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~ ALUMNI/UNIVERSITY MAY 1957 VOL. XVIII NO.5 MAY VARSITY TENNIS, Union at Union. VARSITY GOLF, Brockport at MEN'S GLEE CLU B, 66th AN Rochester. NUAL HOME CONCERT. Strong VARSITY TENNIS, Buffalo at Auditorium, 8: 15 P. M. Admission Rochester. charge. VARSITY TRACK, Union at 13 VARSITY GOLF, Brockport at Union. Brockport. VARSITY BASEBALL, Union at VARSITY TENNIS, Alfred at Al Union. fred. 3 MEN'S GLEE CLUB CONCERT, 14 VARSITY GOLF, Niagara at Ni sponsored by UR Alumni Club agara. of Buffalo at Orchard Park High VARSITY BASEBALL, Hobart ct School. Hobart: VARSITY GOLF, Niagara at Rochester. 15 VARSITY GOLF, Hamilton at VARSITY BASEBALL, Rensselaer Rochester. at Rensselaer. VARSITY TENNIS, Hamilton at Rochester. 3-4 STAGERS PLAY, Chekov's "The Seagull." Strong Auditorium, 8: 15 16 ALL-UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY P. M. Admission charge. ORCHESTRA CONCERT with Editor student soloists. Strong Auditor CHARLES F. COLE, '25 4 MOVING-UP DAY CEREMO ium, 8:15 P. M. NIES. Eastman Ouadrangle, 2 VARSITY BASEBALL, Syracuse at P. M. Syracuse. Classnotes Editor VARSITY TENNIS, Niagara at DONALD A. PARRY, '51 Rochester. 17 VARSITY GOLF, Hobart at VARSITY TRACK, Brockport at Rochester. Brockport. ROCHESTER CLUB OF GREATER Art Director DETROIT, theater party, business VARSITY BASEBALL, Niagara at LEE D. ALDERMAN, '47 Rochester. meeting and election of officers. 7 VARSITY GOLF, Alfred at Alfred. 18 NEW YORK STATE TRACK VARSITY TENNIS, Niagara at MEET at Rochester. Published by The Uni Niagara. VARSITY TENNIS, Hobart at Rochester. versity of Rochester for ROCHESTER CLUB OF PHIL the Alumni Federation ADELPH lA, informal luncheon VARSITY BASEBALL, Hamilton meeting at the Hotel Adelphia. at Hamilton. in cooperation with the Federation's Publication OUTDOOR CONCERT, Concert 21 ROCHESTER CLUB OF PHILA Band. River Campus, 7.: 15 P. M. DELPHIA, elections and business Committee: meeting. 8 VARSITY TRACK, Niagara at DR. JACOB W. HOLLER, '41M Rochester. Chairman VARSITY BASEBALL, Hamilton at Rochester. NICHOLAS E. BROWN, '28 JUNE 10 VARSITY GOLF, Union at Union. DONALD S. JUDD, '53U VARSITY BASEBALL, Rensselaer 4 ROCHESTER CLUB OF PHILA PAUL S. McFARLAND, '20 at Rochester. DELPHIA, luncheon at Hotel VARSITY TENNIS, Hamilton at Adelphia, 15th and Chestnut BETTY M. OATWAY, '43N Hamilton. Street, Philadelphia, 12:15 P. M. WILLIAM T. RUDMAN, '42 J I VARSITY BASEBALL, Union at 7-9 REUNION - COMMENCEMENT Rochester. WEEKEND. FLORENCE ALEXANDER SCHOENEGGE, '24E MARGARET WESTON, '24 HARMON S. POTTER, '38 Executive Secretary On the Cover _ Resplendent in his academic cap and gown of • the Sorbonne in Paris, where he received a Doctor of Science degree in 1920, is Dr. W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Acting Dean of the Col Published five times per year lege of Arts and Science. Dr. Noyes' robe is in January, March, May, Sep made of cerise silk, with black satin facing tember and November at the and cuffs. Over left shoulder is an ermine Art Print Shop and mailed with out charge to all alumni. Edi trimmed scarf that symbolizes his degree. The torial Office, University of costume was designed for the Sorbonne in the Rochester. River Campus Sta 17th century by Cardinal Richelieu. For story tion. Rochester 20. N. Y. En tered as second class matter, and photographs on academic reSlalia and November, 1952, at the post of centuries-old traditions, see pages 11-15. fice at Rochester, N. Y. Hopeman Chime Rings Out Richard L. Greene, '26, now chairman for Beloved Professor of the English Department at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., who studied under Dr. Slater and succeeded him as Chairman of the Rochester Eng lish Department, has provided us with a delightful sidelight: "Professor Slater's class in English composition was unforgettable. One char acteristic touch appeared each morning on the graying blackboard of the musty classroom in old Anderson Hall. It was a short quotation or aphorism headed 'A Wise Word for Today.' Some student should have had the sense to collect these brevities in a little pamphlet. Those who might have thought of Professor Slater as only a scholar were surprised and pleased DR. SLATER SALUTED to find that for the last class of the foot ball season the 'wise word' appeared in This drawillg of Dr. Slatel' by Elmer Messner was ltsed ill The Rochester Times-Union on March 16. ON 85th BIRTHDAY capitals: 'BEAT HOBART!' "His 'Freshman Rhetoric,' which has HE HOPEMAN CHIME in Rush Rhees Spinning, '13, retired superintendent of mitigated the barbarism of the writing of T Library tower rang out over the River Rochester public schools, and Virginia many generations of college students, is Campus in a special program on March Kirkus, noted critic, to give his opinions regarded by many as one of the really great American textbooks. Among the 14 in salute to Dr. John R. Slater, Pro on new American books and authors with hundreds of freshman English textbooks fessor Emeritus of English and great man typically penetrating comments o~ the poured from the presses, none has been of letters of the University, on his eigh modern literary scene. ty-fifth birthday. more useful and sensible and humane Although it is fifteen years since he Naturally, the magnificent "Commence than this one. retired, Dr. Slater has continued to be ment Hymn," which he composed in "Many a student, perhaps unable to an important figure in the University. 1907, one of the noblest of all college find words for the experience, has yet One of his finest contributions in the songs, was one of the numbers played, realized that in Professor Slater he has intervening years was the unforgettable as well as some of his favorites among made contact with a mind and spirit that "Centennial Ode," for which he provid the 100 or more selections he arranged in their turn have made contact with the ed the script and Dr. Howard Hanson specially for the Hopeman Chime. universe and with universals to a degree the score, performed by the Eastman Dr. Slater, alert and keenly interested denied to most men, including many who Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with in everything in the University and the bear professionally the title of philos Leonard Treash as narrator, at the East world about him, has lost none of his opher. verve and his remarkable command of man Theatre in celebration of the Uni versity's 100th anniversary in 1950. An "A wise word for today from William the written and spoken word, as readers Wordsworth: of the Review} to which he is a frequent other achievement since retirement was 'Great men have been among us; contributor, know. Shortly before his his splendid biography of the Univer birthday he appeared on a Rochester tel sity's third President, Dr. Rush Rhees, hands that penned evision program, Court of Public Opin entitled "Rhees of Rochester," published And tongues that uttered wisdom ... ' ion (WROC-TV), along with James M. in 1946 by Harper's. "John Rothwell Slater is one of these." The lJniversity / 3 The University instructor in psychiatry and medicine in the Medical School and assistant psychiatrist and physician in Strong Memorial Thomas E. Dewey Chosen Hospital. It is payable at the rate of $6,000 a year for five Commencement Speaker years. Competition for the grants is keen, and Dr. Schmale is one of twenty-five Markle Scholars chosen from fifty-seven candidates nominated by medical school deans in the United States and Canada. Each presented a five-year program for HOMAS E. DEWEY, Governor of New York State for advancing the Scholar "up the academic ladder," and five lay T twelve years until he stepped down on January 1, 1955, committees helped to select the candidate through extended and twice (1944 and 1948) the Republican nominee for Pres interviews over a period of three days. ident, will be the principal speaker at the University's 107th Dr. Richard C. Fowler, .44M, now a resident in medicine annual Commencement on June 9. He also will be awarded at George Washington University, was the first member of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. the Rochester medical faculty to be named a Markle Scholar After his retirement from political life, Mr. Dewey turned when the program was initiated in 1948. Dr. Howard A. Joos, over to the University of Rochester one million of his per then assistant professor of pediatrics at Rochester and now sonal and official papers covering his administration of New associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern York State, campaign files, speech and research data and con California, was chosen in 1951, and Dr. S. Marsh Tenney, vention files covering his two bids for the presidency, and assistant professor of physiology and medicine, in 1954. Dr. scrap books and press clippings relating to his service as spe Tenney is now professor of physiology, chairman of the de cial prosecutor in Manhattan and district attorney during his partment of physiological science and associate dean in charge racket-busting activities from 1933-37. (For report on the of research and planning at Dartmouth Medical School. Dewey Papers by Dr. Glyndon G. Van Deusen, see pages The purpose of the Markle program is to aid young medical 16-17. ) school faculty members seeking careers in teaching and re For the past two years, Mr. Dewey has been engaged in search, "to relieve the shortage of teachers in medical schools private law practice as the new senior partner of the firm of and to strengthen their faculties by encouraging young scient Dewey, Valentine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood, one of the ists to remain in academic medicine." In the past ten years, largest in New York City. A graduate of the University of the foundation has awarded grants totaling $6,070,000 to Michigan in 1923, he received his law degree at Columbia 206 doctors in seventy-four medical schools in the U.