Rochester Letters Review University of Rochester Summer 1980 Kodak Centennial Tribute Features More on Eastman To the editor: The Eastman Touch House Sparrows The well- known Parisian art George Eastman and the University And other poems by Anthony Hecht dealer R ene Gimpel in his Diary ofan of Rochester Page 25 Art D ealer, published in France in Page 2 1963 and in New York in 1966, had The Man Who Made It the following on George Eastman in The Double Life of the entry for February 27, 1919: to First Bass-And Way When I went to Eastmon'sfo r thefi rst Rudolf Kinzslake Beyond time, I asked him wherehe kept The Blue Bridging the gap between industry Double bassist James Van D emark Rockets, one cifthe most magnificent and aca de mia Page 27 Turners in existence. "No one, " he Page 10 answered, "canjudge the beauty ofa pic­ Glassmaker ture as well as I; I've a method of my own, The Kodak Kids Photo story and neithery ou noranyone elsecan equal Kodak Scholars at Rochester me because no one has as much knowledge Page 30 Page 13 ofphotography. When I lookat a picture, I ask myself: 'Ifthis view, scene, or portrait Mr. Eastman's Departments had been a photograph from real life, would it appearas it do es here?' Ifthe Theatre Rochester in Review 34 answer is negative, it meansthe painting is The Eastman Theatre and how it not right. Now then, afterI bought that got that way Alumnotes 42 In Memoriam 55 Tumei; I saw that certain waves ofthe sea Page 16 could not have appeared in a photographic Travel Corner 56 print as he hadpainted them!" Family Album o shade ofTurn et; didyou shudder when Who says town and gown don't mix? the emperor ofphotography spokethus? Page 19 Susan E. Schilling R ochester Cover: Chandeli er, E astman Th eatre Mrs. Schilling's letter refers to Betsy Photos illustrating Th e Ea stman Touch and Family A lbum, courtesy of Un iversity of Brayer's article on George Eastman as an Rochester Lib rary an d Eastm an Kodak art collector; published in the W inter Company. Ph oto on page 4, cour tesy of Hilda 1979-80 R ochester Review. This issue G. K ingslake. Ph oto on page 24, courtesy of continues the Eastman story with an article M ar tin Co nheady. on George Eastman as a philanthropist-Ed. Ouzer Photos To the editor: The last issue of Rochester Review was classy. It was nice to devote a ROCHESTER R EVI EW. Sum mer 1980; solid spread to the Lou Ouzer Editor: M argaret Bond; Design: Robert photos. Wish your stock could have M eyer; Co py Editor: Vera M . Wasnock ; St aff been glossy and heavier like the Ph otographer: Chris T. Quillen ; Staff Artist : cover, but understand the financial Shirle Zimm er; Alumnotes Ed itor : J an et H odes. Published quarterly by th e U nive rsity constraints. of Rochester and ma iled to all alumni. Michael Schneider '59 Edi torial office, 108 Administr ation Building, Washington, D.C. Rochester, New York 14627. Second-class postage paid at Rochester, New York 14692. US PS 715-360. Eastman Kodak Colonnade are among other Kodak benefactions. Over the years, how­ ever, the majority of its gifts have been unrestricted, to be used for general University advancement. It is impossible to measure precisely the impact of these gifts. Unquestionably, however, they have formed a key element in the development of the University as a distin­ guished national institution that offers the people of its home community an attractive intellectual and cultural complex, including a major center of medical research and patient care. It is clear that Kodak recognizes the importance ofstable, productive institutions of higher learning to the well-being of high-technology industries, such as its own, and the mutual benefits ofa close working relationship between industry and academia. The University has long enjoyed such a stimulating rela­ tionship with Kodak. Scientific and professional interactions include the exchange of technical advice, such as consulting by Univer­ sity faculty, extensive use of the University's research libraries, and loans back and forth ofspecial equipment. The University offers educational opportunities to Kodak personnel through a variety of special programs as well as general course work : A number ofcurrent Kodak managers are graduates of the University's Executive Development This Colonnade is dedicated Program. Others have attended the intensive refresher onthe occasion ofthe Centennial ofthe courses for scientists and engineers given every summer by Eastman Kodak Company the Institute ofOptics. Rochester faculty members have in grateful recognition taught specially arranged in-plant courses on subjects rang­ ofthe Company sgenerous support ing from el~ctronics to scientific German. ofthe University over manyyears In turnabout fashion, a number of Kodak people are July 1980 usually to be found among the part-time faculty on campus. Joint research projects are among the most productive bronze plaque, newly placed between Lattimore elements of this town-and-gown interchange. In recent A and Morey halls on the Eastman Quadrangle, des­ years they have ranged from work on liquid crystal ther­ ignates the Eastman Kodak Colonnade. The words on the mography for the detection of breast cancer to a five-year plaque declare the reason for this new designation. What forecast of retail sales for amateur photographic supplies. they do not spell out (plaques by their nature being con­ In addition, Kodak is among the long-term industrial strained to few words) are the ways in which Kodak has sponsors of the Institute ofOptics and from time to time been the University's benefactor. has also provided support for a variety ofdepartments at The Eastman Kodak Company has a well deserved repu­ the University, from physics and astronomy to pediatrics. tation as a generous and enlightened supporter of higher These are but a few of the many day-to-day interchanges education. Since 1955 Kodak has given more than $70 between th e two institutions. It is this fruitful relationship million to over 900 educational institutions. that the University acknowledges in publishing the special The University of Rochester has shared in this extraor­ Kodak Centennial Section ofRochester Review on the follow­ dinary generosity. In the University's current $102 million ing pages. campaign, for example, Kodak's $7-million gift was, it is Happy birthday, Eastman Kodak! The University of believed, the largest unrestricted corporate gift to a college Rochester salutes you. or university made during the preceding five years. Gifts of money for operating needs, gifts of equipment, support for research and for scholarships and fellowships The Eastman Touch By Betsy Brayer George Eastman's personal ". .. I used to feel pretty much th e brand of philanthropy set way you do about college ed ucation. Rochester on its evolutionary There was a lon g time when I would not hire any young college graduate. path from local college of mod­ In your day and mine a large propor­ est attainment to university of tion of the boys who went to college national distinction-and were rich men's sons who did not added a few idiosyncratic really have to work when th ey came touches along the way. Design out. Nowadays practicall y all the bri gh t boys try to go to college and ofthe country's best hospital th e war developed the fact that it was fire-protection system, for the th e college graduate who made good new Strong Memorial, and des­ as an officer and leader. We now, ignation of the most efficient instead of looking askance at college placement for office wastebas­ graduates, send out scouts every kets, for the new Eastman spring to engage th e cream of th e col­ lege men to fill our ranks. So you see School of Music, were two of my position has completely change d. them. From the Kodak point of view I con­ side r it a very desirable thi ng to have I go toschool toM r. Carpenterin the old a good college here, not only to help University building near the corner ofBuifio T hirteen-year-old George Eas tman, whe n he train good men but also to make andElizabeth Streets he has seventy scholars left schoo l in th e old Unite d States Hotel to go Rochester an attractive place for and it is the best private schoolfor boys in to work. Kod ak men to live and bring up th eir college fou nder, moved his wife and the city. I studyA lgebra. Geography. Arrith­ families." three young chi ldren from Waterville metic. Reading andSpelling . .. Almost A few days after writing this, East­ to South Washington Street in Roch­ every afternoon the boys play Base Ball and man picked up pen again, this time ester's fashionable Third Ward. And a I think it is nicefun . .. dramatically to sign away the bulk of year after, on April 27, 1862, the elder -George Eastman, November 19, 1865 his fort une, distri buting it among four Eastman died, leaving a meager To Uncle Horace Eastman instit utions of higher learni ng. The estate, an invalid daughter, and a son Waterville, New 10rk largest porti on, some $ 17 mi llion, who could not bear to think of his went to th e U niversity of Rochester. mother's running a boardinghouse to The exact sixty-year process by rom th is neatly pen ned no te, support the family. which the educational skeptic became the first of more than 200,000 The Eastmans continued to live in F th e ardent supporter perhaps defies surv iving letters ofGeorge Eastman, rented houses in the "Ruffled Shirt" precise analysis, but it is fascinating to we learn th at the eleven-year-old ward for several years, and the young trace the steps.