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STUDENT WOMEN SPEAK Pittsburgh group, with Mrs. Albert W. CLUBS ROUND UP MANY In Seventeen Cities Hilf (Muriel Townsend) '2.1, chairman, Prospective Freshmen had forty-eight at the College Club. Cornell Women's Clubs in seventeen Cornell Clubs and their committees on Eileen McQuillen '41 spoke for the un- cities gave teas during the spring recess relations with secondary schools took dergraduates. Alumnae in Albany enter- for undergraduates and prospective stu- full advantage of the University's spring tained twenty-five high school girls and dents. On March 31 the Cornell Women's recess to invite prospective Freshmen to five undergraduates at the home of Mrs. Club of Washington, D. C., and the Cor- meet undergraduates at home for the Arthur G. Pellman (Helen Weber) '13. nell Women's Club of Long Island enter- holiday and members of the Faculty who Doris VanAlstyne '40 spoke on Campus tained. The Long Island party was held travelled in the interests of the Univer- life and women's activities, and Dr. at the home of Olive Tjaden '2.5 in Garden sity's program. Three of these, Professors Riverda H. Jordan described other phases City. Mrs. James Oros (Margaret Kline) Bristow Adams, Agriculture Publica- of the University. Mrs. Pellman and Mrs. Ί6 was chairman of the committee on tions, Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, and Frederick D. Colson (Edna McNary) Όo arrangements. More than a hundred Riverda H. Jordan, Education, were al- were chairmen of the tea. alumnae, undergraduates and prospective most continuously "on the road," speak- students attended to hear the guest speak- Mrs. Charles T. Walker, Jr. (Gladys ing at Cornell Club gatherings, showing ers, Professor Bristow Adams, Betty Hobart) '04, Mrs. Russell C. Gourley motion pictures of the University, and Bishop '40, and Jean Syverson '41. Flora (Marion Gushee) Ί6, and Mrs. C. L. advising with prospective students and Mullin '41 spoke to the group in Cortland Shollenberger (Gladys Swartley) Ί6 parents. April -L. Forty-five were present at the were hostesses at a tea given by the Cor- Largest party of them all, however, Syracuse tea, April x,' at the home of nell Women's Club of Philadelphia for was April 15 at the Cornell Club of New Mrs. Paul F. Grassman (Florence Case) undergraduates and interested high school York. To an afternoon and an evening '30. Mrs. David A. Fraser (Marion Ford) girls at the home of Mrs. R. H. Ross reception nearly 2.00 boys were invited '33 was in charge of arrangements and (Dorothy Ashley) Ί8. Margery Huber from schools of Long Island, Westchester Barbara Ward '41 was the guest student '41 and Muriel Elliott '41 spoke on County, and nearby Connecticut. They speaker. Campus life and activities at the tea for had opportunity to talk with representa- April 3, more than seventy-five at- prospective students held at the College tives of most Colleges of the University, tended a tea at the YWCA in Schenectady. Club in Buffalo. Mrs. George D. Crofts saw motion pictures of the Campus, were Mrs. Anthony Hoadley (Betty Leith) ^5 (Frances Johnson) '05 was in charge of entertained with magic by R. Selden was chairman. Speakers were Janet E. arrangements. Ninety who met at the Brewer '40, and were served refreshments. Dempster '37 and Mildred Phillips '41. YWCA in Batavia included thirty-five The afternoon group was addressed by The Cornell Women's Club of West- high school girls. Jean Reichel '42. gave Professor Durham and George R. Pfann chester County entertained 12.5 the eve- a general talk on Cornell and nine other '2.4, Alumni Trustee and chairman of the ning of April 3 at a reception for prospec- undergraduates spoke briefly on various Club's scholarship committee; that of the tive students at the Scarsdale Women's phases of women's activities. Myrta evening by Professor Adams. Also present Club. Mary H. Donlon '2.0, Alumni Trus- Hunn Όo was program chairman. to confer with the boys were Dr. Eugene tee, and Marjorie Lee '41 spoke. Annual meeting of the Cornell Wo- F. Bradford, Director of Admissions; Mary Jane Webb '40 spoke at the tea men's Club of Chicago, at the University Director William A. Lewis, Jr., Electrical given by the Cornell Women's Club of Women's Club April 6, had Kathryn Engineering; Professor Jordan; Professor Cleveland at the home of Catherine R. Moore '40 as guest speaker. Mrs. Ferdi- Howard B. Meek, Hotel Administration; Abbott '35, April 4. Seventeen high nand A. P. Fischer (Rosamond Wendell) Professor Blanchard L. Rideout, PhD school girls and fourteen alumnae were '2.2. was elected president for the coming '36, acting secretary of Arts and Sciences; present. Mrs. Robert B. Henn (Josephine year; Mrs. Frederick W. Merrifield and Ray S. Ashbery '2.5, Alumni Field Steves) '15 was in charge. (Katharine Brooks) '2.5, vice-president; Secretary. Members of the Cornell Women's Club and Catherine V. Mattoon '37, secretary- Professor Adams began his spring recess of Middletown were hostesses to high treasurer. tour on Long Island, with a luncheon school girls and their mothers at the March 30 in Garden City with principals home of Mrs. Joseph M. Hurley the eve- ANOTHER GOES TO FRANCE and head masters, followed by a meeting ning of April 4. Guests were welcomed Last week, we published the news that with prospective Freshmen. That eve- by Mrs. George D. Musser (Maxine LeClair Smith '15 had sailed for France ning, he spoke at the annual meeting of Montgomery) Ί8, president. Helen Ack- with the first unit of eighteen American the*Cornell Club of Nassau County, in erly '41 told the guests about life at Field Service volunteers. New York Mineola. The seventy members present Cornell. office of the American Field Service calls elected Charles E. Ward '3X5 president; Nine Clubs entertained on Saturday, our attention to the fact that H. Gregory W. Peck Taylor '2.5, vice-president; Wil- April 6: New York City, Pittsburgh, Pa., Wait 'x5 was also in this group. During liam A. Neafsey '33, secretary; Hobart Albany, Western Connecticut, Philadel- the last war, 105 Cornellians volunteered V. Corn well '13, bursar; and to the board phia, Pa., Northeastern Pennsylvania, with the Field Service as ambulance of governors, Benjamin W. Seaman '07, Buffalo, Batavia, and Chicago, 111. drivers in France. Howard Fluckiger Ίi, Raymond A. Forty-one schools were represented in Leaving the College of Agriculture his Kohm '2.3, Jerome L. Loewenberg 'i9, the 169 prospective students who at- Freshman year, Wait became a forest and John D. Bennett '33. Sunday after- tended the New York" City tea at the engineer with James D. Lacey & Co., noon Professor Adams attended a tea of Hotel Barbizon. Mrs. Bernard A. Savage New York City, timber land factors; re- the Cornell Women's Club of Long (Carmen Schneider) '2.7, chairman, intro- turned to the University in 1914; and Island at the home of Olive F. Tjaden '2.5 duced the speakers, Katherine Anderson later was with Trendell, Leland & Wait in in Garden City, with alumnae, women '40 and Constance Logan '40 for the un- New York City. Recently his home has undergraduates, and prospective Fresh- dergraduates, and Mrs. R. H. Shreve been in Shelburne, Vt. He is a member men women. (Ruth Bentley) '02. for the alumnae. The of Delta Phi. April 2., in Wilmington, the Cornell 350 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Club of Delaware had approximately which, with an error by Polzer, gave eighty-five for dinner at the University Harvard two runs. In the sixth, Sickles Club with Professor Adams, including About issued a base on balls and gave up a thirty secondary school juniors and single and a triple, accounting for two seniors invited by the Club committee. ATHLETICS more runs. He was replaced by Leo Cornell Club of Washington, D. C., Hamalian '4z of Ozone Park who held April 3 at the Kenwood Country Club TEAMS DODGE WEATHER Harvard hitless for the last 3 % innings. had "the largest group of boys ever to The home baseball season opened with In two League games, Cornell has pro- attend a secondary school meeting," and two games last week, despite the vagaries duced thirty-one runs and thirty hits, "several fathers who after the program of Ithaca spring weather. It was chilly, having defeated Pennsylvania, zi~5, in was over were convinced that they but dry, for the opening game with Col- the opening game April 6. Stillman and wanted their sons to go to Cornell." gate, April 17, which Cornell lost, z~3. Polzer are the leading hitters, Stillman John S. Gorrell '05, chairman of the Club Friday, the Varsity defeated Harvard, its hitting safely seven times in ten chances, committee, was in charge. Professor Eastern Intercollegiate League co-cham- Polzer seven times in eleven chances. Adams and officers of the Club were in- pion of last year, 10-5, on . Sickles, the League's leading pitcher vited for luncheon with Congressman This was the second League game played, last year, has also been credited with Daniel A. Reed '98, and for tea with and the second victory. two victories, although he was forced Ambassador Hu Shih '14 at the Chinese The Princeton team arrived in Ithaca out of the Harvard game. Hamalian Embassy. Saturday morning to play two League came in too late to gain credit for the April 5, Professor Adams was in Balti- games, one of which had been scheduled victory. more for the secondary school party of in Princeton April 13 but was postponed In the Colgate game, the visitors won the Cornell Club of Maryland. because of snow. A cold, drizzling rain in the sixth inning of a game shortened Professor Durham opened in Chicago made play impossible Saturday, so the to seven innings by darkness. Kyle W. March 2.9 with Emmet J. Murphy 'zz, team stayed over, practiced in Bacon Morse '40 of Ashville, the starting pitch- Alumni Secretary, at a Cornell Club cage Sunday, and was to have played one er, allowed only one Colgate run and party for prospective Freshmen at the of the games Monday afternoon. But two hits in five innings. Cornell had Glen view Country Club. Ninety-seven Monday morning the Campus was cov- scored a run in the first on Brown's single persons, including sixty boys and fathers, ered with wet snow, so they entrained and Scholl's triple, and another in the made this '' easily the largest turn-out of for Princeton at noon without playing fourth when Polzer singled, reached third prospective Frosh material in many years, at all. One game is now scheduled to be on Scholl's single, and stole home. if not for all time." Besides the speakers played at Princeton May 13, the Varsity Morse struck out the first Colgate bat- from Ithaca, President Millard F. Bing- team going down after its Saturday en- ter in the sixth. Collins doubled and ham, }d '17 welcomed the guests and gagement with Columbia in New York Morse walked Murphy and Donnelly to Alfred H. Hutchinson '09, Alumni Trus- City. Arrangements to play the other fill the bases. Raymond Jenkins '42. of tee and chairman of the Club's secondary have not been announced. Philadelphia relieved Morse and forced school committee, spoke. Chairman of in the tying and winning runs by issuing Heavy hitting and looseness in the the arrangements committee was F. A. a walk to Swartz and hitting the next visitors' defense in the early innings ac- Gushing Smith Ίz. batsman, Bartlett. counted for Cornell's victory over Har- April i and z, Professor Durham visited The Harvard game box score: vard. Cornell batters produced eleven hits schools in and near St. Paul and Min- in the first three innings. Coupled with CORNELL (10} neapolis, talked with boys interested in AB R H PO A E three errors and two bases on balls, they Cornell, and spoke at an alumni luncheon Brown, If 5 i 2. i o o accounted for all ten runs. Stillman, ib 5 3 3 2. 3 i and the annual dinner of the Cornell Singles by Ronald E. Stillman '41 of Polzer, ss 5 z 3 2. 4 i Club. Scholl, 3b z 2. i Ί. z o In Milwaukee, April 3, he visited two Manchester, N. H., Walter Scholl '41 of Ochs, ib 401900 schools for conferences with boys, and Staten Island, and Michael J. Ruddy '41 Ruddy, cf 301001 Bowen, rf 4 o o z i o spoke at an informal dinner at the Uni- of Alden, Pa., and a double by Captain George F. Polzer '40 of Staten Island, Finneran, c 311910 versity Club with about twenty Cornel- Sickles, p 310000 Hans. Next day, he drove with Alfred H. plus a Harvard misplay, gave Cornell Hamalian, p i o o o z o Hutchinson '09, Alumni Trustee, to three runs in the first inning. Totals 35 lo 12. 2.7 13 3 Culver Military Academy for conferences Cornell made it 8-0 by scoring five HARVARD (5) with members of the staff and prospective more runs in the second, as Kenneth G. Brown '40 of Millerton, Stillman, Polzer, AB R H PO A E students. They returned to Oak Park, 111., Keyes, ss 5 z 2, 2. i z for an evening meeting arranged by Wil- and Robert C. Ochs '42. of Cleveland, MacDonald, cf 5 i z 6 o o fred L. Brooke 'z6 with several boys who Ohio, connected for singles. Two Har- Pitchford, If 511111 vard errors helped the runners along, and Lovett, rf 401000 had been unable to attend the Club party R. Ayres, 3b 500111 in Chicago. the Cornell batting attack sent Clay, the Tully, ib 301410 Again in Indianapolis April 5, Profes- Harvard pitcher, out of the game. a—Healy i o o o o o sor Durham joined with Murphy to A two-base error by Ruddy gave Har- Buckley, zb 400500 vard a run in the first half of the third, Fulton, c 110510 speak at the annual banquet of the Cor- CJay, p i o i o i o nell Club of Indiana, at the University MacDonald scoring when Ruddy dropped Brackett, p 300010 Club. Thirty-four alumni attended, with Lovett's fly in center field. Cornell came four senior boys from Park School as back with two more runs in its half of Totals 37 5 9 14 8 4 guests. John F. Modrall '34 was elected the third, on singles by Frank K. Fin- a—Batted for Tully in 9th. neran '41 of Harrison, Stillman, and Cornell 351 ooo oox—10 president of the Club; John S. Kittle, Jr. Harvard ooi 012. ooo— 5 Polzer. '38, secretary; and Wilson Mothershead Runs batted in: Scholl, Ochs z, Stillman, '2.8, treasurer. A newly constituted ad- From there on, the second Harvard Polzer 3, Lovett z, Tully, MacDonald z. Two- visory board comprises William H. Mor- pitcher, Brackett, gave Cornell only one base hits: Polzer, Brown. Three-base hits: rison Όi, Nicholas H. Noyes Ό6, August hit. Meanwhile, Walter J. Sickles '41 of Pitchford, MacDonald. Stolen bases: Stillman, Polzer z. Left on bases: Harvard 9, Cornell 5. C. Bohlen '09, Otto N. Frenzel, Jr. 'zi, Pearl River, who had held Harvard to Bases on balls: off Clay i, off Brackett 3, off and Harry V. Wade 'z6. four hits in four innings, weakened. Sickles 4, off Hamalian i. Struck out: by Clay (Continued on $age 354) Sickles gave up three hits in the fifth i, by Brackett 3, by Sickles 4, by Hamalian 2.. APRIL Z5 , 1940 351

Hits: off Clay 7 in τ^i innings, off Brackett 5 Edward M. Prince '40 of Cleveland, Ohio, in 6% innings, off Sickles 9 in 5^ innings, off SCORES OF THE TEAMS Eugene S. Thorpe '40 of Eden, Jeffery W. Hamalian none in 3% innings. Winning Graham '41 of Villanova, Pa., Theodore W. pitcher, Sickles. Losing pitcher, Clay. Balk, Baseball Lanman '41 of East Chicago, Ind., George F. Brackett. Umpires, Higgins and Baker. Colgate 3, Cornell 2. Critchlow '42. of Trenton, N. J., William W. Time, 2.119. Cornell 10, Harvard 5 Paty, Jr. '42. of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Ed- ward S. White '42. of Greenwich, Conn. LACROSSE STARTS SEASON Lacrosse SKIING : Jonathan B. Fisher, Jr. '41 of Rocky The Varsity lacrosse team lost its Penn State 7, Cornell 6 River, Ohio, William O. Nicoll '41 of Scotia, opening game, 7-6, to Penn State at Arnold Nye '41 of Bronx ville, Frederick A. Rugby Potter, Jr. '41 of Saranac Lake, Robert T. State College last Saturday. On Alumni Yale 9, Cornell 8 Edmunds '42. of New Hartford, Frederick F. Field the same day, playing in rain, the Freshman Lacrosse Riser '41 of Salt Lake City, Utah. Freshman team defeated Hobart, 6-3. Cornell 6, Hobart 3 POLO : Warren W. Hawley, III '40 of Batavia, In the Varsity game, also played in James M. Easter '41 of Owings Mills, Md., Herbert F. Schiffer '41 of Elberon, N. J., and rain, Cornell gained a 5-2. lead in the Marcus M. Day, Jr. '42. of Detroit, Mich. first half on two goals by William S. managerships were: Basketball, Paul R. Heit '41 of Geneva and single scores by Thomas '41 of Meadville, Pa.; wrestling, ODDS AND ENDS Rain forced cancellation of last Satur- Robert D. Brennan '40 of Geneva, Rich- Samuel R. Converse, Jr. ''42. of Bronxville; day's tennis match with Yale, scheduled ard L. Campbell '41 of Towson, Md., and boxing, Marcellus H. McLaughlin, Jr. for the Cascadilla Courts. Gordon H. Hines '42. of Baltimore, Md. '42., of Philadelphia, Pa.; hockey, Philip A foursome turned in a best-ball of 61, Penn State rallied in the second half, E. Hogin '42. of Scarsdale; swimming, ten under par, on the Cornell golf team's tying the score and winning the game as Richard S. Young '42. of Waverly; fenc- home course, the Country Club of Ithaca, Dattlebaum threw in two goals within ing, Robert W. Hewett '42. of New York April 19. Harry L. Bill, Jr. '41 of Dayton, a minute. Campbell scored Cornell's lone City; skiing, Lloyd J. Moulton '42. of Ohio, turned in a 74 and James M. Bost- goal of the second period. Syracuse; polo, Donald L. Bundy ''42. of wick '40 of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, In its first game under Coach Ray Van Ridgewood, N. J., and Henry E. Otto, Richard T. Meister '40 of Gates Mills, Orman Ό8, Cornell lined up with Robert Jr. '42, of Richmond Hill. H. Ecker '40 of Syracuse, goal; Robert Ohio, and John C. Sterling, Jr. '41 of Besides the Varsity C to the following, L. Wiggans '40 of Ithaca, point; Lloyd Newport News, Va., each scored 75. the Council also awarded thirteen Junior E. VoneifT '41 of Baltimore, Md., cover Blair Gullion, basketball coach, was Varsity insignia for basketball, and point; John H. Osborn '41 of Warwick last week named chairman of the re- Freshman numerals to fourteen in basket- search committee of the National Basket- East, Bermuda, first defense; Hines, sec- ball, twelve in wrestling, six in boxing, ball Coaches Association. ond defense; Heit, center; Kenneth B. eight in fencing, eleven in hockey, six- Fish '41 of Niagara Falls, second attack; Robert S. Chamberlain '41 of Ithaca, teen in swimming, six in skiing, and four Robert D. Case '40 of Rochester, first who once rowed in the Varsity crew, is in polo. The C awards: attack; Brennan, out home; and Camp- now stroking the i5o-pound crew. He BASKETBALL: Charles S. Bowen '40 of Bing- was out of the University for several bell, in home. hamton, Alan W. Vaughan '40 of Western Springs, 111., Ivan R. Wood '40 of Mount months. RUGGERS LOSE Morris, James E. Bennett, Jr. '41 of Poland, The women's fencing team finished The Rugby team lost to Yale, 9-8, at Ohio, Howard S. Dunbar '41 of Roselle Park, fifth in the annual tournament of the New Haven last Saturday, as the home N. J., Kenneth N. Jolly '41 of Ithaca, Welling- Women's Intercollegiate Fencing Associ- team overcame an 8-0 deficit at the end ton L. Ramsey '41 of Haverford, Pa., Charles W. Jack, Jr. '42. of Rochester. ation at Hofstra College, Hempstead, L. of the half. WRESTLING : Robert H. Mathers '40 of Upper I. Hunter College was first, Hofstra sec- Paul J. Burke '40 of Elmira scored a Darby, Pa., Adam G. Ritchscheid '40 of ond, followed by NYU, Brooklyn Col- try and Robert Boochever '39 a con- Edmeston, Morton A. Serrell '40 of Holmdel, lege, Cornell, State Teachers version and a try, for all of Cornell's N. J., James N. Trousdell '40 of Glen Cove, College, William and Mary, and Wagner. points. Harold' P. Turner '40 of Sodus, Lee R. White '40 of Cortland, Theodore K. Bowen '41 of On the Cornell team were Captain Ruth Yale scored three tries in its second Nedrow, William R. Harrison '41 of Bantam, W. Howell '40 of Ithaca, Beatrice L. half rally. Conn., Forbes H. Brown '42. of Broadalbin, Colley '41 of Rockville Centre, Constance Joseph C. Littleton '42. of Corning, Joseph S. K. T. Eberhardt '41 of New York City, Mount '42. of Ithaca. CAPTAINS, MANAGERS, Cs Marion E. Keller '43 of Pelham Manor, BOXING: William T. Fine '40 of Canastota, The Intercollegiate Advisory Council and Jeannette R. Lehde '41 of Garden- last week ratified the election of captains Thomas A. Schultz '40 of Baltimore, Md., John M. Clark '41 of Ithaca, David C. Peace vifle. and managers and awarded insignia to '41 of Rydal, Pa., MaxJ. Rashkin '41 of Ellen- Cornell Corinthian Yacht Club has participants in winter sports. ville, Matty L. Urbanowitz '41 of Buffalo, John W. Brown '41. of Irvington, N. J., purchased two new eleven-and-a-half- The new captains are: Basketball, foot dinghies for its activities on Cayuga Wellington L. Ramsey '41 of Haverford, Leonard D. Gluckson '42. of Atlantic City, N.J. Lake. It has elected as commodore Pa.; wrestling, WilliamR. Harrison '41 of FENCING: Stanley R. Eibetz '40 of Brooklyn, Malcolm D. Vail, Jr. '41 of Highland Bantam, Conn.; boxing, David C. Peace Edward D. Gather '40 of Brooklyn, Charles N. Park, 111.; vice-commodore, Robert L. '41 of Rydal, Pa., and John M. Clark '41 Lowenfeld '40 of New York City, Harold S. Miller '42. of Brooklyn, Jack L. Ratzkin '40 of Bradbury '42. of Glencoe, 111.; secretary- of Ithaca; hockey, Kenneth O. Reed '41 treasurer, John F. String, Jr. '42. of Port of Ithaca and Harry L. Bill, Jr. '41 of Brooklyn, Benjamin Suchoff '40 of Brooklyn. Richard I. Brown '41 of New York City, Washington; rear commodore, Lloyd J. Dayton, Ohio; swimming, Jeffery W. Daniel F. Kelley, Jr. '41 of San Juan, Puerto Moulton '42. of Syracuse. Member of the Graham '41 of Villa Nova, Pa.; polo, Rico, Richard H. Paul '41 of Elmira, William Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Associa- James M. Easter '41 of Owings Mills, Md. Stokoe, Jr. '41 of Linwood, Donald S. Kent '42. of Brooklyn. tion, the Club will race against MIT at The new managers: Basketball, Richard Cambridge, Mass., May 4; University of E. Holtzman '41 of Millersburg, Pa.; HOCKEY: Carl J. Geiger '40 of Syracuse, William C. Houck '40 of Niagara Falls, Rochester on Lake Ontario, May n; and wrestling, Paul C. ~ Simmons '41 of Ontario, Canada, Raymond F. McElwee '40 take part in the McMillan cup races at Webster Groves, Mo.; boxing, Morton of Ithaca, Robert L. Wiggans '40 of Ithaca, Annapolis, Md., May 2.5. H. Farber '41 of Newark; swimming, Harry L. Bill, Jr. '41 of Dayton, Ohio, Kenneth William B. Webber '41 of Rochester, and O. Reed '41 of Ithaca, George L. Babson, Jr. '42. of Syracuse, Richard C. Franklin '42. of skiing, Julian C. Smith '41 of West- Worcester, Mass., Henry W. Wannop '42. of DAYLIGHT SAVING time goes into mount, Quebec, Canada. Kingston, John W. Wannop '42. of Kingston. effect in Ithaca, as in many other cities, Winners of competitions for assistant SWIMMING: Melvinj. Blessing '40 of Buffalo, April 2,9. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

shadows of Six Mile on that soft May NOW IN MY TIME! night in which I failed to snare a single FROM FAR BELOW . . . sucker. By Bob Bliss '50 By Romeyn Berry Soft May nights are few and far be- tween. Of Sophomore years there are but What the students do, or think, or say one, whereas the problems of a war-torn It's the little things that guide the is none of the alumni's business. That is world are recurring; and I think these destinies of empires. A group of full- the thesis I periodically nail to the mid- undergraduates are making a big mistake. throated youngsters of the Ίι-'i3 vintage dle door of Morrill Hall and defend However, as I said before and repeat, were comparing old Musical Club notes against all comers; no matter how mad what students do, or think, or say is recently, and now and then they paused the little so-and-sos make me. It's their none of the alumni's business! and gave full tongue. This baying at the college for the little space that they are moon was by way of demonstrating to here (you and I had our time at bat, themselves and to each other that they didn't we?) and they are entitled to do ROCHESTER TAKES TO AIR hadn't lost the knack (and they hadnt), what they want with it within the rda- Cornell Club of Rochester at its and to prove that they hadn't spavined sonable limitations of the Faculty Com- monthly meeting April 12. had as guest in the harmony department. mittee on Student Conduct, the Deca- speakers W. A. Werthmann, Rochester Ollie Everett, when a breather pre- logue, and the Sanitary Code of the City manager for American Airlines, Inc., and sented itself, wheeled on Hosie Treman of Ithaca. Margaret Stock, stewardess on the run and said, "Say Al, what's become of About all a university can do for a stu- from Syracuse to Boston, Mass. Werth- Art Treman?" dent is point out the sources of enlighten- mann told the seventy members some in- "Art? Why haven't you heard?" filled ment and then let him figure things out teresting facts about air transportation, in Ithaca's most brilliant full-toned for himself. It would be much simpler, of saying that William Littlewood '2.0, lawyer, looking up from "I Care Not For course, and less irritating to the alumni, vice-president of American Airlines in The Stars That Shine"—"why Art's to tell him all the answers and have him charge of engineering, had designed with doing himself right well. He's in the learn them by heart like the Infantry Douglas Aircraft the new DC~4, forty brokerage business: Arthur B. Treman & Drill Regulations, but that could be passenger, four motored transport plane Co., branches all over!" done just as well by a correspondence which will be flying the airlines early "The hell he is," came back Ollie course. It is the peculiar essence of a next year. He showed a sound film, straight faced, humming the starting university education that the student "Flagships of the Air." Miss Stock de- parts so they could feel their way right shall figure things out for himself, do his scribed her duties and answered questions into "Down in Jungle Town"—"then own guessing, and get a good share of his including technical ones posed by engi- that's where my account goes; by God, mistakes made while he is on the campus neers in the audience. She mentioned the he's got the best bass!" and before he is inflicted on Society. de-icers used on planes, which were in- * * * It's a good system, even though its vented by William C. Geer '02.. Alumni Trustee elections passed with- many failures to create understanding The speakers were introduced by How- out a ripple this year. There wasn't the are evidenced every day by the letters ard J. Ludington '17, president of the duplication of petitions, the lengthy that come in from unthinking alumni. Club. The evening concluded with a campaigns fought, nor the handsome What makes me maddest is the under- buffet supper and an "old-fashioned coated-stock brochures elaborately gotten graduates' tendency to take life and songfest" led by Joseph W. Alaimo '31. up with halftones of the candidate with themselves pretty seriously—their trucu- John F. McManus '36 was chairman of his various qualifications based on Rotary lence in the cause of peace; their fierce arrangements. Club presidencies and over-the-top rec- desire, while enjoying the largest meas- ords in his hometown community chest ure of freedom they will ever know, to drive, set in new Caledonia, 9 on 10 regulate the thought and conduct of point. That period seems to have slid a their fellow students; the stubborn re- little into a trough. fusal of youth to be youthful. It's a healthy sign when men want to Not that the business of living and be Trustees. We've always thought you getting along with the neighbors isn't stood a good chance if your name was serious and important. But here it is Allen or Berry, because then your picture getting on to be May in Ithaca, and and the list of your accomplishments there can be but four short Mays in any hits the alumnus reader on the first fold student's career, and whosoever neglects of Mr. Rogalsky's pamphlet, and you a single one of them to hold a protest aren't buried in the fourth fold along meeting, or get up a demonstration, or with Joe Verona and Nat Sply. organize a forum, is throwing away, it Of course, we've got this new menace: seems to me, the pitifully few grains of Cornell in politics. Candidates are all pure gold that life allots to any man. around us, and you have to think twice I remember the soft May night in my AT CINCINNATI DINNER before you swear too hard about this one Sophomore year that found me drugged Annual dinner of the Cornell Club of or that. There may be implications, and at my desk in the preparation of an ex- Southern Ohio, April 4, brought 100 too, your best friend in the Class at cellent term paper on "The Nationaliza- alumni and undergraduates to the Uni- Ithaca may be his campaign manager and tion of the Swiss Railroads." A brother's versity Club in Cincinnati, for "the most about to elevate you to some honorary voice came up the stairs: "Come along, successful and best attended dinner we committee. big boy! we're going sucker snaring up have had." Standing, left to right Personally, we blame it all on football. Six Mile Creek." And in that moment above, are Julian A. Pollak '07; Emmet J. The football team has opened the eyes I chose the better part, I think, for the Murphy 'i2., Alumni Secretary; and of the country to the fact that somebody Swiss railroads appear to have been ade- William H. Hopple Ό6, chairman of the besides Harvard, Yale, and Princeton has quately attended to by other hands than dinner committee and elected vice- got something, and gradually it's putting mine, and my whole life has been president of the Club. Seated, Walter D. Cornell up in there. And someone's dis- sweetened by the memories of damp and Shultz Ίi, newly elected president, and covered in the process that Ithaca grinds amusing adventure in the lights and Coach Carl G. Snavely. out some pretty good gents who can go APRIL 2.5 , 1940 353

places in this world. It's not the cut and all aglow with a fresh sense of how fine dried upper-crust shutout in public life and noble a thing it was to teach mathe- any more. The little fresh-water college LETTERS matics. We had met Professor Tanner. Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good And I remember, too, the June day when at Ithaca is going to elect a President one taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any of these days. We've known all along side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The I was packing to leave for home, uncer- we'd make the grade with the big boys ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- tain whether I should be able to manage pretty soon. It's just a case of being ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility even one more year of college. Suddenly modest. The guys whose folks really beyond that of fostering interest in the University. Professor Tanner appeared at Sage languished in the hold of the Mayflower Cottage, offering to lend me without on that trip usually say the least about it. FROM '15 TO Ί6 interest or security what I might need in * * * To THE EDITOR: the rest of my college course. "That is An "Open Letter" to Sam Howe Ί6: the way I use my University salary," he SHOTS OF THE WEEK: And the ALUMNI As one Reunion chairman to another, NEWS can have the scoop: Margaret said; "you will be the eighth girl on my what are we rear rankers to do in this list." Even the bookkeeping involved in Bourke-White '2.7, the world's premier inter-class (secretarial) strife between our such lending must have been a tax; I still woman photographer (and we'll throw, betters? Let us achieve peace at any price. in the men, too), who bids fair to become have my receipted note with the various At recent meeting of Class Secretaries, endorsements in his neat, careful hand- Cornell's outstanding woman, has re- Pfeiffer Ί6 made a plea for a Reunion turned from a Life assignment in Turkey writing. But he gave himself as gener- baseball game. Even though the Large ously as he gave his money. At that time to lead the photographic staff of PM Red baseball team be headed for a ... A Reunion-planning group of Pop the elective system was in its heyday and championship, they apparently don't there were no official advisers, but Pro- Wright '79, Lee J. Vance '80, Clayton like the game well enough these days to Ryder '79, Fred J. Whiton '80, Ward fessor Tanner helped us freely with our run a schedule into June. programs and problems. "It is always Warner '79, at the Club ... A gang of So why not we old die-hards, of the office hour when you can find me," he people at the Club barn dance . . . Com- days when men were men, suggest that said. Some of us were, I am afraid, a bit missioner Dan Higgins, Sr. and his Fresh Colgate and Syracuse, for instance, come Vegetable Brigade . . . Fran Quillinan exacting, but he met our demands upon to Ithaca Reunion Saturday for their his time and wisdom with unfailing '2.4 and the missus doing a square dance. third game, on a neutral field? They She can sing " Sidewalks of New York" patience and kindness. could toss for the support of the Odd and Of the beautiful home life at The Knoll just as good as her famous brown-derbied Even Classes, and you could bet they Dad. And no kidding, Fran, since you and later on Cayuga Heights, one almost would put up a brand of baseball that hesitates to speak. How many were com- brought up the point, this is done just would remind us of the Golden Age in for fun, and though it's work sometimes forted and helped through the hospital- Ithaca. They might even encourage our ity of the Tanner household! Perhaps it we get a lot of pleasure out of it, and no undergraduates to play a longer schedule. income tax worry to compute! was a tense, nervous student brought What say, Sam?—EDDIE EDMISTON '15. over for a few days of relaxation and ABOUT PROFESSOR TANNER tender care; perhaps it was a timid Fresh- MANILA CLUB ELECTS To THE EDITOR: man, spending the hard opening days at Forty of the 140 Cornellians in Manila As one of the older alumnae, privileged The Knoll; perhaps it was an older man met for the annual dinner of the Cornell to know Dr. John H. Tanner during the or woman, lonely, perplexed, or with a Club of the Philippines, January 2.5. Held days of his active connection with the trouble of the kind about which one at the Bay View Hotel of which the pro- Department of Mathematics at Cornell, does not speak, who found understanding prietors are Harold M. Kneedler '31, may I offer my small tribute to his and sympathy. To all the troubled came Donald C. Kneedler '34, and Edgar M. gracious memory? To some of us his a sense of security; wisdom and love Kneedler '40, it was also a despedida recent passing is a personal grief; he was would back them up. (farewell party) for Colonel Antonio C. not the least precious part of our under- Others have written of Professor Torres '05, Manila's chief of police, who graduate life. Tanner's public work. This note bears was about to sail for the States and else- One of my Freshman memories, vivid thankful tribute to the little unrecorded where to make a study of traffic control. after forty years, is of a day when two of acts of love and kindness which formed Newcomers introduced were Ensign us came down the stairs from a dingy what was perhaps the best portion of Hamilton D. Hill '33, USN, and Oscan I. office in White Hall, one of us at least, this good man's life.—CORA STRONG '03 Illustre, MSE '38. The gathering began and ended with a "lusty chorus of Cornell songs" led by Manuel H. Barredo, Jr. '15, who is manager of truck sales for the Pacific Commercial Co. Toastmaster was Samuel Garmezy '13, vice-president and chief engineer, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co. of Manila. Newly elected president is Manuel I. Felizardo, Grad '2.7-8, of the Manila bureau of public works, succeed- ing Dr. Eustace S. D. Merchant '12.. Dr. Victor Buencamino Ίi, manager, Na- tional Rice and Corn Corp., was re- elected secretary. Eldest member present was Cheri Mandelbaum '94, who prac- tices architecture in Manila.

ITHACA TAXPAYERS' Association at its first annual meeting elected Arthur B. Wellar president. Retired, he was many years cashier of Ithaca Trust Company. CORNELL CLUB OF MANILA MAKES PLANS FOR AN ACTIVE SEASON 354 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

AT WORK WITH SCHOOLS Twelve members of the Cornell Club ASK the NEWS! of West field, N. J., met for dinner COMING EVENTS Subscribers are invited to submit -pertinent February iq, at the Mountainside Inn. Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed questions, to be answered below. All questions separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell Vice-president Chester C. Slocum '07, events, both in Ithaca" and abroad, appear below. must be signed', but only Class numerals will presiding, announced appointment of a Contributions to this column must be received on or be published. committee on secondary schools compris- before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. ing Louis J. Dughi '36, chairman, Albert Q:—How many students at the University M. Lamberton Ό8, and Donald Mc- SATURDAY, APRIL ΊΓJ partially or wholly earn their expenses?"—Ό6 Ithaca: Cornell Day for Women Dougall '2.3. This committee is handling Tours of Campus, followed by "Information, A:—University Placement Bureau, arrangements for the Club's participation Please" discussion, Willard Straight Me- which now handles student employment in Cornell Day at Ithaca, May 3 and 4. morial Room as well as alumni placement, says that President Day, Trustee Mary H. Donlon '2.0, about one-third of all students—that is, and undergraduates speak at luncheon for PROFESSORS TRAVEL girls and alumnae, Risley Hall, 11:50 approximately ι,xoo—work for part Or (Continued from page $50) Baseball, Dartmouth, Hoy Field, 2.130 all of their college expenses. April ii, Professor Durham visited Lacrosse, Hobart, Alumni Field, 1:30 Rugby, Long Island University, Schoellkopf Q:—"How many students are receiving Lawrenceville and Peddie Schools with Field, 1:30 money from the National Youth Administra- George P. Simmen '2.0 of the Cornell Tennis, U. S. Naval Academy, Cascadilla tionT'—'CO Club of Trenton, N. J., where they talked Courts, 1:30 A:—About 750 graduate and under- with members of the staffs and with Law School Moot Court, Myron Taylor Hall, 3:30 graduate students are being employed this boys interested in Cornell. Tea dance, , 3130 year on NYA projects. They are paid up Professor Jordan spent four days of Party for girls remaining over night, Wil- to fifty cents an hour, with a maximum of spring recess in Schenectady and Albany. lard Straight Hall, 8 $15 a month; work in many departments April 3, he spoke at a dinner of the Cor- Charter Day meeting, Myron Taylor Hall, 8 ROTC Horse Show, Riding Hall, 8 of the University. Supervision is in the nell Club of Schenectady, at Hixson's Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Relay Games hands of C. Allen Smith 'x4 of the Restaurant. The next evening, the Cor- Hamilton: Freshman baseball, Colgate University Placement Bureau. nell Club of Albany had twenty boys in- MONDAY, APRIL 2.9 terested in Cornell, with fathers, at the New York City: College of Architecture stu- Q:—"How many serious automobile acci- Aurania Club, for a talk about Cornell dent exhibition opens, Architectural dents involving student cars have occurred League of New York, 115 East Fortieth and answers to their questions. April 5, this year"—Ίi Street, continuing through May 11 Professor Jordan spoke to 150 boys and A:—The University Traffic Office could WEDNESDAY, MAY i girls and parents from all over the not supply this information, except to Ithaca: Baseball, Columbia, Hoy Field, 4:30 county at "College Choosing Day" at Golf, Colgate, Ithaca Country Club, 4:30 recall two student automobile fatalities the Nott Terrace High School in Sche- Syracuse: Tennis, Syracuse last fall. nectady. He was accompanied here by FRIDAY, MAY 3 Q:—"What courses does the University Ithaca: Cornell Day boys arrive, register with Alexander C. Stevens '07 and Theodore alumni "chauffeurs," Willard Straight offer, comparable to those at recognised C. Ohart '2.9. He spoke also April 6 at a Hall, for assignment to quarters schools of business administration, that will tea for secondary school girls given by Golf League matches, Country Club, 4 prepare a young man for business and the Cornell Women's Club of Albany at Inter-squad football game, Schoellkopf finance?"—Ίz Field, 4:30 the home of Mrs. Arthur G. Pellman Freshman baseball, Mercersburg, Hoy Field, A:—Largest enrolment in the College (Helen A. Weber) '2.3. 4:30 of Arts and Sciences today is of students Laboratory Theatre presents "Our Town," "majoring" in the Department of Eco- by Thornton Wilder, Willard Straight nomics. They get basic instruction in Theater, 8:15 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Carnival, Agriculture Quadrangle, 9 finance, accounting, transportation, tax- FOUNDED 1899 Cambridge, Mass.: Baseball, Harvard ation, labor relations, international 3 EAST AVENUE ITHACA, N. Y. SATURDAY, MAY 4 trade, and the economics of enterprise; Ithaca: Campus tours for Cornell Day guests, are permitted to elect up to one-fourth of Published weekly during the University from Willard Straight Hall Alumni "chauffeurs" meet, Willard Straight their total credit hours in other Colleges, year, monthly in July and August: Hall, 10:30 where, in Administrative Engineering, thirty-five issues annually. Alumni luncheon, Willard Straight Me- they may study business statistics, busi- Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni morial Room, 11:30 ness and industrial management, in- Association under direction of a committee Lacrosse, Johns Hopkins, Schoellkopf 2. dustrial marketing, engineering business composed of R. W. Sailor '07, Phillips Wyman Golf League matches, Country Club, 2. '17, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30. Officers of Freshman baseball, Syracuse, Hoy Field, 3130 law, and other courses in administration; the Association: Creed W. Fulton '09, 907 Radio broadcast, Willard Straight Memorial while in Agriculture they find general Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C., presi- Room, 5 instruction in prices and statistics, dent; Emmet J. Murphy '12., 3 East Ave., Laboratory Theatre presents "Our Town," financial statements, marketing, collec- Ithaca, secretary; Archie C. Burnett '90, by Thornton Wilder, Willard Straight 7 Water St., Boston, Mass., treasurer. Theater, 8:15 tive bargaining, taxation, financial ad- President Day at Cornell Day rally, Bailey ministration, together with related Subscription: $4.00 a year in U. S. and possessions; Hall, 9 Canada, $4.55; Foreign, $4.50. Single copies fifteen courses of specific application. Likewise, Open house for Cornell Day guests, Willard cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance and are Straight Hall, 10:30 students in Administrative Engineering renewed annually unless cancelled. Alumni smoker, Johnny Parson Club, 10:30 are encouraged to elect courses in other Editor-in-chief R. W. SAILOR '07 Hanover, N. H.: Baseball, Dartmouth Colleges to get a well rounded training Annapolis, Md.: Rowing, U. S. Naval Acad- Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 such as few undergraduate schools of emy, three crews Assistant Editor MARGARET S. MOORE '37 Princeton, N. J.: Track meet, Princeton business administration offer. Many re- Office Manager RUTH RUSSELL '31 State College, Pa.: Freshman lacrosse, Penn cent graduates of these courses are now State successfully established in business. Those Contributors: Freshman golf, Penn State who have gone on to graduate business Cambridge, Mass.: Corinthian Yacht Club vs. ROMEYN BERRY '04 L. C. BOOCHEVER '12. MIT courses, as at Harvard and Dartmouth, W. J. WATERS '17 R. L. BLISS '30 Rugby, Harvard find they are better grounded than many New York City: Annual Medical College of their contemporaries. Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. alumni banquet, Waldorf Astoria, 6 APRIL 2.5 , 1940 355 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL SPRING DAY celebration, May 15, will HOBBY SHOW in Willard Straight Me- take the form of '' an old-fashioned cir- CAMPUS POLITICS figured heavily in morial Room April 16 and 17 brought cus," the committee has announced. It elections last week to the Willard more than fifty entries of varied collec- will have a parade and real circus midway Straight Hall board of managers, ac- tions and handiwork by students and on Alumni Field. cording to the Sun and other observers members of the Faculty, and a score be- who claim to know. The day the polls sides of those who demonstrated their FIELD DAY of underclass rivalry on opened, the Sun published on its first hobbies in twice-daily exhibitions. It is Alumni Field Saturday afternoon, with page four so-called "coalitions" of fra- estimated that more than 2.,ooo persons an elaborate program of supervised con- ternities, with the candidates of each. attended the show. Blue ribbons were tests, was called off because of rain. But Announcing the result of the election, awarded to George H. M. Lawrence, that evening, the Sophomore Smoker in the Sun saw it as "complete approval" PhD '39, Botany, for a collection of Bailey Hall had as speakers Emmet J. of the slate of what it called the "Trans- United States coins, and Dr. Harry G. Murphy '2.1, Alumni Secretary, and Gorge Coalition," except for one candi- Bull Ό8 for an exhibit of song writing Baseball Coach Mose P. Quinn. In Wil- date. This coalition the Sun had listed as and printing, in the Faculty division; lard Straight Memorial Room at the comprising Acacia, , and to C. Donald Timmerman '41 of Freshman banquet, speakers were Jerome , Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Philadelphia for a collection of news- H. Holland '39 of last year's football Omega, Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Chi, paper headlines, and Roger H. Williams team and J. J. McGuire of the Federal Delta Sigma Phi, Kappa Delta Rho, '42., for sculpture, in the student division. Bureau of Investigation. The week pre- Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi ceding these events passed relatively Epsilon Pi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa LAW ASSOCIATION has elected Robert quietly among Freshmen and Sopho- Tau, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, S. Lesher '41 of Buffalo, president; Rex mores, perhaps because warm spring Pi Kappa Alpha, , Rowland '42, of New Castle, Pa., vice- weather has been delayed. Sigma Phi Sigma, Sigma Pi, Telluride, president; John M. Keane '41 of Bing- Theta Chi, and Theta XL But one of the hamton, secretary-treasurer. announced April successful candidates the Sun had listed 19 election of Noland Blass, Jr. '40 of also for two other coalitions; three more PREACHER April 18 Little Rock, Ark. A fourth-year student it credited to a second coalition; and one is the Rev. Joseph F. Newton, rector of in Architecture, he is the son of Noland to still another. It would thus appear to the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, Blass Ίo; is editor of the Widow, mem- an uninformed observer that perhaps Philadelphia, Pa. ber of Tau Beta Pi, Gargoyle, L'Ogive, the majority ruled, after all. Book and Bowl, and Zeta Beta Tau. CONVENING all day April 2.0 with '41 of the Student Council; and J. Fisher President Day and Dean S. C. Hollister INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL last Free, Jr. '41, president of the Independent were members of the Engineering College week defeated a resolution which would Association. The speakers agreed that Council: Frederick W. Schiedenhelm '05, have prohibited pledging Freshmen be- consulting engineer; John C. Wilson Ό6, the United States should stay out of the fore they register in the University. This present conflict. vice-president, Cutler Hammer Co.; Alex- was the second defeat for such a resolu- ander W. Dann '07, executive vice-presi- tion. The vote was 2.6-16, one less than ELECTED to Willard Straight Hall dent, Dravo Co.; James W. Parker Ό8, the two thirds necessary to carry the board of managers to serve next year vice-president, Detroit Edison Co.; measure. were four Juniors, and two Sophomores Thomas Midgley, Jr. Ίi, vice-president, for two-year terms. Upperclassmen elected Ethyl Gasoline Corp.; J. Carlton Ward, FIRST THREE DAYS of this week, were Robert L. Bartholomew of Moores- Jr. '14, vice-president, United Aircraft sixty-five Juniors in Civil Engineering town, N. J., Howard S. Freeman of Corp.; Oliver E. Buckley, PhD '14, and graduate students from the U. S. Brooklyn, Edward H. Mandel of New executive vice-president, Bell Telephone Military Academy visited engineering York City, and Robert S. Lee of Hong- Laboratories; Harold W. Elley, PhD Ί6, works in and near Cleveland, Ohio. kong, China. Sophomores, Edwin M. director, organic chemicals department, Conductors of the tour were Professors Cronk of Minneapolis, Minn., and Paul E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; and John E. Perry, Leonard C. Urquhart '09, W. Leighton of Twin Falls, Idaho. Walker L. Cisler '2.1, assistant general and Charles L. Walker '04. Local ar- manager, Public Service Electric and rangements were assisted by Edwin S. CHARTER DAY, commemorating the Gas Co. Baker '15, William L. Havens '15, and seventy-fifth anniversary of the charter- Samuel E. Hunkin Ί6. ing of the University, April 2.7, 1865, WARD came a day early, to tell Senior will be celebrated with an address by Engineering students and show in mo- WAR AND PEACE were discussed in Professor Carl L. Becker, History, at a tioΛ pictures thrilling '' Engineering Ad- two Campus meetings last week. April meeting Saturday evening in Myron ventures in the Airplane Industry." 16, the Sun sponsored a "news forum" Taylor Hall. President Day will preside. on causes of the war. Walter J. Mueller, Members of the Faculty, of the Board of LECTURES this week include three by PhD '38, German, presented the point of Trustees here for the spring meeting, and the Messenger lecturer, T. D. Kendrick, view of Germany; Ralph H. Allee, Grad, representatives of student organizations on "The Art of the Anglo-Saxons;" the that of the Balkan powers; Professor are being invited. conclusion of the series on technique of Albert L. Andrews, German, the Scandi- composition by the visiting lecturer in navian countries; and Frederick G. SAGE FLASHES have won the women's Music, Dr. Paul Hindemuth, April 2.3; Marcham, History, Great Britain. Speak- intramural basketball championship of Louis MacNeice, visiting lecturer in ers at a "peace rally" three days later the University, defeating all opponents English, "English Poetry in the Twen- were Professor Edwin H. Burtt, Philoso- in the six games played. Constance K. ties," and Dr. Richard C. Pat tee of the phy; Frances Williams, secretary of the Eberhardt '41 of New York City is Division of Cultural Relations, Depart- Foreign Policy Association; James H. women's fencing champion, winning a ment of State,'' Salient Characteristics of Moore, Jr. '4z, representing the Cornell tournament with sixteen entries. She de- Hispanic-American Culture, with Refer- United Student Peace Committee, spon- feated Ruth W. Ho well '40 of Ithaca, ence to inter-American Relations," on soring organization; Kennedy Randall captain of the women's fencing team, 4-3. the Goldwin Smith Foundation, April 15. 356 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

1913 to 19x3 he was editor of the Electric Railway Journal, and then became as- NECROLOGY sistant to the president of McGraw-Hill Concerning Book Co., Inc. Fellow of the American '73—HENRY WILLIAM VAN WAGENEN, Institute of Electrical Engineers, at the THE FACULTY April 15, 1940, at his home in Morris- time of his death he was personnel town, N. J. He was for many years in the manager for the Boston Elevated Rail- FRANK E. GANNETT '98, University insurance business in New York City; re- road. He entered Mechanical Engineering Trustee and Republican Presidential tired about fifteen years ago. He was one in 1894 from Johns Hopkins University. candidate, broadcast "the most impor- of the organizers of the first Cornell Glee Sigma Xi. tant talk of his pre-convention cam- Club. He entered the Science Course in paign" in Lincoln, Neb., April 5. His 1869. Ό8, '17 AB—MARY ANNE KENNEDY, subject was "Save Agriculture to Save January x6, 1940, in Ithaca. Since 1917 '75—DR. CHARLES STOVER, April 9, America," and he declared that "we she had been a member of the mathe- must stop farming the farmer and let 1940, in Amsterdam, after an illness of matics department at State several years. Former president of the the farmer farm." Duell, Sloan and Teachers College at Warrensburg, Mo. Pearce have just published a biography of New York State Medical Society and one She entered the Special Arts Course in of the oldest practicing physicians in Gannett, written by Samuel T. Wil- 1904, stayed a year, and then returned in liamson. Montgomery County, he had been on the 1916. staff of the City Hospital and St. Mary's DEAN S. C. HOLLISTER, Engineering, '14 AB—SPENCER EAMES YOUNG, April Hospital in Amsterdam, was a fellow of was one of four speakers April 10 in 7, 1940, in Glen Cove, from injuries re- the American Medical Society and chair- Washington, D. C., at a meeting cele- ceived in an automobile accident. He had man of the board of trustees of Mont- brating the i5oth anniversary of the U. S. been with Domestic Appliance Co., gomery County Tuberculosis Sanitorium. patent system. Sponsored by the Depart- Kansas City, Mo., Milner Electric Co., During the War he was on the Medical ment of Commerce, the program was in Cincinnati, Ohio, Review of Reviews Advisory Board at Albany. He entered charge of Thomas Midgley, Jr. Ίi. Corp., and New England representative the University in 1871 from Seneca Falls Charles F. Kettering, head of General of Pictorial Review, New York City. Academy, stayed two years; received the Motors research, presided. Dean Hollister During the War he was a first lieutenant MD at the University of Pennsylvania in traced the development of invention and in the 33id Field Artillery. Former 1880. Psi Upsilon. its effect on engineering practice, show- president of the Cornell Club of Long ing that invention has usually preceded '91, '93 ME—NORMAN ROWE, April 13, Island, he entered Arts in 1910 from scientific knowledge: that discovery of 1940, at Olmue, Limache, Chile. He had Morgan Park (111.) Academy. Alpha new applications has often led to the been with Westinghouse Electric and Sigma Rho. Widow, the former Mary G. crystallization of fundamental theories. Manufacturing Co. in San Francisco, Grossman '12.. Calif., with several engineering com- '2.9—GORDON ABRAHAM ELLIS, January CAPACITY CROWD turned out, and fifteen panies in Mexico, in South America with 31, 1940, at Clifton Springs Sanatorium. hundred more persons were turned away Compania Chilena de Electricidad, Ltda., Formerly with Frank Messer & Sons, Inc. from the Public Music Hall in Cleveland, and managing director of Compania of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time of his Ohio, where Professor Arthur A. Allen Nacional de Fuerza Electrica in Santiago, death he was assistant to the president of Ό8, Ornithology, recently lectured and Chile. He entered the University in 1887. Metal Brass and Copper Co., Lisbon, showed bird movies. He said that it was Alpha Tau Omega. Ohio. He entered Civil Engineering in one of the largest crowds in his many '93 ME—HARRY DESHIELDS YATES, 192.5 from Canandaigua Academy. Kappa years of lecturing on birds. March 2.5, 1940, at his home 2.1 V Street, Sigma. PROFESSOR PAUL J. WEAVER, Music, N. E., Washington, D. C. He went to '35 Sp—ALBERT EDGAR FOWLER, April Washington after graduation and spent will be guest conductor of a massed 7, 1940, of monoxide poisoning, at West- thirty-seven years in the employ of the chorus of 900 high school singers from field, Mass. He had been a director in the Northern and Northeastern New York, District, retiring in 1931 because of ill New England Tobacco Growers' As- health. He had been District water de- May 4, at the State Normal School at sociation. He entered the special Agri- Plattsburg, as a part of the fourteenth partment engineer, had patented several culture course in 1931 from Choate pumping devices, and had helped to in- annual observance of National Music School and later transferred to Arts. Psi stall much of the city's water supply Week. Upsilon; ; Scarab; East- system. He entered Mechanical Engineer- man Stage; manager, lacrosse. L. PEARL GARDNER, PhD '32., Rural ing in 1889 from Warrenton (Va.) High Education, presented a paper on "Motor School. '39—ROBERT CARL FRIEDEL, March 12., and Sensory Lateral Dominance in Feet" '94 PhB—WILLIAM GILLESPIE STRONG, 1940, following an emergency operation before the Eastern psychological conven- March 17, 1940, at his home 835 South for appendicitis. At the time of his death tion of the National Education Associa- Sheridan Road, Highland Park, 111. For he was employed at the State Agricultural tion at Atlantic City, N. J., April 5-6. forty years he was an attorney in Chicago, Experiment Station in Geneva as manager AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY meeting 111., receiving the LLB degree from of biotechnical publications; lived at 109 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was addressed by Northwestern University. Member of the Lewis St., Geneva. He entered Agricul- Professor Zoltan I. Kertesz, Chemistry Cornell Club of Chicago, he was also ture in 1935 from Newton High School, and associate in research at the State former president of the Interfraternity Elmhurst; remained two years. Agricultural Experiment Station at Club and Delta Upsilon Club of Chicago. Geneva, on "The Fate of Pectin in the He entered the Philosophy Course in '40—CHARLES BURNS, Jr., April 10, Animal Body." Dr. Donald K. Tressler, 1892. from Lake Forest (111.) University. 1940, in Ithaca. He had been ill since PhD Ί8, of the Experiment Station and Delta Upsilon; '86 Memorial Speaker. February 19. Son of Charles Burns Ό8, he entered Arts in 1936 from Hartford Professor Leonard A. Maynard, PhD '15, '96 ME—HENRY HUTCHINSON NORRIS, (Conn.) High School. Delta Sigma Phi; Animal Nutrition, gave a paper with April 14, 1940, in Boston, Mass. He captain, ; captain, ROTC William I. Zimmerman also of the Ex- taught at Cornell from 1896 to 1913 and pistol team; rifle team; Officers Club; periment Station, on'' The Determination for the last four years was head of the . of Carotene in Fresh and Frozen Vege- Electrical Engineering Department. From tables by an Improved Method." Pro- APRIL 2.5 , 1940 357

fessors Albert W. Laubengayer '2.1, address entitled 'How Oxford and Cam- Melvin L. Nichols Ί8, John G. Kirk- bridge Universities first discovered the wood, and Clyde W. Mason, PhD '2.4, of Concerning existence of culture in America through the Chemistry Department also partici- the advent of the Class of 1900 into Cor- pated. THE ALUMNI nell University.' "—G. H. Y. Personal items and newspaper clippings PROFESSOR DEXTER S. KIMBALL, Engi- about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. neering, Emeritus, is giving a series of lectures at the graduate school of Stevens OS - 35th Institute of Technology, on "Frederick '70 AB — Dr. Brandt V. Dixon, presi- Reunion, Ithaca W. Taylor's Work and Influence: A Sur- dent-emeritus of Newcomb College, New vey of Modern Management." Professor Orleans, La., and only living member of June 14 -16,1940 John R. Bangs, Jr. '2.1, Administrative his Class, observed his ninetieth birth- Engineering, gave a lecture there, April day April 9 at his home in New Orleans. The Reunion committee of the Class of 2.2., on "Frederick W. Taylor's Contri- He expects to return to Reunion in June. 1905, dining at the Cornell Club in New bution to Industrial Psychology." John A. Rea '69 of Tacoma, Wash., and York April 5, decided that all this bally- Royal Taft '71 of Scranton, Pa., only hoo about "bigger and better reunions" CORNELL ENGINEERING Experiment members of their respective Classes also with the use of printed broadsides, Station has issued as No. 8 in the reprint plan to come. ALUMNI NEWS posters, and tear-jerking series an article on "The Distribution of letters is the bunk. Such tactics increase Load on the Threads of Screws," by Pro- GOLDEN the national debt and snatch the bread of fessor James N. Goodier, Engineering. life from the mouths of starving women PROFESSOR GEORGE T. WASHINGTON, JUBILEE REUNION and children. Law, writes in the Columbia Law Re- What we need, says this revolutionary view for March on '' Litigation Expenses IδβG 'QQ Iθ90 committee, is more select Reunions of of Corporate Directors in Stockholders' Cornellians who get back because the Suits." pull is so strong they simply can't stay away. So instead of a "bigger and better PROFESSOR BURTON JONES, Mathe- Reunion," the committee has decided to matics, has a daughter born April 5.

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CUMB*THEHILL"TO THE 30 TH REUNION ONCE IN A LIFETIME CLA55 DINNER* CAMP OTTER ΓRIDAX MARCH 15™ CORNLLL CLUB o/ N.Y FOR BOYS 7-17 With a Cornell Background

Modern youth demands a big, sweeping adventuresome life, and wise parents are rapidly learning that it is a good investment to have their boys at a good summer camp. '15—Unlike those wife-ridden Juniors Camp Otter with its primitive below us, we can show in small space in location in Northern Ontario has the ALUMNI NEWS that sixty-two (count been satisfying this adventuresome '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 Ίo BSA—William H. Marcussen, 'em) men of the Class of '15 actually urge in youth so long and so well turned out for our March 15 Class Re- that year after year the number of president of the Borden Farm Products Co., in one of several broadcasts asserted union dinner at the Cornell Club of New Camp Otter boys whose fathers York. And this without having to im- were there as Campers increases. that Mayor F. H. LaGuardia's appeal to consumers not to buy Grade A milk is a port any "ringers" to swell the at- boycott "against the very grading of tendance!—M. C. milk that was originally started by the CO Kill ELL Health Department." Marcussen lives at ii Claremont Drive, Maplewood, N. J. I 191916 —

'15 ME—Steel, for March n, 1940, in 25 YEAR EEIJM CJM "Mirrors of Motordom," praises Alfred Boegehold '15 for his discussion of the Ί6—John A. Carothers has been part- selection and application of automotive ner in James Carothers & Co., 2.116 steels, at a committee meeting of the Farmers Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., American Society for Testing Materials for the last six years. He left Cornell in Detroit, Mich. Boegehold is head of after two years and in 1917 received the the department of metallurgy of General BS in EE at Carnegie Institute of Tech- I Motors Research Laboratories. nology.

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In its twenty-nine years, sons of Cornellians of Classes from 1878 to 19x6, and from twenty-one States have sent their boys to Camp Otter. For over twenty years Bill Crewson, who lives at Camp Otter the year around, has been guide, DISTANCE gained in property insurance is so flexible that mentor, and friend to succeeding D' a relay race means you can protect what you have generations of Camp Otter boys. nothing unless it is held. And against practically every conceiv- He is a licensed Canadian guide and material gains made in the game able hazard. The North America leads small groups on canoe trips through lakes and forests of un- of life .. . home, furnishings, auto- Agent in your section will be glad spoiled wilderness, instilling a mobile, business . . . should be to analyze your insurance require- knowledge of campcraft, an ap- held, too. But they can be taken ments and tell you just which preciation of nature, and his from you at any moment of any day policies you should have. Consult wholesome philosophy of self- ... by fire, windstorm, explosion, him as you would your doctor reliant living. accident, theft, etc. Fortunately, or lawyer. Cost Is Moderate The fee for eight glorious weeks is $175, including riding. Insurance Company of

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J. Grant), author of the recently pub- lished book, Red Strangers, has written a new mystery story entitled The African Pay Us A Visit Poison Murders. February 4 she had a Why not bring your son and spend feature article in the magazine section of a week end in Ithaca? More and the New York Times. Her address is 151 more Cornellians with boys getting Ebury Street, London, S. W. i, England. ready for college make it a point to have them see the Cornell Cam- pus and make their own choice.

June 14, 15, 16, Ithaca I'll Be There! '2.0 CE—Olive W. Dennis is the only woman member of the American Railway Engineering Association. With the en- gineers' service of the Baltimore and Ohio '30, '31 BArch—Ralph H. Parks is an Railroad Co., she has been appointed to architect at Glens Falls, and lives at 12. the Association's committee on economics Madison Street. Whenever your boy visits of railway location and operation. '31 AB—February 17 in Montclair, Cornell, be sure he looks in on us at Sheldon Court. We '2.3 BS—Malcolm E. Smith is with the N. J., Richard B. Spelshouse married are just off the Campus, you agricultural marketing service of the Doris Raisbeck, a graduate of Smith know, at the College Avenue U. S. Department of Agriculture. He College. They are now living in Toledo, entrance. For thirty-six years Ohio, after a honeymoon to Bermuda. I have been welcoming new- writes: "This winter in Washington re- comers and making them minds one of Ithaca and Western New '31 AB; '37 PhD—Mrs. Meschter, the feel at home with us. York. Took the family skating on the former Emily Bostwick, and her husband, Lots of former residents of Shel- Potomac for the first time." He lives in Emery Meschter, PhD '37, have an- don Court are now sending their Falls Church, Va. nounced the birth of a son, Charles Al- sons, brothers, and other young '2.4—Daniel O. Dechert, Jr. has gone to bert Meschter, March 9. Their address is men they know, to enjoy college London, England, as a representative of in North Main Street, Mill town, N. J. days here. Boys like the pleasant, the Bank of the Manhattan Company. '32. AB—Mrs. Louis Schiller (Marjorie well-furnished rooms in this modern '14 MD—Kiyoshi Hosoi is a surgeon Halwer) has announced the arrival of a dormitory building, with its own at 1490 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, baby daughter, Martha, January 10. restaurant, bookstore, and barber Hawaii. The address is 42.8 East Street, Pittsfield, shop all under one roof. Mass. Their parents like Sheldon Court '32. BS—Robert E. Redington has been because we select our boys care- transferred to the Congress Hotel in fully, and prices are no more than Chicago, 111., as sales manager. for less comfortable accommo- '33, '36 AB—Paul L. Norton married dations elsewhere. Florence Hedges, February 15, in Wash- Seniors graduating this '2.5—William J. Elkins is with Rex- ington, D. C. year will leave a few va- cancies, which are already Aire, Lincoln Bank Building, Syracuse. '33 AB—Herbert N. Woodward is en- being reserved for 1940-41. '2.5, '2.6 EE; '2.6, 'i7 AB—Leonard gaged in the practice of law at 105 West A new folder tells about Sheldon Menconi is with the Seattle Gas Co., Adams Street, Chicago, 111. His home is Court and gives room diagrams and Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Menconi is the at 170 East Chestnut Street. prices. It is yours without obliga- former Laura G. Pedersen '2.6. Their ad- '34—William P. Batchelder is at the tion if you address: dress is 4331 East Forty-third Street, St. James Hotel, West Forty-fifty Street, Seattle. New York City. SHELDON COURT '2.6 ME—Donald R. Ferris works for '34 AB—Dr. James C. Hazlett is at A. R. Congdon, Agent ITHACA, N.Y. Gulf Oil Corp., Boston, Mass. He is Ohio Valley Hospital, Steubenville, living temporarily at the YMCA in Ohio. Springfield, Mass. '2.6 ME; '2.7 BS—Elmer O. Mattocks is in the research department of Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla. He '35 WHEN DID YOUR and Mrs. Mattocks (Frances M. Bicket) '1.7 live at 511 East Eleventh Street. Five-year Reunion WIFE TELL YOU 'zy AB—The Sir William Johnson "we must send that wed- Council, Boy Scouts of America, has June 14-16, 1940 ding present, but what awarded the Silver Beaver to Herbert T. shall we send?11 Singer 'zy "for outstanding service to '35 BArch—James M. Kittleman II is boyhood and to the community." The salesman for Hooker Glass & Paint WISH YOUR WEDDING Council has made only four such awards Manufacturing Co.; lives at 811 Seward GIFT TROUBLES ON in the last sixteen years. Singer has been Street, Evanston, 111. Scout commissioner for the last nine '35 AB, '39 AM—Orla E. Loper has a EDMISTON Ί5 years. His address is 70 Romeyn Avenue, son born February 14. Loper is in the 330 Springfield Ave., Summit, N. J. Amsterdam. Senior High School at Oswego; lives at 'z8 Sp—Mrs. Gervas Huxley (Elspeth 71 East Utica Street.

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