purposes place. will be to establish an alumni network in the involved in the planning process, please call Niagara Frontier (Buffalo) area, provide greater regional UR visibility, Margery. And by all means, respond with your Conlacl: Clare Haar '75 and recruit good students for Rochester. We ideas and interests to the letter you will receive (716) 883-1664 also hope to offer career exploration services for soon (if it hasn't arrived already). Our Steering Committee will be meeting current students and recent grads. during the summer. We'd like to hear from any Arizona Alumni Club (Phoenix) Watch your mail. Help us help the UR to area alumni who have good ideas for '87-'88 Conlacl: Diane McCarthy '67 become more visible in Chicago. (602) 991-7919 programs or who wish to connect with the local Our Arizona Alumni Club enjoyed its first Colorado University of Rochester Club network. Conlacl: Belty Ann Tichenor '59 year immensely and we look forward to expand­ Rochester (303) 399-4236 ing our membership and activities. We are COrltacl: Alumni Office delighted to have some Tucsonites joining. Delaware Valley (Philadelphia) (716) 275-3684 (days) With more interest from that area, we can look Con/ael: John Doyle '81 All Rochester-area alumni are invited to join to having some events in the Tucson vicinity. (609) 757-7135 the annual Continuing Connection summer ex­ Our Spring Picnic was, alas and alack (as We "gathered by the River" at the Dad Vails, cursion on August 22 - an all-day bus tour of Prof. Arthur May would have said), cut short under tent and school banner, to cheer for the the Finger Lakes wine country, partaking of the by the Rochester weather which blew in. So, we UR crew, who won some impressive medals Vintage Tour of Keuka wineries. Members of are planning another outdoor event to kick off (see page 32). We also arranged for their hous­ the classes of 1980-81 will be receiving a mail­ fall Details on this and other '87-'88 plans wiJl ing, and, during the same weekend of celebra­ ing concerning this event. If you want to be be mailed to members soon. If you would like tions, had a rousing and inspiring reception for added to the mailing list, call George Druziako to join up to be kept "in the know," or would newly admitted students and parents. We see '78 at (716) 586-2600 (days). this connection of Dad Vails, meeting crew Don't forget Yellowjacket Day on September

44 Rochester Review 13, a family day for all members of the Uni­ to UR Navy people who may be stationed here sity figures and musical ensembles to Tampa, versity family (and theIr families). While you're or passing through on TAD: We'd be happy to and to making use of the new Performing Arts there, look for the Continuing Connection hear from you while you are in the area. Center. Our primary objective is making a sign-in table. Everybody who registers will be Southern California (Los Angeles) stronger University of Rochester presence in an eligible to win the drawing for some special Contact: Harry DeLigter '72 important and growing metropolitan area. Our Yellowjackct Day prizes. (213) 450-5324 start-up Steering Committee is a good one, but Also coming up: a weekend trip to the Strat­ Our '87 area alumni directory is out. Non­ we are open to smart ideas and resourceful peo­ ford Festival on September 19-20 for perfor­ members who would like one, simply call ple. Please join us. mances of lngmar Bergman's "Nora," Ibsen's Harry and send in the price of dues. Plans for Recruiting able students is more important "A Doll's House," and the Bard's "Much Ado '87-'88 are in process. We are always looking than ever, and Merilyn Burke, (813) 962-4421, About Nothing"; Alumni Homecoming Octo­ for new ideas and energy to put them to work. continues as our key contact in this vital activity. ber 24-25; and the fall Alumni Luncheon We also welcome contact from alumni new to Washington, D.C. Series presentation by Memorial Art Gallery the area. ContlUt: Neil Ende '77 director Grant Holcomb November 12, on the (202) 955-6300 (days) "Ash Can" School of early twentieth-century South Florida (Miami) '81 Our Annual Dandelion Day Picnic, in June American painters. Contact: Barbara Sanders (305) 759-9635 in Rock Creek Park, was once again an enjoy­ San Diego Recruiting students for Rochester continues able affair. Our area alumni directory (of mem­ Contact: Al Shurkus '40 to be a key activity. We are looking for ideas on bers, by members, and for members) is in the (619) 727-3939 other programs for area alumni and would wel­ works and should be ready shortly. Join up to We had a wonderful gathering, about fifty come input in the planning process. Making get one. Our grand, gala, annual Fall Recep­ total, in connection with the Meliora Quartet the University more visible in South Florida tion will be September 30 at the Botanical concert in May. Some of us also attended and will benefit all of us. Gardens thanks to our fellow grad, Congress­ enjoyed the Western States Reunion in Palm man Sam Stratton, who just celebrated his Springs, featuring Provost Brian Thompson. Tampa Bay Fiftieth Reunion at the University. (Congrat­ In fact, he is so enjoyable and informative we Contact: Susan Krasner '83 ulations, and many thanks, Sam.) Mark your engaged him on the spot for a dinner date with (813) 977-6448 calendars; don't miss this one. San Diego alumni in late August. Watch your Our Tampa Bay Alumni Association is tak­ Our Career Services contact, Cos DiMaggio, mail. ing shape. Communications to all area alumni reports a growing interest among well-qualified are in process. Our first event will be a cham­ On August 1 we enjoyed a scenic picnic at UR students in "international" jobs and careers, Crown Point on Mission Bay. For information pagne cruise on the Baytowne Belle on Sunday, in both government and business. Ifyou are on future events, or to pass along ideas or ex­ November I. It will be hosted, meaning no thus involved or connected and would like to pressions of interest in volunteer activities in charge. But space is limited, so respond quickly help UR students explore your field, contact behalf of the University, call us. Also, a special to the mailing. Cos at (202) 287-7053 (days). We are also looking to invite major Univer-

Eastman School of Music (from page 43) he was named the 1986 Composer of the Year Morningside Wind Trio, which is scheduled to by the North Carolina Music Teachers Associ­ give more than 50 e1inic/concerts in 1987. Also, 1977 ation - a commission for which he composed he was awarded an Iowa Arts Council/National Claire Corcoran Matten is bass trombonist "Five Biblical Songs," premiered at the NCMTA Endowment for the Arts Touring Grant for the in the U.S. Air Force Band and Orchestra convention in Boone, N.C., last October. 1986-87 school year. in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Born: to Eli Epstein and Ruthanne Wiley U.S.A.F. Brass Quintet. Her husband, Chris Epstein '80E, a son, Adam Nathaniel, on 1983 Matten '78E, was recently promoted to master Mar. 26, 1986. Since leaving Eastman, Laura Croen GE has sergeant and trombone section leader in the been pursuing a four-year master's degree in U.S.A.F. Band. The Mattens have three young 1980 sacred music at Hebrew Union College Insti­ children and make their home in Bowie, Md. Karen Griebling-Long will begin in August tute in Manhattan. When she graduates next a new appointment as assistant professor of spring, she will join only a handful of women 1979 music theory and viola at Hendrix College, who have been ordained as cantors. In addition Donald R. Boomgaarden GE, '85GE left his Conway, Ark. In the meantime, she's using her to studying. she has been working as part-time post as assistant professor of music history and grant from the National Endowment for the cantor at Temple Sinai in Stamford, Conn. literature at Ithaca (NY) College to assume the Humanities to conduct research at the Seminar James Lyon was a grand prize winner in the same position at St. Mary's College of Mary­ on Music and Technology at Dartmouth Col­ Fischoff National Chamber Music Competi­ land. Last spring, while at Ithaca, he gave a full lege. Last May, she performed her new work, tion, held last March in South Bend, Ind The piano recital, performing Beethoven's "Appas­ "Sonata for Viola and Piano," a commission Harrington Quartet, in which Lyon is second sionata Sonata" (Op. 57 in F minor) as well as she won as Ohio Music Teachers Association vlOlinist, earned a $3,000 cash prize and a con­ several of his own compositions. He reports Composer of the Year. Excerpts from her opera, cert tour of Chicago, Indianapolis, South Bend, that his book, "Musical Thought in Britain and "The House of Bernarda Alba," were pre­ and Elkhart. Then they're off to Norfolk, Conn., Germany During the Early Eighteenth Cen­ miered last February in San Antonio by the to study with the Tokyo Quartet and the Fine tury," will be published this year by Peter Lang Bejar Opera. Some news from Stephan Arts Quartet at the Yale Summer School. The Publishers. If you'd like a copy, write Lang at Lang: Recently returned from a trip to the Harrington Quartet is in residence at West 62 W. 45th St., New York, NY 10036-4202. Soviet Union, he is now working on a new Texas State University. Tom Drake has accepted a new position as edition of his "Handbook for Travel in the assistant principal trumpet with the St. Louis U.S.S.R." for Pioneer Travel Service, for whom 1984 Symphony Orchestra. A former member of the he is leading an extensive tour to the Soviet David Chalmers GE, '86GE was the "Alumnus Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, he has been Union this summer. Then he's off to Columbia of Note" in the January 1987 issue of Westmin­ principal trumpet of the North Carolina Sym- University for a two-year fellowship at the ster Choir College "Notes." He's been a Ful­ phony for the past two years. Barbara School of International and Public Affairs, in bright scholar in France this past year, Raedeke GE, '83GE has been appointed assist­ residence at the school's Institute for Advanced completing research and studying organ with ant professor of music at Middle Tennessee Study of the Soviet Union. Daniel Roth. An accomplishment of note: State University in Murfreesboro, where she While in France, he placed as a finalist in the will teach organ, music history, and music 1982 Grand Prix de Chartres Organ Competition. theory. She was previously director of music at Doug Gerhart G E, assistant professor of Eric G. Davidson made his debut last Norfield Congregational Church in Weston, trumpet at Morningside College in Sioux City, February with the Pittsburgh Symphony Or­ Conn. . Walter B. Saul II GE, '80GE is Iowa, was appointed personnel manager of the chestra, performing Leo Janacek's "Sinfonictta" associate professor of music (composition, Sioux City Symphony, in which he is principal at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh theory, and piano) at Warner Pacific College trumpet. He also is founder of the college's (Eastman School ojMusic continlUd on page 46) in Portland, Ore. While in North Carolina,

Rochester Review 45 Eastman School of Music (from page 45) "Science Review," and "Essay Test Preparation Heckmann Windes M finished her residency Strategy." Seibel has also won some awards at in family practice, and served as chief resident 1985 Virginia: the 1986 "Outstanding Service and clinical instructor in the same program. Antonio Garcia GE puformed an original Award" from the School of Basic Health She has since joined a group of 10 family physi­ composition at the 1987 Athens (Ga.)Jazz Sciences, and the award for "Best Professor, cians in Kingsport, Tenn., while maintaining a Festival last May. The work was the product Best Administrator, and Outstanding private practice and precepting family-practice of a commission he won from the National Humanitarian" from the Class of 1986. residents. Born: to Christal and David L. Endowment for the Arts, the Georgia Council Conard M, a son, Nathan, on May 3. of the Arts, the Southern Arts Federation, and 1971 the Clarke County Board of Commissioners. The Department of Prosthodontics at the 1982 Founder of his own publishing firm, Writer's Eastman Dental Center in Rochester has Sam Bozzette M wrote that he planned to Block Music Productions, Garcia now works as dedicated a seminar room in memory ofJohn marry Carla Stayboldt on July 3. Sam is an a free-lance writer, bass and tenor trombonist, A. Oster GM, a prominent area prosthodontist assistant professor of medicine at the Univer­ producer, and clinician. who died last spring. A senior clinical associate sity of California at San Diego, working in the of the center, Oster was the first postdoctoral AIDS study group. Carla is a staff pathologist 1986 student to enter the center's newly formed at Palmer Laboratories. Lisa Albrecht just completed her second prosthodontic department in 1968. season as second and assistant principal trom­ 1983 bonist of the San Antonio Symphony. She is a 1972 Eleanor DeWitt R, a specialist in internal member of the symphony's brass quintet and Robert T. Fritz R, an ear, nose, and throat medicine, has joined the staff of Keuka Health the San Antonio Brass Ensemble. Cellist specialist, has opened an office at Parkhurst Care Associates in Penn Van, NY Gregory Sauer won the 1986 Hudson Valley Medical Building in Beverly, Mass. Philharmonic String Competition. He is cur­ rently working toward his M.M. at the New 1973 School of Nursing England Conservatory of Music. M. Guven Yalcintas GM, '75GM, a staff member in the Health and Safety Research 1970 Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Joan Voytash Farley GN retired from nursing Medicine and Dentistry has been appointed grou p leader of the in 1986 and makes her home in Roseville, Calif. Research Initiatives Group. He also teaches 1952 1971 radiation biology at Tennessee Technical Susan Bassett Doolittle of Fayetteville, NY, Gynecologist Glenn B. Updike, Jr. R of Dan­ University. ville, Va., is president of the Medical Society of has been appointed to represent the American Virginia. 1974 Service Bureau's Bodimetric Profiles, a national Robert Witte M has been elected a fellow insurance-service company providing paramed­ 1954 of the American College of Physicians. He ical exams for the life and health insurance in- Carlyle]. Roberts GM has been elected to a is a medical oncologist and internal-medicine dustry. . Kathryn Madden Wood GN limited partnership in the firm of Dames & physician at the Gundersen Clinic in La associate professor and acting chair of nursing Moore, engineering and environmental con­ Crosse, Wis. at S NY Brockport, won the 1987 Outstanding sultants. Roberts, a radiological health and Alumni Award from Nazareth College of Roch­ waste management specialist, manages the 1975 ester. President of the board of directors of Life­ firm's Buffalo office. William Craig-Kuhn M, '79R has been pro­ time Assistance, Inc., she works for the rights of moted to medical director of emergency serv­ the mentally handicapped, helping to establish 1962 ices at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital community residences, day workshops, and S. Ross MacKay R, an orthopaedist in private in Penn Van, NY Robert L. Ullrich GM, employment programs. practice, has been appointed to the medical a senior research staff member in the Biology staff of Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg, Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1972 Va. received the 15th Research Award from the J an-Louise Cooper Leonard is listed in the 1986-87 edition of "Who's Who in American 1965 Radiation Research Society. The award recog­ nizes Ullrich's research contributions in radia­ Nursing." Also, she is coauthor of an article on Robert S. Zeiders M earned the "Golden "Analysis of the Implementation of a Ten-Hour Apple" award for excellence in teaching at the tion biology, specifically on the relationship of low dose-rate exposure to radiation-induced Day Framework for Staff Education," published University of Illinois College of Medicine at in the April 1986 issue of the "Journal of Con- Urbana-Champaign. A recently elected fellow cancer. His recent studies have focused on a model system developed in his laboratory to tinuing Education in Nursing." Jeanette of the American Rheumatism A::sociation, he Ruyle earned her M.S. N. in community health/ has been appointed chief of medicine at Carle study radiation-induced changes in cells in­ volved in mammary tumor development. psychiatric nursing from Boston University and Clinic, the nation's 12th largest multispecialty works as a substance-abuse counselor for the medical clinic. 1978 elderly at Bay Cove Center in BostOn. She also has a new position as psychiatric nurse at the 1966 Andrew Roth M, '83R is now a plastic surgeon Kit Clark Senior House in Dorchester. Stephen V. Kaye GM, director of the Health on the medical staff of Hillcrest Hospital in Pittsfield, Mass. and Safety Research Division and interim 1974 director of the Biology Division at Oak Ridge 1979 Miriam Eva Small married Jack Barzilai On National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow Born: to R. Patrick Wood M and Geri Mar. 15 in Chicago. The newlyweds honey­ of the American Association for the Advance­ LoBiondo-Wood '79GN, a son, Brian Patrick, mooned in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singa­ ment of Science. Kaye was recognized for on Dec 23. pore and, upon their return, moved into their "pioneering use of environmental systems home in Evanston, Ill. Miriam is working as a analysis techniques applied to radiological 1980 psychotherapist in private practice and is pub­ assessment, and for providing effective and Born: to Steven M, '83 R and Laurie Finkel lishing a book. sound management of health and safety re­ Forrest M, a son, David Harrison Forrest, on search programs." Feb. 25 1975 Janet Bostrom Ezrati is a nurse researcher in 1967 1981 the Nursing Consortium for Research in Prac­ Hugo R. Seibel GE, professor of anatomy and David Conard M has finished his three-year tice, at Stanford University Medical Center. assistant dean of medicine for student activities public-health commitment at Black River Elizabeth Sloand Miola earned her at the Medical College of Virginia, has published Health Center in Atkinson, N.C., and has M.S. N. in pediatric primary care from the the fifth edition of his book, "Barron's How to accepted a position with the Nalle Clinic in University of Maryland and received an Prepare for the MCAT, Medical Collegc Ad­ Charlotte. Family practitioner Linda "Outstanding Student" award along the way. mission 'lest." The new edition has added Vickery M is on the staff of St. Anthony Com­ She's nOW a PNP at a comprehensive, school­ chapters on "Mathematics and Skills Review," munity Hospital in GreenWOod Lake, NY based clinic in Baltimore City. Last Feb­ At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lois ruary, Chris and Margaret Monske Mullin

46 Rochester Review traveled to Colombia, South America, to adopt will be staying in the Chicago area to set up her 1983 their nrst child, Mary Elizabeth, at one year of practice. Born: to Ger; LoBiondo-Wood Veronica Biriki Hychalk GN is director of age. GN and R. Patrick Wood '79M, a son, Brian nursing services at Northeastern Vermont Patrick, on Dec. 23. Regional Hospital. She was previously cancer 1977 program coordinator at St. joseph's Hospital Lori Harris has her master's from the Univer­ 1980 in Elmira. E. Darbee Walker GN, of the sity of Washington and is now a family nurse James R. Stotts graduated from the University Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, was award­ practitioner at a rural clinic in Sumner, Wash. of California at San Francisco with his master's ed a grant from the Diabetes Research and She married Glen MacDonald in February in nursing science, cardiovascular clinical Education Foundation to examine the role of 1985 and their son, Reid, was born a year later. specialty. Married: Debra Ellen Moshberg family suppOrt in the early adjustment of and attorney Bruce Steven Gates on june 27. 1978 children to diabetes. "We hope to determine Amy Zaiff Lake earned her M.B.A. in account­ 1982 how parents can best help their young diabetic ing from St. john's University. She and her Jeniffer Zepeda Balliet '85GN has been ac­ children adjust to a future that will require husband, Fred, had their second child, a cepted to medical school for the fall of 1987. discipline, emotional strength, and continual daughter, jessica Ivy, on Apr. 15. Since 1985, she has held a faculty position in at tention to physical condition," she says. the Department of Psychiatry at Southern 1987 1979 Illinois University. Linda S. Krinsky graduated from the Na­ "I53-Days-Since-GradUlltion" Party, Oct. 24, during tional College of Chiropractic last April and Homecoming Weekend

Letters (jrom page 1) If you teach philosophy year in and are moral norms at hand. Socrates get the whole show on the road. year out as Professor Bloom and I do, knew this, so he philosophized in Since this all happened in the sixties, it you might be enthralled by the notion the market place, in the courtroom, couldn't help being "very sixties," could it' of America as a playground of funda­ and at frat parties (read the "Sym­ M.D. Gottsegen '71 mental ideologies. It rather makes our posium"). Greensboro, North Carolina labors seem downright important. But I believe that some of the new cur­ Glyndon Van Deusen my suspicion is that it is only play act­ ricular structures at the University of Glyndon Van Deusen '25, professor emeritus ing. If Bloom is correct about the rela­ Rochester are splendidly designed to of history, died recently (see page 48). Noting his passing underscores the memory of a hum­ tivistic soul, then it mus/ be playacting. open the classroom in a manner that ble man who was a giant among giants in New York is philosophy redone as high even Plato would have approved. his own department- May, Perkins, Coates, fashion. But if that is the case, Bloom's Bloom should take hope. Christopher, and Wade, to name some. He laborious lamentation of the sins of combined prodigious scholarship and thought­ Dennis O'Brien ful teaching into an unusual wholeness. the youth and the senselessness of It was inspiring studying with the man who their universities is only superficially wrote the books you were reading. And if he true. It is true that my students last was only a few chapters ahead of you, it was fall were absolutely relativistic; it was Classified simply because he was still in the process of also true thirty years ago when I first writing it. Talk about freshness of material and Information being on the cutting edge. taught the "Republic" and, I gather One felt his greatness, however, not in the from the content of Plato's dialogues, Virgin Gorda (British Virgin Islands). awesomeness of his scholarship or the power of that relativism was the besetting temp­ Our part-time home. Year-round swim­ his lectures, but in his humility. On one occa­ tation of the Athenian young who ming weather, low humidity, wonderful sion, in the anxiety-ridden moment of the class snorkeling, beaches. Grobman 'HG, 'HG, following a midterm, when some of us were flocked to the house of Protagoras. 507 North 13th St., Apt. 301, St. Louis, justly fearful of the truth about our less than Socrates (Bloom's hero) believed that Mo. (3l4) 24-1-9177 scholarly performance, Glyndon Van Deusen the real nature of things (the Forms) laid a stunning lesson upon the entire class. He compels our thought no matter how ASTHMATICS: FINALLY" Someone revealed gently but clearly his great disappoint­ lousy the local curriculum. you are to share your misery with. "Step by Step" ment that a large portion of the class had done (If instructions on easing the BURDEN of a rather poorly on the exam. But instead of chew­ a Freudian, sex is the Form that com­ devastating disease. Send $2.50 plus 50 ing us out, he said, "I'm afraid it means r didn't pels your thought.) Thus, the empty­ cents to: Fellow Asthmatic RR, 428 Ames do as well as I had hoped in getting the mate­ minded, relativist, young dogmatists St., Rochester, NY., 14611. rial across. I'm sorry. Let's try again and see if of Athens could be viewed with some I can do better." And we were totally beaten. Rale: 75 cents a word. Post Office box num­ He never even gave us a chance to atone for hope - they were not reduced to being bers and hyphenated words count as lwo words. our real guilt. victims of bad philosophy. Slreet numbers, telephone numbers, and stale ab­ john C. Braund '53, '61G I think we should be hopeful about brevialions counl as one word. No clwrge for ZIP Rochester our students, our university-and cer­ code or class numerals. tainly about our philosophers. (I have Send your order and payment (checks payable to University of Rochesler) to "Classified Infor­ to keep peace with my departmental malion," Rochester Review, 108 Administra­ From the President (jrom page 1) colleagues.) We may need to do a tion Building, Universily of Rochester, Mr. Sammler exclaims that New York Socrates, however. In the classroom, Rochester, New York 14627. is a "metaphysical zoo." Indeed, it students do seem to be absolute rela­ would seem that every variety of tivists. When you are nineteen it is human life style from Adam Smith after all/res chic. But in their daily life to the Marquis de Sade is strutting they do not act in such fashion. They somewhere in the Borough of Man­ argue for hours in residence halls and hattan. Fabulous. over coffee cups about life's big and little problems-as if there certainly

Rochester Review 47 Cecile]. Zilver Lester '46 (Silver Springs, Fla.) in June 1986 Leonard Winograd '46E (Palo Alto, Calif.) on May 10 In Memoriam Anna Marie Yucker Wisner '46N (Rochester) on May 17. John A. Baynes '47, '48G (East Rochester, N.Y.) on April 12. Ruth Mae Hartman '48 (Rochester) on March 18. Bruce B. Davidson '49G (Palmyra, N.Y.) on March 22. Alfred]. Freeman '49 (Rochester) on April 26. George W, Rich, Jr. '49 (Lexington, Ky.) on Feb 5. Mabel Thomas Jefferson '12 (West Hartford, Genevieve Falk Surasky '30E, '3IGE (Rush­ Arthur M. Gourley '50 (Fairport, N.Y.) On Conn.) on March 28. ville. N.Y.) on April 21. March 5. Ruth Glasier '16 (SmaJlwood, N.Y.) on March 6, Ralph Cady Yeaw '30 (Ho-Ho-Kus, N.].) on Daniel R. Patterson '51U (Rochester) on 1986. Feb. 4. March 28. John C. Schulz '16 (Rochester) on March 19. Michael]. Gerbasi '31, '33GM, '35M (Roches­ Patricia R. Ashley '52E, '64GE (Rochester) on Harold E. Cowles '18 (Rochester) on March 25. ter) on March 6. March 24. Frances Cutler Reilly '19 (Dansville, N.Y.) on Jack Grossfield '31 (Silver Spring, Md.) on Robert D. Sauer '52U (PenfIeld, N.Y.) on March 20 March 20. May 20 Edward Taber Winslow '20, '22G (Saratoga, Pauline Kates Tuttle '32 (Clearwater, Fla.) on A. Kurt Weiss '53GM (Oklahoma City, Okla.) Calif) onJan. 13. April 3. on Feb. 13. Frederick W. Orr '21.(Rochester) on April 13. Elizabeth Sullivan Hunt '33 (Fayetteville, Carroll Cushing Streever '54 (Camillus, N.Y.) Ruth McKinley Fisher '22 (Rochester) on N.Y.) on Feb. 10. on March 17. April 26. Allan E. Kappelman '33 (Pittsford, N.Y.) on Donna Tulke '54E (Northport, N.Y.) on May 9 Sabra Twitchell Harris '22, '45G (Rochester) April 29. Charles R. Hasenauer '55 U (Rochester) on on April 10. Col. Michael M. Karlene '33 (Del Mar, Calif) Feb. 23. Ruth Goldstein Samuels '22 (Westport, Conn.) on Dec. 14. Vincent S. Mandracchia '55 (Mamaroneck, on April 12. Roy C. Ainsworth '34M (Utica, N.Y.) on N.Y.) on June 15, 1986. Walter Vars Wiard '22 (Albuquerque, N.M.) Feb. 17 Neal P. Coomhs '56U (Arkport, N.Y.) on on April 30. Sylvia Kyle Barrett '34 (Rochester) on May 3. Dec. 16. Louise Olmsted Ewell '23 (Rochester) on Gertrude Marie Gast '34M (Hickory, N.C.) on Walter W. Leach '56R (Norfolk, Va.) on Feb. 19. April 23. Feb. 20 Elizabeth Evans Hartsig '57G (Ormond Milton A. Palmer '24 (Lancaster, N.Y.) on Earl R. Clark '35 (Upper Darby, Pa.) on Feb. 19. Beach, Fla.) on March 21. March 30 Lorette C. Schefinger '35. '44G (Rochester) on Barbara B. Taylor '58N (Cambridge, Mass.) Lucile Tilton Smith '24E (Fairport, N.Y.) on May 21. on March 8. May 19. R. Berton Coffin '37GE (Boulder, Colo.) on Susan Wederbrand Coda '59, '59N (Salt Lake Max Gibeonse '25, '26G (Highland Park, N.J.) Jan. 28 City, Utah) on March 4. onJan.2. Raymond Henry King '37R Uacksonville, Earl C. Cline '60M (Greenland, N.H.) on Florence Alice Hutchinson '25 (Penfield, N.Y.) Fla.) on Feb. 11. Jan. 29. on April 22. Eleanor Wells Poppe '37N (Portland, Ore.) on Jerry F. Stara '61GM (Cincinnali, Ohio) on Alice M. Koch '25, '40G (San Marcos, Tex.) on April 17. Feb. 26 Sept. 21, 1985. Raymond Mohr '38 (Rochester) on May 31. James M. Dwyer '63GM (Greenvale, N.Y.) on Glyndon G. Van Deusen '25 (Rochester) on Gordon D. Brady '39 (Rochester) on May 6 Nov. 2. April8. Sam A. Carrousos '39 (Rochester) on May 27. Joseph R. Carmitchell '64£ (Bala Cynwyd, Orrilla Wright Butts '26 (Ithaca, N.Y.) on Brig. Gen. Paul M. Nugent '39G (Summit, Pa.) on Jan. 31. March 20. N.J.) on March 29. Francis X. Masseth '64 (Raleigh, N.C.) on Jennie E. Jacques '27 (Rochester) on Feb. 2. Jean Hamm Forman '40 (Longboat Key, Fla.) Sept. 5. Helen Proctor Martin '27 (Clearwater, Fla.) in on Feb. 11. Stephen Whiton DeWitt '66E, '68GE (Oak­ January 1986. Russell C. Norton '40M (Hendersonville, land, Calif.) on Jan. 9. Paul F. Strasenburgh '27 (Avon, N.Y.) on N.C.) on Feb. 18. Leonce Gautreaux Evans '67M (Santa Fe, April 7. John W. Turner '40G (Canandaigua, N.Y.) on N.M.) on Nov. I, 1983. Marion Kellogg Christie '28 (New York City) April 1. Frank Huyler Wixson '67 (Fanwood, N.J.) on onJan.6 Griffiith J. Winthrop '40R (Canandaigua, Feb. 12. Sarah Wetmore Dowling '28E (Horseheads, N.Y.) on April 28. Richard L. Perlman '70 (Rochester) on Feb. 17. N.Y.) on Sept. 9. Elmer Francis Brooks, Jr. '41 (Williamson, Wendell Chee '77 (Kailua, Hawaii) onJune 4, Robert E. Platt '28 (Rochester) on April 11. N.Y.) on May 4. 1985. Gertrude Frey Brown '29 (Rochester) on Grace McManus Marasco '41 on Feb. 15. April 29 Nicholas Marchase '41 (West Melbourne, Fla.) George W. Buchan '29 (Penfield, N.Y.) on on Dec. 8. Obituaries Catherine Gear Newcomb '41 (Pittsford, N.Y.) March 3 .Glyndon G. Van Deusen '25, a noted on March 12. Charles]. Coward '29 (Tequesta. Fla.) on authority on nineteenth-century American Mary Dawson Bausch '43 (West Falls, N.Y.) on April 19. history and former chairman of the Depart­ Catherine Wesgate Dale '29 (Richmond, Ky.) April 30. ment of History, died April 8. Raymond C. Collins '43R (New Vernon, N.J.) On June 16, 1986. Van Deusen was the author of four widely on Dec.!. John Alexander Gilfillan '29E, '39GE (Lake praised biographies of nineteenth-century Werner E. Rohde '43G (Webster, N.Y.) in Worth, Fla.) on Jan 30. American political leaders - William Henry August 1986. Ruth Clark Hunt '30 (Oneonta, N.Y.) in Seward, Henry Clay, Thurlow Weed, and John A. Segerson '43M (Topeka, Kan.) on March. Horace Greelev. William F. Niccloy '30 (LeRoy, N.Y.) on March 23. He was also 'instrumental in acquiring for Clarence A. Burg '44GE (Oklahoma, City, March 21. the University two major collections of personal Roger Valentine Parkes '30E, '32GE (Char­ Okla.) on Nov. 6. lotte, N.C.) on March 2. William A. Crofts '44 (Newark, Del.) on April 4. Edward Howard Halgedahl '46GE (Emporia, Kan.) on May 4.

48 Rochester Review papers: those of Seward, who was Abraham For an appreciation of Professor Van Deusen was succeeded upon his retirement by his son, Lincoln's Secretary of State, and those of as a teacher, check the "Lellers" section for a Robert O. Zimmerman '66E. Thomas E. Dewey, a former governor of New tribute from John Braund, one of the hundreds In 1938, as a young bass player in the York and twice a presidential candidate. of former students with whom he worked dur­ Philadelphia Orchestra, Oscar Zimmerman To honor his memory, Van Deusen's col­ ing his sixty-year association with the was invited by Arturo Toscanini to become leagues in the history department are estab­ University. principal bass of his now legendary NBC lishing an award that will help support a .Oscar Zimmerman, professor emeritus at Orchestra. He moved to Rochester and the fourth-year graduate student in writing his the Eastman School, died April 2 in Traverse Eastman School in 1945. or her dissertation in nineteenth-century City, Michigan, close by the Interlochen Bassist James VanDemark, who succeeded American history. If you are interested in National Music Camp where he had taught Zimmerman on the Eastman faculty, says of making a contribution, Jean DeGroat in the in the summers for forty-four years. He was him: "He was a wonderful, wonderful player­ history department will be happy to receive seventy-six. and probably the legendary teacher. The your check (payable to University of Rochester Zimmerman was a member of the Eastman number of bass players he placed in orchestras and mailed to her at the Department of string faculty for thirty-two years and also both inside and outside of the country was ex­ History, University of Rochester, Rochester, former principal bass player in the Rochester traordinary. " New York 14627). Philharmonic Orchestra, a post in which he

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