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ALUMNI/UNIVERSITY ~ SEPTEMBER 19 VARSITY FOOTBALL, Vermont at Burlington. 9 CLASSES BEGIN, School of Med 21 GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE, icine and Dentistry. Du mont Kenny, U. S. State De- 16 CLASSES BEGIN, College of Arts partment, "Race Relati?ns. in and Science, Eastman School, Germany." Strong Auditorium, University School. 8 p. m. 28 . VARSITY FOOTBALL, Rensselaer 26 VARSITY FOOTBALL, Kings Point at Rochester. at Rochester. UNIVERSITY DAY for out-of 28 GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE, town high school seniors. Samuel Klausner, Near East In stitute, Columbia, "Race Rela OCTOBER tions in the Near East." Strong 3-5 ANNUAL MEETING, Medical Auditorium, 8 p. m. School Alumni Association. 5 ALUMNI/ALUMNAE HOME NOVEMBER COMING. 2 VARSITY FOOTBALL, De Pauw 7 GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE. at Rochester. le~ Beginning of a series of. six UNIVERSITY DAY for Rochester On the Cover tures on "Race Relations In area high school seniors. World Perspective." Alex Inkeles, 4 GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE, Between classes at the Summer Session of the Russian Institute, Harvard Uni Gardner Murphy, Men n i n g e r versity, "Race Relations in Rus College of Arts and Science, Gail Wolff and Clinic, "Race Relations in In sia." Strong Auditorium, 8 p. m. Tom Rickert relax on a boat dock on the Gen dia." Strong Auditorium, 8 p. m. 12 VARSITY FOOTBALL, Union at 9 VARSITY FOOTBBALL, Tufts at esee River at' the edge of the River Campus. Schenectady. Medford. They were among students from many colleges SCHOLASTIC EDITORS CON II GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE, FERENCE, River Campus, for ed who attended the summer classes. Gail, a jun President de Kiewiet, "Race Re itors of Rochester area high ior at Cornell University, took courses in edu lations in South Africa." Strong school and college newspapers Auditorium, 8 p. m. cation. Tom, University of Rochester senior, edi and yearbooks. 16 VARSITY FOOTBALL, Washing tor of the Campus-Times, student newspaper, 14 GROUP RELATIONS LECTURE, ton and Jefferson at Rochester. Anthony Richmond, University of took work in psychology. See story, pages 13-17. 19 TOUCHDOWN DINNER, Men's Edinburgh, "Race Relations in Dining Hall. Great Britain.' Strong Auditor 22-23 STAG ERS PLAY, Strong Audi torium, 8 p. m. torium, 8 p. m. September, 1957 Vol. XIX, No.1 Editor CHARLES F. COLE, '25 Classnotes Editor Table of Contents MARJORIE TROSCH, '43 THE UNIVERSITY: The start of the 108th year is marked with sad Art Director ness in the passing of Dean Gilbert ..• with hope in the ap LEE D. ALDERMAN, '47 pointment of new deans and faculty members .•. with pride in new honors and achievements . Ho 8 Published by The Uni versity of Rochester for NEW PROGRAM OF GRADUATE STUDIES 9 the Alumni Federation U. S. NEED: A FOREIGN POLICY IN SCIENCE 10-12 in cooperation with the Federation's Publication SCHOOL BELLS RING FOR SUMMER SCHOLARS 13-17 Committee: POISON-RESEARCH MAY SAVE LIVES 18-19 MARGARET WESTON, '24 THE GRADUATE: Alumni Citations, Fanfare for Fennell, Chairman First O'Connor Award .. , . 20 HOYT S. ARMSTRONG, '23 COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND as told in photographs 21-22 DR. JACOB W. HOLLER, '41M CLASS NOTES: News of interest from all Colleges and Schools of DONALD S. JUDD, '53U the University . 22-31 PAUL S. McFARLAND, '20 BETTY M. OATWAY, '43N FLORENCE ALEXANDER SCHOENEGGE, '24E Published five times per year in January, March. May, September a!1d N?veJ!l ber at the Art Print Shop and ma~led without charg~ to all alumm. EdItorial Office, University of Rochester, River Campus Station, Rocheste,r 20, N. Y. HARMON S. POTTER, ' 38 Entered as second class matter, November, 1952, at the post offIce at Roch ester, N. Y. Executive Secretary THE UNIVERS·ITY Donald W. Gilbert ... 1900-1957 affection and esteem of his colleagues and of Rochester grad uates. President de Kiewiet summed it up in his eloquent tribute: 'There is nobody in the entire university who does not have a painful sense of personal loss at the news of Don Gilbert's death. He was the ideal colleague. He taught with enthusiasm; he accepted difficult assignments with courage he was patient in difficult situations. "To him the University was a family and he loved his mem bership in it. He was a completely unselfish man with a great gift for making and holding friends. There certainly was no finer link between the University and the community than Don Gilbert." And, as the Alumni Association stated in its citation of Dr. Gilbert in 1952, "he did more than we could expect of any one man to build a sound University and to make this Uni versity part of the life of the community." A memorial service was conducted on August 29 in Strong Auditorium on the River Campus. As an undergraduate, faculty member and administrator, Dr. Gilbert's association with the University covered a period of forty years. A Phi Beta Kappa member of the Class of 1921, he began his teaching career as an assistant in economics in 1922, received his master's degree here in 1923, and an other at Harvard University in 1924, after which he returned to Rochester as an instructor, rising to assistant professor in 1928, junior professor in 1932, when he received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard, and full professor in 1939. In 1940 he was appointed Dean of the Division of Grad uate Studies, and when it was reorganized as the Graduate School in 1942, he became its Dean, serving through 1948. Under his leadership, the high quality of work in the Grad uate School was recognized by the University'S election, in 1941, to the Association of American Universities, composed HE UNIVERSITY suffered an irreparable loss on August 26 of the thirty-seven leading graduate schools in this country T in the death of Donald W. Gilbert, '21, inspiring teacher and Canada. From 1946-1948 he also was Chairman of the to many generations of Rochester students and a key admin Department of Economics and Business Administration. istrator who was in the forefront of the University's great The new position of Provost of the University was created educational advances in the past decade as Provost, Vice Presi in 1948 under President Alan Valentine's administration, and dent and Director of the Office of University Development, Dr. Gilbert was promoted to that post. That same year, he and first Director of the Canadian Studies program. He was directed the establishment of the University of Rochester Man fifty-seven. agement Clinics in cooperation with about fifty Rochester The effective job Dr. Gilbert did in setting up the huge business and industrial organizations, which won nationwide organization for the $10,700,000 Development Fund Cam attention for their significant contribution in raising the level paign and its successful outcome paved the way for the great of economic understanding about national and community strides the University has made in strengthening and inte economics. grating the entire institution with the merger of the Men's When President Valentine was on leave as chief of the and Women's Colleges at the River Campus, the building Marshall Plan mission .to the Netherlands in 1949-1950, Dr. program, and new educational undertakings. Gilbert and Raymond L. Thompson, '17, Senior Vice Presi His warm personality and gift for friendship, his great in dent and Treasurer, shared the responsibility for the Uni terest in students as undergraduates and alumni, and his self versity's administration with such conspicllous success that less devotion to the University's welfare won him the deep the Alumni Association awarded them a special citation "for The lJDiver8itll /3 meritorious service beyond the call of duty." During this his Ph.D. in English in 1951 at hicago. He taught Engli h period, too, Dr. Gilbert directed the special events celebrat at Westminster and Chicago for several years before being ing the University's Centennial in 1950. named assistant dean of students in 1948. In 1952 he was Soon after he became the University's fifth President in appointed assistant director of admissions and in 1955 direc 1951, Dr. de Kiewiet appointed Dr. Gilbert as Vice Presi tor of admissions. dent and Director of the Office of University Development. Dean Hazlett comes to Rochester with the highest recom Two years later, he suffered a heart attack that made it nec mendations from his colleagues at the University of Chicago, esary for him to relinquish the heavy responsibilities of that and his experience, warm personality and excellent record in office. He returned a few months later to take over the direc his relations with the undergraduate students there make him torship of the new Canadian Studies program, but again his eminently qualified for the position of Dean of Students at health forced him to discontinue that work, and he returned Rochester, says President de Kiewiet. Dean Hazlett and his to teaching as Professor of Economics. attractive wife have three children, William, fourteen, Alex, In addition to his busy schedule of campus activities, Dr. eight, and Janet, three. Gilbert was prominent in civic, state and national organiza tions, as chairman of the Citizens Tax Committee, chairman The new head of the expanding program in Business Ad of the research committee of the Council on Postwar Problems ministration, as Professor and Chairman of the department, for Rochester and Monroe County, chairman of the Economic is Dr. John M. Brophy, associate professor at the New York Advisory Committee of the State Legislative Committee on State School of Industrial Relations, Cornell University, for Interstate Cooperation, chairman of the Rochester Association the past seven years, and well-known as a consultant to many for the United Nations, a trustee of the Rochester Savings industries in New York State.