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President Valentine to Assist at Dick Greene's :c::::::ft MORE DoCTORS SMOKE ·CAMELS }\fthOHWIt'k surt9: THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE • "What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?" That was the gist of the question put to 113,597 doctors from coast to coast in a recent survey by The"T-Zone"-T for three independent research groups. taste and Tforthroat More doctors named Camels than any other -is your own prov­ ing ground for any cigarette. cigarette, For only If you're a Camel smoker, this definite prefer­ your taste and YO'U1' ence for Camels among physicians will not sur­ throat can decide prise you. If not, then by all means try Camels. which cigarette tastes best to YOtt •• , and Try them for taste ... for your throat. That's the how it affects "T-Zone" test (see right). your throat. CAMELS THE ROCHESTER ALUMNI-ALUMNAE REVIEW Distributed Among the Graduates and Undergraduates of the University of Rochester ALUMNI REVIEW-VOL. XXV, No.1 ALUMNAE N·EWS-VOL. XXI, No. 1 Septemher-Octoher, J946 OPERATION HOMECOMING Re.dy to st.rt the first course at the clamb.ke which featured Operation Homecoming, first alumni reunion in over three years are (left to right): Dean J. Edward Hoffmeister, James E. McGhee, '19, retiring alumni president, and M.tthew D. Lawless, '09, new president of the Associ.ted Alumni. ........... The crowd of more than 360 which fined the River Campus field house included alumni whose classes ranged from 1885 to 1946. Among them were these college mates of the 'nineties, shown toasting each other (with clam broth. of course): Arthur L. Vedder, '96; Harry R. Moulthrop, '99; Curtiss N. Jameson, '99; Clinton R. Lyddon, '00, and Farley Withington, '00. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1946 3 Undismayed by the big turnout which sent the caterer scurrying for more Two ex-presidents of the Washing­ clams, lobster and chicken was the committee (from left): Don McConville, ton alumni group greeted one an­ '35; Wilbur Woodams, '17, and David Allyn, '31. other between courses: Robert O. Saunders, '06; Theodore Noun, '34. Mut ua I congratulations were ex­ College mates of the early war years attend their first reunion (left to changed by Martin F. Tiernan, '06, right): Robert Plass, '43; Barton Knapp, '43; George Darcy, '42; William winner of the alumni award, and Dr. Wheeler, '43, and John Baumer, '42. Richard L. Greene, '26, winner of the faculty medal. Waiting for the clams (left to right): Arthur Gosnell, '16; Fred Armbruster, '16; Bob Barry, 'IS, and Bob Patchen, '16 4 ROCHESTER ALUMNI· ALUMNAE REVIEW Fraternity reunions were the order of the evening, too. Here President Valentine is shown talking things over with some of the Oekes. No reunion would be complete without college songs. Here an alumni octet shows how they really should be sung. There were no meat, nylon or bread lines, but beer was something else again. This is how it was done. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1946 5 Germany: A Year After V-E Day By HOBERT J. TRAYHER , '34 Bob Trayhern was on leave of absenc.e as assistc"nt professor of philosophy from last October until the opening of the Fall term to serve as economic an­ alyst with the Office of Political Affairs," U. S. Office of Military Government. He was in Germany in that capacity from December 29 until July 19. ARLY last December, just before leaving for duty of Berlin, with the French in the northwest and the Brit­ E with the State Department in Germany, some of ish in the west-central districts respectively. In the south­ my friends OJ?- the River Campus in the course of their west corner lies the United States Sector, luckily estab­ farewells made a few grim predictions about the condi· lished in one of the least damaged districts of the Ger­ tions I was sure to find in the devastated Reich. Roches· I man capital. In this area bordering on the Gruenwald, ter was deep in snow at the time and it wasn't hard to a spacious forested park and lake district, are some of imagine what the first dreary post·war winter in a place the finest homes and villas still standing in the city. like Berlin would be like. Most are occupied by or reserved for U. S. personnel and As it happened, these predictions turned out to be their families. partly correct; but not for Berlin. My first assignment Homes of Nazi Officials Taken Over was at Marburg, a small university town (recently writ­ OMGUS offices in attractively landscaped surround- ten up in LIFE) a few miles north of Frankfurt. Here ings are located in Dahlem, once the richest residential the quarters were cold and the drafty castle where we area in Berlin. High ranking military government staff worked, high above the town, even colder. Unseasonable members and officers now occupy many villas in that floods in January often cut off our courier communica· area which were once the homes of top Nazi officials and tions with Frankfurt. Mail, rations and supplies were Wchrmacht generals. The modern and compact group of uncertain and slow in coming through. Telephone servo buildings housing OMGUS was formerly the Luftgau, ice was poor, the water was unpotable, and our rattletrap headquarters and nerve center of Goering's airforces. transportation chronically unreliable. ear this group is the famous Kaiser" ilhelm Research .I Institute, where some of the azis' ill-starred atomic en­ American Colony Efficiently' Organized ergy experiments were carried out. Also in the vicinity But Berlin was nothing like that. Arriving there in of OMGUS is Martin iemoller's parish church, partly mid.February, it was a welcome surprise to come in damaged. (In Marburg I met and talked briefly with from the field to find the bustling headquarters of the iemoller, who was making a tour of the German univer­ U. S. Office of Military Government (OMGUS) pretty sity towns in the U. S. Zone, preaching to apathetic and much like any big agency in Washington. The buildings somewhat sullen congregations ~n the unpopular theme were trim and well.equipped, the offices warm and fully of German guilt.) furnished, with telephones ringing, typewriters clattering Administered by German Council and conferences going on. Since last winter many im­ The Allied Control Authority (ACA), for which provements have been made, but even at that time it was OMGUS provides the U. S. element and staff, over· clear that OMGUS had quickly established and outfitted sees the government of Germany as a whole. However, itself to give our government strong representation in to administer the affairs of the four·sector Berlin en· the four-power control of Germany. clave in the heart of the Hussian Zone, it has deputized Today nothing is more astonishing to dependents a local four.power commission, called the Allied Kom· flocking into Berlin than the organization and efficiency mandantura. Actually, the work of municipal adminis­ of the OMGUS community. Around it a large American tration is carried out by the Berlin Magistrate, a council colony is growing up with almost all the supplies, serv­ of German civil officials screened, appointed and super­ ices and ways of doing things which American wives and vised by the Kommandantura. families are accustomed to at home. Berliners, of course, look on the Magistrate as just The Hussian sector takes up the whole eastern half another "puppet government," complaining that it is too 6 ROCHESTER ALUMNI - ALUMNAE REVIEW heavily !'taffed with Russian-sponsored opportunists. denazification laws are too severe and unjust, thaI the i'ievertheless. in the space of a few short months the population is being deliberately starved as a form of Kommandantura and Magistrate. with Allied technical slow punishment and retribution. and that the promised a·nd engineering help, had accomplished the restoration political liberty following the sma!'hing of the l\azis is of a large part of the city's util ities, long before anyone only a mirage. thought it could be done. By early spring of thi's year As for denazification, the Germans complain that ill uncontaminated water supply was available in most of too many cases our military gov~rnment approves civil­ the urban area; electric power, light and gas services ians for responsible posts whose only qualification is had been restored; telephone lines and exchanges were that they weren't Nazis. In the Russian zone, they claim. back in limited operation; subway, hus, street car and where the procedure is different and appointments are elevated transit systems had been patched together and made on meri.t, German sympathy is being wooed away put into service on surprisingly punctual schedules. toward the Soviet system. They complain that the Ru!'­ No Large Scale Public Housing sian·backed newspapers in Berlin are almost pure propa· Although most of Berlin's main railway stations ganda and that the British and U. S.-sponsored papers. and adjacent railyards had been wrecked, by April of trying to compete with such "national advertising," are this year a few passenger coaches and freight cars were' falling into similar bad habits. The results of this clat· plying back and forth daily to the outlying zones. Rub­ ter of propaganda, so they claim, are confusion in pub­ ble clearance squads, manned mostly by women and lic opinion, a dribble of real news and further doubt!' girls, had made most of the main thoroughfares pass­ about the unity among the occupying powers. Perhaps able. the bittel"est complaint to be heard among the Germans On the other hand, apart from scattered and woe­ in Berlin, where news filters in easily from the surround­ fully makeshift repairs, almost no large scale re.con­ ing Russian Zone, is that a virtually one-party system ~truction either in public housing or industrial rebuild­ has already extended itself across that zone and practi­ ing had been completed or even properly undertaken cally swallowed up all but a token political resistance hy the time I left Berlin late in July.
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