Cornell Alumni News Volume 4J\ Number 3 August 1, 1944 Price 20 Cents London Naval and Military Intelligence at the Library SCRUBBING STEEL WITH A BRUSH OF FLAMES lHE SIMPLE process this man is using is called FLAME-PRIMING is used on "flame-priming." It was developed by THE LINDE AIR PRODUCTS COMPANY. When the fiery "bristles" of oxy-acetylene flame sweep over steel, the intense heat causes scale to expand and pop loose. This heat thoroughly dries the surface and consumes or neutralizes any oil, rust, and other foreign matter that may be present. Applied to steel just before the first coat of paint is put on, "flame-priming" makes paint go further and last longer, and makes painting a more permanent means . and wherever steel must be painted of preventing corrosion. 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Principal Units in the United States and their Products ALLOYS AND METALS CHEMICALS INDUSTRIAL GASES AND CARBIDE PLASTICS Electro Metallurgical Company Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation The Linde Air Products Company Bakelite Corporation Haynes Stellite Company ELECTRODES, CARBONS AND BATTERIES The Oxweld Railroad Service Company Plastics Division of Carbide and United States Vanadium Corporation National Carbon Company, Inc. The Prest-O-Lite Company, Inc. Carbon Chemicals Corporation Volume 47, Number 3 August 1, 1944 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price #4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published the first and fifteenth of every month. CLASS REPRESENTATIVES DONORs AMOUNT '92 George T. Hogg 58 7,244.76 Year's Alumni Fund Totals $187,275 '93 31 594.00 '94 34 668.00 '95 Harry J. Clark 136 2,082.00 ORNELL Alumni Fund for the year which ended June 30 has set a '96 George S. Tompkins 68 2,448.58 '97 Fred F. Bontecou 109 6,787.25 C new record of $187,274.55 given for the unrestricted use of the Uni- '98 Allen E. Whiting 67 6,399.50 '99 Emmett B. Carter 81 1,485.50 versity by 7,771 donors. This is an increase of $2,142.65 over the 1942-43 ΌO 83 2,216.50 Όl M Harvey J. Couch 82 2,784.50 high record total of $185,131.90 from 8,405 contributors. W Dr. Emily Hickman 13 143.50 '02 M John C. Trefts 59 1,012.00 W Mary Sullivan 17 175.00 Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30, execu- dollars in War Bonds not yet identified '03 M Stuart Hazelwood 77 2,816.00 tive secretary of the Alumni Fund and therefore classed as Miscellaneous W Lucy M. Tomkins 34 372.00 ( E. F. Brundage Council, points out that this year's until they can be credited to their '04 M (Romeyn Berry 82 2,230.10 contributions demonstrate again the proper Class funds. W Florence Marquardt 25 415.83 '05 M Harry N. Morse 108 3,652,75 effectiveness of the Class committees W May C. Sickmon 11 137.00 Classes Do Well '06 M L. C. Welch 111 3,843.35 which were first organized in 1940 W Mrs. C. F. Landmesser 25 194.00 under the leadership of Harold T. Second to the Class of '10 in amount '07 M Howard M. Rogers 127 8,670.00 ? W Alice E. Rowe 16 236.00 Edwards 10, vice-president of the contributed this year are the men of '08 M Herbert E. Mitler 105 3,807.31 W Mrs. Charles E. Craven 22 181.75 Council. 1,800 Cornell men and wo- the Class of '15 of which Matthew '09 M Gustav J. Requardt 166 5,126.88 Carey, new president of the Alumni W Mrs. Nan Bruff 30 315.00 men as members of their Class com- ΊO M Harold T. Edwards 234 20,892.01 mittees have undertaken to solicit Fund Council, is representative. The W Mrs. M. A. Darville 21 157.50 '15 total of $9,051.51 is approached Ίl M James C. Bennett 129 3,709.26 their Classmates for gifts to the un- W Christina Stivers 15 193.00 restricted funds of the University. by the men of '07, headed by Howard '12 M Donald C. Kerr 178 5,380.50 W Mrs. H. B. Van Deventer 44 447.10 Edwards's Class of '10 men's com- M. Rogers, with $8,670; and those of '13 M Jessel S. Whyte 207 7,702.50 W 9 41.00 mittee has set the example for other '13, headed by Jessel S. Whyte, and '14 M H. W. Peters 313 7,341.45 '14, H. W. Peters, are close in fourth W Eva M. Haigh 18 272.50 Classes, having increased the 1910 '15 M Matthew Carey 310 9,051.51 contributions to the Alumni Fund and fifth places, with $7,702.50 and W Ruth Darville 20 143.50 '16 M Richard J. Foster, Jr. 226 5,973.47 from $2,804 in 1938-39 to its present $7,431.45, respectively. Noteworthy, W Mrs. Lloyd E. Moore 42 317.75 too, are the contributions of the '17 M Edward E. Anderson 271 4,271.43 figure of $20,892. to lead all others, W Mrs. Arthur R. Coelho 24 154.25 and bringing nearly $56,000 to the younger Classes of '39 and '43. Led by '18 M P. P. Miller 163 2,875.00 Thomas I. S. Boak and Mrs. Ernest W Mrs. J. C. Huntington 25 187.50 University in the four years. '19 M John C. Hollis 148 2,190.83 To Edward E. Goodwillie '10, Loewenstein (Madeline Weil), '39 W Margaret A. Kinzinger 25 169.00 '20 M 111 2,061.24 president of the Alumni Fund Coun- men and women ^ave $1,191 and the W Mary K. Hoyt 37 234.15 Class committees of '43 under Lieu- '21 M Clyde Mayer 159 4,420.92 cil the last three years, goes great W Mrs. R. D. Heath 39 329.00 credit for the outstanding Fund tenant William T. Dunn, Jr. and Mary '22 M 100 1,540.50 W Mrs. L. A. Winkelman 37 195.22 record during his administration, B. Rolfs record a total of $1,130.97. '23 M Robert O. Brannan 110 1,779.56 Record of the '95 Class committee W Mrs. Robert E. Treman 91 1,064.62 Heasley says. Goodwillie's three years '24 M 105 1,087.21 W 42 have brought a total of $488,261 to the under Harry J. Clark,4 of 136 con- Mary E. Yinger 320.00 '25 M Guy T. Warfield 105 1,264.97 University in unrestricted gifts from tributors, comprises 63 per cent of the W Mrs. Robert T. Smith 39 313.99 217 living members of the Class. For '26 M Walter W. Buckley 116 1,594.62 alumni, the largest three-year total in W Mrs. C. W. Stillwell 30 193.90 history and an average of more than the first time this year two Class '27 M John S. Fair, Jr. 128 2,646.87 W Mrs. F. W. Keller 38 335.00 $160,000 a year which compares committees, of '14 and '15 men, have '28 M H. Victor Grohmann 91 995.18 recorded more than 300 contributors W lone P. Barrett 64 345.76 with an average of about $75,000 for '29 M 76 742.50 the ten years before 1940. to the Alumni Fund. Third place in W Dorothy A. English 42 345.63 '30 M George C. Castleman 125 1,077.25 number of donors is held by the '17 W Mrs. Paul P. McClellan 34 281.00 Bonded Reunions Continue men led by Edward E. Anderson, '31 M William M. Vanneman 111 750.50 W Helen M. Lautrup 41 283.75 The 1943-44 Fund includes gifts with '10 in fourth place and the '16 '32 M Frederick I. Biggs 69 469.50 W Mrs. John L. Skinner 37 193.00 of many War Bonds made to Cornell men headed by Richard J. Foster, Jr., '33 M John P. Nell 59 526.25 under the Bonded Reunions plan fifth. Women's Class committees are W Mrs. Carleen M. Hutchins 55 260.59 '34 M William R. Robertson 75 813.25 which was started last year to take led by that of '23 of which Mrs. W Mrs. Robert B. Roe 27 101.50 '35 M Frank A. Ready 93 632.25 the place of Class Reunions in Ithaca, Robert E. Treman (Carolyn Slater) W Mrs. William D. Dugan 35 297.83 impossible during the war. A com- is chairman, with 91. '36 M Lt. Wm. M. Hoyt, Jr. 96 793.00 W Mrs. Herbert T. Brunn 50 227.00 mittee of the Association of Class '37 M 71 619.88 1943-44 Alumni Fund W Mrs. Robert B. Child 48 279.00 Secretaries was headed by Dr.