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IIIe81 RleRls Lellers ARTICLES lillie 'I Play with Mushrooms' 2 Alumnus Walter Litten's fascinating hobby 'Have We Come to Believe in a Super Medicine?' 4 Ellillr If we have, writer &rton Roueche knows where to place the blame From Prince Street to Broadway 6 A look at a Broadway legend, George Abbott '11 To the editor: Meet the Wunderkind of New York City Schools 12 Three cheers for my classmate, Dan Rat­ tiner, and his correct memories of the 1957 Some say alumnus &rnie Gifford will be New York's next mayor Flag Rush. May Iaddthe missing piece to your Evelyn Segal's 'Homage to Nigeria' 14 puzzle by supplying the true description ofthe An artist with a love for a country results? I'll explain first that freshman privileges on The Case for General Practice And a Case for Specialization 16 the River Campus in 1957 were somewhat A tale of two doctors and the different roads they have chosen limited by the upperclassmen. Hard to Review Cover Color Photos Available 21 believe? The "rule" was that we had to use the A special offer tunnels under the Eastman Quadrangle, rather than walk on the Quad sidewalks. This 'Exploration of Infinite Possibilities' 22 lasted until Thanksgiving vacation UNLESS Something's new in UR drama the frosh were successful in capturing the 'How I Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance to My Flag' 24 sophomore flag at the Flag Rush. As Dan It was Francis &lIamy, class of 1876, who wrote the immortal words pointed out, the Class of '61 did capture the New Means of Education for Health Careers 26 flag, and we were "allowed" to walk in the sunlight. The Rochester Plan, an educational innovation In discussing University "ancient history" Sing a Song of Nostalgia at Glee Club Centennial 28 with a member of this year's freshman class, I It's coming up in early April found him to be both amazed and horrified at some of my tales. Perhaps in future picture articles you should report on the "Goldfish Bowl" in the downstairs hall of what was then DEPARTMENTS the Women's Residence Halls, when dates kissed goodnight at curfew time on a big Letters 1 weekend. Or the women's Frosh Camp, News Digest 28 which raised so much spirit and made known Alumni Calendar 33 the new class officers. Is there still a tug-of-war, ice statue contest, Travel Corner...... 33 Moving-Up Day, or does the informal motto of Alumnitems 34 the Campus Times for that era still hold: "This Identity Crisis 36 too shall pass.. .''? Alumnotes 37 Joyce Wolfe Hoffer '61 Alexandria, Virginia (Thanks for the suggestions. We've had enthusiastic reactions to our nostalgia Rochester Review. Spring, 1976: Editor: Ronald C. Roberts; Asst. Editor: Fran photos, and there are still many left in Rush Sargent; Copy Editor: S. Leigh Harrison; Art Director: Jeffrey T. Hermann; Staff Rhees' archives. But, we can always use more Writers: Wendy A. Leopold, Dave Erickson; Staff Photographer: ChrisT. Quillen. ideas andphotos ifyou've got them. Any more Published quarterly by the University of Rochester and mailed to all alumni. contributors out there? - Ed.) Editorial office: 107 Administration Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. 14627. Second class postage paid at Rochester, N.Y. 14603. e.ler v.e. To the editor: Sciences. During 1975, we graduated three To the editor: The memoirs of Prof. Gustav Meier PhD.'s. One is presently with Oak Ridge I regret that I waited so long to join in the ("Memoirs of a conductor in the court of Haile National Laboratory, where he is working on identification game regarding the two "pizza Selassie," Winter issue) was most timely. Our the problem of the dispersal ofthermal plumes wagon" photos in the fall issue. But the daughter, who is now in Nairobi (American Freedom from Hunger Foundation), will be in in large lakes. The second holds a National opinions printed in the Winter issue gave me Addis Ababa soon. Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at more food for thought, and I would like to The article "Beware the illusion of learning" the Sacramento Peak Observatory of Air offer the following disagreements and ad­ (Fall issue) was long overdue and is now Force Cambridge Laboratories, where he is ditional information. circulating among students at the University engaged in theoretical and observational stud­ The general consensus is correct, but an of Alabama. The article "SEED help:; Robbie ies of the solar atmosphere. The third is with important point is missed: the business Grow" (Fall) was sent to a speech therapy General Atomic working on the design of changed hands nearly every year, and about student at Southern Methodist University. fusion reactors. During 1974, we had five 1959-60 the vehicle changed from the hearse Thanks for the magazine. PhD. graduates. One is doing numerical shown in the top picture to a large delivery Margaret Edwards fluid dynamics for General Motors. A second truck, crudely coated with aluminum paint, Birmingham, Ala. is working on systems design for Taylor Instru­ the back of which is shown in the lower ments in Canada. A third is an Air Force picture. This calls into question Dick Thalack­ officer working on aircraft wake turbulence er's identification of himself at the 10000er right; To the editor: problems. A fourth is working on the x-ray he had graduated by the time the truck ap­ It certainly was a pleasure to see again that spectroscopy of laser produced plasmas inthe peared. Furthermore, Dick is much taller and newspaper picture in the Winter issue of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics here on cam­ would have to be kneeling in the snow if it is he. Glee Club tenors on the way to the Waring pus. The fifth PhD. is working on helicopter Imaintain that the man in the lower right is Roy competition in 1942 ("At age 100, the Glee aerodynamics with Bell Helicopter. Perhap:; Taylor '61. Sorry, Dick -I also can't agree Club keeps singing"). Brought back you would be willing to give equal space in that the "chef" is Ed "Gus" Rogus, either; it is memories. I still have the program from that some future issue to students like these, who Dick Molinari as identified by others. Carnegie Hall competition.... are using their training in more traditional IJke my classmate Dan Rattiner, I well The 1961 Club may have had a "first" ways. remember the "heavy Sicilian accent" crying singing to a President's daughter, but that was "hot-a-pizza, down on the quad." One of the not the first White House appearance. If I Alfred Clark, Jr. pizza merchants who perpetrated that call recall correctly, it was in my freshman year, Professor and Chairman, spring of 1940, that we sang in the East Room was John Wermecke '59, who was often an­ UR Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace for "Eleanor" and other dignitaries, as well as swered by a chorus of catcalls and mild ob­ Sciences for the Easter Egg Rolling Contest. (That was scenities from those who supposedly were the year I became "famous" for knocking over studying. Dan's other letter concerning the a potted palm when Ifainted during a concert Flag Rush is also 100% correct - your sources at a church on Long Island. Must have been To the editor: were certainly wrong about that! something I ate, eh?) For two issues of the Rochester Review I Here's an item for your "oddities" file - in Harry Wiersdorfer '43 have done my best to avoid reality, but every mid-1973 I built and occupied my present Hamburg, N.Y. time I turn back to the bottom of page 22 (Fall house near State College, Pa. I soon dis­ issue) and gaze upon the picture of theinterior covered that the land next door was owned by of the old UR pizza van, I sense that horren­ my classmate Ed Kimmel '61, '63G, and his dous feeling of awareness returning that, yes, wife Jean Walter Kimmel '59N, who built and To the editor: that unidentified young man in the lower right occupied their house a year later. This sur· I am writing to express my concernover the is I. prise was magnified when we discovered that article "The Scientific Astrologer" which ap­ So much addicted have I been to that the property abutting both of ours on the rear peared in the Winter 1975 issue of theRoches­ delicacy that even now when we pull a pizza was occupied by Chuck Adimaro, who was a ter Revieu;. This article is an unfortunate from the oven, I tend to call my children by UR student at the same time as Ed, Jean, andI departure from the generally high standards of yelling (in proper rhythm of course) "Hot but graduated from another college. It's truly a the Review's editorial staff. Since the Review is pizza, on the quad!" small world - thanks to RochesterRevieu; for helping keep it that way. a publication of the University of Rochester, Chuck Erb '61 its editorial policies should be in accord with Kingston, R.I. Dean E. Arnold '61 the fundamental commitment of the Univer­ State College, Pa. sity to the rational pursuit of knowledge. I can imagine articles about astrology consistent with that commitment. Some examples of topics are: the history of astrology and its influence; the sociological implications of the present popularity of astrology; why astrology is not a science. Instead, Mr. Erickson has given us an uncritical summary of some of the irrational techniques of astrology. I do not believe this material belongs in the pages of a university publication. Also, I would like to balance the record by describing very briefly the activities of all of the Ph.D. graduates of the last two years from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace 1 'I Play with Mushrooms'

Walter Litten '36 even has a mushroom named after him

I play with mushrooms. placing the book for safekeeping on the Some people play with golf balls or shelf that gets dusted twice a year and tennis balls, some with playing cards, cultivating a new interest in dog racing or some with money. In those games one decoupage or something equally excit­ has an opponent. I have one too: Mother ing. Or, as happened in my case, one Nature. My object in the game is to finds oneself in a mood to march down to identify the mushrooms she shows me, the library-Rush Rhees in my case, and her object is to confuse me. She wins circa 1961-and see how some other a great deal of the time. When Iwin I feel author handles the subject. package, saying only, "I want that." The author whose name I dredged up good. I heard nothing further about the mat­ Although the mushroom game may from the card catalog thatevening has, in ter until, five years later, my own name not rank high in popularity, I am not the the fullness of time, seized my own name leaped out at me from page 239 of a new only one who plays it. Like chess, it is from me, lowercased it, latinized it, and 633-page Smith monograph, The North played at various levels. Some players­ used it to designate a certain species of American Species ofPsathyrella. There I probably most-freely admit even with­ little tan toadstool, Psathyrella littenii. learned that some time in the interim, out being asked that they have no desire His name is Alexander H. Smith. The with study of the microscopic anatomy of to rise above the bottom level. The act of toadstool itself he seized from me on my find (preserved by hustling the fungi identification at that level consists of Aug. 27, 1967, during the summer Iwas a into a warm-air dryer a few hours after distinguishing the "good" ones from the special student of his at the University of being plucked from the log), two other ''bad'' ones. This judgment assumes an Michigan Biological Station. Before I distinguishing features turned up. Curi­ intent to ingest. "Bad" implies possibly picked the toadstool that day from a ous particles known as pleurocystidia fatal illness following ingestion. "Good" is decaying hardwood log in Chippewa were noted within certain cells of the a little harder to define. It can mean County, Michigan, it had been unknown mushroom, and certain other cells called anything from gustatory ecstasy to mere to science. Very few of the world's scien­ cheilocystidia had measured larger than survival for one month after ingestion. tists would ever have known that it was normal for Psathyrella sJXldicea. (Personally, I ingest mushrooms some­ unknown to science. Certainly I didn't Thus, though my body will die, my what less frequently than I ingest know it was unknown to science when I name in lower case will live on forever­ radishes.) picked it. Ithought it was unknown just to or until some future scholar extinguishes Another way to interact with mush· me. Had I been a better student ofmush­ it by claiming that Psathyrella littenii, if rooms otherthaneating themis to photo­ rooms, I would have said, "Oh yes, ever found again, differs insignificantly graph them. To become aware of the Psathyrella spadicea. "Anybody who has from Psathyrella spadicea and should be gamut of color and form in which nature reached that level of specificity in identi­ placed in synonymy with it. Others presents them can be an astonishing fying mushrooms has to have mastered whose efforts have been encouraged by esthetic experience. It is also safer than a fair amount of the subject's literature similar memorialization may suffer simi­ eating them. Offering only the danger of and has to have spent a good deal oftime lar extinction of their immortalization. getting lost in the woods overnight, pho­ in field and laboratory with the people I may be luckier, though. I think Ihave tography tends to elevate the player toa who write it. found Psathyrella littenii again, this time higher level of identification. Then, need For Professor Smith that level is too in the Adirondacks in the summerof 74. is felt to put a name on the picture. coarse. Along with several thousand And it had the curious particles! I await So one acquires a book about mush­ other species, Psathyrella sJXldicea is as confirmation from Professor Smith, to rooms for the beginner. The first time familiar to him as his bedroom slippers. whom I sent the new collection. If it used in the field it proves a crashing The wax paper package of mushrooms comes through, it could be a trifle embar­ disappointment. The nearest thing in the he found in my collecting basket thatday rassing that Psathyrella littenii flourishes book to what one sees at one's feet had narrower gills than typical Psathy­ only where Walter Litten canfind it. Imay always seems to be the right colorbut the rella sJXldicea, and the color of the im­ have to learn to live with that. - Walter wrong shape, or vice versa. Further­ print left on the paper by spores falling Litten '36 more, the author seems to favor latin from the gills beneath the caps was a duD names instead of pleasant ones, like red rather than the dark grayish brown to lady's slipper or chickadee. be expected in Psathyrella sJXldicea. At this point one has the privilege of Therefore he appropriated the little 2 About the Author In 1946, advertising seemed to Litten bring the weekend to a close by playing to be the "least likely choice" of careers. chamber music or spending a few hours There's a story behind this story. It's But time has proved that he was merely in front of the "tube," Litten and his about Walter Utten '36, alias the mycolo­ moving into his natural environment. friends would examine mushroom tissue gist, alias the Kodak advertising asso­ During the 30 years that have passed, under the microscope and exchange ciate, alias the optical engineer, alias the and even after he retired from his full­ mycological information. local "stringer" (reporter) for national time position last year, Litten has been Back to Scientific American, one of the magazines. Much like the study of mush­ the anonymous creator of Kodak ads magazines which have carried Litten's rooms, a review of Litten's changing appearing in such national publications anonymous ads. Last year it provided a pursuits is a study of graceful adaptation as Science, Wall Street Journal, Time, second point of convergence for our to natural environment. The New Yorker, and Scientific subject's parallel pursuits. In the March, On the eve of the depression, as a American, among others. 1975 issue, the cover story was ''The young graduate of the University's new Some time along the way Litten ac­ Most Poisonous Mushrooms," a detailed Institute of Optics, Utten looked forward quired a cottage in Maine and began his butexceptionally readable account of the to a career in optical engineering. After first game with Mother Nature­ deadly action of the genus Amanita. The all, he had been lucky enough to receive a identifying plankton. But, he recalls, he author was Walter Litten. This was the job offer even before he graduated. The didn't seem to make much headway in first article he had ever written as a salary was to be a princely $25 a week. that particular game. Returning to his mycologist, and he had to be persuaded For about 10 years Utten's career Rochester home after a particularly frus­ to do it. continued as it began. He earned his trating time with the plankton in Maine, Litten is a modest man. To our inqui­ living as an optical engineer, first for he noticed some white mushrooms grow­ ries about "The Most Poisonous Mush­ Bausch and Lomb Inc. and then, begin­ ing in his back yard. Then and there he rooms" he responds that it only reports ning in 1940, for Eastman Kodak Com­ decided to switch the game to mush­ the work of others, including a few of the pany. But throughout this period and rooms. important discoveries made by his friend even before, as a UR undergraduate, In the course of time, then, Litten Leo Tanghe. He, himself, has not accom­ Utten also was earning a little money on managed to acquire a serious interest in plished much as a mycologist, Litten the side by working as a local stringer for mycology and what he insists is merely a says. Only frivolity can save him from Time and Life magazines. modest fund of mushroom knowledge. In embarrassment. In the summer of 1944, when Life fact, for almost 15 years, he has been a And so we publish Litten's own lively published the widely distributed article confirmed, if amateur, mycologist. account of his hobby in which he some­ "Color," Utten's parallel pursuits con­ Although he makes light of his activi­ how fails to mention the publication of his verged for the first time. Although neither ties, they do indicate that he is indeed article. But even he must concede that the copywriter nor the photographer, he serious about his hobby. Certainly it Scientific American is a respectable was the man behind that article-the takes a dedicated amateur mycologist to scientific publication. Not a bad place for originator of the idea, the voice of enroll in a course in the identification of the amateur mycologist to make his persuasion-and more. It was actually at mushrooms at the University of Michi­ journalistic debut. - Fran Sargent his own house (not at Kodak) that the gan's Biological Station. And, on a Sun­ photographs accompanying the article day evening, before he moved to Maine were taken. last year, Utten met regularly with two Apparently two years later the people other Rochester mycologists, retired Ko­ at Kodak still had not forgotten that Life dak chemist Leo Tanghe '29 and Dr. article. Even now Litten believes that he Edwin Kriedemann. While others would was encouraged to begin a career in the advertising department largely because of the part he played in the publication of "Color."

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3 "Today," he said, "I don't feel hardly a Have We Come to Believe thing." I paid him and tipped him and helped ~Super myself out. In a Medicine'? "So long, Doc," he said. "And thanks for the advice. I needed it." Medical writer Berton Roueche was "Look," I said. "I'm not a ..." That encounter, as I say, was several among 13 panelists participating in the "Now, wait a minute," he cut in. "Wait years ago. And over the years, I've often symposium on "Medicine andthe Media: just a minute. Do I look like the kind of thought aboutit. There clearly seemed to Ethical Problems in Biomedical Com­ man who would try to can you into a free be a lesson there. It was not, however, munications" held Oct. 9-10 at the diagnosis?" We came to a stopat a traffic one that I took very seriously at first. He Medical Center. His comments, light. He turned his head and looked me seemed to me then a sad but simple case. reproduced here, were made during the in the eye. "I'm not interested in diagno­ His trouble, I thought, was merely session considering the impact on the sis, Doc." ignorance-a simple unawareness of the public ofmedically oriented news stories "Maybe not," I said. "But I'm ..." elements of medicine and health care. I and television programs. He cut me off again. "Absolutely not," thought it was the kind of ignorance-of Roueche, who received a degree in he said. "There's no maybe about it. I journalism from the University of Mis­ promise you that. All I want to know is plain not knowing-that could be cor­ rected by exposure to information-by souri, has been on the staff of The New this." Yorker since 1944. The light changed, and he turnedback reading the newspaper or magazine Author of that magazine's "Annals of to the wheel. We cutacross Central Park health columns, or by tuning in on a Medicine" articles, he also has written South and into the Park. television or radio health program more many books on medical subjects, includ­ "I'm married," he said into the mirror, reliable than a drug commercial. ing Eleven Blue Men, A Man Named ''I got a wife at home. She spends a lot of Hoffman, and The Orange Man, and time looking at TV. And they've got these three novels. commercials-these health commer­ 'He believed in magic...and For his medical writing Roueche re­ cials? About vitamins? And my wife, it's medicine and medicaljour­ ceived the Albert Lasker Medical Jour­ like they say, she's always tired. Right? nalism are to blame.' nalism Award in 1950 and 1960, the That made herinterested. You know? So American Medical Writers Award in she \Vent and got herself some. Every 1963, and the AMA Medical Journalism kind there is. A whole bottle." He shook But Iam now inclined to see the matter Award in 1971 and 1973. He is a member his head. "I tell you, Doc, I have to laugh." differently. And more seriously. It seems of several medical societies. "Laugh?" I said. to me now that he was not so much "That's what I want to ask you," he ignorant as credulous. He believed in said. "I thought she was crazy. But that magic. And to a degree I understand it. I was three months ago. Now she sleeps don't think the fault is altogether his. I By Berton Roueche like a baby. And those circles under her think the fault is very largely ours. I think, I had occasion one day several years 'eyes-they're practically gone. Head­ that is, that the two forces represented ago to do some reading in the library of aches? She doesn't know the meaning of here today-medicine and medical the New York Academy of Medicine. I the word. Or cold? Or those cramps in journalism-are primarily to blame. My had an early lunch near my office, in the her legs? Even her fingernails. You cab driver believed-as do millions of West Forties, and then walked over to know, the way they used to break? No other ordinary Americans-in an onmip­ Sixth Avenue and hailed a cab. Igave the more." otent American medicine, an American driver the address-l03rd Street and We emerged from the Park on l02nd pharmacology, that has a cure for every­ Fifth Avenue. We pulled away from the Street. "The other question I got on my thing. And it is we who encouragedhim in curb and into the flow of traffic. mind is this." He pulled across Fifth and that belief. The driver was a big man, with a big into the curb. "Suppose I did the same," My grandfather was a country doctor nose and a mane of thin white hair, he said. "Would they do the same for in the years before the First World War. I parted in the middle. He caught my eye in me?" remember being told of grateful patients the mirror and gave me a foxy smile. "Well," I said. "I don't really..." coming into his office with gifts-a bushel ''The Museum of the City of New York," "Right," he said. "But the reason I of peaches, or a watermelon, or a jug of he said. "Right?" asked is because she gave me one this cider, or a basket of sweet corn, or a side "Not quite," I said. "I want the other morning. It was one of the big red ones. I of bacon. These were not payments in comer-the Academy of Medicine." took it after breakfast. And usually about kind. They were gifts. They were ges­ The smile slid off his face. this time, I get this pain in my back. It tures of appreciation for his helping some "The downtown comer," he said. usually always comes on about this member of the family through a difficult ''You fooled me without your bag." He time-by one o'clock at the latest. But illness. I don't believe that happens any­ cleared his throat. "I want to ask you a today it's like a miracle'." more. question, Doc. They got these drugs­ He shook his head, and tripped the flag The patient now expects the doctor to these vitamins? You know what Imean?" on his meter. cure him. Stella Neeson touched on this 4 in a communication last spring to The Journal of the American Medical As­ sociation. "How many times," she wrote, "have we heard the complaint, 'After all the tests and all the medicines and the hospitals and the money down the drain, my (mother, sister, wife) died anyway.' "And Neeson adds: "We donot see the mission of medical practitioners to be the alleviation of pain and suffering and the curing of curable diseases. We demand that our physicians save lives, and we cannot forgive them for not being able to satisfy that demand." I think this means that an irrational trust can tum, if unfulfiIled, into an irra­ tional mistrust. Indeed, we have heard in the past few years the eerie rumblings of an anti-science. The expectation, rather than the hope, of a cure is more than merely unreasonable. Disillusion is itself a (From left) AuthorBerton Roueche; Dr. Alfred Gel/horn, vice-president ofCCNY; Dr. Lewis Thomas, president danger. It can compound the delusion. ofMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Henry Lieberman, assistant to the managing editor ofThe New York Times; listen as David Hendin, science editor for Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n., speaks at UR's The trouble with these unreasonable "Medicine and the Media" conference. expectations is that they are rooted in -a certain reality. tihistarrunes and anticoagulants and L the naturalness of disease, an accept­ Nothing is more real than the great dopas and immunizations and tissue ance of the inevitable limitations of medi­ advances of the past 25 or 30 years that transplants and open heart surgeries cine, an acceptance of the one real cer­ have revolutionized medicine. And noth­ and new techniques and major tainty that life is a fatal disease. ing is more natural than that a public breakthroughs innumerable. I think the doctor in his face-to-face exposed to the echoes and re­ Medicine is thus peculiarly a victim of encounters with his patient cando some­ verberations of these triumphs should its own success. And the problem which thing about revising the dogma of a come to believe in them, should come by that confusion of emphasis and under­ millenial science. I think the rest is up to extension to believe in a super standing has created is a tricky one. Its those of us who try to speak for medicine medicine-because nothing has been solution could be like the successful to the public. Because we certainly did more widely and wildly celebrated than operation in which the patient died. our share to create the problem. these antibiotics and steroids and an- What is wanted is to extricate the doctor from the burden of too great an expectation without at the same time destroying all confidence in his poVJers. He must in some delicate and appealing way be relieved of infallibility. He must be re-humanized. He must be rendered fallible. And the patient must re-Iearn patience. I haven't much idea of how this can be done. It requires a new revolution, a revolution in thinkmg-an acceptance of

Berton Roueche 5 George Francis Abbott '11 From Prince Street to Broadway

By Wendy Leopold Early last year The New York Times GEORGE FRANCIS ABBOTT, heralded the re-appearance of George 41 Prince St., Hamburg, N. Y. Abbott, Broadway veteran. The article '11. Y.; Philosophical. Class Foot­ noted that Abbott-whose theatrical ball ( 1-2); Class Hockey (1-2); credits include hits like Three Men on a Capt. Class Hockey (2); Class Track Horse, Pal Joey, Fiorello, Damn Yan­ Team (2-3); Second Football Team kees, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum-was at work on (I); Varsity Football Squad (2); his 117th Broadway production. V arsi ty Football Team (3); Soph As far back as 1954, the Times de­ Ex.; Comus Crew (2); Vice Presi­ clared Abbott the greatest contributor to dent of Class (2-3); Soph Joll; Broadway theatre. He has turned out Speaker Class Banquet (2); Inde­ more Broadway hits than anyone else in pendent Hockey Team (1-3); Cam­ the business. Not just a few more-lots pus Reporter (3) ; Grind Editor Inter­ more. Agraduate of the class of1911 ,Abbott pres; Capt. Independent Hockey Team got his start in dramatics on the oki (3) ; Dramatic Club (1-2-3) ; Reader Prince Street Campus where he was for Glee Club (3). active both in writing and acting in class plays and in the Dramatic Club. In his Abbott's entry in the 1911lnterpres senior year, Abbott starred in a farce he had written entitled Perfectly Harmless. acceptance, one gathers from reading his based The Man in the Manhole, a prize­ The play's protagonist was an absent­ autobiography, was quite important to winning play .he wrote while at Harvard minded professor, modeled after Joseph the young Abbott. "I guess I always which paved his way to the professional H. Gilmore, a very popular UR geology wanted to be captain of something," he theatre world. professor. A review in Campus, the stu­ lamented in a recent interview with the Abbott made it to college with the help dent newspaper, called the play "one big Rochester Review. of the late Ednah Levis '06, a teacher of scream" and predicted a future for Ab­ Despite his lament and his self­ French and English at Hamburg High. bott as a playwright. description as a "mouthy and unpopular" She tutored Abbott, enabling him to win The review, one might say, was short student at Hamburg (N.Y.) High (the a scholarship to the University. She be­ of "dead-on" in its prediction. For in family had returned to upstate New York came his wife in 1914. addition to a careeras playwright, Abbott by Abbott's high school years), records Sitting in the New York offices he has also enjoyed huge success as an show that he was captain of the football shares with his protege Hal Prince (direc­ actor, director, producer, and play doc­ team, manager of the first hockey team, tor of Cabaret and other hits), a sun­ tor (fixing up ailing scripts). and the school's leading actor. At UR, in tanned and impeccably dressed Abbott, Born 88 years ago in Forestville, N.Y., addition to his dramatic successes, Ab­ looking far younger than his years, leans Abbott spent his boyhood around the bott played football, captained the back in his chair, puts his hands behind banks of the Allegheny River in upstate sophomore hockey team, and was a his head, and says in a very serious tone New York. When he was in the fifth student council representative, a year­ of voice, "I'm afraid I'm not a great tribute grade, his parents moved the family to book editor, junior class vice president, to the University's scholastic system. I Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Mister Abbott, and senior class poet. loved football and the theatrical goings Abbott's candid andamusing autobiogra­ But more about UR later. For a while, on and all the extracurricular activities." phy written at age 76 and published in in fact, it did not appear that Abbott But if Abbott's academic credentials at 1963, he recalls the move to the "big would finish high school at all. He con­ the University are not outstanding, his Western village" of 9,000 inhabitants and templated quitting Hamburg High and observations of college life in Mister his subsequent disappointment upon working for the Lackawanna Steel Com­ Abbottare. Writing of his freshman class, visiting it years later only to discover pany in Buffalo, where he had spent Abbott noted that there were "the glib paved streets and neon lights. summers as an assistant electrician-12 talkers, the well-dressed, the assured A poor student, Abbott spent his Wy­ hours a day for 17Y2¢ an hour. ones (who) held the center of the stage. oming yeats learning how to throw a Abbott fondly recalls some ofhis expe­ The unknowns, the grinds, the quiet ones rope, ride a horse, and shoot­ riences at the steel works and his boss bided their time." "essentials for every boy if he was to be there, a Danish immigrant and cable "Shallowness," Abbott philosophizes, accepted," according to Abbott. And splicer on whose personality he later "sometimes outshines depth in the early 6 stages. And the rich boys always have an edge over the poor boys. For many years this obvious injustice made me unreason­ ably prejudiced against the rich, but when I became rich myself, the prejudice somewhat abated." Now Abbott is "very tolerant about people's undeserved wealth or any other attractive quality which may befall them....Actually it takes trials and problems and difficulties to sharpen the wits and toughen the character and the rich boys are often denied this." Towards the end of Mister Abbott he observes that just about everyone in the creative side of theatre is neurotic. "They have to be," Abbott writes. Asked about this today, he tempers the statement, "Neurotic is perhaps too strong a word. But I do think that (creative people) generally come from an unhappy back· ground which makes them turn away from real life to imagination. You see, the very pretty rich girl who never had a damn thing to worry about is not solikely to be the author of Crazy Salad, or whatever it is the Nora Ephron girl just turned out, as is the girl worried about her looks, or from a split family, or the one who feels socially mistreated." Then there's some advantage to hav­ ing a troubled youth? "Oh yes," says Abbott. "It makes for creative people.lfa boy doesn't like life, he turns into himself and fancies things a good deal. But the good-looking jock in college, he needn't dream. He's got it all right there." For Abbott, it seems, despite athletic and dramatic coups in college, it was still not all there. For example, in Mister Abbott he notes that, during those col­ -Photos of Abbott in his office by Carol Tobin lege years when fraternities were the focal point of social life, he was notasked drama program of its time, turned out On the strength of The Man in the to join one until the end of his freshman writers like Philip Barry, Brendan Manhole, Abbott won an apprenticeship year. When asked, he was flabbergasted. Gill, Eugene O'Neill, S.N. Behrman, and with a Boston theater, the Bijou, and "Though I had congenial friends Sidney Howard. worked as an assistant for $30 a week. He among many of the Psi U's in my class I H, after four years at Rochester, Ab­ called the job "a good transition from the had just taken it for granted that my role bott "no longer felt like a crude small­ theoretical to the pragmatic." It wasn't, in college was that of an outsider." And town boy," it was at Harvard that he got however, the real thing, and after a year though he enjoyed his fraternity years his final coat of social polish. There, he at the Bijou he felt compelled to go to immensely, Abbott writes that he always writes, he met "some rich boys from New York. After a brief trip horne to recognized that "their appeal is snobbish Chicago-the tea-drinking set. Such a Hamburg, Abbott and another aspiring ...and I still feel a little guilty about those thing as stopping in the afternoon to have actor named Arthur boarded the lacka­ who were denied (the fraternity experi­ tea was unheard of in my experience. In wanna Railroad and headed for the lights ence)." fact, when Ifirst joined the group Iwould of Broadway. After graduation, Abbott went to Har­ not drink tea-I thought it was too sissy. "No immigrant coming to the prom­ vard for a yearofstudy with Prof. George They made me cocoa on that occasion, ised land could have had a greater sense Pierce Baker in his famous English 47 but later I relented and could balance a of ecstasy than I," writes Abbott of his Workshop. The workshop, the only cup with the best of them." first view ofNew York. "I was here atlast; 7 Clowning with EIsa Lanchester and Loring Smith (upper left)

With Hal Linden, Cab Cal/oway, Barbara McNair, and Richard Adler (upper right)

Showing a step to Pat Stanley in rehearsals for "The Pajama Game" (left)

8 the city beckoned to me; the world was directing and did so (in 1925) when I got Fonuard, Kiss and Tell, High Button my oyster; I would succeed. I was ex­ my first show put on." Shoes, Where's Charley .. A Tree Grows alted." The show was The Fall Guy, which in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Me and Abbott, however, is the first to admit Abbott co-authored and co-directed with Juliet, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, that his success was neither overnight Jimmy Gleason. The play was a hit and Once Upon a Mattress, Tenderloin, nor easy. Of those first days in New Abbott "had achieved the ambition Take Her, She's Mine, Never Too Late. York, he writes: "Arthur and I shared a which brought (him) to New York." For years reviewers wrote about "the room at the Twenty-Third Street YMCA The ensuing years offered Abbott the Abbott touch." But ask Abbott what the for three dollars a week. We ate in the opportunities he had been waiting for­ expression means and he'l tell you: "I cafeteria and put our trousers under the chances to write, direct, and work in don't think it means very much. Actually I mattress at night to keep them pressed. I theatre. As he notes, he seized "every think the critics usually apply it quite had a list of all the theatrical producers, opportunity that came my way; I was wrongly. I've seen farces of mine done and Iwalked around each day asking the compulsively unable to tum down any­ abominably because the people involved office boys if there was anything doing." thing. In the next two years Iwas to work thought they were giving them pace, on nine plays either as a director or a which it isn't at all. Pace is variety. What Eventually he landed a job as an actor writer or both." makes a play interesting from a director's in The Misleading Lady. The year was Abbott's next success was Love 'Em point of view is to keep it alive and 1913, the play tried out in Atlantic City, and Leave 'Em, which he directed and interesting, keep the dull spots out. and it was a critical success. Abbott, for co-authored. The same year, 1926, he That's what a good director must con­ his small part, got good notices, and soon directed and co-authored Broadway, trive, either by writing or by what he does he found acting parts easier to find. described by Abbott as "the hit of hits. " on the stage." Nevertheless, he continued writing ... Each following year there were generally Does Candide, Hal Prince's current for his ultimate aspirations were notasan at least two or three Abbott plays on Broadway success, have the Abbott actor. "When I came to New York," he Broadway-Coquette, The Great Ma­ touch? says, " thought I would start acting to goo, Three Men on a Horse, &y Meets Abbott, whose often solemn face has learn something about theatre. But I was Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, The in some circles earned him the name of eager to stop acting and start writing and &ysfrom Syracuse, Pal Joey, BestFoot "The Great Stoneface," breaks into a 9 ics are all failures," says Abbott. "They're people who tried to be writers so they have a deep down tendency to want to pull things down. If they all like something, you can be sure they're right. But they may all hate something and be wrong, at least commercially. Other times they get very easy on things, they get tired of panning. Oh, I think they're intelligent people and you can bet I read all of them. If only they didn't have to write so much. I'd just as soon read a capsule review or check out for so many stars," he chuckles. Abbott, who was so prolific on Broad­ way, had little to do with movie-making. Many of his plays were translated into film. All Quiet on the Western Front, an Academy Award-winning film he directed in 1930, is considered one of the first and finest anti-war films. "I'm too impatient for Hollywood," Abbott says. "It takes endless hours of waiting. You may get three shots in a day. You sit and sit and sit. It's very difficult." Abbott has written: "There's a kind of pretension and falsity woven into the· texture of the place; it is the phony, phony land. People pretend to be richer than they are, more successful than they are, better fathers, better friends, better lovers - even better losers." grin. Chuckling, he answers, "Well, I ington and sends out the troops. If the It is difficult to imagine Abbott, who didn't touch it. But, of course, Hal has director doesn't handle things, then you has often been cited for his conservative worked with me a great deal and Iwould have no show." financial habits, in this lavish, keep-up­ say Candide is a play I would have been In Mister Abbott, he notes that those with-the-Jones' world. "I am known to proud ot." involved in a production seldom know get every bit of worth outofeachdollar in Unlike some directors, Abbott gener­ just what they have on their hands until it a show," he told me. "I think that's the ally gets along well with the actors and goes before an audience. "Sometimes reason that I hate pictures so...because actresses he works with. ''Some theatre things go well and you feel optimistic, but they're so wasteful. Ifyou're a truly thrifty people, such as David Merrick, hate that's about as far as hopes go." Irving person it means you hate waste. That's actors and make no bones about it. I Berlin, for example, wrote 'White Christ­ different from being stingy. I tum out enjoy actors and think you have to like mas" on short notice to fill a needed spot lights in hotels, I must confess." them and have some simpatico with in a movie, and "No Business Like Show Maurice Chevalier, he says, was a fine them. Having been an actor helps -I Business" was created only as a utility example of the truly thrifty person. "In have an understanding of them and what number to cover a scene change, he 1928," Abbott writes, "Chevalier was the causes them trouble. But I was notan '1­ notes. highest-paid man in Hollywood. He was have-to-get-in-the-mood' type actor or "There are no rules in predicting a hit. getting $15,000 a week, but being a frugal that kind of stuff. Iwas a more pragmatic And if there were, they couldn't possibly Frenchman he had nonotion ofspending actor. Some actors get so carried away work," Abbott says. "For example, I it according to the local pattern. The by the Stanislavski method that they remember John Golden had a great studio heads were greatly embarrassed can't cross the room and put a book on success years and years ago doing clean over the fact that Chevalier always drove the table just because that's what the plays. Then they began to fail. He to work in a second-hand Ford, and he character would do. They have to have a thought, ergo, I'll write dirty plays. So he heightened this indignity by parking the motive." put in some cursing or something that car across the way where it was free Abbott, who says he prefers directing would be nothing by today's standards, instead of paying a quarter in the regular or writing to acting, considers the role of but was what Golden then thought mod­ parking lot." the director exceedingly important. ''The em. But he didn't get modem that way. What Chevalier was to Hollywood, director is the general in the field. The The plays still failed." Abbott was to Broadway. Accordi~ to producer is the general who sits in Wash­ And critics? What about critics? "Crit- legend, Abbott got Pajama Game on 10 stage for $169,468 - even in 1954 a very to portray a complex character as well as dream and Itried not to get angry." When small sum. According to an article in The the capacity to sing and dance. Up to he awoke that morning Abbott called his Saturday Evening Post, he accomplished then Kelly's experience consisted of a tap gardener to make sure all was well. this feat in the following way: dance to a harmonica solo in a single "I awarded myself winters in Flor­ "Instead of hiring an empty theatre or scene of The Time of Your Life. ida some years ago," he says, "and Idon't studio in which torehearse, he rehearsed "Yes, I started many on their way," he let much interfere with them. Idon't want in the banquet hall of Al & Dick's, a posh says. "I'm always glad to see somebody to do producing now. Iquit that. It'sa full­ steak emporium on West 54th Street. He make good that I picked out in a chorus time joband that's not something Iwant." recompensed the owners by ~ving them line orsomething. But there are too many Nevertheless Abbott quite regularly re­ the following credit in the theatre of them and most are still alive so I really turns to theatre work. About a year ago programs: 'Dishes by Al and Dick's can't talk about them. he left sunny Florida for Seattle, where he Steak House.' The dishes were used "Good actors," he adds, "are difficult directed Life with Father for the Seattle during a hectic tango number entitled to find. That's why it pays so well when Repertory Company. "It was a good Hernando's Hideaway. The gaudy neon they finally make it.. .. Why, the world is experience and a lot of fun. I wanted to signs used for the scene were supplied full of people who have delusions that see what regional theatre is like and the gratis by the Blatz Beer Co., which also they're going to succeed in theatre and Seattle group proved to be as good as supplied the beer for the big picnic scene never do. New York's got thousands of any Broadway company you'lever want in the second act. them right now. You'd be amazed at the to see." "In one hilariously funny episode, Ed­ inept people who try to make their living Abbott is presently collaborating with die Foy, Jr. was called upon to remove acting when they can't act and at the Richard Adler (who wrote the music for his trousers and model a pair of pajamas. number of lousy scripts there are Abbott's Pajama Game) and with Will Abbott didn't even spend a dollar or two around." Holt on Music Is - an adaptation of buying Foy a pair of undershorts. A In recent years Abbott has made his Twelfth Night that Abbott originally credit line in the program explained: "Mr. home on an island in Florida. There, he wrote with the Eastman School of Music Foy's undershorts by Nantex Manufac­ says, "I play golf, read, and have a pleas­ in mind. turing." ant life. And I'm crazy about my fruit "This show I'm doing," he explains, "I Despite Abbott's vast Broadway expe­ trees. That's the main thing. My fruit must tell you this because it's kind of rience, he is loath to talk of his own trees and my golf. Why, I had a terrible funny. Two men from the Eastman contributions to American theatre. dream the other night. I dreamed my School came down here seeking advice ''That's too pompous," he says, prefer­ gardener cut down all my fruit trees. from various people and wanted some ring to regard himself as "part of the These big stumps were facing me in my advice from me. I told them if only they tendency to bring more natural acting to had a musical book to work on, then they theatre." He is also reluctant to answer could put up prizes for the students who questions about the direction in which wrote songs for it. The idea would be a theatre is heading. "I can't say where it's competition. That would be a good way going. And Idon't pretend to understand to help music students get into the practi­ some things about today's theatre. For cal theatre. example, it seems to me that Pippin is "So I went up to the countryside where one of the worst shows Iever sawandyet I go in the summertime and I thought, it's a big hit. There's a tendency today in well, I'm not busy so I'll write them a theatre and film to be episodic. But Ithink book. Istarted to write the Twelfth Night that tendency will pass. Hair started the adaptation. Then when I got it done, I episodic vogue. Now that was a wonder­ decided it was too good for amateurs." ful show; I don't know why, but it was. So the Eastman School lost out? he Still, the human being craves a story, the was asked. old Cinderella thing never wears out. So "Well, we'll soon see about that," Ab­ the great big hits are Fiddler on the Roof bott cautiously replied. or My Fair Lady - shows with a begin­ ning, a middle, and an end." In his lifetime in theatre, Abbott has given numerous notables their start to­ ward fame and.fortune - among them, Eddie Bracken, Desi Amaz, Eddie Al­ bert, Jose Ferrer, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Joan Caulfield, and Kirk Doug­ las. In 1940 Abbott gave Gene Kelly, an unknown tap dancer, the title role in Pal Joey ~ a role which demandedthe ability 11 Meet the Wunderkind Of New York City Schools

By Lee Dembart

(C by the New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.) New York City's Board of Education, not usually known as a hotbed of new ideas, is hearing many these days from its Deputy Chancellor, Bernard R. Gifford ('68GM, '72GM), a scientist and manage­ ment expert who was once a member of a Bedford-Stuyvesant street gang. Dr. Gifford is 32 years old and has a background that has taken him through Brooklyn Technical High School, a Ph.D. in biophysics, organizing in Rochester, a Kennedy fellowship at Harvard and the presidency of the New York City-Rand Institute. In less than two years at the board, he has become the wunderkind of the school system, an outspoken critic who is shaking up 110 Livingston Street with -D1ustration by Sandy Huffaker ideas and a staff to make them happen. There are those who say that he will added: 'We just don't have people at the and strike, Dr. Gifford prepared a series become School Chancellor after Irving Board of Education with this experience, of background papers for the board on Anker's expected retirement in 1977. so efforts to reform have been stymied." how much the teachers were earning, There are others who say that Bernie "I'm surprised to find myself at the what their real raises over the lastdecade Gifford will be the city'sfirst black Mayor. board," Dr. Gifford said in an interview in had been and how they compared to Of course, bureaucracies have a way his home near Prospect Park. "I had a other school districts in the region and of taking care of their own and grinding deep-seated hostility for the bureaucracy the nation. down those who are not members of the at 110 Uvingston Street. It has a well­ When contract proposals were made, club. While Dr. Gifford talks a good deserved reputation for insensitivity and Dr. Gifford and his computers "costed show, there are those at the board who for hostility to outsiders. To me, for many them out" in minutes. Board observers know that they were there before he was years it represented a mindless bureauc­ said it was the first time they could recall and will be there after he leaves,and they racy more interested in serving itself than that the negotiators actually had all of the are biding their time until then. the community." data in front of them. In this regard, Dr. Gifford concedes "My goal is to make the system work," After the contract was agreed on, the that his "greatest failure has been in he said. "I will be ready to leave the board Emergency Financial Control Board bringing major reforms to the Office of when I have achieved my objectives or announced with great fanfare that its Auditor General." He wanted to bring been defeated." terms had exceeded the Board ofEduca­ in accountants with broad auditing So far, his tangible accomplishments tion's budget. But a few weeks later, experience, but, he says "I have been are few. But he is beginning to revamp quietly, it concluded that Dr. Gifford's unable to hire people because of Civil the board's budgeting system and run figures were right in the first place and Service regulations that mandate that I cost analyses that provide information that the contract did not have to be promote people to these jobs." He on how much is being sPent and how renegotiated. much the schools are getting for it. As Deputy Chancellor, Dr. Gifford During the recent teacher negotiations directly oversees 10 board units, includ- 12 ing the Division of Business andAdminis­ Now, however, Dr. Gifford says that turned on by what's going on in the non­ tration, the Office of Audit and Investiga­ that statement and others like it were elitist schools. We ought to ask the chief tion and the Office of Program Budget made by a young man in the heat of battle cook at the Waldorf to spend a year at Operations and Review. While his job is and that he no longer stands by them. Foodand Maritime Trades High School." in management, Dr. Gifford argues per­ 'When you fought with Saul," he said, "I'm spending an awful lot of time suasively that he is dealing in education "you used the weapon he used, a sand­ worrying about physically and emotion­ and is rightly involved in policy decisions. paper tongue." ally handicapped children. We have a "I'd like people to understand the rela­ After graduate school, Dr. Gifford was study of special education to figure out tionship between the budgeting process a Kennedy Fellow in urban affairs at ways to serve handicapped children and a child's education," he said. "I am Harvard University, from which he be­ more efficiently." not an educator, but Ifeel that education came president of New York City-Rand. "We're stuck in a really lousy systemof is too important to be left to the educa­ "When I worked with Saul Alinsky in paying teachers extra for 30 credits of tors." Rochester, my interest was in educa­ basket weaving. Educational differentials Understandably, the inbred bureauc­ tional change," Dr. Gifford said. "When I should not be solely dependent on the racy at school headquarters was not went with Rand, I tried to push them in accumulation of credits. There are many universally delighted by the arrival of Dr. that area. Now that I'm here, my job is to ways to measure educational achieve­ Gifford, an outsider who began by forc­ ask questions not traditionally asked at ment." ing retirements and making transfers. the Board of Education." In the long run, Dr. Gifford, who is Dr. Gifford worries that recent public­ Dr. Gifford describes his getting the married to the former Laura de Costa ity will make things even more difficult $48,OOO-a-year Deputy Chancellorshipas and has two small children, Bernard Jr. for him. ("There are daggers pointed at a fluke. When the board was looking for and Antoinette, yearns to be a college me," he once confided.) But by all ac­ someone in the spring of 1973, it ap- president or director of the city's Office counts, he also delights in the attention. of Management and Budget. Born on May 18, 1943, the son of John In the short term, he says, "two things and Daisy May Gifford, Bernard Robert could happen. Either I will be a smashing Gifford started contributing to the family Some say Bernie Gifford success or I will be a smashingfailure. It's support when he was 10 years old by will be the City's/irst black a little too early to tell, but in certain areas hawking newspapers in the streets. Mayor. I think we've been quite successful." His father died when he was very "I'm hopeful," he went on, "that Beinie young, and his mother, who died a few Gifford will not be an aberration, that years ago, worked as a domestic to other people with my background will be able to come into the school system." support her six children. proached a high city official, who said he "Gee," he added, "I'm beginning to While at Brooklyn Tech, from which wasn't interested but recommended Dr. sound like an educator." he was graduated in 1961 with honors in Gifford. physics, Dr. Gifford worked 30 hours a The board called Dr. Gifford, invited week at such jobs as stock boy, appren­ him in for a chat, and was startled when tice butcher, salad man, grocery clerk he arrived to find that he was30 years old and Western Union messenger. and black. "They had already filled the At Long Island University, where he black job," Dr. Gifford recalled sardoni­ majored in physics, he worked full time as cally. a lab technician. Then, in 1965, he en­ A sampler of observations by Dr. Gif­ rolled in a graduate studies program at ford follows: the University of Rochester, where his "We need to rid ourselves of rampant· Ph.D. thesis was entitled, "The Measure­ credentialism. We need to be able to ment of 3He- 9Be Neutron Spectra and bring poets into the schools, and we're Yields by Pulsed Beam Time of Right prevented from doing 50 by an archaic Techniques and Their Radiobiological credential system that would keep Albert Applications." Einstein from teaching physics because While in Rochester, Dr. Gifford met he did nothave the background in educa­ the social critic Saul Alinsky, whom he tion." joined in the community organization "We ought to be thinking about a FIGHT, campaigning at Eastman Kodak majorchange in the schoolsofeducation. on behalf of blacks. He was FIGHTs They have not been a success in training president from 1969 to 1971, during teachers or administrators for urban which the organization split from Mr. schools. A person can get a Ph.D. in Alinsky and took on a black separatist education with minimal contact with stu­ tone. "Saul is a white Uncle Tom who dents." was stifling the growth of the black com­ "Vocational education is treated very munity," Dr. Gifford said at the time. badly by elitist educators. I've been 13 Evelyn Segal's ~Homage to Nigeria'

Evelyn Buff Segal'45 statedsimply that necessity is the mother of invention and in her own case the inspiration for the use of an unusual creative medium­ encaustic. Mrs. Segal was speaking of the origins of her recent New York exhibition at the Lubin House Gallery. The show there, entitled "Homage to Nigeria," was of a series of paintings begun by Mrs. Segal during one of several trips to Nigeria where her husband, Dr. Harry Segal, UR professor emeritus of medicine, served as visiting professor at the University of Lagos College of Medicine. Encaustic, according to Mrs. Segal, is the world's oldest painting medium. The technique, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, involves the burnishing of hot wax and pigments into wood. The famous Faiyum Coptic portraits, for ex­ ample, employed this technique. Why Mrs. Segal chose this difficult medium over oils is, asshe explains, quite simple. "The orders from my paint sellers-Sennelier in Paris and Windsor Newton in London-had arrived in La­ gos, but because of a dock strike could not be delivered during our sojourn. "You can imagine my frustration in not being able to get hold of those paints," she says. Determined to paint, she came up with the idea of using encaustic on wood. She sent to New York for beeswax and dry pigments which were delivered by air to Lagos. Dr. Segal, respected by the Nigerians as the head of the UR's program with the University of Lagos, was provided generously with large pan­ A photo-portrait of Evelyn Segal by Minor White els of laminated mahogany for Mrs. Se­ gal's use. phy extensively and, through the help of Archaeologists have discovered fine She used the mahogany as an oil Muslim traders, established her own pottery heads and figures, iron imple­ painter would use canvas. "You must collection of typical Nigerian art. ments and polished stone objects made understand that mahogany is used as Nigeria's artistic traditions, she soon by Nigerians from about 900·200 B.C. improvidently in Nigeria as Americans in discovered, are great. Under no circum­ The civilization of the Benins, which the 19th century used pine, cherry, and stances, she says, should one use the reached its peak in the 1400s, produced curly maple." word primitive when describing them. exquisite brass, bronze, and ivory sculp­ In the course of her six visits to Nigeria, "One shouldn't call it primitive art be­ tures. Mrs. Segal studied Nigerian iconogra- cause it simply isn't. These were highly Art critic Barbara Murray has noted skilled people, like the Europeanartisans of the Middle Ages, who were commis­ sioned to make art for religious occa­ sions, ritual objects for ceremonies, and works for secret societies."

14 ( Behind the Trip Evelyn Buff Segal accompanied her husband, Dr. Harry L Segal, to Nigeria on five different occasions between 1962 and 1973 for periods of three to four months. Dr. Segal's visits to Lagos, Nigeria were the result of his participa­ tion in an exchange program between the medical schools of the UR and the University of Lagos in the early sixties. Dr. Segal was among the first three members of the UR medical faculty ­ Dr. Franklin W. Heggeness and the late Dr. William D. Lotspeich preceded him - to take part in the program. Representatives of the University of Lagos first met with Dr. Donald G. Anderson, then dean of the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry, andwith the late Dr. Lotspeich, former chairman and professor of the Department of Physiology, in the early sixties to organize the recruitment of faculty from the UR to go to the University of Lagos College of Medicine when it opened in the fall of 1962. The exchange program that resulted was supported by The Commonwealth Fund of New York, enabling Rochester faculty members, like Dr. Segal, tospend Segal's The Calabash and the Yam, time in Nigeria as visiting faculty at Lagos Nigeria (encaustic on mahogany) and brought members of the Lagos College of Medicine faculty toRochester. that it is interesting that Mrs. Segal's In Rochester they participated in or artistic response to Nigeria comes in the observed teaching and research ac­ form of paintings, whereas the known tivities at the UR medical school. artistic traditions of that country are primarily cast, thrown, and sculptured forms. The images of Mrs. Segal's works, like Wash Day in the Bush, Our Lady ofthe Peppers, Tomatoes, and Cola Nuts, and Kano atDawn, evoke the sounds, sights, and textures of the Nigerian landscape. According to critic Collum, "these Nige­ rian paintings fulfill Evelyn Buff Segal's promise as one of our most prominent developing contemporary artists. Each canvas represents a startling encounter between her inner vision and personal landscape and the rich and complex vistas of ancient and modern Africa."

Sunset on the Lagoon during the Rainy Season, Lagos, Nigeria (encaustic on mahogany) 15 The Case for General Practice • ••

.Review writer Fran Sargent looks at Dr. David Ness, who's Iputting down roots' in a small town . ..

Across the bridge in Honeoye Falls, building, five civic-minded residents down the road a little way, and behind big formed a corporation and bought the stone pillars looms a large brick house. It building to keep the practice intact. Al­ sits practically on the edge of the water, though this move helped to attract two right near the falls. Once, in 1838, it was physicians, their rapid departures were the new home of a successful business­ disappointing. Now the search was on man who wanted to be able to look out on again. his mill across Honeoye Creek. Both of the preceding physicians spe­ Now, in 1976, the old building houses cialized in internal medicine. In addition the new home and medical practice of to the variety of other reasons that might Dr. David Ness. There isn't any shingle have prompted their leaving, Dr. Ness hanging out, but then maybe one really points out that "there's no wayanintern­ isn't needed. A number of physicians live ist can handle a practice like this. For in Honeoye Falls, but they don't practice example, there are so many job-related there. Dr. Ness is the town's only doctor. injuries because of the small industries An "official" family physician, Dr. Ness near Honeoye Falls. All of these patients completed the University's three-year had to be shipped off to emergency residency in family medicine in the spring departments miles away in Rochester or of 1974. Several weeks later he, his wife, Canandaigua. And the women in this and their three children moved into the area have been without a physician who brick house, and Dr. Ness opened his would practice obstetrics since 1967." office doors to patients. Dr. Ness's residency prepared him to "The first day I saw 32 patients," he Dr. David Ness provide "primary health care" for a num­ says. It's been about like that ever since, ber of different medical and surgical and he considers himself busier than either a city practice or a large group problems. "I went into medical school most physicians. But compared to the 40 practice. At the same time, Honeoye with the idea that Iwould be the physician or 50 patients seen every day by some of Fails is only 20 miles from Rochester, and who would be called first," he says, "and his friends practicing family medicine in he needed to live near enough to the city there is a great social need for primary other small towns, his practice hasn't so that his wife could commute to the health care of this sort." While in medical reached peak capacity yet. University, where she's now a third-year school, he found that he "liked every­ "I think the biggest thing that has kept medical student. thing." Family medicine was the natural the load from falling entirely on me," he As carefully as the doctor was choos­ answer. says, "is the fact that the people who live ing the town, the town was doing some The series of two- and three-month in this area have been burned two times. choosing of its own. Dr. Ness had to have rotations provided the resident with re­ Having had several physicians come and an interview with the members of the peated experience in internal medicine, go in quick succession, they're not going Chamber of Commerce who made up surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, orthopae­ to switch from another doctor until they the Honeoye Falls physician selection dics, and rehabilitation medicine, as well know whether I'm going to be here long committee. When he learned the history as in family medicine itself. Now in prac­ term." of the practice, he could understand why tice, he sees "just a nice mix" (from a Not that he was planning to move on the stability of his future plans would be physician's point of view). "It's one of quickly when he was originally looking for of such special interest. those beautiful things," he says, and he a place to practice. "I'm ready to put When the town's only physician, Dr. doesn't expect to tire of it soon. down roots," Dr. Ness explains. He Madsen, retired after 32 years spent While in training, says Dr. Ness, chose Honeoye Fails because he wanted tending to the health needs of Honeoye to live in a small town. He didn't want Fails from his office in that old brick (Continued on page 18) 16 And a Place for Specialization

.. . and at Dr. James Brown, who left his small town general practice to become a "radiation therapist.

In 1959, several years after receiving and then you drop internal medicine or his M.D. degree from UR, Dr. James C. surgery. Gradually your practice be­ Brown hung out his shingle as a general comes more and more limited and run-of­ practitioner and the only physician in the the-mill." small town of Canton, N.Y. But all the time the family doctor is In 1974, Dr. Brown closed down his scurrying around practicing general med­ busy family practice, packed up his wife icine, medicine itself is becoming increas­ and four children, moved to the City of ingly sophisticated. "How," asks Dr. Rochester, and went back to his alma Brown, "can general practitioners in this mater to become a specialist in radiation situation possibly keep up-intellectually therapy. or physically? This, I think, is the primary A recent issue of Parents Magazine problem that will be faced by the newly describes the family physician as "good trained family practitioners who go out to for what ails American medicine." In the work in areas with sparse medical cover­ face of widespread public clamor for age and limited back-up facilities." more "physicians who would be respon­ Dr. Brown wasn't content to cut back sible for the whole patient," as this article his practice and let his patients simply puts it, it would seem that Dr. Brown is shift for themselves. During his last few bucking the trend. years in Canton he set out to persuade And surely, at age 45 and well estab­ other physicians to open practices in the lished in a successful practice, the deci­ area. "I tried to recruit both family physi­ sion to break the small town ties as well cians and other specialists," he says. as the continuity of his professional life Dr. James Brown "But I found that the newly trained family must ha~e been difficult to make. physicians were the least available and Yet among all the reasons supporting So for six hectic years he practiced all the most difficult to attract. I couldn't get Dr. Brown's decision to become a spe­ fields of medicine and surgery. Simple any to come to Canton." cialist, "bucking the trend" definitely fractures? He casted them. Abdominal He gradually recruited six physicians cannot be included. "I've never been an surgery? He assisted in the OR. Lacera­ with other medical specialties who oddball," he says. "I've always been tions? He did a lot of suturing. formed a group practice. "However," he middle-of-the-road, out there flailing In fact, the sixth year of his practice says, "having helped attract this specialty away as a general practitioner." was his banner year for obstetrics. He talent, I felt even less qualified by com­ As to his decision, it turned out not to delivered 195 babies in 1965. He also gave parison." be nearly as difficult as he thought it up the obstetrical part of his practice Patients may clamor for the good old would be, nor was the move as traumatic when the year was over. family doctor, but Dr. Brown thinks they as might be expected. It was all just too much, he explains. usually prefer to go directly to the special­ But Dr. Brown is a rational man. "After The SO-hour work week, the odd hours, ists for their serious problems, if the all," he says, "this was 15 years in the the lack of time and facilities to really do a specialists are available. Aware that he, making." As he explains it, when he "quality job." A professed family man, as a general practitioner, lacked depth of finally did give up his practice, it really Dr. Brown found himself unable to find knowledge in any particular field of health wasn't a general practice any more. enough time to sleep, let alone to spend care, Dr. Brown could understand their "When I started out," says Dr. Brown, with his wife and children. point of view. "Canton was an area that really needed "That's the beginning of what usually In the end, it seemed to the doctor as if physicians. There were lots of patients, a happens to a general practice in the all that was left for him were "school little hospital with limited equipment, and outlying areas," he says. "First you quit very few specialists in the area." obstetrics, then you give up pediatrics, (Continued on page 19) 17 Ness ... (Continued from page 16) "everyone had led me to believe that I would be just inundated when I set up practice." So far, however, he doesn't really feel "that hassled." The doctor would like to keep it that way. Aside from retaining for himself time to eat, sleep, see his family, and pursue a few other personal and professional in­ terests, controlling the demands of his practice eventually may help other physi­ cians. "There really are few models for the modern family practice," he says. "I'd like to be able to provide one of them." That Dr. Ness doesn't feel pressured may be a function both of the way he has structured his practice and of his time­ saving home-office combination. The doctor sees patients byappoint­ ment only on weekdays. Weekends and evenings are reserved for emergencies. "Only once has a patient ever com­ plained to me about having just daytime appointments," he comments. "Of course, I'm not up at the front desk making the appointments, so I may not hear all the complaints. But for most people, I've found that the lack of evening or weekend hours creates neither an economic hardship nor a serious per­ sonal problem." To keep things running smoothly and conserve energy, he doesn't skimp on the office staff. During appointment hours he's assisted by "at least three and one-half people." After hours his wife or even his children can help out if needed. One member of his staff, a licensed nurse and x-ray technician, has beenwith the practice through all of its recent changes. Having worked in the office for 15 years, she knows the patients and "she's also our expert on medical forms," says Dr. Ness. In addition, he employs another full-time nurse, a full-time receptionist-bookkeeper, a part-time receptionist-typist, and a pediatric nurse practitioner during the morning hours. Providing such care as x-rays of the chest or extremities, casts for fractures, -Photos by Chris Quillen electrocardiograms, blood counts, throat cultures, and pregnancy tests is relatively routine for Dr. Ness and his can also draw on the support facilities in hours start at 3 p.m. "By leaving a large staff, but he admits to having an advan­ Rochester. I have worked in Hamilton, .block of time free in the middle of the tage over some other family practition­ N.Y.-there you're it." day," explains Dr. Ness, "even if we run ers. "I'm not located in what you would The office is open from 9 to noon and behind schedule, we never have to see call an outlying area," he says. "Here I from 2 to 5 except on Wednesday, when (Continued on page 20)

18 Brown ... (Continued from page 17) physicals and sore throats. Maybe that old seventh sin, pride, also was involved in my decision," he says. So he began his three-year residency in radiation therapy in the summer of 1974. His choice of specialty was influenced by the same mixture of professional altruism and rationality that characterizes his feelings about his general practice. Radiation therapy is important work, he feels. "Sometimes we can provide help for cancer patients that no other spe­ cialty can. My 15 years of general prac­ tice have just set me up for this," he says. "As a family doctor I saw so many pa­ tients whose complaints had too little to do with tangible problems for which I could provide effective therapy." Radiation therapy also is hopeful work. The cure rate (based on five years free of evidence of disease) is higher than many people realize, Dr. Brown explains. In addition, holding off the fatal results of disease for 10 or even 15 years (palliation) is possible and can mean almost as much as a "permanent" cure to the patient with cancer. "For some patients," he adds, "being In his residency, Dr. Brown is able to him to relate to the patients under his able to reduc~ their suffering from bone follow the therapy of particular patients care. pain for just six months may mean being throughout their two-to-eight-week ser­ His 45 years, or the awareness of able to help them die in relative comfort. ies of treatments. He feels that, rather middle age, also partially dictated Dr. Even that much can be an important than being a handicap, his years of expe­ Brown's choice of specialty. contribution." rience and gray-haired appearance help "I knew that residencies in most of the other specialties require a longer period of time or greater physical stamina," he explains. He enjoys the challenge of his education in radiation therapy. But sometimes he wonders if he'll make it to the end, and he thinks three years in a residency is long enough for his circum­ stances. In addition, he likes the relatively regu­ lar hours. These may mean even more to him now that his family includes a baby born seven months after the move to Rochester. "Of course, I have to take my turn at being oncall weekends and evenings," he says. "But radiation therapy usually in- (Continued on page 20)

19 Ness ... , Brown ... (Continued from page 18) (Continued from page 19) patients right through lunch." Thedoctor volves regular daytime treatments. usually manages to get a full hour to There really are very few emergencies." himself. "I go out and run," he says. All in q,1I, Dr. Brown has found chang­ "Then I shower, dress, and eat-and I'm ing course in midstream to be a stimulat­ ready for the afternoon's work." ing and satisfying experience. What Dr. Ness says he'd "resent having to about the family? get in the car and drive to the office," "A few people have wondered how we especially for after-hours emergencies. could give up the fairly substantial in­ But he doesn't get as many of these come I must have been making," he says. emergency calls as he'd originally ex­ "Actually, the financial change was not a pected' partly, he suspects, because the major issue. The average physician pays people of Honeoye Falls aren't used to out a lot in taxes, and residents are paid a having a physician close by. Sometimes fair wage these days." his patients seem to be too considerate of The four "small town kids" who made him-they don't call when they really the move from Canton to Rochester will should have. However, one person's do far better for having been through the emergency may be another's wait-and­ change, says their father. "We were see. As time goes on the doctor is getting prepared to send them to private schools to know his patients better, and it's easier if we had to. But my two oldest daughters for him to tell who needs to come right in. who go to John Marshall High School "Just the other night," he says, "a here in the city tell me that they think patient called with a cut that needed to be most of their teachers are as well trained seen. I was ready for bed, reading in the as those they had in Canton." Jiving room, but I just didn't move until He adds that his oldest son, who goes the patient came to the office. Then I to Aquinas Institute, has found more went back there in my bathrobe, sewed opportunities to play hockey in Roches­ up the cut, and sent him on his way. ter than he ever had in Canton. Even the The whole visit required minimum time eight-year-old, who took a little longer to and energy from me- probably from adjust, is quite happy now. him, too, compared to the usual emer­ "It was difficult to leave Canton," says gency department visit." Dr. Brown, "because the family physi­ Dr. Ness believes that having his home cian, especially, becomes deeply in­ just a door away is as good for his family volved in the life of a small town." as it is for himself and the patients. "The But come September, 1977, when his kids can watch me sew up cuts and even residency is due to be finished, the doctor help out," he says. "They can come back and his family won't try to go home again. here and find me if they need me. And, if Having made one or two big changes, the babysitter is sick and can't come, I another doesn't seem very formidable. can easily see that they eat breakfast and "We just may head South," says Dr. get on the school bus." Brown. This kind of helping out is important for the Ness family, because now it's time for the doctor's wife to get ready for a career. "My built-in remedy against going stale or getting behind is the stimulation I get from Mary Kay's training," says Dr. Ness. "What I hope will happen is that eventually she will come into the practice with me. Then we each can practice about two-thirds of the time and give the other chunks of time away to follow up special interests." That combination, of course, is apt to put quite an individual stampon the Ness family practice model.

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21 'Exploration Of Infinite Possibilities'

UR Festival Theatre, "an-exploration of infinite possibilities," premieres this spring. Mysterious as that may sound, Festival Theatre is not just a mystery production. It's much too diversified for that, says Stefan Rudnicki, supervisor of student play productions and Festival Theatre's executive director. Here's why: Produced by University College in association with the permanent staff of UR Summer Theatre, Festival Theatre will combine the talents of a core com­ Peter Alzada as "Bottom" in URST/75 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" pany of resident professionals with the creative resources provided by guest 'Waiting for Godot" and Shakespeare's as URST Laboratory Theatre Project, performers and lecturers, a supporting "Richard III." this year's apprentice program will have film series, and seven dance companies Following the major Festival Theatre its own designer and director. The goal is uniting in a special performance, "To­ productions, New York playwright Tony to prepare a touring company to perform gether We Dance...Again." Scully will lead a workshop in "Instant in the Rochester community; tentative The result will be a semester-long Playwriting." This two-week period of plans call for a program of free appear­ program offering full-scale theatrical pro­ classes will culminate in a finished work ances in Rochester's new Manhattan ductions, master classes, workshops, which will be produced by COPA at the Square Park. and symposia designed primarily to pro­ close of the workshop, Apr. 16-17. Expected to return as members of the vide opportunities for undergraduates to The first major Festival Theatre pro­ professional URST/76 company are An­ expand the scope of their dramatic train­ duction, "Waiting for Godot," is sched­ drew Mendelson '71, director of last ing. Predicting "infinite possibilities for uled for Mar. 17-21. It will be directed by season's "The Real Inspector Hound"; .education, exposure, and exchange," D. Scott Glasser, veteran director and Judith Ann Cummings, who played the Rudnicki hopes these possibilities will actor in the URST/75 season. To partici­ dual lead in "The Good Woman of Szech­ include extension of Festival Theatre pate in Festival Theatre's premiere, wan" and will again serve as company projects into cooperative ventures with Glasser will take special leave from Willa­ manager for URST/76; and veteran other academic areas, such as fine arts, rnette College, where he teaches drama. URST members PeterAlzado, Sally Mer­ dance, music, and medieval studies. Playing the lead in "Richard III," which cer, Rachel Fletcher, and Cyril Mallett. The creative interaction provided by is scheduled for Mar. 24-Apr. 4, will be To be placed on the permanent URST Festival Theatre, says Rudnicki, can be Peter Alzado, actor and director, who mailing list, obtain more information the -means of "establishing a vital, dy­ has been a member of URST since 1974. about the spring Festival Theatre pro­ namic relationship with the entire Univer­ The opening performance of "Richard gram, or apply for the 1976 Laboratory sity community." In addition to providing III" will feature as guest speaker JanKott, Theatre Project, write: UR Festival Thea­ interested students with the "wide range noted drama critic, author of tre, Box 6185, River Station, Rochester, ofacademic benefits and cultural insights Shakespeare Our Contemporary, and N.Y. 14627. that a professional theatrical environ­ member of the Theatre Arts department, ment can create," Rudnicki notes, "Fes­ SUNY at Stony Brook. tival Theatre can contribute to the This summer, URST/76 will stage four cultural milieu of the entire Rochester plays, including Lorca's "Blood Wed­ area." ding" and Shakespeare's "As You Like The formal production schedule for It." Returning with URST/76 will be the this new program will be highlighted by apprentice program, which offers com­ two major plays, Samuel Beckett's prehensive courses in all phases of the dramatic arts taught by members of the resident professional company. Known 22 Alzado and Glasser

From the production of 'The Good Woman of Szechwan": D. Scott Glasser

-Photos by Phil Matt

Alzado and Judith Ann Cummings (above and below)

&rbara Sullivan 77

23 'How I Wrote the Pledge Of Allegiance to My Flag' Editor's Note: In honor of our nation's school pupils should be taught under the Bicentennial, we reprint here an article flag an impressive lesson in American­ by Francis Bellamy, UR 1876, author of ism. the Pledge ofAllegiance. Bellamy's own The state superintendents of educa­ account of how the Pledge came into tion at their Brooklyn meeting in Febru­ being first appeared in the Fe bruary­ ary of that year adopted the idea and March issue of Rochester Alumni appointed an executive committee of five Review, 1927. - four of their own number and myself, representing The Youth's Companion, as chairman - to engineer the public By Francis Bellamy acceptance of thescheme and to prepare an official program for the day's exercises I pledge allegiance to My Flag and to the to be used in every school. Republic for which it stands; The initial responsibility for awaken­ One Nation indivisible, with Liberty and ing universal public interest in the Justice for all. scheme fell upon my shoulders as chair­ The editor of the Alumni Review has man. That awakening of popular interest Francis Bellamy asked me as the author of the Pledge of proceeded by press propaganda, by con­ Allegiance, which during the past thirty­ gressional and legislative enactments, five years has beenrepeated in the Amer­ making the day a holiday with exercises That nub was the rub. There was in ican schools by scores of millions of centering in the public schools and au­ quite widespread use a form of salute, pupils, as well as regularly by the Boy thorizing proclamations by the President compiled by Col. Balch of New York, Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, by and governors to that effect, together which ran: "I give my hand and my heart the soldiers of the A.E.F. in France, as with the securing of the cooperation of to my country - one nation, one well as in the ritual of various fraternal the Grand Army of the Republic in send­ language, one flag." But that seemed too organizations, to tell the story of how and ing details of veterans to the schools to juvenile, lacking in dignity and com­ when it was written. This survival and aid in raising the flags. Among other prehensiveness for this occasion. nation-wide prevalence of twenty-three things I worked a bill through Congress, Mr. Upham and Itor weeks had talked words were not dreamed of by me on the empowering the President to proclaim about the need of a more impressive form August night in 1892, when I thought the day a holiday, and I was even asked of words. We agreed that it should em­ them out and wrote them in my office in by Secretary of State Foster to write the body a lofty sentiment, a sense of history Boston. President's proclamation, in which I in·­ and fundamental Americanism. I said to The Pledge of Allegiance was the cul­ serted the words, "On that day let the him: mination of a movement in patriotic edu­ national flag float over every schoolhouse "You write it; you have the time." cation, which had been particularly fos­ in the country and the exercises be such He refused, saying: tered by The Youth's Companion, of as shall impress upon our youth the "No, you must write it; you have the whose staff I was a member. A far-seeing patriotic duties· of citizenship." knack of words." partner in that publication, James B. When the time drew near for the So our reciprocal urging went on until Upham, an earnest patriot of old Yankee preparation of the official program, the one day in August. The promised datefor stock, conceived the idea of having the other members of the executive com­ the publication of the official program American flag ·float over every school­ mittee made general suggestions, but put was perilously near, and the formula for house in the l~nd, and through his efforts the actual construction of it up to us of the salute, which was to be the backbone in that periodical more than 30,000 The Youth's Companion. Mr. Upham of it, seemed as far off as ever. I askedMr. schools had been equipped with flags, and I agreed that it should be simple but Upham if he had gotten hold of a clear with the accompaniment of patriotic ex­ impressive and significant. He had idea for it. He said that he was full of ercises. In 1892, at the approach of the secured from Edna Dean Proctor an ode, general ideas, but that he could not seem 400th anniversary of the discovery of "Columbia's Banner," rich in feeling and to get them into shape, and that I would America by Columbus, this man Upham diction. I was asked towrite the declama­ have to do the thing if it was done at all. envisioned a prodigious advance in patri­ tion, "The Meaning of the Four Cen­ We decided to stay together that eve­ otic culture in the schools. It was no less a turies," which was signed by The Youth's ning until I could formulate a clear idea thing than a national public school cele­ Companion. An original "Songof Colum­ and frame it into words. At dinner we bration of Columbus Day, in which every bus Day" was written by Theron Brown,. discussed the bearings thoroughly. It local observance should center in the but the nub of the program was to be the became apparaent to me that so long as public schools, and the 13,000,000 public salute to the flag. we aimed only at some improved "Salute 24 "Now up there is the flag. I come to ~ ~d~ ru.u-(j:~e-c- ~ .L- '4 salute. When I get to the words 'to My t 1k-(f ".... ti?::. Flag,' I stretch out my hand and keep it raised while I say the rest." We went over it in unison several times I'~"'r ~ rAw ~-~~~~ to get the effect. He sat down andstudied the formula word by word, asking: "Why this? Why that?" ~~- ~ L~i ~;.vOz;~ r~ Finally he said, "It seems to me you have got the thing we want. Of course, your colleagues of the executive commit­ The "Pledge" in Bellamy's own hand tee may make somesuggestions, but I am led to think it will go exactly as it stands." to the Flag," we were bound to be hazy conveying the facts of a single nationality When my colleagues did accept it and were likely to form ulate some and of an indivisibility both of states and without the change of a word, when it was printed throughout the country in sonorous speech which might not ring common interests, was, as I recall, the the official program, and I myself heard it the exact bell and might prove less pop­ most arduous phase of the task, and the ular than the Balch salute, as yet widely discarded experiments at phrasing over­ roared by 4,000 Boston High School used. Accordingly Isuggested a new trail, flowed the scrapbasket. students on Columbus Day, I began to feel that I had been enabledto contribute in which the general notion of a flag salute But what of the present and future of something like a real thing. would be subordinated to a vow of our republic, our one nation indivisible, That is all, except that no one else loyalty, or allegiance to the flag, based on here presented for allegiance? What could be sosurprised as this author at the what theflag definitely stoodfor. Thus we were the old issues which always would survival and universal use of those might get a compact brevity and sure­ be issues to be fought for? Especially, twenty-three words exactly as he wrote ness otherwise hard to attain. what were the basic national doctrines them in 1892. When we got back to the office, I was bearing upon the acute questions already For a while the pledge served as a strongly stirred by this.idea. I shut myself agitating the public mind? Here was a playful reminiscence in the office when in my room, asking my friend to wait until temptation to repeat the historic slogan my friends greeted me. But, though I I called him. of the French Revolution, imported by knew it continued in use after that first The strain of the next two hours is a Jefferson, "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality." Columbus Day, it gradually took a back distinct memory. Beginning with the But that was rather quickly rejected, as seat in my thoughts. I had passed into word "allegiance," which I chose in "fraternity" was too remote and "equal­ purely editorial work, and the editorial preference to "loyalty," I first decided ity" was a dubious word. What doctrines, job habituates a man to plod behind the that "pledge" was a better school word then, could everybody agree upon as the screen, while a later advertising career, than "vow" or "swear," that the first basis of Americanism? "Liberty" and person singular should be usedtoindivid­ "justice" were surely basic, were unde­ wherein a man turns himself to writing publicity for other folks, only strength­ ualize the pledge, and that "my flag" was batable, and were all anyone nation ened that habit of personal sub­ more desirable than "the flag." could handle. If they were exercised for mergence. Consequently it is only of late When those words, "I pledge alle­ all, they involved the spirit of fraternity that expressions of interest in my giance to My Flag," looked up to me from and equality. So that final line, "with authorship of the pledge have led me to the paper, the start seemed promising. liberty and justice for all," came with a tell the story in detail. Then for the further reach of what the cheering rush. As a clincher it seemed to Now at the invitation of the editor of flag stood for, should it be "country," assemble the past and to promise the full this alumni magazine it has been an "nation," or "republic"? "Republic" won future. esteemed privilege to tell to my brother because it distinguished the form of gov­ That, Iremember, is how the sequence alumni this bit of history in which a ernment chosen by the fathers and estab­ of the ideas grew and how the words graduate of the University was the actor, lished by the Revolution. The true reason were found on thatAugust night, with the and to render what is due to the men of for allegiance to the flag was the republic cooling Boston sea breeze coming softly patriotic vision of the 'nineties, who inau­ for which it stands. through the window. gurated the vital movement that gave me Now how should the vista be widened I opened the door and shouted for the incidental chance to write what has soas totouchthe national fundamentals? Upham. As that inspiring old patriot turned out to be a thing of value to the I laid down my pencil and tried to pass came in his eyes were sparkling, and he national attitude towards the flag. our history in review. It took in the asked: sayings of Washington, the arguments of "Have you got it?" I read him the Hamilton, the Webster-Hayn~ debate, twenty-three words. the Civil War. After many attempts the "Read it again," he said. whole of that pictured struggle reduced I read it several times. Then, I remem­ itself to three words: "one nation indivisi­ ber, he took the paper, snapped his heels ble." To reach that compact brevity, together, and said: 25 The Rochester Plan New Means of Education for Health 'Careers The University has received a grant of In announcing the grant, Dr. Carleton we hope will become a model for pre­ $2,058,000 from The Commonwealth B. Chapman, presidentofthe Fund, said: professional and professional education Fund to initiate a "Rochester Plan" of "By means of substantial awards to a in the health sciences, and, eventually, in education for the health professions, relatively small number of very carefully other fields as well." including medicine. The grant is one of chosen universities, the Fund hopes to Some of the health careers, in addition the largest ever awarded by The Com­ accelerate the breaking down of barriers to medicine, for which participants in the monwealth Fund. that have grown up between the basic Rochester Plan will be prepared are bio­ The Rochester Plan provides for: sciences in the medical schools and the medical engineering, genetics and genet­ • closer integration of premedical natural and behavioral sciences else­ ics counseling, public health, medical and medical education; where in the parent institution. We have computing, biomedical mathematics, • preparation for a variety of careers concluded that the UR, whose medical medical administration, nursing, medical in the health professions besides school has had a profound influence on economics, and specialties in the basic medicine; medical education and whose various medical sciences and their applications. • individualized programs, crossing colleges are more closely integrated than More than 100 faculty members from departmental and college lines, that at many other leading institutions, is a all parts ofthe University, particularly the involve greatly expanded faculty ad­ most favorable setting for educational College of Arts and Science and the vising. reform in medicine and the health profes­ School of Medicine and Dentistry, al­ Under the Rochester Plan, the M.D. sions." ready have been involved in developing degree will require eight years of study, UR President Sproull commented: the Rochester Plan over the past year. as now. But instead of two four-year "The generous and timely support ofThe Their enthusiastic support makes the units, one in college and one in medical Commonwealth Fund will enable the success of the Plan likely, University and school, the program will have three units, University to initiate a flexible program of Commonwealth Fund officials believe. of two, four, and two years. undergraduate and graduate studies de­ Effective use of the Plan, said Dr. J.L. The first two years will be general signed to prepare broadly educated Orbison, dean of the School of Medicine education, during which students will be health professionals." and Dentistry, should enable the Univer­ counseled about health careers and the Noting the "widely recognized need for sity "to prepare more broadly educated ways in which they may be pursued. The a fresh approach to premedical and and more knowledgeable physicians, as next four years will concentrate on the medical education," Sproull said that the well as substantial numbers of students biomedical sciences, but include study in greatly increased number of students who are well equipped for other impor­ behavioral and social sciences and the seeking medical careers "has produced a tant health professions." Dr. Orbison is humanities. The last two years will be in nationwide imbalance in many students' one of four UR administrators involved in clinical medicine. Thus, the majorchange educational goals. Not surprisingly, the Plan. The others are Kenneth E. occurs in the middle four years, which much student interest and enthusiasm Clark, dean of the College of Arts and will integrate work that now is divided for learning has been lost in the grim Science; Miriam Rock, associate dean of between the medical school and the struggle for acceptance at medical Arts and Science; and Dr. Sanford College of Arts and Science. school. Meyerowitz, associate dean for medical All UR students interested in the "At the same time, some faculty mem­ education of the medical school. health ·sciences will benefit from the bers realize that the pattern of courses Rochester Plan, University officials said. taken by most premedical students does A major aim is the working A special feature will be an experimental not necessarily prepare today's students together of ... various "early decision" program leading to the well for careers in medicine or other academic units. M.D. degree, in which 16 sophomores health professions, that many able stu­ will be granted admission to the Univer­ dents who are not accepted by medical A major aim of the Rochester Plan, Dr. sity's School of Medicine and Dentistry. schools are ill-prepared for alternative Orbison said, is "to facilitate the working Each student, under the guidance of a careers, and that, unfortunately, many of together of the various academic units faculty advisor, will design an in­ the latter group settle for careers far and their using each other to advance dividualized program covering four years below their capabilities. their own teaching programs. We believe of integrated premedical and preclinical "This is a nationwide problem," this can be done while retaining the education followed by two years of Sproull saId, "for which the solution must traditional strength of the individual de­ clinical study. If this early admission begin on a scale that is manageable in size partment." experiment is successful, it may even­ and in academic content. With the sup­ tually influence the standard pattern of port of The Commonwealth Fund, medical education. UR proposes to use the resources of every academic unit in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of what 26 According to UR Chancellor Wallis, the Rochester Plan "has important impli­ cations for education, not only for the health professions but for professional education in general. Many students come to college already expecting- to receive more than four years of educa­ tion. Educators would do well to make the total time more effective by integrat­ ing undergraduate and graduate profes­ sional education much better than they now do." Wallis pointed out that the Rochester Plan, by integrating the middle four years ofmedical education, "will avoid both the duplications and the omissions now oc­ curring in those four years, and thus will enable students to get a better education at no greater cost to them in time, effort, or money."

'Students can get a better education at no greater cost in time, effort, or money.'

Both Commonwealth and University officials emphasized that implementation of the Rochester Plan, scheduled to begin this spring, will be accompanied by rigor­ ous evaluation, both by the University and by independent health professionals and scholars, of the new courses and course sequences, faculty advising pro­ grams, and other innovations developed under the Plan. Policy direction of the Rochester Plan will be carried out by the president of the University, who will be advised on priorities by the deans of the College of Arts and Science and the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University's two largest schools. The two deans, their associate deans, and the chairman of the Faculty Steering Council will serve as an executive committee for the Plan. Gail S. Young, professor of mathematics, will head the Faculty SteeringCouncil. Other participating units will be the College of Education, the College of Engineering The Plan will provide more flexible during the first four years of college or and Applied Science, the Graduate timing of undergraduate and graduate why a course in anatomy can be taken School of Management, and the School courses, Dean Clark noted. "We want to only during the first year of medical of Nursing. expose students to course work when school. The time should vary according they are most likely to benefit from it to the individual need. Under the rather than in a predetermined se­ Rochester Plan all components of the quence," he explained. "For example, University will become available to all there is no reason why a course in students as they plan academic Shakespeare or Chaucer must be taken programs." 27 lIewl lilell Sage Hall Converted To Art Center The University's Sage Hall, originally a dining hall and later a recreational area, has become the studio arts branch of the University's Department of Fine Arts and has been renamed Sage Art Center. The new name has been approved by the Sing a Song of Nostalgia UR board of trustees. Sage Art Center provides increased space and more appropriate facilities for At Glee Club's Centennial sculpture, photography, painting, and Attention, all former members of the Alumni Theatre Party with the special drawing, which have been housed in Men's Glee Club! There are more than 100th Anniversary Concert in the East­ smaller quarters in Fauver Stadium. The 1,000 of you scattered to the four winds. man Theatre. Following a very relaxing Center will also have a small art gallery. Can any of you bear to miss a chance to champagne reception, the alums will Some 254 students take studio arts hear how your group managed to shock hear the present members of the Men's courses out of a total enrollment of BOO in ladies of Keuka College back in '35? Glee Club entertain in the Bicentennial the University's fine arts program. De­ All will be revealed at the gala l00th spirit, performing the concert they took partment headquarters are in Morey Anniversary Reunion this spring, Apr. 9 to five cities during their five-day Spring Hall. and 10, at UR's River Campus. During Tour in March. Included in this program "Since Sage was built, student dining the two-day celebration, former choral will be a specially commissioned piece by patterns have changed," Donald K. directors, singers, and their spouses and Kirke Mechem, "The Spirit of 76"; Hess, vice president for campus affairs, guests will have ample opportunity for "Songs of Our Politics," a medley of explained. "When students showed an revelry, both in song and story. political campaign songs arranged by increased interest in preparing their own Friday evening's program features en­ Glee Club director Roger Wilhelm; and meals, the University responded by pro­ tertainment, nostalgia, and guest speak­ selections by the Yellowjackets. viding more cooking facilities, where ers (including Richard Leighton Greene, The combined chorus will cap the possible, in residence halls. With less narrator for many past concerts) ata gala evening concert for all alumni, both sing­ need for a dining service in Sage, stu­ Reunion Banquet for members and ers and listeners. After all, who could dents asked that the facility be converted guests in the new Wilson Commons. bear to miss the revival of such great okl to recreational use. This experiment met Not too bright and early Saturday standards as "My Lady Nicotine''? with limited success, and several months morning, all former singers may rehearse Watch for your speciallOOth Anniver­ ago, when it was decided to 'mothball' a special Reunion program of old favor­ sary mailing in early March. Ifyou haven't Fauver Stadium as an economy and ites and school songs with those 55 UR been receiving any Glee Club mailings, energy saving measure, the University youngsters, the present members of the contact John Braund in the Alumni Of­ saw an opportunity to give greater sup­ Men's Glee Club. On hand to conduct fice (716-275-3682). And, right now, save port to the work and needs of the Fine will be at least four former directors­ Apr. 9 and 10 for the Glee Club event of Arts department." Ted Fitch '26-'36, Ted Hollenbach '47-'49, your lives. Hess said he expected that recrea­ Giles Hoben '53-'55, and Ward Wood­ tional facilities in the new Wilson Com­ bury '55-'64 (who will be coming all the mons, which will open shortly, will meet way from Europe). A second, dress re­ student needs better than those formerly hearsal in the afternoon should banish all in Sage Hall. fears of vocal rustiness. Saturday evening will be a doubly exciting occasion, combining the annual 28 Mellon Faculty ~Open House' Fellows Named TV Series Three UR faculty members have been named the first Mellon Faculty Fellows in In 7th Year a new program for outstanding young scholars in the humanities supported by The University's seventh season of the a $650,000 grant from the Andrew W. "University Open House" television ser­ Mellon Foundation. ies on Rochester's WOKR- TV began Chosen to receive fully supported one­ with UR Chancellor W. Allen Wallis semester leaves to complete current discussing «Our Over-Governed So­ research are William S. Green, assistant ciety." professor of religious studies; Juliet Produced and moderated by Don W. McGrath, assistant professor of English; Lyon, UR senior public affairs officer, the and David A. Walsh, assistant professor program is being shown every other of fine arts. Sunday at 1:30 p.m. through April 25, When the Mellon grant was an­ alternating with ABC's "Issues and An­ nounced recently, UR Chancellor W. swers." Upcoming programs are as Richard Kaeuper Allen Wallis said the purpose was to follows: provide continuing career development March 14: Dr. Raymond Gramiak, for highly promising young scholars in Kaeuper New Head professor of radiology, Dr. Charles Hoh­ the humanities. About $150,000 will be ler, assistant professor of obstetrics and used during the next three years, he said, Of History Dept. gynecology, Robert Waag, associate pro­ and $500,000 will be set up as an endow­ Richard W. Kaeuper, associate pro­ fessor of electrical engineering, and Ed­ ment to sustain the fellowship program fessor of history at the University, has win Carstensen, professor of electrical on a continuing basis. been named chairman of the history engineering, will join in a discussion Mellon Faculty Fellows, he said, would department. about ultrasound, a new, painless, and be young faculty members who have Prof. Kaeuper, a specialist in 13th and non-invasive technique for diagnosing shown "exceptional scholarly ability and 14th century English history, succeeds abnormalities of the heart, eye, and liver excellence in teaching and whose current Prof. Eugene D. Genovese, head of the and for detecting foetal abnormalities. research is at a point where, with a department since 1969. Genovese an­ The program is entitled "Ultrasound: semester's leave, it could be completed." nounced his intention to relinquish the Echo Pictures." The humanities program at the Univer­ chairmanship in November of last year. March 28: John Mueller, professor of sity also calls for the appointment of six He has been named to a one-year visiting political science, will speak on"Changing Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellows, two for professorship as holder of the prestigious Public Opinion" as he examines the pub­ each Mellon Faculty Fellow on leave. Pitt Chair of American History and Insti­ lic's change of attitudes concerning the tutions at Cambridge University for 1976­ presidency, Congress, and government 77 while on leave. in general over the past decade. Billeter Joins In announcing the appointment, Ken­ April 11: Bernard Weiss, professor of neth E. Clark, dean of the College ofArts radiation biology and biophysics, will Development Staff and Science, said, "Prof. Kaeuper has discuss food additives and other sub­ demonstrated both scholarly abilities and stances we eat and breathe in a program John L. Billeter, executive officer and a great interest in the needs of students, entitled "Eat, drink, and be --!" associate professor of naval science, has undergraduate and graduate. In addition, April 25: Thomas Clarkson, director of been appointed assistant director of de­ he managed the University's Medieval the University's Environmental Health velopment for foundations at the Univer­ House most effectively in 1971-72 and Sciences Center, in a program called sity. was a founder of the annual spring con­ His appointment was effective Jan. 1, "Let's Anticipate Our Disasters," will ference for medieval scholars held on the speak on massive poisoning by mercury, 1976, the date of his retirement from the River Campus. I believe he will be an lead, and other souces, and how these U.S. Navy as a commander. excellent chairman of the Department of tragedies might be prevented. Roger D. Lathan, director of Univer­ History." sity development, said Billeter will act as liaison with the faculty in coordinating foundation support for University pro­ grams.

29 ~Frontiers of Medicine' Talks At Medical Center in April

The climactic event of the Medical There will be 12 speakers, including Center's 50th Anniversary observance Alexander Comfort, M.B., D.Ch.,Ph.D., will be a two-day symposium, Apr. 1 and author and senior fellow at the Centerfor 2, focusing on the "Frontiers of the Study of Democratic Institutions; Medicine." Arthur Kornberg, M.D. ('41M), Nobel In four plenary sessions, distinguished Laureate and professor of biochemistry invited participants will consider the ba­ at Stanford University; Mary 8lenAvery, sic scientific, clinical, and sociologic M.D., Rotch Professor and chairman of aspects of "Tomorrow's Children," pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; "Human Sexuality," "The Molecular Irwin H. Lepow, M.D., professor and Biology of Disease-the Inflammatory head of medicine, University of Connec­ Response," and the "The Seventh Ag?- of ticut School of Medicine; and William Man." Ferguson Anderson, M.B., M.D., professor of geriatric medicine, Univer­ sity of Glasgow, Scotland. Jacob Bigeleisen Med School Class The morning sessions, "Tomorrow's Children" on Apr. 1 and "The Molec~lar Bigeleisen to Chair Produces Yearbook Biology of Disease" on Apr. 2, will begin at 9 a.m. The afternoon sessions, "Hu­ Sciences Assembly For Everyone man Sexuality" on Apr. 1 and "The The School of Medicine and Dentis­ Seventh Age ofMan" on Apr. 2, will begin Jacob Bigeleisen, Tracy H. Harris Pro­ try's Class of '76 now is in the process of at 1:15 p.m. All sessions of the "Frontiers fessor of Mathematics and Natural producing a yearbook that's more than of Medicine" Symposium will be held in Philosophy at the UR, has been ap­ just a yearbook. Whipple Auditorium in the Medical Cen­ pointed to the executive committee of After about five years without any ter. the National Research Council's medical school yearbook, explains Steve Everyone is invited to attend, and no Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Kull, co-business manager (with Jerry reservations or admission charges will be Sciences. He will become chairman of Weiss) of this publishing venture, the required. Closed circuit T.V. will be used the Assembly in May. class decided to use their own resources to accommodate overflow audiences in The National Research Council, the to bring out a book that every member of adjacent rooms. operating arm of the National Academy the University community can enjoy. of Sciences, advises the federal govern­ The result, to be published inMay, will ment on all matters of science and tech­ be a 2GB-page book, but only about half Leonard Goldman nology. The Council's activities are di­ will be devoted to the 100 graduates of vided among four assemblies and four this year's class. The rest will include a Joins UR Faculty commissions. lO-page spread focusing on the history of In 1974, Bigeleisen was appointed" the Medical Center in honor of its 50th Leonard Goldman '52, senior visiting chairman of another Assembly commit­ Anniversary year, 30 pages of photos scientist at UR's Laboratory for Laser tee, whose purpose is to plan a National showing faculty members at work, and 12 Energetics on assignment from the Gen­ Resource in Computational Chemistry. two-page pictorial essays centered eral Electric Research and Development He headed the National Academy of on single aspects of "The Rochester Center in Schenectady, has been ap­ Sciences ChemistrySection from 1971 to 1974 and has served on the Academy's Experience," such as the patient, hous­ pointed professor of mechanical and bylaws committee since 1969. ing, and leisure activities. aerospace sciences at the University. A physicist at G.E. since 1956, he was Bigeleisen joined the UR faculty as Because the 1976 Yearbook does not assigned to the University's Laboratory professor of chemistry in 1968. He was contain as much advertising as is usually for Laser Energetics in 1972, the year chairman of the Department of Chemis­ included, $20 must be charged for each General Electric Co. joined the Univer­ try from 1970 to 1975. During his tenure, copy in order to cover printing costs. sity and other sponsors in a multimillion the department's graduate program was To reserve your copy send a note and dollar research program to develop laser rated by the American Council of Educa­ check made to"Class of 1976 Yearbook" fusion as a future energy source. That tion as one of the strongest in the nation. to Steve Kull, Box 145, or Jerry Weiss, program is one of four research projects Box 195, UR Medical Center. being conducted by the UR's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. 30 George Ford Heads Dickens Fellowship

George H. Ford, Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English, is the first Ameri can to be elected president of the Dickens Fellowship, an international society founded in London in 1902. Ford is a world-renowned authority on Charles Dickens. The Fellowship includes several thou­ sand Dickens scholars and enthusiastsin the United Kingdom, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, The Netherlands, J a­ pan, New Zealand, South America, and the United States. Previous presidents have included authors G.K. Chesterton, Compton Mackenzie, and Angus Wilson, and descendants of the famous author; all previous presidents have been natives of England or Scotland. Ford was elected one of 15 vice presi­ dents of the Fellowship in 1972 and Jack Her/an (12) maneuvers against Holy Cross. served as president of the organization's sister society, the Dickens Society of America, in 1974. He was one of the main 'Riverboat Gambler' Herlan speakers at a Symposium on Dickens Criticism held at the Fellowship's Boston Conference in 1962. Just Keeps Drawing Aces Ford traveled to England for the Fel­ Jack Herlan may be the only player in Yello\'vjackets. He was the team's leading lowship's Feb. 7 Birthday Dinner, of the country to have won three college scorer last season and is again on top this which he was chairman. In June he will basketball games with last-second shots, year with a 20.4 average through eight also be the speaker at a special Dickens and he's only beginning his junior year. games, six of them against major college conference in Philadelphia. Early this season, Herlan played the opponents. hero role in Rochester's 86-85 upset of Barring injury, there's little doubt he'll Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pa. become UR's all-time leading scorer. With three seconds left in the game and He's certainly the leader in making last­ UR trailing by a point, Jack took the second shots. inbounds pass, dribbled to the top of the circle, and let fly with his buzzer bomb. It swished cleanly through the cords as the clock ran out and gave the Yellowjackets what coach Lyle Brown called "his greatest win ever at Rochester." This was nothing new for Herlan. Twice last year he performed his magic LACROSSE for the Palestra fans. His shot from deep Wednesday, March 31 in the corner as time expired sent the 3 p.m. Hobart game into overtime, and an eventual UR win. Herlan shot down the UR Cadets of Army, too, as his last second vs jumper gave the 'Jackets a one-point win. HOBART Athlete of Year "He's our 'Riverboat Gambler,'" says Brown. "During the timeout at Bucknell, (NCAA Division III Ralph Gebhardt, UR's Little All-America football player, was honored as "Local Athlete ofthe Year" I told the team that Jack's going to take runner-up 1974 & 1975) at the Gannett Rochester/Press Radio Club Sports the last shot no matter what." Charity Dinner in February. A 6'2" guard from Kenmore, N.Y., Fauver Stadi urn Herlan, as a junior, is captain of the 31 Thomas F. George Wins Dreyfus Grant Thomas F. George, UR associate pro­ fessor of chemistry, is one of only 15 faculty members in the country to win a coveted Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Grant for 1975. The grant provides $35,000 of unrestricted support over a five-year pe­ riod. The annual grants, which are adminis­ tered by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., of New York City, are awarded to promising young scientists "who possess aptitude for teaching together, with creative ability as scholars." In nominating George for the Dreyfus grant, Prof. Jack Kampmeier, chairman Cleveland Quartet, from left: Donald Wei/erstein, Paul Katz, Martha Strongin Katz, Peter Soloff of UR's Department of Chemistry, cited his "drive for clarity and simplicity Cleveland Quartet Appointed that sparks his successes in the class­ room and in the laboratory. He is thor­ oughly infected with science and this To Eastman School Faculty infection is highly contagious." George proposes to use the grant "to The Cleveland Quartet, internationally the distinguished musicians of the explore new programs in teaching and acclaimed as one of the great string Cleveland Quartet to the faculty of the research which can enable students to quartets of our time, will join the faculty Eastman School of Music," Freeman seek and develop the simplest solutions of the Eastman School of Music in the fall stated. "It can be safely assertedthat this to various problems concerning physical of the 1976-77 academic year. Quartet is one of the two or three most phenomena." The four artists - violinists Donald highly regarded string quartets that George's research contributions are Weilerstein and Peter Salaff, violist America has ever produced. primarily in the area of atomic and molec­ Martha Strongin Katz, and cellist Paul "The addition of the Cleveland ular collision theory. He was one of only Katz - will have appointments as Quartet will further strengthen our out­ six invited American participants in a associate professors. standing string faculty, for they are ex­ workshop on this topic held last summer The Quartet's appointment was an­ cellent and dedicated teachers. I am at the European Center for Atomic and nounced by Robert Freeman, director of especially proud that the appointment Molecular Computation in France. the Eastman School. Freeman also an­ will bring an Eastman graduate, violinist nounced the establishmen~ of a competi­ Peter Salaff, back to Rochester. tion to select a quartet of graduate string "The establishment of an assistantship Dr. Lichtman Named students who will study with the program for a graduate string quartet to Cleveland Quartet and assist them in study with and assist the Cleveland Chief of Hematology their work at the Eastman School. Quartet, we feel, is one of the most Dr. Marshall A. Lichtman, professorof A competition will be held in Rochester exciting opportunities ever offered to medicine and of radiation biology and this spring to select the ESM graduate young chamber musicians," Freeman biophysics, has been named chief of the string quartet. The graduate quartet, said. Hematology Unit of the University's De­ each member of which will be registered partment of Medicine. in one of the School's graduate programs Dr. Lichtman succeeds Dr. Robert I. for 1976-77, will be coached by members Weed, professor of medicine and of radi­ of the Cleveland Quartet. In addition to ation biology and biophysics, who has the remission of full tuition for the year, been chief of the Unit since 1967. Interna­ each member of the selected quartet will ' tionally recognized for his accomplish­ receive an annual stipend of $2,000. Infor­ ments in blood research and in training, mation concerning the competition is Dr. Weed will continue as director of the available from Jon Engberg, ESM assis­ Center for the Study of Blood Cell Rheol­ tant director for academic affairs. ogy, a newly developed interdisciplinary "It is with great pleasure and anticipa­ program in the Medical Center. tion that I announce the appointment of 32 MARCH APRIL 4, in Philadelphia - Alumni meeting with 9, 10, in Rochester - Men's Glee Club . student and faculty speakers and UR Alumni Weekend, lOOth Anniversary staff representative Clifton Largess '72G. celebration. 5, in Wilmington, Del.-Alumni meeting 10, in Rochester-Alumni Theatre Party with faculty and student guests; Ivar at the Eastman Theatre featuring the Lundgaard '41, host. Men's Glee Club. 5, in Erie, Pa. - UR Men's Glee Club 18, in New York City - Eastman School concert at Mercyhurst College as part of concert at Alice Tully Hall featuring vio­ its 100th Anniversary celebration. list Francis Tursi and pianist Barry Sny­ 6, in Cleveland - UR Men's Glee Club der. concert at Ursuline College. 21, in Rochester - Alumni Luncheon 7, in Pittsburgh - UR Men's Glee Club Series at Faculty Club featuring Eliza­ Charles Watts concert at Chatham College. beth Fox-Genovese, assistant professor 8, in Buffalo - UR Men's Glee Club of liberal arts and history. Math Department concert at Amherst Central High School. 25, in New York City - EastmanSchool 10, in Providence - Alumni meeting with Concert at Alice T ul~y Hall featuring Gets New Chairman visiting faculty and UR staff representa­ organist David Craighead. tive Clifton Largess '72G. Charles E. Watts, professor of mathe­ matics, has been appointed chairman of 13, in Boston - Alumni dinner and MAY dessert meeting with President Sproull the Department of Mathematics. He 6, in Rochester - Alumni Headliners' and visiting faculty. succeeds Gail S. Young, professor of Dinner at Danforth Hall. 18, in Rochester - Dandelion Dinner mathematics, who will devote much of 6, 7, in Rochester - Trustees' Council Series at Helen Wood Hall featuring his time to the University's new "Roches­ meeting. Rayburn Wright, professor of jazz stud­ ter Plan" of education for the health pro­ 7, in Rochester - Board of Trustees ies and contemporary media at the East­ fessions. meeting. man School. Watts, who joined the UR faculty as an 7, 8, in Rochester - River Campus, 21, in New York City- Eastman School assistant professor in 1961, is a specialist Nursing, Medical, and Eastman Alumni concert at Alice Tully Hall featuring pian­ in algebraic topology and homological Councils meetings. ist David Burge. algebra. He was promoted to associate 9, in Rochester - Commencement. 22, in Rochester - Alumni Luncheon professor in 1965, and to full professor in 15, in Rochester - Maytime Gala ­ Series at Faculty Club. Topic of discus­ 1970. Finger Lakes Wine Tour. sion will be the Rochester Philharmonic. 31, in Los Angeles - Alumni dinner and JUNE Travel Corner dessert meeting with Prof. Moshe Lubin, director of the Laser Energetics Lab. 26-July 4, on the Mississippi River ­ Looking for something exciting in University/Alumni New Orleans River vacation fare this summer? Cruise. How about a week's cruise on the lower Mississippi aboard a traditional NOTICE SEPTEMBER steamboat, with stops at Baton Rouge, 23-0ct. 1, in Munich - Alumni tour St. Francisville, Natchez, Vicksburg, and In compliance with the federal leaving from and returning to New York a weekend in New Orleans? Regulation implementing Title IXofthe Educational Amendments of 1972, the City. It's scheduled from June 26 to July 4, Uniuersity of Rochester makes the with round trip air transportation to and 28-0ct. 6, in Munich - Alumni tour following notification: leaving from and returning to Rochester. from Rochester. Rates for the tour range University of Rochester policies on from $799 to $911, depending upon ac­ student admission and financial aid, on employment, and on treatment of OCTOBER commodations aboard ship, with a $175 students, faculty, and staff foUow credit without airfare from Rochester. federal and state regulations against 22,23 in Rochester - Reunion Home­ There's also a reduced fare for children discrimination. These policies provide coming for all schools. or other third passengers sharing a dou­ equal opportunity regardless of race, ble stateroom. creed, sex, and national origin. For more information, call Kjell Westin at the University, 716-275-2345. But do it quickly. Deadline is March 19. 33 Allllllnil_IIIS The Automatic Eighty-Eights

Trivia question: What musical instrument, more than any other, defines America at the turn of the century? Answer: the player piano, better known to some of you as a Pianola. Another trivia question: who is responsible for this bizarre contraption that graced many a Victorian parlor, that composers wrote pieces especially for, that you constantly hear on the soundtrack of "The Untouchables" reruns? Answer: Merritt Gaily, member of the class of 1863 and a prolific inventor. Gaily, who was born in Perry, N.Y. in 1838 and raised in nearby Nunda, became a printer's apprentice at the ripe old age of 11, probably at the office of the Nunda Democrat, which was published for about a year around 1848-49. He took an Ann Arbor, Michigan: interest in the way the printing equipment of those days worked (no boring photo-offset back then) and within a short time he had made his own set of tools, which he used to earn money for his One Stroke at a Time education at Nunda Academy and later at the University. Charles Ciccarelli '61, who has a degree in art history from UR, Gaily was about 18 when he set out for Rochester to work his is drawing some historical art of his own. way through college. After graduation, he entered Auburn The illustration of 100 North Main 51. in Ann Arbor, Michigan Theological Seminary, but gave up preaching after about three (as it looked in 1893) is not an engraving, but a precision pen-and­ years because of a voice problem. He then went back to the ink drawing, copied from an old photograph. The drawing took printing trade and moved to Brooklyn, where he spent most of 241 hours to complete, and reflects the precise skills acquired the rest of his life in a rather amazing career as an inventor. during an II-year stint as a technical illustrator. According to the National Cyclopedia, GaIly held 50 complete "I always do a doubletake when I see an old picture," says patents covering more than 500 patent claims. He designed and Ciccarelli. "Architectural history has always intrigued me. I built the Universal Printing Press and evolved a multiplex tele­ wanted to preserve the historic precision, not just do a sketch graph system which could send messages in all directions simul­ or impression." taneously. His better-known contemporary, Thomas Edison, With every print he sells, Ciccarelli includes a page of historical was working on the same idea for a multiplex system, and when research. "It was not necessary for drawing the picture, but my Gaily suffered a protracted illness, the telegraph companies curiosity made me gather a lot of information, not from secon­ adopted Edison's system. dary sources but directly from historical documents in the Gaily's health eventually improved, and he turned his attention microfilm collections at the University of Michigan and the public to automatic musical instruments around 1875. libraries." To use the descripton from the National Cyclopedia, Gaily's The Main 5t. drawing is the first in what Ciccarelli hopes will be famous invention consisted of "a rolling and re-rolling apparatus "an infinite series." As he says, "The job ahead is like a book that and a set of pneumatic appliances acted upon by a succession of hasn't been read yet. I love doing it and I'll push it as far as it will small, graded perforations in a long, narrow sheet of paper which go." passed over a tubed tracker range." The perforations in the -Reprintedfrom theAnn ArborNews paper were said to control the pressure of air in a pneumatic apparatus which enabled the instrument not only to produce musical notes but also to render graduations of tone. Gaily's automatic piano was called the Orchestrone, and his patents were purchased by the Aeolian company for the manu­ facture of the Pianola, as well as the Aeolian organ.

-Special thanks to the Nunda News editor, Mrs. Genevieve Sanders, to Mrs. Marjorie Frost, Nunda Town Historian, and to Henry Page of Perry, N. Y.

34 The Doctor has Gold Fever For Dr. David F. Cook '61 and '65M the lure of gold and silver mining was so strong he gave up his medical practice. Now vice president and secretary-treasurer of Northland Mining Corp., Cook got his first taste of prospecting while practicing medicine in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. There he met mining man David Beck, who took him prospecting on week­ ends. Cook was so fascinated that he gave up his medical practice of five years to devote full time to mineral exploration. He and Beck organized Northland in 1973 to explore and develop a Montana gold property and an Alaskan silver prospect. The Montana property covers 600 acres in the Tobacco Root mountains in Madison County. Itincludes the patented B&H and Pete and Joe groups of claims staked before the turn of the century. The Alaskan silver prospect consists of nine patented claims in the Matanuska-Susitna district, 175 miles north of Anchorage. Limited work has disclosed seven veins and assays have run up to 43 ounces per ton. Paris-Brest-Paris -From the Spokane, Wash. Daily Chronicle On Five Lbs. a Day Over 700 bicyclists pedaled past the Paris starting gate one morning last fall to mark the eighth running of France's Paris­ Brest-Paris Classic. Before the 90-hour limit was up, three bicyclists were dead, scores were injured, and hundreds had abandoned their dreams of completing the longest amateur bicycle race in the world. Among the finishers were Dr. Herman Falsetti '57 and '60M, professor of internal medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catherization Lab at the University of Iowa, and his teammate, Dr. Craig Hoyt. They were the first Americans ever to complete the race. "We had French bicycling clubs betting that an American would never finish," says Dr. Falsetti, who completed the 750­ mile course in 74 hours. Considering the rain and wind that lashed the cyclists through much of the trip, it may have seemed a safe bet for any of the riders. However, skill, endurance, and a little bit of luck held for the Falsetti team as they rolled over mountainous terrain at an average speed of 15 m.p.h. "We were losing a quart of water and burning a thousand calories every hour," says Dr. Falsetti. "I lost 15 pounds in three days." The team slept only twice during the journey, once in Brest after 27 hours of cycling, and once on the return trip. (The winner of the race cycled non-stop in a record elapsed time of 43 hours, 21 minutes.) The Classic, first held in 1891 in an effort to prove the bicycle to be a practicable means of long-distance transportation, is held every five years. No prizes are awarded, because only amateurs Power Out of Thin Air may compete. The French made an exception for the successful The man in the photo is Carl Jeerings '22 and the thing behind Americans, presenting them with a trophy and flowers upon him is a windmill-electricity generator which he designed andbuilt completion of the race. from junkyard parts. It generates enough electricity to keep a With this first success behind him, Dr. Falsetti said he would light bulb lit, and he says it would produce quite a bit more power make some tactical changes, in the future. "We'd make some if there were a prevailing wind (not present on his farm in changes in our bicycles and medical support. We were losing Macedon, N.Y.). Jeerings has been a Town of Macedon Justice strength at the end. And, we'd reserve a room in Brest." The for 17 years and was director of the Agricultural and Rural French cyclists had reserved all hotel rooms in the city, forcing Development division of Rochester Gas and Electric. the Falsetti team to sleep on the ground. The next raceis in 1980. From the Palmyra, N. Y. Courier-Journal Stay tuned. 35 Irillill

(A numberofpeople responded to last issue's Meet the '52-'53 Glee Club "Identity Crisis"feature, but only Jim Roth ­ letter below - got 'em all. - Ed.)

Your Identity Crisis picture is a group from the Men's Glee Club of 1952·53. Reaclingfrom left to right: Bob DeSmith, Bruce Holland, Frank Eleder, Paul W. Allen, Al Jansson, Bill Columbe, Gene Lilly, Bob Warren, and Ed Schulz. The guy at the piano is me. Obviously it's supposed to look like an informal shot, but the formal dress and the fact that most of those in the picture were officers of the club that year leads me to believe it was a publicity shot. The club was pretty good then, even if the picture does look as though our conductor (Paul W. Allen - to distinguish him from other Paul AlIens) had to point out the notes for us. I still have the tux hanging in the attic. If Icome to the reunion in April shall Iwear it? - James L. Roth '54, Newton Centre, Mass.

(Sure. Anyone who can stillfit into a tuxedo he wore 24 years ago should be proudto wear it again. - Ed.) .. . And What is This All About?

For next issue, won't someone please tell us who these folks are and what this was? We can't s~ay up late enough to watch "Happy Days" on TV.

36 1957 John B. Maier was on the facu Ity at a seminar on U.S. Patent Law and Practice held by the Institute for International Learning in Monte Carlo, Monaco in October... Kinley J. Brauer is now a Dllliliel professor of American History at the Un iversity of Minnesota.

1947 John H. Knapp has been promoted to 1959 John J. Renaldo has been named aca· I wer la.p•• account qgent by the Allstate Insurance Co. of demic dean at Edgecliff College, Cincinnati... Sarah Rochester. .. Thomas N. Bonner ('49G) has been Curtice Greenfield has received a Ph.D. degree I Ilele. elected to the board of directors of Schenectady in education from Arizona State University ...Dr. E. (N.Y.) Trust Co ....Rev. Leroy Moser has been David Appelbaum has been appointed chairman 1910 Isidor Schifrin has retired from the Behr appointed interim minister of the First Church of of the .Jewish Identity Committee of the .Jewish Northampton, Mass. and Schifrin Agency, one of the first advertising and Community Federation in Rochester...Alfred public relations agencies in the U.S. (Sch ifrin and Finck (G) has been named professor of psychology 1948 Jean Hunter Tomat and Carmel Krutzky Julian Behr opened their business in 1912). at Temple University, Philadelphia. have written Learning Through Music for Special 1925 Three hundred patients and friends were on Children and their Teachers, a text for teachers of 1960 George Fenby has joined the English hand for adinner held in honor of Dr. Maurice N. handicapped children, published by Merriam-Eddy, dept. at Cobleskill (N.Y.) State College... Richard D. O'Connor, town physician of Springville, N.Y. for S. Waterford, Maine. Zakia ('lOG) has written Perception and Photogra­ over 40 years. phy, published by Prentice-Hall. 1949 Galway Kinnell (G) was a visiting 1926 Robert M. Gordon ('27G) has written an professor at Skidmore College during the fall 1961 Dr. Eugene Carroccia has been ap­ historical/science fiction novel called Yorick, semester... Delores Zackheim has been ap­ pointed to the courtesy staff at Newcomb Hospital in published by Carlton Press, N. Y.C. pointed director of the Methodist Play School, New New Jersey, and has opened an office for the Paltz, N.Y. practice of plastic surgery in Vineland, N.J. ... Es­ 1932 Charlotte Carson celebrated her 90th tella Loomis Lauter ('66G) was a featured birthday with an open house in her honor; she 1950 John Fahy ('54G) has retired as district speaker at a symposium on "The New Female taught elementary school in Canandaigua, N.Y. for principal of Phelps-Clifton Springs, N.Y. schools. Sensibility in Poetry" held at Beloit College, Wis. nearly half a century. ...Rodger W. Griffin (G) has joined the science 1951 Richard W. Appel has joined Bristol and engineering college at the Un iversity ofTexas at 1936 Richard Henderson has retired from his Venture Development Corp. (Seneca Point, N.Y.) as Odessa as professor and cha irman of the chemistry professorship at Emory University, Atlanta. vice president-administration ...Oliver W. dept. ... C. William Brown (G) has accepted Beardmore has been appointed sales manager of membership as the alumni representative on the 1937 Leonard Mead (G&'39G) has been nomi­ the electrical division of Schenectady Chemicals, newly formed Wilson Commons Program Board. nated to the Maine Maritime Academy's board of Inc., N.Y....Richard C.J. Heveron has been trustees... A1ice Foley has been named educatorof named supervisor of the commercial division of the 1962 Rev. Kenneth H. Ofslager has been the year by the Rochester chapter of Ph i Delta commercial and industrial dept. at Rochester Gas installed as pastor of Holy Emmanuel Slovak Lu· Kappa, a professional educational society, for her and Electric. theran Church, Mahanoy City, Pa. and St. John's work as president of Nazareth College ...Joseph B. Lutheran Church, St. Clair, Pa ....USAF Maj. Louis Platt has been named president of Claremont 1952 John C. Petropoulos has been ap­ T. Montulli has received a Ph.D. degree in University Center in California; his appointment pointed director of international chemical tesearch engineering from UCLA and was recently awarded becomes effective next academic year. and development for Cyanamid Europe·Mideast· the meritorious service meda Ifor his research at the Africa and Latin America-Asia ... James E. Air Force Institute of Technology; he is now stationed 1939 Frederick L. Witt has been promoted to McGhee has been named adirector in the profes· with the Headquarters Air Force General Staff atthe staff vice president-human resources at th~ Scott sional and fin ish ing markets div ision at Eastman Pentagon ... Marriage: Dr. Kenneth R. Krauss and Paper Co., Philadelphia ...Walter G. Stugis has Kodak Co. Pamela Chiles Veague OR Oct. 4 in New Ipswich, N.H. been named manager, Distillation Products Indus·' tries, a division of Eastman Kodak. 1954 Thaddeus M. Bonus has been named 1963 Dr. Melvin Strauss has joined the faculty vice president for un iversity relations at Ind iana of the Penn State College of Medicine at Hershey as 1940 John F. Fox has been elected adirector of University...William E. Dooley sang in three assistant professor of surgery ...W. Beall Fowler and has received the Distinguished Service Award performances of "Elektra" with the New York Metro­ wrote the section on ionic crystals in the 15th edition from Robert Morris Associates, a national associa­ politan Opera during the fall season. of the Encyclopedia Britannica ...Charles C. Cor­ tion of bank loan and credit officers... Thomas C. coran has been appointed sales manager of Pryor has been named an executive vice president 1956 James F. Crum has been named superin­ Glaskyd Products Div. of American Cyanamid in of White, Weld & Co., an international investment tendent of operation maintenance in the blast Perrysburg, Ohio ...Ken Greenwald has joined the banking and securities firm. furnace and foundry division of U.S. Steel's South faculty at Corning (N.Y.) Community Colelge as an Works in Chicago... William Guiffre ('63G) has instructor in mathematics ...Christopher O'Hare 1943 O. Ross Adams will head an ofTice of the been appointed principal of Victor (N. Y.) senior high has received a Ph.D. degree in clincial psychology Mitchell Pierson rea I estate firm in Pittsford, N. Y. school. from UCLA and is lecturer and director in the ....Virginia A. Dwyer has been named assistant Community Counseling Center, Dept. of Psychology, treasurer of American Telephone and Telegraph, Californi~ State College at San Bernardino; he and earnings division ... Esther L. Miller has been his wife and son are living in Wrightwood, Calif. appointed director of the Herkimer (N.Y.) County Office for the Aging. 1964 Linda Hurd Ewing has been named to the Outstand ing Young Women of America ... Peter A. Gangloff has been named to the board of directors of Midtown Holdings Corp., Rochester ... Sylvia Chipp has developed acourse on Women in Politics at Northeastern Oklahoma State Universi­ ty... Vincent J. Knapp (G) has written Europe in

37 the Era of Social Transformation, published by 1968 R.A. Lytle (G) has been elected vice presi­ Higgins of Honolulu, Hawaii. .. Marriages: Peter Prentice-Hall; he is associate professor of history at dent of marketing for the machine tool division of Lawrence and Henna Heng-Heng Ong, on Oct. 12 SUNY Potsdam ...James L. Mourer has been Wickman Corp., Oak Park, Mich....Linda Hill in New York City ... Heidi Susan Montroll and appointed aud it supervisor in the comptroller's ('73GI has been appoi nted assista nt professor of Eugene J. Alpert, on Oct. 12 in the Interfaith division of finance and administration at Eastman mathematics at Bowdoin College, BrunswiCk, Chapel...Born: to Ronnee Press and Lawrence Kodak Co ....Arthur A. Melville (G) has been Maine... Kenneth H. Cowan has begun in­ W. Lipman ('691. ason, Matthew Adam, on July 10 named supervisor of the energy research and ternship/residency at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, in Parsippany, N.J. ...to Madelyn Ollendorf and utilization division at Rochester Gas and Electric Texas ... Frederick D. Lewis (Gl has been awarded Michael S. Davis ('69), ason, Gregory Arthur, on ...Marriages: Shannon M. Troy (G) and CarlO. an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Oct. 16. Peterson on Sept. 20 in Rochester... Dietlinde K.F. and was cited as one of ten outstanding teachers in Schneider and Walter D. Payne on Oct. 11 in the College of Arts & Science at Northwestern 1971 Lewis P. Singer has transferred to New Rochester. University ... Louis R. Morris has been promoted to Jersey College of Medicine as a third-year student director of planning and development for Springs ...John D. Cogar has received a doctor of 1965 Richard G. Young has been named an Mills, Inc., N.Y.C....Don H. Miller {G! now is veterinary medicine degree from Cornell... Leslie assistant vice president of Lincoln First Bank of studying air pollution engineering at Washington Finder has received an M.D. degree from New York Medical College and is train ing at the Ka iser Founda­ Rochester... Dr. John R. Whittaker has become a State University, Pullman ... Born: to Mary Lou and member of the Flagler Hospital med ical staff in St tion' Los Angele.s ... Charles H. McCormick has Charles H. Smith, ason, Christian Eugene Dylan, received an Ed.D. degree in psychology from Nor­ Augustine, Fla ....Philip J. Yurecka has been on June 26. named director of annual giving at the Un iversity of thern Illinois University... Arthur J. Giacalone Bridgeport, Conn .... Lawrence A. Babb has become astaff attorney with Southern Tier Legal 1969 Mary Lou Oster-Granite has been Services, Corning, N.Y....Dr. Walter Solomons (G&'69G) has written The Divine Hierarchy: Popular awarded a two-year individual postdoctoral re­ Hinduism in Central India, published by Columbia (G) has opened a practice of general optometry in search fellowship in developmental neurobiology New London, Conn ....USN Lt. (j.g.) David Ep­ University Press... Christopher C.H. Graber has from NI NDS for study at Johns Hopkins University joined Dictaphone Corp. of Rye, N.Y. as telephone stein now is assistant comptroller at the National School of Medicine, and with her husband David Parachute Test Range, EI Centro, Cal. ...Stephen answering product manager ... USAF Capt. Rich­ Granite ('68 & '72MI has had a son, Stephen ~pt. T. Lane has begun studies in the master of divinity ard C. Rankin has been decorated with the Jacob, born on Sept. 24. of Defense Joint Service Commendation Medal at program at Colgate Rochester Bexley Crazer in Albrook AFB, Canal Zone, Panama. 1969 Bruce Whittmaier (Gl took time out from Rochester... USN Lt. Cmdr. Robert C. Bartlett his work as assistant professor of psychology at (Gl is embarked on a lO-week deployment to Kirkland College (Clinton, N.Y.) to sing the role of northern Europe as executive officer of the frigate 1966 Russ Thomas has been named public Sparafucile, the hired assassin in Verdi's "Rigoletto" relations coordinator with the civic center staff of USS B>wen ... Sanford Hirschhorn has been as produced by the Greater Utica Opera Guild the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse, N.Y. and named instructor of mathematics at Marist College, ... Kenneth Muller (G) has been named marketing Onondaga County ... Richard Sorrell has received Poughkeepsie, N.Y.... Marriages: Carolyn E. vice president of the Cobaloy Co., Arlington, Texas Alden and Gene E. Carasick on (Xt. 25 in a Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo and presently ... Frank G. Beddick (G) has been appointed is an instructor in American Civilization at Brookdale Washington, D.C....Donald A. Gaudion, Jr. and president of Roblin Building Products Systems, Community College, Lincroft, N.J. ... David A! Glenview, III. ...F. Bizabeth Moody (G) has Dayle A. Kelsey on (xt. 4in Attsford, N. Y....Frank Hoffman has received a Ph.D. degree in child received a 1975 Outstanding Educators of America M. D'Antuono and Joann Accone on Sept. 28 in clinical psychology from' Ohio, State ...CeciIY A. award for her work atSUNY Oswego ... Paul Patrick Rochester... Nancy E. Ebbert and Adam Rochmes Drucker has become an associate attorney with Cleary (G&'71GI attended the 6th International in Kensington, Cal .... Born:to Amy Zimmerman the firm of Miller, Starr & Regalia in Oakland, Cal., Symposium on Streptococcal Diseases in Prague, and David Freese ('68), adaughter, Amanda Bess, specializing in real estate and real estate taxation Czechoslovakia, where he was invited to discuss his on Aug. 13 in Philadelphia. law... Edward Mendelson, associate professor of experiments concern ing the role' of viruses in English at Yale, is literary executor of the late poet streptococcal diseases... Born: to William and Edith 1972 Renee Galiulo has received an MAT. W.H. Auden... Dr. Eva Zahorian Wiesner has Martin Krause, adaughter, Caroline Eve, on June degree in English from the University of Vermont been appointed to the new Southern Oswego County 11 in Pittsford, N.Y. ... Regina M. Wright has been named district Health Center near Syracuse, N.Y....Dr. Harold librarian for the North Warren (N.Y.) Central School Sitrin now is working as a pediatrician at Ft 1970 Gail Greene Buckland and Cec il Beaton ... Marsha I. Altschuler has been appointed an Chaffee, Ark., where he is helping Vietnamese are co-authors of The Magic Image, a history of assistant in biology at Skidmore College ...Jeffrey refugees and orphans who are living on the base... photography published by Little, Brown and M. Ruben (G) has been named business manager Patrick A. Tuzzolo has been appointed manager Co....Richard L. Kellogg (G) has written "Psy_ of the Northwest Indiana Symphony ... Susan Clark of the N.Y. Telephone business office in Saratoga chological Set and the Improvement of Instruction ," Singer has returned from a teaching job at the Springs. an article which appeared in the fall issue of British School in Bologna, Italy to study at Columbia Community College Frontiers... Mario Silve­ University Teachers College ... Gary S. Walter has 1967 Donna J. Cunningham has joined the strone (G) has been named vice president for been elected to Phi Kappa Phi national honorary Chicago office of the Harshe-Rotman &Druck public marketing, corporate communications and purchas­ society; he has been ateach ing fellow and research relations firm as an account executive ... George V. ing of Rochester Gas and Electric ...Jerome S. assistant at the Conrad N. Hilton School of Hotel Frisk has received a Ph.D. degree in physics from Meyer ('75G) has been appointed assistant pro­ Administration of the University of Houston, Texas, Catholic University, now is a research physicist in fessor of psychology at SUC Geneseo... Karen E. from which he will graduate in May, 1976 ... Law underwater acoustics at the Naval Research Lab in Diamond has been named project coordinator of school grads: Robert M. Futterman, from Washington, D.C., and married Margaret Anne Liv­ the New Family Project at Skidmore College... Ron­ Brooklyn Law School. .. Terrence H. Murphyfrom ingstone on July 6, 1974. aId J. Karpf has received a Ph. D. degree in the University of Pittsburgh ... Michael Allen from pediatric psychology from Ohio State and now is on a Albany lijw School...Marriage: Patricia Hinchley Corrections, retractions: fellowship at the Devereux Foundation, Philadel­ and Leon B. Gordon, on June 28 in Saratoga Springs, Last issue, we reported the marriage of Michael phia ...G. Forest Landman now is studying at the N.Y. (Patricia is acquisitions librarian and asecond­ Sanow '67 incorrectly. He is married to Joan Tilson. Michigan State University College of Osteopathic year law student at Cleveland State University). Medicine... Christopher S. Dix has been ap­ pointed an administrative assistant for Johnson & 1973 Robert M. Kalet now is studying at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine."John R. McManus has been pro­ moted to an assistant secretary for the Chemical Bank of Rochester...Joseph P. Novek has entered the Illinois College of POdiatric Medicine in Chica­ go...Marriages: David E. Shields and Nancy L. 38 Ransom, on Oct. 4 in Rochester. .. Eric M. Geller 1947 Dorothy Pike Buckley appears in the (G) and Jean Kathryn Janke, on Oct. 25 in Sudbury, first edition of World Who's Who of Musicians. Mass....Bobbie Moskowitz and Ronald Bern­ stein ('72) on July 4, 1976 (while awaiting the 1949 Helen Sidler ('47) has been named exe­ Mellicine ilnd historic date, Bobbie is studying for an M.B.A. cutive director of the Albuquerque, N.M. Arts Coun­ degree, Ronald for a law degree, both at Case cil. Western Reserve University in Cleveland) ...Jeffrey lenli.IFI R. Masters and Mary Ann Neuwirth on Oct. 4 in 1950 Robert Glasgow ('51GE) gave an organ Webster, N.Y....Daniel E. McKatz (formerly recital, part of the Eastman School's Kilbou~n 1931 Dr. Raymond L. Warn ('28) was guest of Katz) and Joaneen L. McCown, on Sept. 9 in San Concerts series, atAsbury First Methodist Church In honor at an "evening of appreciation and gratitude" Diego ... Meryl Ruth Jordan and Charles Moore, Rochester in October. given by residents of Oakfield, N.Y., where he has on Nov. 22 in Malvern, Pa. served as the community's physician for 43 years 1951 Grant Fletcher (GE) recently conducted (and he hasn't retired yet. friends). 1974 Michele Domres took part in a summer the Arizona State University Symphony Band in one internship program at the U.S. Consulate in Hong of his own compositions, "A Rhapsody of Dances," 1937 Dr. Arthur S. Coriale has been named Kong; she is enrolled in the grad uate stud ies 'pro­ and has been included in the 1975 International medical director of the Genesee Nursing Home in gram at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Who's Who in Music. Utica, N.Y. Relations at Princeton ... David M. Temoshok has received a M.Ed. degree in counselor education 1953 Barbara Hill (GE & '50) has been ap­ 1943 Dr. Earl G. Witenberg has been elected from Penn State... Samuel P. Cannioto has en­ pointed to the faculty of the University of North to the professional advisory board of Hall-Brooke tered Western State University College of Law, Carolina at Greensboro. Hospital, Westport, Conn. Fullerton, Cal. ... Leslie Goodale has received an M.A. degree in library science from Case Western 1954 Scott S. Withrow (GE) has been ap­ Reserve University ... Mary C. Lynn (G) edited 1944 Dr. Stuart W. Mcleod has been named pointed director of music at St. George's Church, medical director of the Northern Oswego County Women's Liberation in the Twentieth Century, re­ Nashville, Tenn. cently published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc....Jef­ (N.Y.) Health Building, Inc....Dr. Robert Coon frey G. Romig has been commissioned a second has resigned his post as director of the University of 1957 Robert Godwin (GE) has been named Maine's Institute for Health Science Education. lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation director of the School of Performing Arts, University from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, of Maine at Orono... Paul Tarabek (GE) has been 1948 Dr. Paul Yu (MR) has been given the Gold Texas...Marriages: Robert E. Overfield and appointed director of orchestras, assistant prof~ssor Nancy M. Dalesandro on Aug. 8 in Rochester... Wil­ Heart Award, the American Heart Association's of violin and viola, and first violin in the reSident highest honor for volunteer leadership. liam J. Riina and Janet A. Stagnitti on Aug. 10 in string quartet at Kansas State University. Park Ridge, N.J. ... Heidi Harrison and Herbert M. 1952 Dr. Frederic A. Stone (GM) has joined Chain, on June 21... Ronald S. Molin and Phyllis 1961 Sylvia Anderson (GE) sang the role of D. Hoffenberg on Aug. 17 in Bloomfield, Conn. the Watertown, N.Y. firm of Gardner, Meyerdierks, Clytemnestra in the American premiere of Ernst Gregor, and Dooling, in the practice of general Krenek'-s "Leben des Orest," performed by the surgery... Dr. James K. Avery has been named 1975 Marriages: Diane E. Berghoefer and Portland (Oregon) Opera in November. Alan J. Florkowski ('76) on Aug. 16 in Arlington, director of the University of Michigan Dental Re­ search Institute in Ann Arbor. Va ....J. Stephen Pembridge and Michelle Ann 1963 Jerry N. Smith (GE) has written "Fanfare Hughes, on Aug. 23 in Rochester. and Celebration" for symphonic band, recently 1954 Dr. Nathaniel J. Hurst has been ap­ published by C.L. Barnhouse ... Chuck Mangione, pointed director of Park Ridge Hospital in Greece, with a 34-piece orchestra, gave aconcert at Carne­ N.Y. and has been voted president-elect of the gie Hall in New York City with Gerry Niewood Monroe County Medical Association. ('70E) as featured soloist. lall_aD Sellaal 1959 USN Capt. John H. Baker (GM) has 1966 Barry Snyder ('68GE) played piano ac­ been named to the National Development Council of companiment to Oliver Steiner's violin in a concert Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Pa. .llIIullc at Town Hall in New York City in October. 1962 Dr. Edward J. Sheridan has been ap­ 1970 W. Edwin Domb (GE) has received a pointed as an ophthalmologist at Holzer Medical 1934 Gail Kubik has received his fourth con­ doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance Clinic, Gallipolis, Ohio. secutive ASCAP award, given "to assist and en­ from the Un iversity of Cincinnati. courage writers of serious music." 1968 Dr. Bertram E. Feingold ('70MR) has 1972 Born: to Irene Kraut and Dr. Eric opened a practice in orthopedic surgery in Scotts­ 1936 Gardner Read ('37GE) heard the world Brocks ('68 & '72M), a son, Jason Matthew, on ville, Ariz. premiere of his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra June 16 (Irene teaches music therapy at Turtle Bay performed by the New Haven Symphony in October. Music School in New York City and gives piano 1969 Dr. Walter N. Muth has joined the lessons). Newark-Wayne (N.Y.) Community Hospital as an 1943 William E. Whybrew ('47&'53GE) has ophthalmologist. been named academic dean of Keene State College in New Hampshire... Doriot Anthony Dwyer gave a series of three recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City in November and December 1975 and January 1976.

39 1970 Dr. John Patterson has joined the Dr. Leonard 1. Gallant, '40, '43M, on Sept. 29 in Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, Baltimore. N.H. as a general surgeon. Robert L. Marsteller, '40E, on June 18 in Bozeman, James S. Vail, '02 (last member of the class), on Oct. Mont. 1971 USAF Maj. David E. Nash has com­ 11 in Rochester. Jean Livingston Horst, '40, on Sept. 28 in Honeoye pleted a tour of duty as a flight surgeon and has Hazel Chapman Merriman, '10, on Nov. 11 in Falls, N.Y. joined the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital as Rochester. Mary Esmonde Taylor, '41, on Dec. 3 in Kitchener, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon ... Born: to Dr. and 1. Wesley Searles, '11, on Oct. 29 in Warsaw, N.Y. Ont., Canada. Mrs. Paul S. Bellet, adaughter, Jane Sanders, on Edna M. Pardee, '12, on Nov. 13 in Rochester. H. Charles Ballenger, '41, on Jan. 15 in Highland June 14 in Cleveland. Electa Gleason Ross, '13, on Nov. 25 in Rochester. Park. III. Alice Dennis Costich, '13, on Oct. 27 in Westbury, Irene L. Follette, '42, on Nov. 15 in Marion, N.Y. 1972 Dr. David S. Granite has completed N.Y. Dr. Anne Fayerweather Emmel, '45, on Nov. 4. residency in family practice at Riverside Hospital in Dr. Willis W. Bradstreet, '13, on Nov. 16 in Webster, Arline Fredette Fox, '45, on Nov. 9 in Pittsford, N.Y. Newport News, Va. and has entered private practice N.Y. Harry DeLeon Polster, '46G, on Sept. 2 in Stamford, with the group of Weintraub, Bergman, and Asso­ Grace Sibbink Smith, '13, in April in St. Petersburg, Conn. ciates ... Dr. Eric Brocks is currently chief resident Fla. Louise Hediger Engel, '47, on Sept. 5 in Littleton, in ophthalmology at Bellevue Hospital and Univer­ Helene Kalb Lipscomb, '15, on Nov. 8 in San Fran- Colo. sity Hospital, N.Y.U. Medical Center in New York cisco. John W. Gurnett, '47, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. City. Walter T. Schreiber, '16, on March 26 in Auburn, Ala. Mary Louise Baynes, '48, on Nov. 21. Clara Shilling Hager, '18, in Burdett, N.Y. Arthur Dimassimo, '49, in East Rochester. 1974 Dr. Alan Liss has been appointed assis­ Earle L. Brooks, '18, on July 21 in Grandview Curtis E. Rickon, '50U, in Canandaigua, N.Y. tant professor of microbiology at the University of Heights, Ohio. Paul Tomasick, '53E, on Nov. 17 in Rochester. Elizabeth Guthrie Hall, '51, on Dec. 4 in Rochester. Connecticut. Margaret Lieber Kirsch, '19, on June 16 in More­ head, Ky. Paul C. Iacona, Jr., '51, on Nov. 11 in San Diego. 1975 Dr. William Alto is participating in the Joseph Williams, '20, on Nov. 1aboard the Sagafjord Janet Nixon Schek, '52N in May. family practice residency program at Barre (Mass.) in Bridgetown, Barbados. ElJi Wurzburger Gupp, '52, '53N, on Oct. 5 in Ro­ chester. Family Health Center. Dr. H. Claude Hardy, '21, in Syracuse, N.Y. D. Knox Cooper, '21, in August in Smyrna Beach, Fla. Mary Lou Steinorth Kujawa, '54, on Nov. 28 in West Helen Alpiner Blumenstiel, '22, in March in Salem, Webster, N.Y. Ore. Edwin K. Gatchell, '56G, in Princeton, N.J. Edna M. Butterfield, '22, on Sept. 17 in Rochester. Sally Comin Kaneshige, '57GE, on Nov. 23 in Colum- 1. Howard Miller, '22, on Nov. 11 in Grapevine, Tex. bus, Ohio. Harold Fellows Bartlett, '23, on Sept. 28 in Toronto. Ruth E. Mandell, '58U, on Sept. 25 in Rochester. Kathryn Sutorius Thiele, '25, on Aug. 28 in Wilming- Dominic R. Manioci, '60, on Dec. 12 in Rochester. 1961 Doris Adams Williams has been named ton, Del. John F. Cunningham, Jr., '60U, on Nov. 24 in director of nursing at Clifton Springs (N.Y.) Hospital. Emmet E. Lynn, '25, on Sept. 30 in Sunnyvale, Calif. Skaneateles, N.Y. Viva Blackburn, '26, o~ July 23 in Sunapee, N.H. Kenneth Stiller, '62, on Oct. 12 in Oakland, Calif. 1965 Alva Marticelli ('69GN) has been elected Mildred Gielchauf Gordon, '27, on Sept. 23 in Green Daniel S. Kruidenier, '64, on Nov. 4 in Staten Island, president of the New York State Sc hool Nurse Valley, Ariz. N.Y. Teachers Association. Lucy E. Cooke, '27E, on Nov. 29 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Dr. Martin Pinsley, '66, on Aug. 26 in Forth Worth, Helen Wilcox Wilkinson, '27, on Oct. 10 in Buckfast- Tex. 1966 Diane Deater Elliott ('73GN) has been leigh, S. Devon, England. Paul Mankowich, '73G, on Sept. 1 at Elgin AFB, Fla. appointed assistant professor of medical/surgical John F. Brady, '27, in Yorkville, N.Y. Gary R. Diehl, '74U, on Sept. 21 in Pittsford, N.Y. nursing at UR... Helen Boyce McNerney has Dr. Willis N. Potter, '29G, in Boulder, Colo. been named executive director of the Visiting Nurse Harriet Martin Dougherty, '29E, on Oct. 14 in Sun Emily Oemish Dalton '20, wife of former Univer­ Service of Rochester and Monroe County. City, Ariz. sity Secretary Cha rles Dalton, died on September 9 Ernest R. Taylor, '29, on Nov. 27 in Rochester. in Rochester. She was 79. 1968 Jane Page Fineran has been commis­ 1. Albert Wood, '29G, on Sept. 24 in Lyme, N.H. Mrs. Dalton was a past general chairman of UR sioned as alieutenant in the USN Nurse Corps and is Rev. Willis A. Stackhouse, '31, in April. Alumnae Association membership drives, and an serving in Columbus, Ohio... Mary Ann Walsh Russell A. Taylor, '31GE, on Jan. 1, 1974 in Majorca, active member of Alpha Sigma and of St Paul's Eells (GN&'70G) has been appointed assistant dean Spain. Church in Rochester. for undergraduate affairs of the College of Nursi ng Dr. Elbert Dalton, '34M, on May 19, 1973 in Athens, and Allied Health Sciences of Rush University, Greece. Chicago. Dr. Lloyd 1. Florio, '35M, on Oct. 19 in Buffalo, N.Y. Kenneth R. Varner, special assistant to the regis­ Walter W. Thompson, '35, in Hammondsport, N.Y. trar and a UR graduate student, died Wednesday, 1970 Nancy J. Heller has received an M.S.N. Phyllis Phillips Rail, '36, on Mar. 8 in Crescent City, Dec. 17. degree from the University of California at San Calif. Mr. Varner, UR registrar from 1964 to last August, Francisco and is acardiopulmonary clinical special­ Gordon A. Coleman, '36, on Sept. 7 in Baton Rouge, was adoctoral student in the Un iversity's College of ist at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami; an article La. Education. she wrote on emergency rescue telemetry appeared Richard A. Angevine, '37, on Dec. 2 in Port Chester, A native of Marion, Ohio, Mr. Varner received in the Mar. 1975 issue of RN magazine. N.Y. bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Tennessee, where he subsequently was supervi­ 1975 Marriage: Sharon A. Clark and Dr. Scott sor of registration for three years. Later he was Valet ('75M) on Oct. 4 in Rochester. registrar at the Un iversity of Cincinnati and at Oh io State University. He served in the U.S. Army and Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Mr. Varner was a member of the American Association of University Professors and Phi Delta Kappa, and he served on anumber of committees of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, assistant professor and director of women's intramural sports and recreation at UR, and a son. 40 UNIVERSITY MESH T SHIRT in Gold or Navy, size S,M,L,XL Price $ 7.95 ZIP HOOD SWEATSHIRT Navy or Grey, Size S,M,L,XL Price $11.50 RUGBY SHIRT Navy & white stripe or Navy & gold stripe size S,M,L,XL ALUMNI JEWELRY Dating from 1965 thru 1975. Price $10.95 10 K yellow gold pin with Stone $29.50 10 K yellow gold pin with Crest $24.40 Sterling pin with Stone $15.50 Sterling pin with Crest $13.50 Supplies are limited.

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