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(Credit Lines: Photograph on Page 3, Ralph Amdursky.1· Pages f, 6, 7, II and I8, Herbert Schaeffer) Page Anne Lindbergh Adds Glamor Note to Colorful Commencement Rites...... 3 Alumni Revive Ancient Ceremony, Award Own Degrees to Valentine...... 5 Three New Trustees Picked early as Board Cooperates with Press...... 7 Akerly and Roeser Head Alumni; Grads Aid as Rochester Salesmen...... 9 Memorial Loan Fund Established to Honor Veteran Chemistry Man By Thomas F. Murray, 'I8...... 10 1889 Registers Sweeping Victory in Spirited Dash for Cubley Cup...... 11 Tax Income Instead of Sales to Halt Borrowing for Relief! By Donald W. Gilbert, '2I '...... 12 Science, Students Supply Theme for Flow of News Bureau Stories By Armin Bender, '34...... 14 Alumni and University Prexies Swap Compliments as Year Ends...... 14 Editorials...... 16 Newton Mourned Rhees Departure, Long-Cherished Verses Disclose...... 17 Meanderings ...... 19 Alumni Membership Roster...... 23 Numeral Notations...... 24 In Memoriam '...... 25 THE ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW is the official publication of the Associated Alumni of the University of Rochester. President, Harold E. Akerly, '08; Vice-Presidents, Eugene C. Roeser, '01, Rochester; James Bruff Forbes, '99, Chicago; Clarence C. Stoughton, '18, New York City; Carlyle L. Kennell, '14, Buffalo; Louis H. Bean, '18, Washington; Mitchell Bronk, '86, Philadelphia; Wesley C. Buck, '29, Albany; Douglas A. Newcomb, '18, Los Angeles; George Darling, '34, BO,ston; Treasurer, Raymond G. Phillips, '97; Alumni Secretary, Charles R. Dalton, '20.

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VOL. XVII JUNE-JULY 1939 NO.5 Anne Lindbergh Adds Glamor Note To Colorful Commencement Rites

Drama and color-largely supplied by Anne Morrow Shaffer, dean of the Washington University Medical Lindbergh, author, traveler, and recipient of the honor­ School at St. Louis; and Waldo Gifford Leland, secretary ary degree Doctor of Letters-marked the eighty-ninth and executive director of the American Council of Commencement of the University of Rochester, held the Learned Societies and president of the International morning of June 19th in the Eastman Theater. Committee of Historical Sciences, were recipients of The big auditorium was pack­ honorary degrees. ed to the doors, curious citizens, Mrs. Lindbergh, a personal as well as relatives and friends friend of President and Mrs. of the recipients of the 485 Valentine, was a guest at East­ degrees awarded, making up the man House during her brief largestCommencement audience stay in Rochester. The citation in Rochester history. for her degree, pronounced by Theexercises would have been Professor John R. Slater, was memorable even had the lovely as follows: authorof"North to theOrient" "Her style like her travel is and "Listen-the Wind" not direct-great circles and short been present on the platform. words. She has gone north to The Commencement address, by the Orient and listened to the Peter Henry Buck, half Irish, wind. In an age of evasion she halfMaoridirectorofthe Bishop writes plain English. Self­ Museum at Honolulu and pro­ expression becomes communica­ fessor of anthropology at Yale tion, the nearest way from University, avoided by far the mind to mind. Her swift larger share of the common thoughts, revealing the quality faults of graduation orations. of the instant, lead us suddenly It was scholarly, but human, into the unknown. With her we humorous, and aimed at the rise above storms; above fears graduates rather than their pro- ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, LITT.D. of space and time and change, fessors. The program listed into regions of understandmg. Professor Buck's Maori name, Nineteen years after her father, Dwight Whitney Visiting with a guide the world Morrow, was given an honorary degree at Rochester, Te Rangi Hiroa, and the speaker . of values, homes of the Ideas, " dd . h Mrs. Lmdhergh hecame an honorary alumna. flavored h1S a ress wit quo- we see them. One word-and tations from Maori poets, with descriptions of the there they are. This is what we came for. What can be Polynesian equivalents of universities. said of the air, the sea, the night, whether in beauty or Professor Buck; Deems Taylor, composer, writer and in danger, she has sa1d it. She is also a mistress of silence. critic, and champion of American music; Philip Anderson Her monosyllables, even her dots and dashes, are a

JUNE-JULY 1939 code read' everywhere by the discerning. She knows and insulated from the common herd in order that they what not to say. could come under the direct influence of the gods whom "In prose and verse of imagination and restraint, in a the priestly instructors represented. They were con­ life of high adventure, she joins the action and the ducted to a nearby stream where they were divested of word; she gives them wings. By nature a poet, by their garments and bathed in the stream. Being thus choice a traveler, by both an American, I present her cleansed, they were escorted into the sacred houses-of­ as a candidate for the degree Doctor of Letters honoris learning, and, instead of cap and gown, dressed in new causa... garments. In presenting her with the diploma, President Valentine "Before commencing the course, the students were reminded Mrs. Lindbergh that her father, Dwight commanded to bite the scalp or the big toe of the teacher Whitney Morrow, had preceded her into the company in order that this physical contact might render the of Rochester's honorary alumni, having received the flow of knowledge from teacher to student more ef­ degree Doctor of Laws in 1920, when he was Commence­ fective. I venture to say if this procedure were carried ment speaker. President Valentine added: out in our universities today, some of the professors "Anne Morrow Lindbergh, you have breathed the might receive serious injury, particularly if the custom high atmosphere, and in your words and in yourself were observed at the end of the course instead of at the have brought to us something of its high exaltation. beginning. You have conquered the land, the sea, the air, but "Within the school, the students themselves became your greatest victory has been a victory of the spirit. taboo. They could not mix with the people of their You have known. and given us the heights, but it is village., They could not touch food with their hands your knowledge and mastery of the depths that have for food was defiling to their taboo. They were fed by won our love. Our minds do honor to the skill of your special attendants who put the food into their mouths. pen, but our hearts pay tribute to your conquest, not of They were taught orally by their teachers' reciting air or machines or even of letters, but of human frailty long genealogies, chants, incantations. As they had no by indominatable courage." note books, they had to commit all the teaching to Dr. Buck was cited by Geology Professor J. Edward memory. Hoffmeister as one "born in New Zealand of a Maori "The successful graduates were given a stone that mother and an Irish father ... he inherited from one really corresponded to a stone diploma. It did not bear the charm and resourcefulness of the Polynesian, from the signature of the university president but it was the other the wit and aptness of speech of the Irish, imbued with the mana or intellectual power of the and from both a capacity to enjoy life." In bestowing the priestly head of the house-of-Iearning. The possession degree, Mr. Valentine said: "You who have studied of such a diploma was a matter of pride, and throughout folkways have adopted ours, and thus encouraged while life it gave mana and prestige to the holder. Should you honored this harried Anglo-Saxon race, whom your some of the teaching become dim in the after years, versatility frightens until your charm reassures ... We the stone diploma was rubbed with the fingers and see in you the fine blending of our strident Atlantic memory came flooding back. questing with the gentler and less troubled culture of your own South Seas." "It is a long call from the Stone Age to our present time. Yet some relics of a primitive form of education Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of have survived and are usually termed superstitions. Music, who presented Deems Taylor, termed him "that Primitive methods have been retained in your cuIture rarity among critics, a man who is well able to practice by people who say: 'What was good enough for my what he preaches. As a composer who has himself grandfather is good enough for me.' For such people it attained highest distinction he is that rarity among probably is. We laugh at some of the superstitions of composers, an artist who is both sympathetic and native peoples but so long as some of your own people tolerant toward the artistic beliefs of others." refuse to pass under a ladder or light three cigarettes Dean Shaffer's citation was given by Professor Walter with one match, we should not be too uproarious in Ray Bloor, and Dexter Perkins, professor of history our expressions of hilarity." presented Dr. Leland. Professor Buck, in his Commencement address, de­ scribed the "higher education" given in Polynesia to the sons of chiefs and priests, in primitive equivalents Robert B. Gordon, '35, received the degree Doctor of of western institutions of learning. Science in metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of "These houses-of-Iearning were taboo, that is, there Technology in June, and is now with the Westinghouse were various regulations that were enforced by religious Research Laboratories, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. sanctions," he said. "The students had to be isolated He is living at 125 Dewey Street, Edgewood.

4 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW Alumni Revive Ancient Ceremony, Award Own IDegrees to Valentine

President Alan Valentine is now an alumnus, and with members of '09 donning mortarboards, sweat­ will henceforth be considered a member of the Class of stained bathrobes, and false whiskers to escort the 1939. The Associated Alumni, reviving a ceremony in­ president to the speakers' table. Bill McOuat, '26, in augurated in 1857, took cognizance of his four years of full Highland regalia, piped the parade into the hall. study at the University of Rochester, and presented The towering Fred Maecherlein acted as marshal, wear­ him with a diploma couched in formal and formidable ing jester's motley in place of a doctor's robe, and Latin. bearing a jester's cockscomb truncheon in place of the The ancient tradition, established eighty-two years marshal's mace. ago, was observed as a feature of the annual Alumni "Magister, sodales congregatorum alumnorum, Alanum Dinner and Alumnite, held in the Alumni Gymnasium Valentinum praefectttm Universitatis Rocestriensis praebeo," Saturday evening, June 17th. Mr. Valentine was made said Professor Kendrick. "Mr. Chairman, and members a Doctor of Academic Headaches and Master of Col­ ofthe Associated Alumni, I present to you Alan Valentine, legiate Cataclysms; and the keyless Class of1909 bestowed president of the University of Rochester. He has com­ upon him its private badge of academic non-success, pleted the required four years of residence at the Uni­ welcoming him as a member of "Pi Beta Kappa." versity, and has pursued his studies with praiseworthy When alumni, in 1857, conferred a degree upon Martin diligence. Brewer Anderson at the completion of his first four "His students have swallowed no goldfish; his faculty years at the University, they chose Professor Asahel C. men have waved no red flags; his investments in railroad Kendrick to deliver the citation. In 1939 "Kai Gar's" securities have yielded no dividends. son, Professor Emeritus Ryland M. Kendrick, assumed "Since Mr. Valentine came to Rochester, professors the equivalent role, reading the document in resounding have been fired ... with new zeal. They have written Latin, while Kenneth B. Keating, '19, stood by to books, smashed atoms, played with stratosphere bal­ translate for the benefit of alumni whose contacts with loons, for the advancement of learning and for the the ablative absolute ceased with graduation. pages of the NEW YORK TIMES. The award of the degree was preceded by something pretty speCial in the way of an academic procession,

On the Cover The cover illustration, borrowed from the 1940 INTERPRES, shows a dozen familiar faculty faces. In the top row, left to right, are: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, '26, professor of history, in the Todd Union barber chair; History Professor Dexter Perkins; Floyd C. Fairbanks, '01, professor of physics. Second row, Professor Richard L. Greene, '26, English; Professor John R. Slater, English; Profes­ sor Hugh MacKenzie, history. Third row, J. Edward Hoffmeister, professor of VALENTINE'S ALUMNI STATUS CONFIRMED geology; Charles W. Watkeys, '01, professor of With members of ' 09, swathed in bathrobes and crepe mathematics; Frederick L. Hovde, assistant to the whiskers, forming an academic background, Ryland M. president. Kendrick, right, '89, cites President Alan Valentine's qualifica­

Bottom row: Willson H. Coates, associate pro­ tions for an earned degree J' beside him Kenneth B. Keating, 'I9, fessor of history; William E. Dunkman and Ralph translates Kendrick's Latin phrases. The president, seated, W. Marquis, assistant professors of economics. accepts the Ciceronian ribbing gracefully, grinningly. Behind him is Cornelius R. Wright, '09, alumni president.

JUNE-JULY 1939 such degrees as you are traditionally empowered to give." ThenAlumniPresidentCorneliusR. Wright, '09, read the diploma, with Ken Keating again serving as interpreter: " Alan Valentine has completed the required four years of study at the University of Rochester, and has attained highest honors in all subjects, including patience, friend­ liness, and physical endurance; he has listened under­ standingly -to the pleas and plaints of alumni; he has worn his honors without vainglory and his shirts with­ out stuffing; he has striven with a wide variety of educational growing pains and disasters, has doctored them, indeed mastered them. "It is fitting, therefore, that the Associated Alumni should bestow upon him the degrees Doctor of Academic Headaches and Master of Collegiate Cataclysms (Doctor Cephalaearum Academicarum et Magister Collegiorum Catacly­ smotum) and admit him to all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, including an annual stipend of 500 aspirin tablets." When this, like the citation, had been duly translated, "-AN ANNUAL STIPEND OF phrase by phrase, a doctor's hood of yellow and blue cellophane was draped upon Mr. Valentine's shoulders. 500 ASPIRIN TABLETS" (The committee attempted to use Eastman's Kodapak, President Valentine, wearing the cellulose hood of a Doctor discovered that no blue film is available.) Neil Wright of Academic Headaches and Master of Collegiate Cataclysms, handed over the diploma and a box of aspirin tablets, receives the ribboned diploma and the headache pills from informing the president that the tablets had been Alumni President Wright, the latter staggering beneath the charged to the University. He added: weight of the diploma's Latin polysyllables which he has "Now that you have completed your college course just read. Not since I857, when President Martin B. Anderson and have become entitled to all the privileges and received a "Doctor of College Laws" degree from the alumni, immunities of an alumnus, including the right to pay has this ceremony been observed. alumni dues, it simply remains to be seen whether our

"He has built new dormitories for the women students, equipped with sun pools so that the girls may tan their skins uniformly. He has transformed the River Campus Stadium lOto a dormitory, where students as well as spectators may sleep. Symbolic of his aggressive youth­ fulness is the fact that, while professing to be deeply interested in the College for Men, he maintains his office near the campus of the College for Women. The women have reciprocated by choosing him as a favorite companion for a desert island twosome. "His major handicap has been that he holds degrees only from small and obscure universities. Since he has studied for four years at the University of Rochester, known throughout the whole world, he has qualified for a degree in course; and it is fitting that the alumni should now welcome him into their ranks. In so doing ACADEMIC PROCESSION, 1909 STYLE the alumni revive the ancient tradition established in The Class of I909, forming the academic procession for the the Year ofOur Lord 1857, when Martin Brewer Anderson awarding of President Valentine's degrees, was piped into was so honored. the hall by Bill McOuat, '26, in bonnet, kilts and sporran~' "Fellow alumni, I present Alan Valentine, praying behind him is Fred Maecherlein, wearing a jester's livery. in that you reward him for past accomplishments, and place of academic gown, brandishing a jester's bauble instead strengthen him for future tasks, by bestowing upon him of silver-banded mace.

6 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW cold world, but it won't be quite so cold because of the warmth of our friendship." The Classes of '22, '23, '24, and '25 bestowed a yellow cap upon the president, the men of '14 contributed a green vest. Mrs. Valentine informed Niel Wright the next day that her husband had made a colorful and exuberant entrance when he returned to Eastman House, wearing yellow cap, green vest, black-and-brass Pi Beta Kappa key, and blue and yellow hood. Mr. Valentine was surprised when he unrolled his diploma, discovered that it actually was a diploma. For many years University of Rochester graduates have been receiving blank rectangles of white paper, rolled and tied with a yellow ribbon, on Commencement Day. This bit of academic skullduggery serves a useful purpose; the blanks are exchanged later at the registrar's office for the individual sheepskins, which otherwise might be badly soiled and frayed before finally reaching their rightful owners. An informal address, "Then and Now," was delivered by Charles N. Perrin, '02, of Buffalo. Concluding feature of the program was an "Informa­ tion Squeeze" contest with a faculty team and an alumni team competing. James M. Spinning, '13, as question propounder, and Hoyt Armstrong, '23, an­ UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE, 1909 STYLE nouncer, officiated. The faculty team included History Alhert Kaiser, M.D., memher of I909, and elected to the Professor Dexter Perkins, Dr. Basil McLean, director University's Board of Trustees a few hours earlier, left his of Strong Memorial Hospital; Librarian Donald B. place at the speaker's tahle to march in the academic procession. Gilchrist, and Swimming Coach Roman Speegle. The alumni fielded Swayne P. Goodenough, '13, James M. faith in you is justified. Your scholastic standing during O'Reilly, '21, Arthur M. See, '12, and C. Burton Newman your college career has been exceptionally high. We '39, president of the Students' Association during the expect great things of you as you go out into the cold, past year. Three New Trustees Picked early As Board Cooperates with Press

University officials showed news-mindedness at the Finucane, president of the Thomas W. Finucane Corpora­ trustees' meeting at Eastman House June 17th when tion, 1939 president of the Chamber of Commerce; and they gave the report of the nominating committee an Amory Houghton, president of the Corning Glass Works. early place on the program so that the afternoon papers They were later to find that the public generally, and could get the story. University co-operation with the the alumni in particular, were applauding their selection. press is at a new high; the lid is off even at the Medical Attempts at faculty raiding at Rochester continue, the School. The doctors have abandoned the slogan, "the trustees learned, but they were cheered to find that best publicity is no publicity, " in favor of ' 'let the public most of them are unsuccessful. The head of one science be enlightened;" and they have found that it isn't department, nationally known in his field, recently harming the University. refused a $40,OOO-a-year offer from private industry, and The trustees themselves were well pleased with the he had previously turned down another attractive results of the efforts of the nominating committee, that proposal because he preferred his teaching position at added to the board Dr. Albert D. Kaiser, '09; Bernard E. the .University. The academic atmosphere, apparently,

JUNE-JULY 1939 7 has a flavor, aroma, or something, that is all its own. The election of Bernard E. Finucane to the board Ray Thompson admitted that the unofficial estimate makes three trustees who never attended college, the of the ALUMNI REVIEW, of total gifts of $850,000 in other two being the board chairman, Edward G. Miner, less than a year, was substantially correct. As a matter and former City Councilman Louis S. Foulkes. Dr. of fact, some additional grants bring the total to nearly Albert D. Kaiser's election brought alumni members to $900,000 for the entire fiscal year. Some of these, how­ eleven out of a total of twenty-three. ever, must be currently expended and do not increase Close mouthed, indeed, are university trustees. The the endowment resources. Others must be used for report of the nominating committee made by M. Herbert specific purposes and are of little or no assistance in Eisenhart came as a well-received surprise to all the the present financial dilemma resulting from reduced other board members. There was no leak on the Lindbergh endowment income. honorary degree. A few years ago the newspapers had Football received some recognition at the trustees' no advance inkling of the election of Alan Valentine meeting. President Alan Valentine read the home dates as president. The trustees form one of the few groups to enable the trustees to select a Saturday for their fall in Rochester which can keep a secret. They don't even meeting that might coincide with a Rochester victory. tell their wives. Great confidence in the 1939 team was shown when S. Sloan Colt, Bankers' Trust president, and close October 21st, the date of the Amherst game, was picked. friend of Thomas E. Dewey, is proving to be of great The selection was made, however, on the record of the assistance to the board in its financial deliberations. basketball, swimming, and baseball teams. Amory Houghton, president of Corning Glass Company, Trustee Lewis H. Thornton, of Wellsville, enthusiastic will bring interest in advanced research as well as alumnus of the class of 1892, wants to put on a "Roches­ business and financial ability to Rochester. ter Day" in the home town next fall. He would invite It was revealed at the meeting that Harper Sibley President Valentine and some faculty members to par­ was a trustee in 1914 when Ray Ball, trustee, former ticipate as well as Wellsville's piece de resistance, Raymond university treasurer and bank president, was being N. Ball, '14, the hometown boy who made good in a graduated from the University of Rochester. But the big city. He was also bubbling over because Amy age gap is not quite so wide as it seems; Mr. Sibley Elizabeth Browning, in the graduating class, had re­ became a trustee when he was only twenty-nine years ceived a Phi Beta Kappa key and William R. McEnroe, old. another oil town boy, was in the men's senior class. Then, too, John F. Flagg, '36, formerly of Wellsville. Foundations and private industrial firms continue to had just been appointed an instructor in chemistry. support specific research undertakings at the University. At luncheon following the meeting, Kodak's president New grants have been announced as follows: indulged in reminiscence. Frank W. Lovejoy told of Insulin Committee of Toronto (to be expended for the time when Richard Harding Davis, newspaper cor­ research under the direction of Dr. John R. Murlin) respondent and writer, made a flying visit to Kodak $2,000; National Research Council (Dr. Ethel L. Clausen) Park. He wanted to see the plant in fifteen minutes. $1,129.04; Standard Brands (Dr. E. S. Nasset) $1,500; The irrepressible Davis took over the tour and showed Eastman Kodak Company (Dr. Stafford L. Warren) the plant to Lovejoy. $4,000; John and Mary M. Markle Foundation (Dr. Alan Valentine went out to a Chicago suburb to make George W. Corner) $3,000; Rockefeller foundation (Drs. a speech recently. Mrs. Valentine accompanied him. S. L. Warren and L. A. DuBridge) $2,750; International Anxious to have her husband make a good impression Cancer Research Foundation (Drs. John J. Morton and on some of her Chicago friends, she instructed youthful Stafford L. Warren) $1,416.64; National Research Council Alan to assume maturity and be his best. Before going (Dr. John R. Murlin) $1,118.69. All these grants are down to the reception he borrowed a false mustache for specific research projects.

from some playing children, pasted it on his smooth ~ face, adopted a Harvard accent, and made wisecracks Dr. Milton S. Plesset, instructor in physics, will be about the guests. Many brows were lifted at Lucia's absent during the next academic year; he has accepted strange husband before the deception was discovered. ,an appointment as research fellow at the Califorll1a On the plea that he lives in Chicago and doesn't Institute of Technology. know what it is all about, Samuel M. Havens, '99, -~- asked more questions than all the other trustees put together. As a matter of fact, Sam is thoroughly familiar Miss Katharine Irwin has been appointed registrar with the operations of the university and will come of the College for Women to succeed Mrs. Arthur S. from Chicago almost any time to attend a sub-~~mmittee Gale, the former Katherine Bowen, '10. Dean Gale and meeting. Miss Bowen were married June 26th.

8 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW Akerly and Roeser Head Alumni: Grads Aid as Rochester Salesmen

Harold E. Akerly, '08, assistant superintendent of than the manner in which they have met us, on common Rochester schools', was elected president of the Associated ground, to discuss these matters. It has been a most Alumni at the annual dinner June 17th, and Eugene C. significant development. With the charting of such a Roeser, '01, became vice-president for the academic year course, and going forward together, we may indeed of 1939-40. view the future with confidence." Results of the general The steady progress of the Associated Alumni during balloting for members of the past few years was noted and warmly commended the Board of managers by President Alan Valentine in his brief address to the placed Eugene Raines, '02; alumni. Ezra A. Hale, '16, and A plan to make wider use of individual alumni and John W. Remington, '17, of alumni associations in bringing the University of on the directing board for Rochester to the attention of prospective students was three-year terms. Charles described at the Commencement-time meeting of the R. D a Ito n, '20, and Alumni Council, held Sunday, June 18th, in Todd Union. Raymond G. Phillips, '97, The regional associations are not only offering scholar­ were re-elected secretary ships of their own, but are moving definitely to set the and treasurer, respective­ feet of non-scholarship students on the roads that lead ly. , to Rochester, Alumni Secretary Charles R. Dalton, '20, Both the retiring presi­ told Council members. In areas where Rochester gradu­ dent, CorneliusR. Wright, ates are few, individuals are in many cases doing im­ HAROLD E. AKERLY, '08 '09, and the secretary pre­ mensely valuable work, interviewing prospective appli­ sented brief reports. cants for Prize and Genesee scholarships. "This has been a very happy and eveiltful year," The Central Alumni Association, centered in Chicago, Mr. Wright said. "It has definitely marked the develop­ has set the pace during the past decade, sending a hun­ ment of a fine spirit of understanding and co-operation dred youngsters from the Chicago area to Rochester; between the alumni and the University, with particular Joseph M. Naughton, '22, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, reference to the subject of intercollegiate athletics. An was cited for his single-handed efforts in preaching the Athletic Committee of the Rochester gospel to high school seniors. Associated Alumni, head­ Harold E. Akerly, '08, chosen president of the Associ­ ed by Allie Neary, '14, ated Alumni the evening before, made his first appearance has met on many occasions as alumni presiding officer. The Council took no action with officials of the Uni­ on a proposal to modify the Dix Plan of class reunions, versity and frankly ex­ although there were vigorous arguments for and against plored and discussed the the plan, which provides for the meeting of four classes, problems involved, seek­ of consecutive years, at one time. Samuel M. Havens, ing a sane and reasonable '99, who had attended his fortieth reunion the day approach to the solution before, argued that the Dix Plan is designed for s~all of those problems. Instead colleges. Jacque L. Meyers, '06, reported that his class, of nursing grievances, if with 1903, 1904, and 1905, had had a most successful any were thought to exist, Dix plan gathering, the group meeting at the River we have frankly expressed Campus in the afternoon and making an inspection tour them to the University of the psychological laboratories in Morey Hall. Sixty and have found we were men turned out for the event and they enjoyed it hugely, EUGENE C. ROESER, '01 talking with friends who Jacque said. had a sympathetic understanding; and I may say, to James B. Forbes, '99, and Sam Havens described the President Valentine and to other officials of the Univer­ scholarship experiences of the Chicago group, giving sity here tonight, that nothing could do more to cement credit to Myron E. Ad~ms, '98, for his efforts in getting the loyalty and enthusiastic backing of the alumni the scholarship plan launched. The Central Alumni

JUNE-JULY 1939 9 have concentrated largely on the suburban high schools The occasion also marked the thirty-sixth anniversary -Oak Park, Evanston, and others-and have succeeded of the marriage of Professor and Mrs. Chambers, and in enlisting high school principals, the parents of present that event was also commemorated at the meeting by and former Rochester students, and the students them­ appropriate music and the presentation to Mrs. Chambers selves as Rochester missionaries. of a bouquet of thirty-six roses. "We haven't wrought any miracles in Chicago," The climax of the meeting came when Arthur A. Trustee Havens said. "Any alumni group can do what Backus of the class of 1913 announced the presentation we've done. An alumni association, or an individual to the University of Rochester of a fund of $2,000 to be alumnus, ought to lose no time in getting acquainted known as the Chambers Memorial Fund and to be used with the high school principals in his city-whether for making loans to needy students of chemistry. The it's Rochester or Los Angeles. In Chicago, we just can't sum was subscribed by former chemistry students and get a resignation from any of the members of our scholar­ friends of Professor Chambers. As a personal memento ship committee; they're finding the job so thrilling and of the occasion, Professor Chambers was presented with so satisfying. The hardest job is getting started. Once an engraved gold watch, the gift of those who attended it's under way, you'll find enthusiastic helpers in your the dinner. scholarship men themselves. Youngsters are coming back The toastmaster, Arthur A. Backus, vice president of to the Chicago area from Rochester now, comparing the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Company, was introduced notes with high school classmates who went to other by Cryil J. Staud, chairman of the group who arranged colleges-and then telling us, and telling their friends, the dinner. Dean Arthur S. Gale. spoke for the faculty that Rochester has more to offer than other universities and administration of the University, Professor Avery have. That's helping us, naturally, in getting the very A. Ashdown, '14, of the Massachusetts Institute of best men and women in the graduating classes. The Technology, a former student of Professor Chambers, principals are on our side because they know we're not presented an appreciation of the man and his work. interested merely in recruiting athletes. They know we After the announcement of the loan fund by Mr. Backus want, and Rochester wants, students who have brains and the presentation by Professor Willard R. Line of and character and capacity for leadership." the watch, Professor Chambers spoke briefly. Con­ One of the men in next year's entering class, he gratulatory messages from former students and associates revealed, winner of six athletic letters and top man in were read during the dinner. his class scholastically, was induced to come to Roch­ The program for the occasion was of novel design. ester by the enthusiastic salesmanship displayed by the The cover was illustrated by pen and ink drawings of father of one of this year's freshman crop. the Reynolds Chemical Laboratory on the Prince Street Carlyle L. Kennell, '13, president of the Buffalo Campus, where Professor Chambers first taught at Association, reported that the younger men of that Rochester, and of the Samuel A. Lattimore Laboratory unit are increasingly active in bringing Rochester to on the River Campus; the drawings being enclosed in a the attention of prospective students. They are finding "benzene ring," characteristic symbol of organic chem­ that certain other universities are grouping courses in istry, the field in which Professor Chambers is especially economics, accounting, and related subjects together interested. On the back of the program was the structural and advertising them as courses in "business administra­ formula of para-nitro-ortho-sulfobenzoic acid, a com­ tion," he said, and are placing at a disadvantage those pound on which Professor Chambers and his students institutions that, like Rochester, use a more conservative did much research. nomenclature. An informal portrait of Professor Chambers was inserted between the covers. Erle M. Billings, '15, was chairman of the Fund and Dr. Cyril J. Staud '20 was chairman of the dinner. Both Memorial Loan Fund Established were assisted by a committee consisting of Professor To Honor Veteran Chemistry Man Ralph W. Helmkamp, '11; Professor Willard R. Line, '12; Richard E. Kruger, '16; Thomas F. Murray, Jr., By THOMAS F. MURRAY, '18 '18; Dr. Ethel L. French, '20; Dr. Doran J. Stephens, '28; and Gerald A. Lux, '27. More than 200 former students and friends of Professor VictorJ. Chambers, '95, met at a dinner in Todd Union on the evening ofJune 15th to honor him on his retirement Elton Atwater, '34, who has been studying for the from teaching, after thirty-one years spent on the faculty. past year at the Brookings Institution in Washington Although he WIll no longer give courses in chemistry, under a Brookings Research Fellowship, has been ap­ Professor Chambers will continue to serve as dean of pointed assistant professor of political science in Elmira graduate studies. ~llege.

10 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 1889 Registers SweepingVictary In Spirited Dash ,far Cubley Cup

.The Class of 1889, fifty years after its graduation The Classes of 1903, 1904, 1905~ and 1906 joined in a exercises, made alumnihistory bybringing back seventeen Saturday afternoon tour of the psychological laborator­ of its twenty living members for the 1939 reunion, ies, and watched Professor Elmer A. Culler and his winning the Cubley Cup with the highest percentage associates conduct a series of experiments and tests. -85 per cent-ever recorded by a reunion group. Robert J. Barker, '03; Orrin Barker, Percy B. Dutton, John B. Howe, president, and Benjamin B. Chace, and Fletcher W. Peck, all of 1904, and Jacque L. Meyers, secretary, were responsible for the record showing. Two '06, arranged the meeting. Committee members reported of their classmates-Harry B. Chase and George T. that the laboratory visit was most interesting, suggested Sellew-journed from California to attend; Edward R. that other Dix Plan reunion groups might find the plan Gilmore came from Chicago, and Roscoe Conkling worth imitating in the future. Ensign Brown from Maine. The reunion luncheon was Burt F. Ewell arrang~d the 1914 gathering, was served at the Country Club of Rochester. elected to the Alumni Council. The class, turning out The class and the achievements of its members were thirty-six strong, met at Halton Bly's summer home reported at length in Henry Clune's "Seen and Heard" at Forest Lawn for lunch, went to Raymond N. Ball's column in the ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE. home for cocktails, and were entertained at Nathaniel Charles A. Hamilton, retired superintendent of the D. Hubbell's home at a supper party following the New York State School for the Blind at Batavia, proudly Friday night Alumni Dance. F. J. Converse, of Pasa­ brought to the reunion-and smoked-the pipe he had dena, California, came the greatest distance. puffed for his class day pipe oration in 1889. The Class of 1899, mere youngsters only forty years The Class of 1925, according to Clarence J. (Cass) out of college, met at Manitou, with fifteen attending. Henry, met at Westminster Park and watched the antics Charles W. Coit boasted the record mileage, coming of the old folks of '22, '23, and '24, who joined with from California. Herbert S. Weet was elected president; it in a Dix Plan reunion. Hugo F. Teute was chairman Fred K. Townson treasurer, and Dr. Curtiss N. Jameson of the reunion for 1929, that met at the University Club secretary. for luncheon.

Bringing back to its fiftieth reunion seventeen of its twenty living members, I889 was a hands-down winner of the Cub­ ley trophy. The photograph shows: First row, left to right, Ryland M. Kendrick, Francis r Macomber, Rev. John H. Strong, D.D., Benjamin B. Chace, class secretary for a half­ century.;GeorgeT. Sellew, Ph.D ..; Edward R. Gilmore. Second row: George H. Parmele, Kendrick P. Shedd, Roscoe C. E. Brown, Litt.D..; FrancisA.]. Waldron, Henry E. Lawrence, Sc.D..; Kendall B. Castle. Third row: John B. Howe, Harry B. Chase, Walter H. Hill, Charles A. Hamilton, Isaac Adler.

'89ERS, CUBLEY CUP WINNERS, SET REUNION RECORD

JUNE-JULY 1939 II Tax Incomes Instead of Sales To Halt Borrowing for Relief!

By DONALD W. GILBERT, '21, Professor of Economics

Professor Gilbert, wHo in I940 will become dean of graduate studies, succeeding the veteran Victor]. Chambers, '95, is not an "ivory tower" economist. Tax experts listen with respectful attention to his pronouncements on contemporary methods of governmental fiscal operation. The following article is an abstract of an address delivered at the National Con­ ference of Social Work, held at Buffalo in June.

Borrowing for relief must stop! must be spread over a wide area, and the benefits equal­ For nearly ten years this country has viewed the ized with consideration for geographic differences in financing of relief as a temporary problem. Federal, state, prices and living requirements. If local administration and local governments, blindly and with little or no is retained as the most efficient method of distributing thought of the future, have met relief costs by increasing assistance, then federal grants-in-aid to the states and the rates of elastic and often overburdened taxes, enact­ state grants to the local units, on some basis which ing new levies wherever a yield was promised and bor­ combines recognition of need with that of resources, rowing whenever their political courage failed them. are indicated. The great advantages of grants over shared The results are a pathetic commentary upon our ostrich­ taxes are seen in the opportunities which the former pro­ like refusal to look beyond today's necessities, and upon vide for equalization and for central supervision and our juvenile unwillingness to develop a program to meet control. Those who pay the bill must have some power not only the requirements of today but also of the to control the quality of the service purchased. tomorrows which will follow. How shall we raise the necessary revenues to provide Debts such as the federal IOU of $41,000,000,000 and grants-in-aid and to relieve local property? A satisfactory the federal, state, and local debt of $3,000 per family in answer to this question can be given only after the New York State have produced an annual and inflexible fiscal system and general economic character of a given debt service charge which in many places equals or state have been studied. The tax system must conform to exceeds the current expenditures for relief. If bankruptcy several generally accepted principles. The present hodge­ -especially among local governments-is to be avoided, podge of state taxation has resulted from the failure to this must not contin\,le. regard each tax as a stone which must be carefully select­ Even when a more courageous and far-sighted leader­ ed and placed in relation to others. Only when this is done ship, seeing that the future would have its own relief will the wall be strong and durable. problems, was willing to tax, the results have been Our taxes for relief should help to make the tax system almost equally regrettable. Local governments have conform more closely to the principle of taxing each been forced to raise property taxes to higher and higher person according to his ability. It is essential, of course, levels until in many areas they have passed the point of that the tax system be productive. But it is vital that its diminishing returns, producing delinquency and dis­ productivity be not at the expense of a dwindling national couraging construction and business. Larger govern­ income. The unemployed can only be 'supported by shar­ mental units have resorted to sales taxes, commodity ing with them the goods and services which others have taxes, and business taxes; seldom or never with the idea produced. If the method of sharing is such that it dis­ that here the burden of relief costs could best be placed, courages the producer or obstructs the flow of income, but because they provided the quickest and easiest way then the whole community will soon be on the relief to raise revenue at the moment. In short, we have created rolls with no income to share. a new fiscal emergency through our failure to view the We must make as many people as possible conscious; relief problem as more than a temporary and passing of the fact that welfare expenditures reduce their own unpleasantness. Withthis emergencywecannot temporize. individual incomes and standards of living. They must What governmental units should finance relief? The be constantly impressed with the necessity for efficient necessity of supporting a swelling army of needy persons administration of relief, and for the removal of the causes did not arise from local causes, and social responsibilities which produce the welfare problem. cannot be measured by local resources. The cost of relief Finally, taxes for relief must be subject to efficient and

12. ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW economical administration, and responsive to changes pare his tax-free $3,300, plus other reductions, with the in rate as the numbers on the relief rolls rise or fall. failure to exempt any income whatsoever, unless it be Taxes on business and general sales taxes conform to that saved, or spent for food, from the WPA worker's none of these principles; yet one is impressed with the relief benefits under a 2 per cent retail sales tax. increasingly important part which they have come to Our married taxpayer with two children, an earned play in state fiscal systems during the depression. Taxes income of $3,500, and $200 of deductions for interest on business, for relief revenues, are analogous to placing on his mortgage and other expenses, including taxes, the unemployed as unproductive workers upon all is paying income tax neither to the federal nor to the business payrolls. If profits are further reduced, invest­ state governments. Yet only about 16 per cent of families ment, production, and employment will suffer as the in the United States had an income as large as this in already blighted plant of business confidence withers. 1929. At $5,000 of income his check for $50 would If costs are increased, prices must be advanced; and more than cover his entire liability for both taxes. unless consumption is maintained, output must be cur­ But it seems best, to some, to snatch away some part of tailed. This is true of all taxes on gross receipts, capital the necessities of the family with $1,500 or less by tax­ stock and capital value, production, and sales. It is ing sales! The march of the sales tax is not an evidence especially true of the indefensible type of general turn­ of the advance of justice, but rather of the power of a over tax recently proposed by the Governor of New vocal, tax-conscious pressure group. York State. The sales tax may be viewed as a tax upon expendi­ State sales taxes even in their least offensive form of tures, as a tax upon income exclusive of savings. If retail sales taxes, with food exempted, conform to none savings generally result in direct or indirect expenditure of the principIes cited. They are regressive and unjus t for income-yielding assets, one wonders why this par­ whether they burden the producer or the consumer. ticular type of expenditure should be given special con­ They interfere with business and reduce production sideration. It is the more remarkable when it is seen as a whether they are shifted or not. They are expensive to kind of expenditure not exercised by the low income collect if account be taken of the hidden cost to the groups, and when it is remembered that the rapid taxpayer. They are difficult to administer and they are accumulation of savings may be in some measure the inelastic. Thus, to add a sales tax to a system in which cause of the relief problem. regressiv~ property, business, and commodity taxes are We can no longer jump from one expedient to another. already preponderant is to unbalance still further the To reduce the burden on property, which the poor man fiscal plan. To finance relief by enacting a sales tax is shoulders when he pays his rent, by placing a sales tax like throwing some cement and a stone at a wall, hoping upon his modest or merely subsistence expenditures is that they will stick. The wall must be planned and built no relief at all to the 12,000,000 American families carefully, stone by stone, if it is to serve well. whose incomes were under $1,500 in 1929 and are still It is an impressive commentary upon our fiscal op­ less today. An income tax can awaken a tax consciousness portunism that the personal income tax, the only really and sense of social responsibility which recognizes the progressive ability tax we have, contributes only about necessity for revenue, the justice of taxation, and is 7 per cent of the total tax revenues. It is absurd to claim constructively watchful for waste. that we have used this best of all taxation devices to the limit of its capacity or that a much larger yield could not be obtained from it. It is doubtless true that federal administration and the elimination of tax-exempt securi­ Abraham N. Spanel, '24, served in a "fairy godfather" ties will be necessary for its most effective use. Of course, role recently, according to the Associated Press, when exemptions must be reduced and rates in the middle he provided funds for the hospitalization and treatment brackets increased. At the same time federal rates in of a little South Dakota girl suffering from a rare and the high brackets should be lowered. dangerous malady. Some view with alarm the attempt to collect more in Abe, president of the International Latex Corporation, income tax from the lower income groups, especially which he founded in Rochester in 1932 and which was through a reduction in personal exemptions to perhaps moved to Dover, Delaware, three years ago, read a $1,000 for married persons and $500 for single individuals. newspaper story of the girl's plight. The youngster was But it should be remembered that a married taxpayer rushed to a New Rochelle hospital by plane. This with two children, after taking generous deductions hospital was selected because of the success it had from gross income, is permitted a still fur~her subtrac­ achieved in treating a boy afflicted with a similar tion, under New York State -and federal regulations, of ailment, the usually fatal Wilm's tumor. $3,300. Then he is taxed at rates of only 3 to 8 per cent, Rochester associates of the Latex president say that while the federal government grants him a further his efforts in behalf of the little Dakota girl is but one reduction of 10 per cent of his earned net income. Com- of a large number of similar actions.

JUNE-JULY 1939 Science, Students Supply Theme For Flow of News Bureau Stories

By ARMIN BENDER, '34, Director, University News Bureau

Test tube babies, a college girl's formula for winning The new curriculum which is being introduced in the friends and influencing people, a camera for photograph­ College of Arts and Science this fall gave rise to many ing the birth and death of invisible atoms, delicate news stories and a number of editorials. Several in­ instrum~nts for measuring ultra-violet radiations in the dividual parts of the curriculum, such as the Honors stratosphere, the new Rochester curriculum-these and Plan and the new freedom from required courses, were other items showing a wide range of interests were also the subject for separate wire stories. subjects of University of Rochester news stories in the Granting of an honorary degree to Anne Morrow nation's press during recent months. Lindbergh resulted in so many clippings the News The University News Bureau saw the unusual spectacle Bureau placed a stop order with the clipping agency. of half a dozen Rochester stories traveling simultaneously As a matter of fact, so far ahead of budget expectations from coast to coast over the wires of press services such is the entire expense item for clippings, that clipping as the Associated Press, United Press, International News service has been discontinued for four months in order Service, and Science Service. to give the News Bureau a chance to catch up on its After reading a paper in Boston regarding the likeli­ budget. hood in future of relief from pain for women during child-birth, Dr. George W. Corner, questioned by reporters regarding test tube babies, said that such a Alumni and University Prexies phenomenon was as likely as a rocket trip to the moon. Newspapers throughout the country seized on the phrase. Swap Compliments as Year Ends Professor Russell T. Wilkins appeared before the American Physical Society in Washington and described The annual report of President Alan Valentine, a Rochester-developed camera with 66 plates for record­ presented, in preliminary draft, to the Board of Trustees ing the tracks of atoms bombarded in the cyclotron. in June, is deserving of cover-to-cover reading by the alumni, according to Cornelius R. Wright, '09, president Professor Brian O'Brien announced the successful of the Associated Alumni for 1938-39. completion of several years' work on instruments for measuring ultra-violet radiations in the stratosphere. The report, joined with reports of Treasurer Raymond In order to combat the changing weather conditions of L. Thompson, '17; Professor Victor J. Chambers, '95, the upper air, Professor O'Brien and his staff at the dean of graduate studies; Howard Hanson, director of Institute of Optics found it necessary to build a weather the Eastman School of Music; Dr. George H. Whipple, chamber in their River Campus laboratory in which dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry; Dr. Basil instruments carried aloft by the stratosphere balloons C. MacLean, director of Strong Memorial Hospital; Mrs. could be rigorously tested. Gertrude Herdle Moore, '18, director of the Memorial Somewhat on the comic side was an AP release to the Art Gallery; Earl B. Taylor, '12, director of the Division effect that a Rochester sociology student had succeeded of University Extension; and Donald B. Gilchrist, in classifying elusive qualities such as charm, tact, librarian, will be published in final form later in the appearance, and the like, in the order of their impor­ year, and will be available for distribution to alumni tance for the girl who wants to be popular among her requesting copies. classmates. President Valentine pays tribute, in his report, to The News Bureau found an increase last year of almost the work of Neil Wright as alumni president, and of 300% in the number of home-town news stories pre­ Miss Monica Mason, '35, president of the Alumnae pared and used. Home-town publicity still remains basic Association, and daughter of Archibald Mason, '12. to any program for spreading the good name of the The alumnae not only were spectacularly successful in University to a larger area. Since Rochester Prize and raising fun~s for their o·wn budget, but in addition Genesee scholars are a select group, they usually earn assembled a fund of over $1,000 to furnish the reading scholastic and extra-curricular honors which make better room of Munro Hall, new women's dormitory in Prince than average copy. Street.

ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW One of the significant student achievements of the ALUMNI REVIEW, receiving therefor no direct compensa­ year, the report says, has been the development of the tion. Its expenses have been met from two sources; the All-University Chapel. This was "spontaneously or­ University and the annual fees of its members. The latter ganized by students of all the schools of the University, has decreased, the former has increased, in recent years. and held on certain Sunday afternoons in the Henry The University may be forced to reduce its support, and Alvah Strong Auditorium. Faculty and administrative increased revenues from membership fees, or new gifts officers from all schools of the University gladly co­ to its endowment, are necessary if the fine arts instruction operated upon request, but the project began and has for school children is to be maintained at present levels. remained as a student project, and gains from that The faculty of the College of Arts and Science, the fact ... This is not the only evidence of an increasing president says, has been kept in close touch with repeated interest in religious life and problems by students in European crises by its own special observers. Dick the University." Greene, '26, came back with an eye-witness account of ,,Academic freedom" has been unchallenged at Roches­ the September crisis; Willson Coates of the department ter, and will remain so. "The University of Rochester of history returned with still more recent accounts, and may well take pride in its record of fidelity to democracy Arthur May spent his second-semester leave studying and freedom, for there can be found here no evidence of political and economic problems in the restless Balkans. racial or other discrimination, and no restriction upon the reasonable rights either of teachers or students to pursue truth in their own way according to their own consciences, and to express their convictions as in­ Sanatorium and University Unite dividuals, with freedom and without fear of penalty. Our teachers or students frequently express opinions In Study of Industrial Diseases with which the writer and presumably some members The University of Rochester and the Edward L. of your Board are not in agreement, and occasionally Trudeau Foundation at Saranac Lake, world famous some things have been thoughtlessly or inaccurately tuberculosis sanatorium, will join forces for the studying said which have brought criticism unjustly to the and teaching of industrial medicine and hygiene. The University. But the preservation of democratic freedom cooperative project was approved at the June meeting of is far more important than such relatively trivial and the trustees when Dr. William S. McCann, professor of soon forgotten embarrassments, and we shall continue medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and to pay, if necessary, the price for real freedom rather Joseph W. Gavett, professor of mechanical engineering, than risk the danger of undermining it by those minor were appointed representatives of the University on a restrictions from which tyranny is ultimely engendered." joint committee to organize the project. Wider use of the city's clinical facilities in hospitals Already Dr. George Wright, of Western Reserve other than in Strong Memorial is indicated by the University, has been selected to join Dr. McCann's fact that fourth-year medical students in surgery now department in September before going to Saranac Labora­ make "ward rounds" in the Rochester General, Genesee, tory, the research department of the Trudeau Founda­ Highland and St. Mary's Hospitals, and medical students tion, to continue his studies. Dr. 'Leroy U. Gardner, make regular visits to the Rochester General Hospital director of Saranac Laboratory, has been named a as part of their instruction in obstetrics. lecturer at the medical school. Other appointments will The School of Medicine and Dentistry, opened in be announced soon. The University hopes to interest a 1926, is already outgrowing its quarters, and Hospital scientist skilled in plant engineering to work through Director MacLean is urging a doubling of Strong Memo­ Professor Gavett's department on the non-medical rial facilities for private patients. Nearly 50 per cent aspects of the research. of the patients admitted to the hospital come from President Valentine and Dr. McCann are convinced of outside of Rochester. Strong must turn away many the importance and promise of this study of industrial persons desiring private and semi-private accommoda­ medicine by the two cooperating institutions. The pro­ tions, since there are only forty private rooms and ject is to continue during the academic year of 1940-1941 seventy semi-private beds. This limited supply of quarters if found to be mutually satisfactory. is irksome to doctors on the full-time and part-time staffs, since often they are unable to secure admittance for their own private patients. Wider public support of the Memorial Art Gallery Gilbert Dodson, '31, who is a member of the faculty is urged by President Valentine. The Gallery has been of the high school at Peekskill, is conducting a private carrying, for more than a decade, a large and important school and camp this summer at his home on Academy program of instruction for children in Rochester public Street, Wyoming, New York, for boys between the schools, as described in the April-May issue of the ages of ten and sixteen years.

TUNE-JULY 1939 ROCHESTER' ALUMNI REVIEW the affectionate' esteem of uncounted- parents during the years of his pediatric practice in Rochester, and OP-JlY-AND FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER they, and the children to whom his skill has brought health, wish him well as he enters upon his new duties. Published bi-monthly, August and September excepted

Editorial Committee Our Own Baccalaureate Ernest A. Paviour, '10, Chairman Reams of white paper were consumed in the prepara­ Lester O. Wilder, '11 Paul McFarland '20 tion of manuscripts, and millions of words flowed from dignified throats, during those June days when American colleges were bidding goodby to their graduates. The The New Trustees ALUMNI REVIEW can add little that is new, except to extend a hearty welcome to the new alumni, the men Alumni applaud the selection of three new trustees, of the Class of 1939. named at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees Of advice we have little to offer. We have for you on June 17th. thirty-niners a tempered envy, a tempered pity, and we Amory Houghton, president of the Corning Glass are a little confused as to what there is about you and Works, is a member of a family that already has been before you that should evoke our pity, what our envy. directly and happily linked to the University. Veterans The world you have just invaded is full of doubt and of the 1924 Greater University campaign will recall hatred, but it is pregnant with promise too. There are that an unsolicited gift of $100,000 from Mrs. Charles spot-lighted colossi who shout for war, but there are D. Vail of Geneva, announced in the closing days of millions of humble people, everywhere, who want peace. the canvass for $10,000,000, helped make possible the We know that you will become active and loyal alumni, resounding victory achieved in that campaign. Mrs. and urge that you do not long postpone your participa­ Vail's first husband had been Charles Houghton, a tion in alumni affairs, because such participation will Corning Glass official, and a great-uncle of the new bring you satisfaction, will serve to underline those trustee. M1;". and Mrs. Houghton had come to Rochester college experiences that even now you are glad to in 1883 to take a special course in chemistry with remember. It will assist you to make the pleasing Professor Samuel Allen Lattimore. Their Rochester discovery that, while life may not necessarily begin at studies aided them in developing a new formula for forty, it does not necessarily end at twenty-two. colored glass, and gratitude prompted the 1924 gift. Mr. Houghton's appointment to the Board of Trustees There is a bond of unique permanence between you and thus renews an old relationship. the University. The holy ties of matrimony, though clergymen say they are forged on the anvils of Heaven, Henceforth the University's Institute of Optics will can be dissolved by divorce. A man may renounce his function under the eyes of the presidents of America's citizenship. The relationships of parenthood, through three leading optical corporations; Mr. Houghton, adoption proceedings, can be legally if not biologically Frank W. Lovejoy, of the Eastman Kodak Company, altered. But your diploma cannot be revoked, it is yours and M. Herbert Eisenhart, Bausch & Lomb Optical forever! Company, now all University trustees. --~ Bernard E. Finucane, of Rochester, is another valuable addition to the Board's already impressive list of financial experts, and the University will find useful also his Preview of I94 0 Gaelic warmth and enthusiasm. He is young, affable, Before the last reluctant alumnus had departed from likeable, with a wide but discerning interest in civic the gymnasium where the 1939 Commencement dinner affairs. of the Associated Alumni was held, Alumni President Dr. Albert D. Kaiser, '09, is not the first physician Harold E. Akerly and Secretary Charles R. Dalton had to serve as trustee; his medical predecessors include begun the discussion of reunion plans for June, 1940. John P. Munn, '70, and L. Emmett Holt, '75. He is It is not too early to think about and talk about these a loyal alumnus, a member of the faculty of the School plans, for 1940 is a significant year, marking the ninetieth of Medicine and Dentistry, and has won an international birthday of the University of Rochester, the tenth an­ reputation in medical research fields. A former president niversary of the River Campus, the twentieth anniversary of the Rochester Academy of Medicine, he is highly of the great gifts that established a medical school at regarded by members of his own profession. He has won Rochester. (The Classes of 1890, 1900, 1910, 1915, 1920,

16 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW and 1930 can doubtless furnish other reasons for the year's In a discussion under the head of "Instruction" it is significance.) stated that "few professorships at Rochester are en­ Alumni found the 1939 Alumni Dinner good because dowed. A professorship, bearing a name chosen by the it featured an all-alumni program. Even President donor, can be endowed to provide a good salary and Valentine, the only alien present, left the hall a full­ allowance for secretarial and other assistance for fledged alumnus, by virtue of the earned degrees the $300,000. " graduates conferred upon him. The Class of 1909 con­ Income from endowed scholarships is but $14,000. tributed immeasurably by their academic parade, formed This year the university appropriated $104,000 from to escort the fledgling alumnus to the speakers' platform. general funds, exclusive of student loans, to augment Their action gives a clue to the 1940 program, a program the wholly inadequate earnings from the few scholar­ in which the reunion classes-the Dix Plan and the ship endowments. Attention is called to a scholarship five-year classes-might well play an important part. endowment of $12,500 which at present income rates These classes now have the opportunity, while the will provide a prize scholar about $500 a year. Similarly, events of June, 1939, are still fresh in their memories, a graduate fellowship of $1,000 a year can. be endowed to consider what they would like to do in June, 1940. for $25,000. The booklet contains a discussion of the tax-exempt features of educational gifts and a list of the Board of Trustees and chief administrative officers of the uni­ General., Specific Needs Listed versity, with this final apothegm: "The University of Rochester ... its standing and objectives promise to In Booklet Appealing for Gifts those who love truth and freedom the richer fulfillment of a noble ideal." "There are at English universities endowment funds given nearly a thousand years ago. For centuries those funds have served youth, and serve youth today, achiev­ Newton Mourned Rhees Departure., ing for donors otherwise long forgotten a noble kind of immortality.', Long-Cherished Verses Disclose This paragraph is quoted from the introduction of a When Rush Rhees left the Newton Theological In­ brochure of unusual typography and editorial excellence stitutionin 1900 to assume the presidency ofthe University designed to interest potential benefactors in the "long of Rochester, he left a gap, naturally, in the teaching and honorable record of fai thful devotion to high ideals staff of the Institution. One of his students, E. Edgar and standards" of the University of Rochester. A limited Harris, expressed the feelings of his fellow ministerial edition of the booklet is about to be distributed. candidates in verse. The jingle obviously touched Dr. One page points out the advantages of unspecified Rhees, and he treasured it all his life. Mrs. Rhees found gifts as compared with those earmarked for a special it recently among his papers, and sent a copy to the purpose, as the latter have made many institutions top­ ALUMNI REVIEW; and for her thoughtfulness the editors heavy with trust funds for specific purposes and short are properly grateful. The final stanza suggests that the of operating money. ancient link between poets and prophets was still strong "Happy is that university," reads the argument for in 1900: general gifts, "whose benefactors have with wisdom Of our recent past, the feature made their gifts to its general endowment without Is the work of one great teacher; specific assignment, and to be used at discretion. Such He can load and prime a preacher; an arrangement permits the flexible application of funds, Can't he, boys? in consideration of changing conditions, to the point where they are most needed." That he's great, some folks surprises. But he never advertises; These gifts for general endowment are described as He's too great by twenty sizes, "the most efficient possible application of financial Ain't he, boys? generosity. ', Nevertheless, many suggestions are made for gifts for Some wear D's in wild confusion, specific purposes. They include: College for Men dormi­ LL., Ph. D's profusion; tories, addition to Todd Union, gymnasium and swim­ His M.A. is no delusion, ming pool for women, landscaping and planting program Is it, boys? on College for Women campus, enlargement of the new Master of the art of teaching- Sibley Music Library on Swan Street, added accommoda­ Art of storing minds for preaching; tions for private patients at Strong Memorial Hospital, His "degree" but few are reaching, and enlargement of the animal house at medical school. Are they, boys?

JUNE-JULY 1939 17 In his work there's nothing lazy, Since 1927, before the completion of the River Campus In his teaching nothing hazy, buildings, the University has retained the A. W. Hope­ Not a theory that's "crazy," man & Sons Company as its agent. This contracting Is there, boys? firm has directed construction operations, but the work­ men have been employed by the University. Builds for faith a strong high tower, Four laborers, employed on Munro Hall, new College Gives the truth with life and power, for Women Dormitory, in 1938, sought unemployment Never wastes a single hour, insurance benefits when their terms of employment Does he, boys? ended. Attorneys for the Hopeman firm maintained that That he goes we're all regretting. workmen were University employees, but at the hearing From our sky a star is setting, before Referee Leon A. McNamara, of the State Labor And he goes without our letting, Department, the University waived its exemption priv­ Don't he, boys? ileges, agreeing in this and other similar cases to extend unemployment benefits. Rochester, gear up your sprocket, The Hopeman company will make payments to the Pour the money in his pocket, state for employment surety premiums, but will be Trim your ship, he'll never dock it, reimbursed by the University. Referee McNamara praised Will he, boys? the University highly for "its fairness to laboring men."

~ John S. Houseknecht, '34, and Miss Clare Hazel were Commencement.! Class Day Oratory married at the bride's home in Bennetsville, South Carolina, onJune 3. Mrs. Houseknecht, who is a graduate To Be Preserved in Library File of Queens College at Charlottsville, is known to radio Do you remember what the Commencement speaker audiences as "Honeychile." Jack is a member of the told you and your classmates on the day of your gradua­ sound staff at the National Broadcasting Company. tion? Do you recall what destiny was foretold for you in the class prophecy, what legacy came your way under the terms of the class will? The answer, if you have been out of college more than a few weeks, is probably a short and simple "No." And seldom is there opportunity for you to refresh your memory, either, for not always are manuscripts, even of top-flight Commencement orators, preserved. At the request of the ALUMNI REVIEW, the Rush Rhees Library has agreed to preserve Commencement, Bacca­ laureate, and Class Day manuscripts, and the fortunate holders of these documents are hereby urged to turn them over to Librarian Donald B. Gilchrist. Already there is a large and growing .'memorabilia" collection in the library files, that includes commencement pro­ grams, photographs, class publications, class poems­ particularly of the older classes-and similar material. The file is frequently consulted by nostalgic alumni.

Dorm Workers Share in Benefits NEW UNIVERSITY OFFICES This handsome brick building at No. I5 Prince Street now Of Unemployment Insurance Laws houses the administrative offices of the University. Wreckers, aided by time and decay, have demolished the old Quinby Workers employed on University of Rochester con­ homestead at No. 44 Prince, for many years University head­ struction projects will hereafter share in unemployment quarters. In a place of honor over the mantel in President insurance benefits, although the University, as a non­ Valentine's new office is the framed diploma awarded him profit educational institution, is not subject to the by the Associated Alumni. (See Page 5). Four Prince Street buildings have been razed recently, including the old Psi provisions of the laws governing unemployment in­ Upsilon and Theta Chi chapter houses, The Quinby home, surance. and the house at No. 42 Prince~Street.

18 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW Meanderings

The Universi.ty ofRochester library The fiftieth anniversary of South officer of a sub chaser. He always has issued two check-lists of masters' Dakota's admission as a state, to draws a good hand of cards. and doctors' theses, one covering all be celebrated this year, is of more theses accepted up to 1933, the other than routine interest to Lewis W. Dexter Perkins, nationally-known covering the period 1933 to 1938. The Lansing, '80, for he is one of the history professor and historian, is fact that the two lists are of approxi­ seven living members of the con­ traveling in California. This is the mately equal length indicates the stitutional conventions that drafted first time that Rochester's ace in­ growing importance ofgraduate study the state constitution. THE DAILY terpreter of events, old and new, has within the University. There have ARGUs-LEADER of Sioux Falls, in its been west of Chicago. been so many demands for copies of issue of June 29th, printed Mr. Many recently paused to observe a Rochester theses, from other insti­ Lansing's picture to illustrate a sign by the two-inch-deep botanical tutions, that for several years the front-page article on the convention pond near the bridge approach of University has required the candi­ survivors. River Campus. It read: "Faculty date for advanced degrees to deposit Mr. Lansing, now living in Los Swimming PooL" two manuscript copies-an original Angeles, writes to remind his alumni and a carbon copy-in the library. acquaintances that he was also a Mrs. Abram J. Katz and Bishop The original remains at Rochester, member of the first legislature of James E. Kearney were recently the duplicate is circulated. South Dakota; only one other mem­ named to fill vacancies on the board ber survives. He adds: "Without of Memorial Art Gallery. The Memorial Art Gallery has a wishing the other fellow any bad "Rent-a-Print-Plan," and students, luck I hope to be 'the last man.' A decreasing number of persons are by paying 50 cents a semester, can He served as assistant city editor taking extension courses that will rent color reproductions of paintings, of the old ROCHESTER HERALD, and lead to the acquisition of a degree, an and original prints by old and mod­ for a time was publisher of a Dakotan increasing number are taking non­ ern masters, to hang on the walls of newspaper. He has been living in credit courses that may help them their rooms at home orin dormitories. California since 1915. professionally or satisfy some itching Originally the plan was exclusively curiosity, Earl B. Taylor, '12, director for the benefit of the College for Another exciting chapter in the of the Division of University Exten­ Women, was this year extended to life of John W. Remington, ,17, sion, says: "The course on 'The Cur­ the College for Men. Students prefer newly elected member of the Board rent Situation in Europe' last year the French moderns, Van Gogh being ofManagersoftheAssociated Alumni, drew a registration of 300; another began when the Lincoln-Alliance the most popular individual artist. popular course was that on 'The Bank trust officer was made a rail­ Meaning of Modern Art. ' Most road president. John was once a highly publicized offering was in the In spite of general unemployment motorman on the old Manitou Beach field of real estate appraisal, with conditions, 195 undergraduates found Railroad, long since abandoned. He Warren Allen, '24, serving as co­ part-time jobs last year, and earned a has steadily risen from the position ordinator. ', total of over $L6,000, according to of motorman on a defunct railroad Director Taylor believes that the Carl Lauterbach, 'LS, director of vo­ to president of the Genesee Valley division could profitably introduce a cational guidance. By far the largest Railroad, which has neither rolling certificate to be given to extension user of student help was the Univer­ stock nor employes. students completing the equivalent sity itself, that paid about $15,000 to The directors selected John in July of two years of regular college work. College for Men students. to head the right-of-way from Roch­ ester to Mount Morris. He is sure Librarian Donald B. Gilchrist's Twenty-nine per cent of the under­ to have no WPA-CIa trouble or any Fortnightly Bulletin lists a number graduates at Rochester-Los men and other alphabetic disease, because the of alumni as donors of highly de­ 146 women - received scholarship road has long been leased to the sirable books and documents recently awards last year. The average stipend Erie and a new lease was recently acquired. Frederick Betz, '06, has was $L40' and the annual value of all negotiated. donated 361 volumes, chiefly of scholarships was $84,L60. In addi­ In the World War John's career French and German literature; Ira S. tion, students borrowed $Lo,804, the was equally significant. There he Wile, '98, has contributed books and reportofLesterO.Wilder, 'II, shows. advanced from cook to commanding 820 pamphlets and periodicals, on

JUNE-JULY 1939 technical medicine, sociology, and average daily bed occupancy of 524. man who has a practical understand­ current topics. Clayton D. McLaugh­ It costs $4,500 a day, $187 an hour, ing of present trends." lin '03 has furnished a number of $3.13 a minute, to run the Crittenden bo~ks, including the INTERPRES from Avenue health center. The School It took Raymond N. Ball, '14, 1901 to 1909. of Medicine and Den tistry has 188 thirty years to get a diploma from students, the nursing school 108; Wellsville HighSchool. His daughter, Mrs. William B. Hale has given a 200 volunteers assist in the two Virginia, received her certificate­ fine copy of the first edition of Mark hospitals. from Harley School-a few days Twain's "Tom Sawyer," adding In a year the center uses 125 tons after Ray acquired his. notably to the Rush Rhees Library of meat, 3,000 bushels of potatoes, Ray attended Wellsville High collection of Twain firsts, of which 10,000 gallons of ice cream, eighteen School. His academic record was the library now has over forty; and tons of butter, 360,000 eggs. The satisfactory, except for German. He 167 other books from the library of maintenance staff has to scrub three flunked his examinations in this Mr. Hale, '85, until his death a miles of corridors, wash 3,500 win­ subject, and the school authorities member of the University's Board of dows. Twenty automatic washers denied him a diploma. That was in Trustees. Joseph Patrick O'Hern, '92, are required to cleanse the stacks of 1909. This did not prevent him, bequeathed to the library thirty­ soiled dishes that accumulate each however, from meeting the entrance three volurnes of Irish and Celtic day after the 3,000 meals are served. requirements of the University of literature, and a holograph copy of Employees use 150,000 pencils a year. Rochester. He was graduated in 1914, Dr. Joseph Gilmore's famous hymn, The hospitals have their own branch sold securities for three years, went "He Leadeth Me." (Dr. Gilmore post office, that handles 50,000 in­ to France as captain of a machine­ was professor of English at the coming pieces of mail every month. gun company, returned to become University from 1868 to 1908.) Over 200,000 gallons of water are executive secretary of the University. used in twenty-four hours. In addi­ He became treasurer ofthe University, Walter H. Cassebeer, '08, has an tion to the 15,000 bed patients, about then vice-president. In 1929 he was article on "Artistic Lithography" 30,000 "ambulatory" patients make chosen president of the Lincoln­ in a recent issue of MUSEUM SERVICE, some 120,000 visits yearly to the Alliance Bank & Trust Company. issued by the Rochester Museum, clinics of the Out-Patient Depart­ This spring he returned to hiS Lithography, of course, is in its ment. The latter are virtually all simplest form the process of drawing native Wellsville as guest of honor in the low-income or relief brackets, of the Wellsville Chamber of Com­ upon a prepared stone surface with and pay either nothing at all, or merce. He spoke before 250 people. printer's ink or greasy crayon, wet­ small fees that represent only a frac­ ting the stone, and then using it to Spotting some members of the Board tion of the cost. The total deficit of of Education in the audience, he transfer the drawing or design to this department was $70,000 last year, paper. A few decades after its dis­ couldn't resist twitting them about and the cost was borne entirely by the high school diploma he didn't covery lithography, Mr. Cassebeer the University-a contribution, and get back in 1909. says, became the popular fad among a sizeable one, to community health. the European gentry; in 1820 nearly The board members blushed, called every well-equipped French inn had a special meeting, and voted to cor­ a lithograph press for the use of its President Alan Valentine and the rect the oversight. He received the guests, who pursued this hobby with Freeport Sulphur Company, second diploma late in June, along with a the intensity of more modern addicts largest brimstone producer in the resolution listing many apologetic of contract bridge. world, made the headlines lately whereases, noting that "his subse­ when Freeport named Rochester's quent accomplishments in college The University's Strong Memorial youthful president a director. Mr. and in later business life testify to Hospital andits neighbor, theMunici­ Valentine, 38 years old, will be his charactet and ability." pal Hospital, make up a quite com­ associated with youthful Freeport plete "city within a city," according executives;John Hay Whitney, board Wellsvillian Ball served as chair­ to a booklet distributed to patients chairman, is 34, and President Lang man of the 1939 Special Com­ and other interested citizens last Williams 36. mittee for the Community Chest, month. There are over 2,500 persons Said Jack Whitney, in announcing organized such a high-powered com­ associated with this medical com­ the new director: "The future of the mittee that it raised $594,812 in the munity-patients, staff physicians, country is closely bound up with campaign held in May, obtained in­ employees. Fifteen thousand patients thecontributionsofcorporatebusiness creased pledges from more than 25 are admitted each year to the hospi­ to the job of making democracy per cent of its prospects. Walter L. tals; the patient census shows an work ... We feel we are adding a Todd, '09, was chairman of the

2.0 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW Chest's Individual Subscriber Divi­ ing, they were some $60,000 short nineteen years, but some things ~lter sion, which likewise went to town of the goal. not at all. A good many of us, how­ and raised better than 100 per cent. ever tolerant we may wish to be, of its quota; and Theodore A. Zor­ Harry P. Wareham,. campaign are still thinking that some countries now, 'OS, headed the Public Division, manager, and Raymond N. Ball, of the world ..are devilish for the that topped all the soliciting units '14, then treasurer of the University, sake of being devilish." with 102.3 per cent. Two of his took handfuls of pledge cards and able assistants were HaroldE. AkerIy, went down the lengthofthe speakers' If you receive a letter with a '08, who headed the public schools table, set up in the Chamber of Com­ confidential note added, better not solicitation committee, and Frederick merce assembly hall. Before the team rely on ink blots or pen scratches to L. Hovde, assistant to President Alan workers had finished their dessert obliterate it before you put the letter Valentine. Wareham and Ball had obtained in your files. provisional pledges for $60,000, en­ About 250 years ago John Dryden, tirely from Rochesterians who already English poet, wrote a confidential Harold W. Sanford, '12, still had made generous pledges to the memorandum on the back of a letter. counts as his most thrilling moment fund. Either he or the recipient of the the time he was summoned to Geneva As matters turned out, it was letter tried to obliterate the message to see Mrs. Charles D. Vail sign a never necessary to collect on these by covering it with closely-spaced $100,.000 pledge for the Greater provisional subscriptions. Within a whorls and flourishes. The other University Campaign in 1924. There few weeks additional gifts had come day the letter, now part of the Adam were other thrills that day too; he in, in sufficient amount to more than Collection ofJ ohnsonian manuscripts rode to Geneva with J. Foster War­ make up the shortage, and just before in the Rush Rhees Library, was ner, architectandmotoring enthusiast, Christmas, 1924, the cards were photographed in infra-red light in who was anxious to prove to Harold mailed back; Christmas cards that the Eastman Kodak Company lab­ that his automobile could travel expressed, in practical form, the oratories. Librarian Donald B. Gil­ ninety miles an hour. As a matter of holiday greetings of the University. christ says that the resulting negative record, the speedometer needle failed clearly reveals the long-obscured to swing past the eighty-seven-mile The Commencement speaker says: writing. It wasn't of any great im­ mark. "The world is groping and con­ portance; but the fact that the The subscription was unsolicited; fused; all kinds of formulae and infra-red rays brought it to light, in it was inspired by a headline which advice are being given to young men spite of painstaking efforts made to Harold Sanford himself had written and women as to whatwill happen conceal it, suggests that contempo­ for the Sunday DEMOCRAT & CHRONI­ during the next generation. rary writers and recipients of highly CLE, indicating that the campaign, .'Tolerance ... is the one thing personal notes would do well to scheduled to end the following needed in our domestic and foreign destroy incriminating missives by evening(November24th, 1924)would problems ... We are in the frame of fire-either before or after they are fall short by $1,100,000. Mrs. Vail mind that everythlng in Europe is sent. decided to make a gift that would bad. Europe is doing the best it can reduce the threatened shortage to in its confused situation, and there is If ever the University of Rochester an even million, and that at the hardly any question over there to moves to abandon Baccalaureate same time would inspire others to which there are not two right sides. ceremonies, the Eastman Kodak Com­ come forward to save the campaign. We have no right to stand and as­ pany will be justified in protesting; She made her gift conditional upon sume that other countries are devilish practically every proud relative who $9,900,000 being raised, so that her for the sake of being devilish. We appeared on the Eastman Quadrangle own subscription would be the final have no right to forget what they Baccalaureate Sunday carried a cam­ great stride toward success. have gone through nor the difficulties era, and hundreds of rolls of films Campaign leaders were naturally which confront them now." were used in photographing the overjoyed when the Warner-Sanford The words have a contemporary black-gowned seniors. pair returned to Rochester with the flavor. A very tolerant person might News photographers had a busy unexpected gift. But their troubles have spoken them in June, 1939. But morning on Commencement day, were not yet over, and some high­ they were in the Commencement owing to the presence in Rochester pressure campaigning went on Sun­ address ofDwight Whimey Morrow, of Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Camera day afternoon and Monday as they father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh; men had orders to guard the railroad endeavored to meet Mrs. Vail's con­ he spoke to the graduates of the stations and to meet all trains, were ditions. Whenthecampaignersgather­ University of Rochester onJune 16th, on hand when Mrs. Lindbergh ar­ ed Monday night for the final meet- 1920. Many things have changed in rived at 7:30 o'clock. The University

JUNE-JULY 1939 2.1 had already notified city editors that of the alumni, and his "Pi Beta Raymond D. Havens, '02, former Mrs. Lindbergh would not be inter­ Kappa" key from the Class of 1909. professor ofEnglish at the University, viewed and would not pose for pho­ He denied that he had been unduly now at Johns Hopkins, visited the tographs. A bodyguard of husky favored by College for Women stu­ River Campus late in June, amazed University employees surrounded her dents in the poll to choose their the staff of the Rush Rhees Library when she stepped from the train. favorite desert island companion; with his uncanny memory for names Nonetheless, all three daily news­ he'd merely tied for fifth place with and faces, and notified Librarian papers carried timely photographs Charlie McCarthy-"and what," he Donald B. Gilchrist to leave plenty of Rochester's new honorary alumna. demanded, "has Charlie McCarthy of room on the shelves for his multi­ Ralph Amdursky, DEMOCRAT & got that I haven't got, and vice paged book on Wordsworth, due to CHRONICLE photographer, who was versa?" be sent to the printer in September escorted from the backstage area of As for the paragraph in the cita­ · .. Otto Ostendorf's Commencement the Eastman Theater four times, tion commending him for establish­ Committee did some plain and fancy finally was able to obtain a splendid ing sun pools on the roof of the new guessing in ordering the groceries shot through the window of the Munro Hall, so that girls may tan for the Alumni Dinner; w hen all Valentine automobile, parked in a their skins uniformly (ut puellae cutes the guests had been served, there locked areaway outside the theater. aequaliter colorent), that move, he were only seven portions of chicken argued, was simply a token of the left over ... Not so fortunate were College for Women graduates were University's co-operation with the the Dix-Reunion classes of 1922, '23, pleasantly surprised when Mrs. Lind­ Civil Aeronautics Authority, to stim­ '24, and '25, that made reservations bergh dropped in at their alumnae ulate interest in student flying. for 100 guests at Westminster Park, dinner in Cutler Union on the evening Mr. Valentine regretfully admitted and only sixty came. The committee of Commencement day. that once he had a real Phi Beta exuberantly ordered 200 yellow caps Kappa key. He crossed the English · .. William Roy Vallance, '10, Alumni who have objected to Channel one moonlight night; at distinguished Washington barrister, cigaretteadvertising on the backcover Dover he had a key, at Calais it was was made a member of Phi Beta of the ALUMNI REVIEW will be pleas­ gone from his watch-chain, and the KappainJune, andJamesM. Spinning, ed to learn that the Chesterfield girls last he heard the golden rectangle '13, calls him a "Phi Belated Kappa" will no longer have a place there; the was somewhere in Iowa. ·.. Bill McOuat, '26, believed to advertising contract has expired, and be the only authentic piper in alumni probably will not be renewed. The General Isaac F. Quinby, professor ranks and a member of the Johnston REVIEW faces the job of obtaining a of mathematics and natural philos­ new purchaser of this space. Memorial Pipe Band, had to join ophy at the University from 1851 to his fellow bandsmen at the alumnae Incidentally, were this issue of the 1884, was not always the stern celebration at the Prince Street REVIEW being printed in 1914 instead disciplinarian. One afternoon he sent Campus the afternoon of June 17th, of in 1939, the Demon Rum-or at a student to the board, just back of arrived at the Alumni Gymnasium­ least the Brute Beer-would have a his desk, to explain a problem in where he was due to pipe the aca­ part in producing it. Printer Joe trigonometry. The student, unpre­ demic procession into the hall­ Egloff says that back before the war pared, diagrammed a billiard table barely in time for the beginning of stale beer was poured over the forms on the blackboard, chalked in the the program. "Scotty" MacDonald, just before they went on the press; position of the balls for a difficult not to relieve the dryness of the copy, carom shot. The general looked over former piper for the 42nd Black but to prevent "work-ups." to keep his shoulder unexpectedly, saw the Watch Highlanders, and one of the slugs and rules from edging up until diagram, and curtly ordered: "Ex­ many swell guys on the maintenance they impressed themselves upon the plain the shot, Peters!" staff, admitted shortness of wind, paper, between the lines of type. Peters-Joseph A. Peters, '60, later but was ready to substitute for Bill The beer, drying, left a sticky residue a Civil War surgeon-although bad­ had the latter not shown up ... that held the metal in place. Nowa­ ly rattled, did so, throwing in a few Alumni offspring are apparently out days a solution of water-glass (sodi­ deft mathematical touches, and Pro­ to prove that there's something in um silicate) is used. fessor Quinby gave him a passing heredity, after all. The daughter of mark. Chuck Dalton, '20, has been admitted President Alan Valentine won an Dr. Peters told the story, over to a select group of super-brilliant enduring reputation for lightning sixty years ago, to his son, the Rev. students at Monroe High School, repartee when he spoke at the George Peters, of Canton, Missouri, and the daughter of Ed Van de Walle, Alumni dinner, after receiving his the latter recalling the legend when '21, professor of philosophy, was diploma admitting him to the ranks he came to Rochester recently. chosen standard-bearer for herschool.

2.2. ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW Total~' 1924 Alumni Membership Roster Shows 869 Lyndon Croxford Myron R. White R. Park Parkhill Class-, Fraternity Percentages to Be Computed 1925 E. Blakeney Gleason E. William Place The Alumni Office reports that 1900 James W. Gray Frederic Wellington Dr. George H. O'Kane 869 alumni have paid their 1939 Harvey D. J. L. Broughton Blakeslee, Jr. Walter G. Parkes 1926 dues for a total amount of $4,239, 1901 Thomas B. Garlick Frederick R. both figures being slightly below the Floyd C. Fairbanks *Rufus Hedges Metzinger Louis M. Nourse Carl Payne equivalent totals for a year ago. 1902 Charles N. Perrin 1927 The $4,239 is nearly $1,300 short J. Lawrence Hill Eric D. Sitzenstatter of the estimated 1939 Association 1903 R. Dewitt Pike John W. Thorne Robert J. Barker Dr. Hiram S. budget of $5,500, but alumni officers William F. Love Schumacher 1928 are confident that the balance will Harold S. Stewart Dr. Harold C. Bonner Nicholas E. Brown Warren Collamer come in before the end of the year. 1904 Orrin Barker Edwin A. Miller 1929 In a coming issue of the ALUMNI 1905 Dr. Wesley O. Harold A. Decker Ashton Dr. Francis V. REVIEW, probably in the October­ Carl F. Paul Oderkirk November number, will be printed 1906 G. Latta Barrus 1930 an analysis of alumni memberships Charles W. Blackmon Alan M. Glover by classes, so that percentages may 1907 Dr. Matthew E. Charles F. Gosnell be calculated. A plan is being weighed Carl F. W. Kaelber Fairbank *Richard Hart to present a cup or other trophy, 1908 1932 Lewis E. Munger Paul W. Aradine Karl Johannes each year, to the class showing the 1909 John O. Benz Melbourne J. Porter highest percentage of memberships. E. Harry Gilman Dr. Jacob S. Kominz 1933 If the already overcrowded work Richard H. Grant Armin Bender Sylvester Gartland 1910 L. Gordon Booth Dr. Seymour J. Gray facilities of the Alumni Office permit, Lincoln V. Burrows George E. Leadley Frank S. Dana Benjamin A. Ramaker Joseph DiFede Harold G. Lines an analysis of memberships on the E. Willard Dennis Dr. Warren Wooden basis offraternities will also be made. J. Robert Fagan John G. Walter 1911 1934 In the list of memberships that Thomas H. Remington A. Buell Arnold Arden C. Howland follows, the names of alumni making 1912 Homer Bliss George C. Krauss Prof. Willard R. Line A. Emerson Creore William R. Owen, Jr. contributions in excess of the mini­ E. Cleveland Grinnell Robert J. Trayhern mum dues are starred with an asterisk 1913 Robert M. Harris Leonard Weisler Dr. Paul Beaven Ellis Gay Russell Witherspoon (*). Charles K. Eves Swayne Goodenough 1877 Hamilton J. Foulds 1935 Edward B. Angell W. P. Blackmon Howard H. 1914 Russell E. Hennington 1885 *Raymond N. Ball Raymond C. Fisher Craytor, Jr. Millard Noonan Lewis Kaiser Bryant Brooks N. David Hubbell Neil Duffy Charles Passage 1888 Burt F. Ewell Sidney E. Swanker Jack P. Erdle Earl W. Rubens Joseph Fortuna Lawrence Unger Alden J. Merrell William A. Randall 1916 Norman C. Fromm Charles E. Vaughn 1889 Sidney C. Adsit Walter T. Schreiber George B. Gardner Charles G. Zutes Benjamin Chace Kenneth H. Field Elmer K. Smith Dr. Herbert C. Soule 1936 1890 J. Henry Brinker John D. Schaeffer * Herbert W. Bramley 1917 George M. J. Emmett Tune *John W. Remington 1891 Fennemore Aubrey L. 1918 John F. Flagg Whittemore, Jr. Prof. William D. Charles E. Bostwick Henry W. Fred E. McKelvey Charles Wicks, Jr. Merrell William J. Conley Fogarty, Jr. David L. Ellerman Edward M. Ogden 1892 A. Gould Hatch L. Wayne Woodard 1937 G. F. Bowerman Robert V. Adair William N. McCleary 1895 1919 Richard E. Border Garson Merimsky Donald Harris *Kenneth B. Keating Victor J. Chambers Albert J. Ramaker Dr. Dwight E. Clark William S. 1920 John H. Craft, Jr. Nordburg, Jr. 1896 Charles T. Crandall Thomas G. Payne Dr. Warren C. Daly Trafton Boulls Herbert M. Gosnell Dr. Proctor P. Donald Pearlman Bernard R. Bro~n Joseph H. Williams 1897 Disbrow Joseph B. Platt Michael S. Ferraro John 1. Reid Rowland W. *Frank P. Reilly 1921 R. Reed George George F. Rugar Everett Gardner Morris Schnidman Grimmell Carl N. Steitz Mortimer H. Maier Charles Strong 1922 1898 1938 Sidney F. Pattison James D. Havens Joseph M·. Naughton Walter F. Mylacraine Raymond Reuter Robert O. Bork Chester D. Mann, Jr. 1899 Edwin W. Cissel Charles K. McGurk *James B. Forbes Freeman E. McNall 1923 Frank L. Foote Robert Schermerhorn O. A. Gage Harry R. Moulthrop J. Walter Dutton Elmer C. Walzer Anthony A. Iati Nelson Spies Dennis G. Kavanagh Nelson P. Sanford George A. Lang Roy A. Wemett

JUNE-JULY 1939 mencement. His thesis was; .'Certain Reactions of the Isomeric Chlorides of Orthosulfobenzoic and Paranitroorthosulfobenzoic Acids." . Dr. IrU!i~H. !tolzer, formerly ofPhiladelphia, NUMERAL NOTATIONS IS ~ow hVlOg In Cleveland at 2458 Dennington Dnve. M~hlon W. Pomeroy is pastor of the First Bapt~st . ~hurch at Carthage. He is married 1891 Dr. Harold Pattison, pastor of Christ 1931 Henry Imus received his doctor of and IS hVlOg at 121 North Clinton Street. Church at Oyster Bay, returned in philosophy degree from Dartmouth Leonard Weisler received his doctor of philos­ April from a cruise around Africa, during College in June. His thesis was entitled "An op~y degre~ from .the U~~versity in June. The which he served as ship chaplain. Evaluation of Visual Factors in Reading" and subject ,of hIS theSIS was The Action of Some was an investigation which included a study p-Substltuted Benzyl Halides on Salts of Nitro 1896 Friends and members of his congre- of the ocular defects of 636 students of Dart­ Compounds and Enolates.'· gation recently paid tribute to Rev. mouth College. Dr. Imus took his minor work Carl F. W. Betz, on the fortieth anniversary of for his doctorate in psychology at Harvard 1935 James P. Conti :e~eived the degree his pastorate at the Bethlehem Lutheran from 1932 through 1937, serving also as re­ doctor of medlclOe at St. Louis Church of Rochester, at a special morning search assistant in psycho-education at the University in June. He was recently elected to service. His parishioners also presented a purse Harvard Graduate School of Education. From membe:s~ip in A!pha Omega Alpha and will at a reception in his honor. 1934 to 1935 he was research assistant in serve hIS InternshIp at the St. Louis University physiological optics in the Department of Hospitals. 1906 Dr. Edgar J. Fisher was author of an Research in Physiological Optics of the Dart­ The degree doctor of medicine was granted article, "Problems and Trends in mouth Medical School. He is at present by th~ University in June to Donald T. Imrie, !redert~k M~ars InternationalEducation," whichwas published research fellow in physiological optics in the B. and Abram Pinsky. Dr. Imrie in the May thirteenth issue of SCHOOL AND Dartmouth Eye Institute. ~s servlOg as Interne at th~ Charity Hospital Ne~ ~r. SOCIETY. AlfredJ. Henderson emerged inJune from Duke 10 Orlea?s, Mears,ls at the University Univ~rsity Hospital, University of MlOnesota at Minne­ 1908 Dr. L. Foster Wood, of the Depart- with a doctor of philosophy degree, apol~s, a PhI Beta Kappa key and a bride. Mrs. and Dr. Pinsky at the jersey City ment of Marriage and the Home MedIcal Center, Jersey City, New Jersey. of the Federal Council of Churches, was guest Henderson was Miss Elizabeth Aldridge, alumnae secretary of Duke. They were married , Paul E. Smith and Miss Ruth F. O'Grady, preacher recently in the Church of Christ, 35 both of ,Rochester, ~ere mar~ied on June Congregational, at New Haven, Connecticut. on June 26 in the Duke University Chapel and will make their home in Berea, Kentucky, 24. They wtll make thetr home tn Henrietta after August first. 1915 Robert F. Barry received his master's after .September first; Al has been appointed degree in education from the Uni­ as~oC1ate professor of history and political Robert E. Witherspoon, who has been with the SCIence at Berea College. Hecht ~ompany" ~ashington, is now associ­ versity in June. ated with the Wilham Hengerer Company in 1918 Gilbert E. Ault was appointed in 1932 Frederick A. Meigs received the Buffalo. degree master of arts from the April as actuary of the Church 1936 Rupert A. Havill, Joseph IZZo and Pension Fund and the Church Life Insurance University in June. Georg~ C;. Whitney received the degree Corporation of New York City. The Church Herbert E. Thompson, who received his doctor of medlclOe from the University in Pension Fund is the official pension system of master's degree in 1933, was awarded his Ph.D. June. Dr. Havill will be an interne at the the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Life degree in biochemistry by the University in Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Dr. Insurance Corporation a wholly-owned sub­ June. The subject of his thesis was "Mineral Izz,o ~t the Evanston Hospital, Evanston, sidiary. Mr. Ault, who is an associate of the Studies in Human Pregnancy." Ill,lOOtS, and Dr. Whitney will be associated Actuarial Society of America and a fellow of with the Del?artment of Medicine at the the Casualty Actuarial Society, has served 1933 Robert F. Metzdorf was granted the degree doctor of philosophy in Strong Memonal Hospital. as assistant actuary of the Colonial Life The engagement of Richard O. Edgerton of Insurance Company since 1931. June, receiving the first doctorate granted by ~bb the University in a non-science field. His Rochester, and Miss Marjorie Bontecou W of Clifton Springs, has been announced. Mis~ 1925 James W. Gray, secretary of the thesis was: .,Annotated Catalogue of the Charles A. B.row~ Collection of Autographs Webb was graduated from Smith College in Rochester Savings Bank, is chairman 1936. of the Public Relations Forum, which was and Manuscnpts In the Rush Rhees Library George Myron Fennemore recently was awarded recently formed by the State Savings Banks of the University of Rochester." He received the Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship for Association. The Forum will serve as a clear­ his master's degree from the University in study in history in the Graduate School of ing house for discussion, research and informa­ 1935. Dis Maly, who is an instructor at Rensselaer Brown University. Mr. Fennemore served as tion on various banking problems. a half-time assistant at Brown for the year Frederick L. Wellington assumed his new Polytechnic Institute, was married on June 27 to Miss Janet Brown, of Kingston. Mrs. Maly 1937-1938 and last year studied in the Graduate duties on May first as scout executive for the School as a Jubilee Fellow. Delmarva Council, which includes all of is a graduate of the New York State College Charles Finley recently received his doctor Delaware, the eastern shore of Maryland and for Teachers. of medi~ine ~egree f~om the George Washing­ Cape Charles, Va. Fred, who has had twenty­ M~dlcal four years of scouting experience, has been 1934 Nathaniel D. Arnot, formerly of ton University. School, Washington, Rochester, and Miss Alice Carter D. c., and wtll tnterne next year at Sibley chief of the Daniel Webster Council at Man­ Hospital, Washington. chester, New Hampshire, for the past five Bowie, of Fairview, Maryland, were married The marriage of Gilbert Burnett Forbes ot years. During this term the Council nearly on May 31 at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Kendall, and Miss Grace Anne Moehl~an doubled its membership, and its Sea Scout Church in Prince George's County, Maryland. '36, daughter of Dr. Conrad Moehlman, '02: program grew to fifteenth position in member­ Nat is with the Baltimore office of the Art H. and Mrs. Moehlman, of Rochester, took place ship among the 550 councils of the United Metal Construction _Cs>mpany of Jamestown. A. Emerson Creore received his doctor of on July 8. They are making their home at States. phil?sol?hy degree from Johns Hopkins Uni­ 149 Gregory Hill Road, Rochester. 1926 Nominated as the "busiest person" verSIty 10 June. F. Bruce Grover has appointed a member of in Victor, Ralph W. Martin, princi­ Ralph Hansen is in the research department the faculty o~ the high school at Lafargeville, pal of the Victor High School, was the subject of the Bailey Meter Company in Cleveland where he wtll teach mathematics. For the of one of a recent series of articles on "Busy Ohio and is living at 12623 Speedway Over: past two years he taught in the high school People" in a Rochester newspaper. look, East Cleveland. at Collins Center. Carl Payne, superintendent of schools at Harold S. Knight has a son, Douglas Wayne, Milton C. Matthews and Miss Helen Louise Bath, is the father of a son, John Carl, who ~ho was born ,on October 7. Mr. Knight Bent, both of Rochester, were married on was born on May 29. IS pastor of the FIrst Baptist Church at Aurora, July 8 in the chapel of the Colgate-Rochester New York. Divinity School. Mrs. Matthews is a graduate 1927 Oliver Barber, formerly of Rochester, Rob~rt ]. Maurer received the degree doctor of the Eastman School of Music and has and Miss Barbara Towne, of Pelham of, philosophy from the University in June. been supervisor of music at the Rushford Manor, were married on June 24. Mrs. Barber HIS thesis was on ' 'The Photolectric and Central School. They are making their home was a singing star of "I Married an Angel." Optical Properties of Sodium and Barium. ,. in Clover Hills Drive, Rochester. Mr. Barber is now director at the Westchester Karl H. Meng was awarded his doctor of William T. Plumb, Jr., was graduated in Playhouse at Mt. Kisco. philosophy degree by the University at Com- June from Cornell Law School. He was manag-

ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW ing editor of the Cornell Law Quarterly and the Herman Kantor is personally conducting a Church, Poughkeepsie, 1883-87; acting pastor, author of an article, "Illegal Enforcement of series of trips to the New York World's Fair Warburton Avenue Church, Yonkers, 1887-88; the Law," which appeared in the April issue this summer for high school boys and young pastor, Fourth Avenue, now First Baptist of the Quarterly. men. The trips are conducted in cooperation Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1888-90; president, Edmund C. Potter, who has been located for with the Y. M. C. A. and the New York State University, South Dakota, 1890-92; some time in Jamestown, is now with the Central System and include special arrange­ registrar, recorder and assistant professor of Personal Finance Company at 45 Dominion ments for Boy Scouts, Hi-Y Chapters and modern history, University of Chicago, 1892- National Bank Building, Bristol, Virginia. other high school groups. ,96; associate editor, THE WATCHMAN, Boston, William C. Schafer, who received his master Carl Kujawski will attend the School of Mass., 1896-1900; pastor, Jamaica Plain, of arts degree in commercial education at Social Work at Columbia University in the Mass., 1900-03; editorial secretary, American Columbia University in June, will teach com­ fall. Baptist Home Mission Society, New York mercial subjects in the high school at Walden, Donald Ross has a position with Standard City, 1904-09; editor, MISSIONS, 1910-; Wash­ New York, next year. Statistics, Inc., at 345 Hudson Street, New ington representative of religious press in Robert E. Van Slttyters, of Grand Rapids, York City. Food Administration, 1917-19. Was author Michigan, received the degree doctor of -Obert A. Van Auken will teach biology and "Aliens of Americans," 1906; "The Incoming optometry from the Pennsylvania State College general science at the Gowanda High School Millions," 1906; "Advance in the Antilles," of Optometry in June and will practice with next year. 1910; "Men of Mark in Modern Missions," his father in Grand Rapids. Robert Larson has been awarded the French 1912; "Never Man So Spake," 1924. Editor-in­ Exchange Fellowship, and will study at the chief, "Our Wonder World," a Library of 1937 The degree master of science was University of Bordeaux. He has a summer job Knowledge, 1914. Was vice-president, Federal granted by the University in June with the Paris office of the Eastman Kodak Council of Churches. to Marvin L. Davis, and Donald Pearlman, both Company. Just before his departure for France in chemistry; to Paul B. Marsh, in biology, he was notified that he has received the Charles Wesley Robson, A.B., '93; member of and to Ralph E. Pike, in chemical engineering. Balfour Award for the New York-Ontario Theta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa, died at Santa The degree master of arts, in history, was Province of Sigma Chi Fraternity, bestowed Barbara, Calif., June 23, aged 74 years. Was conferred upon Stanley V. Levey. annually upon the outstanding graduate of teacher of classics, The Bradstreet School, Frederick Clapp, of Canandaigua, and Miss the chapters in this province. Rochester, 1893-1900; graduate student, Berlin, Phoebe Gifford, '37 of Whitesboro, were 1897; Geneva, Switzerland, 1900-01; teacher married on June 24. of modern languages and mathematics, Hicks Donald Gazley has been appointed a member School, Santa Barbara, Calif., 1914-; teacher of the faculty of the high school at Frewsburg, of French, State Teachers' College, California. where he will teach social studies. Was editor, "German and French Texts." Sidney Dorfman, formerly of Rochester, is Survived by two sisters, Miss Phoebe Robson now living at 60 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN MEMORIAM and Mrs. Isabel Thompson. Indiana. james Hector Sankey, ex-'94; A.B., Franklin, Princeton University has announced the 1894; A.M., Franklin, 1895; member of Delta award of the Class of 1877 Fellowship, and of ~4nk H",nwns Fidd, ex-'96, died afm a Upsilon, died at Quincy, Mass., June 24, the Francis Hinton Maule Fellowship in the brief illness at Buffalo, N. Y., January 16, Was student, Xenia Theological Seminary, department of biology, to Raymond B. Griffiths. aged 62 years. Was manager, Eastern branch 1894-97; pastor, Towlesville, 1898-99; New William F. May is now with the American office, Buckeye Blower Co., of Columbus, Kingston, 1900-93; Chester, W. Va., 1905-08; Coal Company at Maywood, Illinois. 0., Buffalo; in recent years was associated Brooklyn, 1909-16; UnitedPresbyterianChurch, The engagement of Donald L. Wagner, of with Buffalo office of B. F. Sturtevant Co. Quincy, Mass., 1916-. Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, and Miss Dorothy Survived by his wife; his mother, Mrs. Alice Jane Gorsline, '37, of Rochester was announced Heermans Field; a son, Frank H., Jr.; a daugh­ Robert Bardwell Wickes, A.B., '78; member of Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, died in June. Don is a member of the faculty of the ter, Eleanor V.; two brothers, Harold L., '10, at Rochester, N. Y., July 14, aged 82 years. Irving School at Tarrytown. and Kenneth H., '16; a sister, Mrs. John G. Was law student, Rochester, 1878-80; lawyer, Rees, and two grandchildren. 1938 The degree master of science was Rochester, 1880-; president and manager, granted by the University to Casper Thornton Kendrick Cooper, ex-'OI; member Abstract Guarantee Co., Rochester, 1886-; V. Aronson, in optics, and to Donald F. McPher­ of Psi Upsilon, died at Apalachicola, Fla., Title Guarantee Corp. of Rochester; member son, in mechanical engineering. February 22, aged 55 years. Was with Schantz of firm, Wickes & Bentley, attorneys, 1919-. Robert O. Bork is now living at 909 D Street, Button Company, Rochester; coal mine man­ Was publisher, "Danforth and Wicke's New Meadville, Pennsylvania. agement, West Virginia; U. S. Lighthouse York Court of Appeals Digest," 1884; "Dan­ Cameron Estes, of Victor, left for New York Service, Apalachicola, Fla. During World forth's Supreme Court Digest," 1886. Survived City in May to spend six months as a lecturer War served with Vancouver University Bat­ by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Cogswell Wickes; at the exhibit and building of the Eastman talion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Sur­ three sons, Francis c., Philip B., '17, a3d Kodak Company at the World's Fair. vived by his wife, Mrs. Beatrice W. Cooper; Henry H." Wickes, '20; two daughters, Mrs. Wylie Robson, Robert and Richard Dickinson a son, Paul; two brothers, George F. and Rufus B. Crain and Mrs. Haywood Parker, Jr.; have also been at the New York World's Paul H. Cooper, '02, and an uncle, Professor­ one sister, Miss Alice H. Wickes, and thirteen Fair with the Eastman Kodak exhibit. emeritus Ryland M. Kendrick, '89. grandchildren. 1939 Robert C. Amero has a position with Howard Benjamin Grose, A.B., '76; A.M., Patti Charles Heinrich, member of the class the Floriden Company at Warren, 1880; D.D., Brown, 1907; member of Psi of 1939, died after a long illness at Rochester, Pennsylvania, and is living at the Y.M.C.A. Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, died at Waltham, N. Y., May 21. Was member, Newman Club; there. Mass., May 19, aged 87 years. Was New Weld Club; Discussion Club; Public Affairs Philip W. Carey will enter Harvard Medical York correspondent, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, New Forum and Community Speakers' Bureau. School in the fall. York City, 1876-79; on editorialstaff, EXAMINER, Survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lynn H. Farmen and MissJane Emery Newton, New York City, 1879-83; pastor, First Baptist A. Heinrich. of Albany, were married in June. Lynn is working as assistant to the comptroller of Distillation Products, Inc., a subsidiary of both General Mills Food Company and the Eastman Kodak Company. He is living at 1 Jessie Street, Rochester. john C. Evans is in the research department, in the physics division, of the Eastman Kodak To HONOR the Departed Company. To SOLACE the living Robert Fellows will do graduate work in the geology department at the University next To SERVE Every Creed year. Frank Gliottone will study dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania. james Harvey is in the scientific bureau of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company at Rochester. , f The University of Rochester

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