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CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS the Heating Plant below East Ithaca. A GIFTS EXCEED $2,000,000 Make Many Changes new lumber shed has been built here, and For Last Fiscal Year further up the hill above the East Ithaca Undergraduates coming back after a Gifts and bequests to the University station has been constructed a new stor- summer's absence see numerous changes totalling $2.,z6i,o37.38 for the fiscal year age building for the Department of Vege- on the Campus this fall. And alumni who ending last July i were announced this table Crops. bring their children to Cornell after even week by Provost H. W. Peters '14. a few years' absence express astonish- Largest building operation is, of, course, Of this amount $1,054,330.2.4 was ment at the improvements they find. Olin Hall of Chemical Engineering, added to the University's permanent en- Without exception, they remark upon which is rapidly taking shape and will dowment. Gifts for current use included the generally well-kept appearance of soon get its roof. On upper Mitchell $384, 02.4.17 for research and investigator- University buildings and grounds. This Street, the all-steel High Tension Labo- ships, $100,000 toward an addition to the is the result of a year-round program of ratory rears its skeleton. Noticeable also, physical plant, $31,138.14 for depart- refurbishing that is carried on under di- however, is the exterior refurbishing by mental development, $2.6,736.76 for schol- rection of the Department headed by Buildings and Grounds department work- arships and loans, and $119,604.86 for Hugh E. Weatherlow '06. ers of Stimson Hall, the President's other purposes. The balance is composed Buildings and Grounds Force Busy House, the south facades of the Sibley of non-endowment funds, of which some But in addition to these continuing group, and repairs and renewals on Rob- are specifically restricted as to use and operations, more than 350 workmen of erts, Comstock, McGraw, Franklin, others expendable at the discretion of the the Department of Buildings and Grounds Lincoln, Rockefeller, Goldwin Smith Board of Trustees. have this summer made striking changes halls, and the Library. Another section Alumni Contribute Generously in the general aspect of the Campus. Im- of the concrete seats in the Crescent has Included is $nx,9oi 94 in current gifts mediately one notices that the roadway been completely replaced, carrying out from 7,xxo alumni through the Alumni which used to run from Central Avenue the general upkeep program, and Mount Fund Council: a record both for amount to Sage Avenue, just south of Sage Pleasant Lodge east of Ithaca has been contributed and number of contributors, Chapel, is now green lawn with neat further improved as a recreation center unsurpassed since 1931. Cornell alumni new paths across it. It was turfed almost for students and Faculty. The Johnny also gave $37,902.-75 during the year overnight with sod taken from a spacious Parson Club, now entirely under the toward the University's program for new parking area at the top of the slope management of Willard Straight Hall, developing athletic facilities. between the Chapel and Barnes Hall. has its easterly side extended toward The largest bequest, $508,573.93, came This is now surfaced with macadam, en- Beebe Lake, thus doubling its dining from the estate of James Parmelee 'γ6, closed with rustic rails, and has shrub- capacity to about 100. New kitchen Cleveland real estate operator and finan- bery growing to screen it from Central equipment is being installed and the cier, who died in 1931. Gifts from the Avenue and Willard Straight Hall. Sage dining room is being entirely refurnished, Rockefeller Foundation for endowment, Avenue has been moved east around Olin complete with a new "juke box," to research, and departmental development Hall, and its sidewalk along the east side (Continued on next page) totalled $697,4x5.90. Of this sum, $600,- from Sage College 000 was to endow to Tower Road has the Department of been moved back Public Health and of the trees and the Preventive Medi- road widened. cine in the Medical North of Tower College in New Road, East Avenue York. The Founda- is newly paved; tion also made the distinctive old grants for research rock quarry in front in tuberculosis, of the men's dor- amino acids, long- mitories is now evity, reflex be- smoothly graded havior, maize and will soon be stock, chemistry, grass-covered physics, and the many trees and history of the Far shrubs have been East, and for de- set out about the partmental devel- Campus; walks and opment in public streets have been health, anatomy, resurfaced, and new drama, music, and trailsand stepshave Russian language been built in Fall and literature. An Creek gorge. An- additional $5,555- other extensive 64 was received grading and plant- from the General ing operation has Education Board been done around OLIN HALL SEEN THROUGH THE CENTRAL AVENUE ELMS for a project in the growing colony Native stone and brick walls of the $700,000 new building for the School of Chemical critical thinking. of University serv- Engineering are rapidly rising on the green in front of Sage College. This view is from S. C. Johnson & ice buildings near across Central Avenue near Willard Straight Hall. Phot^fy^j^attke '30 Son, Inc. gave 1984 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

$56,500 toward establishment of the CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS fluorescent lighting will soon be ready in Herbert Fisk Johnson Professorship in (Continued from page 1) the cafeteria, with new furniture for the Industrial Chemistry, and the Olin Foun- make the building more than ever a music and art room and new rugs for dation contributed $100,000 toward de- pleasant student gathering place. Memorial Room. velopment of the School of Chemical Important interior rearrangements in Extensive lighting improvements have Engineering. Goldwin Smith, Stimson, and McGraw been made by the Buildings and Grounds Among notable bequests received dur- halls have been made possible this sum- Department all over the Campus, and ing the year were additions totalling mer through a bequest from Roger P. underground they have also been busy. $76,180.54 to the John McMullen Fund Clark '91, a noted lawyer who died in Electrical workers have installed a new for scholarships in Engineering, bringing 1940. He left for the unrestricted use of power line from the Heating Plant to the the total of this fund to more than the University oil paintings valued at High Tension Laboratory site, a new $1,000,000; $49,644.5Z and an art collec- $35,000, securities worth approximately underground line for electric services, and tion valued at $35,000 from the estate of $9,000, and an additional sum of more telephone connections to Olin Hall where Roger P. Clark '91, who was personal than $48,000. The Trustees appropriated a new central office will be located. The counsel to Governors Charles E. Hughes $10,000 from this fund to construct a Department has also extended the en- and Horace White '87; $31,380 of an convenient suite of three offices in Gold- larged steam lines to the north end of the anticipated $100,000 from the estate oί win Smith Hall for the Dean's office of Quadrangle, with new meters on the Dr. John A. Heim '05, to be used for the College of Arts and Sciences; to re- main from the Heating Plant, new re- scholarships in the Medical College; model the old Stimson Hall amphi- mote pressure recording devices, and has $31,391.47 from the estate of Major theater into a modern lecture room with carried steam, water, and sanitary con- Louis L. Seaman '71; $15,000 from the proper seats, efficient lighting, and good nections to Olin Hall. A ten-inch water estate of Henry R. Ickelheimer '88; accoustics; and to build a statistical line has been laid from Tower Road to $11,678.69 from the estate of Mary laboratory for Sociology in McGraw East Ithaca, and progress is underway on Kerschner; $19,030.98 from the estate of Hall. metering of all water. Rollie B. Low, whose brother was the In addition, the former Babcock house late J. McKee Borden '78; $13,819.13 on Sage Avenue, recently occupied by the ANOTHER WINS NAVY "E" from the estate of Mabel Estey Rose '00; Dean of Women, is now converted into A fifth industrial firm headed by a Cor- $11,600.61 from the estate of Delia S. offices for the Counsellor of Women and nellian has received the Navy "E" as a Bishop; and $10,000 from the estate of the Counsellor of Men. The lower floor mark of special merit for producing ma- S. Wiley Wakeman '99. accommodates Thelma Brummett and terials for national defense. Last month Among numerous grants for research her staff, and the second floor, with a at a dinner in Syracuse, the Navy Depart- were funds totalling $11,950 from the separate entrance, is completely re- ment presented its pennant bearing the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation for research modelled for the use of Donald Moyer "E" to the Carrier Corp., of which the in neurology, pneumonia, senility, biotin, and his assistants. Former Faculty resi- chairman of the board is Willis H. Carrier aviation, and family health; $15,011.53 dences at 3 The Circle, 1 South Avenue, Όi. The ALUMNI NEWS noted in August from the National Research Council for and 3 Grove Place have been renovated that the award had earlier been made in studies of student pilots, morphology, and remodelled to take care of the larger Washington to Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. metabolism, visual fatigue, physiology, number of undergraduate women. Other Ίo, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours air-sickness, night blindness, and other improvements include new ticket offices & Co.; to John B. Hawley, Jr. '11, presi- phases of medicine as applied to aviation; and coachs' offices at Schoellkopf, offices dent of Northern Pump Co.; and to and $9,101.15 from the GLF Exchange. in West Sibley, enlarged facilities for the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. of which Anonymous contributions of $18,000 Medical Clinic at 7 Central Avenue, a Edward Bausch '75 is chairman of the and the sum of $10,000 from Stanton new X-ray room in the Sage House at the board and Ford Instrument Co. headed by Griffis Ίo were received to be added to University Infirmary. In Willard Straight Hannibal C. Ford '03. endowment funds. $10,000 was received Hall, accoustical treatment of ceilings from the Ralph Hitz Memorial Fund to was completed this summer, kitchens EARLIEST GRADUATE DIES establish a scholarship in Hotel Admin- have been enlarged, a new amplifying Dr. Brandt Van Blarcom Dixon, istration. room installed in the cellar, and new earliest living graduate of the University and the only surviving member of the Class of '70, died September 6 at his home in New Orleans, La. His death leaves Royal Taft '71 as both the oldest alumnus and the earliest living graduate. Dixon was born February 17, 1850. Taft was born September 5, 1849. Dr. Dixon was the founder, and for thirty-two years until 1919, president, of H. Sophie Newcomb College for women at Tulane University. He became presi- dent emeritus, and in 1919, Dixon Hall was presented to the college by its alum- nae as a memorial to him. He entered Cornell as a Junior in 1869 from Amherst College; received the AB the next year. Southwestern University and Tulane con- ferred upon him the honorary LLD. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, the SECOND OF THREE EARLIEST CORNELL!AN S DIES first president of the Baseball Associa- Pictured as they met in Ithaca for Class Reunions in June, 1940, are (left to right) tion, and participated in track and row- John A. Rea '69, Dr. Brandt VanB. Dixon '70, and Royal Taft '71. Dixon's death ing. In 1938, he was the official delegate September 6 leaves Taft as both the University's earliest living graduate and oldest of Cornell University at the inauguration alumnus, Rea having died last February 10. of Rufus C. Harris as president of Tulane. SEPTEMBER Z5 , I941

made a moderate amount of yardage in FROM FAR BELOW . . . the press last year when he re-named Old NOW IN MY TIME! Town Hill, a Revolutionary landmark By Bob Bliss '30 on his place, dubbing it George Wash- By Romeyn Berry ington Hill, paying a pretty compliment Now we know how Rym Berry feels to the mentor of the American Tobacco Again has your reporter been tapped when he writes his column. One of our Co. So far, we have not heard that Mr. for the annual September piece about Jersey cows, named after the wife of a Hill has turned the other cheek and football prospects. New York advertising executive because named a cheroot after Mr. Duncan! His qualifications arise solely from his she is beefy but breezy, presented us with Stillpond Farm is a misnomer too; con- having attended one practice session in a bull calf at six o'clock this morning. fidentially, there's not a speck of the the spring accompanied by Mr. L. C. We get all that glow of the Sage of limpid wet on the place. Just indicates Boochever, the team's official bard and Stoneposts as he sits down to his stint, the family's tired of moving vans and tub thumper, and from his having had his pen proudly poised, his ample figure has settled for good. "Still pond, no his hair cut on many occasions at the fairly bristling with parenthood. But more moving—" Remember? Ithaca Hotel barber shop. Mr. Boochever this is supposed to be a column on the knows the names of all the players, and metropolitan end of the Cornell scene, so FOR NAVY GAME the barber shop possesses all other neces- sary information. Prior to 192.1, Colgate we'll leave the butterfat out of the copy Cornell Club of Maryland is arranging never bothered to scout Cornell; they'd and get on with the story, lest the Boss to entertain all Cornellians who can at- just send a couple of coaches over to Man tell us we're poaching on Squire tend the October 18 football game with get their hair cut at the Ithaca Hotel. Berry's preserves. Just wanted to let you the US Naval Academy at Municipal You'll have to learn many new names know we've got the mood! Stadium in Baltimore. Through the ef- this year, but you will have none of the Summer tans are fading hereabouts, and forts of Donald F. Stevens '05, the B. & usual difficulty in pronouncing them. seersuckers are slipping into serges. Tales O. Railroad is arranging for transporta- This year the squad will run richer in of golf scores and fishing lies are abating, tion to Baltimore with officers of all Cor- Wolfs and Martins, in Johnsons, Jen- although Carl Hallock says he's taken a nell Clubs east from Columbus, Ohio, and kinses, and Pierces. lot this season. There's even a little less north from Richmond, Va. The Mary- Commonly such a situation would spell about the Dodgers of late. Reason's ob- land Club is also sending to Cornell Club doom, but neither State Street nor the vious : the shift is to spinners and double officers announcements of a buffet supper Quadrangle seems unduly cast down. On wingbacks. Especially now, with a new after the game, from 5:30 to 7:30, at the the whole, we rather like our chances. menace to upset all the dope of the Hotel Belvedere. Forty-eighth Street quarterbacks. They Not for a championship or an undefeated As a "warm-up" for the game, the always could allow for graduation loss oί season, of course, but we figure we Cornell Club of Maryland will hold a letter men and default by bust, but what might, perhaps, win two or three games dinner meeting October 7 at the Johns Ole Debbil Draft may have done to a on the merits and steal a couple more on Hopkins Faculty Club. New alumni of the backfield is anybody's guess. There's the luck. That's enough under the cir- Class of '41 who are in and near Baltimore nothing to keep professional Campus cumstances, and it's a blessed relief to be will be guests of honor. Room prognosticators hopping like a freed of championship status and impli- left half with a iA classification. OMAHA PICNICS cations. We can loosen up and have a little fun this fall! The Cornell Club has a new institu- Seven members of the Cornell Club of Not only will the 1941 team possess a tion that developed this summer. It's a Omaha, Nebr., and their companions different personnel, but it will be a differ- Dutch Treat Table. You can buy your held an August picnic at the Omaha ent kind of team and play a different type own drink and pay for it, thank you, Country Club. A steak dinner was pre- of football. Gone are the light-hearted but watch that hospitality! It's not al- ceded by horseshoe pitching, a softball acrobats and the laughing contortion- lowed. Gives a stranger a nice feeling game between the men and women, and ists whose deft handling of the ball fre- that he can draw up a chair and have a other sports, and the evening ended with quently befuddled everybody, including malted milk if he likes, and not feel he the singing of Cornell songs. Secretary their own coaches. This year's team will has to do the grand thing by the as- of the Club is Edward Schimmel '2.7, have to get its touchdowns—if any—the sembled. It's patronized by professor and managing director of the Blackstone hard way. More kick and run, less advertising man alike, and you can never Hotel. tell when Bull Durham, Eddie Good- throw. Not that there won't be some willie, or Jess Whyte will turn up at NAY ATI BUYS BOOKS passers on the Cornell team sufficiently your elbow. A gift to the University from the expert to keep the defense back there Being a farm commuter ourself, we're former Nayati Fraternity which existed at a respectful distance and give the always interested in news of the breed, at the University from 1907 to 1919 will running plays a chance to get started. misery loving company as it does. We be used for a special collection of books There will be no eleven-man lines oppos- think the Cornell long distance cup in the library of Willard Straight Hall, ing the Ithacans! should go to Wally Duncan '2.0, who Provost H. W. Peters '14 has announced. So much for the team, but what of the trains it every day from Staatsburg. The fraternity occupied the former home games? That is a harder problem to dis- That's eighty miles each way, winter of Professor John V. Van Pelt, Architec- cuss, because the outcome of any particu- and summer, daylight saving or no—a ture, at 316 Highland Road, but disbanded lar game turns quite as much on the neat batch of whistle stops in any man's in 1919 and sold the property to Phi ability of your opponents as it does on language. The Duncan, besides being Epsilon Pi. The gift of approximately the skill, luck, and fury of your own the spearhead of the sales attack at New $z,ooo was the fraternity's bank balance team. York radio station WNEW, finds time to after settling its affairs. After a vote by According to the sports writers, all be master of some ninety-five hogs, from the seventy living members, it was pre- teams with ivy in their hair, excepting whence each Fall he draws very tasty sented for the unrestricted use of the only Pennsylvania and Cornell, are to be home-smoked hams and a special brand University through the fraternity treas- rated several notches higher than last of sausage that would make even Escoίfier urer, Earle A. Ryder Ίi. The collection year. Not that that means much. One's salivate. If you want some, just write in the Willard Straight Library will faith in the prophecies of sports writers him at Stillpond Farm. No charge for include biographies and books on travel, varies inversely with his acquaintance the gourmet service, of course. Wally adventure, and related subjects. with sports writers. Excellent reporters, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

to be sure, but indifferent crystal gazers! FOOTBALL PERSONNEL But the assurances of the sports writers The largest football squad since Carl is all one has to go on until the first About Snavely took over in 1936 reported to games have been played and grim facts ATHLETICS the coach Wednesday, September 10, and have been substituted for hope. immediately plunged into practice for the The Navy is rated highly, and we know opening game with Syracuse Saturday, FALL SPORTS SCHEDULES that both Syracuse and Colgate—Colgate October 4, on Schoellkopf Field. Eight Cornell teams will play in forty- particularly—are likely to present vastly The first real contact scrimmage for the five contests this fall, with the Varsity improved troupes. The Ithaca Hotel squad of seventy-plus was held one week cross country runners and the Junior barber shop is almost as infallible on later, when the outlines of the team that Varsity football players opening the Syracuse and Colgate as it is on Cornell, will perform in Cornell's fifty-fourth season Friday, October 3. and the barbers point out—not without a season of intercollegiate football began The schedules: certain impish playfulness—that our to take more or less permanent form. Freshman team was well walloped last FOOTBALL As of Monday, September. VL, it ap- October 4 Syracuse fall by the freshman teams of both our pears that six of the seven available letter 11 Harvard at Cambridge neighboring up-State institutions. winners will start the Syracuse game. 18 Navy at Baltimore And there you have it. A new and un- They are Roy V. Johnson '43 of Taren- 2.5 Colgate tested Cornell team, but one that has tum, Pa., left end; Captain Peter M. November 1 Columbia at New York fanned the hopes of both Town and Gown Wolff '42. of Highland Park, 111., left 8 Yale to a modest flame! Eight familiar op- guard; Norman L. Christensen '41 of 15 Dartmouth ponents, seven of which may now be Englewood, N. J., right tackle; Ray- τi. Pennsylvania at Philadel- regarded as more proficient than last mond Jenkins '42. of Philadelphia, right phia year, and the eighth always a dreadful end; Louis C. Bufalino '42. of Swamp- menace. Syracuse, Harvard, Navy, Col- CROSS COUNTRY scott, Mass., left halfback; and Kenneth gate, Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn- October 3 Colgate at Hamilton L. Stofer '43 of Lakewood, Ohio, right sylvania! We'll win from some of them, 18 Army halfback. but not all. It would be silly at this time 2.5 Alfred at Alfred The seventh letter winner, Edmund to lay in a large stock of red fire for November 1 Syracuse Van Order */μ of Ithaca, is meeting con- celebration, or of lethal ammunition 8 Heptagonals at New York siderable opposition for the left tackle with which to shoot the coach. Take it 17 Intercollegiates at New position from Whitney C. Doe '43 of easy this year! Dismiss all thoughts of York Harvard, Mass., who was ineligible last championships and enjoy some excellent SOCCER season. ball games—one at a time. It's that October 4 Colgate At center the choice appears to be kind of a year. 11 Princeton James Blanchard '43 of Hamilton, an- As for seats, order them early; direct 18 Cortland Normal other 1940 ineligible; at right guard, J. from the Athletic Association and not 2.2. Syracuse at Syracuse Russell Geib, Jr., '44 of Binghamton; at through prominent citizens of Ithaca. No 2.5 Lehigh quarterback, Daniel C. Nehrer '43 of Ithaca game will this year develop into a November 1 Swarthmore at Swarthmore Cumberland, Md. and at fullback, Joseph sell-out and panic. But there will be no 8 Haverford L. Martin '44 of Camden, N. J. game for which what the alumni com- 1.2. Pennsylvania at Philadel- This combination, with Doe at left monly regard as choice seats in keeping phia tackle, has been together most of the with their prestige, importance, sub- JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL practice sessions. Van Order, Captain scriptions to the Fund, and intrinsic October 3 Penn State Wolff, Christensen, Jenkins, and Bufalino merit, will not all be gone a full two 31 Army at West Point played considerable time last fall. Van weeks before the contest for which they November 7 Dickinson Seminary Order, in fact, was a starter at left tackle in several games. Johnson, Nehrer, and are intended. FRESHMAN FOOTBALL Stofer were not used as frequently. What's the sense of going- to all that October 11 Kiski School Behind Johnson, the left end reserves unnecessary bother of changing your will, 18 Syracuse at Syracuse are Stacy C. Mosser,'Jr. .'44 of Winnetka, cancelling your subscription, and re- 2.4 Colgate at Hamilton 111., Pearne W. Billings '44 of Oneida signing from the Club, every time you November 1 Penn State Castle, and James Keats '43 of Plandome. procrastinate just long enough to get 2.Ί. Pennsylvania at Philadel- Other left tackle candidates are John A. four in the end zone? phia Manganelli '43 of Utica, converted from 150-pouND FOOTBALL center, and John Vonetes '43 of Bingham- FIFTH GETS MEDAL October 10 Princeton at Princeton ton. Captain Wolff, who underwent a Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 18 Yale at New Haven knee operation last winter and who is ing Education at its annual meeting in 24 Villanova still favoring his leg, is understudied by Ann Arbor, Mich., last June awarded to November 1 Rutgers Francis G. Paul '44 of Easton, Pa., Dr. Anson Marston '89, dean emeritus of 14 Pennsylvania Frederick A. Schaefer, III, '42. of Hono- engineering at Iowa State College, its xi Lafayette at Easton lulu, Hawaii, Gordon H. Steele '44 of Lamme Medal for "accomplishment in FRESHMAN CROSS COUNTRY Cherokee, Iowa, and Pasquale M. technical teaching and the advancement October 11 Colgate Vescera '44 of Utica. of technical training." He is the fifth 18 Morrisville School A real contender for the center position Cornellian among the fourteen who have 2.5 Alfred at Alfred is Louis G. Helmick, Jr., '43 of Fairmont, received this honor. The others were the November 1 Syracuse W. Va. He has alternated frequently with late Professor Irving P. Church '77, 8 Penn State at State College Blanchard. Other centers are Meredith Engineering, Emeritus, 192.9; Dugald C. 17 Intercollegiates at New R. Cushing '44 of Eggertsville and Frank Jackson, Grad '85-'.87, of MIT, 1931; York S. Ekas '44 of Tarentum, Pa. Professor Dexter S. Kimball, Engineer- FRESHMAN SOCCER The reserve right guards are Richard F. ing, Emeritus, 1933; and Dean emeritus October 2.4 Syracuse Rochow '43 of Pittsford, Donald B. Frederick E. Turneaure '89 of the Uni- November 1 Cortland Normal Grady '43 of St. Petersburg, Fla., and versity of Wisconsin, 1937. 8 Penn State at State College Frank E. Barnes '44 of Mineola. Other SEPTEMBER 1941 5

right tackles are Robert H. Anderson '44 Jerome Brock '34, former center, has athletics. Plans were made for another of Arlington, Mass., Charles R. Sweeney joined the Canisius College football party during the University's Christmas '42. of Scranton, Pa., and Strabo V. coaching staff. recess. Claggett, Jr., '43 of Pelham Manor. The Robert Boochever '39, assistant to Cornell Club of Essex County, N. J., reserve right ends include Harry L. Tre- Allie Wolff, coach of the 150-pound entertained about twenty-five entering dennick ' Δp. of Johnstown, Pa., Theodore football team, was inducted into the students at luncheon in Newark, Sep- H. Lansing '44 of Cranford, N. J., and Army last month He will be succeeded tember 12.. John E. Servis '43 of Princeton, N. J. by Robert S. Grant '34, who is returning In Los Angeles, Cal., September 9, The substitute blocking backs (quar- to Ithaca to practice law. Grant played twenty-three Cornellians who dined at terbacks) are Walter F. Pfeffer '44 of halfback at Cornell and coached the first the Mona Lisa Restaurant included two Floral Park, N. J., Louis Daukas '44 of 150-pound team in 1936. members of the Class of '44 and one of Nashua, N. H., and Martin Tobin '44 of Cornell will number its football players '45. President Stuart H. Hacker '13 of the Rome. The reserve tailbacks (left half- systematically this fall. Left ends will Cornell Club of Southern California in- backs) are William S. Wheeler, Jr., '44 ' have odd numbers in the 80s, right ends troduced Alfred A. Anderson Ίo, who is of Evanston, 111., Will D. Templeton '41 even numbers; left tackle will have odd with the Los Angeles Housing Authority. of Niagara Falls, and Thomas E. Mc- numbers in the 70s, right tackles even; He showed motion pictures of the Cam- Donald '44 of Poughkeepsie. left guards will have odd numbers in the pus sent on from the Alumni Office and To spell off Stofer in the wingback 60s, right guards even; centers will be a technicolor film of construction of two (right halfback) position there are avail- numbered in the 50s; quarterbacks in the recently completed Federal housing proj- able Samuel R. Pierce '44 of Glen Cove, xos; left halfbacks in the 40s; right half- ects. Hal G. Davis '2.0 is secretary-treas- Richard L. Quigg '42. of Pueblo, Colo., backs in the 'teens; and fullbacks in the urer of the Club this year. and Howard W. Blose '44 of Dayton, 30s. * • At the Merchants Club in Baltimore Ohio. The fullback reserves are Henry S. Coach John F. Moakley, beginning his September 15, the Cornell Club of Mary- Dragon ' Δp. of Albion, Philip T. Golden- forty-third year at Cornell, called a dozen land had a party with fifteen entering berg '43 of Hartford, Conn., and Robert cross country men back to Ithaca Sep- Freshmen and about fifty alumni and un- O. Gordon '44 of Winnetka, 111. tember 10. They began work at once, and dergraduates. Donald F. Stevens '05 and The squad suffered two casualties be- started their training table in Willard Henry R. Gundlach Ίi, a director of the fore practice started. Charles P. Weiss '44 Straight Hall. Alumni Association, spoke for the of Putnam, Conn., a back, underwent an alumni; Harry L. Turner '42., for under- appendectomy, and Clayton Rockmore graduates; and Fred Koch '44 and Charles '43 of New York City, a tackle, was ill of CLUBS SEND OFF FRESHMEN Latrobe '45 for the new students. pneumonia. Weiss was considered an Cornell Clubs of both men and women Five of the thirteen boys who are en- outstanding back and the best kicker on around the country held parties this tering the University this fall from West- the squad. Rockmore was expected to bid month for Freshmen coming to the Uni- ern Massachusetts were entertained at a for the starting assignment at tackle. versity from their localities. Names of picnic supper by the Cornell Club Sep- Both will be available later in the season. members of the Class of '45 were supplied tember 13, at the home of Vice-president Coach Snavely, having lost twenty to Club officers who requested them of Kenneth E. Paine '2.3 in West Springfield. letter winners, has to rebuild. On the the Alumni Office in Ithaca. Reports Several present undergraduates also at- roster of eighty-three, only seventeen are which reached us by press time indicate tended. Seniors, and twenty-four, Juniors. The that the parties were thoroughly enjoyed Cornell Women's Club of New York coach has made it known that all posi- both by alumni and by their new Cor- had fifty alumnae, twenty-five under- tions are open. He forecasts a team nellian guests. graduates, and about seventy-five enter- stronger* in running and kicking, but More than 100 members of the Cornell ing girls at a tea in its clubrooms Sep- considerably weaker in passing. He be- Club of Buffalo got acquainted with tember 13. Eleanor Raynor '37 showed lieves that all of Cornell's eight major thirty members of the Class of '45 and motion pictures of the University, Arleen opponents will be stronger. twenty high school students at a smoker Heidgerd '41 and Eleanor Reed '41 spoke Snavely's assistants are Max Reed, at the University Club September 12.. on undergraduate activities, and Mrs. George K. James, Mose Quinn, Ray Van Harrison Sanford, head rowing coach, John W. Arnold (Dorothy McSparran) Orman '08, J. Russell Murphy, Gregory was guest of honor. He showed motion Ί8, assistant dean of New York Univer- Zitrides, Adna A. Dobson, and Walter J. pictures of Varsity and Freshman crews sity, outlined the opportunities to be Matuszczak '41. The trainer is Frank in action. Other guests were President found at Cornell. Cornell songs were led Kavanagh. Broderick and Coaches Couch and Ben- by Doris Gorman '39, and a fashion show nett of Buffalo's West Side Rowing Club, by undergraduates especially for the ODDS AND ENDS with members of their four-oared crew Freshmen, ending with a "Sage fire Walter J. Matuszczak '41, now an which holds the 1941 senior champion- drill," was in charge of Winona Cham- assistant football coach, was seldom out ship of North America and of their Cana- bers '41 and M. Elizabeth Beach '41. with injuries in his three seasons as dian Henley senior eight-oared cham- In Philadelphia, Pa., the men's Cornell blocking back at Cornell. But he injured pionship crew. Harry E. Harding '05, Club entertained eighteen of the region's his knee" in practice for the All-Star game president of the Club, welcomed' the en- twenty-six Freshmen and thirty-six un- with the Chicago Bears in Chicago last tering students and told them about dergraduates at luncheon at the Univer- month. He played that game and another Cornell and the Club, and Herbert R. sity Club September 10. President John with the Eastern All-Stars against the Johnston '17 introduced the Buffalo oars- S. Fair, Jr. '17 introduced Robert F. New York Giants with the knee in a men. Chairman of the committee was McCann, Jr. '42. who described Campus brace. George A. Newbury '17. customs and rushing rules. September 13, Nicholas Drahos '41 and Mortimer W. In Chicago, 111., September 11 at the the executive committee of the Cornell Landsberg '41, who played in the All- University Club, President Thomas S. Women's Club of Philadelphia gave a tea Star games, plan to play professional McEwan Ίi presided at a special lunch- for women of the Class of '45 at the home football: Landsberg with the Philadel- eon with thirty-five Freshmen and forty of Mrs. Charles T. Walker, Jr. (Gladys phia Eagles and Drahos with the New members of the Cornell Club of Chicago. Hobart) '04. Mrs. William H. Emery York Americans. Michael J. Ruddy '41 Alumni Trustee Alfred H. Hutchinson '09 (Violet Harrison) '12., president of the is already a member of the New York spoke of the opportunities Cornell offers, Club, poured. Giants. and Frederick M. Gillies Ί8; described {Continued on page 8) CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

FOR FUERTES BIOGRAPHY municate with Dr. Walter J. Mueller, GIFT AIDS GEOLOGY Material for a biography of the late Go Id win Smith Hall, Ithaca, and their The University has announced estab- Louis A. Fuertes '97 is being collected by names or the names of friends will be lishment of the Charles B. DeLong his daughter, Mrs. Damon Boynton added to the list. Bulletins will be issued Graduate Research Fund, from gifts (Mary Fuertes) '31. She asks Cornellians regularly describing the progress of totaling $6,000 made by Berton H. to loan letters written by her father, and the group.—HAROLD S. L. WIENER '30 DeLong '09, chief metallurgist of the articles and other memorabilia about Carpenter Steel Co., Reading, Pa. The him, and for personal recollections and CORNELLIANS IN ICELAND Fund was established in memory of anecdotes. Material sent to her will be To THE EDITOR: DeLong's son, who was a member of the copied and promptly returned. Mrs. I believe you are interested in hearing Class of '37 and who died in November, Boynton may be addressed at RFD 4, from members of the Alumni Association 1937, while he was a graduate assistant Trumansburg. at intervals, especially upon changes of in Geology. Proceeds will be used to address, marriage, etc. Because my assist male graduate students in economic present situation is unique, as far as I can or structural geology. LETTERS gather, to myself and a handful of Cor- nellians, I send along some facts that may NORTH COUNTRY WOMEN Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good be of interest. Alumnae of the North Country of New taste, we shall pint letters from subscribers on any York State met for luncheon at the side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The I am stationed with the US Army in ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- Iceland, still holding the rank of second Brick House Inn, Plattsburgh, August 2.6. ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility They were addressed by Mrs. Allan H. beyond that of fostering interest in the University. lieutenant in the Signal Corps. Also here with the Army are First Lieutenants Mogensen (Adele Dean) '2.3, president of the Federation of Cornell Women's WlLLARD MAGALHAES '33, EDGAR MAT- Clubs, and by Mrs. Frederick D. Colson LIBRARY ASSOCIATES THEWS '37, and WILLIAM VOGEL '39, and (Edna McNary) Όo, chairman of mem- To THE EDITOR: Second Lieutenant DAVID DUDGEON '38. Organization of a group to be known It is impossible for me, or them, to give bership. Mrs. Millerd G. Larkin (Eliza- as the Cornell Library Associates, which any information about what we are beth Signor) 'xo was in charge of ar- you announced in August, is an action to doing, so it must suffice to say that we rangements. be greeted with enthusiasm by any Cor- are here. PROFESSOR FRASER 13 DIES nellian interested in the welfare of his We have found the country to be en- PROFESSOR ALLAN CAMERON FRASER '13, University. tirely different from what its name Plant Breeding, died September 17 at his Doubtless many of your readers are un- might imply. There are no Eskimos, home, 119 The Parkway, Ithaca, after an aware that such organizations have been igloos, polar bears on the loose, or such illness of several months. Besides his active in many university and school other impedimenta associated with the teaching in the communities in the last ten years, and polar regions. Instead, we have found a College of Agri- even now many great public and priv- cosmopolitan country, with a population culture, his re- ately endowed libraries have such col- not hostile to the Americans, most of search in heredity lateral societies working for their im- whom speak English well or well enough was noteworthy provement. To mention a few: The Yale to make conversation possible. Perhaps and he was an Library Associates; The Friends of the the wide use of English has been brought authority on Davis Library (Phillips Exeter Academy); about by the occupation of the island for tropical food The Friends of the National Libraries some time by British troops, but we have plants. He trav- (Great Britain); The Friends of the Hunt- also learned that English is taught in the elled around the ington Library (San Marino, Cal.). There local schools. The terrain, land forma- world twice, in are many more, and in establishing a tion, and such information is fully 1936 and 1937, similar organization, Cornell is merely covered in the Encyclopedia Britannica, spending con- following what has now become a fairly so I shall not dwell on these, except to siderable time in Japan and Hawaii where common practice; yes, even for the other qualify their description by saying that he studied the breeding of sugar cane and great college libraries. But to say that it no one here can remember any place in pineapples and visited numerous research is following the lead in organization is the United States that can be compared centers. In 1931, results of his six years' no reflection on the quality of the start to the average landscape here. work on fishes with Dr. Myron Gordon it has made, and I feel certain that many Please transfer my ALUMNI NEWS sub- '2.5 and others resulted in discovery of so- Cornellians will welcome the opportun- scription to my new address as soon as called hereditary "cancer individuals." ity to assume an active role in maintain- possible. We are interested in seeing how Professor Fraser entered the College of ing and adding to the special collections the Big Red Team makes out this fall, Agriculture in 1909 from Buffalo Central which form so impressive a part of the and you might tell them that at least High School; received the BSA in 1913. Library as it now exists. one touchdown each Saturday for the He was a Senior assistant in Plant Breed- In these days of decreasing endow- boys in Iceland will be gratefully re- ing, spent the next year in graduate work ments, any additional help, no matter ceived! We are all of the opinion that and teaching at Columbia, and returned how small, is to be reckoned an asset, Cornell's worthy opponents from Han- to the Graduate School and as instructor and consequently the work of Louis over and Philadelphia should be thor- in 1914. He spent a year in research at Boochever and Walter Mueller in organ- oughly annihilated, and that the other Edinburgh University and in travel on izing the Associates and seeing the society opponents should be dealt with less the continent; received the PhD in 1918; through its infancy is of great moment severely. became assistant professor of Plant Breed- to Cornell. In the next few months, mem- Kindly convey our best regards to ing in 1919 and professor in 1934- From bers of the organizing committee will those back home. If anyone has time to August, 1918, to January, 1919, he was circularize prospective members. Because drop in up here, the visit would be regimental sergeant-major of the 36th of the great number of alumni and friends, greatly appreciated. We might even be Field Artillery at Camp McClellan, Ala. it will be impossible to reach every one able to arrange for a mild, very mild, He was a member of Sigma Xi, Gamma who may care to join and lend support. party! — LIEUTENANT WILLIAM DIXON '40 Alpha, and He Hui Hawaii, Mrs. Fraser Any who do not receive a communication A. W. Co. TF-4, A. P. O. 810 (Helen P. Myers) Ί6 survives, and one of and want one, or who know someone c/o Postmaster, New York City their two daughters is Helen M. Fraser else who wishes to affiliate, may com- '43. Keith R. Fraser '17 is his brother. SEPTEMBER 2.5, I94I 7

MEDAL TO MIDGLEY Ίl Midgley is a member of the Engineer- BUFFALO CLUB ACTIVE At the annual meeting of the American ing College Council of the University and Approximately 100 Buffalo Cornellians Chemical Society in Atlantic City, N. J., has been active in the current program to attended in a body the double-header In- September 8, Thomas Midgley, Jr. Ίi, augment the resources of the College. He ternational League baseball game August vice-president of the Ethyl Gasoline entered Sibley College in 1907 and re- 10 between Buffalo and Baltimore, to Corp., received ceived the ME in 1911. Wooster College honor George F. Polzer '40 and Walter J. the Priestley awarded him the honorary DSc. He is a Sickles '41, former Varsity players ap- Medal, highest member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi pearing with Baltimore. Before the first honor of the for his researches has received the Long- game, Harry E. Harding '05, president Society. At- streth Medal, the Perkin Medal of the of the Cornell Club of Buffalo, Arthur M. tacked by in- New York section, American Chemical Shelton '14, chairman of the committee, fantile paralysis Society, and the Nichols Medal of the and Herbert F. Johnston '17, secretary of a year ago, Dr. Society of Chemical Industry; was de- the Club, welcomed the two Cornellians Midgley from a signated last year a "Modern Pioneer" at home plate. Harding presented them wheelchair by the National Association of Manu- with leather wallets containing crisp new demonstrated facturers. He lives in Worthington, Ohio; bills, which we are informed were "not to the 6,000 as- is the father of Thomas Midgley III '36. one dollar bills, either!" Sickles pitched sembled scien- nearly eight innings, striking out eight tists some of the DISTINGUISHED ALUMNAE and allowing seven hits. recent advances in chemistry for which Of fifty-three women in thirty occupa- August 1, thirty members of the Club he is largely responsible. tions who were honor guests at this met for luncheon to hear Merwin Morri- With a gasoline engine, chemical ap- year's convention of the General Federa- son of the Buffalo Broadcasting Corp. paratus, motion pictures and lantern tion of Women's Clubs at Atlantic City, discuss "United States and Japan: What slides, he showed the effect of anti-knock N. J., three were Cornellians. Mrs. Mor- Next?" A welcome guest was Professor material in a running engine; the non- gan Barney (Nora Blatch) '05 of Green- Frederick G. Marcham, History, who toxic, non-inflammable properties of cer- wich, Conn., was chosen as one o£ two told a football story. tain organic fluorides which have revolu- women in engineering. One of two out- tionized refrigeration and air-condition- standing health workers was Alice C. TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO ing; experiments through which he Evans '09, senior bacteriologist of the Cornell Club of Northern California, and his associates discovered that rubber US Public Health Service, Washington, under the presidency of Bernard S. Sines containing oxygen can be vulcanized by D. C. Margaret R. Cuthbert '08, director '2.2., has announced resumption of Wed- the addition of certain reagents; and the of the women's division of RCA, shared nesday luncheon meetings in San Fran- process of commercially extracting bro- radio honors with Kate Smith. cisco, beginning October 1. "Thirty- mine from sea water. Another alumna who has recently minute talks on current and interesting The New York Times next day recalled gained special notice is Dr. Emily Dun- subjects" are promised by alumni and that Joseph Priestley "laid the founda- ning Barringer '97 of New York City. others '' who will have something to talk tion for the modern science of gases and Only woman member of the houses of about." All of the 350 Cornellians who their reactions" and continued: * delegates both of the American Medical live in the Bay Area, including San Jose, It is fitting, therefore, that this year's Association and of the Medical Society Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz, Napa, recipient of the Priestley Medal, the highest of the State of New York, she has gained Vallejo, etc., are considered members of honor offered by the American Chemical Soci- recognition for her efforts to obtain the Club, and alumni visitors are invited. ety, should be a man who made it possible for military status for women physicians and Sines is executive assistant in the South- automobiles and airplanes to go many miles farther on a gallon of "gas." In 19x1, when surgeons who have volunteered for the ern Pacific Co., 65 Market Street, San Thomas Midgley, Jr. announced that six years Army and Navy. Francisco. work at the General Motors Research Labora- tories had culminated in the perfection of an anti-knock compound, he predicted: "Within the next two or three years it is expected that gas-engine design will have been changed to get the benefit of the new discovery." The pre- diction has been abundantly fulfilled. The modern high-compression automobile engine, not to speak of the much more compact air- plane motor, would sputter painfully with the kind of fuel that was marketed twenty years ago. To keep the same number of cars on the road and airplanes on the wing (and they would never fly as fast as they do), would re- quire many more tankers, tank-cars, and pipe- lines from the Western fields. For the present efficiency of the internal combustion engine the nation owes much to Mr. Midgley. Later, The Times referred again to Midgley's work, saying: Dr. Midgley has several times made pro- phecies for which he has not yet been officially honored. He has forecast for the next decade the commercial tapping of the estimated three BOYS AND BAGGAGE LEAVE FOR FRESHMAN CAMP quadrillion dollars' worth of gold known to Capacity crowd of more than 2.75 members of the Class of '45 was on hand bright exist in dilute form in the world's oceans. He and early September 17 to start from the Old Armory in busses for four days in has also predicted these things to come in the far future: interplanetary travel; introduction camp on Keuka Lake. This sixteenth annual Freshman Camp sponsored by CURW was of water on Mars and oxygen on Venus to directed by Harry M. St. John, Jr. '42., with thirty undergraduates as counsellors and make those planets habitable; age control, daily talks by members of the Faculty, sports, and getting acquainted with each other allowing a man to remain at the age which pleases him; elimination of indigestion through and with Cornell customs before they returned to register in the University. Fifty the use of hormones; the end of visiting— Freshman women left Barnes Hall the same day for the first CURW women's camp, in people will call on one another via television. the Danby hills, with Beverly Ham '41 as director. Photo by Fenner CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

city and some 14,000 more in the county. for Philadelphia at 8:30 p.m., Newark CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS A football crowd is a very large incre- 8:z9 p.m., and New York City 8:45 p.m. FOUNDED 1899 ment to the population. Night train eastward will leave Ithaca It is suggested, therefore, that it may at io:5zp.m., due Philadelphia 7:45 a.m., 3 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N. Y. be more convenient for alumni to couple Newark 7:54 a.m., and New York 8:10 Published weekly during the University up as much as possible, to make efficient a.m. year, monthly in July and August: use of each car and help conserve the New running times in both directions thirty-five issues annually. gasoline supply. So if your Cornell neigh- through Ithaca will appear beginning Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni bor invites you to ride with him to the Association under direction of a committee next week in the Lehigh Valley time- composed of R. W. Sailor '07, Phillips Wyman games, accept the invitation. Thus no- table in every issue of the ALUMNI NEWS. '17, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30. Officers of body will need to miss a trip to Ithaca the Association: Creed W. Fulton '09, 907 because of gasoline restrictions. Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C, presi- dent; Emmet J. Murphy '2.2., 3 East Ave., Ithaca, secretary; Archie C. Burnett '90, COMING EVENTS 7 Water St., Boston, Mass., treasurer. Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed CLUBS SEND OFF FRESHMEN separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell Subscription: $4 a year in U. S. and possessions; (Continued fron page /) events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. foreign, $4.30. Life subscription, $γj. Single copies, Cornell Club of Western Pennsylvania Contributions to this column must be received on if cents. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless entertained fourteen new Freshmen at or before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. cancelled. luncheon at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Editor-in-chief R. W. SAILOR '07 Club in Pittsburgh September 11. Each FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 member of the Class of '45 was called Ithaca: Junior Varsity football, Penn State, Assistant Editor M. G. TILLINGHAST '40 Schoellkopf Field, 4:30 upon by President Henry M. Hughes '13 Hamilton: Cross country, Colgate Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 to identify and tell about himself, and SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 Contributors: Hughes told briefly what they would Ithaca: Soccer, Colgate, Alumni Field, 1:30 ROMEYN BERRY '04 L. C. BOOCHEVER ΊZ find at the University. It is reported that Football, Syracuse, Schoellkopf Field, 2 R. F. HOWES '14 W. J. WATERS '2.7 the twenty-seven alumni present agreed TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 Baltimore, Md.: Cornell Club dinner, Johns R. L. BLISS '30 that they wished they were heading for Ithaca again with the new Freshmen. Hopkins Faculty Club Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Twenty Freshmen and about sixty Princeton, N. J.: 150-pound football, Princeton members of the Cornell Club of Rochester NEW VOLUME BEGINS SATURDAY, OCTOBER II got acquainted at a smoker and buffet Ithaca: Soccer, Princeton, Alumni Field, 2 This issue begins the forty-fourth supper September 10 at the University Freshman football, Kiski, Schoellkopf volume of the ALUMNI NEWS, and opens Club. Professor Bristow Adams and Field, 2..30 its third year of publication under the Robert J. Kane '34, assistant director of Freshman cross country, Colgate, 1:30 Cambridge, Mass.: Football, Harvard, 1:30 ownership of the Cornell Alumni Asso- Physical Education and Athletics, spoke, ciation. Since its first issue, April 5, 1899, and George Hall, golf coach, was also SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 the NEWS has carried word of Cornell Ithaca: Soccer, Cortland Normal, Alumni introduced by President Barton Baker Ίz. Field, 2 and Cornellians every week to alumni Chairman of arrangements was Walter Freshman cross country, Morrisville, 1:30 all over the world. One of the oldest H. Foertsch '39. Varsity cross country, US Military Acad- alumni magazines, it is also one of the emy, 3 In Washington, D. C, at the Dodge few that has maintained a continuous Baltimore, Md.: Football, Naval Academy, Hotel September 15, seventy members of Municipal Stadium, 2 weekly schedule of publication. the Cornell Club and entering Freshmen Cornell headquarters, Hotel Belvedere We shall continue this year to the best attended a smoker. With President New Haven, Conn.: 150-pound football, Yale of our ability to serve the interests of Syracuse: Freshman football, Syracuse Charles E. Krey '19 presiding, Henry S. Cornellians. With the subscription list WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2.2. Reuss '33 introduced Professor Dexter S. steadily increasing, you will receive big- Syracuse: Soccer, Syracuse Kimball, Engineering, Emeritus, who ger and better issues, with more pages, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 spoke on the traditions of the University. more pictures, and more news of Cornell Ithaca: 150-pound football, Villanova, Schoell- Richard H. Lee '41 led singing with his kopf Field, 4:30 than ever before. accordian. Chairman of the committee Freshman soccer, Syracuse, Alumni Field, was John G. Tausig '38. 4:30 COME BACK FOR FOOTBALL Hamilton: Freshman football, Colgate Whether or not one disagrees with Fuel SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2.5 Administrator Ickes on the shortage of LEHIGH CHANGES TIME Ithaca: Soccer, Lehigh, Alumni Field, 1:30 gasoline in northeastern United States, it With the end of daylight saving time Football, Colgate, Schoellkopf Field, 2 seems likely that there will continue to be next Sunday, September z8, the Lehigh Alfred: Varsity & Freshman cross country, Valley Railroad serving Ithaca changes Alfred restrictions on the use of gasoline. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 The scarcity has not reached the point the running time of some of its trains. West Point: Junior Varsity football, US where it is to be regarded as unpatriotic Coming to Ithaca, the Black Diamond Military Academy to drive a car. It is the waste of "gas" will leave New York's Pennsylvania Sta- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I that is the object of the present regula- tion at 11:05 a m » Newark at n:zo Ithaca: 150-pound football, Rutgers, Schoell- a.m., and Philadelphia at 11:15 a.m., due kopf Field, 2 tions. The Athletic Office expects many Freshman soccer, Cortland Normal, Alumni alumni to attend this fall the four home in Ithaca at 6:41 p.m. The night train, Field, 2. football games, with Syracuse, Colgate, daily except Sundays, will come up an Freshman cross country, Syracuse, Alumni Yale, and Dartmouth, and suggests that hour later, leaving New York 10:10 p.m., Field, 2:30 perhaps some forethought may avoid un- Newark 10:2.5 p.m., Philadelphia 10:35 Varsity cross country, Syracuse, Alumni Field, 3 pleasant situations. p.m., due Ithaca at 7:38 a.m. Sunday Freshman football, Penn State, Schoellkopf Ithacans have had no difficulty thus nights, the train leaves New York 10:45 Field, 3:30 far in getting gasoline during the day- p.m., Newark 11 p.m., Philadelphia New York City: Football, Columbia, Baker 10:35 P m j arriving in Ithaca Monday Field, 2 light hours. But Ithaca is not a large city, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 and it is not on the path of heavy tourist mornings at 7:2.2.. Ithaca: Junior Varsity football, Dickinson, travel. The local gasoline supply is based From Ithaca eastward, the Black Schoellkopf Field, 4:30 on a population of about 2.0,000 in the Diamond will leave daily at 12.:^6 p.m., SEPTEMBER 2_ 5 , I94I ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL INNOVATION this year was a Fresh- "LAKE GUNS of Seneca and Cayuga, man "Get Wise" meeting in Bailey Hall EACH YEAR, in the opinion of Campus written by Professor Alex M. Drummond, Monday evening attended by both men ancients, students come back earlier than Director of the University Theatre, and and women of the Class of '45. A pro- the year before. Nobody knows just why. first presented by the Summer Theatre gram arranged by a new Freshman orien- But for three weeks, laundry and room- in 1940, was produced at Geneva High tation committee of the Student Council ing agents have been assiduously work- School September 19 before the New included an official welcome by President ing the Campus, Sun men were busy York State Historical Society in annual Edmund E. Day, talks by Professor Bris- downtown, and the place took on an meeting. The cast was drawn from mem- tow Adams and Foster M. Coffin '12., and air of breathless expectancy that culmi- bers of the Dramatic Club and students by Raymond B. Jenkins '42., president of nated Monday when Freshman registra- of Hobart and William Smith College in the Student Council, Elizabeth M. tion crowded Barton Hall. Willard Geneva under supervision of Jonathan Church *4x, president of WSGA, and Roy Straight dining rooms from last Wednes- W. Curvin '31, who is director of the B. Unger '43, chairman of the committee. day through Sunday served nearly 11,000 Hobart College Theatre. Richard A. Graham '4x, chairman of the meals, an average of about 2,200 a day. Freshman advisory committee, was mas- COVER of Coronet for September bears ter of ceremonies. a camera study by Barrett Gallagher '35, was shot down in his plane August 1 and he contributes also a two-page study after a raid on German shipping along CORNELL DAILY SUN distributed its inside, in color. Gallagher is a commer- the French coast. first issue free on Monday. Its twenty- cial photographer in New York City; two years ago he spent some time in four pages were well filled with Ithaca THEODORE J. LINDORFF '07, who Ithaca making color motion pictures of advertising. wrote the music to words by Kenneth the Campus for the Alumni Office. Roberts '08 for "Carnelian and White" FIRST intercollegiate competition of the and "Fight for Cornell," was another PHI GAMMA DELTA national frater- Cornell season was that of a livestock summer visitor. It was his first trip back nity sponsors this year an exchange of its judging team coached by Professor John to the Campus since he left as a Senior, members with students from Latin Amer- I. Miller, PhD '36, Animal Husbandry. thirty-four years ago. He and Mrs. Lin- ican universities. Ruy Ribeire France At the Eastern States Exposition in dorff, with her mother and a schoolboy arrived in Ithaca last week from Sao Springfield, Mass., Cornell placed second. nephew came from their home in Or- Paulo University, Brazil, to live in the Roger E. Bradley, Sp '43, of King Ferry lando, Fla., stayed in Willard Straight chapter house this year. Clark D. Burton was third of all competitors; Russell W. Hall. Lindorff was greatly moved when '41 is studying in Sao Paulo's School of Durland '41 of Florida, fourth; and the Chimes rang out at noon one day Sociology and Politics in exchange from Harold E. Outhouse '41 of Canandaigua with his two Cornell songs, played by the Cornell chapter of the fraternity. placed eighth. Chimemaster John W. Sowerwine '42. at the instance of Foster M. Coffin Ίx, FORMER HOME of the late Charles E. Director of Willard Straight. PIPE LINE to transport oil and gaso- Treman '89, between Stewart and Uni- line from Buffalo to Binghamton has versity Avenues, back of Alpha Tau RICHARD C. LLOP '30 is the Demo- been constructed over the Danby hills Omega, has been leased by Phi Sigma cratic candidate for mayor of Ithaca, op- this summer, with a branch line to sup- Delta. This fraternity last year occupied posing Melvin G. Comfort, now police ply storage tanks in Ithaca near the Inlet. the house built by the late Professor commissioner. Fitch H. Stephens '06 was Ralph S. Tarr, Geology, on The Knoll the Republican nominee for re-election DR. FRED B. HOWE, for fifty years an above Thurston Avenue. as special county judge and surrogate, Ithaca dentist, former mayor, and builder and his Democratic opponent will be D. of the first motion picture and vaudeville SPECULATION about mysterious yel- Boardman Lee '2.6. theater in the city, died August 16 at his low metal discs which appeared on home, 109 Orchard Place. With his late telephone poles, fenceposts, and trees AUTOMOBILES with license plates brother, Dr. John B. Howe and others, around Ithaca, was resolved when Pro- from forty-one States were counted in six he built the old Star Theater, and later fessor Charles V. P. Young '99 explained hours on two July Sunday afternoons, the Crescent and Strand, and Dr. Fred that the Cornell Outing Club had put passing the corner of Seneca and Aurora was a cornetist in Patsy Conway's Band them up to mark some of the interesting Streets, downtown. The count was made and played in the Lyceum Theater or- trails outlined in the handbook of the by Donald Bennett, a fire truck driver. chestra when that playhouse opened. region recently published by the Club. He practiced dentistry until he con- DESIGN FOR LIVING, a new "maga- tracted influenza last April. VISITORS to Ithaca for several days in zine for young moderns/' makes its ini- August were Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst, tial appearance with a September issue EAST STATE STREET and Mitchell the widow of Willard Straight '01, and which includes a two-page picture Street above it have been closed for new Elmhirst '2.1, from their home in England. feature on the "home life of lads and brick paving for several weeks. The city They stayed at Willard Straight Hall, lasses on the Cornell University campus.'' has also repaved Thurston Avenue and and spoke before Ithaca audiences on the Undergraduate women are pictured in removed the old trolley tracks, and a effects of the war in England. Elmhirst's their rooms at Balch Hall and in the new bridge over Fall Creek at Stewart topic was "Agriculture in War and De- Alpha Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta Avenue is being built. The old steel span fense," and Mrs. Elmhirst spoke on "The sorority houses, and men in Sigma Phi, was built by the late Edward G. Wyckoff Women's Role in National Defense." McFaddin Hall, and Psi Upsilon. Phyllis '89 when he developed Cornell Heights They are continuing their lecture tour in V. Stevenson '42. is the new magazine's and Cayuga Heights, and he deeded it to this country. While they were here, Mrs. "Deb" editor at Cornell, explained to the city in 1903. Workmen cut it at both Elmhirst said she had just received word mean "Debonaire Campus Contacts" at a ends August 2.0 with acetylene torches that her son, Whitney Straight, wing score of colleges of home economics. She and it dropped 145 feet into the gorge commander in the RAF, was alive and is the daughter of H. A. Stevenson '19, below, a mass of twisted steel later cut up presumably a prisoner of Germany. He managing editor of the ALUMNI NEWS. and hoisted to be carted away in trucks. IO CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Academy of Science in 1933, he was a past chairman of its engineering section and a Concerning NECROLOGY past president of the AIEE and the Amer- ican Standards Association. Chi Psi, Sigma Xi. THE FACULTY '88 CE—MARIO GARCIA MENOCAL, former president of Cuba, September 7, 05 MD—DR. ALFRED WINFIELD WHITE, PRESIDENT DAY'S four addresses, re- 1941, in Havana, Cuba, after a short ill- September 9, 1941, in St. John's Hospital, cently published by the University Press ness. Entering Civil Engineering in 1884 Brooklyn, with which he had been as- in book form under the title, The De- from Maryland College of Agriculture, he sociated since 1906. Dr. White entered fense of Freedom, are designated the Sep- returned to Cuba in 1891 as a railroad con- Medicine in 1901 from New York Pre- tember "Book of the Month" in the struction engineer. He served in the paratory School; after graduation, stud- Practical Reading Guide for Executives Cuban Army of Patriots in 1895, and ied in London, Berlin, and Vienna. As- issued by Bureau of Personnel Adminis- fought in the War of Independence; was sistant physician and pathologist at St. tration, 400 Lexington Avenue, New later chief of police and active in con- John's Hospital until 1912., he then be- York City. The PBA reviewer prints a struction of sugar mills. Elected the third came attending obstetrician and was number of "highlights" from the volume President of Cuba in 1913 on a conserva- made chief obstetrician in 192.9. He re- and says:'' We urge a wide and thought- tive ticket, he was hailed as a liberator tired last July because of ill health. A ful reading of this inspiring, courageous, and was credited with bringing prosper- fellow of the American College of Sur- succinct presentation of the vital indi- ity to the Island. Succeeded in 19x1 by geons, he attended the White House vidual and social aspects of our current, Alfredo Zayas, he plotted against Ger- Conference on Child Health in 1931. confused American democracy and its re- ardo Machado in 1931; was imprisoned, generation." '09 AB—LEWIS HENRY, July 2.5, 1941, and fled to the United States when re- in Boston, Mass., after a major operation. PROFESSOR ALBERT W. SMITH '78, Engi- leased. From here he directed the cam- He entered Arts in 1905 from Elmira neering, Emeritus, celebrated his eighty- paign which brought about Machado's Free Academy; received the LLB at fifth birthday August 30. He has pub- downfall in 1933. He opposed Batista Columbia in 1911. Member of the Elmira lished nine books since his retirement in until 1940, when he headed the Repub- firm of Henry & Denton, he was a direc- 19x1; is now working on "Glimpses of lican Democratic Party, part of a coalition tor, executive committee member, and Cornell," a brief story of the University. which put Batista in the presidency, and general counsel for the Insular Lumber was recently engaged in forming a coali- Co. of the Philippine Islands, and was DEAN GILMORE D. CLARKE '13, Archi- tion with the National Democratic Party. president of the Oriental Consolidated tecture, married Mary E. Sprout, July 11. Nine days' mourning and honors due a Mrs. Clarke, a graduate of Smith Col- Mining Co., owners of gold mining in- President were decreed at MenocaΓs lege, is a landscape architect in New York terests in Korea recently sold to Nippon death. Delta Kappa Epsilon, Bench and City; planned the flower displays at the Mining Co., Ltd. President of Cornell Board, Mermaid. Grandson, Mario Gar- New York World's Fair. Theaters, Inc. of Ithaca and Elmira, he cia-Menocal III '44. was also general counsel of the Elmira PROFESSOR LEONARD C. URQUHART '09, 93 ME, '94 MME—BANCROFT GHER- Bank and Trust Co. and a director of the Civil Engineering, now on leave in the ARDI, University Trustee since 19x8, Shepard-Niles Crane & Hoist Co. In Office of the Quartermaster General, US August 14, 1941, of a heart attack while 192.2., he completed the unfinished term Army, has been promoted from director vacationing near Sudbury, Ont. He in Congress of the late Alanson B. of the civil engineering group to chief of entered Sibley College in 1891, having Houghton, representative of the Thirty- the architect and engineers unit, with re- received the BS from Brooklyn Polytech- seventh New York District. Kappa sponsibility for mechanical engineering, nic Institute that year. He joined the Alpha, Phi Delta Phi, Quill and Dagger, architectural, construction, estimating, Metropolitan Telephone & Telegraph Co. editor Cornell Daily Sun, Aleph Samach, and civil engineering groups. (now the New York Telephone Co.) in Glee Club. 1895; rose to become chief engineer of PROFESSOR RICHARD T. GORE, Music, '33, '34 AB—MRS. ROBERT ALBERT and Mrs. Gore have a son born August A. T. & T. in 1918 and vice-president in JOHANNSEN (Mary Eliza Simons), August 30. They live at 2.9 Renwick Heights 19x0, and retired in 1938. He was awarded 2.9, 1941, in a fall from the Central Road. the Edison Medal in 1932. for "contribu- Avenue bridge over Cascadilla Gorge. tions to the art of telephone engineering HAMILTON N. MABIE, Industrial Engi- She entered Arts in 19x9 from Little and development of electrical communica- neering, married Margaret R. Willers Valley (N. Y.) High School. In 1931 she tions;" received the honorary Doctor of August 30 in Trumansburg. They live at married Robert A. Johannsen '34; leaves 614 East Buffalo Street. Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic In- a nine-year-old daughter. She had been stitute in 1933 and from Massachusetts employed by the Allen Wales Adding Institute of Technology in 1936. The THIRD EDITION of Farm Soils by Ed- Machine Corp. in Ithaca. mund L. Worthen, MSA '08, has been Emperor of Japan honored him with the announced by John Wiley, publisher. 4th Order of the Rising Sun. Gherardi '38—JOHN SMYSER ROBERTSON, drowned Used by more than 185 schools, it has was elected Alumni Trustee in 192.8; re- in the Potomac River near Gettysburg, been a standard textbook in its field for elected in 1933, and elected by the Board Pa. July 12., 1941. Robertson entered fourteen years. of Trustees in 1938. He headed the execu- Agriculture in 1934 from York (Pa.) tive committee of the Board, served on High School; remained two years. He PROFESSOR JOHN G. KIRKWOOD, Chem- the Engineering College Council, the had since managed Jack's Flower Shop istry, and Professor Bruno Rossi, Physics, committee which selected President Day, in Gettysburg. read papers at the fiftieth anniversary the Heckscher Research Council, the symposia of the University of Chicago Architecture Council, the Finance Com- '41—STEPHEN ALLEN SMITH, September during September. With "New Frontiers mittee, and was, at his death, chairman 5, 1941, drowned in Cayuta Lake. He was in Education and Research" as a theme, of the budget committee and a member of attending the summer Civil Engineering the celebration included leading scholars the committee on funds for the Endowed camp near Odessa. He entered Civil Engi- and scientists of America and coincided Colleges, the committee on University neering in 1939 from Colgate University; with a meeting of the American Associa- Development, and the Councils for State lived in Middletown. Acacia. Brother, tion for the Advancement of Science. Institutions. Elected to the National Warren H. Smith '43. ofessor Kirkwood spoke September 13 SEPTEMBER 2.5, I94I II

in the surface chemistry section on losis and Public Health since 1909. Nel- "Phase Changes in Monolayers," and Concerning back, a fellow of the American Public Professor Rossi's paper, given in the cos- Health Association, led a four-day in- mic ray section, was on "Mesotron Dis- stitute for staff workers of up-State integration." THE ALUMNI tuberculosis and public- health associa- Personal items and newspaper clippings tions September 17-2.0 in Ithaca. PROFESSOR FRANCKE FL BOSWORTH, about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. Architecture, Emeritus, has been ap- '07 ME—THOMAS W. ROLPH has been pointed to the State Department of Edu- '92—ROBERT C. FLETCHER lives at 42 appointed vice-president of the Holo- cation board of examiners of architects South Wailoa Avenue, La Grange, 111. phane Co., 342 Madison Avenue; New for three years, and Dr. Otto Kindeldey, Retired after a long career as an archi- York City. Rolph has been chief engineer of this firm since 1931. Last year, he was University Librarian, has been appointed tect, he has been a member of the La designated a "Modern Pioneer" by the to fill the unexpired term of the late Dr. Grange board of education since 1919. National Association of Manufacturers Augustus H. Shearer on the Department's '94 LLB—GLENN S. (Pop) WARNER, (see ALUMNI NEWS for April 18, 1940) library council. Varsity football coach from 1904 to 1906, for "distinguished achievement in the vacationed at Spring ville this summer, field of science and invention." His son PROFESSOR MICHAEL PEECH, Agronomy, and told the Associated Press that he has is THOMAS W. ROLPH, Jr. '39, and his and Mrs. Peech of 405 Dryden Road have severed connections with San Jose State brother is Dr. WILLIAM D. ROLPH ΊI. a son born August 9 in Ithaca. College and planned to become a specta- '08 CE—MATTHEW D. MANN, JR. is PROFESSOR RICHARD BRADFORD, Soil tor." August 30, he was a special guest Technology, is one of three agricultural at Indian Day at the New York State with the Standard Oil Development Co., experts sent to Mexico by the Rockefeller Fair, when 380 alumni of Carlisle, where Elizabeth, N. J. He has two sons and a Foundation to study Mexican crop condi- he also coached, organized an alumni daughter; lives at 625 Locust Street, tions with a view to eventually improv- association. Roselle, N. J. ing nutrition standards in Mexico. They '96 LLB—Colonel EDWARD DAVIS, US Ίo BArch; '02—HORACE W. PEASLEE went on the recommendation of Vice Army, Retired, has been appointed State has been designated head of a nation- President Wallace, who reported a need purchasing agent for Illinois by Gover- wide organization being formed for for improvements in nutrition after a nor Dwight Green. Colonel Davis has civilian protection by the American In- trip there last year. offices in the Armory Building, Spring- stitute of Architects of which R. H. field, 111. SHREVE '02 is president. Peaslee, a PROFESSOR WALTER J. GIBBONS '25, '97 ME—HAROLD LEE is a consulting Washington, D. C., architect, is chair- Veterinary Medicine, and Mrs. Gibbons naval architect in San Francisco, Cal., man of the air-raid protection committee have a son born September 2. and Seattle, Wash. His address is 1605 of the Washington chapter of the In- East Madison Street, Seattle. stitute, and has been secretary of the PROFESSOR WILIIAM E. STANLEY, Sani- Όo CE—JOHN D. BAILEY celebrated his central housing committee since 1935. tary Engineering, has been granted a sixty-fifth birthday August 6, by retiring The organization for civilian protection year's leave of absence and is serving as after forty-one years with the Buckeye will work with Mayor LaGuardia's chief of the sewerage and incineration Pipe Line Co. of Lima, Ohio. His home Office of Civilian Defense, with coopera- group in the Office of the Quartermaster is in Lima at 1904 Lakewood Avenue. tion of the seventy-one chapters of the General, Washington, D. C. CLASS OF 19O1 Institute. PROFESSOR GLENN W. HEDLUND, PhD By A. B. Morrison, Class Secretary 1911 MEN '36, Marketing Extension, and family Congress Building, Miami, Fla. By Oscar G. Miller, Class Secretary have gone to State College, Pa., where he Replies to the Class letter about a Re- 60 East Forty-second Street, New York City has been named head of the department of union in 1942. were as follows: Of a total LEE J. TALBOT, Jr. is manager of the agricultural economics at Penn State Col- of sixty-three letters, fifty-four were un- National Tile Silo Co. in Kansas City, lege. Professor and Mrs. Hedlund have a qualifiedly in favor of Reunion; six did Mo., where he has resided for the last son, James, born this summer. not say because they were not sure enough twenty-six years. His address is 22 East that they could be there; and only three Fifty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Mo. JANE S. HOSMER, daughter of Professor voted "No." We are, therefore, figuring Counsel for the Insurance Federation of Ralph S. Hosmer, Forestry, was married on a Reunion again under the Dix Plan in the State of New York is EVERETTE H. to Dr. Ernest Foss, Jr., September 14 in 1942. and are hopeful that we can better HUNT, with offices at 11 North Pearl Sage Chapel. Mrs. Foss is a graduate of our record of more than sixty men back, Street, Albany. Smith College and did graduate work at which we had this year. JOHN L. BACON writes from 31 Norman the Smith College School for Social Work. WALTER N. BRAND of Ithaca married Place, Tenafly, N. J., that young Jack Dr. Foss is a graduate of Dartmouth and .Mrs. Lititia J. French, August 2.9 in Cort- enters the University this fall and that of McGill University Medical School, land. They live at 416 Cayuga Heights his two daughters, Eva and Amy, will and is now interning at the Rochester Road. soon be at Wells. Johnnie reports that General Hospital. his health has improved so he can again '02. AB—HENRY L. CHASE may be join us at our get-togethers. PROFESSOR LEONARD A. LAWRENCE '13, reached at 853 Howard Street, San Fran- Surveying, is spending two months in cisco, Cal., where he is with the Dulfer '12 ME—FREDERICK D. CROWELL was Hunts ville, Ala., where he is employed Printing Co. appointed June 1 general manager of the by the engineering firm of Whitman, Delaware River Jute Mills, Philadelphia, Requardt & Smith of Baltimore, to super- '04—EDGAR R. AILES has a son, Edgar Pa., and assistant secretary of the Ameri- vise the surveying of a 35,000-acre plot H. Ailes, and a daughter, Serena Ailes; can Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn. He destined to be used by the Federal Gov- lives at 620 Virginia Park, Detroit, is living at the Chateau Crillon, Ritten- ernment in defense work. Ezra B. Whit- Mich. He was graduated at the Univer- house Square, Philadelphia. man '01, University Trustee, is head of sity of Michigan in 1904; is now secretary the engineering firm. and treasurer of the Detroit Steel Prod- ucts Co. CLASS OF 1913 PROFESSOR THOMAS W. MACKESEY, Ar- '05 AB, '07 LLB—GEORGE J. NEL- By Class Correspondent chitecture, and Mrs. Mackesey of 107 N. BACH has been executive secretary of the Your correspondent received a shock Quarry St. have a son born September 16. New York State Committee on Tubercu- some weeks ago. A Classmate actually IZ CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

heeded the repeated pleas to send in news the oil to Gary, Ind., where Great Lakes December 2.9, 1939. She received the AM for this column. So I saved it for this oil tankers would transport it to Oswego, in 1937 and the PhD in 1940 at Yale, number, to join it with a plea that the N. Y., where the Ontario & Western where she studied anthropology; now rest of you take note and take action to Railroad would bring it to Weehawken lives on Route 2., Albuquerque, N. Mex. help the column for the coming publica- for delivery in the Metropolitan area. '13, '2.5 ME; '2.5 EE; '00—FRANK A. tion year. Notes may be sent to GEORGE HOFFMAN is assistant plant superintend- ROCKWELL, 748 Main Street, Cambridge, ent of Compania Telefonica Nacional de Mass., who will turn them over to the Espana, an affiliate of International Tele- correspondent of the moment. phone and Telegraph Corp. His address AMBROSE RYDER, who is assistant vice- "C. U. —in 42" is Apartado 753, Madrid, Spain. He president of Great American Indemnity By Herbert R. Johnston, Class Secretary writes: "Excepting during two years of 81 Tacoma Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Go. in New York, was the gentleman Spanish civil war, have been in Spain who came to your correspondent's aid. HERBERT C. (Schnitίf) SCHNEIDER is steadily since 192.5. Wife, son John, six, He reports that his" son Edson just has located at VL Railroad Ave., Haverford, son Richard, four, born over here, are finished his Sophomore year in Engineer- Pa. safely ensconced in USA pending settle- ing at Cornell and that his daughter Ruth SIDNEY W. SMITH, JR. gives his present ment of upheaval in this hemisphere." is now Mrs. Edward J. Cauley and lives address as ^i.^ State Street, Ogdensburg. He notes also that "AUGUST F. JONES in Yonkers where Ryder still lives at 60 JAMES K. (Jim) VAN CAMPEN, JR. is a '2.5 is here in Madrid as chief engineer of Edgecliff Terrace. As a diversion, Ryder realtor with Kellar, Murphy & Van Standard Electrica, manufacturing affili- plays duplicate bridge in the New York Campen, 304 Sherman Building, Flint, ate of IT&T," and that he frequently Insurance Bridge League where his pair Mich. He has two children, Robert, meets Don JULIO G. PELAYO ΌO, who lives finished second in the finals this year, twenty-one, and Thalia Ann, sixteen. at Hotel Londres, San Sebastian, Spain, third last year, and first the year before, ROY J. (Zandy) ZANDER gives his ad- having retired there after many years while his team-of-four won last year. dress as 2950 Wilson Ave., Chicago, 111. spent in Cuba. Being accustomed to put his shoulder to '2.4 AB—DR. HENRY S. SHARP has been the wheel* he became confused some time Ί8 WA—GEORGE B. POST is vice- appointed assistant professor of geology back and put it to the ground while president of Edo Aircraft Corp., College and chairman of that department at skiing, which your correspondent under- Point, Long Island. His firm builds all Barnard College for this year. He re- stands is a mistake. For a long time his the seaplane floats for Navy observation- ceived the PhD at Columbia, and has name has been on the roster of the Down- scout type seaplanes which are catapulted taught at Dennison College and at Co- town Athletic Club of New York on from cruisers and battleships and used on lumbia. He is managing editor of The which also appear the names of 'i3ers neutrality patrol. Recognized as the best Journal of Geomorphology. ANTELL, MAJOR, and RALPH. in the world, they are flown on Vought- Sikorsky and Curtiss planes. In two years '14 Sp—FREDA R. SLATER was married '14—THOMAS E. MILLIMAN has taken the plant has expanded its floor space to Seville S. Reulein August 9 in Ithaca. six months' leave of absence as head of approximately six times and by the end She is a senior teacher at St. John's the GLF Soil Building Service, to join of 1941 its personnel will have been in- School, and Reulein is cashier and as- the Office of Price Administration and creased twenty times. Post holds the sistant trust officer of the First National Civilian Supply in Washington, D. C, rank of lieutenant commander in the Bank, thaca. to work with the fertilizer industry. Naval Aviation Reserve; was an ensign '15 AB—THOMAS L. STERLING has a son Ί6 AB—"Fiction Feature" in Coronet in Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Fla., born last July 13. He is with the Hercules for September is "House Party," a story from April, 1917, to January, 1919. Powder Co. in Holyoke, Mass. of the university scene by KATHERINE '19—"On Counting Your Chickens Be- LYON. The author, Mrs. Arthur J. Mix, fore They Hatch" by EDWARD WEEKS '19 1926 WOMEN wife of a University of Kansas professor, is lead article in the summer Quarterly By Mrs. Ledger Wood, Class Correspondent tells of campus life as she has seen it as a Review of the Michigan Alumnus. The 138 Fit^-Randolph Road, Princeton, N. J. Cornell student, a faculty member at article is Weeks's address given June 6, RUTH CARLSON FRANKEL is senior Kansas State Teachers' College, and a 1941, on the occasion of the awarding of graphic statistician of the division of faculty wife. the Hopwood prizes for creative writing placement and unemployment insurance, at the University of Michigan. Weeks is Department of Labor, State of New York. 1916 MEN editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The Frankels live at 491 State Street, By Weyland Pfeiffer, Class Secretary Albany. 231 Madison Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. '2.0 BS—DONALD E. LEITH married Mrs. Delphis B. King July 12. at Oldfield, ISABEL SCHNAPPER ZUCKER remarked on Newspapers of August ii told of her Reunion questionnaire that she was LARRY GUBB'S election as chairman of the L. I. Mrs. Leith has studied at Packer Collegiate Institute and at Smith College pretty busy, what with two children, a board of the Philco Corp. of Philadelphia, half-acre of garden, lecturing to garden makers of radios, refrigeration, and air and belongs to the New York Junior League. clubs, and running two flower shops one conditioning equipment. Larry has been in Great Neck and the other in Royal with the company since 19x0. He hopes 1921 MEN Oak, Mich., where the Zuckers live. now that he will be able to return to By Allan H. Treman, Class Secretary Ithaca more frequently than before. Ithaca, N. Y. "GYP" (Stirling) TOMPKINS, president A. L. (BERT) LENTZ is with the Pitts- '2.6 BChem—DONALD S. BARNES is a of the New York Trap Rock Co., has burgh office of the Cincinnati Milling salesman for the R. T. Vanderbilt Co. just returned from a five weeks' trip to Machine and Cincinnati Grinders, Inc., of New York City. He and Mrs. Barnes Peru. at 12.07 Empire Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. live at 2. Kensington Avenue, Jersey City, The New York Sun carried a story MARC A. MCMASTER is a government N.J. September 10 about a plan to supply the plant quarantine inspector, and resides '27 AB, 'x8 AM; '2.8 AB—VICTOR L. New York Metropolitan area with gaso- at 515 St. Pauls Avenue, Grant wood, BUTTERFIELD and Mrs. Butterfield (KAY line and fuel oil, which was presented by N.J. GEYER) '2.8 have a daughter, Margot, FRED LYFORD Ί6 and W. J. Flynn, born June 18. Butterfield is associate formerly of the Petroleum co-ordinator's '2.2. AB—NAN MILLSPAUGH COOKE has dean at Wesleyan University, Middle- staff. The plan calls for pipe lines to bring been Mrs. East burn R. Smith since town, Conn. SEPTEMBER Z5 , I94I

'i7 BS, ^9 AM, '34 PhD—HAROLD After October 15, the Hammonds will CLASS OF 1936 WENTWORTH, assistant professor of Eng- live on Brevoort Road, Chappaqua. Women lish at West Virginia University, is 'γ. BS, '41 MS; '30, '31 BArch— compiling a 1,000-page American Dialect By Mary T. Nigro, Class Secretary GLADYS M. WAFFLER was married to 110 Towns end PL, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Dictionary. Designed to assimilate Amer- MALCOLM C. MATTICE '30 August 9 in ican dialect in available form, it will JOSEPHINE BANDELL lives at 12.2. Tioga Sage Chapel. Mattice is an architect in Street, Westmont, Johnstown, Pa. She include the findings of investigators of the University Department of Buildings the last 100 years and cover mainly expects soon to be travelling for the and Grounds. Mrs. Mattice, who has American Red Cross. United States dialectical, regional, local, taught home economics in the Dryden HELEN B. WRIGHT left her work at and provincial non-standard words, High School since 1934, will teach this Norwegian Hospital, Brooklyn, August phrases, and idioms. His book will year in the Trumansburg High School. include traditional American variants, 1, to start as dietician at Cornell on the Negro and Pennsylvania Dutch dialects, '32. ME—Lieutenant MALCOLM BRIGGS University residential halls staff. She married Barbara M. Farnsworth August and notes and essays on linguistic areas, lives at 303 Fairmont Avenue, Ithaca. 2.3 in Rutland, Vt. Lieutenant Farns- conventionalized spellings of dialect, The KHEEL family—ANN SUNSTEIN, worth, USNR, is on active duty at Fort and syntax in dialect. Professor Went- TED, and six-months-old Ellen, have Schuyler. They live in New York City. worth writes on "The Allegedly Dead moved to Little Silver, N. J., from Suffix-dom in Modern English" in the '32.—September 2.1, 1940, H. FOSTER Washington, D. C. Ted's NLRB work is now centered in New York City. March publication of the Modern Lan- COCHRAN married Ray Adler in Washing- guage Association of America. ton, D. C. Son of the late SAMUEL A. Men COCHRAN *O8, he is with General Foods 'i8 BChem—RAYMOND F. BECKWITH is By Charles E. Dykes, Class Secretary Co.; address, 2.009 Wyoming Avenue, in the advertising department of the 22$ S. Albany St., Ithaca N.W., Washington, D. C. Recordak Corp., 350 Madison Avenue, KABIR M. LUDIN is now director of New York City. He has two sons; lives '33 AB—Dr. SOLOMON ARONOFF mar- irrigation for Afghanistan, according to at 49 Vreeland Avenue, Rutherford, N. J. ried Rita Gould July 6 in Springfield, information reaching the College of Mass. They are at home at 115 Johnson Engineering. '2.8 AB; '2.7 AB—DAN (Daniel E.) Street ,* Springfield. DURYEA, currently starring in the motion DICK ARONSON married Barbara Meyer pictures "The Little Foxes" and "Ball '33—SPAFFORD FRINK married Ellen of Syracuse early in the summer. Dick of Fire," is a second Cornellian now M. T. Pettitt May 17 in Seattle, Wash. and wife will live in Syracuse where he is president of the Cornell Club and prominent in Hollywood. Duryea suc- '34 BS—Mrs. Fred M. Hewitt (MINA member of the Onondaga County Bar ceeded FRANCHOT TONE \J as president of L. BELLINGER) has moved from Corning Association. the Cornell Dramatic Club; led in "Dead to 89 York Avenue, Elmira. Her mail JOHN MESSERSMITH married Teresa End" during the latter days of that address is P. O. Box 514, Elmira. show's run on Broadway; then appeared Brown August i, in Caldwell, N. J. '34 AB—WILLIAM R. ROBERTSON left in the stage version of "The Little JACK FORSEYTH was best man. John has Ithaca this summer, having been ap- Foxes." been called to active duty at the Naval pointed district manager for the Massa- Training Station, Norfolk, Va. '2.9 AB—EDWARD G. JOHNSON married chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Dr. JOE LEONE is now associated with Helen J. Johnson September ix in New as general agent in Syracuse. Mrs. his brother in Ithaca. Joe received the York City. She is a graduate of Finch Robertson is the daughter of COLONEL MD at Georgetown Medical College in Junior College. JOHN B. TUCK '93 of Syracuse. 1940, and for the past year has been an '2.9 AB—RICHARD C. FLESCH left law '34 AB, '38 LLB—ARTHUR L. DAN- interne at St. Joseph's Hospital, Elmira. practice in New York City in July, 1940, FORTH is manager of the recently-opened Joe is married and has a daughter, born to join the legal staff of the chief counsel store of the Rome Co-operative Society in August. of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in at 505 North James Street, Rome, N. Y. Washington, D.C. August 31, 1940, he The new store is an experiment in farmer- 1937 WOMEN married Marjorie Denzer of New York By Carol H. Cline, Class Secretary consumer cooperation, backed by the City. They live in the Boulevard Apart- I0J3 Cumberland Avenue, Dayton, Ohio GLF Exchange, Inc. in collaboration ments, Alexandria, Va. Congratulations Classmates! If we can with local consumer-members of the manage such a nice turnout as we did '30 BS—HARRY A. SMITH is now man- Society. For three years, Danforth has this June for an unheralded, unplanned, ager of the Hotel Essex in Philadelphia, been working with cooperatives in the unofficial Reunion—well, I shudder to Pa., operated by the American Hotels region of Boston, Mass., first as manager think of the strain on the Campus when Corp. He was formerly manager of The of a small store, then as bookkeeping that overwhelming avalanche of '37 gals Vendig. supervisor for the New England division pours into Ithaca for our carefully plan- '30 EE—ALBERT E. DECAMP married of Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, finally ned, much talked of, very official Fifth Wilma J. Harte June 2.7 in Cincinnati, as assistant manager of the Cambridge Reunion next June. Ohio. DeCamp is with the Williamson Co-op Food Store. His first interest, he We drove up to Reunion with KAY Heater Co. and Mrs. DeCamp, a graduate writes, was gained in helping to organize SKEHAN CARROLL, stopping overnight in of the University of Cincinnati, was a Cornell Student Cooperatives, Inc., when Cleveland with FLO and WOODY CLASS special teacher in the Cincinnati public it started its student-owned dining room and having a romp with nine-months- schools. They live in Mariemont, Ohio. on Dryden Road in 1937. old Miss Edith Daniel Glass, en route.. '31 EE—VAUGHN C. DEE married '35 AB; '35 BS—DAVID J. CHUCKROW ("Danny," a Cornell Coed for 1957, is Frances Beardt August 30 in Oberlin, and Mrs. Chuckrow (BEATRICE B. COLE- some glamour girl! We've promised to Ohio. They honeymooned in Saugatuck, MAN) have announced the arrival of introduce her to "Pepper" Wall, two- Mich.; are now living at 1707 Jefferson Joyce Coleman Chuckrow, May 2.0, in year-old future Cornellian son of Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, where Dee is a Troy. Their address is 12. Michigan "PALMIE" and "SANDY" WALL of Sche- Carrier air-conditioning engineer with Avenue, Troy. nectady.) the Owen Toledo Heating Co. '35 BS—EDWARD G. RATKOSKI, assist- In Ithaca, we joined forces with. '31 AB—CHARLES P. HAMMOND writes ant track coach, married Allice M. Bangs CLARE MCCANN and HELEN FRY, and the that he is the father of another 1931 August 9 in Ithaca. Mrs. Ratkoski is four of us started out on a three-day, baby, Mary Louise, born August 15. in the Alumni Fund office. Reunioning spree—absolutely scorning: CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

sleep and visiting every place and every The coming football season promises to escorted by PETER F. MCALLISTER '92. of person in and near Ithaca suspected of be an interesting one and I imagine I will New York City. Martin is the son of the harboring a *37er! Among those we be seeing a good many of you at some of late Professor Martin W. Sampson, Eng- found in the Drill Hall Saturday noon the games. Don't forget that our great lish. Best man was STEPHEN H. SAMPSON were BEATRICE SCHEMP REDDICK, MARY Fifth Reunion is only twenty-one months '34, and among the ushers were EDWARD LAUMAN, VI HAMILTON, RUTH MCCURDY off! I hope you will be thinking about it SAMPSON '42., Dr. RONNY EDWARDS '35, SHAW, AUDREY ALFKE, ESTHER DILLEN- and talking about it every chance you and STEPHEN Jones '37. MARJORIE G. BECK, DORIS SMALLRIDGE DYKES, JAN get. The 1941 football season would be a TILLINGHAST '40 was maid of honor. COOLIDGE CHILD, HELENA PALMER WALL, good time to hash it all over and get some Martin is an instructor in Administrative JEANNE BREDEENNER (talk about '37 ideas started. We should be well under Engineering, and they live at 114 Sage spirit, Jeannie's really bubbling over way by the time the 1942. football season Place, Ithaca. with it!), ELEANOR SISSON, CLAIRE KELLY rolls around. KATHRYN AUSTIN was married to GILBERT, MARGY KINCAID BENTLEY, and I ran into some Classmates in my ROBERT MCDONALD '38, July 5 at Long JEAN THOMPSON. Also got brief glimpses travels this summer, but not as many as Lake. Bob is working in New York City, of MARION BEAN, JANE BRICKELMAIER usual. and I would like their address. CAMPBELL (she and hubby ALAN BONHAM In Tampa, Fla., I saw GERT SCHMIDT CAMPBELL '36 came all the way from in July. Gert is in charge of all food at CLASS OF 1940 Cincinnati where they now live), Ev the Tampa Terrace Hotel and does a good Magoun Wins Grand Prize Drawing CARTER WHITING, and KAY AUSTIN. job. I know, because I ate one of his Other '37 girls were registered but we meals. The Tampa Terrace is Tampa's couldn't find them anywhere. The rumor leading hotel, incidentally. that JEANNE PAQUETTE CLARK was in Gert tells me that JOHNNY FAIELLA is town drove us all on a fruitless man-hunt the manager at another Tampa hotel. We —for heaven's sake, Paquette, where have not heard from Johnny in a long were you hiding all day Saturday? time. I hope he sees this column and will send us some details. Gert also says he '37, '38 AB—First Lieutenant HEATH- sees a lot of Cornellians down there and MAN T. ALLEN married Joan H. Da vies that AL GALLEY is the Army Air Corps in August 18 in Dayton, Ohio. Lieutenant at a field located about thirty-five miles Allen is now on active duty with the yi.d from Tampa. Field Artillery at Fort Bragg, N. C. To make an abrupt geographical change, a very few weeks after I was in '37—PERCY H. BALLANTINE married Tampa I saw GEORGE SMITH in Boston, Florence Hudson August x8 in New Or- Mass. George took a training course in leans, La. He is an experimental engineer Boston during the summer with the and sales representative for the Neptune American Mutual Insurance Co. He is Meter Co. in Dallas, Tex. now in New York City in the claim de- '37 BS—WILLIAM A. SELEEN has been partment. George says that ERNIE DAH- appointed instructor in bacteriology at MEN is doing similar work with an in- the University of Arizona at Tucson for surance company in Chicago, 111. Ernie Last spring, the Class offered a chance the coming year. Seleen completed work was there two months with the Lumber- to win Two Free Football Tickets for for the PhD at Cornell this summer. men's Casualty Co., but has been in their any game this fall, to all who should New York City office since September 1. renew their Alumni News subscriptions CLASS OF 1938 I hope Ernie will send us some more by June 10. Pictured above is the Grand details soon. Drawing, by none other than Coach Women Carl Snavely—and the name of John W. By Mary E. Dzxon, Class Secretary Magoun, Jr. led all the rest. The drawing 34 Crane Avenue, White Plains, N. Y. CLASS OF 1939 was held in Schoellkopf Field House, in The address of HELENE (IRISH) and Women front of the case containing footballs CARL JOHNSTON is 69 Hawaii Avenue, By Sally Splain, Class Secretary won in games for many years. Holding N.W., Washington, D. C. 335 Springfield Avenue, Summit, N. J. This column might be tagged '' Variety the helmet containing names of all men MARGE SHENK is now a lisensed private and women of the Class whose renewals pilot as a result of her CAA training this or What-the-end-of-the-Summer-Brings.'' There's so much news that it can't all go were in by June 10 is Grace McFerren spring. who handles ticket sales for the Athletic We had a short visit with JANET in this issue, but if you'll stay with me through the year, we'll get it all in Office, and Robert J. Kane '34, Assistant DEMPSTER LOEW before she and Hank Director of Athletics and Physical Edu- went west to Seattle to live. The Loews eventually. Weddings are always news. MARIAN cation, looks on as Coach Snavely draws spent the summer in North Edmonds, the lucky card containing Magoun's Wash. PUTNAM was married to LEE FINKILL '38, June 2.8. We wish them both the best of name. Shortly we hope to publish a GERTRUDE BRAMLEY is now at the personal word from the winner, and to Utica Memorial Hospital, Utica. luck and happiness. They are at home at 39 Thayer Street, Rochester. let you know which game he selects, so PAULINE BLOUNT SNYDER is principal his Classmates can be on hand to con- of the Seifert Corners School, Rome. VIRGINIA COOK was married to Lewis F. Smith, June ^ in Auburn. Ginny is gratulate him. Incidentally, Magoun Men living at 1015 West Lloyd Street, Pensa- was one of the first to renew his ALUMNI By William C. Kruse, Class Secretary cola, Fla. That's long a way from Ithaca, NEWS subscription, long before it ex- St. Davids, Pa. Ginny. We hope you won't stay away pired last June. Thus is virtue rewarded! Dear Classmates: I seems to me it has from the North Country too long. Women been a long time since I wrote this ANNE BEERS was married to MARTIN By Carol B. Clark, Class Secretary article myself. GEORGE SMITH and STEVE W. SAMPSON '39, August 2. in Ithaca. It 4-H Club Office, Roberts Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. DEBAUN have helped me out a good deal was a real Cornell wedding as Anne is From the bridesmaid, CONNIE LOGAN, during the past year, and I am sure you the daughter of Mrs. Henry H. Beers we hear of the wedding of MARGERY enjoyed their contributions. (JULIA W. MCCORMICK) '09 and was SAUTER and HARRY COPEIAND '40, July SEPTEMBER Ί.'y , I94I

15 in the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City. BUD BOOCHEVER was the best man. I think you can reach Marg by writing South Mountain Manor, Wernersville, Pa. Connie is in Milbrook teaching home ec. KATHERINE ANDERSON, 34 Coen St., Naugatuck, Conn., is an industrial rela- tions trainee for the footwear department of US Rubber Co. During the Summer Session at Cornell, JULIA KSIONZYK was an assistant instruc- tor in Home Ec, and carried on her usual duties as Balch 111 night girl. Julie will go back to Piermont to her teaching position. She is also the president of Rockland County Home Economics Teachers Association. IANTHA EDWARDS has had quite a mix- ture of experiences since we have seen her last: Summer, 1940, hostess in Guiney's Inn, Montauk, Long Island; fall term, '40, studied French at Middlebury Col- (KaaπtίrtUa lege, Vt.; spring term, '41, taught Math A REGENTS ACADEMY AT ITHACA at Pierson High, Sag Harbor, L. L; ESTABLISHED 1870 summer '41, continued her study toward the Masters in French; fall '41, she will A preparatory school designed to give training for University continue teaching in Sag Harbor. work—-especially for students entering One more wedding: THFO BEEKMAN Cornell University. and FRAN THOMAS '38 were married in • Indian Lake, July ix. Fran is with East- man Kodak and Theo has resigned from An intensive program completes year courses in one semester. teaching in Seneca Falls. Her wedding REGISTER NOW FOR FALL TERM dress was a Cornell Costume Shop crea- Oak Avenue at Summit Dial 2014 C. M. Doyle '02, Headmaster tion. They will live on East Main Street in Webster. CAROL CLARK, our hard-working Class secretary, is in Cohoes Hospital, recover- ing from an appendicitis operation of September 8.—ED. CLASS OF 1941 Bill of Particulars Women Before you come to New York next time, list the By Ruth E. Cothran, Class Secretary things you'd especially like your hotel to offer. Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. If you want to be in the heart of the city and yet With this issue begins our weekly column for '41 women. In these first enjoy quiet nights for refreshing sleep ... if you'd issues news will be pretty brief and much like convenience to both midtown and Wall Street to-the-point so that we can get up-to- ... if you like rooms that are both modern (tub date on all of us right away. Then we'll and shower and running ice water) and commodious ... if you like have space for more detailed and more a fine address, a delightful neighborhood, excellent dining room informal news notes. First of all, congratulations go to our and bar, and intelligent service—all at moderate rates—then The Erst Class of '41 mothers: HERMINE Grosvenor is your hotel. LAWATSCH MACFADYEN is one of the Convenient to 3 subways and 3 major bus routes that will whisk proud parents of a bouncing baby boy, you anywhere in New York, Fifth Avenue buses (for Radio City, Kenneth Robert, born July 7. They're the smart shops, museums, etc.) at your door—next time stay at living in Rahway, N. J. July Z3, BETTY DEGOLYER NIEDER- H A USER presented JOHNNY ('38) with a little girl, Anne Elizabeth. As for more general news: Hotel Grosvenor JANET TALMADGE is attending the FIFTH AVENUE AT TENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY Syracuse College of Medicine. MURIEL E. ELIIOTT teaches home eco- Single rooms from $3.50 to $6.00 . . . twin beds from $5.00 to $8.00 nomics in the Whitesboro (N.Y.) Cen- Suites from $8.00 tral School. JANE MURPHY is teaching home eco- OWNED BY THE BALDWIN FAMILY nomics at Forestport. GRACE O'DARE was to enter the Yale Donald R. Baldwin Ί6, Treas. John L. Shea '2.6, Resident Mgr. School of Nursing. Her home is at 77 King Street, Yonkers.

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That's all for now; more news of '41 women next week. Changes in address PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY gladly received. Spare your NEWS the trouble of traveling all over the country OF CORNELL ALUMNI before it rests on your doorstep! Men NEW YORK AND VICINITY By Raymond W. Kruse, Class Secretary HARRY D. COLE Ί8 St. Davids, Pa. REALTOR Several people have written me this RE A RETA*—Folded and interfolded facial tissues summer telling about themselves and for the retail trade. Business, Commercial and residential S'WIPES*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue; properties in Westchester County. what a lot of others were doing. It's packed flat, folded and interfolded, in bulk or Appraisals made. really a big help to get so much news, boxes, for hospital use. RKO Proctor Building Mount Vernon, N. Y. and here's hoping you'll keep it up. FIBREDOWN*—Absorbent and non-absorbent Thanks. Here's what was in those cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. letters: FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING-in BALTIMORE, MD. several attractive designs. Dr. RAYMOND A. WOODRUFF is now as- FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING- sociated with Dr. MORRIS A. QUINN Ί6 For hospital and sick room use. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH in veterinary practice in Norwich. He is *Trade Mark reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural, also the proud father of a daughter, Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. Plans, and General Consulting Practice. Shirley Ann, born June 9, in Ithaca GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY EZRA B. WHITMAN, C.E. Ό1 Memorial Hospital. D. C. Taggart '16 - - - Pres.- - Treas. G. J. REQUARDT, CE. Ό9 JESS B. NEUHAUSER has just been trans- B. L SMITH, CE. Ί4 ferred to the Hotel Walt Whitman in Offices in Baltimore end Albany, N.Y. Camden, N. J. CALVIN S. LENDERMAN is at work with WASHINGTON, D. C. the Hercules Powder Co. in Wilmington, Del. His address is 1311 Jackson St., THEODORE K. BRYANT Wilmington. JOHN T. ELFVIN has been back of the NEW JERSEY DEALERS LL.B. '97—LL.M. '98 main desk at Willard Straight all sum- Master Patent Law, G. W. U. '08 BERGΞN COUNTY mer and expects to continue there during Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively the next school year. STILLMAN & HOAG 309-314 Victor Building ENGLEWOOD, N. J. EDWARD A. BRADY, JR. planned to en- W. W. STILLMAN *29, President ter Cornell Medical School this fall. KENOSHA, WIS. WILLIAM TURIN entered NYU Dental ESSEX COUNTY School in September: was at Lake Mo- BELLEVILLE-NUTLEY BUICK CO. hegan until then. He will be commis- NUTLEY, N. J. sioned a second lieutenant in May, 1942.. G. R. B. SYMONDS '09, President MACWHYTE COMPANY Manufacturers of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire HANS A. ADLER is doing graduate PASSAIC COUNTY Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord. work at Harvard on international trade VON LENGERKE BUICK CO. Literature furnished on request and South American affairs. He lives at PATERSON, N. J. JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 PRES. & GEN. MGR. 5x5 West End Avenue, New York City. J. VON LENGERKE Ί7, President R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3, GEN. SUPT. DAVID ALTMAN has a teaching assist- antship in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. STANTON CO.—REALTORS YOUR BUSINESS CARD BURTON AUGUST, 1691 East Fifteenth GEORGE H. STΛNTON '20 In this Professional Directory reaches Street, Brooklyn, enters the Cornell Real Estate and Insurance 5000 Interested Comedians. Medical College in New York this fall. JOHN L. AYER enters the Syracuse MONTCLAIR and VICINITY For Special Rate write: CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Medical School. His home is at 614 Uni- versity Avenue, Syracuse. 16 Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel. 2-6000 3 East Ave. ITHACA, N.Y. JAMES BENEWAY and his father are managing a ixy-acre fruit farm at On- tario. STANLEY E. COHEN attends Colum- Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. bia University school of journalism. His The Bill of Rights home address is 50 Brunswick Avenue, Troy. Members New York Stock Exchange Charter of American Liberty JOHN DESIMONS planned to do graduate 15 Broad Street New York work in bacteriology at Virginia Poly- It deserves a place in every real American technic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. INVESTMENT SECURITIES home, office and school. You can now get JAMES R. DUDLEY, 54 South Main copies for yourself and your friends. Beauti- Street, Portville, is with the GLF. Jansen Noyes '10 Stanton Grίffis '10 fully printedin blue, red and black on vellum L, M. Blσncke '15 Willard I. Emerson '19 paper 12x16 neatly framed. Send $1.00 each for as many copies as you want, to R. A. HEGGIE & BRO. CO. BRANCH OFFICES Jewelers to Corπellians Since 1875 Albany, Chicago, Harrisburg, Indianapolis, THE CAYUGA PRESS, INC. We still make Quill & Dagger, Sphinx Head, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Trenton, Majυra, Mummy, Aleph Samach, and other Washington 113 E. Green St., Ithαcα, N. Y. pins and charms. Send us your orders. 136 E. State St. Ithaca, N. Y.

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