Baja California Circumnavigated­ March 19-Apri12 An unusual two-week, I ,400-milc expedition Rochester Travel into virtually untouched areas on both Pacific and Sea ofCortez coasts, with bay explorations and shore landings. Up-close observations of Review Corner finback and grey whales, sea lions, elephant seals, dolphins, sharks, birds, and endemic University ofRochester plants an'd animals, plus swimming and snorkel­ ing in remote and exotic places. Comfortable ac­ Fall 1982 commodations aboard the Pacific Northwest Ex­ plorer, meals, shore excursions, naturalist guide all included. San Diego departure and return. $2,650 to $3,680 depending upon cabin choice. University ~f RocMst", Alumm Tours are planned Group arrangements from Rochester. Opening the Door to 2 with two primary objectIVes: edu£atzonal enrichment and Unanswered Questions the establishment qfcloser tieS among alumni and be­ EmbryologistJohannes Holtfreter tween alumnz and the Umversity. DesLlnalioTLfj are Wiesbaden, Budapest, Vienna, and four-day selected/or tMir histonc, cultural, geographIC, and cruise on Danube River-April 21-May 5 Delight: The Most Fugitive of 8 natural resources, and/or the opportunities they prOVide Architectural Ingredients for understanding otMr peoples: tlUiir histories, tMir Three nights in Wiesbaden, four-night cruise Wilson Commons six years later politics, tlte" values, and the roles they play in current on the Danube with three stops in Austria, tWO wortd affairs. Programs are deSigned to prooide worry­ Harvard's Lively Lawyer 13 nights in Budapest, and lour nights in Vienna. free basics such as lransporlatwn, transfers, accom­ Excellent accommodations, full breakfasts in Arthur R. Miller '55 modations, some meals, baggage handling, and prqfes­ cities, all meals aboard ship, transfers (firsl-c1ass This Was Lawn Street 16 sional guides, and still allowfor personal exploration of train and motor coach), baggage handling, and Individual interests. Escorts, drawn from tM Unwersity And This Was Living professional tour dircctors ineluded. $2,595 to faculty and staff, provide special services andfeatures $3,325 from New York, depending upon cabin On being an Eastman School student that add both perso,wl and educational "'lnchment. choice on ship. Group arrangements from during the Depression AII members qfthe UnIVersity community are ell.~ible Rochestcr. What You Told Us 40 to partiCipate In tMse tours. Nonassoclated relatwes arid friends are welcome as space permits Rochester Review Reader Survey Medieval England-August Departments Travel in 1983 Two weeks of browsing in regions rich in Ar­ Rochester in Review 18 Special offering: Alumni World Cruise­ thurian and medieval history, with Professor Alumnotes 25 January 7-Apri18 Russell Peck, UR's medieval scholar-teacher ex­ Alumni newsmakers 31 (raordinaire. This uniquely designed trip will Around-the-world cruise aboard the Sagafjord, begin and end in London and will utilize the In Memoriam 38 described as the finest and most spacious ship "base camp" principle in each region to avoid aOoal. Ninety-one nights from Ft Lauderdale, tiring onc-night stands. Medievaillavor will be westward via Panama and Suez Canals. Forty­ brought to life by visits to historical sites, three-night (Ft. Lauderdale to Hong Kong) and museums, and galleries, and via the media of fourteen-night (Gcnoa to Ft. Lauderdale) drama and music. Expected price, $2,000 or segments available. This cruise is sponsored in less, from Toronto. Group arrangements from conjunction with alumni associations of several Rochester. major universities. Full brochure and price schedules upon request. China-September lO-October 2 ROCHESTER REVIEW Three nights in Tokyo (Hotel Okura); twelve Editor: Margaret Bond, Copy editor: Ceil nights in Ghina, ineluding three nights at State Goldman, StaffphoLOgrapher: Chris T. Guest House in Beijing (Peking), three-day Quillen; Staff artist: felice Reznik; Alum· cruise on Yangtze River, plus visits to Shanghai, notcs editor' Jan Nordseth. Published Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou (Canton); four quarterly by the University of Rochester and nights in Hong Kong (Mandarin Hotel). Full mailed to all alumn., RocMsta Review is pro­ breakfasts and sightseeing in Tokyo and Hong duced by the office of University communi­ Kong, baggage handling, transfers, large Ilight cations, Judith-Ellen Brown, director Edi­ bags, and professional tour directors. $3,795 torial office, 108 Administration Building, from San francisco. Non-stop 747 Ilights to Rochester, New York 14627, (716) Tokyo and return from Hong Kong. Group ar­ 275-2102 Office of alumni relations, James rangements from Rochester. S Armstrong, director, Fairbank Alumni Center, Rochester, New York 11627, (716) 275-3684. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Rochester Review, 108 Adminis­ Plans for 1983 are still in process and will be tration Building, Rochester, New York announced in more detail in the next issue of the 14627. Review. For further information or detailed mailers (as they become available) on any of the Opinions expressed are those of the authors, trips announced, contactJohn Braund, Alumni the editors, or their subjects, and do not Office, University of Rochester, Rochester, necessarily represent official positions of the New York 14627, (716) 275-3682. University of Rochester. Mortality, Prince Street, and McCarthyism After a lifetime ofdoing only a passable job of pursuing the dollar (magazine editing, newspa­ per feature-writing, real estate brokerage, and in Letters the final five years, running a small foundation), J can now take some time to reflect: 1. I am surprised by the sizable number of Rochester alumni who die between the ages of twCnty and fifty-based on the" In Memoriam" listings in the Review. (I am seventy-nine.) Has anyone on your staff made an analysis? 2. I am sure something has been published on the recent years of the Prince Street campus: Who is using the real estate now? Why did not the women move to the River Campus when the The Review welcomes letters from readers and will "Angelinc's abiding scholarly interests were men did? Why did it take so long for the men prwt as many ofthem as space permits. Letters may be Dantc and Don Sturzo, both in very different and the women to be joined together into one editedfor brevity and clarity. ways exemplifications of intellectual and moral college group? commitment Her socio-political concerns im­ 3. You will remember the blacklisting of pelled her to speak out against totalitarianism writers, directors, actors and other movie per­ Gajdusek and oppression ofany kind, and to devote sonnel during theJoe McCarthy era. Recent ar­ The Rochester Review continues to bring joy to significant portions ofher time and resources to ticles in The ProgreSJIve, Mother Jones, TV Guide Ruth (Chapin '42] and me. I especially enjoyed relief effor! s on behalfof people suffering under and other periodicals suggest that the cancella­ the article on Carleton Gajdusek in the last man-made disasters or natural catastrophes. She tion of"Lou Grant," one of the few shows on issue. Ruth's brother, Arthur Chapin '47, and was a living example of rectitude and integrity, commercial television with story substancc, another friend once tried to bring Carleton more and a life-long searcher and upholder of the deeply into the UR social stream, and after truth. " (continued on p. 39) much work persuaded him to go to a basketball game. He did come: They found him sitting in the tier of seats farthest removed from the court, with an anatomy book on each knee, the subject the same in each, but the texts in two different languages, neither English, I believe. Jacob Koomen,Jr. '39, '45M Ralei~h, North Carolina Remembering Two recent obituaries-on Ethel French '20, longtIme professor ofchemistry at Rochester, and Angeline Lograsso'17, equally longtime professor and chairman ofItalian at Bryn Mawr College-elicited these affectionate remzniscences. I was pleased to read ofthe establishment of the Ethel French fund. Were [any of] you in Chern 1-2 the time she threw a rubber ball, hardened by immersion in liquid oxygen, through the classroom window? That's the only fact I remember about chemistry: Liquid ox­ ygen is cold. Charlotte Woods Elkind '47 Brooklyn The enclosed is a beautiful commentary on Angeline Lograsso. She was ofinvaluable assistance to the Philadelphia alumni organiza· tion; we can be proud to have had the loyalty of such a great scholar and dedicated alumna. Garratt C. Crebbin '28 Havertown, Pennsylvania The article, from the Bryn Mawr alumm newspaper, written by Professor Lograsso 'JfirJt Ph. D. candidate, remar!cJ in part: "Short and pleasingly rotund, Angeline H. Lograsso was a bundle of energy in the pursuit ofher goals, be they scholarly, socio-political, or merely domestic. She could be gentle, generous, understanding ofhuman foibles and weak­ nesses, but ever fiery and severe against dishonesty, accommodation for the sake of tran­ In his letter bcginning on this page, William W. Newcomb '28 asks about some of the former quility, or injustice. Throughout her life she WaS landmarks on Prince Street, site of the University's first campus and, until 1955, home ofthe sustained by her deep and unshakable religious College for Women. A number of those landmarks, like the bronze statue of Martin B. Anderson, faith, which enabled her to withstand adversity are now punctuating the landscape on Wilson Boulevard. The statue ofRochester's first president and pain without faltering. (shown here surrounded