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published by
NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND
LABOR RELATIONS, AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
for faculty, staff, students, friends
	
Vol. 9, No. 10 May 1957
TRAINING INSTITUTE. OPENS JUNE "3' 75 TRAINING-SPECIALISTS EXPECTED
Thema of the seventh annual Institute for Training Specialists £. to be held on-campus
June 3-6„-will be "Implementing the Training. Function in Industry." This years em-
phaeis„ acaording to Prof. Emil Meaics, Institutiochairman, wills be on techniques, pes
tices. and philosophiee applicable to the	 * * * * * *
present and fetare.	 FACULTY PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED
The 1957 institute program will stress
the functions of the training job in bu5ic The promotion of two ILR faculty members--
ness and industry, the growing trend iit.	 Gardner Clark and Robert H. Ferguson'=-
industry toward integrating the trairtng from aasocate to full professor was an-
function.and managiment development; the nounced. recently,''
partothat social ecience research has 	 Prof. Clark teaches and does researoh in
played in providing. training programs.. 	 the field of. labor economics, with special
with source material, and the application i..o.inntse reat in internationalindustrial relit-
of management.00mmunication to training.   He. has studied labor problens of -
To encourage. par4cipationo a pans/	 Western,Earept (1952,53) and spent last
discussion hes_beettscheduled for Monday year pe. sabbaticleave in Italy studying
afternoon, with alternate interest die- trade. union resistance to technological
ouesion groupeoforleaot morning and after, change.. .Heoia author of The Economics :of
noon of the following days.	 Soviet Steel (1956).	 e\
Addressing the opening_luncheon will be —75WW7WiTgraduatedIrom Harvard Univer-
ichard Be.Johnson„'Training Coordinator, oity.„. where he-alanitriceived an M.A. and
The Port of New. Yorsit Authority.. _Other	 Ph.D. He also hags areM.A. from Unieereety
key speakers will be Warren A. Ranney, . of Minnesota. . He came to ILR i4 190 and7
Director, Irdustry Relations, Cooperative was pramcted to , associate professor in 19510
G.L.F. EXchangee.inc., on "The Essential_ . Prof.. Ferguson.also works in the field
Training Character of Executive Developce of .labor economics. Ha is currently work-
ment" and Barry C. Wardle, Manager, Eme ing. on a textbook in labor economics. In
pisyee Communications,. B. F. Goodrich 	 1954 Prof. Ferguson.aRent swivel months
Rubber Coco, on. "Management Communization.! in.EUrope,..where he taught,aVSalzburg
Prof. Sanford S. Atwood, University.'. 	 HSeminar„ Salzburg, *Austria. , For the past
Provost, will be Wednesday dinner speak- five years ehe has beeneditir ofAhe ILR
erg concluding speaker Thursday noon will Review.	 a
be Prof. Alpheus W. Smith. discussing. 	 Ferguson. holds' an. C3117- 4Mem Umict College,
Some.. Current Concepts. 9°	 an M.A. from. Brown, and a Ph.D. Iron
ILR faculty members leading interest	 Cornell. He was. a.member of thei:original
groups`will.be,Profs. F. F. Foltman„	 ILR faculty when the.School opened ir the
John	 Brophy,.. Robert F0.. Risley,. and	 fall,of 19►5. Ferguson was promotedito
Emil Mesita',	 associate professor in 1950.
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PROF. CLARK IN USSR
Prof. Gardner Clark of ILR is currently visiting the USSR and Eastern Europe on a
grant from the Inter-University Committee Travel Grants (financed by the Carnegie
Corporation)._ Prof. Clark, whose particular interest_is_the_Soviet economy, hopes
to gain some first-hand knowledge of labor productivity in the iron and steel indus-
tries of the countries he is visiting.
He left Ithaca.Moy 13 and is spending a week.each in. Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
and Poland. He will be.in Russia during June.. ..En route home he will spend two or
three weeks in Rumania,. Jugoslavia, Turkey, Greece and England.
RESIDENT INSTRUCTION APPOINTMENT 
Roger Walker, ILR doctoral candidate,.has been named. counselor in the Office of
Resident Instruction effective July 1. He will supplement.the Office staff during
the sabbatic leaves next year of Prof. Rudolph Corvini (for two semesters) and of
Prof. James Campbell during the Spring, 1958 semester.
Walker has a B.B.A. and M.A. from University of Miami, where he held a teaching
assistantship...Since studying at Cornell hswas given.o semester's leave to work
for the President's Commission,on Veterans Pensions....Walker is currently assisting
Prof. John McConnell.
FATHER KELLEY SCHOLARSHIP WINNER NAMED
James McPartland, a 17-year-old high school seniorskrom LaSalle Academy, New York
City, has won the $1,200-a-year Father WilliamJ. Kelley Scholarship to ILR School.
The four-year.scholarship is sponsored by. Local 34 International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers.
i Announcement and presentation of the award was made April. 23 by Dean M. P. Gather-
wood, following luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria.. The luncheon was attended by
officers of the union, former scholarship-holders Barbara Loreto, Estelle Diner-
stein, John Mahon, Jr.-, and applicants for .the scholarship. Donald Dietrich of
the ILR. Office of Resident Instruction also attended.
At LaSalle Academy McPartland is president of the senior class y first-page editor
of the school paper,. &member of the Cardinal Hoyes_honor society, and piano accom-
panist. and...soloist...for the glee club.. He has played. in Carnegie Hall. He plays in
an orchestera and clerks, in a stationery store.
Other ILR students holding Father Kelley scholarships are senior Bob Boffa, junior
Donald Smith, sophomore Kathleen Fenley, and freshman Charles Levenstein.
ALUMS TO INVADE CORNELL
Cornell men and women, full of alumni spirits and decked out in class costumes,
will invade the campus June 7 for reunion festivities.
1LR's contribution to the weekend will be an alumni buffet breakfast on Saturday
morning, June 8 from. 9100 to 10:15 a.m. in the ILR faculty lounge. ILR faculty are
invited. to attend the breakfast and. welcome returning alums.
On Monday, June 10, the School. will. serve its annual-commencement luncheon to
graduating_students, their. parents, and.ILR faculty and wives.
KEMPTON REPORTS ON PERKINS 
Murray Kempt.on of the New York Post was a speaker at the recent Conference on
Current Problems in Labor Relations. He spent some time talking with Miss Frances
Perkins, ILR Visiting Lecturer, and based his column.in the. May 8 New York Post 
mainly on. his interview with her. Their chat was a bit of nostalgia for the old
days.
Included in the column was this description of Cornell University: "Cornell
University is running a conference this week, to which various pilgrims came to
wonder aloud about this solid institution, so. rich, so troubled with indigestion
of riches, so sure of its place in the sun..."
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JUNE SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP
Two of ILR's sevem one-weeks non-credit summer seminars and workshops will be held
concurrently June 24-28. They are: Human Problems of U. S. Enterprise in Latin Americas
taught by Prof. William Wbytes and Discussion. Leadership in. Iarge and Small Groupss
conducted by Prof. Harrison Trice.
The former will be conducted for U. S. management people who have responsibilities in
the Latin American operations of their companies. Prof. Whyte is organizing the seminar
in collaboration with Prof. Allan Holmbergs Cornell anthropologist. Visiting discussion
leaders will include Serafino Romualdi, Inter-American representative of the AFL,CIOs
Edmund' Lassale s a consultant on Latin American. Public Relations, and Guillermo Rodrigues
Eraso of Creole Petroleum Petroleum.
JULY CONFERENCES
Two conferences for labor groups and a One-week management seminar will lead off the
11 conferences scheduled for. July. Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electri=
cal Workers s and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees will hold prograns on
campus the first week in.july. Prof. Wayne Hodges will conduct a five-day seminar,
In-Plant Communicationw the same week.
The regular six-week summer session will, also begin July 8 and continue until mid=
August. Nine credit courses each in the Industrial and Labor Relations and Industrial
Education sections will be held.
REVIEW HAS NEW EDITOR
--15i;3. Robert Ferguson bows out as editor of the ILR. Review after a five-year term.
New editor should be Prof. Robert Aronson; however, he is avoiding the issue by going
on sabbatic leave for a year. Associate editor Don Cullen will serve as editor pro-tems
with Prof. Jesse Caxpenter as associate editor.
DEAN CHAIRS NICE PANEL
-"Wia17157Citherwood chaired a panel session "The Fight for Clean Unions, t4 at the
annual_meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board May 17 at the Waldorf Astoria
in New York City.
Panel members were John L. McClellan,, U. S. Senator from Arkansas; Robert J. Kennedys
Mae Counsel s U. S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or
Management. Field;. Victor Riesels Labor Editor s New York Mirror; A. J. Hayes s Presidents
International Association_ of Machinists; and lev- John Corridans LeMoyne University.
AUSSIE RETURNS HOME
--KirEEMIIIETiiiose home is in Melbourne. Australia,. has completed work for his
doctorate; he will.leave_ILR.and Ithaca June 15 after three years on campus. Keith
will spend_three.weeks in_a training. program with his home companys Standard Vacuums
in New York City. On July 13 he will sail forEngland s, where he will start a six to
eight week tour of England, France. and Holland. Keith plans to stop off to visit Ron
Saldanha9 former ILR students in Bombays provided his ship passes through the Suez
Canal. Collins has been an ILR instructor and graduate assistant.
ILR CONDUCTS WORKSHOP FOR SECRETARIES
ILR conducted .a one-day workshop for Cornell secretaries on May 21 at Statler Hall.
The group was welcomed by Personnel Director Diedrich Willers.
On the- program were Prof.. F. F. Foltmann who led a. discussion on Job Expectations
iE of Boss and Secretary; Lloyd Elliott, Executive Assistant to. the President s who de-
scribed the Cornell organization; Prof..Rarlan Perrinss discussing An Approach to
IntenTersonal_Relationships.in the Officavand Prof. Ronald. Donovan s speaking on
'Where Do We Go from Here”
Almina_Leach of. ILR Administrative Assistant's office attended the program.
PLANS OF ILR GRADUATES
-- TIRkraduating Feniors have announced their future plans as follows:
Don Anderson--Job Analyst, Stromberg-Carlson, Rochester
Lionel Barrierl--Personnel Dept., Price Brothers, Kenogami 9 Quebec
James Belasco-Assistant Personnel Manager, Sylvania Electric, Hicksville
Robert Boffa--Army
Tom Brady--Personnel Dept., Shell Oil, New York City
Bill Brown--Industrial salesman, Scott Paper Cc., New York City
John Buxton--University of Michigan Law School
John Cantlay--Management trainee, Otis Elevator, Yonkers
Sonya Chambers, Personnel assistant, Gleason Works, Rochester
Mark Chester--in June, 1958 he will go in service
Robert Coffin--Industrial relations trainee, Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J.
William Dailey--Traffic Dept., New York Telephone Co., New York City
John Dempsey—Sales director, IBM, Buffalo
Gerry Dorf--Enters service in March, 1958
John Edsal11-.-Employee relations trainee
John Follansbee, Air Force
Dick Grantham--Production management trainee, B. F. Goodrich, Akron
Lawrence Hart--Group trainee, Aetna Life Insurance, Hartford, Conn.
Richard Hayes--Computor sales, IBM
William Hoblock 9 Albany Law School
Duncan Hopkins Industrial Relations Dept,, Shell Oil, Houston, Texas
Tom Itin--Staff .assiatant„ Industrial and Labor Relations, Socony Mobil, New York
Robert Jacoby--Army
David Kielson--Army
Tony Knipp- -Assistant industrial relations director, Chester Cable Corp., Chester
Joseph Leinbach--Navy
Michael Linehan--Army
Sanford Lowe—University of Chicago Law School
Richard Malnotte--Navy
Erwin Okun--New York University Law School
Pat O'Reilly--Job analyst, Stromberg-Carlson, Rochester
Alan Polaceek--Army
Ed Rogers—Vice president-production, Wayne Sportswear, Suffern
Milton Rumsey--Training program, Continental Can, Syracuse
Andrew Schroder--Marines
Lois Schumacher—Office manager, Deutsch & Shea, New York City
Howard Shearer--Na►
Don Smith,Staff trainee, Western Electric, New York City
Roger Stark--Army
Peter Strosa--Group Service trainee, Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City
• Thampsons—JOb analystp.Stromberg-Carlson„ Rochester
• • ert Titna,-Pereonnel.aesistant„ Rochester Gas and Electric, Rochester
Bob Uhlinger--Navy
Bob Warne--Navy
Jim Wright--Employee relations assistant, Esso Standard Oil, Bayonne
Plans of graduate and special students are:
Pedro Guglielmetti (special)--has returned to Chile
Ralph James (Ph0D) InstruCtor„ MIT
Seymour Lehrer (M.S.) AMY
Antonia Nell (M-S. cand.) Interviewer, Stromberg-Carlson„ Rochester
Patrick O'Shea' (Special) Department of State
Michael Stewart (Non-Cando) Graduate study in economics, Oxford University
Ram Tarneja (Ph.D. cand.) returning to India
Kiroko Kondo--returning to Japan
STAFF ORGANIZATION ELECTS OFFICERS 
The ILR Staff Organization (for non-professionals) held its annual organization meet-
D ing on Wednesday, May 15 with Laura Keenahan„ Education Committee member, presiding.
Nominations for officers were made at the meeting, and balloting was by the entire
staff the following day.
Election results were: Education: Almina Leach (chairman), Rae DeAngelis, Ruth
Olmstead.; Social Committee; Dorothy Johnson, Connie Rotunno; Grievance Committee:
'aura Keenahan,. Frances Reddick 2 Doris Stevenson;. Secretary, Barbara Breckenridge.
The staff spring luncheon, planned by the newly-elected social committee, was held
Friday, May 24 at the Clinton House; 33 were present. Doris Stevenson, on behalf of
the Staff Organization, extended best wishes to those of the group who were leaving.
STUDENT NEWS ITEMS
—M.f.-r--eiiImanCarolyn Carlson of Oceanside was chosen. Queen of Spring Day, 1957. She
was also named queen of the Military. Ball on campus this spring. She is on the ILR
Newsletter staff.
John Maskam of Bloomfield, N.J. is stroke on the Cornell junior varsity crew.
METfEbbits„ ILR junior from Mohaik, plays outfield on the Big Red baseball team.
Junior Bob Pyler of Frewsburg has received the Bureau of National Affairs summer
internship, which pays $500. Tyler will spend ten weeks this summer working in the
BNA editorial offices, Washington, D.C.
Art Brooks, ILR junior (Cornell Student Council.president) and. Robert Meade '58 will
be among the singers accompanying a group of Cornell University entertainers on a six=
week tour ofthe_Racific area,. including Hawaii, Japan, etc.
Seniors Art Brooks and Dick Metzgar have been named to Quill and Dagger, senior men's
honorary.. David Eckel, Richard Gould, F. Lee Jacquette and Tom Tuttle have been named
to Sphinx Head. Tamar Schneider has been named to Raven and Serpent, junior women's
honorary.
IRRA ELECTIONS HELD
Officers of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Cornell chapter, are
as follows: President, Sal Bella; Secretary-Treasurer, Muriel Beach; Executive board:
Donald Cullen, Emil Mesics, Frank Miller, Mel Roberts and Mary Clary.
The IRRA annual banquet, held at Willard Straight on May 21, was attended by about
35 members and guests.
REPRINT ISSUED
Repria- #53 in the ILR series is "Final Report on a Research Project in Mediation" by
PrOf. Henry Landsberger (from August, 1956 issue .of.Labor Law Journal).
LEE LEAVES; ALMINA COMES
After seven-and-a-half years of putting husband Eli through Cornell, Lee Reisman has
quit ILR. Lee has been secretary to four administrative_ assistants--John Paterson,
Jack Leonard, Riley Morrison,. and Robert. Risley. Prior to that she was secretary to
former Prof. Ken Beach.
The Reismans will move to southern California as soon as Eli has wound up his doctor-
ate in nuclear physics. He has a job with North American Aviation.
Replacing Lee is Almina Leach, who moved to the Administrative Assistant's office
from Research. Almina„ who has worked at ILR for eight years, has been research assis-
tant, doing editing and_the like for. the past four years. Previously she was Prof.
Adams' secretary.
GIRL  BABIES ARRIVE ON SAME DAY
Two ILR faculty couples had baby daughters the same day, May 4: Florence and Gardner
Clark had.a.7 lb. 10 oz. daughter, Carolyn, and, ten hours earlier, Betty and Henry
Landsberger became parents of a 7 lb. girl, Margaret Ann.
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SABBATIC-BOUND
IL t professors start their sabbatic leaves this fall. They are Profs. Robert
Aronson, Rudolph Corvini, Wayne Hodges Duncan MacIatyre„ Robert Raimon and John
Windmuller. Prof. James Caapbell plans a sabbatic leave for the Spring semesters
1958.
Prof. Aronson has been granted a FUlbright to do a year's labor market research
in Jamaica, Pref. Corvini will be at Socony Mobil in New York s concerned with various
employee relations problems; Prof. Hodges plans to conduct studies in community rela-
tions and in plant communications for certain companies in the chemical and steel
industries, Robert Raimon will do 'reading and writing in Ithaca; John Windmuller
has a Ford Foundation International Relations Training fellowship for study and re
search at ILq headquarters and at the Graduate School of International Studies at.
Geneva s Switzerland.
PERSONNEL CHANGES
A record number of 14 ILR staffers are leaving--some only temporarily--within the
next month or two.
Marie Burnett of the library circulation staff is taking a maternity leave; she
plans to return in the fall.
MaryCanolat„ secretary to Profs. Morris and Raimon s is leaving at the end of the
summer to enter Cornell Arts and Sciences.
Jane Cantla „9 conference recorder for the past year, will live in the New York area.
Husband Johns an. ILR senior, will be employed at Otis Elevator in Yonkers.
4.1.!kaChatman. who has been working for Prof. Risley on the retail stores projects
isJi&iEW3ZEhester with her husband„ a June Law School graduate.
Elaine Freeman, secretary to Prof. Ornati, (formerly of the Extension staff) will
make her home in. LeRy s where her husband will teach music.
AMae Fullerton, secretary to Emil Mesics and Al Martin s, will spend the summer in
Vermont with  her husband's people. Their future. plans aren't definite.
He Latimer, secretary to Profs. Brophy and R. Campbell s will spend the summer
with her husband s, a veterinarian student, in the New York City area.
Ethel Leash of the library circulation staff will quit at the end of the summer to
teach second grade at Newfield Central School.
Agnes Murray of ILR Statistics Office in Warren Hall will move to Hicksville, L.I. 0
where her husband s a June veterinary graduate d will be practicing.
Theresa O'Reir ts who has been working in Room 20 9 and more recently s in the Dean's
Of ice s will move to Rochester where her husband, Pat s ILR seniors has taken a job with
Stromberg-Carlson.
Jose nine Richards of the Human Relations staff is spending the summer caring for
her	 I en.
Barbara TJNO2III of the library cimulationstaff and her husband will take a 10-day trip
to Bermuda before settling down. Barb's husband will be a GE trainee.
Jane Webb of the Fiscal Office is leaving the end of June to live in Austin s Texas
where her husband will.work for a doctorate in geology at University of Texas. The
Webbs plan to visit friends in Maine before returning to their home in Mississippi for
a few weeks.
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Woo s,a June graduate of the Boston University School of Journalism s has
rep=ecrrla Leach as research assistant in. the Research ,Office. She attended
Syracuse University for two and-a-half years. She has been a reporter on the Cortland
Standard and has worked on the Boston University News.
Mari Lou Bowers Ithaca high senior who has been working part-time at ILR, has been
assigned full,time to Prof. Mesics andAl Martin following her graduation.
Ellen MeDonald s .Cornell '58 9 has been employed to record ILR summer conferences.
During the school year she is on the staff of the Cornell Sun.
Three seniors from Candor Central School have been hired by ILR Audrey Oltzs Carol
Sue Keene and Phyllis Van. Etten. They are working part-time until they graduate.
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PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL
Barbara and Buady Linder are parents of their second son s Robert Aaron ? born April
2J weight 7 lbs. 6 oz. Barb was formerly secretary to Profs. Clark and Windmuller.
Visiting lecturer Albert Martin will conduct a four session program s "Case Studies
in Human Relations ? " for personnel of the Internal Revenue Service in Syracuse. The
course will begin June 4.
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Catherine Howard, secretary to Prof. Ferguson, with her mother? is spending a month
visiting relatives and.friends on the West Coast. Catherine is a native of California.
Izzie Thomas ? the Dean's secretary, is at home recovering from an operation. She
hopes to return to ILR by the end of June.
Prof. Robert Risley led an afternoon discussion on Research in Training for the
College and University Group at the annual meeting of the American Society of Training
Directors in Ft. Worthh, Texas May 13-17. Franklin Porter, Director of Training and
Development for American Airlines, discussed American Airlines-ILR School Relationships.
Profs. Ronald Donovan ? Al Martin and-Robert Risley attended the Governor's Conference
on Construction Workers Safety in Albany on May 22.
Barbara Proctor and husband will leave in mid-June to spend a month visiting rela-
tives in their home state of Texas. They will join their son ? Phil ? who is already
there. Barbara is Prof. Risley's secretary.
Prof. Jean McKelvey attended a meeting April. 27 of the Governors of the National
Academy of Arbitrators in Washington, D.C.: On May 17 she attended a board meeting and
a public meeting of the State Mediation Board ? Southern Tier? in Elmira.
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Dottie Johnson of the Fiscal Office spent a week's vacation recently visiting friends
and relatives in the Pittsburgh area.
Prof. Leonard Adams attended a meeting of the Social Science Research Council's
Committee on the Family and Employment May 1618 at the University of Minnesota.
Acting Librarian Bernard Naas attended a librarians' meeting in Boston May 24-25.
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Anne Dimock 9 secretary to Prof. Hanson, is spending the month of June visiting rela=
tives in California. Like Catherine Howard? Anne is a native Californian.
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ILRere Albert Martin and Fred Slavick participated on May 18 in an institute on
Workmen's; Compensation and Safety Problems for officers and members of Local Lodges
395 and 1962, International Association of Machinists; (Rochester). Dick Gordon,
Extension representative of ILR's Western District Office, served as moderator.
Announcement was recently made of the engagement of ILR junior Maurice Duggan of
Oldbridge, N.J. to Miss Constance Fitch of Garden City. Miss Fitch is a Cornell
Arts senior.. They plan to be married during the summer('
Jane Webb of the Fiscal Office is attending her sister's graduation from Missiaa-
ippi College the first part of June. She is flying to and from her home in Hatties-
burg.
Dean M.. Po Catherwood spoke May 4 at the dedication of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers '_recreation center for pensioners in New York City.
On June 13 Prof. Ralph Campbell will speak on "The Role of the Executive in
Personnel Administration" at a top-management seminar of the Army Ordnance Manage-
ment Engineering training program at Rock Island, 1110
Starting. in. June. Prof. F. F. Foltman will begin on-the-spot visits to all major
stations of American Airlines to begin the program.of advanced management follow-up
training in–the Airlines system. He has been working with_AA personnel as a
follow=up to the business leadership course for Airlines personnel.
Prof. Arnold Tolles was Industrial Commission Lubin's guest April 26 at a luncheon
in New York City celebrating the. 20th anniversary of the minimum wage law in New
York State. Senator Herbert Lehman and Eleanor Roosevelt also attended.
Prof. Harlan Perrins of Extension is winding up a four-week, three-hour session
for supervisory personnel at IBM's Testing Laboratories at Endicott and Poughkeepsie.
He commutes between. Endicott and Poughkeepsie via plane.
Two ILR alumni attended. the Conference on Current. Problems in Labor Relations
held early this month: Walter Butler, international representative, Building
Service Employees International Union (Syracuse)., and. Barbara Loreto, research
editor, National Foremen's Institute.
Walt Geldzahler of the National Foremen's Institute plana.to attend the Training
Specialists Institute the first week in June.
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WOMAN OF THE MONTH
Camma Young's measure of affection for ILR in general and Extension in particular
is shown by the. record: She first set foot in ILR's Extension Office in 1949s remained
forfive years, was luced.away in 1954s .returned in mid-1955-and mid-1957 finds her
still here--in Extenelon..
Camp: 4areer_beganaja-faayre (40 miles to the south), known for its Lehigh Valley
Railroad shops. and its Packer Hospital. Camma managed to.complete hersecondary educa-
tion before wanderlust .hit her. During vacations.and.summers she pasted ribbons on
greeting cards,„ clerked in five and tens, and jerked sodas.
She went on to take a medical secretary's course at Rider College in Trenton, N.J.
(famous also for its alumnus, John Paterson). At the completion. of the two-year course
Cam first came to Cornell as a secretary in Mechanical Engineering. Why she left there
to return to her hometown.is not clear. But we find her next, on the payroll of the
Sayre Evening Times, operating some sort of .type-setting machine. .(From her description
none o$ es are certain of its exact.nature.) Suffice to say she found the job too
routine and so returned to Ithaca,--this time in ILR Extensions first working for Eleanor
Emerson, then for Betty Barton.
A newspaper ad.was responsible for her break. with. ILR. She went to Hollywood (Fla.)
for the.winter as babysitter for three children, two s fours and seven. Cam's fondness
for children is. well known. to her friends, and she. still retained that fondness when
she left the job three months later.
As spring rolled around, Camma had decided to try the big city. She tells the story
on herself. of the time—while job-hunting•-she failed the typing test. She thinks the
reason was that she hadn't typed in several months.and used a manual instead of an
electric. typewriter- The Herald Tribune became her office home for a year and a half.
She worked for four_ apace salesmeM75;i7from Nara) who were out of the office most of
the day. She.sums up: a. good paying job but boring.
Bright spot.in the job at the Trib was when Steve Allen's shows *Tonight," was tele-
vised. To this day s .Cam.isn't sure whether or not she was identifiable on TV, she, with
a battery of secretaries, was background for Edie Garme's singing.
An occasional bit of glamor in her life„ such as having actor Ralph Meeker live in
the same house failed to compensate for the size s heat and dirt of the city. Mid
Camma returned to. the dimmer lights of the small town. Cam. visited Ithaca; there was
an opening at .ILR Extension: And she was back in business, first typing expense ac-
counts, then as secretary to newly-arrived Harlan Perrins in the Central District Office
A year ago.she.got a new boas, Ron Donoman sfwhen_Perrins moved to the main office next
door.
Camma u s living arrangements are ideal; she has a. room and the run of the house with
a former apartment-mate, now married and . mnther of three. Cam finds herself putting in
more hours at "mother sitting" than baby sitting, since the man of the house works most
evenings at his gas station. Mike, abed three s Susan, two, and Patty, ten months, are
Camma's_family. Mike, the eldest, is her favorite, That Mike is looking out for her
is evident. Recently, when his mother was collecting the washing, Mike went into
Camma's room s gathered her soiled clothes and took them to his mother s with the command,
"Wash these far.Camma. w Since getting. her_washing done wasn q. in the bargain s Cam hopes
this will establish a precedent.
Cam's favorite pastimes perhaps dating back to her winter on the Hollywood beaches,
is lying on the sand in the sun. She hopes to spend this summer's vacation at Cape
Cod near those picturesque dunes . andMike wants to accompany her.
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