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Discrimination
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Vindication
Cornell Alumni News
VOLUME 63, NUMBER 18 JUNE 15, 1961
THE RIGHTS and responsibilities of undergraduates
and their Campus organizations
came in for a lot of debate this
term. Debate centered mostly around
student efforts to do away with racial
and religious discrimination in the selection
of fraternity and sorority members.
At issue are two variations on the same
theme: discrimination forced on a local
chapter by its national rules or practices,,
and similar restrictions imposed
purely by local chapter choice.
Interfraternity Council and Student
Government both decided this term to
go after both aspects of discrimination.
Both actions were carried by two-thirds
votes., and in the absence of any challenge
must be taken as reflecting Campus
opinion. The IFC will drop any
house that is found to have a locallyorganized
policy of discriminating according
to race, religion, or national
origin. An individual member exercising
a constant prejudiced blackball
would presumably not make the house
subject to action. In the case of nationally
imposed restrictions, such as exist
for about fifteen fraternities, the restrictions
will have to be removed by the fall
of 1963 (1965 if success appears imminent)
or the Cornell chapter will be
dropped from IFC. The Student Government
provisions are the same, except
that the houses would be denied "recognition
and its concomitant privileges."
The IFC also plans to publish a list each
year of houses which admit to having
discriminatory restrictions.
Of fifty-three fraternities on Campus,
three say they have national written
restrictions as to race and religion,
twelve others have national "gentlemen's
agreements" or the like, and one
other restricts membership by local
choice. On the other side, fully onethird
of the fraternities have several
Jews in otherwise all-Christian houses,
or Christians in otherwise all-Jewish
houses. An estimated two are about
fifty-fifty in membership.
Sorority action is confused at this
writing by a refusal of national sorority
officers to permit undergraduates to
reply to questionnaires about membership
policy.
The IFC and Student Government
actions—taken as one—appear at present
aimed at freeing local chapters from
having to eliminate whole groups of potential
rushees. Individual prejudices
may still prevent "outsiders" from joining
many houses. But the trend of recent
years has been for more and more undergraduates
to seek persons of diverse
backgrounds as close friends. The IFC
and Student Government action aims
to make this more possible.
THIS ACTION is backed up with the new
powers given student government at the
University two years ago. It will provide
a test of how much a chapter is punished
when isolated from IFC. One
sorority that "went local" because it
wanted membership freedom has been
unable to attract enough new members
to stay alive much longer. Isolation from
a national sorority has proved fatal.
Whether the same proves true for a
chapter that sticks with its "national"
but not with the local IFC remains to
be seen. Either way, private social clubs
at an educational institution are being
put to a significant test.
EZRA CORNELL,, who "would found an
institution where any person can find instruction
in any study," has suffered
many indignities down through the
years. The institution he founded broke
the traditional academic pattern, and
came to be referred to contemptuously
as a "cow college" and worse by its belittlers.
From what rumblings we hear from
Peace Corps headquarters and elsewhere
in troubled Washington, the nation's
leaders are now mighty happy to
find a place of higher learning where
a student can be exposed on one campus
to foreign languages, tractor repair,
labor relations, and anthropology. We
hope Ezra, wherever he may be, is taking
some satisfaction in all this.
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Meek: 'The Indestructible American'
This article is adapted from an article by
the same title in the March issue of the
Southern Hotel Journal. Material came
from Albert E. Koehl '28, Victor Grohmann
'28, Henry B. Williams '30, Jacob
S. Fassett III '36, Gert H. W. Schmidt
'38, Donald B. Grady '43, and others,
and the article was written by the magazine's
editor, James Pearson.
A small man moves with a miltary gait
down the corridors of Cornell University's
Statler Hall. Dean Howard Bagnall
Meek strides into his office in the School
of Hotel Administration and takes his
seat.
Perhaps you are a prospective student
seated opposite him; perhaps the time is
some time ago.
You feel strange, suddenly. A feeling
comes over you that at once weights you
down and lifts you up. The dean has
leveled his eyes on you. It seems as
though the real building around you is
no longer there the only reality is an intangible
structure that has sprung into
existence; a man-to-man relationship
structure you did not quite expect.
An 'Unbendable' Stare
The stare he shoots at you is like a
steel beam. It has a shining quality, but
is unwavering. It extends—uniting you
to him. You know you couldn't bend it if
you wished. It reassures you. For here is
a man, you surmise, who can structure
a relationship that will endure and make
you more a man. But it weighs upon you.
It frightens you a bit. For here is a man
whose very attitude demands that you
hold up your end of the structure. The
structure, that is, of this new relationship.
You forget the statement you have
been rehearsing of reasons why you want
to enroll in the Cornell Hotel School.
You get down to essentials about your
academic record. The record isn't good
enough, Professor Meek says crisply. You
should go home, attend preparatory
school for two years, and return—provided
your academic record puts you in
the top fourth of your class. Then you
can tackle the further entrance hurdles
at the School. For example: the aptitude
test; the interview by Meek or an alumnus
he designates; the evaluation by an
admissions committee . . .
Two years have passed. You have met
the requirements, and find yourself a
full-fledged student of the Cornell Hotel
School, prepared to foot' the $2,625
yearly cost with help from home, summer
jobs at hotels, and part-time work
at Statler Inn.
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Does Prof congratulate you on your
triumphant return?
Alas, no. "That damned little hedevil,"
you intone, emphasizing your
feelings with such language as the indestructible
Dean Meek has never found
necessary.
Then, on a chill autumn afternoon, on
a football field "far above Cayuga's
waters," you are scrimmaging when suddenly
you feel the prideful eye of Prof
watching from the bleachers.
There finally comes the nod to come
along with him and some of your fellow
students in the big, college-owned car
(Prof has never enjoyed poverty!) to a
hotel show in New York or Boston.
When day is done, and some of the boys
get together and pitch a ball in the ballroom,
you are there. So is Meek. You
ultimately bolster yourself for that last
dance by sneaking a slug of gin. You find
that Prof has finished his Coke years
ago. He never props himself up with anything
stronger.
He is reluctant to go. You whisper
to a friend, "He could have danced all
night—and damned near did!" En route
"home" you drag on a fag to keep awake.
Prof is achieving the same with games.
Ghosts. Word games. Anything. Fun!
"God, how I wish I was his age!" a
Hotel Alumni
"MEEKMEN," alumni of the Hotel
School, included 1,874 living graduates
in 1959. A majority were executives of
hotels and restaurants: 42 per cent in
hotels and 16 per cent in restaurants. All
but 8 per cent were engaged in enterprises
directly involved with transient
housing and quantity feeding, including
industrial feeding (7 per cent), hospital
operation (5 per cent), and club management
(10 per cent). Their salaries
range up to $75,000, with a median, including
recent classes, of $10,500. Average
effective salary, considering room
and board, is $13,600. Hotelmen with
twenty-five years experience make about
80 per cent more than the average income
of lawyers, 80 per cent mo re than
the average income of engineers with
twenty-five years experience. Salaries
average high (i.e., $18,200 for classe^ of
the early 1930s) in relation to years of
experience.
The first Hotel class numbered
twenty. Average enrollment in recent
years has been about four hundred, or
2 per cent of the "effective enrollment"
at the University. Hotelmen number 13
per cent of the officers of Cornell Clubs
across the country. Foreign students enrolling
last fall numbered twenty-three,
or 18 per cent of the 130 new students.
fortyish alumnus recently exclaimed
about the Cornell dean. How old is
Meek?
Howard Bagnall Meek was born sixtyfive
years ago in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
He took his BS at Boston University,
hopping bells and desk clerking at resorts
during the summers. He took his
master's (in astronomy!) at the University
of Maine, meanwhile pursuing a
part-time hotel career.
He taught mathematics at Maine and
Yale; in 1922, commuted between New
Haven and Boston to conduct a twice-aweek
non-credit course in resort-keeping;
that summer, operated the Ocean
House at York Beach, Maine.
A persistent group from the American
Hotel Association persuaded Cornell to
inaugurate hotel courses. Cornell prevailed
upon Meek to head up the
courses, for he was a rare specie: a
practicing hotel man with high academic
qualifications.
His initial answer, "No," mellowed
into a "Maybe," a word he hasn't used
since. He soon found himself on one of
the world's most beautiful campuses, directing
a hotel department in the College
of Agriculture, and resolved to return
to inn-keeping when his two-year
contract ended.
Decades of Growth
But by 1924, Howard Meek was a
full professor his department was functioning
in the School of Home Economics,
and his voice was tending to
deepen impressively when an auburnhaired
food instructor named Lois Ann
Farmer came into his presence.
Lois Ann Farmer became his bride a
member of the Hotel school staff for
thirty years; the mother of Lois Jean
['47] and Donald Bagnall Meek; the
mistress of the "home beside the swinging
bridge' 5 (translated: beside the narrow
bridge that spanned the breathtaking
gorge in the middle of the campus)
more recently, the mistress of a
twelve-room home a mile and a half
from the campus.
'Came the late 1920s: Meek steadfastly
declined handsome offers to return
to the field of hotel operation.
Came the 1930s: Meek took time out
from his Cornell duties to complete his
doctorate in economics at Yale. His
thesis was built around a staggering
mathematical formula for pricing the
facilities and services of a hotel.
Came the 1940s: work started on
$2,500,000 Statler Hall, to house a practice
hotel, classrooms and laboratories
for a school that has operated with funds
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Dean Howard Bagnall Meek, Grad '29, at his Statler Hall desk. —C. Hadley Smith
from tuition and endowment only; Meek
received an honorary doctorate in education
from Boston U.
Game the 1950s: Statler Hall dedicated;
Hotel school given independent
status (separated from Home Economics)
$2,300,000 Alice Statler auditorium
added; alumni chapters (Cornell
Society of Hotelmen) flourish over
the world; Meek first man to hold endowed
($70,000) Statler professorship.
The most eminent hotel educator in
history is not listed in prestige biographical
dictionaries because he junks
the little questionnaires sent to him.
"He's as interested in having his
status recorded," says a Cornell colleague,
"as I am in the hair-do of French
poodles."
"He's the hardest man in the world to
impress," says alumnus Don Grady, "and
the least eager to impress anybody else."
Yet Meek is pleased to have his retirement
this year inspire a flurry of testimonial
functions—over fifty are planned
—that will draw further attention to the
Hotel school that is already spoken of in
sixty-seven languages. No department,
school or college in an American university
has so firmly fraternal an alumni.
No department, school or college has
alumni who have so thoroughly penetrated
a specialized economic enterprise.
None has done so much to strengthen
the occupational status of persons in a
June 15, 1961
specialized field who are not its alumni.
No specialized school based in America
has wrought a more international
response. The question "How did it happen?"
transcends in importance the
career of any one man or, indeed, the
evolution of any one area of economic
enterprise.
But let us postone contemplation of
that question and attend one of the
parties at which we are saying goodbye
to our own Mr. Chips. One can hardly
suppress the laughter! No cookies are
being passed. We are pouring champagne
instead. No kindly old gentleman
is smiling through tear-filled eyes as
memories stream across his vision.
Howard Meek, as erect as a soldier, is
signing up all comers for a conducted
tour of the world next fall; meantime
he is jumping to "Hound Dog" at no
expense to his formidable dignity.
And who is this fellow over here—
this successful chain operator who has
showed up at more than one of the Meek
testimonials? "Will you step this way,
please. Step up to the microphone."
"Who, me? Yes, of course." "Do you
know the honoree?" "Meek? I should.
He turned me down when I tried to get
in at Cornell twenty-five years ago. I
hated his guts. I tried to show him what
I could do in hotel operation! Know
how many properties I own?" "In a
way? But why are you here?" "Me?
Well, I've got kids at Cornell. Let's face
it—I love the little guy for all his toughness."
What the gentleman means is that he
is a man of^ standards and Meek is a
man of uncompromising standards. The
importance of standards greatly exceeds
the importance of college training. But
if college training is based on high
standards of admission, instruction,
graduation requirements, and alumni
activity—then the man who imposes the
standards is deserving of the sort of
recognition that Howard Meek is receiving
this season.
Meek was twenty-eight when he went
to Cornell. His two-room department
was four flights up. It didn't faze him in
the least to ask mighty magnates like
the president of the Waldorf-Astoria
(Lucius Boomer) or of the Statler Hotels
to climb the stairs and interview young
men preparing for hotel careers.
One Ellsworth Statler visit marked
the upturning point in the destiny of the
Hotel school. The year was 1925. The
genius whose kindly, austere face seemed
to be carved of granite toured the
Campus as he toured his hotels: keenly
observant but silent except for critical
suggestions.
Support from Statler
The occasion was the first Hotel-fora-day
(now Hotel Ezra Cornell), when
students entertain townspeople, faculty
and visiting hotelmen. After an evening
banquet, Statler was asked to say "a few
words" and that's how many he said.
The complete text of his historic address
was: "Meek can have anything he
wants."
The Cornell Hotel School has received
more than $6,000,000 from the Statler
Foundation for buildings, upkeep, and
scholarship aid.
Meek never catered to hospital or
restaurant or club or institutional interests
by expanding the name of the Hotel
school to flatter them by inclusion.
People from these enterprises respected
him, went to school to him, endowed
his efforts.
Meek never catered to alumni whose
vast knowledge of hotel operation came
to exceed his own, and on whose operations
the sun never sets. They continue
to regard him as mentor.
Meek never lied about hating to see
the old order (of individualism) pass
from the scene. Neither was he hesitant
in conforming his own program to meet
the needs of the new order. He is realistic.
He considers realism a factor in responsible
action. Above all he is a man to
whom responsible action, dictated by
high standards, is the only tolerable way
of life.
Prof is as innocent of virtuous intent
as he is innocent of evil intent. To him
the question of whether a man should
measure up as a man is not a matter of
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personal decision. The answer is implicit
in a man's existence.
Thus we are witnessing an encouraging
testimony to man's ability to recognize
truth in these occasions when we
honor Dr. Meek and his lady. A man
who has compromised with no man, who
has catered to no man, is suddenly the
central figure at a larger number of testimonials
than have ever marked the retirement
of a person whose career related
to inn-keeping.
We are joyful at these opportunities
to celebrate the Meeks, because suddenly
we recognize that the Meeks are
mere representatives of the real honoree
on these occasions. What we are really
celebrating is Character.
Term-End Report of Alumni Trustees
Alumni trustees of the University are required
by the By-laws of the Cornell
Alumni Association to report to the association
when their terms of office expire.
The terms of Frederic C. Wood '24
and Walter C. Heasley Jr. 3
30 will expire
June 30. Both were first elected to
the University Board of Trustees starting
July 1, 1956. Wood is a consulting engineer
on building and management, and
Heasley is developer and president of
Corners Community Center, Cayuga
Heights shopping area north of Campus.
By FREDERIC C. WOOD '24
The honor which you accorded me to
serve as your alumni trustee these past
five years is one for which I will always
be humbly grateful. I hope that my efforts
and judgments in this capacity
have warranted your trust. Unfortunately,
they are difficult for either of us to
evaluate. It is an experience and an
association which I will always cherish.
My great concern about education at
all levels is the cost of it and the waste
which is a part of so much of it. There is
waste in the utilization of the physical
plant—in the number of hours per day
and days per year that it is used. There
is waste in the planning of new buildings
—in not getting the maximum amount
of usable space within the building walls.
There is often inadequate control in the
design of the buildings—in the selection
of materials and systems of construction.
There is waste in faculty time in teaching
courses of questionable need or value
—or in spending more hours than
needed to teach a course. Cornell is not
without examples of all of these things.
Cornell is also not without many examples
of the antithesis of these things
for which we can be thankful.
After five years of rather close observation,
I can say to you honestly that
the management of Cornell is as economical
as I have seen anywhere and
perhaps better than most others. Continuing
study is being made to improve
the utilization of space. Buildings are
generally being planned with an eye to
sound economy. The faculty is searching
for ways to reduce waste in the teaching
load. The management of our residential
halls, dining facilities, purchasing operations,
printing, building construction
and maintenance is in the hands of cap-
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able people who are doing a good job
and deserve recognition for their devotion
and accomplishments.
Nevertheless, the pressures are always
with us, especially in these times of inflation,
for that which is bigger and
better and more beautiful and grander
and softer and easier—especially if we
don't have to work to pay for it. The
battle for economy never ends—the
battle lines just waver a bit. This is
especially true of educational institutions
which lack the competitive urge to make
a profit. The pressure for sensible management
must be initiated by the Trustees.
It must be carried out by the administration.
It should be welcomed by
the faculty. The excellence of Cornell
as a teaching institution depends on its
faculty—a good faculty must be a fairly
paid faculty. More resources with which
to pay the faculty will result from careful
management.
You as alumni are the stockholders in
this corporation. You can exert a great
influence for these principles, if you believe
in them, by your honest and continuing
criticism and suggestions and by
your vote in the election of trustees.
It is important that the alumni who
are being asked to contribute more and
more to support not only the building
program, but the operations of Cornell,
have confidence that the money which
they give is being spent wisely and prudently.
It is also important as government
grants and loans become available
for the purposes of higher education
that Cornell set an example of wise and
prudent use of these funds. It is my belief
that the cold war will ultimately
be won or lost on the battlefield of economics—the
economics of Communism
versus our own. The soldiers in this
battle are well educated people in every
area of knowledge. In such a war you
and I cannot afford not to invest heavily
in the processes of education, directly
and indirectly—nor can we afford to
support people or institutions which are
wasteful in the process of education.
By WALTER C. HEASLEY JR. '30
In making this report to the Alumni
Association at the end of my five-year
term as one of your ten representatives
on the Cornell Board of Trustees, I
want to express my sincere thanks for
the honor and privilege of serving Cornell
which is implicit in the annual elections.
I only wish that I could conscientiously
report that I have been able
to contribute something constructive toward
the solution of Cornell's many
and pressing problems; unfortunately
most trustee "work" is limited to routine
review and acceptance of budgets,
of faculty appointments, of reports by
the administration and reports of the
really hard-working and able board
committees which deal with our Investments,
and Buildings & Properties.
Policy decisions are made by the Executive
Committee.
This has been five years marked by
tremendous and significant expansion of
Cornell's physical plant and facilities
with the inevitable problems of such
building during a period of inflation.
The crucial new Olin Library, the completion
of the fine Engineering complex
with its resulting shifting and expansion
for Architecture and the Arts College,
the new quarters for Industrial & Labor
Relations, the projected new home for
Business & Public Administration, the
good start made on student housing,
graduate and undergraduate, and the
Newman Sports Building for Women,
all strengthen Cornell's opportunity to
do a really superior job for the students
of the future, but they also add alarmingly
to the costs and overhead of this
great university.
As Cornell makes plans to celebrate
its 100th anniversary, review its record,
and prepare for the changing conditions
of the future, your alumni trustee representatives
and the other board members
face the tremendous problems of
finding the resources to support this
plant without raising tuition to a prohibitive
figure, and of finding the further
resources to reward, attract, and
hoίd the faculty which is the crux of
everything. They will have the great
responsibility of choosing a new president.
Through the administrative officers
of the university they must create
the internal and external institutional
relationships which will make many
more of our 98,000 alumni convinced,
enthusiastic, and willing to support
regularly and generously the job that
Cornell is doing.
This will become increasingly difficult,
involving as it does admissions pressure,
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student relationships in an uncertain
world3 faculty morale, town and gown
relationships,, and our unique partnership
with the New York State University.
Cornell's ability to attract and merit
foundation and corporate support in the
years ahead bears a direct relationship
to the support she receives from her own
alumni. This has been good and generous,
but must be improved. Somehow
Cornell's own constituency must be convinced
and sold on the job Cornell is
doing today. For this reason it is important
that the very best of our most
able, imaginative, and thoughtful talent
—and there is a wealth of it among our
alumni—be .elected to the board with
its chalengmg problems.
On Campus: A New Program, and New Ideas
To THE MANY new interdepartmental
divisions being created to allow cooperation
among different colleges and
schools on Campus, the University will
next fall add a Latin American Teaching
Program. Professor Joseph Stycos
Sociology & Anthropology, will be director,
and Richard Graham will join
the faculty as assistant professor of Latin
American History. The program will
allow a minor in Latin American studies
for AM, MS and PhD candidates, similar
to the minor now offered in the Department
of Far Eastern Studies.
Earlier efforts by the Social Science
Research Center had secured $400,000
in Carnegie and Rockefeller grants for
research and teaching in the Latin
American field. The National Defense
Education Act will provide fellowships
for the new program. A number of
courses are already being given in the
language, literature and social and economic
problems of Latin America.
Among research already under way
are individual projects involving land
reform in the Andean area from Venezuela
to Chile, labor relations in Chile,
language in Peru, family relations and
population in Chile and Peru, human
relations in labor organizations in Peru,
rural economics and community development
throughout Latin America, nutrition
in Peru, and agriculture in general
throughout Latin America.
The new faculty member, Graham,
was born in Brazil, is a graduate of
Wooster College, and is now finishing
doctoral study at the University of Texas
under Lews Hanke, a leading Latin
American historian. He will teach a twocourse
sequence on the history of Latin
America.
Students Speak Up
Students spread their hopes for the
future of Cornell before members of the
Administrative Board of the University
Council on May 19 at meetings of the
board in Ithaca. "Excellence" and
"greatness" were urged, better housing,
a review of the cost of research to the
time left available for teaching, and the
needs of foreign students and of US
students to know more of the world.
Richard G. Buckles '62 of Ithaca,
president of Executive Board of Student
Government, said he felt many professors
had little time left for answering
students' questions, because of the time
June 15, 1961
required to supervise research on Campus.
He wondered if industry would
send men to the University to conduct
research, thus freeing professors for
more teaching. He also asked that
money raised during the forthcoming
Centennial be directed in part to providing
more visiting professors, a "great
issues" course for seniors, and ties between
foreign universities and Cornell
to allow undergraduates to study abroad
while working for a Cornell degree.
Carol D. Moore '63 of Peterborough,
New Hampshire, urged more attention
for the Arts college, noting the College
provides 50 per cent of all instruction
given in the University. Douglas C.
Bauer '61 of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts,
outgoing CURW president, asked
more dorm counsellors be provided,
spoke in favor of more dormitories
and apartment buildings, and was highly
critical of "the ghettoes of Collegetown."
He said he hoped more professors
and graduate students would live
in dormitories and fraternities.
The new vice president of CURW,
Robert C. Buckle '63 of Salem, Illinois,
told of his year in Nigeria as a school
teacher, and D. Pattanayak, Grad., of
India urged more English instruction
for foreign students and more opportunity
for foreign students to visit homes
and learn how Americans live. He described
conditions in Collegetown apartments
as "very poor." Foreign students
who are married or dark skinned are
refused homes and apartments consistently,
he said.
Several students, and Professor Rudolf
B. Schlesinger, Law, spoke of their
hopes that Cornell could become "an
international university," geared to preparing
students for roles abroad and in
US foreign service, and making use of
foreign students on Campus.
Pickets and Bias
Undergrads and graduate students
picketed a Collegetown merchant-landlord
during the term, charging him with
discrimination against a particular African
student in the renting of an apartment.
In the wake of the picketing, the
University's vice president for student
affairs, John Summerskill, asked any
student who encounters discrimination
in renting off-Campus to report this to
the proctor. To be on the University's
list of approved apartments, a landlord
must agree to rent without racial or religious
prejudice. Several names have
been removed from the list.
Elsewhere on the discrimination
front, President Deane W. Malott has
written to Thomas Rothschild '62., incoming
president of the Executive
Board of Student Government, backing
the previous board's April decision
against group membership discrimination.
His letter read, in part:
"I would like the Executive Board
to know that I fully support the action
taken by Student Government on April
25 to eliminate restrictive membership
clauses in student organizations. Discriminatory
clauses and practices according
to race, religion and national
origin have no place within Cornell University
today. The Board is to be congratulated
on its work and legislation
which will bring about the discontinuance
of membership restriction imposed
from without the University.
"The proposed Commission on Discrimination
which will have student,
Faculty and administrative representation
will have the full support and cooperation
of the University administration.
Cornell is also taking steps to
inform other colleges and universities of
its position in these matters to encourage
interuniversity cooperation."
Admissions Calendar Changes
The Office of Admissions has sent
along word of the shifting of the admissions
schedule for next year, as follows:
"Because the secondary schools have
requested it, the Candidate Reply Date
(the date by which those offered admission
must accept their offer of admission)
has been moved back three weeks
—to May 1—by many colleges including
Cornell. This means that most offers
of admission at those institutions must
be made by April 15.
"If Cornell is to get its answers out
earlier, we must do all our work of assembling
folders and selecting candidates
earlier. Thus application forms
should be filed by January 1 if possible,
beginning in 1962. As a result of this
earlier date, decision as to applying to
Cornell should be firmed up and acted
upon no later than the fall of the senior
year in secondary school. Application
forms are in fact available shortly after
July 1 each year.
"A corollary to this is that the BC
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Form (for the secondary school transcript
and principal's report) should be
sent in from the school almost immediately
upon completion of the work of
the senior year's first term.
"It also means that the Admissions
Office will be so busy with selection
work during March and April that it
will be impossible, except in very unusual
circumstances,, to conduct any
interviewing during those two months.
The help of ALUMNI NEWS readers in
spreading this information to potential
candidates will be appreciated by the
Admissions staff."
Willard Straight Hall is adding modern
art works to decorate its halls and
corridors, through foundation grants,
anonymous gifts and gifts from Michael
Straight of Alexandria, Virginia, son of
the man for whom the building is
named.
Sir Julian Huxley, a Briton and one
of the world's leading philosopher-scientists,
required Bailey Hall for a lecture
he had originally been scheduled to
give in Alice Statler Auditorium on May
23. The audience greatly overflowed
the Statler space, so everyone trouped
up to Bailey Hall where close to 2,000
persons heard Sir Julian speak on a need
for man to evolve rapidly to meet problems
such as over-population and "the
brutalization of human life."
Fiske Icelandic Collection
By VILHJALMUR BJARNAR, Curator
THE HISTORY of the
Fiske Icelandic Collection
of the Cornell
University Library
extends back
more than half a
century beyond the
time of its arrival at the University Library.
Prompted by his early interest in
the Old Icelandic language and literature,
Willard Fiske (b. 1831), librarian
and professor of North European languages
at Cornell from 1868 to 1883, in
1850 went to Scandinavia to study the
Scandinavian languages, including Icelandic.
It was during the two years of his
sojourn in Scandinavia that he began
laying the foundation of his Icelandic
library, which soon after his return to
the United States became known as the
best of its kind in this country.
After resigning his post at Cornell and
establishing permanent residence in
Florence, Italy, Professor Fiske continued
increasing his Icelandic library
until his death in 1904. Under the terms
of his will, the Icelandic Collection,
along with the Petarch Collection,
then passed into the possession
of the University. With
the Collection, upon its arrival in
the spring of 1905, came its first curator,
Professor Halldόr Hermannsson,
who had been asociated with Professor
Fiske since 1899 and who served the
Collection with distinction until his retirement
in 1948. He was succeeded by
Mr. Kristjan Karlsson and he, in turn,
in 1952, by Mrs. Jόhann S. Hannesson,
who held the post until 1959. The will
made provisions for the salary of a curator,
who must be an Icelander by birth
and a graduate of an Icelandic "gymnasium;"
for the maintenance and increase
of the Collection and for the publication
of a series relating to Iceland
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and the Icelandic Collection. The terms
of the will thus make it clear that the
Collection is to serve a dual purpose:
to be a repository of books and an information
center in the field of Icelandic
studies.
Space does not allow a detailed
description of the contents of the Collection.
Briefly, however, they reflect
Professor Fiske's aim to bring together
a library which would supply information
about Iceland in every respect. Accordingly,
the Collection contains, first,
all the editions of the Old Icelandic and
Old Norwegian texts that could be acquired,
as well as works in various languages
which in any way elucidate this
literature. Secondly., the Collection includes
the modern Icelandic literature
since the Sixteenth Century—books,
pamphlets, and periodicals in Icelandic
—as well as writings in non-Icelandic
languages dealing with Iceland, the nature
of the country, its affairs, history,
language, and letters. In 1948, according
to Professor Hermannsson (in an
interview in Lesbόk Morgunbladsins,
October 24), the Collection then ranked
second to the National Library of Iceland
in its holdings of Icelandic books
and first in non-Icelandic works on Icelandic
subjects. The Collection is particularly
rich in early works and editions.
Since its arrival at Cornell in 1905,
the Collection has more than tripled its
holdings. The rate of growth, however,
has been rather uneven. In 1905 the Collection
numbered about 8,600 volumes;
in 1913, ca. 10,200; in 1926, ca. 16,800;
in 1942, ca. 21,830; and in 1959, ca.
26,500. This represents an average annual
increase of, respectively, ca. 200,
500, and 312, and 277 volumes. The primary
reason for the unfortunate trend
since 1926, of course, is the fact that the
income of the Collection has failed to
keep pace with rising book prices. The
past several years, however, for reasons
suggested below, have seen some, but by
no means sufficient, reversal of the trend.
Bibliographies Indispensable
The second purpose of the Icelandic
Collection has been served, primarily,
through its publications. The printed
catalogs of the Collection constitute a
pioneering work in Icelandic bibliography
and, in fact, established their compiler,
Professor Hermannsson, as a leading
authority in the field. Along with the
Collection's publication series, Islandica,
which for forty years was also the work
of Professor Hermannsson, they have
contributed the lion's share towards establishing
the fame of the Collection
here and abroad and have indeed been
indispensable tools to scholars in the
field of Icelandic and Old Norse studies.
The high esteem in which the Collection
is held has found expression in a
variety of ways, ranging from private letters
of appreciation to official governmental
recognition. A prominent Icelandic
scholar, for example, has written:
"Where should we all have been without
Islandica and the catalogs of the Fiske
Collection?" A resolution passed December
29, 1959, by the Scandinavian Group
of the Modern Language Association of
America, refers to the Fiske Collection as
"an unequalled scholarly repository of
books pertaining to Icelandic history,
language, and literature, known throughout
the world of learning especially
through the labors of its first curator,
Halldόr Hermannsson."
Support from Iceland
From Iceland have come two important
material manifestations of goodwill
towards the Collection. The first took the
form of a resolution adopted at the general
meeting of the Booksellers Association
of Iceland in 1947, pledging its
members to deliver one copy of any of
their publications wanted by the Collection
at half the published price. The
other was the governmental recognition
referred to'above: On the occasion of
Professor Hermannsson's eightieth birthday,
in his honor and in memory of Professor
Fiske, the Icelandic Government
and Althing (Parliament) appropriated
the sum of 5,000 krόnur to be used by
the* Collection for purchasing Icelandic
books. The donation is a separate item in
the Icelandic national budget and apparently
will be renewed annually, subject
to the approval of the Althing.
Academic Delegate
ACADEMIC DELEGATE at the inauguration
of Daniel J. McCarthy as president
of the State College at Framingham,
May 17, was Charles W. Stillwell '22
of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Cornell Alumni News

Swimmers poise for the start of the 50-yard freestyle event in the intramural championships which attracted 210 entrants.
A Busy Year for Intramural Athletics
By GORDON SCOTT LITTLE,
Director of Intramural Sports
HIGHLIGHTS of this season's intramural
sports activities included the reintroduo
tion of soccer football, more forfeits
than usual in formally scheduled league
contests, the largest participation ever
in our indoor track meet, the largest
participation ever in our team championship
in swimming, intensified interest
in ice hockey, and three well contested
leagues of graduate softball.
Soccer was reintroduced on a trial
basis, did not seem to interfere unduly
with participation in Touch Football,
and afforded an outlet in organized play
for a sizeable number of students whose
paramount sports interest is in this particular
game. Some 192 boys on eight
teams played through a double elimination
tournament, with Phi Kappa Tau
carting off the medals. We plan to have
soccer on the program again next season.
Forfeits are the bane of most intramural
programs. We have not been
plagued with them to any great extent
in the past, but this year we joined the
ranks, and saw for the first time unused
courts and fields which had been scheduled
for formal league play. Increased
pressure of academics seemed to be the
most common excuse for the forfeits.
The indoor track meet evidently
came at a fortuitous time in the school
year, and 469 pairs of "spiked shoes"
pounded the boards of Barton Hall to
decide the team championship won by
Phi Sigma Kappa. Actually it was a
three-day meet, with the trials of field
events being held in Bacon Cage, and
the trials of the relay being held on the
outdoor board track on Friday. The
finals of the relay were run in Barton in
June 15, 1961
connection with the Heptagonals championship
on Saturday and all other
events were contested in Barton on
Monday.
The team championship in swimming
was not scheduled at a fortuitous
time as far as academics were concerned
but was very keenly contested, perhaps
because more than a dozen houses were
still in the running for the Interfraternity
Council's All Sports Trophy. For
the first time in this particular sport
we observed "coaches" and "assistant
coaches" putting their charges through
the routine. For the first time also, the
Touch Football
Soccer
Broomstick Polo
Table Tennis
Billiards
Swimming (Novice)
Cross Country
Cross Country Turkey Day Run
Track (Fall Handicap)
Basketball
Fencing (University All Weapon
Championship)
Bowling
Hockey
Swimming (University
Championship)
Boxing (Novice)
Volleyball
Track
Boxing (Team and University
Championship )
Badminton
Wrestling
Swimming
Horseshoes
Softball
ALL-SPORTS TOTALS
pre-meet training period was long
enough to do some good. As a result of
this interest and training the meet was
enjoyed by contestants and spectators
alike. Some of the "coaches" did a job
worthy of professionals. Chi Phi won
the meet.
It is entirely feasible (though expensive)
for us to schedule intramural
ice hockey now. The controlled temperatures
and smooth ice surface of Lynah
Hall allow this. We introduced ice
hockey three years ago on a trial basis.
The following year it was added to the
sports scoring toward the All Sports
A Look at How Many Took Part
LEAGUES TEAMS CONTESTS
15
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82
8
48
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13
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11
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12
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— 16
67
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22
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125
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58
16
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63
44 8
39
18
29
23
83
666
199
10
52
210
192 1111
560
6
286
231
34
158 1
37
38
52 1
23
233
2,120
PARTICIPANTS
1,974
192
1,235
69
74
81
102
10
134
2,307
16
818
360
76
48
1,557
469
48
235
52
210
262
2,359
12,688
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Trophy, and was played as a single
elimination tournament. This season it
was scheduled as a double elimination
tournament which was won by Kappa
Alpha. In the playoff for the second and
third place the Bear Cubs, a frosh dorm
club, beat a team made up of members
of the Junior American Veterinary Medical
Association. In response to the increased
interest in ice hockey we are
planning to schedule round robin league
play next year.
Old Jupiter Pluvius wreaked havoc
with the Softball schedules this spring,
but was not able to dampen the enthusiasm
of the graduate students. For some
unaccountable reason the interest of the
grads reached an all-time high in softball
this season. Twelve teams, representing
largely the various colleges of
the University, were enrolled in the program.
Altogether 2,359 participants on
eighty-three teams in sixteen leagues attempted
to dodge the rain drops (and
snow) in 233 scheduled contests. Between
rain and forfeits, however, all the
green was not rubbed off the greensward
of Upper Alumni Field this
spring. The Dorm 4 Loaf-Outs were
champions of the frosh dorm league;
the Red Rippers were champions of the
Independent leagues; Cayuga Lodge
was champion of the fraternity leagues;
and the Red Rippers were the intramural
champions.
As you may have gathered from the
sketchy reporting above, the race for the
All Sports Trophy was a wide open affair
this year. Late in the season Beta
Theta Pi, the perennial champion, and
a dozen other contenders were still pursuing
the grail. At the end of the swimming
meet, with horseshoes and Softball
still to be decided, Beta led the scoring
with 401/3 points. Alpha Sigma Phi
looked like a strong contender in horseshoes.
Beta on the other hand appeared
to be strong in softball.
Alpha Sigma Phi went on to win the
horseshoe tournament, thereby adding
six points to end their scoring toward
the trophy at forty-six points. Beta managed
to add two points more to their
scoring by emerging as winner of their
league in softball, but ended their scoring
with this effort w τ hen Sigma Phi Epsilon
knocked them out in the first
round of championship play. Ironically,
Sigma Phi Epsilon was defending champion
in the All Sports Trophy race and
was cheered on in its efforts by Alpha
Sigma Phi. The new champions scored
in six different sports, taking seconds in
touch football, bowling and volleyball,
tying for third in hockey, taking fifth in
swimming, and winning horseshoes.
The Student Writes: On ROTC and Manners
Selected comments on the campus scene,
reprinted from that regular jorum of
campus opinion y the Daily Sun:
'ROTC Revisited'
By ROBERT S. RIVKIN '62
Daily Sun Associate Editor
In January 1960, the Student Government
Organization recommended to the
Faculty that Cornell's ROTC program
be placed on a voluntary basis. Then,
last spring, the Faculty supported the
students' request and overwhelmingly
voted for the abolition of compulsory
ROTC. With incredible speed, the
Board of Trustees voted similarly—and
abolition of compulsory ROTC at Cornell
became a fact.
For a shade longer than one full semester
now, we have had voluntary
ROTC, to the sheer glee of most sophomore
men, to the advantage of the freshmen
(who cannot really appreciate the
fact) and with the cautious approbation
of the military commanders. . . Perhaps
it is time, now, to make at least a preliminary
assessment of how voluntary
ROTC is working.
Colonel Charles H. Blumenfeld, Cornell's
professor of Military Science and
Tactics, believes that the program is
"working well." This past fall he informed
me that 299 freshmen signed up
for the Army ROTC and now there are
204 remaining. The colonel estimated
that with the normal rate of attrition 150
of the Class of 1964 will enter into the
advanced corps. Cornell usually graduates
about 200 Army officers, but the
fact that the number of officers in the
Class of 1964 will fall short of the quota
654
does not particularly disturb Colonel
Blumenfeld, since this year's registration
came in the aftermath of the anti-compulsory
ROTC movement, and a considerable
drop in sign-ups was expected.
Next year's registration, on the other
hand, is expected to be considerably
higher, and the colonel estimates a freshman
registration of 350.
Next year will be crucial in determining
whether voluntary ROTC can work.
A minimum base of men is needed from
which to choose advanced cadets, although
the colonel stresses that almost
anyone can be trained to be a leader, and
that the overwhelming majority of men
who want to enter the advanced corps
will be accepted. To ensure a large
enough base for next year however,
Army personnel intend to engage in extensive
publicity during the summer to
"sell" the program to the incoming
freshmen by making them aware of all
the real advantages of ROTC.
No one I have spoken to has had the
slightest doubt that this year's ROTC is
better than last year's. All seem to agree
that the level of instruction is higher,
that the interest of the students and
morale of the corps have soared. Disciplinary
problems are fewer since no
cadets feel they are unjustly serving time
for something they do not aspire to, as
was the case last year. And as Colonel
Blumenfeld remarked, "Martinetism,"
so prevalent last year, "has been done
away with," now that the cause for it
has been removed.
Colonel John D. Payne, the professor
of Air Science, expresses feelings similar
to those of Colonel Blumenfeld regarding
the improvement of this year's program
over that of last year. The Air
Force, interested mostly in career men,
is officially in favor of voluntary ROTC,
while the Army has remained officially
noncommittal, permitting each university
to decide whether to give ROTC
voluntary or compulsory status.
AFROTC experienced a considerable
drop in its registration figures as well,
but the colonel is not alarmed. Colonel
Payne predicts that of the fiftynine
freshmen now remaining in the
AFROTC basic corps, about twenty will
eventually "go advanced" and receive
their commissions, while the usual number
who receive commissions is between
twenty-five and thirty-five. A higher
registration is expected in AFROTC
next year, just as in Army ROTC.
Neither Colonel Payne nor Colonel
Blumenfeld give much weight to the reports
of several national magazines (U.S.
News and World Report and Newsweek
for example) to the effect that the
anti-compulsory ROTC movement represents
a nationwide growth of student
pacifism. We do know for sure that pacifism,
or manifestations of it, never entered
into the arguments of those most
vociferously opposed to compulsory
ROTC.
ROTC must produce 14,000 officers
a year; the concern of those who were
opposed to the abolition of compulsory
ROTC was that voluntary ROTC
would not provide enough quality officers
to meet the nation's needs. It is too
early to tell for certain whether voluntary
ROTC on a nationwide scale will
be adequate, although all indications are
that it will be. Aside from that consideration,
there can be no doubt that the
morale and level of teaching are much
higher under voluntary ROTC.
Cornell Alumni News

Student Government can look back on
last year's accomplishment and be proud
of what was unquestionably its major
achievement. Not all student government
groups are so successful. Look, for
example,, at the unenviable lot of the
University of Illinois. Not only was compulsory
ROTG retained after a long
battle, but those previously exempted for
reasons of physical disability have been
made to take ROTG, and to attend an
extra theory class in place of marching.
This was done with the full realization
that those physically disabled could
never enter the advanced corps nor receive
a commission.
Thank Ezra for Gommon Sense.
Bad Manners
By GEORGE H. HATTRIGK '62
On the evening of April 11 James
Jackson Kilpatrick debated Professor
Walter F. Berns, Government, on the
question of Negro sit-ins. Mr. Kilpatrick,
editor of the Richmond News Leader
and a prominent Southerner, is not a
radical man; but he was treated with
rudeness and insults by the student audience.
Concerning this hostile reception,
Mr. Kilpatrick states:
"... The reception accorded me at
Gornell the other night was indeed a bit
dismaying. I have lectured and debated
off and on for the past five or six years
at colleges and universities in the North,
but until the night of April 11 at Ithaca,
I had found both hostility and good
manners. At Cornell, I found hostility
only.
"Believe me when I say that I am not
concerned about this reception in terms
of my own tender feelings. Twenty years
of newspapering built a thick hide, and
I have very few tender feelings left. But
I am concerned in terms of Cornell's
great reputation. A university exists, in
part at least, to provide an atmosphere
in which scholars may pursue truth freely.
When any political or philosophical
idea is embraced with such uniform religious
fervor that criticism of the idea
is equated with blasphemy, no such atmosphere
can be achieved."
I wish some of the students who witnesed
the debate would read this with
care/Cornell "liberals" tend to be most
illiberal when the view represented is
not to their taste. This protest is not
sponsored by the "Gentlemen of the
Right" but only reflects my personal
opinion.
An Exchange Proposed
By DOUGLAS J. STEWART, Grad.
One is naturally loath to discuss that
most popular (after drinking) of University
extra-curricular diversions, the
fine game of protesting. It is gratifying
June 15, 1961
to a connoisseur to see the gorgeous refinements
and precise form exhibited by
the champion adepts of the game here
at Gornell. In fact, one might say that
any serious study of the subject (likely
title: ars clamatoria) would have to
recognize that here we have two fullydeveloped
sub-classes of the sport or artform:
that devoted to compelling the
civic conscience over great national
questions (ars publice vociferandi) and
that devoted to special privilege and
local interest here on campus (ars
captίose conquerenάΐ).
However, may I be permitted to raise
a small trial balloon of fact amid the
maelstrom of emotions and opinion currently
centering about health facilities on
campus ? I do not presume to pass upon
the competence of diagnostic skills exhibited
by the medical staff, nor experiences
here. But I wish to remind the
generality that any culpations which
may be due in regard to the Clinic
should not be imputed by unconscious
association to the staff of the Infirmary.
Having patronized the Infirmary twice
in the last two months, I can say that the
nurses and helpers, at least, deserve
rather praise and recognition of their
hard work and real humanitarian concern
for their patients.
And this under difficult conditions,
since (1) various illnesses seem to strike
the University community in cyclical
waves, so that the staff is much overworked
at those times, (2) no one is
particularly pleasant when sick, but apparently
young Ivy-League geniuses are
excessively illhumored when the exigencies
of illness drag them away from
the cherished contemplation of truth,
and (3) the Infirmary seems to be the
ideal arena for a really skillful display of
rudeness and bad manners, which are
practiced with only middling virtuosity
by many healthy members of the undergraduate
community.
Thus, as complete justice will not be
found in this world, Sam Circumspect
'64 may be dismayed—but should not be
too surprised—if a nurse seems a bit
abrupt or edgy with him, since in the
past hour she has been thoroughly taxed
by the antjcs of Willy Wisebean '63,
shouting like a Banshee for the resident,
passing stupid and highly unoriginal
smutty remarks, posturing and making
a childish speech about the alleged sadism
of the staff, and rapping out a toneless
staccato on his dishes—and generally
demonstrating that only a Job could
have the patience to please his arrogant
disposition, and only a Marine sergeant
would treat his childish little personality
as it deserves, i.e., "... treat 'em like
animals until they give incontrovertible
evidence of being otherwise."
For those who feel they have been unfairly
used in this regard I can only suggest
that they always have the avenue of
launching yet another protest. Perhaps a
more positive approach would be a campaign
to raise funds for an exchange of
students with, say, Tulane or the University
of Texas. It has been my experience
that the South is notable for two things:
narrow-minded ideas about race in
theory, and considerable politeness and
courtesy, in practice, toward individuals.
In the East I have found passionate concern
for racial justice in theory and considerable
rudeness toward individuals.
Such an exchange of students would
allow our campus zealots to enlighten
Southern students about their racial
views, while the Southerners might teach
the Easterners something about politeness
and courtesy. Thus we could satisfy
two of the great causes that vex the
hearts of Cornellians: something positive
could be done for better racial relations,
and what I conceive to be a root
cause of the medical problem might be
alleviated if the staff were less subject
to the strain of putting up with the ungentlemanly
conduct of certain very
spoiled and pampered students.
Senior Societies Elect
THE SENIOR SOCIETIES initiated new
members late this term. Names of
the new members follow, all juniors.
Third-year engineering students are designated
'63.
Sphinx Head
Michael D. Abrams, Arts, New York, Sherwoods,
CDC, Octagon, Red Key.
Kenneth M. Beal, Agr., Sodus, soccer cap'n 3
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Warner B. Berry, Arts, Ithaca, IFG social
chairman, varsity golf, Aleph Samach, Theta
Delta Chi. Son of Mrs. Romeyn Berry (Hester
Bancroft) '22 and the late Mr. Berry '04.
William D. Clendenin, Met E '63, Executive
Board treasurer, Aleph Samach, Alpha
Delta Phi.
James N. Davidson, EP'63, Baltimore, Md.,
sec'y and VP of IFG, lacrosse, Aleph Samach,
Phi Gamma Delta.
Richard J. Ferris, Hotel, Stockton, Calif.,
Hotel Ezra Cornell, Sigma Nu.
Alan M. Flaherty, ME, Boonton, N.J., editor
of Sun, Alpha Phi Delta.
Eric P. Groon, Arts, Palisades Park, N.J.,
varsity track, Aleph Samach, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon.
David F. Harrald, CE '63, Southbridge,
Mass., football manager, treasurer ASE, Rod
and Bob, Theta Xi.
Frank M. Holden, Arts, Cleveland Heights,
Ohio, leader of Sherwoods, Chi Psi.
George G. Loveless, Agr., Baldwinsville,
wrestling, dorm counselor, Orientation, Ho-
Nun-De-Kah, Delta Upsilon.
David E. McKelvey, ME '63, Montclair,
N.J., football captain, Red Key, Sigma Nu.
Donald H. Morgan, Arts, Claymont, Del.,
frosh dorm president, leader of Cayuga's
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Waiters, Narmid, Phi Kappa Psi.
Donald P. Shaffer, Arts, Villanova, Pa.,
basketball cap'n., Aleph Samach, Psi Upsilon.
George S. Slocum, Arts, Milton, Pa., football,
lacrosse, Red Key, Phi Gamma Delta.
William A. Stowe, Hotel, Bronxville, varsity
crew, Grin and Grip, Psi Upsilon.
Martin T. Tormey Jr., ME '63, Newton,
Mass., varsity hockey cap'n.,, Scabbard and
Blade, Beta Theta Pi.
Richard L. Veith, ME '63, Wynnewood,
Pa., editor of Gornellian, Phi Delta Theta.
Alexander B. Vollmer, GE '63, Baltimore,
Md., varsity swimming, dorm counselor,
Aleph Samach, Rod and Bob, Phi Gamma
Delta.
John P. Walworth, ME '63, East Lansing,
Mich., polo, Orientation, Delta Upsilon.
Thomas O. White, Arts, Carnegie, Pa.,
Glee Club manager.
Quill and Dagger
John F. Abel; Jamaica, CE '63; varsity
swimming, dorm counselor, Dean's List.
Terry R. Baker; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Arts;
Junior Class president, Zeta Beta Tau.
William J. Baugh; McKeesport, Pa.; Hotel;
varsity basketball, varsity baseball, Sigma Chi.
John A. Boothby; Wynnewood, Pa.; Arts;
varsity lacrosse, dorm counselor, Psi Upsilon.
Garret R. Codrington Babylon ME Orientation
counselor, MJB, Sigma Phi.
Harry Edwards; Springfield Gardens; ILR;
Orientation director, dorm counselor, vice
president of Student Government, Alpha Epsilon
Pi.
Victor L. Ericson; Cincinnati, Ohio; Arts;
varsity crew, dorm counselor, Sigma Chi.
Richard H. Fine; Cincinnati, Ohio; Arts;
varsity swimming, AED, Zeta Beta Tau.
James M. Florsheim; Glencoe, 111.; Arts;
cheerleader, Scabbard and Blade, representative
to Student Government, Zeta Beta Tau.
Thomas F. Gamble; Buffalo; Arts; Orientation
counselor, pres. of IFC, Sigma Phi.
Richard A. Giustra; Brooklyn; Arts; capt.
of wrestling, Beta Theta Pi.
Robert E. Hastings; St. Joseph, Mo.; Arts;
150 Football, Delta Upsilon.
David B. Hienzelman Lancaster, Pa. ME
Orientation, Scabbard and Blade, Pi Tau
Sigma, Sigma Chi.
Jonathan M. Hinebauch; Westfield, N.J.
Arts capt. of swimming, dorm counselor, Phi
Gamma Delta.
Warren A. Icke, Milwaukee, Wis. ME
'63 varsity crew, Chi Psi.
Ronald H. Kohl, Cincinnati, Ohio; EP '63;
Orientation counselor, Dean's List, treasurer
of IFC, Phi Kappa Psi.
Stuart E. Levin; Cincinnati, Ohio; Arts;
varsity basketball, Zea Beta Tau.
David S. Locke; Nashua, N.H. Arts; assoc.
editor of Daily Sun, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Arlo R. McDowell; Van Etten; EE '63;
varsity baseball, Theta Chi.
David A. Nisbet; Bay Village, Ohio; ILR;
varsity crew, Scabbard and Blade, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Gabriel H. Paul Jr.; Cincinnati, Ohio;
Hotel; Orientation counselor, asst. publicity
director for Athletics, asst. publicity director
for Hotel Ezra Cornell, Phi Kappa Psi.
Patrick J. Pennucci; Mamaroneck; Agr.
varsity football, Most Valuable Player in
baseball, Phi Gamma Delta.
Tom A. Rothschild; Glencoe, 111.; Arts;
chairman of Orientation, president of Student
Government, honors in Philosophy, Zeta Beta
Tau.
Charles E. Schmid; East Williston; EE '63;
dorm counselor, var. crew, Chi Phi.
Marvin H. Shaub; Dewitt; Arts; chairman
of Orientation directors, Tau Delta Phi.
Robert E. Simpson; White Plains; EP '63;
Orientation counselor, stroke of varsity crew,
Phi Kappa Psi.
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David R. Thomas; Canton, Pa.; ME '63;
varsity football, Phi Kappa Sigma.
George G. Telesh; Clifton, N.J.; Arts; capt.
of football, Sigma Phi.
William L. Whitson; Long Beach, CaL;
Arts; Telluride, pres. of CURW.
Philip M. Young; Beltsville, Md.; ME '63;
representative to Student Government, director
of O'rientation, Phi Gamma Delta.
Russell R. Zelko; Bethlehem, Pa.; Arts;
heavyweight boxing title, varsity football, lacrosse,
Sigma Phi.
Mortar Board
Jean G. Biehler, Arts & Sciences, Rochester;
Cornell Engineer editorial board, Orientation
executive board, VP, Scheduling Committee
on Activities Review Board, Raven &
Serpent, Delta Delta Delta.
Jane E. Brody, Agriculture, Brooklyn;
WSGA rep., Cornell Countryman associate
editor, Pi Delta Epsilon, Phi Sigma Sigma.
Barbara M. Byrd, Arts & Sciences, Marblehead,
Mass.; Scheduling Committee and Activities
Review Board, Orientation counselor,
Studio '59 play, Sigma Delta Tau.
Kathryn L. Cavanaugh, Arts & Sciences,
O !
ak Park, 111. Orientation counselor and di-
rector, committee on underclass advising,
VP, Raven & Serpent, Alpha Epsilon Delta,
Delta Gamma.
Janet McClayton Crites, Home Economics,
Park Ridge, 111.; Freshman Class
vice president, WSGA vice president in
charge of dormitories, Women's Judiciary
Board, Raven & Serpent, Omicron Nu, Phi
Kappa Phi, Delta Gamma.
Frances S. Denn, Home Economics, Floral
Park; WSGA rep., Sun news board, Omicron
Nu.
Betta M. Eskeli, Home Economics, Randolph;
Concert Band secretary-treasurer,
CURW student board representative, Inter-
Protestant Council, Tau Beta Sigma, Kappa
Delta.
Barbara L. Federer, Arts & Sciences, Belmont,
Mass.; Savoyards, Octagon, Cornell
Chorus, Orientation counselor, Raven &
Serpent.
Myra J. Hoffenberg, I&LR, Brooklyn, Cornellian
editorial board, ILR Curriculum
Committee, WSGA vice president training
committee, VP, WSGA scholarship committee,
Raven & Serpent, Sigma Delta Tau.
Mary A. Huber, Civil Engineering, Palisades,
N.J.; Cornell Engineer managing
editor.
Charlotte L. Jones, Hotel, Natrona
Heights, Pa. WAA representative, Cornell
Hotel Association executive secretary, VP,
O'rientation counselor, Ye Hosts, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
Lynda A. Marvin, Arts & Sciences, Sands
Point; Concert Band first flutist, Sun review
board, CURW education area representative,
Raven & Serpent, Alpha Phi.
Penelope A. Nevulis, Arts & Sciences,
New Britain, Conn.; Repertoire Band secretary,
Honorary Band vice president, Delta
Delta Delta.
Myrl A. Reaugh, Arts & Sciences, Whittier,
Calif.; CURW freshman area planning
board, WSGA publication committee, VP,
Pi Beta Phi.
Nancy E. Schlegel, Home Economics,
Fairfield, Conn. Freshman Class Council,
Sasje Chapel Choir, Orientation director,
VP, Raven & Serpent, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Jennifer L. Truran, Arts & Sciences,
Brewster; Cornellian board and academic
section head, Willard Straight International
Committee, VP, Alpha Phi.
Bayla F. White, Arts & Sciences, Houston,
Texas; Freshman Register, Folk Song Club,
Sun.
Laura M. Wolfowitz, Arts & Sciences, Ithaca;
Orchestra, Hillel council.
Sphinx Head officers for next year are
Alexander B. Vollmer, president; William
G. Clendenίn, vice president; Donald
H. Morgan, secretary; David H.
Harrald, treasurer; and Warner B.
Berry, keeper of the tomb.
Those of Quill and Dagger are Jon
Hinebauch, president; Phil Young, and
Terry Baker, vice presidents; David
Locke, secretary; Ron Kohl, treasurer.
Mortar Board members elected Barbara
Federer, president; Jennifer Truran,
vice president; Jane Brody, secretary;
Myrl Reaugh, treasurer; and
Lynda Marvin, historian-editor.
Center Renamed
NEW NAME for the Housing Research
Center at the University is the "Center
for Housing and Environmental
Studies." Professor Glenn H. Beyer,
Housing & Design, and Architecture,
director of the center, says the new
name will reflect better the scope of the
center's interest and activity. Established
in 1950, the center is concerned
with studies of house design, city and
regional planning, housing and needs
of the aged, sociological changes in
rural areas, housing finance and home
buying patterns, research on building
structures and others. The major part
of the work is supported by research
grants, foundations, private and public
agencies and industry. Represented on
the governing board are faculty members
from Architecture, Engineering,
Agriculture, Home Economics, Business
& ^Public Administration, Industrial
& Labor Relations, and Sociology
& Anthropology.
PhD Centennial
ONE HUNDRED years ago, the doctor of
philosophy degree was awarded for the
first time in the United States. Three
young men at Yale were the recipients,
commemoration of which was held at
Yale on Alumni Day earlier this year.
The PhD was patterned after the
same degree awarded at German universities.
Before 1861, scholars had to
go to European institutions to get the
degree. Now, the PhD—which no
longer implies "philosophy" but covers
any > major field of knowledge—is
awarded by 156 graduate schools in the
United States, chiefly universities.
First woman in the United States
to receive the PhD was Kitty Magill,
who became the second wife of Andrew
D. White, first president of Cornell. She
received the degree in 1877 at Boston
University, her dissertation subject being
"Greek Drama." Mrs. White was
the daughter of Edward Hicks Magill,
second president of Swarthmore College.
She died in 1944 at the age of 91.
Cornell Alumni News

On the Sporting Side - Bq "Sideline
As THE 1960-61 YEAR comes to a close
it appears dead certain it will not go
into the archives as one of the most
successful of athletic years. There is
still a chance for some glory. The
heavyweight crews were strong contenders
in the Intercollegiate Rowing
Association regatta at Syracuse on
June 10. Twelve members of the track
team were to combine with Penn to
meet Oxford and Cambridge in a^dual
meet on Schoellkopf track on June 10.
And there is a chance that both the
varsity heavy and lightweight crews
may take part in the Royal Henley regatta
in England on July 6—7-8, if they
can raise the financing from members
of the alumni crew club and other
former oarsmen.
Varsity teams had about 50 per cent
success in all competition, and 42 per
cent in Ivy contests. The freshmen
were 68 per cent successful.
Crews Play Bridesmaid
In the Eastern Sprint championships
on Lake Quinsigamond at Worcester,
Mass., Navy defeated the Big Red varsity
by an estimated three to five feet
over the 2,000-meter course. Cornell's
closing sprint almost caught, the Middies
but they were able to hold off the
powerful Gornellians. Something happened
in the junior varsity race, and
the Navy fought off the fast closing
Red boat to win by about seven feet.
Syracuse won the freshman event
with Navy second and Cornell third;
there was less than a second separating
the three crews.
"The varsity and jayvees just let the
Navy get out too far and could not
quite make it up," remarked Coach R.
Harrison Sanford, "but that is part of
the boat race. We rowed well, though."
In the varsity race the Red fell as
far as three-quarters of length behind
in the early part of the race and was
understroking front-running Navy
thirty-one and thirty-two strokes per
minute to thirty-four and thirty-five.
With 600 meters to go Navy still had a
half length and the Big Red moved the
beat up to thirty-five; Navy went to
thirty-eight. In the blazing finish Navy
got up to forty-one and Cornell to thirtynine
and the margin was wispy but
clearly Navy's. Time for the winner was
6:01.5 and for Cornell 6:01.9. MIT
was a surprising third in 6:08.9 and
Syracuse was fourth Brown, fifth Yale,
sixth.
The Red junior varsity seemed to experience
the same difficulty in trying to
raise the beat to match the high-stroking
Middies. The wind and current
were with the crews and this had the
June 15, 1961
effect of aiding the Navy style which
favors an upright position and an abbreviated
stroke compared to Cornell's.
The freshmen lost to two former victims,
Syracuse and Navy, both of whom
they had beaten at one and threefourths
miles on the Severn River at
Annapolis in the Goes Trophy Regatta
on May 6. There was little to choose
between the first three finishers. The
Red freshmen won over Syracuse by
one and three-fourths lengths in the
Goes race and Navy plebes caught a
crab and were seven lengths behind.
There were thirteen colleges represented
in the heavyweight races. Navy
won the Rowe Cup for the most points,
with 23; Cornell was second with 18.
Cornell had won the cup last year with
victories in the varsity and junior varsity
races.
In the 1961 lightweight races at Worcester
the same day, over the Henley
distance of one and five-sixteenths miles,
Cornell was runner-up in two races and
third in the junior varsity.
The Red varsity 150's suffered a crab
in the closing stages of the race and had
to fight to regain their position. They
did regain it and almost caught Harvard.
Harvard won by eight feet and
favored Navy was third, a length behind
Cornell. Cornell had beaten Harvard
by about two lengths in the morning
trials.
Unlike the other Cornell shells on
that day, the Red freshman lightweights
were in the lead with 500 meters to go,
but had to give way to an MIT crew
which won by a quarter length. The
lightweight jayvees were third behind
Navy and Princeton.
Navy also took home the Goes
Trophy for its varsity heavyweight victory.
The Goes varsity race was blown
off the Severn on May 6 and was decided
on the basis of the outcome at
Worcester.
Track and Field Triumphs
The exploits of Co-Captains John S.
Murray '61 and Peter W. Brandeis '61
were outstanding in the Princeton dual
track meet and the ICAAAA for Cornell.
Cornell defeated Princeton 75-65
May 20 on Schoellkopf field and placed
twelfth in ICAAAA on Randalls Island
with nine and one-fourth points.
Murray again broke his own Cornell
record in the pole vault when he went
over 14 feet 8V& inches in the Princeton
meet. Brandeis broke the meet record
in the half mile and set a new Schoellkopf
record with a dazzling 1:51.7. He
owns the Cornell record of 1:51.1 set
last year. David Pratt '54 previously
held the Schoellkopf record of 1:54, set
in 1954.
Murray had to share honors in the
ICAAAA vault with John Belitza of
Maryland. On a wet, muddy day on
May 27 they both cleared 14 feet.
Brandeis just failed to catch Jon
Dante of Villanova in the 880, and
placed second in a 1:55.5 race. The cofavorites,
Frank Tomeo of Fordham
and James Stack of Yale, failed to qualify
for the finals.
Thomas W. Mikulina '62 made the
only other ICAAAA points in a fourway
tie for fourth in the high jump with
6 feet 2 inches. He did 6 feet 4 in the
Princeton meet.
The Princeton summaries:
Mile—1, Eric Groon, C; 2, Peter Hoey,
P; 3, Ray Westendorp, G. 4:17.6.
440—1, Richard Edmunds, P; 2, Murray
Moulding, G; 3, Peter Smith, G. 0:48.2.
100—1, George Ekstrom, G; 2, Kendrick
Melrose, P; 3, Dimitri Bulazel, G. 0:10.1.
120 high hurdles—1, John Winter, G; 2,
James Harold, P; 3, Ralph DeOrsay, G.
0:14.9.
880—1, Peter Brandeis, C; 2, Geoffrey
Azoy, P; 3, Allen Shenk, P. 1:51.7 (new
meet record; old record 1:55.0 by Dick Yaffa,
Princeton, 1951).
220—-1, Richard Edmunds, P; 2, George
Ekstrom, G; 3, Kendrick Melrose, P. 0:21.7.
220 low hurdles—1, John Winter, C; 2,
Ralph DeOrsay, C; 3, James Harold, P.
0:25.3.
Two mile—1, Ray Westendorp, G; 2, Paul
Diegnan, G; 3,Frank Brockman, G. 9:33.9.
Mile relay—1, Princeton (Kendrick Melrose,
Geoffrey Azoy, John Gardner, Richard
Edmunds), 3:17.1.
Hammer—1, Edward Weihenmayer, P,
153 feet 8 inches; 2, Standish Medina, P,
149 feet 9 inches; 3, Michael Schenker, G,
148 feet 3 inches.
Broad jump—1, John Winter, G, 21 feet
9!/ 2 inches; 2, George Ekstrom, G, 21 feet 3
inches; 3, John Bales, P, 20 feet 10V2 inches.
Shot put—1, Russell Tornrose, P, 48 feet
7!4 inches; 2, Standish Medina, 45 feet; 3,
Larry Fraser, G, 43 feet 11H inches.
Javelin—1, Lawrence Buell, P, 205 feet
11 inches; 2, Robert Schmitt, C, 195 feet
11V2 inches; 3, Robert Bagdona, P, 192 feet
4!/2 inches.
High jump—1, Thomas Mikulina, G, 6
feet 4 inches; 2, tie between James Day, P,
and James Harold, P, 5 feet 10 inches.
Pole vault—1, John Murray, C, 14 feet
Q l /2 inches (new meet record; old record 14
feet 1 Λ inch by Murray in 1959) 2 Charles
Mitchell, P, 14 feet; 3, Robert Potter, G, 13
feet.
Discus—1, Russell Tornose, P, 130 feet
l!/ 2 inches; 2, John Murray, C, 127 feet l'/ 2
inches; 3, Michael Schenker, G, 125 feet 10
inches.
Last meet of the season for the freshman
runners produced a 73-67 victory
over Colgate on Schoellkopf track on a
cold, windy May 27.
Outstanding performance was by
Francis H. Smith of Buffalo in winning
the 440 in 0:49.2. He also took second
in the 220 and ran a 0:51 leg on the
winning mile relay team.
The already renowned Stephen M.
Machooka, 19-year-old whiz from Kisii,
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Kenya, East Africa, ran 4:27.7 in winning
the mile. During the running of
the two mile he calmly slowed down, removed
his sweat shirt, and went on to
win in 10:00.2.
The summaries:
Hammer throw—1, Wriggins, Cor.; 2,
Ackerman, Col.; 3a Hall, Col. 137 feet 1
inch.
Javelin—1, Orke, Col.; 2, Adams, Col.; 3,
Ferguson, Cor. 166 feet 2 l
/2 inches.
Shotput—1, Orke, Col; 2, Tie, M. Smith,
Cor. and Hilton, Col. 46 feet 1V6 inches.
Pole vault—1, Tie, Hoffman, Cor., Terry,
Col.; 3. Morrow, Cor. 12 feet.
440—1, Smith, Cor.; 2, Whipple, Col.; 3,
Sancho, Cor. 0:49.2.
120 High hurdles—1, Hamilton, Cor.; 2,
Buttars, Cor.; 3, Druckenmiller, Col. 0:17.3.
220—1, Whipple, Col.; 2, Smith, Cor.; 3,
Vick, Col. 0:23.1.
Two mile—1, Machooka, Cor.; 2, Byard,
Cor.; 3, Williamson, Col. 10:00.2.
Discus—1, Lewis, Cor.; 2, Slean, Col.; 3,
Lane, Col. 130 feet 9 inches.
High jump—Tie, Hoffman, Cor., Schoenwald,
Col., Higgins, Col. 6 feet.
Broad jump—1, Mauger, Col.; 2, Hooton,
Col.; 3, Zimmerman, Col. 21 feet 2ί/2 inches.
Mile—1, Machooka, Cor.; 2, Sims, Cor.;
3, Cederholm, Cor. 4:27.7.
100—1, Rosenberg, Col.; 2, Mauger, Col.;
3, Zimmerman, Col. 0:10.4.
880—1, Brockman, Cor.; 2, Conway, Cor.;
3 Brehm, Cor. 1:59.9.
;
220 Low hurdles—1, Druckenmiller, Col.;
Hamilton, Cor.; 3, Hooton, Col. 0.27.0.
Mile relay—1, Cor. (Dawson, Madaras,
Smith, Kuck) 3:32.2.
In trials for the Oxford-Cambridge
meet on June 10 Machooka defeated
Ray A. Westendorp '62 in the mile run
in 4:16.9 and Smith defeated Eric P.
Groon '62 in the 880 in 1:55.1 to gain
places on the Cornell-Penn team for
which freshmen are eligible. (The British
team obtained support for its trip
which had been uncertain to the last
minute.)
Eric Groon of Palisades Park,, N.J.,
and Tom Mikulina of Park Ridge, III,
were elected co-captains of the 1962
varsity track team at the team banquet
at Moakley House on May 24.
John Murray took the John W. Gatling
'28 award as the man who has done
most for track during the past year, the
Robert J. Kane sportsmanship award,
and the Everett L. Colyer pole vaulting
award which is donated by Herbert
Grigson '20. Ray Westendorp won the
Clarence Morse '14 award as the most
improved runner, and Peter B. Smith '61
won the Jinky Crozier trophy as the
most improved 440 man. John E. Winter
'61 won the Walker Smith trophy as
outstanding hurdler, and silver bowls
were given in honor of Charles H.
Moore '52, Olympic 400 meters hurdles
champion in 1952, for Brandeis, "outstanding
half miler;" George A. Ekstrom
'61, "outstanding sprinter;" Murray
B. Moulding '61, "outstanding
quarter miler;" and Westendorp, "outstanding
distance runner."
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Lt. Irvin Roberson '58 achieved a
broad jump of 26 feet 2 1 A inches in the
California Relays at Modesto, California,
on May 27 but he was second to
Ralph Boston who set a new world's
record of 27 feet l /2 inch. Roberson was
second to Boston in the 1960 Olympic
Games at Rome.
Best Net Year in Many a ...
Best tennis season in some years
ended with a victory over Army, 7-2,
on the Cascadilla courts. The record
was 7-1-2 and ended the Cornell coaching
career of Jess M. Sison, '55 MS, who
will be succeeded by Edward J. Moylan
next year. Sison has finished up his
graduate work at the University and
will return to the Philippines.
The varsity beat Penn State, 5-4, at
University Park on May 20 and lost its
chance for league honors by losing to
undefeated Princeton, 8-1, at Princeton
on May 20. This was the occasion of the
season's only defeat for Donald E. Rubell
'61, Red No. 1 man. He was beaten
by Dayton Nabers, 6-1, 7-9, 7-5.
The freshman team defeated Penn
State on May 20 at University Park,
8-1, to close a 3-1 season.
Golfers Close, 4-3
Varsity golfers ended a 4-3 season by
beating Army 6-1 on the University
course. Warner B. Berry of Ithaca, son
of the late Romeyn Berry '04 and Mrs.
Berry (Hester Bancroft) '22, was elected
captain of the 1962 team. He has been
the leading player this season and a regular
for two years.
The Army summaries:
Warner Berry, C, beat Manley Parks, 5
and 4; George Bickley, G, beat Art Conlon,
6 and 5; Don Heppes, G, beat Jim Jenz, 2
and 1 Dave Goles, G, beat Bill Parks, 3 and
2; Dick Abrams, G , beat Dave Teal, 1 up,
21 holes; John Woods, A, beat Ron Gurry,
2 and 1 Don Reed, G, beat Jack Dwyer, 1
up.
Nine Good, But Not Enough
One would have to see it to believe
it but Cornell's varsity baseball team is
not a bad ball team at all. It is freighted
with bad luck, or something, nevertheless.
The two best teams it has played,
Syracuse and Navy, were apparently
sure-enough victims but the fates dished
up the usual 1961 deserts. Syracuse,
NCAA designate for Northeast honors
this spring, could have lost this cherished
spot by losing to Cornell on May
17 on Hoy Field. The Orange was
beaten 5-3 going into the ninth, but five
runs in this last inning won the game
and the NCAA selection for a champion-ship
play-off spot.
Navy, best team in the Ivy League,
was down 7-1 in the sixth and the Cornell
batters knocked their ace hurler,
Chuck Davis, out of the Hoy Field box,
but ten Navy runs in the sixth put Cor-
nell back onto its accustomed side of the
ledger. It wound up 14—10 for Navy.
Columbia won with no strain on May
19, also on Hoy Field, 7-2.
But the Red was up to its profligate
ways again for Dartmouth on May 27
on Hoy Field. Dartmouth tried to give
it to the Cornellians by committing nine
errors but the Red would not take it,
and lost 7-6.
This closed the season and the record
was 5—9 overall and 2—5 in the league.
Last year it was 4-10-1 for all opponents
and 2-6 in the league.
Shortstop Patrick J. Pennucci '62 of
Mamaroneck was elected captain for
next year. Robert L. Reed '61 of Middletown,
Ohio, outfielder, was awarded
the Al Sharpe trophy as the team's
"most valuable player."
Freshman baseballers closed their
season with a 5-2 record by beating Colgate
at Hamilton on May 19, 8-7, in a
twelve-inning game.
It was a homer in the twelfth by
footballer Lawrence O. Hrebiniah of
Jersey City, New Jersey, that broke up
the game. Another football player,
Thomas R. Buick of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
pitched no-hit ball for six innings
before he got into trouble and
was relieved by Charles J. Osborne of
New Milford, Connecticut.
The freshmen beat Cortland and
Syracuse twice each, Colgate, once, and
lost to Ithaca College twice in the brief
season.
Lacrosse Ties for Last
Cornell finished in a tie for last place
with Penn in the Ivy League after finishing
runner-up to Princeton for the
past three years. Final loss was to
Princeton at Ithaca on May 20, by a
9-6 score. The Red team gave the bigger,
more accomplished Tigers a real
battle before succumbing.
Varsity's overall record for the season
was 4-5-1.
The freshmen beat Syracuse at Syracuse,
12-4, on May 19 to round out a
6—1 season. Only loss was to Hob art
and this was avenged the following
week.
'freedom Riders' Jailed
ONE JUNIOR and three graduate students
were jailed in Jackson, Mississippi,
on May 30 for taking part in the
"freedom riders" test of waiting room
segregation laws. Peter Sterling II '62,
Rye, paid a fine and returned to Campus
for final exams. The others stayed in
jail, and started a protest fast. They are
Charles A. Haynie '57, Douglaston;
Paul S. Green '59, New York; and Joe
H. Griffith, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Cornell Alumni News

Where ILR Alumni Go from Here
By GERARD STOODARD '61
If there was such a person as a "typical"
alumnus of the School of Industrial and
Labor Relations,, he would be working
in the personnel department of a large
corporation at a salary of around $9,000
a year. He would have been graduated
in 1953, six years after the first graduating
class, that of 1947. He would have
completed his military service, and
more than likely would not have the
same job he took when he left school.
If such an individual exists it is almost
wholly by chance, because more
than 1,300 students have been graduated
from the School since 1947. These
alumni are now holding jobs ranging
from grammar school teacher to legal
counsel for a labor union, and their salaries
range from $3,000 to $50,000 a
year.
These figures are from a recent survey
of alumni conducted by the School's
Placement Office. William H. Allen Jr.,
who joined the staff in July 1960, was
greeted with the task of compiling the
mass of data. Questionnaires were sent
out to 901 men and 107 women who
had been graduated from the School.
Such information was requested as salary,
whether the job concerned industrial
and labor relations, and so on.
Allen says, "The response of 84 per cent
shows a high degree of loyalty to the
School."
Results Current
The questionnaires were sent out in
the fall of 1959 and the results compiled
are accurate up to January 1,
1960. As of that date, there were a total
of 812 male alumni at work in the civilian
labor force. Eighty-nine others were
continuing their education in such fields
as law, economics, business administration,
or were seeking advanced degrees
in industrial and labor relations. Less
than one hundred of those responding
were in military service or between jobs.
While two-thirds of the alumni in the
civilian labor force were employed in
commerce and industry, almost onethird
are employed in professional and
related services (such as law and education)
, and only about 2 per cent have
found jobs with labor unions. The number
employed in professional and related
services represents an increase of
about 5 per cent over the results of a
similar survey conducted in 1955.
The relatively low number of persons
employed by labor unions is accounted
for, Allen feels, by several facts,
"In the first place, labor unions don't
June 15, 1961
recruit with the same energy that corporations
do. For this reason, unions
and the students don't have an opportunity
to get together." Most unions are
not yet fully aware of the School as a
possible source for future union leadership.
Allen reports that there is an
increasing amount of correspondence
reaching his office from union headquarters
requesting information on students
for positions in the union's home
office or as organizers. But he emphasizes
that there are still many obstacles
encountered in seeking employment
with a union. Chief among these is the
view, widely held among labor leaders,
that positions in the union should be
filled by qualified rank and file members.
Part of the undergraduate training
occurs in the summer months when
many students seek temporary employment
with labor unions to gain an insight
into labor activities. Allen has
written to several unions requesting information
on positions for students in
both summer and permanent jobs, and
he states that replies are starting to
come in. As the School becomes better
known among labor circles more and
more students will be considering
unions as an employment possibility.
Regardless, however, of whether an
alumnus is employed with labor, management,
or government, if he is engaged
in industrial and labor relations
as part of his daily activities, he is probably
fulfilling the purpose for which the
School was founded.
The legislative committee which recommended
establishment of a state
school of industrial and labor relations
in 1944 saw as one of its chief purposes
the provision of professional training for
persons who wished to enter the field.
The committee believed that skilled
personnel who were well grounded in
the philosophies and goals of both management
and labor could do much to
lessen the costs and incidence of industrial
unrest. The students who go into
occupations dealing with industrial and
labor relations contribute directly to this
end.
In the survey, alumni in any of four
categories were considered to be in ILR
occupations. The first includes the broad
areas of personnel administration, employee
relations, or industrial relations,
as well as the specialized functions within
these areas such as employment,
training, wage and salary administration,
safety, employe services and benefits,
and so on. Naturally, an alumnus is
considered to be in an ILR occupation
if he is employed by a labor union.
A third category is industrial education,
which includes ILR teaching, the
administration of ILR institutes in education
institutions, and the practice of
labor law.
The fourth category of ILR jobs includes
those public services directly related
to industrial and labor relations
such as mediation and conciliation,
labor relations law enforcement, labor
market research, and Social Security
administration. All other alumni are
considered to be in non-ILR jobs.
Two-Thirds in ILR Jobs
Of the eight hundred alumni in the
civilian labor force, approximately twothirds
are employed in ILR jobs. In the
manufacturing industries, four-fifths of
the graduates are concerned with industrial
and labor relations as a part of
their daily activities. Of those in professional
and related services, about threefifths
are in ILR positions, and in government
service, about seven-tenths hold
ILR positions. It may be concluded that
the substantial number of graduates
working in industrial relations are fulfilling
the goals of the legislative committee.
An interesting conclusion drawn by
the survey relates to salaries. From the
five hundred alumni who gave information
on this matter, it can be seen that
length of time in the labor force is of
greater influence on salary level than
the amount of education a graduate
brings to the job. The median salary of
a 1947 graduate holding a Bachelor's
degree was $14,000 while the average
for a master's degree awarded three
years later was only $9,000, in January
1960. There were, according to the survey,
only three holders of the PhD degree
at work in commerce and industry,
and their median salary was $11,000.
About sixty PhD holders are employed
in four-year colleges and universities.
Space Photos Take Care
A "WHITE ROOM" for developing photographs
taken from artificial earth satellites
is being established at the Aeronautical
Laboratory in Buffalo. Ira G.
Ross, CAL president, says the "dustfree"
photographic laboratory is necessary
because "potential targets in reconnaissance
photographs taken from altitudes
of more than 100 miles are often
obscured by dust particles in the air of
developing and enlarging rooms unless
surgical cleanliness is observed."
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NeiΛ/s of the Faculty
Next fall Dean C. Stewart Sheppard of
the Graduate School of Business & Public
Administration will join the faculty of the
University of Virginia as a professor of
business administration. A native of South
Wales, Dean Sheppard graduated from the
University of Wales in 1939 and received
the PhD at Columbia in 1952 before coming
to the University in 1956.
David A. Thomas, assistant dean of
B&PA, has been named acting dean to succeed
Sheppard. Thomas came to the Faculty
from Texas Christian University in 1953,
and became assistant dean in 1957.
University Counsel Robert B. Meigs '26
was elected vice president of the newly
formed National Conference of University
Attorneys at its first meeting held at Ann
Arbor in April.
Newly-appointed dean of Notre Dame's
College of Engineering, starting July 1, is
Norman R. Gay, MS '46, professor of Thermal
Engineering at Cornell from 1942-56.
Currently he is director of the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station at College Station,
Texas.
Dr. Alvin F. Sellers, head of Physiology at
the Veterinary College, has been appointed
for a four-year period to the General Medicine
Study Section of the Division of
Research Grants, National Institutes of
Health. The group provides technical advice
to the US surgeon general.
Professor Glenn W. Hedlund, PhD '36,
head of Agricultural Economics, has been
appointed by Governor Rockefeller to serve
as chairman of the New York State Committee
on Milk Marketing. Others on the
committee from the Department of Agricultural
Economics are Leland Spencer '18;
Lowell C. Cunningham, PhD '34; Robert P.
Story, PhD '52; and Richard D. Aplin,
PhD '59.
Professor Henry J. Romersa, director of
the Big Red Band and conductor of the
Repertoire Concert Band, has resigned to
join the faculty of the University of Maryland.
There the Oberlin Conservatory
graduate will direct the marching band,
teach brass instrument players and eventually
become director of bands.
Professor Clyde B. Moore, Education,
emeritus, was associate director of a project
which contributed to a fourteen-booklet
series, "Quest for Quality"—a description
of evaluation methods used by a selected
group of twenty-eight school districts
throughout the United States. Professor
Moore's project was supervised by the National
School Boards Association and American
Association of School Administrators,
and financed by the Ford Foundation.
Five Faculty members will receive $97,-
905 in grants from the National Institutes
of Health, Research Center for the US Public
Health Service. Professor R. H. Wasserman
'49, Radiation Biology, will receive the
the largest sum, $33,408; Rolbert R. Zimmerman,
Assistant, Botany, $30,522; Professor
Edgar F. Borgatta, Sociology & An-
thropology, $15,467; Professor Leland E.
Carmichael, $15,000; Professor Harry B.
Naylor, PhD '43, Bacteriology, $3,508. In
addition, three projects at the Medical College
in New York City will receive total
grants of $167,084. Professor Alexander H.
Leighton, Social Psychiatry, will receive
$90,647; Professor Frederic F. Flach, MD
'51, Clinical Psychiatry, $41,230; Professor
Ralph E. Peterson, Medicine, $35,207.
Betty W. Cosby (picture) will become
assistant dean of students in September,
replacing Katherine
E. Martin. She will
serve as adviser to
the Women's Student
Government Association
and the
Women's Judiciary
Board. In addition,
she will be assistant
llίlllllllί^ professor of Guidance
and Personnel
Administration in the School of Education.
Miss Cosby is due to receive the PhD
from Syracuse University this summer.
She earned the BS from Auburn University
in 1944, and holds the MA from Syracuse.
Now assistant dean of women at Syracuse,
she has been dean of women at Texas
Western College, assistant dean of women
at Auburn, and assistant counselor for
women at the University of Miami in Coral
Gables.
Another new assistant dean of students
will be William H. Grant, former assistant
dean of students at Auburn. He received
the BS from Auburn in 1957, and expects
to complete requirements for a doctor of
education degree at Teachers College,
Columbia University, this summer.
Two Faculty members will join the staff
of Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio, July 1. Professor Marcus Singer, PhD
'51, Zoology, will be director of the anatomy
department in the School of Medicine; and
Professor Howard A. Schneiderman, Biology,
will be professor of biology in Arts &
Sciences.
The Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest
Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for
1961 was presented to Conrad Longmire,
visiting professor of Physics in 1953-54. One
of five Americans chosen for the award this
year, he is currently with the Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory.
Dr. Robert W. Kirk '46, professor of
Small Animal Medicine at the Veterinary
College, is on a year's leave to assist in a research
study at the University of Colorado
Medical Center in Denver. The study concerns
the use of ultrasonic techniques in
disease in dogs. Based on sonar and radar
principles, the technique employs a pulse
echo system in the same way that the Navy
detects an underwater submarine. Echoes
from different types of tissue from within
the body appear as a picture on a television
screen. If successful, the ultrasonic technique
will aid in both human and animal
medicine in the detection between normal
and diseased tissues in the liver, kidney and
other organs which are not readily visualized
by present X-ray techniques.
Faculty members who are among the recipients
of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation fellowships are Professors
Robert H. Brout, Grad '48, Physics; Benjamin
Widom, PhD '53, Chemistry; William
W. Austin, Music; Isaac Rabinowitz, Biblical
& Hebrew Studies; and Robert R. Wilson,
Physics.
A book entitled Eugene O'Neill, which is
part of Twayne's United States Author
Series, is being written by Professor Stephen
E. Whicher, English.
Rudolph J. Anderson, PhD '19, who was
chief of research in biochemistry at the Geneva
Experiment Station from 1923-27,
died April 6, at his home in New Haven,
Connecticut. He was professor emeritus of
chemistry at Yale.
Dr. Henry R. Shinefield, assistant professor
of Pediatrics at the Medical College, has
received one of the Lederle Medical Faculty
Awards for a two-year period beginning
July 1. The award is given to "experienced
physicians who have demonstrated their capacities
as teachers, scholars and investigators
but who, henceforth, intend to orient
their full-time interest and activities primarily
toward the teaching of clinical medi-
According to Professor Philip A. Minges,
Vegetable Crops, research in tomato growing
at the College of Agriculture shows that
planting tomato seeds directly into the soil
may lead to increased tomato yields, improved
quality and reduced growing and
harvesting costs. This method has never
been used before in New York State.
Professor Katherine M. Reeves, Child
Development & Family Relationships in
Home Economics, is one of three secondprize
winners in the sixth Emily Clark Balch
Contest in creative American writing sponsored
by the Virginia Quarterly Review at
the University of Virginia. Miss Reeves has
written several books for children, and in
1959 was honored with a certificate of recognition
by the State Association of Elementary
School Teachers.
One of three members chosen for perpetual
membership in the New York Garden
Industries HaΊl of Fame is Professor Alfred
M. S. Pridham, PhD '33, Floriculture. He
was selected by the Board of Directors of the
State Nurserymen's Association for his accomplishments
in ornamental horticultural
research.
Professor Harry A. Kerr '42, MS '53, is
president of the Empire State chapter of the
Soil Conservation Society of America.
Professor Joseph Golden, Speech &
Drama, has been awarded first prize in a
national playwriting competition sponsored
by the Community Children's
Theater of Kansas City, Mo., for his play
"Leonardo's Flying Machine." Professor
Golden has written two other plays for
children, "The Butterfly That Blushed"
and "Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver
Arrow," as well as a number of television
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plays. He is the author of an introduction
and discussion guide to the educational
film, "A Salute to the American Theater,"
being distributed nationally by the American
Anti-Defamation League.
Co-authors of a book, The Social Theories
of Talcott Parsons, published by Prentice-
Hall, are Professor Max Black, the Susan
Linn Sage professor of Philosophy, editor;
Professors Robin M. Williams, Grad '36,
Sociology & Anthropology; Urie Bronfenbrenner
'38 and Edward C. Devereux Jr.,
Child Development & Family Relationships;
Henry A. Landsberger, PhD '54, and
William F. Whyte, Industrial & Labor Relations;
Chandler Morse, Economics^ and
Andrew Hacker, Government.
A revision of the official list of US agricultural
occupations, Dictionary of Occupational
Titles, is being compiled by Professor
Edward Foss, MS '47, Agriculture, in
cooperation with the Scientific Manpower
Commission and the Department of Labor.
On a year's sabbatic leave is Professor
Frank A. Lee, Geneva Agricultural Experiment
Station. He is at the Institute fuer
Chemie und Physik der Bundesanstalt fuer
Fleischforchung in Kulmbach, Bavaria, and
will investigate the biochemical changes
taking place during canning and storage.
A book explaining the metaphysical theory
of Henry Alonzo Myers, PhD '33, late
professor of English, was published by the
Cornell University Press. It is entitled Systematic
Pluralism: A Study in Metaphysics.
Dr. George A. Wolf Jr., MD '41, associate
professor of Clinical Medicine at the Medical
College, has been named executive director
of the Tufts-New England Medical
Center and vice president for medical affairs
of Tufts University, effective September
1.
An alternative to the fiery-cored chemical
units now in use for nuclear powered space
vehicle propulsion has been proposed by
Professors Edwin L. Resler Jr., PhD '49,
Aeronautical Engineering, and Nicholas
Rott, former professor of that School. Their
plan calls for super-heated hydrogen as a
propellant.
A mechanical egg counter has been invented
by Professor Robert T. Lorenzen,
Agricultural Engineering, and a patent has
been granted. Used in conjunction with the
"mechanized cage system" of egg production
in which the hens are kept in individual
cages, the device counts the eggs as they roll
from the cage to a conveyor belt that takes
them to the packing room.
Carl Crandall '12, professor emeritus of
Administrative Engineering, has resigned
the post of Cayuga Heights engineer which
he has held since 1927. He recently resigned
also as principal executive officer of
the Finger Lakes State Parks Commission,
a position he had held since the commission's
organization in 1924.
Professor Frank N. Sibley of the
Philosophy Department, Arts & Sciences,
has been promoted from assistant professor
to associate professor, not to professor
as listed in the June 1 issue.
June 15, 1961
LETTERS
Faculty Should Save
EDITOR: With regard to your combination
news item and editorial "Thank
Yous, Good and Not So" in the May 1
ALUMNI NEWS., I think you have overlooked
an important aspect of the situation—the
right of the individual to enjoy
the full fruits of his labor during his
lifetime and to control the spending or
the saving there of.
Funds set aside during one's working
days to provide funds for the period of
retirement generally come from the employer,
either as money saved from salary
or as a special benefit provided by
the employer and not counted as salary.
In either case, the benefits plus salary
form the total ί
'fruits of labor" package.
Any attempt to increase the proportion
of retirement benefits will result in a
decrease in the proportion of salary
available for spending and a corresponding
reduction in the freedom of
the individual to enjoy the full fruits of
his labor.
The real secret of security of income
during retirement lies in living within
one's income while working and by the
intelligent investment of the resulting
savings. Millions of people live on lots
less than the University pays (or paid)
its professors. The men and women who
taught us, and who you say are now
getting slim thanks for their efforts, got
their thanks before—when they were
working. Those who saved wisely should
not be in financial difficulties now.
I don't'believe the University should
be criticized for its past retirement
policy. So far as I can see all the persons
affected had plenty of time to plan
for their retirements and knew what
they could expect.
There is no security in expecting substantial
retirement benefits from an employer.
Even the biggest and most secure
organizations lay off employees and
some of the saddest employment problems
I've dealt with involve long time
employees who were let go before the
expected date of retirement. Consequently
I firmly believe in the right and
duty of the individual to control his
savings for retirement.
There are two things the University
can do to make retired life easier for its
personnel (professors., etc.): pay them
better now and provide the service of
professional financial counsel. They
could then have flexibility in their savings
programs, retain full control and
have the benefit of skilled counsel.
Another thing that should be considered
is the continued use of retired
personnel. "But that is another story."
—GEORGE F. MUEDEN '40
Calendar of Coming Events
Thursday, June 15
Ithaca: Programmed Learning Conference,
School of Education; ends June 16
Exhibit of paintings, The Hudson River
School, through August 22, White Art
Museum
Friday, June 16
Syracuse: Intercollegiate Rowing Association
Steward's dinner, Hotel Syracuse,
6
Saturday } June 17
Syracuse: Intercollegiate Rowing Association
regatta, Lake Onondaga
Sunday, June 18
Ithaca: Summer General Meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers;
ends June 23
Monday, June 19
Ithaca: Executive Development Program
sponsored by the Graduate School of
Business & Public Administration; ends
July 28
Saturday, June 24
Ithaca: National Applied Mechanics Conference
sponsored by Mechanics & Materials;
ends June 26
Monday, June 26
Ithaca: Industrial & Labor Relations School
management seminars open
Town & Country Summer School of Rural
Church Institute, Anabel Taylor Hall;
ends June 30
Tuesday, June 27
Ithaca: New York State Teachers of Agriculture
Annual Conference; ends June
30
Annual 4-H Club Congress; ends June 30
Wednesday, June 28
Ithaca: Summer School begins; ends August
11
Monday, July 3
Ithaca: Annual Shell Merit Fellowship Program;
ends August 11
Institute for Earth and Space Science
(NSF) ends August 12
Wednesday, July 5
Ithaca: Lecture, Professor Morris G. Bishop
'14, the Kappa Alpha Professor of Romance
Literature, Emeritus, "The Cornell
Idea," Alice Statler Auditorium,
8:15
Thursday, July 6
Ithaca: Concert, University Trio, Willard
Straight Theater, 8:15
Friday, July 7
Ithaca: Youth Festival, Eastern States Mission,
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints; ends July 9
661

Addresses are in New York State unless otherwise noted. Personal items, newspaper clippings,
or other notes about Cornellians are welcomed for publication. Class columns are written by
correspondents whose names appear. Names and addresses in column headings are for Glasses
with group subscriptions or those in which at least half the members are NEWS subscribers.
'90 LLB—Henry Clayton Davis, who was
admitted to the Colorado Bar in September
1890, continues to practice his profession at
714 Equitable Bldg., Denver. He is an active
member of the American and Colorado bar
associations and the Cornell Alumni of Colorado,
and a past president of the Denver
Bar Association. Davis claims the distinction
of having been born at Medina on Oct. 7,
1868, the day Ezra Cornell transferred his
property to the University.
'94 LLB—The Myron and Anabel Taylor
Foundation has given $500,000 to support
the Diocesan Conference Center at Tuxedo.
Ό4-Ό5 Sp—Architect-artist DeWitt H.
Fessenden of 99 Joraleman St., Brooklyn, is
now doing art research.
'07 BS—Horace F. Prince of 606 Avenue
A, NW, Winter Haven, Fla., writes that he
is retired, but has "a state-inspected nursery
of 500 plants" which provides "the physical
exercise an old codger of 80 needs." For
thirty-five years he has been a Boy Scout
leader, first in Buffalo, more recently in
Florida. Royalties from his book, Mom &
Dad & Johnny, the Boy Scout, have been
turned over to his old Buffalo troop, and are
to be used to build a cabin on Council property.
'08 AB—Edward A. Jesser of 358 Hamilton
PL, Hackensack, N.J., sends this picture
of himself and wife, taken at a Spanish
fiesta. He hopes it will prompt some of his
Classmates to do as he is doing. He looks
in every issue of the ALUMNI NEWS for reports
of his Classmates, and is disappointed
that '08 men and women are seldom mentioned.
Jesser, who is secretary-treasurer of
the Dexter-Carpenter Coal Co., Inc., 32
Broadway, New York 4, has traveled extensively
in recent years. He and Mrs. Jesser
took a trip around the world in 1958; they
made a four-month auto tour of southern
Europe, from Sicily to Spain, in 1955;
662
cruised the Mediterranean in 1954; toured
Europe and the British Isles for six months
in 1952; and traveled from Mexico to Alaska
in 1949 with their son Dick, now a civil
engineer on an irrigation project in Jordan.
They have two other sons: B. W., vice
president and director of engineering with
M. W. Kellogg, New York City, and Edward
A. Jr., president of Peoples Trust Co.,
Hackensack. They also have thirteen grandchildren.
9 A /*\ Men—Olin Library has received
\ v/ a valuable gift of 18th century
almanacs from Thomas W.
Barnes, 2474 Estes Ave., Chicago. Prof.
George H. Healey, '47 PhD, English & Bibliography,
who is the library's Curator of
Rare Books, describes the gift as "a long run
of almanacs, resembling the Poor Richard
Almanac of Benjamin Franklin. Small pamphlets,
printed in the East, they attempted
to predict weather for the year, gave the
phases of the moon, high and low tides, and
told readers when to plant crops. They
were illustrated by quaint wood cuts and
enlivened by aphorisms." The booklets
were appraised at $600 by James V. Ekholm,
Ithaca book dealer.
News has come of the recent death of Mrs.
Elser, Max's widow, soon after we lost Max.
Samuel P. Nixdorff makes this comment
on the death of Bernard Wich (see Necrology):
"Bennie Wich was one of the Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute boys who came
to Cornell in 1907 and got his CE in 1910.
The others were Ike Behrman,, John Childs,
Wilmer DeHuff, Charles E. Grimes, Heine
Gundlach [Ίl], Carroll Harding, Herb Fairbank,
Julius Zieget and yours truly." Wich
attended our Fifty-year Reunion in 1960—
the "last thing he did before he had a stroke
in July, followed by myasthenia gravis,"
writes his son, Grosvenor Wich.
Please let me hear from you, Classmates,
so that I may have news for this column.
—WALLACE E. CALDWELL
'11
Howard A. Lincoln
100 E. Alυord St.
Springfield 7, Mass.
Charles J. (Bushy) Fox still resides at
Ellicottville, where, as a retired engineer,
he spends his time farming. For offspring
he lists one son, one daughter and eight
grandchildren. One grandson is planning to
enter Cornell next year. Edgar MacNaugh
ton writes: "Retired, spend winters in Dania,
Fla., and summers in Bristol, N.H. Play
golf three times a week; was at Orange
Bowl game. Health OK."
Sandy Brown,, 377 S. Harrison St., East
Orange, N.J., reports: "Doubt whether I'll
be at the 50th; don't like parades, only one
in which I participated [found me] with a
6-ft. section of that 3-in. gas pipe in my
hand using it something like a bulldozer
blade to plow through a few hundred sophs
who blocked our progress across the Cascadilla
Bridge."
Edwin Clark, 324 State St., Ogdensburg,
says: "Having been retired for many years,
my days are spent traveling to Florida, Honolulu,
round the world, Africa, etc. when not
at home, where my family have lived since
1823 on the St. Lawrence Seaway." Heber
E. Griffith, 507 Mayro Bldg., Utica, writes:
"Still practicing law at old stand, my partner
is LeGrand C. Tibbits, LLB '38. Firm
name, Griffith & Tibbits.
Your correspondent hopes to have more
news about our 50th Reunion in the July
issue.
QUITE A COLLED/ATΊS CLAMBAKE , FOLKβ ).'
Men — Harvey Stevenson, who
ran with Tell Berna and Herb
Putnam on two championship
Cornell cross country teams, has decided to
stop running—for political office, that is.
Harvey is completing his thirtieth year as
supervisor for the Town of Enfield, west
of Ithaca. For twenty-four years he has been
chairman of the Tompkins County Board of
Supervisors. He has been president of the
State Supervisors Assn. and the Tompkins
County Farm Bureau. With his son, Robert,
he operates a large farm in Enfield.
Retiring from sales activities after many
years in Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre, Robert
A. Fish has turned to writing verse as a
pastime. Several of his compositions have
appeared in newspapers in Milwaukee,
where he lives at 144 N. Humboldt Ave. He
writes that he does not contemplate becoming
another William Blake or Robert
Browning, but he poetically refers to his
leaving Cornell after two years in law school
as follows: "Somehow the Groves of Eros
and the Golden Girl beckoned me away
from the Halls of Learning."
Dave Kaminsky is one of the few Ί2ers
who never attempted matrimony. He is still
actively engaged in the practice of law at
120 Broadway, New York City, and is a
regular Alumni Week visitor on the campus.
The San Francisco 1912 Club has lost one
member—Paul (alias Mabel) Jones, who
has moved east to Catauba Island, Port
Clinton, Ohio, but Ted Hunt and Harold
W. (Pat) Knowles are still active in the city
by the Golden Gate. Ted has been in the investment
security business, first in New York
City, then on the West Coast. He plans to
return for the Golden Jubilee Reunion next
year. With him will be his fellow citizen,
Pat, who has been devoting his time recently
to charitable works.
Scott Blanchard, after many years in the
brokerage business in Chicago and Atlanta,
retired in 1953. He lives at 2543 Glenwood
Ave., SE, Atlanta, Ga., across the street
from the East Lake Country Club. After his
wife died, Scott remarried. He has a daughter
and three grandchildren.
When Class Biographer Ross Kellogg informed
President Walter R. Kuhn that he
was one of fifty-nine men who received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws, June 13, 1912,
he replied: "It could easily have been only
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fifty-eight, because I was brought up on the
red carpet before Dean Irvine and was
falsely represented to him as being the cause
of a student riot when Elinor Glynn's
"Three Weeks" was played at the Lyceum
Theatre. Had I not been able to convince
the judge that I was not involved, I might
have been busted, and then there would
have been only fifty-eight." Class members
will recall that when the Helen Grayce
Stock Company produced "Three Weeks"
in 1911, students decided to break up the
show, perhaps because they considered it
immoral, perhaps just for the "helluvit."
Anyway they succeeded in stopping the performance
and morality triumphed. In addition
to shouts, catcalls and Bronx cheers, the
ringing of hundreds of alarm clocks produced
a high decibel noise. The Ithaca Journal
reported that a quantity of pennies and
nickels was found on the stage after the
curtain was rung down. —FOSTER COFFIN
'13
Men: Harry E. Southard
3102 Miami Rd.
South Bend 14, Ind.
Percival S. Goan and his wife, Annabel,
have been in Tokyo attending the International
Rotary convention. They left Billings,
Mont. (311 Park Hill), in March, flying to
Hawaii, then going by ship to Yokohama,
Manila and Hong Kong. They then flew
to Tokyo to spend the month of May in
Japan. They expect to be home in June,
after a few more days in Hawaii.
Clarence W. Barker, 2 Rice Spring Lane,
Wayland, Mass., has "nothing exciting to
report." Cy spends his summers at his cottage
in northern Canada and his winters
visiting his children "and other kinfolk,"
with considerable visiting in Florida. About
two years ago, Cy made a five-month, 35,-
000-mile trip around the world on a freighter.
He had planned another freighter trip
for this past winter, but had to have surgery
instead. He is now hoping to make the trip
next winter.
Leon B. Allen, RD 1, Ramsey, N.J., is a
Ί3er who has not retired, "in spite of this
lousy climate." He is the managing partner
of Gillen & Co., members of the New York
Stock Exchange, and is also president of
Leon B. Allen Fund, a mutual investment
company. "All of which," says "Bud," "still
seems to be a lot of fun."
Verne R. Read, 7105 Vista Del Mar, La
Jolla, Calif., retired ten years ago "to the
best climate on the continent," but spends
most summers in Akron and Hudson, Ohio.
He and his wife keep busy with many activities,
including visits to their four sons and
fifteen grandchildren. "Sandy" still enjoys
golf and handball! J. Waldo Myers, Wequasset
Rd., Harwich Port, Mass., reports
that they still have "only" eighteen grandchildren.
Last year those eighteen grandchildren
made "Spike" the champion
grandpappy of our Class. James F. (Pink)
Whitehead was second with seventeen
grandchildren, and Art W. Beale was third
with fifteen. We've just learned that Sandy
Read now has fifteen, though I believe he
reported thirteen in 1960. That shows a big
difference may occur in just a year's time.
If any of our founding fathers of 1913 can
now claim over eighteen grandchildren,
speak up!
Barnard Blank, Holly & Cooper Sts., Lin-
June 15, 1961
JAMES E. GLEASON '92 studies a brochure
on the Gleason Works of Rochester
at its Elder Statesmen's Club dinner.
Now 92, he is honorary president of the
club, with seventy-eight years' service,
during twenty-six years of which he was
company president. He holds many
patents, including two that made practical
the spiral bevel gears used in the rear
axle drives of automobiles. A son, Lawrence
C. Gleason, is now president and
general manager of the firm. The late
Kate Gleason '88, sister of today's board
chairman, also took an active part in the
business which was founded by their
father, William Gleason.
denwold, N.J., is semiretired, and Barney
thinks it's darn near time, 1913-61. Everett
S. Greer, 443 Harding Rd., Zanesville, Ohio,
spent a busy summer last year as chairman
of Ohio's 15th district Tom-Moorehead-for-
Congress Committee. "Mission accomplished.
Tom is our Congressman." Ev
submits a slogan of "One nine one three, see
you all in sixty three." John S. Clark, 710
Faulkner St., New Smyrna Beach, Fla., is
another one looking forward to our 50th Reunion.
Johnny "will be there," and hopes we
will have a list of Ί3ers who still are going
strong. Don't worry, Johnny; we will start
collecting and putting out that information
as we get a little closer to the date.
Women—For the thirteenth year,
Mrs. William B. Clift (Ethel
Fogg) was hostess at a luncheon
at her home, 277 Park Ave., New York
City. Those attending were Ethel (Vernon)
Patterson, Jane (McKelway) Urquhart,
Irene (Osterkamp) Wilkinson, Malvina
Dahl, Rose Sadvoransky, Agnes and Beryl
Curtis, Ruby (Ames) Newman, Ada
(Christians) Poth, Irene (Spindler) Urban,
Julia Stone and I. The occasion was a
most interesting and happy one. Letters
were read from many who were unable to
come, friendships were renewed, family
pictures shown and ideas exchanged. Irene
Wilkinson shared a recent trip with us
touching on Japan, Italy, Switzerland,
Spain, Portugal, France and northern
Africa. Jane Urqhart informed us that she
plans to visit England this summer.
As always "Sunny" was a most charming
and gracious hostess. We left at various
times, each having spent a most delightful
and long to be remembered afternoon.
Thank you, Sunny.
—GERTRUDE Y. HUMPHRIES
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Emerson Hinchlίff
400 Oak Ave.
'Ithaca, N.Y.
The former editor (now business manager)
of the ALUMNI NEWS, Howard A.
Stevenson '19, has shared with us a letter of
congratulation from the Sage of Saratoga,
Frank Sullivan. I have snared a few paragraphs
therefrom for your delectation:
I am glad to hear you have taken steps to
simplify your life, and make it less strenuous.
Almost everybody I know runs around in
circles too much. The game (said he sententiously)
is not worth the candle. Life is complicated
all over, no matter what you do. I
lead the simplest life of anyone I know, yet
it gets complicated every so often. I don't
know why—I have no automobile, no job, no
wife, no relatives at all, no money and no expensive
habits except a need for a couple of
Scotches each evening at the children's hour
—yet things get all screwed up every so often,
like last January when I had to sit up a couple
of nights nursing freezing water pipes. Have
I gone to all this trouble to strip my existence
of all unnecessary headaches only to find myself
nursing frozen water pipes in my old
age? You can't win.
I just finished heroically resisting an invitation
to do one column a week for a newspaper
of my acquaintance. I thought I had that all
settled years ago but when the offer of the job
came I'm sorry to say I felt the old printer's
ink stir in my blood, and I almost took the
job. It was a near thing. I shudder when I
think of it now.
Well, I wonder what Dr. White and Teefee
Crane and George Lincoln Burr would think
of Cornell's having its own plane. Personally,
I still belong to the Newton Was Right Club.
That is an organization founded some years
ago by E. B. (Andy) White ['21] and, I think,
Aleck Woollcott, the members being pledged
never to defy the law of gravitation by setting
foot in an airplane. In fact, I am the only
member left in good standing. The founder
was impeached and thrown out when he
traitorously flew to San Francisco for the UN
founding in 1945, and Woollcott was automatically
expelled when he flew to England
during the war. I am the only one left who
has never been higher off the ground than a
Coney Island ferris wheel would take me—
and I don't much like them.
Frank went on to say that he hadn't been
to New York in more than a year and the
chances of ever getting back to Ithaca grow
dimmer. He cons the ALUMNI NEWS coverto-cover
and says, "I even get out my Cornellian
and look up the sketches and photos
of the lads mentioned by Emerson, to refresh
my memory on how they looked back
in the pleistocene age, provided I knew
them." He's against the "progress" of the
University, but then asks the rhetorical
question:
How is it that I am a forward-looking Democrat;
am I a schizophrenic? ... I would
never be able to find my way around that campus
today, Steve. I'd be a Ruth amid the alien
corn. I'd get lost right away at not finding the
Kappa Alpha house (I think it was) on the
Hill just inside the gate, and not smelling the
old gym nearby. I get some consolation,
though, from realizing that though my means
do not permit me to lavish gifts on the Alumni
Fund, the Olin brothers are in there being
generous all over the Campus. Long may they
wave their checkbooks.
I looked "pleistocene" up in the diction-
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ary. One definition is "glacial age." Today's
Frosh may not believe it, but the glaciers
had really disappeared around here fifty
years ago, so Frank was indulging in a mild
bit of hyperbole when he used the word.
Probably he was still in a state of shock from
those freezing water pipes!
Ί5
Arthur C. Peters
107 East 48th Street
New York 17,N.Y.
After thirty-five years of research on resin
and pine tree chemicals in the Deep South,
Ismond E. Knapp and Mrs. Knapp (Ruth
Brace) '16 moved to the tall-timbered
Northwest to retire near their son and
daughter. Their address is 4159 McKay Dr.,
S, Salem, Ore.
More lucky Ί5ers are now traveling and
"thoroughly enjoying retirement, working,
playing and traveling," as Percy F. Halsey
of 19 Hilton Ter., Newport News, Va., puts
it. All this, plus seven grandchildren and
two sons—one manager, the other director
of research and development at Albermarle
Paper Co., Richmond, Va.—is a handsome
reward for forty-three years with Newport
News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Joseph
Silbert of 5076 Sandy Shore Ave., Siesta
Key, Sarasota, Fla., is "still on the retired
list and waiting for 1965 [Reunion] to come
around." He adds: "Should have studied
navigation in undergraduate days; too late
to learn now, so I stay within sight of shore.
Can't boast of any big ones, but fishing does
take up a lot of time."
Those wonderful Hawaiians again are
making long distance records. J. Scott B.
Pratt, PO Box 764, Kaneohe, Hawaii, "has
been retired since 1949. Son J. Scott B.
Pratt III is president of the Hawaiian Trust
Co." Classmate Pratt was to return early
this month from a world tour that took him
to Europe via New Zealand, Australia,
Hong Kong, etc.
Dr. Lloyd F. Graver of 167 E. 79th St.,
New York 26, still practices in his chosen
cancer field, though he retired in July 1959
as chief of medical neoplasia service and cochief,
department of medicine, Memorial
Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. He
wrote last winter of nine grandchildren
"and tenth coming." His son Dr. William L.
Graver '49^ MD '52, is a Rochester surgeon;
the other son, John F. Graver '52, is assistant
general manager of the Mayflower Hotel in
Washington, D.C.
Charles Shuler wrote some time ago from
his beloved Ride N Rock Ranch, Scottsdale,
Ariz. He penalized himself by contributing
his Reunion fee to our Class treasury, saying:
"Sure hated to miss, but had a family
partnership meeting—hundredth anniversary—in
Seattle at same time as Class Reunion."
All will be forgiven, Chuck, when
we see you at the 50th.
Charles B. Heartfield of 5001 Powhatan
Ave., Norfolk 18, Va., retired from business
a year ago, but "keeps very busy fishing,
golfing and gardening." Winslow R. Cuthbert
of 2091 E. 17th Ave., Eugene, Ore.,
believes in direct dealing. While driving to
the East Coast, he stopped at Ithaca "for a
little nostalgia; went into the Alumni Office
and paid the 1961 dues." But he found
"Boardman Hall gone and a little architectural
monstrosity in its place!"
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'Five-Term Schmitt'
OFFICERS for the coming year, elected
May 15 by the board of governors of
the Cornell Club of New York, are:
President, Max F. Schmitt '24, reelected
for his fifth consecutive oneyear
term; executive vice president, H.
Victor Grohmann '28; vice presidents,
J. Bradley Delehanty '10, Bart Viviano
'33, Lewis W. Feick '27 and Preston A.
Wade '22; treasurer, Charles E. Dykes
'36; secretary, Walter E. Hopper Jr.
'37. The club will break ground next
month for its new quarters at 155 East
50th Street. Construction is expected
to be completed in fifteen months.
9 A -^T Men—Monday, May 15, was a
I / great day for 1917! At noon we
had a fine luncheon at the Cornell
Club of New York with Ells Filby and some
of his Committee of 17. There were twelve
Ί7ers present and Pete Johnston, secretary
of the Class of '49, was there to get a few
pointers on how a great Class conducts its
affairs. Our Class president, John L. Col-
Iyer, told us about the campus and what to
expect in the immediate future. It was a
long, pleasant luncheon!
That night Ί7 broke all records for attendance
at postwar Class dinners with
sixty-seven served and two who were there
part time but had to leave early because of
conflicts. John Collyer had to represent
Cornell at another meeting so left shortly
after the "freshen-up" hour. Max Schmitt
'24, president of his Class and of the Cornell
Club of New York, joined us for short periods
before and after the dinner. Again
Glen Acheson deserved, and received, the
thanks of all for his dinner arrangements
with the Cornell Club of New York. Ben
Potar was at his best as master of ceremonies.
He and Glen provided the humor
which kept us all in a gay mood. It was
strictly informal, and every man for himself.
All had an opportunity to speak.
The dinner opened with an invocation by
our own Rev. W. H. (Pete) Weigle, followed
by the introduction of guests. Walt
Kuhn '12, president of his Class, spoke
briefly. He was ably guarded by his Classmate
and undercover agent, Frank Cuccia
'12. Doc Peters '14, secretary of his Class,
followed, and then Charlie Eppleur '16,
who never misses a '17 dinner, and Ho Ballou
'20 were introduced, as was Pete Johnston
'49, secretary of his Class (that makes
two Class secretaries in one family!). We
were honored by having two non-alumni
guests, Joe Wood, University of Virginia,
and Fortunato Citertonic. The latter is the
son-in-law of Aquiles Armas Mendez '17 of
Trujillo, Peru. We were very happy that
Aquiles could be so ably represented. Incidentally,
Aquiles states he will be with us
in Ithaca for our Big 45th in '62.
The remainder of the informal program
was completed with several brief talks by
George Newbury, University trustee; Howie
Ludington, Reunion chairman; Don Mailory,
Cornell Fund Class representative; Eddie
Anderson and Ells Filby. The latter
came from Kansas City and shared distance
honors with Vern Jannotta, who flew in
from Lampana, Fla. Bill Grim also came
in via air from Ann Arbor, Mich., and immediately
donned his 1917 costume—a reminder
of our coming 45th. Sam Koslin did
a fine job as chairman of the reception committee,
and if anyone didn't have a grand
time it was his own fault. In addition to
those above, the following Ί7ers were present:
Len Aierstok, Jim Andrews, Olie Antell,
Joe Aul, Bill Bellis, Charlie Bomeisler, Dick
Bradley, Jim Brinckerhoff, Charlie Bunn,
Chan Burpee, Charlie Capen, Harry Chandler,
Don Danenhower, Pat Dugan, Guy
Faulks, Isador Finkelstein, Paul Frick, Lou
Fuchs, Gal Galbreath, Andy Hanenmann,
Jack Haydock, Jack Hirschhorn, Ferd Hoefner,
Sid Howell, Doug Hoyt, Harold Humphrey,
Israel Lieblich, Don Maclay, Fred
Nabenhauer, Aaron Nadled, Arch Oboler,
Tom Prentice, Charlie Bowland, Hap Roth,
Charlie Bamsay, Doc Shoulkin, Herb Schneider,
Art Stern, Charlie Spreckels, Tommie
Thompson, John (Swede) Vickers, Bill Vanderbilt,
Don Vail, Bill Wheeler, John Wagman,
Doc Woodman and one anonymous
who didn't sign the roster. —HERB JOHNSTON
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Stanley N. Shaw
742 Munsey Bldg.
Washington 4, D.C.
Summer is barely on the horizon and already
'18 is planning its annual Class picnic.
First notices have gone out from headquarters
advising that this great affair is to be
held as usual at Harry Martin's place up the
Hudson, on Saturday, September 9. From
noon onward it will be a day of activity, and
the charge is the same modest $8 as in the
past. If you think there's even the barest
chance of your going, better send off a check
now to one of the regular committee members
in charge. They include Harry himself
at PO Box 191, Ossining; Harry Handwerger,
155 E. 47th St., New York City; Charley
Muller, 28 Orchard PL, Greenwich,
Conn.; Paul Wanser, Sharon, Conn, (though
I assume Paul is still in Mexico at the moment);
and Paul Miller, 260 Madison Ave.,
New York City. It's a long way for some of
us to travel, but this annual party is now
attracting Classmates from the far-off
places. If you're going to be near New York
in September, make a note on your calendar.
How's your business ethics these days?
The New Frontier is watching you. This is a
warning to those of you in the big companies
because the new Business Ethics
Advisory Commission just appointed by
Secretary of Commerce Hodges here in
Washington is starting operations. In case
you have a guilty conscience, however, let
me say that it does have one member who
is a reactionary hard-boiled Republican, and
an Ί8er at that, who'll stand by you.
Bartley E. Campbell writes from San Diego
(PO Box 2065) that he's enjoying retirement
in sunny California after his thirty
years with Gulf Oil in New York and Venezuela.
And an even briefer note from
Isaac B. Mitchell indicates that he alternates
between wintering in Florida and his
home at King Ferry.
Probably there are other members of '18
who are still alive, but if there are, none
of them has reported any facts about himself
recently. This column will die for lack of
news if some of you don't get over that
writer's cramp of yours.
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Ί9 Colonel
L. Brown
472 Gramatan Ave.
Mount Vernon, N.Y.
We are sorry to report that our Class president,
Rudolph H. Deetjen, developed a
heart condition recently and is now in the
New York Hospital, 525 E. 68th St., New
York City. Rudy became ill while attending
a board of directors' meeting, and was taken
directly to the hospital. We all hope for a
speedy recovery.
Lloyd Bemis, our Class treasurer, is on
vacation in Wisconsin, visiting his son, as
this is being written. Our Class vice president,
Ed Carples, is in Weisbaden, Germany,
on a special task, and will not be
back before next year. Your Class officers
used to gather for lunch from time to time,
as we were all close together in downtown
New York. It appears that we shall have to
postpone these lunches for a time.
The weekend outing scheduled for May
12-14 at Habre de Venture, Port Tobacco,
Md., did not materialize because of the illness
of Rudy Deetjen. This was to have been
a gala affair at Pete Vischer's Maryland
chalet. We regret the turn of events, but
maybe we can avail ourselves of Pete's hospitality
at some future date.
Your scribe received a nice letter from
William S. Stempfle, last seen at the 40th
Reunion. Bill completed a six-year term as
secretary of the New York State Growers
Canning Crops Cooperative at the end of
January, and returned to Bath, where he has
maintained a residence these many years.
Currently, he is associated with fhe Stanford
Seed Company.
The board of trustees of Associated Universities,
Inc., has elected as president Prof.
Isidor I. Rabi of Columbia University. Rabi
was one of the incorporating trustees of Associated
Universities when it was founded
in July 1946 and has been a member of the
board ever since. The non-profit corporation
was organized under the sponsorship
of nine northeastern universities, namely
Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Princeton, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Rochester and Yale.
George P. Bullard, manager of erection,
eastern district, Bethlehem Steel Co., spoke
at the May 9 meeting of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, Ithaca Section, in
Hollister Hall auditorium on "Recent Developments
in Steel Erection." George has
been connected with steel erection ever since
he graduated, and is a recognized expert in
the business.
'20 Orville
G. Daily
604 Melrose Ave.
Kenilworth, III.
Well, you should've been there! Where?
Why, at the 41st Reunion, of course. Decorously
representing 1920 were the loyal
CRCs, Howdy Ho Ballou, O. G. Daily, Dick
Edson, Jeff Kilborne, Stew Solomon and
Whitey Terry. Properly imbued with Cornell
spirit after indoctrination at Jolly Jeff's
Place, and later joined by Wonder-man
Wally Duncan, they proudly imprinted the
image of 1920 on the Reunion scene. Really,
you should take advantage of these warm
summer days—before winter sets in. The
years melt away and you discover you're still
young.
June 15, 1961
Hawaii Club's No. 49
LUNCHEON for the Cornell Club of
Hawaii preceded the annual Cornell Relays
in Honolulu April 22. For the
twenty-fifth time in the forty-nine-year
history of the meet, the prep school
championship was won by Punahou,
which amassed sixty-six points to retire
the tenth Club trophy. President Edgar
A. Kudlich '40 reports that, along with
"numerous wives, girl friends and children,"
Club members attending the
luncheon included Trustee Walter Heasley
'30 and Mrs. Heasley, J. Dickson
(Jot) Pratt '15, Dickson Pratt '50,
Lewers Paris '23, C. K. Lum '23, Jules
Fine '41, Joel Trapido '34, Paul Graf '57,
Robert Herkes '58, Edward Neuwirth
'57, Maurice Jackson '31, Harold Higaki
'28, and Dr. William H. Gulledge '37. In
May, Herbert A. R. Austin Ίl presented
a medal to Herbert Austin (not related),
whom the club selected as outstanding
athlete of the relays.
'Way back in the dim, dark depths of
1960 we had an election! Remember? We're
not referring to the terrible tragedy of the
TV debates, the result of which caused the
great exodus of the Hahvahd faculty to
Washington. We mean the one in which the
president remains in office for five years
instead of four, and sometimes more—the
most important election of them all. A Class
election is a ponderous affair and 1920 has
been pondering this one for quite a while,
in fact months—about twelve, to be exact.
The nominating committee met, the Class
Council of some forty-eight or fifty-four
guys was elected (forty-eight unanimous
votes for forty-eight candidates, plus six
write-ins for themselves); the steering committee
was selected to pick the officers, and
then it settled down for a long, cold winter,
while everyone went off to Europe, Hawaii,
Florida and Bermuda to think it over.
(These are the facts!)
At last the election explosion has burst
with a blast like seventy-six trombones, and
with the whoosh and roar of a Redstone
rocket announcing the soundness of judgment
as solid as Schoellkopf; the decision:
why change a winning combination? Right
you are, Roger! Now everybody's happy except
the following: president, Walter D.
Archibald; secretary-chairman, Henry J.
Benisch; first vice president, J. Dickson Edson;
treasurer, Joseph Diamant.
A flock of regional vice presidents were
named from Maine to California and from
the Great Lakes to Florida, who will be expected
to attend the regular monthly meetings
in the Cornell Club bar on 57th St.
Who they are is probably a secret, as we
were not informed! If we can pry out this
information, or expose it in some way, we'll
let you in on it. Two lucrative positions are
still unfilled and are open to bids: those of
Alumni Fund representative and ALUMNI
NEWS editor. "Applications are enthusiastically
welcomed and should be mailed to
Secretary Benisch before midnight July 4.
State age, agility, experience, capabilities,
money-in-the-bank and salary expected. Applications
will be considered in the order of
their receipt." Signed, Hopeful!
'21 Charles
M. Stotz
Bessemer Bldg.
Pittsburgh 22, Pa.
We have just received some biographical
material about Harris E. Wilder from his
close friend ,-Pickens Johnson '22. A recent
issue of Union League Men and Events,
published in Chicago, carries a picture of
Hank receiving a medallion, the honorary
award of the Boys Clubs of America, from
the foundation president. The medallion is
a rare honor given only to laymen who
have made extraordinary contributions of
time and service. Wilder has been a member
of the Union League Foundation for
Boys Clubs of Chicago since 1928 and has
held practically every high office in that
organization. He has been a trustee and
finance committee member of the Lake
Forest College since 1935, and is also a
trustee and finance committee member of
Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital. Hank
has been in the investment business since
1921 and for many years has been vice
president and director of The Illinois Company
in Chicago.
'21 AB—Mrs. Rowland F. Davis (Sophie
Deylen) has been elected president of the
Women's National Republican Club. She
and her Classmate husband, who live at 35
Priscilla Ave., Yonkers, are parents of
Bruce Davis '50 and Dr. Kenneth Davis '54.
Mrs. Davis is parliamentarian for the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, of which she
is a past president. She is a director of the
American Foundation of Religion and
Psychiatry and president of its Women's National
Council.
John J. Cole
72 Wall Street
New York 5, N.Y.
Glenn L. Werly, recently elected president
of a new organization known as National
Fuel Oil Institute, has embarked on
an intensive campaign to develop and expand
the activities of all phases of the fuel
oil heating industry. A merger of Oil-Heat
Institute of America and the National Fuel
Oil Council, the new organization will coordinate
and expand their activities, industry-wide
and nation-wide. Throw away
those old coal scuttles, and start using oil,
everybody. Werly has got to eat.
Robert C. (Bob) Matlock, the newly appointed
assistant editor of this column (appointment
valid as long as he sends in some
news), reports that our first Class president,
Ernest L. Leet, is taking off by boat from
Jamestown for Owensboro, Ky., with stopoffs
at Owensboro to sample some of Bob's
bourbon, and then going down to the deep
South where Lawrence B. Pryor will teach
Ernie the facts of life about pea-picking and
things like that at Larry's Greenville, Miss.,
plantation. Put him to work picking some of
that high grade Pryor cotton, Larry.
D. Lindsay Clarkson of Tuckahoe, N.J.,
is still working hard, and claims to be still
out of jail. He doesn't play golf but does
catch fish. Anybody who wants to start an
argument better bring along his tape measure.
Make up your own lies about how that
big one got away as you go along.
William L. Norman recently celebrated
his thirty years with New York Life Insurance
Co. by taking his wife (Dorothy Weaver
'25) on a three-month trip to San An-
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tonio, Texas, and a motor trip through
Mexico. Thomas J. Potts, traffic manager
of the Ciba Company, Inc., and Giba Products
Corp., recently spent a month touring
England with his wife, Lois Smith '24. Tom
is looking forward to our fortieth in 1963.
Oil up the wheel chairs, boys, it won't be
long now.
Wilbur E. Gilman has been chairman of
the speech department at Queens College
since 1945. In 1960 he gave summer lectures
at the universities of Missouri, Oregon
and Hawaii. This spring he addressed the
New York State Speech Association on
"The Goals of Speech Education." He is a
past president of the state association and a
member of the Speech Association of America.
Watch your diction, boys, when Wilbur
is in the room.
C. H. (Charlie) Brumbaugh invites members
of '23 to drop in and see him at 4515
Prentice St., Dallas, Texas. If anyone does,
be sure he picks up the lunch check.
And how about those delinquent dues
checks. I haven't seen a new one in so long,
I would not recognize it. By the time you
read this, the Alumni Fund will be all over,
Uncle Sam will have taken his June 15th
bite out of you, and all I ask is for those
paltry $7 to get the Class budget in balance.
If you don't pay up, I will have to get a
moonlighting job to make up the deficit.
Please!
'23 — Mrs. Harry Place (Mary Alice
Kinne) of RD 2, Wyalusing, Pa., is "recovering
faster than usual" after surgery for cancer,
April 26, at Robert Packer Hospital,
Sayre, Pa.
'24 Silas
W. Pickering II
270 Park Avenue
New York 17, N.Y.
Walter Diamond, concerning whom, according
to my records, nothing has been
reported in these columns for the last eight
or nine years, writes briefly from Pittsburgh
that he has been associated with Wm. G.
Johnston Co., a printing firm in that city,
for the last fifteen years. Walter has a daughter
who graduates from Bucknell this June.
A brief report from Dave Cook tells us
that he is still handling public relations for
the Electronics Division of General Dynamics.
Dave's boy graduated in Mechanical
Engineering from Cornell last June and
is now working for his master's on a teaching
fellowship at the University of Rochester.
A pleasant note from Francis M. (Mike)
Porch, who writes from Baton Rouge, La.,
reports that he and his wife Marion (Hunton)
were presented last April with their
third grandchild.
Roger Egberg was good enough to send
us a newsy letter. He reports that he has
been frightfully busy for the last couple of
years and certainly has stories to substantiate
that statement. He is medical director
of the Los Angeles County department of
charities, with 11,000 hospital beds to supervise.
A little over a year ago the governor
of California asked him to head a committee
to study the health needs of his county.
The project is contemplated to encompass
a fifteen-year forecast. Furthermore, believe
it or not, Rog and his wife are doing
some research work together, and entertained
all of their children at Christmas
time. They have four siblings, three girls and
a boy, and two grandchildren.
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Hotelmen Elect
ABOUT EIGHTY members of the Cornell
Society of Hotelmen attended the annual
meeting at Statler Hall, May 6.
Frank J. Irving '35 of Treadway Inns,
New York City, was elected president,
succeeding Roy Watson Jr. '48. J. Frank
Birdsall '35 was elected first vice president
and Edward J. Vinnicombe '33,
second vice president. Professor Robert
A. Beck '42 was re-elected secretarytreasurer.
New regional vice presidents
are William R. Ebersol '48, Eastern;
Harold E. Hazen '42, Southern; and
Carl D. Arnold '43, West Coast. Reelected
is Richard B. Carlson '48, Midwest.
The Society also elected directors
from the odd-numbered Classes. They
are John M. Crandall '25, Norman E.
Wagner '27, George E. Simons Jr. '29,
John E. Rogers '31, Andrew H. Cipriani
'33, Paul J. McNamara '35, Thomas L.
Cannon '37, Francis H. McCrory '39,
Royal W. Treadway '41, Robert S. Noyes
'43, Harold E. Saunders '45, Joseph W.
Barclay '47, John R. Bogardus '49, Kenneth
D. Fisher '51, Guy D. Hubbard '53,
Raymond M. Trotta '55, Richard C. Nelson
'57, Ian B. Maksik '59. Associate director
is Allan H. Treman '21.
Alec Brown of Kew Gardens is associated
with the Empire Lincoln Mercury Co. in
New York City. Brown echoes the thoughts
of many of us when he says, "At this writing
I am proud to be alive at 60 and best of all,
a member of Class '24." News comes from
quarters we have not heard from in a long
time, John L. Sturges. With considerable
understanding, John claims distinction for
the fact that Cornell degrees run in his family.
There is son-in-law Fred Haverly '42,
daughter Sally '50 and her husband, J. Michael
Farrell '52. Each of John's two daughters
has presented him with three grandchildren.
Lemuel B. Weldron sends us a brief note
saying that he had the pleasure of spending
part of his vacation last summer with Bill
Hodge at some lake in Michigan. Bill, who
is retired, spends his summers at this Michigan
lake and his winters at Ft. Lauderdale.
'22-24 Grad—Michael A. Khoury of 74A
Troy Dr., Springfield, N.J., is northeastern
area general manager for Armour's dairy,
poultry and margarine division. He writes
of having "lunch with Al [Austin L.] Rumsey
'23 in Albany" and receiving "a letter
from Mom Chao Praimakorn '25 from Thailand."
'26 Hunt
Bradley
Alumni Office, Day Hall
Ithaca, NY.
As this issue of the NEWS comes off the
presses in time to be distributed over the Reunion
weekend, a stout-hearted and goodly
numbered gang of '26 mates are in full
swing on Campus at our Mighty 35th. To
those who cannot get back to Ithaca go our
best wishes and sincere regrets that you are
missing out on our greatest of all Class assemblies.
The story of our "biggest and best"
will appear in the next issue.
E. W. Drew reports he is still alive and
recently became a grandfather for the first
time. Says Ed, "I don't mind it at all.
Thirty-six years ago I'd have thought such
an event would make me seem old—at this
late date it is the fountain of youth. Old
Ponce de Leon looked too far afield too soon
in life!" The Drews reside at 209 Princeton
St., Ontario, Calif.
A nice note from C. Travis Brown states:
"Mrs. Brown and I bade farewell in July
1959 to our eldest daughter, Aurel Brown
Searls, as she left New York by jet plane
with her husband, Melvin W. Searls Jr., and
6-month-old son, Neil Prophet, for Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, for a two-year assignment
in marketing with the Standard-Vacuum Oil
Company. They have had a most interesting
and active life with many exciting experiences.
Added to this a second son, Mark
Denison, was born there in August 1960.
They return, this July by way of Tel Aviv,
Rome, Madrid, Paris and Copenhagen for
a three months' furlough, so we are looking
forward to getting acquainted with our enlarged
family before they return to Cambodia
for another two-year assignment. Our
younger daughter, Sabra W. Brown, who is
a junior in Wheelock College, will be traveling
in Europe early this summer and will
see her sister and family in Rome, as their
paths cross, so Sabra will have the jump on
us in meeting the new grandson! However,
great preparations are being made in our
suburban home in Larchmont for the
expanded family to enjoy their visit."
Brownie's office address is Room 1700,
44 Wall St., New York 5, and his home address
is 63 Cooper Lane, Larchmont.
Joseph M. Scanlan, RD 2, Altamont,
pens: "I am now production control manager
for Alco Products, Inc., Schenectady,
and have six children—Mike, Melissa, Caroline,
Walt, Dick and Jerry, all but Jerry
married—sixteen grandchildren. Walt '57 is
now First Lt. with 3rd Missile Bn., Loring
Air Force Base, Maine; Dick '60 now in
Graduate School in Dairy Industry, and
Jerry now in Vet College."
Stan Gemar of 432 Live Oak Rd., Vero
Beach, Fla., is in the consulting material
handling business. Stanley Lieberman is an
attorney with offices at 16 Court St., Brooklyn.
Stan's son attends the Eastman School
of Music in Rochester.
9 ^^\ ^^7 Don Hershey
J / 5 Landing Rd., S.
^έ_~ / Rochester 10, N.Y.
Good news from Baltimore via Russ Vollmer
states that Jervis Langdon II has been
made president of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. Congratulations and best wishes,
Jerv, from all of us. The motto of this
column is "once a '27er, always a 5 27er," as
is indicative of James Wright. A portion of
his letter follows: "In the struggle over the
past thirty years to build a successful Business
and with an interruption of fifty-six
months in Africa, Italy and Europe during
the war, I have had little chance to accomplish
anything except that which was required
by daily problems. Necessity forced
me to leave Cornell and interfered with my
education, which I fully intended to correct
at some future date. However, the
correction was never made and as you
grow older, you realize that possibly a de-
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gree is not the beginning of all things. I
shall try to make the 1962 reunion if Mrs.
Wright and I are in the US." Thanks, Jim,
for your fine letter, dues check and fund
contribution.
Theodore Riddiford (picture) was recently
appointed a member of the Minnesota
State Board of
Accountancy by the
governor of Minnesota.
A past president
of the Minnesota Society
of Certified Public
Accountants, Ted
is vice chairman of
the steering committee
for the AΪGPA
convention in Minneapolis
in 1963. The Riddifords have two
sons, one a graduate of Yale, the other a
sophomore at MacMurray College in Illinois.
Home address is 1928 Humboldt
Ave., Minneapolis 5, Minn. Ulric Moore,
PhD, Sigma Xi, is senior research associate
and manager of Behavior Farm Laboratory,
Department of Psychology at the University.
Ulric is the author of numerous scientific
papers and publications pertaining to
care, habits and growth of lambs, kids,
sheep and goats. A member of the New
York Academy of Sciences, American
Psychological Assn. and several related societies,
Ulric keeps active in community affairs
of Varna. He and wife Frances (Goodnough)
'25 have two sons, including Kent
'62. Their address is 11 Freese Rd., RD 2,
Ithaca.
Continued, more dues and fund contributors:
Harry Archer, Charles Bullard, Dr.
Hal Beaty, Charles Bowman, Bill Mc-
Knight, Stanley Maas, Stan Noble, Bill November,
Rol Pierotti, Bill Joyce Jr., Irme
Gellert, Stew Strong, Otto Starke Jr., Ernie
Schilling, Ed Schimmel, Herm Soloway,
Dill Walsh, Harry Weiss, Jim Wright, Bob
Zentgraf, Herm Schenkel, Wilbur Brooks
and Howard Conkey.
'23 MS, '27 PhD—Now on his second
two-year tour in Nepal with the US foreign
service, James S. Hathcock has this mailing
address: USOM/Nepal, c/o State Department,
Washington 25, D.C. In July 1960 he
married Addie Howard Kimmel. He has
two small granddaughters in Stratford,
Conn., children of Barbara Hathcock Mooney
'53, his daughter by his first wife, the
late Helen Works'26.
'28 H.
Victor Grohmann
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York 20, N.Y.
John W. Ackerman (picture) is plant
manager of the Fine Colors Division of
Sandoz, Inc., Paterson,
N.J. This is a
Swiss company that
manufactures dyes,
Pharmaceuticals,
chemicals and pigments.
The Ackermans
have four children:
two married
daughters, another
daughter in high
school and a son, John Jr., a freshman at
Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Their
home address is 572 Prospect St., Nutley,
N.J.
June 15, 1961
Alumni Assist in Talent Hunt
SOME 425 secondary school juniors were
brought to Campus May 5-7 by 112
alumni "chauffeurs" assisting in the
never-ending talent hunt for top applicants
to the University. In all, forty-two
Cornell Clubs were represented in the
annual Cornell Day program.
Ross P. Jackson '54, assistant director
of admissions, gave some idea of the need
for the effort after thanking the chauffeurs
"for getting the finest young men
in your communities to come look at
Cornell." In 1959, he told chaffeurs, 50
per cent of the 370 juniors who came to
Cornell Day applied for admission. Of
these, 121 were accepted, and sixty-three
matriculated. To date, an improved 57
per cent of the 1960 visitors have applied.
He asked alumni to keep in touch
with the Cornell Day juniors, to encourage
them to apply and matriculate.
University Vice President James L.
Zwingle, PhD '42, put quality of Faculty
and students at the top of a list of ingredients
required to provide excellence
in higher education. Secondary school
workers need to learn as much as they
can about the desire of potential students
to study, he said in a talk to alumni
volunteers.
The Cornell Day weekend program included
the lodging of most of the prospective
students in fraternities, general
sessions, meetings with faculties and attendance
at classes. Ezra Mager '63 of
Voorheesville was undergraduate chairman.
Junior and senior men's and women's
honorary societies handled registration,
acted as guides, and otherwise
assisted in the Cornell Day activities.
The undergraduate Secondary School
Committee put on a Saturday evening
program. Alumni Field Secretary D.
Harvey Krouse '25 was chairman of the
event. James D. Stocker '51 of Media,
Pa., was master of ceremonies for a
luncheon Saturday at which Zwingle,
Jackson, Krouse and Mager spoke.
Chauffeurs were:
BERGEN COUNTY: Albert B. Miller '48,
Richard T. Cliggott '53, Fletcher W.
Hock'53.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY: Raymond L. Rissler
'50.
BROOME COUNTY: Edward T. Moore
'48, JohnDavidge'55.
BUFFALO: Reeve W. Dean '35, Roy T.
Black '38, Earl D. Howes '41, Charles E.
Wolf '49, Carl F. Gortzig '52, John R.
Dempsey '57.
CAPITAL DISTRICT: Edward W. Pattison'53.
CHENANGO COUNTY: Lewis H. Stratton
'22, Donald Meister '42.
CHICAGO, ILL.: Peter M. Wolff '42,
Harold G. Townsend '48.
CLEVELAND,, OHIO: Frederick S. Asbeck
'55.
DELAWARE: Peter Ham '26, Stanley R.
Stager Jr. '35, Warren Woessner '36, William
T. Sperry '53.
DUTCHESS COUNTY: Herbert W. Saltford
'33, Richard D. Natiello '56.
ESSEX COUNTY: Charles F. Hendrie
'19, Franklyn.F. Stratford '23, W. Henry
Palm '25, Paul E. Spahn '25, Chauncey L.
Grant '26.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY,, CONN. : William M.
Leonard '24, Edward M. Grocco '52,
Morton A. Lowenthal.
HARTFORD, CONN.: Dana B. Waring
'39.
LACKAWANA, N.J.: Donald E. Maclay
'17, George Munsick '21, Ludwig P. Vollers
Jr. '45, Raymond M. Gantwell '52.
LEHIGH VALLEY: Thomas J. Law '37,
Ellsworth G. Machin Jr. '43.
MANCHESTER, N.H.: Thomas E. Bartlett
'41, Walter Knoepfel.
MARYLAND: G. Stewart Fiske '21, A.
Haslup Forman '31, Edward E. Lipinski
'33, Frederick W. Koch '48.
MICHIGAN: Frank Nitzberg '22, William
T. Thompson '32, Peter G. Higbie
'48.
MOHAWK VALLEY: William J. Shaughnessy'41.
NASSAU COUNTY: Michael M. Goon
'25, Frank J. Briston '28, Jack Norden Jr.
'33, W. Barry Miller '39, Samuel V. Mitchell
'53.
NEW ENGLAND: Sidney S. Swindells '24,
Joseph T. Cefalo '42, Richard J. Gilbert
'49, Lorens Persson '55.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Anderson Pace
Jr. '38.
NEW YORK CITY: John W. Stoddard
'13, S. Jack Solomon '20, Robert Morris
'25, Clarence B. Frankel '32, James J.
Bettmann '40, George Rheingold '43.
PENN-YORK: Charles F. Kellogg '38.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.: Charles A. Olson
'31, J. Joseph Driscoll '44, William M.
Morrison '46, William M. Marcussen '50,
James D. Stocker Jr. '51.
PITTSBURGH, PA. : E. Laurence Burrows
'35, John P. Batchelar '36, Jack D. Rice
'43.
ROCHESTER: Windsor D. Ireland '35,
Warren G. Harms '50, Robert G. Brandt
'51, Robert T. Lewis '52, Richard W.
Wambach '53, Richard D. Gifford '54.
ROCKLAND COUNTY: Richard W. D.
Jewett '24, Clifford L. Stalter '28, John S.
Stewart'38.
SCHENECTADY: Henry G. Kingham '43,
Arthur S. Gold '54.
SOUTHERN OHIO: Robert E. Ambrose
'59.
STATEN ISLAND: Bert Klatskin '37.
SYRACUSE: Meredith R. Gushing '44,
Peter G. Pierik '52.
TITUSVILLE, PA.: Joseph E. Fleming
Jr.'35.
TOLEDO, OHIO : Guy H. Bedrossian '55.
TRENTON, NJ.: Edward J. Kearns '47.
UNION COUNTY, N.J.: Fred G. Guldi
'23, Raymond A. Van Sweringen Jr. '44,
John T. Rogers '52.
WASHINGTON, D.G.: Charles R. Roelofs
'22, Jerome G. Leonard '34, Herbert P.
Orland '35, Peter A. Farmer '51, James
R. Hobson'59.
WINCHESTER COUNTY: G. Karleton
Miller '21, Irving J. Bland '26, Elmer L.
Fingar '26, Albert A. Jacobson '27. Peter
V. Roberts '36.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: James A.
Mullane '35, Robert A. Hutchins '56.
WYOMING COUNTY: Harold C. Parker
'44, Reid King.
YORK COUNTY, PA.: Martin B. Ebbert
'30.
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO : Dana S. Johnson
'52, Michael J. Browne '55.
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Edward Corbin Chapman recently was
the subject of a large feature article in the
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. As director of
materials research for Combustion Engineering,
Ed is credited with developing and
perfecting welding processes which have
enabled the company to become the leader
in its field. When Ed joined the company
in 1928 he was put to work on the development
of welding as the best means of sealing
boilers and water drums which up to
then had been riveted. If the pressure got
too high, they burst at the seams. His research
was successful and Combustion was
able to build the nation's first welded boiler
drum, and an impressive list of "firsts" in
the boiler manufacturing industry followed.
During World War II the company produced
almost all the stainless steel equipment
for the production of nitric acid and
produced the boilers for the atomic energy
plant at Oak Ridge. The company now
builds nuclear reactor vessels for atomic
submarines, reactor vessels for experimental
plants using atomic power to produce
electric energy, and the world's largest steam
boilers for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Ed has been active professionally and in
his community, serving as past Southern
vice president of the American Welding Society
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and as a member of the
American Society for Metals, the American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
and the Chattanooga Engineers
Club. In 1945 he was named Chattanooga's
"Engineer of the Year." He is also
deacon of his church and a member of
several civic groups. Ed tries to find some
time for his favorite hobby—golf. The
Chapmans have four children and live on
historic Chickamauga Trail on Lookout
Mountain.
Women—Melίtta Taddiken is
with the New York City Housing
Authority, doing site plan
review, and says she has "a doll of a boss."
Kathryn A. Yohn is teaching school and
driver education at the Bound Brook, N.J.,
High School, and "I love it," she adds.
Myra Seitz is very active in the West 92d
St. YM and YWHA, and with the women's
divisions of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
and the American Friends of
Hebrew University. Her husband, Peter, a
labor-management arbitrator, has been appointed
to a three man board to iron out
labor problems in the missiles field. Their
son Michael, Dartmouth '57, is teaching
and working for his PhD at the University
of Michigan; their daughter Joanna '61 will
summer in Europe. There has been one
grandchild, but by the time this issue comes
out there should be two.
Chris Cooper is an investment counselor
with A. W. Benkert & Co., Manhattan. Her
son Ronald is a senior and her daughter
Martha a freshman at Fairleigh Dickinson
University. Chris is a member of Zonta International.
Rosemarie Parrott is teaching
French in New York City at Bryant High
School and traveling summers, last summer
mainly in France, Austria and Switzerland.
The previous summer she took a 9,000-mile
auto trip west, with stops which included
visits with two '28ers, Libby (Griffiths)
Lash in Tulsa, Okla., and Martha Finch in
Berkeley, Calif.
Alumni-Faculty Project
PROFESSORS William E. Hogan and Norman
Penney, LLB '53, Law, have been
engaged by the State of New York Commission
on Uniform State Laws to annotate
to New York law the Uniform
Commercial Code. A complete recodification
of commercial law sponsored by
the National Conference of Commissioners
on Uniform State Laws and the
American Law Institute, the Code has
been enacted by nine states and will be
introduced in the 1962 New York
Legislature. Henry S. Fraser, LLB '26,
is chairman and Alfred A. Buerger '26,
one of the three members of the commission.
Silvia Pizitz is now located in Manhattan
and runs the buying department in New
York for her family's department store in
Alabama. A world traveler, she spent last
summer on a safari in Africa.
Helen (Spiegel) Cohen is treasurer of
the Five Towns Golden Age Club and still
on the Woodmere Club golf team. Judge
Arthur Markewich '26,, husband of your
correspondent, performed the wedding
service for both of Helen's sons. She and
Murph '29 have three grandchildren.
Ann (Haggstrom) Ricketts's son is at
Syracuse University. Her husband, first
group vice president of Worthington Corp.,
has been appointed president of East
Orange General Hospital. Ann is a member
of the Cornell Council and active in all its
efforts. Her husband Leslie, Lehigh '22, has
been loyal to Cornell financially, a fact
which '28 has greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Theodore F. Angell (Louise Emery)
writes that her husband's transfer from
Massachusetts to New Jersey has resulted
in their moving to Woodland Rd., Brookside,
N.J. A part-time psychometrist and a
school psychologist in both New Jersey and
Massachusetts, she goes to the latter state
periodically for a two-week stay, and is
active in the Junior League. Her husband,
Princeton '24, is an officer in the Springfield
Fire & Insurance Co. Their daughter
Jerry, Rochester '57, Phi Beta Kappa and
Sigma Xi, earned an MA at Harvard Medical
School and began work toward her PhD
in bacteriology; now married, she has transferred
to the University of Wisconsin.
Daughter Judy is married and the mother
of two youngsters.
—MAY ELISH MARKEWICH
Men—Frank C. Hendryx (picture),
since 1957 legal adviser to
the government of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia in petroleum affairs, and
his wife, Betty Andrews
'33, are living
at Riyadh, the capital.
Early in June they
will make their second
African safari to Mocambique,
Portuguese
East Africa, the first
having been in 1959.
Their youngest
daughter, Carol, now
at the Sorbonne, Paris, will join them for
the shoot. Only one daughter of three,
Betsy (Hendryx) Perrier '59, is an alumna;
this fall she hopes to be living in Beirut,
Lebanon, where her husband expects to be
assigned. Frank and Betty's address is care
of Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources,
PO Box 247, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
(Aside to Frank: for use in a future column,
please send me word of how you made out
on the safari, and school or domestic information
about your third daughter.)
On a recent business trip to Washington
I had the pleasure of contacting Bob Dodge,
Lou Walinsky, Irving (Chips) Cantor and
Oscar Altman. Bob eagerly passed along
word of the arrival last October 20 in Sembach,
Germany, of Douglas Harrison Malone
'82. Okay, Grandpa (fourth time).
Bob is still at 5080 Lowell St., NW, Washington,
D.C. I enjoyed meeting Lou's
charming wife, Grace, and their two lovely
daughters, Louisa and Marion. Lou's stories
about the family's five years in Burma,
where he was economic adviser to the Burmese
government, were spellbinding. Irving,
too, was buzzing with news of his wife,
Elizabeth Mandel, Barnard '36, who is enrolled
at Catholic University plugging away
for her master's degree; his son Jim '62;
daughter Mary '64; and daughter Joanne,
Woodrow Wilson High School '63 and
(Mom and Dad hope) Cornell '67. The
column will gladly help the Cantors look
up a firm that sells graduation caps and
gowns at wholesale! Cantors are at home
at 3143 Upland Ter., NW, Washington,
D.C.
A nice note comes from Guillermo Torruella
of the West Indies Rum Distilleries,
Playa, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Son Alberto '54,
LLB '57, has become a partner in the San
Juan law firm with which he has been associated;
older son Billy heads the loan department
of the Banco de Ponce; and
daughter Rosito attends the University of
Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., where the
Torruellas have a second home. Their
Ponce address is 67 Salud St.
Please send news to 233 E. 32d St., New
York 16. —ZAG FREEDMAN
31
Bruce W. Hackstaff
27 West Neck Rd.
Huntington, N.Y.
It is your correspondent's feeling that this
issue is a "dead one" so far as the Class of
1931 is concerned. It cannot promote, nor
can it inform; our 30th Reunion June 8-10
will take care of both phases. Hope to see
you all then. I will be there. Will you?
'32 AB—Mrs. Irving Fein (Lillian Stockser)
of 413 Converse St., Longmeadow,
Mass., is the wife of a lawyer and mother of
three high school youngsters who "hope to
get into Cornell." She is New England women's
chairman of her Class on the Cornell
Fund and director of the Western Massachusetts
Cornell Fund.
'33 BS—On April 1 Morton Adams of
RD 1, Sodus, became executive vice president
of Curtice-Burns, Inc., a new corporation
formed by the merger of Curtice
Brothers Co. of Rochester and Burns-Alton
of Alton. The new organization will process
more than a third of New York State's
frozen vegetables and a large share of its
canned and dehydrated food products.
Adams continues as vice president of Hopkins
of Sodus, Inc., frozen food packers. He
is also general manager of Pro-Fac Co-
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operative, Inc., a companion organization
to Curtice-Burns, Inc. This year he is chairman
of the Council for the College of Agriculture
and the Agricultural Experiment
Stations.
'33 BA—William I. Schneider, PO Box
6146, Tucson, Ariz., will spend the summer
abroad visiting independent schools in the
Scandinavian countries, Greece, Italy and
Israel. With his wife (Florence Hemley,
Bryn Mawr PhD), Schneider is co-director
of Treehaven School in Tucson.
'33 AB—Wells College has named Dr.
Marshall R. Louis director of health services
and professor of hygiene, effective July
1. Since 1946 Dr. Louis has practiced in
Auburn as a pediatrician.
Women—Mrs. Harry J. Russell
(Amy Tobey), Lower Creek Rd.,
RD 2, Ithaca, has been elected
president of the Finger Lakes Chapter of
the International Reading Assn. A former
teacher at Newfield Central School, Amy
is now on the faculty of Cayuga Heights
School. —HELEN BOOTH DE£JLL
Men—Lanson M. Boyer (picture),
general manager and
treasurer of the Detroit Leland
Hotel, Cass at Bagby,
Detroit 26, Mich., was
doubly honored recently
by his election
as president of two
organizations: the Detroit
Chapter, Skal,
North Am-erican
Council, and the
Michigan-Ohio Chapter,
Cornell Society of
Hotelmen. SkaΓs membership includes top
executives in the industry which promotes
both national and international travel. Lanson
is the first hotelman to be thus honored
by this organization. The Boyers, who have
lived at the hotel for the past four years,
were previously in New York where Lanson
was president of Halsey-Lanson Co., hotel
operations.
William C. Haynes, PhD '46, 726 W.
Ridge Rd., Peoria, 111., is a bacteriologist at
the US Department of Agriculture's Northern
Utilization Laboratory. At the annual
meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
in Chicago he presented a paper on
two bacteria that produce antibiotics, one
insoluble and the other soluble, and participated
in a roundtable discussion of culture
collection problems and the taxonomy
of bacteria. His research work is intended
to increase the use of cereal grains such as
corn, wheat and sorghum.
Charles T. Blake, 20925 Byron Rd,
Cleveland 22, Ohio, who is director of engineering,
Warner & Swasey Co, has been
elected to his firm's nine-man board of directors.
Congratulations are certainly due to
all these successful Class members.
James A. Mullane, 95 State St., Springfield,
Mass, as conference chairman on the
Secondary Schools Committee, presided at
a special session for prospective students
and parents at the University's Hartford
Regional Conference in April. Although we
were not able to attend the conference, we
are sure that Jim's participation was outstanding
and merits the appreciation of the
University and its alumni.
—ALBERT G. PRESTON JR.
June 15, 1961
Plantations Men Cited
Two SPONSORS of Cornell Plantations
have been honored, Henry T. Skinner
'36 and Clement G. Bowers '23, vice
chairman. Skinner, who is chief of the
US National Arboretum in Washington,
received the first annual Silver Medal
of Achievement March 9 from American
Home Magazine. He won the award
for work on the Plant Hardiness Zone
Map of the US.
Bowers (left), who lives at Maine,
N.Y., and is a research associate in
Floriculture at the University, receives
the Jackson Dawson Medal of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society for 1960.
In the citation, he was described as an
"eminent plant scientist, author and
hybridizer of note ... a world authority
on rhododendrons and azaleas, and a
distinguished horticulturist along broad
lines. His book, Rhododendrons and
Azaleas, recently revised, is one of the
true classics of garden literature."
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Men: Robert A. Hamburger
6 Locust Drive
Great Neck, N.Y.
In a recent issue we wrote of Capt. William
H. Munson, commanding officer of a
Navy Aircraft Squadron. Bill was recently
awarded the highest military peace time
award, the Legion of Merit, for command
of Antartic operations in 1959 and 1960. He
was cited for numerous landings in isolated,
snow-locked areas, during "Operation
Deep Freeze." He and his wife are presently
living in Rhode Island and are the parents
of six children. His father-in-law is George
Spamer '15.
John Bauernschmidt of 3168 Warrington
Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio, is works manager
of the Cleveland division of Harris-
Seybold Co., a division of Harris-Intertype
Corp. He is the father of three boys, ranging
in age from 13 to 17. Jack Wurst has a
daughter attending the Cornell School of
Nursing in New York City. His younger
daughter is collecting ribbons for her horsemanship.
The Wursts live at 5 Arbright
St., Albany 3.
Walter Grimes heads his own media
brokerage firm, W. B. Grimes & Co., in
Washington, D.C. He recently handled the
sale of Station WWIL, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. He and his wife have three children and
live at 1917 Brad St., Falls Church, Va.
Jim Duchscherer, his wife and three sons
have been living at a new address since the
first of the year—The Statler Hilton in
Boston. He was appointed general manager
as of January 1, and prior to that was resident
manager of the Statler Hilton in Wash-
ington for three years. He hopes many
alumni will drop in to visit.
Paul Grossinger, president of the New
York State Hotel Association, describes
himself as a "struggling country hotel
keeper"; actually, he runs a huge resort operation
called "Grossinger's," near Liberty.
Carl E. Widger, a teacher of vocational
agriculture at Stockbridge Valley Central
School, Munnsville, is president of the Association
of Teachers of Agriculture of New
York. He is married and has one daughter.
Bertram Allenstein, 701 N. Linden Dr.,
Beverly Hills, Calif., has been a widower
for the past two years. He has five children,
the oldest graduating from high school in
June, and the youngest just finishing first
grade. Bert is chief of cardiology at the
City of Hope Medical Center, co-chief of
the adult cardiac clinic at the Los Angeles
County General Hospital and assistant
clinical professor of medicine at Southern
California Medical School. Additionally,
Bert is in private practice in internal medicine
and cardiology in Beverly Hills.
William Ball, 417 S. Carlisle St., Philadelphia,
is a partner in the firm of Edward
N. Hay & Associates, management consultants.
Schuyler Hafely, a landscape
architect who dreamed up a children's park
for his native city, Modesto, Calif., last
July saw his dream come true. We have read
the copy released by the city of Modesto
at the opening of this park, and it must be
very gratifying to Schuyler that thirty service
organizations assisted in making his
dream a reality.
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Alan R. Wίllson
State Mutual of America
Worcester, Mass.
The Newark Airport is still the business
headquarters of E. Oliver Natunen. Ollie
lives at 744 Fairway Drive, Union, N.J., but
he's most enthusiastic about his business of
providing in-flight meals and feeding the
customers at the airport. He was recently
elected treasurer of the New York Chapter
of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen. A note
from Albert D. Miller says he is a development
engineer with IBM. RD 1 Meadowbrook
Lane, Vestal, is home for Al, his wife
and four children, two of whom are high
school seniors.
Another Classmate who is reliving his
college days vicariously is Edmund V.
Mezitt. Ed's son, Bob, is a freshman and
went with the Glee Club to Europe during
the Christmas holidays. Ed lives in Hopkinton,
Mass., off Frankland St.
Charles H. Peters, director of industrial
relations for the Grey Rock division of US
Asbestos Company, lives at 1732 Ridgeview
Ave., Lancaster, Pa. Chuck says age is
creeping up and that he had to have the
neighborhood kids help shovel the snow
last winter. He thinks he'll still be able to
creak up to our 25th next year, however.
Helping to keep him mentally youthful are
his many activities on the board of the
Community Chest and the building committee
of his church, as well as campaign
activity with the Republican party.
Heathman T. Allen, a certified public accountant,
lives at 347 Brydon Rd., Dayton,
Ohio. Heath has five children and is employed
by the United States General Accounting
Office. A note from William V.
Bassett shows his present address as 510
669

Delaware Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. Bill writes:
"Dave Thomas and I had a brief reunion
recently when he spoke at a local meeting
of the American Welding Society in his
capacity as president of the national organization.
My own activities include skiing
whenever weather, job, community affairs
and keeping up with our 13-month-old son
permit. They usually don't."
James Spencer Brown III is now living in
Stamford, Conn., at 22 Van Rensselaer Ave.
Jim just took his oldest son to Ithaca to
show him his father's source of higher education.
He says, "If he goes to Cornell, it
will be a fitting tribute to my 25th Reunion."
Jim is advertising manager of
Reichhold Chemicals in White Plains. He
says he enjoys the country life these days
and doesn't miss New York commuting one
little bit. His daughter is about to graduate
from Green Mountain College. He says
this fact doesn't make him feel any younger,
so he bought himself an MGA last fall
to soften the blow. Jim is planning to come
back for our 25th next year. Last year he
saw Bill Tompkins, who also hopes to make
it. Jim's note ends, "I'll try to round up a
few brother Dekes for the occasion. Anybody
for a crew race?"
Men: Stephen J. deBaun
2010 Addison Street
Philadelphia 46, Pa.
Well, more about our fine Class dinner in
New York recently—who was there and
what they're up to. Testimony as to just
how pleasant it was is given in the picture,
in which Ed Pfeifer, Milt Porter, Coley
Asinof and George More swap yarns.
Herb Polk was there, the recent father of
son No. 3. Howie Byk is a salesman in the
stationery bizz; Bob Newman, still practicing
law, has two children; Whitey Nelson
is in chemicals, Ken MacKinnon in banking.
Don Conklin and his family (two boys,
three girls) skied Sugarloaf Mountain in
Maine last winter. Ed Oswald, with Allied
Chemical, spent a good part of last year
traveling through South America.
George Wilder lists himself as an "eighth
vice president," Rog Kingsland is an electrical
engineer, Dave Misner a pump salesman.
Bruce Kester is with P. Ballantine &
Sons. Coley Asinof is a vice president of
Advertising Corp. of America. Gil Rose
(who took the picture above and others
you'll see later) is a consulting engineer and
is about to change jobs. Gus Reyelt is in
the club and catering field in New Rochelle,
Jack Thomas in group insurance,
and Chuck Davis in engineering. Tom
Frank and John Murphy stopped by for a
drink or two, but couldn't stay for dinner.
Ted Hughes is a manufacturers' agent
(electrical supplies) in Pittsburgh. His two
oldest girls are enrolled at Northwestern; his
son is a high school freshman, and his
youngest, Ted says, is a "little girl with
670
Law Alumni on Campus
LAW SCHOOL alumni gathered for their
spring reunion on Campus, May 13-14.
Some 225 attended the Friday night
opening dinner; the annual meeting of
the Law Association and a symposium
on New York State Business Corporation
Law of 1961 Saturday morning; and the
reunion dinners for five Classes Saturday
evening. Speakers at the opening
dinner were Lloyd F. MacMahon '36,
US district judge, Southern District of
New York, and Dean Gray Thoron of
the Law School. Law Association president
and former US attorney general,
William P. Rogers, LLB '37, presided.
Participating in the Saturday symposium
were Professor Harry G. Henn, LLB
'43, Law; Professor Robert S. Stevens,
Law, Emeritus; and Robert S. Lesher,
LLB '41; all of whom serve on the New
York Joint Legislative Committee to
Study Revision of Corporation Laws.
At the annual meeting of the Law Association,
three new members were
elected to the executive committee for
three-year terms, Robert H. Antell '43,
Frederick B. Lacey, LLB '48, and Albert
C. Neimeth '50. In charge of their
respective Class dinners were Professor
Ernest N. Warren, LLB '31; John M.
Friedman, Ernest M. Levinson and
Francis R. Peternoster, all Class of '34
for the Law Class of '36; Lesher, LLB
'41; John B. Carroll, LLB '51; and Paul
T. Rubery, LLB '56. Professor W. David
Curtiss '38, associate dean of the School,
as secretary-treasurer of the Law Association,
was in charge of arrangements
for the reunion weekend.
brainsl" Bill Davis is a stock broker in New
York. Not too long ago, Bill completed an
unusual and prodigious job: a history of
US warships from 1775 to the present. His
manuscript was published in Brussels by the
Belgian Nautical Research Assn. and drew
from the US Chief of Naval Operations this
commendation: "You are to be congratulated
for your tenacious spirit in completing
this worthy and difficult project. Yours is a
major contribution to ship enthusiasts
throughout the free world."
Jack Candee, another sales executive, has
a son at Trinity, another at Rumsey Hall.
Milt Porter, a surgeon, reports nothing
startling has happened to him since our last
dinner. Ed Pfeifer came over from New
Jersey. He's with Lukens Steel Co. Cars
Cornbrooks trained up from Baltimore,
where he's an architect. He, Roy Lockwood
and I holed up at the Algonquin for the
night. Roy is with Socony Mobil in Pittsburgh.
Eli Hooper was in from Skaneateles.
His brother died recently. Dave Crawford
was there looking fit enough to play a full
game of soccer. Dave is with Socony Mobil,
too, in New York. George Smith, who
describes himself as "employed by my
wife," reported that Bill Kruse missed the
dinner by a week, arriving from Paris the
first week in May. George and his wife
own and operate a chain of specialty shops
in Westfield, N.J.
A lot of the talk at the dinner centered
on our next two Class get-togethers—an
off-year Reunion in Ithaca on June 8, 9, 10,
and Homecoming Weekend next fall.
Women—It's nearing the end of
the year and it's coming with a
feeling that I have let you and
this column down, down, down. I'll take
credit for a couple of downs but the news
from you has been a little on the short side
this year. The goal for 1961-62 is "Make
News for Phyl."
Meanwhile, Henrietta Miller Brannin
(Mrs. Richard), 33 Ogden Ave., East Willison,
sent news and a cartoon. She is a
busy suburban housewife with a boy, 16, and
two girls, 13 and 9. She's the first to admit
much of her time is spent at the dentist's
(mine, too), but she saves time for dancing,
Scouts, school committees, two years as
PTA president. Her husband is an engineer
at Sperry Gyroscope.
Mary Kelly Northrup waits until she gets
to Hawaii to send us her bit. Lucky one, to
be in Honolulu with husband Charles V. '32
and two daughters for a three-week holiday.
Of course we are envious. Celia Coulter, 16
Excelsior Ave., New Paltz, librarian at the
college, sent a message back via our school
librarian that she's still alive and kicking.
Good to hear from you. Celia sent her niece
to our school, and so we had first-hand conversations
for two years. Good idea. Send
all your relatives to Cobleskill and I won't
have to nag you for news. See you later.
—PHYLLIS WHEELER WINKELMAN
* ΛΓ\ Men —Webster Publishing Com-
^f" \J pany of St. Louis, Mo., has made
a smart move in appointing
Henry S. Thomasen
(picture) as editor-inchief.
He is to have
charge of the total
editorial program for
Webster, publisher of
elementary and high
school -textbooks,
workbooks and teaching
aids. For nearly
fourteen years previously,
he had been associated with McGraw-
Hill, for whose school department he had
been industrial education editor since 1954.
Henry, his wife and two children will move
soon from Maplewood, N.J., to St. Louis.
There is one Classmate about whom I
have heard rumors that have finally been
confirmed. Now Rich Beuttell writes: "It's
been a long time—much too long. Lived in
Florida for the last ten years, owning and
operating citrus groves of which I have
about 1,000 acres. Still have nine children
(including twin girls), the oldest in Finch
College, New York City, and the youngest,
4!/2, yet to enter school. Love it here, but
would like to see the boys. Next time I am
in New York I will visit the Cornell Club,
and hope to see some of the Class. Best regards."
Wouldn't you know he would live
in a delightful spot like Vero Beach ^(PO
Box 2367 for those who wish to order a
carload of oranges) ?
I have been doing a lot of worrying about
our machine tool salesmen in Michigan because
I understand the manufacturers in
that area aren't buying much. But I guess
I didn't give our men enough credit for the
ability to get out and dig up a little business.
Spencer Gates of 179 Suffield, Birmingham,
Mich., writes :
Cornell Alumni News

Another
Cornell Man
on the way
Remember when it was you standing
there? How you squirmed when
your father saw that one bad report
card. You're glad now that he made
you buckle down — grateful that you
were able to go on to one of the country's
finest universities.
Naturally, you want to be just as
farsighted about your own son's
future. So now that he's one year
closer to college — wouldn't it be
wise to call your Massachusetts
Mutual man and discuss the best insurance
plan for his education?
And since this is the time for report
cards and review, perhaps you should reevaluate
your own career. Are you as far
along as a man of your ability should
be? For example, are you earning as
much as $ 13,500 a year? That was the
1960 average income of 630 representatives
who have been with the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company five years or longer.
They are men like you — men
chosen for their fine education and
background. All received thorough
training and earned while they
learned. Now they are established in
a career that uniquely combines independence
with stable income — plus
the security of group insurance and
retirement benefits.
If you would like to know more
about this opportunity, write for a
free copy of "A Selling Career".
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL Life Insurance Company
Some of the Cornell alumni in Massachusetts Mutual service:
Edward H. Thomson, '09, Director
Henry G. Mosler, ΊO, Los Angeles
Arthur H. Challiss, Ίl, Seattle
Edwin A. Coyle, C.I.U., '13, Pittsburgh
Roland A. Bush, '15, Denver
Albert C. Walkley, '21, Rochester
Stanley A. Elkan, '23, Macon
Charles W. Skeele, '24, Gortland
Charles H. Schaaff, C.L.U., '27,
Exec. Vice Pres. & Director
Jesse M. Van Law, C.L.U., '27,
New York
SPRINGFIELD. MASSACHUSETTS* ORGANIZED 1851
George F. Bryon, '30, Garden City, L.I.
William R. Robertson, C.L.U., '34,
Boston
Hector J. Buell, '36, Albany
Lauren E. Bly, C.L.U., '38, Ithaca
Alexie N. Stout, C.L.U., '38, Syracuse
R. Selden Brewer, '40, Ithaca
Harry C. Copeland, Jr., '40, New York
Paul J. Weimer, '42, Utica
William J. Cochrane, '43, Buffalo
Edward T. Peterson, '48, Syracuse
Barron H. demons, '49, Jackson
Carman B. Hill, C.L.U., '49, Ithaca
Walter W. Schlaepfer, '51, Ithaca
John J. CWeill, '52, New York
Albert R. Thiernau, '52, Chicago
Neil L. Kaplan, '52, New York
Frank A. Bettucci, '53, Ithaca
Joseph L. Marotta, '55, New York
Robert J. Longhi, '56, New York
Andrew E. Tuck, III, '56, Syracuse
Peter J. Van de Water, '57, San Francisco
Roland C Briggs, '57, Albany
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Spent November in Europe setting up representatives
for my machine tool sales business,
Gates & Company. Have found a good
market overseas. Drove 700 miles a week for
three weeks on the wrong side of the road in
England without a scratch. Am a lieutenant
colonel in the Air Force Reserve. Present job
is Deputy Chief of Staff for Administrative
Services, Headquarters Fifth Air Region, Selfridge
Field, Mich. Good avocation; many
changes in Air Force since World War II.
Wife, three daughters, cat, dog and guppies
all doing well. Looking forward to next Reunion
(25th); the 20th was fabulous. I expect
to go into training for the next.
—JOHN MUNSCHAUER
'41
Men: Robert L. Bartholomew
51 N. Quaker Lane
West Hartford 7, Conn.
Advance copies of this issue have been
distributed at Class Reunions. In our next
column a write-up with photograph will
cover '41 activities at our big 20th Reunion
weekend.
David H. Walradt (picture), 712 Mac-
Lean Ave., Kenilworth, 111., joined The
Pure Oil Company in
1957 and currently is
manager of credit
merchandising. He
writes: "Couldn't give
you a better buying
tip—Pure gasolines,
and for an investment,
Pure Oil stock. It's
hard to believe that
we have been out of
Cornell for twenty years. I still have some
hair on top." For eleven years Dave was
with Alcoa in New York City, New Orleans
and Chicago. The Walradts have a son, 10,
and a daughter, 8.
John H. Teach Jr., 350 Mt. Vernon Rd.,
Snyder 26, is president of Teach Insurance
Agency, Inc. Jack and his wife, the former
Anne Kast, have four children. Jack was
recently promoted to captain in the Naval
Reserve. Jerome J. Parker has been appointed
commissioner of shade trees for the
City of Yonkers, where he lives at 38 Eisenhower
Dr. George H. Becker Jr., 17 Fayette
Circle, Fayette, is a partner in Stover, Butler
& Murphy, certified public accountants,
in Syracuse. George married Harriet
Howell, Pi Lambda Theta. They have two
boys and a girl. George's father-in-law is
Leon G. Howell '14.
Dr. Harold D. Robertson, 400 Canterbury
Dr., Dayton 29, Ohio, is associate
radiologist at Miami Valley Hospital. Hal
married Prudence Lehrbach, Pi Lambda
Theta, and they have two boys and a girl.
Sam K. Brown Jr., 4207 N. 35th St., Arlington
7, Va., is district sales manager for
General Electric Co. in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Brown is the former Katherine Ledbetter.
Their family includes a boy and
three girls. Twins Katherine and Emeline
were born in 1957.
Daniel A. Carrara, US Naval Hospital
Portsmouth, N.H., recently wrote, "On 1
June 1961 I intend to retire from the Navy
as a Chief Warrant Officer (W-3) with
twenty years of service. I expect to marry
Margaret Toner of Valley Stream upon retirement.
Our address will be: 11 Foster
Ave., Valley Stream. My biggest problem
for the immediate future is finding a job
in the management field."
George W. Vreeland Jr., 3520 Yorkshire
Rd., Pasadena, Calif., writes, "My father,
George W. Vreeland '98, passed away in
March at the age of 84. I'm still working
as a metallurgist with US Steel, calling on
our customers in southern California."
George married the former Virginia Sisson
and they have two daughters.
Wellington L. Ramsey, 416 Berkley Rd.,
Haverford, Pa., is project engineer in lubricants
and waxes, technical service department,
Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ramsey is the former Jeanne Weir.
They have two girls and a boy. Duke writes:
"Working harder than ever since manpower
cutback last June. Now taking a six-week
course in the study of computers and programming."
Men—John and Alice (Sanderson
'42) Rivoire of 649 E. 14th
St., New York City, just returned
from an extensive trip down South, where
they combined business with pleasure. John
was looking for new gadgets and Sandy
keeping track of the Girl Scouts.
This column is as short as it is only for
one reason, LACK OF NEWS. For those who
may have forgotten, my address is Taconic
Rd., Ossining. —BOB COOPER
Men—Joe File, a research professor
of plasma physics at
Princeton, is taking advanced
courses at Columbia. Bob Ready told the
Ivy League Luncheon of the Touchdown
Club that he's game for a second fling at a
Gotham Bowl game in New York this fall.
John Whittemore played indoor polo all
last season at New York's Squadron A
Armory. He's president of Spray Engineering
Co. and a principal stockholder in Don
Lueder's Geotechnics and Resources, Inc.
Mrs. Whittemore was Alma Huber '45. Gerald
Tohn and wife Diane are celebrating
the birth of their second daughter, Susan
Lee. Gerry is now in real estate with Cross
& Brown in New York City.
Charles H. Hoens Jr. resigned as assistant
US attorney and chief, Civil Division for
New Jersey District, in order to enter private
practice of the law with Lum, Biunno
& Tompkins, Newark, N.J. Charles and
Mary now have four offspring aged 8, 6, 4
and 2.
Gary Pickard and wife went to Mexico
City on a honeymoon ten years ago and
stayed to make their home there. He sells
insurance, has two children and belongs to
a Cornell Club. He welcomes all alumni
visiting Mexico City to call on him.
Another '44 executive meeting took place
in New York City to iron out the treasury
situation. You should soon be hearing from
President Joe Driscoll, Treasurer Sam
Pierfce and your secretary, 1860 Broadway,
New York 23. —DAN MORRIS
Erie G. Carlson
5 Aspen Gate
'45Men:
Port Washington, N.Y.
Secretary Tod Knowles contributes this
message: Since spring has been late, my
housecleaning has been late also. I started
this several weeks ago because I wanted to
put into writing the appreciation all of us
must feel to that covey of selfless souls who
volunteered to be underwriters for the
ALUMNI NEWS subscription plan.
Cornell Alumni News

In our first year of this subscription plan
we had 1,148 recipients on the rolls. Last
fall we dropped over half of these and now
have 545 subscriptions, most of which are
being paid for through the regular Class
dues. We continue to carry a few Classmates
who we feel should, with a little unbending
on our part for an additional year,
come through with dues payment in exchange
for the subscription.
We had approximately seventy underwriter
shares at a cost of $18 per share,
which means that for the original 1,148 subscribers
the underwriters paid a little over
$1 per subscriber last year. With less than
half the number now receiving the ALUMNI
NEWS^ and with most of that smaller group
paying their Class dues, there is a very good
chance that this year our underwriters may
not have to pay a red cent. We are not sure
this prospect will prove out, but at any rate
the ultimate cost per underwriter will be
much lower than last year, and once we drop
a few more errant souls from the mailing list
the program should start paying off.
We do not know whether other Classes
have culled out their mailing lists this
quickly in order to save the underwriters'
pocketbooks, but the prospect of only a
minor obligation is a very satisfying one to
those of us who have hoped that the ALUMNI
NEWS subscriptions would single out those
in the Class who are really interested in
maintaining an affiliation.
It is extremely gratifying to me to realize
that of all the men enrolled in out Class in
the fall of 1941, nearly half still show interest
in allying themselves with 1945. That's
a pretty good record for a wartime Class
whose members scarcely had a chance to
get to know one another before they were
all called into service.
We can't urge you enough to drop a letter
to the ALUMNI NEWS from time to time with
up-to-date reports of your large-sized current
successes. With this thought in mind,
we suggest that you express your approval
or disapproval for our running, over the
span of several issues, the names and addresses
of those who are now receiving the
ALUMNI NEWS so that we might all have an
up-to-date Class address list.
Women—It is a delight to report
tnat tne Atteridg family has
reached the half dozen mark.
Paul '46 and Louise (Van Nederynen) Atteridg
announce the birth of James Andrew
on April 29, 1961. He has already earned
his "C," for his first gift was a bib with a big
C. The other Atteridg children are Ellen,
11, Ted, 8, John, 6 and Barbara and Susan,
5. They live at 130 Clarewill Ave., Upper
Montclair, N.J.
In its column TV-Radio Today, The New
York Herald Tribune for January 3 carried
a long write-up of the Joyce (Bauer) Brothers
program.
If you plan to vacation in Europe, Joan
Shelton hangs out the welcome mat. Her address
is American Dependents School, Box
1284, APO 332, New York. However, she
actually lives at the Amelia Earhart Hotel,
Wiesbaden, Germany. She is teaching third
grade in the Dependents School. Last year,
Joan was in England. She has had a wonderful
opportunity to travel and has seen the
Middle East, a great deal of Europe and was
planning a trip to Spain and Monaco this
June 15, 1961
Helsinki Reunion
HELSINKI was the scene of a reunion last
month for Professor Thomas W. Mackesey,
Grad '39-41, City & Regional Planning,
and five former students of the College
of Architecture now working in the
Finnish city. The five alumni are Alan
Hartell '52, John Insco Williams '52,
Scott Hamilton '50, Clas Lindquist,
Sp Arch '52—, and Goran Engroos. On
leave this year, Professor Mackesey is a
lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts in Copenhagen. When he wrote the
ALUMNI NEWS he had been at the new
Oulu University, just below the Arctic
Circle, and was en route to the University
of Ghent, his next stop on a lecture
tour that was to take him from Finland
to Italy. He and Mrs. Mackesey (Eloise
Ross) '34 will be joined in Europe this
summer by four of their five children.
spring. In February Trudy Zeulow '48 visited
Joan when she was in Europe on a ski
tour.
News of our Class has been very skimpy
in recent months. Please send your news or
that of friends to me at McCann Hollow
Rd., Olean. —HELEN CORBETT JOHNSON
Men — We are raising a real
group of politicians in Ithaca.
Carmen Hill was elected to the
Ithaca Board of Education in the largest
voter turnout since 1957. Leverett Saltonstall
Jr., PhD '48, was elected to fill the
other opening. Edward M. Fleisher, 155 N.
Adams St., Manchester, N.H., has three
children: two boys, Mark and Adam, and
one girl, Leslie. Frederick M. Lane is practicing
psychiatry in New Rochelle and living
at 349 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon.
Russell S. Bogert writes that he is "operating
engineering and product development
firm and associate firms listed with
another '49er, Stan Jacobson, Cherry Hill,
N.J." Russ and his wife, Evelyn, reside at
44 Balfour Lane, Levittown, N.J., with their
five children. Bob Breitbarth is still in Venezuela,
where he is plant manager of Industria
Venezuela de Cables Electricos,
C.A., and lives at Apartado 173, Valencia,
Venezuela. He visits with George Griffith
frequently.
Jerry Hargarten, 2509 Deepwood Dr.,
Wilmington 3, Del., is president of the
Cornell Club of Delaware when he is not
"DuPonting" it. David A. Nagel is secretary-treasurer
of Eastern Mutual Life Insurance
Company in Passaic, N.J. Dave,
his wife, Norma, and three children live
at 21 Chatham Ter., Clifton, N.J.
The following news is borrowed from the
Alpha Gamma Rho newsletter and was
compiled by Len Borden. Jack S. Adams,
county agricultural agent in Montgomery
County, lives on RD 1, Fonda. Irwin Bensink
has been teaching vocational agriculture
at Clymer since 1956. Barth and Martha
(Clark '48) Mapes will celebrate their
14th wedding anniversary in June. Barth is
Administrative Assistant in Animal Husbandry
at the University.
Rod G. Miller, 542 Marietta Ave.,
Swarthmore, Pa., has been promoted to assistant
personnel manager at the Chester
plant of the Scott Paper Co. My "Jim's"
companion, Ben C. Amsden, is now giving
with the Hotel School charm at the Sheraton-Johnson
Hotel in the Black Hills
country of Rapid City, S.D. Ben has four
fine sons, M&rk, Richard, Gregory, Ben Jr.
and "a fiftn one due in June." Dr. M. Douglas
MacLean, after four years of general
surgical practice, is presently a fellow in the
department of proctologic surgery at the
Temple University Medical Center in Philadelphia.
He uses 1804 Noble St., East
Meadow, as his mail address.
Robert E. Miller is really living Cornell
to the hilt. Bob is president of his homebuilding
company which he calls Cornell
Builders, Inc. With three sons and one
daughter, the Millers live at Box 2237, Dayton
29, Ohio. He also reports that the
"Ithaca," "Cayuga" and "Seneca" are his
best selling models.
That runs me right out of news items, so
will all '49ers please go do something today!
No matter how trivial, do it! Then send
along a report to me so I can have a July
column. Thanks. — DICK KEEGAN
Men — Once upon a time when I
took over this job (in actuality
only a year ago) I stated that I
would try to work in everything that was
sent me in the way of news. Like the
elephant who never forgets, I am down to
some fairly ancient items which I am sure
the writers have forgotten. The reason: no
current news. Send it along; we can handle
all you have.
Arnold D. Cohen, M.D., 20 High St.,
Elmsford, reported last June that he had
moved from Tarrytown to an office in White
Plains for the practice of psychiatry. The
Cohens have two daughters. David E. Conklin,
26565 Mazur Dr., Rolling Hills, Calif.,
also sent word last year that he is a general
supervisor, responsible for the development
of the guidance system for the Air Force
Skybolt Missile. Dave is doing all this with
the Nortonics division of Northrup Corp.
In August I received a release stating that
Robert G. Myers, Sugar Bottom Rd., Furlong,
Pa., also was working on a phase of
the Skybolt program for General Electric
Co. in Philadelphia. He was working with
a group responsible for the development
and manufacture of the re-entry vehicle.
The Rev. Frederick T. Vanderpoel, 300
Hibiscus Dr., Pittsburgh 35, Pa., is rector
of St. James Episcopal Church in Penn
Hills, Pa. He has also been active in church
radio work, serving as chairman of the
radio-TV steering committee of the Council
of Churches of the Pittsburgh area. The
Vanderpoels have three children.
— ROBERT N. POST
Men ~ J W Bothers '24 forwards
a card from the El Derby
Restaurant, Paseo de la Reforma
#400, Mexico, D.F., which is operated by
Carlos Osuna. My Spanish was challenged
to translate the card, but I did get far
enough to figure that El Derby offers international
cuisine, excellently prepared, and
is the most distinguished restaurant in Mexico.
I thought this sounded like a possible
overstatement until I turned the card over
and discovered a picture of Carlos chatting
with Jane Mansfield and her husband,
Mickey Hargitay. I guess this does make it
distinguished.
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Culley, Corbett and Tanenbaum of Rochester
has become Culley, Corbett, Tanenbaum
and Reifsteck with the addition of
Edward F. Reifsteck as a partner. Ed spent
two years in Juneau, Alaska, as assistant US
attorney before becoming associated with
the Rochester law firm in 1957. Ed, his wife
Barbara and their two sons live at 24 Durkar
Lane, Greece. The American Oil Company
has appointed John E. Hinman group
leader in the research and development department
of their plant at Whiting, Ind.,
where he will head development work on
new processes for catalytic cracking. John
and his wife live at 1901 Fernhill Dr., Valparaiso,
Ind.
Jerry Steisel sent me a card announcing
the opening of his office at 808 New York
Ave., Brooklyn, for the practice of psychiatry.
The good doctor recently returned
from service with the Army Medical Corps
and now lives at 761 Prospect PL, Brooklyn
16. Jerry reports his loyalties are with our
Class although he received his degree in
September 1950. A smart move on Jerry's
part to associate with such a distinguished
group! Perhaps we could get his practice off
to a great start by sending him a list of all
Classmates in the metropolitan area, particularly
those who did not come back for
Reunion.
Paul Szasz took his undergraduate studies
in Engineering Physics and obtained an
LLB in 1956. He is presently involved with
drafting new international laws to prevent
member states of the International Atomic
Energy Agency from using assistance for
military purposes. Paul, who is working in
Austria, writes, "Being unprecedented, it
presents many nice legal, practical and
highly political problems."
Chad Graham writes: "I've been awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship, and with some
additional support from the General Electric
Research Laboratory will be off to
Japan this summer for a year at the Institute
for Solid State Physics of the University of
Tokyo. Helping me to drain America's gold
reserves will be Alison (Bliss) '52 and small
fry, Andrea, Carolyn and Gordon." One of
the six sections of Social Changes in Latin
America Today, publication of the Council
on Foreign Relations, was written by Richard
Patch. Dick's section was devoted to
Bolivia. The book is intended as a guide on
how to approach with understanding the
problems in our relationship with Latin
Americans. Like the authors of the other
sections, Dick is a social anthropologist with
first-hand experience in the area. In Peru,
Dr. Robert Bradfield is assigned by the 1C A
to the Peruvian National Institute of Nutrition
as a special consultant.—JACK OSTROM
Women: Alison Bliss Graham
2211 The Plaza
Schenectady, N.Y.
In my desperate search for news, I have
neglected to mention a happy event right in
my own backyard. Long overdue is an announcement
of the birth last December 2 of
Charles Stewart Friderici to Helen (Stewart)
and Arthur Friderici, DVM '55, of
2764 Troy Rd., Schenectady. Helen also
gave me a couple of new addresses: Beverly
(Johnson) and Herbert T. James '50
live on RD 4, Columbia, Tenn.; and Barbara
(Copeland) and Edwin Birkhimer are
back in Ithaca at 10-C Pleasant Grove Apts.
while Ed works towards his PhD. Incidentally,
the Birkhimers were mentioned in an
article, "Surprising Island of the Northern
Seas," in the March 11 Saturday Evening
Post. Author Evan Hill met Barbara and Ed
in Iceland, on their way home from a year
in Copenhagen with son Karl, now \ l
/2.
A nice note from Judy Goodstein Kleitman
says: "Now we are six! Linda was born
in November, much to the joy of Joey, 7V2,
Naomi, 5, and Dicky, 3, not to mention Dave
and me. Recently I got a letter from Nancy
(Grignon) Worsnop (Mrs. Robert '50),
who moved with her two sons and daughter
to Australia. Their new address is 10 Lloyd
St., Belmont, Geelong, Victoria, Australia."
Traveling abroad this summer will be
Carolyn Flint, whose home base is at 3237
Rivera St., San Francisco 16. Carolyn
writes: "This summer I am attending the
International Congress of Dietetics in London.
Therefore, I have spent the last several
months wading around in the most exciting
pamphlets, books and travel folders I have
ever seen. Now at last my plans are formulated,
and I'm patiently awaiting June 7 to
begin the most wonderful nine-week vacation
I can imagine."
Another "temporary Californian" has returned
to the East. Mrs. Roby Harrington
III (Carol Whitney) writes, "Our family,
which now includes three boys—Roby IV
(Chip), Scott and Todd—moved back from
California last summer. In September we
moved to our house at 14 Walmsley Rd.,
Darien, Conn. We loved California, but are
very happy to be back in the East. Our
house in Menlo Park was bought by an exprofessor
at Cornell, Jan Triska, who is now
professor of political science at Stanford."
Dr. William B. Webber
428 E. 70th St.
'54Men:
New York 21, N.Y.
Planning on a vacation trip to New York
this spring? Probably the most famous and
fashionable of New York City's innumerable
world-renowned hotels is the Waldorf
Astoria, where Hotelmen Frank X. Fisher
and Henri P. Blanc are at present employed.
Frank is an assistant banquet manager,
while Henri is an assistant manager, in
charge of repairs and rehabilitation and also
is acting as liaison with Carte Blanche
Corp. Henri was married recently to Mary
Jo Ruddick of Washington, D.C., and is
living at 141-05 Pershing Crescent, Briarwood
35.
Latest word from Charles H. Huber is:
"No changes, still have our dog Burlap, only
bassett hound with a college diploma from
Cornell; traveling to South America often,
hope to spend some time in Europe this
year." Charlie is a sales manager, veterinary
division, Wyeth International, Ltd. ^Address:
506 Montgomery Lane, Radnor, Pa.
Charles M. Huck, consulting engineer in
industrial design, has just opened a new
office in New Brunswick, N.J., in addition to
his present office in New York City.
Now an Air Force captain and instructor
in German at the US Air Force Academy in
Colorado is Ted Heine Jr. Ted's address is
Department of Foreign Languages, US Air
Force Academy, Colorado. Seely F. Pratt Jr.
a factory superintendent at Union Steel
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Chest Corp. in Le Roy, lives at 52 East Ave.
in Caledonia.
Stanley B. Scheinman is now an attorney
with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, 15 Broad
St., New York City. Stanley received an
MBA from Bernard Baruch School, City
College of New York, and then an LLB
from Columbia University, where he was
Law Review Editor and a Stone Scholar.
He was admitted to the New York Bar on
March 13, 1961. The Scheinmans have a
daughter, Catherine Amy, born last January
2. Writes Stanley: "Richard Maslow
has a daughter now, Jennifer Lynn, born
March 7, 1960." The Maslow's address is
Country Club Rd., Dallas, Pa. Also father
of a new baby girl is Henry P. Renard,
whose daughter, Ella Debra, arrived Sept.
24, 1960. Henry recently joined Van
Strum and Towne, Inc., New York City,
as an investment adviser. Home address is
3 Stokes Rd., Yonkers. We have a new address
for John P. Page: 1961 El Monte Dr.,
Thousand Oaks, Calif. Andrew B. Craig
had a promotion to the position of loan
officer in the commercial loan department
of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust
Co. in Buffalo. The Craigs have two daughters,
Andrea and Laurie, and live at 340
Walton Dr., Snyder 26.
Mrs. C. S. Everett
59 Helen St.
'54Women:
Binghamton, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Warter (Jane Shanklin)
of RD 1, Aqueduct Rd., Rocky Hill,
N.J., welcomed a son, James, on April 15.
Their daughter Carolyn will be 2 this summer.
Peter teaches at his alma mater,
Princeton.
We have this note from Mrs. Ralph Bliek
(Mary Ann Smith), E. Town Line Rd., Williamson:
"Ralph almost left the farming
game this spring for a position in livestock
marketing, but at the last minute had a
change of heart and decided to stay put. In
a few weeks we'll be occupying the whole
house we're living in instead of our small
half, and all housing and design specialists,
plus other Cornellians, of course, will be
more than welcome! I've kept occupied with
Carolyn, 4, and Jeff, 2, and substitute teaching
in three of the local elementary schools
whenever the need arises."
Occasionally I see Mrs. Quintard A. B.
Cornman (Susan Crawford) who now lives
at 410 Overton St., Endicott. Sue received
a master's of education in art education
from Penn State and taught and served as
art consultant in the Ithaca schools for
three years; she taught two more years in
this area. She and her husband traveled in
Europe for three weeks. A Penn State graduate,
he works in the personnel department
at Ansco. Their son, Stephen, was born New
Year's Eve, 1959.
I was especially grateful for friendships
started at the University when last week we
were visited by Mohindra Chadha, PhD '55,
and his lovely wife Rajni. In Bombay, Mo
works for the Atomic Energy Establishment,
and Rajni does motivational research for
Lever Brothers. Mo has been doing research
at Cornell this year. The world seems so
small with friends like these on the other
side of it.
'54 MA—Elizabeth Ann Dodds, a social
studies teacher in Glens Falls Senior High
June 15, 1961
JEROME H. HOLLAND '39 (picture) was
inaugurated as the ninth president of
Hampton Institute in Virginia on April
29 after seven years as president of Delaware
State College. During his presidency,
the college grew from a student
body of 100, to 400, and became fully
accredited. Hampton, a 92-year-old institution,
has a faculty of 110 and a student
body of 1,300. Holland, best known
as "Brud" while an all-American end on
Carl Snavely's Big Red football team,
received the MS from Cornell in 1941
and the PhD from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1950. His wife holds the
MA from Radcliίfe. They have a son,
3, and a daughter, 4.
School, will be the first woman to lead a
group to Nigeria for this summer's program
of The Experiment in International Living.
Born in Seoul, Korea, of missionary parents,
she has studied at Union Theological Seminary
and taught in India.
Men: Gary Fromm
214 Littauer Center
Cambridge 38, Mass.
With the academic year at an end, many
Classmates can at last breathe a sigh of
relief. Some will undoubtedly take a jaunt
off to Europe. A letter from M. H. B. Hayes,
MS '55, extends an open invitation to all
alumni who visit England to stop in at 31
Mayfield Rd., Moseley, Birmingham. This
is sixteen miles from Stratford. Mike is lecturing
in the department of chemistry at the
University of Birmingham, while one of his
roommates, Dick Paget, MS '57, works with
the metals division of Imperial Chemical
Industries. The fourth member of the group
(one is a non-Cornellian); Alberto Araos,
MS '56, is studying economics at Oxford.
Another partner in the bachelor club, Dennis
Diamond, MS '56, was lost in marriage
on March 25 and plans to return to South
Africa in August.
We have another '55er in the insurance
ranks. Richard Douglas McMahon, 36 Herriot
St., Yonkers, was recently licensed as a
life underwriter for Carr Purser Agency,
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. There are
now two small McMahons in the family.
Doug's note also reports that Roger Metzger
is with Pacific Far East Ship Lines,
San Francisco, after having completed
three years in the US Coast Guard. Tom
Gillespie is in the same city at 2919 Pacific.
He can also be reached at the investment
department of the Industrial Indemnity
Co.
"Lovey" seems to be a popular name
among the wives of Classmates. Charles
M. Teitell,,. said named wife, and 5-monthold
son Jon Edward are still "sun-bound"
in Southern California. Charlie, a CPA
with Arthur Young & Co., lives at 5812
Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood,
Calif. Al Kaye is an attorney with the
Fourth Regional Office, National Labor
Relations Board, Philadelphia. AΓs marriage
is scheduled for July 30 in Elkins
Park, Pa., after which he may be found at
8128 Brookside Rd. in that city.
Ahoy, local alumni organization of Memphis,
Tenn. Andy Kaufman of 1320 Lamar
Ave. says that you don't seem to be very
active. Andy reports that besides spending
week days over a drafting board at the firm
of Mann and Harrover, architects, he keeps
busy with local amateur theater and the
Naval Reserve. Wife Peggy, a Mississippi
product, and son Anders J. Kaufman Jr.
born Aug. 7, 1960, do however get to see
him occasionally. A move to the University
of Pennsylvania is slated for mid-August.
Andy closes: "My regards to all my good
friends whom I hope to see in a few
months. I am too lazy to write them individually,
so I am doing it collectively."
Why don't some of you lazy people take
pen in hand and drop me a line so I can
report what you're doing to your equally
lazy Classmates?
Women: Tay Fehr Miller
5035 Marvine Rd.
Drexel Hill, Pa.
Although the mailbox is far from full,
there is some good news. Janet (Van Aken)
Gauthey writes from 2400 Virginia St.,
Berkeley, Calif. She was married to Richard
Gauthey '55 in August 1955; they have
two children, Tommy and Julie. A career
naval officer, Lt. Gauthey is being sent to
graduate school at the University of California
by the Navy. He received his master's
degree in September 1960, and hopes
for a PhD in '62. Jan plans to take a few
courses in the fall for fun. While the kids
are small, however, she says she's content
to be a homemaker. Barbara (O'Connor)
Kenny now lives at 48 Winchester Ave.,
Yonkers. She writes: "I was married on
September 10 to Thomas W. Kenny Jr.
from Scarsdale. Cornellians at the wedding
were Dodi (Barclay) Odell, Fran (Van Alstine)
Schramm, and Alice (Zufall) Fellenzer.
Dodi lives a block from me now as does
Joyce (Wilson) Reilly." Barb has been
working as a bacteriologist at Hoffman La-
Roche.
Bonnie (Thaler) Gurfein and her hus-
Jay have moved to a new house in Great
Neck, at 1 Woodland PL They also have a
new son, James Sanford, born January 4.
Nancy (Taft) Whitman is busy in Palmetto,
Fla., where she and her husband, Carlton,
live at 1002 21st Ave. They have a new
son, Jay, born March 12. "Jay's brother
Lee is now 15 months old and really a
handful. Whit is doing some guidance work
in addition to teaching band and choir at
the high school. Our family has really increased
this winter. Our Persian cat had
three kittens in January, and then we got
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In New York City
DONALD JAECKEL '56, ASSISTANT MANAGER
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The time-honored meeting place
for undergraduates and "old
grads." Madison Avenue at 43rd
Street, with private elevator
from Grand Central to lobby.
Virginia L. Baker '47 Richard G. Mino '50
E. Charles Hunt '58
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28th St. at 5th Ave. -:- New York City
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Special Attention for Cornellians
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At The
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7th Ave. & 55th St., New York
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fiosts
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and Their Friends Will Find a Hearty Welcome
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Continental and American Foods
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When traveling to
Stay at
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PUERTO RICO
603 Miramar Ave., Santurce, P. R.
AIR-CONDITIONED
SHIRLEY AXTMEYER '57, Mgr.
The best way to see Europe is to travel by
auto. Inexpensive, comfortable, independent motoring
allows you to see the people and the
countryside that most tourists miss. Chuck Feeney
'56 and Bob Miller '55 organized TOUR-
ISTS INTERNATIONAL Inc., 505 Fifth Avenue,
New York to help you buy the European car
of your choice when coming to Europe. Chuck
is in Paris and Bob is in Hong Kong, but Jeff
Mahlstedt '56 will be glad to answer your
questions at the New York office. Jim Metz '55
and Lee Sterling '58 are down in Monaco to
coordinate travel arrangements. By the way,
if you're going to Mexico City look up Fred
Mohr '55 at Duty Free Shoppes de Mexico S.A.
Cameras, Scotch whiskey, French perfumes, etc.,
all available to traveling Cornellians at dutyfree
prices. Just drop a note to Jeff at TOURISTS
INTERNATIONAL INC., 505 Fifth Avenue, New
York, N.Y. for full information.
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A Guide to Comfortable Hotels ond Restaurants Where Comedians
NEW YORK STATE
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Orcutt, MS '48
Owners of
The Collegetown Motor Lodge
572 College Avenue, Ithaca, N.Y.
cordially invite you to visit our
brand new & modern 25 unit motel
2 Blocks from Cornell Color TV in Lounge
Close to Restaurants 25 Private Tiled Baths
Tel. & TV Each Room Wall to Wall Carpet
Phone 2-2408, Ithaca, N.Y.
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June 15, 1961 677

a Siamese kitten, and now I think our
Persian is pregnant again! Have recently
been playing flute in the local community
band." Does anybody need a kitten? The
supply is unlimited in Palmetto! Phradie
(Kling) Gold had a boy, Stephen Samuel,
on February 28. She and husband Bud also
have two girls, 4 and 2V'i. The family resides
at 124 Hulmner Ter., Clifton, N.J.
'57
Men: David S. Nye
90-10 34th Ave., 5-C
Jackson Heights 72, N.Y.
Jack Dempsey and wife Barbara live at
53 Linwood Ave., Williamsville 21. Jack
sells insurance with Plan Designer's, Inc.,
and qualified for the Leaders Conference
at Greenbrier, W.Va. (three-fourths million
sales minimum qualification), in 1960.
Rick Freeman is still in the Navy, but seems
to be leading a collegiate life on the side.
He teaches NROTC students at the University
of Washington and is studying economics
there. Rick lives at 3628 E. 73d PL,
Seattle 15, Wash.
Manfred Roos is a textile salesman and
lives at 121 Wayne St., Springfifield, Mass.
Anton Tewes and wife Nancy became the
parents of a daughter, Jennifer Isabel, on
January 18. He reports that in pursuit of a
sales career with the agricultural division
of American Cyanamid, he has been transferred
twice during the past year. The
Tewes address now is 753 E. South Broadway,
Apt. B, Lombard, 111.
Robert Thomas moved in July from East
Norwich to Blairstown, N.J., and became
associated in veterinary practice with
George E. Gorse, DVM '52. Bob and Dr.
Gorse joined in a partnership agreement
on January 1.
Belated news on Sam Kaplan. Sam and
Sharron Walther '59 were married last fall.
Sherry is completing her master's in
American studies and expects to teach here
in the city. Sam is now a city reporter for
The New York Times and is working under
contract on a book for Doubleday. The
Kaplans' address is 17 W. 64th St., New
York City.
Mordy Blaustein wrote "between feedings
and diaper changes" that he and Ellen
are the proud and busy parents of a daughter,
Laura Michelle, born March 13. Mordy
is now gaining research experience in
the physiology department at Washington
University. The Blausteins will spend two
months at Mt. Desert Island, Me., Biological
Laboratories this summer. Mordy
will finish his last year in medical school
next year. Further reports from St. Louis
tell that Mike and Carole Goldstein became
the parents of a boy, Steven Eric, on
April 4. Mike will receive his degree this
June from Washington University, and
will intern at the Boston City Hospital.
Cornell Fund Chairman Tom Itin is
with Mobil Oil in Libya. He wrote me
while on the way to Rome and Istanbul.
Tom and Shirley will leave on a vacation
trip in July that will take them through
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany,
Belgium, France, England and Scotland.
He will be in New York later in the year.
Skip Nitchie, wife Mary Ann and yearold
daughter Mary Katherine live at 37
Gilmore Blvd., North Wappingers Falls.
Skip is a mechanical engineer at the Poughkeepsie
IBM plant. Marc Cherno married
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ENGINEERING ALUMNI Alexander Latta
'30 (left) and Rollin H. McCarthy '22
(right) look over details of a scholarship
and aid presentation from their employers
to the University with President
Deane W. Malott. Their employer,
Western Electric Co., presented three
$800 scholarships and three $600 unrestricted
grants-in-aid for the next academic
year. Latta is assistant superintendent
of manufacturing engineering
for WE's Kearny, N.J., plant. McCarthy
is director of plant engineering at the
New York City headquarters of WE.
Similar scholarships are in use this year
at the University.
Donna Levenson in August 1960 and is a
law clerk working for Judge Irving R.
Kaufman, US District Court, New York
City. Chuck James is now stationed at Fort
Knox. Bob Shirley, wife and year-old son
Daniel live at RD 7, Westminster, Md.
Doug Merkle, now a first lieutenant in
the Air Force, has completed two years as
a planning engineer at Indian Springs
AFB, Nev., and is a project engineer at
AFSWC Research Directorate, Kirtland
AFB, N.M. Doug received his master's degree
in 1959. Twin brother John and wife
Marilyn (Steffen) '56, RD 2, Brooktondale,
are the parents of a daughter born
March 20. John teaches Civil Engineering
while working toward his master's degree.
fames R. Harper
3921 Prytania St.
'58Men:
New Orleans 15} La.
Bill Bynum is working as an application
engineer in the fluid dynamics department
of Allis-Chalmers, Milwaukee, Wis. Robert
Morton, who married Patricia Frazer
in February 1960, now has a daughter,
Kimberlee Anne. The Mortons live on
Glen Goin Lane, Alpine, N.J. Also announcing
their daughter's birth are Judy
and Larry Kaufman, 22430 Morton Ave.,
Fairview Park, Ohio. The child's name is
Joanne Moore Kaufman. Bruce Schram
and his wife Lois have a 4-year-old son,
Scott, and are living at 1551 Zettler Rd.,
Columbus, Ohio. Bruce is with Western
Electric. Harry M. Fox, 330 East 19th St.,
Brooklyn 26, is now the president of J.
Fox, Inc., manufacturers of leopard accessories.
He served six months in the National
Guard, which shows what Army
training can do for someone who applies
himself. Harry is married and his daughter,
Mindy Paula, is 15 months old.
The only one of this month's Classmates
we can report as having fathered a son
instead of a daughter is rugged Paul Luke,
Stanwich Rd.5 Cos Cob, Conn., whose
child, Paul Christopher, will be 1 next
month. Paul is doing personnel work for
the American Machine & Foundry Company.
On May 28 Stephen Baum married
Ellen R. Feldman '61. Their address is 20
Fifth Ave., New York. Stephen is entering
his fourth year at New York University—
Bellevue Medical School. Fred Hyman,
254 N. Grove St., East Orange, N.J., and
Ben Ivy, 2709 Dwight Way, Berkeley 4,
Calif., are the only two bachelors reporting
in this month. Fred is with Westinghouse
in Bloomfield, N.J., and Ben is with the
University of California.
'58 PhD—A post-doctoral fellowship
from the National Science Foundation will
enable David W. Yesair to do advanced
work on vitamin B12 at the University of
Reading in England. Since 1959 the biochemist
has been engaged in virus research
at American Cyanamid Company's Lederle
Laboratories.
Louisa Bachman
Gerstenberger
'59Women:
26 Spruce Street
Southport, Conn.
Blessed events abound, and here in
chronological order are the latest I've
heard about. Linda Newton Jacobson of
Fan Hill Rd., Monroe, Conn., gave birth to
a daughter, Deborah Susan, on Dec. 15,
1960. The Jacobsons are moving soon to
Fairfield, Conn. On January 17, Peggy
Ellis was born to Fred (Shape) and Jo
Ellis Jones of 68 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville.
Shape is doing research with Crucible
Steel and Jo has resigned her position at
Borden Foods' Research Center, needless
to say. Naomi Meltzer Rubin and husband
Dr. Walter, MD '59, announce the birth
of a son, Stuart Joseph, on March 19. The
Rubins live at 99 Chestnut St., Brookline
46, Mass. At Tompkins County Hospital,
a son was born to Bob and Ann Schnitzler
Hazzard, March 26. On the following day,
Hans and Carolyn Babcock van Leer became
proud parents of a daughter. The
Hazzards' address is 615 E. State St., and
the van Leers live at 1432 Trumansburg
Rd., Ithaca. On April 11, Carl Nichols
Hathaway joined brother Brian in the
family of Carol, MBA '59, and Gail Oglee
Hathaway of-100 Cedar St., Dobbs Ferry.
Maria Zergenyi Doolittle sends a
pleasant note. She and Don,, PhD '59, were
married in the summer of '57. After living
in Ithaca and Bar Harbor, Me., they have
settled with their two young sons, Andy
and Tom, in Pittsburgh, Pa., at 356
Avenue F. Don is assistant professor of
biostatistics at Pitt and Maria anticipates
taking some courses there when the boys
are less of a handful.
Bob and Margie Gelder Reese have
moved to Waverly, Pa. Bob is with the International
Salt Co. and Margie is
thoroughly enjoying her new role as fulltime
housewife, keeping their pretty "saltbox"
on Waverly Rd. Pat Mayglothling
Sorenson is in Alaska, where Pete is stationed
in the Army. Their family consists
of Karen, 2, and Martin Peter Jr., 4
months.
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Dale Rogers Marshall of 66 Carmel, San
Francisco 17, Calif., writes that she and
Don '58 are now landlords, "evil sneer included,"
having bought a two-flat in the
Twin Peaks area of S.F. After Dale received
her MA in political science last
June at Gal, she entered a graduate intern
program for teacher education there. For
the past year, she's been teaching high
school history and geography full time,
with pay, and receiving education course
credits! Sue Gensberg, who shares an
apartment with Peggy Bratley at 2217
Dwight Way, Berkeley, is secondary
schools chairman for Cornell in the San
Francisco area. She planned a fine tea in
March for Cornell applicants and gra*duates
at which many '59ers were present.
When Sue isn't giving teas, she's studying
for her MA in economics; Peggy is working
for her PhD in chemistry. We'll catch
up on some more Cornellifornians in the
July NEWS.
Lester W. Miller Jr., LLB '60, and his
wife Hester (Lent) are now in Anchorage,
Alaska, where Lester has joined a law firm.
'60
Women: Valerie H. Jones
312 W. 83d Street
New York 24, N.Y.
Being a young teacher can sometimes be
very embarrassing, according to the experiences
of Vivian Rainman has had this
year—like being dragged to the principal
by the school's "hall patrol" for running
between classes. After several such occasions,
she was issued a flag of tΐuce to
prove she was a teacher. Otherwise, Viv
says she had enjoyed her job teaching an
experimental class of home economics to a
group of Brooklyn "academic" students.
Viv lives at home: 522 Ocean Ave.,
Brooklyn.
A home economics teacher in Queens
this past year was Mary (Mangan) Deignan.
She and husband Joe live at 542 E.
82d St. in Manhattan, near the Cornell
Medical School where he is a second-year
student. One of the few girls in the firstyear
program at the Med School is a member
of our Class, Jane Thompson. Also in
the medical field, Berta Friedman is working
at Presbyterian Hospital and doing
graduate work at Columbia. She is living
at home in Riverdale at 4495 Fieldston
Rd. Another New Yorker, Millie McCullough,
has an exciting job in the textile industry,
working in promotion and publicity
at Deering Milliken. Millie says
she'd like to hear from any members of the
Class who'd care to write. Her address is
55 Locust Ave., Rockville Centre.
New parents, since April 22, are Scott
'57 and Mary (Blair) Lewis, who have
been living in Ithaca this year while Scott
completed a master's degree in industrial
engineering. As of July they and baby
Kathryn will be moving to 3634 E. 55th
St. in Tulsa, Okla., where Scott will be associated
with a steel firm.
Another child of two alumni, Thomas
Blake Day Jr., was born in December to
Tom '59 and Beth (Dunbar) Day. Tom Sr.
is currently managing the restaurant in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
Beth is keeping house in Scarsdale at 34
Anderson Ave. She writes that she and
Jody Froistad attended a Westchester
County Cornell Women's Club meeting
June 15, 1961
Cornell Monopoly
THE UNIVERSITY is well represented in
the executive offices of National Economic
Research Associates, Inc., a new
organization at 75 E. 55th St., New
York 22, headed by Irwin Stelzer, PhD
'54, as president. Prof. Alfred E. Kahn,
chairman of the Economics Department
at the University, is a special consultant.
Bruce Netschert '41 is director
of the NERA Washington office, and
Peter Max, Grad '55, senior consultant.
Alumnae on the staff include Judith
(Hershon) Greenman '57, assistant to
the president; Lila Abramson '57, Carol
(Clark) Tatkon '59 and Gail (Krantz)
Glickman '60, research assistants. NERA
provides consulting services for clients
in private industry.
hoping to meet some others of our Class,
but they were the only ones present.
In the Washington, D.C., area Joyce
(Arnold) Johnson and husband Carl are
living in Arlington, Va. Their apartment
at 3536 S. Stafford St. is right around the
corner from Aub and Val (River)
Vaughan. Carl is serving two years as an
officer in the Navy and working for a
master's degree in personnel administration
at George Washington University. Joyce
has a temporary position writing for the
Marketing information Division of the Department
of Agriculture—working for the
same boss and in the same spot where I
worked as a trainee the summer before
last.
? 60 PhD—Crestwood Hills School will
hold its third summer session in Ithaca
with William L. Smith as headmaster. He
is director of health education in the Binghamton
schools. The Crestwood program is
adapted for educationally superior children
and enrolls girls 14-18 years of age, and
boys 15-18.
NECROLOGY
'93 CE—Dr. Clark Green Rossman, retired
physician of 620 Union St., Hudson,
April 25, 1961.
'91-92, '93-94 Sp—Anna Belle Osgood,
Baptist Home, Fairport, Aug. 19, 1960.
'94-95 Sp Engr—Mrs. Joseph H. Bovaird
(Emma Griffith) of 119 Jackson Ave.,
Bradford, Pa., Nov. 19, 1960.
'96 ME-EE—Herbert Hedley Hilborn,
retired electric railway engineer, of Belle
Terre, Port Jefferson, May 2, 1961. Son,
Herbert Howie Hilborn '30.
'97 ME-EE—Frank Colsom Andrews of
Phoenixville, Pa., a retired engineer, March
13, 1961.
'97 ME—Herbert Thomas Dyett, former
president and chairman of the Rome Cable
Corp., May 8, 1961, at his home, 1206 N.
George St., Rome. He formed the Herbert
T. Dyett Foundation for aid to local charitable
institutions, and the Rome Cable
Foundation in 1952 established a scholarship
fund in his honor. Aleph Samach;
Theta Delta Chi.
'97—Harvey Head Wicks, retired securities
salesman of 416 Paris Hill Rd., Sauquoit,
April 11, 1961. Theta Delta Chi.
'98 LLB—Carleton Sias, retired lawyer
and banker of 141 Pershing Rd., Waterloo,
Iowa, April ,2>, 1961.
'01 PhD—Benton Dales, former professor
at the University of Nebraska and
chemist with B. F. Goodrich and Du Pont,
Feb. 8, 1961 at Media, Pa. Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Xi.
Όl CE—Hinman Barrett Hurlbut of 70
Overlook Rd., Cedar Grove, N.J., March
29, 1961. He retired in 1949 after nineteen
years as an airways engineer with the Civil
Aeronautics Administration. Alpha Tau
Omega.
'02 LLB—Harry Richard McClain, former
teacher and probation officer, of 412
N. Union Blvd., St. Louis 8, Mo., April 17,
1961. He had been on the faculties of Webster
College, Webster Groves, Mo., and St.
Louis University, and was a past president
of the Cornell Club of St. Louis. Delta
Chi; Sphinx Head.
'04 AB—Mrs. Stephen A. Vickery (Mildred
Jeanne Utley) formerly of Gloversville,
Feb. 11, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
'05 AB—Jessie Redmona Fauset, novelist
and poet, April 30, 1960, in Philadelphia,
where she had moved last year. In
private life she was Mrs. Herbert Harris,
widow of a Mt. Vernon real estate broker.
Her novels, published from 1924-33, concerned
Negro middle-class life. She received
an MA at the University of Pennsylvania,
studied at the Sorbonne, taught
languages in Baltimore and Washington,
D.C., and French at De Witt Clinton High
School in New York City. From 1912-25
she was literary editor of The Crisis, paper
of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. She was the
first Negro woman to enroll at Cornell.
Phi Beta Kappa.
'05 ME—George Holland McDermott of
980 Scotts Lane, Walnut Creek, Calif.,
March 9, 1961. A life member of the Association
of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers,
he became assistant chief engineer
of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. during his
fifteen years with the firm, and was vice
president of Surface Combustion Corp.,
Toledo, Ohio, when he retired in 1951 after
twenty-five years' service. Following his
graduation and an apprenticeship with
General Electric, during which he specialized
on steam turbines, he returned to the
University for graduate study and served
as instructor in Thermodynamics in Sibley
College, where his father, Prof. George R.
McDermott Sr., was head of the Department
of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.
Acacia.
'05 PhD—Emil Peter Sandsten of 3529
R St., Washington 7, D.C., Feb. 20, 1961.
He had been professor of horticulture at
the University of Wisconsin, and at his retirement
in 1939 was dean of agriculture
and experiment station director at what is
now Colorado State University. Sigma Xi,
Phi Kappa Phi.
'06—William Edgar Burdett of 116 43d
Ave., N, St. Petersburg 3, Fla., a retired
construction engineer, Dec. 3, 1960.
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Roos, Partner '32, Stephen D. Teetor, Partner
'43, Harold S. Woodward, Partner '22, Irving
Weiselberg '23, Frohman P. Davis '45, Frederick
J. Kircher '45, William J. Gladstone '46,
Philip P. Page, Jr. '47, R. H. Thackaberry '47,
Robert F. Shumaker '49, Donald D. Haude
'49, James D. Bailey '51, Donald M. Crotty
'57, Irving Anders '59, Rodney W. Carpenter
'59
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'06 ME—Hubert Willard Matthews,
former wholesale distributor of electrical
supplies, Sept. 2, 1960, in Birmingham, Ala.
'07, '09 CE—Charles Benson Wigton of
721 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, N.J., May
7, 1961. Co-founder, former president and
finally board chairman of the engineeringconstruction
firm, Wigton-Abbott Corp.,
he was an advocate of good looking, air
conditioned factory buildings and increased
industrial research. He had been mayor of
Plainfield, a founder of its chamber of commerce,
treasurer of its community chest,
member of the governing board of Muhlenberg
Hospital and president of the
Watchung Area Council, Boy Scouts of
America. Delta Tau Delta.
'08, '12 AB—Mrs. George William Nasmyth
(Florence Gross), May 2, 1961, in
Brookline, Mass., where she was a high
school teacher, 1922-44, following the
death of her husband, Professor George W.
Nasmyth '06, Physics. Delta Delta Delta.
'08 ME—The Rt. Rev. Henry Herbert
Shires, retired suffragan Episcopal bishop
of California, April 29, 1961, of a heart
attack at his home, 1858 Yosemite Rd.,
Berkeley, Calif.
'09 LLB—David B. Tolins Sr. of New
City, corporation lawyer who was counsel
for the city of Long Beach from 1925-37,
May 5, 1961, in the Bronx. Son, Dr. Peter
S. Tolins '44; daughter, Mrs. Arthur Waldman
(Frances Tolins) '40; brother, Louis
Tolins, Sp Agr '08-10.
ΊO BS—Boyd Duane Gilbert, retired soil
conservationist and county agricultural
agent of Adams Center, June 27, 1960.
Brother, the late Clifford W. Gilbert '16.
'10—Bernard Wich, a retired civil engineer,
March 30, 1961, in Herkimer. Tau
Beta Pi.
'11 MD—Dr. William Andrew Somerville
Sr. of Greenwood Lake, N.J., May 10,
1961. Before retiring a few years ago, he
was a general practitioner in New York
City for thirty-five years.
'11—Raymond Edsell Chamberlain of
11700 Exeter, NE, Seattle 55, Wash.,
March 13, 1961. He was a retired division
engineer of the B&O Railroad. Theta
Lambda Phi.
'13-14 Sp Law—Heber Henry of 817 N.
Main St., Cleburne, Texas, Aug. 9, 1960.
14 BS, '15 MF—William Joseph Mc-
Carthy of 911 N. Wasatch, Colorado
Spring, Colo., April 12, 1961. Before his
retirement, he was for many years a topographical
draftsman with New York City's
Department of Public Works. Daughter,
Mrs. Vincent P. O'Brien (Ellen McCarthy)
'44; brother, the late John R. McCarthy
'16.
'14 ME—Albert Lawrence Schoff of 305
Michigan Ave., Swarthmore, Pa., May 3,
1961. A veteran of World Wars I and II,
he was vice president-treasurer of Irving
Worsted Co., Chester, Pa., until his retirement
last November. Delta Upsilon.
'15 BS, '18 MSA, '20 PhD—Prof. Howard
Campbell Jackson of 4041 Council
Crest, Madison, Wis., May 10, 1961. He
was employed by the US Department of
Agriculture until 1927, when he went to
the University of Wisconsin. At his retirement
he was head of the university's dairy
and food industry department. Sigma Xi.
'16 CE—Otto Carl Vieweg of 39 Riverside
Dr., Binghamton, March 11, 1961. He
was assistant to the president and assistant
secretary of New York State Electric &
Gas Co. before his retirement Feb. 1, 1961.
Son, Howard A. Vieweg '49; daughter,
Eleanor Vieweg '48; brother; Herman F.
Vieweg '21. Huntington Club.
'16 BS—Carl Otto Weiss of 1977 Perkins
Lane, Seattle 99, Wash., a former nurseryman
and lawn seed producer, April 26,
1961.
'17—Sidney Henry Ross of 111 SE 14th
St., Miami 32, Fla., May 7, 1961, in New
York City following surgery. He operated
lime and avocado groves in Homestead,
Fla., and had a farm at Sylva, N.C. Sisters,
Inez D. Ross '20 and Madeline D. Ross '24.
Pi Lambda Phi.
'20 LLB—Attorney John Edward Sheridan
of 146 E. Elm St., Penn Yan, March
22, 1961. Son, John M. Sheridan '50.
'21—Howard Messerer Betts of 4923
Russell Ave., S, Minneapolis, Minn., April
27, 1961. A mechanical engineer with the
Minneapolis Department of Buildings, he
was a member of the American Society of
Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
'23—Wilfred Seymour Schutt of Jordan,
May 8, 1961. He was assistant signal supervisor
of the New York Central Railroad
and enforcement officer for the Village of
Jordan and the Town of Elbridge. Pi Kappa
Alpha.
'27—Wallace Harvey Jones of 28 College
Ave., Eatontown, N.J., April 3, 1961.
'27 AB, '34 AM—Harold Lawrence
Ruland of 35-D Colfax Manor, Roselle
Park, N.J., May 3, 1961, of a heart attack.
He was head of the modern languages department
of Union High School. Sigma Pi.
'29 MD—Dr. Louis Schneider of Rochester,
Oct. 16, 1960.
'31—Sidney Kramer of 3707 Yuma St.,
NW, Washington 16, D. C., April 25, 1961.
'31, '32, '34 Grad—Mrs. John McAllister
(Alsie Ottosen) of Avoca, Feb. 20, 1961.
'39 AB, '41 LLB, '46 LLM—Attorney
Jacob Milton Murdock III of Allison Park,
Pa., May 8, 1961. He was decorated with
the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart,
Presidential Unit Citation and Croix de
Guerre with Palm during World War II
when he was a major with the Fourth
Armored Division of the US Third Army.
'39-40 Grad—John Waddell Chase of
Clinton, April 19, 1961, at Groton, Conn.
'44 BS—Mrs. Donald A. Stratton (Adah
Toland) of 412 Fletcher Dr., North Syracuse,
May 10, 1961. She was a former hospital
dietitian.
'54 MD—Dr. Nathalie Alice Strahan
Sheldon, May 2, 1961, aboard a square-rigged
student cruise ship that sank in a Gulf
of Mexico squall. She had practiced medicine
in Miami, Fla., before her marriage to
Christopher B. Sheldon, the vessel's captain,
who was among those rescued.
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740 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y.
R. C. Legon, Pres. Ira R. Legon '52, V. Pres.
ARCHIBALD & KENDALL, INC.
Spice Importers
Walter D. Archibald '20
Douglas C. Archibald '45
Mills and Research Laboratory
487 Washington St., New York 13, N. Y.
BENNETT MACHINERY COMPANY
Letcher W. Bennett M.E. 24, Pres.
Dealers in Late Rebuilt Metal Working Machine Tools
Office and Plant
375 Allwood Road, Clifton, N. J.
Telephone PRescott 9-8996
New York Phone LOhgacre 3-1222
Collum Acoustical Co., Inc.
Acoustical Engineers & Contractors
918 Canal Street, Syracuse, N.Y.
Accousticαl Correction — Industrial
Quieting — Sound Conditioning
T. L. Collum '21 - Edward B. Collum >49
Thad P. Collum '53
Branches — Albany, New York and
Rochester, New York
Construction Service Company
Engineers & Constructors
BOUND BROOK, N.J.
JOHN J. SENESY '36, President
PAUL W. VAN NEST '36, Vice President
Expert Concrete Breakers, Inc.
Masonry and rock cut by hour or contract
Backhoe and Front End Loader Service
Norm L. Baker, P.E. '49 Long Island City 1, N.Y.
Howard I. Baker, P.E. '50 STillwell 4-4410
108 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., BOSTON 15, MASS.
John R. Furmαn '39—Harry B. Furman '45
GOODKIND & O'DEA
Consulting Engineers
Donald R. Goodkind '42
Barry Elgort '56, Henry Ma '56, Sam Codella '57
N. Y. Bloomfield, N. J. Conn.
CROCKERY &
and home fashions jllll I GLASS JOURNAL
Sai/s for racing and cruising boats
HARD SAILS, INC.
SCIENTIFIC SAILS in DACRON '
SPHERICAL SPINNAKERS
MAIN STREET ISLIP, N.Y.
WALLACE C. ROSS '45, President
RUSSELL O. HOOKER '20, F.S.A.
Consulting Actuary
Pension Trust Consultant
750 Main St. Hartford 3, Conn.
H. J. LUDINGTON, INC.
Mortgage Banking
Real Estate and Insurance
Rochester, New York
Also offices in
Buffalo, New York, Binghamton
Howard J. Ludington '17, Pres.
Howard J. Ludington, Jr. '49, Treas.
MACWHYTE COMPANY
Mfrs. of Wire Rope, Braided Wire Rope Slings,
Cable, Assemblies and Tie Rods.
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN
GEORGE C. WILDER, '38, Pres.
R. B. WHYTE, JR., '41
THE MAINTENANCE CO., INC.
Established 1897
CONTRACTING ELECTRICAL, ELEVATOR
& AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS
10-40 45th Ave., Long Island City 1, N.Y.
Wm. J. Wheeler Ί7—President
Wm. J. Wheeler, Jr. '44—Vice Pres.
Since 1864
Centrifugal Pumps and Hydraulic Dredges
MORRIS MACHINE WORKS
BALDWINSVILLE, NEW YORK
John C. Meyers, Jr. '44, President
NORTHEAST OHIO MACHINE
BUILDERS, INC.
SPECIAL MACHINERY DESIGNED & BUILT
330 North Main Street
Λ Columbiana, Ohio
Wm. K. Stamets, Jr., BME '42, MME '49
NEEDHAM & GROHMANN
INCORPORATED
An advertising agency serving distinguished
clients in the hotel, travel, food, textile
and industrial fields for twenty five years.
H. Victor Grohmann, '28, Pres.
Howard A, Heinsius '50, V.P.
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK
THE O'BgJg MACHINE*?
1915 W. CLEARFIELD ST. PHILADELPHIA 32, PA,, U.S.A.
Frank L. O'Brien, Jr., M. E. '31, Pres.
New, Used Machine Tools, Boilers, Trans-
formers, Diesel Generators, Turbo-generators,
Electric Motors, Air Compressors,
Chemical and Process Machinery. "Complete
Plants Bought — with or without Real Estate."
Mexico S. A. de C. V.
Ponniente 116, No. 576-H
The O'Brien Machinery Co., de
Mexico D. F., Mexico
SOIL TESTING SERVICES, INC.
Consulting Soil & Foundation Engineers
John P. Gnaedinger '47
Site Investigations
Foundation Recommendations and Design
Laboratory Testing, Field Inspection & Control
1827 N. Harlem Avenue, Chicago 35, Illinois
STANTON CO. —REALTORS
George H. Stanton '20
Richard A. Stanton '55
Real Estate and Insurance
MONTCLAIR and VICINITY
25 N. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, N.J.—PI 6-1313
Sutton Publications
GLENN SUTTON, 1918, President
Publisher of
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
Monthly circulation in excess of 46,500
CONTRACTORS' ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
Monthly circulation in excess of 29,500
ELECTRONICS Equipment ENGINEERING
Monthly circulation in excess of 43,600
INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Monthly circulation in excess of 20,000
172 South Broadway White Plains, N.Y.
WHITMAN, REQUARDT & ASSOCIATES
Engineers
Gυstav J. Requardt '09 William F. Neale, U. of M.
A. Russell Volmer '27 Raymond C. Regnier, JHU
Roy H. Ritter '30 Henry A. Naylor, Jr., JHU
Ezra B. Whitman '01, Consultant
William F. Childs, Jr. '10, Consultant
1304 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md.

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