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GIRLS TO COME MAY 15 '39; and Phyllis Andre and Gabrielle HOLD PEACE MEETING Nine Clubs Entertain Sichel, '40. Agnes Tierney '95 spoke of Council Arranges Program Cornell as she knew it in the time of Eighty to ninety girls from secondary This year's peace meeting in Bailey Andrew D. White. schools throughout New York State are Hall, April 2.2., was sponsored and ar- The Batavia women held their meeting expected in Ithaca for the fourth annual ranged by the recently formed Campus at the Y. W. C. A. building. Girls were Cornell Day for Women on May 15. Peace Council, which brings together present from LeRoy, Albion, Corfu, They have been selected both by under- representatives of student organizations Bergen, Elba, and Batavia. Margaret graduate women and by members of the to further the cause. University classes Buckland '38 spoke. The Schenectady Cornell Women's Clubs. were suspended for an hour, and the party was addressed by Barbara Clark Guests will be entertained in the wo- auditorium was half filled. '39; and the one given by the Western men's dormitories. On Saturday morning Dr. R. F. Jenny, former Army chaplain Connecticut women in Bridgeport, by they will be taken on a tour of the now pastor of the Park Central Presby- Mary Bent '37. Campus by undergraduate women, and terian Church in Syracuse and self-styled A tea was given April 16 by the Cornell those who wish will have an opportunity "pacigerant," pleaded for a "crusade of Women's Club of Cortland. Mary Dick- to interview representatives from the peace" that should make the world "fit son '38 and Mrs. Osborn were both pres- Faculties of the various Colleges. In the for men and women to live in," and ent and spoke to the girls of Cornell afternoon a tea for the guests will be held labelled his hearers as being "too re- affairs. in Willard Straight, and in the evening spectable" and "lacking in dyed-in-the- an informal party is being planned in the INDIANA CLUB ELECTS wool conviction." Professor Henry W. Balch Hall recreation room. At a meeting of the Cornell Club of Edgerton Ίo, Law, speaking on "Stu- The Women's Cornell Day Committee Indiana held on March 10 at the Colum- dents and War," prophesied another war, is headed by Mrs. Claude M. Bigelow bia Club in Indianapolis, Otto N. saying: "The old-fashioned ideas of na- (Lucile Wyman) 'Z3, 91 Homer Ave., Frenzel, Jr. '19 was elected president of tional interests and prestige make dis- Cortland. Its Ithaca members are Mrs. the Club, succeeding Herbert I. John- armament impossible." Pointing out that R. C. Osborn (Agda Swenson) 'xo, Olive stone '2.6 who moved to Mobile, Ala. "a country" is made up of individual Northup Snyder 'xx, Dean E. Louise recently. John F. Modrall '34 was re- persons and is not of itself a living thing, Fitch, Ruth E. Davis '17, Mrs. John B. elected secretary and R. Ralston Jones '15 he advised students to "look over the Grace (Anna Fielden) Ίo, and Marion was elected treasurer. next war carefully and disregard per- F. Bean '37, chairman of the under- suasive propaganda." graduate committee. CORNELL CLUB LIBRARIAN John M. Batten '37, president of the During and since the spring recess ten Student Council, presided, and Patricia Cornell Women's Clubs have entertained S. Prescott '38 of Sandy Creek, Austin preparatory and high school girls who H. Kiplinger '39 of Arlington, Va., and might be interested in entering the Uni- Frederick J. Rarig '37 of Minneapolis, versity. A committee of the Federation Minn, advocated the cause of peace and of Cornell Women's Clubs, headed by urged individual support by writing to Mrs. Edwin Knauss (Dorothy Pond) Ί8, legislators in the interests of anti-war arranged for undergraduate women active bills. in Campus affairs to address these meet- The Campus Peace Council, the forma- ings and the speakers were chosen by tion of which we announced recently, is Miss Bean. composed of representatives of some On April 4 the Cornell Women's Club twenty-eight undergraduate organiza- of Washington, D. C. gave a tea at the tions. These include the Student Council, home of Gladys Fielding '34. Marian Interfraternity Council, Independent As- Myers '38 was the speaker. The New sociation, men's and women's cabinets York Club held its tea at the Barbizon of CURW and five denominational stu- Hotel April 11. Mrs. Thomas Louden dent groups, the Cornell Daily Sun and (Elizabeth Valentine) '02. was chairman, Areopagus, Officers Club of the ROTC, and Edith Gardner '36 of Richmond Hill the Poets' Club, the International Rela- spoke for the undergraduates. tions Club, American Student Union, Simultaneous meetings were held April Young Communists' League, Young 10 by the Cornell Women's Clubs of Peoples' Socialist League, Telluride As- Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo, Batavia, DR. HENRY P. DEFOREST '84 reads the sociation, and three sororities (Alpha Western Connecticut, and Schenectady. ALUMNI NEWS in the library of the Cor- Epsilon Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma The Buffalo meeting took place at the nell Club of New York. Librarian of the Delta Tau) and two fraternities (Sigma home of Mrs. George Crofts (Frances Club since it moved into its present Chi and Theta Delta Chi). Its executive Johnson) '05, and Mary Tillinghast '36 quarters in 192.3, Dr. deForest has built committee is composed of Rose E. Smith spoke. At the Rochester home of Dorothy up the Club library from forty-eight '38 of Jackson Heights, chairman, Kip- J. Sullivan '35 color films of Campus books to more than 4,000 volumes. Most linger, Rarig, Frederick H. Bullen '38 activities were shown and Elizabeth of these were gifts from alumni solicited of Pueblo, Col., John S. Niederhauser '38 Nichols '37 and Doris E Smallridge '37 by the librarian through the years. He of Menlo Park, Cal., and Fannie Price spoke. Sixteen school girls were guests also designed the bookplate of the Club. '37 of Rochester. To further its program, in Philadelphia at the home of Mrs. A. An ardent Cornellian, Dr. deForest is also the Campus Peace Council plans a series A. Woodruff (Gertrude Marvin) '13. secretary of the Class of '84 and of the of round table discussions and of public Undergraduates present were Jeanne Early Eighties group of classes. Photo debates by students and panel discussions White and Florence Pile, '38; Jane Watt by Mark Muller 'βp. conducted by members of the Faculty. 334 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

TRAIN TIMES CHANGE of Creed W. Fulton '09, and her fiance, consolidating the Cayuga Press and the With the change to daylight saving Glen Carow. ALUMNI NEWS under one ownership; was time in New York and other cities, Professor Durham says that Dr. Sze first president, and is now secretary of the Lehigh Valley Railroad has advanced expects to sail for China soon, the exact Corporation, in charge of sales, and the leaving time of its night train to time depending upon when his successor spends much of his time traveling in the Ithaca to n :io p.m., standard time, from can arrive in Washington. interests of college and book printing for New York City and n p.m. from Phila- the Cayuga Press. delphia, arriving at Ithaca at 6:19 a.m., HEADS ALUMNI COUNCIL Entering the University in 190Z, Sailor with occupancy of sleeping cars until 8. received the AB degree in '07. He was a The Black Diamond leaves New York member of the track and football teams, City the same time as before, 11:10 a.m., of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He which is IZ:IO daylight saving time, spent the term after graduation at the and arrives at Ithaca at 6:40 p.m. University of Wύrzburg, in Bavaria. He From Ithaca, the night train now is president of the Cornell Corporation of leaves at 10:15 P m instead of 11, arriving Beta Theta Pi, former president of the in New York City at 6:30 a.m. and at Sphinx Head Corporation, Town and Philadelphia at 6:40 a.m. The Black Gown Club, and Ithaca Rotary, and a Diamond, eastbound, leaves Ithaca at member of the Cornell Clubs of New 1:07 p.m. York and Philadelphia. Mrs. Sailor is the Ithaca, as in the last several years, re- former Queenie Horton '09. mains on Eastern standard time. REUNION IN MANHATTAN PHILADELPHIA ELECTS The Class of Ίz announces a Reunion Cornell Club of Philadelphia, at its an- in Manhattan for all Classes, as a "fore- nual meeting April zi, elected Otto V. runner to the reunion in June," at the Kruse '09, president; Charles L. Mac- Cornell Club of New York, May iz. Beth '2.8, vice-president; Robert B. Patch Festivities will begin at 6:30, with 'zz, secretary; and Stanley O. Law '17, supper, and John T. McGovern '00 will treasurer. Directors elected are James B. preside over the entertainment. Many Harper 'zo, Emmett J. Murphy 'zz, classes are listed for the committee, with Walter W. Buckley '2.5, Charles B. How- names for some, but Walter R. Kuhn Ίz land *z6, John S. Fair, Jr. '2.7, M. Yetter and Robert L. Bliss '30 seem to be the Schoch 'Z9, Robert P. Liversidge '31, and guiding geniuses. Harrison S. Wilson '36. R. W. SAILOR '07, editor of the ALUMNI SPRING CONCERT PLEASES TRIBUTE TO SZE '01 NEWS, last week was elected president of Student singers and instrumentalists Nearly 150 Cornellians gathered April the American Alumni Council at its an- were thoroughly enjoyed by a Bailey Z4 at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, nual convention at the United States Hall audience April zz for the annual D. C. for the reception and dinner given Military Academy at West Point. Council spring concert of the Men's and Women's by the Cornell Club of Washington in membership is held by zoo alumni secre- Glee Clubs and Instrumental Clubs. Like- honor of Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze '01, re- taries, 85 alumni fund secretaries, and wise the audience appreciated the rich tiring Chinese Ambassador to the United izo alumni magazines of American col- contralto voice of Marie Powers 'Z4, re- States, and Madame Sze. leges and universities. Sailor's term as cently arrived from a concert season Principal speaker was former President president will include the silver anni- abroad to be guest artist. She sang in Jacob Gould Schurman, who after more versary convention of the Council, to be German four Brahms compositions (in- than thirty years at Cornell became Am- held next spring at Columbus, Ohio. cluding the "Lullaby" as an encore) and bassador to Germany. He paid high tribute He continues also as editor of the Coun- one by Piccinni. Again when with to Dr. Sze as a Cornellian, as a diplomat, cil, which position he has held since its Thomas Tracy '31 she appeared to sing and as a friend. Greetings were brought creation in 19ZZ. He was president of the selections from "Carmen," both soloists from the University Board of Trustees by magazine division in 19Z1-ZZ and its were roundly applauded. Bancroft Gherardi '93, chairman of the treasurer the year before. The evening's program opened with committee on general administration; Cornell memberships in the American "Song for Cornell," the words by Dana from the Faculty by Professor William I. Alumni Council are held by Foster M. Burnett Ίi. The program was fresh and Myers '14, on leave as Governor of the Coffin Ίz, Alumni Representative, Archie varied, well selected, and most com- Farm Credit Administration; from the M. Palmer Ί8, executive secretary of the petently given, whether by the combined Cornell Alumni Corporation by its presi- Cornellian Council, and Sailor for the Clubs, directed alternately by Eric Dud- dent, C. Reeve Vaηneman '03; from the ALUMNI NEWS. Coffin is a former vice- ley and George L. Coleman '95, by the Cornell Club of Baltimore by Ezra B. president for alumni secretaries and Men's Glee Club alone, with Dudley di- Whitman '01, University Trustee, and district director. Palmer was vice-presi- recting, or by the Women's Glee Club, Henry R. Gundlach Ίi; from the Cornell dent of the alumni funds division and a led by Mrs. Dudley. Likewise the student Club of Delaware by Sonnin Krebs '00; trustee, and the late Harold Flack Ίz soloists performed expertly, and were and August H. Moran '17 spoke for the was vice-president for alumni funds at well received. Especially pleasing was a Washington Club. Alfredo B. Codas Ίz, his death. number, "Portraits," in which, on the Minister from Paraguay, outlined Dr. Sailor has been editor of the ALUMNI spotlighted stage, Gerrit Conger '37 sang Sze's diplomatic career, and Dr. Sze re- NEWS since January 1, 1918. For eight "Little Old Lady" to M. Elizabeth sponded briefly. years previously secretary of the Cornell Brown '39, dressed in lavendar and old Professor Charles L. Durham '99, long Club of Chicago, he came to Ithaca in lace, in a huge gilt frame; to be replaced time personal friend of Sze's, was the September, 1916, to become secretary of by Helena Palmer '37 in the frame, dressed toastmaster. Decorations were red tulips the Associate Alumni of Cornell Univer- in a modern gown, with Robert Bodholt and white carnations, with a Cornell sity and manager of the ALUMNI NEWS. '38 as the soloist. banner and the flag of China. Music was January 1, 19Z7, he organized the Cornell The Women's Glee Club numbers 113, given by Ruth W. Fulton, daughter Alumni News Publishing Corporation, the Men's Glee Club, 61, and the two APRIL 2.9, 1937 335

Instrumental Clubs, 19 and 2.3, respec- half-mile relay team took second place in tively. the fourth heat, in 1:2.9.3, but did not At a Sunday afternoon recital in About compete in the final, which was won by Willard Straight Hall Miss Powers was Indiana in wτrj.i.. again enthusiastically received by an ATHLETICS Cornell, with thirty-nine men at the audience which almost overflowed the meet, had one of the largest, if not the Memorial Room. Here she sang in French, TENNIS WINS AND LOSES largest, entry lists, but did not compete Italian, Spanish, German, and English; The Varsity tennis team won its first in any of the medley relay races. Coach was encored again and again, and im- outdoor match of the season Saturday Moakley expressed himself Monday as pressed her listeners with her own real against Syracuse, 6-3, on the recon- "very pleased" with the Cornell show- enjoyment of singing for its own sake. ditioned Cascadilla courts where the ing, and said that his men had gained Her accompanist at both performances women's playground used to be. Captain valuable experience for the outdoor was Mrs. Othon G. Guerlac, whose hus- Bernard E. Diamond '37 of Brooklyn, season which opens with the heptagonal band before his death was professor of William J. Simpson '37 of Larchmont, meet in Boston, Mass. May 8. Romance Languages. Herbert Sobel '38 of New York City, and MCGINN CUP WINNER TRAFFIC IN DETROIT Irving A. Fertitta '39 of Woodmere won their singles matches in two sets each, as The McGinn cup for novice cross Cornellians of Detroit had opportunity did the doubles teams of Simpson and country runners was won by James S. to ask questions and have them answered John G. Peavy '38 of Dobbs Ferry, and Hall '39 of Groton, who won three of by Judge Thomas F. Maher, of the traffic Edward J. Devine, Jr. '39 of Detroit, four races. Edward J. Milanese '40 of court, at the regular Thursday luncheon Mich, and Fertitta. On April 2.2., driven Brooklyn won the first race and was of the Cornell Club of Michigan April 2.2.. into the Drill Hall by rain, they lost to only one point behind the winner for STUDENTS IN BUFFALO Miami, 1-8, Simpson being the only the series, which was run in faster than Cornell Club of Buffalo entertained the winner. average time. The cup, the gift of Donald Juniors and other students in Civil Engi- The Freshman team on Saturday beat J. McGinn '2.6, now a teacher of English neering, in town for their annual two- the Colgate Freshmen at Hamilton, 5-4. at Rutgers, is awarded annually by Coach day inspection trip, at a smoker at the Moakley. University Club April 2.1, jointly with GOOD RECORD IN RELAYS the Buffalo section of the ASCE. Speaker J. Hamilton Hucker '38 of Buffalo, CAPTAINS, MANAGERS, CS was Edward F. Entwisle '06, an official national 2.00-meter low hurdle champion, Official termination of the seasons of of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, won the 400-meter low hurdle race at the five winter sports is marked by the recent whose plant the students were to visit Pennsylvania Relay Carnival in Phila- award of the Varsity "C" to forty-one the next day. On Wednesday they in- delphia Friday afternoon in 55.3 seconds; members of these teams and of Freshman spected the new $6,000,000 water works and on Saturday, within ten minutes, led numerals to forty-seven. At the same time and sanitary project being constructed by off in the finals of the 480-yard shuttle the intercollegiate advisory council, the Sanitary Commission of Buffalo. Pro- hurdle relay, which Cornell won, and through its local standing committee, fessors Earle N. Burrows '07 and William ran his quarter in the mile relay. Besides confirmed the election of captains of E. Stanley accompanied the students. this championship in the shuttle hurdles, seven Varsity teams for next year, duly Committee of the Cornell Club for their Cornell took second place in the four- advanced their Junior assistant managers entertainment was composed of William mile relay, third in the mile, and seventh to managerships; and announced the re- T. Huber '08, Paul E. Fitzpatrick '2.0, in the two-mile. Elliott H. Hooper '38 sults of competitions which placed new Frederick S. Manthai '2.7, and John R. of Long Valley, N. J. bettered his last Sophomore assistant managers to become McKaig '30. year's carnival mark by 2.0 feet when he managers as Seniors. DECIDE MOOT CASE threw the javelin 190 feet 3 inches, to Of basketball Thomas A. Rich '38 of A distinguished bench, headed by take fifth place behind Sanborn of Army, Hobart and Carl ton P. Wilson '38 of Judge Leonard C. Crouch '89, formerly of who threw it 113 feet 11 inches to win. Milwaukee, Wis. were confirmed as co- the Court of Appeals, heard the final Following Hucker on the winning captains, with Thomas H. Paterson of moot case of first-year Law students shuttle hurdle team were Charles Y. Neff South Euclid, Ohio, as manager; and April 17, and rendered its decision at the '37 of Buffalo, Eric D. Schwarz '39 of Robert T. Foote of Milwaukee, Wis., eleventh annual Law School dinner that Saylesville, R. I., and William W. and Alfred F. Dugan of Riverhead as evening. Opposing student counsel for Rossiter '37 of Bronxville. Their time assistant managers of Varsity and Fresh- the case were selected in a series of was 1:01.7, and they finished five yards man teams, respectively. Wrestling cap- elimination trials that have occupied ahead of North Carolina and Penn State. tain is Frederick F. Reimers '39 of Ham- most of the year. Winning counsel for The four-mile team which finished mond, La.; Frederic B. Lowrie of Grosse the defendant-respondent (the case in- second was 2.50 yards behind that of Isle, Mich., manager; and John S. Smith volved a stolen painting) were Ralph N. Indiana, which set a new world, Ameri- of Canisteo and Charles W. Hagen, Jr. Kleps of Batavia and Harvey R. Wellman can, collegiate, and Carnival record of of EaSt Orange, N. J. Varsity and Fresh- of Perry, both Seniors in Arts. Their op- 17:16.1. The previous world record of man assistant managers. Boxing captain, ponents at the bar were Mrs. Barbara 17:17.x was set by the 1936 American John G. Tausig '38 of Harrisburg, Pa.; Crosby Marcussen '31 of Falconer and Olympics team composed of Hornbostle, manager, Frederick M. Huntington of Peter Ward of Buffalo, Venzke, San Romani, and Cunningham. Sea Cliff; and Harold T. Edwards of Alumni at the dinner, most of whom Members of the Cornell team were Freeport is assistant manager. Ernest A. had sat as judges in the preliminary Gustavus A. Bentley '39 of Jamestown, Dahmen, Jr. '38 of Ithaca is captain of trials, included Charles H. Blood '88, William V. Bassett '37 of West Newton, hockey; with Howard G. Briggs of Supreme Court Justice Riley H. Heath Mass., Howard W. Welch '38 of Trumans- Montclair, N. J., manager, and William Ίz, L. N. Simons '12., Henry J. Shirey burg, and Captain John A. Meaden '37 of H. McLean of Little Rock, Ark. assistant '2.5, Louis K. Thaler 'z$, and Truman K. La Grange, 111. manager. Swimming team will be led by Powers '30, of Ithaca; and Judge Harley The Varsity followed Manhattan and Robert D. Cloyes '38 of Cleveland N. Crosby '96 of the Appellate Division, Indiana to the tape in the mile, and in the Heights, Ohio, with William L. Stroud Mrs. Marcussen's father, Mary H. Don- two-mile relay came in behind Man- of Kingston, Pa. as manager and Charles Ion '2.0 of New York City, and William hattan, New York University, Yale, M. Scholz, Jr. of Elmira, Varsity, and H. Coon '2.2., Cortland County judge. Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Duke. The Joseph G. King of Chattanooga, Tenn., 336 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Freshman, assistant managers. George E. fielding, and in the ninth, got five hits Circulation manager is Robert B. Good- Detmold '38 of Long Island City heads and as many runs. In the eighth inning, willie of Toledo, Ohio, and the two the fencing team; Douglas R. Rogers, Jr. with only one out, Bernard M. Rigney advertising managers are John S. Stewart of Westfield, N. J. is manager; and Wil- '39 of New York City, catcher, put a of Ithaca and Allen D. Shapiro of liam E. Dominick of Pittsfield, Mass., two-bagger against the fence in right Newburgh. assistant. Of the ski team the captain is field, but Thomas A. Rich '38, who was The Cornell Widow now also elects Joslyn A. Smith '38 of Westmount, Que- sent in to run, was caught off the bag to two complete and parallel boards of bec; manager, Harold M. Sawyer of spoil that chance to even the score again. editors and managers; one of men and Jackson Heights; and assistant manager, The box score: one of women. Next year's Senior James I. Austin of Hamlin. CORNELL (3) editor-in-chief is Philip W. Callanan of AB R H PO A E Auburn; with William W. Orr of "C" awards were as follows: Rosenheck, 3b 3 1 2. 2. 6 2. BASKETBALL Gaily, cf 2. o 1 1 o o Lewiston, business manager; George S. George W. Crowther '37, Louis E. Dauner a-Lozier 1 o o o o o Stothoff of New York City, advertising '38, Rudolf A. Doering "37, Walter H. Foertsch Buckhout, cf 2. o 1 2. o o manager; Robert I. Westheimer of '39, Edwin Leonard '38, Harold Liebman '39, Batten, If 4 o 1 1 o 1 Cincinnati, Ohio, circulation manager; Robert J. McDonald '38, Thomas A. Rich '38, Doering, ib 4 o 1 14 o o Stanley D. Simon '37, Carlton P. Wilson '38. Meagher, rf 2. 1 o o o 1 and Olof H. Dahlstrand of Wauwatosa, FENCING Dugan, rf 2. o o o o o Wis., art editor. The only Sophomore Daniel F. Macbeth '37, James W. Parker Johnson, zb 3 o 1 2. 3 2. who holds a head position is Barbara E. '37, Harold E. Parker '38, Roy H. Steyer '38, Schaehrer, ss 4 o o 2. 2. 2. Babcock of Ithaca, women's editor. Stehnach, p 4 1 2. 1 1 o Robert A. Shaw '38, George E. Detmold '38, Business manager of the women's board Russell L. Hopping '39, John F. Stephens '37, Rigney, c 4 o 1 2. 1 o John M. McLellan '39. b-Rich o o o o o o is Carol J. Hallock of Riverhead; ad- Sheffer, c o o o o o o WRESTLING vertising manager, Marian Myers of Washington, D.C.; and circulation man- Morton Ward '39, Charles B. Mosher '38, Totals 35 3 10 2.7 13 8 Paul F. Hartzsch, Jr. '37, Gerald E. Oaks '39, a—batted for Gaily in 4th. ager, Lucile Howard of New York City. Kenneth T. Smith '37, Frederick F. Reimers b—ran for Rigney in 8th. '39, Harry L. Smith '38, Jack J. Siegel '38, Editor-in-chief of the Cornell Law John R. Manning '37. HARVARD (9) Quarterly for next year is Sol M. Lino- AB R H PO A E witz of Trenton, N.J.; business manager, BOXING Johns, 2b 4 2. 1 4 4 1 Max P. Goodfried '37, Moses L. Goldbas Richard C. Mitchell of Oswego; manag- Lupien, ib 5 1 3 6 o o '39, John G. Tausig '38, George E. Schaaf '38, Bilodeau, ss 5 1 1 2. 1 o ing editor, George R. Brownell '36 of Ira W. Wilson '38, Leonard F. Peyser '37, Owen, 3b 5 1 o 1 o o Westfield, N.J.; book review editor, Samuel S. Stahl '38, Frederic V. Siemer '39. Sullivan, rf 5 2. 1 4 o o Kenneth B. Lane '35 of Buffalo, all to be SWIMMING McTernan, cf 5 o 3 3 1 o Seniors in Law next year. Robert D. Cloyes '38, William G. Luke, Jr. Colwell, c 4 o o 6 o o '39, Norman H. Rasch '37, William M. Weil Shean, If 5 o o 1 o o George J. Kaye '38 of New York City '37, Richard G. Zens '38. Ingalls, p 3 2. o o 2. o is editor-in-chief of The Cornell Engineer GOLFERS BEAT WILLIAMS for next year, with Florian F. Ceperley Totals 41 9 9 2.7 8 1 '38 of Oneonta as business manager. The golf team Saturday defeated Cornell 101 001 coo—3 Williams, 6-3, in Williamstown, Mass. Harvard 100 101 105—9 Cornell winners were Captain Charles S. Runs batted in—Doering, Johnson, Colwell, FARM ANNIVERSARY Willcox '38 of Birmingham, Ala., Wil- Stehnach, McTernan x, Bilodeaux, Sullivan i, It's just a year since we first saw liam B. Smith '38 of Jeannette, Pa., Owen 2.. Two-base hits—Johnson, McTernan, Stoneposts; six months since we started Buckhout, Rigney, Sullivan. Home run— to live there. We expected to change the Frederick A. Reimers '39 of Omaha, Neb., Stehnach. Sacrifice—Johns. Stolen base—Doer- and Frank L. McAleavey '38 of Mil- ing. Double plays—McTernan to Johns, Bilo- place around a good deal, but we haven't. waukee, Wise. deau to Johns to Lupien. Left on bases—Har- What has changed is us. vard 8, Cornell 11. Bases on balls—off Ingalls We used to drive around the country, BASEBALL STARTS POORLY 6, off Stehnach 2.. Struck out—by Ingalls 3, by look at places that attracted us and The baseball team played two of its Stehnach 1. Umpires—Corser and Link. Time —2.Π9. pretend what we'd do with them if we three scheduled games last week, defeat- had them. We'd add a wing here and ing Colgate, 10-9, April 2.0 in a ten- put an outside chimney there. We'd inning comedy of errors; being rained out PUBLICATIONS ELECT plant that bank solid with daffodils and of its game with Rochester April 2.3 and Four student publications announced iris, and that kitchen porch would be losing a League game to Harvard Satur- the personnel of their staffs for next year framed in wisteria and roses. day, 3-9. as the University closed for the spring It is a source of solid comfort to realize Shivering spectators at Hoy Field saw recess. These perennial elections bring that there are hundreds of people around the Varsity open its home season against to a close competitions that have usually this county who will never find out what Colgate in a game featured by a multi- extended over three years, the highest liberties we've taken with their homes plicity of errors on both sides. Lozier positions going to those Juniors on the at one time or another, and to what pitched throughout, but Colgate used board who have shown the greatest extent we've mentally cast them out into three pitchers, and still, in the seventh aptitude in their respective departments. the cold world to shift for themselves inning with Colgate leading, 8-2., wild The Cornell Daily Sun elected J. while we tore out their wagon house to pitching, wide throws, dropped flies, Frederic Hillegas of Ithaca both its get a better view or ripped the front passed balls, batters hit, and failure to editor-in-chief and managing editor. parlor all to pieces. hit behind the runners, enabled Cornell Editorial director is Bernard Gartlir of It's hard to realize now that we are to tie the score, and in the tenth, with New York City; women's editor, Ger- the same people who did that only a year one man out, to win the long game. maine F. Miller of Huntington and ago. We don't drive around much now. Saturday's game with Harvard saw Martin F. Beck of Far Rockaway and There isn't time for that any more. But left-handed Michael N. Stehnach '39 of Robert R. Chuckrow '39 of New York every once in a while we have to go to Dolgeville pitching an excellent game City will share responsibility for "The Trumansburg to pick up some freight and knocking the seventh home run over Berry Patch," as CDXXVIΠ and CD- from Mr. Jim Brown, or over to Mecklen- the fence in the history of Hoy Field to XXIX, respectively. The business board burg to see a man about a sheep. When tie the score in the sixth at 3-all. Harvard is headed by Fabian W. Kunzelmann of we go on trips like that we are just as scored the winning run in the seventh Milwaukee, Wis., with Helene C. Irish observing and just as alert as we ever without getting a hit, through poor of Ithaca as women's business manager. were; only now it isn't houses that we APRIL iC), I937 337

look at. It's barns and stock and fences MODEL LEAGUE MEETS its various commissions and committees, and machinery. 265 Delegates Here communications being carried on mostly through the offices of white-coated wo- A nice big pile of well rotted manure on The League of Nations came to Ithaca men students acting as pages. somebody else's place will make us more last week in the persons of x6^ student envious and covetous and discontented delegates from thirty-six colleges and Cornell's delegation numbered eighteen; than another man's glistening, new auto- universities, for the eleventh annual they represented Albania, Italy, and mobile ever did. And when Mrs. State Model League of Nations Assembly, China. Teh-chang Koo '40 presented his and Tioga falls silent and starts looking Middle Atlantic Division. They arrived country's case in Chinese, with Chien- off long distances at nothing much, you Thursday and finished their deliberations fang Henry Sun '39 as interpreter. The can be pretty sure that somewhere Saturday afternoon. Plenary sessions were speaker called attention especially to the within the next two miles she'll say: held in the moot court room of Myron situation in Eastern Asia, where "illicit "Hey! Do you think that if we saved up, Taylor Hall and those of the various smuggling of goods is being carried on, and had a good year, and went without commissions and committees in other fostered by Japan,'' and said that'' if the practically everything we wanted, we University buildings, with a banquet and situation is not eliminated, China will could afford next fall to get a manure dance in Willard Straight Friday evening. not be responsible for the resulting crisis spreader like the one we passed back President Farrand welcomed the As- as she tries to preserve her existence." there at Christian Hill?"—R. B. '04 in sembly at the first plenary session Friday Critic McDonald, commenting on that "State and Tioga," Ithaca Journal. morning, saying that such a meeting was session, remarked that the Chinese repre- especially important " at a time when all sentative had spoken '' very much in the CHICAGO TAKES TO WATER thinking persons are appalled by the style" of his illustrious father, Welling- Cornell Club of Chicago learned about difficulties and confusion the world is ton Koo, former Chinese Ambassador to water at two recent luncheons. Ralph E. facing." A. Bonham Campbell '36, presi- the United States, whom he had heard Noble '19, bacteriologist of the city dent of the League Council, who is now in the same capacity at Geneva. water department, told them April 15 a Sophomore in Electrical Engineering, Speaker at the banquet of the Assembly how the board of health tests water to said in opening the sessions that "the Friday evέning was Dr. Hans Simons, assure its safety for drinking and at political events of the last few years have former general secretary for the League beaches and pools; and at last week's shown conclusively that an overhauling of Nations Union and now teaching at Thursday luncheon Arthur E. Gorman, of the peace machinery must be made the New School for Social Research. chief engineer of the city's water purifica- before effective application of the League His subject, "Europe of Today and To- tion divison, spoke on "Filtration of covenant is possible," and that "the morrow," the speaker defined security Chicago' s Water Supply.'' covenant itself is not at fault, but as a" balanced method of social adapta- The Club announces that it will revive political measures must be linked with tion and political change," referred to its "June Night" party June 12., with economic." the League of Nations as now " in a state John M. Breckenridge '2.6 chairman of Elected president of the Assembly was of suspense," but said that its problem the committee. Mary Clabaugh of Vassar, representing of the future will be "security, its very USSR; and James G. McDonald, former essence remaining Wilson's fourteen NEW BRUNSWICK MEETS High Commissioner of the League of points." He spoke of Great Britain's The Raritan Valley Cornell Club held Nations and now associate editor of the policy of rearmament as " a great factor its annual get-together April 2.0, at the New York Times, acted as critic. Harvey in keeping the peace today," and, skepti- Hotel Klein, New Brunswick, N. J. R. Wellman '37 of Perry, recently elected cal of the 'insulating power' of the Twenty-three Cornellians assembled for Rhodes Scholar, was generally respon- Atlantic Ocean, he envisioned the United an informal steak and beer dinner. sible for arrangements as secretary- States as an "honorary member" of a Following the dinner Sydney B. Car- general of the Assembly. United States of Europe and a Pan- pender '07, president of the Club, pre- During the two days the model Assem- American Union. Professor Herbert W. sented five reels of moving pictures taken bly earnestly debated the problems of Briggs, Government, was toastmaster at during his trip to Patagonia, Ecuador, the world in plenary sessions and through the banquet. Mexico, New Brunswick, Canada, and other points North and South. There was no speaking program; "consequently the evening was enjoyed by all." George Ho well '2.2. was chairman of the dinner committee.

NORTH CALIFORNIA OFFICERS Annual election of the Cornell Women's Club of Northern California was held at a luncheon April 9 at the College Women's Club in Berkeley. Mrs. Edwin W. Kramer (Olive Edwards) '05 was elected president to succeed Mrs. Wilson D. Clark (Frances Bell) Ίo, who pre- sided. Mrs. F. G. Short (Louise Baker) '19 is vice-president; Mrs. D. Scott Fox (Grace Fordyce) '15, recording secretary and treasurer; and Mrs. Nairne F. Ward (Janet Nundy) '2.6, corresponding secre- tary, succeeding Mrs. Brandon Watson (Hilda Longyear) \6. MODEL LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN MYRON TAYLOR HALL COURT ROOM Miss R. Louise Fitch, Dean of Women, Student delegates from thirty-six Eastern colleges and universities represented was guest of honor, and talked of activi- most of the countries of the world at the meeting here last week of the Middle ties on the Campus. Atlantic Division of the Model League of Nations Assembly. Ithaca Journal photo. 338 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

MRS. SNYDER TRAVELS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Olive Northup Snyder '1.2., Assistant COMING EVENTS FOUNDED 1899 Alumni Representative, last week trav- Published for Cornellians by the Cornell eled along the Hudson to visit alumnae Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly and to speak at schools in Albany and separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. during the college year; monthly in July, Poughkeepsie in the interests of Cornell. August, September: thirty-five issues annually. Contributions to this column must be received on or About twenty-five members of the Cor- before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. Subscriptions: $4.00 a year in U. S. and posses- nell Women's Club of Albany met for sions,' Canada, S4 3JJ Foreign, $4.50. Single copies fifteen cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance dinner at the Candlelight Inn the evening SATURDAY, MAY I and are renewed annually until cancelled. of April 2.2., and heard Mrs. Snyder tell At Ithaca: Cornell Day Editor R. W. SAILOR '07 of the recent Conference on Fields of Two-day flower show opens, Plant Science Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Work for Women, of Cornell Day for Building Assistants: Women, news of the Campus generally Alumni meet, North Room, Willard RUTH RUSSELL '31 FLORA W. DANIEL '37 Straight, 10:30 and of women's activities in particular. Alumni luncheon, Willard Straight, 1 Contributing Editors: The next morning she visited three Al- Baseball, Columbia, Hoy Field, -L .^O ROMEYN BERRY '04 bany high schools for girls, speaking to 150-lb. crew race, Manhattan, Inlet, and students interested in Cornell. christening of shells, 4 L. C. BOOCHEVER '12. F. M. COFFIN '12. Coffee hour for all Cornell Day guests, Printed by The Cayuga Press In Poughkeepsie that evening, twenty Willard Straight, 5 :^o ITHACA, NEW YORK members of the Mid-Hudson Cornell Dramatic Club presents "The Rivals," Wil- Women's Club greeted Mrs. Snyder at a lard Straight Theatre, 8:15 supper party at the home of Mrs. Paul Cornell Day rally, Bailey Hall, 9 THE FIGHT FOR PEACE Alumni smoker, Johnny Parson Club, 10 Northrup (Vivian Michael) '2.2., after she At New York: Tennis, Columbia Amid peace deliberations of various had paid an afternoon visit to the Pough- At Geneva: Lacrosse, Hobart sorts, the undergraduates who express keepsie High School, showing Campus opinions on the subject all seem to agree MONDAY, MAY 3 movies and speaking on the University. At Hamilton: Baseball, Colgate on the fundamentals and to disagree on At Syracuse: Golf, Syracuse the method. This condition is not pecu- liar to the Campus, however; and many TWO SPEAK AT HARDING TUESDAY, MAY 4 a war has been started on less provoca- Two Cornellians are among the At Hartsdale: Cornell Westchester Association speakers in a series of talks to be given at dinner for Dr. Edmund E. Day, Scarsdale tion. Country Club Harding College, Searcy, Ark., by "out- Everyone admits the desirability of WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 peace; the disagreeable features of war- standing industrialists, financiers, and At Ithaca: Tennis, Cortland Normal fare; the unwarranted expense of war economists." Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer, At Syracuse: Baseball, Syracuse and its economic aftermath. PhD '01, formerly at Cornell and now professor and director of the Bureau of THURSDAY, MAY 6 One of the commoner panaceas seems At Ithaca: Annual Hinckley Fund concert, to be the sit-down strike. The Cornell International Finance at Princeton, University Orchestra, Bailey Hall, 8:15 Daily Sun deplores the fact that this is opened the series. Speaking on "Inflation and Higher Education in the United FRIDAY, MAY 7 not being advocated more publicly. The At Ithaca: Hotel Ezra Cornell in Willard Campus seems divided between those who States," he said: "More business in Straight Hall would not enter a war and those who are education and more educated men in Dramatic Club presents "The Rivals," Wil- sure they will get to liking war if the business will lead to closer understanding lard Straight Theatre, 8:15 of our financial and economic problems." At Pittsburgh: Golf, Pennsylvania propagandists remain unchecked. The At Rochester: Musical Clubs show and dance, implication is that a good old-fashioned John W. O'Leary '99, former president of Oak Hill Country Club, 8:15 the Chamber of Commerce of the United internecine scrap between the War-Right- SATURDAY, MAY 8 or-Wrong Party and the sit-down pacif- States and now president of the Ma- At Ithaca: Baseball, Yale, 2. games ists would be a good number. All agree chinery and Allied Products Institute, Tennis, Penn State that we must have peace, if we have to will be a later speaker. Dramatic Club presents "The Rivals," Wil- The series was conceived by Dr. John lard Straight Theatre, 8:15 fight for it. At Boston: Heptagonal track meet Probably there is not too much differ- N. Armstrong, president emeritus of At Annapolis: Crew race, Navy ence between these widely divergent Harding College, to bring together his At Hamilton: Lacrosse, Colgate views. The difficult task is to express a college teachers and business men. He is At Pittsburgh: Golf, Georgetown a.m., point of view at variance with all the convinced, according to the press, that Princeton, p.m. country's history without sounding like one of the reasons "big business" has TUESDAY, MAY II a wild man. been under fire from so many quarters At Ithaca: Tennis, Canisius There is little doubt of the salutary during the last five years is that the WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. nature of the current efforts, however youth of America comes out of college At Ithaca: Baseball, Pennsylvania unhappily stated, to ward off another with a grudge against successful busi- Golf, Ithaca Country Club ness, fostered, he believes, by many At New York: Reunion in Manhattan, Cornell war. If they lead to international under- Club, 6:30 standing, if the more belligerant nations college teachers. FRIDAY, MAY 14 begin to grasp the ideas, then it matters From Ithaca: National broadcast, Cornell little that a few undergraduates, striving THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Night, NBC red network, from Bailey Hall, to think, decide that they will enter no 10:30 E.D.S.T. the Automobile Club, the Community At Philadelphia: Tennis, Pennsylvania war, however just; and that a few more Chest, and Ithaca Enterprises, Inc., civic At Cambridge: Baseball, Harvard will fight whenever Uncle Sam drops his organizations with interlocking per- SATURDAY, MAY 15 hat. sonnels, have all moved from palatial At Ithaca: Cornell Day for Women As long as the country remains, or re- quarters in the top floor of the Savings Lacrosse, Tufts sembles, a democracy, the probabilities Bank Building to an attractively re- At Cambridge: Crew race, Harvard, MIT, are that both groups will deplore the Syracuse modeled frame structure at 2.11 East At Philadelphia: Track meet, Pennsylvania necessity of war and will do their duty Seneca Street that used to be Treman, At New York: Baseball, Columbia fighting side by side if it comes. Under- King & Co.'s tin shop. The new place At Annapolis: Tennis, Navy graduates have always been like that! is simple, homelike, on the street level, MONDAY, MAY 17 and much more accessible to strangers. At Ithaca: Tennis, Dartmouth APRIL 2.9, 1937 339 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL

JOHN M. BATTEN, president of the By Romeyn Berry Ό4 GEORGE PECK, the football team's Student Council, head of Willard Straight best ball carrier in a broken field and Hall, and left fielder on the Varsity nine, IN CONTRAVENTION of the under- noteworthy exponent of the straight arm, is now (in the first-named capacity) un- graduate agreement on the subject, there was operated on for a loose knee cartilage dertaking the herculean task of improv- was some sporadic rioting and kid- during the Easter vacation. The opera- ing student morals. It isn't that Batten napping last week, before the Sopho- tion is expected to prove successful and has any personal urge to save the world; more Smoker and the Freshman Banquet. to increase the speed of Mr. Peck. it's just part of the regular order of busi- The Student Council and the Cornell ness. A little bird told the Student Coun- Sun got pretty bored, because that sort LEONARD K. ELMHIRST '2.1, husband cil that if they didn't do something about of thing is now regarded as out of date. of the former Mrs. Willard Straight, it the Faculty would—and you know Also, for the first time in years, if ever, donor of Willard Straight Hall, spent a what that means. Batten recently ad- President Farrand dropped the academic day in Ithaca last week conferring on dressed a dinner of representative women calm and talked turkey. He said in sub- agricultural matters. He had much to do students at which he was the only man stance that any student caught trying to with planning the original scheme of present and where he is said not to have revive that old fashioned foolishness Willard Straight Hall, and was interested minced words about the girls "signing would be fired for good, without bother- in seeing how things were working out. out" ostensibly to attend a meeting of ing the Faculty or having any of these He went all over the place and seemed their favorite peace society, only to show silly trials or hearings. One got the im- to like it. up a few minutes later at the Lido or the pression that President Farrand would ON APRIL 15 there was a free concert Dutch. Batten also has a piece in the attend to it personally and with pleasure. April Areopagus in which he deprecates in Bailey Hall. You had to have a ticket recent poorly conducted victrola dances to get in, but you could get the ticket for nothing by asking the Music Depart- and mixed beer parties"—meaning that shine than most places. Next to the ment. The concert was by the Coolidge the party was mixed and not necessarily Pacific Northwest it's the cloudiest sec- String Quartet, and was made available the beer. The impression created by all tion of the United States. Cayuga Lake to the University by the Elizabeth this in the minds of the Faculty is that has little or nothing to do with the Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the the conduct of the revival is in good weather around here, the man says. hands; while the individual professor is Library of Congress at Washington. The Coolidge Foundation was created persuaded by Batten's implications that FRESHMEN were unsuccessful in captur- and endowed for the promotion of he personally went to college much too ing a Sophomore flag after a twenty- chamber music. early and would have had more fun if minute rush which had been arranged on he'd waited another thirty years. Alumni Field Saturday afternoon as an LECTURES for the week include the outlet for the spirits of youth. At the three concluding Messenger Lectures, on SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER May 2. Freshman banquet that evening, more "Protozoa and Human Welfare," by Dr. will be the Right Rev. Charles Fiske, of than 400 members of the Class of '40 Robert Hegner, April 2.6, x8, and 30; and Baltimore, Md. were addressed by Coach Snavely and "Controlled Atmospheres in Heat-treat- Jay Berwanger, former ail-American ing Steel" by Dr. H. W. Gillett, chief IN THIS SAME April Areopagus, Mer- football player. metallurgist, Battelle Memorial Insti- win Rosenman '39 intimates that all is tute, and the Louis Agassiz Fuertes me- not on the up-and-up in the selection of JOHN KILPATRICK, old Yale end, morial lecture, by Professor Arthur A. managers for the athletic teams: that by broad jumper, and shot putter, now Allen '08, at the Cosmopolitan Club, trades and what-nots certain fraternal managing director of Madison Square April 30. organizations monopolize these things. Garden, was the principal speaker at Figures prove, he says, that in the last Saturday night's Sophomore Smoker at CHAMPIONS of the University Em- eleven years five houses have grabbed off Willard Straight. Harold D. North '07 ployees' Bowling League are the team of the major sports managerships as fol- of Cleveland, Ohio, was master of cere- Willard Straight Hall. Notwithstanding lows, leaving only occasional crumbs to monies, and Tell Berna '12. and Coach the inexpert performance of the Director nineteen other fraternities: Delta Up- Harrison Sanford also spoke. which we reported recently, Willard silon, 8; Phi Kappa Psi, 6; Chi Psi, 5; Straight won in its division, and last Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Alpha, ULYSSES Fish and Game Club of Tru- week beat Agriculture and College Stores 4 each. Rosenman probably does not mansburg has petitioned the State Park in the roll-off. The winning team was realize that the publication of his Commission to permit sucker spearing composed of Edgar A. Whiting '2.9, as- charges in the ALUMNI NEWS is going to in Taughannock Creek below the falls. sistant director, Milton R. Shaw '34, make alumni members of the five in- That portion of the creek lies in the dining rooms manager, and Charles E. dicted houses very proud indeed, and Taughannock Park reservation and also Dykes '36, desk manager. that the brothers of the pure houses are in the Town of Ulysses. There is no going to get some disagreeable letters danger, the petition points out, that ALUMNI of Ohio State University sta- from their alumni and perhaps some suckers will ever become extinct, because tioned at Cornell or residing in town cancellations of contributions. it is an accepted fact that one is born have formed an Ithaca Ohio State Club. every minute. At the initial meeting, resolutions were IT'S A MISTAKE to recollect Ithaca as a adopted favoring more intimate athletic rainy place. But it really is cloudy. The A CAMPUS REPORTER of the Cornell relations between Ohio State and Cornell. Weather Bureau now reports our average Sun secured a beat by recording that When people say "athletic relations" yearly rainfall as 32.-99 inches. The between the hours of 4 and 5 on Tuesday they really mean football games. Last precipitation in Westchester and Putnam 63 students picked up and read magazines week in New York Mr. L. W. St. John, Counties runs from 45 to 55 inches, and offered for sale at the Cornell Co-op. athletic director at Ohio State Univer- up at Hoffmeister in the Adirondacks it Number of purchasers resulting from these sity, intimated to your correspondent averages 57.67. But because of the Great examinations—o. The magazine most that this new Ithaca club might get Lakes and what not, Ithaca has less sun- favored was the new one called "Look." some swift action on their resolution. 34° CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

tor of veterinary research for the San Diego Zoological Society and the San NECROLOGY Diego Poultry Association, and since Concerning 1932. had served as veterinarian for the HARRINGTON PUTMAN, April 7, 1937, San Diego health department. THE FACULTY in Brooklyn. He was non-resident lec- 10 CE—THOMAS DRANSFIELD, JR., turer on Admiralty Law in the Law April 10, 1937, at his home in Roslindale, PRESIDENT FARRAND has been ap- School from 1914 to 192.8. Putnam was an Mass. Long active in the Cornell Club of pointed chairman of a new national examiner on the New York State Civil New England, he was treasurer at the health committee of the Boys' Clubs of Service Commission from 1884 to 1889, time of his death. Since 19x7 he had been America. He is quoted, concerning the after which he served in the same a sales engineer with the Bethlehem work of the committee: "This health capacity on the Brooklyn Civil Service Steel Company. In the World War he was program, undertaken by the Boys' Clubs Commission. From 1909 to 19x1 he was a a government construction engineer at of America, offers opportunities for Justice of the New York State Supreme Hog Island. Mrs. Dransfield (Mary F. better supervision of local effort in this Court. Caldwell) Ίo and two children, Thomas, line and may be expected to assist in the '77 BCE—WALTER JUSTIN SHERMAN, 3d '34 and Elizabeth '37, survive. Psi rehabilitation of thousands of boys who April 15, 1937, at his home, xz43 Scott- Upsilon. might otherwise be physically handi- wood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. President capped for life." J. Brackin Kirkland Ί8 Ίi LLB—GEORGE EVERETT HUNT, is an executive in the New York City of the Cornell Club of Toledo, he had April 1, 1937, in New York City, where offices of Boys' Clubs of America, Inc., retired in 19^7 after fifty years of active he lived at 16 Park Avenue. He specialized at 381 Fourth Avenue. engineering practice, thirty with his own in insurance cases for twenty-five years, firm. As chief engineer of various rail- being a member of the law firm of THE ENGAGEMENT of Emerson Day, roads he built many miles of track in the Evans, Hunt and Rees until a year ago. West and Southwest, including 300 son of Dr. Edmund E. Day, President- Hunt was also professor of medical juris- elect of the University, and Mrs. Day, miles in 300 days for the Gulf, Colorado prudence at the New York Homeopathic & Santa Fe. The town of Justin, Tex. is and Miss Ruth Fairfield was announced Medical College in 19x0 and 19x1. recently. Miss Fairfield is a member named for him. In i89X~3 he was chief Delta Chi. engineer on the construction of the of the faculty of the Edgemont School, Galveston harbor works, and had built Ί6 AB—JOHN CADMAN TRACY, April Scarsdale; and Day, a graduate of Dart- many bridges, water works, and similar 14, 1937, in Hudson. He attended Albany mouth College, is a third-year medical construction. Lately his interests had Law School, and had served as county student at Harvard University. included historical and geneological judge since 192.5, and for eleven years previous was district attorney of Colum- CARL G. SNAVELY, head coach of research, and he was State historian of football, was a guest speaker at the the Sons of the American Revolution and bia County. He was a past president of the New York State Conference of "block S" dinner at Syracuse University, editor of the Bulletin of the Toledo April 10, for the presentation of varsity Historical Society. Navy; secretary, Children's Court Judges, and in 19x8 was Republican candidate for Supreme Court letters. Other speakers included Kerr, of Sprague Boat Club; editor, Cornellian; Colgate; Little, of Columbia; and Hig- Delta Kappa Epsilon. Justice in the Third Judicial District. Father, Aurelius M. Tracy '80. gins, of Penn State. Snavely and his staff '84 BS(N)—MRS. CHRALES D. MARX were also guests of honor at a recent '17 BChem—REXFORD WILBER JEWETT, dinner and smoker given by the Veteran (Harriett Elizabeth Grotecloss), April 6, April 7, 1937, in Fredonia. He had 1937, at her home, 357 Kingsley Avenue, Volunteer Fireman's Association of worked for the National Aniline Chem- Ithaca. Palo Alto, Cal. She was the wife of Pro- ical Co. in Marcus Hooks, Pa.; the du- fessor Charles D. Marx '78, head of the Pont Company in Gibbstown, N.J.; E. CHARLES I. SAYLES '2.6, Hotel Admini- department of civil engineering at B. Badger and Sons Co. in Tulsa, Okla. stration, and Mrs. Sayles (Dorothy I. Stanford University from* its founding in and Los Angeles, Cal.; the Gulf Refining Fessenden) 'z$ have a daughter, born 1891 until his retirement recently. Company in Philadelphia, Pa.; and April 1. Brother, John H. Grotecloss '84. Bendix Products Corporation in South Bend, Ind. For two years he was a PROFESSOR ETHEL B. WARING, Home 'ψ. ME—CARL BENNETT AUEL, April Economics, spoke at Farm and Home 4, 1937, at his home in Irwin, Pa. He had tackle on the varsity football team and was shotputter on the track team. Alpha Week of the University of Maine, been associated with Westinghouse Elec- Orono, March 14. tric and Manufacturing Company in- Chi Rho; Alpha Chi Sigma; Sigma Xi. terests since graduation and was widely Brother, Eugene L. Jewett 'xi. ROBERT C. OGLE, Poultry Extension, known for his activities in industrial 'zi.—JAMES VALENTINE BEUGLER, attended a meeting of the American relations and safety. He had earlier been March t^, 1937, at Norwich. He entered Record of Performance Council, of which manager of production departments and Architecture in 1918 and left in 19x1. In he is president, in New York City March spent four years with the British West- 192.2. he was employed by the Hudson 2.5. He addressed the American Dry Milk inghouse Company. He was a past presi- Electric Corporation in Poughkeepsie, Institute in Chicago, 111., April 7. dent of the National Safety Council and after which he joined the Founders PROFESSOR BENTON S. MONROE '96, held executive posts with the American Company of New York, and spent two English, will act as dean of the Grad- Society of Mechanical Engineers and years in Chile as their representative. uate School in the place of Dr. Floyd K. several Pennsylvania organizations. Delta Since 1931 he had been with the New Richtmyer '04, Physics, who left April Upsilon; CUCA. York State Gas and Electric Company 18 for San Francisco on his way to the in Elmira. '06 DVM—REX A. WHITING, March Phoenix Islands as a member of the 2.7, 1937, at his home, 1053 Myrtle '2.2. BS—THEODORE MALLORY WARNER, National Geographic Society—United Avenue, San Diego, Calif. From 1906 to March 6, 1937, at his home 2.335 Canter- States Navy expedition to study the 1910 he was a meat inspector for the bury Road, Cleveland, Ohio. After eclipse of the sun, June 8. Federal Bureau of Animal Husbandry. graduation he went into farming, but For the next eighteen years he taught soon joined the Standard Oil Company BOTH PARENTS of Rodney K. Ketcham animal pathology at the agricultural of Ohio, with whom he was associated '2.9, instructor in Romance Languages, experiment station, Purdue University, at the time of his death. Father, George were killed in an automobile accident Lafayette, Ind. In 19x8 he became direc- B. Warner '93. near Binghamton April 18. APRIL 2.9, 1937 341

DR. MARY M. CRAWFORD '04, Alumni cation of the education building and Trustee, will be Cornell's official delegate power plant of the New York University at the centenary celebration of Mount Concerning College of Engineering recently. Holyoke College, May 7 and 8. '04 AB; '04, '06 AB—Warren Tubbs is THE ALUMNI counsel and vice-president of the Buffalo DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL, Stanford University '96, formerly of the College of Niagara Electric Corporation, a newly- '83—Colonel Edward M. House warns consolidated subsidiary of the Niagara Engineering, and Mrs. Kimball will be that, until the world actually disarms, guests of honor at a dinner of the first ten Hudson Power Corporation. Paul A. the United States should maintain an Schoellkopf is a director of the new Stanford classes to be held during the Army and Navy so strong that she can University Day week-end, May 7-8. company. command peace by forbidding any '08 Sp; '15 AB—Peter Grimm has PROFESSOR JAMES G. NEEDHAM, PhD trespass on her rights, in the April issue headed a stockholders' committee for the 98, Entomology and Limnology, Em- of The American Legion Monthly. reorganization of the United Cigar Stores eritus, is on a lecture tour through the "What we strive for strongly," he says, Company of America., which went into West and South, now in Texas. Since "we are always able to get. I feel certain bankruptcy in 1932.. On consummation that the United States can secure a lasting January he has been lecturing at Stanford of the plan for reorganization, Grimm peace, if we work hard enough." University. He was guest of honor at the and Allen L. Wood worth '15 will be April meeting of the Cornell Club of '89 AM, '92. PhD—Andrew Estrem, directors of the new company. Tucson, Ariz., and gave two lectures at formerly of Morehead, Ky., is now at '08 CE—Joseph V. Hogan, president the University of Arizona. 809 Fifth Street, Red Wing, Minn. of the Arundel Corporation, reports that '90 BS—William M. Irish, president of company's outlook for the remainder of PROFESSOR LLOYD P. SMITH, PhD '30, the Atlantic Refining Co., has announced Physics, attend the 1937 Massachusetts the year is excellent, adding that it has the opening of a new refinery at Atreco, Institute of Technology electronics con- been awarded double the former amount near Port Arthur, Tex. The refinery will ference at Cambridge, Mass., April 1 of work on the Pennsylvania Railroad's be among the first in the country to and 2.. electrification project, giving the com- include a polymerization unit for the pany charge of 170 miles of line and 410 PROFESSOR HANS A. BETHE, Physics, production of gasoline from gases gen- miles of track. delivered four lectures at the University erated during the refining process. '09 AB—George K. Shearer, treasurer of Illinois, Urbana, 111., on April 6, 7, '94 CE, '96 PhD; '04 Sp; '94 LLB— of People's Drug Stores, was also elected and 8; the first on "Atoms and Nuclei," Elon H. Hooker, president of the Hooker to the board of directors recently. and the others on "Bohr's Model of Electrochemical Company, New York, Ίo AB—Mr. and Mrs. Jansen Noyes, of Nuclear Transmutation." George Harrison Phelps, councillor of Montclair, N.J., have announced the the French Chamber of Commerce of the JAMES W. PARKER '08, Alumni Trustee, engagement of their daughter, Nancy chief engineer of the Detroit Edison United States, and Myron C. Taylor, Noyes, to Alfred F. King of Dongan Company, and a manager of the American vice-president of the Metropolitan Mu- Hills, S.I. Mr. King, a graduate of Society of Mechanical Engineers, spoke seum of Art, are members of the central Princeton University, is with G.M.- at the first meeting of the newly author- committee for the International Ex- P. Murphy and Company, brokers. ized Ithaca Section of that society, hibition in Paris this summer. Ίi Grad—Alfred A. Anderson is April 2.3. There has been a student branch '95 BS; '31 AB—Drs. John A. Spengler technical advisor with J. Stuart Blackton of the ASME at Cornell since 1908, but and Kenneth T. Fairfax have associated Productions. He was formerly secretary a section for their elders here is just as specialists for diseases of the eye, with and general manager of the Pacific Coast now organized. offices at 4x3 Main Street, Geneva. Building and Loan Association and first '01 AB; 'x8—Alexander N. Slocum chief engineer of the Imperial Valley PROFESSOR WALTER KING STONE, Archi- writes that his son, Albert P. Slocum '2.8, Irrigation District. His address is 2.136 tecture, writes on "Hired Help" in the whose picture we printed March 4, Rockledge Road, Hollywood, Cal. April issue of Country Home magazine. moved in February from Bombay to He reminisces about farm and household Calcutta, India, where his address is helpers of his boyhood days on a farm 32.-33 Park Mansions, Park Street. As in Monroe County. branch manager for the General Motors PROFESSOR VLADIMIR KARAPETOFF, Elec- Acceptance Corporation he has charge trical Engineering, spoke on "Propaga- of their interests in India, Burma, Cey- v. tion of Electromagnetic Waves along lon, East Persia, Dutch East Indies, and Parallel Conductors" before the Roches- French Indo-China. He has been vice- JUBILEE ter Section of the American Institute of president of the American Society of REUNION Electrical Engineers April 1. Western India. Alexander Slocum writes ROSS^W. KELLOGG, Class Secretary further that the Cornell quartet which Democrat - Chronicle Bldg., Rochester, N. Y JOHN ANTHONY HARTELL '2.5, Archi- sang at the recent Cornell Club of New '12.—Jerome D. Barnum, publisher of. tecture, exhibited his paintings at the England luncheon for Carl Snavely was The Syracuse Post-Standard, and presi- Kleemann Galleries in New York City composed of former Glee Club men whom dent of the American Newspaper Pub- April 1-17. An innovation was a printed he had gathered for the occasion: Leland lishers' Association, presided at the sheet of explanation by the artist of the A. H. Merrihew '09, Giles M. Smith '08, Association's golden jubilee, held at the technical problems involved and dis- Frank G. Anderson '05, and himself. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, posed of in the various canvases. His address is 316 Huntington Avenue, April zo-2.3. Boston, Mass. PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN '03, '12. AB—John A. Berger is the author Agricultural Economics,-, is organizing '01 CE—George A. Ferguson, pre- of Fernand Lungren: A Biography, graduate study in agricultural economics viously vice-president of the Securities published recently by the Schauer Press at Louisiana State University, Baton Mortgage Company, has retired and lives of Santa Barbara, Cal., where he lives. Rouge. He arrived in Louisiana during at 62.8 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle, Wash. Lungren was a pioneer painter of the spring flower festival and was taken '03 AB—Dr. Willis R. Gregg, chief of America's Southwest. Stewart Edward on a tour of the State, seeing life on the the United States Weather Bureau, Wash- White contributed the foreword to the plantations and other State features. ington, D. C, was a speaker at the dedi- book. 342- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

13 AM, '17 MD; '04 MD; '89—Connie the Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., Susquehanna River at Holtwood and M. Guion is a member of the executive is now at the Fifteenth Naval District Safe Harbor, Pa., since March, 1936. His committee of the New York Academy Headquarters, Balboa, Canal Zone. address is 2.12. South Queen Street, Lan- of Medicine, and a member of the com- '17 BS—Dunbar M. Hinrichs retired caster, Pa. mittee on public health relations, of from active business on April 15, and '22 EE—Arthur M. Bladen, formerly which Harry Aranow '04 and Nathan now lives at R.F.D. 181-A, Essex, Conn. with the Western Electric Company, is B. Van Etten '89 are also members. Ί8, '19 BS—Walter Palmer, manager now an engineer with Neiler Rich & Co., '13 BS—Blanche A. Corwin, director of the Standard Oil Company, Shanghai, 431 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. of the Farm Women's Markets, Rock- China, Mrs. Palmer, and their two sons, '22—Harold J. Benson is with the ville, Md., was married to Guy M. are spending a six-month's leave motor- Libbey Owens Ford Company, General Wilcox, April 18, 1936. ing through Mexico and the United Electric Building, Lexington Avenue, '13 BS—Harry E. R. Schmelter is in States with a trailer. Palmer hopes to be New York City. He lives at 44 Caryl charge of investments at the Dime in Ithaca for his Class reunion in June. Avenue, Yonkers. Savings Bank, Brooklyn. Ί8 WA—Victor Emanuel remains as '23 AB—Albert E. Conradis is a '14 BS, Ί6 MF—Shien sung HΊi is a a class A director of the Standard Power partner in the firm of Taylor and Con- salt inspector, located at 18 The Bund, and Light Corporation after the reduc- radis, Suite 420 Heurich Building, Wash- Shanghai, China. tion of the board of directors from fifteen ington, D.C. The firm specializes in ser- '14 ME—Harold W. Stevens is manager to five members. vicing the legal relationships of business of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company in '19 BS—Fred E. Wheeler has moved with government. Los Angeles, Cal., where he lives at from Providence, R. I., to 50 Gates '23 AM—Dr. Dexter M. Keezer, presi- 5x03 Hart wick Street. Circle, Buffalo, c/o Dr. C. J. Reynolds. dent of Reed College, Portland, Ore., was '15—Blaine Mallan, attorney and '19, '20 BS—Warner F. Baldwin has chosen April 14 by President Roosevelt counsellor at law, has opened offices in been transferred from the office of the to serve on a three-man board to investi- Suite 72.3-72.9, Southern Building, Wash- Blue Valley Creamery Company, St. gate disputes between the Southern ington, D.C. Louis, Mo., to its office at Railroad Pacific Company and the Northwestern '15 ME—Walter M. Tompkins has Street and Ninth Avenue, West, Duluth, Pacific Railway Company and certain of been transferred from the New York Minn. their employees. The board is to report office of the Continental Can Company '2.0 WA—Watson L. Savage's engage- to the President in thirty days. to their branch at 2.600 Mullins Street, ment to Juliet D. Clark has been an- '26—Donald M. White has been Montreal, Can. nounced. Miss Clark is a graduate of the recently elected a partner in Hackney, Ί6 ME—Walter R. Smith, formerly School of Physical Education of Russell Hopkinson, and Sutphen and become a erecting engineer with Canadian West- Sage University, Troy. The wedding member of the New York Stock Ex- inghouse Corporation, now operates the will take place in June. change. Fair view Market, 19x5 Monroe Street, '2.0, '21 AB, 'x.2. ME, '25 MME; '2.2. '26 BS—John L. Shea, convention Spokane, Wash. AM—Rollin H. McCarthy and Mrs. representative of the Waldorf Astoria, Ί6 MD—Dr. Arthur F. Kraetzer has McCarthy (Clara F. Cheney) '2.2 have New York City, addressed students in been appointed director of the depart- moved from Pandome, L.I. to 67 Green Hotel Administration in Ithaca, March ment of medicine of the Knickerbocker Avenue, Madison, N.J. 26. He described the various sales Hospital, 70 Convent Avenue, New '21 BS—Charles W. Know, formerly agencies and departments of the hotel. York City. of the poultry husbandry department of '26 LLB—Henry S. Fraser, legislative Ί6 Sp—Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Iowa State College, is now with the reporter for the New York State Bar president of the American Medical Asso- Farm Credit Administration, United Association and editor of the Associa- ciation, recently assailed all forms of States Department of Agriculture, Wash- tion's Law Service, spoke in Ithaca health insurance, saying "such schemes ington, D.C. April 1 at the initiation banquet of Phi make it profitable for the individual to '21, '22. ME—George S. Dunham, who Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity. be sick ... If you want lower morbidity was previously with the Socony-Vacuum '26, '27 AB; '96 BS—Richard F. and mortalities, free choice of physician, Oil Company, Augusta, Kan., is now Pietsch, son of Walter G. Pietsch '96, has free independence of your hospital sys- with the Catalytic Development Com- moved from Evans ton, 111., to 1946 tem, then keep the shackles of political pany, 1608 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Greenwood Avenue, Wilmette, 111. He domination off your own health pro- Pa. writes, "The new residence is a very grams by continuing an independent, '21 MS—Harold A. Pratt, Ithaca flor- attractive white frame Cape Cod colonial scientific, and progressive medical pro- ist, was recently elected president of the house. Even the dog approves—I tried to fession." Tompkins County Fish and Game Club. get a cocker spaniel in a Cornell red, but '17—L. Woodward Franzheim was '21 AB—Donald M. Purdy, who was this one is a couple of shades off!" recently appointed vice-president and an assistant professor in psychology at '27 AB, '31 LLB—Pliny J. Moore, reappointed treasurer of the Wheeling the University of Maine last year, is now Justice of the Peace in Rome, nicknamed Steel Corporation. studying at the University of California, "Blind Justice," who has been blind '17 PhD; '17 PhD—Donnis and Gladys having been awarded a Guggenheim since childhood, can now read half-inch Martin, on leave of absence from Win- Fellowship in psychology. letters twenty feet away, with the help throp College, Rock Hill, S.C., are '22 CE—Howard E. Whitney has been of an optometrist's invention given him working in the Yale University library. in charge of the construction of flood by his friends. As the result of an oper- '17 CE—Lieutenant-Commander John protection and plant improvements for ation, Moore was able to read letters J. 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but with this invention, resembling a jeweler's working-glass, he can study his own legal papers and dispense with a "reader." '2.7 AB—Emmons W. Collins, of 455 CAMP OTTER Hawthorne Road, Duluth, Minn., has twin daughters, Mary Corinne and Sarah Williams, born December 9, 1936. JULY 6 TO AUGUST 27, 1937 '2.8 AB—The engagement of William H. Ropes, 5th, to Alice E. Young of Mount Vernon has been announced. FOR BOYS EIGHT TO SEVENTEEN YEARS Ropes is with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and lives in New Rochelle. AMP OTTER in the Muskoka Region gauge the progress that a summer at 'x9 AB—Dr. Arthur W. Strom has at Dorset, Ontario is a rugged Camp Otter brings in courtesy, self- transferred his practice from Jackson, C camp in a wilderness of lakes, streams, reliance, skills, poise, and unselfish- Mich., to 91 South Howell Street, and woods, uncontaminated by nearby ness. But parents see these things. Hillsdale, Mich. , summer resorts. Boys like it. Parents Relatively small enrollment, and the '2.9 ME—Theodore C. Ohart has been trust it. individual and personal attention of transferred from the special lamp bureau counsellors and director to each boy, at Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio, to the Unostentatious Safeguards have their effect. empire sales division of the incandescent In the twenty-six years of its whole- lamp department of the General Electric some existence Camp Otter has never A Cornell Institution Company, working out of Buffalo. had a serious accident or an epidemic Camp Otter has become a Cornell 'i9 AM—Carlyle C. Ring, former of any kind. and Ithaca institution. Years ago boys school superintendent in Little Falls, has The camp tradition is against fool- went to camp, passed on to the Uni- been chosen superintendent of schools at hardiness. Counsel- versity, played on New Britain, Conn., beginning in Sep- lors are selected for the teams, and re- tember. their character and turned to Otter as '2.9 PhD—William Seaman lives at responsibility. An counsellors. These Apt. FA 10, 40 Monroe Street, New unyielding disci- same boys later sent York City, and works for the Calco pline is maintained their own sons to Chemical Company, Bound Brook, N. J. in and around the Camp Otter to con- '30 PhD—Wayne E. Kuhn, formerly of water. Dr. E. C. tinue the tradition. Port Arthur, Tex., is now at 372.2. Eighty- Showacre of the Cor- There haven't been Sixth Street, Jackson Heights. nell Medical Office any Cornell Camp will be camp physi- Otter grandsons yet, '31 ME—Albert R. Erda's engagement cian this year for his but it won't be long. to Elizabeth M. Rochester of Tarry town seventh season. Water Sports Important at Camp Otter has been announced. The wedding will Food, water, sanitation are subjected be held in the late spring. The Camp Otter Brand to rigid, daily inspection. It doesn't handicap a boy to go to '31 BS—Frederick Allyn was elected But these safeguards are not ob- Cornell with the Camp Otter train- to the Connecticut Assembly in Novem- truded and no boy is ever more than ing and the Camp Otter brand upon ber and is a member of the House com- dimly aware of the protections that mittee on education. He is also chairman are cast about him. him. Ithaca is full of people with of the board of education in Mystic, Camp Otter connections—Farrands, Conn. Camp Otter is Fun Durhams, Tremans, Staggs, Bancrofts, '31 BS—Sam E. Steele and Mrs. Steele, Camp Otter, on its own lake at the Brauners, Morses, Crandalls, Bald- who have been touring the Southern edge of the wilderness, has unspoiled ridges, Smiths, etc. The Campus states in a trailer, attended the April fishing, wild life, water sports, sub- knows about a Camp Otter boy before luncheon of the Cornell Club of Tucson, stantial cabins, canoe trips under the he comes. Ariz. They are on their way to Cody, supervision of Canadian guides, horse- Wyo., where they will manage the Ele- back riding (without extra charge), Post Season Camp phant Head Lodge, a dude ranch, for the and a full program of athletic sports Fathers who visit Camp Otter some- summer, after which they will return to and camp activities. times become envious of their sons. Tucson for the winter. There is a post season camp for such '32. DVM, '34 MS—Dr. Albert F. Yardstick oί Progress fathers. Ranney's engagement to Caroline M. A boy's body is measured and Charges Schleich of Menands has been an- weighed when he comes to Camp Charges at Camp Otter are geared nounced. Miss Schleich, graduate of the Otter; again when he leaves. There is to modest incomes. The fee for the New York State College for Teachers, is no yardstick, however, with which to entire season of eight weeks is $175. studying at Columbia University. Ranney is director of the State laboratory, De- partment of Agriculture, Montpelier, Vt. (To Be Continued) '33, '34 BS—Paul Hartnett has been FOR THE 1937 BOOKLET appointed manager of the^Cornish Arms, 311 West Twenty-Third Street, New address York City, by the Knott Hotels Cor- poration. HOWARD B. ORTNER Ί 8, Director—109 Irving Place, Ithaca, N.Y. '33 BS; '08; '08 AB—Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lane (Ruth Carmen) '33 of Manila, 344 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

P. I., have a second son, Philip Scuyler, born October 2.1, 1936. Mrs. Lane is the daughter of Philip D. Carmen '08 and Cornell University In the Mrs. Carmen (Edna L. Mertz) '08. '34 MA, '36 PhD—Ross A. Harrison Summer Session was appointed last fall to teach mathe- Spring matics at The Peddie School, Hights- July 5-August 13 town, N. J. He is faculty advisor of The Peddie Graduate and on the music and 1937 Do your thoughts turn publicity committees of the School. '34—Frances Goldstein was married to fondly back to Cornell George E. Figler of Boston recently. Miss Goldstein attended New York Univer- The Summer Session has been and cherished memories? sity after leaving the University. Figler of service to teachers in public graduated from Northeastern University and private schools who have returned to the University to secure further training in the • • • '35 PhD—G. Keith Parr is is a plant subjects which they teach. pathologist at the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, Honolulu, T.H., The Summer Session for 1937 Did you get your Class where he lives at 2.441 Sonoma Street. will offer an extensive list of '35—Helen G. Camden now attends courses of this kind. Most of book the year you gradu- the Woman's College of the University the subjects taught in junior of North Carolina, at Greensboro. and senior high schools are ated? '35 MD—Dr. Thomas Lowry is at represented in the list. Bellevue Hospital, New York City. He The Summer Session Announce- • • • lives at 142. East Nineteenth Street. ment is now being distributed. '35; '35 BS—Herbert K. Paddock For a copy, address married Sybil Adsit March 2.7. Mrs. If not, we have copies of Paddock will continue to teach home- LOREN C. PETRY, Director making in the Interlaken Public Schools. the following years: Office of the Summer Session '35 AB—Catherine Pennock was mar- Cornell University Ithaca, N. Y. ried to Richard L. Predmore March iq.

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