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President Emeritus Malott Dies at Age 98 WELCOME HOME Alumni and friends return to campus this weekend and will enjoy a full slate of CORNELL Homecoming events. GOOD FOOD, GOOD MEDICINE Phytochemist finds Uganda's gorillas may self-medicate with bacteria-fighting fruit. Volume 28 Number 5 September 19, 1996 Vet incinerator President Emeritus Malott dies at age 98 permit process is suspended at CD request At the request of Cornell, the permitting process for the replacement incinerator at the university'S College of Veterinary Medi­ cine has been sus­ pended by the New York State Depart­ ment of Environmen­ tal Conservation (DEC), and the uni­ versity is invitingcom­ munity and campus Loew groups to participate in an advisory committee on the project. In response to a number of concerns voiced by community members, Cornell asked the State Uni­ versity Construction Fund (SUCF), lead Craft agency on the project, to request that the DEC delay the process until additional data on a number of ques­ tions can be generated and evaluated. The permitting process was halted Aug. 7. Cornell is in the process ofreaching out to . Robert Barker/University Photography community and campus organizationsto join Comell President Emeritus Deane W. Malott acknowledges a Barton Hall audience during inaugural ceremonies a community advisory committee that will for President Hunter Rawlings on Oct. 12, 1995. discuss all aspects of the incinerator issue. Franklin M. Loew, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Harold D. Craft, Cornell vice president for facilities and cam­ He is remembered for his energy and vision pus services, will co-chair the committee. "The university is fully willing to enter Deane W. Malott, Cornell president President Hunter builder of the intellectual landscape that from 1951 to 1963,diedWednesday, Sept. Rawlings said, characterizes Cornell today. I feel privi­ into a dialogue with members ofthe campus 11, at his home in Ithaca. He was 98. "Deane Malott will leged to have known Deane Malott, even community and our neighbors concerning Malott became Cornell's sixth presi­ be remembered by though for all too brief a time, and [ was the environmental and public-health issues associated with the project," Loew said. dent in 1951. He presided over a period some as a builder of delighted that he was a part f my inaugu­ "Community concerns are important, and ofrapid expansion ofthe university in the buildings - for ral ceremonies last October." the advisory committee provides a formal post-World War II years. Under his di­ teaching, for re­ President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, way of integrating those concerns." rection, Cornell's budget grew from $42 search, for student Rawlings' predecessor, said, "Deane "We intend to discuss all aspects of the million at the start of his tenure to $110 housing and other Malott was oneofCornell'sgreatest presi­ million, faculty salaries increased by more Malott pressing needs ­ dents. He brought new energy, new vision project with the committee. We take the community concerns seriously, and it is our than 60 percent and growth in sponsored which literally transformed the Cornell and new support to the university in every intention to be responsive to the advice" that research grew from less than $15 million campus during his presidency. But he area of its life and work, and he did it with the committee members offer, Craft and to more than $45 million annually. will be remembered far longer as the Continued on page 4 Loew write in their letters being sent to Continued on page 2 Entomologist identifies Asian beetle threatening Brooklyn shade trees By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. It did not have a ticket to ride. "I don't know how it got here from Asia," Hoebeke said. "As if the trees in an A tree won't grow in Brooklyn. urban environment are not traumatized enough as it is. Cornell scientists have confirmed what they believe is This doesn't bode well for a tree that is under a lot of the first known infestation of an Asian long-horned beetle, pressure to grow." Anop/ophora g/abripennis, a large beetle that is attacking New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation Brooklyn's horse-chestnut and maple tree population. sent samples ofthe beetles to Carolyn Klass, Cornell Coop­ The Norway maple is the most planted shade tree through­ erative Extension entomologist in Ithaca, to determine the Out New York state. species. Klass had not seen the species before and showed This beady-eyed beetle, about l-inch long, has coal­ it to her colleague, Hoebeke. ?Iack wing covers sprinkled with startling white spots, and "I gasped when I saw it," Hoebeke said. "I knew this Its black-and-white antennae are long and impressive. The wasn't a species native to North America." beetle is not harmful to humans, but it was found devastating These beetles might prove to be the ultimate Brooklyn trees in the Greenpoint neighborhood ofnorthern Brooklyn. dodgers. Short of cutting down the maple and horse-chest­ U.S. border entrances are jealously guarded to keep such nut trees, there is little that can be done to curb the Greenpoint pests from infiltrating this country. Native to Japan, Korea infestation, Hoebeke said, adding that there are no known Charles Harrington/Unh'ersity Photography and the southern sections of China, this is the first time this natural predators. An Asian long-horned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, discovered recently in Brooklyn, on a beetle has been seen outside of Asia, said E. Richard For back-up species confirmation, Hoebeke sent speci­ cross-section of a tree it has damaged. The large !-Ioebeke, Cornell senior extension associate and assistant mens to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pitts­ holes the beetle creates inhibits the tree's vascular Curator in entomology. Colltillued on page 6 system and ultimately kills the tree. 2 September 19, 1996 Cornell Chronicle Incinerator cofltinued from page 1 Cornell in times past 'Co unity concems are i rt nt, nd t dvi ory co itt.. provides a fonnal ay of 'ntegr ting tho c c ms.' - Franklin M. Loew roup invited to end a representative. ong those being invited to appoint a rcpr ntative are: the Tompkins County BoardofRepresentatives; IthacaTown Board; For t Home Improvement sociation; Cornell Greens; United Progr ives; Stu- nt ·embly. Employee embly, Uni- "e~it mbly, Graduate and Professional tud nt mbly and Faculty Senate; Citi- z n Concern d bout Regulated Medical 'te; uthern Tier Veterinary Medical iati n; Cornell-lthaca afety Commit- t : T mpkins County iety for the Pre- enti nofCrueltytoAnimal ;and ewYork Farm Bureau. The committee will meet as n i membership i e tabli hed. Th committee will ha e the opportunity to d fine it areas of concern. "We have purpo. ly left the proce as open as pos­ Division ofRare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library ible," Craft id. "The committee's work This photo, taken in the 1930sduring an unidentified event - possibly related to Commencement- shows Bailey Hall ill riou ly influence Cornell' decision. in the background, Liberty Hyde Bailey's Model Schoolhouse and Lua Minns' Garden, now the site of Malott Hall. o i ue related to the incinerator is outside the cop of the committee' interest." Cornell has been working with SUCF ince 1991 to plan and construct an up­ graded, tate-of-the-art replacement incin­ erator for the College of Veterinary Medi­ Cornell community asked to pitch in for United Way cineoncampu .Theproposedfacility would Dear CoUeagues: Theselocal agenciescovera wide rangeof incorporate the late t pollution-control de- Cornell United Way campaign infor­ This year's 75th anniversary celebration needs met by the United Way funds. Member ice and be the third in a serie ofincinera­ mation is available on the Web at <http:// of the Tompkins County United Way has organizations are numerous and diverse (39 t on the ite that have been burning the www.gsm,comell.edu/unitedway/> or specificsignificance to Cornell-it marks the agencies, offering over 100 programs), in­ college' medical wasteforalmost40 years. from Rhonda Velazquez at <rhv2@ numberofyearsthat the university has played cludingagencies such as Literacy Volunteers Theuniversity' objective isto providethe oomeU.edu> or by phone at 255-6418. an active role in promoting our community'S ofTompkinsCounty, Boy ScoutsofAmerica cl an t and mo t effective replacement fa­ well-being through this vital community or­ that Cornell is the largest employer in the and Ithaca Rape Crisis, to name a few. Many cilit in ord r to protect the health and safety ganization. Be it with the early days when county, it seems to me, as a relative new­ Cornell employees, or their families, experi­ of its tuden ,faculty and taff, as well as faculty volunteers wrote polite letters to their comer, that we could do better. ence firsthand the benefits of these agencies residents ofthe urroundingcommunity.The colleaguessolicitingpledges, ortoday as uni­ The Tompkins County United Way is an and programs through services they them­ f ilityw uldincinerateanimalremainsfrom versity employees opt to have their pledges organization whose collected funds go to selves use. th eterinary college, as well as from the automaticallydeducted from payroll, Cornell service agencies that directly affect the com­ Taking these facts into account, Jhave to unty PCA and local veterinarians. has always been a major contributor to and munity. When money raised by the United wonder why we have let our participation currently designed, the replacement partnerofthe United Way. I note that overthe Way is given to agencies such as the Ameri­ decline. Wehaveevery reasonto continueour in inerator would have the capacity to de­ past few years, however, there has been de­ can Red Cross, Alcoholism Council and long-held partnershipwith the UnitedWay.
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