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'18 CLASS • '23 REUNIONS '28 IN '33 ITHACA '38 '43 June 11,12 & 13 '46 '98 Classes under the regular five-year Reunion plan have scheduled Reunions at the University for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 11-13, 1948. Your Class Secretary or Reunion Chairman will send full particulars '03 regarding accommodations and Class plans. '23 '08 • • '28 '13 • Festivities Galore! '33 • * Class Luncheons and Dinners * '38 * Bus Tours * • '43 * Dramatic & Glee Club Shows * • * Women's Breakfast * '46 • * President's Report to Alumni * '98 * Alumni Singing * • '03 * Baseball Game With Colgate * • * Reunion Rally * '08 • '13 '98 • MAKE RESERVATIONS BEFORE MAY 15 • '18 '03 • With your Class Secretary or Reunion Chairman '23 '08

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write a few words of greeting which Early Recollections would express the purpose of the occa- sion. After explaining what we had in mind, we requested Professor Bailey Of Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey to write the greeting. He replied, "All BY JAMES E. RICE '90 right. I shall be glad to do it." We asked when we might call for it. His University dinner April 29 irf the temporarily, to "jump at conclusions reply was, "When do you want it?" Willard Straight Memorial Room hon- without sufficient scientific evidence We said it should be in the printer's ored Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, and background. Of course, Bailey's hands the following day. Without Agriculture, Emeritus, who was ninety botanical classification of the cherry years old March 15. On his birthday, further discussion, he reached for Professor Bailey was in the jungles of tree showed that such a cross as I had paper and pen and wrote, without the British West Indies, collecting proclaimed finding was not in accord changing a word or punctuation, the little-known palm specimens for the with the laws governing the hybridiza- greeting and passed it over to us, say- Bailey Hortorium at his home on Sage tion of plants. How easy it is to guess ing, "How will that do?" It exactly Place which he and Mrs. Bailey gave at things and guess wrong and, con- fitted the occasion. We were amazed to the University and of which he is versely, how difficult it is to look at all at the speed with which Professor the director. He returned to Ithaca the available facts before arriving at a Bailey could translate ideas into words April 7 from the three-month trip. conclusion! The dinner was attended by some expressed verbally or in writing. Here 200 friends, colleagues, and former Goes to Fundamentals is what he wrote for the first Agricul- tural College banquet, in 1891: students of Professor Bailey and Uni- Dean Bailey had an uncanny power versity officials. He spoke briefly, as of penetration in grasping the funda- GREETINGS ! The students of agriculture did President Edmund E. Day, Chair- in Cornell University give this entertain- man Neal D. Backer '05 of the E^oard mental principles of a subject. In fact, ment and banquet in honor of thte pro- of Trustees, and Dexan Williatn I. I have never known his equal in that moters of agricultural education and in Myers '14 of the College of Agriculture^ respect. He was always alert and, as we testimony of their belief that a world of Professor James E. Rice '90, Poul- used to say, "Quick on the trigger." usefulness and pleasure awaits the edu- cated farmer. We must tell the world that try Husbandry, Emeritus,, who con- When he entered his classroom, the the higher education is necessary to the tributes these reminiscences of Pro- students at once became alert. With best agriculture. We must tell our friends fessor Bailey, was a student m Agri- notebooks opened and pencils sharp- of our enthusiasm for the generous life of culture under Bailey and organized ened, each one sat poised on the edge the country. We must say that we believe the Poultry Department when Bailey in our ability to make good use of every was Dean of the College. of his seat in expectation of what was lesson which the University has given us. to come. As a teacher he was so full of We must say to every man that our first T the rear of Professor Prentice's his subject that frequently he began love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and to lecture before reaching the plat- our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so A residence, where I worked and full that we must celebrate! roomed on the Cornell Campus, was a form, and held the class spellbound large wild black cherry tree. It had an until it was dismissed. Then there was Dean Bailey had original ideas on irresistible appeal for a cherry-loving a rush forward by students eager for what constituted artistic beauty in student. The cherries were the largest further information. Ideas rolled out plants. In a corner of his flower garden and best-flavored wild cherries that I so fast from Dean Bailey's brain and on the Campus was a most vigorous had ever eaten. I jumped at the super- tongue and we were so interested in burdock plant. It spread its large ficial conclusion that they must be a what he was saying that we frequently leaves in a most conspicuous way over cross between the native black cherry forgot to write down the facts in our and the cultivated varieties like the notebooks. Black Tartarian. Assuming that I had He was both versatile and original made an important botanical discov- in coming phrases to express great ery and wishing to be helpful, I brought truths. These apt statements remain the matter to the attention of Profes- forever in the minds of his students. sor L. H. Bailey, head of the Depart- Some of these expressions, which nat- ment of Horticulture. However sincere urally made an indelible impression my intentions may have been, my ap- upon my mind were, "Northern fruits, proach to the subject was unfortunate like Northern girls, have red cheeks;" and embarrassing. I said, l'Professor "Checking growth produces fruitful- Bailey, I have found a cross between ness;" "Nature abhors a bare spot;" the native black cherry and a culti- "Placing fertilizer close around the vated variety." Quick as a flash, the trunk of a tree is like tying a bag of dean of American horticulturists shot oats to a horse's legs." back with a gracious smile, "Good! I remember one indication of Pro- Such a cross has been considered im- fessor Bailey's quick thinking. When possible. I would like to see the tree plans were taking shape for holding and the fruit." the first Cornell Agriculture banquet, That pertinent remark I hope effec- several of us waited upon Professor Professor Bailey in his library on Sage tively squelched my tendency, at least Bailey at his home to request him to Place. Photo by Victor Keppler other less aggressive and more modest Sailors Win only properly qualified members al- plants, to their exclusion from the sun- lowed to take boats out, and only light. When someone ventured to in- "DABY Narrasketucks," the new within prescribed limits, depending quire why "that vulgar weed7' was al- *-* boats purchased for the Cornell on the weather. lowed to have a place among so many Corinthian Yacht Club, were chris- tened in their first intercollegiate race The Club boats are owned by the aristocrats of the garden, Professor Athletic Association, and sailing is Bailey replied, "I put it there myself. April 18. Cornell yachtsmen defeated Princeton, winning three of four races under its supervision. Alumni yachts- I think it is a most beautiful plant. I men and others, by their gifts to the look upon it here as an ornamental over a windward-leeward course on Cayuga Lake, off the Ithaca Yacht University for the Club, are assisting plant and not as a monopolistic weed. in their purchase. Two boats thus far, A weed is merely a plant out of place." Club. Skippers of the Cornell boats were Wallace C. Ross '45, Club com- wholly given by Thomas M. Ball '21 The burdock continued to occupy its and Mrs. Ball of Detroit, Mich., and place of eminent domain. modore and the son of J. Dunbar Ross '12 of Bayshore, and Robert P. Crease by George E. Lockwood '35 and Mrs. Professor Bailey was keenly real- '49 of North Hills, Pa., with Vice- Lockwood (Katherine Morris) '35 of istic, as well as modestly individual- commodore John C. Snedeker '48 of New Rochelle, will be marked with istic. One rainy day following a long Babylon and Donald M. Jackson '50 the donors' names on brass plates. Ad- dry spell, he was seen walking across of Rocky River, Ohio, as their re- ditional gifts toward boats have been the Campus, hat off and using his spective crews. made by other Detroiters including folded umbrella as a cane. Someone, Philip J. Kent '14 and Neil C. Mc- meeting him on the sidewalk, ventured An invitation regatta with Colgate, Math '14; by New York City alumni to remind him that it was raining. Hobart, Lafayette, and Syracuse was E. Vail Stebbins '93, Roger H. Wil- Dean Bailey replied with candor and scheduled for Cayuga Lake April 25, liams '95, Charles F. Chapman '05, without apparent surprise, "I know it. and the day before, Corinthian sailors Stanley Russell '12, and Roderick I like it. It's a beautiful day. We need were to meet the US Military Acad- Stephens, Jr. '32; and by Clarence B. rain." emy and Princeton on the Hudson at Kugler, Jr. '03 of Philadelphia, Pa., West Point. During spring recess, During the early days of Professor Frederick C. Fletcher '96 of Boston, Cornell sailors won two of three races Mass., Walter L. Todd '09 of Roches- Bailey's life at Cornell, he had his ap- from the University of Miami, Fla., pendix removed. This was before re- ter, D. Boardman Lee '26 of Ithaca, sailing Lightnings in Biscayne Bay. and parents of several Club members. moving appendices became fashion- They were Frank M. Knight '50, son able. The operation of appendectomy of John S. Knight '18 of Akron, Ohio, was still considered a dangerous oper- Donald E. Read '50 of Thiensville, Get Research Grants ation. The family and friends were Wis., Ronald W. Wilcox '51 of Miami, much concerned. Soon after the Pro- OUR Cornellians and the son of and Charles M. G. Wilder '51 of Fanother are among the 112 recipi- fessor was up and around, he was re- Greenwich, Conn. quested to speak at an Agricultural ents of fellowships this year from the College banquet on " Superficial Or- With arrival of its new boats, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial gans." On this occasion he gloried in Corinthian Yacht Club has adopted Foundation. Since 1925, the Founda- the fact, that he was not as other men, extensive safety rules for their use by tion has made cash awards to "persons that he had no superficial organs, and members and guests. A designated who ha,ve demonstrated unusual ca- that his offending appendix was in the member of the Club acts as officer-of- pacity for research and artistic crea- Cornell museum in a bottle of alcohol the-day at the Intramural Boathouse tion'." Stipends this year average where all could see it. on the Inlet whenever boats are in about $2700. use and is responsible for them, with Professor Adriance S. Foster '23 of the botany department at University New Sun Board of California receives his second Gug- ORNELL Daily Sun has elected genheim award, for "researches into C Howard K. Loomis '49, son of the the histogenesis and comparative mor- late Arthur L. Loomis '18, Omaha, phology of certain tropical plants." Nebr., as editor-in-chief for 1948-49, He will work in the Amazon basin. Re- succeeding Harold Raynolds, Jr. '48, ceiving the BS in 1923, he went to who held the position the last two Harvard and got the MS in 1925 and years. Managing editor is Marvin the ScD in 1926, then studied at Leeds Josephson '49, Atlantic City, N. J.; for two years on a National Research associate editor, Gerhard Lowenberg Council fellowship in botany. For six '49, New York City; sports editor, years he was assistant professor at Richard W. Pogue '50, Chevy Chase, University of Oklahoma; went to Cali- Md.; and women's editor, Barbara fornia in 1934. He received a Guggen- G. Way '49, Westport. heim fellowship in 1941 for study of Heading the business board is John tropical ferns. A. Dodd '46, Middletown, Conn., Professor Wilbur S. Ho well '24%pub- business manager. Arthur S. Wolcott lic speaking at Princeton, will use his '47, Elmira, is circulation manager, Guggenheim award to make "an his- and David B. Kittredge '46, Irving- torical survey of the theory of poetry ton, advertising manager. YACHT CLUB BOATS ARRIVE and the theory of rhetoric in England The new board assumed its duties Pictured on the Inlet, is one of the new and America from 1530-1900." Howell uBaby Narrasketucks" manned by John with the first issue after spring vaca- C. Snedeker '48 of Babylon and Joanne received the AB in 1924, was elected tion, April 5, and stated editorially Norton '48 of Marblehead, Mass., racing to Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of that the Sun "will follow no party skippers of the Cornell Corinthian Yacht the Varsity debate team, and won the line" . . . "Its duty is to present the Club. The Club has acquired eight of these '86 Memorial Stage. He returned to boats, with assistance from Cornell yachts- facts which are necessary for free dis- men and others, and has arranged an ex- the Graduate School, studying with cussion and to stimulate that discus- tensive program of sailing instruction and Professors Lane Cooper, Harry Cap- sion by critical analysis." intercollegiate racing. Schaffel '50 Ian '16, and Herbert A. Wichelns '16, 392 Cornell Alumni News and received the AM in 1928 and the PhD in 1931. In 1941 he published the Classes Plan Reunions June 11-13 first English translation of The Rheto- ric of Alcuin and Charlemagne and in OST alumni of the Classes whose gather at Bailey Hall at 9:30 for the 1945 he edited a text, Problems and M numerals end in "8" or "3" grand Reunion Rally and wind-up of Styles of Communication. know from their Class secretaries or another year's Reunions. David H. Willson, PhD '25, associ- Reunion chairmen that Class Reun- Class headquarters and sleeping ac- ate professor of history at University ions are scheduled in Ithaca for Fri- commodations ^ will be provided for of Minnesota, receives his third Gug- day, June 11, to Sunday, June 13. In men of the younger Classes in the genheim fellowship, for continuing his addition to the ten such Classes, be- dormitories below West Avenue, with preparation of a biography of King ginning with the Fifty-year Class of Class tents on the slope across. Wo- James I of England and Scotland. His '98, arrangements are being made for men will be quartered in Balch and first was in 1941, the second in 1943. Reunions of every elder Class, from Risley Halls, and here and in cottages Willson entered the Graduate School '76 on, and for the first (two-year) the elder Classes and their guests will in 1921 with the BS from Haverford Reunion of the Class of '46, both men also be cared for. College. He studied English and Euro- and women. Inquiries about the gen- eral program are coming to the Alumni Many Groups Meet pean history with Professors Carl Several College and other organiza- Becker and Wallace Notestein. Office from distant alumni, and many of the scheduled Reunion Classes are tions will have special events for their Professor Michael H. Peech, Agron- well along with their plans for their own alumni during Reunions. Friday omy, has a Guggenheim fellowship for own Class affairs during the three evening in Martha Van Rensselaer "studies in the field of soil chemistry days. Word comes from Chicago, 111., Hall is the annual supper and meeting and of soil-plant relationships/' He of a special car to be run from there of the Home Economics Alumnae will spend next year in research at the by the Class of '33, with possibility Association. Civil Engineering Fac- University of Missouri and the US that other alumni may also be accom- ulty, renewing a custom that has Department of Agriculture station at modated. It is in charge of William F. lapsed since 1941, invites all Civil Beltsville, Md. He came to Cornell in Miller '33, Dean Machinery Co., 80 Engineering alumni to breakfast in 1940, having received the BS in 1930 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Lincoln Hall Saturday morning, and at University of Saskatchewan and the breakfast and annual meeting of the PhD in 1933 at Ohio State Univer- Two-day Program the Architecture Alumni Association sity under direction of Professor Rich- The Alumni Office in Ithaca has and meeting of the Law Association ard Bradfield, now head of Agronomy worked out a general program of Re- are also Saturday morning. Associa- here. He taught at University of Idaho union events, beginning with registra- tion of Class Secretaries meets at 9 and was on the staff of the Florida tion at Barton Hall June 11. Luncheon Saturday in Willard Straight Hall, Citrus Experiment Station. will be served there for all alumni and and the annual meeting of the Federa- Another who received a Guggen- Faculty members, both Friday and tion of Cornell Women's Clubs is there heim award is Professor Charles M. Saturday. After lunch Friday, the at 2:30. Reunion breakfasts of Mortar Rick, Jr. of University of California "grand peerade" of Classes will march Board, Sphinx Head, and Quill and at Davis, who is the son of Charles M. to a Varsity baseball game with Col- Dagger will be Sunday morning. Rick '05. He received the BS at Penn gate on Hoy Field, and both Friday State, the AM and PhD at Harvard; and Saturday afternoons the popular "Morse Stephens" Passes will study tomato species in the Andes "Campus Caravan" guided bus tours mountains "with the purpose of in- of the Campus of last year will be re- T^ORMER "Morse Stephens" tract creasing the yield of tomatoes culti- peated, from Barton Hall. Many A of sixty-five acres at Twin Glens, vated in the United States." Classes will hold picnic suppers at above Cayuga Lake north of Ithaca, various points Friday, with Senior has been sold by William J. Norton Represent University and alumni singing to follow at the '02 to a group of Faculty members Goldwin Smith steps. That evening and others for residential development. /CORNELL University delegate at the Dramatic Club will give a perform- In 1921, Norton proposed a Morse ^^ the inauguration of Wilbur W. ance in the Willard Straight Theater Stephens Association with alumni White as president of the University and the Glee Club will present a new 7 members, to build a clubhouse there of Toledo, May 11, will be David H. show in Bailey Hall. in memory of Professor Henry Morse Goodwillie '08, executive vice-presi- All women will gather for the tradi- Stephens, History, where alumni and dent of Libbey-0wens-Ford Glass Co. tional Reunion breakfast Saturday . Faculty would counsel with upper- Francis L. Whitney '06, professor morning, in Martha Van Rensselaer plassmen, and to provide sites for of geology and paleontology at the cafeteria. At 10:45 in Bailey Hall will alumni family vacation cabins. The University of Texas, represented Cor- be the annual meetings of the Cornell depression of the 1^30's halted the nell at the inauguration of William R. Alumni Association and Alumni Fund plans, though a few cabins, one used White as president of Baylor Univer- Council, with President Edmund E. by CURW, are now on the land. sity, Waco, Texas, April 13. Day making his "annual report" to The new owners plan to build six- April 22 Professor Effey L. Riley alumni and the announcement of teen houses cooperatively, located to '19, Industrial and Labor Relations, Alumni Trustee elections. Class group take full advantage of the glens, woods, was the Cornell delegate at the 100th pictures will be taken after the Barton and fields and not infringe upon each anniversary commemoration of the Hall luncheon, and a memorial service other. Also planned are picnic areas, advent of the Brothers of the Christian for Cornellians killed in the war is a children's playground, a wading Schools to the United States, at Man- scheduled for 4, with last year's suc- pool, and a dock on the 500-foot Lake hattan College, New York City. cessful Faculty-alumni get-together in frontage. Among the owners are Pro- Herbert Snyder '16, headmaster of Willard Straight Memorial Room fol- fessors Thomas J. Baird, Engineering the Arizona Desert School, Tucson, lowing at 4:30. Class crews will also Drawing; James M. Hanson and Ariz., will represent Cornell May 5 at be given opportunity to row at the James 0. Mahoney, Fine Arts; Phil- the inauguration of James B. McCor- Boathouse, and Class dinners Satur- lip Morrison, Physics; and Robert R. mick as president of the University of day night will be distributed down Wilson, director of the Laboratory of Arizona, Tucson. town and around the Campus. All will Nuclear Studies. May /, 1948 393 Applications Decrease reminded of missing credentials, etc." Music Benefit Candidates for entrance to Hotel Γ CLOSING date for receiving Administration next fall and later are ECOND annual Sophomore Class A applications for admission to the now being interviewed by Professor S benefit-concert, April 16 at Bailey University next fall, which was April 1 Howard B. Meek, both in Ithaca and Hall, presented more than 450 per- for all Colleges and Schools except in four Eastern cities. April 11, he met formers, including all of the Music Agriculture, 9,664 applications had prospective students at the Traymore Faculty and every Campus musical been received. Quotas set up for the Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J.; April 30, organization in a varied choral and various divisions will allow approxi- at the Statler Hotel, Boston, Mass.; instrumental program. Featured were mately 1800 new students next year. May 2, he is at the Benjamin Franklin Bach's "Concerto in A Minor for Four Last year, there were about 15,000 Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.; and May 23, Claviers" with Professors ΛVilliam A. applicants for a slightly smaller num- at the Pennsylvania Hotel; New York Austin, Donald J. Grout, John Kirk- ber of places to be filled. The decrease City. Hotel alumni will also interview patrick, and Robert M. Palmer at the in applications this year is attributed candidates at or near their home towns, pianos, and a motet, "23 A Psaime of by the Admissions Office to "better arrangements being made by corre- David," by Sidney T. Cox '43, sung advice by school counsellors, who have spondence with the Department. by the Sage Chapel Choir. Cox, now properly discouraged poorly-qualified in the Graduate School, dedicated his students from filing applications. An- composition to Professor Grout, who other important factor is that this Union County Elects conducted, and to the Choir. year the Admissions Office asked stu- ANNUAL meeting and smoker of The University Concert Band, di- dents not to file applications if they •*"*• the Cornell Club of Union County, rected by Professor William A. Camp- could not meet preliminary entrance N. J., April 2 at the Baltusrol Golf bell, opened the program with three requirements (entrance units)." Club, Springfield, was attended by marches and was followed by the Wo- Herbert H. Williams '25, Director sixty-five Cornellians. President Louis men's Glee Club with Mrs. F. Clifton of Admissions, reports that the Fac- J. Dughi '36 reviewed the progress White directing. Margaret Squire, ulty admissions committees who make and activities of the Club since it was Music, played "Four Pieces for Piano" the final decisions in the various Col- reactivated last year and announced by Alvin Etler, former professor here leges and Schools "are well along on that a Cornell Cup would be awarded and now on the University of Illinois preliminary work." Arts and Sciences, in June to the outstanding senior boy faculty. George L. Landon '44 led the he says, has accepted about half its in each of four County high schools. Men's Glee Club in three numbers quota of 500 new students and Engi- He introduced William F. Burditt '98 with Ringwald's arrangement of "The neering has taken nearly one-third of and several undergraduates who were Battle Hymn of the Republic," featur- its quota of 500. "First consideration guests, and Ralph T. Reeve '20 intro- 7 ing baritone soloist Joseph D. Sells is being given to 'legaciesV Williams duced William S. Bo wen, who spoke '49, receiving the greatest ovation of says, "to get the word to them just as and showed pictures of Hawaii. the evening. The University Orchestra fast as possible. Those clearly accept- Dughi was re-elected president of under Professor Robert L. Hull, PhD able are being notified, as well as those the Club for this year, as was Melvin '45, concluded the first half of the who obviously cannot meet the com- J. Koestler '28, secretary. New vice- 7 program with the prelude to Wagner's petition. Those in the 'middle group president is Jacob Koopman '13; "Die Meistersinger." are being given appropriate advice, treasurer, Henry Karsten '20. Following the Sage Chapel Choir, which opened the second half of the concert, Professor Hull directed the A Cappella Chorus in four deftly-per- formed songs. The Bach concerto com- pleted the concert played to a near- capacity audience.

Clubs Entertain Girls ATURDAY afternoon teas were S given April 3 by four Cornell Wo- men's Clubs.for undergraduate women who were at home for spring recess. About fifty attended a tea of the Cornell Women's Club of Binghamton, at the home of Mrs. Rudolf Vander- Schoot (Beatrice Duryea) '18. Ten undergraduate women and thirteen high school students were guests. Club president Mrs. Clifford M. King (Mar- jorie Vreeland) '38 and Eleanor H. Irvine '36 assisted the hostess at the tea table and Mrs. Albert Satina (Wil- helmina Mazar) '38 and Mrs. Vander- Schoot played Cornell songs on piano AT PHILADELPHIA CLUB DINNER and violin. Lieutenant Governor Daniel B. Strickler '22 of Pennsylvania (at right above) was toast- Tea of the Cornell Women's Club master at a spring banquet of the Cornell Club of Philadelphia, March 31 at the Warwick Hotel. Next to him (center) is George H. Thornton '22, president of the Club, and next, of Boston, Mass., was at the home of Lea P. Warner, Jr. '33. Speakers to the 200 attending were Director of Athletics Robert J. Mrs. Ralph T. C. Jackson (Elizabeth Kane '34, Alumni Field Secretary R. Selden Brewer '40, and Coaches George K. James M. Rhodes) '97. Mrs. Robert S. Wil- and Alva E. Kelley '41, footbald;Royner C. Greene, basketball; G. Scott Little, swimming; liams (Bertha M. Downes) '02 poured George Cointe, fencing; and Ross H. Smith, soccer. and Mrs. Richard B. Gradner (Doro- 394 Cornell Alumni News thy S. Rollins) '32 was in charge of arrangements. Thirteen alumnae and seven students attended. Cleveland Cornell Women's Club Now, in My Time! entertained undergraduates and sub- Freshmen at the home of Mrs. Lowell W. Bassett (Octavia Revere) '35. Mrs. By Ira J. Weider (Judith Marx) '35 and Jane Applebaum '50 spoke to the HE UNIVERSITY seems to gerous to search for culture on your twenty-two present of academic and Tbe getting healthier every year. own time. social life at Cornell. One no longer hears complaints of That's what some of the boys shin splints. The staff of doctors would tell you, but doubtless they The Cornell Women's Club of Phila- who labor ceaselessly with students, exaggerate! But it is unquestionably delphia, Pa., was entertained at taking their temperatures and giv- true that the academic procession "Wyck," historic Germantown home ing them shots against this or that has stepped up its pace to a sprint of Mrs. Robert B. Haines (Mary T. pestilence, are succeeding beyond that must prove fatal to the laggard. Haines) '19, who is of the ninth genera- our wildest expectations. They now True or false, we're glad we went tion of her family to live there. About appear to have eliminated spring to college when there was time for fifty members and eleven undergradu- fever along with chicken pox, pink- spring fever. The annual affliction ates attended and were shown the eye, and barbers' itch. had its points. One was not wholly well-known home. But observers who stroll the wasting his time when in the spring March 18 meeting of the Philadel- time of his life he read and dis- phia Club was a dinner at the home of Campus in the late afternoon look- ing behind and under things for cussed unrequired books to the Mrs. Penn G. Hastings (Mabel C. Al- neglect of the next day's lesson in gert) '06. Forty members heard George signs of rot in our established insti- tutions, will go slowly in crediting Money, Credit and Banking 61. Kelso, whose wife, the former Mary Sometimes, one suspects, profes- A. Perrell '31, is Club president, de- the Medical staff with crossing spring fever from the list of seasonal sors had spring fever, too, or re- scribe his experiences as an engineer membered how it felt, and eased in Russia and saw his color pictures. maladies which have heretofore be- set us. The students themselves, I up a little in the first warm days of think, would regard the staff of in- May. Hiram Corson was peculiarly Cincinnati Starts struction as entitled to take the responsive at such times. When the ET ACQUAINTED" meeting bow for this achievement: for the back rows yawned and gazed out G of the newly-formed Cornell disappearance of the familiar lag in the newly - opened windows of Women's Club of Cincinnati, Qhio, the academic pace which in my time Barnes Hall, Hi would suspend was a luncheon at the home of Mrs. would have been looked for in the King Lear and read instead pas- Edgar H. Lotspeich (Grace Ballard) first warm days of May. sages from The Midsummer Nights' '38, March 19. Ten members, headed Dream. Somewhere in Shakespeare There is no lag now! It is the ac- by Club president Mrs. Vernon Wood- there is a pill for every ailment. He cepted explanation that professors, ward (Hilma Hohrath) '27, discussed knew he'd never make Shakespear- blessed for the first time in their future plans for and enlargement of ean scholars out of the back rows; the Club. teaching careers with students the best he could hope to do was to screened for their exceptional in- fill them with the music of the tellectual capacity from a mass of plays so that later on they'd sing Form Far East Group qualified applicants, have set out them as a pleasure; and on their OORNELLIANS were active in or- to discover just how fast these own time. ^* ganizing the Far Eastern Associa- picked colts can trot when you use The unrest in Western Europe, tion, formed in New York City in the whip, and when the classroom Professor Burr explained, that April by some 200 scholars to further pace does not have to be retarded brought about the First Crusade research and become a clearing house for the benefit of dullards. was attributable to something like for the rapidly-expanding Far Eastern Some boys might tell you that if spring fever. When the lilacs started college study programs. Professor a student, however brilliant, paused to bud and they'd listened to Peter Knight Biggerstaff, chairman of the now to contemplate the stars, or the Hermit, all the Knights felt Department of Far Eastern Studies, stooped to pluck a flower or ask its strangely moved to neglect their who presided at the opening session, name, he'd find himself distanced regular studies, to jump on a horse and Professor Harold E. Shadick, by the field and vulnerable to aca- and gallop off to Palestine. A silly Chinese Literature, were accompanied demic penalties. It's all right to thing, according to Burr, but in the to the meeting by three graduate stu- read Keats in the springtime, but end, pretty important. After that, dents in the Department: Robert A. only when Keats is involved with more than one promising young Aylward, John J. Nolde '41, and some course you're taking. If you historian felt justified in ignoring George WΛ. Skinner '47; and three are moved to go on bird walks in his lessons to spend the fragrant Seniors: Lindsey Grant and Joan M. the Renwick woods on May morn- night spearing suckers in Fall Creek. Jacobs of New York City and Alfred ings when the warblers are coming This new way of doing business Harding of Hastings-on-Hudson. The through—a recognized symptom of is much better, to be sure, but the Far Eastern Quarterly, published by spring fever—that would be all old way had its points. I'm sort of the University Press, is the official right, too, provided you were prop- glad I went to college when every- journal of the new organization and erly registered in Ornithology 16. body had time to experience spring University Publisher Victor Reynolds The point is, it has become dan- fever and to contemplate the stars! also attended the meeting. Professor Meribeth R. Cameron of Milwaukee-Downer College, writing and lists Cornell among the thirteen edge of regions and peoples and pre- in the current Quarterly, notes the "primary centers" of such teaching. dicts that "in due time, the study of growth of Far Eastern studies in col- She cites development of "area" pro- Eastern Asia may produce an abun- leges and universities since the war grams devoted to well-rounded knowl- dant yield of scholars of high quality." May /, 1948 395 I saw a movie of the inside of a cow or so ahead of the show and saw the and then downstairs saw Professor finishing touches being administered, Intelligence _ Henry H. Dukes, Veterinary, such as bleaching the tails of the cows. arn put on a long rubber glove, Boys with light sticks were accustom- insert his arm in the "win- ing sleek Berkshire hogs to being dow," churn around in the maneuvered around, the thwacks be- cow's breakfast, and start her con- ing minimized by handfuls of corn tentedly chewing her cud by tickling strewn in the sawdust or tanbark People who exclaim over this and the lower end of her throat. Professor when the stick was drawn and then that example of adult education or Knight Biggerstaff, Chinese History, planted under his nose. The competi-

_ -τ τ 'teen - age stimulation brought a Roberts Hall crowd up to tion itself was a carnival, with an- Farm and Home tl . ,, .,. ,7,7 _ , . "ain't seen nothing & date on what is going on in China. In nouncers, soft music, a refreshment Week—r A , ,, , , ^ Έ ,. unless they have at- Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, mother stand, and lasted all Friday afternoon. Revelat.cn tended a Cornell Farm and sister learned easier ways to make This year's Farm and Home Week and Home Week! Such a mass of con- sandwiches. I saw a professor exhibit was later than usual, April 6-9. Fear- centrated information being avidly a commercial film on 2, 4-D control of ing a shortage of rooms and eating assimilated by such a large and inter- weeds in a lawn and throw in some places, it was delayed to insure good ested constituency I have never seen. cautionary words that the film left out. driving weather to allow one-day visits The New York, .Chicago, and Paris Another film showed how eight farm- or rooming in nearby towns. Oats world's fairs covered greater territory ers had rigged up machines for clean- planting and tree spraying probably and more fields of knowledge, but they ing, grading, and packing eggs. There kept some men away, but women, were no more authoritative in their was a lovely exhibit on chemical weed girls, and boys were here in force. One fields and certainly the crowds were control and another on seeds and day, fourteen busses were lined up less interested, alert, and attractive. proper fertilizing. A microscope intro- south of Barton Hall, with more on 9062 visitors registered in this 37th duced me to a nematode. A glass Tower Road, and cars were parked annual Farm and Home Week, one tanklet of water told that the heavy in every nook and cranny. coming from Alaska, a Frenchman ap- potatoes that sink are the mealiest. A pearing only three days after his ar- sign of concentrated wisdom in Home rival in New York, and a Frenchwo- Economics read: "To make your in- Farm and Home Week seems to me man making the trek from Texas. vestment pay: Plan carefully—Buy to be the greatest single public rela- tions event the University A little shamefacedly I must admit wisely—Cook properly—Serve attrac- Good puts on. It's logical to as- that I have never before realized the tively—Waste nothing." Public sume that the State Col- attractiveness of the Week. I had The Department of Ornithology was Relations vaguely sensed its importance—any- all over the place. I saw two lovely leges would excel in such a thing that could bring the Governor bird and frog song films that Professor field, but that does not detract from and Mrs. Roosevelt here regularly had Arthur A. Allen '08 showed in Bailey the creclit due Professor Lincoln D. to be big-league stuff—but I hadn't Hall, embraced the opportunity to see Kelsey (in immediate charge) and the realized how much fun and knowledge the bird paintings of Louis A. Fuertes staffs and students of all three Colleges. an Arts College graduate could get '97 in the library at Fernow Hall, was I see^signs of life in the endowed out of attending. entranced by the enthusiasm with Colleges, in such recent announce- which two graduate students defended ments as next summer's short course For a practicing farmer, his wife, or hawks and showed three living and in machine tool sales engineering and children, it must have been the pro- many stuffed specimens, and enjoyed one on contemporary American life verbial "gold mine of in- a long film with a modern-warfare- for British business men. That Nobel Program formation." There were terminology lecture on how birds work Prize dinner in New York last year All-inclusive almost a hundred exhibits for us in so many ways. was good public relations, as were the scattered throughout the buildings of An unforgettable hour was that Bard Professorship dinner and the the Colleges of Agriculture, Home spent at the New York Artificial Savage Hall dedication here. Cornell Economics, and Veterinary Medicine. Breeders' Cooperative just off the Day for sub-Frosh used to call out The schedule of events (lectures, Campus. After sampling with Foster sterling displays in the Engineering movies, discussions, clinics, competi- Coffin '12 a nice lunch offered in Bar- labs that were excellent. But still, tions, Kermis show, Rice Debate, ton Hall by the Hotel students, we Farm and Home Week is tops. Fun, Eastman Public Speaking Stage, Glee saw how 100 magnificent pedigreed too! Club concert, organ recital, etc.) filled bulls are having their influence enor- twenty-two of the forty pages in the mously increased throughout the New printed program. An auxiliary Home York dairy region. Perhaps as a con- California Women Elect Maker's Program, aimed at the distaff verse corollary, up in the Agricultural WENTY-FIVE members of the side, took twenty-four pages. Engineering exhibit the statement was T Cornell Women's Club of North- They had everything from a schol- made that, because of bigger and bet- ern California gathered for luncheon arly address by Dean William I. Myers ter cows, many stalls are now too March 13 at the Saratoga Inn, Los '14 on the world food situation to how small; the cow's posterior juts ouΛnto Gatos, Cal., and later for a meeting at to do your hair at home. Lieut. Gov- the gutter and mastitis ensues. the home of Dorothy Kaucher, PhD ernor Hanley told the farmers they * * * '28. Miss Kaucher discussed her re- should unite. An exhibit showed how Most fun of the Week was the time cent book, Wings Over Wake, a story to clean the gutters of a stable in spent in the Judging Pavilion where of her flight experiences in early com- nothing flat by a semi-homemade con- St d t students competed, under mercial aviation. veyor belt system. Professor A. H. en s auspices of the Round-up The Club elected Mrs. W. J. Glan- Leighton, Sociology, told what the Club, in livestock fitting ister (Dorothy Wright) '29, president Japanese think of the atomic bomb. and showmanship. About for 1948-49; Marian R. Ballin '31, Home EC showed some lovely cos- six weeks before, they had drawn lots vice-president; and Mrs. John H. tumes, new, old, and foreign. for their animals and had been fitting Sherman (Mary M. Stephens) '13, them ever since. I happened in a day secretary-treasurer. 396 Cornell Alumni News, functions as a means of raising money. Press Book Praised My husband, Sidney Meisel '37, Letters and I ran a bridge tournament April 3 EW YORK Times "Education" in the Cornell Women's Club room at N page April 11 featured a review Subject to the usual restrictions of space and by Benjamin Fine on Education for good taste, we shall print letters from sub- the Barbizon Hotel, New York City. scribers on any side of any subject of interest We charged a small admission fee and an Industrial Age by Alfred Kahler to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often had a lovely duplicate bridge. Every- and Ernest Hamburger, published by may not agree with the sentiments^ expressed f one had a good time and requested an the Cornell University Press. and disclaims any responsibility beyond 7 that of fostering interest in the University. invitation for next year! "Here is a significant study/ the Perhaps you can tell about the party Times education editor says, "that in your next issue and offer sugges- should focus attention of American tions, such as brush parties, luncheons, educators, industrial leaders, and labor For 'Open Candidates" spokesmen on the importance of im- etc., tot start the ball'rolling. I think To THE EDITOR: that if others knew how easy and proving the vocational school pro- In the last two weeks I have had pleasant it is to raise money that way, gram. . . . For many years, educators occasion to discuss with many Cornel- we could multiply our Fund about have felt that the cleavage between lians the coming election of Alumni three times normal size; in our own vocational and academic schools was Trustees and have found general dis- case, our normal donation was multi- harmful. This study, which may well approval of the nominating committee plied by seven. serve as a landmark, offers construc- method of choosing candidates, as con- If any of the girls want to learn easy tive steps to bring these two phases of ducted by the current Alumni Associ- ways, or even want to be shown how a education closer together." ation committee on Alumni Trustee party can be run, I would be very glad nominations. to help them. Also, I will lend dupli- Ithaca Women Elect As Cornell undergraduates, we were cate boards or direct a duplicate bridge THACA Cornell Women's Club urged and even forced to think and act if anyone wants it. Address me at 762 held its annual luncheon meeting for ourselves. Great stress was placed I East Twenty-first Street, Brooklyn 10, April 3 at the Johnny Parson Club on upon the principle of non-interference or call Gedney 4-3444. Beebe Lake. Provost Arthur S. Adams with the thought and action of the in- —MRS. GRACE MOAK MEISEL '41 discussed the philosophy of University dividual, who was at the same time administration. 'Eight past presidents charged with full accountability for of the Club were present and letters the results of his thinking. This wise Bishop'14 in Pittsburgh from five other past-presidents were and far-sighted principle, more than NE HUNDRED attended the read. With Mrs. Horace E. Shackleton any other single factor, is responsible annual dinner of the Cornell Club (Alberta Dent) '20 presiding the Club for the stature of Cornell University of Pittsburgh, Pa., April 9 at the Uni- and the standing of many of her elected Mrs. Robert L. Webster (Alice versity Club. Professor Morris G. Schade) '31, vice-president; Mrs. Dan- alumni. Bishop '14, Romance Languages, dis- iel E. Guilfoyle (Henrietta Hoag) '40, Now comes a nominating committee cussed the function of the university secretary; and Louise M. Post, '15, which says in effect, "We, being better in modern America and Cornell's governor for two-year terms. qualified than you, have selected a part in it. Paul S. Hardy '16 was slate of four candidates, which we en- elected president succeeding Allen B. dorse. You will vote for three of these Norton '13, who presided at the meet- Delaware Women and see that you do no campaigning. ing. Edward E. Hughes II '38 was " ALL 'round the World Cornell," You may nominate other candidates, committee chairman for the banquet. **• song title from the 1907 Cornell but they will not have our endorse- Masque production, was the topic of ment." Colonel H. Edmund Bullis '09, direc- In my opinion, this sort of implied tor of the Delaware State Society for regimentation should be stopped in its Medical Hygiene, speaking to the Cor- tracks because it is contrary to both nell Women's Club of Delaware, American and Cornell tradition. It March 24. Nineteen attended the smells of the tactics of our noble allies, meeting at the Wilmington home of the Russians, who, with touching so- Mrs. Henry Evans (Martha C. Fisher) licitude, relieve the electorate of all re- '30. sponsibility in elections by their "en- dorsement" of candidates. Any at- Student Aids tempt to prevent the temperate and URRENT information on finan- orderly endorsement of one's favorite C cial aids to students at the Uni- candidates is an attempt to promote, versity is contained in a booklet, by legislation, disloyalty and lack of "Scholarships and Grants-in-aid," the enthusiasm for one's lifelong friends first to be published since March, 1946. and companions, and, as such, it will It will inform prospective students, fail. their parents, and counselors of the Yours for "open candidates openly terms upon which scholarships are STUDENT LEADERS HERE arrived at."—ARTHUR M. ACHESON ' 14 awarded and gives the rules for stu- Sylvia N. Kilbourne '48 (center), presi- dent of WSGA this year, was elected re- dent loans and the various funds from Bridge For Fund presentative for the East to the Intercolle- which loans are made. All scholarships giate Association of Women Students, dur- open to undergraduates are included, To THE EDITOR: ing a recent Eastern section conference with their sources, amount, tenure, In the last Federation Newsletter, here. She is the daughter of Edwin I. Kil- and conditions of award. Mrs. Virginia Van Vranken Woolley bourne '17 and the former Elizabeth Al- '25 requested that the alumnae put ward 48 of Ridgewood, N. J. Pictured with The booklet may be obtained from Miss Kilbourne at a tea in Willard Straight the Director of Admissions or from forth special efforts to help make this Hall are Doris Stoetzer of University of year's Alumni Fund drive a huge fi- West Virginia (left) and Ernestine Gίpson Cornell University Official Publica- nancial success. She suggested social of University of Arkansas. Goldberg tion, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca. May i, 1948 397 More Schedules CCHEDULES for Junior Varsity Slants on Sports ^ baseball and for Freshman base- ball, tennis, track, golf, and lacrosse were announced in late March. First Baseball Win a single in five times at bat. James R. Junior Varsity Baseball Farrell '50, first baseman, and Abbott May 1 Sampson College at Ithaca OME baseball opener on Hoy 14 Mohawk College at Ithaca each hit safely twice. 21 Sampson College at Sampson H Field April 16 was a good deal Cornell scored its first run in the like the Southern trip. It rained, but second on hits by Porter, Farrell, and Freshman Baseball not before five innings had been played Willner. Cornell counted 3 runs in the May 1 LeMoyne at Syracuse and the University of Maryland re- 7 Ithaca College at Ithaca College third and 3 in the fourth on ^ix hits, 8 University School (Cleveland) at turned a 2-0 victor over Cornell. two errors, two walks, a hit batsman, Ithaca The next day, Cornell won its first a sacrifice, and a stolen base. 12 Syracuse at Ithaca game in three starts, trouncing Ho- In the early weeks of the Eastern 14 Colgate at Hamilton 19 Syracuse at Syracuse bart, 8-1, on Hoy Field with the Intercollegiate Baseball League, Dart- 22 Manlius School at Ithaca temperature in the forties. mouth and the US Naval Academy 26 LeMoyne at Ithaca Maryland actually scored 4 more were out in front with two victories 28 Ithaca College at Cornell runs—in the top half of the sixth in- and no defeats each. Yale, the defend- Freshman Tennis ning. But the umpires called the game ing champion, lost to the Academy in May 1 Colgate at Ithaca when the rain came, and the score its first game. 8 Syracuse at Syracuse reverted to the end of the fifth inning. 15 Colgate at Hamilton 19 Syracuse at Ithaca Cornell hit the ball hard against Tennis Takes Two 22 Manlius School at Ithaca 28 Sampson at Sampson Maryland, but the visiting fielders ENNIS team, which last year were always in the right spot. George T tied with Yale of the Eastern In- Freshman Track D. Tesnow '49, the catcher, hit one tercollegiate Tennis Association cham- May 1 Syracuse at Syracuse that was taken about a foot from the 8 Colgate at Ithaca pionship, won its first 1948 test in con- 15 Colgate at Hamilton right field fence. Kenneth P. Battles vincing fashion. Cornell defeated the 149, the pitcher, lined one to left center 26 Manlius School at Ithaca Naval Academy, 9-0, at Annapolis Freshman Lacrosse that wound up in a fielder's glove on April 10. a shoestring catch. May 1 Sampson at Ithaca In a non-League match with Roch- 8 Hobart at Geneva Cornell made only three hits off ester on the Cascadilla Courts April 12 Sampson at Sampson Keene, the Maryland pitcher. They 17, Cornell won again, 8-1. 15 Syracuse at Ithaca were by Glenn L. McAvoy '49, right 22^ Hobart at Ithaca The Academy match was a walk- 26 Syracuse at Syracuse fielder; Roy Porter '49, second base- away. Cornell did not lose a set. Win- man; and Joseph T. Willner '49, left ners in singles were Captain Richard Freshman Golf fielder. Savitt '50, Leonard L. Steiner '51, May 22 JVΓanlius School at Ithaca 29 Sampson at Ithaca Battles gave up four hits. Battles Hollis D. Young '46, John E. Riihi- paved the way for Maryland's first luoma '50, James R. Kennedy '50, run in the fourth when he hit Andrus and Richard N. Goldstein '49. Savitt, For the Record with a pitch. Moeller singled to center, Steiner, and Goldstein lost only two LYMPIC wrestling tryouts in and the runners went to third and sec- games apiece. O Barton Hall April 10 produced ond on a misplay by Keith M. Abbott The doubles combinations were fifteen qualifiers for the final trials at '49 in center field. Andrus scored on a Savitt and Steiner, Riihiluoma and Ames, Iowa, April 26 through May 1. single by Emsweller. In the fifth, Goldstein, and Young and John N. One of them was William J. Bartels Maryland scored again on a walk to Penn '49. Riihiluoma and Goldstein '50 of New Rochelle, runner-up to Condon, a sacrifice, and a single by gave up just one game. Wilford C. La Rock '46, former Var- Tuminski. In the Rochester meet, Cornell won sity wrestler now performing for the Albert C. Neimeth '50, mainstay of its eight matches in straight sets again, Ithaca YMCΛ. They competed in the the Freshman pitching corps last year, but dropped one doubles contest. 160.5-pound class. Erie J. Miller, Jr. turned in a six-hit performance against Ryan and Raible defeated Rodgers '44, another former Varsity wrestler Hobart, blanking the visitors until the H. Heiss '49 and Rodrigo R. de Llano now with the Ithaca YMCA, paced eighth inning, when Meegan hit a '49. Savitt, Steiner, Penn, Goldstein, the field in the 147.5-pound class. triple and scored on Weinberg's single. Kennedy, and Gordon Gardiner '50 Miller later unsuccessfully defended Cornell collected eleven hits, with playing in his first Varsity match, his ^.AU title at that weight in the Porter accounting for two doubles and were the singles victors. The doubles national championships at Hofstra teams of Goldstein and Riihiluoma College, Hempstead. and Gardiner and Kirk M. Reid, Jr. Charles F. Berman '49, seeking a Scores of the Teams '50 also won. berth on the Olympic soccer squad, Baseball was credited with four assists when Maryland 2, Cornell 0 (5 in- Lose at Lacrosse he played with the Collegiate All-Stars nings; rain) T ACROSSE team opened its season in a 7-0 victory over the Connecticut Cornell 8, Hobart 1 -*—' on Alumni Field April 17 and All-Stars at Bridgeport, Conn., April Tennis absorbed a 12-1 lacing from RPI. 18. Berman is also a pitcher on the Elias W. Bartholow, Jr. '48, out home, Varsity baseball squad. Cornell 9, US Naval Academy 0 scored Cornell's lone goal in the second Cornell Daily Sun trophy, revived Cornell 8, Rochester 1 period. this year, was awarded Norman Daw- Lacrosse The visitors, with two ail-American son, Jr. '46 of Oak Park, 111. The RPI 12, Cornell 1 lacrosse players in the lineup, scored trophy is given a Senior who in the 4 goals in each of the first three periods. judgment of the Sun sports staff has 398 Cornell Alumni News maintained the best standards of Cor- First Term Degrees newer facts of nutrition and the warmly nell athletic tradition "both in spirit stimulating enthusiasm and interest of EGREES were conferred by the your professors. I will go to Washington and performance." Dawson received after Farm Week, and it is with deepest the BME in February; held the Cor- D University upon 708 students at regrets that I leave Cornell for I have come nell Club of Chicago Scholarship, and the end of the first term. Commence- to love it and its atmosphere of tolerance had won the UC" ten times: twice for ment in Ithaca February 4 celebrated and its absorption in ideals of the brother- the award of 599 degrees, of which 448 hood of all men. Varsity track, four times for Varsity I guess the fact that I have missed Uni- baseball, three times for Varsity foot- were first degrees. The AB was con- versity life since my post-war work has ball, and one J-V football letter. ferred upon 127 students; the BS on 67 been with the Welfareville Institute in the in Agriculture, 25 in Home Econom- Philippines is responsible for my feeling of Two new shells have been added to ics, 31 in Hotel Administration, and 24 awe and veneration for a University like the Cornell Navy, the products of Cornell—my father was President Palma in Industrial and Labor Relations; one of the University of the Philippines before George Pocock, Seattle, Wash., boat DVM and BLA; and 9 BArch. Engi- builder. One arrived in March, the his death and our life has always been tied neering first degrees totalled 163: up with the fate and fortunes of a univer- second is expected by early May. BCE 33, BSinCE 5, BME 52, BS sity. My stay at Cornell has been like a They will be named for James Lynah home-coming and my music-starved soul inME 19, BSinAE 13, BEE 20, BS has also received a complete music appre- '05, former Director of Physical Edu- inEE 9, BChemE 12. cation and Athletics, and the late John ciation education from the concerts I have attended at Bailey. I intended, this letter Hoyle, Cornell's own boat builder who Of 151 advanced degrees, 21 were the LLB, 33 the MS, 14 MSA, 13 AM. to be a brief one, but it seems that I have succeeded Charles A. Courtney as crew so much to say about Cornell and the in- coach. 8 MSinEd, 5 each MSinl&LR, MS tangible things I have found in it, besides Spring football practice started inEng, and MCE, 4 Master of Nutri- what I came to get in the first place, that I seem to have overdone it. April 5, to continue five weeks. More tional Science, 3 Master of Regional Planning, and one MEE. The PhD The graudate group I found in I The than 100 candidates registered for was conferred upon 39 students, in- Circle are also part of my grateful memo- practice. ries on your Campus. It was a wonderful cluding Cyrl W. Terry '26, Robert A. home, and the girls are glad to have had a Wichert '38, and Harold A. Strecker warm and pleasant place to stay on Cam- '40. pus, when they used to have such a Hard At the School of Nursing in New time before. To a foreign student, a gradu- More Champions ate home like this is like a haven from the York City February 25, the BS in TNTRAMURAL championships in loneliness and home-sickness of one far Nursing was conferred upon 31, and •^ wrestling, volley ball, and badmin- from home. March 26 the Medical College in New ton were decided in April. York awarded the MD to 78. With Fred W. Belz III '51, Chap- Engineers in Michigan paqua, and Francis B. Snavely '48, Newark, N. J., taking the 130- and Γ TNIVERSITY Trustee Maxwell Appreciation ^ M. Upson '99 was principal 160-pound titles, respectively, Sigma N this country on a United Nations speaker at the Cornell Club of Michi- Alpha Epsilon amassed 15 ptπnts to I fellowship for government employ- win the wrestling team trophy. Run- gan "Engineers' Night" April 16 at ees of war-devastated countries, Mrs. the Wardell Sheraton Hotel, Detroit. ners-up with 10 points each were Beta Alicia Palma-Bautista recently left Among the guests were Tell Berna '12, Theta Pi, led by Horace W. Latimer after spending ten weeks at Cornell. Jr. '51, Philadelphia, Pa., 170-pound former Alumni Trustee of the Univer- Graduate of the University of the sity, Dean S. C. Hollister, Engineer- victor, and Alpha Gamma Rho whose Philippines, she was professor of home Donald C. Huntington '51, Westford, ing, Robert B. Lea '15, past president economics at the University of St. of Cornell Society of Engineers, and topped the 180-pounders. Other indi- Thomas and at Far Eastern Univer- vidual champions were Robert E. Linton Hart '14, regional vice-presi- sity in Manila before the war; with dent of the Society. Mendoza '49, New York City, 120 her husband and four children she pounds; Jack G. Huddleston '51, took refuge at Welfareville Institute at Decatur, 111., Alpha Delta Phi, 140 Manaluyong when their home was de- Toledo Club Officers pounds; Sidney Laibson '51, Brook- stroyed during the liberation. Since EW officers of the Cornell Club lyn, Tau Epsilon Phi, 150 pounds; and the war, she has been chief dietician N of Toledo, Ohio, elected March Robert R. Wegner '50, New York at that rehabilitation center for war- 15, are Marvin M. Wilkinson '32, City, Phi Kappa Sigma, unlimited. stricken Filipinos. president; Richard D. Kelly '36, vice- Phi Kappa Sigma, runner-up and Before she left the Campus, Mrs. president; Carl C. Teipel, Jr. '44, last year's champion in intramural Bautista wrote as follows to President treasurer; and Arnold H. Page '46, track, topped Delta Tau Delta for the Edmund E. Day: secretary. Wilkinson is president of volleyball crown 15-17, 16-14, 15-9. March 24, 1948 the Ohio Citizens Trust Co.; he suc- Sparked by soccer captain Robert L. The UN Scholarship which gave me a ceeds James M. Acklin, Jr. '34, who Trimpi '46, Chatham, N. J., Phi Kap chance to come to Cornell was designed to give war-exhausted employees a new out- transferred his business to Detroit, had to come from behind to beat the look to replace their numbed feelings of Mich. Delts whose all-around Freshman frustration that is an aftermath of war. Headquarters of the Club are at athlete, six-foot-five-inch Joseph M. That I found all that I sought for in this the Hillcrest Hotel, of which Edward Stianche of Lansford, Pa., co-starred beautiful University town is proved by the fact that my program of study during D. Ranlage '31 is general manager. with Frederick S. Turk '49, Muncie, these last weeks has been a truly exhaus- Ind., as they tripped Phi Sigma Delta tive one. American Youth for Democracy has for second place 15-13, 15-9. I have audited several classes in the elected Marilyn P. Greenberg ;48 of Phi Delta Theta's Fraser B. Jones Foods and Nutrition Department of the New York City, president for this College of Home Economics and in the '47 of Garden City and Carl W. Foss School of Nutrition. 1 have browsed year. Kenneth W. Moore '50 of Mont- Jr. '50 of Niagara Falls paired to through piles of journals and publications clair, N. J., is vice-president; Jeanne sweep an easy 15-2, 15-10 series from in your libraries here, and made my own Frank '49 of Syracuse, secretary; and Sigma Phi Epsilon in the badminton file of abstracts. I am hoping to^ receive Stanley E. Sultan '49 of Brooklyn, some of your available duplicate journals ; finals. Thirty-eight teams had entered and publications for our depleted libraries treasurer. Paul Robeson, Jr. 48 of the tourney which took six days to in the Philippines if it is possible. I leave Enfield, Conn., was elected repre- compete. Cornell with a more stable basis of the sentative-at-large. May /, 1948 399 much head-shaking and finger-wag- Octagon Club Readies Show ging by Campus sages." In 1946, the Club's principal production was ORE than 400 students are cur- Evans '42, Jean M. Saks '43, and Ed- "Rogues in Togas" and last year, Mrently' at work on the Spring ward D. Eddy '44 wrote, produced, "Maid to Order/' both successful. Re- Day production of the Octagon Club, and acted in "V's in Our Bonnet" cently, Octagon Club has undertaken '"Two on the Isle/' readying the show which filled Bailey Hall in 1943. The also to provide talent for other Cam- for Bailey Hall, May 21 and 22. next year, with aid from the service- pus entertainments, such as the Willard Weeks of try-outs have developed a men's committee of Willard Straight Straight Hall "Candlelight Room" cast which is rehearsing three nights Hall and for benefit of the Red Cross, night club, the Spring Day "Apollo" a week, a singing and dancing chorus Evans directed "Give Me Liberty (Or contest, and has given variety shows of nine girls learning their routines in at Least a Pass)," its technical direc- for patients at Biggs Hospital. the Sage gymnasium, and a mixed tor Jay L. Miller '45, who had come This year's Spring Day show, writ- chorus which pre-empts Goldwin Smith from Princeton in the V-12 Navy pro- ten by Haberman and Robert V. Wil- B every Wednesday night. Producer gram and was to become the first liams '49 of East Paterson, N. J., is a of the show is Wallace C. Ross '48 of president of Octagon Club. This year's tangled tale of college men and women Bay Shore and the director and co- director, Haberman, was in that show. involved with characters from Broad- author is Julius J. Haberman '45. In September, 1944, Evans and Haber- way show business on Nantucket Is- All this year, the Club's executive man collaborated on "Boys 'n Ivy," land. Lyrics and music of the songs board at weekly meetings has been which with Student Council sponsor- have been written by a committee of choosing set designers, costumers, ship after some dissension, turned over five Club members led by Abraham stage hands, and others to perform nearly $1600 to the Ithaca Reconstruc- Cohen '49 of Rochester. The Club the many functions required. This tion Home. Last of the independent hopes the show will attract film cover- board is headed by Ross as president, shows was "Davy's Follies at Zinck's," age and the attention of national with Robert I. Siegel '48 of South during the "Back to Normal Week magazines, and is thinking of a road Orange, N. J., as vice-president and End" in December, 1945. Haberman, tour, "provided the necessary backing technical adviser; Clarine R. Capuzzi who was master of ceremonies, says can be obtained." '48 of Republic, Pa., secretary; and that show "set us back twenty years Richard D. Turtletaub '48 of West in the opinion of the Campus." Orange, N. J., treasurer. But the Octagon Club by then was Buffalo Elects "Two on the Isle" is the fourth an- organized, with Miller as president; FFICERS elected by the Cornell nual musical comedy to be written, Russel Matrow, Jr., also in the Navy, O Club of Buffalo at its annual din- produced, and acted by members of vice-president; Ina Hundinger '45, sec- ner April 2 are Harold H. Williams the Octagon Club. Organized in 1945 retary; and Janet C. Bassette '46, '09, president; Arthur M. Shelton '14, to carry on the traditions of the treasurer. Haberman was a charter John H. Berean '25, and Avery J. Masque Which expired in 1926, and member, as were Jane E. Knauss '45, Pratt '09, vice-presidents; Robert M. named to signify the eight Colleges of Evelyn J. Knowlton '45, Myron E. Rublee '41, assistant secretary-treas- the University, it followed an interim Mendelson '45, Ann E. Shively '45, urer. Herbert R. Johnson '17, a twen- of varied Campus productions. After Beverly J. Smith '46, Sara H. Beeler ty-year "member and long-time officer, the Masque passed, the Dramatic '47, Richard E. Flight '47, and James was j e-elected secretary-treasurer and Club gave for a time its annual "Music M. Friedman '47. With financial help received from Club past presidents a Hall" variety shows, the last in 1943. from the Student Council, the Club gold wrist watch in recognition of his Then with War Savings Stamps serv- produced "Time Out," which ran suc- service. President Alfred M. Saperston ing as tickets of admission, Alvin S. cessfully for two nights "in spite of '19 presided. For State University EW YORK State Legislature N hurriedly passed before it closed bills providing for a State university system that is estimated to cost $200,- 000,000 and take twenty-five years to complete. The bills provide that the Governor appoint a temporary board of trustees of fifteen members to es- tablish four-year liberal arts, profes- sional, and graduate colleges within the *State and, if desirable, a State University on one campus to organize a State medical center near New York City and another up-State, to teach medicine, dentistry, public health, and nursing, one to include a veteri- nary college; to supervise locally- initiated two-year colleges in various communities to receive State aid; and to administer existing State technical "SAILORETTES" REHEARSE FOU SPRING DAY SHOW, "TWO ON THE ISLE" and agricultural institutes, teachers' Dancing and singing crew of the Nantucket ferry use benches for coils of ropes at re- colleges, and the State-supported col- hearsals in Sage gymnasium. Left to right are Marcia N. Pottle '51 of Buffalo, Caroline leges including Agriculture, Home S. Thelander '51 of Wilmington, Del., Miriam C. McCloskey '50 of Brooklyn, Shirley J. Kerr '49 of Pittsburgh, Pa., Sally Wallace '50 of Camillus, Christine Jennings '48 of Win- Economics, Veterinary, and Industrial chester, N. H., Marian K. Madison '49 of Buffalo, Polly C. Armstrong '50 of Hinsdale, and Labor Relations at Cornell. As 111., and Joanne H. Wells '49 of Orchard Park. the law was passed, control of the 400 Cornell Alumni News State Colleges will pass to the new credit in the book's Introduction to temporary State board of trustees Mrs. Bertram for writing it. It is her April 1, 1949. Books story of their cruise down the inland The program conforms, in part, to waterway to Miami, through the Ba- the recommendations of a temporary By Cornellians hamas, along the coast of Haiti and commission to examine into the need the Dominican Republic to Puerto for a State University which was ap- Rico and the ^Virgin Islands. During pointed by the Governor two years the war, Bertram worked for the ago. This commission was headed by Why Wallace? Navy at St. Thomas and later at San Owen D. Young and President Ed- The Wallaces of Iowa. By Russell Juan, P. R., and after V-J Day en- mund E. Day, President Sarah G. Lord '18. Houghton Miίflin Co., Bos- listed Donald S. Erdman '41 and an- Blanding of Vassar, former Dean of ton, Mass. 1947. xvii+615 pages, other sailor friend to bring the "Sora" Home Economics, and Assemblyman with 9 photographs, $5. back to the States. Wherever they Wheeler Milmoe '17 were members After working closely with and for went, this sea-going family made the and Warnick J. Kernan '05 was Secretary Henry A. Wallace from the most of their cruise, stopping in out- counsel. earliest days of the New Deal, Lord of-the-way ports, making friends, and A considerable amount of public spent six years in writing this book enjoying strange lands and almost discussion accompanied the Legisla- about the Wallace dynasty as Ameri- ideal cruising waters. Bertram is now ture's consideration of the bills as in- can agricultural leaders. Theme of his a yacht broker in Miami, Fla. troduced, with many protests at some book is the "genetic continuance" of of the provisions and the lack of public the lives of the three Henry Wallaces Country Living hearings on the plan. The Young com- as they wrought for America. As Land for the Family. By Professors mission specifically recommended that background for his analysis of the Axel F. Gustafson, PhD '20, Agron- the State University system be under youngest, now a candidate for Presi- omy; Earle V. Hardenburg '12, Vege- general supervision of the Board of dent of the United States, Lord tells table Crops; Earle Y. Smith, Poultry; Regents, and that present State con- also of the grandfather, "Uncle Hen- and Mrs. Jeannette B. McCay, MS tract colleges, such as at Cornell, ry" Wallace, founder of Wallaces' '34, formerly Home Economics. Corn- "should be administered by the trus- Farmer, and of the father, Henry C. stock Publishing Co., Inc., Ithaca. tees of the university involved in the Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture 1947. xxii+501 pages, with 197 illus- contract, or by boards of trustees as under Presidents Harding and Coo- trations, $4. presently provided." lidge. This is a chronicle of America's The Young Commission also recom- agricultural progress, and similarly, Useful reference book for all who mended a new program of financial although he disclaims bias, Lord's aspire to produce part of the family assistance to State Scholars and' pro- book is inevitably a laudation of the food as an avocation, this is truly a hibiting discrimination in admission "chief" whom he greatly admired. "Guide to Country Living." It is com- of students on the basis of race, creed, The book won the $2500 Life-in- plete, down-to-earth, and authorita- color, or national origin, with excep- America Prize of its publishers. Its re- tive, from the first chapter, on "Se- tions as to creed for religious or de- view over the "Voice of America" lecting and Purchasing a Home in the nominational schools. official broadcast to Germany and Country," through all the aspects of Australia while Henry Wallace was in managing the soil, deciding what to Europe denouncing American foreign grow, and how to go about producing Commission Reports policy brought embarrassing ques- vegetables, flowers, fruits, meat, milk, RESIDENT'S Commission on tions to the State Department from and even honey, to preserving foods PHigher Education has issued its some Senators. and using them to the family's ad- report in six volumes, published by vantage. Substantially bound, well the Government Printing Office, un- printed, and completely indexed, this der the title, "Higher Education for Cruising Under Sail is a valuable working handbook for American Democracy." Chairman of Caribbean Cruise. By Kate and every part-time farmer. the Commission, appointed in July, Richard H. Bertram '37. W. W. Nor- 1946, by President Truman, is George ton & Co., Inc., New York City. 1948. F. Zook, PhD '14, president of the 292 pages, illustrated with charts and American Council on Education. Presi- photographs, $3.75. Adds to Collections dent Sarah G. Blanding of Vassar, ΛX/ΌRDS WORTH Collection, giv- former Dean of Home Economics, is Summer neighbors on the Jersey * * en to the University by Trustee a member of the Commission. Coast and sailors from childhood, Victor Emanuel '19, has had added to Dick Bertram and Kate Ivins were it by the donor a ten-volume set of married in September, 1940, and im- Study War Memorial Wordsworth, dated 1910, in de luxe mediately started hunting for a boat binding with an original three-page N" "on Campus" committee of the in which to cruise in the West Indies. letter by the poet inlaid in the first Λ Trustees' committee on Univer- That winter, they bought the "Sora," volume, sity planning and development has a thirty-six-foot auxiliary sloop de- recommended that a proposed Inter- signed by John Alden, raced that faith Religious Center building be de- summer on Long Island Sound, and Kansas City Women signated as the World War II Memorial. in September took their departure ϋ IGHT alumnae attended a dinner This recommendation, together with from New York Harbor for a year's -•—' meeting of the Cornell Women's others made recently, is being studied cruise that brought them back five Club of Greater Kansas City at the by the planning and development com- years later with a third member of the home of Mrs. Rudolph Hirsch (Maude mittee. Trustee Robert E. Treman '09 crew, their daughter, Charlotte, born Martin) '00, April 11. Club President of Ithaca is chairman of a subcommit- on Easter Day, 1944, in Santurce, Mrs. S. A. Burgess (Alice M. Chase) tee of the planning and development Puerto Rico. '14 presided and Mrs. Stuart Paterson committee to define the purpose of the Bertram, former commodore of the spoke of a visit among the Navajo In- Memorial and recommend its nature. Cornell Corinthian Yacht Club, gives dians in Arizona and New Mexico. May /, 1948 401 is executing the letter but not the Cornell Alumni News spirit of a trust may well be regarded by them as a danger signal. Coming Events 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. —Cornell Alumni News editorial, FOUNDED 1899 December 7, 1910. SUNDAY, MAY 2 Published the first and fifteenth of Providence, R. I.: Eastern championship each month while the University is ICYRA regatta in regular session and monthly in Jan- Westchester Meets Boys MONDAY, MAY 3 uary, February, July, and September. BOUT forty, including fifteen un- West Point: Baseball, US Military Acad- Owned and published by the Cornell emy Alumni Association under direction of a A dergraduates and seven prospec- TUESDAY, MAY 4 committee composed of Phillips Wyman tive Cornellians, attended a luncheon Ithaca: Tennis, Syracuse, Cascadilla '17, chairman, Birge W. Kinne '16, Clif- of the Cornell Club of Westchester courts, 4 ford S. Bailey '18, John S. Knight '18, County, April 3 at the Roger Smith and Walter K. Nield '27. Officers of the FBIDAY, MAY 7 Alumni Association: Elbert P. Tuttle '18, Hotel in White Plains. The gathering, Ithaca: Hotel Ezra Cornell, Willard Atlanta, Ga., president; Emmet J. Mur- a continuation of the Club's secondary Straight Hall phy '22, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. school program, was arranged by Peter Freshman baseball, Ithaca College, downtown Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; Ham '26 and William J. Greer '42. Pittsburgh, Pa.: EIGA golf tournament foreign, $4 50. Life subscription, $75. Club President Hosea C. Ballou '20 SATURDAY, MAY 8 Single copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are presided. renewed annually unless cancelled. Ithaca: Hotel Ezra Cornell, Willard Straight Hall Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON ' 19 Cornell Engineeer Freshman baseball, University School. Assistant Editors Hoy Field, 12:15 N The Cornell Engineer for April, Tennis, Princeton, Cascadilla courts, 2 JOHN C. BABKEB, JR. '44 I Oliver E. Buckley, PhD '14, presi- Baseball, US Naval Academy, Hoy RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 Field, 2:30 dent of Bell Telephone Laboratories Freshman track meet, Colgate, Schoell- Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, and a member of the Engineering 22 Washington Square North, New York kopf Field, 2:30 City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. College Council, describes "Advances 150-pound crew races, Pennsylvania, in Cable Sheathing." William F. Cayuga Lake, 5 Printed at the Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. Princeton, N. J.: Track meet, Princeton McQuillin '47, assistant to the presi- Philadelphia, Pa.: Lacrosse, Pennsylvania dent of Standard Buffalo Foundry, Pittsburgh, Pa.: EIGA golf tournament Will History Repeat? writes on " Streamlining Reaches the Geneva: Freshman lacrosse Foundry." Syracuse: Freshman tennis HE question of taking part of Annapolis, Md.: ICYRA Middle Atlantic TAlumni Field for new University championship regatta buildings transcends considerations of Delta U Alumni Gather SUNDAY, MAY 9 expediency. There is a matter of trus- EVENTY-FIVE alumni gathered Annapolis, Md.: ICYRA Middle Atlantic championship regatta teeship involved. The University can- S for the annual dinner of the Cor- not take a portion of what it has given nell chapter of Delta Upsilon at the WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 except by giving an equivalent else- Hotel Sutton, New York City, April 2. Ithaca: Golf, Bucknell, University course, where; an equivalent in extent, in con- Chairman was University Trustee J:30 venience of location, and in general Freshman baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Ezra B. Whitman '01 and the speakers Field, 4:15 suitability to the purpose of the Field. included Andrew E. Tuck '98, A. Glen Syracuse: Baseball, Syracuse Acheson '17, Nelson Schaenen '23, Sampson: Freshman lacrosse A little thought will show that in Raymond F. Beck with '28, and Mal- New York City: Class of '40 smoker, Cor- nell Club, 8 such a transaction the only safe course colm P. Murdock '28. Savage Club for the University to follow would be raconteur William J. Norton '02 high- THURSDAY, MAY 13 to give more than an equivalent. It lighted the evening with his dialect Ithaca: Baseball, Duquesne, Hoy Field, 4:15 would hardly be practicable to seek stories. the acquiescence of all the subscribers FRIDAY, MAY 14 in a change of the terms under which Ithaca: J-V baseball, Mohawk, Hoy Urges World Union Field, 4:15 they have pledged their money. And New York City: Tennis, Columbia if a change is proposed, it should be Γ T RGING a union of the democratic Hamilton: Freshman baseball, Colgate so advantageous on its face that no ^ countries of the world similar to SATURDAY, MAY 15 one will be likely to question its fair- the United States, Edgar F. Bissantz Ithaca: Pershing Rifles intercollegiate drill ness. A course of action which might '24, representative of "Freedom and meet, Barton Hall, 2 tend to raise in anybody's mind a Union," spoke to the Cornell Club of Baseball, Columbia, Hoy Field, 2:30 doubt of the University's good faith Northern California at its regular Lacrosse, Mt. Washington, Alumni would be a calamity. Benefactors of luncheon meeting April 7 at the Com- •Field, 2:30 Freshman lacrosse, Syracuse, Alumni universities do not, as a rule, expect mercial Club in San Francisco. Twen- Field, 2:30 to have long oversight of the adminis- ty-eight members heard Bissantz ad- West Point: Nonagonal track meet tration of their gifts, and this fact vocate that the United States, as the - Tennis, US Military Academy puts university boards of trustees un- strongest democracy, take the lead in Madison, Wis.: Rowing, Wisconsin Princeton, N. J.: 150-pound rowing regatta der a peculiar obligation. They must effecting the union. Atlantic City, N. J.: EIGA golf tourna- create and foster the public's willing- ment ness to give, which is as the breath of Cornell Countryman re-elected Joan Hamilton: Freshman track meet life to the university, and they can do Freshman tennis L. Dahlberg '49, Malverne, editor-in- Annapolis, Md.: ICYRA national cham- so only by painstaking care of every chief for 1948-49. The staff includes pionship regatta trust committed to them. Alfred N. Schwartz '49, Brooklyn, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 Flies in a restaurant on a single day managing editor; Edgar L. Van Zandt Ithaca: Baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Field, 4:15 in summer may drive patrons else- II '49, Blawenburg, N. J., business Freshman tennis, Syracuse, Cascadilla where, never to return. The expression manager; and Gordon D. Rapp '49, courts, 4:15 of a suspicion that a board of trustees Forest Hills, photographic editor.

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Student Council has submitted, for tomers would merely pick up their Zinck's owners, Aaron Wells and Tony ratification by the Board of Trustees, papers and leave the change for him. Macera, sponsored a softball game at a proposal for a compulsory one-dol- During the week he was in the hos- Taughannock Falls between Kappa lar-a-term activities fee. Proposed pital and after his death, the papers Beta Phi and a combined Mummy- budget includes grants to the Student were on the corner as usual and cus- Majura squad. Despite charges that Activities Center, Big Red Band, tomers served themselves for Johnny's seersucker jackets were illegal uni- Cornell Civil Liberties Committee, benefit. forms, that the victors quit while they Model UN, Debate Club, Radio Sta- were still ahead, and that somebody tion WVBR, Chess Club, CURW, and Pan-hellenic Council president for spiked the beer with tea, usually re- National Students Association. A 1948-49 is Vera J. Horning '49 of liable sources report that Kappa Bete grant sought by the Independent Kenmore, Alpha Xi Delta, Jacqueline won, 12-11. Council to increase their activites was D. Fulton '50 of Washington, D. C., voted down 21-2. Pi Beta Phi, is secretary-treasurer. Co-eds beat teams from Syracuse Uni- versity, Elmira College, Cortland State Official Query received by Registrar New officers of the Business and Pub- Teachers, and Ithaca College in a Eugene F. Bradford requested the lic Administration student Associa- WAA Play Day at Barton Hall, April scholastic record of a man, supposedly tion are Alexander T. Stark '49, Irv- 17. They swept top honors in fencing a former student, so that plans might ington, N. J., president; Paul J. Gor- and badminton and broke even in four be made for his further education. don '49, New York City, vice-presi- basketball games. The Registrar was happy to report dent; and Clara J. Harley '49, Au- that no one of that name had ever gusta, Me., secretary-treasurer. Officers elected by the Class of 1948 been enrolled. The questioner was the women to serve until the first Reunion head of the department of education Renovation of Percy Field as a city include Jacqueline Van Hassel, Glen at San Quentin Prison! playground has begun as workers are Rock, N. J., president; M. Ellen clearing away the debris left by last Fleming, Toronto, Ont., secretary; President of the Cornell Student August's cloudburst, levelling the and Priscilla A. Karb, Framingham, Christian Movement is Ida V. Ray- track, and repairing and enlarging Mass., treasurer. mond '49, Johnstown, Pa., and Ed- the grandstands. Although a load of ward J. Fox, Jr. '50, Silver Springs, seventy-five-foot poles went astray Trophy for the year's outstanding Md., is vice-president. and ended up by the high school field boxer was awarded William J. O'Brien fence, facilities for lighting the field '49, Buffalo, by the Cornell Boxing Gleanings from the Veterans' Food for night football and baseball are Club while Moses A. Rosenbaum '48, Co-op "Co-Operator"; "If you need being prepared. Brooklyn, was named the most im- an electric clock, flashlight, radio, elec- proved boxer. Elected to head the tric iron, etc. speak to Jay." "No one Claiming that it was bothering his Club next year is Francis X. Becker wants to buy an apple with several wife and baby, a Binghamton farmer '50, Lynnbrook, University 130-pound bites missing — WATCH YOUR was jailed for firing a charge of bird- champion. YOUNGSTERS!" "If you aren't shot at a hovering helicopter. The pleased with something, complain; plane was sent by the New York Nineteenth annual Rice Debate award but do remember, please, that run- State Electric & Gas Corp. to patrol of $100 went to George S. Cooper '48, ning a store isn't easy, especially in its high tension lines. Cooperstown, who took the affirmative conjunction with school work." side of "Federal Control of Farm Prices is Detrimental to American Debating team concluded its season RECORD-BREAKING 2,951 under- Agriculture," during Farm and Home in a non-decision contest with Syra- graduates voted to fill nine positions Week. Rita R. Chazan '48, Buffalo, cuse, arguing against a World Federa- for representative-at-large on the Stu- was second, and won the $100 East- tion. Among other opponents were dent Council. Of the thirty-five candi- man Stage Prize speaking on "Farm Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Prince- dates on the ballot, James D. Hazzard Children Deserve the Best." Curtiss ton, Pennsylvania, Western Reserve, '50, Lansdale, Pa., topped the list. A. Blair '46, Elmira, discussed "Fa- and Temple. Others elected were Dick D. Darley thers and Sons" and was runner-up. '51, Webster Groves, Mo.; Bruce D. Father of more than 15,000 sons and Davis '50, Tuckahoe; Gordon Gardi- Aquarius, swimming club, has elected daughters, Milkdale Aristocrat Rag ner '50, Ridgewood, N. J.; John W. John W. Hosie, Jr. '49, East Aurora, Apple, died at the stables of the State Mellor '50, Springfield, Vt.; Martha president; Robert M. Hill '49, Dur- Artificial Breeders' Cooperative. Ex- K. Palmer '51, West Newton, Mass.; ham, N. C., vice-president; and Nor- tension Echoes doubts that the famous Stuart M. Paltrow '49, Bayside, L. I. man C. Mertz '49, South Orange, N. bull would have sired 100 calves in Jacob Sheinkman '49, Bronx; and J., secretary-treasurer. natural service. Wallace P. Williams '51, Columbus, Ohio. On election day the Sun re- "If you have 75 cents and want your Ithaca's last street-corner newsboy, ported one political cynic remarking car washed, Tri Delta! Sat. from 2-5." John Susca, died April 8 of pneu- that the candidate who "put up that This ad in the Sun was skeptically monia. For nineteen years, "Johnny" circus affair with all the yelling" read, but the girls meant it. To raise had cried the Journal at the corner of would win easily. The "affair" was a money for a gift to the sorority, Delta State and Tioga, and often left his Student Council voting tent on the Delta Delta Seniors, for the above- papers unattended while he delivered Quadrangle. mentioned fee, scrubbed the cars of in the neighborhood. Regular cus- all owners daring enough to permit it.

May 7, 1048 403 and secretary of the Institute of Inter- to the American Mission for Aid to national Education, Inc., to assist with Greece, he left April 11 for Washing- The Faculty the Institute's program of exchange of ton, D. C., and flew to Athens. He students. After May 1 he will devote will return July 1. part time to the Institute's program President Edmund E. Day partici- and July 1 will join the New York Professor Bristow Adams, Extension pated in a discussion of medical re- City office. Professor Shank came to Service, Emeritus, recently delivered search, with President James B. Co- the University in 1945 after ten years the commencement address at the nant of Harvard and Chancellor Harry as an administrative associate of Long Island Agricultural and Techni- W. Chase of New York University, George F. Zook, PhD '14, president of cal Institute at Farmingdale. Director April 16 in New York City at a con- the American Council on Education of the Institute is Halsey B. Knapp '12. ference on problems of medical scien- in Washington, D. C. tific policy to open the Sloan-Ketter- Professor Paul W. Gates, History, ing Institute for Cancer Research. The was elected treasurer of the New York Institute building is the gift of Alfred State Wallace-for-President Commit- P. Sloan, Jr. to Memorial Hospital for tee at a meeting in New York City, the Treatment of Cancer and Allied April 3. Director William R. Sears of Diseases which is affiliated with the the Graduate School of Aeronautical Medical College and New York Hos- Engineering and Paul Robeson, Jr. '49 have been appointed to the 200-mem- pital. ber executive committee. Second article in a New Haven, Conn., Register series on "Choosing a Officers of a newly-organized Tomp- Career," designed to assist high school kins County committee of the Liberal and college students in selecting a life's Party (against Wallace) are Robert H. work, April 4, traced the career in man- Elias, English, chairman; Walter L. agement of Alumni Trustee Thomas Murdock '37, Mathematics, treasurer; I. S. Boak '14, works manager of Win^ and Professor Donald R. Griffin, Chester Repeating Arms Co. division Zoology, secretary. of Olin Industries, Inc. Dean Robert S. Stevens, Law (right, above) receives from Edward R. Stet- Mrs. Leonard B. Getman (Mar- President Truman's reply to the tinius, Jr. the President's Certificate guerite Hollister) '16, accounting clerk letter of resignation of Theodore P. of Merit "for outstanding services to in the Department of Food and Nutri- Wright, who resigned as head of the his country" during the war, first in tion, retired April 13 after twenty-nine Civil Aeronautics Administration to the office of the general counsel of the years at the College of Home Econom- become Vice-president of the Univer- Lend-Lease Administration, then as ics. She lives at 1008 North Tioga sity and president of the Cornell Re- associate general counsel of the For- Street, Ithaca. search Foundation April 1, was pub- eign Economic Administration, and Foster M. Coffin '12, director of lished in the February 15 CAA Jour- later as general counsel of the US Willard^Straight Hall, Edgar A. Whit- nal. The President said: "During the Commercial Co. which handled all ing '29, assistant director, and Polly seven and a half years which you have foreign wartime procurement. Dean Love1, assistant social director, at- spent in Government service you have Stevens was cited for having "exhib- tended the silver anniversary confer- given unsparingly of your talents and ited rare legal skill and effectively su- ence of the Association of College time to help win the war and subse- pervised a large legal staff. . . . The Unions in Roanoke, Va., April 29- quently to develop a strong civil avia- volume of work which he directed and May 1. Whiting is secretary-treasurer tion industry. To war production ac- the importance of it on the war effort, of the Association and Coffin is a tivities you have made notable con- coupled with a dedication and rare past-president. tribution, and it was my pleasure to personal qualities, were such that this award you the Medal for Merit in award is more than amply justified." In memory of her husband, the late token of your distinguished work in In the January-February issue of Professor Gilbert W. Peck '12, Pomol- that field. In the direction of the de- ogy, Mrs. Peck has established the velopment of civil aviation as Admin- The Field Artillery Journal, Colonel Peck Memorial Scholarship Fund to istrator of the Civil Aeronautics Ad- Ralph Hospital, USA, Commandant aid in the education of worthy young ministration, you have continued to of the ROTC, describes the University New York Indians. For years Profes- give outstanding service. It is with ROTC set-up in a six-page, illustrated sor Peck worked with Indians on their great regret, therefore, that I accept article. Barton Hall is pictured on the cover. seven New York reservations. Some your resignation. I can understand, years ago, at the request of the Six however, that you feel it to be neces- Dr. Carl W. Gartlein, PhD '29, di- Nations, the Geneva Experiment Sta- sary in view of the conditions outlined rector of the National Geographic So- tion named a cherry variety after him in your letter, and in view of the fur- ciety-Cornell University Study of the and the Gil Peck Cherry was dedi- ther opportunities for service to the Aurora at Cornell, spoke on "Aurora cated with full Indian ceremonials in people of the United States which you Spectra Showing Broad Hydrogen Geneva. An orchard of these trees will anticipate in connection with your Lines," at a meeting of the American be planted at the new State school on new position. I appreciate and will Geophyiscal Union in Washington, D. the Tuscarora Reservation. take advantage of your expressed wil- C., April 23. lingness to help the Government in an Professor Richard P. Feynman, advisory capacity as occasion may Professor Fred B. Morris '22, State Physics, attended a recent conference demand." leader of county agricultural agents, of the Institute for Advanced Study has been granted a leave of absence to of Fundamental Physics, sponsored Professor Donald J. Shank, Indus- go to Greece to work with other Exten- by the National Academy of Science, trial and Labor Relations and director sion personnel and Greek officials on a which was held at the Pocono Manor of student personnel in the School, has plan for an agricultural extension pro- Inn, Pocono Manor, Pa. Robert C. been elected executive vice-president gram in that country. On assignment Trier, Jr. '32 is manager of the Inn. 404 Cornell Alumni News Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'84—Richard Ware writes: "Stay- dinner March 19 at the University member of Kappa Sigma, American ing in Asheville, N. C. Mountainous Club of New York by 150 associates Iron & Steel Institute, Union League country with fine scenery, good roads and other friends on the occasion of Club of Chicago, Chicago Athletic As- and numerous drives, city auditoriums his retirement from the active practice sociation, and of the board of the with star concerts, many fine villas." of oral surgery. He was presented a Union Church in Hinsdale. His mailing address is 1529 Rhode Is- gold wrist watch and a book of letters '09—The 1909 Class Alumni Fund land Avenue, NW, Washington 5, D. C. and telegrams from numerous friends committee of forty-four Classmates '99—Thirteen men of the Class who could not attend, including a let- scattered all over the country is now gathered for dinner at the Cornell ter from the famed London plastic at work on a two-year campaign to Club of New York, April 2, at the call surgeon, Sir Harold G. Giles. There collect $40,000 to present to Cornell of President Maxwell M. Upson to, dis- was a Cornell table at the dinner, and at the Class's Fortieth Anniversary in cuss plans for our Fifty-year Reunion among those present were Charles H. June, 1949. Any member of the Class at Ithaca in June, 1949. It was agreed Blair '97, John T. McGovern '00, Dr. who is not visited by committeemen that we should have a picnic at Mt. Arthur M. Wright '04, George R. Van- within the next three weeks should re- Pleasant Lodge Friday and a boat ride Namee '01, and Robert Burns '07. sent the slight and can send his com- to Taughannock Falls Saturday. Be- Founder of the school of dental and plaint to Gus at 1304 St. Paul Street, sides President Upson, those present oral surgery at Columbia University, Baltimore 2, Md. Every 1909 man were William K. Auchincloss, Theo- Dr. Dunning became professor emeri- must stand up and be counted in this dore L. Bailey, E. Austin Barnes, Clif- tus in 1946 after thirty years as profes- campaign.—Gustave J. Requardt ford H. Belden, Emmett B. Carter, sor of oral surgery there. In World Eads Johnson, Royal S. Haynes, Mar- War I he spent two years at face and '09 ME—Robert E. Friend, presi- tin H. Offinger, Walter L. Pate, Dr. jaw construction centers in France and dent of the Nordberg Manufacturing Ernest Tutschulte, and your secre- England as a captain in the Medical Co., received the award of Officer du tary—Charles V. P. Young. Corps, and became assistant to the di- Merite Maritime from the French Merchant Marine Mission in the '02 AB—Special service marking rector of this service in France with United States, April 19 at a ceremony the twenty - fifth anniversary as a the AEF. During the last war he was at the Nordberg plant in Milwaukee, bishop of the Right Rev. G. Ashton chairman of two committees which Oldham, Bishop of the Episcopal J)io- sent a surgical ambulance to the Brit- Wis. The award was presented by Commander L. Poirer in the name of cese of Albany, was held in the Cathe- ish Isles for the treatment of face and Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to dral of All Saints, Albany, January 4, jaw injuries and another one to the the United States. Friend has two a few days after Bishop Oldham had Libyan Desert for the Anzac forces in Cornellian sons: Carl O. Friend '39 returned from Australia, where he that area. A grandnephew of Henry and Edward S. Friend '44. represented the Episcopal Church of W. Sage, an early Trustee of the Uni- America at the centenary celebration versity, for whom he was named, Dr. Ίl LLB—George V. Holton became of the three Dioceses of Adelaide, Dunning was a candidate for Alumni this April chairman of the board of Newcastle, and Melbourne. Bishop Trustee in 1939. His sister is Mrs. Ben- Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., 26 Oldham and Mrs. Oldham nearly lost jamin S. Barringer (Emily Dunning) Broadway, New York City, of which their lives when the plane in which '97, and Mrs. Dunning is the sister of he has been vice-president and general they were flying from Australia to George E. Chatillon Όl and the late counsel. Holton joined the Vacuum New Zealand almost went down into Ralph F. Chatillon Όl. Two of their Oil Co. in 1923 as assistant general the Tasman Sea because of motor four children are Elaine M. Dunning counsel, later became a director and failure. After the anniversary service, '39 and George H. Dunning '42. The general counsel, and, upon merger with they were presented with gifts, in- Dunnings plan to fly to Bermuda for Standard Oil Co. of New York in 1932, cluding luggage for Mrs. Oldham and a short vacation, after which they will became general counsel and a director. a coupe. Bishop Oldham has returned return to their home on Weed Street, He has been vice-president since 1937. to the Campus many times to con- New Canaan, Conn. Recently Holton was made a director duct services in Sage Chapel. '06 AB, '07 AM—The Rev. Frank of the Commerce & Industry Associa- B. Crandall, major in the Corps of tion of New York, Inc. He is a mem- Chaplains, USA, retired, is chaplain ber of Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Phi. of Salem, Mass., Post No. 23, AL, and '12 BS—Edward L. Bernays, public of the Frank S. Perkins Chapter, Mili- relations counsel, spoke before a meet- tary Order of World Wars. Pastor of ing of the Eastern Industrial Adver- the Second Church in Salem (Uni- tisers in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, on tarian), Washington Square, Salem, the subject of public relations. His Mass., he is also a member of the office is at 26 East Sixty-fourth Street, Salem Chapter No. 84, Disabled New York City 21. American Veterans. '12 LLB—Cedric A. Major, presi- '07—Jay L. Hench of 324 Seventh dent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Street, Hinsdale, 111., recently was Co., 143 Liberty Street, New York elected a member of the board of trus- City, has given a grant of $6,000 to tees of Northwestern University, Ev- New York University school of com- anston, 111. President of the Mid-West merce, accounts, finance, to set up a Forging & Manufacturing Co., he was scholarship fund for needy students also elected this year president of Wes- in the school which is to be known '05 — Dr. Henry Sage Dunning ley Memorial Hospital, one of the as the Cedric A. Major Scholarship (above) was honored at a testimonial largest hospitals in Chicago, He is a Fund. Major teaches courses in ac-

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Pres./ Carl W. Badenhausen, Cornell Ί6 Vice Pres., Otto A. Badenhausen, Cornell Ί7 America's finest since 1840 counting at the school, holding the Auspicious Star with ribbon, special '16 AB—Benjamin H. Micou, asso- title of adjunct professor of account- class. The Chinese Ambassador, V. K. ciate general agent of the Detroit, ing. He was re-elected president of the Wellington Koo, made the presenta- Mich., agency of New England Mu- Lehigh, April 13. tion in Washington. Member of the tuaΓ Life Insurance Co., has been ' 13 CE—Marcel K. Sessler of Riv- law firm of Nordlinger, Riegelman & named treasurer of New England er bridge Farm, Lyme, N. H., writes: Benetar, 420 Lexington Avenue, New Mutual Leaders' Association, the " Somebody put me down for the York City, Riegelman was formerly firm's top-flight field force organiza- 'Marshal' Plan so I gotta be back for special counsel to the US Treasury tion. A Naval veteran of both World my Reunion." Department, special Assistant Attor- Wars, Micou has been associated with ney General of New York State, and New England Mutual for the last six- chairman of the committee on affairs teen years and is a member of the of cities of the 1938 State Constitu- Million Dollar Round Table. tional Convention. He drew up the '16 CE—Cornelius W. Middleton, first public housing law in 1926, the vice-president and secretary of the Multiple Dwelling Law in 1929, and Babcock & Wilcox Co., 85 Liberty the Home Rule Amendment of the Street, New York City 6, has with- State Constitution in 1938. He is drawn from full-time active service in chairman of the executive committee the company. He continues, however, of the New York chapter of the Ameri- as a director and in a consulting ca- can Jewish Committee and a member pacity. of its national executive committee. Ίό AB—Hamilton Vose, Jr. mar- '14 ME—Christian H. Reumann ried Mrs. Dorothy Rogers Diener married Mrs. Rose A. Knauss, widow March 5 in Chicago, 111. Vose is presi- of Louis E. Knauss '16, February 14. dent of Berkshire Papers, Inc., 1520 They live at 7512 Brookfield Road, West Fulton Street, Chicago, 111. Melrose Park, Philadelphia 26, Pa. '17, ;38 WA—Ruth Wyman, daugh- '14 ME—James G. Miller of West- ter of Phillips Wyman, vice-president vaco Chlorine Products Corp., South of McCall Corp. and chairman of the '14 AB — Harold R, Riegelman Charleston, W. Va., is moving to Po- ALUMNI NEWS publishing committee, (above), legal adviser for ten years to catello, Idaho, this spring to be re- was married April 18 in Scarborough the Chinese Embassy in Washington, sident manager of Westvaco's new to Carl B. Kaufmann. She was given D. C., and the Chinese Consulate chemical development in that region. in marriage by her father, and her General in New York, received April 9 For their Idaho home, he and Mrs. brother, Phillips Wyman, Jr. '41, was the Chinese Government's highest ci- Miller, who have four sons, plan to one of the ushers. A graduate of Emma vilian decoration, the Order of the have built "a rancho type house." Willard School and Vassar College, 406 Cornell Alumni News Mrs. Kaufmann was formerly a re- 30th in June, 1949. The inspiration search assistant at the Carnegie Insti- and thrill of a few days back "on the tution of Washington, Cold Spring Hill" will more than repay the effort THE Harbor. This May she joins the Gen- of getting your calendar lined up to eral Electric Co., where her husband, be there. COOP a graduate of Dartmouth, is with the '22, '24 AB—Oliver D. Comstock COLUMN news bureau. has been appointed city manager at Bangor, Me. His address in Bangor is 501 French Street. '22 AB—Mrs. Roberta Quick Wood, who teaches French at Dana Hall, preparatory school for girls in Wel- lesley, Mass., is the author of The >18, '23 WA—Rodney M. Bliss is an French Club in High School, a hand- examiner with the Reconstruction Fi- book for teacher and students, which nance Corp. in Washington, D. C., and has been published by Banks Upshaw his address there is 811 Vermont Ave- & Co., Dallas, Tex. Daughter of the nue, NW. Before his assignment to late Robert W. Quick >94, she was Washington in 1946, he spent nearly elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi URING the past few weeks, ten years in RFC field offices in Little Kappa Phi and won the Courant D we've been reminded that Rock, Ark., and Louisville, Ky. French Prize while at Cornell. Cornell Reunions are just around '18 CE—Robert C. Edmunds, for- '24 AB—Mrs. Breed Robinson (Ida the corner. We've had requests merly with Central New York Power Breed), medical librarian at the Uni- for Reunion costumes and vari- Corp., is now with Empire State Asso- versity of Maryland in Baltimore, is ous other specialties and it looks making a survey of medical libraries ciation of Commerce, Inc., New York's as if a big Reunion is in prospect. chamber of commerce at a State level, in the United States at the request of as a regional vice-president. He lives the Medical Library Association, for If you have any problems about on Paris Road, New Hartford. which she acts as placement adviser. your costumes or about Cornell Report of the survey will be given at insignia, drop us a line. We're the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the right here "on the ground floor." Association this month, and will sub- sequently be published in the Bulletin You might be interested in a of the Medical Library Association. couple of sales that we are run- Mrs. Robinson's address is 2100 Mt. ning right now. Those Tile Wall Royal Terrace, Baltimore 17, Md. Plaques of the Library Tower '24 LLB—Victor O. Wehle, who haven't been as popular as we was appointed judge of the sixth judi- expected, so we've reduced the cial circuit of Florida in 1945 for the term ending 1949, has just been re- price from $1.00 to 69c. And nominated without opposition for an- then there are some Plastic Ash other six-year term. Wehle is currently Trays with the Cornell Seal that president of the St. Petersburg Coun- have been reduced from 50c to cil of Churches, the St. Petersburg 39c. Of course we've told you Navy League, and the Lutheran Wallace B. Quail, Class Correspondent Brotherhood of Florida. His office is about the Cornell Calendar for 503 S. Main St., Middletown, Ohio at 714 1st Federal Building, St. Peters- 1948—it's down to $1.29. '19 — Stanley Mott-Smith sends burg, Fla. Some bright boy has designed greetings from China. His air mail let- '25 AB; '05 AB—Henry E. Abt, a set of plaques bearing the coat ter was both interesting and beneficial. president of Brand Names Founda- of arms of each of the Ivy League It contained his check for $5.00 for tion, Inc., 119 West Fifty-seventh schools in full color and we have Class dues. Stan is in Taiwan (For- Street, New York City, was re-elected the Cornell Plaque and also the mosa) as a member of the American March 30 for a second one-year term. Advisory Group for the Taiwan Sugar At the same time, Wallace T. Holliday other seven in the set. You can Corp., engaged in the rehabilitation '05, president of the Standard Oil Co. buy any one of them that you and modernization of their sugar fac- of Ohio, was elected a vice-chairman want, or the complete set and tories. His brother, R. H. Mott-Smith of the board of the Foundation. Brand '24, is with him. They are associated they are $1.50 each, postpaid. τ Names is a non-profit organization w ith General American Transporta- supported by manufacturers, advertis- We hope that you are plan- tion Corp., and the address is 112 Yen ing media, and others associated with ning to be back for Reunions Ping Road (South), Taipei, Taiwan, the brand names method of distribu- and to drop in at the Co-op China. He would be delighted to hear tion. while vou are here. from old friends. Stan is currently '26 AB, '28 ME—Howard T. Zim- boasting of being a grandpa, and merman is treasurer and chief engineer modestly admits that his one-year-old of Ralph B. 'Carter Co., 192 Atlantic granddaughter is "very cute and 7 Street, Hackensack, N. J. He has two smart/ children: Howard Russ, eleven ye&rs THE CORNELL CO-OP This is the time of year when old; and Margaret Ann, six years. thoughts turn to June and to Class BARNES HALL ITHACA, N.Y. Reunions. It is not too early for each >27 DVM—Dr. William Caslick has one of us to make sure that no dates left Claiborne Stud, Paris, Ky., where are made which will interfere with our he has been resident veterinarian, to May 7j 407 devote more time to private practice and research in genital diseases and WHAT PARENTS SAY ABOUT proprietary medicines. He continues as consultant to Claiborne, however. CAMP OTTER (From unsolicited letters)

"I wish you to know how much Ernest has en- joyed Camp Otter for past two summers. He now feels at home in the woods. This is especially gratifying to me because as a boy two of my best summers were spent at Camp Otter." "He thoroughly enjoyed the summer and I feel I HOP ON THE '28 BANDWAGON | that it did him a lot of good."—Cornell '26 "He has had a grand summer. I can tell from '28 — Bud Ackerman has four kids, his letters that he enjoyed it tremendously and you certainly are to be congratulated in your handling three girls and a member of Class of of the boys."—Cornell '22 1964, and wife (original model, he "We have enthusiastic letters from Porter. states). Made explosives for US Rub- You'll be glad to know his reactions that its the ber during war, now back to old job as 'nuts' up here and the food is swell and he likes his counselor 'Don* too." president of Fine Colors Co., Pater- "I feel that David benefited very greatly from his son, N. J. summer at Camp this year. He is certainly very en- Milt Cooper claims a wife, Dorothy, thusiastic about it and is very anxious to return next year." and daughter Linda, five and a half. "Am so glad Jimmy is having such a grand time Still doesn't know why he wound up and thank you so much for being so kind to Jimmy in St. Petersburg four years ago, but and all of us."—Cornell '23 does know that Ithaca will look "Ted has been singing the praises of Camp Otter and relating the wonderful experiences he mighty good to him. had ever since his return home." Ranney Galusha, leading contender "Just a line to assure you that Bruce's summer for '28er with most children, will pop at Otter is repaying us a hundred per cent. He arrived home with more real boy cockiness and wife and five heirs into a trailer and self assurance than we would think possible to make a trial run in June from Cald- instill in one boy in a short summer." well, N. J., then on to Arizona and "Peter certainly is pleased with Camp. You have points west. — J.D.T. You can make any social gathering a wonderful camp, an ideal camp site/ and every- as gay as a wedding with Gold Seal thing boys like." '29 CE— Walter C. Knox, civil engi- "We do want you to know how very pleased neer for the Mobile District, Corps of Brut Champagne. World-famous we were that Rolf could have such a wonderful summer and the summer under your direction was Engineers, Department of the Army, for its delicate fragrance, fine most worthwhile." is office engineer on construction of bouquet and bubbling gaiety. "I feel very much that Jimmy got considerable Allatoona Dam, about forty-five miles good out of camp and I think he thoroughly en- northwest of Atlanta, Ga., on the joyed himself."—Cornell '25 Easier to serve than mixed Etowah River. The job, a $13,000,000 "I do not know how many years my boys have .drinks — and costs about been attending your Camp Otter but I realize flood control and power project, is that it is a very long time. The camp has served about half completed. Knox's address the same. a very useful purpose of carrying my boys through a period in their lives when I felt that camp life is US Engineer Office, Cartersville, Fermented in the bottle was important and facilities are just what boys Ga. Last October, Knox spent two need at that age." —the only correct way. nights in Norfolk, Va., with John H. "We were so pleased with the way Johnny looked and acted. People all over the neighbor- Priedeman '29, Mrs. Priedeman, and Write for our hood have remarked how well he looks, and to their three children. "Champagne Dinner'9 us there is a marked improvement in many of his characteristics." '30 BS— Benj'amin H. Detwiler of booklet "The kids arrived in good shape and are still 49 Beacon Hill Road, Port Washing- full of camp. There is no doubt about their having ton, has been appointed assistant vice- had a good time."—Cornell'18 president of the Farm Products Divi- "I cannot find words to tell you how fine we think Camp Otter is under your splendid manage- sion of the Borden Co. With Bor- ment. I had no idea any camp could offer such a den's for seventeen years and formerly splendid program as you give. Bill seems to be get- ting more out of his summer than we anticipated he with the Farm Products Division, he would." has more recently been on the staff of "I would like to take this opportunity of both William H. Marcussen ΊO, Borden reminiscing about Camp Otter and complimenting vice-president in charge of fluid milk you on the present day management."—CornelΓ24 operations. "We get happy letters from our boys. Bob writes 'There is awfully good food up here and '30 BS— Henry B. Williams, mana- plenty of it too'."—Cornell Ί1 ger of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in "As you know I went there for nine years and feel that it was a very important part of my educa- New York City, was appointed a di- tion. I think both boys expect to beat the old rector of the Waldorf-Astoria Corp. in man's record and their mother and I think it would be a very good thing for them if they do so." March. Williams is president of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen. Gold Seal 38th Season—July 3 to Aug. 27 '33 BChem, '34 ChemE— Edward NEW YORK STATE Send for 1948 Booklet B. Snyder and Mrs. Snyder of Brooke Road, Wayne, Pa., have a second son, HOWARD B. ORTNER '19 Edward B. Snyder, Jr., born October 132 LOUVAJNE DR., KENMORE 17, N.Y. 29. Their other son, Hugh, is four and a half. Snyder is plant technical direc- URBANA WINE COMPANY. INC., Hammondsport, N. Y. tor of the Kimble Glass Co. division 408 Cornell Alumni of Owens Illinois Glass Co., Con* shohocken, Pa. '34 CE—Louis S. Saxe married Here is Your Maxine J. Firestone of New York / Is This > City March 12. They are living at 299 West Twelfth Street, New York City TIMETABLE 14. Saxe is with the sales department ί The Right Career of the New York office of the US Ply- TO AND FROM ITHACA wood Corp. at 806 East 144th Street. I for He joined the firm three years ago. By Light Type, a.m. Eastern Std.Tίme Dark Type, p.m. Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. a previous marriage, he has a six-year- York Newark Phila. ITHACA old daughter, Suzanne Elizabeth Saxe. 9:55 10:10 10:05 5:24 Vγou? '34—Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shipe §9:25 §9:40 §9:12 °ί5:19 °t10:45 °#6:30 (Constance Slingerland), who live on tllrOO t10:00 the Mecklenburg Road, Ithaca, have Lv. Ithaca Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca a daughter, Jennifer Lee Shipe, born ί5:25 t8:35 9:10 12:01 #6:38 #9:30 7:30 10:35 "AA February 15. They have two other 5:30 8:25 iTly new career in children, William and Constance Ann. Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New life insurance selling '35 AB, ;37 LLB—William Massar ITHACA Phila. Newark York has brought me a high 12:07 7:30 7:34 7:50 income and many per- announced March 1 the opening of his y 10:49 6:45 6:44 7:00 offices for the general practice of law sonal satisfactions," says Fred Hardy of at 50 Broadway, New York City 4. ^Sunday only -\Daily except Sunday Montgomery, Alabama. "I can face the fu- ^Monday only #Daΐly except Monday ture with confidence now, and it makes me '36, '38 AB; '37 AB—Philip C. °New York-Ithaca sleeping car open for occupancy at New York 10:00 p.m. weekdays — May be happy to know that my work is guarantee- Burnham, Jr. and Mrs. Burnham occupied at Ithaca until 7:00 a.m. ing the financial security of many families (Elizabeth L. Floyd) '37 of 307 Boot ylthaca-New York sleeping car open for occupancy and individuals." Road, West Chester, Pa., have a sec- at 8:00 p.m. ond son, Charles Floyd Burnham, Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars, Cafe-Lounge Prior to joining The Mutual Life, born March 15. Their first is Philip C. Car and Dining Car Service Mr. Hardy spent 12 years in agricul- Burnham III. tural work. Though he was successful in his profession, he felt that another Lehigh Valley field of endeavor might offer him larger '38- CONGREGATE WITH '38! earnings and an opportunity to make Railroad full use of his abilities. '38 AB—Julia Sze is designer of costumes for the Broadway ^musical So, in April of 1943, he left his estab- show, "Angel In the Wings." She is lished career, and became a Mutual the daughter of Sao-ke Alfred Sze '01, Life Field Underwriter. That decision former Chinese Ambassador to the to change careers took courage, but it United States. There is a kind of murder that the has paid Mr. Hardy handsomely. '39 AB, '43 MD; '41 BS—A daugh- law can't touch! The doctor had Perhaps the field of life insurance ter, Kate Palmer Rose, was born said, "Excitement may kill him..." selling is the right career for you. This March 9 to Dr. Robert M. Rose and may be your opportunity to make the former Muriel Elliott '41, of 511 better use of your abilities. To prede- South Niagara Street, Tonawanda. DID THAT MAKE IT MURDER? termine your chances for success in this Beginning July 1, Dr. Rose will assume Read this exciting new novel tonigh t profitable field, simply spend 30 min- a chief residency in medicine on a utes—in your own home—taking the twelve-month appointment. Mutual Life Aptitude Test. If you '40—Informal get-together isplanned SABBATIC LEAVE qualify, our nearest manager will ex- plain the excellent on-the-job training at the Cornell Club of New York the By SHERMAN PEER '06 evening of May 12 to which all men of course we offer to help you become the Class of '40 are cordially invited. established. And your contract under In escaping from one death he be- the famous Mutual Lifetime Compen- At the March 16 dinner at the Cornell came involved in yet another. sation Plan provides liberal commis- Club, those present were Curt Alli- This is the story of a man who at ume, Wally Borker, Selly Brewer, Lyf sions, service fees and a comfortable retirement income. Cobb, Charlie Chittenden, Nick La- last found his v^ay to life and to Corte, George Mueden, Art Peters, love, and of the woman who Your starting point is the Aptitude Bud Seelye, Chuck Stewart, Bill helped him against his will. Drama Test. Send the coupon for it today. Thomas, Ray Vogel, and Don Weadon. — romance — excitement — This group served as a nominating tenderness—and a murder trial committee to elect Class officers by THE MUTUAL LIFE mail vote in the near future. Ballots which only a lawyer could write— INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK will be mailed along with the next Forty these are the elements which will 34 Nassau Street Alexander E. Patterson Forum. Nominations made were: presi- make SABBATIC LEAVE your NewYork5,N.Y. President dent, Chuck Stewart and Bill Worces- most enjoyable novel of the sea- ter; vice-president, Lyf Cobb and Dean Wallace; treasurer, Bud Seelye son. GENTLEMEN: Please send me your Aptitude Test. and Don Weadon; secretary, Selly At your favorite book store, $2.50 Brewer and Nick LaCorte.—Chuck Name Published by Stewart. BRUCE HUMPHRIES, Inc., Boston Home Address— '41 BS—Lieutenant Robert L. * Bartholomew, Supply Corps, USN, May 1,1948 409 son of Walter L. Bartholomew ΊO, children, Margaret Ann, age two and married Jane E. Creighton April 3 in a half, and Daniel Haley, age one year. Hartford, Conn. The couple are living I'll try to send Danny to Cornell, but at 2223 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, it's going to be some fight with the Pa. number of Buckeyes around." '42, '43 BS—Harold D. Haslett was '43 BS—Alfred W. Meyers is a dia- transferred March 1 from the petro- mond dealer in New York City, where leum branch to the egg marketing his address is 50 Park Terrace East. division, as assistant manager, of the '44, '46 AB—February 6, a son, GLF in Greene. A daughter, Lucile Thomas Jeffrey Friedlander, was born May Haslett, was born last May 30 to Roy I. Friedlander and Mrs. Fried- to him and Mrs. Haslett. They live in lander of 2134 East Twenty-second Greene. Street, Brooklyn. '42 AB, '47 LLB—John J. Kelly, '44—Jay B. Leviton, who took many Jr. and Mrs. Kelly of Apartment 13-1, 189-04 Sixty-fourth Avenue, Flushing, pictures for the ALUMNI NEWS, has a have a son, John J. Kelly III, born commercial and industrial photogra- phy business in Hines, 111. His address November 4. Kelly is an attorney with is PO Box 2603, Hines, 111. Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke & White- side in New York City. '44 AB—Betty H. Stone was mar- ried March 13 to Donald L. Clawson '42 AB—Elizabeth M. McCabe, who formerly was overseas with the and they live at 69 Eighth Avenue, New York City 14. Mrs. Clawson is a USO Camp Shows, has joined the probation officer for the Brooklyn production department of NBC Tele- Family Court. vision. She lives at 2 Orchard Farm Road, Port Washington, L. I. '44, '45 BS—Lynette A. Ward be- came engaged last October 14 to Dr. '43 BChemE—Robert T. Edmunds, Robert F. Witter, former research chemical engineer with the Norwich associate in the biochemical division Pharmacal Co., Norwich, "has finally of the Department of Food Science found a home for his wife and daugh- and Technology at the State Agricul- ter/' according to his father, Robert tural Experiment Station at Geneva, C. Edmunds '18. The home is at 80 where since August, 1945, she has been Elm Street, Norwich. a laboratory assistant in the bacteri- '43 BS—Charles H. Hunn, resident ological^ division of the same Depart- auditor at Hotel Hillcrest, Toledo 1, ment. The wedding will take place in Ohio, married Grace Dumm of Al- June. Dr. Witter received the BS at toona, Pa., December 27. A graduate the University of Illinois in 1940, the of Duquesne University and George- MS, then PhD in 1944, at the Uni- town School of Nursing, Mrs. Hunn versity of Michigan. He left the Station served three and a half years overseas last summer to become a research as- GtarttrU Club during the war, in England, Wales, sociate in the biochemical department and France. of the University of Rochester school '43 BS—Robert D. Ladd, son of the of medicine and dentistry. Miss Ward, of late Dean Carl E. Ladd '12, Agricul- who is the sister of Alwin J. Ward '43 ture, has joined the National Dairy and the niece by marriage of Dr. John Research Laboratory, a newly-organ- Sturrock '18, is leaving her position ized research center in Oakdale, L. I., this month to return to her home in as market analyst. "I see Cornellians Fillmore. inr about all the time," he writes. "In- '45, '44 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Edward cidentally, may I sound a note of Greenbaum, ' Jr. (Carol Baum) of praise and commendation for the work Larchmont Acres, Larchmont, have a of Paul Reyneau '13, manager of the daughter, Constance Lee Greenbaum, Nwn φorfe, N. 1. New York City Placement Service born March 16. This is their first child. office at the Cornell Club. He is doing '45 BS—Phyllis R. Storm is county a fine job. He doubles as unofficial in- home demonstration agent for St. formation source par excellence for all Lawrence County and her address is inquiries there also." Mrs. Ladd is the Box 86, Canton. From July to Decem- former Carol Bowman '43. ber she traveled in Brazil, spending Hemphill, Noyes <& Co. '43 BS—Robert J. Lehde of 2165 the months of October and November Seneca Street, Buffalo, started in in Rio de Janeiro where she taught English privately. Members New York Stock Exchange March as assistant planner for the 15 Broad Street New York Buffalo City Planning Commission. '45, '44 AB—Alma V. Morton was He received the Master's degree in married March 25 in Delta, Pa., to INVESTMENT SECURITIES city planning at Harvard last June. Vincent F. Blazie, a graduate of the Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton GrifFίs ΊO University of Minnesota where he is L. M. Biancke Ί 5 Willard I. Emerson Ί9 '43 BS, '46 DVM—Dr. Thomas J. Jansen Noyes, Jr. '39 Nixon Griff is '40 Love of Watkins Glen, veterinarian, now teaching. The Blazies live at 619 writes: "I am engaged in private prac- Eleventh Avenue, SE, Minneapolis BRANCH OFFICES 14, Minn. Albany, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia tice with my father-in-law, Dr. D. L. Pittsburgh, Trenton, Washington Haley, Ohio State '16. My wife, Mar- '45 BS in CE—N. Bruce Weir, who garet, Ohio State '43, and I have two attended Drexel Institute of Technol- 410 Cornell Alumni News ogy, Philadelphia, Pa., before he came to Cornell as a member of the V-12 Program, has returned to Drexel to continue his course in chemical engi- neering. After Cornell and receiving his commission, he was sent to Samar, Philippine Islands. Weir's address is Oakdale & Sylvania Avenues, Glen- side, Pa. '45, '44 AB, '48 MD—Dr. Harry L. Robinson began an interneship in sur- gery at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hos- pital in New York City after graduat- ing from the Medical College in March. Rogers Feet's good taste in fine '46 LLB—Norman J. Larkin has sports jackets comes from care passed the New York State Bar ex- in the selection of our sports amination and is now with the' law woolens, experience in correct firm of White & Case in New York styling along with unhurried City. His home address is 103-10 tailoring and skilled fitting. Queens Boulevard, L. I. Slacks that fit and feel '46 BCE—Edward H. Lannom, Jr. as right as they look—with is with Union Bag & Paper Co. in or without a jacket. Savannah, Ga., where his address is 107 West Liberty Street. December 6, he married June B. Fearnside of Palatka, Fla. '46 BS—Marion K. Seel of 184 Washington Street, Hempstead, L. I., is a correspondent for Doubleday Co., Inc. '46 AB—Beverly J. Smith of 3 Colonial Road, White Plains, writes In New York: And in Boston: that she is a gloves buyer. Fifth Avenue Thirteenth St. Warren Street Tremont St. at 41st Street at Broadway at Broadway at Bromfield St. '46 AB—Marion Hanna was mar- ried March 29 in Utica to Robert Earle of Baldwin, L. I., who is study- ing radio and dramatics at Adelphi Cornell University College, Garden City. They are mak- ing their home temporarily at 90 SUMMER SESSION Lewis Place, Rockvilie Centre, L. I. Mail may be sent to them at 40 Bald- July 6-August 14, 1948 win Avenue, Baldwin, L. I. Sister of Michael R. Hanna, general manager of University Stations WHCU and WHCU-FM, Mrs. Earle was on the staff of the Cornell Daily Sun and fea- ture editor of its wartime successor, the Cornell Bulletin; served as presi- dent of Raven and Serpent. Last year she was a continuity assistant at WHCU. Graduate and Under- '47 AB; '45, '44 BS—John P. Gush- graduate study in Arts ing, now a student in the School of Business and Public Administration, and Sciences,Education, and Mrs. Gushing (Marion Scott) '45 Engineering, Agricul- have a son, William Scott Gushing, ture, Home Economics, born May 11. The Cushings are living at 229 Veterans Place. Industrial and Labor '47—Margaret C. Parker of 37 Relations, Hotel Ad- Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, is em- ministration. ployed by the Otsego County Welfare Department in Cooperstown. • '47 AB—Engagement of Evelyn J. For Upperclassmen, Teachers, Weiner of 225 Eastern Parkway, and Graduate Students Brooklyn, to Morton Barrow has been announced. Barrow, a graduate of • Brooklyn College and Columbia law Write for Announcement school, is the brother of Ruth Barrow '47. May /, 1948 411 '47 BS—Georgia L. Franklin was '47 AB—Doris Y. Longman was Hopewell. The Krouts live in Apart- married December 27 to Arthur G. married March 14 in Society Hill, S. ment 28, City Point Inn, Hopewell, Va. Olsson and her address is now 6159 C., to Homer L. Krout of Hopewell '48 BME—Lucius B. Donkle, Jr., South University Avenue, Chicago 37, and Arlington, Va., who is studying originally a member of the Class of 111. She is an assistant nursery school business administration at the Univer- '44, joined The Air Comfort Corp., 816 teacher and her husband a graduate sity of Virginia. Since August she has North Kostner Avenue, Chicago, 111., student in philosophy at the Univer- been a chemist with the research divi- the Carrier distributor in that city, as sity of Chicago. sion of the Solvay Process Co. in a junior contract sales engineer after

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412 Cornell Alumni News graduating in February. He lives at Three of her etchings are in the President's office in the Administration Building, from 7321 South Shore Drive, Chicago 49, a collection which she presented to the 111. College of Architecture some years ago. The '48 AB—Meimi Joki has joined '91—James Meddick Drew of 1307 Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, as a Chelmsford Street, St. Paul, Minn., who NESBETT statistician in the paper planning de- formerly taught at the University of Min- partment of the company's largest nesota for forty years, April 5, 1948. He FUND plant, Kodak Park Works. From 1941- was assistant to the late Director Isaac P. Roberts of the Agricultural Experiment INCORPORATED 44 she was a stenographer with the Station. Mrs. Drew (Elsie Salisbury) '91 College of Engineering. died in 1945. Daughter, Mrs. R. K. Rich- Prospectus on request ardson (Helen Drew), PhD '38. '48 BS; '46 BS—James L. Smith is Managers and Underwriters student manager at Stouffer's Res- >96 ME(EE)—William Sumner Austin, consulting engineer, February 17, 1948, in taurant, Forty-second Street, New Baltimore, Md., where he lived at 2028 JOHN G. NESBETT & Co. York City. He and Mrs. Smith (Kath- Mt. Royal Terrace. INCORPORATED arine Messier) '46 live at 2919 Shore '97—Carl Woodrow Moulton of 304 Road, Brooklyn. North Fifth Street, Ironton, Ohio, in June, Investment Managers '48 BChemE—Calvin J. Kuhre is 1947. For twenty-one years he was an ac- Telephone 25 Broad Street countant and treasurer with Belfont Steel HAnover 2-2893 New York 4, N.Y. an engineer with the experimental & Wire Co. and later accountant and as- plants department of the Shell Devel- sistant treasurer with Heurite Products (John G. Nesbett '23) opment Co. in Emeryville, Cal. He Corp., both of Ironton. lives in Apartment 506, 315 Parkview '97—Auguste Leopold Saltzman of 731 Terrace, Oakland, Cal. , South Center Street, Orange, N.J., April 7, 1948. '48 MD; '34 AB, '44 LLB—Dr. Albert A. Plentl, who received the MD '98 AB—Dr. Willard Albert Barney, January 21, 1948, in Los Angeles, Cal., at the Medical College in March, has where he lived and practiced dentistry at BARR & LANE, INC. been appointed an assistant resident 2709 West Fifteenth Street. in obstetrics and gynecology at the ΌO LLB—Edward Harris, Rochester Presbyterian Hospital of the Colum- attorney for forty-three years and a mem- BUILDERS bia Medical Center in New York City. ber of the firm of Harris, Beach, Keating, Formerly an instructor in biochem- Wilcox & Dale, April 9, 1948. He was a istry at the College of Physicians and vice-president of the Security Trust Co. and Rochester Savings Bank and a direc- Surgeons, New York City, and a re- tor of American Machine & Metals, Inc., search chemist for the Du Pont«and Abstract Title & Mortgage Corp., and the American Cyanimide companies, Dr. Seneca Hotel. Harris directed YMCA Plentl received the degree of chemical activities at Fort Dix, N.J., during the first World War. Son, Edward Harris, Jr. engineer at Technische Hochschule in '38. Sigma Phi. Vienna, Austria, the AB at Amherst, New York '01 LLB—Judge Roy Verbeck Rhodes the AM at Princeton, the PhL> at Co- of 233 Hillside Road, South Pasadena, lumbia, and did graduate work at Am- Cal., January 10,1948. In 1939 he was ap- Ithaca Boston herst and the Sorbonne, Paris. During pointed a Superior Court judge by the his course at the Medical College he Governor of California. Delta Chi. continued his research, including some '01 AB—Alexander Norton Slocum work for the Sloan-Kettering Institute who had been in motion picture advertis- ing and had operated the Alexander Film Eastman, Dillon & Co of Memorial Hospital. At graduation, Co., Savannah, Ga., March 28, 1948. He MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE he was awarded the $500 Borden Co. had been living in Charlotte, N.C. From prize for undergraduate research. After 1915-20, Slocum was secretary of the Cor- Investment Securities finishing his clinical training, he plans nell Club of Western Pennsylvania. Sons, to continue his medical research. Dr. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander N. Slocum, DONALD C. BLANKE '20 Jr. '25 of the ROTC staff, and Albert P. Representative Plentl is a member of Beta Theta Pi, Slocum '28. Alpha Tau Omega. Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. '09 PhD—Chester Deacon Jarvis, for- the American Chemical Society. Mrs. mer director of agricultural training in the Plentl (Lauretta Robinson) '34, who US Bureau of Education, March 27, 1948, is admitted to practice before the New at his home in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Branch Offices York and Federal Bars, is with the Jarvis was professor of horticulture at the Philadelphia Los Angeles Chicago State Experiment Station, Storrs, Conn., Reading Easton Paterson Hartford law firm of Shearman & Sterling & and later was State director of the Agri- Wright, 20 Exchange Place, New York cultural Extension Service. In 1915 he was City. appointed to the Bureau of Education post which he held until returning to Can- ad^ in 1921. Brother, Tennyson D. Jarvis, RKO PATHE, INC. Sp '04. 625 Madison Avβ. 333 N. Michigan Avβ. Necrology >11 ME—Henry Edward Chambers, Jr., New York 22, N. Y. Chicago, 111. manager of the Dallas, Tex., office of A. M. STUDIOS: New York City Hollywood, Calif. Lockett & Co., Ltd., March 11, 1948Λ An '80 BS(S-L)—Gabrielle DeVeaux Cle- officer overseas in the Army Engineer Producers of Motion Pictures ments, artist and former teacher of art in Corps in World War I, he was called to for Philadelphia, Pa., and at Bryn Mawr active duty in ίhe last war and released Business—Industry—Institutions School, Baltimore, Md., March 26,1948, in with the rank of colonel in 1946. Training Merchandising Labor Relations Education Rockport, Mass., where she had spent the Ίl AB—Mrs. Mary Edgar Blood, wife Fund Raising Public Relations winter. She had murals in churches in Bal- of Harold L. Blood '13 of 8 Willowbrook "The Rooster Crows," our booklet on con- timore and Washington, D.C.; etchings of Lane, Worcester, Mass., March 5, 1948. tract pictures will be sent at your request Baltimore scenes in the public library there She was a former president of the Cornell PHILLIPS B. NICHOLS '23 and the Maryland State Museum, Anna- Women's Club of Chicago, III. polis; and other etchings in the Library Sales Manager of Congress and Smithsonian Institution. >12 ME—Sydney Buckminster Wight, May fy 1948 413 Jr., April 8, 1948, in Westport, Conn. Sig- four years, March 29, 1948, at his home, Hall was a captain in the Army Air Corps ma Alpha Epsilon. 42 Fountain Street, Clinton. An organizer Corps Ground Forces, spending three '13 BS, '14 MF—Clarence Scofield of the Oneida County Veterinarians Asso- years overseas in Africa and Italy. After ciation, he was a State veterinarian in his return, he bought the printing com- Hahn, consulting forester and forestry en- pany. Brother, George E. Hall, Jr. '26. Phi gineer, October 22, 1947. His work took 1923-24. Alpha Psi. him to British Columbia and the Pacific Kappa Sigma. Northwest; since 193&, chiefly in Oregon '20—Stephen Crane West, an attorney '38—William Baker Sherman of Chest- and Washington. Mrs. Hahn (Laura Leon- in Hempstead for twenty years, April 9, nut Street, Clinton, March 27, 1948, after ard) '15 lives at 1618 Twenty-seventh 1948, in Baldwin. He lived in Hempstead a long illness. Beta Theta Pi. Street, Milwaukie, Ore. at 51 Primrose Lane. '39—William McDonald Brown, Janu- '13 BS—Budd Hiram White of RD 28, '28 BS—Leonard Hewett Hall, March ary 21,1948, in Hollywood, Cal., where he Newfield, October 21, 1947. 23, 1948, in Madisonville, Ky., where he lived at 6931 Camrose Drive. He was a >15 DVM—Dr. Rpscoe Erie Davis, owned the American Printing Co. and lived partner in Brown & Linch Manufacturing Oneida County veterinarian for twenty- at 50 South Scott Street. During the war, Co. of Burbank, Cal.

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