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for members and leading educators. The<br />
President gave a short speech, which<br />
was very well received, and in general<br />
the visit did a great deal to strengthen<br />
relations between Mexico and the <strong>University</strong>."<br />
Reunions To Have Faculty Speakers<br />
Fourteen Classes Gome Back<br />
GREAT POPULARITY of Faculty speakers<br />
at Reunion time last year has induced<br />
the committee this year to arrange an<br />
expanded series of "Faculty Forums"<br />
starting Thursday evening, June 11, and<br />
continuing through the next day. Glass<br />
Reunion headquarters and accommodations<br />
in the dormitories will be open<br />
from two Thursday afternoon to take<br />
care of alumni who come early for that<br />
evening's lectures.<br />
The Faculty Forums will cover a wide<br />
range of interest. Thursday evening,<br />
Professor Harry Gaplan '16, Classical<br />
Languages & Literature, will speak on<br />
"The Classical Tradition: Rhetoric &<br />
Oratory." His talk will be followed by<br />
an illustrated lecture on "Expedition to<br />
Sardis" by Professor A. Henry Detweiler,<br />
Associate Dean of Architecture. He is<br />
president of the American Schools of<br />
Oriental Research and was associate director<br />
of an expedition that made valuable<br />
discoveries last summer at the site<br />
of the ancient capitol of King Croesus.<br />
Friday morning will have three Forums:<br />
Professor John W. Wells, PhD '33,<br />
Geology, "The Geological Story of the<br />
Finger Lakes Region;" Professor William<br />
E. Gordon, PhD S 53, Electrical<br />
Engineering, "Eyes for Outer Space,"<br />
about explorations that will be made<br />
with the giant radar scanner the <strong>University</strong><br />
is building in Puerto Rico; and<br />
an exposition of musical styles in "Harpischord<br />
and Piano" by Professor William<br />
W. Austin, Music. Friday afternoon, a<br />
discussion of "Federal Subsidies: Why<br />
and What For?" will include Professors<br />
Joseph T. Sneed, Law, presiding, and<br />
Herrell F. DeGraff '37, Food Economics,<br />
and Steven Muller, PhD '58, Government.<br />
Faculty Forums for Reunions are<br />
arranged by a committee headed by<br />
Trustee John P. Syrne '26. Its other<br />
members are Alumni Secretary Hunt<br />
Bradley '26, Alumni Trustees Leslie R.<br />
Severinghaus '21 and Mrs. Thomas T.<br />
Mackie (Helen Holme) '29, and Professors<br />
George H. Healey, PhD '47, English,<br />
and Franklin A. Long, Chemistry.<br />
Offer Good Time for All<br />
Alumni of the fourteen Classes holding<br />
regular Reunions this year will be<br />
quartered in <strong>University</strong> - dormitories,<br />
with Class tents on lower Alumni Field,<br />
their Class dinners Friday and Saturday<br />
evenings, and luncheons with Class<br />
tables both days in Barton Hall. Mem-<br />
496<br />
bers of all Classes will register in Barton<br />
Hall all day Friday, June 12, and until<br />
Saturday afternoon for the official records<br />
that will determine awards for attendance<br />
at the closing Rally Saturday<br />
night. Class pictures will be taken on<br />
Hoy Field Saturday afternoon, following<br />
a parade of Classes from Barton Hall<br />
after lunch.<br />
Besides the opportunity to renew old<br />
friendships with Classmates and make<br />
new ones, the Reunions will offer a full<br />
program of entertainment and information<br />
for all. Campus Caravan bus<br />
tours will take alumni to see the <strong>University</strong><br />
as it is today. The Big Red Barn<br />
will be open as a general Reunion gathering<br />
place except during Class dinners<br />
there. The Varsity baseball team will<br />
play Colgate on Hoy Field Friday afternoon,<br />
and that evening the Glee Club<br />
will sing with alumni on the Bailey Hall<br />
steps before its concert. The Dramatic<br />
Club will repeat its Spring Day show,<br />
"The Taming of the Shrew," and Friday<br />
evening, alumni and present members<br />
of the Club will gather for a fiftieth anniversary<br />
dinner.<br />
Many Colleges and Schools will have<br />
breakfasts Saturday morning for their<br />
alumni and Faculty members, and all<br />
alumnae will gather for the traditional<br />
women's Reunion breakfast. At the annual<br />
meeting of the Alumni Association<br />
and <strong>Cornell</strong> Fund Saturday morning,<br />
President Deane W. Malott will report<br />
on the present status of the <strong>University</strong>,<br />
officers of the alumni organizations will<br />
report, and results of the election of<br />
Alumni Trustees will be given. All<br />
Classes in their Reunion costumes will<br />
attend the Saturday night Rally in Barton<br />
Hall, where the Glee Club will sing,<br />
the Concert Band will play, and other<br />
entertainment will be provided with H.<br />
Jerome Noel '41 as master of ceremonies.<br />
This year, busses will take alumni to<br />
visit the Ornithology Laboratory and<br />
bird refuge at Sapsucker Woods, where<br />
there will be a display of bird etchings<br />
by Richard E. Bishop '09. The Andrew<br />
D. White Museum of Art will have a<br />
Reunion exhibit of watercolors by Florence<br />
Daly '24, and the <strong>University</strong> Library<br />
will display pictures, posters, and<br />
publications of the periods of Reunion<br />
Classes.<br />
Reunion chairmen of the Classes holding<br />
scheduled Reunions this year are<br />
Thomas S. Clark '94, Charles V. P.<br />
Young '99, William F. Bleakley & Dr.<br />
Mary M. Crawford '04, Randolph W.<br />
Weed & Mrs. R. W. Sailor (Queenie<br />
Horton) '09, Walter E. Addicks & Mrs.<br />
Charles D. Farlin (Bernice Spencer)<br />
'14, Edmund N. Carples & Mrs. Edward<br />
L. Plass (Louise Hamburger) '19, Walter<br />
A. Davis & Ruth A. Oviatt '24, Meyer<br />
Bender & Mrs. Thomas W. Hopper<br />
(Helene Miner) '29, Thomas B. Haire<br />
& Mrs. William Bloom (Eleanor Mirsky)<br />
'34, Willard N. Lynch & Mrs. Albert<br />
D. Bosson (Elizabeth Shaffer) '39,<br />
Robert E. Dillon & Mrs. Dillon (Marguerite<br />
Ruckle) '44, Paul J. Kiely & Mrs.<br />
Edwin S. Weber, Jr. (Vera Horning)<br />
'49, Peter D. Eisenman & Sandra M.<br />
Berkman '54, Richard M. Barger &<br />
Judith A. Frankel '56.<br />
GE Gives Fellowships<br />
THREE GRADUATE STUDENTS have received<br />
fellowships given by the General<br />
Electric Educational & Charitable Fund<br />
to pursue advanced degrees this year.<br />
Vernon E. Buck from Yale and William<br />
Klement, Jr. from California Institute<br />
of Technology are candidates for the<br />
MS and Richard G. Schoonmaker from<br />
Princeton is working for the PhD. The<br />
fellowships are given for advanced study<br />
in engineering, the physical sciences,<br />
psychology, mathematics, economics,<br />
and political science. Fellows receive stipends<br />
ranging from $1750 to $2500 a<br />
year and tuition and fees are paid. An<br />
unrestricted grant of $1000 is made to,<br />
the <strong>University</strong> for each student.<br />
To Promote Science Study<br />
TWENTY TEACHERS of science and<br />
mathematics in high schools and small<br />
colleges will receive training in scientific<br />
research at the <strong>University</strong> this summer<br />
as part of a nationwide program sponsored<br />
by the National Science Foundation.<br />
The purpose, according to Professor<br />
William A. Smith, PhD '37, Director<br />
of the Division, of Summer Session & Extramural<br />
Courses, is to help teachers develop<br />
in their students an understanding<br />
of the nature of science and the opportunities<br />
of scientific careers. The teachers<br />
will do supervised research for about<br />
eight weeks in areas of their training and<br />
experience.<br />
The National Science Foundation<br />
grant will provide each participant with<br />
$75 a week, with additions for dependents.<br />
The Foundation will provide $800,-<br />
000 for fifty-four universities to train<br />
some 400 secondary school teachers and<br />
150 from junior colleges and small colleges.<br />
The Foundation is also sponsoring a<br />
program that will bring to the <strong>University</strong><br />
Summer Session up to fifty qualified<br />
high school seniors and juniors for work<br />
in science. Students may enroll in a<br />
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