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Cornell Alumni News 

Volume 64, Number 11 June 1962 

Few athletic scenes quite match the finish of a crew race 

along Cayuga Lake's west shore for the excitement 

of the event itself and the idyl of relaxed spectatorhood. 

—Bill Ficklin

Yes, Γd Send My Son to Cornell 

With apologies to E. B. White 3 21, from whom the title 

and main thoughts for this piece were lifted and updated 

for a talk to Cornell Day chauffeurs May 5. 

I WOULDN'T have sent my son to Cornell a year and a 

half ago. The Cornell Sun looked too sophomoric, student 

drivers seemed too wild, and the professors seemed 

too concerned with doing everything except teaching 

undergraduates. 

Nearly a year and a half on campus, with a chance 

to look closer at the way the university actually runs, 

has changed my mind. 

To START WITH, I'd be pretty sure that if my son were 

admitted he would be able to finish a degree, and not 

bust out. I've watched the flow of applicants' folders, 

with the fantastic SAT scores, move through the 

Admissions office. I would know he might have been 

favored slightly because his father, mother, and three 

grandparents are Gornellians. But I've come to learn 

that, insofar as possible, the choice is made on how 

well the boy is expected to do. 

I'm particularly glad for that, because of what I 

have learned from the Engineering faculty. They tell 

me the other engineering schools around the country 

are very proud of their standards, and if my son busted 

out of Cornell, Lehigh — for an example — would not 

want to admit inferiority by accepting him as a transfer. 

I'd rather he, I, and my bank book not be kidded 

by a legacy or admissions policy that led down any 

expensive blind alleys. 

ΓD SEND this son of mine to Cornell because he would 

be more likely to sit in class alongside the same wide 

variety of men I expect he'll be alongside in business 

after college. Γd expect him to learn as much out of 

Prof. Jack L. Fisher captures the new look 

of Communist city planning in the Yugoslav 

city of Velenje, Story begins on page 5. 

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class as in, and it might be his luck to add to his ideas 

those of a future Chinese scholar such as Hu Shih, 

or a future scientific giant like Isidore Rabi, or a quiet, 

reflective writer such as the E. B. White from whom 

this talk is cribbed. 

I'd be pleased that he could choose between life in 

a fraternity, or a non-Greek house, or a back room 

in Gollegetown. We all wonder it our sons would do 

well in the highly organized life of Harvard or Princeton 

or other schools that provide a single pattern of 

social and academic life. 

ΓD WELCOME,, too, his chance to do what his father 

did—change his mind about his major course of 

study. The Division of Unclassified Students has been 

added since our day, and now this is even more possible, 

although the new curriculum in Arts would make 

it wise for him to prepare for two schools if he feels 

he might switch from one to another. 

Lots of ALUMNI NEWS subscribers note the great 

number of faculty comings and goings—research here, 

a government job there. They may wonder if my son 

will ever find his top professors on campus. Well, this 

boy's father reads a lot of other alumni magazines, 

and can report Cornell is no worse off than the others. 

THESE SAME subscribers also note that Alma Mater's 

enrollment is inching up each year: "Isn't that boy of 

yours going to be better off at a small school, closer 

to his professors?" Maybe, but it usually takes one or 

two particular men to kindle the spark of a lifetime 

interest. I'd rather gamble on one of our top men. 

Yes, they ask, that's all very well for the upperclassmen, 

but what about that poor bewildered freshman 

from your rural Upstate school system? How well will 

he do the first year, competing against those whizzes 

from New York and the top prep schools? 

If he's an engineer, he'll meet senior faculty members 

in the Engineering Problems course for freshmen. 

It may be a coincidence, but freshmen failures dropped 

something like in half the first year of this new program. 

And if he's in Arts, and in the other schools, he 

will get senior faculty in most of the big freshman required 

courses. 

I'd send him to Cornell because I'd know that when 

he was done with his course of study he'd have a 

chance to make use of John Munschauer's placement 

office, where 450 companies sent 1,000 interviewers 

this year. They must be satisfied with what they find 

here, or they wouldn't keep coming back. 

YES,, I'll send my son to Cornell, if they'll have him, 

because he could follow his natural instincts in one of 

the most varied athletic programs in the country; or 

lose himself in one of the finest library systems in the 

world. 

This may not sound like an old Sun editor, an old 

campus radical, talking, but you bet your life I'd 

send my son to Cornell—if they'd have him. Of course 

he's only 9 now, but you can't think too far ahead these 

days. 

—JM

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Cornell Alumni News

The City of Socialist Man 

Can Communism buck 

the mighty forces 

that shape cities? 

By Prof. Jack C. Fisher 

City and Regional Planning 

June 1962 

The author, a new member of the faculty, sought 

answers to the above question during sixteen months 

of study in Eastern Europe. This article is drawn in 

part from his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University. 

Communist Theory 

PLANNING is at the heart of the new way of life/ 

based on a socialist economy, that is being planned 

and created today in the countries of Eastern Europe. 

The driving force in this economy is the emphasis 

on industrialization, with particular emphasis on 

heavy industry. This leads to a dramatic influx of 

population into the cities in a short period of time. 

The resulting expansion of the city is not supposed 

to be hit or miss, but planned — tailored to fit the 

model of a Communist ideal. 

The first part of this article spells out the thesis of 

Soviet planning, without discussion. The purpose is 

to provide the stated guidelines, the targets which 

planners are theoretically supposed to be aiming at. 

There is no lengthy discussion of goals, or of their 

ramifications. They are simply stated here in order to 

present objectives by which physical plans must be 

measured. The second part of this article presents 

several examples of recent plans. 

City planning in socialist countries is an integrated 

part of the over-all economic planning of the state. 

This factor is viewed by present East European political 

leaders as one of the most significant advantages 

of socialism over Western capitalism: "The most conspicuous 

feature of socialist city planning is that the 

socialist city reflects the advantages of a socialist 

planned economy ..." 

Socialism creates completely new conditions and laws governing 

population in comparison with capitalism. We may 

find the fundamental propositions of an analysis of the basic 

features of distribution of population under socialism in the 

works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism [writes one Soviet 

economist]. 

Socialist ideology dictates a radical break with the 

nature of earlier capitalist urban development which 

w 7 as "completely under the influence of unrestricted 

land speculation." In Eastern Europe there is no landowning 

class, no commercial interests such as those 

which influence the development of American cities. 

It is socialist man's desire to express, in the brick 

and mortar of his cities, tangible expression of the 

philosophical aspirations of Marxism-Leninism. The 

bases, or principles of the new socialist city may be 

said to aim at two things: 

To correct "ills" inherited from the era of 

capitalism. 

To develop a city which indicates clearly the 

inherent unity of the people, the classlessness of 

the society, and the harmony of the new socialist 

relations among men in accordance with the stated 

ideals of the national revolution carried out in each 

country. 

Not only is the city itself to be the center of a highly 

standardized and uniform type of social organization, 

but it is to be an integral part of regional planning. 

Its location and makeup are to be determined by the

location and distribution of economic 

productive forces: industry, power, and 

transportation. Socialism creates new 

integrating relationships between workers 

and farmers, town and village. A 

Polish planner writes: 

Life in a socialist town cannot develop 

properly within the framework of hostile and 

foreign city planning and architecture. While 

considering the conception of city planning, 

we have already asserted that reformist 

tendencies in preserving bourgeois isolation of 

homes, colonies, and settlements constitutes 

the negation of socialist urban planning. The 

plan of spacing a socialist city must provide 

all necessary clues as to the socialist relationships 

of the respective parts of the city and 

should find its expression in the common link 

and not in the division of buildings into isolated 

islands. 

Further, within the city there is to be 

no sharp distinction or structural division 

among the various city parts or 

components; the quality of the residential 

areas, their social composition is 

to be everywhere the same. Ideally, no 

part of the city should attract or repel 

certain classes—wealthy people living in 

sculptured residences; the poor in lowrent 

burned-out industrial areas. All 

parts of the city of socialist man will be 

composed, in theory, of all people—a 

truly classless potpouri. 

Another feature of the "ideal" city is 

that its size and growth will have definite 

restrictions: 

Proper size of a town depends, first of all, 

upon its productive function and upon the 

number of people employed in its establishments 

and institutions . . . Proper proportion 

between the size of the city's creative groups, 

the size of the servicing groups, and the total 

number of inhabitants should always be 

maintained. Subsequently, any further development 

of the town should be adjusted proportionately 

to the increase of its productive 

substance. 

A critical departure from the traditional 

American concept of the city is 

the socialist conception of the city's center 

as its political, administrative, and 

social core, rather than as the area of 

maximum commercial intensity. It is to 

function not as an area of economic concentration, 

but as the political-culturaladministrative 

center. 

The city center receives priority in 

programming for the total urban complex; 

it is the vital part necessary to coordinate 

the entire complex. 

The usual center in reconstructed 

cities has a large square designed to provide 

room for parading troops and for 

throngs of people on holidays. The center 

also serves as a setting for the principal 

public buildings and monuments. 

The only commercial elements in the 

socialist center are to be the hotel for 

tourists, the single department store, 

and perhaps a restaurant and coffee 

shop. The more closely the socialist center 

approaches this concept, the more 

radically does it depart from the traditional 

capitalist concept of the "Central 

Business District." 

The Author 

PROFESSOR Fisher will be behind the Iron 

Curtain again when this issue appears, 

for three months during which he will 

gather articles for a series of books in 

English on the planning, regional development, 

and architecture of the Eastern 

European countries. 

As an assistant professor of city and 

regional planning he teaches courses in 

urban geography, Soviet planning, and 

regional planning. 

He received the BA, MA, and PhD 

from Syracuse University. Thanks are 

due the editor of the Syracuse Alumni 

News, Malcolm Alama, for bringing this 

article to our attention. 

A capitalist Central Business District 

is traditionally the area of maximum 

sales volume, land values, intensity of 

land use, and traffic flow. Land values 

and prices of goods are uniform 

throughout the entire socialist urban 

complex. 

The socialist city's center is an area 

where the needs of the population of 

the entire regional complex, as set by 

the state, are administered, but in which 

the masses of the population have little 

need to venture, except for occasional 

visits to the one department store, the 

restaurant, and the coffee shop. 

Is It Working? 

Against the backdrop of Communist 

hope, described briefly above, exist the 

present urban complexes of Eastern 

Europe. 

Are the cities today attempting to 

conform to theory, or is there still that 

traditional variation in land use so familiar 

to most westerners? Depending 

on one's political orientation, the answer 

is usually a definite "yes" or "no." 

Before proceeding, some words of 

caution. Visitors to Communist countries, 

struck by the architectural appearance 

of post-war buildings, believe 

that this in itself constitutes a complete 

break with the past, and a seeming confirmation 

of socialist planning theory. 

Neither the use of the dwelling, nor its 

relationship to past urban evolution, 

appear to be of major importance to 

those who, by architecture alone, proclaim 

that a radical break has been 

made with the past. 

The point is that radicalism in architectural 

form obscures but does not 

obliterate a continuity of trend in urban 

development. Something more than the 

outward appearance of the buildings 

needs to have changed. 

Further, a visitor must remember that 

a city such as Warsaw in Poland was 

85 per cent destroyed in 1945. There 

was no Marshall Plan. On the contrary, 

for a number of years even an unfavorable 

trade exchange existed between 

Poland and the Soviet Union, which 

further strained Poland's economy. 

Vast areas of the country were devastated 

and population migrations out of, 

across, and into the area within Poland's 

redrawn post-war frontiers numbered 

more than ten million people. 

The situation in most of Eastern Europe, 

though far less drastic, was nevertheless 

comparable. When we analyze 

what is, we must clearly remember how 

little there was. 

The New Cities 

Throughout Eastern Europe, thousands 

of acres of fields and meadows 

have been transformed into urban complexes 

to house the rapidly growing 

working class. These genuinely new 

cities represent the Utopia of socialist 

urban planning. These are the "new 

socialist cities." 

Each country has its new socialist 

city, its showcase where socialist theory 

should be visible: Nowa Huta and Nowe 

Tychy in Poland, Sztalinvaros in Hungary, 

Dimitrovgrad and the new resort 

cities along the Black Sea in Bulgaria, 

Havirov and Vorsilov in Czechoslovakia, 

Titograd and Velenje in Yugoslavia. 

The new cities' departure from the 

traditional capitalist layout should be 

complete, as there was no existing urban 

complex to condition the planner's 

pen. They were bound in no way by the 

past. 

The cities are usually built as the center 

of one central focus or activity: to 

house the workers of a large steel complex 

or mine; to relieve congestion in 

an adjacent industrial area; or to serve 

as a regional administrative center. The 

site of each of the new cities is usually 

determined by the location of required 

raw materials and ease of transportation. 

A look at these cities finds the format 

usually simple and direct. At the center 

is an administrative-cultural square, 

from which radiate streets lined by massive 

residential units. These units are 

usually of two types: large apartment 

buildings consisting of two- or threeroom 

apartments for families, and dormitories 

for unmarried workers. Adjacent 

to the city is the enterprise in 

which most of the residents are employed. 

Poland's new cities were built in response 

to regional plans based on economic 

considerations. Each began construction 

at a different time, and one 

observes improved layout and quality 


of construction in each succeeding city. 

Now a Hut a, first of the three, has 

long symbolized the very essence of a 

socialist new city. Located ten miles 

from Cracow in Southern Poland, it 

houses the workers employed in Poland's 

major steel mill. 

The city of 100,000 stands today 

where a few short years ago there were 

only open meadows. The urban center 

is composed of the main administrative 

buildings: town hall, party headquarters, 

the trade union, etc. Residential 

complexes encircle the city's center. 

The visible results were far from successful 

at first. Construction lagged, 

temporary dwellings for laborers multiplied 

while construction of permanent 

units lagged. 

The Polish press is full of articles 

which indicate the depressed social conditions 

which existed in Nowa Huta, 

including the lack of promised cultural 

and entertainment facilities. During the 

last few years some of the failings have 

been eradicated as great sums of money 

found their way into housing and services. 

Yet Nowa Huta today portrays, in the 

monotony of her skyline, the scars of the 

Stalinist era and the architectural extremes 

of the early phases of socialist 

realism. 

Nowe Tychy, second of the three 

cities, shows the evidence of lessons 

learned from Nowa Huta, and some 

new problems. Located south of Katowice 

in Silesia, it was designed solely as 

a residential area for the overcrowded 

Upper Silesian Industrial Complex. 

According to the plan, Tychy's center 

is to consist of the tallest buildings in 

the city, a main square (not yet completed), 

and the main railroad station. 

In characteristic fashion, clustered residential 

units are to surround the center. 

Nowe Tychy represents a major 

break in the theory of Nowa Huta's 

development. The latter's center was 

constructed first; the intensity of construction 

decreased from the center. 

Tychy, on the other hand, was built 

from the outskirts toward the center, on 

the theory that when the entire complex 

was completed, the planners would be 

better able to provide for the needs of 

the existing population. 

A major flaw in the design placed 

the main railroad station too far from 

the residential units for easy walking. 

Silesians have hesitated to leave their 

more crowded, but more convenient, 

flats to seek residence in the more distant 

Tychy. 

Another problem common to both 

Huta and Tychy will be discussed at 

greater length later: the bringing of a 

large peasant population suddenly into 

an urban setting. 

Tarnobrzeg, near Sandomierz in 

Southeast Poland, is the third of the new 

June 1962 

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New Belgrade in Yugoslavia is one of the completely new projects of Eastern Europe. 

The all-new Communist cities 

PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR 

This new school is in Velenje, Yugoslavia, which is also shown on this issue's cover.

Polish cities. It is a residential complex 

now under construction to house the 

workers of a new sulphur mining operation. 

The mistakes learned from Nowa 

Huta and Nowe Tychy have not been 

forgotten. Construction is of good quality, 

and the external design is attractive 

to the eye. The individual apartments 

are comfortable and appealing in appearance, 

and of better construction 

than is found in the two older cities. 

It is in Yugoslavia, however, that one 

finds today more nearly the ideal model 

of a city that conforms in broad terms 

to the tenets of socialist city planning. 

Velenje, in the northern part of the 

country in the Republic of Slovenia, is 

the new center for a coal district. The 

new city today has settled somewhat 

less than half of its projected population 

of 30,000. 

The residential area is divided into 

four small neighborhood units, each including 

apartment houses, a school, 

shopping center, and local public buildings. 

These units surround a large open 

square for pedestrian use consisting of 

civic, cultural, and educational buildings 

which serve the whole region. The 

center itself offers the impression not 

of a potential area of high concentration 

of goods and services, but as a point 

of orientation, a muted centripetal force 

which provides a subtle unity to the entire 

complex. 

Here one could, with "proper" insight, 

envisage the socialist city of Velenje 

as an "urbanistic and architectural 

expression of socialist realism," to quote 

from one Communist authority on the 

subject. 

The Price of Change 

Before proceeding to look at how city 

planners have changed the pre-war cities 

of Eastern Europe, let us return to one 

of the thorniest problems raised by national 

and regional planning — the 

abrupt shift of rural workers into cities. 

Between 1948 and 1953, one authority 

reports, the non-agricultural labor force 

of Bulgaria increased by 400,000; of 

Yugoslavia, by 465,000; Czechoslovakia, 

close to 600,000; Hungary, 750,000; 

Rumania, 825,000; and, in Poland, 

nearly 2,000,000. 

The authorities of Nowa Huta and 

Nowe Tychy in Poland have faced this 

problem which is common to all the 

new cities and residential sections 

throughout Eastern Europe: The rapid 

pace of industrialization has brought 

peasants with rural attitudes and mores 

into a newly built urban environment. 

The social consequences of this have 

often been disastrous on the mental and 

moral fibre of the individual. In my 

opinion this is the most critical social 

problem facing the socialist planner today 

— the means of hastening the transition 

from a purely rural to a purely 

urban way of living during the first 

years of residence in a city. 

In pre-war Poland, as in other countries, 

distinct sections of cities served as 

temporary adjustment centers for the 

rural newcomer. In these sections he 

adjusted to the ways of city life while 

maintaining a large stock of rural habits. 

Finally, by the time the peasant had 

found a permanent job he was able to 

make the move "across the river" into 

the completely urban society with little 

or no mental or social adjustment. 

This problem, though recognized as 

a current ill by the present planners, was 

used during an earlier post-war period 

to produce a desired social result: 

The rural newcomer, housed in a 

temporary dwelling with little or no privacy, 

was unwillingly engaged in building 

the new socialist future. His rural 

communal ties broken, a new set of attitudes 

was to be engrained in his responsive 

mind, where the only elements 

of stability within his everchanging and 

unstable world was the apparent 

strength of the Communist Party. Thus, 

the city of the socialist man was to be 

not only an end in itself, but a means 

toward a definite socialist social goal. 

The Rebuilt Cities 

By far the great majority of the cities 

of Eastern Europe were not created 

under "socialism," but have had a long 

history of development. These cities 

provide the greatest problems for the 

planners as they attempt to achieve 

their socialist goals. Here the policies of 

the new regimes are publicly put to their 

most decisive tests. 

What follows is a brief look at a variety 

of results achieved in several cities: 

Warsaw and its Old City represent 

one of the classics of post-war construction. 

In 1945 this part of the city, as 

most remaining sections, lay in ruins. 

As the ideals of socialism began to make 

themselves felt in Polish architectural 

circles, reconstruction of the city began 

in conformity with somewhat vaguely 

worded notions of socialist planning. 

But to the Polish peasant, as to the 

Polish intellectual, the Old City core 

was the symbol of the Polish nation itself. 

Thus, to let it remain in ruins or 

to rebuild it along modern ideas would 

have symbolized that the traditional, 

i.e. true, Warsaw would never have risen 

from the ashes of German destruction. 

As a result, the reconstruction of the 

old section of Warsaw exactly as it once 

existed would represent —to each and 

every Pole, regardless of political creed 

or position — a reincarnation of the Polish 

nation, a monument to the endurance 

and courage of the Polish people 

and a marker of hope in a time of despair. 

Socialism gave priority to Polish nationalism 

and, after great expense and 

long periods of extended research,, each 

building of the old city reappeared and 

each element of design, each frieze, was 

a masterful representation of the original. 

Polish desire to recreate the traditional 

old center was not limited to Warsaw 

alone, but was a characteristic feature 

of early reconstruction throughout 

Poland. The old core city of Lublin, of 

Poznan, of Gdansk, and the village of 

Kazimierz are typical examples. 

"Socialist" planning was given due 

consideration in other parts of Warsaw. 

Outside the Old City, other sections 

tended more toward a socialized future 

rather than an idealized past. 

Most striking of all was the massive 

Palace of Culture, symbol of the new 

political order, constructed in the center 

of the city on the site of some of the 

most extensive ruins. The building is 

a classic example of traditional ornate 

Soviet "wedding-cake" design, common 

to the Stalinist era. 

At the other extreme, the most devastated 

section of the city was, of course, 

the ghetto. Here the systematic demolition 

of each and every building (except 

for a single Catholic church) by the 

Germans made rubble clearance impossible. 

Newly designed apartment houses 

were placed on top of the rubble, some 

three or four feet above the true ground 

level. 

Sofia, in the newly created Bulgarian 

People's Republic, on the other hand, 

was being altered under the guidance 

of socialist planners with entirely different 

results. 

A pointed example of the Soviet concept 

of the city's center is contained in 

a decree of the Presidium of the Bulgarian 

National Assembly. On November 

30, 1951, the Council of Ministers 

ordered the reconstruction of the center, 

with buildings for the Council itself, 

and for the State Opera, Ministry 

of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Electrification, 

Club of the Soviets, Central Universal 

Store, and a sample State Hotel. 

The decree was realized the center of 

Sofia today consists of all these buildings, 

centered around a large square. 

Note the distinct character of the district, 

which functions not as the city's 

core of economic concentration but as 

the political-cultural-administrative center. 

Two Yugoslavian cities, which the 

writer has studied extensively, are rep- 


esentative of a number of other East 

European cities, all of which have a 

long history of urban development. In 

both, as in the other cities, the city's 

center is and has always been an indicator 

of each city's trend of evolution. 

Zagreb's center has gradually migrated 

south since 1850, under the attraction 

of the railroad and resulting industrialization. 

Characteristic differentiation 

developed in residential land use, 

with three clearly recognizable bands of 

first-class, average, and poor residences 

emerging, from north to south through 

the city. 

The present planners have continued 

the southward movement of the city's 

center with the construction of an entirely 

new center south of the urbanized 

area. In doing this they responded to 

traditional land-use trends, and established 

the new center on a site where 

pre-war planners had once envisioned 

it. 

There had been little pre-war construction 

at the new center, so Zagreb's 

planners were able to construct a new 

socialist component without disturbing 

this or other parts of the city. 

Split, our second sample city in 

Yugoslavia, has a center that has 

through the centuries never migrated 

away from its location on the shore of 

the Adriatic Sea, adjacent to the original 

site of Diocletian's palace. 

Faced with a rapidly expanding population, 

socialist planners set out to design 

a new center. Tradition had for 

centuries restricted the city's center to 

the palace-shore location. The new, socialist 

planners respected this tradition 

and incorporated an area adjacent to 

the old center for new central buildings. 

In both Zagreb and Split, the prewar 

trends of land use in the city at 

large have remained constant. Industrial 

and residential areas continue as 

before. Zagreb located a new, socialist 

city center in a new location; Split simply 

expanded the existing center to include 

the headquarters of its socialist 

city. Even in locating its new center, 

however, Zagreb continued a pre-war 

trend and chose a site selected before 

socialism arrived. 

One finds the trends of Zagreb and 

Split repeated in most of the other reconstructed 

cities of post-war Eastern 

Europe. Land use conforms to pre-war 

usage and has not come to terms as yet 

with the idealized dictates of socialist 

city planning. 

It is true that East European cities are 

undergoing rapid industrial growth and 

corresponding population increases. Yet 

the predictable pattern of the future 

city appears to be more in conformity 

with the individual city's past evolutionary 

trends than with the present 

theory of socialist planning. 

June 1962 

Ornate Stalinist architecture shows in the Palace of Culture in a rebuilt part of Warsaw, 

Modified parts of pre-war cities 

The center of Sofia is now ringed with regional and parly headquarters buildings.

Diocletian's palace is still the center of the Yugoslav shore city of Split. 

These cities withstood change 

' ' ' ' ' ' " ~ 

The Old City of Warsaw has been recreated building for building, and frieze for frieze. 

10 

Three Generalizations 

For the sake of analysis and judging 

the progress of socialist city planning, 

the writer has postulated the existence 

— for the present stage of East European 

development — of three types of 

urban patterns. Each represents a different 

degree of success in realizing the 

theoretical goals of socialist city planning: 

The first city type is the one which apparently 

conforms in broad terms to the 

tenets of the socialist theory. 

The second is the city which has retained 

the overall urban pattern developed 

during the capitalist, pre-war era, 

but has by the substitution of a few institutions 

transformed the form of one 

of the urban components (such as the 

city center). 

The third is the city in which the 

format of the complex and the makeup 

of each component part has remained 

unchanged. 

Whether any given present-day East 

European city belongs in one or another 

of these three categories is the result of 

two basic factors: One is the size and 

nature of pre-socialist pattern of the 

city, and the other is the planned population 

increase under socialism. 

Looking again at the three types of 

cities we find today in East Europe, we 

discover: 

The first city type, conforming to 

socialist theory, is the new city, constructed 

on a previously non-urban site. 

One does not find pre-war cities that 

today conform to socialist theory. 

The second type, in which one element 

reflects socialist planning theory, 

is a city which has expanded its population, 

or anticipates such growth. In 

most cases a near-by, previously non-urbanized 

area has been annexed to provide 

a site for an entirely new city component, 

usually the city center. The center 

conforms to socialist theory as far 

as its content, while the major, remaining 

part of the city continues to retain 

its pre-socialist form and functions. 

The third type of city, which has retained 

its pre-socialist format of land 

use, has done so regardless of growth, 

or in the absence of any growth at all. 

From this quick grouping of today's 

socialist cities, we can observe at least 

one pattern: The idealistic theory of 

a uniformly structured, socialist-oriented 

city has been put into effect fairly completely 

only where new ground has been 

broken. The East European cities that 

existed before the coming of the Communists 

are today very much like the 

cities that existed before the arrival of 

the Communists. A new center may 

have been created along socialist planning 

lines, but land use in the rest of 

the city remains as before. 


Will It Work? 

Socialist planning has unique features 

and has had some success; it may 

well, based on the most recent projects, 

have promise. But, as is so typical of urban 

development the world around, socialist 

success is restricted and diluted, 

perhaps even determined, by the past— 

tangibly in the inherited arrangement 

of the streets and buildings, intangibly 

in the cultural attitudes of the respective 

nationalities. 

One of the most clearly recognizable 

"socialist" features of early post-war 

East European cities was the true classless 

social composition of 95 per cent of 

the entire urban residential area. (This 

had been the result of the forcible removal 

of the former capitalist and 

higher middle class groups from their 

homes and their dispersion throughout 

the city, and the assignment of peasants 

and other urban newcomers to all sections 

of the city.) 

Today even a casual inspection of 

any large East European city indicates 

the strong migration of like groups to 

like areas which has taken place. The 

old areas once again consist of distinguishable 

social-economic groups composed 

of highly paid, average, and 

poorly paid population segments. 

Thus once again the quality and physical 

appearance of residential areas 

(which had never altered) will be representative 

of the economic scale of 

the individuals within. The first-class 

residential areas today belong not to 

capitalists, but to the highly developed 

new class of Party, governmental, and 

industrial elite. 

Harking back to the three generalized 

groupings of today's socialist cities, we 

can say that only a small percentage of 

the urban residents of Eastern Europe 

now live in urban areas that conform 

at all closely to the socialist ideal. Maybe 

another 5 to 10 per cent live in the 

second type of city, in which some element 

such as the city center follows socialist 

theory. The remaining 80 to 90 

per cent of the city dwellers live in urban 

areas which have the essential form, 

regardless of expansion, of pre-socialist 

Eastern Europe. 

Can we say then that the present 

planners have failed? No, although 

there surely exists the appearance of 

failure. Four features of post-war life 

under Communism have prevented the 

theories from being given a true test: 

To start with, the devastated state of 

most of the cities, coupled with the high 

cost of returning them to minimum livable 

conditions, was an extraordinary 

drag on post-war reconstruction. 

Then, the political rigidity of the 

Stalinist era introduced often-lavish 

architectural forms (such as Warsaw's 

Palace of Culture) and inflexible plan- 

June 1962 

Drummond 

Studio 

A FLEXIBLE basement studio now allows 

the Department of Speech and Drama to 

stage both classroom practice (picture, 

above) and finished productions (right). 

Movable stage sections permit various inthe-round 

and proscenium arrangements. 

The studio, partially equipped at present, 

has been named for the late Professor 

Alexander M. Drummond, Grad '09-10, 

'12-15, a leader in the work of the department 

for fifty years. Another room in 

Lincoln is named in memory of Professor 

James A. Winans, LLB '07, head of the 

department from 1901 to 1920. 

Photos by William Kroll 

ning concepts which failed to allow for 

local problems. 

Thirdly, there was a distinct lack of 

detailed knowledge and skill regarding 

sound construction techniques or an understanding 

of modern architectural designs 

that were being introduced. 

Finally, each succeeding East European 

regime laid great emphasis on 

heavy industry, and left the city planner 

with little capital to devote to housing 

and city development. Contemporary 

cities fall far short of the ideal socialist 

goal. Housing is inadequate and extreme 

overcrowding exists. 

The intense emphasis on industrialization 

is lessening, and new apartment 

houses, improved streets, and cultural 

facilities are coming in for a greater 

share of the investments. 

The skills and experience of the planners 

have consistently increased. Yesterday's 

mistakes have not been forgotten 

Ḟor all the problems facing the new 

socialist city planners, they have nevertheless 

had great opportunity to create 

classless, uniform, socialist-oriented 

cities. The forces that shape capitalist 

cities appear still to decide the distribution 

of different economic classes within 

most socialist cities, and the location 

of industry and even of the city's center 

Ṫhere will arise tomorrow a betterplanned 

city, with attractive and comfortable 

residential units—a worthy 

habitat for socialist man. 

It is yet to be seen whether tomorrow's 

city of socialist man will truly 

conform to the idealized dictates of current 

socialist planning. 

11

Some (More) 

Cornell Professors 

Concluding a 1909 magazine piece by 

Kenneth Roberts '08; art by Ed Wheelan Ίl 

RALPH STOCKMAN TARR^ Professor of 

Dynamic Geology and Physical Geography, 

is a small man with an illimitable 

nerve. He is horribly popular, as the 

Smith girls say, although the reason for 

his popularity cannot be definitely 

traced. He has fallen into Arctic rivers, 

and ridden into a revolving Sahara Sand 

Pillar, just to see what it would do. Incidentally 

it removed his hat, glasses, cigar, 

and made a struggle to get away with 

his beard, coat, and shoes. 

And yet, with all his nerve and 

travels and experiences, he is afflicted 

with vocal hesitation before his classes. 

He talks jerkily, and frequently finds 

himself at a loss for a word. Often his 

friends in the front row will try to help 

him by suggestions which he never takes. 

And where a sand pillar has had no 

power to affect him, a single whisper 

from his audience will bring him up all 

a-tremble with nervousness. Most of his 

lectures are illustrated with stereopticon 

views; for he is a Master Stereoptician, 

and possesses lantern slides of everything 

under the sun. 

Every Sunday night, to be really on 

the inside, one should attend the salon 

of Professor and Mrs, Tarr; for by some 

apparently occult power, both Professor 

Tarr and his wife know everything that 

goes on everywhere in university circles, 

from the President's house to the most 

tumble-down lodging house of all. 

Furthermore, the souls who gather there 

are congenial souls—the Professor knows 

how to weed 'em out—and the cigars 

and cigarettes are plenty, the rarebit is 

creamy, and the beer is unbelieveably 

smooth. Many an upper-classman has 

received a few straight tips in Professor 

Tarr's living room which helped him out 

of some hole or into some coveted 

position. 

The Reverend Nathaniel Schmidt, 

Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 

is another man of wide sympathies, 

beard and knowledge. He carries 

in his head over forty-five languages. 

Moreover, I am quite sure that he is 

thoroughly conversant with the name 

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and history of every town with over one 

hundred population which ever existed 

in the ancient kingdoms of the Orient. 

Such a memory! It is appalling. He can 

write page after page of the choicest 

Cuneiform or Hebrew or Arabic, and 

never a split Cuneiform or Hebrew or 

Arabic infinitive in the whole thing. 

He dug up an old city down in Asia 

Minor once, so the story runs, and found 

the library of that buried and forgotten 

town. Whereupon he sat him down on 

a couple of 25x30x2 1-2 short stories 

which lay there, and began to read a 

variation on the story of Moses in the 

Bulrushes, which was most exquisitely 

chiseled on a piece of stone which resembled 

Bunker Hill Monument. 

He felt that he was on the verge of a 

great discovery, when suddenly he found 

a marginal cutting to the effect that a 

gentleman from Osser Ning, a neighboring 

town, had come with forty elephants 

and carried away Volume II of the story 

for the edification of his little son, who 

was afflicted with a bad case of colic 

from eating young bulrush roots. So Professor 

Schmidt was obliged to defer that 

particular great discovery until a later 

date. He has already made a lot of them, 

and even now whenever he has a spare 

moment, he runs to the Orient and digs 

Professor Schmidt glancing at the Father of all the 

Short Stories 

up another town; so maybe we will get 

his "Moses" discovery after all. 

He has an original way of marking 

examinations which causes him to be 

looked on, first with amazement, and 

then with deep regard by his students. 

"Who," asks Professor Schmidt, 

"were three important Egyptian rulers 

between the Eighteenth and the Twentysixth 

Dynasties?" Whereupon probably 

fourteen or fifteen students state that 

Amosis, Thothmes III, and Rameses II 

were three important rulers. One poor 

ignorant brute, however, may make answer 

that Murad, Ramleh, and Helmar 

were three important rulers. Then Professor 

Schmidt, in correcting the papers, 

explains that Amosis, Thothmes III, and 

Rameses II, each got fourteen or fifteen 

votes, and were very popular, while 

Murad, Ramleh, and Helmar got only 

one vote and were only a little popular. 

So all six are more or less important, and 

all the papers are correct. Do you wonder 

that everyone likes Professor Schmidt. 

Two members of the younger Professorial 

set who contribute largely to the 

joys of undergraduate life, are Ralph 

Charles Henry Catterall, Professor of 

Modern European History, often known 

as "Little Ralphie," and Henry Augustus 

Sill, Professor of Ancient History, 


who is sometimes spoken of as "Heinie," 

and again as "Gussie" by his friends 

among the undergraduates. Each one is 

immensely proud of his own system of 

instruction, and each one holds the system 

of the other in open contempt. They 

delight to foregather in public places 

and make speeches in which each one 

attempts to smother the other with 

ridicule of the finest water. 

Picture to yourself any banquet held 

during the last six years in the town of 

Ithaca. Take for your dramatis persona 

Professor Gatterall, Professor Sill, 

and a toastmaster, with a chorus of students, 

menials, and other victims, and 

you have the basis of a little play which 

Cornell students have witnessed a great 

many times in the last few years. The 

dialogue invariably runs about as follows 

: 

THE TOASTMASTER: "We will now 

have a few words from Professor Sill." 

(Business of applause from those taking 

work under Sill.) 

PROFESSOR SILL (rising and consulting 

copious notes) : "I did not expect to 

speak to-night, but when I saw that my 

contemporary, Little Ralphie, is to address 

you, I decided that it is my duty 

to give you a few words to fortify you 

against that siege. 

"I am glad that I am a Professor— 

Professors make so much money. Ralph 

doesn't, because he is not humorous. I 

will now tell one of Ralph's stories. I 

get mine out of the same book that he 

does." 

(Tells story taken from the funny page 

of the Ladies' Home Journal. Business 

of laughter from the students affected.) 

"I see here to-night the editor of the 

Cornell Widow. I am glad to see that 

we have the Widow. Its unconscious 

humor is at times very valuable to Ralph 

in preparing his lectures. 

"I heard a good story on Ralph the 

Professor Tarr and his Stage Properties 

June 1962 

other night." (Springs No. 8, Series of 

1902. Business as before.) 

"But I see that Ralph himself desires 

to address you. I will resign the floor 

to him. It is not the first time that I 

have floored him." 

(He sits down amid great applause. 

Those not taking his courses applaud because 

the speech is over.) 

THE TOASTMASTER: "There is no 

need to introduce Professor Gatterall. 

You all know him." 

(Students cheer madly. Those nearest 

the door slide out.} 

PROFESSOR GATTERALL (rising majestically] 

: "The report that Gussie is 

training to go into vaudeville is untrue. 

Rumors to the contrary, he is paid for 

the time he spends on the Hill, and I 

am sure that he is paid all he is worth." 

(Cheers.) 

A 

Professor Strunk, indiscriminate consumer of 

Bull Durham and Old English Roots 

"I had intended to speak to you tonight-—and 

at length—on the influence 

which the home life of Rameses the Second 

has had upon the civilization of the 

Twentieth Gentury. But since my youthful 

contemporary has chosen a less deep 

subject, so must I. But what may I say? 

Gussie has stolen all my stories. Besides, 

his humor has doubtless overpowered 

you all. 

"As I said to Gus the other day—" 

(Tells seven stories in one breath. One 

of them has not been heard for two years. 

At this a student titters. Ralph looks 

pleased.) 

"Cornell has made a great record during 

the past year. Doubtless some of 

you have heard of it." (He pauses, Stu- 

The mere mention of "Davy'* Hoy is sufficient 

to elicit low moans of terror from the underclass-men 

dents cheer violently, as though they 

think banquet is finished, and rush for 

the door. The banquet dies a violent 

death, and the two Professor trudge 

silently up the hill. Soft music. Curtain.) 

Then there's William Strunk, Jr., 

Assistant Professor of the English Language 

and Literature. Billy Strunk, 

friend to the students. Should you desire 

a title for a song or a short story 

or a dog, Billy will make hundreds upon 

hundreds of verbal suggestions, and send 

you hundreds of others through the mail. 

Gall upon him, and sooner or later he 

wall tell you a story. It will be very, very 

long—hopelessly long; but you must not 

despair, for eventually, far in the distance, 

you will observe the Point approaching 

slowly, relentlessly, and in circles. 

Twenty-five minutes is a fair estimate 

of the length of one of Billy's 

stories. 

"I remember," he will say, "I remember—Oh, 

I remember very well a fellow 

—a young fellow—a fellow about your 

age—about your age who always—who 

always-—who always reminded me of— 

he reminded me of Jimmy Jackson—old 

Jimmy Jackson—dear old Jimmy Jack, 

we used to call him—" and so on. Then 

digression \vill follow digression until he 

has worked around a circle to the story 

again. 

If you try to interrupt him, his voice 

will grow louder and louder, successfully 

drowning all your attempts. You've got 

to listen. And it isn't a hardship for he 

is very wise and very willing to dispense 

information. He is an inveterate smoker, 

rolling his own cigarettes. Also he is 

somewhat of a poet (Oh! Will!), although 

this secret shame of his is not 

generally known. 

Professor Martin W. Sampson, of the 

English Department, is the students' 

friend, where Professor Strunk is a 

friend to the students. He is the wit, 

13

aconteur. Chesterfield, and Important 

Sound of the College of Arts and Sciences. 

When he isn't helping the undergraduates 

to stage plays, he is teaching 

them to talk like a book, and sympathizing 

with them over the Co-ed Peril. 

Another Loud Cornell Noise is David 

Fletcher Hoy, Registrar of the University. 

He manipulates the Great Seal with 

telling effect, and the mere mention of 

his name is enough to elicit low moans 

of terror from the under-classmen. Nevertheless, 

he is a big bluff for behind his 

mask of heartless ferocity there lies hid 

a hard-working, sympathetic, lovable 

able gentleman. The seniors—most of 

them—know him and are very fond of 

him. 

The under-classmen do not know him, 

do not like him, and shun him as they 

would the plague. Last year someone 

discovered that he hadn't had a vacation 

since the year of the Big Fog. Consequently 

he was instructed to take a few 

months off. And he refused. It was almost 

necessary for the Faculty to eject 

him bodily before he would consent to 

take a rest. 

The Hill abounds with exceedingly interesting 

gentlemen; but unfortunately 

the magazine pages whereon to describe 

them are not so plenty. Nobody needs 

to be told about men like Ex-President 

Andrew Dickson White and Goldwin 

Smith, who helped to build Cornell. But 

there are others: Judge Irvine, the 

Grand Old Man of the Law School; 

Professor Dennis, Football Expert and 

the Wizard of the Chemistry Building; 

Liberty Hyde Bailey, the Little Father 

of the Agriculturists; H. Wade Hibbard, 

known to his classes as "Hot Wad," the 

man who ought to own the Lehigh Valley 

Railroad; Vladimir Karapetoff, 

Musician, Christian Scientist, Vegeterian 

and Professor of Experimental Engineering; 

Professor Charles Love Durham, 

the Boy Latin Wonder, who can 

talk Latin almost as well as he can talk 

English; Clarence Boyd Hirshfield, Professor 

of Steam Engineering, the man 

with the card-index brain; Professor 

Everett Ward Olmstead, the Dictator of 

the Iberian Peninsula and Purveyor of 

food and amusement to the chosen; and 

many others. 

14 

BOOKS 

What Does Prof. X Read? 

A new booklist series provides some clues 

As A SPECIALIST in this age of specialization, 

does a professor of government 

read only books about politics, and a 

professor of law only books on law? 

Not at Cornell, certainly, if a new 

booklist series is any indication. 

The Olin Library staff began in January 

the publication of a monthly pamphlet 

containing a faculty member's 

selection of recent books, with a brief review 

or commentary on each. 

The pamphlets are titled, "Reader's 

Report," and subtitled, the "Bookmark 

Series." The author each month is a 

leading member of the faculty, a wellread, 

well-informed expert in his own 

field yet one whose interests are broad. 

Every student soon discovers that, although 

this university is an institution 

where he may study "any subject," he 

must limit himself to a relative few. Although 

surrounded by learned men in 

all fields, he comes in contact with those 

professors in his own areas of specialization 

only. At the same time, the libraries 

offer a world of books. New volumes arrive 

every day to take their places beside 

the classics and literature of other student 

generations. 

How then may the student keep from 

being overwhelmed, and helped to make 

an intelligent selection of books not connected 

with his immediate course work? 

Is there any possible way for him to 

come to know the great minds on this 

campus other than those who instruct 

him in his own classes? 

Olin Library is publishing the "Reader's 

Report" as a partial answer, with a 

selection of books read recently by a 

faculty member. A Library staff member, 

commenting on the series, said the 

lists are expected to introduce not only 

books, but more about the professor as 

well. 

The ALUMNI NEWS hopes to publish 

these lists and reviews in the future, as 

they appear. Alumni and others may 

also receive the series directly from the 

Library, by writing Miss Marie A. Cast, 

Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

New York. There is no charge. 

Number 1 of the Bookmark Series was 

written by Professor Andrew Hacker, 

government. It is followed by a selection 

from Number 3, which was prepared by 

University Faculty Committee on Nuclear 

Peril. 

BY PROFESSOR HACKER 

THE POLITICS OF OIL by Robert Engler. 

Macmillan. 1961. 

If there are tensions between an economic 

system based on private ownership 

and a political system founded on 

the principle of majority-rule, the issues 

are joined when the oil industry uses its 

power in American politics. Here is a 

full-dress analysis of the methods, the 

goals, and the resources of the giant 

corporations that dominate the governments 

of several states and have their 

way most of the time on the national 

scene. Even more fascinating is the way 

in which the industry has persuaded a 

majority of us that what is good for oil 

is good for the country. 

BLACK LIKE ME by John H. Griffin. 

Houghton Mifflin. 1961. 

I have always felt that more justice 

and compassion would be evidenced in 

this country if all white Americans, say 

a few million at a time, were tinted an 

unwashable brown and compelled to live 

as Negroes for a few months. This is 

actually what a Texas journalist did, 

dyeing his skin by a chemical treatment. 

His report on his travels in the Deep 

South will stir the emotions and rouse 

the anger of anyone with a conscience. 

THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN PLURALISM 

by Henry S. Kariel. Stanford. 1961. 

The Madisonian prescription, outlined 

in Federalists Numbers 10 and 51, 

asserted that a free society must be 

founded on a plurality of factions, interests 

and classes. In this way both majority 

tyranny and minority oligarchy 

would be obviated. Kariel points out 

that this prescription may have been 

operative in the early years of the Republic, 

but it has ceased to function for 


our time. Plural groups are now highly 

institutionalized structures that no longer 

resemble the voluntary and participative 

associations of the past. Power is 

concentrated rather than fragmented 

and the public interest is sacrificed to 

private and non-representative bureaucracies. 

PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN DE- 

MOCRACY by Valdimer O. Key. Knopf. 

1961. 

America's foremost political scientist, 

having established himself as an authority 

on political parties and state politics, 

now turns to public opinion. He blends 

theory and fact, shrewd speculation and 

systematic research, with an effortlessness 

that can only excite the envy of 

those of us who have tried and failed. 

This is bound to be the standard book 

on the role of public opinion in the 

political process for many years to come. 

CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHARACTER by 

Seymour M. Lipsit and Leo Lowenthal. 

The Free Press. 1961. 

Some books achieve that happy 

eminence whereupon other books begin 

to be written about them. David Riesman's 

The Lonely Crowd has attained 

this lofty status and various social scientists 

have joined to review the philosophy 

of tradition-, inner-, and other-direction. 

A pervasive criticism of Riesman 

is that he is over-tolerant, that he 

accepts ideas and institutions that are 

essentially contradictory. In a chapter 

replying to the essays, Riesman agrees 

with all his critics' criticisms of him. 

THE SCHOOLS by Martin Mayer. Harper. 

1961. 

There is a great deal of talk about how 

our schools fail to encourage something 

called "excellence," how the traditional 

disciplines are being ignored and the 

frills accentuated. These attacks are, in 

reality, directed not so much at education 

as they are expressive of a discontent 

over the fulfillment of the democratic 

dream. Here is a superb survey of 

the attempt of a nation to educate not a 

selective elite but all the children from 

all families. If there is mediocrity, it is 

present in the manicured suburban 

schools as well as in the dingy slums and 

the rural backwaters. 

PHILOSOPHY AND MYTH IN KARL MARX 

by Robert C. Tucker. Cambridge. 

1961. 

In the mid-1840s Marx wrote his 

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 

a series of essays stressing the impact of 

industrial labor and capitalist exploitation 

on the individual worker. These 

papers form a marked departure from 

Marx's later writings in that they are infused 

with a humanism and a concern 

for the autonomous personality. The 

Manuscripts were suppressed in the 

June 1962 

Soviet Union until recently and only 

this year has a translation appeared in 

English. Tucker's summary and analysis, 

while difficult reading for non-specialists, 

illuminates the unknown Marx and 

places him in a new perspective. 

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: 1960 

by Theodore White. Athenaeum. 

1961. 

Just because a book has been the 

Number 1 best-seller for many weeks 

does not mean that serious students cannot 

profit from reading it. This is a dayby-day, 

personality-by-personality, and 

vote-by-vote account of how Kennedy 

won and Nixon lost. The interpretations 

are sometimes oversimple and the praise 

too fulsome (remember, this is a bestseller) 

. However the facts are all here 

between two covers and the drama of 

the campaign is brought to full life. 

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard 

Yates. Atlantic-Little Brown. 1961. 

This is the best novel I have read this 

year. Part comedy, part tragedy, it is the 

story of a young suburban couple who 

are typical of the over-educated people 

our liberal arts colleges are turning out. 

Lacking any unique talent, the hero still 

thinks he is too good for a career in 

business and talks of going to Paris to 

find himself. Lacking the courage or 

character to make a break with the soft 

suburban-organization life, his pretentious 

but airy ambitions destroy his 

marriage and break his spirit. 

BY THE NUCLEAR PERIL COMMITTEE 

OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE. FACTS,, DAN- 

GERS,, AND OPPORTUNITIES. By Edward 

Teller and Albert L. Latter. Criterion 

Books. 1958. 

The authors' purpose is to set forth as 

simply as possible the problems and opportunities 

of atomic physics and the 

dangers of radioactive fallout. 

DETERRENCE AND DEFENSE by Glenn H. 

Snyder. Princeton University. 1961. 

An effort to provide a theoretical 

framework for dealing with the choice 

between deterrence of and defense 

against military attack, in terms of national 

security policy. 

THE NECESSITY OF CHOICE : PROSPECTS 

OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY by Henry 

A. Kissinger. Harper. 1960. 

A study written under the auspices of 

Harvard's Center for International Affairs 

"to point out some of the major 

issues which confront American foreign 

policy." 

INSPECTION FOR DISARMAMENT. Seymour 

Melman, editor. Columbia University. 

1958. 

"Workable systems of inspection can 

be designed to ensure compliance with 

international disarmament agreements. 

That is the principal finding of this investigation 

of the feasibility of designing 

an inspection system for disarmament." 

This book presents the results of an 

investigation, carried out under the 

sponsorship of the Institute for International 

Order and the Institute of War 

and Peace Studies of Columbia University, 

of inspection as a means of policing 

a disarmament agreement. Contains 

papers by numerous specialists, together 

with a general report., summary, and 

conclusion by Professor Melman. 

THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 

Samuel Glasstone, editor. US Atomic 

Energy Commission. 1957. 

A study prepared by the Department 

of Defense and published by the AEC. 

FALLOUT—A STUDY OF SUPERBOMBS,, 

STRONTIUM 90, AND SURVIVAL. John M. 

Fowler, editor, with foreword by Adlai 

Stevenson. Basic Books. 1960. 

A collection of essays by several authors 

on fallout, radiation accidents, 

civil defense, detection of tests, nuclear 

warfare, and national survival. 

THE NATION'S SAFETY AND ARMS CON- 

TROL by Arthur T. Hadley. Viking. 1961. 

A presentation of the problems of the 

limitation and control of nuclear weapons, 

based on the 1960 Arms Control 

Summer Study held at Dedham, Massachusetts, 

under the auspices of the 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Includes a glossary and a comprehensive 

bibliography. 

STRATEGY AND ARMS CONTROL by 

Thomas C. Schelling and Morton H. 

Halperin, with the assistance of Donald 

G. Brennan. Twentieth Century Fund. 

1961. 

An analysis of arms control with particular 

emphasis on the military policy 

involved. Based on the 1960 Arms Control 

Summer Study held at Dedham, 

Massachusetts, under the auspices of the 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

From the Concluding Remarks: "What 

we have tried to emphasize more than 

anything else is that arms control, if 

properly conceived, is not necessarily 

hostile to, or incompatible with, or an 

alternative to, a military policy properly 

conceived." 

STRATEGY IN THE MISSILE AGE by Bernard 

Brodie. Princeton University. 1959. 

A study of military problems and 

strategy from the point of view of 

national policy, undertaken by the Rand 

Corporation as part of its research program 

for the US Air Force. 

To BE CONTINUED 

15

Igor Smirnov, Kuzma Sizov, President Deane W. Malott, and Julia and Dmitry Petrov. 

—C. Hadley Smith 

STUDENTS 

Four Soviet Students 

The other side 5 

well represented 

BY C. MICHAEL CURTIS '56 

"HUMAN HISTORY,'' said H. G. Wells, 

"becomes more and more a race between 

education and catastrophe/' 

Though it is difficult, at times, to sense 

the connection between organic chemistry 

or cost accounting" and the more 

pressing problems of international anarchy, 

the Cornell educational experience, 

in. its quieter moments, reflects the 

urgency of these and other problems, 

and struggles to find a way of putting the 

random insights and hypotheses of acadeπiia 

into the broader perspective of 

human civilization and its struggle for 

survival. 

During the current academic year, the 

university has played host to four students 

from the Soviet Union, the first 

Russians to study on this campus in 

many years. While it is unnecessary to 

conclude that the meeting has in any 

sense eased or even squarely confronted 

the manifold differences which continue 

to exist between the American ethos and 

the Communistic system which promises 

to engulf it, the experience may well 

have been more than worth the negotiations 

w r hich made it possible. 

As individuals, Dmitry Petrov, his 

wife Julia Petrov, Kuzma Sizov, and 

Igor Smirnov are hardly to be distinguished 

from other, hard-working 

Cornell graduate students. As representatives 

of the Soviet Union, they are 

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no more, and certainly no less, than 

might have been expected. 

All are intelligent, characteristically 

friendly, and firmly loyal to a tradition, 

and a set of historical, economic, and 

socio-political assumptions Americans 

have always found it difficult, and at 

times impossible, to accept and all four, 

though fully prepared to contend with 

the peculiarities of American life, have 

been at times intrigued, aghast, amused, 

and nettled by the university environment 

Cornellians have a tendency to take 

for granted. 

Many Americans λvho have met the 

four Soviet students, and a great many 

more who have not, view the experience, 

whether shared or simply contemplated, 

with much the same enthusiasm they 

might have for an iconoclastic history 

text, or a reformed bank robber. 

For others, talking with the gregarious 

Petrovs, or arguing, tentatively, with 

the reserved Smirnov or the fluent Sizov, 

has fulfilled or at least hinted at an educational 

experience quite rare among 

the more pedestrian pleasures of daily 

note-taking and amiable scholarship. 

The Russians in general, and the 

Petrovs in particular, have enjoyed a 

campus popularity, during the past eight 

months, normally reserved for ex-Presidents 

or notorious poets. 

Though many of their constant appearances 

before local civic, church, and 

educational groups may have made as 

much impact as a showing of color slides 

taken during someone's summer trip to 

the Grand Canyon, the wholesale exposure 

of the Ithaca community to walking, 

talking, articulate, and above all 

human representatives of "the other 

side," cannot help but have quietly imposed 

itself on their heretofore shadowy 

image of the Soviet Union and its citizens. 

Truth is often more tangible than perspective, 

and while "the Russians," as 

they are popularly described, have contributed 

little to our common fund of 

observable data, their presence, arid 

their logic, however unpalatable to 

American tastes, have helped many Cornellians 

to view the Cold War in its most 

frightening light, as a. clash between 

visions of virtue, both unremitting in 

their logic and often insensitive in their 

expression. 

Dmitry Petrov is 32 years old and a 

graduate student from Moscow State 

University. The author of several articles 

in Russian on American history, and a 

pamphlet on the life of Abraham Lincoln, 

he is gathering materials for a postdoctoral 

thesis on Franklin D. Roosevelt 

and his impact on post-World War II 

international relations. 

His wife, Julia, is 28 and an "aspirant" 


at Moscow State University, a status 

which places her roughly between the 

levels of our master's and PhD students. 

A Southeast Asian expert, Julia Petrov 

is finishing up a book on the social and 

economic development of the Philippines 

during the eighteenth and nineteenth 

centuries, and is at work, this 

spring, on material-gathering for her 

graduate thesis on international relations 

in early twentieth century Southeast 

Asia, and on domestic problems in the 

Philippines in particular. Like her husband, 

Julia has published a number of 

articles in Moscow University journals. 

Kuzma Sizov, from Gorki, and Igor 

Smirnov, from Moscow, are students of 

"general linguistics," though Smirnov is 

doing research in the special area of 

synonyms in the English language. 

All are married, and each has had to 

make considerable sacrifices in order to 

come to the United States for study. The 

Petrovs are the parents of a 6-year-old 

son, who was left behind in Moscow, in 

the care of two sets of doting grandparents. 

Their efficiency apartment in the 

Cornell-owned Thurston Courts is decorated 

to a considerable degree with 

photographs of their son and evidences 

that Soviet first-graders are as deft with 

the crayon as their American counterparts. 

For Smirnov and Sizov, however, the 

trip to America has had more trying consequences. 

Neither Smirnov, who got 

married last May, nor Sizov, who has a 

wife and two children, were able to bring 

their families with them. Like American 

students participating in the educational 

exchange, the Soviet students are forbidden 

by regulations from bringing dependents 

along, unless, as in the case of 

the Petrovs, the dependent is also a qualified 

student. 

As Cornell students, the four Russians 

stick more closely to the books than a 

good many of their American counterparts. 

At the same time, the Petrovs, for 

example, receive many more invitations 

to public and private gatherings than it 

is possible, or prudent, to accept. The 

Petrovs accept on the average of four 

to five social commitments each week, 

to dine with a sorority or fraternity, 

speak before the Faculty Wives Club, 

and occasionally to roam as far afield as 

Colgate University or Watkins Glen 

High School. 

One of the striking characteristics of 

these encounters is the consistent aura of 

good will which has successfully averted 

any manifest hostility between the Soviet 

students and their sometimes piqued 

American interrogators. It is possible of 

course that the delicacy of discourse 

extended towards the Russian students is 

less instinctive tact than an unwillingness 

to confront, squarely, the very real differences 

in perspective between the two. 

On the other hand, most students who 

spend any time talking to the Petrovs 

June 1962 

and their Soviet comrades are so engaged 

by the Russian's personal warmth, 

intelligence and apparent sincerity, that 

they are reluctant to begin a line of argument 

which is sure to provoke national 

loyalties or challenge each other's ethical 

assumptions. 

A further difficulty has been an American 

proclivity to wobble between tenuous 

and often innocent righteousness, 

and its opposite number, masochistic 

self-effacement. That is, when American 

queries about the loss of individual freedom 

in a totalitarian dictatorship are 

met with pointed reminders that many 

American citizens, particularly if they 

happen to be Negro and live below (or 

above) the Mason-Dixon Line, are also 

deprived of their rights in America's 

vaunted popular democracy, many 

American students find it difficult to 

meet the charge without resorting to 

either egalitarian cliches or wistful selfabuse. 

The Soviet students are well-versed in 

the ills of the American political system, 

but it is to their credit that they do not 

flaunt their skepticism. 

At the same time, the Russian students 

are never out of step with the carefully 

reasoned Party line on virtually all matters 

relating to the Soviet Union. Little 

criticism of the Soviet system, of a substantive 

nature, is accepted at face value 

by the Russian students. 

When a Cornell government professor, 

for example, was willing to concede 

(at a panel discussion of "colonialism") 

that American foreign policy towards 

many of its allies might view these allied 

nations as virtual satellites, depending 

on American military and economic support 

for survival and political guidance, 

Dmitry Petrov clung vigorously to the 

notion that Hungary, Czechoslovakia, 

Poland and the Baltic States were allied 

to the Soviet Union only in terms of genuine 

friendship and common political 

goals. Where American attempts to expand 

its sphere of influence constitute 

"colonialism," Soviet expansion is the 

consequence, in Petrov's view, of an opportune 

meeting of minds. 

While the value of discussion with the 

Soviet students is lessened, considerably, 

by their pro forma hewing of the Soviet 

ideological line, there may well be 

greater value in the articulation, by the 

visiting students, of the apprehension apparently 

shared by many Soviet citizens 

as regards American intentions in the 

foreign policy sphere. 

Americans are unused to hearing 

themselves suspected of dishonorable intent 

where the national integrity of other 

nations is involved. And, although it 

may be difficult to respect the reasoning 

which underlies these fears, it is troublesome 

to hear it expressed by Soviet citizens 

who are also young, intelligent, and 

evidently sincere college students of our 

own generation. 

To the Wire 

A year-end wrap-up 

SUNSHINE and a welter of term-end activities 

brought the academic year to a 

close last month. Fine weather made 

Spring Weekend, May 11-13, a satisfying 

last fling before finals. Student 

clubs hurried to the wire with last-minute 

decisions. 

The houseparty weekend was without 

a float parade for the first time in 

many years. Less than a dozen houses 

had planned to take part. Three student 

dramatic productions and two bigname 

nights filled any gap. "Julius 

Caesar" was produced in Balch courtyard, 

Octagon put on "The Threepenny 

Opera," and the excellent South 

American tour show, "How to Grow 

a Musical," ran for four nights. The 

"twist" king, Chubby Checker, led 4,000 

rock 'n' rollers on Friday night, and 

Negro comic Dick Gregory and a folk 

song group entertained Saturday night. 

The Widow recaptured some of its 

traditional class with a Weekend issue, 

and the Cornell Sun spoof edition had 

the university suddenly discovered to be 

bankrupt. Plans for another new student 

publication were abandoned when 

The Trojan Horse incorporated suggestions 

from the new magazine-to-be. 

Cornell Dramatic Club elected fortythree 

new members and thus ended 

fears that it might disband. Alpha Omicron 

Pi became the first sorority to disband 

since 1920 when its local chapter 

voted to go out of existence. Delta Phi 

Epsilon sorority has bought the AOPi 

house. Chapter officers said AOPi 

members made their decision because 

they wished to devote more time to 

studies. 

Sigma Nu's local chapter has been 

released from any national restriction 

on who it accepts as members. The action 

came in response to pressure from 

the Cornell Interfraternity Council and 

the Commission on Discrimination to do 

away with arbitrary membership discrimination. 

Individual honors have been won by: 

William A. Stowe '62 of Bronxville, the 

Theta Delta Chi Award; Mary L. Melvin 

'63 of Morris Plains, New Jersey, 

Kappa Alpha Theta, new president of 

Panhellenic Council; and Ronald C. 

Sander '61 of Buffalo, a National Arnold 

Air Society Scholarship for advanced 

study. 

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7 am afraid, my boy, that your experience as cheerleader will be of little use 

to us here at Bingly, Berton, Bascomb & Diddle.' 

'What we need is a hard worker with no foolishness 

about him.' 

'You'll find we're a very 

friendly little group here' 

Help Wanted 

BY JANE KEITH KIERSCH 

EACH YEAR lately about this time, midway between 

baccalaureate and commencement, I can't 

help feeling a little awe, some sympathy, and 

perhaps a touch of envy. 

It is for the graduates—those of them who 

will be going through the process of beginning 

to find their own special place in the economic 

world. Many of them undoubtedly have contracted 

well before this time to enter a business 

or school or whatever. 

There must be some still, though, who in the 

next few months will have interviews, sit uneasily 

in outer offices and come up against experiences 

for which no formal schooling—even 

Cornell's — could prepare them altogether. 

My awe is because they are so confident and 

seem to know so much more than some of us a 

generation ago. 

My sympathy is for their self-esteem which 

through this next, often ego-shrinking, time may 

have to be slightly altered. 

And my envy is because, looking back, there 

is no greater fun than that first charging at 

windmills. 

Good luck to them all. 

Ί don't want to discourage you but I don't think anyone here advertised for 

a Home EC graduate' 

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I •- — 7 

'We are a small company just now but from all indications 

we expect to double our business next year.' 


ON CAMPUS 

Building 

Time 

Some down, some up 

Temporary' buildings come down, giving a first look at the Engineering quadrangle. 

THE MONTH of May brought private 

contractors and university work crews 

out in force, turning the campus into 

a sidewalk superintendent's delight. It 

also turned the southeast corner of campus 

into something of a traffic nightmare. 

Demolition of the Stewart Avenue 

bridge over Gascadilla Gorge forced all 

incoming and outgoing vehicles through 

Collegetown, and generally made a mess 

of things. 

Wreckers' cranes and bulldozers 

made quick work of the old Industrial 

and Labor Relations school buildings, 

and the newly opened-up Engineering 

quadrangle gave local denizens their 

first look at the new complex as a unit. 

Near the bridge reconstruction job, 

the old Zeta Psi house on Stewart Avenue 

was torn down. The former American 

Legion home site will be a parking 

lot at first, until the university makes 

more definite plans for further use. Up 

back of Baker Lab, the Circle Cottages 

came down to make way for the huge 

Materials Science Center. 

Construction went ahead on the Undergraduate 

Library, Bard Hall in the 

Engineering quad, and the Helen Newman 

women's sports building next to 

Beebe Lake. The basement of Baker Lab 

is undergoing renovation to make it part 

of the Materials Science Center. Construction 

is due to start on the center 

in the fall; and on the Hughes law 

dormitory and the new Business and 

Public Administration building this 

summer. 

A final renovation job, begun in mid- 

May, closed the Willard Straight Memorial 

Room for two months. The 

Straight was also in the news when it 

withdrew an application for an alcoholic 

beverages license for further study. 

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Circle Cottages are razed to make room for the Materials Science Center building. 

An announcement by Vice President 

John Summerskill in mid-month predicted 

the university would require its 

nearly 5,000 students living off-campus 

to occupy only Cornell-approved apart- 

June 1962 

The old Zeta Psi house on Stewart Ave. is demolished. 

—C. Hadley Smith 

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merits by September 1963. Students and 

faculty are to discuss the proposal before 

it is finally adopted, Summerskill 

said. 

Cornell Log 

Professor Howard B. Adelmann '20, 

histology and embryology, has donated 

his 4,500-volume collection on the history 

of embryology and anatomy, human 

and comparative, to the University 

Libraries' History of Science Collection. 

The Adelmann collection is considered 

probably the best in private hands anywhere. 

He built it over more than forty 

years as an avocation relating to his 

field. 

A calendar of doings on and off campus 

Tuesday, June 5 

Ithaca: Final examinations end and Senior 

Week begins 

Twelfth annual Institute for Training Specialists, 

ends June 8 

Fire Protection Conference, ends June 6 

Thursday, June 7 

Ithaca: Glass Reunions registration opens, 

Barton Hall, 2 

White Art Museum open 9-5 

Senior Week milk punch party, Hoy Field, 

1:30-4 

Tours of Ornithology Laboratory, from 

Barton Hall, 3 & 4 

Tours of John M. Olin Library, 3 : 30-5 : 30 

Dramatic Club presents "How to Grow a 

Musical," Willard Straight Theater, 8:15 

Musical, "Tom Jones," Drummond Studio, 

8:15 

Faculty Forum: Prof. J. Mayone^ Stycos, 

sociology, "The World Population Explosion," 

Alice Statler Auditorium, 8:30 

Friday, June 8 

Ithaca: Class Reunions registration, Barton 

Hall, 8-5:30 

Art exhibitions, White Art Museum, 9-5 

Faculty Forum: Prof. Donald J. Grout, 

music, "Music and Musicology in America 

and Europe," Alice Statler Auditorium, 

9:30 

Faculty Forum: Paul W. Gates, the John 

Stambaugh professor of American history^ 

"The Land Grant in the Early Development 

of Cornell," Ives Auditorium, 

9:30 

Tours of John M. Olin Library, 10-12, 1-6 

Big Red Barn open 10-5 

Faculty Forum: Prof. Philip ^Morrison, 

physics and nuclear studies, "Searching 

for Interstellar Communications," Alice 

Statler Auditorium, 10:30 

Faculty Forum: Professor H. Peter Kahn, 

art and architecture, "Ideas and Forms 

in Modern Painting," Ives Auditorium, 

10.: 30 

Floyd R. Newman '12 portrait unveiling in 

the Newman Laboratory of Nuclear 

Studies, 11 

Faculty Forum: Profs. Charlotte M. Young, 

James L. Gaylor, Ralph A. Nelson, 

nutrition and clinical and preventive 

medicine, "Practical, Biochemical and 

Neurological Aspects of Obesity," Alice 

Statler Auditorium, 11:30 

Faculty Forum: Prof. Thomas W. Mackesey, 

regional planning and dean of 

the university faculty, "The Future of 

the City," Ives Auditorium, 11: 30 

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Reunion luncheon and band concert, Barton 

Hall, 12 


Barton Hall, 1, 2:30, 4 

Campus bus tours from Barton Hall, 1—5 

Film, "Cornell University Presents Its College 

of Arts and Sciences," Barton Hall, 

1:30 

Baseball, Colgate, Hoy Field, 2 

Faculty Forum: Profs. Frank H. Golay, 

economics; Harald B. Malgren, economics; 

and N. Arnold Tolles, industrial 

and labor relations; "The Common Market: 

America's Dilemma," Alice Statler 

Auditorium, 2:15 

Home Economics Alumnae Assn. reception 

and annual meeting, Martha Van Rensselaer, 

4:15 

Senior Class cocktail party, Phi Kappa 

Psi, 5-8 

Home Economics alumnae supper, Martha 

Van Rensselaer, 5 : 30 

Class dinners and barbecues, as assigned, 6 

Alumni Glee Club Sing, Bailey Hall, 8 

Glee Club Concert, Bailey Hall, 8:15 


8:15 


Musical," Willard Straight, 8:15 

Faculty Forum: Robert H. Elias, the Ernest 

I. White professor of American studies, 

"The 1920s: Life and Literature of the 

Decade," Ives Auditorium, 8:30 

Special meeting of all former Savage Club 

members, after the Glee Club concert, 

old club headquarters on Green St. 

Student theses exhibits of drawings and 

models, Sibley Dome 

Saturday, June 9 

Ithaca: All-Cornell women's breakfast, Anabel 

Taylor, 7:30 

Civil Engineering alumni breakfast, Hoilister 

Hall, 7:30 

Electrical Engineering alumni breakfast, 

Phillips Hall, 8-10 

Architecture alumni breakfast, Willard 

Straight, 8:30 

Mechanical Engineering alumni breakfast, 

Upson Hall, 1 8: 30-9:45 

Chemical and Metallurgical alumni breakfast, 

Olin Hall, 8:30^ ^ 

Class Reunions registration, Barton Hall, 

8:30-2:30 

Industrial & Labor Relations alumni breakfast, 

ILR School, 9 

Assn. of Class Secretaries meeting, Statίer, 

9 

Cornell Daily Sun alumni breakfast, College 

Spa, 9 

Art exhibitions, White Art Museum, 9—5 

Society of Hotelmen coffee hour, Statler 

Hall, 10-12 

Big Red Barn open 10-5 

Class tents open on Lower Alumni Field, 

10-1 a.m. 

Annual Alumni Assn. and Cornell Fund 

meeting, Alice Statler Auditorium, 10: 30 

Sphinx Head undergraduate and alumni 

cocktail party, Theta Delta Chi, 10:30 

a.m. 

Reunion luncheon and band concert, Barton 

Hall, 12 

Tours of John M. Olin Library, 1-6 

Reunion group pictures, Barton Hall, 1:30 

Film, "Cornell University Presents Its College 

of Arts and Sciences," Barton Hall, 

2 

Campus bus tours from Barton Hall, 2-5 

Senior Week concert, Duke Ellington, 

Schoellkopf Field, 2:30 (Lynah if rain) 


Barton Hall, 2 : 30 and 4 

Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs annual 

meeting, Phillips Hall, 2 : 30 

Reunion dinners and barbecues, as assigned, 

6 

"The Cornell Family Dinner," Statler Hall, 

6 (reservations required) 


Musical," Willard Straight, 8:15 


8:15 

Reunion Rally of All Classes, Barton Hall, 

9:30 

Student theses exhibits of drawings and 

models, Sibley Dome 

Hamilton: Baseball, Colgate 

Sunday, June 10 

Ithaca: Quill and Dagger Reunion breakfast, 

Statler Ballroom, 8:15 

Sphinx Head Reunion breakfast, Willard 

Straight, 9 

White Art Museum open 9—5 

Mortar Board Reunion alumni breakfast, 

Balch IV, 9:15 

Baccalaureate Service, the Rev. Robert J. 

McCracken, Riverside Church, New 

York City, Barton Hall, 11 

Senior Week concert, University Concert 

Band, Prof. William Campbell, conductor, 

Library Slope, 2:30 

'62 Class Night, Library Slope, 7: 30 


Musical" (Spanish version), Willard 

Straight Theater, 8:15 


8:15 

Monday, June 11 

Ithaca: ROTC commissioning, Alice Statler 

Auditorium, 9 

Board of Trustees meeting, 10 

94th annual Commencement, Barton Hall, 

11 

Engineering Industrial Cooperative Program; 

ends July 28 


Ithaca: Home Economics Extension Agents 

Training School; ends June 22 

Cornell University Industrial Engineering 

Seminar; ends June 16 

Wednesday, June 13 

Ithaca: Executive Leadership and Management 

Conference, sponsored by ILR 

School; ends June 22 

London: Track, Oxford-Cambridge vs. Cornell-Penn 


Ithaca: Land Grant Centennial Convocation; 

ends June 15 


Syracuse: Intercollegiate Rowing Association 

steward's dinner, Hotel Syracuse, 6 


Saturday, June 16 

Syracuse: Rowing, IRA regatta 


Ithaca: 13th International Ornithological 

Congress, sponsored by the College of 

Agriculture; ends June 23 


Ithaca: Fourth Summer Conference on International 

Law; ends June 20 

Executive Development Program, sponsored 

by the Graduate School of Business 

and Public Administration; ends 

July 27 


Ithaca: Hotel Administrators Development 

Program, sponsored by the Sloan Institute 

of Hospital Administration; ends 

July 20 


Ithaca: Cornell School of Leadership for 

Town and Country Pastors; ends June 

29 

Selection and Placement Seminar, sponsored 

by the ILR school; ends June 29 


Ithaca: State 4-H Club Congress; ends June 

29 

Wednesday, June 27 

Ithaca: Summer Session begins; ends Aug. 15 


Ithaca: Annual Shell Merit Fellowship Program; 

ends Aug. 10 


Ithaca: Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter 

Day Saints youth festival; ends July 1 

Sunday, July 1 

Ithaca: Summer Seminar for Hebrew Educators 

and Teachers; ends July 22 

Thursday, July 5 

Ithaca: Concert, University Trio, Willard 


Sunday, July 8 

Ithaca: Effective Executive Leadership Seminar, 

sponsored by ILR school; ends July 

20 

Monday, July 9 

Ithaca: Employe Communications Seminar; 

ends July 13 

School for Highway Superintendents; ends 

July 11 

Employe Performance Rating Seminar; 

ends July 11 

School for Town Clerks ends July 11 

Managerial Accounting and Financial Decisions, 

sponsored by BPA; ends July 13 

Tuesday, July 10 

Ithaca: Food and Agriculture Organization 

International Advanced Training 

Course; ends Sept. 4 

Poultrymen's Get-Together; ends July 11 

Wednesday, July 11 

Ithaca: New York State Nutrition Institute 

at Cornell; ends July 13 

Thursday, July 12 

Ithaca: Concert, music for viola da gamba 

and harpsichord, Prof. John Hsu 

and Rudolph Kremer, music, Willard 


June 1962 

Judge Michael Catalano '30 chats with Peggy Wang, Grad of Taiwan at Buffalo. 

Hands Across 20 Borders 

THE Cornell Club of Buffalo and the Buffalo 

Club of Cornell Women set some sort 

of US alumni history March 29-31 when 

they were hosts to thirty-four foreign students 

from the university. Enthusiastic 

comments continue to roll in. In the words 

of Mehdi Kizilbash, MBA '59, assistant 

director of foreign students, "Who had a 

better time? Was it the hosts or the 

guests?" 

The students stayed in the homes of 

alumni and several non-Cornellians, and 

were all but whirled off their feet by a 

Iran, India, and the US. 

US hosts, and students from India and Australia. 

schedule of events that left little time for 

rest. 

Along the way the group saw Niagara 

Falls, the Niagara Power Project, toured 

the Cornell Aeronautical Lab, visited a 

Home Show, WBEN television station, 

and an art gallery. Everyone took in an 

appearance of the Glee Club at the Statler-Hilton 

Hotel, followed by a highly successful 

party. 

Twenty foreign countries were represented 

by twenty-four men and ten women 

from the Hill. 

Japan and the US. 

—Cornell Aero Lab 

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FACULTY 

ft- 

Harry 

Caplan 

Professor Caplan '16 in his office in Goldwin Smith. —Sol Goldberg J 46 

A teacher 

and a scholar 

IN the spring semester of the 1923—24 

academic year an unexpected vacancy 

in the Department of Classics left that 

department with one faculty opening. 

Because the classics department lacked 

a man qualified to teach the introductory 

Greek course, known as "Baby 

Greek" to the cognoscenti,, the practical 

solution was to pull out of the Department 

of Public Speaking a young instructor 

who had received his PhD from 

the classics department in 1921, but had 

been hired by an allied department because 

the formidable classics faculty was 

fully staffed. 

The switch left some twenty undergraduates, 

enrolled in the young instructor's 

"Argumentation" course 

without their instructor, but their solution 

to the problem was instantaneous 

and characteristic. Approximately half 

of them elected to remain with "Argumentation" 

and a new instructor, but 

the other half immediately enrolled in 

"Baby Greek." For these students, the 

opportunity of studying under Harry 

Caplan '16 was as, if not more, important 

than the practical question of 

subject matter. 

Loyalty to Harry Caplan is a characteristic 

that has been shared by several 

thousand Cornell undergraduates since 

April 1919 when he first began his teaching 

career. Few members of Cornell's 

teaching faculty have been quite so successful 

in combining with scholarship 

a love for teaching and a concern for 

their students; a combination which has 

brought Harry Gaplan to the top of his 

profession and made him a Cornell 

legend in his time. 

In addition, and perhaps quite as important, 

the phenomenon of Harry 

Caplan has done much to preserve a 

Cornell reputation for instruction in 

the classics challenged by very few 

American universities. 

In a world in which the present struggles 

manfully to keep pace with the future, 

it is not surprising that many American 

college students have a tendency 

to regard classical literature with the 

disinterested tolerance they might have 

for a manual butter churn. With the 

exception of literary masterworks whose 

claim to our attention is a matter of 

popular as well as cultural integrity, the 

thinking of the ancients on matters of 

everyday importance is, to many of us, 

less persuasive than archaic; less intellectually 

exciting than incidentally charming. 

At Cornell the tradition of superior 

instruction in the classics dates all the 

way back to Andrew Dickson White, 

the university's first president, and an 

ardent admirer of Henry Tappan's 

classics-conscious liberal arts curriculum 

at Michigan, where White first taught. 

Despite Ezra Cornell's single-minded 

efforts to develop an institution dedicated 

to instruction in "agriculture and 

the mechanic arts," White persisted in 

his determination to erect a College of 

Arts and Sciences which would offer the 

best possible classical education. 

In the 1870s, only a few years after 

Cornell welcomed its first students, the 

university's classics students made it clear 

to their Eastern colleagues that White's 

ambitions had succeeded beyond his 

wildest dreams. In annual "Olympic 

Classics Competition" with students 

from some ten other major Eastern universities, 

Cornell students finished first 

in all three categories, Classics, English 

Composition, and Oratory, sometimes 

sweeping all prizes in one or another 

of the three categories. 

Perhaps it was Cornell's overwhelming 

dominance of the proceedings that 

finally ended the classics "Olympics;" or, 

perhaps, it was that the "Olympic 

Games," in 1896, took on a distinctly 

unscholarly character and became the 

playground for the sweatshirt nationalism 

it is today. Whatever the reason, 

Cornell's classics scholars, both students 

and faculty, continued to prosper, and 

it was because of this very prosperity 

that 16-year-old Harry Gaplan enrolled 

in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences 

in the fall of 1912. 

Young Caplan had made a shambles 

of forensic and academic competition 

at Albany High School and was one of 

the countless class valedictorians who, 

then as now, made their ambitious way 

to Ithaca and greater promise. 

At Cornell, Caplan made his presence 

felt in no uncertain terms, capping his 

undergraduate career with election to 

Phi Beta Kappa (in his junior year) 

and a host of undergraduate prizes, including 

the Barnes Shakespeare Prize 

and the Sampson Fine Arts Prize. 

After graduation in 1916 Caplan 

moved straight up the academic ladder, 

earning his MA in 1917, and PhD 

in 1921, both at Cornell For a little 

less than a year, in 1918—1919, Caplan 

was in the service of Uncle Sam, but 

the Armistice was signed on the very 

day he was scheduled for shipment 

overseas, and Caplan's military career 

ended almost as abruptly as it had 

started. 

Though finding a teaching position 

was no problem for a classics scholar of 

Caplan's demonstrated competence, 

there was never for him any real temptation 

to teach anywhere but at Cornell. 

He accepted an instructorship in the 

Department of Public Speaking in 1919 

while still working on his doctorate in 

classics, and held that position until 

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1924, when he accepted a classics post. 

Appointed an assistant professor in 

classics in 1925, Caplan became chairman 

of the department in 1929, and 

was made full professor in 1930. His 

chairmanship continued for seventeen 

years until 1946, one of the longest continuous 

terms in that office in any university 

department. Since 1941 he has 

held the Goldwin Smith professorship 

of classical languages and literature. 

Caplan's major work has been in three 

historical periods, the ancient, medieval, 

and renaissance. 

Perhaps his most important single accomplishment, 

the editing and translating 

(for the first time in English) of 

a 2,000-year-old textbook on public 

speaking, the Rhetorica ad Herennium, 

a work written between 86 and 82 B.C., 

and the oldest Latin treatise on the subject 

that has been preserved complete. 

The ad Herennium was influential during 

two millenia and is still of value for 

the study of rhetoric, literary criticism, 

and legal advocacy. 

During 1928-29, as recipient of a 

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 

Caplan visited the libraries of 

Europe to study medieval rhetoric, a 

classics specialty in which he is probably 

the outstanding authority in the United 

States. In 1934, under the sponsorship 

of the American Council of Learned 

Societies, he studied six months in the 

libraries of Spain and Austria. Apart 

from the Rhetorica ad Herennium, his 

major works have been A Late Medieval 

Tractate on Preaching (1925) 

Gianfrancesco Pico della Mϊrandola on 

the Imagination (1930) and Medieval 

Aries Praedicandi—A Supplementary 

Handlist (1936). He has written other 

books, numerous articles and reviews. 

His summer vacations have often 

been spent on other campuses, as visiting 

professor, for example, at the University 

of Wisconsin (1925), Michigan 

(1932), Northwestern (1938), Stanford 

(1942 and 1948), Chicago (1945), 

and Columbia (1946). 

Caplan has served as assistant editor 

of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and 

is joint editor of the Cornell Studies in 

Classical Philology. His organization 

memberships include the American 

Philological Association (president, 

1955), The Classical Association of 

England and Wales, the National Association 

of Teachers of Speech, Modern 

Language Association, Renaissance 

Society of America, and Linguistic Society 

of America. 

In April, he was elected a fellow of 

the Medieval Academy of America, an 

organization limited to fifty members 

and fifty corresponding fellows. The citation 

read in honor of the occasion included 

the following: "Harry Caplan, 

one of the foremost students of medieval 

rhetoric and oratory. His thorough 

June 1962 

knowledge of the classical tradition of 

rhetoric has enabled him to make an 

acute analysis of medieval theory and 

practice in preaching. His lists of medieval 

artes praedicandi are known through 

out the world and are an essential part 

of every scholarly library." 

Caplan's interest in Cornell, however, 

has not been confined to matters purely 

academic. For many years he was a 

member of the executive committee of 

the Cornell University Athletic Association, 

an independent organization 

which operated all intercollegiate athletic 

competition for Cornell teams before 

the university made CUAA a formal 

partner in the administrative bureaucracy. 

His enthusiasm for Cornell 

athletics is quite genuine, and colleagues 

estimate that he has missed no more 

than four or five football games in fifty 

years. 

For Caplan, however, the single most 

important advantage of his Cornell 

teaching experience has been the opportunity 

to work with his "stimulating 

colleagues" in the humanities. Despite 

his many scholarly credentials, the 

phenomenon of Harry Caplan is not so 

much a consequence of his academic 

Professor Herbert H. Schwardt, entomology, 

died May 14, 1962. He had been 

a member of the staff since 1938, and head 

of the department since 1957. A graduate 

of Kansas State College, he was with the 

US Department of Agriculture in Arkansas 

before coming to Cornell. He contributed 

greatly to agriculture and public health 

through his work with New York State 

farmers in the handling of their insect control 

problems. During World War II he was 

instrumental in developing a substitute 

chemical for rotenone to check sheep tick. 

In 1946, with Dr. Donald W. Baker '29, 

Veterinary College, he saved many New 

York State cattle by developing a chemical 

treatment to cure them of mange. The 

method has been adopted in most northeastern 

states and Canada. Professor and 

Mrs. Schwardt's children are Mrs. Douglas 

P. Baird (Martha) '53, and David N. 

'55. Mrs. Schwartz lives at 705 Mitchell 

Street in Ithaca. 

Under a $29,100 grant from the National 

Science Foundation, Professor David M. 

Lee, atomic and solid state physics, is directing 

a research project which will 

investigate liquid and solid helium at extremely 

low temperatures, in some cases 

within a fraction of a degree of absolute 

zero. 

Senior postdoctoral fellows of the National 

Science Foundation for 1962 are Professors 

Simon H. Bauer, chemistry, who 

will study at the National Research Council 

in Canada and the Weizmann Institute 

of Science in Israel; Henry E. Guerlac '32, 

proficiency as it is a product of an attitude 

towards teaching and students 

which challenges articulation. 

Throughout his years as a faculty 

member, Gapian has persisted in his 

availability to students. His office hours 

begin late in the morning, but continue 

until late at night, and it is not unusual 

for his students to take their evening 

coffee break in the Gaplan corner of the 

Goldwin Smith south wing. 

Many of Gaplan's students maintain 

regular contact with their former mentor, 

and at least twice a year, at Christmas 

and during Reunion weekend, Gaplan's 

office is a remarkable potpourri 

of, respectively, Christmas cards, presents, 

people, and telephone calls. 

If there is any reason for Cornell's 

continuing reputation as a place where 

values and virtues of a classical education 

are not only understood by its faculty, 

but appreciated by its students, the 

explanation cannot lie far from Professor 

Gaplan's door. His romance with 

Cornell University has continued without 

a break for fifty years as of this June. 

Those who know him have learned to 

respect the value of long engagements. 

—CMC 

WITH THE PROFESSORS: 

history of science, at the Ecole Pratique des 

H antes Etudes in France; Raphael M. Littauer, 

physics and nuclear studies, at the 

University of Sydney, Australia; and Harold 

A. Scheraga, chairman, chemistry, at the 

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. 

Albert P. Sloan Foundation unrestricted 

research grants for 1962 have been received 

by Professors Carl S. Herz '50 and 

Harold Widom, mathematics; and Richard 

F. Porter, chemistry; and by Donald G. 

Farnum, instructor in chemistry. 

Professor Bernhard Dethier, climatology, 

with seventeen researchers, has completed 

a study which will give farmers in twelve 

eastern states a better idea of their chances 

for getting rain at any given week of the 

year. Compiled from thirty years of data, 

the figures tend to support the fact that 

some weeks of the year consistently get 

more rain than others. 

The American Council of Learned Societies 

has awarded postdoctoral fellowships 

for this year to Professors Gordon 

Kirkwood,, AM '39, classics, Eugene Rice 

Jr., modern European history, and Frank 

Sibley, philosophy. 

Former professor of bacteriology at the 

university, Max R. Zelle, has accepted an 

appointment as director of the biological 

and medical research division at Argonne 

National Laboratory. He has been professor 

of genetics and director of the center 

for radiological sciences at the University 

of Washington. 

23

ATHLETICS 

The Alphabet Game 

AAU, NCAA, or whathaveyou? 

BY ROBERT J. KANE '34 

"!F WE CAME UP with a cure for cancer 

you'd be against it" was a comment all 

too typical of many heard at the several 

meetings of "negotiation" held between 

the National Collegiate Athletic Association 

and the Amateur Athletic Union 

over the past two years. 

To most people the quarrel is bleakly 

abstruse, silly, and unbecoming to grown 

men. The issues are real, however. And 

they have been a long time festering. 

They could easily be composed if the dissidents 

would remain composed. 

The undeserving victim of this armchair 

embroglio will be the Olympic 

movement in this country. It will be 

badly weakened if these two giant organizations 

do not cooperate to provide opportunities 

for our talented post-college 

athletes to compete regularly and prepare 

themselves adequately to face the 

world's best in 1964. 

It is unthinkable that men of conscience 

could let this happen but presently 

there is no disposition to compromise. 

It will be a grim commentary on 

our amateur athletic leadership if it becomes 

necessary to bring in a neutral 

arbiter, maybe Bobby Kennedy or Ted 

Kheel '35. The Olympic president, Kenneth 

L. Wilson, failed in his efforts to 

bring them together. 

Now, what are the issues and why 

have they just recently erupted? 

For the past seventy-five years the 

AAU has been in charge of all open competition 

for most of the sports, and has 

been international representative for sixteen 

of the sports on the Olympic program 

and is in control of all international 

competition in these sports, among which 

are track and field, basketball, swimming, 

wrestling, and gymnastics. 

When, for instance, the Oxford-Cambridge 

track team came to this country 

last June to meet Cornell-Penn and Harvard-Yale 

the meetings had to be sanctioned 

by the AAU and the competitors 

had to be cleared by both the AAU and 

the British Amateur Athletic Board, In 

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other words the competitions were under 

the aegis of the AAU and the British 

universities were here by invitation of 

the AAU. Same procedure is in effect, 

in reverse, when the Cornell-Penn team 

meets Oxford-Cambridge in London on 

June 13. 

The University of Birmingham was 

severely scolded last month by Hon. Secretary 

Jack C. G. Crump of the BAAB 

for sending an "unauthorized" invitation 

to Cornell and Penn to stop there after 

the Oxford-Cambridge affair for a meet. 

Permission has not yet been granted. Mr. 

Crump was and is unbelievably incensed 

over this seemingly minor breach of 

form. 

The AAU does not concern itself with 

competition between our own colleges 

except in rare instances of alleged professionalism 

of students from abroad. 

But if Steve Machooka '64 of Kenya, 

East Africa, wished to compete in the 

Millrose Games, the NYAC Games, or 

any other AAU-sponsored event he 

would have to be cleared for eligibility 

by the AAU through the AAU's counterpart 

in East Africa. All our boys must 

be registered with the AAU to take part 

in their events. 

This is an essential function and for 

the most part the AAU, under such 

judicious officials as Don Ferris and Jim 

Sims, has done a good job. They have 

been cooperative in arranging Cornell's 

international meetings. No arrogance of 

the Crump stripe, for sure. 

The core of the troubles lies, nevertheless, 

in the international area over which 

the AAU reigns with hot-fisted jealousy. 

Vexation without representation 

Professor Henry B. Hardt of Texas 

Christian University, president of 

NCAA, asks: "Why shouldn't the colleges 

have something to say about policy 

matters which directly affect their sports 

programs?" 

The colleges have the facilities, the 

coaches, and the athletes, The AAU has 

no facilities, no coaches, and blithely 

takes over the carefully nurtured college 

athletes as their own. "If you are 

going to give the colleges all the credit 

for developing our athletes, how about 

the high schools and how about their 

fathers and mothers?" wryly comments 

the newly installed AAU executive director, 

Donald F. Hull. 

In the glamorous field of international 

competition the AAU sends teams to 

compete in all hemispheres and brings 

teams and athletes from all over the 

world to the States. It sends delegates to 

International Federation meetings all 

over the world. The colleges wriich 

spend millions of dollars on athletics 

feel they should have some voice in this 

matter as well as other policy decisions. 

And, on the record, they have wanted a 

voice for thirty-five years. 

Now they are adamant and in Walt 

Byers, the first full-time executive director 

NCAA ever had, they have an 

articulate leader. He has taken a herald's 

role in the negotiations. 

There are competitive people on both 

sides. The AAU, sporting the panache 

of venerability and "standing on its record 

of achievement," stridently calls the 

NCAA move a "power grab" and refers 

disparagingly to the "college pros." 

There are varying degrees of irritation 

in the college ranks. Some would just 

as soon see the AAU buried: others 

realize there is a need for AAU or its 

equivalent, and right now they would 

just as soon settle for its equivalent, 

whatever it might be. 

Still others, such as the Eastern College 

Athletic Conference's 137 members, 

take a more conciliatory view and suggest 

consolidation. No college representative 

believes that the restive coexistence 

of the past can any longer be 

tolerated. 

If something is not done the NCAA 

threatens to withhold use of facilities 

of its 570 member colleges from AAU 

events and to forbid participation of 

their athletes during the school year and 

the use of their coaches altogether. 

USC, UCLA, and Ohio State have already 

instituted these sanctions. 

The importance of such a drastic 

move may be assessed when it is pointed 

out that two-thirds of the men on our 

1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympic track 

teams were post-collegiate athletes. 

In training at Cornell next year for 

the 1964 Games will be Dave Auble '60, 

now in the graduate business school, 

wrestling; Alan Dybvig '61, a fifth year 

student in Engineering Physics, swimming; 

Eino Keerd, a Utah University 

graduate now in our business school and 

Edward Bailey, ICAAAA champ from 

Harvard, Law School, hammer throw. 

There will be many more by 1964. If, 

that is, there is enough competition to 

keep them at it. 


Trouble in the whole situation is that 

for seventy-five years the AAU has been 

running athletics in this country the way 

they are run in every other country. This 

country is different, ineluctably so because 

of the overwhelming dominance of 

college athletics. There is no country 

even close to us in this respect. The AAU 

has not recognized this difference by 

granting representation. 

It could have stilled the now raucous 

voices by inviting them in. But they did 

not and the offer to do so now comes too 

late. The colleges want equal status and 

under a new banner. 

They have proposed the formation of 

federations in each sport as proscenium 

organizations made up of AAU, NCAA, 

Armed Forces, National High School 

Federation, and appropriate others, depending 

on the sport. They would be 

responsible for top level policy, to instill 

new vigor in the sports on all levels and 

to be the representatives to the International 

Federations. 

Alphabet or mushroom soup? 

The federation idea has merit but the 

AAU junta is fighting it off because they 

would lose sole control. It is not appetizing 

either, coming as an NCAA idea, 

especially one that is unceremoniously 

being forced down their reluctant 

throats. 

There is a feeling here that the AAU 

sees Γecriture sur le mur. Even after these 

many months of acrimony if there were 

a graceful way to propose it and a dignified 

way to accede to it an equitable 

coalition could be worked out. But angry 

men won't bring it off. 

"The death of the Amateur Athletic 

Union came a step nearer last week," 

reported Sports Illustrated on January 

22, 1962. That was a biased prognosis 

but it may well become nearer the truth 

if there is continued delay in getting together. 

It might not be so hard to take. It may 

be worth a try. As with the man about 

to go to his death in the electric chair, 

when asked if he had any special request 

for his final meal, replied: "Yes, I do. Γd 

like to have some mushrooms. I never 

dared try them before." 

The NEWS regrets having made columnist 

Kane appear confused about the 

alumni class status of the varsity polo 

team, in his article in the May issue. The 

three varsity players he referred to have 

used up their playing eligibility as undergraduates, 

even though they will all be 

studying at the university next year. 

James Morse's class is '63, and he is a 

Veterinary student; John Walworth is 

'62 and in Engineering; Frank S. Butterworth 

'63 is a transfer student from Yale. 

Another error crept into the same picture 

caption that listed the three varsity 

men: Doc Roberts is now, and always 

has been, Class of 1938. Bernard Herrera, 

a top prospect for next year, is a 

five-year engineer, Class of 1964.—ED. 

Crew Broom, and a Berry 

Golfer 'Butch 9 

BY THE 

APPROACHING the climactic stage of 

spring activities the heavyweight oarsmen 

are leading the pack. The lightweight 

oarsmen are doing all right, too. 

Outstanding among individual performers 

is Warner B. Berry '62 who won the 

Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association 

championship on May 14, the first Cornellian 

ever to do so. 

Crew Broom Sweeps 

Cornell heavyweight oarsmen swept 

with a clean broom the Goes Trophy 

and Carnegie Cup races, on May 5 and 

May 12, and thereby became number 

one seeded crew in the Eastern Sprint 

Regatta, May 19 on Lake Quinsigamond 

at Worcester, Massachusetts. 

June 1962 

and the rowers win big 

SIDELINER' 

It was a beautiful day in Ithaca on 

May 5 but there was a gusty north 

breeze on Cayuga for the Goes Trophy 

races with Syracuse and Navy. 

The varsity won by two lengths over 

Syracuse in second place, who were in 

turn two lengths ahead of Navy. The 

junior varsity beat Syracuse by a little 

over a length, with Navy two and onehalf 

lengths behind the Orange. The 

Red freshmen just overwhelmed the opposition 

with an incredibly easy sevenlength 

win over Navy. Syracuse was 

third, three lengths behind Navy. 

Coach R. Harrison Sanford selected 

a first boat from four varsity holdovers, 

three from last season's junior varsity, 

and one sophomore, Donald S. Light 

(6 feet &A, 190 pounds). He got his 

chance when Commodore Warren A. 

Icke '62 was hospitalized with mononucleosis. 

Winning time for the varsity was 

11:06.2 against the stiff headwind. It 

was achieved by stroking a steady 30 

through all of the race except the first 

200 and the last 400. Syracuse was at 

32 and Navy strained at 33 and 34. 

Syracuse moved up to 34 with a half mile 

to go and picked up a half-length. Cornell 

went to 31 and finished at 33, retrieving 

the margin it lost. William A. 

Stowe '62 of Bronxville was at stroke. 

The junior varsity, under veteran 

stroke Robert E. Simpson '62 of White 

Plains, stayed at 29 l /2 through the body 

of the race, always in the lead. 

The freshmen got away after the 

plebes but soon made it up and just 

sort of paddled away from the other 

two boats, seemingly without effort. 

It was Cornell's first victory in the 

big race since 1957. Cornell and Navy 

have won three, Syracuse two in the 

eight-year history of the regatta. 

Carnegie Cup races at Derby, Connecticut, 

were likewise at two miles and 

rowed against a twelve-mile-an-hour 

headwind. The varsity again won by 

two lengths, junior varsity by three, 

freshmen by two and one-quarter. Varsity 

time was 11:17.2; jayvees, 11:40.3; 

freshmen, 11:16. Yale was second and 

Princeton third in all races. 

Yale's varsity leapt to an early advantage, 

and lead by a half-length over 

Cornell at the mile mark. Princeton had 

fallen far behind. But the Red moved 

powerfully to make up the deficit, caught 

the Elis, and moved ahead with every 

stroke through the second mile. It got 

up to 31 just once in the body of the 

race, staying most of the time at 29V& 

and 30, finishing at 32 1 /2. Yale, two 

lengths behind Cornell, was six lengths 

ahead of Princeton. In the jayvee race 

the Elis led the Tigers by almost seven 

lengths. 

150s Upset the Leaders 

Lightweight oarsmen knocked off 

some of the alleged powerhouses and 

then got their comeuppance at the hands 

of surprising MIT. 

On April 21 the 150's first boat beat 

the favored Harvard crew on Cayuga 

and Penn was third over the mile-andfive-sixteenths 

course. It took a "garrison 

finish" to do it. While rowing stroke 

for stroke with the Crimson, a Cornell 

starboard oar "caught a crab" and the 

Red went behind by three or four seats. 

Upping the stroke to 39, the Red boat 

came on strongly and just barely edged 

Harvard at the finish. Cornell time was 

6:55.9, Harvard's 6:56.2. Penn was 

third in 7:15.4, five lengths behind. 

Harvard took the jayvee race and 

Cornell was second, Penn third. The 

Red freshmen defeated Harvard's by a 

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BASEBALL 

Cornell 4, Rutgers 2 



Rutgers 5, Cornell 4 

Presbyterian 10, Cornell 9 

Cornell 13, Presbyterian 2 

East Stroudsburg 5, Cornell 0 

Princeton 7, Cornell 6 

Cornell 6, Brown 5 

Harvard 3, Cornell 1 

Syracuse 12, Cornell 11 

Army 10, Cornell 3 

Cornell 7, Pennsylvania 6 

Cornell 11, Cortland 7 

Cornell 2, Yale 0 

Columbia 19, Cornell 1 

Cornell 9, Syracuse 8 

Cornell 9, Buffalo 5 

Cornell 8, Rochester 3 

Tue. May 22 Scranton 

Sat. May 26 At Dartmouth 

Fri. June 8 Colgate 

Sat. June 9 At Colgate 

FRESHMAN BASEBALL 

Broome Tech 5, Cornell 4 

Cornell 7, Colgate 6 


Cornell 3, Broome Tech 1 

Ithaca 6, Cornell 5 

Cornell 14, Cortland 9 


Cornell 9, Ithaca 4 


Tue. May 22 Oswego 

Sat. May 26 Cortland 

LACROSSE 

Cornell 15, Baltimore 11 

Cornell 13, Loyola 8 


Cornell 11, Dartmouth 8 

Cornell 12, Yale 9 


Colgate 8, Cornell 5 

Hobart 13, Cornell 10 



FRESHMAN LACROSSE 




Cornell 22, Hobart 2 


TENNIS 

Yale 7, Cornell 2 

Cornell 9, Bucknell 0 

Cornell 6, Brown 3 


Cornell 4, Navy 4 



Spring Sports, 1962 

half length, Penn was five lengths in 

back. 

Princeton was a victim on April 28 

on Lake Carnegie. The first Red boat 

defeated the Tigers by three quarters 

of a length in 6:29. Red jayvees won by 

two lengths in 6:40. Princeton freshmen 

won over the Red by almost a length 

in 6:47.2. 

MIT won the Geiger Cup big race 

on the Charles River on May 5. Cornell's 

first boat was a length and a half 




Cornell 6, Columbia 3 


Tue. May 22 At Dartmouth 

Sat. May 26 Penn State 

FRESHMAN TENNIS 





Cornell 7, Rochester 0 


GOLF 

Cornell 6, St. Lawrence 1 


Cornell 7, Bucknell 0 


Intercollegiates, 5th 




FRESHMAN GOLF 

Cornell 5, Broome Tech 0 


Cornell 9, Auburn 0 

Cornell 9, RIT 0 

Cornell 6, Auburn 3 

Cornell 7, RIT 2 

Sat. May 26 Broome Tech 

TRACK 


Pennsylvania 75, Cornell 74 

Heptagonals, 8th 

Princeton 117%, Cornell 31 ^ 

Fri. May 25 ICAAAA, at Villanova 

Sat. May 26 ICAAAA, at Villanova 

Wed. June 13 At Oxford-Cambridge 

FRESHMAN TRACK 

Cornell 71 J£ Colgate 68 J^ 

Penn State 74, Cornell 59 

Syracuse 68%, Cornell 49 Y^ Colgate 43 

ROWING 

Navy, Syracuse: 1, 1, 1, Goes Trophy 

Yale, Princeton: 1, 1, 1, Carnegie Cup 

Easterns: 3, 1, 1, Rowe Cup 

Sat. May 26 Pennsylvania 

Sat. June 16 IRA Regatta, at Syracuse 

150-pouND ROWING 

Harvard, Pennsylvania: 1, 2, 1, Matthews 

Cup 

Princeton: 1, 1, 2 

MIT, Columbia: 2, 1, 2 

Dartmouth: 1, 1, 1 

Easterns: 1 tie, 2, 3 

Sat. May 26 Detroit Boat Club 

back of MIT's 6:38.5. Columbia was 

three lengths behind. Cornell won the 

junior varsity race over MIT and Columbia 

was a distant third. MIT won 

the freshman race and Cornell was second 

by half-length in 7:03 and Columbia 

was far back. 

It was only the second time MIT has 

won in seven years of competition for 

the Geiger Cup. Cornell won the other 

five years. 

The Red lightweights swept the Connecticut 

River on May 12 with Dartmouth 

the only competition. The varsity 

won by four lengths, the junior varsity 

by five lengths and the freshmen 

by a length and a half. 

First Golf Champ 

The son of the late Romeyn Berry 

'04 and Hester Bancroft Berry '22— 

Warner (Butch) Berry '62 of Ithacawon 

the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf 

Association individual championship on 

the Cornell course on Monday, May 14. 

He defeated George Nilson of Yale, 3 

and 2, over the beautifully manicured, 

6,733-yard course, before a gallery of 

about 200. 

He is the first Cornellian ever to win 

the title. He is captain of the 1962 varsity 

team. And he is the second Ithacan 

to win the title in two years. His local 

nemesis over the years, Stewart Wallace 

of Syracuse University, won the title 

in 1961. Berry got to the second round 

last year before being eliminated. 

This time he met and defeated some 

tough competition by hitting long and 

straight and staying out of trouble. He 

defeated Tom Haney of Navy 2 and 1 

in the semi-final round. He had previously 

defeated Art Lobstein, Yale captain, 

1-up in 19 holes, and Larry Sanford 

of Boston College, 3 and 2. 

Nilson, a steady competitor, got in 

trouble with his hook on the tenth and 

sixteenth holes when he drove out of 

bounds, He was amazing on some trap 

shots, lifting them out right next to the 

pin on three occasions. 

Yale won the team title with 806. 

Cornell was fifth in the 14-team field 

with 830. Army was second, 821; Penn 

State was third, 822; Navy, fourth, 823; 

Behind Cornell came Princeton, Georgetown, 

Holy Cross, Syracuse, Harvard, 

Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, and Boston 

College. 

Football coach Tom Harp was referee 

of the Berry-Nilson final match. 

Kenny Van Sickle of The Ithaca 

Journal quoted Butch as saying, "Every 

time I go by Number 9 I know the Old 

man' is watching me and pulling for 

me." He was referring to the Moakley 

House portrait of his father, graduate 

manager of athletics from 1919-1935. 

The absence of Berry hurt the team 

the afternoon of May 14 when Harvard 

defeated the varsity golfers 5-4 while 

teammate Berry was winning the EIGA 

title. That was the second defeat in five 

matches, Victories were over St. Lawrence 

on April 21, 6-1; Bucknell on 

April 28, 7-0; Syracuse, 5-2, on May 2. 

All were on the University Course. Only 

defeat was to Colgate at Hamilton, 4-3, 

on April 25. 

The freshmen are undefeated, having 

beaten Broome Tech, Colgate, Auburn 

Community College twice, and Rochester 

Tech. 


Lacrossemen Hold Hope 

Going into the last game of the season 

the varsity lacrosse team had lost 

but one league game and could tie for 

the league title by beating undefeated 

Princeton at Princeton on May 19. It 

defeated Dartmouth, Yale, and Penn 

and was beaten by Harvard. 

Two rather unexpected losses happened 

within three days to non-league 

opponents and a just as unexpected victory 

occurred three days later. Colgate 

beat the Red at Hamilton on May 9, 

8-5, and Hobart won at Ithaca on May 

12, 13-10. Syracuse—a victor over Colgate 

and Hobart and defeated only by 

powerful Army—turned out to be an 

8-6 loser to Cornell on May 15 on 

Lower Alumni Field. 

Tennis Team Improved 

Varsity tennis has been playing better 

than its expected potential but it does 

not boast a notable record. It has a 

7-4-1 record and is 3-4-1 in the league 

and has been giving every team a scrap. 

This is a tennis team without great talent 

but it is in superb physical condition 

and is well taught under Coach Eddie 

Moylan. 

Victories have been over Bucknell, 

Brown, Syracuse, Colgate twice, Penn 

and Columbia. The tie was with Navy. 

Losses were to Yale, Harvard, Princeton 

and Army. 

The Allison Danzig '21 Trophy came 

to Cornell again for beating Columbia 

at New York on May 12, 6-3. One of 

the real upsets in this match was the 

victory of Jerrold M. Levin '63 over 

Columbia's Les Moglen in the Number 

One match by the one-sided score of 6-1, 

6-1 

Ṫhe freshman tennis team was undefeated, 

with one tie—with one match 

left. It beat Syracuse at Ithaca on April 

24, 6-3; darkness and rain interfered 

with the Colgate match at Ithaca on 

April 27 and could not be completed, 

the score being 3-3; Syracuse lost 7-2 

at Syracuse on May 4 and Colgate was 

beaten at Hamilton 5-4 on May 11. 

Two of the outstanding players are 

outstanding literally, at 6 feet 7, James 

A. Maglisceau of North Tonawanda and 

Torrence C. Harder of Hamburg. They 

play as a team in doubles and are unbeaten. 

Woes on the Track 

The benighted varsity track team has 

had so many misfortunes it would take 

too much space to write them. It would 

make for painful reading too. 

As a result of these many setbacks 

coach Lou Montgomery's team suffered 

the first dual meet defeats in fourteen 

years. They have been narrow defeats 

nevertheless. Colgate did it the first time 

on April 21 at Hamilton, 71-69. It was 

June 1962 

the first loss in thirty-three dual meets. 

Last time was to Michigan, 84-38, in 

1948. Captain Thomas W. Mikulina '62 

broke the Cornell high jump record 

with a leap of 6 feet-7 inches. He was 

not to be infected by the jinx until the 

next Saturday when he hurt his knee 

warming up in the Penn Relays. 

Robert L. Potter '63 set a meet mark 

of 13 feet-8 in the pole vault and Francis 

H. Smith '64 set a meet record in 

the 880 of 1:53.6. 

Penn Relays performances were the 

sparsest in years. On Friday, April 27, 

Henry T. Betts '62 was sixth in the 

broad jump with 22 feet 10%. Freshman 

Paul F. White was fourth in an Olympic 

development 400-meter hurdles 

race. 

On Saturday Bruce R. Hoffman '64 

tied with Ronald Weir of Pittsburgh at 

14 feet in the college pole vault. Robert 

Schmitt '62 was sixth in the javelin 

throw; he set a new Cornell record of 

203 feet-7 inches. 

Penn won the dual meet on Schoellkopf 

track, 75-74, on the basis of taking 

the first two places in a new event which 

was the last event—the hop, step, and 

jump. 

Schmitt tossed the javelin 206 feet 2 3 /4 

inches to better his own record. Stephen 

M, Machooka '64 ran for the first time 

outdoors and won the mile in 4:18.7 

and ran a 0:49.6 leg on the winning 

mile relay team. Smith won the 440 in 

0:48.5, the 880 in 1:59.0 and ran the 

anchor leg on the relay team. 

In the outdoor Heptagonals at Hanover 

on May 12, Cornell was eighth 

with 10.1 points. Yale won with 53.1 

points. 

Cornell points were taken thusly: 

Machooka, in suffering his first defeat 

ever, was second to Mark Mullin of 

Harvard in 4:10.1. Machooka's time 

was 4:10.5, bettering his Cornell record 

of 4:10.8. He also ran a leg (0:49.2) 

on the fifth-place mile relay team Betts 

was second in the broad jump with 22 

feet-8 3 / 4 ; Schmitt, fifth in javelin, 200 

feet-S 1 /^; and Potter tied for fourth in 

the pole vault with 13 feet-6. 

Smith finished at the wrong place as 

he led the field in his heat of the 880 

heat and did not qualify. 

Nine Up and Down 

After achieving the top league performance 

of the season on Friday, May 

11, when it defeated Yale 2-0 at New 

Haven the varsity baseball team dropped 

a horrendous 19-1 game to Columbia 

at New York the next day. 

The Yale win was a costly one for 

Captain Patrick J. Pennucci '62, second 

baseman and leading hitter, who suffered 

a pulled muscle rounding second 

on the way to a three-base hit in the 

eighth inning. 

Previous to that the Red defeated 

league members Brown, 6-5 and Penn, 

7-6; and lost to Princeton, 7-6; Harvard, 

3-1; and Army, 10-3. Non-league 

wins were over Cortland State Teachers, 

11-7; Syracuse, 9-8; and losses were to 

East Stroudsburg, 5-0; and Syracuse, 

12-11. 

Pitcher Raymond J. Ratkowski '64 

won the Yale and Syracuse games and 

helped his cause with some timely hitting. 

Against Syracuse, a grand slam 

home run by catcher James E. Konstanty 

Jr. '64, son of the famed major 

league pitcher, was a big factor in helping 

the Red defeat Konstanty senior's 

alma mater. It was the first over-thefence 

grand slammer anyone could remember 

on Hoy Field. 

Cornell will be host to the 1964 

NCAA wrestling championships. 

At a special meeting of the Eastern 

College Athletic Conference in New 

York City on April 17 to deal with the 

controversy between the National Collegiate 

Athletic Association and the 

Amateur Athletic Union, the following 

resolution proposed by Athletic Director 

Robert J. Kane '34 was adopted unanimously 

: 

1. Coalitions would be formed in 

which the high schools, colleges, AAU, 

Armed Forces, and appropriate other 

organizations are represented in justly 

weighted numbers. Their functions 

would be to oversee and fortify our nation's 

amateur athletic vigor by coalescing 

all factions on all levels and to serve 

as a common ground for exchange of 

ideas. 

2. The various championships, 

NCAA, AAU, or whatever, would continue 

to be autonomous. A coalition 

meet could conceivably be held, Olympic-trials 

style, on occasion for the formation 

of special teams in non-Olympic 

years, such as for the Russian track meet 

this year. 

3. AAU to continue to conduct its 

present national open championships. 

It will continue to serve its present administrative 

purpose, hopefully with 

greater support and cooperation from 

the high schools and the colleges by virtue 

of the voice and vote opportunity 

provided at the summit by the coalition. 

It is urged that it solidify this support 

by outlining consistent policies for registration 

and sanction fees, and eligibility 

standards. 

4. Various sports coalitions formed 

in this way be by common consent 

thereafter designated the US governing 

bodies to the International Federations; 

all business of an international nature 

will continue to be conducted through 

the AAU office, for which it would be 

properly compensated. 

This column was written before 

events of May 16-19. 

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ALUMNI 

The Alumni Write 

From Cuban exiles to a rejected legacy 

Understanding a Debt 

EDITOR: With the approaching Centennial 

of the university it is my pleasure to be rereading 

Andrew D. White's Autobiography. 

More than ever I am impressed with the 

brilliance of that great man and his cofounder 

of the university, Ezra Cornell. I 

wonder whether those of us who have benefited 

from the wisdom of those two outstanding 

men really appreciate the debt we 

owe them. 

I also wonder how many of the young 

men and women striving to enter Cornell 

today have any concept of what those two 

men went through so the university might 

come into existence. 

The foregoing is merely a prelude to a 

suggestion designed to be in the best interests 

of our alma mater: we hear much 

these days of the problem of youngsters of 

college age trying to present the necessary 

credentials for college entrance—particularly 

in the larger colleges of the East. 

One reasonable requirement that Cornell 

might make is that each applicant give proof 

he has read White's Autobiography—particularly 

the 600-page Volume I, in which 

Cornell and White's struggles are clearly depicted. 

Each applicant might be required to 

write an original 500-word commentary— 

or even 1,000-words—stating what he actually 

knows as respects the struggles. 

Some applicants might feel it too bothersome 

to read and summarize those facts in 

their own words, but such an attitude might 

be a basis for calling two strikes against 

them before giving consideration to their 

normal college credentials. 

—FREDERICK G. SHULL '07 

Thanks 

EDITOR: Our son, Joel '58, will graduate 

from Duke University Medical School on 

June 4. Our second son, Stephen '60, will 

graduate from Cornell Law School on May 

26. 

There will be much rejoicing in our home 

with many thanks to Cornell for a wonderful 

job. We hope we can show our appreciation 

some day. 

—MR. & MRS. BEN GILBERT 

Cuban Exile Club? 

EDITOR: Imagining that you and other fellow 

Cornellians have of late read quite a 

little of the Cuban refugee problem that 

Miami has been confronting for the last 

year and a half, a problem that day by day 

gets worse and worse because of the at 

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least 1,500 Cubans that are arriving here 

every week, I have thought it might be interesting 

for you to know that Cornell is 

quite well represented among those Cuban 

refugees that have been forced to leave 

their country and look for asylum in this 

land of the free. 

There are several Cornellians to be found 

among those refugees, some of whom have 

a "get together" once a week, have luncheon 

together, talk over old times as well as new 

times, and almost feeling as though a "Cuban 

Alumni Cornell Exile Club" is in the 

making, right here in Miami. 

Among Cornell alumni are the following: 

Francisco Fernandez Grau '17, Enrique 

Hernandez '18, Jose F. Cuervo Sr. '18, 

Enrique Molinet '20, and Miguel Ch. 

Varona '20. Jose F. Cuervo Jr. '50 was here 

until recently but has moved to Philadelphia 

(Oreland). 

There are several others also here whom 

I can't think of at this writing, such as 

Lawrence Daniels, etc., all waiting for the 

day when we can get rid of that bearded 

monster who took over our country and 

brought Communism to the hemisphere. 

—JOSE F. CUERVO '18 

Hail Roberts! 

EDITOR: Just a few lines to tell you how 

much I enjoy the ALUMNI NEWS. Being one 

of the oldest living graduates, I've gotten 

a great deal of pleasure out of Kenneth 

Roberts' articles on the various professors 

I knew. —JULIA BEERS '09 

Yeah, Sailor 

EDITOR: The write-up about "Tubby" Sailor 

in the March issue was overdue. I have 

felt no one did more to carry out and on 

the Cornell spirit than Tubby. He did so 

much not only to tell the story of Cornell 

to many, but did so at a real personal sacrifice. 

—JACK P. DODS '08 

EDITOR: Your comments on Warren Sailor 

are just, especially the one as to his "record 

of unselfish endeavor." 

"The Land Grant Story" is the best of 

the historical outlines on Cornell so far. 

In it, the statement: "education should be 

for all the people" is undoubtedly part of 

the Turner Plan. It is, however, inconsistent 

with the next statement: "The principles 

upon which Cornell was founded 

have brought it a reputation for intellectual 

accomplishment and public service in this 

country and throughout the world, scarcely 

challenged by any other American university," 

is inconsistent with the Turner plan. 

It should have read: "The principles of 

Andrew D. White on which Cornell's higher 

scholastic standards have been perpetuated." 

I have been into this question extensively 

with "old school" [faculty members]. 

You could call them the charter members 

of Andrew D. White's policies. 

No statement any Cornellian has ever 

seen or heard is more misleading than Mr. 

Cornell's: "I would found an institution 

where any person can find instruction in 

any study." President White never intended 

to educate "all the people." We are glad 

Mr. Cornell died happy in the knowledge 

that Sage College for women had proved 

a success. It was his favorite proof of the 

soundness of his idea. 

But we know that immediately upon the 

death of Mr. Cornell (1874) President 

White threw out all evidence and pretense 

that "just any person" was to be admitted. 

By 1906, all signs had disappeared and the 

faculty always laughed it off and apologized 

if any poor freshman had been lured 

into Ithaca on any part of Mr. Cornell's 

historic and amazingly inaccurate statement. 

It used to be called "The Cornell 

Creed" and "The Cornell Motto." 

—THOMAS RICE ROLLO ΊO 

Victory for Moakley 

EDITOR: Coach Jack Moakley never quite 

realized the most far reaching victory he 

and his Cornell runners won. 

Here's the way it happened: After 

Thanksgiving, as the days became short and 

cold weather threatened, all track team 

training was transferred from Percy Field to 

the campus where a board track was constructed 

alongside the old Armory. 

We on the squad would go to the Armory 

which also served as gymnasium and locker 

room, change our suits and long-handled 

underwear for track jerseys and shorts, and 

report for the daily workout. Afterward, 

we had to make the full change back again. 

It wasn't long before some hardy athlete 

shortened the routine by changing his underwear 

for the track suit in his room at 

noon, wearing the sleeveless shirt and shorts 

as "underwear" during the long afternoon 

laboratory. On reporting for practice at the 

board track, he saved precious minutes by 

just slipping off his outside clothes, putting 

on his running shoes, grabbing a heavy 

sweater and rushing out to report to Jack 

before darkness shut down. 

It wasn't long before the whole squad 

followed the same routine and began to 

wear track suits regularly in place of the accepted 

underwear. The balbriggans and 

woolies were put in mothballs. We didn't 

miss them even in severe winter! 

Other students adopted the idea. It saved 

money on laundry bills! A. G. Spalding and 

Brothers were in the underwear business 

without being aware of it. 

And at vacation times, Christmas and Easter, 

you just had to let the fellers at home 

know about the latest collegiate fashion in 

underwear. How the idea caught on and 

spread! 

My squadmates and I haven't worn anything 

but "athletic underwear" since 1903. 

For several years we had to buy it at the 

sporting goods stores. Then some enterprising 

fellow advertised B.V.D. and the general 

public could get in on it. 


Later, someone came out with the knitted 

shirt and broad cloth or Oxford cloth 

shorts and the revolution in men's underwear 

ended in a triumph which started new 

fashions for women too! The "athletic" conquest 

was complete. 

—WILLIAM R. WIGLEY '07 

Why Aid Fraternities? 

EDITOR: I cannot fathom Mr. Irving H. 

Taylor's letter on fraternities [May NEWS]. 

Why shouldn't the university take a critical 

attitude towards fraternities? When 

times change, one cannot continue "business 

as usual." It is necessary to evaluate institutions 

in light of the world today and not 

yesterday. According to Mr. Taylor's thesis, 

one should not think of desegregation nowadays 

because segregation was satisfactory 

decades ago. 

And speaking of segregation, the fraternity 

system is the essence of segregation. 

Young men and women, upon entering 

Cornell and joining fraternities, become 

segregated by wealth, color, and creed when 

they join these social groups. 

Why should the university give aid to fraternities, 

as he suggests? To help financially 

those who belong to fraternities even though 

they have more or less the pecuniary and 

social wherewithall ? Rather an inequitable 

concept, I should say. 

The fact is that the day of the fraternies 

has long been over. Unfortunately, Cornell 

lingers with them while other great universities 

have moved with the times in anticipating 

their demise and providing the 

necessary facilities to fill in the vacuum. 

Cornell fraternities are not moving with 

progress—they are fighting it. 

Hence, Cornell as a university is no longer 

the over-all progressive institution it used to 

be. 

—BENJAMIN HERTZBERG'31 

Five Years of Service 

The outgoing alumni trustees report 

Alumni trustees of the university are required 

by the bylaws of the Cornell Alumni 

Association to report to the association when 

their terms of office expire. The terms of 

Helen Holme Mackay '29 and Leslie R. Severinghaus 

'21 expire June 30. Their reports 

follow. Mrs. Mackay is active in civic and 

alumni work, and served four terms in the 

Connecticut General Assembly. Severinghaus 

has been headmaster of Haverford 

School in Pennsylvania since 1942. 

BY HELEN HOLME MACKAY '29 

To have had the opportunity of serving as 

your alumni trustee for the past five years 

has been a great privilege and honor. I can 

faithfully report that Cornell's trustees are 

working trustees. You would be proud and 

happy to know and to associate with these 

dedicated men and women who work tirelessly 

for the University. They contribute a 

wealth of experience in industry and the 

professions—in the law, in medicine, in engineering, 

building, planning, in management, 

in finance and in banking, in labor, in 

government, in fund raising and in public 

relations. 

Most of the arduous work takes place in 

committees. As a member of the Building 

and Properties Committee, I can assure you 

that the deliberations are businesslike and 

thorough. Projects are reviewed time after 

time to satisfy the needs of those who are to 

use the facilities and to be sure the university 

is getting the best for the money expended. 

All practical economies are adopted. 

I feel that as far as possible, the university 

should be run on a businesslike basis. It is 

of interest that of the many recommendations 

for economies and further efficiency 

made not long ago by a firm of management 

engineers, most are activated. 

June 1962 

Recent innovation, on President Malott's 

recommendation, was an appointment by 

the trustees of a vice president in charge of 

student affairs. Results were shortly apparent. 

Since then, there has been an improvement 

of relations between the students 

and the administration; improvement in student 

and faculty morale; growth of student 

maturity and responsibility including a real 

concern for academic integrity. 

Although noted in Cornell's various publications 

from time to time, my five-year 

report would not be complete without mentioning 

several important changes of particular 

interest to alumnae. Traditional 

dining room service has been abandoned in 

dormitories in favor of buffet dining or selfservice. 

This plan is becoming more widespread 

among colleges and preparatory 

schools as well. It is more economical to 

operate and students like the flexible eating 

hours. 

Mary H. Donlon Hall, a modern six-story 

dormitory housing 475 women, was opened 

last fall. Sage College now accommodates 

men and women graduate students. And a 

pilot plan is currently underway to permit a 

limited number of women to live in campus 

apartments. 

The long-awaited sports building for 

women, Helen Newman Hall, is now nearing 

completion. Its many facilities including 

a swimming pool and bowling alleys will 

also serve in the evenings for co-ed recreational 

activities. This will be a busy center 

due to the greatly increased numbers of students 

now living at the north end of campus 

in new dormitories and apartments. 

Most alumni will be pleased to know that 

after thoughtful consideration by the President, 

the trustees and the University Faculty, 

the university will remain relatively 

small in size. There has been an increase of 

about 1,500 students since 1954. 

There are two important ways in which 

alumni can aid the university enormously. 

It is interesting and gratifying to work to 

help attract qualified outstanding young people 

to come to Cornell. Equally rewarding 

is the satisfaction of helping Cornell financially 

and at the same time helping to 

preserve private education in the United 

States. With the approaching Centennial 

capital fund campaign, the opportunity for 

substantial help will be presented. Its chief 

aims will be to provide for increased student 

scholarships and loan funds, for improving 

faculty salaries, and to refurbish the Arts 

college. As Cornell Fund Chairman George 

Newbury '17 recently pointed out, most 

graduates, thanks to their Cornell education, 

are in the middle or upper income brackets 

and in a position to do a great deal more for 

the university. 

It was with great humility that I accepted 

the post of alumni trustee. The work has 

been stimulating and gratifying and I hope, 

satisfactory. I am greatly indebted to you for 

this rewarding experience. 

BY LESLIE R. SEVERINGHAUS '21 

As five years of service as a trustee draw 

to a close, I have only gratitude to express 

to the Cornell alumni whose support made 

this privilege possible. Having devoted my 

professional life, as both teacher and administrator, 

to secondary education, I have 

maintained close association with colleges 

and universities. Through connections with 

various educational organizations, I have 

learned something of the complexities of 

higher education. 

Always, however, I have looked at the 

dilemmas of colleges and universities from 

the understandably prejudiced position of 

secondary education. I was an outside spectator. 

When I was so fortunate as to 

be elected an alumni trustee, however, I 

"climbed over the fence," so to speak. Whatever 

my previous frustrations as a schoolman, 

I was, upon election, forced to take on 

the frustrations at the college level. 

To whatever degree I had earlier recognized 

college administrative difficulties, saying, 

"I sympathize with your problems, but 

I've got plenty of my own," my outlook on 

education was suddenly brought into balance. 

Education would profit greatly if more 

persons from both the college and school 

levels were given opportunities "to climb 

over the fence" and voluntarily share some 

of the responsibilities outside their immediate 

field of service. 

During these five years it has been my 

privilege to participate in the work of the 

Council for the New York State College of 

Home Economics, of the College of Arts and 

Sciences Council, and of a special committee 

on alumni-student relations. In a less 

formal sense I have profited by taking part 

in the program of the Cornell University 

Council, and by working with both the 

faculty and the Admissions Office on the 

problems of student selection. 

The most challenging opportunity, however, 

has been that of serving on the Executive 

Committee of the Board of Trustees 

during the past two years. Here one comes 

face to face with the diversity and the sobering 

significance of the problems that beset 

a university of the size and excellence of 

Cornell. 

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My respect for the accomplishments of 

those who have guided Cornell through the 

years has grown immeasurably, and my erstwhile 

sentimental and nostalgic affection for 

"the college on the hill" has become a compulsive 

loyalty demanding the maximum of 

spare time, effort, and financial support. 

There is nothing unique about my experience; 

other trustees are similarly captured 

by the rewards of working for Cornell. 

Cornell is unusual in a variety of ways. 

You have experienced and have been told 

again and again of the breadth of its curriculum 

offerings and of the excellence of their 

presentations. These need not be labored. 

Nor does one need to argue the aesthetics of 

its hilltop location or the almost incredible 

achievements of the past ten years in the 

expansion of facilities. These can be grasped 

quite easily by the tourist and by the homecoming 

alumnus. What they are not likely 

to appreciate, however, are the caliber of 

the faculty and the intellectual drive of the 

student body. 

One often hears of the "Ivy League" student 

as an identifiable type of scholar, either 

rightly or wrongly. There is supposed to be 

the Harvard man, the Yale man, the Princeton 

man, and the man from Dartmouth. 

Some confident persons can detect the man 

from Williams, they say. 

Whatever truth or fiction may attach to 

these cocktail party pronouncements, it cannot 

be said that there is a "Cornell type." 

If there is a Harvard specialty, we have him 

at Cornell. If a Yale personality exists, we 

have him at Cornell. If the Princeton Gothic 

in orange and black is a verity, we have him 

at Cornell. If one is looking for the counterpart 

of the city college student or the scholar 

from the gigantic state university, he will 

find him at Cornell. There is, I repeat, no 

Cornell type in this Ivy League sense. 

Every Cornellian, man and woman, is 

himself, but he is also the beneficiary during 

his college years of a breadth of associations 

within the endowed and the State colleges 

that is not even approached on other college 

and university campuses. 

Add to the above characteristics the presence 

on campus of 800 foreign students from 

nearly every country in the world, and you 

have a learning environment that is excitingly 

different from others. I do not for a 

moment maintain that a Cornell education 

is better than that secured elsewhere, but I 

am convinced that, for those minds and 

personalities that want "excellence in diversity," 

there is no superior institution. 

And so, while stating once more my appreciation 

to alumni, to the faculty, and to 

the administrative staff for these five years 

of intimate Cornell experience, I join a host 

of others in appealing that we "go all out" 

in time, money, and effort for "the college 

on the hill." Cornell, having trained and inspired 

tens of thousands of young men and 

women for nearly a century, has the inescapable 

obligation to move into its second 

century without losing the pioneer momentum 

that has made it in so short a time-span 

one of the greatest of the world's universities. 

Finally, let us recognize that this is not 

really an institutional obligation. It is the 

personal obligation of every man and woman 

whose life in this great democracy has both 

purpose and meaning because of Cornell's 

contribution. There is nothing more America^ 

in the highest sense, than Cornell. 

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Notes from the Classes 

The latest word from alumni, old and new 

Addresses in the following columns 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. 

'98 AB—Living up to her name, Lou E. 

Young is active in community and church 

affairs at Gloversville, where she lives at 

35 Prospect Ave. She has been secretary 

of the local Red Cross chapter since she 

organized it in 1917, and was YWCA president 

for a quarter century. The retired 

mathematics teacher is a member of the 

Cornell Women's Club of Fulton-Montgomery 

Counties. 

'00 BS—Attorney J. Bennett Nolan was 

reappointed to the Historical Commission 

of Pennsylvania by Gov. David L. Lawrence. 

He had been serving on the commission 

under appointment by former Gov. 

George Leader. Nolan lives at 127 N. Fifth 

St., Reading, Pa. 

'06 AB, '07 AM—A recent issue of the 

interfraternity journal, The Fraternity 

Month, carried an article entitled "The 

Case for Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" by 

the Rev. Frank B. Crandall, retired clergyman 

and Army chaplain and national ritualist 

of Phi Gamma Delta. 

}/Λ^T George A. Rankin pursues his 

\J 4 interest in organic gardening in 

Falls Church, Va. Howard M. 

Rogers, '07 track team captain and winner 

of the IC4A 440 yards in 1906, is owner 

of Charles K. Smith Co., Philadelphia 

(petroleum products); vice president, Cinnaminson 

Bank & Trust Co., Riverton, 

N.J.; and director, Oil Trade Assn. of 

Philadelphia. 

Dr. Joshua Ronsheini, retired since 1946, 

was chief in obstetrics at Jewish Hospital, 

Brooklyn. Until 1939 he was professor of 

clinical obstetrics and gynecology at Long 

Island College of Medicine. Col. George 

Ruhlen, USA (ret), is a past president and 

director of the San Diego (Calif.) Historical 

Society and past national commander, 

Herves of '76. 

J. Walter Schwarz visited England and 

the Continent in 1961 with the Florida 

Federated Garden Clubs. He enjoys the 

Dramatic Club presentations at Stetson 

University in DeLand, Fla. Edgar Stehli 

makes frequent trips to Hollywood as an 

actor in films and television. He is a member 

of The Players of New York City and 

lives in Upper Montclair, N.J. 

Sidney W. Treat reports that he has traveled 

in all continents, in most countries 

except Russia, and in every state except 

Alaska. He taught languages at Thacher 

School in Ojai, Calif., for 10 years and 

was mayor for two terms of Los Altos Hills, 

William R. VanBuren retired as Captain, 

Supply Corps, USN, in 1938. He is 

now president and treasurer of the Newport 

News (Va.) Daily Press, having served 

as officer and director from 1938 to 

date. He is a member of The Holland 

Society of New York. Herman VanFleet of 

Redding, Conn., now retired, was one of 

the Founders of Air Reduction Co., New 

York City. 

Charles H. Wicks, ordained to the ministry 

in 1914, is on the staff of the Congregational 

Church of Coral Gables on a parttime 

basis during the winter months. He 

organized the Church of the Isles at Indian 

Rocks Beach, Fla., and was field superintendent 

of the Wisconsin Congregational 

Conference for 15 years. Prior to that he 

served the Congregational Church of 

Rhinelander, Wis., for 20 years, and was 

a teacher in Ling Nam University, Canton, 

China, 1909-13. 

William R, Wigley recently completed 

a survey for the town of Altamonte Springs, 

Fla., numbering houses and naming streets 

in anticipation of postal delivery. He has 

made two collections of Currier & Ives 

prints which he has contributed to Bowdoin 

and William Penn Colleges. 

D. Lucile Field Woodward Brown is an 

active member of the Women's Alliance of 

the Unitarian Church in Eastport, Me. Dr. 

Edith E. Johnson of Palo Alto, Calif., still 

engages in occasional medical practice. 

Mary Butts Cady (Mrs. Dillon A.) whose 

profession for 44 years was teaching, is a 

life member of AAUW and a past president 

of its Elmira branch. She is a post regent 

of the DAR (Chemung Chapter) and past 

national vice chairman of the Junior American 

Citizens Committee. 

Alice E. Rowe spent 20 years in business, 

12 in teaching, and 15 in social work. She's 

deeply interested in the Methodist Church 

of Hampton, Va. May Henderson Foss 

Stiles (Mrs. George F.) reports she has 

had "a wonderfully exciting, stimulating 

life/' 

Gertrude E. Douglas has retired from 

teaching at New York State College of 

Education in Albany. She has contributed 

articles to various botanical magazines and 

at present is interested in developing a 

wild-flower garden at her summer home 

in Feura Bush. 

Mrs. Ellen McCarthy Foley is a trustee 

of the Worcester Go. (Md.) Library Board 

and a member of the Republican Women's 

Club. She has gone to Egypt twice to visit 

her son, who is Chief of Economic Section 

at the US Embassy in Cairo. Elisabeth 

Griffin counts her surgeons as miracle 

workers. In the last 10 years she has had 

repeated hospital sessions. 

C. Ottilia Koeller Weisenbach reports 

that she has lived in South Africa and Aus- 


tralia and traveled extensively through Europe. 

She kept active during the war years 

with the Navy League, Red Gross and 

Civilian Defense. Frances Hammond Waren 

(Mrs. Benjamin O.) makes her home 

in Harwich Port, Mass. 

Stuart B. Wilkes, member of the Great 

Lakes and Buffalo Historical Societies, and 

Scriptures, a luncheon group of authors, 

says he's "apparently the only person in 

Buffalo who was on the grounds when President 

McKinley was shot at the Pan-American 

Exposition who did not see it!" He is 

also historian of the Gyro Club. 

James DeWitt Willcox retired in 1949 

as Alabama Agency manager for the Mutual 

Life Insurance Co. of New York and 

makes his home in Birmingham, Ala. Kenneth 

O. Wolcott completed his questionnaire 

on the eve of his departure for a twomonth 

trip to Florida, including a 13-day 

Caribbean cruise. Their summer camp on 

Loughborough Lake, near Kingston, Ontario, 

is a great source of pleasure to the 

three generations of Wolcotts. 

Thomas E. Yarling, a retired farmer of 

Shelbyville, Ind., recalled that in addition 

to working at the Campus Tavern in 1903- 

04, he "ran the university milk wagon and 

had an interesting time delivering milk to 

the famous professors long gone." 

Sydney B. Carpender, former vice president 

of Carrier Corp., is a life member 

of the American Trap Shooting Assn., and 

member of the Society of Naval Architects 

and Marine Engineers. He enjoys writing, 

woodcarving, fishing, and shooting. He 

hopes to attend the Reunion. Adolph Coors 

Jr. is treasurer of Adolph Coors Co., 

Golden, Colo, 

Harry F. LaBrecque, who retired in 

1955 from the New York State Department 

of Public Works, is now self-employed as 

a professional engineer and land surveyor. 

His daughter, Eunice '54, is the wife of 

Henry C. Purcell Jr. '55. Dr. Berton Lattin 

of Scarsdale, a fellow of the New York 

Academy of Medicine, spends his summers 

at Boothbay Harbor, Me. 

Paul B. Lum of Chevy Chase, Md., spent 

10 years with the Southern Railway and 

40 with White Motor Co, He winters in 

Florida. Robertson Matthews of Bolton, 

Canada, who was on the staff of Sibley 

College, 1909-20, is a research and development 

engineer. 

William S. Newman has a woodworking 

shop which he enjoys in his retirement. 

Among his 20 old clocks that he keeps 

running are three Ithaca calendar clocks. 

Ralph R. Nickerson, who spent 43 years 

with the Worthington Corp., is presently 

self-employed in South Hadley, Mass. 

Clement R. Newkirk was the architect for 

Clara Dickson Hall. 

Charles J. Odend'hal is a retired captain, 

US Coast Guard. While stationed at the 

Coast Guard Academy as instructor and 

maintenance officer, he made European 

cruises with cadets.—THOMAS F. LAURIE 

'08 CE—Frank A. Kristal, 30 Church 

St., New York 7, is a manufacturer's representative 

for pumps and power plant 

equipment. He recently incorporated the 

business as Frank A. Kristal Associates, 

Inc. 

'09 CE—J. D. (Dan) Tuller retired from 

the construction business (The Tuller Construction 

Co.) in 1957. As president of the 

June 1962 

Tuller Foundation for the Advancement 

of Economic Understanding he "tries to 

secure a more favorable climate for the 

conservative philosophy on college campuses." 

He spends the winter months at 

328 N. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, Fla., 

but retains his permanent home in Red 

Bank, N.J., where he may be reached at 

the Tuller Bldg. or at PO Box 431. 

?~l f\ 

JLw 

Men — Class president, Eddie 

Goodwillie has announced the 

appointment of Bill Marcussen as 

class representative. He was vice president 

of the Borden Co. in charge of its fluid milk 

division before his retirement. Larry Bandler, 

Felix Thomas and Marcussen have been 

serving as a temporary committee since 

the death of Hal Edwards, who served as 

class representative for many years. 

Ίl 

Men: Howard A. Lincoln 

100 E. Alυord St. 

Springfield 7, Mass. 

The above photo shows Hooker Doo 

little and Tom Blake. Tom wrote to me 

upon his return about his visit with Hooker 

which I quote herewith: "While traveling 

through Spain in March, Dorothy and I 

found ourselves in Algerciras and decided 

to go to Tangier and see Hooker Doolittle. 

It is a fine three-hour sail over and the approach 

to the town is interesting and inviting. 

Hooker met us and took us to his 

very attractive apartment which has a magnificent 

view of the Gibralter Straits and 

beach to which he can walk in three minutes. 

He likes to boast that he pays $60 

a month rent. He, Veca, Dorothy and I 

reminisced for an hour or so and then he 

took us to the country club which has a 

nicely appointed club house, with a polo 

field adjacent, 18 holes of golf and tennis 

courts. Hooker likes to reiterate that the 

dues are $40 per year. The next day we 

went to the Kazbah, the Sultan's Palace, 

saw Barbara Hutton's place, and to the 

gypsy dancers at night. The town is exotic. 

The next day Hooker took us for a drive 

through the surrounding country. From the 

Cave of Hercules you can see a Roman 

Village (circa 1000 B.C.), which was excavated 

eight years ago and Hooker and 

a friend were the first diggers. He is an 

archeologist of note and some of his findings 

are in the museum at Harvard. We 

saw a Roman lamp which was better than 

those they had at Rogues Harbor in 1907. 

We had lunch and then left after a wonderful 

visit. Hooker is fine, and looks fine, 

and sends his regards to all. He will be 

very glad to have any of the class call on 

him, and I can assure you that they would 

be very glad if they do so." 

E. Laurence Palmer, 206 Oak Hill Road, 

Ithaca, writes that on Dec. 1 he was given 

the William T. Hornaday Gold Medal 

award by the Natural Science for Youth 

Foundation in recognition of a half century 

of training naturalists, at a dinner at 

the Savoy Hilton in New York City. "Eph" 

lists his occupation as emeritus professor 

at Cornell. 

Jerome T. Thompson spends winters at 

La Casito, Summerland Keys, Fla., and 

summers in Elmira. He says he enjoyed the 

Reunion very much. His wife, Clara Belle, 

had a grand time too, and is still laughing 

about Jerome being locked out of their 

room in Sage at 2 a.m. after he had merely 

walked down the hallway. (He should 

have stayed in bed.) 

COLDEN JUBILEE REUNION 

1912 

By Foster M. Coffin 

524 Wyckoff Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 

Men of the class dined in New York 

this year on April 13, a month later than 

the traditional mid-March date which long 

has celebrated the anniversary of the Blizzard 

of '88. The postponement met the 

convenience of many who fly south when 

the thermometer falls. The total company 

of 41 at the Cornell Club of New York 

included several guests: Ned MacArthur 

Ίl, Joe Aul '17 (with Frank Cuccia); John 

Rodger '18 (with Bill Moore); Jack Herson, 

old friend who is now 86 years old 

and head of the dynasty of brothers who 

for years ran the hospitable Alhambra on 

N. Aurora; and his son-in-law, Ben Hope 

'25; and Jerry Reinsmith of the Pennsylvania 

Dutch Trio of Allentown. 

Dr. Merrill Foote presided. He was com- 

Class Reunions in Ithaca 

June 7-9, 1962 

'97, '02, '07, '12, '17, '22, '27, '32, '37, '42, '47, '52, '57, '59 

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pleting his year as president of the New 

York contingent. Walt Kuhn, president of 

the class and its Reunion chairman these 

many years, helped out at the head table. 

There was miscellaneous speaking, much 

of it casual and unrehearsed. Introduced 

for chitchat about the Reunion were two 

class officers from upstate. Ross Kellogg 

came down from Penfield, Foster Coffin 

from Ithaca. Ross is at once class biographer 

and head of the committee on attendance 

for the Golden Jubilee in June. 

Foster is class secretary and editor. As guest 

editor for the class house organ for March, 

Ross had just brought out the On-to-Ithaca 

Gazette. 

Frank Guccia donated a handsome prize. 

It was about the size and shape of a quart 

bottle, and went to Ralph Fanning, who 

couldn't make the dinner but who qualified 

for the raffle by returning his notice. 

Ralph's name was drawn in the lucky No. 

12 spot. 

In the election of officers, the alphabet 

continued its peculiar influence. Serving 

with Merrill Foote had been Joe Grossman, 

vice president; Al Hess, secretary; and Bill 

Hooey, treasurer. Ghosen for 1962-63 are 

George Hopp as president and Joe Kastner, 

Waldo Kraemer, and Paul Leinroth in the 

other three slots. It seems clear that Howard 

Wilson and Roger Winlack will have 

to bide their time. 

Here's the list of 5 12 men present: Baehr, 

Bogardus, Bowman, Burger, Carson, Jack 

Clark, Coffin (Floyd and Foster), Cuccia, 

Davidson, Elsenbast, Filbert, Foote, Grossman, 

Hess, Hooey, Hopp, Kastner, Kellogg, 

Kuhn, Leinroth, Magoun, Merrill, Moore, 

O'Connor, Pfeiffer, Reich, Rudolph, Sands, 

Shamberg, Specht, Stockly, Stoddard, Wilson, 

and Winlack. 

Indications are that more than one-third 

of the living members of the class will be 

back for Reunion. This would mean 187 

men and 23 women. Present reports indicate 

that 200 men and 28 women may attend. 

Wives of Ί2ers will attend the Thursday 

night dinner in the Dutch Kitchen and the 

Friday dinner in the Statler ballroom. On 

Saturday the wives will hold their own 

dinner in Statler Hall while the men are in 

Clara Dickson Hall. 

Ralph S. Nanz, dean emeritus of Carroll 

College, Waukesha, Wis., an ordained 

clergyman of the Episcopal Church, heads 

a committee arranging for a class memorial 

service to be held Saturday morning, 

June 9. 

Golfers of the classes of '12 and Ί7 will 

hold a tournament on the university golf 

course and have luncheon at the Moakley 

Clubhouse on Thursday. The Pennsylvania 

Dutch Trio, which was a feature of the 

35th and 45th Reunions of the class, will 

furnish music at the Golden Jubilee. 

Through the courtesy of Joe Grossman, 

former president of the Ward-LaFrance 

Truck Co. of Elmira, a fire truck will again 

be an attraction. The truck will be used 

for transportation and for fire fighting 

while in Ithaca. 

Howard Swartwood, legal consultant of 

the Endicott Johnson Corporation, and Mrs. 

Swartwood are back from a three-month 

world tour. They visited Hawaii, Japan, the 

Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, 

India, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and France. 

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'13 

Men: Harry E. Southard 

3102 Miami Rd. 

South Bend 14, Ind. 

Lester S. Brady, 347 E. Main St., Lock 

Haven, Pa., made a trip to Dayton, Ohio, 

last summer to attend the Air Force reunion 

of World War I fighter pilots, where 

he renewed acquaintance with many fellows 

he had not seen since 1917-18. Les 

enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, was 

transferred to their air service, flew with 

Escadrille Spad 26 of the Groupe de Cigognes, 

then later with the American Air 

Service. He bought a plane in 1940, learned 

to fly all over again, but a disability rating 

prevented him from getting into World 

War II. Les reports his weight right now 

at 157, just one pound less than when he 

used to wrestle at Cornell — pretty good 

for a Ί3er. At his home he has a 100-acre 

certified tree farm and also a small subdivision. 

His tastes are varied as, in addition 

to flying, farming and trees, he has a 

Hammond organ and a baby grand piano, 

and just recently acquired "a real treasure— 

a 70-year-old concert grand Knabe 

in perfect shape and in precise tune." 

Jacob Koopman, Box 221, Forked River, 

N.J., has now been retired for 11 years. 

He has made five voyages to various parts 

of the world, and has spent 10 winters in 

Florida. He now has nine grandchildren. 

Koop does a little gardening and enjoys 

the growing of flowers. 

W. Roy Manny, 50 E. 42d St., New York 

17, retired two years ago. He sold his business 

at that time, so now he takes various 

odd jobs to help out, on a charity basis, 

worthwhile agencies. He has five children 

and 16 grandchildren. For health reasons, 

Roy and his wife stick pretty close to home, 

with no trips to Florida. They go up to 

their cottage in Woodstock, Vt., whenever 

they can, winter and summer. He sees 

George Schurman quite often as George's 

office is nearby. 

E. P. (King) Cole, 4000 Cathedral Ave., 

NW, Apt. 516, Washington 16, D.C., would 

be interested in having any member of '13 

advise him where he can find a retirement 

spot in the East "with La Jolla, Calif., climate 

and sea view, 400 miles away from 

any atomic bomb target site, where it's not 

too expensive to die." What with estate 

taxes and all, King wants a place "where 

we poor coupon clippers can afford to live 

in the meantime without chasing the climate 

back and forth, which latter is now 

hard work." King has six grandchildren, 

two of them in college. He spends his summers 

sailing in Cape Cod waters and his 

winters going to art school in Washington. 

Just one more comment here from King: 

he and his wife are trying to keep thin, 

"and that's a job in itself." 

Ryland H. Hewitt, .17 Newton Ave., Norwich, 

wintered at Lake Worth, Fla. I am 

sure he played a lot of pinochle there with 

Clarence W. Barker, as Ridy and Cy have 

been working away at that game since 

their days at Cornell. Ridy is looking forward 

to attending our 50th next year. 

E. H. (Bunny) Bunce, Residence Park, 

Palmerton, Pa., grandfather of 10, is "retired, 

happy, healthy, and hoping to last 

through to the big event in June 1963, our 

50th." Allen B. Norton, 105 Pheasant Dr., 

Pittsburgh 38, Pa., also gives a shorthand 

style of reporting with "vegetating, playing 

JUDGE Mary Donlon '20 and Col. Gilbert 

Parker '14 were principals at the 

Cornell Club of San Diego meeting Feb. 

6. Trustee Donlon spoke; Parker is president 

of the club. 

golf, traveling, and carrying out the orders 

received from the better half, nearly a fulltime 

job." Holbert W. Fear, 112 Kingsboro 

Ave., Gloversville, spent last summer 

on a tour of the Gaspe and Nova Scotia. 

H. Errol Coffin, 4 Weymouth St., Nantucket, 

Mass., is semiretired. He and his 

wife spent last winter in Spain. They have 

a son who is a professor at Princeton, and 

have four grandchildren who spent their 

summers with them at Nantucket. He often 

sees Tell Berna '12 who also is retired at 

Nantucket. 

We will all be hearing from Frederick E. 

Norton, 416 Douglas St., Syracuse, pretty 

soon. Freddie once again is going to chairman 

our Reunion next year, the big one, 

our 50th. So start planning now to join 

the '13 gang at that time. 

'14 

Men: Emerson Hinchliff 

400 Oak Ave. 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

The passing of Hu Shih continues to 

dominate the 1914 news. Everyone who 

writes me mentions it sorrowfully. Of 

course, his memory transcends our mere 

class limits. Witness a memorial service for 

him April 16 at the China Institute in 

America, China House, New York City. 

Henry R. Luce, Life Magazine, made the 

opening and closing remarks. President 

Malott spoke for Cornell, President Grayson 

Kirk for Columbia, Prof. John K. Fairbank 

for Harvard, Prof. Marius B. Jansen 

for Princeton, Thornton Wilder for Yale. 

The address was by Ambassador T. F. 

Tsiang of the Republic of China. 

Also Harold Riegelman tells me that 

there is a national and international movement 

under way to establish scholarship 

and fellowship funds in Doc's honor both 

in the US and in Taiwan. I think it is 

something our class would want to participate 

in. So might 1913 and 1915; no doubt 

each class would get Fund credit, providing 

it is set up with the University. Harold had 

a beautiful letter to the editor in the April 

15 Herald Tribune about Doc, his prescience 

in what the US would not do in the 

matter of Manchuria in the Sino-Japanese 

war, his understanding of the American 

character. 

I might mention, too, that Martin W. 

Sampson Jr. '39 saw Doc's son, Tsu Wang 

Hu '42, in Washington at the end of March 

(he is at the Chinese Embassy) and learned 

that he had attended the funeral in Taiwan. 

The son said that the story Doc told 


452 Sub-Frosh for Cornell Day 

SOME 118 alumni "chauffeurs" brought 452 

secondary school juniors to campus May 

4-6 for the annual Cornell Day look at the 

university by prospective students. Thirtyseven 

alumni secondary school committees 

took part. 

The prospects, a record number for the 

annual event, stayed in fraternities and 

dormitories, visited classes and talked with 

professors, and were shown the campus by 

undergraduates. 

The Saturday luncheon for chauffeurs 

was addressed by Harvey Krouse '25, 

alumni field secretary and chairman of the 

event; Ross P. Jackson '54, assistant director 

of admissions; President Deane W. 

Malott; Vice President James L. Zwingle, 

PhD '42; and John Marcham '50, editor 

of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, whose 

talk is reprinted on page 2 of this issue. 

The master of ceremonies, E. Lawrence 

Burrows '34, chairman of the secondary 

school committee in Pittsburgh, Pa., introduced 

David H. Julian '63 of Champaign, 

111., undergraduate secondary school chairman; 

and Herbert H. Williams '25, admissions 

director. Herb, who went through 

a serious illness during the winter, received 

warm applause when he said he always 

told Cornell Day audiences he was glad 

to see them here, but this year was glad 

just to be able to say he was here himself. 

The chauffeurs: 

BERGEN COUNTY: Fred J. Eydt '52, 

Fletcher W. Hock '53. 

BROOME COUNTY : Edward T. Moore '48. 

BUFFALO: Harold J. Tillou 13, Herbert 

R. Johnston '17, Carl T. Nordstrom '34, 

Roy Black '38, Edwin Markham '42, Carl 

F. Gortzig '52, Thomas A. Brewer '58, William 

Niese '58, James Pierson '59. 

CAPITAL DISTRICT: Fred A. Moore '48, 

Edward W. Pattison '53. 

CHENANGO COUNTY: Donald F. Meister 

'42, Myron E. Jaenecke '48. 

CHICAGO, ILL.: George R. Malby '40, 

Jack H. Armstrong '49. 

CLEVELAND, OHIO: Edward C. Sargent 

'44, John R. Thompson '44, John E. Rupert 

'49 

ḊELAWARE: J. Newton Hunsberger III 

'45, Lawrence Aquadro '47. 

DUTCHESs COUNTY: Herbert Saltford 

'33, Frank W. Trevor '36. 

ESSEX COUNTY: Charles F. Hendrie '19, 

Chauncey L. Grant '26, Robert D. Hobbie 

'27, William M. Tobias '29, Frederick N. 

Bailey '44. 

FAIRFIELD COUNTY,, CONN.: William M. 

Leonard '24, Howard Hall '29, William 

Vanneman '31, Norman L. Christensen '42, 

Edward Crocco '52, Mort Lowenthal '54. 

HARRISBURG, PA. : Leonard Richards '26. 

HARTFORD,, CONN. : Dana B. Waring '39. 

us at Reunion about the Vassar freshman 

tipping over in Cayuga Lake and thus precipitating 

the literary revolution in China 

is confirmed in his diary of his student 

days, published in Chinese. 

Talking of Hal Riegelman, I am indebted 

to Henry Hendler '24 for a clipping 

from the New York Times of April 11 

showing a design for a stained-glass window 

as a memorial to Tammany Hall, part 

June 1962 

LACKAWANNA, N.J.: Donald E. Maclay 

'17, George Munsick '21, Charles S. Henry 

'44, John C. Maclay '57. 

LEHIGH VALLEY: Wendell K. Upham 

'35, Robert Spillman '53. 

MARYLAND : John H. Zίnk '40, James M. 

Easter II '41, William T. Duboc '45, Robert 

L. Goodman '47, Wilson T. Ballard Jr. '49. 

MICHIGAN: William T. Thompson '32, 

Robert G. Lyon '35, William K. Mayhew 

'36 

ṀOHAWK VALLEY: William J. Shaughnessy 

'41 

NASSAU COUNTY: Michael M. Coon '25, 

Alan A. Cruickshank '33, W. Barry Miller 

'39 

ṄEW ENGLAND: James C. Otis '38, William 

A. White '40, Horatio W. Bacon II '45, 

David G. Sheffield '55, Michael Ford '61. 

NEW HAVEN, CONN. : William W. Pinchbeck 

'54. 

NEW YORK CITY: John W. Stoddard '12, 

Joseph Granett '18, Robert Morris '25, 

Raymond Reisler '27, Leonard Gordon '31, 

Michael Schubert '36, Arthur Lewis '40, 

George Rheingold '48. 

NORTHERN ALLEGHENY: Joseph E. 

Fleming Jr. '35, Newell Vaughan. 

ONTARIO COUNTY: William Bigham '44. 

PHILADELPHIA,, PA.: Philip C. Burnham 

Jr. '36, Edward F. Wagner '43, J. Joseph 

Driscoll '44, William M. Morrison '46, William 

M. Marcussen '50, James Stocker '51, 

William S. Wesson '51. 

PITTSBURGH, PA.: E. Lawrence Burrows 

'34, John P. Batchelar '35, Robert L. 

Mann '54, John Cavanaugh, John Lee. 

ROCHESTER: Winsor D. Ireland '35, Joseph 

P. King '36, Robert T. Lewis '52, Richard 

Wambach '54, Charles H. Githler '55. 

ROCKLAND COUNTY: Ernest V. Strack 

'22, Richard W. D. Jewett '24, Richard Narducci 

'47. 

SCHENECTADY: Glen W. Bennett '27, 

Henry Kingham '43. 

SYRACUSE: Meredith R. Gushing '44, 

Charles A. Brooks '45. 

TRENTON, N.J.: Edward J. Kearns '47, 

Seymour I. Marcus '52. 

UNION COUNTY, N.J.: Robert B. Pace 

'44, David R. Loeser '57, A. T. Short. 

WASHINGTON, D.C.: M. P. Homan '30, 

Russell O. Pettibone '33, Jerome C. Leonard 

'34, Thomas S. McEwan Jr. '43, Roy S. 

Mitchell '56. 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY: C. Karleton 

Miller '21, Irving J. Bland '26, Albert A. 

Jacobson '27, Peter V. Roberts '36, Nicholas 

A. D'Onofrio '45, Richard E. VanSuetendael 

'56. 

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: James A. 

Mullane '35, Warren E. Rosati '49. 

WYOMING COUNTY: Harold C. Parker 

'44 

ẎORK COUNTY, PA.: Martin B. Ebbert 

'30 

ẎOUNGSTOWN, OHIO: Dana S. Johnson 

'52, Michael Browne '55. 

of an exhibit at the Bar Association of what 

artist-lawyers do in their spare time. It incorporated 

the Tammany tiger, a flag 

waver, a pair of dice, and pieces of gold 

circulating among city officials; around the 

edges appeared names like William Tweed, 

Richard Croker, Charles Murphy, John 

Curry, and Fernando Wood. No connection 

with Cornell, but Hal's Widow and 

Cornellian training was apparent. 

There's just too much news. Hadley Stephenson 

is presently in the hospital, very 

uncomfortable from an operation. Morris 

Bishop is back from being visiting professor 

in Indiana. He said Hu Shih was indeed 

in Manuscript Club. Morris wrote on a 

post card showing a tower in the Benedictine 

monastery in Mission City, B.C., which 

was built by Father Bede Reynolds (our 

Kenyon L. Reynolds) in memory of his 

wife, after whose death he became a monk. 

A card from Hooks and Dorothy Day from 

Florida told of going down the west coast, 

to Key West, then up the east side. They 

had seen Hal Halsted in Naples and Harry 

Chapin in Boynton Beach; were heading 

along the Gulf of Mexico for the Pacific 

Coast, up to Seattle, and back to Connecticut 

in August via the Canadian Rockies. 

R. Kenneth MacKenzie wrote April 11 

that he had been home three weeks after 

his operation in Presbyterian Hospital, 

Newark. He said that Dr. Sam Goldberg 

came in almost daily, with our 50th Reunion 

in mind. He says that everybody 

speaks so highly of Sam and that he will 

be much missed when they find a replacement 

for him as chief pathologist of the 

United Hospitals of Newark. The stories 

about him in the Newark paper and in the 

United Hospitals News are fascinating, 

about his insisting on coming to Cornell, 

getting into veterinary medicine, being 

chosen a student assistant as a junior, "because 

you have picked up pathology quicker 

than any student Γve ever had." He 

stayed on for his master's and PhD, then 

was instructor in pathology until 1926, including 

three years in which he doubled 

as pathologist at Ithaca Memorial Hospital. 

Then Shorty went to NYU Medicine, got 

an MD, and has been at Presbyterian ever 

since. He is a former president of New 

Jersey Pathological Society, a founding fellow 

of the American College of Pathologists, 

and member of about a dozen other 

medical organizations. On top of it all, he's 

a good scout. 

Albert C. Dunn, 1101 Woodland Way, 

Hagerstown, Md., retired March 31 as assistant 

regional engineer, US Bureau of 

Public Roads. Al stays on in Hagerstown 

"and would be glad to see any classmates 

who may be passing this way." Ike Carman 

keeps sending me interesting bits about my 

home town of Rockford, 111. 

'15 

Men: Arthur C. Peters 

107 E. 48th St. 

New York 17, N.Y. 

As this goes to press, the first Class Letter 

is either in your hands or on its way, 

carrying details of the activities of class 

officers and committee members. Tell Secretary 

Art Wilson, its principal author, if 

you'd like more of same, about other classmates, 

in later letters. Space limitations do 

not permit the NEWS to delve so deeply. 

Meanwhile, class solidarity is being rebuilt 

with dues, news, and determination. 

By 1965 we'll all have reached the allotted 

"three score years and ten," and every 

Cornell memory will seem rich and wonderful 

in the mad whirl of the space age. 

Then and Now can only be bridged by 

meetings and memories and mutual efforts 

to finish strong. Incidentally, who is our 

youngest living classmate, and who is our 

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oldest? If you think you qualify, please 

tell us. 

We can't tell you, unfortunately, about 

the May 22 class dinner at the Cornell 

Club, which is only a get-together of the 

future as this is written. We have Leo M. 

(Ted) Blancke, Hemphill Noyes partner, 

as chairman, to guarantee a good time. 

A nice reason for delayed dues paying 

is reported by William A. Schnedeker of 

Tryon, who writes: "Just returned from 

the South Pacific. Met and spent many 

pleasant hours aboard ship with E. D. (Ed) 

Knapp Ί8." Such a fascinating experience 

merits a few more lines of type. So does 

the too brief comment of Dr . Paul W. 

Wing, 547 Garden St., Little Falls, who 

"spent three months last winter in Puerto 

Rico," Ponce de Leon's paradise, now full 

of Cornellians and the locale of the seven 

million dollar Cornell radar project. 

Our own travels, to Mexico and Yucatan, 

are now months past. In Mexico 

City we were wined and dined by Lew 

Perry and wife Dorothy at their Campos 

Eliseos home. And at a University Club 

cocktail party we reminisced with Rodrigo 

B. Rodriguez. Rod confirmed his fitness, 

after a recent operation, by announcing 

that he is again playing tennis and may 

bring a racquet to the 50th if Chick Benton 

will do likewise. Once president of the 

Cornell Club and local gerente for Allis- 

Chalmers, Rod also headed the American 

Legion Post there. He promised to climb 

the Hill again in 5 65. 

Class trends now are definitely toward 

more grandchildren, more travel, more in 

retirement. For instance, Charles H. 

Reader, 181 Lenox Rd., Brooklyn 26, with 

four grandchildren, is duly proud of son 

Arthur '52, Phi Beta Kappa, who is completing 

work for his PhD in organic chemistry 

at the University of Texas, while Papa 

admits "suffering from lassitude and longitude." 

He writes: "Retired from Army Reserve—active 

duty, Mexican border, 32d 

Div., AEF in France and Germany, World 

War I; and stateside duty, World War 

II, Major, Sanitary Corps." He is also "retired 

from New York City Department of 

Health as supervisor of public health sanitarian." 

Charles M. Colyer, retired banker and 

former Sun editor, is getting along nicely 

and occasionally drops a friendly note to 

"the boys." Eldon F. Colie, 747 Chatham 

Rd., Glenview, 111., has "just completed 

45 years with the Kittinger Co. plant in 

Buffalo." He has been living in the Midwest 

for 30 years and maintains an office 

in the Merchandise Mart, but manages 

three weeks' "escape from Chicago winter" 

by flying to Florida's Pompano Beach, not 

far from Ray Riley. Bertram H. Hendrickson, 

505 Bloomfield St., Athens, Ga., says 

he is "still working as principal soil scientist 

at the US Department of Agriculture 

ARS, Watkinsville, Ga." 

Felix Kremp, Box 215, Laughlintown, 

Pa., retired in January after 47 years in the 

tool steel industry. He planned a fourmonth 

trip with his wife, by ship and auto, 

through southern Europe. Luther Banta, 

38 Fearing St., Amherst, Mass., after 44 

years of university teaching, is "enjoying 

retirement immensely" and finding Superior 

Court jury duty in Hampshire Court 

"quite an interesting experience." 

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Jules G. Proctor, 250 Park Ave., New 

York City, indicating recovery from recent 

illness writes, "Caught me before I leave 

for six-week business trip to Europe." 

From Sidney Mosher, 47 Park Ave., New 

Rochelle, comes the simple message, "Retired." 

Frank T. Fitzpatrick writes: "I am 

retired. I would like to work, but my heart 

says No." He lives at 1059 Foster St., 

Franklin Square. "Looking forward to 

Cornell's 100th anniversary and 1915's 50th 

Reunion" is Joseph Silbert, 5076 Sandy 

Shore Ave., Sarasota, Fla., who is "enjoying 

retirement, fishing and Florida sunshine" 

and "considering present state of 

health is certain to be there in '65." 

'16 

Men: Harry F. Byrne 

55 Liberty St. 

New York 5 } 

N.Y. 

Birge Kinne called to say that he has 

reserved dinner facilities at the Willcox 

Room in the Statler for the evening of Friday, 

June 8, for an off-Reunion year gettogether 

of Ί6ers and their guests. It is 

suggested that the Statler be advised a few 

days in advance if any Ί6ers plan to have 

an unusual number of guests to be cared 

for. 

Birge reported that by May 1, in the 

closing days of the "100 Club," he had 

reached 105 paid-up members of that organization 

and 243 annual class dues contributions. 

We congratulate him on a most 

successful campaign, conducted solely by 

his own efforts and diligence and, we might 

remark, to the surprise of all familiar with 

his plan. 

In our next issue there may be some 

interesting news relative to a memorial 

room for Buh Pfeiffer in the new Cornell 

Club of New York. 

Albert Hoefer, who came to Cornell from 

Elmira Academy, and now lives at 113 

Brandon PL, Ithaca, was elected president 

of the Cooperative Consumers Society of 

Ithaca, succeeding Peter J. McManus '32. 

Hoefer has been a member of the board of 

directors for three years. A professor emeritus 

in the university's Extension Service, 

he has been the recipient of many honors 

for his work in Extension, being a pioneer 

in 4-H Club work and a past state 4-H 

Club leader. In 1957, he was presented 

with a distinguished service award at the 

National 4-H Club congress in Chicago. In 

May 1952, he received a silver medal and 

citation in Washington, D.C., from Secretary 

of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan 

"particularly for his contribution to rural 

youth both here and in Germany," where 

he pioneered in developing activities similar 

to those of our 4-H Clubs. He retired 

from Cornell in 1955 and has been active 

in civic affairs, including Kiwanis Club, 

Tompkins County Hospital, and the City 

Republican Club. 

Allan Carpenter of 615 Ash St., San 

Diego, Calif., has been elected a director 

of the Cornell Club there and chairman of 

the membership committee. He reports he 

still finds the coast to his liking. 

Frank Hunter reports a remarkably successful 

safari in India, on which he personally 

bagged three tigers, two leopards, 

and a collection of lesser game—an unheard 

of record, especially as to the tiger 

trio. Considering the results phrased in those 

few words, it is probably the capsule understatement 

of the era. He also advised 

that "21 Brands, Inc.," of which he is president, 

had had its stock offering to the public 

approved by the SEC, and soon after 

our conversation it was to be marketed by 

the underwriting group, which reads like 

a "Who's Who" in the security trade, 

among the group being Harold Bache's 

firm, J. S. Bache & Co. 

Frank Thomas and wife Louise spent the 

winter months in Arizona, which they 

reached in January after a rugged motor 

trip via the southern route, fighting their 

way through blizzards, snow problems and 

sub-zero weather, and frozen plumbing. 

They were prohibited from proceeding at 

one point "because they did not have 

chains." However, once at their destination, 

all was warm and serene, and they visited 

with the Frank Geralds '15 as well as other 

friends. 

'16 AB—A postal card, written in Africa 

on Jan. 31, arrived three months later by 

surface mail at the Alumni Office, bringing 

greetings from Mrs. C. W. Ward (Constance 

Wait). She wrote: "Am on my third 

safari in East Africa (Queen Elizabeth 

National Park.) Am on speaking terms 

with all the wild animals in the three national 

parks in Uganda and Kenya—even 

the big game! On to Cairo and Luxor, then 

the Middle East, Istanbul, Athens, Morocco, 

and home. It has been a wonderful 

trip, but the USA is going to look mighty 

good." 

'17 

Men: Herbert R. Johnston 

81 Tacoma Ave. 

Buffalo 16, N.Y. 

Ben Potar received a long, newsy letter 

from William H. Voelker of Freeport in 

which he said Ralph C. Parker of Rockville 

Center would not be able to attend 

our Big 45th. He and Mrs. Parker are going 

to see their son in Copenhagen, Denmark, 

and then take a 91-day tour throughout 

Europe. Bill saw Tom and Mrs. Prentice 

also. They were leaving for Florida 

but expected to return in time for Ithaca 

in June. 

Mail addressed to Kenjiro Fujikura in 

Yamagata Ken, Japan, has been returned 

undelivered. Does anyone know where 

Kenjiro is? 

Albert A. Gushing winters in Winter 

Park, Fla. (1720 Walker Ave.), and summers 

on his estate at Attica. He has contacted 

Emmons Day at St. Cloud, Fla., 

and has visited Wayland (Jack) Frost of 

Winter Haven, Harry Mack at Winter 

Park, and Col. Harrison Glidden in Orlando. 

Bert attended the annual Cornell 

dinner of Central Florida last March. He 

reported that Dr. A. L. Sharpe and former 

Dean George L. Bogart '08 of the Law 

School were present. 

Louis G. Weisman, 3123 28th St., San 

Diego 4, Calif., is still busy working for 

Cornell even though nearly 3,000 miles 

from the campus. He was elected a director 

of the Cornell Club of San Diego recently, 

as was Allan Carpenter '16, who 

moved last September to the coast from 

Buffalo where he had just retired as president 

of the Cornell Club of Buffalo. 

Charles H. Capen is another Ί7er who 

winters in Florida. He attended a luncheon 

meeting of the Sarasota Cornell Club and 


heard former Dean Hollister of the Engineering 

College give a good talk. 

Oscar F. Priester, 601 Brady St., Davenport, 

Iowa, wrote that he had a long winter 

vacation in Arizona. In reading The Call 

of 1917 he noted considerable bragging on 

the part of classmates about their golf accomplishments. 

Modestly Oz claimed to be 

the latest I7er (maybe the only one ever) 

to score a hole in one. He says it was not 

on a pitch and putt course but on a 187- 

yard hole at the Scottsdale Country Club 

(regulation course!). 

Basil E. Merrill reports that he has moved 

from Wilton Manors, Fla., to 4411 N. Federal 

Highway, Pompano Beach, Fla. 

The front cover of the March issue of 

Successful Farming is decorated with a 

characteristic picture of the former dean 

of the Vet School, Dr. William A. Hagan. 

Bill is now director of the National Animal 

Disease Laboratory at Ames, Iowa. He says, 

"This $16.5 million weapon, I'm sure, will 

return to its stockholders, you the taxpayers, 

handsome dividends on your investment 

in the fight against animal disease." 

A long, newsy letter from J. Paul Griffith, 

Illinois State Hospital, Jacksonville, 111., 

tells of Paul's horticultural work which was 

a little late in starting outdoors this spring. 

As usual he is specializing in roses, but 

had already planted 15 kinds of Burpee 

seeds, thus staying close to his classmates, 

David Burpee, president of W. Atlee Burpee 

Co., and W. Atlee Burpee, vice-president. 

The Burpees claim to have the largest 

seed house in the world. Paul had just received 

a nice letter from John Eyer at State 

College, New Mexico. 

Dr. Raymond S. Crispell had a fine winter 

in the South Pacific and Australia returning 

via Hawaii and California. In the 

latter state he was "inveigled" into accepting 

a position as director of professional 

education in the California state system. 

His new address is Atascadero, Calif. He 

can always be reached c/o US Trust Co. 

of New York, 45 Wall St., New York 5. 

Cris has been associated with six different 

universities, but Cornell remains his alma 

mater. He concludes, "If a new life can 

begin at 66, then I ought to achieve the age 

of 71 and make our 50th in 1967." 

Donald E. Maclay sent us a clipping announcing 

the recent marriage of his daughter 

Sally Joy and William C. Davis in 

Bangkok, Thailand. Both are members of 

the US Peace Corps, stationed at Korat, 

Thailand. 

William A. Duckham, Laguna Beach, 

Calif., regrets missing our Big 45th because 

he will be in Europe. Bill says, "Will see 

you for sure at our 50th." 

Here's hoping "you-all" have a very 

pleasant summer. 

Stanley N. Shaw 

742 Munsey Bldg. 

'18Men: 

Washington 4, D.C. 

There's something to mental telepathy after 

all, as I've just discovered. It all began 

several months ago when I wrote a 

column for the NEWS suggesting that the 

time was nearing when ΊSers ought to be 

arranging regional get-togethers to start 

planning for our 45th Reunion in June 

1963 and to alert the sluggards to that 

event. Now it happens that in its modern- 

June 1962 

ized and expanded form the NEWS requires 

these class columns to be written 

far in advance of publication dates. Before 

that column ever made its appearance there 

came word that the New Yorkers were arranging 

a big dinner and cocktail hour at 

the Club there on May 2. The announcement 

listed a number of "special features" 

for the meeting, including no speeches, no 

speakers, no movies, no lectures "but perhaps 

a brief review of 45th Reunion plans 

by Paul Wanser." Well, that seems to 

prove the power of positive thinking! 

The energetic committee behind this affair 

included such stalwarts as Rog Farquhar, 

Les Fisher, Lou Freedman, Joe 

Granett, Harry Handwerger, Harry Mattin, 

Charley Muller, and Paul Wanser himself, 

with Lou holding the all-important 

position of treasurer. I'd bet that Paul Miller 

was also one of the spark plugs but was 

too modest to allow his name even to be 

mentioned. 

Well, the affair was held (I hope) as 

scheduled, but deadlines being what they 

are it won't be possible for me to submit 

an account of the gathering and a list of 

those present until the July issue. Judged 

by past results (and I'm thinking of a similar 

event five years ago), I'm sure, however, 

that the report will be favorable. 

Norm Elsas, mindful of my pleas for 

chatty news items, drops me a note from 

Atlanta (3025 E. Pine Valley Rd., NW) 

telling of a recent visit there by Allen Me- 

Gill. Allen must have been returning from 

a Florida winter visit because he mentioned 

having run across Bill Hubbell in Coral 

Gables. Norm relates how he, with Allen, 

Neil Gorman '16, Carter Bliss '17, and a 

few others ate in a sort of private dining 

room at Sage College for a number of their 

undergraduate years, their food specially 

prepared by the Home EC Department 

"and as a result was about the best available." 

(In other words, these fellows were 

guinea pigs for all the fancy diets the university 

was developing back in the Dark 

Ages.) Norm recalls with particular zest 

the fact that they had a view into the larger 

dining room where all the Sage girls ate, 

and that Allen was particularly smitten by 

one young lady "who was a little beauty." 

The upshot of that, of course, was that 

when Allen reached Atlanta recently he was 

still happy to report that she was by his side. 

They, by the way, live in Los Angeles and 

were on their way back home. 

'19 

Men: Colonel L. Brown 

472 Gramatan Ave. 

Mount Vernon, N.Y. 

Two of our classmates and their families 

live at Cape May, N.J., one of the towns 

that suffered great losses from a winter 

storm that lashed the coast. We are happy 

to report that they escaped with a minimum 

of property damage, and no personal 

injuries, which is remarkable since they 

were quite close to the ocean. Walter Measday 

wrote that they were evacuated in a 

boat and suffered no important losses. Wilson 

Barger, a veteran of several storms, 

nailed plywood boards across the lower 

half of his doors to make them solid. 

Then, like the boy who stood on the burning 

deck, he refused to be evacuated. 

Incidentally, the beachfront at Cape 

May was practically destroyed, including 

the Boardwalk, Convention Hall and Beach 

Front Drive. Peter Vischer, who has had 

some experience in shore line damage, put 

Walt in touch with a noted beach control 

engineer. Barclay Read also wrote Walt 

that since his retirement from Shell Oil 

Co. in New York, he has been interested 

in a chemical product that makes concretelike 

sand dunes for protective purposes. 

Barclay's address is 2410 Benjamin St., Mc- 

Lean, Va. 

Your scribe received an announcement 

that Mrs. Jessie Snyder Sheard and Parmly 

Scofield Clapp Jr. were married April 8 

at Las Vegas, Nev. They will be at home 

after May 10 at the Hotel Beverly, 125 E. 

50th St., New York. The sincere good wishes 

of the Class of 1919 are extended to the 

newlyweds. 

Charlie Lerner sent a short note saying 

that the Lerners left New York April 27 on 

a three-week tour of Europe. Harry W. 

Davidson of 9281 Shore Rd., Brooklyn 7, 

reports that he has taken up a new career 

in sculpture. Last year Harry and his wife 

(Esther Wolinsky '23) spent three months 

in Europe touring Scandinavia. His studio 

is at East Hampton. 

Harold J. Bradley retired last year after 

42 years as a sales engineer with Chicago 

Pneumatic Tool Co. He lives at 4700 Vallacher 

Ave., St. Louis Park 16, Minn. He 

mentions that he occasionally sees John W. 

Kurtz, who is with Winston Construction 

Co. of Minneapolis. Jack lives at 3843 

Sheridan Ave. S, Minneapolis 10, Minn. 

Howard C. Young, 3163 N. Pollard St., 

Arlington 7, Va., retired from the US Public 

Health Service with the rank of commander. 

Further details are lacking as 

Howard did not elaborate. Dr. William A. 

Wall reports that he is still practicing medicine 

at the same old stand. He has three 

children, all married, and seven grandchildren 

at last count. His address is 105 N. 

Main St., Cortland. 

Alpheus W. Smith reports that his son 

Strether, a member of this year's graduating 

class in mechanical engineering, has 

been licensed as a private pilot. He paid for 

the training out of his own earnings and 

plans to take graduate work in aeronautical 

engineering. Al lives at 705 The Parkway, 

Ithaca, and if your scribe's memory 

is correct, is a professor in labor relations. 

A note from Leland T. Shafer, 19 Park 

Ave., Brockport, says: "Nothing to report. 

Merely sunk in life's grinding routine." 

This makes two Ί9ers who are sunk, the 

other being your scribe. Leland is much too 

modest and we feel a lot of classmates would 

be interested in what he has to say. We 

promise to enlarge on the above, if he will 

give us the signal. 

The following are some changes of address 

for classmates. Use these in all future 

communications with them: 

Frederic R. Drake, 5550 Cote St-Luc, Apt. 

15, Montreal 29, P.Q., Canada. 

Earl R. Evans, Westrex Co., 540 W. 58th 

St., New York 19. 

Paul Gillette, 202 Linden Ave., Ithaca. 

Maurice J. Hoover Jr., Rivermere, Alger 

Court, Bronxville. 

Edwin L. Howard, 121 E. State St., Westport, 

Conn. 

Howard M. Jampol, 40 E. 83rd St., Apt. 

9-s, New York 28. 

Laurence B. June, 270 Park Ave., Room 

E-304, New York 17. 

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William T. Kerr, 7243 Old Lake Shore Rd., 

Lakeview. 

J. Clarence Mauer, 102 Bayway Ave., 

Brightwaters. 

Samuel H. Nelson, 1180 Raymond Blvd., 

Newark, N.J. 

James H. Prendergast, PC Box 771, Newburg 

Station, Cleveland 5, Ohio. 

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Frank J. Taylor, 16815 Madison St., Kensington, 

Mich. 

Dr. Louis E. Tomsuden, PO Box 1907, San 

Diego 12, Calif. 

Dr. George W. Waterman, 110 Lockwood 

St., Providence 3, R.I. 

We anticipate this will be a big help to 

Florida classmates, who have been holding 

up shipments of gift boxes of oranges until 

they were certain about the address. Now 

they can start shipping. 

'20 

Men: Orυille G. Daily 

604 Melrose Ave. 

Kenilworth, III. 

We're as happy as a loon, 

It's about that time in June 

When everything's coming up roses 

We're all set to re-une 

On the Hill or in the Salon* 

With the CRC and their red noses. 

*The Dutch Salon, that is! 

You know this thing gets in your blood 

—it started way back in 1916, and those 

old red and white corpuscles keep multiplying 

each year until they yell, yell, yell, 

Cornell, and you just can't resist the urge 

to get back on the Hill in June. We've considered 

a European jaunt, fishing in Maine, 

the Las Vegas strip, a California convention, 

the beach at Waikiki, a trip to the 

moon, but none of these has any appeal in 

competition with Jeff's 2 in. thick steaks on 

the shore of Owasco, Edson's golf-ball size 

Connecticut strawberries, Ho's horrible 

jokes, Archibald's smile, Benny's violin or 

the view of Lake Cayuga from the library 

tower. It's the best tonic we know; you 

oughta add it to your diet! 

Bill Schmidt, still special staff consultant 

with Monongahela Power Co. at Fairmount, 

W.Va., says that in looking for the 

'20 class news column he is shocked to see 

how near we are to the front of the book. 

Then he looks in the mirror, we'll bet! Bill 

has two years of fun to go before being 

forced into retirement, but probably won't 

need a shove. He's glad to have four grandchildren; 

says his daughter married a Yale 

man, but Bill's getting used to it now. 

M. G. (Mike) Fincher says he's still in 

the same old job at Cornell—and some 

job it is, or we should use the plural, because 

Mike is not one man, but three. 

First he is professor of veterinary medicine 

in the Veterinary College; next, head of 

the department of medicine and obstetrics, 

director of the Ambulatory Clinic, and also 

director of the New York mastitis control 

program. In his spare time he works hard 

on the executive board and is secretary of 

the large animal practice station of the 

AVMA, and associate editor of the Journal 

of Fertility and Sterility. Mike's not been 

a-wasting his time at Cornell and is happy 

to enter the contest with four grandsons 

and four granddaughters. Besides, he still 

has a single daughter in college at Oneonta, 

whom he is holding in reserve. 

Gordon Mertz of Elkins Park, Pa., has 

a new job since his company was purchased 

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by Electric Storage Battery Co., and he's 

called Northeast Atlantic region manager. 

His three children, David '43, Beatrice, and 

Constance, are all married and keeping Gordon 

supplied with grandchildren. Gordon's 

been pretty anxious to have the family 

name carried on, but they've all decided to 

say "Nertz to Mertz" and Gordon has to be 

content with his seven granddaughters. 

Francis J. (Blondy) Gates of Norwich 

reports that he has just retired again — says 

he has a farm in the soil bank (racket!). 

Blondy's been busy helping spoil 10 grandchildren, 

but is a candidate for some kind 

of prize or medal for having a daughter, 

son-in-law, and three grandchildren all in 

the Cornell Law School. Don't take a 

chance on suing Blondy for anything; with 

that array of talent he'll win the case with 

or without a trial, hands down! 

We're glad to hear that N'Yawker Irv 

Shustek is back on the job as sales executive 

of the Brook Haven Textile Co., after 

two years of illness. Here's the ultimate 

in retirement: George P. O'Brien of Atlanta, 

Ga., in spite of his recent retirement, 

is in good health and lost 14 pounds around 

the middle in 1961 hoeing the garden and 

hole-ing out on the golf course. George is 

grateful for having a good wife, a good 

home, good church, good doctor, good lawyer, 

good club and a good bank (mighty 

important—especially if there's money in 

it). He's also fortunate to be living in the 

South, although because a little cold snap 

forced him to forego some golf, he started 

thinking about going to Florida for a spell. 

Let us say that after 65 inches of snow in 

the Midwest, we could think of nothing 

else! Lately we've been getting 88 degrees, 

with humidity yet, and find it "very warm 

for May." 

Be that as it may, the open season is 

here for tennis, golf, bird watching, alumni 

trustee voting and Cornell Fund gifting. 

The last is most important—so put it first 

on your list! 

'21 

Men: Charles M. Stotz 

502 Bessemer Bldg. 

Pittsburgh 22, Pa. 

The Class of 1921 held their annual dinner 

at the Cornell Club in New York on 

April 10 with 30 attending. It was decided 

to hold an annual meeting each year in 

New York on the second Tuesday of April. 

Mark your 1963 calendar. There was discussion 

of establishing a class fund for some 

such memorial as a project for Cornell 

Plantations or the maintenance of the 

Alumni Barn, in the acquisition of which 

the Class of 1921 took the initiative. If 

any member of the class has other ideas, 

send them along to Al Treman,, our secretary. 

It is interesting to note that '21 has 800 

men on the university list, of whom about 

500 are active and about 300 pay annual 

dues. 

C. Chandler Ross of 710 Wolcott Dr., 

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 18, Pa., says 

that his retirement has worked out very 

well. He spends fall, winter and spring 

working at the Philadelphia Academy of 

Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, assisting 

in the maintenance of the bird collection 

and doing some writing. "Chan" spends his 

summers in the Adirondacks with great delight 

and reports that his general health 

has been better than for many years. 

R. Wolcott Hooker of 563 Park Ave., 

New York, with summer home in Wyoming 

County, N.Y., 

has two sons—Roger 

W., a junior at Princeton, 

and Henry G., a 

junior at Philips 

Academy. Of further 

interest, he joined the 

growing army of retired 

men of our class 

last March, after 40 

years with the Hooker 

Chemical Corp. He gave generously of his 

time to civic movements including the 

Chamber of Commerce, public schools, 

concert organizations, National Conference 

of Christians and Jews, Boy Scouts of 

America. It is said that there is hardly a 

worthy community cause in his neighborhood 

which has not benefited from his services. 

He is chairman of the Adult Education 

Advisory Council to the New York 

State Board of Regents. He remains active 

in various community as well as business 

interests. He says, "I am inclined to regard 

this as a degree of relaxation rather than 

complete retirement from the business 

scene," and hope to have "more time in 

which to do the things that I so much 

enjoy doing of a general community nature." 

Readers of this column will remember 

reference (December 1960 ALUMNI NEWS) 

to Eric Erickson and the movie of his life, 

"The Counterfeit Traitor," then being 

made in Germany with William Holden as 

star. The picture has now been released. 

Eric could not attend the '21 dinner in 

New York, mentioned above, as he was 

then in Washington to see President Kennedy. 

Paramount Studios honored Eric at 

a party on the eve of the premiere of the 

picture portraying his sensational role as 

a spy in World War II. Among others on 

the program, William H. (Bill) Harrison, 

Los Angeles architect, presented a scroll on 

behalf of the local Cornell Club. Paramount 

also sponsored affairs for Ericson in 

San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and 

New York during April. 

We read in a university release that during 

World War II Erickson was president 

of a leading Swedish oil company and had 

business ties in Germany. He was persuaded 

by Laurence Steinhardt, American 

ambassador to the Soviet Union, to embark 

on an amazing espionage mission. The 

Nazis readily accepted him, and travel 

through Germany was made possible by a 

pass issued personally by Heinrich 

Himmler, sinister head of the Gestapo. 

Eric was born in Brooklyn. Following his 

graduation from high school he roamed 

the US, becoming an oil company employe 

and eventually assistant superintendent 

of a refinery in Bayonne, N.J. Desiring additional 

education, he enrolled at Cornell 

in the College of Engineering. Later he 

transferred to Arts and Sciences. World 

War I interrupted his studies, which he later 

resumed and earned his AB. He played 

two years of varsity football as halfback 

and two years of varsity baseball as catcher. 

The picture "The Counterfeit Traitor" 

may be at your neighborhood theater by 

the time you read this. 


'22 

Men: Joseph Motycka 

Folly Farm 

Coventry, Conn. 

On June 9 I expect to be in Ithaca reveling 

with the many others who at that 

time will cast aside business problems and 

other duties for the same purpose. I read 

that I was elected delegate to the Congressional 

Convention from my town, but the 

minute I saw the date, June 9, I resigned. 

The sure reunioner list shows close to 150 

at this writing, but we expect to go over 

that number by June. 

Of particular interest is the 3,000-Mile 

Club which means that the members will 

travel that distance or further to reach Ithaca. 

From California we will have Hank 

Beatty, Ken Boos, Bob Fisher, Nelson Garden, 

Rex Daddisman, and Charles Gulick, 

who will be accompanied by his wife, Olive 

Temple. On the fence but expected are 

Ben Carpenter of Hawaii and Jose Artigas 

of Mexico. Asher McCowan and Ralph 

Wenger will arrive from Florida, Bud 

Ryan from Winnepeg, Canada, and there 

will be representatives from Texas, Missouri, 

Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan 

and other faraway places. 

Inasmuch as this will probably be the 

last column of the current fiscal year, we 

might as well get in these personal notes. 

Tom McFadden is with the law offices of 

Donovan, Leisure, Newton, & Irvine, 2 

Wall St., New York. Junius Cook is a law 

partner of Marzall, Johnston, Cook & Root, 

Chicago. Ben Morris is with General Electric 

in Rochester. John Then is associate 

professor of physics at the University of Detroit. 

Bill Williams is manager of the chemical 

division and vice president of FMC 

Corp., Darien, Conn. Bob Janeway is president 

of Janeway Engineering, Detroit. 

For 40 years Eddie Brown has been with 

the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia. 

A. Blair Platt is in the wholesale electrical 

business in Scranton, Pa. Jules Havelin is 

with the Philadelphia Electrical Co. Ben 

Webb is district manager of Combustion 

Engineering in Philadelphia. Bob Wasson, 

president of Clarage Fan, Kalamazoo, 

Mich., has been with the firm 40 years. 

George Goldowitz is vice president of 

Austin & Merritt, insurance, Port Chester. 

Guy Gundaker is with B. F. Goodrich in 

Akron, Ohio. In Buffalo, Irving Yellen is a 

physician and Maurice Yellen an attorney. 

Tom McManus works for Uncle Sam in 

AID (Agency for International Development). 

Harold Woodward is a partner in the 

consulting firm of Seelye, Stevenson, Value 

& Knecht in New York. Irving Sherman is 

vice chairman of A. G. Becker & Co. in 

New York. Lewis Gray is college adviser 

at Flushing High School and assistant examiner 

for the board of education, HYC, 

and supervisor of College Boards in Flushing. 

E. C. (Bud) Ryan runs the Ryan 

Agency, Ltd., insurance, Winnepeg, Canada. 

The following are recent retirees: Felix 

Peckham from the Office of the Chief of 

Engineers, US Army, after 32 years; A. 

Stanley Duncan as chief plant engineer for 

the Stanley Works in New Britain, Conn.; 

Ralph Wenger, now living in Light House 

Point, Fla.; Harry Horton in St. Petersburg, 

Fla.; Eddy Hoff after 40 years with 

the New York State Electric & Gas Corp.; 

June 1962 

The Krantz Award 

A SMALL GROUP assembled April 19 in 

Phillips Hall for the first presentation of 

the William W. Krantz ['60] Award, 

given by his electrical engineering classmates. 

The award will be given annually 

to a fifth-year electrical engineering student. 

A tribute to Krantz was written by 

Prof. Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26, 

the Goldwin Smith professor of English 

history, and published in the November 

15, 1960, ALUMNI NEWS under the heading, 

"A Faculty Member Cares." The 

tribute dealt with the student's promising 

college career, which ended with his 

death late in the fourth year of his study 

in the EE school. 

The winner of the first Krantz Award 

is Glenn C. Hudson '61 of Middletown. 

He was given a shingle, and his name was 

inscribed on a plaque which hangs in the 

Phillips Hall lounge. The plaque reads: 

"To the memory of William Wayne 

Krantz, a student in Electrical Engineering 

who died August 6, 1960, the Class 

of 1961 establishes this award to be presented 

annually to a fifth-year engineer 

who exemplifies the perseverance, ambition, 

and courage of our classmate." 

Earl Prentiss from the US Department of 

Agriculture, and now running a nursery 

and garden supply business in Hammondsport. 

'23 

Men: John /. Cole 

110 Mountain Grove St. 

Bridgeport 5, Conn. 

Richard (Dick) Stevens has been with 

Republic Steel Corp. for 26 years, 12 of 

them in the South, as general superintendent 

of southern coke plants. He is the third 

generation of his family in the steel business, 

but laments that his son broke the 

string by going to work for IBM. John P. 

(Jack) Gary is still living in Wichita, Kan., 

but retired as vice president and general 

manager of Beech Aircraft Corp. in 1960. 

Since then, he has been working in wildcatting 

oil operations, and growing deciduous 

fruits in California. I have not learned 

yet what he does in his spare time. 

John Nesbitt and Boh Brannan vacationed 

together for a couple of weeks in 

Florida this spring. Information on their 

escapades is still sketchy, but the sheriff 

of Brevard County has asked me for their 

addresses. He has a few warrants for such 

things as disturbing the peace, whistling at 

young girls, and using profane language on 

golf courses. I denied any knowledge or 

acquaintance of either of the culprits. Bob 

retired as vice president of Inland Steel 

Container Co. on May 1 and will now devote 

his full time to serving as president 

of the Portersville Stainless Equipment 

Corp., which makes those big stainless 

steel trailers that carry milk over the highways. 

Bob doesn't drive milk wagons, he 

sells them. 

It is with deep sorrow that I report the 

death of Joseph W. Spencer on Feb. 16, 

1962, at Harbour Island, Bahamas. Your 

correspondent was a close friend of Spence 

while we were at Ithaca, and I always rated 

him away up on my totem pole. It is hard 

to write words like these. 

George L. Lee is doing some random 

traveling these days. He recently touched 

down in Canada, Jamaica, Miami Beach, 

New York City, and London. Remainder 

of itinerary unreported. 

Dave Jacobson now has a daughter, 

Marilyn Bette, in her first year in the Arts 

college. Dave will probably bε seen around 

Ithaca a bit oftener than in recent years. 

Marvin A. (Mac) Clark of Freehold, N.J., 

is a man of few words. He reports "Same 

place, same job, same wife." 

Another recruit for the rocking chair 

brigade is Philip C. Wakeley, now with the 

Southern Forest Experiment Station, US 

Forest Service, who is due to retire in the 

fall of 1964. He and his wife (Alice Carlson) 

have given a neat twist to the retirement 

idea by purchasing her family home 

on the Ithaca-Danby town line, which will 

give them 27 acres on which to continue 

forest research, and entertain their roving 

grandchildren. 

Stephen T. Stanton has been chief school 

administrator at Mexico (N.Y.) Academy 

and Central School for the past 16 years. 

He is also active in the New York State 

Assn. of Chief School Administrators. 

More important, he and his wife are already 

planning to be at our 40th Reunion 

in 1963. 

Phillips B. (Phil) Nichols has been taking 

it easy since 1959. Boy, pull up another 

rocking chair. He and his wife (Jo Sniffen 

'21) now have an arduous schedule of six 

months a year at their home in White 

Plains, and six months at their summer 

home on Governors Island, Lake Winnepesaukee, 

N.H. He reports the usual accumulation 

of old-age complications, with 

nothing more serious than grandchildren, 

dentures, and a receding hair line. 

Milton Weiss, one of our more eminent 

barristers, is proud to report that his son 

Roger has just completed his first term at 

Cornell Law School. It won't be long before 

the shingle will read "Weiss & Weiss." 

Willis Wing, whom we have mentioned 

frequently as being an author's agent in 

New York, reports completion of a new 

house in Falls Village, Conn. It will apparently 

be occupied only on long weekends, 

so that Willis can spend the remainder 

of the week catering to his clientele of 

American and British authors. 

Women—Plans will soon be getting 

under way for our 40th Reunion 

only one short year hence. 

Our Reunion chairman is Gertrude 

Mathewson Nolin (Mrs. Albert R.) of 32 

Academy St., Skaneateles. Class president 

is Kay Slater Wyckoff (Mrs. William O.) 

who lives in Williamstown, Mass., at 16 

Baxter Rd. They would welcome Reunion 

suggestions from class members. ALUMNI 

NEWS Representative Mary Snyder Foscue 

is eager to receive News-worthy items. Her 

address is 7 Knolls Lane, Manhasset. Do 

let us hear from you. —MARY FOSCUE 

'24 

Men: Silas W. Pickering II 

1111 Park Avenue 


Charles W. Skeele sends word from De 

Ruyter that he and his wife (Iva Soring- 

37

stead '25) traveled extensively in Europe 

last summer. They boarded a Volkswagen 

and penetrated unfrequented sections of 12 

countries. 

Robert Volkening of Summit, N.J., reports 

an important change. He says, "After 

considerable deliberation with myself, I 

have resigned from the New York Stock 

Exchange firm of Burton, Dana & Co., 

where I had been a partner for some 18 

years, associated with 'Sunny' Sundstrom 

and Ben Burton '21." His new business 

connection is at the Short Hills, N.J., office 

of Hayden, Stone & Co., Inc., from which 

he handles security investment accounts. 

Occasionally one encounters a man 

smart enough to have been guided by La 

Rochefoucauld's maxim that "When a 

man finds no peace within himself it is 

useless to seek it elsewhere." Morris W. 

Goldsmith is one. Listen to his pleasant 

report, from which I quote in part: "All 

four members of the Goldsmith family are 

well, happy and busy. Wife Leah, after 

all these years of tribulation, still provides 

me with a wonderful home and companionship." 

As a matter of mere reportorial interest, 

Morris's daughter is studying music 

at Syracuse University, son Bob is in Germany 

at the University of Gottingen, and 

Morris himself is a professor of physics at 

the State University College in Oswego. 

He recently received an invitation to go to 

Indonesia for two years on an educational 

assignment which "after three days of soul 

searching" he regretfully declined. 

Norton Stone has crossed the Rubicon of 

vocational life and has retired. He left the 

coal business and moved from West Virginia 

back to his old home place in 

Roanoke. His son Alvah is going to VPI 

and making the dean's list regularly. 

The Bell Telephone Laboratories have 

elevated Howard K. Onstott of Short Hills, 

N.J., to the position of vice president and 

general manager. Howard is a member of 

the Cornell Council. Also a member of the 

Council is Victor O. Wehle, a professor of 

law at Stetson University, the oldest law 

college in Florida. 

With understandable pride Cecil A. 

Daley writes that his son Peter '63, a chemical 

engineering student, rowed on the JV 

lightweight crew in the spring of 1961. 

F. W. Waterman continues to " 'ammer, 

'ammer on the 'ard 'ighwye." He has just 

started a new firm, The Comstock Co., 

designed to conduct basic research in powdered 

metal. Send your metallic dust problems 

to Fritz in Higganum, Conn. 

'25 

Men: D. Harvey Krouse 

Alumni Office, Day Hall 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

Most of you have known of the setback 

sustained last December by Herbert H. 

Williams, director of admissions, as a result 

of a coronary. Herb came through with 

his usual fighting spirit and returned home 

in early February. Since then he has been 

a hard man to keep down! He was all for 

coming back to the office weeks ago, but 

did not get permission from his doctor until 

May, when he began working a few hours 

each day. 

Joseph H. Wells of the US Steel Corp. 

has been appointed chairman for 1962 of 

the American Chemical Society's division 

of fuel chemistry. Joe is chief research engineer 

in coal chemicals at the corporation's 

applied research laboratories at Monroeville, 

Pa. After receiving his PhD in 

chemical engineering in 1929 from Cornell, 

Joe joined US Steel and has been with 

the company ever since in the coal and 

fuel research field. 

Being a late comer as class correspondent 

(and lamentably a sporadic one) provides 

some interesting revelations about classmates. 

Little did your correspondent know 

that included in our ranks is one of the 

world's recognized philatelists, Henry M. 

Goodkind. Here are some of his credentials: 

Editor of the Aero Philatelists News and 

Aero Philatelists Annuals since these publications 

were introduced; member of the 

board of governors of the Collector's Club; 

secretary of the export committee of the 

Philatelic Foundation; judge of many international 

exhibits including the recent 

Curiosa Exhibition in The Hague; and recently 

the first recipient of the Richard 

S. Bohn Memorial Award for distinguished 

services to aerophilately. 

Our capable assemblyman from Tompkins 

County, Ray S. Ashberry, who has so 

earnestly and effectively concerned himself 

with the interests of the university and 

the surrounding municipalities, does not 

intend to seek reelection. In announcing 

this decision to his colleagues after 14 years 

in the House, Ray said, "Mrs. Ashberry 

and our family are at long last going to 

have their way." 

Ralph A. Tudor (picture), of Tudor Engineering 

Co. of San Francisco, has had 

an enviable career. 

A brochure of his 

company provides us 

with some of the highlights. 

After a trick 

with the Army Engineers 

in the '20s, 

Ralph was chief design 

engineer on the 

San Francisco-Oakland 

Bay Bridge project 

and, on completion, in charge of its 

operation and management. After important 

engineering assignments with the 

Army Engineers during World War II, he 

formed the firm that bears his name. In 

1953-54 Ralph was Undersecretary of Interior. 

'26 

Men: Hunt Bradley 

Alumni Office, Day Hall 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

A most enjoyable evening with Samuel 

H. Shriver (picture) and his wife, Eleanor, 

in their attractive 

New York apartment 

at 19E, 165 E. 72d 

St., presented the opportunity 

for your 

correspondent to 

brighten this month's 

column with Sam's 

excellent photo. As 

reported previously, 

Sam is president of 

the insurance firm of Alexander & Alexander, 

Inc. He is on the board of directors 

of the Equitable Trust Co. of Maryland, 

the Baltimore Mortgage Co., the Somerset 

Canning Corp., and Advisers, Inc., an 

investment trust affiliated with classmate 

Harry Wade's Standard Life Insurance Co. 

of Indiana. Sam and Eleanor spend weekends 

at their Eastern Shore home, "Hinchingham," 

at Rock Hall, Md. The old 

part of the home dates back to 1659 and 

the newer addition to 1774. According to 

Sam it is located on Chesapeake Bay "in 

the land of pleasant living." 

Another honor recently bestowed upon 

our secretary, Schuy Tarbell, was his election 

in April as chairman of Group VI of 

the Savings Banks Assn. of the State of 

New York. As reported earlier in the year, 

Schuy has become president of the Queens 

County Savings Bank. 

J. Hearst Coleman, consulting engineer 

at 110 Riley St., Greenwood, S. C., via a 

letter to Del Vincent advises that he recently 

retired from about half of his work 

but still finds he has plenty to keep him 

busy. On April 1, he retired as chief engineer 

of Abney Mills, a chain of 17 cotton 

mills. He is still on the board of directors 

and is retained as a consultant. Jim says, 

"The boll weevil and lazy help have about 

closed me down as a small cotton planter 

and about all I raise now is some good timber." 

It was good to have Morris Goldstein 

in town the first two weeks of May on his 

annual pilgrimage to the campus to sit 

in on classes and renew old friendships 

with the faculty. Morris thoroughly enjoys 

this unique continuing educational experience 

in the spring's entrancing beauty of 

the Ithaca scene. 

A nice note from Bill Merritt advises 

that he is working on a building project 

with a Borden Co. plant known as the 

Hendler Creamery in Baltimore. Bill has 

seen Hank Burrell, and reports that Frank 

Affeld attended the Merritts' daughter's 

wedding in Dayton where Bill lived prior 

to taking his present job. Bill's permanent 

home address is 1105 New Jersey Ave., 

West Chester, Pa. 

At the annual banquet of the Cornell 

Club of Buffalo, it was a lot of fun catching 

up with Jack Trefts. Jack is executive vice 

president of The Bank of Buffalo and his 

residence address is East Quaker Rd., Orchard 

Park. He reports that he sees Norm 

McLain every so often. 

^ £\ M Men: Don Hershey 

/ 5 Landing Rd.,S. 

^ 4 Rochester 10, N.Y. 

Sylvester McKelvy^ a faithful '27er, will 

miss his first Reunion this June. He states 

his wheel chair can't travel that far. His 

new home is designed to accommodate free 

wheeling. You will recall Syl ran some 

great races for Cornell with a stout heart. 

We salute you, Syl, for your fine courage 

and loyalty to Cornell. We'll miss your 

graciousness and good story telling. Write 

him at 90 Northfield Ave., Apt. 26A, West 

Orange, N.J. Poe Fratt also regrets missing 

the 35th. He has the big assignment of 

keeping the lights burning at Seattle's 

World's Fair. 

Carl Swanson comments, "The ALUMNI 

NEWS has improved, perhaps by your sponsorship." 

Harrison Bloomer writes, "Congratulations 

on greatly improved news coverage 

on the '27 class." Thanks, you all. 

Scotty, Norm Davidson, Mitch Mitchell, 

Jess Van Law and his secretary Eunice deserve 

much credit too. Ernest Zentgraf 

states, "I think the idea of the CORNELL 


ALUMNI NEWS was a good one. I'm enjoying 

it more than I expected." Bill Cressman 

also commends Van Law for the fine 

job he has done. 

We're all happy to learn that Charlie 

Schaaff is the new president of Massachusetts 

Mutual Life Ins. Co., the ninth largest 

life insurance company in the nation. Tom 

Deveau steps up to vice president-Midwest 

division manager, Sheraton Corp. of America. 

His new address is at the Sheraton Chicago 

Hotel, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 

111. 

Harry Weiss, vice president, Helmsley- 

Spear, Inc., real estate and management 

company, was in the air with Colonel Glenn 

the day of his famous orbital flight. Harry, 

however, was flying to and from Cornell 

on his first teaching assignment in the Hotel 

School. Harry said, "I don't know who 

was more tired — the Colonel or myself." 

He enjoyed meandering about the campus. 

His son Richard will enter Cornell in September. 

The response to the '27 dues program 

has been great. The following faithfuls have 

joined up: 

J. Achenbach, E. Andrews, J. Arnold, B. 

Aronson, H. Archer, J. Ayers, G. Bennett, 

F. Behlers, F. Bivins, M. Bartels, L. Block, 

H. Bloomer, F. Brotherhood, P. Blume, G. 

Bowman, E. Bradley, Bob Brown, Ben Brown, 

Vic Butterfield, S. Berkeley, W. Berry, F. 

Bethell, C. Boasberg, W. Brooks, W. Butts, 

G. Bruun, M. Bassevitch, H. Beaty, T. Blake, 

L. Blanding, F. Boesche, Art Bruckert, Sam 

Bullard. 

Also G. Cohen, E. Callahan, W. Cassebaum, 

A. Gowan, A. Craig, E. Collins, S. 

Crawford, W. Cressman, V. Cioffari, H. Colton, 

G. Gonley, F. Coville, W. Crawbuck, 

Dan Dalrymple, F. Dieffenbach, G. Dederick, 

O. Doering Jr., T. Deveau, W. Diemer, F. 

Drew II, W. Dunn, Norm Davidson, R. 

Eaton, G. Eberhart, M. Eichorn, T. Erskine, 

W. Effron, H. Eulenstein, J. Fair Jr., H. 

Feinen, D. Flanagan, N. Fratt, S. Ferguson, 

R. Falconer, L. Ferguson, Art Geiger, T. 

Gellert, P. Gurney, H. Germond III, H, Gilbert, 

K. Greene, H. Goldstone, J. Greenbaum, 

Gene Goodwillie. 

Also J. Hand, M. Hedges, L, Hoag, D. 

Huntington, D. Hershey, W. Hendrickson, 

H. Hirst III, C. Hakewessell, L. Holcombe, 

Phil Hoyt, W. Jennings, R. Jarvis, A. Jacobson, 

W. Joyce Jr., D. Kessler, R. Koch, C. 

Kades, M. Korn, C. Kingston, A. Kinsey, S. 

Koff, Dr. N. Kwit, G. Kirk, G. Larwood, G. 

Levenson, L. Leick, A. Lewis, W. Lanterman, 

T. LaMont, F. Leone, P. Lyon, Gil Lamb, 

L. Landauer, I. Levy, M. Levy, J. Lewis Jr., 

W. Lewis. 

Also Mitch Mitchell, Stan Maas, G. Mann, 

J. Martinez, A. Morse, E. McCrohan Jr., S. 

Miller, R. Mollenberg, W. Malone, A. Mc- 

Hugh, R. Morse, G. Murdock, J. Morrison, 

H. Moore, G. Munschauer, Ralph Munns, 

R. Masters, A. Meaker, Syl McKelvy, Walt 

Nield, S, Nathan, L Needleman, Stan Noble, 

W. November, W. Ogden, Nat O wings, F. 

Parker Jr., H. Parker, W. Pashley, A. Pearson, 

J. Pollack, W. Price, Dr. L. Perm, H. 

Palestine, A. Petermann, W. Pietz, R. Pierotti, 

J. Pittenger. 

Also T. Reimers, Herm Redden, S. Rosenzweig, 

J. Rogers, B. Reed, W. Reynolds, E. 

Rhodes, L. Robbins, E. Roehl, A. Roth, 

Mike Rapuano, Norm Scott, Charlie Schaaff 

II, R. Seward, L. Seaman, T. Swart, Lee 

Schaenen, A. Shaw, Red Shaw, F. Shepard, 

H. Singer, H. Soloway, G. Spindler, C. Swanson, 

J. Snyder, M. Stark, A. Steinkamp, M. 

Sweetgall, N. Sanders, E. Schimmel, S. 

Schneider, J. Singer, Andy Schroder II, L, 

Telsey, G. Trefts, Joe Thomas, R. Thomas, 

June 1962 

On to S. A. 

THE student production, "How to Grow 

a Musical," has been given a tentative 

flight plan for its South American tour 

this summer. Alumni in South America 

who may wish to take in the show are 

advised to get in touch with US embassies 

for more specific details. The arrival 

dates are listed as accurately as they were 

known in mid-May. The date in Brazil 

is most likely to be changed, and others 

may be, too. 

Arrival dates: JUNE—15, Kingston; 

19, Port au Prince; 24, Guatemala; 26, 

Salvador; 29, San Jose; JULY—2, Caracas; 

5, Belem. AUGUST—13, Caracas. 

E. Tonkonogy, F. Townsend, G. Townsend, 

I. Taylor, E. Trimble Jr., Art Trayford, H. 

Tunick. 

Also Jess Van Law, P. Van Blarcom, A. 

Van Schoick, W. Waters, D. Weed, R. Weίchsel, 

H. Weiss, Dr. W. Walls, Chuck Werly, 

S. Warren, W. Warren, R. Wilder, G. Wing, 

E. Wilson, K. Wallace, Dr. W. Wenzel, J. 

Wright, Dill Walsh, J. Young, G. Vannoy, 

H. Yoder, H. Younglove, E. Zentgraf, R. 

Zautner, Russ Vollmer, G. Zuckerman, and 

Bob Wood. 

Thanks for the nice memos; they'll be 

in coming issues. Now we'll only add that 

Dr. Art Geiger writes, "Just back from two 

months in Mexico where we saw lots of 

Juan Martinez Tejeda and his delightful 

family." 

'28 

Men: H. Victor Grohmann 

30 Rockefeller Plaza 


Jerome Nathanson (picture) is with the 

Society for Ethical Culture, a group of religious 

and educational 

fellowship organizations 

with headquarters 

at 2 W. 64th 

St., New York City. 

Officially, he's chairman 

of the Fraternity 

of Leaders, American 

Ethical Union, and a 

member of the Board 

of Leaders of the 

New York Society for Ethical Culture. He 

is also chairman of the editorial board of 

the Ethical Outlook, a board member of 

the American League to Abolish Capital 

Punishment, a member of the Clergymen's 

Advisory Committee of Planned Parenthood, 

and a member of the American Assn. 

of Arbitrators among other organizations. 

He is a contributor to Look, American 

Scholar, New Republic, the Journal of 

Philosophy, and numerous other periodicals; 

he is also the author of Forerunners of Freedom; 

John Dewey: The Reconstruction of 

the Democratic Life. For relaxation Jerry 

plays golf, bridge, and chess. The Nathansons 

have one son and live at 15 W. 81st 

St. in New York. 

A. Ranney Galusha is with the New Jersey 

Bell Telephone Co., doing building 

planning and economic studies for communications. 

He also is a visual education 

counsellor for schools and churches in his 

spare time. The Galushas have seven children 

and two grandchildren. Their permanent 

address is 83 Beverly Rd., Caldwell, 

N.J., but they also have a 170-acre dairy 

farm in Shaftsbury, Vt., where they're in 

the process of remodeling the old homestead, 

built in 1783 by Governor Jonas 

Galusha. Ranney, it seems as if your spare 

time activities could be very full time. 

Dan Duryea, our movie star classmate, 

writes that he just finished his 50th picture, 

"Six Black Horses," co-starring Audie 

Murphy. He's also starred in more than 

50 episodes of the television series "China 

Smith," and has been guest star on many 

other TV programs. Between movie and 

television commitments, Dan finds time for 

boat repair and building and sailboat racing 

at Lake Arrowhead. The Duryeas have two 

sons — Peter, who graduates from Amherst 

this June, and hopes to be an actor, and 

Dick, who just completed his sophomore 

year at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, 

Ore. Home address for the Duryeas 

is at 7621 Mulholland Dr., Hollywood, 

Calif. 

Gilbert H. Wehmann is a general partner 

in the investment banking firm of White, 

Weld & Co. at 20 Broad St., New York 

City. He's a member of the Society of 

Colonial Wars, the St. Nicholas Society 

and many social clubs, including the Cornell 

Club of New York, the Bond Club 

and the Wall Street Club. The Wehmanns 

have one son, G. Davis '54, and live at 325 

E. 72d St., New York City. 

S. Belmont Segar graduated from the 

School of Architecture and is now with 

the F. W. Woolworth Co. at 233 Broadway, 

New York. He was a lieutenant commander 

in the Navy during World War II 

but now confines his naval interests to 

building model ships. The Segars live at 

90 Oakview Ter., Short Hills, NJ. Arthur 

L. Brody is president of Pioneer Exterminating 

Co., Inc., 200 W. 24th St., New 

York City. He joined the company in 1940 

after several years with the Bureau of Entomology. 

Art and his wife (Madaline Kahn 

'33) have two children — Paul, a graduate 

of Hobart, and Susan, who will be a junior 

at Douglass next year. The Brodys' home 

address is 577 Sunderland Rd., West Englewood, 

N.J. 

Manson Benedict is head of the nuclear 

engineering department at MIT and chairman 

of the general advisory committee of 

the Atomic Energy Commission, a director 

of National Research Corp., and vice president 

of the American Nuclear Society. He 

says all these activities don't leave much 

time for golf which he and his wife enjoy. 

The Benedicts have two married daughters 

and one grandson. Their home address is 

25 Byron Rd., Weston 93, Mass. 

I'll be in Ithaca during Reunion weekend. 

Hope to see some of you then. 

Men: Zac Freedman 

233 E. 32d St. 

'29 New York 16, N.Y. 

At the annual class dinner, April 12, at 

the Cornell Club of New York, a milestone 

was passed: everyone sat still long enough 

to record the event photographically (see 

picture on the next page). Seated are, left 

to right, Hank Pfisterer, Bill Dierdorf, Hal 

Greenberg, Bob Lyon, Howie Hall, Dane 

Lewis, Dick Flesch, and Carl Goldmark; 

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standing, Edgar Doty, Herb Marples, Mike 

Bender, Zac Freedman, Harry Sverdlik, 

Bill Hoffman, Fred Mack, Wally Hunt, 

and Ted Ohart. Jerry Loewenberg arrived 

after the picture was taken. 

Before the business meeting, at which all 

class officers were reelected, Dinner Chairman 

Mike Bender allotted each classmate 

three minutes to tell about himself, his 

daily chores, and his family. Understandably, 

reports of offspring predominated, and 

the '29er Grandpop Club proved to be 

growing bigger and bigger. 

Our hard-working acting treasurer, Ed 

Whiting, sends the good news from his 

Willard Straight headquarters that we now 

have 222 dues-paying members and that 

the financial success of the campaign is assured. 

Ed points out that it will be unnecessary 

to call on the underwriters for 

any assistance. On behalf of all 3 29ers, the 

column thanks the underwriters for standing 

by and offers a deep bow to Ed for a 

magnificent job. By the way, at the annual 

conference of the Assn. of College Unions, 

Ed, who has been the organization's secretary-treasurer 

since 1941, was reelected for 

1962-63. 

At Bell Laboratories, Warren H. Tidd has 

responsibility for the transmission and radio 

aspects of the 

BMEWS Rearward 

Communications System, 

and for systems 

engineering for extensions 

of the DEW 

Line in the Aleutians 

and across Green- {JJJ 

land. Tidd became jjj 

associated with the 

systems planning the 

DEW Line in 1953, beginning with the trial 

installation. In 1955, he was responsible 

for the basic systems engineering for the 

White Alice Communications System in 

Alaska. Following graduation, he joined 

the development and research department 

of AT&T, which merged with Bell Laboratories 

in 1934. During the war, he was 

engaged in the development of radio countermeasures 

equipment for the Signal 

Corps. He and his wife (Frances Pattison), 

who were married in 1942, and their two 

sons, Bob, 15, and John, 14, live at 365 

White Oak Ridge Rd, Short Hills, N.J. 

In the summer of 1962, the family spent 

their vacation in Germany, France, and 

Switzerland, living in a Volkswagen Camper 

and cooking out. 

Milton T. Bush, professor of pharmacology 

at Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, 

Term., writes that he is also coach 

of the university's tennis team. Frank K. 

Beyer of 20 Chapel Rd., Orono, Me., is 

happily teaching at the University of 

Maine. 

Jury duty kept Jack Moreton of Solebury 

Rd., New Hope, Pa., from our class 

dinner. A conflict prevented attendance by 

Dan Stines, 1230 Sixth Ave., New York 

City. 

Lee S. Davis writes that he has retired 

to the great Northwest, where his address 

is Box 2082, College Place, Wash. To answer 

inquiries, we offer two addresses: 

Frank Hendryx, c/o Ministry of Petroleum 

and Mining, PO Box 247, Riyadh, Saudi- 

Arabia; Obie J. Smith Jr., Rt. 2, Box 989, 

Hillsboro Beach, Pompano Beach, Fla. 

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The Men of '29 gather for dinner April 12 in New York. (See the '29 column for details.) 

George F. Petruska is now at RD 1, Averill 

Park; Clyde Reynolds at 20 E. 66th St., 

New York City; and Ivan A. Kazine at 

7351 Olentangy River Rd., Worthington, 

Ohio. 

Howard J. Jaffee, 170 E. 78th St., New 

York City, is in Turkey with a University 

of Pennsylvania expedition. Bill Colio, 

3500 Grays Ferry Rd., Philadelphia, Pa., 

recently spent six weeks in Europe on a 

technical assignment. 

Arch P. Smith sends along the good news 

that he is executive vice president of Ducilo 

SAIC (Du Pont's Argentine subsidiary), 

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Roland K. 

Blakeslee, 145 Westford Cir., Springfield, 

Mass., has just completed 25 years' service 

with American Bosch division, American 

Bosch Arma Corp. as design supervisor of 

the Springfield engineering department. 

R. K. has two sons. We wonder how his 

grand tenor voice is these days. 

Ellis R. Hurd Jr., 6221 Northwood Ave., 

St. Louis, Mo., wrote from Florida, where 

he was recuperating in the sunshine. 

We have had a few inquiries about Sidney 

Beck. No address is on file for the exfootball 

stalwart, or for Jesse Wallach, 

either. Any clues? 

'30 

Men: Arthur P. Hibbard 

Rίverbank Rd. 

Stamford, Conn. 

The daughter of Dr. Benjamin Markowitz, 

89 Delaware Ave., Albany 2, Doris 

Ruth Markowitz '61, now is a first year 

student at Albany Medical College. She was 

married in August 1961 to Alfred R. 

Frankel of Hollywood, Fla., a second year 

medical student at Albany. Ben's son, Alan 

Harvey, has been a freshman at the University 

of Rochester. 

Willard B. VanderVoort Jr., 26 Lenox 

PL, Middletown, became a partner in the 

firm of Watts, Oakes & VanderVoort, attorneys 

in Middletown, in 1941. He and 

his wife, the former Alice M. Schrade, have 

two sons and a daughter. Their first son, 

Peter, is now a sophomore in chemical engineering. 

Willard is serving his second 

term on the New York State Bar Assn. He 

is a member of the Beaverkill Trout Club 

and is an ardent trout and salmon fisherman. 

Francis J. Cramer, 71 Little Creek Cir., 

Rochester 16, has just been elected president 

of the Northwest Rochester Kiwanis 

Club. William D. Bleier Jr., 210 W. 70 St., 

New York 23, is running a duplicate bridge 

club at the Minerva Social Club, in the 

Hotel Sherman Square, 70th St. and Amsterdam 

Ave. 

Milton Drexler, c/o USOM, Bogota, 

Colombia, writes that he volunteered once 

too often and suddenly found himself in 

Bogota as housing adviser for the Point IV 

Program. His wife and daughter are with 

him. Milton says that he now loves the assignment 

— the country is beautiful, the 

people hospitable, capable, and friendly. 

His son is Anthony '63 at Cornell. 

As noted in this column last month, the 

class had a successful annual dinner at the 

Cornell Club of New York on Thursday, 

March 22. The group photograph (see opposite 

page) shows, seated, left to right, 

Ike Aigeltinger, Al Berg, Joe Wortman, 

Coach Bob Cullen, Bob Bliss, Doc Payne, 

Art Hibbard, and Casey Castleman. Standing, 

left to right, are Lan Harwood, Al Merrick, 

Abe Stockman, Sid Lewis, Rus Wilson, 

Charlie Rink, Bill Bleier, Hymen Knopf, 

Al Erda, Cornell Remsen, Bill Opper, 

Wally Phelps, Len Bernstein, Sam Goldwasser, 

and Walt Bacon. Les Blummer attended 

but was not present when the picture 

was taken. 

This lineup includes all the class officers 

with the exception of George Failla, who 

was unable to attend because of his health, 

and about one-third of the class council. 

Doc Payne, who came down from Ithaca, 

gave the secretary's report and outlined 

our progress on the ALUMNI NEWS subscription 

plan. Treasurer Wortman reported 

that we are making progress financially. 

Aigeltinger, who came up from Miami 

especially for the dinner, received an 

extra drink for traveling the longest distance. 

Bob Bliss, who presided, introduced Robert 

L. Cullen, coach of lacrosse and of the 

150-lb. football team. The coach gave a 

most interesting off-the-record talk and 

kindly answered many questions from the 

floor. Then the class unanimously elected 

him an honorary member. 

The event proved so successful that it was 

decided to hold a meeting annually henceforth. 

Jack Hunter, 4837 16th St., N. Arlington, 

Va., probably gets a medal for having 

the most children in school and in college 

at the same time. His son William G. is 

working for his PhD at the University of 

Wisconsin, Robert B. is a senior at the University 

of Virginia, and daughter Katherine 

is a senior at Mary Washington College. 

Jack also has a daughter, Claire, in 

high school, and a son, J. Brian, in first 


grade. Jack writes that he has been in 

touch with Ken Trousdell (address Box 37, 

RD 2, Franklin, Va.), who is now a grandfather. 

He also reports that Harold Bates, 

Box 146, Englewood, N.J., is a very competent 

forestry consultant. 

Deane W. Merrill, 317 W. Ridgewood 

Rd., South Orange, N. J., is another father 

with a large batch of college children. He 

supports them as an insurance broker. His 

oldest son, Deane W. Jr., has received his 

master's degree from the University of California 

and is continuing his studies there 

for a PhD in nuclear physics under a National 

Science Foundation Fellowship. 

Deane Jr. was also recipient of a four-year 

National Merit Scholarship at Williams 

College from which he graduated in 1960 

summa cum laude. His middle son, 

Charles, made Phi Beta Kappa at Williams, 

from which he will graduate this June. His 

third son, Jonathan, is a junior at Deerfield 

Academy which the other boys also attended. 

'30 BS-HE—Effective July 1, Hazel E. 

Reed has been promoted to professor in 

Home Economics Extension at Cornell 

where she has been an associate professor 

since 1949. 

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Men: Bruce W. Hackstaff 

27 West Neck Rd. 

Huntington, N.Y. 

Several months ago we had a short paragraph 

on the presentation of the 1962 Perkin 

Medal to Eugene George Rochow by 

the American Section of the Society of the 

Chemical Industry. We feel that a copy of 

the biography which appeared in the program 

at the presentation dinner should be 

reprinted here: 

Eugene George Rochow, professor of 

chemistry at Harvard University, is a pioneer 

in silicone chemistry. In his early work, dating 

back to the beginning of research on silicones 

at General Electric, he was the first to prepare 

methyl silicone and the first to recognize its 

possibilities as a unique kind of material. His 

subsequent discovery of a new method for 

making silicones (the Direct Method) led 

to the establishment of a new industry and 

to the synthesis of new polymers of inestimable 

benefit to mankind through their impact 

on industry, medicine, and broad segments 

of the consumer economy. 

As the foremost apostle of inorganic 

chemistry, Professor Rochow divides himself 

between teaching a large introductory course, 

directing research, giving advanced lectures, 

and conducting a seminar program for exceptional 

freshmen. He has published 120 papers 

and five books, one of them (The Chemistry 

of the Silicones) in five languages. He 

received the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Medal 

in 1949, the S. B. Myer Award of the American 

Ceramic Society in 1956, and the Joseph 

J. Mattiello Award in 1958. He was Plenary 

Lecturer to the Sociέtέ de Chimie Industrielle 

at Liege in 1958, US delegate to the 

IUPAC Congress in Munich in 1959, Joseph 

Priestley Lecturer in 1960, and Friend E. 

Clark Lecturer in 1961. In addition to these 

varied activities, Professor Rochow has continued 

his contributions to silicone chemistry 

through his research at Harvard University 

and as a consultant to the Silicone Products 

Department of General Electric. 

We are proud to have Gene as one of 

the class and hasten to congratulate him 

on his latest achievement. 

June 1962 

The Men of '30 gather for dinner March 22 in New York. (See the '30 column for details.) 

Those of you who were at the 30th Reunion 

will remember that one of the clerks 

was the eldest son of classmate Bob Hazlett. 

Name Bob Jr. He had been married for 

some time, graduated in June 1961, and on 

Sept. 17, 1961, became the father of Susan 

Hower. The class gave Bob Jr. $25 for 

services well rendered during the Reunion 

to start a savings account for the first grandchild 

of Bob Sr. That account has been 

opened, we have the receipt, and we have 

a grateful letter of acknowledgment. Our 

best to the entire family and especially to 

Grandpa. 

One of those who did not get back for 

Reunion was Horace G. Berean Jr. Hod 

had been with Diebold for some years and 

had been moved all over the country. The 

last move from New York to Chicago was 

too much, and he decided to join with two 

friends in securing a Diebold Products 

dealership in central Florida. The name is 

Florida Business Systems, and the decision 

on this move came up during Reunion. 

Hod's new address is 1441 Grove Ter., Winter 

Park, Fla. 

We had a short note from James W. 

McCullough Jr. stating that he was back 

in New York after 12 years of overseas duty 

with Mobil International Oil Co. We know 

that he served tours of duty in Turkey and 

in Nigeria, but we suspect that he had others 

on which we were not informed. He is 

living at 215 E. 80th St., New York City. 

There is no promise that he will stay there. 

A short note from James G. Dyett, 67 

Cleveland St., Buffalo 7, says he is still with 

the Hard Manufacturing Co., makers of 

metal hospital beds and furniture. He reports, 

somewhat questioningly, that he has 

four children at home, and one in San 

Francisco. We also run into the question 

of when are children at home. 

John McGowin recently sent us a clipping 

from a Philadelphia paper announcing 

the death of Margaret Baxter McMullin, 

wife of Frank B. McMullin, on April 15. We 

are sure that the entire class joins us in 

extending to Frank our deepest sympathy. 

'32 

Men: Richard H. Sampson 

111 W. Washington St. 

Chicago 2, III. 

> 

From 500 Main St., Chatham, N.J., William 

Sanchez writes: "Congratulations to 

Ed Nichols on his recent marriage but don't 

be too hasty with that 'last bachelor' 

award. Better wait until all the counties 

are heard from. Furthermore, there is his 

claim to the 'last father' title. I believe it is 

much too early in the game to decide that 

one, especially since it concerns those very 

virile '32ers. I think you should wait until 

our 50th Reunion, and even then I wouldn't 

bet any money on it. Best regards, William 

(Non-Benedict) Sanchez. 

Arthur L. Boschen has been named president 

of the Financial Executives Institute, 

which was founded in 1931 as Controllers 

Institute of America. Its name was changed 

on April 30 to reflect financial management's 

growth in status. Boschen, who also 

heads the group's executive committee, is 

vice president-finance of Richardson-Merrell, 

Inc., New York. The Institute is a nonprofit 

management organization of finance 

officers and controllers from all lines of 

business—banking, manufacturing, distribution, 

utilities, transportation, etc. The total 

membership exceeds 5,400. 

Dr. Armand A. Franco, a dentist at 1026 

16th St., NW, Washington, D.C., and 

chairman of the Department of Dental Materials 

& Basic Technology at Georgetown 

University School of Dentistry, has been 

awarded the Vicennial Silver Medal for 

loyal and distinguished service. Dr. Franco's 

home address is 4115 45th St., NW, Washington, 

D.C. 

A. Vaughan Chinnock, as supervisor of 

chemical advertising and sales promotion 

for Hooker Chemical Corp., 666 Fifth Ave., 

New York City, will direct the advertising 

program for the eastern, western, and 

phosphorus divisions. Chinnock has been 

with Hooker for 21 years and in the advertising 

department since 1944. 

Howard Heyl writes that he is a factory 

representative for G. S. Blakeslee & Co., 

1844 S. Laramie Ave., Chicago, 111., manufacturers 

of dishwashing machines, potato 

and vegetable peelers, mixers and other 

lines of commercial kitchen and restaurant 

equipment. Heyl says he is "somewhat" 

known as a food service equipment layout 

engineer. His present address at home is 

149 Montecito Ave., Oakland 10, Calif. 

James S. Goff is chief of the engineering 

division at Veterans Administration Hospital, 

Hines, 111., near Chicago. His son 

James A. is a junior at the University of 

Illinois in civil engineering and doing well. 

Son George, a senior at Proviso East 

High School, was an All-American in backstroke 

swimming in high school last year. 

Goff hopes to return for Reunion with his 

wife. 

Capt. H. Leonard Jones Jr., Medical 

Corps, US Navy, is currently Chief of Medicine 

at US Naval Hospital in Philadelphia. 

He has a son, Kent, 16, and a daughter, 

Janis, 15. He is planning to return to 

Reunion with his wife, Patricia Lee. Also 

planning to return for Reunion are James 

P. Whiskeman and his wife, whose son, 

James P. Ill, a third-generation Cornellian, 

will graduate this month. The family lives 

at 425 Paulette PL, La Canada, Calif. 

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'33 

Men: Robert H. Wainwright 

1314 Sixth Ave. 

Beaver Falls, Pa. 

Your class officers have set annual dues 

of $10 a year, for which all members will 

be solicited by Richard H- Wels, class 

treasurer. The ALUMNI NEWS is now coming 

to all of us through the class and your 

dues help make this possible. Please answer 

Dick Wels's request with a check. Henry 

B. Van Duzer is proprietor of the Beach 

Lumber Co., Inc., of 6051 Estero Blvd., Ft. 

Myers Beach, Fla. William W. Shields is 

vice president of Western Hotels, Inc., with 

offices in the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Wash. 

One of his daughters is married with two 

children and the other is working for her 

master's degree at the University of North 

Carolina. Wendell E. Muntz, 781 Corbett 

Ave., San Francisco, Calif., is supervisor 

of cafeterias for the San Francisco School 

District. Richard H. Pew is manager of the 

Lafayette Hotel in Portland, Maine. 

Hans R. Hochhaum, director of the Delta 

Waterfowl Research Station, Delta, Manitoba, 

Canada, is a leader in his field. William 

R. Geary is head of Geary Associates, 

Inc., consultants for executive personnel, 

330 Park Ave., New York City. Jack Detwiler 

is president of the Central Cable 

Corp., Jersey Shore, Pa. As Reunion chairman, 

he is already planning for our 30th 

Reunion next year. 

Richard D. Vanderwarker (see March 

issue for picture and report of his being 

named vice president of Memorial Sloan- 

Kettering Cancer Center) is active in 

alumni affairs. He is vice president of the 

Alumni Assn. and for the second year chairman 

of its Faculty Forums committee; also 

a member of the Cornell Council and its 

nominating committee. His daughter, Christine, 

is living in Ithaca where her husband, 

Alexander Williams,, is enrolled in the Sloan 

Institute of Hospital Administration in the 

Graduate School of Business and Public 

Administration. 

Helen Booth DeLill 

1778 Slaterville Rd. 

'33Women: 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

We appreciate the following letter from 

Lucille Wallin Baker, wife of Malcolm C., 

Grad '31-34: "I have noticed in the ALUM- 

NI NEWS for February so many of the Class 

of '33 who have children in Cornell's Class 

of '65. While I do not qualify in that list, 

I do have a son, Wayne A. Baker, who is 

a second year student in the Cornell Law 

School. He holds a Teagle Scholarship and 

was graduated from Colgate in '58. Our 

son Neal W. is a pre-med student at Washington 

University, St. Louis, Mo. My husband, 

who attended Cornell Graduate 

School in geology, has recently retired from 

Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., and is president 

of the American Magnetic Reduction, 

Inc., a processing center for Geophysical 

Records, for which I put in some time at 

general odd jobs." The Bakers now live at 

RD 3, West Redding, Conn. 

'33 MS—After 26 years with Arabian 

American Oil Co., Burt Beverly Jr. has retired 

as manager of exploration. For 21 

years he was stationed in Saudi Arabia, 

engaged in exploration. He also has done 

geological exploration in Sumatra, Egypt, 

and Venezuela. Now a consulting geologist 

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with Harry Wassal & Associates of Geneva, 

Switzerland, he is concerned mainly with 

North Africa and the Middle East. His 

home address is Vorholzstrasse 40, Unterseen, 

Switzerland. 

'34 

Men: Thomas B. Haire 

111 Fourth Avenue 


Preston Beyer, 10 Riverside Dr., Wilkes- 

Barre, Pa., has been appointed in charge of 

all manufacturing activities of Andrew Geller, 

Inc., and subsidiaries, women's shoe 

manufacturers. His daughter Barbara, a 

Phi Beta Kappa, graduated from U of P in 

May. 

Ross Guglielmino, 16 State St., Rochester, 

has been elected first president of the 

Eye Bank Assn. of America, a newly founded 

group which will link the nation's several 

hundred independent eye banks to provide 

a nationwide supply of transplantable human 

eyes. He was a founder of the Rochester 

Eye Bank and Research Society, Inc. 

Robert L. Bates, 326 Northridge Rd., 

Columbus, Ohio, was elected president of 

the East-Central section of the National 

Assn. of Geology Teachers. A member of 

Ohio State's geology faculty, Bob has 

taught at the New Mexico School of Mines 

and Rutgers University and also served as 

geologist for the Texas, Pure Oil, and Gulf 

Oil companies. He is the author of a number 

of articles dealing largely with the 

geology and petroleum resources of New 

Mexico and of a book published last year. 

He is also editor of the Journal of Geological 

Education and contributor of a column 

in the Geo-Times. 

Nathaniel H. Goodrich, 4705 Drummond 

Ave., Chevy Chase, Md., has been named 

general counsel of the Federal Aviation 

Agency. He was formerly deputy general 

counsel. For six years before joining the 

FAA Nate was deputy general counsel of 

the Department of Defense, and he was 

the Defense Dept.'s alternate representative 

on the Air Coordinating Committee 

and its representative on the legal subcommittee 

of the ACC, 

A. Chandler Taylor Jr., 487 Wells Rd., 

Wethersfield, Conn., has been elected a director 

at the Hartford Steam Co. and the 

Hartford Steam Service Co., subsidiaries 

of the Hartford Gas Co. that will be supplying 

steam and chilled water for heating 

and cooking Hartford's nationally publicized 

redevelopment project, Constitution 

Plaza. His older daughter graduated from 

Tufts and is teaching kindergarten in 

Greenwich. One son is at University of 

Maine and another at University of 

Conn., while the younger daughter is a 

sophomore in high school. 

Robert J. Belknap, Nairobi, Kenya, East 

Africa, is now managing director of Esso 

Standard (East Africa). This is a New Jersey 

affiliate and the successor company to 

Standard-Vacuum, which Bob had headed 

over the past five years. 

Dr. Lester D. Friedman, 213 Valentine 

Lane, Yonkers, has been appointed chief 

of the department of medicine at Yonkers 

Professional Hospital and also a fellow of 

the American College of Physicians. He has 

four daughters. Milton F. Untermeyer Jr., 

2 Broadway, New York, has joined the 

firm of J. R. Williston & Beane as a general 

partner and a member of the executive 

committee. Milt is also a councilman 

from Ward 1 in the city of Long Branch, 

NJ. 

Oshorne B, (Ozzie) Jones, 33-40 81st St., 

Jackson Heights, went to Paris, Rome, and 

Geneva for his vacation. Ozzie's daughter 

Sally graduates from the Cathedral School 

of St. Mary in Garden City this June, while 

Ozz Jr. is finishing his sophomore year at 

SMU. Albert H. Huntington Jr., 822 Gordon 

Ave., Falls Church, Va., is assistant 

director of the Office of Statistics and Reports 

in the Agency for International Development 

(foreign aid). His daughter 

Joy, 19, is a sophomore in Gettysburg College, 

while Albert III is in junior high. 

Allyn B. Sears, 910 Dale St., North 

Andover, Mass., is assistant superintendent 

of industrial relations for Western Electric 

Co. in North Andover. Everett S. Willoughby, 

55 Helena St., Leominster, Mass., 

is employed by the Fitchburg Paper Co. 

in quality control and sales liaison. He has 

one son in Whittier College and a daughter 

in ninth grade. 

Dr. David Selman, 24 South Main St., 

Spring Valley, a suburban doctor, is in 

charge of the department of medicine at 

Spring Valley General Hospital and of the 

division of cardiology at Nyack Hospital. 

He is also on the staff of New York Medical 

College. 

Many thanks to those of you who have 

already sent in their annual class dues, 

which are now $10, but we would like to 

hear from many more. As a dues-paying 

member you receive a subscription to the 

ALUMNI NEWS. We also plan to publish 

a revised and up-to-date directory of the 

class. The balance of the money will be kept 

in the treasury so that our 30th Reunion 

costs may be kept as low as possible. Send 

your check to Tom Haire, 111 Fourth Ave., 

New York 3, and be sure to include some 

news about yourself. 

'35 

Men: Albert G. Preston Jr. 

252 Overlook Dr. 

Greenwich, Conn. 

Richard L. Bleier, 715 King St., Chappaqua, 

who we reported in the October 

1961 NEWS column was vice presidentsales 

of the I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., 485 

Fifth Ave., New York 17, was elected president 

of the company at the annual meeting 

in April. Congratulations, Dick! 

Dr. Carl Z. Berry, 4127 La Cadena St., 

Box 897, RD 5, Tucson, Ariz., is a member 

of a partnership of dermatologists 

named Drs. Shapiro, Berry, Dahlen at 

1520 N. Norton St., Tucson. During World 

War II, Carl served as colonel in the medical 

corps with the 26th infantry division 

and recently retired as colonel of the Air 

Force Medical Corps. He is a consultant 

to the Air Force and the Veterans Administration, 

and serves on the staff of four Tucson 

hospitals. He is a member of many 

professional dermatology societies and the 

Air Force Assn. The Berrys have one son 

and two daughters. 

Frank Delaplane, 2801 Grand Ave., Middletown, 

Ohio, is assistant general manager 

of Magnode Products, Inc., PO Box 292, 

Trenton, Ohio, extruder of aluminum and 

magnesium. Frank is also director of Lehigh 

Metals Co., Los Angeles, Calif. Father of 

two sons, Frank is a member of the Rotary 

and the Erie (Pa.) Yacht clubs. 


Hurlbut Saylor Jacoby, 2424 Merwood 

Lane, Havertown, Pa., is vice president of 

J. B. Eurell Co., 45 W. Scottdale Rd., Lansdowne, 

Pa., in the building subcontracting 

business. Saylor is a trustee of the Delaware 

County Memorial Hospital, a member of 

the executive board of the Valley Forge 

Council, Boy Scouts of America, and the 

board of Friends Neighborhood Guild of 

Philadelphia. The Jacobys have four sons 

and one daughter. 

Dr. George L. Price, 3061 Scenic PL, 

New York 63, is a dentist with offices at 

31 Union Square W., New York 3. The 

Prices have one son and one daughter. 

Haiman S. Nathan (picture), 11 Covington 

Rd., Buffalo, was awarded the Society 

of Plastics Engineers 

President's Cup last 

February for "outstanding 

and meritorious 

service to the 

Society." The award 

was made in recognition 

of long service to 

the society as a councilman, 

officer and 

chairman of a number 

of various standing committees. He is 

president of Atlas Plastics, Inc., 681 Seneca 

St., Buffalo, a company which he organized 

in 1943 following wide experience in the 

chemical, rubber and plastics industries. 

He and Mrs. Nathan (Muriel Silber '36) 

have two sons—Peter '62 who expects to 

get his ChE in 1963, and Jeff, class of 1965 

in chemical engineering at Purdue. Hi is 

active in Community Chest and the United 

Jewish Fund, and Buffalo Philharmonic 

Orchestra. He is vice president of the Jewish 

Center of Buffalo, treasurer of the Jewish 

Federation for Social Service, and vice 

president and president-elect of the Westwood 

Country Club. 

George R. Barns, 409 S. Main St., Lexington, 

Va., owns and operates Mayflower 

Motor Inn and Lexington Motel, PO Box 

784, Lexington. George is treasurer of the 

Virginia Hotel Assn., director and past 

president of the Lexington Chamber of 

Commerce, and past president of the Rotary 

Club and Lexington Country Club. 

The Barnses have three sons. 

We hate to sound like the proverbial 

broken record, but we urge those of you 

who have not already done so to mail your 

class dues to Joe Fleming, 623 N. Perry 

St., Titusville, Pa. Remember that the dues 

program includes a subscription to the 

ALUMNI NEWS. Duespayers who have recently 

joined the group previously reported 

follow: 

Dr. William S. Armour, Matthew J. 

Avitabile, Kirk Batzer, Willard Blauvelt, Dan 

Rondareff, William Bourne, Tom Bowron, 

George Brewer, Egon Brummerstedt, Dave 

Dabollj Francis Davis, John Fabrey, Daniel 

Garland, Tevis Goldhaft, Edward Harker, 

Bill Harned, Wes Hildreth, Paul Hiza, Clifford 

Hoppenstedt, Dick Jones, Wilfred Kelly, 

Lawrence Levy, Harry Lonsdale, Frederick 

Markham, Donald Matson, Harry Morgan, 

Julian R. Oishei, Dick Overbaugh, Paul 

Reinhardt, Ronald St. John, Francis Trecker, 

and Philip Waldron. 

'35 AB—Mrs. Frank S. Huster (Doris 

Struss) and her husband have three children: 

Tom, 18, a freshman at Brown; John, 

16; and Debbie, 10. The family home is 

at 1005 Highland Ave., Abington, Pa. 

June 1962 

Hotelmen Elect 

SOME FORTY-FIVE members of the Cornell 

Society of Hotelmen attended the 

annual meeting at Statler Hall, May 5. 

J. Frank Birdsall Jr. '35 of Treadway 

Inn, Rochester, was elected president, 

succeeding Frank J. Irving '35. Edward 

J. Vinnicombe Jr. '33 was elected first 

vice president, Richard B. Carlson '48, 

second vice president, and Howard B. 

Meek, '29 Grad, professor of Hotel Administration, 

emeritus, secretary-treasurer. 

New regional vice president is 

Earl L. Jorgensen '48, Midwest. Reelected 

are William R. Ebersol '48, 

Eastern; Harold E. Hazen '42, Southern, 

and Carl D. Arnold '43, West Coast. 

The Society also elected directors 

from the even-numbered classes. They 

are John M. Welch '26, Albert E. Koehl 

'28, Henry B. Williams '30, Thomas W. 

Martin '32, David L. Benner '34, Wallace 

W. Lee Jr. '36, William H. Miller 

Jr. '38, Richard E. Cummings '40, David 

E. Beach '42, Charles E. Haynes '44, 

Richard J. Selby '46, Vincent J. DiPas 

quale '48, Robert S. Fite '50, Fred J. 

Eydt '52, Maurice O. Ryan '54, Thomas 

S. Dawson '56, Henry H. Barnes '58, 

Thomas V. Pedulla '60, and Richard J. 

Ferris '62. Elected associate members 

were Professors Gerald W. Lattin, MS- 

Ed '48 and Paul R. Broten '47, Hotel 

Administration. 

'35 MA—President Weimer K. Hicks of 

Kalamazoo College received an honorary 

LLD on Jan. 20 from Western Michigan 

University, also located in Kalamazoo, 

Mich. 

'35 AB—Mrs. Royal E. Davis (Genevieve 

Harman) and her husband, a research 

metallurgical chemist with Chrysler, are 

active workers in the First Presbyterian 

Church of Farmington, Mich., where they 

live at 33729 Oakland. Their son, Terry, 

in his second year at Alma College, is preparing 

to enter theological seminary; 

daughter Nancy, a high school freshman, is 

enrolled in an accelerated program. 

'35 BS, '36 MS—Stella Gould Fales is 

in the Philippines with her husband, ICA 

Rural Youth Adviser David B. Fales, MSA 

'44, former Extension professor and assistant 

state 4-H Club leader. 

'35 PhD—J. Winston Neely, vice president 

and director of plant breeding and 

agricultural research at Coker's Pedigreed 

Seed Co., lives at 1107 Church St., Hartsville, 

S.C. His son Eugene is a senior at 

Davidson College. 

'36 

Men: Adelbert P. Mills 

1224 National Press Bldg. 

Washington 4, D.C. 

Treasurer Joe Wohl reported that as of 

mid-April there were 214 dues-paying 

males on his rolls. That leaves many hundreds 

outside the fold and too few paying 

the freight for the others. To get in good 

standing, all it takes is a $7 check addressed 

to Joe at L. Wohl & Co., 1380 Howard St., 

Harrisburg, Pa. 

Sometimes it seems that those farthest 

from Ithaca make the best correspondents. 

For example, Prof. David Lίndsey contributed 

a newsy letter from 1002 Indian 

Hill Blvd., Claremont, Calif., and asked 

your columnist to say hello to his old Ithaca 

roommate, Harvey Wellman '37, who is 

with the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs 

at the State Department in Washington. 

Dave also advised that he was promoted 

recently to professor of history at Los 

Angeles State College, that he will be a 

visiting professor at Western Reserve University 

in Cleveland this summer, and in 

the following academic year he will be a 

Fulbright lecturer in American civilization 

at the University of Athens, Greece. Dave 

has been at L.A. State since 1956, after 

teaching stints at Oberlin, Baldwin-Wallace, 

and New Jersey high schools. His MA 

is from Penn State, and his PhD from 

Chicago. The rest of the family is wife 

Augusta and son David, 10. 

Also making news in California is Henry 

Untermeyer, who has formed a new company, 

SFINDSCO, Inc., with headquarters 

in the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San 

Francisco. Those letters stand for Swedish- 

Finnish-Icelandic-Norwegian-Danish Sauna 

Co. Hank was due to leave May 18 for 

a six-week trip to all those countries, with 

hopes of getting to Moscow as well. He will 

return via London, New York, and Bermuda. 

Hank says a recent item here about 

Paul Deutschman led to an exchange of 

letters. After a long European stay, Paul 

is back in Washington with the State Department's 

Agency for International Development. 

Speaking of Washington, Payson Hall 

was a recent visitor. As executive vice president 

of Meredith Publishing Co., Des 

Moines, Iowa, he was a witness before the 

Senate Post Office Committee to oppose 

postal rate increases on magazines. He testified 

that the Meredith magazines, Better 

Homes and Gardens and Successful Farming, 

would be in the red if second- and 

third-class mail rates are hiked a penny 

per piece as proposed. 

Vertner Kenerson, who has been living 

in North Carolina, wrote to say he is making 

"an extended visit in Las Vegas." He 

reported he is "keeping busy with some 

business surveys," but did not disclose 

whether his studies cover the dice tables. 

Vert's address is 320 Wisteria Ave., Las 

Vegas, Nev. He asked if other '36ers are 

in Vegas and was advised to track down 

Joe Middleton at the Stardust Golf Club. 

Henry G. Behning, RD 3, Oregon, 111., 

will be in New York on business for two 

weeks at the end of June, and "would like 

to see some of the gang." Hank has a son 

at Colorado State who hopes to take his 

master's in Business Administration at 

Cornell. Still at home is a daughter with 

another year to go in high school. 

Stephen D. Hiltebrant Jr. contributes a 

controversial note, claiming that his oldest 

son Steve attends Wittenberg University 

in Springfield, Ohio, which has "a much 

better football team than Tom Harp's 

Angels." Second son Greg, a sophomore at 

De Veaux School in Niagara Falls, is a 

linebacker, wrestler, and breaststroker. Are 

you listening, Coaches Harp, Miller, and 

Little? 

Jack Humphreys forsook his campus 

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duties long enough to weekend with Charlie 

Dykes in Connecticut, along with Judge 

Bobby Grant '34. Both Jack and Bobby 

married Syracuse U. grads and things were 

taking on an orange hue until Charlie 

Shuff arrived on the scene Saturday to save 

the day. 

Albert A. Haggas (picture), with Eastman 

Kodak since 1938 except for wartime 

service as a civilian 

engineer with the 

Army, has been promoted 

to director of 

the paper service division 

at the Kodak 

Park works in Rochester. 

With wife 

Beatrice and four 

children, Al lives at 

281 Shoreham Dr., 

S1I 

Pittsford, where he is a member of the sewer 

commission and active in the Boy Scouts. 

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Men: Alan R. Willson 

State Mutual of America 

Worcester, Mass. 

Even if, up to now, you haven't planned 

to attend our 25th, there is still time. Drop 

everything, hop into your car or plane and 

come to Ithaca. If you can't get there 

Thursday afternoon, June 7, come Friday, 

June 8. And if you can't make it on Friday, 

show up on Saturday, the 9th. We'll 

all be looking for you! 

Charles A. Clark lives at 14 Westwood 

Court, Binghamton, with his wife (Helen 

Harding '36) and three daughters. A fourth 

daughter is married. Charlie is in charge 

of organic preparations laboratory of Ansco 

in Binghamton. He writes that he is looking 

forward to seeing the old gang at Reunion. 

Harold F. DeWitt, his wife (Ibby 

Whiton '39), and their four children live 

at 101 Colonial Ridge, Moorestown, N.J. 

Hal is with RCA's Moorestown BMEWS 

project. His oldest son has been accepted 

at Eastman School of Music and Hal 

writes, "Apparently he didn't get the words 

of the Alma Mater clearly enough when 

we sang to him!" 

Frank G. Cox is manager of Cox Enterprises 

at 178 Chancery Row in Morgantown, 

W. Va. He makes his home in Morgantown 

at 216 Kingwood St. 

Our sincere sympathies go out to William 

J. Fleming whose wife passed away a 

few months ago. Bill lives at 612 N. Perry 

St., Titusville, Pa., with his two small 

daughters. He writes that he is planning 

to attend the Reunion in June. 

Other prospective Reunion attendees include 

Nelson F. Hopper of 2048 Five Mile 

Line Rd., Penfield; Everett A. Palmer Jr. 

of 1350 Linda Ridge Rd., Pasadena, Calif.; 

and B. Roy Norton Jr. of 222 Pembroke 

Ave., Wayne, Pa. 

Also looking forward to our 25th is William 

C. Sandy of 11310 Piney Point Cir., 

Houston 24, Texas. Bill is married and has 

three daughters and at present is assistant 

treasurer of Tennessee Gas Transmission 

Co. 

Reunion Chairman Ted Acton and his 

wife have just returned from three weeks 

in Austria and Switzerland where they had 

a wonderful time touring the country and 

skiing. Since their return to 2678 Troy 

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Second Art Tour 

THE SECOND annual Cornell art tour was 

conducted April 28 in New York City. 

Five homes of creative artists were open 

for inspection. Proceeds from the tour 

will go to the Federation of Cornell 

Women's Clubs Scholarship Endowment 

Fund and the Georgia L. White student 

emergency aid fund. 

The homes in the tour were those of 

Morton Da Costa, stage and film producer-director; 

Eliot Elisofon, Life photographer; 

Samuel Kootz, art dealer and 

author; Mr. and Mrs. John Koch (Dora 

Zaslavsky), painter and musician; and 

the sculpture studio of Robert Berks (in 

picture, above). 

Mrs. James H. Zimmer (Orpha 

Spicer) '27 was chairman of the benefit 

committee. The Cornell Women's Club 

of Brooklyn assisted the Cornell Women's 

Club of New York in putting on the 

tour. 

Rd., Schenectady, Ted has been hard at 

work on Reunion arrangements. 

Charles A. Baker and his wife (Marian 

Patterson) are both planning to return to 

Ithaca for their 25th. They have two children 

at Cornell; a son who is a sophomore 

and a daughter who is a freshman. Charlie 

lives at 431 Mt. View Dr. in Lewiston and 

is vice president of a construction corporation. 

Another couple attending their joint 

25th Reunion are Lloyd A. Doughty Sr. 

and his wife (Shirley Leighton). They 

have four children—the oldest, Lloyd Jr., 

is a sophomore at Boston College—and 

live at 102 Plymouth Dr. N, in Glen Head. 

Lloyd is general manager of Kahn and 

Jacobs, New York City architects. 

We had a note the other day from Edward 

A. Miller, who said: "Recently had 

a reunion in Dusseldorf, Germany, with 

George Winter, PhD '40, head of the Cornell 

Civil Engineering structural department. 

I have been commuting back and 

forth on a consulting program with a German 

steel firm. However, I can assure you 

that the travel schedule is arranged to 

bring ms to Ithaca June 7 for our 25th." 

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Helen Opdyke May writes: "Enrolled in 

'Academy of Lighting Arts' course, won an 

Oscar' for first prize in lighting design, 

and as a result have been teaching a session 

of this course regularly. After spending 

two days at the Mineola Fair in a 

booth next to one with organs, I simply 

had to have an organ even though I've never 

played that or a piano; can now play with 

two hands and two feet. . . . My son Allan 

is 19." 

Elizabeth Phelps Phelps (yes, that's 

double Phelps) writes: "Maurice [Sp Ag 

'38-40]—12,000 chickens, 20 acres in potatoes. 

He's active in Farm Bureau, church, 

Kiwanis. I do some teaching in demonstration 

schools for Methodist church school. 

I spend most of my time driving my daughters, 

Elaine Elizabeth, 14, and Gwendolyn 

Louise, 16, to and from their events." 

Betty's sons are sophomores at Cornell, 

Nicholas in Agriculture and Conrad in 

Arts, majoring in astronomy and playing 

in the Big Red Band. 

Virginia Richmond Forbes writes: "I 

was married on Oct. 12, 1961, to Thomas 

J. Forbes, an ME from RPI, and we are 

living in Westport, Conn. We are both 

avid tennis players and ski addicts; honeymooned 

in Bermuda and rode motor bikes 

like mad from one end of the islands to 

the other. He's chief engineer at Duke 

Laboratories. I've been with Northern 

Westchester Medical Group in Katonah for 

the past six years since coming back from 

Japan, Texas and Baltimore." 

Rita Schacht Saunders is listed in Who's 

Who in American Women and holds membership 

in American Academy of Political 

and Social Sciences, American Camping 

Assn., American Assn. of School Administrators, 

Council for Exceptional Children, 

and Assn. for the Help of Retarded Children. 

She writes: "My son Bruce is a sophomore 

at Villanova, pre-med course, planning 

to study psychiatry. Gary is a freshman 

at Waterford (Conn.) High School." 

Despite ill health for two years, she has 

been camp director of a camp for exceptional 

children (mentally retarded, emotionally 

disturbed, physically handicapped), 

has written articles on this specialty, 

and has begun a book on the same 

subject. 

Clara Strang Hurley says she and Helen 

Dunn started planning last summer to come 

to Reunion. She has three sons, 13, 10, and 

6, and a daughter, 12. Edna Strobeck Van- 

Dyke writes: "We moved from Snyder to 

Orchard Park last November, only 15 

miles, but it has opened a new world of 

new friends and exciting new things to do. 

Our daughter Mary Linda, 20, is a sophomore 

at Cornell and a member of Alpha 

Phi." 

Elizabeth Glucroft Shapkin is a freelance 

copywriter. She and husband Jay, a 

physician, manage to travel for a month 

or two each year. Son John, 20, is a student 

at Columbia. Son Barton, 17, and 

daughter Iris, 15, are at school in Switzerland. 

She writes: "It's a great disappointment 

missing Reunion, but Bart graduates 

from prep school in Switzerland at 

the same time and we are looking forward 

to the great event and to visiting our 

daughter. I left Cornell after two years to 

be married and finished at Columbia in 

June 1937. For six years I did men's and 

women's fashion copywriting and organized 

fashion shows." 

Winnie Hunniford Lawrence writes: 

"My daughter spent six weeks in Sweden 

as a result of a correspondence with an 

English pen pal. My husband and I at- 


tended his 25th Reunion at the Naval 

Academy last September. . . . Our Akron 

Cornell Club meetings are called by Mrs. 

James W. Schade '05. Though I seem to 

be the sole member of '37 attending, the 

fame and reputation of our class was 

known." 

Mary Keane Brady is active in PTA, 

Lions Auxiliary, St. Peter's Hospital 

Auxiliary and Middlesex County Medical 

Auxiliary. Husband Edward '41, MD '44, 

has just built and moved into his own office 

at 137 Louis St., New Brunswick, N. J. 

Ed is a golf and fishing enthusiast. Their 

children are Carolyn, 15; Edward, 9; and 

Barbara, 6. Mary plans to be at Reunion. 

Mabel O'Donnell Lounsberry sent a picture 

of her daughter Carol '62. "Donnie" 

and Dick '37, LLB '40, who is a New York 

State assemblyman, also have three sons: 

James, 19, a student at Parsons in Iowa; 

Richard Jr., 18; and Kevin, 12. 

'38 

Men: Stephen ]. deBaun 

2010 Addison St. 

Philadelphia 46, Pa. 

Well, we had quite a bash at the Cornell 

Club of New York on April 26 and a 

goodly crowd was there. It was the last 

such gathering we'll have in their Hotel 

Barclay quarters. Next year they'll be in 

their new digs at 155 E. 50th St. (according 

to the brochure a jazzy four-floor complex 

that far exceeds any space the club 

has previously occupied). So we tried to 

do justice to the occasion. 

Among those on hand to swap stories, 

sing songs (Oh, those harmonies!), eat, 

and drink were Jack Thomas, George 

More, Chuck Davis, Gus Reylt, Joe Long, 

Gunner Vaughn, Dick Anderson, Hank 

Beuttell, Ed Pfeifer, Coley Asinof, Roy 

Lockwood, Bob Smith, Slick Abel!, Forest 

Durham, Milt Porter, Noel Bennett, Bill 

Martin, Gil Rose, Whitey Nelson, Johnny 

Riggs and yours truly. 

George More had brought wife Libby to 

town to celebrate their wedding anniversary, 

so for a brief spell we brought her in— 

over her protests—to all our congratulations. 

Beuttell was making his first public 

Cornell appearance since his return 

from over five years in Switzerland. A 

good number took the time to firm up 

plans for our off-year reunion in June, in 

conjunction with the Class of '37. For those 

interested parties reading this, please contact 

George More, 11 W. Eagle St., Buffalo 

2. The more aboard, the merrier. 

A brief note from Harris Stanton says 

he hopes to make our 25th next year. His 

address: 438 High St., Bethlehem, Pa. Don 

Conklin writes: "Just moved to larger quarters 

at 5 Mayflower Rd., Scarsdale, with 

TV den for children (five) and two-car 

garage for all the bicycles, go-carts, etc. 

Was made vice president of professional division 

(Rx drugs) of my agency (Charles 

W. Hoyt). Hope to ski Arapahoe Basin 

over Easter week, so may miss class dinner." 

(P.S. He did.) 

This fascinating tale about Bob Maduro 

appeared recently in a sports column of 

the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 

Bobby Maduro, owner of the Jacksonville 

club of the International League, which has 

a working agreement with the Indians, spent 

the past week in camp and told an interesting 

story of his flight from Cuba. 

June 1962 

Maduro, who is in his 40s, estimates he 

lost from two to three million dollars when 

Fidel Castro took over Cuba. His family had 

made the money in sugar plantations and 

Maduro later took over a bankrupt bus line 

and the Havana ball club. 

"The bus line was worth $800,000, at 

least, and they "took it away from me," he 

said. "No explanation, they just took it. Castro 

and I had been friends. He used to sit with 

me at the ball park before he became boss 

and we'd throw the bull. He also took all 

our land." 

Maduro reports that after Castro moved 

in he wanted to move the club, not for political 

reasons, but because nobody was coming 

to the park. Castro heard about it and 

told him he couldn't move. "I'm losing 

money," said Maduro. "I'll give you 

$50,000," said Castro, "but don't move out." 

Maduro got the money and the club lasted 

another year in Havana. The next season Castro 

didn't give any money and Maduro 

moved the franchise to Jersey City. 

He came to the United States without a 

cent, and with an impoverished ball club 

on his hands. 

"Walter O'Malley, Dodger president, 

saved me," said Maduro. "He put me on his 

payroll and gave me a thousand dollars a 

month to keep my wife and my seven children. 

Without him I don't know what would 

have happened. The club still lost $137,000 

last year. I got back some of the loss by selling 

players." 

'40 

Men: John L. Munschauer 

Placement Service, Day Hall 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

Campbell Taylor of 1111 Elias St., London, 

Ont., lists his statistics as follows: 

"Married, six children (three of each), 

three are driving cars." Cam says he still 

isn't much of a golfer, but is better at curling, 

which he claims is the world's fastestgrowing 

sport. This is what I've heard, too. 

The fad hasn't hit Ithaca yet, but my brother 

Ed '39 joined a curling club in Buffalo 

where it has become quite a fad. As a kid, 

I can remember seeing a clan of old-time 

Scotsmen slide their stones along the ice 

of Buffalo's Delaware Park, but I had 

thought the sport died out with those old 

men a generation ago. 

Up north of Ithaca, near Clifton Springs, 

Burton Inglis runs a dairy farm of 48 milking 

cows. His animals are all registered 

Holsteins, and he tries to do somewhat of 

a job in breeding better cattle. His stock 

goes under the name of "Ingle's Holsteins." 

His wife (Georgia Selzer) teaches math in 

the Clifton Springs High School. They 

have four children: Rexford, 16; Barbara, 

15; Louise, 8; and Carol, 7 or near that age 

(these notes don't get used immediately 

upon receipt). 

Lawrence Tumposky's wife (Shirley 

Singer '42) also is teaching—with the English 

department of Syracuse University's 

Utica College. Lawrence himself has recently 

been appointed to a second term as corporation 

counsel of the city of Utica. His 

home is at 43 Parkside Ct., /Utica. 

Many classmates simply send in their 

dues and include no news about themselves. 

I find it interesting just to look over 

these names and addresses to see where 

people are, so I shall list a few below: Dr. 

Harold F. Searles, 4507 Woodlark PL, 

Rockville, Md.; Joseph H. Moss Jr., 3 

Brunswick Rd., Montclair, N.J.; Duane 

W. Clark, 9015 Walden Rd., Silver Spring, 

Md.; Dr. Irving B. Harrison, 182 Caterson 

Ter., Hartsdale; Glenn E. Edick, 303 

Main St., Etna; Dr. Frederick A. Beardsley, 

132 Mansfield Ave., Willimantic, 

Conn.; Hyman M. Lockwood, Lockwood 

Nutrition Service, Inc., Boston Grain & 

Flour Exchange, 177 Milk St., Boston 9, 

Mass.; John J. Skehan, 213 Ardsley Dr., 

Dewitt 14. 

I will list a few names and addresses 

at the end of each column if you like the 

idea. 

'41 

Men: Robert L. Bartholomew 

51 N. Quaker Lane 

West Hartford 7, Conn. 

' ' 

Classmates and other Cornellians have 

indicated to me that they follow the '41 

column but seldom see a news item concerning 

the correspondent. At the same 

time many classmates are reluctant to submit 

news and photographs of themselves. 

Last month I made a business change. Now 

in an attempt to practice what I preach, 

the following item appears: Robert L. 

Bartholomew, West Hartford, Conn., has 

become associated with The R. P. Alexander 

Co., distributor of standard fluid duplicators 

and supplies for the State of 

Connecticut and western Massachusetts. 

The company operates a modern printing 

plant in West Hartford in conjunction with 

systems applications of the duplicating 

equipment. Thanks to fraternity brother 

Fred Munschauer, the above photograph 

shows our class secretary in action during 

our 20th Reunion in Ithaca last June. 

There, that's off my chest! 

Effective July 1 Charles E. Ostrander, 

142 West Haven Rd., Ithaca, becomes associate 

professor of poultry husbandry at 

Cornell. Charlie's address on the Hill is 

206 Rice Hall. He and his wife (Gracia R. 

Byrne '43) are the parents of Linda Jo 

and Marcia Ruth. Charlie joined the 

faculty in 1951 after teaching vocational 

agriculture in New York and New Jersey 

and serving as assistant agricultural agent 

in New York State. From 1952-56 he was 

associated with the Marshall Poultry Farm 

as geneticist. 

Herb Ernest has done it again! Herb has 

been listed in the 1962 roster of the Million 

Dollar Round Table of the National 

Association of Life Underwriters. This 

makes it an annual event ever since 1959 

for him. Although membership this year 

exceeds 3,000, fewer than 1 per cent of 

the world's life insurance agents are Round 

Table members. Herb is agency manager 

of The Canada Life Assurance Co., HE. 

44th St., New York 17. Mrs. Ernest is the 

former Irene Buffalo; children are Lisa 

Jane, Ethan Samuel, and Mark Philip. 

Lt. Col. William D. Wade, 17th Trans. 

Bn., APO 7, San Francisco, Calif., writes, 

"I am currently commander of the 17th 

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Transportation Battalion, 7th Infantry Division 

in Korea, due back in US in November 

1962. Wife Bobbe and daughter 

Winnie remain in Hampton, Va." Henry 

Tuck Au is traffic engineer for the city and 

county of Honolulu. Mrs. Au is the former 

Geraldine Wong (Vassar '48). They have 

one daughter, Joanne, 10, and live at 2550A 

E. Manoa Rd., Honolulu 14, Hawaii. 

Howard A. Schuck has been in Alaska 

for the past three years in charge of the 

US Air Force operations research program 

at Elmendorf Air Force Base at Anchorage. 

Address mail to 21395B Cherry Dr., 

APO 942, Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Schuck is 

the former Elinore Joyce Wheelock. 

It's a new address for Len and Jean 

Lewis. From Riverside Drive in New York 

City they have moved to 818 Schaefer Ave., 

Oradell, N.J. Len is industrial engineer for 

Arrow Manufacturing Go. He and wife 

"Syvίe" (Jean Syverson) were married 

March 3, 1961, and attended our 20th Reunion 

last year. 

Millard L. Brown, The Pines, RD 1, 

Broadalbin, writes: "Still VP of Gloversville-Continental 

Mills, Inc., making woolen 

fabrics in our plant in Gloversville and 

knit gloves in our factory in Schenectady. 

Helen is now a full-fledged pilot also, and 

we have a fine time going in and out of 

our 1,700-foot strip with our Ί82.' We live 

on the south shore of the Sacandaga Reservoir. 

Any 9 41 pilot who can land in 1,700 

feet over 70-foot high trees is very welcome 

to come into our private air strip— 

lat. 43° 07', longitude 74° 09'." 

Congratulations and welcome aboard to 

the Class of 1942, which recently joined 

the Group Subscription Plan to the ALUMNI 

NEWS. May our friends be blessed with an 

abundance of news and dues responses. 

Good luck to Class Correspondent Bob 

Cooper and to Class Officers Jim Kraker, 

Pete Wolff, Ray Jenkins and others on the 

project. This brings added interest to 

"Notes From the Classes" section of the 

NEWS as we can now read about friends 

from classes on both sides of '41. 

'42 

Men: Robert L. Cooper 

Taconic Rd. 

Ossining, N.Y. 

Classmates have been sending very little 

in the way of information, but, peculiarly 

enough, we have heard from "far away 

places" this month. 

Joseph B. Parker, 10 Kingslea Ct., Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada, is general sales 

manager of Carrier Air Conditioning and 

an active participant in local affairs. Joe's 

family consists of his wife, two boys and 

two girls. 

Wilbur F. Herbert, 3455 Estes St., Wheatridge, 

Colo., writes us from Golden, Colo., 

where he is engineering superintendent for 

Coors Porcelain Co. Wilbur is active in 

church affairs and Boy Scouts, but doesn't 

say whether he has kept up his athletic 

activities (fencing, lacrosse, football). We 

hope you're keeping in shape, Wilbur. 

Robert W. Hazelett of Winooski, Vt., is 

president of his own company — Hazelett 

Strip Casting Corp. Bob says they are primarily 

interested in the development of 

continuous metal casting machines, and it 

sounds very interesting, indeed. Bob has 

two girls and one boy. 

William G. Fleming, 5742 Tanglewood 

June 1962 

La., Jacksonville, Fla., is president of the 

Acousti Engineering Co. of Florida. He has 

been actively interested in Jacksonville University 

as well as church and other programs. 

Bill writes that he is anticipating 

the Reunion in June and has enjoyed the 

news we've been providing. We're delighted 

with the good work Jacksonville University 

does, and we know where your loyalty 

is. 

Leonard Parker, 1325 Terrill Rd., Scotch 

Plains, N.J., is president of his own company, 

Tropical Acres of Homestead, Fla., 

and vice president of Tropicana of Catano, 

Puerto Rico. Leonard, did membership in 

the wrestling team equip you to wrestle 

with your business problems? 

Craig Adair Jr., 17 Cedarbrook Rd., Ardmore, 

Pa., sends us this delightful note: 

"Proving again that grass does not grow 

under the feet of a '42 graduate, William 

Ryan Adair was born Dec. 30, 1961, to 

Craig and Elinor Adair." Our best wishes 

to the proud parents. Shall we reserve a 

seat for him in the Class of '79? Your correspondent, 

Robert Cooper and his wife, 

Joy, are elated over the birth of their 

daughter, Patricia Jane, on March 7. All 

concerned are doing well. 

John W. Wannop, Wianno Ave., Osterville, 

Mass., is manager and secretary at 

the Wianno Club in Wianno, Mass. While 

at Cornell, hockey was John's favorite 

sport; but he made no mention of it in 

writing. John and his wife have a son and 

a daughter. Walter William Burns Jr., 4925 

Rock Spring Rd., Arlington, Va., is employed 

by the US Patent Office in Washington, 

D.C., as primary examiner of the 

electronic computer division. Walter has 

one boy and one girl. 

Edward A. Kaufman, 5413 Shimverville 

Rd., Clarence, is sales manager, in Buffalo, 

for the Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. 

of Cleveland, Ohio. Evidently Ed is on the 

go quite a bit which doesn't leave him much 

time for outside activities. He and 'his wife 

have a son and a daughter. 

Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne received the Research 

Career Award given by the National 

Institute of Health. Dr. Kilbourne was appointed 

as associate professor of medicine 

at Tulane University in 1951. Upon his return 

to Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Kilbourne 

joined the Department of Public 

Health, where he heads the division of 

virology. 

'43 

Men: S. Miller Harris 

8249 Fairview Rd. 

Elkins Park 17, Pa. 

Now that the entire class is receiving 

the NEWS, I get notes saying how nice it 

is that someone is finally writing a class 

column. This someone has been doing just 

that for some years now and it occurs to me 

that perhaps many of you missed what I 

thought was the big class of '43 story last 

year. (In the event that you read the December 

1961 issue, you have my permission 

to skip the next paragraph). The story: 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

named D. Brainerd Holmes 

director of manned expeditions into space 

and to the moon. He had been general 

manager of the Major Defense Systems Division 

of RCA and project manager in the 

billion-dollar program to develop and construct 

the Early Warning System against 

enemy intercontinental missiles. In his new 

job he will be a key figure in perhaps the 

most difficult and costly technical enterprise 

ever undertaken by the United States. 

Estimates are that the cost of sending a 

three-man expedition to the moon will be 

about $20 billion over the next 10 years, 

or more than six million dollars a day. 

When I served with Brainerd on the Junior 

Blazer Committee we had something less 

than that to spend. 

Dr. Robert H. Dinegar follows a dual 

career as both chemist and Protestant Episcopal 

priest. "Man is charged," he wrote 

recently, "with at least two things in life. 

The first involves proper relationships with 

his Creator and his fellow man; the second 

involves understanding as best he can 

the world in which his Creator has placed 

him. The science of theology is the key 

to the first; the natural and related sciences, 

the keys to the second." After serving 

40 months as an aerological officer in 

the Navy, Bob received his master's degree 

and PhD from Columbia. He performs his 

priestly duties after work as a research 

physical chemist with the Los Alamos 

(N.M.) Scientific Laboratory of the University 

of California. 

Bill Stewart writes from 301 S. Pasadena 

Dr., Pittsburgh 15, Pa.: "At present I am 

engaged in two businesses — Bound and 

Sound (my own), a record-paperback-game 

store, and part-time in tutoring work. It's 

great to be your own boss." The former 

president of Student Agencies and managing 

editor of the Cornell Countryman, Frank 

A, Walkley has a dairy and apple farm and 

is town supervisor of Castile, where his 

address is Glen Iris Rd. 

Sun Oil Go.'s Neil S. James of Berwyn, 

Pa., has received a Sloan Fellowship in 

executive development which will send 

him to MIT for a year of intensive study 

in the fundamentals underlying sound management 

decisions. 

Basil Abbink, who, you recall, had me 

shanghaied off to war a few months early 

so that he could cop my share of the Sun's 

"financial remuneration in the senior year," 

has parlayed that tidy sum into his present 

position as controller of Tractor Operations, 

Ford Motor Co. This worldwide organization 

allows Basil to commute overseas 

and to vacation in Europe with wife 

(Barbara Britton '44). Still a shrewd operator, 

that Basil. He receives his stateside 

mail at 510 Henley, Birmingham, Mich. 

The following is from Ralph Work, 3 

Mildon Rd., Canton: "The Larries of St. 

Lawrence University beat out Clarkson 

Tech for the Eastern College Athletic Conference 

hockey crown. They went on to the 

NCAA tournament at Utica, played valiantly, 

but were whomped by Michigan 

Tech. I eagerly await the first meeting 

between the Larries and the Big Red and 

am making it clear to local fans that my 

allegiance lies with Cornell, even if I come 

from the arena with a battered head." 

An American Oil Co. news release datelined 

Chicago announces that William E. 

McGinnity has become manager of coordination 

and supply planning in the transportation 

department. 

Elected president of Bull & Roberts, Inc., 

New York City consulting chemists, early 

this year was John E. Westberg, Ravine 

Lake Rd., Bernardsville, N.J. We were 

47

sorry to learn of the death of John's wife, 

Sally, in May of last year. 

The chairman of the veterinary science 

department at the University of Nebraska, 

Dr. George A. Young 

(picture), has been 

cited for contributions 

in the field of 

animal disease research. 

Dr. Young 

developed techniques 

which make it possible 

to wipe out two 

costly chronic hog 

diseases: atrophic rhinitis 

and virus pig pneumonia. Army National 

Guard Lt. Col. Neal C. Baldwin Jr., 

182 Linwood Av., Orchard Park, recently 

completed the aircraft maintenance course 

at the Transportation School, Fort Eustis, 

Va. 

'44 

Men: M. Dan Morris 

1860 Broadway 

New York 23, NY. 

Don Bodholdt and wife have a new home 

in the country overlooking lakes north of 

Baltimore, with deer, pheasants, etc. on the 

property. He plans to go to Europe next 

winter to ski. Word from Morton J. Savada 

in Harrison is that although nothing is 

new with him, he's glad to hear about 

everyone else's activities. 

Edward W. Melchen, his wife (Elizabeth 

Ann Vose '43), and two children (Tina, 

11, and Teddy, 9) live in Ithaca where he 

is assistant city engineer. Ed continues to 

be "active as competitive pistol shooter." 

Robert S. Miller extends an invitation to 

drop in any time to see him in Ithaca 

where he has a Chrysler-Plymouth dealership. 

Chandler Burpee Jr. is manufacturing 

section manager of NATO Support Dept. 

at the Andover, Mass., aero/space division 

plant. They are currently in the business 

of teaching the process and supplying the 

paper to Germany, France, Italy, Holland, 

and Belgium so that the Hawk ground to 

air missile can be built in Europe. Wife, 

Anita, and three daughters "love the green 

hills up here in God's country" (Goffstown, 

N.H.) 

Robert L. Scrafford, wife Harriet, and 

two children, Barbara and Donald, have 

recently returned from Singapore where 

his initial assignment was to set up a satellite 

tracking station. Since his return to 

California, he has been helping to build 

satellite tracking stations at Manchester, 

England, Hawaii, and Cape Canaveral. He 

has operated stations in Munich, Rhodesia, 

and Chile. 

Harold Wurzel of Philadelphia writes 

that he is assistant professor of clinical 

pathology in medicine at University of 

Pennsylvania, and a member of the William 

Peffer Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, doing 

hematology and certified by the American 

Board of Internal Medicine. Harold is 

married and has a son, 13, and a daughter, 

9. 

Edward C. Sargent states that he has set 

a new record by staying five years in one 

place; to the relief of one wife and four 

sons. His address, appropriately enough, is 

Trail's End, Aurora, Ohio. 

Henry Parker, manager of coordination 

48 

and supply planning in the supply and 

transportation department of American 

Oil Co., Chicago, has been appointed administration 

manager of the Atlanta sales 

region, effective April 16. 

Bob Redwood recently moved into a new 

house on Long Island Sound in New Rochelle. 

Bob is a CPA with the Axe Organization 

of Tarrytown. With him in the new 

home are wife Teddy and daughter Roberta 

as well as twin calico cats "with the 

improbable names of Cee-Cee and Doe 

Doe." 

As of this date, Treasurer Sam Pierce 

advises that only 101 persons have paid 

their dues, which isn't nearly enough. 

Come on, fellows, let's get these dues in! 

'44, '43 BA— Louise Morris James, PO 

Box 841, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 

writes: "After living here for nine years, 

we have bought a retail liquor store of our 

own. It's called "The Liquor Locker," is 

small and charming, and we're having lots 

of fun meeting interesting tourists. Elder 

daughter Leslie goes to St. Mary's-in-the- 

Mountains in New Hampshire; son goes 

away in two years." Mrs. James is executive 

secretary at the telephone company 

office. 

'44 BS-HE—Kim Williams, author of 

High Heels in the Andes (Crowell, 1959), 

is the pen name of Elizabeth Kandiko Williams 

(Mrs. M. E.), wife of an engineer in 

Santiago, Chile. Mrs. Williams is columnist 

and children's page editor of the newspaper 

South Pacific Mail. 

'45 

Men: Eric G. Carlson 

5 Aspen Gate 

Plandome Manor 

Manhasset, N.Y. 

Please note the change of address above. 

The local post offices are vying with each 

other as to which one will deliver our mail 

and Manhasset finally won (?). 

Lots of news has come in with the $8 

class dues, and many of our classmates are 

so loaded that they are coming in twice. 

This is the kind of reaction I know our 

treasurer, Joε Minogue, 437 Day Hall, 

Ithaca, treasures, so keep them coming! 

Maj. Everett T. Nealey, 820 N. Eucalyptus 

Ave., Apt. 1, Inglewood, Calif., writes: 

"I am in the US Army Dental Corps., presently 

attending the University of Southern 

California school of dentistry, taking a 

year's postgraduate course in fixed prosthodontics; 

wife (Dotty Lemon '44) is also 

attending USC working toward her master's 

degree in bacteriology. We love this Southern 

California weather. Best to all." 

William T. Duboc, 217 MacAlpine Rd. ? 

Ellicott City, Md., writes: "I am now manager 

of administrative services for Westinghouse 

Defense Center, which includes, 

among other things, field engineering, accounting, 

and purchasing. I have finally 

gotten moderately active in Cornell Club 

of Baltimore and am helping with the secondary 

school activities. It would be nice 

to do a little reminiscing and perhaps we 

can do just that this spring as there is a 

remote possibility that I will help take the 

sub-frosh to Ithaca if I can get away and 

the club needs help in transportation." 

Frank A. Swingle, 2840 Questend, Indianapolis 

22, Ind., is still supervisor of 

hydraulic & mechanical components at the 

Allison Division of GMC. He and his wife 

(Mary Appel '49) have a daughter, 12, 

and a son, 7. Seymour Rotter, 184-29 Aberdeen 

Rd., Jamaica Estates, writes: "I have 

been active recently in the work of the 

Cornell Alumni Association of New York 

City secondary school committee, and have 

found it to be most stimulating. It may 

have been my good fortune, but I had the 

opportunity to interview some outstanding 

applicants. Meanwhile, 'back at the ranch,' 

Rita and our two boys, Merrill, 4, and 

Chester, 1, are awaiting the arrival of number 

three (a coed?) in June. On the business 

front, my firm Seymour Rotter & Co. 

recently installed a profit-sharing plan for 

Dan's Supreme Supermarkets, Inc. of 

Hemps tead." 

Fred Bondi Jr., 32 Avenue Mozart, Paris 

16, France, writes: "Have been appointed 

European representative of Kerby Saunders, 

Inc., New York mechanical engineering 

contractors (Seagram Bldg., Lever 

House, Union Carbide Bldg., Chase Manhattan 

Bank Bldg., etc.). Over here we are 

doing the air conditioning of the new Esso 

Bldg. and a couple of big hotels. I'm headquartered 

in Paris but spend quite a bit 

of time on trips. 

Robert S. Wilson 2231 N.E. 34^ St., 

Pompano Beach, Fla., has three sons. "The 

last eleven years," he says, "have been 

spent in the investment business; am vice 

president of Financial Planning Corp., 101 

Park Ave." 

Theodore S. Watson, 22 Patricia Lane, 

RD 1, Rexford, reports the sad news that 

George V. Offermann was shot and killed 

by two holdup men in New Orleans last 

October. He, his wife, and 3-year-old son, 

along with George's brother, wife and family 

were in New Orleans for their annual 

football game get-together. Two men attempted 

to hold them up at their motel 

after the game and George was shot while 

trying to warn his brother's wife. The holdup 

men were later apprehended. We shall 

all miss George and his rendition of "The 

Ship Titanic." 

LCDR Pierre L. Vivoli, PWD NAD, 

Oahu, Navy 66, FPO San Francisco, Calif., 

is now stationed in Hawaii as public works 

officer of the naval ammunition depot. His 

family, consisting of wife Julia and children, 

John, 15, Jim, 12, Mary, 3, and Bill, 

2, are with him in the islands. He encourages 

visitors. David H. Shepard, 380 Park 

Ave., Rye, is now involved in two businesses 

— Congnitronics Corp., in electronic data 

processing patent recognition work, and 

the new 20-room Hawkbill Beach Hotel of 

Antigua, West Indies. Telephone number 

for both is RO 9-7900 Pleasantville. 

Robert H. Nathan, 33 Pageant Lane, 

Levittown, N.J., says he "met Selma Goldman 

'48 in 1955 via USNR; results — 

Faith, 1958, John, 1960." He planned to 

take the whole family on his two-week 

training duty to Navy Supply Corps School 

in Athens, Ga., in March. 

Richard S. Bonoff, 200 Hewlett Neck 

Rd., Woodmere, writes: "With my five 

children getting older I was able to squeeze 

in this year: (1) Acquisition of two more 

linen supply companies, Cascade Linen 

Supply, Dallas, Texas; Cascade Linen Supply, 

Miami, Fla.; (2) campaign chairman 

for the Fire Towns (L.I.) United Fund 

drive for 1961-62. 


'45 

Women: fane Knauss Stevens 

1 Green Ridge Road 

Pittsford, N.Y. 

From Pasionaria 47, Santa Maria, Rio 

Piedras, Puerto Rico, Caroline Rattleman 

Esperson writes, "Inadvertently attended 

Cornell-Penn reunion with my husband 

Dave '44. My Latin confreres were agitated, 

but charming, since I was the only 

female there (typical Cornell affair). Made 

a rapid and I hope graceful exit." The Espersons 

have four daughters: Gay, 14; 

Christine, 11; Lisa, 7; and Jean, 5. 

Our good wishes go to our two latest 

brides (at least to my knowledge), Adelaide 

Kennedy Underwood and Carol Worcester 

Van Decar. Addie and Ernest '41 

live at 57 Church St., Cortland. Carol and 

Phil were married last Thanksgiving Day 

and now live at 1130 Woodward Hts. Blvd., 

Hazel Park, Mich. Carol had been teaching 

freshman engineering courses at Orange 

County Community College in Middletown 

for seven years, and had attended 

an engineering science institute at Bucknell 

under the National Science Foundation 

during the summer of 1960. Last summer 

she went to another NSF summer institute 

at the University of Illinois, and met Phil 

there. He graduated from the University 

of Michigan and teaches math in the Detroit 

suburb of Ferndale. 

A few miles north live Jeanne Hines 

and Dick Fricke '43, at 5544 Lakeview Dr., 

Bloomfield Hills. They have two boys and 

two girls: Richard, 17; Diane, 14; Kathryn, 

8; and David, 1. Jeanne writes, "After 

spending five wonderful years on the faculty 

of the Cornell Law School, 1952-57, 

Dick joined Ford Motor Co. in '57, where 

he is an associate counsel. We enjoy Michigan 

very much, but love to get back to 

Ithaca." 

Jan Eagle and Herbert Peeler, PhD '49, 

have been living at 109 S. Candota Ave., 

Mt. Prospect, 111., outside Chicago, for 

several years now. He is with the International 

Minerals and Chemicals Co., Skokie, 

111., in their research department. They 

have three children: Carol Jean, 13; Tom, 

9; and Don, 7. Before moving to Illinois, 

they were in Texas. 

Another Cornell couple, Libby Pierce 

and Calvin Martin '44, live at 420 Sixth 

St., Glen Dale, W. Va., near Wheeling. 

Libby is in the usual community activities: 

Red Cross, PTA, Garden Club, AAUW, 

and Girl Scouts. Last year they invested 

in a travel trailer, and "did" New England— 

Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

and Maine; this year they plan to 

go west and "stop and stay where we like 

it!" "We" includes Sarah, 13; Jimmy, 11; 

and twins Cynthia and Charles, 8. 

I wonder how many of you recognized 

Robert Martin Englebrecht '48 on the cover 

of the March 25 issue of This Week magazine 

supplement? Yes, he is the husband 

of our Vivian Foltz. For those of you who 

didn't see it, Bob has designed a "House 

of Tomorrow" that can grow with your 

family, which may be seen at the Seattle 

World's Fair. He is a member of the AIA, 

the National Assn. of Home Builders, and 

the Building Research Institute. Bob, Vίv, 

and their two boys live in Rocky Hill, N.J., 

Box 184. 

New babies, more or less, will close our 

column this month: Jeanette Kelly Liddle 

writes from Andes that she and George 

adopted a 7-month-old boy in June 1959. 

Ginny Ferri and Dominic Lorigo's Raymond 

James arrived on Oct. 25, 1960. The 

Lorigos live at 152 June Rd., Kenmore 17. 

And last Nov. 19, Jeanne Lawless Cornell 

and husband George N. '45, MD '50, welcomed 

son George Robert. The Cornells 

live at 4570 Boston Post Rd., Pelham 

Manor. 

This month Ann Lynch Pape has agreed 

to assist with the column as "guest writer." 

After helping with the 50th anniversary 

celebration of the Girl Scouts in March, 

she wrote: "There are four Girl Scouts in 

our family: First Class Barbara, 13; Second 

Class Mary Beth, 11; Brownie Margaret, 8; 

and Leader Mother, a six-year veteran. 

Bobby, 5, and Billy, 3, are active 'small 

fry.' Bob '43 is an attorney in Rockville 

Center. His brother, Bill Pape '43, lives in 

Colorado Springs, Colo., at 2220 Woods 

Ave., along with his wife, Betty, and 2V2- 

year-old twins, David and Ellen." 

Ann reports that Jean Herr Gehrett 

(Mrs. John) of RD 1, Huntingdon, Pa., 

also is a Girl Scout leader. Jean and John, 

with their three girls, met Mary Lib Mershon 

and Bill Hoffman, with their four children, 

at a ski resort halfway between Huntingdon 

and Pittsburgh, Pa. After 12 years 

in Texas, Mary Lib and Bill have moved 

NOT ONLY THE BEST COLLEGE HISTORY BUT THE FUNNIEST 

A History of Cornell 

By MORRIS BISHOP '14 

Kαppα Alpha Professor of Romance Literature, Emeritus 

Drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury 

HERE is the wonderful story of Cornell — a story that will entrance 

Cornellians and also charm a wider audience. The struggles of the 

young university, the indomitable men of its beginnings, the doubtful 

years, the later fragmentation and growth of its departments, 

the failures and successes of persons and ideas — all are chronicled 

with both insight and detachment, with both affection and telling 

trenchant wit. 

See the vignette on Andrew D. White in Chapter III for an example 

of subtle sound evaluation. For an example of fun, see the 

paragraph about Napoleon, the dog that went to the Penn game 

(Chapter XXXII). 

Cornell has been fortunate indeed to have as its historian a man 

of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. 

Ready October 5, 1962. 672 pages, $7.50 postpaid. 

Cornell Uniuersity Press, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, Λfecu York 

June 1962 49

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You'll Enjoy 

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Campus and entertain your friends 

with the familiar Cornell songs by 

the Glee Club, Concert Band, and 

Chimes from the Clock Tower. 

Long-playing Microgroove Record 

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with attractive case in color. 

Makes a welcome gift for 

Cornell friends (send card with 

order). 

$4.85 postpaid in U.S. 

Please send payment with 

your order to 

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Merchandise Div. 

18 East Ave. Ithaca, N. Y. 

PLAYING IT SAFE 

Cautious Charlie always plays 

it safe. Especially against cancer. He 

knows there's no guarantee he 

won't get it. But he also knows 

that most cancers can be cured, if 

people give their doctors a chance 

to find cancer early and treat it 

right away. So Cautious Charlie 

protects himself by having 

{ 

a health checkup every year. , 

Why don't you play it safe? 

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 

from Dallas to 357 Shadowlawn Ave., Pittsburgh 

16, Pa. 

Eleanor B. Dickie, 235 E. 22d St., New 

York 10, is now director of the Presbyterian 

Senior Services, 699 Madison Ave., 

New York 21. This new center for retired 

people, Jane reports, was to open on May 1. 

'48 

Men: Gordon Conklin 

PO Box 367 

Ithaca, NΎ. 

Daniel C. McCarthy (picture) has been 

named president of Pratt & Whitney Co., 

Inc., East Hartford, 

Conn. He joined the 

company last year as 

administrative vice 

president and was 

j executive vice president 

before his recent 

promotion. Over at 

i East Berlin, Conn., 

I 

William G. West has 

been made general 

manager of the Stanley Works chemical 

division. 

Harold H. Dugan Jr., 55 Mohegan Rd., 

Larchmont, is a structural engineer with 

Gibbs & Hill, Inc., in New York City. 

Royal M. Douglass Jr. is now manager 

of the mechanical design analysis section, 

Babcock & Wilcox nuclear and special 

products department. The Douglass family 

lives at 345 Springcrest Dr., Akron 13 

(Bath), Ohio. 

Recently named as an assistant refinery 

engineer at Sun Oil Co.'s Marcus Hook Refinery 

is Hugh L. Myers. He, his wife, the 

former Gilda May, and their two children 

live at 352 Lynn Rd., Springfield, Pa. Bernard 

H. Friedman has written a novel entitled 

Circles. He is vice president of one 

of the largest New York building firms. 

Gerhard Sender, University Lane, Manchester, 

Mass., is manager of structures design 

at General Electric small aircraft engine 

department. The Sonders have two 

sons, Daniel and Tobiah. 

George Roshkind is vice president of 

Container Laboratories, Inc., an organization 

of management consultants specializing 

in packaging and independent laboratory 

testing. He is also lecturing at New 

York University at a seminar on packaging 

management. Recently promoted to 

general manager of the chemical products 

division of Chemetron Corp. is Leonard W. 

Steiger, 1955 Parkwood Dr., Scotch Plains, 

N.J. 

James H. Flournoy has been appointed 

brand director of Frenchette, producers of 

low calorie salad dressing. He and his wife 

(Jacqueline Smith) reside at 31 Boulderbrook 

Rd., Wilton, Conn. Robert M. 

Whalen has been promoted to advisory engineer 

at IBM's Poughkeepsie data systems 

division development laboratory. The 

Whalen family lives at 12 Laίfin Lane, 

Poughkeepsie. 

Ray Downing, whose address is Creole 

Petroleum Corp., Apartado 889, Caracas, 

Venezuela, reports four offspring — three 

boys and a girl. Edward T. Moore of Binghamton 

says he is active in the local Republican 

party. He lives at 41 Kendall 

Ave. Roy Niel is manager of the Princess 

Anne Country Club at Virginia Beach, Va. 

Al Kopf has been appointed associate 

professor of dermatology in the New York 

University School of Medicine. He continues 

his practice at 999 Fifth Ave., but 

plans to relocate late this year in the newly 

constructed University Hospital. Bernard 

Yablin reports a busy pediatric practice in 

Rochester, together with research activities 

in the application of electrophoresis and 

immunoelectrophoresis. 

Lindsey Grant, back from his State Department 

assignment to the orient, has 

been on a college recruiting tour for the 

Foreign Service. Charles Snyder is teaching 

physics at the Central School at Central 

Square. 

Recently named as executive vice president 

of the A. L. Mathias Co., Baltimore, 

Md., is Philip T. Yochum. Robert Jorgensen 

has become chief engineer of the air 

handling division of Buffalo Forge at 490 

Broadway, Buffalo 6. 

'49 

Men: Richard /. Keegan 

179 N. Maple Ave. 

Greenwich, Conn. 

The calendar says it should be spring, 

the weather says I am crazy, and the lawn 

is already winning our annual battle, but 

'49ers are still busy and doing things. So 

we're off! 

Speaking of being busy — listen to this 

letter from Joe Schrauth living at 211 

Suiter St. in Herkimer: "Newest arrival 

—a boy (on last Labor Day)—makes the 

score 5 to 2 in favor of the boys. Don't 

know what inning, but the total score is 7! 

Joan (Yunker '47) is feeling fine but doesn't 

get to work at her chemistry major much 

these days. I am still with Niagara Mohawk 

Power Corp. and might wind up 

anywhere in Upstate New York. Also work 

as village engineer, am president of the 

school board, and officiate in Mohawk Valley 

High School league plus several college 

freshman football games." Joe reports that 

he sees Tom Madden of Gilbert Rd., New 

Hartford, occasionally. He says, "Tom is 

still building highways but also has added 

an airport at Old Forge and commuter 

flying between there and Utica." 

After a year in Detroit with the Michigan 

Credit Union League and six months 

with the Agricultural Marketing Service 

of the US Department of Agriculture, Edward 

H. Koenig is now with the Special 

Reports Division, Office of Information, 

USDA in Washington, D.C. Ed lives at 

2009 Erie St., Adelphi, Md. Ben C, Amsden 

has returned East from Rapid City, S.D., 

to be general manager of the Sheraton- 

Kimball Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Ben 

and his wife, Mary, have certainly added 

to the Springfield population — five children 

(four boys and the last born, Maureen). 

Gabriel I. Rosenfield is now a partner 

in the investment firm of Kahn & Peek, 

Qohn & Co., 74 Trinity PL, New York 6. 

Gaby commutes from Chappaqua, where 

his wife (Louise Passerman '50) takes care 

of their three children. John H. Palmer has 

been appointed manager of the White 

Plains office of the investment house of 

Kidder, Peabody & Co. at 190 East Post 

Rd. 

Johnson, Keen and Co., an investment 

security firm in Philadelphia, Pa., announces 

that William B. Irvine II has been 

admitted as a limited partner. Bob Nafis, 

29 Westbrook Ct., Greenlawn, reports that 


he is still at Grumman Aircraft as assistant 

chief of avionics engineering. Last summer, 

sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, 

he visited technical establishments in Europe. 

He has three children. 

At Clark University, Stanley Sultan 

(picture) has been promoted to associate 

professor of English. 

He received his master's 

degree from Boston 

University and 

his doctorate from 

Yale in 1955. Sultan, 

his wife (Florence 

Lehman), and their 

two children live at 

11 Charlotte St., 

Worcester, Mass. 

From Rutgers comes word that Paul Medow, 

assistant professor of economics, has 

been awarded a Ford Foundation faculty 

research fellowship for the academic year 

1962-63. He will explore selected aspects 

of mathematics used in investment programming, 

with particular reference to the 

work being done currently in this field in 

the Soviet Union. 

S. D. (Sandy) Sanborne is safety engineer 

with Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. 

The Sanbornes, with two daughters and 

a son, live at 211 Butternut Dr., De Witt 

14. Sandy, who used to beat the drum and 

plan the Big Red Band formations, keeps 

his musical hand in by being a piper and 

treasurer of the Balmoral Highland Pipe 

Band of Syracuse. Norman Baker finally 

fell. He was married to Mary Ann Tischler 

last year and honeymooned in Europe, 

where his wife encouraged him to fulfill a 

boyhood ambition and climb the Matterhorn. 

If he got down, his address is 51-25 

Van Kleeck St., Elmhurst. 

In the next column to the right, you 

will find a photograph of '49's most smiling 

Boston Irishman, Sylvester (Bob) Curran, 

making a presentation to another clansman 

who works in the White House in 

Washington, D.C. 

Thomas H. Clements writes that he has 

purchased another insurance agency in 

Saratoga Springs. Roy B. Lawrence has 

moved his family back to New York City 

at 161 W. 75th St. Dick Brown, 26 Courtenay 

Cir., Pittsford, is still operating as merchandise 

manager of food operations for 

Sibley Lindsay & Curr Co., a division of 

the Associated Dry Goods, in Rochester. 

That is all except to remind you to send 

your news in — especially what you do this 

summer — and to mail your class dues to 

Donald H. Johnston, 241 Madison Rd., 

Scarsdale. 

Robert N. Post 

640 Race Street 

'50Men: 

Denver 6, Colo. 

Please note from the above address that 

the Posts finally have a home. We will now 

expect all wandering '50s to give us a ring 

when you hit town. We continue to love 

Denver although the weather is perplexing. 

Yesterday (April 28) the temperature was 

in the 70s as we went around in shorts; 

today it is snowing. 

Roy Rand, 482 Marsh Rd., Pittsford, has 

been appointed head of the application section 

of Bausch & Lomb's analytical instrument 

department. In his new job Roy will 

develop methods and techniques to be used 

THE OTHER Boston Irishman here is 

Sylvester R. Curran '49 (right), an editor 

of Fawcett Publications, who discovered 

Australian A. Reginald Evans 

(center), the 'coast watcher' who started 

the rescue of then-Lt. John F. Kennedy 

and his crew in the South Pacific in 1943. 

For years the credit had gone to a nonexistent 

New Zealand infantry officer. 

Curran brought Evans to the White 

House (above) where the three look at 

a painting of the final rescue scene. 

with new instruments and open new markets 

for all analytical instruments. Roy is chairman-elect 

of the American Chemical Society's 

upstate New York section of clinical 

chemistry. 

Former Class President Roger W. Gib- 

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WE 

TIP OUR HAT 

rothers 

Because, after 144 years of leadership 

based on quality, workmanship and conservative 

good taste, they still refuse to 

be panicked by every fashion meteor 

that flashes across the sky. 

Yet they will experiment constructively 

(and pioneer) in tomorrow's classics 

... as they did last year, for example, 

with the two-button suit (in advance of 

men's fashion editors "discovering" this 

style in Washington, we might add). 

And because they place such a high premium 

on retaining old friends ... as 

witness their keeping yesterday's undergraduates 

informed through the 

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son (picture), 4587 W. 224th St., Cleveland, 

Ohio, has been 

named sales manager 

of Westinghouse room 

air conditioner department. 

Rog had 

previously been district 

sales manager 

for Westinghouse appliance 

sales in Cleveland. 

He has been a 

vice president of the 

Cleveland Cornell Club. Now his promotion 

will necessitate moving his family to 

Columbus, Ohio, in the near future. 

Editor John Marcham received a long letter 

from Carson Z. Geld, Pau D'Alho, 

Caica Postal 2, Tiete, Est. de Sao Paulo, 

Brasil, which read in part: 

Ellen Bromfield Geld and I have finally 

taken the plunge and bought a coffee farm 

90 miles from the city of Sao Paulo. We are 

now in the process of bringing it back into 

production, ripping out old coffee trees, rejuvenating 

the new ones, getting pastures 

planted and contoured, building houses and 

farm ponds, and trying to make the decision 

of whether to raise pure bred Duroc hogs, 

or go into a chicken business. 

We now have five children, Christina beingborn 

a little over a year ago. This makes it 

three boys and two girls. Ellen keeps busy giving 

Calvert school to the three older children, 

who also go to Brasilian schools, as well as 

writing. She still writes agricultural articles 

for Sao Paulo's major newspaper, O Estado 

de Sao Paulo, as well as a series of articles for 

Rio de Janeiro's O Glovo. She is more or less 

a stringer for the National Review on Brasilian 

politics, and her last book, The Heritage, A 

Daughter's Memories of Louis Bromfield, was 

just published by Harpers on the 28th of 

March. Don't ask me when she finds time to 

write, but she is now in the midst of writing 

a novel about contemporary Brasil. So you 

can see we are all pretty busy. 

One other thing I failed to mention. Am 

now in the magazine field myself. I work as a 

part-time technical editor for an agricultural 

trade magazine called O Dirigente Rural 

(literal translation, "The Rural Manager"). 

It is published monthly by Vision, Inc. I do 

some traveling for story material but mainly 

edit other stories for technical content. 

From the Bulletin of the Cornell Society 

of Hotelmen we learned that Paul Sonnabend, 

240 Dean Rd., Brookline, Mass., has 

been appointed by Governor Volpe of 

Massachusetts to be the permanent Bay 

State representative to the state advisory 

committee of the US State Department. 

This committee works with the State Department's 

protocol service in assuring 

courteous and dignified treatment to foreign 

diplomats and visitors traveling in 

this country. Paul is vice president and operations 

manager of the hotel division of the 

Hotel Corporation of America. 

From Dick Keegan '49 we learned that 

Bernadette and Bruce Davis, 517 Chestnut 

St., Westfield, N.J., became the proud parents 

of baby boy Dwight Hearty last January. 

Frank G. Trau Jr., 1355 South Delaware 

Ave., Springfield, Mo., was recently 

named mechanical engineer on the Frisco 

Railroad. 

'50 

Women: Barbara Hunt York 

913 Dryden Rd. 

Ithaca, N.Y. 

Dr. Gerald L, Klerman and his wife 

(Lorraine Vogel) are the parents of a 

daughter, Karen Paula, born Feb. 8. The 

Academic Delegates 

PRESIDENT Deane W. Malott represented 

the university at the inauguration 

of former dean of the faculty C. Arnold 

Hanson, PhD '48 as president of Gettysburg 

College, Gettysburg, Pa., April 28. 

Hanson is the twenty-seventh Cornellian 

known to have become a college or university 

president. 

Academic delegates at other inaugurations 

were Benjamin R. Huske III '46 

of Fayetteville, N.C., at the inauguration 

of President Ansley C. Moore of St. Andrews 

Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, 

N.C., April 12; H. Joseph Pendergast '38 

of Cobleskill at the inauguration of President 

Edward J. Sabol of Agricultural and 

Technical Institute, Cobleskill, April 19; 

Miss Flemmie P. Kittrell, PhD '36 of 

Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of 

President Marvin Wachman of Lincoln 

University, Pa., April 29; and Willis W. 

Pratt '30 of Austin, Texas, at the inauration 

of President Lawrence D. Fleming 

of Southwestern University, Georgetown, 

Texas, May 4. 

Klerman home at 509 Ward St., Newton 

Center, Mass., is a busy place with baby 

Karen; Beth, 2; and Jacob, 3. 

Word comes from Beirut, Lebanon, of 

the birth on Feb. 28 of a son to American 

University Prof. Alan Ros Taylor and his 

wife (Lydia Schurman, daughter of the 

late Judge Jacob Gould Schurman '17). 

John S. Ostrom 

68 Kingsbury Lane 

'51Men: 

Tonawanda, N.Y. 

Regional Correspondent Al Bishop reports 

in from Columbus, Ohio, that Dave 

Greason still lives in nearby Newark and 

works for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. 

Dave's address is 20 S. 32d St. Dave let us 

know that Earl Zion has been transferred 

by Owens-Corning. Earl gets his mail at 

PO Box 100, Berlin, NJ. In Earl's new 

position he is methods engineering manager. 

In Worthington, Ohio, James E. Collery, 

348 Pingree Dr., is manager of personnel 

and labor relations for Jeffrey Manufacturing 

Co. Al also reports John Pierik 

will be leaving Lockbourne Air Force Base 

this July, having completed his medical 

residency and a short tour with the Air 

Force. The Pieriks will be moving back 

to John's home town of Providence, R.I., 

where he will set up practice. The Pierik 

family includes four children. 

Two new regional correspondents have 

joined the group: Ted Blake 8S 531 Linden 

Ave., Westmont, 111., who will share the 

Chicago area with George Myers; and Dan 

Nesbett, 323 E. 66th St., New York 21, 

who will be one of many necessary to give 

us complete coverage in the New York 

area. Dan writes: "If you still have openings 

on your editorial staff, I'd be most 

honored to serve. Possibly you need a special 

man to cover the bars in Manhattan, 

or a drama critic to review the performance 

of certain class bad actors in the 

Gotham environs." 


Louis A. Cappello (picture) 761 Brafferton 

Dr., Pittsburgh, has been named 

district manager in 

Pittsburgh for United 

Food Management 

§ Services, Inc., with 

ϊ responsibility for 

cafeterias, canteens, 

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an d dining rooms in 

Pittsburgh area industrial 

plants, banks 

and other establishserving 

upward 

of 50,000 persons daily. Lou was 

with the Schenley Park Hotel in Pittsburgh 

before joining United in 1957. 

Our wandering minstrel, George Myers, 

is going to be at it again. George, who is 

a management consultant with McKinsey 

& Co. in Chicago, reports he is planning 

another business trip to England this June. 

I have the feeling George hasn't had much 

time to enjoy the Myers's new home at 

1590 Old Mill Rd., Lake Forest, 111. 

Stephen P. Rounds sells vitamins — A and 

E — for Eastman Kodak Co., to the feed 

industry. Steve lives at 283 Sagamore Dr. 

in Rochester. 

It looks as if I should enlist Ken Fisher, 

Hidden Valley, Gaylord, Mich., as a correspondent 

for the class, a job he now 

holds for the Hotel School. He reports 

Art Ingraham is manager of food services 

for IBM in Lexington, Ky., where 

he lives at 3173 Trinity Rd. Bill McKinnon, 

400 W. Deming PL, Chicago 14, is 

general manager of operations for Nationwide 

Food Services. Sheldon Kimmelman 

is the owner of The Drummer Co., a firm 

specializing in building maintenance. The 

Kimmelmans, including five children, have 

moved from Dallas to 20101 N.W. 12th 

Court, Miami 69, Fla. Edward D. Young, 

109 Childress St., Sheppard AFB, Texas, 

is a captain in the Air Force and a B-52 

radar navigator. Dan Moody, 16254 Prest, 

Detroit 35, Mich., is manager of Cregar's 

Pickwick House. Dan and his wife, Marcella, 

have a baby daughter, Gail. Al Hubsch 

is food and beverage director with Hotel 

Corp. of America. He, wife Joan, and 

their four children live at 2 Elm Dr., Canton, 

Mass. 

'54 

Men: Dr. William B. Webber 

428 E. 70th St. 


Chairman of the Westchester Committee 

for the Annual Ball of the Year to 

benefit the Boys' Towns of Italy was Dr. 

Thomas Morell. The dance was held on 

April 5 at the Waldorf Astoria, proceeds 

going to the nine Boys' Towns, a Girls' 

Town, and 30 nurseries run by the organization 

in Italy. Tom is a resident in psychiatry 

at Bellevue Hospital Center in 

New York City, and his home address is 

10 Dusenberry Rd., Bronxville. 

At the annual meeting of the National 

Cherry Growers Council in Detroit, Calvin 

(Pete) Nesbitt of Albion was elected vice 

president. The Council membership is composed 

of State Cherry Organizations from 

Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania 

and Ohio. Joseph A. Thomas of 7707 

Greenway Terrace, Towson, Md., was recently 

appointed Middle Atlantic sales 

manager for the Institutional Division of 

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Harry S. Butler of 4943 Walnut Ave., 

Sacramento, Calif., married to the former 

Peg Savage, is a new father. He writes: 

"Daughter Lynne Hunter Butler born Dec. 

31, 1961, 10 hours before tax deadline— 

presently enjoying refund. Doc: c a financial 

genius.' " Harry is assistant manager in 

the Carmichael office of the Crocker-Anglo 

National Bank. 

A $2,800 grant has been awarded to 

Olin K. Dart Jr., Texas A&M doctoral candidate 

in civil engineering, by the Institute 

of Traffic Engineers, Washington, 

D.C. Dart is developing factual information 

important in determining need for 

left turn lanes in traffic. After conducting 

field work in heavily traveled intersections 

in large Texas cities, he will analyze his 

data and then simulate traffic conditions 

through mathematical distributions with 

the 709 computer in the Texas A&M data 

processing center. Olin can be reached 

through his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. 

Dart, 4 Melvin Ave., Cortland. 

We had no items for a column last 

month, and have now depleted the supply 

received since then. Please let us know 

your doings and keep your column filled. 

'54 

Women: Ruth Carpenter 

Everett 

59 Helen St. 

Binghamton, N.Y. 

I surely hope that you've sent in your 

contribution to the Cornell Fund and that 

you'll come to Ithaca for Reunion if you're 

nearby. Whether you're nearby or not, 

we're counting on your presence for our 

10th (can it be OUR 10th?) in '64. 

Nancy Dorr Duel (Mrs. Garrett) is oc- 

cupied as "homemaker" at 16 S. Forrest 

Ave., Arlington Heights, 111. Her children 

are Dickie, 5; Susie 3; and Barbara Jane, 1. 

Cynthia Tuccillo Kowalcyzk (Mrs. Edward) 

sent a letter full of news from her 

home at 102 Farms Rd. Circle, East Brunswick, 

N.J. She included announcement of 

the birth of a daughter Paula Marie on 

March 2. Their other children are Andrew, 

5, and Margaret, 2 ! /2. Doris Caretti and 

Len Oniskey were the godparents. Cynthia 

writes that "Diana Skaletsky Herman and 

her husband, Bob, have moved to New 

Brunswick and we see them quite often. 

Joan Churchill Burgher and her husband, 

Neill '56, DVM '58, have lived nearby for 

several years, and we have had many good 

times together. Neill runs the Raritan Animal 

Hospital in Edison. Helen Tackbary 

Williams and her husband, Bob '53, also 

are in New Brunswick. Helen's oldest child, 

Kristin, and our Andy are nursery school 

pals together." In the midst of bottles and 

babies, Cynthia helped with the Cornell 

Fund this spring. 

Hope you have a wonderful summer. Remember 

me with "wish you were here" 

cards! 

Stephen Kittenplan 

140 E. Hartsdale Ave. 

'56Men: 

Hartsdale, N.Y. 

A few members of our class were invited 

to Mayor Wagner's reception in New York 

City for the Shah of Iran and his beautiful 

wife. Along with Curt Reis and Jerry Tarr 

was Ernie Stern who, for the first time, 

was not able to utter a word upon meeting 

the empress. 

Capt. Barry Meyers, whose address is 1 

Geisinger Ct., Danville, Pa., has graduated 

from the Medical Feld Service School at 

Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Before his turn 

in the service, Barry was with the Geisinger 

Memorial Hospital in Danville. Donald 

Hughes has finally caught us up on his 

whereabouts. After receiving his PhD from 

the University of Delaware in 1961, Don 

started working at Procter and Gamble in 

Cincinnati as a research chemist. Don, his 

wife, Joan, and their five children live at 

3389 N. Bend Rd. in Cincinnati. 

Sven Jorgensen has been named vice 

president and general manager of Slater 

International Corp. in charge of company 

operations in the Caribbean area. Sven, 

who is married and the father of three, was 

president of Ye Hosts and a member of 

the board of directors of Hotel Ezra Cornell; 

now he is president of the Cornell Society 

of Hotelmen in the Caribbean. 

On a more somber note is word of a 

memorial fund honoring Michael William 

Mitchell who died in a tragic mining accident 

in August 1959 at Smith Lake, N.M. 

In Mike's name a fund has been set up 

for "a geology student who proves himself 

adept in other liberal arts field as well as 

geology—a student of the world." This 

fund, to continue the type of work Michael 

was engaged in, was initiated by Justice 

William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court. 

In his letter, Justice Douglas wrote to 

Michael's friends: "Mike represented to me 

the very best in our American heritage. He 

was versatile in outdoor activities; he was 

vitally interested in ideas; he had the urge 

for high adventure; he had deep spiritual 

reserves; he was a joyous companion; his 

horizons were as wide as the world." He 

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was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa 

Phi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon; won the 

Buchanan award, given to the most outstanding 

and prominent senior in the Department 

of Geology, and the Boldt Scholarships 

(based upon scholarship, character, 

ability, and personality); and served 

with distinction in the Marine Corps for 

two years. Mike died after discovering a 

vein of uranium in New Mexico worth several 

million dollars. Along with his wife, 

Georgette, and other members of his family, 

the Class of 1956 is proud of his accomplishments 

and grateful that a means has 

been found to honor him. 

John Calverley Baker was married to 

Janet Paulin on Saturday, March 10. Their 

new address is 9 Hidalgo St., San Lorenzo 

Village, Makati, Rizal, Philippines. Ronald 

Yeaple is an electronic engineer with 

Sander's Associates, Inc., in Nashua, N.H. 

He was formerly with General Dynamics 

in Rochester. 

We urge that you send in your donation 

to the Cornell Fund as soon as possible. Our 

class is making a good showing this year, 

but we would like to see more of our members 

give something to the university that 

gave so much to them. 

Men: David S. Nye 

90-10 34th Ave., Apt. 5-C 

'57 Jackson Heights 72, N.Y. 

Paul Noble is back in New York as director 

of public affairs for WNEW-TV at 

205 E. 67th St. He spent four years in Boston 

with their educational TV station, 

WGBH. Milo Mandel is an attorney for 

Columbia Pictures Corp. in Los Angeles, 

and, coming back across the country, James 

D. Brown is with the advertising department 

of Monsanto Chemical Co. in St. 

Louis. 

Ed Littman, married in August 1961, is 

interning at Michael Reese Hospital in 

Chicago. Bill Eckert has joined the Mobil 

Oil crew, in its Houston exploration and 

producing division. Peter Wolf expects to 

graduate from Harvard Law School in 

June and will work as a law clerk to Federal 

Court Judge Hart in Washington, D.C., 

for a year. William Sahlein received an 

MBA from Columbia University last year 

and is now a market researcher at Pratt 

& Whitney in East Hartford, Conn. 

Marvin J. Pinn reported from the US 

Army Dental Corps, 7th Army Stuttgart, 

Germany, that his post commander is 

Col. Henri Frank '41. Pinn expected to return 

to the US this month. Stephen Miles 

has been recalled to active duty and is at 

Fort Sill, Okla. 

Fred Knowlton has acquired a wife and 

daughter and an MS from Montana State 

College since leaving Ithaca. He is now 

working on a PhD at Purdue University. 

Fred Hahn, 5500 Fieldston Rd., Riverdale 

71, has joined General Foods as a 

product manager in the frozen prepared 

foods area. Fred was formerly director of 

housing and food service at NYU. Gerald 

Weiss will start his internship at St. Vincent's 

Hospital in New York on July 1. 

His home address is 970 Allen Lane, Woodmere. 

Two last-minute reminders: The Cornell 

Fund '62 drive is rapidly drawing to a 

close. Our Class's participation to date 

has been only average in terms of both dol- 

June 1962 

lars and donors. Jack Dempsey as head of 

our Fund organization, Bob Boίfa in New 

York, Bruce Young in Albany, Mike 

Gainey in California, Warren Radler in 

Washington, Ed Vant in Pennsylvania, 

Colin Campbell in Connecticut, Tom 

Brady in Texas, John Brooke and Brad 

Wright in Iowa, Bruce Lorig in Ohio, Joe 

Roebuck in Hawaii, John Burton in Michigan, 

Tom Itin in Libya, and many others 

are contributing time and effort in addition 

to their dollars to the drive. It's not 

a matter of '57 beating '56. It's not the fact 

that reunioning classes often give more or 

even set records. It's purely a question of 

what you owe Cornell; what Cornell needs; 

and what you can afford to give. 

Last but not least, if you can get to Ithaca 

June 8, 9, or 10, there will be room 

made for you, prior reservations or not. We 

hope to see you there. 

'57 

Women: Barbara Redden 

Learner 

4651 Shalimar Dr. 

New Orleans 26, La. 

We see very few Cornellians in this part 

of the world, but it has been our pleasure 

in the past few weeks to get together with 

more alumni than we had run into in the 

two years we have been here! The local 

Cornell Club sponsored a day trip on the 

yacht Cayuga owned by Dick Hagy '44, 

and among those attending were Jim Harper 

'58 (author of the next column) and 

his wife (Annette Fogo '58), Liz French 

'56 and Bob Peare '54, Roberta Pierson 

'55 and Leonard Fernow '51, Adele Petrillo 

'57 and Burt Smart '55, Dick and 

Ann Hagy, Jack Burger '50 and wife Sue, 

Royal Suttkus, PhD '51, and wife Jean. A 

wonderful time was had by all, and we 

found we had a lot in common, although 

there were delightful variations in words 

to songs and pronounciation of "Cayuga"! 

Then as weekend guests we had the 

Smarts as well as Arlette Stevens and 

Mark Dyott, MS '56, who brought their 

son David, aged 20 months. Del and Burt 

live only an hour and a half out of New 

Orleans, at 414 Greenway Ave., Houma, 

La., and get into the city often. Lette spoke 

of having seen Marcia Wurth Gorrie, Joan 

Jeremiah Reusswig, and Deedee Brennan 

Daly on her trip home last summer. The 

Dyotts live at 3112 Revere St., Jackson, 

Miss. 

Evelyn Caplan has changed jobs and is 

now a teaching dietitian at Temple University 

Hospital. She still lives at 1596 

Park Blvd., Camden 3, N.J. She reports 

seeing Virginia Case Wiley, who is working 

in Temple's microbiology department 

while her husband attends its medical 

school. 

Judy Weinberg Weidenthal writes that 

she and her husband Daniel will not be 

able to attend Reunion, as in July they will 

be moving from Detroit (1043 Covington 

Dr.) to Washington, D.C., where Daniel 

will be doing special work at the Armed 

Forces Institute of Pathology, and then at 

the Children's Hospital in eye surgery. 

When this period is over, in December, 

they will go to Boston for a year, where 

Daniel has a fellowship at the Massachusetts 

General Eye and Ear Infirmary. Their 

little boy, David, who weighed only 2 ! /2 

pounds at birth, is now a big, healthy tod- 

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dler. Judy reports seeing Nora Lee Smokier 

Baron '59 in Detroit. 

Pat Scott and Dan Moore have been 

transferred by Du Pont from Wilmington, 

Del., to the firm's Freon Products Division 

in Palo Alto, Calif. Dan is a sales 

correspondent. Pat, Dan, and little Linda 

(born Oct. 11, 1961) are now living at 734 

Live Oak Ave., #5, Menlo Park, Calif. 

Barbara Parker Shephard has exciting 

news. She writes that her husband, Bill, a 

physics professor at the University of Kentucky, 

has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship, 

and they will be leaving in September 

to spend a year in Munich, Germany. 

There Bill will do research in high 

energy physics at the Max Planck Institute 

for Physics. Barbara herself is a professor 

of animal pathology at the University of 

Kentucky, and their address is 371 Garden 

Rd., Lexington, Ky. 

Gwen (Barrera) and Barry Hart '55 were 

transferred in January by Procter & Gamble 

from Freehold, N.J., to Texas. Gwen 

says they have a big house, but need all 

of it for their brood, which includes 

Lyndon, 4^/2; Jenny, 3; and Sherry, 1. Their 

address is 11558 Coral Hills Dr., Dallas 

29, Texas. 

That's all the news for now; hope I have 

more to report for the September issue. 

Someone else will be writing the Reunion 

column as we can't make it this year, and 

there is no August issue. Keep up the good 

work on the Alumni Fund drive, and have 

a ball at Reunion! 

'58 

Men: fames R. Harper 

3921 Prytania St. 

New Orleans 15, La. 

We have a charming letter from Bruce 

Marshall, sailing the Pacific aboard the 

USS Yorktown. He reports that Bill Endter, 

also Navy, has been promoted to lieutenant; 

Ted Buettner is flag lieutenant 

aboard the command ship of Cruiser Division 

One; Tom Keating '57 was retained 

in uniform ("by the Democrats," says 

Bruce) and is serving in Japan; Pete Bowman's 

destroyer collided with a carrier off 

Subic Bay in the Philippines and Pete '59, 

when interviewed by Bruce at the local 

USN swimming pool, was concerned lest 

the little ship might not be repaired in time 

to carry him to a long-anticipated liberty in 

Hong Kong. 

Bruce, we decided, chose wisely when he 

chose the Navy. He says, "I have always 

enjoyed the great port cities of the world 

because of their life and color: my native 

New York, my father's native Edinburgh, 

London, Copenhagen, Valparaiso, San 

Francisco, and your current home, New 

Orleans. To these I must add Hong Kong. 

. . . We spent Christmas in Kobe, a fine city 

in its own right and gateway to the cultural 

centers of Nara and Kyoto." His address 

is VS-23, FPO San Francisco. 

Bob Dodd, 418 Butler Ave., Princeton, 

N.J., writes that having received his PhD 

in geology from Princeton, he is looking 

forward to serving a tour of duty in the Air 

Force. He is married to the former Marya 

Roof, who graduated from Douglass and 

did graduate work in biology at Princeton. 

Frank Eng, Bob reports, is out of the Army 

and back at work with the Celanese Corp. 

of America in Summit, N.J. 

Ed Monahan is working toward his 

PhD in oceanography at MIT. He and his 

wife (Betty Eberhard '61) have a daughter. 

The Joan and Sylvan Schefler Corp. 

have announced a stock dividend, a daughter, 

Dawn Rae, who weighed 6 Ibs. 14 oz. at 

birth and is listed as chairman of the board 

and chief executive officer on the corporation's 

annual report. Home office is given 

as 200 Cabrini Blvd., New York 33. 

Martin Blinder will intern at San Francisco 

General. He writes, "At present, I am 

perched precariously on a fence, on one 

side of which is gastroenterology, and on 

the other, psychiatry." Stan Fishman also 

will intern in San Francisco, but at Presbyterian 

Hospital. 

'58 

Women: Patricia Malcolm 

Wengel 

544 Mercer Road 

Princeton, NJ. 

Our column is back after a two-month 

absence thanks to those who contributed 

news since the last deadline. For others of 

you who wonder about the time lag in reporting 

the news you send, let me explain 

that this column is being written April 26 

for the June issue. Do write in order for 

us to have a regular column, and please 

be patient about seeing your news in print. 

A note from Susan Swanson gives her 

present whereabouts after two exciting years 

in Europe. She writes: "I am now trying 

to instill a few geographical facts into the 

heads of ninth graders in La Mirada near 

Los Angeles. I'm attending to my latest 

passion, skiing, as much as possible, but 

have given up trying to emulate Penny 

Pitou." Susan may be found at 708 Cedar 

Ave., Brea, Calif. 

Rachel Aber and Ben Schlesinger, PhD 

'61, live at 12 Markdale Ave., Toronto, 10, 

Ontario, Canada, with their son Peter 

Abraham who was born Aug. 5, 1961. Ben 

is an assistant professor at the School of Social 

Work, University of Toronto. Faith 

Hauser and Jim Morrow '57 are looking 

forward to returning to Ithaca and Cornell 

in September when Jim will begin graduate 

work in Business Administration. He 

had planned to start last September, but 

was held for another year in the Air Force 

because of the Berlin situation. They have 

been stationed in California for almost two 

years and Faith reports that they have really 

enjoyed it. The Morrows live at 3638 

E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, Calif. 

Sharlene Weintraub and James Belasco 

'57 of 37 South Park Dr., Old Bethpage, 

have two children—Marianne Ruth, born 

Nov. 30, 1961, and Hugh, who was 3 in 

April. Jim was recently promoted to production 

coordinator at Sylvania Electric 

Products in Hicksville. In his spare time he 

does personnel consulting. 

Apologies to Cisela Edstrom Wildes who 

wrote such a nice letter last fall. It arrived 

the week before Doug and I were married 

and has just turned up in spring housecleaning 

of unopened boxes. Cis and Warren 

have been spending this academic year 

at 243 S. Sixth East, Apt. 10, Salt Lake 

City 2, Utah, while Warren finishes his 

MBA at the University of Utah, and takes 

a leave of absence from his job with 

Thiokol. They planned to finish in June, 

so I hope to hear of their future plans, and 

promise to report them more quickly. 

Sue Moore Rowland wrote a very newsy 


Annual Meetings 


THE annual meeting of the Cornell 

Alumni Assn. will be held Saturday, 

June 9, 1962, at 10:30 a.m. in the Alice 

Statler Auditorium, Ithaca, N.Y. The 

agenda includes: 

1. Announcement of the results of the 

alumni trustee elections. 

2. Annual report of the Board of Directors. 

3. President Malott's "Report to the 

Alumni." 

4. Such other business as may come 

before the Association. 

All Cornell alumni are cordially invited 

to attend. 

—HUNT BRADLEY '26 

Secretary-Treasurer 

Cornell Fund 

The annual meeting of the Cornell 

Fund will be held in joint session with 

the Cornell Alumni Assn. Saturday, June 

9, 1962, at 10:30 a.m. in Alice Statler 

Auditorium, Ithaca, N.Y. The agenda 

will be: 

1. Report of the Cornell Fund. 

2. Election of officers and members 

of the Cornell Fund Committee. 

—W. G. BRUSKA '50, Secretary 

Cornell Fund Committee 

letter which included the following notes 

on classmates: Carolyn (DewDrop) 

Brown and Scott Malkin had their second 

child, David, on Nov. 8, 1961. Their address 

is 1207 St. Clair Dr., Middletown, 

Ky. Gladys Lunge and Pete Stifel are at 

684 10th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Gladys is enrolled in graduate school this 

year. Gretch Cuyle and James D. Davis 

were married Sept. 9, 1961. Jim is getting 

his MS from the New York College of 

Forestry at Syracuse in entomology and 

Gretchen is with Bristol Labs. Their address 

is 714 N. McBride St., Syracuse. 

Marilyn Kisίday and Roy Curtiss '56 had 

their third child, Lynn, on Nov. 2. Their address 

is still 1155 E. 61st St., Chicago 37, 

111. Gretch Hamke and Don Brierley '57 

are now at Wynding Hills Rd., East Granby, 

Conn. Don has a position with Kaman 

Aircraft. As for the Rowlands, their plans 

to move to Omaha were cancelled a few 

days before their scheduled departure from 

Cheyenne, Wyo., and they are still at 300 

E. Prosser. 

Hope many of you will get to Reunion 

and write to report the news you gather 

there. Sorry I can't get there this year but 

am certainly looking forward to our 5th! 

'59 

Men: Howard B. Myers 

105-30 66th Ave. 

Forest Hills 75, N.Y. 

Charles J. Doyle, RD 1, Benedict's Trailer 

Court, Unadilla, is a vocational agriculture 

teacher at Sidney High School. The 

Doyles have two young children, Christo- 

June 1962 

pher and Michelle. Harold Kaiser, Btry A 

319th Arty, 32d ABN Div, Ft. Bragg, N.C., 

is an assistant executive officer of an airborne 

howitzer battery. Edward Zander, 

Lancaster Ave., Buffalo 22, is a chemical 

engineer with the Linde Co. Herbert R. 

Johnston Jr., 2232 Q St., NW, Washington, 

D.C., is a student at the George Washington 

University Law School. 

William H. Anckaitis, 1 How Bn 13th 

Arty, 24th Inf Div APO 112, is a forward 

observer at Augsburg, Germany. Dominick 

V. Fonteccio, a first lieutenant, Btry B, 3d 

Msl Bn, 51st Arty, Fort Tilden 95, reports 

that 1st Lt. John Webster is firing away 

with him in the same outfit. 

Dr. Joseph W. Adams, who received his 

DVM in 1961, is with the Peace Corps in 

Nigeria. 

Women: Louisa Bachman 

Gerstenberger 

'59 1319 Northfield Dr., NE 

Grand Rapids 5, Mich. 

Sally Schwartz Muzii writes from Florida 

where she and Ron recently moved into 

their new home at 8860 S.W. 85th Ter., 

Miami. Ronnie Jr., who arrived on Oct. 

19, 1961, boasts a better suntan than either 

of his parents! Ron Sr. is Southern sales 

manager at the Hollywood Beach Hotel. 

Phyllis Corwin Rogers reports that her husband, 

Charles '55, is managing the Helen 

of Troy Restaurant in Troy, Ohio. The 

Rogerses and their two children, Chuck 

Jr., 3!/2, and Ann Marie, 20 months, live 

at RD 1, Box 326, Covington, Ohio. Rose 

Urfer is also in the hotel field at the 

Roserne Motor Court, Route 23, Butler, 

N.J. 

Barbara Hirsch was married to Leslie 

Kaplan in Buffalo on Feb. 25 during "the 

worst snowstorm of the year." Barb is keeping 

her job at N.W. Ayer & Son and is 

commuting from Moorestown, N.J., Apt. 

A22, 99 E. Second St. Beverly Blau Miller 

(Mrs. Mel) lives at 124 Davey St., Apt. 

D, Bloomfield, N.J., and works as school 

and visiting nurse for the town of Montclair. 

After teaching in San Rafael, Calif., for 

two years, Peggy Flynn returned to Cornell 

last fall to work toward her master's in 

textiles and clothing. She has an assistantship 

as graduate resident in the home 

management apartments—Apt. A, Box 127, 

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca. 

Peggy's old roommate, Shirley Downs 

Quinn, wife of Tony '54, lives at 30A Jerusalem 

Rd., Cohasset, Mass. Pat Hurley, 

who is teaching music in Bethesda, Md., 

has recently moved to 1660 Lamer PL, 

NW, Apt. 512, Washington 9, D.C. 

Sheila Ptashek Adelberg (Mrs. Gerald) 

of 141-40 84th Dr., Briarwood, Jamaica 

35, has been teaching school in Queens for 

the last two years. Ann Wickler Mininberg 

of 340 E. 52d St., New York 22, has 

a little boy, Gustav Jay, born Nov. 27, 1960. 

Naomi Meltzer Rubin writes of the birth 

of her second child, Elizabeth Lee, on ; Feb. 

23. Her husband, Walter, MD '59, has been 

granted a fellowship at New York Hospital 

and the Rubins plan to move to the city 

this month. Ruth Chock Casper (Mrs. 

Jack) is working as a research technician 

at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. The 

Gaspers live at 3718-C Herbert Ave., Pennsauken, 

N.J. 

57 

The Builder 

By Philip Dorf '24 

First edition, a collector's 

item, $1.65 postpaid 

"I recommend it to every Cornellian 

of whatever age. ... I never 

realized, and certainly never appreciated, 

the agonies of the financial 

birthing pains that Ezra Cornell 

endured to make his dream come 

true. . . . He had vision, and out 

of his vision came imagination 

which carried within itself the potential 

to create the thing that he 

imagined; and he never gave up. 

. . . every Cornellian who reads 

this splendid book must thrill with 

a new and deeper love for Cornell 

University. 

—ROBERT P. BUTLER '05 in 

Cornell Alumni News, May 15, 1953 

". . . remarkably successful in 

bringing [Ezra] Cornell to life, explaining 

him to a later generation, 

and assuring recognition of his 

proper position in the stream of 

American history . . ." 

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American History 

Cornell Alumni Assn. Merchandise Div. 

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Merchandise Div. 

18 East Ave. Ithaca, N.Y. 

Peggy Naab Tarbox reports that since 

leaving the Army, her husband, Dave, and 

she have gained a daughter, Sheila Lee; 

bought a house at 92 Milford St., Hamburg; 

and managed to reach Cornell at least once 

a year. Dwight '57 and Cindy Hales Ryan, 

with their family, live at 21 Valley Stream 

Rd., Penfield. Dwight is with Xerox Corp. 

in Rochester. Roslyn Bakst Goldman's husband, 

John, LLB '59, was called to active 

duty with the USAR last fall. Roz, who 

lives at 10 Lilac Dr., Rochester 20, is an 

activities therapist in psychiatry at Strong 

Memorial Hospital. 

Last fall, Jay and Carroll Olton Labarthe 

moved into their new home at 426 Olympia 

Rd., Pittsburgh 11, Pa. Previous to that 

time, the Labarthes covered quite a lot of 

territory and visited many Cornellians. 

During a six-month stint in the Army at 

El Paso they saw Glenn and Diane McDonald 

Light and Bob and Jo Eastburn Cyprus, 

both '57. Then in Los Angeles, Carroll and 

Jay spent some time with Bob Dann, UCLA 

Med student, and John Brinsley '58. Bob's 

wife (Sandy Blanchard) was in New York 

at the time attending Peggy Thurber's wedding 

to William A. Schmitt, July 15, 1961. 

The Danns live at 3175 S. Sepulveda Blvd., 

Apt. 3, Los Angeles 34. In San Francisco, 

the Labarthes spent a night on the town 

with Don '59 and Dale Rogers Marshall, 

and Carroll saw Peggy Bratley whose current 

address is 1432 Arch St., Berkeley 8. 

Back in Philadelphia in August for Chip 

Smoley's wedding, the Labarthes stayed 

with Lee and Sue Saul Ferguson and their 

young son Mark. In the routine of civilian 

life once more, Jay is with Lawrence and 

Anthony Wolfe, architects, and Carroll is 

assistant personnel director for Williams 

& Co. in Pittsburgh. 

Our next ALUMNI NEWS column will be 

written by one of you. Class Council elections 

are being held at Reunion and will 

be reported in the next issue of the NEWS 

along with tales of Reunion revelry for 

those of us who can't get to Ithaca this 

time. Many thanks for your continued cooperation 

in keeping the '59 Women's column 

full. 

'60 

Women: Valerie Jones 

3104 Cottage Grove Ave. 

Des Moines 11, Iowa 

In this month for weddings, let's try to 

catch up on some of the previously unreported 

marriages of our classmates which 

have taken place during the past two years. 

A recent letter from Sara Wise Kane 

brought news of three such nuptials. Pris 

cilia Hu graduated from Civil Engineering 

in February and on March 1 she became 

Mrs. Stuart Hilt in a wedding in 

Hilo, Hawaii. The couple had a second 

celebration of the occasion when they visited 

Pris's home in Hong Kong on their 

wedding trip. 

Pam Mathiasen Wade is busy these days 

caring for her young son, Dale, and husband, 

Ron '59. The family lives in Old 

Bridge, N.J., at 176 Southwood Dr. As for 

Sara herself, she spent last summer in Europe 

and on her return to the US was married 

on Oct. 1 to Joel Kane, a Brown University 

student who attended Cornell in 

1958-59. It was back to Europe for Sara 

on their honeymoon, but now they are 

settling down in an apartment at 10 Emerson 

PI. in Boston and would like to see 

other New England Cornellians. 

Also from the Boston area, Sue Phelps 

Day writes of getting together in Brighton 

with Carolyn Bailey Deighton and husband 

Brint '58. Brint has been taking a year of 

graduate work at MIT, and Carolyn has 

worked as a dietitian at New England Deaconess 

Hospital. The Deightons plan to 

move back to California this month. Also 

living fairly near Boston are Gail Carney 

and H. Randall Parker '59 who were married 

last October. Their address is 59 Arlington 

St., Nashua, N.H. Incidentally, 

when the Parkers moved into their apartment, 

they brought all their wordly possessions— 

little more than a player piano, 

a motorcycle, and one unground telescope 

mirror! Randy is a design engineer at Improved 

Machinery Co. in Nashua, and Gail 

works at Astronetic Research, Inc., as "a 

technical writer, public relations arranger 

and proposal administrator." 

From an Ithaca Journal clipping I learned 

of the marriage of Bev Dimock and Rodney 

Craig on March 17 in Santa Barbara, 

Calif. Bev is working for IBM in San Francisco; 

and her husband, a University of 

California graduate, is serving with the 

Navy. After a wedding trip in the Sierras, 

the Craigs are living at 743 Oakland Ave., 

Oakland, Calif. 

Last Sept. 2 was the wedding date for 

Carol Dioguardi and Anthony C. O'Sullivan, 

a graduate student in Food Science 

and Technology. Tony is from Killarney, 

Ireland, and for a month last summer the 

couple visited his homeland so Carol could 

meet her in-laws-to-be. This past year they 

have been living at 210 Delaware Ave., in 

Ithaca, and this month Carol hopes to receive 

her MS in Housing and Design. When 

they have both completed their degrees, 

the O'Sullivans plan to make their permanent 

home in Ireland. 

Peru will be the destination of Jan Merkel 

Klemperer and husband Wilfred '55 

come the end of this year. The proud parents 

of a baby son, Paul, born March 1, 

they are now living at 260 Garrison Rd., in 

Williamsville. Will received his PhD from 

Cornell last February. 

Other Cornellians who have recently become 

parents are Diane Dietz Broadhurst 

and husband Ronald, whose daughter, 

Catherine Leigh, was born on March 27, 

"weighing a considerable 9 pounds 4 L /2 

ounces!" Ron is an engineer at the Bureau 

of Standards where he does research and 

development work on automatic weather 

stations and other meteorological instrumentation 

projects. The family lives in Arlington, 

Va., at 2001 N. Adams St., Apt. 

614. Diane's letter also tells of Betty Nelson 

Marshall and her husband Jim '59, who 

finished at the University of New Mexico. 

The Marshalls lived in Washington for a 

year while Jim was with the Army Map 

Service; but now he has been transferred 

back to New Mexico where they live at 

530 Monte Vista in Las Cruces. 

'61 

Men: Burton M. Sack 

19 Abbottsford Rd. 

Brookline 46, Mass. 

A letter from Steve Barranco informs 

us that he and John Berry have completed 

their Aviation Cadet Training and now have 

their wings and commissions. John is mar- 


ied and is attending the Electronics Welfare 

School at Keesler AFB, Miss. Steve is 

going through the same training at Mather 

AFB, Sacramento, Calif. Steve writes that 

he would enjoy hearing from former classmates 

and any Gornellians in the area. His 

address is Box 3379, Mather AFB, Sacramento, 

Calif. 

On March 24, two of our classmates lost 

their bachelor status. Woody Sponaugle Jr. 

married Judith Brown in Boston, and in 

Montclair, N.J., Bruce Hewitt married 

Mary Van Vleck '62. 

Last month I mentioned that Bill Eaton 

had moved to Chicago but I didn't mention 

that he is working for Horwath & Horwath 

as a food facilities engineer. Bill, his wife 

(Lynne Connor), and daughter are living 

at 820 Judson Ave., Evanston, 111. 

Charles Jarecki is running a 6,000-acre 

Angus cattle ranch in Montana. Charley 

has a commercial pilot's license and has 

been spending a great deal of time flying 

around the state. His address is c/o Katherine 

Fehlberg, Poison, Mont. 

Bob Herdt is in Ithaca working for his 

master's in economic development and agricultural 

policy. Bob and his wife (Lorna 

Lamb '62) are living at 210 Williams St. 

John Raymonda is a grad student at the 

University of Washington and lives at 2261 

N. 56th St., Seattle. Bob Lincoln is working 

for the Southern Tier Electrical Supply 

Co. as a GLF management trainee. 

Bob's address is RD 4, Lane Hill, Tunkhannock, 

Pa. 

The Harvard Yard is looking more like 

the Cornell Quad, every day. Bob Perrin 

is attending Law School and lives at Hastings 

Hall No. 2. Roy Flack, also attending 

Law School, lives at Hastings No. 41, Cambridge, 

38. Also in the Law School is Mike 

Polansky. Jonathan Fairbanks is a Divinity 

School student and lives at 15 St. John's 

Rd., Cambridge. Ed Ochester is a grad 

student in engineering and lives at 371 

Harvard St., Apt. 7, Cambridge 38. 

Dick Lawton, a veterinarian in general 

practice, lives at 13 Iron Works Rd., Concord, 

N.H. Both Ellis Wohlner and Bill 

Collins are actuaries for big insurance companies. 

Ellis works for New York Life and 

lives at 728 Almont Rd., Far Rockaway 

91. Bill works for Prudential and resides at 

5 Sparrow Dr., Livingston, N.J. Ben Baldwin 

is with H. C. Wainwright & Co., 120 

Broadway, New York. 

Larry Carducci graduated from the 

Army Missile School at Fort Sill, Okla., 

and is now stationed in Germany. His 

stateside address is 34 Granal St., Rye. 

Pete Marker, assistant manager of the cafeteria 

operated by the Prophet Co. at Weber 

College, lives at 1638 20th St., Ogden, 

Utah. Ron Pedersen is at Cornell Graduate 

School majoring in agricultural economics. 

Ron and his wife (Margaret Rintz 

'60) receive their mail at Box 622, Candor. 

John Foster is a communications officer 

aboard the USS Carpenter, based at Pearl 

Harbor. John's address is USS Carpenter 

(DDE-825), FPO, San Francisco, Calif. 

We were saddened to hear of the untimely 

death last December of John William 

Betz, from leukemia. John studied at 

Cornell for two years and then transferred 

to the University of Cincinnati because of 

need of home care for his failing health. 

At Cincinnati, John was active in student 

government and the interfraternity council. 

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta; 

Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering 

fraternity; Alpha Chi Sigma and Pi 

Lambda Epsilon, national honorary chemical 

engineering fraternities; and a few days 

before his passing, was pledged to Omicron 

Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership 

fraternity. 

Necrology 

'88 BS—William Henry Pfau of 131 

Buckeye St., Hamilton, Ohio, March 31, 

1962. Sigma Xi, Beta Theta Pi. 

'93 —Rollin Germain Hubby of 6715 

Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 

30, 1962. Theta Nu Epsilon, Delta Phi. 

'95 ME EE—Frank Lawson Walsh of 

127 W. Cecil St., Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 7, 

1962, who retired in 1932 from the US 

Railway Mail Service. 

96_97 Sp—Charles Albert Towers of 341 

E. Camino Real, Monrovia, Calif., Oct. 

18, 1961, who had been a poultryman. 

'97 ME—Ward Sawtelle Jacobs of 70 

Terry Rd., Hartford, Conn., former treasurer 

and manager of the Walton Co. 

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June 1962

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A Guide to Comfortable Hotels and Restaurants Where Comedians 

and Their Friends Will Find a Hearty Welcome 

ITHACA & UPSTATE 

The Collegetown Motor Lodge 

312 College Avenue, Ithaca, N.Y. 

1V 2 

Blocks from Cornell Brand New in '59 

Tel. όe TV each Room Close to Restaurants 

Approved by AAA, ALA, FLA, Superior Motels, 

Keystone Auto Club & Mobil Travel Guide 

Phone AR 3-3542, Ithaca, N.Y. 

Robert Orcutt, MS '48 

ITHACA'S 

CORNELL HEIGHTS 

RESIDENTIAL CLUB 

One Country Club Road, Ithaca, N. Y. 

Phone AR 2-1 122 

Robert R. Colbert '48 

A New & Good Ithaca Eating Place 

Three Miles out East State St. 

1757 Slaterville Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 

Roy H. McCartney, '60 Hotel, Propr. 

COLGATE INE 

Bill Dwyer '50 

Owner-Manager 

iNNη 

Luncheon . . . Cocktails . . . Dinner 

Overnight Accommodations 

James E. Potter '54, Propr. 

Tel. TRinity 7-9987 On N.Y. Route 22 

Rochester, N.Y. 

Treadway Inn 

Sue McNutt '61 

G. J. Kummer '56 

J. Frank Birdsall, Jr. '35 

Ύou Are Always Welcome 

At The 

SHERATON HOTEL 

111 East Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 

Bill Gorman '33, Gen. Manager 

Bill Sullivan '53, Sales Manager 

NEW YORK CITY 

One block from Cornell Club of New York 

Lexington Avenue at 50th Street 

New York 22, New York 

HOTEL 

BEVERLY 

PLaza 3-2700 

Singles $13 - $17 

RATES Doubles $16 - $20 

Suites $25 - $50 

In the World of New York 

NO FINER HOTELS 

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Madison Ave. at 43rd St. 

The BARCLAY 

48th St. off Park 

PARK LANE 

Park Ave. at 48th 

NEW 

JERSEY 

TkMaclίsoH Ί 

Overlooking Ocean at Illinois Ave. 

ATLANTIC CITY N.J. 

Air conditioned Dining Rooms 

and Bar. Excellent Meeting 

and Convention facilities. 

CHARLES W. STITZER '42 

PRESIDENT 

ON THE BOARDWALK 

Best in Atlantic City 

SHELBURNE HOTEL 

EMPRESS MOTEL 

LOMBARDY MOTEL 

MT. ROYAL MOTEL 

Lewis J. Malamut '49 Gary P. Malamut '54 

PHONES: Direct Dial Area Code 609 

ATLANTIC CITY 344-8131 

NEW YORK Direct Line REctor 2-6586; 2-6589 

TheWiD MILL INN 

U. S. 202, BERNARDSVILUE, NEW JERSEY 

Ray Cantwell '52, Inn Keeper 

WHEN IN WEST ORANGE, N. J. 

VISIT OUR TWO 

FINE RESTAURANTS 

Cooperstown, N.Y. 

Treadway Otesaga 

and Cooper Inn 

Parry C. Benton '53 

Resident Manager 

Corning, N.Y. 

The Baron Steuben 

A Treadway Inn 

Kenneth A. Ranchil '49 

Innkeeper 

Johnstown, N.Y. 

Treadway Inn 

Andrew B. Murray '48 

Innkeeper 

REALTY HOTELS, INC. 

Wallace W. Lee, Jr. '36, Virginia L. Baker 

*47, Frank X. Fisher '54, James J. Cohee '57, 

M. J. Graham '58. Mario M. Minasso '61 

HOTEL LATHAM 

28th St. at 5th Ave. -:- New York City 

400 Rooms -:- Fireproof 

Special Attention for Cornellians 

J. WILSON '19, Owner 

BERMUDA 

BERMUDA'S MOST LUXURIOUS NEW HOTEL SUITES 

Bed-sitting room, separate dressing room, sliding 

glass doors opening to private balcony. Every room 

air-conditioned. Johnny McAteer's Boston society 

orchestra and imported name entertainment. 

PAGET, "^iteΓBERMUDA 

Conrad Engelhardt '42, President & Gen. Manager 

Charcoal Broiled Steaks and Chops 

Lobsters and Seafood 

Continental and American Foods 

Banquet Facilities 

Catering 

MARTIN L. HORN, JR., '50 

ALASKA 

JUNEAU 

"THE HOST OF ALASKA" 

EDWARD J. O'BRIEN '37, Manager 


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PENNSYLVANIA 

BOOKBINDERS 

SEA FOOD HOUSE, INC. 

Only here—3rd &. 4th Generations of the 

Original Bookbinder Restaurant Family 

215 South 15th St., Phila. 

SAM BOOKBINDER,HI 

'57 

Year 'round pleasure 

400 Acres high in the Poconos. Championship 

golf course all sport. . . 90 miles from 

or New York. For information or reservations, 

call: Pocono Manor, Pa. Area Code 

717 TErminal 9-7111. 

Host To All-Star Golf 

JOHN M. GRAND ALL '25, V.Pres.&GenΊMgr. 

JOHN L. HITZEL '59, Asst. Mgr. 

WEST & CENTRAL STATES 

ill 

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HUNTING RIDING SWIMMING FISHING 

Write for Reservations 

WAPITI 

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WYOMING 

WORLD FAMED FOR STEAKS 

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Bill 

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA 

Your hosts: DICK AND BESS HERMANN 

CLASS OF '34 

NEW ENGLAND 

BASIN HARBOR CLUB 

Five hundred acre estate on the shores 

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18-HOLE GOLF COURSE - ALL WATER 

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Vergennes, Vermont 

West Harwich 

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A Guesthouse overlooking Nantucket Sound . . . 

beach bathing . . . colonial atmosphere . . . continental 

breakfast ... all rooms with private bath. 

Telephone 617-432-1418 

Tina and Burton Barrows 

Jane I. Barrows '62 

when in BOSTON do as 

Bostonians do . . . stay 

STATLER 

HILTON 

J. P. Duchscherer '36 

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'98 ME EE—Clarence Edson Carpenter 

of 144 E. Allendale Ave., Allendale, N.J., 

March 21, 1962, an engineer with New 

York City's Interborough Rapid Transit 

Co. until retirement in 1941. Daughter, 

Mrs. Francis Kearney (Martha) '26; son, 

William S. '30; brother, the late Lewis S. 

'98. 

'01 LLB—Walter Edwin Phelps of 2731 

Creston Ave., New York City, April 1962, 

who had retired some years ago from his 

own real estate and mortgage business. He 

helped plan the 50th and 55th Reunions of 

his class, but missed the 60th Reunion because 

of poor health. Son, Walter G. Phelps 

'30. 

'02 ME—Clarence Gearhart Crispin of 

2209 N.E. Middle River Dr., Ft. Lauderdale, 

Fla., Nov. 22, 1961. 

'07 ME—William Gorton Taylor of 1181 

Ardsley Rd., Schenectady, Jan. 27, 1962, 

who retired in 1949 after 41 years as industrial 

application engineer with General 

Electric Co. in Schenectady. He pioneered 

in electrical oil well drilling and pumping. 

Daughter, Mrs. Alfred E. Bobst (Jane) 

'44. Kappa Sigma, Sphinx Head. 

'06 LLB—James Lewis Kelly of 59 Ellicott 

Ave., Batavia, Sept. 6, 1961, who had 

been with the Genesee County Loan Assn. 

'06-08 Grad—Nathan Watson Coil of 

1845 E. 82nd St., Cleveland, Ohio. 

'07 BS—Horace Fred Prince of 660 Ave. 

A, N.W., Winter Haven, Fla., Oct. 22, 1961, 

who had been an inspector for the Railroad 

Perishable Inspector Agency for many 

years. He had been active in Boy Scouts 

until well along in years, and wrote a 

scouting booklet, Mom and Dad and 

Johnny, the Boy Scout, and a Handbook for 

Scoutmasters., both used nationally. 

'07 B Arch—Harold Fletcher Wardwell 

of 16109 Jefferson Ave., Grosse Pointe Park, 

Mich., March 1, 1962, who had been president 

and chairman of the board of Detroit 

Steel Products Co. He had also been president 

and director of Bloomsbury Corp.; 

director of Rivard-Maumee Investment 

Co. and Wayne Land Co.; and president 

of Canadian Grosse Pointe Properties Ltd. 

Psi Upsilon, Sphinx Head. 

'08 ME—Ashur Url Wetherbee of 2230 

N. Terrace Ave., Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 

24, 1962, operator of A. U. Weatherbee Co. 

since 1935. Lambda Chi Alpha. 

'09 ]VΠV'21 Sp Med—Dr. Edward Leo 

Berger of 910 Park PL, Brooklyn, March 

26, 1962. 

'09—Mrs. James J. McGovern (Helen 

Dwyer) of 210 Farmington Ave., Hartford, 

Conn., Feb. 10, 1962, who had worked for 

the Connecticut State tax department. 

Brother, the late Col. John W. Dwyer '22. 

'09 AB—Mrs. O. D. von Engeln (Maude 

Hewitt) of 115 Kelvin PL, Ithaca, March 

25, 1962. Husband, Prof, von Engeln '08, 

geology, emeritus. 

Ό9—Philip Charles Whiting of 88 Madison 

Ave., Holyoke, Mass., March 14, 1962. 

Brother, the late Allen E., LLB '98. Phi 

Delta Theta. 

ΊO-11 Grad—Mrs. Marguerite E. Holt 

(Marguerite English) of 84 Trumbull St., 

New Haven, Conn., Oct. 20, 1961, a librarian 

for many years. 

Ίl CE—Gay Wollenweber of 775 E. 

Base Line, San Bernardino, Calif., March 

26, 1962, who retired in 1941 from the US 

Engineer Corps. Acacia. 

'12-13 Sp Ag—William Fletcher of Leesburg, 

Fla. (box 229), Aug. 28, 1961. 

'12 CE—Peter Remsen of 7332 Piney 

Branch Rd., Takoma Park, Md., April 5, 

1962, who had been vice president and 

general manager of a contracting firm in 

Washington, D.C. Sigma Phi Epsilon. 

'13 CE—Lynn B. Curry of 312-14 Redwood 

St., Progress, Harrisburg, Pa., March 

25, 1962, a former senior engineer for the 

Pennsylvania Utility Commission at Harrisburg. 

Son, Lynn B. Jr. '47. 

'13 BS, '17 MD—Dr. Archie Leigh 

Dean Jr. of 30 E. 40th St., New York City, 

March 27, 1962. Urologist. Kappa Sigma, 

Sphinx Head. Son, Hugh G. '49. 

'14 BS—Ray Huey of 86 Hillcrest Dr., 

Spencerport, Dec. 13, 1961, who retired as 

senior statistician of the New York State 

Department of Agriculture in 1947. Sons, 

Charles C. '44, and Robert P. '45. 

'14 BS—Marx Emerson Maxon of 23 W. 

Court St., Cortland, April 10, 1962, retired 

vice president, treasurer and sales manager 

of Brewer Tichener Corp. Brothers, Earl 

T. '12; Paul J. '13; and the late Walter L. 

Maxson '15. 

'15-16 Grad—Reid Lage McClung of 

951 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., 

Aug. 18, 1961. 

'15 PhD—Ira Elver Lee of 2625 14th St. 

N., St. Petersburg, Fla., March 1, 1962, who 

had been a research chemist. Sigma Xi, 

Gamma Alpha. 

'15 ME—Alfred Glenn Homan of 435 

Walnut Rd., Ben Avon, Pittsburgh, Pa., 

Feb. 18, 1962, who retired in 1957 as general 

traffic engineer for Bell Telephone Co. 

Son, Robert A. '48. Eta Kappa Nu. 

'15 BS—Irving Studley Warner of 46 

Highland St., Hyannis, Mass., March 1962, 

who had been in farming and later in sales. 

Alpha Gamma Rho, Cosmopolitan Club. 

'17 ME—John George Gates of 227 N. 

Duke St., Lancaster, Pa., June 22, 1961, 

who had been president of Gates Dental 

Co. Wife, Barbara, '16-17 Sp Ag; son, 

Eugene E. '34. 

'18—William Lewis of 40 East Sixtysixth 

St., New York City, a retired stockbroker 

who was with Schenley Industries 

from 1934-59. 

'18, '21 WA—Clyde Arlington Warne of 

Calzada Conscripto 260, Lomas Hupodromo, 

Mexico 10, D.F., Mexico, March 

19, 1962, controller, Mexican Light and 

Power Co. before retirement in 1961. Wife, 

Calista Hoffman '18. Kappa Delta Rho. 

'19 MS—Robert Martenus Dolve of 221 

N. Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 27, 1961. 

'21—Mrs. W. B. Willis (Beatrice Cooper) 

of New Market, Md., Aug. 14, 1961. 

'22 AB—Mrs. Harold L. Tonkin (Mary 

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'24—Frederick Walter Waterman Jr. of 

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'25—Austin Kefauver Thomas of Frederick, 

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division for Chain Belt Co., Milwaukee, 

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'26—Thomas Selden Snead of Philadelphia, 

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Alpha Chi Rho. 

'27 AB—Mrs. Reynold Otto Claycomb 

(Elinor Shipman) of 1773 San Leandro 

Lane, Santa Barbara, Calif., March 17, 

1962. Kappa Delta. Husband, Reynold '28. 

'28 CE—Maj. Gen. Clinton Frederick 

Robinson (US Army ret.), president of the 

Carborundum Co. since 1952, April 10, 

1962. During the latter part of World War 

II he was a member of the War Department 

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head of the Control Division of the Army 

Service Forces. He was awarded the Legion 

of Merit, the Distinguished Service 

Medal, and the Bronze Star Medal. After 

World War II he was deputy administrator 

of the War Assets Administration and 

later, special assistant to the chairman of 

the National Security Resources Board. 

After retirement in 1948 and before joining 

Carborundum, he was a top executive of 

Frederic R. Harris Co., Inc., consulting 

engineers. Wife, Mary Rossen, LLB '28. 

'28 BS, '29 MF—Carl Oswald Rudolph 

Spalteholz of Newark, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1961. 

Phi Kappa Phi, Helios, Alpha Zeta. Daughter, 

Mrs. Everett R. Kalin (Clara) '56. 

'29 PhD —Hette Morse Chute of 371/2 

Jones Ave., New Brunswick, Feb. 22, 1962, 

emeritus professor of botany at Douglass 

College. Sigma Xi, Sigma Delta Epsilon. 

'29 BS, '36 PhD—Prof. Daniel Grover 

Clark, botany, of 306 E. Tompkins St., 

Ithaca, April 13, 1962. Daughter, Mrs. 

Alan E. Crawford (Mary) '57. Sigma Xi, 

Helios, Phi Kappa Phi. (See Faculty section, 

May ALUMNI NEWS). 

'29 AB—Edward Green Joyce of 317 S. 

Virginia Lee Rd., Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 

10, 1962, president of Better Built Homes, 

Inc., in Columbus. Father, the late William 

J. '98; brother, William J. Jr. '27. Phi 

Kappa Psi, Sphinx Head. 

'29 BS—Dr. Allen William Enos of 

Broadway St., Hanover, Mass., Feb 13, 

1962, a physician. He had just accepted a 

position at the Taunton State Hospital. He 

also operated a 400-acre dairy farm in 

northern New York state. Sister, Mrs. 

Chester B. Pond (Emma) '28. 

'32 AM, '40 PhD — Mrs. William H. 

Trentman (Sarah Wooten Briggs) of 2500 

Anderson Dr., Raleigh, N.C., April 5, 1962, 

who had been president of Penn Hall Junior 

College and Preparatory School, 

Chambersburg, Pa. 

'32 AB—Mrs. Raymond W. Goldsmith 

(Selma Fine) of 3640 Appleton St. N.W., 

Washington, D.C., April 15, 1962. She had 

been a government economist and chief of 

the income section of the National Income 

Division, Office of Business Economics, 

US Department of Commerce. She was a 

recipient of the Department of Commerce 

Meritorious Service Medal in 1955, and 

in 1956 received a Rockefeller Public Service 

Award for outstanding public service. 

She was co-author of Tax Treatment of 

Capital Gains and Losses. Phi Beta Kappa, 

Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Lambda Theta, Sigma 

Delta Tau. 

'35, '36 BS—Howard Charles Oppe of 

497 Edgewood Ave., New Haven, Conn., 

March 28, 1962, secretary and assistant 

treasurer of the G & O Manufacturing Co. 

Scorpion. 

'36 EE—Hyman Fein of 428 S. Hamel 

Rd., Los Angeles, Calif., March 21, 1962, 

of a heart attack. He had been a quality 

control representative for the US Air Force. 

'37 BS—Fred Ford Sampson Jr. of 1860 

Winchester Dr., Winter Park, Fla., who 

had been with Owens-Corning Fiberglas 

Corp. in Ohio. 

'39—Ralph Perry Holmes of 9 Chestnut 

St., Franklinville, Feb. 23, 1962. 

'40 BS—Gilbert Royal Goeseke of Akron, 

Dec. 15, 1961, of a cerebral hemorrhage. 

He was a dairy farmer. 

'40, '41 BS—Herbert John Mault of 216 

Cheney Pkwy, Pittsford, (RD 2), Jan. 18, 

1962, who had been district representative 

for Foster Wheeler Corp. in western New 

York state. 

'40—Malcolm Donald Sherman of 91 

Green Ridge Dr., W., Elmira, March 24, 

1962, a Corning attorney. 

'46, '48 AB—Peter Jay Massey Jr. of 936 

N. Lake Shore Dr., Elmira, March 24, 

22, 1962. Phi Kappa Psi. 

'41 PhD—Victor Macomber Cutter Jr., 

professor and head of biology at the Woman's 

College, University of North Carolina, 

Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 26, 1962, former 

instructor of botany at Cornell. Sigma Xi, 

Phi Kappa Psi. 

'51 MS—Claude Theodore Westburg of 

39 Pollard Ave., Rochester, Jan. 10, 1961. 

'53—James Leonard Crews of 234 Pulaski 

St., Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Jan. 20, 

1962. 

'53 LLB—George Steadman Reed of 323 

E. Gibson St., Canandaigua, Feb. 15, 1962. 

Brother, George A., LLB '48. 

'61—John William Betz of 3193 Boudinot, 

Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1961, a student 

at the University of Cincinnati, of 

leukemia. Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Chi Sigma, 

Pi Lambda Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta. 

'61 AB—Nancy Merrell of 1185 Green 

Bay Rd., Highland Park, 111., April 5, 

1962, in an automobile accident at Bennettsburg. 

She was a teacher of history and 

English in Watkins Glen High School. 

Delta Gamma. 

'64—Uri Hans Bardfeld of 48 Osborn 

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