MAY 1942 VOLUME NUMBER PRESIDENTDAY AND ARMYOFFICERS REVIEW THE ROTC IN BARTONHALL ALUMNI NEWS Advertisers: Your Message Gets Preferred Attention when addressed to the 67,000 Alumni Readers of COLUMBIA CORNELL DARTMOUTH HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA PRINCETON YALE For Group Advertising Rates, Details, and Schedules Write, Wire, or Phone Ivy League Alumni Magazines Charles E. Thorp 370 Lexington Ave. Representative New York City Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ELL ALU I NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly during the summer VOL. XLIV, NO. 31 ITHACA, NEW YORK, MAY XI, 1942. PRICE, 15 CENTS HOTELMEN PROVE USEFUL IN WAR EFFORT By Professor Howard B. Meek, Head of Department of Hotel Administration Kevin E. Howard, who received the their studies in inactive status. Sixteen BS in Hotel Administration at Cornell This is the eleventh of our series on are cadet officers in the ROTC, thirteen in 1931, is now in charge of the equip- Cornell and World War II, outlining being assigned to the Quartermaster ment and operation of Pan-Anierican some of the contributions of various Corps. Another sixteen are in various Airways bases across equatorial Africa, Colleges and Departments of the Uni- branches of the Navy, eight in the used in ferrying US military planes to versity to the country's war effort. The Supply Corps. series began in our issue of February 26 the Near and Far East. Associated with Department Teaches Specialists him are ten other graduates of the and will continue in succeeding numbers. Department of Hotel Administration. What adaptation has been made in the Adolph M. Lucha '35, with six Cornell Hotel Administration curriculum? What men in his organization, is responsible feeding and housing problems associated acceleration is planned? Since the cover- for the feeding and housing of 50,000 with war industry and transportation. age of the curriculum as a preparation for munitions workers at the Ravenna, These results were to be expected, be- dealing with food and shelter problems Ohio, ordnance plant of the Atlas cause the present war is being fought by was already as nearly complete as staff Powder Co. specialists supported by specialists. The and facilities would permit, not many specialist in hotel administration is par- changes have been made. Hotel students Many Alumni In Service ticularly valuable, because he knows have considerable freedom of election; These are only two of many important about food, its selection, purchase, stor- twenty-four credit hours out of the 12.0 projects directly connected with the war age, preparation, and service, and he is required are taken from the wide range effort in which Hotel graduates are en- thoroughly grounded in business sub- of "Hotel electives" offered by the De- gaged. Of 544 active alumni, 145 are jects such as accounting, business promo- partment, and another twenty-four are known to be in military service, and tion, and personnel management. He chosen at will from any College of the more are going in daily. Forty of them has also covered a substantial program University. Students may, therefore, hold commissions in the Army and six- in maintenance engineering. shift the emphasis in their respective teen in the Navy, and fifteen are aviation Of the forty-six physically eligible programs by electing subjects like mathe- cadets. The Army Quartermaster Corps Hotel Seniors, thirty-two are enrolled in matics that may have a definite military and the Navy Supply Corps have natu- the armed services and have continued significance and usefulness. rally attracted many Instructors, too, are Hotel graduates. making adaptations by Among the calls re- changes in the selection ceived by the Depart- of illustrations and lab- ment for assistance have oratory exercises. The been requests from the popularity of the course Navy for a man to run in personnel manage- the base facilities at a ment given by Professor large Atlantic coast air- Andrew L. Winsor, Phd field, for two top-notch '2.9, has led to the or- men trained and experi- ganization of a new enced in cafeteria and course in Military Per- low-cost feeding opera- sonnel which has had tions, and a man to enrollment of 144 this manage a large club for term. In foods, atten- officers at an important tion is being given to shore base. The Army sugarless recipes, to has drawn its officer problems of canteen op- material chiefly from eration, use of mobile those trained in the kitchens, and the like. advanced ROTC, but Since the Hotel De- requests have been made partment has always for men to operate vari- operated on a twelve- ous billeting and feed- month basis, using the ing projects and ex- three summer months change services, and Thirteen Seniors in Hotel Administration have received commissions for required supervised for men who could be as second lieutenants in the Army and will be assigned to active duty practice in the industry, trained as mess inspec- in the Quartermaster's Department immediately after Commencement. and since both the Left to right above (top row): Gordon H. Hines, Baltimore, Md.; Ken- tors. Some of the Fed- neth I. Zeigler, White Plains; Conrad Engelhardt, New York City; Army and Navy have eral civilian agencies Douglas B. Shivers, Chipley, Fla.; Leonard W. Lefeve, Dannemora; Paul indicated their appreci- have called for men B. Handlery, Vallejo, Cal. Front row: Charles W. Jack, Rochester; ation of the value of trained to tackle hous- H. Ward Wannop, Kingston; James S. Patterson, Washington, Pa.; this experience, accel- J. Wilbur Wannop, Kingston; Harold W. Zimmerman, Washington ing problems. And many Court House, Ohio. Noble E. Fields of Dodge City, Kans., and Frank A. eration in the usual graduates are solving Crowley of Worcester, Mass., are not in the picture. Fenner sense is not possible. 406 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS No summer offerings are planned for tage of giving the student as strong a regular undergraduate Hotel students professional program as possible in the this year. Unless they have completed age interval between eighteen and twenty About the practice requirement, they are ex- (respectively the customary age at grad- pected to spend the summer at the usual uation from high school and the age of ATHLETICS supervised employment. The longer sum- possible military service), with a certifi- mer made possible by the shorter fall and cate at the completion thereof, and at the BASEBALL AT BOTTOM spring terms will, however, permit a same time permitting normal progress The basebal lteam dropped to the cellar larger number of students than usual to toward eventual graduation with the de- of the Eastern Intercollegiate League complete their practice in two summers gree of Bachelor of Science. The two-year last week by losing twice to Pennsyl- rather than three, thus shortening the program is not in any sense less rigorous vania, 5-4 and 2.-0, at Philadelphia Mon- total elapsed time necessary to earn the than the regular course. It will, in fact, day and breaking even in two games, degree. be more difficult, because in attempting both 8-5, with Harvard at Cambridge to include as much professional work as Offer Two-Year Program Saturday. In between, Cornell lost a non- possible in two years, some foundation League gkme to Syracuse, 6-4, on Hoy Further, to meet the needs of those courses have been omitted or postponed. Field Wednesday. students who expect to be called for mili- It is expected that many who complete The Pennsylvania games were post- tary service before they have an opportu- the two-year program will be allowed to poned from May 9, and were played nity to complete the requirements for continue toward graduation because of without the services of several key play- the BS degree, the Department has ar- the possibility of inactive duty with the ers who returned to Ithaca for necessary ranged a program of courses that may be Army or Navy through ROTC advanced class work. compassed in two school years (four course, the Navy Supply Corps, and the Standing of the League teams: terms and a summer of supervised prac- Navy D-V(P) and V-7 programs. A spe- tice), upon the completion of which, cial arrangement of the curriculum with W L PC with satisfactory grades, the Department extra emphasis on mathematics and Princeton 6 1 .857 will award a certificate. Holders of the physics has been set up and approved Harvard 4 3 .571 certificate will be eligible for membership for students in V-i, which is now pre- Pennsylvania 5 5 .500 in the Cornell Society of Hotelmen and requisite for V-7. Dartmouth 3 3 .500 will receive, so far as their training and In summary, the story is one of gradual Yale 3 3 .500 abilities warrant, the full support of the and increasing recognition by the Army Columbia 4 7 .364 Department placement office. and the Navy that in the Department of Cornell 3 6 .333 The two-year-certificate program will Hotel Administration they have a valu- The week's lone victory, over Harvard, be open to all those registered in the able source of supply of men trained to was pitched by Leo Hamalian '41. At Department as candidates for degrees, deal with a group of problems which, Philadelphia, he pitched a seven-hitter and only to them. The certificate will be while not directly related to fire-power, and struck out seven batters, but lost by awarded on request to all those candi- have much to do with the effectiveness one run through poor Cornell base run- dates who complete with satisfactory of fighting forces.