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Cornell Alumni News Volume 50, Number 10 Febuary, 1948 Price 25 Cents Cornell Alumni News Volume 50, Number 10 Febuary, 1948 Price 25 Cents Bollίnger '45 Basketball! THE COUNTRY'S OUTSTANDING VALUE IN A RADIO-PHONOGRAPH CONSOLE. Philco craftsmen have pooled their skills to bring luxury-loving America amazing value a console of Philco quality at modest cost. Lovely to look at, thrilling to hear... a flawless flow of rich, round tone from radio and records. Philco automatic record-changer. gentle and failure-free. Feathertouch tone-arm. All in a rich mahogany cabinet. PHILCO I/ISC' years. often set the pattern a marriage is to Prudential plan can give you lifetime pro- follow for life. And little attentions be- tection for much less during those first tween husband and wife are no small five years, when your income may not part of its success, as any happy couple be as high as later. 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NEW JERSEY THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO PREPARE FOR IT New York's First Commercial Bank BANK OF NEW YORK 48 Wall Street — New York UPTOWN OFFICE: MADISON AVENUE AT 63RD STREET Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Volume 50, Number 10 February, 1948 Price, 25 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Entered as second-class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Issued twice a month while the University is in session; monthly in January, February, July and September; not published in August. Subscription price $4" a year. 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.
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