TELLURIDE NEW LETTER PUBLICATION OF TELLURIDE ASSOCIATION

VOL. XXVI, No. 6 ITHACA, POST-CONVENTION,1940

1940 CONVENTION AT DS FINANCE AND INVESTMENTS The 1940 Convention, at the invitation of the Treasurer Biersach's report shows that the Associa- Trustees, convened at Deep Springs the evening of Tues- tion income for the year slightly exceeded that of last day, 18 June, and adjourned late Saturday night. This year. The 1939-40 income was $64,601.73. Seventy-five was the third Convention at Deep Springs, the first since per cent of this income ($40,951.30) added to the 1929, and gave western Alumni opportunity to renew amount in reserve ($41,155.63) made $82,106.93 avail- Association contacts. The greatest number of members able for appropriation by the 1940 Convention. Treas- present in person at any session was 49, and all absent urer Biersach pointed out that this showing, in view of members were represented by proxy. To many it was continuing political and economi: uncertainties, which a stimulating return to the scene of their most signifi- promise at the moment to become still more involved, cant educational experience; to some it was first ac- is not too disappointing. quaintance with the meager physical plant and its vast More Conservative and brooding surroundings; to all it was a home-coming. "The 1939 Convention in approving the report of Without local distractions, com,pletely insulated from a its F1'inance Committee took a long step toward return- crazy world, the mem~berssettled down to hard work and ing the portfolio of the Association to a more conserva- the serious consideration of Association affairs. tive basis," said Chairman Laise of the Finance Com- Most of the members arrived by automobile early mittee in his report to the Convention. "This move was enough to get in a bit of mountain-climbing before the made in the hope that the sale of some of our more sessions )began. Cross-country days by automobile and speculative commitments and the reinvestment of the later exposure to mountain sunshine encrimsoned and proceeds in Savings and Loan Associations and sounder blistered enough skin to clothe completely an estimated equities would result in a greater security of the princi- quorum. Baek-slapping became a hazardous occupation. pal amount of our Trust Funds. It was realized at that President Williams and Vice-President Withrow flew time that we were voluntarily accepting a cut in our from the East, and Chester Dunn landed at the Deep income in order to achieve an end which we deemed Springs hayfield-airport back of the boarding-house in desirable. It is rather gratifying to report that, as a his personal plane. result of this move, the Association's Trust Fund has The gastronomic collaboration between the regular benefited by approximately $9,600. at present market DS kitchen staff and Olof Swenson produced a series of prices, and that our income has not suffered in com- memorable meals which assuaged the nostalgia of the parison with that of the preceding year. Alumni, permanently embarrassed and humbled youngish Uneasy Times wives, and climaxed the year for every valiant trencher- "However, the problems which are posed to us to- man. Beefsteak just off the range, fried chicken from day, as a result of catastrophic changes in the world the DS roost, breakfast eggs still with their warmth and conditions, offer tremendous obstacles toCZny7SiFwho bloom of DS dawn. . . . . seeks successfully to protect a large amount of wealth. Guests Your Committee fully recognizes the grave possibility A considerable number of TA wives and children that events of the ensuing months may create conditions were at DS during Convention. Most of the Student Body which are impossible to weigh at this time. The entry members, all of the DS Faculty, and a thin sprinkling of this country into the Second World War would un- of applicants helped to swell the group. The following doubtedly add other problems to a dilemma which even Alumni attended: P. P. Ashworth, R. G. Bear, W. L. now is a titanic challenge to those who attem.pt to Biersach, Sr., R. LaT. Cavenaugh, H. W. Davy, C. W. analyze and evaluate our financial policies. Let us not Dunn, D. W. Falconer, L. R. Fournier, E. M. Johnson, deceive ourselves for one moment; it would be a major L. A. Kimpton, R. H. Kansfield, Richard Moore, J. W. miracle if anyone of means could so deploy his assets Olmsted, R. D. Richtmyer, R. M. Rust, H. W. Sanders, as to insure absolute safety of capital at all times during Olof Swenson, R. H. Townsend, and H. R. Waldo. the years that lie ahead. Your Committee does not feel Officers and Committees that it can ascrilbe to itself any degree of supernatural The Convention unanimously re-elected its three power. We believe that the intelligent and safest ap- major officers. R. C. Williams is President, James R. proach to this prosblem lies in taking a long-term view Withrow is Vice-President, and Robert L. Sproull is of the situation. In other words, our chief concern is that Secretary. The four Custodians elected are J. H. Bur- of having some measure of real value remaining in our chard, J. S. deBeers, F. S. Laise, and S. R. Levering. portfolio after the conflict ceases, rather than to attempt The Editor of the News Letter is R. C. Ball. the insuperable task of preserving the market value of The Cornell Branch Guest Committee, composed of our Trust Funds during the wide fluctuations of prices Asst. Prof. W. H. French, E. M. Johnson, Prof. L. C. which will be the inevitable accompaniment of a cres- Petry, the President and the Vice-President of Cornell cendo of major current events. It may well be that the Branch, was authorized to "select, recommend, and in- direct implications of our President's report will be- vite at its discretion two graduate scholars to reside at come suddenly transformed into grim, realities. Your during the academic year 1941-1942," Committee has no wish to raise undue alarms, but we (Contiqzz~edon Page 3) (Continued on Page 4) 2 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER DEEP SPRINGS COTTAGE FUND Published by The Deep Springs Cottage Fund lacks about one TELLURIDE ASSOCIATION thousand dollars to complete the building, and the En- ITHACA,NEW YORK dowment Committee is beginning the work necessary to Editor ...... Roland C. Ball bring the campaign to a quick close. All Telluriders Post-Convention Editor ...... E. M. Johnson should cooperate in this work for Deep Springs-and for ourselves. POST-CONVENTION, 1940 - The Committee has secured $4,000.00 in contri- butions from 130 individuals out of a mou~of 400 men. NEWS LETTER - & The Convention voted to defray the expense of the' This response is high, reckoned in terms of expectations post-Convention issue of the News Letter through per- of colleges who approach alumni for aid, since contribu- sonal contri'butions, and those in attendance contributed tions by 20% of the alumni of an institution is unusual. $59.50. The Staff wishes to thank these men for their The Endowment Committee of the Association, however, generosity. Should other readers wish to contribute, expects contributions from 85% of the 400 men on our their checks should be mailed to the Chancellor at Ithaca. Alumni list. The Committee entertains this reasonable BURR FUND expectation because the relationship between, the AF- The amount of money at present in the George sociation and the individual member is uniquely close, Lincoln Burr Fund is $2,190.00. Except for a small por- with an unusual burden of expected performance on the tion, this sum has Seen contributed by men within the part of each man. The Deep Springs Cottage is our com- Telluride group, but a special section of the Endowment munity business. Committee i's now preparing letters to a wider group Contributions have ranged in size from seventy-five comprising several hundred of Professor Burr's closer cents to two hundred fifty dollars. The Committee hqs friends, colleagues, and students, to increase the Burr welcomed them all. Whereas it wishes to raise enough Fund to the $15,000.00 necessary to provide income for money to finance the Cottage, it is greatly interested in the tuition of a Burr Scholar. looking upon the work as a community effort with all Outside Mr. Nunn himself, no other man has so members and Alumni participating. influenced the life of Telluride Association. This same influence has been felt, too, in the wider life on Cornell NUTT SCHOLARSHIP University Campus. It is to this group of men and The re-appointment of Robert Sproull to hold the women who have known Professor Burr that the As- J. R. Nutt Scholarship for the next academic year is of sociation now addresses itself on behalf of the Burr interest to all Telluride men because it recognizes the Fund. The character, personality, and mind of Professor distinguished work of one of our younger members and have stirred profoundly many hundreds of Cornellians at the same time focuses attention on the unobtrusive who may wish to aid a fund dedicated to his life and but substantial aid given our Association by Mr. J. R. memory. Nutt of Cleveland. THOMAS S. DUNHAM AWARD The J. R. Nutt Fund has for exactly twenty years Vincent W. Cochrane at the close of the academic provided sufficient income to pay an annual tuition year at the Cornell Branch was voted the Thomas S. scholarship, and the principal amount is left intact for Dunham Memorial Award as the man whose contribution future educational work. Twenty years of tuition to the work of the Branch was most distinctive and scholarships-equivalent of entire tuition expense of valuable. The Convention appropriated for payment to five college educations-is a superb contribution to the Cochrane the income from the Dunham Fund, covering purpose and work of our Association in its function of the period between the acceptance of the Fund last training intelligent and gifted men for social leadership. autumn and the close of our fiscal year. Our society needs such leaders, and it is the obligation The Dunham Memorial Award was established by and the honor of our Association to participate with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Dunham, parents of Association mem- Nutt in the work. Much is expected-and demanded- ber Tom Dunham. The purpose of the Award was last of those Telluriders whose way was paved by the Nutt autumn informally stated by Mr. Dunham in a letter to Fund. a member of the Association group: "We hope that it will help, even in a very modest BIRTHS way, to ease the path for boys whose ideals and aspira- Elizabeth Farson Levering was born to S. R, and tions may be similar to Tom's, and that it will keep alive Mrs. Levering, of The Hollow, Va., on 26 Nov., 1939. the memory of one whose life, short as it was, was made Weight: 7 Ib. 9 oz. richer and more satisfying by his association with Tellu- A son was born on 12 June, 1940, to Isham and ride." Mrs. Railey in San Francisco. This fund can serve many purposes. It gives sub- stantial aid to an outstanding man; through the adminis- Joseph J. Nunn, Jr., grand-nephew to the Founder, tration of the fund our men exercise an important was born to J. J. and Mrs. Nunn in Los Angeles on 15 aspect of their trusteeship; and it tangibly preserves June, 1940. for succeeding generations of Association men the life Martha Elizabeth Carnes was born to D. J. and and purpose and memory of a member we prized and Mrs. Carnes in San Diego on 19 June, 1940. admired. In its designation of Cochrane the Cornell John Lawrence Kimpton was born on 9 July, 1940, Branch has imposed on him a solemn honor and high to Dean and Mrs. L. A. Kimpton of Deep Springs. &ligation. Weight: eight pounds. TELLURIDE IYEWS LETTER 3 VIEWING WITH ALARM THOMAS DUNHAM AWARD Reports of officers and committees uniformly carried In its report to the Convention, the Finance Com- warnings. In his closing words to the Convention, mittee recommended that the amount of cash awarded Chancellor Johnson said : "No Convention of our Associa- under the terms of the Thomas S. Dunham Memorial tion has ever met at such a fateful time. Every purpose Fund ($1,000.00) should consist of the same proportion to which we members have subscribed, and every ideal of our Trust Fund income as the principal of the Fund to which we members are dedicated, is threatened with bears to the book-value of our Trust Fund securities; destruction. Word by word, every purpose and ideal in Guided by this recommendation, the Convention ap- the Constitution is menaced by a mad world. We can- propriated $37.64, since this sum represents the income not remain indifferent and oceanically insulated; we must from the $1,000.00 fund from the date of its acceptance participate actively, generously, and even intelligently, to the close of the fiscal year. V. W. Cochrane was at to throw our puny weight where it will most effectively the close of the academic year designated by the Cornell aid to salvage the remaining decencies of international Branch the first winner of the Thomas S. Dunham society and morality. We cannot remain members of this Award. Association and be indifferent to our responsibilities. We The Permanent Judiciary Committee in its report cannot hide comfortably under the flat stones of in- stated that the Chancellor had submitted to them the herited local prejudices or machine-made ideologies or question of whether the Association could accept the ignorance. We must intelligently act. We had no Con- Thomas S. Dunham Memorial Award Fund in view of vention' in 1918; we may have no Convention in 1941. the conditions attached. The Committee unanimously If we do convene, some of us may not be there for concurred in the opinion that the Association was legally various reasons, but let us hope that our reasons reflect entitled to accept the gift from the Dunham family. In the purpose and ideals of our Association." view of the problems raised by the acceptance of the In his report, President Williams struck a similar Dunham Fund, the Judiciary Committee considered the note: "It seems that Telluride Association, in common entire question of conditionad gifts. The Committee with the rest of the world, is constantly jummping from strongly urged the scrutiny of all gifts with conditions one frying pan into another. There seem to be few attached to make sure that we do not jeopardize our times in our history of the past 15 years when all was position as an eleemosynary institution with exemlption well and the future seemed clear and bright. Perhaps from general taxes, and that we do not handicap the this is just as well, since our difficult problems have Association's freedom of action at Convention. helped to prevent us from becoming serene. After the The Convention passed the following resolution: death of Mr. Nunn, the great problem was that of the "Be it Resolved, that the Secretary of Telluride As- selection of a permanent Chancellor; simultaneously with sociation be instructed to thank Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Dun- the solution of that problem came the Depression and its ham for establishing the annual Thomas S. Dunham attendant woes. We are now on the point of climbing Memorial Award." out of our depression depths, but on the not-too-distant horizon there reverberate the sounds of war. As I write 1940 CONVENTION AT DS this, there is rapidly spreading over the European con- (Continued from Page 1 ) tinent a rapacious force whose principles, if any, are as and was also authorized to represent the Associationin far removed from ours as it is possible to imagine. collaboration with in the selection Fortunately for our existence, we live in a relatively en- and invitation of an entering freshman for the same lightened semi-democracy; one dreads to contemplate year. the present status of Telluride Association if it were The new Suspension Committee is Spalding-Spald- located in any one of a dozen easily named countries. ing, successors to deBeers-Goodenough. "We cannot, however, shrug the war aside. It Permanent Judiciary Committee: A. E. Arent, Chair- threatens us on several fronts. Immediately, it affects man; Parker Bailey, and F. J. Rarig. our financial security, and chief concern at this moment Committee on Membership Procedure: R. J. Huff- should be to conserve our resources with such prudence cut, Chairman; J. H. Moore. that the inevitable post-war deflation will strike us a Applications Committee : G. B. $abine, Chairman ; minimum blow. More fundamentally, perhaps, the war H. G. Hayes. threatens us with temporary extinction of our working 1941 Convention organization. It is too much to hope that we shall The 1941 Convention will meet at Ithaca at 10:OO certainly stay out of the conflict, and if we enter, the a. m. on 16 June. normal activities of Telluride Association will at once Appropriations be greatly limited. We shall then be a small democracy The total appropriations made by the 1940 Con- afloat in a country which temporarily cannot afford to vention amount to $54,259.64. This amount includes be a democracy, and our going will be rough until once $12,500.00 for the operation and maintenance of Cor- more the world returns to relative order. Most impor- nell Branch; $10,000.00 for the New Branch Contingent tantly, however, whether this country enters the war or Fund; $4,450.00 for Convention expense; $6,000.00 for not, we must guard against the natural urge to slacken Deep Springs; $4,225.00 for cash scholarships; $2,500.00 our purposes; to say, with millions of others, 'What's the for the Agent Account; $1,000.00 for special mainten- use?' It is just in times like these that small and vigor- ance work at Telluride House; $1,000.00 for the Special ous organizations of idealistic purpose can look to their Administrative Fund; $4,000.00 for Chancellor's salary ultimate future with greatest enthusiasm. As the major and $2,000.00 for Chancellor's expenses; $2,400.00 for part of the world goes down into chaos and despair, there Steward's Salary. The remainder is made up of smaller (Continued on Page 5) miscellaneous appropriations. 4 TELLURIDE N 'EWS LETTER

FINANCE AND INVESTMENTS the President for his judgment. They are as follows: (Continued from Page 1) Parker Monroe, S.. S. Walcott, Simon Whitney, and David strongly feel that to assume the role of an ostrich is Boyd-Smith. W.e should not fail to recognize that such neither wise nor intelligent. men grant us a very real favor in consenting to serve Stock Holdings Well-Selected on this Committee, and it should be our concern to see "Because of the extreme market dislocations of that we meet their convenience insofar as possible. the last few months and because we greatly fear that T. P. Co. Succession impending events may jeopardize the position of those "For many years we have been extremely fortunate who hold fixed-interest bearing securities, we do not in the quality and character of the management of the feel justified in recommending to the Convention that Telluride Power Co. It has Seen a real comfort to us to it take another substantial step along the line of that know that these present officers and directors compose taken at last Convention. It is our opinion that our the overseeing body of our largest single investment, stock portfolio is, for the most part, now composed of which is the source of the greatest part of our income. well-selected equities. We see no reason to recommend Your Committee wishes to suggest at this time that it any change in our current list. Our cash position is now is not too early to begin laying plans to insure the so small that there is no immediate problem of rein- maintenance of such a competent management. Our vestment. The impossibility of foretelling the need for present membership and those new members who join reconsidering our position is obvious; but at the present, us in the next few years could well bear in mind that we feel that the Association's Trust Funds are well the Power Company will be looking for a young man invested as far as we may be able to foresee the im- with the proper training to take a place in the organiza- mediate future. tion. Such a young man could look forward to partici- Investment Program pating in the management of the Company in after "There exists a very real danger that, because of years if he proves to have the necessary qualifications. the extraordinary circumstances confrmting us, we may Needless to say, the Association's best interests would lose sight of our eventual goal of conservatively distrib- be served if this potential officer of the Company were uting our assets between high-grade bonds, or their procured from its own membership. We earnestly desire equivalent, and common stocks. Your Committee feels that this be called to the attention of future Conven- that it is highly desirable for the Convention to record tions. its views on general investment policy, not only by ac- TA House Valuation cepting opinions that may be presented in the report "It has been suggested that we take a realistic of this Committee, but by actually passing a series of view. of our investment in the physical property which resolutions setting forth in unmistakable terms the basis is Telluride House. During all the years since the con- for our general investment program. It is earnestly struction of the House, it has been carried on the books hoped that each succeeding Convention will review these of the Association at its original cost. No provision has resolutions and record its convictions in the same man- been made for depreciation, and no reserve against this ner. We should also expect that each Custodians' Report item has been established. It appears desirable to write will be made in the light of the resolutions passed by down the value of the House in accordance with con- the Convention of the preceding year. Our recommenda- servative accounting principles. Your Committee recom- tions for the resolutions to be passed by this Conven- mends that this action be taken, and the proper resolu- tion will be found at the conclusion of this report. tion is proposed later in this report. Permanent Finance Advisors W. L. B. Agent Account "At the meeting of the Custodians and Convention "Some of our new members are not fully acquainted Finance Committee at Ithaca in the month of May, it with one item in our budget for past years, and it has was generally agreed to propose to this Convention that been suggested that the Convention devote a discussion the President be empowered to appoint a Permanent period to this matter. We refer to the W. L. Biersach Financial Advisory Committee. This group would be Agent Account, to which we have appropriated $2,500. composed of bur Alumni and other men possessed of a in each yearly budget as a matter of course. Numerous close acquaintance with the Association. Such a Com- questions about the nature of this account have been mittee would function in an advisory capacity only, asked, and we believe that this subject can well be and could be expected to consult with the Custodians at discussed by this body in conjunction with this report." intervals during the year. It is our conviction that the In the discussion of the Agent Account, its historical value to be gained from the collective judgment of this background, its purpose, and the distribution of the Ac- body would be a very tangible contrigbution toward the count funds were clarified. successful management of our funds. We cannot, of Laise reported that the books of the Cornell Branch course, delegate our own responsibilities in this matter, had been audited and found correct. He expressed the but we feel that there could be no objection to our seek- gratitude of the Committee for the information and as- ing the best possible advice to which we have access. sistance rendered by Messrs. Waldo, Ashworth, and For purposes of efficiency and continuity, we recommend Fournier in connection with the discussions of the Tellu- that this Committee be composed of three members in ride Power Company and the Utah Fire Clay Co. He also approximately the same locality, and that their appoint- recorded the appreciation of the Committee for the ment should last for one year, with the understanding assistance and counsel of Parker Monroe who attended that they should be reappointed during successive years, the meeting of the Committee at Ithaca in May. unless there is some very strong reason to the contrary. Investment Policy Resolutions Your Committee has selected a panel of four men which The following five resolutions on general invest- qualify for consideration, and we recommend them to ment policy were adopted by the Convention: -- TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER 5 Be it Resolved, that the Association's holdings of concerning the investments of the Association to the high-grade bonds, or their equivalent, should represent Custodians, and through the News Letter to keep the the major part of its portfolio. membership informed of financial developments." Presi- Be it Resolved, that further steps toward increasing dent Williams appointed to the Permanent Finance Com- our percentage of high-grade bonds, or their equivalent, mittee the following Branchmen: E. M. Cronk, Chair- should be taken when the Dow-Jones Industrial Average man; Henry Beal, H. N. Bedell, J. D. Edgerton, P. H. exceeds 150. (Approximately the mid-point of its range Todd, R. B. Henderson, R. L. Sproull, and Hugh Toole. for the last ten years.) At such time, careful considera- "Be it Resolved, that the Convention designate a tion should be given to the individual positions of stocks member of Telluride Association to serve as a Director then held. of Telluride Power Co. in accordance with our under- Be it Resolved, that our corporate investments standing with the Telluride Power Co." J. H. Burchard should be restricted to outstanding companies, about was designated Director in fulfillment of the resolution. which comprehensive information is easily obtainable, "Be it Resolved, that cash may be temporarily de- and whose securities have a ready market. posited with Sidney S. Walcott and Co. and that securi- Be it Resolved, that our holdings in the Telluride ties may be deposited for sale or redemption with Sidney Power Company and the Utah Fire Clay Co. be con- S. Walcott and Co., and that the proceeds from the sale stantly reviewed, and that the nature of these invest- or redemption of securities may be deposited with Sid- ments be borne in mind in any consideration of general ney S. Walcott and Co., provided that in each case the investment policy. sale or investment of' such deposit is imminent." Be it Resolved, that this statement of investment "Be it Resolved, that one or more meetings of the principles should be reviewed (by the next Convention. Custodians of Telluride Association be held during the Finance Resolutions year ending May 31, 1941, as called by the President Additional finance resolutions were passed as of the Association; and Be it Further Resolved, that the follows : traveling expenses and other expenses incurred by Cus- "Be it Resolved, that the Custodians of Telluride todians in connection with these meetings or in connec- Association be, and hereby are, authorized and em- tion with other official duties be paid out of the Admin- powered to sell, dispose of, exchange or transfer securi- istrative Fund." ties held by them for the use and benefit of Telluride "Be it Resolved, that the President of Telluride Association, as they may deem it expedient and wise so Association appoint a Permanent Financial Advisory to do in the conservation, promotion, and protection of Committee, composed of members and Alumni of the the (best interests of Telluride Association and the trust Association or men of close acquaintance with the As- estate held by them for the Association, at prices or sociation, to advise and counsel with the Custodians." values not less than the then current market prices or This committee had not been appointed at the time of values thereof; and in connection therewith, they are going to press. hereby authorized and empowered to withdraw any of The Convention re-designated seven financial insti- the securities from the depositories where same are held, tutions. to be depositories of the funds and securities and such depositories are hereby authorized and directed of the Association. to deliver such securities on the written or telegraphic order of said Custodians." VIEWING WITH ALARM "Be it Resolved, that the Custodians be, and hereby (Continzied from Page 3) are, authorized, if they deem it to be to the best interests must remain some people, some groups, who will stand of the Association, to exercise or sell any right to pur- by to rebuild the edifices of truth and reason. It is this chase additional securities that may accrue to any securi- definite mission which we can now set for ourselves, as ties held by the Association, provided that funds there- we have set it in the past in a general way. Sometime, for are available; and to exercise any conversion privi- somehow, the civilized world will need a re-creation, and leges that may accrue to any securities held by the As- it is for men of the calibre and vision that we hope we sociation; and to present any bonds held by the Associa- are to sow the seeds and build the blocks." tion which may have been called for redemption, or to Effect of War accept any exchange offer which they consider favor- The Committee to Consider the Effect of War Con- able." - ditions on Telluride Association, through Chairman "Be it Resolved, that any action authorized by the Hayes, reported : accompanying Resolutions may be taken with the written "Your Committee has concerned itself primarily or telegraphic concurrence of any five of the Custodians, with the measures for protecting the Association's except where vacancies shall have reduced the number property in the event of war involving this country. below five, when the concurrence of all the remaining While, of course, there are innumerable ways in which Custodians shall be necessary." the war will affect the Association, the chief danger "Be it Resolved, that in the event the Custodians which we anticipate is that a war may decimate our judge that a process of inflation threatens to become un- membership and perhaps make impossible the holding of controlled, they are hereby authorized to convert the an annual Convention. Our concern has therefore been assets of the Association into real or other tangible to provide for the continued care of Association property property, or to take such other measures as will in their in the event that an annual Convention cannot be held. judgment ,best conserve the assets of the Association." A further concern has been to broaden the powers of "Be it Resolved, that the President of Telluride As- the Custodians in the evenlt that war conditions prevail sociation appoint a Permanent Finance Committee, com- in this country prior to the next Convention of this posed of residents of Cornell Branch, to make reports Association." The Committee offered the following 6 TELLURIDE N EWS LETTER - - resolution, which was adopted : resolutions to the Convention. These were adopted. The "Be it Resolved, that in the event the Custodians first broadened the powers of the Custodians to act in judge that a national crisis threatens or exists, they are the event of a national crisis. The second and third were hereby authorized to convert the assets of the Associa- designed for the continued protection of Association tion into real or other tangible property, or to take such property in the event that a 1941 Convention cannot be other measures as will in their judgment best conserve held, and vacancies occur among the Custodians. One of the property and interests of the Association." these resolutions set up a panel of substitute Custo- Substitute Custodians dians that would automatically succeed in order named "A further concern of the Commibtee has been the to places vacated lby the present elected Custodians possibility that war may cause vacancies in the ranks during a national crisis involving this country in armed of the Custodians prior to the next Convention," said conflict. The other resolution empowered the Custodians Chairman Hayes. "In these days of totalitarian war- or Substitute Custodians to employ a successor to the fare, it is not too much to anticipate that there may be present Chancellor, should he for any reason cease to severe losses in the ranks of the Association, and, because perform his duties while this country is involved in of this, the Committee believes it advisable to take pre- armed conflict. This last resolution was adopted in view cautions which under other circumstances might seem of the constitutional provision that if an annual Conven- extreme. The Committee bas prepared a list of proposed tion cannot be held, the Chancellor is empowered to Substitute Custodians, and in the compilation of this spend up to ten per cent of current income for the pro- list has had to consider not only the abilities of the men tection of Association property. named to serve as Custodians, but the likelihood that they S. N. Whitney Writes may be drafted." The Convention adopted the resolution While enroute to the Orient, S. N. Whitney wrote presented by the Committee as follows: a letter to Chancellor Johnson from San Francisco under "Be it Resolved, that in the event of a national date of the 11 June. This letter was read by the Com- crisis involving this country in armed conflict, vacancies mittee to the Convention. It follows: among the Custodians, due to resignation, death, or in- "Every principle of our Association is threatened ability to serve, shall be automatically filled with Sub- with destruction in Europe today. I mean the highest stitute Custodians with full power of Custodians, from well-being, broadening the field of knowledge, obedience the following panel in the order stated: H. C. Mansfield, to truth, individual freedom, self-government, and Walcott, Campibell, Kelly, Whittle, Withrow, Carnes, harmony with the creator. Perhaps they will survive, but Arent, Hayes, McKelvey, Sibbett, Sheridan, Yarrow, he who relies on it is an optimist indeed. Sabine, Bailey. In the event of the exhaustion of this "If there are any in the Association who believe panel, vacancies shall be fiiled from the remaining mem- this country is safe, let them consider the near-unanimity bers of the Association, in alphabetical order." of the press and Congress in supporting the President's The Committee stated thlat, whereas the Constitu- defense measures. A man would have to be arrogant to tion provides that Custodians must be elected, it felt an extreme to say there is no danger, and that he is so the provision made for Substitute Custodians is proper. sure there is no danger that he opposes preventive ac- Chancellorship tion. But such action-the defense program-means a Chairman Hayes continued: "The Constitution pro- drastic modification of our national life, away from the vides that the Chancellor may spend up to 10% of the individual freedom in which we believe. income of the Associ'ation for the purpose of preserving "No member or Alumnus of Telluride Association, its property. Having in mind the possibility that the however, has the right to say: 'It is Europe's worry, present Chancellor may become unavailable to the As- not ours.' L. L. Nunn often said that he meant the sociation under war conditions, your Committee suggests 'highest well-being' of all sentient beings. I am told that the following resolution : in the last war-when the moral issue, compared to that "Be it Resolved, that if the Chancellor of Telluride today, was as a heavy rain to a tidal wave-he paid the Association resigns, dies, or is unable to act, during a passage of those who wanted to go across. A moral issue national crisis involving this country in armed conflict, cannot be bounded by geography, and it cannot be the Custodians or Substitute Custodians shall be em- ignored !by Telluride Association. powered to employ a qualified successor." The Conven- "The issue today is this war-it is not another tion adopted this resolution. Telluride Branch or another Deep Springs cottage. TO retire into discussions of improving education is to act CONVENTION DEFINES STAND like the academicians of the year 400, who shrank back The 1940 Convention met in full recognition of the into their groves while barbarians overthrew the RO- international perils threatening the Association and the man Empire. True, the Empire was rotten, just as much principles to which it is pledged. A committee consisting of our society is today. But, unless the invader is turned of Hayes (Chairman), Arent, Ball, and Moore was ap- back, society and reformers go down together. In an pointed to consider and report upon the problems in- emergency, one cannot lead one's ordinary life, and volved in the relation between the Association and the today's emergency is the greatest in our lifetime, if not current crisis. The committee divided its work into two in modern history. parts, considering first the steps that should be taken "It is shocking to read in the Telluride News Letter, to safeguard the material interests of the Association, opposite the notice that my brother had enlisted, the and second, the role that the Association and its mem- names of Cornell Branch members who were working in bers should play in defense of the principles in which the 'keep out of war' campaign. A person of intelligence it and they believe. may believe that we should keep out of war, but this On the first point, the committee presented three organized campaign has had the practical effect merely TELLURIDE IVEWS LETTER 7 of frightening our politicians and industrial leaders company >General O'Ryan to the Far East for three to against giving material aid to the Allies. I would like four months, with the purpose of finding whether a to know whether our members said: 'Keep out of war, basis exists for rapprochement between Japan and the but aid the Allies,' or merely '(Keep out of war.' I would United States. If this grandiose purpose could be like to know whether their motives and reasons were achieved, it would 'secure our back door' against attack. consistent with the principles of Telluride Association. Very likely the job will be too big for us; perhaps it Can the Convention inquire into this? is impossible. In any case, we shall try, and are sailing "I have been told that other members of the Branch tomorrow." felt the same way, and I have found older members at Alumni Telegraph least indifferent to the issue. As I see it, this denotes In addition to the Whitney letter, the Committee a tragic failure of L. L. Nunn's educational work. Per- read to the Convention a telegram sent from Washington haps a fuller discussion, such as you might have at Con- on 21 June to Telluride Association, from Sherlock vention, would show this was not so-I can only hope it. Davis, John Laylin, John Davenport, and Windsor Put- "The Judgment of many young Americans has been nam, as follows: corrupted by false teaching-they believe that there "Antithesis of moral order threatens through force are no morals in international relations, that America destroy principles Telluride dedicated promote through has no responsibility to less fortunate countries, that education and democratic p r o c e s s. To unite and there is no difference between an England which is strengthen us, to preserve our opportunities, to do this gradually spreading self-government to its colonies and leaders of throught and the President have proposed a Germany which is spreading slavery, that England's universal compulsory training. College men are pictured stopping of the mails is a violation of international as opposed. We cannot believe spokesman represents law as atrocious as Germany's bombing of Hollanders the real men. We who in other times opposed such train- and Belgians in their beds without a declaration of war, ing today submit. Telluride has great opportunity show that because French and English policy from 1918 to its understanding of emer.gency and its capacity for en- 1939 was unwise and helped bring on the war (along lightened leadership by taking formal action strongly with America's isolation, war debt, and tariff policies) supporting universal training to defend democracy and there is no reason to help them now, that Wall Street restore opportunity, achieve international justice by wants war for the sake of profits, that the plainest re- peaceful means. Do not underestimate your responsi- ported facts must be disbelieved because there are bility or influence which your resolution to fulfill it can propaganda agencies, etc., etc. have on public opinion." "It is depressing to realize that graduates of Deep Convention Discusses Stand Springs have been as susceptible to such fallacies as The Committee presented no resolutions in con- graduates of any other school-although, I trust, in nection with the second part of its work. Instead, it led much smaller proportions. a discussion from the floor. Simon Whitney's letter and "It is depressing that a Telluride member, H. C. the telegram from Davis, Laylin, Davenport and Putnam Peterson, h,as contributed to this tragic confusion with were read. No one questioned the gravity of the present his superficial treatment of the last war in his book, crisis or the threat to the institutions in which the As- Propaganda for War. I hope Mr. Peterson, whom I do sociation believes. Primary consideration, however, was not know, has changed his mind as has Walter Millis, given to the issue squarely raised in the telegram; that author of the very popular attack on our 1917 inter- is, whether the Association should go on record as an vention: The Road to Wal.. Mr. Millis last week signed Association in support of a controversial issue. During a plea for immediate declaration of war. the discussion, it was suggested that in a proper case "I also believe war should be declared at once-to the Association could and should act under its own name, mobilize our energies, to encourage the Allies, to warn as in affirming a principle to which it is pledged, although the neutrals, to discourage the enemy. If this proves this would not apply to debatable questions on the impossible, at least our unneutral Neutrality Act, our dangers threatening such principles, or the best means spiteful Johnson Act, our petty discouragement to to be adopted for their protection. It was also suggested volunteering, our panicky fear of sending arms and that the Association is essentially an educational rather munitions abroad, should be swept aside. Even if France than a political entity, and while fostering the individual is crushed, England will hold out while she can, and with action by its memfbers, should not commit itself. The our help liberty may yet !be saved. Association name is not the sole property of the present "It is our moral duty, in view of our responsibility mem'bers, to use as they wish, but is in pledge to future for the economic and political chaos that brought on this memberships. There was general agreement that, even war (shared, of course, with other countries), and in assuming that the Association could or should act polit- view of the obstructions we have placed in the way of ically, the Association should not commit itself as an the Allies (two months' of an arms embargo, withdrawal Association in the absence of unanimous agreement. of our shipping, refusal for many months to sell them One of the principles in which the Association believes modern planes, etc.) to lend aid while a glim,mer of is the protection of minorities against exploitation. There hope remains. It is the moral duty of every Telluride is no justification for failing to apply this principle member and alumnus, in my personal opinion, to do within the ranks of the Association itself. A majority what he can to mold public opinion or influence political should not have the right to bind the minority in the leaders. name of the Association to courses of action in which "I myself exerted my influence while I could, and the minority may not believe. It was recognized that finally, apparently, exhausted it, as far as real effective- this conclusion sacrificed the opportunity for the group ness goes. I, therefore, accepted the invitation to ac- to assert collective leadership, but it was felt that leader- 8 TELLURIDE N EWS LETTER ship could be left to the individual members with less years at Deep Springs. prejudice to principle. The sense of the Convention is Paul H. Todd, Jr., 19, of Kalamazoo, Mich., was summarized in the reply telegram to Mr. Davis. guest of the Cornell Branch last year, after having at- In view of this conclusion, no attempt was made to tended Kalamazoo College for one year. He is interested poll the members in Convention as to their individual in plant breeding. opinions. New Alumni Convention Telegraphs he Convention declared vacant the memberships Secretary Sproull, on behalf of the Convention, of the following men: Wayne A. Bannister, engaged in wired Sherlock Davis as follows: "Your telegram of June the practice of the law in Denver; Julius F. Brauner, 21 was considered at length by Convention. Regardless of the legal staff of Columbia Broadcasting System; Dr. of the individual views of its members it was the sense , Charles M. Gilbert, of the Geology Department of the of the Convention that it is not the function of the As- University of Calif.; Dr. James S. Mansfield, in medical sociation to commit itself as an association on such practice in Boston; and Dr. Horace C. Peterson, of the controversial issues, and that the Association name Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. should not be used to bind minority members to a All, with the exception of Doctor Peterson, are former proposition with which they may not agree. Please ad- Deep Springs students; all, Bannister excepted, have vise Laylin, Davenport, and Putnam." been at the Cornell Branch. Membership Discussed ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP President Williams in his report stated that the two The Convention opened with 71 members. Nine men major problems always facing the Association are were admitted to membership, the memlberships of five finance and membership, with that of membership the were declared vacant, and the membership of the As- greater. sociation at the close of Convention was 75. "It is uncomforta'bly obvious to me," said Williams, Twice during the Convention did the group dis- "that the Association is the 70 or so who happened to solve into a committee of the whole to discuss whether compose it now, plus our interpretation of the traditions two candidates for membership had done "practical work and hopes that have come down from the few hundred satisfactory to the Association for a period or periods who have composed it in the past. Further, it is equally totaling approximately one year." One of the two after clear that we cannot project it into the future with having satisfied the group concerning his practical work better equipment than the mental and spiritual qualities was admitted to membership, but the candidacy of the of the men whom we now select as its members. We can other was deferred to a subsequent Convention. conceivably get along without a substantial portion of New Members our income, as we have done in the past, and I can Roland C. Ball, Jr., 22, of Richmond, Ind., was conceive of our existing with the barest of incomes. Our graduated from Swarthmore in 1939; he spent last year distinguishing mark is not that we are a scholarship-dis- at the Cornell Branch doing first-year graduate work in pensing organization, but rather that we are a group of English. carefully selected, well-trained, young men whose com- Iierbert A. Gustafson, 20, of Chicago, Ill., has just mon goal is identified with that of civilized mankind completed three years of work at Deep Springs. He throughout the centuries. It is conceivable that, if the enters Cornell Branch this autumn to study administra- bonds of common thought and purpose uniting our group tive engineering. were strong enough, we could exist regardless of our Bruce F. Johnston, 21, of Long Beach, Cal., after pecuniary fortunes. two years at Pomona College, spent last year as the guest "I should like to see us, at this Convention, take of the Cornell Branch while studying government and stock of our membership problem. Like all organizations, economics. He continues his work at Cornell. we tend to drift into set patterns of procedure, but at Teh-chang Koo, 24, of Shanghai, China, has just this meeting, in these peculiarly inspiring surroundings, been graduated from Cornell in M. E. The Chinese we might advisedly look at the problem of membership government has appointed him apprentice worker in an as fundamentally as possible. Specifically, I should like American airplane factory where he plans to work one to see the Membership Committee attempt to ascertain year before continuing his study in aeronautical engineer- to its satisfaction what it believes to be certain essential ing, with emphasis on engine design and production. He criteria of membership, and then investigate our mem- has spent two years at Cornell Branch. bership procedure in order to see if it best evaluates David A. M. McConnaughey, 22, of Claremont, Cal., these criteria. , spent last year at Cornell Branch after three years at "The, actual mechanics of our membership pro- Deep Springs. He is working toward a doctorate in cedure might be eligible for scrutiny. Are our contacts English. adequate for our needs? Are our methods of examining James H. Moore, Jr., 19, of Montclair, N. J., has applicants and their work the best possible? What can just completed two years at Cornell, one of them as guest we do about the heavy competition from universities, of the Branch. His work is in administrative engineering who often take from us our best candidates several with special emphasis on low-rental housing. months before Convention meets? Is the method by David B. Spalding, 22, of Westfield, New Jersey, which the Committee reports to the Convention com- has just completed three years at Deep Springs and pletely satisfactory, or can improvements be made?" enters Cornell this autumn to study architecture, with In his discussion of membership, Williams expressed aims toward graduate study in city planning. the opinion that Deep Springs students should if possible Francis L. Tetreault, 20, of Washington, D. C., submit their applications for memlbership at the end of enters pre-law work at Cornell this autumn after three their second year at Deep Springs. TELLURIDE N EWS LETTER 9 DEEP SPRINGS house, a new shower room in the main building, a soft- In his address to the Convention, President Williams water line to the lower ranch, and the planting of lawns expressed the pleasure of the group at being able to about the Circle, have added materially to the comfort accept the generous invitation of the Trustees to con- and beauty of life at Deep Springs. vene at Deep Springs. "It is only to be regretted," said "It is anticipated that no major expenditures for Williams, "that financial limitations prevent the more capital additions or unusual maintenance will be needed frequent recurrence of a Convention in the West, since, in the near future after the new cottage is built and as the Association grows older, relatively more and more furnished. Room for improvement will remain, and some of its members either have never seen Deep Springs, or items such as the remodeling of the post-office room and have not visited it within recent years. Inasmuch as the the replacement of seriously deficient farm machinery two institutions are perpetually bound together by the are already ,contemplated, but it is reassuring to note purposes and donations of their com'mon founder, that the institution has been able to finance the many frequent personal contact between their memberships is items of much needed maintenance that accumulated greatly to be desired in promoting mutually clearer during depression years." understanding. DS Finances "The enormous debt of Telluride Association to "Deep Springs finances are in much better shape Deep Springs is plain to all of us, when we consider that than they have been for some time," reported Chairman a large majority of the membership of Telluride As- Yarrow. "Owing to the unusually large income Rom sociation is now, has been for years, and probably will cattle sales during the past year, the excess of receipts continue to be a product of Deep Springs. More impor- over expenditures amounts to between $25,000. and tantly, we should realize that for many of us the original $30,000. Of this, $3,000. is already appropriated for the contacts with the purposes and aspirations of Telluride construction of the new faculty cottage. Another $9,000. Association have been made at Deep Springs, and that to represents a liquidation of capital assets by reducing a very substantial degree Deep Springs has conditioned the size of the cattle herd. The remainder, about us for later Association trusteeship. Reciprocally, it is $17,000., the Board of Trustees wishes to retain in a equally true that the tenor and effort of purpose at Deep reserve account availtible for emergency expenditures Springs is considerably influenced by the Association; or as the nucleus of a fund to increase the Deep Springs can we not say, then, that in all significant respects, Deep endowment. Springs and Telluride Association are one? "For the year 1940-41 proposed expenses exclusive "In October of this last year, it was the sorrowful of the new cottage exceed estimated income by $3,000. task of both institutions to record the death of Mr. P. N. This deficit might be made up from the cash surplus Nunn, the brother and close confidant of their founder. this year, but the Committee believes that the Associa- In losing him we cannot help but feel that we have lost tion should not require this to be done. Since 1930 Deep the remaining link which connected us directly and in- Springs has been forced to use approximately $34,000. timately with our origins, and once more we should of its capital funds for operating expenses, and we agree urge ourselves to take an accounting of Telluride As- with the Trustees that the present sunplus may well be sociation in the light of what L. L. Nunn dreamed that used to repair some of that depletion. On the other hand, we might have become. there is a chance that the estimated income may be too Cooperation conservative; if prices hold, the sale of calves will perhaps "In many ways this has been a Deep Springs year make up the deficit. Your Committee recommends that for members of Telluride Association," continued Presi- $3,000. be appropriated to be drawn upon 'by Deep dent Williams. "We have been closely in contact with Springs so far as may be necessary to cover an excess the school concerning the plans for Convention, the en- of operating expenditures over income." The Convention dowment campaign for the Deep Springs cottage, and in appropriated $3,000. to be drawn upon in accordance cooperating with the Trustees in the selection of a with the recommendation of the Committee. Trustee to fill the vacancy on the Board. This identity DS Trustees of effort has been greatly profitable for everyone con- "During the past year," said Yarrow, "the Board cerned." of Trustees has continued to seek assistance from the President Williams, at the invitation of the Trustees Telluride Committee elected at last Convention, and and by authority of the 1939 Convention, attended both from individual members who were interested in the meetings of the Board of Trustees of Deep Springs. The discovery of men competent to fill vacancies on the 1940 Convention formally expressed its thanks to the Board." Kuder and Bailey were designated by the Con- Deep Springs Administration and Student Body for their vention as committeemen to cooperate with the Trustees continued cooperation with the Association toward the of Deep Springs. This is the third year that such a com- attainment of a common purpose, and recommended that mittee has acted as liaison between the Association and the President or one of his appointees attend at least Deep Springs, its principal work being in connection one of the meetings of the Board of Trustees during the with filling vacancies on the Deep Springs Board. The coming year. vacancy created by the death of Mr. P. N. Nunn is as DS Physical Plant yet unfilled. For the first time in eleven years the Deep Springs DS Faculty Committee was able to supplement its report from per- On behalf of his Committee, Yarrow stated that all sonal observation. "In general, the physical plant at Deep evidence indicated a "quite successful" academic year. Springs is in satisfactory condition," said Chairman Yar- Facultymen Dean Kimpton, Robert Gorrell, Armand row in his report. "Several recent improvements, such as Kelly, and Leo Lavatelli were reported as having done the installation of new electric ranges in the boarding capable jobs in their fields. This group will next year be 10 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER supplemented by a new teacher of languages, Mr. Remak. Secretary to convey to Member Earl Ohlinger the ap- "It would (be difficult to find a time in the past," said preciation for his work in designing the new cottage at Yarrow, "when the academic outlook has been so favor- Deep Springs. able." TA Aids DS In the autumn, E. M. Johnson will give a series of Financial aid to Deep Springs was covered by the talks at Deep Springs on biography. A reading list of following resolution: "Be it Resolved, that of the $6,000. twenty-odd volumes of (biography went out to all Deep appropriated to Deep Springs, up to $3,000. shall be used Springs students in May. This will provide illustrative for the construction and furnishing of the new cottage, material for the discussions in the autumn. and Be It Further Resolved, that the remaining $3,000. DS Farm shall be drawn upon #by Deep Springs as far as may be The Committee reported that affairs in connection necessary to cover any excesses of operating expendi- with the farm are "proceeding with reasonable success." tures over income." R. M. Rust took over the farm management in mid-year and is at present acquainting himself with the ropes and CJONSTITUTION CHANGE ASKED learning about farming in the arid West. The Commit- Withrow in his report for the Judiciary Committee tee expressed itself as "particularly gratified that an AS- stated that, at a meeting of the Central Advisory Corn- sociation-trained man is being tried as ranch manager." ,ittee this spring, his Committee had "recommended There are 450 range-catt1e in the Springs the consideration of amendments to the Constitution to herd, and sheep, hogs, and poultry comprise the rest of divorce any connection between the offices of President the livestock. Ninety-four acres of alfalfa are being cut and secretaryof the ~~~~~i~ti~~and the position of this year, a specially dry one, yet it is estimated that this Custodians. The basis of these recommendations was the r ear's hay crop and the carry-over will provide ade- fact that all of these offices are taking more and more quately for the coming year. time of the incumbents to carry on the work effectively. DS Student Body The Committee was not unanimous in believing that 'IThe increased number 23 students has On the the office of President should be divorced from that of whole been satisfactory this past year," said Yarrow. custodian. ~t least one member of the committee h he high quality of Student Body membership has heen believed that the combined offices should continue, to maintained, and the cali'ber of incoming students has ass,re the President of accurate current knowledge of been improved through increasingly careful selection of ~~~~~i~ti~~finances." an ever widening field of applicants. The academic work Chairman Withrow then proposed certain amend- has been generally good. Outside work has drawn in- ments to the Constitution in accordance with his report creasing interest, and the attitude of the Student Body and recommended that the Secretary mail the proposed exhibits a healthy sense of responsibility, though at times amendments to all members in tirne to be by it has verged on insobordination. Student Body govern- the 1941 convention. ment has been active, and an effort has been made to reduce the routine and unprofitable aspects of the di- TA Trusteeship verse committee functions. "From time to time our Chancellor has required '

CORNELL BRANCH Any unused portion of the appropriation is to be placed In his report on the physical property at Ithaca, in reserve and earmarked for rebuilding the floor of the Chairman Sheridan said: "Telluride House is 30 years Dutch. old. Parts of it are beginning to wear out. It seems Fire Insurance imperative that some appropriation be made every year The insurance on the Ithaca property must be re- for repair, redecoration, or replacement. If our plant newed in a few weeks. Our policy for the past five years had an original value of $120,000.00, and if normal has been for $60,000; $7,500 of this insures furnishings, depreciation is computed at two per cent per year, a and the remaining $52,500 insures the building. The common figure for buildings, we should spend or put into following resolution was passed: Be it Resolved, that the reserves at least $2,500.00 each year for maintenance." Chancellor arrange for appraisal of our property in The Committee rejected as extravagant the plan Ithaca; and that the results, together with details of the for covering the areaway at the rear of the building. The proposed policy, be submitted to the Custodians for a Committee discussed the redecoration of the dining-room, decision as to the amount of fire insurance to be taken the refinishing of floors in the bedrooms, the purchase of out for the next period. new rugs and furniture for the bedrooms, the relbuilding Branch Life of the floor of the Dutch and the installation of new light- The broadest fundament presented for the kick of ing fixtures in the same room, and the building of a Convention is usually that of Cornell Branch. The fact second bathroom between the two guestrooms on the that fewer kicks than usual were given is probably due second floor in the northwest corner of the House. to some improvement in the Branch rather than to soft- TA House Floors heartedness of the Cornell Branch Committee. "The hardwood floors in a number of the bedrooms The Cornell Branch Committee devoted much of its are in bad condition, especially at the doors and under report to the discussion of the social, cultural, and edu- the deslrs," said Chairman Sheridan in his report. "The cational advantages offered by the Branch. Chairman house at present has no mechanical equipment for main- Sheridan said: "A general criticism regarding the failure taining floors. We suggest that a machine for sanding of members of the Branch to take full advantage of and buffing the floors might be bought. As an alternative, their oppol-tunities for personal development through a large sanding machine might be rented for that heavy social contacts has again been raised. Of the men at the work, or the work contracted for; then a smaller machine Branch this past Year, and other recent years, there are for buffing and later maintenance be bought. Mr. Olsson certain definite criticisms to which we can call attention. and Mr. Swenson have been waxing floors by hand during 'The correction of these shortcomings will help to Pave the summer. If all the floors were given a sanding down the way for a keener and fuller life at the Branch." The to new wood, followed by several coats of oil rubbed in, Committee mentioned for correction certain matters, their appearance would be greatly improved. Then a such as faulty entertainment of guests, disorderly rooms, moderate amount of wax once a month, buffed by unmade beds, improper garb in dining-room and living- machine, would keep the floor definitely in first-class con- room, the use of rooms and corridors for horseplay and dition. This might cost three or four hundred dollars. other "so~homoricdisplays of physical Prowess as have "Some of the rugs and furniture in the bedrooms gone On during the past year." The Committee stated are part of the original furnishings, and are worn out. that it found evidence that "the House has become in- We are told that most of the large old chairs with spring creasingly more rowdy and juvenile in recent years." backs have been put in the attic so that there are no '''These matters are small when taken separately," re- comfortable chairs in the students' rooms. This replace- ported the Committee, "but the record is no smaller than ment can be done gnadually; so the immediate cost can the sum of such petty derelictions. A person caught off be whatever we want to make it. his guard in any of these little things is certainly a "The sub-floor in the Dutch is rather badly rotted, source of emlbarrassment to others, guests and Branch at least at the east end, where some temporary repairs members alike, and ought to be to himself, if he is at were made about a year ago. We feel that we should be all sensitive to how civilized people behave. prepared to take out the whole floor and replace it when "The Committee feels that a great deal of our we undertake the job, as was done in the dining-room difficulty stems from our loss of the steadying influence a number of years ago. This is estimated to cost $2,000. of Professor Burr. Out of respect for him, one did not to $2,500., and would involve a new concrete sub-floor, even think of doing these things when it might offend waterproofed in some way, with wooden strips set in it. him. We do feel that the presence of an older permanent To these would be nailed a rough floor and a finish-floor. resident of the House is essential for maintaining proper "Because maintenance is evidently to be a regular decorum. We do not want a policeman; Professor Burr thing frob now on, we suggest that the Property Corn- was never that. We need someone who will recapture a mittee at the House be charged with reporting to the Con- measure of personal and group dignity." The committee vention each year the projects which seem to be most then offered the following resolution, which was adopted: pressing, with details and estimates if possible." Be it Resolved, that the Cornell Branch Guest Commit- The Convention appropriated $1,000.00 for the tee, in its search for suitable scholars to reside at the maintenance of the House to be used (1) for refinishing Branch, continue to look for a man of mature judgment, floors of bedrooms, together with the purchase of ahy who will command the respect of members of the Branch, equipment which seems advisable for regular mainten- selecting persons with a view to their filling the unique ance, to be arranged for by Chancellor Johnson and position of permanent Branch resident. Bernt Olsson during the summer; and (2) for purchasing Branch Hospitality new rugs and furniture, to be done by the men at Cor- The Convention passed two resolutions in connec- nell Branch, but only to the extent deemed necessary. tion with guests at Cornell Branch: 14 TELLURIDE IYEWS LETTER Be it Resolved, that the hospitality of Cornell MARRIAGES Branch of Telluride Association be, and hereby is, Miss Elizabeth DeGolyer of' Castile, N. Y., and Mem- extended to illembers of Telluride Association, Alumni, ber John Niederhauser were married at on the Trustees and Faculty of Deep Springs, and members 7 June. Paul Swatek was best man; Timothy Henderson, of the Deep Springs Student Body upon visits to Ithaca, Harvey Wellman, and Teh-chang Koo were ushers. N. Y., during the academic year 1940-41; and that such Chimesmaster Netschert played the Cornell chimes. visitors be requested to communicate, whenever possible, Niederhauser is an instructor in the Dept. of Plant with the Secretary of Cornell Branch prior to such visits. Pathology. Be it Resolved, that Cornell Branch of Telluride Association be, and hereby is, authorized to invite such Miss Jane Swatek of Chicago and Robert M. Rust scholars, not memlbers of Telluride Association, or mem- were married in San Francisco on 28 June. Mrs. Rust bers of Telluride Association not denied the privilege of is the sister of Member Paul S,watek. Rust, for three Telluride House at the previous Convention, to live at years a Cornell Branchman, is now ranch manager at Telluride House during the academic year 1940-41 as Deep Springs. may be deemed advisable by three-fourths of the mem- bers of Telluride Association residing at Telluride House, Miss Elizabeth Buffum and John E. Beaumont were provided that the appropriation for operating expenses married at Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on 22 June. Beau- be not exceeded. mont attended Deep S'prings, and at present is in the Bernt Olsson employ of the Central National Bank in Cleveland. The Convention passed a resolution expressing its appreciation for the "constant and loyal service" AD!DRESS CHANGES rendered by Bernt Olsson during his thirty years oP Harry Thomsen, 608 N. Hidalgo Ave., Alhambra, Calif. stewardship at Telluride House. It passed an additional J. S. deBeers, 2335 California St., N. W., Washington, resolution in which it expressed its "intention to provide D. C. for Mr. Olsson an adequate pension whenever he shall R. T. Falconer, 31 E. Morris Ave., Apt. 5, Buffalo, N. Y. wish to retire." Walter S. Jennens, 444 Robinson Ave., Barberton, 0. The Convention directed the Cornell Branch to Huntington Sharp, 421 W. Blackhawk St., Apt. 25, apply for participation of its permanent employees in Chicago, Ill. the social security plan of the Federal Government. The Hugh Pritchard-Jones, Hilbre, Porth-y-Felin, Holyhead, same resolution directed that the President of the As- England. sociation apply for the participation of the Chancellor S. N. Whitney, Japan Economic Federation, Tokyo, in the social security plan of the Government, or, in the Japan. event such an application is refused, to submit at the Temporary summer addresses of menljbers are not 1941 Convention information on a suitable annuity. printed. Mail addressed to members or Alumni, care Telluride Association, Ithaca, will be promptly for- PREFERMENT warded. The following 27 men will reside at the Branch Early in the autumn a new Telluride Directory will next year: R. P. Ament, R. C. Ball, H. E. Beal, H. N. be prepared. If you move during the summer, please Bedell, K. R. Bergethon, V. W. Cochrane, E. M. Cronk, send your new address to Ithaca for inclusion in the J. D. Edgerton, Jose Encinas, C. E. Ennis, H. A. Gustaf- Directory. son, R. B. Henderson, R. J. Huffcut, B. F. Johnston, D. A. M. McConnaughey, J. H. Moore, J. L. Murray, H. C. Mansfield Consulted B. C. Netschert, Karl Schmeidler, D. B. Spalding, R. L. Dr. H. C. Mansfield has just been asked by Herbert Sproull, F. L. Tetreault, Prof. H. W. Thompson, P. H. Emmerich of the Public Admkistration Clearing House Todd, W. H. Toole, J. B. Tucker, and P. R. Zilsel. to prepare a "memorandum on a program of internal Professor Thompson, teacher and author, was in- administrative reform in the General Accounting Ofice vited by the Cornell Branch Guest Committee, and Zilsel which could be effected without legislation." Mansfield was recommended by the Committee as the recipient of has just spent his sabbatic year on the Coast and will the tuition scholarship upon which the Association and resume his work at Yale. Cornell University collaborate. Cash preferment, in addition to the privileges of Wings Over Illinois the Branch, was given the following: R. C. Ball, $150.00; Alumnus Herbert Reich received his Private Pilot's H. N. Bedell, $400.00; E. M. Cronk, $400.00; H. A. license in Dece'mber. He has been instructing in the Gustafson, $300.00; B. F. Johnston, $200.00; D. A. M. ground school at the University of Illinois, where he McConnaughey, $400.00; B. C. Netschert, $400.00; and holds a full professorship in Electrical Engineering. F. L. Tetreault, $300.00. To complete his thesis, R. W. Anderson was given Member Anderson Pace will work during the coming $200.00; Maurice Barret was granted $150.00 to con- year for the Battelle Institute. tinue summer work at Cornell University; and W. L. Spalding was awarded $400.00 to attend Harvard Grad- Candidate John Murray is spending the summer uate School. picking apples for Member Levering at The Hollow, Va. W. P. Horsfall was granted $400.00 to continue work in the Cornell Engineering College, and Harry Scott George Manner begins his new work in the Dept. of $525.00 to attend . These men will re- Political Science at the University of Illinois in the side outside the Branch. autumn.