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STUDENTS LIVE CHEAPLY "One of the most heartening things ALUMNI MEET PRESIDENT NYA Report Shows about the NYA program," the report At New England Meetings Some students at the University last says, "is the attitude of the students President Day spoke last week at five year lived for as little as $3 a week, for toward their jobs. They feel that they Cornell alumni gatherings in New Eng- both room and meals. From this the are earning the assistance provided. The land, in the course of a trip to the annual minimum living costs ranged to $7 a student who believes that the world or conference of the Association of Amer- week for room and $9.70 a week for the government owes him his education, ican Universities, meeting for three days and who therefore studiously avoids the meals. at Brown University. Here he was one Information on the living costs of expenditure of all but the most necessary of three newly-inducted college presi- nearly 700 students who received NYA time and 'energy on his job, is almost dents (the other two from University of assistance is tabulated in the report of entirely missing." Quoted comments of Wisconsin and Yale), and spoke on National Youth Administration program students indicate that their NYA assist- "Problems Arising from the Relation- at the University for the academic year ance, besides its important financial help, ships of Educational Institutions to the 1936-37, prepared by Herbert H. Wil- is recognized as of value in making closer Government." liams 'z5, director of the University acquaintance with their employers and Twenty-five members of the Cornell Placement Bureau, and Culver A. Smith with University methods, in learning Club of Rhode Island greeted the Presi- '16, assistant in charge of the NYA pro- new skills, and in getting regular jobs dent at luncheon November n at the gram. It furnishes interesting comparison in summer and after college. Faculty em- Agawam Hunt Club, Providence. He was of the costs of living in dormitories, ployers have usually taken care to pro- introduced by H. Hunt Bradley '2.6, rooming houses, and fraternity and so- vide training and assistance to their NYA president of the Club. Dean Floyd K. rority houses to working students; and helpers, and seem to be agreed that the Richtmyer '04 of the Graduate School, of the costs of meals eaten in cafeterias, program is useful both to employer and who also attended the universities' fraternity houses, and prepared by the employee. meeting, spoke, as did F. Ellis Jackson students themselves. The complete report is available upon Όo and Arthur H. Ruggles, a trustee of The tabulation shows that the costs request to the University Placement Bu- Dartmouth College. of rooms for the 46 NYA students who reau, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca. The Cornell Club of Western Massa- lived in the men's dormitories ranged WASHINGTON WOMEN MEET chusetts entertained at dinner at the from $3 to $6.80 a week; 413 lived in About thirty members of the Cornell Hotel Highland in Springfield November rooming houses at cost ranging from Women's Club of Washington, D. C., met 15. Edward H. Thompson '09, president $1.50 to $5.2.0 a week; 36 in fraternities for supper November 5 at the home of of the Federal Land Bank in Springfield, and sororities at room costs of from $3 Mrs. Raleigh Gilchrist (Elizabeth Reig- introduced the speakers, who included, to $7 a week; and 109 students worked art) '19. Olive Northup Snyder '2.x, in addition to President Day, Edward A. for part or all of the cost of their rooms. Assistant Alumni Representative, was Rice '04, of South Deerfield, delegate of The rate for the 41 women students who the guest of honor. Mrs. Snyder brought the Club at the inauguration of the lived in University dormitories was $7 news of the Campus, particularly of the President, and Ray S. Ashbery '15, a week. inauguration of President Day, and spoke Alumni Field Secretary. John L. Dickin- Of the 654 students reporting their on various activities of the women. son '2.1, president of the Club, presided. expenses for meals, 2.30 ate in cafeterias, Cornell alumni of Worcester, Mass, at average weekly expense of $5.84; 189 KIMBALL IN WILMINGTON played host to the President at luncheon worked for their meals; 146 prepared Professor Dexter S. Kimball, Engineer- at the Worcester Club November 16. their own at cost ranging from $1.50 to ing, Emeritus, was the guest of the Cor- Ripley P. Bullen '2.5 acted as chairman $7 a week, the average being $3.67; 44 nell Club of Delaware at a luncheon in of the meeting, Chester T. Reed '03 mak- students were members of cooperative Wilmington November 5. Lawrence V. ing the arrangements. President Day dining rooms with average weekly cost Smith '2.0, president of the Club, intro- spent much of his youth in Worcester. of $4.51; 2.8 ate in the women's dormi- duced the speaker. The popularity of Wednesday the President spoke in tories at cost of $7.50 a week; and 9 in Dean Kimball was indicated by the Boston at a luncheon and the annual fraternity houses, where the average cost largest attendance in recent years. dinner meeting of the Cornell Club of was $6.63 and the range from $4 to $9.70. JHe discussed many Cornell subjects: New England. The University's official "General In- President Day, the financial status of the formation Number" gives as a "fair esti- University, the importance of alumni MUSICAL CLUBS' TRIP mate" of the students' expense for board support, the present healthy and prom- Further details have come of the Musi- and room, $550 a year, which is $13.75 ising status of athletics, the part played cal Clubs' Christmas trip, announced No- a week for forty weeks. by Willard Straight Hall and the wom- vember 11. The sixty-five members of the During last year, 942. students selected en's dormitories as exemplifications of Glee Club and Instrumental Club will by the Placement Bureau on the basis of the present facilities for promoting good give their new, informal show, "Oh, financial need, scholarship, and general fellowship and democracy, and the need What A Night!" in seven cities under character, earned $ιo2.,73i.53. They were for further facilities, perhaps in connec- the auspices of Cornell Clubs. A dance assigned to jobs in University offices and tion with the present dormitory system. will follow each show. laboratories and in various community The physical growth of the University The party in Buffalo December 2.0 will enterprises, with a view to giving them since 1898, the year when Dean Kimball be at the Statler Hotel. The next evening constructive work that should assist in became associated with the University, the Clubs show in Cleveland, Ohio, at their educational development. The av- was outlined and his talk was inter- the Hotel Cleveland. In Detroit, Mich., erage earnings of undergraduates was ap- spersed with intimate reminiscences on December Ί.Ί. they will appear at the proximately $15 a month; of graduate Andrew Dickson White and others who Statler Hotel; in Chicago, 111., December students, about $2.5 a month. helped build Cornell. 2.3 at the Drake Hotel. They will be in 130 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Milwaukee, Wise., December 2.4 at a of Syracuse in a driving finish over the Cornell Club luncheon, and perhaps for parade ground of Van Cortlandt Park, a tea dance following. Christmas Day About having waged a close duel with the they play in English's Opera House in Syracusan for the last mile of the five- Indianapolis, Ind.; December 2.6 in Wil- ATHLETICS mile course. Welch held close to the son Memorial Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio; pace throughout the grind, run under and will close their tour with a perform- WELCH RUNS GREAT RACE ideal cross country conditions. There was ance in Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa., Captain Welch's victory in the IC- little wind, plenty of sunshine, and the December Ί.J. AAAA's twenty-ninth annual cross coun- ground was springy. Welch, who lives in Trumansburg, first DINNER HONORS MOAKLEY try championship last week was the first for a Cornell runner since 192.1 when attracted attention as a Sophomore when From a correspondent in New York Robert E. Brown 'xx captured individual he won an interclass cross country race. (guess his Class!) we have the following laurels. He has developed steadily under Coach account of a dinner given for Coach John The Cornell team finished in fifth place Moakley, placing third in the intercol- F. Moakley following the intercollegiate as Michigan State won the champion- legiates a year ago, then winning the cross country meet: ship for the fifth successive year and re- two-mile outdoor ICAAAA title last "On November 15 a group of about tired the current trophy from competi- spring. He also captured the mile run in fifty men, including some members of tion. Cornell, with Syracuse and Penn the Heptagonal Games Association's an- the Varsity and Freshman cross country State, had four legs on the cup. Cornell's nual meet. teams, greeted Jack Moakley at an invi- last team victory was also registered in By his victory as a Senior he takes his tation dinner tendered him at the Cornell 1911. place with such distance stalwarts as Club of New York. Second Cornell runner to finish was W. Ellis Schutt '05, Edmund T. New- "Unofficial festivities started with a Herbert H. Cornell '38 of Brooklyn, in man '05, Hobart C. Young Ίo, John substantial gathering in that room of twenty-fourth place; followed by Gus- Paul Jones '13, Tell Berna Ίx, Daniel F. the Club reserved for the dispensing of tavus A. Bentley '39 of Jamestown, Potter, Jr. Ί6, Ivan C. Dresser '19, and harmless beverages. The official program, thirty-fifth; Emery G. Wingerter "40 of Brown, all winners of the title. ably sponsored by 'Ned' Mac Arthur Ίi Red Bank, N. J., thirty-seventh, and as toastmaster, started off after the Louis J. Loughlin '38 of Sauquoit, sixty- Freshmen Sixth singing of Alma Mater with a ' stunt in second. Out of the scoring were James C. The Freshmen cross country runners four episodes' by the Frosh cross country Plunkett '39 of Lackawack, sixty-sev- placed sixth in a three-mile race before team that was very amusing. After din- enth, and Hugh M. Atwood 38 of Olean, the Varsity competition, with Pittsburgh ner the toastmaster called on various seventy-first. in first place. Team scores: Pittsburgh, alumni and members of the teams to say The team scores: Michigan State, 59; 40; Alfred, 72.; Penn State, 85; Manhat- a word of greeting to Jack, who answered Syracuse, 69; Manhattan, 75; Penn State, tan, 93; Maine, 116; Cornell, no; Yale, in his charmingly modest yet always 166; Princeton, 175; Rutgers, 119; NYU, interesting manner. The team made a 12.6; Cornell, 155; Rhode Island, 2.06; Dartmouth, 2.2.-$; Alfred, 2.2.8; Yale, 1.5%; Z39, and Columbia, 3x3. significant gesture to Jack when they Maine, z68; Princeton, 2.75; Pittsburgh, Johnson M. Quick of Ithaca led the rose in a body before he started to speak. 3x5; Columbia, 351; M.I.T., 383; NYU, Cornell runners, placing tenth, and was Charles A. Taussig Ox led the cheers timed in 17:00. Then came Willard C. with an enthusiasm that present cheer- 393; Fordham, 437; Colgate, 439; Rut- Schmidt of Rochester, twenty-first; Nath- leaders might well imitate. The affair gers, 466; CCNY, 575. aniel E. White of Wenonah, N. J., closed with the Evening Song. Welch won by six yards from Southard twenty-fourth; Michael A. Rofrano of "It is interesting to note that there Brooklyn, thirty-fifth; Matty L. Urbano- was not only a predominance of 1913 witz of Buffalo, forty-sixth; Rex W. men present ('Bub' Pfeiffer take note) Wood of Mohawk, forty-ninth; and but that more 1913 men were called upon George V. Kershaw of Hopewell, fifty- to talk than of any other Class (nice second. work, 'Ned' MacArthur)." MICHIGAN ELECTS BASKETBALL STARTS Cornell Club of Michigan at its annual Basketball practice will start officially meeting October z8 elected Harold W. after the Thanksgiving recess, with the Holmes '05 its new president, succeeding first game scheduled December 9 against Clinton R. To bey Ί8. Harold S. Kinsley Toronto. '14 was elected vice-president; Franklin Innovation this year will be a Junior E. Millan '2.7, secretary; Allan L, Kauf- Varsity team with a schedule of seven mann '17, treasurer; Philip J. Kent '14, games.. industrial secretary; and Warren D. De- Informal practice has been under way vine "z6 was re-elected editor of the for several weeks in charge of Edgar C. Club's official publication, "Cornell Sonderman, Grad, former Syracuse Uni- Whooperupper. versity center. Coach John H. Rowland The meeting was a dinner at the Inter- managed to put in one day when the collegiate Alumni Club, Detroit. Clarence football squad took a holiday. When F. Hirshfeld, MME '05, discussed the regular drills begin, Rowland will have present economic situation, and movies of George K. James as assistant coach in Club picnics taken by Matthew Carey '15 WINNER AND COACH charge of the Junior Varsity and Mose brought many laughs. Thδ Club heard re- Cross Country Captain Howard W. Quinn directing the Freshman team. turns of the Dartmouth game November 13 Welch '38 of Trumansburg, first Cornell Sonderman will continue as an aide. after luncheon at the Savoyard Club with winner of the intercollegiate champion- Prospects, Rowland says, are not Dartmouth alumni. Speaker at its regular ship since 1911, and Coach John F. bright. "From a team that failed to win luncheon November 18 was Carl Olson, Moakley, who will be seventy-four next a single game in Eastern Intercollegiate chairman of the Michigan Securities December n and is still developing League competition last season, Cornell Commission. champions. has seven letter men, five or six of whom NOVEMBER 1937

are pretty good, and some promising AWARD MOAKLEY CUPS SOCCER TEAM LOSES Sophomores." At the annual track get-together, The soccer team played its last home The letter men are Co-captains Thomas sponsored by Spiked Shoe, Coach John game Saturday, losing to Haverford, 3-0. A. Rich '38 of Hobart and Carl ton P. F. Moakley awarded the cups named for The Middle Atlantic States League game Wilson '38 of Milwaukee, Wis., Robert him and provided by Cornell Clubs to was played en mud-caked and snow- J. McDonald '38 of Waterbury, Conn., the men in each of thirteen events whom covered Alumni Field. The team closes Louis E. Dauner '38 of Cincinnati, Ohio, he had selected as showing greatest inter- its season with Pennsylvania at Phila- Walter H. Foertsch '39 of Rochester, est and improvement last year. In addi- delphia Thanksgiving Day. Harold Liebman '39 of Long Island City, tion, he presented to Captain J. Hamilton In League competition, Cornell de- and Edwin Leonard '40 of Staten Island. Hucker '38 of Buffalo a special trophy feated Lehigh, tied Swarthmore, and lost The "promising" Sophomores include for all-around outstanding performance. to Princeton and Haverford. Of its other George F. Polzer, Staten Island; Leonard About 150 track enthusiasts were pres- games, Cornell has won over Colgate W. Hanson, Leonia, N. J.; Alan W. ent in Willard Straight Memorial Room and Rochester and lost to Syracuse and Vaughan, Western Springs, 111.; Robert to honor the men and Coach Moakley. Army. W. Pressing, Cleveland, Ohio; Robert I. President Day, who was manager of On Saturday the Varsity made it a Ballinger, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; Richard track at Dartmouth as a Senior, spoke close game for the first half, but Haver- C. Beutell, Pelham Manor; and Angelo most highly of Moakley's services to ford broke the scoreless deadlock late in Repas, Plattsburg. Cornell and complimented him and all the second period on Wilbourn's goal. In early scrimmages, the "A" team Cornell athletes for their good sports- Two more goals by Atkinson turned the has included Rich and Leonard, forwards; manship. James Lynah '05, director of game into a complete Haverford triumph. Foertsch, center; and Wilson and Polzer, physical education and athletics, spoke guards. Polzer broke his ankle early briefly, as did Professor John R. Bangs, FOOTBALL ODDS AND ENDS last season and was unable to play as a Jr. '2.1, assistant track coach; Captain The football team this week shares Freshman. He recovered to play Fresh- Welch of the cross country team; and one of two "championships" open to it, man baseball, winning the captaincy of Ray S. Ashbery '2,5, Alumni Field Sec- Colgate's 7-0 victory over Syracuse last the first-year nine. retary. Henry S. Godshall, Jr. '36, assist- Saturday left the "Big Three" of upstate Colds and grippe have bothered Mc- ant director of athletics and former Var- New York in a stalemate, each winning Donald, and Dauner has again injured sity broad-jumper, presided. once. the shoulder which caused him consid- On the basis of points scored, Cornell The cup provided by the Cornell Club might claim some honor, having defeated erable trouble last year. Rich has had to of Buffalo was awarded to Hugh M. At- Colgate, 40-7, and having lost to Syra- share basketball time with soccer, play- wood '38 of Olean, for the two-mile run; cuse, 14-6. Cornell scored 46 points in ing goal on the Varsity soccer team. that of the Chicago Club to James E. Games this year will be marked by two games; Syracuse and Colgate 14 Rutledge '39 of Highland Park, 111., each; giving Cornell a final standing of absence of the center tap, except at the discus throw; Delaware, Eric D. Schwarz +2.6, Syracuse +7, and Colgate —33. start of the halves. When a team is '39 of Saylesville, R. I., high hurdles; scored upon, it will put the ball in play Elmira, Benjamin F. Levy '39 of Elmira, * * * by a pass from under its own goal. 88o-yard run; Maryland, Max J. Breίten- The coaching staff scouted the Colgate- The court at the extreme west end of bach '39 of New York City, 44o-yard Syracuse and Harvard-Yale games last the Drill Hall floor will be used this year. dash; Essex County, N. J., John H. week. Colgate will open the 1938 Cor- The schedules: Nevius '39 of Flemington, N. J., iio-yard nell season with Harvard to be played VARSITY dash; New England, James B. Pender '39 Dec. 9 Toronto at Ithaca the following Saturday. ii Alfred at Ithaca of Lawrence, Mass., loo-yard dash; New * * * 14 Buckαell at Ithaca York, Alfred F. Van Ranst '39 of Brook- Jan. 8 Princeton at Princeton* lyn, shot put; Southern Ohio, Gustavus Among the early "All-American" se- lo Dartmouth at Ithaca* A. Bentley '39 of Jamestown, mile run; lections have been: 15 Columbia at Ithaca* Holland, first team end by Andy Kerr, 2.2. Yale at New Haven* Western Pennsylvania, Noah E. Dorius 2.9 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia* '39 of Casper, Wyo., javelin throw; Colgate coach, and Fox Movietone^News; Feb. 9 Colgate at Hamilton Philadelphia, William W. McKeever '39 second team end by Newspaper Enter- 12. Pennsylvania at Ithaca* of Spring Lake, N. J., hammer throw; prise Association, a newspaper syndicate. 18 Harvard at Cambridge* Hooper, first team guard with NEA. 19 Dartmouth at Hanover* Rochester, Gordon E. Selden '38, LeRoy, 2.2. Harvard at Ithaca* pole vault; Washington, D. C., John C. 2.6 Princeton at Ithaca* Tallman '39 of Ithaca, running broad jump. TO PUBLISH REGULATIONS March 2. Syracuse at Ithaca The Department of Physical Education 5 Yale at Ithaca* and Athletics will shortly publish a 12. Columbia at Ithaca* FACULTY ADVISORS booklet listing all regulations for ath- * Eastern Intercollegiate League games The Board of Athletic Policy has an- letes competing in intercollegiate and JUNIOR VARSITY nounced the election of these Faculty intramural sports. For years, rules and Dec. ii Alfred at Ithaca Jan. 8 Ithaca College at Ithaca College representatives to the intercollegiate ad- regulations have been in existence, few 15 Ithaca College in Drill Hall visory council: For baseball, Professor of them properly codified and recorded. 19 Syracuse at Ithaca Charles E. O'Rourke '17, Engineering, The booklet will provide all this basic Feb. 15 Lehigh at Bethlehem replacing Professor John G. Jenkins '2.3; information for general reference. 2.6 Lafayette at Easton March 2. Syracuse at Syracuse for basketball, Professor Hubert E. Bax- To be included are the new eligibility FRESHMAN ter Ίo, Architecture, re-elected; for foot- rules and a new health code for athletes, Jan. 7 Bucknell J-V at Ithaca ball, Professor Alex M. Drummond, just adopted by the Board of Athletic lo Oneonta Normal at Ithaca Public Speaking, re-elected; for rowing, Policy. This code, proposed by Dr. Dean 15 Syracuse at Syracuse Professor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, F. Smiley Ί6, Medical Adviser, corre- 19 Ithaca College in Drill Hall 2.2. Colgate at Hamilton re-elected; for track, Professor Bristow lates previous rules and defines the finan- Feb. 16 Cortland Normal J-V at Cortland Adams, Agriculture Publications, re- cial responsibility of the Department of 18 Ithaca College at Ithaca College elected; for all other sports, Professor Physical Education and Athletics in the 2.2. Cortland Normal J-V at Ithaca Paul M. O'Leary, PhD 'z9, Economics, treatment of injuries sustained in prac- 2.6 Colgate at Ithaca March 2. Syracuse at Ithaca in place of Professor Harrison L. Good- tice or competition. 5 Williamsport Seminary at Ithaca ώan Ί6. 132. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

RACKETS IN CLEVELAND sound pictures of the Campus and a pre- season. It hasn't been bad enough to Edward J. Demson, Cleveland attor- vious Dartmouth football game. The start a witch hunt nor good enough to ney, discussed what is being done to next morning Ashbery spoke at a general get up an alumni testimonial dinner. stop racketeering in that city, at the assembly at Albany Academy, and vis- It's been just the ideal season to escape weekly luncheon of the Cornell Club of ited Deerfield Academy on the way to both and give the coach a December in Cleveland on November n. Hanover. Friday morning when the team which he can be let alone, which is a John C. Barker Ίz read two poems stopped at Deerfield for brief practice, coach's idea of heaven. which he had composed during the they had an admiring audience of boys Of course, all coaches don't agree about World War, both entitled "We Are Still from the Academy who had been given testimonial gold watches. Some think Here." One was written in camp while a ten-minute recess by the headmaster. they are good to have so you'll have awaiting orders to go to France, the something hard to throw at the man other was written in France after the who presented it when he starts calling Armistice. NOW, IN MY TIME! for your blood within two years of the presentation. ASHBERY TO TRAVEL WEST By Romeyn Berry Ray S . FOOTBALL IN ST. LOUIS Ashbery '2.5, Cornell and Dartmouth alumni of St. Alumni The annual alumni witch hunt for Louis gathered at the University Club to Field Secre- football coaches whose teams have lost hear the returns from the football game tary, will seems to have started. The distant bay in Hanover over a private wire. The shortlymake of the middle-aged hunting pack can be company was pretty evenly divided be- a swing heard echoing from many a bar and tween the two colleges. Harry R. McClain around the across the bracken of many a sport page. 'cα, president of the Cornell Club, pre- alumni cir- It's just one of the things that seem to sided with the assistance of the president cle, to speak go with being a football coach and with of the Dartmouth Club. Shurly R. Irish at Cornell being an alumnus. Ί8 ran the diagram. Ralph McCarty Club meet- The antithesis of the alumni witch hunt '96 and H. C. Deckert, Dartmouth '35, ings in six is the alumni testimonial dinner for the interpreted the returns, and each had cities. He coach who has won all his games, ac- the honor of reporting the other's touch- will show companied by the presentation of the down. motion pic- testimonial gold watch. Coaches who tures of ath- have undergone both experiences—and SHAW SQUASH CHAMPION letics and the most have—differ as to which is the more Forbes D. Shaw '2.7, squash racquets Campus and discuss the latest Ithaca news. disagreeable. All agree that both are champion of the Cornell Club of New First appearance will be at a luncheon pretty bad, but they all realize that both York, last week with Rolfe Kaltenborn, of the Cornell Club of Cleveland Decem- go with the job and have to be taken formerly of the Harvard team, won the ber -L, at the Mid-Day Club. Next he goes as they come along. doubles championship in the annual invi- to St. Paul and Minneapolis, with a In the December following the season tation tournament at the Heights Casino luncheon meeting December 6 in St. Paul when Princeton had its so-called Team in New York City. They played against and a Cornell Club dinner that evening of Destiny, we were out in a western Frederick P. Frantz 'γi. of the Cornell at the Curtis Hotel in Minneapolis. De- city where we ran across Bill Roper, Club team and E. G. Benson, a Casino cember 7 Ashberry will speak at a meet- coach of the team in question. We first clubmate of Kaltenborn's. New York ing of the Cornell Club of Milwaukee; saw him through the open door of a hotel Herald Tribune called Shaw "the out- December 8 in Toledo, Ohio; and Decem- bedroom. He was sitting on the bed with standing man on the floor." ber 9 at the regular luncheon of the Cor- his head in his hands and looking pretty He is captain of the Cornell Club team nell Club of Chicago, at the University dejected. in the Metropolitan Class B League; Club, i "Hello Bill, what are you doing out played baseball and soccer four years and December 3-5, Ashbery will attend here?" became captain of both Varsity teams as the annual meeting at Purdue of the Mr. Roper's reply was substantially as a Senior. Frantz played soccer as a Fresh- American Association of College Unions, follows: man and was manager of Varsity tennis. and will speak on the subject, "The "I've got to go to a dinner tonight Alumnus Looks At the Union." Also and make a speech. The alumni YACHT CLUB ACTIVE attending from Cornell will be Foster M. out here are going to give me a gold Scheduled regatta of the Cornell Co- Coffin '12., director, Edgar A. Whiting watch because I had some pretty good rinthian Yacht Club with Dartmouth at '2.9, assistant director, and Edith W. boys playing for me this year and they Hanover November 13 was cancelled be- Ouzts, AM '30, social director, of Wil- were lucky, too. The who is going cause of rain. The Club's next appearance lard Straight Hall. to make the presentation speech and to will be against eight member colleges of Before and after the Dartmouth game, whom I've got to reply is the same the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Asso- Ashbery spoke at a Cornell-Dartmouth who three years ago tried to get me ciation at Providence, R. I., December 5, alumni dinner at Albany, and with the fired because we lost a game we would and its crews will also enter the inter- President at the dinner of the Cornell have won if our end had held on to a collegiate regatta on Long Island Sound Club of Western Massachusetts Novem- pass that came right in his hands when during Christmas vacation, which Cor- ber 15. he was standing all alone in the end zone. nell won last year. One hundred men were present at the What frightens me now is whether I'll Against crews from eighteen other Albany dinner at Kapp's Restaurant No- be able to make the speech they expect colleges and universities, Cornell finished vember ii, evenly divided as to college when they pass me that watch, in third place behind MIT and Brown on allegiance. Arthur G. Pellman 'zi pre- or whether I'll do what I want to do the Charles River Basin in Boston, Mass. sided. Roland F. Bucknam, PhD '14, and tell these alumni just November 7, for the Boston Dinghy Club spoke for Cornell and R. F. French, for what they are with respect to football." Challenge Cup and a new trophy, the Dartmouth. C. Reeve Vanneman '03, Irrespective of the outcome of the Henry Adams Morss Memorial Bowl president of the Cornell Alumni Corpor- Pennsylvania game, it looks as if Cornell presented by Charles Francis Adams and ation, introduced Ashbery, who showed had had just the right kind of a football six other members of the Eastern Yacht NOVEMBER 2.5, 19.37

Club. Cornell won the Boston Challenge Cup last fall, so has one leg on it, with CORNELL FOOTBALL-THIRTY YEARS MIT, two. Irwin W. Tyson '38 of White By Louis E. Johnson '10 Plains and Albert E. Hayes '38 of Provi- I saw my first game of Cornell football In 19x0 Dobie came to Cornell as coach. dence, R. I., sailed for Cornell, Tyson from Deadhead Hill in 1906. Deadhead On his first-team was "Eddie" Kaw. taking second highest individual honors. was back of old Percy Field, and for two Something of a break, any way ί The October 9 Cornell lost narrowly to years I had a reserved seat on its summit. team did well but it was not until 19x1 Princeton on Lake Carnegie. So ardent a fan did I become that I suc- that things really clicked. Dobie had a NORTH JERSEY WOMEN ceeded in getting a pass during my last backfield of Kaw, Pfann, Ramsey, and Olive Northup Snyder '2.2., Assistant two years. My job was to patrol the Cassidy, which was all any coach could Alumni Representative, was the speaker fences and keep away marauding young- ask for. at a meeting of the Cornell Women's sters. In my humble opinion the 192.2. team Club of Northern New Jersey, held in Cornell had a fine team in 1907 just was the greatest ever to represent Cor- Summit at the home of Mrs. J&ussell as they have now, thirty years later. nell. If I were coaching a football team Kerby (Regina Brunner) '15 the evening The forward pass had just been developed I would not trade Pfann, Kaw, Ramsey, of November 8. About twenty members and Cornell was beginning to make use and Cassidy for the Four Horsemen of of it. The greatest successes that year were present. Mrs. Snyder described the Notre Dame. Pfann and Kaw always got inauguration of President Day and its were a 6-5 win over Princeton and 14-10 more publicity but I have heard Dobie accompanying festivities, and told of victory over West Point. In all of my quoted as saying that he considered Ram- other recent Campus activities, particu- acquaintance with Cornell celebrations, sey one of the greatest players he ever the celebration of that Princeton victory larly those of interest to the women. coached. was the most cockeyed. Just as some fine players came in with DIRECTORY PROGRESSES Players who stood out on the team Dobie in 19x0, so some more came with Final check on names and addresses of were Thompson, guard; O'Rourke, Snavely in 1936. I have seen the boys Cornellians for the new Alumni Directory tackle; and Walder, full back. I think play, and they certainly are good. They is being started this week with the mail- Walter Camp mentioned all three of need a Pfann or a Barrett to be a great ing of verification cards by the Alumni them that year. Even with these great team. Even with a splendid line like the Office to the entire list of some fifty players Cornell could not overcome the 1937 forwards, a team cannot be really odd thousand alumni. The cards contain jinx of Franklin Field—they lost to great without at least one all-American the name and address of the individual Pennsylvania 1^-4. It was no disgrace back: Yale without Frank, for instance. alumnus as it now appears on the Univer- because those were the days of Scarlett, No summary of Cornell football would sity records, and recipients are asked to Draper, and Hollenback. be complete without a word or two about return the card verified or corrected. Speaking of the jinx of Franklin Field, outstanding players. This is only opin- Opportunity is also given to order the Barrett and Pfann were the only ones to ion, and should be accepted as such: new Alumni Directory, which will be really break it. The only times that Greatest line—1937. priced at $3. Cornell has beaten Pennsylvania three Best backfield—192.2.. The Alumni Office has so far received years in succession are the three years of Finest ends—Holland and Spang, 1937; approximately 11,000 of the biograph- Barrett, '13, '14, '15, and the three years with Shelton and Eckley 1915 very close. ical information blanks sent to all alumni of Pfann, '2.1, '2.2., '2.3. All-Cornell players since 1906: with a recent issue of the Cornellian After 1907 Cornell had to wait until Ends—Holland '39 and Shelton Ί6. Council Bulletin. This blank will be sent 1915 for another great team. The greatest Tackles—O'Rourke '09 and Van Ranst to any alumnus who has not filled one achievement that year was a 10-0 defeat '39- out and requests it. of one of Harvard's best teans. Barrett Guards—Thompson Ό8 and Hooper was roughed by Harvard and had to be '39- PHI BETA KAPPA EXPANDS taken out. His understudy, the sopho- Center—Cool Ί6. Cornell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last more Shiverick, was put in and won the Backs—Barrett Ί6, Pfann '2.4, Ramsey week amended its by-laws to extend game with the inspired help of the whole '2.4, Kaw '2.3. eligibility to all Senior and Junior candi- team, thoroughly aroused by the treat- For replacements in the backfield the dates for the Bachelor of Arts degree. ment of Barrett. Shiverick scored every names of Walder, Shiverick, and Viviano Formerly, only those taking a major part point. come to mind. For the line Anderson, of their University work in the humanities On this team were the incomparable Sundstrom, Murdock, and Corey would (defined as "the languages, philosophy, Barrett at quarter, Eckley and Shelton, be about the equal of some of those psychology, education, history, political ends, and Cool, center. Cool was a color- mentioned. and social sciences, mathematics, and ful figure—fearless and hard as nails. Johnson is principal of the Hannibal High music") were eligible for election. Many stories were told of him that might School, sixty miles north of Ithaca. He writes: Other changes in the by-laws provide not be verified. Cornell played Michigan "I wonder how many of us who have grad- uated from the great University on the Hill that undergraduate members now may in those days and among their great realize what a wonderful place it is? It has vote on new members, this privilege players was a giant zoo-pound all-Amer- taken years of return trips at different seasons formerly being limited to Faculty mem- ican center. He thought he was "pretty of the year to make me realize what a splendid bers; and reduce the quotas of members good," and Cool, who could not have Campus we have. Going back with me inter- ested my son in Cornell to the extent that he eligible by reason of scholarship from weighed over 170, said something to the matriculated, and graduated last year. I think twenty percent to ten percent of Seniors, effect of "you won't last long in this that he and I are the only father and son who and from twelve-and-a-half percent to game." Sure enough, he had to be taken are teaching agriculture in New York State five percent of Juniors. out before the game was very old. The at the present time. My son is Elliott H. Johnson, Class of '37." (who teaches in Ovid. The new rulings follow those of most 1915 Cornell team was rated as one of -ED.) chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, according to the best, if not the best, in the country Chester C. Greene, Jr., secretary of the and Barrett was on everyone's all-Amer- COLIN C. ELDRIDGE '41 of Grosse Cornell chapter. ican. "Chuck" has passed on, but a tab- Point, Mich, is one of five boys selected At the first luncheon meeting of the let in Schoellkopf commemorates his for the first scholarship awards granted chapter for the year, November 18, Dr. exploits on the gridiron. The years of by the Detroit Alumni Association of Edward J. Dent, the Messenger lecturer, Barrett were in the heyday of Coach Al Alpha Tau Omega, and given their choice was the speaker. Sharpe. of colleges to attend. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

DRAMATIC CLUB EXCHANGES The Dramatic Club initiated November LETTERS 6 what may develop into an exchange COMING EVENTS Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good arrangement, with productions of other Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed taste, we shall -print letters from subscribers on any colleges showing in the Willard Straight separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- Theatre and the University Theatre giv- Contributions to this column must be received on or ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility ing road performances. before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. beyond that of fostering interest in the University. The Little Theatre of Hobard and William Smith Colleges gave Lennox THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. PAYMENT WITH RHYME Robinson's "The Whiteheaded Boy" be- At Ithaca: Dance Club presents a recital by DEARR. R.: fore an appreciative audience. Director Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, Bailey Hall, 8:15. You've sent me letters galore of the visiting players is Jonathan W. Curvin '52., a former president of the At Cleveland: Ray Ashbery '2.5 at Cornell For the sum of a dollar, no more. Club luncheon, Mid-Day Club To save my own neck, Dramatic Club. The previous week end, Curvin and Mrs. Curvin (Helen E. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 Γm enclosing a check; At Ithaca: Dramatic Club presents Tony Sarg's For my own peace, I've made it for four! Champlin), AM '33, appeared here in Marionettes, Willarα Straight Theatre, Thanks! JOHN S. WISE, 3d '2.8 the Summer Theatre Company's produc- tion of "The Importance of Being Earn- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 Answer est," by Oscar Wilde. In this, the leading At Providence : Cornell Corinthian Yacht Club character, Algernon MoncriefT, was in invitation regatta, Seekonk River DEARJ. S. W. 3d: To one with your gift for making rhymes played by Arthur L. Woehl 'x3, who MONDAY, DECEMBER 6 To soothe the calloused hearts of us teaches public speaking and directs dra- At St. Paul-Minneapolis: Ray Ashbery '2.5 at Who write and write so many times, matics at Hunter College in New York Cornell Club luncheon (St. Paul) and Thanks! the laugh is worth the fuss. dinner, Curtis Hotel (Minneapolis) R.R. '31 City. Last Thursday, the Laboratory Thea- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 tre cast which gave it here in October At Milwaukee: Ray Ashbery '2.5 at Cornell HOTELMEN IN NEW YORK Club meeting presented "Six Characters in Search of Thirty-five upperclassmen in Hotel an Author" at the Little Theatre of Ho- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 Administration took over the operation At Toledo: Ray Ashbery '2.5 at Cornell Club bart College in Geneva. They played to of the Hotel Astor in New York City for meeting an enthusiastic audience, and were enter- a day last week, visited the National THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9 tained at a reception given by President Hotel Exposition, and enlarged their ac- At Ithaca: University concert, Kirsten Flag- William A. Eddy of Hobart. quaintance with the practical problems stad, soprano, Bailey Hall, 8:15 November 12. and 13 the Club presented Basketball, Toronto, Drill Hall of hotel operation and hotelmen. At Chicago: Ray Ashbery '2.5 at Cornell Club Edmund E. Beers '38 of Elmira acted Cyril Campion's mystery thriller, "La- luncheon, University Club dies in Waiting." Four of the nine char- as managing director of the Astor for SATURDAY, DECEMBER n November 15, with other members of acters of the all-feminine cast were At Ithaca: Basketball, Alfred, Drill Hall the party filling the other staff jobs, in- played by alternates the two evenings, mostly newcomers. On Friday, Priscilla MONDAY, DECEMBER 13 cluding Martha Omenson '38 of Ther- At Ithaca: University Theatre presents "Anna mopolis, Wyo., housekeeper; Elizabeth M. Coffin '40, the daughter of Foster M. Christie" from Museum of Modern Art J. Walsh '38 of Watkins, switchboard Coffin Ίi, was a realistic and comely Film Library, Wilkrd Straight Theatre, operator; and June A. Miller '39 of Hor- Una Verity, whose marriage the next 8:15 nell, banquet manager. John L. Shea '2.6 day was the reason for the plot. Nina V. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 is executive assistant manager of the Jordan '40 of Sacramento, Calif., was a At Ithaca: Basketball, Bucknell, Drill Hall Astor. coolly competent woman detective, and SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 The students, conducted by Professor the two servants, played in both per- At Ithaca: Christmas recess begins Charles I. Sayles '2.6 with Gert H. W. formances by Mary E. Gilman '40 of MONDAY, DECEMBER 2.0 Schmidt '38 of Pittsford, Vt.,and Alfred Rochester and Rhea G. Lubarsky '40 of At Buffalo: Musical Clubs show and dance, G. Fry '38 of Berkeley, Cal., as assistants, White Plains, were excellent characteri- Statler Hotel visited the kitchens of the SS Queen zations. The production was directed by TUESDAY, DECEMBER zi Mary, attended the Hotel Exposition in Professor Alex M. Drummond and Eliza- At Cleveland: Musical Clubs show and dance, Hotel Cleveland, 8 130 Grand Central Palace, and were hosts beth D. Worman '2.4 and Clare Foot, with the Cornell Society of Hotelmen Grad, of the University Theatre staff. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2.2. At Detroit: Musical Clubs show and dance, at a smoker at the Hotel Roosevelt No- Statler Hotel vember 16 for the visitors to the Exposi- BEREA DEAN IN ROCHESTER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2.3 Dr. William Jesse Baird, PhD '2.5, tion. Shea was chairman of the smoker At Chicago: Musical Clubs show and dance, committee, and Joseph P. Binns '2.8, Dean of Berea College in Kentucky, spoke Drake Hotel president of the Society, welcomed the at the weekly meeting of the Cornell SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2.5 guests. A Cornell booth at the Exposi- Club of Rochester November 3. At Indianapolis: Musical Clubs show and tion was in charge of George S. Lumbard Under the subject "A Rediscovered dance, English's Opera House '35- People" he outlined the work of his SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2.6 Forty-seven alumni and wives and institution in taking its students from At Cincinnati : Musical Clubs show and dance, ladies attended the annual dinner dance the State of Kentucky, without any Wilson Memorial Hall of the Society of Hotelmen, at the Am- educational background and largely MONDAY, DECEMBER Ί.J bassador November 17. Binns presided, without funds, and giving them a liberal At Pittsburgh : Musical Clubs show and dance, and cablegrams were exchanged with education along practicable lines that Carnegie Hall Professor Howard B. Meek, head of the will make it possible for them to return MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1938 Department, then at Port Said on sab- to their own localities and contribute to At Ithaca: Classes resumed batic leave. The exchange of messages improvement in living conditions. Most SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 was arranged by David M. Connor '34 of the students work half-time for their At Princeton: Basketball, Princeton and E. Truman Wright '34, hotel repre- support and devote the other half to MONDAY, JANUARY 10 sentatives with Western Union. their education. At Ithaca: Basketball, Dartmouth, Drill Hall NOVEMBER 2.5, 1937 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL SNOW AND MUD on upper Alumni BIRTHDAY of Willard Straight Hall Field Sunday morning failed to halt the THANKSGIVING week end now leaves was celebrated the evening before No- demon touch football team of Chi Psi, the Campus nearly as deserted as for the vember 17, with a gala open house which whose invincible passing attack gained longer Christmas vacation, what with a attracted 550, and a congratulatory edi- them the interfraternity championship promising football game in Philadelphia torial in the Sun. Following a blare of over Phi Delta Theta, 7-0. Of the fifty- and an official holiday Friday and Satur- trumpets, Mrs. Edmund E. Day cut with five fraternity teams entered this year, day. A mammoth torchlight procession a sword a giant birthday cake, and she these two battled to the top, Chi Psi into Bailey Hall Tuesday evening, with and Foster M. Coffin Ίx, director of the having defeated Alpha Chi Rho in the the ROTC band and speeches and songs Hall, led a grand march to the party semi-finals and Phi Delta Theta having and cheers, sped the team on its way. proper in the cafeteria decorated in red worsted Beta Sigma Rho. By Wednesday evening many students and white. had followed. A record ticket sale of TEH-CHANG KOO '40 of Shanghai, more than 8,000 is reported at Schoell- LAST WEEK Phi Beta Delta won the China, the son of Dr. Wellington Koo, kopf. For those who stay, Willard soccer championship from Omega Tau China's delegate to the League of Na- Straight broadcasts the game Thursday Sigma, undefeated previously for three tions and recent Brussels conference, was afternoon, with a Thanksgiving Day years. Twelve fraternities entered the guest speaker last week at a reception party following, and a free vacation soccer matches this year. Now Nick given for Chinese students in Syracuse dance Saturday night. Bawlf's office and the coaches are receiv- University by Chancellor William P. ing entries of fraternities, independents, Graham and Mrs. Graham, in their church denominations, and individuals home. A PHILOSOPHY CLUB is projected, for for the winter sports: basketball, volley- bi-weekly discussion meetings of grad- ball, bowling, handball, badminton, POLYGLOT PARTY was given in Wil- uates and undergraduates of the Depart- table tennis, hockey, skiing, track, lard Straight November 16 for students ments of Philosophy, Biology, Physics, wrestling, boxing, tennis, swimming, and and Faculty members of foreign language and English. fencing. A Varsity badminton team, se- departments, with those who attend the lected from the best players of the intra- weekly foreign language dinner tables as ONE STUDENT IN FIVE now has a mural teams, may play in matches against hosts and hostesses. The guests spoke car at the University, according to other colleges. only foreign languages, drank tea, and Horace H. Benson '2.9, traffic control got acquainted; whether each with only executive. He says that of the 12.00 stu- FUERTES BIRD SANCTUARY at Stew- those speaking his own language or not, dent automobiles, more than 100 are art Park is the gathering place these days is not stated. owned by women. 'On the whole," he of hundreds of wildfowl that are fed says, "students are better-than-average there twice a day. Most colorful are a STUDENT COUNCIL has invited the drivers." Benson estimates that about large flock of rare wood ducks, with their similar organization of nearby colleges one-tenth of the student cars will be parti-colored heads, but the lords of them and universities to send representatives driven home for Thanksgiving, and left all are a flock of Canada geese that have to an intercollege conference here Decem- there. apparently settled in for the winter. ber 4 and 5, to discuss common problems. Councilman Austin H. Kiplinger '39 of ELEVEN UNDERGRADUATES, the CORNELL DANCE CLUB, composed of Arlington, Va., reported last week that largest delegation from any of the undergraduate women, had as its guests so far Colgate, Dartmouth, Harvard, twenty-two attending colleges, went at a recent meeting the Wells College Penn State, and Princeton had accepted from Cornell to the intercollegiate peace Dance Club. The Club will sponsor a invitations, and tentative acceptances conference at Vassar College Noveήiber recital in Bailey Hall December 2. by had been received from Columbia, Penn- 6 and 7. Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman sylvania, and Syracuse. and their company. SCULPTURE is attracting Campus atten- WINNER FOR THE STATE of the Na- tion in two noteworthy exhibits. The LECTURES this week include Professor tional 4-H Club achievement contest, to art gallery in Martha Van Rensselaer Walter King Stone, Architecture, "The represent New York at the National Club Hall shows the sculpture and drawings Layman's Approach to Art" at last Congress in Chicago, 111. November 2.6 of Marta Adams until December i, and Sunday evening's coffee hour at Willard to December 4, is Hilda W. Babcock of the art committee of Willard Straight Straight Hall; Professor John W. Mac- Ithaca, a Freshman in Home Economics. Hall has arranged to exhibit the work of Donald '2.5, Law, before the weekly stu- Profits she has earned at 4~H Club Ernfred Anderson, designer of memorials dent round table on State Constitutional projects over eight years and prizes won to Mark Twain and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, convention issues, in Barnes Hall Novem- at fairs are helping to finance her at the beginning November 2.9. University. ber X2.; and Professor K. N. Llewellyn of Columbia, on "The Law as a Cultural ROCKEFELLER HALL November 6 was SIXTH PLACE and a $600 scholarship Study," November -L $. the meeting place of 114 teachers, re- to be awarded by the Dairy Department search workers, and industrial physicists. for graduate study were won at the recent A WOMAN has been elected to the They were welcomed by the President, intercollegiate contest in New Orleans, Junior Week committee for the first time. heard a program of technical papers, La. by the dairy products judging team Student Council last week selected Olive voted to organize an Upper New York of the college of Agriculture. The team A. Vroman '39 of Albany to take charge comprised Howard G. Dissly '38 of section of the American Physical Society, of "women's promotion." General chair- Lewiston, Mont., John G. Brereton '38 dined at Willard Straight, and afterwards man of the Junior Week committee is of Troy, and Hezekiah G. Webster '38 of were entertained with a demonstration Elliot H. Hooper '38 of Long Valley, Weedsport. Last year's winner of this of research being carried on in the Depart- N. J., and the football team. Prize of fifty scholarship, Albert S. Tomlinson '37, is ment of Physics. Dr. W. B. Ray ton of dollars has been announced for best dec- now taking graduate work in dairy Bausch & Lomb Optical Company was oration scheme for the Junior Prom, to chemistry at University of Wisconsin. chairman of the day's program. be held in the Drill Hall February n. ι36 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

DR. FARRAND, President Emeritus, was a guest at a dinner October i in honor of Concerning Dr. William Freeman Snow, general di- NECROLOGY rector of the American Social Hygiene THE FACULTY Association. He is pictured in the No- '73—JAMES WELLS FINCH, November 3, vember issue of the Stanford Illustrated 1937, at his home, 36-10 Parsons Boule- Review, chatting with Dr. Snow, Dr. "THE BATTLE OF MILK," by Professor vard, Flushing. He spent one year in the Edward L. Keyes, honorary president of James E. Boyle, Rural Economy, ap- Optional Course. He was a lawyer for the Association, and Dr. Thomas Parran, peared in the November 13 issue of the some time, retiring from practice about Surgeon-General of the United States. Saturday Evening Post. He says that the twenty years ago. In 1933 he was treas- milk business is the "outstanding big PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. DEVANE, Eng- urer of the American Bond and Mortgage business in America about which there lish, who was visiting professor of Eng- Company, New York City. Alpha Delta is the most warfare, both economic lish at the University of Chicago's Phi. '03 CE—WALTER KEEPER WARD, July and political." Deploring "an actual in- summer session, gave the convocation crease in the number and violence of address at the session's close. This 30, 1937, in Warren, Conn. milk strikes," he sees 1937 as the " worst speech, "The Humbler Part," is re- Ό8—EDWARD LLEWELLYN HASKELL, year of all, with milk deep in politics printed in the November University of November 6, 1937, at Oneida. He spent and hesitating whether to plunge in Chicago Magazine. one year in the Law Course. At the time deeper or try to retreat." DR. GEORGE J. HEUER, professor of of his death he was head of the insurance firm of Hamblin, Munz & Haskell. After PROFESSOR CLYDE MOORE, Rural Edu- surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Med- leaving Cornell, he became a secretary in cation, spoke on "Efficient Organization ical College in New York City, advocated of Education" at the National Munic- the exploration of the use of surgery in the Pinkerton office in New York City. ipal League's forty-third annual national the treatment of high blood pressure, He returned to Oneida and entered the conference on government, in Rochester, speaking at the tenth annual graduate insurance firm of Munz Brothers. He November 18. Professor Martin P. Cath- fortnight of the New York Academy of later became a partner. He was a trustee erwood, PhD '30, Business Management, Medicine. and treasurer of the Oneida Savings Bank. and Thomas N. Hurd, PhD '36, Market- '37 AB—CHARLES BEAN DεLoNG, No- ing Extension, also participated in a MRS. RIVERDA H. JORDAN, wife of Professor Jordan, Education, is the vember 13, 1937, in McGraw. He was an session on "Reorganization of County assistant instructor and graduate student Governments" November 18-19. author of "Natural History in the Liv- ing-Room Window," in the November in Geology. Pi Kappa Phi; Sigma Gamma DIRECTOR LLOYD R. SIMONS Ίi, Exten- issue of American Home. It is the story Epsilon. sion, is one of nine men appointed by of a window-box which '' was here when Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- we bought the house. At> a matter of CHINESE PROFESSORS SPEAK lace to membership on the New York fact, we bought the window-box and Ching Yeung Hui, PhD '33, dean of State farm security advisory committee. the rest of the house, being attached, the College of Arts and Sciences of Ling- This committee will aid in the adminis- came with it." nan University, Canton, China, is one of tration of the Bankhead-Jones farm ten- a group of university professors of Canton ant act by advising the Secretary of Agri- JAMESD. POND '2.5, Forestry Extension, who sign a recent manifesto addressed culture in the selection of counties in has been elected chairman of the mem- '' To All Professors of Universities Over- which loans to tenants should be made, bership committee of the New York seas." Their statement follows: as well as in other matters. section of the Society of American For- esters. "You who are engaged in creative FRANK ,E. GANNETT '98 and H. Edward and cultural service to all mankind Babcock, University Trustees, were PROFESSOR PRESERVED SMITH, History, already know the magnitude of Japan's speakers at the National Grange con- writes on "Amherst Memories" in the assault upon China. Not content with vention November ix, in Harrisburg, Pa. Amherst Graduates' Quarterly for robbing China of vast provinces in the November. He reminisces about profes- northeast, the Japanese militarist regime DR. RUSSELL L. CECIL, professor of sors and the undergraduate scene during has set out to subject the whole Chinese clinical medicine at the Medical College his years at Amherst, 1897-1901. nation. in New York, was one of an advisory PROFESSOR MORRIS BISHOP '13, English, "For three months rumbling tanks, committee on the prevention of pneu- ironclad destroyers, and bombing planes monia mortality which was called into was a speaker at the New York Times National Book Fair November 13. have hurled their death-dealing missiles conference in Washington, D. C., No- on a people whose crime is the desire to vember 5, by the Public Health Service. PROFESSOR SEYMOUR S. GARRETT, In- develop their own civilization without ARTHUR GORDON '04, formerly assist- dustrial Economics, addressed a sectional alien dictation and to utilize their re- ant professor of Romance Languages, meeting of the National Association of sources to raise their own standard of visited the Campus one day recently. Cost Accountants in Syracuse November living and for trade with those who treat For twenty-five years he has been in the 18. them as equals. "Tons of explosives loosed over our Argentine, where he went to represent PROFESSOR RICHARD BRADFIELD, new civil government buildings, schools, col- the Todd Protectograph and Columbia head of the Department of Agronomy,is leges, hospitals, summer resorts, and Phonograph Company, and has devel- mentioned in '' We Plow Too Much,'' an countless small towns and villages have oped a general business in office supplies. article in the November issue of Country made the Chinese people feel as one man. From Ithaca he planned to visit in Cali- Home. fornia. The invader does not admit his enormous losses but he begins to realize that the PROFESSOR MICHEL G. MALTI, PhD '17, DISTINGUISHED VISITOR on the Cam- spirit of resistance is adamant. Electrical Engineering, presided at a pus last week was Dr. E. Bruce Levy, "We believe we have made great meeting of the subcommittee on electri- chief agrostologist of the New Zealand progress in the last decade. We are fight- cal definitions of the American Institute Department of Agriculture. He was the ing now to save our souls, to keep the of Electrical Engineers, held in New guest of Professor D. B. Johnstone-Wal- freedom to produce as only the free can York City, November 13. lace, Agronomy. produce. NOVEMBER 1937

"We therefore appeal to you to help PROFESSOR NICHOLS '75 DIES leash the mad dogs of war and to frus- Professor Edward L. Nichols '75, for trate a program of conquest which does thirty-two years head of the Physics Concerning not stop with China. Meanwhile we Department until his retirement in 1919, pledge ourselves to continue pouring out died November 10 at his home in West THE ALUMNI our blood and substance for the elemen- Palm Beach, Fla. Born in England of American parents, tary principle of fair dealing, for world '91 ME—Warren H. Meeker is in the security, and for human civilization." he entered the Science Course from Peeks- engineering department of Iowa State kill, and received the BS degree in 1875. College, Ames, Iowa. MARYLAND CLUB ELECTS He was a member of the Musical Associa- '96 AB—Helen I. Root is missionary At the annual meeting of the Cornell tion and Delta Upsilon. Going abroad to study at Leipzig, Berlin, and Goet- editor for the Free Methodist Publishing Club of Maryland October 18 Henry R. House, Winona Lake, Ind. Gundlach Ίi was re-elected president. tingen, he received the PhD at Goettin- '97 LLB—Frank L. Wilson is^with Other officers elected are William A. gen in '79, and the next year received a Western Chemicals, Inc., 1417 Fourth Marshall, 3d '30, vice-president; Norman fellowship at Johns Hopkins, later be- Avenue Building, Seattle, Wash. D. Kenney '15, secretary; and H. Alfred coming associated with Thomas A. Stalfort '34, treasurer. N. Herbert Long Edison in the development of the incan- Όo; '2.6 AB—Walter NuίFort and Ί8 was appointed chairman of the Club's descent lamp. He achieved international George H. Brockelbank are members of Cornell Day committee. recognition for his pioneering work in the firm of Brockelbank & Brockelbank, illumination and physiological optics, It was announced that the Club's certified public accountants, with offices seventeenth Feather Party would be held and later for his work in luminescence. at 51 Chambers Street, New York City, In 1881 he became professor of physics Saturday evening, November xo, at the and the Griffith Building, 605 Broad and chemistry at Central University of Street, Newark, N. J. Engineers Club in Baltimore. Kentucky, and in '83, professor of physics Όo BArch—F. Ellis Jackson, a member and astronomy at University of Kansas. TOKYO CLUB FETES MEEK of the architectural firm of Jackson, He was recalled to become head of the Robertson & Adams, Providence, R. L, Twenty-five members of the Cornell Physics Department in 1887, upon the has been made a member of the Jury of Club of Tokyo, Japan, entertained Pro- resignation of his former teacher, the Fellows of the American Institute of fessor Howard B. Meek, on sabbatic late Professor William A. Anthony. Architects, to serve for four years. He leave from his duties as head of Hotel In 1893 he founded the Physical Re- lives at 2.2. Gushing Street, Providence. Administration, and his family, at a gala view and for twenty years was its editor '03 AB, '09 PhD—Dr. G. E. F. Lundell dinner September 8 at the Gajoen Res- until it was turned over by the University of the United States Bureau of Standards taurant in Tokyo. to the American Physical Society. He has been reelected associate editor of the Kakuttiaro Kemmotsu '2.8, executive was a fellow of the American Academy Analytical Edition of Industrial and secretary of the Club, who is himself at of Arts and Sciences; honorary member Engineering Chemistry, a publication of the Tokyo Railway Hotel, opened the of the American Institute of Electrical the American Chemical Society. meeting by introducing his former pro- Engineers, Illuminating Engineering So- fessor. Seikichi Iwasaki '89, president of ciety, and Optical Society of America; '05 ME—Winfred M. Baldwin is with the Club, graciously welcomed the guest and served as president of the American the Rogers-Baldwin Hardware Com- and through him thanked the University Association for the Advancement of pany, Springfield, Mo. for its assistance to students from Japan, Science, of the American Physical So- '05 AM, '07 PhD—Emanuel A. urging him to visit Japanese hotels and ciety, and of The Society of the Sigma Xi. Goldenweiser, director of research and to enjoy the historic places and beautiful He published several textbooks and tech- statistics for the board of governors of the scenery of the country. The party was nical works. University of Pennsylvania Federal Reserve System, will help teach concluded with the "Alumni Song," awarded him the honorary LLD in 1906, a seminar course in banking, recently or- "Evening Song," and a Cornell yell. and Dartmouth the DSc in 1910. In 19x8 he received AT FARM MEETING the Elliott Cresson Medal Several Cornellians were speakers at of the Franklin Institute the recent annual meeting of the New for his achievements as an York State Farm Bureau Federation. investigator, and the Rum- Dean Carl E. Ladd Ίi, Agriculture and ford Medal of the Ameri- Home Economics, spoke on "An Agri- can Academy of Science. A cultural Policy for New York State;" year later he was the first Professor George F. Warren '03, Agri- recipient of the Ives Medal cultural Economics, on "Economic Out- of the Optical Society of look;" Professor Lincoln D. Kelsey, Ex- America, endowed by Her- tension, on "Soil Conservation Districts;" bert E. Ives in honor of his Professor Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., Rural father, Frederic E. Ives, Social Organization, on citizenship train- who was University photo- ing for children; and Director Lloyd R. grapher here while Nichols Simons Ίi, Extension, on "Financing was a student. the Extension Service." Warren W. Mrs. Nichols (Ida Pres- PROFESSOR NICHOLS HERE Six YEARS AGO Hawley Ίi, chairman oί the marketing ton) '76 died in 1918. Both committee, Harold L. Creal '2.1, chair- their children are also For the sixtieth anniversary of Sibley College, October man of the diary committee, Tuure Pasto 17, 1931, he was photographed in Willard Straight Me- Cornellians: Mrs. Mont- '34, State coordinator of the Soil Conser- morial Room, then lighted by the original dynamo gomery H. Throop (Eliza- vation Service, and Holton V. Noyes, invented at Cornell by his former teacher, William A. New York State Commissioner of Agri- beth Nichols) '05 of Shang- Anthony, and Classmate, the late Professor George S. culture and University Trustee, also hai, China, and Robert P. Moler '75. Left to right above are Ellis L. Phillips '95, spoke. Herbert P. King Όo was re-elected Nichols Ό6 of West Palm Professor Nichols, Bancroft Gherardi '93, and Professor president of the Federation. Beach, Fla. Moler. ι38 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

ganized by the Columbia University Then went to Alanson, Mich., June 15, Greyhound Travel Station, Inc., 4zo School of Business. and returned to Cincinnati October 8 for Lexington Avenue, New York City; his Ό6—C. Parker Holt has become vice- the winter, except for a Florida trip. home is at Noroton, Conn. president of the San Leandro, Cal., office Still loafing." of the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Ίz—Paul W. Jones is a sales engineer '07 ME—Lee E. Barrows is manager of with the Westinghouse Company. He the producing department of the Texas gives his address as 1980 Washington Company, Box 2.332., Houston, Tex. Street, San Francisco, Cal. Ό8 ME—George H. Cunningham is Ίz AB—Maurice Dubin is executive with the Mississippi Valley Trust Com- director of the Sydenham Hospital, 565 pany of St. Louis, Mo. He gives his home Manhattan Avenue, New York City. address as Ferry Farms, Annapolis, Md. Ίz Sp—George A. Clark is with the Ό8 AB—Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Eastman Kodak Company, Kodak Park, Passage has been acquired for the motion Rochester. He lives at izz Parkdale Ter- pictures by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No race, Rochester. definite plans have yet been announced Ίz BS—Edward L. Bernays addressed for the motion picture adaptation which two graduate seminars of the Harvard is expected to be one of the outstanding School of Business Administration on properties of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer public relations and propaganda Novem- picture schedule 1937-38 season. Within ber 18. He has also just released a new six weeks it is expected that a cast will issue of "Contact," a public relations be selected, as well as directors and leaflet, in which he writes on "The Un- writers who will do the adaptation. biased Approach to Propaganda." According to present plans the picture '13 ME—George C. Hannam is with will cost in the neighborhood of the Celotex Corporation, 101 Park Ave- $1,000,000. nue, New York City, and lives at Z7 Ί6 BArch, 'zz MArch—J. LAKIN '09 AB—Eugene Jackson teaches at Virginia Avenue, Rockville Centre. BALDRIDGE (center) on the dock at the S. J. Tilden High School, Tilden '13—Arthur K. West is with the Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, with two other Avenue and East Fifty-seventh Street, Climax Molybdenum Company, 500 Fifth members of the United States team which Brooklyn. His home is at 512. Mont- Avenue, New York City. competed in the recent international tuna gomery Street, Brooklyn. '14—William T. Lackey is with the tournament against a team of British and '09—Samuel J. Graham is with the Paramount Picture Corporation, Holly- Canadian sportsmen. Baldridge practices Dixie Vortex Company, 3 VanDam wood, Cal. architecture at izi East Seneca Street, Street, New York City. '14, '15 BChem; '15 BS—Byron S. Ithaca. Ίo—John D. Paul is with the Canadian Proper writes that he resigned October '17—Theodore B. Brumback is with the National Steamship Company, 186 Tre- 19 as sales manager of the Snow Proof John A. Krugh Realty Company, zi7 mont Street, Boston, Mass. His home is Company, Middletown, due to a change Reliance Building, Kansas City, Mo. at 2.0 Endicott Avenue, Beach Cliff Post in ownership, and that he is looking for a Office, Marblehead, Mass. '17—David Burpee spoke on "New position in sales work. He has recently Flowers of 1938" before the members of Ίo LLB—Robert A. Gillies is with spent six weeks on a 85oo-mile trip from the New York Horticultural Society the Steel Company of Canada, Hamilton, New York City to Vancouver, B.C., November 18. Last year Burpee won the Ontario, Canada. down the coast to Los Angeles, and home All-American Gold Medal by producing Ίo AB—H. Howard Bennett is with by a southern route. He lives at 39 Linden the odorless marigold. At the meeting he Hemphill Noyes and Company, 600 Place, Summitt, N. J. told of several literally new flowers he Union Guardian Building, Detroit, Mich. '14 PhD—Professor Jean Broadhurst, has created. Ίo ME—Edwin S. Crosby was elected bacteriologist at Teachers College, Co- Ί8 BS—Mrs. Frank C. Essick (Mildred president of the Johns Manville Inter- lumbia, University, has discovered a M. Stevens) writes, "I am very happy to national Corporation July i. He is also method for detecting measles before the report a new member in our family, a general manager of the Asbestos Fibre characteristic rash appears. This dis- daughter, Joan Stevens Essick, born Corporation, a division of the Johns Man- covery will permit doctors to identify August 3. Whether she will be a member ville Sales Corporation, and of the auto- and quarantine cases of measles two or of the class of 1959 at Cornell or Penn motive department of the Corporation. three days earlier than previously possible, State has not been definitely decided at and will aid them in detecting carriers. Ίo CE—Calvin S. DeGolyer, farmer the present date. Her daddy is a graduate It is thought, too, that it may open the and town supervisor in Castile, writes, of Penn State. At present we are living at way to control and prevention by "I have three children in the University, 394 South Union Street, Burlington, Vt., vaccine. Experimenting under a grant a daughter and two sons. And I expect to where Mr. Essick is an assistant State from the Milbank Memorial Fund, Dr. send a third son in three years." club leader." Broadhurst found that before a rash ap- Ίi—Ernest M. Cameron is on the staff pears on a child there are found develop- Ί8, 'zo BChem—Paul V. Blackburn is of the Wellsboro Gazette, Wellsboro, Pa. ments within mucous cells of the nose with the Ferro Enamel Corporation, 4150 Ίi ME—William H. Reid is with the and throat. She developed a method of East Fifty-sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Lima Locomotive Works, Inc., Lima, demonstrating the presence of these virus His home is at 17103 Kenyon Road, Ohio, where he lives at ιn6 West Market bodies, by using a dye that will not also Shaker Heights, Ohio. Street. color the bacteria in the nose and throat. 'zo Grad—Henry I. Baldwin works at Ίi—A. Williamson Walton, who re- '15 ME—Harold H. Clark is with the the Caroline Fox Research Forest, Hills- tired from the Westinghouse Electric Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, boro, N. H. and Manufacturing Company October i, Akron, Ohio. His home address is 1839 '19—Edward L. Hadley, father of 1936, now lives at 311 Pike Street, Cin- Seventeenth Street, Cuyahogίi Falls, Charles E. Hadley '19, proprietor of cinnati. He writes, "I moved from Mans- Ohio. Taughannock Farms, died November 9 field, Ohio, to Cincinnati on May 15. Ί6—John H. Dahn, Jr. is with the at his home in Geneva. NOVEMBER Ί.'y , 1937

*zo—Andrew G. Sutherland is with His home address is 147 Taylor Avenue, City, where he lives at 140 East Twenty- the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Beaver Falls. eighth Street. 330 West Forty-second Street, New York 'z5 MEE—John H. Skeen is with the *Z9—Leonard A. Spolansky has City. His home is at 3546 Seventy-ninth Public Service Company of Colorado in changed his name to Leonard A. Spelman. Street, Jackson Heights. Denver, where he lives at 2.065 Ivanhoe He lives at 41 zi Forty-second Street, 'zo—-John A. Morrison is with the Street. Sunny side. Brown Instrument Company, Wayne and 'z5, 'z6 BS—Walter T. Bovard is on the '30—Henry J. De Aragon is with the Roberts Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. His staff of the Gray Stone Inn, Roaring Chicago* Bridge and Iron Works, 165 home is at 8105 Flourtown Avenue, Gap, N.C. Broadway, New York City. His home Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 'z5 EE—Arthur J. Hopper, Jr. is with address is 310 East Forty-fourth Street. 'zi BS, 'Z5 PhD—Miles H. Cubbon is in the Connecticut Light and Power Com- '30—Boris N. Greenberg is with the the Soil Conservation Service, Lancaster, pany, Waterbury, Conn. Royal Undergarment Company, Troy. Pa. He lives at 510 School Lane, Lan- 'zy AB—Neville Blakemore is with the caster. '30—Clara S. Dunning is with Franklin Kentucky Title Trust Company, Fifth Simon's, Fifth Avenue, New York City. 'zz DVM—Major Laurence R. Bower Street and Court Place, Louisville, Ky. She lives at Z5i East Forty-ninth Street. has been transferred from Fort Meade, 'zy, 'z8 BChem—Richard L. Masters ? Md., where he has been stationed for the '31, 3Z BS, '33 MF—Donald D. Cutler has a son, born November y. Masters past four years, to March Field, in is a senior forest ranger in the United southern California. lives at zoi Ithaca Road, Ithaca. States Forest Service, in charge of govern- 'zz—Elias M. Birdsall sells plumbing 'zy, 'z8 AB—Richard B. Wagner is ment sales to the Arizona Lumber and and heating supplies at 1819 West Eliza- manager of the Rockford, 111., branch of Timber Company at the Coconino Na- beth Avenue, Linden, N. J.; his home ad- the International Business Machines tional Forest. He may be addressed at dress is zz4 Stuyvesant Avenue, Newark, Corporation. He lives at 3zy James Ave- Box 791, Flagstaff, Ariz. N.J. nue, Rockford; has a son, Richard B. '31 AB—John W. Crellin is with the ner, Jr., born September 15, 1936. fzz—Federico A. Lesser is manager of Upstate Personal Loan Company, Stand- Borax Consolidated, Ltd., Regis House, 'z8 AB; 'z9 AB—Roger W. Jones is ard Building, Albany. He lives at Feura King William Street, London, B.C.4, assistant executive officer of the United Bush. England. He is married, has a son, States Central Statistical Board, recently '31 ME—A. Haslup Forman married Frederick, three years old, and lives at n detailed for six months as assistant to Vivian Sapp July 10. They are now living Stafford Street, London, W 8, England. John D. Biggers, president of the Libbey, at 3101 Denison Street, Baltimore, Md. f Owens, Ford Glass Company, who is Z3—N. Baxter Maddox, agent of the '31—Horace G. Berean, Jr. is with the administrator of the national unemploy- Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company Travelers Insurance Company, Liberty in Atlanta, Ga., has been chosen chair- ment census. Mr. and Mrs. Jones Bank BuLding, Buffalo. (Dorothy Heyl) 'z9 live at 4308 Leland man of inter-association meetings com- '31—Howard L. Browning, Jr. is on Street, Chevy Chase, Md. mittee for the National Association of the staff of the Pittsburgh Sun, Pitts- Life Underwriters. 'z8 AB—H. Stanley Krusen is an in- burgh, Pa. *Z4, *Z5 CE; 'z6, 'zy CE—L. Bartlett vestment banker; he may be addressed at '31 AB, '34 MD—Virginia Barrett re- Shapleigh is a contracting engineer with 19 South Maple Avenue, East Orange, cently finished her special interneship at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Cincin- N.J. the Presbyterian Hospital, New York nati, Ohio, where he lives at 146 Went- 'z3, 'z6 AB—Frank C. Podboy is City, and is now opening practice as a worth Avenue. He writes that Daniel superintendent of the building and ware- baby specialist in Bronxville. house of the Philadelphia distributing McCoppin built and now lives in a new '31 EE; '33 BS—William S. Spring is an house of the Western Electric Company, home at Fair Oaks, Pleasant Ridge, electrical engineer in the outside plant 300 East Alleghany Avenue. He lives at Cincinnati. bureau of the Consolidated Edison Com- ιιz4 Allengrove Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 'z4 ME—Lachlan W. Child is with the pany of New York City. He writes, "I Evans Products Corporation, Greenfield 'z9, '30 CE—Arnold O. Babb is with have been very active in photography as Road, Detroit, Mich. the TV A in Knoxville, Tenn. He has a an avocation for a number of years. I have f son, William Arnold Babb, born recently. '24 BS, 'z8 MS; '35 MS; z , 'z8 BS— had pictures exhibited abroad in India, 7 T Leslie R. Hawthorn, horticulturist with Z9 PhD—Hashem Amir Ali is secre- England, France, Scotland, and Belgium. the Texas Experimental Station, Winter tary to the prime minister of the Indian Several of my pictures were shown in all Haven, Tex., contributed three chapters state of Hyderabad, located at its capital, the principal cities of Canada in a travel- to the recently-published textbook, also named Hyderabad. ing salon this past year. My wife (Susan Southern Vegetable Crops, written by 'z9—Byrd B. Latham is with the D. Koetsch) '33 is equally adept in this George W. Ware, MS '35, and edited by Webbs Cut Rate Drug Company, St. field and some of her work will be shown Professor Homer C. Thompson, Vege- Petersburg, Flas., where he lives at 6511 this next year throughout Canada. I am table Crops. Hawthorn writes, "Dr. First Avenue, North. going to teach a course in photography this year at the Boy's Club of America in Spas S. Ivanoff 'zy has recently joined our 'z9 AB—Jesse Davidson is with the staff at Texas Substation No. 19 as plant New York City." Mr. and Mrs. Spring P & Q Clothing Corporation, New York pathologist. He came here from the divi- live at 85 St. Andrews Place, New York City. sion of plant pathology at the Wisconsin Christmas Seals! Experiment Station at Madison, Wise. *3z BS—Laurence E. Ide is in the Rail- His coming was a reunion for both of us, road Perishable Inspection Agency at the as we had been associated as members of Pennsylvania Railroad Produce Terminal, the Cosmopolitan Club at the Univer- Pittsburgh, Pa. sity." '3Z PhD—Dr. Cynthia Westcott was 'z5 EE—Charles V. N. DeWitt is in one of four speakers on the garden at the charge of industrial electric sales at the November iz afternoon session of The Beaver Falls, Pa., office of the Duquesne Buy and Use Them New York Times National Book Fair. Light Company. He has a daughter, Mary Kenneth M. Wilson '2.5 She emphasized that importance of clean- Estelle DeWitt, born December zz, 1936. Director, N.Y. campaign liness in maintaining a healthy garden. 140 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'32. PhD—Dr. Austin L. Rand has been '35 MD—Dr. John H. Carlquist is on kill and live in Hartford, where I am still appointed a research associate in ornith- the staff of St. John's Hospital, 480 the above (assistant advertising man- ology at the American Museum of Herkimer Street, Brooklyn. ager of QST, published by the Ameri- Natural History. '35 Grad; '38—Charles Zorsch is en- can Radio Relay League, West Hartford, '33 MS—Pedro A. Sanchez-Diaz is an gaged to A. Nathalie Colvocoresses. Conn.)" agronomist for the Chilean Nitrate Sales Zorsch graduated from the University '36, '37 AB—Aaron L. Levitt is mer- Corporation, working in Havana, Cuba, of Rochester in 1933. chandise manager of the housewares where he may be addressed at Calle 10 '35, '36 ME—Wendell K. Upham is a department of the Davidson-Bout well esq. B, La Sierra. test engineer with the Ingersoll-Rand Company, Minneapolis, Minn., where he '33 AB—Thomas Dixcy is with the Company, Phillipsburg, N. J., where he lives at 2.32.3 East Lake of the Isles Boule- Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Pater- lives at 577 Moris Street. vard. son, N. J. His home is at 2.70 Midland '35 CE—Egon F. Brummerstedt has '36, '37 BS; '37 BS—Vieno A. Pertula is Avenue, Montclair, N. J. become a cost engineer in the petroleum with the Woman's Home Companion, '34 B—Eleanor E. Magill teacher in refining division of the Foster Wheeler with offices in the Postum Building, 2.50 the Friends' School in Media, Pa. Corporation, after two years as an engi- Park Avenue, New York City. She lives '34 PhD—William R. Leonard has been neer in the process equipment division of at 137 East Forty-fifth Street with Kaino advanced from economist of the United the Babcock and Wilcox Company, Mackarainen, who is working in States Central Statistical Board to assis- Barberton, Ohio. His address is 304 West Schrafft's. tant review officer on the Board's staff. Seventy-second Street, New York City. '36 AB; '36 BS—Margaret C. Kraemer He writes, "I am unmarried and hope to will be married to John R. Rumble No- '34 AB—Alexander W. Friedman is continue the status quo somewhat longer. bember 2.6. Rumble is assistant manager taking his first year of medical training (No feminity slur intended!) I took a of the University Club, Columbus, Ohio. at Howard University, Washington, D.C. motor trip to California this summer." '37 BS—Virginia M. Goff has been '34 '35 CE—Eddie K-G. Borjesson is a '36 AE—Kenneth E. Fahnestock writes erroneously reported as married. She is field engineer for the Northeastern Water that he has finished the student training working for McCreery's, Fifth Avenue and Electric Service Corporation, cover- program at the inland manufacturing and Thirty-fourth Street, and lives at ing the Central and Southern states. His division of the General Motors Corpora- 438 West 116th Street, New York City. home address is 114 Miller Avenue, tion and is now in the cost department. Sayreville, N. J. '37 AB—Stewart Waring, Jr. is a home He lives at the YMCA in Dayton, Ohio. '34—Lucile I. Ginsberg is an assistant office representative of the group depart- buyer in the neckwear department of R. '36, '37 CE—Carl H. Scheman, Jr. ment of the Aetna Life Insurance Com- H. Macy and Company, New York City, writes, "I am still working at the Irvin pany. His address is 31 South Highland where she lives at 103 West Seventy- Works plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Street, West Hartford, Conn. fourth Street. Steel Corporation, but have moved into a '37 CE—John F. Stephens is an different section of Pittsburgh—3040 '34 BS; '37 Grad—Mary K. Heyd- engineering apprentice in the main- Earlsmere Avenue. Also I would like to weiller, a stenographer in the College of tenance of way department of the Penn- take this opportunity to tell you how Home Economics, was married to Dirk sylvania Railroad. He lives at 1030 Up- enjoyable it has been to receive news Benson September 2.5. They live at 310 land Way, Philadelphia, Pa. from the Campus through the NEWS." Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca. '37—Percy H. Ballantine is a bacteriol- '36 AB—Edgar Altholz is with the '34—Cornelia P. C. Amoss is now Mrs. ogist and office clerk at the Fillmore Althol Press, printers and typographers, Ralph W. Lee, and lives at 360 West Farms, Bennington, Vt. 12. West Eighteenth Street, New York Fifteenth Street, New York City. '37 CE—John G. Machemer is with the City. His address is 138-05 2.2.$th Street, Stewart Contracting Company, New '34—J. Mark Beauchamp is a member Laurelton. York City, at present helping in the of the law firm of Beauchamp and '36AB—Lawrence Morgenbesser writes Beauchamp, 508-9 Realty Building, building of a large scale for the New "I am a freshman at St. Mungo's Col- York Central Railroad. Louisville, Ky. He is vice-president of lege in Scotland, studying for my MD '37 AB—Hilda Locklin is a socio- the Young Men's Democratic Club and a degree. Any news is welcome from across metrist at the New York State Training committeeman of the Democratic State the seas. I have met other Cornellians School for Girls at Hudson. organization. Unmarried, he lives at 1760 studying here. I still dream about the Casselberry Road, Louisville. beauty and splendor of Cornell and will '37 BS—Catherine Mattoon is with '34, '35 AE—Homer K. Geoffrion is in try to exempt my finals so as to reach Schrafft's in New York City; lives at the the engineering department of the Tim- Cornell for my first Class reunion in 1938. Latham House, 138 East Thirty-eighth ken Roller Bearing Company, Canton, My address here is c/o Carty, 3 Windsor Street. Ohio. He is married; lives at 3040 Sixth Terrace, Glasgow, N.W., Scotland." '37 BS—Helen P. Cothran is a student Street, S.W., Canton. '36 AB—Clare J. Hoyt, Jr. is in the dietitian in the Englewood Hospital, '35 ME; '05, Ό6ME—Fred A. Giesecke second year of the law course at Yale Englewood, N. J. She writes, "I enjoy is a student engineer with the Corn Prod- University. His address is 2.585 Yale the NEWS more than any other magazine ucts Refining Company, and lives at 800 Station, New Haven, Conn. I've seen. ... I leave here the first of Washington Street, Pekin, 111. He writes, January for a two weeks vacation before '36 AB—From Charles J. Brunelle, '' I went to Scotland last July to visit my I become a dietitian interne at the Lin- answering our inquiry: "The wedding? father, Fred O. L. Fiesecke '05, for two coln General Hospital, Lincoln, Neb." On Saturday, November 13, much to the weeks." horror of the kind of people who won't '37—Kerstin Taube was married to '35—Robert Rosen is with the Alle- rent offices on the thirteenth floor of a Charles L. Tribby September 2.4. Tribby ghany Silk Corporation, -3701 Beale Ave- building, to Miss Peggy Bucher of Peeks- is a graduate of Antioch College, now nue, Altoona, Pa., where he lives at 1311 kill, at her home in Peekskill—and a very taking medicine at the University of Thirteenth Street. damn' simple one, too. The wedding, I Chicago. He and Mrs. Tribby live at 6140 '35, '36 BS—William E. Ozard is work- mean, not the home. She's a graduate of Ingleside Avenue, Chicago. ing with the New York State Agricul- Emerson in Boston, and was teaching in '37; '39; '37 BS—John P. Lamb married tural Department, specializing in the Indianapolis when I met her in New Ruth Anderson '39 October 30. Doris E. Dutch elm tree disease control. Hampshire. So we'll be married in Peeks- Smallridge '37 was maid of honor. If s Easy To Visit Ithaca OUR CAMPUS PICTURE Overnight From For Framing

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For Chirstmas Why not send the ALUMNI NEWS to that ' ^:«:lli CORNELL FRIEND of yours? We'll mail an attractive Cornell gift card bearing your name, to Signed.. . Class reach the recipient Christmas Eve. Just send us your Christmas list and your own name and address, Address.. plainly written. We'll bill you at the regular price of $4 a year—two subscriptions, $7.50. Address: Clip this out and mail to Cornell Alumni News, Box 575, Ithaca, N.Y. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS BOX 575 ITHACA, N. Y. CORNELL CLUB LUNCHEONS Many of the Cornell Clubs hold luncheons at regular intervals. A list is given below for the benefit of travelers who may be in some of these cities on dates of meetings. Unless otherwise listed, the meetings are for men: Name of Club Meeting Place Time AKRON (Women) 1st Saturday Homes of Members 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Mrs. Marion McClellan 2nd, 336 Wild wood Ave., Akron ALBANY Monthly University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: W. Richard Morgan '27, c/o N. Y. Telephone Co., Albany. BALTIMORE Monday Engineers' Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: William A. Marshall, III '29, 3804 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. BOSTON Monday Hotel Bellevue 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Newton C. Burnett '24, Rm 701, 7 Water St., Boston, Mass. BOSTON (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Mrs. C. S. Luitweiler '27, 26 Stowell Road, Winchester, Mass. BUFFALO Friday Buffalo Athletic Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Herbert R. Johnston '17, 73-97 Tonawanda St., Buffalo. CINCINNATI Last Thursday Shevlins, Sixth St. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Starbuck Smith, Jr. '34, 2530 Handasyde Court, East, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O. CHICAGO Thursday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Richard Vanderwarker '33, The Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 111. CLEVELAND Thursday Mid-Day Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Sanford B. Ketchum '34, 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. CLEVELAND (Women) Homes of Members Evenings Secretary: Bessie DeWitt Beahan '78, 2213 Bellfield Ave., Cleveland Heights, O. COLUMBUS Last Thursday University Club 12:00 p.m. Secretary: Charles Jones '34, 83 Burt St., Columbus, Ohio. DENVER Secretary: Russell D. Welsh '13, 2065 Forest St., Denver, Colo. DETROIT Thursday Intercollegiate Club, Penobscot Building 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Edward E. Proctor '25, 2250 Nat'l Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich. ESSEX COUNTY, N. J. 2d Friday Downtown Club, 744 Broad St.,Newark, N. J. 12:30 p.m. 3d Monday Montclair Golf Club, Prospect Ave., Montclair, N. J. 8:00 p.m. Secretary: Milton H. Cooper '28, 744 Broad Street, Suite 1905, Newark, N. J. FLORIDA CENTRAL 1st Thursday Albright Hotel 1:90 p.m. Secretary: A. Buel Trowbridge '20, Rollins College, Winter Park, Orlando, Fla. HARRISBURG, PENNA. 3d Wednesday Hotel Harrisburger 12:00 noon Secretary: John M. Crandall '25, Hotel Harrisburger. Los ANGELES Thursday University Club, 614 S. Hope St. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: John B. Shaw '21, 1334 Sinaloa Drive, Gendale, Calif. Los ANGELES (Women) Last Saturday Tea Rooms Luncheons Secretary: Mrs. Katharine S. Haskell '23, 3507 E. Beechwood Ave., Lynwood, Calif. MILWAUKEE Friday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Clifford B. Stevens '35, 3038 N. Shepard Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. NEW YORK (Women) Wednesday Elizabeth Reynolds, 15 E. 48th St., 12:30-1:00 Secretary: Miss Lillian Jacobsen '25, 231 E. 58th St., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK Daily Cornell Club, 245 Madison Avenue Secretary: Bertel W. Antell '28, 24 Monroe PL, Brooklyn. PHILADELPHIA Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, Cornell Club, 1219 Spruce Street Secretary, Robert B. Patch '22, 134 North Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. PHILADELPHIA (Women) 1st Saturday or Friday Homes of Members Afternoon or evening Secretary: Miss Gertrude Goodwin '31, Sharon Ave. & Spring St., Sharon Hill, Pa. PITTSBURGH Friday Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: John L. Slack '26, University Club, University PL, Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Mrs. Emerson Venable '31, 414 S. Trenton Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa. PROVIDENCE 1st Tuesday Middlestreet Cafe 12:00 noon Secretary: H. Hunt Bradley '26, 146 Medway St., Providence, R. I. QUEENS COUNTY 3d Monday Secretary: Mrs. Gustave Noback, Grad., 11 Groton St., Forest Hills, N. Y. ROCHESTER Wednesday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: J. Webb L. Sheehy '26, 236 Powers Bldg., Rochester. ROCHESTER (Women) Monthly (usually Monday) Homes of Members Evening Secretary: Mrs. Walter R. Scholtzhauer '33, 47 Hollywood Crescent, Frondegnoit, Rochester, N. Y. ST. Louis Last Friday American Hotel 12:00 noon Secretary: Arthur R. Hickman '18, 221 West Adams Ave., Kirkwood, Mo. SAN FRANCISCO (Women) 2d Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon or Tea Secretary: Mrs. Nairne F. Ward '26, 2330 Rose St., Berkeley, Calif. SPRINGFIELD Wednesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Harry C. Beaver, Jr. '26, 118 Meadowbrook Rd., Longmeadow, Mass. SYRACUSE Wednesday Chamber of Commerce 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Robert C. Hosmer '02, 120 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. SYRACUSE (Women) 2d Monday Homes of Members 6:30 p.m. Secretary: Miss Julie S. Sorenson '24, 105 Elk St., Syracuse, N. Y. TRENTON Monday Chas. Hertzel's Restaurant, Bridge & S. Broad Sts. Secretary: George R. Shanklin '22, 932 Parkside Ave., Trenton, N. J. TUCSON 1st Thursday Pioneer Hotel 12:30 p.m. Secretary: G. Van McKay '31, 103 E. Second St., Tucson, Ariz. UTICA Tuesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Harold J. Shackelton '28, 255 Genesee St., Utica. UTICA (Womeri) 3d Monday Homes of Members Dinner Secretary: Mrs. E. R. Osborne '30, 23 Grant St., Utica, N. Y. WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Earl S. deWitt '19, 438 Woodward Bldg., Washington, D. C.