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Lincoln-TA Exchange- PROPOSAL FOR BRANCH APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR 1951-52 AT OLMSTED REJECTED Applications for the Lincoln Colle e - Telluride Asso- ciation exchange scholarship for 1951-22 are now invited. QUARTERS NOT AVAILABLE Gregory Votaw, the present American scholar in the Negotiations between Telluride exchange, has written from England that he is endeavoring Association and the Utah Power and to obtain other financial means of continuing his studies Light Company, which have been ac- at Oxgord in order to free the position for other candi- tively pursued by direction of the dates. 1950 Convention with the object of relocating our primary branch at Candidates for the scholarship should have : Olmsted, Utah, ended wsuccessful- 1. at least one year of training under the.auspices of ly with the receipt early in March Telluride Association or Deep Springs of a statement from the Power Corn- 2. sufficient academic advancement to work fruitfully at pany explaining their inability to the graduate level consider such a proposal under 3. single status. present conditions. The idea of re-establishing Keith A. H. Murray, Rector of Lincoln College, has re- an ported that Lincoln probably will not designate anyone as Association branch in the old In- the English scholar in the exchange for the coming year. stitute Building in Provo Canyon, This tentative decision has been reached because the Lin- one-time center of Telluride In- coln College committee felt that the present panel of ap- stitute activities and forerunner plicants did not provide anyone of the particularly high of the present Association, has calibre that Lincoln feels should be implicit in the ex- been current in TA circles for change. .some time. It was only last year that, faced with the eventual ne- Forms for application are available from Chancellor cessity of moving our primary branch from its present location Johnson, and must be filed with the Chancellor by May 15 for consideration by the Lincoln College Exchange commit- in Pasadena, discuss ions conducted tee and the Convention committee which will make the final with officials of the UP&L Co. recommendation to Convention. gave rise to the hope that a move to Olmsted might actually be feas- The exchange scholarship plan was organized ln 1949 ible. and is further expression of relations between the two in- stitutions which have extended over many years. The schol- At the suggestion of the Pow- arships at Lincoln and at in Ithaoa are er Company, an Association cmit- for board, room, and tuition, and are normally expected to tee headex b James R. Withrow,Jr. run for a two-year period, subject to satisfactory perfor- drew up an lbpage proposal for mance. The policy of the Association requires that the submission to the Company. It ex- American scholar in the exchange should be of the highest plained in detail the history of possible quality. the association*^ educational work, its present operations, and the The present English scholar on the exchange is Peter program proposed for a branch at Parker, who is studying at the School of Industrial and Olmsted. Labor Relations at Cornell. Parker, who was graduated from Oxford in 1950, intends to return to England this In rejecting the proposal for summer, and will not be back next year. the present, President Q.M. Gadsby cited the increase in the Power Company' s activities near the Olm- sted Plant and explained that this PREFERMENT WOTICE had forced such a crowding of the All persons who plan to apply to the 1951 Con- buildings in the area (including vention for preferment in any form should write the the Institute Building which is Chancellor at once for information and blanks. Mem- used in part today for the housing bers and non-memb-rs alike should mail their formal of several employee families applications for preferment as soon as possible. the space was even inadequa1 e that for . their own use. TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER NEW FUNDS REPORT

ROBERT F GATJE EDITOR AS of the 15th of March, receipts from the current New Funds Drive totaled approximately $6,700 of the $10,000 goal AssoclATEs CURTIS KARPLUS established by the 1950 Convention. Several area reports H E LMUT W BOEN H E I M are still incomplete and the Drive is by no means over, but even if the present rate of new contributions is maintained PUBLISHED IN ITHACA NY until June, receipts will probably not exceed $7,500 in BY TELLUR~DE ASSOC~AT,O~ pledges and cash by the opening of this yearcs Convention.

FAR EASTERN POLICY REPORT d"ing the past three years* 8) The Communist-led terrorists in pros- By G. William Skinner perous Malaya do not have widespread popular Several salient features of the situation su port, but are aided by the jungle terrain in East Asia should f lrst be mentioned before ani by the lack of government protection for offering tentative suggest ions with regard to isolated Chinese farmers, who consequently American Far Eastern policy. must cooperate with the terrorists. goes the way 1) The ltimnutable Eastt1 is a fantasy. The 9) While the Quirino regime entire region, from North China to Indonesia, the Chinese Kuomintang* the is in social and nationalistic ferment, end Hukbalahaps are gaining eff ective leadership the concomitant chan~es- are revolutionary in the philippine their rapidity. 10) The government of Indonesia, in many ways unequal to the challenge of independence, 2) There is now no politicalalternative to the communists I N~~ D~~~~~~~~ on the nonetheless has vigorous nationalist support. mainland. The Kuomintang reghi, whose power was based on entrepreneurs interested primari- 11) Finally, it should be remarked that ly .in imediate and on landlords con- a11 of Southeast Asia 1s a dependent area: cerned only with preserving the agrarian sta- Only with aid from outside can tus quo, was completely dlscredlted before its flight to Formosa. ;~~~t:~:n~f~~Zta~i~~~P~~~~:~~~~E~~~~~.~~~- 3) The Peking regime is basing its domes- Given the situation inadequately summar- tic policy on Marxism-Leninism, which in oper- ized here, what course should America take in ation precludes many Western goals and values, its East Asiatic policy? There is no polfit in and its foreign policy on the principle of attempting the impossible. We cannot over- "leaning to one side," i.e., coordination with throw the Peking regime nor win its true, the Soviet Union. friendship with the United States, and we can- not create an qti-Communist block of South- 4) The clique which the 0. S. favored in east Asian countries who will stand in the South Korea maintained its tenuous power by front line agains t cormnunis t aggression. We attracting all Koreans with vested' interests can, however, aim realistically at effecting in various aspects of the old social structure, maximum Chinese independence of Moscow and at while the. clique In the North favored by the enabling Southeast Asia to do without Commun- USSR consolidated its power by- capturinn- - and ism and Russia. directing revolutionary forces. As for China, it would appear that the U. S. has little to lose and possibly much to 5, The regime In Vietnam is gain by recognizing the Peking regim? and not sentially a French pu~pet;it can gain wide-"- blocking its admissionto the N. Recogni- spread support Only by taking for get- tion will greatly increase the reliability of ting the French out of Indochina. our intellinence and the audience for our Pro- 6) The Philbul government of Thailand, paganda and; above all, will open up new pos- while unenlightened and totalitarian in many sibilities for political maneuvers to weaken respects, has widespread popular support. Chinese ties with the USSR. In bargainlng with the Chinese, we should make full use of 7) The Union goverrynent of Burma, left- the fact that Formosa is virtually at our dis- wing in political coloring, has gained consid- posal (though its fate had best be settled in erable pres tige by defeating the various in- tthe U. H.), that we are in a position to end surgent groups that challenged the governmen3 the drain on the Chinese economy resulting from the Korean war, and that we alone can of- BILL SKINNER ha6 jurt returned from a yeer in China f er enough capital, equipment, and goods to under the Commnirtr and a mbrequent tour of Southeart enable China to raise quickly the economic le- Amia. He is Field Director of the Southeart Aeia Pro- vel of its populace. By aiding the National- gram conducted by the Dept. of Sociolo,cy and Anthropo- ists, on the other hand, we crystalize anti- logy of Cornell Univereity on a grant from the Rocke- American sentiment in China and, if anything, fe$ler Foundation. Bill attended Deep Spring8 in 1942-3 weaken the strength or our own position. Even and war elected to Association memberehip in 19.46. He if advisable, reconquest of China by the Kuo- returnr to the Phr East thin mummer with hie bride, the mintang would be impossible. former Mire Carol Bagger.

PAGE TWO TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Economic aid is the key to our Southeast Asia policy, but it must be administered with DEEP SPRINGS NOTES certain aims in mind and according to clearly def ined pr lnciples . We should encourage the By Miles C. Everett production of commodities which bring in for- eign exchange and of basic consumer goods The biggest event of recent weeks has which now must be imported in large q~antities. been the arrival of Commodore William G. Increased production will contribute to a rise Greenman, U.S.M. Retired, who is our new dir- in living standards, which should be coupled ector. Commodore Greenman arrived here Feb- with a calorie increase in the average diet. ruary 16 with his wife and has spent the last Pcverty is not so widespread in Southeast Asia ten days familiarizing himself with our opera- as in China, and concrete advancement of the ting procedures. Bonham Campbell is at pres- well-being of the various nations is not an ent on his annual interviewing trip and is ex- impossibly large task. On the political side, pected back about April 1. The search for a we must aim at creating new social groups from dean is about to get under way, and we hope which democratic leadership can be drawn. This that by next fall we will have a directordean implies a vast expansion of Testern:type but team -handling the administration. locally-oriented secondary education, and in- creased opportunities for Southeast Asians to The academic schedule this spring is a study abroad. Private enterprise in Southeast heavy one with several men taking twelve hours Asia is in the hands of the Chinese, western of work. Dean Ogden, who is teaching a course. capitalists, and natives with large landhold- in elementary psychology and conducting an in- ings; all are interested mainly in large, formal discussion group, is an excellent addi- quick profits. For the present, then, aid tion to our faculty. should be channeled through governments rather than private companies, and these governments The English Composition class, under the should carry out the necessary proJects di- direction of Ed Loomis has unCertaken the rectly. Freely given American aid will almost* writing of a complete history of Deep Springs, certainly este.blish firmly in power the clique and we are busy digging through boxes of rec- at the head of the recipient government. Our ords and letters in search of information. aid should therefore be given freely only to governments with nationalist backing and some We are looking forward to a Visit from Mr. moral stature, and should be given only on James R. lithrow sometime during the latter condition of thorough reform to reactionary and part of March. Mr. Withrow was asked by the unpopular regimes now in power. This means a Trustees to act as chairman of a Survey-Com- minimum of conditions on aid to Indonesia and mittee to examine Deep Springs1 financial pro- Burma and firm strings attached to aid receiv- blem and operating procedures in order to ed by the Philippines and Indochina. Indochina determine what actions must be taken to keep is the hardest nut of all to crack; ideally we our expenditures within our income. should persuade the French to relinquish ac- tual power in the country, allow the major The student branch of the Survey Commit- credit for this to accrue to a broadened Bao tee is planning an analysis of our expendi- Dai government, and provide military aid to tures for the past year, and their report will Vietnamese and roreign forces fighting the be submitted to the Trustees at the May 3 Viet Minh. In Malaya, we should give the Bri- meeting. tish all military and economic aid required) to put down the terrorist rebellion. The snow survey trip is scheduled for March 3-5 and we have had two ski trips to the Propaganda cannot be neglected. My im- sierra- in preparation for it. ~jouGHalver- pression is that the American story in the Far sen, Charles Steensma, and Miles Everett will East is weakened insofar as it departs from make the trip along with Doug Powell who the facts. unadulterated 'truth, used skill- taught geology here last fall. There is fully, is sufficiently unfavorable to the Com- apparently more snow in the mountains than munist cause to enable us to win the propagan- there was at survey time last year, and stom da battle hands down; the facts merely require during the past few days have probably added selection, arrangement, and widespread dissem- considerably to the pack. ination. Above all we must operate to minimize suspicion of "foreign dominationtt and "imperi- Spring trip plans call for us to depart. alism." Aid programs designed to give immed- prom Deep Springs about April 5, and to visit iate benefits to the mass of the people are in Lake Meade, Grand Canyon, Rainbow Lodge, and the best interests of the United States. Zion Canyon, spending about ten days on the road. The atomic blasts near Las Vegas caused The ~ewsLetter wishes to acknow- us no damage, but the flashes of light from ledge with thanks the many contributions the explosions were observed several times by made to its support during the course of dairy boys and others who crawled out of bed the past year. Recent gifts, notably a at 6:15 a.m. to watch for them. check for $150.00 from the Telluride Alumni Association, have put us defin- None of us has had any further word from itely in the black. With a normal amount our draft boards and we are still uncertain as of reader-support in the months remain- to future arrangements. Mr. Campbell is ing before Convention we should be able arranging to see several persons in Washington, to cover the costs of this issue and a D.C., and hopes to return with some definite final issue in May handily. information for us.

MARCH 1951 PAGE THREE has fairly "liberal" views on the question of THOUGHTS ON FOREIGN POLICY race relations in America, to hear the issue discussed among Englishmen. Their tendency is By Gregory B. Votaw to forget that this is a matter with which the British government can hardly concern itself. Western weakness in the international While we may find new ardor for social reform conflict of the day is persistently diagnosed in the consciousness that world attention is as a crisis in leadership. One reason for focused on us, this cannot form the basic this crisis is that the role of the opposition spring of policy in these purely domestic in many countries has been to sabotage policy issues. The exact details of another coun- by trying to discredit men -- creating doubts tryfs internal social policy cannot be the ba- and using these to demand resignations. Once sis for our relations with it; our interna- serious doubts as to our leadership arise they tional agreements in other cases too must be create a chain-reaction, leading to a demand based on our opinion of matters these agree- for publicity which is inevitably supplied, ments involve rather than a mystic bond of in- though seldom with strict regard for facts. ternational, socialist, capitalist or liberal Much of this publicity is geared to feed popu- brotherhood. I fear that this concept is to- lar suspicion of leadership and further in- day a mere relic of an age which assumed great crease the magnitude of the problem. freedom in determining international policy. Today's unity of ideals of the community most In consequence, talented men of countries directly influenced by "the ideals of the threatened by revolution or invasion have an French Revolutionn may be quite accidental. understandable concern for their future per- As sources of international agreement they are sonal security, and it is in these places that useful in only very exceptional instances and older leaders, already too thoroughly compro- are the first considerat ions to be sacrificed. mised to care, are saddled with incredible burdens that would be shared with '!new men" in Of course, the Soviet Union does use the better times. McCarthyism has provided the ideological weaponn most effectively - - prop* United States with a similar problem, and it ganda and lies have done the Stalinist regime is certa-inly not too soon to weigh the alleged some temporary good, but these weapons of fal- dangers of sabotage (which we are said to have sification we mus.t surely reject as untenable avoided by myriad investigations) against the in the long run and intrinsically evil where cramping of creative leadership. That cramp- our own consideration of their use is con- ing is an equally potent menace and the most cerned. In matters of foreign policy, which obvious product of recent inquiries. are today of even more desperate importance than domestic issues, discussion must be left I would not mean to absolve those who free, for our present culture is built on the accept positions of authority of their respon- belief that truth can only be reached through sibility for creating and preserving not ?nly the free competition of ideas. personal reputation but also a sense of confi- dence, trust, and I-know-where-I'm-going-ness. One of the best "ideas" which runs around Many charges against present policy makers, foreign policy discuss ions is collective se- however, are quite irrelevant to the actual curity; I am inclined to think it the only case; I shall suggest below one proper limit likely way toward peace under present circum to such criticism which we should consider. stances. But here again ideo?logy is not the most certain blessing. If 50,000 casualties As a rule we like to think of ourselves of U.S. forces in Korea alone are the result as freer to render decisions than we really of a policy based on loyalty to the principles are; this is especially true of foreign af- of collective security, but with no roots in fairs, perhaps because we so long enjoyed the the Korean problem as such, they represent an luxuries of isolation. The light in which we idolatrous waste in the name of an ideology, a have come to regard our social theories and misleading fetish. I wonder if any ideal jus- political ideals has induced us to feel such a tifies ravaging another man's country. I ser- freedom. Ideals are such a very vital part of iously doubt that destruction of North Korean a free discussion of domestic issues that the industry from the air and a scorched-earth po- pub1 ic considers them equal forces and motiva- licy in the South, solely in the name of "col- tions in.internationa1 negotiations. This is lective security," can indicate a wise policy the point I wish to stress here: ideology is on our part. unfortunately not properly subordinated to such facts as geography, a duller but more vi- True collective security has in mind a tal aspect of international relations. Re- territory and a government to be secured, not cently we have assumed that we can escap-e the simply the liquidation of "enemy armies." The narrow limits of geo-power politics by substi- willingness of the United States to defend tuting considerations of ideology. Let me ex- certain comitmants, no matter how vague and plain with an example. strategically awkward, may have given heart to Westarn Europe for the present restoration of It is a bit annosinn. even for one who military strength. But the way in which the Korean war has been carried out, the policies GREG VOTAW ie continuing his studiee in history as which the phrase "collective security" has the firet Aeeociation representative at Lincoln College) justified, give second thoughts and fresh Oxford, under the auspice8 of the exchange scholarship. doubts to the citizens of many a European- A etndent at Deep Springs from 1945 to 1947, he com- Seoul who, in the event of war, might also be- pleted hie undergraduate work at the Univereity of Chl- come recipients of similarly explosive "secu- ago, graduating in 1950. Greg hae been a member of rity" thanks to the U.S. Air Force. Pure the Aeeociation since 1947. idealism and pure realism are equally brittle;

PAGE FaSIfR TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER what we seek is she reconstruction (or appre- ciation) of that alloy which is our true na- CORNELL BRANCH NOTES ture. By C. Michael Karplus I end with another plea that we use our Acting in accordance with power granted right of criticism with a restraint which will it by the 1950 Convention, Cornell Branch preserve it, and with the warning that we tend voted to repeal the long-standing article in to assume an unreal degree of freedom in fo- its By-laws restricting the use of liquor by reign policy, especially tending to err in its residents at a House meeting February 26. making ideological points. Mistakes in f o- Those who opposed the Advisory Cornmitteels reign policy can only lightly strain a thin recommendation for repeal restated the dangers tlssue of goodwill before war breaks through. of encouraging cliques in the Branch and Within a nation there are procedures which warned of future difficulties should the com- with patience may redress wrongs; in interna- position of the group fall below present tional affairs blunders can seldom be undone standards. The majority, however, expressed or so simply reversed. confidence in the Associationts ability to control the caliber of House membership and pointed to the success of the experiment con- ducted this winter as evidence that the Branch does not need special rules to assure respons- ible behavior. The By-law in question has been suspended since early last term without THE HALL PASSAGE, LINCOLN COLLEGE any noticeable ill effects. The following is an excerpt from the Ad- visor~Committee's report: Since in all other olattcrs tl?e coi;il?~ctof Bra.nch members is soverned by their ideas of ma- tvi-e, responsible behavior.. . we think it cmsis- tent with our conception of individual., . respon- sibility that these ideas apoly to alcoholic be- verases, the use of #hich dops not differ in kind from other actions to h~hichthese standards are continually applied.

The vote in favor of repealing the ar- ticle referring to liquor was 20 to 5. ~ighspot on our social calendar since the Junior Weekend house party was an open house at the Branch following a recent perfor- mance of HMS Pinafore by the Cornell Dramatic Club. ~m- House members who contributed to the production were Bob Gat je, who designed the sets, assistant director Warren Seulowitz, and stagehands Chuck Christenson and Mort We instein. Our most renowned Savoyard, Rod Robertson, who provided much of the original stimulus for the show, sent his congratula- tions from Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Over a hundred people, including the entire cast of the opera, participated in the party. Guests at the Branch this semester have included Dr. Louis Guttman, an expert on pub- l.ic opinion in Israel: Mr. Harry Gersh, a pro- minent union leader, who gave a special talk at. the House on "Labor and American Politics;" and TAman Bill Skimer, who described his ex- periences in China during the first year of the communist regime. Mrs. John Martin of the Music Department entertained with a piano re- cital at the House early in February. This lovely two-centered arch with ~ts moulded jambs forms a part of the front quad- Alvin Friedman 152, in his second year of rangle of Lincoln College, essentially com- residence at the Branch, was recently elected pleted by about the middle of the 15th century. editor-in-chief of , the The archway is in the East Range of the quad, campus daily newspaper. and leads into the famous Hall which still preserves, in perfect condition, the original House officers elected for the spring timbering of the roof. The archway also leads term are Don Claudy, president and Don Lam- down its well-worn steps to another hall, Deep mers, vice-president, who, with Coen terKuile Hall - a noble name for the cellar excavated and Dave Werdegar, make up the Advisory Com- in the 1640s, and three centuries later opened mittee. Dick George will serve as treasurer) as the first college bar In Oxford, while Charles Lem,is the new Branch secretary.

MARCH 1951 PAGE FIVE FUTURE OF TA BRANCHES PASADENA BRANCH NOTES DISCUSSED AT ITHACA MEETING BY Richard ~uopp The Branch launched into a new study term MOBILIZATION CAUSE OF UNCERTAINTY on January 29 with a student body of eleven and a teaching staff of six, following what The problem of keeping open the two Bran- was for most a refreshing and profitable Vaca- ches during the mobilization period was con- tion. In addition to the faculty mentioned in sidered by a rump committee of Telluride mem- the January NL we have added two excellent men bers and residents of Cornell Branch during to our teach- staff: Robert p. Sharp of the the Custodians' meeting the weekend of March California Institute of Technology, and Roger 10. The purpose was to offer advice to com- Barr of the UCLA Extension. mi ttees and individuals who may have to take action before Convention meets in June. Public speaking and physical education are two interesting activities of the Spring term not part of the basic curriculum. The A spot-check indicated that, of the pre- first is offering a divorsity of programs at sent Cornell Branch membership, 19 expected to the Wednesday night meetings -- prepared spee- reapply for preferment. Of these, however, ches, extemporaneous talks, newscasts, play all but eight are subject to the draft this readings, and speeches of a technical nature. summer, and several have already received in- The second is the result of a student body de- duction paper's. Of the eight who are certain cision of last December favoring organized to be able to return, three are foreign st* athletics. Arrangements were made with the dents and the rest are deferred because of re- Pasadena YMCA to hold instructed gym classes serve status or physical conditions. If pre- on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The per- sent conditions continue, Cornell Branch iod consists of exercises followed by such should be adversely affected by the draft only sports as basketball, volleyball and swimming. for the next two years, when students drafted this summer would be able to return. Under Extensive plans are being made for the these circumstances, it was considered wise to spring field trip from April 5 to 15. Under attempt to keep the Branch open. the aus~ices of the cultural committee.. this excursion promises to be one of the highiights Considerations affecting the exact make- of the term. After much research and discus- up of Cornell Branch were gone into in some sion the following itinerary was thought the detail. There was general agreement that con- most interesting and financially feasible: we tinuity of Branch program required a healthy shall leave Pasadena in the early morning of proport ion of Association members and second- the 5th to spend the night at Lake Mead, with year guests in any Branch and that, since this Las Vegas and Boulder Dam as added features; group will be severly limited in size next on to Zion National Park the next day with year, we may expect to plan on a Branch much Saturday in the Park; then to Bryce National smaller than has been usual in recent years. Fark in the evening; drive to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon for Monday night: into the Canyon from the South Rim on Wednesday; Thurs- The problems facing Pasadena Branch are day evening and Friday at Oraibi (Hopi country imore severe. Recruiting has become increas- in which Mike spent a smer); Wupatki, Sunset ingly difficult for several reasons: prospec- Crater, Oak Creek Canyon and back to Pasadena tive candidates are interested in military by early Sunday. training programs, which offer them the oppor- : tunity of finishing their college work before New Branch officers were elected in De- entering the armed forces, or they want an ac- cember. Harold Fishman was chosen chairman, celerated program which will permit them to Allan Lyons vice-chairman, Phil Green secreta- finish as much of the college education as ry. The treasurer is appointed yearly, so possible before being drafted. there will be no further change until next. September. - An important committee recently Several solutions were considered: aff ill- founded is the charter committee. Its purpose ation with the military training program of a is to form a set of governing principles af- nearby educational institution, or lowering fecting the Branch, pursuant to the Telluride the age level. of the Branch by admitting high constitution, and this group is actively en- school seniors. The first suggestion was con- gaged in drawing up a preliminary draft. sidered both impractical and undesirable. The plan for lowering the age level would permit Richard Feynman, formerly of the Cornell students to finish their work at the Branch Physics Department, and now enga~ed in re- before they would be eligible for selective search at Cal Tech, was a guest for dinner and service or UhlT, and would also give the Asso- public speaking on February 14. ciation a stronger hold on these people for the period of their education after they leave Two new men joined us in January: Donald the armed forces. Rose from South Pasadena and Ronald Sukenick from Brooklyn. The problem is complicated by the fact that the Branch must shortly sign a lease for The Attorney General has approved the a new location for next year. Terms of the Branch for foreign students, and in the pro- lease will have to depend to some extent on cess accredited the school, so that some of the likelihood that the Branch will be able to our worries regarding the draft are now alle- remain oven in view of the draft situation. viated.

PAGE SIX TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER PERSONAL NOTES NEWS OF ALUMNI MEETINGS Five TA tosspots met in early December at a uub called The Pillars of Hercules on Greek Washington, D.C. street off Soho Square in London. The potsmen: TA k DS- associates in the nation, s capi- Charles Burkhart, Morris Carstairs, Anthony tal met on March 2nd at 6:30 P.M. in the Ifet- Geiss Mn. Skinner, and Gregory votam. Skimer ropolitan Club. The host, DS Trustee John G. was ekroute home from two years of interrupted Laylin, and Bonham Campbell, Asst. Director of qield work in China; carstairs was Deep Springs, reported on conditions at the. for his marriage and mid-December departue school, this year's recruitment situation, and for another year of anthropological field work problems which Director Greenman will face in in Rajput~na,India. Votaw left to spend the future operation. James Holmes acted as im- holidays in IPrtlnce, a!ld 13urkhart to work for a promptu toastmaster after dinner and, in the time in Duolin at tne idational Library with high tradition of TA-DS public speaking, tag- the George !,loore correspondence. ged the following for 3-minute speeches: Al- bert Arent, James Baxter, John Burchard, Edwin Dr. John Newell, with the State (idass.) Cronk, John deBeers, Stephen Hay, Frederic Uiologic Laboratories, is head of the, haxan taise, Bruce Netschert, Frederick Reinhardt, blood fractionation work. They process for use and Harvey Wellman. John Edgerton and Robert in nedical work the plasma from blood which Joyce had been present earlier but were not, has not been used by the blood banks within unhappily, able to stay for the subsequent three weeks. nourishment to body and spirit. Chicago The first issue of TEZLURIDE TOPICS, pub- Telluride associates had a dinner-meeting lished by Telluride Power Co. at Rickfield, at the Chicago Athletic Club on February 21st appeared in Jan. The k-~agepaper carries news at which problems and policies of TA and DS concerning the Company and individual employ- were discussed. Those present: Norman Barbour, ees. Fred Bird, Bonham Campbell, Wallacecook, Don- The leading article concerns the.retire- ald Hazlett , Fenton Howard, E. M. Johnson, ment of Emron C. Wri~ht, Supt. of the Sal ina Austin Kiplinger, Anderson Pace, and Albert Division, announced at a testimonial dinner on Votaw. Jan. 19. The Company presented Wright with a GE clock-controlled radio and in a testimonial letter commemorated his 46 years ih the elec- tric industry, and his contribution as a citi- As the NL goes to press, a dinner-moet- zen in the community. Wright got a good edi- ing of Tellurme associates is scheduled to be torial pat from TOPICS. held at the Cornell Club of on The story of the f og-ice storm of Dec. 26 March 29th. and 27 in the Delta and Milford areas is car- ried on page 1. llWhole sections of rural ex- tensions were down at times when the ice on Albert Bush-Brown has been given a the wires would build to the sizo of a manls fellowsh hi^ for tbee rears in the Society of arm...... Three crews kept going night and day. Fellows at Harvard (~uniorFellow, S. of F: )to Linemen worked faithfully around the clock to do only research and writing without any keep the power supplied to their customers ." courses or exams or degrees. He writes: "The The editorial on the work in the storm is cap- freedom is wonderful, and our weekly ban- tioned "Beyond Call Of Duty." quets at Eliot House with all the visiting

celebs are unbeatable. As , a member of .A.dams Constitutional-Member Howard E. Snedaker, House, I am scouting for TA possibilities" lllostl' for many years, has written to the Bush-Brown taught last year at Princeton in Chancellor that he went to Milwaukee in 1920 the Department of Art and Archaeology. directly after graduation from the Univ. of Iowa. He writes: "Worked with Chain Belt Co. David Fraser Bush-Brown was born on July for 14 years, then with Haskins & Sells, pub- 22, on Cape Cod. Weight: 8.5 lbs. lic accountants. For the last 10 years, have been employed by the State of Wisconsin in the Pere Pi-Sunyer is working in the Research Employment Service." Home Address: 1731 W. Dept. of .the Banco Central de Venezuela and is Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee 3. in charge of a course in labor relations at the University in.Caracas. He is making tentative Allen Whitin (whose marriage on May 27th plans to work for his master1 s degree at Cor- of last year to ?he former Miss Alice Conroy, nell in the fall in industrial and labor rela- Cornell (48, somehow escaped previous NL an- tions. With his credits from New York, he can nouncement) passed his final orals lastTcto- get his degree in two semesters. ber and is now working on his Ph. D. disserta- tion at the Russian Institute, Columbia Uni- Lt. ( . . Max Kin Morris is flying a versity. Its title: "Soviet Policy and the iet fishte? f-'Banshee with the Navy on " - -"-- ~ ~- !- Chinese Revolution, 1917-1921C. " overseas service. He wrote on Dec. 20: 'went up to Rome for a few days and visited Arthur McTaggart -- had a fine time talking over old Albert Votaw began work in Nov. for the times at Telluride back in 1942. He is with City News Bureau, a news-gathering service run the Embassy up there, and having a marvelous by the Chicago newspapers. stay, apparently. l1

MARCH 1951 PAGE SEVEN MORE PERSONAL NOTES W. E. ANDERSON Paul Ashworth has been awarded a 30-year service pin by the Boy Scouts. Ashworth began Word has been received of the death of his work with the Scouts in 1917. He is a for- W. E. Anderson in Long Beach, Cal., in Feb. He mer member of the Salt Lake City Council Ex- was born in Manti, Utah, in 188.5, and was edu- ecutive's Commission, Chairman of the Fishlake cated in Utah and at the Univ. of Chicago. He District of the Utah National Parks Council of spent most of his life in Utah as a banker and Boy Scouts, and a member of the National Coun- was a Telluride Alumni Charter Member. He is cil of Boy Scouts. survived by Mrs. Anderson and one son.

Gilbert Miller, Resident Manager of West- EDWARD BENNETT vaco Chemical Division of Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. at Pocatello, Idaho, reports completion of a third furnace at their twelve- Edward Bennett, 74, consulting engineer million-dollar plant. Miller' s phosphorus and f onner chairman of the electrical engine- operation makes Westvaco the biggest single ing department of the Univ. of Wisconsin, died power consumer in Idaho, using 50,000 KW con- on Jan. 11. Bennett went to Olmsted in 1905 tinuously. and worked in the experimental laboratory of the Telluride Power Co., with special interest in the development of lightning arresters and John Stoner' s undergraduate honors thesis sectionalizing switches. He did station de- at Harvard is "Congressional Control of the sign and researchon long-distance transmission Atomic Energy Commission." He has applied for for the Company. He joined the Wisconsin staff admission to the Law School, and, the Navy in 1909 and was active In many educational and willing, has still two years of NROTC ahead. professional societies. In 1949 the Wisconsin Utilities Assn. awarded him its Citation of Alumnus Ernest R. Anderson is the current Merit. Professor Bennett is survived by Mrs. subject of a series of articles on interesting Bennett, one son, and two daughters. people of Southern Utah,appearin~in the Rich- field Reaper. ~obb~man-~nderson-makesradios. violins, clocks, and other devices.. His latest FRANCES CLLIFF BONNETT is a grandfather clock, completely handmade frcm its 72 gears to its Honduras mahogany case. Mrs. Frances Cluff Bonnett, 85 died on Dec. 16, at her home in pleasant View, Utah. Pvt. Roderick Robertson and Pvt. David Mrs. Bonnett was the widow of David J.Bonnett, Cole of the Medical Corps at Ft. Sam Houston and mother of Doctor Earl C. Bo~ettand of - Mrs. Leo J. (Vivian) Farrar. She is survived won first vlace with their ~SvchiatPic- comedv- skit in a search-f or-talent- ~LOW~This te& by five sons and daughters,flve grandchildren, will appear in future variety shows. and '11 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Bonnett was buried at Provo, her birthplace.

Robert T. Ross reports from Lausanne that he is in the midst of his anatomo-physiologic- a1 medical studies and begins in March the 3Q MARY JORGENSEN BOWMAN years of clinical work required in Switzerland of doctors. Mrs. Mary Jorgensen Bowman, 69, died in Salt Lake City on Dec. 4 after a long illness. J. Conrad Nelson, an attorney for the New ,The mother of William J. Bowman, she was for York Central at Detroit, has been .teaching at 13 years treasurer for Sevier County. She is Detroit College of Law. For the past two terms survived by four children,seven grandchildren, he has taught personal property law to first- and one great-grandchild. Funeral services termers and is to take over the course in pub- were conducted in Richfield by Bishop Pearson. lic utilities offered to seniors. WILLIAM D. HARKINS John Eba is instructor of scienco and mathedployed by the Vallejo (Cal. ) Unified School District and stationed at Mare Dr. William D. Harkins, 77, retired pro- Island Apprentice School. The work is naval fessor at the Univ. of Chicago, died on March shipyard training for civilian government me- 7. Doctor Harkins was the guest of the Cor- Chanics and key men. nell Branch the first term of 1936-37 and kept a warm interest in the Association. He was a great teacher and researcher, one who help- ed to make the departments of chemistry and Rhodes Scholar Barney Childs is at Oriel physics at Ch'icago so well known. The basic College, Oxford, and Tinds England "wet, damp, conception of the H-bomb was stated in 1915 by slimv;- - cold. full of boiled cabbage and pas- eurs." He -expects to appear at Eornell as a Doctor Harkins, and he foresaw accurately the graduate assistant in English come next Sep- harnessing of atomic energy. tember.

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