ROCHESTER REVIEW

4 The Honors Program 7 The Artist-Teacher at Eastman 8 The College Teacher: Two Views 10 New at Rochester: The Creative Arts Workshop 12 Undergraduate Education: Where the Action is Teaching CLASSNOTES SECTION 15 The Role of a Graduate School in a University -J. Douglas Brown 18 The Rewards of Medicine at Rochester, -Lawrence A. Kohn, M.D. 21 Life Along the Thames as at any university, cannot be described -John Timothy Londergan, '65 in a few phrases-or a few pages. This issue 24 University News of the Review, therefore, does not pretend 25 Re:VIEWpoints to report in depth the complex and changing story of teaching at Rochester today. Rather, it presents some highlights of that story-the Honors Program, the new Creative Arts Workshop, one of the Eastman School's artist-teachers at work­ SPRING 1966 along with a taped conversation on undergraduate teaching, and some thoughts on graduate education (by a distinguished trustee) , on medicine as a career (by one of the Medical School's great teachers), and on teaching and sundry matters at ROCHESTER REVIEW, VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 3, Spring, 1966. Editor­ Oxford (by a current Rhodes Scholar from Judith E. Brown; Art Director-Robert S. Topor; Production Manager­ Barbara B. Ames; Classnotes Editor-Patricia Coppini; Publications the DR's Class of '65) . Committee of the Alumni Federation: Diane Morrell Jenkins, '58 (Chair­ man); Dr. Norman J. Ashenburg, '38, '40GM, '51M (ex officio); David A. Berger, '35E, '39GE; Allen M. Brewer, '40; Ronald C. Heidenreich, '48U; Robert W. Maher, '37; Helen S. Rockwell, '37; Helen H. Taylor, '32N; Robert J. Scrimgeour, '52 (ex officio). Published by the University of Rochester four times a year in Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and mailed without charge to all alumni. Editorial office: 107 Administration Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 14627. Second class postage paid at Rochester, N. Y.

Illustration credits: Photographs-Linn Duncan, Don Eddy, Wally Forman, Rosemary Kendrick, Jim Laragy; cartoons-Dave Rusch.

3 " It's the closest thing to an ideal college education that I've

" .. .in many ways a more valuable educational experience

" ... my best educational experience at either undergraduate or

" ... the single most exciting part of the Arts College ...and a

The above comments: those of a grad­ a rigorous examination given by out­ cent said that, given the opportunity, uate student, a government official, a standing scholars from outside the they would enter the Program again. housewife, and a college instructor. University. If he passes both oral and Nearly 97 per cent rated the seminar Their topic: the University's Hon­ written parts of the examination-and system a valuable experience. ors Program-one of the oldest such the overwhelming majority of Honors Better than four out of five termed programs in the country, and, recently, students do pass-he is graduated with the Program "broadening." the subject of a survey of the Pro­ Honors, High Honors, or Highest Only the use of outside examiners gram's alumni, conducted by Charles Honors, depending on the examiners' drew a significant minority dissent. R. Dalton of the University's Office of appraisal of his performance. But even on this point, nearly three­ Institutional Research. Theoretically at least, the Honors quarters of the respondents expressed Established a quarter-century ago, Program has much to commend it. approval of the present system. Rochester's Honors Program is de­ But, with its emphasis on small-group Some typical comments: signed to provide promising under­ instruction (the maximum size of Hon­ An attorney-"It enabled me to do a graduates with special opportunities ors seminars is 10 students) and with great deal more of reading, writing, for highly individualized education. It its need for top-calibre faculty, the talking, and thinking-the four essen­ endeavors to do so through small­ Program is expensive to operate. tials-than I would otherwise." group seminars, through emphasis on Moreover, Honors work is rigorous; A university vice president-"(It) independent student research and writ­ it places unusually heavy demands on fostered habits of independent study, ing, and through the development of teacher and student alike. Thus, the critical thinking, and ability to write close faculty-student relationships. Program's 25-year history has been through constant practice." Structurally, the Honors Program punctuated with the question: Is it A businessman-"It provided a differs from the customary curriculum worth it? meaningful interchange between pro­ in several ways. Instead of regular To find out, the University recently fessors and students and enabled stu­ classes, the Honors student attends surveyed a highly qualified group: the dents to develop their own reasoning small, informal seminars-or engages 329 alumni who have taken part in abilities under guidance." in individual research-in which he is the Program since its inception. A librarian-"After more than freed from the prescribed assignments, The verdict of this blue-ribbon twelve years, I look back upon the the quizzes, and the more formalized panel: overwhelming approval of the Honors Program as a unique experi­ instruction of regular classes. In the Program's purposes, methods, and re­ ence not matched during my graduate spring of his senior year, after com­ sults. For example: studies. Led by the University's most pleting at least two years and four to Of the 268 respondents to the Uni­ distinguished faculty members, com­ eight Honors seminars, he undergoes versity's questionnaire, over 90 per posed of small groups of students and

4 tionally propItIOus environment for observed or heard of " some of the most important processes and reactions in education," he says. "These include such aspects as inde­ pendent research, dialectic, pursuit of a subject beyond a particular assign­ than several graduate seminars" ment, immediate criticism, the sharp­ ening and focusing of ideas, frequent opportunities to articulate these ideas both orally and in papers, interaction between minds, and a chance for stu­ dents and teachers to become ac­ graduate level" quainted in ways that the classroom seldom permits." In Hinman's view, the seminar sys­ tem "at least, in the ideal, deempha­ sizes grading and evaluation, or at any hell of a lot of fun" rate, shifts them to a different sphere­ especially if the system is accompanied by the use of outside examiners, as in our Honors Program. "For instance, in a seminar, it's dif­ ficult to work for a grade alone, to often held in delightfully intimate sur­ half of all the women are pursuing avoid working toward the truth, be­ roundings, the seminars provided ideal full-time professional careers (the cause the members of a seminar­ conditions for learning and exchang­ largest number are secondary school teacher and student working as col­ ing ideas. Pride in scholarship was en­ teachers) . leagues-define and re-define objec­ couraged since papers were read aloud; Eleven Honors graduates are au­ tives, compel standards, and excoriate the desire to produce for the common thors of books and 46 have published shallowness, glibness, and shoddiness. good was great; the ability to function articles in magazines or journals. "As a result, the ideal seminar may in a conversational atmosphere was provide a model of a community of nurtured." *** scholars in which all members have A surgeon-"The facts I learned in To Professor Robert Hinman, di­ the same end and the same passion, the the classroom or seminar were insig­ rector of the Honors Program, the principal differences among them be­ nificant to me compared with the op­ unique value of the Program is its role ing amount and kinds of experience, portunity to develop a method of learn­ as "a collegium of the unusually ma­ not degree of commitment." ing-of seeking knowledge without ture and independent-a community having it handed to me by a lecturer within the larger campus community." to memorize and give back at the next Viewed as such, he points out, hourly quiz." "Honors work is not simply harder The survey also revealed some per­ work, or more work-though Honors tinent findings on the careers of Hon­ students are expected to perform at a ors Program graduates. A few high­ high level and are acclaimed for doing lights: so. It is not primarily preparation for More than 9 out of 10 of the men graduate school-though students in and 8 out of 10 of the women who graduate school have frequently ex­ participated in the Honors Program pressed gratitude for their experience over the past quarter-century have in the Honors Program." continued their education. The distinctive feature of the Pro­ College teaching has attracted the gram, Hinman believes, is "the oppor­ largest percentage of men (24 per tunity to participate in seminars, or, in cent), followed by law (15 per cent). fields such as biology, the equivalent Nearly half of the 120 women re­ of seminars: individual, creative re­ sponding list themselves as full-time search supervised by a faculty member. housewives; nevertheless, more than "The seminar provides an excep-

5 To facilitate the development of a ments have been made in recent years. such courses understandably has "community within a community," Originally the Program was open only caused some River Campus depart­ Rochester's Honors students have their to juniors and seniors; since 1964 it ments to hesitate. This, in turn, has own Common Room-a large, pleasant has admitted exceptionally qualified kept many students from entering meetingplace designed to provide, in sophomores as well. And, over the Honors work-both because of lack of Hinman's words, "an island of peace past several years, the size and scope available faculty and because the Hon­ and sociability." In the Common of the Program have been broadened. ors courses that were offered did not Room, he explains, students have "un­ This year, for example, Honors work meet their special interests. If a greater usual opportunities for personal coun­ is offered in ten departments-anthro­ variety of seminars and similar pro­ selling, for informal discussion, and pology, biology, economics, English, grams became available, the present for intellectual interaction." Augment­ fine arts, foreign and comparative liter­ enrollment of some 90 Honors stu­ ing these are special events-a fall ature' history, philosophy, political dents could easily be doubled, Hinman party, the annual Honors banquet, cof­ science, and sociology. In addition, believes. fee hours-that strengthen the sense of Honors students these days are per­ The University currently is seeking community among Honors students. mitted to enroll in some "regular" outside funds to permit such expan­ Conceivably, too, the rigors of the classes as well as their Honors semi­ sion. Thus, given the necessary sup­ senior examination may add a final nars. (As in the past, capable students port, and drawing on its 25-year ex­ fillip to the Program-a communal who are not formally enrolled in the perience with Honors work, Rochester feeling of extraordinary-hazard-mutu­ Program may be admitted to an Hon­ hopes to offer future generations of ally-experienced-and-survived. ors seminar if there is a vacancy.) students even greater opportunities for Although the basic philosophy of Hopefully, some additional Honors the intensely personal kind of educa­ Rochester's Honors Program has re­ courses will be initiated. But, as Hin­ tion that alumni of the Honors Pro­ mained constant, several improve- man notes, the heavy cost of staffing gram have found so rewarding. -

6 The Artist- Teacher at Eastman

In 1962, a publication commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the University's Eastman School of Music attributed students' interest in coming to the School to "the presence of an incomparable faculty of teacher-performers who beckon them to Rochester. It is these teachers who, by their great example as performers, set and keep (students) on the paths of purpose and artistic achievement, and who, together with their colleagues of the Eastman community, prepare them for a life of teaching and playing...." Among the School's distinguished artist-teachers is Carroll Glenn, shown here with two of her students. Like her husband-the equally renowned pianist and fellow-faculty member Eugene List­ Miss Glenn combines the virtuosity of the concert artist with the sensitivity and skill of the good teacher.

Pictured with Carroll Glenn are Soong Chung Suh of Seoul, Korea, and Coralie Gerlitz of Springfield, Ohio, who are working for the master's degree in performance and music literature.

7 What makes a good teacher? Two very good teachers recently expressed widely divergent views in articles published by CONTRAST, undergraduate news magazine. Hayden V. White is a professor of history and one of the most popular figures on campus. D. Lin­ coln Canfield is professor and chairman of the Department of Languages and Linguistics and a winner, in 1961, of UR's Alumni A ward to Faculty "for outstanding contribu­ tions to student life."

THE EDITORS of Contrast plex and the complex simple if he is to direct the student have asked me to submit along the path of learning that is best for him. The teach­ some brief reflections on er, in short, manipulates the student, necessarily does what has recently become violence to the student's incipient sense of self, and there­ known as the "problem" of by sets up tensions in the student which generate painful student- teacher relations. ambiguities in the student's attitudes towards the teacher. That such a problem exists, This is why the student often oscillates between the ex­ I have no doubts. But discus­ tremes of respect and disgust with regard to the teacher sions of it, among both stu­ to whom he is drawn for guidance. dents and teachers, all too Since most of the cards with which the teaching game frequently take place within is played are held by the teacher, he inevitably assumes an atmosphere created by the aspect of a tyrant, even while he is trying to provide HAYDEN V. WHITE belief in a mythical golden the tools by which the student will ultimately effect his age of pedagogy. emotional release from all tyranny, intellectual as well According to the myth, students and teachers once as emotional. The tyranny of the teacher over the student came together in an ideal agora, discovered the "mean­ is perhaps more dangerous than that of the parent over ing of life" together, formed intellectual and emotional the child, for whereas the tyranny of parents is neces­ bonds that lasted far beyond the college years, and con­ sarily curtailed by the natural process itself, the tyranny tinued to contribute to the other's spiritual growth until of the teacher can last for the student's entire life. one or the other died. This might be called the "Mister Students who come to college with the expectation of Chips" myth. Teachers helped establish the myth, and finding friends among their teachers are deluded, I be­ students, always insecure when they arrive at college, lieve, whatever the statements made by writers who have preferred to accredit the myth rather than challenge attended Ivy League schools in the Twenties. Since it, even in the face of overwhelming evidence against the friendship is possible only among people who share a possibility of its truth. similar intellectual and emotional endowment, the possi­ That meaningful (and in some cases even profound) bilities of friendship between the college student and his friendships are sometimes established between teachers professors are slight indeed. And if one looks closely at and students is undeniable. But in my opinion such those idealized relationships between students and teach­ friendships are the exception rather than the rule. Every­ ers which appear in novels and biographies, it will be dis­ thing in the pedagogical situation militates against the covered that in most instances it is not friendship, but establishment of those "deep, warm relationships" which tyranny, that is being shown, that tyranny of the sort the sentimental defenders of the teaching profession often which Henry James made the subject of all his writing. offer as the end and purpose of education. And tyrannical relationships are signs that the educa­ The very inequality between student and teacher, tional process has failed. Good teachers want to liberate which is the presupposition of all education, renders the their students from dependence upon all authority figures, kind of truthfulness upon which genuine friendship is teachers included-which means that good teaching is based impossible. In very large part teaching is dissimula­ ultimately destructive of the bond between students and tion: The teacher must often make the simple seem com- teachers themselves. -

8 The College Teacher: Two Views

SINCE I HAVE been asked to Contrary to popular misconceptions, the world of col­ contribute a few observa­ lege teaching and scholarship is a dynamic one. Most pro­ tions on the life and times of fessors are vitally interested in their discipline and in a professor, and since I have their specialty. They are so interested that they not only read the reflections of my teach with enthusiasm but they spend much time reading, distinguished colleague, Pro­ discussing, writing, and even publishing what they have fessor Hayden White, on the found out. In fact, a good teacher is a life-long student. "problems" of student-teach­ And it is in this framework of activity that he introduces er relations, it would seem his students to something that he considers vital. He tries fitting, perhaps, to make my hard to nurture and perpetuate interest and concern in comments as a "reply" to them and ultimately he takes pride in "building" new Professor White. I disagree specialists for the future. D. LINCOLN CANFIELD rather sharply with his con- During the latter stages of this evolution, the upper­ tention that the processes of education are not conducive class and graduate years, it is very likely that student and to the formation of friendships between students and professor become very good friends. As they, like the faculty-and that such things as warm and lasting rela­ professor, become life-long students, they often excel in tions on this basis are nothing more than Ivy League knowledge and intellectual activity. They often work with myths. the professor on research projects, they take part in pro­ As President Lee DuBridge of the California Institute fessional meetings with other professors, and they even of Technology (former chairman of the DR physics de­ publish long before there is a threat of perishing. One partment) has pointed out, we live in a time of explo­ can point to numerous "teams" of researchers and writ­ sions. Besides the population explosion of which we hear ers-and to numerous warm friendships-that started with so much, there is a knowledge explosion and a democracy student-faculty relations. explosion. The first two of these, especially, contribute I disagree, therefore, with Professor White's assertion to a climate of specialization, and it is in this climate that that the "purposes of education defeat friendships" and our modern professor works and has his being. The pro­ that everything in the pedagogical situation militates duction of knowledge is so great and critiques of this against the establishment of warm relationships. Al­ material so numerous that the professor spends a good though I should agree with him that there is much dis­ part of his life trying to bring himself up to a position of simulation in the teaching process, what is more impor­ authority in his own field. As Ortega y Gasset has said, tant in the long run is the assimilation that takes place he becomes more and more a vertical barbarian. and that continues. -

9 New at Rochester:

An experimental program initiated on the River Cam­ pus last fall, the Creative Arts Workshop brings together student painters, sculptors, dancers, and actors under the guidance of resident and visiting faculty members. Through a variety of individual and group projects, stu­ dents explore some of the basic aspects of creative work. A typical problem is the use of space, an area of concern common to many of the arts-whether as the dramatic tension created by the distance between actors on stage or as the illusion of space that a painter creates with color. Some of the ways in which students and faculty may attack such problems are shown on these pages.

10 11 • CAMPUS DIALOGUE

Undergraduate Education: is

WITHIN THE last few years River Campus undergradu­ • GROSSBERG: I think students have always ques­ ates have shown an increased-and heartening-interest tioned ... they've always tried to find the best means to in the development of the University's academic pro­ what they thought was the end they were aiming for. gram. This phenomenon, among others, was recently What has changed is the end they have in mind. Today, discussed at a noon-hour taping session involving two the emphasis is on intellectualism as opposed to practi­ members of the undergraduate Committee on Educa­ cality, which previously was the primary interest. tional Policy-Patricia O'Leary, '66, committee chair­ • O'LEARY: I don't know much about other cam­ man, and Lawrence Grossberg, '68; Provost McCrea puses, but I would like to emphasize one aspect of this Hazlett; Professor Vincent Nowlis, chairman of the trend at Rochester: the extreme willingness of the faculty Committee on Improving Instruction of the College of and administration to react to student initiative. Arts and Science and chairman of the Steering Commit­ In the past, students haven't taken this initiative. I tee of the University's Faculty Senate; and Judy Brown, don't know whether it was because the University never editor of Rochester Review. encouraged them or whether they just weren't interested. The material that follows is a somewhat abbreviated But the point is that now that this sort of initiative has version of their discussion. been evidenced, we've run into absolutely no negative • BROWN: As a fringe member of the campus com­ reaction from faculty or administration. On the contrary, munity, I'm aware that students and faculty seem to be they're going along with us in every channel. ... working together in a rather unprecedented fashion on • GROSSBERG: Actually, I think that the increased matters affecting undergraduate teaching. At the same student interest in academics simply reflects changes in time, I hear students express fears that undergraduates our culture. Today college is recognized as one of the may be lost in the academic shuffle. What's it all about? very necessary and valuable structures in society, and • O'LEARY: As the University's entering students students are reflecting this interest. It's true, too, of have become more sophisticated, they've taken an in­ course, that there are differences among students, and creased interest in the formation of academic policy. They the more intellectually oriented students-such as you realize that this is an area of crucial importance to the find at a place like Rochester-have higher goals than kind of education they will receive, and they are more others and are more demanding. and more insistent on having their demands heard and • HAZLETT: As I think back on my years at Roch­ acted upon by the University administration. ester, it seems to me that students have always been peo­ • NOWLIS: I think this initiative on the part of stu­ ple with emotions who express these emotions in many dents is excellent, and it is certainly being responded to different ways-a fact that doesn't distinguish them from by the faculty and administrative officers. It's also true any other kind of human being. But until the late 1950's that the latter groups were aware of some of these prob­ or so, students didn't seem to care about-or didn't ex­ lems earlier and have also been taking some initiative. hibit that they cared about-the academic program. Their • HAZLETT: I wonder what, if anything, has hap­ displays of feeling were usually limited to happy out­ pened in our culture to bring about this interest in aca­ breaks in the springtime or concern about food and so demic matters. Do you think this phenomenon is rela­ on-there wasn't today's expression of academic concern. tively unique to our university and to a number of others In my experience here, this academic concern first came that have changed the mix of their student body, or is it to a head in 1961 when we had what was billed as a riot­ a nationwide phenomenon? but really wasn't a riot at all.

12 • NOWLIS: Yes, that was the first time students scholars as well. And on this rests the entire value of the really showed their concern about academic matters. And university, and certainly it's going to affect very largely it wasn't a riot, of course; it was an effective, dignified the quality of education we get here. expression of student views. Actually, it taught us a great I think students also recognize and accept the fact deal-for example, that we hadn't thought through some that a lot of the benefits that accrue from this kind of of the implications of our four-course program. For one faculty will be channeled toward graduate students as thing, we found that too many freshmen were getting well as undergraduates. But I think they do accept and into large classes. Our immediate response was to initiate they do realize the necessity for a university to have a the freshman preceptorial program-a program that now strong graduate school. And the direct benefit to the enables many freshmen to meet in small seminar-type undergraduate, of course, is being a member of a depart­ sessions with faculty members. ment with a graduate school of note and with a highly I'd like to point out that we cheered-we cheered­ qualified faculty. when that student rally took place. We wanted students • GROSSBERG: I'd like to interject, though, that to be concerned-and it isn't that we want them to be undergraduate education is at least as important as a uni­ that they are concerned, thank heaven! All around the versity's scholarly work ... and teachers should reflect country students are asking, "What can I get concerned this. There are teachers who take a very enthusiastic about?" Fortunately, here at Rochester, one of the top interest in students as students and as people. When they things they get concerned about is the academic program. teach an undergraduate course, they approach it with all the enthusiasm they would feel if they were approach­ • HAZLETT: My own hunch is that this concern is ing a scholarly problem with fellow-members of their probably not a universal phenomenon. Certainly, the department. And that's the way it should be. evidence I have shows that of the 2,700 accredited col­ leges and universities, maybe 15 or 20 have student • HAZLETT: Do you think that students are will­ bodies that are genuinely concerned about academic ing to accept the fact that great scholars as a group may matters. And maybe this is one of the interesting, excit­ have more eccentricities than "nice guys"-some of these ing, and healthy by-products of the kind of thing that eccentricities being that they very frequently are not so has been happening at Rochester-not entirely by de­ oriented toward or concerned with people, and so on? sign, but certainly in terms of the changing size, the im­ • O'LEARY: Well, students do react against eccen­ provement in the quality of our faculty, and the different tric (if you want to call them that) professors. But I and interesting kinds of characteristics that our student think just as frequently and perhaps more so, you'll have body brings to the campus. students expressing considerable impatience with a pro­ fessor who is only a nice guy and who doesn't satisfy or • NOWLIS: Do students perceive the faculty as gen­ stimulate them intellectually. erally increasing in scholarly qualities each year? And Occasionally, we do see instances of the ideal scholar if so, does this whet your academic appetite? -men who are excellent professors and are also the most • O'LEARY: This is true-very, very definitely. fantastically exciting people. And it is around these ideal Contrary to what might be the faculty's impression, stu­ examples that we conceive the University ... and so we dents realize the importance of having a faculty that is feel that the University should have this type of person not only a qualified teaching faculty but a community of throughout its faculty. Hazlett NDwliS

13 • HAZLETT: I think it takes a certain degree of they will show more interest in undergraduate education. selective breeding over a period of years to produce a • BROWN: What were the criteria for this award? really great number of these ideal scholars. • O'LEARY: Well, our first consideration was a • O'LEARY: That's true. And it's toward the end of negative one: We wanted to eliminate completely the rewarding-or at least recognizing-the faculty member aspect of a popularity contest because, first of all, such who is a good teacher that the undergraduates in the a contest would negate what we were trying to do by College of Arts and Science, through the student Com­ losing the respect of faculty and administration. mittee on Educational Policy, recently instituted an We tried to emphasize to students that they should award for outstanding teaching. consider a teacher's presentation and selection of his ma­ • HAZLETT: Of course, the University for several terial, his attention to real communication on his subject years has had an annual $1,000 award for undergradu­ with students in and out of the classroom, and his ability ate teaching established by Edward Peck Curtis, a Uni­ to stimulate creative thought. Certainly, a student reacts versity trustee. The Curtis Award is open to faculty mem­ best to a classroom situation in which he is provoked to bers on all three University campuses with nominations do further thinking, further reading ... he usually is most made by the various deans. satisfied with a course in which he is stimulated to do • O'LEARY: We hope our student awards will be the most work. expanded to include other colleges in the future. (Editor's • NOWLIS: I am reminded that the evaluation of note: The list of recipients of the new student-initiated the faculty made by students last spring showed that our awards for undergraduate teaching appears on Page 24.) faculty in general came out very, very well with respect • BROWN: As I read your list of outstanding teach­ to knowledge of their subject, with respect to their ability ers, I was impressed by the fact that many of them are to communicate effectively, with respect to their being distinguished scholars. I can think of one who has a tre­ relatively well organized in presenting material. But, as mendous reputation; offhand, you might think of him as a whole, the faculty rated lower-although by no means primarily a "research man." But you've chosen him as low-with respect to the ability to stimulate. the member of his department to receive your first award • HAZLETT: When you examine the matter of -and that department includes some of our best known, stimulation, of course, you begin to wonder: Stimulate most popular, and most influential teachers. to what? What is this excitement doing? And you're sug­ • GROSSBERG: I think the main purpose of our gesting that perhaps this excitement is to get the student award is to show teachers on this campus-or nationally, to do further reading and research. However, I think if you will-that students are concerned about good sometimes the excitement is simply the reaction: "Gad, teaching. We feel that some teaching is deficient; at the that was a great lecture!" You know, someone once said same time we recognize the outstanding efforts of teach­ that a great actor is a man who can draw tears from an ers who really put out for us. It's like saying, "We'd like audience just by reading a telephone book. But appar­ to do more for you, but we can't, so we'll just say thanks ently you did try to get away from that sort of thing in and we hope you realize what the award carries with it­ your evaluation of faculty. the gratitude of a group of people toward someone who • O'LEARY: Yes, if you scan the list of recipients, has influenced their lives." In addition, it's saying to some I think you will find that it tends not to be the showman of the other teachers that we are concerned and we hope who came first, but the person who is able to provoke from students an understanding of why he is so involved in his field. Really, that's essentially what a stu­ dent wants from a professor-to know what is so interesting in his subject that he has devoted his life to it; in other words, we want him to convey his excitement, his involve­ ment with his discipline. * * * • BROWN: One subject that seems to be involving some hot and heavy discussion among students and faculty is the possibility of dropping B,.Dwn distribution requirements. (Continued on page 26) 14 J. Douglas Brown, Dean of the Fac­ ulty at Princeton University, holds THE ROLE OF A A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from that institution, and, except for a brief stint at NYU, has been a mem­ GRADUATE SCHOOL ber of its faculty since 1921. He was elected to the UR board of trustees IN A UNIVERSITY in 1961. His article is based on a talk that he gave at the convocation marking the 40th anniversary of the J. DOUGLAS BROWN first Ph.D. degree awarded here.

OST PEOPLE FAIL to realize that the liberal arts col­ dergraduate college and the graduate school of arts and M lege as we have visualized it from our youth up is sciences, especially, have maintained close ties in spirit, strictly an American invention. The continental univer­ purpose, and organization. This has been a great source sity from Padua on was and is a very different social of strength. phenomenon. The colleges of Oxford or Cambridge, which come nearer to being the ancestors of their Ameri­ can namesakes, are closer in spirit, but still very different HERE APPEAR to be several reasons why the Ameri­ in organization. Tcan liberal university has gained vitality and purpose The earlier American colleges were more directly de­ from having as its nucleus a liberal arts college. There scendants of the dissenting academies of England. At are also reasons why the dynamic liberal arts college least, they were nurtured in a climate of dissent from the in these times of growth and change finds its fulfillment established position of Church, State, and Class in higher in becoming a liberal university. The relationship of education, and of Latin and Greek as the almost exclu­ college to university is not always one of easy accommo­ sive vehicles of instruction. dation, but the countervailing tensions, cross-currents, The American college evolved as a means of educat­ and assumptions are far more conducive to vigor and ing leaders in a colonial society, first in the professions­ survival than to dissension or decay. the ministry, law, and medicine-and in government, and The essential bond between the undergraduate and later in business. It sought to produce men of intellect, graduate levels of a liberal university is that true educa­ responsibility, . and dedication. Its subject-matter and tion involves the leadership of the teacher in the student's methods of instruction were ever secondary to the main quest for knowledge and understanding. At all levels of purpose of affecting the character as well as the capabili­ higher education it is not so much what the teacher ties of its students. We have called such education "lib­ knows, but how well he excites the imagination and eral" because it frees men from ignorance, superstition, curiosity of the student, that determines the effectiveness and prejudice. of instruction. As Whitehead has said, knowledge, like The American university has grown out of the Ameri­ fish, does not keep well. The teacher must ever mix can college. While for a time the German university was knowledge with creative imagination in giving it a fresh­ considered the model for graduate instruction in this ness that makes it attractive. country, the persistent pattern of the American liberal Creative and imaginative teaching cannot be carried arts college at the center of our tradition has, fortunately, on by teachers who have lost the excitement of discovery. limited the separatist influence of the German approach, Except at the most elementary stages of learning, there except in a very few institutions. For all others, the un- are always new approaches, points of view, interpreta-

15 liThe graduate student ... requires leadership in digging deeper and deeper in a narrower vein of knowledge where the going gets tough and where enthusiasm is transmitted by the teacher more as a fellow scholar than as a learned expositor."

Pictured with graduate students are Professor W. Lewis Hyde, director of the Institute of Optics (below), and Professor Wolf Vishniac, chairman of the Department of Biology (right).

tions, or conclusions which may arise in the imaginative integrated university does the teacher have his optimum discussion of ideas. The student soon senses the climate opportunity to sustain and enhance his potentialities as of a class, whether the teacher is dispensing cut and dried a creative leader in the combined process of education facts and formula or is himself caught up in the quest of and discovery. finding something new to him as well as to the class. Creativity and imagination in teaching is a tone of The habit of mind which makes the imaginative teach­ attack. It does not depend upon scholarly work in all er cannot, however, be preserved, let alone nurtured, if areas covered in instruction. As with the body, to pre­ the teacher has no opportunity for discovery on his own, serve tone, one does not have to exercise in a dozen apart from undergraduate instruction. Like all habits, sports, so a teacher-scholar, to preserve his urge for that of creative, imaginative thought grows on its exer­ discovery, does not have to spread his scholarship over cise. For the university teacher this exercise must come the whole range of his subject, but can and should seek in his own research, in discussions with mature col­ mastery in a selected field. The test is whether a habit of leagues, in seminars with advanced students, as well as mind exists, not the way it is sustained. in undergraduate instruction. Only in a well balanced, In all education, for the teacher and student alike,

16 there is a rhythmic cycle of mastery and humility: (a) a In addition to promoting the integration of the levels sense of accomplishment, of a degree of mastery of of instruction and scholarship through the wise selection knowledge, ideas, or approaches; and (b) a sense of of faculty, a university can influence the process by humility before the great mass and complexity of that planned control of the balance of enrollments at the which remains unknown or not understood. It is the great various levels. Graduate instruction is more demanding teacher who keeps himself aware of both responses in his than undergraduate instruction in the ratio of teachers to students by experiencing the same rhythm in his own students. It requires more preparation on the part of the quest for knowledge and understanding. The teacher who teacher week by week, and more individual consultation does not attack new problems in his own research is more than an undergraduate course, since the subject matter is likely to assume a sense of easy mastery which subtly more difficult and more closely adapted to the needs of shades into intellectual arrogance. Along with research, the particular group. the teaching of graduate students helps temper any Further, graduate courses are more specialized than tendency toward dogmatism, especially when such stu­ undergraduate courses. There is a tendency toward in­ dents become junior partners in scholarship under the creasing sub-division of subject-matter into more and leadership of the teacher. At the most eager and imagina­ more courses, especially when younger teachers seek op­ tive period of their lives, they are predisposed to chal­ portunity to cover some sub-area of a discipline which lenge well-worn conclusions. is their chosen field of scholarship. Not only must re­ straint be exercised to avoid an excess of small courses HE LEVEL of graduate instruction in a liberal univer­ draining expensive faculty time, but also to prevent loss Tsity forms a critical layer in cementing together the in balance and integration in the total offerings of the functions of instruction and scholarship and in assuring department. a leadership approach in higher education. Whereas the undergraduate student challenges the ability of the teach­ HOSE WHO FAVOR the trend toward the "multiversity" er to lead discussion over a wider range of his subject Tand its emphasis on proliferating research programs with lucidity, imagination, and balance, the graduate stu­ may consider an even three-way balance (between under­ dent, who is much farther along the path, requires lead­ graduate instruction, graduate instruction, and scholar­ ership in digging deeper and deeper in a narrower vein of ship) too restrictive. Those who seek to preserve the knowledge where the going gets tough and where en­ heritage of the American university with its nucleus in thusiasm is transmitted by the teacher more as a fellow the liberal arts college will realize the value of such a scholar than as a learned expositor. The graduate student balance, at least in some leading private institutions. To gains a guide and intellectual friend in growing in his them the concept that university education at all levels is chosen career. The teacher gains a junior colleague whose essentially leadership in the search for wisdom to assure ideas will often stimulate his own in the discussion of a wise leadership in human affairs remains central and common endeavor. compelling. - Given this strategic role of graduate instruction in the liberal university, the problem becomes one of assuring balance and integration in the elements of undergraduate instruction, graduate instruction, and faculty scholarship into a moving, mutually interacting equilibrium. This is no easy task. It cannot be solved by the university as a whole except in providing a favorable climate reinforced by repeated indications of policy in day-to-day decisions. Departments vary in their tendencies in emphasizing one of the three elements, because of relative size of enroll­ ments at various levels, the nature of the subject, or the predispositions of their members. The nub of the solution lies in the selection and en­ couragement of individual faculty members who are committed to the balancing and integration of the three elements. Not all will be equally able or effective in all levels of instruction and in scholarship, but the goal should be overall balance, department by department, with one-sidedness in any individual something to be resolved or compensated for, rather than a desirable attribute.

17 LAWRENCE A. KOHN, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus

Cited as "a model of the teacher-practitioner," Dr. Law­ voted straight Republican. I still owed for the stake I rence A. Kahn became the Medical School's first chief had needed to start practice; I lived in a furnished room, medical resident in 1926 and its first clinical professor of and I drove back to reunion in my model T Ford: the medicine in 1958. He holds the Medical Alumni Asso­ only way I could manage the trip. ciation's Gold Medal for his achievements "as a great The discrepancy hit me; the boys were friendly and all teacher and clinician who has lit the fires of enthusiasm that, but it appeared that I had been left at the post. among many young men in medicine." The article that As you have already observed, doctors work hard. The follows is based on his 1965 commencement address at 168 hours in the week aren't really enough, and they the Medical School.* never will be. There is so much to do; so much to learn­ about disease, about the people who have it, about your­ self. If not now, you will soon be aware that you are not NE OF THESE DAYS you will ask yourself: "What am dealing with an occlusion of the anterior descending O I doing in this grind? What is the prospect of a de­ branch of the left coronary artery, but with an event that cent life? Why did I choose medicine anyhow?" Up to may have changed the life of a human being. A little later now, and perhaps for some years to come, you will have you learn that the hospital stay is only an incident in his been so preoccupied by urgent things, perhaps so pro­ illness, in his life. There will always be more to learn and tected by the organizations in which you work, that the you will never have time for it all. Moreover, you will query will be postponed. But come it will. find that if you let yourself get hurried, either in reading It didn't hit me until I went back, in 1928, to my or in the laboratory or with patients, you will be sorry for fourteenth college reunion. Because of indecision and it. Even your time off won't really be yours; you will Wodd War I, I was at the time only a year out of my never be free of your responsibilities; you'll never leave residency. It appeared that most of my classmates were a clean desk. assistant vice-presidents of the Guaranty Trust Company, Hence, as a doctor you will have to sacrifice many or sitting pretty in a large advertising agency or manu­ facturing complex. They were happily married, lived in *Dr. Kohn's speech was recently reprinted in Resident Physician a good suburb, belonged to a country club, and naturally Magazine.

18 things; some of your pleasures, for instance-afternoons responded. But then fever had recurred, breathing again when the trout might be rising, evenings when others are became labored, and he seemed headed for a bad end. hearing the Philharmonic. You will often have to sacrifice When I finally got there, he was cyanosed, breathless ... your family. My wife insists that when a doctor proposes, but, on examination, I was sure that there was a large he should say: "Darling, I love you more than anyone accumulation of fluid in one pleural cavity. I put in a else in the world, but medicine comes first." You'll have needle and aspirated about a pint of purulent stuff; the to steal time which should be your children's. You may next morning we brought him to the hospital where, with quite possibly have to sacrifice your health. adequate chest surgery, he made a good recovery. Some­ There are innumerable annoyances, small and large, how, though (maybe I was brash), the doctor thought I built into the doctor's job. If you work in a laboratory, had showed him up, and he never asked me to see another there will be failures of apparatus at crucial moments, patient and barely spoke to me when we met. loss of key technicians, and budget troubles, besides the inevitable blind alleys always open to the investigator. If you practice, patients will be late for their appoint­ HE CARE of patients, in or out of hospitals, is be­ ments, will be demanding, will leave your care. Even if T coming more difficult. You have to accept more and you can understand the reasons behind their need to more newspaper medicine-and TV medicine. You have annoy you, it won't obviate it. A pleasant lady who comes to tread the narrow path between seeing that your pa­ to me occasionally for examination somehow never can tients get their rights and not abusing Blue Cross and produce a urine sample in the office. Then when we meet Blue Shield. And in many areas there is government inter­ socially, she seizes the moment to inquire: "Larry, dear, ference. This isn't new: In 1897 the New York Academy how was the sample?" I am sometimes tempted to end it of Medicine rebelled against compulsory reporting of all by some such crack as: "Mary, a urine like yours, a tuberculosis! doctor doesn't get one very often. Thanks a million for I dislike the possibility of our having a National Health letting me see it~" but she would only think that I was Plan; nevertheless, if we want government to build our being rude. hospitals, care for the insane, finance our research, we're going to have to accept a degree of supervision. The more private enterprise proves inadequate, the more public HEN YOUR MEDICINE is good, when you know interference will be invoked. Some of this is in your hands. W you've done a good job, there will often be mis­ Every needless test, every wasted hospital day, contri­ understanding, inappreciation. May I cite examples? butes to the likelihood that we will have to give up private One day a nice old man entered the hospital coughing medicine. up blood in large quantity. The chest film was clear; the Whatever your personal philosophy of medicine turns clotting mechanisms normal. Laryngoscopy, difficult to out to be-merely to be a guide, giving good advice, or to do, merely confirmed that the blood came from near the be responsible for seeing that it is followed-you will have cricoid. We transfused him and sedated him, but he kept many qualms. You cannot merely throw medicine at on coughing up blood. His thyroid was not large but at patients and expect them to accept it, but if you become one lower pole there was a small nodule. Dr. T. Banford too responsible, the psychiatrists will accuse you of be­ Jones and I formed the hypothesis that he might have a ing authoritarian. collar-button type of carcinoma, with the wider base You will have moments of anger, hours of frustration. eroding into the trachea. After some hesitance, Jones We all have days when we're off our game. Now and then operated on him and the diagnosis was right. He managed when I recognize that I'm not at my best I am tempted to tie the bleeding vessels and stripped most of the tumor to hang a sign in the waiting room: "Kohn is having a from the trachea. Then we radiated him heavily and for bad day. Proceed at your own risk." There will be re­ the rest of his life he had no more cancer. But, in what peated occasions when you feel inadequate and you often was a far from ideal operative situation, one recurrent will be inadequate; disease is a treacherous opponent, and nerve was severed, and he became hoarse. He never for­ whenever you begin to feel smug about a result, you are gave us. due for a fall. Another incident occurred almost thirty years ago, a There will be deaths among your friends. There are time when some of the older internists would pass some many bad diseases and there will be mistakes; we all make of the less attractive consultations down to me. This call them, and we know that we will continue to. One measure came during a heavy snowstorm, from far west on the of a doctor as opposed to a mere MD is his willingness to Ridge Road. The patient was a college boy home for take action, to use judgment, knowing that he will make Christmas who had had pneumonia. His physician had a certain number of mistakes. From time to time guilt and established the agent as type I pneumococcus, for which depression will possess you. In fact, I don't understand we had a partially effective antiserum, and the boy had why more of us are not depressed; our situation certainly

19 But then there is the absorption, the excitement of medicine. There is nothing like it that I know of. H I may resume a personal touch-I returned in 1934 to my twentieth college class reunion. It so happened that I had bought a grey Chrysler convertible that spring and my outward appearance was improved over 1928. But so were my spirits. The bad years of the depression had intervened, and many of the lads who had looked very smug and secure in 1928 were no longer so enviable. True, few of them had been cold and hungry during those years (though lots of people had been), but many of them had been rotting on the vine for want of something to do.

HERE HAS NEVER been a dull moment in my medi­ T cine; never a day when my work wasn't fascinating, LAWRENCE A. KOHN, M.D. challenging. Year in, year out I defy you to find a job or profession which equals it. And the fabric that has un­ folded just in my years: liver, insulin, antibiotics, vascu­ lar surgery! Nor is there any reason to think that you won't see equal advances, and perhaps many of you will playa major part in achieving them. I hope you have-we've certainly tried to give you­ warrants it. The burden can at times appear intolerable. a foundation of scientific, of critical thought; and you However, there are also many rewards. While you are ought to be able to keep up with what happens, even if not likely to become rich, nor count on security in your the Journal of Clinical Investigation seems tough going at old age-certainly not as compared with your opposite times. Not that keeping up will be easy; full-time or part­ numbers in industry-you will probably make a decent time, you'll have to organize your study and your reading, living. Few of you will be in want. Even in later years, and not rely on drug house throwaways. even with physical handicaps, you will be able to do some And there are your medical friendships. My son com­ type of medicine, and let me tell you that many a busi­ pleted his formal education in the Marine Corps, and nessman, retired at 65 on an adequate company pension, when he finished Parris Island, I asked him: "How bad envies us our ability to stay active. was it?" "Dad," he replied, "it was pretty rough at times, As a doctor, you will be a privileged person. Our but if I were in a tough spot I'd be damned glad to know "image," as they say, may be imperfect, but we are re­ that the man at my back was a Marine." And this is true spected and loved by the public at large; by hotel clerks of medicine. Your associates, your friends will be men and traffic cops and airplane hostesses. On a higher level, who have been through the same mill, speak the same you will be accepted as an educated man or woman and language, have the same longings and perhaps the same rightly so. You will be welcomed wherever you go, al­ neuroses. You can count on them, as they will depend on though you may be sorry to be identified as a doctor if the you. conversation turns to the inadequacies of hospitals or Finally, there are your patients. You're going to learn cholesterol. And when you or your loved ones are ill, you about them as human beings; not just as victims of illness. can count on the best professional care there is-on your And you'll learn that most of them-not necessarily those home grounds, when away, even in foreign lands. who make the headlines, but the bulk of them-are won­ You will often receive credit for things you have not derful. They have comedy and tragedy, and courage, and done and have not deserved. Your pronouncements, quality. You'll learn that most people really try to live by which at times carry a frightening authority, may be the Sermon on the Mount, not just try to evade the Ten widely quoted and misquoted to purposes which may Commandments. You'll get to love them, and they you, make you blush. Patients will give you thanks, praise, and this is pretty close to the kingdom of heaven, here gifts, which, unless you are very naive, you will know are on earth. undeserved and which I regret to warn you may turn to Ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate you. Your trou­ innuendo and blame on very little or no provocation. bles will be many; you are going to have a lot of grief After all, everything which goes up comes down, even and suffering. But I truly believe that you have chosen though in pieces. the best job in the world. •

20 DR's Yank at

takes a light look at Life Along the Thames

• John Timothy Londergan, '65

JOHN TIMOTHY LONDERGAN, '65, last spring received a weekly for discussion with his tutor. This program is Rhodes Scholarship for two years of graduate study at individualistic in its approach to study and provides Oxford University. A physics major at Rochester, he extremely deep, although sometimes rather narrow, con­ held a General Motors Scholarship and won honors both centration in a field of study. For the British student, as a perennial dean's list scholar and as captain and first who often chooses his major field at 14, this represents man on the squash and tennis teams. Among other ac­ a logical continuation of his studies. tivities, he was treasurer of the River Campus student There is now a unique prospect of impending change government, co-chairman of Freshman Week, a member at Oxford, since a committee is presently critically ex­ of Keidaeans, senior men's honorary, and a participant amining the colleges for their strengths and weaknesses. in the student tutor society. In some fields Oxford's preeminence is unquestioned; At Oxford he is studying theoretical particle physics an American graduate student in classics remarked that and casting an observant eye on British life, academic "the average A.B. in classics at Oxford knows more and otherwise. Greek than my professors at ... (a quite select Eastern) ... University." Similarly, in such fields as philosophy and medieval history Oxford draws many of its dons directly from its B.A. graduates in an impressive display of inbreeding. But this method of academic patronage C1l T OXFORD, the word "change" is viewed with much can create stagnation, and many people feel that this 6"the same apprehensive mistrust as the word "fall­ type of practice could be quite harmful to Oxford's out." The heritage of tradition at Oxford is as pervasive relevance to society. Indeed, some feel that the univer­ as the fog, and has produced, along with some tena­ sity has already lost its relevance, and one don is re­ ciously preserved cathedrals and college halls, an edu­ portedly quoted: "Oxford and Cambridge are the same­ cational system which remains in many ways unchanged they both speak the same dead language." from the system begun over 700 years ago. Lectures at Oxford, supposed to supplement and en­ The widely imitated "Oxford system" is based on a rich the tutorial program, are on the whole quite medio­ tutorial program in which a student submits a paper cre. A careful selection of lecturers can produce some

21 offers more women than Oxford-the 5: 1 men/women ratio at Oxford can be downright traumatic, and the Ox­ ford Student Guide is careful to point out: "There are enough women to go around at Oxford, if they go around fast enough." Many students, in fact, do as much studying during vacations as they do in term. The Oxford term facilitates this system of studying; the year is split into three eight­ week terms, divided by two six-week vacations and a long summer vacation. Vacations, however, are often times when students are expected to perform the reading for a subsequent term; as one student was reminded "You have a six-week vacation, sir; that is NOT a six~ week holiday!" Vacations do offer a good excuse to get out of England (weatherwise, almost invariably a great idea) and travel. Although the average student at Oxford studies quite very brilliant classes, l but lectures are in general disre­ hard, it is simply not de rigueur to admit that one has pute. They are poorly attended, and deservedly so. In even opened a book. The English still maintain the ideal physics, my own major, lectures are quite strong in the of the qualified amateur, the Renaissance Man who dab­ undergraduate curriculum, but this is rather exceptional; bles in all fields of knowledge. "Greats," says the Oxford the tutorial program has simply not proven as adequate Handbook regarding one of Oxford's toughest courses for physics as the lecture-and-seminar course so wide­ (an intensive study of the entire corpus of Greek and spread in the United States. Latin writings, plus a comprehensive minor in philoso­ Study at Oxford, centered about the tutorials, proceeds phy), "is deficient in providing knowledge of the modern at a very unregimented pace, and pressures are markedly world ... but it is said to produce men who are un­ different from, for example, Rochester. The Oxford stu­ rivalled as expositors and judges of any situation or set dent has an average of about one exam per year and of facts which may be placed before them." So there! generally only the final series of exams is taken really England's ideal of the amateur has ramifications in all seriously. Depending on a student's thoroughness, this facets of the university. Some scientists have privately may leave comparatively more time for extracurricular expressed regret that Sir Alexander Fleming ever dis­ activities than in the United States. To provide for extra­ covered penicillin. "It has done an incredible disservice curricular life, Oxford abounds in student clubs, ranging to the scientist in England," is their whimsical reasoning. from Anarchist to Zoology, and these clubs take up the "Ever since he discovered penicillin in some filthy, badly major portion of the social life of many undergraduates. equipped lab, administrators have used this as an argu­ Participation in clubs can sometimes take up the majority ment against better lab facilities." And today the Brain of the student's work during terms; in the prestigious de­ Drain is proving that British ingenuity and hardiness are bating society, the Oxford Union, debates have national just no match for proper equipment. significance and, historically, prominence in the Union has been a stepping-stone to political prominence. On weekends an exodus to London begins, and for ~ anyone accustomed to Broadway prices London is a Nirvana of culture: $2 seats for plays, ballet and opera '-'London also offers more women tickets which begin at $1, and an impressive list of con­ than Oxford-the 5:1 men/women certs and art shows. For homesick Americans there is also an impressive array of old American films (High ratio at Oxford can be downright Noon, The Magnificent Seven, The Maltese Falcon) as traumatic, and the Oxford Student well as the latest Hollywood productions. London also Guide is careful to point out: 'There are enough women to go around lContrary to th~ widely expressed views of college administra­ at Oxford, if they go around fast tors, the most highly renowned academicians often give terrible lectures.. Oxford solves this problem in part by creating one col­ enough.'" lege which h.as no stLfdents; here the professors merely do re­ search and give occasIOnal talks (much like some American uni­ versities which haven't bothered to do away with their student body yet).

22 Indeed, the most striking cultural differences between English and American students are the detachment and inefficiency of the English student. Detachment has "Although the average student at nothing to do with laziness but simply expresses a desire to remain fundamentally uncommitted on the various Oxford studies quite hard, it is political and moral issues which confront the student. simply not de rigueur to admit that To an American student, inefficiency is generally a malevolent vice, but to an Englishman there are simply one has even opened a book." more important things than efficiency (tradition and pride, to name two). The conflict between efficiency­ oriented American goals and tradition-oriented British ideas is the most obvious cultural difference I have seen. Adherence to tradition is definitely a mixed blessing. A better explanation of the bad facilities at Oxford The English, who have built and preserved magnificent itself is probably hidden in the structural complexities of cathedrals, and who are known for the precision and the Oxford college system. Oxford is in reality a federa­ beauty of their gardens, have yet to provide comfortable tion of almost totally autonomous colleges which have (or practical) housing. In most European countries the very few functions in common (when the different college plumbing is individual and the heating central-in Eng- representatives meet together, it is often just to maneuver in a perpetual game of intercollege One-Upmanship). Cost and maintenance problems make scientific labora­ tories the concern of none of the individual colleges but of the nebulous University. The lack of close coordina­ tion of the university hampers all projects which cannot be undertaken by the individual colleges. The idealization of the amateur is most obvious in sports, as a popular song goes: "Olympic games embarrass us, We're never Number One; But the others practice beforehand Which spoils all the fun." While it is definitely not true that the British sense of land, unfortunately, the conditions are reversed. Al­ enjoyment always outweighs the desire to win (as is though the English insist that central heating is "bad for demonstrated in any OXford-Cambridge match), never­ the complexion" and complain that Americans can only theless British athletes rarely undertake the fantastic be comfortable when the temperature is boiling hot, commitment and regimenting that so many American their heating is positively medieval. I remember reading athletes train under. of some English poet who wrote while shivering in an unheated garret (the phrase is redundant-all garrets in England seem to be unheated), but I wonder how any of the English poets ever survived the winter.2 Central heating notwithstanding, it has been a very rewarding semester. This has not been a very complete "To an American student, ineffi­ account of the student life here because as a foreigner it is difficult to immerse myself in Oxford life. In many ciency is generally a malevolent ways I am just a casual observer (I have not yet found vice, but to an Englishman there any of the widely publicized wild parties and dope rings, showing how far out of the mainstream I must be), but are simply more important things I did think now would be a good time to write-when my than efficiency (tradition and pride, first impressions have mellowed somewhat, but when I'm to name two)." still naive enough to attempt to describe Oxford in sweep­ ing generalities. -

2"Oh, to be in England, now that April's here" wrote Robert Browning-from Italy, where, you can bet your bowler, he had spent October through March.

23 Student Awards When men students moved to the River Campus, it became headquarters for for Teaching the College for Women's geology, psy­ chology, and sociology departments. ndergraduates in the College The building was converted into a U of Arts and Science recently women's dormitory in 1944 and, when honored fourteen faculty mem­ the women moved to the River Campus bers for outstanding teaching. in 1955, it was sold.) The recipients-the first winners of Professor French has been a mem­ the newly established "Committee on ber of the UR faculty since 1950. He Educational Policy Awards for Out­ served as associate chairman of the standing Teaching"-were selected by Department of Physics and Astronomy, juniors and seniors majoring in thirteen with responsibility for all research pro­ departments of the College. The elec­ grams, in 1961 and 1962, and was sen­ tion was conducted by the undergradu­ ior responsible investigator for the de­ ate Committee on Educational Policy, partment's Atomic Energy Commission a standing committee of the River contract from 1961 to 1963. Last sum­ Campus student government. mer he was visiting lecturer at the In­ Award recipients were: Alfred Har­ ternational School of Physics in Varen­ ris, associate professor of anthropology na, Italy. and department chairman; William B. French has served on the advisory Muchmore, associate professor of biol­ committee to the Argonne National ogy; David J. Wilson, associate profes­ Laboratory and is a consultant to sor of chemistry; Stanley Engerman, Brookhaven and Oak Ridge national assistant professor of economics; J. W. laboratories. He was a member of the Johnson, professor of English; Alfred National Science Foundation Advisory Geier, assistant professor of classics; Panel on Nuclear Structure Physics. A. William Salomone, Wilson Profes­ sor of European history; Antanas Kli­ mas, associate professor of German; More Housing Leonard Gillman, professor of mathe­ matics and department chairman, and For Students William W. Comfort of the University onstruction will start this fall of Massachusetts, formerly assistant on a $3.5 million residence professor of mathematics at Rochester; C complex for undergraduates, Richard Taylor, professor of philos­ located between River Boulevard and ophy; Everett M. Hafner, associate Mount Hope Cemetery. The 504-stu­ professor of physics; Richard F. Fen­ dent residence is the first phase of a no, professor of political science; and complex that will ultimately house Jay S. Efran, assistant professor of some 900 students. psychology. The new buildings will incorporate recommendations made last spring by teams of River Campus undergradu­ ates who faced actual cost and design University Establishes alternatives. Carnegie Professorship The complex will consist of six four­ story units for 84 students. Each rofessor J.' Bruce French, an building will contain 14 suites com­ P international authority on the posed of six single bed-study rooms, a theory of nuclear structure, living room, bathroom, and balcony. has been named the University's first A large "commons room," a kitchen­ Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics. ette, and laundry and storage facilities The professorship honors the late will be located in each unit. Three philanthropist who, 60 years ago, gave buildings will also have apartments for the University $100,000 for the con­ faculty members and three will have struction of an applied science build­ two suites each for graduate students. ing. (The Carnegie Building on the The eight student teams which con­ University's Prince St. Campus origi­ sidered the problems of planning the nally housed engineering facilities. residence last spring unanimously

24 recommended the suite arrangement. Most of the students voted for single Computer Honors rooms-a feature that has been in­ Plays Cupid rofessor Martin Lessen, chair­ corporated in the final plans. ating by computer-the space­ p man of the Department of The idea of seeking student advice D age successor to such fads as Mechanical and Aerospace in planning the new residences was goldfish-gulping and telephone Sciences, has received a one-year Na­ suggested by President Wallis. Fifty­ booth-packing-made its River Campus tional Science Foundation Senior Post­ five students took part in the study, debut early this year. The University's Doctoral Fellowship. Professor Lessen which was conducted by Lois A. Holz­ first computer dance, described in a will spend his fellowship year at Cam­ man, a graduate student, with Maxine press release as "an elaborate boy­ bridge University, England, where he Springer, '65, as assistant. meets-girl gavotte arranged and choreo­ will study and conduct research on The residence project is scheduled graphed by an IBM 7090 computer," magnetohydrodynamic shock wave in­ for completion in 1968, with additional was a sellout within a few hours of the stabilities. A specialist in the field of sections of the complex expected to time tickets went on sale. fluid and plasma dynamics and energy open by 1971. Each ticket was accompanied by a conversion, he has also conducted re­ five-page, 100-question "Quantitative search into biomedical aspects of en­ Personality Projection Test" designed gineering.... Bequest to pinpoint such factors as the respond­ Walter Hendl, Eastman School di­ ochester is one of three uni­ ent's background, interests, and per­ rector, has been appointed to the U. S. R versities which have received sonality. Answers to the test were trans­ Department of State Educational and $730,000 each from the estate ferred to IBM punch cards and mailed Cultural Affairs Academic Music Pan­ of the late Ethel Studley Kilpatrick of to Compatibility Research, Inc., a el. The Panel plays a key role in choos­ San Mateo County, Calif. Massachusetts firm which professes to ing performers for the State Depart­ Cornell and Stanford universities "take the blindness out of a blind date" ment's international cultural exchange also shared in the $2.2 million bequest, via the computer. Eventually, each program.... which will establish an Ethel S. and ticket holder wound up with five "ideal" Wallace O. Fenn, Distinguished Walter K. Kilpatrick Fund at each dates from which to choose. University Professor of Physiology and school for the advancement of research According to local press reports, director of the Space Science Center, in cancer and heart disease. only half of the 1,000 students who was one of ten recipients of Modern The UR's $730,000 is being credited flocked to the dance actually had com­ Medicine magazine's 1966 Awards for to the Medical School's share of the puter-arranged dates. Nevertheless, the Distinguished Achievement. Professor current $38 million capital campaign. event netted some $1,000 for the year­ Fenn received the award-the most re­ The bequest will be used for cancer book fund of the Class of '68, whose cent in a lengthy roster of honors-"in and heart research facilities in the president, Tim Carroll, dreamed up recognition of his advancement of School's new education and hospital the whole idea. Appropriately, Carroll knowledge of muscle and nerve physi­ buildings, as well as for direct support (a physics major from Ohio) plans a ology and investigations of respiratory of cancer and heart research activities. career in computer science. function."

The following letter to George L. senior years and an associate editor of Prologue in my Dischinger, Jr., '49, director of sophomore and junior years. I am at present in graduate admissions and student aid, is school at N.Y.U. studying for the M.A. in English. reprinted with the permission of When I write that I am more than satisfied with my years the writer. at the U of RI do not exaggerate by any means. In retro­ spect, my four years there seem a fleeting series of reward­ ing and stimulating experiences. This is not to say, of course, that I could not control my enthusiasm if interviewing a New York City candidate for admission; it is meant to show that I have Dear Mr. Dischinger: reason to be concerned with aiding the U of R. Surely, one I have just read your article in the Rochester Review way to thank is to serve. ("Admissions: The View from the Firing Line," winter I plan to go into college teaching eventually and am very issue, 1966) and, as an enthusiastic and more than satisfied interested in people. It is for this reason that I am particu­ alumnus, I could kick myself for not having offered my larly interested in admissions as a means of serving the services before. I write in the hope that it is still not too U of R. Please let me know if there is anything I can still do late for me to be of some help (in admissions activities) this year-or subsequently-such as interviewing or calling this year. on high school counselors. I graduated from the U of R just last June. I was a mem­ Sincerely, ber of the all-campus Judicial Council in my junior and MICHAEL I. BOBKoFF, '65

25 Undergraduate Education: WHERE THE ACTION IS discussed for a long time. Last year, for example, College (Continued from page 14) Cabinet, the student governing body, circulated a five-page questionnaire asking for comments on all aspects of the Uni­ • NOWLIS: Well, the Committee on Academic Policy versity, from academics to housing. And many students indi­ (of the College of Arts and Science) began to examine the cated that they would like to be able to choose whatever validity of distribution requirements about a year ago. Ac­ courses they wanted. They also indicated some general atti­ tually, the present categories are awkward; in many ways tudes that resemble very closely some of the attitudes ex­ they just don't make sense. We finally came up with the pressed by faculty. It strikes me as a perfect example of the idea that if we let students take a course or two in which two forces coming together. As I said before, it's just amaz­ they could get simply a "Satisfactory" or a "Fail" mark, ing to me to find that the faculty has been working all the instead of the usual A, B, C, etc., we could encourage them time on things that have been bothering students. to take courses they might not otherwise get into. And this, in turn, would help to develop just as much breadth-and on • HAZLETT: Actually, the proposal about distribution a more rational basis-without rigid requirements. eliminates the word requirements, but doesn't eliminate Now, we also realized that the effectiveness of such a distribution. The whole point is that you would get distribu­ system would depend heavily on an upgrading of our faculty­ tion by means other than by a set of specific requirements. student advising system-that it would require a great deal It remains to be seen whether this will work, but certainly of faculty-student interaction in order to encourage students our intent is that the concept of breadth of study will con­ to explore a variety of fields. tinue to be important and central to each student's program. • BROWN: How about a little background on this new Frankly, I'm skeptical; I think the proposed plan could "Satisfactory-Fail" marking system? result in the elimination of distribution. Of course, you can make some good arguments for that, too; for example, at • NOWLIS: This is simply the recommendation, based this place, at this time, you might argue for eliminating the on the study of grading systems around the country, that classical concept of distribution because our students tend each student-irrespective of his academic average-be per­ to come from good high schools, from the upper sections of mitted to take one course each semester on a Satisfactory­ their classes in those high schools ... and because the high Fail basis. On the one hand, this would encourage him to schools themselves are taking over the role that the colleges go into some courses he would otherwise not take; on the used to play in insuring a kind of breadth of education. other hand, it would help him to get the essence of a course without grubbing for the details that might give him an A • O'LEARY: But there is also the feeling that breadth is but are soon forgotten. much more contributory to a good education when it is received voluntarily and not by an automatic insurance • GROSSBERG: Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think the Satisfactory-Fail system will accomplish what it set out policy imposed by the university. to do. Under such a system people may not work as hard • HAZLETT: But when you eliminate the automatic because they aren't trying for a high mark. insurance, you eliminate the protection as well. • O'LEARY: I've been surprised to find that there is • NOWLIS: That's why a strong faculty advisor setup significant student opposition to the prospect of eliminating is so important, of course. distribution requirements. After all, the most vocal opinion • GROSSBERG: If the faculty advisor system works expressed by students has always been, "Let us do what we out well, it could be effective. This is a very big if. First, want; don't make us take required courses," and so forth. you're taking a tremendous jump, going from a strict system But as soon as we began to discuss it seriously, there actually of distribution requirements to no system whatsoever. Sec­ were more students in favor of holding on to distribution ond, there's no rule that a student must listen to his advisor. requirements-mainly because the pressure of these require­ • BROWN: You mentioned that the preceptorial pro­ ments had forced them into exploring disciplines which they gram grew out of student concern and has been expanding would not otherwise have considered and through which they each year. How about the Honors Program? discovered great new things! • NOWLIS: Honors work is moving into the sciences­ • GROSSBERG: The question of distribution require­ biology has it; political science and sociology are coming in; ments is that of depth versus breadth. Now, does the uni­ psychology will be in, although our problem is that we lack versity have the responsibility to require students to have physical space. depth and breadth? Does the university have the right to • HAZLETT: As far as the preceptorials are concerned, force this on a student? I think it does. In all honesty, I don't I wish every freshman could have a shot at one of them. know if a student who comes here at the age of 18 or so is Obviously, there are certain kinds of educational objectives responsible enough to know what he wants to do with his that can be achieved in a small, serious kind of discussion life, to know what society demands or should demand, and that can't be achieved any other way. to say, "I like science and that's what I will do well; I don't • NOWLIS: Yet it is characteristic of this university know about philosophy but it seems a waste of time, so I that some of the very best faculty people teach our very won't bother taking it and they aren't going to make me." large courses, and the ones I know about who do teach these • BROWN: Was this reappraisal of distribution require­ large courses take them seriously and prepare for them much ments initiated by faculty or students? more carefully than they would for a smaller class. You • O'LEARY: It's the sort of thing that students have know, the River Campus people who have received the Uni-

26 versity's awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching­ who are not yet quite as good as they're going to be, and for example, Ed Wiig, Jim Kaufmann, Lewis Beck-have older ones who have been better than they're going to be. taught large courses. And I might note that there was a This is one of the facts of life! great student protest when History 101 was cancelled-and The question is: Would you rather see a prestigious pro­ that was one of our largest classes. It boils down to the fact fessor in a big lecture course or run a very high risk of not that we do have good teachers in large courses and there is seeing him at all? By seeing him I mean hearing him, be­ a place in the university for those courses. cause if we switched things around as you suggest, the senior - NOWLIS: I'd like to mention one other interesting faculty member couldn't have more than four or five discus­ new development in teaching here. As you know, there is a sion sections in anyone term and at best would be dealing growing interest nationally in how graduate students can be with a very few students. more effectively used as teachers or as teaching assistants. - GROSSBERG: I guess my plan is unfair to those stu­ Here at Rochester, our Arts College is involved in a study, dents who wouldn't have contact with such a teacher. But I supported by the Esso Education Foundation, to investigate think that 90 per cent of the students wouldn't know the how graduate students actually are used and to explore new difference, whereas the students who would get something ways of using them effectively. We find, by the way, that out of personal contact with the professor don't have the there is a tremendous range of teaching ability among our chance to do so. Incidentally, I think the Honors Program graduate students but that, interestingly enough, even in our and the preceptorials provide just this kind of opportunity best departments, some of the graduate students are evalu­ to know and work with a professor. ated by students as being as effective teachers as many - HAZLETT: The difficulty with your idea, Larry, is professors. this: You may be right that it doesn't make any difference - BROWN: I understand that when undergraduates to 90 per cent of the students whether they're taught by a were asked about the quality of teaching by graduate stu­ professor or a graduate student. But until you get to know dents, a great many of them said something like this: "Well, those students by having them around for a few years, you personally, I have had good experiences with graduate stu­ can't tell which ones would benefit and which would not. dents ... but my case is probably unique." This sort of But I'll bet that if you asked them the first day they arrived response apparently came up again and again. on campus, 90 per cent of them wouldn't say, "Don't worry - HAZLETT: Well, it's good to get at this because it's about me; I'll get along." been one of the great myths about college teaching. I cer­ - O'LEARY: One thing I'd like to comment on, because tainly hope that out of this kind of study will come some I think it's a very effective innovation in providing students conviction among students and everyone else that graduate with diversity and breadth, is the reading course. students as teachers are not, per se, a bad thing. A specific - BROWN: I'm not sure I know what you mean. graduate student might be a bad thing, but that's not just - O'LEARY: Well, the reading course setup allows a because he's a graduate student. student to approach a professor and ask him to give a spe­ - GROSSBERG: I think the main complaint against cialized one-to-one reading course; it's more or less a dis­ graduate students stems from an idealistic concept held by cussion course held at the convenience of the professor and students when they come to a school like Rochester. When the student. I think our professors react very positively to they take a course with a teacher, they want to know that this sort of thing and I know many, many students who are teacher personally, and the easiest way to do this is through taking advantage of it. What it does, of course, is allow the something like a recitation session. Most students are dis­ student to study subjects which, for lack of general interest, appointed when they have a senior professor as a lecturer might not be offered. and somebody else teaching the smaller sections of the class. _ BROWN: Coming back to the preceptorials, do they Maybe it would be better to have the graduate student teach require more faculty than other courses? the large classes, where you don't really get to know the instructor, and assign the top professors to the smaller classes. _ HAZLETT: Yes, proportionate to the number of stu­ dents that are being dealt with. It's hard to say whether they - HAZLETT: But you don't really have that alternative take more of a faculty member's time, because they've been because, while the University would like to be able to pro­ almost a hobby of the faculty in a particular line of intel­ vide a solid bank of totally accomplished professors for you, lectual endeavor that didn't fit into an ordinary freshman this is something no university or college in the country can course. A good example is Bill Lotspeich's fall semester pre­ do-even the warm, friendly little first-rate colleges we're ceptorial, "A Tragic View of Science." Bill, as you know, is always hearing about. You've always got young teachers professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at the Medical School. I think part of the charm of the preceptorial as it exists at Rochester is that a faculty member is voluntarily teaching something near and dear to his heart, yet putting it on an appropriate level for freshmen. It's the sort of individualized education we're trying to emphasize and I think you'll find a continuing effort to explore new and interesting ways of achieving it throughout the undergraduate program. -

27 WILLIAM F. MAY, chairman and chief ex­ ecutive of American Can Co., was featured in a recent article in Dun's Review and River Campus Colleges Modern Industry. Arts and Science. Business Administration. Education • University School. Engineering and Applied Science • 1938 WILLIAM H. FORM, '40G, has been ap­ • 1919 • 1936 pointed chairman of the department of so­ LEO D. WELCH has been elected a director ARTHUR W. HAAS is manager of engineer­ ciology at Michigan State University. of Electric Bond & Share Co. ing, Toledo Kitchen Machine, Rochester. WILLIAM F. DOLKE has been named man­ ROBERT F. EDGERTON has been appointed ager of product planning and customer serv­ • 1921 director of advertising planning, interna­ ice by General Electric's Vacuum Products WILLIAM J. YOUDEN has retired from the tional markets division, Eastman Kodak Co. Operation. applied mathematics division at the National JOHN B. IRELAND is general factory su­ Bureau of Standards. He plans to teach at • 1937 perintendent, Taylor Instrument Companies. George Washington University's College of CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL S. STRATTON has DANIEL W. METZDORF has been appointed Engineering. become a trustee of Eisenhower College. field sales manager for Graflex, Inc. ROBERT J. POTTER, '60G, has become as­ ARTHUR KANNWISHER has joined the phi­ • 1922 sociate director, applied research labora­ ELIZABETH SHEMPP COLCLOUGH, vice pres- losophy department of Johnstown College, tory, Xerox Corp. ident of the Robert R. Mullen Co., is listed University of Pittsburgh. ANTHONY LORIA has been appointed senior in "Who's Who of American Women," research associate in the Eastman Kodak "World Who's Who in Commerce and In­ • 1939 Research Laboratories. dustry," and "Dictionary of International DR. DAVID G. DECKER has been promoted Biography." to associate professor of obstetrics and gyne­ KATHERINE ANDERSON STRELSKY is writ­ cology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, ing a new critical study of Dostoevsky. University of Minnesota. ROBERT C. AMERO has been named staff • 1924 engineer, marketing technical division, Gulf VERA WILSON, manager of community Research & Development Co. services at Eastman Kodak, was saluted by GEORGE S. WHITNEY, chairman of the En­ the Rochester Times-Union in a profile de­ gineering Technologies Division at the State scribing her many volunteer activities. University Agricultural and Technical Col­ • 1929 lege, Hornell, has been named to the ac­ P. AUSTIN BLEYLER, a vice president of creditation team of the Engineering Coun­ Taylor Instrument Companies, was elected cil for Professional Development. to Taylor's board of directors. • 1940 • 1931 HARRIET VAN HORNE, columnist for the ALICE OSTER has become director of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, is one of YWCA's on the Island of Oahu (Hawaii). six winners of the annual Front Page • 1933 Awards for excellence in journalism given MORTIMER COPELAND has been appointed by the Newspaper Women's Club of New to the advisory board of the St. Lawrence York. County National Bank's Potsdam office. • 1941 JOHN M. MCCONNELL has been promoted LAWRENCE J. E. HOFER has joined Pitts- to director of employee relations at the burgh Activated Carbon Co. as a fellow Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. LEWIS D. CONTA, '34,'35G, professor of at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. • 1934 mechanical and aerospace sciences at UR, RUSSELL C. MALLATT has been appointed MARY STEPHENSON is on the faculty of has been elected vice president of the coordinator of air and water conservation Coker College, Haitsville, S. C. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. for American Oil Co. • 1942 THEODORE H. DECK is company engineer, Lakelands Concrete Products, Honeoye Falls. • 1943 MAY RICHARD T. KRAMER has been named divi­ sion superintendent, engineering, construc­ tion, maintenance, and utilities, at Eastman Kodak Co. J. ANTOINETTE HONDELINK is teaching in Turkey. By RECENT ACTION OF THE UNIVERSITY'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES, the cluster of under­ Marriages graduate living quarters at the northeast corner of the River Campus, slightly back HELEN FAIRCHILD to Elliot Dunday, Oct. from the Genesee, has been designated "The Founders' Court." 23. Individual structures in the group will commemorate, most appropriately, three • 1944 key personalities in the first phase of the University saga: President Martin Brewer SGT. ROBERT C. BROWN has received the Anderson, John Nichols Wilder, and William Nathan Sage. All three had firm roots U. S. Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service as an information su­ in New England-that fertile seed-bed of collegiate education in America. pervisor in Viet Nam. Wilder is almost the forgotten man of the rich and revealing University story. C. WILLIAM TAYLER is a partner in the law firm of O'Connor, Tayler & Heise, A young, well-to-do merchant of Albany, who had close relatives in Rochester, Washington, D. C. He has been engaged in he devoted almost three years to the establishment of a seat of higher learning private law practice since 1954; previously beside the Genesee. A trustee of Madison University (after 1890, Colgate), he he had served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Long first worked to remove that institution to the Flour City. When court action active in alumni affairs, he is chairman of frustrated the plan, Wilder and a set of like-minded men revived an older scheme the $38 Million Campaign for the Washing­ for a new and independent college in Rochester. ton area. The better to advance the cause, Wilder moved his family to Rochester, taking • 1945 up residence in the historic Child mansion-currently the headquarters of the JOHN H. BARNARD, JR., has been appointed vice president-manufacturing for Allied Bureau of Municipal Research. Month after month he spent himself collecting Chemical Corp. of New York City. funds for the University and liberally subscribed himself, enlisting a faculty and HENDRICK C. VAN NESS, '46G, is visiting winning friends for the institution all across New York State. professor of chemical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Small wonder that Wilder's colleagues on the original board of trustees selected EDWARD A. MASON, who was awarded a this dedicated and zealous man as their president (or chairman); he also acted as National Science Foundation Senior Post­ doctoral Fellowship, is doing research at chairman of the powerful executive committee of the board. He remained in the Euratom research laboratories, Italy. Rochester until business involvements necessitated his return to Albany. Hoping ARTHUR R. JAEGER has been elected presi­ to lure him back, the trustees elected him president of the University. But, though dent of Independent Testing Laboratories, Inc., Boulder, Colo. he regarded the invitation as the greatest compliment he ever received, Wilder CHARLES L. WALLIS edited Speaker's Re­ declined the post. He retained an active interest in the affairs of the University sources from Contemporary Literature and until his premature death in 1858. The Treasure Chest, recently published by Harper & Row. "God forbid," President Anderson once declared, "that his name and labor HARRY STULTZ is heading development should ever be forgotten on any occasion which shall mark the progress of the and design of control room and field in­ University in all that shall make it worthy and excellent." Yet Wilder was neglected struments for Taylor Instrument Companies. until the trustees affixed his name to one of the new dormitories. • 1946 In laying the foundations of the University, Wilder worked hand-in-glove with CLINT CALLAHAN has been appointed manager of operations of Calfax, Inc., William N. Sage, an alumnus of Brown University, a native Rochesterian, and a Redondo Beach, Calif. businessman. They cooperated in obtaining funds to launch the University and DOROTHY GOLDMAN EIGER has become shared in editing The A nnunciator, a publicity sheet to promote the endowment executive director of the Berks County (Pa.) Mental Health Association. drive and to acquaint interested New Yorkers with what was being accomplished. JAMES K. FEELY is vice president of the When the trustee board was organized, Sage undertook the duties of secretary Bloomfield (N. J.) Savings Bank. and soon added those of treasurer. That dual responsibility this founding-father DR. WILLIAM S. EDGECOMB has returned to private practice after serving for eight carried on for forty years, and, happily, throughout the period he pasted in scrap­ years as director of the Erie County Mental books every piece of information pertinent to the University that he came upon. Health Office. They are invaluable sources in reconstructing the past of the institution. • 1947 President Martin B. Anderson? Let's reserve a profile of this Olympian personality DONALD S. NASH, '49G, has become lec­ turer in French literature at Roberts Wes­ in the nineteenth century evolution of the University to a later occasion. _ leyan College. DR. ROBERT PLOSSCOWE has been ap­ ARTHUR J. MAY pointed director of student health at the Professor Emeritus of History State University College of New York at and University Historian Fredonia. NELSON C. SIMONSON is serving on the • 1952 • 1956 staff of the U. S. Naval War College, New­ CLIFFORD A. SERTL, '60G, is manager of MORRIS E. GRUVER is a product manager port, R. I. Xerox Corp's. corporate office services. at Pfaudler Permutit Inc. WILLIAM K. MINION is secretary-treasurer RAYMOND A. SCHIRMER is business man­ • 1948 of Jamestown Mfg. Association. ager of the Eastman School of Music. WILLIAM J. CONLEY has been promoted GURTH L. BLACKWELL has been elected as­ RICHARD W. ROBERTS has been named to manager, production machine section, sistant vice president of Rochester's Marine manager of the structures and reactions Stromberg-Carlson Corp. Midland Trust Company. branch at GE's General Research and De­ PHILIP L. REAGAN is assistant vice presi­ DR. WILLIAM CUSACK, JR., is practicing velopment Center. dent, Consolidated Cigar Corp. obstetrics and gynecology in Old Forge. JAMES A. FENTON has become headmaster JORN D. HOPKINS has been appointed vice DR. ARNOLD K. BRENMAN has been named of Wheaton (Ill.) Academy. president-engineering for Deluxe Products to The Woman's Medical College of Penn­ Births Corp., Racine, Wisc. sylvania's department of surgery. Ross C. SCOTT has been elected vice presi­ To Bunny and GEORGE M. GOLD, a son, DAVID H. FREEMAN has joined the Ana­ Seth Harris, Jan. 22. dent, Will Scientific Inc., Buffalo. lytical Chemistry Division of the Institute for Materials Research, National Bureau of • 1949 • 1957 WARREN R. ZIMMER has been named man­ Standards. WILLIAM F. HALBLEIB is director of the ager of physical services at Xerox Corp. ROBERT QUIGLEY, vice president of Will mechanical department at Rochester Insti­ EDWARD C. SEILS is a director of Walker Scientific Inc., is supervising the company's tute of Technology. Mfg. Co., Racine, Wisc. Policy Division in New York City. DR. JAMES N. FRISK is practicing pediatrics DONALD R. SPINK has been elected vice Births in Horseheads. president of Carborundum Metals Co., To Leonard and DORIS URBACH MELMAN, PHILIP R. TRAPANI has been named assist­ Parkersburg, W. Va. a son, Howard Ross, Jan. 4. ant city attorney for Norfolk, Va. GLORIA PATEHEN ALEXANDER has become • 1953 • 1958 assistant to the director of chapters at Can­ THOMAS TABER is assistant district princi- cer Care Inc., National Cancer Foundation. RAYMOND 1. HASENAUER has been ap­ pointed manager of a newly formed Prod­ pal for the Webster school district. JOHN J. GRELA has been elected vice presi­ SIGURD O. SWANSON has become assistant dent for organization and management de­ uct Engineering Group at the Rochester division of Friden, Inc. professor of mathematics and science at velopment of Sperry Rand Corp. Corning Community College. WILLIAM T. HAMLIN is product manager, HARRY K. BLAESER, JR., is an office man­ ager of Rochester's Marine Midland Trust ALEXANDER R. STOESEN presented a paper medical division, Ritter Equipment Co. entitled "America Leaves the Rhineland Oc­ ROBERT HARVEY has been appointed dean Co. ROBERT H. BALDWIN has been named cupation 1923" before the South Carolina of faculty at Knoxville College. Historical Association in April. R. BRUCE THOMPSON, JR., has joined Lin­ scout executive of the Seneca Council, Boy Scouts of America. HARRY E. ALLAN is associate actuary of coln University's department of sociology Teacher Insurance and Annuity Assn. and and geology and geography as lecturer. IAN R. MACLEOD has joined the legal de­ partment of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. College Retirement Equities Fund. COL. J. NELSON JEAN has been named chief NORMAN A. LEISTER is laboratory head of plans division, U. S. Army Supply and GILLIS G. PRATT has become assistant vice president of the Bank of Virginia. of Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia. Maintenance Agency at Headquarters, U. S. KENNETH N. FISHELL, '64GED, has been Army Communications Zone, Europe. Marriages appointed associate professor of instruc­ HANS M. GRAINER to Margery J. Grenon tional communications at Syracuse Uni­ • 1950 in October. REV. KENNETH TUTTLE is director of the versity. new department of social services at the • 1954 Rochester Council of Churches. GEORGE EASTMAN, '60GED, is associate SIDNEY SHAW, currently a professional FREDERICK R. WILKINS is district clerk of professor of philosophy and director of officer in the Department of Nuclear En­ the Palmyra-Macedon schools. teacher education, Grinnell College. gineering at the University of New South WAYNE M. HARRIS was saluted for his con­ CHARLES M. STEVENS has been appointed Wales in Sydney, Australia, reports that he servation activities in a recent article in the associate professor of chemistry at Saint arrived in Sydney last Christmas Eve after Rochester Times-Union. Joseph's College, Chicago. a 10-month journey from the West Indies ANN LOUISE HENTZ has been promoted DONALD C. STEWART has become assistant on a 35-foot sailboat. to associate professor of English at Lake to the president of Superior Cable Corp., Joining the three-man expedition in An­ Forest College. Hickory, N. C. tigua, B.W.!., after its arrival from Eng­ ANN HURLBUT PRENTICE is librarian for land, he island-hopped through the Carib­ Births the Arlington (N. Y.) school district. bean, "transited the Panama Canal, and To RAYMOND and PAT RYAN GREENE, '52, THADDEUS M. BONUS is manager, internal called at some 20 islands in the Pacific" en a son, Christopher Sean, Nov. 6. communications, Xerox Corp. route to Australia. JACK BERNSTEIN has joined the merchan­ • 1951 dising department of Sports Illustrated. RICHARD O. RIESS has been elected state RICHARD SMITH is professor and chairman Births chairman and coordinator for Massachusetts of the chemistry department, State Univer­ To Mr. and Mrs. ALLAN J. STONE, a daugh­ of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley sity College at Geneseo. ter, Margor Elise, Aug. 23. Geographical Society and the National To RONALD and CHERRY THOMSON SOC­ Council for Geographic Education. He has • 1955 CIARELLI, a daughter, Beth Thomson, Jan. also been awarded a National Science Foun­ JOHN L. TAYLOR is vice president of Benton 22. dation Science Faculty Fellowship in urban & Bowles, Inc., New York City. To Beryl and JOAN ROSENTHAL NUSBAUM, geography. REV. ROBERT A. BURCH has been ap­ a daughter, Dena Rachel, July 30, 1965. JAMES P. LODGE lectured on atmospheric pointed special projects officer of Opera­ They also have two sons. chemistry at the University of North Da­ tion Catapult for Church World Service of kota's Science Institute. the National Council of Churches of Christ. • 1959 ANTHONY DAVENPORT has been named BERNARD W. HARLESTON'S "Higher Educa­ Marriages director of programming and public rela­ tion for the Negro" appeared in a recent DAVID A. GROSS to Judith Tatelbaum, Nov. tions for WHCT-TV, Hartford, Conn. issue of The Atlantic. 28. Births To Maureen and JOHN J. BIGENWALD, a son, Christopher, Nov. 7. To HAROLD and ELLEN SCHULTZER BRUCK, a son, Matthew Harlan, Dec. 14. • 1960 JOSEPH C. ZINNI is manager, plant en­ gineering and maintenance, Stromberg­ Carlson Corp. ELMER HUMES, JR., is director of overseas operations for Xerox Corp. GEORGE SKADRON is on the faculty of the University of Maryland. LOUIS MILLER has been named senior scientist in the behavioral sciences division of the Spindletop Research Center in Lex­ ington, Ky. LAWRENCE HOLMES, '64&'65GEN, has joined the faculty of Northwestern Univer­ sity, Mechanical Engineering and Astronau­ tical Science Department. HELEN P. CREASE is physical therapist in Quito, Ecuador. ALAN F. HILFIKER is associated with the law firm of Wiser, Shaw, Freeman, Van Graafeiland, Harter & Secrest, Rochester. JOHN M. PERRY is chairman of the depart­ ment of mathematics at Wells College. Marriages FRANCES A. MILLER to Marvin Becker, Sept. 9. Births To JAMES, '61GED, and ELIZABETH KEL­ LOGG SPEEGLE, '61N, a son, Douglass Reed, July 23. To Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT ARLIN, a daugh­ ter, Marcy Ann, June 18. Nancy Lewis, '60, was the subject of a recent Los Angeles Times article titled "Her Tour To Paul and GRETCHEN WIMMERSHOFF de Force: Arranging Museum Trips." A history of art major at Rochester, she is ALLEN, a daughter, Daphne Elizabeth, Dec. coordinator of educational services for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art-a post 10. that includes the planning of overseas tours for the Museum's 30,000 members. To date • 1961 her work has taken her to Europe, the Orient, and Russia. CHRISTOPHER S. HYDE'S novel Temple of the Winds was published recently. KEN SCHLOSSBERG, Washington Daily News reporter, has won the American Po­ To C. WILLIAM and JUDITH HENDEE SCHUYLER C. WELLS has been appointed litical Science Association award for re­ BROWN, a son, Philip Tanner, Feb. 14. superintendent of quality control for B&L's porting of public affairs. Scientific Instrument Division. • 1962 JOE V. MICHAEL is assistant professor of CURTIS L. BARNES, JR., is director of public RONALD J. SALAMONE is on the faculty of relations, Elmira College. chemistry at Carnegie Tech. Loyola University School of Law. JAMES W. MUIR is working in the produc­ FIRST LT. BARRY D. BERGLUND is an in­ STEPHEN WILLARD, '64&'65G, is assistant structor in accounting and finance at Shep­ tion planning department of the Westing­ professor of mathematics at Lehigh Uni­ house Lamp Division, Bloomfield, N. J. pard AFB, Texas. versity. HARRY STEINORTH is manager, special DAVID B. SELIGMAN is working on his STEPHEN EHRE is a history teacher in the Ph.D. in philosophy at Duke University. products engineering, Consolidated Vacuum Wheatley High School, and JOANNA SASSO Corp. JOHN J. MCCUSKER has joined the faculty EHRE is elementary school psychologist for of St. Francis Xavier University. DR. JONATHAN G. SOLOMON is interning at the Roosevelt School District, both on Long Greenwich Hospital, Conn. KARL ROTH is a first-year medical student Island. at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Marriages Marriages PAUL SMITH is Western New York field FREDERICK J. HOLBROOK to Rosanne Fer- DONALD B. REID to Theodora K. Lane, representative for the National Foundation, raro, Aug. 28 HARRY L. REISS to Louise Oct. 9 J. KURT KOENIG to Betty Lolley, March of Dimes. Pulcino, Dec. 4 JACKSON MARYLAND Sept. 4 ROBERT L. MODE to Carol Ann IRA J. GEDAN is teaching mathematics at YOUNG III to Paula Jean Batchelder, Dec. 4. Levin, Dec. 19.... ALAN K. BORTHWICK to Nazareth College. Births Mary Layton, Jan. 19.... STEPHEN EHRE HERBERT EICHLER has been appointed To Dr. and Mrs. JONATHAN G. SOLOMON, to JOANNA SASSO, Aug. 28. school psychologist in Ringwood, N. J. a daughter, Jeanne Ruth, Sept. 18. • 1963 Marriages To DAVID and MARTHA LIGHTBOWN ROB­ SISTER MARY PETER is teaching psychology JEANINE E. SULLIVAN to John C. Cush­ BINS, a daughter, Elizabeth Jane, May 19. at Nazareth College, Rochester. man, Nov. 13 .... DAVID B. SELIGMAN to To Ronald and CAROL MANDEL GENF, a MICHAEL T. BOLAND is doing graduate Caroline L. Gram, Oct. 23. ... DAVID J. daughter, Susan Amy, Oct. 10. work at the University of Miami. STATT, '65G, to Linda J. Stevens, June 26. • 1964 • 1965 BUDD R. CATLIN has been appointed vice ROBERT HAVLEN is doing graduate work at HELP! president and general manager of the re­ the University of Arizona. Eastman School is in need of the fol­ cently formed Rochester Spraycoating Corp. PHILIP THIBODEAU is trumpeter with the lowing issues of its Yearbook: '23, '24, BARBARA S. SULLIVAN is teaching in Vero­ U. S. Army Concert Band, Washington. '29, '31 thru '39, '41, '43, '44, '45, na, N. J. AMY L GLOVER is doing graduate work at '54 and '58. GERALD T. SNYDER is working for James the University of Cologne. If you can part with yours, please Johnston Agency, Inc., Rochester. RICHARD G. HULL is a graduate assistant send it to Gerry Briggs, '27E, Book­ JUDITH SUTTON DRAKE and ANN ABELOVE at the State University of New York at store Manager, at the School. SIEGEL are teaching in Troy. Buffalo. ROBIN BROOKS is assistant professor of his­ DWIGHT F. RYAN (G) has been promoted tory at San Jose State College. to manager of in-process quality control in • 1942 CHARLES W. RECH, JR., is a Peace Corps the process manufacturing division at Xerox DOROTHY ORNEST FELDMAN was the fea­ volunteer in the Philippines. Corp. tured vocalist in a concert at Franconia JERALD ZANDMAN is a sales engineer for ROBERT T. SMITH is doing graduate work (N. H.) College. She was accompanied by the Trane Co., Newark, N. J. at the State University College, Oswego. ROBERT STERN, '55E,'56&'62GE. OTTO GERLINER (G) is assistant professor RONALD LEIGH, GE, associate professor of of psychology at Alfred Tech. Marriages music at Carnegie Tech, spoke on "Sym­ WILLIAM A. STENGLE is a Peace Corps phonic Music in the United States" at the RICHARD VAN VLIET to MARJORIE MAC­ volunteer in Malaysia. annual meeting of Symphony South. NEILL, Nov. 25.... RICHARD L. SONNER to RICHARD JOFFE has been assigned to Hollo­ WILLIAM WARFIELD was featured in Vien­ Ellen J. Hnatiw, Dec. 4.... PAMELA WAAS man AFB, N. M., after completing Air na's Volksoper production of "Porgy and to Gary P. Ferraro, Aug. 21. ... ANASTASIOS Force basic training. Bess" and also performed during the Vienna ANASTASOPOULOS to SUSAN T. FAIRMAN, '63. HARTLEY V. LEWIS has been awarded a Festival. · .. SUZANNE COHEN to CARL SCHLOSSBERG, doctoral dissertation fellowship in econom­ JOHN LAMoNTAINE'S "Fuguing Set" has Sept. 5.... JOHN F. TIEDE to Saralee Orton ics by the Ford Foundation. been published. in October. Marriages ELISABETH C. PLANJE to Donald Higgins, • 1943 Births Sept. 18.... GARY M. WHITFORD to Karen DORIOT DWYER, first-desk flutist with the To JERALD and JANET SIEGENTHALER ZAND­ M. Lind, Nov. 13 .... EDWARD MALAKOFF Boston Symphony, recently made a New MAN, a son, Stephen Mark, May 28, 1965. to Judith Ann Glasow in December. York appearance with the Boston Sym­ phony Chamber Players. In reviewing the recital, The New York Times reported that her "phenomenal display in Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasilieras No.6 brought forth Eastman School ofMusic a well-deserved ovation." • 1944 ALFIO V. PIGNOTTI has become assistant • 1929 Hall, with Eugene Ormandy conducting the professor of music at Ball State University. LOUISE CUYLER, '48GE, contributed to a Philadelphia Orchestra. CLARENCE BURG, dean emeritus and pro­ new book, The Commonwealth of Music. Diamond recently was commissioned by fessor of piano at Oklahoma City Univer­ MARK HOFFMAN, '53GE, head of the Uni­ the Thorne Music Fund to write a new work sity, conducted the Muskogee Piano Festival versity of Mississippi's music department, for chorus and orchestra to be performed held in April. gave a piano recital recently at Mississippi during the Golden Anniversary of the Man­ State University. hattan School of Music in 1967-68. • 1948 MERLE KRAMER MONTGOMERY, chairman BETTY BANNEY CROSSLEY has been ap- • 1932 of the Foundation for the Advancement of pointed assistant professor of music at Mc­ J. STANLEY KING, '37GE, has become a Music, addressed the 1965 Convention of Neese State College, La. violinist in the Indianapolis Symphony. the Georgia Federation of Music Clubs. • 1933 • 1938 • 1949 DALE SANDIFUR'S Symphony in E-flat Ma- HARRY JACOBS is director of fine arts ac- Roy H. JOHNSON, '51&'61GE, recently gave jor received its world premiere last fall in tivities for Augusta (Ga.) College. a piano recital at Hollins College. Chicago. J. CLIFTON WILLIAMS, composer, partici­ • 1939 pated in the University of Southern Missis­ • 1935 MARGARET K. FARISH, '46GE, is the author sippi's band camp. ALAN COLLINS, '39&'64GE, recently was of the only guide to published music for guest soloist with the Wooster Symphony. stringed instruments. Her "String Music in • 1950 Print" was issued recently. A. L. DITTMER, professor of music at Utah • 1936 PAUL W. ALLEN, '54GE, conducted the State University, is studying in Vienna. RICHARD BALES, conductor of the National North Central College Choir in a 17-day Gallery of Arts Orchestra, is directing the JOHN TAMBLYN, professor of music at Au­ tour of the East Coast. burn University, presented a piano recital Orchestra's 24th season of Sunday evening ROBERT WARD'S Sweet Freedom's Song concerts. at the Musemont (Ga.) Fine Arts Camp. was premiered recently in Lexington, Mass. JOHN HUGGLER has been named lecturer • 1937 • 1941 in music at M.LT. DAVID DIAMOND is one of two composers SYLVIA MUEHLING, '43GE, presented a pro- recently elected to the National Institute of gram of violin and piano sonatas with OLIVE • 1951 Arts and Letters. Over the last several GOULD PARKES, '31E&'32GE, at Western SPENCER H. NORTON'S Te Deum, written months Diamond's 50th birthday has been Michigan University. for the University of Oklahoma's 75th an­ marked by special performances of his GEORGE A. MICHAEL is assistant professor niversary, was premiered last fall. works locally and throughout the country. of music at Ball State University. JEROME NEFF, assistant professor of music These included a highly praised presentation JAMES B. PETERSON, GE, is music critic for at Hollins College, has been named music of his Elegies in New York's Philharmonic the Omaha World Herald. critic of The Roanoke Times. Births Elaine Bonazzi Acclaimed • 1957 Dr. and Mrs. JESS T. CASEY, '58GE, have In New York Opera Debut PAUL TARABEK is assistant professor of adopted a daughter, Claire Elizabeth. music at Eastern New Mexico University. To Dr. James and CAROL LANGNER Cox, Mezzo-soprano ELAINE BONAZZI CAR­ RONALD E. WISE is assistant professor of a son, James Gregory, May 2, 1965. RINGTON, '51E, played a major role in the music at the University of Idaho. New York City Opera's world premiere of EDWARD C. HANKERSON, '63GE, is busi­ • 1952 Ned Rorem's Miss Julie. The New York ness manager of Brevard Music Center. Roy D. SWEET, GE, directed Cox and Box MARGUERITE ROCHOW, '59GE, won the and Requiem for West Chester (Pa.) State press greeted her appearance in the role of Christine as "a spectacular debut from every Sixth International Vocal Competition held College. He was also guest conductor of the standpoint" in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Lower Southeastern District Chorus Festi­ (New York Herald Tribune), which "earned her spontaneous applause" RALPH G. LONG, '62GE, has been named val of Pennsylvania. director of music at Snyder Memorial EMMETT M. STEELE recently directed an (New York Journal American) ... "a dis­ tinguished debut-topnotch" Methodist Church, Fla. experimental violin instruction program at (The New Yorker) . .. "most effective" (The New York WILLIAM DUVALL, baritone, was a recital­ Park Forest Conservatory. and "stunning to eye and ear" ist at the Hudson Valley Music Club. SAMUEL and MARY WATKINS MINASIAN, Times), (New York World-Telegram and Sun). SISTER M. CHRISTIAN ROSNER has been ap­ '56GE, Cornell faculty members, gave a Among her recent performances, Miss pointed divisional chairman of the Music piano-violin recital at Simpson College. Teachers National Association Certifica­ G. J EAN SHAW'S "Teach Them to Read" Bonazzi has appeared with the Opera So­ tion Board. appeared recently in Instrumentalist. ciety of Washington in Faust, in the Ameri­ can premiere of Sibelius' RICHARD M. WEBSTER has become assist­ WILLIAM DEGUIRE, '53GE, is chairman of The Ferryman's Bride at Carnegie Hall, and in ant professor of music and acting chairman the fine arts department, Upsala College. Alexander Nevsky, with Leopold Stokowski conduct­ of the department of music at the Univer­ • 1953 ing in Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell. sity of Toledo. BLYTHE OWEN, whose Swinging was re- cently published, has been selected as an • 1958 cently at Northern Illinois University. adjudicator for a competition sponsored by NICANOR N. ABELARDO has become music the Walla Walla (Wash.) Symphony. • 1955 instructor at the College of Guam. RONALD LOPRESTI, '56GE, assistant pro­ CHARLES A. BAKER is teaching music at • 1954 fessor of theory and composition at Arizona North Texas State University. ROBERT E. RESSEGER is teaching music at State Uniyersity, was recently featured in KERMIT C. PETERS, professor of woodwind New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill. The Arizona Republic. at the University of Omaha, performed at PAUL LYDDON is assistant professor of mu­ the annual Guest Artist Concert of the Con­ sic at the University of Wyoming. • 1956 cordia (Neb.) College Orchestra. ARNO DRUCKER, '55GE, and JON ENGBERG, MARY LUFT FENWICK, organist, opened LEE DOUGHERTY PAGANO, '59GE, was fea­ '56GE, of West Virginia University's Amer­ the fall musical series at West Side Presby­ tured vocalist at Alma White College. ican Arts Trio, recently appeared on four terian Church, Ridgewood, N. J. programs televised in Pittsburgh. KENNETH JOSEPHSON, recently appointed Births CARMEN MOODY PURSLEY, GE, NOLA MAR­ principal cellist of the Chattanooga Sym­ To PETER, '59GE, and MARILYN RICHARD BERGER GUSTAFSON, '60E, and GALE FUR­ phony Orchestra, is listed in Who's Who in SYNNESTVEDT, '59, a daughter, Brita Jean, MAN COFFEE, '61 E, presented a recital re- American Education. Oct. 25.

GRIFFITH WARD, Harvard University; '62: JOHANNA KESSLER PUBLOW, Buffalo RICHARD B. BALSLEY, University of State University; GEORGE T. GEORGAN­ Pennsylvania; GEORGE SKADRON, UR. TAS, Washington University; HARVEY '61: KENNETH S. DANIELSON, Harvard Uni­ M. RAPP, Hollins College; CHARLES versity (M.D.): JONATHAN SOLOMON, BOWMAN, Air Force Institute of Tech­ Einstein Medical Center (M.D.). nology; ELAINE HOFFMEISTER, UR. '62: RONALD J. SALAMONE, University of '63: JUDITH FRISHBERG, Simmons College; Chicago (LD.); WARREN B. HOWE, SUSAN THIEROLF, Brown University; Washington University (M.D.); STE­ DOROTHEA DE ZAFRA, University of Doctoral degrees have been awarded to: PHEN WILLARD, '64G, UR; SUSAN S. Pittsburgh; PHILIP D. FISHBACK, BAR­ ARONSON, Western Reserve University '48: CHARLES J. WARNER, '49GE, Catholic BARA MAE TABAK, Harvard University; (M.D.); PATRICIA NUMANN, State Uni­ MICHAEL DIAMOND, Pennsylvania State University of America; W. S. WRIGHT versity Upstate Medical Center (M.D.); NORTH, University of Illinois. University; JAMES MUIR, Lehigh Uni­ JANE REARICK SHOUP, University of versity; PAMELA PRAEGER KAHL, Uni­ '52: CLARENDON VAN NORMAN, JR., Co­ Chicago. versity of Chicago. lumbia University. Master's degrees have been awarded to: '55: HAROLD I. MACHoNKIN, Purdue Uni­ '64: STEWART C. AGOR, EDMUND W. HAF­ versity. '45: WILLIAM A. ADLER, University of Chi­ NER, ALICE PARMAN CARNES, HOWARD cago. '56: GUY A. BOCKMON, Eastman School of M. WEISS, Harvard University; JUDITH Music; COLDEN B. GARLAND, '60GED, '56: LINCOLN E. BAKER, Harvard Univer­ RYDER GEBER, ANGELINE M. MAT­ UR. sity. THEWS, Eastman School of Music; MARTHA J. ZELLE, Western Reserve '57: ARCHIE TEMPERLEY, JUDITH KANTACK '58: PATRIC T. SHEA, Newark College of University; STEFAN P. SHOUP, Univer­ TEMPERLEY, University of Oregon. Engineering; LAWRENCE H. KOVACH, sity of Chicago; CATHERINE D. '58: JOHN E. DROTNING, University of Chi­ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. SCHANTZ, UR. cago; DONALD MUSELLA, '62G, State '60: ROBERT BUBECK, Pennsylvania State University at Albany. University. A bachelor of divinity degree was awarded '59: MICHAEL C. GEMIGNANI, Notre Dame; '61: RICHARD HOPKINS, Emory University; to: PETER L. HAYS, Ohio State University. JEAN ANTOINE BOUR, Princeton Uni­ '48: JAMES A. MARTIN, San Francisco '60: PAUL MIKOLAJ, Cal Tech; MARGARET versity. Theological Seminary. ESM ALUMNI HONORED JOSEF FENNIMORE, winner of the National SHARON HILLER is in Salzburg on a Ful­ Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists bright grant. Three Eastman School alumni have been award, is on a concert tour of Japan. MARILYN GORMAN, pianist, was featured appointed to the national committee for the IRENE E. LIDEN has joined the music de­ in this year's Franconia (N. H.) College Ford Foundation's Contemporary Music partment of San Antonio College. concert series. Project. They are PETER MENNIN, '45E-GE FRED LIEBERMAN, currently a graduate fel­ FRED WIEMER is in Rome on a Fulbright &'48GE, composer and president of the Juil­ low at UCLA, is the composer of Two Short grant. liard School of Music; CLYDE ROLLER, '41E, String Quartets, recently published by E. BEN LEVIN is timpanist for the Oklahoma associate conductor of the Houston Sym­ C. Schirmer Co. City Symphony. phony Orchestra; and ROBERT WARD, '39E, KAREN PHILLIPS is a member of the Bay Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Marriages EUGENE TETTAMANTI to Roberta Brackett, Chamber String Quartet, Camden, Me. July 2l. WILLIAM RUBENSTEIN is assistant in charge of the electronic music studio at Washing­ • 1963 • 1959 ton University, where he is studying for JAN BLANKENSHIP, '61GE, gave a piano FREDERICK S. WYMAN and JUDITH L. Ross his doctorate. lecture-recital for the Grand Rapids Piano have been appointed assistant professor and Teachers Forum and a faculty recital at instructor in music, respectively, at Fredonia Marriages Central Michigan University. State University. ANGELA TUCCI to Robert Burr, June 26.... JANE A. BAHR is teaching music in the Wil­ WILLIAM RUBENSTEIN to Nancy Ordelheide, Births liamstown, Mass. public schools. December, 1964.... ELAINE BERGSTEIN to To EDWARD and JEAN THAYER LANDSMAN, RODNEY SCHULLER has been appointed or­ Jonathan Smith, Sept. 12. a daughter, Barbara Jean, Oct. l. ganist-choirmaster for the Presbyterian • 1960 Church, Bound Brook, N. J. • 1965 JOEL THOME has written an electronic DIANE DEUTSCH THOME is doing graduate ROBERT SILVERMAN received sixth prize work at the University of Pennsylvania. music score for an experimental film shown in the fourth annual Rio de Janiero Inter­ recently at the Annenberg School of Com­ • 1964 national Piano Competition. munications. PAUL MAKI has won a Fulbright scholar­ JOANNE RICHARDS is teaching music in the ROBERT TOWN is assistant professor of ship to study music at the Conservatoire Na­ Cannon Falls (Minn.) schools. organ at Wichita State University. tional and the Ecole Normale de Musique, LINDA GERHARD is bass violinist with the RICHARD REBER, '62GE, and PAUL TARDIF, Paris. Dallas Symphony. '63GE, are on the music faculty of the Uni­ versity of Kansas. DAVID RENNER has joined the faculty at Michigan State University. BEVERLY A. WARD has been appointed or­ ganist and choirmaster of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. James, Chicago. Medicine and Dentistry • 1961 MARY K. CLARK is choral director and lec- turer at Cazenovia College. • 1932 LARRY PALMER, 'GE, is associate profes­ DR. WALTER C. ROGERS is chief of staff on sor of music at Virginia State College. the S. S. HOPE stationed in Corinto, Ni­ PETER M. VIVONA has become high school caragua. music director for the Indian Lake School (Ohio). • 1943 IRVIN L. WAGNER is an assistant professor DR. HAROLD W. BROOKS has joined the of brass instruments at Louisiana State Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa., as University. plastic surgeon. JAMES MILTENBERGER presented a concert DR. JAMES K. MASSON has been appointed of Latin American and American music assistant professor of plastic surgery at the last winter in New York's Carnegie Hall. Mayo Graduate School of Medicine of the ERNESTO LEJANO, '65GE, is on the music University of Minnesota. faculty of the University of Kansas. • 1944 JAMES ODE, '65GE, has become professor DR. JAMES G. PARKE serves on the visiting of brass instruments at Ithaca College. staff of Medina (N. Y.) Memorial Hospital. • 1962 • 1947 ROBERT S. JORDAN is studying music under DR. WILLIAM F. SCHERER, '45, has been a Fulbright Scholarship in Freiburg, Ger­ appointed director of the Commission on many. Viral Diseases of the Armed Forces Epi­ ROBERT CHRISTENSEN, '64GE, is director demiological Board. of the Music Center of Lake County, Wau­ kegan, Ill. '39M Alumna Wins Award • 1949 MARGUERITE MURRAY EARLE has joined ALEJANDRO ZAFFARONI, GM, has been the preparatory division of the Lewis and DR. MARY s. CALDERONE, executive direc­ named director of the Palo Alto-Stanford Clark College music department. tor of Sex Information and Education Coun­ Hospital Board. DONALD K. GILBERT'S Rondo for Percus­ cil of the U. S., recently received the fourth • 1952 sion was recently published. annual "Award for Distinguished Service to DR. LLOYD J. FILER is professor of pedia- ROGER P. THORPE, assistant professor of Humanity" made by the Women's Auxiliary trics at the University of Iowa. music at Dutchess Community College, is of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical the author of an article, "Pitfalls of the Center. Dr. Calderone was for many years • 1954 Beginning Trumpeter," which appeared in medical director of the Planned Parenthood DR. JAMES UTTERBACK is a physician in a recent issue of the School Music News. Federation of America. the general practice residency program at Putnam (N. Y.) Memorial Hospital. • 1963 DR. JAMES COTANCHE, '50, is school physi­ DR. ROBERT C. SCAER, '59, is serving with cian for Sodus Central School. the U. S. Army in Okinawa. IN MEMORIAM • 1960 Marriages DR. PAUL SMILOW is assistant pathologist DR. GLEN SIZEMORE to Joyce Sutkamp, at Middlesex (N. J.) Hospital. Nov. 27.... DR. FRANKLIN KRAUSE to Mar­ lene J. Gilman, Nov. 25. FREDERICK W. COIT, '01, Nov. 6. Births HARVEY F. MORRIS, '02, Nov. 14. To DR. WILLIAM, '56, and SALLY HAWES Births ALBERT B. CLARK, 'OS, Aug. 27. POWELL, '58, a daughter, Jennifer Taylor, To DR. and Mrs. MARVIN LEDERMAN, '59, SHIRLEY PRIDDIS VAN VLEET, 'OS, Nov. 3. July 9. a son, Eric David, Dec. 8. HARRY J. SIMMELINK, '06, Nov. 14. KERN F. LARKIN, '12, Dec. 12. • 1962 • 1964 DR. ARTHUR STOKES, '13, Nov. 30. DR. DONALD FAULKNER, GM, is an in­ DR. EDWIN T. STILL has been assigned to HAZEL FISK, '14, Nov. 9. structor in physics at Millsaps College. Brooks AFB, Tex., after graduating from ARTHUR G. BILLS, '16, Jan. 11. DR. EDGAR N. GIPSON has become com­ the U. S. Air Force Officers Training School. STUART J. COLVIN, '16, April 25, 1965. mander of the 861st Medical Group at Glas­ DR. REUBEN A. CLAY has been assigned CLARA BOWEN SAGE, '17, Oct. 26. gow AFB, Mont. to Wakkanai Air Station, Japan. MILDRED BARR, '17, Dec. 24. MABEL HAGER ELLSWORTH, '17, Nov. 1. ALLEN CARL, '18, Dec. 2. DR. HERBER'f S. WEDEL, '20, Nov. 3. ELIZABETH BEATTIE LOWE, '28N, Jan. 7. DR. VIDA MATTHEWS BRUSIN, '30M, Dec. 4. Department ofNursing HELEN WILSON, '32, Jan. 10. DORETTA REED BACON, '32E, Oct. 26. MILDRED SWEET, '33G, Oct. 3. • 1949 Births GEORGIA W. BABCOCK, '33N, Sept. 4. DOROTHY AESCHLIMAN, '48, is studying for To John and PHYLLIS VOLLERT WETTER­ WARD C. DAVIS, '34, Sept. 28. a master's degree in nursing service ad­ MAN, '59ED, '62GN, a son, Eric Karl, Oct. MILDRED EDMOND CLARKE, '36, Jan. 11, 1965. ministration at the University of Washing­ 25. MARGARET DEMOND BECKWITH, '36E, June 28. RODNEY L. PETERSON, '40E, Jan. 1. ton. E. GRANVILLE MCGUCKEN, '41GE, Dec. 11. • 1959 BETTY ROSENTHAL HAFNER, '44, Dec. 8. • 1955 JUDITH STEWART BERNDT, '58, '60GED, is SISTER MARY THEODA WIECK, '48E, '49GE, Births instructor in nursing at UR. Sept. 11. To Samuel and SALLY SLAYTON WALKER, Births JOHN M. NEADY, 'SOU, Nov. 17. '54, a son, Samuel IV, Sept. 22. To William and CAROL GROUNDS DODGE, LEONARD G. JACOBSEN, '50E, July 3. DR. FRANCIS E. JONES, '51, Dec. 4. twins, Eric and Linda Sue, Sept. 5. • 1956 LEW A. DAUGHETEE, '61, Nov. 16. CAPTAIN BEVERLY SCHULZ was recently To Edward and LOUISE DERuSHIA JOSEPH GOLDBERG, '62, May, 1965. honored by the U. S. Air Force as Nurse of HOLMES, a daughter, Elin Elizabeth, Oct. the Year. Captain Schulz is the nurse-in­ 30. charge of the Specialty Clinics at the Air At the request of friends and relatives of the Force's largest medical facility, Wilford • 1961 late CATHERINE BLOCK, '65, the University has BRENTA SULLIVAN has been appointed di- established an endowed memorial fund in her rector of nursing services at the Monroe name. The income from the fund will be used County Infirmary. for an annual prize for junior women in science. ANN HALL is doing graduate work in Miss Block, who received the bachelor of medical-surgical nursing at the University science degree "with high distinction," was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. of Maryland. She won the Janet Howell Clark prize awarded Births annually to a senior woman "who has shown To DR. ROBERT, '63M, and ELIZABETH greatest promise in creative work" in science. Contributions for the Catherine Block Me­ STRINGHAM PATTON, '60, '64GN, a daugh­ morial Fund may be sent to the University ter, Kimberly Dawn, Nov. 30. Gift Office. To Walter and MARYANN WALLACE CA­ ROOM PAS, a daughter, Sharon Mary, Dec. 13. To DR. ROBERT, '65M, and PHYLLIS • 1962 HEBERGER VANDER VEER, a daughter, Eli­ CATHERINE BOVIER PETKO, '61, has joined zabeth Ann, Sept. 14. the nursing faculty of the Somerset (N. J.) • 1964 Hospital School of Nursing. DOROTHY J. SNELL is doing graduate work Births at Johns Hopkins Hospital. To Dr. Munir and GAIL SAY KATUL, a ELAINE BOUND is staff nurse at Sage Me­ daughter, Randa Marjorie, Sept. 11. morial Hospital, Ganado, Ariz. ANNE HOLDER ZEIDERS has become assist­ • 1963 ant instructor in obstetrical nursing at the Hall, at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. DIANE MASON JANSEN has become instruc­ Evanston Hospital School of Nursing. Entering the Air Force in 1959, she has tor of psychiatric nursing at Harrisburg LYNDA BAILEY MUIR is working for the served at bases in this country, England, State Hospital. West Essex Nursing Service (N. J.) as a and France. ALISON OSTERGREN is giving on-the-job public health nurse. training in nursing for the Peace Corps in DEBORAH LAWRENCE MALONE is assistant • 1957 Afghanistan. in nursing at UR. FIRST LT. PATRICIA 1. DHONAU was gradu­ ated with honors from the flight nurse Births • 1965 course at the USAF School of Aerospace To Robert and SUSANNAH MALLERY BRAD­ DEBORAH BOWMAN has joined the Agency Medicine. STREET, a son, Daniel French, July 11. for International Development. Second class postage paid at Rochester, New York

MRS. HERBERT W ANDREWS 515 DRU"M ROAD WEBSTER~ NEW YORK 14581 REUNION-COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND

Class Reunions Reunion Dance Alumni Citations to Faculty President's Report to Alumni June 3·4 5 University Citations to Alumni Reunion Concert-Buffet Supper Presentation of the 25th Reunion Gift Dedicatio~ of the Graduate Living Center