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by the Trustees. The same day, Presi- University Officials Change dent Harry S. Truman accepted "with deep regret" Wright's resignation as head of the Civil Aeronautics Admin- With Resignations, Appointments istration in Washington, effective TMPORTANT changes in the ad- been chairman of the Cornell Re- April 1 when he is expected to assume -•• ministrative personnel of the Uni- search Foundation management com- the University post. As president of versity took place at a meeting of the mittee for the Aeronautical Labora- the Research Foundation, he will su- Board of Trustees at the Medical Col- tory in Buffalo. Since 1944, he has re- pervise administration of the Cornell lege in New York, January 24. ceived honorary degrees at Muhlen- Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo; berg College, Union College, Univer- of which Clifford C. Furnas is Direc- Adams, Doyle Resign sity of the South, Stevens Institute of tor, thus assuming duties former y Arthur S. Adams, Provost of the Technology, Hobart and William carried on by Provost Adams. University since January, 1946, and Smith Colleges, and Rensselaer Poly- chief administrative officer under technic Institute. He is chairman of Knows Aircraft Indnstry President Edmund E. Day, resigned the American Council on Education In fifteen years with Curtiss Aero- effective next June. He will then be- committee on housing; member of plane & Motor Co. and its successor, come president of the University of Sigma Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Curtiss-Wright Corp., as executive en- New Hampshire at Durham. Adams Phi Kappa Phi, and numerous pro- gineer, chief engineer of the airplane came to Cornell in 1940 from Colorado fessional societies. division, vice-president and general School of Mines, where he was pro- The Trustees also accepted the res- manager, and director of engineering fessor of mechanics and assistant to ignation of Robert A. Doyle '14 as and chairman of the engineering and the president. He came as assistant to Vice-president for University develop- policy board, Wright instituted new Dean S. C. Hollister in the academic ment, with stipulation that he shall methods of airplane development and development of the College of Engi- continue as a voluntary special assist- construction, took the lead in experi- neering. Graduate of the US "Naval ant to the President. Doyle was ap- ments with metal propellers, and su- Academy in 1918, he served in sub- pointed Vice-president of the Univer- pervised construction of new plane marines and aboard the USS Arkansas sity last July, coming from a success- designs, including in 1929 the "Tana- and was retired in 1921 with the rank ful career in business and duty as a ger" which won the Guggenheim Prize of lieutenant (jg) then taught in Den- lieutenant-colonel in the operations of $100,000 for safest aircraft. ver schools, received the MA in phys- division of the Army General Staff in During World War II, he directed ics at University of California in 1926 Washington, D. C. He is a member of the great expansion of the aircraft in- and the DSc at Colorado School of Phi Sigma Kappa and the Savage dustry, first as assistant chief of the Mines in 1927. In 1940, he organized Club. aircraft section of the Office of Produc- and directed the University's Engi- tion Management, then as director and neering, Science, and Management CAA Head Vice-President organizer of the Aircraft Resources War Training program and, recalled Control Office of the War Production to active duty in 1941, he directed the Board. He headed two missions to courses in Diesel engineering for Naval England, one in 1942 of aviation engi- Reserve officers which became the neers and executives, and one in 1944 nucleus for the Naval Training School of top-ranking Army and Navy air at the University. He was ordered to officers to confer with British officers duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel on technical development. He was in Washington, D. C., in 1942 and be- awarded the War Department Medal came general administrator of the for Exceptional Civilian Service for nation-wide Navy College Training his accomplishments in stimulating Program and officer-in-charge of the American production of war planes, administrative section of the Division and was appointed Administrator of of Training with responsibility for Civil Aeronautics in 1944. As aviation some 1500 Naval training schools and director of the US Strategic Bombing stations. For these duties and his aid Survey which studied results of the in establishing the present Naval Eighth Air Force bombing of Europe, ROTC, he received the Legion of he was awarded the War Department Merit; as Captain Adams, USN, he Medal of Freedom "for exceptionally was returned to inactive duty in No- meritorious achievement/7 and in No- vember, 1945. vember, 1944, he was technical secre- In addition to his administrative tary of the International Civil Avia- duties as Provost, Adams has been tion Conference in Chicago, 111., which chairman of the University committee Appointment of Theodore P. Wright adopted rules governing all aspects of on housing established to provide ac- (above) as Vice-president of the Uni- world air transportation. He won the commodations for the 40 per cent versity and president of the Cornell Wright Brothers Medal of the Society post-war increase in students, and has Research Foundation was confirmed of Automotive Engineers in 1930, de- livered the Wilbur Wright Memorial was at one time University Photog- ant in History, and studied in the Law Lecture in London in 1945 before the rapher and nephew of Professor E. B. School. He was on the Era board and Royal Aeronautical Society, and in Titchener, Psychology, Howes entered is a member of Delta Chi and Phi Beta January, 1946, was awarded the Arts and Sciences in 1920 from Elmira Kappa; was for ten years an Ithaca Daniel Guggenheim Medal, highest Free Academy with State Cash and alderman and is" a director of the honor in American aviation. Wright Tuition Scholarships. He was instruc- Tompkins County Trust Co. His received the BS in 1915 at Lombard tor in Public Speaking as a Senior, brother is Fred A. Rogalsky '16; chil- College (now Knox College) in his was on the Varsity debate team and dren, Mrs. George A. Vikre (Elizabeth home town of Galesburg, 111., and the on the boards of the Era and Literary Rogalsky) '39, Mrs. Robert T. Horn BS in Architecture in 1918 at MIT. Review, and was a member of Scor- (Margaret Rogalsky) '42, and George Knox College awarded him 'the hon- pion. He is a member of Sigma Delta F. Rogalsky, Jr. '46. orary DSc in 1937. He is a member of Chi, Quill and Dagger, and Delta Sigma Nu and of many professional Sigma Rho; editor and co-author of societies. three books. Howes'24 University Secretary New Vice-president, Treasurer Because of the University's greatly- expanded business and fmancialopera- tions, the Trustees approved a division of the functions which have heretofore been directed by the University Treas- urer.

Now Treasurer of the University is LewisΉ. Durland '30 (above). He is in charge of financial affairs, including Secretary of the University, effec- control of all funds and securities, su- tive February 1, is Raymond F. Howes pervision of investments with the in- '24 (above). He has been acting Secre- vestment committee of the Board of tary since Edward K. Graham, PhD Trustees, and University accounting. '38, resigned last summer to become Durland joined the Treasurer's office assistant dean of faculties at Washing- in 1936, became secretary of the Trus- ton University, St. Louis, Mo. Since George F. Rogalsky '07, (above) tees' finance committee the next year, and has been Assistant Treasurer since his return as a commander, USNR, in whojhas been Treasurer since 1920; 1946, Howes has also been administra- became February 1 Vice-president- 1939 and secretary of the present in- tive assistant to the Vice-president for business. He supervises the entire vestment committee administering the University development. business administration of the Univer- University's portfolio of some $40,- After teaching English at Univer- sity, including management, additions 000,000. sity of Pittsburgh, where he received to, and maintenance of the buildings Durland entered Arts in 1926 from the MA in 1926, Howes went to Wash- and grounds, operation of-residence Watkins High School and received the ington University where he was assist- and dining halls, of University-owned AB in 1930: He was manager of base- ant professor of English and director utilities and services such as purchases, ball, is a member of Chi Phi and Quill of forensics, journalism teaching, and stores, and service divisions; and su- and Dagger. For three years he was the news bureau. He returned to Cor- pervision of non-academic employees. with Treman, King & Co. in Ithaca, nell in 1936 as assistant to Archie M. These operations for the endowed Col- then became assistant trust officer of Palmer '18 in the Cornellian Council leges in Ithaca last year involved ex- the Tompkins County Trust Co. and office; then became assistant to Dean penditures of more than $3,000,000. later was with investment companies S. C. Hollister, Engineering; trans- Rogalsky was appointed Treasurer here. He is a director of the First Na- ferred to the Provost's office; and was of the University in May, 1920, suc- tional: Bank of Ithaca and of Thatcher acting Director of Public Information ceeding the late Charles D. Bostwick Glass Manufacturing Co. in Elmira. when in 1943 he was commissioned a '92 who was then also Comptroller. Mrs. Durland, a graduate of Sweet lieutenant, USNR, and ordered to For a year following Bostwick's death Briar, took a special course in Agricul- duty in the Bureau of Naval Person- in 1938, he was also Comptroller, until ture in 1939; she is a sister of Champ nel in Washington. There he was asso- that office was abolished. He had Carry '18. ciated with Captain Arthur S. Adams, previously represented New York City Cornell Engineer staff is headed by USN, and became officer-in-charge of investment concerns in Ithaca and Miss Billie P. Carter '48 ChemE of the College Training Section which was for two years assistant cashier of Honolulu, Hawaii, editor-in-chief; Ben- administered the Navy V-12 program, the Tompkins County National Bank. Ami Lipetz '47 ME of New York and was commended by the Secretary He entered Arts in 1904 from North City, managing editor; Warren K. of the Navy. Tonawanda High School and received Brown '48 CE, son of Albert L. Brown Son of the late C. B. Howes who the AB in 1907, was a graduate assist- ;15 of Adams, business manager. 262 Cornell Alumni News Women Brave Snow tions of the Alumni Association elects publicly-controlled universities, 17.1; a member of the committee on Alumni 428 independent colleges of arts and IFTY alumnae, students, and Trustee nominations, as do the Alumni sciences, 17.6; 81 independent teach- Fprospective students braved the Trustees on the Board. Besides Groh- ers' colleges, 22. deep snow of Dutchess County De- mann, who represents the Cornell It will be seen that Harvard and cember 27 to attend a tea given by Society of Hotelmen, the meeting Cornell lead the list with fewest stu- the Mid-Hudson . Cornell Women's was attended by Mrs. Edwin S. dents per teacher, with Cornell av- Club at the home of Mrs. Nathan Knauss (Dorothy Pond) '18, Federa- eraging only one-tenth of a student Reiner (Martha Gold) '31 in Pough- tion of Cornell Women's Clubs; more than Harvard. Comparisons keepsie. The president of the Club, Lawrence S. Hazzard '22, Law Alumni with national averages show a really Cynthia A. Nickerson '42, introduced Association; Dr. Cassius Way '07, startling "spread." as speakers Isabel J. Peard, AM '46, Veterinary Alumni Association; H. W. Of course, we shouldn't be smug assistant to the Counsellor of Stu- Peters '14, Alumni Fund Council; about Cornell's showing. For example, dents; Frances C. Corbally '47, li- Max F. Schmitt '24, Association of any university that includes a medical brarian of Willard Straight Hall; and Class Secretaries; William F. Stuckle school will have the statistics weighted M. Shirley Haas '48. Slides, of the '17, Federation of Cornell Men's in its favor; our Medical College and Campus were shown. Clubs; Mrs. James A. McConnell Nursing School Faculties are about as (Lois Zimmerman) '20, Home Eco- numerous as their student bodies. On Consider Trustees nomics Alumnae Association; Earle the other hand, I have discovered that W. Bolton, Jr. '26, Architecture our Summer Session diluted the Cor- OMMITTEE on Alumni Trustee Alumni Association; Newton C. Bur- nell ratio by injecting 1,585 extra stu- C nominations met at the Cornell nett '24, district directors of the Cor- dents who were here only for summer Club of New York, January 15, for nell Alumni Association; Birge W. school, whereas forty-six extra Fac- its second session to consider possible Kinne '16, Agriculture Alumni As- ulty members brought in from outside candidates for the three vacancies to sociation; William M. Reck '14, Cor- were not included in our staff figures. be filled by alumni ballots this year. nell Society of Engineers; and Dr. Also, Cornell reported staff totals for The terms of Alumni Trustees George Wade Duley '23, Medical College 1946-47 (since increased), but the H. Rockwell '13 and Thomas I. S. Alumni Association. student figures were those of the fall Boak '14 expire June 30 and that of term of the present school year. So I the late Paul A. Schoellkopf '06, to should say that our report to President June 30, 1949, will be filled. Walters was conservative; but others Qualifications of many suggested Intelligence may be on the same basis. candidates were considered, including those submitted to the committee by Cornell Clubs and other constituent Quantity without quality is, of organizations of the Alumni Associa- course, not important. The intangibles tion in response to the committee's in an educational insti- recent request for suggestions. Chair- Λ ,.A ττ u tution are hard to assess. man H. Victor Grohmann ',28 ex- In these days when many alumni Quality High Here ^ ς^^^ j would plains that the committee is giving are asking about the quality of in- say, we have a first-rate Faculty. We struction at Cornell, special consideration to finding candi- Cornell lose good teachers to other institu- comparison with some dates who are best fitted by experience Student-Teacher tions for one reason or another, such of our sister universi- and training to serve the present needs Ratio Low as more money, more prospects for of the University and can devote the ties as to the ratio of advancement within their depart- necessary time to Board duties -in the students to teachers is interesting. ments, or better facilities for study next five years. He notes tftat the Ernest Whitworth, Associate Regis- in their own fields, but we also attract committee keeps a continuing .file of trar of the University, has made such fine men and hold others who could several hundred names submitted to an analysis from figures on total en- better themselves financially but pre- it, for reference and consideration in rolments and size of teaching staffs fer to live in Ithaca. The Cornell relation to the particular personnel for all American colleges and univer- tradition of freedom with responsi- needs of the University Board of sities compiled by President Raymond bility is a big factor in getting and Trustees as reported to it each year. Walters of the University of Cincin- holding good staff members. From its studies, the committee nati and published in School and Certainly, quantity in staff lightens arranges for nomination of candidates Society for December 27, 1947. This the individual's teaching load. I am whom it finds to be especially well compilation is published annually by acquainted with enough faculty mem- qualified for the current needs, and President Walters; it is considered bers elsewhere to know that we com- their names are submitted in accord- authoritative. His figures on teaching pare favorably in that respect. Teach- ance with the University Charter staff include all who teach students. ing twelve hours a week, other things which provides for nomination by any From these figures, Whitworth has being equal, makes for better instruc- ten degree holders, to the University worked out the following ratios of tion than a load of eighteen to twenty- Treasurer by April 1. Official ballots " Students per total staff member" for four. I understand that twelve hours listing all candidates nominated, to- the universities named: Harvard 5.7 is the average for our full-time Arts gether with biographical information students, Cornell 5.8, Yale 6.9, Penn- instructors; an assistant working for about them, will be mailed early in sylvania 7.9, MIT 8, Rochester 8.3, his PhD will carry fewer. April to all degree holders. These Stanford 9.3, Dartmouth 9.5, Colum- It is true, of course, that frequently ballots must be returned to the bia 9.9, Syracuse 15. (Figures are not a Freshman coming from a good pre- Treasurer by June 7, and results of available for Princeton.) paratory or high school finds the tech- the election will be announced at ;the Averages for various groups of col- nical teaching ability of a young uni- annual meeting of the Alumni Associa- leges and universities show 43 pri- versity assistant inferior to that dis- tion in Bailey Hall, June 12. New vately - controlled universities, 13.4 played by some of his senior teachers Trustees take office July 1. students per teacher; 48 independent in secondary school. A cogent, even Each of the constituent organiza- technological institutions, 14.2; 47 though partial, answer is that univer^

February> 1948 263 sity instruction is meant to be differ- Fraternity Pledges N. J.; Stephen P. Rounds, Exeter, N. H.; ent, with emphasis on digging things Kelvin N. Sachs, Jr., West Hartford, (Concluded from last issue) Conn.; Jonathan C. Webber, Rantoul, out for himself, acquiring judgment 111.; Frank O. Wetmore II, Wheaton, 111.; and the ability to weigh facts. It is not SIGMA Nu: John R. Allen, Seaford, Del.; Stafford B. Beach, Jr., West Palm Beach, Joseph R. Zuber, Kitchener, Ont., Can. the main function of a university to Fla.; Terance B. Blake, Philadelphia, Pa.; THETA Xi: Frank R. Field, Jr., Cald- spoon - feed knowledge. Youngsters Oliver B. Bragg, White Plains; Hugh S. well, N. J.; Charles D. Graham, Jr., (and parents) too frequently lose sight Campbell, Great Neck; Paul K. Clymer, Dayton, Ohio; Norman D. Ronemus, Jackson Heights; Frederick F. Salφtt, of the fact that a university is com- Allentown, Pa.; Laurie Fitz Gibbon, Tarrytown; Martin L. Horn, Jr., West Wauwatosa, Wis.; Douglas L. Swanson, monly called an institution of learning, Orange, N. J.; Richard P. Kaley, Garden Erie, Pa.; Richard C. Templeton, Pitts- not one of teaching. City; Thomas J. Kelly, Merrick; Gordon burgh, Pa. L. McKiernan '50, Poughkeepsie; Charles ZETA BETA TAU: Edward L. Flom, H. Moore, Jr., West Chester, Pa.; Ed- Tampa, Fla.; Sigmund Herzstein, Jr., ward J. Murphy '49, Flushing; Richard A. Denver, Colo.; Samuel L. Hirshland, Out of curiosity, I looked up the Pearce '50, Freeville; Howard J. Thomas Reading, Pa.; Richard L. Ottinger, Scars- School and Society figures of 1940 and '50, Washington, D. C.; Jack R. Vinson, dale; Samuel E. Rogers, Brookline, Mass.; was pleased to note that Cornell is Kansas City, Mo.; Arthur S. Wolcott '49, Loren M. Rosenbach, Pittsburgh, Pa. changing for the better. In that year Elmira. ZETA Psi: Richard H. Farley '50*, Nut- the ratio was 7.9 students per teacher, SIGMA PHI: Richard E. Chittenden, Ed- ley, N. J.; Thomas W. Heermans, Wau- monds, Wash.; William S. Covington, Jr., watosa, Wis.; George L. Moison II, as compared with the present 5.8. Lake Forest, 111.; Josiah B. Dodds, Itnaca; Groton, Mass.; David R. Parfitt, Elmira; In my time, the term "college man" Harrison P. Efferth, Lake wood, Ohio; Lawrence A. Reed, Jr. '49, Copley, Ohio; was descriptive. Now, you need to Louis P. Howland, Watertown, Conn.; Edmund Sussdorff, Jr., Plattsburg; Alan know what college! Francis M. Huffman, Jr., Bethlehem, Pa.; F. Sweeney, Philadelphia, Pa. John G. Sherwood, Palo Alto, CaL; Wil- liam W. Shewman, Webster Groves, Mo.; Wesley K. Wannamaker, St. Matthews, James in Pittsburgh S. C. New England Busy IFTY-FIVE high school seniors SIGMA PHI EPSILON: John W. Bacon /CORNELL Club of New England '50, Wolcott; Ronald S. Clark, Auburn; F were guests of the Cornell Club ^* held two December meetings in John A. Karl, Maplewood, N. J.; John of Pittsburgh, Pa., at a luncheon at Boston, Mass. Head Football Coach M. Klarquist, Jamestown; Albert G. the Hotel Henry on December 27. Mehring, Harrisburg, Pa.; Allan D. Mit- Guest speaker was Head Football George K. James spoke at a football chell '50, North Rose; Livingston T. smoker of ninety Cornellians and their Mulligan '50, Avon; Herman G. Pease, Coach George K. James who dis- friends, December 8 at the Engineers Cobleskill; Charles A. Peek, Jr. '49, Rock- cussed the 1947 season and outlined Club. Undergraduates and prospec- ville Centre; John R. Stevens, Ithaca; the qualities needed for future Cornell tive Cornellians were entertained at William T. Stevens, Jr. '50, Ithaca; Bruce football players. Warner '50, Eastport; Charles B. Warren, luncheon, December 29, at the Boston New York City; George W. Winkleman, Yacht Club. Maplewood, N. J.; Louis K. Winkelman, Maplewood, N. J.; William W. Woodward, Class Secretaries Meet Auburn. EN and women secretaries of a Washington Entertains SIGMA Pi: William D. Bair, Ford City, M score of Classes took steps to V\7ASHINGTON, D. C., Cornell Pa.; Raymond M. Just, West Caldwell, further effective Class organizations W Clubs of men and women com- N. J.; Alien F. Olson, Pittsford; Robert S. at a morning work session at the Cor- Stahr, Larchmont; Edward S. Walsh, bined to give a luncheon for local Delmar. nell* Club of New York, January 31. undergraduates at the Colonial Hotel, TAU DELTA PHI: Peter E. Becker, This discussion of how Class organiza- December 30. With President Harold Lawrence; Howard M. Feinstein, Bronx; tions can be made more effective for A. Merrill '22 of the men's Club pre- Richard H. Mermelstein, New York City; all Cornellians and the University was siding, Dr. Robert S. Lamb '94 told Peter H. Rose, New York City; Martin S. part of the midwinter meeting of the Rothblum '50, Rockville Centre; B. Allen the seventy-five Cornellians present of Weiss, Brooklyn; Earl M. Zion, Ithaca. Association of Class Secretaries. With early days at the University. Election TAU EPSILON PHI: Julius J. Cohen '50, General Alumni Secretary Emmet J. of Edson A. Edson '29 as vice-presi- Brooklyn; Jules Janick, Peekskill; How- Murphy '22 and Pauline J. Schmid dent and Ralph L. Hill, Jr. '31 and ard Kaltbaum, Brooklyn. '25 and R. Selden Brewer '40 of the Thomas S. Shull '32 as directors of the TAU KAPPA EPSILON: Leonard R. Fer- Alumni Office, the secretaries dis- men's Club was announced. Richard now, Jacksonville; Henry S. Germond IV, cussed the desirability of improving Little Silver, N. J.; Edward N. Madison, W. Pogue '50 and Ralph C. Williams Flushing; Robert C. Morlath, Rockville Class organizations and ways and '50 were elected co-chairmen of a com- Centre; James E. Woolson, Birmingham, means. President of the Association, mittee to form a club on the Campus Mich. Harry V. Wade '26, presided. A res- of the 135 undergraduates from the THETA CHI: Walter H. Dean, Goshen; olution proposed by Max F. Schmitt Washington area. Committee for the Kenneth W. Doclge, Princeton, N. J.; '24 and unanimously approved Owen H. Griffith, Baltimore, Md.; Doug- luncheon was headed by Robert P. las N. Jackson, Merrick; Kenneth L. suggests that Classes elect officers for Bryant '44. Jansen, Oneonta; John B. Johnson, Day- fiveτyear terms and urges all Classes University Provost Arthur S. ton, Ohio; James W. Loveland, Oneonta; to elect by June, 1948, a president, Adams addressed eighty Cornellians David B. Ludlum, Rockville Centre; vice-president, Alumni Fund repre- and their families on "The Force of a Frank W. Storey '50, Ithaca; Norman F. sentative, Reunion chairman, Class Toda '50, Great Neck; Ulrich F. Wiese, Cornell Heritage" at a Founder's Day Cohoes; Harold F. Wiley '50, Ossining. correspondent, and treasurer, these dinner of the Cornell Club and Cor- THETA DELTA CHI: Hugh C. Bacon, with the Class secretary to serve as a nell Women's Club of Washington, North Haven, Conn.; Peter G. Bolanis, Class executive committee. Wade, as January 12 at the Roger Smith Hotel. Pittsburgh, Pa. George B. Cammann '50, chairman of the Association commit- Greetings were extended by the presi- New York City; William J. Develin, tee to revise and distribute a Class Caldwell, N. J.; Richard I. Dudley, New dents of the two Clubs-, Margaret C. York City; Willard I. Emerson, Jr., Officers' Manual, asked for specific Tobin '35 and Harold* A. Merrill '22, Southport, Conn.; Victor H. Ham, Clay- questions that such a handbook should and General Alumni Secretary Emmet ton, Mo.; Charles T. Hubbs, Warren, Pa.; answer and said that it would be J. Murphy '22 was also introduced by Thompson B. McCune, Pittsburgh, Pa.; completed and available to Class Robert A. D. Mitchell,., Upper Montclair, the toastmaster, Peter Vischer '19. N. J.; Eric C. Nulsen, North Muskegon, officers. Chairman of the committee was Mich.; Clinton J. Pearson, Pawtucket, Business session, at luncheon, Ralph L. Hill,>Jr. '31. R. L; Robert W. Phillips, Atlantic City, elected Charles E. Dykes '36 as presi- 264 Cornell Alumni News dent of the Association of Class Secretaries for this year, succeeding Wade. William C. Kruse '38 is vice- president, and Frances W. Lauman Now, in My Time! '35 and Murphy were re-elected treasurer and secretary, respectively. Wade, Mrs. Robert C. Goelz (Mary By Dixon) '38, and William G. Rossiter '37 were elected to serve with the officers as executive committee. Mrs. THACA is off the beaten track. faiths of its controllers and trans- Goelz was elected an Association di- I It's hard to get at. In recent mit them to posterity uncontami- rector of the Alumni Association, to weeks, this remoteness has been a nated by any new ideas. serve with President Dykes. A resolu- source of comfort to people who A true university has many func- tion memorializing Colonel William live here, for there have been re- tions, and it is not the least of those G. Atwood, '92 Class secretary who ports current that Albany was functions to create a climate favor- died January 24, was passed. Willard eager to create a State university able to the growth of intellectual I. Emerson, chairman of the '19 Class and was looking for an existing in- curiosity, a spirit of inquiry, and a ALUMNI NEWS group subscriplion stitution to build it on and around. dubious attitude toward dogma, committee, told of the plan which '19 Obviously, such a university, if together with the ability to endure men originated for 100 per cent sub- any, should be located close to the politely the expressed views of scriptions to the NEWS through Class center of population, or to the geo- other people, however silly and dues and of its benefits for all Classes graphical center of the State. This shocking. Only in such a climate and for the University. specification, we all felt, made Cor- can the scholar develop facility in Brewer briefly outlined the tenta- nell pretty safe. But naturally, the useful art of changing his mind. tive program for 1948 Class Re- we've been talking about educa- This free and stimulating atmos- unions in Ithaca, June 11-13, and tion, public and private, and per- phere can exist, and τioes, alike in James D. Pond '28, chairman, pre- haps you'd like to hear the echo. the State universities and in the sented recommendations of his general It's a fallacy to regard education private, endowed institutions. But Reunion committee, based on last at the university and postgraduate the former type are regarded as year's Reunions. After luncheon, wo- levels as a good thing for all comers. more exposed to the current dan- men secretaries and Reunion chair- On the other hand, it should be ac- gers of (1) uncontrolled growth in men for this year met with Miss cepted as a basic principle that size and numbers, (2) the urge to Schmid to settle details of Reunions when a youngster is discovered of gear the academic standards down next June, and men of this year's unusual intellectual promise, that to the capacity of the run-of-the- Reunion Classes met with Brewer. It youngster, for the good of society, mill output of the public school was agreed in both groups that Class should be given a chance to get the system, and (3) the temptation to letters and the ALUMNI NEWS should training most likely to develop his gag free expression of opinion on shortly begin to carry details of the talents and without regard to his controversial topics through fear coming Reunions in Ithaca to_ mem- ability to pay the established price. of legislative reprisal. As against bers of this year's quinquennial Classes But what is education? All hu- that, the endowed institutions, for which they are scheduled: '73, '78, man experiences have some educa- without the resources of the State '83, '88, '93, '98, '03, '08, '13, '18, '23, '28, tional value. Your reporter long behind them and shackled by re- '33, '38, '43, and the Two-year Class ago learned all anyone needs to duced incomes, must court the of '46. know about the social limitations opulent from time to time, a pur- on the exercise of the legal right of suit which is not helped by the free free speech while spending one expression, under their own per- Delaware Women Start night in the Ithaca jail after talk- sonal ivy, of extreme views which WENTY-FOUR alumnae attend- ing too much to a sensitive police- the United States Chamber of Ted the organization meeting of man. That was useful information, Commerce wouldn't care for much. the Cornell Women's Club of Dela- but east of Stewart Avenue, one The price of academic freedom, ware, January 17 at the Coffee Shop, can get only the sort of education coupled with solvency, is sleepless Wilmington. The Club is the forty- that is valuable because you can nights for the High Command. fifth in the Federation of Cornell Wo- do something with it, or the other men's Clubs. Mrs. Laurence V. Smith kind that is to be appraised on the What does Cornell want? Your (Katharine Duddy) '21, 2324 Eight- basis of what sort of a person it correspondent's guess would be a eenth Street, Wilmington 51, was makes of you. Neither is to be more comfortable bank balance suf- elected the first president of the new disparaged. ficient to meet its frugal needs and Club; Mrs. Frank E. Martin (Mar- If you ask what kind of educa- to permit it to take occasional little garet E. White) '34, vice-president; tion should be provided by the trips of exploration into the un- Cecilia Metaxas '47, corresponding State for those of its oncoming known; after that, to be left alone secretary; Elizabeth A. Lindsay '47, citizens capable of being benefitted to reorganize its housekeeping, now recording secretary; and Mrs. Andrew by education above and beyond complicated by unwieldy numbers, D. Christie (Carol E. Graves) '45, the public-school level, the an- to make life a little easier for its treasurer. It was agreed to hold meet- swer is, "All kinds, but not neces- worried staff; and to maintain a ings at members' homes the last Wed- sarily applied in the same institu- climate, between the gorges and nesday of each month. tion." The function of a university ail the way out to Turkey Hill, stimulating to the growth of Guests at the first meeting were is not that of an advanced high Assistant Alumni Secretary Pauline school, nor that of a kept college thoughtful, independent, and pro- J. Schmid '25 and Mrs. William F. designed to preserve inviolate the ductive activity. But that's just Stotz (Anna Hoehler) '23, vice-presi- political, economic, and religious our own individual guess, of course. dent of the Cornell Women's Club of Philadelphia, Pa February', 1948 265 In Detroit that evening, the concert Glee Club Enjoys Christmas Trip was given in the Book-Cadillac Hotel, BY JOSEPH D. SELLS '49 after which a dance was given by the Cornell Club for the visitors. "Dune" Sells, who reports on the next morning, Tuesday, December 23, Sunday, December 28, the Club successful Christmas trip of the Men's Glee Club, is baritone soloist of the the Glee Club sang for the patients at was enthusiastically received by alum- Club, member of its quartet, and made the Dayton Veterans Hospital before ni and guests of the Cornell Club of a special hit in the show with his rendi- leaving for Cincinnati. Cleveland and after the concert the tion of the "Hangover" verse added to alumni sponsored a reception and the "Song of the Classes." Inspired by the acoustical excellence of Emery Auditorium and the very party for the Glee Club. That the OATURDAY evening, December 20, large and appreciative audience before Cleveland concert was in the after- ^3 fifty-two members of the ninety- them, the Glee Club gave one of its noon made it possible for the travellers voice Cornell Men's Glee Club left finest performances in Cincinnati. At to catch up on their rest, an oppor- Ithaca for points west on the first the University Club during the party tunity of which few failed to take Christmas trip since 1.941. Ten days that followed the show, Thomas B. advantage. and nine shows later, these same men, Tracy '31, director of the Glee Club, The concert December 29 in Buffalo tired but happy, turned and walked delighted alumni and Club members was a tremendous success. As one of from the stage of Carnegie Music Hall alike with .his splendid baritone voice. the Glee Club members remarked after in Pittsburgh, Pa,., thus furnishing a December 24, the Glee Club arrived the final curtain, "They loved us in final curtain to one of the most suc- in Indianapolis and sang informally Buffalo!" With such an enthusiastic cessful trips in Glee Club history. _ at a tea dance sponsored by the local and receptive audience, the Club The itinerary for the trip was as Cornell Club. Due to lack of staging couldn't help but be good. The dance impressive as that of any professional materials in the Marott Hotel ball- following the concert was thoroughly choral group: December 21, Toledo, room, the show was split into three enjoyable to everyone. Ohio; December 22, Dayton, Ohio; separate acts and presented with in- Tuesday, December 30, the final December 23, Cincinnati, Ohio; De- terims of dancing. Those men who presentation of "Here We Are Again" cember 24, Indianapolis, Ind.; Decem- lived in the Mid-west were able, after took place before a packed house in ber 26, Chicago, 111.; December 27, the show in Indianapolis, to leave the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. Detroit, Mich.; December 28, Cleve- group and spend Christmas with their The magnificence of the hall, the gen- land, Ohio;- December 29, Buffalo; families. The other Club members erosity of the audience, and the high and finally December 30, Pittsburgh. went on to Chicago Christmas morn- spirits of the men on the stage com- In Toledo, after the show which was ing, to be met by alumni and taken to bined equally in making this the per- presented in Macomber High School their homes for Christmas dinners and fect closing concert. Auditorium, Glee Club members were to remain overnight. The success of the trip was due taken by their hosts to alumni homes Friday, December 26, the Club largely to the outstanding organiza- where they were entertained and spent members reassembled at the Palmer tion and direction of Tom Tracy and the night. The next morning after an House, where the concert was pre- Lou Donkle '44, student manager of •excellent brunch in their hosts' homes, sented in the grand ballroom. After the Glee Club, who worked in direct the Club members entrained for Day- the show, the performers were guests cooperation with the Cornell Clubs ton. In Dayton, the show was pre- of Chicago alumni at a party held in who, sponsored the performances. Pat sented in the beautiful Dayton Art In- the Red Lacquer Room of the hotel. Landon '44, student leader of the Club, stitute before a capacity audience. The next morning, Saturday, Decem- did an exceptionally commendable job After the show, the men of the Glee ber 27, the Glee Club sang on a coast- as did Dave Bancel '46, who wrote the Club were entertained by alumni at a to-coast broadcast of "Tommy Bart- script for the show, and Scott Ed- party in the Hotel Van Cleve. The lett Time" over the ABC network. wards '48 and Howard Heinsίus '50 who provided much of the humor in the varied but well-balanced program. Chairmen of the sponsoring Cornell Club committees were James M. Acklin '21, Toledo; George C. Gilfillen '43, Dayton; Otto L. Kilmer, Jr. '34, Cin- cinnati; H. Jerome Noel '41, Indian- apolis; Hamilton Vose, Jr. '16, Chi- cago; William H. Worcester '40, De- troit; Kenneth K. Hackathorn '23, Cleveland; William H. Harder '30, Bufalo; Henry M. Hughes '12, Pitts-

burghv Cornell Engineer N The Cornell Engineer for De- I cember, Professor Israel Katz, MME '44, Mechanical Engineering, describes "Cornell's Aircraft Power- plants Laboratory" and its courses of instruction, with an editor's caption, "Sibley School Sprouts Wings." Cy- rus D. Backus '96, patent lawyer of Washington, D. C., writes on "Engi- neers and Patent Law." A "profile" GLEE CLUB W BUFFALO of Leroy R. Grumman '16, president 266 Cornel/ Alumni News of Grumman Aircraft Engineering for nearly half a game at a time while Corp., is contributed by Carl P. a rewarded man played only one game Irwin '49, and President Carl F. Letters the entire same season. There were-a Ostergren '21 of the Cornell Society Subject to the usual restrictions of space and number of others who well deserved of Engineers discusses the five-year good taste, we shall print letters from sub- recognition for above-average years, scribers on any side of any subject of interest courses in Engineering. to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often and Cornell cannot be too proud for In the January issue, Reginald H. may not agree with the sentiments? expressed, having allowed them to pass un- Keays '95 describes "Expanding the and disclaims any responsibility beyond noticed. Athens Water Supply System/' in that of fostering interest in the University. Strangely enough, although the which he was chief engineer for the coach used to recite some kind of a contractors, Ulen & Co., from 1925- formula at the end of those three 31. Under the title, "Training for Too Many Bookworms? seasons, in later years with much Leadership," Howard J. Sanders To THE EDITOR: poorer material he gave as many let- (Samuely) '44, who received the Everyone admits that the chief ters all in one year. BChemE last June, describes the purpose of going to college is to obtain Not by any means am I attempting training program at Calco Chemical an education, but almost everyone to deglamorize those great Varsity Division of American Cyanamid Co., will also admit that partaking liberally "C" men of the early '20s. Rather I in which he is now engaged at Bound in the social, intellectual, and athletic am trying to point out that in their Brook, N. J. life is also of great importance. rise to fame they had a lot of staunch Now that Cornell can select its stu- help from other men who were un- "Blithe Spirit" dents from many times as many ap- rewarded and whose loyalty in later RAMATIC Club offering last plicants as can be accepted, it is years has remained undimmed.—'24 D month was Noel Coward's crisp- natural to expect that the average in- dialogued comedy, "Blithe Spirit." telligence of the students is higher The play was given in the University than it used to be. I wonder if in rec- Theater, January 15-17, and was re- ognizing this fact, the Faculty may "Q" Class Agents Meet peated for Junior Week, February 6 also be increasing the difficulty of the Λ LUMNI FUND representatives and 7. Producer was Professor Walter courses and other requirements to the "*~**of the Classes scheduled for Quin- H. Stainton '19, executive director of extent that the average student is quennial Reunions this year and next the University Theatre. obliged to spend more time at study gathered at the Cornell Club of New Joan A. Rothschild '48 as Madame than was formerly necessary. York, January 15. Chairman Willard Arcati, mistress of the seance, stood If this is true, it may be that stiff I. Emerson '19 introduced President out in a good cast, which included requirements are depriving the stu- Harold T. Edwards '10 of the Alumni Richard E. Perkins '48 as Charles, dents, to a large extent, of the desira- Fund Council. He sketched the plan of Barbara R. Gottlieb '48 as his second ble and aforesaid social, intellectual, each Class raising for the Alumni Fund wife, Lucy B. Woodruff '48 as his and athletic pursuits. Is there danger $1,000 for every year out of the Uni- first wife, Estelle S. Joseph '48 as the of Cornell being peopled too much versity in the two years preceding its maid, James B. Hudders '48 as Dr. with bookworms, or am I crazy?—'14 Quinquennial Reunions, and said that Bradman, and Mary E. Uttirtg '48 as the program in the 1948 and 1949 Re- Mrs. Bradman. The staging was ex- union Classes has thus ' far brought cellent and special mention must be Credit to Scrubs more money to the Fund than in the given for the deft handling of some To THE EDITOR: same period last year. Neal D. Becker difficult sound effects. I read with keen interest and con- '04, chairman of the University Board siderable nostalgia of the dinner at of Trustees, outlined the current needs Women Celebrate the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, on of the University and the special im- PHILADELPHIA Cornell Women's Thanksgiving Eve. Having been one portance of Alumni Fund contribu- A Club celebrated Founder's Day of Gil Dobie's "students," I too with tions at this time. Suggestions of with a luncheon at the Sheraton "mature appreciation" have never for- Class campaign procedures before the Hotel, January 10, with forty-two gotten "the fundamentals he so ably fiscal year ends June 30 were made by attending. Ruth F. Irish '22, Alumni taught me twenty-five years ago." Emerson, Herbert E. Mitler '08, vice- Trustee, compared the struggles of It must have been a heart-warming president of the Fund Council; Tristan the early days at the University with occasion and I sure wish I could have Antell, '13 Class representative; and present problems. been there to renew friendships with Emmet J. Murphy '22, General Founder's Day tea of the Cornell twenty-eight out of the thirty-one Alumni Secretary. Committee mem- Women's Club of Pittsburgh, Pa., was "iron men." They were a tip-top bers exchanged campaign experiences January 17 at the College Club. Mrs. group of fellows. and recommendations. Walter D. Brown (Elizabeth Schmeck) Unfortunately, it reminds me also '40, Club president, gave an illustrated that a part of Cornell was thoughtless talk on the costume collection at the and stingy with its athletic awards Official Delegates College of Home Economics. during a height in its grandeur. Only Ezra B. Whitman '01 Flora Rose, former Director of thirty-one out of approximately 150 represented Cornell University Home Economics who now lives on players who helped to mold those at the inauguration of Earle T. Haw- the Coast, spoke at a Founder's Day great football machines received an kins as president of Maryland State dinner of the Cornell Women's Club insignia. The rest haven't even a scrap Teachers College, January 17 at of Northern California, January 17 in of paper as evidence of their hours of Towson, Md. Berkeley. Thirteen alumnae and four slaughter to build up or substitute for Cornell delegate at the inaugura- husbands attended. President of the those "iron-men." I recall one unre- tion of President John W. Taylor of Club this year is Mrs. W. J. Glanister warded who, for at least two of the the University of Louisville, Ky., (Dorothy Wright) '29; vice-president, three years, played a full game while February 9 and 10, was James A. Marian R. Ballin '31; secretary-treas- the regular recovered from an ankle Kennedy '17, professor of bacteriology urer, Mrs. N. Forsyth Ward (Janet injury. Another non-letter man played and public health in the Louisville Nundy) '26. five out of eight games in one season University school of medicine. February , 1948 267 Canisius Freshmen, 64-43, January 21 in Barton Hall. Syracuse scored a 59-55 victory in Slants on Sports Barton Hall, January 7. Two days later, Cornell won over Manlius, 65- 52, at Manlius. In the return game Basketball Picks Up Gale again led in scoring with 13 in Barton Hall January 17, Cornell points. won by a wider score, 67-41. In be- ASKETBALL team won five of The Canisius game was a see-saw tween, Cornell lost to the LeMoyne its last six pre-examination games B affair, with Cornell pulling out its vic- College freshmen, 46-57, in Barton in January, scoring two of the vic- tory in the last eight minutes of play Hall. tories in Eastern Intercollegiate Bas- after it had gone ahead, for only the Walter S. Ashbaugh was the top ketball League competition. The team second time in the game, at 47-46. scorer in three of the games. Paul J. headed into the final stage of the Gale tallied 18 points, and Edward W. Gerwin and Bertram Lebhar, III set season tied with Columbia for the Peterson '48 was close behind with 17. the pace in the other games. League leadership. Each had won three games. Cornell took command early in the Harvard and Pittsburgh games, hold- Two players returned to strengthen Wrestlers Win, Lose ing the lead throughout. Against Har- the squad for second-term games: Hil- RESTLING team opened its vard, Peterson, the 6-foot, 9-inch cen- lary A. Chollet '48 of New Orleans, season in Philadelphia January ter, played his best game of the season, W Pa. and Paul L. Lansaw '50 of Mid- 10 with a 14-12 victory over Pennsyl- ; hitting frequently from the pivot and dletown, Ohio. Chollet, a Varsity vania and without the guidance of its scoring 18 points. Gale also accounted regular for two years, was injured in veteran coach, Walter C. O'Connell for 18. 7 pre-season football practice and with- 11. O'Connell suffered a cerebral drew for the first term. Lansaw, the In the one game away, at New hemorrhage in December and is still outstanding player on last year's com- Haven, Conn., Cornell piled up a 35- at his home. Pat Filley took over the bined Junior Varsity-Freshman team, 19 lead over Yale at the half, then had coaching assignment, assisted by Da- was also out of school the first term. to fight off a strong rally to preserve vid H. Huntington '47. the victory. Four Cornell players Cornell moved into the League tie Seven matches were decided by de- scored in double figures: Gale 16, with Columbia by defeating Harvard, cision. The one fall, accounting for the Peterson 12, and Edward J. Hodapp 57-45, in Barton Hall January 10 and 2-point margin of victory, was scored '49 and Turner, 11 apiece. Yale, 58-54, at New Haven January by Joseph W. Calby '51 of Philadel- 17. It was Cornell's second win over Of its first fourteen games, Cornell phia, Pa., in the 128-pound class. He won nine and lost five. Captain Gale Yale. pinned Cory with a full nelson in two scored 248 points, followed by Peter- In non-League games, Cornell de- minutes thirty seconds. son with 144, Turner 95, Hodapp 65, feated Syracuse, 46-43, January 7; In its next two matches, the team and John Γ. Rose '50, 58. Canisius, 56-51, January 21; and lost. Syracuse won, 19-11, in Barton Pittsburgh, 52-40, January 24. All In its first seven home games, Cor- Hall, January 17, and the US Military three games were played in Barton nell played to 38,790 paid admissions. Academy won, 19-13, at West Point, January 24. Calby scored another fall Hall. This is how the League stood as the The lone setback was administered campaign was resumed early in Feb- in the Syracuse match, pinning Hall by undefeated New York University ruary : with a reverse nelson and crotch hold in Barton Hall, January 13. The score W L in 1:33 of the second period. In the Academy match, Calby decisioned was 58-53. Cornell 3 0 Raabe. Cornell scored two falls at The NYU game attracted 6,459 Columbia 3 0 Princeton 2 1 West Point, John S. Adams '49 of spectators, the largest crowd of the Deansboro pinning Allen in the 145- season, and rewarded them richly. Harvard 1 2 Dartmouth 1 2 pound class and Richard G. Clark '51 They saw Cornell rally from an 18- of Canastota throwing Davis in the point deficit with nine minutes left to Pennsylvania 1 3 Yale 1 4 unlimited division. play. So fast did the action become The Junior Varsity wrestling team and so tense the players, that fists J-V Wins One achieved a 14-14 tie with King's Col- were swung and spectators rushed lege, January 24 in Barton Hall, and The Junior Varsity basketball team onto the floor in the last minute of the Freshman \vrestlers lost, 10-26, to won only one of its three January the game. the Syracuse Freshmen January 17 games, defeating Triple Cities Col- NYU started the game by scoring in Barton Hall. 20 points before Cornell counted its lege, 51-34, January 10. The team first field goal, a shot by Captain lost a close one, 51-53, to the Syracuse Robert W. Gale '48. The visitors dis- Junior Varsity, January 17, and Track Team Starts played amazing versatility and skill. dropped a 52-62 decision to King's NDOOR track team made its debut But Cornell refused to be counted out. College, January 24. All three games I in the λVest Point Relays in the The score at the half was 38-23. were played in Barton Hall. US Military Academy field house, Thomas R. Turner '50 paced Cor- Alan Longley '51 was high scorer January 24. nell in its second-half rally, scoring in two games, counting 24 points Paul Robeson, Jr. '49 of Enfield, four field goals, but Gale was high for against Syracuse and 16 against Conn., won the high jump at 6 feet the game with 20 points. Triple Cities. William S. Reynolds '50 2J^ inches. Co-captain William S. The Syracuse game was equally set the pace against King's College Owen '49 of Bluefield, W. Va., was exciting. The visitors Spotted Cornell with 20 points. third in both the 80-yard low hurdles 4 points in the first two minutes, then and the broad jump. John E. Servis pulled into a 25-23 lead at the half. Frosh Take Three '49 of Princeton, N. J., was second in Cornell finally went ahead at nine The Freshman basketball team won the 35-pound weight throw, and minutes of the second half, 33-32, and three of its five January games, de- Thomas A. Foss '48 of Hinsdale, 111., held a slim lead the rest of the way. feating Manlius School twice and the tied for third in the pole vault. The 268 Cornell Alumni News 2100-yard relay team of Co-captain won two races, the 100- and 220-yard vania, the US Naval Academy, and Richard A. McCall ;48 of Yonkers, freestyle. Hosie captured the diving the University of Puerto Rico. Frank C. Slovak '48 of Mansfield, event, and a 400-yard relay team of Richard Savitt '50 of East Orange, Conn., John F. Craig, Jr. '50 of Ornitz, Dennett, John B. Rogers '49 N. J., No. 1 player on last spring's Montclair, N. J., and John P. Seider of Westfield, N. J., and Joseph R. tennis team, has been ranked No. 5 in '49 of Rich wood, N. J., placed second DiStasio '48 of Newark, N. J., won the East by the Eastern Lawn Tennis to the Military Academy in the final. the final event. Hill set a new Cornell Association. Savitt and Leonard L. record of 0:54 in the 100-yard free- Steiner ;51 pϊ Brooklyn have been Fencers Take Two style. The old record of 0:54.6 was set ranked No. 1 in doubles. ENCING team won its first two by David C. Wiley, a Navy trainee, Royner C. Greene, basketball coach, Fengagements, defeating Buffalo, in Hutchinson Pool, Philadelphia, in has been named to the visual instruc- 18-9, at Buffalo January 16 and the 1944. tion committee of the National Asso- US Military Academy, 15J4-11J^, in The Freshman swimming team ciation of Basketball Coaches of the Barton Hall January 24. Against Buf- opened its season January 10 at Samp- United States. falo, Stuart M. Paltrow '49 of Bay- son, losing, 20-46, to Sampson College, then picked up two victories in the New York district trials ,f or the US side, foil; James A. Chase '49 of New Olympic wrestling team will be held York City, epee; and Thomas H. Old Armory Pool. They defeated the Colgate freshmen, 43-23, January 17, at Cornell between March 15 and Latimer '49 of Hamilton, Ohio, saber; April 15. each won three engagements. Against and Aquinas Institute, 53-13, Jan- uary 24. Edward C. McKeever, head foot- the Academy these three fencers each ball coach at Cornell in 1945 and 1946, won two engagements, along with resigned as coach at the University of Marvin Kopp '48 of Jersey City, N. Skiiers Second San Francisco January 24, to become J., foil; John B. Kittredge '49 of Day- N a two-event meet in the Caroline head coach of the professional Chicago ton, Ohio, epee; and Hamilton Mil- I hills January 11, the ski team Rockets. Allen E. Dekdebrun '47 lard '49 of Asheville, N. C., saber. placed second to Syracuse. The point played for the Rockets last fall. scores: Syracuse, 192.3; Cornell, 191.2; Joseph R. DiStasio '48, end on the Hockey Team Blanked Penn State, 151.3; Cortland Teachers, football team and a freestyle racer on OCKEY team failed to score in 66.3. Cornell won the downhill race the swimming team, received a spe- H its first two games. Plagued by with 97.8 points, Leif Arnesen '49 of cial award of merit from the Newark, lack of practice and scarcity of ex- Trondheim, Norway, placing first in N. J., Athletic Club at a dinner Jan- perienced skaters, the team lost to the 37.5 seconds. Ansley W. Sawyer, Jr. uary 22. DiStasio was honored for US Military Academy, 9-0, on the '48 of Buffalo was first in the slalom, having assisted in rescuing two boys Dwyer Dam rink January 17 and to in 1:00.1, but Syracuse won the event from drowning last summer. Clarkson, 10-0, at Potsdam January with 95.5 points. The American Football Coaches 24. A game with Colgate scheduled at Association voted the Alonzo A. Stagg Hamilton January 10 was postponed Polo Loses Two Award for distinguished contributions to February 21. to the game of football to Glenn S. The Freshman hockey team also 3TC polo team [lost twice on a R visit to New Jersey, bowing to Warner '94, Gilmour Dobie, and lost in its only test, 9-1, to the Colgate Robert Zuppke. Warner and Dobie Freshmen January 17 at Hamilton. Princeton, 5-9, January 10, and to West Orange, 10-13, January 11. Cap- coached at Cornell, among other Swimmers Open Season tain Albert A. Strouss '46 of Youngs- places, and Zuppke at Illinois. town, Ohio, scored 3 goals in each Cornell and the University of Mich- WIMMING team defeated Penn- game. igan will resume track competition S sylvania, 41-34, in the Old Armory The Junior Varsity team defeated May 22, after a lapse of sixteen years. pool, January 10, then lost by 2 the Cortland Polo Club, 15-14, in the The meet will be held on Schoell- points, 36M-38M, to the US Naval Riding Hall, January 17. kopf Field. Michigan's last appearance Academy at Annapolis, January 17. The Varsity team of Captain Strouss, in Ithaca was in 1932 in*rBarton Hall, Pennsylvania was beaten in the Charles Gandal '48 of New York City, with Cornell the winner, 49|-45J. final event, the 400-yard freestyle and Hugh G. Dean '49, son of Dr. relay. The relay team of Robert A. Archie L. Dean '13 of Larchmont, will Ornitz '48 of Pittsburgh, Pa., Robert fly to Miami, Fla., February 20, to Chicago Has Students K. Dennett '48 of Honolulu, T. H., play the University of Miami in the Robert M. Hill '49 of Durham, N. C., NDERGRADUATE luncheon of Orange Bowl there. They will be ac- and Captain Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. U the Cornell Club of Chicago, 111., companied by the coach, Dr. Stephen drew eighty Cornellians including '49 of Maplewood, N. J., was timed J. Roberts '37, Veterinary Medicine. in 3:44.3, only seven-tenths of a sec- forty-three undergraduate men home ond off the pool record. for Christmas, as guests. Frank J. DeForrest of Pennsylvania won the For the Record Durham '16 introduced the current 100- and 440-yard freestyle races and Robert J. Kane '34, Director of holders of Chicago Club Regional was timed in 1:00.4 in the breaststroke Physical Education and Athletics, was Scholarships, Norman Dawson, Jr. leg of the medley relay, an unofficial elected chairman of the board of '46, David L. Brooke '50, and James world record. stewards of the Eastern Intercollegi- K. Bell '52. Edward C. Frank, Jr. '41, Other Cornell winners were Cap- ate Rowing Association and president former Club Scholarship holder now tain Reynolds in the 50-yard free- of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basket- in West Virginia, commented on what style, John W. Hosie '49 of East ball League at the annual meetings in the Scholarship had meant to him. Aurora in diving, Peter L. Wastrom New York City in December. Janu- At the regular Thursday luncheon '49 of Norwich, Conn., in the 150-yard ary 11, Kane was elected vice-presi- of the Club, February 12 at the Uni- backstroke, and Arthur M. Shelton, dent for District 2 of the National versity Club, John F. P. Farrar '25, Jr. '48 of Geneva in the 200-yard Collegiate Athletic Association, which president of Chicago Metal Hose breaststroke. includes colleges and universities in Corp,, told of conditions in Europe Against the Naval Academy, Hill New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- He made two trips abroad in 1947. February, 1948 269 Veterinarians Elect president of the Cornell Society of Foundation, affiliated with Illinois Hotelmen, elected chairman of the Institute of Technology. Γ^ORTIETH annual Conference for College alumni associations; and Wil- In the College of Arts and Sciences, JF Veterinarians was held January liam Littlewood '20, elected chairman Vladimir Nabokov is associate profes- 1-3 on the Campus. Almost 350 veteri- of the district directors. sor of Russian Literature. Receiving narians attended the program of pro- Annual meeting of the Alumni As- the BA with honors at Cambridge fessional lectures and demonstrations. sociation was set for Saturday, June University in 1922 he taught in Berlin Dr. Frederic F. Fehr '03 of Buffalo 12, during Class Reunions, at 10:45 and Paris and at Stanford University, was elected president of the Veterinary a.m. in Bailey Hall. At this meeting, and in 1945 inaugurated the Russian College Alumni Association and thus election of three Alumni Trustees of department at Wellesley. becomes a director of the Cornell the University and of district direc- Associate professor in the Depart- Alumni Association. Dr. Henry P. tors of the Association will be an- ment of Physics and Laboratory of Noonan '19 of Akron, 0., was elected nounced. Nuclear Studies is Bruno Pontecorvo. vice-president and Professor Stephen He received the Certificate of the Uni- J. Roberts '37, Veterinary Medicine, Several Join Faculty versity of Pisa in 1930 and the PhD is secretary-treasurer. Cum Laude of the University of Rome Dr. Winfield S. Stone '35, retiring in 1934. Since 1943, he has been direc- president, presented a portrait of Dr. tor of the Tube Alloys Division, De- Earl Sunderville '08, professor of Vet- partment of Atomic Energy, Chalk erinary Anatomy, Emeritus, painted River, Canada. by Professor Kenneth L. Washburn Glenn H. Beyer is professor of '26, Fine Arts. President Edmund E. lit Housing and Design in the College of Day accepted the portrait for the Home Economics. In 1935 he received University. the AB at Augustana College and in 1939 the AM at George Washington Williams in Delaware University. For ten years he was in the Federal Housing Administration /CORNELL Club of Delaware in- ^ vited local alumnae to a meeting and National Housing Agency, and December 9 at the DuPont Country last year was director of the contract performance division, Office of the Club in Wilmington, at which eight Housing Expediter, Washington, D. C. school principals were also guests. Professor of Agricultural Engineer- Fifteen women and seventy men ing is Cyrl W. Terry '26. He received gathered to hear Herbert H. Williams the ME in 1926, the MME in 1929, '25, Director of Admissions, describe and the PhD in 1947. Formerly in- the work and problems of his office at structor in Engineering, in 1945 he the University. Arrangements for the was acting head of the Department of meeting were made by the Club EWCOMER to the University Aeronautical Engineering and since secondary schools committee, of which N Faculty is John W. Wells, PhD 1946 has been a research associate in John M. Clark '29 is chairman. Gor- '33 (above), as professor of Geology. Agricultural Engineering. His daugh- don 0. Andrews '26, vice-president of His most recent work has been for the ter ils Joyce L. Terry '49. the Club, presided. US Geological Survey on Bikini Atoll studying the effects of the atom bomb. John D. Hartman, PhD '33, is pro- Wells brings with him about half of fessor of Vegetable Crops. He received Executive Group Meets the two-and-a half tons of specimens the BS at Pennsylvania State College LUMNI Association executive collected from the atoll. Of the amount in 1930, the MS and the PhD at Cor- Λ committee met at the Cornell already classified, more than 175 varie- nell in 1931 and 1933; has been at Club of New York, January 24, to ties of reef coral have been identified. Purdue since 1937. hear committee reports and carry on Wells entered the Graduate School in New associate professor of Animal the business of the Association. Presi- 1928, after receiving the BS at Uni- Husbandry is John T. Reid, formerly dent Elbert P. Tuttle '18 reported his versity of Pittsburgh, Pa. He studied director of research at the Dairy Re- reappointment of members of three abroad as a National Research Coun- search Station of Rutgers University standing committees for this year: to cil Fellow; has been a member of the in Sussex, N. J. He received the BS the ALUMNI NEWS committee, Phil- geology department at Ohio State with honors at the University of lips Wyman '17, chairman, and Birge University since 1938. Mrs. Wells was Maryland in 1941, the MS in 1943 W. Kinne 16, Clifford S. Bailey '18, Elizabeth Baker '28. and the PhD with distinction in 1945 John S. Knight '18, and Walter K. In the College of Engineering, Hans at Michigan State College. Nield '27; committee on secondary F. Mayer has been appointed profes- John G. Matthysse, PhD '43, is ap- schools, Edward H. Carman, Jr. '16, sor of Electrical Engineering. He took pointed associate professor of Eco- chairman, Mrs. Bernard A. Savage the PhD at the University of Heidel- nomic Entomology. He received the (Carmen Schneider) '27, vice-chair- berg in 1921 and became director of BS at Iowa State College in 1940 and man, and Clarence J. Pope '10, the Siemens & Halske Central Labo- was entomologist with Geigy Co., Inc. Charles M. Werly '27, and Charles N. ratory in Berlin, Germany. Imprisoned and J. T. Baker Chemical Co. in New Mellowes '33; committee on alumni by the Nazis in 1943, he remained in a Jersey. placement, George N. Brown '08, concentration camp until the end of Joining the Veterinary Faculty as chairman, and George P. Brockway the war; has since been doing special professor of Therapeutics and Small '11, Sterling W. Mudge '13, Bertha work for the US War Department. Animal Diseases is Dr. Ellis fP. Leon- H, Funnell '22, John E.Ϊ. Farrar '25, Herbert F. Wiegant is assistant pro- ard '34. He reciveed the BS at Rut- Gordon 0. Andrews '26, and Mrs. fessor of Chemical Engineering. At gers in 1929 and the DVM here in Thomas A. Morris (Katharine Ja- Purdue University he received the BS 1934. He taught at Kansas State Col- cobs) '26. in Chem E in 1938, the MS in 1939, lege; the last ten years has been chief New members of the executive com- and the PhD in 1941. He was for four surgeon at the Summit, N. J., Dog mittee are Henry B. Williams '30, years with the Armour Research and Cat Hospital. 270 Cornell Alumni News Hear Radio Speaker ant Twesten appeared soon after 7:30 o'clock, 800 undergraduates were al- DINGHAMTON Cornell Women's ready in line before the front door. He •*-* Club met January 22 at the home Back When... led the line around to the south door of Mrs. Lee C. Hensley (Helen Ma- (Reprinted from the ALUMNI NEWS to which he had the key, and the rush loney) '34 and heard Charles Bishara, of earlier days.) began. By half-past eight, 1500 had WINR program director, describe been registered. As usual, many who radio work. Mrs. William A. Young Twenty-three Years Ago had no one to appear for them pre- (Margaret Boardman) '40 was co- February, 1925—"This year's crop sented themselves in the costume they hostess to the sixteen members who of Junior Week girls ran noticeably to had worn to the Junior Promenade." attended. short sizes. Here and there you could pick out a corn-fed goddess and there Club Elects Officers was a sprinkling of welterweights; but CMFTY alumni and undergradu- the general run was made up of pee- St. Louis Gathers * ates attended a Cornell Club wees measuring five feet over all and ORTY attended a meeting of the smoker, December 30 at the- Dutch grading about twenty to the ton. FCornell Club of St. Louis, Mo., Cabin in Poughkeepsie. Allen Webster "Fashions and tastes in girls change December 18, at the University Club. '44, commodore of the crew this year, just as they do in straw hats, and They heard Edward K. Graham, PhD spoke briefly. girls are one of the many things '38, assistant dean of the faculties at New president of the Cornell Club about which students do not desire Washington University, speak on of Dutchess County is William T. information or advice. Offhand, you "Current Trends in College Education Taylor '15, whose office is at 34 might say this is nobody's business and Athletics." Edgar M. Queeney Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie. Edwin but their own; but the public interest '19 showed his color movies of wild S. Ham '15 was elected vice-president is distinctly involved. If any sub- ducks. and Howard W. Haring '42, secretary- stantial number of these Junior Week treasurer. couples become married in due course, Philippines Club Elects the Classes of 1948 and '49 will be ex- Bradley '26 Joins Fund tremely rich in coxswains but almost /CORNELL Club of the Philip- ^ pines met for dinner in Manila, EW member of the Alumni Fund wholly devoid of tackles and shotput- November 15, and heard recent news staff in Ithaca is H. Hunt Brad- ters." — R. B. in "Sport Stuff N of the University from Captain Ed- ley '26. He began in January as as- Thirty-five Years Ago win G. Moran '37, newly assigned to sistant secretary of the Fund, to assist Company B, 58th Engineer Combat Class representatives in organizing February, 1913—"No longer may Battalion, at Camp Angeles. their committees for personal solici- undergraduates sleep in Gold win Smith tation for the Fund. Hall the night before registration in A previous " Reunion" luncheon in Bradley is a former treasurer of the order to secure a desirable schedule. August at the Wack Wack Golf and Class of '26 and has beenλthe Class A new rule this year obliged any who Country Club was attended by thirty- representative for the Alumni Fund should be found in the building when five alumni, including Mrs. Keets C. since 1945. He has long been engaged the Proctor formed the line, about Baker (Gertrude Kellogg) Ίl. At in public relations and fund raising, eight o'clock, to take their place at that meeting, Meneleo G. Carlos '24 first with civic organizations in Provi- the end of the line. Needless to say, was elected president of the Club and dence, R. I., where he was in the in- none such were found. When Lieuten- Gonzalo T. Abaya '26, secretary. vestment and insurance business, in Baltimore, Md., with the Tax Foun- dation, for three years in the public relations department of General Mo- tors Corp. in New York City, and recently as Eastern regional manager of the Transportation Association of America. He was vice-president of the Cornell Club of New England for Rhode Island, vice-president of the Lackawanna Cornell Club of New Jersey, and has been a governor and chairman of the activities committee of the Cornell Club of New York. Bradley entered Arts and Sciences in 1922 from Moses Brown School, Providence, winning an Undergradu- ate Scholarship. He was manager of the track team that went to England for an Oxford-Cambridge meet in 1926 and president of the ICAAA, and for several years thereafter officiated at Intercollegiate championship meets in the East. He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Quill and Dagger; brother of Dr. Charles Bradley '25. Mrs. Bradley is the former Margaret ROCHESTER CLUB GRANTS DEGREE Cornell, who was in the University Scroll attesting the award of the honorary degree, "Prince of Good Fellows," by the Cornell Club of Rochester is presented by Barton Baker '22 (left) to Lewis B. Swift '12, Placement Bureau office in Ithaca president of Taylor Instrument Companies and past-president of the Club. In center is until their marriage in 1941. Kenneth G. Haxtun ΊO, just retired as president. Photo by Durnherr, Times- Union February', 1948 271 Trustees Speak and Woodchucks" with two paintings Cornell Alumni News reproduced by Professor Stone. Cen- JOINT Founder's Day dinner of the ter spread is an airplane view of the 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA N. Y. J Cornell Club and the Cornell Wo- Campus and area to the eastward FOUNDED 1899 men's Club of Albany, January 12 which will be used for the Cornell at Herbert's Restaurant, was at- Plantations. Published the first and fifteenth of tended by seventy-five alumni. Speak- each month while the University is ers were Ruth F. Irish '22, president in regular session and monthly in Jan- of the Federation of Cornell Women's uary, February, July, and September. Clubs and Alumni Trustee of the Coming Events Owned and published by the Cornell University, and C. Chester DuMond, Alumni Association under direction of a State Commissioner of Agriculture committee composed of Phillips Wyman TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 and a Trustee of the University. They '17, chairman, Birge W. Kinne '16, Clif- Ithaca: Bernays Lecture, Professor Ben- ford S. Bailey '18, John S. Knight '18, were introduced by Trustee Mary H. jamin Selekman, Harvard^ ' 'Impli- and Walter K. Nield '27. Officers of the Donlon '20, who is chairman of the cations ^and Problems Raised by Col- Alumni Association: Elbert P. Tuttle '18, lective Bargaining," Olin Hall, 8:15 Atlanta, Ga., president; Emmet J. Mur- State Workmen's Compensation phy '22, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. Board. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Subscriptions $4 in U S. and possessions; New York City: Class of '19 dinner, Cor- foreign, $J^.δO Life subscription $7δ. Geologists Gather nell Club Single copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 renewed annually unless cancelled. SίNUAL meeting of the Geologi- Ithaca: Swimming, St. Bonaventure, Old Λ cal Society of America December Armory, 8 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 28-31 in Ottowa, Canada, was attend- Cambridge, Mass.: Basketball, Harvard Assistant Editors ed by a busload of Geology Depart- Miami, Fla.: Polo, Miami University, JOHN C. BARKER, JR. '44 ment Faculty and graduate students. Orange Bowl RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 Alfred: Freshman basketball, Alfred A highlight was a Cornell luncheon SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, at the Chateau Laurier, December 28, 22 Washington Square North, New York Ithaca: Freshman wrestling, Wyoming City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. at which George B. Langford, PhD Seminary, Barton Hall, 2 '30, of University of Toronto, was Freshman swimming, Sampson, Old Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. toastmaster. Professors W. Storrs Cole Armory, 2:30 Freshman hockey, Colgate, Dwyer's '25, Department chairman, and James Dam, 2:30 D. Burfoot, PhD '29, told briefly of Wrestling, Columbia, Barton Hall, 3:30 Barker '44 Joins Staff the Department and the University. Track meet, Dartmouth, Barton Hall, 8 EW name in the "masthead" George H. Ashley '89, Pennsylvania Hanover, N. H.: Basketball, Dartmouth N above, beginning this issue, is State Geologist, retired, the oldest Hamilton: Hockey, Colgate that of John C. Barker, Jr. '44, assist- Freshman basketball, Colgate alumnus present, also spoke. Alumni Annapolis, Md.: Fencing, US Naval ant editor of the ALUMNI NEWS. He from distant points included Walter Academy was a reporter on The Canon City, A. Ver Wiebe, PhD '18, from Univer- Sampson: J-V basketball, Sampson Colo., Daily Record. For the NEWS, sity of Wichita, Kans.; John L. Rich J-V wrestling, Sampson he will gather and write news of the Elmira: Lucile Allen, Counsellor of Stu- '06, University of Cincinnati, Ohio; dents, at Cornell Women's Club University, write the column "Back and Arthur L. Rowland '29 of North- luncheon, Mark Twain Hotel, 1 When . . ." and the page "On the western University, Evanston, 111. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Campus and Down the Hill," and do Ithaca: University concert, Busch String the make-up. He succeeds John H. Quartet, Willard Straight Theater Detmρld '43, who went to Wells Col- Cornell Plantations TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 lege" in! December as director of public JTUMN issue of The Cornell Ithaca: University concert, Busch String relations. Λ Plantations contains An Appre- Quartet, Willard Straight Theater Son of the late John C. Barker '12 ciation of Professor Liberty Hyde WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 of Cleveland, Ohio, Barker entered Bailey, Agriculture, Emeritus, by Syracuse: Freshman & Varsity basket- Arts and Sciences in 1940 from West- Andrew S. Wing, executive secretary ball, Syracuse ern Reserve Academy. He was elected of the National Garden Institute, Clinton: Hockey, Hamilton to Red Key and to the Cornellian whose Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal will THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 board; left for the Army in 1943 and be awarded to youthful gardeners. Ithaca: Bernays Lecture, Ralph T. Seward was on active duty for forty-two Professor Alfred M. S. Pridham, '27, arbitrator US Steel Corp. & months. He was commissioned a sec- PhD '33, Ornamental Horticulture, in United Steel Workers, "Basic Ele- ond lieutenant of Field Artillery at this issue "Urges Care with 2,4-D;" ments in Labor Relations Practice," Olin Hall, 8:15 Fort Sill, Okla., in August, 1944; Professor Robert M. Smock, Pomo- served in New Guinea and with the logy, writes on "Johnny Appleseed SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 First Cavalry in the Philippines as by One Who Knew Him," about an Ithaβa: Hockey, Clarkson, Dwyer's Dam, 2:30 . forward observer and survey officer, 1875 MS by W. M. Glines; and Pro- Swimming, Columbia, Old Armory, 2:30 and as battalion Intelligence officer fessor Walter King Stone, Archi- Fencing, Columbia, Barton Hall, 2:30 in Japan. He came out of the Army tecture, .Emeritus, writes on "Chest- J-V basketball, Sampson, Barton Hall, as a captain in October, 1946; re- nutting." The pamphlet contains a 6:30 Basketball, Princeton, Barton Hall, 8:15 turned to the University, and received two-page map of the Cornell Plan- New York City: Annual luncheon, Cornell the AB in February, 1947. He is a tations. Women's Club, Waldorf-Astoria, 1 member of Theta Delta Chi and Winter number contains a descrip- ICAAAA indoor track meet, Madison Sphinx Head. His step-brother is Square Garden, 8 tion and pictures of the Calcutta Bo- State College, Pa.: Freshman & Varsity Kenneth B. Sadler '39 tanic Garden by Bernard E. Harkness wrestling, Penn State '29; an estimate of "Luther Burbank: Rochester: Freshman swimming, Aquinas 1948 Cornellian is headed by Mary Hero or Faker?" by Professor Smock; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 E. Hears '48 of Merion, Pa., editor; "Oaks on Long Island" by Professor Ithaca: Hockey, Hamilton, Dwyer's Dam, 4 and Leonard Harris '48 of Roch- Walter C. Muenscher, PhD '21, Hamilton: Basketball, Colgate ester, business manager. Botany; and an essay on "Hunting 272 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

"If labor-management relations can Starner acquired the property at a TIME for December 29, writing on the be improved in the classroom, the bankruptcy sale. so-called Army method of teaching New York State School of Labor and college students foreign languages with Industrial Relations at Cornell Uni- "Cheers for the CORNELL ALUMNI phonograph records, says: "Cornell versity ... is sure to play a significant NEWS which frankly lists the names was already convinced, now uses the role in improving them."—Edward J. of 36 students who have received Army method exclusively to teach Nickel in February 8 Parade, Sunday scholarships ranging from $50 to seven languages. In groups of ten, newspaper supplement, in a two-page $500."—"The Powerhouse" by Jimmy Cornell students listen to the records illustrated story. Powers in the January 14 New York until they are blue in the face; they Daily News. (These were the holders put in 120 such 'contact hours' a Cover girl for January 26 Life maga- of Cornell Club Scholarships, pub- semester. Cornell figures that new- zine is Wendy Burden, granddaughter lished last November 1.—Ed.) method undergrade cover twice as of Ernest I. White '93 who is a nephew much linguistic ground as by old of Andrew D. White, first Cornell Livestock judging team from the Col- methods." Commenting, Professor J. President. lege of Agriculture took second place Milton Cowan, Director of the Di- behind Iowa State among thirty col- vision of Modern Languages, who lege competitors at the International helped to devise the method for the Faculty-student panel discussed uni- Livestock Show in Chicago, 111., and Army, says: "What Cornell is doing versal military training January 19, was the only team to place three men is exciting and experimental, but with Dean of the Faculty Carlton C. in the top ten. Among the 150 con- Time's description of it is not entirely Murdock, PhD '19, as moderator. testants, Germain B. Marion '46 of accurate. Our 'contact hours' in groups Advocating training were Professor Hammond scored fourth; Bernard F. of ten students are with native Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr., Law; Paul Stanton '49, son of Rhodell M Stan- speakers of the languages, andyphono- Brainard, president of the First Na- ton '15 of Greenville, sixth; and A. graph records are used as supplemen- tional Bank of Ithaca; and Burton B. Joseph Fairbank '46 of Ashville tal devices or outside aids to learn- Roberts '49. Opposition was voiced scored ninth and took first place in ing/' by Professors Phillip Morrison, Phys- judging beef cattle. The team, coached ics, and Harrop A. Freeman '29, Law, by Professor John I. Miller, PhD '36, WHCU-FM power output was boosted and Irving Sabghir '49. Animal Husbandry, out judged all to 40,000 watts, the most powerful in competitors at the Eastern States Ex- the East. Its 10,000-watt amplifier is President of the Business and Public position last September and at the the biggest piece of FM equipment Administration Student ^Association Eastern National Livestock Expo- made by Western Electric. WHCU is Peter P. Miller, Jr. '44 of Schenec- sition at Baltimore, Md., in No- received second prize in a community tady, son of P. Paul Miller'18 and vember. service competition sponsored by the Mrs. Miller (Sara Speer) '21. Stewart University of Chicago Radio Work- A. Sailor '46, son of Charles M. Sailor Young Republican Club has been shop for its "CURW Radio Forum." '16 of Hinsdale, 111., is vice-president; organized on the Campus, with Joseph and Jane E. Knauss '45, daughter of J. Rose '50 of Albany as president. Bus line making three trips daily be- Edwin S. Knauss '20 and Mrs. Knauss Chartered by the National Young tween Ithaca and Auburn via Aurora (Dorothy Pond) '22 of Poughkeepsie, Republican Clubs, it is one of five has been opened by George T. Wood was re-elected secretary - treasurer. on college campuses. of Aurora. Besides being convenient Speaker at a January 15 dinner meet- for commuters, the line will simplify ing of the Association was John P. AFTER suspending publication dur- the transportation problem of under- Syme '26, vice-president and assistant ing examinations, the Cornell Daily graduates who do sociological re- to the chairman of the board of Johns- Sun burst forth February 7 with a search at Wells. Manville Co. and vice-president of the tabloid issue proclaiming a "Revolu- Alumni Fund Council. tion of Society" with women taking Independent Council elected Alex* official control. Covering the front ander T. Stark '43 of Irvington, N. J., Clinton House at Cayuga and Seneca page was a picture of "Miss Yumus president; Herman Horowitz '49 of Streets, a landmark in Ithaca for 116 Beamish" taken as she threw her hat Yonkers, vice-preόident; Sara Jane years, has been sold by Elmer C. into a ring occupied by the headpieces of Walter '49 of Buffalo, treasurer; and Starner and his son, William, to Candidates Truman, Dewey, and Wal- Joan D. Hall '45 of Mineola, secretary. Charles A. Foote, storeroom manager lace, who were sketched as chagrined for Residential Halls, and Michael onlookers. On the inside pages, "pic- Sun editor Harold Raynolds, Jr. '46 LoPinto, Ithaca lawyer. The new tures"—photographed heads on scan- was re-elected president of the Cor- owners plan to restore the hotel's tily-clad cartooned bodies—depicted nell chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, pro- once-famous dining room and coffee women as traffic cops, brokers, and fessional journalism society. Richard shop. Although both the Tompkins steelworkers under the new "Girdle F. Koppe '45 of Dayton, Ohio, ed- House and the Ithaca Hotel are the World Movement" which claimed itor of The Widow, was named vice- older, the Clinton House was built to considerable "support." Other pic- president; Alfred N. Schwartz '47 of outclass the inns and taverns of the tures showed the organization of the Brooklyn, managing editor of the day. In 1860, Ezra Cornell purchased MSGA to supervise the defenseless Cornell Countryman, is secretary; a two-thirds interest in the hotel, men, and a Cornellian "signing out" and Professor James S. Knapp '31, which he later deeded to the Uni- for a date while his girl escort waited Extension Teaching and Information, versity. Fire destroyed the roof and impatiently. was re-elected treasurer. Sixteen new fourth story in 1901, and in 1920 members were elected to the society.

February > 1948 273 Co., Akron, Ohio, recently suggested principal lecture, before the English that the European Recovery Program department, was a summary of his re- The Faculty be altered to increase food production search in 15th Century literature. His there and reduce goals for industrial findings are to be published shortly by expansion in Great Britain and cer- Columbia University Press under the University Trustee H. Edward Bab- tain countries on the continent, say- title, A Study in Robert Henryson. cock has been made a member of the ing that he doubted United States's Professor Stearns also spoke to stu- public advisory committee of the Ad- ability to feed Europe for four years. dents of the music school on "Afro- vertising Council, composed of the A member of President Truman's American Folk Music," and discussed principal advertisers and advertising Committee on Foreign Aid which folk music before a group at the Uni- agencies in the United States. drafted the Harrison report on this versity student union. country's ability to meet a program Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. '10, former presented in the Marshall Plan, Col- The Constitution and Civil Rights, University Trustee, was elected Janu- lyer made the suggestions in a letter by Professor Milton R. Konvitz, PhD ary 20 chairman of the board of E. I. to Senator Vandenberg, chairman of '33, Industrial and Labor Relations, du Ppnt de Nemours & Co., moving the Senate foreign affairs committee, has been selected by the Chicago up from the presidency which he held and to Representative Eaton, chair- Council Against Racial and Religious since 1940. He succeeds Lammot du man of the House foreign affairs com- Discrimination for its 1947 Chicago- Pont. Carpenter has been with the mittee. land Honor Award. Du Pont company since 1909, became a director, member of the executive Dr. Margaret Dann, PhD '32, on Harry G. Stutz '07, editor and man- leave of absence from the Medical Col- cqnimittee, and vice - president in ager of the Ithaca Journal, has been charge of, the development depart- lege since July 1, 1946, has returned re-elected librarian of the Cornell Li- as assistant professor of Pediatrics ment in 19,19, was elected treasurer brary, downtown, and thereby con- and a member of the finance commit- from work with the American Friends tinues as an ex-officio Trustee of the .Service Committee in Europe. tee three years later, and advanced to University. chairman of the finance committee in Director William R. Sears of the 1930. He was the second man not of Dean Cornells W. de Kiewiet, Arts Graduate School of Aeronautical En- the Du Pont name in the firm's his- and Sciences, returned in mid-Decem- gineering was named January 26 to tory to become its president. ber from South Africa, where he went the advisory council of the Congres- last August to visit the universities in Alumni Trustee George H. Rock- sional Aviation Policy Board. The that country for the Carnegie Founda- same day, he was inducted as a fellow well '13, director of the Associates of tion. This was his first trip back to the Harvard Business School, was of the Institute of Aeronautical Sci- South Africa, where he lived for twen- ences in New York City. named December 23 Massachusetts ty-three years. Two days after Profes- State fuel co-ordinator by Governor sor de Kiewiet arrived at his home in Professor Wayne W. Umbreit, Bac- Robert F. Bradford, to put into opera- Johannesburg, his father died. teriology"; has resigned and joined the tion a voluntary fuel conservation staff of Merck Institute for Thera- program in the State. Whitman Daniels, assistant to the peutic Research, Rahway, N. J., as President in charge of public relations, head of the enzyme chemistry depart- American Institute of Cooperation has been elected district director for ment. Professor Umbreit came from bestowed one of its first annual dis- New York and New Jersey of the University of Wisconsin, in 1944 as tinguished service awards, "for excep- American College Public Relations acting associate professor; was made tional contribution in achieving better Association. associate professor in 1945 and pro- understanding between rural and urban fessor in 1946. America," upon University Trustee Professor Frank A. Southard, Jr., Victor Emanuel '19, chairman of the chairman of the Department of Eco- Director Lloyd R. Simons '11, Ex- board of Avco Manufacturing Corp. nomics, now on a year's leave of ab- tension Service, has been cited by the Ten awards were made January 7 at sence in Washington, D. C., as direc- Nassau County Farm Bureau "for the Institute's annual meeting in Chi- tor of the Office of International Fi- outstanding service to agriculture in cago, 111. Dean William I. Myers '14, nance of the Treasury Department, is our county, state, and country," and Agriculture, was re-elected chairman one of seven experts principally re- in appreciation, was given a desk set. of the board of trustees of the Insti- sponsible for preparation of the Euro- Director Simons, the first county tute. pean Recovery Program. He and his agent in Nassau, in 1914, helped to colleagues worked with Undersecre- develop the widely-adopted "Nassau University Trustee Mary H, Don- tary of State Robert A. Lovell in Plan" of using local leadership to an- Ion '20, chairman of the New York drafting the program. During Profes- alyze and solve farm problems. State Workmen's Compensation sor Southard's absence, Professor Board, speaking before the District of Harold L. Reed, PhD '14, is acting Professor H. Darkes Albright, PhD Columbia Women's Bar Association, chairman of Economics. '36, assistant director of the Univer- January 26 in Washington, D. C., de- sity Theatre, was elected in Decem- clared that politics and good govern- Dr. Felix Reichmann, who came to ber president of the American Edu- ment are increasingly the responsibil- the University Library last March as cational Theater Association. ity of women. "Government is noth- acquisition librarian, fills also a newly- ing but public housekeeping," she ex- created position as assistant director University Faculty has elected Pro- plained, "and politics is the home in charge of technical services, with fessor Hadley C. Stephenson '14, Vet- economics of public housekeeping." responsibility for administration of erinary, to the Board on Physical In the last 100 years women have the acquisition department, the com- Education and Athletics for three fought for their rights, she said. "The bined catalog and classification de- years beginning January 1. Professor next 100 years will be devoted to ac- partments, and binding of periodicals. Robert Dalton, Home Economics, is cepting their responsibilities." elected to the Board on Student Professor Marshall W. Stearns, Health and Hygiene for three years, University Trustee John L. Collyer English, gave three lectures in Janu- and Professor Harold H. Williams, '17, president of the B. F, Goodrich ary at the University of Illinois. His PhD '33, Biochemistry, for two years. 274 Cornell Alumni News "Festskrift," a congratulatory as during World λVar I, Professor sistant professor in 1914, and pro- honor, was given to Professor Halldor Arthur C. Dahlberg, Grad '27-8, fessor in 1929. Hermannsson, curator, emeritus, of Dairy Industry, pointed out at a Na- A member of Phi Zeta, Sigma Xi, the Fiske Icelandic Collection, on his tional Dairy Council meeting, Janu- Phi Kappa Phi, and several profes- seventieth birthday, January 6. A ary 23 in Milwaukee, Wis. Postwar sional societies, he was known for his volume of essays by ten Icelandic au- gains also have been striking, he said. research in the metabolic disorders of thors, dedicated to him and contain- animals, and was a leader in labora- ing tributes from 100 scholars, was Professor Laurence H. MacDaniels, tory diagnosis/Professor Hayden was presented to him at the Icelandic PhD '17, Horticulture, has been secretary-treasurer of the New York Consulate in New York City. elected chairman of trustees of the State Veterinary Medical Society for First Unitarian Church in Ithaca. fourteen years, then treasurer for Professors Edward A. Suchman '36 seven. He was business manager of and Louis G. Guttman, Sociology and Anthropology, offered "A Solution to Three of Faculty Die the Cornell Veterinarian and con- the Problem of Question "Bias' " in tributed many articles to technical EATH took three members of journals. Mrs. Hayden survives. Their the fall issue of the Public Opinion the Faculty last month. Quarterly, published at Princeton. D daughter is Mrs. Theodore T. Howes Director William Lindsay Malcolm, (Ruth Hayden) ;33. Engagement of Mrs. Marion Mead PhD '37, of the School of Civil Engi- Professor Vladimir Karapetoff, Grain to US Senator Irving M. Ives, neering, died Electrical Engineering, Emeritus died former Dean of the School of Indus- January 18 in January 11 in trial and Labor Relations, was an- Ithaca, after a New York City, nounced January 3. Mrs. Crain, the short illness. where he lived widow of Alfred V. Crain of Buffalo, Funeral services at 170 West has been secretary to Senator Ives for were in Sage Seventy - sixth thirteen years. Mrs. Ives died last Chapel. A na- Street. Although summer. tive of Mitchell, blind since 1943, Ont., Dr. Mal- Interviewed by Professor Louis W. he continued ac- colm came as tive as an engi- Kaiser, Extension Teaching and In- Director of the formation, on the CBS "Country neering consult- School of Civil ant, lecturer, Journal" program, January 10, Mrs. Engineering in Edith M. Fox, AM '45, acting curator and pianist. 1938 from Queens University, Kings- Born in Lenin- of the University Collection of Re- ton, Ont., where since 1907 he had gional History, related amusing inci- grad, Russia, Professor Karapetoff re- been assistant professor of civil engi- ceived the EE and the MEE at the dents of tracking down old documents neering and professor of municipal and told of their importance. Institute of Ways of Communication engineering. He received the AM in in Leningrad. After being a consulting In appreciation of his more than 1905 and the BS in CE in 1907 at engineer for the Russian Government thirty years of service to potato grow- Queens; the MCE in 1934 and the and an instructor of electrical engi- ers of New York State, Professor PhD in 1937 at Cornell. neering and hydraulics in three St. Earle V. Hardenburg '12, Vegetable An authority on sanitary engineer- Petersburg colleges, he came to the Crops, was presented with a gold ing, he had been city engineer of United States in 1902 and was an watch by the Empire State Potato Stratford, Ont., associate city engi- engineering apprentice at Westing- Club at a meeting of the State Vege- neer of Guelph, Ont., and a consultant house Electric & Manufacturing Co. table Growers' Association in Syra- on Canadian highway and building until 1904, when he came to Cornell as cuse, January 8. programs. During World War I, he assistant professor of electrical engi- was overseas five years and became a Professor John M. Wild, Aero- neering. He was made professor in lieutenant colonel in the Canadian nautical Engineering, reported on re- 1908 and professor emeritus in 1939. Army Engineers. He was a member of Professor Karapetoff was a member search in aerodynamics carried out at Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Chi the University during the last year, of the United States Naval Institute, Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and professional at a meeting of the Institute of Aero- the United States Naval Reserve societies of Canada and the United Officers Association, the advisory nautical Sciences in New York City, States. Mrs. Malcolm survives. They January 29. He spoke on 'The Lami- board of the US Naval Academy, the lived in Ithaca at Greycourt Manor. nar Boundary Layer of Yawed In- board of trustees of Ithaca College, finite Wings." Professor Charles Ernest Hayden Sigma Xi, and professional societies; '14, Veterinary Physiology, died Janu- received the honorary DMus at New Milton R. Shaw '34, University ary 25 in Me- York College of Music and the hono- Manager of Residential Halls, and morial Hospital rary DSc at Brooklyn Polytechnic Mrs. Shaw (Ruth McCurdy) '37 have after being Institute. In 1923, he was awarded the a son, William Roberts Shaw, born in stricken that Montefiore Prize and in 1927 the Ithaca, January 17. morning while Elliott Cresson Gold Medal of the Technical Sergeant Frank H. Page, shoveling snow Franklin Institute, both for kinematic at his home, 110 who has been detailed to the Univer- models of electrical engineering. He sity ROTC since 1932 except for two Irving Place. constructed a five-string cello, on Born in Syra- years in the China, Burma, India which he played violin music. Re- cuse, Ohio, he Theatre, has retired from active duty search editor of The Electrical World received the AB after twenty years in the Army. He from 1917-26, he wrote many engi- continues, however, as a civilian equi- at Ohio Univer- neering texts and just before he be- tation instructor, assistant polo coach, sity in 1910; came blind, completed a book on and supervisor of the ROTC stables. came to Cornell in 1909 as a graduate relativity, Relative Humidity in Hy- assistant in Veterinary Physiology, perbolic Functions. The first Mrs. Americans consumed three times as and received the DVM in 1914. He Karapetoff died in 1931. Professor much ice cream during World War II was appointed instructor in 1910, as- Karapetoff married again in 1936. February , 1948 275 Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'91 CE—John A. Knighton, former optical laboratory of the Corning turbine sales division. He lives at 41 chief engineer of the New York City Glass Works from 1911. He assisted Balltown Road, Schenectady 8. Department of Plant and Structures, in the development of railway signal Ίl ME—Edgar F. Wendt, presi- retired since January 1, 1938, lives at lenses and signal apparatus, colored dent of the Buffalo Forge Co., Buf- 39 Archer Drive, Bronxville 8. glass for railway and scientific uses, falo, has been named a regional vice- '91—Press Club of Atlantic City, "Conaphore" headlight front glasses president of the National Association N. J., honored its only life member, for automobiles, "Daylite" glass for of Manufacturers. W. Bruce Reid, at a meeting dedi- reading lamps and color identification, and a new type of condenser for mo- '12—Harry J. Seaman is eastern cated to him, January 31. Reid cele- sales manager of Bonney Forge & brated his ninetieth birthday January tion picture projection. With J. C. Mock and Kasson S. Gibson '12, he Tool Works, Allentown, Pa., and lives 26. He was a special student at the at 326 Bridge Street, Catasauqua, Pa. University for two years from 1887; prepared revised specifications for railway signal colors for the Associa- He writes: "I am now preparing my was a reporter on the Daily Union and grandson, James Gates, for entry into Herald-Dispatch in Utica,'and in 1922 tion of American Railways, and was the author, with his father, of Optic Cornell with the Class of 1966. If joined the staff of the Atlantic City present conditions continue, possibly Daily Press. He has also written and Projection. Gage is a member of Sigma Xi, Illuminating Engineering he should make entry application now travelled in New Zealand and Eng- so he would be sure of entering." land. Society, Optical Society of America, Society of Motion Picture Engineers '12 BS—Carl G. Wooster, president '02 LLB—Harry R. McClain, direc- (was president, 1926-30), and Rotary of Wooster Fruit Farms, Inc., Union tor of The Rooftop Community The- International. His children are Pris- Hill, was named January 2 chairman atre, St. Louis, Mo., has been ap- cilla V. Gage '49 and William W. of the board of the Buffalo branch of pointed stage director of The Opera Gage '50. the Federal Reserve Bank of New Guild of St. Louis. McClain also is a York. member of the departments of speech '09 CE—Robert W. Clark, treas- at Webster College and St. Louis Uni- urer of Clark Crafts, Inc., 21 Church '13 CE—Roberts J. Mann is super- versity. His address is 412 North Street, Meriden, Conn., is president of intendent of conservation for the For- Union Boulevard, St. Louis 8, Mo. the Manufacturers Association of est Preserve District of Cook County, Meriden. Clark lives at 43 Lydale 111. His office is at 536 North Harlem '05 AB—Wallace T. Hoϊliday, presi- Place, Meriden, Conn. Avenue, River Forest, 111. dent of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio writes the leading article in The '13 AB — George M. Schurman, Reader's Digest for January, "Our president of National Bag Corp., 271 Madison Avenue, New York City, Final Choice." He contends that a federal world government is essential has been elected a trustee of Atlantic to prevent World War III and shows Mutual Insurance Co. and Atlantic that an effective federation is possible Mutual Indemnity Co. within the structure of the United '14—Warren W. Hawley of Batavia, Nations. president of the New York State Farm '05—Donald F. Stevens, formerly Bureau Federation, was elected direc- assistant to the vice-president of the tor of the American Farm Bureau Fed- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, wrote re- eration, December 18 in Chicago, 111. cently: "I retired on my sixty-fifth '14 AB—Dr. Hu Shih, president of birthday November 4 after forty-two the Peking National University and a years of hard work. This morning I trustee of Fu Jen University (Catho- have made my bed, wiped the break- lic University of Peking), was honored fast dishes, swept the snow off the guest of the'Historical Association of walk and the porch, and am going Fu Jen University this fall. He ad- downtown now to do the day's mar- dressed the Association on "The His- keting. You younger birds can see tory of Chinese Thought." what's ahead of you if you live long ΊO AB—Abraham L. Doris, deputy '15 AB—Bleeker Marquette has re- enough." Stevens lives at 914 South and acting comptroller of New York ceivfd an award for distinguished Seventh Street, Goshen, Ind. City, has assumed the presidency, for service in public health service to the '06 ME—Alfred W. Mellowes is a seventh term, of the YM- andYW- community from the Public Health president and general manager of Na- HA of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is Federation of Cincinnati, Ohio, of tional Lock Washer Co., 241 East the father of Irma E. Doris '35 and which he is executive secretary. The Erie Street, Milwaukee, Wis., and Mrs. Chester L. Fienberg (Marcia award was made September 1 at the president of Charter Wire, Inc., also Doris) '41. His address is 26 Court annual meeting of the Federation. of Milwaukee. He lives at 2501 East Street, Brooklyn 2. Marquette is also executive secretary Wood Place, Milwaukee 11, Wis. '11 ME—Clayton S. Coggeshall of the Better Housing League of Cin- '08 AB, Ίl PhD—H. Phelps Gage (above) has been appointed manager cinnati, secretary of the Anti-Tuber- of 214 Chemung Street, Corning, re- of sales of the turbine and gear di- culosis League of Cincinnati, consult- tired in July from the Corning Glass visions of the apparatus department ant to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Works. Son of the late Professor Simon of General Electric Co. in Schenec- Housing Authority, president of the H. Gage '77, Histology and Embryol- tady. He became associated with Ohio Housing Council, and chairman ogy, Emeritus, and the late Susanna General Electric in 1911 and since of the joint committee on housing and Phelps Gage '80, Gage headed the 1938 has been manager of the former health of the American Public Health 276 Cornell Alumni News Association and the National Associa- height of folly not to recognize that tion of Housing Officials. He is an Russia, in its present mood, is a defi- honorary member of the Cincinnati nite threat to the community of na- Academy of Medicine and the Cincin- tions who seek only peace and stabil- nati Dental Society. His address is 710 ity. It would seem to me that with all Ivy Avenue, Glendale, Ohio. of the uncertainties that prevail in our relationships with Russia, our press- '15 AB, '17 ME—Louis Ets-Hokin Ί8—Class of 1918 is actively en ing need is the" finest and most scien- has been in industrial and marine gaged in raising $30,000 as a gift to tifically advanced air force in the electrical contracting since 1920, is the Alumni Fund in commemoration world." Knight is a member of the president of the firm of Ets-Hokin & of its Thirtieth Reunion next June. ALUMNI NEWS publishing committee. Galvan which he founded and which More than one hundred men are solic- has seven locations in California: San iting contributions from 1918 men and '18 ME—John L. Sprague married Francisco, Wilmington (Los Angeles the results to date are gratifying both Mrs. Margret McLean December 27 Harbor), Monterey, Stockton, New- from the standpoint of amounts con- in Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. McLean port, San Diego, and Oakland. His tributed and the number of con- is a graduate of Columbia University address is 551 Mission Street, San tributors. and has a ten-year-old daughter, Francisco, Cal. Solicitations are being made upon Sandra. Their address is 412 Ridge- '16 CE—Felix S. Hales has been the basis of asking all 1918 men to wood Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. made vice-president in charge of make contributions to the Fund in operation of the Nickel Plate Road, units of $30.00 and a group, known as the New York, Chicago & St. Louis the "Three Hundred Club," has al- Railroad Co., with headquarters in ready been formed consisting of those the Terminal Tower Building, Cleve- 1918 men who have made contribu- land, Ohio. He lives at 357 iLytie Road, tions of at least $300. This organiza- Shaker Heights, Cleveland 22, Ohio. tion is also showing a healthy growth. '16 AB—Anthony O. Shallna is a The Class of 1918 hopes to set a new lawyer and attorney for the South record for the number of contributors Boston Savings Bank in Boston, Mass. to the Alumni Fund. All 1918 men are His exequatur as honorary Consul of urged to send their contributions to Lithuania in Boston issued by the State the Alumni Fund in Ithaca. Checks Department of Massachusetts is "still should be made payable to Cornell in full force and effect." During the University. The 1918 Class will auto- war, Shallna addressed church, civic, matically receive credit for these con- and fraternal organizations on ^The tributions. —P. P. Miller European Conflagration frorn^a Baltic Wallace B. Quail, Class Correspondent Miller is chairman of the Class Window" and, more recently, on 503 S. Main St., Middletown, Ohio Alumni Fund committee and the other "Russia's Neighbors—The Baltic Peo- members are Glenn W. Sutton, C. F. ples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithu- '19—As I reluctantly take over Heitmann, Crawford C. Halsey, P. C. ania." He lives at 305 Harvard^ Street, Morg Kendall's job as Class corre- Wanser, Roger Farquar, Harry Matin, Cambridge 39, Mass. spondent, I find myself sorely tempted T. R. Wagner, Frank V. Friedlander, to omit vital statistics and really re- '16 BS; '17 BS—Mrs. Ruth Smith and C. S. Bailey. Twenty-one regional port on Classmates as I know them. Houck of Brampton, Ont., Can., serves committees have been set up. But I have been instructed by the '19 with sixteen men and three other wo- '18—The history of the Seattle High Command to stick to facts, and men on the Royal Commission on I shall do my best to follow orders. Education, reviewing and revising the First National Bank, Seattle, Wash., whose chairman of the board is Law- By carrier pigeon from snowbound Canadian educational system up to New York comes the news that Feb- the university level. Wife of John E. rence M. Arnold, was traced in the December 10 issue of Investor's Read- ruary 19 is the date of the annual Houck '17, she participates in Home Class get-together and dinner at the Bureau, hospital, church, and politi- er, published by the brokerage firm of Merrill, Lynch, Pierre, Fenner & Cornell Club. All '19ers are urged to cal activities. The Houcks have five attend. Entertainment will include children. Beane. Of Arnold the author wrote: "The bank's vitality and informality the movie "Cornell Football High- '17—Class of '17 held its annual lights of 1947." Call or write Mai mid-winter dinner at the Cornell Club is personified in affable, agile Law- rence (Si) Arnold. . . . One of the Beakes, Room 800, 330 West Forty- of New York January 21, with sixty- second Street, New York City. (Phone eight members of the Class attending. best-known business men in the Pa- cific Northwest, Si Arnold is equally Bryant 9-6020) so he can arrange ade- Speeches were made by Class Presi- quate food and refreshment. Don't dent John L. Collyer, Class Secretary at ease in a dignified directors' meet- ing, the cloistered recesses of Seattle's miss this party! Herbert R. Johnston, and Judge Ja- And right along this line, remember cob G. Schurman. It was announced ivy-covered Rainier Club, at his farm, or on the golf course." that it is only sixteen months to our that George N. Newbury will succeed Thirty-year Reunion. Our hard work- Edward E. Anderson as Class repre- '18, '44 WA—John S. Knight re- ing Class treasurer, Jimmy Hillas, re- sentative on the Alumni Fund. ceived December 17 the Frank M. ports that 162 have paid Class dues. ; '17, 21 WA—RobertE. MacKenzie Hawks Memorial of Air Service Post He will be delighted to receive your of 1905 North Market Avenue, Can- 501 of the American Legion for the $5.00. Why not make him happy? ton 4, Ohio, writes that he is Starting contribution made to aviation by his Seth Heartfield has our '19 Alumni to recede" and "not running for any newspapers: The Akron Beacon Jour- Fund drive underway. District chair- public office." nal, The Detroit Free Press, The Chi- men have been appointed and will '18—John S. Coe of 3144 Hunting- cago Daily News, and The Miami soon be at work. Seth, you can count ton Road, Shaker Heights 20, Ohio, is Herald. In his speech at the dinner in on all of us!! vice-president of Chase Brass & Copper New^York City where he was given Wilbur R. R. Winans of Ithaca has Co. the award, he said: "It would be the taken charge of air cargo for Robinson

February, 1948 277 Airlines after three decades of experi- for Kelley Island Lime & Transport tive assistant to the research director ence in all phases of the aviation in- Co., is president of the US Figure of DeLaval Separator Co. in Pough- dustry. Skating Association and chairman of keepsie, where he lives at 28 Meyer Dr. Ernest L. Hettich, professor of the Olympic Committee for Figure Avenue. Classics at New York University, Skating this year. '26 EE—Edwin L. Harder of 1204 Washington Square College of Arts Milton Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., is and Sciences, has been appointed di- '22 ME—Walker L. Cisler has been named executive vice-president of the consulting transmission engineer for rector of libraries at New York Uni- Westinghouse Electric Corp. He re- versity. He has been a member of the Detroit Edison Co., Detroit, Mich., with responsibility for personnel, em- ceived the PhD at the University of faculty since 1927 and has been acting Pittsburgh in 1946. director of libraries since 1945. ployment, and medical and safety de- partments. He has been chief engineer '27—Bertram Lebhar, Jr. is direc- Maynard C. (Bob) Hammond of of Edison's power plants. Formerly a Sparrow Bush proudly announces he tor of Radio Station WHN, New York member of General Eisenhower's staff City, and under the name of Bert Lee, is the father of five boys and one girl. in Europe, where he directed the re- That certainly puts Bob in a tie for broadcasts sports. He is married, lives establishment of utility services, Cisler at 90 Crofts Terrace, New Rochelle, first place in the Class contest for the is a consultant for the US Atomic largest number of children. He is di- and has five children: Vivienne, seven Energy Commission. James W. Parker Suzanne, nine; Barbara, ten; Godfrey rector of the Orange County Health '08, a former Alumni Trustee of the Association, Farm Bureau, and 4-H Lebhar II, fourteen; and Bertram Leb- University, is president of the Detroit har III '51, pledge of Phi Sigma Kappa Club, supervisor of the Town of Dee- Edison Co. park, and vice-president of the New and a member of the Freshman foot- York State Association of Towns. '22 BChem—Dean D. Crandell of ball and basketball teams. 25 Middlesex Road, Buffalo, has been '20, '23 AB, '26 MS—Dr. LeMon '27—James E. Pollak is construc- promoted from vice-president in charge tion materials manager for South- Clark has a clinic in Oklahoma City, of research to vice-president in charge Okla. west Steel Rolling Mills in Los Ang- of sales and advertising of the Na- eles, Cal. His address is 584 South '20, '21 LLB—Charles W. Little tional Gypsum Co. He joined the firm Orange Grove Avenue, Los Angeles practices law in Gloversville, where in 1927, became director of research 36, Cal. his address is 85 Washington Street. the next year, and was made a vice- president several years ago. '27 AB—Philip S. Lyon is secretary- '20 AB—Mrs. Robert C. Osborn treasurer of J. P. Pritchard& Co., which (Agda Swenson) of 303 North Aurora, '23 AB—Maribelle Cormack was changed its address January 1 from Ithaca, recently resigned as New York appointed director of the Park Mu- 2200 Fidelity Building to 908 Grand State Republican committeewoman seum, Providence, R. I., this summer. Avenue, Kansas City 6, Mo. He lives after she was elected vice-chairman of She had been the assistant director. at 1807 West Fiftieth Terrace, Kansas the Tompkins County Republican She flew from Brazil, where she had City 2, Mo. Committee. She believes that one been acting as interpreter for the person should not hold the two posi- Brown University-Sky scrapers Eclipse tions and feels she can be of greater Expedition studying the solar eclipse, service in her new capacity. to assume the post. Miss Cormack is '21 AB—Donald C. Fabel is chair- the author of children's books and man of the department of mechanical technical works on botany. She was engineering at Fenn College, Cleve- formerly assistant to Professor Wil- land, Ohio. Following his release from liam P. Alexander, Sp '19, now retired active duty in the US Army in De- from the Buffalo Society of Natural cember, 1945, he entered the graduate Sciences, with whom she wrote several school of Yale University and re- books. ceived the Doctor of Engineering last '25 AB, '26 AM—La Verne Bald- June. In the Army he attained the win, until recently assigned to the De- rank of colonel and received the Army partment of State, Washington, D. C., Commendation Ribbon. has been transferred to Ankara, Tur- '21, '22 BS—John R. Fleming is as- key, as first secretary. Commissioned sociate director of the world staff of a foreign service officer in 1927, the combined United States News and Baldwin has since held assignments at World Report, of which the first issue Ottawa, Santa Marta, Geneva, Ma- appeared January 16. Offices of the nagua, and Madrid. He returned last July from several years at the Ameri- publication are in the United States '28 AB—James H. Stack (above) News Building, Twenty-fourth & N can Embassy in Madrid, Spain, and was then assigned to the Department was appointed in January managing Streets, N.W., Washington 7, D. C. editor of the American Chemical So- Fleming is a former editor of The of State. In 1936, Baldwin was ad- viser to the twenty-first and twenty- ciety News Service, 60 East Forty- Cornell Countryman. second Street, New York City. He has '22 EE—Henry M. Beatty of 20001 second sessions of the International Labor Conference at Geneva. been assistant managing editor since Shelburne Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 1945. A New York newspaper man for vice-president in charge of operations '26 EE—Donald F. Ayres is execu- seventeen years before joining the

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278 Cornell Alumni News News Service, Stack was on the staff station are J. Winston Neeley, PhD of the New York Herald Tribune from '35, and George R. Walker, PhD '40, 1939-45. He received the AM at NYU both in cotton breeding and genetics in 1933; is a member of Phi Beta work. Maisenhelder and Mrs. Maisen- THE Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. helder (Grace Jackson), MS '32, live at 208 West Second Street, Leland, CO OP '29 AB—Dr. Isidore Stein and Mrs. Miss. Stein of 700 Avenue C, Brooklyn, IJMN have a daughter, Janie Lyn Stein, '32, '33 ME—J. Henry Parker of born November 29. Green Mountain Road, Claremont, N. H., is a consulting industrial engi- '29 BS; '30 AB, '33 MD—'Our neer. daughter, Carol Jeanne Smith, born September 21, 1946, keeps us more '32 CE-—William M. Anderson, Jr. than busy," writes Mrs. Marian Wal- is director of purchases in the home bancke Smith, wife of Dr. Wallace T< radio division of Westinghouse Elec- Smith '30 and president of the Cornell tric Corp. in Sunsbury, Pa. "I'm look- ing forward to a busy year," he writes. Women's Club of Long Island.* The i Smiths live at 24 Rhame Avenue in Television is really hot and radio and East Rockaway, where Dr. Smith has television combined will make 1948 a general practice of medicine. the biggest peacetime electronics year yet. I'm also getting ready to call all Something new this month! '29 AB, '31 LLB—Lieutenant * '32ers to the Alumni Fund roundup Colonel Jerome L. Loewenberg ac- again." Pure White Silk Scarfs cepted a commission in the Regular '32 PhD; '32 MS—A son, Larry Army last summer. He is stationed with Arthur Harper, was born November with the Judge Advocate's Division, Cornell Insignia 23 to Floyd A. Harper and Mrs. Har- Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, per, MS '32, of Marcourt Drive, L. I. We've had Cornell scarfs be- Chappaqua. fore, but never as nice a scarf '30 AB, '37 PhD; '31 AB—Hugo '32—Roderick Stephens, Jr. of the Doob, Jr. and Mrs. Doob (Hilda as this. It's large, soft, and Smith) '31 of Route 3, Elizabethtown, firm of Sparkman & Stephens, boat luxurious with border in Cor- Tenn., have a son, David Doob, born designers and builders, 11 East Forty- fourth Street, New York City, was nell Red and the Cornell Seal last May. Doob is still a chemist with elected January 8 vice-commodore of in each corner. The price is North American Rayon Co., ψiza- the Cruising Club of America. bethtown, Tenn. $4.95 '30 AB; '30 AB—Laurence^). Tom- '33, '34 BArch—Harold M. Alex- postpaid linson, librarian at Lewis ^and Clark ander, associated with Libbey-Owens- College, Portland, Ore., has completed Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio, for work for the PhD at the University of thirteen years, mostly in technical Oregon. He and Mrs. Tomlinson sales activities, was named this fall (Mary-Eleanor Smith) '30 have three assistant to the executive vice-presi- There's a new colored folder children, the youngest, a son Richard, dent, David H. Goodwillie '08. For illustrating and describing born in September, 1946. the last year, Alexander has been assistant to the vice-president in The '30 ME—Robert W. Waring, re- charge of sales. In 1942 he was active Cornell Class Ring signing from the Bridgeport Brass Co., in special glass sales, handled precision became assistant chief engineer of The glass sales during the war, and since for Men Bullard Co., Bridgeport, Conn., in the war, sales technical service. December. He lives at 197 Old Post Just drop a card to the Co-op Road, Fairfield, Conn. '34 CE—George G. Brode's address and we'll mail it to you. is 134 Chapman Avenue, Newcomers- These rings have those good '31 AB—Samuel Gorlick recently town, Ohio. Erode is with the W. M. moved to Los Angeles, Cal., has been Erode Co., general contractors; has a imported stones once again. admitted to the California Bar and is five-year-old daughter, Barbara Eliza- practicing law at 1004-9 Garland beth, and ,a one-year-old son, George Building, 740 South Broadway, in Los Monroe. Angeles. Formerly a lawyer in Syra- '34 BS; '41 BS—James Q. Foster We still have a few Cornell cuse, he lives at 2129 South Ridgeley and Mrs. Foster (Eleanor Slack) '41 Drive, Los Angeles 6, Cal. Calendars for 1948. We'll send of Cold Springs Road, RD 3, Bald- you one postpaid for '31 BS, '41 AM in Ed—A second winsville, have a third son, Robert son, Alan T. Hoyt, was born to Mr. John Foster, born October 25. Their $1.75 and Mrs. F. H. Hoyt (Dorothy King) other sons are Charles and Carl, four November 8 in New York City, where and three years old, respectively. The they live at 102 East Twenty-second boys are the grandsons of Clarence M. Street. Mrs. Hoyt is the daughter of Slack '16 and the former M. Alda Professor Asa C. King '99, Farm Prac- Deibler '17. tice, Emeritus. '36 AB — Mrs. Constance Lebair THE CORNELL CO-OP '31 BS, '32 MF; '32 MS—Louis C. Percy is statistician for the American Maisenhelder is silviculturist at the Cancer Society at Memorial Hospital BARNES HALL ITHACA, N.Y. Delta branch station of the Southern in New York City. With small daugh- Forest Experiment Station, doing for- ters, Norma Lee and Connie, she lives est management research. Also at the at 204 East Seventy-second Street. February, 1948 279 '36 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A. Writers Association of the Philippines, City, and is presently traveling for Thurber (Helen Hausmann) of 391 which annually awards "Oscars" to them throughout the South. He spent Rugby Road, Brooklyn, have a son, men or women in the Philippine Is- four and a half years in the Navy, Douglas Alfred Thurber, born Decem- lands for outstanding achievement in forty months of which were in the ber 19. This is their third child and business and industry. Robie was se- Pacific; was a deck officer and came second son. lected as the man who had done most out as lieutenant, USNR. Christmas '37 AB—Mary W. Lauman, daugh- for the fiber industry during the last Day, Thomassen and Ruth M. Cooke ter of the late Professor George N. year. Robie was assistant manager of of West Brighton, Staten Island, an- Lauman '97, Rural Economy, is secre- the Columbian Rope Co. Philippines nounced their engagement. Miss Cooke tary to Paul O. Reyneau '13, manager operations in 1941. He was captured graduated from the Woman's College of the University Placement Service by the Japanese early in 1942 and of the University of North Carolina office at the Cornell Club of New spent the next three years in concen- and is now a private secretary with York, 107 East Forty-eighth Street, tration camps in the Philippines. Fol- the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in New York City 17. lowing the liberation of the Islands, he New York City. Thomassen's address returned to the United States, but is 32 Ridgewood Terrace, Maplewood, '38 BS, '43 PhD — Lieutenant * shortly went back to the Philippines N. J. George N. Asai, AUS, who went into to start the reorganization and recon- '40 BS in AE(ME) — Edwin R. service after receiving the PhD, has struction of Columbian's fiber export Weeks is a mechanical engineer with been with the Army of Occupation in operations. Mrs. Robie is the former the Auburn works of International Japan for more than two years, and Sally Gibson '40, daughter of William Harvester Co. His address is 114 expects to be there for another year or A. Gibson '14. The Robies may be ad- Curtis Place, Auburn. so. At present he is stationed in Sap- dressed Columbian Rope Co., Davao, poro, Northern Japan, and his ad- P.I. '41 BS; '41 BS; '14 BS—George H. dress is Headquarters llth Airborne Becker, Jr., a certified public account- Division, 176th Language Detach- '40, '41 ME; '41 AB—Whitman J. ant of New York State, has been ment, APO 468, Care Postmaster, Severinghaus and Mrs. Severinghaus elected to membership in the Ameri- San Francisco, Cal. His sister, Mrs. (Sarah Claasen) '41 have gone to can Institute of Accountants, national Vincent T. Raymond (Lillian Asai) South Africa for two years of study. organization of certified public ac- '29, sent this information and also the They left November 17, flying to countants. He is also a member of the news that he is preparing for the All Trinidad first, then going by boat to New York State Society of Certified Japan Occupational Force ski meet Capetown. They may be addressed Public Accountants and the National scheduled in February. Care American Consulate, Pretoria, Association of Cost Accountants. Dur- South Africa. Mrs. Severinghaus is the '39 BS, '41 MS—Jerome H. (Brud) ing the winter months, Becker is asso- daughter of the late Professor Peter ciated with the firm of Stover, Butler Holland, former All-American end at W. Claassen, PhD '18, Biology. the University, was assistant football & Murphy, certified public account- coach at Tennessee State, Nashville, '40 CE—C. Merle Slack and Mrs. ants in^Syracuse. In the summer, he Tenn., this fall, and his team finished Slack are living at 107}^ College Ave- manages Breezy Knoll Inn, a summer nue, Elmira. Son of Clarence M. Slack hotel in Pittsfield, Mass. With Mrs. with one of the best records among ; the Negro football teams in the '16 and Mrs. Slack (M. Alda Deibler) Becker (Harriet Howell) 41 and their country. '17, Slack is with the American Bridge two children, Barbara Lee and George Co. III tChip), he lives at 312 Broad '40, '41 AB—Stanley W. Allen, Jr. Street, Syracuse. Mrs. Becker is the '40 BS—Robert L. Riggs, husband and family, including nineteen-month- daughter of Leon G. Howell '14, spe- of the former Betty Spink, is assistant old, Deborah Lynn Allen, have moved cial agent for the Home Insurance Co. into a new home at 27 Walnut Avenue, editor of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Legal Wyoming, Ohio. Son of Stanley W. Journal. The Riggses, who have two '41 B ME—Charles E. Boak and Allen '10, Allen is field sales manager children, Tommy, two and a half Mrs. Boak of 202 Eleanor Road, Pitts- for Kemper-Thomas Co., Cincinnati, children, Tommy, two and a half years, field, Mass., have a son, John William Ohio. and Sally, five months, live at 1120 Boak II, born October 20. They also Prescott Avenue, McKeesport, Pa. have an older son, Johns Michael, '40—Carl M. Fick and Mrs. Fick of born July 18, 1946. Boak, a son of Horizon Farm, Tollard, Mass., have a '40 AB—Charles T. Stewart, son of Trustee Thomas I. S. Boak '14, is em- son, Christopher Carl Fick, born Sep- Mrs. W. Denning Stewart (Margaret ployed in the Pittsfield plant of the tember 17. Thorp) '12, and Jennifer J. Barbour, General Electric Co. '40 AB—Mrs. Julius Marymor daughter of the late Marshall R. Bar- (Gertrude Kerson) has a daughter, bour '15, were married in Pittsburgh, '41 BS—Helen L. Brougham re- Judith Ellen Marymor, born Novem- Pa., September 13. They live at 435 signed as county home demonstration ber 18. The Marymors have moved to East Fifty-seventh Street, New York agent in Schoharie County last Sep- 1700 Stenton Avenue, Philadelphia, City. tember to become associate county Pa. '40 BS—Lorain Z. Szabo, bacteri- home demonstration agent in Erie '40 BS—Hyman M. Lockwood is a ologist, is doing food research for Fore- County, with offices at 1001, 210 Pearl nutrition consultant to the animal most Dairies, Jacksonville, Fla. He Street, Buffalo 2. feed industry, operating under the was formerly with the Southern Re- '41 AB—Robert M. Rublee, Army name Lockwood Nutrition Service at search Institute of Birmingham, Ala. Air Corps officer in World War II, has 197 Fuller Street, Brookline 46, Mass. A son, Peter Francis Szabo, was born been elected assistant secretary and a He has a year-old daughter, Virginia to him and Mrs. Szabo December 18. director of Buffalo Fire Office, Inc., Mae, and a four-year-old-son, Richard. They live at 4771 Riverdale Road, general insurance agency, 112 Pearl Jacksonville, Fla. '40; '40 BS—Merle S. Robie, resi- Street, Buffalo 2. Rublee lives at 525 dent representative of the Columbian '40 AB—Henry S. Thomassen is Auburn Avenue, Buffalo. Rope Co. of Auburn in the Philip- employed by the technical and busi- '42 BCE—James W. Bean's ad- pines, has been elected "Hemp Man ness education department of Mc- dress is Box 121, Voorheesville. Son of of the Year" for 1947 by the Business Graw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York Merton R. Bean '18, Bean is with the 280 Cornell Alumni News Soil Conservation Service of the US Department of Agriculture. '42 BS—Herbert G. Eldridge re- cently joined the ice cream sales de- partment of the Dover, N. H., branch of H. P. Hood & Sons. His address is Cornell Studies in 45 Atkinson Street, Dover, N. H. 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was in San Francisco, Cal., awaiting working for the Master of Business turned from two years of service in overseas shipment, and that she and Administration at Harvard Business the Aleutians and joined the Depart- their daughter, two-year-old, Charla School. His address is D44 Gallatin ment of Surgery in the Veterinary Faye, were living with her mother. Hall, Harvard Business School, Sol- College as a veterinary medical in- Her address is Box 215, Mexico. diers Field, Boston 63, Mass. terne. He is engaged to Elizabeth T. '42 BS—Phyllis V. Stevenson has '43 AB—Sydney Shreero, Jr. has E. Carpenter '45, who has left the been appointed assistant dean of stu- returned to the United States from staff of the Cornell Medical Center in dents at Arizona State College, Tempe, Germany, where in a civilian capacity New York to take a position at the Ariz. he managed the post exchanges, snack University Infirmary. '43 MD—Dr. Robert M. Dalrymple, bars, soda fountains, and the like, on '44 BChemE—Address of Philip F. recently released from the Army after the Rhein-Main and Eschborn Army Oilman is 125 Summit Drive, Roch- serving as commanding officer of the Air Fields serving Frankfort. He is ester. Gilman is the son of Andrew L. Station Hospital, Ft. Douglas, Utah, now working with his father in the Oilman '08 and assistant treasurer of is resident in internal medicine at the textile converting business, and lives the Cornell Club of Rochester. Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City, at 1 Christopher Street, New York '44, '43 BS in CE—A. Pearce God- City. Utah. His address is 1729 Harvard ley married Joyce E. Smith of Spring, Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. '43 '44—William A. Slack and Mrs. field, N. J., September 16 in Eliza- '43 DVM—A son, Mark Douglas Slack (Lillian Davidson) '44 live at beth, N. C. Their address is 236 Hud- Goodman, was born January 5 to Dr. 141 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn. In son Avenue, Tenaίty, N. J. Godley is Merrill Goodman and Mrs. Goodman. June Mrs. Slack received the Bache- field superintendent for Raymond Dr. Goodman has a general veterinary lor's degree in physics at NYU, Concrete Pile Co. practice in Washingtonville. where she attended night school since '44 AB, '46 MD; '45, '44 BS— * '43—A son, Leslie L. Jacobs III, leaving Cornell. Slack is the son of Twin sons, Bruce Alan and Robert was born June 22 to Leslie L. Jacobs, Clarence M. Slack '16 and the former Nelson Hesselbach, were born Decem- M. Alda Deibler '17. Jr. and Mrs. Jacobs of 38 East Club ber 18 to Dr. Charles F. Hesselbach Drive, Atlanta, Ga. '43 AB—Richard M. Tynan, former and the former Margaret Husson '45. '43 BS—Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. graduate instructor in English, vice- Dr. Hesselbach, on duty in the Navy, Cohen (Ann Morgenstern) of 155 consul at the American Embassy in is stationed at the US Naval Hospital, Henry Street, Brooklyn, have a son, Turin, Italy, for about a year and a St. Albans, L. I.; Mrs. Hesselbach and Charles Joseph Cohen, born July 10. half, and Mrs. Tynan have returned the three children are living with her Dr. Cohen is an osteopathic physician. to the United States. Their mailing parents on Middlebrook Road, Bound Mrs. Cohen writes-that Tatiana Davis address is 34-15 Eighty-fourth Street, Brook, N. J. The Hesselbachs also '43 was married to Donald M. David- Jackson Heights. have a fifteen-month-old daughter, son in June. '44 DVM; '45, '46 BS in Nurs—Dr. Ellen Paige. '43 BME—Wallace R. Seeley is Donald D. Delahanty recently ;re- '44;, '44, '43 BS—Lieutenant Ar- * February, 1948 283 "I've always been a part of your telephone service "You'll find my name on your Bell telephone — you see it on reels of cable being fed into manholes or strung on poles — you'll find it, too, on the complex equipment in your telephone exchange. "As the supply member of the Bell Telephone team, I manufacture equipment, purchase sup- plies, distribute both to the telephone com- panies, and install central office equipment. "Year in, year out, I help my Bell Telephone teammates to give you the world's best tele- phone service at the lowest possible cost. ''Remember my name — it's Western Electric."

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284 Cornell Alumni News thur H. Kesten, AUS, and Mrs. Kes- ten (Dorothy Kay) '44 were to return to the United States from Sendai, Ja- pan, at the end of January, when Lieutenant Kesten completed his thir- ty-month tour of duty. They have been together in Sendai for more than a year. Their address is 107 Dogwood Avenue, Malverne, L. I. '44 BS, '48 MS—I. William Lane, who received the MS from the Nutri- tion School this February, has been awarded a fellowship at Rutgers Uni- versity, New Brunswick, N. J., for graduate study in biochemistry. He is living at home at 9 Willianϊ Street, Measurements of the hu- Red Bank, N. J. man anatomy are merely a '44, '43 BME; '45—Bard Quillman guide to fit. and Mrs. Quillman (Barbara Paul) '45 It takes brains and skilled of 821 South Jefferson Street, Apart- tailoring to make clothes that ment 6, Roanoke, Va., have a son, Bard, will feel right on you and the first 1948 baby in Roanoke. Quill- make you look your best. man's uncle is Francis H. Scheetz '16. '44—G. John Schreiner, Jr., for- merly a salesman for Pacific Music Supply Co., San Francisco, Cal., joined in July the circulation (sales) depart- ment of the Pacific Coast edition of The Wall Street Journal in San Fran- cisco. He lives at 1009 Larkspur Drive, Burlingame, Cal. '44 BS in ME; '44 BS—F. Western In New York: And in Boston: Whittier became assistant product en- Fifth Avenue Thirteenth St. Warren Street Tremont St. αί 41st Street at Broadway at Broadway at Bromfield St. gineer for Western Electric Co., Allen- town, Pa., October 6, after being sales engineer for a small steel boiler manu- facturing company for six months. He HiE and Mrs. Whittier (Mary Kleberg) '44 live at 4 West Church Street, Bethle- GETTING hem, Pa. '45, '47 BME—Robert J. Addicks, TOGETHER son of Walter E. Addicks '14, is plant layout draftsman for the Stanley When you "get together" with ΛuΛ Works, hardware manufacturers, New fellow alumni—when you have f Britain, Conn. His address is 1018 an important business luncheon Corbin Avenue, New Britain, Conn. engagement—when you simply '45 AB—A daughter, Grace Mari- want fine food in a pleasant at- etta McLay, was born a year ago, January 19, to Mrs. John McLay, Jr. mosphere—meet at the new Cav- (Ruth Bussell) of 20 Lindstrom Road, alier Room at Hotel Syracuse. Morris Plains, N. J. The baby's grand- Cavalier Room menus feature all father is Professor Frank P. Bussell, PhD '19, Plant Breeding, Emeritus. the things men like best—the sur- Mrs. McLay's husband, a graduate of roundings are distinctly mascu- Worcester Polytechnical Institute, is line. an engineer with Bell Telephone Labo- ratories in Whippany, N. J. Breakfast for ladies and men, from 7 to 10:30; '45 AB—Marie E. Dicker, daughter of Harry A. Dicker '15 of 404 Wood- Luncheon, for men only, from stock Avenue, Tompkinsville, Staten 1130 to 3 every weekday. Island 1, was married January 2 to Zelik Kaufman, a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. '45 AB—G. Elizabeth Finley, * administrative assistant in the Audit HOKLJIOE Agency, European Command, Frank- fort, Germany, writes: "I have been SYRACUSE, N . Y. in Frankfort since the last of August, February', 1948 λvorking in the Adult Agency and liv- We think ing with my family. My father, Colo- nel David H. Finley '14, has just been ordered away from Frankfort, so Γm again looking for a place to live. I like you'll like MacNaughton's... it here, although seeing all the bombed out ruins does get rather depressing at OΓ times." Her address is Headquarters, most people do! A superior Audit Agency, EUCOM, APO 757, Canadian whisky Care Postmaster, New York City. blended '45 BS; '44, '47 AB—Ernestine A. and bottled Rowland and Edward J. Whiting '44 were married November 15 in Paoli, under the supervision Pa. They now live at 126 Woodland of the Avenue, Malvern, Pa. CANADIAN Government '45 BS—Phyllis Winkelstein was for .married October 7 in Cazenovia to Dr. We can't promise you that you'll like MACNAUGHTON'S, It has a distinctive, subtle flavor JOHN MACNAUGHTON co,, Ltd. Norbert B. Reicher, a graduate of Syracuse University college of medi- all its own, derived from the rich, ripe grain Montreal, P.Q., Canada. and the unique, exclusive blending methods of Canada. cine. They are living at 1202 South But this we can promise you. You've never Avenue, Syracuse. Mrs. Reicher is tasted a smoother, milder, finer whisky in all your life. recreational director in the children's We think you'll like it. Most people do. department at Syracuse Memorial Hospital. '45—Lloyd F. Bucher is assistant A blend of Canadian whiskies, 86.8 U.S. Proof. Schenley Import Corp., NewYork,N. Y. manager of Hotel Mishawaka, Mish- awaka, Ind. '46 BS—Mrs. Charles Helbert (Syl- CAMP OTTER INDIAN RIVER CITRUS FRUITS via Mayer) is cafeteria manager at For Boys 7 to 17 FOR HOUSEHOLD USE West Junior High School in Bing- IN MUSKOKA REGION OF ONTARIO hamton. She lives at 154 Allen Street, ENROLL NOW FOR 1948 Selected for Goodness Johnson City. HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director Price card will be sent on request '46 AB; '47 BS—June Cronig is an 132Louvaine Dr.,Kenmore 17,N.Y. SCHUYLER JACKSON : WABASSO, FLA. instructor in biochemistry in the col- lege of dentistry and a graduate stu- dent in chemistry at NYU. Isabel B. Mayer '47 is employed in the X-Ray department of the dental school, she Enjoy Well-Loved Music with writέs. Miss Cronig's address is 388 West Twelfth Street, New York THE CORNELL RECORDS City 14. Four 12-inch Records, two sides, with all [the familiar Cornell Music, '46 BS—Virginia G. Dondero, head by the Glee Club, Band, and University Chimes. dietitian at the YWCA Blue Triangle Club, 2332 Harrison Street, Oakland, Complete in Attractively Bound Album, $6.75 Cal:, came back East for the holidays. Including tax—Express Collect She and Patricia J. Murtaugh '46, • who is on the faculty of Chico State Record #1—Glee Club: Alma Mater, Evening Song, In The Red College, Chico, Cal., get together and the White quite often. Record $2—GleeClub: Cornell, Alumni Song, Carnelian and White, '46 BS—Mary E. Ceiling was mar- Crew Song, March On Cornell ried to Lieutenant Charles L. Settem- Record #3—Cornell Chimes: Alma Mater, Evening Song, Jennie brini, Army Medical Corps, Novem- McGraw Rag, Big Red Team, Carnelian and White, Fight for ber 5 in Suffern. Lieutenant Settem- Cornell brini, a graduate of Columbia Univer- Record #4—Cornell Band: Cornell Victorious, Fight for Cornell, Big sity and Albany Medical School, is on Red Team, March On Cornell, In the Red and the White, Alma the medical staff of Valley Forge Gen- Mater eral Hospital. The couple are living at Single Records to fill out your set, $1.50 each 213 Main Street, Phoenixville, Pa. Including tax—Express Collect '46—Howard P. James is manager Please Order By Number and owner of Elkhorn Lodge in Estes • Park, Colo. Album Only, $1.25 Postpaid • '46 BCE; '45, '44 BS—Robert L. McMurtrie became this January as- Quantities are limited, so get your order in NOW to assure delivery. sistant supervisor of track for the Specify quantities, fexact items desired, and express shipping address and Pennsylvania Railroad in Trenton, enclose payment to N. J., where he lives at 818 Edgewood >8 A Avenue. He is engaged to Betty War- Cornell Alumni Association Zt »T ner '45, daughter of Hollis V. Warner '18 of Riverhead, L. I. 286 Cornell Alumni News '46 AB—Marilyn H. Silverstein is a fourth-grade teacher at the Webster Schoql in Everett, Mass. Her address Here is Your WANT TO EARN is 115 Bucknam Street, Everett, Mass. $9000 A YEAR? '46 AB—Ellen S. Stein of 225 East TIMETABLE Nineteenth Street, New York City, is engaged to Dr. Leonard Ostreich, a TO AND FROM ITHACA member of the resident staff of Lin- coln Hospital in New York City. The Light Type, a.m. Eastern Std. Time Dark Type, p.m. wedding will take place in May. Dr. Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. Ostreich received the BS at Michigan York Newark Phila. ITHACA State and was graduated from Wayne 10:55 11:10 11:05 6:24 §10:25 §10:40 §10:12 °ίό:19 University college of medicine in 1946. °111:50 #12:05 111:00 °#7:31 '47 BS—Helen F. Tohn is,a home Lv. Ithaca - Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. 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February', 1948 287 bridesmaid. The Goldsmiths live at 245 Sheridan Avenue, Mt. Vernon. P ROFES S ιo N A L D 1 R ECTO RY '47 AB; '47 AB—Barbara E. D'wyer and Richard L. O'Connell '47 were o F CO RN EL L AL uMNl married December 27 in South Orange, N. J. '47 BS; '44 AB—Donald R. Waugh, NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. Jr. and Mrs. Waugh (Maida Sizer) '44 moved to 40 Eighth Street, Carle CELLUPLASTIC CORPORATION Creswell Iron Works Place, July 2, after spending a year in Manufacturers of Architectural and Structural Iron & Steel Ithaca while Waugh finished his Injection & Extrusion Grey Iron & Semi-Steel Castings course in Hotel Administration. Molders 23rd & Cherry Sts., Philadelphia 3, Pa. Waugh is now an accountant with Founded 1835 R. G. Rankin & Co., New York City. Plastic Containers CREED FULTON, M.E. Ό9 Vice President '47 BS—Myrene Gray is teaching SO AVENUE L, NEWARK 5, N. J. elementary school at Toadlena Board- PHILIP A. DERHAM & ASSβCIATES ing School, Toadlena, N. Mex., a Fed- Herman B. Lermer '17, President ROSEMONT, PA. eral school for Navajo Indian children PLASTICS on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Construction Service Company DESIGN ENGINEERING "Three states, Arizona, Colorado, and Engineers & Constructors MODELS DEVELOPMENT New Mexico, are within eyesight," PHILIPA.DERHAMΊ9 Lincoln Boulevard, Bound Brook, N. J. she writes. "Toadlena, which means 'bubbling water' in Navajo and is pro- J. J. SENESY, '36,?. W. Van NEST '36, nounced 'Toe-add-leena' is at an Pres. Vice Pres. ONE DEPENDABLE SOURCE For ALL 8,000-foot elevation and cool continu- ously. We are at the foot of the Lula- William L. Crow Construction Co. YOUR MACHINERY NEEDS chukai Mountain Range (in Arizona), Established 1840 New — Guaranteed Rebuilt 10,000 feet high, across which 150 101 Park Avenue New York Power Plant A Machine miles away are visible snowcapped Equipment ^ Tools JOHN W. ROSS, B Arch. '19, Vice President mountains in Colorado." JOHN F. MAΠERN, BCE '42, Engineer Everything from o Pulley to a Powerhouse '47 AB—Dolores A. Keyes is a re- frE Q'gRffiW ΛfACWJNCTy QX ceptionist at Ochsner Medical Clinic in New Orleans, La., where her ad- The General Cellulose Co., Inc. 113 N. 3rd ST., PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. dress is 1811 Jefferson Avenue. Converters and Distributors of Cellulose frank L. O'Brien, Jr., M. E., '31 Wadding and Absorbent Tissue Products '47 AB — Barbara H. Matson, Garwood, New Jersey daughter of Mrs. Fleta Huff Matson BALTIMORE, MD. '21 and the late Richard M. Matson D. C. TAGGART '16 - - Pres.-Treas. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES '21, is an accounting supervisor for the Associated Hospital Service of Complete Food Service Equipment Engineers Furniture and Furnishings Philadelphia, Pa. She lives at the Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gυitav J. Reqυardt '09 YWCA, 1800 Arch Street, Philadel- ίor Schools, Hotels, Stewart F. Robertson A. Russell Vollmer '27 Restaurants and Institutions Roy H. Rittβr '30 Theodore W. Hacker Ί7 phia 3, Pa. NATHAN STRAUS-DUPARQUET, INC. 33 East 17th Street New York 3, N. Y. 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. '47 BS; '47 AB—Margaret A. Schi- Boston Chicago Miami New Haven avone and Donald P. Berens '47 were E. M. BRANDRISS'28 KENOSHA, WIS. married December 27 in Poughkeepsie. STANTON CO.-REALTORS Their address is 247 Fisher Avenue, GEORGE H. STANTON '20 MACWHYTE COMPANY Brookline 46, Mass. Past-president of Real Estate and Insurance Manufacturer of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire, the Student Council, Berens is assist- Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rodi, Strand and Cord ant sales manager of New England for MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Literature furnished on requeit the Fanny Farmer Candy Shops. Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel: 2-6000 JESSa S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 PRES. ft GEN. MGR. R. B. WHYTE, M>E. Ί3 '47 AB—Elaine P. Segal of 1059 Vice President in Charge of Operations Wiilmohr Street, Brooklyn 12, writes The Tuller Construction Co. that she is "doing group work for the J. D. TULLER, '09, President Your Card Here Department of Welfare Division of Day Care, and attending The New BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, will be regularly read by York School of Social Work " DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS 8,500 CORNELLIANS '47 BS—Class Secretary W. Barlow WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS Write for Special Rate Ware's address is 215 East Seventy- A. J. Dillenb ck '11 C. P. B ylαnd '31 ninth Street, New York City 21. Ware C E. Wαllαe '27 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS is working for the Great Atlantic & 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. Ithaca New York Pacific Tea Co. in New York. 288 Cornell Alumni News fifty years, December 14, 1947. He was active in civic affairs and in the Progressive Party in 1912 and 1916. He took part in Necrology the founding of the World Jewish Con- gress and the Zionist movement. Levy lived at 454 West Water Street, Elmira. (ίnnirll (Jiluh '81—William Murray Wheeler of 1625 Brother, Isaac H. Levy '02. Son, Dr. Meridian Avenue, South Pasadena, Cal., Benjamin F. Levy, Jr. '39. in June, 1947. He had been a newspaper- '97 BS—Lucius Chipman Fuller, De- man, editor, printer, and salesman. In iif Nwtt Work cember 8, 1947, in Washington, D. C. w£ 1905, he was secretary of the Nebraska His address was Chevy Chase Club, Chevy State Senate, and from 1907-09, inspector Chase, Md. During the last war, Fuller of oils for the Nebraska Fifth Congres- was chief of procurement and expediting sional District. He was once owner-editor in the operations branch of the Construct- of the Oak Lake News, Oak Lake, Mani- ing Quartermaster's Office in Chicago, 111., toba. Can. and later was in the bureau of inventory '90 ME—Guy Harold Thayer, who re- requisitioning of the War Production tired last July as naval architect for the Board in Washington, D. C. Delta Up- Port of Portland, January 4, 1948. He silon. lived at 2707 Northeast Flanders Street, Portland 15, Ore. About forty years' ago, '97 BS—Phelps Wyman of 759 North Thayer designed and constructed with two Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, Wis., land- £fottt Horfe, N. f. colleagues an ' 'alligator" which was the scape architect, November 16, 1947. The forerunner of the modern caterpillar tract- Milwaukee Journal reported that he had or. left one-fifth of his $5,000 estate to the University "in return for the free tuition I '92 CE—Class Secretary William Greene enjoyed during my four years there." Atwood of 211 East Canton Avenue, Win- Wyman had been park commissioner and ter Park, Fla., a consulting engineer for city planning commissioner of Minneapolis many years, January 24, 1948, in Florida. Minn. He worked for railroads in Alaska and the United States, and in World War I, as a '98—Norman Allan Merritt, former colonel, he commanded the itth American Washington, D. C., branch manager of BARR & LANE, INC. Engineers Railway Section, constructing Pitney-Bowes, Inc., December 3, 1947, in terminals for the AEF at St. Nazaire, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ge retired in 1945, to France. He later was director of communi- live in Pass-a-Grille Beach, Fla. He was BUILDERS cations in Central Europe for the Ameri- at one time postmaster of Washington. can Relief Administration, establishing Delta Kappa Epsilon. railroads, and headed the American Rail- '99 PhD—Mrs. Alice Downey Porter of way Commission to supervise reconstruc- 4 Brighton Street, Providence, R. I., No- tion of Serbian railways. In 1919, he was vember 9,1947. She retired in 1918 as pro- US transportation representative on the fessor of English and dean of women at Supreme Economic Council in Paris 'later Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., and was technical adviser to Yugoslavia. In for the next twenty years taught in a World War II, he was in the Economic settlement house of the Italian Methodist Research Office of the War Department. Church in Boston, Mass. Atwood had been president of "the Cornell New York Club of Central Florida. AlphaTau Omega. '99—Mrs. Anna Wiles Hain, July 16, 1947, in Ft. Plain, where she lived at 211 '94 LLB—Herbert Wellington Bell, at- Main Street. Ithaca Boston torney, December 21, 1947. He lived at 13600 Shaker Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio. '00—Alfred Gregory Galbraith of Brev- Delta Chi. ard, N. C., August 16, 1947. He had been >94, '96 ME(EE)—Greely Stevenson with Continental Can Co. and American Curtis, aviation pioneer, December 15, Can Co. Phi Gamma Delta. 1947, at his home, 98 Front Street, Marble- ΌO ME(EE)—John Alexander Hunter, head, Mass. Curtis made his first airplane November 17, 1947, in Maryville, Tenn., ESTABROOK & CO. flight in LilienthaΓs glider in 1895, and at the home of his daughter, Nancy B. his thesis for the ME was on "Problems Hunter '31. Hunter retired in 1941 after Members of the New York and of Aeronautics." In 1910, with W. Starling forty years with various subsidiaries of US Boston Stock Exchanges Burgess, he organized Burgess Co. & Steel Corp. During World War II, he was Curtis, in Marblehead, which made im- for three and a half years in the War Sound investments portant progress in development of the Production Board office in Knoxville, Investment Council and seaplane. Curtis designed and invented Tenn. Mrs. Hunter (Euphemia Engle) '03 Supervision airplane mechanisms and other engineer- died in 1940. Other children are Mrs. ing specialties; was engineer and trustee of Frank W. Potter (Josephine Hunter) '29 Roger H. Williams '95 The Curtis Co. in Boston, Mass. He also and John A. Hunter, Jr. '33. Resident Partner New York Office had been consultant on fire protection to numerous cities, including Boston and San '03 ME(EE)—Louis Frederick Bruce, 40 Wall Street Francisco, Cal. Psi Upsilon. vice-president of Joseph Dixon Crucible '94—Julie Regula Jenney, an Assistant Co., steel manufacturers, January 13, Attorney General of New York State for 1948, at his home, 141 South Harrison many years and the first practicing woman Street, East Orange, N. J. He had been lawyer in Syracuse, December 21, 1947. with the Dixon Co. since 1936, and was Her address was 363 Green Street, Syra- previously in the lumber business in Du- RKO PATHE, INC. luth, Minn., and a cotton exporter in 625 Madison Ave. 333 N. Michigan Ave. cuse 3. Norfolk, Va. Brother, Harry A. Bruce '05. New York 22, N. Y. Chicago, 111. '95 CE—Albert Mussey Johnson, for- Delta Upsilon. STUDIOS: mer president and chairman of the board New York City Hollywood, Calif. of the National Life Insurance Co. of Chi- '04—William Robert Dean, retired in- Producers of Motion Pictures cago, 111., January 7, 1948, in Hollywood, dustrial engineer and consulting engineer for Cal., where he lived at 7333 Franklin Ave- for the former Marine Hardware Co., Busine ss—Industry—Institutions South Portland, Me., January 2, 1948. nue. In 1941, it was discovered that John- Training Merchandising son had backed for many years "Death His last known address was Box 24, Labor Relations Education Valley Scotty" and had given him the Niagara, N. C. Fund Raising Public Relations money to build his $2,000,000 castle in '04—Dr. Benjamin Peter Farrell, De- "The Rooster Crows," our booklet on con- Death Valley, Nev. Mrs. Johnson (Bessie cember 27, 1947, in Stamford, Conn. He tract pictures will be sent at your request Penniman) '97 died in 1943. lived at the Savoy Plaza Hotel, New York PHILLIPS B. NICHOLS '23 '95 LLB, '96 LLM—Benjamin Frank- City, and had iΛired from practice in Sales Manager lin Levy, attorney in Elmira for more than 1944. A graduate of Long Island College February t1948 289 medical school in 1904, he joined the staff of the New York Orthopaedic Hospital after his internship and was surgeon-in- chief, 1932-40. He was also professor of CORNELL HOSTS orthopedic surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, retiring in 1940. WELCOME YOU '04, ;06 ME—Holland Berkeley Hackett of Lenox Apartments, Thirteenth & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., De- NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK STATE cember 22, 1947. '05, '06 ME—Prentice Gushing, Janu- KAN-YA-TO INN ary 10, 1948, in Albany where he was esti- YOUR CORNELL HOST IN NEW YORK mate review engineer for the New York 1200 rooms with bach from $2.50 SKANEATELES Telephone Co. and lived at 828 Park Avenue. Active in secondary school work John Paul Stack, '24 Gen. Mgr. • Gushing was an "alumni chauffeur" for S7fh$frββt Only 42 Miles from Ithαcα every Cornell Day ever held; had been a member of the Cornell Alumni Corp. com- ubson Just West of B'way CHET COATS '33, Owner mittee on secondary schools and of the HOTEL New York Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs geo- NEW ENGLAND graphical committee on secondary schools. He was a past president and director of HOTEL LATHAM Stop at the ... the Cornell Club of Albany and a former director of the Cornell Alumni Association. 28τH ST. at STH AVE. - NEW YORK CITY Son, Prentice Gushing, Jr. '45. Beta HOTEL ELTON Theta Pi. 400 ROOMS - FIREPROOF WATERBURY, CONN. '06, '05 AB, '10 MD—Dr. John Francis "A New England Landmark" Kelly of 1607 Sanderson Avenue, Scran- SPECIAL ATTENTION FOR CORNELLIANS Bud Jennings '25, Proprietor ton, Pa., November 30, 1947. Brothers, the late James B. Kelly '05, and Edward J.Wilson Ί9, Owner J. Kelly '09. Son, John F. Kelly, Jr. '39. CENTRAL STATES '07 AB—Benjamin Franklin Courtright, PENNSYLVANIA October 17, 1947, in Chicago, 111., where he was vice-president of Wisconsin Steel Co. and lived at 7827 Paxton Avenue. Delta POCONO MANOR INN TOPS IN TOLEDO Tau Delta. POCONO MANOR, PENNA. '08 LLB—James Robinson Douglas, 155 miles south of Ithaca directly enroute to HOTEL HILLCREST February 8, 1947, in Westfield, where he Philadelphia or New York (100 miles) EDWARD D. RAMAGE '31 made his home. Delta Chi. Superb Food—Excellent accommodations— GENERAL MANAGER Ίϊ—Alfred McCallum Robbins, in all sporting facilities Washington, D. C., October 12, 1947, Bob Trier, Jr. '32, General Manager where his last known address was North- brook Courts. Your St. Louis Host... '16 AB, '17 BChem—Bernard Henry Gutwilljg, an insurance broker, January 2, SHERATON HOTEL 1948', at his home, 225 West Eighty-sixth g>tetoen£ί Formerly Coranado Hotel Street, New York City. He entered the Mαbθl S. Alexander insurance business more than twenty LINDELL BLVD. AT SPRING years ago. ROBERT B. STOCKING '27 '23—Mrs. Nelson Jacobs (Marjorie General Manager Casler) of RD 1, East Herkimer, No- vember 12, 1947. Kappa Delta. ALWAYS A HEARTY WELCOME FLORIDA '23, '24 CE—Charles Felix Lovan, a AT partner in the contracting firm of Hillyer • VISIT BEAUTIFUL « & Lovan, Jacksonville, Fla., killed when The Keystone Hotel his plane crashed near Jacksonville early Wood St. and Blvd. oί the Allies in December. He was president of the • PALM BEACH « Northeast Florida chapter of Associated PITTSBURGH, PENN. General Contractors, and a past president • LEON & EDDIE'S < of the Florida section of the American THOMAS C DEVEAU '27, GEN. MGR. Society of Civil Engineers. Delta Phi. • LEON ENKEN JR. '4O 4 '23 AB—Ruth Geneva Vaill, who had WASHINGTON, D. C been a high school teacher, January 1, 1948. Her address was care Mrs. V. C. Wade, 763 South Long Beach Avenue Freeport. 1 71 5 G Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. WELCOME YOU IN THESE CITIES '24—Frederick Morelli, shot and killed Cleveland Pittsburgh by an unknown assailant in front of his Detroit New York Chicago night club, The Ace of Clubs, in Utica, Minneapolis Philadelphia December 8, 1947. As a Freshman, Morelli CARMEN M. JOHNSON '22 - Manager refused to wear the traditional Frosh cap and was dunked in Beebe Lake by upper- 8500 Cornellians classmen. A great debate on democracy ROGER SMITH HOTEL was led by Professor George L, Burr '81, WASHINGTON, D. C Prefer to patronize these with the result that the Faculty adopted PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE XT 18 STREET, N.W. CORNELL HOSTS the following resolution: "That it is the Located in the Heart of Government Activity sense of the University Faculty that physi- Write ίor special low rate cal force shall not be used by any student Preferred by Cornell Men or group of students in compelling anyone A. B. MERRICK '30, GENERAL MANAGER CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS to observe rules formulated by students S. C. Livingstone, Stanford '30, Res. Mgr. ITHACA, N. Y. for their own guidance."

290 Cornell Alumni News Gay beaches such as tstoπl (above) lie just outside Lisbon. Going to Europe for business or pleasure, the Sunny Southern route's the ideal way to the Continent. . . Fly the Sunny Southern route to One-way fare $331 ... (10% off on round trips).

Now only 13}/2 hours from New York by4-engine Constellation-type Clipper.

uiprmg comes early in Southern Portugal, Spain, and along the Mediterranean ... In February the almond trees are already in bloom around Lisbon! March and April are two of the best months for touring the countryside. —Or maybe your destination this spring is Paris, or Rome or Cairo. From Lisbon, still flying on the Pan American System, you can go by the 4-engine Constellations of Panair do Brazil... to Paris in 4 hours non-stop ... to Rome in 434 hours non-stop ... to Cairo in 11V4 hours. Your Travel Agent or the nearest Pan American office Only 4 hours to Paris! At Lisbon, still flying on the Pan will be glad to make Clipper reservations for you, not American System, you can be at Orly Field, Paris, in four only on the Sunny Southern route to Europe but also to hours. Only the PAA System offers you this Sunny Southern major cities on 6 Continents. Why not call today? route through to Paris by 4-engine Constellation. 'CANCER MOBILE'

iO make the benefits of x-ray available to more The farmer's wife with the lump in her breast, and more people..." That has been the goal the village store clerk whose voice has dwindled of General Electric x-ray specialists since 1913, to a hoarse whisper, no longer need live in fear when the company's energies were first directed for months wondering whether or not they have into x-ray research by the work of Dr. William cancer. Rural doctors who lack x-ray facilities D. Coolidge. will use the bus for their private patients. But Now, with the development of the Cancer in addition, those unable to pay will receive free Mobile by the combined efforts of the Kentucky examination. division of the American Cancer Society and The Cancer Mobile goes into action along General Electric, x-ray facilities will be carried trails of service already marked out by more into the most remote areas, and to the humblest than fifty mobile tuberculosis-control x-ray buses homes. equipped by General Electric.

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