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NEW COUNCIL EXECUTIVE MUSICIANS ENJOY TRIP Heasley'30 Secretary By John S. Thatcher '40 New executive secretary of the Cornel- Alumni, their families, and their guests Han Council is Walter C. Heasley '30. in five cities turned out in full force to He took up his duties at Alumni House greet the Musical Clubs on their recent January 3, succeeding Archie M. Palmer Christmas trip. The show, "Shifting Ί8, who resigned last June to become Scenes," written and staged by T. Nelson president of the University of Chatta- Magill, AM '37, a soloist in the Glee nooga. Club, was well received and thoroughly For the last five years, Heasley has enjoyed by audiences at all performances. been manager of the brokerage office in In Albany, December x6, a large Bradford, Pa., of A. J. Wright and Com- crowd packed the auditorium of Philip pany of Buffalo, and of Abbott, Proctor, Livingston Junior High School to hear and Paine, of New York City. From 1930 the Club's opening performance. Heading to I93X he was with the Guaranty Trust the list of patrons and patronesses were Company of New York in New York Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman. City and Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1933 he Cadets of the Albany Military Academy has been a director of the Bradford com- lent color to the occasion as ushers. A munity chest, and last fall managed a committee headed by W. Richard Mor- chest campaign which raised $68,500 in gan '2.7 was in charge of arrangements this community of 19,300 persons. WALTER C. HEASLEY '30 for the show and the dance which Heasley entered the Arts College in followed. 19x6, having spent a year at Mercersburg football game as they were shown on the The next day the Clubs stopped at Academy after graduating in 1915 from screen. Philadelphia, where the performance the Warren, Pa., High School. He was Dr. Dean F. Smiley Ί6, University was given in the ballroom of the Belle- captain of the Freshman track team, won Medical Adviser, was elected president vue-Stratford. A large audience enjoyed the " C" as a hurdler, and won the high of the reorganized Club, to serve for two the show and remained for the dance hurdles event in the Cornell, Princeton- years. Norman G. Stagg '2.6 is vice- following, both arranged by a committee Oxford, Cambridge meet in London in president; Edgar A. Whiting '2.9 is sec- of Cornellians headed by Morris D. Van 1930. He was secretary-treasurer and retary; and Clarence F. Morse '14 is Patten '2.9. The Kruse family were much president of Spiked Shoe, president of treasurer. Director to serve for three in the picture at Philadelphia. Otto V. , for two years a mem- years is William R. Wigley '07; for two Kruse '09 was on the executive commit- ber of the Student Council, three years a years, James E. Matthews '17; for one tee, William C. Kruse '38 led the audience member of the Arts College honor com- year, Warren A. Ranney 'z9. in a request number, and Raymond W. mittee, served on the University Chest Kruse '41, another son, was a member committee, is a member of Beth L'Amed PRESIDENT IN BOSTON of the Glee Club quartette. President Day will speak in Boston, and Chi Phi. He majored in Economics, On Wednesday evening, December 2.8, received the AB in 1930, and as a Senior Mass., January 17, at a luncheon of the Cornell Club of New England, for all the show was given in the William Penn was an instructor in Accounting. High School in Harrisburg, Pa., in which In May, 1933, he married Katherine Cornell men and women and their guests. It will be at the Parker House at 11:30. city the travellers were entertained over- W. Ziegler, Vassar '31, of Haverford, night in the homes of alumni and their Pa., and they have two children, Diane, The next day he is to address the Wo- men's Club of Worcester, Mass., and at friends. That afternoon the Clubs went three-and-a-half, and David, one-and-a- on the air for two fifteen-minute radio half years old. Mrs. Heasley and the 5 p.m. will be entertained by Cornellians at the University Club. broadcasts. Following the evening per- children will come to Ithaca later. formance before a banner crowd, the ITHACA CLUB REORGANIZES PLAN SPORTS BUILDINGS Cornell Club held a dance at the Harris- burg Country Club. Arrangements in More than zoo alumni of Ithaca The Board of Trustees has retained Harrisburg were under the direction of gathered in Willard Straight Memorial Frederick L. Ackerman Όi, the architect John W. Magoun '12.. Room December 15 for a reorganization of Balch Halls, to prepare plans for two meeting of the Cornell Club of Ithaca. indoor sports buildings for the Campus, Hosts on Thursday night in Wilming- The last time the Club had met was in one for men and one for women. Presi- ton were the members of the Cornell May, 1932., when it gave a farewell party dent Day said last week that preliminary Club of Delaware. With this visit came to Colonel Joseph W. Beacham '97 who sketches are to be turned over to J. Du- the boys' first real chance to exercise was being relieved as Commandant of Pratt White '90, chairman of the Trus- after their continuous train riding. The the ROTC. tees' committee on buildings and grounds, cast was invited to R. R. Carpenter's Foster M. Coffin '12., Alumni Repre- early in March, it is hoped, and that they roller skating rink, where for the time sentative, told of the recent Chicago are in preparation for a fund-raising being everyone forgot the show for a convention of the Cornell Alumni Corpo- effort later in 1939. highly entertaining (although in many ration; Professor Charles L. Durham '99, In taking this first step toward the cases somewhat painful) afternoon. The Latin, spoke of the opportunities for an proposed new buildings, the Trustees Gold Ballroom of Hotel duPont was the active Cornell Club in Ithaca; and Henry followed the recommendation of Trustee scene of the show and dance that evening. S. Godshall '36, assistant director of H. Edward Babcock, chairman of a All arrangements were competently taken Physical Education and Athletics, in- Board committee to make a survey of the care of by the committee headed by troduced B^air Gullion, the new basket- athletic needs of the University, and of Stephen J. Daly '33. ball coach. Mose Quinn, assistant coach, James Lynah '05, Director of Physical The final stop of the trip was at Balti- explained color movies of the Dartmouth Education and Athletics. more December 30. Here, in the after- 174 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS noon, the Clubs were pleased to vary 54, Baldwin-Wallace 36; January z at their program to include a special per- South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame 48, Cor- formance by a part of the group for the About nell 18; January 3 at Champaign, Illinois women patients at the Home for In- 35, Cornell 34. curables. This was greatly enjoyed by ATHLETICS In those six^games James E. Bennett, the patients and was certainly a worth- Jr. '41 of Poland, Ohio, socred 59 and while service by the Clubs. POLO RIDES ON Captain Walter H. Foertsch '39 of Roch- The show and dance were both held Back in the Riding Hall after a three- ester, 51 of the team's zzi points. at the Maryland Casualty Auditorium, game holiday tour of Ohio, the ROTC Foertsch, Bennett, and Edwin Leonard and the success of both was due in a polo team defeated Essex Troop of '40 of Ithaca were the high scorers large part to the committee of which Newark, N. J., last Saturday, zi-n. against Syracuse. Bennett, Leonard, and C. Stewart Fiske 'zi was chairman. It was the team's seventh successive George F. Polzer, Jr. '40 of Staten Island Following this performance, the group victory. set the pace against Pennsylvania. disbanded, some returning to Ithaca and Cornell spotted the Troop four goals The Pennsylvania game box score: others going to their respective ήomes. and did not gain the lead until the CORNELL (19} The cast comprised sixty-five members second period. Captain Arthur B. Chris- G F P of the Glee and Instrumental Clubs. tian '39 of Elmira was high scorer with Bennett, f 3x8 The production was under the joint ten goals. Vaughan, f i o 2. Ramsey, f 102. supervision of Eric Dudley, director of In Ohio, the team defeated the Cincin- Dunbar, f o o o the Glee Club, and George L. Coleman nati Cavalry, 15-13 and 17-16, and won Foertsch, c 2. i 5 '95, director of the Instrumental Club. over the First Cleveland Cavalry, 15-14. Hanson, c o o o They travelled in two Pullmans, the David Pollak '40 of Cincinnati played Polzer, g 2. Ί. 6 Leonard, g 306 arrangements made by William Y. at No. i in the Cincinnati games, but Jolly, g ooo Hutchinson '39 of Chicago, 111., manager; gave way to Merton F. Gerhauser '39 of Liebman, g ooo R. Selden Brewer '40 of Hartford, Conn., Chagrin Falls, Ohio, for the Cleveland assistant manager; William J. Fleming game. Christian played at No. z and Totals 12. 5 2.9 '39 of Jackson Heights, publicity direc- Henry J. Lawrence '40 of Smithtown PENNSYLVANIA (40 tor; and John S. Thatcher '40 of Ithaca, Branch, at No. 3. G F P Hahn, f 0 assistant publicity director. Saturday's lineups: 0 0 S. Retchin, £ I z 4 SNAVELY TO BUFFALO Pos. CORNELL (2.i) ESSEX TROOP (n) Diven, f 5 o 10 No. i—Pollak Brauchli Mischo, c 9 13 Cornell Club of Buffalo will have a No. 2.—Christian Lyons Gustafson, c 0 0 0 smoker Saturday, January 14, at the No. 3—Lawrence Egerton Seeders, g -L z 6 University Club at 8:00 p.m. Coach Carl Score by periods: N. Retchin, g 0 0 0 Cornell 473 7—2.1 G. Snavely will be the guest of honor. Schreiber, g 4 0 8 Essex Troop i i i 4—n McNichol, g o 0 0 "" OF VIRGINIA Handicap: Essex Troop, 4 goals. Goals: Cornell, Pollak 3, Christian 10, Totals 14 13 41 Eighty-six alumni of eight Eastern Lawrence 4, Gerhauser 3, by pony i; Essex Score at half-time: Cornell 15, Pennsylvania colleges and universities met for dinner Troop, Brauchli z, Lyons i, Egerton 4. 18. Referees: Glascott and Wallace. December 10 at the Hotel John Marshall Fouls: Cornell, Pollak i, Lawrence 2.; Essex The Junior Varsity basketball team in Richmond, Va., to form the "Ivy Troop, Brauchli i, Lyons 2.. Substitute: Cornell, Gerhauser. broke even in two games last week, League of Virginia." Twenty-eight of Referee: Capt. John R. Pitman. losing to Syracuse, 4o-zo, January 5, and the guests were Cornellians, and Irving defeating Dickinson Seminary, 36-31, W. Hamm '31 spoke for Cornell. Dr. BASKETBALL TEAM BUSY January 7. Thomas Wheeldon, president of the The basketball team returned to the Harvard Club of Virginia, opened the Drill Hall court January 5 after a six- WIN TWO AT HOCKEY meeting, and Charles C. Milham, an game Christmas holiday trip, and lost to By one goal in the final game the alumnus of Dartmouth, presided as Syracuse, 41-30. Two nights later, in the hockey team lost its chance to annex the toastmaster. He introduced also speakers Palestra at Philadelphia, the team lost to Samuel H. Packer trophy at Lake Placid representing Brown, Columbia, Dart- Pennsylvania, 41-2.9. during the Christmas holidays. mouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Prince- The Pennsylvania game opened the The team defeated St. Lawrence, n-i, ton, and Yale, and songs of all the thirty-sixth year of the Eastern Inter- and Hamilton, z-o, but lost to Williams, participating colleges were sung. Cor- collegiate Basketball League. 4-3, in the final of the College Week nell, according to our reporter, George The holiday trip brought two victories tournament. L. Bascombe '05, was "the life of the and four defeats. In ten games to date, Stanley B. Roberts, Jr. '41 of Clinton party." It was decided to hold another Cornell has won four and lost six. and Kenneth O. Reed '41 of Ithaca "Ivy League" party in the spring. Against Syracuse, the team played a topped the scorers in the St. Lawrence Besides Bascombe and Hamm, Cornel- fast game in the first half, gaining a zι-i7 game with three goals each. Jack R. lians present were Harry D. Howe '92., halftime lead, then wilted in the second Babson '39 of Syracuse, Carl J. Geiger George H. Whit field '96, Howard V. period. The players had returned from '40 of Syracuse, and Augustus H. Nicholls Whitney '09, Burton J. Ray, PhD '09, Champaign, 111., the morning of the '40 of Ithaca were the other scorers. Gilbert C. Molleson Ίz, Robert C. Syracuse game. Against Hamilton, Glen O. Allen '41 Ancarrow '14, John L. Guest 'zi, W. The story was virtually the same of Ithaca and Roberts were the scorers. Wallace Neale 'zi, Walter A. J. Ewald against Pennsylvania. The team played In the final game, Williams gained a 'zz, Leonard C. Hanson 'zz, Austin well in the first half, holding Pennsyl- one-goal lead in the early minutes and Brockenbrough, Jr. 'z3, Winthrop D. vania to an 18-15 lead at the half, and held the margin all the way to the final Washburn 'z3, Eugene M. Hakanson 'z6, then tired rapidly in the second half. whistle. Alfred R. Leiserson 'z6, G. Gordon Results of the holiday tour: The regular lineup included Albert D. Mitchell '2.7, Vincent J. Ruck ?Z7, Frank December zz at Rye, Michigan 4z, Bosson '39 of Belmont, Mass., goal; C. Richter, Jr. 'z8, Curtis W. Markland Cornell Z7; December Z7 at Buffalo, Cor- Raymond F. McElwee '40 of Ithaca, left '30, John P. Mange '31, John H. Palmer nell 5Z, Canisius 3z; December z8 at defense; Robert L. Wiggans '40 of Ithaca, '35, Roger H. Wing '36, and John G. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 50, Cornell 36; right defense; Babson, center; Roberts, December 30 at Cleveland, Ohio, Cornell left wing; and Reed, right wing. JANUARY I2_, 1939

Spares included Allen, Geiger, Nicholls, John C. Perry '41 of Ithaca and Vincent falling bodies is more than a hundred Jimmie W. Killian '42. of Brooklyn, J. Peppe '41 of Pine Plains were given times too small. Clark C. Kimball '41 of Watertown, and honorable mention on the All-Eastern "The same objection is raised against a Eugene F. Patterson '39 of Burt. soccer team selected by coaches for the later hypothesis, made at the beginning Lack of ice caused cancellation of the Associated Press. of this century, that radio-activity is the first game of the regular season, with The yellow baseball will be official for source of stellar energy." Colgate on Beebe Lake last Saturday. teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate Base- Dr. Bethe then described recent dis- The temperature at noon that day reached ball League this year. In the only game coveries in disintegration of atomic 47 degrees. it played with the yellow ball last spring, nuclei by the impacts of other nuclei. VARSITY SKIIERS SIXTH Cornell defeated Syracuse, z-i. The popular name for this is atom The ski team finished in sixth place, Final ail-American of 1938: Football smashing. The disintegrated atoms re- with 387 points, in the College Week players, voting for Liberty magazine, combine, and in doing so release enorm- tournament at Lake Placid between elected William W. McKeever '39 of ous amounts of heat or other forms of Christmas and New Year's. McGill Uni- Wayne, Pa., second team tackle, and energy. It has been generally assumed versity won with 499.8 points. Jerome H. Holland '39 of Auburn third that such disintegrations supply the heat The Cornell skiiers were Falk N. team end, giving honorable mention to of the sun. But nobody knew which kind Falkenberg '42. of Oslo, Norway; Wil- Captain Alfred F. Van Ranst '39 of of nuclei was the fuel. liam E. Fisher, Jr. '40 of Stevens Point, Brooklyn, center; A. Sidney Roth '39 of "When a carbon nucleus," Dr. Bethe Wis.; William O. Nicoll '42. of Scotia; Brooklyn, guard; Carl F. Spang '39 of explained, "is disintegrated by the im- Arnold Nye '41 of Bronxville; Fred N. Quincy, Mass., end; and George W. Peck pact of a fast hydrogen nucleus, almost Potter '41 of Plainfield, N. J.; and Dana '39 of Elmira, back. ten million times as much heat is de- B. Waring '39 of Ithaca. veloped as in the ordinary combustion of a carbon atom in a stove. Only, it takes ODDS AND ENDS FINDS SUN'S HEAT SOURCE much higher temperatures to set nuclei Two Cornell entrants in the national 4 afire' than ordinary atoms. junior indoor tennis tournament in New Coal lights at a temperature of a few York City during Christmas week were hundred degrees. Atomic nuclei 'light' eliminated in the early rounds. Jerome I. only at about ten million degrees. Such Lieberthal '42. of Brooklyn lost in the temperatures are out of question on earth. second round to Orme Wilson, Jr. of But in stars they occur all the time. Ed- Harvard, 8-6, 0-6, 8-6; and Louis C. dington has calculated that the tempera- Boochever, Jr. '41 of Ithaca, was de- ture of our sun at the center is twenty feated in the third round by Donald million degrees." Burlington of Duke, 6-1, 6-3. In the first Professor Bethe has shown that the round of doubles Boochever and Lieber- nuclear reactions between carbon, hydro- thal lost to Isadore Bellis of Pennsyl- gen, and nitrogen give exactly the right vania and Malcolm Weinstein of Penn amount of heat to the sun every second, State, 5-7, 6-z, 6-3. while any other nuclear action would Post-season football games January 2. give either thousands of times too much engaged four Cornell Seniors. A. Sidney or too little radiation. Roth of Brooklyn started at left guard It is the hydrogen, he says, that for the East team against the West team actually burns. What happens is that the at San Francisco. East lost, 14-0. Carl F. carbon serves to bring together hydrogen Spang of Quincy, Mass., started at right and nitrogen in a series of nuclear trans- end for the North team against the formations. These ultimately proceed to South team at Montgomery, Ala., with the point where the carbon is regener- William W. McKeever of Wayne, Pa., PROFESSOR HANS A. BETHE, Physics, ated. In this way much heat is given off going in as substitute left tackle, and (above) has received the Morrison Prize with little apparent loss of matter. Alfred F. Van Ranst of Brooklyn playing of $500 for "the best paper on solar and Author of the most authoritative work part of the game at center. Carl Snavely stellar energy," awarded by the New yet written on nuclear physics and an was a co-coach of the North team, which York Academy of Sciences at its recent international authority in theoretical won, 7-0. annual dinner meeting at the Hotel physics, Dr. Bethe joined the Faculty in Kasimir E. Hipolit '41 of South Bound Astor, New York City. In his paper, 1935 as acting assistant professor of Brook, N. J., underwent an operation to "Energy Production in Stars," he proved Physics, a displaced German scholar drain a kidney abscess December 2.7. He by theoretical calculations that carbon is from the University of Munich. Among was reported at the Infirmary as in the source of the intense heat continu- his teaehers abroad were two winners of <4good condition." ously radiated by the sun and other stars. the Nobel Prize, Enrique Fermi and Jerome H. Holland '39 of Auburn was Interpreting his calculations, Dr. Bethe Niles Bohr. He was appointed professor feted by the Booker T. Washington Club explains that on earth man burns only of Physics in July, 1937. and Cornell Club of Auburn at a dinner the outside of the carbon atom; that "to in Osborne Hall January 3. He received supply the heat radiated by the sun in a PREPARE FOR CORNELL DAY a desk lamp. At the dinner from Ithaca single second, ten billion tons of coal Cornell Club of Philadelphia will open were Louis C. Boochever Ίz, Ray S. would have to be burned." In the sun, the season of meetings for secondary Ashbery '15, Robert E. Treman '09, and however, the nucleus of the atom school boys in preparation for the 1939 George W. Peck '39. "burns," giving many times more heat Cornell Day. Its party will be given Henry S. Godshall, Jr. ^6, Assistant than the "outside." January 2.7 at the Cornell Club, with Director of Physical Education and "The first explanation, suggested more Professor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, Athletics, and two assistant coaches, than a century ago, was that every and Ray S. Ashbery '2.5, Alumni Field George K. James and John H. Rowland, particle in the sun falls toward the sun's Secretary, as speakers. This will be one attended the Christmas season conven- center and that the energy of these fall- of the first showings of the new color tion of the National Football Coaches' ing bodies is converted into heat. But it movies of the Campus taken by Barrett Association in Chicago. soon turned out that the energy of these L. Gallagher '35. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ι76

31. Buffet luncheon was served, followed ALUMNI LEARN ABOUT CORNELL by motion pictures of the Dartmouth From Students Home For Holidays game. Robert N. Austen '2.2, won a "turkey shoot." December 2.8, 169 at- Alumni in many cities got acquainted attended. President Frank J. Durham Ί6 tended a buffet supper and reception for with undergraduates at home for Christ- presided, and a real floor show by boys Coach Blair Gullion and the basketball mas recess, at special parties given by and girls of the Chicago Park District team at the University Club, after the Cornell Clubs and reported to us by was arranged by H. Kirke Becker Ίi, game with Pittsburgh. press time. chairman of the entertainment commit- Cornell Club of New England Christ- In New York City the Cornell Wo- tee. Erskine Wilder '05 led the singing of mas luncheon at the Parker House in men's Club gave a reception for Faculty Cornell songs. Boston December 2.8 had forty persons members December 2.8, and "members In Cincinnati December 2.8, fourteen attending, including eighteen under- old and young enjoyed visiting with the members of the Cornell Club of Southern graduates and three prospective Cornel- guests and reminiscing over good old Ohio entertained at luncheon fourteen Hans. Frank H. Briggs '35, assistant to times on the Hill." That evening* seven undergraduates and members of the the president of the Parker House, pro- members of the Club of recent Classes ROTC polo team who were there to play vided floral decorations of red and white, told of their experiences in getting and the Cincinnati Cavalry. Vernon Chase red tomato soup dressed with whipped holding jobs at a supper for undergradu- Ί6, president of the Club, first called cream, and for dessert raspberry sherbet ates, which thirty-five attended. upon Major Charles E. Boyle, polo topped with a white "C." President coach, and then upon David Pollak '40 Cornell Women's Club of Buffalo in- Giles M. Smith Ό8 welcomed the guests; of Cincinnati, who introduced his fellow vited fifty women students and their Alumni Trustee George H. Rockwell '13 players. mothers to the annual Christmas tea, spoke especially to the undergraduates December 2.8, at the home of Dr. Harriet Thirty-nine undergraduates of Cleve- about the possibilities of their life at Hosmer Ί8. In spite of stormy weather, land and vicinity were invited to bring Cornell; and James B. Pender '39 of the 12.5 attended. They were received by Dr. their fathers to the annual father-and-son Varsity track team and Louis C. Buίalino Hosmer, Aline M. Jokl '30, president of luncheon of the Cornell Club of Cleve- '42. of the Freshman football team told of the Club; Mrs. Richard B. Overbagh land, December 2.9, at the Hotel Statler. prospects in their respective sports. (Elizabeth D. Donovan) '35, vice-presi- Dr. Harry A. Peters, head master of Among the guests were also Arthur N. dent; Mary P. Tillinghast '36, Mrs. University School, spoke on " Father and Gibb '90 of Ithaca, who was visiting his Vernon G. Caldwell (Dorothy F. Sulli- Son," color movies of the Dartmouth son, John C. Gibb '2.4, and Thomas van) '2.3, Hilda L. Goltz '2.1, and L. Jane football game were shown, and alumni Dransfield, Jr. '34, formerly of Boston Burnett '2.6. and undergraduates provided music under and now in Minneapolis, Minn. Cornell Club of Chicago entertained at the guidance of George W. Teare '2.1. and With Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engi- luncheon December 19 in the Hotel La- Charles W. Dean, Jr. ^3. neering, Emeritus, the principal speaker, Salle not only undergraduates of the In Pittsburgh, thirty-six guests in- seventy-three alumni and undergraduates vicinity but several younger sons of Cor- cluding students, fathers, and prospective from Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster lians who came with their fathers, and Freshmen, and forty members enjoyed counties who attended the twenty- members of the Law Faculty who were the annual Christmas party of the Cornell seventh annual banquet of the Cornell there for meetings of the American Law Club of Western Pennsylvania, at the Club of Dutchess County voted it the School Association, among the 151 who Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club, December most successful one of all. Ernest R. Acker '17, toastmaster, also introduced Kenneth G. Brown '40 of Millerton and the Varsity football team, who told something of the past season, and Isaac Platt '98 sang the "Alumni Song." Although there is no Cornell Club in Liberty, thirty alumni, students, and friends met for dinner there December 2.9, called together by Charles A. Guzewich '38. It was agreed that a similar gather- ing should be held during the Christmas recess next year, and Guzewich and Dr. Roy C. Johnston '1.0 were delegated to arrange it. At the annual luncheon for under- graduates of the Cornell Club of Syra- cuse, December 30, it was announced by Walter W. Edwards '93 that the State Historical Society had agreed to place a marker at the boyhood home of Ezra Cornell in nearby DeRuyter, and that the "CORNELL & CAYUGA RAILROAD" TAKES FORM IN DEAN HOLLISTER'S CELLAR Club would sponsor appropriate cere- Undergraduate directors of the model road put finishing touches on the rolling monies there in the spring. Description of stock, which they have built since last April. Left to right, are John B. Holt '41 of Edward's activities to this end appeared Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Van Wormer Walsh, Jr. '40 of Weston's Mills, chief engineer in the ALUMNI NEWS December 15. The of the Road; John H. Wolfe, Jr. '42. of Towson, Md.; Colin C. Eldridge '41 of Grosse family home still stands, on a side road Point, Mich., president of the Railroad; and John G. Hollister '41, son of the Dean of off Route 13. Engineering. By next May, they will have their "crack" train, the Big Red, and others Richard Aronson '2.6, president of the running on regular schedule through a countryside built exactly to scale of that be- Club, and William J. Thorne Ίi, chair- tween Ithaca and Auburn, over 1,000 feet of four-track "main line," with automatic man of the Cornell Alumni Corporation block signals and electric power tapped from the Hollister house current. Directors pay committee on secondary schools, intro- fifty cents a week, and all equipment becomes the property of the Railroad. duced Professor John R. 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Administrative Engineering; Ray S. Ash- You don't believe that, do you? The bery '2.5, Alumni Field Secretary of the professional teams play only on Sunday. University; and Robert H. Ecker '40, who NOW, IN MY TIME! They get relatively little publicity. this year succeeds to the presidency of By Romeyn Berry There isn't much sport page build-up for the Syracuse Undergraduates' Club. He their stars, and men who ought to know follows John C. Hemingway '39. Robert have told you that while the profes- E. Kilian '41 was elected vice-president, Every year since radios became stand- sionals are more skillful and spectacular to assume the presidency next year. ard household equipment, we've used than the college players, there isn't Cornell Club of Rochester at its first ours in the dusk of New Year's Day to nearly as much excitement and color in luncheon for fathers, Cornell sons, and pick up the Pasadena football game and the professional games. their guests, December iS at the Univer- to share vicariously in its excitement But the professionals don't have to sity Club, had 150 present—the largest and drama. confine themselves to Sunday, and I number at any Rochester Cornell lunch- But not this year! This year we turned venture to predict that the moment they eon. Marvin R. Dye '17 presided, and the dials languidly now and then feel themselves strong enough and sense entertainment was by Rochester ma- through the afternoon to find out what, the diminution of public interest (more gicians and musicians. if anything, was going on in a half-score and more artificially stimulated) in col- Gravy Bowls; but by the middle of the lege games, they'll spread over into YEAR-END STATEMENTS first period at Pasadena we had become Saturday—and then Wednesday—and Year-end statements of business, finan- fed up and were reading a book. then—. cial, and industrial leaders published by That unprecedented apathy puzzles us. It will take a long time for college the New York Herald Tribune January 3 It would seem to indicate that a marked football to go the way of college base- include those of Henry Bruere Ox, presi- change has come over college football, ball, but the moment the professionals dent of the Bowery Savings Bank, and or else a marked change has come over spread over into Saturday and start filling Neal D. Becker '05, University Trustee us. Either we need to be gone over by a baseball parks that are now calling for and president of the Intertype Cor- doctor or college football does. profitable use in the fall and early winter, poration. Most readers will smile good-naturedly the great retreat will have started. The Bruere sees in the continued growth of at this point and will dismiss the subject non-college public will follow the best mutual savings bank deposits and number with the comment: "The old boy is football (which is professional football, of depositors, "despite adverse employ- slipping." But with equal good nature of course), and when the newspapers ment and business conditions," indica- I arise to question the sufficiency of the sense that shift in public interest, it will tion of '' the tough fibre of the American diagnosis, conceding its plausibility. be the professional games that are news, economic system." He cites also the I think it's college football that needs and the professional stars whose pictures growth of government baby bond sales, the doctor, and needs him quick. I think are pasted on the fences. estimated at $500,000,000 for 1938, college football needs to slow down, Who was the outstanding college "many of which are doubtless bought ease up, and get back to the campus as baseball pitcher last spring? You don't by wage earners." Savings banks, he an autumn pastime if it is to avoid a know! And twenty years after the pro- says, have greatly increased their invest- nervous breakdown disastrous to more fessionals start playing on Saturday, too, ments in government securities, in place than the patient and his immediate you won't remember in January who of municipal and state bonds, railway family. were the great college ball carriers 'way and public utility securities and mort- I feel about football now just the way back there in November. gages. Federal Housing Administration I felt about the artificially-stimulated I don't want to see all that happen, insured mortgages, he says, are a well- bull market of 192.8 and 192.9, and I know but I'm certain it will happen unless the secured outlet for savings bank funds, my views will be just as unpopular now colleges get together, ease up on foot- but he fears that excessive building under as they were then. Nobody will listen ball, get the game back on the campus their stimulus may damage existing to me and some folks will get mad, and under more temperate time limita- mortgage portfolios. which fact is, of itself, significant. It is a tions. What will make it happen will be Domestic business is trending upward, sign that drug addiction has reached the loss of public interest through satiety. according to Becker, but uncertainty as pathological stage when the victim be- Nobody can curb and rationalize the to government policies is holding back comes enraged by his friends' suggestions present football bull market except the investment for durable goods. "As to that he try to taper off a little. men who are making their living out of foreign business there is ground for This, then, is the croaking prophecy it and who believe that the bull market serious apprehension ... difficulties of a Cassandra who has been watching a will last forever because that's what with exchange are getting worse rather wholesome game develop unwholesome they want to believe. The college admin- than better, our cotton exports are growths through forty years: istrations could do it, of course, but gradually declining, and German com- To hold public interest and keep up they're all pretty timid about starting petition is increasingly more formidable. attendance, college teams will have to anything, and I don't know as I blame If the world is to avoid a generally lower keep on getting better and better until them. The pioneer administration in standing of living, ways and means must something snaps. The only way to make curbing and rationalizing would get its be found to develop a freer international them better is to keep on getting bigger ears knocked off. trade. ..." and better players to start with, and to Well, anyway, a Happy New Year to Just before Christmas, Carl W. Baden- spend more time and effort on their in- you, and you, and you, too! hausen Ί6, president of P. Ballantine & struction, training, and development. Son, brewers, announced the best busi- More public interest and larger patronage ness year in the company's history, and having been created by more proficient DINNER IN UTICA distribution of bonuses to salaried em- teams, the schedules will have to be Cornell Club of the Mohawk Valley ployees amounting to $2,10,000. "This stepped up and the playing season ex- will meet for dinner in Utica January 2.0, year's business having been fine, and tended in order to satisfy the non-college, with Professor Bristow Adams, Agri- since we can see no reason why the next public appetite. Then all of a sudden, I culture Publications, as guest speaker. two years won't be even better, we think think, that appetite for college football E. Vincent Eichler '40 of Utica, football it fitting that the employees who helped will be satiated, the stock market will captain-elect, will also be present and to make 1938 a record year should share tumble, and professional football will part of the program will be in his honor. in the profits," Badenhausen said. come into its own. Harold J. Shackelton 'x6 is chairman. ι78 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'14 MAKES PREPARATIONS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Twenty-five-year reunion of the Class COMING EVENTS FOUNDED 1899 of' 14 next June will be'' made in Ithaca, according to Provost H. W. Peters, Class Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed Published for Cornellians by the Cornell separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly secretary and reunion chairman. The Class events, both in Itfraca and abroad, appear below. during the college year; monthly in July and is unusually fortunate, he says, in having Contributions to this column must be received on or August; thirty-five issues annually. a number of its active members resident before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. Subscription: $4.00 a year in U. S. and posses- here, and local committees will arrange sions; Canada, $4.^5; Foreign, $4.50. Single copes fifteen cents. Subscriptions are -payable in advance details of the reunion that will assure SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 and are renewed annually until cancelled. its success. Ithaca: Boxing, Rutgers, 2.130 Editor R. W. SAILOR '07 Shortly, too, regional committees all Fencing, Hamilton, -L .^O Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 over the country will be announced, Freshman swimming, Syracuse, 2.30 Freshman basketball, Syracuse, 6130 Assistants: their duty to inform all the 984 men of Basketball, Army, 8 RUTH RUSSELL '31 FLORA DANIEL GLASS '37 the Class as plans are perfected, and to Polo, First Cleveland Cavalry Polo Club, Contributing Editors: « call regional meetings to make plans for Riding Hall, 8 ROMEYN BERRY '04 L. C. BOOCHEVER '12. the June pilgrimage to Ithaca. Dramatic Club in "Excursion," Willard F. M. COFFIN Ίz W. J. WATERS '2.7 Straight Theater, 8:15 Printed by The Cayuga Press WOMEN HONOR LAWYERS Cambridge: Swimming, Harvard ITHACA, NEW YORK Syracuse: Freshman wrestling, Syracuse Dinner meeting of the Cornell Women's Freshman boxing, Syracuse Club of New York December 14 was in Hamilton: Freshman basketball, Colgate Potsdam: Hockey, Clarkson NEWEST RHODES SCHOLAR honor of the "legal advisers" of the Club. Thirty members present showed Buffalo: Carl G. Snavely at Cornell Club Charles C. Collingwood '39 of Wash- smoker, University Club, 8 great interest in talks about their pro- ington, D. C., has been awarded a Rhodes Bethlehem, Pa.: Wrestling, Lehigh fession given by Mrs. Harper A. Holt scholarship at Oxford University for the MONDAY, JANUARY 16 (Emily C. Schultze) '17, Trustee Mary H. term beginning next October, it was an- Ithaca: University Theatre presents "The Lady Donlon '2,0, Mrs. Esther Brause Acker nounced in mid-December by Dr. Frank Vanishes," by Alfred Hitchcock, Willard '2.1, Sunshine Ulman '2.3, and Elizabeth Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore Straight, 4:15, 7:15,9:15 College and American secretary to the P. Dohme '2.4. TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 Rhodes trustees. He is one of thirty-two Boston, Mass.: President Day at Cornell Club FOUNDER HELPED INVENTOR luncheon, Parker House, 12.30 Americans to receive the scholarships, Apropos of Founder's Day, January n, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 which are awarded annually under the and showing a new phase of Ezra Cor- Ithaca: J-V basketball, Delhi Agr'l School terms of the will of Cecil Rhodes. Final nell's interests, is a specification from the selections are made as a result of personal New Haven, Conn.: Cornell Club dinner, 6 Patent Office for an "Im- Basketball, Yale interviews of candidates from eight dis- provement in Making Stereotype-Molds Worcester, Mass.: President Day at alumni tricts of the United States. The scholar- of Papier-Mache," in which a half-inter- reception, University Club, 5 ships have an approximate value of est was assigned to Ezra Cornell by his THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 $x,ooo a year for two years, and may be nephew, Alonzo Chase '72.. This record, Hamilton: Hockey, Colgate extended for a third year of study at dated June 2.5, 1871, was sent to Ithaca Freshman basketball, Colgate Oxford. by Theodore K. Bryant Όi, patent at- FRIDAY, JANUARY 2.0 The latest Cornellian to receive a torney of Washington, D. C. Ithaca: Dramatic Club in "Excursion," Wil- Rhodes scholarship is the son of G. The process described in the Patent lard Straight Theater, 8:15 Harris Collingwood, who was for eight Office specification is for improving the Utica: Professor Bristow Adams at Cornell years until 19x4 assistant extension pro- Club dinner paper matrices used in making lead molds Princeton: Swimming, Princeton fessor of Forestry at Cornell and since from type. It consisted of coating the has been forester for the American face of the matrix with a dextrine paste, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2.1 Forestry Association in Washington, to improve the impression; and of drying Ithaca: Hockey, Columbia, 2..-30 and assistant editor of its magazine, J-V basketball, Lafayette, 2.130 the matrix under hot sand, to prevent its Freshman swimming, Wyoming Seminary, American Forests. Charles Collingwood warping. Modifications of these processes z: 3° entered the Arts College in 1937 as a are still used in the printing industry. Freshman wrestling, Wyoming Seminary, Junior, having attended Deep Springs Alonzo Chase, at the time of this in- School in California for three years after Wrestling, Yale, 8 vention, was an instructor in Chemistry, Dramatic Club in "Excursion," Willard graduation from Central High School, and worked with the late Frederic E. Straight Theater, 8:15 Washington, in 1934. He is a member of Ives, then University photographer, in West Point: Swimming, Army Telluride Association and chairman of perfecting the first halftone process for New York City: Basketball, Columbia the Association endowment committee Annapolis, Md.: Boxing, Navy reproducing photographs. He had en- New Haven, Conn.: Fencing, Yale which is now engaged in raising a fund tered the University at its opening in FRIDAY, JANUARY 2.7 in memory of Professor George L. Burr 1868, and later became a mining engineer Ithaca: University Theatre presents Charles '81. He has specialized in modern litera- and banker in South Dakota. His mother ture and philosophy; is a founder and Laugh ton in "The Private Life of Henry was Lucretia Cornell, sister of Ezra Cor- VIII," Willard Straight, 4:15, 7:15, 9:15 president of the Philosophy Club, and a nell, and he married Cordelia Wood, Philadelphia: Prof. C. L. Durham '99 and R. S. member of Book and Bowl. He plans to younger sister of Mrs. Ezra Cornell. Ashbery '^ at Cornell Day party for study law. Chase died in Beverly Hills, Calif., boys, Cornell Club First Cornellian to receive a Rhodes March 2.1, 1930. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2.8 scholarship was W. Ellis Schutt '05; the Ithaca: Basketball, Yale last before Collingwood was Harvey R. AT CENTRE INAUGURATION MONDAY, JANUARY 30 Wellman '37. Between these two, awards As Cornell's official delegate at the Pittsburgh, Pa.: President Day, Provost have been made to Russell H. Peters '2.0, inauguration of Robert Lee McLeod, Jr. Peters '14, Bancroft Gherardi 93, and Dean Hollister speak on Engineerin A. Buel Trowbridge, Jr. 'zo, Robert E. as president of Centre College, Danville, College development at Cornell Clu Burk '2.2., William D. P. Carey '2.3, Ky., January 2.0, President Day has ap- dinner, University Club. George R. Pfann '14, Eugene W. Good- pointed Professor Paul P. Boyd, PhD Ίi. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 willie '2.7, Edwin R. Casady, Jr., Grad Dr. Boyd is professor of mathematics at Syracuse: Basketball, Syracuse '2.8-9, and Morgan Sibbett '33. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. J-V basketball, Syracuse JANUARY 12., ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL APPOINTMENT of Professor Felix BASKETBALL CROWD in the Drill Frankfurter of Harvard to the United FOUNDER'S DAY was celebrated with Hall January 5 filled every one of the States Supreme Court was approved a reception in 1500 seats, and many stood. Concession- unanimously by members of the Law January 10, the evening before Ezra aires were sold out of ice cream before School Faculty and others quoted in the Cornell's 132d birthday, and with a the end of the first half, and cars were Ithaca Journal January 6. It was recalled grand opening of the Hall's new terrace parked solidly from the Drill Hall to that he taught administrative law and lounge, library, and music and art gal- Tower Road. New at the microphone, trade regulation at the University's Sum- lery. In the Memorial Room receiving announcing the game, was Owen H. mer Session of 19x5. line were President and Mrs. Day and Klepper '39 of New York City. He re- four grandchildren of the Founder, Mrs. places Lawrence W. Bruff '38, who has TEA DANCES are the newest activity at Charles L. Taylor, Miss Dorothy Cor- joined the staff of New York World's Willard Straight Hall. The first one, nell, Miss Mary E. Cornell, and Charles Fair of 1939. Saturday afternoon before Christmas re- E. Cornell and Mrs. Cornell. Hundreds cess, was so successful that another was of visitors admired the former upper LETTER IN THE SUN January 9 signed given January 7. Ninety couples danced terrace of the Hall, now enclosed and "Cornell Campus Peace Council" raises to phonograph records and enjoyed light furnished with brightly colored rattan the issue of voluntary military drill refreshments, at cost of twenty-five cents and bamboo furniture; the newly-sup- which was a subject of controversy eight a couple. plied library where Barbara L. Kirby '34 years ago. It says: "The only untried now presides over about 1,000 books means that the students have at their PSYCHOLOGISTS from eighteen uni- for recreational reading; and the trans- disposal is a student strike against versities of the United States and Canada formed art gallery and music room compulsory drill." met at Willard Straight Hall December at the south end of the building. 2.9-31, to review informally recent ex- NEW INTRAMURAL league is spon- perimental advances in their science. sored by CURW, of women's basketball Dean Robert M. Ogden Όo, Arts and ment was provided by the guests. Twen- teams representing seven church denomi- Sciences, was in charge of arrangements, ty-two students from foreign lands were nations and sects and the women's and Dr. Kurt Lewin, formerly of the guests at the annual "international day" cabinet. The series is being played off in Cornell Faculty and now at University luncheon of Ithaca Rotary Club, De- Sage gymnasium. of Iowa, led the discussions. cember x8. THIRD OF HER FAMILY on the Sun NEW YEAR SALUTE by the University BRYANT PARK residents, many of board is Mary Jane Webb '41 of Cleve- Chimes was broadcast for fifteen minutes whom are members of the Faculty, again land Heights, Ohio. Her father, James A. December 31, and Dean Albert W. Smith this year organized groups of Christmas Webb '09 was a Sun editor, and so was '78, Emeritus, outlined the history of the carollers and had a contest for the decora- her sister, Lucy A. Webb '38. Election bells and read from his poems about them. tion of their homes. First prize for of Miss Webb to the women's news board decorations went to Professor Frank H. DISTINGUISHED VISITOR in Ithaca was announced by the Sun December 16, Randolph '17, Engineering, and Mrs. during the holidays was Jean Hersholt, with that of Gay S. Churchill '41 of Randolph, who live at 101 Oxford Place. well known for "The Country Doctor" Drexel Hill, Pa. and his other motion pictures with the PREACHER January 15 RAILROADS, busses, and automobiles Dionne quintuplets. He and Mrs. Hersh- is the Rev. Henry H. Tweedy of Yale took thousands of students home for olt visited Dorothy P. Barstow '15 over Divinity School. January 8, the Rev. Christmas and brought them back. Most New Year's Day. He was especially glad Lynn H. Hough, Dean of Drew Seminary, novel equipage, however, was probably to visit the Finger Lakes country, he occupied the Chapel pulpit. a Stanley "steamer" of the vintage of said, because his first "hit" role was with 192.2. which safely transported Brooks A. Mary Pickford ίn 19x1 in "Tess of the "MOTHER COOK," known by that Jones, Grad, to his home in Glens Falls Storm Country," which was laid in name to hundreds of Cornellians who and back. The 2.30-mile trip, going, took these parts. twenty-three gallons of kerosene and lived in her rooming house at 2.2.0 Eddy seventy-five gallons of water, and was MORE DUCKS are wintering at the Street through the years, died in Ithaca made without incident. Fuertes Bird Sanctuary at the head of December 30, at the age of eighty-two. than for twenty-five years. She had been ill since October. Her late SNOW AND COLD brought a few days Professor Arthur A. Allen OS, Orni- husband, Dudley F. Cook, was a partner of skating on Beebe Lake during the thology, estimates that 4,000 redheads, for many years until 1918 with C. W. holiday, and Nick Bawlf started men at canvasbacks, scaup ducks, and black Daniels in the drug store at College work cutting ice for the toboggan slide. ducks, with a plentiful number of Canada Avenue and Dry den Road. But before it was half done, rain and geese, are finding comfortable winter thawing weather spoiled the job, as it quarters and food here. GREGORIAN CHANT, rarely heard has now for three years in succession. outside a church or seminary, brought TRAFFIC RELIEF is considerably in the 900 persons to Bailey Hall January 8 for CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS at Wil- minds of Ithaca's city fathers. Recently, a concert given by the vested Priests' lard Straight Hall included a Christmas William B. Powell, Buffalo traffic ex- Choir of St. Bernard's Seminary in Eve party, where 12.5 persons received pert, told the Rotary Club that adequate Rochester. The twenty singers were gifts from Santa Claus in the person of movement of traffic here involves the brought to Ithaca by the Newman Club. Edgar A. Whiting '2.9, and spent the provision of parking areas, extending Their program was introduced by a lec- evening singing and dancing. For Christ- some streets and widening others, and ture on this form of early church music, mas dinner the next evening the Hall making State Street a through highway and their selections illustrated its de- and the International Association enter- to relieve congestion from the Hill. As velopment. The Choir broadcast for tained 144 guests from thirty-three a start, it is announced that after January fifteen minutes before the concert, and states and twenty-three foreign countries. 16 left turns will be prohibited off State afterward its members were entertained After dinner, international entertain- Street in the business section. at a buffet supper in . ι8o CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

He had also been account executive with Taylor-Critchfield, chief of the copy de- NECROLOGY partment with Lord & Thomas, and Concerning account executive with the E. H. Clarke PROFESSOR HOLLIS ELLSWORTH DANN, Advertising Agency and the Fred M. THE FACULTY January 3, 1939, at his home, 19 War- Randall Company. Son, W. Randolph wick Avenue, Douglaston. Professor Pietsch '2.4. Alpha ; Sphinx STATE SENATOR C. TRACEY STAGG Όz, Dann became an instructor in Music at Head; ; Mermaid; Bench professor of Law during 1908-19zz, has the University in 1903, having been di- and Board; Widow; track. been appointed chairman of the Senate rector of music in the Ithaca schools a committee on new legislation. He said since 1887, position which he held Όo PhB—CHARLES ALDRICH STEVENS, that his committee will "outline a gen- until 1905. In 1904 he became assistant December 14, 1938, at his home, 2.062. eral program of legislation with particu- professor and in 1907, professor of Music. Atkins Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. He lar emphasis on those things re'quired by He was head of the Department from was an associate of Livingston Williams the new Constitution." 1906 until 19x1, when he joineH the and Company, brokers, and had been in newly-organized Pennsylvania State De- the printing and publishing business for NEAL D. BECKER '05, University Trus- partment of Music. In 1915 he became twenty-six years. He was a member and tee and president of the Intertype Corpo- head of the New York University de- former treasurer of the Cornell Club of ration, has been elected a member of the partment of music education, retiring in Cleveland. Sons, Charles A. Stevens, Jr. board of the Consolidated Edison Com- 1936. While at the University, Professor 'z9 and Miles R. Stevens '32.. Theta Delta pany of New York, of which Floyd L. Dann conducted the Sage Chapel Choir Chi; Aleph Samach; ; Un- Carlisle '03 is chairman. and the annual music festivals, directed dine; Bench and Board; Sun, editor-in- the Glee Club from 1889 through 19x1, chief; Cornellian, editor-in-chief. FRANK E. GANNETT '98, University and instituted the regular University Trustee, is scheduled to debate January Όo—ROY NELSON BISHOP, December zo, iz against Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of concerts. He held the Summer School of .1938, at his home in San Francisco, Cal. Music during summer sessions from 1910 the Interior, on "America's Town Meet- He spent two years in the Mechanical ing of the Air" on the subject "Have through 1911. He was chairman of the Engineering Course. He retired in 1919 music council of the New York Board of We a Free Press?" Gannett will argue from the presidency of the Universal the affirmative of the question. He re- Regents during 1910^1. He wrote the Consolidated Oil Company, with whom Hollis Dann Music Course and other cently wrote an open letter to President he had been since 1910, the Sperry Flour Roosevelt on the same question, in an- books. Sons, Hollis H. Dann '17, Robert Company, and the Northwest Magnasite H. Dann 'z5, Roger L. Dann 'z5. swer to Roosevelt's implication that Company. Previous to 1910, he had been newspapers are "edited from the count- '71 BCE—MILLER ARMSTRONG SMITH, a mining engineer in Mexico and Russia. ing room." January 3, 1939, at his home, 516 Cherry Όi—DR. WILSON RUFFIN ABBOTT, De- THREE CENTURIES of Structural Analy- Street, Elizabeth, N. J. Retired for the cember 5, 1938, at his home in Chicago, last [fifteen years, Smith was formerly a sis," an address given by Dean S. C. Hoi- 111. He entered the Medical Course in civil engineer, engaged in the building lister, Engineering, at the fall meeting 1898 and remained for three years. He of railroads and sugar mills in the United of the American Society of Civil Engi- was a trustee and chairman of the medi- neers, is printed in full in the December States and South America. He was a life cal executive committee of the Henrotin member of the American Society of Civil issue of Civil Engineering, the ASCE Hospital and a specialist in lung and journal. Engineers. Zeta Psi; Cornellian; Engi- heart diseases. He had also been professor neering Society of '71. of biological and general chemistry at DR. JOHN B. ROSSER, instructor in '80 BS, '81 MS—HOSEA WEBSTER, Janu- the University of Illinois and clinical Mathematics, attended a council meeting ary z, 1939, at his winter home in Coral director of the Chicago Tuberculosis of the Association for Symbolic Logic at Gables, Fla. He retired in 1933 as general Institute. Princeton, N. J., December 31. manager of the Babcock and Wilcox Όz—ARTHUR CLIFFORD VEATCH, De- PROFESSOR CHARLES V. P. YOUNG '99, Company, dealers in power plant equip- Physical Education, spent the Christmas ment, New York City. He had been with cember Z4, 1938, at his home, 5 Central Drive, Port Washington. He entered the recess at the Collegiate Aquatic Forum the Company since 1897, previous to at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with Coach G. which he was with the Henry R. Worth- Arts Course in 1898, remained for one term, and returned for the year 1900-01. Scott Little and members of the swim- ington Hydraulic Works, Chicago, 111. ming team. During the World War he served as a A consulting geologist, he was head of dollar-a-year man with the War Indus- the exploration department of the Sin- PROFESSOR WILLIAM E. STANLEY, Sani- tries Board in Washington, D. C. He was clair Oil Company from 1919 to I9z8. tary Engineering, will attend the meet- an honorary life member of the American He was with the United States Geo- ings of the American Society of Civil Society of Mechanical Engineers. Theta logical Survey during i9oz-ιo, chief geol- Engineers and the New York Sewage Delta Chi; Tom Hughes Boat Club; ogist of the General Asphalt Company Works Association in New York City, Football Association. Brother, William in Trinidad and Venezuela in 1910-11, January 18-2.1. He will give the report of R. Webster '90; son, Stanley A. Webster and geologist in charge of exploration the committee on sewage treatment Ό8. for S. Pearson and Son during 1913-19. plant costs. '96 BS—WALTER GRAY PIETSCH, De- '36 EE—LLEWELLYN WILLIS COLLINGS, PROFESSOR LELAND W. LAMB, Animal cember 14, 1938, in Chicago, 111. He had JR., December Z7, 1938, in Detroit, Husbandry, Extension, resigned January been head of Gale and Pietsch, advertis- Mich., from carbon monoxide poisoning, i to become the first field representative ing agency, for eleven years, but his son, received while working on an automo- of the American Dairy Cattle Club. Richard F. Pietsch '2.6, has assumed re- bile. Since last summer he had been with sponsibility during his illness of the last the Holley Carburetor Company, De- PROFESSOR EDWIN F. HOPKINS '15, year. After graduation Pietsch joined the troit, previous to which he was with the Botany, has developed a quick-drying Chicago Chronicle, becoming assistant General Electric Company, Schenectady. process that makes rotting, freezing, or advertising manager. Later he was ad- Psi Upsilon; Sphinx Head; Aleph Samach; molding of vegetables no longer a prob- vertising manager and general manager Eta Kappa Nu; Tau Beta Pi; Delta Club; lem. The vegetables are treated with of the W. D. Boyce Company, Chicago. Varsity track team. sulphur dioxide, which kills the cells JANUARY IZ, 1939 and reduces them to a state that re- Mexico is "going to pieces very, very sembles melting snow. The juices are Concerning rapidly. There is lots of oil in Mexico, then driven off by whirling the mass in but the government has taken over the a perforated rotary drum. If applied to THE ALUMNI pipe lines and supplies the only market. all vegetables, the produce of a ten-acre Since the government has no money, farm could be hauled to market in one Personal items and newspaper clippings there is no market for oil and conse- truckload, by reduction to from one- about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. quently no use in developing the industry. tenth to one-third of the original weight. Whatever oil she ships out is immediately '98 LLB; Ίi ME—John J. Bryant, Jr. confiscated by creditors whenever it PROFESSOR JOSEPH P. PORTER '17, Orna- is a member of the brokerage firm of reaches a foreign port." mental Horticulture, spent the Christmas James H. Oliphant and Company, with '07 AB, '14 PhD—Mrs. Mark E. recess at the Martha Berry Schools, offices at 2.09 South LaSalle Street, Chi- Penney (Alma R. Thorne) has moved Rome, Ga., delivering a series of lec- cago, 111. Winton G. Rossiter Ίi is a from Springfield, 111., to 195 Broome tures, and visiting other Southern member of the firm with offices at 61 Street, Catskill. schools. Broadway, New York City. Ό8 AB, Ίo AM—Harry A. Richards is PROFESSOR FAITH FENTON '2.6, Home '99 MD—Dr. Charles V. Paterno's vice-president, director, and general Economics, was awarded the PhD in home, "New York's only castle, sil- counsel of Case, Pomeroy and Com- home economics by Chicago University, houetted against the sky 2.11 feet above pany, no Wall Street, New York City. December 2.0. the Hudson River at Washington He lives at Westover Road, Stamford, Heights," is being razed, according to Conn. GORDON ELLIS '32., instructor in Ani- an article in the New York Herald OS MCE, '14 PhD—Dr. Roland P. mal Nutrition, and Mrs. Ellis (Olive C. Tribune. "The seven-acre plot on which Davis has been elected president of the Miller) '33 have a son, born December the medieval-like structure has stood for West Virginia Society of Professional 2.3. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis live at 404 Oak the last thirty-two years is to be the site Engineers. He has been dean of the Col- Avenue, Ithaca. of an apartment village of 2., 500, to be lege of Engineering, University of West THOMAS FARNSWORTH '42., son of erected at a cost of $6,000,000 by Dr. Virginia, since 1932., and was formerly Major J. F. Farnsworth, Military Science Paterno. . . . There will be five twelve- professor of structural and hydraulic and Tactics, has received the appoint- story buildings in the village, which the engineering. He was an instructor in ment as principal candidate for entrance builder said will be the most interesting Civil Engineering at Cornell from 1908 to West Point from this district. He will development of apartment homes that to 1911. He has also been connected with take the entrance examination in March, has been advanced in any country. These the American Bridge Company and was and, if successful, will become a cadet are not idle words with Dr. Paterno, who for some time bridge engineer and con- July i. Alternate is Augustus N. Nicholls has given the city several of its largest sulting bridge engineer of the State '40, son of Colonel J. C. Nicholls, retired. and finest apartment houses since he de- Road Commission of West Virginia. cided in 1899 to be a builder instead of a '09, Ίo CE—Philip Z. Horton is PORTRAIT of the late Professor George physician. For thirty-five years he easily owner of the Horton Engineering Com- F. Warren '03, head of the Department has held the reputation of being the most pany, xii Fulton Street, Peoria, 111. He of Agricultural Economics and Farm colorful man in the construction field and lives at 105 West High Street, Peoria. Management, has been placed in the this being the case considerable interest '09, Ίi ME—William Marshall is a main hall of the Agricultural Economics will be shown in the apartment which he consulting engineer; his address, 45 Building. Painted by the late Reverend will erect." Martin D. Hardin, pastor of the First South Ninth Street, Allentown, Pa. '99 LLB—George J. Mersereau is a Ίo MD—Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, it was member of the law firm of Lathrop, presented to the University during Farm Jr. is president of the alumni of Phi Crane, Reynolds, Sawyer and Mersereau, Beta Pi, medical fraternity. and Home Week in 1937, but, at Pro- 1900 Fidelity Building, Kansas City, Ίi ME—William G. Christy, as smoke fessor Warren's request, was not publicly Mo. He was appointed a trustee of abatement engineer of Hudson'County, shown during his lifetime. Elmira College last June. N. J., is in charge of the only county DR. HUBERT H. RACE '2.1, instructor Όi—John P. Gilbert is with the New- smoke abatement department in the in Electrical Engineering during 192.0x2, port Dredging Company, 106 East C United States. His office is in the Court and 192.3-2.7 and assistant professor dur- Street, Wilmington, Cal. House, Jersey City, N. J. He lives at i ing 19^7-2.9, has been appointed chairman '04—Robert A. Griesser is rector of Kingswood Road, Weehawken, N. J. He of the committee on sections of the the Episcopal church and principal and is a member of the executive committee American Institute of Electrical Engi- teacher at the Mill School, Whittier, of the fuels division of the American neers. He is also a member of the com- Cal. He lives at 150 Kimbark Avenue, Society of Mechanical Engineers and mittee on planning and coordination, Whittier. vice-president of the Hudson County research, and basic sciences. His most Ό6 AB, '07 AM—The Reverend Frank chapter of the Professional Engineers recent research, having to do with B. Crandall is minister of the Second Association of New Jersey. microphysical and microchemical meth- Church in Salem, a Unitarian church, '12. ME—George S. Giles is with the ods of detecting the destructive effect of Salem, Mass. This church, founded in Factory Mutuals Company, Chicago, ions on cables, will be described in detail 1717, is the second oldest church in the 111. in a forthcoming issue of the AIEE city and one of the most beautiful in its Ίx AB; '13 AB—John A. Newman, Journal. Dr. Race is with the General architecture in New England. It is son of Floyd R. Newman Ίx and Mrs. Electric Company, in the research labora- especially famous for its wood carvings. Newman (Ruby P. Ames) '13 has been tory, Schenectady. CrandalΓs mailing address is 16 Howard awarded the Aurelian Cup, presented PROFESSOR WALTER RAUTENSTRAUCH, Avenue, Ayer, Mass. annually by the Aurelian Honor Society Grad '04, of Columbia University, pro- '07 AB, Ίi AM, Ίi PhD—Irving of Yale University, to the most out- fessor of Mechanical Engineering at Cor- Perrine of Oklahoma City, who owns standing senior at the University School, nell during 1903-06, spoke to Seniors in two oil mines in Oklahoma and controls Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of twelve Mechanical and Electrical Engineering oil interests in Mexico, was in Ithaca re- cups, offered for competition in prepara- January 6. His topic was "Engineering cently and spoke at a Rotary Club lunch- tory schools. Newman lives at 2.2.62.5 Aspects of Social Reconstruction." eon. He said that the oil industry in Byron Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. 182. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

13—Carl A. Gale is an attorney and at 1510 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, '17 BS—Linus V. Windnagle is vice- adjuster with Lloyds of London, with Cal. She is a member of the Cornell principal and teacher at the Washington an office at 12.02. Haas Building, Los Women's Club of Southern California. High School, Portland, Ore., where he Angeles, Cal. He lives at 1138 South lives at 431 Northeast Laddington Kern Avenue, Los Angeles. He is mar- Court. He is married and has one son. ried and has two children. He is a 2 5 YEAR Ί8, 'xi WA—Lester H. Fackiner is deputy insurance commissioner and is on with the Franklin Construction Com- the legal staff of the Bank of America, pany, 2.0 Washington Place, Newark, Bullocks Department Store, the Automo- 1916 1941 N. J. He lives at 84 Clifton Boulevard, bile Club of Southern California, and Clifton, N. J. other corporations. '19—John P. Franklin is treasurer of '13 BS, Ί8 PhD—Dr. Charles P. the David Gessner Company, 41 Fremont Alexander was promoted last summer to REUNION Street, Worcester, Mass. He is married, head of the department of entomβlogy has four children, lives at 2.5 Otsego and zoology at Massachusetts State Road, Worcester. College. His address is Fernow Hall, Greater New York committee of the '19—Edwin N. Prugh, Jr. is with the Amherst, Mass. Class of Ί6 will meet for dinner January Oldsmobile division of the General 17, at seven, in the Club Room of Jack '14 BS, '2.7 PhD—Isaac Neuwirth is as- Motors Sales Corporation, Atlanta, Ga., and Charlie's 2.1 Club, 2.1 West Fifty- sociate professor of pharmacology and where he lives at 88 Twenty-sixth second Street, New York City. Pat Irish therapeutics at the College of Dentistry Street, N. W. of New York University. At the unveil- is chairman of the committee; its other '2.0 PhD—Dr. Lois O. Gibbons is as- ing of the mural on anesthesia in the members, Harry Byrne, Joe Inness, Rus sociate professor of history at Western student lounge at the College on No- Welles, Allan Frick, George Crabtree, College, Oxford, Ohio. vember 18, he made the principal speech. Bay Hunter, Ted Jamison, Frank Thomas, His address is 2.09 East Twenty-third Hal Thorne, Fred Potter, Freddy Lyford, 'zo, '2.1 WA—Arthur M. Aldridge is in Street, New York City. Dave Freudenthal, Bob Dahn, Ward a fuel oil refinery in the Portland, Ore., Hunter, Lenox Lohr, Dixon Phillips, district of the Standard Oil Company of '14 Grad—Alexander J. Jaenicke is a Sterling Tomkins, Bud Fay, Meyer California. He lives at ι8i5 Northeast forester in the United States Forest Ser- Willett, Cowles Andrus, Howard Buck- Fifteenth Avenue, Portland. vice, Box 4137, Portland, Ore. He is man, Paul Sanborne, Don Baldwin, married; lives at 612. Northwest Twen- 'ii MME—Archer O. Leech is man- George Stevens, Harold Lyon, Eddie tieth Avenue, Portland. He is a member ager of commercial industrial sales for Aycrigg, Arthur Eldred, Fred Mullen, of the Society of American Foresters, the the Portland Gas and Coke Company, Carl Badenhausen, Collie Collins, Harold American Association of Economic Ento- Public Service Building, Portland, Ore. Bache, Grant Schleicher, George Amory, mologists, the Ecological Society of He lives at 6415 Northeast Alameda Phil Wytnan, John Van Horsen, John America, and the American Association Street, Portland; is married and has two Toolan, Bub Pfeiffer. Franz Scheetz ex- for the Advancement of Science. sons. pects to come up from Philadelphia, '2.1 AB, '2.4 MD—Dr. William M. '14—Rieman McNamara is an agency and Sam Howe, our general reunion Maloney practices medicine at 1709 West cashier with the Mutual Life Insurance chairman, will attend from Buffalo, to Eighth Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Company of New York, with an office at give us all information as to plans for 909 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. He our coming twenty-five-year reunion in '2.1—Robert M. Goodall is with the lives at 2.417 Maplewood Avenue, 1941.—W. P. Protective Life Insurance Company, Richmond. Ί6—Bessie B. Hanlon is now Mrs. Birmingham, Ala. '14 BS—Isadore R. Asen is director Edwin M. Bishop; lives in Scipio Center. '2.2.—William H. Triest of Philadel- of The Clinical Laboratory, Medical phia, Pa., is engaged to Helen M. Kruge Ί6 CE—Otto C. Vieweg was pro- Tower, 33 Lincoln Park, Newark, N. J. of Palisade, N. J., a 1937 graduate of moted in June from district manager in the Scudder School. '14—Seward W. Eric (Ehrich) is with Elmira to assistant to the vice-president the Calvert Distillers Corporation, 30 of the New York State Electric and Gas '2.3 BS—Donald D. Whitson is a farmer Rockefeller Plaza, New York City; lives Corporation. He is married, has four in Afton. at 383 Park Avenue, New York City. children, and lives at 39 Riverside Drive, '2.3 ME—Robert W. James is secretary '15 CE—Earle E. R. Dornback is with Bin gb am ton. and treasurer of Shultz and James, Inc., the United States Engineers, Pittsburgh, Ί6 B Arch—The J. Dall, Jr. Construc- 7 North Sixth Street,, Richmond, Va. He Pa. tion Company, of which Jes J. Dall, Jr. was formerly with the Reynolds To- '15, Ί6 CE—Harmon C. Kibbe is Ί6 is president, has been awarded con- bacco Company. He is married and has secretary and treasurer of the Cobble- tracts to construct Ithaca's modernized four children; lives at 4537 East Seminary dick-Kibbe Glass Company, 301 Wash- sewage disposal plant and to build a new Avenue, Richmond. ington Street, Oakland, Cal. He lives at YMCA in Auburn. 'i3, '14 BS—Edward J. Lawless, Jr. is 6068 Margarido Drive, Oakland. He is Ί6 ME—James M. A. Johnston is a chief of poultry and egg marketing for married and has a son, two years old. mechanical engineer and member of the the Bureau of Markets, Department of '15, Ί6 AB—Lillian G. A very, form- firm of Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa. He is mar- erly a teacher, is now engaged in re- architects and engineers, Atlantic Life ried, has two children, lives at 3x1 Third search at the University of Southern Building, Richmond, Va. He lives at Street, New Cumberland, Pa. He is California on a WPA project. She lives 2.616 Hamser Avenue, Richmond. secretary and treasurer of the North- eastern Federation of Egg and Poultry Cooperatives, and secretary of the Penn- sylvania committee for the 1939 World's THE CAYUGA PRESS TS» ITHACA, NEW YORK Poultry Congress. R. W. SAILOR '07 ff H. E. BUCK *2I '2.4 MS—Richard C. Fisher is with the FINE BOOKS - MAGAZINES ADVERTISING PRINTING Wellesley Farms Dairy, Wellesley Farms, We Invite Your Inquiries Mass. He lives at 195 Weston Road, Wellesley, Mass. Please mention the NEWS JANUARY IX, 1939 ι83

'24 Grad—John M. Bruer is district He is married and has a daughter; lives supervisor for the National Youth Ad- at 72.8 South Fifty-ninth Street, Phila- ministration, at Rochester, Minn. delphia. '2.4, '2.8 ME—Jesse A. Jackson is with '19 PhD—Everett W. Hall is a member the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry of the philosophy department at Stan- Dock Company, Newport News, Va. He ford University, Palo Alto, Cal. lives in Hilton Village, Va. *Z9—Marcus A. Finlen is with the '15 AB, '31 AM—Edward J. West is Beechnut Bacon Company; his address is an assistant professor of English litera- 72.02. Narrows Avenue, Brooklyn. ture at the University of Colorado. He '2.9—William M. P. Taylor, Jr. is is on leave of absence for the present with the New York Electric and Gas academic year; his address, c/o Mrs. Company, 147 East State Street, Ithaca. Ellen Fallen, Rivermoor Post Office, His address is 116 Osmun Place, Ithaca. ,FLOR1DA SPECIAL,, Scituate, Mass. '30 Grad—John M. Bannerman is the Aristocrat of Winter Train*" '2.6 CE—Captain John R. Noyes is at lord rector's assessor on the Glasgow the Army Industrial College, Washing- University Court; his address is Old ton, D. C. THE MIAMIAN Manse, Balmaha, Glasgow, Scotland. Saves Half a Day" '2.6; '24, '2.5 AB—Henry M. Reed, Jr. '30 ME, '31 MME—Leslie Herbert, has given up his duties as coach of the formerly with the Western Electric Louisville Tanks, professional football Company, Baltimore, Md., now teaches COAST LIMITED Through Florida by Sunlight" team, due to pressure of business. He is industrial management at the General an executive of the Louisville, Ky., plant Motors Institute of Technology, Flint, of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Mich. HAVANA SPECIAL,, Company. During four years of coaching '31—Russell K. Franz is a clerk with " The Yeqr~Rou,rιcf Florida Train with the Tanks, his teams have won the Norton Company, i New Bond thirty-four of forty-nine games and tied Street, Worcester, Mass. He lives at 6 three. His wife is the former Cecelia I. „ VACATIONER Laconia Road, Worcester. Zawatski '24. Outstanding Λ//-Coach Train '2.6 AB—M. Hubert Hilder is with '31, '31 EE—E. Mark Wolf is assistant Weingarten and Company, ι.y Broadway, foreman of the power cable department PALMETTO LIMITED,, New York City; lives at Greenehill, of the American Steel and Wire Com- in$ the Nearby Southland" Pattenburg, N. J. pany, Electric Cable Works, South Works, Worcester, Mass. He lives at 14 '17 MS—William P. Wood, Jr. is a Shepard Street, Worcester. He was mar- member of the firm of T. W. Wood and ried August 16, 1937, to Christine W. Sons, seedsmen, n South Fourteenth Smith of Knoxville, Tenn. Street, Richmond, Va. He lives at 1702. Monument Avenue, Richmond. He is '31 AB—Barbara Collyer was married president of the Southern Seedmen's As- to Dr. E. William Cook December 3. sociation and chairman of the council of Dr. Cook, a research chemist, is a gradu- plus PROTECTED COMFORT the Regional and State Seedmen's As- ate of the University of Arkansas and re- sociation of the American Seed Trade ceived the PhD degree from Ohio State From the Coast Line Fleet you can choose Association. University. They live in New York City. a luxurious Vacation train exactly suited to your liking . . . but that is only one reason '2.7—Henry N. Deutsch is a salesman '31 BS—Mrs. Charles Rawlings (Jean O. Frederick) is "Jean Joyce" with the for going via Coast Line ! For each of these with the J. H. Ball Company, dealers in trains gives you the swift, protected comfort Herald Tribune Home Institute, 130 wholesale groceries and restaurant equip- of modern travel. The comfort that is pro' ment. He was formerly district manager West Forty-first Street, New York City. vided only by ALL the "musts11 of modern of the Home Owned Businesses As- She may be addressed c/o Frederick, railroad transportation! Greenla wn. sociation of California. He lives at 1310 This exclusive combination of features . . . Capistrano Avenue, Glendale, Cal.; is '32, AB, '34 LLB—Herbert A. Heer- all cars Air-Conditioned and Air-Cooled married and has two children. wagen is engaged to Doris L. Richardson . . . new, powerful Locomotives . . . Double Track . . . loo-lb. Rails ... Sea Level, Rock '2.7, '2.8 CE—George O. Mitchell is a of Ridgewood, N. J. Miss Richardson Ballasted Roadbed . . . Automatic Signals and production shift supervisor in the rayon was graduated from Smith College in 1936. Heerwagen is with the law firm of Train Control . . . Faster Schedules ... is division of E. I. duPont de Nemours, supplied in the South only by Coast Line. Richmond, Va. He lives at 4x10 Forest Da vies, Auerbach & Cornell, New York City. Convenient connections are available from Hill Avenue, Richmond; is married and all Eastern cities. Low Winter- Vacation fares. '31 BS; '34—Harry S. Jackson and Mrs. has two children. Specify your train by name. See why Coast Ί8 AB—Martha B. Finch, formerly at Jackson (Barbara Lee) '34 have a daugh- Line carries more Florida Visitors than any the Brown University Library, is now ter, Barbara Nan Jackson, born Novem- other railroad serving the State. ber 19. head cataloger at the Fitchburg Public Ship Your Car Ahead— 4? a Mile* Library, Fitchburg, Mass. '31 PhD—Dr. Emil Chroboczek is *When accompanied by 2 Pullman or 3 Coach 'Z9 CE—William E. O'Neil, Jr. is an professor of vegetable crops at the Col- tickets (subject to minimum charge). No fuss associate sanitary engineer with the Na- lege of Agriculture, Warsaw, Poland. ... no bother ... no hazards. Economical ! tional Park Service, Department of the '32.—Dr. G. Emerson Learn is at the Offices in principal cities Interior, with an office at Soi Grace Biggs Memorial Hospital, Ithaca, where !: Securities Building, Richmond, Va. He he lives at 104 Utica Street. ιrτ re; lives at 3518 Hanover Avenue, Apart- '32. EE, '30 AB—Albert R. Hodges is ment 2.01, Richmond. a patent engineer, associated with Ralph 'Z9 PhD—John E. Flynn is an assistant H. Langley, consulting engineer, with editor of Biological Abstracts, Univer- offices at 165 Broadway, New York LINE sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. City. His home is at 183 Union Street, RAILROAD

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Ridgewood, N. J. He writes, "I recently expect to work on the railroad building Junior High School and does graduate became a registered patent attorney after projects now being carried on in South work at Columbia University. successfully passing the required six- China, Tu specializing in bridge con- '37 BS; '39—Katherine Doyle '37, hour examination which is prescribed by struction. daughter of the late Henry L. Doyle '12. the United States Patent Office. We '35 CE—Anthony M. Del Balso is en- and Mrs. Doyle"(Katherine Stebbins) '15, specialize in radio and electronic patent gaged to Mary T. Perrotty of Yonkers. is engaged to Lynn Banner '39, son of the matters, approaching patents with an Del Balso is a contractor; lives at 555 late Erford L. Banner '15 and Mrs. Ban- engineering viewpoint (the usual ap- West X5xd Street, New York City. ner (Pearl V. Decker) '15. proach emphasizes the legal aspects)." '36 CE—Jerome W. Luippold is a '37 BS; '38 BArch—Marion C. Patter- '•$2. ME, '33 MME—Irving W. Hamm dredging inspector; writes "Have a pro- son is engaged to Charles A. Baker. is a standards and methods engineer bational appointment with the Federal '37 BS—Herbert N. Abrahams married with E. I. duPont de Nemours; lives at Civil Service. The work is seasonal and Virginia M. Weil of Chicago,. 111., De- 5407 Toddsbury Road, Richmond, Va. I am at present unemployed. Expect to cember ii. They live at 5533 Everett '33 AB—Charles A. Ruberl, Jr. of return to work next March; meanwhile Avenue, Chicago. am studying for a Civil Service exam, Brooklyn is engaged to Jeannie Gal- '38 CE—Louis E. Dauner is with braith of Short Hills, N. J. The wedding and trying to locate a position for the Grunkemeyer and Sullivan, architects, will take place in the early spring. duration of the winter months." His 3717 Eastern Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. address is 33 Shirley Avenue, Buffalo. '33, '36 BS—Ann Mapes was married He lives at 318 Terrace Avenue, Cincin- to Marion C. Walter of New Bloomfield, '36 AB—Marian C. Etzold is engaged nati. Pa., during the holidays. Mrs. Walter to La Verne F. Kruger of Corfu. Miss '38 LLB—Sol M. Linowitz passed Etzold lives in Corfu. is home economics representative in both parts of the New York State Bar Perry County, Pa. Walter is a teacher of '36 AB—Mary E. Bates is engaged to examinations. He is now with the law band and orchestra in Perry County, Edward L. Clark, a graduate of Middle- firm of Sutherland and Sutherland, Union supervisor of music at Carson Long In- bury College. Trust Building, Rochester. stitute, and runs a music store in New '36 BS; '2.0—Elizabeth Rice is assistant Bloomfield. '38 BS—Barbara W. Ives was married to Mabel C. Little 'zo, director of dormi- December 17 to Charles B. Weeks. Eliza- '34 EE—John H. Stresen-Reuter of tories at Wooster College. She writes, beth Nichols '38 and Rebecca Gifford '40 Birmingham, Mich., has a son, William "This Presbyterian College of Wooster Arthur Stresen-Reuter, born December 17. were in the wedding party. Weeks is a is one of the grandest small colleges I graduate of Boston University. Mrs. '34 AB—William D. Wray, instructor know—a beautiful campus and won- Weeks' address is 142. Summer Avenue, in mathematics at the University, mar- derful 'Prexy'." Her address is Hoover Reading, Mass. ried Irene Cribbs of Shelbyville, Ind., Cottage, Wooster, Ohio. '38 AB—Robert H. Udall, son of Pro- October Ί.J. Mrs. Wray is a graduate of '36 BS—Elena D. Reyna was married fessor Denny H. Udall, DVM Όi, Franklin College and the University of November 10 to John W. Matthews. Veterinary Medicine, has entered the Indiana and has done graduate work at Mr. Matthews is a graduate of Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine. His ad- Teachers' College, Columbia University. University. They now live in Clemson, dress is 106 Brandon Place, Ithaca. For the past year she has been assistant S. C., where Matthews is a member of superintendent of nurses at Biggs Me- the faculty of Clemson College. '38 AB—George S. Smith has entered morial Hospital, Ithaca. They now live '36 AB, '38 LLB—Edward H. Weeks the Law School. He lives at 108 Irving at 109 DeWitt Place, Ithaca. passed both parts of the New York State Place, Ithaca. '34 DVM—Dr. Robert A. Mueller, Bar examination. He is now in the office '38 AB—Leon I. Blostein has entered formerly with the United States Bureau of Judge Howard A. Fluckiger, 1517 the College of Veterinary Medicine. He of Animal Industry, is now practicing Franklin Avenue, Mineola. lives at 411 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca. veterinary medicine at 2.116 East Colo- '36 AB, '38 LLB—Donald H. Monroe, '38 AB—Ernest A. Dahmen, Jr. is now rado Street, Pasadena, Cal. He lives at who passed both parts of the New York in Law School. He lives at 113 Ferris 2.92.4 East Nina Street, Pasadena. He is State Bar examination, is with the law Place, Ithaca. married and has a daughter, Carol Diana firm of Phillips and Geary, Elmira. '38 LLB—Ralph J. Gregg, who passed Mueller, born October 16, 1937. '36 AB, '38 LLB—Milton H. Innerfield both parts of the New York State Bar '34 AM—-Claude K. Scheifley is a pro- passed both parts of the New York State examination, is now with the law firm fessor at the Worcester Polytechnic Bar examinations. He expects to enter of Albrecht, Maguire and Mills, 1300 Institute, Worcester, Mass. He lives at the practice of law in New York City. Genesee Building, Buffalo. Einhorn Road, Worcester. '36—William O. Henderson is engaged '38 AB—Harry Scott, Jr. is a first year '35 AB—William P. Powers is in the to Harriet Pierce of Avon, N. J. Miss student in the Law School. He lives at insurance and real estate business with Pierce is a graduate of Vassar College. Ί.Ί.-J West Avenue, Ithaca. the Alfred M. Day Agency, Hempstead. '37 BChem, '38 ChE; '38 BS—Warren '38 AB—Richard S. Co wen is with He is taking graduate work at Hofstra C. Smith married Eugenia Kershaw Sep- Engel and Company, 12.0 Broadway, College, Hempstead; is engaged to Mary tember 3. Smith is with the StandardOil New York City, in the purchase sales G. Slocum of Rockville Centre. His ad- Company of New Jersey, Bay way, N. J. division. The company deals in foreign dress is 173 Front Street, Hempstead. They live at 134 West Third Avenue, and domestic securities, as well as trading '35 BS—George F. Warren, son of the Roselle, N. J. on the Stock Exchange. He says, "My late Professor George F. Warren '03 and '37 AM—Russell H. Broadhead is en- evenings are spent at the Wall Street Mrs. Warren (Mary Whitson) '05, has gaged to Frances C. Atkinson of Rock- division of New York University, where resigned his position as district county ville Centre. Miss Atkinson is a graduate I hope to obtain an MBA degree." His agent in , where he had been for of Elmira College and the School of Edu- address is 565 West End Avenue, New the last three years, and is now an cation of New York University. She has York City. assistant in Vegetable Crops, under Pro- been on the faculty of the Mamaroneck '38 BS; '39—Sylvus P. Palmer married fessor Paul Work, MSA '13. Junior High School and is this year an Genevieve Cothran '39 December 10. '35 MCE, '38 PhD; '38 MS—Eugene exchange teacher in the Claremont Palmer teaches vocational agriculture in Tu and Yung Nien Tsok have returned Junior High School, Oakland, Cal. Glenfield. Mrs. Palmer will continue to to China to aid in rehabilitation. They Broadhead teaches at the Mamaroneck reside in Balch Halls until June. Cornell Is Time Valuable? 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Please mention the NEWS CORNELL CLUB LUNCHEONS Many of the Cornell Clubs hold luncheons at regular intervals. A list is given below for the benefit of travelers who may be in some of these cities on dates of meetings. Unless otherwise listed, the meetings are for men: Name of Club Meeting Place Time AKRON (Women 2nd Saturday Homes of Members 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Mrs. Thayer Parry '25, 254 Storer Ave., Akron, Ohio ALBANY Monthly University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: W. Richard Morgan '27, c/o N. Y. Telephone Co., Albany BALTIMORE Monday Engineers' Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Norman D. Kenney '25, West Biddle St. at Charles, Baltimore, Md. BINGHAMTON Monday Hotel Bennett 12:00 noon Secretary: John H. Way '30, 3 Evelyn PL, Binghamton, N. Y. BOSTON Monday Parker House 12:30 p.m. Secretary: William G. Mollenburg '24, 15 Elkins St., South Boston, Mass. BOSTON (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Mrs. C. 5. Luitweiler '27, 26 Stowell Road, Winchester, Mass. BUFFALO Friday Buffalo Athletic Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Neil M. Willard '18, 73 Forest Ave., Buffalo CINCINNATI Last Thursday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Starbuck Smith, Jr. '34, 2530 Handasyde Court, East, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O. CHICAGO Thursday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Richard Vanderwarker '33, The Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 111. CLEVELAND Thursday Mid-Day Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: J. Bentley Forker Jr. '29, 4614 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, Ohio CLEVELAND (Women) Homes of Members Evenings Secretary: Mrs. Edward MacLennan '24, 3239 Marvin Ave., Cleveland, Ohio COLUMBUS Last Thursday University Club 12:00 p.m. Secretary: Charles Jones '34, 80 Burt St., Columbus, Ohio. DENVER Secretary: B. Otto Roessler '31, 1030 Adams St., Denver, Colo. DETROIT Thursday Intercollegiate Club, Penobscot Building 12.15 p.m. Secretary: Don F. Morse '33, 61 Eason St., Detroit, Mich. ESSEX COUNTY, N. J. 2d Friday Downtown Club, 744 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 12:30 p.m. 3d Monday Montclair Golf Club, Prospect Ave., Montclair, N. J. 8:00 p.m. Secretary: Milton H. Cooper '28, 744 Broad Street, Suite 1905, Newark, N. J. FLORIDA, CENTRAL 1st Thursday Angebilt Hotel, Orlando Secretary: Theodore J. Lindorff '07, Box 1126, Orlando, Fla. HARRISBURG, PENNA. 3d Wednesday Hotel Harrisburger 12:00 noon Los ANGELES Monday University Club, 614 S. Hope St. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Guy T. Burroughs '22, 935 S. Valencia St., Los Angeles, Calif. Los ANGELES (Women) Last Saturday Tea Rooms Luncheons Secretary: Miss Bertha Griffin '09, 3004 W. 79th St., Inglewood, Calif. MILWAUKEE Friday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Henry S. Ruess '33, 828 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. NEW YORK (Women) Wednesday Elizabeth Reynolds, 15 E. 48th St., 12:30-1:00 Secretary: Mrs. F. J. Pagliaro '25, 666 West End Ave., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK Daily Cornell Club, 107 East Forty-eighth St. Secretary: Bertel W. Antell '28, 24 Monroe PL, Brooklyn OMAHA 1st Tuesday Wellington Hotel 12:15 p.m. Secretary: James L. Paxton, Jr. '30, Paxton-Mitchell Co., Omaha, Nebr. PHILADELPHIA Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, Cornell Club, 1219 Spruce Street Secretary: Frank L. O'Brien Jr. '31, 113 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, Pa. PHILADELPHIA (Women) 1st Saturday or Friday Homes of Members Afternoon or evening Secretary: Miss Florence Romig '25, 1402 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa. PITTSBURGH Friday Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: John L. Slack '26, University PL, Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Miss Norene Fisher '36, 5723 Solway St., Pittsburgh, Pa. PROVIDENCE 1st Tuesday Middlestreet Cafe 12:00 noon Secretary: H. Hunt Bradley '26, 146 Medway St., Providence, R. L QUEENS COUNTY 3d Monday .. _ Secretary: Mrs. Gustave Noback, 11 Groton St., Forest Hills, N. Y. ROCHESTER Wednesday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Floyd G. Kirkham '27, 333 State St, Rochester, N. Y. ROCHESTER (Women) Monthly (usually Monday) Homes of Members Evening Secretary: Mrs. Leonard D. Booth '33, 47 Brooklawn Drive, Rochester, N. Y. ST. Louis Last Friday American Hotel 12:00 noon Secretary: F. W. Boecker '34, 5567 Maple Ave., St. Louis, Mo. SAN FRANCISCO (Women) 2d Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon or Tea Secretary: Mrs. Nairne F. Ward '26, 2330 Rose St., Berkeley, Calif. SPRINGFIELD Wednesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Harry C. Beaver, Jr. '26, 118 Meadowbrook Rd., Longmeadow, Mass. SYRACUSE Wednesday Chamber of Commerce 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Robert C. Hosmer '02, 120 E. Genesee St., Syracuse SYRACUSE (Women) 2d Monday Homes of Members 6:30 p.m. Secretary: Miss Julie S. Sorenson '24, 105 Elk St., Syracuse, N. Y. TRENTON Monday Chas. Hertzel's Restaurant, Bridge & S. Broad Sts. Secretary: George R. Shanklin '22, 932 Parkside Ave., Trenton, N. J. TUCSON 1st Thursday Pioneer Hotel 12:30 p.m. Secretary: G. Van McKay '31, Box 4682 University Station, Tucson, Ariz. UTICA Tuesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Willis D. Morgan '23, 139 Eastwood Ave., Utica, N. Y. UTICA (Women) 3d Monday Homes of Members Dinner Secretary: Miss Sarah Ellis '33, 1446 Elm St., Utica, N. Y. WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: H. G. Reuschlein '34, 506 E St. N. W., Washington, D.C.