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lurgical Engineering, who holds the Francis N. Bard '04 Endows Herbert Fiske Johnson Professorship endowed by Trustee Herbert F. Metallurgy Professorship Johnson, Jr. '22 and his family. "These men," the President said, IFT of a professorship of Metal- generation, it will have accomplished "typify the kind of leadership in G lurgical Engineering was , for- a worthwhile task. Let us hope it science and the humanities that makes mally made by Francis N. Bard '04 of will produce one every few years. We a university great. We need more of , 111., at a University dinner in can use them. But coupled with this their kind and we are deeply grateful Willard Straight Memorial Room, search for prepotent minds must go that tonight we may add Peter E. November 7. Approximately 100 in- the development of hundreds of Kyle to the roll. vited guests included alumni and finely-trained metallurgists capable of "The donor who invests in superior others from industry and members of serving industry and their country men," the President continued, "what- the University. well. ever his motives and however keen his vision, achieves more than he can Dean S. C. Hollister of the College "This great University has often foresee. How could anyone in the six- of Engineering, who presided, an- been referred to as unique in its foun- teenth or seventeenth centuries have nounced also that Professor Peter E. dation and operation. It has produced, imagined the effects of underwriting Kyle '33 had been appointed the first especially in its Engineering Schools, Matthew Arnold in literature, John incumbent of the Francis Norwood a great group of rugged individualists Ruskin in art, or Lord Rutherford in Bard Professorship of Metallurgical who are successful leaders in their physics? And when the donor links Engineering and that the School of fields. It is only natural, therefore, his name with that of a great Uni- Chemical Engineering is henceforth that I should wish that the University versity, he creates about the most en- named the School of Chemical and would maintain its tough moral and during memorial within the reach of Metallurgical Engineering. Under Pro- intellectual fibre, virility, and vigor t man. As J. DuPratt White '90, late fessor Kyle's direction are the foundry over the years." chairman of the Cornell Board of courses and other work with metals President Edmund E. Day, accept- formerly given in Sibley College, with Trustees, said nearly thirty years ago, ing the gift for the University, called a broadened five-year program in 'The universities of the world, and all it "especially significant because it which twenty-seven students., are al- names that are attached to them and provides for a permanent investment ready enrolled. to their parts as institutions, are as in men." He cited the distinguished imperishable as civilization.' Francis Family Interest in Metals leadership which other endowed chairs Norwood Bard has now built himself Bard, in presenting his gift of $250,- at the University had made possible, into Cornell and hence into the intel- 000 to the University to endow the and named the incumbents of en- lectual life of America, for all the new Professorship, said that knowl- dowed professorships, including Di- years to come." edge of metals "is one of the oldest rector Fred H. Rhodes, PhD '14, of Professor Kyle described "Cornell's forms of human industrial activity . . . the School of Chemical and Metal- New Program in Metallurgical Engi- Civilization only progressed as the knowledge of metallurgy increased, and apparently in direct proportion." He expressed the hope that his gift would make possible "the inspiration and development of keen, productive, and scientifically-minded men in the field of metallurgy" and "the under- taking and accomplishment of metal- lurgical research of the highest order." He referred to the new professorship as "a very human thing in its con- ception and operation," saying, "It is made possible by a man whose for- bears used engineering and metal tools; whose father was a self-made and successful rolling-mill man. . . . The original conception and founding have gone as far as they can go. The future is in active and competent hands. The scene shifts from the pro- BARD >04 ENDOWS METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSORSHIP duction of resources and capital to At a University dinner in Willard Straight Memorial Room, speakers were Professor the academic and research field. If Peter E. Kyle '33, first holder of the new professorship; Dean S. C. Hollister, Engineering; this Professorship can produce one or Francis N. Bard '04, formally presenting his gift of $250,000; President Edmund E. Day, whom the photographer was unable to picture, behind the lectern; and at right, Director two outstandingly brilliant metal- Fred H. Rhodes, PhD Ί4, of the newly-named School of Chemical and Metallurgical lurgists of world-wide recognition a Engineering. Wesp-Buzzell neering." He cited the teachings of facturing Co., almost the sole maker All the letters, covering a period the late Director Robert H. Thurston of special flexible ball joints, gasoline between 1880 and 1895, were written and George Burr Upton '04 of Sibley percussion hammers, and similar de- to Thurston, a noted inventor and College and Professor Adelbert P. vices for railroads and industry, sold father of mechanical engineering edu- Mills, Civil Engineering, as evidence all over the world. As an avocation, cation in America. The 300 items are that i'metallurgy is not new at Cor- Bard operates a citrus ranch and some from such contemporaries of Thurston nell/' "It has long been the policy of 250,000 acres of range land in Arizona as Hiram Sibley, founder of the Wes- the Engineering College to base all where he has bred cattle suited to the tern Union Telegraph Co. and bene- curricula on the teaching of fundamen- climate and terrain, and a 440-acre factor of Sibley College; Thomas A. tals, with a minimum of instruction in grain, cattle, hog, and poultry farm at Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Lord specialized fields. The new Metallurgi- Crystal Lake, 111. He is also a big- Kelvin, President Andrew D. White, cal Engineering curriculum continues game hunter, has been a director of George Westinghouse, Jr., Sir Hiram this broad basic policy." He explained the National Association of Manu- Maxim, Nikola Tesla, and Andrew that the first two years are devoted facturers, is a member of Delta Tau Carnegie. essentially to basic mathematics, phy- Delta and of the Cornell Clubs of A letter from Sibley, written in sics, chemistry, drawing, English, his- Chicago and New York. 1886, warns Thurston against the tory, economics, and public speaking. Professor Kyle was appointed to University adding schools of divinity Except for a short introductory course the Chemical Engineering Faculty in and medicine, "which might be the in metallurgy and one in metallurgical January, 1946, as professor of Ap- destruction of Cornell." He urged raw materials, the professional courses plied Metallurgy, after twelve years at that the teaching of divinity would do not begin until the third year. In MIT, where he received the MS in "kill the efforts of the Founder and the last three years of the five-year ME in 1939. After receiving the ME the appropriation." One from Andrew course, besides technical courses in here in 1933, he spent the next year at Carnegie in 1888 concerned Carnegie's metals and metal processes, students Lehigh as holder of the James Ward nephew who wanted to study at Cor- are required to go further in physical Fellowship in Mechanical Engineer- nell. Included also is a petition from chemistry, mechanics, and basic elec- ing. During the war, he was consultant Thurston's students, April 7, 1894, trical engineering, and to study psy- on materials, production methods, and asking that he give informal talks on chology, library use and patents, cor- allied projects for the British Air Com- Engineering Reminiscences, "these to porate and industrial organization, ac- mission and was research supervisor include parts of your own varied counting, statistics, and quality con- for the US Metallurgy Committee. engineering experience, in the Navy trol. He described the curriculum as He won a McMullen Scholarship in and later, and something of the per- providing "the fundamental training Engineering, was Senior editor-in- sonality and achievements of the needed in metallurgy, a broad train- chief of the Sibley Journal, and was noted engineers with whom you have ing in engineering, and sufficient work elected to Tau Beta Pi. Mrs. Kyle is been associated." in the cultural subjects and business the former Fanny Sly '30. administration to give the student a Dean, the donor of the Thurston well-balanced educational program." collection, was born in Ithaca, the son He referred to the need for well- Gives Thurstoniana of the late William C. Dean whom trained engineers in the foundry in- Director Thurston was instrumental dustry and recent provision by the /COLLECTION of correspondence, in bringing to the University in 1894 Foundry Educational Foundation of ^-Λ books, diplomas, and medals be- as Uμiversity superintendent of steam scholarships and equipment for this longing to the late Robert Henry heating and water service. Dean specialized training. Thurston, Director of Sibley College learned that the collection was offered of Engineering from 1885 until his to the University by a dealer in Phila- Facilities To Expand death in 1903, has been acquired and delphia, Pa., and bought it after it had He spoke of present facilities for given to the University by Trustee been investigated by Mrs. Edith M. teaching and research which are being Arthur H. Dean '19. The collection Fox, AM '45, acting curator of the modernized and expanded, tempor- will be exhibited in the Materials and Collection of Regional History. Dean arily in Olin Hall and the Foundry Metallurgy Laboratory to be erected was appointed to the Board of Trus- behind Sibley until the new Materials on the new Engineering Campus. tees by Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Metallurgy Laboratory is built on two years ago, for the five-year term the site of the Old Armory, funds for ending in 1950, He received the AB in the first unit of which are now in hand. 1921, the LLB in 1923; is a partner in He acknowledged also gifts from the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, alumni and others of equipment and 48 Wall Street, New York City. teaching aids, and "the helpful ad- vice received from many Cornellians and others in the metallurgical in- "Joan of Lorraine" dustries during the planning of the RAMATIC CLUB opened its curriculum and laboratories." D "thirty-ninth season" with an Francis N. Bard entered Sibley ambitious and notably successful pro- College as a Sophomore in 1901 after duction of Maxwell Anderson's "Joan two years at the University of Chi- of Lorraine." The show virtually cago, and received the ME in 1904. filled the Willard Straight Theater, He worked in the foundry, factory, November 6, 7, and 8, during "Au- and engineering department of the tumn Weekend" on the Campus. Platt Iron Co. in Dayton, Ohio, then for Allis-Chalmers Co. designing steam The difficult drama of a play-in- turbines, and in 1908 joined his father rehearsal was remarkably well cast, in Chicago in the management of the and all the student actors handled Norwall Manufacturing Co. A small their parts convincingly. Especially company which they acquired for re- impressive were the lead characters, search has become the Barco Manu- ROBERT HENRY THURSTON Robert D. Asher '47 of Leominster, 178 Cornell Alumni News Mass., as the director and Sylvia Hirschhaut '49 of Buffalo as the ac- tress playing Joan. They were ably Now, in My Time! supported by E. Russell Smith '48 of Great Neck as Al, the stage manager, and his assistant, Virginia M. Genove By '48 of Niagara Falls; by Anthony Geiss '46 of New York City who HE radio business is still in Dryden. It's * all pretty incredible played the Dauphin of France, Henry Tthe difficult stage between to old-timers who have yet to R. Erie '50 of New York City as the childhood and adolescence. But fathom the mysteries of the tele- wily deTremoille, Richard E. Perkins the Station has phone, but the students seem to '48 (whose mother is the former put on long pants and may reason- know all about it and not a few of Blanche Howland '11 of Newark, ably be expected to shave and sing them find part-time employment N. J.) as the Archbishop, and William bass at any moment. as announcers and as technicians A. Thompson '48 of Oakdale as Du- Perhaps you'd like to hear about in the control room. They love it, nois, general of the French Army. The WHCU, which makes it possible too, as they improve their spoken play was directed by Professor H. for nearly 2,000,000 people to English and see themselves on the Darkes Albright, PhD '36, assistant listen to the Cornell Bells in the road to wealth and glory, sharing director of the University Theatre, Tower every day, to hear Kate the air with Charlie McCarthy! with assistance of Miss Genove and Smith, spot news, and timely ad- Smith. Up to last month, WHCU has vice on how to freeze black bass, been a little 1000-watt station take gravy-stains out of evening making a small noise in a remote Savage Club Entertains clothes, and disinfect the brooder corner of the sky, but it has at- ANOTHER sign of the commun- house. The University Department tracted the favorable attention of **• ity's return to pre-war status was of Public Information seems sel- the trade to a degree out of all the Savage Club of Ithaca show, dom to mention this particular re- proportion to its boiler capacity. "Foolscap" ("Pacsloof Ni Segavas)," search project in its hand-outs. It has repeatedly snatched national which packed Bailey Hall, November One suspects that the High Com- awards for originality, quick think- 7. It was a revival of the pleasant mand may be a little embarrassed ing, and neighborly help to its con- custom of a Savage Club meeting for about WHCU because it operates stituency from the jaws of larger the edification of the public, last held in the black, since in the upper and more celebrated cloud-splitters. as "Niaga Sevagas" in 1940. Again academic circles it is not consider- It is one of the few little stations the Brother Savages were seated at ed quite cricket for any research which every day feeds programs tables and in chairs brought from project to show a profit. originated by it into a network of their Green Street basement club- WeVe never seen the figures, of larger stations. The common prac- rooms, and again they made merry course. We merely infer prosperity tice is, of course, the reverse of for their own amusement and that of from the fact that the Station has this. the appreciative audience. lately added an FM installation The Cornell Station is organized From the opening, with the rollick- and paid for it out of petty cash. on a commercial basis and is per- ing reading by Prolocutor Rollo Tall- This is unique among university fectly frank about it. But it is cott of Ithaca College of a "Prolego- radio stations, which commonly re- never painfully commercial, and menon" in verse by Professor Bristow quire subsidies t'o enable them to will use expensive time at any hour Adams, with dancing accompaniment stay on the air. to help a little girl who has lost her of a jester in foolscap, Shelly Smith, WHCU's main studio occupies dog, and will be inconsolable until the show provided entertainment par the top floor of the Savings Bank the neighbors find it to give a plug excellence. Building at the corner of Tioga and for the chicken supper at the The meeting began with the as- Seneca Streets, the site of Ezra Kennedy Corners M.E. church. sembled members singing the Club's Cornell's house through the last Once the new FM gets well under- "Heidelbaum Alma Mater" and "A years of his life. There is a second way and a comfortable reserve is Toast to Heidelbaum," written for studio on the Campus for the con- again built up, you are likely to see the 1928 show by Ludwig F. Audrieth, venience of professors who give WHCU becoming even less com- PhD '26, and it proceeded for two- forth every little while on the mercial and even more eager to and-a-half hours of variety acts, latest pestilence to threaten dairy blaze new trails through the un- stunts, and songs, the Brother Savage herds and the potato crop. The charted wilderness of the air. performers introduced by the Club dual arrangement permits the Sta- Nor is your reporter just guessing president, Professor Charles K. Tho- tion to keep one foot at all times in on this point. Sunday mornings mas '21, Speech. The acts ran the an academic atmosphere and the early, we drive in and broadcast gamut from songs by the Savage Club other firmly planted downtown in ourself for five minutes. Conse- Quartet and individual members, the marts of trade and among the quently, we know where they hide through legerdemain by R. Selden cash customers. This constant split the night key and have a weekly Brewer '40, and to the traditionally puts a strain upon the muscles of chance to read the loose mail be- popular Alfred F. Sulla, Jr. '29 with its legs and loins, but it also ac- fore the staff arrives. We there- his banjo. It was a good show and counts in some degree for the fore advise you with confidence thoroughly enjoyed. Station's prosperity. that the University's radio re- Only thing missed by some of the The regular sending towers ad- search project may be expected to old-timers was James Miller, long- join the fifth hole at the Country maintain the Cornell tradition of time steward of the Club who the last Club, and the new FM equipment ignoring accepted fashions; of em- five years has been incapacitated by soars to the clouds from the top of phasizing contrasts, not compari- illness from serving the Savages re- Mount Pleasant, out the road to sons. freshment at their meetings, both public and closed. December /, 1947 179 Cornell Engineer Hilary H. Micou, Jr. '46, Mechanical "Central Europe," Lange, German; Engineering, son of H. Herbert Micou '15 "Mediterranean and Middle East," /CORNELL ENGINEER for No- of Grosse Pointe, Mich.; track, cheer- leader; Alpha Delta Phi. Einauda, Government; "Russia in ^* vember contains an explanation of LeRoy C. Norem '46, Civil Engineer- Europe" and "Russia in Asia," Szeftel, "Manufacturing Progress Through ing, Bayside; track, cross country co- History; "The Western Pacific" and Process Planning," by Edward A. captain. "Northeast Asia," Biggerstaff, His- Reed '31. Reed teaches at General Robert A. Ornitz '45, Mechanical Engi- neering, Pittsburgh, Pa. Student Council, tory; "U.S. in World Affairs," Nettles, Motors Institute, Flint, Mich., where Athletic Council chairman, swimming; History. he developed and is in charge of the Phi Sigma Delta. The Department of Military Science Die Engineering ' Program. "Presi- Donald M. Ostrom '45, Hotel, son of and Tactics asked that each lecturer dent's Message" of Carl F. Ostergren Selden W. Ostrom '21 of New Rochelle; Class secretary, Campus Chest chairman, cover four main elements: Raw ma- '21 to the Cornell Society of Engi- Freshman manager, Willard terial and industrial status of the area neers in this issue invites expression Straight night manager; Sigma Nu. concerned, its strategic position, pos- of opinion on "what we as alumni of Joseph F. Quinn, Jr. '48, Mechanical sible points and sources of conflict, the Cornell Engineering Schools think Engineering, Baldwin; football, lacrosse; and specific American interests there. would be the right size for our own Sigma Nu. Alexander T. Stark '43, Arts, Irvington, Otherwise, the speaker is given a free colleges to aim toward." N. J.; Independent Council president. hand. If it is repeated next year, it Miss Billie P. Carter '48, a Chemi- will be listed in the Arts Announce- cal Engineer from Honolulu, Hawaii, ment as an elective course open to all is editor-in-chief of The Cornell Engi- Intelligence students. neer. * * * Curiously enough, the series has not Senior Societies Elect yet proved to be an unmixed success, ENIOR honor societies elected - . studentwise. It is given at S twenty-two new members, No- Freshmen . , r vember 7. initiated nine an inconvenient hour to men at the society's Tomb below the After agitation last year in the Cor- p many: 8 to 8:50 p.m., Stewart Avenue bridge. Thirteen nell Sun about compulsory military Thursdays. It had to come in the Seniors were initiated by Quill and drill and militarism in general, the evening to avoid conflicts and it Dagger in , with Department of Military Science and couldn't be scheduled at 7 because dinner following, at Zinck's. Three of Tactics has developed a very interest- many men wait on table and wash the newly-honored Seniors are sons of ing innovation. It may be a ' 'first" in dishes for their board. Academic credit Cornellians. ROTC colleges. for it wasn't announced until the Sphinx Head The War Department prescribes a fifth lecture. Sun correspondence con- Donald P. Babson '46, Arts, Wellesley, lecture course called "World Military tinued to lambaste the ROTC pro- Situation" for all Mass.; Sun managing editor, ski team; Arts Faculty gram as a whole. Football pep rallies Theta Delta Chi. first-year ROTC ca- were in the air. The normal high James I. Hudson, Jr. '49, Arts, Wil- Give dets. For the larger mington, Del.; soccer manager; Phi Kappa ROTC Lectures spirits of 900 healthy boys can easily Psi. part of last year, it get a bit out of hand. A few "antis" Robert N. Jacobson '46, Arts, New York was given by Lieutenant Colonel may h&χe consciously started revolt. City; Octagon Club, Rhythm Club, spirit Alexander N. Slocum, Jr. '26, execu- Anyway, the audience became noisily and traditions committee; Pi Lambda Phi. tive officer of the Corps. Immediately, Richard J. Keegan '46, Arts, New ill-mannered at the start of popular Haven, Conn.; Student Council president, letters - to - the - Sun - editor protested Professor Marcham's first talk. So Freshman Camp counsellor; Alpha Tau that the lectures were all slanted with noisy was it, in fact, that the Sun the Omega. military indoctrination. To meet this next Thursday morning editorially be- Walter A. Kretz '45, Arts, Amityville; criticism, a start was made last year Varsity football captain, ; labored the Frosh, saying: "Rough . by bringing in guest lecturers from the handling of Faculty lecturers won't George L. Landon '44, Arts, Ithaca; Arts Faculty. Concomitantly, author- abolish ROTC, no matter how much, Glee Club leader; Beta Theta Pi. ization from the War Department was or how justifiably, those who are en- Donald M. Lins '48, Agriculture, son of sought and obtained to concentrate Everett W. Lins '20 of Kendall, Fla.; rolled in it dislike the compulsion to football, Aleph Samach; Sigma Alpha for 1947-48 the two-semester course take the course. The wiser alternative Epsilon. into one term of weekly lectures with for Freshmen is to act as becomes William L. Totman '48, Industrial and the entire academic responsibility for gentlemen. Withdrawal of the Faculty Labor Relations, Cortland; Willard their content and delivery in the lecturers would only result in an in- Straight Hall president; Phi Sigma Kappa. hands of the Arts College. The College Joseph T. Willner '46, Arts, Beacon; crease of the routine drilling and time- baseball, boxing. will give an hour of academic credit to wasting aspects of ROTC. If they are its students who pass the mid-term not greeted with minimum courtesy, and final examinations. the Faculty lecturers will be well William C. Arthur '44, Administrative Engineering, Meadville, Pa.; 150-lb. crew, Topsy-like, a rather superlative justified in washing their hands of the Atmos; Alpha Delta Phi. course has developed. A women's club whole idea." Elias W. Bartholow, Jr. '44, Chemical study group would give the eye teeth In. your behalf, I attended that Engineering, Baltimore, Md.; lacrosse, night. Half-a-dozen officers and several Dean's list; Phi Gamma Delta. of its program chairman to offer the Bernard Bernstein '48, Electrical Engi- following fare: "Geographic Factors non-coms were there. Only two en- neering, New Rochelle; track. in the World Situation," Professor trance doors were open and these Ray C. Bump, Jr. '48, Architecture, Von Engeln, Geology; "International were carefully policed for Campus Brockton, Mass.; Varsity football man- Political Relations," Briggs, Govern- canines. Whatever skylarking I heard ager. Robert T. Dean '48, Electrical Engineer- ment; "International Economic Ri- was within reason and I enjoyed the ing, Bloomington, Ind.; football. valry," Adams, Economics; "Race whole affair. Professor Marcham at James T. Gale '48, Arts, St. Albans; and Population Problems," Sharp, the end expressed his appreciation of basketball; Delta Upsilon. Anthropology; "British Empire," his reception, pointed out that the Robert C. Koehler '48, Hotel, Ithaca; Student Council, Hotel man- Marcham, History; " France and Faculty lecturers were voluntarily ager, Vetsburg student manager. Northwest Europe," Fox, History; giving their time, and bespoke cour- tesy toward those to follow. 180 Cornell Alumni News My curiosity aroused as to the the decision made that the future ROTC program in general, I spent the buildings would be along the Norman T5πτr nffl^rc next afternoon with the Letters Gothic type of architecture. In the f1; ϋ™cers Commandant, Colonel Subject to the usual restrictions of space and last years it seems as if the Norman good taste we shall print letters from sub- Are leachers Ralph Hospital, and saw f Gothic was given up in favor of mod- the whole establishment: the stables, scribers on any side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often ern factory. The authorities seem to equipment for instruction in motors may not agree with the sentiments expressed, be 'bent on ^ making our buildings and weapons, the visual aids for teach- and disclaims any responsibility beyond functional. They apparently overlook ing, and a class in map reading. Only that of fostering interest in the University. that one of the functions of university one of the three hours a week required buildings is to lift up the minds and is now devoted to drill; quite a change the hearts of the students and to sur- from my time! The rest is skull- Clothes Reminiscence round them with dignity and beauty. practice, and the officers detailed here To ROMEYN BERRY: Mr. Sessler in his letter in the actually merit their classification as I get a great kick out of your October 1 ALUMNI NEWS blames the professors. ALUMNI NEWS columns. They do College of Architecture for not raising Some 1,450 students, of whom 160 bring back old times! voice in protest. The real responsibil- are in the advanced course, comprise About the pants, do you recall the ity lies with the Trustees, and we the Corps. Seventeen officers and a competition for the "loudest" silk alumni should insist that any alumnus smaller number of non-coms are backs of our vests? I think Goldy who aspires to Trusteeship should assigned here. Students can elect made the biggest hits. When I went give a pledge ahead of time that from among Artillery, Quartermaster, Air, home and exposed the back of my now on the authorities stop erecting Signal Corps, and Ordnance. Last vest, I was marked as a jailbird! Do drab structures and raise college build- May, the examining team from Wash- you remember Pat Wall's shoes, al- ings that will be beautiful and digni- ington rated our outfit as "excellent" most up to the knee with soles an fied as well as functional. which is the highest rating given. Our inch thick? Bob Deming's loud knee —Louis J. HEIZMANN '05 QM unit, trained by Major Raymond breeches waving in the wind at the L. Hoff, Hotel '40, led all the twenty- peak of the flagpole at Percy Field? "Is Chivalry Dead?" three Quartermaster schools in the Great times those were, and what To THE EDITOR: . Another alumnus, fun we all had! Concerning the picture on page 99 Major Henri F. Frank '41, is in charge —ARTHUR P. (CULLY) BRYANT '00 of the October 15 ALUMNI NEWS: of leadership, drill, and exercise of Is chivalry dead at Cornell? Why command. Robert B. Meigs '26, More on Buildings shouldn't that little squirt of a Fresh- secretary of the Board of Trustees and To THE EDITOR: man stand up when a lady comes in University Counsel, during the war On pages 287 and 288 of Volume 1 the room, even though she too is a an officer in the Judge Advocate Gen- of his Autobiography, President An- Freshman? I can understand why eral's Department, lectures on mili- drew D. White tells how he dreamed perhaps Foster Coffin does not stand tary law. Of course, everybody knows of erecting "on that queenly site above up: his joints might creak a bit, and how necessary the sheer expanse of the finest of the New York lakes" a besides, he is the Director of Willard is to the University for University beautiful and dignified Straight Hall! such diverse things as registration, like Oxford or Cambridge; "halls as —THOMAS F. LAURIE '10 Commencement, basketball, and the lordly as that of Christ Church or of Junior Prom! Trinity, and towers as dignified as those of Magdalen and Merton. Jobs Open Lest I leave the impression that the quadrangles as beautiful as those of /CURRENT Job Bulletin, sent to studentry is a hotbed of anti-militar- Jesus and St. Johns." v^ alumni who are registered with ism, I might mention that the Stu- It looked for a time as if his dreams the University Placement Service in dent Council just last year, after might be approached when Willard Ithaca and New York City, lists 137 mature deliberation, endorsed com- Straight, the dormitories and the positions available, giving the type of pulsory ROTC. Law School buildings were erected and work, location, and starting salary.

Viola Concert NUSUAL concert in the Bailey U Hall series was that of Emanuel Vardi, violist, November 11. With piano accompaniment by Irving Owen, the artist played the Brahms " Sonata in E Flat," "Sonata in F Major" by Paul Hindemuth, his own " Suite on American Folk Tunes/' the "Pas- torale" by Stanley Bate, and the Tibor Serly "Rhapsodie," with Cho- pin's "Nocturne in C Sharp Minor" and "Rhumba" by Benjamin as encores. "Chaconne" by Bach and '.'Caprice No. 17" and "Caprice No. 24" by Paganini, which Vardi played without accompaniment, gave him special opportunity to display his technique of musicianship and the peculiar qualities of his instrument. IS CHIVALRY DEAD? (SEE ABOVE)

December /, 1947 181 Wins Borden Award Second George Lincoln Burr Me- morial Scholar, chosen by the Tel- Leading Chemists ORDEN Award of $1,000 and a luride Association at its annual con- OHEMICAL BULLETIN of the B was presented to Pro- vention in Ithaca, is Gerhard Loewen- ^* American Chemical Society pre- fessor Vincent duVigneaud, Biochem- berg '49 of New York City, a native of sents in its November issue a roll call istry at the Medical College, by the Berlin, Germany. Named for the late of the "ten ablest chemists and chemi- Association of American Medical Col- Professor George L. Burr '81, History, cal engineers" now working in the US leges, meeting last month in Sun who lived at Telluride for twenty- in each of twenty specialized fields. Valley, Idaho. Dr. DuVigneaud's three years until his death in 1938, They were chosen by their fellow- "outstanding research in the field of the Scholarship provides tuition in scientists, each voting in his own synthesis, particularly of penicillin," any College of the Scholar's choice, field, as "the people who lay the won him the first Borden Award to be plus room and board at Telluride. foundations for production." given through the Association, which Fourteen of the 200 scientists thus studied the research of approximately cited are Cornellians: Professors 18,000 medical faculty members of Hotelmen Speak James B. Sumner and Vincent du eighty-four colleges. OTEL Administration alumni Vigneaud, Biochemistry; Wilder D. He is the thirteenth Cornellian and H were prominent at the Septem- Bancroft (Emeritus), Peter Debye, the third this year to receive a ber American Hotel Association con- John G. Kirkwood, and Albert W. Borden Award since they were in- vention in San Antonio, Tex. A large Laubengayer '21, Chemistry; Lud- stituted in 1937. Last May, Director number attended, and many took wig F. Audrieth, PhD '26, University Leonard A. Maynard, PhD '15, of the part in the convention program. Dis- of Illinois; Herbert P. Cooper, PhD School of Nutrition, received a Bor- cussion of the operation of small hotels '22, Clemson College; Gustav Egloff den Award through the American was conducted by a panel of Ruel E. '12, Universal Oil Products Corp.; Institute of Nutrition "for contri- Tyo '27 of the Phoenix Hotel, Find- Gustave E. F. Lundell '03, US Bureau butions to nutrition in the field of lay, Ohio; Howard L. Dayton '27 who of Standards; Walter H. Maclntire, milk and milk products." In Septem- operates a chain of Southern hotels; PhD '16, TVA; Robert S. Shelton, ber, Dr. George C. Supplee '13, presi- Milton J. Firey III '28 of the Congress PhD '33, Wm. S. Merrill Co.; Wayne dent of the G. C. Supplee Research Hotel, Baltimore, Md.; J. William A. Sisson, Grad. '25-26, American Corp., Bainbridge, received the Award Cole '30 of the General Broadhead, Viscose Co.; and Harry B. Weiser, through the American Chemical So- Beaver Falls, Pa.; and Ross B. Vestal PhD '14, Rice Institute. ciety, for research in milk chemistry. '35 of the Windsor Hotel, Americus, Ga. Irving A. Harned '35 of The Cloister, Sea Island, Ga., presided Alumni Head Grolier RCA Fellowship over a session on operating resort ROLIER Society, Inc., pub- RE-DOCTORAL fellowship in hotels, and Jacob S. Fassett, 3d '36 G lisher of The Book of Knowledge, Pelectronics has been awarded to told of his work as manager of the announces that its president, Fred P. Arnold R. Moore, Grad, of Brooklyn, AHA service bureau. Host at a con- Murphy '12, has been elected chair- by the Radio Corporation of America. vention dinner was Joseph P. Binns man of the board of directors. The The fellowship is worth $2,100 a year, '28, vice-president of Hilton Hotels. Society's treasurer, Edward J. Mc- plus $600 for tuition and fees. Moore First annual convention of the Cabe, Jr. '34, succeeds Murphy as graduated from Brooklyn Polytech- Junior Hotelmen of America, held president. nical Institute in 1942: did research in during the AHA meeting, elected Murphy joined the Grolier organi- electronics with RCA during the war, Lawrence H. Smith '40 first vice- zation as a salesman soon after his entered the Graduate School in 1945. president, and directors of the new graduation. In September, 1915, he organization, elected by mail, include opened the first Grolier office in Kan- Charles Duffy III '34, Paul L. Gros- sas City, Mo.; became executive Telluride Scholarships singer '36, Robert K. Jones '42, officer of the Society in 1936. President QCHOLARSHIPS for foreign stu- Donald A. Boss '43, C. George McCabe joined the Kansas City office ^ dents have been established by Spiliotopoulos '47, and R. William in June, 1936, as cashier, was named Telluride Association in memory of Clark '49. treasurer and a director in 1937, and associates who were killed in World became resident manager of the New War II. The recipients receive free New York Women Active York City retail sales office in 1942. tuition from the University and are Claude C. Harding '08 is vice-presi- given room and board in the Telluride IXTY members of the Cornell dent and West Coast manager. house on West Avenue. S Women's Club of New York en- The Society supports a dozen First Robert Huffcut Memorial joyed a buffet supper, October 22 at Grolier Scholarships in the School of Scholarship, named for the late Robert the Barbizon Hotel. President Emma Business and Public Administration, J. Huffcut '38, killed in the Philip- E. Weinstein '23 introduced Mrs. worth from $250 to $500 a year. pines, was Nathaniel B. Tablante, Helen Jordan, fashion editor of the Grad, of the Philippines. This year New York Journal American, who the recipient is Jean Bourgeois '51 of spoke on "The New Look." Foundry Scholarships , France, who holds the Ned For the Club's November meeting, OUNDRY industry is financing a Bedell Scholarship, named for the late members were to bring cans of food F$57,000 three-year program at the Harry N. Bedell '42, killed in Ger- and pack them for shipment to Cornel- University to provide candidates for many. lians overseas, directed by Mrs. Ed- engineering management jobs in that Of the six Telluride dead in World ward A. Maher (Marguerite Hicks) field. Five Freshmen and five Sopho- War II, three were Cornellians: Huff- '26, former WAVES commander. The mores have been awarded scholarships cut, Bedell, and John D:H. Hoyt '21, Club will award prizes for the most worth $600 a year, renewable for twp a captain in the Air Corps who was beautiful and the most original doll more years, and the sponsoring Foun- killed in a plane crash in the South made by members, at a doll contest in dry Educational Foundation has also Pacific, January 12, 1943. A memorial December; the dolls will be given to granted the University an initial $10,- scholarship named for Hoyt will be hospitals in the city for distribution 000 for equipment to be used in the awarded next year. to children for Christmas. program, conducted within the cur- 182 Cornell Alumni News riculum of the School, of Chemical and sedate exteriors of the professorial Metallurgical Engineering. homes. Drama, heroic and sordid, is Freshman recipients are William Time Was . . . enacted within those mute walls. H. Arnold (son of General of the "Well, they aren't always mute. Army Henry H. Arnold) of Wash- They tell of a young Professor and his ington, D. C; Robert J. Lehren of Twenty Years Ago young wife, who, by some process not Riverside, Conn.; Alfred E. Riccardo December, 1927—Pennsylvania 35, clear, came into possession of a live of Leonardo, N. J.; Henry Robinson, Cornell 0. chicken, prime and plump. Perhaps son of William E. Robinson '18 of "This business of providing clean they raised it in the back yard; per- Akron, Ohio; and Paul L. Widener of sport for the alumni may be a nervous haps they won it in a raffle. Conesus. Winning Sophomores: Rob- and precarious method of earning your "At any rate, the execution of the ert L. Folkman of Warren, Pa.; Wil- living, but it is never dull or monoto- chicken presented a most annoying liam C. Hagel of Pittsburgh, Pa.; nous. One minute the customers are problem. The Professor vowed that he Jerome M. Jenkins of Bronxville; tearing down their own goal posts in a could not chop the pretty thing's head Albert P. Oot of Syracuse; and delirium of joy. The next minuta you off with a axe. The Professor's wife Nicholas Sheptak of Binghamton. can- feel their hot breath on your would sooner die herself than wring Selected on merit, they will pursue its neck. Such methods anyway were heaving flanks as you double through τ foundry work and supplemental stud- the lumberyard and flip a fast freight barbarous and in disaccord w ith ies, spend a summer in industrial to escape with your life and a few modern scientific and penological pro- foundries, and choose a foundry- mere flesh wounds. cedure. related subject for a thesis or project. "The thing to do after a bad season "It was determined to chloroform Co-operating in the program are the is to retire^in the night and taking the chicken. The creature was enticed American Foundryman's Association, long steps—to some comfortable and into a large covered pot, there to • Gray Iron Founders' Society, Malle- secluded Elba. Remain there until the dream away its existence, to float to able Founders' Society, and the guillotines have been glutted with the the other world on scented clouds of Foundry Equipment Manufacturers' pure, aristocratic blood of somebody chloroform. Association. else, perhaps that of a defenseless "The lifeless body was removed Faculty. Then, when the hunt has from the pot. The Professor, with Buffalo Talks Football passed over the hill, stroll back non- averted eyes, plucked it clean of chalantly and put pieces in the paper feathers. The Professor's wife singed OOTBALL dinner and smoker ar- the body. Her tears sizzled in the fire. ranged by the Cornell Club of about mass athletics for all. F "The corpse was then laid to rest in Buffalo attracted nearly 200 alumni, "It's a great life, as Doctor Amos the ice-box. November 7 at the University Club. Alonzo Stagg and the Reverend Frank "Half an hour later, the Professor's Guest of honor was Glenn S. "Pop" Cavanaugh [of Fordham] will tell you. Some years you win and some years, wife opened the ice-box door. Out Warner '94, former Cornell guard and leaped a naked chicken, yellow and captain; in 1^97-98 and if you want to get by, you have to mold character to beat hell." blue. Flapping its stumpy wings, it 1904-06. Other speakers included Dr. circled about the kitchen floor, utter- Albert H. Sharpe, Varsity- coach, —R. B. in "Sport Stuff' ing horrible clucking sounds. 1912-18; Dudley DeGroot, coach of Fifteen years Ago "The Professor and his wife put the professional ; December, 1932—"Strange and each other to bed."—Rundschauer Mortimer W. Landsberg, Jr. '41, former Cornell fullback now playing horrid things take place behind the for DeGroot; and Judge Harry L. Taylor '88. Ralph Hubbell, WGR sportscaster, gave his program from the dinner, opening it with the sing- ing of the "Alma Mater" by the guests and interviewing several of the speakers. Warner, recipient of this year's Touchdown Club award for his "out- standing contributions to the game," paid tribute to the late Clinton R. Wyckoff '96, "one of the great quarter- backs in my day, or any day. . . Clint never weighed more than 140 pounds but he wτas a terrific all-around player, a great tackier." Alfred M. Saperston '19, president of the Buffalo Club, introduced the speakers and Neil M. Willard '18 led singing. Robert M. Rublee '41 was chairman of the committee. Next day, the visitors attended the Syracuse game in Ithaca, and Warner went on for a football party at the , November 14. Buffalo Cornellians gathered with GLENN S. "POP" WARNER '94 VISITS SCHOELLKOPF Using his cane as a pointer, the former Varsity captain, player-coach, and head coach Dartmouth alumni at the University explains a play to Coach George K. James (left) and Dudley DeGroot, coach of the pro- Club, November 15, with a direct fessional Los Angeles Dons, in the coach's office, while snowplows cleared the field for wire from the game at Hanover, N. H. the Cornell-Syracuse game. Ithaca Journal photo Όecember /, 1947 183 Syracuse started a bid for a tie or a victory. Dolan and Slovenski made first down on the Cornell 47. Dolan Slants on Sports was hurt on the next play, but Davis, his substitute, passed to Nussbaum, a reserve end, for first down on Cornell's ARSITY football team met tough opposition in early November, 35. Slovenski passed to Acocella on Vwinning from Syracuse, 12-6, before 25,000 on Schoellkopf Field, Cornell's 19. Dolan returned to the November 8, and losing to Dartmouth, 13-21, at Hanover, November 15. Syracuse lineup, with two minutes The season's record thus stood at four won and four lost, with the Penn- and seven seconds to play. Syracuse sylvania game yet to be played at Franklin Field. shifted to its running attack and ground out a first down on the 8-yard Snow Delays Game through at left guard and scored. His line. Slovenski ran to the 5, and Davis, placekick for the point was wide, and in again, was held for no gain. Twenty- OR six consecutive week ends, the the score was tied, 6-6. five seconds were left. Davis launched Fteam had played at home and Dean kicked off, and Dragotta's a pass." Holland intercepted it on the abroad under ideal, if somewhat warm, answering punt went out on Cornell's goal line and ran to the 25 as the game weather conditions. But the day Syra- 39. Holland, Dean, and Dawson ran ended. cuse came to Ithaca, it rained and for first down on the Syracuse 48. All told, Holland picked up 120 snowed. Tarpaulins on Schoellkopf Lynn P. Dorset '50 threw a pass to yards on two intercepted passes. were covered with three inches of Babula for first down on the Syracuse The victory, plus the earlier 27-18 soggy snow. At one o'clock, an hour 15. Four plays later, Cornell yielded win over Colgate, gave Cornell the before scheduled game time, the task the ball on downs on the Syracuse 31. Central New York championship. It of uncovering the field was started. There were no other scoring threats was also Cornell's seventeenth victory Volunteers were called from the stands on either side in the first half, but in in the twenty-four-game series with to help the regular crew. Manpower less than two minutes of. the third Syracuse. wasn't enough, and two snowplows period, Cornell had its game-winning and several trucks had to clear the touchdown. James R. Farrell '50, tarpaulins before they could be pulled who had won the starting berth at Cornell 13, Dartmouth 21 and rolled to the sidelines. The game right tackle, kicked off. The first kick ANOVER had the coldest started thirty-five minutes late, but went out of bounds to the right, the H weather of the season, with snow the skies had cleared and late-comers second went out to the left. The two banking Memorial Field, for the game weren't late, after all. miscues gave Syracuse the ball on there. Cornell was favored to win; some Cornell's 40-yard line. Dolan threw a Cornell picked up more first downs, said by three touchdowns. Syracuse pass to Dragotta, good for sixteen more yards rushing, and more yards promptly proceeded to confound the yards. Two running plays put the passing^ than Dartmouth, but three prophets. Captain Walter A. Kretz '45 ball on the 18. Dolan threw an incom- specific plays spelled defeat: a blocked fumbled, and Bagley, the Syracuse plete pass. kick, a recovered fumble, and a pass right tackle, recovered on Cornell's It was fourth down. Dolan tried interception. 48-yard line. Five plays produced a another pass, off to the left. The ball Cornell made the first offensive touchdown. Dolan, a halfback who ticked the fingers of one Cornell de- gesture after the kiekoff, with Dean carried the burden of the Syracuse fender, and Holland snared it on the and Kretz running for two first downs. running attack, and Buchsbaum and 5-yard line. Frank Pastuck '41, cen- Dartmouth's line, which played super- Slovenski ran to two first downs on ter, cleared Holland's path to the latively all day, checked the drive. the 24. Dolan started another run, sideline with a key block. Holland Dartmouth went into high offensive aiming at Cornell's left tackle. Short picked up John B. Rogers '45, left gear, starting on its 41-yard line and of the line of scrimmage, he leaped end, as convoy, and Rogers accounted rolling to three first downs on the into the air and threw an unerring pass for two Syracusans as Holland went running of Pensavalle, a halfback, and to Schiffner, left end. Schiffner had no all the way for the score. Dean again the forward passing of Quarterback trouble scoring the touchdown. Paul, missed the try for point. Sullivan to End Armstrong. Cornell a placekicking specialist, failed to con- Only once thereafter did Cornell dug in and halted the march on its vert. The time was 6:20 in the first maneuver into Syracuse territory. 16-yard line. period. Syracuse was driving, after a pass in- Dean went back to punt. Gowen, a Cornell answered with a fifty-yard terception by Left Tackle Burkle. substitute tackle, broke through and march, engineered principally by Ber- Dolan had completed a pass to a sub- blocked the ball, and Jenkins, left nard S. Babula '50 and Norman Daw- stitute end, Acocella, on Cornell's 23. tackle, recovered it in the end zone for son '46, but on the Syracuse 30-yard There Dolan fumbled, and Rogers re- a touchdown. Fullback Carey carefully line the visitors took the ball on covered. Dean booted a quick kick to placekicked the point. The time was downs. the Syracuse 19. A return punt went 12:55 of the first period. Dragotta's punt went out on Cor- out at midfield. Dean and Winfred B. The second period was without a nell's 32-yard line. Carl R. Holland Wright '45 picked up a first down, but score. At 1:25 of the third quarter, '49, who later was to make amends, Dean had to punt again as the third Cornell had a touchdown on a bril- lost a yard. Babula picked up three. period ended. liant seventy-four-yard run by Daw- Robert T. Dean '50, operating as a Syracuse started the last quarter son, who took the ball on a pitch-out halfback, cut through left tackle, re- with two first downs, then, after an by Dorset and cut around right end. versed his field, and went to the exchange of punts, moved to midfield, Dean's placekick for the tying point Syracuse 14-yard line,*cut down there where Frpdferick A. Westphal, Jr. '45, was no good. by Dolan and Slovenski. recovered Dolan's fumble. Dawson Nine minutes later, Stuart Young, The teams changed goals for the and Babula picked up nine yards. On one of two brothers playing at guard second period, and Dean started run- fourth down, needing only one yard, for Dartmouth, broke through and ning again. He made four, four again, Wright fumbled, and Dolan recovered recovered a fumble by Dawson on three. From the 3-yard line, he dove on Syracuse's 39-yard line. Cornell's 21-yard line. Pensavalle and 184 Cornell Alumni News another substitute halfback, O'Brien, '49, right halfback, set up the second Cross Country Ends moved the ball fourteen yards in five score with a sixty-three-yard run, and plays. Sullivan pitched a pass to Arm- Thomas V. Gargan '50, left halfback, ROSS COUNTRY team closed its strong for a touchdown, and Carey threw a scoring pass to Eugene J. C season by competing in the Nona- converted to make the score 14-6. Hummer, Jr. '50, a substitute end. gonals at Princeton, November 8, and the Intercollegiates at Van Cortlandt Cornell drove to midfield, princi- Syracuse picked up a touchdown in Park,, New York City, November 17. pally on Dorset's pass to Rogers, good the third period on forward passes. In for twenty-one yards, but Dart- the fourth period, Syracuse capital- Cornell finished ninth and last in mouth's line stopped the march. ized on two Cornell fumbles. The first the Nonagonals, with the US Military Academy the winner with 59 points. Early in the final period, Dart- was recovered on the Cornell 13, the second on the 22, The touchdowns Other scores: Pennsylvania 70, Col- mouth put on a sustained march of umbia 87, Yale 104, Dartmouth 125, fifty-eight yards, from Dartmouth's were scored on passes, as were the 2 points after touchdowns. All the passes Princeton 148, US Naval Academy 24 to Cornell's 18. There Fitkin, 161, Harvard 162, and Cornell 189. another of Dartmouth's reserve backs, were thrown by Serafin, a substitute halfback. Hart of Pennsylvania won the five- fumbled. Dawson, whose fumble had mile race in 27:06. Donald C. Young led to Dartmouth's second touch- '48 finished tenth in 28:18. Other Cor- down, recovered the loose ball. Dorset Frosh Beat Orange nell scorers were Harry W. Daniell '51, tried a pass on first down. It didn't in 31st place; Robert C. West '51, work. Truncellito, another substitute T^RESHMAN team went to Syra- -•* cuse November 14 and handed the 43rd; John W. Mellor '50, 52nd; and back, intercepted and returned to William S. Gere '51, 53rd. Cornell's 6-yard line. O'Brien headed Orange freshmen a 32-0 defeat. Cor- for left tackle, hit a pile of players, nell scored three touchdowns in the In the Intercollegiates, Cornell and caromed off and into the end second period and two in the fourth. finished twenty-first in a field of zone. Carey converted. First to score was Jeff R. Fleischmann twenty-six teams, with Manhattan '51, fullback, on a four-yard buck. C. taking the team title and Black of Dean replaced Dorset at quarter- Russell Schuh '51 climaxed an eighty- Rhode Island State winning the in- back and launched a final air offensive. three-yard drive with a five-yard dividual title over the five-mile course His first two passes were dropped, the scoring run off tackle. The third in 25: 37.1. Young, the first Cornell first by Dawson, in the clear; the touchdown came on a pass from Bert- runner to finish, was in 46th place. second by Carey, who had an inter- ram Lebhar III '51 to Lyndon C. The other scorers were Daniell, West, ception in his hands. Then Dean con- Hull '51. Paul K. Clymer '51 account- Mellor, and LeRoy C. Norem '48. nected with Harry E. Cassel '50, who ed for the fourth touchdown on a one- had earned the starting assignment at Cornell's Freshman harriers placed yard reverse, and Lebhar threw a pass twelfth among seventeen teams, with left end. Another pass wound up in a to Jere I. Klivansky '51 for the final ruling of interference, and Cornell Manhattan the team victor. Ellis of score. Hull's placekicking accounted NYU paced the field over the three- had the ball on Dartmouth's 45. Dean for two conversions. tried another pass. Chapman, Dart- mile course in 15:39.4. Donald A. mouth's left halfback, tipped the ball Pendleton '51, the first Cornell runner and helped Cassel make another over the line, was thirty-fifth. Other Lightweights End Season scorers were William P. Killian, Da- catch for a first down on Dartmouth's HE 150-pound football team 10-yard line. Cornell drove to the 4- niel A. Nesbitt, Henry P. Henriques, Tcompleted its Eastern Intercol- and Robert C. Mealey. yard stripe and lost the ball on downs. legiate 150-pound Football League Dartmouth kicked out to the 35- campaign with two more losses, to yard line, and Dean went back to Princeton, 6-0, on snow-covered Al- Soccer Still Scoreless pass. He could locate no receiver and umni Field, November 8, and to the R the third straight game, the elected to run. The maneuver brought US Naval Academy, 31-0, on Schoell- Varsity soccer team failed to score a first down on Dartmouth's 18. On kopf Field, November 15. By its and lost to the US Military Academy, the next play, with ten seconds to go, victory, the Naval Academy success- 1-0, at West Point, November 15. The Dean whipped a pass to Matthew J. fully defended its championship with Academy's winning goal was scored in Bolger '48, reserve left end, who four straight victories, and one the third period when Ruddy, inside scored. Dean placekicked the point. game left to play. left, booted a rebound. Bruce E. Cornell picked up 144 yards rush- Cornell ended the five-game season Care '49, goal guard, had just made ing to Dartmouth's 112 and com- with one victory (over Pennsylvania, a good save, but he was flat on the pleted nine of twenty-three passes for 9-6) and losses to Villanova, 6-0, Rut- ground when Ruddy capitalized his 166 yards. Dartmouth's five com- gers, 19-0, andPrinceton and the Naval scoring chance. pleted passes netted fifty-one yards. Academy. Lafayette and Yale, the Freshman soccer closed its season The Dartmouth victory tied the other League members, did not enter with three November victories, for series at fifteen wins apiece. One teams this year. an over-all record of four wins and game ended in a tie. Princeton defeated Cornell on a two losses. Both defeats were by the ninety-yard run, despite treacherous Sampson College varsity. The team footing, by Lowry, a reserve halfback. defeated Ithaca College, 2-1, on Al- Syracuse Wins J-V In the second half, Rocco J. Lapenta umni Field, November 5; Colgate by UNIOR VARSITY eleven lost its '50, a lineman, recovered a fumble in the same score at Hamilton, Novem- J first game in four contests in mid-air and ran forty-five yards for ber 7; and Syracuse, 3-0, on Alumni Archbold Stadium, November 7, as what appeared to be the tying touch- Field, November 14. Deri I. Derr '51 Syracuse scored two touchdowns in down, but the referee ruled that the and Rafael E. Madriz '51 scored with- the fourth period to win, 20-13. play occurred after the whistle. in two minutes in the third period of Cornell opened up a 13-0 lead in the Cornell was no match for the Naval the Ithaca College game. Derr also first period. James L. Smith '50, cen- Academy, which used three complete scored against Colgate, along with ter, intercepted a pass and ran fifty- teams. The first team scored three Vincent E. Calbick '51. Against Syra- five yards for a touchdown, with War- touchdowns; the second team, two. cuse, Derr counted twice, with James ren J. Gerhart ;49, left tackle, con- The running of Richard Cor with '50 F. Ballew '52 scoring the third goal. verting the point. Ralph R. Barnard earned Cornell its three first downs. {Continued on page 188) December /, 185 Early Mariners White Advises Founder Books Ancient Greek Mariners. By Wal- Λ LETTER written from London ter W. Hyde '93. Oxford University *~* by President Andrew D. White By Cornellians Press, New York City. 1947. 360 to Ezra Cornell, July 3, 1868, an- pages, $5.00. nouncing that White had persuaded Professor Goldwin Smith of Oxford This book is not merely an account and James Law of Belfast to join he Bromfield Stories of the geographical discoveries of the Faculty of the new University, is the Kenny. By Louis Bromfield '18. ancient Greeks, as the title might in- property of Miss Julia Law, Dr. Law's Harper & Brothers, New York City. dicate. It is virtually a history of the daughter, who lives in Ithaca. 1947. 219 pages, $2. sea in ancient times, telling of the predecessors of the Greeks in the Med- President White wrote the Founder The three short pieces which make iterranean (such as the Egyptians, jubilantly of Law's outstanding quali- up this book are "Kenny," a fine story Cretans, and Phoenicians) and the fications to be the first Professor of of life on the farm; "Retread/7 in mariners who sailed after them, in- Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, which a World War I hero returns to cluding the great explorers of North the terms on which he had agreed to the France of World War II and the and South America. come to Cornell, and that "he will sail scene of his early conquests, both The Greek portion highlights the with his family in August." Then the military and amorous; and "The adventures of Odysseus and the Ho- letter continues: End of the Road/' which recounts the meric geography in the Mediterra- Be very careful or it will be noised abroad that I am the "practical man" of rise and fall of Jane Trenoir, an am- nean. In an epilogue, an estimate is the concern!! And one thing more; don't, bitious beauty of Nazi sympathies. given of the value of Greek naviga- I beg of you, put up your new building tion. without regard to architectural style or Annotated from ancient and mod- position. I have thought much of this re- Books By Freund '29 cently, while inducing men to leave many ern authorities, illustrated with maps, attractions elsewhere and go to our insti- Easter Island. By Philip Freund and containing a bibliography and tution. The place where we are must be '29. Beechhurst Press, New York index, this work is a rare treasure for made beautiful and attractive. Nothing City. 1947. 221 pages, $2.50. a scholar's library. Dr. Hyde is emeri- should be allowed to injure its symmetry or mar its beauty. Make it beautiful, as tus professor of Greek and ancient This is the best of the author's seven we can easily do with no great additional history at the University of Pennsyl- outlay, and best of scholars and thinkers novels (he has also written three vol- vania and was instructor in Greek at will gladly come to us, but make it rough umes of short stories, three short and unsymmetrical and we shall gradually the University, 1909-10. He dedicates find that we can get the best men only by plays, a "fantasy," and a book of liter- this book to his sister and his brothers, ary criticism). It is romantically set paying extravagant prices and that even Howard E. Hyde '00 and Roger D. then they can be easily called away from in God's remotest acre: "Easter Is- Hyde '08. us, and I say again now that if you erect land, alone in almost five thousand in a sightly position on our grounds a miles of open water, the vast landless great staring workshop it will, I am satis- South Pacific," just before the out- Plato and Milton fied, be a mistake in many ways. Don't go too far with it before I see you, which will break of World War I, and concerns a Plato and Milton. By Irene Samuel in all probability be before the end of July. mere handful of well-assorted char- '35. , Ithaca. Finally, I had almost concluded to tele- acters. James Alquist is twenty-two, 1947. 193 pages, $2. graph* by cable the news of the engage- a Cambridge student of anthropology, ment of Goldwin Smith and James Law, blond, with pale green eyes. His an- Volume XXXV of Cornell Studies that you might at once give the news to tagonist is the mysterious Senor Perez, in English, edited by Professor Lane the , but have concluded Cooper, English Language and Litera- to send by mail. a Peruvian of sadistic appetites and It is of such importance, however, and doubtful calling. The girl, Hine, is ture, Emeritus, Plato and Milton is Goldwin Smith especially is so beloved and tall, beautiful, of pure Polynesian dedicated to Professor Cooper by his honored by our Citizens for the noble stand strain. The Island's English exile, former pupil, who is now an instructor he took during our Rebellion (you remem- ber that a public dinner was given him in William Brown, acts as chorus to the in English at Hunter College. M,iss Samuel shows that the works of Plato New York), that I think you would do melodrama, which ends in screaming, well on receiving this to telegraph at once moonlit death. were "not merely a source, but a to Associated Press that I have engaged stimulant to Milton, and acted as a Freund makes admirable use of Goldwin Smith as Professor of English catalytic agent on the heterogeneous History and James Law of Belfast as Pro- Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee's Ger- materials of pagan, Biblical, and fessor of Veterinary Surgery in Cornell man Pacific fleet, which might easily University. I think the above a far more Christian learning in his mind." have touched Easter Island before its important and interesting piece of news than most which go over the wires, and it rendezvous with the British at Coro- would be worth much to us as it would nel and the Falklands. Boston Family meet the eyes of a million people. Beacon Hill Children. By Elizabeth And now get the faithful band of good How to Become a Literary Critic. Rhodes Jackson '97. L. C. Page & Co., men and true together; McGraw, A. B. By Philip Freund '29. Beechhurst Cornell, Schuyler, Boardman, Andrus, Boston, Mass. 1947. 218 pages, $2.50. Finch and above all don't forget Selkreg Press, New York City. 1947. 200 pages, for-1 want him to ι 'deacon out" the most $3.00. This is a story about three children, triumphant hymn he knows and after you Dee, Jack, and Beany Corey, of Bos- have sung it to the most jubilant tune you Apart from its pretentious and in- ton, and their dog, Reginald, who is a know, go to work with renewed vigor. I accurate title, this is a rewarding group am not of the over-sanguine kind, and as very important character in the story. you know have often been obliged to re- of essays on Fielding (chiefly Tom They have many exciting adventures, strain your youthful ardor, but I tell you Jones, which is probably Freund's as told by Dee, including the time all seriously that we are to succeed beyond favorite novel in all Hterature,, and Beany wins a sailboat race with only anything we have dreamed of! not a bad choice at that), Melville he and Reginald, the dog, as crew. And I tell you, all of you, that by at- (with deserved emphasis on Billy taching our names to the Cornell Univer- Beacon Hill Children will interest and sity by good work in building it we shall Budd), Hardy, Conrad, and D. H. appeal to readers of all ages. gain a name and fame beyond that of nine Lawrence. Freund's reading plan of —G.K.S. (age 14) tenths of the great politicians who make twenty-four books is a good one. much noise and are then forgotten, since 186 Cornell Alumni News they leave nothing worth remembering. Mummies Meet Again in Peiping before they receive their It is so here in England and it is so in diplomatic assignments. America. The men who have labored in ENEWING their pre-war custom Also majoring in Chinese this year such work as we are engaged in have been - of annual reunions, the 1916 remembered when kings and rulers were R is an Air Corps lieutenant colonel, forgotten. Mummy Club returned to Ithaca for Robert L. VanAusdall '48, who served The above is the sermon to follow Sel- the Navy game and a banquet at the in China during the war and hopes to kreg's hymn and a more true sermon was Victoria Inn. Present with their wives return there for diplomatic work. Like never preached. were J. Mark Chamberlain, Carlton Tell Finch that I am getting ideas to- many regular-Army officers, he is sent gether for a library building and that my P. Collins, Julian A. Fay, Samuel E. here to complete his undergraduate plan is a good one and that he will say so Hunkin, Edward S. Jamison, George career. when he sees it. What we are to do with W. Rapp, Hamilton Vose, Jr., and our books, etc. it is hard to tell. We have Class President Murray N. Shelton; already enough to fill a large building. Sincerely yours, also Trustee Horace C. Flanigan '12, Westerners Gather A. D. White University Vice-president Robert A. CORNELL Club of Northern Cali- Doyle '14, and from the Class of '18, ^ fornia met for lunch at the Com- Edwin P. Doerr, Frederick M. Gillies, mercial Club in San Francisco, No- Alumni Mayors Richard P. Matthiessen, and P. Paul vember 5, with twenty-two alumni HREE alumni were elected Miller. Guests also were Mr. and Mrs. attending, including seven for the Tmayors of New York State cities Herbert J. Adair '15, Mr. and Mrs. first time. President Lewis R. Hart last month. They are Bert T. Baker Edward E. Anderson '17, John A. '16 introduced Robert L. Whiteside of '97 of Ithaca, Herbert A. Warden '02 Krieger '48, president of the under- the Personology Foundation, who of Newburgh, both Republicans; and graduate Mummy Club, and Jack M. spoke on "How We Vary as Indivi- Cudlip '46. duals." Plans were made for a joint Max J. Miller '13 of t Ogdensburg, Democrat. Additions to the list of meeting of Cornell and Pennsylvania mayors are welcome. Train for China Service alumni, November 25. S STATE DEPARTMENT has Rochester Clambake U sent three foreign service officers Alumni at Brown Λ^LAMBAKE of the Cornell Club of destined for China here for area and WO Cornellians have been ap- ^-^ Rochester attracted ninety alumni language training in Chinese. They T pointed to the faculty of Brown and wives to the Brooklea Country are in the Graduate School for a University at Providence, R. I., and Club, October 9. Kenneth G. Haxtun year's course in the modernization of a third has received a promotion there. '10 presided; songs were led by Joseph China, another in Far Eastern econo- Arne Wikstrom, PhD '34, has been W. Alaimo '31, with George S. Bab- mics, a seminar in current Chinese named professor of electrical engineer- cock '16 at the piano. problems, and other area studies, as ing at Brown. During the last nine well as intensive study of the Chinese years, he has been a consulting engi- language. neer for the US Navy Department in Essex County Smoker Robert A. Aylward, graduate of Newport, R. L, and Washington, IGHTY members of the Cornell Dartmouth, has had no previous D. C, and later aided in research and E Club of Essex County, N. J., en- training in the language, but served in development at the Navy electronics joyed a smoker October 22 at the the AAF in China for more than a laboratory at San Diego, Calif. Montclair Dramatic Club. President year. His wife is studying Chinese New assistant professor of electrical Vincent deP. Gerbereux '24 intro- with him. John M. MacDonald, a engineering is Paul S. Symonds, duced William F. Stuckle '17, past- Yale graduate, lived in China from PhD '43. He has been a physicist at president of the Federation of Cornell 1935-37, teaching in Tungchow. John the US Naval Research Laboratory, Men's Clubs, and the guest of honor, M. Farrior was born and lived in and at Brown will devote part time basketball Coach Royner C. Greene, Chinkiang, China, later coming to to teaching in the graduate division who showed movies of the Cornell- America and graduating at Davidson of applied mathematics. Mrs. Sy- Colgate football game, and discussed College. The three families live to- monds is the former Ilese Powell '42. University athletics. Songs were ac- gether in a big house in East Ithaca, K. Roald Bergethon, PhD '45, who companied by Carl Sehraubstader '23 where they converse in Chinese. After joined the division of modern langu- at the piano. they leave Cornell they will spend ages at Brown last year as an in- another year studying Chinese in the structor, has been promoted to assis- Philadelphia Elects foreign service officers language school tant professor of German. T the annual meeting of the Cor- nell Women's Club of Philadel- Ah phia, Pa., following dinner at Whit- man's Restaurant October 22, Mrs. Glenn R. Morrow (Dorrice Richards) '20 spoke on the League of Women Voters. More than forty members at- tended. They elected Mrs. George Kelso (Mary Perrell) '31, president of the Club; Mrs. William F. Stotz (Anna Hoehler) '23, vice-president; Mrs. Thomas W. Hopper (Helene Miner) '29, corresponding secretary; Edith T. Loux '10, recording secre- tary; Elizabeth T. Warner '23, treas- urer; and Mrs. Samuel S. Evans (Ella Behrer) '27 and Mrs. William Slimm (Mildred Hiller) '25, directors. SCHOELLKOPF FIELD, SNOWBANKED FOR SYRACUSE GAME Bollinger '45 December /, 1947 187 pective Cornellians at Clark School, Cayuga County, November 10 at the Cornell Alumni News of which Frank M. Morgan '09 is Auburn home of Mrs. Stanley Ridley headmaster. "Having noticed in the (Carol Worden) '38. 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA N. Y. papers that Cornell was playing FOUNDED 1899 Dartmouth that day," they report, Long Island Women Published the first and fifteenth of "and being in the vicinity," they WENTY members of the North each month while the University is attended the game. TShore Cornell Women's Club of in regular session and monthly in Jan- Long Island met October 28 at the uary, February, July, and September. Athletics Port Washington home of Mrs. Fred- Owned and published by the Cornell Al- (Continued from page 185) erick E. Schmitt, Jr. (Ethel Bache) umni Association under direction of a '31. President Anita R. Minkin '39 committee composed of Phillips Wyman ARVARD will play football on introduced Albert E. Griffiths '33, '17, chairman, Birge W. Kinne '16, Clif- H Schoellkopf Field October 9, ford S. Bailey '18, John S. Knight '18, and plant pathologist in the technical serv- Walter K. Nield '27. Officers of the Alumni 1948, its first such visit here since 1896. ice laboratories of Socony Vacuum Association: Elbert P. Tuttle '18, Atlanta, Cornell's first organized fall la- Co., who gave an illustrated talk on Ga., president; Emmet J. Murphy '22, crosse practice closed November 6. Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. "New Developments in Horticulture." From ten to thirty players attended Mrs. Griffiths (Lucy Walker) '31 is a Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; the drills for several weeks under member of the Club. foreign, $4.50. Life subscription $75. Coach '08, who was Single copies, 25 cents. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless cancelled. relieved of football duties to give this fall instruction. Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON ' 19 Arthur B. Boeringer, football line Coming Events Assistant Editors: coach, will coach the hockey teams, JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 succeeding the late Nicholas Bawlf. RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Boeringer was in charge of last year's Mamaroneck: Assistant Alumni Secretary Member, Alumni Magazines, squad in its late games. He played Pauline J. Schmid '25 and Margaret 22 Washington Square North, New York City 11; phone GRamercy 5-2039. hockey at Notre Dame before his C. Hassan '32, Office of Admissions, graduation in 1927 and coached the Club meeting, High School Cottage Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. sport at the University of Detroit for SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 eight years. Ithaca: Basketball, Bucknell, Barton Hall, Cortland Polo Club defeated Cor- 8 More Delegates nell, 17-13, in the Riding Hall, No- MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 FFICIAL [DELEGATE of the Boston, Mass.: Head Coach George K. vember 8, with Dr. Clarence C. Combs James at Cornell Club smoker, Engi- O University at the inauguration '39 scoring 10 goals for Cortland. of Walter A. Groves as president of neers' Club, 8 Hugh Dean '49 was Cornell's top TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9 Centre College of Kentucky, No- scorer with 4 goals. Ithaca: University concert, Buffalo Phil- vember 15 at Danville, Ky., was Pro- Cover of the Syracuse game pro- harmonic Orchestra, Bailey Hall, fessor William D. Funkhouser, PhD gram is by Warren A. Ranney '29, 8:15 ' 16, of the University of Kentucky. Wilmington, Del.: Director of Admissions and the program contains an editorial Herbert H. Williams '25 at Cornell Ruel E. Tyo '27 represented the and picture of the late Coach Nick Club dinner, DuPont Country Club, University at the inauguration of Bawlf, "Anniversary Story" by Glenn Springfield, Mass.: Coach James at Cor- Harry C. Fox as president of Findlay S. Warner '94, and an essay on nell Club dinner College, November 19, at Findlay, "Football from the Clouds" [radio] by WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 Ohio. Romeyn Berry '04. This year's four Ithaca: Basketball, Niagara, Barton Hall, Professor Donald A. MacRae, PhD 8 distinctive home-game programs are Washington, D. C: Herbert H. Williams '05, of the Osgoode Hall Law School, obtainable from the Athletic Office, '25 and Alumni Field Secretary R. Toronto, Canada, was the University's Schoellkopf, at thirty-five cents each. Selden Brewer '40 at Cornell Club delegate at the installation of Vincent Schoolboy party, Dodge Hotel, 8 Massey as chancellor of the Univer- New Haven, Conn.: Coach James at Cor- sity of Toronto, November 21. nell Club smoker Women's Clubs at Work THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 ASSISTANT Alumni Secretary Mineola: Coach James at Cornell Club New England Odyssey <** Pauline J. Schmid '25 was guest smoker ENERAL Alumni Secretary Em- speaker at an evening meeting of the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 met J. Murphy '22 and Pro- Cornell Women's Club of Fulton- New York City: Class of '12 Interim Re- G union, Cornell Club, 6:30 fessor Blanchard L. Rideout, PhD Montgomery Counties, November 4 Baltimore, Md.: Herbert H. Williams '25 '36, assistant Dean of Arts and at the Amsterdam home of Mrs. Mor- at Cornell Club Meeting Sciences, met with alumni of Cornell ris Stone (Rosalie Boblasky) '31. Short Hills, N. J.: Director Robert J. and Dartmouth at Kapp's in Rens- November 6, Miss Schmid attended Kane '34, Coach James, and R. Sel- a dinner meeting of the Cornell den , Brewer '40 at Cornell Club selaer, November 13. Toastmaster smoker, Baltusrol Golf Club, 8:15 David B. Andrews '33 introduced the Women's Club of Boston, Mass., at SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 Campus emissaries; Murphy spoke of the Pioneer Hotel. Ithaca: Basketball, Colgate, Barton Hall the splendid relations between the two In Albany November 7 and 8, Miss 8 institutions and, described a movie Schmid was guest at a dinner meeting MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 film of 1946 football highlights. of the executive committee of the Ithaca: University concert, Walden String Next day, Murphy and Rideout Cornell Women's Club of Albany, at Quartet, Willard Straight Theater, visited Deerfield Academy, where the home of Mrs. Peter C. Gallivan 8:15 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Rideout interviewed a. dozen candi- (Margaret Kelly) '24, and a luncheon Ithaca: University concert, Walden String dates for next year's* Freshman Class meeting of the Club at The Turnpike Quartet, Willard Straight Theater, and met Charles H. Baldwin '24 and in Guildersland, with members of the 8:15 Roland H. Cook '27 of the Deerfield Schenectady and Troy Clubs. Philadelphia, Pa.: Professor Dexter S. Kimball speaks at 70th Anniversary faculty. In Hanover, November 15, Miss Schmid also attended a meet- luncheon, Engineers' Club Rideout interviewed thirteen pros- ing of the Cornell Women's Club of 188 Cornel/ Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

"Autumn Weekend" November 8 had Bollinger's pictures also won two Signέ of the times in The Cornell Sun: fifty houseparties, shows by the Dra- other prizes. Judges were Professors "Wanted, passengers to New York matic Club and Savage Club, and a Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26, City. I drive to Westchester on week Barton Hall formal presided over by History, and Elmer S. Phillips '32, ends. Leave Sat. noon, return Sunday Claude Thornhill and his orchestra. Extension Teaching and Information, midnight " "Fly home for Thanks- Student members of YASNY (You and Fred J. Nisbet, Grad, of Newton- giving. Room for 2 more passengers. Ain't Seen Nothing Yet) did an ex- ville, Mass. Will fly to New York or any town cellent job of transforming the big within 75 miles of New York, south, drill hall into an ι'Autumn Nocturne." Morrison Prize of $100 for the best east, north, or west. . . ." original poetry by an undergraduate Pi Delta Epsilon, honor society in has been re-established, after an eigh- "Graduate student and bride-to-be journalism, published for the week- teen-year hiatus, by Professor Morris looking for small furnished apartment end a twenty-page souvenir program Bishop '14, Romance Literatures, who after Christmas. No baby, no friends, principally devoted to a reprint of himself won the Prize in 1913, and re- no dog, quiet clock. This ad is our last liomeyn Berry's "Cornell Calendar" calls that "it was a great encourage- hope before taking poison."—from in the book, Our Cornell. An editor's ment to me then." The Prize was the Ithaca Journal agony columns. note identified Rym as "one of the founded in 1909 by the late James T. most beloved and widely read of all Morrison, a retired merchant of Alpha Delta Phi team won the Cornell authors." The program was Ithaca and the father of the late Wil- Thanksgiving turkey in the annual published not-for-profit at ten cents. liam H. Morrison '90 and Maurice intramural crosscountry meet. Morrison '97. It was not awarded in The Sun, before the Syracuse game, 1910 or 1911, but next year Earl Binghamton Press carried a full page promised a "mystery woman" cheer- Simonson '12 became its first winner. feature October 24, "New Look leader. Three of the regular squad ap- Other winners include Jacob Gould Comes to Cornell Campus, Making peared dressed in wigs, shirts, and Schurman, Jr. '17, Professor James Coeds Look Like Women Again," by amply-padded sweaters. Hutton '24, Edith D. Hortoή Ί3,vand Dorothy Donnelly. The new fashion two children of Professor Walter JY was illustrated with pictures of five Cornell Era, "one of the onlys two Willcox, Mary G. Willcox '23 and Binghamton students taken on the college pictorials in existence " is now William B. Wilcox '28. Bishop has Campus: Martha Smith '48, Shirley patterned after LIFE magazine. Octo- endowed the Prize for ήve years. R. Nagler '49, Barbara L. Correll '49, ber issue pictures the life of a Varsity daughter of Mrs. A. G. Corell (Helen football player, based on an interview The Sunday Observer has "suspended Smith) '22, Marilen R. Tarleton '50, with Kenneth L. Stofer '4B. New publication for the fall term," accord- and Carol J. Buckley '51. editor-in-chief is Robert A. Dreher '45 ing to editor Harold Mb.Guzy '46 of of Brooklyn; Martin H. Hummel, Jr. South Orange, N. J. One issue ap- Ditch cave-in on the construction of '48 of Bloomfield, N, J., is managing peared, October 26. the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies editor. above Forest Home Road recently Dance Observer for October contains caused the death of a young plumber, Campus Conference on Religion, ar- a review of the Cornell Dance Club's Joseph W. Kinney of Dresden. He ranged by CURW November 16-18, concert last May, written by Mrs. had started working on the project the concerned the question, "How's Your Lois O'Connor, Assistant Director of same day. Frame of Mind?" First session was Public Information. Photographs of addressed by Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, the concert were exhibited in the Yves Tinayre, French baritone, pre- head psychiatrist at Blythewood San- studio of University Station WHCU, sented two recitals of his specialty, itarium and formerly assistant pro- November 17-30; they were taken by medieval sacred and secular music, in fessor in the Medical College. The Marion Wesp and Gordon Buzzell, the Willard Straight Memorial Room Rev. Paul Weaver, whose pictures appear frequently in last month. He also sang, accom- preacher November 16, and other the ALUMNI NEWS. panied by a quintet from Wells Col- visiting authorities led discussions in lege, for Professor Donald M. Grout's , Willard Straight, and course on "The Art of Music," seventy fraternities and dormitories. "INTELLIGENCE" column by Emer- shifted for the occasion from Goldwin son HinchUff *14 in the Alumni News Smith Hall to the Straight; and ap- Student photographs were exhibited of October 1 was quoted in The New peared as soloist with the Sage in the Willard Straight gallery, No- York Times, November 13. "Topics of Chapel Choir, November 16. vember 16-22. Grand prize was won the Times", picked up Hinchliff's by Wolf Karo '46 of Utica for his por- comments on the new Cornell degree Recital by Marylee Myers '44, so- trait of two students examining a of Doctor of Education, without the prano, was enjoyed November 23 in photographic nude; Karo's title: "Les requirement of a foreign language. the Willard Straight Memorial Room. Connoisseurs." First prize in the action Author of this Times editorial-page The artist, graduated "with distinc- class went to ALUMNI NEWS photo- column has been mentioned thus by tion in Music," is the daughter of the grapher Lawrence R. Bollinger '45 of Franklin P. Adams: "The two best late Professor Clyde H. Myers, PhD Friendship, for his picture of Norman writers in this nation write anony- '12, Plant Breeding, and Mrs. Fleda Dawson '46 catching a pass on Schoell- mously: Mr. E. B. White ['21] of The Straight Myers, Grad Ίθ-11, and the kopf Field in the 1946 Yale game; New Yorker, and Mr. Simeon Strun- wife of John C. Osborn, a Law student this picture appeared on the Novem- sky, the Times' Topicker." who is the son of Mrs. Robert C. ber 15, 1946, cover of the NEWS. Osborn (Agda Swenson) '20 of Ithaca.

December iy 189 Professor Simmons was castigated for the aurora also cause magnetic storms his Outline of Modern Russian Liter- which hinder or make impossible The Faculty ature, published by the Cornell Uni- radio, telephone, and telegraph com- versity Press in 1943. Miss Motyleva munications. asserts that he debased and slandered President Edmund E. Day; Deans Soviet writers. Dean Martin P. Catherwood, PhD E. Lee Vincent, Home Economics, '30, Industrial and Labor Relations, S. C. Hollister, Engineering, and Wil- Counselor of Students Frank C. spoke on "New York Means Business" liam I. Myers '14, Agriculture; with Baldwin '22 discussed the large uni- before the Industrial Club of Utica, Agriculture Directors and staff mem- versity at a "Career Clinic," Novem- December 11. bers, attended the annual meeting of ber 13 in Victor Central High School. The clinic was attended by students Dr. Erich von Kahler of Princeton the Association of Land-grant Col- is lecturer in German Literature at leges in Washington, D. C, Novem- from six high schools in the Victor area. the University this term. Author of ber 10-12. Dean Vincent discussed re- a number of historical and philosophi- search on child development and cal studies, including Man the Meas- family relationships; Professor Cathe- Certificate of commendation in recognition of his contributions to the ure: A New Approach to History, and rine J. Personius, PhD '37, "The an editor of Die Neue Rundschau, the Administrative Organization of Home Naval electronics program during World War II has come to Professor leading German literary journal, he is Economics Research at Cornell " and lecturing on contemporary German Professor Frances A. Scudder '24, Lloyd P. Smith, PhD '30, Physics, from the US Navy Bureau of Ships. An literature and will give a series of Extension, reported on a Home Bu- public lectures on "The Crisis of the reau study in Chemung County. accompanying letter from Vice Ad- miral E. W. Mills, USN, cheif of the Individual." Poll conducted by Forbes Magazine Bureau, cites him for "outstanding Thirteen paintings by Professor included University Trustee John L. research during the war as associate Norman D. Daly, Fine Arts, were ex- Collyer '17, president of The B. F. director of the research laboratories hibited in a one-man show at the Goodrich Co., and Former Trustee of the RCA Laboratory Division at Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. '10, presi- Princeton, N. J., and for contribu- City, October 4-November 8. Re- dent of E. I. duPont de Nemours & tions to the development of a new viewing the exhibit in The Art Digest Co., among the fifty foremost business technique for frequency modulated for October 15, Judith Kaye Reed and industrial leaders of the United magnetrons "which were of vital stated: "Daly paints well-designed States. Both received citations from importance to the Naval electronics and rich, but subtly colored compo- Forbes Magazine. program." Professor Smith is chair- sitions, based on American Indian man of a National Research Council themes," and later, "Aside from Director Charles R. Burrows, Elec- committee to study and stimulate re- trical Engineering, is chairman of the Daly's unusual gift of projection, search in phenomena connected with which enable him to re-interpret an Panel on the Upper Atmosphere for matter in the solid state. October 11, the Research and Development Board. ancient and alien culture without con- he presented a paper on the new descension, the works also reveal fine He met with the Panel in Washington, Cornell program in Engineering Phy- D. C, November 7, after attending observation of movement and ex- sics at a meeting of the American cellent feeling for color and design." sessions of the National Electronics Society for Engineering Education at Conference and the Midwestern con- the University of Massachusetts, in A picture-article on the effects of vention of the American Institute of Amherst. parental quarrels on children entitled Electrical Engineers in Chicago. "Please Stop Fighting" by Toni Tay- "Unlocking Secrets of the Northern With Herbert Hoover, one of the lor in collaboration with Professor Lights," by Dr. Carl W. Gartlein, Ethel B. Waring, Child Development two honorary members of the Engi- PhD '29, director of the National neers' Club of Philadelphia, Pa., Pro- and Family Relationships, appeared Geographic Society-Cornell Univer- in the McCalPs for November. fessor Dexter S. Kimball, Engineer- sity Study of the Aurora at Cornell, ing, Emeritus, will speak at the appeared in the November issue of Professor Edwin A. Burtt, Phil- seventieth anniversary luncheon of the National Geographic Magazine. the Club, December 16, as he has the osophy, spoke at convocation day With the aid of grants from the Na- exercises at Elmira College, October Tuesday before Christmas for twenty tional Geographic Society, study of years. The next day, December 17, he 21. His subject was "Intelligence as a the aurora has been going on at the World Perspective." will speak at a dinner of the Phila- University for the last eight years. delphia branch of the Cornell Society The principal observatory is at Pro- Professor Arthur A. Allen '08, of Engineers. Again this fall, for the fessor Gartlein's home several miles Ornithology, spoke on "Birds of the fifth year and with 300 officer-stu- north of Ithaca, away from the city Home Front" at the annual meeting dents, Dean Kimball is giving his lights and where he and Mrs. Gartlein of the Federated Garden Clubs of series of ten weekly lectures on in- (Helen Hart) '28 can attend to the Connecticut, October 15 in Hartford, dustrial management at the graduate instruments during the evening and Conn, school of the US Naval Academy at night. Scientists at Colgate and at Annapolis, Md. Columbia University Press pub- Oslo, Norway, and many professional lished in November "A Short History T. Motyleva, a Soviet literary and amateur observers in the United of Opera," by Professor Donald J. critic, writing in the Soviet news- States and Canada are cooperating in Grout, Music. The two-volume "sys- paper Izvestia to attack American the work, which is closely followed by tematic historical survey" contains students of Russian literature, singled the National Bureau of Standards, 711 pages, 123 of which are bibli- out Professor Ernest ^J. Simmons, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, ography. formerly chairman of Slavic Lan- and the department of terrestial guages and Literatures now at Col- magnetism of the Carnegie Institution Mrs. Minnie Clark Dennis, widow umbia, as an enemy of the Soviet of Washington, D. C. This study is of Professor Louis M. Dennis, Chem- Union, according to Joseph Newman important since the same showers of stry, died November 8, 1947, at the of the New York Herald Tribune. particles from the sun that produce (Continued on page 201) 190 Cornell Alumni News Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about Cornellians are earnestly solicited

'98—Eleven '98 men gathered at bibliography, originally published in H. McFadden Medal for "outstand- the Cornell Club in New York, 1930, came out in 1945. Brown has ing contributions in the field of non- October 28, for dinner and a full dis- written VPI bulletins and articles for ferrous casting research." St. John cussion of plans for the Fifty-year the William and Mary College Quar- lives at 6720 Merrill Avenue, Chicago Reunion which takes place in June, terly and The Raven, journal of the 49, 111. His son is Harry N. St. John, 1948. Andrew Tuck was designated Virginia Society of Ornithology; has Jr. '42. Reunion chairman with instructions done research on the history of VPI Ίl AB—James S. Elston, assistant to add others to the committee to aid and the agriculture, agricultural sci- actuary for the Travelers Insurance him. In addition to talking about Re- ence, and education in Virginia from Co., Hartford, Conn., has been elected union plans, the many reminiscences 1820-90. He lives at 1614 East vice-president of the American In- of those present and suggestions for Thirty-fifth Street, Tulsa 5, Okla. stitute of Actuaries. His Tice Fam- aiding Cornell made this an occasion '01 AB; '03 AB—Louis C. Karpin- ilies in America, a 320-page genealogy, such that many who could not attend ski, professor of mathematics at the was recently published. will want to be at the next dinner University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, '12—The Famous Class of 1912 has meeting. Those present at the dinner retired this summer after forty-three finally decided to give up its long- were Wilton Bentley, Wylie Brown, years at Michigan. He was made a established custom of reuning every Edgar Johnston, Frank Keese, Wil- professor in 1919. Professor Karpinski, year. Instead, it will reune twice a lard Kent, Jerry Kennedy, Andrew who is the author of a Bibliography of year! The interim Reunion will be MacElroy, Fred Midgley, Isaac Platt, Mathematical Works Printed in Amer- held on 12/12 (December 12, 1947) William Smith, Wesley Steele, An- ica Through 1850, recently attended at the Cornell Club of New York, 107 drew Tuck, and Allen Whiting. the 5th International Congress of the East 48th St. Dinner will be served Take notice, all '98 men, that the History of Science at Lausanne, with appropriate trimmings at 6:30. next dinner will be at the Cornell Club Switzerland. He and Mrs. Karpinski Later, Lee Tschirky's colored movies of New York, Tuesday evening April (Grace Woods) '03 have six children, of the Thirty-five-year Reunion, held 13, 1948. At that meeting, final all graduates of the University of last June, will be shown and other plans for the Fifty-year Reunion of Michigan. entertainment will be provided. All the Class will be made. We need your '03 ME—Henry A. Rogers of 3156 Twelvers are invited to attend, suggestions, so plan to be on hand. East Forty-eighth Street, Tulsa, whether residents of the Metropolitan There will be only one Fifty-year Re- Okla., has a sixth grandchild, Peter area or Chungking, China, or any union, so we should make this- an out- Courtney Evans, born in October. other spot in the world. Reservations standing event to be treasured in the Rogers is a sales representative. for dinner should be sent to Dale Car- years to come. Start now to make son, 460 West Twenty-fourth St., '04 EE—Roberto J. Shalders lives your plans to be in Ithaca next June. New York City 11.—D.C.K. Drop a line to Andrew Tuck, 80 at Rua Ivinheima 78, Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil, S. A. He is a life insur- '12 BS—Edward L. Bernays, public Chatsworth Road, Larchmont, N. Y., relations counsel at 26 East Sixty- saying you expect to be at the Re- ance salesman with Sul Americo Cia. Nac. de Sequros de Vida. fourth Street, New York City, ad- union and send him your suggestions dressed the Rochester Ad Club Octo- for any plans you think will add to the '08 ME, '09 MME—Mark H. Landis is president and general man- ber 30 and the Greater Buffalo Ad- occasion —A. J.M. vertising Club October 31 on the sub- ager of Erd Co., Inc., engineering re- ject of the future of American enter- '01 AB—Ralph M. Brown, librarian search and development laboratory, prise. Newspapers in both towns of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 225-233 Ringgold Street, Waynes- featured the talk which urged greater Blacksburg, Va., since 1925, retired boro, Pa. He is just completing the August 31. He also held the title of stress by American business on human production program for an aluminum relations. associate professor. While Brown was storm window, known as "Erdco." librarian, the engineering branch li- '12—George G. Raymond recently brary, the catalog, circulation, and '08 ME—James W. Parker, presi- celebrated his twenty-fifth anniver- reference departments were organized, dent and general manager of the sary as president and treasurer of the agricultural branch library was Detroit Edison Co., Detroit, Mich., Lyon-Raymond Corp., Greene. The reorganized, and many other improve- and recently appointed chairman of a company was formerly called the ments were made. Brown was formerly seven-man board of industrial con- Lyon Iron Works and was established librarian of the US Department of sultants to the US Atomic Energy in 1840. Raymond's son, George G. Commerce and Labor, chief of the Commission, was selected for the Raymond, Jr. '43, is secretary and Division of Library and Archives, US October 7 broadcast of the United assistant treasurer of the firm. Last Coast and Geodetic Survey, assistant Press radio feature, "Names in the March 15 a son, George G. Raymond geographical editor for Rand, McNally News." Parker is a former Alumni III, was born to the George Raymond, & Co., Chicago, 111., assistant refer- Trustee of the University. Jrs. ence librarian of the Chicago Public ΊO ME—Thomas H. Farrington is '13 CE—Lynn B. Curry, Sr. is Library, and librarian of State Teach- assistant division engineer in charge chief of utility engineers in the ers College, Minot, N. Dak. He is the of construction and repair for the Bureau of Rates and Research, Penn- author of a Bibliography of Com- Public Buildings Administration in sylvania Public Utility Commission, mander Matthew Fontaine Maury, Atlanta, Ga. His address is 214-M, Harrisburg, Pa. His address is 34 American hydrographer and Naval PO Federal Annex, Atlanta 3, Ga. South Thirteenth Street, Harrisburg, officer, whose book, The Physical '10 AB—Harry M. St. John, super- Pa. Geography of the Sea (1855), was intendent of the Crane Co. of Chicago, '13, '14 CE—Blinn S. Page is re- the first classic work of modern ocean- 111., has been awarded the American tired and lives at 1128 Devonshire ography. A second edition of the Foundrymen's Association William Road, Grosse Pointe Park 30, Mich. December f> 1947 191 qm ibey adύally

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192 Cornell Alumni News zation to be chief of the division of ex- tension education connected with the new Inter-American Institute of Agri- cultural Sciences at Turrialba, Costa THE Rica, under the Pan American Union. COOP Mrs. Hatch is Emily Gilchrist Hatch, PhD '34. COLUMN '16—David M. Freudenthal, vice- president and treasurer of Blooming- dale Brothers, Inc., New York City, has resigned, effective February 1, to become a financial consultant to management. His offices will be at 50 Broadway and he will have Bloom- ingdale's among his clients. He is a member of the New York City Rent Advisory Board, and a director and treasurer of both the Better Business Bureau, Inc., of New York City and '13—Richard H. Depew, Jr. (above) the New York Council on Retail T doesn't really seem possible, has joined the Frank Ambrose Avia- Trade Diversion, Inc. tion Co. of Flushing as director of I but here we are, writing a domestic sales. He has been vice-presi- '16 AB, '25 AM—In the Annals of Christmas ad again. Hemmed in as the Entomological Society of America, dent and general manager of Lud- we are by the borders of this column, ington-Griswold, Inc., Saybrook, Vol. XL, No. 2, June, 1947, John W. wo can't' begin to tell you about our Conn. A founder of the Cornell Aero Bailey, formerly a lieutenant colonel Club in 1909, Depew learned to fly a with the Information and Education Christmas stock, so we'll just hit Division, Education Branch, War De- Farman "pusher" biplane in 1911. the high spots and hope that you partment, reports on a survey of the When he received an aviator's license will write in for more information. from the Aero Club of France shortly status of the entomological collections afterwards, he was the second young- in forty-eight European museums Cornell Christmas Cards as usual, which he made in 1945 after the end est licensed pilot in the world. He is two sizes, 50c and $1.00 dozen. Cor- still a licensed pilot and is past-presi- of hostilities in Europe. Professor of dent of the Early Birds, an association biology at the University of Richmond nell Calendars and Cornell Date of pioneer airmen who flew before the since 1929, Bailey was commissioned Books, $1.75 and $1.00, respectively. τ a major in the Army in 1943 and also first World War. In W orld War I he Cornell Blankets, Pillows, Mas- was a test pilot and captain in the US served overseas with the Public Health Army Air Service. An inventor of Branch of Military Government. His cots, Banners and Pennants at all several aviation devices, he was address IF 27 Willway Road, Rich- prices. Write for the list. selected by the Government to go on a mond, Va. Cornell Glasses, 6i oz. and 9ί oz. secret technical Intelligence mission to '18, '20 AB—Archie M. Palmer Germany to investigate the German presented a paper on "Patents and at $3.50 doz. 12 oz. and 14 oz. at aircraft industry under the joint University Research" before the As- $4.50 doz. Chiefs of Staff during the last war. sociation of American Universities in Iowa City, Iowa, October 24; spoke on Cornell Sport Shirts for juveniles '14 AB—Felix M. Frederiksen has 1 'Industry's Support of University and grown-ups at $1.29. made for many years in Faribault, Research" at the annual meeting of Minn., a quality grade of blue cheese Cornell Bookends at $1.50, $2.00, the Association of Consulting Chem- under the brand "Treasure Cave." ists and Chemical Engineers in New $3.75, and $9.50. For the curing process he uses an ex- York City, October 28; and dis- tensive system of natural caves. Cornell Records Albums at $6.75. cussed "University Research Founda- '15 AB—Mark H. Stratton is presi- tions" before the Association of Land- Cornell Seal Rings in all sizes, dent of New York Rubber Corp., Grant Colleges and Universities in sterling silver or gold, and Cornell , New York Washington, D. C, November 11. Seal Jewelry of all kinds. City 1, which published in 1944 the Palmer, former executive secretary of book, The Story of the Rubber Life the Cornell Alumni Fund, is director These are just a few of the items Raft, by Edgar G. Wandless. of the patent policy survey being con- which we are offering to Cornelίians '15 CE—Alan F. Williams, formerly ducted by the National Research this Chirstmas season. A post card Council. His office is at the National lieutenant commander, USNR, is will bring you information on any- transportation engineer for the Cali- Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitu- fornia Public Utilities Commission in tion Avenue, Washington 25, D. C, thing else that you have in mind. Los Angeles; lives at 2356 Las Lunas and he lives at 3321 Runnymede Street, Pasadena 8, Cal. He still Place, NW, λVashington 15. officiates at football games in the '19 AB—Mrs. Gladys Gilkey Cal- Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Con- kins, president of the Young Women's ference. Christian Association of the United '15 BS, '16 MS, '28 PhD; '28 AM, States since 1943, has been elected a THE CORNELL CO-OP \34 PhD—D. Spencer Hatch, who for vice-president of the World Council many years has served with the World of YWCA. She is the wife of J. Bird- BARNES HALL ITHACA, N.Y. sail Calkins '16 and they live at 1112 Service Department of the Inter- North Evergreen Street, Arlington, national Committee of the YMCA in Va. India and Mexico, has left that organi- zeember /, 1947 193 NOW You Can Buy AGAIN

W. Morgan Kendall, Class Correspondent 32 Argyle Park, Buffalo 9, N. Y. '19—You have been promised in- formation about your Classmates in this column. Apparently Bill Emerson finds your questionnaires so interest- ing that he has been unable to part with them. With the deadline for this issue at hand, I shall have to confine my news to Buffalo. Forgive me, I did not plan it this way. Our Cornell Club here, always a live-wire aggregation, is enjoying an unusually active and interesting year. This is due largely to the leadership of Alfred M. Saperston '19, the Club president. A leading attorney in Buf- THE CORNELL RECORDS falo, Al is a member of the firm of Saperston, McNaughtan & Sapers- Four 12-inch Records, two sides, with all the familiar ton with offices in the Liberty Bank Cornell Music, by the Glee Club, Band, and University Building. He resides with his wife and Chimes. two children at 85 Nottingham Ter- race. Complete in Attractively Bound Album, $6.75 LiJ^e Al, I have lived in this city all Including tax—Express Collect my life. Immediately after graduation I entered the securities business. In the intervening twenty-seven years, Record #1—Glee Club: Alma Mater, Evening Song, In The Red it seems to me I have seen everything. and the White Certainly I 'am rich in experience, an Record #2—GleeClub: Cornell, Alumni Song, Carnelian and White, asset which I find to be of question- Crew Song, March On Cornell able value at times. I am rich in some other things too. I have a charming Record #3—: Alma Mater, Evening Song, Jennie wife whom many of you will recall as McGraw Rag, Big Red Team, Carnelian and White, Fight for "Happy" Parsons '19, a member of Cornell the distaff side of our Class. I also have Record #4—Cornell Band: Cornell Victorious, Fight for Cornell, Big a lovely daughter, Patricia '49, now a Red Team, March On Cornell, In the Red and the White, Alma Junior at Cornell. The youngster is Mater giving a pretty good account of her- self. She is active on the Sun board Single Records to fill out your set, SI.50 each and is a member of Alpha Phi so- Including tax—Express Collect rority and Raven and Serpent, the Please Order By Number latter being the women's counterpart of Aleph Samach. Speaking of all these riches, some Album Only, $1.25, Postpaid of the more curious ones among you • may be wondering how I have fared in the accumulation of this world's Quantities are limited, so get your order in NOW to as- material goods. I can answer that best sure delivery. Specify quantities, exact items desired, by confessing that I am one of the and express shipping address, and enclose payment to twenty-odd members of our Class who have underwritten this Group Sub- scription and I have been worried to death ever since, lest I be called upon CORNELL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION to make good. Consequently, men of 18 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N.Y. '19, rally around the banner and pay your dues in goodly numbers! 194 Cornell Alumni News '23—Dr. Peter Byron of 40-60 El- Pasadena. Vernon D. Wood '25 is bertson Street, Elmhurst, L. I., during doing nicely as a business consultant. last year became an affiliate of the He and his wife, the former Beatrice American Proctologic Society, and Carpenter of Waverly, N. Y., a grad- a fellow of the US Chapter of the uate of Syracuse University, live in a International College of Surgeons, and home charmingly and most interest- was appointed a clinical instructor ingly furnished with beautiful furni- in surgery at the New York Medi- ture made by Wood himself. He has cal College, Flower & Fifth Avenue made excellent replicas of outstanding Hospitals. His son is Herve M. Byron antique pieces, particularly Chinese." '51 of Arts and Sciences. '26 AB—A. Howard Myers, former '23 AB, '37 PhD—Wilbur E. Gil- New England regional director of the man, chairman of the department of NLRB, has been appointed chairman speech at Queens College, Flushing, of the faculty of the Labor Relations writes: "After teaching in the Cornell Institute at Northeastern University Summer Session, I purchased a house School of Business, Boston, Mass. in Flushing and moved my parents Since 1945, when he joined North- from Amsterdam." His address is eastern, he has also been a labor arbi- 57-53 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing. trator and consultant. '23 ME; '24—Charles F. Kells and '28 AB, '30 LLB; '20 LLB—Oct- Mrs. Kells (Mary Klages) '24, after ober 10, a Dutchess County jury twenty years in Pittsburgh, Pa., have deliberated only forty-one minutes moved to Douglaston, where they after a three-week trial involving the live at 39-01 Douglaston Parkway. People of the State of New York vs. They have three children: a daughter, Rosalie Tilt on a second-degree mur- who graduated from college last June; der indictment, and acquitted the and two sons, one a junior in high defendant. This was the first acquittal school and the other a student in in Dutchess County in a murder case grammar school. Kells is managing in more than eighty years. Nathaniel director of the Electric Industrial Rubin was trial attorney for the de- Truck Association. Mrs. Kells was fendant and John R. Schwartz '20 president of the Cornell Women's was the presiding Dutchess County It's smart to make Club of Pittsburgh. judge. Rubin has his law office at 2 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie. your dinner parties '24 AB—"Early Morning on the champagne dinners— Bowery," a water color by ΪΊorence '29 ME—A. Churchill Blackman Daly, was shown in the annual ex- was appointed June 1 chief of the with the sparkle and hibition of the Allied Artists of Amer- Division of Industrial Safety, Cali- graciousness that ica, Inc., at the National Arts -Club in fornia Department of Industrial Re- Gold Seal gives. New York City, October 5-26. A for- lations, by Governor Earl Warren of mer art teacher at Haverstraw High California. He has resigned from the A wine of great School, Miss Daly has been free- Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., with distinction, Gold Seal lancing for the last year and recently which he had been associated for more Brut helps make your completed a series of oil paintings de- than fifteen years, recently in Char- picting scenes of the historical and lotte, N. C, as district engineer. parties a success. commercial development of Haver- Blackman and Mrs. Blackman have Easier to serve than straw for a businessman there. two daughters, one ten months old mixed drinks yet costs '24 ME—Frederick C. Wood, son of and the other four and a half years about the same. the late Augustus Wood '91, is vice- old. They live at 416 Arballo Drive, president of W. T. Grant Co., 1441 San Francisco, Cal. Fermented in the bottle Broadway, New York City. His son, '30 BS; '31 AB—Donald B. Saun- —the only correct way. E. Roberts Wood, is a Sophomore in ders and Mrs. Saunders (Helen Nuf- Civil Engineering. fort) '31 of 1 Kensington Terrace, '25 BS—Fannie B. Miller of 413 Maplewood, N. J., have a daughter, North Main Street, Elmer, N. J., is Mary Elizabeth Saunders, born Sep- a "helping teacher" in Salem County, tember 6. They have three* other chil- N. J. dren: Judith, Douglas, and Thomas. '25 AB—Dr. Alvin O. Severance The children's grandfather is Walter was appointed director of the labora- Nuffort '00. Saunders is a statistician tory and pathologist of the Medical with the New York Telephone, 140 and Surgical Memorial Hospital, 215 West Street, New York City. Camden Street, San Antonio, Tex., '31 CE—Frank H. Taylor is now January 15, and January 17 was made with Sperry Products, Inc., of Ho- consultant in pathology to Brooke boken, N. J. He and Mrs. Taylor General Hospital in San Antonio by have a small daughter, Priscilla Dun- Gold Seal the War Department Medical Corps. can LeClerc Taylor. Address: Box 124, NEW YORK STATE He lives at 151 Harrison Avenue, San Fort Lee, N. J. Antonio, Tex. "With my wife and two '35 BS—A third son, Robert Louis boys, I recently made a vacation trip Irving, was born September 8 to to California, where I visited two Frank J. Irving and Mrs. Irving. The Cornellians," he writes. "Frederick baby's grandfather is Clarence R. Write for our "Champagne Dinner" booklet R. Hirsh, Jr. '26 is happily situated in Andrews '08. Irving, who formerly URBANA WINE COMPANY, INC.. Hammondsport, N. Y. December /, 1947 195 managed Tampa Terrace Hotel in He lives at 711 West Washington Tampa, Fla., now owns and manages Avenue, Kinston, N.C., and is a di- The Friendly Hotel, 120 South Ridge- rector of the Cornell Club of Wash- wood Avenue, Daytona Beach, Fla. ington, D. C. '36—David H. Durham and Mrs. '39 BS; '39 BS—Howard M. Ring- Durham of 110 Heights Court, Ithaca, holm and Mrs. Ringholm (Barbara have a daughter, Denise Durham, Gay) '39 of Masonville, N. J., have a born June 11. Durham, who is the second daughter, Cynthia Ringholm, son of Professor Charles L. Durham born September 10. The baby joins '99, Latin, Emeritus, is with Sun Oil Nancy, four, and Douglas, two. Ring- Co. holm is a farm appraiser for the Fed- '36, '39 AB—A son, Frederick Scott eral Land Bank of Springfield, Mass. Ritter, was born April 1 to Frederick '39, '40 BS; '41 BS—Alexander G. W. Ritter, Jr. and Mrs. Ritter of 14 Yaxis and Mrs. Yaxis (Violet Schulke) Melrose Lane, Douglaston, L. I. '41 live at 144 Morrell Street, Hemp- '37 AM—Norman E. Lange has stead. They were married October 4, been appointed director of student 1946. personnel at the University of Ver- '40 AB; '40 BS—Alexander J. mont, in Burlington. Cheney and Mrs. Cheney (Martha ... for a perfect Winter '38 AB, '47 AM—Forrest Durham, Atwood) '40 have moved with their son of Professor Charles L. Durham two children, Peter and Carol, to 121 vacation with no vexation- '99, Latin, Emeritus, is a graduate Linden Avenue, Ithaca. Formerly a assistant in Geology and is studying mathematics teacher at Dryden-Free- for the PhD. He and Mrs. Durham ville Central School, Cheney is now live at 896 Tower Road, Ithaca. A an accountant in the University Pur- fljinthurcί son, Steven Forrest Durham, was chasing Department. born to them October 10, 1946. '40 PhD—Professor William M. Ip^ NORTH CAROLINA '38 BS, ?39 AM; '36 AB—David Ingram, chairman of the department Few resorts have succeeded, as has Heilweit, director of the theatre di- of zoology at Mills College, Oakland, Pinehurst, in preserving the ''gracious vision- of the American Theatre Wing Cal., has been awarded a research way of life"—free from pretense, for- School, New York City, has written, grant from the American Philosophi- mality and confusion. in collaboration with Mrs. Heilweil cal Society to assist him in his studies At Pinehurst, golf is a tradition. Jΐere, (Eva Wolas) '36, a three-act psycho- on the land and fresh water mollusks you can play on world-famous cqΐirses logical mystery play, "Till Death Do of the. San Francisco Bay area. A that many consider the finest in Jbmer- Us Part," which has been published year ago, the Society of Sigma Xi gave ica—with both you and your |ppnf by Play Club, Inc., of Elizabethtown, him a grant which enabled him to getting a lift from the dry, invigorating N. J. Heilweil is one of the organizers publish a scientific monograph on climate and clear, bracing pine-scented of a cooperative permanent producing certain fossil shells found along the air. Ride over miles of inviting bridfe group in New York City called New coasts of North, Central, and South paths— that wind through groves of America. pine and dogwood. Tennis on cham- Stages which aims to produce plays pionship courts—or if you prefer, loll that do not fall into the conventional '41 MS—Mrs. Morris C. Valentine in sunny contentment on Broad\x&y pattern. .Mrs. Heilweil has (Elizabeth Althouse) passed the pre- the broa$ ^porέhes and held two Rockefeller fellowships in liminary examination for the PhD at open terraces of the play writing* After leaving Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania Octo- Country Club while oth- she did graduate work at the Yale ber 21. She is working on the problem ^ ers labor at their games. School of Drama. of climbing ferns and attempting to But Pinehurst has plenty '39 BS; '40 BS—Major William • raise ferns from spores to study the of other attractions that S. Barrett, USA, is with the G-3 structure of gametophyte and early bring guests back year Section (Operations) of the US Con- sporophyte. Her address is 3943 Lo- after year . . . spacious cust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. comfortable, well-ap- stabulary: in Heidelberg, Germany. pointed inns and hotels This is his, second tour of duty in '41 AB '38 AB—Eddie Burgess and where food is unexcelled and cour- Europe: he spent four years in active David Beitler '38 were married Octo- teous service a habit . . . duty and combat with the 695th Field ber 25. They live at London Terrace congenial conservative Artillery Battalion, formerly the 112th Apartments, 465 West Twenty-third people like your friends National Guard Regiment of New Street, New York City. at home . . . and"— mbsV Jersey. Previous to this latest as- important—a peaceful- signment he was a year in the G-3 '41 AB—Richard H. Weiss and ness that invites rest and Section (Training) at the Field Artil- . Mrs. Weiss of 35-46 Seventy-fourth relaxation. lery Replacement Center at Fort Street, Jackson Heights, have a Bragg, N. C. Major Barrett wears the daughter, Wendy Catherine Weiss, Silver Star, Presidential Unit Citation born October 10. They also have a two For those seeking a convenient Ribbon, and the ETO Ribbon with and a half year old son, Richard Joel winter home amid healthful, five battle stars. He and Mrs. Barrett Weiss. pleasing surroundings, Pinehurst (Jane Hall) '40 are making their '42 BS—Conrad Engelhardt be- is an ideal spot. NQ increase in rates. For information or reserva- home in Heidelberg with their two came manager of the Old Forge Inn, tions, address Pinehurst, Inc.. sons, Robert, six, and John, four. Old Forge, in July. 412 Dogwood Road, today I '39, '40 AB—William S. Page, son '41—Kenneth J. Luplow is with of Blinn S, Page '13, is news editor at Boeing Aircraft Co. in Brussels, Station WKNS in Kinston, N. C, Belgium. His address is 7 Ave. de which went on the air September 15. Masauges, Brussels, Belgium, 196 Cornell Alumni News '41 BS in AE (ME)—Porter W. Gif- ford, Jr. of 4420 Glenwick Lane, Dal- las, Tex., is superintendent of a gravel pit near Dallas, is married to the for- mer Beth Butte of Texas University and they have a year-old son, Porter W. Gifford III. "I had a very enjoy- able reunion with George Hackett '41 recently in Dallas/' he writes. '42 AB—Richard R. Ryan received a Master's degree in journalism at last June, spent the summer doing professional photo- graphy at Catalina Island, off the Los Angeles, Cal., coast, then joined The modern Rogers Peet the Humboldt Standard, 328 EStreet, has "fit" down to a science Eureka, Cal., as a "buck reporter." —a science that approaches He lives at 1628 E Street, Eureka, perfection. Cal. Our designers, our tailors, '42 BME; '43 AB—Robert G. our salesmen, our fitters — Smith, engineer with the airplane di- all have but one objective vision of Curtiss Wright, and Mrs. — to make you as proud of Smith (Claire Triest) ''43 have a your Rogers Peet clothes second daughter, Linda Jane Smith, as we are. born August 19. They live at 119 Mayfair Boulevard, Columbus 9, Ohio. '43 BS in AE (ME)—Charles A. Col- bert, who is in the sales department of Modern Packages, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., writes: "I have settled in Memphis and eat most of my meals with Bill Flint '43 who is also here. In New York: And in Boston: Am unmarried as yet but still hopeful. Fifth Avenue Thirteenth St. Warren Street Tremont St. See John Tully '46 and Bart Tully '41 at 41st Street at Broadway at Broadway at Bromfield St. occasionally." '43 BCE—A daughter, Nikola Nancy Filby, was born September 20 to Ellsworth F. Filby and Mrs. Filby of 4930 The Paseo, Kansas City 4, Again for CHRISTMAS GIFTS! Mo. Filby is an engineer with The Havens Structural Steel Co. Grand- 2.1. new and beautiful Campus pictures parents are Ellsworth L. Filby '17 and Two-color covers Mrs. Filby (Marion Fisher) '19. • '43 AB; '46—A son, James Marshall 53 dated calendar Unger, was born May 28 to Roy B. Unger and the former Grace Fried- pages for daily man '46 of 3461 Meadowbrook Boule- engagements vard, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Unger is sales manager of Ward Products * "Λ \" Red plastic bound to open flat Corp., manufacturers of auto aerials and FM and television antennas. Handy desk size, 6x8 inches '43 BS—John E. Chance married Lucille Veevers of Glen Ridge, N. J., Syracuse '46, September 20. They Your Friends—Cornellians and Others—Will Enjoy live at 176 Hiawatha Boulevard, Lake Hiawatha, N. J. Chance is employed This Useful and Beautiful Souvenir of the Campus as a real estate salesman in Caldwell, N. J. Cornell Engagement Calendar for 1948 '44, '43 BME—A son, William Bryan Durham, was born May 20 to George Durham and Mrs. Durham of Only $1.00 a Copy, Postpaid Westview Apartments, Ithaca. Grand- (Quantities supplied with envelopes for mailing) father of the baby is Professor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, Emeritus. EDITION IS LIMITED George Durham is connected with BUY NOW CORNELL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Webster Industries, Webster. 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. Ask your local Cornell Club, or '44 BS—Wynn Ogle, former assis- Use the Coupon Send me cop Cornell Engagement Calendar tant dining room director in Risley for 1948. Payment enclosed at $1.00 each. Hall, was married August 9 to Bernard Mail to (Please PRINT):

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Keller is a teach- York City, Mondays through Satur- ing assistant in horticulture at Purdue days, at 12:30 to 1:00 P.M. She heard University, Lafayette, Ind., where he about the opening October 30, au- is studying for the MS. ditioned that afternoon, and went on Qlπrnrii CSXlub '47 AB—Jacquelyn M. Coene of the air the next Monday. Her address 184 High Street, Hastings-on-Hud- is 229 East Seventy-ninth Street, son, is a secretary with the Equitable New York City. Life Assurance Society of the United States. '47 AB—Phyliss Dean was mar- Fraternity Pledges ried at her home in Washington, (Continued from last issue) D. C, September 3 to William C. ALPHA EPSILON PI: Julius J. Edwards, xar Έnat Arrison '48, who is in his first year at New York City; Herbert S. Glick, Brook- the Law School. The bride's sister, lyn; Harold A. Goldberger, Flushing; Priscilla Dean '44, and the groom's Melvyn L. Halbert, Jamaica; Herbert A. Kline, Endicott; Robert H. Lapin, Pel- brother attended them. The Deans' ham; Morton H. Meyer, Brooklyn; Stan- N. Ithaca address is 523 East Buffalo ley Rubenzahl, Neversink; Irwin I. Street. Shapiro, Far Rockaway. ALPHA GAMMA RHO: Edgar J. Abram, '47 BS—Charles H. Krellner of 393 Ouaquaga; Peter S. Clark, Ballston Spa; Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn., James A. Corradi, Summit, N. J.; Dick is an instructor at the Restaurant D. Darley, Webster Groves, Mo.; Deri I. Institute of Connecticut. He married Derr, Millville, Pa.; Donald F. House, Avon; Arthur P. Ives, Guilford; Evan C. Josephine Young of Wallingford, Pa., Lamb, Corfu; John B. Noble, Lin wood; October 18. Francis A. Simpson, Port Jervis; John H. BARR & LANE, INC. Wheeler, Florida; William W. Zimmer, '47 BS in ME—Robert P. Loeper Delanson. of 543 Locust Street, Reading, Pa., is ALPHA PHI DELTA: Carmen F. Arcuri, BUILDERS an engineer with the Hamilton Watch Utica; Joseph R. Bertino, Port Chester; Co. August 20, a daughter, Patty James L. Calderella, Utica; Erminio A. 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ALPHA TAU OMEGA: Frank M. Amoia, Eastman, Dillon & Co. '47 AB—Jeanne U. Schmidt of 406 Brooklyn; Robert C. Brandt, Westbrook- ville; Edward P. Cutter, Jr., Pittsford; MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, is travel Howard B. Day, Jr., Allentown, Pa.; representative for the American Ex- Richard F. Dietz, Malverne; Truman W. Investment Securities press Co. Eustis III, Birmingham, Mich.; John M. Ferris III, Freeport; Robert K. Freer, DONALD C. BLANKE '20 '47 AB; '47 AB—Elaine Skidmore Binghamton; Donald T. Grady, New Representative and Barbara Beach live at 620 Park Haven, Conn.; Ralph L. Hewitt, Jr., Street, Charlottesville, Va. Miss Skid- Ridgewood, N. J.; James I. Hyde, Belle- 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. more is in the graduate school of the ville, N. J.; James W. Kline, Allentown, Pa.; George E. McDowell, Verona, N. J.; University of Virginia in Charlottes- William F. Merritt, Jr., Brooklyn; Joseph Branch Offices ville, working for the Master's degree W. 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Tynan of 34-15 heimer '50, Flushing; Leonard D. Jacobs, for Eighty-fourth Street, Jackson West Orange, N. J.; Robert S. Johnson, Business—Industry—Institutions Heights, is attending Katherine Gibbs Glencoe, 111.; S. Calvin Klepper '49, Training Merchandising business school in New York City. Brooklyn; Jerome L. Krovetz, Rochester; Labor Relations Education Stanley B. Rosen, Elizabeth, N. J.; Stan- Fund Raising Public Relations She will finish her course in March. ley Rubenstein '49, North Bergen, N. J.; •'The Rooster Crows," our booklet on con- '47 BS—Nancyann Woodard is the Richard T. Silver '50, Ithaca; Robert D. tract pictures will be sent at your request Slote, Mt. Vernon; Alan J. Underberg, new Ella Mason on the "Ask Ella PHILLIPS B. NICHOLS '23 Rochester; John White '50, New York Sales Manager Mason" radio program broadcast over City. WHN from Iceland Restaurant, New (Continued next issue) 200 Cornell Alumni News and the second ranking officer in the The Faculty WAC, was announced. Colonel Gal- (Continued from page 190) loway, a Vassar graduate, was in Here is Your home of her daughter, Miss Faustine newspaper, radio, and advertising Dennis, in Washington, D. C. She work in Chicago, 111., and Boston, was the mother of Clark M. Dennis Mass. They will be married in Evans- TIMETABLE '13. ton, 111., early in 1948. TO AND FROM ITHACA Director William R. Sears of the John S. Myers, son of Charles A. Light Type, a.m. Eastern Std. Time Dark Type p.m. Graduate School of Aeronautical Myers, supervisor of the care of Uni- # Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. Engineering has succeeded Professor versity buildings, is an instructor in York Newark Phila. ITHACA Paul H. Black, Machine Design, as a Architecture. He was a pilot and 10:55 11:10 11:05 6:24 Faculty representative on the Uni- captain in the AAF and received the §10:25 §10:40 §10:12 Ot6:19 versity Library Board for a five-year BArch at Harvard in 1947. ot11:50 #12:05 t11:00 °#7:31 term. Lv. Ithαcα Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca ίό:25 10:10 1:01 Professor Catherine J. Persoηius, #7:38 #10:'30 8:30 11:37 PhD '37, head of the Food and Nutri- Necrology 6:30 9:25 tion Department, coordinator of re- Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New ITHACA Newark search in Home Economics, and assis- Phlla. York tant director of the Agricultural Ex- 79—Charles M. Youmans of 227 Wilson 1:07 8:30 8:34 8:50 Street, Winona, Minn., November 24, y11:51 7:45 7:54 8:10 periment Station; and Professor Faith 1946. Delta Upsilon. Fenton, Food and Nutrition, have § Sunday only tDaily except Sunday '81—Joseph Chase Ήosea, retired archi- XMonday only been elected fellows of the American §Daily except Monday tect, in October, 1947, at the home of his °New York-Ithaca sleeping car open for occupancy Association for the Advancement of daughter, Mrs. Edward N. Munro, at 874 at New York 10:45 p.m. weekdays—May be Science. Barrington, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. occupied at Ithaca until 8:00 a.m. '82—George Beebe, Jr., a member of ylthaca-New York sleeping car open for occupancy Professor J. Barkley Rosser, Mathe- the original Cornell Daily Sun board in at 9:00 p.m. matics, is co-author with two others 1880 and sports editor of the Chicago Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars; Cafe-Lounge of Mathematical Theory of Rocket Daily News before his retirement in 1930, Car and Dining Car Service November 4, 1947. His address was 68 Flight, published recently by the Mc- Carlton Street, Buffalo. After leaving the Graw-Hill Book Co. The 298-page University in 1880, Beebe read law in the work, according to the publishers the office of Merritt King, Ithaca, then be- Lehigh Valley first to be released on the development came managing editor of the Lawrence (Kans.) Journal. He was for eight years on Railroad of rockets during the war, is * the the staff of the Chicago Tribune and official report of the Office of Scientific thirty-two years on the Daily News. Beta Research and Development on work Theta Pi. done in rocket development at the '95 ME—Robert Bruce Lewis, chief Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory of engineer of Tinius Olsen Testing Machine George Washington University. Pro- Co., Philadelphia, Pa., October 24, 1947. fessor Rosser was chief of the theoreti- He lived at 8250 Crittenden Street, Chest- nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. Son, Bruce L. cal ballistics section of the Labora- Lewis''26. GETTING tory. '97 BS, '98 MS—Robert Ludwig Jung- hanns, September 21, 1947, in Bayamon, Professor Eugene F. DuBois, Physi- Puerto Rico. By two wills, which are being TOGETHER ology, Medical College, led a discus- contested by his children, he bequeathed sion on the role of glandular disorders to the University almost his entire estate When you "get together" with reportedly valued at $300,000 for use in fellow alumni—when you have in obesity at a meeting of the New the fields of anthropology, entomology, York Academy of Medicine, October and tropical agriculture. In Puerto Rico he an important business luncheon 10. One of the participants was Pro- engaged in farming, real estate, and engagement—when you simply archaeology; from 1898-1902, was a secret fessor Harold G. Wolff, Medicine, want fine food in a pleasant at- Medical College. Consensus was that agent there for the United States. only 1 per cent of fat persons have a '98—Henry Albert Danforth, Novem- mosphere—meet at the new Cav- glandular excuse for their obesity; the ber 20,1946, in Palo Alto, Cal. He formerly alier Room at Hotel Syracuse. owned and operated a retail lumber yard other 99 per cent get that way be- in Charleston, Mo., and later had been Cavalier Room menus feature all cause they eat too much. with Harris Bros. Lumber Co., Chicago, 111., and J. F. Hink & Son, a department the things men like best—the sur- Charles S. Ferrin, USA, major * store in Palo Alto, Cal. His address was roundings are distinctly mascu- in charge of the ROTC Field Artillery Box 112, Palo Alto, Cal. line. unit here from 1932-35, has been pro- '00 BArch—Squire Joseph Vickers, moted to brigadier general and is chief architect for the New York City Breakfast for ladies and men, Board of Transportation from 1906 until Provost Marshal of Tokyo. He was his retirement in 1942, except from 1934- from 7 to 10:30; the first Army officer assigned to the 37, October 24,1947, at his home at Grand staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz, in View-on-Hudson, Nyack. He designed Luncheon, for men only, from 1942, commanded a task force on most of the stations and buildings of the 11:30 to 3 every weekday. Christmas Island, and saw other New York City subway system, and was a painter and wood carver. action in the Pacific. October 8, at a reception given by General Mac- '01 PhD—Dr. Ernest Blaker, member of the Physics Faculty from 1898-1917, Arthur's public information chief, October 20, 1947, in Akron, Ohio. Widely Brigadier General Frayne Baker, and known for his rubber research, Dr. Blaker HOTϊlΛCiE Mrs. Baker in the famous Imperial was with the B. F. Goodrich Co. in Akron from 1919-1939, when he retired, but re- Hotel in Tokyo, General Ferrin's turned to the company during the war. In SYRACUSE, N . Y. engagement to Lieutenant Colonel 1917-18, he was in charge of the airplane Mera Galloway, Pacific WAC director division of the US Army School of Mili-

Όecember I, 1947 201 tary Aeronautics at the University. Mrs. Blaker '19 lives at 616 Weber Avenue, Akron, Ohio. Their daughter was the late Mrs. August B. Miller (Marion Blaker) PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY '27. Beta Theta Pi. '01—Samuel Asbury Harpending, re- OF CORNELL ALUMNI tired public accountant, October 13, 1947, in Geneva, where he lived at 273 Wash- ington Street. He was with the New York City accounting firm of Price, Water- house & Co. from 1906 until 1917 when he NEW YORK AND VICINITY PHILADELPHIA, PA. established his own accounting office in New York City. Phi Gamma Delta. '06 AB—Locy Howe, for many years PHILIP A. DERHAM & ASSOCIATES chemist in charge of the chemical labora- CELLUPLASTIC CORPORATION ROSEMONT, PA. tory of Cudahy Packing Co., Kansas City, Mo., April 29, 1947. His address was 40 PLASTICS Cutoff & Hardy, Kansas City, Mo. Son, Injection & Extrusion DESIGN ENGINEERING Robert E. Howe '35. Holders MODELS DEVELOPMENT '08 ME, '12 MME—Tomlinson Carlile PHILIP A.DERHAMΊ9 Ulbricht of 723 Wenonah Avenue, Oak Park, 111., July 20,1947. Former instructor Plastic Containers in Engineering, Ulbricht became president of Atlantic Trading Co., sales representa- 50 AVENUE L, NEWARK 5, N. J. ONE DEPENDABLE SOURCE tive in Havana, Cuba, for Todd Protect- Fqr ALL ograph Co., engineering specialist to the Herman B. Lermer Ί7, President sugar industry, manager of the Cuban YOUR MACHINERY NEEDS branch of Honolulu Iron Works Co., and manager for Cuba and Mexico of Brown New—Guaranteed Rebuilt & Bigelow International. In 1930, he be- Power Plant ^ Machine came sales manager for Brown & Bigelow William L. Crow Construction Co. Equipment ** Tools in Canada; in 1935, supervisor of retail Established 1840 sales in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., Everything from a Pulley to a Powerhouse for Delco-Frigidaire Conditioning Co., 101 Park Avenue New York and more recently was with A. B. Segur & J*HE QBfflBv M^cfrflvmy rrα JOHN W. ROSS, B Arch. >19, Vice Presidenl Co. in Oak Park. Ill, He was a director and .IKtniumm.i.itu.iiiin vice-president of the American Chamber JOHN F. MATTERN, BCE '42, Engineer 113 N. 3rd ST., PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. of Commerce in Havana and chairman of the air mail committee instrumental in Frank L O'Brien, Jr., M. E., '37 establishing the Havana-Key West air mail service with Pan-American Airways. The General Cellulose Co., Inc. '10 ME—Raymond Thomas Cloyes, for nearly thirty years owner and manager of Converters and Distributors of Cellulose BALTIMORE, MD. the Cloyes Gear Works, Cleveland, Ohio, Wadding and Absorbent Tissue Products October 29, 1947. He lived at 2525 Well- ington JRoad, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Garwood, WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES He went to Cleveland in 1910 to be di- rector of engineering research at Nela D. C. TAGGART '16 - - Pres.-Treas. Engineers Park; later he was sales manager of Lees- Bradner Co., machine tool makers. Son, Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gustav J. Requardt '09 Robert D. Cloyes '38. Stewart F. Robe 'tson A. Russell Vollmer '27 Complete Food Service Equipment Roy H. Ritter '30 Theodore W. Hacker '17 '12—Frank Dohrman Sinclair, at the summer home of his sister, Mrs. Howard Furniture and Furnishings 1304 St. Paul Si., Baltimore 2, Md. H. Minor, in Chautauqua, August 31, (or Schools, Hotels, 1947. Hp was formerly an officer of Union Restaurants and Institutions Savings Bank & Trust Co., Steubenville, Ohio. NATHAN STRAUS-DUPARQUET, INC KENOSHA,WIS. 33 Easϊ 17th Street New York 3, N. Y. '18 AB—Mrs. Elsie Sterling Church Boston Chicago Miami New Haven Atkinson, wife of Kerr Atkinson '12 and E. M. BRANDRISS '28 MACWHYTE COMPANY daughter of the late Professor Irving P. Manufacturer of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire, Church '73, Civil Engineering, October Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord 25, 1947, at Her home, 85 Ledgeways, STANTON CO.-REALTORS Wellesley Hills, Mass. During World War Literature furnished on request GEORGE II. STANTON f20 I, she spent more than a year in France, JESSEL S. WHYTE, ME. Ί3 PRES. & GEN. MGR. first in canteen work with the YMCA and Real Estate and Insurance later with the Red Cross. Sister, Edith H. R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 Church '21. Son, William C. Atkinson '47. Vice President in Charge of Operations MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Ka#pa Alpha Theta. Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel: 2-6000 '24 AB—Anna Fiddis Clark of 249 South Main Street, Fairport, a school Your Card nurse, October 18, 1947, in New York City. She received the RN at Johns Hop- kins in 1927 and the AM at Teachers Col- The Tuller Construction Co. IN THIS DIRECTORY lege, Columbia, in 1929. J. D. TULLER, '09, President will be regularly read by '27 DVM—Dr. James DeZett Benne- hoff, October 28, 1947, in Alfred, where BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, 8,500 CORNELLIANS his address was 39 North Main Street. He was an instructor in Zoology from 1921-24. DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS Write For Special Rate '43, '47 BS—George Timothy Sullivan, WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS former lieutenant in the AAF, September A. J. Dillenbeck Ί1 C. P. Beylαnd f31 10, 1947, in Auburn, where he lived at 2 Nelson Avenue. A special student in Agri- C. E. Wallace '27 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS culture from 1939-41, he returned to the 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. ITHACA NEW YORK University in 1945 and received the BS last June.

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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MANAGEMENT IN THE BELL SYSTEM

IT USED TO BE that the owners of thousands of employees, and the hun- tomers who buy its services. On the practically every business were them- dreds of thousands of stockholders. whole, these conditions have been well- selves the managers of the business. Management necessarily must do the met over the years in the Bell System. Today, as far as large businesses are best it can to reconcile the interests Admittedly, this has not been and concerned, a profound change has of these groups. is not an easy problem to solve fairly taken place. In the Bell System, for for all concerned. However, collective instance, employee management, up Of course, management is not infalli- ble; but with its intimate knowledge bargaining with labor means that la- from the ranks, and not owner manage- of all the factors, management is in a bor's point of view is forcibly presented. ment, is responsible for running the better position than anybody else to What the investor must have is deter- business. consider intelligently and act equitably mined quite definitely by what is re- This management has been trained for each of these groups—and in the quired to attract the needed additional for its job in the American ideal of Bell System there is every incentive for capital, which can only be obtained in respect for the individual and equal it to wish to do so. competition with other industries. opportunity for each to develop his tal- ents to the fullest. A little thought will Certainly in the Bell System there is AND in our regulated business, man- bring out the important significance of no reason either to underpay labor or agement has the responsibility, to- these facts. overcharge customers in order to in- gether with regulatory authorities, to crease the "private profits of private Management is, of course, vitally in- see to it that the rates to the public employers/' for its profits are limited are such as to assure the money, credit terested in the success of the enterprise by regulation. In fact, there is no reason it manages, for if it doesn't succeed, it and plant that will give the best pos- whatever for management to exploit or sible telephone service at all times. will lose its job. to favor any one of the three great So far as the Bell System is con- groups as against the others and to do More and better telephone service at cerned, the success of 'the enterprise so would be plain stupid on the part a cost as low as fair treatment of em- depends upon the ability of manage- of management. ployees and a reasonable return to ment to carry on an essential nation- stockholders will permit is the aim and wide telephone service in the public responsibility of management in the IHE BUSINESS cannot succeed in the Bell System. interest. long run without well-paid employees This responsibility requires that with good working conditions, without management act as a trustee for the adequate returns to investors who have interest of all concerned: the millions put their savings in the enterprise, and WALTER S. GIFFORD, President of telephone users, the hundreds of without reasonable prices to the cus- AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY