University College and the Family Service Agency
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Letters To the editor: This reminiscence about the birth of the Yellowjackets might be of some interest to your readers. Unlike that of my cousin, "Spike" Garnish, and his sons, Dick ['51] and Jack ['49], my athletic career at Rochester was decidedly University of Rochester Winter 1979-80 undistinguished. In freshman baseball I gave "Doc" Walter Campbell fits as I lunged for misjudged fly balls in the outfield. In two successive years, torn knee ligaments pre Articles vented me from completing the track season. Finally, although only 145 pounds and 5'5Y2", I went out for football, of which I had Bees in the Bonnet 2 minimal knowledge, since at that time the The persistently lively ideas of a Nobel Prize Rochester high schools were restricted to winner soccer. I developed into one ofthe poorest subs on the worst team that Rochester had pro duced (a scoreless tie with Buffalo was the The Unruffled Composer 7 season's highlight!). About midseason I was at defensive back The Eastman School's Joseph Schwantner George Eastman, Art Collector 9 Travel Corner How this distinguished collection, now at the University's Memorial Art Gallery, came into being While all University alumni tours bring the opportunity to make comparisons in The Shattered Faith 15 international experience, it is difficult to in the Regeneration of Life imagine one that could offer more di mensions for comparison than the Istan An excerpt from Christopher Lasch's best bul-Danube River cruise oflast summer. selling book Istanbul, of course, offers its own brand of international contrasts and in trigue within a relatively small area. But Summer of '79 19 Americans traveling nearly the entire Elaine Sigler '51 writes about last summer's length of the Danube, on a Russian ship, Alumni University are amazed at the differences to be found among various Iron Curtain countries, which we often view as a monolithic bloc. While socialist doctrine and totalitarian order remain relatively constant (and the Departments olive-drab lookout posts along the river Letters 1 Alumnotes 29 all appear to be built under the same Travel Corner 1 In Memoriam 37 government contract), there are sizable differences in standards of living, politi News Digest 22 Identity Crisis 40 cal rhetoric, economic opportunity (even Alumnitems 27 shades of profit motive in some places), and freedom for ad-lib remarks by guides. For additional opportunities for inter national enlightenment, note the alumni tours offered for 1980: Cover: Joshua Reynolds, «Portrait ofMiss Hoare" George Eastman Collection ofthe University ofRochester Rochester Review. Winter 1979-80; Editor: Margaret Bond; Copy Editor: Vera M. Wasnock; Staff Artist: Shirle D. Zimmer; Staff Photographer: Chris T. Quillen; Alumnotes Editor: Barbara Powers. Published quarterly by the University of Rochester and mailed to all alumni. Editorial office, 107 Administration Building, Rochester, N. Y. 14627. Second-class postage paid at Rochester, N. Y. 14692. USPS 715-360 during a scrimmage when quarterback Harry Dandylions. But somehow the name that had received a law degree in 1954 and where I serve Trenholme plunged through the line. Having come to me on the spur ofan edi torial deadline on the Emory Council. been partly blocked out of the play, I made a stuck. Congratulations on the sustained high qual lunge for Harry's knees. His cleats came up Come on, you YelLowjackets! ity of your (our) publication. squarely into my chin and I was knocked cold. J. Howard Garnish '27 Robert W. Biccum '29 As I recovered consciousness I heard another Alexandria, Va. Atlanta, Ga. player yelling, "Turn him over! Turn him over! (Such efficient dismemberment deserves recog He's losing all his teeth!" Thatwas only aslight To the editor: nition. Biccum's extra copy has been dispatched exaggeration. The Fall 1979 issue ofRochester Review was to him.-Ed.) That ended my football career but not my of particular significance to me. Please send interest in athletics. I was on the staff of The me another copy. I had to cut up mine to send: To the editor: Campus, the weekly newspaper, assigned to The article on Dr. Dudley Powell to the local For the last one and a half years, I have not writing editorials. Before the team went to chapter ofPlanned Parenthood, ofwhich I am been able to receive Rochester Review due to Troy I wrote what I considered an inspirational immediate past president. the confusion in Uganda, ending with the editorial which ended: "Come on, you Yel The article on Ed Gibson to my space file. removal from power of Idi Amin. lowjacket -on to Rensselaer!" The article on Bob Moehlman and the one My new address is below. That started campus arguments. At the time on Professor Lubin and his laser to my son, I look forward to your continued good there was a pro team known as the Pittsburgh who is with the federal energy agency. service to all of us. Yellowjackets, and some students thought it The one on handicapped students to the S. Kahumabakiiza '70 would be better to call Rochester teams the long-range planning committee of United Lake Katwe, Uganda Way of Atlanta, of which I am a member. And the one on Lewis Beck to the alumni office of Emory University, from which I Israel-February 10-18 Egypt-London-October 17-31 Four days in Jerusalem and three days in Five nights in Cairo, four on the Nile Tel Aviv in deluxe hotels, with air fare, River cruising from Luxor to Aswan, transfers, and baggage handling in with one night in London en route (to cluded. Departure from and return to break up the long trip to Egypt) and three iagara Falls via TransAmerica charter. days and nights in London on return. Round-trip bus transportation, Roches Scheduled BAC 747 flight from New York ter-Niagara Falls, provided at cost. Op City and return; deluxe hotels and tional tours in and out ofmajor cities and breakfasts in Cairo and London; accom dine-around program for meals avail modations with private bath, all shore able. $711.85 complete. excursions to major historic sights, tem Russia-June 15-28 ples, and Aswan high dam, and all meals Two days and nights in Moscow, two in on cruise; three special receptions; bag Odessa, seven days and six nights cruising gage handling and transfers are included. the Dnieper River on a newly commis One ofthe pleasures oflast summer's $2,249 complete. sioned ship, and, as a finale, two days and Danube River cruise was the exotic For further information on alumni nights in Kiev. River visits in the heart architecture along the way. (Photo tours, write or phone John Braund, of the Ukraine include Kherson, Zapo by John Braund.) Alumni Office, University of Rochester, rozhye, Kanev, Svetlovodsk, and Sokirno. Rochester, N.Y 14627, (716) 275-3682. Scheduled Finnair flights to and from ew York City, hotels, all meals, and shore excursions included. $1,499 and $1,699 complete (depending upon ship accommodations). Bees in the Bonnet The persistently lively ideas of a Nobel Prize winner By Laurence Cherry What happens when a famed molecular biologist visits the campus? Quite a lot, as this account indicates. "I'm very upbeat about the future. For Edelman carne to Rochester under the "It's a bold and innovative variation on the first time now, we really have the tools auspices of the Camille and Henry the usual kind of academic exchange." and the concepts to start grappling with Dreyfus Foundation, established over 30 All too often, visiting lecturers arrive at some of the most basic scientific prob years ago to promote chemistry and the invitation ofa single faculty member, lems. I think the next 10 years are going to biochemistry as a means "of improving deliver one or two lectures, and then see some very impressive accomplish human relations and circumstances quickly depart. Edelman's lengthier visit ments indeed." throughout the world." Last year, the was intended to provide a more intensive The speakeris Dr. Gerald M. Edelman, Foundation began an ambitious program and more fruitful exchange. Over the famed molecular biologist, Vincent to improve the interchange between dis course of several days, the 50-year-old Astor Professor at Rockefeller Univer tinguished scientists and various colleges scientist met members of most of the sity, andwinner ofthe 1972 Nobel Prize in and universities. Fourteen institutions University's science faculties at the River physiology, who arrived on campus this around the country were selected to Campus and Medical Center, conducted past October for a busy week-long visit as receive a Dreyfus Distinguished Lec two seminars on the behavior of cells, the University's Dreyfus Distinguished turer. "I'm very proud that Rochester was met with undergraduates, gave a well Lecturer. one," says Provost Richard D. O'Brien. covered news conference, and delivered 2 a major public lecture to an overflow mon cold to major disease. In addition, lative. "You take a rather great hazard audience in Hubbell Auditorium. like a gracefully efficient host, it seems to when you propose a grand theory in The unexpectedly great interest, even oversee the continual conversation tak biology," he told his packed audience. excitement, stirred by Edelman's visit-a ing place among the trillions ofcells that '~ .. But I want to pursue one tonight. It's kind more often associated with a famous make up the body. This constant chat the bee in my bonnet-which can mean political figure or celebrity artist than a ter-carried out in a language ofcomplex anything from a crazy notion to a persis biologist-probably resulted in part from chemical codes-insures that cells work tently lively idea." Edelman's personal renown as a re together as a smoothly functioning unit.