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Q. What will sets cost after the war? Q. How big will television pictures be? Q. What kind of shows will we see? A. It is expected that set prices will begin A. Even small television sets will prob- A. All kinds. For example: (1) Studio around $200, unless there are unfore- ably have screens about 8 by 10 inches. stage shows—dancers, vaudeville, plays, seen changes in manufacturing costs. (That's as big as the finest of pre-war opera, musicians, famous people. (2) Higher priced models will also receive sets.) In more expensive television sets, Movies can be broadcast to you by tele- regular radio programs, and in addition screens will be as large as 18 by 24 vision. (3) On-the-spot pick-up of sports FM and international shortwave pro- inches. Some sets may project pictures events, parades, news happenings. G.E. grams. Perhaps larger and more ex- on the wall like home movies. Natur- has already produced over 900 tele- pensive sets will include built-in phono- ally, pictures will be even clearer than vision shows over its station, WRGB, graphs with automatic record changers. those produced by pre-war sets. in Schenectady.

Q. Where can television be seen now? Q. Will there be television networks? Q. What is G. E.'s part in television? A. Nine television stations are operating A. Because television waves are practi- A. Back in 1928, a General Electric en- today—in Chicago, Los Angeles, New cally limited by the horizon, networks gineer, Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, gave York, Philadelphia, and Schenectady. will be accomplished by relay stations the first public demonstration. Before Twenty-two million people—about one- connecting large cities. General Electric the war, G. E. was manufacturing both fifth of all who enjoy electric service— set up the first network five years ago, tele vision transmitters and home receiv- live in areas served by these stations. and has developed new tubes that make ers. It will again build both after Victory. Applications for more than 80 new tele- relaying practical. G-E station WRGB, Should you visit Schenectady, you are vision stations have been filed with the since 1939, has been a laboratory for invited to WRGB's studio to see a Federal Communications Commission. engineering and programming. television show put on the air.

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or a discovery made as the result of Cornell Research Foundation—I investigations carried on at the Uni- versity's expense, to completion of the BY SHERMAN PEER Ό6, PRESIDENT investigation, acquiring patents, li- are expected by the industry con- censing industry, resisting infringe- cerned. ments, collecting royalties, plowing Cornell has more than 300 investi- the income into further research, and gations going on at this moment in other problems of administration, in- applied and pure science. Many ap- volve a series of transactions for which plications for research have had to be there can be no set procedure. The declined for lack of qualified persons transactions vary in each case with to carry forward the necessary work. the nature of the investigation to be The war has made noticeable inroads made, the desires of the particular in- on the research staff. dustry which may have sponsored the investigation, the College concerned, As a result of the research activities personnel assigned to the task, re- in the various Colleges, discoveries sults obtained, patents, if any, result- are made which are patentable and ing, commercial possibilities of the possess commercial value. Patents are discovery, and many other factors. applied for by the inventor, and are Furthermore, in all these dealings, generally made available to the Uni- Cornell and the Research Foundation versity through the Cornell Research must have the public interest upper- Foundation, whjch is the second im- most in mind. Cornell is a quasi-pub- plement in use at Cornell. lic institution and as such, must not Proceeds Support Research permit itself to be subsidized by in- The Research Foundation was es- dustry or permit itself to make money tablished in 1931, as an ordinary busi- as an end in itself, or operate contrary ϋ ness corporation. It is a wholly-owned to standards of good public adminis- 11 subsidiary of the University, but has tration. Thus, it may pursue one OCIENTIFIC research went under- an independent existence with its own policy with reference to some gadget ^ ground as the war began, but not board of directors made up of Trus- tees of the University, members of SHERMAN PEER '06 has been to sleep through until peace comes! president of the Cornell Research In subterranean chambers, the pace the Faculty, and alumni. Foundation since 1940, and a member has been stepped up, and when the Whenever a patent is assigned to of the board of directors since 1937. post-war period begins, research will the Research Foundation, the direc- General counsel for the Cooperative emerge and be as welcome as the tors take action to license industry Grange League Federation, Inc. since perennial flowers. Already, groups of to make the patented article or use 1936 and secretary of the GLF Hold- scientists are meeting to plan the in- the patented process for an agreed ing Corp. in Ithaca, he was loaned by dustrial age to follow war, in the in- royalty. Royalties as collected are the GLF to serve as acting Provost of terests of science, industry, and awarded to the various Colleges to be the University from October 1 to used solely for financing further re- December 31, 1944. Receiving the employment. LLB in 1906, he spent a year at New All research at Cornell is carried on search; often in the same field from College, Oxford, and returned to by members of the staff at the in- which the royalties have come, fre- practice law in Ithaca. He is also vice- stance of the College concerned. Two quently in similar or dissimilar fields. president of the Tompkins County implements are used to spade the field. No part of the Foundation income Trust Co. and a director of National First in importance is the implement is paid to Cornell as stockholder or to Cash Register Co. which recently pur- which is Cornell. assist in current operating expense. chased Allen-Wales Adding Machine Not all research is done for industry. Funds are alloted to specific projects Co. in Ithaca, of which Peer was a and for the most part are used toward director. But if an industry desires exploration Other directors of the Research in any given subject, a contract is salaries of investigators. The Founda- Foundation are President Edmund E. made between the University and the tion carries no part of the payroll of Day; H. Edward Babcock, chairman industry whereby, in consideration of University executives, nor do its of- of the University Board of Trustees; a grant of funds, the University under- ficers or directors receive any salaries. Alumni Trustees Albert R. Mann '04 takes to pursue a series of tests and The business of the Research Founda- and Robert E. Treman '09; University investigations as desired and to the tion has reached such proportions, Treasurer George F. Rogalsky '07; limit of its facilities and personnel. however, that it has lately employed Professors Dexter S. Kimball, Engi- Many grants are received from in- an attorney specializing in patent neering, Emeritus, R. Clifton Gibbs, law, Robert V. Morse Ίl. Physics, and James M. Sherman, dustry which are unrestricted as to Dairy Industry and Bacteriology; Jer- the nature of the investigations to be This brief outline somewhat over- vis Langdon '97; and William C. Geer made. Such funds are customarily simplifies the business of conducting '02. James E. Matthews '17, Assistant used by the University for research in scientific research. The various steps Treasurer of the University, is secretary pure science, since no specific results from a grant of money for research of the corporation. suitable for commercial or business Observe Founder's Day Gallivan (Margaret Kelly) '24, presi- exploitation, and a very different dent of the Club, introduced Professor policy with respect to discovery of a OUNDER'S DAY January 11 Ethel E. Ewing, PhD '44, of Albany drug or process which ministers to Fwas observed by Cornell Clubs in State Teachers College, who described human needs. In this latter case, pat- Washington, D. C., Albany, Phila- the year she spent as teacher of Eng- ents are obtained, when practical, for delphia, Pa., Boston, Mass., and lish at the American School in Tokyo. the primary purpose of controlling Binghamton. Founder's Day luncheon of the Cor- purity and quality, and in the licens- More than 150 Cornellians cele- nell Women's Club of Philadelphia, ing agreement provision is made for brated the Founder's birthday with Pa., was January 13 at the Benjamin keeping the price of the product as a turkey dinner at the Hotel 2400 in Franklin Hotel, with thirty-two mem- nearly as possible within the range Washington, D. C. John S. bers present. Alumni Trustee Alice of the lowest income group. Walter '33, Signal Corps, was chair- Blinn '17, associate editor of The There is good justification for li- man of committee in charge of ar- Ladies' Home Journal, discussed "the censing the products of research on a rangements. John S. Gorrell '05, presi- past, present, and future of Cornell.'7 royalty basis. The underlying prin- dent of the Cornell Club of Washing- President Gertrude M. Goodwin '31 ciple is that both industry and the ton, which sponsored the dinner, presided. public benefit as a result of research, presided, and introduced Congress- Cornell Women's Club of Boston, and therefore both should make some man Frank L. Sundstrom '24 as toast- Mass., met for dinner at the Harvard contribution to carry the program master. Professor Charles L. Durham Faculty Club, January 12. Mrs. Clar- forward without undue expense to the '99, Latin, Emeritus, reviewed the ence S. Luitwieler, Jr. (Sarah Hoi- University. This does not mean, how- deeds of , Andrew D. comb) '27, president of the Club, in- ever, that research at Cornell is self- White, and early members of the troduced Pauline J. Schmid '25, sustaining. The Research Founda- Faculty, and outlined the University's Assistant Alumni Secretary, who spoke tion's principal business is to supple- post-war aims and obligations. Movies on "Cornell Today." Colored slides of ment the University's allotment to of the Campus were shown and Lieu- the Campus were shown. research. Grants from the Foundation tenant Commander Leo K. Fox '25, Mrs. Robert C. Osborn (Agda approximate $15,000 annually. USNR, led the group in Cornell songs. Swenson) '20, past-president of the A concluding article in the next Club officers, the dinner committee, Federation of Cornell Womenfs Clubs, ALUMNI NEWS will describe some of and Professor Durham were the guests addressed the Cornell Women's Club the discoveries from which the Re- before dinner of Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Όl, of Binghamton, January 12 at the search Foundation income is derived. former Chinese Ambassador to the Johnson City Library. Officers elected United States, in his apartment. for 1945 are Mrs. John L. Hastings The Club invites all Cornell men (Wilhelmina Mazar) '38, president; Chicago Talks War and women in Washington to attend Mrs. Ellen Mangan McGee '34, vice- OLONEL Edward Davis '96 dis- its next party, Washington's Birth- president; Nina A. Fenson '44, corre- C cussed "The Current Military day, at eight in the Garden House of sponding secretary; Mrs. Paul F. Situation," at the Thursday luncheon the Dodge Hotel. Lane (Anne Kelly) '41, recording sec- meeting of the Cornell Club of Chi- Tλventy-six members of the Cornell retary; and Dorothy J. Hendrickson cago, 111., February 1 at the Univer- Women's Club of Albany met at the '44, treasurer. sity Club. YWCA, January 11. Mrs. Peter C. The Beautiful Saroyan RAMATIC Club's fine produc- D tion of "The Beautiful People," its sixth venture into the beautiful world of William Saroyan, took the stage January 27, February 3 and 10, before capacity audiences in the Wil- lard Straight Theater. This is the one about mice. They arrange flowers on the floor, spelling out the name of their protectress, Agnes, known to her father and brothers as St. Agnes of the Mice, and acted with charm by Marjorie A. Inglehart '46. The scene of the play is San Francisco, although one of the brothers can be heard playing "My Wonderful One" on his cornet all the way from New York. The other one walks about on the piano, writes one- and two-word books, and helps the mice with their flower - arranging Richard E. Perkins '48, making his WASHINGTON CORNELLIANS CELEBRATE FOUNDER'S DAY first Dramatic Club appearance in this Seated, left to right, are Mrs. Walter, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze '01, Mrs. Sundstrom, Pro- part, topped a uniformly good cast. fessor Charles L. Durham '99, Latin, Emeritus, Club President John S. Gorrell '05, The father, played with style by Congressman Frank L. Sundstrom '24, Captain Arthur S. Adams, USN, University Provost-elect, and Mrs. Irish. Standing: Captain Robert G. Irish '40, Mrs. Kenerson, Richard P. Korf '46, supports his Ronald Orr '28, Lieutenant Caroline A. Lester '24, USCGR, Lieutenant Ruth A. Oviatt '24, family by accepting a monthly pen- USNR, Carmen M. Johnson '22, Mrs. Adams, Vertner S. Kenerson '36, Mrs. Thomas C. sion addressed to the house's previous Deveau, Lieutenant Commander Leo K. Fox '25, USNR, Jacob Reck '24, and Major tenant, dead these seven years. His John S. Walter '33. quaint expedient is discovered, but 320 Cornell Alumni News the company's vice-president takes Clasf Secretaries Meet universities, alumni are urged to use such a liking to the family and the the money they would ordinarily mice that their stipend is increased RENEW BONDED REUNIONS spend for attending Class Reunions to instead of discontinued. Myron E. NNUAL meeting of the Associa- purchase Series F War Bonds for the Oury '47, recently discharged from A tion of Class Secretaries brought University. the armed forces, is excellent as the thirty-seven secretaries and their dele- Bonded Reunions last year, under prim little vice-president, shimmying gates of forty-three Classes for lunch- chairmanship *bf Robert J. Kane '34, wondrously when invaded by a mouse. eon at the , brought gifts of War Bonds and War Eugene Bilik '46 appears briefly with January 27. Savings Stamps with total maturity his accomplished cornet, to end the President Frank H. McCormick '10 value of $31,871.25 from members of play on a highly exciting note. opened the business session and the fifty-eight Classes. Gifts are credited Professor Alex M. Drummond, as- report of the treasurer, Mrs. R. W. to Class totals in the Alumni Fund; sisted by Mary Jane Dilts '46, de- Sailor (Queenie Horton) '09, was pre- last year, the "Class of '10 led all signed and directed the production; sented by the secretary, Walter C. others, with '16 second and '15 third. except for too much enthusiasm in the Heasley, Jr. '30. Heasley reported Series F Bonds of $25 denomination make-up department, it was first-rate. that Alice E. L. Mouronval '23 had may be purchased at $18.50 at banks Saroyan has previously been seen been elected by the executive com- and postoffices. They must be pur- to advantage here with "My Heart's mittee as a director of the Cornell chased in the name of "Cornell Uni- in the Highlands", "Jim Dandy", Alumni Association, in place of Mrs. versity, A Corporation" and sent to "The Hungerers", "Across the Board Bernard A. Savage (Carmen Schnei- the Alumni Fund office, 3 East Ave- on Tomorrow Morning," and "Hello der) '27 who is a member of the board nue, with the donor identified. Out There." of directors as vice-chairman of the Heasley reported on the work being Association's secondary schools com- done in the Alumni Office to record New North Shore Club mittee. current addresses of all Cornellians, In view of the lack of housing and saying that although 600 address cor- EWLY formed Cornell Women's eating facilities because of the Army rections a week are being made, the N Club of the North Shore (Long Is- and Navy programs at the University, office still does not have correct ad- land) met January 8, at the home of it was decided again to forego Class dresses for nearly 7,000 alumni. He Mrs. John G. Rankin (E. Marjorie Reunions in Ithaca next June and to requested the help of all Classes and McAdoo) '35 in Plandome. Colored substitute Bonded Reunions, as was secretaries in bringing addresses up slides of the Campus were shown by done last year. Under this plan, in- to date. Mrs. Francis C. Everts (Grace Erb) augurated in 1943 and since adopted The Association re-elected all offi- '39. Each member attending brought by a number of other colleges and cers: McCormick, president, Dr. Ly- a gift for wounded service men at Mitchel Field. Officers elected for 1945 are Mrs. Rankin, president; Mrs. Albert R. Hodges (Katherine Rogers) '32 and How Well Do You Know Cornell ? Charlotte S. Minkin '44, vice-presi- CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS PICTURE ? dents; Anita R. Minkin '39, recording secretary; Mrs. John L. Skinner ΓHAT does this sculpture represent and where (Mildred Currier) '32, corresponding Wldoes it appear on a Campus building? For the secretary; and Helen F. Green '25, most complete and accurate identification of this pic- treasurer. ture received from a subscriber by March 1, the The Club will meet the fourth Alumni News and University Press will present a prize copy of : Founders and the Tuesday of each month. Founding, by Professor Carl Becker, University His- torian. Another General Entries will be judged by the Alumni News staff, EW commander of the "Fighting whose decision shall be final. If two or more entries First" Infantry Division, with are judged to be equally complete and accurate, win- N ner will be determined by lot. No person who lives the US First Army in Germany, is within twenty-five miles of Ithaca is eligible to compete. Brigadier General Clift Andrus '12, Winner's name and correct description of this picture will appear in the March 15 who for more than two years has Alumni News. served this renowned division as ar- tillery general. Troops of the "Fight- RESULT OF JANUARY 15 CONTEST ing First," staging their first major OORWAY at right, pictured as our January 15 attack under General Andrus, cap- D "Campus close-up," was variously located by tured four villages northeast of St. contestants as the entrance to the President's Vith, January 28, fighting through House, , Franklin Hall, Gold- seven-foot snowdrifts in a two-mile win Smith Hall, and the Hydraulics Laboratory. advance. But three contestants correctly and completely Addition to the list of ten Cornellian identified it as the south entrance to the Plant general officers, published in our Janu- Science Building, facing Tower Road and Alumni ary 15 issue, is Major General Charles Field, east of Roberts Hall on the College of Agri- culture Campus. A drawing among the three correct P. Gross '10, chief of transportation, answers resulted in the award of Professor Becker's Army Service Forces, Pentagon Build- book to Isabelle S. Ward '43 of Queen's Village, with compliments of the Alumni ing, Washington, D. C. In December, News and the publisher, the University Press. 1943, when President Roosevelt di- Many readers, both those who are unsuccessful in these contests and others rected the War Department to take interested in Cornell, are buying and enjoying the prize book. Cornell University: over the nation's railroads, General Founders and the Founding may be purchased at $2.75 postpaid from the Cornell Gross was put in charge of operating Alumni Association, 3 East Avenue, Ithaca. all railroads in the country.

February 15, 1945 321 man R. Fisher '28, vice-president, New Dean of Students received the honorary DD at Tufts Heasley, secretary; Mrs. Sailor, treas- College. He was dean of men at urer; and to the executive committee Swarthmore for five years from 1933 Charles A. Dewey '12, Herbert R. and for two years was dean of the Johnston '17, and Alice E. L. Mouron- College. In 1942, he was appointed val '23. dean of the college of arts and letters Class secretaries and representa- at St. Lawrence. Member of Alpha tives (in italics) who attended the Sigma Phi, he was for three years on meeting are Dr. Henry P. deForest the educational advisory committee '84 ('77-87), Mrs. Mary Ransom of the national Interfraternity Con- Fitzpatrick '93, Stiles A. Torrance '94, ference; in 1935-36, was vice-president Albert T. Scharpe '96, Wilton Bentley of the National Association of Deans '98, Fredrick B. Hufnagel '00, Mrs. of Men. Ruth Bentley Shreve '02, Mrs. Helen He is a member of the Society of Riedel Blenderman OS, Dr. Mary M. Friends; is the author of Life and Crawford '04, Clarence G. Spencer '04, Writings of John Bunyan, editor of Warner D. Orvis '07 (06), Jesse D. Week Day Sermons in King's Chapel Tuller '09, Laura J. Goulding '09, and of a series of biographies, Creative Frank H. McCormick '10, Charles A. Lives, and a contributor to volumes Dewey '12, Tristan Antell '13, Alexis of Best Sermons and Boston Preach- C. Kleberg '14, Hugh C. Edmiston ers; was literary editor of the Christian '15, Weyland Pfeiffer '16, Kurt A. Leader from 1927 to 1938. Mayer '20, Clyde Mayer '81, Mrs. President Day appointed last May Marjorie Parbury Roedelheim '21, a committee of the Faculty to recom- Alice E. L. Mouronval '23, Max F. mend the new Dean of Students. Schmitt '24, Bernard A. Savage '25, ΓTNIVERSITY Trustees at their Professor Carleton C. Murdock, PhD Florence Dahme '25, Mrs. Carmen vJ meeting January 20 appointed '19, Physics, was chairman; the other Schneider Savage '27, Walter C. Dr. Harold E. B. Speight, acting members Dean Sarah G. Blanding, Heasley, Jr. '30, Mrs. Isabelle Rogers president of St. Lawrence University, Home Economics, Professors Sey- Richardson '80, Katherine R. Ganz- to be Dean of Students. The new posi- mour S. Garrett '04, Engineering, and enmuller '31, Mrs. Grace Jones Henley tion was recommended by the Uni- Whiton Powell '24, Agricultural Eco- '37, Stephen J. DeBaun '38, Mrs. versity Faculty last May "to coordi- nomics, and Dr. Eugene F. Bradford, Sarah Splain Serbell '39, Mrs. Grace nate the University counselling serv- University Director of Admissions Moak Meisel '41, Elizabeth F. Schlamm ices and to cooperate with all units of and Registrar. '42, Caroline M. Norfleet '43, A. the University organization in matters Nancy L. Green '44- affecting student welfare." Campus Celebrates Dr. Speight was at the University in 1940-41 and 1941-42 as executive JUNIOR WEEK, sponsored by the Committee Meets secretary of a committee on teacher J Sophomore Class of '47, returned LUMNI Association committee education of the Association of Col- to a snowbound Campus February A on Alumni Trustee nominations leges and Universities of the State of 2-4, for the first time since 1942. The met January 26 at the Cornell Club New York, of which President Ed- blizzards abated, the sun broke out, of New York, at the call of the chair- mund E. Day was chairman. He and the temperature rose slightly man, Newton C. Farr '09, who is a spoke on "Why College?" in a Fac- above zero, all adding to the holiday member of the committee represent- ulty-student forum series sponsored spirit. ing the district directors of the Alum- by Willard Straight Hall and CURW, House parties were not much in ni Association. Consideration was and in November, 1942, after he had evidence, only three being registered given to the names of persons quali- gone to St. Lawrence, he presided at for the three-day week end. These fied to become candidates for election the opening session in Bailey Hall of a were at Tau Delta Phi and Zeta Beta as Alumni Trustees of the University five-day CURW Campus conference Tau below the Stewart Avenue loop, this spring, and the committee voted on religion. and at Greentrees on Ridgewood to write to the officers of Cornell He was born in England in 1887, Road, where Phi Kappa Sigma and Clubs, directors of the Alumni Asso- received the MA at Aberdeen Uni- Lambda Chi Alpha teamed up. ciation, officers of all member organ- versity in 1909 and after a year there Classes were held as usual Saturday izations, inviting their suggestions of as assistant professor of logic and morning, since no holiday was de- suitable candidates. metaphysics, spent 1910-12 as a fellow clared by the University. But the Harold L. Bache '16, who represents of Manchester College, Oxford. From festivities got under way that after- the Alumni Fund Council on the com- 1912 to 1927, he was a clergyman in noon with a basketball doubleheader mittee, was elected its vice-chairman London, Victoria, B. C., Berkeley, in Barton Hall. A crowd of 3,500 and presided in the absence of the Cal., and Boston, Mass., interrupted cheered themselves hoarse while deco- chairman. Other members present by service in 1918-19 as a chaplain rations for the Winter Wonderland were Weyland Pfeiffer '16, represent- with the AEF and in 1922 as a mem- ball progressed in the east end of the ing the Association of Class Secreta- ber of a commission investigating re- building; the Big Red Band was ries; Mrs. Charles I. Sayles (Dorothy ligious minorities in Transylvania. He present and led the congregation in Fessenden) '25, Home Economics was appointed professor of philosophy "To Hell, To Hell with Pennsylvania'7 Alumnae Association; Albert R. Mann at Dartmouth in 1927, then for four just before the disastrous overtime '04, Alumni Trustee; Wilton Bentley years from 1929 was professor of period. '98, Cornell Society ϋf Engineers; biography and chairman of the de- Saturday night, the Dramatic Club's Dr. William R. Delzell '18, Medical partment there. At Dartmouth in repeat performance of "The Beautiful College Alumni Association; Mrs. 1927 he received the honorary AM People" (reviewed elsewhere) and a Edwin S. Knauss (Dorothy Pond) and was elected an honorary member blues concert in Bailey Hall were (Continued on page of Phi Beta Kappa in 1925, having rival attractions; both sold out. 2,000

322 Cornell Alumni News were on hand to hear Josh White and Libby Holman sing the blues. Aided by special lighting equipment, a bamboo screen forming an admirable Now in My Time! backdrop, a ladder-backed chair for Libby to climb around on, and a soap By box for Josh, the torch girl and the gifted Negro guitarist went to town with such arias as " Strange Fruit, " \T7E'VE been talking to under- by bachelor professors and a few "Evil-Hearted Me," and "One Meat * * graduates. It appears that of the gilded youth who were writ- Ball." The concert was sponsored by Cornell University is not a happy ten off politically by reason of this the Student Council's new music place just now for the civilian stu- opulent display. committee, which aims to bring a more dent. This is not to be wondered at. Those $4 places did you aston- popular type of music to Cornell, Probably no other foundation offers ishingly well, and it must be re- where it seems to have a receptive anything more joyous at the mo- membered that this figure provided audience. Chairman of the committee, ment. three robust meals a day, seven which worked hard on its first large- Much of the current unhappiness days a week; seconds, too, if you scale project, overcoming serious con- springs from lonely, hit-or-miss didn't abuse the privilege. Our tract trouble which threatened to can- meals. Looking back through the roommate got spoken to about cel the show, was Myron E. Mendel- changes that four decades have seconds (and thirds) one year, but son '46, son of Emanuel Mendelson brought about, one can see now that was all explained and amica- '14. He was assisted by Paul Roseson, that a useful piece of social ma- bly adjusted after Dr. Beaman had Jr. '48, Paul L. Klein '46, son of Mrs. chinery went out with the passing detected Brother Young's tape- Janet Frisch Klein '12, and Mrs. of the student boarding houses. worm and killed it with his third Carolyn Claggett Kervan '47. Some of them were pretty squalid, shot. of course, but from the moment I suspect that more than half of Dance in Barton Hall you signed up and were given a our fraternities were born of stu- The crowd increased on the way to fixed place at a big table, you be- dent boarding houses, without Barton Hall, where it passed through came part of the social fabric of knowing it. It was a matter of un- two silver arches into Winter Wonder- Cornell. The materials for com- conscious social evolution. The land, this year's version of the Junior panionship lay about you. You congenial table of one year became Prom. Johnny Long and orchestra knew then where you were going the private alcove of the next. made music; a towering snowman to breakfast, lunch, and dine, and When gaps appeared about the turned slowly in the center of the blue with whom. So much of your day board, the survivors took thought and white festooned dance floor; boxes had been arranged. Not infre- to fill them with pleasant persons decorated by a score of fraternities, quently, your friendships, and the of their own selection. The table sororities, and clubs surrounded the little niche you were to fill at the gave itself a name and something floor and offered surcease to the weary University, were determined at like a self-perpetuating organiza- (the chaperones awarded a prize of your first meal. tion followed. From there on, it $25 to the handsomest box: a ski lodge The present-day cafeterias and was just a series of logical steps to devised by Chi Omega); and games of restaurants doubtless do better by a rented house and a charter from chance flourished along with the Coca- the student in the matter of pro- some Greek letter fraternity. Doubt- cola concession at the west end of the . teins, carbohydrates, bacteria, and less, the official history now starts hall. Co-chairmen of the dance com- vitamins, but when you have pre- with the rented house and the or- mittee were Apprentice Seaman John cariously balanced your tray and ganization of the local club, ignor- Cullen, USNR,, and Sara Beeler '47, paid the lady, you now too often ing the student boarding house that daughter of Charles F. Beeler '20 and teeter off into a social void in the unwittingly spawned the Cornell Eleanor Gage Beeler '25. manner of a dog with a bone. If chapter of Sigma Delta Whoop. Ice Carnival on Beebe Lake Sunday you should attempt to look around The social side of the eating afternoon, staged by the Student yearningly for human companion- problem is exaggerated this winter Council, drew some 800 paid admis- ship, you'd slop your soup over by reason of the much snow and sions. Co-chairmen Fay Kirby '47 onto your mashed potatoes. Cornell's magnificent distances. In and Lee H. Taylor '47, son of the late I don't know what happened to the old days, one chose a boarding Harry V. Taylor '14, arranged a pro- the student boarding houses. In house near his lodgings. Now, only gram of figure skating, comedy acts, 1900, everybody ate at boarding a half-dozen fraternities attempt and a brightly costumed "Gay Nine- houses. In that year, not one fra- to function. Willard Straight serves ties" ballet. Star of the show was Miss ternity operated its own dining well, but stands the better part of Kirby, who has skated in three na- room; five years later, they all did. a mile from where most students tional competitions and is junior By 1920, no student boarding live. Once a student gets back to champion of the Boston Skating Club. house remained, and only a few his room in the late afternoon, he is A busload of skiing enthusiasts spent older persons recalled that such an reluctant to go out again and the afternoon on Tar Young Hill, institution once existed. struggle long distances for a hot eleven miles east of Ithaca. When your reporter came to dinner in genial surroundings. There Souvenir booklet, " Winter Wonder- college, board was $3 a week; good is a temptation to stay put, and land," describing the attractions of board, $3.50. But almost at once dine alone on crackers, a chocolate Junior Week, was edited by Peter S. those figures went up to $3.50 and bar, and something cold out of a Papanou '47, Samuel W. Mitchell '45, $4. There was one sybaritic place can. and Apprentice Seamen Robert Web- at the corner of Seneca and Eddy There was, and remains, some- ster '47 and William D. Marsland '47, that charged $5, and was worth it, thing to be said for the student USNR, son of Dr. Merwin E. Mars- but that place was patronized only boarding house! land '15. Copies at 25 cents may still be had at Willard Straight Hall. February 75, 323 with a field goal, but Robert C. Burgess, USNR, brother of Captain Frank K. Burgess '43, and Harrison Slants on Sports made good on free throws to tie the score with less than four minutes to go. Edward T. Peterson '48, the six-foot, OMPETITION on the week ends of January 27 and February 3 pro- nine-inch center, tipped in the game- C duced two more victories for the swimming team—Nos. 19 and 20 in winning basket, and Cornell turned the unbroken series begun three years ago;—another win as the wrestling the tables by adopting the Syracuse team closed its dual meet season; a split in two basketball games; and a tactic of freezing the ball until game's defeat for the hockey team. In addition, the indoor track team competed end. Captain Irwin Alterson, USNR, in two meets with a modicum of success. and Peterson topped the Cornell 5:17.3. Wallace White, USNR, won scoring with 8 points each. Swimmers Win Again the 50-yard freestyle in 0:25.7. The Pennsylvania game, in which WIMMING team defeated Col- The relay teams were revamped leadership of the Eastern Intercol- S gate, 61-14, at Hamilton, January somewhat for the Sampson meet. In legiate Basketball League was at 27. A week later, in the Old Armory the medley were Iseman, Murray, stake, was the closest of the season pool, they won over Sampson Naval and Holsten; in the freestyle, White, all the way and had the crowd roaring Training Center, 47-28. John D. Holmes, USNR, Holsten, at the dramatic finish. The Colgate meet was a swim-away and Di Stasio. Their respective times Walter D. Way '48, pairing with as Cornell won both relays and cap- were 3:07.6 and 3:54.2. Alterson at forward, put Cornell 4 tured six of seven individual first Holmes placed second in the 50- points in the van with a basket and places. Grain of Colgate defeated yard freestyle, James R. Del Signore, two free throws, but Pennsylvania Richard M. Holsten, USMCR, at 100 USNR, second to Kelly of Sampson ran a string of 9 points before Alter- yards freestyle in 0:51.1 after the in diving, Klein second to McCarthy son, with a successful free throw, Cornell swimmer had captured the of Sampson in the 150-yard back- broke up the rally. Pennsylvania eased 50-yard freestyle in 0:25, with Grain stroke, and Charles Reynolds '48 along to a 13-7 advantage before Cor- third. second in the 200-yard breaststroke. nell spurted into a 15-13 lead with a Other first-place winners were Ralph Third places were taken by Urban in string of 8 points, 6 of them by John Riehl, Jr., USNR, 220-yard freestyle, the 220-yard freestyle, Di Stasio in G. Kimball, USNR, on two field 2:40; Ralph C. Ware '48, diving; Paul the 100-yard freestyle, and Iseman goals and two free throws. The other Klein '46, 150-yard backstroke, 1:49; in the 150-yard backstroke. 2 were scored on a basket by Way. Paul C. Murray, USMCR, 200-yard Sampson's Kelly swam against a Pennsylvania went back into the breaststroke, 2:33; and Clarence F. Little-coached team for the second lead, 19-17, then dropped behind, 21- Urban, USNR, 440-yard freestyle, time. In 1933-34, he competed for 23, with a minute and a half to go to 5:56. Rider College against Penn State, intermission. That was plenty of time On the 300-yard medley relay team then coached by Little. for West and Harman to drop long were Donald Iseman '46, Harry W. shots and give Pennsylvania the half- Lawson, USNR, and Joseph R. Di time advantage, 25-23. Harman's field Stasio '48. This trio was timed in 3:21. Lose Heartbreaker goal broke the 23-23 tie. On the 400-yard freestyle relay quar- ASKETBALL team engaged in a In the second half, with tension tet, timed in 3:39, were Norman C. B pair of games decided by 2-point mounting, neither team could do bet- Merz '48, Riehl, Di Stasio, and margins and was forced to cancel ter than 4 points in a row. Mostly it Holsten. another, with Hobart at Geneva was score and score alike, as the lead The victory over Sampson was Cor- January 31, because of the fuel short- alternated and as ties were broken. nell's second of the season against the age in Central New York. Alterson, who had been held scoreless sailors. The first meet, at Sampson, The team defeated Syracuse, 27-25, from the field the first half, finally was won in the final event, the 400- January 27 and lost to Pennsylvania, found the range for five field goals. yard freestyle relay. Worth 7 points, 50-52, in an overtime contest Febru- Midway in the second half, Cornell this relay gave Cornell a 40-35 margin. ary 3. Both were played in Barton gained the upper hand at 36-34 on In the interim, Sampson's team was Hall, the Pennsylvania game con- Alterson's basket and gradually built strengthened by the addition of sev- tested in the afternoon before a Junior up a 5-point lead, 45-40, with four eral former college swimmers, and the Week crowd of more than 3,000. minutes remaining. A minute later, visitors were confident of breaking In the Syracuse game, the visitors Cornell held a 6-point lead, 48-42, Cornell's string of victories. gained a 5-2 lead in the first five min- its longest of the game. Pennsylvania But the relay teams again came utes of play and for the rest of the scored a field goal, and Kimball through with victories to remain un- first half froze the ball. Cornell dropped a free throw. Two minutes defeated this season; Captain Riehl elected not to force Syracuse into were left, and the score was 49-44. won two races, and Cornell swimmers greater offensive action, and the first Peterson fouled Casey, and when were first in two of the other five half dragged along to 14-9 conclusion: the Pennsylvania forward missed his events. the lowest first-half score of the season. first of two free throws, he elected to Murray put on a record-smashing But in the second stanza, Cornell play the ball from out of bounds. The performance in winning the 200-yard played more aggressively and Syra- maneuver ended in a long goal by breaststroke. He bettered the Cornell cuse found itself unable to pass the Harman. One minute was left. Dai- and pool records in 2:28.5, and Coach ball at will in backcourt. The result mar, Pennsylvania center who, com- G. Scott Little said it was the fastest was a whirlwind of action, with Cor- peting for Stanford, was voted the time reported in the country this nell gradually pulling up to tie the outstanding player in a recent NCAA season. score at 23-23 with seven minutes left tournament, dribbled down center Riehl scored his victories in the to play. Gordon W. Harrison '46 shot court and pushed in a one-handed 220- and 440-yard freestyle events the tying basket. shot from just beyond the foul line. with respective times of 2:23.2 and Miller put Syracuse ahead again Cornell tried to freeze the ball, but

324 Cornell Alumni News it ran afoul of the ten-second rule, relay team of Richard Quasey, US- which requires the offensive team to MCR, Daniel A. Belknap, USNR, Most Coaches Stay move the ball across the midcourt Richard McCall '48, and Bernard SSISTANT Football Coaches line in that time. Two seconds were Bernstein, USNR, placed fourth at A Max Reed and J. Russell Murphy left when Pennsylvania was awarded 1200 yards, and the relay team of will go with Carl Snavely to the Uni- the ball out of bounds. Harman, Jay R. Bergen, USNR, Eloy S. Gav- versity of North Carolina. deadly in his long shots, took the pass ras, USNR, Rodney Miller '47, and Robert J. .Kane '34, Director of from Carlson and tried to heave the Henry M. Horn, USNR, placed fifth Physical Education and Athletics, has ball. Just as the final horn sounded, at 3600 yards. announced also that George K. James Harrison fouled him in an effort to In the Millrose Games, Kandl fin- and Lieutenant Commander Mose P. prevent the possible score. ished fifth in a two-mile handicap race. Quinn, USNR, who came with Snave- The foul gave Harman a cL ^βe Richard Kuhn, USNR, replaced Horn ly in 1936, will remain at Cornell. from the free-throw line. Coolly n^ Quinn will return as head coach of threw the tying point, sending the placed fifth at two miles. The races in baseball when he leaves the Navy. game into an extra five-minute period. the Garden were on a board track. James will continue to direct the Cornell never had a chance in the Cornell runners have had no board physical training program for Army, overtime and was held to a single track this year for practice. Navy, and civilian students. point on a free throw by Harrison. Reed, line coach, played football at Harman threw another long-range Army Wins Hockey Bucknell, where he was graduated in basket to assure Pennsylvania's vic- 1924, and with professional teams. tory and Price, a substitute guard, OCKEY team showed an im- He joined Snavely in 1929 and has added a point from the foul line. H proved game when the US Mili- been his first assistant ever since. The victory gave Pennsylvania a tary Academy six visited Beebe Lake Murphy, backfield coach, came to record of four wins and one defeat in January 27 and won, 8-4. In their Cornell in 1939 from Mansfield, Ohio, League competition and virtually first meeting at West Point, the where his high school team once ran clinched the championship. Cornell's Academy won, 13-1. up a string of thirty-nine consecutive record is two victories and two de- West Point gained a 3-0 lead in the victories. Murphy was graduated at feats, with two games left. first period. William Easley, USNR, the University of Colorado in 1926. center, made a one-man show of the Snavely's other assistants—Em- second period by scoring 3 goals un- erald B. Wilson, basketball coach; Wrestlers Win assisted and tying the score. Just be- Ray Van Orman '08, lacrosse coach; V^RESTLING closed its dual fore the period ended, Drinkwater and Robert L. Cullen and Courtney * * meet season with a 26-6 victory scored an Army goal to break the tie. D. Young '43, physical training in- over Columbia in New York City, The visitors poured 4 goals into the structors—will remain at Cornell, to- February 3, for a season's record of net in the first seven minutes of the gether with Trainer Frank J. Kava- three wins and one loss. final period, with Joseph Harron '48 nagh. The lineup was changed for the first scoring Cornell's final goal. time this season. Newcomers were The game with Dartmouth at Han- Cornell Bulletin has elected Lawrence John E. Travers, USNR, who won over February 3 was canceled because I. Rothfield '47 of New York City, the 121-pound class by default; Carl of travel conditions. sports editor. W. Ferris, USNR, who lost a decision to Yoxall in the 145-pound class; and George Popik, USNR, who pinned Schrader, a 155-pounder, in 7:50 with a cradle hold. Other Cornell winners were James Q. Wynn, USNR, 128-pounder, who scored a fall over Comitas in 5:40 with a half-nelson and crotch hold; Jack T. Rakoski, USNR, with a deci- sion in the 165-pound class; Captain Rodney G. Stieff, USNR, light- heavyweight, who threw Scanlon in 4:29 with a head scissors and bar arm; and Donald B. Campbell '48 who earned a decision in the heavyweight division. Runners Compete RACK team competed in the TWest Point Relays at the US Military Academy January 27, with John F. Kandl '45 winning the two- CORNELL'S UNBEATEN SWIMMING TEAM mile run, and in the Millrose Games Bottom row, left to right: Clarence F. Urban, USNR, Charles Reynolds '48, Gilbert E. in Madison Square Garden, New York Pinkham '48, Ralph C. Ware '48. J. Richard Del Signore, USNR, Wallace White., USNR, City, February 3. and Joseph R. Di Stasio '48. Second row: Donald Iseman '46, John H. Muller, 3d, USNR, Richard M. Holsten, USMCR, Captain Ralph Riehl, Jr., USNR, Paul C. Murray, Kandl was timed in 9:53.1 on the USMCR, John D. Holmes, USNR, and Francis C. King, USNR. Top row: manager 300-yard dirt track in the Academy's Ray Hunicke, USNR, Assistant Coach Joseph T. Jodka, Grad, Dwight W. Brade, USNR, field house. James M. Hartshorne, Michael Mahr, USNR, Charles R. Fisher, USNR, Norman C. Merz '48, Frederick J. USNR, placed second in the broad Hammond, USNR, and Coach G. Scott Little. Absent when picture was taken: Paul jump with 21 feet 10^ inches. The Klein '46, Harry W. Lawson, USNR, and Benjamin D. Wright, USNR.

February 75, 1945 325 Improve Dairy Cattle sey bulls owned by the Association have been moved to the new barns Letters ΓΛIRECTORS of the New York from the former headquarters near Subject io the usual restrictions of space and -L' State Artificial Breeders Co- Syracuse, and bulls of other dairy operative Association met at the breeds will be added. good taslef we shall print letters from sub- scribers on any side of any subject of in- College of Agriculture January 22 terest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS and inspected the new buildings which often may not agree with the sentiments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility the University has erected for the beyond that of fostering interest in the Association on Judd Falls Road, University. southeast of the Campus. Time Was . . . The new plant is headquarters for the artificial insemination of dairy Tablet to Sheehan cattle for herd improvement and in- Fifty Years Ago To THE EDITOR: creased milk production that has been February, 1895—Advertisements in Frank Sheehan was a good old re- carried on cooperatively by the Col- The Cornell Sun: Theo. Zink, Restau- liable friend to many of us. I have lege and breeders of the State since rant. Popular Student Resort. Nos. 8 been returning every fall during foot- 1938. Selection of proved sires and and 10 North Aurora Street . . . Al- ball season for many years to spend a development of techniques to im- hambra, Hotel and Cafe, 18 East few weeks in Ithaca, and afternoons prove dairy herds by artificial in- State Street. Everything is A 1 at when I went to football practice, al- semination, as carried on by Profes- Casey's. Private Dining Parlors, Large, ways spent some time with Frank. sors Stanley J. Brownell and Glenn Airy and Exclusive on 2nd Floor . . . He was a congenial, lovable char- W. Salisbury, PhD '34, Animal Hus- The Relation of the Sexes is very hard acter. The last practice I went out to bandry, have brought visitors here on Gloves, whether it be from the see, before the Dartmouth game, was from all over the world. Records show "fraternity grip," or the "gentle pres- cold and rainy, I had no gloves or that the first 102 cows born as a result sure. " We have a stock of Gloves for muffler. As I left the training room, of techniques perfected here have an such emergency. C. R. Sherwood, Frank came over and wrapped a towel average milk production of more than Men's Hosier and Glover, Sprague around my neck, saying I'd better not twice the State average. Block . . . Neckwear: Our neckware go out on the field without something Cost of the new buildings will be sale is over. Why? Because there are none left to sell. Now we can start in to protect my throat. As I said good- amortized to the University by the for Spring with an entire new line, by to him after the game, I handed Co-operative Association over twen- him a pack of Pall Malls and said it ty-five years. President of the Associ- without any old stuff to work off. was a remembrance. But he refused, ation is Assemblyman Harold L. Every pattern new, shapes correct, saying, "I have more of them than Creal '19 of Homer, and Dr. Morris line large, and prices moderate. Henry H. Angell, Correct Haberdashery. you have." I surely will miss him. M. Johnson '34 is manager. Last year, I notice in Romeyn Berry's column the State appropriated $46,000 for Twenty Years Ago in the January 15 ALUMNI NEWS a extension under Professor Brownell, February, 1925—Twenty-five and reference to commemorative tablets. research directed by Professor Salis- one-half inches of snow in twenty-four I would like to suggest that one be bury, and for statistical services, and hours; temperature, twenty-two de- placed in Frank's training room with both the College of Agriculture and grees below zero; very little skating some suitable inscription, and I am the Association have employees at the on Beebe Lake; horses, skis, and snow- willing to subscribe ten dollars toward new plant. This year, more than shoes much in evidence. it. 30,000 cows owned by former-mem- We should not forget those who bers of the co-operative in forty-eight Fifteen Years Ago stood by us in good and bad times. counties of the State will be serviced February, 1930—The Junior Prom, —HENRY C. NELSON '92 from here. Forty Holstein and Guern- boasting Mai Hallett's band and Mc- Kinney's Cotton Pickers, attracted 1,000 couples to the Drill Hall; a much-appreciated hot breakfast was served instead of the customary sup- per; every twosome not showing spe- cial reluctance was photographed during the evening. Psi Upsilon and Sigma Phi, dis- possessed to permit construction of the Law School's new Myron Taylor Hall,» offer the University two resi- dential halls as integral units of the men's dormitory group, to be occu- pied by undergraduate members of the two fraternities. Highlight of the twenty-third an- nual Farm and Home Week was Gov- ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt's address NEW HEADQUARTERS OF ARTIFICIAL BREEDERS ASSOCIATION before 2,500 persons in Bailey Hall. Erected by the University on Judd Falls Road south of Cascadilla Creek, steel and Day before, Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at concrete buildings insulated with foam glass and air conditioned make a plant for arti- the tenth annual banquet of the State ficial insemination of dairy cattle "unequalled anywhere in the world." The two barns Federation of Home Bureaus in Wil- at left will accommodate thirty bulls each in individual, roomy pens. Headquarters build- lard Straight Memorial Room. While ing at right contains offices and laboratories, and between it and the barns is a smaller in Ithaca, she and the Governor were building for collecting semen. An electric bull exerciser is in a fenced paddock at far house guests of Charles E. Treman '89. right, and a barn for hay storage is not shown in the picture.

326 Cornell Alumni News Californians Gather Alumni Trustee nominations through the various alumni groups without in "E" Award WENTY-ONE members of the any way interfering with the system HIRD star to the Army-Navy TCornell Club of Northern Cali- provided in the Charter of the Uni- T"E" was awarded January 13 to fornia, meeting for the monthly versity." It surveys the needs of the Mason Can Co. of East Providence, luncheon January 3 at the Commer- University Board of Trustees and R. I., for two years of sustained pro- cial Club in San Francisco, heard L. suggests candidates to be included on duction of tail assemblies for the Deming Tilton of the City Planning the official ballots sent to all degree Army's magnesium incendiary bomb. Commission discuss "Post-War Plan- holders by the Treasurer of the Uni- Walter Gompertz '29 is vice-president ning in San Francisco." President versity shortly after April 1, for elec- and general manager of the company. Seibert L. Sefton '29 presided. tion of two Alumni Trustees each year for five-year terms. Under provisions VanCleef Dinners Rochester Officers of the University Charter, any ten or more degree holders may file with the IFT has been made to the Uni- FFICERS of the Cornell Club of University Treasurer, on or before G versity of the Mynderse Van O Rochester this year are Walter April 1, written nominations for Cleef Memorial Dinner Fund, the in- B. Kenyon '27, president; L^o J. Alumni Trustees. come to be used to perpetuate the Sullivan '13, vice-president; Wallace annual Reunion dinners in Ithaca for D. Wood '36 of 289 Wisconsin Street, members of the elder Classes and their recording secretary; Fred Goodelle families at which the late Mynderse '26, membership secretary; Ernest E. Stories of Cornell Van Cleef '74 was host until he died. Elder '15, treasurer; and Thurston By FRANK A. WRIGHT 79 The gift came from his daughters, Corbett '26, assistant treasurer. Eugenia Van Cleef of Ithaca and Mrs. John Ostrom '77 Arthur W. Booth of Elmira, whose husband is a member of the Class of VanLoon'o5 Memorial '93. ETHERLAND - America Foun- For several years before his death, N dation is asking contributions March 6, 1935, Van Cleef had as his to the Hendrik Willem van Loon guests for dinner the members of ('05) Scholarship Fund, begun with Classes of the '70s and '80s and their an initial gift of $6,000 and augmented families who came to Class Reunions December 5 by $2,000, proceeds of a in Ithaca each June. Similar gather- concert by the National Symphony ings of the elder Cornellians were Orchestra in the Metropolitan Opera continued until Reunions were aban- House, New York City. doned because of the war. Lately they The Scholarships will be used to have been attended by members of send Dutch students to American the Fifty-year Reunion Class and of universities for graduate study, to those earlier. help with the rehabilitation of their The Association of Class Secreta- war-ravaged homeland. As soon as ries at its annual meeting January 27 recorded its thanks and appreciation Dutch universities can be restored, Many providential things came part of the Scholarship Fund will be to Cornell: Ezra Cornell and An- to the donors of the Mynderse Van used to send American students for drew D. White first of all; Senator Cleef Memorial Dinner Fund for as- graduate study in the Netherlands. Morrill with the Land Grant and suring that when Class Reunions are Institute of International Educa- the generous cooperation of the resumed after the war, the elder re- tion, 2 West Forty-fifth Street, New Empire State; Henry W. Sage to turning alumni will again annually be York City 19, will administer the manage things so that we had a fine dinner guests on the Campus, in Scholarships; its director, Dr. Stephen endowment; then John McGraw, memory of the Cornellian who started Hiram Sibley, and Jennie McGraw. the custom. Duggan, is chairman of the committee Back of it all was a great Faculty seeking contributions to the Fund. gathered by President White. Still Mynderse Van Cleef was a Trustee we lacked students; '79 had 225 of the University for nearly fifty years, Alumni Trustees but only graduated eighty-five. first elected an Alumni Trustee in Then came our surprising rowing 1881 and serving in that capacity for (Continued from page 322) victories at Saratoga in 1875 and ten years. He was elected and re- '18, Federation of Cornell Women's 1876 and Cornell was on the front elected by the Board beginning in Clubs; and H. Victor Grohmann '28, page! Captain John N. Ostrom '77 1895, was University attorney, and Cornell Society of Hotelmen. Other did this. He was his own coach. We until his death chairman of the com- won by sheer courage and grit. mittee on general administration members of the committee are Slocum Under our great coach, Courtney, Kingsbury '15, representing the Col- we were supreme on the water for which has since become the executive lege of Architecture Alumni Associa- years, but John Ostrom had led us committee of the Board. He practiced tion; L. Peter Ham '25, Agriculture first. He was a very strong man. I law in Ithaca and was a founder, Alumni Association; Lawrence S. have seen him grab two Freshmen, president, and chairman of the board Hazzard '22, Law Association; and one in each hand, and hold them of the Ithaca Trust Co. In 1921, he Dr. Cassius Way '07, Veterinary aloft while they struggled. His established an endowment fund of Alumni Association. Walter C. Heas- guiding thoughts were duty, disci- $25,000 as a memorial to his brother, ley, Jr. '30, acting Alumni Secretary pline, and loyalty, like a Puritan. the late Charles E. Van Cleef '71, the He came each year to Class Re- income to be used for the library of of the University, was elected secre- unions: a quiet, modest man al- tary of the committee. ways, doing what he could for Cor- the Medical College in Ithaca and for Committee on Alumni Trustee nell, including the contribution of the Law School library. In 1932, he nominations is provided in the by- $10,000 to endow a loan fund for gave the University $2,000 as endow- laws of the Cornell Alumni Associa- students in Civil Engineering. ment to establish a scholarship fund tion "to stimulate greater interest in in the Law School.

February /5, 1945 327 Persons who are interested in be- 6. The decision on peacetime conscrip- tion should be taken strictly on the basis Cornell Alumni News coming members, or who are willing of military requirements after the war. to work with local chapters, are re- . . . The arguments being advanced in FOUNDED 1899 quested to address the national head- behalf of collateral educational and social 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N. Y. quarters, Americans United for World values of military training we consider erroneous. Military training offers no Published the first and fifteenth of Organization, Inc., 465 Fifth Avenue, real solution to national problems of edu- every month. New York City 17. cation, health, or responsible citizenship in a free society. . . Owned and published by the Cornell Until the postwar international situa- Alumni Association under direction of a Oppose Action Now tion is clarified, it seems to us extremely committee composed of Phillips Wyman unwise and even dangerous to commit the '17, chairman, R. W. Sailor '07, Birge W. PRESIDENT Edmund E. Day and nation to such a revolutionary change in Kinne Ί6, Clifford S. Bailey Ί8, and John -*• the heads of eleven other universi- S. Knight Ί8. Officers of the Alumni As- national policy as the establishment of sociation: William L. Kleitz '15, New ties addressed an open letter to Presi- future compulsory military training. York City, president; Walter C. Heasley, dent Roosevelt, January 30, opposing All but one of the universities repre- Jr. '30, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. "the adoption now of compulsory sented by the signers of the letter have Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 military training as a permanent ROTC units for the military training Assistant Editors: peace-time policy while the nation is of their students. At Cornell and the under the stress and tension of war." Universities of California, Indiana, JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 The letter pointed out that the Presi- and Missouri, military training is RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 dent in his annual message to Con- compulsory. In seven others it is Contributors: gress said he was convinced of the elective. Only Vanderbilt has none. ROMEYN BERRY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 necessity for universal military train- Co-signers with President Day were Subscriptions $4 in U. S. and possessions; ing and would later send a special Chancellor Oliver C. Carmichael of foreign, $4.50. Life subscription, $75. message on the sμbject, and appealed Vanderbilt University and Presidents Single copies, 20 cents. Subscriptions are to him to "delay initiation of debate renewed annually unless cancelled. James B. Conant of Harvard, Harold on the highly controversial question, W. Dodds of Princeton, Rufus C. Har- As a gift from Willard Straight Hall and at least until complete victory over the Alumni Association to Uornellians in ris of Tulane, Robert M. Hut chins of the armed services, the ALUMNI NEWS is Germany is achieved." Chicago, Frederick A. Middlebush of supplied regularly to reading rooms of "All Americans will support a year Missouri, Deane W. Malott of Kan- Army posts and shore stations of the of compulsory military training if sas, Robert G. Sproul of California, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, after adequate deliberation the na- Donald B. Tresidder of Stanford, upon request. tion is convinced that its safety re- Herman B. Wells of Indiana, and Member, Alumni Magazines, quires it," the letter said. "A continu- Henry M. Wriston of Brown. Birge W. Kinne '16, 420 Lexington Ave., New York City 17, advertising repre- ing program of public education as to sentative. the requirements of national defense Club Hears of War Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N. Y. is certainly in order; but we challenge the necessity of getting the American /CORNELL Club of Essex County, people to act under the tensions of ^ N. J., met at the Montclair Golf For World Security war psychology in order to bring them Club, February 6. The forty-five mem- to a 'decision which, it is said, they bers present heard Radioman Second ORNELLIANS are invited to would not reach under more normal Class Harold Amateis, USNR, relate C affiliate with a new non-partisan, conditions." his experiences on a Navy PT boat non-political organization, Americans Six specific reasons are cited against in the Solomons, and saw two docu- United for World Organization, "to "present commitment of the nation mentary sound films, the US Navy's help in the important activity of to a year of military service" for all "Tarawa to Saipan," and the Russian arousing public opinion favorable to boys: "One Day of War." a strong form of world security or- 1. The proposal is not related to suc- ganization." Chairman of the board cessful prosecution of the war; it is for of directors is President Ernest M. peacetime conscription. . . Coming Events 2. The adoption of peacetime conscrip- Hopkins of Dartmouth College, and tion would be a revolutionary change in Notices for this column must be received at S. Stanwood Menken '90 and Bishop fundamental American policies. To effect least five days before date of issue. Time and G. Ashton Oldham Όl are members such a change under stress of war is place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are of the national committee. unwise. . . printed separately as we have space. 3. The basic issue is not compulsory Stated present objective of Ameri- military training but adequate national SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 cans United is "to explain Dumbarton defense. Peacetime conscription is only Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. Oaks and to work for the support of one element in a rounded defense program Midshipmen's School, 6:30; Varsity these proposals or whatever other under modern military conditions. To vs. Columbia, 8:15 adopt it under stress of war and have it plans the government works out with prove unwise might jeopardize an in- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 the other United Nations." It is "a telligent long-run defense program for Ithaca: Commencement, , means of coordinating the work of the country. . . 3:30 existing organizations, to bring to- 4. Clearly, no one can now foresee the MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 gether the efforts of all groups and international situation when the war is Albany: H. Edward Babcock, chairman, over. It is therefore impossible to de- University Trustees, at dinner at individuals. ... It is essential for all termine intelligently the extent of de- Cornell Club and Cornell Women's who seek an enduring peace to work fense measures which will be needed. . . Club, Aurania Club, 7 for prompt and complete support of 5. The American people are fighting the war with high hope it will eventuate WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 the most promising plans that can be in an enduring peace. If Congress should Detroit, Mich.: Dean Paul M. O'Leary, developed. As leaders in their com- now prescribe a year of compulsory PhD '29, of the School of Business munities, particular confidence is military training, the action together and Public Administration, at Cor- placed in the alumni of colleges for the with the necessary accompanying meas- nell Club dinner, University Club, influence they can exert by participat- ures for mobilizing industry and science 6:30 would be interpreted as meaning that we THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 ing in local activity of Americans must continue to live for an indefinite Ithaca: Winter term ends United." period in an armed camp. . .

328 Cornell Alumni News On The Campus and Down the Hill

Winter in Ithaca: January's mean of "The Music of Contemporary Faculty table in the Willard Straight temperature of 14.8 degrees was the Civilization" by Robert M. Palmer, Hall cafeteria reflects the cigarette coldest on record since 1879, with the Music, and a round table discussion, shortage these days. Professors are exception of the even meaner 14.4 in "Is Jazz Music," led by Professor John often seen manipulating their sacks 1918. With more than eighty inches of M. Kuypers, head of the Department. of Bull Durham and papers. Even a snow since December 1, the city has well-known emeritus professor of Eng- been isolated several times, drifts Spirit and Traditions note: $25 bail lish who visits the Campus frequently around Trumansburg blocking even was forfeited in City Court February now rolls his own. the Lehigh Valley trains, which were 3 by a Junior in Arts and Sciences. forced to shuttle down to the main Apprehended for removing a light John Plager '46 of New York City line at Sayre. To conserve dwindling bulb from the State Theater marquee, wrote to The Bulletin January 5 fuel supplies, Mayor Melvin G. Com- he was hustled to the police station, about hoarding. He said, "I have just fort first declared an eight-hour day, booked for disorderly conduct. Per- come from watching two students with five-day week for all businesses, then haps he was only helping along the six dollars in dimes, clean out approxi- closed for three days all places of "brown-out" ordered by the WPB. mately three cartons of cigarettes amusement, public libraries, clubs, from a machine at Home EC." and all retail stores and offices except Joaquin Molinet '21, captain of the those essential to public health and Varisty basketball team in 1920 and Farm and Home Week, which used war production (exempting food and 1921, visited the Campus February to attract as many as 14,000 visitors drug stores, restaurants, schools, 1-3, renewing acquaintances at Schoell- to the Colleges of Agriculture and banks, and repair shops). kopf and attending the Pennsylvania Home Economics each February, has game. In April, 1941, Molinet ar- again been cancelled. Last year was Gale-swept fire January 25 at John- ranged to have the '41 Varsity play the first suspension after thirty-six son's Boatyard on lower Cascadilla three exhibition matches in Havana, annual sessions, because of wartime Creek took the life of Arthur Brennan, Cuba, and he has invited them to restrictions on travel and Campus a painter employed by the University come again after the war. His son, shortage of food and housing. Department of Buildings and Grounds, Joaquin Molinet, Jr., captain of the and destroyed six boathouses, five Peddie School's unbeaten basketball University Orchestra gave a concert boats, and Brennan's automobile. team, expects to enter Cornell next February 11 in the Willard Straight fall Memorial Room. Jeanne Switzer, an Coalbin of the vacant Beta Theta Pi Ithaca College student, is concert- house on Ridgewood Road contributed Carl Hallock, bartender at the Cornell master of the fifty-five-piece group, its bit to the fuel crisis, February 4. Club of New York, retired February 4 which is composed chiefly of Cornell Volunteers of the Ithaca Junior to his farm at Marathon, with his two students, together with talent from Chamber of Commerce, led by Charles dogs and yellow cat. For many years, the downtown institution and from E. Dykes '36, and the Cornell Carl set 'em up at Zinck's; he will be the community at large. Coaches' Club, led by Harrison San- sixty-six next May. ford, shovelled twenty-three-and-a- Croix de Guerre was awarded to half tons of buckwheat coal into bags Technical Sergeant Elton B. McNeil to be trucked to the City barns for of Birmingham, Mich., a member of emergency distribution. SIGHTS AND SOUNDS of Ithaca the US Military Academy Prepara- and the University were described tory unit at Cornell, at ceremonies in Snowed in on his farm northeast of and reproduced in a pre-broadcast Barton Hall February 7. Sergeant the Campus, Assistant Treasurer Lew- by Station WHCU of a half-hour McNeil has been in the Army two is H. Durland '30 solved his predica- transcription which the Army Service years; as engineer on a Flying Fortress ment temporarily last week by having Forces will shortly broadcast in its supplying French Forces of the In- H. M. Peters, president of Ithaca Fly- "Let's Go To Town" series in all terior, he extinguished a fire started ing Service, Inc., deliver eighty-four theatres of war, all over the world. by attacking enemy aircraft, thus gallons of fuel oil, an eight-day supply, Cornellians and Ithacans will hear saving the plane and its crew. in a ski-equipped Piper Cub. The from the Hill the Chimes and Cornell Edwin R. Van Deusen officiated for small plane made six trips, carrying a Band playing football songs, the the French Government in making 150-pound drum each time. Savage Club Quartet singing "Alex- the presentation. ander's Ragtime Band," and from Student Council's energetic music downtown the strokes of the City Sheldon Court will again be open as a committee "surveyed twentieth-cen- Hall bell, the voice of "Blackie" on dormitory for civilian men students tury music" January 28 to February his three-wheeled bike singing "You of the University when the spring 3. Assisted by the Department of Are My Sunshine," and of Johnny term opens, March 5. Since Septem- Music, the committee presented crying The Journal, Romeyn Berry ber, 1943, the residential hall at the "Trends in Modern- Music" in Willard '04 talking of State and Tioga and the College Avenue entrance to the Cam- Straight Hall. The trends encom- familiar store names, Eddie Pierce, pus has been occupied by the Army, passed daily recordings of long- and Ithaca High School football coach, but it has now been turned back to short-haired music, piano recitals, an and the Black Diamond leaving the the management and is being re- illustrated lecture by Ithaca's Don Lehigh Station and going along the furbished for civilian occupancy under Townsend (whose personal library Lake toward Geneva as the sun sinks direction of the resident manager, contains more than 6,000 records) over West fiffl. Ray S. Ashbery '25, former Alumni entitled "Styles in Jazz," an analysis Field Representative of the University.

February 75, 1945 329 and the lights usually go on the fritz a race'." Dr. Richtmyer was a mem- about 6 p.m. Candles are punk for ber of the Faculty from 1906 until his The Faculty night study." But occasionally he has death, November 7, 1939. time for a boar hunt. "These wild hogs run up to 300 pounds/' he says. Dr. John MacLeod, Anatomy at the Medical College in New York, re- Alumni Trustee George H. Rock- "I have a fine head to fetch back if transportation permits." ceived a $500 award of the Albert and well Ί3 has been elected president of Mary Woodard Lasker Foundation the Republican Club of Massachu- Major General Charles F. Thomp- * at the annual dinner of the Planned setts. His address is 31 Ames Street, son, USA, who was Commandant of Parenthood Federation in New York Cambridge, Mass. the Cornell Cadet Corps as a captain, City, January 24. He received the Professor Dexter S. Kimball, En- 1915-17, is commanding general of award for his research on activity of gineering, Emeritus, discussed early the Military District of Washington, human sperm cells, of importance in days at Stanford University at the D. C., with headquarters in the Pen- correction of infertility and control of meeting of the Stanford Alumni Club tagon Building. He recently returned fertility. in New York City, January 1. Pro- from as assignment as commanding officer "and king" in the Fiji Islands. Archibald G. Delmarsh, Jr., PhD fessor Kimball received the ME at '39, English, and Mrs. Delmarsh have Stanford in 1896. Professor R. Clifton Gibbs '06, a daughter, Anita Sue Delmarsh, born Dr. William F. Durand, professor Physics, has been elected president December 21 in Ithaca. The Del- emeritus of Stanford University, was of the American Association of Phys- marshes have three sons. reappointed November 30 by Presi- ics Teachers, vice-president of the American Association for the Ad- Professor Richard T. Gore, Music, dent Roosevelt for a five-year term University Organist, gave a recital on the National Advisory Committee vancement of Science, and chairman of its physics section. January 15 at the Niagara Falls St. for Aeronautics. Since 1941, Dr. Paul's Methodist Church, under the Durand has worked in Washington, Professor Harold C. Perkins Ί5, auspices of the American Guild of D. C., on jet-propulsion aircraft for Engineering, writes on "The Ampli- Organists. He played a program of military use. He was professor of tude of a Steady Forced Vibration, A Bach and contemporary composers. Marine Engineering at the University Short Method of Evaluation," in for twelve years and Director of Sib- Journal of Engineering Education for Professor Delmar S. Fink, Agron- ley College before he went to Stanford October. omy, left January 15 to work at de- in 1904. William Littlewood '20, vice- veloping new agricultural uses for president of American Airlines in Professor A. Wright Gibson Ί7, cyanamid for the American Cyanamid charge of engineering, is also a mem- Director of Resident Instruction in Co. in the Northeast. He held an ber of NACA. Agriculture, received the Silver Beav- American Cyanamid industrial fellow- er award, highest honor in scouting, ship at the University of Wisconsin It was reported from Washington at the annual dinner meeting of the before coming to Cornell two years January 24 that Dean Robert S. Stev- Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council, Boy ens, on leave from the Law School, Scouts of America, January 23 in will become chairman of the appeals Ithaca. A past president, he has been Dr. Robert Beachboard has joined board for the Office of Contract on the Council for fifteen years. the Department of Romance Lan- Settlement. As chairman, Dean Stev- guages this term as instructor in ens will have the right to appoint Professor Alexis L. Romanoff '25, French. Native of California, he re- "such members as he needs'7 to help Poultry Husbandry, has discovered ceived the BA at Pennsylvania State him administer the office where the an easy way to preserve fresh eggs. College in 1932 after having lived in appeals of contractors not satisfied He simply immerses eggs in boiling France; returned to study at the Sor- with the settlements of the govern- water for five seconds, air-cools them, bonne and University of Paris where ment contracting agency will be and then stores them in the refrig- he received the PhD in 1939. He was heard. Dean Stevens in the spring of erator. They retain their natural ap- for six months in the US Merchant 1942 left to join the Office of Emer- pearance, flavor, and beating and Marine and was quartermaster on a gency Management. He collaborated cooking qualities for at least a year. ship off the coast of southern France with the Department of Justice in Professor Romanoff calls the method during the Allied invasion. bringing to trial eight German sabo- the "flash heat treatment." Using teurs who landed in this country by more than 950 eggs in his experiments, Professor George L. Coleman '95, submarine. He has also been with he found that at the end of twelve Music, Emeritus, and Mrs. Coleman Lend-Lease and was assistant general months the treated eggs were equiva- live on Roan Heights, Johnson City, counsel to the US Commodities Corp. lent in quality to untreated ones at Tenn. They went to Florida when he three months. retired in 1941 after forty years as Captain William J. Hamilton, ^ director of the Mandolin Club, In- Jr. '26, former professor of Zoology American Journal of Physics for strumental Clubs, University Or- now with the Civil Affairs Office of the October carries an appreciation of the chestra, and ROTC Band. But, he Allied Military Government, writes late Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, writes, "after having lived for years that after four months of sleeping on Dean of the Graduate School and and years 'Far above Cayuga's wa- the ground, he is staying with a professor of Physics, by Professor ters/ in the green valleys and seasonal French family. "The Monsieur is a Frederick R. Hirsh, Jr. '26 of Uni- snow-covered hills, our interest in breeder of sheep and cattle. The Boche versity of Southern California. "We Florida waned and when the oppor- did not interfere with his pursuits who knew F. K. Richtmyer as his tunity of teaching in the summer ses- during their occupation. The French workers," Professor Hirsh writes, "will sion of the Eastern Tennessee State are great foresters, for wood is the never forget him; he set our first College presented itself, we accepted primary fuel, and they take great ef- faltering steps in the pathway of with alacrity. ... At present I am forts to conserve timber. As a result, science on the stepping stones of organizing a band and orchestra in I'm cold most of the time. We must truth, inspired us, and sent us on our Boone's Creek School, located near crawl into bed early to keep warm, way rejoicing 'as a strong man to run the spot where Daniel killed the 'bar,'

330 Cornell Alumni News and I recently was appointed director Institute of Nutrition. He was elected section, Agricultural Marketing Ad- of the First Methodist Church choir, a member of the National Academy ministration (later, Office of Distribu- so my time is pretty well occupied. of Sciences and the American Philo- tion, War Food Administration). He Would you say I was retired?" Start- sophical Society in 1944. is the author of "Agricultural News ing in April, he will direct another in the Daily Press," published in 1941 band, orchestra, and vocal session at Professor James M. Neill, Bacteri- has contributed to farm publications; the State College in Johnson City, ology and Immunology at the Med- is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, pro- where Mondel E. Butterfield '22, ical College in New York, has re- fessional journalism society. Next July former member of the University ceived a grant-in-aid from the Sugar 1 he succeeds Professor Bristow Ad- Orchestra and Band, heads the music Research Foundation for investigat- ams, Extension Service, Emeritus, as department. ing serologically active polysacchar- teacher of journalism courses in the ides. The grant is to further the Foun- College of Agriculture. Professor Ad- Professor Howard S. Tyler, PhD dation's program to find new indus- ams was due to retire in 1943, but has '38, Personnel Administration in Agri- trial uses for sugar and to establish continued on duty at the request of culture, and Mrs. Tyler have a son, the role of sugar in human diet. the Board of Trustees, and will give Edward J. Tyler, born December 24 two journalism courses in the Summer in Ithaca Memorial Hospital. Professor Paul J. Weaver, Music, « is attending the meeting of the Music Session of 1945. Professor Carl A. Binger, Clinical Teachers Association, February 15-18, Robert F. Bacher is promoted from Medicine (Psychiatry) at the Medical in Detroit, Mich. He is vice-president associate professor to professor of College in New York has won the W. of the Association. Professor James Physics. He joined the Department W. Norton Co. Medical Award for T. Quarles, former University Organ- in 1935 as instructor, became assistant 1945, with his manuscript, "The Doc- ist and leader of the Glee Club, now professor in 1937, associate professor tor's Job." His book, to be published at the University of Missouri, is in 1940. Since 1941 he has been on March 26, explains the medical pro- president. leave for war research, first with the fession to the layman. Radiation Laboratory at MIT and now with the Federal War Research Whitney R. Cross, Curator of the Laboratory in the southwestern United University Collection of Regional Faculty Appointments States. History, contributes an introduction EW professor of Mathematics, University Faculty has re-elected and comment on a letter of Charles N beginning July 1, is Will Feller, Dean Joseph C. Hinsey of the Med- A. Loomis published in the New Eng- native of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. A grad- ical College, Faculty Representative land Quarterly for December under uate of the University of Zagreb in on the University Board of Trustees; the title, "A New Yorker on Cape 1925, Professor Feller received the Professor Benjamin P. Young, PhD Cod in 1841." The Loomis letter is PhD summa cum laude at the Univer- '19, to the Board on Physical Educa- among the papers bequeathed to the sity of Gottingen in 1926; was lec- tion and Athletics, succeeding Pro- Regional History Collection by the turer and head of the laboratory of fessor Paul M. O'Leary, PhD '29, late James McCall '85 of Bath. applied mathematics at Kiel, joined Eςonomics; and Professor LeRoy L. Bohr's Institute of Physics in Copen- Barnes, PhD '32, Biophysics, to the Donald Meek, son of Professor hagen, and later the Institute of Board on Student Health and Hy- Howard B. Meek, Hotel 4dministra- Mathematical Statistics in Stock- giene, succeeding Professor Leonard tion, has received appointment to the holm. He comes to Cornell from A. Maynard, PhD '15, Nutrition. US Naval Academy by Representa- Brown University, where he has been All are elected for three-year terms. tive W. Sterling Cole. He is a senior associate professor of mathematics at Western Reserve Academy, Hud- since 1942. Professor Feller's chief son, Ohio. interests are in the theories of proba- Professor Riverda H. Jordan, Edu- bility and of random processes, on Necrology cation, Emeritus, chairman of the which he has published several studies. Committee for Economic Develop- Since 1939 he has been executive edi- ment in Avon Park, Fla., received the tor of Mathematical Reviews, associ- Private First Class Harrison + congratulations of C. Scott Fletcher, ate editor of the American Mathe- Gibbs, Instructor in Fine Arts, 1938- director of the CED field develop- matical Society's transactions, and 41, killed in action in France, Decem- ment division, for "a job well done." editor of Annals of Mathematical ber 26, 1944. Enlisting in the Army in When a war plant employing migrant Statistics and of the Quarterly for 1943, he went overseas last summer workers closed, jobs were found by Applied Mathematics. with an Infantry outfit of the Seventh Professor Jordan's committee for William B. Ward is appointed pro- Army. In November he was wounded ninety workers who wanted to remain fessor in Extension Service ,nd editor but returned to duty. Son of the late in Avon Park. and chief of publications in ΐhe College George Gibbs, the novelist, he had of Agriculture, beginning April 1. Pro- won considerable distinction as a Professor Vincent du Vigneaud, fessor Ward was assistant to the ex- sculptor. In 1936 he won the Prix de Bio-chemistry at the Medical College tension editor at Utah State Agricul- Rome for two years' study at the in New York, has been awarded the tural College from 1937-40, edited the American Academy in Rome. Mrs. William H. Nichols medal by the college newspaper and athletic pub- Gibbs and their daughter live in American Chemical Society, New lications, and was Associated Press Peoria, 111. York section. He was cited for his re- correspondent for the Rocky Moun- '83 PhB—Charles Ross Browning, searches on biotin; his discovery of tain area. He received the BS at retired merchant, January 26, 1945, biotin was announced in October, Utah in 1940, and the MS in 1941 at in West Orange, N. J., where he lived 1942. He received the Hillebrand the University of Wisconsin, where he in Llewellyn Park. Alpha Delta Phi. Prize in 1936 from the Washington also assisted the extension editor. In Chemical Society in recognition of 1941-42 he was information specialist '86 BS—Hobart Chatfield Chat- his work on the synthesis of gluta- in dairy marketing for the US Depart- field-Taylor, novelist and biographer thione, and the Mead Johnson Vita- ment of Agriculture, and since 1943 whose writings brought him honors min B-complex Award of the American has been chief of the information from many countries, January 16,

February /J, 331 1945, at his home, "Far Afield/7 900 '10—John Henry Dodge, draughts- dent's Citation and the Battle Honor Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, man for E. W. Bliss Co., Toledo, Medal, he enlisted in the Air Corps in Cal. From 1888-90 he was editor of Ohio, November 14, 1944. Mrs. March, 1942. Mrs. Wright lives in America and from 1892-4 he was Con- Dodge lives at 325 Ferris Avenue, Johnson City. Pi Kappa Phi. sul of Spain at Chicago, 111. Author Toledo, Ohio. of The Vice of Fools, The Idle Born, '41 BS— Floyd * Moliere: A Biography, Goldoni: A ΊO, '11 ME—Samuel Thomas Har- D. Kyte, Jr., AAF, who was reported Biography, Cities of Many Men, ris, formerly with American Fork & missing in flight, April 11, 1944, Tawny Spain, his last work was Hoe Co., January 19, 1945, in Ashta- killed in action. He was commissioned Charmed Circles: A Pageant of the bula, Ohio, where he lived at 873 as a navigator in January, 1944. Mrs. Ages from Aspasia's Day to Ours, Prospect Road. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kyte (Phyllis Breese) '42 lives at 614 published in 1935. Kappa Alpha. Northeast Sixty-eighth Street, Miami, '10—Alonzo Orrin Peabody, road Fla. '93—John Thomas Rowland, Jr., contractor, January 15, 1945, in El architect, January 22, 1945, in Jersey Paso, Tex. His address was Box 1724, '43 AB— Earl ^ City, N. J. Head of the firm of John Santa Fe, N. M. Whitney Benjamin, Jr., Field Artil- T. Rowland, 30 Journal Square, Jer- lery, killed in action in Belgium, De- '10 ME—Percy James Taylor, of cember 27, 1944. He was commis- sey City, N. J., he was architect for 53Q6 West 115th Street, Los Angeles, the Jersey City Board of Education sioned at , Okla., and went Cal., in December, 1944. He had been overseas last September. Mrs. Ben- and designer of the Jersey City Med- with the Crane Co., Chicago, 111. Son, ical Center. Phi Kappa Psi. jamin is the former Nancy P. Claney Robert B. Taylor '43. Phi Kappa '44. Lieutenant Benjamin was the son '94 ME, '08 MME—William Ben- Sigma. of Earl W. Benjamin Ίl, formerly jamin Gregory, professor emeritus of '14 AB—Mrs. Thomas Squier Kraft professor of Poultry Husbandry, and experimental engineering and hy- (Helen Theresa Moakley), wife of Mrs. Benjamin (Eva Hollister) '15, of draulics at Tulane University, Janu- Thomas S. "Kraft '15, January 22, 474 West 238th Street, New York ary 29, 1945, in New Orleans, La. He 1945, in Providence, R. I. She was the City 6i3. Brothers, B. Allen Benjamin, invented the "Tulane Pilot," an in- daughter of Coach John F. Moakley; MS '39, and Roger 0. Benjamin '39. strument for measuring the air speed sister, Mildred A. Moakley '18. Kraft, Sister, Barbara J. Benjamin '45. of planes, and received in 1940 the an executive for the Sun Oil Co., lives Sigma Phi Epsilon. Warner Medal of the ASME for dis- at 43 Irving Place, Providence 6, R. I. tinguished work in hydraulic engi- '46—Private Robert Eugene Ά- neering. Son, William B. Gregory '23 917 AB, '18 AM, '24 PhD—Profes- Cook, killed in action in Germany, of 3536 Rankin Street, Dallas 5, Tex sor Hyman Chonon Berkowitz, teacher November 20, 1944. A former student of Spanish and Portuguese at the in Chemical Engineering, his home '94 BS in Arch—Mrs. Janet Shel- University of Wisconsin since 1924, was at 108 Churchwarden's Road, don Collier, wife of Professor Theo- January 17, 1945, in Madison, Wis. Baltimore, Md. dore F. Collier, PhD '06, of Brown Instructor at Cornell from 1920-24, he University, January 22, 1945, in went to Spain in 1930 on a Guggen- '46—Second Lieutenant Fields ^ Providence, R. I. She was a draughts- heim Fellowship to gather material Seeley Pendleton III, Thunderbolt pilot with the Seventh Army, killed man in an architect's office in Buffalo for his book on Benito Perez Galdos, in action, October 12, 1944, in the and taught drawing and mathematics Spanish novelist. in Brooklyn before her marriage in Belfort Gap area of France. A former 1902. Kappa Alpha Theta. '20 BS—Stanley Armstrong Tomp- student in Arts and Sciences, he cov- ered the invasion of France as a mem- '02 ME—Irving Adelbert Hunting, kins, proprietor of the Tompkins Motion-Picture Laboratories in Som- ber of the Ninth Air Force. He is the mechanical engineer and press expert, son of Fields S. Pendleton, Jr. '20 of January 30, 1945, at his home at 1019 erville, N. J., January 19, 1945. Mrs. Tompkins is the former Ellen M. 113 Broadway Street, Bangor, Me. Clinton Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. He Beta Theta Pi. designed printing presses for R. Hoe Van Nuys '19. & Co., and later was with the Miehle '22 CE—Lieutenant Colonel * '47—Private First Class William * Printing Press Co. of Chicago, 111. Samuel Henry Feinson, Field Artil- Charles Ackerknecht, who had previ- lery, AUS, killed in an airplane crash ously been reported missing; killed in '06 MD—Dr. Aaron Brown, assist- action in Germany, December 7, 1944. ant clinical professor of medicine at near Asheville, N. C., January 17, 1944. He had arrived in the States He entered the Army in March, 1944, New York University College of Med- from Arts and Sciences; had been icine, January 24, 1945, in New York and was enroute to Washington, D. C., after seven months in Iran. Ήis overseas with an Infantry division City. He lived at 14 Earl Street, since last August and took part in the Floral Park, Queens. At the Medical home was at 108 Montford Avenue, Asheville, N. C. Phi Delta Pi. Luxembourg campaign. He was the College in 1904, he founded Phi Delta son of Dr. Clarence F. Ackerknecht Epsilon, national medical fraternity; '34—Lieutenant Thomas Chan- + '17 of 1410 Union Street, Schenec- was its president at his death. Son, tady, and nephew of William L. Captain Frederick R. Brown '31. dler Sowden, AUS, killed in action, January 7, 1945, in Belgium. Former Kleitz '15. '06 LLB—Daniel Davold Kline, manager of the Detroit office of the lawyer, December 24, 1944, at his Arkell Safety Bag Co. of New York '47—Private Edward Dennison ^ home, 705 Market Street, Williams- City, his home was at 434 East Fifty- Mueden, AUS, killed in action in Bel- port, Pa. He was solicitor for Lycom- second Street, New York City. Broth- gium, December 28, 1944. A student ing County and the Williamsport er, Lieutenant George S. Sowden '35. in Architecture before entering the school board. Daughter, Mrs. Paul Army, he was the son of George F. A. Kenner (Anne Belle Kline) '43. '34 BS—Flight Officer John Ed- * Mueden '05 and Mrs. Mueden (Mar- Sigma Nu. mund Wright, Army Air Corps, killed garet L, Stecker) '06 of 19 East in Southern England, October 25, Ninety-eighth Street, New York City '09, '10 CE—Leon True King of 1944. Holder of the Air Medal and 29. Brother, Lieutenant George F. Ilion, December 28, 1944, in Utica. two Oak Leaf Clusters with the Presi- Mueden, Jr. '40.

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'85 BCE; Ί5 AB, '20 MD; '18 department in 1925, assistant general mans arrested^as spies. The Germans, BArch—Mrs. James B. French, wife manager in 1934, and elected to the who were landed by a submarine, of James B. French '85, died January board of directors last May. were turned over January 18 to the 13, 1945, in Jamaica. Besides her hus- '08 AB, '10 AM—Harry A. Rich- Army by the Federal Bureau of In- band, a consulting engineer in Ja- ards is vice-president and counsel for vestigation, Department of Justice. maica, she leaves two sons, Dr. ? Case, Pomeroy & Co., Inc., 1 Cedar '14—Charles E. Carey is executive Thomas M. French 15 and William Street, New York City 5. His address vice-president of the Central Fibre G.French '18. is Westover Road, Stamford, Conn. Products Co., Hutchinson, Kans. '97—William F. Ohl was guest of '08 AB—Kenneth Roberts has been '14—David C. Proctor, secretary honor at a dinner given by his associ- undergoing treatment for a neck in- and assistant general counsel of Gulf ates in the New York City Depart- fection at the New England Baptist Oil Corp. of Texas, has become a ment of Public Works when he retired Hospital, Boston, Mass. He was member of the American Petroleum as assistant civil engineer of the De- brought from his home in Kennebunk- Industries committee. partment, January 31, his seventieth port, Me., where he had been ill for '15 BS, '16 MS, '28 PhD; '28 AM, birthday. Known as "Kick~a-goal ten days. Ohl," he played fullback on the Var- '34 PhD—Camohmila YMCA Center sity football team of 1893 with Gen- '08 LLB—Robert M. Sohngen of of Mexico, which is directed by D. eral Joseph W. Beacham '97, later Hamilton, Ohio, is the new director Spencer Hatch and Mrs. Hatch Commandant of the ROTC at the of liquor control for Ohio. A member (Emily Gilchriest), PhD '34, has won University, and Glenn S. Warner '94 of the State Bar examining committee, the second of two radio awards in the who has become a famous coach. he is a former president of the Hamil- twelfth competition of cultural edu- ton board of education, former Ham- cation by radio, under the auspices of '03 PhD—Sanford A. Moss, engineer ilton city solicitor, and has served as Ohio State University. The winning for the General Electric Co., inventor State counsel for the Ohio Home Y entry was "Lives in the Making," of the turbo-supercharger, received Owners Loan Corp. which included a story of Spencer January 19 a turbo-supercharger that Hatch and Rural Reconstruction in functioned perfectly in a Flying Fort- '11—John L. Bacon writes that he has retired and is living on a "tol- India. The production was written by ress during 102 missions over Europe. erably good ranch in the Santa Clara Sylvia Berger, directed by Earle Mc- Moss received the gift from Captain Gill, and narrated by Paul Robeson W. E. O'Brien, who represented the valley and doing an expert job of high and fancy loafing." His address is and an all-star cast. 381st Bomber Station in England. Route 1, Box 3000, Santa Clara, Cal. The charger was as good as new after '15 AB—William L. Kleitz, presi- 1,004 hours in combat, Army Air Ίl ME; '41—Raymond P. Heath * dent of the Cornell Alumni Associa- Force mechanics said. The average of 16 Jardine Road, Morristown, N. tion and vice-president of the Guar- life of a good turbo is about 500 hours. J., has been awarded "The Silver anty Trust Co., 140 Broadway, New A congratulatory message from Gen- Beaver" by the Boy Scouts of Amer- York City, has been promoted to be- eral Henry H. Arnold was read at the ica for "distinguished service to boy- come associated with the general man- ceremonies, which hailed Moss's in- hood" in the Morris-Sussex area of agement of the bank. He was formerly vention as a "significant symbol of the New Jersey. His son, Robert H. identified primarily with the bank's strides we have made since you con- Heath '41, is in the Navy. business in Western and Midwestern ceived the idea of super-charging en- '12 AB—Maurice Dubin is in Italy States and with public utilities. gines more than two decades ago." with UNRRA Yugoslavian Mission as '15 AB—Bleecker Marquette is a Dr. Moss lives in Lynn, Mass. hospital consultant in charge of the re- member of the Governor's committee '06 AB; '36, '37 AB—Carlton * habilitation program. He was a month on the mental hygiene program for P. Johnson is a director of the Green- in Cairo at headquarters of the Balkan Ohio and the national committee for house Flower Co-operative of New Mission after leaving Washington last the study of voluntary health agen- York City, the only one of its kind. fall. He has been loaned to UNRRA cies. He was chairman of- the com- He is carrying on the business of The by the American Jewish Joint Dis- mittee on post-war housing, National Rose Fair, Inc. at Blue Point, a large tribution Committee as a member of Association of Housing Officials, which greenhouse range which produces its overseas staff for the UNRRA re- prepared a report published in July, roses and gardenias, while his son, lief and rehabilitation period. His "A Housing Program for the United Lieutenant Wendel C. Johnson '36, home address is 57 Lincoln Road, States." He lives at 710 Ivy Avenue, Intelligence, is on duty in the South- Brooklyn 25. Glendale, Ohio. west Pacific. '13 AB; '41 BS; '43 AB—Former '16—Loftus G. Clark has left the '06—Nasseem Mallouf is with the State Supreme Court Justice F. Wal- Veterans Hospital, Bronx, New York Foreign Economic Association in ter Bliss has resumed law practice in City. Ill for ten months, he says "the China. His home address is 36-40 Middelburg; expects to move to new NEWS helped a lot in boosting my Boune Street, Flushing. offices in Schoharie next May. He is morale." He will stay at 113 Hobart '06 ME—Leon C. Welch became the father of Mrs. Rudolph Snyder Avenue, Syracuse 5, until May or January 1 general manager of the (Janet S. Bliss) '41 and Margaret E. June when he plans to move to his lubricating and sales technical service Bliss '43, a Senior in Law. place "on a small Wisconsin lake to departments of Standard Oil Co. of '13 AB—Major Basil B. Elmer * lead the life of Riley with fishing, Indiana. He joined the company is a member of a military commission gardens, and some chickens." through a former subsidiary, the Mid- appointed by Major General Thomas '18—Harold D. Hendricks is in * west Refining Co., in 1922. He was A. Terry, commanding the Second the Army on leave of absence from the appointed manager of the lubricating Service Command, to try two Ger- Oakland Public Schools. His address

February 75, ^945 333 is Lieutenant Harold D. Hendricks, installations at the Army Air Base, Asia Command under Lord Louis 0923805, AUS, SAACC, Wing 2, San Dyersburg, Tenn. Formerly a surgeon Mountbatten in Kandy, Ceylon. He Antonio, Tex. in Hastings, Neb., he piloted his own was previously at a station hospital '19 Grad—Benjamin F. Bullock, plane to adjoining cities for operations in Delhi, India, and attended the professor of rural education at At- and consultations. Tropical School of Medicine in Cal- lantic Christian University, Wilson, '22 LLB—In an Associated Press ^ cutta. N. C., is the author of Practical Farm- dispatch, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel '24, '25 AB—From an Associated ^ ing in the South, recently published B. Strickler, executive officer of a US Press dispatch from General Mac- by the University of North Carolina Third Army unit, tells of his narrow Arthur's headquarters, Luzon: "Gen- Press. escape when the Nazis swept over the eral Mac Arthur was jeeping along >19 AB; >20 AB—Horace E. Shack- unit, spread along the Ourthe River the only active fighting sector around elton is personnel director of the Co- forming the border between northern his Lingayen beachhead today when operative GLF Exchange, Inc. in Luxembourg and Germany, at odds the party paused to read a roadside Ithaca. He and Mrs. Shackelton of six to one. After four days when it marker: 'Major Logan, USA, was (Alberta Dent) '20 live at 914 East became apparent that resistance was killed on this spot 1898.' General State Street, Ithaca. hopeless, in the late afternoon of De- MacArthur turned to Lieutenant '20—Edwin E. Cull is head of the cember 16, Strickler says, "Four of us Colonel Roger O. Egeberg of Cleve- engineering department of Arnold with a couple of carbines and a couple land, Ohio, and said: 'Logan was my Hoffman & Co., Inc., Providence, of pistols, but no food, struck out of father's aid when he [General Arthur R. I., manufacturers of chemical town on the road. Just outside we MacArthur] landed at Lingayen forty- materials. The firm, which has plants dodged through one roadblock with six years ago.' Colonel Egeberg turned in Dighton, Mass., and Charlotte, machine-gun and rifle fire crackling quickly to the jeep driver and said: N. C., is producing colored smoke and around us. Half a mile farther, we ran 'Let's go on.' Colonel Egeberg is Gen- other products for the Chemical War- into another block, so we ditched our eral Douglas MacArthur's aid." Ege- fare Service. Cull lives at 29 Barnes jeep and took to the woods on the berg went to Australia shortly after Street, Providence, R. I. north side of the road." They went on Pearl Harbor as a major with a Cleve- six or seven miles, reaching a tiny land medical unit. MacArthur made '20 AB—Henry T. Dorrance has * village near the Belgian border at day- him personal doctor for his family and been promoted to colonel and as- light, from which they could look staff, and just before the Leyte in- signed as chief of the military and down on columns of Germans shout- vasion transferred him to active serv- civil affairs section of the Judge Ad- ing and singing in celebration of their ice as his personal aid. vocate's office at Air Technical Serv- breakthrough. They kept under cover ice Command, Wright Field, Dayton, '24 AB—Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., until night when they again crossed having completed his term of office as Ohio. Before he entered the Army in the border, coming to the main Arlen- April, 1942, Colonel Dorrance was circuit attorney for St. Louis, Mo., Bastogne highway. "Hundreds of has returned to private law practice. senior member of the firm of Ferris^ German vehicles were rolling along Burgess, Hughes & Dorrance in He is associated with his father, former the road with their lights on and they Circuit Judge Thomas C. Hennings, Utica. had sentries every two or three hun- '22 ME—Leonard B. Colt is vice- under the firm name of Hennings & dred yards. It looked hopeless getting Hennings, with offices in Boatmen's president in charge of sales for Federal across there, but we waited until 3 Products Corp., manufacturers of pre- Bank Building, St. Louis, Mo. A past a.m. . . . We made a run for it and president and vice-president of the cision measuring instruments. His reached the edge of a small town just address is 25 Brown Street, Provi- Cornell Club of St. Louis, he was for after daylight. We were famished by six years a member of Congress. dence, R. I. then and decided we had to take a '22, '24 AB—Lieutenant Colonel * chance on getting food. I found a '25 AM—Pearl S. Buck in the De- Caeser A. Grasselli II, liason officer farmer who said he would be glad to cember 15 New York Times Magazine with United States and British armies feed us." They got out in a hurry, expresses her belief, and one which in Africa and Italy, has been made an however, when they discovered Ger- she feels to be that of the Chinese officer of the Order of the British mans sleeping in the barn, and waded people, that the present crisis is the Empire. The decoration, for "service "thigh-deep through an icy stream," "darkest hour" in China's history. to the empire at home or abroad," to the woods. "That night," Strickler She gives as reasons their unprepared- was presented in Italy by General Sir went on, "we pushed on west to the ness for this war, the internal situa- Harold Alexander, commanding gen- farming crossroads of Sure where a tion in China, and their foreign rela- eral of that theatre. Commissioned a farmer gave us milk and bread and tions. Considering the last reason, in major in the Army in May, 1942, he jam and also told us that there were regard to the failure of England, went to England and participated Americans about three miles farther United States, and Russia to include with the British forces in their initial along the road in the west. We hit China in important conferences, she invasion of North Africa. He returned boldly along the road and ran into an writes: "Our unreasonable behavior to this country recently on a month's American sentry who turned out to toward China does not lie wholly in leave and visited his family in Wil- be the outpost for our own outfit." the well-known illogicality of our mington, Del. Mrs. Strickler (Caroline Bolton) '21 American temper but in our confusion lives in Lancaster, Pa. about China. We have now been con- '22, '23 AB—Houlder Hudgins, vinced by well-placed propaganda, president of Sloane-Blabon Corp., '23 AB—Gordon S. Braislin was some of which is true, that there are manufacturers of hard-surface floor elected January 17 trustee for a three- fascist elements in the Chinese Gov- coverings, has been elected a director year term of The Title Guarantee & ernment. We know that there is cer- of Alexander Smith &~ Sons Carpet Trust Co., 176 Broadway, New York tainly a true communist element in Co. He lives at 311 Old Church Road, City. the Chinese Communists. We are Greenwich, Conn. '24 AB—Captain Louis Singer, ^ equally afraid of both and increasingly '22 AB, '23 AM—Lieutenant * Army Medical Corps, is chief of the afraid of both. Our behavior toward Colonel Donaldson W. Kingsley, Med- medical service of a station hospital China therefore springs from our fear ical Corps, is in charge of the medical at the headquarters of the Southeast of what is the rising struggle in the 334 Cornell Alumni News whole world." She asserts, however, '27 LLB—Donald P. Blake, presi- that China is maintaining her equi- dent of Blake Monument Co., Chi- librium and forging democratic unity. cago, 111., was cited in The Chicago "She is practicing again her age-old Sun, November 7, for his leadership CORNELL wisdom, seeing the world as a whole, in forming the Woodlawn Boys' Club, and even her own nation only as a which is sponsored by the Woodlawn and part of that whole. The greatness of Business Men's Association. He has China was never more sure than it is two sons, Donald, eleven, and Charles, today, even in her unequaled agony/' eight. ITHACA '25 AB—Captain Helen E. Per- * '27, '28 BS—Mrs. J. Emmett rell, TJSMCR, may be addressed at Jones (Grace W. Colton) is cafeteria W.O.Q. 67, Camp Lejeune, New manager of the high school in Law- s° River, N. C. She is War Bond officer rence. at Camp Lejeune. '27 AB—Lieutenant Malcolm B. * Stark, AAF, has returned from Saipan '26, '27 BS—Harold L. Hoyt was OVERSEAS and is now at the Civil Affairs Train- appointed January 13 assistant re- ing School, Harvard University, Cam- gional director for the eleven North- The sights and sounds of eastern states of the War Food Ad- bridge, Mass. ministration, Farm Security Admin- '28 AB, '30 LLB—H. Sol Clark has Ithaca and Cornell today, as istration, Region One, Upper Darby, been elected assistant city attorney of requested by the boys over- Savannah, Ga. He is also chairman Pa. He will direct the community and seas through General Eisen- cooperative services division, which of the Chatham County board of pub- encourages the formation of small lic welfare and a member of the per- hower, are soon to be short- cooperatives. Previously assistant sonal staff of the Governor of Georgia. waved to all war theatres in chief of the FSA regional health serv- '28—John L. Courtright is em- the program "Let's Go To ice, he has served also as cooperative ployed in the experimental laboratory Town." specialist for New York, New Jersey, of Denison Engineering Co. He lives and Pennsylvania and was in the New at 100 Walhalla Road, Columbus 2, Cornell's chimes, Alma York State Extension Service for Ohio. Mater, The Big Red Team, a seven years. '28, '29 AB—Mrs. John B. War- sports summary, the Savage '26 BS—Mrs. M. Birney Wright nock (Helen E. Holme) was elected (Hortense K. Gerbereux) is manager to the Connecticut State Legislature Club Quartet, Rym Berry, of the West Virginia University cafe- on the Republican ticket in the No- the Black Diamond arriving teria. She lives at 112 Wagner Road, vember elections. She lives at Wis- and leaving the Lehigh Sta- Morgantown, W. Va. teria Court, Westport, Conn. tion, the City Hall bell, and '26 CE; '91—Colonel William N. * '29, '31 BS—Marian L. Babcock, Leaf, Army Engineers, has been home economist with the Farm Se- other nostalgic snatches of awarded the Bronze Star "for the curity Administration in Ithaca, has Town and Gown life com- performance of outstanding heroic or been appointed executive secretary of prise the program produced meritorious achievements during ac- the Tompkins County Tuberculosis by WHCU. tual combat against an armed enemy and Public Health Association. She of the United States." Colonel Leaf, is a member of the State nutrition who is the son of James P. Leaf '91 committee. of Rochester, Pa., is now stationed in '29 BS; '30 AB—Walter W. Still- Write your friends the Philippines after eighteen months man is president of Stillman & Hoag, in New Guinea. Inc., Buick dealers, Englewood, N. J. in service to listen '26—H. Struve Hensel, husband of He and Mrs. Stillman (Edith J. the former Edith T. Wyckoff '26, was Sharpe) '30 live at 50 Woodland Park for the short wave nominated January 22 by President Drive, Tenafly, N. J. Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary '31—Private First Class Edgar E. * program "Let's Go of the Navy. Hensel has been with the Bredbenner, Jr. was hit by shrapnel Navy Department for about three in the left side, December 25 at To Town." years in a legal capacity on contracts. Bastogne, and is recovering in an Mrs. Hensel is the daughter of the Army hospital in France. This is the late Clarence T. Wyckoff '88. Her sis- second time he has been wounded. ter is the former Betty T. Wyckoff '27, He suffered wounds in the finger and wife of Colonel George R. Pfann '24, thigh when struck by fire from enemy Alumni Trustee of the University. The snipers December 8, for which he re- WHCU Hensels live at 2814 Dumbarton Ave- ceived the Purple Heart. He had re- nue, N.W., Washington, D. C. turned to action December 18. His THE CORNELL '27 AB, '34 AM—John K. Archer, home address is 303 Fairmount Ave- principal of MaLverne High School, nue, Ithaca. UNIVERSITY STATION and secretary-treasurer of the New '31—Willard E. DeCamp, American York State Public High School Ath- Red Cross club director, writes from ITHACA, NEW YORK letic Association, has been elected for overseas: "The club I am in now is a three-year term to represent States one of the best as far as the layout is from Maine to West Virginia on the concerned that I have seen. It is an 870kc CBS executive committee of the National old store building, four stories high. Federation of State High School On the first floor we have a large Athletic Associations. lounge, reception desk, snack bar, and February ι$> 1945 335 check room. The second floor has an proper level of supplies to conduct tank ruptured and burst into flames officers' dorm, enlisted men's dorm, operations against the enemy." Colo- when it nosed into the catwalk. Pic- offices, and a reading and writing nel Tracy was called to active duty ture of the accident appeared in news- room. Cafeteria is on the third and a November 1, 1940, and has served in papers throughout the country. Lieu- dorm on the fourth. In addition, we the Aleutians, Marshalls, and Mari- tenant Chewning's home is in Cyn- have an annex with a lounge and 250 anas. wyd, Pa. beds. Last month we had over 4,000 '34 AB—Richard S. Stark, radio * '36 ME—Lieutenant (jg) O. Al- * men sleep here, served 8,000 main announcer and proprietor of Richard len Jillson is with the Bureau of Ord- meals and 10,000 snacks." His home Stark & Co., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, nance, Navy Department, Washing- address is 1109 North Aurora Street, New York City, production agency, ton, D. C. He has a daughter, Anne Ithaca. joined the Marine Corps last spring. D. Jillson, born last March. His ad- '31—Paul Hershon is auditor for After several months' training at St. dress is 1202 North Rolfe Street, Western Electric Co., 195 Broadway, Simons, Ga., he expects to go to Arlington, Va. New York City. Father of two sons, Cherry Point for assignment to a '37, '38 BS—R. Haskell Blaisdell, Paul, age two-and-one-half, and Peter, Marine air warning squadron. His ad- of 25953 Center Ridge Road, West- age one, he lives at 68-23 Clyde dress is MAD, NAS, NRTS, St. lake, Ohio, has been sent to the Pan Street, Forest Hills. Simons, Ga. American World Airways base at '32 AB, '35 MD—Major George * '35, '37 AB—Technical Sergeant * Lisbon, Portugal, on special assign- B. Sanders is a surgeon at Vaughn Arthur H. Dick, radio gunner on a ment. He expects to be there for six Hospital, Hines, 111. B-24, has returned from the China- months. He will conduct the selection '33, '34 CE—Captain James W. * Burma-India Theatre after fifteen and training of Portuguese nationals Allen of San Leandro, Cal., has a months overseas. He has completed for passenger service work with Pan daughter born recently in California. fifty-four bombing missions and 474 American. He flies hospital planes from Guam to combat hours. He holds the Distin- '37 BS, Ίl CE—Mrs. William 0. the West Coast. guished Flying Cross with an Oak Prudderi (Esther M. Dillenbeck) has Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with a a daughter, Ann B. Prudden, born '33 BS—Myron B. Collins is with Cluster, and two Presidential cita- December 5 in Lockport, where she the Soil Conservation Service of the tions. He is now stationed in Atlantic lives at 5 Morrow Avenue. Mrs. Prud- US Department of Agriculture in City, N. J.; his home is at 143 Lincoln deri is the daughter of Arvin J. Dillen- Hagerstown, Md., where he lives at Avenue, Rutland, Vt. beck '11, who is with the Fuller Con- 833 Mulberry Avenue. He has twin struction Co., Red Bank, N. J. daughters, age nine years, and a two- '35—Isabella S. Goodwin, US * year-old son. MCR, radio repairman, has been pro- '37—James D. Ireland has become moted to corporal. Her address is vice-president of Cameo Mining Co. '33 AB; '05 ME—Lieutenant An- * Signal Maintenance Shop, Base De- and Lando Coal Corp., Cameo, W. Va. drew J. Haire, Jr., USCGR, stationed pot, Camp Elliott, San Diego 44, Cal. He had been eight years with Hanna in the Pacific, has a son, Andrew J. Coal Co. Haire III, born January 17. The boy '35, '36 BS—Captain Wilmot A. * is the grandson of Andrew J. Haire Larlee is assigned to the security divi- '38 BS—First Lieutenant W. * '05, publisher of business periodicals sion at Camp Shanks. He and Mrs. Paul Brundage, Anti-aircraft Divi- at 1170 Broadway, New York City 1. Larlee have a nine-month-old daugh- sion, Coast Artillery Corps, is re- ter, Carol L. Larlee. Their address is ported missing in action in Germany '33 ME—Captain Fred B. Hel- * 50 Voorhis Avenue, Nyack. since December 17. He entered the vey is post engineer at Daggett, Cal., Army in May, 1942, and graduated Municipal Airport. His wife and '35, '37 DVM—Captain Alfred * F. Nolan, of 116 Cook Street, Ithaca, from officers' candidate school at daughter, Sandra R. Helvey, who was Camp Davis, N. C. He had been over- born February 9, 1942, are with him is with an Army medical company in Calcutta, India. seas since February, 1944, and was in Daggett. commissioned a first lieutenant last '33, '32 AB, '37 MD; '09 PhD— * '36 LLB, '37 AB—Elliot S. Blakes- August. Mrs. Brundage lives at 407 Lieutenant Commander Horace L. ley and Mrs. Blakesley (Rachel West Green Street, Ithaca. Jones, Jr. has been promoted to chief Munn) '37 have a third child, David '38, '40 BS—Private First Class * medical officer on the staff of the M. Blakesley, born December 22. Blakesley is in the Washington, D. C., Benjamin E, Clark, AUS, with the commander-in-chief of the Southwest famous 95th Division in Germany Pacific Air Forces of the US Navy. field office of the FBI. They live at writes: "Actually my work at message He is the son of Professor Horace L. 6 Auburn Court, Alexandria, Va. center never takes me any closer than Jones, PhD '09, Greek. '36 BS—Frances S. Jackowski is four or five hundred yards from the '33 ME—William E. Neff, of 1509 teaching home economics at the Riv- front. That may seem like a rather Hains Avenue, Richland, Wash., has erhead High School. She lives at 126 short'distance, but it is a heck of a a daughter, Justine M. Neff, born Lincoln Street, Riverhead, Long Is- long distance when the battle is January 5. He is an engineer with E. land. raging. You might say that we inhabit I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. '36 BS in AE—Walter L. Chewn- * the transition zone between civilized '33, '34 BS in AΈ—Lieutenant * ing, Jr., USNR, has been awarded the activity and the hell-on-earth which Colonel Charles S. Tracy, USMCR, Navy and Marine Corps Medal and exists beyond. . . . You get so that you of 36 Beechwood Place, Hillside, N. promoted to lieutenant commander can sleep during the artillery barrages J., has won the for for his heroic action in boarding a after awhile. If it weren't for the fact 1 'exceptionally meritorious conduct" flaming Grumann Hellcat to extricate that the country here is associated as transport quartermaster for the Ensign Byron Johnson of Potter, with war, we would have to admit Saipan and Tinian battles from June Neb., from the cockpit where he was that it is beautiful, rolling country." 15 to August 12. "He rendered in- stunned after the plane crash-landed His home is on Noyack Road, South- valuable supervision of the unloading on the USS Enterprise. The plane's ampton. of critical supplies from the ships in tailhook caught a wire on a waveoff '38 AB—Lieutenant Robert D. ^ order that the ground forces had the after a bad approach and the belly Cloyes, Medical Corps, USNR, has 336 Cornell Alumni News been sixteen months in the Pacific. He has a son, Robert D. Cloyes, Jr., POST-WAR about a year old, whom he has never seen. OPPORTUNITIES '38 BS—Mrs. Stephen B. Goodell FOR (Dorothy Pulver) is assistant dietitian at Glens Falls Hospital. TECHNICALLY-TRAINED '38—Lois K. Rohwerder is an American Red Cross hospital recrea- GRADUATES tion worker in India. Formerly em- ployed by the Western Electric Co., Inc., New York City, her home is at to second lieutenant of Engineers and If you are a technically-trained 85-30 Kingston Place, Jamaica. will direct the construction of air- graduate of the class of 1941, 1942, '39 BS; '15 BS—Major Charles * fields for the Mediterranean Allied 1943 or 1944 ... if you entered P. Clark, Jr. has received the Bronze Air Forces. He is shown receiving the Star for distinguished service during oath of office from Captain Dana W. military service without previous the 85th (Custer) Division's drive Babb, adjutant of Maxon's aviation industrial connections . . . The toward Rome. The award was pre- engineer unit in Italy. He has been Proctor & Gamble Co. has a mes- sented at a ceremony at Fort Bragg, twenty-two months in French Mo- sage of interest for you. N. C. Major Clark, whose wife lives rocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Italy. His For many years, college men have at 3010 Wisconsin Avenue, Washing- home address is 1211 Farhills Avenue, ton, D. C., is the son of Charles P. Dayton, Ohio. made careers for themselves with this Company in the departments Clark '15 of Skaneateles. '41—Second Lieutenant Stewart ^ '39 AB—Lieutenant (jg) Austin ^ C. Barber, US Marine Air Corps, has of Production Management, Chem- H. Kiplinger, USNR, aviator, re- returned from the South Pacific where ical Research and Development, turned from sea duty in November he served as adjutant with a First Plant Maintenance, and Mechan- and has been assigned to the Naval Marine Air Wing squadron. Mrs. ical Design and Development. Air Station, Miami, Fla., as a combat Barber lives at 1867 San Jose Ave- As America's largest manufacturers replacement team leader. He married nue, San Francisco, Cal. and processors of soaps, glycerine Mary L. Cobb of Winnetka, 111., De- '41 BS; '41 BS; '14 BS—George products, and vegetable fats and cember 11. They live at the Piedmont H. Becker, Jr. and Mrs. Becker (Har- Apartments, 7928 Harding Avenue, riet Howell) ;41 and their daughter, oils, this Company operates 29 Miami Beach, Fla. Barbara L. Becker, are now living at factory and mill units in the United '39 BS—Lieutenant (jg) Robert * 314 Broad Street, Syracuse. Becker States and Canada. Each working W. Markham, USNR, pilot, former is on the staff of Stover, Butler, & day these plants produce one mil- assistant county agent in Allegany Murphy, certified public accountants. lion dollars worth of soap, shorten- and Monroe counties, writes from the Mrs. Becker is the daughter of Leon Netherlands Indies: "This would be G. Howell '14. ing and oil. During the past 15 years an aver- an entomologist's paradise. We have '41 AB; '08 BS; '09 AB—Lieu- * screened the tent, but the bugs sure tenant Royal C. Gilkey is a member age of one factory each year—at do flock in at night. . . . Now and then of a P-38 fighter group with the 15th home and abroad—has been added. a lizard visits us, too. The other night Air Force in Italy which has engaged Post-war plans are to continue this one got in bed with me. I haven't in more than 750 combat missions and learned to speak Dutch yet, though I growth and to expand Company destroyed 390 enemy planes and has operations into new factories with would like to know what kind of dope received a War Department unit cita- we are giving the natives when we tion. Gilkey, who graduated third in new products and far-reaching bomb them with propaganda leaflets." his class from the Air Forces Intelli- technical developments. He concludes: "Must get my beauty gence School in Pennsylvania, is the Proctor & Gamble has been built sleep. Think I don't need it? You son of Royal Gilkey '08 and Mrs. Gil- should see me with my short haircut, by men coming up through the key (Eunice Jackson) '09 of 701 Hec- business. Factory Superintendents yellow skin from taking atabrine, and tor Street, Ithaca. some of the fancy pieces in my jungle generally are young men. The Com- wardrobe." His home is in Turin. '41 BChem, '42 BChemE—Cap- * pany believes in developing its tain Robert H. Herrmann is stationed '40 BS—First Lieutenant Gor- * with the Ordnance branch at the main group of executives instead don E. Butterfield, B-25 bombardier Baltimore, Md., Port of Embarkation. of hiring them fron the outside. in the Mediterranean Theatre, has We do not wish to distract your flown more than sixty-five combat '41; ΊO ME—Lieutenant Henry * attention from your present very missions. He holds the Air Medal D. Lindsay, Jr., USNR, has received with Oak Leaf Clusters and the Dis- a commendation from the commander important assignment. But when tinguished Flying Cross. Mrs. Butter- of the US Naval Forces, Northwest you are ready to return to civilian field lives in Johnson. African Waters, for "outstanding per- life, we should like the opportunity formance of duty as commanding '40—Lieutenant George A. Pet- ^ officer of the USS YMS— during the to discuss with you the industrial ersen, Jr. has been in the South Pa- amphibious assault on the west coast opportunities this Company has cific for three years; is fighting in the of Italy." "With great skill and able to offer. Battle of the Philippines. Mail may seamanship, you assisted in sweeping be addressed to him at 1410 West a channel through an enemy mine- Sixth Street, Brooklyn. field, on September 9, 1943, in the PROCTOR & GAMBLE '40 — Sergeant Glenway W. ^ Gulf of Salerno, thereby permitting INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION Maxon, Jr. (below, right) is promoted the successful approach to the beaches CINCINNATI 17, OHIO February 75, 1945 337 of the first assault waves and the suc- partment laboratory at Sperry Works, >42, '44 BArch—Raul M. Portela is ceeding craft and transports, without Brooklyn. He says there are many Λvith the firm of M. G. Del Valle as a damage/' the citation reads. "You Cornellians at the plant and that the designer and supervisor of buildings. conducted these operations under ALUMNI NEWS is well read in the re- His home address is Calle 2 Esq. 21 hazardous conditions of darkness, low search library. Vedado, Havana, Cuba. visibility, and often under heavy '41 AB—Major Matty L. Urban- * '42 AB; '41 AB — Lieutenant * enemy aerial attack. You further, owitz, Infantry, writes from an Army John J. Roscia and Mrs. Roscia maintained the channels, patrolled hospital overseas: "I am feeling fine; (Elizabeth M. Taylor) '41 have a the minefield, directed traffic, and am recuperating arid should be as daughter, Elizabeth A. Roscia, born laid smoke around the transport area." good as new in a few weeks. I am still October 20. Lieutenant Roscia is in Lieutenant Lindsay, who is the son of in fairly fine physical condition." Germany. Mrs. Roscia, whose sister Henry D. Lindsay '10, is now in the is Margaret M. Taylor '45, editor of United States. He and Mrs. Lindsay '41, '42 AB; Ί7, '38 WA—First * The Cornell Widow, lives at 120 East live at 1411 Armistead Bridge Road, Lieutenant Phillips Wyman, Jr., son Seventy-fifth Street, New York City. Norfolk 7, Va. of Phillips Wyman '17, chairman of the ALUMNI NEWS committee, has '42 AB; '43 B S — Lieutenant * '41 BS; '41 BS—Sergeant Jess * been transferred to AAF Convalescent Frederick M. Shelley III, and Mrs. B. Neuhauser, Jr. is stationed in Hospital, Plattsburg Barracks. He Shelley (Virginia L. Shaw) '43 are in Burma. Mrs. Neuhauser (Catherine writes: "This post is perfect and I love Bedford, Mass., where Shelley is sta- Dunham) '41 lives at 3308 Decatur it. We haven't any patients so far, but tioned at the Army Air Base there. Avenue, New York City 67. they will be here before long." '42, '43 AB—Gladys Slocum is '41 BS; '17 BS; Ί7 BS—Mrs. Mat- '42 B ME—Hector R. Elizondo is working this winter in Palm Beach, thew J. Quinn (Jeanne L. Perkins) is assistant engineer at the Sugar Mill Fla., where she lives at 413 Seaview an assistant nursery teacher at the Hershey of the Central Hershey Sugar Avenue. Kaiser Child Care Center, Portland, Co. His business address is Central Ore. She is the daughter of Ralph F. '42 BS—Charles R. Sweeney, of Hershey Matanzas, Havana, Cuba. Perkins '17 and the former Έdna L. 201 Crown Avenue, Scranton, Pa., has been assigned to the Pan-Ameri- Darling '17. Her address is 307 North- '42 AB—Ellen Friedman was mar- can World Airways base at Belem, east Schuyler Street, Portland 12, ried September 16 to Daniel A. Doug- Brazil, as assistant airport manager. Ore. las. She teaches kindergarten in New Since he joined Pan American in '41, '42 BS in AE(ME)—Lieu- * York City, where she lives at 800 April, 1942, he has supplemented his tenant William F. Peters III, USNR, West End Avenue. She has received training at the New York terminal of is in the Pacific. His home address is the AM in music at Columbia Teach- the line with foreign service at Belem 32 Whitehall Boulevard, Garden City, ers' College. and in Africa. Long Island. '42 BS in AE(ME)—Manuel Galdo '43 BS in CE—Lieutenant Bruce * '41 AB; '10 AB—Helen L. Robert- is field engineer with the Frederick Beh married Patricia Moore, January son is a Red Cross recreation and re- Snare Co., Prado 360, Ave., De Paseo 12 in New York City. His brother, habilitation worker in a hospital over- Demarti, Havana, Cuba. Gordon Beh '40, was best man. Second seas. She writes to her aunt, Dr. Anna '42 BS—Ruth J. Hyde is a staff Lieutenant Clyde H. Loughridge, Jr. E. Biddle '10, that the hospital' 'keeps assistant in the Red Cross club service '43 was an usher. Lieutenant Beh is just ten miles behind General Patton's in Washington, D. C. She expects to with the 53d Infantry at Camp Swift, lines." Her home address is 5911 leave for foreign duty. Her address is Tex. Lansdowne Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 930 H Street, Printcraft Building, '43, '44 BArch—Ensign Virginia * '41 BS—Elizabeth G. Savery was Washington, D. C. L. Bogert, WAVES, is on duty in the married to Sergeant Oscar A. Peroyen, '42—Second Lieutenant Charles ^ Bureau of Ships in Washington, D. C. USMCR, January 13 in Milford, E. Martin, Jr., Signal Corps, AUS, Her address is 1601 Sixteenth Street, Conn. Mrs. John R. Pavka (Ruth writes: "I am stationed on the Island N.W., Washington, D. C. Mitchelson) '41 was matron of honor. of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. The Mrs. Peroyen is assistant dietitian at '43—Lieutenant E. John £gan, ^ place is quite beautiful and has com- the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hos- Field Artillery, writes December 30 pletely lived up to its reputation with pitals in New York City. Her husband from a hospital in England: "Here I one exception. The proportion of is stationed at Marine Corps Air Sta- am back where I started from last brown-skinned beauties in grass skirts tion, Eagle Mountain Lake, Tex. July. It has been a rough trip, coming is extremely small. Otherwise life is and going, and I'd just as soon make '41—Nathan Schweitzer, Jr. is in quite enjoyable, even though social my next Continental tour under the the meat and poultry business at 509 activities are hindered by a strictly auspices of one Mr. Cook. There isn't West Sixteenth Street, New York enforced curfew, 10 p.m. Of course the muoh new except my address, at City. He was honorably discharged standing remedy for this is to knock which I expect to reside for quite a from the Army Air Forces last July. off at three in the afternoon so as to while. . . . The last scrap netted a free He lives at 27 West Seventy-second get the day's drinking started. What trip back here and a recommendation Street, New York City. I wouldn't give for a few evenings in for another decoration, which I'd '41 BS, '43 DVM; '43 BS—Dr. E. the Dutch!" gladly forego if I could be back with Browning Smith is a veterinarian '42 BEE; '43 AB; '39—Sergeant * my outfit." Address him at 102d with the New Jersey Artificial Breed- Charles W. Matten, Jr. and Mrs. General Hospital, APO 316-A, Care ing Association. He and Mrs. Smith Matten (Alice S. Thompson) '43 are Postmaster, New York City. (Harriet Gauss) '43 may be addressed, parents of a son, Bruce L. Matten, '43 PhD; '43, '42 AB, '44 MS— Box 427, Clinton, N. J. born November 2. Mrs. Matten lives Theodore Hailperin and Mrs. Hail- '41—Francis W. Watlington has at 11 Tioga Lane, Pleasantville. Her perin (Marie Lax) '43 have a daugh- bought a house at 1 Rose Boulevard, sister, Mrs. John N. Stevens (Eliza- ter, Jo Margaret Hailperin, born Baldwin, where he lives with his beth B. Thompson) '39, also has a son, January 11. They live at 233 Blooms- mother. He is assistant project engi- John Nelson Stevens, Jr., born Au- bury Avenue, Havre de Grace, Md. neer in charge of the transformer de- gust 19. Hailperin is engaged in ballistic re- 338 Cornell Alumni News search at Aberdeen Proving Ground, '44, '43 BS in AE; '25; '99 CE— * Md. Ensign James A. Purdy, USNR, and '43 AB—Dorothy E. Krisher teaches Janet L. Button, daughter of John L. history at the Baldwin School, Bryn Button '25 and granddaughter of Mawr, Pa. Ernest D. Button '99 were married January 15 at the Submarine Base in '43—Private First Class Nicholas * New London, Conn. Nickou, DMD, is stationed at Nichols Ill 11 i I General Hospital, Louisville, Ky., un- '44 BS—Katherine Snell, former •^f^i&ί&f :ί ; : til a new class begins at the University WSGA president, has been accepted ; o;; ;ΐΐs!8it** 1 :. •'• lι :; f&-H If ίf I H'::::{. IS fQ C$: " :" 1 ίvϊ J t: :. of Cincinnati Medical School. as an American Red Cross staff assist- :

ant for overseas recreational work. : '43 AM—Paul D. Proctor, junior 111 fE i fit; I geologist, has assisted in the investi- She will receive two weeks' training gation of iron ore deposits for the US in Washington, D. C. Geological Survey in Washington and '44 BS—Carol J. Wagner, assistant California, and is now carrying on in the University Photographic Sci- similar investigations in Southern ence Service, was married to Joseph Utah. His address is 368 South Second T. Jodka, graduate assistant in En- West, Cedar City, Utah. tomology, January 27 in Sage Chapel. '43 AB; '43 AB—Lieutenant C. * They live at 636 Stewart Avenue, Lawrence Swezey is at Fort Sill, Ithaca. Okla., where his address is 0527 284, '45, '44 BS—Virginia C. Dahm was 664th FA Battalion. Mrs. Swezey married November 27 to Ensign Rob- (Betty Ann Bischoff) '43 is with him ert G. Towle, USNR, in San Fran- in Oklahoma. cisco, Cal. She is a chemist in Lederle '44; '45; '12 BArch—Second * Laboratories, Pearl River, while her : Lieutenant John B. Cummings, AAF, husband is in the Pacific. ;: : : and C. Jean Hendrickson '45 were ' ' ^ married January 13, in Binghamton. '45—Private First Class Peter * Detmold, with an Infantry division Mrs. Cummings has returned to the :: University and Lieutenant Cummings, of the US Third Army in Luxem- bourg, writes of his own post-war who is tho son of George B. Cummings : : 712, has returned to his station in plans: "On my first night home I want a long, hot bath and then a long sleep I lit'' Hondu, Tex. in my bed between sheets. And the '44 AB—The Rev. Edward D. Eddy next morning, I want waffles and is pastor of the Bethlehem Federated muffins for breakfast. I couldn't even Church of Bethlehem, Conn. He begin to count the cold, damp fox- officiated January 15 at the marriage holes in which I've gone to bed dream- of Ensign James A. Purdy '44, a ing of these two things. It's kept me Classmate and fraternity brother, in as warm as my sleeping bag many a Cornell New London, Conn. night. Once you're out here the mate- '44 BS; '44—Mrs. Charles E. * rial wants of life boil down very Haynes (Margaret A. Jimison) is re- quickly to a few simple necessities. Songs gional secretary for the Girl Scouts of The luxuries vanish to one or two things such as waffles, muffins, hot America in Boston, Mass. Her hus- (( All the songs that Cor- band, Charles E. Haynes '44, is over- baths, and sheets. The profound post- seas with the paratroops. war planners back home should take nellians sing, complete note of this." with words and music. '44—Lieutenant Yorke F. Knapp, * AUS, is at Camp Swift, Tex., in a '45, '44 BS—Eleanor Dickie, former C[ Attractively bound in truck company. He was commissioned president of WSGA, is assistant home in the Quartermaster Corps last June. demonstration agent in Syracuse, red cloth with silver where she lives at 408 University stamping. '44 AB—Robert Yoon Sung Lee is Avenue. a medical student at George Wash- (( The only complete col- '45, '44 BS—Ann E. Dye was mar- ington University medical school, lection of Cornell music. 1335 H Street, Washington, D. C. ried December 21 to Dean F. Harvey, AAF. Her address is 205 Fair Oaks You'll want this book in '44, '43 BS—Mrs. A. J. Cohen Street, Little Valley. your home. (Lois Leeds) is working for the Com- munity Service Society of New York '45, '44 BS; '44 AB—Erna Fox * City at the Nursery Hill Health Serv- is a teacher at Silver Cross Day Nur- Mailed anywhere, only ice. Her address is 173 Columbia sery and is also studying at Columbia $2 postpaid. Please send Heights, Brooklyn 2. University Graduate School. She lives at 2710 Webb Avenue, New York payment with order to '44 AB—Beatrice Noback was mar- City 63. Her engagement to Private ried to Frank E. Robbins, USNR, First Class Alan W. Kaplan '44, a December 21. Mrs. Robbins is a junior at New York University Med- Cornell mathematics tutor in the University ical College, has been announced. and is enrolled in the College of Engi- Alumni Association neering. Her husband, a graduate of '45, '44 BS—Ann M. Lynch is a RPI, is stationed at the Sampson student dietitian at the University 3 East Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y. Naval Training Center. Hospital, Baltimore 1, Md. February 75, 1945 339 >45, '44 BS; '45, '44 BS in CE; * '14 CE—Mary Elizabeth Mershon PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY and Ensign William F. Hoffman, Jr. '45, USNR, were married January 6 OF CORNELL ALUMNI in Teaneck, N. J. Ensign Hoffman, who also received his commission January 6, is stationed at Camp NEW YORK AND VICINITY BALTIMORE, MD. Endicott, R. I. Mrs. Hoffman is the WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES daughter of Edward J. Mershon '14 RE A RET A*—Folded and Interfolded facial Ibsues of Mount Lebanon, Pa. for the retail trade, Engineers S'WIPES*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue, Ezra B. Whitman '01 Gustav J. Reqυardt '09 '46; '19, '21 WA; '47; '48— * packed flat, folded and Inlerfolded, in bulk or Richard F. Graef '25 Norman D. Kenney '25 Charles I. Cassell, son of Albert I. boxes, for hospital use. Stewart F. Robertson A. Russell Vollmer '27 Roy H. Riίter '30 Theodore W. Hacker'17 Cassell '19 of 707 Fairmont Street, FIBREDOWN*—Absorbent and non - absorbent cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. 1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md. N.W., Washington, D. C., has been FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING—in promoted to corporal at the Indian- several attractive designs. WASHINGTON, D. C. town Gap Military Reservation, Pa. FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING— He is the brother of Martha A. Cas- For hospital and sick room use. THEODORE K. BRYANT sell '47 and Alberta J. C. Cassell '48. *Trade Mark reg. U. S. Pat. Off. LL.B. '97—LL.M. '98 '46—Second Lieutenant Winfred * THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. Master Patent Law, G. W. U. '08 N. Ford, Jr., co-pilot of an Italy based GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 15th AAF B-17 Flying Fortress, has D. C. Taggart'16 - - - Prβ$.-Treat. Suite 602-3-4 McKim Bldg. received the Air Medal for "meri- No. 1311 G Street, N.W. torious achievement while participat- ROYAL MANUFACTURING CO. ing in aerial flight." He flew his first PERTH AMBOY, N. J. KENOSHA, WIS. combat mission last November 10 GEORGE H. ADLER '08, Vice President MACWHYTE COMPANY against Nazi railroad yards at Deutsch Manufacturers of Wiping and Lubricating Wagram Strashof, Austria, and has Waste — Dealers in Wiping Rags, Spin- Manufacture of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire ning, Felting and Batting Stocks, Clothing Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord. since completed fifteen bombing mis- Clips, and Rayon Wastes Literature furnished on request sions. His home is at 31 North JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 PRES. & GEN. MGR. Chenango Street, Greene. R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3 STANTON CO.—REALTORS Vice President in Charge of Operations '46; '19 ME; '22—Sergeant Har- * GEORGE H. STANTON '20 old Raynolds, Jr., who had been re- Real Estate and Insurance ported missing in action since De- cember 24, is no longer listed as miss- MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Blair, Comings & Hughes, Inc. ing. His grandmother, Mrs. Albert 16 Church St.. Montclair, N. J., Tel. 2-6000 521 Fifth Ave. W. Smith (Ruby Green), PhD '14, of NEW YORK 17, N. Y. 302 Fall Creek Drive, Ithaca, has The "Fuller Construction Co. received word from the War Depart- • ment that he had rejoined his Infantry J. D. TULLER, Ό9, President AN ENGINEERING outfit of the US First Army and was BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, SERVICE ORGANIZATION fighting on the Western front! Ser- DOCKS A FOUNDATIONS EXPORTERS & geant Raynolds, who is the grandson MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS of the late Dean Albert W. Smith '78, WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS • Engineering, is the son of Harold A. J. Dillβnb ck Ί1 C. P. B yland '31 Raynolds '19 of New York City and C. E. Wallace '27 T. G. Wallac '34 Chas. H. Blair '97-'98, Pres. the late Mrs. Dorothy Smith Raynolds 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. '22. He went overseas in October. '46—Stanley Wild was commis- * sioned January 18 an ensign in the Eastman, Dillon & Co. Naval Reserve, at Northwestern Uni- Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE versity Midshipmen's School. His address is #530, NTS, General Line, Members New York Stock Exchange Investment Securities Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, 15 Broad Street New York Fla. DONALD C. BLANKE '20 INVESTMENT SECURITIES Representative Jansen Noyes ΊO Stanton Griffis ΊO 15 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 5, N. Y. L. M Blancke '15 Willard I. Emerson Ί9 Branch Offices ESTABROOK & CO. 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