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Haw ley Army Students March To and From Their Classes on the Campus UNION CARBIDE REPORTS first full-year's production of BUTADIENE for the Government's Synthetic Rubber Program (INSTITUTE, W. VA. PLANT)

Night view of the immense butadiene plant at Institute, W. Va.

A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO* the first tank car of butadiene NOW HUGE BUTADIENE PRODUCER —although originally was shipped from the Government's large integrated rubber designed to produce 80,000 tons annual capacity, the Institute project at Institute, W. Va. This historic shipment came from plant is now delivering butadiene at a rate of more than 100,000 the immense butadiene plant which was designed and built by tons per year. An identical plant using Carbide's process was CARBIDE AND CARBON CHEMICALS CORPORATION for the Gov- put into operation by the Koppers United Company in Sep- ernment's Defense Plant Corporation—and is being operated tember, 1943, at Kobuta, near Pittsburgh, Pa. by this Unit of UCC, for the Rubber Reserve Company. OVER 75% OF THE TOTAL PRODUCTION OF BUTADIENE FIRST YEAR'S PRODUCTION OVER THE RATED CAPACITY- for the Government's synthetic rubber program in 1943 came that is the record of this huge 80,000-ton-per-year plant during from the alcohol process developed by CARBIDE AND CARBON its first twelve months! This has been accomplished in spite of CHEMICALS CORPORATION. the many inherent problems that had to be solved in starting a In addition to the plant at Institute, Carbide made available wholly new project of this magnitude. plans for the large plant at Kobuta, which was built and is Over 8/10 of a short ton of butadiene is required to make being operated for the Government by Koppers United Com- about one long ton of Buna S type synthetic rubber. Butadiene pany. from this plant during the past year has provided more than CARBIDE AND CARBON CHEMICALS CORPORATION also has 90,000 long tons of synthetic rubber for the Nation's require- designed and built for the Defense Plant Corporation, and is ments, both military and essential civilian. The delivery of this operating for the Rubber Reserve Company, another large all-important ingredient also has made possible early produc- butadiene plant at Louisville, Ky. tion of synthetic rubber under the Government's program. T Business men, technicians, teachers, and others are invited to send •The first tank carload of butadiene from Institute was shipped on February 18, 1943 for the book P-4 "Butadiene and Styrene for Buna S Synthetic — less than one month after Unit No. 1 of the four large butadiene-producing units had started operating. Subsequently, Unit No. 2 started producing in March, Unit Rubber from Grain Alcohol," which explains what these plants No. 3 in April, and Unit No. 4 on May 25, 1943. do, and what their place is in the Government's rubber program.

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON CORPORATION 30 East 42nd Street EHJj New York 17, N. Y.

Principal Units in the United States and their Products

ALLOYS AND METALS CHEMICALS INDUSTRIAL GASES AND CARBIDE PLASTICS Electro Metallurgical Company Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation The Linde Air Products Company Bakelite Corporation Haynes Stellite Company ELECTRODES, CARBONS AND BATTERIES The Oxweld Railroad Service Company Plastics Division of Carbide and United States Vanadium Corporation National Carbon Company, Inc. The Prest-O-Lite Company, Inc. Carbon Chemicals Corporation

The material herein has been reviewed and passed by the Office of Rubber Director, the Rubber Reserve Company, the Defense Plant Corporation, and the War Department. Squire of STONEPOSTS

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fully confirms this. The work load is The Army Trains on Campus approximately fifty-nine hours of super-vised activity a week, as follows: By MAJOR FRANCIS H. SCHAEFER, JR. '29 a minimum of twenty-four hours class- Public Relations Officer room and laboratory work, twenty- ΛRMY Specialized Training Pro- graduated and are now using their four hours supervised study, five hours -£** gram occupies an important place technical and specialist training in military instruction, and six hours in Cornell's war program. ASTP responsible Army positions. Among physical education. "Dead" hours trainees, reenforced by seventeen- those are the Personnel Psychologists, during the day are supervised study year-old ASTP Reserves, total more first to come to Cornell and first to hours. Evening study hours run from than 1400 men and provide a Campus leave, and the Basic Engineers, wlί&se 7 to 10, and beds cannot be made up setting reminiscent of 1917-18. course has just been terminated. before the latter hour. If they desire, men may study later in the "day Fraternity houses are barracks ac- Others now back with troops are some rooms" of their barracks. Military and commodating double or more their of the more advanced area and lan- physical training are included because former number; Willard Straight cafe- guage students and Reserves who trainees must be first-class fighting- teria is a mess hall where the civilian have been called to active duty after men as well as specialists. Military is unknown; Campus paths are filled reaching eighteen. training includes close-order drill and with sections marching smartly from classroom work, with emphasis on class to class; trainees work longer Men Have Full Schedules developing individual leadership and than union hours in classroom and Now. studying on the Campus are command. Physical training embraces study hall and may "sign out" only the veterinarians, comprising the calisthenics and group games under one evening a week except Saturday great majority of students in that direction of regular University coaches. and Sunday if in good academic College; pre-medical students; ad- Half of Barton Hall is given over to standing. vanced area and language students; supervised physical training during advanced ROTC cadets awaiting as- unfavorable weather. University Gives Instruction signment to the Field Artillery Officers' Above and beyond Campus and Candidate School; US Military Acade- Fraternities Are Barracks barracks activity is the tremenduous my preparatory students; and the Re- All trainees are assigned to com- job of administration handled at serves. The latter, known as "blue panies for administrative purposes. headquarters in Barton Hall under boys" because they wear ROTC uni- Cascadilla Hall and Sheldon Court the supervision of Colonel Edwin R. forms, constitute some 600 men. Ad- and such larger fraternity houses as VanDeusen, professor of Military vanced ROTC cadets may be ordered Kappa Alpha and Chi Psi can take Science and Tactics and Commandant out momentarily. West Point candi- entire companies or large fractions of the ASTP. Army "housekeeping" dates who failed the entrance examin- thereof, but more than twenty fra- and administration keep the enlarged ations given in March will be re- staff busy day and night. All military turned to troops when the examina- activity is of course coordinated with tions are graded, while successful the academic departments of the candidates will remain until they enter University which are charged with the Military Academy in July. It is the instruction of 'trainees. expected that another group of can- The ASTP was authorized in De- didates may enter Cornell this sum- cember, 1942, put into effect about a mer. year ago, and begun at Cornell last By summer it is assumed that ASTP June to provide the "continuous and enrollment will be confined to veter- accelerated flow of high grade tech- inarians, pre-medics, a limited number nicians and specialists needed by the of area and language students, and the Army." Despite recent drastic curtail- "blue boys." The latter group is ap- ment of the original program, Cornell parently the only one which may be has not yet and apparently will not further expanded. Under present regu- be greatly affected because of the ex- lations, boys become eligible for Re- pansion of the Reserve program for serve training by satisfactorily passing seventeen-year-old boys. The Reserve examinations given periodically in Program is designed to provide a schools throughout the country. They "direct flow of qualified young men must join the Enlisted Reserve Corps toward Army specialized training prior before being ordered to a college. At to their entry into active military college they receive tuition, lodging, Colonel Edwin R. Van Deusen, US Army, duty." mess, medical care, and uniforms, but graduate of the US Military Academy in The University has been, giving in- are not paid. 1909 and Commandant of the ROTC since struction in eight Army programs, A War Department pamphlet on July, 1942. With headquarters in Barton following curricula set up or approved the ASTP states that trainees are con- Hall, Colonel Van Deusen and his staff by the War Department. Many centrating "on a full schedule of administer the Army Student Training "alumni" of these courses have been study." A typical trainee's schedule Program at the University. reversed, with the ROTC enrolling only a fraction of its former numbers. Advanced Course training has been abandoned for the duration. So has the basic branch training in the Field Artillery and Signal Corps. All Fresh- men and Sophomores take "Branch Immaterial," designed to familiarize the cadet with fundamentals of mili- tary skill needed in any branch of the Army which the cadet may later enter. Many a boy leaves the Uni- versity and enters the Army before completing his ROTC training, but the background of knowledge ac- quired at Cornell frequently enables him to step into responsible positions soon after being inducted into the Armed Forces. On the whole, it may be said that the presence of the AS- TP has raised the "tone" of the ROTC which seems to take more pride and gain more satisfaction in conducting its own ceremonies or joining with Willard Straight Hall provides the Army mess, under supervision the ASTP for ceremonies. of Milton R. Shaw '34, manager of the Hall's dining rooms de- partment. Top picture shows the present use of the former Through its part in the ASTP pro- Willard Straight cafeteria, now closed to civilians. Lower picture gram, Cornell is helping the Army shows the new mess hall made by enclosing the former open obtain those specialists and tech- terrace, adjoining. Hawley nicians which are an integral and in- dispensible part of the Army today. Trainees form an important per- ternity houses have been stripped of Trainees are served cafeteria style, centage of the University enrollment. their civilian furniture and decora- with men wending their way past the University life has been materially tions, lounges and card rooms have serving tables for more than an hour. and beneficially changed by the AS- been turned into study halls, and each Late comers take the places of early TP trainees, and when the history of room given its quota of desks and eaters. Where so many persons eat in Cornell's war effort is written it will double-deck bunks on a cubic-foot- such a short time and in such close undoubtedly show that Cornell train- per-trainee basis. proximity, special precautions have ing of the ASTP contributed greatly Each company is commanded by to be taken to guard against disease. to the effort for victory. an Army officer, with officer assis- These precautionary efforts have been tants and a first sergeant. The noteworthily successful to date, the New ROTC uniform, to replace the re- voluminous clerical work is done at reward of unrelenting vigilance. cent blue-gray, has been approved by Barton Hall, but many inspections While little time for recreation re- University and military authorities. add to the duties of the officers. mains in the average trainee's day, Selected members of the basic ROTC Throughout the winter months, when the Campus community has done its unit modeled the new outfit of khaki heating and ventilation are problems, best to provide entertainment. Mem- shirt, black tie worn outside, "pink" company officers of the day make bership in Willard Straight Hall is trousers, and new insignia. Their ap- nightly inspections to see that room offered to service men at reduced rate. pearance started numerous rumors, temperatures are correct and that A servicemen's committee organized but "contract difficulties" prevent proper ventilation is maintained. Bar- by the Willard Straight Hall board of immediate adoption. racks are inspected during study managers has sponsored numerous hours to be sure all trainees are study- recreational projects. Trainees are ing. Bed checks make certain of the prohibited from participating in in- trainees' presence after taps. Daily tercollegiate athletics, but had teams checks are also made for neatness of in the intramural basketball leagues rooms and equipment. Inspection of and an ASTP basketball squad played equipment, rooms, etc., is also held a successful schedule of games against formally on Saturday afternoons. vicinity teams. Other inspecting officers are detailed When the ASTP started at Cornell, on Campus. They see that sections the civilian ROTC far outnumbered move smartly from class to class, the Newcomers. Today the situation is check classes to see that section leaders report properly to civilian in- structors, and supervise mess form- ations. Soldier-students police their quarters Willard Straight Hall feeds the (and themselves) in the Beta Theta Pi Army at Cornell. The -old cafeteria house, now an Army barracks. Sternly utilitarian double deckers and sturdy with the soda bar on the side was first tables have replaced civilian furnishings converted into a mess hall. When this in all the rooms of twenty fraternity proved too small, facilities were ex- houses, and the men do their own house- panded by enclosing the terrace keeping under supervision of Army abutting the cafeteria on the south. officers and first sergeants. Haiυley 364 Post-War Education Symposium Continues

By Professor F. O. Waage ministrators of our cultural inheri- By John R. Bangs '21 Art and Archeology tance, they must decide what mini- Manager Industrial & Personnel DUCATION is the most impor- mum education is most likely to ob- Relations, Edward G. Bυdd E. tant industry of any culture; an tain for the prospective citizen per- Manufacturing Co. incfύstry which consists in taking the sonal contentment and social useful- ΓΛONALD Alexander '14, our exec- raw material, youth, and processing it ness. This is the fundamental problem *S utive vice-president, recently into the finished product, the citizen, of higher education today, and with asked me to get several men for his whose life in that culture will be per- few exceptions our colleges and uni- department. The specifications: men sonally satisfying and socially useful. versities can be justly accused of of good or average technical ability, In manufacturing this product, as failure to face it. but in addition they must have per- any other, two groups of individuals sonality and common sense. Requests are concerned: the general public, Reorganize College Training of this nature are not unusual when whose needs call it forth, and the The solution or solutions attempted industry seeks the products of our manufacturers whose task it is to de- must necessarily bring a radical universities. sign and make that product which change in the completely unmoral I like the story of the young tech- will meet the public's need. Today cafeteria-spread of courses now non- nical graduate who had been working many of our manufacturers of citizens, committally offered to all comers; faithfully at his job for some time our educators, realize that the proc- abandonment of many old courses, when it occurred to him that his serv- essing method, our educational sys- setting up new ones on a more inter- ices were worth more than the salary tem, should be rather thoroughly over- departmental basis, and probably re- he was receiving. Approaching the hauled because the finished product is organization of departments on the boss he asked for a raise. "But, what not what it should be or can become lines of interrelated fields of knowl- have you done to merit a raise?" edge rather than subject matter. I say questioned the boss. "I have a good Improve Raw Material solution or solutions advisedly, for technical training, I am honest, arts colleges should adopt modern The university's interest in its raw loyal, and I work hard," replied the scientific method, as industry has al- material is two-fold: first, that it be young man. To this, his superior ready done in its processing, to the the best possible raw material, and responded in a cold, matter-of-fact extent of applying the experimental second that it be of the minimum tone: "Those are the reasons why I principle to the educational process- possible degree of rawness. But the don't fire you!" ing of student material. They must realization of this interest lies outside become willing to try out different the sphere of university activity; it World Needs Leaders methods and procedures, to follow up lies in the realm of public action, Even if the story is mythical,' its their graduates to learn the merits either directly or indirectly through implications are very real. As industry and shortcomings of a procedure re- the local control exerted over ele- looks forward to the great reconvers- vealed as it meets the test of life, and mentary and secondary education. ion task in the post-war period, it will to make changes to conform to such Here the university can only exhort expect from the universities sound experimental evidence. In short, the and hope; hope, for example, that the technical or professional training, but university must become primarily an public will cease to force an equality it will also demand certain personal educational institution, where teach- among persons in fields where it does qualifications over and above the ing rests on the level of a profession not hold, will recognize the wide homely virtues enumerated by the and where it acknowledgedly consti- range of mental ability which exists young engineer in the story. These tutes the chief business. Faculty and among individuals, will encourage qualifications Mr. Alexander covers administration must cooperate in competent and continuous testing in two words: personality and common raising the level of teaching efficiency from kindergarden up, to reveal the sense. by any necessary means, and must superior minds, will demand for these develop standards of preferential rat- How can Cornell develop young men minds a public school education ing of teachers other than the essenti- of personality and common sense in pitched to their level and not to that ally lazy and frequently irrelevant one addition to giving them sound, funda- of average competence, and will, of counting the pages published. mental training in their chosen fields? finally, insist that these minds receive Perhaps we should start by admitting college or university training, at Before specific proposals can be that some people are born with cer- public expense if necessary. The roots discussed with any profit, there must tain favorable personality character- of our system of higher education, and be a general agreement upon principles istics. But we would be short-sighted of the faults which beset it, lie below and ultimate aims. In the elaboration indeed if we did not believe that per- the college level. To strengthen these of these, college alumni have a very sonality and common sense can be roots and eradicate the faults is a real obligation to participate, both by developed and improved in such an challenge to all citizens, but most di- reason of their privileged position and environment as the Cornell Campus. rectly to the college graduates. because of the national, and even President Day on several occasions As for the university's own process- international, importance of the issue. has urged the liberalization of our ing of student material, it is evident If these remarks further stimulate technical courses. His description of that the professional schools and col- such participation by alumni, they the man who reaches the limit of his leges design products so exclusively will have accomplished their purpose. progress and stalls at about ten or functional as to be culturally bare, fifteen years after graduation is borne while colleges of liberal arts decorate Forum this time is shared by a present out by many instances in my own theirs with a patchwork of*"cultural and former member of the University. experience. While the reasons for subjects" which has no unity of de- Bangs left a professorship of Administra- such stalemates are many and varied, sign or harmony of color. The burden tive Engineering to assume his present the lack of a broad approach to prob- of change rests upon the liberal arts position in industry. lems is often the crux of the situation. colleges; as the custodians and ad- The proposed new School of Business

April iy 1944 365 and Public Administration should Along with expansion of the engi- make a real contribution in the de- neering curriculum, I visualize a More "E" Awards velopment of more broadly trained steady increase in growth of the B. FARQUHAR CO., York, Pa., men for industry. In cooperation with technical institute. This movement to A which won the Army-Navy "E" the College of Engineering, it will be my knowledge has already begun in in February, 1943, added a star to its possible to produce the rounded type several States, and gives promise of burgee in December, 1943, for six of individual so much demanded by vigorous growth in the post-war months' sustained production. Ed- our industries. period. Such technical schools will be ward H. Fisher '33 is vice-president Let me illustrate: Besides the need in position to give much needed of the company, which makes hy- for highly technical men, such as for training to young men who may lack draulic production presses, conveyors, research and development, industry the time or ability to take a broader and special machinery castings. requires a considerable quantity of collegiate training. The movement to William E. Brainard '31, manager young men who may be its future form technical institutes in New York of the Cuyahoga Heights plant of junior executives. (I speak from first- State is now under consideration. A Arcrods Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, re- hand experience on this point, since group of such schools under the aegis cently accepted the Army-Navy "E" I am directing several such groups of of Cornell is a post-war development burgee for his plant. In three plants, junior executives.) These men may be well worth striving for. the company makes electrodes used in roughly classed as technical-manage- CornelΓs opportunity for service in welding; has speeded production 1,000 ment or management-technical, de- the post-war period is without parallel per cent since the Cleveland plant pending upon emphasis required by in her educational history. She will was opened in 1939. Brainard was the particular division of their activ- expand her influence, both on and off commissioned in the Signal Corps, ity. The training of the technical- the Campus. She will develop schol- but released in 1942 to return to war management type stems logically ars, also men of personality and com- production. Mrs. Brainard is the from the curricula in Administrative mon sense who, along with sound, former Eleanor Holston '27. and Industrial Engineering in the fundamental training in their chosen College of Engineering. These cur- fields, will help to rebuild the post- ricula can be brought in line with war world. Albany Women Active post-war needs by a more liberal XECUTIVE committee of the sprinkling of the subjects afforded in E Cornell Women's Club of Albany a School of Business and Public Ad- entertained a dozen prospective Cor- ministration. On the other hand, many Clubs Head Speaks nellians from nearby high schools young men may be trained along HIRTEEN members of the Cor- March 10, with a tea at the home of management-technical lines by taking Tnell Women's Club of Northern Mrs. Peter C. Gallivan (Margaret a major share of their work in Busi- California, at their March luncheon Kelly) '24, vice-president and chair- ness and adding certain fundamental meeting in Berkeley, heard Mrs. man of the Club's committee on subjects in the College of Engineering. Allan H. Mogensen (Adele Dean) '23, secondary schools. L. Ann Bode '44 George E. Lallou '20, who is the president of the Federation of Cornell and Doris P. Holmes '44, February assistant treasurer of our organiza- Women's Clubs, describe the aims graduates, and Pauline J. Schmid '25, tion, is of the opinion that when the and activities of the Federation. She Assistant Alumni Secretary, were boys come home from the war there was introduced by L. Jean Bogert special guests at the meeting. will be more and more a return to 710, president of the Club, who told The following day, at a luncheon individual initiative and enterprise. how the University of California meeting in the De Witt Clinton As a result, he believes many more chimes had played the Cornell Alma Hotel, Miss Schmid spoke on "The smaller businesses will spring up all Mater, "by a happy coincidence/' Cornell of Today" to twenty-five over the country. These organizations during Mrs. Mogensen's brief tour of members of the Club and two guests will require managerial skill such as the University of California campus from the Cornell Women's Club of only the well-rounded young man can just before the meeting. Schenectady. Mrs. William Streets provide. Such organizations may not (Ruth Luscher) '22, president of the be able to support the full-time serv- Club, presided. Program this year is ices of the highly trained engineer or Cornellians Reorganize centered on secondary school pro- professional man, but they must have gram and continuing the Club's an- managerial skills to make them func- NGINEERING firm of Whitman, nual $100 contribution to the Feder- tion. From this angle alone, education E Requardt & Smith, dissolved last ation Scholarship Fund, under chair- for industry must take on broader December 31, has been succeeded by manship of Mrs. Howard E.Salsbury aspects. two firms, Whitman, Requardt & (Helen Jaquish) '22. Associates, with offices at 1304 St. Speed Technical Training Paul Street, Baltimore, Md., and My work constantly brings me in Whitman & Smith, of 11 North Pearl Giye Military Awards contact with new technological de- Street, Albany. T?0URTEEN students in the basic velopments. Under the driving neces- Partners of the new Baltimore firm A ROTC and ASTP courses were sity of annihilating the enemy, de- include University Trustee Ezra B. awarded $25 War Savings Bonds for velopments ordinarily requiring fif- Whitman Όl, Gustav J. Requardt outstanding military performance at teen or twenty years are compressed '09, Theodore W. Hacker '16, Richard a review of all Army units in Barton into three or four. Indeed, in some F. Graef '25, Norman D. Kenney '25, Hall, February 22. Bonds were con- instances, the time may be measured A. Russell Vollmer '27, and Roy H. tributed by the American Legion, in months. Ritter '30. The engineering engage- Veterans of Foreign Wars, Pershing Newer developments, in aviation, ments of the Baltimore office of the old Rifles, and Ithaca business firms and electronics, metallurgy, physics, chem- firm will be continued by Whitman, individuals. Professor George H. Sa- istry, etc., are sure to be reflected in Requardt & Associates, whereas those bine '03, Vice-president of the Uni- more crowded engineering curricula, of its Albany office will be handled by versity, and Colonel Edwin R. Van to which a five-year course seems the the new partnership of Whitman and Deusen, USA, commanding officer, only logical answer. Benjamin L. Smith '14. presented the Bonds.

366 Cornell Alumni News Thomas D. Landale '47 of Omaha, Nebr., received the award for best cadet in the ROTC, and Master Sergeant Richard G. Christensen, a Now in My Time! student in the German area and lan- guage program, for best in the ASTP. Other ROTC awards went to Bernard L. Gould of South Orange, N. J., as T'S BEEN twenty-seven years against! That was the case in 1917. the best Freshman; William R. Elmen- I now, but around Ithaca you can Nothing new has been added in dorf of Garden City, best Sophomore; still get yourself an argument over the intervening years. Malcolm B. Carsley '47 of Pittsfield, Henrik Willem van Loon '05 as a We took—and take—the van Mass., best in motors; William A. University teacher. Loon side in the controversy. We Tishman '47 of New York City, rifle He was Lecturer in History once, argue that any University depart- marksmanship; George S. Berg '46 but Cornell let him out after two ment large enough to maintain of New York City, telephone com- years. At the time, we thought twenty scholars on its staff is large munication; Franklin W. Wedge, Jr. this was a mistake, and we haven't enough to absorb and make good '45 of Wynnewood, Pa., radio com- changed our mind, even though use of one van Loon. Two van munication. Awards also went to the Van did his level best in some of Loons would be, of course, pre- best soldier in each ASTP company. his subsequent remarks to justify posterous. But the man had a rare the official action. We even wrote ability to excite intellectual curios- to President Schurman about it. ity in the ignorant, the stupid, and Medical Alumni Gather Your reporter was not in Ithaca the inert. And that gift, we main- tain, came pretty close to giving ΛLUMNI Day at the Medical during the academic years that van him a monopoly. What if he -*~* College in New York brought Loon was Lecturer in History. Our couldn't be trusted to guide curios- seventy-five members of the Medical opinion of his teaching was based ity—once he'd created it—into College Alumni Association as guests on a single phenomenon; under- conventional channels of historical of the College for luncheon in the graduates home for Christmas study? There were nineteen scho- College cafeteria, and more for the those years, in their reports to the lars at hand to do that! What if he business session which followed. Be- home town alumni on the state of did indulge in academic monkey- fore lunch, a volunteer committee of the University, spoke little of foot- shines? Cornell was big enough to Seniors acted as guides to show the ball or the rowing prospects. They take it, and sometimes a monkey- visiting doctors the College in opera- talked much of history, and van shine is better than no shine at all. tion, and many visitors returned to Loon's lectures and the historical You've got to make your bait the various departments in the after- background of the war then going sparkle sometimes, to have a noon. on in Europe. They talked of such matters at dances. This remains, dumb carp take it! At the business meeting, Dean we believe, the world's record in Joseph E. Hinsey explained the status Oh well! I suppose the thing was undergraduate vacation conversa- of medical education under wartime inevitable. There are fashions in tion. conditions, and Dr. Hyla S. Watters university teaching that are bound '21, recently returned on the SS The man's recent death has re- to be controlling, and van Loon's Gripsholm, told of her experiences as vived the van Loon argument ways never were—never could be— a medical missionary in China and among surviving veterans around the accepted fashion. Perhaps it later as a prisoner of the Japanese. the Quadrangle. There isn't much was better to turn him loose, All officers of the Alumni Association dispute about the facts. Van's under no control at all, to splash were re-elected for the coming year: lectures, whether performed in- gallons of paint on acres of canvas Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04, president; doors or out under the elms on a and thus to awaken in the multi- Dr. William R. Delzell '18, vice- warm spring day, packed 'em in tudes their first throb of intel- president; Dr. Anne Seligman Belcher and laid 'em out. Undergraduate lectual curiosity, their first awaken- '17, secretary; Dr. Paul Reznikoff numbskulls went away from them ing to the existence of history, of '20, treasurer. Directors elected are to argue heatedly over something the Arts, the stars, and all the other Drs. Lloyd F. Craver '15, Horace S. he'd said, to make unprecedented things whose companionship puts a Baldwin '21, Edwin T. Hauser '22, visits to the Library to settle a man in good company when he's S. Bernard Wortis '27, G. Burroughs point in dispute. Some were after- all alone. Mider '28, and Katherine Butler '35. wards discovered reading a book to President Schurman replied which he had referred, even though promptly to our discouraged little Alumni Day banquet at the Wal- that book was not required in any note about letting out a teacher dorf-Astoria brought 425 guests. Dr. course. who seemed to be able to make Crawford presided as toastmistress. On the other side, van Loon illiterate Sophomores talk about Dean Hinsey said a word of greeting; drew comic pictures on the black- their studies when they were home Captain Eugene F. DuBois, (MC) board, made fun of serious matters on vacation. It was a pretty adroit USNR, former professor of Physiol- and important people, was guilty letter, and a gracious one. Too bad ogy, told of his duties for the Navy; of inaccuracies that he might have about van Loon, of course, but I and President Edmund E. Day spoke avoided by a momentary glance needn't worry about the Depart- of the war activities of the University into the World Almanac. He pertly ment of History! They'd just hired generally. Dr. Elise LΈsperance of refused to do business in the es- a new man from the West who was Memorial Hospital told of the James tablished academic manner. He not only a sound scholar, but could Ewing Fellowship which^ is being was pretty youthful to start with, also make the dumb students sit up raised in memory of the late Professor and seemed to be getting more and listen. The new professor's Ewing for the teaching of Oncology immature all the time. name, President Schurman wrote, both at Memorial Hospital and at the That was the case, for and was Carl Becker. Medical College. The dinner guests danced to complete the evening. April i, 1944 367 that team work was responsible. "These kids depended on one another equally, not on any one or two in- Slants on Sports dividuals, to carry the load," he said. "They were aggressive, fast, and cocky, and they followed instructions Eighty Out for Football USMCR, and Daniel Hrtko, US- to the letter." NR; center, Donald S. Cushing '45. In the forty-six seasons of Cornell PRING football practice will be On the baseball squad at present basketball, its teams have won 377 S resumed this year after the lapse are Charles P. Weiss '45, Guy H. games and lost 396, with two ending of one season. The drills will last four Nichols, USMCR, and Allen E. in ties. weeks, starting when weather and Dekdebrun '47, backs; and John M. ground conditions permit, Coach Carl Tully '46, an end. Snavely decided after he polled the Wrestlers End Season squad. V\7RESTLING team concluded its First call for candidates brought Spring Teams Practice * * season March 10 and 11 at out eighty registrants, and the ma- HE BASEBALL squad of more Bethlehem, Pa., finishing in a tie jority said they wanted the spring Tthan fifty men practices Tues- with Columbia for eighth and last workouts. A year ago, spring prac- days, Thursdays, and Saturdays in. place in the Intercollegiates. Each tice was abandoned because the Bacon Cage. The track squad drills team scored 2 points. military status of many men was un- there on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fred D. McNair '45, USNR, 121- certain. The Navy V-12 and Marine Fridays. The lacrosse squad also had pounder, and Gordon H. Steele '45, Corps Reserve programs were in- a turn, but in late March moved into USNR, heavyweight, each scored one augurated last July, and Coach the Riding Hall. point by placing third. Both reached Snavely held summer practice. Crew candidates were still confined the final round, McNair bowing to Many of the men registered for to the Old Armory rowing machines MacDonald of the US Naval Acade- spring football expect to remain through late March, and the tennis my, who was later awarded a trophy through the term ending in late candidates were awaiting first call to as the tournament's outstanding October; others will be here longer. the Cascadilla Courts. wrestler. Steele lost in the champion- (The football schedule at present has ship round to Stanowicz of the US an open date on October 28 to ac- Military Academy. Wilfred LaRock commodate personnel transfers be- Basketball Closes '45 reached the semifinal round in the tween the summer and fall terms.) ASKETBALL team completed its 155-pound class but lost to Hale of Experienced material will be at a B season in Barton Hall March 11 the Naval Academy. premium. Among the men who reg- with a 46-39 victory over Colgate, The team point scores: Naval istered at the first meeting March 22 for a season's record of nine wins and Academy, 32; Military Academy, 26; were eleven players from last year's eleven losses. In their earlier game at Lehigh, 15; Pennsylvania, 15; Dart- squad. Some of them will complete Hamilton, Colgate defeated Cornell, mouth, 7; Penn State, 6; Princeton, 5; their work before fall. Other veterans 45-40. In the interval both teams Cornell, 2; Columbia, 2. are out for baseball. were thoroughly overhauled by Navy Other registrants indicated high and transfers. preparatory school experience, and a Irwin Alterson, USNR, center, Winter Sports Record few listed limited varsity play at scored 14 points and Nathan Milit- TN the winter sports season, Cor- other colleges. Many men want to zok, USNR, 13, to lead the Cornell •••• nell teams won twenty-one dual play football who have had no ex- scorers. contests and lost eighteen, as follows: perience whatever. Some of them In a preliminary game, a team from Won Lost came from secondary schools where the Midshipmen's School defeated an- Swimming 8 0 the sport has been abandoned since other team made up of Navy V-12's, Wrestling 3 3 the United States entered the war. 39-38. In the Midshipmen's lineup Basketball 9 11 Coach Snavely hopes to teach the was Captain Roger D. Booze '45, no Hockey 1 3 fundamentals of his system so that longer eligible for Varsity play. Indoor track 0 1 those men who continue through the The Varsity scored 947 points in fall term will become the backbone of twenty games this season, with Robert Totals 21 18 the squad that will actually play the W. Gale, USNR, now at Dartmouth, schedule. He also hopes that other accounting for 244 in seventeen games. candidates will appear with the start Gale joined the Dartmouth team and Swimmers Score of the summer term in July. Men who on March 24 scored 17 points as /CORNELL swimmers scored 5 enter the Navy and Marine Corps Dartmouth defeated Catholic Uni- ^ po'ints for tenth place in the programs as Freshmen will not be versity, 63-38, in Madison Square National Collegiate Athletic Associa- eligible for athletics until after one Garden, New York City, in the tion championship meet at New term, but those who have had at opening round of the National Col- Haven, Conn., March 24 and 25. The least one term in any college or uni- lege Athletic Association's champion- team members went to the meet only versity will be eligible immediately. ship tournament. The next night, for the day of their individual events, Among the men who registered for Dartmouth won the Eastern title, de- to comply with the Navy limit of spring practice are these members of feating Ohio State, 60-53. forty-eight hours off their station. last year's squad: Backs, Frank J. In its last three games, the Cornell Scores were gained for Cornell by Accorsi, John H. Norton, and Nathan team, made up principally of second- the 300-yard medley relay team of Scherr, USNR; end, Robert F. Coll, stringers, turned the tables on three Paul L. Klein '46 and Burton Preston USMCR; tackles, Charles Davidson, teams that had scored previous vic- and Robert N. Holsten, USMCR, Richard M. Golden, and Cecil 0. tories over Cornell: Canisius, Samp- fourth place for 4 points; and Paul Snyder, USNR; guards, Alexander M. son Naval Training Station, and Col- C. Murray, USMCR, fifth in the 200- Beebee, USNR, Grant R. Ellis, gate. Coach Emerald B. Wilson said yard breaststroke for one point. Sixth 368 Cornell Alumni News places, but no scores, were gained by will supervise prisoners of war. At period are only good for hog feed or Ralph R. RΪehl, USNR, in the 1500- commencement exercises before the fertilizer. meter freestyle race and by Edwin first groups left, instructors gave Working with a grant from the Rorke '45 in lowboard diving. farewell addresses in each foreign University committee on research, Team scores of the meet: Yale, 39; tongue and a student from each group Professor Romanoff has devised ap- Michigan, 38; US Naval Academy and responded. paratus which measures the "animal Ohio State, 24 each; Columbia, 22; Area and language courses are be- electricity" or physiological activity US Military Academy, 14; Williams, ing continued here in Chinese, Rus- in the fertilized blastoderm of the 7; Rochester and Brown, 6 each; Cor- sian, and German. new-laid egg, which is the seat of the nell, 5; Bowdoin, Princeton, and future embryo. This is done by meas- Penn State, 4 each; Minnesota, 3; uring the bioelectric potentials be- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2. Tests Egg Fertility tween the blastoderm and the al- BY ELECTRONICS bumen. First with X-ray and then EXPERIMENTS with radio with ultraviolet ray, he has been able Term Gets Underway -L-/ waves, ultraviolet rays, and to stimulate the developing blasto- X-rays that promise considerable im- derm of fertilized eggs, thus increas- UMBER of students on the portance both to poultrymen and to ing the bioelectric potential to make N Campus at Ithaca this term is fertility more easily apparent. With- estimated at approximately 6,600. consumers of eggs are reported by Professor Alexis L. Romanoff '25, out harmful effects on the embryo or This is about 400 fewer than were here the hatching of the chick, he has at the beginning of the winter term, Poultry Husbandry. Four years ago, after many trials to attempt to de- demonstrated an increase of nearly and does not include more than 500 250 per cent with application of who are in the Medical College and termine the fertility of hatching eggs, two methods of electrical testing were X-ray, and of about 65 per cent with Nursing School in New York City. It ultraviolet ray. is estimated that there are about 2,800 selected which may allow eggs which will not hatch to be sent promptly to Another apparatus detects fertility civilian students, 1,400 Army men, of new-laid eggs by indicating con- and 2,400 of the Navy. About 600 of market. Of the 1,500,000,000 eggs hatched ductivity and dielectric effects in a the Navy men are not enrolled in the radio frequency field. Thus far, Pro- University since their instruction is commercially each year, about 10 per cent are infertile. These 150,000,000 fessor Romanoff has been able to entirely by the Navy staff, but they register differences between small lots are housed and fed on the Campus. infertile eggs from commercial hatch- eries alone, with present knowledge, of eight or ten fertile and infertile George D. Haupin '16, Assistant eggs. He hopes to perfect this method Registrar, reports that 270 civilian cannot be marketed as fresh eggs. The traditional method is to candle eggs to detect fertility of single eggs for men and women students entered the the practical use of poultrymen. University at the opening of the after six or seven days in the incu- bators, to determine fertility, but Wartime difficulty in obtaining spring term, March 6. More than 500 electronic equipment has slowed Pro- seventeen-year-old Army Reservists present high labor cost makes this impractical so that all eggs are left fessor Romanoff's experiments, but came March 13, to stay until the end he is now convinced that "renewed of the term in which they become undisturbed until the end of the incu- bation period. Even if eggs could be efforts, improved technique, and per- eighteen. They are housed, fed, and haps new ideas may lead to the provided with instruction, books and removed after a few days, the high salvage of many nutritionally valu- supplies, medical care, and uniforms temperature of incubation brings able infertile eggs." at Army expense, but are not paid. chemical changes that render them unfit as fresh eggs, and those which In twenty-one years at Cornell, March 25, the last of the advanced remain unhatched at the end of the ROTC students who were ordered to (Continued on page 372) active duty last spring as Juniors left the University when eighty in the Field Artillery were ordered to officer candidate school at Fort Sill, Okla. Dr. Cornelius Betten, PhD '06, is general coordinator for the Univer- sity instruction given to Army stu- dents. Professor Loren C. Petry, Botany, is director of the basic cur- riculum for the Reservists; Professor Cornells W. de Kiewiet, History, di- rects the area and language courses; Professor Leroy L. Barnes, PhD '3f2, Biophysics, pre-medical; Professor Charles W. Jones, PhD '32, English, US Military Academy preparatory; and Dean William A. Hagan, MS '17, directs the Army Veterinary course. Classes of area and language stu- dents in Czech, Russian, Italian, and German have been graduated and letters from the former students indi- cate that they are already putting to use the training they received here. It is believed that all members of the PROFESSOR TESTS EGG MίΐfϊBOT^^ Dr. Alexis L. Romanoff '25, Poultry Husbandry, in his biophysical laboratory in Rice first German unit have gone overseas, Hall, uses apparatus he has devised to determine the fertility of new-laid eggs by and that some of the Italian group measuring conductivity and dielectric effects in a radio frequency field. April i) 1944 369 Navy in Action century, suffered a broken arm and perhaps some broken ribs when the ALOR In the Navy, an attractive Time Was . . . bus carrying the Varsity baseball V souvenir booklet of Naval action, squad from Quantico, Va., to Wash- has been published by The Cayuga ington, D. C, skidded off the road Press, Inc., printers of the ALUMNI Twenty-Five Years Ago down a ten-foot embankment and NEWS. From its cover in color April, 1919—ALUMNI NEWS is crashed into a tree. Several members through its sixty-eight pages of of- twenty years old this week. First of the team were also injured, but ficial Navy pictures and text, the number was published April 5, 1899, none as seriously as Doc Sheehan. book is a stirring record of the fleet by its founder, Herbert B. Lee '99, Professor Laurence Pumpelly, Grad in action. Its typographical design and and first editor, Clark S. Northup '93. '02-04, chairman of Romance Lan- layout is the work of R. W. Sailor '07. Succeeding editors have been Fred- guages, has been made a Knight of the For use as a gift to Navy men and erick D. Colson '97 (1899-02), Frank Legion of Honor, in recognition of his women, the last few pages have space E. Gannett '98 (1902-04), Harland B. many years of service to France as a for the autographs of shipmates. Tibbetts '04 (1904-06), Woodford teacher and as an aide and interpreter Valor In the Navy may be obtained Patterson '95 (1906-17), and R. W. during the war . . . Professor Harry at seventy-five cents from The Cayuga Sailor '07 (since 1917). H. Love, PhD '09, Plant Breeding, Press, Ithaca. Spring term registration totals has sailed for China, where he will 3,411; increase in enrollment is due represent Cornell in one of the world's Women Organize mainly to students returning from greatest plant breeding projects, car- war service . . . Memorial tablet con- ried on from the University of Nan- RGANIZATION meeting of a taining names of 170 alumni, students, king. new. Cornell Women's Club of O and members of the Faculty who lost A Lackawanna Railroad student Elmira was March 18 in the Steele their lives in the war has been placed special started the spring vacation by Memorial Library auditorium. The in the main lobby of the University making a record 5-hour, 17^-minute ten alumnae present elected Loretta Library; printed at the top is the run to New York City. E. Klee, AM '43, temporary chair- legend "Dulce et decorum est pro man. Mrs. Fred M. Hewitt (Mina patria mori," with no mention of Bellinger) '34, presiding, introduced Wilfred Owen's poem. Report of War Changes Mrs. Robert C. Osborn (Agda Swen- Mortar Board, women's honor so- sόn) '20, from the Cornell Women's ciety, has elected nine Juniors, in- RESIDNT'S Report for the aca- Club of Ithaca, and Pauline J. cluding Mary H. Donlon and May A. P demic year 1942-43 has been pub- Schmid '25, Assistant Alumni Secre- Thropp . . . Margaret B. Cornell '14, lished by the University. It is the tary. great-granddaughter of the Founder, record of the impact of the war upon Miss Klee appointed a committee has been in France with the American the University in all its departments. to draw up a constitution for the Club Red Cross for the last six months. President Edmund E. Day in his and a nominating committee to pre- report to the Board of Trustees calls sent a slate of officers for election at Fifteen Years Ago the year which ended June 30, 1943, the next meeting, the last week in April, 1929—Frank Sheehan, trainer for American colleges and universi- April at Mrs. Hewitt's home. of Cornell athletes for a quarter of a ties, "the Year of the Great Transi- tion." "It was a year of transition from a student body that was almost entirely civilian to one that was largely military; at least so far as its male membership was concerned. It was a year of transition, too, from a period of vacillation and uncertainty to one of decision and planned pro- gram." The President describes the development of the enlistment pro- grams of the Army and Navy and their effects at the University, changes in the calendar to bring year-around instruction, the various special war programs and war research, additions to plant, and the effects of the war on maintenance of staff, enrollment and number of degrees granted, and the finances of the University. Besides the President's own report of some twenty printed pages, the booklet contains a summary of finan- cial operations by the University Treasurer, George F. Rogalsky '07, and as appendices, the reports of the deans and directors of the several "CONSTANTΊEIEADERS^ OT INDIA Colleges, Schools, and other divisions Captain Edward J. Mintz*'31 (left, above) sends this picture of "three of your constant of the University. Through all of readers," all members of a fighter squadron which has been "successfully attacking Jap these reports runs the thread of the positions and protecting our supply route to China." Captain Joseph F. Daino '42 is in war's effects. the center, "our No. 1 flight leader;" at right is Lieutenant Thomas D. Wells '43, "a darn good wing man." Captain Mintz is intelligence officer of the squadron. He is the son of Three, especially, describe how stu- Aaron G. Mintz '01 of Ithaca. dents met the war crisis: those of the 370 Cornell Alumni News Counselors of Students, Donald H. Moyer and Thelma L. Brummett, and State Establishes School that of Professor A. Wright Gibson ' 17 as chairman of the committee on student war service. In these and of Industry-Labor Relations throughout most of the academic re- VES Bill providing for a New York of Cornell University, the chairman ports where reference is made to stu- I State School of Industrial and and counsel of the joint Legislative dents, there is general agreement Labor Relations at Cornell was signed committee on industrial and labor with President Day's concluding re- by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, conditions, president of the New York mark, that "No college president March 15. As reported in the ALUMNI State Federation of Labor, president could have asked for better support NEWS March 1, the bill was intro- of the New York State Industrial than the administration was accorded duced February 18 by Assemblyman Union Council, president of the State by Cornell undergraduates during a Irving M. Ives after nearly two years Chamber of Commerce, executive period that was extremely trying for of investigation by a joint Legislative vice-president of Associated Indus- all concerned. From personal observa- committee on industrial: and labor tries of New York State, Inc., and the tion, based on frequent contacts both relations of which Ives is chairman. State Commissioner of Education. with student groups and with in- The Assembly passed the bill March 7 dividuals, I can state that Cornell A published Report of the joint with but two negative votes, those of Legislative committee contains an men and women maintained a well- Leo W. Breed and Frank J. Costello balanced and sound viewpoint on the exhaustive "Survey of Instruction and of Syracuse. The next day, it was ap- Related Activities in Industrial and war and on their places in it. ... It proved unanimously by the Senate. A has been my observation that stu- Labor Relations." Economist on the similar bill introduced by Assembly- staff of the committee was Professor dents, in no uncertain sense, have set man George B. Parsons of Syracuse, the pattern for the extraordinarily Forrest F. Hill, PhD '30, Agricultural which would have located the School Economics. healthy emotional climate that has at Syracuse University, was referred prevailed on this Campus since the to the rules committee and not re- The committee reports that its outbreak of the war." ported out. analysis of industrial and labor prob- Alumni may obtain the President's lems in the light of the war impact Report upon request of the Secretary To Report Plan and for the post-war period "has of the University, Morrill Hall, Ithaca. convinced it that adequately trained The Ives Act appropriates $10,000 leaders in industrial and labor 'rela- for the use of a temporary board of tions will be more than ever required Marcham in Buffalo trustees which is to recommend to if the free-enterprise system is to the Governor and Legislature by survive." NNUAL banquet of the Cornell January 15, 1945, plans for "the con- A- Club of Buffalo was February 26 trol, supervision, organization, struc- To Serve New Purposes in the Hotel Buffalo. Professor Fred- ture, administration, operation, and Present courses offered in several erick G. Marcham, PhD '26, History, activities of the School." The Act institutions throughout the country, discussed the University's Engineer- states: "It is necessary that under- the committee pointed out, do not ap- ing war training program and the standing of industrial and labor rela- pear to provide the type of specialized area and language courses given to tions be advanced; that more effective training which would be most useful Army students, pointing out the im- cooperation among employers and to employer organizations and labor portance of these new teaching meth- employees and more general recogni- unions in improving their mutual re- ods to post-war education. tion of their mutual rights, obliga- lations in industry. Declaring that a Lieutenant Jerome Brock '34, US- tions, and duties under the laws per- State-sponsored school should be NR, gave an account of his experi- taining to industrial and labor rela- based on a broader educational philos- ences at the Salerno beach-head in tions in New York State be achieved; ophy, the committee said one of the Italy, where he commanded a Navy that means for encouraging the growth most important ways to improve in- LST. James W. Oppenheimer '32, of mutual respect and greater re- dustrial-labor relations is to bring to- vice-president of the Club, presided sponsibility on the part of both em- gether, in a common training pro- and John Pennington '24 was master ployers and employees be developed; gram, representatives of both labor of ceremonies. and that industrial efficiency through and industry. the analysis of problems relating to "What is important here is not University Symphony Orchestra, di- employment be improved. rected by Professor John M. Kuypers, merely attendance at the same in- Music, gave a concert in Sage Chapel Objects and purposes of the School stitution or in the same school, but February 13. are stated as "the teaching and in- rather mutual and cooperative analy- struction of students concerning: 1. sis of the problems common to both Eta Kappa Nu, honor society in Elec- the history and development of in- groups. »These representatives will trical Engineering, has elected as dustrial practices of employers and later meet around the council table as members Burton H. Smith '45, employees; 2. the history and prin- negotiators for their respective in- USNR, Joseph E. Bambara, USNR, ciples of sound industrial and labor terests. If they become acquainted and Robert P. Burr, USNR. New relations and organization; 3. the with one another through a common officers are Harrison C. Whitman '45, rights and obligations of employers training program, that in itself would USNR, president; Ralph Bolgiano, and employees; 4. the history and be a valuable step toward mutual Jr. '44, ROTC, vice-president; Lau- development of laws relating to in- understanding and appreciation of rance A. Weber '45, USNR, record- dustry and to labor; and 5. all other differing attitudes ... A common ing secretary; Thornton J3. Lauber phases of industrial, labor and public background is one very specific con- '45, corresponding secretary; and relations of employers and employees tribution which such a school could Robert B. Trousdale '44, USNR, tending to promote unity and the make to the future stability of in- treasurer. The Cornell Chapter has welfare of the people of the State." dustrial and labor relations in this received a second shield of merit for The temporary board of trustees is State . . . "Far more than mere per- being the most active in the country. provided to comprise the President (Continued on page 376) April i> 1944 371 into China, to work there two years as a railroad man. In 1921 he worked Cornell Alumni News Letters his passage to America, went to the FOUNDED 1899 Subject to the usual restrictions of space and State Institute of Agriculture at good taste, we shall print letters from sub- Farmingdale "because of the quiet 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. scribers on any side of any subject of in- country atmosphere where I could Published the first and fifteenth of terest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the sentiments forget the past," and entered the every month. University in 1923. He received the Subscriptions $4 a year in U. S. and posses- expressed, and disclaims any responsibility sions; foreign, $4.50. Life subscription, beyond that of fostering interest in the BS in 1925, stayed on for the MSA $75. Single copies, 20 cents. Subscriptions University. the next year and the PhD in 1928. He are renewed annually unless cancelled. was appointed research instructor in As a gift from Willard Straight Hall and Poultry Husbandry; assί ^ant pro- the Alumni Association to Cornellians in "Hits the Spot" fessor in 1932; and last yea. ϊvas pro- the armed services, the ALUMNI NEWS is To THE EDITOR* moted to associate professor. His re- supplied regularly to reading rooms of searches have frequently been re- Army posts and shore stations of the Rym Berry has a way of putting ported in the technical journals. He Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, the spotlight on timely subjects con- is a member of Sigma Xi and of upon request. cerning CornelΓs interest, which ap- numerous professional societies. Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 peals to us as eager readers of the Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 ALUMNI NEWS way down here in "ole Alabam'." Assistant Editors: To an old "has been" nominee for Coming Events JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 Alumni Trustee, who went down to Notices for this column must be received at HANNAH F. HARTMANNS '43 defeat not once but twice, Rym's least five days before date of issue. Time and place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are Contributors: column about the new method of presenting nominees to the alumni printed separately as we have space. ROMEYN BERRY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 hits the spot. The sponsors of us de- Owned and published by the Cornell feated candidates can always have SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Alumni Association under direction of a the satisfaction of having made some committee composed of George D. Crofts Ithaca: University concert, Rudolph Ser- Όl, R. W. Sailor '07, and Phillips Wyman other group hustle to get a better man, kin, pianist, Bailey Hall, 8:15 '17. Officers of the Association: Larry E. which adds up to a better Cornell! Rochester: Baseball, Rochester Gubb '16, Philadelphia, Pa., president; Every alumnus should read what Ed West Point: Tennis, US Military Academy Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30, Ithaca, secre- Babcock (a very good Trustee) has to WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 tary; Edgar A. Whiting '29, Ithaca, treasurer. say about what makes a "good Ithaca: Baseball, Colgate, Hoy Field, 4:30 Printed at the Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. Trustee." As a member of our State Commit- SATURDAY, MAY 6 Ithaca: Tennis, Penn State, Cascadilla tee on Post-War Educational Prob- courts, 2 lems, I have been very much im- Ladrosse, RPI, Alumni Field, 2:30 Blondes Bring Bond pressed with the articles coming from Baseball, Rochester, Hoy Field, 3 the University-Alumni Forums on New York City: Regatta, Columbia & OURTH War Loan postcard re- US Naval Academy F minder sent from the Alumni this subject. We find that our great Fund office has brought to the Fund educational needs down here are MONDAY, MAY 8 thus far eighty Series F Bonds for a common to other larger spheres of New York City: Recital by Egon Petri, interest and are stimulated to keep University Pianist-in-residence, to total of $4,400. One alumnus sent the benefit Federation Scholarship Fund, University a $500 Bond; others of pace with the needs. Town Hall, 8:30 —J. BRACKIN KIRKLAND '18 $350, $200, $150 were received, to- SATURDAY, MAY 13 gether with several $100 Bonds and Ithaca: Track meet, US Military Academy many for smaller amounts. The post- & Colgate, Schoellkopf Field, 2:30 card signed by Walter C. Heasley, Jr. Tests Egg Fertility Lacrosse, US Military Academy, Alumni '30, executive secretary of the Alumni (Continued from page 369) Field, 2:30 Annapolis, Md.: Regatta, US Naval Fund, reminded Cornellians that Professor Romanoff has added much Academy & Columbia Series F Bonds purchased in the to the knowledge of incubation and Hamilton: Baseball, Colgate name of Cornell University, a Cor- hatching of eggs. Several years ago, Tennis, Colgate poration, Ithaca, N. Y., would "help he devised a means of safeguarding SATURDAY, MAY 20 America and help Cornell, as well/' the moisture and oxygen supply of Ithaca: Baseball, Dartmouth, two games. One War Bond came to Heasley eggs with their shells broken so that Hoy Field, 2:30 last week with this explanation from the incubation process could be ob- Regatta, Columbia & US Naval served, and he and Professor Elmer S. Academy, Cayuga Lake, 5 its alumnus donor: Philadelphia, Pa.: Heptagonal track meet "You may think the purchase was Phillips '32 took colored pictures of New York City: Tennis, Columbia the result of your postcard about con- the developing chick that attracted State College, Pa.: Lacrosse, Penn State tributing War Bonds, but that is not wide attention. correct. It was the result of my going SATURDAY, MAY 27 Born in Leningrad, Russia, in Ithaca: Tennis, Pennsylvania, Cascadilla to the Milrose Games at Madison 1892, he was a student at Kazan courts, 2 Square Garden. At some inopportune University when the first world war Track meet, Princeton, Schoellkopf moment, a lot of blondes from one of broke out. With all other college Field, 2:30 the current shows were lined up at students he was sent to military Princeton, N. J.: Baseball, Princeton, two the starting point, to be moved five school, and became an engineer in the Troy: Lacrosse, RPI yards forward for every $25 Bond sub- Imperial Russian Armies while they scribed by the audience. It was neces- were at war. The revolution of 1917 SATURDAY, JUNE 3 sary to keep the blondes moving to found him at Vladivostok Polytech- Philadelphia, Pa.: Baseball, Pennsyl- vania, two games get them off the track and let the nic Institute, and in October he fled Princeton, N. J.: Tennis, Princeton games proceed." from the Bolshevists across the border 372 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

University women have voted to re- of Buffalo. The following day, in Collision between a trotting horse, place the WSGA Council with a Willard Straight Hall, they were ad- name of Peter, wandering from his House of Representatives, under a dressed by Alumni Trustee Mary H. stable on Lake Street, and an automo- Women's Self Government Associa- Donlon '20, a past president of bile, name unknown, occurred March tion constitution revised with the WSGA. 11 on University Avenue. Peter, assistance of Professor Robert E. carried to the Veterinary College in a Cushman, Government. The Campus New president of the Willard Straight horse ambulance, had to be destroyed. is now divided into some thirty-four Hall board of managers is Richard B. The automobile, badly damaged, is districts, each of which elects a repre- Hillman '45 of Upper Darby, Pa. He expected to recover. sentative to the House. It was charged succeeds Greta E. Wilcox '44 of that the old Council, composed of Cosmopolitan Club has elected Raj Bergen, the board's first woman presi- Pratap Misra, Grad, of Lucknow, leaders of activities, did not represent dent. Nancy C. Barone '45 of LeRoy all University women. Inflia, president; Cordelia E. Hink- is re-elected secretary, and A. Nancy son '44 of Philadelphia, Pa., vice- L. Green '44 of LeRoy is Senior president; Ernest R. Knobil '46 of Campus pictures by Jay B. Leviton representative. '44 appearing in the NEWS since 1941 Bound Brook, N. J. secretary; and have brought praise from many a sub- Paul E. Gagnon '46 of Montreal, Buck deer, pursued by dogs, leaped to Canada, treasurer. scriber. Ordered to basic Army train- its death in Fall Creek gorge, March 2. ing last spring with other ROTC Army-Navy qualifying exams for col- Juniors and returned to Cornell again lege training were taken by 165 pre- last fall, Corporal Leviton is now at Sorority rushing has been simplified by the Pan Hellenic Council. No more draft-age undergraduate men March the Signal Corps officer candidate 15 in the Moot Court Room of school at Fort Monmouth, N. J. formal dinners, high teas, and enter- tainments. Prospective pledges at- Myron Taylor Hall. Of these, 125 tended open houses at all sororities, indicated a preference for the Navy, Seven Bells Club, new social or- 40 for the Army. ganization of Naval trainees, held its March 11 and 12. Each chapter then first meeting March 3 in Bailey Hall asked the girls it liked to return for Freshman Class has elected William with a nautical crowd of 1,000. "coffee hours" held at all houses H. VanDuzer '47 of Washingtonville Movies were shown of Naval engage- three afternoons a week for two and Gerald Rose '47 of Brooklyn, ments at Midway and the Coral Sea, weeks, with pledging March 27. As representatives to the Freshman Gov- and an eyewitness account of the air- simple as that! erning Board. craft carrier Yorktown's sinking was given by Apprentice Seaman Donald Marcham's Newsletter, a monthly Sage Chapel services were conducted Deiharest, a V-12 student. resume of the Cornell scene by Pro- by the Rev. Harold C. Phillips, of the fessor Frederick G. ("History 61") First Baptish Church of Cleveland, Captain Ralph A. Harrison, Army Air Marcham, PhD '26, for all interested Ohio, March 19; and by the Rev. Corps, former Boy Scout executive of friends and former students in ser- Albert W. Palmer, president of the the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council in vice, is the professor's solution (and Chicago Theological Seminary, March Ithaca, reports from New Guinea, "a a good one) to the problem of a 26. nice surprise" in the February 10 growing correspondence. Professor Marcham asks that anyone who Sport Shop opened a "Collegetown" issue of Guinea Gold, local Army branch March 4, at the corner of newspaper. The paper printed Presi- wishes his letter send name and ad- dress to him at Boardman Hall. College Avenue and Dryden Road. dent Day's announcement that the Officers in the Naval Training School intensive courses in contemporary Village elections March 21 made Ray need no longer wait for Saturday Russian civilization will be repeated afternoons and Sundays to be out- in the Summer Session of 1944. S. Ashbery '25 mayor of Trumans- burg. Charles I. Sayles '26 and Henry fitted, since the branch store is "in J. Shirey '25 were re-elected trustees bounds." Paper salvage campaign March 16- of the village of Cayuga Heights. Re- Family Society of Ithaca elected 23 brought from University store- publican Dry den re-elected Dr. Robert rooms and files eighteen tons of scrap, Henry J. Shirey '25 president, March A. McKinney '19, a Democrat, to his 21, succeeding Armand L. Adams '31, collected under direction of C. A. long-standing office of village trustee. Myers, who is in charge of salvage in who left*in February to join the US the Department of Buildings and public health service. Other officers Grounds. re-elected were Dr. C. Douglas Dar- SPRING arrived to find Ithaca ling, of the University Clinic, vice- wrapped in one of the winter's president; Mrs. George R. Chamber- War-time domination of student ac- heaviest snowfalls, with the ther- lain (Grace Caldwell) '92, treasurer; tivities by women led WSGA to mometer at five above zero. Four days and Mrs. Harold Flack (Evelyn sponsor a women's leadership training later she had pushed the mercury up Alspach) '16, secretary. conference March 18. About 100 into the fifties, melted the snows of undergraduate women registered for yesteryear, turned Beebe Lake dam Cleveland Orchestra, guest-conducted the conference, and were addressed by into a miniature Niagara, and wak- by Frank Black, gave the fourth con- Thelma L. Brummett, Counselor of ened icebound jCascadilla and Fall cert in the University series March 14, Students, and Seniors Eleanor Dickie Creek gorges with the torrential playing Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, of White Plains, Maralyn Winsor of thunder of her annual spring thaw. and Gershwin. As for most concerts Ithaca, and Marjory N. Underwood this year, Bailey Hall was crowded. April i, 373 what school had the best football team in which year and why. Many happy hours are thus spent and time Books Letters passes much quicker. Subject to the usual restrictions of space and By Cornellians good taste, we shall print letters from sub- After the Louisiana maneuvers, I scribers on any side of any subject of in- was given command of an Ordnance terest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS depot company and left for the Cali- often may not agree with the sentiments Philosophy Puzzle expressed, and disclaims any responsibility fornia desert. From there we travelled beyond that of fostering interest in the many weary miles to our New Guinea The Spinoza-Hegel Paradox. By University. home. Last month I was transferred Professor Henry A. Myers, PhD '33, to port headquarters as property English. Cornell University Press, To THE EDITOE: officer and battalion supply officer. Ithaca. 1944. xii+95 pages. $1.75 I am very glad indeed to have read From what I have read in the Besides a critical analysis of the the straightforward presentation of NEWS, I guess I would not know the philosophy of Spinoza and Hegel, this facts about the so-called Russian Com- Campus now, but a visit there after book contains an historical survey of munistic propaganda that was launched the war is certainly high on my list of metaphysics, a chapter on the "at- by the World Telegram. Even to those things to do when I get home. Thanks tributes" of Spinoza and the "cate- of us who took no stock in the attack, again for the many pleasant hours gories" of Hegel, and an argument for it is fine to read the reasons for estab- found in the NEWS and keep up the the theory of systematic pluralism. lishing this course from our President. good work. And particularly it is good to be —First Lt. JAMES S. PATTERSON '42 aroused by Rym Berry's fighting "The Food Muddle" reply. So far as the Alumni Fund is Food. By Professor Frank A. Pear- concerned, I believe that the net Cornell Engineer son '12, Prices and Statistics, and result will be a larger subscription than ESTINATION, "Island X," Donald Paarlberg, Grad 1940-43. ever from the -alumni. D leading article in The Cornell Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York —FREDERICK D. HERBERT '97 Engineer for March by Lieutenant City. 1944. xi + 239 + x pages. $2.75. To THE EDITOR: Harold H. Schoen '26, (CEC) USNR, One of America's greatest home "Now In My Time!" is my favorite describes and pictures the work of the front problems receives a searching column. The ALUMNI NEWS forum on Seabees on the far-flung battlefronts and highly critical analysis in this post-war education is timely and in- of the world. It is the personal story book, which blames "our Washington teresting, and before it is finished of the author's own Seabee battalion, chefs" for the present gigantic tangle announcement should be made that organized in June, 1942. of price roll-backs, subsidies, and black several of Berry's columns have been This issue also contains an account markets. As for the food shortage, we important contributions to the series. of "Testing Foundry Sand" by D. C. are told that a swing from milk, eggs, —LEE F. HAWLEY '03 Williams, research fellow of the Ameri- and meat to wheat, beans, and po- can Foundrymen's Association, tatoes would feed twice our present By V ...- Mail "Magic With Mathematics" by population. "Only with an abundant Robert N. Goldman '47, and pictures supply of food can a nation afford to To THE EDITOR: of the Senior Classes in the four count its vitamins instead of its Just a short note to put in my two Schools of the College of Engineering. calories ... If food is to win the war cents worth. I've just read some of the These pictures show many of the it will have to be used like other letters in the ALUMNI NEWS regarding Seniors in uniform. scarce war materials, not like the the new style. My Gosh! Over here, main dish of a Roman feast . . . Con- anything about Cornell looks good, cern for the 'ill-fed third' has always regardless of style. You could print it For New Students been good politics." Our national backwards and on tissue paper and ENERAL Information Number policy of substituting price control for I'd still enjoy it! The cover pictures G for 1944-45 is the first general economic law is responsible for the bring back a lot of very pleasant handbook for prospective students food situation, which "will be worse memories which are still fairly fresh since the University has converted to before it is better." in my mind, because I've only been its present war program. It replaces a The authors pull no punches in out since '42. succession of circulars which have their indictment of the New Deal's Since James L. Blanchard '43 was been published to supplement the planned economy, with its overlapping transferred from this field I am the last edition, for 1942-43. agencies and "swashbuckling adminis- only Cornellian left here. I sure hated This newest publication should be trators." They argue that when the to see him go, but he passes through carefully studied by all prospective law of supply and demand fixes a once in a while and we shoot the Cornellians, by their parents and market price above a food czar's breeze for a bit then. school advisors. It lists the subjects ceiling price, a black market is in- —Captain NORMAN L. BARRETT '42 and units required for entrance to the evitable. "In some cases it may be in several Colleges and describes the the public interest to violate the law general requirements for admission ... If consumers feel that they are From New Guinea to the University, privileges and re- not being treated equitably, a point is To THE EDITOR: sponsibilities of students, expenses, reached at which respectable folks Just a line to let you know how and means of financial aid. participate in the black market . . . welcome the ALUMNI NEWS is over The General Information Number The combined judgment of millions here. Receive each issue and it is read is being mailed to the chairmen of is a much more accurate appraisal from cover to cover. It passes through secondary schools committees of Cor- than the combined judgment of the many hands before it is finally put to nell Clubs and by many of them to administrators of a regimented econo- rest Men from all colleges and uni- schools in their territories. Copies my . . . The simple solution is to let versities in all parts of the country may be had from the Secretary of the the price system function . . . Any read it and then start the sessions on University, Morrill Hall, Ithaca. other solution is predestined to fail." 374 Cornell Alumni News his students going to war, which is reprinted on the next page. Necrology '06 BSA—Rob Roy Slocum, March The Faculty 3, 1944, at his home in Arlington, Va. He joined the Bureau of Animal In- Sumner Salter, Sage Chapel or- dustry, US Department of Agricul- Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, ganist, 1900-02, March 6, 1944, in ture, in 1906, working on the develop- Agriculture, Emeritus, was given a New York City, where he lived at 72 ment of standards and grades for birthday dinner by forty of his col- Barrow Street. A founder of the poultry and eggs. He became chief of leagues of the Faculty, to celebrate American Guild of Organists and a market standards and facilities in his eighty-sixth birthday, March 15. warden in 1899, Mr. Salter was di- 1942; was to retire April 1. Busy at the botanical classification rector of music at Williams College and nomenclature of plants, especially from 1905 until his retirement in 1923. '13 AB—Dr. Sanford Robinson Gif- palms, at the Bailey Hortorium which ford, February 25, 1944,*in Chicago, he and the late Mrs. Bailey gave to '86 ME (EE)—George Brown Dus- 111., where he lived at 720 North the University, Dr. Bailey says he inberre, July 25, 1943, at his home, Michigan Avenue. Author of several has jobs laid out for himself for many 140 Main Street, Wellsboro, Pa. He texts on ophthalmology, he was pro- years to come. He talked intimately of was with the Westinghouse Electric fessor and chairman of the department the early days of the College of Agri- & Manufacturing Co. from 1886-1907, of ophthalmology at Northwestern culture, of which he was Dean for ten and later was a consulting engineer University Medical School and head years until he retired in 1913. Pro- and owner of the Dusie Manufactur- of ophthalmology at Passevant Hos- fessor Herbert H. Whetzel, Plant ing Co., Wellsboro, Pa. Son, David pital, Chicago, 111. Dr. Gifϊord re- Pathology, was toastmaster at the W. Dusinberre '29. Psi Upsilon. ceived the MD at University of Ne- dinner, and Vice-president George H. braska in 1918. Sabine '03 and Professor Cornelius '99 ME (EE), '00 MME—E(rastus) Betten, PhD '06, spoke for the Uni- Lovette West, March 7, 1944, at his versity. home, 120 Hampshire Road, Bronx- '15 BS, '37 MS—Ray Ford Pollard, ville. General manager and vice- February 21, 1944, at his home in Professor Peter DeBye, Chemistry, president of Niagara-Hudson Power Cobleskill. He had been Schoharie spoke March 16 at a dinner following Co. until his retirement in 1929, he County agricultural agent for twenty- installation of a new chapter of Sigma was also president of Barstow Man- eight years. Son, Ray F. Pollard '45; Xi, national honorary society for the agement Association, Reading Transit daughter, Mary E. Pollard '44. promotion of science, at St. Louis & Light Co., and Metropolitan Edi- University, St. Louis, Mo. This was son Co. of Reading, Pa., and a direc- '19, '23 AB, '32 LLB—Alfred Hale Davis, March 13, 1944, in Bingham- one of five new chapters of Sigma Xi, tor of the General Gas & Electric which was founded at Cornell in 1886 Corp. ton, where he was rent division coun- sel for the district Office of Price Ad- and now has 130 chapters and mem- bership of about 50,000. '05 AB—Hendrik Willem van Loon, ministration. He practiced law in March 11, 1944, at Nieuw Veere, his Hobart and Bath. Dr. William F. Durand, who was home in Old Greenwich, Conn. Au- '37 AB—Lieutenant (jg) Benja- * professor of Marine Engineering for thor, historian, journalist, artist, mu- twelve years and Director of Sibley sician, lecturer, broadcaster, after- min Franklin Farber, Jr., USNR, Febr- uary 21, 1944, in an airplane crash. A College for a year before he went to dinner-speaker, and, briefly, college Stanford in 1904, was the guest of a professor, his books are reported to photographer for the Spot Film Co., he entered the Navy in January, distinguished gathering at dinner in have sold 6,000,000 copies. A native the Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C, of Rotterdam, Holland, he came to 1942, trained at Floyd Bennett Field, and was commissioned ensign at the to celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday, this country in 1902 and entered Arts March 5. It was also the occasion for and Sciences, spending his Junior Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. He was the son of Dr. Benjamin F. the appearance of a volume of Selected year at Harvard. Following work as Papers of William Frederick Durand, Associated Press correspondent in Farber, pastor of the Fourth Pres- byterian Church, and Mrs. Farber, reproduced from his voluminous writ- New York, Washington, Moscow, St. ings in varied fields of engineering Petersburg, and Warsaw, and gradu- 631 West End Avenue, New York City. Phi Delta Theta. and aeronautics. Representatives of ate work at the University of Munich, the War and Navy Departments where he received the PhD in 1911, '37, '40 CE—Lieutenant Arthur * spoke at the dinner, and the guests van Loon returned to Cornell as Slensby Waldron, Army Air Forces, included high officials of the United Lecturer in Modern European His- February 5, 1944, during an altitude States and British governments, presi- tory, 1915-17. His last visit to Ithaca test flight in England. Employed in dents of colleges and universities, and was in May, 1932, when he was in- the engineering department of Nickel presidents of the national engineer- vited to address the annual banquet of Plate Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio, and ing societies. Among the guests were Book and Bowl. At that time he also later in the engineering department of Frederick D. Herbert '97 of New lectured on "A Historian Looks at Pennsylvania Railroad's western di- York City, University Trustee Ezra Life," in the Willard Straight Theater, vision, Lieutenant Waldron enlisted B. Whitman '01, president of the introduced by Professor George L. in the Air Forces December 31, 1941. ASCE, and Frank O. Ellenwood, Burr '81. After the Nazi invasion of After receiving his wings at Moody John Edson Sweet Professor of Engi- Holland, van Loon organized a short- Field, Ga., in October, 1942, he went neering. Dr. James J. Jewett, presi- wave broadcast to that country, from to England as a pilot in the photo- dent of the National Academy of Boston. The program, designed to graphic reconnaisance squadron of the Science and chairman of the dinner, strengthen Dutch morale, was subse- Eighth Air Force; was awarded the characterized Dr. Durand as "the quently sponsored by the Free Nether- Air Medal shortly before his death. outstanding dean of the American lands Government. May 2, 1917, His home was at 1595 Arthur Avenue, engineering profession," and writes The Cornell Daily Sun published Cleveland, Ohio. Chi Psi. an Appreciation of him in the anni- anonymously van Loon's farewell to versary volume. A biographical sketch

April I, 1944 375 is by Elliott G. Reid of Stanford Uni- Samuel N. Spring, professor of Lieutenant Colonel Robert I. * versity, where Durand "retired" Forestry, 1912-32, will retire July 1 Dodge, Jr. '29, in charge of the ROTC twenty years ago, and a bibliography as dean of the New York State Col- Signal Corps at the University from of his writings occupies seventeen lege of Forestry at Syracuse Uni- 1940 to September, 1943, has been pages. Since 1941, Durand has been versity. ordered overseas. busy in Washington as chairman of a special committee of the National Professor Damon Boynton '31, Pom- Directory of thirty-six scientists Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ology, and Mrs. Boynton (Mary who received Borden Awards from and chairman of the engineering di- Fuertes) '31 have a daughter born 1937 to 1943 lists five Cornellians. vision of the National Research Coun- March 13, 1944. The baby is a grand- They are Professor Leo C. Norris '20, cil. daughter of the late Louis A. Fuertes Nutrition; Dr. Paul F. Sharp, until '97. 1942 professor of Dairy Chemistry; Textbooks by two more members Dr. Vigfus S. Asmundson, MSA '20, of the History Department have been Professor Helen C. Monsch, Home associate professor of poultry hus- selected by the US Armed Forces In- Economics," spent several weeks in bandry, University of California; Dr. stitute to be supplied to service men February at Dillard University, New William E. Krauss '22, chief of the de- and women overseas. The publishers Orleans, La., developing a nutrition partment of dairy industry, Ohio of Professor Carl Becker's Modern program for the university's students. Agricultural Experiment Station; and History and of Professor Max L. W. Dr. Byron H. Webb, PhD '31, of the Laistner's Survey pf Ancient History Bureau of Dairy Industry, US De- have asked the authors' assent to partment of Agriculture. special editions of their books for Vale atque Ave this purpose. Earlier, Professor Carl They are going. A second son, Richard Francis Stephenson's Mediaeval History was And there is something very fine Rideout, was born March 19 in similarly chosen. about the quiet way in which these Ithaca to Professor Blanchard L. boys have taken to their unpleasant Rideout, PhD '36, Romance Lan- Professor Alex M. Drummond, Di- task. There has not been any en- thusiasm. That was right. A war guages, and Mrs. Rideout (Anna rector of the University Theatre, at- like this does not ask for words but Roehrig) '35. tended a meeting in New York City for silent deeds. Our boys seem to March 16-18 of the National Theatre understand it. At odd moments they Conference committee on courses for drop into the office. There is very the educational program of the Armed little talk. State Establishes School "Going away?" Forces Institute. He and his fellow "Yes, Sir." (Continued from page 871) members of the committee conferred "Army or Navy?" sonal acquaintance, however, is likely with representatives of the joint "I don't know yet. I called up my to result from a program of joint Army and Navy Committee on Wel- people on the long distance phone last night. They said it was all right. training . . . Through common and fare and Recreation to set up a pro- So I am going to New York tonight mutual interest in the complex and gram for immediate use by the armed and then home to say good-bye." intricate problems in industrial and forces. "Want to go?" "Not particularly. But I suppose labor relations of the war and post- Professor Mortier F. Barrus, PhD it is the only thing to do." war periods, there will develop on ' 12, Plant Pathology Extension, mar- And that is all. each side an increasing confidence in They are going, and many of the integrity of the other ..." ried Maria Ortiz of Cayey, Puerto them will never come back. The Rico, March 17, in Ithaca. His pleasant life of mediocre endeavor Other significant contributions children by a former marriage are has come to an end. To be sure we which the school might make are Mrs. Henry S. Burleson (Elizabeth had never looked at them in the cited: "It can initiate research studies light of heroes. They were nice, Barrus) '33, Benjamin W. Barrus '37, lovable fellows. Their outlook upon on labor and industrial problems of Mortier F. Barrus, Jr. '37, and Mer- life was simplicity itself. Gradua- first-rate importance to the organiza- ton S. Barrus '39. tion and a job. Then, after a few tions from which the students are years another job, a little higher up. drawn and to the State as a whole. It Professor Lincoln D. Kelsey, Ex- Finally a home of their own and some nice girl to be their wife and can develop, more effectively than tension, is in Cairo, Egypt, on the a few babies and a car and two any other State agency, many types staff of the United Nations Rehabili- weeks' vacation to go hunting and of civic education. It can carry on ex- tation and Relief Administration. He fishing. Here and there a man with tension and other activities which met Howard W. Welch '38, an MP a hobby or the ambition to do, or write, or build, or achieve some would not only project its services officer, US Army, on detached duty as particular purpose. into every industrial center of the agricultural specialist in the economic To most of them, however, life State but continue its relations with branch of civil affairs. Professor Kel- meant a cheerful gift to be enjoyed its graduates. As the school develops sey and Welch were pictured in The as the faithful days came along. its prggram, new avenues of services Stars and Stripes inspecting a native There was no searching for hidden motives or for an ulterior purpose. will inevitably open up before it; wooden plow hitched to a team of The amiable Divinity of Things-as- avenues which will be limited only oxen. they-are ruled their realm. They by the resources at its disposal and accepted whatever came with a the vision of its faculty." Major William E. Stanley, who jf smile, and they did not ask ques- was professor of Sanitary Engineering tions. until he entered the Army in July, And now, without a word of warning, they have been asked to Rochester Hears Flyer 1942, was scheduled for retirement face the Invisible Mystery. There from active duty April 3 at Fort was no complaint. They packed /CORNELL Club of Rochester at its Leonard Wood, Mo., where he has their trunks and God bless them. ^-* regular luncheon meeting March been instructing in an "Army Engi- They are going. 22 at the University Club, heard Roy neers school. He was in North Africa Thus far they have been my stu- W. Harmon '16, manager of the dents. But now, in an humble and was sanitary officer in the Oran fashion I am grateful that I have Brizee-Harmon Airport, speak on campaign; returned to the United been their teacher.—'05 "Flying for the CAP on Atlantic States just before Christmas. Anti-Submarine Patrol." 376 Cornell Alumni News Personal items and newspaper dippings News of the Alumni about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'92 ME; '92 ME—George W. Drs. George W. Wheeler '07, Lucius University, he enlisted in the Marines Bacon, chairman of the board and a A. Wing '07, George F. Hoch '07, in August, 1942; went overseas last founder of Ford, Bacon & Davis, Daniel R. Reilly '07, and Dr. Laurie. year. Inc., engineers, 39 Broadway, New Ίl, '12 CE—Thomas W. Blinn '13 ME—Reynolds Longfield is York City, and George F. Davis '92, married Mrs. Ada B. Collins, January general manager of the East Haven, also a founder, now retired, spoke at 29, in Detroit, Mich., where they live Conn., plant, MB Manufacturing ceremonies marking the fiftieth anni- at 13288 Lauder Avenue. Blinn is as- Co., makers of precision airplane versary of the company, March 15. sistant engineer, engineering depart- parts. He lives at 1733 Whitney Organized in Philadelphia in 1894, the ment, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Avenue, Hamden, Conn. concern has offices in Washington, Railroad Co., Dearborn, Mich. His Chicago, Little Rock, Galveston, '14 ME; '45—Walter E. Addicks, * son, Thomas C. Blinn, Heavy Artil- for nine years Boston district man- Charleston, Knoxville, and New York lery, is stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. City; has a wartime-expanded staff ager, is now New York district man- of 16,000. '11 ME—William G. Christy, smoke ager for Cutler-Hammer, Inc., 8 abatement engineer for Hudson West Fortieth Street. His son, Robert '98 LLB—Judge Willard M. Kent, County, N. J., was recently appointed J. Addicks '45, Navy Seabees, is sta- Tompkins County Judge and Surro- a member of the National Fuel tioned at Camp Parks, Pleasanton, gate for twenty-nine years, has license Efficiency Council by Secretary of Cal. plate SJ-1 on his car this year be- Interior Harold Ickes. The Council '14 AB, '16 AM, '19 PhD—Dr. cause he has served as surrogate longer was organized by the US Bureau of Leon A. Hausman, professor of zool- than any other judge in New York Mines to promote fuel conservation. ogy at New Jersey College for Women, State. He was city judge and district Christy lives at 112 Hauxhurst is the author of The Illustrated En- attorney for several years before en- Avenue, Weehawken, N. J. cyclopedia of American Birds, re- tering general law practice in 1909; cently published by Halcyon House, was elected County Judge in 1915. '12 AB, '42 AM—Louis C. Boochever, former University Direc- which includes description of every '02 ME — Brigadier General + tor of Public Information, spoke North American bird ever reported. Charles D. Young, US Army, Retired, March 3, on shortened college courses Dr. Hausman is consulting orni- was appointed March 16 by President at a district meeting of the American thologist at the New Jersey State Roosevelt acting director of the Office College Publicity Association in New Agricultural Experiment Station and of Defense Transportation, following York City. Boochever is with Hill & lecturer in ornithology at the State the death of Joseph B. Eastman, Knowlton, public relations counsel, College of Agriculture. director of ODT. General Young had New York City. been deputy director of the Office for '16 BArch; '47; Ί7 LLB—Joan the past year. Vice-president of the '12 ME; '46—Carl M. Jackson, Dall '47 christened the Navy mine- Pennsylvania Railroad, General president of the Fuel & Supply Co., sweeper USS Density, March 5, at Young became director of procure- Inc., Sackets Harbor, spent last year the Tampa Shipbuilding Co. yards, ment and distribution, Army Services with the WPB in Washington, D. C, Tampa, Fla. Miss Dall is the daugh- of Supply, in 1942, and joined ODT allocating used machine tools. His ter of the late Jes J. Dall, Jr. '16, when he reached retirement age in daughter, Jeanne S. Jackson '46, is who with George B. Howell '17, July, 1942. married to Captain James F. Con- chairman of the board and a director way, Field Artillery, now in Italy. of the company, started the building '06, '08 ME, '10 MME—Dr. George of the shipyard, and directed the '12 ME—Private First Class War- W. Lewis, former instructor in Me- rapid construction of plant facilities ren Ripley, USMC, son of Joseph P. chanical Engineering, now director of until his death in June, 1942. A Ripley '12, 277 Park Avenue, New aeronautical research, National Ad- tablet at the base of the shipyard's York City, was killed in action in the visory Committee on Aeronautics, eighty-foot flagpole commemorates Southwest Pacific, according to word was awarded February 21 the honor- him. ary Doctor of Engineering at Illinois received by his parents March 16. A student at Bard College, Columbia '17 ME—Lieutenant Colonel * Institute of Technology. In 1934 he William C. Bliss, Ordnance, is over- received the DSc at Norwich Uni- seas. Mrs. Bliss lives at The Broad- versity, and two years later the For reasons of security, complete mail- moor, Colorado Springs, Colo. Guggenheim Medal of the Institute ing addresses of members of the armed forces, except those in training camps '17 BS—Private Eleanor Poole, * of Aeronautical Sciences, of which he within the United States, cannot be pub- was president in 1939. In 1937, he was lished. Designations of military units and in the WAC since February, is at plenipotentiary delegate of the United the addresses of Naval ships, although Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for basic train- States to the Inter-American Tech- required for postal delivery, may be of ing; her address, A130368, Co. 16, great value to the enemy if published. 21st Regiment. nical Aviation Conference in Lima, If, therefore, you wish to correspond Peru. with Cornell friends in the services whose '18, '21 WA; '95—Lieutenant * '07 MD—Dr. Benjamin W. Sea- names appear in the News without com- Commander Richard P. Matthiessen, plete addresses, the Alumni News will USNR, is on duty with the Pacific man is retiring, because of ill health, undertake to forward letters from its sub- from the practice of surgery at scribers. Seal your letter in an envelope fleet. He is the son of the late Frank Hempstead, where he has. been for bearing the full name and rank or grade, Matthiessen '95. twenty-five years chief surgeon at if known, of your correspondent, your own '18, '20 AB; '21 AB; '44; '47— * return address, and first-class postage. Nassau Hospital. Dr. Thomas F. Mail this to us in another envelope and P. Paul Miller is vice-president of the Laurie '07 of Syracuse writes that at we will add the last-known address and General Ice-Cream Corp., Schenec- a dinner given for him at the Garden forward your letter. tady, where he and Mrs. Miller City Country Club, March 1, were (Sara E. Speer) '21 live at 1279 April i, 1944 377 Lowell Road. Their son, Private First Navy Seabee battalions at Midway '27 BS—Marjorie I. Grant is in Class Peter P. Miller, Jr. '44, has Island and Pearl Harbor. His family China with the American Red Cross; been at the University in the ROTC- lives at 114 Parker Street, Ithaca. address, American Red Cross, APO ASTP, and their daughter, Elizabeth '20 AB—Write Lieutenant Com- * 627, care Postmaster, New York City. S. Miller '47, is a student in Arts and mander Russell H. Peters, USNR, Her home is in Groton. Sciences. care Inspector of Naval Material, '27—Edward G. Trimble, Jr. has * '18, '21 AB—Henry W. Roden Free Press Building, Detroit 26, Mich. been commissioned lieutenant (jg), was appointed March 6 vice-presi- USNR, and is stationed at the Naval dent of American Home Products '22 LLB—Joaquin Servera y Training School, Hollywood Beach Corp., New York City, in charge of Travieso is legal advisor to the Hotel, Hollywood, Fla. his company's newly-formed food Rubber Development Corp., US Government agency, in Brazil. His '28, '31 AB—Stanley Schaefer is division which comprises Harold H. one of a jury of five appointed by the Clapp, Inc., makers of baby foods; address is Rua Santa Luzia No. 798, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Textbook Clinic of the American In- G. Washington Coffee Refining Co.; stitute of Graphic Arts to select the and P. Duff & Sons, Inc., manu- '23 BArch—John S. Parke, presi- " Sixty Textbooks of 1944" on the facturers of baking mixes. Secretary dent of Vermilya-Brown Co., Inc., basis of excellence of typographical of the Class of '18 and a member Chi 100 East Forty-second Street, New design, illustration, printing, and bind- Phi, Roden is the author of "You York City, was elected in January ing. The sixty books selected will be Only Hang Once," murder mystery executive vice-president of the Co- exhibited in New York City during published recently. He continues as lumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the week of May 22 and afterwards president of Harold H. Clapp, Inc. 622 West 168th Street, New York sent on tour throughout the United and Harold H. Clapp, Ltd., Canada, City. Parke has been connected with States. Schaefer, formerly University with offices at 22 East Fortieth Street, the building of the Medical Center Publisher and manager of the Uni- New York City. Roden is also a since soon after his graduation, when versity Press and Comstock Publish- member of the board of directors, he planned the excavation of the ing Co., is production manager of War Advertising Council, and of the Center's initial building in 1924. He F. S. Crofts & Co., New York City. Grocery Manufacturers' Association, lives at 40 Carleon Avenue, Larch- and a member of the administrative mont. '28, '29 BArch—S. Belmont * board of Annual Advertising Awards. '24—John A. Tallant is in charge of Segar is a lieutenant, USNR, sta- tioned at Charlestown Navy Yard, '18 BS, '20 MF—Lieutenant * public relations, technical publica- tions, and advertising for Hycar Boston, Mass. He lives at 33 Dedham Commander Samuel C. Sweeny, US- Street, Newton Highlands, Mass. NR, communications officer at the Chemical Co., 335 South Main Street, Charleston, S. C, Navy Yard, has Akron 8, Ohio. His home address is '29 AB—Rosalie F. Cohen is a been ordered overseas. Associated Box 47, Stow, Ohio. rehabilitation aide at the Valley Forge with the West Virginia Pulp & Paper '25 ME—Archibald T. Miller is General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pa. Co. for nineteen years, Commander with Eclipse-Pioneer Division, Ben- Write her at 213 Main Street, Sweeny was resident manager and dix Aviation Corp., Teterboro, N. J. Phoenixville, or at her home address, agent in North Carolina for the com- Formerly with The Barrett Division, 1645 Grand Concourse, Apartment pany when he was called to active Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., New 6D, New York City. duty, July 21, 1941. His home is at York City, Miller lives at 125 God- '29 AB—Stevens L. Werner started Masonboro Sound, Wilmington, N. C. win Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J. work with Pathfinder Magazine, '19, '20 LLB—William E. Vogel '26 AB—Melvin A. Albert, formerly Washington, D. C, January 1. He married Mrs. Marie S. Benedict of with the law firm of Weisman, Celler, married Vivian Lescher, Bennington Rochester, December 11, 1943. He is Quinn, Allan & Spett, opened his College graduate, last June, and they a member of the law firm of Burke & own office March 6 in the Paramount live at 2017 Rittenhouse Street, Burke, 72 Wall Street, New York Building, Suite 504, 1501 Broadway, Green Meadows, Md. City, and he and Mrs. Vogel live at 54 New York City. '30 AB, '32 AM, '35 PhD; '28 AB— Parkway South, Mt. Vernon. '26—D. Boardman Lee has trans- Robert P. Ludlum and Mrs. Ludlum '19, '20 CE—Benjamin N. Fishman ferred from the Office of Price Ad- (Ruth A. Smith) '28 have a second is a member of J. T. Sullivan Lumber ministration to the Department of daughter, Margaret D. Ludlum, born Co., and lives at 131-33 224th Street, Justice, Washington, D. C, where he February 1, 1944. Ludlum is associate Laurelton. His son, Ted Fishman, is is in the war frauds unit of the Claims secretary of the American Association in the Navy V-12 program at the Division. of University Professors and they live University. at 4516 Dittmar Road, Arlington, Va. '27, '28 AB—Bernard Aronson * Mrs. Ludlum is the daughter of the '19 CE—Commander Leonard ir was promoted to major January 15, late Professor Albert W. Smith '78, Miscall, Seabees, USNR, is directing at the Army Air Forces Redistribu- Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, the building of "the road that couldn't tion Station 2, Miami Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Smith (Ruby Green), PhD be built" somewhere in the Caribbean where he is acting executive officer. '14. war theater. A story in the Miami, President of Bernard Aronson Co., '30, '32 BS—Charles P. Mead * Fla., Herald, February 20, says, brokers, New York City, before he has been promoted to captain, US "Eight miles the road stretches over a entered the Army in May, 1942, Army, in England, where he is an solid rock mountain through which Major Aronson was made captain in intelligence officer with the Army Air the construction experts must shoot March, 1944; has been executive Forces. Mrs. Mead lives at 219 Chest- every foot of their way with dyna- officer of the Miami Fighter Wing, ad- nut Street, Ithaca. mite, while ducking landslides and ministrative inspector of the Boston trying to keep precious machinery Air Defence Wing, and assistant air '31 BS—Private Rexford A. * from sliding off the side of precipices officer at the New Orleans, La., Port Ransley is in the First HEC, Co. 1, as much as a mile straight down." of Embarkation. He and Mrs. Aron- Fourth Regiment, Camp Reynolds, Commander Miscall, a former Ithaca son live at 3114 Prairie Avenue, Greenville, Pa. engineering consultant, also directed Miami Beach, Fla. '33 CE—George B. Schoolcraft * 378 Cornell Alumni News has been promoted to lieutenant '37 BS; '37 BS; '15 AB—War- * candidate school at Camp Barkley, colonel, US Army, in the Panama rant Officer John D. Henderson, 447th Tex. Inducted into the Army last Canal Zone, where he is an executive Signal Construction Battalion, is over- June in the Canal Zone where he was officer in the engineer division. He seas. Write him care T. Henderson, on the staff of the Panama Canal went to Panama in June, 1942, after Hill Street, Southampton, Long Is- clubhouses, Corporal Tatum was form- twenty-two months as assistant con- land. Mrs. Henderson is the former erly employed by the Stevens Hotel, struction quartermaster at Fort Bragg, E. Sharrott Mayer '37, daughter of Chicago, 111. N. C. William H. Mayer, Jr. '15. '39 BS in AE—Captain John P. * '33 CE—Colonel Paul F. Yount, * '37—H. Theodore Kemp has * Griffin, Ordnance, is overseas. His Transportation Corps, is in charge of been promoted to first lieutenant, home address is RD 1, Erie, Pa. Mrs. the Trans-Iranian Railroad trans- US Army, at Headquarters, Fourth Griffin lives at 1761 North Troy porting supplies and equipment to Service Command, Atlanta, Ga., Street, Arlington, Va. Russia through Iran. His home is at where he is in the procedure branch '39 AB; '42 BS—Robert T. Horn, * 4817 Thirty-sixth Street, NW, Wash- of the control division, Army Service flying instructor at Perrin Field, Tex., ington, D. C. Forces. Lieutenant Kemp, who has has been promoted to first lieutenant been assigned to Fourth Service Com- '34 PhD—Second Lieutenant * in the Army Air Forces. Mrs. Horn Welsey B. Carroll, former instructor mand Headquarters since last No- (Margaret Rogalsky) '42 and their in English, completed the course at vember, lives at 1194 Rock Springs daughter are with him at Sherman, Air Intelligence School, Harrisburg, Road, Atlanta, Ga. Tex. Mrs. Horn is the daughter of Pa., and visited Ithaca March 7. He '37, '38 BS—K. Antoinette Mak- * George F. Rogalsky '07, University is combat intelligence officer with a arainen has been commissioned en- Treasurer. heavy bomber squadron. sign, WAVES, on graduation from '39 AB; ΊO ME—Private First • '35 BS—Captain William C. * Midshipmen's School, Northampton, Class George L. Kalb, ASN 16152262, Haynes, Medical Corps, formerly at Mass., and is assistant commissary is in Co. F, 801st Signal Training Fort Bliss, Tex., is overseas. His officer at the Naval Training Sta- Regiment, Camp Murphy, Fla. He is home address is 422 West Main tion, Great Lakes, 111. the son of Lewis P. Kalb '10. Street, Waterloo. '38 AB; '99 PhD—Lieutenant * Forrest Durham, who spent several '39 MD; '39 MD; '39 MD; '36 * '35 DVM, '36 MS, '40 PhD; '40 AB AM—Major Louis R. Kent, Medical —Dr. Winfield S. Stone and Mrs. days in February on leave in Ithaca, is with the AAATC, Camp Haan, Cal. Corps, in the medical detachment of a Stone (Margaret G. Work) '40 have a parachute infantry regiment overseas, daughter, Martha R. Stone, born He is the son of Professor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, Emeritus. writes, "It is a real thrill to receive the January 29. Mrs. Stone is the daugh- ALUMNI NEWS SO regularly and to ter of Professor Paul Work, MSA '13, '38, '39 BS; '13 CE—William * learn all about what goes on at home Vegetable Crops, and Mrs. Work F. McClintock was promoted to cap- as they wage the home-front battle. (H. Grace Nicholas) '14. tain, Army Air Forces, February 23, Here we prepare to deliver the knock- '35 BS—Carlton A. Talcott, head at Midland, Tex., where he is on the out blow to Hitler." He reports seeing of the accounting department at GLF staff of the Central Instructors' Captains Edgar R. Hyde, Jr. '39 and Soil Building Service, Ithaca, married School. He was in England five August M. Kleeman, Jr., '39, Medical Mary L. Emmick, February 12, in months and in North Africa seven Corps. Write Major Kent and Mrs. Oxford. They live at 505 East State months before he returned to the Kent (Lois M. Schoonover) AM '36, Street, Ithaca. United States last July. He is the son care Stanley B. Kent, 3 Summit of Ward G. McClintock '13, Depart- Road, Beacon Hill, Port Washington. '36 BS—Captain Thomas E. * ment of Buildings and Grounds. Bennett, General Staff Corps, has '39 BS—Second Lieutenant Wil- * been awarded a medal for heroism in '38 '40 BS '14—Aviation Cadet * liam R. Kunsela was graduated re- the Mediterranean area. His citation George G. Schempp, 110 Park Street, cently from the Flying Fortress pilot reads, in part, "When the officers he Ithaca, is at pre-flight school, Max- training school, Hendricks Field, Se- had accompanied on a reconnaissance well Field, Ala. His brother, Lieu- bring, Fla. He was commissioned mission were seriously wounded by an tenant John A. Schempp '40, is in second lieutenant November 3, 1943, exploding mine, Captain Bennett, in Fortress pilot training at Hendricks at Freeman Field, Ind. His home is in an effort to evacuate them to a clear- Field, Sebring, Fla. Lieutenant Trumansburg. ing station where adequate medical Schempp, in the service since Janu- ary 3, 1942, was commissioned at '39, '40 BS—Air Student How- * treatment could be given, directed his ard E. Ross has been appointed corps vehicle over unfamiliar terrain, Turner Field, Albany, Ga., in Octo- ber, 1942. He and his brother are the commander of the 65th College Train- through uncharted enemy mine fields, ing Detachment at Syracuse Uni- despite almost total darkness." Cap- sons of Mrs. Alfred Haley, Jr. (Beatrice C. George) '14. versity, ^ίrs. Ross (Ellen J. Langer) tain Bennett's home address is 202 '40 is with the Southern States Co- South Hill Terrace, Ithaca. '38, '39 AB; '11—Ensign Irwin * operative, Baltimore, Md., where she '36 CE; '33 BS—Asa George * W. Tyson, USNR, has been on sea lives with her daughter, Joanne Ross, has been promoted to lieutenant, duty since last August. He is son of and her parents at 3223 Brighton Civil Engineer Corps, USNR, at the Oscar S. Tyson '11, 36 Mamaroneck Street. Road, White Plains. Naval Air Base, Daytona Beach, '39 BS—Leslie N. Scott, manager Fla. His brother, Lieutenant Abra- '38 BS—Gordon H. Strite, US * of the Wool-Scott Bakery, in Febru- ham George, Jr. '33, US Army, is in Army, has been promoted to captain ary returned to Ithaca on leave after Italy. in England. He is the son of the Rev. fifteen and a half months with the '37 BS—Captain Herbert N. * W. W. Strite and Mrs. Strite of Varna. American Field Service in the Middle Adams, Adjutant General's Depart- '38 BS—Corporal Walter T. * East and Europe. He was with the ment, has been transferred from Camp Tatum, US Army, a clerk in a post Fifth Army in Italy aiding in the Grant, 111., to Fort Custer, Mich., headquarters, Panama Canal Zone, evacuation of the wounded since three where he is post classification officer. has been selected to attend officer days after the landing at Salerno. April /, 1944 379 is in Italy. He is the son of Roland R. Pacific. He was promoted to captain Graham '12, 716 Forest Avenue, in July, 1943, and to major in Janu- Westfield, N. J. ary, 1944, when he became operations '40 BS—Lieutenant (jg) Rodney * officer of his unit. S. Hatch, Jr., USNR, married Ensign '41 BS—Private Anges I. Clark * Marjorie D. Miller, USNR, February joined the Marine Corps Women's 7, 1944, in New York City. Reserve in January, and is stationed at the Recruit Depot, 27th Battalion, '40 AB; '25 AB; '13 LLB—First * Co. L, Platoon 4, Barracks 128, Camp Lieutenant A. Catherine Myers, US Lejeune, New River, N. C. She was MC (WR), recently promoted and on associate Farm Security Administra- recruiting duty at the Buffalo office, tion supervisor in Baldwinsville. wears the silver bar of former lieu- tenant Helen E. Perrell '25, now a '41 BS—First Lieutenant Gerard * captain in the Marine Corps Women's T. Clarke is on the staff and faculty, Reserve. Lieutenant Myers is the Department of Materiel, Field Ar- daughter of J. Waldo Myers '13. tillery School, Fort Sill, Okla. He has She visited the Campus in February. been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action in the Tunisian '40 BS—Lieutenant (jg) Allan * campaign and the Purple Heart; was '40, '43 CE—Second Lieutenant * Reffler, USNR, married Joan M. at the Walter Reed Hospital, Wash- George F. Mueden, Jr., AUS, (above) Brokaw, February 12, in New York ington, D. C, until his present assign- and Lieutenant LeRoy Vance USN, City. ment. write from Walter Reed Hospital, '40 BS in AE (ME)—Sidney L. * Washington, D. C, "The Wounded '41 BME—Apprentice Seaman ^r Scott has been promoted to major at Elza W. Dozier, Jr., USNR, is in Co. Have a Future/' in the Saturday the Ninth Air Service Command in Evening Post for March 11. Both 375, Naval Training Station, Great England, where he is post signal Lakes, 111. wounded in service, the co-authors officer at an advance station. Major describe the remarkable results which Scott was with the National Carbon '41—Henry I. Flinn, Jr. gradu- * are being accomplished by the Army Co., Cleveland, Ohio, before entering ated as a fighter pilot January 7 at and Navy medical services for the the Army. Mrs. Scott lives at 5107 Pampa Field, Tex. He was commis- physical and psychological rehabilita- Central Avenue, Tampa, Fla. sioned second lieutenant. Lieutenant tion of disabled soldiers and sailors, Flinn's home address is 200 Thomas and suggest how civilians also can '40, '41 DVM—Dr. Eric W. Sim- Avenue, Montgomery, Ala. help them to recovery. Mueden went mons is a veterinarian in Concord, N. H., at 286 Pleasant Street. '41 BS in AE (ME)—Porter W. * to the Canal Zone with several other Gifϊord, Jr., Air Service Command, Cornellians in July, 1941, to work as '40—Second Lieutenant James ^ has been promoted to major in an engineer on the structural steel for H. Stephenson, a navigator with the England, where he is chief of an air- the third locks of the Panama Canal. Eighth Air Force in England, who craft maintenance section in a head- He was commissioned in the 87th had been missing in action since quarters squadron at an advanced air Field Artillery Battalion in February, January 26, is a prisoner of war in depot. A construction engineer with 1942, and was on duty at Fort Davis, Germany, according to information Gifford-Hill Co., Dallas, Tex., before Canal Zone. In January, 1943, he received from the War Department he was called to active duty in Octo- lost a leg in a collision between two by his father, Professor Carl Stephen- ber, 1941, Major Gifford has also been nine-ton half-tracks, and was first son, History. on duty in Cairo, Egypt, and Abadon, hospitalized in New Orleans, La., '40 AB—Lieutenant George E. it Iran. His home address is 3708 Maple- going to Walter Reed Hospital in wood Avenue, Dallas, Tex. February, 1943. He is pictured prac- Warner, February 11, married Mary ticing walking before a mirror two B. Gaebler. He is an instructor at the '41 BS; '12 BSA; '12 BS— * weeks after his artificial leg was Field Artillery Headquarters School, Robert B. Goodman was commis- fitted; he has now returned to duty Fort Bragg, N. C, and they live in sioned second lieutenant February 18 at the Army War College in Wash- Fayetteville, N. C. on graduation from the Army Air ington. As an undergraduate, Mueden '41—Officially credited with two + Forces Training Command School, was steward of Beta Theta Pi, a Zeros, one of Ithaca's most decorated Yale University. Son of Professor cadet officer of the ROTC, and presi- airmen, Major Paul J. Slocum, pur- Alpheus M. Goodman '12, Agri- dent of the ASCE and member of suit pilot with the Army Air Forces, cultural Engineering, and Mrs. Good- Pyramid. He is the son of George F. has returned to the United States man (Clara W. Browning) '12, Lieu- Mueden '04, and Margaret L. Stecker after two years in Australia and New tenant Goodman worked in the farm '06 is his stepmother. (Picture repro- Guinea. Veteran of 225 combat mis- supplies division of GLF until he duced by special permission of The sions, and for a year and a half sta- entered the Army, March 16, 1942. Saturday Evening Post, copyright 1944 tioned in New Guinea within thirty- '41 BS—Private Marianne Har- * by The Curtis Publishing Co.) five miles of a Japanese air base, tog, A 207347, is in Co. 22, Regiment Major Slocum has never been 21, Third WAC Training Center, '40 AB; '18 B S—Lieutenant * wounded, shot down, or forced to bail Eleanore R. Botsford, Army Nurse Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for five weeks of out. He holds the Air Medal with basic training. Corps, is in England. Daughter of three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Silver Professor Harold E. Botsford '18, Star, and the Distinguished Flying '41 AB—Lieutenant Frederic T. * Poultry Husbandry, Extension, Lieu- Cross with an Oak Leaf Cluster. He Joint, USNR, who is on a destroyer tenant Botsford is a graduate of Johns reported March 8 at the Redistribu- escort, visited the Campus recently. Hopkins Hospital, and has been in tion Center, Atlantic City, N. J., for His permanent address is Savona. uniform since October 15, 1943. reassignment. Major Slocum enlisted '41 BS—Kenneth N. Jolly has * '40 CE; '12 CE—Roland R. * in the Air Corps April 25, 1941, and been promoted to first lieutenant, Graham, Jr., captain in the US Army, soon after December 7 was sent to the Army Air Forces Troop Carrier Com- 380 Cornell Alumni News maud, in England. His home is at 410 S. C. The Chrystall's home address is Jr., son of Ralph C. Schwartz '08, is East Marshall Street, Ithaca. 311 East Seventy-second Street, New doing research in exterior ballistics at '41 BS; '41 AB; '41 AB—Cor- * York City 21. the Ballistic Research Center, Aber- poral Harold F. McCullough and Mrs. '42 BS—Lieutenant Abraham it deen Proving Ground, Md.; address, McCullough (Florence W. James) '41 Froehlich, US Army, is assistant Detachment C, Barracks T-353. Pri- have a son, Charles Vance McCul- laboratory officer at the Station Hos- vate Robert P. Dedlow '43, son of lough, born October 22, 1943. He is pital, Camp Gruber, Okla., where he Carl Dedlow Ί5, is also in ballistic named for Lieutenant C. Vance Mc- was formerly adjutant. Also at the research at the Proving Ground. He Kendrick '41, USMCR, who was killed hospital are Captain Carl L. Ells- and Schwartz were formerly at the last year. McCullough, wearer of No. worth '32, Captain Aaron H. Meister University of Minnesota, doing re- 63 on his Varsity football uniform, is '25, and Lieutenant Royal A. Sulli- search in combustion. at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., in the 63d van '29. '42 BS—Ensign Winslow W. * Division of the 253d Infantry, Co. D. '42 BS; '44—Catherine M. * Stilwell is in Naval Air Transport 3, Mrs. McCullough lives at 110 Han- Grenci is a research bacteriologist in Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kans. cock Street, Brooklyn 16. the department of medicine at the '42, '43 BArch; '42, '43 BArch— * '41 BS—John E. Medevielle mar- University of Illinois. She lives at Lilian P. Sturges, daughter of Frank ried Margery Loud in January, 1942, 1804 Congress Street, Chicago, 111. Sturges '16, was married February 27 and has two children, Richard Mede- Miss Grenci's brother, Private First in Elmhurst, 111., to Ensign Curtis S. vielle and Patricia Medevielle. He is a Class Joseph J. Grenci '44, Infantry, Woolford, Jr. '42, USNR, son of the flying steward for Pan American Air- is overseas. late Mrs. Curtis S. Woolford '17, and ways; lives in Forest Hills, Long '42 AB—Corporal Robert L. • grandson of the late Judge Frank Island. Harris, son of John B. Harris '01, Irvine '80. '41 AB—According to a tele- ir writes from Officer Candidate School, '43 BCE—Ensign Jerry Cohen, * gram received from the Foreign Fort Sill, Okla., that in his class are USNR, is stationed at the Naval Broadcasting Intelligence Service Corporals John M. Beers '45, Ed- Unit, US Army-Navy Engine Train- February 21 by his father, Emmons ward J. Beckhorn '44, Jerome Levitan ing School, Brainard Field, Hartford, B. Randall of West Branch', Mich., '44, and William A. Williams '45. Also Conn. His home is at 2300 Peabody First Lieutenant Robert C. Randall, at Fort Sill are Joseph W. Finch '44, Drive, Blytheville, Ark. Army Air Force, is a prisoner of war Laurence A. Quinlivan, Jr. '44, Lieu- '43—John M. Cole married Con- in Germany. tenant Charles A. Colbert '43, who is stance Cole of Darien, Conn., March in the Replacement Training Center, 4, 1944. '41 AB—Kenneth O. Reed, navi- * William J. Cochrane '43, John J. gator of the "Skylark," a Liberator Roscia '42, and Frederick J. Ander- '43—Mario F. George, pilot of a * bomber, has been promoted to first son '43, who left recently for Pitts- Flying Fortress with the Eighth lieutenant in England. The son of burg, Kans. Army Air Force in England, recently Professor Harold L. Reed, PhD '14, promoted to first lieutenant, has been Economics, Lieutenant Reed joined '42 AB—Second Lieutenant Or- * awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to his the Army July 15, 1941, as a second mond M. Hessler, US Army, is a Air Medal for "courage, coolness, and lieutenant in Infantry; was a student prisoner of war in Germany; address, skill" in five additional combat mis- officer at the AAF Navigation School Gefangenennumer 1511, Lager-Be- sions over Europe. Employed by from May, 1942, to January, 1943. zeichnung, Kriegsgef-Ofnzierlager 64, International Business Machines He graduated as a navigator at Sel- Deutschland (Allemagne). Lieutenant Corp. before he enlisted in the AAF, man Field, Monroe, La. Hessler went to England for training Lieutenant George was commissioned in the summer of 1942, then to North in March, 1943. His home is at 3H '41 '07 BArch—Ensign Robert * Africa, where he was captured. B. Tallman, (CEC) USNR, joined the Adams Avenue, Endicott. Seabees as a second class seaman in '42, '43 BS in AE (ME)— • '43 BS—Simeon R. Gluckson, who April, 1942; was commissioned ensign Joseph C. Kandiko is a test engineer is employed at the Fuerst Stock last November. On duty in the Pacific in the Pittsfield, Mass., plant of the Farm, Pine Plains, is convalescing for the last twenty-one months, he is General Electric Co. He lives at the after a seven-week illness. Write him Y M C A, Pittsfield, Mass. on the staff of the commander-in- at 65 Central Park West, New York chief of the Pacific Ocean areas. En- '42, '43 BCE—Peter T. Nevius is City. sign Tallman, son of Carl C. Tallman liaison engineer with Fairchild Camera '43 AB; '44—Lieutenant Hugh * '07, 107 Cayuga Heights Road, Ithaca, & Instrument Co., New York City. M. Grey, Jr., Army Air Forces, is sees regularly Ensign Richard M. He lives at 45 East Sixty-sixth Street, stationed at Venice Air Base, Venice, Bilger '40, Lieutenant Millard L. New York City 21. Fla. He and Mrs. Grey (Lucille Brown '41, Lieutenant John T. Jack- '42 AB—Captain Evan J. Parker, * Jones) '44 live at Silva Court Apart- son '42, Captain Norman F. Moody Jr., US Army, writes from England, ments, Apartment 6, Sarasota, Fla. '40, and Frank N. Rothwell '42. Tall- "The first mail I received here was a '43 BS '42 BCE—Evelyn K. Hbl- man has "but one complaint—no copy of the ALUMNI NEWS forwarded lister is a science teacher at .Central snow!" some time ago, and now I'm looking School, Kendall. Her engagement to '41 AB—First Lieutenant Jules * forward to the next one." His home Laurence E. Peterson '42, now work- A. Wiener won his wings as a fighter address is Peters Pike, Troy, Ohio. ing in the Bureau of Ships, Navy De- pilot January 7 on graduation from '42 AB; '15, '16 AB—Nancy * partment, Washington, D. C, has Altus Field, Okla. Parrish is director of "Hep House, been announced. '42 AB—Claire Chrystall was mar- the Syracuse YWCA version of the '43 AB; '46; '06 AB—Ensign * ried January 22 to Lieutenant LeRoy teen-age dry night clubs " address, William H. Hopple, Jr., USNR, is Seckler, who is stationed at the Army 339 East Onondaga Street, Syracuse. stationed at an amphibious base in Air Base, Hearns, Utah. Mrs. Seckler She is the daughter of Mrs. Malcolm England. His brother, Aviation Cadet is the sister of Lieutenant David M. Parrish (Elsa C. Cornell) '15. Richard V. Hopple, is in the 95th Chrystall '38, who is with the Air '42, '43 BS in AE (ME); '43 * College Training Detachment, Beloit Borne Command, Camp Mackall, BME—Private Ralph C. Schwartz, College, Beloit, Wise. They are the

April /, 1944 381 sons of William H. Hopple '06, with Corps in December, 1943; went over- PROFESSIONAL Cin-Made Corp., 801 East Third seas last June. His home address is DIRECTORY Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff. '43 AB; '43 AB; '43 AB—Anne M. '43 BS in AE (ME); '43 AB— * OF CORNELL ALUMNI Hubbard is a laboratory assistant in Lieutenant Edward C. Mabbs, US the electronics department of General Army, is in the 516th Field Artillery NEW YORK AND VICINITY Electric Co., Schenectady. She shares Battalion, Camp Shelby, Miss. Write an apartment at 1630 Carrie Street him and Mrs. Mabbs (Margaret E. RE A RET A *—Folded and interfolded facial tissues with Lucille E. Jenks '43 and Mar- Von Paulsen) '43 care Arrington, for th r tcril trade. garet H. Shaw '43. Miss Jenks' en- RFD 6, Hattiesburg, Miss. S'WIPES*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue, gagement to Wilson E. McGown, Jr. '43 BS; '21 BS; '20 BS—Jean Mc- packed Rat, folded and interfolded, in bulk or has been announced. boxes, ίor hospital use. Connell, daughter of James A. Mc- FIBREDOWN*—Absorbent and non - absorbent '43 AB; '43 AB—Ensign Jack A. * Connell '21 and the former Lois A. cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. Kaman, USNR, is in Scotland. He Zimmerman '20, was married March FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING—in writes that he has seen Jean M. Saks 7 in Ithaca to Francis E. Carroll, several attractive designs. '43; enjoyed reading the ALUMNI Villanova College graduate. Both are FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING— NEWS with him. chemists for Lever Brothers Co., and For hospital and sick room use. '43 BS—Mildred R. Keith was mar- they live at 52 Trowbridge Street, *Trade Mark reg. U. S. Pat. Off. ried June 2, 1943, to Lieutenant Cambridge, Mass. THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY Herbert I. Bohnet, Jr., AAF. While '43 BS — Corporal Alfred V. * D. C. Taggart Ί6 - - - Pres.-Treat. Lieutenant Bohnet, a Liberator pilot, Meyers is stationed in England. His is stationed in England, Mrs. Bohnet home is at 2114 Seventy-seventh ROYAL MANUFACTURING CO. is living with her parents in Newark Street, Brooklyn. PERTH AMBOY, N. J. Valley. '43—Private Nickolas Nickou is * GEORGE H. ADLER '08, Vice President '43 BS—Mary E. Kolar was mar- Manufacturers of Wiping and Lubricating in Co. 1, Barracks 11, Armory, Uni- Waste — Dealers in Wiping Rags, Spin- ried March 6 in Ithaca to Ensign versity of Illinois, Champaign, 111. ning, Felting and Batting Stocks, Clothing Clarence B. Mitchell, Jr., USNR, of He is studying basic engineering in Clips, and Rayon Wastes Barnsdall, Okla. Mrs. Kolar was the ASTP there. formerly with the Norwich Pharma- STANTON CO.—REALTORS '43—Captain Richard H. Ogden * cal Co., Norwich. The couple live in piloted one of the American bombers GEORGE H. STANTON '20 California. that bombed Berlin early in March. Real Estate and Insurance On his return he said, "I'd have given MONTCLAIR and VICINITY a million dollars for a stove up there. 16 Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel. 2-6000 I wore two suits of heavy underwear and a heated flying suit, but still I The "Fuller Construction Co. got awfully cold." Captain Ogden, J. D. TULLER, Ό9, President who enlisted in the American Air BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, Forces in January, 1942, has been in England since last April; was pro- DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS moted to captain last October, when WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS he was advanced to operations of- A. J. Dillβnbβck Ί1 C. P. B ylαnd '31 ficer. His home address is 105 Main C. E. Wallace '27 T. G. Wallace '34 Street, Groton. 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. '43 BS—Pasquale R. Orto is in * BALTIMORE, MD. the Army Air Forces pre-meteorology course at Bowdoin College; address, WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES Training Detachment, 68th AAFTD, Engineers Flight 14, Bowdoin College, Bruns- Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gustav J. Requardt '09 wick, Me. Richard F. Graef '25 Norman D. Kenney '25 '43 AB; '43 BS in CE; '42 BS in * Stewart F. Robertson A. Russell Vollmer "27 '43—Captain John H. Lewis, ^ Roy H. Ritter '30 Theodore W. Hacker Ί 7 AE (ME)—Lieutenant C. Royce Pat- (above) pilot of the Flying Fortress 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. ton is in a reconnaissance company of "Hustling Sue" with the Eighth Air the 809th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Force in England, has been awarded WASHINGTON, D. C Camp Robinson, Ark. He attended the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf officers' pioneer course at Camp Hood, THEODORE K. BRYANT Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Tex., where Lieutenant Bruce Beh '43 Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster for is on* the Tank Destroyer Board and LL.B. '97—LL.M. '98 flights over occupied Europe. My Master Patent Law, G. W. U. Ό8 Eugene C. Clarke '42 is in the battle worst trip," says Captain Lewis, conditioning course. Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively "was to Schweinfurt on August 17." Suite 602-3-4 McKim Blda. Two of the Hustling Sue's engines '43—Private First Class Sydney * No. 1311 G Street, N.W. were shot out; flak knocked off half Shreero, Army Air Forces, is stationed in England. His home address is 1620 KENOSHA, WIS. the rudder, wrecked the inter-com- munication system and generally made Fuller Street, NW, Washington 9, MACWHYTE COMPANY a sieve of the ship. No one was D. C. Manufacture of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire seriously injured and Lewis got the '43 AB—Betsy L. Small is with Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Root, Strand and Cord. Fortress back to an RAF field near Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., New- Literature furnished on request the coast. Enlisted in Field Artillery ark, N. J., and lives at 64 South JESSEL S. WHITE, M.E. Ί3 PRES. ft GEN. MGR. from September, 1940, to December, Munn Avenue, East Orange, N. J. R.B.WHYTE M.E.Ί3 / 1942, Captain Lewis was commis- '43—Corporal Roy R. Powers, ^ Vice President in Charge of Operations sioned second lieutenant in the Air USMCR, is on duty in the South 382 Cornell Alumni News Pacific. He married Dorothy Unangst Lincoln D. Kelsey, Grad '27, Ex- of Houston, Tex., last summer. Write tension. Hemphill, Noyes (®» Co. Corporal Powers care his mother, '44—Private First Class Thomas * Mrs. Roy R. Powers, 18 Orchard Members New York Stock Exchange F. Long, US Army, married Barbara Terrace, East Hartford, Conn. A. Ridder, February 27, in New York 15 Broad Street New York City. Mrs. Long is the daughter of INVESTMENT SECURITIES Joseph E. Ridder, president of Ridder Publications and publisher of The Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton Griff is ΊO Journal of Commerce. L. M" Blancke Ί5 Willard I. Emerson Ί9 '44 AB; '44—Maida S. Sizer was * BRANCH OFFICES married March 8, 1944, in Bridgeport, Albany, Chicago, Indianapolis: Philadelphia Conn., to Corporal Donald R. Waugh, Pittsburgh, Trenton, Washington Jr. '44, Army Air Corps. '45 '13 CE—Lynn B. Curry, Jr., * son of Lynn B. Curry '13, was trans- ferred February 29 from the ASTP- Eastman, Dillon & Co. ROTC at the University to Aberdeen MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Proving Ground, Md., where he is Investment Securities taking a fourteen-week officer candi- date course in Ordnance, His address DONALD C. BLANKE '20 is Officer Candidate 32846802, Co". C, Representative Class 65, Ordnance Officers' Candi- 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. date School. '44; '12 AM '46—Corporal Rob- * Branch Offices ert P. Hooks (above), son of Charles '45; '18, '20 AB, '22 LLB—Faith C. Philadelphia Chicago E. Hooks, AM '12, of 316 Highland Farnham was married March 13 in Reading Easton Paterson Hartford Road, Ithaca, has completed what Ithaca to Ensign James R. Kuppers Direct Wires to Branches and Los Angeles is believed to be the largest mural in of Jero Beach, Fla., University of and St. Louis the European theater in the recreation Florida graduate. He is stationed at hall of the Eighth Air Force Service Solomons, Md. Mrs. Kuppers is the Command Depot, England. Eighteen daughter of Acting Dean William H. by thirty-six feet, the painting, done Farnham '18, Law. with ordinary house paint when Hook's artist colors ran out, depicts '45; '15 AB, '18 MD; '79 BS— * the New England coast; is in "The Clayton Ryder II was commissioned Nautical Room." Hooks has been in second lieutenant, Army Air Corps, the Army since February; 1943, went March 12, on graduation at Stuttgart to England with a repair depot squad- Army Air Field, Stuttgart, Ark. He is ron, and was recently appointed Spe- the son of Morton Ryder '15 and the cial Services representative at the grandson of Clayton Ryder '79. Eighth Air Force Service Command '45—Fighter pilot Robert D. * Depot. His brother is Richard C. Taylor, Jr. was commissioned second Hooks '46. lieutenant, Army Air Forces, on '44, '43 BME — Lieutenant * graduation at Eagle Pass Field, Tex., Joseph File, USMCR, has graduated January 7. His home is at 229 South R A. HEGGIE & BRO. CO. from officer candidate school and is Highland Street, Winchester, Ky. Jewelers to Comedians Since 1875 training at the Reserve Officer School, '46; '43 BCE—Joyce B. Jacobo- We still make Quill & Dagger, Sphinx Head, 406th MCSMB, Quantico, Va. Majura, Mummy, Aleph Samach, and other witz is married to Arthur F. Concors pins and charms. Send us your orders. '43. >44; '44—Private First Class * 136 E. State St. Ithaca, N.Y. Walter G. Hunter, USMCR, married '46; '42 BS—Aviation Cadet * Dora M. Storms J44, January 29, Donald S. Manning is stationed at the 1944, in West Nyack. Best man was Enid Army Air Field, Enid, Okla., for his brother, John N. Hunter '39. a nine-week basic flying course. He Private Hunter, son of J. Ward took primary flight training at Cor- Is he in Service? Hunter '16, is in Co. I, Candidates' sicana Field, Corsicana, Tex. His Class, Marine Barracks, Quantico, brother is George R. Manning '42. Does he'miss Cornell? Va. Mrs. Hunter lives with her parents in West Nyack. '46; '43 BS in AE (ME)— * Christine F. Metcalf was married to Send him α laugh: >44;'44—Irmgart E. Kapernick * Lieutenant Furman South III '43, was married in February in Sage US Army, November 27, 1943, in A LEXICON Chapel to Private First Class Clark Sewickley, Pa. Mrs. South is the R. Sanford '44, Field Artillery, who daughter of William Metcalf, Jr. '01, FOR CORNELLIANS was in the ASTP-ROTC at the Uni- and Lieutenant South is the son of versity. Furman South, Jr. '12. by john hunter detmold '43 '44; '42, '43 DVM—Edith M. * '46—Naval Aviation Cadet Rob- * Kelsey was married to Lieutenant ert L. Simonds is at the University of 25c postpaid Norman F. 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