13N INWίYIV TI3NLHOO Look, Pop! It's a Homer!" Not last week's game; not something that happened yesterday; not even a minute ago. But right now! Seeing things — miles away — at the very instant they happen! That's the new thrill that television now makes possible. UT television is destined to do more than the public — in factory, farm, and home. The B this for us. The foundation is laid for a new products and services made possible whole new industry—careers for artists; jobs for by their work have helped to produce the hundreds of engineers and thousands of skilled steady rise in the living standards of the workmen making television transmitters and re- American people. ceivers; jobs for thousands more selling and And right now, as television emerges from servicing this new product and providing the the laboratory to take its place among the raw materials required. These are important pos- ac lished marvels oί this age of electricity, o< V-\< I <•<-•< tic r^l f-/^l /α trί o< r\ι-\ -L . sibilities of television. these G-E pioneers are once again creating, not For more than 60 years, General Electric only "More Goods for More People at Less scientists, engineers, and workmen have Cost," but also MORE AND BETTER JOBS been finding new ways for electricity to serve AT HIGHER WAGES. G-E research and engineering have saved the public from ten to one hundred dollars for every dollar they have earned for General Electric GENERAL ( ELECTRIC Please mention the 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 in July and August VOL. XLII, NO . 4 ITHACA, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 19, 1939 PRICE, 15 CENTS ALUMNI HOMECOMING for all alumni, their guests, and Columbia WOMEN WORK FOR FUND To Be November 4 alumni, undergraduates, and their friends. Club Federation Organizes Reservations already received for rooms A number of fraternities are planning Club and regional committees of the alumni dinners and meetings during the in Willard Straight Hall and elsewhere Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs all in Ithaca indicate that many alumni week-end. over the country are renewing efforts for from near and far will be in Ithaca for Saturday night in the Drill Hall, the the Federation Scholarship Fund, with a the Alumni Homecoming week-end of Student Council will sponsor a Home- goal for this year of the principal needed coming Dance, for alumni and under- November 4. to endow three more scholarships to be Some events here, it is hoped, will be graduates both of Cornell and Columbia raised by next June. Mrs. R. H. Shreve reminiscent of the same November week- and their guests. The committee, headed (Ruth Bent ley) Όz, general chairman of end ten years ago, when the Varsity foot- by Richard E. Holtzman '41 of Millers- the Scholarship Fund committee, re- ball team beat Columbia, ιz-6, on burg, Pa. has announced the engagement ported to the executive committee meet- Schoellkopf Field. Again this year Co- of Al Donahue's orchestra for this, and ing in Ithaca October 7 that more than lumbia will play here, and again, as in promises a "real old-time party." $11,000 has now been pledged, principal 192.9, the Dramatic Club will play "Ten sum of $10,000 being required to endow Nights In a Bar-room" in the Willard CORNELL ENGINEER each scholarship. Straight Theater Friday and Saturday The Cornell Engineer for October an- Cornell Women's Club chairmen who nights. Of that other performance Mor- nounces in its leading article the plans are now at work for the Fund include: ris Bishop '14 wrote in the ALUMNI for the Robert H. Thurston centennial Albany, Caroline A. Lester 'z4; Boston, NEWS that it '' wowed them out of their celebration by the University October 2.5. Mrs. Samuel S. Evans (Ella M. Behrer) seats. The audience yelled, hissed, and Alan H. Morgensen 'z3 writes on'' Funda- 'zy; Buffalo, Mrs. George D. Crofts wept. .," the staging department hav- mentals of Human Engineering," based (Frances E. Johnson) '05; Chicago, ing borrowed the old curtain and tor- on his experiences in conducting training Eunice Stebbins '97; Cortland, Barbara mentors from the Lyceum to lend reality programs in work simplification in in- C. Fretz '2.3; Delaware Valley, Mrs. to the scenes. The Club this year promises dustrial plants all over the United William H. Hill (May A. Thropp) 'zo; States and Canada. Professor John R. just as thrilling a performance as was f Kansas City, Mrs. Rudolph Hirsch given by the undergraduate actors of Bangs, Jr. zι, Administrative Engineer- (Maude W. Martin) Όo; Middletown, that day. First show will be Friday eve- ing, contributes Part I of an article en- Fannie H. Dudley '15; New York City, ning, November 3, in the Willard titled, "Management Looks to the Mrs. Frank J. Pagliaro (Edith A. Bennett) Straight Theater. That evening, also, Future," in which he comments upon a '15; Northeastern Pennsylvania, Marion the Senior societies are planning a foot- Creed of Management adopted by the M. Bush '3z; Northern New Jersey, Mrs. ball rally in Bailey Hall. recent International Management Con- Russell T. Kerby (Regina Brunner) '15; Alumni who arrive Friday afternoon gress, and discusses its application in Northern New York, Margaret M. Owens will have opportunity to see the Varsity business and industry. This issue also '37; Philadelphia, Mrs. Russell C. Gour- and Freshman cross country teams in contains a welcome to Engineering ley (Marion W. Gushee) Ί6; Rochester, their second meet of the season, against Freshman by Dean S. C. Hollister, and Mrs. William F. Donoghue (Mary A. Syracuse, starting at 4:30 from upper one from the editors, headed by Beach Heughes) Όz; Schenectady, Mrs. P. Paul Alumni Field and finishing there also; Barrett '40 of Kew Gardens, editor-in- Miller (Sara E. Speer) 'zι; Southern Cali- and the Freshman football team in action chief. fornia, Anna C. C. Besig '23; Utica, against Blair Academy, on lower Alumni REPORT ON OPTICS Margaret C. Tobin '35; Washington, Field at 4:30. New president of the Optical Society Frederica G. Ritter '32.; Western Con- Annual meeting of the Cornell Law of America is Kasson S. Gibson Ίz necticut, Mrs. Charles E. Craven, Jr. Association, Saturday morning at n in formerly instructor in Physics and now (Charlotte Baber) Ό8; Western New Myron Taylor Hall, is expected to bring with the National Bureau of Standards York, Mrs. R. A. McCutcheon (Ethel many alumni of the Law School, to elect in Washington, D. C. He was elected Laverty) Όz. officers, hear from Dean Robert S. Stev- October 14 at the close of a three-day Ruth I. Stone Ίo, member of the execu- ens and from the Law placement com- annual meeting at the Lake Placid Club, tive committee from Chicago, is assisting mittee, and to vote on the Association's to succeed Professor R. Clifton Gibbs Mrs. Shreve in organizing the Fund affiliation with the Cornell Alumni Ό6, Physics. campaign in several mid-western states. Association. Delegation of Law alumni Among the papers presented was one District chairmen now active are: Ari- from Westchester County is expected to by Professor Frances G. Wick '05, an zona,'Mrs. William L. Chapel (W. Emma come up again this year with William authority on luminescence and now head Barrett) '34 and Mrs. Ashley Robey F. Bleakley '04 and Ralph S. Kent Όz, of the physics department at Vassar, on (Elizabeth E. Chadwick) '31; Northern president of the Law Association, and work she did at Cornell in luminescence California, Mrs. Francis G. Short (Louise to have their usual dinner downtown of sugar and ice. Carl W. Gartlein, PhD E. Baker) '19; Florida, Mrs. Charles S. Saturday evening. 'z9, Physics, reported on "Apparatus for Dion (Gertrude Martin) 'z3; Georgia, From 11:30 to 1:30 Saturday, the Uni- Investigation of the Aurora Borealis," Mrs. John W. McConnell (Corrinne G. versity will serve luncheon in the Drill and a paper on structure deviations in Messing) 'z8; Idaho, Dakotas, Nebraska, Hall for all alumni and their guests, mem- certain isotopes of antimony was given Mrs. William F. McClelland (Pauline B. bers of the Faculty and their families, by Diran H. Tomboulian, PhD '36, and Brooks) Ίi; Indiana, Mrs. Harry V. and all others who are going to the foot- Professor Robert F. Bacher, Physics. Wade (Agnes T. Lester) 'z6; Iowa, Helen ball game on Schoellkopf Field, begin- Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, F. Smith Όi; Kentucky, Mrs. Arthur T. ning at z. Physics and Dean of the Graduate Ringrose (Guerine Tinker) '30; Maine, After the game there will be a recep- School, continues as editor of publica- Gertrude S. Bates Ί6; Minnesota, Mrs. tion in Willard Straight Memorial Room tions for the Optical Society of America. Ralph B. Ryan (Margaret W. Bent ley) 42- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS '34; Montana, Mrs. Alvin V. Taylor heard of a fourth today) have the most (Helen J. Smith) '24;. North Carolina, hospitable and kindly librarians. Each is Mrs. William F. Glasson (Mary B. Park) LETTERS interested to see if you have the book '03; Central Pennsylvania, May M. Matt- Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good you're after and sometimes suggests an- son 'x3; South Central Pennsylvania, taste τ we shall print letters from subscribers on any other book or books in another library. side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The Mrs. Wellington W. Kuntz (Margaret P. ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- "Today Professor Meek was in the Coppens) '96; Rhode Island, H.