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most satisfactory as weed killers. Current Research in Agriculture While the new method cannot be used on many vegetables, it is notably suc- BY CARL E. F. GUTERMAN, PHD '30 cessful on carrots. The oil sprays kill INCE it is the primary function of ered. The land in many of the counties the weeds without injuring the young S the Agricultural Experiment Sta- of the State has thus been classified carrots, thus saving a tremendous tion to find solutions to the scientific according to how good a living a farm- amount of hand labor. problems of New York State farmers, er can make if he depends wholly on Operators of greenhouses have also and since food is basic to the war the farm. With this research informa- been faced with serious labor short- effort, the research program of the tion available, it seems probable that ages. Since a large part of the labor in Station has naturally concerned itself many of the tragic mistakes following the greenhouse is used in watering with the more pressing problems of the last war can be averted. plants, attention has been focussed on agricultural production. Many prob- this problem. Benches have been re- lems involving shortages of labor, Discoveries Save Labor designed and waterproofed, and it is equipment, and materials have been Shortages of labor have again been now possible, with the aid of tensi- acute, and prompt action in their solu- of serious concern to farmers in their ometer gauges and time clocks, to tion has been imperative. By shifting efforts to increase food production. provide for complete automatic water- personnel and facilities, and with a With farm wage rates at a record high ing of greenhouse bench crops. considerable body of facts available level, work-simplification research has A new development of great signifi- from previous research, the Station been most timely in helping to increase cance to Mclntosh apple growers has staff has managed to find answers to labor efficiency. On dairy farms, labor been announced recently. Unless the most of the emergency problems can be saved by arranging stables for fruit of this variety is well-colored, it brought in by farmers during the year. maximum convenience in doing the fails to meet the grade standards, with Along with projects related directly work, by using equipment, such as consequent loss in price to the farmers. to the war effort, some progress has feed carts, to save time and trips, by All too frequently, there are too many been made in research of a more training cows to milk out completely green Mclntosh apples. Research has fundamental and basic character. At- and rapidly, and by planning the chore shown that weather and the nitrogen tention has also been given to postwar routine to avoid back-tracking and level of the trees at harvest time are problems and adjustments. If farmers other unnecessary trips. On poultry the two factors of most importance in are to avoid a postwar jolt similar to farms, wprk accomplishment can be determining Mclntosh quality and that in the years following World War increased by having large pens, com- color. Nothing can be done about the I, it is clearly the task of the experi- bining jobs to save trips, having a (Continued on page 112) ment stations to anticipate the prob- convenient feed supply for each pen, lems and to supply farmers with ac- placing nests near the door through Professor Guterman has been Director curate research results which will which the operator enters the pen, and of Research in the College of Agriculture arranging for an automatic water sup- since that position serve as the basis for making sound was created, July decisions. ply and waste-disposal system that 1, 1942, and is Di- can be used during winter as well as rector of the Uni- Research Projects Listed summer. versity Agricul- In peach production, it is usually tural Experiment Illustrative of the Station's con- Station. He came tributions to the agricultural problems necessary to hand-thin the trees to to Cornell as a of today and tomorrow are the follow- produce commercial-sized fruits and graduate assistant ing examples. A more complete cover- to encourage wood growth for the next in Plant Pathol- ogy in September, age of the research program is con- crop. It requires twenty-five to forty 1925, having re- tained in the annual reports of the man-hours to hand-thin an acre of ceived the BS in State Colleges of Agriculture and mature peach trees, depending on the June at Massa- Home Economics to the Governor size and height of trees and the amount chusetts Agricul- and the Legislature of the State. of fruit set. Recent experiments with tural College. For three years, 1927-30, he held a fellowship Discharged veterans, men still in dinitro chemicals have shown that an for investigating lily diseases, and in 1930 the armed forces, and war workers are acre of trees can be chemically thinned he received the PhD and was appointed becoming increasingly interested in with a bloom spray in about an hour. assistant professor of Plant Pathology. The spray is applied when the trees From 1933-36 he was assistant to the farms and farming opportunities in Dean and Director of Experiment Sta- New York State. Many veterans reach approximately full bloom. tions, and in 1936 was appointed professor bought farms after World War I. Too Another labor-saving discovery of of Plant Pathology and Assistant Director many of the farms purchased were this year has been the use of oil sprays of the University Experiment Station. He is a member of Kappa Sigma, Gamma Al- poor and overpriced and the owners for weed control. First developed in pha, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi. His faced nothing but trouble, debt, and the West, the method has been adapted and Mrs. Guterman's daughter, Phyllis eventual failure. For the last fifteen to the East through research at th§ M. Guterman, is a Junior in Home Eco- years, land-classification studies have Cornell Station. Of the materials nomics. been underway. Such factors as use- tested, kerosene from naphthenic This report will appear as the section on research in the annual report of Dean fulness for agriculture, soil type, cli- crude, certain dry-cleaning fluids from William I. Myers >14 of the College of mate, distance from markets, and con- the same crude oil, and paraffinic kero- Agriculture, which will be published in the dition of buildings have been consid- sene with aromatic solvent seem to be Report of the President for 1944-45. Back Moakley House famous runners he has developed. Be- sides the murals, Quill and Dagger has Day in Detroit IFTS and many letters of com- made a cash gift of $1,000 towards RESIDENT Edmund E. Day told G mendation continue to come construction of the building. Pof plans for the new State School from alumni for Jack Moakley House, of Industrial and Labor Relations at the new sports training building, ac- Dr. Hυ' 14 Serves China the University at a dinner given by cording to James Lynah '05, chairman the Cornell Club of Michigan, Sep- of the committee which is raising U SHIH '14, distinguished philos- tember 19 at the University Club in $200,000 to construct the building. At H opher and former Chinese Am- Detroit. press time, the fund had reached bassador to the United States, has Taking his text from the current $58,400, and the architect, F. Ellis been elected president of National wave of labor strife in Detroit, Presi- Jackson '00, is proceeding with plans Peking University, it was announced dent Day declared: "Individuals, for the building to be named for the in Chungking, September 5. He will groups, or nations that suddenly gain University's veteran track coach. return to China next March. Mean- great power often abuse it. That's hu- William W. Rutter, Williams Col- while, he will be a delegate of the man nature. Federal policy has given lege '99, writes to President Edmund Chinese National Government to the labor vast new power, first the exercise E. Day, enclosing an article by Allison United Nations conference on educa- and then the abuse of which lets us in Danzig '21 about Jack Moakley House tion which opens in London Novem- for somewhat of a devastating war- in the "Sports of the Times" column ber 1. fare. More enlightened, fair, and up- of The New York Times. Rutter sug- At his Twenty-five-year Class Re- right leadership in labor and industry gests that one of the memorial bed- union dinner in Ithaca in June, 1939, is needed. One of the safest bets is to rooms in Jack Moakley House be Dr. Hu was presented a scroll by his depend on education for the long named for Brigadier General Joseph Classmates, "as a token of respect for haul." W. Beacham '97, USA (ret), and cites his eminent achievement. Master alike of the ancient wisdom of his native The Michigan Club has scheduled "the most outstanding act of sports- dinners the third Wednesday of each East and of the critical methods of manship that I ever witnessed in a month, at which men prominent in Western scholars, he has led the way football career that embraced two Detroit are guests. Speaker October years on Lawrenceville School elevens to the accomplishment within a single generation of a revival of learning in 17 will be Alumni Trustee Larry E. and four years at Williams." Gubb '16, chairman of the Philco China. His plan for applying modern "In the Cornell-Williams game of Corp., on "Radar and Television." 1896, played at Buffalo," Rutter critical principles to the study of his writes, "Joe Beacham '97 was the Cor- country's heritage of philosophy and nell captain. Towards the end of the poetry, and at the same time cultivat- California Elects game, the referee awarded a fumbled ing the spoken language of the Chinese FFICERS of the Cornell Club of ball, recovered by Beacham, to Cor- instead of perpetuating an archaic O Northern California for 1945-46 nell. If retained by Cornell, it meant idiom, has unlocked a treasure and are Francis H. Boland '92, succeeding almost certain victory for your team. created a new literature. Cornell Uni- Seibert L. Sefton '29 as president; Despite the referee's decision and in versity's pride in owning Dr. Hu Shih Garfield T. Morris '04, vice-president; the heat of a very close game, Beacham as an alumnus is heightened by aware- Eugene C. Kinnear '07, secretary- took one player's word that '.down' ness of his sure place in the esteem of treasurer. Elected to the board of had been called before his recovery of scholars far and near. It is an added governors are Edward J. Torney '00, the ball, and instantly returned it to satisfaction to welcome him as the Henry L. Chase '02, George S. Lacy Williams. The result was a tie game, Ambassador of the Friendly People of '04, Emanuel Fritz '08, and Richard but Beacham's sense of fair play has China to the United States." E. Macey '43. Receiving the AB in February, 1914, remained in my mind for nearly forty- The Club meets for lunch the first nine years. In years of play against he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was secretary and president of the Wednesday of each month at the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Commercial Club, 465 California Amherst, etc., I never witnessed an Cosmopolitan Club. He addressed the convention of the Cornell Alumni As- Street, San Francisco, Cal. All Cor- act of moral courage to compare in nellians in that vicinity are invited. any football a game. ... To me these sociation in Boston, Mass., November things mean more than victory and I 15, 1940, on "The Place of the Alumni want Cornell to know what manner Organization in the History of Uni- Nurses Graduate of man Joe Beacham was. . ." versities." /CORNELL University-New York Memorial bedrooms, each named Columbia University announced ^* Hospital School of Nursing gradu- for a person famous in Cornell ath- September 22 that Dr. Hu would ated fifty-one nurses September 25, letics and provided at cost of $2,000, teach a course there this winter on the with exercises in the Nurses Residence have been announced for Clyde P. history of Chinese thought. on York Avenue, New York City. Johnson '93 and Robert H. Treman Langdon P. Marvin, president of '78, Varsity baseball captains; for the Society of the New York Hospital Charles E. Treman '78, Frank H. and chairman of the New York Hos- Teagle '02, and William H. Forbes pital-Cornell Medical College Associa- '06, who fostered rowing; and for tion, presented the graduates with di- Frank Sheehan, Varsity trainer for plomas and School pins. President many years. Others will be added as Edmund E. Day conferred the BS in funds are provided. Nursing on members of the Class who Quill and Dagger, Senior honor came to the School with at least two society, through its alumni treasurer, years of college work. Professor Charles V. P. Young '99, Commencement address was de- will decorate the lounge of Jack livered by Dean William F. Russell Moakley House with photographic Dr. Hujδhih '14 with President Edmund '10 of Teachers College, Columbia murals portraying Mr. Moakley's E. Day and his son, Tsu-Wang Hu, who University, son of James E. Russell'87, career at Cornell, with many of the received the BME in May, 1942. dean-emeritus of the college. 102 Cornell Alumni News Two of the graduates were students at Ithaca: Muriel H. Clark '44 of Ithaca who received the BS in Nurs- ing; Lois Myers '45 of Scipio Center. Now in My Time!

North County Women By WELVE members of the Tri- TCounty Cornell Women's Club SEPTEMBER slipped by again A university can be a crucible in met for luncheon September 22 at the & as another meaningless month. which one may see in miniature all Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls. Mrs. It came after August and before the restless seething that is going Malcolm M. Parrish (Elsa Cornell) October, but that's about all there on in the thinking and the striving '15, president of the Club, welcomed was to distinguish it from any other of the nations. As long as the war two new members, Helen M. Fitz- month. was on, we too were pretty nice gerald '45, who teaches English at We missed it. We missed the an- - people here at Ithaca. Under the Hartford Central School, and Anne nual reawakening. A year at Ithaca stimulus of common funk, we Keenan '45, English teacher at Lake without September is like a year at achieved new peaks in common ef- George Central School. any other place from which Christ- fort; we accepted with docility the mas and the spring have been necessary inconveniences incident omitted. to a military occupation, cheerfully Alumnus Attends Tojo Universities need frequent breaks we bought bonds, abjured red ASSOCIATED Press dispatch from in their routine. They need the meat, and taught trigonometry. /~Y Tokyo September 12, reporting periodic repetitions of such annual We performed our daily functions former Japanese premier Hideki To jo's phenomena as September, and by the numbers, and briskly trod bungled suicide, placed on the scene going home for Christmas, and familiar Campus paths to the un- a Cornellian of the Class of 1924: Spring Day houseparties, and the familiar urge of an all-pervading 1'General MacArthur's personal phy- June Reunions. Without them, "Hep!" sician, Colonel Roger 0. Egeberg, of they have a tendency to become But now that timidity has de- South Euclid, Ohio, rushed to Tojo's fretful and small-minded and doubt- parted from our lives and we no bedside to join the fight for his life." ful of their own assured destiny. longer live under an unspoken Colonel Egeberg received the AB Each of those recurring episodes dread, we find that we're a little in 1925, the MD at Northwestern records an end and a beginning. sick of being noble. In common University in 1929. Sent to Australia Take them away, and the academic with all other peoples and nations, shortly after Pearl Harbor as a major year becomes an uncharted jour- we long for a truce to lofty aims in the Medical Corps, he was named ney, unmarked by intermediate and good works. We'd relish a by General MacArthur as personal milestones against which the way- momentary respite in which to re- physician to his family and staff. Be- farer may measure his advance and sume our old accustomed mean- fore the Leyte invasion, MacArthur be convinced that he's made a little nesses, suspicions, and selfish striv- transferred him to duty as his per- progress. ings. We'd welcome back the sonal aide, in which capacity Colonel September was — and will be breakfast irritations of the Cornell Egeberg has served the Supreme again, no doubt — the academic Daily Sun, the rumors of unre- Command throughout his campaign. spring, heralded by the unobserved strained houseparties. In short, it's arrival overnight of the Cornell a return to a complete normality Daily Sun board, the football corn- that we long for. That's the itch Jersey Wants Men pets, and the Student Laundry we can't quite scratch. /CORNELL Clubs all over the coun- agents. First these, and then some (You notice that we said "nor- ^ try are intensifying their activities morning unaware burst forth the mality"! A generation that was this fall, with the war ended and in- overcrowded trolley cars, transfer schooled in the ateliers of W. creasing numbers of alumni returning wagons toiling up the Hill under Strunk, Jr. and Martin Sampson from the armed forces. small mountains of trunks, the in- remains capable of carrying its One of the most active is the Cor- coming Freshman Class, and fra- nouns through to a happy conclu- nell Club of Essex County, N. J., ternal rush committees looking sion, and without having them which according to its corresponding over the new stock with a view to catch infectious suffix trouble at secretary, Chester W. Ludlow '24, purchase and possession. the moment of arrival.) "is embarking upon its new 1945-46 Of course, there have been no It will take some little time, no year of activities, and with the end of crowded trolley cars for years and doubt, to bring about the orderly the war, reconversion of our Club years, or even empty ones; and one evacuation of the Army, the Navy, back to normal, and THEN SOME, is must be pretty well along to recall and the Marine Corps, and the re- foremost in the minds of our mem- baggage wagons toiling up State turn of the Mummy Club. But the bers." The Club invites all Cornell Street to Eddy under a small reconversion might be accomplished men who live in Essex County to make mountain of trunks. But that was in time to give us back a two-week themselves known by communicating the fascination of September at Christmas vacation and after that by mail or telephone, either with Ithaca to old timers capable of ob- a return to the leisurely routine in William F. Stuckle '17, president, 13 serving in the current scene their which the Campus dweller had Wendover Road, Montclair, phone own arrival in another era that time, blessed time, to invite his Montclair 2-9879; Chester W. Lud- knew trolleys and was acquainted soul, contemplate the annual mira- low '24, corresponding secretary, 572 with trunks. They could watch cle of the September reawakening, Highland Avenue, Newark, phone what is, against the remembered discuss the changeless shortcom- Humboldt 3-5294; or Myles T. Mac- background of what was, and from ings of our fraternal organizations, Mahon '37, membership chairman, 17 the resulting blur venture shrewd and go pike fishing off the Salt Belleclaire Place, Montclair, phone guesses on what was yet to be. Block! Montclair 2-3930. October 15, 1945 103 The heavier Sub Base eleven pound- ed downfield after the next kickoff, but Cornell held for downs on the 14- Slants on Sports yard line in an amazing defensive ex- hibition against the behemoths from New London. Cornell scored in three plays, Rakoski picking up thirty-five Team Wins Two bounds on the 7-yard stripe. Dekde- yards through the middle, the visitors brun went back to kick, but the pass contributing fifteen yards on a pen- ARSITY football team won its from center was wide and an auto- Vfirst two home games, conquering alty, and Laux, taking a behind-the- matic safety, worth 2 points, was line lateral from Dekdebrun, wheeling Bucknell in a close contest, 19-8, and scored for Bucknell. outmaneuvering the US Submarine around left end to score from the 36- The visitors then marched fifty- yard line. Skawski's placekick missed. Base eleven from New London, Conn., two yards for a touchdown, with 39-0, to run its victory string for the Early in the second period, Dekde- Allen, fullback, crashing over from brun ran a punt to midfield and Cor- season to three straight. The Buck- the 2-yard line. nell game September 29 was played on nell scored on pass plays, two Sub Another bad pass from center, this Base penalties, and Skawski's touch- slippery Schoellkopf Field, with the time on fourth down, cost Cornell temperature dropping down toward down run through center from sixteen possession of the ball on its 18-yard yards out. Dekdebrun tried to pass freezing after an early rain. The Sub- line. A penalty set Bucknell back to marine Base contest was played in for the extra point, but the ball was the 46, but Hall threw a pass to Ru- knocked down. Less than three min- sunny, warm weather October 6. Ap- tan, who ran to the Cornell 7-yard proximately 4,000 saw each game. utes later, Cornell scored again, Skaw- line as the third period ended. ski setting up the opportunity with a Cornell 19, Bucknell 8 Bucknell moved to the 3-yard pass interception at midfield. Dekde- Bucknell threw a real scare into the stripe, but Cornell held and soon brun completed one pass to Rakoski, crowd. Early in the fourth period the kicked out of danger. Bucknell kicked Skawski knifed through the center for visitors were three yards from a touch- back, and Cornell opened another sixteen yards, and Dekdebrun threw down that would have put them in drive, interrupted by an interception a scoring pass to DiStasio from the 25- the lead. But Cornell held for downs on the Bucknell 29. Troutner, how- yard line. Cornell finally converted a and came back with a game-clinching ever, also turned in an interception, point when Skawski's placekick was touchdown less than five minutes from and Cornell scored a much-needed good. The score was 25-0 at the half. the game's end. touchdown. Dekdebrun set it up with The third period was scoreless, al- Cornell played wide-open football a twenty-three-yard forward pass to though Cornell produced a seventy- the first quarter of the Bucknell game, Skawski to Bucknell's 5-yard line. four-yard advance that ended when made several spectacular gains, and A penalty cost Bucknell four yards, the visitors held for downs on the one- had nothing to show for its efforts and Skawski went through the line yard line. through penalties at critical times and from one yard out. Dekdebrun tried a Early in the final quarter, Cornell dropped forward passes. Time after pass for the point, but was smothered. took the ball on the Sub Base 32- time, Captain Allen E. Dekdebrun '47 Before the game ended, Cornell yard line when a punt fell short. One hit receivers squarely; time after time, reached the Bucknell 8-yard stripe, pass netted five yards before Dekde- they dropped the ball. Twice Julius J. but lost the ball on downs. brun connected with Skawski for a Woznicki, USMCR, fullback, let pas- Beat Sub Base, 39-0 touchdown. Skawski also placekicked ses trickle through his fingers; twice The Submarine Base brought to the point. Simon T. Degulis, USNR, end, drop- Schoellkopf Field a team averaging Rakoski set up the final touchdown ped passes in the scoring zone. more than 200 pounds; an edge of ap- with a pass interception on the visi- The first break came early in the proximately twenty pounds a man tors' 38-yard line. Three plays netted second period. McClintock, Bucknell over Cornell. With Cornell kicking eight yards. On fourth down, Skawski halfback, fumbled and Francis S. off, Coach Edward McKeever kept threw a pass to Gilbert F. Zwickl, Stoviak '48, right guard, recovered on Captain Dekdebrun on the sideline, USMCR, for first down on the 6-yard the 2-yard line. James F. Troutner putting in Ralph M. Gasparello '48, line. William R. Davies, USNR, '48, fullback, failed to gain on a try at who doubles as a reserve center, as a another substitute back, ran to the the line, but Dekdebrun threw a pass defensive backer-up. Because of in- one-yard line, and Zwickl plunged to Theron W. Davidson, USNR, re- juries to the two halfbacks who started over for the score, with Skawski con- serve halfback, for a touchdown. A the season, Donald R. Souchek '49 verting the point. placekick by John Skawski, USMCR, and Thomas C. Jasieniecki '49, the Skawski recovered a Sub Base was blocked. starters there were John Skawski, fumble on the visitors' 32-yard line, Less than four minutes later, Woz- USMCR, and Jack T. Rakoski, US- and Cornell again drove to the one- nicki, breaking through the line, ran MCR. Skawski ran the team as quar- yard stripe, only to be thrown back. thirty-four yards to Bucknell's 2-yard terback on defense, and stayed in that Cornell poured substitutes into the line. There Cornell shifted from the T position when Dekdebrun and other game in the last five minutes. Once formation to the single wing. Running regulars retired l£ter in the game. there were only ten men on the field, from the tailback spot, Dekdebrun The visitors completed a pair of but it was noticed before a play could scored the touchdown. Skawski was passes after the kickoff, but Cornell be started; later, there were twelve poised to kick, but Dekdebrun took held. For the defense, Dekdebrun and on the field; that one cost five yards. the ball from center and threw a pass Clinton C. Laux, USNR, replaced Cornell maintained its high average to Joseph R. DiStasio '48, end, to Gasparello and Skawski in the back- of pass completions. Dekdebrun and convert the point. field. An exchange of kicks set up Cor- Skawski connected fourteen times in Bucknell rallied in the third period, nell's first scoring chance, and Laux twenty-four attempts for a gain of 213 with Gaskell running the kickoff back cashed in with a thirty-one-yard yards. The running game produced an to his 30-yard line and sparking a dash around left end. William R. additional 220 yards, for a total from drive that carried to Cornell's 45. Best, USNR, attempted a placekick scrimmage of 433, as compared with There Gaskell put a punt out of but the shot missed. 299 for the heavier Navy eleven. Out- 104 Cornell Alumni News standing for the Sub Base was Jones, In the Pacific, he met Lieutenant be acquired, and several airplane en- former Tulane player. Louis J. Conti '41, former football gines and many parts are already guard, now a Marine aviator, and available for teaching at the College. Captain Ronald E. Stillman '42, a Fall, Winter Schedules pitcher on the baseball team. p ROSS-COUNTRY team will run Folklore Spreads ^ in the Heptagonal meet Novem- TVΓEW YORK FOLKLORE Quar- ber 10 and in the Intercollegiates No- Soccer Still Even -^^ terly for August was sent by the vember 17, both in New York City. OCCER team is still on even terms publisher, Cornell University Press, After a soccer game with Princeton S with its opposition. to 1,043 subscriber-members of its at Ithaca, October 13, the remainder At Hamilton October 5, Cornell and sponsoring New York Folklore Society. of the schedule is: Colgate played one hour and thirty- The August number contains an ex- Nov. 3 Cortland State Teachers at eight minutes without a score. After citing account by Richard M. Dorson Ithaca the regulation eighty-eight minute of Jumping Sam Patch, whose 100- 7 Haverford at Ithaca game, each team played with the 10 Perm State at State College foot leaps into Niagara Falls, Genesee 17 US Military Academy at West wind at its back for five minutes. Falls, and other points of descent elec- Point This, coupled with the 2-1 loss to trified his audiences in the late 1820's, 24 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and 2-1 victory over Rochester, left "terminated his mortal life and en- Basketball Practice Starts Cornell's record neatly balanced. sured him a legendary existence tena- Pre-season basketball practice Both teams were exceptionally cious as any in American annals." started late in September with Assist- strong on the defense, and Goalie Folk festivals in the Catskills and ant Coach Royner Greene in charge. Charles R. Cox '47 made several sen- Ticonderoga are described, " Strange Head Coach Emerald B. Wilson will sational saves. Names of School Districts" are listed, take charge of the squad November 1, and Lois G. Gannett '45 tells you how when he winds up his duties as assist- to cure ailments using folk remedies ant football coach. Broadway Stars ("Warts: Spit on a beefsteak and put- The team will play sixteen games. ΓTLE Old New York" column by it under a stone"). The schedule: E Ed Sullivan in the New York Membership in the Society, which Dec. 1 Sampson Naval Training Center Daily News, September 24, pictured includes subscription to the Quarterly, at Ithaca Dorothy Sarnoff '35, star of light is $1.50. Victor Reynolds, University 8 Canisius at Buffalo Publisher, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, 15 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia* opera and wife of Dr. Shepard G. 22 Columbia at Ithaca* Aronson '33. Said Sullivan: "Dorothy is secretary-treasurer. 29 Colgate at Ithaca Sarnoff, one of the prima donna toasts Jan. 2 Rochester at Ithaca of Broadway, is a Cornell coed. She 5 Columbia at New York* Runs German Utilities comes from a family of doctors and 12 Princeton at Ithaca* ICTURED in Business Week for 16 New York University at New married one, Capt. Shep Aronson, one York of MacArthur's medics. . . . Others PSeptember 29 as one of the "US 19 Princeton at Princeton* from Cornell's Cayuga campus in Businessmen [Who] Rule Nazi Indus- 23 Syracuse at Syracuse try" is Colonel Walker L. Cisler '22, 26 Dartmouth at Ithaca* show business are Adolphe Menjou Feb. 2 Pennsylvania at Ithaca* [Ί2] and Franchot Tone ['27], and the AUS, who is in charge of public works 6 Sampson Naval Training Center late Louis Wolheim ['06] was a pro- and utilities on the US Group Control at Sampson fessor there (once he got so sore at Council in Germany. This Council of 9 Dartmouth at Hanover* some sixty American businessmen has 16 Syracuse at Ithaca Menjou that he threw him down a * denotes Eastern Intercollegiate League flight of stairs)." put into effect, under Lieutenant Gen- game eral Lucius D. Clay, Civil Affairs Ad- Aeronautics School ministrator, a permanent pattern of Coach Quinn Returns operation in the American zone which A GRADUATE SCHOOL of Aero- encompasses "abolition of German TIEUTENANT COMMANDER •^^ nautical Engineering is author- cartels, control of exports and im- -•—' Mose P. Quinn, separated from ized by the Board of Trustees to start ports, and regulation of all manufac- the Naval Reserve, returned Septem- November 1 as a division of the Col- turing, to meet terms of the Potsdam ber 5 as head baseball coach and as- lege of Engineering. First instruction settlement whereby the Reich is to be sistant football coach. He lost no time will be given by the present Faculty stripped of its war potential, and is to reporting to Football Coach Edward of the College for Navy V-12 students surrender great quantities of indus- C. McKeever. who are enrolled in aeronautical engi- trial equipment as reparations.''' George K. James, who coached neering. Admission of civilians to the On leave from Detroit Edison Co., baseball in Quinn's absence, continues School will require a first degree in an Cisler was commissioned a lieutenant in charge of the physical training pro- appropriate branch of engineering, and colonel in November, 1943, and sent gram and as assistant football coach. specialists will later be added to the to the Mediterranean Theatre as an Quinn entered the Navy in April, Faculty. engineering expert to aid in rehabilita- 1942, and was indoctrinated at the Facilities of the School will include tion. He returned in April, 1944, and Squantum, Mass., Naval Air Station. an aerodynamics laboratory and en- has since been in Germany. He will As executive officer of an aircraft en- gine laboratory with opportunity for return to Detroit Edison November 1. gine overhaul base, he spent sixteen flight research at the proposed new He was formerly chief of priorities in months in the Solomons, New Heb- Ithaca airport on East Hill, three the division of materials, power sec- rides, and New Caledonia. He was miles northwest of the Campus. Dean tion, War Production Board, in Wash- then assigned as sports program direc- S. C. Hollister has been instrumental ington, D. C. Cisler is a former direc- tor to the Pre-flight School at the with an Ithaca committee in making tor of the Cornell Alumni Association University of North Carolina. His last plans for the new airport, which it is and was Class representative for the post was with Fleet Air-West Coast expected will bring complete air travel Alumni Fund. Former Varsity sprinter, before he was separated from the facilities within seven minutes drive he is a member of Sphinx Head, Tau service, August 31. from the Campus. A war plane will Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. October 75, 1945 105 New members of the Cornell Inter- Fraternity Chapters Prepare fraternity Alumni Association since those listed in the September ALUMNI NEWS are Alpha Tau Omega, Delta To Resume Campus Activities Upsilon, Kappa Delta Rho, Phi Kappa S the fall term of the University The Summer Bulletin for Septem- Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, A approaches, nine fraternity chap- ber 28 published a brief statement and Tau Kappa Epsilon. ters are active: Alpha Epsilon Pi, favoring fraternities by Richard L. Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Phi, Phi O'Connell '48 of New York City and Sigma Delta, Sigma Chi, all in their Sigma Alpha Epsilon and one oppos- JVίiddletown Elects own houses; and Lambda Chi Alpha ing them by Apprentice Seaman RESIDENT of the Cornell Wo- at 316 Stewart Avenue, Phi Kappa Robert E. Sugarman, USNR, of Pmen's Club of Middletown is Mrs. Psi in the Alpha Sigma Phi house, Pi Syracuse. These are followed by this George D. Musser (Maxine Mont- Lambda Phi in the Acacia house, and editorial comment, headed "The Time gomery) '18, elected at the Club's an- Sigma Alpha Epsilon in the Phi Is Now." nual meeting last month, in her home. Kappa Tau house. Several others are If you feel that fraternities are obsoles- Mrs. Gorton J. Young (Ethel Cor- holding chapter meetings and pledg- cent, the logical time to eliminate them win) '29 was named secretary-treas- ing active members. from the Cornell campus is now, before urer. definite plans are made by individual Most of the twelve houses still used houses and Interfraternity Council. Guests at the meeting included by the Navy are expected to be va- Most fraternity people admit that there three undergraduate women from the cated by November 1. Nineteen houses are evils inherent in the system, but insist University, three entering Freshmen, are at present unoccupied, and twelve that these are ''necessary evils." While fra- ternities exist, there are advantages to and one prospective student. are leased by the University to house joining, but it would be preferable to have women students until next June. These none. are Alpha Gamma Rho, Chi Psi, There are three types of independents: Delta Chi, Kappa Alpha, Kappa Delta those who cannot afford to join, those who do not receive bids, and those who are Time Was . . . Rho, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa blatantly anti-fraternity for specific well- Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, Seal and Serpent, known reasons. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa One of the biggest drawing cards for Twenty-five Years Ago Epsilon, and Theta Xi. fraternities and sororities has been inade- October, 1920—A coffee house has quate living conditions on campus. A new Undergraduates Organizing women's dorm, Balch 5, is under construc- been opened in the basement of Barnes When the undergraduate Interfra- tion; civilian men will soon reoccupy Hall, replacing the small dormitory ternity Council suspended activities Baker and Cascadilla. rooms there with a kitchen, coffee Returning Servicemen will be older, room, reception hall, and pool room. in 1943, it authorized appointment of a and many will come back to college for committee of fraternity alumni, mem- short periods of time. They have learned For nien only, the new coffee house bers of the Faculty, and undergradu- to live with men from all stations of life, promises to fill the void left by the ates to act for it and to work out a and do not seem to require the security enforced closing of the downtown re- and aid that fraternities can provide. sorts; it is the most valuable social program for "revitalizing" the fra- For those who believe that fraternity ternities after the war. Walter C. defects can be avoided by an innovation acquisition the University has made Heasley, Jr. '30, then acting Alumni such as co-operative houses, the time to in years. A tobacco shop is to be added. Secretary and now acting University act is now. By fall semester, the system For the women, a new dining hall will again be underway. Provost, was named secretary of this has been opened in Cascadilla Place, interim committee, whose members Editor-in-chief of The Summer Bul- at the west end of the building on the were to be appointed by him and by letin is Carol P. Nevans '46 of New ground floor (the cafeteria in the east Edward D. Eddy '44, retiring presi- York City. She is a member of Sigma end continues as before). Provision is dent of the Council. Delta Tau sorority. thus made for women students who First meeting of this committee Alumni Association Operates have rooms in the neighborhood in was September 20 in Alumni House. Interfraternity Alumni Association houses run by the University for those Its members, besides Heasley and met at the Cornell Club in New York women who by reason of their num- Eddy are Clarence J. Pope '10, repre- City September 18 with Harold E. B. bers cannot have quarters in Prudence senting the alumni; General Alumni Speight, Dean of Students, and repre- Risley Hall or Sage College. Secretary Emmet J. Murphy '22, sentatives of most of the thirty-one Professor William Lyon Phelps of representing the University; Profes- fraternity chapters which have paid Yale addressed 265 honor students in sors Lyman P. Wilson, Law, and A. dues to date. Stanley A. Russell '12, Bailey Hall last week on "Culture and Wright Gibson '17, Director of Resi- Delta Phi, vice-president of the Asso- Happiness." dent Instruction in Agriculture, from ciation, presided. the Faculty; and Edward F. Johnson The executive committee laid its Twenty Years Ago '44, Charles H. Fletcher, Jr. '46. plans before the Association, asking October, 1925—The coffee house in Arnold H. Page '46, William E. Barr that no inactive chapter reactivate or Barnes Hall has served its last meal, '47, Alexander P. Hyde '47, and open its house without first presenting but a similar institution has been Richard E. O'Connell '47. The com- to the Association's committee on in- opened in the Johnny Parson Club on mittee met with Dean Speight and dividual alumni associations, of which Beebe Lake. Besides, with Willard Frank C. Baldwin '22, acting Coun- Thomas H. S. Andrews '09 is chair- Straight Hall scheduled to open its selor of Students, and appointed a man, data regarding the house, its doors next month, the Campus will subcommittee, to consist of these six physical condition, finances, and plans have a new and fully adequate social undergraduates and one from each for reactivation. Dean Speight out- center, serving everything from a cup other fraternity chapter until all lined the University's position, assur- of coffee to a three-act play. active are represented. This under- ing the Association of the cordial co- The Cornell Co-op, founded in 1895 graduate subcommittee will act for operation of his office, from which bul- and since increasingly crowded in its the Interfraternity Council until such letins will be sent occasionally to all basement quarters in Morrill Hall, time as a fully-constituted Council active houses on the Hill and to their has moved into the vastly larger base- can resume operation. alumni representatives. ment of Barnes Hall. Students may 106 Cornell Alumni News now purchase their textbooks and sup- Dean Trustee mer chairman of its committee on plies in ease and comfort. Federal legislation, member of the Since the inauguration last year of committee on corporation law of the a three-hour course in Homeric Greek State Bar Association, and chairman for beginners as an alternative to the of the committee on judicial salaries traditional treadmill of Attic Greek, of the American Bar Association. the revival of classical learning at Last year, he served on the special Cornell has been marked; present committee which revised the by-laws registration of some 100 students, of the Cornell Alumni Association. who feast joyously on their daily ra- Dean has spent some time in Japan tion of 100 lines of The Iliad, indi- and the Far East and has been active cates that Greek has made a perma- in the work of Council on Foreign Re- nent come-back to the University lations and the Institute of Pacific curriculum. Relations. He is a director of The American Metal Co., Ltd. With Mrs. Dean and their two Women Get Grants children, he lives in Oyster Bay; is a SCHOLARSHIPS sponsored by the trustee of the North Country Com- ^ Federation of Cornell Women's munity Hospital of Glen Cove, chair- Clubs have been awarded by the Uni- man of the board of trustees of the versity for the year beginning Novem- Green Vale School near Roslyn, and ber 1 to six undergraduate women, the during the war was an officer in the largest number to date. North Shore division of the US Coast Federation Scholarships of $400 OVERNOR Thomas E. Dewey Guard Temporary Reserve and taught each go to Martha J. Bender '47 of G October 1 appointed Arthur H. and supervised its classes in naviga- Lakewood, Ohio, who receives the Dean '19 to be a Trustee of the Uni- tion and piloting. grant for the third successive year; versity for the five-year term to June Margaret J. Dragon '48 of Albion for 30, 1950. He replaces State Assembly- Elmira Women Meet the second year; and Mary E. Marvin man Irving M. Ives, whom the Gov- '49 of Forty-Fort, Pa., Freshman in ernor appointed in July, 1944, to fill HIRTY members Of the Cornell Arts and daughter of Ira H. Marvin the unexpired term, to 1945, of the T Women's Club of Elmira met for '21. late Horace White '87. Ives was re- dinner September 26 at the Langwell The Federation Scholarship Fund, appointed for the current term, but Hotel, with President Loretta E. Klee, established in 1938 and since aug- resigned as Trustee after his election AM '43, presiding. mented with gifts from Cornell Wo- as Dean of the State School of Indus- Entertainment was arranged by men's Clubs and individuals, now trial and Labor Relations. Mrs. Michael J. Sullivan (Barbara amounts to $30,182.74. In the year Dean was born in Ithaca and en- Tupper) '38. Mrs. William J. Wigsten ending June 30, it had increased more tered the Law School in 1915 from (Gladys Barkley) '23 reported on the than $1600, making possible the award Ithaca High School. From October to annual meeting of the Federation of this year for the first time of three December, 1918, he was in the SATC Cornell Women's Clubs in Ithaca last Scholarships. at the University; received the AB in June. M. Florence Callahan, AM '32, Mabel Estey Rose Scholarships, 1921 and the LLB in 1923. He was gave the scholarship committee's re- each worth $300, from a bequest of elected to Phi Delta Phi and was man- port. Mrs. Clara Drath Munson Ίl Miss Rose '00, go to Priscilla G. Alden aging editor of the Law Quarterly. He was named chairman of a committee '46 of Beacon, president of the Wo- immediately joined the law firm of to plan the Club's spring secondary men's Self Government Association, Sullivan & Cromwell, 48 Wall Street, school program. and Marjorie F. Helgans '47 of Jersey New York City, and in 1929, six years City. Formerly, one such scholarship after graduation, was made a partner Washington Gathers was awarded annually, worth $400. in the firm. Ida H. Hyde Scholarship of $100, He has acted as counsel for English IGHTY-FIVE members of the named for Dr. Hyde '91, who died and American banking firms in corpo- E Cornell Club of Washington, D. August 22 in Berkeley, Cal., open to rate reorganizations, recapitalizations, C., attended a Club smoker, Septem- a Senior woman majoring in science, and financing of industrial firms, pub- ber 27 at the Dodge Hotel. Congress- has been awarded to Norma G. Gold- lic utilities, and railroads in America, man Frank L. Sundstrom '24 intro- smith '46 of Brooklyn, daughter of the Germany, Japan, France, and Italy, duced Lieutenant Colonel George R. late Harry Goldsmith '12. and was counsel for the Baltimore & Pfann '24, Alumni Trustee of the Uni- The Federation scholarship awards Ohio Railroad in its recent $500,000,- versity, who described his experiences committee, headed by Mrs. Robert C. 000 debt readjustment program. In with the US Third Army overseas. Osborn (Agda Swenson) '20, reviewed 1934, he was a member of the Dickin- Combat films taken in France and the qualifications of all applicants, son committee appointed by President Germany were shown. arranged interviews for each of them, Roosevelt which studied and made Assistant Alumni Secretary Emer- and made recommendations to the recommendations for regulating stock son Hinchliff '14 will attend a Club Faculty committee on scholarships. exchanges; helped to draft the Securi- party for secondary school boys, Oc- Other members of the Federation com- ties Act of 1933, Securities Exchange tober 25, 8 p.m., at the Dodge Hotel. mittee were Mrs. George D. Crofts Act of 1934, Trust Indenture Act of The annual Cornell-Dartmouth game (Frances Johnson) '05, Ruth Davis 1939, and Investment Company Act luncheon, with direct wire service '17, Mrs. Marvin R. Dye (Miriam of 1940, and has been a member of from Hanover, N. H., is scheduled for Kelley) '17, Mrs. ARan H. Mogensen various committees advising the Fed- November 17 at the Sheraton Hotel, (Adele Dean) '23, Mrs. R. H. Shreve eral Securities and Exchange Commis- and the Club is making plans for a (Ruth Bentley) '02, and Ruth F. sion. He is a member of the executive special car to Philadelphia for the Irish '22, ex-officio as president of the committee of the Association of the Cornell-Pennsylvania game, Novem- Federation. Bar of the City of New York and a for- ber 24. October 75, 1945 107 Machine Makes Pigskin Our statement in the September Cornell Alumni News ALUMNI NEWS was taken directly \X7AR Production Board an- from a mimeographed "Report Re- 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. * * nounced in Washington Sep- viewing the Formation and Outlining FOUNDED 1899 tember 10 the invention by members the Purposes of the Cornell Inter- Published the first and fifteenth of of the Faculties of Engineering and fraternity Alumni Association," dated every month. Agriculture of a machine for skinning June 27, 1945. Owned and published by the Cornell pigs that promises to restore the van- Alumni Association under direction of a committee composed of Phillips Wyman ished production of pigskin in Amer- Early Work on Bomb '17, chairman, R. W. Sailor '07, Birge W. ica. When the war cut the United Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey '18, and John States supply of imported pigskin, a ΓΛFFICIAL Smyth Report on S. Knight '18. Officers of the Alumni As- critical shortage of leather developed ^^ "Atomic Energy for Military sociation: William L. Kleitz '15, New York City, president; Emmet J. Murphy in this country, where labor rates are Purposes" reveals that contracts for '22, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. too expensive for the former method uranium research were awarded by Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; of flaying the carcass by hand with a the National Defense Research Com- foreign $4-50. Life subscription, $75. sharp skinning knife. mittee to Cornell University and sev- Single copies, 20 cents. Subscriptions are Working at an abbatoir in Port- eral other institutions as early as the renewed annually unless cancelled. land, Me., since February, 1944, Pro- winter and spring of 1940-41, a year Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 fessors John L Miller, PhD '36, Ani- before Pearl Harbor. Assistant Editors: mal Husbandry; Walter A. Johnson Later, when it became necessary JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 and Rolland T. Hinkle, PhD '44, "to obtain theoretical and experi- RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 Machine Design; and Hamilton H. mental data on a 'fast neutron'reac- Mabie, MS in Eng '43, Industrial En- tion, such as would be required in an Contributors: gineering, invented a power-operated atomic bomb," such research was un- ROMEYN BERRY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 flaying knife, adapted from the sheep dertaken at Cornell and ten other As a gift to Cornellians in service, Willard clipper. An oscillating dull blade, mov- institutions "having equipment suit- Straight Hall and Cornell Alumni Associa- able for fast-neutron studies. The tion send the ALUMNI NEWS regularly, ing across a stationary blade, produces upon request, to reading rooms of Army a skin free of fat particles and acci- problems under investigation involved posts, Naval stations, and military hos- dental cuts. The machine holds and scattering, absorption and fission cross pitals and rehabilitation centers. rotates the carcass as the flaying section, the energy spectrum of fission Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, progresses. neutrons, and the time delay in the Birge W. Kinne '16, 420 Lexington Ave., With this machine at work, WPB emission of fission neutrons." New York City 17, advertising repre- The Treasurer's Report shows that sentative. foresees large-scale, cheap production in 1943-44 twelve OSRD (Office of Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. of pigskin, perhaps two billion square feet a year from the 150,000,000 hogs Scientific Research and Development) slaughtered annually. That means contracts totalling $268,267 were made We Win a Prize more and cheaper pigskin gloves, lug- with the University, including one with the Medical College in New THIRST prize award in the classifi- gage, shoes, pocketbooks, footballs, and other leather goods. York, and that the War Department ** cation, "research features," has paid the University $4,500, which was come to the ALUMNI NEWS from the rental of equipment for the Oak Ridge American Alumni Council, national Michigan Protests atomic bomb plant. organization of professional college alumni workers. All college alumni ROM H. Seger Slifer, secretary of magazines of last year were judged F the University of Michigan Inter- Coming Events for the annual contest. fraternity Alumni Conference, comes Our prize was awarded in the classi- protest that Michigan was included Notices for this column must be received at in the ALUMNI NEWS among the least five days before date of issue. Time and fication for "special article or news place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are story on general research or specific universities that "either have taken printed separately as we have space. research project which points up the action or are considering action to cur- tail fraternity activities." Slifer writes: vital contributions to human welfare WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 "This is a misstatement of fact in- being made through the research pro- Detroit, Mich.: Trustee Larry E. Gubb gram carried on by the staffs of col- sofar as it refers to the University of '16, chairman, Philco Corp., "Radar leges and universities. This includes Michigan. There seems to be a wide- and Television," at Cornell Club studies and projects in education and spread misunderstanding regarding dinner, University Club, 7 the social as well as the technical the attitude of the University of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 sciences." Submitted in this classifica- Michigan toward fraternities. The Chicago, 111.: Cornell Club luncheon for University Administration has taken entering Freshmen and their fathers, tion were ALUMNI NEWS articles on University Club "Research Improves Legibility of Car no action nor has it considered taking Licenses Plates," published Septem- action to curtail fraternity activities. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 ber 1, 1944; two on the Cornell Re- The only action which has been taken Ithaca: Commencement, Sage Chapel, 3 search Foundation by Sherman Peer has been that by the University of THURSDAY, October 25 '08 in our issues of February 15 and Michigan Interfraternity Alumni Con- Washington, D. C.: Emerson Hinchliff '14 erence which was organized about at Cornell Club secondary schools March 1, 1945; and "University to party, Dodge Hotel, 8 Expand Frozen Foods Research," twelve years ago and which has func- published last June 1. tioned more or less regularly since SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 This is the second national award that date. The purposes of this or- New Haven, Conn.: Football, Yale of the American Alumni Council won ganization are similar to those of the FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 by the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. First recently formed Cornell corporation." Ithaca: Registration begins for winter He enclosed a booklet published by term award for "features" came to the New York City: Second annual dinner, NEWS in 1940 for Romeyn Berry's the university at Ann Arbor, "The Class of '14, Midston House, 38th & column, "Now in My Time!" University of Michigan and Its Post- Madison, 7 war Plans for Fraternities." 108 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

First frost hit Ithaca September 30. Ornamental Horticulture, to go to "Co-eds, want dates? Harlem Escort Navy seamen changed from summer work on the Hoy Field turf, which has Agency, call 9717"—ad in The Sum- whites to warmer blues October 1. been made innocent of weeds, includ- mer Bulletin. Snow flurries two days later. ing clover. In fact, the whole Campus, even the Quadrangle, has been spray- 100 students braved a rainy evening Sage College, whose status has been ed with dichlorophenoxyacetic acid October 2 and asked many questions far from quo ever since the US Navy solutions in various carriers. Professor for a discussion of "Cornell Looks to dispossessed the women quartered Walter C. Muenscher, PhD '21, Bot- the Future/7 led by Dean S. C. Hoi- there in May, 1942, is being further any, keeps track of results: which lister, Engineering; University Secre- rearranged for about 100 undergradu- weeds go and which ones stay. tary Edward K. Graham, PhD '38; ate males who will live on its second, and Professor LeRoy L. Barnes, PhD third and fourth floors next term. Fur- Chimemistress, 1945-46, will be Faith '32, Physics, for the College of Arts thermore, approximately thirty-five E. Gregory '46 of Norwalk, Conn. She and Sciences. women will be housed in the segre- succeeds G. Elizabeth Finley '45, gated east wing. Navy offices will con- daughter of David H. Finley '14 of Bendix Airport at Teterboro, N. J., tinue to pre-empt the first floor, in- Williamsport, Pa. has been leased by Cecil S. Robinson cluding the old dining room. Women '21, president of Robinson Aviation, will retain use of the gymnasium and Victory Ball filled Barton Hall Sep- Inc., as a metropolitan terminus for swimming pool. tember 29, as the studentry enjoyed private fliers as well as the daily their first big post-war dance, with Ithaca-New York flights of Robinson Frosh cap burning, the first since the music by George Paxton and orches- Airlines. war, warmed up Kite Hill behind the tra. The Student Council, which spon- Crescent September 27 as 270 Fresh- sored the shindig, made ends meet by Campus visitor September 4 was Con- men tossed 270 dinks onto an already running the check-room and coke gressman Daniel A. Reed '98 of Dun- blazing bonfire. Legal cigarette and concessions. kirk, who spent the day here enroute cigar smoke added to the haze, and to Washington, D. C. Former Varsity with Sebela Wehe on hand, the cele- Housing problem for war veterans guard and head coach here in 1910-11, bration was loud and joyous. who will come to the University with Reed met Coach Ed McKeever at wives and children is being tackled by Schoellkopf and watched football University authorities. John D. Lar- practice. Captain B. W. Chippendale, USN, kin, Ithaca architect, is surveying commanding officer of the Naval housing facilities in Ithaca for the Paintings by Professor John A. Kar- Training School at Cornell since June, Dean of Students. Apartments are 1942, has been assigned by the Navy tell '24, Architecture, are being shown not only scarce but also expensive, in the Kraushaar Galleries on Fifty- Department to duty as professor of especially for married veterans whose Naval Science and Tactics here, an- seventh Street, New York City, until maximum allowance under the GI October 27. The twenty-four pictures ticipating official inauguration of the Bill is $75 a month. The University is Naval ROTC at the University, No- have all been completed since his last advertising for suitable quarters, and exhibition, in the same galleries in vember 1. Upon receipt of his orders, may encourage co-operative housing. the Captain drove immediately to March, 1943. Professor Kartell is in Morrill Hall to confer with Vice- charge of instruction in painting and president George H. Sabine '03. An sculpture at the University. Mrs. Kar- hour later, he walked back across the WEEKENDS on Campus, even dur- tell is the former Sylvia Muller '23. Campus to Sage, remembering only as ing the summer doldrums, are ade- he entered his office that his car was quately social, we discover by making Ithaca Engraving Co. has celebrated parked at Morrill. Thus he became a the rounds. Wfflard Straight Hall its fiftieth anniversary in Ithaca by fully-qualified professor. holds open house for all Cornell stu- moving from the top floor of the Cor- dents on Saturday nights, with bridge nell Library Building, its home for Sage Chapel services September 30 in the south lounge, games in the the last forty years, to somewhat more were conducted for the twenty-fifth game room, and dancing, to recorded terrestrial quarters at 115 South time by the Right Rev. G. Ashton music, in the dimly-lit Memorial Tioga Street, over Stover, printer. Oldham '02, Bishop of the Episcopal Room. These affairs have been sub- Diocese of Albany. ject recently to invasion by Ithaca Imagine a huge truck trailer, heavily College co-eds, who attend in force loaded with cartons of new milk bot- Baseball management has enlisted the and dressed to kill (much black satin, tles, proceeding laboriously up State aid of the Departments of Botany and long evening gloves, perfume, and Street hill; as the grade steepens, the Ornamental Horticulture. How? Well, jewelry). The US Navy holds up the driver in the cab suddenly feels the the professors have been experiment- masculine end, with some assistance weight released and looks back to see ing with various forms of weed killers from the scarce civilian. Sunday after- his trailer careening backwards down and now they've come up with one noon we covered another open house the hill. That happened on a rainy which will either clean out clover or at Risley Hall, where the Navy again Saturday morning last month. The leave it alone, whichever you prefer. had the situation well in hand. Danc- damage was incredibly light: two tele- The baseball players want it out; it ing, card games, and refreshments phone poles snapped off, a parked makes them slip around too much and were on the program, but you are to taxi sideswiped, and quite a few bot- muff too many balls. So Athletic Di- understand that other pastimes may tles broken as the trailer mounted the rector Robert J. Kane '34 asked Pro- be, and are, invented. curb and crashed onto its side across fessor Alfred M. S. Pridham, PhD '33, from Dean's warehouse.

October 15,1945 109 Park Avenue. In 1921, after many '38 AB—Alvin Bruce Sunshine, * years with motor firms, he organized killed in action, August 31, 1944. His Necrology George Harrison Phelps, Inc., ad- home was at 2440 Flamingo Drive, vertising; was president of George Miami Beach, Fla. Beta Sigma Rho. Harrison Phelps, Ltd. In 1930 he was '38 BS—Henry Bertel Tallaksen, '87—Mrs. Mary Gavina Hunger- special commissioner to Europe of the US Department of Labor; in 1931, September 8, 1945, after an illness of ford Roehrig, wife of Frederick L. more than four years. He had been Roehrig '83 of Route 1, Box 396, chairman of the American committee for the Paris International, Colonial teacher of agriculture for three years Walnut Creek, Cal., in September, in Bridgewater Central School. Mrs. 1945, in Monrovia, Cal. Son, the late and Overseas Exposition; in 1937, was on the American committee of Tallaksen (Margery Townsend) '41, Harold L. Roehrig '14. Kappa Kappa daughter of Theodore H. Townsend Gamma. the Paris International Exposition. He was decorated three times by the '17, is visiting her parents in Water- '90—James McCormick Denney, French government. Mrs. Phelps is ville before returning to the Univer- former president of Hajoca Corp., the sister of Mrs. Albert E. Wells, sity for the fall term. dealers in plumbing supplies, Septem- wife of Professor Wells, Mechanic '40 AB—First Lieutenant Rich- * ber 17, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pa. He Arts, Emeritus. Delta Upsilon. ard Kenneth Collins, AAF, missing in lived at 1113 Wilde Avenue, Drexel action since December 22, 1943, when Hill, Pa. Delta Tau Delta. Ίl MD—Dr. Walter George Hall- stead, September 19, 1945, in Penn the B-24 Liberator of which he was '91 LLB—Reuben Leslie Maynard, Yan, where he lived at 142 East Elm co-pilot failed to return from a mission lawyer and trustee of Hamilton Col- Street. Daughter, Mrs. Charles S. to Munster, Germany, reported pre- lege for more than thirty years, Sep- Pearce, Jr. (J.essie A. Hallstead) '41. sumed dead by the War Department, tember 25, 1945, in New York City, Brother, Frank N. Hallstead '09. September 13, 1945. Son of Professor where he lived at 60 East Ninety- J. R. Collins, PhD '21, Physics, he sixth Street. Phi Delta Phi. '13—Lyndon Everett Stoutenburgh, had been overseas since May, 1943, owner of Lyndon E. Stoutenburgh and had been awarded the Air Medal '00 CE—Clifford Milton Stegner of Co., men's shop, 758 Broad Street, with Oak Leaf Cluster. Mrs. Collins 3457 Cornell Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, Newark, N. J., in November, 1944. (Helen E. Dedowitz) '41 lives at 202 January 18, 1945. Sigma Alpha Ep- Alpha Delta Phi. Delaware Avenue, Ithaca. Seal and silon. Serpent. '21—Bayard Eugene Taylor, Sep- '01 — Lawrence Ebenezer Gould, tember 14, 1945, at his home in '41—Lieutenant John T. Whit- * president of the Economy Electric De- Covina, Cal. He was engineer in ing, Jr., former student in Chemical vices Co. since 1917, November 24, charge of research with Nigg Engi- Engineering, killed in an airplane 1944, at his home at 6121 Kenmore neering Co. of Covina. Brother, Percy crash in Texas, August 12, 1945. His Avenue, Chicago, 111. Sigma Alpha J. Taylor '10 of 5306 West 115th home was on Pine Tree Road, Rad- Epsilon. Street, Los Angeles, Cal. nor, Pa. '02, '04 ME—Eugene Croker Batch- '23, '25 ME—Ralph Slater Huyck, elar, district manager for Motch & '42 — Lieutenant (jg) John H. * September 15, 1945, in Allentown, Pa. Coyne, Naval Air Corps, missing in Merry weather Machinery Co., Sep- He was employed by Bendix Corp., tember 15, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pa., action since August 21, 1945, reported South Bend, Ind. by the Navy in September as having where he lived at 921 College Avenue. been shot down on that date in south- He was chairman of the McMullen '31 PhD—Harold Hunter Schaff, ern France, near St. Anastasie. He Scholarship committee for Western executive secretary of the New York was pilot of a Hellcat flying from USS Pennsylvania, a director of the Cornell State War Council and former secre- Tulagi in the Mediterranean. In 1941, Alumni Corporation, and a member tary to the late Lieutenant Governor he left Hotel Administration. His of its secondary schools committee. Thomas W. Wallace, August 30, 1945, home was at 830 Chestnut Street, He served two terms as president of in Albany. He conducted the Univer- Wilmette, 111. Chi Phi. the Cornell Club of Western Pennsyl- sity Tutoring School in the old Town vania; was for many years president and Gown Club building on Stewart '43—Lieutenant Raymond Gil- + of the alumni association of his frater- Avenue (now the Officers' Club) from bert Spicer, AUS, former student in nity, Phi Kappa Psi. Sons, John P. 1936 to 1942 when he became secre- Agriculture, killed in a plane crash, Batchelar '35 and Lieutenant Eugene tary to Wallace. An alumnus of Yale, July 11, 1945, near Savannah, Ga. C. Batchelar, Jr. '39. he was a graduate assistant in His- His home was in Killawog. tory, and also taught at Wisconsin '03—Loring Jay Bogart, September and Syracuse universities. Mrs. Schaff '43 BS—First Lieutenant Arthur * 13, 1945, in Ithaca, where he lived at lives at 375 Washington Avenue, Lee Thompson III, AUS, killed in ac- 412 Hector Street. Brother, Robin I. Albany. tion on Mindanao, August 14, 1945. Bogart Ίl. He was the son of Arthur L. Thomp- '33, '32 AB—Lieutenant Com- ^ '03 MD—Dr. Morris Zucker of 169 son Ίl of 3101 Eighteenth Street, mander Victor Gang, USNR, flight NW, Washington, D. C., and brother East 78th Street, New York City, surgeon for a carrier group, Septem- May 1, 1945. of Mrs. Jasper N. Ferguson (Jean ber 3, 1945, in the Pacific. Graduate Thompson) '37. '04—Henry Eugene Curtis, engi- of the medical school of the University neer, August 28, 1945. His home was of Chicago, he went on active duty in '46—Private First Class Jacob -^ on Bound Brook Avenue, Trevose, Pa. the Naval Medical Corps in February, Estey, AUS, former student in Me- 1941. This summer he returned to the chanical Engineering, March 13, 1945, '07 Sp—George Harrison Phelps, Pacific, where he had formerly served in an accident at sea in the Atlantic. public relations counselor and vice- sixteen months as flight surgeoii for a He had previously been reported miss- president of Maxon, Inc., advertising Marine fighter squadron. His home ing. His home was at 6 North Street, agency, September 15, 1945, in New was at 414 East Fifty-second Street, Brattleboro, Vt. York City, where he lived at 530 New York City. Phi Epsilon Pi. 110 Cornell Alumni News Recknagel '39 and Bernard W. Reck- Science and Technology at the Geneva nagel. Experiment Station to join the na- tional bakery division of Great Atlan- The Faculty Dr. Guy F. MacLeod, PhD '30, for- tic & Pacific Tea Co. in New York merly in the Entomology Division of City. He first joined the Station the Geneva Experiment Station, be- Chemistry Division in 1922, but left President Edmund E. Day was came general manager of the sulfur in 1924 to go with Niagara Sprayer elected to the board of managers of and insecticide department of Sunland Co. In 1931 he returned to Geneva. the Memorial Hospital for the Treat- Industries, Inc., Fresno, Cal., Sep- ment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, tember 1. He was chief of the chemi- Miss G. Dorothy Williams, form- New York City, September 24. One cals and fertilizers branch of the War erly assistant professor of Foods and of the impending projects of Memorial Food Administration. Nutrition in Home Economics, has is the construction of James Ewing been promoted from nutritionist to Hospital, honoring the late Dr. James Professor Bristow Adams, Agricul- chief of the nutrition division, New Ewing, for many years a member of ture Publications, Emeritus, writes on York City Department of Health. the Medical College Faculty and who "Love of the Land" in the September issue, of Land Policy Review, a US Professor Elmer H. Stotz, Chem- became president of Memorial Hos- istry at the Geneva Experiment Sta- pital medical board in 1916 and direc- Department of Agriculture publica- tion, spoke on the " Science Forum" tor of the Hospital in 1932. tion. He is described as "one who is known across the country as B.A. and from WGY, Schenectady, August 1. Louisa W. Γarrand, daughter of the may be called the dean of agricultural He described two new methods (still late President Livingston Farrand and college editors and teachers of jour- in the experimental stage) of pre- Mrs. Farrand of Huntington, is in nalism." serving food, freeze-drying and elec- charge of American Red Cross clubs tronic heat blanching. In freeze-dry- in the Antwerp area, consisting of an Brigadier-General Ralph Hospital, ing, he explained, the food is frozen officers' club and three enlisted men's detailed to the ROTC as a major from and placed in a container from which clubs. Previously, she had opened Red 1919-23 and from 1927-32, and com- all the air is pumped out; vegetables Cross clubs in LeHavre and Rouen, mander of the 91st Infantry Division preserved this way retain more of and before that, in Cherbourg. Artillery overseas, spent a thirty-day their natural flavor and appearance leave in Ithaca. Mrs. Hospital (Louise than by present methods. Electronic Lieutenant Colonel George R. ^r Tarbell) '21 and their two daughters heat blanching helps preserve vitamin Pfann '24, Alumni Trustee, is in have been with her mother, widow of C and the electronic heat penetrates charge of presentation to special War the late George S. Tarbell '90. General the vegetable quickly, killing harmful Department clemency boards of the Hospital is ordered to Camp Rucker, bacteria before the outside of the food cases of 33,500 military prisoners now Ala. becomes overheated. serving general court martial sen- tences. Colonel Pfann will become Appointed to the Extension Service Professor Kenneth Post, PhD '37, assistant counsel of the Co-operative in Home Economics as specialists to Ornamental Horticulture, is editor of Grange League Federation Exchange teach 4-H Clubs throughout the State the new official publication of New in Ithaca upon his discharge from the are Frances E. Young '31, former dis- York State Flower Growers, Inc. At Army. trict agent, clothing and textiles; the organization's annual meeting Margaret Steinmetz, last year social here July 24, he showed new tech- Professor Howard S. Liddell, PhD director of CURW who has completed niques in automatically watering '23, Psychology, lectured, September work for the MS, housing and crafts; greenhouse crops, and explained how 13 and 14, on experimental neuroses Roberta L. Cunningham, former su- chrysanthemum flowers can be made before the new graduate psychoana- pervising teacher of homemaking in larger by increasing the number of lytic and psychosomatic clinic for Brookings, S. D., food and nutrition; florets through controlling the plant's training and research of the depart- and Wilma Beyer, former 4-H Club length of day. ment of psychiatry at the Columbia- home economics supervisor in West National Committee for Mental Presbyterian Medical Center in New Virginia, child development and fam- Hygiene made public July 19 the con- York City. Later in the year, this ily relationships. clusions of a representative group of group will come to Ithaca for a lab- psychiatrists and other physicians as oratory demonstration of animal New method of controlling red to ways of providing professional care neuroses at the University behavior spider mite which attacks greenhouse for men rejected by Selective Service farm near Varna. roses by the use of "azobenzene" as a or discharged from the Army and "Ferdinand," painting by Professor fumigant was demonstrated by its dis- Navy for psychiatric disabilities. Pro- Kenneth L. Washburn '26, Fine Arts, coverer, Professor William E. Blau- fessor David P. Barr Ίl, Medicine, won first place for oils at an art show velt '25, Entomology, at the annual and Professor Thomas A. C. Rennie, sponsored in August by the Cortland meeting of New York State Flower Psychiatry, of the Medical College in County Agricultural Society. Growers, Inc., on the Campus, July New York, helped formulate the rec- 24. Killing 99.75 per cent of all stages ommendations. Professor Robert O. Magie, Plant of the mite, including eggs which Pathology at the Geneva Experiment resist most materials, the new pro- Dr. James F. Mountford, professor Station, resigned September 25 to join cedure promises to save American of Classics from 1924-27, has been the department of botany and plant rose growers at least $100,000 a year. elected vice-chancellor of the Univer- pathology at the Agricultural Experi- sity of Liverpool. The position corre- ment Station at Bradenton, Fla. "How Biology Came to Knox Col- sponds to the presidency of an Ameri- lege," by Professor James G. Need- can university. After four years at the Mrs. Mary Thomas Miller Reck- ham, PhD '98, Entomology, Emeri- University College of Wales in Aber- nagel, wife of Professor Arthur B. tus, appeared in The Scientific Monthly ystwyth, he was called to the chair of Recknagel, retired head of the For- for May. Latin at the University of Liverpool estry Department, died September 23, in 1932, and the last few years has 1945, in Albany. She also leaves two Professor Harold G. Beattie has re- also been dean of the faculty of arts. sons, First Lieutenants Thomas M. signed from the Division of Food October 1 Ill Agricultural Research now available. Empire, a blight-im- telegrams of congratulations, notably mune potato, has been introduced in one from Raymond (Bucky) Star- (Continued from page 101} 1945, one hundred years after the buck '01 which, following Western weather, but the nitrogen level can be great Irish famine caused largely by a Union tradition, wound up with a influenced by fertilizer applications. severe outbreak of potato blight and two-way sentence: "Best wishes for a A color chart, consisting of a set of rot of the crop. These and other varie- long and happy life stop!" John L. seven color standards, is now available ties of vegetables, grains, and forage Senior Όl, Cornell's first Athletic to Mclntosh growers. By comparing crops have been developed for im- Director, sent a telegram, and also the colors on the chart with apple proved quality, better yield, and more tangible felicitations which could leaves in the orchard, the grower has greater adaptability to New York be heard popping all over the place. a quick and accurate method of deter- State conditions. Mr. Blair weathered the situation mining the nitrogen nutrition of his with characteristic courage and court- trees. The chart will serve as a basis esy and expressed his appreciation in for varying the fertilization of trees well chosen phrases, the task of re- within an orchard thus tested. From Far Below— membering which will probably take Leukosis, a poultry disease, which By Terry McGovern up much of the many remaining years includes several forms such as fowl of his useful and charming career. paralysis and tumors, causes an an- nual loss of about four or five million HE postwar reconversion pro- dollars to the poultry industry of New Tgram of the Cornell Club of New Navy To Cut Down York State. For the nation as a whole, York, dedicated to the return of good ARLY September directive of the the loss is approximately $130,000,000 cheer and the social graces to man- E Navy Department indicates that a year. Breeding experiments have kind, was inaugurated with the ex- the University will have about 1100 produced strains of poultry that are plosive features of an atomic bomb at Navy and Marines through the fall comparatively resistant to leukosis. the Club quarters at high noon of and spring terms, November to June, The resistant strains are more able to September 6, 1945. The occasion according to Captain Burton W. Chip- withstand the serious infection that marked the seventieth birthday of pendale, USN, commanding the Naval occurs during the first two weeks after Charles Hildreth Blair '97, illustrious Training School here. the birds have been hatched. son of Cornell University and grand- Approximately 370 of these will Benefits Dairy Industry son of its illustrious Founder. continue in the V-12 program, includ- As Blair loyally, but without More than one-half the total income ing some 230 Naval Reservists who marked enthusiasm, showed up for a of New York State farmers comes will complete six or seven terms in from the dairy cow. Naturally, con- mysterious meeting of the Club's Engineering November 1, and about siderable attention is given to the executive committee, he suddenly 140 Marine trainees. Naval ROTC problems of the dairy industry in their felt between his shoulder blades the will number approximately 510, in- broadest aspects. Substitutes for high- impact of the forceful hand of Walt cluding those now assigned and others Wing '07, which catapulted the vener- protein concentrates, dairy rations, to come November 1 from V-12 units the nutrition of calves, and quality in able Blair through the folding doors elsewhere and from the V-12 at hay have been subjected to intensive leading into the main dining room. Cornell who will have three or more investigation during the last year. Confronting his stunned gaze were terms to complete in Engineering. over fifty gentlemen standing in an- Outstanding progress has been made Navy and Marines will continue to ticipation, accompanied by the sound with the technique of artificial insemi- occupy the men's dormitories and at nation. The problem of sterility in of shaken cracked ice. Here in one least some nearby fraternity houses, dairy cows has been attacked. All of room were gathered the most beloved and will be messed in the Navy Mess these projects and many others are human and tangible indiscretions of Hall. directed toward greater efficiency in his lifetime. About 60 V-12 students who will milk production, with consequent sav- The luncheon which followed was complete eight terms in Engineering ings to both farmers and consumers. presided over by Walt Wing, or- November 1 will either be commis- The efficient marketing and dis- ganizer of the festive occasion. The sioned as ensigns in the Naval Reserve tribution of milk present many prob- Club's president, Walter L. Pate '99, or assigned elsewhere for further train- lems. The effects of wartime changes welcomed the party. John T. "Terry" ing. The only students in V-12 here in delivery practices upon the unit McGovern '00, the ancient, perpetual who will not complete their college costs of selling, delivery, and collecting vice-president of the Club, empha- work as Navy trainees are 22 who are of milk are being assessed. These data sized Mr. Blair's constant contribu- taking pre-medical and pre-dental will be useful after the war in deter- tions of service which had finally courses. Their work here will be termi- mining future policy and types of made possible the present beautiful nated November 1. services offered to consumers. quarters of the Club, and his qualities Diesel engineering courses, in which Along with the day-to-day emer- of social magnetism which over the 65 Reserve officers are now enrolled, gency problems, progress has been years had done so much to create and will be discontinued December 4. The made with new and improved varieties extend Cornell's cordial relations with Midshipmen's School, now numbering of crops. Cornell 595, a new variety of its most cherished athletic rivals. approximately 370 men, will commis- wheat, has been introduced. With a Athletic Director Bob Kane '34 spoke sion its last class December 7, as en- better straw and more resistant to in similar vein. signs in the Naval Reserve. smut, it may replace the popular The attendance was not all from Intensive courses in Russian lan- York win. A new variety of oats, Gold- Cornell. Two old friends, Commander guage in which approximately eighty win, has been produced. It is higher- Levering, Yale, and Frederic Galla- Army officers and enlisted men were yielding than other varieties and is tin, Columbia, also attended and enrolled, were discontinued the end of resistant to smut. A purified strain of spoke. A scroll commemorating cer- September. These men were quartered the Perry Marrow bean has been de- tain of Mr. Blair's social gifts and ex- in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi deloped. This strain is more uniform ploits was presented to him, indorsed Gamma Delta houses since they left in maturity, seed size, and habit of with the signatures of all those pres- Cascadilla Hall, and messed in Willard growth than any commercial stocks ent. Toastmaster Wing read many Straight Hall.

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'08 AB, '13 PhD—Lieutenant * '15 AB — Lieutenant Colonel ^ stock, in this instance, borrowed Army Colonel Burton J. Lemon, Ordnance, Perry C. Euchner is inspector general trucks and gasoline to bring the rural has returned to inactive status in the of the US Army 13th Port of Ant- voters to the polls and obtained paper Army Reserve after forty-two months' werp. He accompanied the 13th Port for the ballots. Finally, in order to in- active duty as chief of the rubber overseas, and was stationed with it at sure a sane election, free from the in- branch, and, for the last seven months, Plymouth, England, moving with his fluence of San Marino wine, he "sug- as acting chief of the development di- unit to Antwerp when it opened the gested" that all wine shops be closed vision of the office of the Chief of port there in November, 1944. This for the day. Captain Comstock was Ordnance-Detroit, Detroit, Mich. As port, together with the 5th, supplied formerly publisher of the Buffalo Con- head of the rubber branch, Colonel the armies on the Western Front. struction News. Mrs. Comstock lives Lemon had charge of furnishing ade- Colonel Euchner's address is Head- at 60 Lexington Avenue, Buffalo. quate rubber products for Army quarters 13th Port, APO 228, Care '21, '24 ME—John C. Gibb is Ground Forces' automotive equip- Postmaster, New York City. He re- Diesel engine lubricants specialist for ment, and for the conversion to syn- ports his son, Private Perry C. Euch- Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 26 Broad- thetic rubber of Ordnance products ner, Jr. '47, as awaiting assignment way, New York City. Son of Arthur N. made from natural rubber. In his lat- in a ground force replacement com- Gibb '90, architect in Ithaca, he was ter position, he was in charge of the mand camp near Leghorn, Italy. An- formerly civilian instructor in Diesel design and development of Ordnance other son, Seaman Second Class James engine courses of the Naval Training wheeled and track-laying automotive A. Euchner '48, is attending the ARM School at the University. equipment. school, Navy Air Technical Training '21; '96 PhD—"Intonations and '08 ME—William G. Mennen, pres- Command, Memphis, Tenn. Signatures of the Byzantine Modes," ident of the Mennen Co., Newark, N. '19 AB; '78 BME, '86 MME; '14 * by Professor W. Oliver Strunk of J., married Mrs. Maude R. Wallis, PhD—Lieutenant Colonel Alpheus W. Princeton University, appeared in the September 22 in Orange, N. J. George Smith is commandant of the school Musical Quarterly for July. Strunk is S. Mennen '39 was best man for his which trains German prisoners of war the son of Professor William Strunk, father. Mennen and his sister, Mrs. to help administer and police their own Jr., PhD '96, English, Emeritus. Emma Mennen Williams, gave Men- country, it was revealed by the Army, '26 AB—Major David M. Solinger, nen Hall to the University in 1932. September 21. An "idea factory" for formerly executive officer of the East- '09, '10 CE—Albert E. Frosch of the project, inaugurated in the sum- ern Defense Command's Public Rela- 410 North Ray nor Avenue, Joliet, 111., mer of 1944, was set up last December tions Section, 90 Church Street, New is chief engineer for Sanderson & in a former CCC camp at Van Etten. York City, has been released from Porter, Elwood Ordnance Plant. The The school is now located at Fort active military duty. He has resumed company, the -first shell, bomb, and Getty, R. I. Speaking of the "stu- his law practice in New York City, component loading plant in the coun- dents" who have been carefully where he lives at 33 East Seventieth try to get into production, is known screened, Colonel Smith said: "We Street. as the West Point of the Ordnance have more complete information on Department because it made avail- them than some of our American busi- able its early experiences to later ness houses have on their employes." plants. On leave as professor of English at Ίl, '12 AB; '42—Mrs. Erma Wig- Northwestern University, Colonel man Zeller, wife of Gustav O. Zeller Smith has been in the Information and of 137 East Thirty-eighth Street, New Education Division of the War De- York City, and mother of Gustav partment for three years; helped or- Zeller III '42, died September 22, ganize the Army educational program 1945. in Europe and on Pacific islands and '13 AB, '14 BS, '34 LLB—Major * the Armed Forces Institute. Prior to LaFayeftte W. Argetsinger, Jr. is head this latest assignment as commandant, of the veterans' personnel office, Co- he was director of information and lumbus, Ohio. Mrs. Argetsinger, for- education for the US Army School for merly secretary to the Dean of the Special Services, Washington, D. C., Faculty at Cornell, is now secretary and Lexington, Va. He is the son of to the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the late Dean Albert W. Smith '78, Goldwin Smith Hall. Their son, Con- Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, rad H. Argetsinger '47, recovered from and Mrs. Smith (Ruby Green), PhD wounds received in the Siegfried Line, '14, who lives at 302 Fall Creek Drive, is with the 78th Division in Germany, Ithaca. assigned to Military Police. '22, '24 AB—Captain Oliver D. * '14 AB—Colonel Harold Riegel- * Comstock, as Allied political liaison '26 ME; '26, '27 BArch—John P. man, who was for three years chemical officer, aided San Marino, the world's Syme (above) has been made an offi- warfare officer of the 1st Army Corps smallest and oldest republic, when it cer of the Johns-Manville Corp., func- in Australia, New Guinea, and the held in March the first free general tioning as assistant to the president, Philippines, has resumed his law prac- election in Europe since the Nazis Lewis H. Brown. Syme, who has been tice as a member of the firm of Nord- came to power. The state, which re- with the company for nineteen years, linger, Riegelman, Cooper & Benetar, mained neutral throughout the war, became director of industrial and pub- 420 Lexington Avenue, New York deals with the Allied High Command lic relations seven years ago. He con- City. for supplies it needs. Captain Com- tinues as vice-president of the Johns- October 75, 113 Ihe lYeturning Veteran ...PROBLEM OR OPPORTUNITY?

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114 Cornell Alumni News Manville Service Corp., a subsidiary He was instrumental in putting into '35 BS, '40 PhD—Lieutenant * which operates the Kansas Ordnance operation orders for the withdrawal Earl F. Savage has been in the Pacific Plant, Parsons, Kans. He and Mrs. and reentry into action of the 8th since June, 1943, with the Fourth Syme (Helen G. English) '26, with Corps Artillery during the German Marine Division. Before entering the their two children, live in Essex, Conn. counter-offensive in the Ardennes. service he was associate pomologist '27—Major Charles L. Conley, after The citation states that as S-3 of the at the Georgia Experiment Station. three years with Headquarters, Army Corps he "worked continuously and '35 AB, '38 LLB—Richard B. Tolins Service Forces in Washington, D. C., tirelessly on immediate operations has been retired from the Army and has returned to Collins & Aikman and future plans without regard to per- has opened a law office in Watkins Corp., 200 Madison Avenue, New sonal discomforts, lack of sleep, and Glen. He is the son of Louis Tolins '12. constant danger from enemy infiltra- York City. : tion." His parents, Richmond H. '

Shreve '02 and Mrs. Shreve (Ruth -Λ!t£.: : /••'•* v:*lίlίt* Bentley) '02 live at 50 Euclid Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson. '32 AB, '34 LLB—John C. Howes is secretary and general counsel of General Electric Credit Corp. and two connected corporations. His of- fices are at 570 Lexington Avenue, New York City. '34 AB—Major Jesse J. Frankel * has been transferred from Charleston '36, '37 AB—Robert N. Dennis- * (S.C.) Army Air Field to 112th AAF ton (above, right), Army Intelligence, Base Unit, Squadron K, Westover has been promoted to lieutenant colo- Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass. He mar- nel. Overseas since February, 1944, he ried Ida Shurman last October on his participated in the Rome-Arno, South- return from thirty-three months in the ern France, and German campaigns. '31, '32 ME; '02 BArch; '02 * Southwest Pacific. His brother, Cap- He is assigned to General Devers' AB—Lieutenant Richmond B. Shreve tain Walter P. Frankel '37, Dental headquarters in Germany. His home (above), Field Artillery, has won the Corps, is with a bomber group in is at 113 Seneca Street, Ithaca. Bronze Star Medal for meritorious Italy. His sister, Helen E. Frankel '42, '36 BS—Lieutenant Nicholas P. * service in connection with military has been chief inspector in a chemical Floros, Adjutant General's Depart- operations from December 16-23,1944. warfare plant in Norwalk, Conn. ment, has received the Croix de Guerre

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October /5,1945 115 for his work in Military Intelligence with the French government. His home address is 214 South Hill Ter- POSTWAR race, Ithaca. '37 BS—Elizabeth Eldridge teaches home economics in Ithaca Senior OPPORTUNITIES High School. She lives at 114 West Seneca Street, Ithaca. '37 BS; '41, '42 BME—-Mrs. Soren for Engineers end J. W. Graae (Madge Jopson) of Copenhagen, Denmark, with her hus- band and two children, arrived in Technical Men New York City on the " Jutlandia," September 1. She was in the under- ground for a month, and her husband This advertisement is addressed a prisoner of the Gestapo for helping primarily to men in the military REUNION... the Allies. Her brother is Hubert S. services who are doing some per- Jopson '41 of 1323 Walnut Street, sonal postwar planning. A friendly handshake, a wel- Williamsport, Pa. Our postwar plans contemplate an come smile—the thrill that '38, '39 AB, '40 MS—Bettina M. expansion of facilities and products. comes from meeting old col- Frost is in the chemotherapy depart- We need 25 to 30 men technically lege friends. Hotel Syracuse ment of Merck Institute for Thera- trained in radio, radar and electronics has been the alumni rendez- peutic Research, in Rahway, N. J. for product, process and sales She lives at 1324 W. Clinton Avenue, engineering. vous since 1924. Irvington. The opportunities in engineering are in the grades of: section engineers; TUT senior and junior design or process engineers, both electrical and me- James F. Gilday, Mgr. chanical; laboratory technicians; draftsmen, senior and junior layout men and detailers; specification en- gineers; production supervisors, HOΪflMCIE salesmen of the engineering type; field service technicians. SYRACUSE, N . Y. Salaries are in accordance with the compensation standards of the Gen- eral Motors Corporation. These standards include every element of personal security and stability that a modern industrial organization can FORBIDDEN include to attract and keep the kind '38; '37—At a Marine Corps air * of people it needs—the kind of station in the Pacific, Major Arthur B. people it now has. FRUIT Hanson (above, left) and his brother, Prewar we were one of the three Captain Kurtz M. Hanson '37, met largest producers of automobile radio this summer for the first time in al- receivers. The decision to expand our most two years. Major Hanson, a operations in the electronic and radio veteran of fighting on Roi-Namur, field is a significant one, we believe. Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, has It offers a vast field of opportunity been awarded two Bronze Star Med- for ambitious young men with the als. Captain Hanson is assistant opera- requisite background of education tions officer of a Marine air wing and and early experience—limited only by the capabilities of the individual. has served on the Marshalls, Marianas, and Carolines. They are the sons of We are located in a good, typical Elisha A. Hanson, Jr. '14, attorney, American home town—a happy com- with offices at 729 Fifteenth Street, bination of small-town friendships NW, Washington, D. C. (Two officers and big-town conveniences. A com- pictured in October 1 issue were in- munication will have the earnest and confidential consideration of our You and your guests deserve the best—so serve correctly identified as the Hanson executives. Director of Personnel, FORBIDDEN FRUIT with pride-before dinner- brothers). Delco Radio Division, General Motors after dinner—anytime. 70 proof '38 AB; '07 ME—Lieutenant * Corporation, Kokomo, Indiana. John E. Sly, USNR, and Mrs. Sly "GIFT OF THE GODS" have a son, born September 10, in Oxford, N. C. Grandfather of the baby is Frederick S. Sly ;07. Lieuten- ant Sly is stationed at 88 East Bay PARIS 1906 LONDON 1936 Street, Charleston, S. C., doing per-

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October 75, 1945 117 Camp Gordon, Ga. While on leave this summer, he joined in New York PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY City for dinner at the Cornell Club his father, Juan M. Bertran '17, and OF CORNELL ALUMNI his brother, Carlos E. B.ertran '45, a student at the Medical College. '40 EE; '39 AB—Ensign Edward * NEW YORK AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. L. Clayton, USNR, is an instructor at the Amphibious Training Base, Ocra- coke, N. C. Mrs. Clayton is the former William L. Crow Construction Co. Geraldine Mason '39. Established 1840 Power Plant Equipment '41 AB; '12 AB; '46, '45 AB— * 101 Park Avenue New York Machine Tools First Lieutenant David C. Klein, In- JOHN W. ROSS Ί9, Vice President fantry, has received the Silver Star New—Guaranteed Rebuilt for gallantry in action near Steinfeld, Write for Catalog 544 Germany, March 23, and the Purple Heart for wounds sustained another The General Cellulose Co., Inc. Everything from a Pυίίey to a Powerhouse day. 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MACWHYTE COMPANY '42 LLB—Lieutenant (jg) Frank * Manufacturer of Wire and Wire Rope/ Braided Wire, RAMSDELL S. LASHER '14 T. Cotter, USNR, is supply and dis- Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord bursing officer on the USS Eaton Literature furnished on request INVESTMENT PROGRAMS (DD 510), Care FPO, San Francisco, JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. '13 PRES. & GEN. MGR. Cal. He also gives legal advice when R. B. WHYTE, ME.'13 Analyzed Planned Supervised Vice President in Charge of Operations needed to members of the crew, and has been in charge of two batteries of HOPKINS, HARBACH & CO. 40 m.m. guns when at battle stations. Your Card 609 SOUTH GRAND AVE. '42 PhD; '42 AB—Carl G. Gustav- son and Mrs. Gustavson (Caryl Jen- IN THIS DIRECTORY LOS ANGELES 14, CALIF. nings) '42 of 186 North Lancaster will be regularly read by Street, Athens, Ohio, have a son, Carl ^Members* Gustavson, born March 31. Gustav- 6,500 CORNELLIANS NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE (Assoc.) son, former assistant in History, Write for Special Rate LOS ANGELES STOCK EXCHANGE teaches European history at the Uni- versity of Ohio. '42, '43 BEE; Ό7 AB; '09 AB— * Robert W. Sailor, Jr., AUS, Signal CAMP OTTER CORNELLIANS IN SERVICE Corps, son of R. Warren Sailor '07, For Boys 7 to 17 Please be sure to notify us prompt- former editor of the ALUMNI NEWS, IN MUSKOKA REGION OF ONTARIO ly of address changes, to make sure Enroll your son now for 1946 and Mrs. Sailor (Queenie Horton) '09, HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director you get your Alumni News was promoted to first lieutenant in 132 Louvaίne Dr., Kenmore, 17, N. Y. without interruption. July. He is stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. When he went overseas 118 Cornell Alumni News last January, he was put in charge of all communication lines between the COMMERCIAL Ninth Army and Twelfth Army Group Headquarters. After hostilities GIFTS ceased, he had charge of repair and coordination of captured German re- must convey Personal Interest peater station equipment. His address The world-famous SANTA CLARA VALLEY is Company C, 3187th Signal Service fruits packed in strikingly attractive gift bas- kets and boxes individually delivered from the Battalion, APO 655, Care Postmaster, Ranch do exactly that. They help keep old New York City. customers and make new ones. '43 BS in AE(ME); '45—-First * Many outstanding business organiza- Lieutenant H. Craig Allen is stationed tions use the GOLDEN GATE PLAN at the office of the Chief of Ordnance- SERVICE MEN for Christmas "appreciation" gifts. Detroit, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Allen is Complete details of this Plan will be the former Jean S. McGlone '45, ATTENTION! cheerfully, supplied on request. daughter of John McGlone '06 and All Cornell men in the armed Mrs. McGlone (Marion Sturges) '15. 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