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. (con tinued on page 45) University of Rochester Winter 1988- 89 Review 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.