c extra duties that fall his way as some­ iF ,.. times photographer for the Review, LLJ en :t which, as readers may recall, had to i .... < do with teaching young ladies the a ~ 0::: DI NGBATS 0:: proper pose to assume while being lIJ 0 0 0 ~ kissed. en < This time the Associate Editor has :::::> ci insisted on having her say. As she tags en lIJ lIJ along on photographic junkets gather­ DOOHtCKIES « ~ ~ ing material for captions, she finds as time passes that she has assumed a new • The majority rules! By a four to one is Associate Editor Margaret Bond. role, as a sort of Photographer's Devil: plurality the title of this pasticcio of a Since it is traditional for women to a useful pole from which to hang cam­ column remains as stated above. Har­ have the last word, her tale of woe and eras and light meters, sufficiently auto­ riet Van Horne had raised a question travail appears at the end of this col­ mated to dispense flash bulbs on com­ as to the propriety of the label attached umn. mand. to this melange; in fact, she threatened This is fine, but occasionally, as in • Mid year exam week is a time of to tear up her diploma if a substitute the photographic essay on the student concentrated study and little sleep. It nurse, new duties are addeo. The Edi­ were not found. The matter was thrust is also a time of great frustration; a into the hands of our readers. The let­ tor believes in Realism, and in almost group of River Campus students found all of the photographs of the student ter that follows was the first received their emotional release by hanging an and its sentiments were echoed by at work in the hospital she was ac­ effigy from the portico between Latti­ tually performing the tasks shown. In those that followed. rriore and Morey. Effigy hanging, while Dear Editor: a couple of instances, however, it was it does not rank with other collegiate undesirable or unnecessary to photo­ Before you capitulate to the unfavor­ fads such as telephone booth stuffing, able opinion of one reader, please give graph a real patient and the Photog­ is usually confined to football coaches rapher's Devil was utilized. those of us who like the title of your and their ilk. However, the UR effigy column a chance to be counted. The first time it happened, the Edi­ was obviously a member of the aca­ tor wanted a picture of the student As an irregular but admiring reader demic faculty, and anonymous at that. of Miss Van Horne's newspaper col­ taking the pulse of a bed-ridden pa­ What the students seemed to be saying tient, and he insisted that a picture of umn, I feel duty-bound to express my was, "If the shoe fits ..." respect for her opinion in these mat­ a bed-ridden pulse would be realistic ters. But I have come to a different • For several years now we have been only if its owner were in bed also. conclusion: I like the title. hearing how and why the UR is gain­ While echoes from the distant corners It's obviously unusual enough to elic­ ing stature as a national institution. of the room were still saying, "But it comments and maybe there are those The criteria of rank among the im­ that's not the sort of work I was hired who read the column because they've portant universities of this country are to do," the Associate Editor was in­ been attracted by the distinctive title. many, but we would like to add this stalled in bed, covers pulled high to Besides if we're going to start calling letter from a Long Island youngster hide her street clothes. names, what's more execrable than (printed here as he wrote it) to the The expression of acute pain on her "execrable"? growing evidence that the UR has face, by intent far out of camera range, Fight for your rights, man. '''arrived.'' was not the result of Method acting. Sincerely, Dear Sirs: The pain, which was cause~ by the in­ GEORGE L. DISCHINGER, '49 I am doing a report on Rochester for tense glare of the flood lamps, was School and your university is one of allayed by the loan of the Editor's out­ • Now that the name of this column my areas. For my report I need the sized sunglasses, and the Associate Edi­ has been settled, it is time to pass out background such as: When was it dis­ tor learned that the only other thing two of our fanciest, most deluxe kudos. covered, by whom, what for and other she was required to do was to provide The picture story on the student nurse things of this sort. PLEASE SEND the means of reflecting a more benevo­ that appears in this issue is one of the PICTURES AND PHAMPLETSI lent light on the nurse's head. This she most ambitious projects the Review Please Hurry! did by using her idle left hand-the one has ever essayed. It would not have P.S. Please send a lot of pictures I not pinned down by the pulse-taking been possible without the aid of two need them most of all nurse-to suspend a heavy piece of very special people. Mary Wemett, cardboard at a point just short of '57N, Instructor in Nursing, was our • Department of Vital Statistics: In a physical impossibility: considerably technical.adviser as well as coordinator January the alumni records office proc­ above and beyond her right shoulder and guide. She also gets one small essed 564 address changes. If the pat­ and the call of duty also, for that dingbat for being so adroit at staying tern established in 1962 holds this year, matter. out of camera range. Our other kudos half again as many alumni will have It was while the Associate Editor goes to Linda Dellinger, '6SN, who as moved by the end of February. Again was announcing what she would do if our model stayed cheerful and cooper­ we ask that you let us know when you anybody, absolutely anybody, walked ative while over 400 photographs were change address. in the door of the room that her next taken of her. • In this column in the last issue the assignment was born: the simulation of Another person indispensible to this Editor adopted a tone of determinedly the withdrawal symptoms of an emo­ story (as well as this entire magazine) cheerful martyrdom in discussing the tionally disturbed patient. ROCHESTER REVIEW. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 3 • JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1963 • EDITOR-LEE D. ALD.ERMAN, '47; ASSOCIATE EDITOR-MARGARET BOND, '47; CLASSNOTES EDITOR­ DORIS WASHINGTON, '58; CONSULTING EDITOR, CHARLES F. COLE, '25 • PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: JANET P. FORBES (CHAIRMAN), '40; EDWARD BECKER, '28; DR, PRISCILLA L. CUMMINGS, '38GM, '43M; GLADYS V. HAMMOND, '23: JOHN W, HANDY, '44: GILES F. HOBIN, 'SIE; MILDRED NEWHALL, '43, '46G: CLIFFORD SERTL, 'S2U; HELEN G, WARREN, '39N; DR, NORMAN J. ASHENBURG, '38, '40GM, 'SIM • PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER FIVE TIMES A YEAR IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER NOVEM8ER/DECEMBER, JANUARY/FEBRUARY, MARCH/APRIL, MAY/JUNE, AND IS MAILED WITHOUT CHARGE TO ALL ALUMNI. EDITORIAL OFFICE: 107 ADM INISTRATION BUILDING, ROCHESTER 27, NEW YORK. SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 2 Anderson Hill Rhees Valentine de Kiewiet Wallis 1854 1889 1900 1935 1951 1963 ANOTHER MILESTONE The Inauguration of W. Allen Wallis as the University's Sixth President-May 17 NLY FIVE TIMES previously in its 113-year ing tradition, will take place at the Eastman Thea­ history has the University of Rochester tre at 10 o'clock the following morning. Several Oformally installed a president. It will mark honorary degrees, it is expected, will be award.ed another milestone on Friday morning, May 17, during the ceremony. with the inauguration of the sixth man to hold its A luncheon for the inaugural participants and highest executive office, W. Allen Wallis. the special guests will conclude 'the two-day pro­ Heading the list of distinguished guests who will gram. attend the two-day program of Faculty representatives to the inaugural events will be former inaugural committee are the President Dwight D. Eisenhow­ University's marshal, Dr. Arthur er. Mr. Wallis was a special as­ J. May, professor of history; sistant to President Eisenhower Dean John W. Graham, Jr., Col­ from March, 1959, to January, lege of Engineering; Dr. Allen 1961, as executive vice-chairman I. McHose, associate director of of the President's Cabinet Com­ the Eastman School of Music; mittee on Price Stability for Eco­ and Dr. Robert L. Berg, chair­ nomic Growth. man of the Medical School's de­ The University provost, Dr. partment ofpreventive medicine McCrea Hazlett, is chairman of and community health. the inaugural committee repre­ The Board of Trustees is re­ senting faculty, administration, presented by its chairman, Jos­ and trustees. According to the eph C. Wilson, and Edward P. committee's preliminary plans, The principals in this photographic sou­ Curtis, Marion B. Folsom, and the program will open on Thurs­ venir of Mr. Wallis's White House serv­ Sol M. Linowitz. day, May 16, with a luncheon ice will reenact the scene-at a different Representing the administra­ time and a different place-when they for special guests, followed by a meet again at Mr. Wallis's inauguration tion of the University are Donald series of seminars in the after­ in May. "Mr. Wallis is one of the out­ E. Smith, vice president for Uni­ standing economists in the United noon, an inaugural dinner, and States," General Eisenhower has said.