A Monster by Any Other Name Champion Connections Recently, World Features Syndicate informed its readers that the Monster's LETTERS name in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was "Adam." In your report on my recently published book, The Sexual Politics of TO THE Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory [Rochester Review, Summer 1990], you told your readers that the Monster's name was "Frankenstein." In this, you side with the current Ghostbuster model of the Monster available in toy stores. But whom shall we believe? Editor In fact, the Monster was given no name by Shelley. When Frankenstein was drama­ tized for the stage, shortly after its publi­ The Review welcomes letters from readers cation, it was the custom to place a blank and will print as many ofthem as space line next to the name of the actor who Your article "Basketball: The Best Divi­ permits. Letters may be edited for brevity played the part of the Monster. Of this tra­ sion III Team in America," Summer 1990, and clarity. 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From the President 2 •.e..;:.;;c:~. ~ The 'Infernal Machine' and Other Rochester in Review 29 4~ ~.=-- ~ Musical Inventions of Christopher Rouse 3 Rochester Travelers 37 ~~~~~...... :~..,~;,..,~~m by Thomas Fitzpatrick Alumni Gazette 38 J-~""1'--='- ~ Since he arrived at the Eastman School in 1981, Alumni Milestones 42 ~~ ~ ~ - ~ Christopher Rouse has bounced enough creations off l~ ~ his garage rafters to merit acclaim as one of the most After/Words 48 promising young composers around. Paul Murdin '71G Deputy Director, Royal Greenwich Observatory The Telling of Dreams 8 by Jan Fitzpatrick

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Opinions expressed are those of the authors, the editors, or their subjects and do not necessarily represent official posi­ Who's the Girl in the Glass Slippers? 18 tions of the University of Rochester. by Denise Bolger Kovnat Postmaster: Send address changes to Rochester Review, Like the pumpkin coach in the Disney cartoon, the 108 Administration Building, University of Cinderella theme materializes unexpectedly in the Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. most unlikely places, from the Bible to the funny Credits: papers to thoroughly modern movies. Illustrations: cover, Richard Harrington; p. 10, 12, Henry Besanceney III; p. 19, George Cruikshank; p. 22, A. H. Watson; p. 23, Edmund Dulac. Photos: p. 24, Sandy Geis; p. 26 & 27 left, Michael Tighe; p. 27 right, Amy Schecter's Cast of Thousands 24 Robert C. Ragsdale; p. 38, Carol Rosegg; p. 39 right, Warren Gilbert; p. 40 left, by Jeremy Schlosberg ©Gary Mirando; p. 40 center, ©Paul At any given time on the island of Manhattan there English; p. 41 right, D. R. Miller; all others, Rochester Review staff photos. may be more than a hundred officially listed theatrical productions in progress - on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway. Chances are casting director Amy Schecter '75 will have seen them all. From the

The Difference of Diversity ics are part of "the diverse," one needs At the same time, however, while to recognize immediately the difference universities rightly may seek diversity I had the privilege of being the chair in Hispanic diversity. Hispanics have in Africa, the African-American is of an accreditation team at Bryn Mawr certainly shared much of the economic likely to be more de facto American College in the fall of 1988. The most and social deprivation of the African­ than African. Few African-Americans vexing issue on the campus by all re­ American population. Most Hispanic speak an African language. Having ports was "diversity." Having read all students come from Caribbean and been divorced from African roots by the studies and spent several days on Central American cultures which have centuries of oppression, for them re­ the campus, it struck me that the been routinely ignored in the curricu­ tention of that heritage is often subtle search for "diversity" was seriously mis­ lum of most universities and colleges. and indirect. A directed and deliber­ leading. For many years, Bryn Mawr Nevertheless, in a university culture ate recovery of an African heritage has had an enviable record of admit­ "Hispanicism" seems to me to present is monumentally more difficult for ting foreign students. I have seldom a significantly different challenge. African-Americans than for Hispanics. seen a more "diverse" student body. Spanish is, after all, a major Euro­ Spain is a moderately small country Students in significant numbers were pean language. In so far as the univer­ and in its period of empire much of there from every continent, race, and sity is a distinctly European invention the assumptions of Peninsular Spain religion. Buddhists could argue with - and it is - Spain is a major partici­ were exported intact to a New World. Sabras from Israel; Brazilians encoun­ pant. Hispanics can immediately re­ Africa is a whole continent, full of its tered mainland Chinese at the lunch trieve a comprehensive and extant lin­ own remarkable diversity of art, cul­ counter. What were under-represented guistic, political, and artistic heritage ture, and society. Recovering African at Bryn Mawr- as at most selective - either Peninsular or in the Western culture for African-Americans may colleges - were American citizens of Hemisphere - which fits at many share the foolish mistake of recovering African descent. I am not certain that points with the broad lines of the "Indian" culture for Native Americans Bryn Mawr needed more worldwide European assumptions of the univer­ - assuming that Seminoles and Navajos diversity; it did need (and want) more sity. One of the more pressing claims are more or less the same. American dtizens of color. in diversity debates is that the curricu­ For better or worse - and very much Anyone who has participated in lum is fatally Euro-centric. This may for the worse - the dominant experience "diversity" discussions on any univer­ be so, but for Spanish-speaking stu­ for African-Americans has been Amer­ sity campus knows that the issue cen­ dents making that criticism it is not ican - specifically being the-American­ ters on African-Americans. An ad­ entirely appropriate. outcast. Blacks have been defined in ministrator who pointed to the large In comparison to Hispanics, an American set of expectations from cadre of Pacific rim and Middle East­ African-Americans present a formid­ which they are to be excluded. The ern graduate students as a proof of in­ able diversity. African languages are daily aspirations of African-Americans stitutional diversity would be accused from totally different linguistic roots. are not so much diverse as denied. The of frivolity on a serious issue. If there Many of the African languages lack a civil rights struggle centered on black is a campus concern on this issue it long written history, and oral cultures people obtaining what whites had all might be for less diversity-more gen­ are notoriously more difficult to re­ along: the vote, education, the right to uine American Ph.D. candidates; fewer trieve. African political, cultural, and eat at any lunch counter, sleep in any Asian teaching assistants who, suppos­ artistic roots are radically different hotel, and travel without segregation. edly, cannot be understood by Ameri­ from the European experience. In sum, One could argue that the current de­ can freshmen. Hispanics could easily pick up threads mands of blacks constitute a pure The only other major constituencies of their background culture in Amer­ American wish list: jobs, decent hous­ included in the current "diversity" de­ ican universities; African-Americans ing, safety in the streets, justice in the bate are Hispanics - and at even further cannot. All the more reason, I would remove, Native Americans. If Hispan- argue, for special attention to the Afri­ (continued on page 46) can heritage because it really is diverse.

2 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 The Infernal

and Other Musical Inventions of Christopher Rouse

His high-energy treatment ofdemonic myths has earned this Eastman School composer spirited praise for his "hot-blooded" and "hair-singeing" manner and "obsessively driven" vision. But is he now beginning~ just a bit~ to mellow out?

By Thomas Fitzpatrick But since economists are constantly In fact, you can scratch the "young at the American worker to increase and promising" tag. Rouse is now just henever Christopher productivity, they ought to toss a few a shade on the other side of 40, and Rouse thinks that a accolades in the direction of this com­ "promise" is hardly the descriptive piece of music has poser of so-called "art music." Since noun for a composer whose most re­ kicked around in his his arrival at the Eastman School in cent composition has been acclaimed head long enough, he 1981 to teach composition and carry a "masterpiece," who won the coveted gets down to the serious business of on with his own music, Rouse has first place in the Kennedy Center composing. He walks past the Baldwin bounced enough creations off his Friedheim Awards for new American grand piano in his living room, digs garage rafters to merit acclaim as one orchestral music, and who last spring out not some musical score sheets but of the most promising of young com­ joined the select group of American a six-inch-Iong Honduran cigar, and posers around. academics to win the Guggenheim ambles into the attached garage of his His works have been commissioned Fellowship. split-level in Fairport, New York. He for and performed by such soloists as unfolds an old webbed lawn chair, sets Yo-Yo Ma, the late Jan DeGaetani, and he case seems clear: Rouse himself down, fires up the stogie, and William Albright; ensembles like the is at the peak of his pow­ stares at the bare rafters for a spell. Society for New Music, the Blackearth ers, and just perhaps­ "That ain't workin'!" complains a Percussion Group, and Eastman's own though there is no musical guy unloading refrigerators in "Money Cleveland Quartet; and such as the equivalent to Ring Maga­ for Nothing," Mark Knopfler's rock New York Philharmonic, the Philadel­ Tzine's ranking of heavyweights - very tune of a few years back, when he phia Orchestra, and the Saint Paul nearly at the top of his art and profes­ catches sight of a Dire Straits-style Chamber Orchestra. sion. There are other contenders, but band attitudinizing in an MTV video. When David Zinman headed the few in his generation have roused such Rouse understands and appreciates the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra he encomiums from critics as this praise rock vision of things, and has enough became a Rouse enthusiast and the of Symphony No.1 from Musical proletarian sympathies himself to ad­ RPO debuted many of his composi­ America: "so rich, so allusive and mit there is some justice in the work­ tions. The association continued when masterly in its textures, and - ultimately ing stiff's protest. It doesn't look like Zinman became director of the Balti­ - so moving, that it is hard to resist work either, this composing of sym­ more Philharmonic. That orchestra superlatives. " phonies and other orchestral music, premiered Rouse's Symphony No. 1 in Audiences, however, find it easy to and it sure doesn't require much in the 1988, and the attention and accolades resist modern music ("modern" in the way of heavy lifting. that work attracted boosted him to a sense of having been written by some- new reputational plateau.

3 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 Rouse keeps most of a piece in his head, consciously manipulating notes and ideas, "allowing it to gestate for as long as two years - while I'm involved in writing down my current project."

one still among the quick), and many a symphonic director has thrown up his hands in despair at the futility of persuading his patrons to allow some room for a contemporary composer sandwiched between the Mozart and the Schubert. That Rouse has been performed so widely and so constantly in the past decade, in front of demand­ ing eastern seaboard audiences (and, by the Cleveland Quartet and the BPO, before hard-to-please Muscovite Rus­ sians who receive their appreciation of classical music with mother's milk), testifies to both the legs and muscle of his talent.

nd a contemporary com­ poser needs both to get even minimal attention in American culture. What may seem like nice workAto the casual observer in fact is the toughest of rackets. "Say there are about 35,000 American composers of art music trying to be heard in 1990," Rouse estimates, meditatively stroking his thick black beard. "Of that num­ ber, only about 50 are successful in get­ ting their stuff produced and receiving some stipend or fee for their efforts. If you ask how many of those 50 are able to make a living through composing, without relying on teaching, grants, and the like to supplement their in­ come, then you're talking about four or five - tops. " Rouse is not in that number- not yet, anyway- but odds against are nothing to this native Baltimorean who had to face down a phalanx of skepticism to write music at all. In the mid-'50s, Baltimore was famous largely for H. L. Mencken,

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"Once I have it down .:b.h. L ~ on paper I rarely change ,JIj. l a thing. I might check out ~ • ...... L- I~ - a chord or two on my "7f .h. I.e I'-..

little Casio keyboard, but rr;f> b~ .~ - that's it." Aside from "a --- ~~ ...... ~ I ~ little bit of percussion," ... Rouse plays no instrument. ~~...... c. - crab cakes, and devotion to its beloved masters while showing no inclination t the admissions inter­ Colts. The city on the Chesapeake was to give over his ambition to be a com­ view, the head of Ober­ then visited by two events that would poser, the parents thought they should lin's music department have lasting impact on Rouse. The at least cart him off to the Peabody to told Rouse's parents that worst baseball team in the history have him tested, analyzed, and gener­ these pieces written at of the Major Leagues, the St. Louis ally frisked for musical potential. At theAage of 18 would make him accept­ Browns, moved to Baltimore and al­ the age of 13, Rouse was slapped down able to any music school in the coun­ lowed the city to resurrect the moniker hard. A Miss Thorpe ("I've never for­ try. "My mother's jaw dropped; my "Orioles" from the turn-of-the-century gotten her name, and I've never really father got the shakes. At this point days of John McGraw and Wee Willie forgiven her," says Rouse) pointed the they had been really indulging me Keeler. Then came rock-and-roll. As a kid to a piano, and asked him just one more out of love than any conviction Mason-Dixon border city, Baltimore question: "Can you playa C-minor about my talent." was particularly situated to welcome scale?" Not even at gunpoint. So Miss Oberlin's enthusiasm aside, Rouse this new fusion of black rhythm-and­ Thorpe informed Rouse's parents that had to make his way in the world of blues and white country music, and he would be wasting his time pursuing music by ignoring naysayers. While touring pioneer rockers like Bill Haley music. working on his master's at Penn, he and Fats Domino made it a regular "When I walk now into a classroom had to endure this inquisition from a stop. at Eastman or other places, Miss member of the staff: When he wasn't checking the box Thorpe is always with me as an ex­ "Tell me, Mr. Rouse, why do you scores in the Sun, Rouse was listening ample of how not to evaluate young write music?" to rock with great attention. His talent," Rouse says. "You have to delve "Well ... to communicate some­ mother, assaulted by endless replays of beneath the surface, ask more than the thing to an audience. " Gene Vincent's "Be Bop a Lula" and usual questions. People progress at dif­ "No. Absolutely not. You should the complete works of Little Richard, ferent rates, and diamonds are always have said: 'to contribute to the store­ wondered if this new enthusiasm in her found in the rough." house of art.' I suggest you take up son couldn't be translated into higher Unsquelched, he says, "I just went house-painting. " spheres. She fed him Beethoven and back to listening. I still believed I Nonetheless, Rouse managed to Ravel, and the 6-year-old Rouse liked could do it." After high school he de­ study privately with composer George them too. termined to go after a degree in music, Crumb, "who was then at the apex and staked his dream on but one col­ of his art. He was very kind to me." f course, the middle-class lege application - to Oberlin. "The (Rouse's other teachers of composition household was happy to music department required two com­ have included Richard Hoffmann, have a possible prodigy positions, and since I had never really Randolph Coleman, and Karel Husa.) in its number, so music written anything except about 75 rock A doctorate in fine arts from Cornell lessons were dutifully tunes in my spare time, I sat down and followed, but when no job opportunity Ocontracted for. Next stop, Carnegie in a matter of days wrote Symphony immediately opened up, he went back Hall? No dice. The young Rouse did No.2. Of course there was never a home to Baltimore to think things out, not like to practice, be it piano, violin, No.1, but I thought that sounded and of course, to listen some more. or accordion. Not for him putting in better." The music he had been hear­ Just before his parents suffered an­ hours to master "Lady of Spain." In ing in his head throughout his child­ other crisis of confidence, a temporary fact he had no interest in playing any hood came pouring forth, he quickly job became available at Michigan, and instrument at all. He wanted to write transcribed a second work, and he sent Rouse parlayed that into associations the stuff. them off. that inspired some academic publica­ After six years of watching young tions and his first major success, Infer­ Christopher devour recordings of the nal Machine.

5 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 "Creating music involves the most profound aspects of human existence. Maybe it doesn't connect you to the divine but it certainly puts you in touch with 'the other.'"

He then sent out again but one ap­ "Some composers also find it neces­ earned Rouse an image of being wild plication - this one for employment­ sary to write for a few hours every day, at heart, something of a David Lynch and joined the Eastman School in 1981. but I don't feel the need. Let me say of the concert hall. Rouse's methods of working have I'm not discontented to go for long That notion was underscored by really changed little since his teenage stretches without writing," Rouse says, Rouse's controversial move to start up days. He keeps most of a piece in his and for a fact, when he was interviewed a course, which he gave at Eastman head, consciously manipulating notes for this article he had not written any­ and the River Campus, in the develop­ and ideas, "allowing it to gestate for as thing (put black on white, that is) for ment of rock-and-roll since 1964. He long as two years -while I'm involved a good 10 months. But he is fully did not affect to believe that rock was in writing down a current project," be­ capable of composing to a deadline. great art or anything - he thinks that fore retiring to the garage for the final "When the Cleveland Quartet needed the best criticism of any rock tune "draft." a piece in the fall of 1989 for Aspen, I comes from the kid on American In answer to the unbeliever who was able to get it down without much Bandstand who says, "It's got a great would feel more comfortable if com­ trouble" - and, it should be added, in beat, and you can dance to it"- but posers would sweat just a little - Rouse pretty much the same time it took him neither was it to be sneered at. "Rock is never really not at work. Whether at 18 to get his audition for Oberlin can be exciting, moving, and power­ he's watching Cal Ripken, Jr. dig out together. That, however, is not the ap­ ful," Rouse says. "It is simple, though. ground balls at Memorial Stadium, pealing side of composition for him. But then many of the bulwarks of catching the latest Mel Gibson movie "The best part is working it out in the classical repertoire are also very at the Cineplex 8 ("none of those art­ one's head. Very few composers actual­ simple. " house films for me"), or sitting down ly enjoy writing it down - me least of Students who were expecting a for the umpteenth rerun of the Star all, I guess." "gut" were surprised that Rouse made Trek "Trouble with Tribbles" episode, them listen intently to hundreds of there is one corner of Rouse's brain ut he took to the chore recordings (just as a kid from Balti­ where notes are being reshaped, mu­ of transcription with great more did 30 years previously), and take sical passages are getting edited, and vigor in the '80s, creating a jaw-breaker of a test (more than a crescendos are ringing. such attention-grabbing few gas-piped it, "to their possible sur­ And in his brain is where it stays works as Gorgon, Phae­ prise," Rouse says) in which they were until it is done. He never takes notes, Bthan, and Iscariot, which were marked expected to demonstrate not only their never makes preliminary sketches, by intense pacing and clashing rhythms knowledge of Jefferson Airplane and never writes anything down until he - and to put it bluntly, they were loud. Led Zeppelin, but also to chart the finally inscribes one clean copy. "I Critics and audiences who were tuned connection of Frank Zappa to Edgard hardly ever revise either. Some com­ into Rouse's high-energy treatment of Varese, and outward to such 20th­ posers are forever revising, but once I mythology and daemonology praised century luminaries as Messiaen and have it down on paper I rarely change him for his "hot-blooded," "hair-singe­ Bartok. a thing. I might check out a chord or ing" manner and "obsessively driven" The social context of the music and two on my little Casio electronic key­ vision; others objected to his ferocity the cultural history of the era also were board, but that's it." To this day, if and raucousness. In all, these reactions included, which did not stop the music Rouse were asked to play one of his critic of The New York Times from compositions on the piano, say, he sniffing that "in my college days, this could not oblige. Aside from "a little was the kind of course that the foot­ bit of percussion," he plays no instru­ ball team took." ment.

6 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 "But inspiration is useless without the craft, the work that gives it shape, that rna kes it coherent. You can hardly put in the hours of craftsmanship required without a regular, ordered life."

Rouse smiles off this kind of cavil­ noisy desperation, as some listeners ouse is on record as ob­ ing, but is concerned about the other have thought? Not to Rouse. Regard­ jecting to being typecast idea of him as hurling daemonic yawps less of his subject matter and treat­ as a "fangs-bared fist­ from the dark side of the human spirit. ment of same, he has always felt that shaker," and as feeling "Most people think of artists as weird, his music is about the "enlightening that it was "time to go effete nuts anyway," he says, "but the and healing of the human spirit. " Rin a different direction." Says Rouse, truth is that most composers lead very With Symphony No.1, however, "Some doubted I could write slow conventional lives. " many suspect a sea change in Rouse. music. " There is nothing at all sulfurous The pacing is slower, the music is more A hint of what he is up to may be about Rouse on first acquaintance, tonal than before, and much of the in the air of his listening room in the answering the door in a plaid-flannel ferocity has been replaced by a more basement of his Fairport home. He shirt and faded Levi's, cradling in his yearning quality. Critics who once takes out of their sleeves two albums arms an infant- the third of his and objected to Rouse's stridency and from an overlooked, but influential, wife Ann's children. He lives in the "screaming intensity" have been al­ British rock group of the '70s, Gentle suburbs, worries about grubs in the most completely won over. They now Giant. The first selection Rouse plays lawn, frets over the quality of the local praise him for having "reined himself is called "In the Glass House," which school system, and has some ideas for in" without sacrificing his sense of begins with the sound of glass break­ Frank Robinson about who should hit painful, tragic ambiguity. The joining ing, and laces these sound modules to clean-up in the Orioles' batting order. of these erstwhile demurrers with his various patterns of increasing com­ "Creating music involves the most original and constant admirers, who plexity while an electric guitar riffs in profound aspects of human existence, have made Infernal Machine one of the background. Interesting, even fas­ and there is something irrational about the most performed orchestral works cinating, but hardly the stuff of Top 40 the quality of inspiration," he says. written in the last 20 years, has meant radio. In fact, that record attracted on­ "Maybe it doesn't connect you to the a near-universal acclaim for the com­ ly a cult following. divine, although it certainly puts you poser. Rouse then replaces it on the turn­ in touch with 'the other.' But inspira­ Has another angry young man table with the second album, and sud­ tion is useless without the work, the mellowed out? Are we witnessing the denly Gentle Giant bursts forth with craft, that gives inspiration shape, that emergence of a kinder, gentler Christo­ hard-driving, classic rock- sounding makes it coherent. You can hardly put pher Rouse? more than a bit like the Mitch Ryder in the hours of craftsmanship required Well, in Symphony No.1 there are and Detroit Wheels medley of "Good without a regular, ordered life." still high-pitched wailings of violins, Golly Miss Molly/ Devil With A Blue enough to make an audience sit up Dress On." ouse's themes are essen­ and likewise the hairs on the backs of What's the name of that cut? tially tragic, portraits their necks. There are still furious ex­ "It's called 'Bet You Thought We of humanity soaring plosions of sound around and about Couldn't Do It,' " Rouse says, and Phaethon-like for the calmer oboe solos. The final movement grins from ear to ear. realms of the gods, only is as achingly, heartbreakingly sad as Rto be betrayed by nature, character, or any of Rouse's earlier compositions­ others of the human kind. When they and just as disturbing to complacent Thomas Fitzpatrick thinks the two greatest fall in Rouse's music, they hurtle to peace of mind. pieces ofmusic ever written are Beethoven's their crash accompanied by atonality Fifth and Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou. " and dissonance. A notion of human existence as one breakneck rush of

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That bizarre adventure you had in your dreams last night is a private matter-unless you choose to reveal it. To whom~ and under what circumstances~ is the subject of research by a Rochester anthropologist who has uncovered a tangle of taboos about when we can safely tell others what our minds have conjured up during sleep~ and when we cannot.

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By Jan Fitzpatrick Celebrities often populate these dreams - "There I was in a gondola few days before Mary Dom­ with Prince Charles!" or "Madonna beck was to appear for the had me over to her house and bleached qualifying exam for her Ph.D. my hair platinum, too" or "Then Gor­ in anthropology, she had a bachev started doing the Lambada! " dreadful dream: A"There I was, with all of my examin­ ometimes instead of featuring ers, in the War Memorial. They were the surprising exploits of glit­ calling out my name and giving me the terati, the dream shows the questions I was supposed to answer. dreamer in the kind of pathet­ And they were making me give my an­ ic quandary that stirs the lis­ swers over the loudspeaker!" Steners' empathy. Telling it gets a laugh Though still gripped by mute anxi­ because everything turns out all right ety about her upcoming orals, Dom­ when the dreamer awakes and discovers beck did confide her dream to some that the awful thing hasn't happened of her fellow graduate students. "And after all: A high-school senior may they thought it was hilarious. We all dream of seeing all Fs on his report had a good laugh. " card and sob that now he's cooked Dombeck passed her oral exams, his chances of even getting into the happily unamplified (and - recalls her "safety" school. A new teacher may adviser, Professor Alfred Harris, who dream he can't find his classroom and retired this year from the anthropology the students are snickering as he wan­ department- with distinction). "When we share our dreams with others we ders the halls. Or a young account As she wrestled next with what are creating a bond with them," says Mary executive who wants to look sharp for she'd write her dissertation about, it Dombeck, an anthropologist at the School of the big presentation dreams that she came to her- as if in a dream - that Nursing. really doesn't have anything to wear the conventions surrounding the telling because her closet is totally empty. of these nocturnal narratives could be therapist and nurse who teaches on the This kind of dream-telling goes on a fertile topic for a nascent anthropol­ faculty of the School of Nursing - but among people both high and low in ogist. more on that later. Suffice it for now to social rank, Dombeck found, but peo­ "When we share our dreams with say that her professional ties gave her ple usually stick to their own kind others we are creating a bond with quick access to the psychotherapists, when doing so. During gab sessions in them," says Dombeck. "My fellow psychiatrists, psychologists, medical the employees' lounge, she observed, graduate students asked me about that technicians, social workers, nurses, and "the psychotherapists didn't say much War Memorial dream again and again, secretaries who revealed their thoughts and looked uncomfortable when the wanting more details about just who about dreams and the telling of them. paraprofessionals and staff members was in it, what the questions were, and were talking about dreams. One nurse so on and so on. They reminded me hat she uncovered was a administrator told me she thought it of children wanting to hear a favorite tangle of taboos about was inappropriate either to tell a bedtime story over and over. All of us when we can safely tell dream to your boss or to tell it to the dreaded the exams, and the dream gave others what our minds employees under your supervision." us comic relief and a sense of camara­ have conjured up during If lines of social hierarchy are derie. " Wsleep, and when we cannot. crossed, Dombeck found, the taboo Anthropologists usually study cul­ "Most of the people I spoke with against a superior's telling a dream to tures other than their own. Dombeck, agreed that while dreams are not a fre­ an inferior is stronger than vice versa born and reared in the Middle East, quent topic of serious conversation in - which would explain, possibly, why chose to do her fieldwork among con­ public settings, they do crop up one tends not to see people like bank temporary urban Americans - a group occasionally as incidental topics in an presidents, ship commanders, or heads of "foreigners" who strike her as hav­ informal milieu. For example, at par­ of government chatting about their ing some very strange customs, even ties or in casual, work-related settings dreams with underlings. though she has lived among them for like the coffee lounge where people Even though some dreams are suita­ more than three decades. gather as equals, dream-telling can ble for public consumption, too much To gather information about function as a conversational ice­ talk about them at work will put you American attitudes toward dreams, and breaker," Dombeck says. on the slow track fast, as colleagues about who told what to whom, she in­ In these situations, reporting your conclude that you're either ditzy or terviewed 58 employees of two dreams is like telling jokes or passing whacko. One of Dombeck's subjects, Rochester-area mental health centers. on an entertaining anecdote. a woman who plans social activities Why mental health centers? It turns for Day Treatment Center clients and out that Dombeck is also a psycho-

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10 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 who enjoys sharing her dreams with wife tells her husband her dream fan­ across many recent popular books pro­ her colleagues, told her, "I think tasy that she and an old boyfriend moting attention to dreams as a way of they're surprised I talk about my crawled between the sheets: She'll hurt gaining religious and psychological in­ dreams so much. I get the impression his feelings, or plant doubt about her sight. sometimes that they think I have a lot fidelity. One might think it an enviable gift of conflicts." Bizarre dreams like the one that to see into the future through one's Special Agent Cooper had about dreams. But Dombeck found that her ays Dombeck, "The rules Laura Palmer's killer in the sinister TV subjects who had psychic dreams were about dream-telling are usu­ series Twin Peaks and ghoulish night­ plainly spooked by them. ally understood in a general mares from which one awakes with One woman Dombeck encoun­ way, but they are unspoken clammy relief are other examples of tered had dreamed of the death of her and not always clear. This private dreams. father-in-law a few days before he Swoman is not certain if it's all right to In many of the remarks her infor­ passed away. "She was reluctant to tell share dreams as frequently as she does. mants made about dreams, Dombeck anyone about the dream for a long But she senses that telling them too found an association between night time, and related it to her husband often or in the wrong context may sig­ fantasies and mental illness. "Thera­ only after the funeral. When she told nal either that she has poor judgment pists spoke of dreams as if they were me the story, she made a point several or is emotionally unstable." the red or yellow warning lights on times of saying that she was not a su­ The dreams that most folks decide a car's instrument panel. And their perstitious person and would rather are okay to relate to casual acquain­ language tended to be mechanistic: not have these experiences." tances or colleagues at work make up Dreams, for instance, could signal Two therapists she interviewed told but a fraction of their nightly reper­ 'faulty functioning.' " her their dreams of patients' commit­ toire. Most people most of the time, (Ordinary people, who sometimes ting suicide. "In one case, the therapist says Dombeck, regard their dream referred to their dreams as "crazy," dreamed about the suicide as it was content as private, just as private an made a similar analogy, regarding happening; when he awoke, it was too therapists as having an interest in late to do anything. In the other, the dreams like that of a mechanic who therapist upon awakening decided that wants to locate the botched wiring in her dream could be a sign that she "Therapists spoke of the electrical system to fix it.) should check up on her patient. Fortu­ dreams as if they were the The kind of dream most likely to nately, she intervened in time to pre­ upset the dreamer for days on end is vent the suicide. Both therapists were red or yellow warning lights what Dombeck calls the "psychic" disconcerted by these dreams. They dream - a dream which prefigures or told them only to a few close friends on a car's instrument panel. strongly hints at something that later and referred to them as 'weird' experi­ And their language tended happens in waking life. A surprisingly ences. " high number of her informants - 20 to be mechanistic. Dreams of the 58 people she interviewed - said he uneasiness that psychic either that they had experienced such dreams cause is no doubt relat­ for instance, could signal dreams themselves or else knew some­ ed to the inclination of most 'faulty functioning.'" one like a sister or an aunt who did. Western peoples to dismiss The idea that dreams could be warn­ dream material as a jumble of ings or could foretell the future reaches Tthought fragments, having little con­ activity, say, as getting undressed. The back to the ancients. Dreams were un­ nection with their "real" waking lives. only two situations in which these derstood by many prehistoric peoples But a dream that adumbrates what private dreams are discussed are in an to be messages from the gods - an idea comes to pass cannot so easily be intimate relationship, with one's mate freely represented in classical literature, brushed aside. It undercuts the pre­ or a particularly close friend, and in as well as in Talmudic and Biblical sumption that dreams are as evanescent the professional context of patient and texts. Not all dreams were trustworthy as waves at the seashore, vanishing into therapist. guides to action, however. As there the sand of consciousness leaving little "Also, most of the people I talked were false prophets, so were there false trace. with, both males and females, said dreams, and religious texts caution be­ The scorn in which serious Western they would be more likely to tell lievers against being misled. "These thinkers hold dreams is not new. Sig­ dreams to close friends and relatives opposite attitudes reappear through mund Freud in The Interpretation of who were women." church history up to the present day," Dreams, first published in 1899, mused Perhaps the most obvious example says Dombeck. Though contemporary in a tone of regret that "there can be of a private dream would be an R-rated believers may no longer accept dreams no doubt that the psychical achieve­ one with explicit sexual material. Say as divine revelations, Dombeck has run ments of dreams received readier and a man tells a woman such a dream: warmer recognition during the intellec­ She'll think he's making a pass. Say a tual period which has now been left behind, when the human mind was

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dominated by philosophy and not by Freud's awareness that "medical Freud was unable to conceal his the exact natural sciences. Pronounce­ writers especially tend to regard psychi­ disappointment when he noted, in the ments ... which represent dreams as cal activity in dreams as trivial and preface to the second edition, that "my an elevation of mental life to a higher valueless" should probably have pre­ psychiatric colleagues seem to have level seem to us now to be scarcely in­ pared him for the shabby reception his taken no trouble to overcome the ini­ telligible; today they are repeated only masterwork initially received: The In­ tial bewilderment created by my new by mystics and pietists." terpretation ofDreams found a paltry 351 buyers over six years' time.

12 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 approach to dreams. The professional Since non-therapists probably as­ conversation about what would be on philosophers have become accustomed sume that learning to interpret dreams the table for dinner. A few of her rela­ to polishing off the problems of dream­ is part of a therapist's training, it isn't tives showed keen insight in thinking life which they treat as a mere appendix surprising that the public would sur­ about the significance of dreams. To to conscious states in a few sentences. mise their special skill. But Dombeck this day, Dombeck remembers many of ... The attitude adopted by reviewers also discovered that the therapists her own dreams in vivid detail and en­ in the scientific periodicals could only themselves believed that the higher joys thinking about the quirky links lead one to suppose that my work was one's professional rank, the better they may have with her waking life. doomed to be sunk into complete one's ability to interpret dreams. Ac­ The path by which Dombeck took silence. " cording to this scheme, psychiatrists a professional interest in dreams is as were assumed to be most eager to hear winding as some dream plots. She left ver more time, of course, the dreams and to be best at interpreting the Middle East as a young woman book did attract wider atten­ them, psychologists were next best, with some training as a nurse. She tion and eventually became a and others who might speak with wished to advance her education in the classic. Writing some 30 years United States, and completed degrees after the first edition, Freud in both nursing and philosophy at Ocharacterized the work as "the most American University. She later earned Celebrities often populate valuable of all the discoveries it has a master's degree in pastoral counsel­ been my good fortune to make. Insight these dreams: "There ing from Colgate Rochester Divinity such as this falls to one's lot but once I was in a gondola with School and completed a clinical spe­ in a lifetime. " cialty in psychiatric nursing. She has Not all Western peoples treat dreams Prince Charles" or been a practicing psychotherapist for as the trashy leftovers of mental life. 10 years and is looking forward to the Dombeck has found a few people in "Madonna had me over publication of her first book, Dream this country- mostly first-generation to her house and bleached Telling and Professional Personhood, Italians, as it happens - who behave as due out shortly from SUNY Press in if dreams really mattered: "Someone my hair platinum, too" or Albany. might say that he's gotten a long-dis­ tance call from his uncle who had a "Then Gorbachev started es, she does listen to the dream and wanted to tell him about it. doing the Lambada!" dreams of her patients, if they It's not something I've made a point wish to talk about them, but of studying, and I'm sure that it's not it's not something she particu­ only Italians who regard their dreams patients about dreams - psychiatric larly seeks out. "Talking about as being worth a long-distance call. nurses and social workers -were fur­ Ydreams is a way of communicating But it shows you one of the differences ther down the line. Yet through her in­ with someone, a way of exploring, but between Americans and other peoples." terviews, Dombeck learned that psy­ I don't regard dreams as having some In some cultures, anthropologists chiatrists actually functioned more as mystical significance that makes them have found, certain members of the psychopharmacologists and had little more valuable than other forms of "tribe" are considered especially well time to listen to dreams. Psychiatric communication." qualified to interpret dreams. This is nurses, on the other hand, did talk to Nonetheless, to Dombeck, the typi­ an instance in which Americans do clients about dreams. Like Rodney cal American indifference to dream life not differ greatly from other tribes, Dangerfield, nurses got no respect, is a cultural impoverishment as striking Dombeck suggests. however. "Therapists thought these to her as our "who cares?" attitude "Virtually everyone I interviewed communications had limited therapeu­ toward soccer would seem to an Italian, believed that therapists (psychiatrists, tic value," Dombeck says. or our penchant for fast food would psychologists, social workers, and psy­ When did Dombeck first become in­ seem to a Parisian. "It's regrettable," chiatric nurses) were more skilled in terested in dreams? She says she can't she sighs. analyzing dreams than ordinary peo­ remember a time when she wasn't fas­ Where else, after all, but in our ple. People also believed that, in gener­ cinated by them. She grew up in a fam­ dreams will most of us ever best Bill al, therapists were intensely interested ily where the topic of dreams was as Buckley in a debate, win the Iditarod, in hearing about people's dreams. One ordinary as neighborhood gossip or or find our name at the top of Forbes medical technician told me with great magazine's list of the world's richest assurance that therapists want to hear coupon-clippers? your dreams and they ask a lot of questions about them. This was a woman who had never been in therapy Public information coordinator by day for herself, nor did she know anyone else the Office of University Public Relations, whose dreams had been explored in Jan Fitzpatrick confesses that by night she therapy! " dreams ofbeing kissed by Kevin Costner.

13 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 Recommended By o &DAD Parents ofapplicants to the Class of 1994 got an unusual invitation last winter: "Tell us, if you'd like, the kind of person your offspring is. " With love, pride, and wry candor they rose to the challenge.

Who has known your 17-year-old "Thank you for the opportunity to On the following pages is a selection offspring longer and more intimately write on one of my favorite subjects." of excerpts culled from the responses. than you, the parents who raised this Favorite subject or no - how do you Names have been changed in the inter­ marvelous, mysterious half-child/half­ sum up a complex, contradictory, con­ est both of confidentiality and family adult? stantly evolving personality in a couple amity (more than one proud parent Right. Nobody. of hunqred objective words? Not easily, wrote, in essence, "My son/daughter That's exactly what President as many parents admitted. would kill me if he/she knew I was O'Brien was thinking last winter when "What exquisite torture," wrote one writing this"). he wrote a letter of invitation to the parent. "Would my son have been bet­ Here then, are glimpses of some of parents of the 7,250 applicants for ter served if I had kept silent? I hope our favorite people who asked to join admission to the River Campus class I have painted for you a portrait of a the Class of 1994, as presented with of 1994. magical and marvelous being - not love and pride by Mom and Dad. Himself a recent veteran of the only our child, but a person whose college-admissions process via the company we greatly enjoy." candidacy of a college-age daughter, A magical being, a person whose he noted that none of the schools to company we enjoy. That is perhaps the which she applied had asked for any defining motif of these parental testi­ helpful "insider information" that monials. Naturally, all of the children he and her mother might be able to are above average - what else would supply. you expect of potential Maybe admissions officers were Rochester students? And missing something. granted, the object of the Would the moms and dads of exercise was to get the prospective Rochester students, offspring into college, O'Brien asked them, care to write a not blackballed. But what personal recommendation in support most clearly emerges from of their child's candidacy? Nothing a reading of these letters is obligatory- just as a way of providing a sense that here is a wonder­ helpful insights not revealed elsewhere fully diverse, bubbling mix of among their offspring's credentials? great kids much cherished and Would they indeed? Responses respected by their parents. poured in. "At last!" wrote one father. "For the first time in the college-admissions process I have been promoted from ace driver and chief checkwriter. I've actu­ ally been asked to participate, and I'm delighted to do so.

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By Denise Bolger Kovnat More recently, she has provoked fem­ inists and reinforced traditionalists Once upon a time, around the (the Disney version in particular), won ninth century or the Baroque era or the approval of child psychologists 1949, in a jaraway land, like Egypt or (Bettelheim, most notably), and under­ Since the time Italy or Disney Studios, there lived a gone analysis (by C. G. Jung and a host of the T'ang Dynasty, the girl named Cinderella, also known of others, in papers bearing solemn as Vassilisa, Cendrillon, Sheh Hsien, titles like "Cinderella: Family Pathol­ Cinderella story has been Rashin Coatie, Aschenputtel, Finette ogy, Identity-Sculpting, and Mate Cendron, Pepelluga, Cenendrola, Selection"). told and retold in countries Ashypet, Chornushka.... To make a long, rather complex, oft­ around the globe - as if Since the time of China's T'ang told story short: In the realm of folk­ Dynasty (if not earlier), the Cinderella lore, Cinderella amounts to a media its basic elements were a story has been told and retold in coun­ event as big as the Academy Awards, tries around the globe - as if the basic or the Super Bowl, or even "thirty­ rumor stirring through the elements of the "narrative," as schol­ something. " ages, throughout human­ ars say, were a rumor stirring through But does that explain why anybody the ages, throughout humankind. Story­ moseying around the River Campus last kind. Storytellers have spun tellers have spun at least 700 Cinder­ semester would have found hundreds ella yarns (a score of them in China of students as deep in "Cinderella" at least 700 Cinderella alone), with about as many different as in the paperback misadventures yarns with about as many heroines. of Calvin and Hobbes, the latest Scott Like the pumpkin coach in the Turow, or Robert Fulghum's All I different heroines. Disney cartoon, the Cinderella theme Really Need to Know I Learned in materializes unexpectedly in the most Kindergarten? Or why the ugly step­ who hit upon the idea of introducing unlikely places, from the Bible (the sisters, or for that matter, the fairy the Cinderella story as the central, uni­ story of Joseph) to the funny papers godmother and her pumpkin coach, fying theme of 24 sections of English (the 1930s "Ella Cinders") to Holly­ should have been subjected to as ear­ 103, "Writing and Thinking," a re­ wood (in thoroughly modern movies nest classroom discussion as Hamlet's quired course for most first-year under­ like Pretty in Pink, Working Girl, interloping uncle or Henry Ford and graduates. Pretty Woman, and Jerry Lewis's his Model A? Since the various sections of English Cinderjella). Features of the story are For the answer to those questions, 103 are taught separately by individual to be found in hundreds of diverse you need look no further than to instructors, it could be useful for the narratives, from Dickens's Great medievalist Russell Peck, professor students as a whole, Peck reasoned, to Expectations to Malory's Morte of English in the College of Arts and explore comparable issues. "It gives d'Arthur to Faulkner's Dry September. Science and director of the freshman them a sense of common progress and Cinderella has inspired composers courses in his department. Regularly purpose" - something, in other words, (Rossini for one, in the opera La and frequently honored for his creative you could discuss after hours with Cenerentola) and writers (Shakespeare teaching (most recently as one of the your hallmates or lunch buddies. among them, with Cinderella playing national Council for Advancement the outcast Cordelia in King Lear). and Support of Education's top five "Professors of the Year"), it was Peck

18 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 The Cinderella story has been called the "diamond dust ofmyth. " But does that explain why Rochester students are reading this ages-old fairy tale with the same attention they give to elementary quantum physics or European political systems?

But why a fairy tale - and why this one in particular? What does the ele­ gantly shod princess have that other princesses, for instance, don't? Peck answers by talking about universality. "Most of the basic ele­ ments of the Cinderella story can be found in nearly everyone's life. It's a tale about adolescence, about coming into one's own - the story of someone who's been downtrodden but whose merits are finally seen." Sitting in his office on the first floor of Morey Hall- a haven, as well-tended as his garden at home, in which every wall blooms with photographs, post­ cards, framed prints, medieval iconog­ raphy, and other keepsakes - Peck leans back in his chair and muses further. "This is a story that involves the complexities of family relationships and the need for a sense of magic, particularly about oneself. Ultimately, I think, it has to do with individual worth, with the realization that no matter who you are, you have some­ thing to give. That to me is the strength of the narrative." Not at all immune to the charms of Cinderella himself, Peck has also de­ veloped and taught two other courses on the subject, English 571, "Peda­ gogy," offered as preparation for the graduate students teaching freshman English, which includes an intensive dissection of the tale, and English 187, "Cinderella: Folk Narratives, Adapta­ tions, and the Interpretation of Cul­ ture, " a two-credit "residential course" (i.e., taught in your living room rather than the classroom) that he has been conducting at Medieval House, home

19 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 to a couple of dozen undergraduates with a particular interest in cultural studies. Should you think "Cinderella" sounds like a cop-out course for sissies - just take a look at this sampling of the reading for English 187: Italian, French, German, and Javanese versions of the tale, among others; a paper, "The Art of Deciphering Symbols," by Claude Levi-Strauss; a chapter from Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses oj Enchantment; the libretto of Rossini's La Cenerentola; and two papers by feminist Kay Stone, "The Misuses of Enchantment" and "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us." Also recom­ mended: poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, "The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney that was called Bewmaynes" in Malory's Morte d~rthur, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, Freud's Wit and Its Relation to the Uncon­ scious, and "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales" by C. G. Jung. There is also a viewing assign­ ment: the Disney film (to be viewed "at least twice," advises the syllabus). What's the purpose of this multi­ layered analysis of a fairy story that after all can be pretty well summed up in a couple of brief paragraphs? "I'd like students to be able to dis­ sect the aspects of the Cinderella story that reflect the basic elements of myth­ ology, to see how pervasive certain ideas can be within a culture," says Peck. "I'd also like them to understand the variations within these stories and within the human values behind them - so that, for example, when a movie like Working Girl or Pretty Woman In the Russian story "Vassilisa the Fair," the Cinderella character is dispatched by her stepsisters comes out, they can appreciate it all on a perilous mission to fetch a torch light from the witch Baba Yaga. The tale's happy ending the more." comes when the Czar, no foot-fetishist he, falls in love with Vassilisa for her magical ability to Eve Salisbury, one of the gradu­ weave him fine white shirts. ate students who teach the freshman English course, says that her students cer scholar- and yet in the very first students, discussed "archetypes" (a were at first "aghast" at all the ver­ class we were reading moderns like central concept in the psychoanalytic sions. "They experienced something T. S. Eliot and Bruno Bettelheim. theories of C. G. Jung) in "Aller­ like culture shock when they read all "I learned a lot about being an leirauh," one of two versions of the those different stories." English major. We had a Freudian psy­ Cinderella story by the Brothers Senior Ben Anastas took English chologist come in to talk to us, then a Grimm. From Johnson's perspective, 187 last year (and also its companion Jungian analyst; their ideas were com­ the tale is rife with the symbolism of a course, English 188, on Beauty and the pletely outside of my sphere. They young woman's psychic quest for an Beast). "I was impressed by the scope offered different perspectives that were existence that is more complete and of what we studied," he admits. "Here's fascinating. " balanced than the one she knows. a professor who's renowned as a Chau- Catherine Johnson, the Jungian analyst who spoke to the Cinderella

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"A fairy tale is to collective con­ Cinderella," floridly recorded in Nea­ motif- until the surprise ending, when sciousness what a dream is to an indi­ politan dialect by Giambattista Basile the lost slipper magically flies toward vidual," Johnson told the students. around 1634; a French tale, "Cinder­ Zezolla. "The moment it came near "It offers what Jung would call 'com­ ella, or the Little Glass Slipper," a Zezolla's foot," writes Basile, "it darted pensatory material' to bring about a polished, polite (i.e., no bloodshed) forward of itself to shoe that painted new point of view. " interpretation penned by Charles Lover's egg, as the iron flies to the The tale, Johnson reminded her au­ Perrault in 1697 for the amusement of magnet. " dience, "emerged from the chivalrous the Court of Versailles; and a German Of course, scholars have a field day world of the Middle Ages," a time variation, "Ash Girl (Aschenputtel)," (in fact, entire dissertations could be when women's energies were stifled by published in 1812 by Jacob and written) analyzing images like this. the cult of the Virgin Mary, "the divi­ Wilhelm Grimm. Bettelheim, for example, writes that sion of the feminine into the Madonna The Italian narrative tells of Zezolla, the king (or the prince, depending and the whore." In this culture, who kills her stepmother at the urging on which version of the story you're "women- at least in the upper classes of her governess only to be replaced reading) "symbolically offers [Cin­ - were expected to behave like genteel in the household (and in her father's derella] femininity in the form of the ladies: artificial, mechanical, seeming doting regard) by the governess's six golden-slipper vagina: male acceptance to be, rather than truly being, them­ daughters. Zezolla receives a little date of the vagina and love for the woman selves." The joyful ending compen­ tree as a present from her father, which is the ultimate male validation of the sates for this oppression: In the end, she nurtures until it produces a fairy desirability of her femininity." Cinderella (representing the uncon­ who dresses her in finery for a party at (An aside on Bettelheim: In The scious) marries her king (a symbol of the king's palace. Uses ofEnchantment, he tells us that conscious reasoning) and thus is free Basile's plot carries on in the familiar the "shoe-test," in which a remarkably "to grasp the instinctual wisdom of the prince-meets-Cinderella, prince-Ioses­ small slipper fits the dainty foot of a unconscious and to express her creativ­ Cinderella, Cinderella-loses-slipper maiden, is central to an Egyptian Cin­ ity in the world." derella tale as well as a later Chinese How do Jungians account for the tale, first recorded in the ninth century. hundreds of other Cinderella tales that In the Egyptian rendering, an eagle have emerged over the centuries? Ac­ flies off with a golden sandal belonging cording to Johnson, Jung would argue to the beautiful courtesan Rhodope that these stories arose independently and drops it on the pharaoh. The king of each other from the "collective is so taken with this footwear from unconscious" -that is, a layer of the heaven that he searches all of Egypt unconscious common to all humans, for the owner so that she may become deeper than the personal unconscious, his wife. and containing "archetypes," the psy­ Regarding the Chinese story, Bettel­ chological equivalents of biological heim theorizes, "The unrivaled tiny instincts. foot size as a mark of extraordinary Johnson was one of a number of virtue, distinction, and beauty, and the outside experts invited to talk to the slipper made of precious material are Cinderella students, their campus visits facets which point to an Eastern, if made possible by a grant from Ruth not necessarily Chinese, origin. The Harmon Fairbank '31 and the late modern hearer does not connect sexual Matthew Fairbank '30, '35M. attractiveness and beauty in general Among other speakers was Jane with extreme smallness of the foot, as Yolen, author of more than a hundred the ancient Chinese did, in accordance children's books, among them The with their practice of binding women's Moon Ribbon, an adaptation of the feet. ") Cinderella story with - in contrast to As for the French version by Perrault: many versions - a strong, assertive Cinderella- that is, the deceptively sim­ heroine. At another session, opera­ It was medieval scholar Russell Peck who hit ple yarn that we in late-20th-century lover and associate professor of upon the idea of introducing the Cinderella America have come to know - began English Russ McDonald gave a talk myth into the freshman English course. "I'd as a humble folk tale, told for genera­ on Rossini's La Cenerentola. like students to see how pervasive certain tions, and finally written down in a The main text for the Cinderella ideas can be within a culture," he says. collection of fairy tales published by courses is Cinderella: A Casebook, Charles Perrault, a member of the edited by Alan Dundes, which begins French Academy. with three of the best-known versions of the tale: an Italian story, "The Cat

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Ironically, it was the scholarly Per­ rault who gave Cinderella her phantas­ magorical trappings: fairy godmother, pumpkin coach, rat coachman, lizard lackeys, and all. (The glass slippers, on the other hand, may have been a sim­ ple spelling error: An old French word for fur, vair, is pronounced similarly to verre, the word for glass, a considera­ bly less likely shoemaker's material.) Perrault can also be credited with his heroine's improbably saintly disposi­ tion. When her stepsisters, for exam­ ple, learned that Cinderella had been the beautiful girl at the ball, Perrault writes, "They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-treat­ ment they had made her undergo. Cin­ derella took them up, and, as she em­ braced them, cried that she forgave them with all her heart, and desired them always to love her." No such cloying sentimentality in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's version, published in Germany in 1812. Their Ash Girl (Aschenputtel) abandons her stepsisters altogether (as most flesh­ and-blood people probably would) once she arrives at the palace. Instead of a fairy godmother, Ash Girl has only a hazel twig, given to her by her widowed father, which she plants on her mother's grave and waters with her tears until a little white bird haunts the tree and grants her wishes. The Grimm tale is at times truly grim: After the ball, Cinderella hides from the prince in a dovecote, which An improbably forbearing Cinderella in the classic French tale forgives all and invites her step­ the father destroys with an axe (the sisters to come live in the palace. The German Brothers Grimm don't let them off so easily: The real meaning: she's running from sex­ wicked siblings end up blind, crippled, and likely candidates for the poorhouse. ual abuse, according to Peck). Toward the story's end, as one stepsister tries because of sibling rivalry or any other Medieval House. The atmosphere was, on the lost slipper, she cuts off her heel reason - by sublimating his misery and as with most residential courses, re­ to make it fit; the other cuts off her sorrow, as Cinderella does by planting laxed: Most of the students present toe, and both are discovered by "blood and cultivating the tree with her emo­ were comfortably shoeless, having oozing out." More gore: As Ash Girl tions, the child on his very own can slipped off their penny loafers or run­ parades to church with her prince, arrange things so that his life in the ning shoes or, in one case, big, fluffy pigeons systematically peck out the world will also become a good one." slippers. eyes of her stepsisters, first on one side, Last fall, during a session of English The topic: Perrault's tale, at the then on the other. 187, Professor Peck and Philip Berk, moment when the fairy godmother Bettelheim faults Perrault for "rob­ professor of French and one of several waves her magic wand. bing the story of some of its deepest scholars to address the class, discussed "I know it so well I can't remember meaning" by replacing the twig with a some early versions of Cinderella with it," Peck jokes. "The pumpkin be­ fairy godmother. The Grimms' version, a group of 18 students gathered at comes a coach and the mice become on the other hand, he writes, "conveys coachmen and the lizards become ever so subtly to the child that, miser­ horses.... able as he may feel at the moment-

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"You can feel a critical and editorial "I learned wholly to love / the operation in the tale, as if Perrault man in the prince, what didn't dance," wanted to guarantee that it wouldn't says Van Duyn's heroine: offend sensibilities. It's almost Disney­ esque - if one forgets that Disney was "bad breath in the morning, sexual actually a very scary person." clumsiness, Several readings for the course a childlike willingness to let the explore the dark side of Disney. In old queen "Disney and Freud: Walt Meets the dominate. That was easy. And I Id," child psychiatrist David Berland read a lot. ... writes that Disney's own childhood was very difficult, characterized by fre­ "Our son was born, and I went to quent beatings. ("Perhaps Disney in­ the child vested his emotional energies in him­ through a clutter of nursemaids to self and his ego ideal, which finally . tell him became concrete in the form of Mickey how it feels to be poor. I started Mouse years later," Berland suggests.) to grow old. Kay Stone, in "Things Walt Disney My husband saw everything and Never Told Us," attacks "the popula­ was grateful. rized heroines of the Grimms and Dis­ In some variants on the tale, the fairy god­ Thickening a bit at the waist, he ney." "[They are] not only passive and mother role is taken by such magical beings firmed pretty, but also unusually patient, obe­ as a little doll, a white bird, and, in a tradi­ and stayed, always, faithful. ... dient, industrious, and quiet. A wom­ tional Serbian story, a dead cow. an who failed to be any of these could "Prince, soon to be king, not become a heroine. Even Cinderella Nor do the prince and princess we've made all our lovely ex­ has to do no more than put on dirty always live happily ever after. What changes rags to conceal herself completely. would be their fairy-tale ending today, And my years as your princess are She is a heroine only when properly in an era of dual-career couples and ending. cleaned and dressed." commuter marriages? Would Cinder­ Couldn't there be for me, ella win a rich man's handsome son, just one more fairytale? as Molly Ringwald does in Pretty in More fiercely than the silliest club­ Pink? Or would she end up with her woman boss's job and her boss's ex-boyfriend, in the kingdom, I try to hold onto as Tess does in Working Girl? my looks "shoe Perhaps those who love the story in because I dream that there was Ie spite of its shortcomings can, as C. G. someone test" is central to a tale lung wrote, "dream the myth onwards from Egypt in which an and give it a modern dress. " Psycholo­ "warted, once upon a time, gist Kris 1eter suggests one scenario: waiting a kiss to tell him he too eagle flies off with the "After conforming to the restricted could be beloved. My frog, size and fit of the shoe, [Cinderella] is my frog, where shall I find you?" golden sandal of a beautiful deemed proper by the Prince to be his courtesan. He drops it on wife. She probably assumes his birth name and lives 'happily ever after' sup­ Assistant editor ofRochester Review, Denise the pharaoh, who is so porting his goals. She marries to sur­ Bolger Kovnat reports that she traded in taken with this footwear vive and then survives the marriage." her glass slippers long ago for a pair of Still, while Cinderella and her prince Reeb0 ks. At work (and for the occasional royal ball) she prefers low-heeled pumps. from heaven that he may very well not live happily ever searches all of Egypt after, the story itself ends with a "hap­ The excerpt from the poem, "Cinderella's py moment," says Peck. Perhaps that Story, " is reprinted with permission of for the owner. happy moment could be the beginning Atheneum Publishers, an imprint ofMac­ of a new life - part bitter, part sweet­ millan Publishing Company, from Letters for a Cinderella more faithful to human from a Father and Other Poems by Mona Stone closes her essay by pointing needs and dreams on the eve of the Van Duyn. Copyright ©1982 by Mona out that "Walt Disney neglected to tell 21st century. Van Duyn. us that Cinderella's freedom does not Mona Van Duyn offers one such always end at midnight." possibility in "Cinderella's Story," a poem, Peck tells us, that is about Cin­ derella's uncertainty as to whether she still has something to give.

23 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 AMY SCHECTER'S as 0 Amy Schecter '75;, casting director: Her first Broadway show may have been the biggest bomb ever to hit the Great White Way. She has come a long;, long way since then.

By Jeremy Schlosberg

alfway down a grubby, dusty, lower-midtown New York City block occupied mostly, and for no apparent reason, Hby small wholesale operations, you nearly walk by the grubby, dusty door­ way you're looking for, it's so narrow and nondescript. You go in, squeeze onto the uncomfortably small and shaky elevator, go up 10 floors, walk down the nondescript hallway, open a nondescript door, and find an unex­ pectedly bright and bustling reception room, peopled with guys in pressed blazers and perfectly tied ties and neat hair and plastic perfect smiles. It's an odd effect, given the neigh­ borhood; you feel for a moment as if you wandered into a David Lynch movie but, no, it's just another day at Stuart Howard & Associates, a Man­ hattan casting agency. Stuart Howard's bread and butter is casting for televi­ sion commercials - thus the gaggle of well-groomed gentlemen. But a lot of its heart is in casting for the theater; a lot of its heart, therefore, is beating within the five-foot frame of the agency's resident theater maven, Amy Schecter '75. At any given time on the island of Manhattan, there may be more than a hundred officially listed theatrical pro­ ductions in progress, adding together lists from Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway but not including less formal events (sometimes called, un­ officially, off-off-off-Broadway) like showcases for new talent, readings, and other, avant-garde things. The peppy, fast-talking Schecter will at any

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in that group has to want us," says sometimes actors more known for Schecter. Relationships are everything. movies - for instance, crusty Charles Because, for instance, Stuart Howard Durning for the Big Daddy role in Cat & Associates worked successfully with on a Hot Tin Roof The agency cast playwright Arthur Laurents on La the recent production of the Tennessee Cage aux Folies (his credits also in­ Williams classic (all roles but Maggie; clude the books to Gypsy and West Kathleen Turner came in with the pro­ Side Story), the agency was hired, early ducers as part of the original package). and without qualm, to work on Nick Charles Durning was Schecter's idea, and Nora, a new Laurents musical in at the top of her list. (Interestingly, the making for the past five years, due Brian Dennehy, another movie actor to open in January. whom some physically mistake for Once the agency is hired to cast a Durning, was also high on the list.) show, the first step is simple brain­ In this case, everything worked out: storming. First alone, and then, often, Durning was interested, he agreed to together with her partner Howard, audition, he got the part. And icing on Schecter will think carefully about the the cake - he won a Tony Award. actors she believes would be a good choice for each part in the show, ex­ Ot all casting goes that trapolating from the director's initial smoothly, by any means, Schecter has seen as many as 500 actors for parameters. This is where all the actor­ starting with the very first one role. Here she is with actor Travis Wright, information she stores up, both written step. Actors who may be whom she auditioned for La Cage aux Folies. and mental, is sorted through for that perfect for a role may perfect face or voice or style. While you Nnevertheless need some convincing to given time have seen the vast majority might expect a casting director to sit tryout for a stage part. At a lower level of these productions, will be familiar in front of stacks and stacks of filing of exposure, this may be because the with the performances of countless cabinets filled with 8 x 10 glossies, production is out of town (Stuart hundreds of actors and actresses. She Schecter downplays the organizational Howard works with a few regional cannot, in fact, begin to guess how aspect. She doesn't even use pictures. theaters, including GeVa in Rochester) many- "It boggles my mind, too," The implication is you need to have and the actor doesn't want to go there. she says. what you need to know in your head. The money's not great and the expo­ This casual familiarity is where the Not that she doesn't take notes at sure is limited and few actors go to casting process starts. Actually, "proc­ auditions and save those notes in files New York to be cast in Orlando, Flori­ ess" is too rigid a word for what seems for future references; neither, however, da, but still, says Schecter, there is val­ sometimes to be a series of serendipi­ does she cast a show by riffling through ue in regional theaters that few strug­ tous or intuitive decisions. manila folders. gling actors these days understand. Take the way a casting agency is And so the preliminary lists are "People don't seem to want to pay hired in the first place, a decision that made and compared, and discussed their dues," she says. "They don't want typically stems from who has worked with the show's producers. For roles to work." with whom in some past production. of substance, the names on the list are Even at the Broadway-show level, Theatrical hierarchies are subtle and likely to be relatively in-demand actors, however, some convincing may be nec­ fluid; casting directors may be chosen essary, especially when you seek name by a show's producer, general manager, actors. Often, it's the actor's agent who director, or writer. "But somebody

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Kathleen Turner came to the show as part of the original package; Schecter's agency cast the rest of the actors, including Daniel Hugh Kelly (above). Her most recent assignment: the casting for Nick and Nora, except for Asta. "We don't do dogs," Schecter says.

needs the convincing. "A lot of Los nother potential obstacle arranging so that the actors they want Angeles agents aren't that interested is getting well-established to see will show up at the right place in theater, since the money's nowhere actors to audition in the and time for an audition; on the other near movie money," says Schecter. first place; stars don't like hand, however, they're inundated for Some agents routinely screen out re­ to have to audition - they each part by many, many actors they quests for theater auditions without Awant the casting decision to be their have no interest in at all. But by decree even telling their clients. choice. With Cat, Stuart Howard side­ of the Actors Equity Association, all Agent resistance can be frustrating; stepped this problem since the direc­ parts that are to be cast must have open Schecter suggests that she does, on tor, Howard Davies, is British. That, auditions for all Equity members. This rare occasions, attempt to circumvent Schecter says, proved to be a pretty is fair-sounding enough, but one won­ that barrier. She remembers in partic­ good excuse to recite to audition-shy ders if this mandated open audition ular when they were casting La Cage. actors. "I told them, 'Howard Davies isn't a technicality that casting direc­ With George Hearn already placed as doesn't know who you are.' " tors would usually just as soon do one of the leading men, they were in­ And then there's the final obstacle, without. terested in having John Cullum read even after a part is cast- negotiating Not that a casting director can't be for the other. Cullum's agent insisted the contract so everyone's happy; if surprised in an audition either by an his client wasn't interested, but Schec­ not, the casting folks go back to their unknown actor or by an unexpected ter was suspicious. "We had a feeling lists and try candidate number two. aspect seen in a familiar face. Still, he'd never been asked," she says. So On the one hand casting directors it's her job, as Schecter explains it, to they took a risk and sent Cullum a are cajoling and manipulating and know this in advance - not to know telegram, directly. Turns out the actor who's going to get a part, or who spe­ was indeed interested: He auditioned­ cifically is going to be most suited to a although, the vagaries of casting being part, but definitely to narrow the pool. what they are, Gene Barry ultimately got the part.

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As she says, "If I have to bring in the entire world for auditions, then I'm not doing my job." So what happens is there's the open audition required by Equity, and then there's the casting director's audition, which mayor may not involve anyone seen at the open audition, and then there may still be another, final audi­ tion with the show's director there, too.

he casting director's audi­ tion may, therefore, still be on the large side (Schecter has seen as many as 500 people for one role). Some Tactors are "a little miffed," she says, when they're brought in to audition for the casting director first - they want to know why they can't just audition for the director. "But that's why the direc­ Schecter's Tony winners: Durning and Daly, both of them 1990 recipients tor hires us," she notes. Schecter likes it when she can get to do two rounds she reasoned, if she went to a college fleabag hotel on 43rd Street that she of auditions, and therefore bring a very that didn't even have a theater depart­ charitably remembers as "a real hole." narrowed field before the director. This ment, she wouldn't tempt herself. This To Amy Schecter in 1975, it was an tends to happen only when she is fa­ was, she insists, partly behind her trans­ incredible foot in the door of the Man­ miliar with the director's working style fer to Rochester after her freshman hattan theater community. She could and knows in advance the sort of peo­ year at the University of Wisconsin. live at home and had a car, and didn't ple he or she likes to see. "It sort of made sense at the time," mind the occasional rat in the theater. That's the case with Stuart Howard she says. After this showcase, she circulated her & Associates and Arthur Laurents, She should have known herself, and resume, which serendipitously crossed who worked together most recently, the University, better. Lacking a theater the desk of the Manhattan Theater before Nick and Nora, on last year's department didn't keep Rochester from Club's stage manager just as the assist­ Tony Award-winning revival of Gypsy. having an active student theater group, ant stage manager there had suddenly "We know his tastes," says Schecter, of COPA, the Committee on Performing decided to leave. Schecter got the job. Laurents, "and he knows what we're Arts. Not long after her arrival, she going to bring him. That's when it's saw an audition notice for a production hose were simpler times, as really fun." of The Wizard ofOz. Schecter, new she remembers them today. The rest of the time, if Schecter's kid on campus, knew as well as anyone Off-Broadway operated demeanor is any indication, the job that getting involved in a show was a more like off-off-Broadway. is, merely, fun. Even during harried great way to meet people. She also had You could do things then weeks - which may involve long days stature - all 60 inches of it - in her fa­ likeTget a decent theater job by sending of auditions framed in the morning vor. "I became a munchkin," she says. a resume around. In any case, Schecter and evening by visits to the office­ ("But," she adds, "I was one of the progressed fluidly through a series of Schecter sounds not far from a smile. bigger ones.") production stage manager jobs in the And why not? Here is a woman living After that, forget it. She acted, she later '70s, including her first show at out a dream she hadn't dared, as a stage-managed, she directed, she lived the Circle Repertory Theater in 1977. college student, to think possible: and breathed theater. A work/study This one has grown memorable in She's making a respectable living in program she undertook in her senior retrospect: She was production stage the theater. year with a soon-to-be defunct group manager for a play called My Life, Bitten badly by the theater bug since called the Rochester Shakespeare The­ starring William Hurt, Christopher she was in grade school in Teaneck, ater led to an opportunity in Manhat­ Reeve, and Jeff Daniels. The former New Jersey ("Anytime there was a tan after her graduation in the summer two were then obscure actors; Daniels show anywhere, I was in it"), Schecter, of 1975. Of course, that depends on was an intern from Michigan with a maturing, figured she could never do how you define "opportunity" - in bit part. "You look back and you anything but starve if she tried to work this case, it was the chance to stage­ think, 'Oh, my lord ...'" she says. in the theater professionally. Therefore, manage, for no money, a showcase of a show called Best Foot Forward that was to be performed in a theater in a

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This same sort of thing happened Schecter read it. "And I thought it stars, you have to get them to audition on what was to be her last stage man­ was horrible. Really awful." The next (which they don't like to do anyway) ager's job, for a play called The Sin­ day, Howard walked in to greet her. for a show that doesn't even have a gular Life ofAlfred Nobbs, in 1982, "Well?" he asked. "What did you script yet because it hasn't raised any which starred an unfamiliar actress think?" Schecter hemmed and hawed money. In the case of Nick and Nora, with the unusual name of Glenn Close. and managed to express the opinion actress Joanna Gleason (wonderful a that she didn't like it too terribly much. few years back in Stephen Sondheim's y then, Schecter was begin­ "But don't you think maybe it could Into the Woods) was in on the ground ning to feel she was ready be a funny farce?" he pushed her. floor, as Nora, brought in by old friend for a change. She liked the "Wellll ... maybe," she said, not at Arthur Laurents. The agency brought idea of directing, felt she all convinced. "But when you're cast­ in a couple of dozen men for Nick, was good at it instinctively, ing a show, you just have to do it," she settling on Barry Bostwick. (Stuart Bbut was "insecure" about her lack of says now. Especially when an agency Howard wasn't involved, however, in formal training in the area. Besides, is still so new. the final, much-publicized search for she had never worked days or had an The play was Moose Murders. "The an animal to play Asta. "We don't do office job, and was beginning to won­ rest," says Schecter, with a grin, "is dogs," Schecter says.) It all took a year der what that might be like. history." For the uninitiated, Moose and a half, but, finally, "Everyone's And then she thought of casting Murders opened and closed in one pleased," she says. as a potential direction for her career. horrific night in February 1983, and Genial but modest, Schecter doesn't This wasn't an obvious decision, if quickly became part of theater lore as name-drop or even give herself that only because the whole business of perhaps the biggest bomb ever to hit much credit. She doesn't, for instance, casting as a separate profession was the Great White Way. agree with the casting profession's relatively new. In the old days, casting It's a long way from Moose Murders trade association that there should be directors didn't exist - the producers to Nick and Nora, which has become Tony Awards for casting. "It's a very more or less knew the talent pool, one of Broadway's most eagerly await­ hard thing to give an award for," she without outside assistance. ed shows. Based on the characters says, noting how elusive the decision­ Casting was therefore a good field to created by Dashiell Hammett in The making process is, not to mention how get into because you didn't have to Thin Man, Nick and Nora features dynamic - the director makes the final compete against anyone with a lot of music by Annie composer Charles call, but accepts input and reaction experience - there were no people with Strouse '47E and lyrics by Richard along the way from the producers and a lot of experience. So, once again, Maltby, along with the Laurents book. writers and, of course, casting directors. Schecter sent her resume around to a Laurents is the director as well. Because couple of dozen places. Howard re­ of Stuart Howard's relationship with nd unlike some of her sponded, told her to visit. His year-old the playwright, the agency has been more despotic peers, she agency, which had been doing com­ working on the show for two years remains thoroughly re­ mercials only, had just been hired to already- not a great deal financially, spectful of the perform­ cast its first Broadway show- Merlin, since Stuart Howard's flat fee is paid ers with whom she works. starring magician Doug Henning. out only partially when the contract is A"Some casting directors actually don't Howard was looking for someone first signed, the rest when the show is like actors," she says. "What they like with theater experience to help get his set to go. (An agency also receives a is the power part." Which is especially "legit" business (as the non-advertising weekly retainer when a show is run­ odd to Schecter, given the true nature work is called) off the ground. ning, to cover services required for any of the casting director's status as she They talked for a while; she volun­ replacements that become necessary.) sees it. "I think actors may like to at­ teered her services free for a day- a Nick and Nora had to be cast before tribute to us a lot of power," she says. smart move she had learned from her there was even a finished script- a not "But I don't think it's really there. We earlier days on the job path. She went unusual circumstance given the eco­ have the power to give them an audi­ to the chorus callbacks for Merlin. nomics at work to launch a big Broad­ tion. That's all." She and Howard hit it off, worked well way show: In order to raise the money, But for Schecter, that seems to be together. She was hired. you have to have already cast some enough. She's right where she wants At the end of her first official day recognizable stars; in order to cast to be. She is a professional making a at work, Howard handed her a script. living - in the theater. "Read this overnight," he said to her. "It's our next show." Life has cast Jeremy Schlosberg as a free­ lance writer living in the New York City area.

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Rochester U.S. News Ranks Us in Top 25

of construction equipment have been noisily engaged in fulfilling the quad­ ew rangle's original plan, which envisioned -~~~~~""""prioritieson a seventh building, opposite Strong campus Auditorium, to complete its symmetry. Now rising on that site is the Simon School's new classroom and admin­ US. News & World Report's 1991 istrative center, Schlegel Hall. At its College Guide ranks Rochester among scheduled completion a year from this what it calls "the major leagues of American higher education" - specif­ fall, the new structure will be thor­ ically among the top 25 universities in oughly modern on the inside while in the country. The listing is considered an its facade faithfully mirroring its 60­ important measure of national visibility. year-old counterpart across the way. The magazine's sixth such survey of Concurrently, the long-held dream of America's 1,374 four-year institutions of making the River Campus truly a river higher education, it is the first to in­ campus is proceeding toward reality. clude Rochester among the leading na­ Along the riverbank, now cleared of tional universities, a list headed in 1-2-3 its obscuring tangle of brush as the order by Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. first stage in the development of the Rochester is number 25 in this ranking. "We've always known we rated Bausch & Lomb Riverside Park, work among that select order," said President has begun on the pedestrian bridge O'Brien, "but it's nice to receive this connecting the campus to the west kind of public recognition of the fact." Sixty Years Old This Fall: side of the Genesee. Completion is Schools were rated in five critical The Once and Future projected for the fall of '91. areas: Selectivity, faculty resources, The next step: reconstruction of In­ academic reputation, overall financial River Campus tercampus Drive - the roadway behind resources, and student retention. A fine­ This illustration, reprinted from the the campus - in preparation for the re­ tuning given this year to the survey's October-November 1930 issue of our moval of the central portion of Wilson methodology may have assisted Roches­ predecessor publication, the Rochester Boulevard (from the Zornow Center to ter's entree to the top-25 list, O'Brien said. Alumni Review, celebrated the opening Todd Union) to provide a clean sweep A couple of years ago, writing in the of the River Campus 60 years ago this of parkway from campus to river bank. Review about the inherent pitfalls in fall. Those stark buildings are now lux­ That project is scheduled to get under compiling such a ranking, O'Brien pre­ uriantly clad in ivy, and the oaks that way at the close of the academic year dicted, "Next year if we make some sort replaced the original elms have them­ next spring. of glory list, I assure you that we will selves grown to mightiness - but other­ Meanwhile, downtown at the East­ boast proudly (but sheepishly) of the wise this view of the Eastman Quad­ man School of Music, the new Student fact. " rangle has remained little altered over Living Center, a mere 60-second sprint He was right; that's what we're doing. its first six decades. down Gibbs Street from the school, is It's a welcome affirmation of what has Just below those steps, however, in being readied for occupancy shortly been suspected in these parts all along. the forecourt of the quad, the prospect after the first of the year. A 16-story is not at the moment anywhere near as tower surrounded by a four-story serene. Since late last spring phalanxes quadrangle and courtyard, the build­ ing will provide housing for 370 East­ man students.

29 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 Catholic Professorship Dr. Rhees's Legacy to the Class of 1994 In September, the University began a national search for candidates to as­ sume the John Henry Newman Profes­ sorship in Catholic Studies - a newly endowed chair and one of a handful of such posts among private secular uni­ versities nationwide. The new chair is the second endowed position in the College of Arts and Science's Department of Religion and Classics. The first, the Philip S. Bern­ stein Professorship in Jewish Studies, was established in 1974. Rochester launched its religious studies program in 1968, with faculty from both the University and the Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, which is affili­ ated with the University. (Great-grand)father and son: College students Rush Rhees, Amherst Class of 1883, and "The historic role of the Catholic Duncan Callaway, Rochester Class of 1994 Church and its teaching in shaping culture and politics persists in the con­ In high school, when Duncan Calla­ numbers approximately 1,060 men and temporary world," says William Green, women, give or take a few, entering the way started thinking about where he'd professor of religion and chair of the go to college, his mother recommended College of Arts and Science and the Rochester as a likely option. School of Nursing (with another 125 at Department of Religion and Classics. The suggestion wasn't all that sur­ Eastman). "The dramatic developments in East­ prising, considering Callaway's family The River Campus Class of 1994 was ern Europe and Latin America- to history: Callaway's mother, Henrietta chosen from a pool of 7,250 applicants, pick two obvious examples - reveal the Stewart Callaway, is the daughter of setting a record for the fifth year in a pertinence of Roman Catholic studies Henrietta Rhees Stewart, who (as you row. The geographical distribution of to an undergraduate education de­ might already be guessing from that dis­ Rochester students is growing as well: signed to help students comprehend tinctive maiden name) is the daughter Freshmen come from 40 states, the Dis­ the world they will inherit." of Rush Rhees, the University's third trict of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 25 The new professorship is made pos­ (and some say greatest) president. foreign countries. Ultimately, Callaway chose Rochester About 48 percent of the first-year sible by a gift from an alumni couple not much so for family ties as for the students are women, up a percentage who wish to remain anonymous. Fund­ University's engineering program (he's point from last year. Minority groups ing also came from the University's interested in becoming a mechanical comprise almost 19 percent of the class Newman Community. John Henry engineer) as well as, he says, its size, its (black representation is 6 percent, His­ Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) - for facilities, and the presence of the East­ panic 4 percent). More than half of the whom the Newman Community and man School of Music (he's interested in entering students - 56 percent- plan to the new professorship are named- music, too). pursue a degree from the College of Arts has been the inspiration for Catholic "It's neat to walk by the library and and Science, 19 percent are aiming for ministries at secular institutions across know that it's named after my great­ an engineering degree (up from 16 per­ the country. grandfather," he admits. "I've heard cent last year), and another 1 percent that he did so much in just a little more are headed for the School of Nursing. than 30 years, that he was instrumental The rest are, for the moment, keeping Douglass Institute Publishes in turning into a full-fledged university their options open. what had been a just a small local col­ As for "family" representation: The Student Papers lege with about 200 male undergraduates Class of 1994 includes 11 sons and White feminists have discriminated -total." daughters of faculty and staff, 42 sons against black women, while black Times having changed, thanks in large and daughters of alumni - and, of women have poured their energies into part to Callaway's great-grandfather, course, Duncan Callaway, the great­ fighting racism instead of sexism. Slav­ the freshman class he joined this fall grandson of the great Rhees himself. ery wasn't just an institution benefiting Southern agrarians; it also made possi­ ble the industrialization of the whole country. The religious cult Rastafari­ anism may become a powerful opposi­ tion force against the government of Jamaica.

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These are among the recently pub­ Congress and its evolution in South Now the College of Arts and Sci­ lished conclusions of Rochester under­ Africa; and feminism and the "dis­ ence's Wilson Professor of Political graduates doing research at the Freder­ proportionately low participation of Science, Riker came to Rochester in ick Douglass Institute of African and African-American women in the wom­ 1962 as founding chair of his depart­ African-American Studies. To encour­ en's movement." ment, which has come to be ranked age its undergraduates to prepare in­ Now in its fifth year at Rochester, among the top 10 poli sci faculties in depth term papers, and to inspire the the Douglass Institute sponsors pro­ the country. He has three times been most talented among them to pursue grams of teaching and research for un­ honored for his ability as a teacher, in­ African and African-American studies dergraduates and graduate students. cluding the University's two major as a vocation, the institute has under­ teaching awards, the Curtis prizes for taken to publish some of the best of the graduate teaching (1987) and under­ student papers - with the new volume, Honoring William Riker graduate teaching (1988). Undergraduate Perspectives on Afri­ Outside the University, he is re­ can and African-American Studies, as nowned for his work in integrating the the result. ideas of game theory and social-choice Professors teaching various courses theory with mainstream political sci­ in this interdisciplinary field, ranging ence. In the 1950s and '60s he pioneered from history and religion to chemical in the application of formal mathe­ engineering, nominated the best re­ matical reasoning to political problems, search papers by their students and thus constructing a theoretical base for forwarded them for consideration by political analysis. a selection committee. The committee Past president of the American chose papers that represented the best Political Science Association, author research in several different courses. of nine books and more than 50 pro­ Some papers in the volume focus on fessional papers, and one of the select historical and contemporary topics in number of political scientists ever economic development; the impact on elected to membership in the National African economic development of the Academy of Sciences, Riker is also co­ international slave trade and European founder of the Public Choice Society, colonial domination; and the "power- a group of political scientists, econo­ mists, and other social scientists who established a forum for the branch of political science he created.

Riker Acting Dean for Simon School "I found out in college that I loved Charles 1. Plosser has been appoint­ studying," says political scientist Wil­ ed acting dean of the William E. Simon liam H. Riker, "that is, learning what Graduate School of Business Adminis­ other people have said about a subject, tration for the current academic year, figuring out what's wrong with it, figur­ filling in for Dean Paul W. MacAvoy, ing out one's own position, analyzing who is on leave for a one-year teaching things that don't add up, and seeing an assignment at Yale. explanation to the puzzle." Plosser holds a joint appointment Over the course of a distinguished at the University as Fred H. Gowen 40-year career, this gifted scholar­ Professor of Economics and Finance teacher's explanations to puzzles have at the Simon School and professor earned him many honors. Most recent of economics and finance in the Col­ Douglass as a Rochester newspaperman is this fall's "Riker Conference" spon­ lege of Arts and Science. He is also sored by the Department of Political a research associate of the National ful yet often negative role played by Science in celebration of his 70th birth­ Bureau of Economic Research in Cam­ multinational corporations in the eco­ day. For two days in October, former bridge, Massachusetts, a senior research nomic and political life of Third World students and colleagues gathered in associate at the Rochester Center for countries." Others examine various so­ Rochester to recognize, as he prepares Economics Research based at the Col­ cial movements, including the "black to retire from full-time teaching next lege of Arts and Science, and editor of power movement" and its role in the spring, Riker's contributions to the de­ the Journal ofMonetary Economics. 1968 Olympics; the African National partment he helped to establish and the discipline he helped to shape.

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ARevolution in Evolution? Generations of scientists since discovered it. We don't yet know the Charles Darwin have thought that the mechanism by which it occurs; I am not mutations that make an organism more saying that bacteria are directing their productive or successful are "selected" own evolution." and are subsequently passed on to suc­ In his paper Hall proposes an expla­ ceeding generations more often than un­ nation for Cairnsian mutations that in­ helpful mutations. Scientists have also volves an underlying random mechanism believed that the process of generating that may make some genes more prone the mutations is completely separate to mutations during times of stress. from the process of selection. In 1988 Hall showed that a mutation Hall's findings suggest a much more that allowed the bacterium E. coli to use intimate relationship between the two the sugar salicin was the result of spon­ processes, a relationship in which selec­ taneous excision of a mobile genetic ele­ tive conditions may dramatically affect ment, or "jumping gene," from within mutation itself. the gene for salicin use. That mutation "If this turns out to be widespread, was undetectable when E. coli was grow­ we will have to revise most of what we ing normally-it occurred in fewer than think about the way evolution works," 2 in a trillion cells. However, the muta­ says Hall, whose work opens up the tion occurred in about 1 in 100 cells possibility that adaptive evolution may when E. coli colonies were stressed by be a considerably more speedy process prolonged incubation in a medium con­ Hall than biologists have thought up to now. taining salicin. The assumption that mutations are The surprising observation was that Conventional scientific belief holds purely random forms a key part of all the mutation occurred only when it was that mutations-changes in an organ­ mathematical and theoretical studies of useful-when salicin was present - but ism's genetic code - occur at a mea­ evolutionary processes. "The problem did not occur under identical condi­ sured and continuous pace, and that we face is that theory is simply not tions when salicin was absent from the they occur without regard to changes in equipped to deal with these findings," medium. the organism's environment. says Hall. In his more recent experiments Hall In a paper published in the Septem­ An accurate understanding of the re­ has examined a kind of mutation that is ber issue of the science journal Genetics, lationship between mutations and adap­ often thought to be more important in a Rochester biologist suggests that this tation may be important in trying to evolutionary processes - a mutation in basic tenet of evolution may need modi­ predict how rapidly organisms are able which one of the bases of the DNA is fying. to adapt to polluted environments, for changed to another base. Using strains Barry G. Hall, an experimental evolu­ example, or in estimating how likely it of E. coli that normally do not produce tionist who uses bacteria as a model to is that evolution can be directed toward the amino acid tryptophan but require study how organisms adapt by changing specific ends. it for growth, Hall deprived the bacte­ their enzymes, reports that he has found 1\vo years ago Harvard biologist rial colony of tryptophan for long peri­ strong evidence that mutations in bacte­ John Cairns proposed that mutations ods of time. The result was that the de­ ria occur more often when the mutations may occur at different rates depending prived colonies began producing mutant are beneficial than when they are not. on the stresses an organism faces in its strains capable of synthesizing their own That finding strikes at the widely held environment. Cairns's work has been tryptophan at a rate far in excess of the belief that mutations arise randomly hotly debated. normal rate. His key observation was without respect to their utility, a belief Key differences exist between Hall's that the only mutations that occurred at that is critical to our understanding of and Cairns's theories. Hall refers to the accelerated pace were those related how life evolves. these mutations not as "directed muta­ to synthesizing tryptophan- there was "Some mutations happen more often tions" (as does Cairns) but rather as no increase in the production of muta­ when they are useful than when they are "Cairnsian mutations." "Cairnsian tions in other genes. neutral," says Hall. "I can demonstrate mutation is a neutral term," says Hall. "It is the specificity of the process this every day in my laboratory, and "This is the phenomenon, and Cairns that is so surprising," says Hall. "Muta­ there is every reason to believe that it tions seem to occur only at a place in occurs outside the laboratory in nature the DNA where they are beneficial." as welL"

32 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 Challenged

At Convocation, opening event of the academic year, the Class of 1994 became the first to be inducted into the newly formed Undergraduate College. Initiating the new college's first tra­ dition, the incoming students accepted a "charge" from Dean Brenda Meehan-Waters, who challenged them to take full advantage of the coming four years, "to engage with us and enjoy with us intellectual, personal, and social exploration." The Undergraduate College was established earlier this year within the College of Arts and Science as the "home college" for its undergraduate students. Its creation, said CAS Dean Jack Kampmeier, serves as a way of underscoring - for both faculty and students­ the University's commitment to undergraduate education. Meehan-Waters, CAS associate dean for undergraduate studies and professor of his­ tory, heads the new unit.

More People Are Reaching Out, male and female college students to Intimacy offers physical benefits as rank the relative importance of charac­ well. Studies have found that people Psychologist Says teristics they look for in their friends. involved in close relationships display Americans are hungry for intimacy. Most students, Reis reports, thought more resistance to infections and ill­ Watch television any evening, and the that being with "someone who under­ nesses than loners do and are also less commercials tell the story of our desire stands you" was more important than likely to abuse drugs or alcohol, Reis for emotional closeness. People reach having friends in great numbers, having says. out and touch someone over long­ friends who were popular with others, In another recent study, Reis has at­ distance phone lines. They give each or having friends they could play sports tempted to define the process people other hugs after a letdown and offer with. They even ranked having a few go through in getting close to each comfort with homey hot bowls of soup. "special friends who care about you" other. The study of intimacy has now be­ above having a steady sexual partner. "Intimacy is more than together­ come one of the hottest areas of re­ "The desire for intimacy appears to ness, though certainly people have to search for social psychologists, who are be a pervasive human goal," Reis sug­ spend time together to forge a close exploring why people seek to be close gests. People seek close relationships relationship," he says. "On the sim­ to others, how they go about forming partly because they are intrinsically re­ plest terms, you build intimacy by strong attachments, and what connec­ warding. For most people, the feeling telling another individual something tion there is between achieving intima­ of understanding someone else's inner about yourself that is personally re­ cy and fulfilling oneself in other ways. being and caring about him or her is vealing, something you wouldn't or­ Psychologist Harry Reis of the Col­ one of life's greatest pleasures. dinarily want others to know about lege of Arts and Science has been But evidence is mounting that inti­ because it exposes a side of yourself studying loneliness and its converse, mate bonds also playa key role in you don't like the world to see. Per­ emotional closeness to others, for both mental and physical health. haps you're jealous of a colleague at more than 15 years and has grown in­ "Findings culled from many studies work who seems to get all the breaks. creasingly convinced that sharing an suggest that those who are emotionally You hide these feelings from most peo­ intimate emotional bond with some­ close to at least one other person are ple, because you don't want to appear one else is key to health and happiness. more content with their lives in gener­ petty or insecure, but you confide in "There's little doubt that close emo­ al, and better able to cope with stress your best friend or spouse. If that per­ tional relationships are important to an and to bounce back from tough times," son listens to you, understands you, individual's well being from childhood says Reis. In short, people seem to cares for you, reassures you that you're through adult life. It's also clear that gain both resilience and a more posi­ really lovable, and maybe offers some undisturbed people value the kind of tive outlook from these social ties. advice on dealing with the situation friendship that allows for emotional that seems on target because he or she closeness above all other kinds," Reis knows you well-that's the kind of in­ says. teraction that leads to intimacy. Then In a study published last winter in maybe you do the same kind of thing the Journal ofSocial and Clinical Psy­ for your partner later." chology, Reis and his associates asked

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even more frightening, he says, since "If I had one bit of advice for par­ it leaves few families unscathed: "It ents," says Smetana, "it would be to NEWSCLIPS touches one in four Americans. It's explain and reason with their children, from the national media hard to find something that is more rather than simply order them around. pervasive than that." When you help children see how their Crystals, macrobiotics, laetrile, and actions infringe on the rights or well­ Readers ofnational publications, as multivitamin drinks are just a few of being of others, you help set the stage well as ofscientific and professional the fads that have capitalized on the for them to reason for themselves when journals, regularly come across refer­ cancer scare, reports Morrow in the they're older." ences to the scholarly activities-and Examiner article. "These things are professional judgments- ofpeople multibillion-dollar industries that make at the University. Following is a cross a small fortune on people's fears." Associated Press section ofsome ofthose you might What's the best way to handle your have seen within recent months: first day at a new job? Get right down Boston Herald to business? Or watch your boss and colleagues for a while to pick up cues to the office culture? For answers to Time those questions, the AP called on Jim What role, if any, do emotions play Case, director of Rochester's Career in preventing or curing illness? The Services and Placement Center. question is older than Western medi­ "There's nothing wrong with show­ cine, writes Time, but modern science ing eagerness to assume new responsi­ has given it new urgency by discovering bilities," said Case. "But beginning a ways to measure the mind's impact on new job is a bit like moving to a for­ the body's health. eign country. There's a lot of hidden "There is little question that we can culture that you've got to know." alter the course of disease by manipula­ Before you apply for a job, cau­ ting psychological factors," says Robert tioned Case, find out what is expected Ader, professor of psychiatry at the in that position. Five questions to ask School of Medicine and Dentistry and someone who currently holds the job: a pioneer in mind-body research, ac­ 1) How do you spend your time during cording to Time. "But to make this a typical work week? 2) What skills or knowledge useful to physicians, we talents are most essential to being effec­ need to understand the mechanisms." tive in your job? 3) What are the tough­ Concurrently, in a special feature in est problems you face? 4) What is most U.S. News and World Report summing rewarding about your work, apart from up "The Best of America," panelists salary or fringe benefits? 5) If you were listed the field of "psychoneuroimmu­ Smetana ever to leave your job, what would drive nology" - a term coined by Ader to de­ you away? scribe the study of how the mind and When toddlers squabble, they aren't body ally to combat disease - as one settling disputes as much as they are of the ideas that have fundamentally developing morals, says developmental CD Review changed our view of ourselves. Togeth­ psychologist Judith Smetana of the "If you're a Gilbert and Sullivan er with Nicholas Cohen, also of the Graduate School of Education and fan, get this CD. If you're not, you've School of Medicine and Dentistry, Human Development, who is featured screwed up and need to do something Ader was among the first scientists to in a Herald news story on her research. about it. Soon," writes the reviewer in provide evidence that our beliefs, emo­ "Children use the information in CD Review. tions, and relationships can influence these quarrels to develop notions such "I've never heard better and I've been our susceptibility to illness. as 'this is wrong because it makes my to lots of G&S performances in the 56 playmate angry.' These ideas about years since I first saw the Savoyards in right and wrong are simple in young New York." San Francisco Examiner children but appear to be the founda­ The subject? A new compact disc, Cancer, psychologists say, is still the tion on which they will build more H.MS. Gilbert & Sullivan, by the disease most dreaded by the general sophisticated ideas later on." Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra population. Adults often react to such clashes and the Eastman School of Music's "The first thing that pops into mind by ordering children to stop, spanking Eastman Chorale directed by Donald when cancer is mentioned is death, them or yanking them away, or explain­ Neuen. The CD, which received top and often not a very pleasant death," ing why the behavior is wrong, appeal­ ratings (a "10"), includes highlights says Gary Morrow, a behavioral psy­ ing to ideas of fairness and not hurting from the three most popular operettas, chologist at the University's Cancer others. H.MS. Pinafore, Pirates ofPenzance, Center. The scope of the disease is and The Mikado.

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Newsweek placing ninth in the 50-yard freestyle (24:76), tenth in the lOO-yard butterfly Along with food, water, air, sex, and SPORTS (59:87), and eleventh in the lOO-yard just about everything else that is dan­ freestyle (53:76). She also broke the gerous to your health, you can add one school record for the 200-yard freestyle more environmental risk: death itself, (1:58.47) and the 50-yard fly (27:38). in the form of silver fillings in the teeth "Monica's got a heart for swim­ of bodies that are cremated. Splash ming, " says head coach Marrie Neumer. As corpses burn, mercury in the fill­ By the end of her sophomore year "She's our best sprinter. It's a joy to ings vaporizes into a highly toxic gas Monica Farren '92 had managed to have her on the team." which can cause neurological and kid­ make a bigger splash than most colle­ And Farren is happy to be there. As ney damage. Although Thomas Clark­ giate swimmers make in all four years a high-school senior the five-year letter son, a mercury toxicologist at Rochester of varsity swimming. winner turned down a scholarship from cited in the Newsweek piece, finds it a division I school, Villanova Univer­ "difficult to believe there's any hazard," sity, to come to Rochester. "I liked he notes that mercury vapor stays in Rochester's swimming program bet­ the atmosphere for months. If the air ter," she says. "I could tell that people is calm, crematoria emissions might in­ here were serious about swimming, but deed reach unhealthy concentrations. not too serious; I knew there'd be time The greater danger, he says, may lie for academics, too." As a nursing stu­ in the fillings of the living: Vigorous dent with a legacy to uphold, Farren is chewing liberates mercury from amal­ devoted to her studies. (Her mother, gam (although the levels are considered Mary Connor Farren '84GN, and her nontoxic); as a result, people with fill­ older sister, Kathleen, a graduate stu­ ings have higher levels of mercury in dent in the School of Nursing, inspired their brain tissue than those who are the younger Farren's career choice.) cavity-free. In addition to academics, though, she also values the lessons she's learn­ ing in the pool as an important part of Associated Press her career preparation. "When you're Good news for parents: A safer, practicing you learn how to take con­ more effective whooping-cough vaccine structive criticism, and when you're in may get federal licensing this year, says competition you learn how to handle Michael Pichichero of the School of pressure," she says. "Part of being a Medicine and Dentistry. His year-long good nurse is being strong emotional­ study of a Japanese vaccine found few­ ly. That's definitely something I've er than 5 percent of the children inocu­ learned from being a competitive lated had reactions of fever, fussiness, Farren swimmer. or swelling - compared with 80 percent Farren has also learned a lot about given shots of the U.S. -manufactured As a freshman Farren dunked the teamwork. Aside from her dazzling per­ vaccine, the AP reported. competition at the NCAA Division III formance in individual competitions, Swimming and Diving Champion­ she's been a strong swimmer on several ships, capturing six All-American record-setting relays. As a freshman The New York Times honors and along the way setting five she swam on the record-breaking relay Public school classes on topics like University records. teams (200-, 400-, and 800-yard free­ sexuality and AIDS, religion, drug Following up as a sophomore last style) at the NCAA Division III abuse, racial tolerance, and the Viet­ year, she won three more All-American Championships. nam War, among others, have trans­ honors and set four more school rec­ Last year she anchored the 400-yard formed many school districts into ords. She also finished third among freestyle relay, breaking the UAA rec­ ideological combat zones, reports the individual scorers at last year's UAA ord and setting a new school record Times. Championships. With a swimmer from (3:41.51). Farren is quick to disclaim "We are such a diverse society Johns Hopkins less than one-tenth of personal credit for that victory: that it's extremely difficult for schools a second behind her, she took first "When we win it's all four of us who to come up with a curriculum that place in the lOO-yard freestyle (54:85) win; when we lose, it's all four of us doesn't ring somebody's bell," says Tyll and qualified for the NCAA Division who lose," she says. van Geel of the Graduate School of III Championships. At the NCAAs That unassuming manner is a part Education and Human Development, Farren made another strong showing, of Farren's style. "Monica wins a lot, one of the experts quoted in the article. but she's modest about it," says "School boards haven't necessarily Neumer. "She keeps competition in dropped whole courses because of the perspective. " pressures, but they've backed off or fine­ tuned a course to take the edge off."

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Team Runner effort that helps each individual be more successful than he would be on As a youngster growing up on his own." Grand Island, New York, Jim Dunlop Dunlop concurs. "Though I was '92 got a kick out of running races disappointed with my personal time, I against the kids in his neighborhood. was excited when we cracked the top "I won a lot," he says. "And the 10 last year," he says, referring to the longer I went the faster I could go." team's performance at the NCAA Inspired by his early victories, Dunlop Division III Championships, where joined his junior-high track team and Rochester ranked seventh in the has been running competitively ever country. since. That was one of several high points Sometimes it seems as if he never during the year. The Yellowjackets also stops running. At Rochester, Dunlop placed second at both the UAA Cham­ runs both cross-country and indoor pionships and at the New York State and outdoor track, a marathon he NCAA Division III Regional Champi­ describes cheerfully as "a whole year onships. Also, for the third consecutive of running with about five weeks of year, they placed first at the New York break mixed in. " State Collegiate Track & Field Associa­ As a freshman Dunlop was a mem­ tion Championships, bringing the total ber of Rochester's All-American cross­ of Jacket wins at this meet to five and country team, which took third place tying the record for the all-time num­ at the NCAA Division III Champion­ ber of wins by a single team. ships. Later that year he swept the Running is more than just a sport UAA Championships, winning both for Dunlop: "It's a kind of therapy­ the 3,000- and 5,000-meter indoor Dunlop a great emotional release." But, adds runs. The following summer Dunlop this economics major who plans to go placed second in the 1O,OOO-meter run important part of Rochester's running on to medical school, "I continue to at the U.S. Junior National Tourna­ program. "Though many people view run at Rochester because I've found ment and became one of a handful of running as an individual activity, it success both as a runner and as a stu­ Division III athletes to qualify for the really is a team sport. For one thing, dent. If I found that my school work national team. He went on to take first team scores are compiled at the end of was compromised, I'd layoff running place in that event at the U.S.-Canada every meet. But also, for the athletes, for a while. It's such a big part of my dual meet in St. John, New Brunswick. it's knowing that they're part of a larger life, though, that I'll never let things "That summer I trained as I'd never get to that point." trained before. I was in my glory," he says. But when he returned to Roches­ ter the following fall the rigors of year­ round competition finally caught up with him. "I took my body to its limit, and eventually it found a way to make me slow down." Not that he had a bad season - he had the regular season's best time (25:09.6) at a home meet against Col­ gate, Hamilton, and Utica, and he finished among the top five in all eight of the seasonal meets. "By anyone else's standards that would've been a great year," says Tim Hale, the men's track and field and cross-country coach. But, says Dunlop, "I ran every race last year upset by the fact that I was going as fast as I could, but knowing that I could have been helping the team much more." Dunlop's concern for his team is Will to win: Crew coach Will Scoggins was down by the riverside a lot during the early fall prepping genuine. In fact, as Hale explains, de­ his rowers for the second annual Bausch & Lomb Invitational Regatta, scheduled on the Genesee veloping a sense of teamwork is an for October 14 - just too late to report on in this issue, beyond this one newsflash: Rochester cap­ tured the women's open fours division. You can look for a full account next time around.

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Extras and individual interests. (Alumni Holidays) special features are too numerous to list! Escorts drawn from University faculty $4,495 from JFK on KLM includes practi­ and staffaccompany each tour to provide cally everything. Group arrangements from special services and educational enrich­ Romantic Treasures Rochester. (Explorers World Travel) ment. Alumni Association Tours are open to May 1-14 all members ofthe University community Twelve-day cruise sailing the waters of Adventures in Scandinavia and their spouses, parents, and dependent the Mediterranean Sea aboard the luxurious children. Other relatives andfriends are Royal Princess. Ports of call in 9 cities: Bar­ June 26-July 9 also welcome as space permits (these un­ celona, Cannes, Livorno, Rome, Messina, affiliated travelers are requested to make a Athens, Mykonos, Dubrovnik, and Venice. $100 tax-free donation to the University). Option to extend your holiday pre/post Seine &Saone Prices listed are current best estimates, cruise in Barcelona. From $3,590, includ­ June 30-July 12 subject to final tariffs and significant fluc­ ing free round-trip jet transportation from tuations in international exchange rates. Rochester and most major cities to the ship. (Vantage Travel) Scotland - Highlands, 1991 TOUR PROGRAM Islands, and Castles (and the Mozart's Europe Edinburgh Military Tattoo) Virgin Islands Cruise May 18-June 4 July 31-August 10 January 19-26 This tour basically follows Mozart on his This 7-night cruise aboard the intimate journey from Vienna to visit King Friedrich Nantucket Clipper will visit St. Thomas, Wilhelm II in Potsdam in the spring of Russia - Pioneer Cruise from Francis Bay, Tortola, Norman Island, Vir­ 1789, intersecting with the lives of Haydn, gin Gorda, and St. John. We will explore Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Leningrad to Moscow secluded bays, picturesque coves, and tiny Bach. Escorted by Eastman School profes­ August 1-14 out-of-the-way marinas devoid of regimen­ sor John Maloy, the music/opera program tation. You can swim from the side of the includes 10 international-calibre concerts ship, snorkel, beachcomb, or enjoy the op­ in Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Danube - Seven Countries tional shore excursions. From $1,500 with Dresden, and Leipzig, with performances special Clipper air program from 50 major at the Vienna State Opera, the Leipzig in One Historic Trip U.S. cities. (Clipper Cruise) Gewandhaus, and the Dresden Semper October Opera. Unique experiences such as private concerts, authentic-instrument demonstra­ Pacific Hawaiian Odyssey tions, discussions with musicologists, meals in places where Mozart dined, and exciting Brochures with full details on each of February 6-16 excursions are part of the program. The these tours are available on request to music of Mozart and other classicists fills Eight-day cruise from Ensenada to Hono­ the Office ofAlumni Affairs, Fairbank lulu aboard the superb new Crown Odyssey the deluxe motorcoach as it carries the Alumni House, 685 Mt. Hope Ave., group from city to city, sometimes along will visit Maui, Kauai, and Oahu with a 2­ Rochester, NY 14620, (800) 333-0175 or day stay in Waikiki. Special Host Program the very highways traversed by Mozart's (716) 275-3684. for single travelers and American Heart carriage. Accommodations are deluxe and superior first class, centrally located. All

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Met Mezzo Last June, opera lovers - as well as opera illiterati - glutted themselves on a PBS broadcast of all four massive works in ALUMNI Wagner's Ring cycle (amounting to nearly 800 pages of text and 3,750 pages of mu­ sic), taped over a two-year period at the Metropolitan Opera. The event made tele­ vision history, with 17 hours of prime-time operatic programming before an audience that may ultimately reach 100,000,000 in at least 10 countries around the world. Among the Ring's 34 singers was mezzo soprano Joyce Castle '66GE in the role of Waltraute (one of the Valkyries in the op­ era of the same name) as well as the second Norn (one of the Norse fates) in Gotter­ dammerung. Now in her fifth season as a principal singer with the Met, Castle de­ buted there as Waltraute in 1986. While the Ring cycle may be the most newsworthy production Castle has ap­ peared in to date, the roles she played in it were far from her biggest. The red-haired, green-eyed singer received high praise from critics for her portrayal of the murderous Mrs. Lovett in the New York City Opera -revival of Sweeney Todd. ("Never eat pies anymore. Not even tiny ones," she told The Wall Street Journal.) Her performance in Leonard Bernstein's Candide ("as the old lady with one big buttock," according to The Journal) won her a Grammy award for the recording on the New World label. Yet another "virtuoso performance," in the words of The New York Times, was her portrayal of the mad Madame d'Urfe in the premiere of Casanova by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominick Argento '58GE. "I like roles that show character, vulnera­ bility, many tensions," she says in throaty, mellifluous tones over the phone from New York. "I try to search out roles that are in­ teresting to me and also interesting to the audience - roles of great drama and also great comedy." A few years back, she was doing about 75 performances a year; she's now trimmed it down to 50. "Singers have to be easy on themselves," she says. "It takes patience, because the voice is part of the body and it matures on its own. It's like a ballet dancer trying to get the leg a little bit higher. If you just yank it up there one day, you're going to have sore muscles for a while. "The journey is really important to me­ the journey of life. We singers are really lucky to be a part of this world of music and drama and performances. We can do so much: We can take people out of them­ Castle in the air: Levitating for a scene from a New York City Opera production of Prokofief's The selves, we can make them happy, we can Love for Three Oranges stir all sorts of emotions - we can do all this if we're cooking and doing honest work."

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body (the patches worn by many angina she says. "In a democracy, we can't relax patients are just one example of ALZA's and leave decisions to the other person. We products). In 1981 he established yet an­ need to reason together, and people can't f.,.,:....""."- other company, DNAX Limited, which do that without a liberal education." """ was later sold to Schering-Plough. Brownlee, who moved to AAC after nine \ -- Zaffaroni's determination in following years as president of Hollins College, is his convictions springs in part from a now in the perfect spot to promote that powerful and creative sense of independ­ kind of liberal-arts education - the associ­ ence fostered - inadvertently, he says - by ation's main mission is to do just that. his Jesuit teachers while he was growing up Among the projects she wants to under­ Drugs on Overdrive in Uruguay. take is a study of how curricular changes For most entrepreneurial executives, hav­ "The Jesuits' strongly authoritarian, dis­ are made. "We need to understand why ing three flourishing companies under your ciplinarian approach motivated me to work faculty may be irrationally. fearful of or belt would probably be enough. But not out stratagems for evading such a burden­ hostile to curricular changes. For example, for Alejandro Zaffaroni '490M, whose good some regime," he says. "The experience there are many political reasons for main­ ideas are plentiful enough to spur a num­ taught me that authoritarian environments taining the status quo," says Brownlee. ber of thriving enterprises. are the antithesis of what is needed to pro­ "It's not enough for a national association In his latest venture, Zaffaroni has as­ mote creativity. So I let my own people to come out with a blue-ribbon paper on sembled some of the world's top scientists, work in a very free environment." what a curriculum should be." including four Nobel laureates, in an effort This desire for independence was evident Brownlee is also interested in the place to propel into overdrive the tedious, trial­ in 1945, when, catching a ride on a cargo of women in higher education. Nineteen and-error process of discovering new drugs. ship, Zaffaroni left Uruguay to study bio­ years ago AAC started the Project on the Zaffaroni projects that when his new com­ chemistry in the States. He says he chose Status and Education of Women; it's cur­ pany, Affymax (a contraction of Affinity Rochester over an offer from Harvard be­ rently reexamining the scope of that work Matrix), is up and running, it will be able cause the University gave him the freedom to see whether curricular issues have been speedily and systematically to screen huge to choose his own research topic. Zaffaroni given enough attention. "There's no ques­ numbers of compounds (up to a million a jumped at the chance. tion that women have made wonderful month) in order to determine which among Ironically, two years later a new depart­ advances in the last 20 years, but they still them are worthy of pursuit as potentially ment chief, Elmer Stotz, was hired - from have a long way to go," she says. "For ex­ useful drugs. This in an industry where a Harvard, of all places. The new chair hoped ample, very few women have yet attained typical large pharmaceutical company tests to attract faculty and graduate students to senior faculty and administrative positions. only several thousand compounds a year. his own field (which wasn't Zaffaroni's), One wonders why." "We'll be able to test more compounds leading the young researcher to wonder Brownlee is obviously one woman who in a month than most companies test in a whether his investigative independence was has made it to the top. A native of Oreat lifetime," predicts Zaffaroni, who will move about to end. "But the professor felt my Britain, she earned bachelor's, master's, Affymax into a new building in Stanford work was very good," Zaffaroni remembers, and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Industrial Park in Palo Alto, California, "and he said, 'Alex, go on with what you Oxford. Her role model there was Dorothy early next year. are doing.' And my dream of doing my Hodgkin, a chemistry professor and Nobel Affymax plans to put millions of tiny own research has continued to this day." laureate (she discovered insulin). "What an microorganisms to work making minute inspiration! She had a husband and three amounts of natural compounds. Technol­ children and still managed to win a Nobel ogy from fields as diverse as astronomy, prize," says Brownlee. robotics, and biochemistry will help sci­ In some ways, Brownlee followed in her entists check which compounds stick to mentor's footsteps. She came to Rochester which cell receptors (a necessary step for a as a postdoctoral fellow, met and married drug to send a signal to a cell). Automated, Thomas Brownlee '610 (a fellow chemistry laser-based detection devices will record the postdoc who now teaches organic chemis­ reactions. try at American University), and had three Compounds that bind to receptors will babies in three years. She then dropped out be further tested and may wind up as use­ of the work force to care for her children. ful drugs someday. In addition, the infor­ When she was ready to go back seven mation about each compound will be fed Advocating a Liberal Education years later, she says, she discovered that her into a huge database that will help scien­ In this country, hundreds of thousands child-rearing experience had "indirectly tists design, molecule by molecule on a of dollars are spent to keep a few severely trained" her in the time-management skills computer screen, new compounds that will brain-damaged people alive on high-tech needed in an effective administrator. Since target specific diseases. life-support systems, while thousands of then she has steadily moved up the admin­ If past success is any indication of things uninsured children go without basic vac­ istrative ladder from actiRg dean (Douglass to come, it won't take long for Zaffaroni's cinations. To Paula Pimlott Brownlee '64F, College at Rutgers) to dean of the faculty newest venture to thrive. He built up Syntex new president of the Washington-based (Union) to president (Hollins and now Laboratories into a pharmaceutical giant Association of American Colleges (AAC), AAC). before departing in 1968 to found ALZA that represents a problem. Speaking of her new job, she says: "I Corporation. Motivated by the conviction "Technology has brought us forward, can't be a president who just sits in her that improved drug delivery could signifi­ but it's also brought with it an increasing office. I'm very much a believer in having cantly improve the therapeutic value of number of moral and ethical dilemmas. contact where the action is." A principle drugs, Zaffaroni focused ALZA's attention Health-care costs are just one example," derived from her "indirect training" on controlled-release systems that steadily perhaps? release small amounts of a drug into the

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"I began thinking about what else I the concept behind the words. I study could do." everything from textbooks on forensics The woman he was dating at the time to cop books, lawyer books, and crime had decided to go to medical school in books." She reads the latter, she says, to Italy- so he joined her. get a sense of the legal and criminal mind. "I went over there, learned Italian, and Another thing she finds useful is having got into med school," he says, making it a bent for the dramatic. "Anyone who sound as easy as picking out "Chopsticks" wants to be an interpreter should take a on the piano. Two years later, he was back course in acting and body movement," she in the States, finishing his training at SUNY says. "When defendants are timid, fright­ Take Five-and Call Me Downstate Medical Center- and soloing ened, aggressive, whatever, you have to con­ in the Morning on a CD on Nilva Records, Maya's Dance, vey their attitudes as well as their words." by bassist Ray Drummond. But, she cautions, interpreters cannot afford "John Richmond is a fluid tenor and so­ Last summer, he completed an intern­ to identify with the people they are speak­ prano saxophonist who here makes his LP ship at Beth Israel Medical Center in New ing for. "You have to remember to keep out debut at the helm of a blue-chip quartet," York City. The boxing stopped a while ago of the case. If you do take sides, your body begins Cash Box's review of "Round Once," ("I just jog a little bit," he says), but the language can show it and possibly affect the a 1985 recording by the John Richmond music - never. outcome. The defendant is the one who Quartet. "There are some doctors who are first­ writes the script; you just say the lines." What the writer neglected to say (in all class jazz musicians," Richmond insists. Edwards does both simultaneous and fairness, couldn't have known) was that "There's something about the yin and yang consecutive oral interpretation as well as jazzman John Richmond '73 was soon to of the two fields. Medicine is creative - at written translation of documents. Simul­ trade in his saxophone for a stethoscope, least it used to be before all the malpractice taneous interpretation - while the other at least during waking hours. Today, he's a suits began. It's an art and a science to­ person is still speaking - is the hardest, so board-certified M.D. doing a residency in gether, a meld of technology and technique. difficult that "you have to switch off every diagnostic radiology at SUNY Downstate "Music is a technique applied to an art. half hour," she says. "Normal people listen Medical Center in Brooklyn. It's mathematical, too - Bach is a perfect selectively. But we can't tune anything out. He doesn't miss his music, he says, be­ example." We have to listen for every little word." cause he hasn't stopped playing: "I'm work­ In any event, he says, "Deep inside me I Lately she has been lightening her court­ ing toward a copacetic mixture of the two. am a musician, by religion and philosophy. room schedule so she can spend more time I have a practice room in the East Village, "I'm ripping off Charlie Parker when I on a textbook on court interpretation she is on East 7th Street. I've got a little piano say this, but jazz is still my religion." writing. She'd like to see colleges and uni­ there and I try to keep my chops up." versities begin offering specific training in As far as being a latecomer to medicine this field, she says. is concerned, he says, "I try to suck it up She got her own first taste of translating and be cool. On the other hand, it's kind informally as an undergraduate at Roches­ of tough to take orders from a 28-year..old ter (she majored in history, incidentally, not who's my boss and who's done nothing but foreign languages). She thought a poem by study all the time" - unlike Richmond, who St. John of the Cross that she had to read earned a B.A. in psychology from Roches­ for class was poorly rendered in English, ter (he calls his course of study "loosely tackled her own translation, and handed it pre-med") and then went home to New York in as part of the assignment. Then, when to become a respiratory therapist and, off­ she was a graduate student in Washington hours, a jazz musician. He enrolled in the (working at American University on her Manhattan School of Music and, by 1978, Saying the Lines Ph.D. in Latin American history), she got had earned a bachelor of music degree. The way Alicia Betsy Edwards '64 talks on a summer job as a Spanish-language trans­ And he got into boxing on the side. "I the job much of the time is criminal. That lator for a magazine. The tight academic was a gym boxer," he says, "but I got to is, she is speaking like a criminal. "I know job market in the mid-'70s combined with work out with ranked boxers like Renaldo it all," she says: "jail slang, drug slang, her growing interest in interpreting per­ Snipes, the guy who fought Larry Holmes street slang. I have to - it's my work." suaded her to move into the field profes­ for the heavyweight title, and Doug Dewitt, Edwards, who freelances as a translator sionally. the middleweight champion." and interpreter, is frequently hired to inter­ Even though her education didn't specif­ By the early '80s, he had worked his way pret for indigent defendants on trial in fed­ ically prepare Edwards for her life's work, into jazz clubs like the Blue Note in New eral courts. Among the cases she's worked she says it has served her well. "I received a York, performing with talents like Kenny on in her 11 years in the courtroom was superb education at Rochester; it was there Kirkland, Jeff Watts, Buster Williams, and one of the first criminal cases in which where I learned what an intellectual life can Mike Longo. He did a lot of recording DNA "fingerprints" were used as evidence, be. I would encourage any current Roches­ sessions - "the little boops and beeps you in the trial of two Spanish-speaking Vir­ ter students who are interested in language hear on advertisements," he says - but he ginia men accused of rape. and the humanities to consider a career as was struggling nevertheless. "For that trial, I had to become familiar a court interpreter. "In New York, the number of top-notch with the latest DNA technology- in both "You'll never be bored," she claims. For musicians is just incredible; they come Spanish and English," she says. "It's amaz­ one thing, she adds, "there are all kinds of from all over the world. New York is the ing what you have to know to be a court surprises and drama in the courtroom- a mecca, even though these guys might wind interpreter. And the language is only the lot better than any soap opera." up playing for $50 a night. beginning. You not only have to under­ stand the words, you have to understand

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(Think of the opening bars of Beethoven's "Fur Elise," a piece familiar to nearly every one-time piano student: E, D-sharp/E, D­ sharpiE, D-sharp, E, B, D, C, A.) "I call it 'get ready, get set, go,' " says Yerlow. "I was talking about this with one of my students, a movie producer, and he said, 'Sure. It's the same phrasing for jokes: the first slap, then the second slap, then the third - that's the one that's funny.' Live with Regis and Stanley "My students and I talk about how to Over the past decade or so, concert make music exciting, how to keep people's pianist Stanley Yerlow '800E has played attention. Sometimes it's a lot easier for Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Concert them to do this in music, because it's in the Hall at Lincoln Center, the Museum of abstract and they're new at it - they're not the City of New York-and the syndicated supposed to be good. Then when they come morning talk show, "Live with Regis and up with an idea, they're able to link it to Kathie Lee." what they've been doing all along in their What's a serious concert pianist doing careers. on a morning talk show? "My students question me, make me Seems that Regis (Philbin is the name) is think about things I hadn't thought of be­ one of Yerlow's piano students, as are Phil fore. If I couldn't learn anything from Falsetti on the road Donahue (of, what else, "Donahue" fame) them, I wouldn't teach." and film actor Tony Roberts (Annie Hall, As for performing: "I've been perform­ bers of the local cycling team. Since that Serpico), among others. ing since I was a kid," Yerlow says. His time he has been a team physician at na­ "Regis does it for fun, because he enjoys next big date is at Carnegie Hall on De­ tional and international events, including the lessons. He's very sincere about it," cember 3, when he will perform a duet the Paris-Brest-Paris Bicycle Race in says Yerlow, who has appeared on the show with one of his students as well as solo France, the 1986 World Cycling Cham­ several times over the past year, working works by Beethoven, Schumann, and con­ pionship in Colorado Springs, and the with Philbin on solo pieces and duets. temporary composer Edwin Oerschefski, 1984 Olympics. "He even plays the piano in a nightclub whose preludes were the subject of his As physician to members of the U.S. act. It's a simple first-grade piece he does, doctoral dissertation at Eastman. 1984 Olympic cycling team, Falsetti pio­ but he's probably made more money play­ His plans for the future? "I don't want neered the technique of using feedback ing that little tune than most concert artists anything to be a whisper of yesterday. I from a wristwatch-sized heart monitor­ make. want to keep everything fresh, whether that strapped to the body during training - to Tony Roberts has been a Yerlow student involves new students, new thoughts on my pinpoint an athlete's target heart-rate zone. for nearly a decade. "He was referred by an­ part, coming up with new ideas, whatever. Believing that optimal physical condition­ other student of mine, a television producer. "I would quit if everything that I taught ing depends upon the time an athlete This person also knew Marlo Thomas well; over the past six months were to ever be a trains within that zone, Falsetti designed Marlo gave Donahue, her husband, lessons repeat of everything I had taught over the individual exercise programs for each of with me as an anniversary present," says previous six months." his patients. Yerlow. "And I've been wedding presents to The results were convincing. Falsetti's people, too," he adds. team won nine medals at the 1984 Olym­ Philbin, Donahue, Roberts, and the re­ Olympic Fine-Tuner pics, the first U.S. cycling medals since 1912. cipients of the wedding presents are all part "Train smarter not harder," Herman "It was an incredibly exciting thing," ad­ of a national trend, according to The New Falsetti '57, '60M tells his patients. A cardi­ mits Falsetti, who was there in Los Angeles York Times. Last June a front-page story ologist and the president of Health Corp., to watch it happen. "After 72 years of com­ in the "Living" section - featuring a photo an Irvine, California-based practice spe­ petition, it was wonderful to see our team of Yerlow coaching Philbin at the piano­ cializing in sports medicine and fitness, win," he says. reported that "more and more adults are Falsetti helps world-champion cyclists, tri­ Falsetti has been a competitive athlete taking piano lessons, sometimes vying with athletes, swimmers, and runners fine-tune more or less all his life. He played on Roch­ their own children for time spent on prac­ their bodies for optimal performance in ester's football team from 1953 to 1957. "I ticing." Alison Barr, a piano teacher and competition. was sort of sandwiched in between two un­ national chair of the Independent Music "Years ago the prevailing belief was that defeated teams, the ones in '52 and '58," he Teachers Forum, told the Times, "It has more is better when it comes to training. recalls ruefully. Over the succeeding years been an explosion. It's as if every other call Today we're finding out that's just not true. he has run in more than a hundred road we take is from an adult." Intensity is important, not just mileage." races, including 12 marathons, and cycled In tune with that trend, Yerlow's average The doctor has been effecting the posi­ in another 50. In 1975 he became the first student is between 35 and 45. He prefers tive outcomes of athletes since the early American to finish the Paris-Brest-Paris teaching adults "because they teach me the '70s, when as a professor of cardiology at race. most," he says. the University of Iowa, and an avid bicy­ Does the doctor practice what he "I teach architects, lawyers, advertising clist himself, he became physician to mem- preaches? Yes, he still exercises every day, executives - and they all bring in ideas to he says, but these days "it's just for fun." me that I can use with other students. For instance, in music, one of the most com­ Contributed by Nancy Barre, Denise Bolger mon phrases is a 'short, short, long.' " Kovnat, Wendy Levin, and Tom Rickey

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Alumni Grace Marie Ange '55

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RIVER CAMPUS Joseph Abate '73G, '77G, promoted to direc­ Robert Amico '84G, '87G, promoted to asso­ tor of laser and diagnostic development, ciate professor of philosophy and granted Career Moves Hampshire Instruments, Inc., Rochester. tenure, St. Bonaventure University. William Sharp '53, chairman, department of Gary Clinton '73, appointed assistant dean, T. Sean Ryan '84, appointed mortgage bank­ surgery, Akron City Hospital, named also University of Pennsylvania Law School. er, Financial Resources, Inc., Boca Raton, chairman, department of surgery, North­ Hope Schreiber '73, appointed director of Fla. eastern Ohio Universities. neuropsychology, Charles River Hospital, Diane Austin '85G, promoted to senior man­ Doris Jordan Guidi '56, provost, e. w. Post Boston. ager, consumer products division, Rich Campus, appointed university officer, Long Alan Rudolph '74, named recycling coordi­ Products Corp., Buffalo. Island University; also named vice chair, nator, Western Finger Lakes Solid Waste Richard Milham '85, named associate attor­ Commission on the Human Immunodefi­ Management Authority. ney, Harter, Secrest & Emery, Rochester. ciency Virus Epidemic, Nassau County Kurt Dughstun '74G, '79G, granted tenure Neil Bader '86, appointed V.p. and sales Health Department. as an associate professor of electrical engi­ director, Skyscraper Consultants, Inc. John Thompson '57, named partner, Hodg­ neering and mathematics, University of Jeannine Donato '89, appointed administra­ son, Russ, Andrews, Woods, & Goodyear, a Vermont. tive assistant to deputy director of sales Buffalo-based law firm. Heidi DeWyngaert '77, appointed V.p., com­ and marketing, Associated Press Broadcast David Seligman '63, named V.p., Western mercial real estate lending, Union Trust Services, Washington, D.C. Maryland College. He is dean of academic Co., Stamford, Conn. affairs at the school. Patricia Donoghue '77, appointed director Brian Ratchford '66G, '72G, appointed alum­ of development and community affairs, Honors /Elections ni professor of marketing, University at Strong Children's Medical Center, Univer­ J. Shelton Reed '37, awarded honorary Buffalo. sity Medical Center. alumnus status, East Tennessee State Uni­ Robert Zalosh '66G, appointed professor of Alan Winters '77, made partner, Lowenthal, versity. fire protection engineering and Reiss Dis­ Landau, Fischer, & Zeigler, P.e., New York Elliot Wineburg '48, awarded New Frontiers tinguished Lecturer, Worcester Polytechnic City. Award, The American Friends of Ezrath Institute. Jane Dubin '78, '79G, promoted to V.p., pen­ Nashim Hospital. Dennis Karr '67, appointed senior v.p., sion markets, Equitable Capital Manage­ Kathleen Diem Warren '52, awarded Excel­ Harper-Lawrence, Inc., a commercial real ment Corporation. lence in Teaching Award, College of East­ estate brokerage firm, New York City. Roy Maizel '79, '81G, promoted to director ern Utah. Richard Delisle '68, appointed director of of resource analysis, Space Station Pro­ Grace Marie Ange '55, elected to executive manufacturing, Scott Aviation. gram Office, NASA. committee, New York State Bar Associa­ James Terzian '71, appointed director of Paul Evoskevich '80G, appointed chair, mu­ tion. laboratory services, Lourdes Hospital, sic division, College of Saint Rose, Albany. Kenneth Guenther '57, featured as the most Binghamton, N.Y. Michael Taylor '80, '81G, promoted to finan­ powerful lobbyist within the financial serv­ Lawrence Belle '72G, named acting dean, cial analyst, Mobil Chemical Company, ices industry, United States Banker maga­ College of Continuing Education, Roches­ Jacksonville, Ill. zine, February 1990. ter Institute of Technology. Bonnie Helfgott Fisher '81, appointed in­ Harold Shaub '57, awarded Thomas A. Neil Dominas '72, appointed assistant pro­ house general counsel, Pitt County Memo­ Edison Patent Award by the Research and fessor of communications, Elizabethtown rial Hospital, Greenville, N.C. Development Council of New Jersey. College, Lancaster County, Pa. Glenn Stutz '81, promoted to v.p. of engi­ Gale Stillman Duque '58, writing tutor and Elinda Fishman-Kornblith '72G, '83G, ap­ neering, Lincoln Laser Co., Phoenix. cross-cultural programs coordinator, Buck­ pointed professor of finance, Temple Uni­ David Aschauer '83G, '84G, appointed to en­ nell University, awarded Bucknell-Burma versity. dowed chair in economics, Bates College. Award for outstanding contributions to in­ Jane Guyer '72G, granted tenure as an asso­ Jonathan Cagan '83, '85G, appointed assist­ tercultural and international understanding. ciate professor of anthropology, College of ant professor of mechanical engineering, Janet Hagadorn '61, mathematics chair of Liberal Arts, Boston University. Carnegie Mellon University. Notre Dame School of Manhattan, named Ralph Ullman '72G, '79G, named associate David Difabio '83G, appointed assistant pro­ one of America's 100 Outstanding Mathe­ benefit consultant, Buck Consultants, Inc., fessor of psychology, Mohawk Valley Com­ matics/Science/Computer Science Teach­ Secaucus, N.J. munity College. ers, Tandy Technology Scholars Program. Nadereh Nouhi '83, appointed V.p. of project finance, The Financial Services Corp., New York City.

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Harold Shaub '57 Frederick Kremkau '69G, '72G

Robert Zalosh '66G

Richard Leone '62, elected chair, Port Lt. Stephen Kass '86, awarded Navy Achieve­ Daniel Botkin '59, author Discordant Har­ Authority of New York and New Jersey. ment Medal while stationed aboard the monies: A New Ecology for the 21st Cen­ W. Beall Fowler '63G, professor of physics U.S.S. Stump. tury, Oxford University Press, 1990. and chair of the department at Lehigh Uni­ Christopher Kilian '87, granted Equal Justice Earl Ingersoll '60, editor, Margaret Atwood: versity, awarded R. R. and E. C. Hillman Fellowship for environmental studies, Na­ Conversations, Ontario Review Press, 1990. Award by the university, for advancing the tional Wildlife Federation, Portland, Oreg. He is professor of English and Irish litera­ interests of the school. ture at SUNY Brockport. Edward Hayes '63, professor of chemistry, Robert Hampton '69G, author, Jamba Maya associate provost, and v.p. for information, Advanced Degrees (a cookbook containing more than 200 Rice University, elected fellow, American Terry Card '64, M.S., public administration, recipes, including Mexican variations of Association for the Advancement of Sci­ SUNY Brockport. traditional Louisiana dishes), Hampton ence. Sam Cianfarano '76G, Ed.D., educational ad­ Publishers, 1990. John Russell '63, '65G, awarded $1,000 ministration, Northern Arizona University. Robert Thayer '64G, author, The Biopsy­ Excellence in Education Award by the Susan Kaufman Samuels '76, Ph.D., educa­ chology ofMood and Arousal, Oxford Education Endowment Foundation of tional psychology, University of Connect­ University Press, 1989. the Natrona County School District #1, icut. Raymond Martin '68G, author, The Past Casper, Wyo. Paul Hrycaj '79, Ph.D., philosophy, Syracuse Within Us, Princeton University Press, Carol Yavorsky Workman '67, named Profes­ University. 1989; and co-editor, Selfand Identity, sional of the Year, Huntsville (Ala.) Associ­ John Doyle '81, M.B.A., J. L. Kellogg Grad­ MacMillan, 1990. He is a professor of phi­ ation of Technical Societies. uate School of Management. losophy at the University of Maryland, Alan Agresti '68, named fellow, American Andrew Kent '82, J.D., New York Law College Park. Statistical Association, for his outstanding School. Frederick Kremkau '69G, '72G, author, professional contribution and leadership in Stefan Chevalier '84, D.o., Kirksville College Doppler Ultrasound: Principles and Instru­ the field of statistical science. of Osteopathic Medicine. ments, Saunders Company. Judith Hasenauer '69, awarded Dedicated Michael Torres '84, M.D., Hahnemann Uni­ Ruth Spack '69, author, Guidelines: A Service Award, Norwalk (Conn.) Commu­ versity. Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text, St. nity College. James Galluzzo '85, M.S., geology, Louisiana Martin's Press, 1990. She teaches at Tufts Siddhartha Dalal '71G, '73G, '76G, district State University. He is a petroleum geolo­ University. manager, Statistics and Econometrics Re­ gist with Texaco, Inc. in New Orleans. search Group, Bellcore, Morristown, N.J., Shay Daley '86, M.S., clinical psychology, named fellow, American Statistical Associ­ Purdue University. ation. Elaine Chryssochoos '85, J.D., Fordham Law Charlotte Mendoza '71G, honored as one of School. Key the nation's 70 leading teachers at the 70th Gregory Sambuchi '86, M.D., SUNY Buffalo anniversary national meeting of the Asso­ School of Medicine. RC - River Campus colleges ciation of Teacher Educators. Andrew Klapper '87, J.D., New York Law G- Graduate degree, River Campus Dawn Hazelhurst '76, appointed by Gover­ School. colleges nor Mario Cuomo to Board of Visitors, Gregory Hecht '88, M.A., molecular biology, M- M.D. degree Manhattan Development Center. Princeton University. GM - Graduate degree, Medicine and Robert Youngquist '80, one of 50 Kennedy Dentistry Space Center employees honored for exem­ R- Medical residency plary work at the nation's spaceport. Books Published F- Fellowship, Medicine and Dentistry Robert Paquette '82G, associate professor of Guido Marinetti '50, '53G, author, Disorders E- Eastman School of Music history, Hamilton College, awarded fellow­ ofLipid Metabolism, Plenum Press, 1990. GE - Graduate degree, Eastman ship, American Council for Learned Soci­ Nat Brandt '51, author, The Town That N- School of Nursing eties, to spend the 1990-91 school year Started the Civil War, Syracuse University GN - Graduate degree, Nursing studying the Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811. Press, 1990. FN - Fellowship, School of Nursing Mark Thompson '83G, awarded 1990 Becker U- University College Award, Indiana State University, highest GU - Graduate degree, University College honor given in the school's psychology pro­ gram.

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Mark Thompson '83G Kathleen Mulholland Parrinello '75N, '83GN

Diane Austin '85G

Janet Zandy '73G, editor, Calling Home: Piece No.2 were performed in Seattle and Honors/Elections Working-Class Women's Writings, Rutgers Vancouver as a part of the u.S.-Canada University Press, 1990. New Music Exchange. Lawrence Young '39M, awarded Distin­ Susan Kaufman Samuels '76, co-author, David Thomas '83GE, awarded $5,000 guished Achievement Citation for profes­ Clinical Evaluations ofSchool-Aged Chil­ Academy-Institute Award in Music by the sional accomplishments and outstanding dren: A Structured Approach to Diagnosis American Academy and Institute of Arts service to humankind, Ohio Wesleyan ofChild and Adolescent Mental Disorders, and Letters. University. Professional Resource Exchange, Inc., 1990. Robert King '46M, awarded the Cushing Bob Bly '79, author, Secrets ofa Freelance Medal by the American Association of Writer and The Copywriter's Handbook, Performances/ Recordings Neurological Surgeons. Henry Holt & Co. Joshua Missal '37E, '38GE, composer, Work Alexander Strasser '62M, '67GM, installed for String Orchestra: Celebration Suite; In­ as president, Monroe County Medical novation & Dance for Cello Quartet; and Society. He will retain his positions as co­ EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Carson Suite for Strings. Kjos Music Co. editor of the Society's Bulletin and chair James Willey '61E, '63GE, '72GE, composer, of the Occupational Medicine Committee. Career Moves Five Pieces for Dark Times (1988), pre­ Cyril ("Kim") Hetsko '68M, named Emma Lou Diemer '49E, '59E, appointed miered by the Seattle Symphony; Sonata president-elect, Wisconsin State Medical composer-in-residence, 1990-91, Santa Bar­ for Horn and Piano, first-prize winner in Society. bara Symphony. the International Horn Society's annual Mohamed Eldidi '84GM, '86GM, awarded Dean Cummings '63GE, '75GE, promoted to competition, premiered at the Society's James W. McLaughlin Postdoctoral Fel­ full professor, Marietta College, Parkers­ annual workshop. lowship in infection and immunity, Univer­ burg, W. Va. sity of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Dan Wellcher '69E, appointed composer-in­ residence, 1990-92, Honolulu Symphony Advanced Degrees Orchestra. He is a full professor of compo­ Mary Fendrich Bittner '77E, M.B.A., Virginia SCHOOL OF NURSING sition at the University of Texas, Austin, Commonwealth University. from which he is taking a two-year leave. Career Moves Michael Pratt '71E, appointed music di­ Anne Peduto Ryan '73N, appointed assistant rector, Delaware Valley Philharmonic Or­ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE director of nursing, Lake Erie Institute of chestra. AND DENTISTRY Rehabilitation. David MacFarland '74E, '82GE, appointed Kathleen Mulholland Parrinello '75N, '83GN, head of preservation, San Francisco Public Career Moves appointed chief of surgical nursing, Strong Library. w. V. ("Buzz") Williamson '56RC, '64R, Memorial Hospital. Anne Greunke Brittain '83E, appointed in­ appointed visiting professor of orthodon­ structor of voice, Mars Hill (N.C.) College. tics, Kanagawa Dental College, Yokosuka, Japan. He is in private practice in Newport Honors Beach, Calif. Virginia Hens '59N, awarded Anita Dorr Honors/Elections Thomas Bonfiglio '69M, '72R, appointed Award by the New York State Council of Neill Humfeld '58GE, '62GE, music profes­ chair of the Department of Pathology and the Emergency Nurses Association, in rec­ sor at East Texas State University, honored Laboratory Medicine, University Medical ognition of her outstanding contributions by a scholarship endowment established in Center. in the field of emergency nursing. his name. Immanuel Ho '84RC, '88M, appointed fellow Leora Kline '68GE, awarded 1990 C. David of gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Medical Horine Memorial Scholarship by the Day­ Center, New York City, beginning 1991. Advanced Degrees ton Philharmonic Orchestra. Kathlyn Tyau Moore '73N, M.S., nursing, Clement Reid '77E, awarded foundation University of Hawaii, Manoa. grant from the King County (Seattle) Arts Boo ks Pu blis hed Sheryl Pincus '80GN, J.D., Widener Univer­ Commission, in support of the Washington George Schuster '70GM, editor, Oral sity School of Law. She is working in the Composer's Forum 1989-90 concert season. Microbiology & Infectious Disease, Third law firm of Swartz, Campbell, & Detweiler, His works Seascape No.2 and Theatre Edition, B. C. Decker Publisher; and co­ in Philadelphia. editor, Steadman's Medical Dictionary, Williams and Wilkins Publishers. 44 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91

45 Rochester Review/Winter 1990-91 PRESIDENT (continued from page 2)

courts. Nothing very diverse there. If one accepts the analysis above, African-Americans may seem to the universities and feel to themselves peculiarly alienated. More alienated than women, Hispanics, Catholics, or Jews. The university is a place of ~,.-.,,,_A~~ diversity of ideas, cultures, and styles. Scotl__ ands, It should not have great problems ad­ justing to distant religions and strange customs. The alienation of African­ Isla ties Americans at dominantly white institu­ tions is something else: The university is an American institution attempting to include those historically defined as "the-Americans-excluded." Hispanics can seek refuge in Europe; Vietnamese are really different; blacks are very much the same (Americans) but with a heri­ tage of exclusion. No wonder there are racial tensions on majority campuses. My main objection to "diversity" as a slogan is that it masks the depth of the plight of African-Americans in America. There is more here than ac­ cepting those who are different - it is accepting those defined-as-different-in­ order-to-be-excluded. In this regard, the charge of "racism" often raised in discussions of diversity has validity. Universities are really pretty good at Departure From Boston or New York incorporating different "ideological" products: philosophies, religions, styles $3185 of art. Race is not an ideological prod­ Per Person (Double Occupancy) uct; it is a biological descriptor. It is Single Supplement $495 blacks as a race who are excluded in American expeIience. To the extent, then, that American educational insti­ tutions are unable to create a sense of Please forward additional information on this program. "home" for blacks, this failure will be interpreted as racist. Name If a bad diagnostic on "diversity" prevails it will also lead to misplaced Address therapies. There is a straightforward, unimpeachable argument for universi­ City State __ Zip Code ties and colleges to treat seriously the radically different experience of the African continent- and the radically Phone defeated (and therefore different) ex­ Clip and Mail To: University of Rochester Alumni Association, pectations of the African American. Fairbank Alumni House, 685 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Both intellectual breadth and political Telephone: (716) 275-3684 or (800) 333-0175. commitment justify African and African-American studies.

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least of them the co-discovery in 1977 of 1971: Learning a New Language the Vela pulsar, the faintest star ever mea­ sured. An Oxford grad (B.A. in physics from Wadham College), he holds a doc­ torate in physics and astronomy from Rochester (he was attracted across the Pond, he says, by the "broadening" expe­ rience of an American education and by the prospect of working with the up-and­ coming astronomy group at the Univer­ sity). Attached to the Royal Greenwich Ob­ servatory since 1979, he is now its second in command. The new Canary Islands facility, known formally as the European Northern Observ­ atory, is located in "one of the half-dozen "From time to time, I smell a lilac tree best places for astronomy in the world," he and in my imagination I am briefly trans­ PAUL MURDIN '71G says. A federation of 10 European nations ported back," recalls Paul Murdin about runs it; Britain and the Netherlands have his graduate-student days at Rochester, the largest set of telescopes there - includ­ when, as he also recalls, he at one time 1990: Royal Greenwich Stargazer ing one that, at 4.2 meters, ranks easily shared an office with another grad stu­ among the most powerful in the world. dent's baby. Murdin, the stargazer, also enjoys more "The desk next to mine," he remembers, earthbound pursuits. He has published sev­ "was Siegfried Kutter's ['65G, '69G]. He en books to date, all for lay readers - these kept his newborn infant in a crib in the in addition to his ISO-plus published pa­ desk drawer until he and his wife, Betty pers in scientific journals. The first of his ['68G], got their babysitters sorted out." popular books, The Astronomer's Tele­ . It was in that office (presumably during scope, he wrote when he was 18, in collab­ the baby's absence) that Murdin wrote his oration with Patrick Moore ("a popularizer dissertation, on "The Crab Nebula and of astronomy," he says, with whom he used Its Pulsar." In the acknowledgements he to appear on a television show for children). alludes to poet John Donne: "No man is Then followed, in rapid succession, Radio an island," Murdin wrote, "or, if he is, he Waves from Space (written in 1969 with his belongs to an archipelago." wife, Lesley Murdin, who "provided the Such evidence of a wide-ranging intellect There he is, just above the Murdochs, historical perspective"), The New Astron­ doesn't surprise those who knew him back Iris and Rupert, in Who's Who - the Who's omy (1974), Catalogue ofthe Universe then. Larry Helfer, professor of physics Who of Who's Whos, that is, the one for (1980, written with David Allen and David and astronomy, says, "My impression was Great Britain: Paul Geoffrey Murdin, depu­ Malin), Colours ofthe Stars (1985), and that he was a guy who was bound to suc­ ty director of the Royal Greenwich Observa­ End in Fire (1989). Murdin's most recent ceed in anything he attempted. He was tory and O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excel­ book, published this year, looks at the su­ really bright, just extraordinarily bright." lent Order of the British Empire, in case pernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Professor Emeritus Stewart Sharpless, you didn't know, established in 1917 by and he's currently at work on a study of who supervised Murdin's dissertation, King George V "for God and the Empire"). references to astronomy in works of art. recalls that he and Murdin arrived at the Murdin received the medal two years ago His ambitiously titled Catalogue ofthe River Campus together, "he as a student from Queen Elizabeth II herself, amid the Universe amounts to a practical guide to and me as a prof," and remembers clearly splendor of Buckingham Palace. "It was the heavens, engagingly shedding light on "one rather funny incident" during their a great delight for me to get a taxi at the such celestial phenomena as Shakhbazyan first couple of days here. train station and ask to be taken to Buck­ 1, the Coma Cluster, Bok Globules, and "It was very hot and he was in the proc­ ingham Palace," he admits cheerily. the Eskimo Nebula. ess of registering for classes. He came into "We were all lined up in a big row accord­ At times, the book summons up the sense my office and complained about the heat ing to a list. When the queen presented me of wonder that astronomers must feel on and his difficulties with registering - not with my medal and pinned it on my lapel, occasion as they explore the skies: "Even a to mention, he said, 'all the problems of she asked me, 'What did you do?' jaded professional astronomer in the prime learning a new language.' " "I answered that I had set up Britain's focus cage of a big telescope, with his back Sharpless laughs at the memory and national observatory in the Canary Islands. " to the stars," the authors write, "feels a adds, "We had very high regard for him Then, casting protocol to the winds (he thrill from knowing that real photons from right from the start. I'm not surprised that had been cautioned to speak to Her Maj­ distant galaxies are exposing the photo­ he's been so successful. esty only when spoken to by her), Murdin graph he is taking." "Someday, I think, he might even be ventured to add, "I do hope that you'll be A thought that might give pause to the Britain's 'astronomer royal' - the poet able to come help us open the new observa­ queen herself. laureate of astronomy." tory." To which, he reports, the queen re­ plied diplomatically, "I do hope so too." Murdin certainly has stellar credentials Denise Bolger Kovnat for the Canary Islands assignment, not

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