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ALUMNI CLUBS AT WORK and motion pictures of the Campus were MESSENGER LECTURERS With Secondary Schools shown. Archeologist and Composer Cornell Clubs all over the country are During the spring recess, March 30 to Messenger Endowment Fund brings to already at work in a concerted program April 7, the' * traveling professors" of the the University this term a British author- of informing outstanding students in Faculty committee will again be busy at ity on Anglo-Saxon art and, with the secondary schools about the University, meetings arranged by Cornell Clubs for Goldwin Smith and Jacob Schiff lecture looking toward their application for secondary school students, with under- foundations, an internationally famous admission. graduates also invited. Professor Durham composer of music. Last week, members of the Faculty will be in Chicago, 111., March 2.9, to- Last week, Dr. Paul Hindemuth, Ger- committee on relations with secondary gether with Emmet J. Murphy '2.2., man composer and former conductor of schools interviewed boys and spoke at Alumni Secretary. April i and x, Profes- the Frankfurt Opera, gave the first of a meetings arranged by three Cornell Clubs sor Durham goes to Minneapolis and St. series of six Tuesday afternoon lectures in New England, and in Essex County, N. Paul, Minn.; April 3 he will be in Mil- comprising "An Introduction to the J. March 14, Professor Charles L. Durham waukee, Wis.; April 4 will visit Culver Technique of Composition." Suited to '99, Latin, Dr. Eugene F. Bradford, Di- Military Academy; and April 5 will be audiences without technical background rector of Admissions, and Ray S. Ashbery in Indianapolis, Ind. or experience in musical composition, his 'x5, Alumni Field Secretary, attended a Professor Adams will spend several lectures show how the composer uses party for boys at the University Club in days of spring recess assisting with the musical thoughts in building his com- Hartford, Conn., arranged by the Cor- secondary school programs of the Cor- positions, and include actual composing. nell Club of Hartford. With them were nell Clubs of Washington, D. C., Dela- For ten years he has been professor of R. Selden Brewer '40, Raymond W. Kruse ware, and Maryland. Professor Jordan composition at the Hochschule in Berlin, '41, and Harold B. Zook '40, Musical will work with Clubs in Albany and but because of sympathy with non- Clubs performers. March 16, the party, Schenectady. Aryan musicians in Germany he has except Dr. Bradford, attended a gather- April 3, the Cornell Club of Cleveland, stayed out of that country the last three ing arranged by the Cornell Club of Ohio, is making plans for "the largest years. He came to America at the in- Springfield, Mass., and that evening Pro- Cornell smoker ever held in Cleveland," stance of Cornell, Wells College, and the fessor Durham and Ashbery were at a at the Cleveland Club at 8. Coach Carl University of Buffalo, on a special visa Club party for boys in Pittsfield, Mass. Snavely and Murphy will speak, under- issued by the American consul at Geneva March 15, Professor Bristow Adams, graduates at home for spring recess are and with assurances of a safe passage Agriculture Publications, Dr. Bradford, being invited, and an entertainment pro- from the British and French embassies in and Ashbery were at a schoolboy party gram is being arranged with George W. Washington, because of the official given by the Cornell Club of Essex Teare 'in. as master of ceremonies. nature of his work here and his own dis- County, N. J., at the Rock Spring tinguished standing as an artist. Country Club. The same day, the Cornell Women To Give Teas Dr. Hindemuth has twice previously Club of Cleveland entertained prospective Cornell Women's Clubs are arranging visited America for concert tours as a Freshmen, with Dr. Harry Peters, head- spring recess teas for local high school violist. He is the author of four operas, master of University School, as a special girls, with undergraduate women to other large orchestral works, four string guest and speaker. speak of life on the Campus. These are quartets and other chamber music, and a Earlier, Professor Riverda H. Jordan, under the general direction of Mrs. Allan large number of short compositions for Education, chairman of the Faculty com- H. Mogensen (Adele A. Dean) '2.3 for voice and for piano, violin, viola, 'cello, mittee, visited St. Louis, Mo., Kansas the Federation of Cornell Women's and other instruments. Two recent books City, Mo., and Omaha, Nebr., in the Clubs, with Marjorie H. Lee '41 as of his expound a new theory of harmony interests of secondary school work. Din- chairman of student speakers and Mrs. which is considered the'' most important ner of the Cornell Club of St. Louis Feb- Walter J. Purcell (Dorothy A. Korherr) contribution to the scholarly aspect of ruary 2.9 was attended by fifteen men. In '30 of the Alumni Office in charge of ar- music theory that has come from the Kansas City March i, with John F. rangements. Cornell Women's Clubs of mind of any musician in the last century.'' Brady, Jr. '19, Ellsworth L. Filby '17, Washington, D. C., and Long Island will Besides his lectures, the composer will and Philip S. Lyon '17 of the Club's sec- hold their teas March 31 those of Cort- meet groups of students to discuss special ondary school committee, Professor Jor- land and Middletown, April i; Sche- problems in theory and composition. dan spoke and interviewed prospective nectady and Westchester County, April While in Ithaca he is a guest at the Freshmen at three schools, and addressed 3 Cleveland, Ohio, and Syracuse, April 4; Telluride house. a well-attended dinner of the Cornell and New York City, Pittsburgh, Pa., Al- During the four weeks following spring Club that evening. March 4 and 5 in bany, and Western Connecticut, April 6. recess, Thomas D. Kendrick will give a Omaha, escorted by Edward T. Schim- series of twelve illustrated lectures on mel '2.7, James L. Paxton '30, and Laur- ALUMNI AT HARVARD "The Art of the Anglo-Saxons." Be- ence E. Cooke '30, Dr. Jordan inter- Eleven Cornellians are now attending ginning with the prehistoric and Roman viewed students at three schools and the Graduate School of Business Ad- background and an outline of the arts of spoke at a Cornell Club dinner that ministration at Harvard University. In the early Saxon invaders, he will trace brought out'' a larger and more enthusi- the first-year class are Preston D. Carter the development of the arts in England astic crowd than we have had in ten '37 and seven members of the Class of '39: until after the Norman conquest. Through years." David H. Bush, Robert L. Cline, Jay the Irish influences brought into Britain Cornell Club of Rochester March i Eliasberg, Thomas H. Hawks, James S. by the monks of lona and Lindisfarne, arranged a Cornell meeting for interested King, Jr., Charles R. Morgan, and James the classical tradition following the students of all Rochester schools, in the E. Rutledge. Second-year men are Harry Roman Church's mission to Kent, the assembly hall of Monroe High School. L. Lippincott, Frederick C. Smith, and Carolingian revival, the age of Alfred Speakers were Dr. Bradford and Ashbery, Irwin S. Stein, of the Class of '38. the Great and that of Dunstan, his 302. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

lectures will conclude with a study of the standing star, winning the broad jump effects of the Saxon tradition upon the and the high and low hurdle races. His Norman style after the Conquest, the About broad jump mark of 2.2. feet 4^ inches development of regional styles, and the bettered the winning distance in the legacy of Anglo-Saxon art. ATHLETICS Varsity meet. Low hurdler and high Kendrick is head of the department of jumper for Mercersburg was Mason British and medieval antiquities in the TRACK TEAMS WIN Hendrickson, son of Carroll H. Hendrick- British Museum; the author several im- Indoor track competition closed Satur- son '13. portant works on art and archeology. He day in , the Varsity team Cornell's first-place winners were Ar- is the seventh Messenger lecturer to come winning over Syracuse and Colgate for thur C. Smith of Elmira in the 440, to the University from the British Isles. the eighth year and the Freshman team Everett W. Jameson, Jr., of Buffalo in The others were Sir Herbert Grierson of defeating Mercersburg Academy, the one and one-half mile run, Charles Edinburgh, the late Professor T. F. Tout R. St. John of Ithaca in the ix-pound of Manchester, Professor Bronislaw, Ma- Score of the Varsity meet was Cornell shot put, and the two high jumpers who lino wski of London, Sir Arthur Edding- 483/2, Syracuse ι6>£, Colgate n. Three shared first place, Robert W. Larson of ton of Cambridge, Professor W. M. points were given for first place, 2. for Dover, N. J., and Daniel T. Gilmartin, Calder of Edinburgh, and Professor E. J. second, and i for third, instead of the III, of Summit, N. J. Dent of Cambridge. usual 5-3-1 basis. After last year's meet, Freshman runners also participated in The Messenger Lectures were founded in which Cornell scored 8x^s to 2.0 for two events during the Varsity meet. in 192.3 by a bequest from Hiram J. Syracuse and 13 J£ for Colgate, one of the Charles E. Shaw, Jr., of Scarsdale, who Messenger '80, of Hartford, Conn. He rival coaches suggested the 3-2.-! scoring finished second in the 75-yard dash provided for the endowment of at least in future to reduce the possible totals. against Mercersburg, took the same twelve lectures annually, "by the ablest Coach John F. Moakley readily acceded, place, behind Moore of Syracuse, in his non-resident lecturer or lecturers ob- and the new system was put into effect evening appearance. The Freshman mile tainable," on the evolution of civiliza- this year. relay team took third place, Syracuse tion "for the special purpose of raising Star of the Varsity meet was George winning. the moral standard of our political, busi- A. Knoerl '42. of Buffalo, who broke a The Varsity summary: ness, and social life ..." thirteen-year-old record in the 75-yard 75-yard dash: Tie for first between Zittel, Cornell, and Connelly, Syracuse; third, Gif- low hurdles after he had taken first place ford, Syracuse. Time, 0:07.7. ANNOUNCE SUMMER SESSION in the 75-yard high hurdles. Knoerl was 75-yard high hurdles: Won by Knoerl, Cor- Preliminary Announcement of the 1940 timed in 0:08. i in the lows, a new meet nell; second, Kelley, Syracuse; third, Weadon, Summer Session of the University is now and Barton Hall record. The old Barton Cornell. Time, 0:09.4. ready. An attractively illustrated pam- Hall mark of 0:08.2. was set by R. Henry 75-yard low hurdles: Won by Knoerl, Cor- nell; second, Zittel, Cornell; third, Kelley, phlet of sixteen pages, it gives brief in- Spelman, Jr. 'i8 in 1917 and was equalled Syracuse. Time, 0:08.i (new meet and Barton formation about the courses offered, re- by Cooper of Michigan in 19x8, Kiesel- Hall record). quirements, costs, living accommoda- horst of Yale in 19x8 and 1930, John L. 44o-yard run: Won by Diebolt, Colgate; tions, cultural and recreational facilities. second, McCoy, Colgate; third, Zeigler, Cor- Messersmith '36 in 1936, and Day of nell. Time, 0:49.8 (new meet and Barton Hall Summer Session this year opens July 8 Yale in 1938. Messersmith set the old record). and closes August 16. As for several years meet record in 1936. 88o-yard run: Won by RadcliίFe, Syracuse; past, Cornellians and their families may Diebolt of Colgate set another meet second, Schmidt, Cornell; third, Washburn, again obtain guest cards admitting them and Barton Hall record in the 440-yard Cornell. Time, 1:59.3. Mile run: Won by RadcliίFe, Syracuse; sec- to the public events and some lectures, run. Timed in 0:49.8, he cut one- tenth ond, Wingerter, Cornell; third, Lambert, Cor- for limited periods. The Announcement of a second from the old record set by nell. Time, 4:2.3.3. and other information may be had by O'Brien of Syracuse in 1936. Two-mile run: Won by Ayer, Cornell; sec- addressing Professor Loren C. Petry, Third record to fall was the meet mark ond, Schmid, Cornell; third, White, Cornell. Time, 10:03.7. Director of the Summer Session. in the 1 6-pound shot put. Frederick W. Mile relay: Won by Cornell (Wood, Zeigler, West, Jr. '41 of Lansdowne, Pa., tossed Knoerl, Zittel); second, Colgate; third, Syra- NEW YORK WOMEN ACTIVE the shot 48 feet 4^ inches, bettering the cuse. Time, 3:2-7 4. "Parks and Parkways" were discussed record of 48 feet 2.% inches set by Walter 35-pound weight throw: Won by Dietrich, Cornell, 44 ft. ι% in.; second, Wicks, Syra- at a dinner meeting of the Cornell Wo- D. Wood '36 in 1935. cuse, 39 ft. 4% in.; third, Hooker, Cornell, men's Club of New York, March 18, by RadclirTe of Syracuse matched KnoerΓs 36 ft. ii in. a horticulturist, Maud Sargent '34; a feat of two first places by winning the Broad jump: Won by Hershey, Cornell, 2.1 civil engineer, Gladyce Tapman '33; and mile and 88o-yard runs in easy fashion ft. 11% in.; second, Geyer, Colgate, xi ft. 7^ in.; third, Lovett, Colgate, 2.0 ft. 6% in. a landscape architect, Emily L. Caxton and missing a new meet record in the ι6-pound shot put: Won by West, Cornell, '2.6. mile by four- tenths of a second. 48 ft.' 4M in. (new meet record); second, Stars failed to shine over New York Kirk Hershey '41 of Philadelphia won Hershey, Cornell, 44 ft. 3^ in ; third, Van for an'' Astronomy Evening'' at the Club the broad jump and placed second in the Orden, Colgate, 43 ft. 6^ in. Pole vault: Won by Randall, Cornell, 12. ft.; March 5, arranged by Nellie H. Bigham shot-put. second, Manchester, Cornell, n ft. 3 in.; '05. Those present, however, learned Captain Walter W. Zittel, Jr. '40 of third, Wells, Colgate, n ft. how to identify some of the stars for the Buffalo ran a dead heat with Connelly of High jump: Tie for first among Pressing and next starry evening from the Club terrace Syracuse in the 75 -yard dash and took Johns, Cornell, and Stickney, Syracuse, 5 ft. 10 in. of the Hotel Barbizon. An oil painting second place to Knoerl in the low presented to the Club by Mrs. Sidney D. hurdles. He and Knoerl came back to run TWO LEAGUE ALL-STARS Gridley (Josephine Brady) Ό8, was in the mile relay, the final event, won by By vote of the coaches, James E. offered by lot and won by Ruth Dar- Cornell. Bennett '41 of Poland, Ohio, forward, ville '15. The Freshman meet with Mercersburg, and Wellington L. Ramsey '41 of Haver- Members of the Club will spend an contested in the afternoon, was clinched ford, Pa., center, were last week selected evening in Chinatown March 2.6, with a for Cornell by a sweep in the high jump, for the all-star team of the Eastern Inter- real Chinese dinner at the Port Arthur next-to-last event on the program. The collegiate Basketball League. Restaurant and later to browse in the final event, the 88o-yard relay, was held Picked with them were Broberg of little shops along Mott Street for tea, during the Varsity meet in the evening. Dartmouth, forward; White of Dart- Buddhas, and good-luck rings. Kellam of Mercersburg was the out- mouth, guard, and Erickson of Yale, MARCH il, 1940 303

guard. Broberg received 14 points, Ben- were last week elected co-captains of the Each chapter has suggested questions, nett 12. on the basis of 2. points for a hockey team for the 1940-41 season. and at the end of the book there is a list first-team selection and i for second. Glen S. Guthrie '40 of Ithaca, who of supplementary readings. Ramsey, White, and Erickson each re- coached Freshman hockey, is now as- ceived 9 points. sisting Ray Van Orman Ό8, lacrosse FRANKLIN THE TRAVELER Two other Cornell players, Howard S. coach. The lacrosse squad is practicing Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Dunbar '41 of Roselle Park, N. J., center, under the Crescent, only place available Ireland. By J. Bennett Nolan Όo. Six and Kenneth N. Jolly '41 of Ithaca, out of the snow. illustrations. Philadelphia, Pa. Univer- guard, received honorable mention. Each The ROTC rifle team shot a tie match, sity Press. 1938. 1x9 pages. $1.50. received 2. points. 1391-1391, with the Ithaca Rifle Club on the Barton Hall range last week. Theo- J. Bennett Nolan shows again his FENCERS BEAT HAMILTON dore H. Eiben '41 of Spring Valley was liking for historic subjects, with pub- Varsity and Freshman fencing teams the high scorer for Cornell with 2.81. lication of another book on Franklin. closed their dual meet seasons with vic- Five games—four in baseball, one in This time he deals with an unfamiliar tories over Hamilton at Clinton last lacrosse—have been added to the Fresh- side of the famous man, that of a private Saturday. The Varsity score was 16-11, man spring schedules. The baseball team citizen traveling in a foreign country. the Freshman, 11-5. will play Ithaca College at Percy Field No actual consecutive records of his In foils and salver, the Varsity won by April 30, Cortland Normal at Cortland travels exist, but Nolan has carefully re- 6-3 scores, but lost the epee duels, 5-4. May 8, Ithaca College on May constructed this phase of Franklin's life Undefeated were Charles N. Lowenfeld 17, and Cortland Normal at Ithaca May from an investigation of letters, con- '40 of New York City in foils and Ed- 2.4. The new lacrosse contest is with Col- temporary diaries, local archives, and ward D. Garber '40 of Brooklyn in the gate at Hamilton May n. legends. The result is scholarly and en- saber bouts. Each won three bouts. tertaining. The book contains fifteen pages of notes and an index. ELECT TEAM MANAGERS BOOKS The new committee on elections and CIRCUS STORY awards of the Department of Physical By Cornellians Big Show. By Charles H. Cooke 'Ί.J. Education and Athletics last week con- New York. Harper & Brothers. 1938. firmed captaincies and elected managers 360 pages. $1.50. in football, cross country, and soccer. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS Big Show is a modern love story, Captaincies ratified were those of Wal- The Story of the Political Philosophers. written against a background of the ter J. Matuszczak '41 of Lowville, foot- By George Catlin, PhD '2.4, former pro- circus and all the fantastic characters and ball; Nathaniel E. White '41 of Wenonah, fessor of Political Science. New York. incidents that go with it. It is mainly N. J., cross country; and John C. Perry Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book the story of Robert, his dog Skipper, and '41 of Ithaca, soccer. Company, Inc. 1939. xvii+Soi. pages. Ann, and their career from a "dog-and- Managers selected: $5.00. pony show" to the greatest show on Football: Edward P. White '41 of This book is intended as a guide to earth. Cooke has always been interested Pittsburgh, Pa., manager; W. Thomas political theory for the layman. It is a in the circus; and during the years he has Neal, Jr. '42. of Brewton, Ala., assistant; history of the theories of political phi- been on the New Yorker staff has N. Travers Nelson '41 of Baltimore, Md., losophers from before Plato to Stalin, interviewed virtually all the star per- i5o-pound manager; and Philip G. Kuehn Hitler, and Mussolini. The emphasis is formers and executives of the Big Show, '41 of Milwaukee, Wis., Freshman mostly on modern times, with relation so he knows whereof he writes. manager. of past thought to our present problems. Cross country: Francis G. Fulcrut '41 It contains an analysis of Marxism and CONTEMPORARY AMERICA of Buffalo, manager; Frank D. Boynton, Facism, of Hegel and the rival school of American Saga. By Marjorie Barstow Jr. '42. of Detroit, Mich., assistant; and Anglo-Saxon empiric philosophy, and of Greenbie '12.. New York. Whittlesey John A. Magalhaes '41 of New York the bearing of Plato and Aristotle on House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, City, Freshman manager. contemporary problems, and discussions Inc. 1939. x+68ι pages. $4.00. Soccer: Russell J. Carter, Jr. '41 of on Trotsky, Laski, and Strachey. Englewood, N. J., manager; William B. Mrs. Greenbie writes in the introduc- Whiting '4i of Radnor, Pa., assistant; tion to her book that she has collected CONSERVATION 4 and Robert E. Ohaus '41 of Irving ton, Conservation in the . By ' in one volume the records of our long N. J., Freshman manager. Professors A. F. Gustafson, PhD '2.0, Soil struggle for better living, beginning with The committee on elections and awards Technology, H. Reis, Geology, C. H. the first colonists at all the main centers replaces the former Intercollegiate Ad- Guise '14, Personnel Administration, and on the Eastern coast, and continuing visory Council. It comprises the captain, W. J. Hamilton, Jr., '2.6, Zoology. Illus- acrqss the country to the Pacific, and manager, and Faculty adviser of each trated. Ithaca. Comstock Publishing down the line of history to the present." major sport and one captain, one man- Company, Inc. 1939. xi+445 pages. She found her material in personal let- ager, and the Faculty adviser for minor $3.00. ters, in contemporary travelers' reports, sports. in contemporary discussions of imporllat Four members of the Faculty have questions, and in the popular literature ODDS AND ENDS written this non-technical book, to bring of the time. She has taken quotations The boxing team last week elected important facts pertaining td the con- from all these sources, put them together John M. Clark '41 of Ithaca and David servation of natural resources^ Before stu- to form a narrative, and the result is a C. Peace '41 of Rydal, Pa., as 1941 co- dents and other interested readers, and history of our country, told largely in captains. Clark won the intercollegiate to aid in understanding and promotion the words of the settlers, themselves. championship in the 15 5-pound class and of true conservation. They discuss deple- Peace fought in the 165-pound division. tion and conservation of soil and forests, They succeed William Fine '40 of conservation of water, parks, grazing LAST WEEK, the Women's Athletic Canastota. land, wild life including fish and game, Association Council elected Constance Kenneth O. Reed '41 of Ithaca and and minerals including metals, non- K. Eberhardt '41 of New York City, Harry L. Bill, Jr. '41 of Dayton, Ohio, metals, coal, petroleum, and natural gas. president for next year. 3°4 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

things. You just gotta get used to it. FROM FAR BELOW . . . Take the name of the Drill Hall. It's NOW IN MY TIME! going to be tough to think of it as any- By Bob Bliss '30 thing but that, even when you dignify it By Romeyn Berry with a fine name like Barton. * * * If you've been lucky enough to get This department has recently been per- Emmett Murphy took us up on back to Ithaca this winter, you've seen mitted to do a little rainy-day rummaging Charlie Capivisy, the "leaked" alumnus one of the queer phenomena of horticul- among old letters and diaries in a note- we mentioned in a recent column. He tural progress: tree planting right worthy Ithaca attic. The following notes made the problem ours to share. Emmett through the thick of winter. It's a step are among the fruits thereof: says that those bus tees who don't get forward, come hell, high water, or Dutch caught up through Reunion letters and In February, 1869, President White Elm disease, when the Buildings and in the Class records are one of the real went to Albany to ask the State of New Grounds Department can conjure up a headaches of the University records. York to lend him some army rifles for the thirty-foot elm and transform a sunbaked They're working on it, but you can help. Cornell Cadet Corps to drill with. When spot where Arts students sprawled on Anybody with a good idea will be treated President White wanted anything for his their bellies between classes in the spring like a gentleman. University, he went right up to the front into a bosky dell, all at the drop of a * * * door personally, rang the bell, and asked shovel. SHOTS OF THE WEEK: Dr. Bradford, Bull for it. In an astonishingly large number It's a far cry from those old days when Durham, Ray Ashbery, in for breakfast of cases the answer was "yes." On that the Ostrander elms were carefully nur- on a secondary school tour . . . George occasion, after Andrew D. had talked to tured through the seedling stage to this H. Young Όo down from Binghamton for them a little while and softened them new day when a tractor, snorting Ethyl the Class secretaries' luncheon . . . up, the Senate passed his rifle resolution fumes, can move Birnam Wood to Emmett Murphy '2.2. being feted at a by a unanimous vote. Dunsinane en masse, simply through the debut luncheon . . . Malcolm Carroll But while he was in Albany wheedling medium of a telephoned call from Morrill '19*8 bowling team winning top honors weapons, President White didn't forget Hall to the Forestry Department. in the New York Intercollege Club that he also needed a building to house Bull Durham points out that we ought League final round . . . the University's library, and that John to have a record in pictures of such McGraw had shown some symptoms of progress, so that the boys who get back ADAMS IN MINEOLA providing one. On February 17, 1869, he infrequently can take the shock by de- Cornell Club of Nassau County will wrote Mr. McGraw from Albany: grees. You may find a tangle of under- have Professor Bristow Adams, Agricul- "We have the most valuable and growth around the entrance of Schoell- ture Publications, as speaker at its an- practically useful Library of any Ameri- kopf the next time you go up to gripe nual meeting, March 30, in the County can university save, possibly, that of about tickets that wasn't there on your Bar Association Building, Mineola, at 8. Harvard University at Cambridge," to- last visit, and you might as well be All Cornell men of the County are in- gether with some priceless scientific and prepared. vited. Annual dance of the Club is an- historical collections. "But," he went Time, as the man said, changes all nounced for April 2.0. on, "we have all these and more than these, and no place for them. Much of this material lies boxed up in various places, but mainly in a building in which today there are thirty-two stoves under the care of students . . . and between thirty and forty kerosene lamps, one of which has already exploded." President White knew how to talk to John McGraw in a way that would move him to immediate action. The cornerstone of McGraw Hall, the first University Library, was laid with ap- propriate Masonic ceremonies exactly four months after the date of that letter! This probably would not have occurred if President White had weakly referred to "fire hazards" instead of using vigorous, concrete terms like "thirty-two stoves under the care of students.

# * * In 1875, Jennie McGraw wrote in her diary:— "Sun., June 13—Opening sermon by Phillips Brooks in . We met at the White's house. Trustees, Profes- sors, and Sage family. Seats were re- served for us and we heard a most in- teresting discourse. WASHINGTON CORNELLIANS AND GUESTS FROM ITHACA IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL "June 16—Mr. Campbell and Pa busy Left to right: Walter W. Burns Ό6, president, Cornell Club of Washington; Emmet all morning with University affairs. J. Murphy '2.2., Alumni Secretary; Walter G. Distler '12., former Varsity stroke; Coach Mr. C, Mr. Warner, and myself took the Carl G. Snavely; Hon. Daniel A. Reed '98, former Varsity guard and coach; Creed W. horses and carriage and went to the Uni- Fulton '09, president, Cornell Alumni Association; William S. Graham Ί6, chairman versity grounds and through the Library. Cornell Club smoker committee. At two, we went to Class Day exercises. MARCH 2.1, 1940 3°5

I did not think them very interesting. little Nick Deshon, the colorful Nica- Georgie here to tea. raguan, was certainly one of Cornell's "June 17—Commencement exercises in LETTERS greatest pitchers. He reached his best Sage Chapel. Speeches by Mr. Sage, a Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good form in the 1907 season, the year he taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any presentation and acceptance by Pres. side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The graduated. That year he held Harvard White. They were followed by Phillips ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- and Yale to seven hits in three games and Brooks, G. W. Curtis, and others. It ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility won the Yale game with a home run in rained hard when we returned, and I beyond that of fostering interest in the University. a late inning. One of the Harvard games nearly ruined my dress." which he lost, i-o, was a no-hit game. enn e So far as I know this is the only no-hit In 1875, J i McGraw was thirty- PERSONAL ABUSE five. She married Willard Fiske in 1880, game ever registered by a Cornell pitcher and died of galloping consumption in (Via Mackay Radio) in a major contest. Deshon won nine 1881. They had a terrible time finding her Weyland Pfeiffer Ί6, games and lost two that year, and the will, but after going through the attic Class Secretaries Meeting, team played four extra-inning games, and looking under the sink, Henry Sage New York City. one of which went seventeen innings. finally located it in a secret compartment I RECOGNIZE YOU PFEIFFER Cornell was conceded a leading claimant in her handbag which had been thrown TAKE OFF YOUR MUSTACHE AND for the Eastern baseball championship, away after having been supposedly emp- FIGHT YA BIG SISSY STOP DOES as was the case again in 1911. tied of its contents. YOUR NEW MONICKER STAND FOR —Louis E. JOHNSON Ίo It would have been a lot better for THEM MICE QUESTION MARK THE No list of Cornell "big league" baseball everyone if that will had never been JOKE IS ON YOU BECAUSE EDMIS- players would be complete, of course, without TON AND OTHER DISTRICT CHAIR- the name of Harry L. Taylor '88 of Buffalo, found, for all that came out of it was Varsity pitcher and captain, who played for seven years of bitter litigation that still MEN QUESTIONED MY NOTICING YOU YOUNG SQUIRTS AND RE- three years with Louisville in the National leaves scars in unsuspected places. League, returned to play again for Cornell as FUSED TO CIRCULATE THE SCREED When I came to college twelve years a student in the Law School, and became STOP CONFIDENTIALLY BUB AS president of the National League. Member of after the entry of the final decree, my ONE CLASS SECRETARY TO AN- Phi Beta Kappa and a Trustee of the Univer- mother's last admonition was, in case OTHER I'M HAVING A HELLUVA sity for ten years, he has been a Justice of the any of her old Ithaca friends invited me New York Supreme Court since 1914 assigned TIME GETTING DISTRICT CHAIR- to tea, never to mention the Fiske-Mc- to the Appellate Division since 192.4. MEN STOP MADE THE MISTAKE OF Another not mentioned by Johnson is Graw case or ask any questions. She said OUTLINING A SPECIFIC JOB IN THE Philip Lewis '05, shortstop in 1902. and 1903, it was still full of dynamite and to watch APPOINTMENT LETTER AND DID who played shortstop later for Brooklyn. Per- my step. haps readers will recall others who have thus THEY DUCK STOP MAYBE YOU'RE won fame.—ED. RIGHT ABOUT '15 AFTER ALL STOP SEEMS TO ME THAT A CLASS SECRE- ARCHITECTS HONORED ASTRONOMER SPEAKS TARY GETS TOO MUCH RESPONSI- Cornellians taken into the New York Cornell Club of Michigan had as BILITY PLENTY OF APPRECIATION chapter of the American Institute of luncheon speaker March 14, Robley C. BUT DARN LITTLE COOPERATION Architects as associate members are Williams '31, of the astronomy depart- PARENTHESIS ALWAYS EXCEPTING Charles B. Irish '35, Raymond K. Graff ment, University of Michigan. His sub- GUYS LIKE EDDIE WHO IS PROB- '36, John H. Christiana '37, Nicol Bissell ject was announced as "Where In the ABLY SITTING NEXT TO YOU '37, and Frederick Wise '39. World Are We?" PARENTHESIS.—Matt Carey Ί5. WASHINGTON TURNS OUT STUDY FLYING EFFECTS Washington, D. C. turned its atten- FAMOUS BASEBALL PLAYERS Physiological and psychological effects tion to Cornell football March 6, when To THE EDITOR: of flying on student pilots who are train- Coach Carl Snavely and Emmet J. Some of the younger Cornell alumni ing here under the Civil Aeronautics Murphy '2.1, Alumni Secretary, paid a were having a fanning bee the other day. Authority are being studied in a labora- visit to the city. They were entertained It was one of the first bright days we tory recently established in Morse Hall. at luncheon in the House of Representa- have had this winter and the talk turned Cornell is one of several centers for this tives restaurant by Representative Daniel to baseball in general, Cornell baseball research, which is financed by a Con- A. Reed '98, former Varsity guard and in particular. Knowing that I have been gressional appropriation made to the coach, together with a group of Wash- interested in Cornell baseball for quite CAA and administered by the National ington Cornellians, Representative Ham- some years, someone asked if Cornell had Research Council. ilton Fish, former all-American tackle ever furnished any players to the major Individual differences in the reactions and captain at Harvard, Representative leagues. of the student pilots and perserverance of W. Sterling Cole of the Ithaca district, About the only important player that these reactions under twenty-four-hour and the four other Cornellians who are I could think of was "Dode" Birming- observation are being studied by Dr. members of the House of Representatives, ham [Ό8] who played for the Cleveland Richard Parmenter '17, research associ- Clarence E. Kilburn Ί6, Fred V. Bradley Indians around 1910. Of course,'' Hughie'' ate in Psychobiology; Dr. Norman S. '2.0, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. 'x4, and Jennings ['04] went to the Cornell Law Moore 'x3, Ithaca physician; and A. Edwin A. Hall '31. School but not until after his playing Rachel Ashdown '30, formerly assistant That evening, 12.5 Cornellians attended days were over. If my memory is not too to the secretary of the Medical College a Club smoker at the Columbia Country unstable, "Steve" Regan ['15] who in Ithaca. Club, at which Snavely spoke on Cornell pitched for Cornell during the war years, Chairman of a national committee on football and showed and explained was signed up by the Detroit Tigers. selection and training of civilian pilots, pictures of last fall's ,Ohio State and More recently, John Milligan ['2.6] was established under the CAA, is Professor Pennsylvania games. Murphy spoke on a member of the Philadelphia Nationals John G. Jenkins 'x3, head of the depart- the alumni program of the University and pitched a few games for them. Per- ment of psychology at University of and Alumni Association. Officers and di- haps someone may know of others who Maryland and formerly at Cornell. Pro- rectors of the Cornell Club of Washing- played for major league clubs. fessor Howard S. Liddell, PhD '2.3, ton entertained Snavely and Murphy at While he never pitched professional Psychobiology, is also a member of the dinner before the smoker. baseball, so far as I know, "Roly-Poly", committee directing these studies. 306 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'40 of Newburgh, painter. Miss Abbe CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS was sculptor of the College of Architec- ture team which last year won the first COMING EVENTS FOUNDED 1899 prize of $100. Second ranking Cornell Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed 3 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N. Y. separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell team this year comprised Harold B. Zook events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. Published weekly during the University '40 of Hinsdale, 111., architect; Jack W. Contributions to this column must be received on or year, monthly in July and August: Kulp '39 of Ithaca, landscape architect; before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. thirty-five issues annually. D. Romola Griswold '42. of Pittsburgh, TUESDAY, MARCH 2.6 Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Pa., sculptor; and Rachel Borland '40 of Oil City, Pa., painter. Work of three Ithaca: University concert, Cleveland Sym- Association under direction of a committee phony Orchestra, Bailey Hall, 8:15 composed of R. W. Sailor '07, Phillips Wyman other Cornell teams received mentions. FRIDAY, MARCH 2.9 '17, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30. Officers of Designs which won first and second the Association: Creed W. Fulton '09, 907 New York City: Fencing intercollegiates Fifteenth St.; N.W., Washington, D. C., presi- prizes this year were from the Cranbrook Chicago, 111.: Emmet J. Murphy '2.1, Alumni dent; Emmet J. Murphy '2.2., 3 East Ave., Academy of Art. Secretary, at Cornell Club luncheon and Ithaca, secretary; Archie C. Burnett "90, schoolboy party 7 Water St., Boston, Mass., treasurer. SATURDAY, MARCH 30 BUFFALO CLUB OFFICERS Ithaca: Spring recess begins Subscription: $4.00 a year in U. S. and possessions; Directors of the Cornell Club of Buf- New York City: Fencing intercollegiates Canada, $4.55.' Foreign, $4.50. Single copies fifteen falo have elected Spencer E. Hickman '05 Mineola: Professor Bristow Adams at annual cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance and are meeting Cornell Club of Nassau County, renewed annually unless cancelled. president of the Club for the coming year. Vice-presidents are Alfred M. Sap- County Bar Building, 8 Editor-in-chief R. W. SAILOR '07 erston '19 and Homer Browning Ί6; MONDAY, APRIL i Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Pittsburgh, Pa.: Emmet J. Murphy '2.2. and Herbert R. Johnston '17 was reelected Coach Carl Snavely at Cornell Club an- Assistant Editor MARGARET S. MOORE '37 secretary-treasurer; and Paul E. Fitz- nual dinner, University Club, 7 Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 patrick '10 is athletic director. Raleigh, N. C.: Baseball, North Carolina State College Contributors: Washington, D. C.: Tennis, American Uni- ROMEYN BERRY '04 L. C. BOOCHEVER Ίi TRENTON CLUB ELECTS versity W. J. WATERS '2.7 R. L. BLISS '30 Cornell Club of Trenton, N. J., meeting Minneapolis, Minn.: Professor C. L. Durham March i at the Community Clubhouse in '99 at Cornell Club meeting Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. Princeton, N. J., elected officers for the TUESDAY, APRIL i coming year. New president is Clifford Chapel Hill, N. C.: Baseball, North Carolina University RUSSIANS GIVE CONCERT D. Quick Ί8, succeeding William H. Hill Philadelphia, Pa.: Golf, Pennsylvania Siberian Singers were enjoyed in the '2.2. who was elected a director until 1943. Raleigh, N. C.: Tennis, North Carolina State Willard Straight Theater in a University Vice-president is George R. Shanklin '22.; College secretary-treasurer, Joseph G. Toth '33. St. Paul, Minn.: Professor C. L. Durham '99 concert there March 12.. Their director, at Cornell Club meeting Nicholas VasiliefT, youngest-appearing of Ewald J. J. Smith '2.1 was also elected WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 the nine singers, led them almost im- a director. Cleveland, Ohio: Emmet J. Murphy Ίi and perceptibly from the center of the group, Smith, as chairman, announced a re- Coach Snavely at Cornell Qub smoker facing the audience, and announced their ception, dinner, and dance to be spon- with undergraduates, Cleveland Club, 8 Elon, N. C: Baseball, Elon selections with charming informality. sored jointly by the men's and women's Swarthmore, Pa.: Golf, Swarthmore Dressed in seventeenth century cathe- Cornell Clubs, in honor of President Ed- Trenton, N. J.: President Day at Cornell Club dral robes of black and red and gold, mund E. Day, April 3 at the Trenton dinner and dance, Trenton Country Club which the director explained had been Country Club, to which all Cornellians Milwaukee, Wis.: Professor C. L. Durham '99 at Cornell Club meeting used at the coronation of the Czar of the vicinity are invited. Howard T. THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Nicholas, they sang first a number of Critchlow Ίo, member of the secondary Wake Forest, N. C.: Baseball, Wake Forest Russian religious songs. Then they ap- schools committee of the Cornell Alumni Raleigh, N. C.: Tennis, North Carolina State peared in colorful tunics and sashes, with Association, spoke of the work of that College baggy trousers and red boots, to sing a committee and distributed the new Man- Washington, D. C.: Golf, Georgetown varied selection of their country's folk ual of Secondary School Relations to FRIDAY, APRIL 5 songs and Gypsy songs, many of which members of the Club committee. Carl F. Wake Forest, N. C.: Baseball, Wake Forest Ogren '17 reported that a large number Chapel Hill, N. C.: Tennis, North Carolina had been arranged by their director. Charlpttesville, Va.: Golf, University of Vir- Various members of the group were from the Club had attended the Cornell- ginia soloists, and all sang with a spirit and Princeton basketball game and a dinner Indianapolis, Ind.: Professor C. L. Durham '99 enthusiasm that made their program that evening. at Cornell Club meeting greatly enjoyed. SATURDAY, APRIL 6 Philadelphia, Pa.: Baseball, Pennsylvania NAME HONOR LAW STUDENTS Chapel Hill, N. C.: Tennis, North Carolina ARCHITECTS RANK WELL Dean Robert S. Stevens of the Law Annapolis, Md.: Golf, U. S. Naval Academy Student teams of the College of Archi- School has announced the names of the MONDAY, APRIL 8 tecture received two of the three "first highest ranking first-year students for Ithaca: Spring recess ends mentions" in this year's collaborative the first term, following the mid-year FRIDAY, APRIL 12. competition sponsored by alumni of the examinations. Three of these are Seniors New Haven, Conn.: Baseball, Yale American Academy in Rome. Thirteen in Arts and Sciences taking their first SATURDAY, APRIL 13 schools and colleges competed in a prob- year in Law; two are Cornellians of the Ithaca: Discussion of American liberalism, with invited speakers, Willard Straight lem to develop a '' monument to the Bill Class of '39; and the other five are gradu- Hall of Rights" to be located in Washington, ates of Dartmouth, Hobart, William Princeton, N. J.: Baseball, Princeton D. C., facing the White House, where Jewell College, Westminster, and Wil- Lacrosse, Princeton the Jefferson Memorial is being erected. liam and Mary. MONDAY, APRIL 15 Cornell team whose work was ranked Highest ten are Jerome S. Affron '39, Ithaca: Three-day hobby show opens, highest by the judges was composed of Stanley M. Brown, Ronald E. Coleman WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Lynton I. Briggs '39 of Ithaca, architect; '39, Donald R. Harter, Jack L. Ratzkin Ithaca: Baseball, Colgate, Hoy Field, 4:30 Allen R. Kramer '40 of Bloomfield, N. J., '40, John W. Reed, Rex Rowland, An- FRIDAY, APRIL 19 landscape architect; Elfrede M. Abbe '39 nette E. Shapiro '40, Lawrence A. Ithaca: Baseball, Harvard, Hoy Field, 4:30 of Ithaca, sculptor; and Henri V. Jova Tumposky '40, and Powel F. Wartel. MARCH ZI, 1940 307 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL TRACK EVENT Saturday night which STUDENT PILOTS training at Ithaca elicited the most violent partisanship SPRING FASHION SHOW and other Airport have been grounded only a few from the stands in Barton Hall was the entertainment which serve to pass the days this winter, despite the vagaries of interfraternity relay race for the intra- time while women undergraduates vote Ithaca weather. Every day they are to be mural championship. More than twenty for WSGA officers at their annual mass seen over the Campus and town in five houses which had entered teams of their meeting in Bailey Hall were rudely in- yellow Cubs which are used for training. fastest runners were eliminated down to terrupted last week. Robert Chuckrow The class of forty, including one girl, six finalists the week before the meet. '40 and Morgan M. Wheeler '41 were Dawn Y. Rochow '39 who is also an Delta Chi runners, dressed in brilliant ejected from the meeting by Proctor assistant in Home Economics, have com- orange shirts, sped around the track in Charles D. Manning, who was called by pleted a large part of their required hours the fastest time, cheered on by their one of the women taking attendance. of solo and dual flying. partisans in the stands. They were Walter Dressed in women's attire and with WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL manage- Scholl '41 and James T. Schmuck '41 of peasant scarfs over their heads, the two ment, ever thoughtful of the comfort of the Varsity football team and Ellison V. had no difficulty getting into the hall, Capers '41 and Richard L. Wagner '41. where all co-eds were required to be its patrons, has equipped all telephone booths in the building with neat black- For second place, Alpha Psi beat Seal under penalty of losing social privileges and Serpent in a photo finish of two- for a week. But their hoax was short- boards, chalk, and erasers. The Sun tenths of a second, and Psi Upsilon took lived, and they didn't even learn about thanked the Hall on behalf of the fourth place. spring fashions. "doodlers" who formerly pencilled their "doodlings" on the walls of the booths. GOLF LESSONS for beginners, offered Next improvement it suggests is one this year for the first time by the Depart- College; Elizabeth A. Church, daughter "that will allow us to hear our eleven ment of Physical Education and Ath- of Lloyd M. Church '13 of Bala-Cynwyd, o'clock lecture while sipping the morn- letics, have enrolled eighty-five men. Pa., president of Risley Hall; and Emily ing coffee in the cafeteria. Coach George H. Hall teaches them W. Germer, daughter of Lester H. Ger- Monday nights in the baseball cage. mer '17 and Mrs. Germer (Ruth Wood- BRIDGE TOURNAMENTS among fra- Such a large early enrollment augurs well ard) '19 of Milburn, N. J., president of ternities, sororities, and mixed teams of for the popularity of the new University the new women's dormitory at 52.0 men and women have brought entires of golf course, which is expected to be ready Thurston Avenue. i2.i teams in the Willard Straight game for play the summer of 1941. room. NEW WOMEN members of the Willard '94 DEBATE prize of $94 was won for SECOND HEAVY SNOW of the winter, Straight Hall board of managers for next the forty-sixth time, March n. Keith nine-and-a-half inches, blanketed the year are Elizabeth K. Emery '41 of S. Sutton '41 of Brooklyn answered the Campus March 14. It came over night, Rochester and Elizabeth M. McCabe '42. question, "What Change in the Foreign clung to trees and wires, and made next of Brookline, Mass. They will serve with Policy of the United States Is Most morning a veritable fairyland of light and Shirley A. Richards '41 of Staten Island, Needed?" He proposed that this country shadow. Our cover picture this week is a who continues for the second year. initiate a modified League of Nations night photograph taken across the Quad- for the "definite security of the demo- rangle after the storm by F. Brendan cratic states." Sixteen original con- SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER Easter Sun- Burke '42. of Buffalo. testants were reduced in preliminary day, March 2.4, is the Rev. Paul Hoh of competitions to six finalists. the Lutheran Theological Seminary, TWO CORNELLIANS were among the Philadelphia, Pa. seven young musicians who survived a DRAMATIC CLUB gave four one-act regional competition, in Ithaca, for the plays in the Goldwin Smith Theater NEW COURSE in Soil Mechanics is all-American symphony orchestra which March 14 and 16: "Cox and Box" by J. being given this term in the School of Leopold Stokowski will conduct on a M. Morton; "Country Slicker" by How- Civil Engineering by Benjamin K. tour of Central and South America next ard Buerman; "Madge" by E. P. Conkle; Hough, Jr., who is in charge of the summer. Vitold Arnett, Grad, of Boston, and "Marriage Proposal" by Anton U. S. Army Engineer Corps soil labora- Mass., and Bruce C. Netschert '40 of Chekov. tories here. Graduate of MIT, he is the Trenton, N. J., will compete further in son of Benjamin K. Hough '96; has been New York City in April. Violinist and PRESIDENT of the Women's Self Gov- appointed special lecturer in Civil Engi- concertmaster of the University Orches- ernment Association for next year is neering. His course applies the general tra, Arnett received the AB in 1935 and Margery G. Huber '41, daughter of Wil- theories of mechanics to soil considered the AM in 1937 at Clark University; is liam T. Huber Ό8, of Buffalo. Others to as an engineering medium, especially working for the PhD with the electro- be Senior officers of WSGA, elected at a with relation to the design of founda- encephalograph in the Physiology De- mass meeting of all undergraduate wo- tions, retaining walls, tunnels, embank- partment. Netschert is University Chimes- men in Bailey Hall March 14, are Muriel ments, and highways. master and plays the French horn in the E. Elliott of Eggertsville, treasurer; University Orchestra. Marjorie H. Lee of Mt. Vernon, chair- LECTURES this week include Miss man of organized groups; H. Elizabeth Marya Tolstoy, "Czechoslovakia Since CIVIL ENGINEERING undergraduates Bourne of Hamburg, chairman of activi- Munich," March 18; Dr. Gustaf Munthe, have formed a new Cornell Civil Engi- ties; and as presidents of units, director of the Arts and Crafts Museum, neering Society, with all students in the Eddie Burgess of Jersey City, N. J., Ruth Gothenburg, Sweden,'' Scandinavian Arts School as members. It will sponsor School Marshall of Montvale, N. J., Grace E. and Crafts," on the Goldwin Smith athletics and social affairs including a Moak of Brooklyn, and Martha B. Cross, Foundation, March 2.0; and Ordway Civil Engineering banquet. Each Class daughter of Roger B. Cross '14 and Mrs. Tead, chairman of the Board of Higher has its own officers, and the president of Cross (Grace Bristol) '14 of Fayetteville. Education, New York City, "The Out- the Society is E. Paul Swatek, Jr. '40 of Juniors next year are Arleen E. Heidgerd look for College Graduates," in the Chicago, 111. William A. Gay '40 of of Pearl River, elected president of Sage CURW Campus Forum Series, March n. Montclair, N. J., is secretary-treasurer. 308 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Ί6 MD—DR. ARTHUR FURMAN KRAETZER, March z, 1940, at his resi- NECROLOGY dence and office, 1x3 East Fifty-third Concerning Street, New York City. He had been at- '89 LLB—FRANK LOVWELL FREEMAN, tending physician at Lenox Hill Hos- THE FACULTY February 2.3, 1940, at his home near pital, medical director of Knickerbocker Grove, Okla., following many years of Hospital, instructor in Clinical Medicine DR. JOHN H. FINLEY, editor emeritus of illness. He practiced law in Baltimore, at the Medical College, and had special- the New York Times, died March 7, Md., until his health broke; then con- ized in internal medicine in private 1940, at his home in New York City. As tinued practice in Livingston, Mont., practice. During the War he was a first State Commissioner of Education from and Denver, Colo. After a time he went lieutenant in the U. S. Army. Author of 1913 until 192.1, he was an ex-officio into the mining business in Silverton, several books on medicine, he entered the member of the University Board of Colo., and retired in 1919. Entered Law Medical College in 1912. from Princeton Trustees. in 1886 from Mt. Pleasant Military University. THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX, Its Legisla- Academy, Ossining. '2.8 PhD—LEON E. JENKS, March 8, tion, Administration and Adjudication '90—EUGENE MATHER ADAMS, October 1940, at his home in Sauquoit, after Through The Years and Today, by Roy G. i9, 1939, at Bellingham, Wash. He had several years of ill health. Formerly of Blakey and Mrs. Blakey has recently been a hardware merchant in Kelso, the department of chemistry at Worcester been published by Longmans, Green and Wash., for many years. He entered Civil Polytechnic Institute, he was a member Co., New York. Professor of economics at Engineering in 1886 from Union School, of the Chemists Club in New York City. the University of Minnesota, Blakey Lockport; remained one year. After receiving the BS in 1905 and the taught at Cornell from I9I2.-I5. Since 1932. he has been tax consultant to the '03—WINSOR FRENCH WOODWARD, MS in 1908 at Hamilton College, he at- Governor of Minnesota and is a member October 6, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pa. He tended the Graduate School during of numerous tax committees. Professor had been with W. R. Grace & Co., ex- 1914-17, 192.1-zz, i9Z7~z8. Brother, Clay- M. Slade Kendrick, PhD '2.4, Agricul- porters, New York City; S. H. Burbank ton L. Jenks, Grad Ό8. tural Economics, reviews the book in the & Co., printers, and Shelly Salesbook American Economic Review for March. Co., Philadelphia; American Salesbook Co., Elmira; Pioneer Electric Safety PROFESSOR TANNER DIES PROFESSOR WILLIAM I. MYERS '14, Agri- Minelamp Co., General Coal Co. of Professor John Henry Tanner '91, cultural Economics, has been appointed Philadelphia; and from 1933 until his Mathematics, emeritus, died at his home to a special exploratory committee of the death was commercial representative of in Ithaca, 104 The Parkway, March n. American Council of Education. The Standard Oil Co. of Pennsylvania. Dur- He had never fully recovered from a committee will search out new teachers ing the War he served in the Navy. He broken hip suffered three years ago. Mrs. and scholars qualified to teach rural entered Mechanical Engineering in 1899 Tanner survives him. social subjects. from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; Born in Fort Plain in 1861, he spent was here three years. Alpha Delta Phi; most of his early life on a farm. From PROFESSOR LEO C. NORRIS '2.0, Poultry ; Mummy Club; Savage 1883 to 1887 he taught in the Clinton Nutrition, read a paper, "Evidence of the Club; Masque; Bench and Board; Mer- Liberal Institute, then entered the Science Complex Nature of the Alcohol-Precipi- maid; Widow board; manager, Era. Course at Cornell, receiving the BS in tate Factor Required by the Chick," at 1891. He had been a member of the meetings of the American Institute of '12. ME—CLINTON SETH ABBOTT, June Mathematics Department since 1891, be- Nutrition and the American Society of 2.4, 1939. From I9i2.-ι6 he was with the came professor in 1904, retired as pro- Biological Chemists in New Orleans, La. Lackawanna Steel Co. in Buffalo and fessor emeritus in 19^6. Two years he The paper was the work of Professor since then with Koppers Co., first in spent in study at Goettingen, Germany, Gustave F. Heuser '15, Poultry Hus- Pittsburgh, Pa. and at the time of his and in 1901 he was awarded the PhD bandry, Norris, and Arnold E. Schu- death in St. Paul, Minn., where he was degree at New Hampshire College. macher, MS '39. superintendent of the Minnesota By- Secretary of the Faculty of the College Product Coke Co. His home was at 1000 PROFESSOR WALTER B. CARVER, Ma- of Arts and Sciences from 1897 to 1903, thematics, spoke twice at the Louisiana- North Hamline Avenue, St. Paul. He he was a life member of the American entered Mechanical Engineering in 1908 Mississippi section meeting of the Mathe- Mathematical Society, Fellow of the matical Association of America, March from Hamburg High School. Zeta Psi; American Association for the Advance- Quill and Dagger; ; Sun- 8-9, at Oxford, Miss. ment of Science, member of the Society day Night Club; Gemel Kharm; base- for Promotion of Engineering Education, PROFESSOR GEORGE R. HANSELMAN '2.2., ball. Brother, Lewis W. Abbott Ίo. Sigma Xi, and Delta Upsilon. He was the Administrative Engineering, presided at Ίz CE—MAURICE MEYER WYCKOFF, author of several widely-used text books a meeting of the Binghamton chapter of March 8, 1940, in a subway accident in on algebra and geometry. the American Association of Cost Ac- Brooklyn. He had been assistant trans- In 19x0 Professor Tanner and Mrs. countants, March 14. Professor Clyde I. mission superintendent of the Alabama Tanner established with the University Millard '2.6, Industrial Engineering, Power Co., Birmingham, Ala.; engineer, the Tanner Foundation to Promote spoke on "Work Simplification." Mathematical Research and Instruction. construction superintendent, and general PROFESSOR JAMES L. HOARD, Chemistry, The donors provided that after their purchasing agent of T. A. Gillespie Co., has twin sons, born January 30. Boston, Mass.; and head of Wyckoff death the fund of $100,000 was to be used Engineering Corp., New York City. In "in such manner as most effectively to 19x7 he received the law degree at New promote mathematical research and in- ITHACA COMMITTEES York University and since then had struction in ." Cornell Club of Ithaca will carry on its practiced law as well as engineering at 17 activities this year largely through six East Forty-second Street. He entered ADVISING with members of the coach- special committees with total member- Civil Engineering in 1908 from Com- ing staff, the Interfraternity Council has ship of forty-four men. The president, mercial High School, Brooklyn. Beta promulgated a rule, effective next year so Dr. Dean F. Smiley Ί6, has appointed Sigma Rho; Beta Samach; Cosmopolitan far as possible, that all fraternity initia- William R. Wigley '07 chairman of a Club; Masque. tions be held within a two-week period. committee on relations with entering MARCH 2.1 , I94O 309

students, designed to help new students time of the Reunion. They tell me we feel at home in Ithaca. Dudley W. Fay will never have another 4oth Reunion '14 heads a committee on relations with Concerning again." Chas S. Gladden: "Keep me students from other countries, which posted on plans for our Reunion." will arrange for entertainment of these THE ALUMNI —G.H.Y. students in the homes of Ithaca Cornel- Personal items and newspaper clippings '02.—Henry Bruere, president of the Hans. Committee on Infirmary service, to about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. Bowery Savings Bank, New York City, help cheer students who are ill, is in and authority on civic and industrial charge of William R. Robertson '34. '90 BArch—Edwin H. Hulbert lives at personnel problems, was one of the Foster M. Coffin '12. heads a committee on the Elks National Home, Bedford, Va. speakers at the "rededication" of the Cornell Day; Edgar A. Whiting '2.9, the social science research building at the '97 ME—Jacob deS. Freund has been program committee; and Edgar E. Bred- University of Chicago December i. His sales manager of Federal American Ce- benner '31 is chairman of a committee on speech was summarized in The Univer- ment Tile Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. for the relations with the University Athletic sity of Chicago Magazine for January, last ten years. He and his wife, the former Association. 1940. Lilian A. Myers '94, live at 1088 Shady BROTHERS IN STEEL Avenue, Pittsburgh. Jacob deS. Freund, '05 LLB, Ό6 AB—Neal D. Becker, When Cornellians speak of steel pro- Jr., '36 is their son. University Trustee and president of the Intertype Corporation, has been elected duction, those who know think of the '98 MS in Agr, Όo PhD; Ό6—Stevenson a director of the Bank of the Manhattan remarkable record of three Cornell W. Fletcher has been named dean of the Company. He is also a director and a brothers, William B. Gillies '04, Robert School of Agriculture of Pennsylvania member of the executive committee of A. Gillies Ίo, and Frederick M. Gillies State College, State College, Pa. Active the Consolidated Edison Co., the Brook- Ί8. All three have "grown up in steel," in agricultural education for the last lyn Edison Co., and the New York Dock and each of them is now an executive in forty years, Dr. Fletcher has been as- Co.; chairman of the executive commit- steel production. sociated with Penn State since 1916. tee of the National Industrial Conference William B. Gillies '04 came to Sibley Prior to that he served on the faculties of Board, a director of the Merchants As- College from Chicago in 1900, received agricultural colleges in five different sociation, and a member of the Council the ME in 1904, and immediately went States. Mrs. Fletcher is the former Mar- on Foreign Relations and the National into steel as a construction engineer for garet Rolston Ό6. the Illinois Steel Co. Two years later he Foreign Trade Council. was an assistant superintendent; then CLIMB*THEHILL"TO THE 30 TH REUNION went with Mark Manufacturing Co. and TH when that concern was taken over by 4K) RIEIJNION the Steel and Tube Co. of America he was CLASS OF JUNE 14-16 made assistant general superintendent of the Mark plant of Steel and Tube. Again I9OO I94O a consolidation took place, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. taking over Steel and Here was a starter in New York for the Tube, and Gillies went along, first as Forty-year Reunion. Eating dinner to- assistant vice-president, and since 1933 gether at the Cornell Club, with pictures he has been vice-president in charge of of the Campus all around, on Friday operations of Youngstown Sheet and evening, March 8, the following mem- Tube Co. in Youngstown, Ohio. bers talked it over in preparation for Next, to the Law School, came Robert getting together next June in Ithaca: A. Gillies, in 1907. He had attended Squire Vickers, Howard Hyde, Bob Armour Institute, received the LLB here Young, V. D. Moody, Chas. R. Scott, in 1910, went into the Steel Company of Roy Fletcher, Ernest Quackenbush, H. W. ΊO '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 Canada, Ltd., of Hamilton, Ont., has Palmer, Walter Nuffort, Art Schieren, —James McCutcheon & Co., New been superintendent there and is now Mark Drake, Ray Potter, L. Patterson, York City, are exhibiting models and works manager. Dr. Wm. Z. Jerome. These others dropped photographs of residences designed by Steel was in the blood, too, of Fred- in for part of the evening: Chris Wilson, Bradley Delehanty Ίo, on the fourth erick A. Gillies Ί8. From the age of ten Eddie Newton, Terry McGovern, and floor of their store March n-X3. One of he worked summers for Illinois Steel Co., Gar Dresser. the models is of the Psi Upsilon house and this he continued after he entered From W. L. Wright: "I hope, under Arts and Sciences in 1914. He won the C any circumstances, that I may be able to at Cornell. as a shotputter on the track team and as be in Ithaca at the time of the Reunion." Ίi PhD—Mrs. Mabel E. Hodder guard on the football team; left in De- Ad. Scoville: "Your notice about our (Mabel E. Boomer) is a professor of his- cember, 1917, to enrol in Naval Avia- 4oth Reunion was forwarded to me here tory at Wellesley College, Wellesley, tion, and flew in France and England, in Florida and I am sorry your date for Mass. Formerly she taught at Simmons commissioned as ensign. After the war the get-together in New York is just a College in Boston, Mass. Joint author of he returned to Illinois Steel as a foreman, week before my return home. I will be Seven Sovereign Hills of Rome, she lives then became superintendent of plate mills thinking of the 1900 fellows on the 8th at 2.6 Leighton Road, Wellesley. for Inland Steel Co., at Indiana Harbor; and will be back for Reunion without '12. BS—Mrs. Bragg, wife of Lawrence is now assistant general superintendent fail." Spike Sleicher: "I certainly want D. Bragg '12. of Medford, Ore., died of Inland Steel, at East Chicago, Ind. to be in shape to get to Ithaca at the February 2.3, 1940.

CLASS REUNIONS IN ITHACA, JUNE 14-16, 1940 '69, '70, '71 '75 '80 '85 '87, '88, '89 '90 '95 '00 '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, ΊO '15 '20 '25, '26, '27, '28 '30 '35 '38 3io CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Ί6 AB—Maurice W. Howe, chairman cocktail party and buffet supper at the of the Reunion committee for his Class, home of Joe Lazarus. Many of the men has been transferred from the Chevrolet- had not seen each other since their Buffalo division of General Motors Commencement fifteen years ago, and all 15-25 Corp., where he was plant manager, to agreed that they would be in Ithaca Oneβ in a lifetime become plant manager of the Kansas June 14-16 for the Fifteen-year Reunion Λ City, Mo., Chevrolet assembly plant. of the Class. Tune 13-14-15-16 Howe started business with the Gu- New York Class Reunion committee } aranty Trust Co. of New York, then was has arranged a bock beer party March associated with the Root & Van Der- 2.1, at the Lion brewery in Brooklyn, 194O voort Engineering Co., East Moline, 111. with expectation of about 100 men of the '15, Ί6 CE—Wilson T. Ballard has He went to Buffalo as superintendent of Class being present. General Reunion been chief engineer of the State Roads the Chevrolet plant in 192.9, was trans- chairman is Thomas J. Roberts, who is Commission of Maryland since last ferred to the Tarry town plant, and re- with Johns Manville, 22 East Fortieth October. Previously he was chief engi- turned to Buffalo in 1933 as manager. Street, New York City. Committees are neer of Public Works Administration in Ί8, '19 CE—Albert L. Dittmar is being formed in many of the larger Maryland and Delaware, and construc- right-of-way engineer with the Pennsyl- centers, to hold similar pre-Reunion tion engineer of Baltimore County. He is vania Department of Highways at their gatherings of the men of the Class. married, has a son and a daughter, and headquarters in the North Office Build- '2.6 BS—Mrs. Brandon Watson (Hilda lives in Ruxton, Md. ing, Harrisburg, Pa. This is his twenty- R. Longyear) is at San Francisco Junior '15—Walter C. Relyea is an engineer first consecutive year of service in the College, Bay and Van Ness, San Fran- for Orange County, Goshen. He left Cor- Department of Highways. He lives at 1106 cisco, Calif. She lives at 383 Filbert nell after three years, worked in Detroit, North Seventeenth Street, Harrisburg. Street, San Francisco. and then joined the Army. After the Ί8—George R. Hofmann is engineer 'i6 BS—William S. Bishopp has an- Armistice he attended the University of with the National Electric Products nounced the arrival of a son, Edward Montpellier in France, then was engineer Corp. at Ambridge, Pa. Married, he lives Lee Bishopp, born January 2.1, 1940. He with Charles H. Tenney Co. in Boston. at 613 Poia Road, Sewickley, Pa. lives in Deansboro. He writes: "Attend nearly all football '19—M. Warren Bent on is agency '2.6—With G. McStay Jackson, Inc., games each year. Will move back to dear manager at the Equitable Life Assurance Chicago, 111., Walter D. Burger lives at old Ithaca some day and retire." He and Society of the United States, 2.6 Court 3740 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. his wife live at 8 Dubois Street, Middle- Street, Brooklyn. Ί6, '2.7 CE—Daniel M. Coppin, town. '19, '2.0 BS—George B. Gordon is as- structural engineer in Cincinnati, Ohio, '15—William D. Leetch, sales manager sociate landscape architect with the has a one-year-old son, Richard M. of Carter Coal Co., Inc., 930 Washington Bureau of Public Roads, 608 Willard Coppin. Address is Box 206 B, RR 6. Building, Washington, D. C., stayed Building, Washington, D. C. '2.7, '31 BS—Laurence S. Stotz is an only two years at Cornell. He worked Ίo WA, '2.1 AB—John S. Pflueger is assistant administrator with the New on a ranch and in a bank, and when the treasurer of The Enterprise Manufactur- England Timber Salvage Administration War broke out enlisted in the Iowa ing Co., Akron, Ohio; lives at 2.166 in Worcester, Mass. National Guard and spent a year on the Ridge wood Road, Akron. '2.7 AB, '2.8 AM—Robert B. Brown Mexican border. In 1910 he joined Con- '13 AB, '2.6 MD—Dr. Roland L. Maier married Matilda S. Peary January 12. in solidation Coal Co. and in 1933 took his married Jean S. Campbell, January 6, in New York City. Brown is advertising present position. He is interested in all New York City. Mrs. Maier was gradu- manager of Bristol-Myers Co. in New sports, especially hunting and fishing; ated at Vassar in 1932. and returned from York City. collects stamps; and once wrote an article a trip around the world in October. Dr. 'x7—Alice E. Forward is in the Owego on "The Sailing Canoe and It's Rig," Maier is associate surgeon at the Hospital City School Library at Owego. illustrated with photos and drawings by for the Ruptured and Crippled and an the author, which appeared in Field and '2.8—Arthur L. Kent (Capurro) sang assistant surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, in the final Metropolitan Opera audi- Stream. Married, he has three children New York City. and lives at 1697 Thirty-first Street, tions, Sunday, March 10. His first major '2.3 EE—Louis Weiner has announced N. W., Washington. appearance was with the Steel Pier Opera the birth of a daughter, Grace Weiner, Company in Atlantic City, and since '15 BChem—Joseph Lax, superintend- December 18, 1939. The address is 1200 then he has been soloist with the New ent of Apex Chemical Co., Inc., Eliza- Woody crest Avenue, Bronx. York Oratorio Society, the Schola beth, N. J. writes that he expects to be '2.4 AB, '31 PhD; '2.9 PhD—Albert S. Cantorum, and at St. Thomas' Church in back in June for his Reunion and his Hazzard is director of the Institute for New York City. son's (J. Sterling Lax) graduation. He Fisheries Research, University Museums, lives at 195 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn. '2.8—Richard F. Culp is with the New Ann Arbor, Mich. Mrs. Hazzard is the York State Public Service Commission, former Florence B. Woolsey, PhD ^9. Albany; lives at 18 Brevator Street. CORNELL '2.4—Harry N. Kinoy is with Spear & '2.9; '05 CE—Mrs. Lewis King (Chris- I 11919 6 — Co., furniture, 5x4 West Twenty-third tine George) has a daughter Barbara Street, New York City, as credit and Ann, born February i. Mrs. King is the 25 YEAR REUNION collection manager. daughter of Professor Sidney G. George Ί6 AB—Alden C. Buttrick achieved '2.5, 'xy ME; 'xy, 'x8 BS—Paul J. '05, Mechanics of Engineering. newspaper notice in Minneapolis as the Hillegas has joined the Lockheed Avia- '2.9 AB—Constance Madfes was mar- first person to be fined under a new tion Co. at Burbank, Calif. Recently he ried to Nathan Davis February 4 in ordinance which penalizes forgetful moved from Buffalo with his wife, the Brooklyn. Davis is a graduate of Yale motorists $2. for leaving ignition keys in former Bertha Batchett '2.7, and their two and of Harvard Law School; is attorney- parked cars. It doesn't pay to forget! children, Tom and Sue. in-chief of the New Jersey State Depart- Buttrick is the son of H. A. Buttrick, 'x5—Thirty men of the Class of 'z5 and ment of Alcoholic Beverage Control. who ran the Buttrick & Frawley cloth- their wives, from in and near New York They are living temporarily at the Hotel ing store in Ithaca for many years. City, were entertained February 2.9 at a Riviera, Newark, N. J. MARCH -LI, I94O

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'30 LLB—James F. O'Connor has a daughter born February ^. He lives at 118 College Avenue, Ithaca. '30 CE—Emmett C. Mac Cubbin is as- sistant manager of the claim division of Home Friendly Insurance Co. of Mary- land; lives at 4704 Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore. Golden Albion Calf, $20.00 '30; Όo PhB—Formerly with the Car- rier Engineering and the Chrysler Air- It's a four-star smash hit! And we credit it to our single-minded temp Corporations, Norman L. Knipe, concentration on shoes—no hats, no haberdashery— just shoes. Jr. '30 has been elected president of The Lexington Lumber Co., Lexington, Mass. The leather is Golden Albion Calf— a fabulous color that com- His father is Norman L. Knipe Όo. bines with sports and casual clothes— of so fine a texture your '31 BS—George J. Dinsmore married friends will want to stroke it with their hands, while you will Helen A. Gibson, February z in Waverly. Mrs. Dinsmore was graduated at Elmira find its blucher style a joy to your feet. College in 1936 and is now commercial teacher in the Dryden-Freeville Central School, Dry den. Dinsmore teaches agri- culture in Pavilion Central and South Byron schools. '31 AB—Charles P. Hammond is as- FIFTH AVENUE 47th 48th Streets NEW YORK sistant promotion manager in the bureau 225 OLIVER AVENUE— PITTSBURGH, PA. ' 112 WEST ADAMS STREET. FIELD BUILDINΘ— CHICAGO. ILL of advertising of the American News- paper Publishers Association. He writes that Holbrook V. Bonney '33 "has joined the Royal Air Force in England to ' fight for the Western civilization' or per- haps for England's supremacy on the high seas." He adds: "I think Rym Berry's column is the best of its kind anywhere ..." TOUJERIΠG '32., '33 BS; 'z6 BS—Members of the New York State Poultry Council elected John V. Rice '31 vice-president and Chilion W. Sadd 'i6, secretary and mansions treasurer. 1400 '31 ME—Frederick W. Trautwein is ROOMS fleet sales representative of Firestone Each With Bath Tire and Rubber Co. at the Brooklyn Shower And office; lives at 4 Johns Court, Baldwin, Cabinet Radio with his wife and two young daughters. '33 BS—Hamilton D. Hill's address is USS Langley, Asiatic Station, in care of Postmaster, Manila, Philippines. '33 DVM—Dr. Richard M. Sears is a veterinarian in Cazenovia; has three children, Nancy, three; Judy, one and HOTEL one-half; and Richard Louis, born last Outstand • Live lik a king when Music A August 31. you visit New York. Stay Entertainment '33 BChem, '36AM; '34 AB—Marshall at Manhattan's Mighty J. Walker and Mrs. WaLker (Georgianna Hotel Lincoln, superb in •very detail of location, L. Robinson) '34 have announced the Ownership Management luxury and hospitality. arrival of Robert Scofield Walker, De- MARIA KRAMER cember 3, 1939. Walker is physicist with President du Pont Film Manufacturing Co. at John L Morgan, Gen. Mgr Parlin,N.J. IffiUί YORK CITY 44th TO 45th STS. AT EIGHTH AVE. '34—Robert B. Schofield is assistant

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engineer for the Interborough Rapid way departments. Morgan is working Transit Co.; lives at 400 West iiδth for the PhD degree in engineering at Street, New York City. Leland Stanford, Jr. University. Mrs. '34—Richard H. Reiber married Morgan (Jesse E. Walbridge) '38 worked Dorothy B. Blaxter last November n in for the Dow Chemical Co. in their ex- Pittsburgh, Pa. hibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco last summer. They live at 530 Bowdoin Street, Palo Alto, Calif. '35 '38, '39 BS; '37 BS—Howard W. Welch is assistant rural rehabilitation super- Five-year Reunion visor for the Farm Security Administra- tion, with temporary offices at Albion. June 14-16, 1940 He is assistant to Gerald R. Henderson '37. Writes: "We seem to be surrounded by Cornell graduates. The work is in- '35 EE—Joseph E. Fleming, Jr., sales teresting and Cornell has an excellent assistant of Westinghouse Electric and name here." His address is Ί.Ί.J South Manufacturing Co., writes: "After a Main Street, Albion. turn at the Company exhibit at the New '38 BS—Thomas W. Albright is work- York World's Fair, and some time in the ing on his father's fruit farm at Athens. Akron, Ohio, office, I am now in the Pittsburgh sales office, 306 Fourth '38 AB—George R. Kaplan, salesman Avenue, in the industrial mining di- with Lazare Kaplan & Sons, wholesale vision." diamond merchants, in New York City, '35 BS—Wilma L. Moulton became appeared recently with his father, lt| 3*6- Mrs. P. J. Mundy, October 2.8, 1939. She Lazare Kaplan, on the CBS radio pro- lives on Washington Street, Smethport, gram, "Americans at Work." Pa. '38 AB—Ernest A. Dahmen, Jr., '35 BS—Clarence W. DuBois has a second-year Law student, has been daughter born February 16. He is em- elected president of Delta Theta Phi, Color Movies! ployed at the Geneva Experiment Sta- legal fraternity. He is the son of Ernest tion. A. Dahmen '05. '35 AB—John J. Luhrman married '39 AB—James E. Rutledge is a stu- Winnifred King in Cincinnati, Ohio, last dent at Harvard Business School; address I_S THERE a little rascal in your house? He, alone, is reason November. George E. Lockwood '35 A 41, Gallatin Hall, Soldiers Field, Bos- enough for buying a Filmo personal movie was best man. ton, Mass. camera now, before he grows a day older. For a Filmo will keep alive forever each '35 BS—Helen M. Sands is head teacher '39 BS in AE—Aertsen P. Keasbey, Jr. tender memory of the "rascal" age—in/»//- in the pre-school laboratory at Iowa is with the United Steel Corp., Ltd. of color movies. The same sturdy Filmo is an ideal sports- State University, Iowa City, la. Toronto, Ont., Can., where he is living man's camera, takes slow-motion scenes '36 Sp—Joe H. Taylor is in the division at 12.9 Rusholme Road, Toronto. without extra gadgets, tucks away in top- coat pocket or purse for carefree vacation of public lands in the Department of '39 BS—Alice M. McFall is working in filming. Justice at Washington, D. C. Philadelphia, Pa., at N. W. Ayer & Son, Built by the makers of Hollywood's pro- Inc. in the Ayer Foundation for Con- fessional equipment, Filmos are basic '36 BS—Vincent W. Twoomey, junior cameras to which extra lenses and special- forester, is supervisor of the New sumer Analysis. Her address is 2.2.09 purpose accessories can be added to keep England Timber Salvage Administration; Walnut Street, Philadelphia. pace with your skill. Yet operation is amaz- ingly simple. What you see, you get—and 501 Federal Building, Worcester, Mass. '39 EE—Charles D. Humphrey has what you get, you'll treasure! Only $49.50 at better dealers' everywhere. Easy terms. '37, '38 AB, '39 LLB—The law firm of been student engineer with the Western —». Bell & Hpwell Com- Liebschutz, Curran & Sutton, 42.5 Gene- Massachusetts Companies; at present he pany, Chicago; New see Valley Trust Building, Rochester, is working in the meter department of York; Hollywood; London. Est. 1907. employs Joseph J. Kelley '37. the United Electric Light Co. in Spring- '37 AB—Before the recent earthquake field, Mass. His address is 32.7 Central which destroyed Sivas, Turkey, Fevzi Y. Street. Ertem was inspector of schools in that '39 BS in AE—William J. Fleming is city. inspector for the Pennsylvania Turnpike '37 MD—Frances C. Keil, Jr. is at the Commission. His address is 42.4 West * only *4950 Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. Lout her Street, in care of Mrs. H. H. This summer he was a physician on the Lesher, Carlisle, Pa. FREE Movie BooWef Santa Clara of the Grace Line to South '39—Remington R. Taylor married BELL & HO WELL COMPANY American and on a freighter to Panama. Virgene Klopfenstein in Angola, Ind., 1839 Larchmont Ave., Chicago, 111. '37 AB, '38 MS; '38—Millett G. Mor- January 9, 1940. Mrs. Taylor attended Okay! Send free, 16-page booklet telling how easy and inexpensive it gan, son of Frank M. Morgan '09, was Tri-State College at Angola and the is to make fine movies. instrumental in helping to develop a European School of Music. Taylor was Name __. mobile antenna which makes it possible graduated from Tri-State College in 1939 for motorized units with small trans- with a BS in radio and electrical engi- Address _ mitters to maintain long-distance two- neering; is at present associated with the City State way radio communication. The device is American Airlines, Inc., as a radio GQ 3-40 already in use in patrol cars, and may be technician at Mecham Field, Fort Worth, PRECISION-MADE BY used by Pan'American Airlines, the Signal Tex. Their address is 2.309 Hillcrest BELL& HOWELL Corps of the^U. S. Army, and State high- Avenue, Arlington Heights, Fort Worth. 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