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therefor be made known to the elec- Six Nominated for Alumni Trustees torate by the committee with the bal- lot, and that any group nominating others than those recommended shall To Fill Three Posts on Board have the privilege of sending their ALLOTS containing the names of the entire alumni body and is not top- reasons in reasonable limit to the B six candidates for Alumni Trus- heavy with representatives of one par- electorate with the ballot." tees of the University are being mailed ticular group at any given time; by H. Victor Grohmann '28, chairman to some 43,000 degree holders, to elect establishing a sharply defined and of the committee on Alumni Trustee three members of the Board to take clearly understood system of inform- nominations, thus describes the find- office next July 1. Nominations closed ing graduates of the qualifications of ings of his committee this year: April 1, and the names on the ballot all candidates, so as to eliminate the "It is found that the particular are of persons nominated by ten or present evils of campaigning and to requirements of the Board at this more degree holders, as provided in give each voter an opportunity to cast time are for an experienced con- the University Charter. his ballot solely on the basis of the struction engineer to assist with the The two Alumni Trustees who re- candidates' ability for service to the vast building program now being ceive the largest vote will serve on the University; ..." planned; a recognized leader in the Board for five-year terms, succeeding The committee last fall asked for development and research of aero- George H. Rockwell '13 and Thomas names and information of suggested nautics as well as in the science of I. S. Boak '14, whose terms expire candidates from all directors of the atomic energy, for guiding the Uni- June 30. The candidate receiving the Alumni Association, officers of Cornell versity in these important fields; a next largest vote will fill the unex- Clubs, Class secretaries, officers of the financial adviser and experienced fund pired term of the late Paul A. Schoell- Alumni Fund Council, and officers of raising consultant to assist in such kopf '06, to June 30, 1949. all College alumni organizations. projected needs; an outstanding repre- Committee Studies Needs Cornell Alumni Association direc- sentative in the field of agriculture tors adopted the following resolu- and someone well qualified to strength- This year for the first time, candi- tion: "That the personnel needs of the en the University's contact with vari- dates who were sponsored by the Board of Trustees and the recommen- ous governmental departments. Alumni Association committee on dations of the Committee on Alumni "Having determined these needs, Alumni Trustee nominations'"'are so Trustee Nominations and the reasons the Committee carefully considered all designated and the reasons given for their selection by the committee. This committee was organized in 1942, composed of fourteen members chosen by and from each of the constituent organizations of the Cornell Alumni Association and the Alumni Trustee members of the Board. Objects of the committee, as de- scribed by the late Albert R. Mann '04, its original Alumni Trustee mem- ber, are: "To endeavor to serve the University by stimulating greater in- terest in Alumni Trustee nominations, by working with the constituent groups of the Alumni Association to see that the most able alumni, and those best fitted to serve the needs of the Univer- sity at any particular time, would be placed in nomination; by making those groups aware of openings on the Board that are to be filled; by advising COMMITTEE ON ALUMNI TRUSTEE NOMINATIONS DELIBERATES them as to what type of alumni are Left to right around the table at the Cornell Club of New York, members of the Alumni needed by the University to answer Association committee on Alumni Trustee nominations are MaxF. Schmitt'24 representing the problems and questions likely to the Association of Class Secretaries, vice-chairman Dr. Cassius Way '07, Veterinary Al- arise in the years directly ahead; . . . umni Association William F. Stuckle '17, Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs; Dr. Wade Duley '23, Medical College Alumni Association; Alumni Trustee Gieorge R. Pfann '24; by leaving it to each constituent group Mrs. James A. McConnell (Louis Zimmerman) '20, Home Economics Alumnae Associa- to select its own candidate for election tion H. Victor Grohmann '28, Cornell Society of Hotelmen, chairman General Alumni and in no sense trying to control nomi- Secretary Emmet J. Murphy '22; Birge W Kinne '16, Agriculture Alumni Association; nations, but at the same time making Paul O. Reyneau >13 for George M. Reck '14, Cornell Society of Engineers; Mrs. Edwin S. Knauss (Dorothy Pond) '18, Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs; Earle W. Bolton, Jr. plain to these groups that the interests '26, Architecture Alumni Association. Members not present at this meeting were H. W. of the University can best be served Peters '14, Alumni Fund Council; Lawrence S. Hazzard '22, Law Alumni Association; and by a Board that adequately represents Newton C. Burnett '24 from the district directors of the Alumni Association. Kastan the prospective candidates for Alumni ing; and is a member of the US De- lesley Seventy-fifth Anniversary Fund. Trustees whose names were submitted partment of Agriculture national ad- Munns entered Sibley College in to it and unanimously agreed upon visory committee. 1910 from Pittsburgh, Pa., Central four as the best available candidates Mitchell came to the College of High School and received the ME in to meet those needs and who could Agriculture in 1915 from Occidental 1914. He played guard and was cap- devote sufficient time to University College, Los Angeles, Cal., and re- tain of the football team and was a affairs. Those four, duly nominated ceived the BS in 1917; was for a short hammer thrower on the track team by degree holders as provided in the time in officers' training school at and president of the Interfraternity University Charter, but sponsored by Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Association. He is a member of Delta the Committee, are so designated fol- Ky., at the end of the World War I. Tau Delta and Sphinx Head, of the lowing their biographies." Committee on Alumni Trustee nom- Cornell Clubs of New York, Chicago, Pictures and biographies of the inations, sponsoring Mitchell as a Pittsburgh, New England, and Ithaca, Alumni Trustee candidates follow. candidate, says: "As a nationally and of the Cornell Society of Engi- Any degree holder who does not re- prominent leader in the livestock in- neers. As a lieutenant (jg) on the ceive an official ballot may obtain one dustry, he is well qualified to repre- USS Beale in the first world war, he from the Treasurer, Cornell Univer- sent the extensive interests of agricul- received a Navy Department citation sity, Ithaca. ture on the Board of Trustees. With and a British medal for saving the Cornell a land-grant University, closer lives of British seamen in the English Albert K. Mitchell '17 contact with activities in the nation's Channel. For exceptional service in capital is extremely important and the development of thin-gauge mag- Mitchell has been active in govern- nesium and silver chloride sheets for mental affairs from the State of New radar torpedo batteries in World War Mexico for many years. An outstand- II he received the Naval Ordnance ing citizen of the Southwest, Mitchell Development Award. would give representation on the Munns lives in Evanston, 111., and Board to this important section of the operates farms in Spartanburg County, United States." S. Car., and Iroquois County, 111. His brothers are David A. Munns '23 and James J. Munns '14 Ralph B. Munns '27. His sponsors "submit the name of Jimmy Munns because of the man's human qualities: his warmth of heart, his informed enthusiasm for Cornell which never cooled in the years when he wag carving his own noteworthy record of accomplishment. He is in- capable of serving anywhere in a per- functory manner. Yet his association with large affairs, his current contacts with research in nuclear studies, indi- cate that the man has gifts which, it is respectfully suggested, should be Albert K. Mitchell ' 17 is a large= drafted, along with his infectious en- scale rancher and former member of thusiasm, to the service of the Univer- the New Mexico legislature. As presi- sity." Munns is officially endorsed as dent and general manager of T. E. a candidate by the Cornell Clubs of Mitchell & Son and until its dissolu- Chicago and Pittsburgh. tion last year vice-president and gen- eral manager of the Red River Valley John S. Parke '23 Co., he has operated nearly 700,000 acres. He was elected to the State legislature in 1927 and 1929; has been Republican National Committeeman James J. Munns '14 is vice-presi- for New Mexico since 1942. He is a dent and director of research of Weir- director of the Federal Reserve Bank, ton Steel Co., Weirton, W. Va., and Denver branch, and of the First Na- vice-chairman of the company labor- tional Bank of Raton, N. Mex.; lives management committee. He is also on the home Tequesquite Ranch at representative of National Steel Corp. Albert, N. Mex. to the Institutes for Nuclear Studies, From 1940-46, Mitchell was a mem- for Study of Metals, and of Radio- ber of the board of regents of the New biology and Biophysics at University Mexico College of Agriculture and of Chicago and administrator of The Mechanic Arts. For four years he was Okadee Co. of Chicago, 111., manufact- chairman of the National Livestock urers of valves, and of Viloco Railway and Meat Board, is a past president Equipment Co. of Benton Harbor, of the American Hereford Breeders Mich. President of the Class of '14, Association, American National Live- he is a member of the Class Annivers- stock Association, American Quarter ary Alumni Fund committee; was for Horse Association, and New Mexico six years a member of an advisory Cattle Growers Association; has been committee to the president of the on the board of the Foundation for University of West Virginia; and is on American Agriculture since its found- the advisory committee for the Wel- 368 Cornell Alumni News John S. Parke '23 is executive vice- struction engineer to assist in plan- Prize; is a member of Alpha Delta president in charge of buildings and ning, developing, and constructing Phi, Quill and Dagger, and the Savage maintenance of Presbyterian Hospital new buildings planned for the Campus Club. He received the AB in 1917. in New York City, which he helped to during the next ten years. John Parke April 6, 1917, he entered the Army build, and March 11 he was elected has undoubtedly supervised the con- and served overseas as a captain of vice-chairman of the New York City struction of more monumental build- Infantry with the 78th Division, re- Housing Authority, of which he has ings, similar to those built by univer- ceived a division headquarters cita- been a member since 1944. sities, than any other alumnus. This tion and the Silver Star for gallantry After receiving the BArch in 1923, experience, combined with his training in action. he joined the construction firm of as an architect and his participation Member of the New York City and Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc., headed by in great expansion of a large institu- State Bar associations, Judge Schur- the late Otto M. Eidlitz '85 and Rob- tion, will make him extremely helpful man is a trustee of United Christian ert J. Eidlitz '85, and was assigned to in moulding Cornell's future building Colleges in China, of St. Luke's Hos- the building of the Columbia-Presby- program." pital, the University Club, and the terian Medical Center. He rose to be- Church Club in New York City, and come vice-president of the firm, which Jacob G. Schurman, Jr. '17 of the Hoosac School, Hoosick. He completed in 1932 the Cornell Univer- Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. '17, lives at 161 East Seventy-ninth Street, sity-New York Hospital Medical Cen- son of the third President of the Uni- New York City. His children are Jo- ter and also built Memorial Hospital, versity, has been since 1939 Judge of seph R. Schurman '45, Lydia S. additions to St. Vincent's and Roose- the Court of General Sessions in New Schurman '50, and Mary A. Schur- velt Hospitals and the US Naval Hos- York City. He was first appointed by man '51. pital at St. Albans, the new Columbia Governor Herbert H. Lehman and in His sponsors say: " Judge Schurman University Library, and the US Mer- 1940, with both Republican and Dem- knows how to deal with people, as well chant Marine Academy at Great Neck. ocratic endorsement, was elected for a as ideas. In his years of varied public In 1943, he resigned from the successor term of fourteen years. Receiving the service, he has acquired knowledge firm, Vermilya-Brown Co., to become LLB at Harvard in 1922, he practiced and skills relating to the political life executive vice-president of Presbyte- law in New York City for seven years of the State. These skills would be of rian Hospital. He is a consultant to the in association with Professor Bertram value to a University whose relations War Department on Veterans Admin- F. Willcox '17, Law. He was assistant with New York's government are istration hospitals and a trustee of district attorney of New York County growing always more intimate and Stony Wold Sanatorium. in 1925, in 1930-31 was assistant coun- intricate. Judge Schurman grew up in For three years after graduation sel to Judge Samuel Seabury in his Ithaca, a son of a great Cornell Presi- from the Troy, Pa., high school, Parke investigation of the New York City dent, and thus has a lifelong knowl- was a carpenter's apprentice, until he magistrates courts and chief assistant edge of Cornell's problems and pur- went to the Mexican border in 1916 counsel in the investigation of the pose. He would serve Cornell well in with the New York National" Guard. New York County district attorney's the never-ending fight to uphold its He went to France with, the 27th office, and in 1931-32 he was associate great educational tradition." Division and was wounded, returning counsel in the legislative investigation to enter Architecture in 1919. fle is a of the New York City government. J. Carlton Ward, Jr. '14 member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and In 1935, Mayor LaGuardia appointed J. Carlton Ward, Jr. '14, president the Cornell Club of New York; lives Schurman chief magistrate of New of Fair child Engine & Airplane Corp., in Washington Heights, New York York City and he served until 1939. New York City, since 1940, was City. Schurman entered Arts and Sciences elected March 24 as chairman of the Sponsoring Parke's candidacy, the from Hill School in 1913. He was board but continuing as the company's committee on Alumni Trustee nomi- elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Jun- chief executive officer. From an indus- nations says: "One of the greatest ior, was a member of Book and Bowl, trial career as engineer and plant su- needs of the University on the Board Manuscript Club, and the Varsity de- perintendent, he entered the aircraft at this time is for a practicing con- bate team, and won the '94 Memorial industry in 1935 as vice-president of

JACOB G. SCHURMAN, JR. '17 J. CARLTON WARD, JR. '14 ROBERT W. WHITE '15 April 15, 1948 369 United Aircraft Corp. and general joined the sales division of Linde Air and the bookstore until his death in manager of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Products Co. and worked in Chicago, 1908, when the store business was Division of East Hartford; Conn. Pittsburgh, and New York, inter- sold to Taylor & Carpenter, proprie- In 1940, Ward headed an American rupted by overseas duty in the Navy, tors of the Corner Bookstore, down- advisory mission to the French Gov- 1917-1919, in which he rose from sea- town, and Arthur R. Congdon became ernment on the production of airplane man , USNRF, to lieutenant in Naval manager of the building. Howard B. engines. As chairman of the Aircraft Aviation, and became sales manager Hollister took over the bookstore in Manufacturers' Council and vice- of this division. In 1923, he became 1923 and after his death it was pur- president and member of the execu- general sales manager and administra- chased in 1925 by " Jerry" Morris, tive committee of the Aircraft Indus- tive head of a new division, Carbide & who is a graduate of Pennsylvania tries Association, he has been active Carbon Chemicals Corp., which has State College and was an Army major in support of airplane development; is become one of the largest chemical in the first world war. Morris is a chairman of the Bureau of Aeronautics companies in the world. Since 1930, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and has contact committee, Navy Industrial as a financial officer of the parent cor- been chapter adviser. Association; and since 1946 he has poration, he has been engaged with The building was administered in headed the Nuclear Energy Propulsion the rapidly growing financial structure trust by the US Trust Co. for its ori- for Aircraft project of the US Air of the parent corporation as its re- ginal owner's children, Dr. William H. Force and Navy Bureau of Aero- quirements have increased in construc- Sheldon '06 of Rome, Italy, and Mrs. nautics. tion and sales. White became secre- Mary Sheldon Lyon of New York City. Ward entered Sibley College in 1910 tary and treasurer of Union Carbide Since 1942, it has been managed by from Stevens School, Hoboken, N. J., & Carbon Corp. in 1934 and vice- Ray S. Ashbery '25, former Alumni and received the ME in 1914. He won president in 1941. Field Secretary of the University. It the novice boxing championship at He entered Agriculture in 1911 from was leased by the University as a 158 pounds; is a member of Tau Beta Brockport Normal School, became Freshman dormitory the summer of Pi. managing editor of the Cornellian, 1943, then housed student officers of Member of the Engineering College was for two years business manager of the Navy Training School and later, Council since 1940, he has been freely the COKNELL ALUMNI NEWS, and was Army students. consulted and intimately concerned elected secretary of the Class of '15. Mrs. Lyons, at her death in Octo- with the development of that College, He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega both in its teaching and research and ber, 1946, bequeathed her estate of and Sphinx Head and of the ALUMNI of some $489,000 to Father Divine, its relations with industry. He is cred- NEWS advisory board. White lives in ited with effective assistance in the Negro religious leader, and her inter- Scarsdale is a member of Cornell Clubs est in Sheldon Court was included. University development of sponsored of Westchester County and New York. research which has increased sixteen- Her brother and other relatives con- fold in the last five years, and has par- Committee on Alumni Trustee nom- tested the will, and finally the courts ticipated in planning the operation of inations, sponsoring White's candi- and the interested parties consented the Aeronautical Laboratory in Buf- dacy, says: "His broad experience in to the sale of the property to Morris. falo, given to the University in 1946, public and industrial relations and Among v "famous" Cornellians who and in raising from the aircraft indus- financial problems of a corporate na- roomed in Sheldon Court as students try a first gift of $675,000 for working ture, together with a sympathetic un- were Hendrik W. van Loon '05, capital and a recent additional gift of derstanding of community relations, George C. Boldt, Jr. '05, Thomas Mid- $105,000. Ward lives in Farmington, can well be used to the advantage of gley, Jr. '11, Jacob S. Fassett '12, Conn. Cornell, particularly during this period Edward L. Bernays '12, Henry Mor- of rapid University growth, large con- Committee on Alumni Trustee nom- genthau, Jr. '13, J. Lessing Rosenwald struction operation, and a growing inations in sponsoring Ward's nomina- '13, and Trustee Victor Emanuel '19. need for alumni gifts, endowments, tion says: "He is the outstanding per- and financial cooperation. Not only is son in the United States, and so recog- he qualified by ability and experience, Represents University nized by Congress, who understands but his business responsibilities now FFICIAL delegate of Cornell at how educational institutions, indus- permit him to give liberally of his the dedication of St. John's try, and government agencies must O time and effort to the advancement of School, Houston, Tex., April 10, was work together to achieve maximum Cornell." Radoslav A. Tsanoff, PhD '10, pro- benefits from research. Public recogni- fessor of philosophy at Rice Institute tion of his unique talent in this respect in Houston. is his designation as head of the im- Morris Buys Building portant NEPA project. In addition Because of the recently reported ac- OHELDON COURT on College tion of the present Czechoslovakian to his important service to Cornell in ^ Avenue has been purchased by Engineering development and the Government in replacing many of the Evan J. Morris, proprietor of the Tri- Charles IV University faculty in Aeronautical Laboratory, his thor- angle Book Co-op in the building. ough familiarity with the new science Prague, Cornell University withdrew Morris will continue to operate the from participation in its 600th anni- of atomic energy make his services building as a dormitory for students. invaluable to Cornell in its own devel- versary celebration, April 6-10. Notice Besides the bookstore, it contains a of the withdrawal was cabled March opments in these fields. Ward has barber shop and the new owner plans given generously to Cornell of his 29 to the Rector of the University and to re-establish the restaurant which to Anthony R. Palacek, Grad '23-'24, great talents, time, and energy. He is occupied the lower floor before the needed on the Board of Trustees.'7 who was to be the Cornell delegate, war. and an official letter went to the Robert W. White '15 Sheldon Court was opened in 1903, Czechoslovakian Ambassador in Wash- Robert W. White '15 is vice-presi- the first dormitory to be erected for ington, D. C. No word has been re- dent and chief financial officer of students of the University. It was ceived from Palacek who, in his letter Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. in built by the late Charles L. Sheldon of acceptance, said that he had been New York City and a director of its of Auburn, with the late Henry W. lecturing on American government for various subsidiaries. Wilkinson '90 as architect. Charles L. the last two years at the School of After receiving the BS in 1915, he Sheldon, Jr. Όl managed the building Business Administration in Prague. 370 Cornell Alumni News including bunks for week-end parties or visiting teams. Intelligence * * * Letters Speaking of helpful elder brothers, Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good taste, we shall print letters from sub- I dare say that most of you know scribers on any side of any subject of interest R .. nothing of the roller skating to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often evenings at the Old Armory, Skating Λ or at least are unaware of and disclaims any responsibility beyond Looking back at the winter—not a Helps their beneficent importance. that of fostering interest in the University. distant task since it snowed at Easter About ten years ago, Tar got the , —I am struck by the rise hunch to use the Old Armory—time Who Are They? is rt of skiin? in the Cornel1 out for fond memories of my Junior n P° s community. It is much Prom, with its waltzes, two-steps, more popular than tobogganing was Bostons, and that new fad, the Lame in its heyday and has even passed Duck!—for healthful recreation atop skating, it seems to me. Tobogganing the spinning wheels. An old friend of went out about 1940; the old slide his in the roller skate business, the late remains, but is closed. Ralph Ware '02, told him what to buy As late as Saturday, March 13, I and what not to buy; and now, of a drove out a dozen miles ESE of Ithaca Friday or Saturday night, the place is to Tar Young Hill in Caroline and saw thronged at forty cents a head, tax the lads and lassies (and poppas and and skates included, and the profits mommas) lined up thirty or forty deep mount to as much as $5,000 a year. waiting their turn at the ski tow. It's a pretty nice set-up, because rent From the top they came zipping down and overhead are not problems. Direc- all over the landscape on runs of vary- tor of Athletics Robert J. Kane '34 ing shades of speed and difficulty, in- recently told me that he wished all the cluding a standard college-size sixty- Athletic Association divisions were as meter jump. It reminded me vividly financially happy as is the Gym of a winter spent in Switzerland, in- Account. cluding the apt definition of the sport Tar has always been allowed to di- given by an American kid with his rect the disposal of the roller skating Swiss governess at Gstaad: "Tomber profits. Last year's went to the ski avec grace et se lever avec elegance" slope and into a $2800 addition to To THE EDITOR: (tumble gracefully and get ^up ele- Mount Pleasant Lodge, that wooded While walking along Ocean Drive gantly). retreat a few miles east of the Campus in Miami Beach I snapped the en- * * * so popular with week-end groups. closed picture of two little girls who Tar Young Hill was bought by the Profits of previous seasons have gone claim to be daughters of Cornellians Athletic Association about five years to meet crying needs of the most but who would not reveal their names. ago and includes some 125 diverse kinds for which other funds Would you please print this in your acres °f ground sloping to were unavailable, such as part-time next issue? I'm sure the parents would Promotes the north, away from the assistant coaches or team travel, even be pleased.—DR. TED ALLEN '41 Play sun. The project owes of the debating team. much to James Lynah '05 then head From the foregoing, Tar's many of the CUAA, but it came by its name friends will gather that he is still going Baltimore Women legitimately because it's the baby of strong and that he continues to be an IGHTEEN attended a March 19 Emeritus Professor C. V. P. Young educational asset to the Cornell com- E meeting of the Cornell Women's '99. The former Varsity pitcher has munity. Club of Baltimore at the College Club. quite a family, what with the Outing Mrs. Karl E. Pfeifϊer (Annie Bullivant) Club, roller skating, Mount Pleasant Secretary Travels East '20 presided and Dean Louise Kelley, Lodge, the Ski Club, and others I PhD '20, of Goucher College in Balti- probably don't know about. The older PEAKING at a March 18 meeting more told of development of the Gou- children help the youngsters. Mem- S of the Cornell Club of Schenec- cher campus at nearby Towson. bers of the Ski Club have helped Tar tady at the Edison Club in Rexford, during recent off seasons in extensive University Secretary Raymond F. grading, tree and bush planting to Howes '24 emphasized the desirability Long Island Gathers hold snow, and tree and underbrush of maintaining a cosmopolitan atmos- ASSAU County Cornell Club cutting to clear paths. From one such phere at Cornell and urged scholar- N was host at a "Cornell in Atomic expedition Tar came back with three ships and other financial aid for well- Energy" meeting March 19 at the broken ribs; he still pulls a wry grin qualified foreign and out-of-State Garden City Hotel. Professor Frank- when asked about his incautious slide students. Club President Robert G. lin A. Long, Chemistry, told of the down the hill on the toboggan they Irish '40 introduced Howes to the University's activities in Nuclear had used on which to tote equipment twenty members present. Studies, and the Navy film, 'Opera- up. The next evening, Howes spoke at tions Crossroads," of the atomic bomb The Ski Club patrols the slope and a dinner and dance of the Cornell Club tests at Bikini was shown. More than maintains a first-aid station. The tow of New England and the Cornell Wo- 200 Cornellians attending included fee is fifty cents every day for stu- men's Club of Boston at the Copley members of the Cornell Women's Clubs dents; for outsiders it is hiked to a Plaza Hotel in Boston. Alice L. Priest of Long Island and of the North Shore dollar on Saturdays and Sundays. '91 led the group of about seventy-five who were especially invited. They plan to add a shorter beginners' in the "Alma Mater." Stuart B. Avery Before the meeting, Professor Long tow line before long, and also hope '32 was chairman of arrangements and was the dinner guest of the officers some time to build a rustic clubhouse, Carlton H. Barrows, AM '33, presided. and directors of the Cornell Club. April 15, 371 Coach Mose P. Quinn started George D. Tesnow '49 of Akron be- B hind the plate, James R. Farrell '50 Slants on Sports ? of Syracuse at first, John Cordes '47 of Garden City at second, Joseph T. Willner '46 of Beacon at third, and total. He plays to win for the team. His Robert B. Rider '50 of Germantown Basketball Round-up poise, courage, and placid temperament at shortstop, with these outfielders: OASKETBALL bowed out of the ingratiate him with all, even the basket- Calvin T. Hunt '46 of Dryden in left, •*-* sports picture in late March and ball officials. Never, at least publicly, has he complained to an official and this is John J. Hornyak, Jr. '47 of Trenton, early April. Colgate was awarded the rare indeed in basketball. N. J., in center, and Glenn L. Mc- Allie Seelbach Trophy, emblematic of He has two years more of football Avoy '49 of Clayton in right. John R. the Upstate New York championship. eligibility, one of basketball. When 1948 Maloney '50 of Garden City played Cornell won it in 1945. Captain Rob- football is discussed everyone says, "if part of the game at second base, and ert W. Gale '48 scored one point for Hillary is right, so will be the team." He is a pre-Medical student and with all his Richard C. Corwith '50 of Water the East in its 58-47 victory over a athletic activity, and he's never quiet, he Mill, Keith M. Abbott '50 of Parma, West team in a benefit game in Madi- manages to maintain an 80% average. Ohio, and Roy A. Porter, Jr. '49 of son Square Garden, New York City, The next great favorite of everyone is Elba saw outfield duty. Gordon W. March 25. Captain-elect Hillary A. big Ed Peterson. Ed, from Buffalo, was so tall and skinny he was not able to play Ball '45 of Washington Mills went into Chollet '49 was selected by the Boston high-school basketball, but he certainly the batting order as a pinch hitter. Basketball Writers Association as one turned in some fine performances for Cor- of the five best players to appear in nell in his four years on the Varsity. This Cornell outhit Duke, 16 to 14, but the Boston Garden. Gale won honor- was his best year. In fact he was just had nine men left on base. Duke was able mention. getting to be a really good player. Not ahead, 14-5, going into the last three blessed with basic stamina because he did innings. Cornell rallied for 10 runs, Attendance at home basketball not play athletics as a youngster, Ed had to work hard to stay up with this fast but Duke picked up 4 more in the games in Barton Hall set a new record game played today. Six feet, nine inches eighth. Farrell topped the Cornell hit- of 74,138 paid admissions; an average and 190 pounds, he looked at times during ters with three singles. Corwith, Hunt, of 5,703 for thirteen games. The the games like the most tired man in the and Porter hit safely twice. McAvoy largest paid crowd saw the Columbia world and undoubtedly was. and Abbott connected for doubles. game: 7,328. Unlike Chollet, every foul called against "Pete" by those wicked officials was occa- A second game with Duke was can- In a recent letter to alumni, Robert sion for a sweeping hand to the head, a celled, as were games with North Caro- J. Kane '34, Director of Physical Edu- pleading look of the face, rigid tightening lina and the US Naval Academy. cation and Athletics, pointed to this of the whole muscular system, a gasping "Oh, no!" It was a sight that always de- In the March 15 ALUMNI NEWS, it attendance figure and said, ' 'basket- lighted the home crowd, and one we are was reported that Brown had joined ball has so captured the fancy of all going to miss more than somewhat. The the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball of Ithaca that it now compares in kids love Pete as they must have loved League to make the eighth team. The popular favor with football." He paid Babe Ruth. He graduates this June, and everyone in Ithaca wishes him well. He US Naval and Military Academies tribute to all the players on the 1947- should do well. He has a captivating, have also entered to make a ten-team 48 squad and singled out two for spe- good-natured personality and a will to League. The game scheduled with the cial mention. Kane wrote: work to earn. We know, because for the Academy at Annapolis was not the last two years he has been in charge of the The basketball players have become football program distribution and adver- League game. That game will be heroes to the local kids and the popular played on Hoy Field May 8. favorites of everyone. The spectators are tising contracts for the AA. so close to the scene of action in basket- To us, the boys on this team make the ball, the players are more readily identifi- whole thing seem worth while. They are Golfers Win Three able than in football or the other sports top-drawer people of whom all Cornellians and the kids know all the court stars by can be proud. They are students who hap- OLF team started its season with pen to be darn good athletes. That's the practice at Quantico, Va., Ma- sight and besiege them for autographs. way it ought to be. G This is a development new to Ithaca rine Base. Its first competition was a but one that may have prevailed in times round-robin with Johns Hopkins and past of which I cannot authoritatively Teams Go South Loyola of Baltimore at Towson, Md. speak. The populace here has always been sport-minded but only moderately con- T> ASEBALL, golf, and tennis teams Cornell defeated Hopkins, 5H-H, but scious of the ball players as personalities. -D found the South none too sunny lost to Loyola, 2^-33^. This has changed somewhat and most es- during spring recess. The baseball In a dual match with the Naval pecially with respect to next year's cap- tain, Hillary Chollet. This boy has become team played—and lost—one game of Academy at Annapolis, Md., April 2, the overwhelming athletic favorite of the four scheduled. Rain and wet grounds Cornell won, 7-2, with four singles and undergraduates, the townsfolk, the kids, cancelled the other three. The golf three best-ball victories. and even the Faculty (because he's a top team won three of five matches, and grade student, too). When his name is an- The tour closed with a round-robin nounced over the loud speaker in the the tennis team won twice in five en- with the Academy and Dartmouth, starting lineup, there is an ovation far gagements. April 3. Cornell beat Dartmouth, 5-1, more thunderous than all the rest. This is The baseball squad left Ithaca with but lost to the Midshipmen, 1K-4H. all right with the other ball players be- cause they applaud him too. only a day or two of outdoor practice - Coach George Hall used the same before its March 30 game with Duke six players in the five matches: Joseph Why is this? It is true he has been good all along in football and basketball, but at Durham, N. C. Duke won, 18-15, W. Dawson '47 of Syracuse, Walter we have had far brighter luminaries in using four pitchers and hitting four A. Peek '48 of New Rochelle, John L. the past; and better scorers even on the home runs. Sheary '48 of Troy, George P. Smith ball teams on which he has played. It is clear, however, to us who know him and Cornell started the veteran Ken- '48 of Chicago, 111., Frank J. Thomas see him play. He is by "all standards one neth P. Battles '48 of Wakefield, '46 of Meadville, Pa., and Burt Winer of the most graceful and talented athletes Mass., on the mound. Battles gave up '50 of Lynn, Mass. Cornell has ever had; he moves with the eight hits in five innings and was superb nimbleness of a panther. But withal Dawson won victories in four he is completely modest, self-effacing, and charged with the defeat. Charles F. P. matches to top the squad. Thomas is above all a team-player. He apparently Berman '46 of Forest Hills gave six won three and halved another match. is not concerned with his personal scoring hits in three innings. Sheary and Winer each won three. 372 Cornell Alumni News Northwestern 25, Wayne 24, Cornell Conn.; 5, John B. Story '49 of Coal Tennis Takes Two ; and Brooklyn 23, Princeton and Yale Run, Ohio; 6, Peter B. Allsopp 46 of ENNIS team started out auspi- 22, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and New York City; 7, Charles P. E. von Tciously by blanking American Detroit 21, Illinois 20, Rutgers 19, and Wrangell '47 of Buffalo; stroke, Ayers; University, 9-0, at Washington, D. C, Ohio State 18. Twelve other teams coxswain, Lloyd L. Conable, Jr. '49 March 29, then ran up against the competed. of Orchard Park. formidable William and Mary team. Millard was runner-up to Day of Cornell lost twice at Williamsburg, the Naval Academy, the saber cham- For.fhe Record Va., 7-2 and 8-1. Only one of two pion. In the finals, Millard won 15 matches with North Carolina was Captains were elected in two Fresh- points and lost 5. Paltrow gained the man sports after the close of the win- played at Chapel Hill. The April 1 foil final, where he won 2 and lost 5. match was rained out. On the follow- ter season. The basketball squad In the Intercollegiate Fencing Asso- elected Walter S. Ashbaugh of East ing day, Cornell lost, 5-4. To conclude ciation's fifty-first championship in the tour, Cornell defeated the previ- Liverpool, Ohio, and Paul J. Gerwin New York City March 19 and 20, Cor- of Columbus, Ohio, as co-captains. ously unbeaten Virginia team, 6-3, at nell and the Military Academy tied Charlottesville, Va., April 3. The swimmers elected Edwin J. for fourth place. CCNY won with 62 Saeger of Rochester. Coach Richard Lewis kept his^Nos. points. Other scores: NYU 59, Naval 1 and 2 players, Captain Richard Academy 58, Cornell and Military Savitt '50 of East Orange, N. J., and Academy 49, Harvard 36, MIT 35M, Intramurals Champs Leonard L. Steiner '51 of Brooklyn, Yale 34, Rutgers 29, Columbia 2iy2, on the sidelines for the American Uni- and Princeton 26. CLIMAXING the winter intra- ^-* mural program in March were versity match. The starters were Hol- Paltrow and Marvin Kopp '46 each basketball play-offs, an indoor track lis D. Young '46 of Brookville, a co- scored 7 points with the foil, Chase 6 meet, and a boxing tournament. In captain last year; John N. Penn '49 with the epee, and Millard 8 with the basketball, the Ithaca Sporting Goods of Forest Hills, Richard N. Goldstein saber. '49 of Rochester, James R. Kennedy five, which had romped through the '50 of Grosse Pointe, Mich., Rodgers Independent League, smashed Omega H. Heiss '49 of Gulfport, Miss., and Swimmers Travel Tau Sigma, Interfraternity cham- Rodrigo R. de Llano '49 of Laredo, /CORNELL swimmers participated pions^ 45-2|< Liberally sprinkled with Tex. ^Λ in the Eastern Intercollegiate football players, ISG was paced by Swimming Association championships Frank L. Toro '51, Hartford, Conn., They won the six singles matches at Cambridge, Mass., March 19 and transfer from the Naval Academy with the loss of only twelve games. 20, and in the NCAA championships where he captained the 1947 plebe The doubles combinations were Young at Ann Arbor, Mich., March 26 and 27. football team. Runners-up were Sigma and Penn, Heiss and de Llano,, and Nu in the Interfraternity loop and the Kennedy and John E. Riihiluoma '50 Captain-elect Robert M. Hill '49 lowered the Cornell record for the 100- Outcasts in the Independents. of Pembroke, Bermuda. Theytoo won yard freestyle to 0:53.2 when he placed With a whirlwind victory in the in straight sets, losing only seven fourth in the final at Cambridge. It 1320-yard relay, Psi Upsilon cinched games. was his fourth record-breaking per- the intramural track crown with 29 Cornell's 2 points in the fir-st Wil- formance of the year. He started with points to 23 for the defending cham- liam and Mary match were earned by an 0:54 effort at Annapolis, cutting pions, Phi Sigma Kappa. Unusually Young in singles and Savitt and six-tenths of a second from the old fine individual performances high- Steiner in doubles. Young scored the mark of 0:54.6 set by David C. Wiley, lighted the meet in which the battle lone point in the second match. a Navy trainee, in Philadelphia in for team honors resolved into a duel Against North Carolina, Cornell 1944. Against Syracuse at Clinton, between Psi U's Freshman basketball split the singles matches, but lost two Hill did 0:53.9. In his qualifying trial star, Walter S. Ashbaugh '51, East of the doubles tests. Savitt scored a at Cambridge he was timed in 0:53.6. Liverpool, Ohio, and Eugene Von singles victory against, an old nemesis, Hill also placed third in the 50-yard Wening, Jr. '51, Scarsdale, of Phi Vic Seixas, ranked No. 9 nationally, freestyle. Kappa Sigma. Von Wening took the 1-6, 6-0, 6-1. Riihiluoma and Young John W. Hosie, Jr. '49 and Edwin 75-yard dash and cleared 6 feet % inch also won singles matches. The lone G. Rorke '48 tied for seventh in quali- to top Ashbaugh in the high-jump. doubles victory was scored by Savitt fying for the dive at Cambridge. Ashbaugh then swept to first in the and Steiner. At Ann Arbor, all Cornell entrants 75-yard high hurdles in 0:09.6 and put Young lost his first singles match of failed to survive the qualifying rounds. Psi U in front to' stay by piling up a the tour to Wyche of Virginia, but twenty-five-yard lead on the opening Savitt, Steiner, and Riihiluoma were leg of the relay. Other winners were victors. With the score tied at 3-3, Cor- Crews at Work T. Frank Decker, Jr. '50, Philadel- nell swept the three doubles matches. \X7HILE their fellow athletes were phia, Pa., 75-yard low hurdles, 0:09.4; * *in the South, the rowing squad F. Cabot Lyford '51, Scarsdale, 330- stayed to practice on Cayuga Lake. yard dash, 0:39.1; John E. Peterson Fencers Close Season Four Varsity eights and one Varsity '50, Bethesda, Md., 660-yard run, HE long winter sports season fi- four were boated each day, along with 1:33.4; James M. Sheil '51, Saranac Tnally closed April 3 at Annapolis four Freshman and five 150-pound Lake, mile, 4:56.3; Robert E. Miller when three fencers gave Cornell a tie eights. '49, Dayton, Ohio, broad jump, 20 for eighth place with Brooklyn College Midway in the week's practice, fee;fcΛ 5 inches; Carl R. Holland.'48, in the National Collegiate Athletic Coach Harrison Sanford shifted Jon- Farrnington, pole vault, 11 feet 9 Association championships. They were athan S. Ayers '50 of Toledo, Ohio, to inches. Stuart M. Paltrow '49, foil; James A. Varsity stroke. This was the tentative Defending 180-pound boxing cham- Chase '49, epee; and Hamilton Mil- Varsity boating: Bow, Louis L. Hep- pion William J. O'Brien '48, Buffalo, lard '44, saber. burn '49 of Philadelphia, Pa.; 2, How- scored the only knock-down of the CCNY won with 30 points. Other ard M. Smith '50 of Utica; 3, William finals round as he retained his crown scores: Naval Academy 28, Military G. Doe '45 of Harvard, Mass.; 4, in the featured bout of the tourna- Academy and Chicago 27, NYU 26, Curtis B. Morehouse '45 of Westport, (Continued on page 376*) April 15, 1948 373 Medics Celebrate for research carried on as a student. thority and the State of New York Twenty-three of those who received and numerous parks and playgrounds. T^IFTIETH anniversary celebration the MD were undergraduates at Cor- Born in Italy, Cerasi entered Archi- -Γ of the Medical College in New York, nell: Robert T. Breed '41, Lynn, tecture in 1931 from Mt. Vernon March 11, provided a full day's ac- Mass.; Robert A. W. Pullman '43, High School. He was a student officer tivities for the many alumni who at- Newton Center, Mass.; Carlos E. in the ROTC and in his fifth year, tended. They included three members Bertran '45, Santurce, P. R.; Robert won the Clifton B. Brown Memorial of the first graduating Class of '99: L. Dow '45, Baldwinsville; Manuel Medal for the best record in advanced Drs. Ernest Tutschulte, Monroe; Furer '45, Mattapan; Alan Iddles '45, design. He will go to Rome next Abraham Lustgarten, Miami, Fla.; Wayne, Pa.; Nancy M. Peters '45, October. and Joseph Roper, New York City. Maplewood, N. J.; Roderick C. Rich- Long-time professor of Clinical Medi- ards '45, Scarsdale; Harry L. Robin- cine Dr. Lewis A. Conner and Mrs. son '45, Babylon; Morton D. Bog- Conner were guests of honor at the donoff '46, New York City; Arthur N. Back When... celebration. Dadirrian, Jr. '46, Lynbrook; Shel- (Reprinted from the ALUMNI NEWS don C. Kravitz '46, New York City; of earlier days) Alumni Elect Officers Sherman Kupfer '46, Brooklyn; Following luncheon at the Nurses George E. LaCroix '46, Newton Cen- Twenty-five Years Ago residence of the School of Nursing, the ter, Mass.; John H. Laragh '46, Yon- April 26, 1923—Spring has finally Medical College Alumni Association kers; Gregory T. O'Conor '46, New arrived. The air is full of bird notes, held its annual business meeting. Dr. York City; James B. Rentfro '46, baseballs, and rough language. Flan- Willis M. Weeden '16 discussed the Brownsville, Tex.; Bernard Rodier nel pants and dislocated fingers are fund-raising plans of the University '46, Hunter; Olin G. Shivers, Jr. '46, being much worn. and announced the appointment to a Chipley, Fla.; Edward A. TenEyck University planning committee of Dr. '46, Santa Barbara, Cal.; Theodore F. All of the teams and crews are Preston A. Wade '22, representing Thomas '46, Oswego; James T. Wes- swinging into action and the atmos- Medical alumni, and Dr. Connie M. ton '46, Auburndale, Mass.; James phere is highly electric. The coaches Guion '17 from the College Faculty. W. Wilkes, Jr. '46, Columbia, Tenn. have forbidden their charges to dance Dr. William D. Stubenbord '31 was and they are being obeyed. Imagine elected president of the College Alum- any parent or governmental agency ni Association, succeeding Dr. Weed- Wins Rome Prize getting away with that—in the spring en; Dr. Horace S. Baldwin '21, vice- OME PRIZE fellowship in land- time! There has been a vast increase in president; Dr. Alphonse E. Timpa- R scape architecture, awarded by the number of student-owned Fords nelli '36, secretary; and Dr. Paul the American Academy in Rome for a and a corresponding increase in talk Reznikoίϊ '20, treasurer. Dr. Stuben- year's study abroad, has been awarded of restricting them a bit on the Cam- bord thus becomes a director of the to Vincent C. Cerasi '35. He is the pus. One's opinion on this point de- Cornell Alumni Association. fifteenth Cornellian to win the award pends largely on whether or not one During the morning and afternoon, of the nineteen given since the Rome operates a Ford. A Ford Owners' Pro- departments of the College gave dem- Prizes were established. The fellow- tective Association is being organ- onstrations and clinics on varied sub- ship carries a cash stipend of $1250 ized. —R.B. in "Sport Stuff jects. The annual banquet took 490 and includes transportation to and guests to the Hotel Roosevelt that from Rome, free residence at the Acad- evening. Trustee Larry E. Gubb '16 emy for a year, and additional travel spoke of the prospected fund raising allowance for studies elsewhere, for a Club Honors Rowing for the University. Dean Joseph C. total value of about $3,000. Hinsey told of past and present activi- OR the second year, Cornellians ties of the Medical College. Dancing The last Cornell winner, Frederick F in New York gathered, on the continued until late in the evening. W. Edmondson, Jr. '36, received a evening of March 18, in the Tap Room two-year fellowship in 1939 which was of the Ruppert Brewery at Third Ave- President Awards Degrees interrupted by the war, and is finish- nue and Ninty-first Street to do honor ing it at the American Academy this to a Cornell institution. Last year the At the fifty-first Commencement of year. Others have been Edward G. occasion celebrated current and past the Medical College, March 26, Presi- Lawson '13, Raymond W. Kennedy football teams, and Coach Lefty dent Edmund E. Day conferred the '15, Ralph E. Griswold '16, Norman James and staff were the guests of MD upon seventy-two men and six T. Newton '19, George Fraser, MArch honor. This year, rowing got the ac- women graduates. The Rev. Harry '21, Michael Rapuano '27, Richard C. colade and the chief of the guests was Emerson Fosdick gave the Com- Murdock '27, Niel H. Park '28, Mor- Crew Coach " Stork" Sanford. As last mencement address and Professor ris E. Trotter, Jr. '31, James M. Lis- year* George Ruppert was host to the George G. Ward, Obstetrics and ter '33, Robert S. Kitchen '34, John Cornellians. Gynecology, Emeritus, administered F. Kirkpatrick '34, and Stuart M. the Oath of Hippocrates to the new Edwin T. Gibson '08, president of Mertz '38. doctors. Dean Hinsey presided. the Cornell Club of New York, opened Of the thirteen prizes awarded, top Cerasi, since he received the BLA the post-prandial program by welcom- ing the Cornellians and guests. He honors went to Dr. David E. Rogers in 1936 except for five years in which then presented a scroll enrolling Host of Chicago, III., who won the $250 he was a captain of Coast Artillery in J the European Theatre, has been in the Ruppert as a guest member of the Cor- John Metcalf Polk [ 99] Prize for gen- office of Dean Gilmore D. Clarke '13, nell Club of New York in appreciation eral efficiency and the Alfred Moritz Architecture, Rapuano, and Holleran of the hospitality Mr. Ruppert has Michaelis ['25] Prize in General Medi- in New York City. There he has had extended to the Club members. In the cine. Second and third were Drs. John a part in planning a number of im- absence of Mr. Ruppert, the scroll was M. Wilson of New York City and portant developments, including re- accepted by Harry Fisher, director of Robert L. Dow '45 of Baldwinsville. cently the Eastchester and Astoria public relations for the Ruppert Brew- Dr. Albert A. Plentl of New York housing projects sponsored partially ery. City received a $500 Borden Award by the New York City Housing Au- Gibson then handed the gavel to 374 Cornell Alumni News "Cy" Weed '09, whose title was "Stroke of the Evening;" in another word, toast master. Cy contributed Now, in My Time! some amiable and mellow remini- scences of old crew days at the Inlet and at Poughkeepsie, and naturally By a great many of his anecdotes got around sooner or later to Mr. Court- T'S BEEN a long time since of its people. ney. In fact, the spirit of that great I your reporter backed a horse in The Campus dweller oppressed crew coach hovered over all of the eve- the annual race for Alumni Trustee. by the present-day atmosphere of ning's proceedings. But once a horseman always a "hush" longs vainly for a restora- Cy introduced a number of figures, horseman, and this time of year, tion of the round-table sessions at current and ancient, from Cornell with the ballots and biographies the Town and Gown Club when on rowing history, among them Coach going out, the long-distance tele- a Friday night, after a day of com- Sanford, who gave a pleasant talk; phone calls coming in, it is inevita- mittee work and preparation for 'Top" Lueder '02; Loren Schoell, as- ble that retired drivers should sniff Saturday's meeting, Du Pratt sistant coach; Al Webster '44, the 1948 the breeze, hobble down to the White, Walter Cooke, Cuthbert commodore; Fred Colson '97; Whitney track, size up the entries, and com- Pound, Henry B. Westinghouse, Morrill '03; Hank Boschen '28, com- ment adversely on the methods of Emmons Williams, John Senior, modore in 1928; Ted Jamison '16, present-day trainers and handlers. Jack Westervelt, and a dozen manager in 1916; Fred Guterman '42, These Trustee elections are al- other active Trustees now gone to president of the Crew Alumni Assoc- ways a matter of peculiar interest their reward would sit far into the iation; Joe Ripley '12; and "Bob" to Campus dwellers whose hopes, night with a noteworthy collection Kane '34, Director of Athletics. Tele- professional reputations, liveli- of professors and townies and, grams of regret at their inability to be hoods, and dreams can be made or deftly led oh by Dean Woodruff present were read from F. Ellis Jack- shattered by the Board on a routine and Judge Irvine, talk over all son '00, manager of the crew in 1900; and perfunctory vote. And perhaps current University interests from and from R. W. Hooker '21, ditto in you don't realize that apart from the progress of the work in the 1921. New York and its suburbs the Graduate School to the prospects The nectar in which the Ruppert largest concentration of Cornell of the baseball team. The word brewmasters so charmingly specialize graduates exists in Ithaca, and "hush" was not employed, nor was was available and limbered the vocal that the proportion of votes cast to its use regarded as necessary. The chords of one and all so agreeably the number of eligible voters is professors went home from those that voices were frequently raised in much larger there than in the meetings feeling that their views the classic hymns of Cornell and lesser Metropolitan area. were valued in high places; the institutions of learning—anί rowing. Ithaca voters, moreover, are not Trustees took up their work next Harmony of a more professional grade obliged to rely on official biogra- day aware of many things of which was supplied by four gifted young vo- phies or committee estimates of they had been ignorant the day calists, male of course, whe called availability. They can go right before. themselves the "Shaving Mugs." back to original sources and eye- Trustee types? Just now with all Hunt Bradley '26, dynamo respon- witness testimony. If an individual endowed universities put to it to sible for the successful evening, rose voter is not personally acquainted keep their financial noses above at a proper occasion and presented with a candidate, his next-door water, it is natural for alumni to Harry Fisher with a pipe properly in- neighbor is and will be delighted lean toward candidates whose biog- scribed. to supply all the unpublished data raphies suggest intimacy with far- A good time was had by all. necessary to enable the seeker to flung enterprises, easy familiarity —Frank Sullivan '14 estimate exactly the candidate's with vast sums, or else perhaps, character and type. The Campus the possessors of some special skill, Shank in Chicago dweller can also tell pretty accu- experience, or knowledge that can rately when a campaign photograph be used to the advantage of the UEST speaker at a luncheon has been beneficially retouched by University. Excellent material! A G meeting of the Cornell Club of an expensive expert. majority of the Board should be re- Chicago, 111., at the University Club With all these advantages, then, cruited from such men. But it March 18 was Professor Donald J. what kind of a candidate does your should not be forgotten that it is Shank, Industrial and Labor Relat- Ithacan want to see elected to the only a small minority that are tions. He spoke of the work being done Board? The answer is, "all kinds." elected by the alumni and that the at the School and of its practical re- It is the only common requirement Board itself commonly coόpts its lation to the business world. that the man or woman shall be new members from the types re- a conscientious person who will in- ferred to. Myers 44 in Buffalo form himself independently, and Perhaps the rest of us might EAN William I. Myers '14, Agri- in advance, on the questions upon stress intimacy with Cornell and D culture, was guest speaker at the which he will be called upon to _vote intimacy with those of its problems annual banquet of the Cornell Club and act. It is, perhaps, too much to which have no relation to money. of Buffalo, April 2 at the Lafayette ask that a Trustee come to Ithaca One way for a University to gain Hotel. He outlined proposals for once in a while, but it is always re- benefactions is to deserve them; strengthening democratic governments assuring when one does appear, deserve, them by maintaining its in Europe, giving improvement of their strolls around, chats with the help, academic standards, refusing to standards of living as the first and drops in on the many and varied yield to outside pressures to adopt most important step. About 150 at- activities of a changing University, expedients, and by grimly protect- tended the banquet which was ar- and at least picks up the feel of the ing its independence in thought, ranged by co-chairmen Richard H. place, senses the unselfish hopes speech, and action. Wile '26 and George Y. More '38, April 15,1948 375 alumni sponsors of the others are New London, Conn.: Corinthian Yacht printed with the biographies which ac- Club regatta with US Coast Guard Cornell Alumni News company the ballots and in this issue Academy & Rhode Island State 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. of the NEWS. These statements and SUNDAY, APRIL 18 FOUNDED 1899 the facts given about the experience Ithaca: Corinthian Yacht Club regatta with Princeton, Cayuga Lake Published the first and fifteenth of and qualifications of all candidates, it TUESDAY, APRIL 20 each month while the University is is hoped, may lead more than the usual 30 per cent of electors to cast New York City: Class of '15 smoker, in regular session and monthly in Jan- Cornell Club, 8 uary, February, July, and September. their ballots this year. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 Owned and published by the Cornell If we believe in the democratic process of free elections, we must be- Ithaca: Baseball, Rochester, Hoy Field, Alumni Association under direction of a 4:30 committee composed of Phillips Wyman lieve that the best Alumni Trustees Cortland: Tennis, Cortland '17, chairman, Birge W. Kinne '16, Clif- will come to the Board only if the ford S. Bailey '18, John S. Knight '18, THURSDAY, APRIL 22 and Walter K. Nield '27. Officers of the largest possible number of alumni Chicago, 111.: Secretary Raymond F. Alumni Association: Elbert P. Tuttle '18, votes. Only thus will the final choices Howes '24 at Cornell Club luncheon Atlanta, Ga., president; Emmet J. Mur- be most representative of what the phy '22, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. alumni want in those who govern FRIDAY, APRIL 23 New York City: Class of '23 dinner, Cor- Subscriptions $4 in JJ. S. and possessions; their University. It is up to you to nell Club, 6 foreign, $4.60. Life subscription, $75. exercise your suffrage, if you are a St. Louis, Mo.: Secretary Raymond F. Single copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are degree holder. Howes '24 at Cornell Club djnner renewed annually unless cancelled. Binghamton: Glee Club show, "Here We Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON ' 19 Are Again!" West Junior High School, 8:15 Assistant Editors Pittsburgh Gathers Utica: J-V baseball, Mohawk JOHN C. BAEKER, JR. '44 ORTY-SIX Cornellians and Sampson: Freshman lacrosse, Sampson Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relays RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 F guests attended the annual din- Member, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, ner and bridge of the Cornell Women's SATURDAY, APRIL 24 22 Washington Square North, New York Club of Pittsburgh,, Pa., March 13 at Ithaca: Golf, Colgate, University course, City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. 1:30 the home of Emerson Venable '33 and Tennis, Pennsylvania, Cascadjlla courts, Printed at the Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. Mrs. Venable (Regis Illston) '31. Mrs. 2 Thomas C. Carson (Ruth M. Thomas) Baseball, Dartmouth, Hoy Field, 2:30 '24 was chairman of the affair which Rowing, Syracuse, Varsity & Freshmen, Cayuga Lake, 5 Exercise Your Right netted $65 for the Federation Scholar- Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relays VERY person who holds a Cor- ship Fund. Manlius: Freshman baseball, Manlius E nell degree, and whose address is Freshman tennis, Manlius on file in the Alumni Office, will State College, Pa.: Lacrosse, Penn State Intramurals Champs West Point: Corinthian Yacht Club re- shortly receive his ballot on which to {Continued from page 37 &) gatta with US Military Academy vote for Alumni Trustees of the Uni- ment. Other successful defending tite- versity. The idea of giving alumni a WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 list was 130-pound Francis X. Becker Ithaca: Baseball, Princeton, Hoy Field, voice in selecting members of the '50, Lynbrook. Heavyweight foot- governing Board of the University 4:15 baller Richard B. Loynd '48, Natrona Lacrosse, Hobart, Alumni Field, 4:15 was new when Andrew D. White pro- Heights, Pa., used a long left jab to Women's Glee Club concert with Dor- posed it in his plan of organization; it take a split decision from lighter but othy Sarnoff '35, Bailey Hall, 8:15 has since been adopted by other uni- more aggressive William H. Moore New York City: Class of '46 women pre- versities. Reunion supper, Cornell Women's '48, Syracuse. In the evening's most Club, Hotel Barbizon, 6:15 Ten of the Board of forty-five Trus- free-swinging bout, Edward R. Reif- tees which governs the University are steck '52, Rochester, outlasted Ed- FRIDAY, APRIL 30 elected by alumni. Eighteen are elected ward F. Lamigan '48, Stamford, in Ithaca: Freshman baseball, Colgate, Hoy by the Board itself; five are appointed Field, 4:15 the 140-pound class, to win the Inter- Cambridge, Mass.: Tennis, Harvard by the Governor of New York; and fraternity Trophy for Phi Kappa Psi. Owego: Glee Club show, "Here We Are the State Grange elects one. Ten Other champions are 160-pounds, Joe Again!" High School, 8:15 others are ex-officio Trustees and one E. Rossi '48, Santurce, Puerto Rico; SATURDAY, MAY 1 is the eldest lineal male descendant of 150-pounds, Carl D. Hoffmeister '51, Ithaca: Golf, Syracuse, University course, Ezra Cornell. No Trustee must neces- Mineola; 125-pounds, draw between 1:30 sarily be an alumnus of Cornell, but Fernando Cordovez '48, Quito, Equa- Freshman tennis, Colgate, Cascadilla there has been a preponderance of courts, 2 dor, and Daniel C. Cadiz '51, Sea Track meet, Pennsylvania, Schoellkopf alumni; thirty of this year's Board Cliff; 118-pounds, Selwyn G. Bandes field, 2:30 attended the University. '50, New York City. J-V baseball, Sampson, Hoy Field, 2:30 Normally, about 30 per cent of the Freshman lacrosse, Sampson, Alumni electors exercise their privilege of vot- Field, 2:30 Philadelphia, Pa.: Baseball, Pennsylvania ing for Alumni Trustees; about 42^000 Cambridge, Mass.: Varsity & Freshman ballots were mailed in 1947 and 11,808 Coming Events rowing, Harvard valid ballots were counted by the Hamilton: Lacrosse, Colgate canvassing committee. Freshman golf, Colgate FRIDAY, APRIL 16 Hanover, N. H.: Tennis, Dartmouth This year for the first time, the com- Ithaca: Baseball, Maryland, Hoy Field, New Haven, Conn.: 150-pound rowing, mittee on Alumni Trustee nominations 4:15 Yale & MIT of the Cornell Alumni Association pub- New York City: Class of ^47 dinner, Cor- Syracuse: Freshman track meet, Syracuse licly designates those candidates whom nell Club, 7:30 Rochester: Freshman baseball, Aquinas Rochester: Athletics Director Robert J. Providence, R. L: Eastern championship it agreed upon as being needed now to Kane '34 at Cornell Club smoker ICYRA regatta fill the particular requirements which the committee found to exist. State- SATURDAY, APRIL 17 SUNDAY, MAY 2 Ithaca: Baseball, Hobart, Hoy Field, 2:30 * Providence, R. I.: Eastern championship ments from this committee about the Lacrosse, RPI, Alumni Field, 2:30 ICYRA regatta candidates it approved and from the Tennis, Rochester, Cascadilla Courts 376 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

Signs of April: sunshine . . . golfers on delegates at the model UN dance Waving thumbs lined the highways the Library slope . . . convertibles until ten o'clock, when it was time from Ithaca*as vacation-bound stu^ with tops down . . . activities banquets for crew men to go to bed. dents were caught in the pinch of . . . co-eds striving for suntans . . . out- train curtailment ordered because of door parties . . . rain. Gaesar Fontana, College Town shoe the coal-miners' strike. All available repairman, died unexpectedly March 6 busses, trains, and planes were jammed, The Sun has announced it will not after being stricken at work. Coming but many still resorted to their good publish its Student Guide to Courses, to this country from Segni, Italy, in right arms or to such placards as which by polling students last year 1905, he had conducted his business "John- L. won't take me home. tried to evaluate courses, instructors, here for more than forty years. Will you?" and teaching techniques for the Bene- fit of future enrollees. The reason: Morrison Poetry Prize has been re- Signers of the agreement by which not'enough questionnaires were turned established after a fourteen-year lapse Evan J. Morris purchased Sheldon in for accurate judgment. by Professor Morris G. Bishop '14, Court included "Blessed Thomas, who says "it was a great encourage- Wonderful Experience, Sincere De- After three close ballots, Betty-Jeanne ment to me when I received it in 1913." termination, Great Love, Sweetness H. East '49, Palmyra,' was elected Joint winners this year are Robert P. Love, Radical Love, and Mr. Saint president of CURW; George R. Linde- Darlington '49 of Trumansburg and Peter." mer '46, Syracuse, vice-president; and George Eiten '46 and Lucille V. Oak- Mildred R. Downey '50, Richmond lander '49 of New York City. Delta Delta Delta has adopted ten- Hill, secretary. year-old Jacki Charreau, a Parisian, WSGA House of Representatives through the Foster Parents Plan for "Send your old look to the old coun- adopted a plan for dormitory women War Children. They will provide food, try" was the slogan of the CURW to forego Wednesday dinner desserts clothing, medical and dental care, and Campus Clothing Drive, April 4-10. for four weeks, the estimated $200 a small allowance for his widowed Clothing, shoes, and bedding were proceeds to go to purchasing CARE mother who has three other sons. The donated at numerous Campus collec- packages for Europe. eldest brother, who had supported the tion points and were sent to the Amer- family, was executed as an under- ican Friends Service CommHtee for Cornellian staff for 1949 includes Rob- ground member at the Sonneenburg distribution wherever the need is ert A. Dreher '49 of Brooklyn and concentration camp. greatest. Dorothy J. Rynalsky '49 of Manhas- set, co-editors-in-chief; Russell F. Naval Armory, 200 by 200 feet, will be Phi Sigma Kappa held a formal dinner Landgraf '51, Buffalo, photographic built by the Navy Department on the March 24 in honor of the fraternity editor; and Harold M. Warendorf '49, former trailer park at the north end of houseman, Wesley Miles, after his Scarsdale, business manager. the Bergholtz tract opposite the Lake twenty years' service. Inn. A boat with sub- He was presented with marine - type engines an engraved gold will be brought here watch in recognition for use of the Naval of his work. Reserve. Crew men were busy WSGA was hostess to during the spring re- a regional convention cess; both on the wa- of the Association of ter and off! Besides Women Students, with two workouts daily, more than 100 dele- they had energy to gates and deans from lift two cars parked forty schools, April 8- in front of Willard 10. "AWSomic Power: Straight and place How to Generate It" them bumper-to- was the theme for the bumper across Cen- conclave at which tral Avenue (the story Keuka College Presi- is it took most of the dent Katherine Blyly Model United Nations gave the principal ad- delegates to move dress on "Everybody's them back again) Career." Social doings simultaneously set off included a formal ban- some fifteen alarm quet, tea, fashion show PRESIDENT DAY GREETS MODEL*UN IN MYRON TAYLOR HAJ.L clocks during movies Cornell was host to about 250 delegates and advisors from forty-eight col- with costumes dating at the State Theater leges in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, a^4 Maryland for an Inter- back fifty years, and (the Ithaca Police De- collegiate Model General Assembly of the United Nations, April 1-3. Principal a dance to which dele- partment now has an speakers were Andrew Cordier, executive assistant to UN Secretary General gates were escorted by excellent selection of Trygve Lie, and Waldo Chamberlain, director of documents division, UN members of what the secretariat. President of the Assembly was former Norwegian underground alarm clocks) and mo- member Ivar Christensen of Syracuse University and Leonard Lehman '49, Sun termed' 'the men's nopolize the feminine Brooklyn, was secretary-general. honorary sororities." April 75, 1948 377 Their daughter is Mrs. Richard Siden- 1932-35, married Mera Galloway, berg (Rachel Worthen) '32. March 13 in Winnetka, 111. After the The Faculty wedding they left for Hawaii to spend Professor Charles K. Thomas '22, a few days there before returning to Speech, spoke April 3 at a convention Tokyo, Japan, where General Ferrin Because he wanted "to see how fast of the Central States Speech Associa- is Provsot Marshal. Until December, a Communist can run/' University tion in Chicago, 111. April 17, he will Mrs. Ferrin, a Vassar graduate, was a Trustee Stanton Griffis '10, US Am- address the Eastern Public Speaking lieutenant colonel and director of the bassador to Poland, is reported to have Conference in New York City. WAC in the Pacific Theatre. offered a pair of nylons to the Pole Professor Thomas G. Bergin, Ro- setting the speed record in a Com- Director Leonard A. Maynard, PhD mance Literature, chairman of the munist-backed athletic meet in War- '15, Nutrition, spoke March 22 at the Division of Literature and acting saw in March. observance of the ninetieth anniver- chairman of the Department of Eng- sary of Iowa State College in Ames. Appearing before a subcommittee lish, becomes July 1 professor of Ital- He referred to the vital role of food of the House Committee on Public ian at Yale University, New Haven, in a world situation which compels us Works in his capacity as chairman of Conn., where he received the AB and to spend billions for military pre- a subcommittee on housing of the PhD and was instructor in Italian paredness, and said that "agriculture American Council on Education and from 1925-30. Professor Bergin came in continuing its wartime production as chairman of a special committee of from Albany State Teachers College has provided the best bulwark we the Association of Land Grant Col- in 1941 as professor of Romance Lan- have for world peace." leges and Universities, Provost Arthur guages and curator of the Dante and S. Adams testified March 29 in Wash- Petrarch Collections. During the war, Professor Perry W. Gilbert, PhD ington, D. C, in favor of the Mc- he taught Italian in the Army school *40, Zoology, was one of three mem- Gregor Bill, which would transfer to of military government at University bers of a selection committee for the colleges, universities, and communi- of Virginia, was commissioned and Eastern division to select recipients ties the veterans' temporary housing went overseas as director of universi- of Pepsi-Cola Co. graduate fellowships. facilities provided under the Lanham ties with the Allied Commission in Italy. Later he became deputy direc- Professor John W. Wells, PhD '33, Act. The bill would permit use of Geology, will be the official delegate transferred buildings after July 25, tor of public relations for the Com- mission in Rome, and returned to the of Cornell and a speaker at the 18th 1949, the termination date set under International Geological Congress in the Lanham Act. The University has University in 1946, a lieutenant col- onel. London, England, August 25-Septem- 840 units for single men and dwellings ber 1. He will address the Congress on for 300 families under the Act. Professor A. Gordon Nelson, Edu- "Drilling on Bikini Atoll, the Mar- Silver Green Thumb Medal, highest cation and Vocational Guidance, pre- shall Islands." sented' a paper on "Types of Voca- award of the National Garden Insti- "Bad" books should be condensed, tute, has been bestowed on Professor tional Counseling Problems" at the annual convention of the Council and but a "digest" version of a good lit- Liberty Hyde Bailey, Agriculture, erary work is "no more the real thing Emeritus, Director of the Bailey Personnel Associations, held in Chi- cago, 111., March 29 to April 1. than dried beef is a herd of cattle," Hortorium. Because he was in the declared Professor David Daiches, British West Indies collecting palms, Professor Heinrich Ries, Geology, English, writing in the Cornell Daily Professor Bailey could not be present Emeritus, is giving a series of lectures Sun. "If a book is worth writing at to receive the award at the ceremony on clays and foundry sands in the de- length," he said, "it is worth reading in Washington, D. C, February 2. Also partment of ceramics at Rutgers at length and to assume that one given this honor was Paul R. Young University, New Brunswick, N. J. reads a novel simply in order to learn '16, school garden supervisor for Cleve- the names of the characters and the land, Ohio, and former Assistant 4-H Professor Frances A. Johnston, nature of the plot is to reveal an ap- Club Leader at the University. Time Food and Nutrition, was elected a palling illiteracy." He suggested that magazine for March 29 devoted most member of the American Institute of a board of competent critics be ap- of its "Education" section to Dr. Nutrition at the recent annual meet- pointed to read all new novels, "and Bailey's career and his ninetieth ing of the Institutein Atlantic City, N. J. that all the bad ones should be sum- birthday, March 15. She presented a paper on her research marized and circulated in digests and on "The Iron Requirement of Wo- all the good ones should be merely Professor Otto Kinkeldey, Musicol- men" at the meeting. Ruth French- listed by title." ogy, Emeritus, University Librarian man, graduate assistant, read a paper from 1930-46, has been appointed to on another phase of the iron study, Kathleen O'Connell, daughter of the faculty of the Harvard summer "The Absorption of Iron from Beef." Coaβh Walter C. O'Connell Ίl, sang school this year, to teach a course in with the St. Elizabeth College Glee the department of music on "Johann Former Dean of Women R. Louise Club of Convent, N. J., in its annual Sebastian Bach and His Times." Fitch spent a week in Ithaca early in concert at Town Hall, New York City. March. Having completed a study she "Nutritive Value of Frozen Foods" has been making for The Reader's was discussed by Professor Faith Fen- Digest of elder persons activities, ton, Food and Nutrition, March 18 which took her all over the United Speaks on Law at the annual convention of the Na- States, she left Ithaca for Cincinnati, PEAKER at a meeting of the Cor- tional Association of Frozen Food Ohio, to journey down the Mississippi S nell club of Rochester March 24 Packers in Chicago, I1L to New Orleans and back on a river at the Powers Hotel was Assistant boat captained by Mrs. Mary Green, District Attorney John C. Little, Jr. Mrs. Xenia Worthen, wife of Pro- eighty-one years old. '28. Under the topic "The Sex Of- fessor Edmund L. Worthen, MS '08, fender and the Law," he discussed le- Agronomy, died March 27 in Cham- Brigadier General Charles S. + gal problems of coping with sex of- paign, 111. Professor Worthen, retired Ferrin, USA major, in charge of the fenses and indicated the time-lag be- in January, lives in Brooktondale. ROTC Field Artillery unit here from tween statutory and social standards. 378 Cornell Alumni News R. Mongan, Richmond Hill; Mary G. Stuckle '17, visited Montclair High Prize Honors Dudley flϊundy, Wheaton, 111.; Jane H. Newman, School. That evening they, Williams, RIC DUDLEY Annual Award of Ithaca; Norma R. Rienhardt, Nedrow. and Alumni Field Secretary R. Selden E $50 for the member of the Glee KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA: Shirley K. Bea- Brewer '40 were entertained by the Club judged to be the most valuable ton, Chicago Heights, 111.; Winifred M. Essex County Cornell Club at dinner to the Club each year has been estab- Bergin, Ithaca; Margaret A. Brackbill, Bangor, Pa.; Helen S. Brown, Niagara at the Rock Spring Club. Nearly 150 lished by Evan J. Morris and Mrs. Falls; Carol J. Buckley, Binghamton; attended the following meeting for Morris. The award will be made by a Margaret T. Chadwick, Ithaca; Shirley A. prospective ^ Cornellians and their committee of judges appointed each Flanders, Corning, Barbara J. Kallander, fathers at which John F. Craig '12 year by the Musical Clubs Council. Bronxville; Delia B. Krause, Lake Charles, La.; Nancy J. Lynn '50, Ithaca; Edith F. presided. Professor Chamberlain and Martin, Lynbrook; Jean L. Mattson, Williams spoke, and Brewer per- Mount Vernon; Virginia W. Noyes, In- formed sleight-of-hand and showed dianapolis, Ind.; Jeanne A. Quinlin, San pictures of the Campus. Pedro, Cal.; Mary E. Turnbull, Buffalo; Patricia K. Williams, Webster Groves, The next two days, Williams inter- Mo.; Carol J. Wood, Ponca City, Okla. viewed applicants at the Robert Treat Pi BETA PHI: Iris M. Frampton, New Hotel in Newark, while Storandt York City; Therese M. Geherin, Ithaca; visited several schools, accompanied Martha Z. Gotthoffer, Cincinnatti, Ohio; by Edward M. Carman '14, Robert Elizabeth A. Hannon, Tuckahoe; Barbara W. Eisenbrown '16, William S. Rurode M. Linscheid '49, Brooklyn; Elizabeth G. Meng, Warsaw; Jean A. Schmanke, Ro- '20, H. Victor Grohmann '28, and chester; Martha J. Servis, Canandaigua; Robert M. Smith '29. Sally L. Skidmore, Staten Island; Louise Bergen County Cornell Club gave B. Squire, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mary E. a party March 19 at Hackensack Weaver, Yonkers; Carolyn L. White '50, Mohawk; Elizabeth A. Zobel, Rochester. High School for about seventy pro- spective students and their parents. SIGMA DELTA TAU: Nancy Berstein, Eric Dudley is pictured above with New York City; Helen C. Brause, Brook- Arthur Kent '28 when Kent returned lyn; Clarice H. Brown, Buffalo; Marilyn Give Navy Awards B. Cohen, Gloversville; Carol E. Felder, to Ithaca from a Metropolitan Opera Forest Hills; Arlene D. Getz, Schenectady; HREE annual awards, the first engagement to sing again in a Glee Doris Levine, Brooklyn; Jo-Ann D. T for Naval ROTC students, will Club concert. Dudley directed the Mayer, Jackson Heights; Joan R. Singer, be given by Ithaca veterans' organi- Glee Club from 1921 until he retired Mt. Vernon; Carole M. Skolnick, '50, New zations. A gold medal will be presented York City; Joy C. Stern, Flushing; Flor- in 1942, and continued to teach sing- ence Sweet, Brooklyn. by the Veterans of Foreign Wars post ing privately and in the Music De- to the NROTC student who graduates SIGMA KAPPA: Esther H. Artman '50, partment and to lead the First Pres- Leroy; Eunice H. Chambers, Rochester; with the highest honors in Navy train- byterian Church choir in Ithaca until Joan A. Dowd '50, Auburn; Joan M. ing and each winner's name will be in- his death, May 21, 1947. Mr. and Goedert, Tuckahoe; Joanne Gully, Scars- scribed on a plaque in the Campus Mrs. Morris have long been members dale; Dolores R. Hartnett, Moravia; Mar- NROTC headquarters. Commander garet E. Healy, Buffalo; Joan Husselton, of this choir. Atlantic City, N.J.; Jeanne A. Koch, Robert S. Grant '34 of American Le- Mrs. Dudley, who founded the Wo- Rutherford, N.J.; Marjory A. Lyons, gion Post 221 has announced that the men's Glee Club and directed it until Oswego; Patricia A. Mahoney, Brooklyn; Post will annually present medals to 1942, has continued teaching in Ithaca Margaret E. Martin, Chevy Chase, Md.; NROTC students with the highest Dorothy E. Ober, Saranac Lake; Cornelia averages in pistol and rifle competition. and will retire this spring as director G. Ripley, Wellesly Hills, Mass.; Arden L. of the Presbyterian Church choir. The Skinner, Medina; Bar Dee C. Stirland, Morrises are soliciting testimonial let- Wilmington, Del.; Mary J. Thoman, ters from students and friends of the Warren, Ohio; Anita K. Van Hassel, Glen Rock, N.J.; Grace A. Vincent, Water- Dudleys to present to her in a bound town; Catherine M. Welch, Ithaca. Books volume when she retires. Such letters may be sent to Evan J. Morris at The Triangle Book Co-op, Sheldon Court, Visit Jersey Schools By Cornellians Ithaca. DMISSIONS Director Herbert A H. Williams '25 and Assistant Stories by Students Sorority Pledges Director Robert W. Storandt '40 were (Concluded from last issue) guests of the Lackawanna Cornell Writers for Tomorrow. Edited and with a Foreword by Professor Baxter KAPPA ALPHA THETA: Sally C. Alspach, Club of New Jersey March 16 on the West Point; Nancy A. Crafts, Oak Park, first stop of a four-day trip to second- Hathaway, English. Cornell Univer- 111.; Mary A. Doutrich, Harrisburg, Pa.; ary schools. After dinner at the Mor- sity Press, Ithaca. 1948. vii + 224 Shirley L. Heitkamp, Mountainside, N. J.; ris County Country Club with Lacka- pages, $2.75. Camilla Hildreth, Southampton; Joanne Selected short stories by members Huntington, Delmar; Nancy A. Koehler, wanna Club officers, headed by Presi- Pittsburgh, Pa.; Barbara J. Mayr, Arling- dent Alfred J. Peer '21, and their of University classes in advanced Eng- ton, Va.; Maria Nekos '50, Kingston; wives, they attended a meeting at the lish composition are presented with a Susan L. Pardee, Catonsville, Md.; Mary Alfred Vail School, Morristown, N. J. Foreword by their professor. These Perrine, Centralia, 111.; Patricia D. Red- stones, by undergraduates at post- man, Columbus, Ohio; Mary A. Schurman, About seventy-five prospective en- New York City; Shirley A. Smith, Bing- trants and their fathers gathered with war Cornell, comprise, as stated in the hamton; Diane J. Swenson, White Plains; George Munsick '21, chairman of the sub-title, "a collection of fiction by Carolyn S. Thelander, Wilmington, Del.; Club secondary schools committee, writers of tomorrow for readers of to- Eleanor L. Weaver, Maplewood, N.J.; presiding. Williams spoke on admis- day." Hathaway says, "The fiction Susan L. Woodward, Cleveland Heights, produced by the writers is of many Ohio. sions, after which Storandt answered questions from the guests. kinds, for each is developing his own KAPPA DELTA: Janet I. Armstrong, talents." The pieces are also eminently Douglaston; Emily L. Evans, Lansford, March 17, Professor Robert F. Pa.; Mildred J. Frey, Roselle Park, N. J.; readable the work of a talented group Nancy E. Hinner, Claymont, Del.; Caro- Chamberlain '08, Engineering, and of intelligent young people. lyn B. Keith ;50, Abington, Mass.; Adele Storandt, accompanied by William F. April 15, 1948 379 Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'07 AB, '08 AM—Kathryn B. Kyser City, Utah and served as a judge of the New York Public Library. The 150 has retired after twenty-three years as State District Court before he went volumes in the collection were desig- medical social science worker for the to Washington as an Assistant At- nated by Bernays. Los Angeles County General Hospital torney General. In 1935 he was ap- '12—G. Champlain Salisbury is a in Los Angeles, Cal. She planned to pointed to the Court he now heads. manufacturers' representative in Mil- leave California in early April for a Stephens is the author of Administra- waukee, Wis., where his office is at leisurely trip East, expecting to arrive tive Tribunals and the Rules of Evi- 759 North Milwaukee Street, and his in Ithaca next fall to spend the winter dence. Last year he was given the home, at 2920 East Hampsline Street. with Mrs. Glenn T. Smith of 502 Hud- Medal for Merit for performance of He writes: "We have a large gang of son Street. Miss Kyser was formerly outstanding wartime services as Amer- 1912 men here in Milwaukee and hope a science teacher in the Ithaca High ican chairman of the Joint British- any and all 1912ers who get here will School. Recently she entertained mem- American Patent Interchange Com- look us up. We can throw a party on bers of the Cornell Women's Club of mittee from December 7, 1943, to short notice." Salisbury has four Southern California at a tamale pie October 1, 1946. grandsons. luncheon, during which the Club pre- '11—Sundry stirrings among the sented her with a gift. women indicate they are on the march '13 CE—Samuel Garmezy has re- tired as president, general manager, '07 ME, '15 MME—William R. to Ithaca for Reunion June 11-13.— and director of the Atlantic Gulf & Wigley has been named Martha's Class Secretary Martha E. Dick, 822 Pacific Co. of Manila. He went to the Vineyard, Mass., representative for Sixty-fifth Avenue, Philadelphia 26, Philippines as a civil engineer for the Kidder, Peabody & Co., Boston in- Pa. company in 1916 and subsequently vestment house. His office is now in '11 AB—Fanny L. Emeis has re- became chief engineer and then presi- his home on Greenwood Avenue, Vine- tired and is now living at 603 Bryn dent. Garmezy was president of Iso yard Haven, Mass., but will be estab- Mawr Boulevard, Springfield, 111. Gold Mines, Inc., vice-president of lished permanently in his new home '11 BS—Arthur K. Getman was ap- Philippine Iron Mines, and a director on West Chop Road when alterations pointed March 19 by the New York of the American Chamber of Com- are completed. Before the 1929 crash, State Board of Regents to succeed merce, Peoples Bank & Trust Co., Wigley was associated with the Na- Oakley Furney as assistant commis- Manila Machinery & Supply Co., and tional City Bank and other firms in sioner for vocational education in the the Bogo Medellin Milling Co. A mem- Wall Street. Then he joined the Ithaca State Education Department. Get- ber of Tau Beta Pi and the American Trust Co. and later became manager man, who joined the Department in Society of Civil Engineers, he has of the investment department of v 1915, has been chief of the Bureau of served as president of the Cornell George D. B. Bonbright Co. in Ithaca. Agricultural Education since 1928 and Club of the Philippines and acting During World War II he was an engi- assistant to Furney several months. president, vice-president, and director neer in the War Department, assigned of the Wack Wack Golf and Country to Ordnance and with procurement Ίl LLB—George V. Holton, gen- Club. During the war, Garmezy was and price adjustment duties. This eral counsel of Socony-Vacuum Oil interned by the Japanese at Santo work was completed last April. Co.; 26 Broadway, New York City, has been elected a director of the Com- Tomas and later at Los Banos, where '09 CE—Ambrosio Magsaysay re- merce & Industry Association of New he was rescued by paratroopers and tired in 1947 as manager of the Metro- York, Inc. Admitted to the New York amtracks. At present, he and Mrs. politan Water District of Manila after Bar in 1911, Holton practiced law in Garmezy are living at the Pennsyl- twenty-six years in the Philippine Rochester until 1923 when he became vania Hotel in New York City before Government service. Visiting the Cam- assistant counsel of Vacuum Oil Co., deciding where to settle down. Their pus in March, he reported that he had New York City. He'was made a direc- son is Robert H. Garmezy '44. just completed a tour of Latin-Ameri- tor and general counsel of the firm in '14 ME '23 AB/26 MS—The Clark can republics and was going to return 1930; has been a director and general to the Philippines, where he expects Clinic of Oklahoma City, Okla., which counsel of Socony-Vacuum since 1932, is run by Drs. Anson L. Clark and Le- to engage in an engineering enterprise. and vice-president since 1937. Holton His address will be 179 Villarael Pa- Mon Clark '23 is "in the throes" of is a member of Sigma Chi and Phi building a new clinic. Before estab- say, Rizal City, Philippines. Magsay- Delta Phi. He has two daughters. say's son, Miguel, is applying for ad- lishing their own clinic fourteen years mission as a graduate student at the Ίl AB, '12 AM—Christina M. ago, the Clark brothers were on the University. Stivers lives at 62 Highland Avenue, staff of the Mayo Clinic for four years. Middletown. Address: 514 Medical Arts Building, '09 AB—Harold M. Stephens has Oklahoma City, Okla. been appointed Chief Judge of the '12 BS—Edward L. Bernays Collec- US Court of Appeals of the District tion on Public Relations, made possi- '14 BS, '18 MS—Richard T. Cotton, of Columbia, of which he has been ble by a gift of $1,000 in 1943 by Ed- senior entomologist for the Bureau of senior Associate Judge for some time. ward L. Bernays, public relations Entomology and Plant Quarantine of Stephens practiced law in Salt Lake counsel, has been established at the the US Department of Agriculture,

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380 Cornell Alumni News was head of the US delegation to the FAO conference in London, England, August 5-12, which was called to dis- cuss the problem of losses to the world food supply resulting from damage by insects, fungi, and rodents. He flew to London and returned on the SS Mau- Just published. . . retania. Cotton's address is 343 North Fourteenth Street, Manhattan, Kans. '14 DVM; '32 DVM—Drs. Ivan G. Howe of the New York State Depart- ment of Agriculture and Markets, Albany, and James D. Sweet '32- of Chateaugay were speakers at the first Cornell conference on livestock para- Writers for site control held here recently. Ί4 CE—Herbert B. Pope of 200 South Park Avenue, Sanford, Fla., is president of H. B. Pope Co., Inc., automotive jobbers. He is chairman Tomorrow of the board of Seminole County Com- missioners and, as a hobby, is doing some construction work. '14 LLB—Byron L. Swan, invest- Edited by Baxter Hathaway ment manager, whose card appears Department of English, Cornell University in our Professional Directory begin- ning this issue, has been concerned with all phases of the investment bus- THE STORIES published in this collection of fiction iness in Wall Street for twenty-eight were selected from manuscripts submitted in creative years. He proposed to the University writing courses at Cornell University. The forces operat- in 1914 that certain courses then given in the Arts College and Law School be ing in the minds of young writers are reflected in the used as the basis for a School of'Bus- range and scope of the pieces, and in their handling. They iness, and his interest and advice has have much to say—these young men and women whose been used in establishing the present names will tomorrow be on magazine jackets and book School of Business and Public Admin- covers—and they say it well. istration. He gave the furnishings for the attractive student lounge of the These are literary stories, designed for more than en- School in McGraw Hall, where stu- dents and invited Faculty members tertainment appeal, but story interest has by no means hold weekly coffee hours with visitors been overlooked. Some of the selections are mannered from industry, finance, and govern- pieces; some are slices of life; some are reportorial; some ment. utilize symbols that require close study; all are artistic '15—At the call of Dan Wallingford, unities. Reunion chairman, the Class will gather Tuesday evening, April 20, at 236 pages, $z.js eight at the Cornell Club of New York. Archibald G. Thecher will speak on national security and the military situation.—H.C.E. '15 AB—Class Secretary Hugh C. Edmiston, an importer of English china and earthenware, with offices Cornell at 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10, left April 2 for a short trip to Eng- land. '15 AB—Edward G. Williams left University March 27 for an eight weeks tour of Europe. He is president of American Type Founders, Inc., Elizabeth, N.J. Press '16 BS, '25 MS—Paul R. Young is school garden supervisor for the Cleve- ITHACA, NEW YORK land Board of Education. His business address is 637 Board of Education, Cleveland 14, Ohio, and his home ad- dress is 26295 Kennedy Ridge Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. '17, '18 ME—Clinton R. Tobey, who has been associated with the invest- ment banking business in Detroit for

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nearly twenty years, has been ap- AAF Training Command to teach Cornell Club of Buffalo and just to be pointed to the executive staff of the navigation to French aviation cadets sure the^entire family has a reason for James Vernor Co., Detroit, Mich., to in this country. In 1945 she was com- a trip to Philadelphia on Thanksgiv- aid in the further development of missioned a second lieutenant and ing, 'his brother, Irving, is president franchise outlets. Vernor's Ginger Ale then assigned as French liaison of- of the Pennsylvania Club of Buffalo. is now bottled and sold by franchised ficer at Selfridge Field, Mich. Miss Bill Emerson and Morg Kendall are bottlers in thirty-one States and in Gibson's address is 150-90 Village engaged in a thorough study of the Canada. Tobey has been consultant, Road, Jamaica. Class charters or constitutions used to the Detroit Ordnance District, di- by Princeton classes. This scheme of recting renegotiations of some of the organization has much merit and is most important producers of war mat- designed to maintain an active Class eriel for the Ordnance Department. spirit by rather frequent election of officers and committees. Just as soon as Bill and Morg complete their study, a report with recommendations will be presented for action. Although this is the time of year for annual financial reports, our worthy treasurer, Jimmy Hillas, has not pre- '18 AB—Irene M. Gibson, editor pared one for our Class, and the reason at the United Nations Secretariat, is ndt that he is having any difficulty spoke on vocations involving foreign in counting all the money in the Class languages and the export-import and coffers. Barring some financial miracle, allied fields at a tea sponsored by the you may be sure that our Dun & Women's Vocational Information Wallace B. Quail, Class Correspondent Bradstreet rating is not very good. Committee, in Willard Straight 503 S. Main St., Middletown, Ohio The fact that we are solvent is due March 22. At the United Nations, '19—It has been a long time since solely to the wizardry of Jimmy. Miss Gibson is in charge of all English any of the graduates of the Vet Col- Many thanks, Jim, for your loyal and French translations for the press lege have been heard from, but now work for us! and is on the staff of"the Journal, a we have a report on Clarence M. Zepp. '21 AB, '23 AM, '29 PhD—Profes- record of the proceedings of the Gen- He is one of the outstanding veteri- sor Harold W. Blodgett, chairman of eral Assembly. From September, 1942, narians of the country, with offices in the department of English at Union to February, 1946, she served in the New York City. It wrould be interest- College, Schenectady, has been grant- Army. She was first an auxiliary in the ing to hear from other DVM's. ed sabbatical leave for one year to con- WAAC, then was transferred to the Al Saperston is president of the tinue individual research and study, it 382 Cornell Alumni News was announced March 19. Most of his blanks." Cole is pictured below at a Jeannette, Pa. His son, Krebs, hopes leave he will spend completing the later Club party at Ruppert's Brew- to enter the University in 1949. editing of revised editions of two an- ery, which he and other members of thologies: Readings in Our Times, the Class also greatly enjoyed. '24 MD — Dr. William C. Men- which he edited in collaboration with '23 BArch, '24 MArch—Frederic ninger, general secretary of the Men- Burgess Johnson and which was pub- Faris practices architecture in Wheel- ninger Foundation for Psychiatric Re- lished by Ginn & Co. in 1942; and ing, W. Va., with offices at 1117 Chap- search in Topeka, Kans., and presi- The Roots of National Culture, pub- line Street. October 4, he married dent of the Ajϊierican Psychiatric As- lished by Macmillan and edited with Elizabeth Steinbicker of Wheeling, sociation, gave one of the six Laity Robert E. Spiller. The latter is the who graduated from the Sargent Lectures at the New York Academy first volume in a four-volume text, School of Boston College and holds of Medicine February 26, speaking on American Literature: A Period An- AB and Master's degrees from the "Everyday Needs for Psychiatry." thology, under the general editorship University of Pittsburgh. An instruc- March 4, he addressed a four-state of Oscar Cargill. tor in the women's physical education Medical Society meeting in Denver, Colo. '22, '23 AB—Houlder Hudgins, department at the University of Pitts- president of Sloane-Blabon Co., New burgh before her marriage, Mrs. Faris '24—Carlo Menotti's opera "The York City, flies on his new yawΓthis is now on the staff of Oglebay Insti- Medium" has been recorded by Co- spring the fleet captain's pennant of tute, Oglebay Park, Wheeling, in lumbia, with the original Broadway Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Green- charge of camping activities. The cast headed by Marie Powers. Accord- wich, Conn. Farises live in Wheeling at 39 Fif- ing to Howard Taubman of the New '22 BArch—Robert A. Mitchell, teenth Street. York Times, Miss Powers, "who was chief of Philadelphia's bureau of traffic '23 ME—Walter S. Myton is heater an unforgettable figure in the title role engineering since 1936, tells how contract engineer for the Elliott Co., on the stage, projects the character "Philadelphia Untangles its Traffic" in the February 29 issue of the Ja- maica Long Island Press. The "four phase" traffic light and other control devices were originated by him. '22 BChem—Nathan R. Gotthoffer is research administrator for The Drackett Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. The research projects are largely on soy- bean products. Gotthoffer has written an Ice Cream Production Guide (with N. E. Olsen) and Gelatin in Nutrition and Medicine. He lives at ,3575 Lin- wood Avenue, Cincinnati 26, Ohio; is the father of Martha Z. Gottholfer '51.

the Classic approach to shoes... '23—Sixty-one men of the Class had a pre-Reunion dinner in Febru- ary at the Cornell Club of New York which was so successful that another characteristic will be held at the same place, April 23, to which all of the Class who can get there are invited. John G. Nesbett of reports to the NEWS that at the first dinner, "our official photographer, John Cole, enjoyed himself to the ex- tent that he must have forgotten the signals on his complicated camera and FRANK BROTHERS all of the pictures he took were 9 East 57 St., New York 22, NY. April i$, 1948 383 with temperament and power." "As children, thirteen, six and four. In you listen to her," he adds, "you do reply to misprinted questionnaire not fret about such details as tone stated, "I service the family, my quality, phrasing and other elements family does NOT service me." Spent that go into singing, but you are fifty-four months as lieutenant com- caught up by her personality. The mander in Naval Aviation. voice becomes the vehicle for projec- Bud Fisher, weighing 190 which he tion of character and emotion. Here says is too damn much, has moved to is an example of a role finding the 63 Canterbury Court, Eggertsville 21. CHAMPAGNE ideal interpretation and the inter- Is one of the high-powered distribu- ONE OF THE preter the perfect role." tion engineers, or such, with N.Y.Tel. WORLD'S GREAT CHAMPAGNES '26 ME—Edward C. Hinchliff, vice- Jim Hubbell, as modest as the rest president and secretary of the Burson of the gang in answering queries on • Knitting Co., Rockford, 111., recently family, etc., finally crashed through was elected president of the Rockford with news that he has two kids, three * Memorial Hospital board of trustees. and one; works in insurance with R. • *_*• Previously vice-president of the board, C. Rathbone & Son, New York City; he also was re-elected a trustee for a spent almost three years in Army, three-year term. New trustees elected partly at Boston Quartermaster De- were Robert M. Gaylord, father of pot, and the rest, of all places, on Robert M. Gaylord, Jr. '39, and Leslie island of Shemya, in Aleutians; picked H. Geddes, father of Allan P. Geddes, up enough know-how so he went ski- Freshman in Mechanical Engineering. ing in Laurentians in February. His • Hinchliff is the brother of Ralph thirteenth wedding anniversary kept him away from Class Dinner. STILL WINES Hinchliff '12 and Emerson Hinchliff THE BLENDED '14, Assistant Alumni C. B. King, with two girls and a boy, RICHES OF OUR '26 AB, '28 AM, '31 PhD runs a landscaping and nursery busi- NATION'S VINEYARDS erick R. Hirsh, Jr. of 1491 ness outside Kingston, and also serves as county conservation agent for THE PLEASANT VALLEY lister Avenue, Pasadena 6, CWk$ has presented to the Department of ideol- Ulster County. WINE COMPANY ogy six models, representing fivΦsftino- Al Koehl, president of Koehl, Landis RHEIMS, HAMMONDSPORT, N. Y. saurs and one Permian reptile, sculp- & Landan, Inc., advertising agency of tured accurately to scale by William New York and Cleveland, has two MAKERS OF FINE WINES sons, nine and seven; belongs to FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS Otto of the California Institute of Technology. Ardsley Country Club; and his hobby is curling. '27 BS, '29 AM, '34 PhD—Harold Mort Lepler, an MD at 110 Post Wentworth is consulting editor of Avenue, New York City, we think Words: the New Dictionary, recently did some pooτ planning, since he ex- published by Grosset & Dunlap. He pects an addition to the family at Re- has been associate professor of English union time. All we can hope is that it in the college of liberal arts at Temple will be twins. University, Philadelphia, Pa., since 1944. Wentworth's address in Phila- Lee Merriman wrote a book, after delphia is 1415 Clearview Street, C-213. being urged, on his accomplishments. He states the base rumor he died is extremely false, that he has managed the Anthony Wayne Hotel, Waynes- boro, Pa., for years besides handling maintenance and purchasing for twen- ty-nine hotels in Genoble chain; is past president of his Rotary Club, ac- tive in several Masonic clubs, Cham- ber of Commerce, Boy Scouts, Fire 1 HOP ON THE '28 BANDWAGON | Department (Hook & Ladder esp!), Hank Boschen, vice-president of Hotel Association, and recently elected Raymond Concrete Pile Co., just president of Atlantic Association of started an inspection trip in Vene- Hotel Greeters of America. He has one Yes indeed, fa Province de Quebec welcomes you to the son, now in Massanutten Military scenic playground of North America. Explore the pictur- zuela. Has lost most of his hair, but esque charm of its old-world towns and villages, linked by aims to line up a crew for a spin on Academy, headed for Cornell. Lee thousands of miles of splendid highways. You will be wel- the Inlet in June. He is helping the served as chairman of local Ration comed with truly French-Canadian hospitality in com- Class Alumni Fund campaign. Board for four years, and entertained fortable modern inns**'and hotels. Nick Carter, back in Minneapolis some 50,000 wounded vets at nearby as assistant land valuation engineer hospitals. For a big fellow, he cer- tainly gets around a lot. Just went to PROVINCE DE for Fish and Wildlife Service, can't yet become reconciled to Minnesota Florida-,.-was his last remark. winters after his tour in the Army. Jjine Pennock aims high; hopes to Sam Etnyre has two daughters and take in Reunions at Cornell, with his uέbec a son out in Oregon, 111., where he is a wife at Smith, and also with brother- For help planning your chemical engineer producing bitumi- in-law j&fei Dartmouth. Wonder which vacation, or for information nous distributors and also street psychiatric ward he has picked for covering the unsurpassed industrial opportunities in our province, write fl ushers. Jμly 1? He is representative of Lally the Provincial Publicity Bureau, Parliament Buildings, Quebec City, Canada. Milt Firey claims one wife and three Adjustment Bureau in Miami, Fla. 384 Cornell Alumni News Jack White, who with Bozo Bowen masterminded the Class dinner, re- ports briefly he has two kids, and was a commander, USNR, during the war. Lives at 66 Mountainview Ave- nue, Short Hills, N. J — J.D.P. '28, '35 BS—Mrs. Chester B. Pond (Emma Enos) is with the Temporary State Commission on Coordination of State Activities, the office of which is in Room 332, State Capital, Albany. She is on the executive committee of the Cornell Women's Club of Albany in charge of compiling the Club's directory of members. '31 AB—A son, Michael Lee Pertz- In that one little phrase is the sum- berg, was born March 3 to Benjamin mation of everything that makes Hertzberg and Mrs. Hertzberg of 1165 Rogers Peet Clothes an invest- 1= £ Fifth Avenue, New York City. ment in lasting wearing pleasure. '33-'34 Grad—Madison S. Briscoe Finest imported and domestic fab- 11 % is in the department of bacteriology, rics πjoith a tailoring standard v f preventive medicine, and public health unsurpassed in the industry. at Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C. '33 LLB—John S. Carter is director of finances at the RCA Victor Divi- sion in Camden, N. J.j '33 MD—Dr. Margaret H. Jones, who was for seven years director of maternal and child health and crippled children in the state department of health in Wyoming, discussed "Serv- In New York: And in Boston: ice, in Public Health and Private Fifth Avenue Thirteenth St. Warren Street Tremont St. Pediatrics" in the February number at 41st Street at Broadway at Broadway at Bromfield St. of The Radcliffe Quarterly. A Rad- cliffe alumna, Dr. Jones is now en- gaged in private practice as a-member of the Holleran Medical Group in Los Here is Your Angeles, Cal. Caίcabtlla TIMETABLE TO AND FROM ITHACA

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Schmitt (above) yΐthaca-Nβw York sleeping car open for occupancy recently was elected president of the Inquire at 9:00 p.m. Harvard Business School Club of Buf- Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars; Cafe-Lounge falo and vice-president for business of MAXWELL KENDALL, MS '36 Car and Dining Car Service the Harvard Club of Buffalo. He was Headmaster secretary and treasurer of the former Lehigh Valley organization for the year 1946-47. 116 SUMMIT AVENUE Schmitt is secretary of The Bishop ITHACA, N. Y. Co., Inc., wholesale grocers, Niagara Railroad Frontier Food Terminal, Buffalo 6yr - April i5,1948 385 '34—David E. McGraw, son of George N. Lauman '97, Rural Econ- Thomas H. McGraw, Jr. '03, is presi- omy, Emeritus. dent of Steelcrete Industrial Build- '38 BS—James C. McKay was ROBINSON ings, Inc., 2020 Orizaba Avenue, San sworn in as Assistant US Attorney in Diego 3, Cal. He and Mrs. McGraw the office of US Attorney, August 25. have five children. He was assigned to the Municipal AIRLINES '34—Henry D. C. Shannon is south- Court Criminal Division. A graduate Passenger and Aircargo west district manager in Kansas City, of Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D. C, McKay served Service is being operated Mo., for Cribben & Sexton Co. of Chicago, 111. His address is 7145 Sum- aboard submarine chasers during the between Ithaca, Triple mit, Kansas City, Mo. Shannon spent war, being separated from the Navy Cities, and New York forty months in the Army, enlisting in 1945 with rank of lieutenant com- pending expansion in June in 1942. In January, 1944, he was mander. Upon his return to Washing- under a Certificate issued shipped to North Africa and was at- ton, he joined the law firm of Coving- ton, Burling, Rublee, Atheson & last month by the Civil tached to the 64th Fighter Bomb Wing operating under the 12th Air Shorb. McKay is married and has one Aeronautics Board. Force. Thereafter he participated in son; lives at 4830 Bradley Boulevard, the Rome-Arno and Anzio campaigns, Chevy Chase, Md. * * and the invasion of Southern France. '38 BS—Max E. Tyler received the '35 BS in AE; '06 ME; '42; '38 AB PhD at Ohio State University, Co- For Flight —Aero Welder Manufacturing Co., lumbus, Ohio, March 19. He holds 1825 West St. Paul Avenue, Milwau- the MS from that university. Information Call: kee, Wis., has been purchased by a '39 AB, '41 LLB—Robert Boochever group headed by John C. Wilson, Jr. has resigned as Assistant US Attorney Ithaca 3-1576 The firm manufactures resistance of the first judicial district of Alaska Johnson City ^^ welding machinery which is distrib- in Juneau, to become a partner in the η η uted nationally. Wilson, who has been law firm of Falkner, Banfield & Boo- Biαghamton elected president, was formerly execu- chever, PO Box 29, Juneau. He is the tive vice-president and a director of son of Louis C. Boochever '12, former Endicott 2 313 Burlington Mills, Inc., Burlington, University Director of Public Infor- New York City Wis. His father, John C. Wilson '06, mation. is treasurer, and his brother, Thomas '40 PhD—Karl D. Butler, who left MUrray Hill 5-2 347 B. Wilson '42, is assistant secretary- the staff of the Cooperative Grange treasurer. Another brother, Carlton League Federation Exchange, Ithaca, P. Wilson '38, is a stockholder. Mrs. to become president of the American John C. Wilson, Sr. is the former Institute of Cooperation January 1, Helen Stone '06. was the subject of a five-page bio- '36 BS—From Stephen G. Burritt, graphical sketch in the March 15 Box 443, Harvard, 111.: "My second number of the Co-operative Digest. (ttornril (Slab daughter, Eugenia Anne,, was born Butler's headquarters are at 1302 January 5. Her sister, Stephanie, is Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, going to pre-schooi this winter at four D. C, but the family home is on a of Nrui years of age..We live across the line sixty-five-acre farm, four miles from on beautiful Lake Geneva, Wis., Ithaca. Since Butler is strongly inter- which reminds me most of Cayuga." ested in grassland farming, his farm Burritt is manager of distributor sales is devoted to a large extent to hay Έnat for Starline, Inc., in Harvard. and pasture. It also has a small orchard. '36 AB, '39 LLB—A second son, Robert Curtis Dughi, was born Sep- '40 AB; '41 AB—A daughter, Bar- tember 23 to Louis J. Dughi and Mrs. bara Carolyn Wiggans, was born to Dughi of 316 Lenox Avenue, West- Robert L. Wiggans and Mrs. Wiggans Nimi ff orfe, N. $. field, N. J. President of the Cornell (Dorothy Talbert) '41 of Aurora, Club of Union County, N. J., Dughi March 15 in Auburn. Cornellian has a general law practice in Newark, grandparent is Professor Roy G. Wig- N. J., with office at 1060 Broad Street. gans, PhD '19, Plant Breeding. Uncle is Robert J. Talbert '43, who is with ARE YOU THIS MAN? '37—Richard Hi Bertram of 620 Chase National Bank in New York An unusual opportunity is offered to an out- Northwest Eighty-eighth Street, Mi- standing younger man between 25-45 who is City and lives at 180 Sherman Ave- seeking: ami, Fla>, won the first annual winter nue, Teaneck, N. J. The other two • A lifetime professional sales career; championship regatta of the Light- Wiggans children are Patricia, five • Salary or drawing account; • An association with a National organiza- ning Class Association, held off Tampa years, and George, two years. tion with definite opportunities for rapid Bay near St. Petersburg, Fla. Repre- promotion to management responsibility '40 PhD—William L. White, head as soon as warranted. senting the Biscayne Bay Lightning Man selected must be ambitious, sales-minded, Fleet 130, he sailed home first in all of the mycological laboratory of the and of high native intelligence. Selection will be Army Quartermasters Depot in Phila- competitive and based on aptitude tests and three races in "Dodge Trophy." personal interviews. Applicants are requested to delphia, Pa., was appointed in Janu- write a short resume giving age, residence, tele- phone, marital status, education, war record, '37—George W. Lauman and Mrs. ary director of the Farlow Herbarium, and business experience to date. containing one of the world's largest If you are located in New York City or its Lauman of Litchfield Park, Ariz., environs, kindly write for an appointment to have a son, George Wheeler Lauman, collection of fungi, and associate pro- M. Warren Benton Ί9, Suite 1601, 393 Seventh Avenue, New York City, or telephone LAcka- Jr., born in Phoenix March 17. Lau- fessor of botany at Harvard Univer- wanna 4-0780. man is the son of the late Professor sity, Cambridge, Mass. After six years 386 Cornell Alumni News at Cornell, instructing and studying, White went to Harvard in 1941 as bibliographer and assistant curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium. CAMP OTTER He left in 1943 to become a civilian scientist with the Army; was first a For Boys With a Cornell Background research associate in the Chemical Warfare Service, became chief of the 38TH SEASON mycological laboratory in Philadel- phia in 1944. As a member of the Air In these critical times, what to do with your son during the summer Technical Service Command Tropical vacation is of utmost importance. CAMP OTTER in its 38th season Science Mission in 1945-46, he aided realizes this need of boys and offers an unusual summer vacation of real in a broad survey of the fungal de- terioration of Army material in tropi- thrills and worthwhile development. cal countries. With a complete program of woodcraft, handicraft, swimming, all '41 BS—Margery E. Case, dietitian forms of land and water sports, and canoe trips under competent leader- at Easton, Md., Memorial Hospital, ship, your boy will be better prepared for his future. was married November 2 to William C. Walsh of Tilghman, Md. Her ad- dress is 225 South Washington Street, Easton 1, Md. '41, '42 AB—Morton H. Farber is practicing law with the firm of Poletti, Resident Permanent Diamond, Freidin & Mackay, 598 Physician! Cabins! Madison Avenue, New York City. This is ex-Governor Poletti's firm with which Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. is also associated. Farber lives at 410 West Twenty-fourth Street, New York City. '41 AB; '44, '43 AB—Milton Kap- HOWARD B. ORTNER '19, Director lan and Mrs. Kaplan (Terese New- man) '44 of 28 Farnum Street, Lyn- 132 Louvaine Dr., KENMORE 17, N. Y. brook, L. I., have a second daughter, Barbara Janet Kaplan, born recently. Their other daughter, Nancy, is three years old. '42 AB, '47 LLB—Robert JBlader- groen has joined the law office of the General Counsel, Building T-3, De- partment of the Navy, Washington m.**\Ί.Ή;D SCOTCH 25, D. C. '42 AB—Mary C. Fennelly is now 86 Proof ' secretary to the dean of Wells College, Aurora. She was previously in New York City, where she was private sec- retary to Marcia Davenport, author of East Side, West Side. In that ca- pacity she did much of the research on this current ι'best-seller." Miss Fennelly is the twin sister of Mrs. John H. Detmold (Jane Fennelly) '41. '42 AB, '45 MD; '45, '44 AB—Dr. Donald S. Kent and Mrs. Kent (Madelaine Ring) '45 of 27 West REMUD1ANA HAMILTON Seventy-second Street, New York Scene of a gay social life. Beautiful City, have a daughter, Alison Ring swimming pool. All sports. Dancing Kent, born March 7. Dr. Kent is a to name band. American Plan or new Bermuda Plan including room resident physician at Mt. Sinai Hos- and complete breakfast. pital in New York City. HOTEL '42; '43 BS—Kermit Kruse and Mrs. Kruse (Shirley Ruckaberle) '43 ST. GEORGE'S of Schaghticoke have a daughter born Luxurious resort-estate. Ideal set- March 19. Kruse is the son of Profes- ting for rest or play. Golf course at door. Lovely private beach. Danc- sor Paul J. Kruse, Extension Educa- ing. American Plan. tion. Hilton Hotels in Bermuda '43 BS in AE(ME); '45—H. Craig N. Y. Reservation Office, The Plaza, Allen has been transferred to the Cam- 1 West 58th Street, Suite 1755, Tel. THE HOUSE OF SALLANTIME .' MU 8-2240, or your travel agent. den, N. J., district of the Esso Stand- N£W YORK 4 K?» Y* ••".•'•.' ard Oil Co. to complete the final stage SOI.K DISTRIBUTORS IN THE UNIT&D STATf S April 15, 1948 387 of the industrial sales training pro- for Bethlehem Steel Co.'s erection de- gram, and his address is now 50 West partment on the erection of a power The Maple Avenue, Apt. 6A, Merchant- plant and sintering plant. He and Mrs. ville, N. J. A second son was born in Hoffmann (Mary Mershon) '45, daugh- NESBETT November to him and Mrs. Allen ter of Edward J. Mershon '14, live at (Jean McGlone) '45, daughter of 411 Orchard Street, Johnstown, Pa., FUND John McGlone '06 and the former with six months old son. Marion Sturges '15. INCORPORATED '45 AB—Class Secretary Maxine L. '43 BS in AE(ME)—Charles A. Katz of 60 Oak Street, Manchester, Prospectus on request Colbert is in the Memphis sales office N. H., was married March 31 to Dr. Managers and Underwriters of American Coating Mills, division Harold H. Goodman of Manchester, a of Owens-Illinois Glass Co. His busi- graduate of the University of New ness address is 3022 Jackson Avenue, Hampshire and Maryland Dental JOHN G. NESBETT & CO. PO Box 188, Hollywood Station, School. Mary J. Roberts '46 was maid INCORPORATED Memphis, Tenn. of honor and Anne Bordon '46 was one Investment Managers '43, '48 BS in AE(ME); '42 AB— of the bridesmaids. Telephone 25 Broad Street Robert D. Courtright and Mrs. Court- '46, '48 AB—John A. Burns, re- HAnover 2-2893 New York 4, N.Y. right (Beverly Bryde) '42 moved to cently assistant business manager of RD 1 Earl Road, Vestal, after Court- the Widow, has joined the advertising (John G. Nesbett '23) right received his degree in February. agency Young & Rubicam in New They have two daughters, Elizabeth York City. He lives at 1273 North Jeanne, born March 19, 1944, and Avenue, New Rochelle. Nancy Bryde, born March 14, 1947. '46 BS; '47 AB—Marcia D. Noyes, '43; '42 BS—First Lieutenant * daughter of Bradford Noyes, Jr., PhD BARR & LANE, INC. Don B. Davidson, Jr. is stationed on '24, and Douglas C. Archibald '47, son Guam. His address is Box 441, Mara- of Walter D. Archibald '20, were mar- ma, APO 264, Guam, Care Postmas- ried September 2 in Indianapolis, Ind. BUILDERS ter, San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. David- Their address is 193 Clinton Avenue, son is the former Norah Partrick '42. Brooklyn. 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