rubber-stamping function? I am sorely dis­ The 1988 hardcover, published by a ppo inted . Shapolsky, was based on the privately H. Milton Peek '50G primed 1983 paperback - with the addition Rio Rancho. N.M . of, Scheim says, "one year ofheavy work, " Oh, dear. H'e had no idea when we in­ resulting in a substantially different, ex­ LETTERSdul ged in tha t bi: ofcolloquialism that it panded version. A paperback edition of would pro ve such a shattering experience this version is scheduled for publicatlon TO THE {or some ofour readers (Peek wasn 't the later this year- Editor. 'onlv one we heard from on the subject). No. your editor is not a rubber-stamping functionary (you can ask her boss or her Taking Over the Big Apple writers). The use of "hardly" in the double­ (Medically Speaking) negative con struction was deliberate - as I was delighted to read the story, in the an intensifier; a usage characterized by our Fall 1988 issue, discussing the recent ap­ Editor most recent office dictionary (Random pointment of Dr. John Rowe '70M as pres­ House, unabridged, 1987) as "jocular" ident and chief executive officer of New when found in the speech ofeducated per­ York's Mount Sinai Medical Center. The The Review welcomes lett ersfrom readers sons. Ques tions ofjocularity 10 one side. article notes that another illustrious Roch­ and will print as many of them as space we were pleased 10 learn there was that este r graduate, Dr. David Ski nner '56, is permits. Letters may be edited for brevity m uch concern ou t Ihere for carefu l use of president an d CEO of New Yor k Hospital. and clarity. Unsigned ietters cannot he used. the language. BUI. k nowing Roch ester But there is yet one more " major medical bUI names ofthe writers may he withheld graduates, we were hardly surprised ­ facility" in New York whose president and on request. Edi to r. CEO is a Rochester alumn us- me ('63M). In fact, I hold these titles not on ly at Beth Scott and Ernest Israel Medical Center (934 beds), but also at Beth Israe l's affiliate, Doctors Hospital, When you mix up Hem ingway and Fitz­ which has 263 beds. gerald, I can't let you otr "Scott" free. All in all, 3,737 acute-care beds in New In your note at the bottom of page 7 York Cit y are in hospitals under the aegis in the Fall Rochester Review, you state, of Rochester graduates; I hope this does "to paraphrase the oth er Hemingway, the not stir pa ranoia about a possible plot by intelligentsia are different from you and the niversity of Rochester to take over the me. . . ." It was Fitzgera ld who said in Big Apple! "The Rich Boy," "Let me tell you about Robert G. Newman '63M the very rich . They are different from yo u New York City and me." We're happy 10 hear from Dr. Newman. You were simply too much in "E rnest." Any more ofyou out there laking part in But the article was excellent , and the the Big Apple ptot?« Editor. Review is always first-rate. Michael Bobkoff '65 Valhalla, N.Y. Room for (at Least) One More He's right, of course. BUI so is Denise Do you have room for any mo re WRU R Bolger Kovna t, author ofthe article. Ref er­ memories? Co ncern ing the matter of the ring 10 Fitzgerald by the fict ional name of first female station manager, Joyce Gilbe rt Julian, Hemingway wrote in "The Snows '58 wrote in the last issue tha t she holds of Kilimanjaro ": "The rich were du ll and this distinction, not Suzan ne Weiss '76. they drank 10 0 much. . .. He remembered Round Three: In the ear ly years of the poor Julian and his romantic awe (~{ them revitalizat ion of WRUR-when it moved and how he had started a story once that from Burton to Todd Union , I was ch ief began. 'The very rich are different from engineer. I recall that in the academic year y ou and me. ' A nd how someone had said of 1956- 57, An n Dalrymple [Baird '57) was 10 Julian, 'Yes, they have more money. . " station manager, and thu s probably the The part of my world reserved for ap­ In the interest ofliterary symmetry in her preciation of a grea t university has been first female station manager (see lnterpres st oryabout Terry Heming wa) ~ Kovnu t SHATTERED! by the subtitle of the lead 1957). chose 10 go with Ernest ruther thun I remember long night s over several sum­ feature article ["The Path from Bryant SCOII - Edi tor, Pond"l of your Fall 1988 issue: " Were mers build ing the new studios with a great toda y's collegians all sta mped from the dea l of help from George Mckelvey '50, same cookie cutter? NaT HARDLY. Fo r Original 'Contract' '58G, then working at the University, and a classmate, Gordon Spencer '57, '63G. Not starters. . .." Your excellent review [Fall 1988] of an The capitalization is mine to emphasize only did we manage to broadcast Rochester extraordinary book, Contract on America football over a local station (billed as " Big the point. by David Scheirn '69, calls it "a new book." Please let me know what you think is the Time Small College Football") but we con­ - For the past four years I have used Dr. tinued the dedication of probably the earli ­ correct meaning of the two words " not Schei rn's book as required reading in my hardl y." est student catalyst for broadcasting on cr iminology course. It was originally pub­ campus, Dave Luehring '55, who I believe I suspect you meant to say " hardly.,. lished as a paperback in 1983. Has one of the last bastions fallen into was responsible for the building of the We enjoy your publ icati on ! Burton Dormitory studios in the ear ly '50s. sloppy writi ng; has the editor become a Sherma n W. Selden '55G Plymo uth, N.H. 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Departments Features

From the President 2 The Fat of the Land 3 Rochester in Review 31 by Jan Fitzpa trick Rochester Travelers 37 Obesity, says Gilbert Forbes '36, '40M, Alumni Gazette 38 is second only to tooth decay as a major nutritional problem in th is country. Alumn i Milestones 42 After/Words 46 Ada m U rba ns ki '69, '7 5G : " At the Head of the C lass" Pushing Deadlines 8 by T ho mas Fitzp atrick Rochester Re view Editor: Margaret Bond Campus journ alism: From th e days of linotypes Assistant editor: Denise Bolger Kovnat and hot lead to th e era of computer readouts Staff writer: Shinji Morokurna Design ma nager: Stephen Reynolds and photo mechanica l transfe rs , dead lines are Graphic artist: Susan Got tfried what it's al l about. Staff photographer: James Moruanus Co py editor: Joyce Farrell Editor ial assistant: Tim Fox Design: Robert Meyer Design, Inc. Editorial office, 108 Administration The Wolf Effect 16 Building, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275 ·4 117. by Rob ert Kunzig What we see in the sky is not always what it Published quarterly for alumni, stud ents,' their parent s. and other friends of the Uni­ seems . And a recent discovery may make some versity, Rochester Review is prod uced by of it even less so. the Office of University Pub lic Relat ions. Robert Krau s. director.

Op inions expressed are thos e of the authors, the editors, Or their subjects and do nOI necessarily represent official posi­ 20 lions of the University of Rochester. Comics Aren't Just Kid Stuff by Den ise Bo lger Kovna t Po stmaster: Send address changes 10 Rochester Review, Was red-haired , cipher-eyed Annie really just 108 Adminisirarion fluilding, University of a ca pitalist tool? Rochester, Rochester, N Y 14627.

Cove r: PUll ing the Campus Times 10 bed. Design, Susan Gou fried: photography, James Monranus. Our Man at the Met 26 by Jeremy Schlosberg Raymond Gniewek '53E plays second fiddle , as it were , to a dazzling amalgam of music , acting , set UN IV E RS I T Y O F design, lighting , costumes , and special effects. And he finds it exhila rating. From the

listing Toward Stardom I offer a descending order of quibbles The logic of the US News list is against any ascending hierarchy of uni­ equivalent to asking for the top 125 One of the 53 known metaphysical versities and colleges. In the first place baseball players in the country. You paradoxes of the Republic is the fas­ it seems unseemly. I fully expect that take 25 from the major leagues, 25 cination of this democracy with rank. some daring daily will soon publish a from the International League, 25 Having done away with knights and list of the outstanding churches of the from the Pacific Coast League, 25 earls in the interest of the common country: four halos is positively sancti­ from the Little League, and 25 from man/woman, we haste to check the fying, three halos mildly edifying, and the Des Moines Garage Mechanics latest headlines for who's on /at first. I so on. The value and complexity of Amalgamated Softball Association. suppose everyone has been accustomed education (and salvation) make these I bet that all those folks playa pretty to this practice of listing the largest sorts of sortings a mildly tasteless good game any Sunday afternoon but corporations, the wealthiest individu­ undertaking from those wiser (holier) it is no list of the nation's stars. In als, the tallest building, the plumpest than whoever. my analogy, Rochester is in the major squash - what is new in the rank race, Perhaps fastidiousness should be leagues, and if you are looking at star however, is the ranking of educational ranked below consumer full disclosure. players that is where they are found. institutions. No nobility, but where is There are, after all, some dubious In past years the US News poll has Duke relative to Princeton? church goings-on, and one would as­ ranked universities within categories The University of Rochester is sume some higher education is not so (major research, liberal arts, regional, caught up in the ranking game willy or very elevated. We obviously believe etc.) as other university presidents per­ nilly. Last year we were 12th among that the University of Rochester is bet­ ceived quality. I am not sure that is the private universities in the amount of ter than lots, so there must be some proper cloud of witnesses. At least it is outside research funds received. The scale of value. Indeed there is but in certain that no one needs a group of Medical School is among the top 10 in big bunches not in micro distinctions. university presidents to discover that the percent of faculty who are princi­ The US News list is a fascinating Harvard or Stanford are leading insti­ pal scientific investigators. The Simon case in point. What value should one tutions. A random selection of subway School recently was listed in the top accord to a list of the top 125 which conductors could tell you that! 20 in business schools nationwide by includes Oral Roberts University and The current US News effort is more Business Week. Several years ago the excludes the University of Rochester? "scientific" in that it gathers all sorts School of Nursing was 17th in a poll No offense to Brother Oral. I have at of quantitative measures of "quality" of nursing deans on the question of times admired his energy and even and feeds them into a secret formula quality programs. The School of Edu­ considered locking myself in the tower to produce the rank order. The results cation was in the top 50 selected by the of Rush Rhees as part of the next are about as good or bad as the opin­ Ford Foundation for a conference of major fund campaign. But honestly, ions and whims of college presidents. leading education schools. all you good folks in Tulsa, Rochester The same institutions are at the very On the other hand, we have made is really better. top and life scatters badly below 12. some lists and been ignored by others In any absolute list I am prepared to that we would just as soon not. Some­ argue dogmatically that Rochester is how Rochester landed relatively high 16th or 26th or 36th - but not one step in a list in USA Today for "crime" on below that. campus (through faulty methodology, One might think that the principal we contend). In a conglomerate list of sensible factor used in the US News the 125 top universities and colleges by machinery is academic scores of the US News and World Report, we were (continued on page 45) conspicuously not there. The time has come to enter the lists against lists.

2 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 The ofthe Land

Why do so many bouncing baby boys and girls grow up to be big bouncing grown-ups? A Medical School professor has a very simple answer.

By Jan Fitzpatrick one out of every three of us is over­ country. After spending nearly a quar­ weight. And despite the proliferation ter of a century investigating the role o mething, it seems, is amiss. of diet books on the best-seller lists, of what we eat in determining whether Despite "lite" foods, diet pot bellies aren't melting away, and we become lean and strong, or pudgier pop, and advice in every is­ queen-size pantyhose aren't vanishing than the Pillsbury dough boy, Forbes sue of women's magazines from supermarket shelves. has learned some simple - if hard­ on slimming down or shaping Obesity, says Dr. Gilbert Forbes '36, truths. One of them is that if you feed Sup, we are a nation of fatties, where '40M, is second only to tooth decay as people too much, they will gain weight. a major nutritional problem in this 3 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89

Co unt on it. Forbes has th e facts to gained more. (Contradicting popular He was also drawn, early in his ca­ back it up. That may not seem star­ beli ef that women gain weight more reer, to scho la rs hip and teaching. Soo n tlin g on the face of it, but after dec­ easily than men, Forbes's subjects after interning in pediatrics at Stro ng ad es of hearing people blame their gained about the same amount o f Memorial Hospital and serving a resi­ met abolisms, their genes, or even par­ weight, per calorie consumed, as had dency in St. Louis Children's Hospital ticular foods, for their inability to the male subjects in other studies.) during the next two years, Forbes ac­ either lose or to gain the weight they'd " I always thought I was one to cepted a teaching post at Washington like, Forbes decided a scientific study gain 20 pounds if I even ate one little University's School of Medicine and was in order. thing," said Sharon Masseth. But she began publishing early and often on For what may be the world's most noted that most of the eight pounds an impressive range of topics: manage­ complete study of the effect s on wom­ she did pick up during the study were ment of severe in fections, sca rlet fever, en of overeating, Forbes recruited 13 put on during the third and fourth tetanus, poli omyelitis, problems in en­ female subjects. He paid each of them week s, when she was chugging down docrinology and metabolism, among $800 for what seemed like a piece of milk sh akes with hearty dollops of ice others. After he returned to Rochester cak e -living in the U niversity's C lin­ cream and topping off all her meals as an associ ate professor of pediatrics ical Research Center for a month, with dessert . It wasn't so easy to gain in 1953, he began to specialize in qu es­ chugging down as much as the y could weight after all, she acknowledged: tions of growth and nutrition . eat. At the end of the month, though, "I must have been really overdoing it the patients agreed that it was a harder when I gained so much before." hen he was awarded job than they'd thought. Others were surprised to find them­ the 1982 Gold Medal Wh en his first three patients told selves sick of what had been favorite of the Medical Alum­ their stories to the wire services, pub­ foods: "I used to love filet mignon ," ni Association - given lications all over the world took note moans Leslie Hopkins, who chose it as to senior faculty who with headlines suc h as "Three Go one of her three rotating entrees. But Whave made particularly distinguished Whole Hog in Overeating Study" eight pounds later, she says, "I got to contributions to the Medical Center­ (New York Post); "Pig Out He aven: the point where I could hardly eat it." his colleagues endorsed the selection Gaining Weight for the Sake of Sci­ Even today, well after shedding her enthusiasticall y. Forbes, they sa id , is ence," (Miami News); "Three Women experimental girth, Leslie says "I'm "a rigorous stu de nt of all aspects o f Sacrifice Their Waistlines for Science" not crazy about having it anymore." child Iife," " a n extraordinary teacher," (Stamford Advocate); and "Stuffed Leslie's stepmother, Pat Hopkins, "a natural lead er, " but most of all, and Studied," (Kansas City Star). who joined the study after hearing perhaps, a scho la r of unusual gifts. about it from Leslie, discovered that "He has not cho sen easy or flashy o rbes's subjects chose from she just got sick of eating in general. problems to work on," said Harvard a prescribed list the food s As she edged up on the 10 pounds sh e University'S Charles A. Janeway 'MM, they liked most, and pro­ eventually put o n, she recalls, "I really "but fundamentally important on es, ceeded to eat them in grad­ felt like a pig; I was actually looking and thus ha s produced a very impres­ ually increasing amounts. forward to not eating. " sive and solid body of knowledge F"The first week it was a maintenance Ruth Noble, who weighed in about which affects the work of pediatricians diet; we didn't want them to gain or 12 pounds heavier at the end of the wherever they are ." lose any weight. We estimated what month, now remembers the experiment Forbes's interest in nutrition and each person would need, using a co m­ onl y as one long binge. "There was metabolism in children expanded to bination of measurements - ba sal co nsta nt eating." include the same concerns in adults metabolic rate, height and weight, So what did Dr. Forbes learn? when he divined the potential of an extent of physical activity, and so on," "Every single subject in the study unusual research instrument housed in says Forbes. "A fter the first week, we gained weight - even the two thin the Medical Center Annex, ju st north increased their food, giving them as women who told us that they had been of Elmwood Avenue. They called it a much as they co uld tolerate without trying to ga in weight in the pa st, but "whole-body scintillatio n counter," actually getting sick." without success. It was just what we and it afforded him a way to make pre­ In addition to three (hearty) squares expected." cise estimates of both the lean (mus­ a day, there were snacks in between, The overeating study may seem a cles, organs, and bones) and fat tissu es featuring milk shakes, peanut butter far cry from what attracted Forbes to in people's bodies, with - always a plu s and crackers, double-Dutch chocolate medicine some 50 years ago, when he - minimal need for cooperation from cookies, slices of pound cake, and was at the Medical School preparing to the research subject. It was to become other high-calorie treats. Toward the become a pediatrician and World War an integral part o f dozens of studies he end of the month, the women were II was looming on the European front. cond ucted on body co mpositio n. consuming an average of 1,600 extra The choice of pediatrics as a specia lty To use the device to fullest advan­ calories a day -approximately half came to him at a time of per sonal so r­ tage, Forbes had to develop expertise again what they'd been used to eating. row : " I watched my father die 0 I' heart in yet another field - radiation biology At the end of the study, the sub­ disease, and I de cided I'd rather work - because what it do es is measure radio­ jects had gai ned bet ween 7.5 and 11.5 with the other end o f Iife." active substances in the body. His au ­ pounds each. A number of the par­ thority in this area was recognized ticipants were sur prised they hadn't when he was named professor both of

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What Are We Made Of?

Dr. Gilbert Forbe s's boo k, Human heart grows by about 12 percent; her Body Composition: Growth, Aging, kidneys grow by about 10 percent; Nutritio n, and Activity (1987, Springer­ mammar y tissues enlarge, and the vol­ Verlag), sums up much of what is ume of blood circulating in her system known about wha t bodi es are made o f, also increases. based on his own research and the work of others. He re are some observat ion s • An individual who weighs 2 pou nds from the book : more than anoth er will, on average, need to eat 20 ad ditional calories each • The typical weights of organs in a day to maintain his or her weight. "reference" (standard) adult male who That's about the equivalent of a heap­ weighs 70,000 gra ms, or 153 po unds, ing teaspoon of sugar. are: Skeleta l mu scle-61 po unds • Obese children of bo th sexes tend to Fatt y tissue-33 pounds be a litt le taller than their lean er peers. Skeleton - 22 pounds The increase in height appears to be Skin -II pounds related to a surfeit o f food , just as fal­ Liver-4 po unds ter ing growt h is a consequence of food Brain - 3 pounds depriva tio n. If you examine height­ Heart-about 12 ounces weight relationshi ps over a period of Kidneys-about 12 ounces time, you see th at the child's growth spurt occ urs either at about the same • Skeleta l size and bon e density increase time he or she put on the extra weight in bot h male s and females from birth to or somewha t later. It never seems to about age 20. After that time, th ere is a occur before the weight gain . gradual loss of bone in bot h sexes, but at differen t rates. Th e density o f an 80­ • Wh en a norm al-weight indi vidual year-old female's spi ne is on ly 40 per­ gai ns weigh t by overeating, about a cent of what it was when she was 20. third of the weight gain is in the form The den sity of an 80-year-old ma le's of ad ditiona l lean body tissue. spine is 55 percent of what it was at 20. The aging process also pro duces a de­ • When peop le fast, they all lose a com ­ cline in lean weight and in mu scular bination o f lean and fatty tissue. But mass . obese people tolerate fast s better than slender people. Pound for pound, [he • The typica l adult male weighs 20 weight that an obese person sheds con­ times as much as a newborn. Compared tain s more fat and less lean tissue th an to the newborn infa nt, he has 36 time s the weight a leaner person sheds. the amount of calci um in his bo dy, 30 time s as much potassium, 27 times as • Orientals are usually shorter and much nitrogen, 25 times as much mag­ lighte r than Caucasians, and therefore nesium, 13 time s as much iron, 43 time s have a smaller lean weight. North Amer­ as muc h zinc, and 5 times as mu ch ican blac ks tend to have a slightly larger copper. lean body mas s than whites, together wit h thicker and denser bones. Contrary • The size of the newborn compared to popular belief, one study found, with the mot her varies enormously Eskimos (the Igloolik tribe of Canada) from one species to another. Total litter are no fatter than Caucasians. Adult weight as a percentage of the mother's men had an average of 13.5 percent fat, weight ran ges from 68 percent in the women, 24 percent. Although they were guinea pig, and 23 to 24 percent in the shorter than the average Caucasian, their rabbit and rat, to as low as 3.6 percent calculated lean body mass was about in the elephant and 2.5 percent in the the same; so the people of this tribe blue whale. The human newborn consti­ have a stocky, but non -obese body build. rures only 5 to 6 perce nt of its mother's weight, roughly comparable 10 the situ­ • Your brain and your bone ma ss are ation in the cow and [he pig. least affected by weight loss from a re­ stricted diet, data from animal experi ­ • Dur ing pregnancy, more than the ment s sho w. woman's uterus increases in size: The

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pediatrics and of radiation biology says. "All you have to do is take a trip whispers, " Keep the lean, lose the fat." and biophysics in 1968. to the beach in the summer to observe Can real people on real diets do this? A man devoted to art as well as to family resemblances in body build." The answer, says Forbes, is no. science, Forbes sprinkles his papers, Scholar that he is, Forbes did con­ "Whenever people lose significant books, and conversations with literary siderably more than visit the beach to amounts of body weight, they lose allusions. gather data on whether obesity stems some lean tissue in addition to the fat. "One of my favorite passages from from some genetic similarity or wheth­ Conversely, when people gain weight, Samuel Johnson's conversations with er it's a matter of shared eating and ex­ most of it is in the form of fat, but a Boswell is abou t a fat man," he re­ ercise habits. He made extensive body small proportion is lean tissue. Most marks. measurements in 51 pairs of identical obese people have not only larger "I t goes like this: twins and in 38 pairs of same-sex stores of fat, but larger hearts, livers, "Johnson: 'He eats too much, Sir.' fraternal twins. He weighed them. He kidneys, spleens, and pancreases. Their "Boswell: '1 don't know, Sir; you tested them for lean/fat tissue ratios. skeletons are heavier too. Probably the will see one man fat, who eats moder­ He measured height. He ran a tape larger organs and heavier frame help ately, and another lean, who eats a measure around waistlines and hips to support the extra weight." great deal.' see where fat deposits had accumu­ "Johnson: 'Nay Sir, whatever may lated. orbes knows of only one be the quantity that a man eats, it is "What we found is that the identical exception to the rule that plain that if he is too fat, he has eaten twins were much more concordant than says you lose fat and lean more than he should have done. One the fraternal twins, both in the amount together, and this special man may have a digestion that con­ of body fat they had, and in the distri­ case does not offer much sumes food better than common; but bution of the fat. If one identical twin Fconsolation to the human dieter: "The it is certain that solidity is increased by had a small belly and big hips, then hibernating bear has been observed putting something into it. ", the other twin did too." While shared to lose 13 percent of its initial weight environment can account for some re­ during 60 days of hibernation with­ t is Boswell's, not Johnson's semblances, Forbes points out that out losing any lean tissue. Bears ap­ view that is familiar to every many of the adult twins had been liv­ parently accomplish this by reabsorb­ physician who treats obese pa­ ing apart from each other with their ing nitrogen, water, and electrolytes tients ("Gee, doctor, I eat less respective families. through the bladder." than everyone else I know, and Genetic influence plays nearly as Okay, just one more popular con­ II still can't lose weight "). And it seems powerful a role in the distribution of ception about foods to run by this to confirm casual observation: that lean and fat as it does in height, Forbes dean of nutrition: Are junk foods some people can down mountain believes: "We are never free of environ­ really "empty" calories? ranges of potatoes topped with scenic mental influences, but it appears that Potato chip lovers can take heart. lakes of gravy, cut through thickets of genetics can account for 75 percent "I f you ask people which foods they well-marbled steaks, and conquer gobs of the differences in people's height, would define as junk foods, the potato of ice cream floating in a valley of between 60 and 70 percent of the dif­ chip is probably one of the first things chocolate sauce-all without letting ferences in their fat tissue, and about they will name," says Dr. Forbes, lean­ out the belt a single notch. 60 percent of the differences in lean ing back. "But if you break down the But is the proposition that some tissue. " composition of potato chips, you find people gain weight more easily than Does that mean fat people are genet­ that they have the same amount of others a fact? ically predestined to grow bigger bellies protein as rice and wheat, more iron, On this question, the scientific jury and bottoms on the same diet that less sodium, and as much niacin as is out, Forbes says. keeps others trim? Forbes will not go milk. They're low in thiamine and "We don't have any hard evidence so far. "1 think of obesity as a disease riboflavin and high in fat, but they do that this is so," he says. "We do know of appetite. All the evidence we have have a bit of Vitamin C. All in all, from controlled studies that obese pa­ accumulated under controlled condi­ there's more nutritional value there tients tend to underestimate what they tions suggests that obese people do than in apples." eat and that thin people tend to over­ tend to eat more than lean people. I So couch potatoes should just estimate. We also know that under think that what obese people may in­ stock up on bags of chips, practice controlled conditions, patients always herit is a big appetite." their cocooning skills, and forget lose weight when you restrict their Here's another food fact or fallacy about that apple-a-day that was sup­ calories to a level below a normal main­ to ponder: A breakfast-cereal commer­ posed to keep the doctor away? Well tenance diet - even those who tell you cial pans to the poolside, as a bathing no, Forbes says, beginning to hedge. they could never lose weight before." beauty with workout-sculpted thighs Apples are fine. "The real point," he Okay, how about another proposi­ suggests, "is that some of the foods tion: that some people are "born" to that get labeled as 'junk' are perfectly be fat? wholesome in moderation." "It does appear that there is a strong genetic component operating here," he

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Measuring the Interior Environment

The room looks faintly men acing. metal arms stands in the center of the what part of the weight is lean tissue Built in the mid-1950s with fund s from stark room . There is a TV-camera moni­ and what part is fat." the Atomic Energy Commission, the tor, a sound system, a light, and a scin­ There are other radioactive substances cubicle has eight-inch-thick steel walls tillation crystal to collect radiation from in the body that give off gamma rays constructed to block out "background" the subject. No other furnishings are too, he points out, such as isotopes of radiation and prevent it from reaching present. radium and thorium. And most people the interior of the chamber. It measures "The patient sits quietly in here in this country have a certain amount of 6 by 6 by 8 feet and weighs 42 tons. It for 40 minutes," he says. Stripped of cesium 137, a radioactive fallout prod. is called a "whole-body scintillation watches and other jewelry, dressed only uct that has been in the atmosphere counter. " in cotton pajamas, the patient listens to since above-ground atomic bomb tests Back during World War II and short­ radio programs for entertainment. No were conducted in the 1950s. Since the ly thereafter, Rochester was one of many books or magazines are allowed, for nuclear-test ban treaty was signed in universities conducting research for the these too give off small amounts of radi­ 1963, though, cesium levels in people Manhattan Project, the wartime effort ation and would therefore throw off the have been dropping. to design and build the first atomic readings. It is therefore essential, he explain s, bomb. Here, the focus was not on weap­ Forbe s explains how it works : " The to have an extremely sensitive gamma­ ons development but on how atomic lean tissue in our bodies - muscles , ray detector placed near the person in radiation affects humans and animals. organs, and bones - contains an abun­ the chamber, one that is capable of What Rochester researchers discovered dance of potassium. Fat tissue does not. distinguishing the gamma rays of the not only helped set safety standards for One of the naturally occurring isotopes potassium isotope from the other gam­ people who worked in atomic weapons of potassium, 4oK, is radioactive; it ma rays people give off. Constant vig­ laboratories, but also paved the way for emits a very strong gamma ray." The ilance against stray radiation which radiation treatments in the war against average man or woman is fairly "hot," might contaminate the results is also cancer. radioactively speaking; "A man gives off required. In order to monitor fallout from about 30,000 gamma rays a minute. A "Any number of things can throw atomic tests, the whole-body scintilla­ woman gives off about 20,000." Women off your results. We were amazed to find tion counter was built by Dr. John aren't usually as "hot" becau se they that the background readings in our Hursh, now an emeritus professor of tend to be both physically smaller than instrument increased after we installed biophysics, to measure the amount of men and because a higher proportion a new television monitor. The culprit radiation given off by the human body. of their weight is in fat tissue -which proved to be the camera lens; appar­ Thirty years later, in the hands of Dr. doesn't contain potassium. ently, it's a common practice to add Gilbert Forbes, it has become the per­ "We also know how much radiation thorium to the glass to improve the qual­ fect instrument for plumbing the mys­ each gram of lean tissue gives off," says ity of the image. Even a heavy snow­ teries of what lies beneath our skin . Forbes. " So if you weigh a person and storm can deposit enough radioactive Forbes opens the door to the cham­ measure the radiation, you can calculate material to increase background counts ber. An oversized chair with tubular measurably. "

Moderation. Ahh, yo u knew there'd bles, no fruit, and so forth - a nd it is a food dollars. That 'S a big percentage, be so me st rings attach ed. What he's variety o f nutrients that is essential to and it is most often th e families with say ing is that there's nothing wrong good he alth. The other problem is that yo ung children wh o patronize these with pot ato chi ps, o r wit h giv ing in to th e convenience and cheapness of fast­ burger parlors. Our pace of life today a full-blown Big Mac a ttack, complete food restaurants tend to result in over­ has become so fra ntic that families with milksh ake a nd fries, as long as eating and turn into obesity." no longer have th e o ppo rt unity to get you don't do it very o fte n. together at the end of the day for a "This me al has a lmost enough pro­ OO many fast-food fo rays, peaceful, rel axed dinner. Perhaps our tein to adequat ely nourish a normal in other words, have life style has to c ha nge before our woman or chi ld for the whole day," stretc hed our co llective eating habits do. One thing I know: says Forbes. " T here are two pitfalls in waistlines and padded o ur When a child reach es adolescence, it's allowing o ur child ren to fall into the collective hips. to o late to cha nge his or her eating 'fast fo od' habit as a steady diet. One T " Toda y we spend a lot o f m oney patterns. " is th at th e hamburger-sh ake-and-fries o n fa st food - about 10 percent o f all diet has no va rie ty - no green vegeta­ Jan Fitzpa trick says that ifshe were pig­ ging out f or science, she would fallen up on Gruyere cheese and chocolate trufftes.

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By Thomas Fitz patrick The old upright Royals , slug rulers , and grease pencils are gone, replaced by electronic gizmos . But the current crop of Campus Timesmen and women up­ holds a 115-year trad ition of pUlling all-nighters , pushing deadlines, and as the masthead proudly declares, "Serving the University of Rochester Community since 1873. "

You can't reall y ca ll them "ink­ stained wretc hes" a nymore. No t with th e word processor s, laser printers, and scanners taking the place o f the grease pen cil, upright Royal, and slug ruler. But Hildy Johnson co uld still find co mmo n ca use with the current fro nt­ pagers who a re about to perform th e " Weekly Miracle of Room 102. " T he Campus Times for Octob er 6, 1988, is goi ng to press.

8 Roch ester R eview . / Wint. er 1988- 89 PUSHING

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Reliance o n electr o nic giz mos to month o f schoo l. It comes fro m spend ­ doing wh at all good managing ed ito rs produce the st udent new spaper mak es ing mo st of your time indoors, putting have done since Gutenberg - making for a discouraging lack o f litt er - dis­ questions to co llege officials in their life miserable for reporters who ar e couragi ng, that is, to veterans who offices, buttonholing Stu de nt Senato rs pu shing deadline. And from the days ra nk a scruffy newsro o m next to a in co rrid ors, and mostly from pulling o f linotypes and hot lead to th e era snappy lead in th e hiera rchy of jour­ all-nighters in the newsroom. of computer readouts and " photo nalistic virtues. W here are the roll s of This Wednesd ay nigh t the staff is mechanical tra nsfers," de adl ines are mostly igno red AP wire-ticker paper hunkered down for the d uration. A ll what it's a ll ab out. spewing out on th e floor to be kicked the termina ls are oc cu pied by writers Nine p.m, now, and No la n, Miller, & an d trampled by passing sta ffers? finish ing o ff the fro n t-page stories. A Co. have abo ut 10 hours left to deliver Whe re are the scrunched -up wads of boom box propped up in a co rn er is the go ods to the printer, get the paper copy pa per, cu rsed, ripped from th e emitting some kind of music to which run off, and have it deposited around typewriter carriage, and flun g d isgu st­ nobody is payin g th e slightest atten­ on the va rio us Un iversit y ca mpuses. edly in th e gene ral direct ion of the tion ("Turn it down! " so mebody yells They'll stay here until it's done, pick wasteb as ket? Well, that sort of me ss every five minutes, and this plea is ig­ up their eyeballs, and do it all ag ain is gone for good. When yo u deal with nored as well). Production manager the following week. And the week after co mputer screens and keyboards yo u Peter Kapner is exhorting his sta ff, that - until the first of Mayor burn­ ju st don't generate en ou gh waste paper charming a nd wheedling them on in out, whi chever comes first. to wad e co lo rfully through on the way their efforts to cut, paste, and tinker "Serving the University of Roches­ to break ing the big sto ry. the page layouts into shape. The most­ ter Community since 1873," reads th e Ot herwise Hildy would be proud o f ly female workers do thi s in a kind slogan underneath the masthead , and th is bunch o f CTimesmen and women of sweats ho p, assembly-line fashion, that adds up to 115 yea rs o f pulling all­ for keep ing up the tradition of jo ur­ sta nd ing at a long dra ftsman's-style nighters, knocking back coffee, inhal­ nali st as a ristocratic slob . The screws board that stretc hes the length o f two ing tobacco a nd other stim ulants, and holding a bulletin board to a n ar senic­ wall s. Kapner relieves the tedium with making yourself unpopular with at green wall gro an against th e stu ds so me horsing a ro und, plo pping one lea st half of th at community most of (Rule No. I for preserving journalistic wo ma n a fter another into a ca ster­ the time. You put in as many hours as gru nge ambience: Never take a nything equipped de sk chair and careening her that van ishing sp ecies, the three-spo rt o ff a bulleti n board. Ju st keep thumb­ aro und the newsroom, banging into letterm an , a nd st ru gg le to keep yo u r tac king st uff on top un til yo u ca n't de sk s and door fra mes. Everybody is grade-point averag e from heading pu sh th e pin through. Then Scotch fueling up by bolting Captain Tony's so uth toward th e Mendoza Lin e. ta pe to wall ). A couple of desk s are pizza and chuggi ng Co ke, especia lly The question is: Why do th ey do it? piled chest hig h with pre ss releases and Mi ller, who has been here practically So me college newspapers give scho lar­ rolled-up exchan ge co pi es fro m other a ll day al ready, moving like a crab on ships to th eir edi to rs; not th e Campus college newsp apers (Rule No .2: Con­ roll er skates, bet ween bites a nd glu gs Times. Some newsp aper sta ffers ca n side r pi cking up that copy of the Car­ negie Mellon Tartan . Reali ze th at suc h action wo uld cause pile to spill and you might have to do something about it. Recon sid er, shrug sho ulders, walk off). Th e air o f thi s windowless room The Last Words of the Tower Times in Wil son Com mons ha s a pervasive, lived-in funk (Rule No.3: View new s­ Sally Miles '56 was the last editor "The integrated campus offers many paper office as an extension o f your of the Tower Times and the first editor advantages. And we must realize that dorm ro om. Have some rep orters a nd of the combin ed Campus-Times that women will be new residents there. No editors han g o ut here at all hours of followed the merger of the men's and one wants his toes trod upon - especially day a nd night, ca using sullen hatred to women's colleges. Since the first elected those in white bucks. 1 or do they want form in the hea rts of clea ning people. president of the combined student bod y to change their style (shoes or other­ If they come in while yo u are schmooz­ (Mary Boat Miller '56) was also a wom­ wise). So let's be satisfied with tighten­ ing, show yo u are helpful by putting an, some voiced concern that a "dic­ ing of the laces." your feet o n top of de sk). tator hip of the skirt" was at hand, and Sarah Miles Watts, besides teaching that women were attempting to usurp One physical trait that links th is in the SUNY system, went on to write all student offices. Miles perhaps anti ci­ drama and arts criticism for the Roches­ gen eration o f newshawk s with their pated that reaction in these words from ter Gan nett newspapers and other publi­ pred ecesso rs is a co nvict-like pallor. the final ITeditorial of May 10, J955, cations. Fran No lan, the junior fro m Boston titled "Smiles and Tears" : who ed its the CT, chalks up his own pallor to " my alabaster Celt ic com­ plexion, " but Travi s Miller, his man­ aging editor, allows as how he lost a sum mer's worth o f tan after only a

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Current CT editors could easily go use the paper to refurbish a public along with that, but they would proba­ image. "I told her we wouldn't publish bly give a miss to the last principle the it until we checked it out," he says. editors of 1873 enunciated: "Our adver­ Someone wonders aloud if the whole tising columns will contain the cards thing isn 't some kind of a plant. Far­ of reliable business men only, and may kas gives the time-worn gesture of be depended upon in all cases by those journalistic skepticism - a waggle of who seek information in this depart­ the downturned palm that means, ment." It's hard to imagine CTers go­ "maybe yes, maybe no, we'll see." But ing to the wall for tanning parlors and the woman won't take "maybe" for an stress-reduction centers. answer. She calls up the offices of both The early Record was a curious the vice president for student affairs amalgam of essays by faculty members and the University president, attempt­ (with titles like "On the Value of Pi" ing to turn up the heat on Farkas. The and "Wordsworth and the Poetry of answer from both is the same: The Nature" - on the front page!); student CT has the sole authority to determine exercises that read a bit like recycled what goes into its pages. In the end, term papers ("Bismarck and the Farkas runs the puffery as a letter to Church" and "The Tuscarora Indi­ the editor, which undoubtedly satisfies ans"); notes on alumni ("Scofield has no one. But integrity is upheld. adopted Mr. Greeley's advice, and 'gone West ' "); and needling of other college newspapers (the Amherst Stu­ dent is criticized for writing overmuch Pressing Matters Editor Fran Nolan '90: "Elect a sophomore about Germany, the Cornell Era for • The Campus Times is a tabloid, a aseditor-in-chief? They must be out of their being football-obsessed). word with unfortunate connotations for minds! I guess they were, 'cause I was it. " Later in the century things picked college newspapers, nearly all of which up a bit. Some humor in the form of use this format (either four or five col­ earn cash payments for their efforts; burlesques of faculty members ap­ umns stretched over a page measuring not at the CT. Most undergraduate pa­ peared, along with lampoons of other about 11 1/2 x 17 inches). The National pers are adjuncts of college journalism student activities, and much gossip. Enquirer is a tabloid, and the New York departments, and their students earn But the Record always aimed to inspire Daily News; but so are the New York credit and put out the paper as home­ "that indescribable something - col­ Review ofBooks and Grit. Dramatic work; Rochester does not offer a jour­ lege spirit." The paper probably knew lore would have it that the format got nalism major, so working at the CT is it had arrived when critics accused it its moniker from the trademark of a tablet of condensed medicine sold in strictly an extracurricular activity. of slack writing, printing " slop," and the mid-1 9th century. So, why? People who have had their ignoring matters in which students • The CT cannot make its way in program, project, boyfriend/girlfriend, were truly interested -which past and the world through advertising revenue dance, meeting, or whatever basted in present editors would no doubt include alone. It receives a subsidy of $2,000 a the pages of the CT might snort at the under "that indescribable something." year from the Students' Association, suggestion, and even current editor (The Record's critics, incidentally, in­ which sets up a sometimes dicey rela­ Nolan squirms at the imputation of cluded the Interpres yearbook, which, tionship between the two organizations. virtue, but as one former CTimesman having been founded in 1858, consid­ In its long history, the newspaper has cagily puts it, " You have to possess ered itself very much the senior publi­ shown little reluctance to bite the hand that feeds it. something not unlike a streak of cation and feuded constantly with its • The term "daily" to describe a altruism ." journalist ic sibling.) college newspaper is something of a Service to the community is what More than a century later, on this formality. Very few staffs around the the founders of the original newspaper October night in 1988, news editor country publish during exam periods had in mind in October of 1873 when Jeff Farkas finds himself pressured by and university holidays; still fewer pub­ Volume I, Number I, of The Univer­ somebody trying to dictate what ap­ lish daily dur ing the summer term. sity Record rolled off the hand-cranked pears in the news columns of the CT. Most universities with undergraduate press. The stu dent-editors wrote up a A fraternity in bad odor on campus populatio ns the size of Rochester's have "declaration of principles" for page 3, has recently taken up community serv­ newspapers that publish about as often and while maybe not qu ite as dramati­ ice. A representative of an off-campus as the CT. Washington University's cally stirring as the one Charles Foster organization helped out by the frat has Student Life, Chicago's Maroon, and Emory's Wheel come out twice a week; Kane showed to Jed Leland for the written a news story full of praise for Case Western's Observer and Carnegie first issue of the Inquirer, it is earnest the brothers, and she wants it in the Mellon's Tartan are weeklies. and high-minded. "We do not believe paper, as is, on the front page if possi­ in large promises, and so make none," ble. Farkas wonders if he is being spin the editors wrote, and then proceeded doctored here, if this is an attempt to to make a medium-sized pledge: to do whatever it takes to inform its reader­ ship (see box, page (3) . 11 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89

The Record was not so fortunate. It disappeared in 1882 (owing, University historian Arthur 1. May hints darkly, "to dissension in the college body"). It reemerged the following year as the Campus , and continued publishing under that name - weekly for the most part, always in financial straits, but a vital part of campus life nonetheless­ until 1955. Women students-even during the days when they shared the old Prince Street Campus with the men - tenta­ tively launched a number of their own short-lived publications, the titles of which tended to reinforce their isola­ tion from their male classmates rather than break it down: The nunnish Cloister Window ran for about five years. A new spirit of independence seemed to take hold, however, in the D~ middle of the reign of Annette Gard­ e•• ner Munro, who was dean of women News editor Amy Williams '89 (with managing editor Travis Miller '90): " I find mysefflrying 10 from 1910 to 1930. The Campus pub­ teach somebody how to write a story with one eye always on the clock." lished an impertinent article saying the women were not "welcome" on the pay for the copies she had already re­ Zwierschke '39, would later be in the main campus at Prince Street. From ceived), and banned the Campus from vanguard of those Rochester alumni the Women's College enclave on the her bailiwick. In 1932-after the Men's to serve in World War II, and the very other side of University Avenue, Munro College moved away to its new home first to die in cornbat.) Three days be­ struck back, canceling her subscrip­ "beside the Genesee," leaving the fore Pearl Harbor, the Campus ob ­ tion to the paper (enclosing 30 cents to women in sole possession of Prince served, "Beside the muddy, turbid Street-the Tower Times appeared, Genesee, it ha s been a dull week, not taking its moniker from the location a major ripple on the placid surface of of its office, high up in Cutler Union. Men's College life." But the very next Investigative Journalism It was a lively and first-class effort, im­ issue after December 7, 1941, declared: Vindicated bued with a nervy, gadfly spirit. The "The ivory tower has come tumbling women editors casually referred to the down about the youth of this genera­ A downtown newspaper chided the men students as "Riverats," both in tion. " CTs predecessor, the Record, for mak­ headlines and news columns, carried With the war increasingly calling ing this unboosterish comment: "Roch­ on a good natured, pot-shooting rivalr y men students away from the Univer­ ester is proverbial for cloudy weather. " with the Campus, and the TT was read sity, the Campus found it almost Stung, the editors resolved to dig deeper; with equal interest on both campuses. impossible to keep a full staff going. this, from April 1875: "We spo ke ad vis­ In the late 1930s both newspapers Finally, negotiations brought about a edly, but we have since taken pains to reflected the isolationism of the times, merger with the women's paper, and assure ourselves o f the fact ... we paid calling for peace, neutrality, and non­ on March 12, 1943, the combined L. a visit to Mr. E. Sebre e, the U.S. intervention in the European war. The Campus-Times appeared - a "war mar­ Weather Observer. ... His statement coincided with our opinion. He also Tower Times broke with this attitude riage" it was called - which lasted for kindly gave us some statistics: But in 1938, after the Nazi annexation of the rest of that spring semester. By the 32Yl per cent of days from November the Czech Sudetenland, and mounted fall, "the short but happy marriage through April were clear, an d on many a "Stop Hitler" editorial campaign. . .. of last spring has by divergence of these so-called clear days, more or But a Campus editorial of April 29, of the two campuses resulted in a di­ less rain or snow fell." 1939, still declared that "young men vorce," editorialized the Campus, The Campus Times Weatherwatch o f have no burning desire to act as re­ back at something approaching full Thursday, April 7, 1988 (by Mike Gold­ ceivers for machine-gun fire." (The strength. It would not be until 1955, berg): "This afternoon, windy and chilly author of that editorial, Robert H. with the reunion of the men's and with periods of rain . Temperatures in women's colleges, that the newspapers the mid to upper 40s. Tonight, rain tapering to scattered showers. Lows in would be re-yoked as the Campus­ the upp er 30s." Times (somewhere along the line los­

12 Roch ester Review/Winter 1988- 89 ing its hyphen) and publish twice a department, th e other with an upstate T hat decided, she lean s an elbow week . But even in 1943, the mal e jour­ hospital. But all th e ca reer edges in the on a terminal and reflects on the hard nalists seemed to have a premonition world seem like cold co mfort when times the CT has gone through lately. of things to come: "But we strongly you 're trying to wrestle the front page " A couple of years ago I went to an hope that future staffs, looking over into shape and tap something for the organizationa l meeting. Everybo dy issues of the marriage and seeing bet­ lead story. Willi am s is obviously wiped was yammering on, and I had to get ter coverage, greater news value, better out. She has deep circles under her eyes somewhere else. So I said, 'I'm willing reporting, and better make-up will and she has run her hands through her to help but I have to leave.' The next agitate for a real marriage. While the lon g brown hair so man y times that it day I was told 1 was th e news edit or." uni on lasted we enj oyed it." just flops on either side o f her head. And she still is - th e senior editor in Who really enjoyed those day s were She has opted to go with the sto ry o f point of service - and she ha s seen the the women students, particularly the the University taking over the ca mpus number o f issues decline from two a "doers." Anne Keefe '46 was one of post-office branch. It's not exactly the week, to on e. Just a few semesters ago, th em (as Anne Houlihan she wrote a sinking of the Lusitania , "but it's a the then editor dumped the front pag e peppery column called "Nothing Sa­ good solid story," she says. "Stude nts and ran instead a mani festo, threaten­ cred"), and her group became, in her ca n now send bulk and personal mail ing the demise of the CT unle ss he got term, "the Rosie the Riveters of ca m­ throughout the Uni versity without more help. pus life." " With th e wartime sho rtage paying postage, and maybe those long But she thinks things are looking up of men," she recall s, " we were involved po st-office lines will be reduced ." now. "If th is cur rent crew of j uniors and often led in everything, the plays, ca n stick aro und for a while"-she the yearbooks, and th e newspapers. A points to Nolan, Miller, features editor whole gen eration of women bloomed C hristine Garrahan and copy edit or with the chance to exercise authority, Why We Write Eri c Moses - "to give some continuity, and I've made a living ever since from the paper will be all right. We had an my college extracurricular acti vities." • " We sha ll endeavor to po int o ut to interest meeting in September, and A varied and pioneering career it has our friends the drift o f ou r Co llege life, nearly a hundred students showed up. been. A mainstay of Rochester radio, heraldin g all mail ers of note which But we don't have enough ed itors to she was also presen t at the creation of occ ur, and om itting nothing on accou nt funnel th at many reporters through . 1 television in th e city, working for year s of its see ming unimportan ce. which find myself trying to teach somebody ma y be o f interest to ou r read ers. at WROC, doubling and tripling up " We sha ll strive to advan ce the inter­ how to writ e a news story, with one eye as anchor of the evening news, doing ests o f ed ucation, evincing preferen ce, always on the clock." cooking shows, " Romper Room," and o f co urse, for the institution with which Nolan wants to return the CT to a man y other things. Since 1976, she ha s we a re connected . twice-weekly, but first he aim s to get broadcast for KMOX-AM in St. Loui s, "We propose to a fford o ur read ers a the features section up to speed and hosting an afternoon public affairs paper, filled with such select reading expand th e coverage of doings on the call-in show, her husky ten or sent out and interesting fact s as shall give it a Eastman Scho ol campus downt own . by th at station's many kilowatts all hearty welcom e fro m every subscribe r, Right now he is lim ited by a lack of over th e mid west and points beyond. and reflect cred it upon the Universit y warm bodies on th e editorial side, and und er whose protectin g aegis the edito­ Keefe th ink s th at the " am ateur" by, he admits him self, his own inexpe­ rial sta ff lind shelter. rience. " Last yea r I th ought, elect a kind of journalism practiced at the " We probabl y sha ll startle no o ne Camp us Times is the best sort of with o ur wisdom." sophomo re as edit or-in-chief? You preparation for a career in the med ia. The University Record, October 1873 must be out of your minds! I guess "The mechanics taught in journalism th ey were, 'cause I was it." schools are reall y overrated. If you • " T he Campus will never be per fect; The previou s yea r's editorial sta ff have a liberal-ar ts background, if you any plans for its improvement will vani shed almos t to a per son , and it know what the Aeneid is and who always be in place.. . . Issues will co me was up to Nolan to reinvent the wheel. Kafka was - and for God's sake get up among the student body which will Having to start from near-scrat ch demand analysis and discussion. It will some science - if you know something every year has plagued the CT of late, be the fun ction of the Campu s to pre­ about editing and can writ e, above all and Nolan feels it. Whenever he ha s sent them as clearly as ca n be stated." a question about the way the paper the latter, you' ll always make a buck in Campus, December 1933 this world." might have handled a specific situation Amy Williams '89 has already found • " Daily publication o f the Campus or problem in the past, he has no one th at out. Her two -and-a-half years as Times will keep stu de nts more informed to as k: It's either consult Karl Kabelac's news editor of th e CT have opened the of things happening both on and off Special Collections Room in Rush doors to a couple of internships, on e ca mpus, and help stimulate stude nt in­ Rhee s for ba ck issue s, or fly by the with the University public relations terest in more things on campus. includ­ seat of his pants. ing the newspaper." 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In the best of all possible worlds, caused a falling away from usual un ­ st ude nt-body president on the plat­ the editor-in-chief should ha ve tim e dergraduate acti vitie s. But not at th e form th at student govern ment sho uld and space eno ugh to map out long­ Campus Times. Students with an itch be made relevant to current concerns. range strategies, ask pertinent, off-the­ to write and publish flocked to th e pa­ She loses, but her cha llenge provokes a record qu estions of th ose who kn ow, per. It published three times a week, record voting turnou t. She then returns look out for the big picture. Nol an and put out " extras" whenever issu es to the CT as "advis ory editor," ju st hardly has time to think. He has man­ would heat up. Ed itorials and op inion on e o f five fo rme r editors assuming age d only one ed itorial in the first four co lumns sometimes covered three th at po sition, and co ntinues pumping issues o f thi s term, mainly becau se he pa ges, a nd the edito rial-sta ff box con­ ou t the co lumn inc hes un til a mortar­ is forced to pick up a sha re o f the me­ tained over twice th e names Nolan has bo ard is placed on her head. chanical lab or, banging on the key­ to work with. All o f this feistiness and momentum board, CUlling and pastin g with the The undergraduat e career of Mar­ culminated in editor Marc Rosenwa ss­ production crew. Achi evin g the editor­ jorie McDiarmid '67, who now teaches er 's decision on October I, 1973, the ship of the CT is sometimes like get­ a t th e University of West Virginia Law lOa th a nniversa ry of the founding of tin g the black spot from Blind Pew. Schoo l, ca n sta nd for man y others th e University Record, to turn th e CT It was not always so. In th e 1960s, during thi s period: She beg ins in 1963 in to a dail y. S keptics of the time who stude nt pre occupation with th e Viet­ as a reporter, work s her way through doubted whether a n undergraduate nam War, the draft, the questioning many staff positions, serve s for a year population of less than five thousand of the college system, and all the rest as editor-in-chief, and then runs for could sustain such a n effort were

'This Awful Silence'

Perhaps it's because college jour­ around the ha lls, preserving the stri ctest cern on ca mpus, and decided to change nalists tend to be activi st types them­ order, hardly a sou nd is heard. . . . We this state o f affairs: " T he Campus selves. In any case, nothing seems to do not wish to be understood as advo­ Times henceforth ded icates itself to enrage the spleen of a college ed itor­ cating hazing, or class co ntest of any making the student bo dy aware of real­ here and elsewhere - more than th e on, bu t we do believe in innocent fun ity. Ever ything we say ed itorially will suspicion that the student body is in a nd merriment and a lso that the ab­ have as its purpose the rejuvenation of an unresponsive state of heffal ump dor­ sence of these indicates an abnormal interest in Unse lf. " mancy, uncaring abo ut the real i sues o f co ndition of things. T he extre me q uiet Ten years later, [he Campus Times campus life. Here arc some examples of whic h is ma nifes t among us this year had given up on the " Unself" and editorial reveilles sounded in Rochester does not at all ha rmonize with our no­ blam ed student apathy on "an enforced publications over the yea rs. tions of college life. If we ca n't sing, reside nt community .. . which pampers • The University Record in October let's go out on the campus and yell. the studen t, extending his functional 1874 deplored the "l ack of Co llege Anyth ing but this awful silence." infancy to 22." More effort on the part so ngs" on the campus, and opin ed that • The Campus, late in 1933, ran this of the ad ministration to link the Uni­ more "jolly airs" were desperately need­ parting shot from its o utgoing editors, versity with the surrounding community ed: "The deep toned voice of 'The Bull breathing fire a they went ou t the door : " wo uld help combat the UR studentry's Dog on the Bank and the Bull Frog in " T he new ed ito rs will have to learn th at insularity o f thought and convert it to a the Pool' is heard no more. Verily the a large percentage o f the st udent bod y voluntary co mmunity of ideas ." silence is oppressive." i always apatheti c to seemingly irnpor­ On epternber 29,1988, the CTnoted Apparently, the campus did not be­ rant questions .. .. Edi torially they will that the 25 percent o f the student bod y stir itself sufficiently, for the followi ng try to sense out student enti ment, but that voted in stud ent-govern ment elec­ month came this eruption: "Never with­ find to thei r di ma y that tudent are tion s, even though it was up from 13 in the memory of the oldest inha bitan t, too cowardly to have their name rand percen t the year before, was not enough: or at least within our memory, has th ere for a definite point of view expre sed in " Th e student apathy both on and espe­ been manifest among our students such a letter on the ed itoria l page." cially off campus is reflected by the low a total lack of college spirit as at pres­ • The Campus Times in September turnout for voting in the SA Senate ent. Our students wander listlessly 1961 deplored the lack o f tude nt co n­ elections ."

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Neil Savage '84, associate edit or for Beacon Communications outside of Boston, mainly recall s being a fraid for his academic future, but that didn't stop him from putting in "idiotic hours," helping to edit the paper for three years, and even returning as a senior to put in a stint as business manager. " T he more issues you can put out in a week, the clo ser you're in touch with the students. Having them read your words the first thing every day-that made putting out the dail y worth it," says Savage. But pressures, both in finances and personnel, mounted toward the end, and the daily was sustained more by acts o f Spartan will than practicality. "No editor wanted the daily to end on his watch," says Stockman. But end it did, and not only at Pizza parley : Between bites of Captain Tony's Pizza and glugs of Coke , they getthrough the night. Rochester but at similar institutions And when they 're done, they'll pick up their eyeballs and doit all again the next week . where undergraduate journalism is not a semi-pro job of work but a voca­ proved wrong. The dail y CT lasted for Splendors there were, but miseries tion. The latter depends on a rush of a decade. If there is such a thing as the aplenty, as well. Gary Sto ckman '83, enthusiasm, and a histor y of the CT Golden Age o f Journalism at Roches­ who was successively features editor, shows that to come and go in cycles. ter, 1973-1983 is it. And a sur prising managing editor, and executive editor "We were sloppy but dedicated," says number of writers and editors from (and who found time as well to captain Swanson. " We had to learn about th is period carried on with journalism , the Rochester crew), now works for an journalism while we were putting out or went into related fields, after gradu­ advertising agency in Rochester. He the paper. But we had energy, and it ation. remembers battles with the Student made for a special atmosphere around Rosenwasser, for example, became Senators over funding: "We got along the CT." Moscow correspondent for the AP with them all right until there was a The atmosphere in Room 102 this and now is a writ er-producer for ABC budget crunch or a crisi s in student night in October is largely one of grow­ News. He thinks that in his day stu ­ government that we covered. Then ing fatigue. Empty pizza cartons are dents saw working for th e paper "as a we would hear no ises about how we tossed in piles; eyes are bleary and way of making a social sta tement." He weren't doing enough about their tempers edgy as the staff works into remembers that "there was then a spirit activities, or weren 't covering them the night. of questioning everything that perhaps to their satisfaction." But come morning th e students get doesn't exist today on college cam­ th eir copies of th e issue of Thursday, pus es. A lot of all-nighters were pulled, October 6, 1988, to leaf through, sp ill a lot of classes missed . We really spent coffee on, and leave behind on cafe­ most of our time working on th e paper. What's Your War Story? teria tables. No matter. Nolan & Co. I look back on that part o f my life are enjoying the particular rush that with great fondness." CT alumni (and of the Tower Times a centur y of editors have felt before "I think that th e idealized vision of and the Campus, too, o f co urse): Go t th em . On thi s optimistic morning, it journalism that came out of Watergate any [ales to share from your life as a can be understood if they sense that - Woodward and Bernstein, and all student journalist and how it helped/ the cycle of enthusiasm for journalism that - gave us a boost," says John hindered you in gett ing where you are on the campus is swinging once more Swan son '83, who edited the CT in its today? Rochester Review would love to their way. For they have tapped into last year as a daily and now edits trade hear all you r stories and will con sider th e miraculous: They have fooled the them for pu blication in either the printer's devil, and made deadline. publication s for the glass industry. Letters section or (perhaps) in a follow­ up feature. Writ e to Editor, Rochester Review, University of Rochester, Roch­ ester. New York 14627. While a student journalist at a small col­ lege in San Francisco in the 1960s, Thomas Fitzpatrick saw three issues confiscated, two editors fired, his CPA once dip below the Mendoza Line-and had the time of his life.

15 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 The olfEffect You've heard of the Doppler Effect. Now Emil Wolf has discovered the Wolf Effect-which may have profound implications for the study of astronomy.

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By Robert Kunzig

uch of modern cos­ well to pay attention. The Wolf effect The light waves from these partially mology is ba sed on is a way of producing frequency shifts correlated atoms therefore fall in and the idea tha. t what we that has nothing to do with the motion out of step. So when they cross they see in the sky is not of the light source. Although Wolf de­ don't interfere with one another the what it seems. The duced the effect mathematically, its way coherent light waves do. Instead Mlight reaching us from distant galaxies reality has now been demonstrated of the clas sic interference pattern of is different from the light they emitted; in several experiments. And while its alternating bright bands (formed where it is shifted to lower frequencies, toward implications for astronomy are still wave crests coincide) and dark bands the red end o f the spectrum. Astrono­ unclear, they could turn out to be pro­ (formed where the trough of one wave mers assume that thi s redshift is caused found. cancels the crest of another), partially by the Doppler effect, and they con­ The effect ari ses when a source emits coherent light waves interfere partially. clude that the galaxies are moving away light that is partially coherent. Any hot Some frequency components of the from us, that the universe as a whole object, from an ordinary IOO-watt bulb light are amplified, some are canceled, is expanding. (If the light were shi fred to a star, emits incoherent light. That's and others arc left alone. to the blue end of the spectrum, that because the individual atoms it's made The result, says Wolf, is that the would mean the galaxies were coming of radiate light waves randomly and in­ overall frequency distribution of the toward us.) The Doppler effect is also dependently. Lasers, on the other hand, light changes as it moves away from how astronomers measure cosmic dis­ emit fully coherent light: Their atoms the source. "Each atom sends out radi­ tances. The farther away a galaxy is, can be made to radiate in unison, and ation that is exactly the same," Wolf the faster it is moving and the more its the peaks and troughs of the resulting explains, " but in the process of prop­ light is shifted. You've probably heard light waves are all in step. Partially agation the radiation from different of the Doppler effect. You've almost coherent light falls between these two atoms mixes. It's that superposition certainly experienced it: It can shift extremes. The atoms in a partially co­ that causes the changes in spectrum." sound too, causing, for example, the herent light source don't radiate in And if the radiating atoms are corre­ sudden drop in pitch of an ambulance uni son, but they're not entirely inde­ lated in just the right way, their light­ siren as it passes by. pendent either; if one atom is emitting whose initial frequency is set by the You probably haven't heard of the a light wave. there is a certain proba­ atomic structure - may actually be Wolf effect, though. A lot of astron­ bility that anot her one nearby will also shifted toward the red or the blue end omers haven't either; Emil Wolf, an be radiating. o f the spectrum. optical physicist at the University of Rochester, ju st discovered it within the last couple of year s. But they might do

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nfo rtunately, no one knows how to assemble a group of atoms that are correlated in just that way. But Wayne Knox of UAT&T Bell Laboratori es has recently simulated such a light source - and proved that the Wolf effect exists. Us­ ing a series of mirrors and filters, he split a beam of light in two, changed the spectral character of each half, then recombined the halves into a sin­ gle beam again. The result was a single light beam in which so me of the fre­ quencies canceled and others didn't. And just as Wolf had predicted, the light's overall spectru m shifted - in either the red or blue direction, de ­ pending on the choice of filters . "Once people see thi s," says Knox, "they immediately say, 'This is abso­ lutely trivial. All you're doing is using interference to cancel out some of the frequency com ponents. ' And indeed, In this computer-enhanced photo, a galaxy (NGC 4319, the large oval) and a quasar (Mark 205 . the the Wolf effect is trivial. The whole round blob) appear to be linked, evidence that redshifl may not be a reliable indicator of distance. point, though, is that it could still have enormous implications, and you need Yet there is evidence that contradicts ight from a quasar, he says, to consider them when you start to this view, at least in the case of some might be red shifted as it measure light so urces." quasars. Most of it has been gathered passes through the quasar's That's certainly true in the lab . by Halton Arp of the Max Planck rapidly fluct uating magnet­ But can nature, which lacks ingenious In stitute for Astrophysics in West ic field, which would tend arrays of mirrors, produce the Wolf Germany and by Jack Sulentic, an Lto make the light partially coherent. effect? Wolf thinks so. Although large astronomer at the University of Ala­ The quasar's Wolf shift would be added groups of partially correlated atoms bama. For years Arp and Sulentic have to its Doppler shift (which would still are hard to imagine, the light emitted been challenging the assumption that be substantia l). by ordinary, incoherent atoms might redshift is a reliable indicator of a Most astronomers think Arp and acquire partial coherence later, by quasar's distance. Their most striking Sulentic's quasar hypothesis is hog­ passing through some medium­ exhibits are images of a galaxy and a wash, and that there is no problem for Earth's atmosphere, say. The tempera­ quasar that seem to be physically linked the Wolf effect to help so lve. Most ture and pressure of the atmosphere - even though the quasar, according would react unhappily to any sugges­ vary from point to point in a partially to its red shift, ought to lie some 750 tion that something other than the ordered way, which means the degree million light-years behind the galaxy. expansion of the universe might be to which air refracts light varies that Most astronomers say the quasar is in redshifting the galaxies and quasars way, too. So light scattered by the at­ fact behind the galaxy; and that the that inhabit it. But the fact remains mosphere ought to pick up some of "link" is really just an illu sion caused that the Wolf effect exist s - and astron­ that order. Wolf is now trying to calcu­ by a chance superposition. But Arp omers, who thought they knew every­ late whether the resulting shifts in fre­ and Sulentic argue that many quasars, thing about red shifts, now have to quency would be large enough to be including this one, are not distant gal­ think again. "It's extremely interest­ detectable. axy cores at all; instead they are com­ ing ," says Allan Sandage of the Mount Much larger shifts, he says, might be pact blobs of gas-"like the Orion Wilson and Las Campanas Observa­ produced in the violent surroundings nebula, only a little more flashy," says tory. "As for its having any major co s­ of quasars - and it's in that connection Sulentic - that have been ejected from mological consequences, we don't see that the Wolf effect might prove to be ordinary, more nearby galaxies. any right now. But that doesn 't mean most important. Because quasars have If they're right, then part of the qua­ we won't when we get a little sma rter." the largest known redshifts, astrono­ sars' large red shifts mu st have a sour ce mers believe they are the most distant other than the Doppler effect. Wolf objects in the universe. And because believes - though he is a long way from Rob ert Kunzig © 1988 Discover Publica­ they are very bright in spite of their proving it - that his effect could help. lions, Inc. Robert Kunzig is a senior editor distance, it is assumed they must be of Discover magazine, in which this article extremely energetic. The conventional originally appeared. view is that quasars are the explosively active cores of young galaxies, probably powered by supermassive black holes.

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Light Waves , Quasars - and Olivia Newton-John

Books on optics line the walls of desk for references, he tells the story o f Today Rochester's Wilson Professor Emil Wolf's office on the third floor of a European astronomer who has been, o f Optical Physics, Wolf is the modest Bau sch & Lomb Hall. The blackboard intellectually speaking, exiled by his col­ recipien t of numerous honors (among is covered with squiggled markings that leagues because he dared doubt the them the Max Born Award and the tell of qu asars and light beams. A pho­ preva lent wisdom concerning quasars. Frederick Ives Medal from the Optical tograph of Albert Einstein hangs on The Wolf effect casts doubt in the same Soc iety of America . o f which he is past one wall; the likeness of another hal­ direction. president), an d the edito r of Progress lowed thinker, Max Born, with whom "Astronomers don't wa nt to believe in Optics. an ever-growing series of Wol f collaborated on the optics text, [his. If this shift is due to something volumes tha t is now up to 26 books Principles of Optics, hangs nearby. All other tha n th e Doppler shift, then th e with no end in sight. is well and ordered in this Rochester problem becomes more co mplicated," He is widely known among his col­ ph ysicist's world. he says. " It goes to the fundamentals of leagues as the leader in the theory of But wait a minute. W ha t's this photo astronomy, such as the size an d age o f the partial coherence of light - having of pop singer Olivia Newton-John doing the universe." to do with light waves that are neither in here, lilting face beaming oUI between Wolf wasn't always concerned with fully in phase with each other, as in the two heavy-d uty Nobel laureates? such cosmic oncepts. He started in laser light , nor, on the other hand, radi­ Step a little closer and you can read, ma thematics, a nd switched to physics a ting randomly, as in the light from scrawled underneath her smile, the as a postdoctoral student at Bristol you r ordi nary lOO-watt bulb. handwritten note, "To Emi l, Love University in England, to which he fled A nd the boo k that he and Max Born Oli via." from the Nazi s in 1940. wro te some 30 years ago (" I am some­ Newton-John's place in thi s pan­ times asked ," he says, " whether I am a theon , it turns out, is generational. She so n of the E mil Wolf who co-authored is Max Bo rn's granddaughter. And Born Principles of Optics" ) is now in its sixth was, in a sense, Wolf's scholarly progen­ edi tio n and has been translated into a itor. It was Born who, toward the end number of languages, among them of his career in 1951, took on the young Russian, Chin ese, and Japanese. Emil Wolf as his assistant, to begi n " It will never go out of date," ays collaboration on the book that was to Unive rsity physics professor Leon ard launch the younger ma n's rising star in Mandel, who has known and co llabo­ the field of optical ph ysics. rated with Wolf for many years . "Emil's "Some of my students don't know me the leader in classic al optics." The two so much for my work or my book, but have bee n wor king on a book on coher­ rather because I'm the one who has an ence and quantum optics and are hop­ autographed picture of Olivia New ton­ ing to have it ready to hand over to the Jo hn in his office," Wolf admits cheer­ publ isher next yea r. fully. Wo lf may not be int erested in discuss­ While the photo catches the eyes of ing "old research ,.. but he is quite happy hi students, it's Wolf's work on light to return , with obvious warmth and wave that is making wave in the eyes affectio n, to his years of collab oration of his colleagues. His recent findings with O livia Newton-John's grandfather. on the "Wolf effect" (described in the He tells of a point in the production accompanying reprint from Discover) of the bo ok when Born became impa­ have been written up in magazines tient, deciding that his you ng colle ague and newspapers ac ross the nation and was holding up its publicatio n so he around the world. could finish a chapter in an area that "There is no question that the theory was later to become Wolf's spec ial field is correct," Wolf says. "The qu estio n is, of study- partial coherence. Suggesting of what relevance is it to astronomy?" that Wolf was perha ps the only person A theoretical physicist rather than an Wolf in the wo rld interested in the subject, astronomer, Wolf has found himself Bo rn told him to drop the chapter and plunged into the mid dle of a heated de­ A native of Prague, he remembers the send [he rest of the manuscript po st­ bate concerning some features of the day in 1939 when the German tanks haste [0 the primer. Wolf persisted, and light that quasars em it; the resolutio n ro lled into Czechoslovakia. A teenager the sectio n got in. may influence thinking about [he age and a Jew, he escaped the country a "It so happened," recalls Wolf, "that and size of the universe itse lf. He is al­ month lat er, first traveling to Italy and two yea rs later, in 1960, the world's first ready exploring the ramifications of the eventually settling in England. (Hi par­ laser was invented. And suddenly every­ the ory, studying light waves as they pass ents were not as fortunate: Staying be­ one was interested in coherence. Our th rough a moving medium. hind to dissolve the family business, book was the first to deal with the sub­ "Now please don't start writing about they were sent to a concentration camp, ject in depth. Born was as pleased as myoid research," he cautions a repo rt­ where they died.) Wolf spent nearly I was th a t ( had n't do ne what he told er, jumping to the blackboard to illus­ 20 years in England, coming to this me to." trate his latest findings. Pulling citations country-and the University- in 1959. from shelves a nd digging throug h his Thom as Rickey

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Classically handsome, with rippling bi- and triceps, comic-book superheroes may look like Ken dolls on steroids. But, according to Professor Jesse Moore, they are highly accurate mirrors of American society.

By Denise Bolger Kovnat The crux of Moore's fascination is Currently, Moore teaches a course this: Since the 1930s, many comics on protest movements of 20th-century Professor Jesse Moore reads comic have served covertly or overtly as me­ America, covering feminism; the anti­ books. dia of protest - opportunities for their war movement; McCarthyism; the Not just any comic books, mind you. creators, as he puts it, to "chastise political mobilization of blacks, Chi­ This respected scholar, award-winning America for its imperfections." canos, and American Indians; environ­ teacher, and widely published author Now Moore himself is a gentle man, mentalism; and both pro-choice and prefers such classics as early Superman as well as a scholar, with more the pro-life activism. It was a student in and Spider-Man, and the Green Lan­mien of a federal judge than a social this course who lent him a full collec­ tern/Green Arrow series of the 1970s. critic. In 1980, he won the University's tion of Green Lantern /Green Arrow, He has spent a lot of time perusing Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excel­ rekindling an old flame. old comic strips, too, including Little lence in Undergraduate Teaching, and As a graduate student, Moore was a Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy, and that same year he published a book reader of these trailblazing, socially he's not above thumbing through The called The Search for Equality in the conscious comics and once owned all World Encyclopedia of Comics for National Urban League. He has more 13 issues, now considered classics and more. recently been working on another recently reprinted by DC Comics. He Before you assume that this digni­ book, on racial conflict in the U.S. sees Green Lantern /Green Arrow as fied associate professor of history is armed forces and defense-related in­ the culmination of a trend that began possessed of the thrill-seeking, bubble­ dustries during the two World Wars in the 1930s. gum-popping, prepubescent mentality and the Korean War. He has also been, "Between the 1930s and 1960s, most of a IO-year-old, it's important to note for a number of years, on the editorial Americans just assumed that liberalism that a.) in case you haven't looked at review board of the Journal of Negro was the best political expression that one lately, comic books are not nec­ History, and he recently completed a one could associate oneself with," he essarily just for juveniles any more, paper on "Apartheid: The White Man's comments, taking time from his full and b.), as a specialist in 20th-century Burden," which he plans to submit schedule for an interview in his office American culture, Moore reads them soon to the Journal of Southern high up in Rush Rhees Library. ("I've as a subject of scholarly study. To him, African History. got to clean up my office," he half­ Spider-Man, Batman, et al. are highly apologizes, shuffling the papers and accurate mirrors of American society, books on his desk, "but I just haven't reflections of our dreams and discon­ had the opportunity.") tents - kid stuff, if you will, as cultural id stuff.

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AREN'T JUST KID STUFF

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"Orphan Annie's philosophical bent If Annie might, with a little luck was that nothing worked better than and good timing, have been the girl an honest day's work to make one for­ next door, the next generation of get his or her own troubles. But Gray's comic-strip and comic-book protag­ artistic work did more than highlight onists was from another planet al­ a girl's positive human characteristics. together. The late '30s and early In it, he warned readers of the dangers '40s brought the stuff of unbridled of political extremism in general and fantasy-Superman and Batman and that of the Left in particular. As one their followers, extravagantly muscled, of Roosevelt's arch enemies, Gray re­ Homeric creatures engaged in never­ mained convinced that the New Deal's ending struggles against arch villains. architects and defenders were the chief These superheroes may have been a promoters of a dangerous kind of response to the super problems of the liberalism. " age, Moore says: With the rise of Fas­ The message was straightforward cism, "comic-book writers and artists enough. In a 1932 strip, a young tough began to suggest that America's tech­ blocks Annie's path when she seeks a nological and economic capabilities job as a newspaper carrier. She tells were the world's last hope of avoiding him, "It's a free country-you've got a one-world totalitarian state." Jesse Moore 's study of comics - and particu­ no right to spoil a good job for some­ By the 1940s, American comics­ larly of comics as a protest medium - grew one else who is willin'to work." He one of our few indigenous art forms, outof his academic specialty in 20th-century shoves her in the face, so Annie kicks according to one observer quoted by American culture . An associate professor of him in the shins and then decks him. Moore - had come of age. Millions of history in the College of Arts and Science, he For her resourcefulness, she is hired on Americans, and millions of American teaches a course on protest movements of the the spot. children in particular, were avidly fol­ recent past. It was one of his students in this It's Annie's knockout punch -not lowing the adventures of star-spangled course who lent Moore a full collection of the big government - that saves the day for good guys who were forever stronger Green Lantern/Green Arrow books, sparking good 01' American entrepreneurship. or smarter or braver than the bad his current research on these '70s classics . But while this may have been cathartic guys. (Superman himself was created A native of North Carolina, Moore is a grad­ for readers, it had little political im­ in 1938 by two 17-year-olds.) In a uate (Ph.D.) of Pennsylvania State University. pact, says Moore. "Most readers didn't 1944 essay written for The American He has been a member of the Rochester faculty pick up on it - there was almost a Scholar, "Why 100,000,000 Americans since 1971 and, among other honors, is a re­ forced subtlety. FOR was such a pop­ Read Comics," William Moulton cipient of the University's Edward Peck Curtis ular president; I suspect that most Marston wrote of "America's most Award for Excellence in Undergraduate people would have been up in arms if popular mental vitamin, the wish­ Teaching . he had been criticized openly." fulfilling picture story." (A Harvard­ In thousands of strips from 1923 to educated psychologist and college lec­ But as early as the 1930s, he says, 1968, as in the one described above, turer who also invented the polygraph, some comic-strip creators were ques­ Annie met and overcame obstacles Marston believed in the salubrious tioning the liberal tradition. Take Little that Americans encountered daily­ effect of comic books to the extent that Orphan Annie, for example. You might obstacles arising from the social and he created Wonder Woman, aiming to not know that America's sweetheart of political problems of the times, says give American youth "a feminine char­ the '30s - red-haired, plucky, cipher­ Moore. Millions identified with this acter with all the strength of a Super­ eyed Annie-was, in fact, a capitalist child who, like Superman and Huck man plus all the allure of a good and tool. In an article he's currently work­ Finn, was an orphan, and she attained beautiful woman.") ing on - an article that still bears the a sort of mythical status. (Unlike "Truth, justice, and the American hand-scrawled notes and addenda of Superman and Finn, Annie broke new way" played well in Peoria until the continuous rewrites, Moore says this ground as a female lead character 1960s, when increasingly rebellious about Annie and her creator, Harold who was independent, determined, and sophisticated young readers began Gray: and self-confident, although this may to turn to such underground publi­ not have been intentional. According cations as Zap comics by R. Crumb. to Moore, she was initially "Little Moore views Doonesbury as one effort Orphan Otto," but Gray's editor con­ that made it big at that time. Simulta­ vinced him that his original character neously, mainstream comics began to sketches were too effeminate for an "Otto. ")

22 Rochester Review/Winter 1988- 89 reflect " relevant" themes. (A pioneer here was Walt Kelly's Pogo, whose pro­ ACritical Exposition of "Swamp Thing " tagonist was involved in na tional poli ­ tics and fighting McCarthyism in the Jesse Moore isn't the on ly Rochester able to throw in that very practical, teen­ 1950s.) professor who reads comic books. Asso­ age kind of worry. And then you not ice Whi ch brin gs us to Mo ore's personal ciate pro fessor of English Thomas Gavin, also in the backgrou nd o f the frame this favori te: the award-winn ing Green a well-received fiction writer, is anot her ound effect, 'lup, lup, lup.' It stir curi­ Lantern/Green A rrow series o f 1970 fan. osity, but you can't identify its source, its th rou gh 1972. For the past th ree years, Gavin has meaning. It's not that these books were best­ been work ing on his third novel, the story [Fram e 2] "And we get closer, from sellers; one reason they lasted only two of a l2-year-old boy who reads Dostoev­ still anoth er point o f view. Look at the years was flagging sales. But Moore sky and Poe - and who also writes and art that goes into ju t figuring out what you might call the 'camera angles' in a hails them as classics and credits them illustrates comic books (any resemblance to a young Gavin is more than coin ci­ scene like this. And we still hear th is with altering the focus of " qu ality" dental). In researching his novel, he came strange sound effect, this 'lup, lup, lup.' comics altogether. upon a comic-book writer whom he re­ [Frames 3 and 4) "We get still closer He 's not alone in this view. Says gards as "a kind of Shakespeare of comic to it, and it's at this point, in this frame Don Th ompson, co-editor of the in­ book s," an Englishman named Alan and the next one, tha t we see both this dustry's weekly newspaper, Com ic Moore. horrible catastrophe that's happe ned in Buyers Guide: "Sales figures don't nec­ Moore at one time wrote a series called the car and we also get the sound effect essarily have anything to do with how Swamp Thing, which Gavin rates as "an identified, (he beer still emptying from good a comic is or how lon g it will last extraordinary piece of work" for its artful the can. See what's happened here, as as literature. Green Lantern/Green use of langua ge and cine mati c techniques. you read that image? Now, that suggests the passage of time. And it suggests the A rrow was in the forefront. It showed Th e fram es shown here are a case in point. Th e setting: Three teena gers have dilTerence between being at a distance that, even in an unrealistic co ntext, been drinking beer in the wood s in a car from thi scene and getting gradually you could still have superheroes op er­ that belongs to the father o f one of the closer so that you can read the image. ating in a real wor ld. There are people boys. When one of them leaves the car, "These are all the kind o f cinematic writ ing comic books tod ay who were the other two are attac ked and killed by techniques- choi ces about angle and very much affected by th em." one of Swamp Thin g's enemies, a crea­ distance and po int o f view- that Orson Whi le "the Greens" had been ap­ ture called " Woodrue." Welles was using in Citizen Kane and pearing in separate publications since Gavin details how Moore brings the Touch ojEvil, which are films that are the early 1940s, both lacke d the popu­ scene to a climax: very close to the brooding, horrible lar appeal of Batman and Superman . [Fram e l) " Closeup on the face: 'Andy, world that Swamp Th ing inhabits. But The only luster to the character o f Andy, what's this stuff on the car? Thi s that technique of the sound effect gradu­ is my dad's car, man ! Hey, And y!' And ally becoming intelligible is something Green Arrow (in civilian life, wealthy noti ce that line, 'This is my dad's car.' right out of the film Lawrence of A rabia." industrialist Oliver Qu inn) , aside from Now, it takes a certain kind of art to be the trick arrows in his qu iver, was his "Arrow Car." Green Lan tern (a.k.a . Hal Jordan, who originall y spo rted a cacophonous black, red, green, purple, brown, and yellow uniform) went through a number of transmogrifica­ tion s, each centering on the almost omnipotent capabilities of his " power ring." In 1970, DC Comics called on artist Neal Adams and writer Denny O'Neil to breathe some life into these charac­ ters and their sales. O'Ne il, now the edito r of Batman comics, describes the scenario: " I had been a journalist o nce upon a time, and th at experience was still prett y fresh. I was also a con­ cerned citizen, the parent of a you ng child, bu t a little too old to be part of the '60s protest generati on.

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"I had done a couple of other recreated as a blond, bearded, angry, But the two showed believable human comic-book stories dealing with envi­ and impatient type, of New Left mili­ frailties, and they grappled with very ronmental issues. And also, the 'new tant leanings. Green Lantern, fellow real problems. Together, they took to journalism' was happening at the time, member of the Justice League, be­ the streets against drug pushers, TV combining fiction with journalism. All came, in Moore's words, "a naive do­ evangelists, polluters, racists, corrupt of that was in the air. gooder . .. shocked beyond belief by politicians, exploitative businessmen, "So when they came to me and said the corruption in society." male chauvinists, and even Mother they had a magazine that was in trou­ Green Lantern retained his magic Juna, who had forced overpopulation ble but that there were reasons for keep­ arrows and Green Arrow his super ring. on the planet Maltus. ing it alive, we thought, ' Why not?' And both Greens still had all the phys­ According to Moore, this was the This was the glorious opportunity, the ical attributes of superheroes: Classi­ first example of a mainstream comic­ heaven-sent chance to see how real-life cally handsome, with rippling biceps book that probed the issues of the day concerns and social issues mixed with and triceps and quadriceps, they looked intelligently and incisively. He points the exploits of superheroes." like Ken dolls on steroids. Their eyes, to one story dealing with drug abuse, And thus Green Lantern and Green behind their masks, were other­ "Snowbirds Don't Fly," as an example. Arrow were born again. Green Arrow, worldly: all white, without pupils or In their search for a friend they sus­ hailed as the "dynamic archer of the corneas (like their predecessor Orphan pect is involved with drugs, the Greens Justice League of America," was Annie's). encounter three young men - a black,

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Sound and Fury

What's the so und o f a n airplane series, is such a writer. Wha t's more, he the door, An d so me were downright explod ing? says it was the "fun pa rI''' of his job. elegant: "TINK," as Green Arrow SC H HAAAA KKKKKKK! T here were so me tri cky th ings abo ut brea ks the chains tfia t bind his wrist How about a fistfight between Greeri it, however: " q'he one problem we never to the steel wing of an ai rplane, and Arrow and a humanoid robo t? so lved was the . ound of glass brea ki g. " KU H Z LLZLE," as a ro bot fries Green SLANGG ! ZAK! POK! KLUMP ! T he closest we co uld com e wa ' K H ~ ­ Lan tern with mysteriou s rays. Th e sound o f Green Lantern hitj fng REES ,'which we tho ught was pre tty T he sheer' genius o f i all ZA PS the the ground in a dead fain ? good. mind. U M GA l " And then one of o ur so unds was An d now, since ever sto ry, great a nd uch are the " noises" o f com ic-book ' KA LUTA,' wh ich was the nam e of a n small, is supposed (0 end with flare ­ act ion - wildly imaginative, on omatopo ­ a rtist I happened to be wor king with if not fireworks - we tllo ught we'd use etic cra shes and ban gs an d blows that a the time." On the pa ge, wit h a lill ie orne Den ny' O'N eil-ism s to co nclude reverberate only in tlie reader's mind . poetic license, it screa ms " Ki':tOOOO­ thi s on e. Wh at 's required is an arti t wh o ca n TA," representing the no ise-poll ring FAVQ OM P ! SLANG ! POK! give a wo rd co lor and mo eme nt a nd crunch o f a punc h pre ss in a plastics KLU IP! if H OO M ' KASH ! di mension (say, with red leite rs two factor y owned by a n evil businessman. B DOOM ! SKRRUNCH! inches high blasting fro m the center of Other so und bites were less cryptic: SKREEEE E! CHUK! WHAMP ! the page) and a writ er who can deliver "BAM BAM " fo r the so und o f a gun WAP! BLAM! SPEEEEANG ! ph onetically what the ear might hear. bein g fired, "BRIJlNNG!" for a tele­ ZZAK! TAKATAKAT! THUD! Denny O'Neil, who with Neal Adams phone, " PATOOO " for someo ne spit­ KRAASH! BLAMM! WHREEE! ' reated the Green Lantern/Green A rrow ting, and "NOK NO K" for a kn ock on BOOMPH! And now for the finale : BUZZZZUK !

a white, and an Oriental- awaiting a They were forced to begin to question, j ust astonishing. They're doing the drop-off of heroin. In a conversation 'Must America be as it is?' 'Is America Green Lantern thing every day; they're about why they use drugs, the black a land in which everyone has an equal capturing the zeitgeist, on deadline, youth says to the Oriental, "

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Concertmaster Raymond Gniewek '53E went to a lot of trouble to get his job with the Metropolitan Opera. Thirty-two years later, he's still as happy as the day he landed it.

By Jeremy Schlosberg among his colleagues. The Metropoli­ Beyond enjoying the prestige and tan Opera Orchestra is the only one satisfaction inherent in belonging to hen 25-year-old Ray­ performing full time in the United so distinguished a group, Gniewek is mond Gniewek drove States. (In Europe, the opera orchestra buoyed by the plain fun of it all. "This from Rochester to is often a city's primary orchestra; in is really being in the theater," he says. New York City for an the United States, that is the role of "It gets under your skin." Although audition before the the symphony.) Typically about 80 of he took the job with every intention W concertmaster of the Metropolitan the Met's 150 orchestral players will of using it as a stepping stone to a Opera Orchestra, he was not what perform on a given night, but it varies symphony-orchestra position, he you'd call a wealthy man. - a Mozart opera might require only quickly abandoned that goal. "After How broke was he? So broke he had 60, while one of Wagner's may call on a few years here, I was hooked. Now, to drive back to Rochester the same 100. in all honesty, the thought of playing day because he couldn't afford to stay The Metropolitan orchestra is a in a symphony orchestra seems just a the night in Manhattan, even at 1957 large group, but oh so select, since little boring." hotel-room prices. So broke he reali zed relatively few people relinquish their And yet, for a person trained to play he didn't even have enough money to positions before retirement. This is an music designed to be heard by itself, buy the gas he needed to make the re­ ensemble long known for good pay isn't it hard playing second fiddle, as turn trip, even at 1957 gasoline prices . and nice benefits; more recently, under it were, to voices, scenery, and special After he finished playing, he sheep­ the powerful direction of James Levine, effects? "It used to be frustrating," ishly asked Felix Eyle, the concert­ the orchestra has blossomed into a admits Gniewek. "But not anymore." master, if he could cash a check for unit of true artistic force. He remembers a time years ago when him, an $8 check. Eyle smiled ben efi­ An apt symbol of the orchestra's ris­ the Metropolitan did a production of cently at the plight of this talented ing reputation is the recently released Elektra- "and we were terrific." Two young violinist, peeled the $8 out of Deutsche Grammophon recording of weeks later, he says, the New York his wallet, and waved him on his way. the Met's production of Die Walkure, Philharmonic did a concert version of Instrument case in hand, Gniewek the second of the four Ring operas. the opera, to enthusiastic critical re­ climbed once again behind the wheel This is the first time the Metropolitan sponse. "Well, the Met had just done of his Ford station wagon to return to Opera Orchestra has recorded in many the same thing two weeks earlier, and his wife and daughter and low-paying years; most opera recordings over the the reviewers didn't even mention the job with the Rochester Civic Orchestra. last decade or two have been done in orchestra." But he's learned to expect Gniewek today-a jovial, confident Europe. Immediately cited by The New this sort of thing. "Basically, it's like man-relates the story with a chuckle. York Times as the best modern record­ the movies. If the background music is He has certainly had the last laugh. ing yet of this popular opera, the new really excellent, you don't even notice Within a year of that private audition, release will further help, as Gniewek it. " he himself became the Met's concert­ says, "put the Met orchestra on the As a member of an opera orchestra, master, a position he has held now for map." The other three Ring works will you are rewarded simply by being part three decades. be released in the next couple of years. of an extravaganza unlike anything else His enthusiasm for the job, even in the performing arts - an amalgama­ now, is contagious, and not uncommon tion of voice, orchestra, acting, set

27 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 design, lighting, costumes, and effects A teacher he had studied with had since Rudolf was then musical director as dazzling in their way as anything since joined the Eastman faculty. Why of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Hollywood can do, all performed in not apply there, urged the violist, point­ and Gniewek's operatic experience was large, "wedding cake" halls peopled ing out that the University of Roches­ zilch . with emotional audiences. Inside the ter, in addition to its music school, Metropolitan's opulent, multi-tiered also had an excellent physics depart­ till, Gniewek again requested home in Lin coln Center, the opera ment. This sounded like a good idea, the chance to perform, as he orchestra performs a different work and although it was already May, had with all the guest con­ every night, six nights a week (and Gniewek applied and was accepted at ductors. Rudolf politely ac­ again on Saturday afternoon), for Eastman. ceded and sat through the 32 weeks a year, collaborating with a Once there, of course, he found no sby-then typical private concert in the parade of renowned singers and con­ time at all to study physics, but no Eastman Theatre. Rudolf was im­ ductors. "It's a spectacle, it really is," longer did he want to. His years of in­ pressed, as the others had been. But he says Gniewek. And there's nowhere tensive fiddling and his natural talent could go further. There was the possi­ else he'd rather be. had by then produced an enviable bility, he said, of a job opening. His He didn't always think that way. combination of skill and confidence. concertmaster was leaving. Perhaps, he Once he got the lay of the land at said, Gniewek could come down and he son of immigrant Eastman, he realized he was going to play for the departing violinist in New Polish parents who settled excel there, and readily did so. York. Rudolf wanted his own opinion in East Meadow, New Gniewek stayed in Rochester after of Gniewek's talents corroborated. York, Raymond Gniewek his graduation in 1953. Married and a Then carne the private audition and (pronounced "nee-EV-ick") father by that time, he needed steady the matter of the $8 check we've heard wasT pushed toward the fiddle and bow work, which he got with the Rochester about. Gniewek later returned to New practically from the womb. His father, Civic Orchestra and the Rochester York (this time with enough money) a barber, was a frustrated violinist, Philharmonic Orchestra. (I n those for an open audition for the spot. At with a strong will. The family joke had days, the RPO was considerably more 25, Gniewek was younger than anyone long been that the first son would be­ modest than at present, and the Civic else in the orchestra, but he played come a violinist, but it was a joke that Orchestra was the core group, with the with the subtlety and skill of someone wasn't all that funny to Gniewek as he Philharmonic playing less regularly twice his age. His hearers, like Rudolf, grew into his teens still subject to his and augmented by students.) By 1955, were impressed. father's authoritative presence behind he was concertmaster of the Civic Then, for weeks, no news. Gniewek him while he practiced. Orchestra. And by the following year grew increasingly uneasy at not hear­ As college approached, Gniewek he was getting itchy, struck by a grow­ ing anything, and when one of the plotted a rebellion of sorts. He wanted ing sense that his talents might be bet­ audition judges, conductor Dimitri to study physics, not music. He applied ter exploited in a more prominent en­ Mitropoulos, happened to be visiting to, and was accepted by, both MIT and semble, and by a creeping fear that he Rochester on tour with the New York Cornell. There was only one problem. might get stuck where he was if he Philharmonic, Gniewek took the bull "It was made pretty clear to me at didn't do something soon. by the horns. After the concert, he home that I wouldn't get any financial As luck would have it, 1956 was a marched backstage as if he belonged backing to go into science," he says. year the Rochester Phil harmonic con­ there, which he did not, and knocked To become a physicist, he was going to ductor departed to greener fields. With squarely on Mitropoulos's dres sing need a scholarship. He applied for a no immediate replacement in sight, a room door. Mitropoulos opened the couple, but just missed them. The coup series of guest conductors was import­ door and greeted his visitor with happy de grace was learning of his selection ed. Gniewek saw an opportunity. Eager recognition. as one of 10 finalists competing for one for contacts of any kind, he asked each The older man invited the younger of the five Grumman Aircraft scholar­ of the visitors if he could play for him to a reception taking place across the ships that would pay for an education privately after one of the rehearsals. street. Again, not really belonging, at the school of his choice-and then The conductors were all polite and Gniewek went anyway, skulking round learning that he had been passed by. responsive, but typically had no jobs the periphery (with important officials The day he received the letter that gave to offer. wondering, "What is he doing here?") him the bad news, he stalked into his Thus, when Max Rudolf arrived, until the great Mitropoulos himself father's barbershop and announced, Gniewek had few expectations. In fact, arrived. All the local dignitaries greeted "Well, I guess you're going to get your he may have had fewer than usual, him, as Gniewek watched from across way." the room. "Then he saw me," says A conversation later that spring re­ Gniewek. "He lit up, walked right over vealed a potential escape route. The to me, and said to the people around principal violist in the Cincinnati Sym ­ him, 'This is one of the finest violinists phony was performing at Gniewek's I have ever heard.' Oh, that was quite high school. Impressed with young a moment for me. He all of a sudden Raymond's talents, the violist told him he should consider a career in music.

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Team Work a small step, and on this part icular night it ended with a turn of the ank le and an audible crack. He was next supposed to Backing up a glittering parade of walk 32 feet across the stage to place a guest artists, the Metropolitan Opera hat on the head of ano ther character­ enjoys a complement of distinguished a difficult stunt with a broke n foot. " It performers who are on its payroll full might as well have been 32 miles," he time. Among them, along with concert­ says. He turned upstage and told a few master Raymond Gniewek '53E, are two chorus members wha t he had do ne (yes, other Met veteran, conductor Richard the singers often do have conversat ions Woitach '56E and singer James Court­ on stage whenever they are suppose d to ney '73E. appear to be conversing in characte r), Nothing emerges so strongly from but did his best ot herwise to hide it. conversations with these Met player as It was too late in the show to get in a the remarkable team effort it takes 10 replacement, so he hob bled his way produce a world -class opera night after through the fourth ac t. night. "The hu morous part was that for my Sometimes, as in Woitach's case, this claim for workmen's com pensat ion I means being prepared to perform far was asked if there were any witnesses to more often tha n doing the performing. the accident," says Co urt ney, " And I As a member of the conducting staff, he said yes - the pro mpter, the cond uctor, must be completely ready to rep in and Woitach : Always ready and 3,000 other people." take over from the scheduled conductor, Backstage can be a far more treacher­ in ca e of il\ness or incapacity, anywhere ou place than on stage; there are wires, from two to five times a week. Yet he cables, holes everywhere- and it's dark. has performed th i emergency duty only There's always the potential for trouble a dozen or so times in his 14 years as a but fortunately littl e ever happens. full-fledged conductor (his first nine Woitac h recalls one tragedy where an years at the Met were spent as an assist­ elevator carrying a singer to a high level am conductor, who does not conduct of the set got stuck on her cost ume and any performances). That i not to say actually strangled her. Beyond that hor­ that this has left him twiddling his rific incident, he's seen mostly the oc­ thumbs instead of his baton: He is oc­ casional power failure or eq uipment casionally the designated conductor problem -things that if they happen, that someone else has to back up, and tend to happen on th e road . week in and week out he has many other One of the strangest incid ent s backstage responsibilities, suc h as coach­ Woitach has experienced occ ur red at ing singer, conducting the orchestra Christmas in 1980. It was the first time during rehearsals, to carry out as well. he had conducted Hansel and Gretel, Co urtney is a comprimario singer- a and he had just finished the overture singer of 010 upporting roles, neither when suddenly the house lights came in the chorus nor a lead. More than a on. Thrns out the Met had received a walk-o n, a comprimario usually has 10 bom b threat; the entire audience had to minu tes of onstage glory and the n dis­ exit to the front lobby, while the com­ appears. " I think of the comprimarios Courtney: Operatic sprinter pany was forced ou t into the traffi c tun ­ as the sprinters," says Courtney. "They've nel on a very cold night. Fortunately, it got to do what they do all at once." The was just a care, and th e how went on. artistry of the comprimario is the ability The most dramatically embarrassing "to pull yourself together in a hort peri­ moment Courtney knows of happened od of time and make it look like you've pri ingly few tales of woe or weirdness at the Met long before any of ou r cur­ been on that stage all evening." to report. rent Eastman fellows were th ere. He Courtney may be in three to six per­ One personal disaster Co urtney re­ heard abo ut it from a veteran singer formances a week. Four is fairly normal; counts is a performance of The Marriage who remembers a performanc e o f Der five begins to be a strain. This is not like oj Figaro two years ago when his role Rosenkavalier with a parti cularl y un­ Broadway, he notes, where it's the same required him, in the third act , to jump sight ly first scene. Th is wa a production show seven day a week. At the Met from behind scenery to surprise the that featured two small dogs on rage. there's a different opera every night. "It other characters. The jump went down We're talking here abo ut one male dog gets to be like ' If this is Wednesday, this and one female dog, mind you, so per­ must be The Barber oj Seville,' .. he says. hap s you can guess what happened. And yet, omehow, it all works, 99.9 Ah , well, they do say that opera is for percent of the tim e. For lon gtim e Met lovers. .. . tro upe rs, our Eastman guys have sur-

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made me a somebody. " Opera is the stuff of drama, both on the audience so different-with their The news about the job was this: stage and off. Gniewek has seen a singer anticipatory breathlessness and their The only question the Metropolitan collapse and die during a performance. cathartic cheers - from their more people had about Gniewek was his age. He has seen a fumbling singer replaced staid cousins in the symphony audi­ After all, the concertmaster is the or­ in the middle of an act (the implication ence. While some nights are to a de­ chestra's most visible, and challenged, is that he was drunk, but Gniewek is gree marred, he says, by a "partisan member. The concertmaster is first vio­ too decorous to say so). And he has audience" for a particular singer, there linist and the acknowledged leader of seen the whole place shut down in are other nights when you can feel the the entire string section, generally re­ mourning, on the day of John Ken­ combined emotion of 3,800 cheering sponsible for its phrasing and bowing. nedy's funeral. But mostly, in true fanatics down to the soles of your In rehearsal, the concertmaster demon­ show business tradition, the perform­ shoes. "It's an unbelievable, indescrib­ strates the sounds the conductor wants. ance must and does go on - through able feeling." Audiences know him (or her) because "rain, snow, sleet, hail, and subway And that's another difference for the he is the one who shakes the conduc­ strikes," as he puts it. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra member tor's hand at the end of the perform­ Gniewek is no longer prone to open­ - the chance to play routinely for large ance. ing night jitters, and in his early years, numbers of appreciative fans. Opera when he did get nervous, he managed critics in New York have far less box­ n view of the weightiness of the to maintain at least the appearance of office clout than do theater critics, position, the Met was consider­ cool. Over the years he has turned into since the Met is usually 95 percent sold ing another talented -and older one of the orchestra's reliable anchors. out by subscription. In fact, reveals -violinist. His experience made For performances with one notable Gniewek, the critics sometimes have a him a "less dangerous" choice. guest conductor who insisted on direct­ reverse effect. He's seen it happen: A IWhen it turned out the Number One ing without a score, it was to Gniewek scathing review in the Times will actu­ choice didn't want the job, the Met that many of the musicians turned ally attract people to the purportedly took a chance with Gniewek. There when the maestro unknowingly missed terrible performance. They want to see was a telephone call from New York cues. When the concertmaster's fiddle what the fuss is about. which he took at the Eastman School came up, the orchestra members knew Ask him for his favorite operas, and office. It was Max Rudolf's secretary, where they were. he hems and haws - he's been exposed putting Rudolf on the line. "How's ev­ But even the experienced Gniewek to dozens and dozens over the years, erything in Rochester?" asked Rudol f. can be swept away by emotion and after all. He'll settle, if forced, on Don "Just fine," said Gniewek, and then adrenaline. One of the tensest times Giovanni, Otello, Gotterdammerung, suffered through what seemed like he remembers was a performance last but he clearly doesn't like to narrow it minutes of niceties before finally inter­ year of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. A down that much. rupting: "Do I have the job?" "Of Saturday-afternoon performance was course you do," he remembers Rudolf not only being broadcast live over the sking him to name his saying. "Like," Gniewek recalls now, radio in the United States, as Met mati­ favorite opera singer is "it was a foregone conclusion." nees have always been, it was also be­ much easier. The answer He was scheduled to start as con­ ing taped for American television, and - hands down - is Judith certmaster that October, but joined the was going live to Europe as well as the Blegen . To the public, orchestra early during its summer tour Soviet Union. The estimated total au­ ABlegen is notable to date for a televised when illness depleted its ranks. He'll dience was about 180 million. performance of Elixir of Love she did never forget arriving in Minneapolis On top of that, Ariadne is a chal­ with Luciano Pavarotti, and a video and being introduced to the whole or­ lenge from a musician's point of view, version of Hansel and Gretel. chestra at once. "Practically everyone featuring a small (38-piece) orchestra, To Gniewek, she is notable because lined up just to say hello to me," he with many noticeable solos. "It was a she is his wife (he and his first wife says. "It was really touching. There difficult opera, very exposed, and go­ divorced years ago). He says they have was a very warm feeling." ing completely live." On top of that, no problem working together because It is a feeling that characterizes the even, broadcasting to Europe always they are involved in such different parts Met orchestra, he says. A lot of the carries with it an extra burden, the of the productions. Besides, the work group's camaraderie derives from the desire to "prove" that we here in the environment remains so fulfilling and many hours its members spend to­ United States can "do opera" too, he exhilarating that he might as well be gether. Because of the orchestra's busy, says. "It was one of those perform­ married to someone who shares it with full-time schedule, they are with each ances where everybody is looking at him. other fat more than are members of a each other and saying, 'Oh, boy....' "It's amazing," he says. "I talk to typical symphony orchestra, and, given You could cut the tension with a people, tell them it's my 32nd year at the ensemble's low turnover rate, over knife." the Met, and I still can't believe it. It a far longer period of years. Gniewek In the event, nothing went wrong. still feels like I just came in here." says the warmth and excitement gen­ The performance was terrific, and well erated by the orchestra is infectious. received. Anticlimactic? Not at all. It's "We have people sub with us who are the potential for that kind of drama New York-based writer Jeremy Schlosberg more used to symphony work," says and emotion that makes operatic per­ frequently writes about alumni for the Gniewek. "And then they come in here formance so satisfying. Gniewek loves Review. His most recent profile was of and they love it." the exuberance of a filled opera hall, yacht-designer Britton Chance '62. 30 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89

Marshall Winner Rochester A molecular-genetics major who has worked in science lab s since she was 12 - and who came to college the year she turned 14-senior Thuy Phung has be­ come the third Rochester student in re­ cent years to win a Marshall Scholar­ ship for graduate study in Britain. She was on e of only 30 students nationally to receive one of the 1988 awards, con­ sidered only slightly less prestigious than a Rhodes. Awarded by the British government, the Marshall Scholarships recognize the winners' exceptional academic achievement, intellectual abilities, and potential to make significant contribu­ tions to British universities a nd to their home country. Phung plans to use the two-year scholarship to pursue a master's degree at Oxford University before beginning work in an M.D./Ph.D. program back home in the States. She'll be no stranger to Oxford when she get s there; she spent her junior year studying biochemistry at the universi­ ty's Somerville College. Eventually she wants to become both a physician and a medical scientist capable of helping people with genetic disorders. Soft-spoken and modest about her achievements, Phung admits she has a strong will to succeed, fueled by the crisis she and her family faced in 1980, when they fled as boat people from political and economic oppression in Vietnam. They brought almost noth­ ing with them except a determination to make a new life for themselves in this country. Phung watched as her parents strug­ gled to make ends meet for the family and to adjust to an unfamiliar culture. She quickly learned English, fell in love with the study of genetics, and swo re to take adva ntage of the intellectual and cultural freedoms that opened for her here. Now working on her honors thesis in genetics, she has collected a full bag of academic awards during her college career, among them junior-year election to Phi Beta Kappa and two summer­ study grants (one for ind ependent re­ search in biology, the other for lan­ guage study in France). Ask about her out-of-class activities, and she talks enth usia stically about choral singing

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(in the gospel and chapel choirs), vol­ Bush must remain committed to the term strategies have been devised to unteering in the YMCA's Adopt-A­ plan, says MacAvoy, because it "estab­ reduce their frequency. Among them Grandparent Program, and working as lished his distinctive position in the is the use of calcium-entry blockers, a Minority Peer Counselor. campaign and was responsible in part which are effective in the treatment of Competition for the Marshall Schol­ for his election." angina. arships is fierce. Phung was one of Still, there's bad weather up ahead, Diltiazem, a calcium-entry blocker some 800 students competing nation­ he says. "Congress has never before that is one of the biggest selling anti­ ally for the 30 awards. Finalists were agreed to any kind of freeze. Even if anginal drugs in the world, was thought invited to Boston for a round of rigor­ it does agree, it would have to contain to be ideal for reducing the frequency ous interviews at the British Consulate programs like Social Security, Medi­ of heart-attack complications on a General, which administers the pro­ care, food stamps, and housing that long-term basis. However, in what has gram. over the last decade have grown by been called the "definitive study" on During Phung's interview, five peo­ percentages roughly four to eight times diltiazem, researchers found the drug ple, including four previous Marshall greater than the Bush budget would "effective only in certain categories of winners, fired questions at her. Sample allow. " patients," says the study's principal in­ question: Should voting in the United A freeze would work in eliminating vestigator, Arthur J. Moss, clinical States be obligatory, since voter turn­ the deficit by the end of Bush's first professor of medicine at the Medical out tends to be so low? term only if the economy generates Center. "As a result of the study, we "My answer was that you can't force large new receipts for the federal trea­ know when to prescribe diltiazem and anyone to do anything," says Phung, sury by growing at 4 percent, MacAvoy when not," says Moss. who became an American citizen last believes. "But," he cautions, "we are The drug appears to be helpful to year. "I believe in individual freedom looking at current projections for patients who are free from the compli­ and autonomy, and it would be un­ GNP growth of 2, not 4, percent." cation of fluid in the lungs (80 percent constitutional to force people to vote. As for the backpack: This entails of those studied) but not to those suf­ What the nation needs to do is make the approximately $50 to $60 million fering from pulmonary congestion. people aware of the privilege of Amer­ worth of additional expenditures Bush Mo ss and his colleagues from 38 ican citizenship, so they won't take for has promised the American people, hospitals in the United States and granted the rights obtained for them says MacAvoy, including educational Canada reported their findings in the by their forefathers. programs, capital-gains tax cuts, envi­ New England Journal of Medicine at "I think one should be a citizen ronmental bills, and programs to fight the completion of a study that began who's aware of what's going on. One drugs and disease. in 1983 and involved 2,466 post-heart­ should have a voice and opinions MacAvoy concludes that if you attack patients. about things that affect our lives. War can't get all the way to Millinocket, and other catastrophes may seem re­ you might make it at least as far as mote to you. But war changed my life." Camden (a pretty nice place to be, he The Quayle Puzzle adds). In other words, although the How effective was Dan Quayle as a flexible-freeze program is not enough U.S. senator from Indiana? And what Getting to Millinocket to eliminate the deficit by 1993, given kind of vice president will this young President Bush's attempt to elimi­ lower-than-anticipated GNP growth, politician make? nate the budget deficit by 1993 is like a it's better than nothing. A Rochester political scientist, traveler from New York trying to get And where, fiscally speaking, is Richard F. Fenno, Jr., has published a to Millinocket, Maine, in bad weather, Camden? MacAvoy predicts that, rather new book, The Making ofa Senator: carrying a 50-pound backpack. than the $30 billion yearly decreases Dan Quayle (Congressional Quarterly So says Paul W. MacAvoy, dean of projected by the Bush team, the deficit Press), that helps answer some of the the William E. Simon Graduate School will stay at about $140 billion for the questions. of Business Administration, quoting next three years and decrease to approx­ Much attention has been paid to the old Maine story that has the farmer imately $65 billion by 1993. Quayle'S pre-Congressional life, and telling the New Yorker, "You can't get much speculation has developed about there from here." Study Sheds New Light how he will handle his new national MacAvoy, a long-time economic ad­ office. Fenno, a well-known Congres­ viser to Bush, made the analogy at the On Popular Heart Drug sional scholar, who finished writing Simon School's annual Economic Out­ A major medical study led by a Uni­ this character study before Quayle was look Seminar. "Getting to Millinocket versity professor has shed new light on nominated for the vice presidency, pro ­ involves . . . no new taxes, an indefinite the effective use of diltiazem, a popular vides an important missing piece of freeze on constant-dollar total govern­ drug for reducing complications after the puzzle-an assessment of Quayle's ment spending, funding new programs a heart attack. senatorial career from 1980 to 1986. from reductions in old programs, and Recurrent attacks and death are all Fenno reveals some surprising infor­ a constitutional amendment requiring too common consequences after an mation about the senator, whose legis­ a balanced budget that would give the initial heart attack, and several long- lative career shows another side to the president a line-by-line veto of expen­ stiff conservative seen during the diture bills." presidential campaign:

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• In the Sena te, Quayle was often pract ical and flexibl e. His most impor­ tan t legislative success - his cosp onsor­ ship of the Job Trainin g Partnership Act o f 1982 - was a strongly bip artisan effort th at involved working clo sely with liberal Sena to r Edward Kenned y and battling with his conservative soul mates in th e Reagan administration. • Wh ile in th e Senat e, Q uay le shied away from the extr em ist views embraced by some members of his party. After his electio n in 1980, he noted : "Con­ servatives have very different ideas than th e New Right abo ut where we ought to go. Some of th e New Right peopl e reall y want to turn the clock back .. . on a ffi rmative action and all the civil right s gains. Th ere's no way th ey're goi ng to do th at. We won't let them." • Althou gh he had acqu ired a repu ­ tation in the House as a lightweight who lacked interest in legislative work, Quayle began to be seen in the Senate as ten aciou s and eager to get things done, and he gradually gained the re­ spect of man y sena to rs on both sides of the aisle. New Science and Technology Center Late last fall the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its selec­ tion of Roche ster as th e site o f one of 11 new science and technology centers it is creating throughout the country for basic research . A $1.65 mill ion Betty Friedan had some things to tell an Eastman School audience when she attended a sympo­ grant will fund the center for its first sium on the changing roles of women in music. Her message : Things are indeed changing - but year. Expected to top $8 million over an initial five-year span, the NSF grant not yet enough. Women now occupy more first chairs in major orchestras than ever before. And co uld be extended for an additional six more and more women are breaking down old stereotypes to serve as percussionists , trumpet yea rs. players, composers , and conductors. Butthey still have to pay too high a price for a successful career, said Friedan . " They reach 40 and still have no children, and can't even conceive with in At Rochester, investigators will be exploring the intera ction between light vitro fertilization. " " Sequencing" - taking time out of a career to raise a fam ily-is a cop -out, she and matter-examining chemical pro c­ told her audience : Laws must be passed to make it possible to raise a family simultaneously with managing a career. Friedan was joined on the panel bya number of Eastman alumnae who have esses in which a positive or negative made it to the top in musical careers, but not, they confirmed, without personal penalties . electrical charge is transferred between mole cule s when a material int eracts with light. T his research, scientists laborate clo sely with scientists from After NSF in 1987 announced plan s speculate, could have benefits for suc h the Eastma n Kodak Company and to esta blish the new centers, it received areas as photography, photosynthesis Xerox Co rporatio n. " Among the Uni­ 323 proposals from resea rch groups and enzy ma tic reaction s, ph ot ocopy­ versity, Kodak, and Xerox," Whitten and institutions. T he 10 other success ­ ing, and photopolymerization . says, " we have quite a co nce ntration o f ful prop osals ca me from th e Univer­ Called th e Center for Photoinduced scientists in photochem istry, all within sity of California (Berkeley and Sa nta Charge Tran sfer, the new Rochester fa­ a seven-mile rad ius. We'll be pooling Barbara), Califo rnia Institute of cility is headed by David G. Whitten, our resources and ou r capa bilities to Techno logy, Un iversity of Illinois at professor and chair of chemistry in th e do research that is probably not possi ­ Champaign-Urbana, Michigan State, Coll ege of Arts and Scien ce. ble an ywhere else in the world." Northwestern , Okl ahoma, Rice, Rut­ In what Whitten ca lls "a teamwork gers, and Virginia Pol ytechnic Institut e approach," Universit y facult y will col- and State University.

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What Killed the Dinosaurs? NEWSCLIPS Speculation on the demise of the dinosaurs has been raging for years . Now a Rochester scientist thinks he may Readers of national publications, as have come up with a definitive answer well as of scientific and professional as to what killed them off some 66 mil­ journals, regularly come across ref er­ lion years ago. ences to the scholarly activities - and While most theories have focused on professional j udgments - ofpeople either a meteorite impact or on exten ive at the Uni versity. Following is a cross volcanic activity as the single cau se o f section ofsome ofthose you might the mass extinctions o f the dino saurs and many other animal fossil gro ups, have seen within recent mo nths: Asish Basu, professor and chair of geology, offers the first hard evidence Newsweek that ties the two events together. He pre­ sented his findings - to considerable stir The word " psychoneuroimmu­ -at the an nual meeting of American nology" - more eas ily described as Geophysical Union in Decem ber. "PNI" - may not mean much to you. What he has discovered are clear indi­ It didn't to Rochester professors cat ions that a meteorite once str uck the Robert Ade r a nd Nicholas Coh en eithe r Ind ian Penin sula at the site now known - until their d iscover y tha t "virtua lly as the Deccan Trap, a huge basalt pla­ sp awned th e field" in the mid-1 970s, teau produced by volcan ic activity in central and southwestern India. He be­ acc o rd ing to a Newsweek cover story. lieves the impact of the meteorite trig­ Basically, PNI an alyzes how our gered the area 's extensive volcanic activ­ beliefs, emotio ns, a nd rela tion ships in­ ity at the time of the mass extinction. fluen ce our susceptibility to illness­ Basu is the first to find physical evidence so mething we hum an bein gs have long of a meteorite impact beneath the site. suspected but on ly recen tly begun to Basu's principal eviden ce is the find­ prove. ing of "s hocked " qu artz-qu artz that T he article credits Ade r a nd Cohen has split along certain planes in a way with being a mo ng the first to do so. In unique to quartz that has withs tood a large impact. The quartz grain s were a relatively simple taste-aversion study found immediately beneath the lower­ in which they gave rats a sac charine most solidified layer of lava of the Dec­ Basu so lutio n foll owed by an injectio n of can Trap, which indicates to Basu that a nau sea-inducing drug (also known a meteor struck the site just before the to suppress immune function), Ade r volcani c activity began. bottom of the food chain would be de­ found he co uld condition th e rats to The theory that an asteroid hit the stroyed, and the scarcity of food would sup press th eir own immune systems ­ earth at the time 66 million years ago affect the larger an imals as the smaller mu ch in the sa me way that Pavlov co n­ when the dinosaurs disappeared (known one s died off. dit ioned dogs to sa livate at the so und as the K/T boundary) was first suggest­ The chance that the qu artz grains o f a bell. ed in 1980 by scienti sts at Berkeley. originat ed from a meteorite impact else­ They had found throughout the earth where and sett led in India is extremely an abundance o f the element iridium in unlikely, Basu says. The combination of The New York Times samples dating from the K/ T period. the shocked quartz gra ins and the sudden Irid ium is extremely rare in the earth 's volcani c act ivity leads to his conclusion The wo rds " rebe lliou s" an d crust, but relativel y com mon in aster­ that the impact of a meteor at the Dec­ "teenager" needn't always be linked , oids, leading the resear chers to believe can Trap spurred the volcanic activity. according to the recent research o f an asteroid slammed into the earth at Basu's find could also account for the Judith Smetana, a n associate professo r that time. content ion of some paleontologists who of education, psychology, and ped iat ­ Scientists believe that a meteor ite's say the dino saurs died off over a span of rics at Rochester, who was quoted in a impact and the resulting volca nic ac tiv­ several thousand years. They argue that Sunday-magazine a rticle. ity would have sent hug e amo unts o f if the extinctions were caused by an im­ dust and sediment into the at mos phe re, pact, they sho uld have happened more What may look like rebellio n may be ca using a type of nuclear winte r. Sun­ suddenly. Accord ing to Basu's theor y, j ust normal adolescent self-assert io n. light would have been cut off, plunging the extinctions resulted fro m both the According to Smetana , there are two the earth into darkness and depriving imp act and the resulting vo lcanic act iv­ fun damenta lly different wor ld views at plant s of the light they need to survi ve. ity that too k place over thousands of the core of family co nflict: Ado lescents The food supply of the animals at the years. tend to see mu ch of th eir behav ior as a " pe rso na l" matter, affecting no on e

34 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 but themselves and thus entirely up to The New York Times ester. Bellamy left the Baptist ministry them, while parents usually subscribe because he felt the church was not do­ Only 26 years old, pianist Anton to what she calls "conventional think­ ing enough for the working man, she Nel already commands his share of ing," valuing society's rules and ex­ said, but she ran across nothing to in­ publicity. pectations. dicate he was a socialist." Smetana's research further indicates The winner of the prestigious that if you don't like the weather, just Naumberg competition in 1987 and a wait a while and it will change. In a re­ new associate professor at the Eastman The Chronicle of Higher Education School of Music, Nel was praised en­ cent paper, she charts typical youthful It was a Page One story in both thusiastically in a recent Times review The evolution: The child of 12 or 13 gen­ Chronicle and The New York Times, of a recital at Alice Tully Hall: "Even erally has no use for conventions - at among scores of other publications: in ... moments of seeming abandon, least when it comes to family issues. Dr. Shervert Frazier, one of the na­ his renderings were note perfect and Between 14 and 16 the teenager begins tion's most eminent psychiatrists and his textures crystalline." to recognize conventions as the way a former director of the National society regulates itself. Next comes Institute of Mental Health, resigned another, brief period in which con­ from his post at Harvard Medical ventions are rejected, but more Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune School after admitting he plagiarized thoughtfully. Finally, between 18 and Thumbing through a collection of large sections of several papers he 25, conventions are seen as playing an journals at Rush Rhees Library, novel­ wrote for medical journals and text­ important and admirable role in help­ ist and assistant professor.of English books. ing society to run well. Joanna Scott came upon that of a Frazier's plagiarism came to light af­ French boy on a 19th-century slave ter Paul Scatena, a graduate student in ship. cognitive science at Rochester, wrote a Discover "In the journal, the boy vividly de­ letter to Harvard last August outlining Scientists are learning that the strug­ scribes how the African is brought on the material he had concluded was pla­ gle for existence takes place on a level board . .. slashed, then the image of giarized. He came upon the material, Darwin couldn't have dreamed of: that blood on the water," Scott told the he said, while he was "working my way of individual genes. Some genes are so Daily Tribune. through the literature on phantom limb adept at the struggle that they manage The image seized her imagination­ pain" (often felt by those who have lost to appear in more than their fair share and became the inspiration for her a limb). He said he was following prin­ ofoffspring - benefiting the genes them­ second novel, The Closest Possible ciples he learned at the City University selves, but not necessarily the orga­ Union. of New York, those of checking refer­ nisms that carry them. Chapter One of the book received ences carefully and consulting primary Hence the term "selfish genes." the 1987 Peden Prize of The Missouri sources whenever possible. Now, Rochester biologist John Werren Review, published by the University of and his colleagues have discovered Missouri at Columbia. Scott's story what they call "the world's most selfish won, according to a judge, because of Attention, readers: The Office of genetic element," known as "psr" and "the quality of prose and the fabric of University Public Relations is asking found in male wasps of the species the voice." its network ofalumni readersfor their Nasonia vitripennis. Psr carries com­ help in compiling clippings of pub­ petition to a chilling extreme, accord­ lished references to the University, ing to Discover: During fertilization, St. Petersburg Times its faculty members, and its alumni. it destroys all other genes in the male The author of the Pledge of Alle­ When you come across such items, if wasp's sperm cell. giance - a socialist? you would take a minute to clip out Werren is still trying to learn how Most certainly not, write s an editor the article, identify it with the source this happens. He assumes that the pro­ of the Times. Responding to the charge and date of publication, and send it teins for which psr is the genetic blue­ (in U.S. News & World Report) that along to the Review (108 Administra­ print must somehow undermine the Francis Bellamy, Class of 1876, was tion Building, University of Rochester, other male chromosomes, probably "a prominent socialist" who favored Rochester, NY 14627), the office would while the sperm cell is forming- so nationalizing much of the American be grateful. A number ofyou did just that later, after the sperm fertilizes the economy, the Times column states: that after our last request, and we egg, the other chromosomes are de­ "That view is not supported by thank you all. stroyed. Elizabeth Brayer, a writer who recently published a long article on Bellamy in [Rochester Review], which she re­ searched in the large collection of Bel­ lamy papers at the University of Roch-

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"Coaching has always been a cha l­ j us t o ne of his hobbies. " I like to relate lenge, not only to tr y to win , bu t also ph ysics to th e mech ani cs of tennis an d SPORTS to make the bes t of th e talent on th e sq uas h, th e forces o n racq uets and team. My ch all en ge now is to keep my ball s, to supplement my ge ne ra l kn owl ­ mind goi ng, " he says . "Sure I'd like to edge of th e spo rts." A math maj or at be a littl e mo re ph ysical, but my physi ­ Rochester, Lyma n was ra ised in Eu­ Mind Games ca l co nd it ion has im proved me up st airs rope, and he enj oys keeping u p his and made me a better co ach because Russian a nd French. And he has loved I've had to study th e ga me a nd my to play pian o since child hood. players harder." Now he seldom pl ays either piano or Thanks in large pa rt to Lym an's tennis; his bod y wo n't coope rate. H e guidance, th e men's tennis team has turns ins tea d to his Beethoven reco rd­ enjoyed more th an a few successes. ings to sat isfy his mu sical cravings a nd In 1983, Alex Gae ta and Bo b Swarth­ to his expe rience a nd understanding o f o ut ca pture d the Division III nat ional te nnis a nd sq uash to nurture his play­ dou bles titl e. Two yea rs ago, the team ers' talents. A nati onal team cha m pio n­ was No.5 in the nati on, its high est shi p is his goal. ranking ever. Las t year, Roch ester "If I co uld have my body of 20 yea rs ca me in second in th e UAA. O ne of ag o a nd my m ind of today, it'd be even Lyman's top players is Sco tt M ilener better," he says, witho ut a hint o f wist­ '89 , singles cha m pio n, doubles runner fulness . "There's no sec ret to good up, and M VP of the UAA, wh o was co ac hing. It is like crea ti ng a work o f rece ntly ran ked NO. 2 nati onally. An­ a rt ; when I hel p my pl ayer s develop o the r sta r is Joachim H ammer '89, th eir tal ent a nd reach th eir pot ential , i : a j unio r Phi Beta Kappa, who has that's tremendou sly satisfying . ea rned three All-A me rica n hon o rs a nd "Of co urse, I enj oy winning to o." selection as the " Senio r Player of th e Yea r" in Division III men's tennis. Fall Wrap-Up: Lym an 's co aching magic works o n Beethoven is Pete Lyman's favo rite th e sq uash co urt as well; in a spo rt th at Men's Cross-Country Is Tops co mposer. ha s no divi sions, Rochester is currently T he men's cro ss-country team pulled You might not th ink th at bit of in­ ranked 12th nat ionall y, j us t be hin d down the greates t accolades last fall formatio n would have mu ch relevan ce such traditional powers as H arvard, wh en th e Yellowjacket s finished thi rd to a spo rts sto ry. But it tu rns ou t th at Yal e, Prince to n, Army, a nd Navy. at th e NCAA C ha m pions hips in St. the two are lin ked by so me thing mo re Hi s racquet savvy comes in part fro m Lo uis. It was th e high est finish ever fo r than th e mu sical predilecti on s of a n u nlikely so urce - ph ysics, which is Roch ester at nationals. Junior AI Smi th Roch ester's end uring men 's tennis and sq uash coach. Beeth oven was already bei ng hailed as o ne of the greates t co mposers a nd piani sts of all time whe n his ea rs be­ ga n to fail him at age 31. By his lat e 40s, he co uld no lon ger hear th e ap­ plau se after conducting a pe rfor m­ a nce. And yet, his grea test wor ks he wrot e in th e last yea rs o f his life, wh en he was co mpletely dea f. Beeth oven heard the music in his head . Lym an grad ua ted fro m th e Unive r­ sity in 1947, and by his late 20s, he had won the first of his 16 co nse cu tive title s in men's sin gles tennis in Rochester. He was th e best around. Then rheuma­ toid a rt hr itis began to slow his ga me. Today, a fter more than 20 yea rs as the men's tennis coach, he walk s slowly a nd painfully a nd plays th e ga me hardly at all. But as his body be trays him, his coaching appears to be reach­ ing toward its zenith. Pet e Lym an lives Court king: Yellowjacket basketball has a new high-scoring champ . Jonathan Jones '89 (left) tennis in his mind. shattered the 1.414-point career total of Jack Herlan '77 (right) only 12 seconds into the Case Western Reserve game early in the season . Herlan was on hand during the match , and with coach Mike Neer (center), handed Jones the game ball during a break in the action.

36 Rochester Review/ Wint er 1988- 89 was the first ma n across th e ta pe fo r Russia ­ Pathways of Peter the Great ­ the Yellowjackets, finis hing in sixth July 18-31 place. Rochester finished second to Moscow and Leningrad, with 7 nights Bran deis in th e UAA championships. aboard M IS Kirov for cruise of Neva and Wom en's cross-co untry finis hed Rochester ~v ir rivers and Lakes Onega and Ladoga, eighth overall a t nat ionals. Returning Including visits to Kizhi Island, Petroz­ All-American Josefa Benzoni wo n avodsk, and Valaam Island , plus 2 nig hts in Berli n. This is a "white nights" visit to championships at the UAA meet, the the Karelia regio n in no rthwestern Russ ia NCAA Division [I I Regio nal Q ualifier, TRAVELERS newly opened to Weste rners. $3,000 -3 ,445 an d two in-season co mpetitions. Ben­ from NYC. Group fares from Roch ester. zo ni was sevent h overall at the NCA A Cha mpionships. Cultures of Eastern Europe -July 28-August11 Volleyba ll q ualified for th e NCAA Berlin (3) , Warsaw (3) , Cracow (2), Buda­ Division III Champio nships for the pest (2), and Vienna (3). Experience the present in a regio n from which mu ch of ou r first time in th ree years. The Ye llow­ intellectual a nd cu ltural heritage derived, jackets fi nished with a sup erb 45- 14 and which has experienced suc h devastat­ record. Se nior middle hitter Diane A ll members of the University com ­ munity are eligible to participate in these ing upheaval an d remarkable recovery in Ulatowski was na med UAA Player of tours. Non-associated relatives and fr iends the 20th century. A new itinerary to ol d the Year as she guided Rochester to th e are welcome as space permits. Those­ p laces. A ll meals in Poland and full break­ league title. other than spouses, dependent children, or fast s elsewhere, air fro m Berlin to Warsaw Both men's and wome n's soccer parents ofalumni and current students ­ delu xe motorcoach Warsaw to Cracow to ' earned trips to post-season play. Eac h who have no direct connection with the Buda pest, hydrofoil on Danu be to Vienna team also won the UAA cha mpion­ University will be requested to make a tax­ and o rientatio n tours in all cities inc luded . ship . The me n ended 11-5-3 with the deductible donation of$50 to the University. $3,095 from JFK. Group a rra ngements from Rochester. runner-up spot in the ECAC Upstate Prices are current best estimates, subject to New York playoffs . T he Ye llowjackets fi nal tariffs and significant fluctuations in international exchange rates. Wings Over the Nile - October 7-20 put toge ther an II-match unbea ten Two week s and the best of Eg ypt, with streak to nail down the playoff bid. Portugal -Spain- May 18-30 key tra nsfers by ai r. C airo (Giza); A lexan­ Women's soccer was 12- 3- 3. Th e A un ique Iberian ad venlUre - 3 nights in dria; Suez Canal flyover; St. Cathe rine's squad was knocked out of th e NCAA Lisbon, 2 in the A lgarve, 3 in Seville, and 3 Monastery at the foot of Mt. Mo ses in the playoffs in th e first ro und o n a tie­ in Madrid. Includes fu ll-day excursion to Sin ai; Nile River cruise wit h visits to Luxor breaker. Rochester d ueled Kalamazoo Jerez de la Fro ntera a board luxurious AI­ and tombs of the West Bank, Edfu, Kom College 2-2 in do uble overtime before Andalus Express. Full orientation tours in Ombo, and Aswan; and Abu Simbel. An exciting encounter with antiquity. $3,499 officials used pen alty kicks to break Lisbon, Sevi lle, and Madrid, deluxe motor­ coach transfers, and all baggage handl ing from NYC . Group arrangements from the deadlock. Rochester. T he football team put on a n offen­ included. $2,795 from NYC. Group arrange­ ments from Roc hester. sive display in th e fina l two ga mes, Vikings, Czars , and Emperors­ crushi ng Brockport, 45-0, at Ho me­ Gota Kanal, Sweden , and Norway-June October 28-November 12 From NYC to Copenhagen (3), Moscow coming a nd thwa rti ng De nison, 38- 14, The highlight of this uniqu e Scandinavian (2) , Beijing (3) , X ian (2), H o ng Kong (3), a week later. J unior wide receiver Tom itin erary is a 3-night cr uise on Sweden's Sheeha n set sing le-game, season, a nd "Blue Ribbon " (t he Gota Kanal) from the and return via San Francisco. Perspective career marks for receivers in the Den i­ Baltic to the North Sea, wit h a midpoint from th e Mermaid to the Kremlin ; to the son game. He ca ught five passes for visit to charming, historic Linkoping. A lso, G reat Wall , Temple of H eaven, and Forbid­ den C ity; to a mythical army of 7,000 terra 189 yards an d three T Ds. Roch ester set 3 nights in Stockholm, 2 in Gothenburg, cotta so ldiers and horses; to the sin gu lar a school record for po ints in a season and 3 in O slo . Unending scenery, history, ga lleries and museums with ghosts of Vik­ scene from Victoria Peak and the bustle of with 296. Seven players were na med to H o ng Ko ng, in an unbelievab ly manageable th e ECAC Upstate A ll-Star team, a nd ings, and lo ng daylight ho urs will flavor thi s program. Deluxe hotels, Scandinavian Round-the-World program. Over-the-water six were cited for the UAA H on o r b reakfasts, all cruise meals, transfers, and fligh ts on SAS and Ca thay Pacifi c, two of Team . luggage handling incl uded. T his o ne is the wo rld 's finest airlines. Many inclusions. d ifferen t. $3,145 -$3,445 from NYC. $3,595 from NYC to Sa n Francisco; favor­ Lowest-price domestic connections will be ab le group an d indi vid ual domestic co n­ Fall Results by Sport arranged . nections available. Foo tball: 8-2 Field hockey: 9-8 Canadian Rockies - August 30-September 10 Me n's cro ss-country: 3rd at NCAAs An II-night program which includes Women's cross-country: 8th at NCAAs Vancouver, Victoria, Lake Lou ise (Chateau Wome n's volleyba ll: 45-14 Lake Louise) , Jasper (Sawridge Hotel), and Banff (Banff Spring s H o tel), relaxi ng and Me n's soccer: 11 - 5- 3 scen ic tour-transfers, all breakfasts and 10 For further information or detailed Women's soccer: 12-3 -3 dinners, plus city to urs of Vancouver a nd Me n's go lf: 6th at ECACs mailers (as they become available) on any Victoria. $2,495 from Rochester o r NYC' ofthe trips announced, contact John Women's tennis: 4-3, 7th at Stat es N.V. $2,075 from Vanco uver, with attractive ' Braund, Alumni Office, University of Men's tennis: 2nd at A lbany Tr. air supplements from major cities to Van­ Rochester, Rochester, N Y 14627, (716) co uver and return fro m Ca lga ry. 275-3682. 37 Ro chester Review/Winter 1988- 89

for the average an cient Greek at 5 foot 7 inches - left little room for today's rowers to stretch out and less room for error. But surely the Greeks had figured all this out long ago. After all, the Athenians used ALUMNI a fleet of triremes to fend off the Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. They must've left instructions, right? Wrong; no rem ains or plans of any triremes have ever been found . Our knowl edge is limited to clue s glea ned from anci ent texts and bits of decorated pottery. The builders and rowers started from scratch. "The ancient Greeks refined their desi gn over hundreds of years; we had just two weeks to figure out how to row the thing." Even when all went well, O/ympias " T here are 170 people crammed into a managed a top speed of only 9.6 knots in bo at that's twice the length o f a modern its 20th -century incarnation. That's slower eight-man shell," says Knakel. "You can 't than an eight-man shell , slower even than see your oar, and there's only a couple of a sin gle shell, says Knakel. You ca n forget inch es between yo ur blade a nd the next. abo ut water skiing. If you hit the other guy's oar, the domino Now a senior design engineer at McDon­ effect take s over and yo u can screw up nell Douglas in St. Loui s, Knakel never everybody. It's a real challenge in concen­ rowed at Rochester, although the crew club tration. " began in his junior year. He instead devoted The trick, it was discovered, was to get his time to writing for the Campu s Times Row, Row, Row Your Boat the three rowers within each vertical column and working on projects like engine ering The joke goes like this : T he hundred to work together. "It was no harder physi­ an all-terrain vehicle for the Mini Baja. oarsmen on the an cient Greek ga lley have cally than rowing a shell, but more of a test He started crewing when he moved to St. been rowing mightily for hours toward of style and coordination with your fellow Loui s. When the opportunity to row on their destination. They 're pooped. After a rowers. After a while, we developed a sys­ O/ympias carne up, Knakel says he ju st while, the first mate comes into the cabin tem of grunts and groans to signal each " fit the envelope" o f qualifications. with an announcement. "I 've got good other," says Knakel, who was a zygite, a Although in his time off he traveled news and bad news, " he says. "The good middle man, and thankful for that. At aro und the Greek isles like any other tour­ news is, we've sighted land." Cheers erupt; least he wasn't a bottom man, a thalamite. ist, Knakel was busy studying too. "It was the rowers are beside themselves with relief. " T he lower level is a cru mmy place to be; a chance to learn so mething about Greek "The bad news is, the captain wants to go the guys on the top two levels would be history, to look at an an cient ship and water skiing." sweating down on you, there's no air, and see how it was eng ineered." He certainly It wouldn't be easy for those oarsmen to you ca n't see out of the boat. We were wasn 't able to do mu ch sightseeing while oblige their captain; just ask Jeff Knakel '82. always buying gift s for the th alamites be­ he was aboard O/ympias. "The 170 crew He's been there. cause we felt they were abused." members made up IS ton s of ballast, Knakel (foreground of photo above) was For the modern-day rower, challenges roughly half the weight of the ship," he were numerous. The trireme oars are con ­ among the select international team of men explains. "When the ship's moving, you siderably heavier than those normally used and women rowers who descended on the can' t have l5 tons of ballast get up and these days. The cramped quarters -designed Greek island o f Poros last summer to crew walk around." on a modern-day trireme, the big wooden warship used by the Greeks and other an­ cient naval power s. Christened Olympias, the replica was built and launched two years ago, the result of a joi nt effort in ex­ perimental archaeology by the Greek and British governments. It was the first trireme to ply the Aegean in more than 1,500 years . The trireme gets its name from the three­ tiered arrangement of its oars e- lXrof thern, on e per person - that sprout like so many legs from either side of the 11 8-foot hull. The ship looks much like a centipedal water bug, and as you can imagine, keeping all those l3-foot oars moving in perfect har­ mony was a vexing problem even for a crew of experienced rowers.

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H e's len t his suppo rt to the University, "There are prod ucers like th e H oll y too, having se rved as a tru stee (first o n the Hunter c haracter, tho ug h. In fac t, she was bo ard, then in a n hon o rary posit ion , and mod eled after an A BC News pr oducer who now as a life trustee) since 1959. For his used to wor k th e White Hou se bea t. I like work her e and o n " The Hi ll," he received to th ink ['m not like he r -I mean, I don 't a P residen tial Cita tio n in 1958 an d the cry on sc hedu le, l'm not a screame r, an d Hutchi son Medal, the highest hon or the I'm organized enough, I thin k, so thi ngs Univers ity gives to a lumn i, in 1978. don 't get so crazy. We producers are an eclect ic bu nch; we have different styles and different in terests, and that's what ma kes Uncle Sam Broadcast News th e pieces lively." Despit e the pace and the pressure, Eas t­ "One th ing abo ut Sam, he's never been a T he term "producer" is one of th ose ma n has loved th e seven years she's been at gu y who ga ve a good godda m abo ut a n air­ nebulou s job titles - like "technician," A BC News . "I'd de finitely recommend the con d ition ed Mer cede s, " a friend recently "consultant," or " writer" - tha t ca n ma ke job, but you have to be young an d single. rema rked abo ut lon g-ti me Cong ressma n you wan t to ask, "What exac tly do people T he ma in thin g for me is [ have a lways Sam Stratton '37. like that do ?" enjoyed meet ing new peo ple in new places, Ind eed, some yea rs back, Stratto n was For instance, what does a television pro­ learning new subjects, an d co nstantly deal­ known to tour his di strict in his station d ucer prod uce'! We put th e q uest ion to ing with new topics. wagon and bed down in th e back in a Anne Eastman '81, who covers th e mon ey "The hou rs are horrendous, and th e sleepi ng bag. He defended thi s mod e of beat for th e wee kly " Am er ican Agenda" pressures are int ense, bu t whe n you're ou t tra vel, says The New York Times, on th e segm ent on A BC's " World News Tonig ht gro und o f co mmon sense. th ere in th e field ta lking to peopl e and with Peter Je nnings." learning th eir stories, th at's what 's fun. " Last fall, the 15-term Dem ocratic Con­ " Basically, I work wit h th e co rres po n­ gress ma n announced th at he wo uld not dent, in th is case Sheilah Kast , to resea rch seek reelection - which may have Repu bli­ wha t sto ry to tell, how to tell it, and who m ca ns breathing easier, since Stratto n was to interview. T hen we go out wit h a ca mera know n as a cons um mate ca mpaigner. If he crew, film o ur int erviews a nd co ver foo tage, didn 't ca re mu ch for fan cy ca rs and air screen all the materi al , write the piece, and co nd itioni ng, he obvio usly did ca re abo ut when the co rresponde nt puts it a ll together, his co nstit uents in th e Alba ny-Sche nec ta dy ­ we edi t it and the n send the piece to the Troy-Amsterdam a rea of up stat e New York. senior and execut ive producers fo r mor e And th ey returned th e co mpli ment. In th e edit ing . Th en it go es o n the a ir. " 1960s, th e Republican state legisla tu re re­ For one recent assignment - a piece o n dr ew his distri ct , giving their pa rty a two­ flexible ben efits -the schedu le wen t like to-o ne margin in regist ratio n (an a ide says this: Fly fro m New Yor k City to Hou ston, A Successful Operation it used to be ca lled "the subma rine dis trict" arrive II p.m. Wed nes day ; meet ca mera beca use it st retc hed from th e Hudson al­ crew 6:45 a.m. Th urs day; finish shooting Since 1958 when Ernest Bates '62 M be­ most to th e Ge nese e). Sti ll, St ratto n won 10:30 p.m .; meet ca me ra crew 5:45 a.m. Fri­ cam e th e first black stude nt to grad ua te th at year by a rou sin g 12,000 votes. He ran day; fly back to New Yo rk , home by 9 p.m.; fro m Jo hns Hop kin s, he has co ntin ued to for his final term in 1986 virt ua lly unop­ sc reen mater ial Sat u rday; edit piece Sunday. set sta nda rds for min ori ty ach ievem ent. posed . A ll of th at boil s down to one 3 '/ 2- to 4­ He was o ne of the first black neurosur­ Stra tton has almost always bee n a win ­ minute seg ment. geo ns to co mp lete a reside ncy in thi s co un­ ner in almost everyt hing he's don e - fro m Wh ew. tr y (he was th e th ird) . And he no w head s his years at th e Uni versity when he grad u­ " The film Broadcast News was acc urate one of th e first black-owned co mpa nies to ated Phi Beta Kapp a and set a backstrok e in showing the hysteria o f putting together ofle r stock publicly (his was th e fourth). record on th e varsity swim team to his a nigh tly newscast, a lthoug h fo r those of Bat es is cha irma n an d president of service in World War II as a naval co mba t us in th e business, it was a fai rly blown-up America n Share d Hospital Services (ASH S), inte lligence o fficer o n MacA rt hur's sta ff, portrayal," she says. "The probl em I had a Sa n Fran cisco-based co mpa ny with 660 when he won two Bron ze Stars. For a time with th e film is that network ancho rs are emp loyees and 1988 ea rn ings of $44 mil­ after World War II , he was po pular on not dumb talk ing head s; they're alltop­ lion . ASH S co ntrac ts with hospitals and Schenectady radio a nd TV as "Sagebrus h not ch people, with a lot o f educa tion a nd cli nics for part-time use o f medi cal-scan ­ Sa m," for whi ch he sported a false beard experience. Th e idea of so meone who sim­ ning equipme nt for d iagn ostic imaging and and played the ha rm oni ca. ply look s good a nd who happ ens to fall respi rator y th erap y. But he's best known fo r his work on into an anc ho r position - l hat's ju st co n­ " Co ntract-management se rvices is one Capito l H ill, where he cha ired th e House trived. of the fastes t growing health-ca re indus­ Subcommittee on Procurem ent and Mil i­ tr ies, since hospital s have to co ntract out tar y Nu clear Systems a nd served o n th e more a nd mo re of the se rvices that they House Armed Services Com mittee, hel ping used to provide fo r themse lves, " says Bates. to shape the Pentagon's budget. St ratton "An M RI sca nne r, for example, sells fo r has consistently supported a defense build­ abo ut $2.3 mill ion . Few hospitals ca n justify up, bu t he's also taken mo re tradition all y th at kind of expend iture." " libera l" stan ces - for a nation al m inimum T hat makes sense, certai nly. Wh at is welfare pay me nt, fo r eco nomic sa nctio ns harder to conceive of is a neur osur geon again st South Africa, and against an anti­ who und erstands cas h-flow a na lysis a nd bu sing amendment to th e Constitutio n. ROI. It ha ppened by acc ide nt, says Bates. "Like man y doctors, I was look ing fo r tax

39 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 write-offs. In the late '70s, I was approached has been flourishing. Its popularity is by a group of doctors looking for investors grounded in simple economics: It pays to in CT scanners. keep your assets working for you. "The venture immediately started losing " Basically, we perform a service for the money, paychecks bounced - and," he adds, ma re owne r," says Bivin. "Say a breeder laughing, " I was the onl y investor they has a prized old mare that is fertile but is could find. unable to carry foal s to term. He r genes, " I reached into my pocket. And I agreed however, are still valuable. With embryo to run the business in my spa re time. I transfer, she can still produce winners. Al­ found some very good people to help me; so, a young mare being shown or raced can the firm grew from one machine to four be bred, put through embryo transfer, and Meet the Beatles be back out earning money in a week while machines; I bought out the original inves­ For all of you maturing-we won't say tors. At that point I began to real ize that another mare bears the foal. " aging - Beatlemaniacs out the re (if you there was potential." The transfer process, Bivin says, is con ­ th ink your life was forever changed when Soon, he was a convert. " I got a lot of ducted in ho spital-like sterility, complete you heard that first " yeah, yeah, yeah" satisfaction out of seeing that my co horts with mas ks, caps, gown s, and gloves. First, on the Ed Sullivan Show back in '64, you in rural cities could have the same sophisti­ a seven-days-pregnant mare un dergoes a qual ify), here's more fuel for your fire. cated equ ipme nt I had in San Francisco." simp le, 40-minute surgery to draw out the TellMe Why: A Beatles Commentary embryo and the surrounding fluid in a Another compelling reason: " I started to (New York: Alfred A. Knopf ) by Tim Riley glass pipet. The retr ieved fluid is ma ke money." carefully '84GE (at Eastma n, his surname was Mike­ Today, Bates is effectively a full-ti me en­ filtered and delicate ly searched by micro­ sell) offers an exhaustive analysis of some­ trep reneur (although he doe s teach neuro­ sco pe for the embryo, a fragile creature no thing all Beatles fans have always know n surgery one mo rning a week at the Univer­ larger than the head of a pin. The embryo int uitively-why the mu sic works so well. sity of Ca lifornia at San Fra ncisco) . And is then transferred to the uterus of a recipi­ Acco rdi ng to a review in The New York he has a full-fledged sense of purpose en t mare, where the emb ryo matures to Times: " Mr. Riley is remarkably attentive. about his work. term. The success rate of the procedure, He follows not jus t lyrics, melodie s and borrowed from cattle breeders, is up to the " If we physicians ta ke cha rge of our own chord progressions but the text ural eleme nts point where 80 out of 100 embryo trans­ destinies," he says, "we can do a better job, essential to understanding rock - that don't becau se we understand the health-care needs plants will now go on to become normal show up in sheet mu sic: bass and drum of our communities and ".,r ,,"tients." pregnancies, says Bivin . pa rts, shifts in instrumentation, vocal in­ Working with horses is the fulfillment of flection s." a childhood fantasy for Bivin, who grew Sure, there's the inevitable trivia, for up in the south side of Chicago and who, those who like that so rt of th ing : The like man y young girls, slept with visions of bumper-sticker phrase , " Think globally, act Black Beauty and National Velvet prancing locall y," was co ined by John and Yoko; about in her head. " I used to read every­ "Happiness is a warm gun" came from a thing I could about ho rses from the time I slogan of the Nationa l Rifle Associat ion; cou ld make out the letters," she says. " I'd "Hey Jude" was, in part, McCart ney's ask for a horse every Christmas, but my effort to comfort Julian Lennon after his parents wou ld always say ' When you get parents' breakup. older.' They thought I'd grow out of it." But the bulk of the book's 388 pages is Th at love of ho rses endu red through her devoted so lely to the music - indeed, the Horseplay, or B.S. in chemistry at Rochester and her text serves as an illum inating reference for How to Pick a Whinnier M.S. in pharmacology at the University of serious listeners as well as a pleasure cruise Co lorado. for ardent fans who know most of the In the sma ll Texas town of T ioga, abo ut Out west, she began work ing as a med i­ words to most of the songs. halfway between Dall as and the Ok lahoma ca l technician in hospitals and applied her Here's a sample, from the comments on border, Joan Brown Bivin '66 labo rs on the love o f horses to a breeding ope ration on "She Loves You": far-out edge of horse reproduction. the side. She moved the business to Texas "When the first verse begins, it's like a Bivin is founder and manager of the at the height of the horse boom the re, and whole new wor ld ope ning - the mu sic Emtran Ce nter, perhaps the first facility started up the Em tran Center. define s ecstasy. T he verse melod y climbs in the country built exclusively for equ ine The procedure's expe nse keeps her clien ­ right up the scale ('You think you've lost embryo transfer. At Emtran, specialists re­ tele exclusive. Still, as the pri ce drops and your love'), unw inds fro m unison into har­ move embryos from pregnant horses and the Texas eco nomy recovers from the oil ­ mony ('Well I saw her'), and closes with place them in special breeding mare s. The market bust, Bivin has high hopes for her the playfu l bounce John and Pau l take on procedure, though an ethical minefield if Emtran Center. She and her colleagues the word s 'yesterday-ee-ay,' and 'say-ee-ay.' applied to humans, is the newest high-tech have already enjoyed what amounts to a Everything po ints toward the hook - the wrinkle in the big-money, high- stakes world minor miracle in horse breeding: ha rvesting good news - of 'She loves you,' which is of champion horse breeding. and successfully transferring their first set kicked with a syncopated stroke from the Bivin's clients are some o f the nation's of triplets. "The owners were absolutely whole band befo re they finish singing the largest breeders of quarter horses, Arabi­ ecstatic," says Bivin. word 'you.'" ans, Morgans, paints, and appaloo sas. "Far out," in the wo rds of a '60s They are also some of the wealthiest; at adolescent-type. And Riley is mindful o f about $4,800 a pop, emb ryo transfers are adolescents of all ages, who wou ld rather affordable among o nly the very well-hee led. listen to the music than analyze it. He However, since the procedure became com­ begins the book wit h a quote by rocker mercia lly available five years ago, Emtran Elvis Co stello, "Writi ng about music is like

40 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 dan cing a bout architecture ," which at first sec reta ries " in stude nt orga nizations a t a so lo by Steve Gadd '68E (who m Wyre seems to d ism iss th e book o ut o f hand. But coed inst itution -whereas a t a women's has ca lled " the drummer for our ba nd of then aga in - co nside r the relatio nsh ips be­ school, " it is o nly the student's a ims and drumm ers" ). tween space and dancin g, and space and desire s th at affec t what she tries." " I'm kind of the referee when al l o f the a rch itec ture, or wr iting a nd the ea r, a nd Still, what abo ut so cia l life, that one in­ m usicians come togeth er," says Wyre, wh o mu sic a nd the ea r - Riley kn ows there's disputable advantage of coed schools? has di rected a total o f seven World Dru m value to this kind of study : The mu sic of Hecht a ns wers: "As one student sa id to me, productions to da te, the mo st recen t of th e Beatles has mo re to it tha n meets the ' You ju st ha ve to mak e so me decisions and which was in Austra lia last fall. " I like to ea r, and as we read, o ur a ppreciation ta ke so me in itiative. Yo u just have to go let peo ple do what they do best, becau se deep ens. do it. ' It seems to me tha t social life in a that's why I've hired them. T hey represent Riley, who holds a master's degree in sing le-sex institution is a lo t close r to the so me of the finest exa mples of their kind pian o from Ea stma n a nd a B.A. in Eng lish real world." of d rummi ng in th e wo rld ." fro m Oberlin, had plan ned o n teach ing Case dism issed. And wha t does Hecht , He descr ibes World Drums as " a famil y pian o at the co llege level. But when he person all y, find a ppea ling abo ut a n a ll­ o f artists that has been gro wing since 1984 signed the contrac t for Tell Me Way, he women's school? under my directi on a nd that o f my partn er, says , " I suddenly realized tha t - who a! - " I think we' re living in a tim e o f extra or ­ J ohn C ripto n, an entrepreneur/producer I co uld ea rn a livin g writing about thi s, dinary crea tivity fo r women's institutio ns. based in O ttawa ." Performances ar e in the my passion. Hey, I'll get on th at bu s." He's T hos e who are goi ng throu gh college right pla nning for 1990 and 1991 in New Zea ­ now working on a book about Bob Dylan now are going to live the ir lives diffe rentl y land, Australia, Jap an , and the So viet and serving as rock critic fo r th e " al terna­ from the way their moth ers and grand­ Unio n, among ot her places. tive" newspaper, the Boston Phoenix. mothers - as far ba ck in mill ennia as you He says he's been dr eaming o f thi s kind As with all good mu sic critics, Riley want to go - lived theirs. Women a rc taking o f cross-cultura l drumming since 1961 when sim ply loves good music. And in the end it fo r gra nted that th ey will ent er the public he was on tour with the Ea stman Philhar ­ (so rry, but we had to say th at), his book is arena and that thi s is a permanent state of moni a. a celebrat io n o f the mu sic a nd th e chords it affai rs. " We were in Bei ru t. In th ose days I struc k in so man y people. He closes: "It's "And thi s has go t to affect what we do a lways carried a pair of bongos with me, our co nnections with people that mak e us ed ucationa lly. So I ca n't thin k o f an yth ing a nd I wound u p jamming with a Lebanese most hu man, the Beatles seem to be tellin g more exciting than to be the presid ent o f a drumm er who play ed the du rnbek a nd a n us; our inte raction wit h ot hers fu lfills the women's co llege righ t now. " India n wh o played the tabl a. It felt beauti­ biggest part of our humanity." ful ; it pla nted a seed , an d it co nfirmed my As John , Pau l, Geo rge, and Ringo used th eory th at drummers co uld sit down a nd to say, " Yea h, yea h, yeah !" im provise together very quickly." A fter th is and simila r exp eriences o n other to urs, Wyre says, "I though t at that point in my life tha t I would be very inter­ ested in leaving music and so mehow goi ng int o cu ltu ra l relations. But I could n't leave music -and now I see m to be do ing both." In addition to his work with World Drums, Wyre for the past 17 years has been a m ember of Nexu s, Ca nada's prem ier per­ Different Drummers cuss io n ensemble. He also performs with Ever heard of a dholak ? A kwa engg­ the Boston Sym pho ny a nd tea ches at th e wary? A kent on gan, a ra na t, o r a tabla? University o f Toronto. But he see ms to rel­ A School of One 's Own Well, then, how ab o ut a snar e, a vib ra ­ ish most his ro le as mu sica l ambassador ­ Irene Duckworth Hecht '6IG ha s two phone, or a tam bourin e - or a Yamaha DX7 at -la rge. problem s with the practice of admitt ing o r a Ro land Syn c Box, for that matter? "For me, the wh ole essence behind mak­ wom en to formerl y all -male sc hools: o ne, At Ex po '86 in Van cou ver, Ca nada , per­ ing mu sic is to lose yourself in pla ying with what happen s in class, a nd two, wh at hap ­ cuss ionist a nd co m poser J ohn Wyre '63E o ther people a nd simply bec ome so me thing pens out o f cla ss. sy nc hro nized th ese an d co untless other per­ greater. T he Buddhists would ca ll it a 'sa ­ As th e newly a ppoi nted 15th presid en t of cussio n instruments fro m all over t he world mad i' -a meditative sta te o f deep con cen­ Wells College, a highl y rega rde d women 's for "The World Drum Festival. " tra tio n," he says. school in up stat e New York, Hech t has be­ Wyre served as co m poser an d a rt ist ic "Once yo u've been sed uced by th is proc­ co me sort o f a n ad hoc spo keswoman for director for t he extravaganza , which began ess, then to be ab le to mak e a living at it is the mer its of such instit utions. In a recent with a series of small concerts an d culmi­ wonderful. So metimes I sit down and jus t issue o f The Chronicle of Higher Educa­ nated in "The Wo rld Drum Fin a le" - four laugh a r the thought that peopl e pay me to lion, she observes that " women apparent ly sold-o ut per forman ces th at fea tured so me do this." a re soci alized into certai n corners of t he 200 drummers (a nd 45 mikes) an d served As for World Drums, he says, "Th e bo t­ curriculum" at a ll-male schoo ls that have as the focu s of the docu men tar y film, tom line is to provide a n exa mple o f the opened thei r doors to women. " World D rums." Included in th is O lym pics strengt h th a t m usic has to bridge social In other words, you're likely to see fewer for drums (" witho u t the co m petitio n," he ga ps, understanding ga ps, in tellect ual ga ps. wome n maj oring in econ omics th an in qua lifies) was stee l-ba nd mu sic by a n en ­ It shows tha i this grea t var iety o f cultures English at Dartmo uth - or Har vard , o r semble from An tigu a whose so und was de ­ ca n work togethe r in a very positive, joyful Princeton, or Amherst. But not at Wells, sc ribed a s " an incred ib le bundle of joy," way." says Hecht: "Econo mics here bobs so me­ energet ic " drumdanc ing" by Les Com pag­ where ar ound th ird to fifth as th e most nons D'Aka ti o f the Ivo ry Coast, the mili­ Denise Bolger Kovnat popular major. " tar y precision o f th e Qu een 's Lan cashire and Shinji Morokuma As for o ut-o f-class act ivities, she beli eves Regiment Dr um Line, and an electrifyin g that "you're more apt to find the fem a les as 41 ______. ---11 Rochest er Review/Winter 1988-89 I Alumni

Philip Cohen MILESTONES '56G

RIVER CAMPUS of Sutton, DeLeeuw, Clark & Darcy, Roch­ she supervises the interns hip training pro­ ester, where she is responsible for matrimo­ gram. Career Moves nial and family law. Marjorie White '82, M.B.A., Fordham Uni­ Robert Quade '51, named treasurer, Educa ­ Lawrence Brown '75G, named Samu el P. versity; she is now an assistant v.p., middl e­ tional Co nsultants Group, Keene, N.H. Ca pen Professor of Accounting, SUNY mark et commercial lending, Union Bank, James Crum '56, app ointed Midwe st Re­ Buffalo. Los Angeles. gional Man ager, McGraw Co nstructio n Michael Goldman '76, named assista nt pro­ Robert Kowalewski '83, Ph .D., physics, Co., a subsidia ry o f Internati onal Mill fessor o f biology, San Fran cisco State Co rnell University; he has begun work as Service, Inc. University. a resear ch assoc iate, Ca rleto n University, David Fitton '56, named chair, Oti s World­ Enrique Hernandez '76G, named global Ottawa. wide Quality Council. He is director, Oti s product manager, Du Pont. Vincent Tritto '83, J.D., cum laude, St. John's Elevator Engineerin g, which he joined in Marc Kittner '76, app ointed V. p. and man­ University School of Law; he passed the 1986 after 30 years at Pratt & Wh itney Air­ aging staff att orney, Washin gton Mutual New York and the Co mmonwealth o f craft. Savings Bank, Seattle. Massachu sett s bar examinations and is Hugh Fraser '62, '71 G, appointed director o f Clill Rubenstein '76, named asso ciate, Dann now asso ciated with the New York City law curriculum and staff development, Wilson Pecar Newman Talesnick & Kleiman law firm o f Rogers & Wells. School District, near Readin g, Pa. firm, Indian ap olis. David Mitchell '63, named executi ve V.p., Richard Wise '77, named tax manager, Telephone Group, Roche ster Telephone Pasternak Schweizer & Co. publi c acco unt­ Honors/ Elections Co rpo ration. ing firm, St. Louis. Frank Schell '43, reelected president and Christina Munson Schmidt '64, appo inted Arvin Adler '79, named ass ista nt professor tru stee, Th e Society for the Relief o f head , Children's Services, Allen town (Pa.) o f radi ation onco logy, SUN Y Stony Brook . Families of Physician s o f New Jersey. Publi c Librar y. Victor Jenkins '79, named director of Herbert Strohson '45, president, Delta David O'Brien '65G, promoted to professor nati onal accounts, Blue Cross and Blue Dent al Plan of Colorado, elected president, of histor y, Holy Cross Co llege. Shield o f Central New York. Delta Dent al Plans Association, the largest RobertWayland-Smith '65, named Rochester Maureen Stewart '79, '80G, joined profes­ prepaid dental plan in th e U.S. Division president, Chase Lincoln First sional mort gage sales sta ff, First Federal of Henry Thiede '47, pro fessor and chair, Uni­ Bank. Roche ster in Mount Kisco, N.Y. versity of Roch ester Dept. of Obstetrics Lawrence Goodheart '66, '68G, nam ed assist­ Scott Reisinger '80, '87G, nam ed cha ir, his­ and Gynecolo gy, elected president, Ameri­ ant visiting profe ssor o f history, Nichol s tor y dept .,Greens Farm s Academy, West­ can Gyn ecolo gical and Obstetri cal Society. Co llege. port, Conn. Dorothy Durfee Wurtmann '50, elected presi­ Meredith Bernstein '68, opened literar y­ Bradley Goddard '81 , promoted to v.p., In­ de nt, Ridgefield (Conn.) Bran ch, American agency o ffi ce, New York City. vestment Banking Group, Chemica l Bank, Association of University Women. Ernest Rosenberg '68, named direct or, legis­ New York City. David Kearns '52, chair and chief executi ve lation and regulation, health, environment, Danny Smolnik '82, opened law office, officer, Xerox Co rpo ration, elected to and sa fety, Occidental Petrol eum Co rp. Farmington, Conn. board of directors, Ryder System, Inc. Linda Scott Syrell '69G, appointed interim Eric Fliegel '83, '85G, named director o f Philip Cohen '56G, chief hydrologist, U.S. dean, continuing edu cati on, publ ic service, computing, Emory (Uni versity) Business Geological Sur vey, Reston, Va., presented and summ er sessions, SUNY Oswego. Schoo l, Atlanta. Presidential Distinguished Rank Award by Stephen Smith '71, '73G, formed the Roch­ Debra Mathinos '84G, '86G, nam ed assistant President Reagan . ester accounting and fina ncial services professor, Dept. o f Edu cation, Buckn ell Robert Schoenberg '66 , president o f the firm, Suss, DeMott & Smith. Un iversity. board of directors of Action AIDS, named Clarence Bassett '72, named publ isher, Ne w Alexandra Filia-Keegan '87G, named an 1988 Social Worker of the Year by the York Business Environment, an ind epend­ officer and assistant man ager, Citibank, Phil adelphia and Brandywine (Pa.) divi­ ent newsletter reporting on environmental Rochester. sions o f the Nati on al Association of Socia l affairs in New York . Workers. Nancy Moore Mark '72G, nam ed principal, Robert Thompson '66G, named fellow, Pawlet (Vt.) School District. Advanced Degrees Am erican Society o f Mechanical Engi­ Alan Bernstein '73, nam ed chair, Dept. Karen Thompson Greene '69, Ph .D., clinical neers. He works in the corporate research of Pediatrics, Th e Brookl yn Hospital / psychology, NYU; she has begun work at and development dept ., General Electric Caledonian Hospital. the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where Co mpany, Schenectady. Roberta Kirsch Feldman '74, joined law firm Margot Kopley '74, awarded med ical psycho­

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David Mitchell '63 Cliff Rubenstein '76

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therapist nat ional board certificatio n; listed Mark Parker '76GE, named assistant minis­ New Music Orchestral Proj ect at the Man­ in the National Registry ofMedic al Psycho­ ter, Bridgeport Baptist Churc h, Clarksburg, hatt an Schoo l of Music. He has completed therapists. W. Va. , where he conducted a concert by a string quartet composition begun in resi­ Mark Bartusis '7S, professor of histor y, The West Virginians performance choir. dency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Northern (S.D.) State College, named Jerry Evans '81 E, named prin cipal oboist, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow, Harvard Asheville (N.C.) Symphony; English University. horn ist, Greenville Symphony; and music Elliott Lichstein '77, member of Westwood director and conductor, Mostly Modern Performances/Recordings (N.J.) Cardiology Associates and atte nding Chamber Players, a contempora ry music Robert Glasgow 'SOE, 'SIGE, professor of physician in cardiology, Pascack Valley ensemble. organ, University of Michigan School of Hospital and Hackensack Medical Center, Susan Albig Anderson 'S2GE, appointed Music, performed in the opening recital elected fellow, American College of Cardi­ teacher, Pioneer (N.Y.) Cent ral School of the sixth annual organ semina r at the ology. District. Interlochen Center for the Arts. Scott Argast '7S, assistant professor of Gregory Galligan '82E, app ointed New Yor k Taavo Virkhaus 'S7GE, '67GE, conductor of geology, Indiana-Purdue University at contributing editor, Art International the Duluth (Minn.) Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne, named IPFW Sigma Xi magazine, an English-language quarterly conducted the opening performan ce of the " Researcher of the Year." published in Paris and distributed in the \988- 89 season of the Huntsville (Ala.) Jonathan Lunine 'SO, assistant professor, U.S. and Europe. Symph ony Orchestra. Dept. of Planetary Sciences and the Lunar Tanya Gille '84GE, jo ined piano faculty, John Davison 'S9GE, professor of music, and Planetary Labora tory, University of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Haverford College, attended the per­ Arizona-Tucson, awarded \988 Harold C. She was former ly chair, music dept., Texas formance of his Co ncerto for Flute and Urey Prize by the Division for Planetary Wesleyan College, and was named College Orches tra at the Orange (N.J.) County Sciences of the American Astronomical Teacher of the Year by the Fort Worth Community College. Society. Music Teache rs Association. Elizabeth Goldstein '84, named managing Douglas Besterman '86E, named assista nt editor, Stanford Law Review. musical director/ synthesizer player for Revnard Rudolph '87G, manager, National the Off Broadway revival of "Godspell," Fuel Gas Co., named a Buffalo Black to which he also contributed new orches­ Key Achiever in Industry award winner. trations. Audrey Cupples '86E, embarked on four­ RC - River Campus colleges year tour of duty with the U.S. Marines G - Graduate degree, River Ca mpus Books Published as a member of "The President's Own" colleges Esther Simon Shkolnik '71, author, Leading Marine Band. M - M.D. degree Ladies: A Study of Eight Late Victorian Heather Buchman '87E, named principal GM - Graduate degree, Medicine and and Edwardian Polilical Wives, Garland trombo ne, San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Dentistr y Press. R - Medical residency F - Fellowship, Medicine and Dentistry Honors/Commissions E - Eastm an School of Music EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC George Walker 'S6GE, chair, music dept., GE - Graduate degree, Eastman Rutgers University, awarded commission N - School o f Nursing Career Moves for new musical works from the Serge GN - Graduate degree, Nursing AI Perner '63GE, appo inted music lecturer, Koussevitzky Music Founda tion in the FN - Fellowship, Schoo l of Nursing University of Wisconsin Center-Marshfi eld/ Library of Congress. U - University College Wood County, where he also directs the Scott Lindroth 'SOE, composer and perform ­ GU - Graduate degree, University College Campus Band and Jazz Ensemble. er, awarded commission for new musical James Poulliott '6SE, '67GE, appointed works from the Serge Koussevitzky Music company director, Lake George Opera Foundation in the Library of Congress . Festival, and guest professor of opera, David Thomas '83GE, honored by the Manhattan School of Music. National Orchestral Association, which Susan Grettler Brooks '69GE, ap pointed selected his Oboe Concerto for its 1988- 89 associate professor of music, Go rdon College, Wenham, Mass.

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Alexandra Filia-Keegan '87G Donald Magilligan, Jr. '74R c z -c :i. -c I I ., James Poulliott i '65E, '67GE

Anthony Cra in '60G E, faculty member, Sylvia Wang '85GE, assista nt pro fessor of Minoo Buchanan '86G M, opened pediatri c SUNY Oswego, per formed "B aroque at the pian o, Univer sity of Iowa School of Music, den tistr y office, Delm ar, N.Y. Piano," featuring work s of Bach an d was piano soloist with the university's Scarlatti, at the Mas terworks series in the Symphony Orchestra, performing Mo zart's school's Hewitt Union . Piano Co ncerto in C Minor. Honors/Elections Thomas Stacy '60E, English horn, New York Julie Stout '86 GE, con certmaster, Finger Allred Decker '40R C, '43M , surgeon, Gener­ Philharmoni c, and faculty member, Juilliard Lakes Symphony Orchestra, was violin solo­ al Ho spit al, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , named School and Manh att an Sch ool o f Mu sic, ist with th e orchestra in a per formance of cha ir o f the hospit al's $750,000 fund ­ performed in a concert hon oring the Society Saint-Saens' " Introduction and Rond o raising driv e. for the Perform ing Arts' 10th anniversa ry Capriccioso ." Todd Wasserman '68RC, '72M , named fel­ at Trinity Ca thedral, Trent on , N.J. Shaw Walker '87E, a ppea red with a so lo low, Am erican Coll ege o f Radi olog y. Stanley Sussman '60E, '62GE, guest­ ensemble in a perform ance of Chavez's Karl Marchenese '74M , '79R, a physician at conducted the Spo leto Festival U.S.A., Toccata for Percussion Instruments with Thompson Ho spital, Cana nda igua, N.Y. , Charleston, S.c., and was prin cipal con­ the Annapolis Sy mpho ny Orchest ra elected v.p., New York State Ophthalmo ­ ductor for the Martha Graham Dan ce Co. Percussion Ensem ble. logical Society. performance at New York's City Center. David Greenhoe '64 E, facult y member, Uni versity o f Iowa, was solo trumpet in MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY SCHOOL OF NURSING Haydn 's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major in a con cert with the school's Symp hony Career Moves Career Moves O rchestra. Roger Hertz '63R C, '67M , na med chair, Elaine Lamberson Hopkins '58N, returned to Michael Webster '66E, principal flutist with Ob./Gyn. dept., Providence Hospit al, full-time nursing , newborn nursery, John­ the Rochester Philharmoni c Orchestra Southfield , Mich. son City (Tenn .) Medical Center Hospital, since 1968, was featured so loist with the Philip Singer '64RC, '69M, named professor an affi liate of Quillen-Dishn er College o f Redland s (Calif.) Sympho ny Orchestra at a of neu rology, University of Kansas Medi cal Med icine, Eas t Tennessee State Uni versity. Un iversity of Redland s con cert, where he School. He was also appointed chief of Donna Kinney Smith '78GN, appo inted v.p, performed wor ks of Mozart, Mend elssohn, neuro logy and director, Neuromuscular of nursing, Newark -Wayne (N.Y.) Hospital. and Saeverud. Disease Center, Kan sas City V.A. Hospi tal. Pamela Austin Thompson '79GN, appo inted Gerard Niewood '70E, released the co mpact Donald Magilligan, Jr. '74R, appointed chief, v.p, of nursing, Maternal C hild/ Psychiatry, disc Gerry Niewood A lone on the Perfect card iothoracic surgery, and professor, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital­ So und label. Th e recordi ng includes solo surgery, University of Ca lifo rnia-San Dartmouth Hit chcock Medical Center, improvisations on a lto, tenor, and so prano Francisco Dept. of Surgery. Han over, N.H. saxes and on alto flute. John Ferris '76M, '77R, named medical Adah Toland Mosello '7 IE, '72GE, music dire ctor, Th e Hampden Distri ct Ment al faculty member, So uthwest Texas State Health Clinic, ln c., Spri ngfield, Mass. Honors University, conducted th e school's Flute Joseph Antonowicz '82M, appoi nted Janet Bostrom Ezrati '75 N, awarded post­ Choir in a performance in Recital Hall. con sult ation-liaison psychiatrist, psychiatry doctoral fellowship, Nat ion al Center for Leigh Howard Stevens '75E, c1 assical ma rim­ dept., Allentown (Pa.) Hospit al-Lehigh Nursing Research , Na tiona l Institutes o f bist, performed in the New Views/ Oth er Valley Hospital Center. Health. She has begun study a t the Sta n­ Voices 1988-89 Series at SUNY Buffalo. Michael Gordon '82M, gra nted pri vileges, ford Univer sity School of Medicine. He was nom inated for Artist of the Year intern al med icine, end ocrinology, and Jacquelyn Campell '86GN , associate profes­ and Album of th e Year awards by Ovation met abolism, Beverly (Mass .) Hospit al. He sor and interim cha ir, community-health magazine's 1988 readers' poll. ha s opened offices in Ipswich and Topsfield. nursing dept. , Wayne Sta te University Stanley Yerlow '80GE, was guest piano John King '84M , granted privi leges, Depts, Co llege of Nur sing, Detroit, elected fellow, recita list at West Georgia Co llege, where he of Medi cine, Pedia trics, Obstetrics, Sur­ American Academy o f Nurs ing. per form ed work s of Ch op in. In Decemb er ger y, and Emergency Med icine, F. F. Karen Rich '86G N, associa te professor of he appeared in his second Carnegie H all Thompson Memorial Hospital, Canan­ nur sing , New Hampshire Technical Insti­ perform an ce. daigua, N.Y. tute, Con cord , N.H., certified by A.N.A. as Harriet Squier '84R, opened family practice gerontological nurse pra ctitioner and listed office at Northern Oswego Co unty Health in Who's Who in A merican Nursing. She Ser vices, Inc., Pulaski, N.Y. has begun an M.Ed. program at Pl ymouth Stat e Co llege. 44 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89

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Virgin Gorda (British Virgin Islan ds). O ur part-time home. Year-round swim ming A final note: My son Mark, Class of '89, weather, low humidity, wo nderf ul snorkeling, has been broadcasting a ja zz program this beache s. G robma n '41G , '44G, 507 North yea r. My work on WRUR has come full 13th St ., Apt. 301, St. Lou is, Mo. (314) circle . 241·9177 . Barry Robinson '57 West Redding, Conn. Rate: 75 cents a word. Post Office box numbers and hyphenated words count as two words. Street num bers, telephone num­ Quick Flip-Slap bers, and state abbreviations count as one word. No chargefo r zip code or class I find the revamped Rochester Review numerals. interesting, and the Fall issue had particu­ Send your order and payment (checks larly good articles. payable to University of Rochester) to BUT "Classified Inf ormation," Rochester Review, In your search for efficiency, it probably 108Administration Building, University of seems like a good idea to file various alum­ Rochester, Rochester, N Y 14627. ni tidbits under appropriate headings like Your "Marx-fest" photo in the Fall 1988 "Career Moves," "Advanced Degrees," Review instantly reminded me of a cold "Books Published, " etc., and with a quick Halloween evening 15 yea rs ago in a n un­ flip-slap of the hands get that over with. derground Hill Court suite (actually, the Unfortunately, the human condition is underground Hill Court suite). Attached, such that a tidbit about one's classmate far for yo ur viewin g enjoyment, is a photo outranks a grander one for a graduate 20 from that night. A free EI Producto to any­ years away. one gue ssing this Groucho's identity. (Hint: AND He has since changed movie studios. ) The omission of the chronolog ica l obitu­ Randy P. Auerback '76 PRESIDENT aries removes the most interesting section Washington, D.C. (continued from page 2) of the magazine (and the first checked). Over the yea rs I have watched the C lass of '40 slide inexorably from the end of the list Two Pats student body. Not quite. There is grow­ to the middle and begin to edge its way up . 1 should like to rep ort my plea sure over ing consensus that SAT scores are now [ look at those names and think of their two happenings at the University of Roch­ overblown as indicators of a college's owners as they were and grieve a little, and ester. ranking. In fact, the American Council think of my own mortality. Thi s isn't mor­ The first of the se is the report in the on Education and the College Board bid; thi s is human nature. 1987-8 8 Report on Giving of the gift by have suggested that colleges not release Please restore this sectio n, and the the Class of 1988 of a wheelchair lift in median or average SAT scores for the W ilson Commons. Unusual, perhaps, but chronological approach in general. purposes of newspaper or college guide splend id in its message, "We Care." Olive Fosburg Reardon '40 rankings. We agree, and in line with Glen Ellyn, III. The second is the book University of We agree that the "human tidbits 'tform Rochester, filled with ma gnifi cent photo­ their recommendations now report only an important part of our alumni publica­ graphs, mainly in color, of campus and the range of scores for the middle 50 tions, and that is why Alumnotes (alon g Rochester scenes. I am mo st happy to have percent of admitted students. with In Memoriam) was moved to our bought it and recommend its purchase to The basic strength of universities is companion publication, Rochester '89, other alumni and alumnae. the quality of the faculty who teach, where we had room to expand on that kind John S. Phillipson '47 not the students who come to learn ofcoverage. The "flip-slap" (marvelous C uya hoga Falls, Ohio or enjoy the skiing. Faculty quality is term!) treatment ofMile stones in the Th e testimonial for the book was totally much more elusi ve, and it seem s to Review is our attempt to supp lem ent unsolicited. But since Phillipson brings it elude the journalists entirely. up, we'll tell y ou that The University o f Alumnotes with even more news ofyour Next year, if we make some sort fellow alumni. And we hope y ou'll all Rochester, A Photographic Portrait is still of glory list, I assure you that we will continue to send it to us- Editor. available. For information, y ou can call th e alumni office, (716) 275-3682 - Editor. boast proudly (but sheepishly) about the fact. Our excellence ha s been build­ ing for nearly a century and a half; we can wait for the weeklies to catch up with us.

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ban ski views the co ntract as a step toward a ble marriage between unionism and teach­ transforming the career of teaching into a ing," usin g th e tool of collective bargain­ true profession - which includes holding ing to " build a genuine profession for teachers accountable for student perform­ teach ers." ance. It loo ks as though he' s well on his way­ On a larger sca le, the contract is the bu t he, most likely, wou ld di spute that. foundation o f an ambitio us experiment in "What I am not willin g to do is to pro m­ education al reform now tak ing place in the ise qu ick fixes," he says, standing agai nst Rochester City Schoo l District (an effort the backdrop of a Solidarity pos ter that in which the University, Kodak, a nd the hangs beh ind his desk . Urban League have all been key players). "It's not important to me that all the se According to U. S. News and World Report , thi ngs happen in my lifetime." " Natio nal educati on experts say Roche ster's expe riment is further along th an any in America." 1975: "Going to Go Places " But , true to form, Urba ns ki says only that "its greatest achievement so far is that ADAM URBANSKI '69, '756: it hasn't failed yet. " To him, thi s isn't so much a bleak assessme nt as a hu mb le o ne: At the Head of the Class "It recognizes the complexity of the issue. What we're tryi ng to do is something that's never been do ne in America befo re." 1989: A Leader in Th is "something" happen s to be Urban­ ski's passion. He's pa rticipa ted in a pro gram Educational Reform on "Making the System Work for Ch ildren in Povert y" spo nso red by Harvard's Ken­ nedy School of Government, and he's on the board o f the National Center for Ed u­ cation and the Economy. In co nversatio n and in writin g, he ha s a penchant for using As a Rochester graduate student, Adam medical met aphors to underscore the diffi­ Urba ns ki got his first taste o f po litics. culties involved: Reforming education is That's when he was teaching full time at "no less complicated than finding a cu re Franklin Hi gh School, part tim e at Monroe for ca ncer"; giving rook ie teachers the Community Colle ge, and part time at the toughest assignments is like having "i nterns University - in addition to be ing a full-t ime perform heart surgery " ; "saying that 'all student. (He remembers that he'd leave you have to do to be a good teacher is love home at ab out six in the morning and re­ kid s' is like saying th at 'all you have to do turn at one the next morning. "My chil­ Call him a revolutionary and Adam to be a good surgeo n is love pat ients.' " dren knew me as 'Uncle Daddy,' " he says.) Urbansk i will an swer, quickly and qu ietly, He knows whereof he spea ks, since ­ So the budding activist decided to re­ "Thank you ." except in his native Po land - he ha s tau ght arrange class sched ules to fit his sched ule: Indeed, thi s union leader with a Ph.D. in in every schoo l he has attended, from "I went to each professor an d asked if I history seems bent on attacking every sacred Fra nk lin H igh to Monroe Community co uld have pe rmission to lobby wit h ot her cow that sta nds in his way- he's a un ionist College to the Unive rsity of Rochester, students to cha nge the time of the class ." who ca utions against "the narrowminded where he cur rent ly teac hes a course o n It was a lesson in co mpromise: " I eventu ­ perspective of 'w hat's in it for me,' '' and Community Issu es in Public Education. ally gravitated towa rd tho se co urses that I he's a teacher who contends that both (U rbanski's family carne to this co untry wanted but that also had lower regist ration. teaching and schoo ls today are " largel y from Po land in 1960, when he was 14, after And I fou nd out tha t sometimes the most hostile to the process of learning." fleeing through 13 co untries in three an d a avoi ded professors were the mo st inter­ Such a perspective ma y be just what it ha lf years, but that's another story alto­ esting." take s to achieve his goal: nothing sho rt of gether.) Ronald Harrington, an associate profes­ a rad ical cha nge in our public-school sys­ As a graduate student at the University, so r of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and tem, so that it succeeds in educating the while he was teaching full time at Franklin, Linguistics, tau ght Urbans ki as an under­ maj ority o f students. As the head o f the he considered tea ch ing in a college setting grad ua te and la ter served o n his disserta­ Rochester Teachers' Association, the union as a career. But , he says, " It seemed to me tion defense com mittee. He de scr ibes him representing the cit y's 2,300 teach ers, Ur­ th at the younger the age of the student, the as a student who was " full of energy" and banski in 1986 negotiated a sa la ry hike that more cha llenging - to use a euphemism ­ who worked hard. put his teachers among the highe st paid it is." But more to the point, he says, is a co m­ anywhere, with some earning as mu ch as So, characteristically, he went with the ment he vivid ly remembers from a no ther S70,000 a yea r. cha llenge: He tau ght in cit y high schools profe ssor on Urbanski's dissertation com­ Th e agreement was onl y one element o f and was acti ve in union activ ities through m ittee: "I don 't recall exact ly who said it, a three-year co ntract that includes a "Peer 1981, when he was elected union president, but the words were that he's so meone we're Assistance and Review" program to involve a full-time position. First on his agenda as going to have to keep our eyes on , becau se teachers in monitoring quality within their president was "to bring about a comfo rt­ he' s going to go places." own ra nks, as well as a "Career in Teach­ ing" pro gram that establishe s four profes­ sio na l levels: intern teacher, resident tea cher, Den ise Bolger Kovnat professional teacher, and lead teacher. Ur­

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AN ADDmONAL NOfE OF THANKS • • • And an apology to some of our staunch supporte rs whose names were incorrectly listed or inadvertently omitted fromthe 1987-88 Report on Giving. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the followi ng:

RUS H RH EES Merle G Gallagher, '53 Victor Markiewicz Thomas E. C. and PRES ID ENTS SO CIETY Mildred Pembroke Loe ffler Jerome andRuth Markin Mary Louise Bratt Mees Mrs. Margaret Welcher Davis Dr. Wende W. Logan Holly Marks Dr. Barry A. Mei se\' '53 Anthony V. Lomba rd Dr. La wrence F. Markus, '59 and Douglas R. Melena, '72G MARTIN BREW ER AND ERS ON Joy Flem ing Loomis , '49 Beth Markus Edward A. Meltzer, '73G PR ESI DENTS SOCIETY Robert A. Lo renson Marilyn Marlett e, '70 Dr. Dean F. Melville, '70, '73M, '75R Dr. NormanJ. Ashenburg, '38, Dr. Robert W. Loss, Jr., '78M, '81R Dr. Hugo D. Marple, '49GEand Jean Hoyt Melville, '45 and '40GM, '51M and Elsie Siegl Elmer Louis Annette L. Marple, '49 W. Robert Melville, Jr. Ashenburg, '41, '42N Dr. Grace Loveland, '31M Pat rick D. and Pe nny Martin Emanu el S. Mendelson, '79GE Dr. William E. Lovett. '56G Dr. JeffreyW. Marx, '58 Dr. Ka rl H. Meng, '34, '35G, '39G ALAN VALENTINE Esther Lowenlhal Alan B. Mason Barry M. Meye r, '54 PRES IDEN TS SOC IETY Andrea B. Lowman Dr. Robert J. Massa, '73, '74G Dr. Garson Meyer, '19" Mrs. DuncanCameron Dr. Joseph Lowy, '80M Marian E. Masseth* Joanne E. Meyers, '77Gand Richard S. an d Malinda Berry Fischer Dr. Milton M. t u. '52GM , '49Rand Barbara F. Mastro, '58 Philip T. Meyers Mrs. Herbert W. Griffin Hiltrud Lu Davia B. Matteson , '57 Peter C. Mignerey, '70, '72G, '79G Dr, Ron ald F. Ka plan, '58M Janice Chal merLUbell, '53 and Earnest W. and Martha Maurer and Dr. Alice Cox Mignerey, '71, Dr. Kathleen B. King, '75G N, '84GN Richard Lubell Walter H. May, '43 and '73G, '75G and Dr John R. Laing, '75G Marian E. Luciu s, '32, '34G Marie May. '52N, '58 John E. Millard Dr Leonor Rivera-Calimlim and Howard J. LUding ton, Jr. GeorgeA. Mayo Agnes Miller, '29 Dr. Jose Calimlim IdaWatt Ly nch, '25 and Dr. Dorothea F. McA rthur, '65 Flora Miller, '25 Dr. Paul Sam uelson, '68M, '72Rand Gerald F. Lynch" Eleonore Bruese McCa be, '73 Or. Glenn A. Miller, '75GM, '75R Dr. Carole Wilkerson Sam uelson , Dr. Ri chard G. Lynch, '55M and Dr. Martin P. McCann, '71M, '73R Michael G. Miller '72R Nancy A. Lync h, '52N and Sandra Briggs McCann J. Gorm ly Miller, '35 and LouiseSullivan Smith, '35, '38N Mabel F. Lyon Ro bert J. McCart Mildred Bevan Miller, '32 Dr. Hamilton H. Mabie, '40 and Ro ger T. McC leary. '69 Virginia D. Milley, '53 ROCHESTER FELLOWS Margaret Ma bie, '38 Thomas J. McCleary, '41 and Or. William E Mimmack, '73G Allred O. Gi nke\, '44 and Or, William J. MacKnight, '58 Ru th Meyer McCleary,'42 Fannie Miller Mindel, '47 Jean Henderson Gi nkel Dr. William C. MacQuown, Jr.. '38, Donald D. McC owan , Jr.,'39 and Kenneth L. Minier, '55 Keith T. Glover, '71 and '40G Marion Scholts McCowan Or. William F. Mink. '59M Anna- Louise Glover Dr. William A. MacVay William L. McCoy, '63, '81Gand Arthur L. Minor, '52 LawrenceS. He rsnon. '73G and Dr. James B. MacWhinney, Jr.. '54M Lynne ViII now McCoy, '53 Williamand Karina Mitchell Eleanor Hershoff and Nancy A. MacWhinney, '53N G. Kennedy McCurdy and Althea Mix-Bryan, '75N Neal M.Jewell,'57 and John J. Mahar, '78G I. Catherine McC urdy Michael F. Mizesko, '80, '82G JoanJewell Robert W. Maher, '37 and Esler N. McFarland. '21 Lillian Johnson Moe hlman Dr. William C. Luft. '52, '55M Mary Jane Maher Douglas McGraw Dr. Jeffrey A. Mogerman. '73 Donald E. McConville, '35 and Susan Everett Makowski, '63 Dorothy Mcilroy, '29, '29G Deanne Molinari, '58 MonicaMason McConville, '35 Carol S. Malanowski Dr. Edward C. Mclrvine , Jr.. '77E Robert W. Moorh usen, '70G Charles F. Se uffert. '3D" and Eileen Malone, '28E Davi d E. McKelvey Dr. John A. Morelan d, Jr., '67R Dorothy Marples seunert, '25 Dr. Ba rry A. Maltzma n, '56 and James T. McKinlay, III, '59 John L. Morgan, Jr., '41 Eand Dr. David H. Smith, '58M and Joan Joya Maltzman Susan McLaughlin Virginia Peters Morgan, '39E Margo t Smit h (also Life Mem bers) Jesse Maneti Charles A. McNealus, '54 Mary Dalton Morga n, '47 and Ed ward O. Stephany, '37, '38G Dr. George T. Manitsas, '54M Helen McNerney, '55GN Gerald Morgan, Jr. Mrs. Lyman K. Sluart (also Life Pat rick J. Mannelly, '76 Eva F. McNett, '53 William H. and Member) Dr. JamesA. Manning William W. and Elea nor Eisenhart Morris Paul and Marion Wen tworth Dr. Walter S. Marchand, '39E, '42GE Eleanor Atterbury McOuil kin Dr. Lewis B. Morrow, '50M and and Emma Marchand Ellsworth E. McSweeney, '38Gand Be neth Brigham Morrow, '55, '58G ASSO CIATES Marshall Marcovitz Margaret Tew inkel McSweeney, Dr. Vincenl S. Mosca. '73, 'l8M Mr. ('43) and Mrs. O. Ross Ad ams Dr. Elias J. Margaretten , '33 '35N James S. Moser, '77Gand Dr. Irving Baybutt. '45, '47M and Susan E. Mead, '72 Ruth Freier! Moser Betty Pearson Ba ybutt, '45 Dr. Pa ul G. Meadows , '77M Ruth Sparr Mowry, '34 and Elizabeth K Cowan, '83 Dr. Ed win J. Medden, '35M and Newell W. Mowry Russell Craytor, '35 ana Virginia Luehm Medden, '34, '35N Sylvia M. Muehling, '41E, '43GE Josephine Kelly Crayto r, '45, '60G Or. Leonard R. Mees , '72M (continued on page 48)

47 Rochester Review/Winter 1988-89 AN ADDITIONAL NOTE OF THANKS (continued/rom page 47)

Dr. Harold Mueller. '55GE and Dr. Thomas E Page, .78M, '50M and Dr. No rman W. Portnoy, '63 and Anonymou s Beatrice Mueller Julia Allen Page Ellen Portnoy Dr. Eldon E. Ronning, '59Gand Dr. Peter E. Mulbury. '70M, '77R Vivian A. Palladora, ' 75G Ricnard N. Potte r, '55 and Virginia Ro nning Zita M Muller Doris Kenell Palmer, '45 Janet Maney Potter, '53 Ale xander L. Ro senberg Denise Munchmeyer. '48 Pete r Palmer, '51 and Dr. Keith Powelland Seymour J. Rosenbloom. '66 and James R. Mundy. '85, 'S6G Melba Potter Palmer, '50E Dr. Michele Hooper Beth Anne Wolf Rosenbloom Irene Muntz, '25 Dr. Donald L. Panh orst, '59GE, '58GE Dr, William E. Powell, '56. '60M Ba rry P. Rosenthal . '70 and Dr. Wayne Myers , '56M and Do rothy Panho rst Helen Blackburne Power, .27 and Joan Krinsly Rosenthal Dr. Mahendra Nanavati Dr. Berna rd Pann er, '51R Kenneth T. Power Donald H. Ro ss, '39 and Dr. Malcolm A. Nanes, '54 and Albert H. Parker Dr. Francis M. Powers . Jr.. '71M, Grace Jackman Ros s Alice Jaffe Nanes Dr. Robert E. Parker, Jr., '52 and '75R, '83GM and Kay J Rat e. '51 and Helen Pitzer Nason , '50N and Joyce Ereth Parker Ca ryn Elly Powe rs, '59 Shirley Snyder Rate Ric hard L. Nason Virginia Iseman Parmelee, '49 and Marian Berger Po ze , '35 and James L. Ro th, '54 Walter H. Nauma nn, '53 Marvin Parmelee Samue l Poze Dr. Robert R. Rothfu s.41 and Dr. Earl A. Neal, '70M and Betty Parnell Jeffrey L. Pu nton. '76, '77G Dr. Helen Tefft Rothfus. '39 Sandra L. Nea l, '59N David L. Parr Rollert E. Purcell . '74 and Dr. Gilbert R. Rowan , '67M and John E. Neff. '83Gand Donald A. Pa rry, '51 and Heather Purcell Darlene Holier Rowan Martha L. Taylor, '83G Gretch en Towner Parry, '51N Jeanne W. Quackenbu sh Dr. Jacob M. Rowe Ethel A. Nelson , '50, '53N George R. Parsons, Jr. and Rob ert W. Qu irk, '72 and Pearl Waxman Rub in, '52Gand John H. Neun Katherine Pa rsons Cathy Ischappat Quirk Sydney R. Rubin Grantier L. Neville , '34' and Arthur G. Pasto r, Jr.. '58 and Dr. Lawrence J. Radice. '34M and Eli H. Rudin , '34 and Peggy Finucane Neville Suzanne C. Pasto r Anne Radice Miriam Rotkowitz Rud in. '31 Walter C. Newcomb, '40, '42Gand Lowe ll C. Patrie, '57, '58G and Mary Mary K. Rahm low Seymour Rudin Muriel Bullinger Newcomb, '43, '45G Jean Thornton Patrtc, '68, '72G Frederick W. Randall , '30 and Dr. Jeffrey P Rudnick , '63 and Th eodo re and Marian Newma rk Dr. John W. Patrick, '55M and Cha rlotte D. Randall Susan Altus Rudn ick Frances A. Nimarofl, '32E Linda Aldock Pa trick Dr. Donald Ran kin, '55M and MaryG. Meltzer Rus sell. '51 and Allen Nitsche lm, '83 and Edgar W. Pattison, '53 and Nancy OeM eli Rankin John Russe ll Margaret K, Ko hin-Nitschelm , '83 Dania Pattison William A. Ranney Ignazio Russo Ken neth Noble Carl F. Paul, Jr., '32 and Ben jamin Raphan , '59 and Maryella Helms Ruth . '48. '49N Dr. Jay Noqi, '58 and Lillian Neill Pau l Myrna Ra phan James D. andJoan K. Ryan Sand ra Do linger Nog i Emmanu el C. Paxnla. '54 and Richard A. Rasmu ssen . '72, '79G Dr. Ke lvin N. Sachs, Jr.,'56Gand Dr Ka thleen R. Noll , '78 Marian Piper Paxhla and Sharon Johnson Rasm ussen Ann T. Greenhalgh Dr. James Norbury, Jr. Dr. K. Bradley Pa xton, '66G, '71Gand Arthur Rath Joseph H. saner, '72, '73G and Stuart E. Norris, '55 and Joyce Paxton Don ald B. Reaves , '75 and Fe rn Av idon saner Carol Rice Nor ris, '54 Ke nneth A. an d Heidi F. Payment Celia Carte r Reave s, .75 Hen ry W. Sakrison. '47 and Dr.W. Euge ne Notz , '55M and Dr. Ovid Pearson. '37Rand Dr. Helen Redman, '57 and Joan ne Bradford saknson . '45 Jocelyn Bu ll Not z, '58 Marie Erhart Pearson, '33E Marten F. Klop . Robert M. Salisbury, '85G Kenneth M. Novak, '75 and Maurice B Pe ndleton, '25 and Rober1 D. Reeves, '49 and Marcel Sand Suzanne We iss, '75 Alice Hester Pendleton Maureen Reeves , '58G Dr. Seymo ur J. Sandler, '54, '58M Joa n R. Nusbaum, '58 and Dr. David D. Perkins, '41 and Dav id Reh , '67G andSue A. Hen . '63 and Sandy Susswei n Sa ndler, '59 Be ryl Nusbaum Dorothy Newmeyer Perkins Mary M. Re imann Samuel A. Santandrea , '56 and Dr. Robert E. Nye, Jr.. '45M, '51GM Dr. Peter T. Perki ns, '58R. '58GMand Eugene R. Re nner, Jr., '73 and Laura DiStefano Santand rea and Frances Thom sen Nye Beverly Ann Perkins Ka thy Briggs Renner Leon H. and Florence Sturman Arthur E. Nyquist. '35 and Donald L. Pe ro, '52 and Dr SethA. Resnicoff, '70Rand "Deceased within the past year Juanice Swilley Nyquist Ro se Marie Pero Harriet Gellman Resnicoff Jane C. O'Brien, '38 and Christine Hersey Pe rry, '58 Dominic F. Reynolds PHONATHON VOlUNTEERS­ J. CoyneO'Brien Dr. SteveG. Peters ,'79M and Law rence H. Reynolds , '77 and BUFFALO Dr. John F. O'Brien, '57G Dr. Margot Szasz Peters, '75, '79M Deborah Thayer Reyno lds, '77, Mary Bahler Margaret K. O' Brie n, '58 Dr. Daniel S. Pettee, '63R and '81G Lyn ne Blan chard Philip A. O'Bnen, '57 and MaryPettee Dr. Gregg E. Rice , '71G. '72Gand Marilyn Brun ner A. ElaineJensen O'B rien Ea rl K. Pfah l Laura Macy Rice, '59, '71G Lauren Cohen Robe rt G. Ocorr, '31 and Warren B. Phelps, III, '73G and Ri cha rd E. Rice, '65 and Robe rta Dayer Antoi nette Markell Ocorr Pa tricia Hitchcock Phelps Susan Qu ick Rice . '67 Joseph Dianett i Theresa P. Oestrike Susan J. Pherson Robert R. Rice, '38 and Patric ia Duff ner Dr. Joseph A. O'Grady, '41M and Dr. John S. Ph illipson, '47 Dorothy Casby Rice John Earshen Ba rbara Ann O'Grady Dr. Salvatore S. Piacente , '40M and Jean A. Richards, '51 Allene Falk Dr. William W. Olmsted, '58M and Yvonne Schmid Piacente David N Richardson , '84G Bonn ie Glazer Patricia CirillO Olmsted Dr. Andrew G. Pichler, '65M and DavidP. Richardson , '29 and James Green Dr. Paul J. Olscamp , '62G and Andrea Pichler Ruth Haines Richardson , '29 Ve ra Green Ruth Pratt Ol scamp Maj. Ernest A. Pinson , '40GM and Dr. Curt A. Ries , '64M and Dav id Herer Dr. Jean L Olson . '74M Jean Farnsworth Pinson Mary Beth Ries John Hoffman Dr. Robert M. Olson, '57M and William M. Pi nzter, '68 and Frede rick G. Rittner Joyce Jividen Diane Bor re Olson , '56 Isabelle Katz Pinzler Dr . William P. Ri x, '67. '71M and Sandy Leonardis Emily Lowenfe ls Oppen heimer, '43E Dr Jack M. Pittick , '41 and Dr. Marilyn Do nahue Ri x, '69, '73M Gall Ma tes and Philip Oppenheimer Dorothy Sands Pittick Jam es P. Rizzo , '45 Margaret Mend rykowsk i Frederick W. Orr, '21 and Robert W. Place, '54 and John B. Robbins. '74Gand Isabel Neilson Elizabeth H. Orr Pa tricia Goodenough Place Holly MinerRobbins Joyce Parm ington Dr. Gifford P. Orwen , '30, '31Gand Robert H. Plass. '43, '47G and James E. Roberts Sharon Porcell io Mary Rya n Orwen Carol McGregor Plass, '41 Archb old H. Robin son Dona ld Porter Dr. A. Lawrence Oss ias. '61 and Dr. Christine Coo per Platt. '79GM, Dr. Hugh P. Rob inson , '53M and John Potts Linda F. Ossias , '64 '83M Patricia Valles Robin son Jayne Rand Elma G. Oster. '40N Dr. Steve n Polansky, '75Rand linda D. Robinson , '57 Jan Reici s Gerald Ottaway Ka ren Kau fman Polansky Dr. Ke nneth L. Rock. '78M and Ronald Sipos Am elia Lu pe Owen , '52 Barbara Frank Polk, '57E and Carol Glauberman Chris Sonne Charl otte Keeli ng Owen , '38, '39N Joh n Polk Dr, Suzanne H. Ro dgers, '67GM Robin Ston e Dr. Charles H. Pa ckman , '73R and Scott D. Pomerantz, '81 , '83G Dr. lloyd S. Rogers, '41M Sa ndra Stone Da na Miller Packman Peter Porrino June Gol dman Ro goff Herman O. Porter

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