ALUMNI NEWS - eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University
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course in either Zoology or Chemistry for<br />
six hours of college credit, or they may<br />
do research under Faculty direction.<br />
Tuition will be waived for the courses<br />
and students doing research will be paid<br />
$1 an hour. All will be housed in <strong>University</strong><br />
dormitories and have their meals<br />
in <strong>University</strong> dining rooms.<br />
of Delta Delta Delta and Mortar Board<br />
and of the <strong>University</strong> Council. She lives<br />
in Bethesda, Md. Dale Rogers '59 is her<br />
daughter.<br />
Alumni Nominate Trustee Candidates<br />
EARLY IN APRIL, ballots were mailed by<br />
the <strong>University</strong> Treasurer to some 95,000<br />
alumni whose addresses are known for<br />
election of two Alumni Trustees to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Board. The Alumni Trustees<br />
elected will take office July 1 for five<br />
years. They will replace Alumni Trustees<br />
Elbert P. Tuttle '18 and Dr. Preston<br />
A. Wade '22, whose terms expire June<br />
30.<br />
Official ballots must be returned to<br />
the Treasurer in envelopes provided not<br />
later than Monday, June 8, and the<br />
names of the two Alumni Trustees<br />
elected will be announced at the annual<br />
meeting of the Alumni Association in<br />
Ithaca, June 13. Written signature of<br />
the voter must appear on the envelope.<br />
Alumni who do not receive ballots may<br />
obtain them by writing to the <strong>University</strong><br />
Treasurer, Day Hall, Ithaca. Election<br />
requires that a candidate must receive at<br />
least one-third of the votes cast.<br />
Candidates for Alumni Trustee may<br />
be nominated by any ten degree holders<br />
who file nominations with the Treasurer<br />
by midnight, April 1. The Alumni Association<br />
committee on Alumni Trustee<br />
nominations each year receives suggestions<br />
of suitable candidates from all<br />
alumni organizations and undertakes to<br />
evaluate them and have nominated at<br />
least two persons for each vacancy. This<br />
committee has members from all the<br />
constituent organizations of the Alumni<br />
Association and this year has been<br />
headed by Richard D. Vanderwarker<br />
'33. The committee does not consider<br />
the qualifications of Alumni Trustees<br />
who may run for re-election its function<br />
is to find new candidates who may best<br />
serve the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Pictures and brief information about<br />
the five candidates nominated to March<br />
31 follow.<br />
Max F. Schmitt '24 for five years has<br />
been president of The Wool Bureau,<br />
New York City, after long experience<br />
in advertising agencies. He is president<br />
of his Class and of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club of<br />
New York, vice-president of the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Alumni Association of New York City,<br />
and honorary governor and past-president<br />
of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club of Westchester<br />
County. He has been president of the<br />
Federation of <strong>Cornell</strong> Men's Clubs and<br />
Association of Class Secretaries, wrote<br />
a Handbook for Class Secretaries, has<br />
been a director of the Alumni Association<br />
and chairman of the committee on<br />
Alumni Trustee nominations. He serves<br />
on the membership committee of the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Council. Schmitt received<br />
the AB in 1924, was business manager<br />
of the Era, is a member of Phi Kappa<br />
Tau, Quill & Dagger, and Sigma Delta<br />
Chi. He lives in Scarsdale.<br />
George A. Newbury '17 has been<br />
president of Manufacturers & Traders<br />
Trust Co. in Buffalo since 1954 and<br />
previously practiced law in Buffalo. He<br />
is a director of <strong>Cornell</strong> Aeronautical<br />
Laboratory, Inc. and other business<br />
concerns and civic organizations. He received<br />
the LLB in 1917, was a member<br />
of the Varsity debating team and business<br />
manager of the Law Quarterly. He<br />
has been president of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club<br />
of Buffalo and was '17 Class representative<br />
for the Alumni Fund; is a member<br />
of the <strong>University</strong> Council committee on<br />
bequests and administrative board. He<br />
is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, formerly<br />
Scorpion.<br />
April 15, 1959<br />
Mrs. Adele Langston Rogers '33 is<br />
the wife of US Attorney General William<br />
P. Rogers, LLB '37. She has been<br />
active in civic and education affairs and<br />
last year won the "Togetherness Award"<br />
of McCalΓs magazine for her interest<br />
in education and youth and her "wonderful<br />
family life." Daughter of the late<br />
Samuel M. Langston '02 and sister of<br />
Bryant W. Langston '32, Mrs. Rogers<br />
received the AB in 1933 and came back<br />
to the Law School in 1935 after study<br />
at Stanford, receiving the LLB in 1936.<br />
She was president of the Class of '33<br />
and of WSGA and as a Senior, was<br />
president of the Intercollegiate Women<br />
Students Association. She is a member<br />
Norman R. Steinmetz '26 has been<br />
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