e Rochesler Alumni-Alumnae Review DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE GRADUATES AND UNDER-GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Published quarterly, in February, May, August and ovember by the University of Rochester for the Associated Alumni and the Alumnae Association at the Alliance VOL. XIV, NO.1 Press, Rochester, . Y. Editorial Office, 15 Prince t., Rochester 3, . Y. Co-editors: NOVEMBER, 1952 Charles F. Cole '25, and Warren Phillips '37. Entered as second class matter ovember 1952 at the post office at Rochester, . Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. University Announces Development Fund Drive

A "grand conception" of a greater tory of one of the great, brilliant in­ dients of a broadly trained mind." University of Rochester based on high stitutions in this society." thinking and bold planning to make Enthusiastic support of the plans 10·Year Program it what President de Kiewiet termed came from many sides. The Rocheste1' The second phase of the plan is a "one of the brilliant institutions of our Times-Union gave credit for the "for­ 10-year program, linked closely with time" was unfolded October 24, when mulation of this challenging program" the initial stage and beginning at the the University'S plans for educational to President de Kiewiet, Dr. Donald same time, to raise $36,000,000 addi­ development and its two-fold program W. Gilbert, vicepresident in charge of tional for long-range objectives of the for raising funds for immediate and development, the progressive men of College of Arts and Science, the Grad­ long-range objectives were described the Board of Trustees, headed by Ray­ uate School, University School, the at a dinner meeting in Todd Union to mond N. Ball, and stated in its edi­ Eastman School of Music, School of Rochester's business and industrial torial: Medicine and Dentistry, and Memorial leaders. Art Gallery. "Sense of Excitement" Of the $10,700,000 sought in the Industrial Support Sought "They have presented a challenge three-year program for immediate The first stage, already under way, which will spread to all of Rochester needs, less than half is for new build­ is a three-year joint effort by the Col- • the sense of excitement about great ings to make possible the merger of lege of Arts and Science, University days ahead that has already seized the the Women's College with the Men's School of Liberal and Applied Studies, University:... Announcement of the College at the River ~ampus. The to raise $10,700,000 in new endow­ bold, new development plan of the. major portion is to be used to streng­ ment or equivalent assured annual re­ University shows that this community then the educational activities at both port. A number of companies and in­ again is at the beginning of a great, the faculty and student levels. As has dividuals in Rochester and the area are new creative period that will shape its been pointed out, "the University is being asked to give their support to future. This has happened before. not made up of piles of stone and this program. Thirty years ago the late George East­ steel. Its character is fixed by the lead­ In the Fall of 1953, a drive among man and 13,500 others (who contri­ ership of inspired teaching and its all graduates of the University and buted $10,000,000 in the Greater Uni­ power to attract and develop the most citizens of Rochester and vicinity is versity campaign of 1924-25) built the promising human material that makes tentatively planned. River Campus as the new point of up the student body. These are the origin for the technicians and leaders University's greatest resource." "Impressive Beginning" whom this community needs in in­ In announcing gifts already made to creasing numbers. Two Chief Aims the development program, President "Now the time has come for an­ The faculty program has two chief de Kiewiet described them as "an im­ other giant stride forward. The needs aims: To bring more new teachers of pressive beginning," and said: of Rochester and the nation for trained outstanding ability to strengthen and "I feel that I can stand before you minds have grown immeasurably since broaden departments, and in turn to straight and proud and say that I hope the River Campus was built. .. In this help draw more young men and that these gifts are the harbinger of age neither industry or society can af­ women of high capacity to Rochester; contributions to the University that ford to lag in the development of men and to improve the economic position will make this institution what I know and women who unite technical com­ of faculty members by restoring to it can be. Behind it already is the his- petence with the humanizing ingre- them, through adequate salaries, the

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buying power of which inflation has cilities, likely as an extension of Todd bold plan to move the Men's College deprived them. If the University is to Union, which also will include a to a new campus" and to "give the in­ retain an outstanding faculty and at­ faculty club. Cost is estimated at stitution elbow room to grow into a tract able new teachers, it must have $700,000. great university," the report states: • new funds of at least $160,000 an­ 4-A new c~nter for University "The graduates and the community nually, or $3,600,000 in terms of School, placing it in a position to ren­ studied the program, sensed the mag­ capital endowment. der greater service to the community nitude of the opportunities it offered, in adult education, with probable loca­ and decided that it merited the invest­ To Recruit Students tion on the south of the campus in an ment needed to make it possible. The The student program includes the' area separate from that reserved for nation blinked when Rochester success­ following: undergraduate living and social acti­ fully raised 10 million dollars in its Expanded efforts by the Admissions vities. Cost, including related facilities, Greater University Campaign. The in­ Office to recruit able students from all is set at about $500,000. vestment paid off. It built for Roch­ parts of the nation, intensified testing, All of these projects have been set ester a university of first rank, a guar­ guidance, and placement programs, as minimum requirements, the Uni­ antee that the community ~ould keep and a national Rochester Scholars Pro­ versity advised in a printed "Report to pace in an era which placed greater gram to assist a substantial additional Our Friends" defining its objectives. emphasis on higher education than any number of promising students all over other period in history. And the in­ the nation to obtain their college edu­ Long-Range Goals fluence of the institution, through the cation at Rochester through four-year In the 10-year program in which it careers of thousands of graduates, be­ scholarships. This will require a mini­ seeks $36,000,000 additional, the Uni­ came worldwide." mum of $140,000 annually, or $3,­ versity lists these goals: 100,000 in terms of capital endow­ 1-0ther long-range projects in the National Leadership ment. College of Arts and Science, Graduate "Today the University stands on the Specific building projects to make School, and University School, $15,­ threshold of the greatest opportunity possible the centralization of the Col­ 000,000. These include professorships, for growth and service in its 102-year­ lege of Arts and Science and Univer­ fellowships, publication and research old history. It again comes to its com­ sity School at the River Campus are: funds, Honors Division; special pro­ mllllity and graduates with an inspir­ grams, such as an Institute of Canadian ing program in answer to the respon­ Complete W o~en's Plant Studies, engineering endowment, Insti­ sibilities placed upon the institution by 1-A women student's center, to be tute of Optics endowment. the community and nation. built on the 12-acre hill north of Rush 2-School of Medicine and Dentis­ "The goal of the program is the Rhees Library, and providing initial try, Medical Center, $15,000,000 for continued development of the Univer­ living accommodations for 450 wom­ salaries, endowment of departments, sity as an institut.ion of concentrated en, including three dormitory units, an fellowships, student aid, continuation quality education, offering tremendous infirmary and dispensary, and a gym­ training, library expansion, animal scope, but never substituting size for nasium with basketball court and a house, opthalmology expansion, etc. excellence," the report asserts. "The swimming pool. Funds required total University is a national leader in many $1,800,000, of which about $700,000 Music, Art Benefit fields of education and this role of, is needed for the gymnasium. 3-Eastman School of Music, $3,­ leadership demands untiring efforts for 2 - An administration building, 500,000, for salaries, student'aid, spe­ progress in every department an.d divi­ probably in the form of a northern ex­ cial projects including music psychiatry, sion. publications (books and records), etc. tension of Rhees Library, which will "The nation's shortage of trained enable the University for the first time 4-Memorial Art Gallery, $2,500,­ manpower in a time of international to bring most of its administrative per­ 000 to offset present University com­ crisis, likewise, is a need which cannot sonnel under one roof. By providing mitment, new wing, acquisition funds. be ignored. Nor can the fact that the / space for Men's College offices now in These are only broad outlines of high birth rate of the war years will Morey Hall and other instruction the programs contemplated, and details place an almost intolerable strain on buildings, it will free space vitally will be announced later. the nation's colleges and universities needed for faculty offices. Cost is esti­ Pointing out that it was 28 years beginning in the late 1950's. The Uni­ mated at $1,000,000. ago that the University came to its versity has been preparing to meet the 3-Enlargement of men's dining fa- graduates and its community with "a challenges of the future."

3 Education - ~merica's Greatest Stabilizing Force

'n Excerpts from His Deve'opment Address, Dr. de Kiewiet Analyzes University Functions

I F education suddenly ~ere to be of Arts and Science could produce a ing agency in this community. We go plucked out of our society, our society's great philosopher, or if the School of out and select the best students we can various manifestations would grind to Medicine could produce more Whip­ find, and we train them, and then they a halt in a very few years.... In pIes and more Pasteurs, they would are available for service in this and American life and American' history have the influence upon world opin­ other communities, and the records' especially, since its founding, the ion, upon our prestige in the world, show that a very high proportion of greatest stabilizing force we have had of armies and regiments.... the graduates of this University are is education. . .. fruitfully precipitated into this com­ "As science and technology advance munity to serve in all manner of func­ in this country, they create opportuni­ Major Merger tions. ties, they create instruments, they cre­ "What does the University of Roch­ "And yet we are dissatisfied ... ate necessities which skilled men must ester propose to do to satisfy these with the job we have so far done, dis­ serve; and we have come to a moment necessities, to meet these conditions? satisfied not because it has not been in our country's history when we are "Our theme is integration and co­ well done but because great new pres­ beginning to scratch, or when it seems ordination, integration within our­ sures are being brought upon educa­ that we are beginning to scratch, the selves and coordination with the nation tion in this country. We would like bottom of the barrel. In order to make and the town of Rochester. You have to be able to recruit a better quality of this great conquest, we have to have heard of what has been called a mer­ student yet, and reach out more widely an increasing number of well-trained ger. The merger has been somewhat into the nation to bring students to individuals. underestimated ... in that people look upon it as simply the merger of the this campus. We would like to do more than we have been able to do to Quality Propulation Needed College for Women with the College for Men. It is far more than that. It stabilize the disposition and character "But I want to go far beyond the is the merger, in the first place, of of the students. .. We in education scientific and technological needs of University School with the College for know under what strain the young our society. I would like to point out Women and the College for Men, but generation is, what dangers menace something which I believe everyone above that it is the decision to locate their peace of mind; and if education here will recognize to be true-that on the River Campus the best College has any task to perform it is to main­ this country has to insure itself of a of Arts and Science that this town, this tain and increase in the minds of the high-grade, quality population, even University, can devise and support. young people that relationship with beyond what it possesses at present, in their society that has been so success­ order to maintain a secure posture in A Recruiting Agency fully maintained in the generations be­ the modern world. .. fore them. "Our security in the modern world "In order to effectuate this merger, does not only depend upon our scien­ the University needs in capital some Must Use Talent tists, our technologists, our atom four million dollars. That will not pay bombs, our ships, our armies, exclu­ for all of the buildings that we shall "We want to go farther than that. sively. Our reputation depends to an need in order to make the merger pos­ We have become aware of the circum­ extraordinary extent upon the prestige sible... That is not, I assure you, a stances that we have been uninten­ which we have in the minds of men. very considerable amount of building. tionally profligate, careless, wasteful of If they think well of us, if we have a One of the tributes ... to this insti­ the talent in our society. We recog­ quality of population that they admire, tution is the economy and the efficiency nize now that we must devise ways our position in the world by that is of its thinking from the day of its and means of using that talent more more strong. If, for example, the East· conception. .. economically... And this University man School of Music could produce a "The University is, to use a tech­ is in a position ... to make real and Brahms or Beethoven, or our College nical term, the most important recruit- original contributions to the salvage of

4 wasted talent in American society. about that position, and how great the "We have no true and adequate feeling of obligation is that we hold Campus Merger Plans compensation of the burden which towa.rds the faculty for what they have Will Enhance Plant educators have sustained particularly endured and done since the onset of since the outbreak of the second World inflation... There has been no with­ PLANS now being drawn for new War. We have no comprehension of drawal from their responsibilities. As buildings at the River Campus for the the fortitude that they have had to dis­ a matter of fact, they have plunged consolidation of the Men's and Wom­ play under conditions economically more deeply into responsibilities. They en's Colleges, will make that campus, and otherwise that have obtained in are the stabilizers in American history already one of the finest in the coun­ our society... And this is the moment that I have spoken to you of. They try, even more attractive. when I feel I may appropriately speak have carried through the generations Still more important, by centraliz­ in terms of financial inadequacy. ..I this immense burden of education, of ing the activities of the College of think the faculty should know how stabilizing, of character-building, or Arts and Science, it will make the edu­ much concerned the administration guiding, that integrated American so­ cational and administrative programs and the trustees of the University are ciety." of the College far more effective, with greater economy and efficiency of operation. Residence units for women students $85,000 in New Gifts Spurs Deuelopment Plan and other structures will create new architectural groups and quadrangle greens that will enchance the natural THREE new gifts to the University tional economics, and indicated its in­ beauty of the River Campus. The totaling $85,000 are announced by tention of financing the chair on a con­ quadrangle formed by the two new President de Kiewiet. They were made tinuing basis in the coming years. In men's dormitories, now under con­ in every case, he said, "with an under­ June, the Pfaudler Company gave struction, typifies the attractive settings standing of what we are trying to do $45,000 to the University's unrestricted that will result. and a conviction that these contribu­ endowment funds. Careful studies of space available tions will be effectively and success­ Trustees of the Kate Gleason Fund for buildings to be erected in the next fully used." include Miss Eleanor Gleason '03, few years, as well as for future needs, Carlton F. Bown '09, and James P. show that there is ample room on the One is for $50,000 from the Kate campus for any additional structures Gleason Fund, income from which is B. Duffy. In making the gift, Miss that the College may require, the Office to be used for the purchase of books Eleanor Gleason noted that her sister, who died in 1933 and was a woman of University Development_ reports. for the University library, preferably Nationwide interest in the Univer­ on engineering and history, but not pioneer in the engineering profession, secr~tary-treasurer of Gleason Works sity's plans to change from its coor­ limited to those subjects. Another is a and first woman to become a member dinate policy of undergraduate educa­ gift of $20,000 from the Lawyers' Co­ tion, with separate campuses for men operative Publishing Company, for un­ of the American Society of Mechanical and women, to a coeducational system, restricted use by the University, and a Engineers, was active in the campaign for admission of women to the Uni­ is shown by the fact that the Carnegie third of $15,000 from a donor who Foundation for the Advancement of prefers to be anonymous, given be­ versity, "and would be in favor of this contribution now that coeducation is to Education has given the University a cause he was "so impressed with our be reestablished." grant of $5,000 for a comprehensive philosophy of stabilizing the character study of the educational and social of those who come to the University problems involved in establishing a and are trained here and move into BULLETI coeducational program. Representatives the service of their society." By beating Allegheny 38-0 in the final game of the season of the University will visit other col­ These are in addition to other sig­ ovember 15, the UR Yellow­ leges and outstanding educators will nificant gifts from Rochester corpora­ jackets rang up their eighth be invited to the UR to discuss the tions tn the past few months. The straight victory and completed various aspects of the plan. The goal Haloid Company made an initial con­ the first undefeated season in is a program that will combine the best the University's 63-year gridiron $15,000 tribution of in May to estab­ history. features of coeducation with those of lish a new professorship of interna- separate men's and women's colleges.

5 William Warfield Hailed for Contributions to International ~mity

Eastman School Graduate, Star of "Porgy and Bess," Captiuates Audiences in Berlin, Vienna

BY his artistry and tact, William barbarians, as its enemies try to make Warfield, a graduate of the Eastman other nations believe. In an editorial, School of Music in 1942, has won The New York Times} noting that more good will in Europe for the "Porgy and Bess" had received a graci­ United States in the last two months ous and appreciative welcome in Vi­ than has been accomplished by Amer­ enna, hailed the fact as "good and ican diplomatic missions and propa­ important news for Americans." gandists in many years. "Europeans, who are sensitive to Warfield and hi co-artists in Gersh­ cultural attainments, do not often <;ee win's folk opera, "Porgy and Bess," us at our best," stated the Times. "But scored a major triumph for the U. in sending 'Porgy and Bess' overseas in the cold war by their performances with a fine group of egro singers in in Vienna and Berlin, presented under its cast we are demonstrating to the the auspices of the U. S. State Depart­ large intellectual segment of the Eu­ ment in one of this country's most suc­ ropean population that we have a cul­ cessful cultural missions so far. War­ tural tradition of our own and that it field and his bride, Leontyne Price, is artistically first rate. .. We need ­ whom he married just before depart­ William Warfield, ESM '42 arguments of this kind on our side ing for Europe in September, were co­ almost as surely as we need guns and stars in the all- egro cast that cap­ in which one cannot leave the opera strong armies. If the intellectuals and tivated audiences in every performance. 'Carmen' believing that 'Carmen' rep­ students of Europe can be convinced resents life 10 Spain." that the American way of life is sensi­ Even the critic of I-he Communist Artistic, Popular uccess tive to and capable of nurturing artis­ paper De1' Abend capitulated: "The tic works of genuine merit, they will Correspondents who sent back glow­ performance was so perfect, both as to more readily rally to our support.... ing reports of the delighted receptions theater and singing, that it was almost We think that this company of 'Porgy given to the production, wrote that the and Bess' ... will reap a rich divi­ possible to forget the propaganda in­ performers were greeted with unre­ tention which surely had been the true dend for us by dispelling some false strained enthusiasm everywhere they reason for this guest performance," notion and by making new friends went. Jack Raymond, writer for The for our country overseas." Newsweek quoted him as saying. New Y o1'k Times} wired from Berlin After the Vienna and Berlin per­ that it was both an artistic and popular formances, under the auspices of the Quoted by Press success in Vienna and in Berlin. Ber­ State Department, Warfield and his lin critics regarded the production as Newsweek}s correspondent reported fellow performers opened a straight the outstanding event of the month­ that Warfield particularly was lionized commercial run on October 6 in Lon­ long cultural festival there, and "un­ by the crowds in Austria and Germany. don, where they also scored a tremen­ stinted press praise was backed by His starring motion picture, "Show dous popular and critical triumph. sellouts at every performance." Boat," opened while he was in Vi­ Both Warfield and Cab Galloway, The Gershwin opera was sent abroad enna, and he also gave a recital in the famed band-leader who plays the role by the State Department to demon­ Mozartsaal. A ked by reporters in Vi­ of Sportin' Life in the opera, are strate to Europeans that the United enna if "Porgy and Bess" represented natives of Rochester. On last January States has a rich native culture of its life for the Negro in America, War­ 6, Rochester observed William War­ own and that this country is not ana· field sensibly replied that it did in field Day and honored the 31-year-old tion of self-seeking, money-grabbing some ways "but in just the same way baritone at a special luncheon.

6 Dr. Habein Evaluates Problems of Women's Education

By Dr. Margaret Habein Dean of Women

I the year of 1697, Daniel Defoe of themselves and for each other and contribute, for instance, to the needed Robinson Crusoe fame made a pro­ which they command from men : "We supply of engineers, chemists, techni­ nouncement on women's education. have accepted the theory of equality cians, physicists. This would seem to Women, he said, should be educated! between men and women, but we are imply that we plap women's education And why? Because they then become far from achieving the substance of it. by directing women in each age into more pleasing to men ! Want of an The task will not be complete until those professions where workers are education, said Defoe, makes a woman women respect women as much as they needed! "turbulent, clamorous, noisy, nasty, respect men; until women are as glad the devil." On the other hand, an to be women as men are to be men." Woman as Person educated woman is all softness and In short, Dr. White seems to be saying Confusing as the problem is, there sweetness, full of peace, love, wit, that we have set up in our education are a few generalizations to which I and delight. "Certainly," said Defoe, one set of values-and we have called believe we may hold. One of the "the Lord who made women so capa­ no woman really successful unless and most important of these is that a ble of such glory and charm, so de­ until she becomes "masculinized." woman must first of all be regarded lightful to mankind, with souls so as a person, an individual whose abili­ pedal Talents capable of accomplishment, did not in­ ties, gifts, interests, and needs must a distinguished a woman as Mar­ tend them to be only cooks and slaves." determine what her educational pat­ garet Mead seems also to see differ­ Such was Defoe's somewhat radical tern shall be. Society will be the poor­ ences between men and women. In pronouncement in 1697. er if we deny to any woman the right Male and Female, A Study of the Sexes to develop her potentialities freely' ympathy with Defoe in a Changing World, she suggests and fully. It is equally important that In 1952, Defoe's belief in educating that we may find that women, for in­ education shall aim to help everyone, women seems to be rather widely stance, have "special superiority in regardless of ex, to become effective, shared, but that many would agree those sciences which involve that type stable people, deft in human relations, with his reasons for so doing is doubt­ of understanding which until it is able to function intelligently and re­ ful. It is a fact, however, that some analyzed is called intuition." Related sponsibly in a democracy, capable contemporary critics of women's edu­ to women's education, the problem of adjusting to a swiftly changing so­ cation are in complete sympathy with Dr. Mead poses seems to be that each city, sensitive and responsive to moral Defoe' implication - that women sex has its special and different gifts, and spiritual values. In these ways, should be trained as women, not as and that our task is to cultivate those women's education must differ in no men. The president of a women's col­ different gifts. If women's abilities way from men's. lege, for instance, has had much to and interests and gifts are different, if say about the fallacy of educating women are exposed to many life sit­ Wants To Marry women exactly as we do men. uations which differ in important ways Perhaps, however, it is only real­ from life situations of men, then per­ Different Life Pattern istic to acknowledge that a woman's haps the whole area of women's edu­ life pattern may-more often than Dr. Lynn White of Mills College cation does need to be carefully stud­ not, does-differ from a man's. A man finds basic differences between men and ied and carefully evaluated. women, not only in their abilities but knows that he must prepare for some in their life patterns, and he feels that A "Defense Decade" profession or vocation. A woman feels the failure of our educational systems On the other hand, there are those she must prepare herself vocationally, to take these differences into account who contend that we cannot take time because she lives in an age when se­ is largely re ponsible for a widespread to worry about differences in men and curity, by its very lack, is a prized unhappiness and restlessness and inner women and their significance to edu­ possession. She wants to marry, wheth­ conflict among women, and, if I in­ cation, that we are in a "defense dec­ er she admits it or not. And if it is terpret him correctly, for many of the ade" when all human power must be true, as many people believe, that the failures of the home; responsible, too, directed toward the defense effort, that instability of the family in our time for the little respect women have for women, therefore, must be trained to has had a disturbing and damaging

7 effect upon every segment of our soci­ and say a personal word to the adumni Posters were distributed throughout ety, and if it continues to be true that and alumnae? the city and county by the University women shall take major responsibility I begin my work at the University and the sponsors of the radio and tele­ for the home, then it seems reasonable of Rochester with a deep sense of per­ vision programs advertising the foot­ that we give more serious thought to sonal and professional satisfaction. I ball games, special advertisements were preparation for creating the right kind take pride in the fine national and in­ run in the newspapers, and spot an­ of environment, physical and spiritual, ternational reputations which it enjoys, nounCements carried on the radio. in the home. So the modern young in the strength and distinction of its The Varsity squad and coaching staff woman faces the need to prepare for faculty, in the outstanding work it has were honored at a special luncheon two important vocations without know­ done in a variety of fields, the humani­ given by the Touchdown Club of ing which she will pursue. She faces ties, medicine, music, research, to men­ Rochester and the Chamber of Com­ the need to prepare herself to struggle tion but a few. Perhaps my greatest merce before the opening game. actively with community, national, in­ satsifaction, however, comes from a Alumni chairmen were named for each ternational affairs, to carry her weight spirit which I noted when I visited home game to plan special programs. in government, politics. She must be the campus last spring, and which I The opening game was designated as ready to live a useful and therefore have found in even more abundant Rochester Day, the Union game as satisfying life after her children are measure since I arrived this fall-a High School Day, with 2,500 tickets grown and time hangs heavy. These spirit of enthusiastic determination to given to students, teachers, and coaches are the problems which those of us carry this University ahead to even in 42 high schools throughout West­ sharing in the education of women greater heights, to build an institution ern N ew York. The Vermont game must face-complex problems in de­ which will make increasingly signifi­ was All-College Day, with special in­ ciding how best to prepare young cant contributions to education. This vitations issued to Rochester alumni of women to meet a complex world with is an exciting-and satisfying-atmos­ other colleges. The Hamilton game courage, confidence, hope, and a very phere in which to work, and I look for­ was Homecoming Day, and the Alle­ real sense of adequacy. ward to an exciting and satisfying ex­ gheny game, Dad's Day. And now may I turn briefly from perience at the University of Roch­ Members of the Alumni committee the problems of women's education ester. who contributed their enthusisatic ef­ forts to this ambitious program in­ Alumni Promotional Program Sparks Interest cluded, in addition to those mentioned, Richard Secrest, Richard Contryman, In Varsity Football Season for 1952 William Blackmon, David Stewart, Willis Jensen, Austin Bleyler, Robert Ocorr, William Bruckel, Peter Braal, SPARKED by a large committee of Alumni, plus play-by-play broadcasts Nelson ~pies, Warren Allen, Matthew Golden R Club members and other of all home games over WHAM under Lawless, Elmer'Smith, George McKel­ alumni, intensive efforts were made the sponsorship of Brighton Place vey, and Charles Cole. this fall to promote community inter­ Sealtest Dairy and McFarlin Clothing est in the Varsity football games. Company, and special five-minute sum­ Under the chairmanship of Albert maries of out-of-town games. Philip R. Jenkins Dies' Thomas, and initiated by Lou Alex­ Attractive displays featuring the UR Philip R. Jenkins, instructor in Eng­ ander, director of intercollegiate ath­ football games were shown in many lish in University School since 1947, letics, plans were begun 'during the downtown stores and buildings, in­ died unexpectedly on August 26 while summer for a lively promotion pro­ cluding McFarlin's, Neisner's office vacationing at Blue Mountain Lake, in gram, in cooperation with the UR building, Lincoln Rochester Trust the Adirondacks. Office of Public Information. Company, Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Jenkins studied at Colgate Uni­ The activities included a weekly foot­ Sibley's, which devoted all of its Main versity and received his master's de- ball television program on WHAM­ Street windows to this purpose for a gree from Harvard. He had spent TV, featuring Coach Elmer Burnham full week. several summers writing four text­ and members of the team, sponsored Huge photographs of the football books, three of which are scheduled by the Rochester Savings Bank through squad and coaches, provided through for publication this fall. the auspices of James W. Gray, vice­ the generosity of Joseph C. Wilson He had been instructor in English president of the bank and newly­ and the Haloid Company, were used at John Marshall High School in Roch­ elected president of the Associated in the displays~ ester for 22 years.

8 The Spirit of the University

By John R. Sla~er Professor Emeritus of English

T0 personify a university as Alma to hold it. When our great bell rings of us. Some it made more human, Mater, an intelligent being capable of for noon, before the last stroke meri­ others more humane. benevolence, deserving gratitude, and dian is gone. Once we entered a larger world, and expecting loyalty, isa qu.aint romantic The university is never dismayed by having left it far behind we can never survival. In thus affirming the real change, only by stagnation. It serves forget it. We are reminded of that existence of an ideal concept, Alma its own time and place, without being illustrious company of scholars in many Mater cults somewhat resemble patri­ dominated by them. It cares less for lands and ages on whose labors learn­ 0tism' and even religion. But aca­ size than quality. In a university, men ing rests. We remember also, with demic adoration, though eminently re­ are more important than things, deeds compassion and respect, numberless spectable, may seem slightly overdone than words. Sooner or later, often bachelors of arts and science who never to some alumni whom their Mater has after graduation, true values are seen seemed to get very far in either, yet sometimes reproved and often ignored. for what they are. Education pene­ secretly carried Shakespeare and Plato Yet there is truth in this old American trates disguise and shows up pretense. in their restless heads until their race tradition. Though corporations may In an academic atmosphere it is hard was run. have no souls, colleges have, or else to deceive others, or even oneself, A trite phrase too much heard today they are no good. though many have tried. Fortunate are is "merely academic." What is so Wherever three or four generations those who discovered this in time, and mere about academies?" The first Acad­ of teachers and administrators, devoted came to themselves before the freest emy was Plato's philosophic grove, to improvement of human quality, have years of their lives were over. where he questioned platitudes, ex­ started thousands of students on their The spirit of the university encour­ posed hidden fallacies, forced ambigu­ way to freedom of the mind, an invisi­ ages human contacts on a somewhat ous people to define ambiguous terms, ble spiritual grace grows up with time. higher level than prevails elsewhere, and ridiculed cliches-like the cliche It is not in books, songs or customs, especially with older and more mature "merely academic." Socrates was dead, not in buildings or old trees. It be­ persons. College friendships do not but thought was free. In these years of longs to the country of the mind., always last, for life divides more than world crisis less dialectical materialism There Clire the bright hopes of youth, it unites. But once every year, when would afflict the captive half of human­ the happy memories of age, and now Commencement week reminds us all ity if Socratic methods were encour­ and then a flash of that great world to of a morning thrill that will never re­ aged outside as well as inside colleges come of pure intelligence. Sometimes turn, we can be glad that somehow the -in politics, economics, philosophy, on any campus, when the sun has set spirit of the university became a part pedagogy, criticism. Academic inquiry and early stars arrive, the west seems full of invisible witnesses, watching us pass. Professor Slater, who retired in 1942 after serving on the faculty for 37 The spirit of the university is some­ years, was chosen first recipient of Delta Upsilon fraternity's Memorial Award thing it always stood for but never at its national convention, held at the River Campus in September. In citing quite achieved. It leads men and Professor Slater for the award, Dean J. Edward Hoffmeister said: women to attempt the impossible, to "A man of many accomplishments and interests, we claim him as distin­ be better than they can. It faces the guished scholar, wise philosopher and mystic, great teacher, author, musician. frontier of the unknown. Being a Few people are his equal with the written and spoken word. Whenever and spirit, it can be shared without diminu­ wherever he speaks, the sons and daughters of the University family will be tion by any boy or girl who ever ven­ gathered together in large numbers to hear him. This is the man to whom we tures within its magnetic field., Some owe the beautiful Commencement Hymn and the words of the Centennia·1 never felt it; some never lose it. The Ode. This is the scholar who makes his wisdom and knowledge practical and past is part of if, and so is the future. carries it to the community in which he lives. His sincerity and his unusual As for the present, which alone seems appreciation of the human need have raised him above the commonplace and real at twenty, that vanishes if we try made him one of Rochester's outstanding citizens."

9 properly so called is the exact opposite private fortunes and even peace of of dogmatism, of which the world is mind. Wherever Rochester men and much too full. women have worked or are working to elevate the standards of public service Wherever a new academy is set up. at home or abroad, to understand for­ for advancement of learning, whether eign nations rather than to advertise in the United States Hotel, or on our own, there we see the spirit of the Prince Street, or on bluffs above the university at work, making things bet· Genesee, academic thinking will never ter than they found them. That i3 be disparaged by wise leaders in the what a university is for. business world. Boundaries between pure and applied science become more The spirit of the university in some obscure all the time. We can never of these aspects was the real subject 02 tell when the "merely academic" spec­ the Rochester Commencement Hymn, ulations of a statesman, a philosopher, "0 Mater academica Rocestriensis," or a poet may liberate Asia, or even written in 1907, and still sung once a Africa. In the spirit of the university, year. Some who sing it or hear it per­ not in war machines or mass produc­ haps know less Latin than they wish tion, the secret of the tuture still lies they did. The following English met­ hid. Metals, electrons, and speed will rical paraphrase, though not a close not save this world. Mankind is moved translation, conveys in the same metre Claude 1. Kulp '27 less by its tools than by its delusions for the same tune an idea of a uni­ or its faith. versity as old as Cardinal Newman and as new as President de Kiewiet: In President de Kiewiet's inaugural Claude Kulp Appointed address there is a remarkable sentence To New Cornell Post

which should be inscribed in some new COMMENCEMENT HYMN building at the River Campus, because Claude L. Kulp, '27, formerly asso­ it is worthy of the river: Hail, Rochester, we raise to you ciate commissioner of the N. Y. State Our grateful parting song, Department of Education, became su­ "At this !!loment when great armies For giving us so much to do are being assembled, and powers pervisor of an experimental project And keeping us so long. known only to the sun are being pre­ in teacher training at Cornell Univer­ We thank you f

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Dr. Whipple to Resign as Dean of Medical School in June

Internationally-Known Scientist, Leader To Continue on facuIty as Pathology Professor

DR. GEORGE H. WHIPPLE, Dean "it seems to me to be the most strik­ of the School of Medicine and Dent­ ing illustration that I know of the istry for more than 31 years and in­ catalytic effect of a foundation's gifts ternationally known as a leader in the when wisely bestowed." new area of modern medical develop­ For his distinguished contributions ment, will resign from his duties as to medical education and research, Dr. dean at the end of the current aca­ Whipple has received many honors in demic year. He will remain on the this country and abroad. He was faculty, however, as professor of pa­ awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine thology. in 1934 as a joint winner with Minot Under Dr. Whipple'S leadership, the and Murphy for his work on pernici­ chool of Medicine and Dentistry has ous anemia. He has made many im­ become one of the world's great cent­ portant studies on the formation of ers of medical education, research, and blood and the way in which its pro­ treatment, and was a tremendous factor tein elements are manufactured by the in changing the University from a body, and has made revealing studies small c.ollege to an institution of na­ on the functions and diseases of the tional and international importance. liver. His research has brought tn­ President de Kiewiet, in announcing estimable benefits to mankind. Dr. Whipple'S plans to resign from Dr. George H. Whipple His most recent honor was the the deanship, said: new medical school created under a award of an honorary Doctor of Sci­ "Today we think of the University bold and far-sighted experiment in ence degree from the University of of Rochester Medical Center as if it ' medical reorganization in this country Chicago on October 3 on the 25th were one of the old established medical conceived by Dr. Abraham Flexner of anniversary of its clinical department. centers of the country. This is due to the General Education Board and sup­ Last year, the University of Glasgow the impressive place which it holds in ported by John D. Rockefeller. chose him as one of 10 distinguished the ranks of medical education and re­ The UR -Medical Center was the Americans to receive an honorary de­ search. Actually, the whole remark­ forerunner of strong, non-profit medi­ gree at its 500th anniversary celebral able achievement of the Medical cal colleges in many parts of the tion. In 1945, the Pathological Soci­ School is the product of a single gen­ country where there had been none be­ ety of Great Britain and Ireland elected eration of effort in which Dr. Whip­ fore, and inaugurated a new epoch in him an honorary member, one of only ple has been the guiding genius. It is the entire field of medical training, three persons on this side of the At· very rare that a great educational in­ research, and treatment. lantic to be so honored. He also holds stitution is brought to maturity in a Dr. Flexner, the architect of this honorary degrees from Johns Hopkins single generation. This is the finest vast pro g ram which transformed University,. Yale, Colgate, the Uni­ tribute that can be paid to the great American medicine from the "horse versity of California, Sheffield Scien­ dean who has guided the Medical and buggy" era to the modern age of tific School, Western Reserve, Wes­ Center all the way from a bare piece medicine with its antibiotics, wonder leyan' the University of Buffalo, Tu­ of ground to one of the great forces in drugs, vitamins, atomic energy tech­ lane, Trinity Col!ege, and the Uni­ the nation." niques, X-ray movies, and other mag­ versity of Athens. The School of Medicine and Dent­ nificent achievements, recently de­ A graduate of Yale in 1900, Dr. istry was founded in 1920 through the clared that the UR Medical Center's Whipple received his M.D. degree at splendid gifts of George Eastman and development is "one of the most as­ John Hopkins in 1905. After serving the General Education Board of the tonishing results of the actions of the at Johns Hopkins as associate profes­ Rockefeller Foundation, totalling $10,­ General Education Board in the field sor and resident pathologist, he went 000,000. It was the first completely of medical education," and added that to the University of California in 1914

1L as professor of research, and later was tioners, specialists, medical educators, Harold Shantz Giuen dean of the California medical school administrators, researchers, and hos­ Tough New Assignment and director of the Hooper Foundation pital administrators have been gradu­ for Medical Research. Persuaded by ated in the past 26 years. One of the toughest assignments in President Rush Rhees to take the dean­ As Dr. Flexner says in his disting­ his long career in U. S. diplomatic ship of the new UR Medical School, uished autobiography, "I Remember," service has been given to Harold he came here in September, 1922, and the University of Rochester Medical Shantz, '15, as chief American observ­ directed the planning and construction Center, under Dr. Whipple'S wise and of the new school from the start, to­ farseeing guidance, "has fully justi­ er and representative in an Iron Curtain country-Romania-officially hostile to gether with ~trong Memorial Hospit­ fied all expectations. It has been ex­ al, for which Mrs. Gertrude Strong cellent both as a teaching and a re­ the United States. Achilles and Mrs. Helen Strong Carter search institution." His appointment to the difficult post gave $1,000,000. From all parts of It will not be easy to find a worthy of minister of Bucharest was an the country he assembled a brilliant successor to Dr. Whipple as dean of nounced by President Truman 03 Sep­ young faculty and staff of 65, and the the School of Medicine and Dentistry. tember 28. State Department officials School opened in 1925 with a class of Fortunately, the University will con­ said that Shantz' appointment fills an 22 students. The School's enrollment tinue to have the benefits of his great 18-month vacancy, terminating a par­ now averages 270 a year, and more abilities and experience as a continu­ tial diplomatic boycott of Romania than 1,200 surgeons, general practi- ing member of the medical faculty. following a series of disputes between that country and the United States. Since he joined the Foreign Service in 1921, Shantz has served in Calcutta, James W. Gray, Carl W. Lauterbach Elected Hong Kong, Singapore, Monrovia, Barcelona, Oporto, Prague, Nairobi, President, Vice-President, of Alumni Group Moscow, Athens, and Helsinki. In 1949 he went to Denmark as special adviser to the American Ambassador THE Class of 1925, whose members the biggest to date, the Alumni Office on the Military Aid Program. stoutly insist it is the best class ever reports. graduated from the University, has New members elected to the Board bolstered its claim by providing two of Managers are Howard F. Hoesterey top officers for the Associated Alumni. '49, Basil R. Weston '21, and W. Bert 1949, and is class secretary. He is o other class, records indicate, can Woodams '13, for three-year terms to head of the board of the Lewis Street make this claim. succeed Joseph R. Wilson '03, Charles Settlement, and has long been active 1. Rumrill '22, and Gordon 1. Waas­ As a result of the mail ballot con­ in the work of the YMCA. dorp '35. Their fellow board mem­ Weston, general agent for the Berk­ ducted in September, James W. Gray bers are John 1. Merrell '13, Austin shire Life Insurance Company, headed C. Tait '25, Richard B. Secrest '43, the 1952 Alumni Fund Campaign. Harry A. May '09, G. Alfred Sproat W oodams, manager of the W oodams '22, and William J. Bruckel '42. Coal and Oil Company, headed the Gray has long been a leader in 1913 fund committee. Hoesterey, a alumni activities, and prominent in star player on the Varsity football many civic enterprises. He is a vice­ team from 1945-49, is a development president of the Rochester Savings engineer at Kodak. Bank, was chairman of the successful All of the new officers and board 1949 Alumni Fund, and served on the members are married to UR alumnae. Board of Managers from 1948-51. Carl Lauterbach James Gray Gray's wife is the former Jane Allen, Lauterbach, personnel assistant at ESM '28, Lauterbach's is the former has been elected president of the Asso­ Eastman Kodak Company, and one­ Virginia Patchen '25, Hoesterey's, ciation, succeeding Nicholas E. Brown time director of Todd Union, has Shirley Woodams '48, Weston's, Helen '28, and Carl W. Lauterbach vice­ served several terms on the Board of Kies '23, and Woodams', Marie Le­ president. The total vote, 1,414, was Managers, was class fund chairman in May '24.

12 , {(egifJhO! Chopter NfJtes

BINGH MTO group. To assist her, Margaret Faulk­ CHENECTADY The Bin,ghamton UR Alumnae­ ner Sindelar '47, has been elected vice­ Newly-elected officers of the chapter Alumni group is in the first stages of president and Madelon Hawkins Ryan are: Constance Gordon Oriani '48, being organized. A committee led by '50, was chosen secretary-treasurer. president; Betty Bebb Sager '45, vice Helen Upham Bartlett '21, selected a President de Kiewiet was the guest president, and Betty Valenta '49, sec­ group of 20 graduates of the var­ speaker at a alumnae-alumni dinner retary-treasurer. held October 29 at the Builders Club. ious colleges of the University, which First meeting was held at the home Dr. de Kiewiet spoke on the plans for met with Mary Elizabeth Stewart, of Mrs. Oriani on October 13. Those University development. alumnae secretary, and George McKel­ attending packed clothing to send to vey, secretary of the Alumni Federa­ LOS ANGELES Betty Krihak Lansdale '47, who with tion, on October 15, to discuss ways An alumni-alumnae group from the her husband Bruce, is doing YMCA to effectively organize the group so Los Angeles area planned an initial work in Greece. The Lansdales dis­ that it would benefit not only alumni, get-together this fall. Response to the tribute the clothing to needy familie3 but also undergraduates and prospec­ proposal was enthusiastic. Robert Cow­ in their area. tive students from the area. ing '48, Whittier, Calif., was in charge. SYRACUSE BUFFALO EW YORK A fall picnic for alumnae and their Dean Margaret Habein was guest families was held October 4 at the speaker at a dinner meeting at the Board of directors of the chapter Oneida Lake cottage of Dan and Fran­ La Marque Restaurant on October 20. held its annual tea for freshmen on ces Gruppe Gates '48. Jean Parkes Marilyn Trick '51, was chairman. September 6 at the Pen and Brush Club. Three members of the class of Fabre '38, was chairman of the picnic The chapter is initiating a program 1952 were most helpful in acquaint­ and she was assisted by Flora Jackson of monthly meetings this year, and ing 19 freshmen with some of the in­ Gramm '45 and '46N, Gino Bonomo will carry this out with a penny sale teresting phases of life at the UR. Murano '45E, and Frances Gruppe in November. Mary Page Norris '29, chairman of Gates '48. Marilyn Trick '51, will assume the the tea, was assisted by Mildred Grant First alumnae-alumni meeting of duties of secretary of the chapter from Gariss '33, and Blanche King Egner the chapter was held at the home of Barbara G. Swan 'SO, who is moving '06. Stephan and Doris Robinson Jones '47, out of Buffalo. Dr. Margaret Habein, dean of on October 20. A nominating com­ CHICAGO women, was guest speaker at the fall mittee composed of Elizabeth Babcock Annual fall picnic of the Central luncheon of the chapter, November 15. Gruppe '20, Mae Lauterbach Bailey Alumni Association on September 6 Mary Emily Dalton '47, was chairman '23, Helen Kurlansky Rubin '32, Janet was a success in spite of a cold, blus­ of arrangements. Stone Holmes '42, and Flora Jackson tery day. More than 60 alumni, alum­ The resignation of Mildred Grant Gramm '45 and 46N, proposed a slate nae, wives, and youngsters were in Gariss '33, as president of the board of officers for the coming year to the attendance. Entering freshmen were of directors of the New York Alum­ alumnae group. represented by Ralph Lane, '56 and nae will become effective November Tod Tude '56 and their parents. Soft­ 27. Evelyn Aultfather Adams '49, will ball, touch football, and a picnic sup­ assume the duties of president in the Dr. Joseph E. Gould, '41, director per were the highlights of the after­ absence of Mrs. Gariss who will be of men's counseling at Syracuse Uni­ noon. spending the year in Europe. versity, left for Pakistan in September Officers for 1952-53 remain the to teach at the University of Punjab, same as last year: George Lufkin '40, PHILADELPHIA on the philosophy of American de­ president ; John Faulkner '43, vice The chapter held a family picnic mocracy. He plans to return in the president; Roger Swett'42, secretary­ supper on the grounds of the Swarth­ latter part of the summer of 1953. treasurer. more Presbyterian Church on Septem­ Before joining the Syracuse faculty, Elaine Fischer '47, has been elected ber 6. It was a social event with 22. he taught at Painted Post, N. Y., and president of the Chicago Alumnae adults and nine children present. at Colorado State College.

13 These daughters of DR graduates are among the 145 freshmen at the Wo~en's College. Left to right (first row), they are Marcia Hathorn, Arlene Eichen, both of Rochester, and Sally Smith, Scottsville, N.Y.; second row, Judith Smith, Mary Hutchin on, of Rochester; Toyce Spencer, penc~rport; .Y., and Nancy Hamlin, DeRuyter, N.Y.; back row, Dorothea Keller, Gardner, Mass., Susan Bardett, Bing­ hamton, .Y., and May Tischer, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Absent when the picture was taken was Betsy Silberstein, Rochester. 29 Sons, Daughters of UR Graduates Enter with Class of 1956

TWENTY-NINE freshmen who are who attended University School. Her Susan Bartlett of Binghamton, N. son or daughters of !o~mer University aunts are Hannah Emily Silberstein Y., hopes to equal her sister's fine of Rochester students have joined the '39, and Agnes Geddes '28. Her uncle, Women's College record. Her sister is ranks of those to whom the University Charles Geddes, was a member of the Priscilla Bartlett '52, who was a mem­ has hecome,a f.amily ,tradition.. class of '3.4"and"het..siste.r, Ann,. gr

14 rna Sager Smith '19 ; Judith Smith, Fitzsimons Fox, University School '32 ; Rochester, daughter of Jerome C. Harvey Goldstein, Rochester, son of A mid-summer report of the scholarship committee of the Lot Abram Philip Goldstein '26; Gerard mith who attended the University in S. Wilder Memorial Trust showed 1928-29; Mary Hutchinson, Roches­ Grassi, Rochester, son of Dr. Gerard $5,361 received from 40 con­ ter, daughter of William Hutchinson, J. Grassi who graduated pre-medical tributors and one scholarship and one loan granted. who received his M.A. degree from '28 and from the UR medical school in '31; Robert Luffman, Hilton, son Lincoln Rochester Trust Com- the University in 1937; Joyce Spencer, any is trustee and is authorized of C. W. Luffman '24. pencerport, N. Y., daughter of Lillian to grant scholar hips or tudent Hart Spencer '20; Dorothea Keller, loan to deserving students, in­ Also Charles Morrison, Rochester, cluding the children of the late Gardner, Mass., daughter of Grace Lot Wilder '31, to assist with son of Charles A. Morrison '23; Rich­ Jaeger Keller '29; and May Tischer, their college education. At the ard P. Myers, New Rochelle, N. Y., Cleveland Heights, Ohio, daughter of termination of the trust, any son of Richard J. Myers '22; Robert balance will be divided equally Dr. Linda Tischer Schneider, School G. Nagel, Phelps, N. Y., son of rove among the College for Men for of Medicine and Dentistry '38. scholarship purpo es, the Ameri­ A. Nagel who attended DR Graduate can Cancer Society, and the School in '38; William Powell, Hunt­ School of Medicine and Den­ The freshmen "sons" list at the ington, W. Va., son of Dr. Le Clere tistry for medical research. Men's College includes Robert F. Powell who was an affiliate at the UR Bell, Rochester, son of Frederick G. medical school in '29; Theodore Snyd­ Miss Wenona Abbott resigned her Bell '20; J. Ronald Burbank, Roches­ er, Rochester, son of James H. Snyder position as nursing arts instructor and ter, son' of Marie Keber Burbank, '19; Roy Van Delinder, Rochester, son returned to her home in Nova Scotia ESM '30; James Chace, Rochester, son of Lucille Miller Van Delinder '27; in July. Late in June a tea was held of Bloss Chace, University School '19; Paul Welton, Rochester, son of Han­ in her honor with alumnae and stu­ Murray Cowen, Rochester, son of nah Spencer Welton '21; and Daniel dents attending. Her present address Percy Cowen '28; Richard Fox, Chen­ Valenza, Rochester, son of Frank C. is: R.D. No.1, Lower East Pubnico, ango Forks, N. Y., son of Virginia Valenza '25. Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.

In the freshman class at the Men's College are these sons of DR graduates: First row (left to right), Ro?ert Luffman,. ~obert Bell, Gerard Grassi, Murray Cowen, Harvey Goldstein, David McNair, and Theodore Snyder; back (left tonght) are Wl1ham Powell, Roy Van Delinder, Ronald ]. Burbank, Charles A. Morrison, Daniel Valenza, and Paul Welton.

15 1952 Alumni-Alumnae Fund Tops '51 by $20,0000, Sets Record

Total Subscription, Number of Contributors Reach New High; Century Club Grows

EXCEEDING the amount raiseq in For the second consecutive year, the Decade awards in the Men's College 1951 by nearly $20,000, a total of School of Medicine and Dentistry won were as 'follows: Decade 1, Class of $70,206 was subscribed in the 1952 the Rush Rhees Trophy for the great­ 1892, John S. Wright, chairman; Dec­ Alumni-Alumnae Fund drive, led by est percentage increase in the amount ade 2, Class of 1919; Decade 3, Class Basil R. Weston '21, as chairman, and contributed. The Hoeing Cup for the of 1920, M. Stuart Hyland, chairman; Elizabeth Schwartz '36, vice-chairman. Men's College class with the highest Decade 4, Clas sof 1939, Robert La;r­ Although this fell short of the $75,­ dolla increase and percentage of par­ son and Arthur Neumer, chairmen, 000 goal set by the campaign com­ ticipation, went to the Class of 1919, and Decade 5, Class of 1943, Robert mittee, it established a new high in an­ lead by Paul Kreag and David W. B. Houck, chairman. nual giving both in the amount raised Moody. and the number of contributors. The Top classes by decades in the Wom­ total of donors this year was 5,680, as The class of 1911 at the Men's Col­ en's College: High in percentage of compared with 5,475 last year. lege, headed by Thomas Remington quota, Decade 1, Class of 1902, Mir­ The Century Club, whose rolls in­ and Macdonald Newcomb, was high iam Seligman, 466%; Decade 2, Class clude donors of $100 or more, set a in the dollar total raised with, appro­ of 1917, Mabel Hager Ellsworth, new record of 88 donors for a total of priately enough, $1,911. The Class of 205%; Decade 3, Class of 1924, Lil­ $11,730, including 75 in the Men's 1892, John S. Wright, chairman, at­ lian Scott Miller, 86%; Decade 4, College who gave $9,630, seven in the tained the highest percent of quota, Class of 1936, Mary Cashman, 113%; Medical School for $700, four in the 160%, and the Class of 1903 led per­ Decade 5, Class of 1946, Esther Spen­ Women's College for $400, two in the centage of participation at the Men's cer Clark, 107%; high in percentage Eastman School for $200, and six non­ College with 107%. of participation, Decade 1, Class of 1908, Dorothy Dennis and Ollie Brag­ alumni, $600. This year marked the Contributions in the Men's College gins Watkeys, 105%; Decade 2, Class first time that graduates of the Wom­ totaled $32,679 from 2,408 givers, as of 1915, Josephine DeLaLys Bassett en's College and the Eastman School compared with $3,114 from 2,397 and Florence Broxholm, 79%; Decade joined the Century Club. donors last year. The Women's Col­ 3, Class of 1924, 67%; Decade 4, The average gift in the Men's Col­ lege raised $11,262 from 2,000 con­ Class of 1936, 53%; Decade 5, Class lege was $13.93; Women's College, tributors, as against $9,629 from 1,912 of 1947, Gloria Knickerbocker Basye, $5.63, or a combined average of alumnae last year. The Men's College 58%. Highest Women's College class $10.11. In the Medical School the percentage increase was 5 and the in amount raised was 1917, with $379 average gift was $12.17, Eastman Women's College, 16.9. School $5.57, Graduate School $7.24, and 73% participation. Graduates of the Medical School University School $5.64, and Nursing It is only since 1946 that the raised $6,074 among 499 contributors, School $4.18. Alumni-AlutJlnae Fund at Rochester for a 26 per cent increase over 1951, Another gratifying aspect of the has begun to approach the proportions when $4,817 was given by 448 donors. campaign is the fact that the Women's of annual alumni giving at other major Eastman School of Music Graduates College, on the basis of comparative institutions on an organized Univer­ contributed a total of $2,360, with 365 figures for 1951 reported by the Amer­ sity-wide basis. Before 1942, the total donors; School of Nursing, $779 from ican Alumni Council, has the highest never reached $10,000. Ten years ago, 186 contributors; Graduate School, percentage of participation of any the amount raised was $11,143 from $808, from 130 donors, and University women's college, 49 per cent, with 2,109 contributors. It rose gradually School, $520, from 92 donors. Wellesley second at 48 per cent last for the next few years, and reached year. Special alumni gifts, not credited to $32,345 from 3,625 donors in 1948. The Men's College, with 41 per cent any particular college or school, aggre­ The next year the total was $40,221 participation, stands sixth among col­ gated $15,000, and were a major fac­ from 4,539 donors, in 1950, $43,973 leges of the country on the basis of tor in achieving the $70,205 total. from 4,885 donors, and last year, $50,­ last year's reports of the AAC. Non-alumni gifts amounted to $723. 437.85 from 5,475 donors.

16 Reception Held for Dean Habein; Nursing School Holds .Alumnae Council Attracts Delegates Second Annual Bazaar; Helen Wood Hall Remodeled

The largest freshman class in the A reception honoring Dr. Margaret Council enjoyed a tour of classes on history of the Nursing School started Habein, newly appointed dean of the Prince Street Campus, visiting its fall program on September 4 with women, was held Sunday, October 26, the linguistic laboratory, sculpturing a two-day freshman camp on Canan­ at the home of President and Mrs. de classes, a history lecture, and one of daigua Lake. Kiewiet. the seminar classes of the honors pro­ There are 74 diploma students and All alumnae and honorary alumnae gram. Climaxing the program was a luncheon Saturday noon for regional 27 degree students enrolled. To accom­ residing in the Rochester area were modate these students, the nursing invited. In the receiving line with delegates and undergraduates in col­ lege from the regional areas. practice room in Helen Wood Hall has Miss Habein were Gertrude Broadwell been redecorated and remodeled. The Briggs '27, president of the board of front of the room has been made into directors of the Alumnae Association, Dr. Greene Appointed a small amphitheater with tiers of and Mrs. de Kiewiet. To Ca lifornia Facu Ity theater-type seats facing a lectern and Leah McParlin Uebel '06, chairman demonstration area. The remainder of of the reception, was assisted by Mar­ An outstanding authority on the the room is given over to facilities for ian Booth Wiard '24, Ethel Kates '06, English carol and medieval literature, practicing basic nursing procedures. and Della Allen Somers '19. Dr. Richard 1. Greene, '26, former chairman of the UR English Depart­ Gradually, many of the hospital Alumnae Council was held Novem­ ment, has been appointed visiting pro­ divisions are being redecorated with ber 7 and 8, Homecoming weekend. fessor of English at the University of more pleasing wall colors and d~ap­ Elizabeth Whitney Nicholl '41, chair­ California at Berkeley for the 1952-53 eries. C-4 has been entirely redone man, and other committee members, academic year. and boasts a new inter-communication Marion Richardson Bleyler '29, Janet system -from' every bedside to the Phillips Forbes '40, Nancy Kingston He will teach a graduate seminar on medieval life and thought and nurse's stat.i.on and pillow radios for '51, Marcia Van de Carr '51, and Mary every patient. Healey '54, planned a full schedule of medieval Latin language, and an un­ activities acquainting the regional dele­ dergraduate upperclass course on me­ The second annual bazaar was held dieval literature, and also will continue gates, class officers, and board members in the lounge of Helen Wood Hall on his research on medieval lyr~cs. with current developments in the Uni­ November 6 under the co-chairman­ versity. The author of "The Early English ship of Mrs. Frances C. Withee and Carol," published by the Clarendon Dean Habein spoke at the opening Margaret McNeill. Proceeds are used Press, Oxford, England, Dr. Greene luncheon on "Transition to Coeduca­ for the Blanche Bills Scholarship Fund is well-known in this country and Eng­ tion ." Following the luncheon pro­ which aids deserving Nursing School land for his research and writings in gram, Gertrude Broadwell Briggs '27, students. Each graduate class took the that field. After graduating from presided at the annual council meet­ responsibility for some phase of the Rochester, he received his doctorate ing. Concluding the afternoon pro­ bazaar, booths, refreshments, movies at Princeton University and studied gram was a session devoted to discus­ and entertainment for children-all of for a year in England under a re­ sion of effective alumnae organization which contributed to the general suc­ search fellowship of the American and activity through chapter and class cess of the event. Council of Learned Societies. In 1929 program. he joined the UR faculty as an in­ A new version of the capping cere­ On Friday evening, a dinner for the structor, and rose to a full professor­ mony was inaugurated last winter and Alumnae Council and the Alumni ship. In 1942 he was appointed to the following the new pattern, 80 students Council was held in Todd Union. This Joseph H. Gilmore chair of English received their senior caps on Septem­ was followed by a meeting of the and department chairmanship. From ber 27. The ceremony was held in the councils with the University adminis­ 1946-50 he was president of Wells lounge of Helen Wood Hall and over trative officers. College, and last year was visiting 200 guests were present. The speaker On Saturday morning, the Alumnae professor at Purdue University. was Dr. Albert D. Kaiser.

17 the "unlawful practice of the law commit­ mittee of the Edison Electric Institute. tee" of the . Y. tate Bar Association. Married: WALTER HE RY TAYLOR, CLASS NOTES JR., and Jean Cavert Delehanty on August 1921 13. CDllege fDr Men JOH CARMAN has been musical di- Married: BRUCE OWE WI AN and rector for two years in presenting a Gilbert Mary Ellen Scott on July 26. 1891 and Sullivan operetta at a mountain vaca­ tion station at Kodaikanal. Me. Carman 1928 I AAC . BRICKNER recently attended writes, "My glee club training at the UR FRA K and DOROTHY FORSTER the 30th annual reunion of Ruling Masters started me off to what has been a frequent Abercrombie '29, and their family have Association of 1922. Mr. Brickner, who is source of pleasure through the years." moved to California. Their address is 2030 83, is the oldest of the 15 surviving mas­ John's son, Bob, is a student at the UR Lerain Rd., San Marino. Frank is with ters of Masonic lodges in the Rochester Medical School, preparing for medical mis­ the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com­ "-rea in 1922. sion service. pany in Los Angeles. 1905 1922 1929 RAYMO D C. KEOPLE, Director of AILE OTTMA will be a speaker Attendance and Child Accounting for the CHARLES RUMRILL was appointed to the Committee on Government, Public and on the 1952-53 program of the Rochester Board of Education and the City of Roch­ Chapter, ational Association of Cost Ac­ ester, was chairman of a meeting of the Educator Relations of the American Asso­ ciation of Advertising Agencies. countants. ational League to promote School Attend­ DR. SALVATORE RUSSO started his ance held at Boston in October. 1923 second year with the University of Wichita psychology faculty. He has been a clinical 1910 LAWRE CE WAG ER was elected to psychologist at the Wichita Guidance Cen­ RAYMOND B. LEWIS is an agent with the board of directors of the Rochester ter since 1948. the ew England Mutual Life Insurance Transit Corporation. Company. He is also a special agent with 1930 1924 the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New JOHN A. WHITTLE is president of York. ABE PANEL was featured in the the Rochester Chapter, Armed Forces Com­ WILLIAM ROY VALLANCE, legal ad­ article "The Man Who Likes To Give munication Association. viser with the State Department and coun­ Money Away" in a national magazine. The sel to the American Section of IJC, attend­ article estimated he spends a million dol­ 1931 ed sessions of the International Bar Asso­ lars a year on public services. He is today JUSTI WILLIAMS was promoted to ciation in July in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Val­ head of the International Latex Corpora­ area manager of the Rochester Telephone lance has been working with Representatives tion of Dover, Del. Corporation. Keating and Ostertag on their campaign to get official action on the Ontario lakefront 1925 1932 property owners' high water problems. JAMES W. GRAY, vice-president of MILTO SHURR has resigned as ass~ Rochest~r Savings Bank, participated in a 1911 ciate executive secretary of the health di­ panel discussion at a joint meeting of the vision of the Welfare Council of Metro­ COU TY JUDGE JAMES P. O'CON­ avings Bank Life Insurance Council and politan Chicago to accept a position as sec­ OR was elected president of the Humane the Savings Banks Public Relations Forum retary of the Health and Hospital Plan­ Society of Rochester and Monroe County, at Lake George. ing Council of the New Haven Council of He has been vIce-president of the society Social Agencies. His address is 397 Tem­ for the past eight years and president of 1926 ple Street, ew Haven 10, Conn. the Genesee Valley Kennel Club since 1946. PAUL ERNSBERGER'S son, David, graduated in June from Wesleyan Uni­ 1933 1914 versity with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He DR. RICHARD FEl BERG was elected ARTHUR V. D. CHAMBERLAIN was is now a full scholarship student at Yale president of the Northern Illinois College named to the public information commit­ Divinity School. of Optometry in Chicago. tee of the ew York State Bar Association. DR. RICHARD 1. GREE E was ap­ Appointment of ARMI BENDER as DR. E. H. GIEDT, a missionary in pointed visiting professor of English at the assistant to Truman Brizee, WHAM-TV China since 1919, has been a prisoner at University of California. sales manager, was announced in October. Swatow in Kwangtung province of China Bender has been supervisor of special since April 1951. 1927 services at WHAM and WHAM-TV since WATSON 1>ATTE married Mrs. Marie 1947, and promotion and publicity director 1916 Plummer Kahler on July 19. They are liv­ since 1948. He will continue as promotion KENNETH CALVIN RICHMOND'S ing at 334 Berkeley St., Syracuse. director, but press services will be assumed son was married in August. Kenneth's son DEWITT PIKE, manager of the com­ by Miss Terry David, his former assistant is a student at the UR School of Medicine. mercial and industrial sales department of in publicity. Before joining WHAM, Ben­ the Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation, der was director of the news bureau and 1918 was appointed chairman of the market de­ administrative assistant to the president of EDWARD M. OGDE was named to velopment and electrical applications com- the University.

18 1935 THE REV. JACK WELLER has ac­ cepted a post on the West Virginia Moun­ CHARLES E. HILTOr , American Stand­ tain Project of the Board of National Mis­ ards Association staff engineer, was ap­ sions of th Presbyterian Church. He is liv­ pointed to the Paris staff of Mutual Se­ ing in Colcord, W. Va. curity Agency's special representative for Europe. He serves as standardization and simplification specialist. Chuck's wife and 1946 their two children will accompany him to Married: DR. JOH CULLIGA and Paris. He is on a two-year leave of absence Carol Hetzler on July 12. Dr. Culligan is from American tandards Association, with a resident in ophthalmology at St. Mary's which he has been associated since 1945. Hospital, Rochester. DO ALD McCONVILLE was appointed LT. (j.g.) FRANK FAULKNER'S new supervisor of industrial relations plans and address is USS Charles S. Sperry DD 697, procedures for Eastman Kodak Company. c/o FPO, . Y., N. Y. He i a member of the board of directors, Born: To MR. and MRS. ROBERT Rochester Chapter, American Red Cross. JO ES, a son, Bruce on December 5, 1951. Charles E. Hilton '35 Married: A THONY MALGIERI, JR., 1936 and Sara Petit Spencer on September 13. LEO ARD SAYLES is assistant profes­ HEr RY BRI KER wa appointed J. sor at the N. Y. State School of Industrial assis-tant executive in charge of distribu­ and Labor Relations at Cornell University. tion for the A. O. Smith Corporation in 1943 Leonard is co-author of the book "The Milwaukee. He supervises advertising and Local Union; Its Place in Industrial De­ sales promotion, exhibits and market Born: To LOWELL and VIVIA mocracy," to be published in January. analysi . CRA CK BURKE '42, a son, Wayne Mitchell, on May 8. Wayne's sister, Mar­ Born: To DR. and MRS. CLARE MITH, their second daughter, Barbara cia uzanne, was born May 20, 1950. 1939 Ann, on June 6. Dr. Smith is a dentist in EMORY CHAMPNEY, JR., is assistant ROBERT KAH E is regional sales man­ the U. S. Public Health Service at the Coast division superintendent of production at ager for the L. G. Balfour Company and Guard Training Station, New London, the Adiponitrile, Nylon Intermediate Plant the Taylor Publishing Company in Sacra­ Conn. of E. 1. duPont de Nemours Company in mento, Calif. His address is 2420 Wolff Victoria, Tex. His address is 1904 East 1947 La., acramento. Loma Vista St., Victoria. PAUL CHUBMEHL was elected vice­ LT. CHARLES DAGG is serving aboard president of H. J. Ludington Inc., mortgage the US landing ship (tank) 1082 with bankers. He is in charge of field operations 1944 the Task Force 95 in the combat zone off in ew York tate. Korea. JACK CROWLEY is a marketing con­ Married: BOB HEILBRUN and Elea- SAM PAG OLA'S new address is the sultant for McKinsey and Company in ew nor Wendt on August 8. Prudential Insurance Company of America, York. 233 Broadway, Suite 2770, Woolworth BOB LYTLE has rejoined the Navy Born: To BILL and CAROL FARNUM and is in Kodiak, Alaska. Building, ew York 7, . Y. GAVETT '47, a son, Bruce Farnum, on JOH PHILLIPSON received his Ph.D. September 3. 1940 in English from the University of Wis­ Married: JACK GRO SMAN and Helene consin in August. He is an instructor with ROBERT EDGERTO spoke at the con­ Morris in September. Mrs. Grossman is a the extension division of that university. vention of the Photographic ociety of graduate of the University of Wisconsin. America in ew York City in August. At Married: DR. HARRY LEVI and 1948 the convention Dick was designated an Marian Razes on July 6. They are living associate of th society. at 2010 Clinton Avenue N., Rochester. BURTON GOULD ANDREAS received his Ph.D. from the State University of LAMBERT KASPERS is plant manager LT. COL. WILLIAM LYNCH gradu­ Iowa. for the Russell, Burdsall and Ward Bolt ated in June from the Army Command and TOM BARRY passed his ew York state and ut Company in Coraopolis, Pa. General taff Colleg at Fort Leavenworth, bar examinations in July. Kan. 1941 MR. and MRS. HE RY BYERS and their son, Robert, have returned to Roch­ DR. JOSEPH GOULD is teaching the 1945 ester. Henry is in the patent department philosophy of American democracy at the of Eastman Kodak. Their address is 397 University of Punjab in Pakistan. MOSES PASSER is on leave of absence Pullman Ave. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. FRED NEW­ from the University of Minnesota to do PAUL HANKS, Brockport, N. Y., attor­ HALL, a son, Bruce Kent, on August 23. post-doctoral research in organic chemistry ney, ran as the Republican candidate for at the University of Illinois. His address the 3rd Assembly District in the Novem­ 1942 is 1115 West Green St., Urbana, Ill. ber elections. Married: MARTI MOLL and Elizabeth Engaged: DR. JAMES SECREST and BOB MURPHY'S new address is 1811 Ann Doyle in ovember. Joan Dugan. hipley Ave., Valley Stream, Y. Bob

19 is teaching at Lynbrook. are attending the Graduate School of the nic Institute. His address is Box 3232, Born: To MR. and MRS. DONALD University of Hawaii. Virginia Tech. Station, Blacksburg, Va. SAND, a daughter, Gail Beth, on June 28. MARVIN RENNER delivered a sermon Engaged: PAUL MILLER and Marilyn Married: DO ALD W. STILL and "How Shall They Hear ?" at the South Adler '52. Marylin Ann Johnson '50, on July 12. Avenue Baptist Church in Rochester. Mar­ Married: ROBERT PARKER and Joyce Born: To THE REV. and MRS. WIL­ vin is a senior at the Eastern Baptist Sem­ Ereth on August 23. LIAM YOUNG, a son, Thomas Steele, on inary. Married: JIM PITTS and Betty Brow­ July 3. Bill is minister of the First Pres­ CLARK W ACKERMA is a manufac- nell. byterian Church of Allegany, N. Y. turer's representative with Samuel Hallaby Married: JOHN H. RYAN and Sheila Inc., of Rochester. Hopkins on August 16. They are living at 1949 CHUCK WADHAMS is an associate in 1088 Lake Ave., Rochester. the Rochester office of the Massachusetts Married: HERBERT TOTHILL and WARREN CLAPP has joined the re­ Mutual Life Insurance Company. Joyce Mammana on September 20. search staff of DuPont Company's organic Married: NORMAN WALLEN and chemicals department at Deepwater Point, Suzanne House on August 9. 1953 N. J. Married: ARTHUR A. WOOD and Married: ARTHUR COLE and Jean Kathryn Madden on September 6. Engaged: GERALD PRICE and Carol Wesley Crawf.ord on September 13 in Sweetland. Boston. Their address is 52 Broad St., Westfield, Mass. 1951 Born: To MR. and MRS. LOUIS EP­ Married: DONALD BROWN and Agnes STEIN, a son, Richard William, on Au­ Czymmek on August 23. Grtlt/utlle SCn()()! gust 17. Engaged: ENSIGN WILLIAM CARL­ Engaged: DR. JOHN MILLS and Jane TON and Joan Finkbeiner. Ens. Carlton Finch '50. John is serving a student in­ is assigned to the USS Corregidor. ternship at the Metropolitan Hospital, Wel­ Married: BRUCE DAVEY and Linda 1942 fare Island. His address is Staff House, Wells '53 on September 6. Metropolitan Hospital, Welfare IsJand, N.Y. Engaged: ENSIGN HERBERT HOB­ JOHN H. RALEY was appointed su­ Married: WILLIAM SABEY and Ruth SON and Barbara Gauss. pervisor of research at Shell Development Avalon Johnson on August 9. Their ad­ Married: FORREST K. HUNTINGTON Company in Emeryville, Calif. dress is 151 Crittenden Blvd., Rochester. and Anne King on August 16. Their ad­ dress is 79 E. Henrietta Rd., Rochester. 1948 Married: WILLIAM R. JOHNSON and 1950 DR. HOLO MATIHEWS was pro- Nina Jean Martin on June 28. Bill is do­ moted to professor at Western Michigan FIRST LT. SPIRO J. PETERS was re­ ing research work at Strong Memorial Hos­ College. ported missing in air action over Korea pital. on September 13, only five weeks after he MALCOLM LAWRENCE was in Chi­ 1949 left Rochester for duty. He was with the cago as a volunteer aide at the convention 371st Squadron of the 307th Bomb Group headquarters of Mennen Williams, gov­ NORMAN ROTH was appointed assist­ on Okinawa as navigator and radar spe­ ernor of Michigan and candidate for the ant professor of sociology at the University cialist on B-29s. A veteran of World War presidential nomination. Malcolm is a jun­ of Maryland. He has been on the faculty II, he was recalled with the Air Force ior at the University of Michigan Law at Maryland since 1950. Dr. Roth is in Reserves last November and left Roches­ School. charge of the preprofessional social work ter on August 8. Engaged: JERROLD LIPSKY and Jo­ curriculum within the department of soci­ Married: WILLIAM AUBEL an,d Marie ann Kleinman. ology. Dr. Roth lives in West Hyattsville, Antoinette Hafner on August 16. Married: BRUCE MILLS and Jane Md., with his wife and two children, Born: To MR. and MRS. HAL BAX­ Milne '50, in June. Their address is 385 Bruce and Marjorie. TER, a son, Ralph Harold, on July 31. Morris St., Albany N. Y. Bruce is at Married: CHARLES LOTZ and GE ­ KEN BUTTON is working at M.I..T. Albany Medical College, "learning how to EVIEVE PORTER '49 on eptember 20. His home address is 13 Grant Ave., Water­ prescribe pills-large and small." WILLIAM ALEXANDER JR. is work­ Married: DONALD PARRY and Gret­ town 72, Mass. ing on his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at BILL DODENHOFF has been promoted chen Towner in November. We are glad Western Reserve University. He is doing to divisional sales manager for the Pepso­ to welcome Don as George McKelvey's new field work at the Veterans Administration dent division of Lever Brothers in New assistant. Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. York. His home address is 30 Davenport Married : DAVID A. SCHAEFFER and Ave., ew Rochelle. Geraldine Alsfasser on September 20. 1951 Married: ARTHUR WARD GOURLEY and Joan Lewis on August 23. Their ad­ 1952 Married: MICHAEL FUREY and Pa­ dress is 71 Lilac Dr., Rochester. tricia Monfredo '50, on June 21. ED KARTLICK is a salesman for Rich­ W ARRE CLARK is in the sales de- ardson Corporation in eastern Pennsyl­ partment of Monsanto Chemical Company, 1952 vania and southern New Jersey. His ad­ plastics division, in Springfield, Mass. dress is P.O. Box 237, Wernersville, Pa. RICHARD CORNELL is doing gradu­ Married: CHARLES D. GOODMAN ERIC and MARY BRICKLER KENT '51 ate work in statistics at Virginia Polytech- and Joan Louise Wright on June 11.

20 1905 University Scnool Visitors to Rochester this summer were Eostmon ScnfJfJl JANE CROWE MAXFIELD of Madison, Wis., GERTRUDE SALISBURY CRAIGIE of Penn State College and DR. ALVALYN 1947 1932 WOODWARD of Ann Arbor, Mich.

LAURA BLIDE received her M.A. from PAUL GERHARD was appointed as­ Western Reserve University in September. sistant general supervisor, wage and salary 1906 Born: To IRVING and ADLYN KRE­ administration, of Eastman Kodak. BLANCHE KING EGNER of Ridge­ MER SILLER, a daughter, Cynthia Ann, on wood, N. J., had as her guests during July, September 17. Irv is chief of the heat ex­ ALMA AUSTIN '08, of Los Angeles, changer section of Pfaudler Company in 1949 LILIAN CRAFTS '06, and BEULAH FUL. Rochester. The Sillers have a son, aged two. Married: VINCENT TACCI and Rita LER '08. 1948 Ferretti on July 26. Vincent is attending ELEANOR LAWLESS has sold her home the Dental School of the Univrsity of Buf­ in Penfield and is living on Harvard Street, HINDA PERLSON was married to Shel­ falo. in Rochester. don Burchman. They are living at 1646 DOROTHY TRIPP was married to Ern­ N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. est Klein on June 14. The Rev. M. Klein is minister of the Boalsburg Charge of the 1908 Evangelical and Reformed Church in Boals­ ALMA AUSTIN of Los Angeles visited burg, Pa. friends in Rochester this summer. Medicol ScnfJfJl SEYMOUR WEINSTEIN graduated from Syracuse Law Sch~ol cum laude. He is now associated with the law firm of 1910 Lamb, Webster, and Jordan in Rochester. 1930 FRANCES ANGEVINE KEEF published her second book of poetry, "Winged Pass­ DR. DONALD MARTIN, former dean 1950 age" recently. All of the poems in the of the University of Puerto Rico School collection have previously appeared in mag­ of Medicine, was appointed chief of the THOMAS ELLIOTT did graduate work azines and newspapers. Frances writes un­ bacteriology laboratory, Communicable Dis­ at Brockport State Teachers College this der her former name, Frances Angevine ease Center of the Public Health Service, summer. Last spring he was clerk of the Gray. The book was published by the Wil­ Federal Security Agency in Atlanta, Ga. Board of Education and is now teaching. liam Frederick Press, New York. Married: DONALD LAMB and Ann 1941 Davies in October. Married: JOHN NEADY and Dolores 1912 DR. ARTHUR KORNBERG was ap­ Ann Sallerson on September 20. FLORENCE CARMAN stopped in Roch­ pointed professor of microbiology and chair­ Married: PAUL RICHARDSON and ester on her way home from her summer man of the department of microbiology of Betty Jane Brightman on August 16. camp in Vermont. the Washington University School of Medi­ Married: CONRAD RIESS and Ruth AGNES THISTLETHWAITE GAY is cine. Lanahan. branch historian of the AAUW in Roch-' 1942 ester and head of one of its study groups. 1951 MARIAN LALEY is in charge of the DR. WILLIAM BERGSTROM was ap­ research library for nurses at Rochester Married: ROBERT HAROLD PAINE pointed instructor in pediatrics at the New General Hospital. and Barbara Jean Lewis on September 13. York State University College of Medicine DORA NEUN attended the Zonta Inter­ in Syracuse. national Convention in Houston, Texas this summer. She also visited New Orleans. 1943 ZETTA DOOLITTLE THATCHER'S ClASSNOTES son is home from Korea. DR. FREDERICK MARTIN was elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Alumhoe Pediatrics. Before receiving this honor Dr. 1917 Martin completed five years of specialized training in the care of infants and children NAN COMSTOCK'S second grandchild, and passed comprehensive examinations 1902 Samuel Whitford Comstock, was born Au­ given by the American Board of Pediatrics. gust 14. MIRIAM SELIGMAN, while visiting in 1943 New York, talked with EVELYN O'CON­ 1918 NOR '03. Miriam also spent some time DR. MARVIN EPSTEIN is practicing in Gloucester, Mass., visiting art studios DR. AUGUSTA McCOORD attended the internal medicine in Walnut Creek, Calif. and shops. International Congress of Biochemistry in

21 Paris in July. She presented a paper, "Elec­ 1927 Bertha's daughter, Alice Ruth, is 8, and trolyte Changes in Healing Wounds." Fol­ her son, John David, is 6. lowing the Congress, Dr. McCord, trav­ ELIZABETH BROADBRIDGE SIN~ eled in Europe. CLAIR is teaching in Collin's Bay, 00­ 1942 LESLIE SOMERS WATT and her hus­ tario. Her elder son, Duncan, is in his band are spending nine mo~ths in Europe second year at Queen's College, Kingston. Born: To David '42 and FONTAINE working with 21 groups of the organiza: HELEN TANGER motored with friends MAVERICK FALKOFF, their fifth son, tion Experiment in International Living. in Europe this summer. Maury Quintus, on July 1. David is a Their son is in Paris working with the same LUCILLE MILLER VANDELINDER'S physicist at M.LT. and Brandeis University. group. Their married daughter, Barbara, son, Roy Earl Jr., received both state and is living in Harrisburg, Pa., and their Rochester City scholarships to the Univer­ youngest daughter is a junior at Radcliffe. sity this fall. 1943 MARGARET YOUNG spent the sum­ BETSY PHILLIPS FISHER is living in mer on a tour of Europe. 1922 Genesee, Pa. Her husband is senior pastor of the newly formed Penn-York Gooper­ ative Parish ot'the Methodist Church there. Members of the class held a supper meet­ 1933 ing September 27 at the new home of They have a son, Freddy Tom, born in De­ cember, 1949, and a daughter, Cynthia Lou PHYLLIS VANCISE, 176 Peart Avenue, Pc. The class elected these officers: Chairman, born in May, 1951. Pleasant, N. Y. JANE HARPER LARMO secretary- EDNA BUTTERFIELD received her treasurer, LAVERNE LOYSEN NOLAN. M.A. from the UR in June. JANET CHAMPNEY visited Lake Placid 1944 SABRA TWITCHELL HARRIS is a this summer. Married: Calvin Kinley Brauer and chief consultant in elementary education GERTRUDE DOMRAS RAMEY and her MARGOT HEILBRUNN. for the Rochester Public Schools. husband spent the summer in Europe. MILDRED SMEED VAN DE WALLE HELEN HESS, a member of the Gene­ is alumni recorder for the University 1945 see Valley Hiking Club, went on a hiking trip in the Canadian Rockies this summer. GINNY MOFFAT JUDD has been in 1925 LAVERNE LOYSEN NOLAN and her Pitsanuloke, Thailand, since January. She family flew to California this summer. They and her husband, Larry, have been reorgan­ BELLE COLLIER BECK and her hus­ returned on the Santa Fe's famed Super izing a school there. Ginny says they are band, Pete, traveled to the West Coast to Chief. badly in need of "new desks, paint, books, celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. We are glad to hear that MEREDITH athletic equipment, etc.-we need almost En route they saw the Passion Play in DADSWELL RUSSELL has regained her everything," and adds, "The world wide Spearfish, S. D. health after a long illness. tension continued at a similar pitch as last BEA WHITHAM BRUGLER and her MILDRED RANDALL STALKER and fall. In Thailand the army dictatorship was husband, Mercer '25, flew to Japan this her husband visited Algonquin Park this tightened-so that there is even less civilian summer via Alaska. They visited Toyko, summer. They have a new addition to their participation in the government and most Osaka, and Kyoto (the old capital) as home in their adoption of a son, Alfred incipient democracy has been destroyed." well as some of the' smaller towns and saw Randall. Ginny asks, "When will the U.S. learn Mount Fujimaya. that aid to governments cannot be merely ELIZABETH CUBLEY visited LURA based on their being non-Communist, but SCHANCK HANLEY during the summer. 1934 given when there is assurance such aid Elizabeth teaches in Huntington, 1. I. will reach the common people and strength­ ATELIA PICCIOTTI MELAVILLE is en the local elements of good government?" HELEN FAIRMAN FREELAND visited living in Buffalo, where her husband is Ginny and her family hope to leave Thai­ her family in Rochester this summer with chief of professional services at the Vet­ land in April and are looking forward to glowing tales of the new home she and erans Administration Hospital. her husband. are building in Riverside, Cal. seeing their stateside friends. DOROTHY FILLINGHAM GREEN­ FIELD, her husband, Dwight '24, and their 1939 1946 family visited Cape Cod for their vacation. MARY LOUISE O'REILLY also visited EMILY CLAPP GILLISPIE is living at Born: To CECILE GENHART DUT­ the Cape. 1 Morgan Pl., Princeton, N. J. She has CHER, a daughter, on July 7. Cecile's hus­ been a part-time member of the staff of band, Hank, ran for state assemblyman in RUTH PAGE'S new address is 407 Ox­ the Jefferson Papers, p~blished by Prince­ the November elections. ford, St., Rochester. ton University and the Princeton University Born: To PEG CAVES JOHNSTON, Press. a son, Joel Caves, on July 18. 1926 Married: David Vaughan and JOSE­ 1940 PHINE WHITE on August 14 in Lake DOROTHY MARTENS was appointed Placid. They are living in Bozeman, Mont. girls adviser at Benjamin Franklin High Born: To BERTHA FIELD SCHELL­ Until her marriage, Jo was instructor in School in Rochester. BERG, a son, Thomas Paul, on July 7. modern dance at Montana State College.

22 1947 Ann, on August 9. They are living in Married: Thomas Rock and DIANE California. RATHJEN on July 11. They are living in NANCY BARTLETT accepted a posi­ Married: Donald Evory and JEAN Rochester. tion at the Bready School in New York MORRELL on September 27. Born: To Dick and TONI NORTON City. Married: Charles Lotz and GENE- ROSA, a daughter, Katrina, on July 13. STEPHANIE HENOCH BARCH re­ VIEVE PORTER on September 20. They are living at 254 Veterans PI., Ithaca, ceived her Ph.D. from the State University N. Y. of Iowa. Married: George Bitler '51 and BAR­ JANE STELLW AGEN is new assistant 1950 BARA ANN SCHNEIDER on June 28. In to Dr. Wallace. the wedding party were MARGARET JANE WELLS BUTTON'S new address Born: To EILEEN O'HARA BLAUW, TAYLOR MURPHY, JOANNE MacLEOD is 13 Grant Ave., Watertown 72, Mass. a daughter, Linda Mary, on Aug. 23. They RUPPRECHT and RAY MURPHY '49. Jane is a student at Boston University. are living at 401 Rockingham Street, Roch­ George and Barbara are employed at the JOAN OSBORN BROWN's new ad­ ester. Lederle Laboratories in Nyack, N. Y. dress is 43 Fernwood Pk., Rochester. Born: To Bill '44 and CAROL FAR- Born: To Arthur and BETTY KIN­ NUM GAVETT, a son, Bruce Farnum, on NEAR DAVENPORT, a daughter, Helen September 3. Elizabeth, on August 18. 1952 Born: To Walter and JAN MILLER Married: Stephen Michel and NANCY Engaged: Paul Miller and MARILYN HILL, a daughter, Robin Elaine, on Au­ HENDERSON on August 23. ADLER. gUSt 30. Born: To Bud and JEAN CUTLER Born: To Ed and MARY ANN. LINK Married: Cad Lieber and JEAN ROSS HENTY, a son, Scott Mason, on August 31. on October 11. CARNEY, a daughter, Ann Louise, on Born: To THELMA TRIMBLE JO­ eptember 17. Born: To MARGARET WALLACE HANOS a daughter, Jennifer, on Septem­ LOIS DEBES has returned from Europe. SEXTON, a daughter, Mary, in June. She ber 26. has two sons, Tom, 4, and Bill, 2. Her Married: Donald Still '48 and MARY­ CYNTHIA FARNUM and ANN MA­ husband has been recalled into the Navy. LIN JOHNSON on July 12. They are RIE IGOE are taking the personnel man­ Born: To JOAN HOSKING STARK­ occupying their new home at 591 Ridge­ agement course at Radcliffe. WEATHER, a son, Jeffrey Hunt, on April mont Dr., Rochester. BARBARA HULTMAN is at the Univer­ 10. Married: Maurice Blevins and ANNE sity of Buffalo Medical School. LAPHAM on July 19 in Charleston, S. C. Married: Bob Cuddebach and LOR­ Maurice and Anne are graduate assistants RAINE LACHNER. They are living in 1948 at Duke. California where Bob is stationed. Married: Edmund Sobolewski and MAR­ DOROTHY AESCHILMAN IS 10 Cha­ SALLY LUITWEILER DRUCKEN- ILYN MERZ in July. pel Hill, N. c., where she is head nurse in MILLER- is living in Newport, R. 1., where surgery at the Medical Center. her husband is stationed. Born: To Mark and DOROTHY KIN­ 1951 Married: David Stadler and ANNE EAR MILLER, a son, Bruce, on July 18, MORGAN. Their address is 888 San 1951, in Okinawa. They are now living Married: Jackson Learned, Jr., and Rafeal Dr., Pasadena, Calif. in Washington, D.C. SUZANNE ALLEN on July 19 in Penn MILADA STEINER is working at Married: Sheldon Bernstein and MAR­ Yan, N. Y. They are living in Elmira. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, ION STARK on June 22. Members of the wedding party included 1.1. LOU McENTEE and BARBARA CAMP­ Engaged: David John Audlin and Married: Lt. David Pefley and DIANA BELL HOWD. ELEANOR MAY VOCK. They plan to NEEL on August 30. be married in June. Eleanor is teaching HELEN COLLINS is working in the oc­ English in Bombay, N. Y. David is work­ cupational therapy departments in various ing for his Ph.D. at Syracuse University. hospitals in Boston. Married: James Utterbach and JOAN FERGUSON. They are living in Roch­ ScnfJfJ/ fJf Nursing 1949 ester where Jim is a student at the UR Medical School. Married: Joseph Schmitt and ANNE PAT ROHRER is secretary and office News from class members should be for­ INGEBRETSEN on September 13. HILDA manager at Harshe-Rotman, Inc., public re­ warded· to your class chairman or to the INGEBRETSEN MILLER was her sister's lations firm in the Cutler Building. Among Alumnae Office, Prince Street Campus. a wide variety of other duties in her first only attendant. few weeks on the job, she found herself Married: Forrest Kay Huntington and on television, modeling a skirt made of ANNE KING on August 16. 1939 ACl'ilan, a new fabric-manufactured by a Born: To Paul and DOROTHY HUS­ Harshe-Rotman client. SEY MALCHICK, a daughter, Barbara ELEANOR LOFTHOUSE has finished Born: To Walter and KIT KELLY Lou, on August 13. her third quarter semester of educational GRIGGS, a son, in July. Born: To Jerome and PHOEBE GAY administration study at the University of Born: To Bill and MARY ALICE RUS· NOLAN, a son, Jerome III in Hanover, Chicago and will be at Strong Memorial SELL HARMON, a daughter, Elizabeth N. H., where Jerry is interning. Hospital until next March.

23 1940 as a chemical engineer in lacquer formula­ tion and research, later worked for the SALLY SHAEFER JACKSON gave birth College for Women Atomic Energy Commission. to her fourth daughter in September. THOMAS P. McCARRICK, '99, one of 1941 Rochester's oldest practicing attorneys, died NINA THISTLEWAITE DURFEE, '19, ANN BATER was married to Richard August 2 at the age of 79. Mr. McCarrick died August 3, 1952. A resident of East C. Young on September 13 and is living was widely known for his religious and Rochester, she was active in church and at 110 Berkely Street, Rochester. welfare work. He was president of the club activities there and in the AAUW and N. Y. State Board of Child Welfare from DAR. Her hu~band, her daughter, her 1946 1922 to 1923 and from 1917 to 1924, mother, th~e sisters and a brother survive. CATHERINE MIRAHITO has accepted served as vice-chairman of the Monroe RUTH T. MILLER, '08, died August 3, a position as evening supervisor at Strong County Board of Child Welfare. He drew 1952, at her home, Fraser Farm, Scotts­ Memorial Hospital. up the rules under which the board func­ tions today. He was active in organizing ville, N. Y. After attending the University, 1947 the Rochester Catholic Charities and the she was graduated from the University of Chicago and received her master's degree MARGARET STROUP DAVIS has re­ St. Elizabeth Guild House. from Columbia University. After a career turned from New York City and is living CLIFFORD F. McNAUGHT, '10, a in library work, as director and teacher, in in the Ellison Park apartments. member of Theta Chi, died at his home in the school systems of Cleveland, Rochester DOROTHY TAYLOR is now in charge Elmira, N. Y., on June 30. With the and New York City, she retired in 1944 of the pediatric out-patient department at Elmira Board of Education since 1913, he and had spent her winters in Florida. Yale.. was principal of Southside high school at DR. CAROLINE HARRIS STEVENS, 1949 the time of his death. He obtained his B.A. from the University in 1926, his M.A. '14, died in New York City on January 1 MARY DAVIES COOPER has returned from Cornell in 1934, and also attended at the age of 73. A retired professor in to Rochester from living in England. A summer sessions at Columbia, New York the Department of English at Hunter Col­ daughter was born to her on October 6, University, and University of Wisconsin. lege, she had taught there from 1930 until 1952. An elder of the First Presbyterian Church her retirement in 1949. She also had taught RITA THORNHILL GRASE and her of Elmira, he was also active in Rotary, English at Honeoye Falls, N. Y., High family, including a new son, have returned Torch Club, Boy Scout Council, Corning School and in West High, Rochester. A to Rochester and are living at University Consistory and was a director of the Steele graduate of Vassar in 1900, she received Park. Memorial Library. her M.A. degree from the University and her Ph.D. from the University of Cali­ SMITH SHELDON, '91, retired treas­ fornia in 1925. She did graduate work at urer of the Harris Seed Co., died July 5 the Universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania IN MEMORIAM at the age of 83. Until 1932 Mr. Sheldon and Columbia and wrote "The Treatment had his own business of making showcases. of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry." WILLIAM P. CROSS, '01, a member of He was on the board of the Monroe CQunty Phi Beta Kappa, died in Rochester on Oc­ Savings Bank for many years. He is sur­ MARGARET HITCHCOCK WALKER, tober 8 at the age of 73. Former president vived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Sheldon. '30, died unexpectedly in Johnson City, N. and treasurer of the Cross (Shoe) Pattern WILLIAM E. SMITH, '40, a member Y., on June 17 at the age of 42. A native Company, Inc., he had headed the firm of Delta Upsilon, died in Rochester on of Lebanon, N. Y., she had lived in John. from 1904 to 1950. A lifelong participant September 28. For the past 12 years he son City since 1937, and was day camp in Givic and humanitarian affairs in Roch­ had been supervisor of Monroe County director of the Johnson City District Girl ester, he was a Red Cross Gray Man at assessors and a consultant on tax assess­ Scouts. Active in civic and church work, veterans' hospitals, and an active member ment problems. A native of East Bloom­ she was a Girl Scout troup leader, super­ of the Park Avenue Baptist Church which field, N. Y., he was for several years in intendent of the junior Sunday School, he served as Sunday school te~cher, deacon, educational work in New York City, and Sarah Jane Johnson Memorial Methodist trustee and superintendent. In his com­ later in the controller's office there. He Church, a member of the Broome County munity he served as president of the Parent­ came to Rochester in 1917 and was spe­ Council of Church Women and a past Teacher Association and the Pittsford Dis­ cial agent for the State Department of Tax­ president of Lincoln School PTA. Surviv­ cussion Club. Surviving are his wife, Helen, ation and Finance. He was a member of ing are her husband and two daughters. two daughters and a son. Blessed Sacrament Church and of its Holy ELLA B. WALSH, '14, social worker VICTOR M. BUTTERFIELD, '95, died Name Society. Surviving are his wife, and former policewoman, died at her home May 5, 1951, at the age of 81. A native of Mary and a daughter. in Rochester on July 2. She was 58. Mrs. Centerville, N. Y, he prepared at Roches­ THE REV. REINHOLD E. ZACHERT, Walsh was employed by the Monroe Coun­ ter Free Academy, later earned the Town­ '01, member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, died ty Department of Public Welfare for 15 send Scholarship at the University. Fol· unexpectedly on July 17, in his home in years. For three years, 1944-1947, she lowing graduation, he was successively a Cuthbert, Ga. He was a retired Baptist served as a member of the Rochester Police traveling salesman, farmer and merchant in clergyman. He obtained his Th. M. degree Department in a drive against juvenile de­ the Rochester area. from Southern Baptist Theological Sem­ linquency. A native of Detroit, Mich., she DEKOVEN HUNTER, '36, a member inary, Louisville, Ky., in 1916, and served moved to Rochester with her family and of Delta Upsilon, died recently. Following in Brinson 'and Cuthbert, Ga. Surviving is received her early schooling here. Surviv­ graduation he was employed by Du Pont his wife, Cora. ing are four daughters and one son.

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