beginning to see afresh and to rightly assess bygone times, for how often can we not see the woods for the trees! May we all strive to be wor­ thy instruments of that unseen power which Rochester Letters may yet save us from the folly of prejudice, greed, and war. Esther Thomforde de Gally '46E Review Santa Cruz Atoyac, Mexico Shell game University of Rochester Thanks for your great article on "( ot Quite) The World's Longest Race" in the Spring Summer 1985 Review. Let me share with you an earlier era when a former crew assembled on the banks of the Genesee under the University's auspices back in 1956-58. Medicine as a Human Conscientious objectors A stalwart group of Medical Center residents Experience 2 It blew my mind to read Jeffrey Mehr's article who were former college oarsmen obtained in the Rochester Review Spring issue: "War and On the difference between curing shells from Cornell and the West Side Rowing Peaceniks." Like sunshine thawing a frozen and healing Club of Buffalo to create a small fleet, choosing wilderness of unbidden doubts, it allows me a the ground-floor storage area under the Fauver Traveling the Distance 6 fresh perspective on that troubled time for con­ Stadium grandstand as our first boathouse. We Progress report on minority scientious objectors and their families. My heart erected a sturdy dock on the Genesee just oppo­ floods with memories, the good buried with the recruitment site this cavern and walked the shells over to the bad, I suddenly perceive - yet has the purpose launching site for a leisurely row. We envisioned One from the Heart 10 of it all been silently and steadfastly operating future crews, competition, and the great heri­ Annie composer Charles Strouse all along? tage that you have preserved in your current ef­ To go back: There is my brother Phil para­ returns to Eastman forts. chuting to save burning forests in Missoula; One incident is worth preserving for the In Certainty and in Doubt 14 Andy Shiga cheerfully has his leg fractured record of this era, starring T. I. Jones and Dave Recovery of the 1984 Time Capsule twice in a bone experiment; Pete Watson, with Barnhouse, two eminent surgeon-oarsmen who the Rochester unit, is the boyfriend of my decided to be the first to try our two-man/two­ New High for the Laser Lab 18 Eastman School classmate; Ernest Seegers and oar shell fashioned from one of the Buffalo Another step forward for fusion power my sister Ruth work at a detention site for hard­ shells whose middle section had proved un­ core juvenile delinquents; a wonderful black salvageable. They set out briskly, only to be cap­ Departments whose name escapes me I knew at Big Flats, sized in the middle of the river in a craft that is that hotbed of New Age men-where I was the most unstable of all shells in my opinion. Rochester in Review 20 warned on the last lap of a hitch-hike from They pressed to the shore, housed the shell, and Rochester that only yellowbellies lived. Among Alumnotes 28 set back to the hospital, passing a large crowd them, Robert Barker, my starry-eyed poet, and gathered on the bank. "What's happening?" they Alumni Newsmakers 33 afterwards, his love letters from another lonely inquired. "Two guys in a funny boat sank and In Memoriam 43 reforestation camp in California. the fire department is out there looking for the DR Where You Are 42 After graduation from Eastman, I cut bodies," came the reply. I believe that they asparagus - miles of it - near the Byberry State rushed back to the hospital to telephone Alumni Travel 44 Hospital, tenderly making love with my reassurance to the authorities, feeling far more idealistic manchild, who reeked of human filth respect for that pair-oared craft. PHOro CREDITS: Page 13, Gannett Rochester and decay, and who, with others assigned to his At any rate, I wish you well and hope that Newspapers; page 14, left & page 16, Campus unit, decried the use of violence on the back Rochester, which is a marvelous place to row, Times; page 22, top, courtesy oj USAir; page 23, wards of Byberry. Soon after, he was gone. His continues to enjoy the sport which prepares you courtesy oj Graduate School ojEducation and mom felt it was because of the Starvation ex­ so well for life. Human Development; page 26, Gannett Rochester periment that made him die so young. Or was it Roger Meyer '59R Newspapers; page 27, Melissa liVt?ed; all others, Liferaft he'd volunteered for? Tacoma, Washington Rochester Review staffphotos. So I brought a dead husband's hopeful Running argument dreams to Mexico, and married a belated con­ A friendly dig from an oppressed and down­ ROCHESTER REVIEW scientious objector, veteran of the Spanish Civil trodden runner who is discriminated against by Editor: Margaret Bond; copy editor: Erin War. Today, after many a happy year as my the restrictive and obsessive rules of the UR Dwyer; staff photographer: Chris T. publishing partner, and as a father and grand­ 1,000 Mile Club ["UR Runners, Unite," Page Quillen; staff artist: Sean McCormack; father, he suffers Alzheimer's disease. Shell 44, Spring 1985]. I've been jogging regularly for Alumnotes Editor: Shinji Morokuma. shock, too, torments his deteriorating mind. ten years now. I've never run 1,000 miles in one Editorial office, 108 Administration Caring for him, how easy to be sucked into a year and I never will. I also don't keep records Building, Rochester, New York 14627, vortex of hopelessness and despair! anymore. Everyone starts out keeping precise (716) 275-2102. Published quarterly by the Still I continue, with the good help of my son, records of his/her progress, because that's how University of Rochester and mailed to all to publish books that count. Are those on you can tell anything is happening. It also helps alumni, Rochester Review is produced by the ecology and earth-ravage from greed, ig­ the ego to know you are doing better than those Office of University Public Relations, Robert norance, and overpopulation a late spinoff of other forty-year olds. But then there comes a Kraus, director. Office of Alumni Relations, the hardships of COs in isolated reforestation time for many of us, somewhere between the James S. Armstrong, director, Fairbank camps? Are texts dealing with primary health third and fifth year, when all that record­ Alumni Center, Rochester, New York 14627, care and patient advocacy a result of the keeping seems a waste of time and becomes (716) 275,-3684. Byberry experience? What of our lengthy listing generally irrelevant to what running has come POSTMASTER: Send address changes to of books on human sexuality for all levels of to mean to us. Rochester Review, 108 Administration Build­ readers in urban and rural Latin America? Was I estimate, very conservatively, that in the ing, Rochester, New York 14627. that motivated by the sensitivity, courage, and past ten years I have run/jogged well over 2,000 concern of young war resisters who refused draft miles. But, woe, I'm unable to qualify for the Opinions expressed are those of the authors, exemption on the grounds of their homosexuali­ coveted 1,000 Mile Club patch because I have the editors, or their subjects, and do not ty, for whom this was not an issue when they not suffered the need to do more than stay fit. necessarily represent official positions of the stood up to be counted? How is it that Even worse of course is that I have failed to pay University of Rochester. everywhere I keep running into those who care? And so our personal destinies intertwine. I'm due respect to detailed records, nor do I even have anyone to certify (notarized of course) that I have run in excess of 2,000 miles because I have been running alone for the past five years. I am a writer, and I get some of my best ideas on the road and I prefer no witnesses. I will survive this rebuke. I will even continue From to give money to the University of Rochester. However, I do look forward to the day when the 1,000 Mile Club begins to understand that run­ the President ning is not just for obsessives, accountants, and statisticians. It is a very healthy pastime for philosophers, thinkers, writers, and other ne'er­ do-wells who don't keep records. Perhaps a sec­ ond t-shirt is in order- the University of Dennis O'Brien Rochester "I Jogged Over 1,000 Miles Before I Died Club." We regular joggers are still a minority among the middle-aged grads of the Facts and Fancy good 01' U of R. "Now what I want is, Facts. Teach in some Heavenly Eight Accounting Keep on truckin', Fred Richards. You are a friend of all runners whether they be recorded these boys and girls nothing but Facts. firm or Ye Olde High Prestige Law or not! We runners sometimes forget to say Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant School. This rumor appears to have an thanks to the volunteers who make our pastime nothing else, and root out everything edge oftruth-ifone can gauge these even more enjoyable. else. You can only form the minds of matters by the election ofapparently Jeff Ball '61 reasoning animals upon Facts: "practical" university curricula and Dedicated Jogger Springfield, Pennsylvania Nothing else will ever be of any service the diminution ofmore fanciful fields As DedicatedJogger Ball acknowledges in his friend­ to them.