Cornell Alumni News Volume 47, Number 12 December 15, I 944 Price 20 Cents

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a business or industry to a four-year Veterans Advisement Center Opens university course. Assignments given so far include training for type- BY ANDREW L. WINSOR, PHD '29, DIRECTOR writer repairman, linotype operator, The new vocational advisement and portation, meals, and lodging are pro- poultryman, specialized supervisors, guidance center, here described by its vided for this purpose for all veterans business manager, and pattern maker. Director, was established in the Uni- whose training or education is to be It is expected that men will be as- versity Office of Veterans Education provided under the rehabilitation signed to professional, technical, man- at the request of the US Veterans Ad- agerial, clerical, sales, service, agri- ministration. laws. A Third Division Infantry private in Upon arrival in Ithaca, the veteran cultural, mechanical, and manual the last war, Professor Winsor was reports to D. J. Cavanaugh, senior work in accordance with their interest wounded in the front lines in France training officer of the Veterans Ad- and aptitudes. In order that the and went through the government ministration, who has offices in the veteran may get the best results rehabilitation program, receiving the same building, for a preliminary con- from his training, supervision of his BS at the University of Utah in 1920. ference. At the conclusion of this program is continued until com- He received the MA at Stanford and conference, the veteran is referred to pletion, at which time the veteran will entered the Graduate School here in the Guidance and Advisement Cen- be placed in appropriate employment. 1927 with an instructorship in Rural Education. Since 1930, he has taught ter for further interviewing and test- Men who are eligible for this service personnel administration in the De- ing. are expected to spend two days at the partment of Hotel Administration and The staff of the Center consists of Center, if necessary, in order that the College of Agriculture; is now profes- the director, with the additional title fullest consideration may be given to sor of Hotel Administration. of vocational adviser; Dr. A. Gordon their cases. Veterans who are not en- Nelson, associate vocational adviser, titled to such service under Public ETERANS Advisement and Law 16, but who would be interested VGuidance Center began opera- who came from the public schools system of Fairfield, Conn.; an as- in finding out what their general tions November 15, when the first ability, interests, aptitudes, and ex- trainee reported for examination and sistant who conducts and scores tests; and the necessary clerical help. periences indicate as a desirable voca- interview. In the first two weeks of tional or professional objective, may operation, while routine was being For each trainee, the guidance officers receive a folder containing the vet- make a special appointment by writ- established, ten trainees were inter- ing to the Ithaca Office of the Veterans viewed. With another two weeks of eran's service record, his scholastic record, and any other information Administration or may apply through experience behind us, the Center their local county service officer. will be able to deal with ten to fifteen that would be helpful as a basis for trainees a week, the load for which it guidance. After analyzing this in- is organized. formation, a program of testing is ar- Reports To Alumni ranged to provide supplementary in- The Center is in the University formation to be used in determining T3EPORT to the Cornell Alumni Office of Veterans Education at 13 the applicant's qualifications as a *^> from President Edmund E. Day East Avenue. To it will be referred all basis for rehabilitation training. A is being mailed with the Alumni Fund veterans entitled to rehabilitation study is made of his interests and de- Annual Report for 1943-44. These are training under Public Law 16 of the sires, his general ability, and his going to approximately 47,000 Cor- Seventy-eighth Congress from ten special aptitudes. nellians in the Western Hemisphere counties of the Southern Tier and who were undergraduates at the Uni- Finger Lakes region of New York Veteran's Ability Determined versity and for whom current ad- State. As an agency of the US Vet- From these data, a "profile" showing dresses are known. erans Administration, this Center will the dominant interests and the rela- The President explains that not- make analyses and recommend voca- tive strength of the candidate's abili- withstanding his yearly reports to the tional objectives for all rehabilitation ties is drawn. This record is then Board of Trustees, as required by the cases as they are discharged from the studied to determine appropriate vo- Statutes of the University, and his services. Although not required to do cational objectives in the light of the usual informal reports to alumni at so, any returning veteran who quali- vocational history, the service record, June Reunions in Ithaca and in fies under Public Law 346, commonly the academic report, and the disabil- speaking to Cornell groups, "I have known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, is ity of the veteran. A specific job ob- never felt that I have succeeded in also entitled to this service if he cares jective or a number of possible ob- giving Cornell Alumni as a whole the to use it. jectives is then indicated and the sort of accounting that they wanted, Veterans from this district return- veteran is sent back to Mr. Cavanaugh and I have come to the conclusion ing with service-incurred disabilities in the Veterans Administration office, that each year I ought to send every will file an application for vocational who makes a definite assignment and alumnus a general report on the state rehabilitation with the US Veterans plans a training program to corres- of the University. In this report, I Administration office at Batavia. They pond. want to tell what happened at Cornell will then be assigned a date on which The training assigned as a result of during the preceding academic year, they are to report at the Center here the tests and interviews may be at and to give my personal slant on some for consultation and counseling. Trans- any level, from apprentice training in of the major developments that have occurred. I hope that these annual To Work With Schools de Seville, Universite de Grenoble, statements will bring forth an in- and the Sorbonne. He shortly re- creased volume of frank commentary turned to business, however, repre- by Cornellians the world over, who, I senting the Burson Knitting Co. of am happy to say, have never been par- Rockford, 111., in England, Europe, ticularly hesitant in expressing their and Africa, with headquarters in views on the situation at Ithaca." Paris and London and travelling from He tells the recent effects of the Moscow to Cape Town. As a hobby, war on enrollment of students in the he has visited scores of universities University, both civilians and in the in the United States and abroad. Army and Navy Training Programs; Professors Hinchliff and Blanchard discusses accelerated instruction and L. Rideout, PhD '36, chairman of the its implications; describes the pro- advisory board for underclassmen in posed new curricula of the School of Arts and Sciences, spoke at teas for Business and Public Administration, prospective students given by the the five-year courses in Engineering, Cornell Women's Club of New York the State School of Industrial and in the Barbizon Hotel, November 11. Labor Relations, and the intensive They told of student life and require- courses given irj modern Russian ments at the University and showed civilization. The President reports also pictures of the Campus. So many the changes in physical plant and guests came from secondary schools housing, and says that the University E WCOMER to the Alumni House that the program and refreshments will build new dormitories for both men had to be repeated for two groups. and women soon after the war ends. staff is Professor Emerson Hinch- He also summarizes the financial out- liff '14, Romance Languages, who has The next day, the travellers were comes during the last academic year. been appointed by the University to joined by Pauline J. Schmid, Assist- devote his major time as Assistant ant Alumni Secretary, to speak at a Cites Recent Attacks Alumni Secretary, principally to culti- tea for school girls given by the Cor- In a section headed "The Univer- vate .relations with secondary schools. nell Women's Club of Long Island in sity Under Fire," the President refers He will continue the work which Pro- the Hempstead home of Mrs. James to the public controversies which fessor John C. Adams '26 did last Ebert (Therese Stein) '28, Club presi- arose over the Russian courses and year until he left July 1 to become dent. They and Jane S. Hanse '45 of the Bernays Lectures on Civil Liber- president of Hofstra College. Babylon, recently graduated, were ties. He concludes: "The University Professor Hinchliff will act as introduced by Mrs. George P. Flint did not celebrate its seventy-fifth liaison between the University and (Dorothy Powell) '22, chairman of anniversary by backing down in the the secondary schools committees of the Club secondary schools com- face of criticism. Nor, for that matter, Cornell Clubs of both men and mittee. did it observe this important year by women, will visit schools and Clubs With Alumni Trustee George H. being used as a sounding board for and arrange for visits of other Faculty Rockwell '13, Professor Hinchliff communists, conservatives, labor, members to tell prospective students visited Phillips Academy at Exeter, capital, or any other special interest. about the University, and will be N. H., November 27. They conferred The University did the job for which executive of the Alumni Association with members of the school staff and it was designed, and the response of secondary schools committee of which met thirteen boys who were interested Cornellians and non-Cornellians alike Edward H. Carman, Jr. '16 is chair- in Cornell, among them the sons of adds to our conviction that the job man. Richard T. Guilbert '17, John L. was well done." Hinchliff was managing editor and •Dole '18, and George W. Sisson, 3d. Fund Tops Record Senior editor-in-chief of The Cornell '22. Thirty-fourth Annual Report of the Daily Sun; is secretary of Quill and Carlton H. Barrows, AM '33, chair- Cornell Alumni Fund contains a Dagger, president of the Kappa Sigma man of the secondary schools commit- tabulation showing for each Class the corporation, and edits the '14 Class tee of the Cornell Club of New percentage of its living members letter. Before he returned to the Uni- England, accompanied the emissary contributing, number of donors, and versity in 1940 as instructor in Span- from Ithaca November 28 to Phillips amount given for the unrestricted ish and for two years to teach a Academy at Andover, Mass. There Alumni Fund of 1943-44, together course on Latin America widely they also visited members of the staff, with the names of all contributors. commended by students, he had and talked with nine boys about Cor- President Day expresses his apprecia- travelled extensively and engaged in nell. They found an active Cornell tion of the loyalty to Cornell indicated business abroad. He was in the export proponent in the student manager of by the record-breaking total of $189,- business in Buenos Aires, and in football, the son of John L. Loch '16. 753.55 given by 8,077 donors, and a 1916 was secretary of a Government brief report of activities and results financial and commercial commission is written for the Alumni Fund Coun- to Uruguay and Paraguay. An In- Offer Literary Prize cil by Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30, fantry officer in the last war, he was ASH award of $5,000, known as executive secretary. A graph shows transferred to Intelligence because of C the "G.I. Joe Literary Award/' that Cornell stayed in third place his proficiency in languages and sent is being offered by E. P. Dutton & last year among all universities in as assistant military attache to the Co. for the best book manuscript by a amount given by alumni, following- US Legation in Bern, Switzerland. service man or woman wounded in Yale and Dartmouth., For ten years after the war, he was in action in this war. The offer is open Cornellians who do not receive the business in New York City and South to both officers and enlisted personnel, President's and Alumni Fund reports America. Intending in 1928 to indulge but not to professional correspond- may obtain them by writing to the a taste for study, he and Mrs. Hinch- ents. $2,500 will be paid on acceptance Alumni Fund office, 3 East Avenue, liff went to Europe and Hinchliff at- of the manuscript and $2,500 on its Ithaca. tended successively the Univ.ersidad publication, all as an advance against 230 Cornell Alumni News royalties, under the publisher's regu- Fifteen Years Ago lar contract. December, 1929—The Ithaca Jour- Prose manuscripts should be at Time Was . . . nal-News reports in its Religious least 50,000 words in length, although Notes for the Week: 'Tonight Sage this rule may be waived if, in the will celebrate Christ's birthday with a opinion of the judges, a shorter manu- formal dinner and dance." script deserves the award. Fiction, Twenty-five Years Ago December, 1919—Christmas vaca- Colonel Henry W. Sackett '75, a non-fiction, poetry, and collections of Trustee of the University for thirtΛ^ short stories will be considered; au- tion begins at noon, December 20, continuing until January 5. The years, died December 9 in New York thors are not limited to one entry. City, a few weeks after the Trustees The closing date for the current Lehigh Valley and Lackawanna Rail- roads, in addition to their regularly had named the waterfall below Cas- award will be January 1, 1945, but cadilla Bridge "Sackett Cascade." A awards will also be given in 1946 and scheduled trains, plan to run ten spec- ials, all of which are booked to ca- lawyer, he gave $200,000 to beautify 1947. Manuscripts should be mailed Fall Creek and Cascadilla gorges. to E. P. Button & Co., Inc., 286-302 pacity. Fourth Avenue, New York Citv 10. Cornell Musical Clubs, making their "Sport Stuff as a weekly depart- holiday trip in behalf of the Endow- ment of this magazine started in 1920. ment Fund this year, will give con- It was originally intended to be a bit of Earliest Graduate Dies certs in Buffalo, Akron, Cleveland, St. casual editorial comment on the Uni- ARLIEST known living graduate Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pitts- versity's athletics, direct from the E of the University, Dr. Albert burgh, and end the tour in New York showers. Almost immediately, how- Osborn '72, died November 28 at his City. ever, it shifted to a series of pro- home in Washington Grove, Md. He Ithaca's two evening newspapers, nouncements on the phenomenon of would have been ninety-five, De- the Journal and the Daily News, are youth and the amiable weaknesses of cember 2. merged in the Ithaca Journal-News, academic persons. After ten years in Born in Oak Hill, Greene County, published by Frank E. Gannett '98, this spot, the editor finds himself a in 1849, Dr. Osborn entered the Uni- with Harry G. Stutz '07 as managing bit fed up and has decided to kill the versity with its first Class, in 1868, editor. act. Hicjacet Sport Stuff."—R. B. from Lockport. A member of Delta Upsilon and an editor of The Cornell Era, he received the AB in 1872. After two years teaching Latin and Greek, How Well Do You Know Cornell ? he entered Drew Theological Semin- CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS PICTURE ? ary and received the BD in 1877. Syracuse University awarded him the ΓΛO YOU remember what and where honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology -L' this decoration is? The most com- in 1921. For fourteen years, beginning plete identification of this "Campus in 1877, he was pastor of Methodist close-up" received from a subscriber by Episcopal churches in Western New January 1, 1945, will win a prize copy of York. In 1891, with Bishop John F. Professor Carl Becker's book, Cornell Hurst, he founded American Univer- University: Founders and the Founding, sity in Washington, D. C., and for as a gift from the Alumni News and Uni- fifty-three years served as its reg- versity Press. istrar, assistant secretary, secretary, Entries will be judged by the News librarian, and historian. He was staff, whose decision shall be final. In completing a history of American case of a tie, winner will be determined University at the time of his death. by lot. No entry from a person who lives within twenty-five miles of Ithaca will be considered. Correct identifica- Dr. Osborn last visited Ithaca in tion and winner's name will appear in the January 15 Alumni News. 1941, for his sixty-nine-year Class Reunion. He was a cousin of the late RESULT OF NOVEMBER 15 CONTEST Dean Albert W. Smith '78, Engineer- T7* VERY person who has traversed ing, and leaves four daughters, a son, -*-' the walk in front of Sibley Col- Illl^fi^ ten grandchildren (all of whom he lege, along the north side of the himself christened and married), and Quadrangle, has passed below the fourteen great-grandchildren. plaster figure in bas-relief which is Records of the University Alumni reproduced here from our contest of Office indicate that there may be one November 15. The figure of a woman other survivor of those who re- holding a hammer and forge-tongs, ceived degrees in 1872. William Har- representing the mechanic arts, kins '72 was graduated with the BS, looks over the Quadrangle from the small gable centered in the south and the next year received the B Lit. facade of West Sibley. He was born August 30, 1857. Eldest Perhaps because she is so high that few persons have noticed her, only living Cornellian may be Albert H. two subscribers ventured to identify this figure. The one who did so Goodrich '70, who was born Sep- correctly, William H. Sanders '29 of Williston Park, has been mailed the tember 11, 1849, three months before Becker book. Dr. Osborn. Next eldest is recorded as Every Cornellian will find great pleasure and much new information Seymour C. Prentiss '73, who was about the beginnings of the University in Professor Becker's absorbing born January 14, 1852, and would history. Cornell University: Founders and the Founding may be pur- shortly be ninety-three. But no word chased at $2.75 postpaid from the Cornell Alumni Association, 3 East of any of these three has been re- Avenue, Ithaca. ceived in several years. December 75, 1944 231 school teachers, this booklet contains an interpretative history of the British Books Commonwealth in the form, ofi ques- Letters tions and answers, an annotated Subject to the usual restrictions of space and By Cornellians bibliography, study and discussion good taste, we shall print letters from sub- questions for classroom use, and sug- scribers on any side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS gested activities for pupils. often may not agree with the sentiments Farm Story expressed, and disclaims any responsibility Tough Sod. By Edward R. East- beyond that of fostering interest in the man, editor of American Agriculturist Washington Elects University. and Trustee of the University. Ameri- EW officers of the Cornell Club can Agriculturist, Inc., Ithaca. 1944. N of Washington, D. C., elected Praise for President 246 pages, $2.50. November 1 at the Hotel Lee Shera- "Editor Ed" writes a wholesome ton, are John S. Gorrell '05, presi- To TH^ EDITOR: farm story of folks in up-State New dent; Cazenove G. Lee, Jr. '06, vice- I have just finished reading the York, built around the struggles to president; Vertner S. Kenerson '36, November 15 ALUMNI NEWS from establish farm bureaus against the treasurer; Captain Robert G. Irish cover to cover, both inclusive. opposition of die-hards to having "a '40, secretary; and Frederic F. Espen- President Day's Commencement young feller in store clothes ride schied '05, Walter W. Burns '06, and address should be read by all Cornel- around the county in an automobile at Henry B. Williams '30, directors. lians. It is evident that under his able my expense, advising me how to farm Dr. S. Alfred Sze '01 introduced leadership Cornell will continue to be when I'm old enough to be his father Pao C. Chao, PhD '36, Chinese repre- "an institution where anyone can find and was farmin' when he was still sentative on UNRRA, to "approxi- instruction in any subject." I some- wet behind the ears." mately 100 alumni, including a good times wonder, however, if the found- percentage of Army and Navy person- ers of our beloved University had any The young hero, Allen Clinton, idea of the nature of the subjects we eventually makes the farm bureau a nel, who completely consumed every bit of the buffet supper after the meet- would be teaching today! success, is cleared of dealing in tuber- Every Cornellian should also read cular cows, and marries the girl away ing." Dr. Chao told the Club about Cornellians in Chinese agriculture. Rym Berry's article on architecture from his supposed rival. Even the which immediately follows your ab- villain, old Ezra Chittendon, finally November 18, the Club held its annual football luncheon for Cornell and stract of President Day's address. sees the error of his ways and also Substitute the thought "curriculums" comes to happiness. Dartmouth alumni; direct wire service from Schoellkopf Field to the Lee for "architecture," and Rym's article Sheraton brought play-by-play re- becomes a wonderful Chapter II to For Parents of Scouts ports of the game. President Day's Chapter I. Perhaps Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P.Binns you will say, "We planned it that Mom and Dad and Johnny the way!" — PETER T. VANDERWAART '09 Boy Scout. By Horace F. Prince '07. '28 of the Air Transport Command Foster & Stewart Publishing Corp., described his recent visit to ATC Buffalo. 1944. 32 pages. bases overseas, at a smoker sponsored Reunion at Sea by the Washington Club in the Dodge The author has been scoutmaster of Hotel, December 7. To THE EDITOR: Troop Six, Buffalo Council, Boy It occurs to me that you might per- Scouts of America, for eighteen years. haps be interested in a small scale In this booklet he defines the values of Cornell Reunion which took place last scouting and offers practical advice to night on the weather deck of a certain the parents of scout-age boys. U S transport, located in the South- west Pacific. It happened that three of the Big Red's stalwart sons, to wit: British Commonwealth Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. Stanat ;28, Major Stuart B. Avery, Jr. '32 The British Commonwealth: An and Lieutenant John C. Eddison '42 Experiment in National Self-Govern- decided to assemble in the tropical ment and International Co-operation. evening to give a rendition of Cornell By Professor Frederick G. Marcham, songs. PhD '26, History. Cornell University The program was going along very Press, Ithaca. 1944. 98 pages, 40 well, if not harmoniously, when an un- cents. happy lieutenant approached to "tell This is the fifth oϊ » ββriesoί"bulle- us that we were disturbing the cap- tins from the University Workshop on tain's sleep and, to add insult to in- Latin America, the British Common- jury, that our singing was terrible. wealth of Nations, and the Far East We attributed this lack of aesthetic (No. 4, China: Revolutionary Changes appreciation to the fact that we did in an Ancient Empire, by Professor AT WASHINGTON CLUB MEETING not have the requisite foamy, vocal Knight Biggerstaff, History, is still in Left to right are Captain Robert G. lubrication. We also suspect the preparation). The bulletins are pub- Irish '40, new secretary of the Cornell captain of being a former Syracuse lished as the CornellJUniversΐty Cur- Club of Washington, D. C.; John S. man! riculum Series in World History and Gorrell '05, president; Pao C. Chao, PhD With best wishes to the ALUMNI are edited by Professor Howard R. '36, Chinese representative on UNRRA; NEWS and all Cornell for a Merry Walter W. Burns '06, director and past- Anderson, Director of the School of president of the Club; and Sao-Ke Alfred Christmas from all three of us. Education. Sze '01, former Chinese Ambassador to — JOHN C. EDDISON '42 Prepared primarily for secondary the United States. 232 Cornell Alumni News Hotelmen Entertain April 7. And Zino 'Francescatti, violin- cember 10 by the American-Scandin- ist, will close the series April 28. Five avian Foundation of New York. /CORNELL Society of Hotelmen of the six concerts are scheduled for A native of Austria, Dr. Rabi was ^-* gave its seventeenth annual Saturday evenings, to enable service brought to the United States in in- smoker at the Hotel Plaza, New York men to attend. fancy, attended public schools in City, November 14, during the Na- An attractive folder, Bailey Hall Manhattan and Brooklyn, and re- tional Hotel Exposition. Ten students Concerts, 1944-1945, has been pub- ceived the *BChem in 1919. He re- of Hotel Administration who were in lished by the Department of Music. It turned to the Graduate School in New York for the Exposition and ap- contains pictures and biographies of 1922, and a year later became a proximately 400 hotelmen from the the artists and information concern- tutor in physics at CCNY. In 1927, United States and Canada were ing tickets; copies may be had by he received the Barnard Fellowship guests. writing to the Department, 320 Wait at Columbia University and a fellow- H. Lee Merriman '28 of the Avenue, Ithaca. ship of the International Education Anthony Wayne Hotel, Waynesboro, Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, Pa., led singing of the national and spent the next two years studying anthem. Major Henry M. Jewett '40, Philadelphia Women in Munich, Copenhagen, Hamburg, AUS, chairman of the smoke'r com- WENTY members of the Cornell Leipzig, and Zurich, returning to mittee, introduced Glenwood J. Sher- TWomen's Club of Philadelphia, Columbia in 1929 as lecturer in rard, president of the American Hotel Pa., meeting for dinner at Kugler's theoretical physics; was appointed Association; G. A. Wilson, president Restaurant November 29, heard Mrs. assistant professor in 1930, associate of the Hotel Association of Canada; F. Arthur Tucker (Marion Milligan) professor in 1935, and has been pro- Professor Charles I. Sayles '26, In- '31 speak on the work of the Federa- fessor there since 1937. stitutional Engineering, president of tion of Women's Clubs, of which she Since 1930, Dr. Rabi has been en- the Cornell Society; and Professor was recently appointed a director. gaged chiefly in experimental work on Howard B. Meek, head of the De- Mrs. Philip H. Carlin (Dorothy the magnetic properties of atomic partment at the University. Allison) '24, secretary of the Club, nuclei. The Sigma Xi Semi-Cen- Members of the Department and "outlined some recent changes at tennial Research Prize of $1,000, the five men and five women students Cornell, as gleaned from the ALUMNI awarded by a committee meeting at maintained a Cornell booth during NEWS." Gertrude M. Goodwin '31, Cornell in 1936, went to him among the Exposition, at the Commodore Club president, presided. forty-three candidates, principally for his revelation of the magnetic prop- Hotel, and the students assisted at A tea for Freshmen women enter- the registration desk. erties of the two simplest atomic ing the University from the Phila- nuclei, the proton and the deutron. delphia area was held in October at In 1939, he was awarded the $1,000 Society Talks Building the home of Mrs. Russell C. Gourley annual prize of the American As- (Marion Gushee) '16, whose daughter, ORNELL Society of Engineers, sociation for the Advancement of Margery W. Gourley, is a Sophomore Science for his epochal discovery C following a buffet supper at the in Arts. Cornell Club of New York November that all atoms and molecules in the 30, arranged a discussion of "Post- universe transfer radio waves of War Aspects of the Building In- Wins Nobel Prize various frequencies, and for devising dustry." Speakers were University atomic radio receiving sets that en- Trustee Willis H. Carrier '01, chair- able scientists to tune in on these man of the Carrier Corp.; J. Wright cosmic broadcasts. Taussig '08, vice-president and di- Dr. Rabi has been on leave from rector of Raymond Concrete Pile Co. Columbia since 1941, engaged in war and Louis Skidmore, member of the work as associate director of the architectural firm of Skidmore, Or- radiation laboratory at MIT, Cam- vings & Merrill. bridge, Mass. Concerts Start Michigan Elects ELEN TRAUBEL, dramatic so- IFTY members of the Cornell H prano of the Metropolitan Opera, F Club of Michigan attended the opened the University concert season Club's fifty-fifth annual meeting No- November 18 in Bailey Hall. The vember 15, at the University Club in artist's program of songs from Beeth- Detroit. Chairman Theodore G. See- oven, Schubert, and Richard Strauss, meyer, Jr. '27 and his committee of two Negro spirituals, and arias from twenty arranged a program of Cavalleria Rusticana and Lohengrin, "speeches, songs, and joyful comrad- ery, a Cornell Punch Bowl and Elys- was well received by an audience 7 which nearly filled the gallery, or- ian dinner. ' Toastmaster Henry E. chestra, and dress circle of Bailey Epley '03 introduced the principal Hall. OBEL PRIZE, in Physics for speaker of the evening, Anthony Weit- The second concert will be December N 1944, 'Worth about $29,000, has zel of the Detroit Free Press, who 16 by the twenty-two-year-old pian- been awarded to Dr. Isador I. Rabi spoke on "What Will Happen to De- ist, William Kapell. The Busch Little '19 (above) for his research in the troit After the War." Symphony Orchestra will appear Jan- resonance method of registering the Officers elected for 1945 are Linton uary 20. The Pittsburgh Symphony magnetic moments of atomic par- Hart '14, president; Philip J. Kent Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner, ticles. The prize was awarded by '14, vice-president; Charles R. Beltz will play here March 14. Egon Petri, Wollmar F, Bostrom, Swedish Min- '37, secretary; Karl F. Dodge '26, University Pianist-in-residence, will ister to the United States, at a recep- treasurer; and John W. Drummond give his annual University concert tion given in New York City De- '29, industrial secretary. Cornell Alumni News 233 vited for the North squad but will be unable to play because Cornell has no extended Christmas recess this year. Slants on Sports Snavely hit the banquet circuit, appearing in Bethlehem, Pa., Buffalo, and Rochester. His appearance in Basketball Starts neer scored two field goals and Harri- Bethlehem, at a dinner honoring that son made a foul shot for a total of 5 city's high school football team, was ALLEST Cornell basketball team points to win over the 4 made by arranged by Edward E. Goodwillie Tin many a season opened the Canisius. '10, Bethlehem Steel Company exe- 1944-45 campaign with successes at Again Alterson led the scoring, cutive. home and abroad. The team averages with 17 points; an average of 18 Two Cornell players, Dekdebrun six feet three inches and is topped by points for his first two games. Match- and Paul Robeson, Jr. '48, left end, the six feet nine inches of Edward T. neer scored 11, Peterson 9, and Har- were given honorable mention on the Peterson '48 of Buffalo. Cornell de- rison 6. annual Associated Press all-America feated Rider College of Trenton, N. J., Where Cornell used seven sub- squad. Dekdebrun was also placed on 59-35, in Barton Hall December 2 and stitutes against Rider, only two— the second team of the all-Eastern edged out a 43-42 overtime decision Forenza and Walter D. Way '48 of squads selected by the Associated over Canisius College in Memorial Westport, center—saw action against Press and the United Press. Auditorium, Buffalo, December 9. Canisius. Football attendance at Cornell's Two veterans, Acting Captain Ir- Others who played part of the time four home games was reported as win Alterson, USNR, of Rosedale, against Rider were William N. Poch- 21,985; a slight increase over the forward, and Gordon W. Harrison '46 mursky, USNR, of Paterson, N. J., same number of games the year be- of Youngstown, Ohio, guard, were and William A. Tishman, USNR, of fore. started in the Rider game. Peterson New York City, forwards; Robert C. played center. The other newcomers Burgess, USNR, of Aurora, 111.; Carl Winter Schedules were William W. Matchneer '48 of E. Glasow, USNR, of Rochester; and Columbus, Ohio, an Army Air Forces Frederick S. Turk '48 of Muncie, ADDITIONAL winter sports veteran, forward; and Lester W. Ind., guards. <£\ schedules have been announced: Calkins, USNR, of Chicago, 111., In a preliminary game December 2, Swimming guard. This same combination also the Midshipmen's School defeated the Dec. 16 Colgate at Ithaca started against Canisius. Junior Varsity, 35-31. 30 Sampson Naval Training Center at Sampson Peterson, remarkably agile for his Jan. 13 Columbia at New York size (he packs 215 pounds), tipped in Football Echoes 20 Rochester at Rochester 27 Colgate at Hamilton the first basket against Rider, 'and OOTBALL did not bow out of the the visitors trailed all the way. Cor- Feb. 3 Sampson at Ithaca F sports picture when the Cornell 17 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia nell's superior height and zone de- season ostensibly closed at Philadel- fense kept Rider's smaller players Hockey phia, November 25. There were these Jan. 20 Dartmouth at Ithaca well away from the basket and they developments: had to depend on long shots for Feb. 3 Dartmouth at Hanover The News and Observer of Raleigh, 10 Yale at New Haven points. Cornell, on the other hand, N. C., asserted December 9 that Carl worked the ball close in, with Captain Wrestling Sriavely would return to the Univer- Jan. 6 Pennsylvania at Ithaca Alterson the principal sharpshooter. sity of North Carolina as head foot- Operating from the corner court, he 13 Lehigh at Bethlehem ball coach. The newspaper said: 20 Penn State at Ithaca threw in 19 points. "Although the formal signing of the Feb. 3 Columbia at New York .Most of Alterson's shots were of contract may not have taken place, 9-10 Intercollegiates at Bethlehem the one-handed, southpaw variety. there is little doubt about Snavely's Indoor Track He was extremely accurate at short taking over Jan. 1." The paper added Jan. 27 West Point Relays at West range. Matchneer, who;reported late its belief that the contract would be Point for practice after a season with the for five years at $12,000 a year. Mar. 3 Intercollegiates at New York soccer team at goal guard, and Pfeter- Coach Suavely and Robert J. Kane Junior Varsity Basketball son each scored 11 points against '34, Director of Physical Education Dec. 23 Naval School Midshipmen at Rider. Aurelio G. Forenza, USNR, of and Athletics, had no comment. Ithaca the Bronx, a substitute forward, Jan. 9 US Military Academy Prepara- Snavely accepted an invitation to tory at Ithaca flipped in four field goals for 8 points coach, with Lynn Waldorf of North- 13 Waterloo at Ithaca late in the game. western, the North team for the an- Feb. 3 US Military Academy Prepara- Cornell ran an early string of 8 nual North-South game at Mont- tory at Ithaca points to take a 12-3 lead and kept 10 Sampson Naval Hospital at gomery, Ala., December 30. Allen E. Ithaca the pressure on for a 31-17 advantage Dekdebrun '47, halfback, was in- 17 Naval School Midshipmen at at intermission. In the second half, Ithaca Coach Emerald B. Wilson started feeding in the reserves. They could Players Selected not quite match the scoring pace of Scores of the Teams the starters, but they never lost con- ONORS also came to three Cor- trol of the game. Basketball H nell soccer and two lacrosse At Buffalo, CornelL and Canisius Cornell 59, Rider 35 players. waged a bitter battle, with the host Cornell 43, Canisius 42 (over- Edward A. McDonough, USNR, team leading, 23-17, at the half. time) was named at fullback on an all-star Cornell rallied to tie the score at 38- Naval School Midshipmen 35, team selected by the National Soccer all at the end of the regular playing Cornell Junior Varsity 31 Coaches Association. He also was time. In the overtime period, Match- placed on an all-Eastern team, along 234 Cornel/ Alumni News with George H. Bailey, forward, and least one of the so-called "outside" activi- Matchneer, goal guard now playing The Spirit of Cornell ties such as literature, art, music, drama, religion, photography, social service, ath- basketball. ELCOME to Freshmen of the letics. Students edit and publish maga- US Intercollegiate Lacrosse As- WColleges of Agriculture and zines, of which this Cornell Countryman sociation, meeting in New York City Home Economics, penned (but not is an example. They conduct a newspaper; December 8, awarded the William they have sketch clubs and art exhibits; signed) by Professor Bristow Adams, bands, orchestras, choral societies; they Schmeisser Memorial Trophy to Fred Agriculture Publications, appears as write, produce, and act plays in a real A. Allner, USNR, of last year's an advertisement in The Cornell theater; they Have church work; they par- Varsity lacrosse team as the nation's Countryman for November. Much ticipate in at least fifteen sports. outstanding defense player. An all- Cornell's welcome to new students is of what is said is of interest not only neither boisterous nor demonstrative; in- America team selected by the As- to Freshmen but to all Cornellians. deed, Cornell is not particularly collegiate. sociation has Allner at cover point That part of the "ad" appears below: Cornell, as an Alma Mater, does not and W. Brooks Tunstall, USNR, of New students will experience "Fresh- believe in keeping her foster children tied last year's Varsity, at first attack. man cramps," or the ache in leg muscles to her apron strings. She welcomes men that comes from climbing unaccustomed and women to a community of free spirits. hills. That will soon pass. Not so soon to pass will be their wonder, and perhaps New Delaware Officers dismay, at the freedom and lack of re- Fete Jersey Freshmen ORTY members of the Cornell straint, the sense of being almost entirely INETEEN entering Freshmen "on their own." F Club of Delaware, meeting for That, perhaps, is the Cornell way of Nwomen were entertained October dinner October 24 at the University encouraging self-reliance, and of develop- 13 by the Cornell Women's Club of Club in Wilmington, heard Andrew ing what is practically a Cornell motto,— Northern New Jersey, at the Maple- Haiduck, vice-president in charge of Freedom and Responsibility—that is, a wood home of Mrs. Louis A. Winkel- freedom to make their own choices and an engineering for the Bellanca Aircraft acceptance of the responsibility for mak- man (Helen Kinney) '22, president of Corp., talk on post-war aviation. ing wise choices. If a student chooses not the Club. Margaret M. Tammen '40 Philo D. Atwood '25, manager of to study, not to attend classes, not to was in charge of the entertainment, product development in the nylon maintain good health, that is his own assisted by Mrs. Virgil W. Samms, Jr. responsibility, just as he alone will be sales department of E. I. DuPont de responsible for losing his place—or "bust- (Emily Germer) '42, Jean C. Rix- Nemours & Co., was elected presi- ing out"—to make room for someone else mann '45, Virginia H. Corwith '44, dent of the Club. Warren A. Beh '26 who will have a better appreciation of the and other recent graduates. and William G. Kinsinger, PhD '39, privileges that Cornell offers. were elected vice-presidents; George Scholarship First Farm Bureau Officers H. May '22, secretary; Philip H. The Freshman, in the main, has to Permar '42, treasurer; and John K. make his or her own way, though many EW YORK State Farm Bureau Conant '18 and Ralph L. Talbot, persons will offer suggestions, advice, and N re-elected Warren W. Hawley, Grad '16, trustees. guidance. The soundest advice and the Jr. '14 of Batavia, president, at its safest guidance is that which leads to annual meeting November 16 in hard work in the chosen studies. Scholar- Press Issues Catalog ship comes first. Syracuse. Edward S. Foster '25 of The advantages of college do not come Ithaca was re-elected secretary, an /CORNELL BOOKS 1944 is an altogether from classroom and laboratory. office he has held for fifteen years; ^ attractive forty-eight-page cata- A student gains much from association and Don J. Wickham '24 of Hector, with other students and with members of chairman of the State Farm Security log, the first to be issued by the the Faculty. Too few students realize that Cornell University Press. It describes professors are people. Administration advisory committee, 220 books published by the Press. Also, students should take part in at was elected vice-president. Oldest title is The Cayuga Flora, by the late Professor William R. Dudley '74, Botany, published in 1886. Re- cent additions in preparation and in press are included. Some of the fields represented by several titles are Chemistry, Classics, Drama, English, History, Medicine, Philosophy and Religion, and Political Philosophy, Government, and Law. The University Press is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year; its new catalog contains an account of the founding, early history, and re- organization of the Press, as reported in the ALUMNI NEWS last April 15. Together with the Comstock Publish- ing Co., the Press comprises the publishing activities of the University. Victor Reynolds, University Pub- lisher, is manager of both concerns, which are housed in the Comstock FIRST DEVELOPMENT IN RESEARCH TO IMPROVE WATERMELONS Chalet at 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca. Desmond D. Dolan, graduate research assistant in Plant Breeding and Vegetable Crops, operates an apparatus which he devised with Professor Henry M. Munger '36 Alpine Restaurant on North Aurora to measure the resistance to breaking of the rind of Honey Cream watermelons. The Street has been purchased by Harry scale under the melon registers the pressure applied on the plank at which the melon P. Marinos, former proprietor of breaks. The device is being used to record results in the breeding of a new melon for Candyland, and Theodore P. Nichol- northern growers which will retain the early maturity and high quality of Honey Cream son, recently chef at the College Spa. but with a tougher rind better to withstand handling and shipping. December 75, 1944 235 Grumman Helps Two honor societies in Education and Home Economics, and is president of Critics and Writers NTERING Classes in the School Omicron Nu. She is a member of the ESSENGER Lectures on Writ- E of Mechanical Engineering this University Orchestra, Dramatic Club, M ers and Their Critics: A Study year include two winners of Grum- and of Willard Straight Hall commit- of Misunderstanding, delivered at the man Scholarships covering all tuition tees. University in March, 1943, by Henri and fees, awarded by Grumman Air- Peyre, chairman of the department of craft Engineering Corp. of Bethpage, French at Yale, have been published Long Island. Richard P. Feyk '48 of Women Hear Medics by the Cornell University Press, at Bohemia came in July from Sayville pORNELL Women's Club of New $3.00. High School, and John C. Snedeker ^ York, meeting November 15 in In a book at once challenging and '48 entered November 1 from Baby- the JJarbizon Hotel, heard about the engaging, Professor Peyre examines lon High School. Cornell Medical College and Nursing "the long record of the failures of con- President Leroy R. Grumman '16 School, and their relationship to New temporaries to understand the origin- explains that " Grumman Aircraft York Hospital. ality of creators living among them." Engineering Corporation was estab- Dean Joseph C. Hinsey gave a Those fortunate enough to have heard lished by men who are natives of the six lectures, which includes much Long Island; the great majority of comprehensive picture of the war- time program of the College; Dr. of the University community, remem- Grumman employees have been drawn ber how entertainingly he arrainged from local communities. These awards David P. Barr Ί L, physician-in-chief at New York Hospital, sketched the ancient and modern "crit'cism." But are therefore being offered to en- his book does more than criticise with courage talented and ambitious grad- history of that institution and its collaboration with the College and penetration and wit the errors of other uates of Long Island schools to enter critics; the author is not afraid to the field of aircraft engineering, and School of Nursing; and Bessie A. R. Parker, Acting Dean of the Cornell essay the role himself, to judge his own eventually to further the develop- contemporaries, and to;, break a few ment of aviation on Long Island." University-New York Hospital School of Nursing, discussed the organiza- idols: Edna Millay, John Steinbeck, Leon Swirbul '20 is vice-president and Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, tion and present activity of the general manager of Grumman Air- Thomas Mann, Van Wyck Brooks, School, where courses now lead to craft. and others emerge either chipped or the Cornell degree of BS in Nursing. Ten Grumman Scholarships were crumbled. We are also told why offered for the first time this year to More than 100 service men and Joyce, Faulkner, Proust, O'Neill, high school seniors who ranked in the Club members attended the regular Stephen Benet, and Robinson Jeffers upper 25 per cent of their classes or Sunday supper and dance, November deserve greater acclaim than they to veterans less than twenty-five 26, with Thanksgiving decorations. have received. Slighted geniuses of years old who could meet the scho- the past, such as Baudelaire (perhaps lastic requirements. They may be Dr. Peyre's favorite in all literature), used in any engineering school ap- receive their due. proved by the accrediting committee Stories of Cornell "The task of feeling and judging of the Engineers' Council for Pro- By FRANK A. WRIGHT '79 with insight is not an easy one." But fessional Development and are re- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson, profes- Professor Peyre asks the critic to re- newable for the entire course if the sor of German Literature, a writer member the errors of his predecessors holder maintains satisfactory aca- of novels, a very popular lecturer, and "to look for depth, energy, and demic standing. Awards are made by sat at the head of the Psi Upsilon imaginative intensity" in new works. a committee representing the Grum- table at Sage. Sometimes President The true critic should "feel a shock in man corporation, Long Island schools White and Goldwin Smith would sit the presence of beauty and origin- and community, and the aviation in- with us also, and Professor Fiske, ality;" he should try to interpret and dustry, on the basis of College En- the Librarian, an ardent Psi U, communicate that shock to his read- trance Board examinations, reports father of the Chapter, came fre- quently. There was considerable ers; and finally, he must not shirk his from schools, and interviews. Re- heckling and retort from our bright twofold duty to artist and audience: cipients are normally employed in the boys, Charley Bacon, Gus Parke, "to judge." Grumman plant during vacations and and Jimmy Haight. are offered employment by the com- Boyeson was a hearty, ruddy man pany after graduation if positions are of great spirit and vivacity. At the Drama Season Begins available. end of each meal he still had room 1Π\ RAMATIC Club began its thirty- for two big red apples. Of a very *-J sixth season November 25 with open nature, we soon found he was a varied program of three one-act Wins Borden Award engaged to be married to Lily, plays in the Willard Straight Theater. daughter of a Chicago banker. IRST Borden Scholarship of $300 Everyone knew about it. He was A n ear-capacity audience enjoyed F has been awarded to H. Jane very much in love. In one of his the novelty of "Murder Is Fun" by Semanek '46 of Binghamton. Re- lectures, speaking of Goethe's Catherine Blankenship, a whodunit cently established by the Borden Co. loves, one of whom was Lily, daugh- with several of the actors "planted" in at Cornell and several other universi- ter of a Hamburg banker, he com- the orchestra. Julius J. Haberman '45 ties, the award is offered to the Home pletely forgot himself by saying, of Brooklyn did a particularly good Economics student who enters her "Lily was the daughter of a Chi- job as a perplexed detective. Senior year with the highest average cago banker," and got a great In "Evening Dress Indispensible" in all her courses, which must include hand! by Roland Pert wee, Mary E. Wilson The waiter for our table was Ed- at least two in foods and,nutrition. ward Newton, an intelligent Negro, '46 of Ithaca and Apprentice Seaman Miss Semanek in her Freshman and we promptly hired him for Jay Cipes, USNR, showed how an un- year received the Mortar Board steward of our chapter house, a attractive young caterpillar, inter- award for highest average in her Col- position he held for more than ested chiefly in books, is transformed lege. As a Junior, she was elected to fifty-three years. by a determined suitor into a butterfly Pi Lambda Theta and Omicron Nυ, with plenty of oomph. 236 Cornell Alumni News "Hello Out There" by William Saroyan, with Ruth E. Bussell '45 of Ithaca as the lonesome jailer's at- tendant who falls in love with a Now in My Time! prisoner accused of rape, played by Herbert J. Hawley '46 of Perry, ended By the evening on a somber note. ORE than 500 deer are re- when in the morning Hiram Corson New Jersey Women M ported taken within fifteen read the Balcony Scene—a con- miles of the Quadrangle in the last vincing Juliet himself in spite of HIRTY-FOUR members of the week of November. We expect that his overcoat and long, white whisk- TCornell Women's Club of North- a score of them fell on the Univer- ers—and in the evening we went ern New Jersey enjoyed a buffet sity domain. Many Campus homes sucker snaring in Six Mile Creek supper, November 15, at the Maple- now smell strongly of venison and under the patronage of a popular wood home of Mrs. Stanley C. Allen not at all of musty manuscripts barber. And there was another day (Sylvia Wells) '27. and midnight oil. that included Professor CatteralΓs Mrs. Louis A. Winkelman (Helen But the holocaust made small in- ironic lecture on the religious Kinney) '22, president of the Club, roads on the deer. People who ought doubts of Henry VIII and squirrel presided at the meeting and intro- to know say that the shooting took shooting on South Hill as the duced Alumni Trustee Alice Blinn no more than a tithe of them; that guest of the farmer whose squirrels '17, who described her work as editor the deer have increased to such an they were. Ralph Tarr's method of of the "How America Lives" feature extent hereabouts that an annual teaching geology was to take a stu- in the Ladies' Home Journal. blood-letting is now required to dent out where he could see a lot of maintain a wholesome balance. We it and meet a man who lived in it! don't know. We would not be understood to Professor Whetzel Dies This item is reported mainly for belittle the education that is IRST professor of plant pathology the information of sportsmen, now gleaned from the library, the class- F in the United States, Herbert old and fat, who long ago as lis- room, or the lectures. It's just that Hίce Whetzel, some undergraduates, vainly the gleanings from those sources Grad '02-04, died hunted the hills and covers which are better assimilated when im- November 30 at surround the University; who fished mediately checked by worldly as- his home on For- the innumerable streams which sociations and experiences. est Home Drive. looked trouty, but proved not to It is the marvel of The Anatomy He had been at be. They'd get some now if they of Melancholy that after half a Cornell forty-two knew where to go! lifetime of study and reflection years. Much of Tompkins County has within the walls of Christ Church A native of gone back in recent years to its College, and with nothing to draw Avilla, Ind., Pro- original possessors. There are upon save the accumulated pro- iessor Whetzel beaver re-established in the Town fundities of the pagan philosophers, received the BA of Caroline. Possums may be found the Church Fathers, and all the fn 1902, the MA in Danby. Trout rise in Casca- hair-splitting metaphysicians, Mas- in 1906, and the honorary DSc in 1931 dilla and in the sunrise you are apt ter Robert Burton should have at Wabash College. The University of to hear cock pheasants sounding off achieved so many shrewd guesses, Puerto Rico granted him the honorary back of Portal EG in the Cornell so many conclusions that have DSc in 1926. As a student in the Crescent. Even your reporter, who since proved pretty sound. What Graduate School in 1902, he became no longer skips among the crags as startles the modern reader is that an assistant in Botany, under Dean any young goat, lately supplied his from Aristotle and Adrian Turne- Liberty Hyde Bailey; was appointed household with a ruffed grouse bus, from Plato and Lactantius, instructor in 1904, assistant professor when the poor confused bird flew from Apollonius and Jason Praten- in 1906, and in 1907 organized the first against his windshield out of the sis, Burton gained about the same Department of Plant Pathology, serv- thickets that fringe the Lake near information, drew from it the same ing as its head until 1922i: Since 1909 Glenwood. conclusions, that would have come he had been professor of Plant It is not the least of the peculiar to him if he had looked out the Pathology, and although in' recent educational opportunities offered window, or stepped down to the years he had suffered from ill health, at Cornell that here an under- river and passed the time of day he continued to-work Until a month graduate, surfeited for the moment with the boatmen. before his death. with undigested information, may What a book might not Robert Professor Whetzel was a leader and go native for brief, salutary periods. Burton have written if, on top of teacher not only to his many students Ten feet off the beaten path, and all his study and reflection, he'd and associates, but also to New York he is all alone to contemplate the had a chance occasionally to at- State growers whom he persuaded to miracle of the universe, to mingle tend a chicken fight in the aband- use many new techniques and ma- with the chippy sparrows and be oned icehouse by the Inlet with the terials to control crop pests. He wa's as one with Daniel Boone. proletariat; to go native in the the author of three books on plant A student who, while becoming a deer season on the slopes of Turkey pathology and fruit diseases, and was Cornellian, did not also become an Hill; to snare suckers on soft a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Ithacan, missed something. The spring nights from the pools of Six Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Phi Delta meat and potatoes of the cur- Mile Creek in company with the Theta, and several professional so- riculum needs condiments. We best minds of Ithaca's bistros and cietiesv In 1918 he served as chairman look back on a memorable day barber shops! of the war emergency board of Ameri- can Plant Pathologists. December 75, 1944 237 Kleitz Heads Alumni Schneider) '27 of Brooklyn, second vice-president; and for director-at- Cornell Alumni News large^ besides Kleitz, Mrs. John W. FOUNDED 1899 Arnold (Dorothy McSparran) '18 of 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. New York City. Published the first and fifteenth of Nominating committee was com- every month. posed of Edward E. Goodwillie '10, Owned and published by the Cornell chairman, F. Ellis Jackson '00, and Alumni Association under direction of a Mrs. Allan H. Mogensen (Adele committee composed of Phillips Wyman Dean) '23. '17, chairman, R. W. Sailor '07, Birge W. Kinne Ί6, Clifford S. Bailey Ί8, and John S. Knight Ί8. Officers of the Alumni As- Phi Beta Kappa Elects sociation: William L. Kleitz '15, New York City, president; Walter C. Heasley, PRESIDENT of the Cornell Chap- Jr. '30, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. * ter of Phi Beta Kappa for 1945 is Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON ' 19 Elias R. B. Willis, AM '14, associate University librarian, elected Novem- Assistant Editors: ber 28 in Goldwin Smith Hall. He JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 succeeds Professor George H. Sabine RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 '03, Vice-president of the University. Contributors: Otter officers of the chapter are ROMEYN BERRY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 Professor Harold W. Thompson, Eng- Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; lish, vice-president; William R. Irwin, foreign, $4.50. Life subscription, $75. English, secretary; Bruce I. Granger Single copies, 20 cents. Subscriptions are '42, English, assistant secretary; and renewed annually unless cancelled. IRECTORS of the Alumni As- John H. Detmold '43 of the ALUMNI As a gift from Willard Straight Hall and NEWS staff, treasurer. Professor Guy the Alumni Association to Cornellians in D sociation, meeting at the Cor- the armed services, the ALUMNI NEWS is nell Club of New York December 8, E. Grantham, PhD '20, Physics, and supplied regularly to reading rooms of elected William L. Kleitz '15 presi- Mrs. Damon Boynton (Mary Fuertes) Army posts and shore stations of the dent, of the Association for two years. '31 were elected to the executive Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, committee. upon request. He succeeds Larry E. Gubb '16, now Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, a Trustee of the University, who has B. W. Kinne '16, 420 Lexington Ave., been president of the Association Coming Events New York City 17, advertising repre- since 1942. sentative. Notices for this column must be received at Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. Kleitz was the first chairman of the least Ύve days before date of issue. Time and Alumni Association standing com- place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are mittee on alumni placement, provided printed separately as we have space. for in the revised by-laws "to advise Coincidence with and report to the Director of the SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23 University Placement Service on all Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. NTERESTING sequel to a Cornel- Midshipmen's School, 6:30; Varsity I lian's loyalty for the University, phases of alumni placement." He was vs. Sampson Naval Training Center, covering twenty-seven years, has come chairman of a special committee ap- 8:15 to light in the Alumni Fund office. pointed in February, 1943, to study MONDAY, DECEMBER 25 Almost simultaneously, late in alumni placement and job counsel- Ithaca: University Christmas holiday ling, and it was at the recommenda- August, there came to the University SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30 tion of this committee that the New two clippings of a legal notice in an Ithaca: Basketball, Western Kentucky Albany newspaper, listing among the York City placement office was made Barton Hall, 8 unclaimed credits in the Albany a branch of the University Placement Sampson: Swimming, Naval Training Center Savings Bank one in the name of the Service. He has been since June, 1943, Cornellian Council, Ithaca, N. Y. vice-president of the Alumni Fund WEDNESDAY, .JANUARY 3, 1945 Council. New York City: Basketball, NYU, Madi- One clipping came from an unidenti- son Square Garden fied person, in a hotel envelope post- Receiving the AB in 1915, Kleitz marked Albany; the other was ac- worked in Wall Street two years, was SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 commissioned a second lieutenant of Ithaca: Wrestling, Pennsylvania, Barton companied by a letter from Everette Hall, 8 Infantry in August, 1917, and dis- H. Hunt '11, lawyer in Albany. Philadelphia, Pa.: Basketball, Pennsyl- Inquiry disclosed that the item ad- charged as a captain in March, 1919. vania vertised was a draft on another Al- He joined the Guaranty Trust Co., TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 bany bank issued June 30, 1917, in 140 Broadway, New York City, as a Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. the name of the Cornellian Council, clerk, became assistant treasurer in USMAP, 6:30; Varsity vs. University forerunner of the present Alumni Fund, 1919, and since 1928 has beer* vice- of Mexico, 8:15 against the account of Inez J. Kissel- president. He was editor of The Sun SATURDAY, JANUARY 13 burgh, who strangely enough is also as a Senior; is a member of Sphinx Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. Head and Psi Upsilon. He is treasurer Waterloo, 6:30; Varsity vs. Hobart, a member of Hunt's Class of '11. 8:15 After the necessary legal formalities of the Travelers Aid Society of New Bethlehem, Pa.: Wrestling, Lehigh had been complied with by the Uni- York and a trustee of Sarah Law- New York City: Swimming, Columbia versity, Miss Kisselburgh's contribu- rence College, Bronxville; lives. in SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 tion, which she had started to. Cornell Rye. Ithaca: Hockey, Dartmouth, Beebe Lake, twenty-seven years ago, reached the The directors also elected Walter 3 Wrestling, Penn State, Barton Hall, 8 Alumni Fund office from the bank—in W. Buckley '25 of Philadelphia, Pa., University concert, Busch Little Sym- the same mail with her 1944 gift to first vice-president of the Association; phony Orchestra, Bailey Hall, 8:15 the Alumni Fund! Mrs. Bernard A. Savage (Carmen

238 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

Student Council voted to accept the goals of the new student committee Morris Bishop Ί4, Professor of Ro- Faculty decision for the Christmas are a "folk music concert" and the mance Languages on leave, is re- Day holiday, endorsed three-day Porgy and Bess operetta. Professor ported broadcasting in German from houseparties for New Year's week John M. Kuypers, head of the Music the Western front, where he is de- end, and after two votes decided 8-7 Department, applauded all this in a tailed, as a civilian, to the US Army. in favor of girl cheerleaders for ath- letter to The Bulletin, and December letic contests. 5 in Willard Straight Hall, he dis- Sixth class of the Midshipmen's cussed "Jungle To Jazz" (Ellington School was graduated November 30 The Bulletin has a new column, coming off a poor third to Bach and in Bailey Hall. Two Cornellians were "Boondockin," conducted by Private Gregorian chants). among the 192 newly-commissioned Earl C. Sawin, USMCR. Writing for ensigns: Franklin Stern '44, ordered the Marines, he says: "Our 148 men Veteran street car and bus operator, to Fleet Service Schools, Naval Re- have been at Cornell anywhere from Harvey Wilkin, died November 29 in pair Base, San Diego, Cal., and five weeks to four terms. We like Ithaca. He began his trolley career as William D. Knauss '45, son of Edwin Cornell and most of us consider our- conductor in 1919, the year Donald S. Knauss '20 and Mrs. Knauss selves Cornellians. We like the Cam- Stewart '08 became general manager (Dorothy Pond) '18 of Poughkeepsie, pus, the parties, some of the profes- of the Ithaca Traction Co., formerly detailed to the Diesel engineering sors, and—regardless of the stage of Ithaca Street Railway Co. and since course in the Naval Training School. development of their calf muscles— 1929 Ithaca Railways, Inc. Wilkin be- Knauss was editor of the midship- we like the coeds who have been came a motorman and from 1928 men's class book. knocking themselves out to plan open operated the new one-man trolleys. houses and waltz our heavy-duty A driver of the busses since the last ASTP graduation exercises were De- boots around Barnes Library or the trolley made "the loop," June 22, cember 2, in Warren Hall. The Army Straight West Lounge." 1935, he carried many generations of trainees were addressed briefly by Cornellians up and down the Hill. Professor Edward A. Tenney, PhD Cafeteria in Willard Straight Hall has '32, English, in charge of their reverted to civilian status. Army Conferences! 265 persons from twenty- academic program. mess has been moved to the terrace five States and Canada attended a dining hall constructed for the Army nutrition conference October 19-21, Chemical plant, to be operated by E. I. but used since last July by civilian sponsored by the School of Nutrition, duPont de Nemours & Co., is being students and Faculty. the Departments of Animal and Poul- constructed by the Navy Department try Husbandry, and the American across Seneca Lake from Sampson Music recitals have returned to the Feed Manufacturers' Association. 120 Naval Training Center. Willard Straight Memorial Room, insecticide and fungicide manufac- Sunday afternoons. Claire James, in- turers from a dozen States were here Russian War Relief, Ithaca commit- structor in Music and a pupil of for their sixth annual conference tee, reports more than four tons of Egon Petri, University Pianist-in- November 27-28, as were some 100 used clothing and shoes, worth $6,000, residence, played December 3. A certified seed growers for theirs. has been sent to Russia in recent week later, pupils of Eric Dudley Twenty-seven salesmen for florist months. Mrs. Ernest Merritt, AM '28, sang, accompanied by Mrs. Thelma supply houses in New York State is chairman of the committee. Emile Hunter '45, also a Petri stu- registered December 6 in Plant dent, and by University Organist Science, and fifty-three butter manu- Former Mayor Joseph B. Myers died Richard T. Gore, who is continuing facturers of the State wrestled with November 30 in Ithaca. Mayor 1936- his own series of fifteen recitals of oleomargarine December 7-9. 40, he was an alderman for eight Bach's complete organ music, in years and chairman of the County Sage Chapel on alternate Fridays. board of supervisors. Says The Ithaca DECEMBER arrived right after Journal: "Joe made [Ultimatum] ci- Music of another variety is receiving Ithaca's heaviest snowfall in years, gars for Al Platts at the time when 100 a good deal of Campus attention officially measured at fourteen inches cigarmakers were busy in Ithaca. lately. Paul L. Klein '46 of New York but a lot deeper than that on door- Now that Joe is dead at 75, Charles City queried The Bulletin November steps and walks. Heavily laden trees Green is the only active cigarmaker 24: "What actual support would I re- fell into roads and front yards, fre- left of a once flourishing group, put ceive in running a Jazz Concert at quently carrying electric wires with out of business by the machine. After Cornell?" The Bulletin backed his them. The mercury dove toward zero. Platts' death, Mr. Myers became a idea editorially and in no time a Professorial automobiles, unless partner in the Ultimatum business group of students were ready to sign chained, rubbed fenders with their and continued it successfully until he up Duke Ellington. Unorganized neighbors or bedded down in drifts. became mayor." groups do not sponsor University At least one member of the Univer- events, so the Student Council sity, snowed in on Warren Road, "Starlight Shuffle," sponsored by the promptly created a music committee. came to work on skis (and blowing Cornell Corinthian Yacht Club, took Next, permission from the Faculty hard!). Snow sculpture blossomed on over the Willard Straight Memorial committee on music was required, and Campus as bell-bottomed snow- Room December 2. Proceeds of the since its members could not be as- sailors with icicle cigarettes appeared dance will "go to the building of a sembled in time for the Duke's dead- in front of the girls' cottages to join new boathouse for use by the Yacht line, the jazz concert had to be the usual buxom snowgirls. Club as well as future Big Red shelved for future reference. Other crews," according to The Bulletin.

December 75, 1944 239 Waterville, Me., October 22, 1944. He was employed by the C. F. Necrolpgy Hathaway Co. Sigma Nu. The Faculty '33 PhD—Keith Learning Hollo- '98—Charles Mercer Bailey, former way, June 22, 1944, at Fayetteville, sales agent with Belmont Iron Works, Ark. He was head of the department Professor Carl L. Becker, History, Philadelphia, Pa., September 6, 1944, of agricultural education at the Uni- Emeritus, and University Historian, in Wynnewood, Pa. Chi Phi. versity of Arkansas. delivered a series of lectures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, '99 AB—Nelson Welch Cheney of '34 DVM—Dr. Frederick Henry December 4-8, on "Freedom and Re- Eden, New York State Senator from Richardson, of 527 Canton Street, sponsibility in the American Way of 1929-1938, November 23, 1944, in Ogdensburg, November 1, 1944. He Life," under the auspices of the Wil- Buffalo General Hospital. In 1941 he was intercollegiate wrestling cham- liam W. Cook Foundation for lectures was named jury commissioner for pion in 1934. on American institutions. His subjects Erie County. Sons, John I. Cheney were "The American Political Tradi- '41 and Nelson W. Cheney, Jr. '36. '37, '38 BS—CaptainBror Henry * tion," "Freedom of Speech and the Kappa Sigma. Anderson, in North Africa, October Press," "Freedom of Learning and 24, 1944. A Field Artillery officer, he Teaching," "Constitutional Govern- '02—William Morrison Fraser, in was ordered to active duty with the ment," and "Private Economic Enter- January, 1944. He was employed by Armored Force at Fort Knox, Ky. as prise." the Transcontinental Oil Co., Bristow, a second lieutenant in May, 1942. He Ohio. was promoted to first lieutenant in Professor Robert Matheson '06, November, 1942, and to captain in '07 AB—The Rev. George William Entomology, gave a lecture on "En- June, 1943. Mrs. Anderson (Marjorie demic Malaria and Its Control in the Roesch, of 213 Main Street, Hacketts- H. Hunter) '43 lives at 3 Eastern town, N. J., killed in an accident in United States," October 23 at Mount Parkway, Auburn. Brother, Major Holyoke College. He discussed the January, 1944. Sons, George W. Paul E. Anderson '33, AUS. Roesch, Jr. ;33, Charles B. Roesch two methods of combating malaria, '34, Philip K. Roesch '37. treatment of the patient, and the dis- '37 BS—Captain Albert Horton * posal of the mosquito. Sayer, killed in action on Leyte, '09 ME—Howard Lobdell Seaman, October 20, 1944. Mrs. Sayer (Wini- Professors Frederick G. Marcham, president of the Delaware board of fred Drake) '37 lives at 414 North education and of the Lobdell Co., PhD '26, History, and Howard R. Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass. Wilmington, Del., November 27, 1944. Anderson, Education, participated in He lived at 2502 West Seventeenth Sigma Phi Epsilon. the meeting of the National Council Street, Wilmington. '40 PhD—James William Hazzard, for the Social Studies in Cleveland, Ohio, November 23-25. Professor August 15, 1944, in Pinebluff, Ark. ΊO ME—Hans Christian Boos, of Marcham was chairman of the section Chi Phi. 1409 Linden Street, Allentown, Pa., on developments in the field of October 17, 1944, of a heart attack. '40 BS—First Lieutenant Don- * critical thinking. Professor Anderson He was a salesman for E. H. Scholl & aid Herbert Moon, Infantry, killed in was toastmaster at the annual dinner Co. in Allentown. action, September 29, 1944, on Palau and took part in a "past presidents' symposium" discussing developments '14 BS—Joseph Edwin Godfrey, Island. Entering the service in Febru- in the social studies. November 23, 1944, in Ithaca, where ary, 1941, he was commissioned in December, 1942, upon graduation he was in the electrical appliances Associated Press reported in Lon- business at 402 West Seneca Street. from officer candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga. He went overseas last don November 24 that Professor Mrs. Godfrey is the former Hazel W. Philip E. Moseley, formerly History, May. His home was in Newfield. Brown '13. Children, Lieutenant (jg) had signed for the United States a Gladys Godfrey Mackay '36, USNR, '41 BME—Lieutenant Donald * three-power agreement providing for and Lieutenant J. Edwin Godfrey, Frank Sussman, USNR, November Allied control of Germany after un- Jr. '39, USNR. 3, 1944, at Portland, Oregon. His conditional surrender. He acted as '14—William Renwick Lough, Jr., home was at 271 Brevoort Street, deputy to US Ambassador John G. February 4, 1944, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kew Gardens. Tau Delta Phi. Winant on the European Advisory Commission, and his name was said His home was at South Street, '45—Charles Addison Downs, * Edmeston. to have appeared on the agreement member of a reconnaisance unit of an with those of Sir William Strang for '21 BS, '22 MS—Arthur Lincoln Army tank group, killed in France, Great Britain and Fedor Gusev, Clark, chief of the Division of Fish, August 7, 1944. He left Hotel Ad- Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Pro- Game, and Forests, Missouri Con- ministration in 1942 to join the fessor Moseley taught modern Euro- servation Department, September 20, American Field Service; served in pean history here from 1936; spent 1944, of a heart attack while on a North Africa, and later entered the 1940-41 on leave to make a study of hunting trip near Hebron, N. Dak. Army. His home was in Princeton, dictatorships for the Social Science He was formerly superintendent of N. J. Research Council; and upon his re- the Connecticut Department of Game turn, directed the first intensive and Fisheries and fish and game editor '47—Irwin R. Thall, November 30, Russian language courses at the Uni- of National Sportsman and Fishing 1944, in the University Infirmary, of versity, March to May, " 1942, re- and Hunting magazines. He lived at tubercular meningitis. His home was quested by Government agencies and 130 East Dunklin Street, Jefferson at 8228 Surrey Place, Jamaica. He sponsored by the American Council of City, Mo. Theta Chi. entered Arts and Sciences in No- Learned Societies. He resigned in vember 1943 and had completed two January, 1943, following a half-year '32, '33 AB—Willard Jaycox Van years' work. on leave in the division of special re- Tassel, of 55 Roosevelt Avenue, search, US State Department.

240 Cornell Alumni News Personal items and newspaper dippings News of the Alumni about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'79 BArch—The ninetieth birthday Co., Inc., Newburgh. He lives at 390 New England Council, November 16. of Frank A. Wright was celebrated Montgomery Street in Newburgh. Abel, president of the Automobile In- November 21 by the Old Guard of Ίl, '12 LLB—Walter D. Schultz, surance Company of America, lives Summit, N. J. He was born November president of the Federal Home Loan at 83 Loring Avenue, Providence, R. I. 19, 1854. Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, is governor '15 BChem; '16 BS—Ismond E. '93 LLB, '94 LLM—James P. of the 159th District of Rotary. Last Knapp, Jr., of Picayune, Miss., has Harrold of the firm of Harrold, year he was president of the Cincin- resigned his position as technical di- dementi, Murphy, and Martin re- nati Rotary Club. rector of Crosby Naval Stores, Inc. cently received the title of senior Ίl, '12 LLB—Walter D. Schultz is Mrs. Knapp is the former Ruth counselor from the Illinois State Bar a district governor of Rotary Inter- Brace '16. Association in recognition of his fifty national for the fiscal year 1944-45. '16 BS; '44 BS—James C. Corwith years of practice. He lives at 33 He is a past president of the Rotary of Water Mill was reelected a di- North La Salle Street, Suite 1708, Club of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is rector to represent the New York Chicago, 111. president of the Federal Home Loan State Grange at the annual G.L.F. '01 ME—Frank D. Newbury, vice- Bank. He is now serving as governor stockholders7 meeting held in Syra- president of Westinghouse Electric of the 159th Rotary district of Ohio. cuse, November 3. His daughter is and Manufacturing Co., 306 Fourth '12—John C. Barker is chief pro- Virginia H. Corwith '44. Avenue, Pittsburgh 30, Pa., recently curement director of the Cleveland '16 BS—Lewis R. Hart, of 465 Vine gave an address 'Tost-War Prob- region of Smaller War Plants Corp. 7 Street, Sebastopol, Cal., is manager lems' before the Engineers Club of His address is 2581 Stratford Road, Philadelphia. of the Sebastopol Fruit Growers As- Cleveland Heights, Ohio. sociation. He is also president of the '03 AB—Herbert D. Donovan is '14 ME—Ramsdell S. Lasher, a Sebastopol Rotary Club and Chamber chairman of the social studies depart- member of the Mexico City Stock of Commerce. ment at Bayside High School, New Exchange, recently returned from six '16 BS—Mrs. Merriman G. Lewis York City. He lives at 208-15 Thirty- months in Mexico City to Los An- ninth Avenue, Bayside. (Gertrude Button) has moved from geles, Cal., where he is a member of Salem, Va., to Hollins College, Va., '07 CE—Burtis J. Finch retired the brokerage firm of Hopkins, Har- where she has a part-time position as June 1 after thirty-seven years as a lach & Co., 609 South Grand Street. publicity secretary. highway engineer. He was in the He writes: "Whenever there was a Federal Road Administration for Cornellian present, either Mexican or '16 ME; '46; '48—Frederick E. thirty years, twenty-five years of American, we always felt a little more Lyford, Jr. has resigned as trustee of which were as district engineer of at home. ... I saw quite often the New York, Ontario and Western Ogdon, Utah. His home is at 2432 Major 'Stubby' Starret [Howard A.] Railway to become assistant to the Van Buren Avenue in Ogdon. '12, Juan Martinez '27, Francisco chairman of the board of Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp., 17 Battery '07 BArch; '46; '41; '39 BChem, Aubert '18, Manuel Marin '32. Un- fortunately, they have not had a Place, New York City. His son, '40 ChemE—Carl C. Tallman re- Frederic C. Lyford '46 is a private cently reopened his office in the Sav- regular alumni gathering in years and tell me that the treasurer still holds first class of the Infantry on Leyte ings Bank Building in Ithaca. For the Island in the Philippines. His son, last three years he has been engaged the five pecos in gold which I gave him ten years ago for dues." Geoffrey S. Lyford '48, a student in war work, in Buffalo on a war in Engineering, is enrolled in the En- housing project, at the Sampson Ί5 CE—A. Lester Marks is Com- listed Reserve Corps. Naval Training Center, and since missioner of Public Lands in Hawaii. January, 1943, in Sidney for Bendix His address is P. 0. Box 497, Hono- '17 BChem—Harold S. Broadbent Aviation Corp. He is the father of lulu 9, Territory of Hawaii. is an examiner of questioned docu- ments at 233 Broadway, New York Peggy Tallman '46, Robert Tallman '15 LLB—DeForrest W. Abel was '41, and John Tallman '39. City. He lives at 270 Linden Avenue, elected a Rhode Island director of the Glen Ridge, N. J. '09—Dr. Charles F. Pabst has moved his office from 1308 Dean For reasons of security, complete mail- '17 AB; '17 AB—Mrs. Charles J. Street to 15 Clark Street, Brooklyn 2, ing addresses of members of the armed Rowland (Maizie Montgomery) is New York City. forces, except those in training camps now teaching Latin and American within the United States, cannot be pub- history in the Pennsylvania State lished. Designations of military units and ΊO BArch—Louis R. Bogert is College High School to help with the president of Louis R. Bogert, Inc., the addresses of Naval ships, although required for postal delivery, may be of teacher shortage. Her husband, Char- New York City. He lives at 311 East great value to the enemy if published. les J. Rowland '17, is professor of ac- Seventy-second Street, New York 21. If, therefore, you wish to correspond counting at Pennsylvania State Col- with Cornell friends in the services whose '11, '12 CE—George A. Belden is names appear in the News without com- lege and a public accountant. Their chairman of the Georgia Board of plete address, the Alumni News will home is at 614 West Fairmount Registration for Professional Engi- undertake to forward letters from sub- Avenue, State College, Pa. neers and Surveyors. His business scribers. Seal your letter in an envelope '18 AB; '40—Mrs. Louise Dean address is c/o Central of Georgia bearing the full name and rank or grade, if known, of your correspondent, your own Wilson is office manager at the De- Railway, Savannah, Ga. return address, and first-class postage. Graff Memorial Hospital in North '11 CE—Samuel A. Graham is Mail this to us in another envelope and we will add the last-known address and Tonawanda. Her daughter, Mrs. Rich- sales manager of the wholesale de- forward your letter. ard S. Morris (Elizabeth Wilson) '40, partment of the Cameron Lumber whose husband is in the Air Force, December 75, 1944 241 and her ten-months-old granddaugh- Collingswood, N. J. Smith is allow- ter, Linda Morris, live with her at ance engineer for the supervisor of 60B Central Lane, North Tonawanda. shipbuilding US Navy, at New York '19, '20 CE—Walter A. Grantz is Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N. J. resident engineer for the Frederick '22—Christian Christianson is presi- Snare Corp., Lima, Peru. He designs dent and treasurer of Viking Engi- and builds port works along the west neering Co., Hammond, Ind. His ad- coast of South America. dress is 6512 Hohman Avenue, Ham- '19, '20 AB, '22 LLB—Walter * mond, Ind. L. Miller, of 86 Main Street, Crom- '22 PhD—Leland J. Boardman is a well, Conn., was promoted to major physicist for the Navy at Johns Hop- September 7. Commissioned a cap- kins University. His address is 8728 tain, AUS, in 1943, he entered active Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Md. duty at National Headquarters, Selecr tive Service System. '24 — Jacob Reck, Washington counsel for National Beauty & Barber WILLIAM TELL '19, '18 ME—Everett J. Rutan is Manufacturers Association, writes vice-president of Shaw-Rutan, Inc., that he has been obtaining priorities GOULD DO IT consulting engineers. His address is "so beauty and barber shops could 5343 Browugle Lane, Little Neck. continue making 'gals' beautiful and '19 AB—Lieutenant Colonel Al- ^ men 'well-groomed'." Reck, publicity ...and so can you! pheus W. Smith has returned from manager for the Cornell Club of Hitting α target squarely ... scrupulously duty in the Pacific to resume his work Washington, D. C., says he never as director of information and edu- avoiding everything else ... is the estab- misses a Cornell affair or football cation in the Army School for Special game "when it is within 100 miles." lished practice of advertisers in HAIRE Service with headquarters at Wash- specialized trade magazines. '24 BS; '23 ME—Mrs. Donald M. ington and Lee University, Lexington, Knipe (Hazel Heacock) is war foods For a HAIRE publication never deviates Va. He has been on leave from North- assistant of two counties for Pennsyl- ,from its course. Each goes to one market western University's English faculty vania State College Extension As- . . . concenfrafes on that market — and for more than two years. He is the sociation. She gives demonstrations that market alone. And so does every son of the late Dean Albert W. Smith and slide lectures on nutrition and '78 and Mrs. Smith (Ruby Green), ad in a HAIRE specialized publication. food preservation. Her husband, Don- PhD '14, of 302 Fall Creek Drive, ald Knipe '23, is a designer and drafts- Ithaca. man for Bethlehem Steel Co. Their lSP£C/Aί/Z£D '20, '22 EE; '23 BS—Dr. William home is at 1602 Luzerne Street, L. Everitt, chief of the Operational Johnstown, Pa. Research Branch, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, US Army, has been '24—Roger Wrigley, of 4215 South elected president of the Institute of Thirty-fifth Street, Arlington, Va., is Radio Engineers, 330 West Forty- a proofreader in the Government second Street, New York City. Dr. Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Everitt is on leave as head of the de- He also writes radio scripts and one- partment of electrical engineering at act plays for schools and church or- the University of Illinois. Mrs. Everitt ganizations. is the former Dorothy I. Wallace '23. '25 AB; '26 AB—Dr. Charles f ί 1 pF^'V^Γ4'®^*;*!!!^^ '20 BChem; '22; '43 AB; '43 PhD; Bradley was elected president of the Providence Country Day School at : '47—Allen B. Reed, research chemist |^,:,JW« :;:: for LaMotte Chemical Products Co., the annual meeting of the board of IftSi lSiipi Towson, Md., and Mrs. Reed (Elsie trustees held recently in East Provi- Murphy) '22 announce the marriage dence, R. I. His brother is H. Hunt of their daughter, Marjorie Reed '43 Bradley '26. to Howard Sheffer, PhD '43, June 24. '25 CE—L. Bartlett Shapleigh is secretary of the Ohio Valley Tennis :Λ Their son, Allen B. Reed, Jr. '47, is ^.Λ ^ '^ If K rf stationed at Camp Croft, S. C. Reed, Association, affiliated with the US Sr., who lives at 461 West Belair Lawn Tennis Association. An engi- Avenue, Aberdeen, Md.,is State chair- neer for Bethlehem Steel Co., he man for the Maryland USO. makes his home at 146 Wentworth '20 AB, '20 AM—Louis A. Turner Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati 20, Ohio. has been promoted to professor of '26 ME—Leonard B. Richards has physics from associate professor at been transferred from Consumers Princeton University. A member of Gas Co., Reading, Pa. to the Nash- Princeton's staff for twenty-two years, ville Gas and Heating Co., 226 sixth Professor Turner is now on leave of Avenue, North, Nashville 3, Tenn. absence, engaged in war research '27 AB—Franchot Tone will return projects. to the Broadway stage to star in '21 AB—Frank H. Thomas was re- William McCleery's comedy, "Hope for cently elected president of Fire As- the Best." His last Broadway appear- sociation of Philadelphia. ance was in Hemingway's, "The Fifth '22 ME—Edwin L. Smith married Column," in 1940. Tone is the son of Hughla de Bernardinis July 12. Their the late Frank J. Tone '91 and home is at 154 Lawnside Avenue, brother of Frank J. Tone, Jr. '24. 242 Cornell Alumni News '27, '28 AB—Benjamin W. Brown the tax court of the United States and is assistant secretary and director of Federal administrative agencies. He the American Colortype Co., Clifton, was formerly chief trial attorney in N. J. He lives at 162 Inwood Avenue, the alien property unit of the US Upper Montclair, N. J. Department of Justice. RYM '28—Kenneth A. Browne has been '33 PhD—Zaίdee E. Green recently named research consultant to the returned to Chicago City College. She presidents of Chesapeake & Ohio, had been teaching at the Louisiana Nickel Plate, and Pere Marquette State University. Her address is 222 railroads, with offices at Cleveland. Mayflower Hotel, 6125 Kenwood IS AT IT He was formerly research engineer Avenue, Chicago, 111. and technical consultant for Wright '33 AB; '36 BS, '39 MS—Twin sons, Aeronautical Corp. Charles Michael Horn and William AGAIN! '29 MS; '30—Captain Herbert * Melchior Horn, were born November V. Lee is a photo intelligence officer, 19 to the Rev. Henry E. Horn and with a Liberator bomber group of the Mrs. Horn (Catherine Stainken) '36 15th AAF in Italy. Mrs. Lee (Anna at Lee Memorial Hospital, Marion, A husky crate of calendars R. Ashdown) '30 is secretary to the Va. sent to Rym Berry by his spon- University Counselor of Students. '33 BS—Velma Warner was re- sors, Babson Bros. Co., was '29 CE—E. Milton Dulin has been cently appointed 4-H associate agent supposed to provide his Sunday named assistant director of the Bureau in Tompkins County. For six years morning program with a give- of Sanitation, Health Department, she taught homemaking in Odessa away feature to last through Central School, and previous to her Washington, D. C. He was an in- November and December. spector with the District building appointment, was emergency home inspection office. demonstration agent of the State But WHCU's farm audience Emergency Food Commission in '29 DVM—Dr. Hugh R. Mouat, is vast and eager for Rym's Greene County. veterinarian in Amsterdam, was re- tips. One broadcast depleted the '34, '37 BS; '39 PhD—Mrs. Ed- * cently appointed delegate to" the crate of half its contents. The American Kennel Club from the Mo- win W. Cake (Dorothy Stevens) is hawk Valley Kennel Club. His ad- supervisor of the child care program next scraped the bottom, neces- dress is RD #6, Amsterdam. in Jacksonville, Fla., sponsored by sitated a hurry-up call to Bab- the Duval County Board of Public '30 BE—Julius F. Siegel has re- son Bros. Co. Indications are Instruction. Her husband, Captain that Rym will top the thou- signed as radio engineer with Signal Edwin Cake PhD, '39, AUS, is officer Corps to become chief engineer of the in charge of the Quartermaster Mar- sand mark on his third. 0. Decker Co., Brooklyn. His ad- ket Center, Jacksonville, Fla. dress is 17 Belshaw Avenue, Eaton- WHCU builds programs that town, N. J. '34 ME; '11, '12 CE—Lieutenant * do the job! Colonel Leon H. McCurdy was re- '31 CE—Charles P. Stolberg is cently made assistant director of project engineer on industrial build- reconnaissance for the US 9th AAF in ing construction for the H. K. Europe. He is the son of Professor Ferguson Co., Cleveland, Ohio. His John C. McCurdy Ίl, Agricultural home is at 3371 Milverton Road, Engineering. CENTRAL Shaker Heights 20, Ohio. '34 ME—Lieutenant J. Williard * '31 AM—Alice Waldo is a clinic Marshall, USNR, has been trans- NEW YORK'S case worker at the New York State ferred to the Torpedo Base, Free- School for Boys, under the auspices mantle, Australia. His home address is DOMINANT of the Presbyterian Hospital, New 8 Oak Street, Binghamton. York City. Her address is Box 27, ADVERTISING State School, Orange County. '36 BS; '37—J. Prescott Blount, manager of perishable traffic, air '32—Atherton Bagot, AUS, has * MEDIUM been promoted to captain at Camp cargo department, United Air Lines, spoke October 12 at the National Stoneman, Cal. His home address is 798 Auburn Avenue, Buffalo. Restaurant Association Conference in Chicago, 111. His topic was "Will Air '32, '34 BLA—Jerome A. Heywood Cargo Transportation Affect Your is president and treasurer of Stone Business?" Blount and Mrs. Blount Associates, manufacturers of hand- (Alice Crawford) '37 have their home wrought silverware. His address is 64 at 2219 West 118th Street, Chicago 5, WHCU Central Street, Gardner, Mass. 111. '32, '33 AB, '35 LLB—Robert W. '36—Major Lloyd R. Block, US * THE CORNELL Purcell has been elected general Army, has a daughter, Judy Norman counsel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Block, born October 22. His home ad- ^UNIVERSITY STATION Railway Co. with offices in the dress is 105 Oak Lane, Oak Ridge, Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio. He Tenn. ITHACA, NEW YORK has been acting general counsel since '35 AB; '35 BS—Private David J. * September, 1943. Chuckrow has been overseas since '32 AB, '35 LLB—Albert E. Arent last August. Mrs. Chuckrow (Beatrice 870 kilocycles CBS is a member of the firm of Posmer & Coleman) '35 and their two daughters Fox, specializing in practice before live at 12 Michigan Avenue, Troy. December 75, 1944 243 '36, '37 AB—Eleanor H. Irvine is he was transferred from Fort Bragg, assistant personnel director at Inter- N. C. His address is OSBC #35, Fort national Business Machines Corp., Sill, Okla. Plant #1, at Endicott. Her address is '38 BS; '38 BS—Mr. Thomas A. I.B.M. Homestead, Johnson City. Rich and Mrs. Rich (Helen Brew) '38 '36, '37 AB; '06 AB—First Lieu- * have twin daughters, born November tenant Wendell C. Johnson, Intelli- 23. They reside at 110 Glahn Avenue, gence, AUS, has been in the Syracuse. Southwest Pacific for two and a half '39 AB—Edward D. Devine, of 169J years. During his absence as manager Crest Street, Hot Springs, Ark., is a of the Rose Fair Inc. Greenhouses, lawyer for the Federal Government. Blue Point, the business is being car- '39 AB—E. Marvin Harrington is ried on by his father, Carlton P. now in the accessory sales depart- Johnson '06. ment of Miller Rubber Co. division '36 AB, '37 AM—John D. Ogden of B. F. Gooplrich Co., Akron, Ohio. ESTABROOK & CO. is teaching*1 English in the USMAP He raises Dalmatians and Airedales as at Cornell. Last year he was a flight a hobby and his "Ha rrbrett Super Members of the New York and instructor at Adams Field in Little Snooper" was best of breed at a recent Boston Stock Exchange Rock, Ark. His address is The Knoll, Columbus, Ohio, show. He lives at 529 Ithaca. White Pond Drive, Rural Route 6, Sound Investment '37 MS—Amanda E. McKee is an Akron, Ohio. Investment Council and American Red Cross staff assistant in '39 AB—Simon H. Lachenbruch is Supervision Australia. Her home address is 474 doing mathematical research in West 141st Street, New York City. Roger H. Williams '95 ordnance developments at the Na- Resident Partner New York Office '38 BS—Jean Burr is taking nurse's tional Bureau of Standards, Washing- 40 Wall Street training at Western Reserve Univer- ton, D. C. His address is 4711 Rose- sity.^She lives at 2102 Cornell Road, dale Avenue, Bethesda 14, Md. Cleveland, Ohio. '39 BS—Ruth E. Landers of 49 CAMP OTTER '38 BS—Gertrude Bramley is a Reservoir Avenue, Rochester, is home pre-medical student at the University- service representative for the Roches- For Boys 7 to 17 ter Gas and Electric Co. She is a IN THE HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO of Utah. She lives at 1419 Yale Inquiries Answered at Any Time. Write Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. member of the nutrition committee of HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director '40 AB—Margaret Tammen is in Rochester and Monroe County, and 254 Crescent Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. the school department of Good House- vice-president of the Rochester Cor- keeping Magazine in New York City. nell Women's Club. She lives at 26 Claremont Drive, '39 BS—Richard L. McConnie, * Short Hills, N. J. Field Artillery, US Army, was pro- '38 ME—Major Joseph C. An- * moted to major last June. He has a Christmas Wish trim was recently lauded by Major daughter, Lorraine McConnie, born General Paul L. Williams, head of the July 21. He is stationed at Fort US Troop Carrier Forces in Europe, Bragg, N. C. Christmas is a time of remem- for heroism and outstanding per- '39 AB; '42 BS—Staff Sergeant * C. Rex Morgan and Mrs. Morgan brance, affection and good will. formance of duty in Troop Carrier sorties over enemy-occupied terrain (Ruth Simes) '42 have a daughter born October 20. Mrs. Morgan lives To those of you who know us well in Europe. The occasion was a mass decoration ceremony of the First at 162 Sanders Road, Buffalo; Ser- and continue through the years to Allied Airborne Army in Europe. His geant Morgan is serving in France put up with us. we send our warm home address is 5811 Meek Road, with the Army. and friendly greetings. To our future Worthington, Ohio. '39 AB—Norma S. Stone is work- guests who will seek us out during '38 BS—Mrs. Lawrence K. Hay- ing in the loan department of the ford (Ruth Drake) is living with her Lincoln Bank of Syracuse. She lives the months to come, we hang up the mother, Mrs. John T. Drake, at 2814 in Marcellus. welcome sign and set the door ajar. Clinton Street, South, St. Petersburg '40 BS; '41 AB—A son, James C. 7, Fla., while her husband is over- Bishop, Jr., was born to James C. May the coming year herald a seas. She has a one and a half-year Bishop and Mrs. Bishop (Ena Mac- happier world for all of us! old son. Killδp) '41, September 29. Their '38 AM, '41 PhD—Donald S. home is at Clearview Farm, South- Miller married Merlyne Magnus, Octo- ampton. Hotel Grosvenor ber 21 in Worcester, Mass. '40, '41 AB; '41 AB—Captain * '38 AB, '42 MD—Dr. Raymond * Robert T. Gilchrist, AUS, has been Fifth Ave. at loth St. New York City Pearson, Medical Corps, USNR, has assigned to G-3 division of the Single rooms from $4.00 been promoted to lieutenant. His general staff in Washington, D. C., Double rooms from $5.50 address is US Recruiting Station, 309 after completing a Field Artillery West Campbell Street, Roanoke 16, course at Fort Sill, Okla. Captain George F. Habbick Manager % Va. and Mrs. Gilchrist (Ruth Ernest) '41 '38 BS—First Lieutenant Archi- * live at 1226 South Thomas Street, Donald Baldwin Ίtf, Pres. bald C. Petty is attending Field Arlington, Va. Owned by the Baldwin family Artillery SchooPaffΐFort Sill, Okla. '40 LLB — First Lieutenant * Formerly in the Coast Artillery Corps, Samuel H. Hirshman, assistant Judge 244 Cornell Alumni News Advocate General of the 31st In- '42 BS; '42 BS—Mrs. Harold E. * fiantry Division, l 'helps to straighten Hazen (Charlotte A. Crombie) is out tangled matrimonial bonds" of dietitian at Penn State with the men of the Dixie Division in the Navy V-12. Her husband, Staff Southwest Pacific. His home address Sergeant Harold E. Hazen, is in OCS is 1058 Peabody Avenue, Memphis, at Camp Lee, Va. Their home is at f frfrrί Tenn. 344 Woodland Avenue, Williamsport, '40 BS—Agnes L. Pendergast was Pa. married to Thomas P. Kane, October '41 BS; '42 B S—Captain Edward * (gift fur 23 in Addison. She taught home eco- M. Hulst, AC, is a bombsight main- nomics in Addison for three years, tenance officer, instructing aviation resigning last summer. The couple cadets at Big Spring Army Air Field, live in Erwin. Big Spring, Tex. His wife, the former '40, '41 BS in AE(ME)—Captain* Dorothy E. Clark '42, and baby son, Fred W. Sinon, Jr. is leading a group Edward M. Hulst, Jr., are with him. of pilots described in a delayed Inter- Write them at Box 611, Big Spring, national News Service dispatcn from Tex. Leyte as "the busiest flyers in these '41 BChem; Ί5 ME—Captain '* CORNELL first hectic days of the Philippines." Truman E. Keet is the supply officer His is a picked group of specialists for a B-24 Liberator bombardment UNIVERSITY- who are flying Cub planes over Jap group of the 15th AAF in Italy. He is troops and acting as liason airmen the son of Clarence T. Keet '15, of fόi* the forces of General Krue- 136 John Street, Ridgewoόd, N. J. FOUNDERS ger's Sixth Army. His home- ad- '41 BS—Eleanor M. Lloyd was dress is 11 Montview Terrace, Majple- married August 5 to William K. AND THE wood, N. J. Cavanagh. Mrs. Cavanagh is head of '41—Captain Ralph A, Coijig * the department of home economics at FOUNDING USMCR, recently returned fό |he Blackburn College, Carlinville, 111. United States from the Central pa- '41 AB; '09 AM, '10 AM, '12 PhD— By Carl L. Becker cific where he flew approximately Dr. Norman C. Morgan and Mrs. 1,000 hours as a pilot with Transport Morgan have a daughter, Penelope "Both Ezra Cornell, 'saying Air Group. He was ordered to Marine Granger Morgan, born September 2 Air Depot, Miramar, Cal. His home at Mercy Hospital in Denver, Colo. little, and that dryly,' whose address is 4375 Texas Street, San Dr. Morgan, the son of Frank M. money and political sagacity Diego, Cal. Morgan '09, is with the US Public made Cornell possible; 'and '41 BS—Captain Hugh Cosline, * Health Service, US Marine Hospital, Andrew Dickson White, Who Jr. is adjutant of a US Army Air Seattle, Wash. was On every occasion, so well Force Service group, stationed in the '41 AB—Kathryn E. Mosler is prepared and eager to say a Marianas Islands. He had served pre- training to be a hospital staff aid in viously as personnel officer of the the Red Cross. Her address is Per- great deal '"-^Cornell' s firs t service group. His wife and baby sonnel Training Unit, SAF, Red presiiέnt—are brilliantly: por- daughter reside in Watertown. Cross, Washington, D. C. tra^dί:SιtlrWs book, with trie '41 BS—Corporal Hyman B. * '41 AB—Charlotte Pratt is research Ithaca and the America ,of Fisher, US Army, married Paula assistant at Harvard University. She their time and the 'uproar and Friedman, September 11 in New York received the AM in botany at confusion' of the universίΐv's City. He is now in Belgium. His Smith College last May. Her address early days. home address is DF6, 40 Monroe is 13 Ware Street, Apt. ,Ϊ5, Cam- Street, New York City. bridge 38,"Mass. "Carl Becker's humor and wisdom add even greater values '41 BChem—Irving Gertzog, ^ '41 BS; '43 BS—Walter J. * to a book which is in the highest USNR, has been promoted to lieu- Sickles, Infantry, AUS, writing tenant. His home address is 384 from a dugout in France by aid of a degree interesting and worth East Upsal Street, Philadelphia 19, flashlight, says, "Fm always eager to reading."—John T. Frederick- Pa. receive my copy of the NEWS and I've The Chicago Sun. '41 AB; '08 BS; '09 AB—Royal * sat down and read it while the artil- C. Gilkey, USAAF, overseas in Italy, lery whistled overhead." His wife, 75 has been promoted to first lieutenant. the former. Jean Haupin '43> and $2 He is the son of Royal Gilkey '08 and daughter are living in Bloomfield, Mrs. Gilkey (Eunice Jackson) '09, of N. J. 701 Hector Street, Ithaca. '41 BS—Lieutenant Robert A. * ORDER FROM '41—First Lieutenant Edwin A. ^ Summers, Supply Corps, USNR, Harkonen, AAF, recently returned to First Naval District, Boston, Mass., CORNELL the States, having completed thirty- has a daughter, Susaii Jane Sum- five missions over German territory. mers, born October 2. His address is UNIVERSITY Following a visit to his home in Al- 22 Jefferson Road, Wellesley Hills, pine, he reported to Atlantic City, Mass. PRESS '41—Mrs. Fritz Becker (Winifred N. J., for reassignment. He holds the ITHACA, NEW YORK Distinguished Flying Cross and the Wilson), whose husband is physical Air Medal with three Oak Leaf education director at Marboro High Clusters. School, writes: "We have borrowed December --75, 1944 245 Professor Bristow Adams's Open house7 and our place has become the PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY hangout of all the promising ath- letes, especially on Friday nights OF CORNELL ALUMNI when all and sundry are welcome. My brownies aren't quite as good as Mrs. Adams's, though." NEW YORK AND VICINITY BALTIMORE, MD. '42 BS; '15 ME, '24 MME— *

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246 Cornell Alumni News '42 ME—Charles T. Henrich is here! . . . What with all the rain over junior design engineer at Ford Instru- here, one can't help thinking of Ithaca ment Co., Long Island City. He lives once in awhile." Here is Your at 411 East Fifty-Third Street, New '43 BS in AE(ME)—First Lieu- * York 22. tenant Robert J. Mitchell, statistical '42 BS; '14 PhD—Philip R. * officer, Air Corps, writes: "Just a note TIMETABLE Livingston, US Army Air Corps, was to tell you how much I enjoy reading promoted to captain September 18. the ALUMNI NEWS over here some- TO AND FROM ITHACA On duty at the Washington National where in the Netherlands East Indies. Airport, he lives at Apt 301, 1608 It really brings back pleasant memo- Light Type, a.m. Dark Typ , p.m. Abingdon Drive, Alexandria, Va. His ries." His home address is 120 Blair Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. father is Alfred E. Livingston, PhD '14. Street, Ithaca. York Newark Phila. ITHACA 11:05 11:20 11:10 6:34 '42 BS—Ensign Julia G. Snell, * '44; '27 AB, '34 AM—Private * 6.52 7:08 7:05 2:35 !10:SO t10:35 :10:12 #6:12 disbursing officer, USNR, has been First Class Alton E. Archer married t11:45 »12:00 t11:00 °'7:13 transferred from Naval Training Margaret L. Gunnells November 19 Lv. Ithaca Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca School, Dearborn, Mich., to Di^burs- in Silver Spring, Md. John K. 2:40 5:30 10:05 12:56 ing Unit 2, Naval Training Station, Archer '27 served his nephew as best V:17 °y10:03 8:30 11:37 9:30 12:50 10:35 1:23 Coddington Point, Newport, R. I. man. 6:40 9:35 She is the sister of Mrs. William E. '44—First Lieutenant Paul J. * Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New Bensley (Cornelia Snell) '40, Kath- Berry, pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress, ITHACA Phila. Newark York erine Snell '44 and Mary Snell '46. 8th AAF, participated in one of the 1:28 9.20 8:49 9:05 1:02 8,25 8:29 8:45 '42 BS—First Lieutenant Ken- * shattering blows on Cologne. He is a Ίt:51 7:45 7:54 8:10 neth I. Zeigler is at Tarrant Field, member of the 493rd Bomber Group, cited by the President for its England- tDaily except Sunday c Daily except Monday Fort Worth, Tex., a four-engine ^This train 12:00 P.M. at Newark every night except specialized transition flying school. Africa shuttle bombing of Messer- Sunday. ^.Sunday only ^Monday only His address is Box 1745, OSD, schmidt aircraft plants in Regensburg, yOn Mondays only leave Ithaca 6:18 a.m., arrive Buffalo 9:30 a.m. Germany, August, 1943. Lieutenant 1 FWAAF, Fort Worth, Tex. 'New York sleeper open to 8 a.m. at Ithaca, and "at Berry's home address is 57 Genesee 9 p.m. from Ithaca '43 BS in AE(ME)—H. Craig * Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars; Cafe-Dining Allen, AUS, was promoted to first Street, Hornell. Car and Dining Car Service lieutenant November 23 at the Army '44—Richardson E. Browne, Jr. + Tank Auto Center, Detroit, Mich. was commissioned a second lieutenant Lehigh Valley Lieutenant Allen is a member of the in Antiaircraft last January. His stock control division, which is re- home address is 5421 North Idle wild Railroad sponsible for more than 300 types of Street, Milwaukee 11, Wis. tanks and trucks. His wife is the '44 BS—Ruth Caplan has been former Jean S. McGlone '45, daugh- home demonstration agent for Wayne ter of John McGlone '06 and Mrs. County since August 15. Her engage- McGlone (Marion Sturges) '15. ment to Private First Class Robert L. '43; '16 ME; '48—Lieutenant * Brunton was recently announced. Joaquin de la Roza, Jr. has been Her address is Home Bureau Office, transferred from Aberdeen, Md. to Sadus. the 86th Infantry Division, Camp San '44 BS—Mrs. Paul E. Arnold Luis Obispo, Cal. He is the son of (Laurel DuBois) is a nursery school Joaquin de la Roza '16 and brother of teacher at Brightside Day Nursery Elena de la Roza '48. in New York City. Her address is '43—Lieutenant Alan J. Gould, ^ IG6, 10 Monroe Street, New York Jr. has been awarded the Distin- City. guished Flying Cross as a navigator '44 AB—Gretchen Eichorn is an of a B-17 Flying Fortress on missions engineering aide in the aerodynamics over enemy territory in Europe. department of Chance-Vought Air- ServiceMen Attention! Veteran of thirty-five missions, he craft Co., Stratford, Conn. Her ad- All Cornell men in service also wears the Air Medal with Three dress is South Turkey Hill Road, Oak Leaf Clusters. He is the son of Westport, Conn. are invited to make the Cor- Alan J. Gould '21, assistant general nell Club their headquarters '44 BS—Eloise L. Kelly is teaching or meeting place when in manager of The Associated Press. home economics at the Unadilla His wife and six-month-old son reside Central School, Unadilla. New York. You are sure to in Port Washington. find a Classmate or friend to '44 BS—Helen P. Kuzmich is a cheer you on your way. '43 BS; '43 BS; '08, '09 MD— * teacher at the Roosevelt child care Lieutenant Roy S. Hawley, AUS, is center of the Extended School Service Every club facility at with the Northern Combat Area in Utica. Her address is 505 MDgate reasonable prices, including Command in Burma. Mrs. Hawley Street, Utica 3. bar service by "Dean" Carl (Ellen Simpson) '43, daughter of Dr. Hallock. Reuben S. Simpson '08, lives at 65 '44; '15 BS; '45—First Lieuten- * ant John H. Morse, pilot of a B-17 Come and see us sometime, Broad Street, Lyons. Flying Fortress, 8th AAF, son of and good luck! '43 BME—Lieutenant John L. * Major Daniel P. Morse '15, has been Hodges, Ordnance Mn Co., AAF, awarded the Distinguished Flying writes from Germany: "Just a few Cross for "extraordinary achieve- The Cornell Club of N.Y. lines to let you know how much I ment" during bombing attacks on 107 East 48th Street enjoy reading the ALUMNI NEWS over Nazi war plants and on military December 75, 1944 247 targets in support of Allied ground forces. He also holds the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Mrs. CORNELL HOSTS Morse (Alice Winslow) '45 lives at 2000 Niles Avenue, St. Joseph, Mich. WELCOME YOU '44 AB—R. Edalee Orcutt is work- ing in a bookstore in Berkley, Cal., where she lives at 2326 Durant NEW YORK AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. Street. '45—Directory of '45 women, containing names and addresses of all

The Grosvenor Hotel Your Home in Philadelphia members of the Class, a picture of FIFTH AVENUE AT 10TH STREET the WSGA officers, membership lists For those who desire Modem Comfort and Quietness HOTEL ESSEX of nine honor societies, and the Class In a Convenient Location 13TH AT FILBERT STREET history by Ann M. Lynch of Port 300 Rooms—all with tub and shower bath "One Square From Everything" 225 Rooms—Each With Bath Jefferson, was distributed at the Single from $4.00 Double from $5.50 Air Conditioned Restaurants women's Senior festival, October 20. DONALD R.BALDWIN Ί6 President HARRY A. SMITH '30 Virginia M. Lowe of Jenkintown, Pa., Owned by the Baldwin Family edited the forty-two-page booklet, assisted by Ruth A. Henne of Staten Recommend your friends to Island and Eleanor J. Hummer of HOTEL LATHAM Ravena. Apprentice Seaman Jerome 28TH ST. at 5TH AVE. - NEW YORK ClTY The St. James Hotel J. Hausman, USNR, contributed 400 Rooms - Fireproof 13th and Walnut Sts. cartoons. Copies are available to IN THE HEART OF PHILADELPHIA members of the Class who left Cornell SPECIAL RATES FOR FACULTY Air-conditioned Grill and Bar AND STUDENTS before the directory came out by Air-conditioned Bedrooms writing to Virginia M. Lowe, Vassar WILLIAM H. HARNED '35, Mgr. J. Wilson '19, Owner College, Poughkeepsie. '45; '21—Private First Class * NEW ENGLAND Ralph J. Edsell, having completed CENTRAL NEW YORK an army specialized training program in Asiatic languages and area at the Stop at the . . . University of Michigan, is now in the Wagar's Coffee Shop Signal Corps at Camp Crowder, Western Avenue at Quail Street on Route 20 HOTEL ELTON Missouri. His engagement to Mary WATERBURY, CONN. Essig of Royal Oak, Mich, has been ALBANY. N. Y. "A New England Landmark" recently announced. He is the son of Bud Jennings '25, Proprietor Ralph J. Edsell '21 of Cedarhurst. Managed by - - Bertha H. Wood '45, '44 BS—Ruth Henne was married to Sergeant Warren J. Meyer October 31. Mrs. Meyer teaches A CHARMING NEW ENGLAND INN home economics at Chapman Tech- WASHINGTON, D. C. IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BERKSHIRES nical High School, New London, Conn. SHARON COΓVN. '45, '44 BS—Mildred J. Solar is a ΌBERT A. ROSE '30, GENERAL MANAGER home economist for the products de- 1715 G Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. velopment department of Quaker Oats. Her address is 2205 Central Park, Evanston, 111. CENTRAL STATES CARMEN M. JOHNSON '22 - Manage >45, '44 BS—Betty Warner is teaching home economics at Genoa Central School, Genoa. CORNELL HEADQUARTERS in WASHINGTON TOPS IN TOLEDO '46—Harold Ferris was commis- it At the Capitol Plaza sioned a second lieutenant in the US SINGLE from $2.50 DOUBLE from $4 HOTEL HILLCREST AAF November 17, in New Haven, Henry B. Williams '30, Mgr. EDWARD D. RAMAGE '31 Conn. His home address is 117 York GENERAL MANAGER Street, Ithaca. '46—Sergeant James R. Hyatt, * DODGE HOTEL aerial photographer, 15th AAF in Italy, has been awarded the Dis- tinguished Unit Badge with One ROGER SMITH HOTEL bronze cluster as a member of a B-24 WASHINGTON, D. C. ShuffeίRestaurants Liberator bomber group which has been twice cited by the President PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT 18 STREET, N.W. Conveniently Located in Downtown "for outstanding performance of duty Located in the Heart of Government Activity NEW YORK CLEVELAND CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA in armed conflict with the enemy." Preferred by Cornell men PITTSBURGH DETROIT Sergeant Hyatt's home address is A. B. MERRICK'30 . . . MANAGER Numerous Cornellians Staff Our Restaurants 1380 Walnut Street, Newton High- lands, Mass.

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