URIS LlBMRlOCTOBER 1971 70 CENTS Louis Agassiz Fuertes & the Singular Beauty of Birds -> Λ * 7 ' SPECIAL REDUCED RATES FOR CORNELL A L U M N I EIGHTH ANNUAL TOUR PROGRAM-1972 This unique program of tours is offered to alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, M.I.T., Cornell, Dartmouth, Univ. of Pennsylvania and certain other distinguished universities and to members of their families. The tours are based on special reduced air fares which offer savings of hundreds of dollars on air travel. These special fares, which apply to regular jet flights of the major scheduled airlines but which are usually available only to groups and in conjunction with a qualified tour, are as much as $500 less than the regular air fare. Special rates have also been obtained from hotels and sightseeing companies. The tour program covers areas where those who might otherwise prefer to travel independently will find it advantageous to travel with a group. The itineraries have been carefully constructed to combine the freedom of individual travel with the convenience and savings of group travel. There is an avoidance of regimentation and an emphasis on leisure time, while a comprehensive program of sightseeing ensures a visit to all major points of interest. Hotel reservations are made as much as a year and a half in advance to ensure the finest in accommodations. EAST AFRICA 22 DAYS $1699 A luxury "safari" to the great national parks and game reserves of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The carefully planned itinerary offers an exciting combination of East Africa's spectacular wildlife and breathtaking natural scenery: great herds of elephant and launch trips through hippo and crocodile in QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK and MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK; multitudes of lion and other plains game in the famed SERENGETI PLAINS and the MASAIMARA RESERVE; the spectacular concentration of wildlife in the NGORONGORO CRATER; tree-climbing lions around the shores of LAKE MANYARA; the AMBOSELI RESERVE, where big game can be photographed against the towering backdrop of snow-clad Mt. Kilimanjaro; and the majestic wilds of TSAVO PARK, famed for its elephant and lion as well as its unusual Mzima Springs. Also included are a cruise on LAKE VICTORIA in Uganda and visits to the fascinating capital cities of KAMPALA and NAIROBI. The altitude in East Africa provides an unusually stimulating climate, with bright days and crisp evenings (frequently around a crackling log fire), and the tour follows a realistic pace which ensures a full appreciation of the attractions visited. Total cost is $1699 from New York. An alternate itinerary, with a shorter stay in Uganda, visits the famed VICTORIA FALLS, on the mighty Zambezi River between Zambia and Rhodesia, with a total rate of $1759 from New York. Departures in January, February, March, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December 1972 ($25 additional for departures in June, July, August). THE ORIENT 30 DAYS $1759 1972 marks the eighth consecutive year of operation for this outstanding tour, which offers the greatest attractions of the Orient at a sensible and realistic pace. Twelve days are devoted to the beauty of JAPAN, visiting the ancient "classical" city of KYOTO, the modern capital of TOKYO, and the lovely FUJI-HAKONE NATIONAL PARK, with excursions to ancient NARA, the magnificent medieval shrine at NIKKO, and the giant Daibutsu at KAMAKURA. Visits are also made to BANGKOK, with its glittering temples and palaces; the fabled island of BALI, considered one of the most beautiful spots on earth; the ancient temples near JOGJAKARTA in central Java; the mountaincircled port of HONG KONG, with its free port shopping; and the cosmopolitan metropolis of SINGAPORE, known as the "cross-roads of the East." Tour dates include outstanding seasonal attractions in Japan, such as the spring cherry blossoms, the beautiful autumn leaves, and some of the greatest annual festivals in the Far East. Total cost is $1759 from California, $1965 from Chicago, and $2034 from New York, with special rates from other cities. Departures in March, April, June, July, September and October 1972. AEGEAN ADVENTURE 22 DAYS $1329 This original itinerary explores in depth the magnificent scenic, cultural and historic attractions of Greece, the Aegean, and Asia Minor—not only the major cities but also the less accessible sites of ancient cities which have figured so prominently in the history of western civilization, complemented by a luxurious cruise to the beautiful islands of the Aegean Sea. Rarely has such an exciting collection of names and places been assembled in a single itinerary—the classical city of ATHENS; the Byzantine and Ottoman splendor of ISTANBUL; the site of the oracle at DELPHI; the sanctuary and stadium at OLYMPIA, where the Olympic Games were first begun; the palace of Agamemnon at MYCENAE; the ruins of ancient TROY; the citadel of PERGA- MUM; the marble city of EPHESUS; the ruins of SARDIS in Lydia, where the royal mint of the wealthy Croesus has recently been unearthed; as well as CORINTH, EPIDAUROS, IZMIR (Smyrna) the BOSPORUS and DARDANELLES. The cruise through the beautiful waters of the Aegean will visit such famous islands as CRETE with the Palace of Knossos; RHODES, noted for its great Crusader castles; the windmills of picturesque MYKONOS; the sacred island of DELOS; and the charming islands of PATMOS and HYDRA. Total cost is $1329 from New York. Departures in April, May, July, August, September and October, 1972. MOGHUL ADVENTURE 29 DAYS $1725 An unusual opportunity to view the outstanding attractions of India and the splendors of ancient Persia, together with the once-forbidden mountain kingdom of Nepal. Here is truly an exciting adventure: India's ancient mounuments in DELHI; the fabled beauty of KASHMIR amid the snow-clad Himalayas; the holy city of BANARAS on the sacred River Ganges; the exotic temples of KHAJURAHO; renowned AGRA, with the Taj Mahal and other celebrated monuments of the Moghul period such as the Agra Fort and the fabulous deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri; the walled "pink city" of JAIPUR, with an elephant ride at the Amber Fort; the unique and beautiful "lake city" of UDAIPUR; a thrilling flight into the Himalayas to KATHMANDU, capital of NEPAL, where ancient palaces and temples abound in a land still relatively untouched by modern civilization. In PERSIA (Iran), the visit will include the great 5th century B.C. capital of Darius and Xerxes at PERSEPOLIS; the fabled Persian Renaissance city of ISFAHAN, with its palaces, gardens, bazaar and famous tiled mosques; and the modern capital of TEHERAN. Outstanding accommodations include hotels that once were palaces of Maharajas. Total cost is $1725 from New York. Departures in January, February, August, October and November 1972. Rates include Jet Air, Deluxe Hotels, Most Meals, Sightseeing, Transfers, Tips and Taxes. Individual brochures on each tour are available. For Full πDe,ta.il,s Contact: ALUMNI FLIGHTS ABROAD ΛOWnheit.Ne. oPr.tl.ahinnBsroPald,azwaay White Plains, N.Y. 10601 HOMECOMING CORNELL - COLUMBIA (on the new 'Ψolyturf") SAT. OCTOBER 30 Friday, October 2 9 9:30 p.m. Statler Inn Main Lounge Saturday, October 3 0 10:00 a.m. Statler Auditorium 11:00 a.m. Barton Hall 11:30 a.m. Barton Hall 12:30 p.m. Barton Hall *2:00 p.m. Schoellkopf Field 4:30 p.m. Barton Hall 8:15 p.m. Bailey Hall OPEN HOUSE FOR ALL ALUMNI SPONSORED BY THE FEDERATIONS OF CORNELL CLUBS CORNELL ATHLETICS: ROBERT KANE-DEAN OF PHYS. ED. AND ATHLETICS JON ANDERSON-DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS MEMBERS OF THE CORNELL COACHING STAFF ALUMNI RECEPTION BEVERAGE RECEPTION UNDERGRADUATE HOMECOMING HOSTS ALUMNI LUNCHEON CORNELL UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB CORNELL VS. COLUMBIA ALUMNI CLASS AND HONORARY SOCIETY RECEPTIONS TALL TONIC" FEATURING THE SHERWOODS * For Ticket Information, write or phone: Cornell University Athletic Association Box 729, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 Phone: (607) 256-2336 ALUMNI-FACULTY-FRIENDS PLAN TO ATTEND Classic comfort.. and quality, too. The gleaming red, gold, and white seal on the Cornell Captain's Chair sets a theme of excellence that honors your good taste. You will enjoy the comfort and styling of the chair at once—and over the years you will come to appreciate its fine craftsmanship. Carefully assembled, using finest northern hardwoods... given a durable, glowing finish . . . the Cornell Captain's chair will be a lasting source of pleasure for you. Use it in your office or your home—it is distinctive, impressive, and well worth your pride. The coupon below makes ordering easy. Cornell Alumni Assn., Merchandise Div 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca. N.Y. 14850 Payment is enclosed for Cornell Captain's Chairs @ $46 each. Please ship, Express charges collect, to: Name (Please PRINT) Street & No City & State ZIP New York State residents please add 3% Sales Tax plus any local sales tax. Chairs will be shipped directly from the makers, carefullypacked and fully guaranteed. If you wish to send them as gifts, add Railway Express shipping cost from Gardner, Mass, (shipping weight is 28 pounds). Your card will be enclosed if sent to us with your order. Payment must be enclosed, to Cornell Alumni Association, Merchandise Division. Allow ίour weeks tor delivery. Place your order NOW! E. B. WHITE You can't forget Charlotte. The wise and elegant spider who spun her web above the pen of Wilbur, the pig. It was Charlotte who became Wilbur's loyal friend. Who miraculously saved his life, bringing fame and riches to Fern and her family. And it was Charlotte who taught everyone about death, and in doing so about the celebration of life. Charlotte's Web by E. B. "Andy" White '21 was first published in 1952. Since then, it has become one of the few contemporary books that can truly be called classics. Now, in a magical recording, E. B. White reads aloud the whole enchanting story. His matchless voice speaks for all the life of the farm and Fern's family, in the accents of the born storyteller. A boxed, four-record album by Pathways of Sound, Charlotte's Web is priced at $18.00 postpaid. Use the handy coupon at right to order your album Now\ Make checks payable to Cornell Alumni Ass'n. Merchandise Division. Cornell Alumni Assn., Merchandise Div. 626 Thurston Ave. Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 For payment enclosed, please ship Pathways of Sound album(s) of Charlotte's Web as read by E. B. White '21, prepaid. Name. (PLEASE PRINT) Street & No.. City State Zip New York State residents add 3% Sales Tax plus any local sales tax. Here's a bar stool that belongs at your parties... but you're likely to find it anywhere in the house The classicly handsome lines of the Cornell Swivel-seat Bar Stool make it a most welcome guest (and your guests most welcome) at your parties and casual get-togethers. But don't be surprised to find it at the kitchen counter, behind the ironing board, near the telephone, or in use just as a comfortable place to sit with a cup of coffee. In fact, you'll never get away with owning just one . . . or even two! The Cornell Bar Stool is sturdily built of Northern hardwood. Its gold decorated, handbuffed satin black finish, accented by the Cornell Seal, quietly attests to its fine quality. So don't think of it only as a bar stool—it can have a useful and versatile life almost anywhere in your home. $43. Cornell Alumni Assn., Merchandise Div. 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 14850. For payment enclosed, please ship Cornell Swivel-seat Bar Stools @ $36 each (plus tax, if any), Express charges collect (or enclosed) : Name Street & No. (please PRINT) City State Zip . New York State Residents Add 3% Sales Tax Plus Any Local Sales Tax. Chairs will be shipped directly from the makers, carefully packed and fully guaranteed. If you wish to send them as gifts, add Railway Express shipping cost from Gardner, Mass, (shipping weight is 25 pounds). Your card will be enclosed, if sent to us with your order. Payment must be enclosed, to Cornell Alumni Association, Merchandise Division. Allow six weeks for delivery. Place Your Order NOW! October 1971 Volume 74, Number 3 One for The Birds IF YOU WERE a Boy Scout with your eye on the main chance, in most communities in this country you struggled toward the Eagle rank knowing that near the end you would have to suffer through the learning of an artificial skill in order to pass the required Bird Study Merit Badge. Long since you'd have passed Athletics and Life Saving, tests infinitely more natural to boys. Not so in Ithaca. Bird Study was one of my first badges, Life Saving nearly the last (earned in early spring lugging a 250-pound Red Cross instructor named Bob Hasenjager around an icy Beebe Lake; he had a kinsman well remembered in Ithaca as "Pumphandle Hasenjager"). For years I never gave a second thought to the ease with which staff members at Camp Barton identified birds by song and flash colors and shape and size. We'd been doing this at home for years; there was always a copy of Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds handy to the dining room win- Louis Agassiz Fuertes '97 in his studio at home on Wyckoff Road. dows. Field glasses, suet attached to a pine tree and protected from the squirrels by hardware cloth, and Jack Deal on 'WHCU reminding you during a snow storm to put out crumbs for the birds, and remember to put them on cardboard so they wouldn't sink into the snow. You had to have been in Scouting in Ithaca for a few years before you learned to pronounce the name of the local council correctly. It was the sort of name accepted as automatically as the words of the Lord's Prayer: Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council (ag-uhSEIZE FWAIR-tees). It was a man's name, but that it was the name of a world famous bird painter few had the curiosity to learn. Growing up in Ithaca, I didn't question or connect these elements. The connections didn't occur until I came back to Ithaca in the mid-1950s. I had visited other towns, done a bit more Scouting, and found even my amateur knowledge of birds often exceeded that of most nature instructors at other camps. It finally began to dawn on me that maybe Ithaca and its special interest in birds might be something of Features What It's All About by Geof Hewitt '66 15 Louis Agassiz Fuertes by F. G. Marcham, PhD '26 18 Teaching a Love of Birds by Elise Hancock 24 The Cornell Fund Reports 33 Diary of a Freshman 64 Peter Revson '61 and the M.A. 70 Departments Picture Credits 11 Forum 12 Notebook 13 Undergraduate 28 Bob Kane 29 Books 30 Alumni Notes 31 Alumni Events 31 Alumni Deaths 76 The University 80 The Teams 80 THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS is an inde- pendent magazine owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Assn. under the direction of its Publications Committee. Issued monthly except August. Subscriptions, $7 a year in US and possessions; foreign, $7.75. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, NY, and at additional offices. Printed by Hildreth Press, Bristol, Conn. All publication rights reserved. Copyright © 1971, Cornell Alumni Assn. Postal Form 3579 should be sent to Cornell Alumni News, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY, 14850. Member, American Alumni Council. Advertising Representative: William F. Barrett '64, Ivy League Alumni Magazines, 576 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.; (212) 581-9500. Publications Committee: John E. Slater '43, chairman; Clifford S. Bailey '18, Arthur H. Kesten '44, Richard T. Cliggott '53, and Seth Goldschlager '68. Officers of the Cornell Alumni Assn.: Robert A. Cowie '55, president; Frank R. Clifford '50, secretary-treasurer. President, Assn. of Class Officers, Jesse Van Law '27. Editor: John Marcham '50. Associate editor: Elise Hancock. Contributing editor: Geof Hewitt '66. Design: David May. General manager: Charles S. Williams '44. Circulation manager: Mrs. Beverly Krellner. Editorial and business offices at Alumni House, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY, 14850. (607) 256-4121. Cover: A watercolor of a Great Blue Heron drawn by L. A. Fuertes in Ithaca in 1908. October 1971 hankgΊinαgnaαrnound yourattic? If "Tarzan of the Apes/' published in 1914, is there, you could be $75 richer. But you wouldn't know this. Not unless you had a copy of the "Bookfinders' Value Guide/' a brand-new listing of valuable books. Just published, this illustrated book lists "Tarzan" and almost 1,500 other "rare books" that can bring their finders anywhere from $25 to $300 to $1,000 and more. The fact is, "rare books" are not rare at all. They're everywhere. In attics. Garages. Basements. Public libraries. Even in your living room. If you trip across the right volume by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, you can hit the literary jackpot. If you just happen to find a signed original copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses," you can trade it for a dream vacation. You may not be that lucky. But you can easily come up with a lesser treasure by, say, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, or Ernest Hemingway that you can sell to almost any book dealer for between $40 and $500. This unique book lists almost 1,500 works published between 1818 and 1969 by over 1,000 authors. It is by far the most complete, accurate list of its type ever published. It gives authors, titles, dates and places of first publication. James Manning Bergquist, PhD., is the Consulting Editor for the "Bookfinders' Value Guide," which also introduces you to the fascinating hobby of book collecting. Dr. Bergquist, Professor of History at Villanova University, has published many scholarly articles and reviews on American History, a rich background to draw on for his subject of "rare books." The price of this priceless little volume is only $3.75, including postage and handling. Two for $7. Six for $18.90. One trip to the attic can repay you a hundred times over. Send your check or money order for this "first edition" today. Then start hunting for "Tarzan" and those other not-so-rare books. There's money in rare 1 UNIVERSAL BOOKS, Dept. R, Western Savings Bank Building, Broad and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 19107. Gentlemen: Please send me_ _copies of the "Bookfinders1 Value Guide." One for $3.75, two for $7, six for $18.90. I enclose my check or money order. (Makes an excellent gift for book- loving or money-loving friends.) Return the "Guide" for full refund within 10 days if not delighted. Name. (please print plainly) I Address. _State_ -I-Zip- Universal Books is a Division of PEPCO a rarity. And like so many things odd about Ithaca, that oddness could be traced back up the Hill to Cornell. Checking old records for an anniversary dinner for my old Scout Troop, 4, I noticed how many of the troops in Ithaca— downtown and on the hills—had been led by Cornell professors of nature study and other outdoor subjects. The late E. Laurence Palmer Ί 1 was one of the most notable, Chester Bradley '06 another. John Perry, civil engineering, was director of the council camp on Cayuga. Roy Clark '13, mechanical engineering, was his chief aide. More recently E. D. Montillon '12, landscape architecture, and Stanley Warren '27, agricultural engineering, have served long years as troop leaders, and today a half dozen professors or more, mostly from Agriculture, fill those places. The records of Troop 4 showed the chairman of the Troop Committee in its early years was Fuertes, for whom the council was later named. He was founder and leader of the Cayuga Bird Club, for Ithaca youngsters who took bird walks, studied birds, and maintained the area near Stewart Park that later became a bird sanctuary named for Fuertes. Members wore one of five buttons that duplicated paintings of his and indicated the young member's special interest. (The club survives today; anyone taking an early May bird walk from Stewart Park is automatically a member.) Alumni looked him up when they returned, for he was a grand friend and storyteller, much in demand for talks. In the best known of these he imitated, named, and explained snores overheard on the Lehigh Valley sleeper to New York. Of his world fame there was less said after he died in 1927. Nature study was taken for granted around Ithaca, encouraged and nourished among those arriving in the community who had some predilection in that direction. So with my father, Prof. Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26, from whom my interest descends. Until I asked him this summer it wasn't clear to me just where his interest came from. He explained it started at Christ's Hospital, an 800-boy private boarding school in England to which he had won a scholarship at the age of 11. The school was very heavily regulated, and one of the few ways to get free of its walls was to belong to the Imbalance At Cornell? Copy of a letter from a Cornell alumnus who has recently retired as a professor at a well known university. Dear Dan: June 10, 1971 Last summer I had a personal experience confirming what you have been saying about the bias in the teaching of economics at Cornell. This was painful to me because it involved one near and very dear to me. My eldest granddaughter, possessed of a good brain and of high intelligence, upon graduating from a well regarded state university was well aware that what had been taught in her economics classes had been biased and she apparently had tried to compensate for it. After one year in the graduate school at Cornell, however, the picture had changed. With reference to the fact that a self-styled communist was on the faculty in the economics department her position was that it was good for the students to hear different points of view and that they would have sufficient judgment to make a .proper evaluation. Then, only a minute or two later in the same conversation, she took the position opposed to the establishment of a chair for the teaching of any elective courses in economics from the free enterprise limited government point of view on the basis that "this would introduce bias into the teaching." Further: Presentation of any statistics which tended to support the validity of the so-called "conservative" brand of economics was always answered with the statement that "statistics could be used to prove anything you wished." This was soon followed by a statement that Russia, under communism, had done in 50 years what it took the U.S. 100 years to accomplish. (Based on statistics, no doubt.) Another statement: "All recognized economists agree with the kind of economics being taught at Cornell." When asked if Roepke would have agreed with that her answer was, "At Cornell Roepke was considered just as some kind of a nut," which seemed to settle the question to her satisfaction. There you have an example of the results of one year of exposure to the teaching of economics at Cornell. Sincerely, - O COΈZΊSΓΉΠ-.X-. Q _ _ / -AJL.TJ3SΛINΠ C O M M I T T E E Λ vr^> for rv ^r J V— BALANCED EDUCATION U> tkxt 49 STREET, NEW YORK, NEW -mm 10017 ^J October 1971 Northfield Mount Hermon students go lots of places This fall, fourteen of our students —eight boys and six girls—are studying in Angers, France for the term. A like group will go to Spain and another to Germany in the spring. This is part of our program to expand Northfield Mount Hermon beyond the two campuses. Other students will share a wilderness program that combines the history, art, and literature of a region with the wilderness experience. Some students will do apprenticeships with lawyers, stockbrokers, newspapers and veterinarians. Practically all Northfield Mount Hermon students go on to college, most to their first choice, many with advanced standing. In the past few years, Stanford, Brown, Skidmore, Tufts, Harvard, Radcliffe, MIT and Wellesley have been big. Most students find just being on our two campuses on the Connecticut river pretty rewarding. Over 80% said they would recommend us to a friend. From what our older graduates tell us, the percentage will probably go up as the experience of Northfield Mount Hermon gives deeper meaning to their lives. Director of Admissions Northfield Mount Hermon School, East Northfield, Massachusetts 01360 Gentlemen: Please send additional information about Northfield Mount Hermon School. Name Address City State Zip""" Is applicant a boy • or girl • ? We are pleased to announce the appointment of WILLIAM F. BARRETT (Cornell 1964) as National Advertising Sales Representative Ivy League Alumni Magazines 576 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. 10036 (212) 581-9500 Natural History Club, which he joined. One day, tramping the fields in search of bird nests to record and other things classifiable, he spotted a flower that he brought back to the school. At supper that night he was surprised to hear the head man ask—from the solemnity of his pulpit-like location above the dining hall—"Is there a boy here named Frederick Marcham." He went on to explain that young Marcham had reported the first finding in those parts of a Bee Orchis. The status of the junior schoolboy changed immediately. Nurturing an interest in nature study is not entirely an easy matter in a community of experts. Amateurs tread •lightly. Living on Willard Way as a young faculty member, Dad was loath to ask help in identifying American birds. After some years in this country he heard the rasp cry of a bird new to him. He made his way up behind the Alpha Delt house several times before spotting the vividly colored Blue Jay for the first time. A birder's life is measured by small pleasures gained from hours in the field, punctuated rarely by a major discovery. I recall two, Dad's sighting of the American Three-toed Woodpecker and the Red-breasted Nuthatch, both among the first in the Ithaca area in several decades. Each of us children had our own, our first sighting of some dramatically colored bird—one brilliant warbler or another in the early May privacy of Cascadilla gorge near the tennis courts, a shrike or a Bobolink, or siskins buzzing in the scraggly conifers where Day Hall was later to be built. My brother, David '53, and my sister, Ann '58, each brought more concentration to their practice of the art than I. Ann saw more birds, David was infinitely more accurate in his identifications. And Mother's role was not unimportant. It was to see we didn't break anything. For when someone shouted "come here" from our dining room that faced a pine grove, we all thundered through a short hallway to get a look. The damage to dining room chairs could be considerable. This rush became such a family thing that our Irish Setter, Tammy, ran to the window right along with the rest of us. That such bad habits are perpetuated should not take much proof. After my wife and I returned to Ithaca, we would visit my folks on Sundays. When the talk got too adult, our own toddler Sarah ('81?) would quietly take her grandfather by the hand and lead him to the dining room to look out the window for another generation of birds. Already my wife Jane (Haskins '51) had become tolerant and almost enthusiastic about what one could see in the glens of Ithaca on those magic first few weekends in May, when migratory birds are making their way through New York State toward nesting grounds up North. Songbirds, most particularly the infinitely varied little warblers, can be as much fun to stalk and "collect" as exotic foreign postage stamps. And once you've first looked up into 8 • Cornell Alumni News FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS JϊilBti" Serving The Financial Community for Over Forty Years ΠARL MARKS & OP. INC a mass of young leaves and realized how to discern the particular form of a bird, you are hooked. What parts of a limb are birds most likely to be on? How do they move down or along from tree to tree? How to scan a field or a shoreline for the glimpse of a bird? How to categorize that form enough to find its family in a color plate in Peterson's Field Guide! All these are part of the bird mad- James Gibbs of Ithaca, a Mohawk Airlines sales official, brings in a strange bird for identification at the Laboratory of Ornithology. Thruway employes found the bird Upstate, knew Gibbs was from Ithaca and that the city had a place that studied birds. It proved to be a Common Gallinule, not often seen in the region. ness of Ithaca, something this issue of the NEWS celebrates. Many Ithacans and many Cornellians have their own memories of Ithaca and its birders. Cliff Bailey '18 recalls fondly what it meant to be growing up in Cornell Heights. He was on hand when Fuertes threw a dinner for more than a dozen neighborhood youngsters who liked to follow him around, marking completion of the studio on Wyckoff Road where Fuertes did so much of his later work. And Cliff helped put the university in touch with a set of Fuertes's drawings mislaid by a patron for nearly half a century. My own recollections hardly avoid touches of immodesty or nepotism, for this fall the campus will be celebrating the bringing out of the closet of some of Louis Agassiz Fuertes's fame. F. G. Marcham has moved to publication a major volume of the painting and writing of Fuertes. For many years the bulk of the paintings were stored away in museums and collections around the country. Through the cooperation of the painter's son and daughter, Mary Fuertes Boynton '31 and Louis Sumner Fuertes '27, permission was gained to publish them. Winning approval of a publisher took several long years, until editor Nahum Waxman '58 at Harper & Row brought the project to completion. The book is to be published this month, and this month at Homecoming there will be exhibitions of Fuertes writing and paintings at Uris and Olin libraries and at the Laboratory of Ornithology iruSapsucker Woods. (See the Unique Gifts for Cornell Friends Boxed Stationery with Cornell Emblem Princess size $1.65 Π Princess size Monarch size $1.85 • $2.50 Π Glassware Cornell Emblem Red & White permanently fired: Brandy Sniffers $2.00 each • Pilsener $15.00 doz. • Weighted bottom Hi-ball 10 oz. $8.75 doz. • 12 oz. $10.00 doz. • Double Old Fashioned 15 oz. $11.00 doz. Π Old Fashioned 7 oz. $8.50 doz. 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Residents please add 4% Sales Tax Gift Certificates available in any denomination October 1971 BARBADOS Stay at 1 - Enjoy all 3 On fashionable St. James Beach. 3 small, select resorts - beachcomb cas- ual in the chic Indies way. All air-con- ditioned. 7 miles from Bridgetown's fabulous shops. 3 fresh water pools • 3 snug beaches 3 exchange dining rooms Managers' cocktail parties at all 3 Nightly entertainment. Represented by Hetland & Stevens, Inc. New York: Phone TN 7-1450 Or Call Your Travel Agent Read On. We're Different. We're a church related school (Episcopal) though non-denominational in character and student body. Our mission is not merely to educate our students but to provide them with the moral understanding and Christian principles so desperately needed in today's society. By design we are a small school of just over 100 girls living in a community environment. Our college preparatory curriculum is highly challenging. Recreational facilities and opportunities are abundant with skiing and outdoor activities and sports predominating. If you don't feel we're different, stop here. But, if you do and would like your daughter to share in this unusual educational experience, please contact: Arthur Ingraham III Headmaster Saint Mary's-in-the-Mountains Seven Springs Littleton, New Hampshire 03561 603/444-2928. 10 • Cornell Alumni News Alumni Events box in this issue for details.) Pursuing an amateur interest in birds in a community where many others do the same is a luxury. Cornell's fine pro- fessor emeritus of ornithology, Peter Paul Kellogg '29, is one of those who made it so. He recalls that in the 1920s he had to take his students to Elmir.a to see a Blue Jay, a bird now so common to Ithaca. I too have been aware of the changing pattern of bird sightings over several decades now; in those decades many birds have been seen in Ithaca for the first time. Could it be all the bread crumbs on the snow, all the bird houses, all the suet have bent migration and winter- ing patterns for some species so much that Ithaca now really has become the bird capital of the world? For watchers and watched alike? Don't check it too carefully. It's a theory I have developed that I do not care for the professionals to test, lest it be proven wrong. I like to think this is another corner of life in which—from Liberty Hyde Bailey to Fuertes to. Arthur A. Allen '08 to their present-day ornithological successors—Cornell has had a benign influence on the world. For anyone who has once looked for birds never again looks on the countryside as an unin- teresting scene with only two dimen- sions. —JM Also Because the July issue was published late, no letters to the editor arrived in time for this issue. In the space made available we go back into earlier NEWses for a column on Fuertes by Rym Berry and a quote from Frank Chapman, at the Fuertes memorial service in Willard Straight in 1927: "If the birds of the world had met to select a human being who could best express to mankind the beauty and charm of their forms, their songs, their rhythmic flight, their manners for the heart's delight, they would unquestionably have chosen Louis Fuertes." Last issue of the NEWS included a report on the photographic service of William White '18 to Cornell and Cornell Plantations. In an earlier column we credited the service of his grandson Wiliam I. White, Grad as chairman of the first University Senate's Executive Committee. In so doing we failed How elegant can you get? Enamelled Cornell blazer buttons add the perfect touch of distinction to your favorite jacket. 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Picture credits in this issue: Cover, American Museum of Natural History; page 5, Laboratory of Ornithology; 9, Alex Jamison '72; 15-17, Dan Hightower '70; 18 and hawk on 21, American Museum of Natural History; sketches and wash drawings 20-23, Mrs. Mary Fuertes Boynton, except grackle on 22, US Dept. of Interior; photo 22, Laboratory of Ornithology; 24-25, Sol Goldberg '46; 27, Jamison; 30, Goldberg; 70, Larry Baum '72. Now in My Time! A column with this title ran regularly in the NEWS for many years. This one is reprinted from the November 23, 1939 edition. "The Mogue" is Estevan Antonio Fuertes, second professor of civil engineering at the university, so named according to Morris Bishop '14 because "he looked and acted like the Great Mogul, and smoked Mogul cigarettes." Dr. Law is James Law, a pioneer in his field and founder of the Veterinary College. -Main Dining Room The Cornell Club of New York is a private, non-profit social club located in New York City. It is designed for the maximum comfort and convenience of the members. The Club includes lounges, a library, a bar, dining rooms, private meeting rooms and outstanding overnight accommodations. Athletic facilities are available. All Cornellians are eligible to apply. For information on resident or nonresident membership please write— Charles Simmons, membership chairman. CORNELL CLUB OF NEW YORK 155 E. 50th Street New York, N. Y. 10021 Phone 212 Plaza 2-7300 Perhaps you wouldn't mind hearing about another occasion when The Mogue and Dr. Law locked horns in Faculty meeting; this time with results far different from those which prevailed after the Bologna incident previously reported. On this occasion, Dean Hammond said, Professor Fuertes arose in the middle of a debate dedicated to some esoteric phaze of academic policy, to launch a bitter invective against the slack administration of the School of Veterinary Medicine. The Fuertes home, you recall, was on East Avenue south of Bobby Thurston's house, and its back yard lay close to Dr. Law's horse hospital, the scene of the Doctor's noteworthy investigations into the ailments of quadrupeds. The Mogue arose to inform an astounded Faculty that the Fuertes family had been having a terrible time Discover the unspoiled charm of the friendly island of Exuma. It's a private world of shimmering seas, beautiful beaches and strictly INFORMAL luxury. Right at the waters edge-every room has a balcony overlooking the blue lagoon. All water sports, a private beach club with bar and buffet service. Delightful gourmet dining. Direct flights from Miami and Nassau. See your Travel Agent or call I. OLIVER ENGEBRETSON, INC. N.Y. 980-3810 I CLUB PEACE & PLENTY 1101 Brickell Ave., Suite 400 - Miami, Florida 33131 | Please rush your color brochure t o : Name Address. 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Name Street address City, state, zip code NYS residents add 4°/o Sales Tax plus any local sales tax. with flies. The third of the plagues visited upon the Egyptians, he said, was as nothing compared with what he'd had to suffer in theflyline. They came over in clouds from the Vet College, and would to God the Professor of Veterinary Medicine might be moved to do something calculated to keep his so-and-so flies at home. President Schurman, in the chair, was momentarily stumped by the parliamentary situation created by The Mogue's extraordinary speech, but Dr. Law waived technicalities and answered on the merits. Dr. Law said that his studies had dealt entirely with the higher forms of animal life and not at all with insects. Nevertheless, no man could spend his life among horses and cows without picking up some stray bits of information about flies; and it was his observation that no fly ever left a stable except when lured by some even more delectable attraction. What particularly delightful corruption could have been overlooked in the home of the Professor of Civil Engineering, which had lured flies away from the more obvious attractions of his clinic? Could one of the many charming Fuertes children— Kitty, or Estevan, or perhaps little Louis?—have brought home some interesting organic specimens and then forgotten about them? He pledged himself to investigate current conditions in his department, but first he desired to be assured that the distinguished previous speaker had gone over his own back yard and had eliminated any possibility of the Plague of Flies having originated there. And the strange part of the episode was, Dean Hammond said, that the first scholar to be impressed by the plausibility of the new theory was The Mogue himself. He again took the floor —this time in all humility—to apologize, to withdraw his charges, and to assure the meeting that he would hold a bed of justice in his home. He conjectured that the Professor of Veterinary Medicine might be entirely correct in the profound surmise, because his son Louis was forever bringing home specimens for further study— frog's eggs, great horned owls, dead snakes, and fragments of angel cake —only to forget about them and to overlook their festering presence in the house. Life on the Campus, Dean Hammond added with a sigh, was primitive and neighborly and sweet forty years ago, when all the professors could criticize the University administration over the backyard fence, and Faculty children sometimes rode their bicycles 'round and 'round the smooth, consecrated aisles of the Chapel itself. —RYM BERRY '04 Forum After reading ads for the Cornell Club of New York which picture a room captioned, 'The Men's Bar,' a number of readers have asked about the club's attitude toward women members. The NEWS' asked the club for information, which is included in the letter that follows. The dues for men who live in the city area is $236 a year, for women $92. If a couple joins, the men's rate applies. The letter: EDITOR: All attendees or graduates of Cornell can be invited to apply to the Cornell Club of New York. The Club is a self-supporting private, membership organization, and application involves sponsorship and seconding by current members. Names of applicants are posted for membership consideration, and then are voted on by an Admissions Committee. These stipulations of the By-laws are in conformity with IRS and Liquor Authority regulations as to what constitutes a bonafide Club. We have about 1,700 members including some 70 women. In addition, we sustain about 100 widows who were granted dues free membership at the time of their member husband's death. Members' wives are entitled to use the facilities at any time. Dues schedules are varied for various categories, i.e. Resident, Non-Resident, Women, Faculty etc. as determined by the Board of Governors. All facilities of the Club are available to ladies with the general exception of the Bar on weekdays. There are no separate dining rooms, lounges, bedroom floors, etc. There are no intentions to separate the facilities in the future. The Board of Governors realized that expanded usage of the facilities was in order some time ago. As a result various organizations associated with, or a part of, the University have been invited to use the facilities with charges made for the degree of service desired. Included are phonathons, Cornell 12 • Cornell Alumni News Women's Club, Alumni Association, Cornell Society of Hotelmen, Summer Interns, etc. I think that it is important to recognize that we are a self-supporting private Club, and not a formal part of the University. Many Cornell activities are centered here, but they are here through members or at the invitation of the Club, because of the desire to be part of the broader Cornell University. ARA DAGLIAN '57 General Manager NEW YORK CITY The College of Engineering and a number of its schools and departments will celebrate anniversaries this month. Details on the events are listed in Alumni Events. The NEWS does not expect to be able to cover the occasion in as much detail as will Engineering: Cornell Quarterly, which plans a special double issue for October to mark the occasions. Persons who do not regularly receive Engineering can obtain a copy by sending three dollars to Engineering: Cornell Quarterly, 254 Carpenter Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, while the supply lasts. Notebook In World War I, Gene Tunney was an enlisted Marine. In World War II, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and made officer-in-charge of the Physical Training Section in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. He was therefore responsible for part of the V-12 Program, of which the section in which I served handled administration. It was inevitable that Commander Tunney and Commander Arthur Adams, officer-in-charge of the College Training Program Unit of the Administration Section, should clash. Commander Tunney favored calisthenics and opposed competitive sports (except boxing, of course), particularly team sports, such as football. Commander Adams was operating under a policy statement from the Chief of Naval Personnel (which we had had a hand in writing), telling the colleges selected for the program that "we desire our students to have the benefits of faculty counseling, of extracurricular activities—in short, the best undergraduate education the colleges can offer." Commander Tunney came out flatly against intercollegiate athletics, and his position was supported by those in charge of the Army Student Training Program. This challenge could not be ignored. After a series of maneuvers that are too intricate to describe and would probably seem incredible anyhow, the Secretary of the Navy issued a public statement assuring the colleges that intercollegiate sports would be encouraged. We still had another cause for concern, however. Commander Tunney's section was recruiting and indoctrinating chief specialists to operate the physical training programs in the 131 college units. I have been reminded of the ensuing sequence of events by Robert J. Kane '34, Cornell's director of physical education and athletics. His letter says in part: "An ECAC committee of five (of which I was one, along with Asa Bushnell and a couple of other athletic directors) came to Washington in the spring of 1943 for the express purpose of trying to persuade the ASTP commanding officer to allow the use of Army boys in intercollegiate sports. The Navy had already consented. We failed in this, but we did see you and Arthur Adams in passing; and as you and I were chatting I learned that Gene Tunney specialists were to be brought into the colleges to conduct the Navy physical training classes. This was upsetting, because we had hoped that our staff men could handle this assignment and thus preserve their jobs. "You talked it over with Arthur. Arthur was persuaded, and the three of us went over the details and Arthur presented the argument to the Director of Training that it was wasteful to send Tunney's men to the colleges, when they were needed in the war zones and in the training camps, to assume assignments that could adequately be done by the regular college staff people. The Director of Training, I believe, was not too pleased about this interruption of well-laid plans, and had had a not-too-happy meeting with Big Ten officials the week before. He refused to have me come in, but promised Arthur that he would consider the matter. If I'm not mistaken, he revised the decision, after consultation with some high-level personages, that very afternoon and decided to use the college's staff people. 6 DAYS-5 NIGHTS & 131 per pers. dbl. occ. Dec. 18, 1971 to April 17, 1972 E.P. Add'l Nights—$26 per pers. dbl. occ. Add $10 daily per pers.for breakfast & dinner $93.25 per pers. dbl. occ. to Dec. 17 E.P. INCLUDES: Beautiful oceanview hotel suite at the Coral Beach Hotel Greens fees ELECTRIC CART FEES Club storage and cleaning Transfers to & from Freeport's International Airport Cocktail party and Rum Swizzle Party Glass bottom boat ride 3 UNIROYAL golf balls. (Gratuities & room toll not included) The BAHAMA REEF COUNTRY CLUB, a magnificent 18-hole championship, 6768 yard course with 13 lakes. BRUCE CRAMPTON represents Bahama Reef on the P.G.A. tour. The CORAL BEACH HOTEL is directly on the ocean with a beautiful, 500 ft. sugar white beach. It's the people-pleasing place where every room's a suite and each with its own terrace or patio. See your Travel Agent or call our representatives HETLAND & STEVENS, INC. in major U. S. and Canadian cities. or for information, write P.O. Box F241 Freeport. Grand Bahama Island (Air mail—150) "It would not have happened if Messrs. Adams, Howes, and Kane had not been friends and colleagues at Cornell. It was a bonanza for all the Navy-based colleges, the genesis of which they may have forgotten, or what is more likely, knew nothing about anyway." The situation at Cornell was not really typical. There were numerous colleges that did not have adequate physical training staffs and needed chief specialists. Even the best-staffed units had some. But Commander Tunney was unhappy nevertheless; He expressed his feeling at great length and on numerous occasions. Finally the senior officers in the Bureau had enough. They sent him on a long tour of the Pacific, and when he returned reassigned him. His billet had been filled, in the meantime, by a former director of athletics at a major university, and that part of the V-12 Program ran smoothly for the remainder of the war. —RAY HOWES '24 Reprinted from A Cornell Notebook, published by the Cornell Alumni Association. Foreword by Morris Bishop '14. October 1971 13 Loud her praises tell THE CORNELL CAMPUS A History of Its Planning and Development By KERMIT CARLYLE PARSONS All you remember about Cornell and much you may never have seen is described in this thorough, beautifully illustrated record of Cornell's growth. With the aid of 218 photographs and drawings from University Archives, Mr. Parsons traces the evolution of a great university, in terms of the character, goals, and tastes of its founders and leaders and the aspirations and achievements of its architects. It is a proud history any Cornell alumnus will want to have. $15.00 (Published by Cornell University Press) SELECTED CHAPTERS FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW D. 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Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but if they do it is a result of the peculiar fanaticism of a dedicated band of ornithologists from the Hill. Amateur or professional, birders have at least one activity in common: the bird walk. The NEWS sent Geof Hewitt '66 and photographer Dan Hightower '70 to record What It's All About October 1971 • 15 What It's All About There's a gentleness among bird-watchers for each other: they share binoculars and guide books at 6 in the morning, when it's too cold to be anything but grumpy. Besides this gentleness, the birds may be all they have in common. A determined band of people, maybe fortyfive in number, gathered at Stewart Park on May 1 for the first official bird walk of the season. It was a different kind of walk from one I remembered: the summer of '67, some friends and I, after an all-night party, stopped at the park and unwittingly became members of a much smaller bird walk, where the leader had microphones and optical instruments dangling from his neck and arms, and would, when the appropriate bird failed to make a tuneful appearance, play from his portable tape recorder the song he wanted us to hear. Jim Tate, our present leader, carried only a single pair of binoculars, and briefly disparaged local industry and human negligence for Fall Creek's pollution, and the imminent extinction of a favorite specie. He interrupted himself to point out an American Kestral, which was immediately saluted by the glint of myriad upraised binoculars. 16 • Cornell Alumni News Alan Sapakie '65, now with the University Ombudsman, was the only one I recognized: with a baby strapped to his back, he shared a thermos of coffee with his wife. Tate divided us into three groups, everyone carrying a "Record of Observations" check-list supplied by Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology. The llama looked surprised that bird season had come so quickly. He lumbered over to the bars of his cage and snorted a steamy hello as we worked along the trail that runs past his small domain. Tate motioned us to stillness: "Hear that?" he whispered, then imitated the song: "Maids, maids, maids, put on your teakettle, kettle kettle!—an American Song Sparrow!" A moment later the sparrow's was joined by a squawky, blatting "song," one I'd translate roughly as "You'd sing like this too if all you ate was bugs and worms, worms, worms." "That's a Red Wing," someone announced. "And who can tell me what that is?" Tate asked. "You can hear it thumping behind us—is it Hairy or Downy? —and over there two robins are having a territorial stand-off." A solemn fisherman, intent on the unyielding water and its early calm, ignored us. Two pretty girls seen earlier on bicycles joined us at the edge of the lake and tagged along for a couple of stops. I didn't have binoculars, so I saw a pair or two that strayed from the official birds when they pedaled off. A little boy had found an abandoned egg, identified as that of either a thrush or robin; after we all had a good look, he put it carefully into his back pocket. But the highlight of the walk, surely, was the sighting of a Least Bittern—seen usually only after one has struggled through thick swamps. Presumably he'd dropped down to the creek for a brief morning rest, unable to find a swamp in the area. "That's what it's all about," the man next to me exclaimed to himself, and made a check mark on his list of birds. October 1971 17 LouisΛgassizFuertes Louis Agassiz Fuertes '97 was a man of many gifts: writer/lecturer, raconteur, mimic extraordinary, painter, and ornithologist. When other scientists recorded the weight, temperature, or speed of what they saw or measured, they did so in numbers and signs and diagrams, Fuertes the ornithologist kept records of this sort. More important, he kept records in the line and color and form of his art. The knowledge Fuertes had of the anatomy of birds and of their habits; the accuracy of his observations, together with his skill in drawing, made him master of his craft from about 1895 to the time of his accidental death in 1927. The ornithologist and the painter were one. i 18 • Cornell Alumni News Young Black-necked Stilt, Mexico, 1903: watercolor. The SingularBeauty ofBirds By F. G. Marcham, PhD '26 L*JORN IN 1874, Louis Agassiz Fuertes was the M " \ son of a Cornell University professor of civil Λ ^M engineering, Estevan Antonio Fuertes. His childhood and boyhood he spent in Ithaca, and in 1893 he entered Cornell as an undergraduate in the College of Architecture. His undergraduate life was not at all remarkable when looked at in terms of his achievements as a student— grades widely scattered according to his interests and attitudes: Philosophy 35, Drawing 100. Outside the classroom he was a lively, gregarious young man in his early twenties. He had an active career as member of a fraternity and of the Cornell Glee Club; in addition he contributed humorous sketches to the undergraduate magazine, The Widow. What astonishes is the fact that while living to the full the life of an undergraduate, Fuertes was almost overwhelmed by the work he did as a painter of birds. In his sophomore year his paintings captured the attention of Elliott Coues, MD, a leading ornithologist who thrust the undergraduate artist into the forefront of the ornithologists' world. Coues went further and called upon Fuertes to serve as illustrator of a book of which he was part author. In the middle five months of his senior year Fuertes had the task of completing a hundred drawings and paintings as his share of the enterprise. Fame as a painter of birds came to him early, yet not suddenly. He had painted the living bird since he was 14, and, once begun, he gave to the study of birds and to painting them all the single-minded enthusiasm and energy that some boys give to airplanes or old model cars or the lore of baseball. How natural that Professor Fuertes began to wonder whether his son's deep and passionate commitment to his work might threaten his The writer is the editor of a book and paintings with the same title of as tFhuiseratertsi'cslwe,rtiotinbges published this month by Harper & Row. He is the Goldwin Smith professor of English history, emeritus. chance of a useful career as architect or engineer. The father turned to one of his university colleagues, the eminent botanist and horticulturist, Liberty Hyde Bailey. "What would you do with a boy like this?" the father asked; the answer came, "Let him go." And go he did; but against the better judgment of his father. During the early years of Louis Fuertes, indeed in his childhood, he had had as one source of inspiration the great bird artist Audubon. By unusual fortune the City Library of Ithaca, founded by Ezra Cornell, owned a copy of Audubon's Birds of America in the original elephant folio edition. Louis had studied it while he was still so small an adult sat beside him to turn the large pages. The early paintings of Louis show the influence of the master. But he also had his own way of seeing things, and his own skill in painting. His work was so distinctive and excellent that Coues wrote in the New York Nation in 1896 that "his pictures are better than Audubon's were to begin with, and we suspect that the mantle has fallen on Mr. Fuertes." Fuertes had therefore, almost from the beginning, his own skill, the example of Audubon, and the encouragement of Coues; but this was not all. At a meeting of the American Ornithologists Union in 1896 Fuertes showed and discussed some of his pictures, and met Abbott H. Thayer, who presented his theories of protective coloration in nature. Thayer was one of the leading artists of the day. A friendship developed between the older and the younger man which had a great effect on Louis, and which was a tribute to both men. Louis was of so genial a temperament, and put so high a value on warm, simple, direct human relationships that he accepted the subordination gladly, became a pupil and, more than that, entered wholeheartedly into the life of the Thayer family, with whom he spent much time during the next few years at their homes in New Hampshire and Upstate New York. By the time he was in his middle 20s Fuertes was en- October 1971 • 19 Louis Agassiz Fuertes joying the stimulus, guidance, and close personal friendship of Thayer, as well as the business-like experience and drive of Coues, the leading ornithological writer of the day. The one taught him to see as a painter should see; the other made the name Fuertes known to publishers, ornithologists, and those who wrote books about birds. From this time on Fuertes never lacked work. Fuertes was busy as an ornithologist throughout his life; busy studying the geographical distribution of different species of birds, finding new species (two were named after him), observing their habits, hunting and shooting them, and skinning and preparing them for museum collections and for his own. He was a great field ornithologist who spent much of his life in jungles and forests, and on mountain sides in search of birds. He made long journeys to Alaska, Texas, Central and South America, and Ethiopia, which are recorded in his journals and letters. As a field ornithologist Fuertes had one specialty in addition to painting in which he was perhaps unique: his knowledge of bird songs and his ability to reproduce them. He had an ear for music and an excellent memory; his imitations were exact. Again and again he used this skill to call birds to him, and at least one of his discoveries of a new bird came from recognizing a new song, reproducing it, and then luring the unseen bird within range of his pistol. The work of Fuertes as a painter of birds took three quite different forms. On relatively large canvasses he painted in oils formal pictures of individual birds or groups of birds, and he took much care to include in the composition the appropriate setting of landscape or sea or sky. These pictures were usually painted on commission for individual purchasers, as in the case of the famous Brewster Series of game birds (now housed in a replica of their original setting at the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell). Another form his work took—and here he was always busiest—was the preparation of plates for book illustration, painted^in wash or water color. Here the birds stand out clearly, boldly, against a minimum of natural setting. Fuertes's book illustrations had in almost all instances a single purpose: "to make the subject as char- 20 M Cornell Alumni News acteristic in appearance and recognizable in its detail as possible." Thus, to paint a plate of a song sparrow, he must study individuals by the dozen. Hence his continuous collecting—shooting—and his borrowing of bird skins from the collections of others. He also painted individual birds, or parts of birds, usually from the dead bird he had just shot in the field. This was, so to speak, for the record, the portrayal of an individual specimen to which he could refer at a later date in his studies. Fμertes explained why he made these drawings. "Opportunities come very rarely for making life drawings with the aid of a field-glass, but by far the largest part of the field drawings are made from freshly shot birds. Little sketch studies for attitudes are made in numbers whenever it is possible, but work in the field is seldom finished in detail beyond the very careful representation of the real appearance of the parts that have fugitive color or form and the very rare cases in which the colors of the feathers themselves change after the death of their wearers." He spoke of the "bloomy" gray of some hawks, doves, and herons, "which like a delicate powder rubs off the feathers and leaves a dead, dark undercolor." He likened the powder to the bloom to be seen on some grapes. From his middle 20s onwards the story of Fuertes's development as a painter is a story of self education, of unremitting labor, at home and in the field, to learn more, know more, see more—and to record his knowledge with his brush. "The one fundamental, basic prerequisite of all art, particularly naturalistic art," he said, "must be good, sound, deep, and appreciative knowledge." Further, the great nature painters, he thought, were men who studied "the actual local color of objects and elements, the effect and direction of the light bathing these elements, and the color reflected from lighted parts onto shaded parts." These things one was not to "behold" or "observe" or "look at," but to "see" to the full extent of one's "visual capacity," with the "whole sense outfit." Having seen them, the painter must work "without stint" to put them on paper or canvas. Fuertes covered with drawings all kinds of scraps of paper, back and front, occasionally a bill (even wrapping paper if nothing else were handy). His sketches ^ \^«§lf^ /'*\ _\ ^ ? s ^ " ^V>^; Fuertes painted the Red-tailed Hawk in watercolor (above) in Ithaca in 1899. The other, pencil drawings on these two pages are three Ring-necked Pheasants and a Green Heron (opposite page), North American birds, and a Golden Eagle, the latter drawn in the Arctic. show a mind that was constantly studying birds, seeing them from different angles, in different modes of flight and in different poses; the head turned this way or that, the body bent forward or reaching upward. His desire to get things exactly right sometimes led him to take a second look, not only at the bird, but at its prey. When he has drawn a hawk with a dead mouse, he has another try at the head of the mouse to make sure it looks really and convincingly dead. Such acuity and meticulousness often made Fuertes unwilling to alter work in ways contrary to what his own observations told him, although he was willing to yield other points to a client. When Frank Chapman, a leading ornitologist at the American Museum of Natural History, criticized a drawing, Fuertes replied, "the wren-tit's tail was purposely twitched, but I can easily make it less obvious. I jerked it a bit for two reasons—one, to show the gradation of feathers and two (to justify one) the fact that he's momentarily stuck up, tilt-wise, on the twig and his tail is helping to hold him there for the instant before he jumps down into the brush again." To another criticism he said, "the hawk is all right, I have watched practically all genera shown, and all do as I have shown accίpiter, i.e. carry the prey at almost leg length and slightly back. Sparrow hawks carry mice that way. Ospreys invariably carry fish [so]. Roughlegs carry even field mice that way and peregrines doves. In all the cases I have ever seen of a hawk or eagle carrying prey it has always been carried away from the body." For the most part, Fuertes was happy in his own way of life, though he might say ruefully that it was "Hell to be an artist and have work, but Heller not to, I suppose." In his more serene mood he said, "a busy man, occupied with the work he most loves, has little time or reason for bemoaning his fate." Busy, he certainly was. Fuertes was a man of lively emotions, quick to laughter and conviviality, deeply stirred by the tragedies of his friends, and at times moved to tears. In his ordinary pattern of life his emotions found expression in a varied and vigorous round of activity. Much of his day he spent in his Ithaca studio where, the door open, neighbors, faculty friends, and ornithologists visited and talked with him while he painted. He was a busy man, a community figure. These involvements absorbed part of his emotional energy and often took the edge off his capacity to do his best work, as day by day he chatted and painted. Throughout his mature life Fuertes maintained a warm, lively relationship with leading ornithologists, with other painters of birds and with many persons, some professionals and some amateurs, who in one way or another were interested in his work. Today one can read a thousand and more letters that passed from Fuertes to his family and friends and from them to him, in the book Louis Agassiz Fuertes, His Life briefly told and his correspondence edited, by his daughter Mary Fuertes Boynton '31 (Oxford University Press, 1956). The total correspondence, edited and unedited, is free of gossip or malicious comment of any kind. The tone of Fuertes letters was as a rule light, lively, and humorous; he wrote easily, simply, as though carrying on a conversation. But not always. He wrote to commiserate with a friend whose cousin had died suddenly. "It does seem almost as if such things come with a cruelty that cannot be ascribed to any more considerate hand than the impartial one of Nature, who recognizes naught but her own laws—fearful and beautiful as are her works." October 1971 • 21 Louis Agassiz Fuertes Of politics and other national affairs he said not a word. True, he quarreled with Teddy Roosevelt, but about Roosevelt's views on coloration in nature, which Fuertes condemned. Roosevelt's position, he said, was "adamantine, not to say rhinocerine." He kept his religion to himself, except for an observation or two. To a friendly clergyman he wrote, "I can never force myself to. stand and go through with the Apostle's Creed. I try so to live that, reward or no reward, I can leave behind me a memory as of one who had rather lived than not: [I wish] to take advantage of no man and teach wrong to no child. . . . I try to violate nobody's feelings." "My way," he said, "seems best for me and can surely hurt nobody else, especially as I only live it and don't ever attempt to justify it, much less impose it on others." Fuertes wrote his travel letters quite consciously as a means of keeping a record of the minutia of his journeys, but even there, where one might expect a dry factual account, his words sometimes have music. "Along the trails rare little farms, built so steep they look like maps of farms tacked on the walls, harbor and faintly nourish a scattered people; the poorest in every conceivable sense, I think, in the world. They know of nothing truly. They can hardly think at all and stand in a blurry daze while you pass them and probably for hours after. J have never been so touched by what man, God's creature, will do and do without to live bare life as here in these sad, huge, resourceless desolations of the eastern Andes." A single sentence may tell the whole story: "We passed all morning like fleas along an elephant's belly, along the steep flank of bare or grass covered mountains." On one day during a journey to Colombia he hunted the "noon-whistle" bird. "I was at last in a very dark, deep, and damp part of the old forest, looking for a little brush-wood bird I'd shot, when I dully became aware of what I would call at home the noon whistle of some distant mill: a steady, very slowly rising note. Then I thought of a toad or frog and then again of an insect, like a locust. I timed it, three times, from the first I could sense the sound, as it began with nothing. The watch was 54, 57, 48 seconds, the longest consecutive note I ever heard any creature make. I imitated it, whistling inward part of the time, and the 22 • Cornell Alumni News Frank Chapman took this photo of Fuertes painting an American Flamingo aboard the Estrella in the Bahamas, May 1902. The wash drawing immediately above is of a Greater Antillian Grackle, in the West Indies. Other illustrations on these two pages are (this page) Wilson's Petrel left and Leach's Petrel, both of which are found worldwide, and (opposite page) the American Bittern (a pencil sketch and wash detail), and three 'possible Mallard and Pintail Ducks, hybrid.' third time it answered; to my amazement, it was only a few feet away. . . . So I knew it must be a bird—for nothing else would come so quickly to a call, and I froze still as a stump. "It was foggy—thick and dark with clouds, and almost black in the densely shaded place I was hunting, and as I searched the gloom, trying to distinguish things, a ghostly shadow of nothing glided out into a small space more open than most, and there, only about 20 feet off, stood a big-eyed spectral bird; whether tinamou, thrush, quail or what, I couldn't tell, as I could only half see in the dark. But I've had my troubles looking too long at new birds before doing anything about it, so I instantly pulled up, in great and wobbling excitement, for here was a new bird, of wonderful interest. "In my haste and excitement I did what I've often done before, and probably shall to the end of my days, and pulled the wrong trigger. Instead of a clean little pop of my 'aux' BLAM went the other barrel, and a great hole was torn in the ground some 20 feet away. Hoping against hope that I'd almost missed, though feeling sure that I'd nailed him, I ran over, only to find that I had literally annihilated a splendid, rare—possibly new— bird. There was a mass of mud, meat, feathers, dead leaves, strung along for two yards. "The main remnant, however, had the bill, part of a wing, a few feathers and one entire foot still held together; enough to see that it really was—or had been—a new species to us. As we'd never before heard this note, and as this family are all great and continuous callers, the chances were that we should never get another chance at it. You can be sure I was sick, and I sat there too chagrined to even swear, looking at my poor bunch of had-been bird. "Anyway, I resolved to keep that wonderful note fresh in my mind, to make a note of at camp; so, still sitting where I'd torn open the ground, I took out my watch and practised it 'by the clock.' I had done it three times, when a sharp 'wip-wip-wip-wip,' right at hand, made me look sharp. This note I heard yesterday, up in the top forest on the ridge, and couldn't locate. So I 'wip-wip'ed' cautiously, and kept still with my eyes open and gun ready. A few still, tense seconds, and this time I was ready and willing, and pulled the right barrel, and had the excitement'of going over and picking up a beautifully shot and perfect peach of a little long-legged, big-eyed thrush-like bird, doubtless the mate of the male I had blown to pieces. " Ί t sounds very cold-blooded, and I am not gloating over the killing so much as the virtual discovering, calling and identifying of a probably new species of one of the most difficult as well as the rarest tropical forest birds. Well, this is getting very long, and it is getting very late—8:30 in fact, and everybody else in bed. So I must go too." The immediacy and intensity of Fuertes's most vivid letters have their counterpart in water color and pencil drawings of the individual bird, a bird, a bird that was before him, that he held in his hand. At the moment he painted it the bird was dead, but he had seen it alive, had watched its movements and had filled his mind with memories of the bird when it lived. What he painted was the "personal look," as he called it, of a single creature, what it looked like when its whole body, and especially its eyes, conveyed the force of life. This was his great gift. No other painter of birds has equalled Fuertes's studies of an individual bird seen as a single living creature. But what of Audubon? Audubon was a painter of much skill and a naturalist who had a wide knowledge of birds. His work as a pioneer in identifying birds and painting them for his monumental Birds of America deserved and still claims the highest admiration. Fuertes often acknowledged his debt to Audubon: "[Audubon's] wonderful books . . . were the most potent influence that was ever exerted on my youthful longings to do justice to the singular beauty of birds." What Audubon lacked when compared to Fuertes was Fuertes's photographic memory and his ability with brush and pencil to convey the impression of the living bird. Like Fuertes, Audubon often made^his sketches from the bird he had just shot. However, Audubon took the dead bird and then used wire to fix it in what he regarded as a lifelike position, and in this position he painted it. As Audubon's plates show in many instances, he preferred to place birds in dramatic poses. His plates, in consequence, are often full of action, and the total composition is altogether pleasing. But the plates and water colors show that Audubon, in striving for dramatic effect, gave up part of the reality of the life of the bird itself and substituted a vivid and colorful figure. In the field sketches and drawings of Fuertes the bird is truly alive. All Fuertes's work is more than capable. But in the work done in the field, in solitude, and in some few done at home on days of ecstasy, there is apparent a total involvement with his subjects that was the essence of his genius. "I've had sensations," Fuertes said, "that would just pick me up by the neck and shake out the gasps." He was no mere observer. The intensity of emotion Fuertes generally lavished on his friendship and family life occassionally appears in his work, and makes it incandescent. October 1971 • 23 Teaching a Love of Birds Sixty years ago, Cornell was in the forefront of the drive to establish ornithology as a science—while emphasizing the need to love and preserve the object studied. Today, the University's Laboratory of Ornithology in Sapsucker Woods carries on the tradition. Elise Hancock looks at the people and events of those years. T HE HISTORY of ornithology at Cornell begins with Liberty Hyde Bailey, dean of Agriculture from 1904 to 1913. Bailey had always been interested in birds; one of his first academic papers, presented to the Michigan Pomological Society when he was 15 years old, dealt with the protection of birds, the farmer's friend, from wanton slaughter. However, Bailey's contribution to ornithology at Cornell lay primarily in the spirit he left with the Agriculture college. He was a pioneer, a botanist and a student of Asa Gray's, who was also interested in horticulture. Botanists in the 1880s, when Bailey was a young man, looked down on horticulture as non-scientific, whereas horticulturists distrusted botanists as having uncalloused hands and being stuck on books. Bailey valued both. When he came to the university in 1888, he determined Cornell would be incomplete without a greenhouse (then called a forcing house), and he personally built one. Later, as dean, he instilled his hybrid viewpoint into the college: service plus science, with a good dash of conservation and willingness to innovate. The late Author A. Allen '08, PhD Ί 1 , who was both visionary and doer for the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, was a student at Cornell during Bailey's years as dean, and the experimental spirit Bailey imparted to the natural sciences may well have had much to do with Allen's appointment in 1912 as instructor of ornithology. The field was then so new that no one knew quite where to place it, so Allen's appointment was in the Department of Entomology. "The chairman at that time, Dr. James G. Needham," Allen wrote later, "suggested the name 'Laboratory of Ornithology' to justify space for an ornithologist in a department devoted to the study of insects." But the Laboratory had no official status for many years. It was only a name to call a room at the end of a dusty hallway in McGraw (the name later moved to more spacious quarters in Fernow Hall). Still, its presence on campus made Cornell the only university in the country—possibly in the world—where one could take a doctorate specifically in ornithology. Students and teachers in those early years shared a pioneer spirit, including a strong esprit de corps and a certain thorny independence, and activity in the Grad James Tate Jr., assistant director of the Observatory, addresses a tour. In the background: oils by Fuertes. 24 • Cornell Alumni News Arthur Lane, recently retired caretaker at Sapsucker Woods, feeds winter guests at the pond. Lab was round the clock. Olin S. Pettingill Jr., PhD '33, present director of the Laboratory, recalls the sense of fellowship and continual excitement in the 1930s, as students pursued their various projects and gathered for the bird walks Allen initiated in the Ithaca area. They met to play ping pong, too, and over the hot plate late at night. They were in and out of the laboratory at all hours, always talking birds, birds, birds. (Or, occasionally, limericks. "The man was great with limericks," says Pettingill of Allen. "Unfortunately, very few of them are printable." The Laboratory, with Allen, was the focal point of all birding activities; it had to be, because there was no department of ornithology. Courses were taught in whatever department happened to have hired the professor. In this way, the growth of ornithology at Cornell continued to be Arthur Allen's creation. It was his vision that gave the Laboratory its missionary zeal. Allen was a protege of Frank Chapman's, then (1911) chairman of the Department of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Chapman had led the movement at the turn of the century to popularize American ornithology, and Allen carried on the proselytizing. He encouraged his graduate students to write popular articles and to give talks for citizens' groups, while he himself was editor of the School Department of the magazine Bird-Lore until 1934 (his equivalent of Bailey's "nature study" program for children). He also lectured extensively. By the 1930s, lecturing and popular writing had come to dominate Allen's academic life, and professional ornithologists have lamented that he did not publish more. However, Allen did not permit diffusion of knowledge to supersede scholarship among his students, and he encouraged breadth of scholarly interest. Allen students undertook studies in whatever area they pleased; nor was it required that their work enhance publications of Allen's. Cornell ornithologists were also in the conservation battle long before the cause became popular. Allen was on the Committee on Conservation established in the College of Agriculture in 1917, was instrumental in the founding of The Wildlife Society in 1936, and initiated the first course in the United States in wildlife conservation. Prof. Emeritus Peter Paul Kellogg '29, PhD '38, who first came to Cornell as a special (non-degree) student in 1925, was among the sponsors of Friends of the Land, a society formed in 1940 "for the conservation of soil, rain, and man." (Russell Lord '18 was editor of the society's magazine, and Peter Vischer '19, publisher of Country Life, was also a sponsor.) Thus in 1948, when the Department of Conservation was formed, it seemed natural that ornithology courses then nesting in the zoology and forestry departments should become part of its offerings. Allen was also engrossed in the development of tools for research and record-keeping. Through the 1920s, he devoted increasing amounts of time to perfecting photography techniques. ". . . The camera has always meant the possibility of portraying accurately and artistically every species of bird, in every plumage and in every species-typical activity," he wrote in 1963. One result of this work was Stalking Birds with Color Camera, a book first published by the National Geographic Society A former summer assistant, Michael Whalen '69, works in one of the aviaries. The birds are Corturnix Quail. Visitors watch birds from the Observatory windows and hear the piped in sounds of the birds outside. October 1971 • 25 Teaching a Love of Birds in 1951 and continually reissued. In 1929, Allen and Kellogg became fascinated with the idea of recording natural sounds, and in 1930, with the financial and practical help of the late Albert Brand, a retired stockbroker and special student, they began to develop methods of recording bird music. Brand and Kellogg in effect took over the project, and by the end of 1931 had been able to show fellow ornithologists the first true "collection" of bird songs—some forty-one. But quality was poor and equipment far too bulky; old pictures show the sound equipment mounted in a truck body. Working on through the decade, however, the pair and their assistants developed a relatively lightweight recorder suitable to carry into the field, and were the first to realize the value of a parabolic reflector, which focuses sound for better recording. Now the Library of Natural Sound includes recordings of more than 3,000 bird species, and sells records for the general public (some with books of Allen's text and photos). Throughout this period of growth, the study of ornithology at Cornell was Arthur A. Allen. Students were his devoted disciples, and even after they had their degrees and were gone he did not let go. Each annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union featured a "Cornell Dinner," sometimes at Allen's expense, in which he corralled all his students, former and present, in ever-growing numbers. Frank Chapman, who was the Grand Old Man, the person one would write to if one were interested in birds and wondered what to do about it, continued to shunt students to Cornell through the '30s. By the time of Allen's retirement in 1953, more than 10,000 had taken his undergraduate and Summer School courses, and more than 100 had obtained advanced degrees. Many of these were teaching, and some had developed graduate school programs in ornithology at other institutions; others became curators, some conservationists, and others conduct independent research. Most, in all areas, are committed to the Bailey-Allen spirit of research, spreading the gospel, and conservation. Allen took pride in their accomplishments and loyalty. And he also had the great satisfaction, in 1955, of seeing his dream come true: The Laboratory of Ornithology got a real home. It seems Lyman K. Stuart '21 had become interested in bird photography through an article of Allen's on "Duck Hunting with a Color Camera." Stuart had spent two weeks trying to photograph a woodpecker, and when the pictures came back he couldn't find the woodpecker in the picture. A correspondence developed, and ultimately the Aliens spent a vacation in Arizona to show the Stuarts how to take bird photographs. Later, when Stuart won a $5,000 photo-essay contest, he wanted to do something for his friend Arthur Allen. What would Allen like? Well, there was this tract of unspoiled woodland near Cornell which he would like to see preserved as a bird sanctuary. . . . Hence came the physical and (finally) official existence of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the first 26 • Cornell Alumni News research laboratory in the nation for the study of bird behavior, made possible by the gifts of many. Established as a separate unit of the university in 1955, the Laboratory consists of nearly 200 acres of woodland northeast of Ithaca, with a ten-acre pond overlooked by the laboratory building. The main building contains room to display ornithological art, an aviary and office and research space, a reference library, an acoustical room for the Library of Naural Sounds, and an observation area where visitors can watch birds attracted by the pond and nearby feeders. Allen and Kellogg turned over all royalties from the growing sales of recorded bird songs to the Laboratory, and, with other endowments, the Laboratory now subsists largely on its own income. Research and cultural development are its avowed function, and it is specifically stated in the Cornell trustees' resolution establishing the unit that research need not have a money-making potential. The stature of the Laboratory was recognized in 1952, when the first International Ornithological Congress to be held in the United States was held, at Cornell. But there was, for Allen fans, a thorn on the rose. Cornell's and Allen's success in establishing the field of ornithology had bred the inevitable revolution. The time had come for the rise of bright young men who wished to make the field thoroughly respectable and Academic, to emphasize bird walks less and precise classifications more. One such had come to campus in 1953, a taxonomist named Charles G. Sibley. He was a real catch for Cornell; he had only earned his PhD in 1948, but already by 1955 he was treasurer and a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union. At the International Ornithological Congress, some at the Laboratory were not pleased that Prof. Charles G. Sibley, unafrlliated with the Laboratory or with the Agriculture College, was in charge of the event. For Sibley did not think much of the Laboratory's philosophy: "glorified birding," he had been heard to say. Allen's adherents, in turn, thought pure research fruitless without a continuing effort to interest the public in the preservation of the object studied. The feud was very bitter. An ugly rumor has it the Sibley family breakfasted on eggs stolen from a clutch Allen was nursing along in order to photograph the nestlings. Such stories show the loyalty of Allen's associates, and may explain why Sibley is now» illuminating the Yale faculty. Meanwhile, the Laboratory continues its unique blend of birding and research. Some current work is purely scientific. Prof. William T. Keeton (neurobiolόgy), an affiliate of the Laboratory, has confirmed the centuriesold hypothesis that homing pigeons, deprived of the sun and of familiar landmarks, rely on magnetic cues. Affiliate Prof. William C. Dilger, PhD '55 (ethology), is working with lovebirds, interbreeding species with different nesting habits to determine the extent to which nesting habits are instinctive. Some of the research is more conservation oriented. Last spring, a graduate student succeeded in rearing a bird of prey (a Red-tailed Hawk) hatched from an egg fertilized by artificial insemination. It is considered this work may lay a groundwork to re-establish populations of endangered species. And populations of Purple Martins are being observed with the hope that fluctuations in population of this bird, which lives very close to man, may serve as an early warning system for subtle and perhaps ominous changes in the environment birds and men share. Most of those at Cornell who teach bird-related subjects are affiliated with the Laboratory, but not all. There is still no department of ornithology. Bird courses at Cornell are taught through the Division of Biological Sciences, the Department of Conservation, and the Department of Education (all in the College of Agriculture). A new generation of bird-watchers is being lured by the Observatory. Twenty to twenty-five thousand visitors come each year, many of them children; school systems as far away as Syracuse bring bus-loads. "Cornell University has always been a little queer," it has been said, "and has prevailed just about to the extent that it has been queer." Such a division may seem queer. But it does allow for a greater variety of courses and personalities than is usual in a more tidy arrangement. And the Laboratory exists in the middle of the welter, serving as a center for research communication and funds, and as a center for teaching the love and preservation of birds. Thousands come each year to walk around Sapsucker Woods and catch bird fever, and many more listen to "Know Your Birds," a weekly area radio program on local and national news in the bird world. Says James Tate Jr., ornithology, assistant director of the Lyman K. Stuart Observatory, "We like to think we're still the home church." Many believe they are. Liberty Hyde Bailey would probably approve, too. October 1971 • 27 Undergraduate Rich Johnston '72 The High Cost of Playing the Game As THE DETERIORATING national economy continues to squeeze I the Cornell budget, non-academic enterprises are coming under the particularly close scrutiny of university cost-cutters. The intercollegiate athletic program is probably the largest, most intricate, and heavily publicized venture under consideration. At some other universities, the arguments over athletics have been stated in unnecessarily extreme terms. Typically, one extreme argues that intercollegiate athletics are a useless extravagance, mere gladiator spectacles designed to entice alumni contributions and satiate bloodthirsty undergraduate appetites. The detractors insist sports cost schools far too much critical money, and the need for a steady flow of deft performers lowers the overall quality of the student body. The other extreme regards athletics as a bulwark in the struggle to maintain the moral fiber of the nation. In its eyes, attempts to question either the legitimacy or the content of athletics are the insidious work of radicals bent on undermining America's social structure. While inquiries into the psycho-cultural nature of sports may make interesting research and thought-provoking reading, there is a danger in assigning athletics—from either direction—more content than they actually warrant. For instance, the notion that the athletic establishment holds some claim to superior moral wisdom is more than a little far-fetched. The claim probably derives from the perception that college athletes tend to be more conservative politically than their non-jock classmates. Perception notwithstanding, appeals to God and country in an effort to salvage athletic expenditures make no more sense than boycotting basketball games because the cagers use the same facility as ROTC. Athletics deserve continued funding for other reasons—for their own intrinsic, existential worth as a nonviolent mode of physical competition, as a psychic release for participant and spectator alike, as a unique and often beau- tiful art form. In short, as enjoyment. However, granting athletics legiti- macy on their own merit does not exempt them from the burdens imposed on other divisions of the university. Critics of athletic programs hold in their arsenal certain inescapable truths —the Cornell sports deficits, for example, drain half a million dollars a year that could otherwise be used to attract new professors or upgrade academic programs. The realities of the present day call for a careful weighing of university priorities. Athletics warrant a status on the Hill albeit a secondary one. At Cornell, the debate has not moved beyond rational argument, but as budget problems become more acute the style of the argument may change. When Day Hall announced guidelines last spring for the 1971-72 athletic budget the future direction of the Cornell sports program became clearer. Athletic director (now dean) Robert Kane said he might not be able to sustain the existing level of Cornell intercollegiate competition. Schpellkopf and Day Hallsfinallyresolved the issue in mid-summer, paring the budget by some $50,000 in actual dollars (by some $100,000 if salary and cost increases are considered). Administration figures show the university will contribute $545,000 to the athletic budget this year, as opposed to $630,000 in 1910-11, and the administration will expect gate receipts and other income to be increased by about $50,000. In other words, the athletic department, which has not paid its own way since the mid-'50s, is being asked to reverse its drift toward increased deficit financing. Despite the economic reordering, none of Cornell's twenty-one varsity teams has been eliminated. The budget cuts will be accomplished by slimming training table expense ($10,000), by holding down maintenance costs (largely because of the new Schoellkopf turf), by cutting recruiting costs slightly, and by dropping several freshman teams (in sports where the NCAA now allows frosh on varsity teams). It seems doubtful the budget could be trimmed much further without seriously altering the scope of the intercollegiate program, the most diversified of any school in the US. Two matters that complicate the issue of cost cutbacks deserve mention. First, the sports that come under most frequent attack for overemphasis— football and hockey—are the two that best pay for themselves. To scale these down would likely cost more in receipts than it would save in expenses. Second, it is very difficult for Cornell to reduce its financial input without concommitant efforts at the other seven Ivy League universities. Athletic recruiting may be anathema to purists at Cornell, but as long as powerhouses such as Harvard and Yale escalate their enlistments, Big Red coaches cgn hardly be expected to bear with unilateral recruiting cutbacks here. Columbia business professor Gerald Brady is conducting a thorough study of Ivy League athletic budgets in an effort to suggest league-wide changes to save money. Because sports are competitive, financial savings may have to come on a consensus rather than on an individual school basis. Otherwise the inequalities between rich and poor schools will be widened. In the face of current cutback requirements but in the absence of Ivy League changes, it seems the university's policy is a reasonable one. Jon Anderson, Cornell's new director of athletics, described that policy: "We are reducing our expenses in accordance with the guidelines set for the entire university. We are seeking to increase the efficiency of our operation without adversely affecting the scope or quality of our intercollegiate program." A wise directive. While intercollegiate athletics are a justifiable and desirable part of university life, they must learn to bear at least the same burden as other departments, since, in the ultimate ordering of priorities, academics at Cornell come first. 28 • Cornell Alumni News Athletics Robert J. Kane '34 Summer Surprises at Call and Miami THIS is WRITTEN shortly after returning from the Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia. I could spend the rest of the column refuting some of the stories written in the American press about the conditions there. But I won't. It should be reported, though, that the conditions there were not bad, and they were exactly the same for the athletes from the USA as they were for the athletes from the other 32 nations in the Games. There are always some Sarah Bernhardts of* both sexes on any Olympic or Pan-American team. Sure, it's not the way you would choose it to live in a dormitory-type room with ten other people for two weeks. But the Cali accommodations were not much different than those at Helsinki, at Rome, at Tokyo, at Mexico City, and there were world's records set by the inhabitants of the dormitory living quarters at the Olympic Games there; and there were records set at Cali. What the papers and news magazines did not report was that after the first couple of days there were no complaints. It was the anticipation of toocozy living that bothered our pampered ones rather than the actuality of it. There were some lessons learned at Cali. Our men's basketball team got licked by Brazil, the first time a US basketball team has lost an Olympic or Pan-American championship. Our oarsmen were humbled. Cornell's representative, the two-oared crew with coxswain, was fifth. Paul Schlenker '67 rowed on the Vesper Boat Club fouroared crew, which was also fifth. John Nunn '67 rowed in the double sculls, placing third. John received the tragic news there of the sudden death of his father, "Bus" Nunn '36 of Cornell football prominence, and had to return home immediately. Cornell's only gold medal winner was Al Hall '56 in the 16-pound hammer throw. This was the third PanAmerican title for Al in this event. He won in 1959, 1963, and at Cali. His domination was interrupted by Tom Gage '66 in 1967 at the Winnipeg Games, a virtual Cornell monopoly. You probably read about the men's volleyball team's sojourn to Cuba after the Games to take part in the NorthCentral and Caribbean tournament in Havana, which was a qualification trial for the Olympic Games at Munich next summer (Cuba beat the US 3-1 in the final and won the only place available for this area of the world). But I bet you didn't hear the story about the manager of the team, Ed DeGroot, brother of the late Dud DeGroot, football coach at Stanford and University of Rochester, and his traumatic experience in the Miami airport on the way to Cali. All Ed did was to go the insurance desk and apply for $100,000 worth of insurance for & trip to Havana, Cuba, and all hell broke loose. The girl behind the counter blanched, pushed a button under the desk and two strong-armed men came out and hustled Ed into an inner room and put him on the hot seat, in spite of his strawberry coat with the US insignia on it, in spite of his identification papers, in spite of his credentials showng he was a retired colonel in the US Army and is now dean of students at Santa Monica College. A call was made to the State Department to verify the authenticity of his passport to Cuba and the volleyball team's accredited participation in the tournament there, before Ed was finally released, somewhat frayed. He belatedly joined tht rest of us in the departing gate area. I listened to his story and I figured he was, as they say, putting us on, but a check with Mr. H. R. Thompson, manager of the airport, scotched my skepticism. "Baby," responded Mr. Thompson, unsmilingly, "we don't take any chances around here. We've been on the firing line too many times. We wouldn't have cared if he was dressed like the Pope, looked like him, and had his papers— if he said Cuba to one of our people, things would start to happen." As we boarded the plane Ed was asked about his insurance. "To hell with the insurance," he exploded. Teh, tch, him being a dean and everything. The Cali spectators were friendly, I thought, and they turned out in great numbers. They did seem to favor the Cubans in the early competitions with us. After all, we're the big dominant power. The Cubans are getting strong, what with their sports camps, and their Russian basketball and track coaches, their Hungarian wrestling coach, their East German volleyball coaching. They were the only ones with a chance to challenge ΛIS. But the Cubans made some social blunders and there was less support for them as the Games went on, and a good deal more for us than we should expect, under the circumstances. The StarSpangled Banner must be pretty hard to take after hearing it 104 times, for every gold medal we won. Cuba's national anthem was heard 30 times. I shall always remember the Cali Games every time I order a cheese omelet from now on. My first day at the brand new Intercontinental Hotel in Cali I was told that the cheese omelet was good, so I ordered one. I got a cheese sandwich. Couple of days later I ordered one and I got a cheeseburger. I was determined now and knowing full well it was my lame Spanish that was causing the difficulty I practiced saying omelete con queso and ordered one the next day. The young Colombian waitress looked baffled and called over a good-looking young supervisor in a white coat who allegedly could speak some English and he smiled knowingly and went alertly to the kitchen and came back with a piece of cheesecake. It was now somewhat hilarious and he and the waitress enjoyed it fully as much as I did. After some italicized gibberish, part English, part Spanish, I finally got my cheese omelet. It was fine. The next day I came in the coffee shop, free for the first time in days of my cheese omelet crusade, and young Mr. White Coat dashed to the kitchen, returned with a broad smile op his face, flashed a piece of cheesecake under my nose, and asked gleefully: "Would you like cheese omelet today?" October 1971 • 29 Books Geof Hewitt '66 Behind The Scalpel The Making of a Surgeon by William A. Nolen, MD. Random House. 1970 ANYONE who has spent more than a few hours in the com' pany of a surgeon knows the demands—emotional and physical— made on these members of the medical profession. Like a soldier on the front, a good surgeon must remain alert twenty-four hours a day. The soldier's solace comes between battles, but the surgeon must sleep with an ear to the phone and cope with the endless temptation to just one more New Year's cocktail. I marvel at the composition of a person who will live his years under such constant tension. What kind of person can patch up a damaged intestine, then grab a hamburger for lunch? What factor allows some people to witness sickness daily and still be good parents? "I can remember stopping into the O.R. to watch an operation on a young man we had sent to neurosurgery. Part of his brain had been crushed beyond salvation, and as the neurosurgical resident scooped the dead fragments of gray matter out of the wound, the assistant resident said, 'There go the piano lessons.' " William A. Nolen's The Making of a Surgeon does a pathetically good job of reducing popular illusions about the infallibility of surgeons. Nolen, who bases his book on five years' training at Bellevue in Cornell's Surgical Division, estimates that "surgeons are wrong about 15 per cent of the time even in their diagnoses of such a 'simple' disease as appendicitis." "If a patient died on the table there were stacks of complicated forms that had to be filled out. . . . So when a patient's heart stopped and his pulse and blood pressure disappeared, the anesthetist would continue to administer oxygen and aerate the lungs just as if everything were all right and we'd close our incision as quickly as we could, usually with a single layer of stitches through all the tissues. . . . "As soon as the incision was closed we'd move the patient onto a stretcher and then, and only then, one of us would put a stethescope to the chest and say, 'I'm afraid Mrs. So-and-so has died.' " The book is funny and sad, often at the same time. Nolen writes on the constant pressure on Bellevue divisions to maintain positive credit with the blood-bank. The Cornell Division at Bellevue relied on an incentive plan, offering a fifth of liquor and an afternoon off to the intern who could find the most blood donors. One intern told a harried family the only alternative to their all giving blood would be dog blood for their loved one "which doesn't always work well." Nolen writes: "A more subtle approach was to simply stand at the foot of the bed, shaking one's head in dismay, watching the clear sugar-water infusion running into the patient's veins and muttering, 'If only it were blood!' just loud enough for the family to hear." But in one case a thirsty intern convinced a hernia patient to give blood the day he left the hospital. "When the man got off the table after giving up his blood he fainted, fell to the floor and fractured his skull. He spent the next three weeks in the hospital. (The intern who recruited this donor was asked to please use more discretion in the future, but he won the bottle of booze that month.)" I'm not sure whether The Making of a Surgeon is or pretends to be more than a series of memorable anecdotes. Nolen's approach is to be honest and thorough, but he rarely deviates from disciplined prose. The chapters are brief and usually snap closed with a terse wrap-up, just where the author might have let himself go, to tell how he felt, not just the moral to the chapter. This tightness also affects the reconstructions of dialogue, which often seems labored and unreal. A woman has just been told by her embarrassed physician that she'll need another operation so he can remove the sponge he left accidentally in her abdomen: " 'Thank you for telling me,' Mrs. Fleischer said, Ί respect you for it. And please don't worry. I'm not going to sue you. I came to you because I wanted you to save me from dying of cancer. Hopefully, you have. I'm not going to let a little piece of gauze diminish my gratitude for what you have done.' " One other stylistic complaint: Nolen uses the names of patients and fellowdoctors freely and in circumstances (including those of malpractice) where a pseudonym is surely necessary. The credibility of his book is jeopardized by this attempt to heighten immediacy. And the immediacy doesn't need to be heightened. The Making of a Surgeon shows that there is more to medicine than merely preventing death. It's a book that tells so much the reader will want to know more. Is Nolen's Bellevue experience comparable to that of other surgeons in training? Will medicine ever advance to the stage that a physician's chief responsibility will be to prevent, rather than cure, disease? 30 • Cornell Alumni News Alumni Notes Addresses in the following columns are in New York State unless otherwise noted. 09 Frederic O Ebeling, Laurel Hill Rd Ext, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 We add our tribute here to Walter L Todd, whose outstanding repayment of his debt of loyalty to Cornell and to his native Rochester will be continued long after his death on July 26. Curly Amsler repeatedly apologizes for conferring his company on me for necessary Reunion transportation last June, but I am indebted to him for not having to do all that taxiing around by myself. Paul Bancel complains of being driven nuts by a $5 dues check outstanding on his bank balance since last November. I wouldn't swear it didn't get into circular file by mistake, given the sad state of my bookkeeping. So far my rebuttal of June 27 has not brought forth a duplicate check. Dick Bishop is at his RD 2, Bethel, Vt. summer place from mid May to early October. I neglected his welcome mat on a hurried swing through New England in June, thereby wrecking myself later getting home. He says it is still out there for next year. Sam Cohen can only say he is still up and about, a bit shaky, but still hoping to make Reunion as he has been since 196.4. His plans get knocked out at the last minute. With the annual affairs now he is going to make it one of these years. Ed Cumpston keeps in touch, still hears, sees, and walks "without a cane," but with the Mrs. doing the driving now Ithaca looks a bit too far even from Rochester. With a law degree from George Washington on top of his Cornell ME, Ed made a career in patent law. His first job was organizing an office in that field for Walt Todd, with whom Mrs. Cumpston was also associated (in community services). There was always some of Walt's Widmer wine and his cheese at Christmas. Ed retired some years ago from Cumpston, Shaw & Stevens, and has a son, a daughter, and six grandchildren. He writes from his summer place, 533 W Lake Rd, Canadaigua. A regular at all Reunions through 1969, Bill Halsey hasn't taken the new annual program seriously. Then he was still earning a living at law although, to quote Cy Weed, he was "over the dam." No comment with his dues last November about missing 1970 nor intentions for last June. Alex Hamilton hasn't Jim Benny's angle of enjoying widening his '09 acquaintance, hearing through me about classmates he never knew. He writes in the most friendly way, with me much in his debt for a luncheon party at our first and only meeting three years ago, as though I would enjoy lightening my load by taking his name off my list. He couldn't be more wrong about that. Mike Hastings lives with daughter Nancy in New Hartford, near Utica, with views from his room "out of this planet." So why envy me here in Chapel Hill, especially in summer, with a vacation at Lake George ahead for him? A month or two after you read this things may be different. B. B. Krammess, Russell's son, 314 Glenwood W, N Canton, Ohio 44720, brings us up to date on his father. Even at our 1969 Reunion he thought some effects of severe, complicated illness could have been noticed, culminating soon after in a long hospitalization. This was successful, and after three months extended care he now manages contentedly with two nurses. Russell has given his former Tiffin home to Heidelberg College and distributed his property to his children as planned. He would be glad to get letters, but there is little chance of reply unless through his son or by phone. Ted Roberts kept up his hopes of joining us last June to the last minute, but was finally unequal to the effort. Wife Florence is in fine shape, but arthritis proved too much for him. 10 Waldemar H Fries, 86 Cushing St, Providence, Rl 02906 Sorry there has been such a dearth of news about fellow classmates—must try to dig up some. Glad to be able to report Garrett Alumni Events Rome: Spirit of the Cornell Plantations, an exhibition of color photographs, Rome Art and Community Center, Sept. 12-Oct.. 24. Burlington, Vt.: Provost Robert A Plane speaks on "The Changing Campus Scene: What Lies Ahead" at Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 6 pm, Oct. 5. Contact Bruce L Hewitt '61, Development, U of Vermont, Waterman Bldg, Burlington. Chicago: Chicago World Affairs Council and CC of Chicago sponsor a reception and dinner. Profs. Walter LaFeber, George Hildebrand, PhD '42, and David Mozihgo speak on "An Emerging US-China Detente?" Oct. 6. Contact Henry G Bates '44, 105 S York St, Elmhurst, 111. Mineola: CC of Nassau Co. sponsors Cornell Night at Mineola HS, Oct. 12. For information, call Ronald L Hailparn '49, 79 Whitehall Rd, Rockville Centre. Ithaca: Council-Trustee weekend, Cornell vs. Harvard football, Oct. 14-16. York, Pa.: Jon Anderson, athletic dir., speaks to CC of York Co. at York Valley Inn, Oct. 21. Contact George H Barton '50, 317 W Market St, York. Ithaca: Engineering Anniversary program, Oct. 22-23. Tours, Dean Andrew Schultz Jr. Claypool seems in good health. Those of you present at the 6O.th Reunion will recall that soon after he had arrived in Ithaca he was stricken with an illness which forced him to return to his home. He is presently living at Chillicothe, Ohio and has retired from active practice of law. He keeps busy raising standard bred harness horses. Spends his winters at Pompano Beach, Fla. Hear from Bill Marcussen now and then— again he has done a fine job in getting his classmates to participate in the alumni giving. Have been in contact with Rodney Walbridge now living in Sheffield, Mass. All in connection with the winning of the National Lacrosse Championship this year by the Big Red team. Rod was captain of the lacrosse team in 1910. Word from Mrs. Wm. M. Case (Marguerite Decker) tell us she is now living at the O'Brien Rest Home, 1446 Grove St, Berkeley, Calif. In February she celebrated her 84rd birthday. 12 MEN: Charles C Colman, 2525 Kemper Rd, Cleveland, Ohio 44120 It is a pleasure to hear from a number who '36 reports to Engineering Council on the College, alumni work groups will review individual schools and departments. Ithaca: Ornithology Lab commemorates Louis Agassiz Fuertes '97, bird artist, with ornithologists' meetings Oct. 23-24, and a special display beginning Oct. 15. Displays also at Olin and Uris libraries. Milwaukee: "Something of Value," slide show on estate affairs, Oct. 26. Contact Harold C Yost '46, 1265 Valley Ridge Dr, Brookfield, Wis. New York: Sigma Alpha Mu Alumni Assn. celebrates 60th anniversary, dinner at Sixty East Club, 60 E 42 St, NYC, Oct. 26. Contact Col. Jerome Lowenberg '29, 71 Plymouth Dr N, Glen Head, (516) 671-6483. Binghamton: Dean Alfred E Kahn, Arts & Sciences, to address alumni, Oct. 27, evening. Contact Ed Moore '48, Box 1895, Binghamton, (607) 722-4293. Chicago: "Something of Value," slide show on estate affairs, Oct. 28. Contact Henry G Bates '44, 105 S York St, Elmhurst, 111. Ithaca: HOMECOMING, Cornell vs. Columbia football, Oct. 29-31. Federation of Men's Clubs and Fed. of Cornell Women's Clubs annual meetings. Panel of student speakers. October 1971 31 Alumni Notes have not been in Ithaca lately, but express their great interest in attending the GRAND 60th REUNION in 1972. Among them, Dick Luce of Brooklyn expects to come and reports hearing from Eddie Lynch of Pittsburgh, who has the same idea. Carl Newlander of Long Beach, Calif., writes: "Getting on to 85, but going strong." Allan Johnson of Akron, Ohio: "Keep on the move and lunch with Art Saalfield several times a week. Hear from a few of the brethren, but have missed word from Pat Kearney in nearby Lisbon." Harry Letsche of Stone Harbor, NJ, only 83 the same as Eddie Lynch, tells us news of a kind that sounds familiar: "Physically I am pretty good, but sometimes it is difficult to remember names." He is a splendid correspondent. Bob King of Ashville, Mass., who seldom misses any Class get-together, comes forth with this tale: " I live alone at the edge of a small town in the foothills of the Berkshires —enough land (five acres) to keep me out of mischief and in good physical shape. I mow the lawns with an old mower (no motor), chop and split maple and oak and apple wood for the fireplace. I do most of the house maintenance—all quite enjoyable. These are good housekeeping days." Julian Machat of Chicago has written a book, The Credit World, published by the International Consumers Credit Assn. of St, Louis, containing "Twenty-Five Methods of Creating Credit Sales," based on his years of experience and success in the field. It has been a satisfying summer and more letters have been received from considerate and regular correspondents. Writing in the middle of August—a lucky day, Friday the 13th—for October publication and reading, it is difficult to guess how many—but surely a representative group as usual—will be back for Homecoming at the end of that month. Those who do will surely get together for more of 1912 dinners at the Statler Inn. Before this, Mrs. Colman and your scribe will have celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in September with another trip to the "Capitals of Russia and East Europe," going to Berlin, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw and Prague via Brussels. There will be more to tell—See you in Ithaca in October. 14 MEN: Mead W Stone, 138 Arthur St, Garden City, NY 11530 What little news! And it's not too good. H Wallace Peters (Doc to you) 16 Sherman Ave, Summit, NJ 07901, has just returned home from the hospital after a most serious illness. How about hastening his recovery by sending him a card or writing to him? Now is the time. 15 MEN: Arthur Cushing Peters, 3536 79 St, Jackson Hts, NY 11372 As deadline approached (Aug. 17), 1915's NY contingent bade Chairman Claude F Williams "au revoir" at a luncheon at the Cornell Club staged by an "ad hoc" committee under the leadership of Judge Samuel S Leibowitz, seeking to sift reports about campus events and conditions which had stirred up controversy. Many alumni at Reunion had expressed interest in rumors of things to come. Guests were Jesse Van Law '27, pres~ of the Assn. of Class officers, and asst. prof, of history Alvin Bernstein, a member of the executive committee of the faculty, and one of his students, Rogers London. Fifteeners present were Claude Wil- liams, Judge Leibowitz, Robert Hendrickson, Charles Heidt and your correspondent. Unfortunately treas. Richard J Reynolds had to remain at his Penn Yan summer place and sec. Art Wilson had just returned to Florida, while others were still "on vacation." Points of controversy between student body, faculty and administrators and alumni groups were reviewed, and the feeling was generated that a calmer period than last years is in prospect as the new academic year begins. It was agreed that documented material would be prepared and sent to officers of 1915 for study prior to holding any enlarged meeting of all interested Fifteeners and alumni leaders of neighboring classes. Homecoming Week or later may provide a good forum for further discussion and decision. Should it be established that unacceptable conduct continues to disturb the atmosphere, adequate stand by disciplinary powers, quickly available to the administration, may become an issue, Apparently many have become reluctant to increase unrestricted gifts until satisfied on use made of such gifts. The consensus seems to be that specific bequests for specific purposes will not be greatly abridged. The financial crises which have affected endowments and other income sources make alumni support more important than ever. Sec. Art Wilson will be the focal point of these discussions and reports in the absence of Claude, who was departing in his new Plymouth for his residence in Sun City, Ariz, on Aug. 27th. He may be back for a Homecoming gathering. Art and Betty are settling into their now home (complete with guest room) at Fort Myers Beach, after a stimulating visit in California with Betty's brother. This followed a stay in Independence, Mo. with some of Art's World War I brother officers. One of them, President Harry Truman, arranged for a two and a half tour of the Truman Library. Art and Betty had a chance to show their films "Behind the Iron Curtain" to several retired colonels and their families. From California, the Wilsons sailed on the "Mariposa" for Alaska. Enroute they met Walter D Archibald, pres. of 1920, and his charming family. After Vancouver, Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, and Victoria, Art cut his trip short in the Canadian Rockies and returned via Denver, with a stop at Pike's Peak, to Fort Myers Beach. He sent regards to all. Roy Underwood enjoyed some weeks at his favorite Kennebunkport, Me. resort with wife Sally. They expect to be around for the Princeton game. Nelson Morrow wrote he had recovered nicely from a double cataract operation and can now drive again. His wife has recovered from a slight stroke. He writes, "Having missed our 1970 Reunion because of that stroke we are both looking forward to the 60th in 1975." Edward J Thomas of Baltimore commented, "Our 55th Reunion was so enjoyable that I hope I last until 1975. Why not have another reunion in 1972?" He concludes, "Nothing to report except Grace and I celebrated our first wedding "anniversary" on Dec. 29, 1970!" WOW! 16 MEN: Allan W Carpenter, 5169 Ewing St, San Diego, Calif. 92115 2Δ Sep. notes cut account space. More now and in Nov. re. 55th. Here are messages read by Herb Snyder at Friday Bishop Dinner: Kathryn (Francis) & Chester Cooke were sad that due to dr's orders they couldn't attend the 55th and sent best wishes to all. Same for Lucille & Ken Fisher except it is Lucille who is ill. Grace and Walter Foley sent "sincere wishes to '16 for a grand Reunion." Walter's MD said no. Ruth & Bill Graham were kept at home by Ruth's infirmities and Bill's business. Regards to all! Ruth & Pat Irish wrote their regrets from Morocco and said, "Please remember us to friends at Reunion." Dr. Henry Kessler regrets due to sudden illness and says "Please convey to all my fellow Cornellians, especially Meyer Willet and Art Abelson, my deep disappointment, and my hope that I may still rejoin you for the Sixtieth." Clarence (Moll) Kilburn: "Hoped to make it up to the last minute but Anne isn't too well. Our best to 'Incredible Sixteen'." Francis Mineka writes from London: " I shall appreciate your extending to the Class on my behalf my heartiest congratulations on this occasion and my warmest thanks for the good fellowship I have enjoyed over the years with them since 1956 when the Chair was established. Have a great Reunion! I shall hope to attend the next one, and the next one, and the ." Frank Thomas: "Had hoped up to the last moment to be with you but my dear wife Louise has been in a cast for ten weeks as a result of a broken foot. This was from the rough shore and beach in Grenada, WI. Best regards to all Ί6ers!" Russ Welles: "Much to my sorrow I'm not able to make the Reunion for health reason. I'm going to miss seeing you and all the boys very much. Give my very best to everyone present and congratulations to you Herb for the swell job you have done for Cornell and Ί 6 ! " Irving Wise: "While my wife is improving rapidly, it will require another two months before I could make such a trip with or without her. Here's to a wonderful 55th for 1916!" We feel complimented that members of both '15 & '19 wished to join us at our dinners. The Ί5'ers were Eleda & Claude Williams, Art Peters who abducted Jessie King '16, Betty and Art Wilson Virginia and Dick Reynolds, plus Smitty Smith. The Ί9'ers were Mike Hendrie, Ruth & Gene Beggs, Seth Heartfield, Nelson Delavan, and Clyde Christie. The presence of the above added greatly to the success of our 55th! An article in "The Sport Tower" of the Ithaca Journal says: "The Class of 1916 was another that reuned at Cornell over the weekend. Included were a few men who played on "Charlie Barrett's undefeated 1915 team." Two in particular were All-American, Murray Shelton, who played end, and Fred Schlichter, an agile back, who was particularly sharp on defense. Also present was the manager, Booty Himkin, who has since gained great fame as an engineer. Schlichter starred in Cornell's 10-0 victory over Harvard, making many tackles and batting down five passes. Herb Snyder, a regular at all Big Red sports competitions, was a member of that team." Registered '16 Reuners: Hester Austin, Gladys Combs Cushing, Gertrude Nelson Gillett, Helen Taber Hood, Adelheid Zeller Lacy, Olive Straub McWilliams, Micky Irish Moore, Lois Osborn, Jessie King Peters, Irma Reeve, Marion Snedeker, Lida Stephenson, Majorie Sweeting, Evangeline Thatcher, Constance Waite Ward, Luella Williams, Annetta Woldar, Helen Saunders Woodelton, Esthyr and Art Abelson, Alec Anderson, Cowles Andrus, Eddie Aycrigg, Frances and George Babcock, Marie & Carl Bahn. Thanks Hunt Bradley '26, Hon '16 for visiting us at Residential Club. Wish that you could have been with us more often. God bless you all! Keep well! See you soon! Will complete 55th Reunion story in Nov. issue, and will complete the list of registered '16 Reuners. WOMEN: Helen Irish Moore, 800 Bahia Mar Rd, Vero Beach, Fla. 32960 This is the last report I will write from the Hagaman home, for we have sold it! Please make note at once of this address change. Those of you who have visited us here at 32 • Cornell Alumni News Annual Report, Cornell Fund 1970-1971 W. VAN ALAN CLARK '09 (and his sons, HAYS '41 and JAMES M. '44) JOHN M. OLIN '13 JANE M. G. FOSTER '18 SPENCER T. OLIN '21 DUDLEY N. SCHOALES '29 ROBERT W. PURCELL '32 FRANK W. ZURN '50 Another banner year! On behalf of Cornell University, I want to express our sincere thanks for the inspiration provided by the donors of the Step-Ahead Challenge. The effectiveness of their example is clearly shown by the fact that the 1970-71 Cornell Fund reached the highest donor total and the second highest dollar total (surpassed only by the Million-Dollar Challenge year) in its history. Performance like this makes the decisive difference in Cornell's progress, helping us to become better than we were. DALE R. CORSON President HAROLD D. URIS '25 National Chairman Cornell alumni increased their gifts to the Cornell Fund by more than a half-million dollars in 1970-71, building a $3,410,327 total, second only to last year's $4-million plus which included the historic Million-Dollar Challenge Grant. The $800,000 Step-Ahead Challenge was exceeded when 4,849 donors— 1,405 of them previous non-donors—gave qualifying gifts totalling $837,781. In all, 28,692 alumni and friends contributed, beating last year's record-breaking total by 1,226. The small group of alumni who created the Step-Ahead Challenge deserve our deepest thanks for the inspiration they provided. Their gift has played an important part in making this another banner year. The other important part was played by more than 3,000 hard-working Cornell Fund volunteers. Other colleges and universities envy us for having such an effective group, and I want to add my personal thanks to those of the Cornell Fund Board. In the year now starting, we will not be depending on a few especially generous alumni to supply the inspiration. Instead, every Cornellian must be his own "challenger." Every year, it is essential for the University to become better than it was the year before. As President Corson says, the Cornell Fund provides the "decisive difference" between falling behind and moving ahead, so we, too, have to be better than we were. HAROLD D. URIS Standard Bearers in a Banner Year Total Dollars 1. Class of 1929 2. Class of 1950 3. Class of 1913 Total Donors 1. Class of 1956 2. Class of 1951 3. Class of 1953 Class Representatives J. Gordon Hoffman Dudley N. Schoales Sarah M. Cole Bella M. Smith Patricia Gleason Kerwick Aertsen P. Keasbey Irene Spindler Urban Ernest L. Stern Jeremiah Tarr William E. Phillips Mary Ann Doutrich C. Richard Jahn Rosalyn Zalutzky Baron Felice Bernstein Burns Credit from Step-Ahead Challenge Grant 1. Class of 1916 2. Class of 1956 3. Class of 1950 Irma E. Reeve James H. Moore Ernest L. Stern Jeremiah Tarr Patricia Gleason Kerwick $179,854 $136,200 $124,002 645 640 632 $ 43,561 $ 32,647 $ 29,959 1970-71 Cornell Fund Board The triumph of the Million-Dollar Challenge made the task of the Cornell Fund Board for this year all the more difficult. It was "a tough act to follow." Diligent work by members of the Board, aided by the Ithaca staff and more than 3,000 alumni volunteers, resulted in a second highly successful year. Harold D. Uris '25, National Chairman William A. Barnes MD '37, Chairman, Medical College Fund Burton C. Belden PhD '31, Member for Graduate School Program Hays Clark '41, Chairman, The Tower Club John C. Howes LLB '34, Chairman, Law School Fund Richard F. Kauders '69, Member for First Decade Program Edward J. McCabe '34, Member for Metropolitan New York Hilda Lozner Milton '44, Member for Class Program David J. Palmer '54, Member for Regional Program William E. Phillips '51, Member for Reunion Class Program Henry Pollak II, Chairman, Parents Fund Curtis S. Reis '56, Member for Class Program Henry D. Ritter '71, Member for Senior Class Program H. L. Tower MBA '60, Chairman, School of Business and Public Administration Ex officio: Ernest R. Acker '17 George A. Newbury '17 Jansen Noyes, Jr. '39 Robert W. Purcell '32 Alfred M. Saperston '19 James P. Stewart '28 Gilbert H. Wehmann '28 The Tower Club HAYS CLARK '41 Members of The Tower Club contributed $2,370,361 to the Cornell Fund this year, $331,205 ahead of last year's remarkable record. Gifts over $5,000 were made by 81 of them, for a $1,730,783 total. The Tower Club, whose membership consists of individuals who donate $1,000 or more to the University each year, was led to this new high by Chairman Hays Clark '41. The Law School Fund For its second year under the chairmanship of John C. Howes, the Law School Fund made its second major step ahead, moving up from $188,752 to $206,000, passing the $200,000 mark for the first time in its history. It is now among the top 3 or 4 law schools in the country for alumni annual giving. Gifts from the 33 members of the Law School Tower Club totalled $141,900. The School of Business and Public Administration Fund Rapid growth characterized the third year of the B&PA School Fund, as it did the second. In 1970-71, the dollar increase amounted to 51 percent of the previous year's total and the donor increase was 27 percent. Grand total for the 1970-71 B&PA School Fund: $53,000. H. L. Tower MBA '60, having served two highly successful years as Chairman, is now leaving the post. John J. Meakem, Jr. MBA '61 has been chosen as the new Chairman. JOHN J. MEAKEM, JR. MBA '61 The Medical College Fund This Fund, too, broke all previous records, closing the year with a figure of $126,008. William A. Barnes MD '37 was again Chairman of the Medical College Fund. The Cornell Parents Fund Cornell Parents increased their giving in 1970-71 by $7,074, a gain of 22 percent over last year for a total of $38,597. Henry Pollak II, Chairman of the Fund, has agreed to serve a second year in that office. HENRY POLLAK II Reunion Classes Reunion classes upheld their tradition of setting a pace for the Cornell Fund. The Class of 1956 led the Class of 1951 by a slight margin for the largest number of donors, while the Class of 1916 was well ahead of all contenders for credit from the Step-Ahead Challenge Grant, indicating a high percentage of new donors and increased gifts. Second in this category was the Class of 1956. Five classes broke all-time giving records, andfivebroke all-time donor records. William E. Phillips '51 was Chairman of the Reunion Class Program. Class 1911 1916 1921 1921 1926 1926 1931 1931 1936 1936 1941 1941 1946 1946 1951 1956 1961 1966 Challenge Special Gifts Donors Gifts Credit Chairman 85 $26,306 $12,320 206* 63,089* 43,561 Donald R. McMaster Men 155 Women 83* Men 210 Women 116* Men 231 Women 112 Men 251* Women 112 Men 244 Women 121 Men 192 Women 172* 640 55,300 41,191f 47,563 7,804 30,021 7,611 22,975 9,797 96,963* 4,825 11,042 4,751 44,375 17,687 3,432 8,052 1,480 7,805 1,385 6,558 1,087 22,130 1,110 1,835 990 12,910 Spencer T. Olin Seymour M. Katz David S. Ketchum Harvey E. Sampson 645* 63,487* 39,609 576 18,743* 3,807 407* 7.180 1.337 *New reunion record established ί$35,000 credited from Class of 1918 Representatives Herbert Ashton James H. Moore Irma E. Reeve Seward M. Smith Marie Reith Leonard R. Richards Helen B. Vandervort John A. Pruyn Frances E. Young Paul M. Brister Doris H. Jones Philip G. Kuehn Grace O. Kimball Samuel W. Miller Maj-Britt K. Leish Mary Ann Doutrich William E. Phillips Ernest L. Stern Jeremiah Tarr Philip M. Hodges Nathaniel W. Pierce The Class Program Three non-reunion classes—1929, 1950, and 1913—led all others in total dollars given. Reunion classes, detailed on the preceding page, took first and second places in both number of donors and Challenge Grant credits. The Class Program, under the leadership of Curtis S. Reis '56 and Hilda Lozner Milton '44, helped Cornell to step ahead. Mr. Reis is turning his duties over to Edward W. Shineman '37. Class Grad 1900 1902 1903 1904 1905 1907 1908 1909 1910 1912 1913 1914 1915 1917 1918 1919 1920 1922 1923 1924 Donors 3,294 4 4 11 10 17 33 50 91 60 113 Men 104 Women 24 119 137 212 Men 136 Women 49 Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women 140 57 122 55 141 88 171 101 176 102 Gifts $167,444 20,625 1,160 1,441 1,550 5,865 3,973 15,000 86,388 12,452 13,815 123,053 949 15,441 23,401 38,929 40,225 66,877 33,299 4,849 17,083 4,197 23,448 3,054 27,987 8,280 117,466 4,997 Challenge Credit $54,029 508 232 291 1,150 1,030 450 660 2,635 4,709 4,361 195 3,888 6,327 3,021 16,185 105 3,237 1,225 1,762 60 1,719 255 1,138 180 28,305 425 Class Representative Dr. Burton C. Belden Henry W. Peck Herbert E. Mitler Gustav J. Requardt William H. Marcussen Charles C. Colman Aertsen P. Keasbey Irene Spindler Urban Walter E. Addicks Donald L. Mallory Paul C. Wanser Irene M. Gibson Dagmar Schmidt Wright B. John Shepard Esther Funnel Phipard Whitelaw T. Terry Edith E. Stokoe Edward K. Kennedy Ruth F. Irish George W. Holbrook Gertrude Mathewson Nolin Bernard J. Kovner Mary L. Casey Carroll C. Griminger Class 1925 1927 1928 1929 1930 1932 1933 1934 1935 Donors Men Women Men Women Men Women Men 139 78 187 122 192 100 175 Women 102 Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women 197 94 204 90 181 110 207 108 338 Gifts $ 43,398 2,404 47,286 5,290 61,418 4,167 174,041 5,812 45,614 3,378 73,452 3,856 22,990 6,822 22,441 4,257 24,506 Challenge Credit $20,640 175 11,037 230 2,200 380 7,659 1,758 13,541 425 2,690 378 8,053 865 3,146 588 1,772 Class Representative Thomas J. Roberts Mrs. Edith A. Bennett Fred J. Behlers Eleanor Crabtree Harris Helen Spiegel Cohen J. Gordon Hoffman Dudley N. Schoales Sarah M. Cole Bella M. Smith Lowell G. Powers Ruth A. Beadle Robert L.Riedel Kathryn Kammerer Belden Edgar H. Bleckwell Marion Glaeser George M. Hand Eleanor P. Clarkson Albert B. Preston Catherine Abbott Montgomery Class 1937 1938 1939 1940 1942 1943 1944 1945 1947 1948 1949 1950 1952 Donors Men Women Men Women Men Women Men 222 119 230 95 224 125 252 Women Men Women 111 264 120 405 Men Women 374 226 127 449 Men Women Men Women Men Women 402 182 432 150 627 418 159 Gifts $20,855 6,766 21,261 2,732 42,842 4,208 18,963 Challenge Credit $ 4,650 882 3,037 300 4,085 450 1,823 3,417 19,701 4,185 27,326 663 2,510 111 4,982 89,813 29,785 14,421 22,645 8,121 5,362 390 4,052 33,520 7,688 31,597 4,283 136,200 27,450 27,050 10,095 1,089 5,086 250 39,959 9,726 750 Class Representative Edward W. Shineman, Jr. Barbara Heath Britton Samuel S. Stahl Germaine Miller Gallagher Stanley S. Christenfeld Ruth Gold Goodman Jerome M. Cohen Curtis B. Alliaume Marguerite Adams Stout Edwin A. Buxton, Jr. Flora Mullin Briggs Roy B. Unger Katherine Rogers Randall Hilda Lozner Milton Ina Hundinger Wolf Elizabeth Pearson Millard Marvin M. Wedeen Dorothea E. Underwood Richard H. Lustberg Patricia Gleason Kerwick John T. Rogers Constance Honig Bandes Class 1953 Donors Men 427 Women 205 1954 600 1955 1957 1958 1959 1960 Men Women Men Women 596 386 217 399 186 572 537 1962 1963 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 443 479 432 446 377 366 354 163 Gifts $26,086 8,051 35,176 Challenge Credit $ 4,769 1,309 4,491 25,194 23,366 5,261 15,431 9,472 16,847 23,991 4,507 7,653 538 3,455 1,407 2,406 4,524 12,099 12,372 12,972 11,921 23,375 11,176 9,056 2,824 2,478 2,226 4,924 2,620 6,452 6,035 4,266 1,684 Class Representative C. Richard Jahn Rosalyn Zalutsky Baron Felice Bernstein Burns William S. LaLonde III Sorscha D, Brodsky John F. Weiss Steven Laden Judith Richter Levy Daniel R. Martin Gladys Lunge Stifel K. William Fraser R. Edwin Maglisceau Elisabeth Guttman Speck Owen J. Sloane O. Richard Lynham James H. Cohen James P. Ware John E. Alden William H. Besgen Richard F. Kauders Arvin H. Chin Regional Program A dramatic 61 percent increase in specific pledges demonstrated the value of Regional Phonathons to the Cornell Fund. In 1969-70, 9,416 specific pledgors gave $208,881, while the same alumni gave $335,262 in 1970-71. These figures cover 43 Phonathons, which involved 110 nights of phoning by 1,759 phoners. The Regional Program was under the leadership of David J. Palmer '54, with Edward J. McCabe '34 serving his second year as Cornell Fund Board Member for Metropolitan New York. Area East Central Region Indiana—Central Indiana—North Indiana—South Kentucky Michigan—Central Michigan—East Michigan—West Ohio—Northeast Ohio—Northwest Ohio—Southeast Ohio—Southwest Greater Pittsburgh Pennsylvania West West Virginia Challenge Donors Gifts Credit Chairman 69 $ 4,210 $ 750 Raymond M. Trotta '55 Jackson Hazelwood, Jr. '63 W. John Mead '62 30 2,222 325 Raymond M. Trotta '55 52 1,890 135 Raymond M. Trotta '55 65 3,111 759 James B. Casey'51 75 5,480 910 Robert H. Bluestein '67 304 17,745 1,391 Robert H. Bluestein '67 Anton F. Tewes '57 Peter C. Higbie '48 Robert C. Crites '59 Robert S. Kasle '48 55 4,775 435 Robert H. Bluestein '67 492 57,812 6,937 Gordon Kiddoo '42 William S. Cullen '57 Dennis P. Iacomini '64 Sanford B. Ketchum '34 Edward D. Hill, Jr. '54 58 11,150 2,485 123 61,487 915 Gordon Kiddoo '42 287 30,869 17,074 James B. Casey'51 John S. Hopple '52 Philip T. Sickenger '68 400 27,709 3,511 Charles P. Cox '47 James K. Elderkin, Jr. '43 William S. Hansen '49 95 57,352 2,160 B. Leonard Snider '40 Joseph E. Fleming '35 Frank W. Zurn '50 Robert T. Mosher '61 52 3,058 265 Charles R. Cox '47 Challenge Area Donors Gifts Credit Chairman Metropolitan New York Region General Area Chairman: Edward J. McCabe '34 Associates: Patricia J. Carry '50, Curtis S. Reis '56, Ernest L. Stern, 56, Robert H. Abrams '53, Gerald R. Schiller '45, Robert P. Stieglitz '31 Fairfield County, Conn. 124 $144,940 $100,643 Manhattan—Central E. 121 74,384 16,748 Manhattan—Central W. 85 171,741 Manhattan—Downtown 55 248,351 Manhattan—Lenox Hill 172 115,239 Nassau County—North 111 Nassau County—South 107 New Jersey—Central 73 New Jersey—North A 132 New Jersey—North B 226 Orange, Rockland Counties 46 Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island 145 Suffolk County 78 Westchester—North 128 43,518 14,579 16,235 29,682 48,902 17,038 75,139 14,824 34,878 Westchester—South Fairfield County Phonathon 139 30,706 506 25,338 New York City Phonathon 1.740 54.999 2,295 33,495 19,806 4,612 4,466 3,600 5,042 7,567 8,909 3,634 4,917 3,752 6,061 13,051 15.816 Long Island Phonathon 1,187 28,510 3,989 Westchester Phonathon 1,242 34,598 6,850 New Jersey Phonathon 1,546 46,015 7,994 Jerry C.O'Rourk'32 Elizabeth S. Eddy '42 Lee R. Saperston '53 Lawrence Lowenstein '43 Robert S. Boas '45 Robert L. Hermanos '57 Leonard M. Roberts '38 Ernest H. Kingsbury '31 Edward Simpson '47 Kenneth E. Fahnestock '34 Kenneth G. Van Wynen '25 William G. Ohaus '49 Eugene Littman '48 George R. Bradley, Jr. '31 Lewis M. Leisinger '31 L.William Kay II'51 Leonard L. Steiner '51 Melba L. Silver '47 Robert W. Herron '56 Michael D. Stashower '48 Alan I. Goldman '58 Meyer A. Gross '58 Richard H. Lustberg '49 Howard A. Rakov '65 Henry S. Thomassen '40 Judy M. Woodfin '56 William Work '44 Irwin S. Broida '52 Don E. Biederman '55 James L. Hutchinson '47 Janet P. Bellamy '54 William M. Bellamy '53 Marion M. Eskay '54 Richard S. Eskay '54 Gabriel I. Rosenfeld '49 Louise P. Rosenfeld '50 Karl K. Goldsmith '47 Stanley W. Johnson '45 Burton M. Siegel '56 Challenge Area Donors Gifts Credit Chairman Mid-Atlantic Region Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa. 144 Baltimore, Maryland Delaware 290 229 Greater Philadelphia 948 Harrisburg, Pa. 87 Lancaster, Pa. 31 Princeton, N.J. 150 Reading, Pa. 31 Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Pa. 118 Washington, D.C. 1,154 York, Pa. Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Va. 52 33 30 $ 6,889 17,358 29,848 189,200 3,311 988 6,701 3,005 12,065 92,222 4,500 2,159 1,297 $ 1,196 3,183 3,613 45,552 730 175 1,202 230 5,410 33,650 285 435 290 Audrey R. Berman '50 JohnL.F.Slee'42 Edward R. Collins '32 William D. Lawson '49 Richard C. Cecil G Donald C. Sutherland '49 Jerome J. Hargarten '49 Donald R. Baer '48 William H. Harned '35 Robert H. Speck, Jr. '58 Elisabeth G. Speck '60 John C. Atwood, Jr. '20 Walter W.Buckley'26 James A. Morrison '30 J. Gordon Dye '39 Robert D. Myers '54 WilliamS. Field'51 Robert S. Spangler '52 Robert A. Mayer '58 Richard M. Ross, Jr. '52 Nelson C. Woehrle, Jr. '56 Daniel N. Bondareff '35 Felix E. Spurney '23 John Marshall, Jr. '26 Area Midwest Region Chicago St. Louis North Plains States Wisconsin Challenge Donors Gifts Credit Chairman 769 $59,828 $14,509 Henry G. Bates '44 Strabo V. Claggett '43 Alice C. Brunner '57 H. Barringer Pusch '52 Howard R. Joseph '33 William H. Seymour '57 David D. Peterson '52 313 131,344 3,999 William R. Vickroy '52 John A. Ektermanis '62 145 11,017 258 168,188 3,825 52,205 Harold C. Yost '46 CarlH.Dieterle'55 Edward A. Pereles '61 New England Region Greater Boston 912 Hartford, Conn. 422 Maine 104 New Hampshire New Haven, Conn. 106 268 R.I. & S.E. Mass. 212 Massachusetts—West 166 Worcester County—Mass. 83 Vermont 184 70 .003 34,734 3,726 3,669 12,194 12,255 6,413 3,305 7,744 16.577 10,843 588 655 2,156 2,149 1,465 395 1,296 Hilton Jayne '34 Donald P. Babson '48 David J. Palmer '54 George D. Rautenberg '45 Robert D. Brunei'41 S. Michael Schatz'41 Donald J. Hayes '52 James A. Tate '52 Edward M. Sullivan '51 Mary K. Sullivan '48 Peter B.Webster'65 Maxine K. Morse '45 James R. Muirhead '63 Daniel W. Kops '39 H. Chandler Clark '49 William W. Pinchbeck '54 Jacqueline D. Feinberg '48 William F. Waters '54 Paul'T. Carver'49 Leon E. Maglathlin, Jr. '49 Peter L. Sisley '57 Bo Adlerbert '35 William W. Freeman '31 Southeast Region Ala, Tenn., N.C., S.C., Ga. 348 Ark., La., Miss. 85 Florida—East 302 Florida—West 191 16,274 4,583 27,707 13,223 2,488 2,328 8,054 4,310 Area Upstate N.Y. Region Albany Binghamton Buffalo Elmira Ithaca North Country Rochester Challenge Donors Gifts Credit Chairman 366 385 764 297 692 44 1,206 $21,350 20,562 63,521 24,851 58,493 3,343 103,773 $ 5,180 2,838 25,839 3,390 12,430 325 19,134 Edward T. Moore '48 Jack D. Vail, Jr. '54 Richard G. Borden G Marcia B. Cohen '57 James P. Trozze '69 Charles W. Lockhart '36 Henry R.Keller'39 Jean F. Rowley '54 Robert S. Belden '55 Finley M. Steele '36 Leslie D.Clute'13 David G. Flinn '60 Alfred P. Cook'37 Frank P. Proto '65 Charles F. Mulligan'31 Winfield W. Tyler '43 Ralph H. Parks '30 Russell O. L. Smith, Jr. '54 Challenge Area Donors Gifts Credit Chairman Schenectady Syracuse Upper Hudson Utica Watertown 168 $ 7,309 $ 585 James T. Cullens, Jr. '59 604 32,267 5,128 James H. Bugden '38 Bruce W.Widger'51 Peter G. Pierik '52 David R. Bacon '52 Sherwood B. Bliss'58 182 9,498 1,380 184 8,684 2,804 83 2,522 545 West Coast & Southwest Region Southwest 919 54,154 N. Calif .—Nevada 783 48,900 Northwest South Central Mountain States 275 10,591 309 36,537 229 8,172 13,574 15,190 2,574 10,175 1,888 J. Rainey Hancock, Jr. G James E. Pollak '27 Charles A. Walworth '53 Warner B. Berry '62 JohnW.Kruse'41 Ralph L. Owen '20 Henry P. Massey, Jr. '61 Daniel P. Chernoff '56 J. Richard McGraw '34 Tyler D. Todd '54 Stephen W. Miles '57 William C. Jensen '58 Ronald E. Rinker '56 this lovely spot know how we hate to give it up, but we hope to continue coming north in the summer. We have had word that Jennie Minnock Otis died in St Petersburg on June 2. Her brother wrote me she was buried in Boston, NY. 17 Donald L Mallory, Horseshoe Lane, Lakeville, Ct. 06089 George Newbury, chmn. of our Reunion committee, has made great progress on the plans for our 55th Reunion next June, and hopes to complete these plans at the time of the Cornell Council-Trustees meeting in October. We all look forward to these three marvelous days on the campus. George, who makes frequent trips to Ithaca, writes Cornell is very fortunate in having fully recovered from the troubles of 1969, and gives great credit to Pres. Corson. On the day after attending the 1917 Class Dinner in May, Judge Marvin R Dye, with his wife, the former Miriam Kelley '17, sailed for Paris. After a refreshing stay in Paris and in Switzerland, they steamed down the Rhine River to Amsterdam, returning to NY at the end of the month. Marvin and Miriam are anticipating "springtime in Ithaca" in June and will see us all there. Brandreth Symonds considers himself in semiretirement, as he is still real-estating intermittently. His hobbies are chess, music, and civic affairs (he is pres. of the Bradford, Vt. Community Club). Snow removal in the winter and gardening in the summer keep him in shape. His travels are all within the USA. The Symonds have one son and two grand-daughters. On April 9, Charles H Bunn returned to Westfield, NJ from a three month "around the world" cruise aboard the MS Sagafjord, having occupied the same stateroom on this ship for the last six years. In Stamford, Ct., Richard T Guilbert is still normally active in the oil business, but there has been a change in his "after hours" routine: Dick and his wife Grace have returned to duplicate bridge after a forty year lay-off in favor of rubber bridge. They find it very pleasant and challenging and have finished their tournaments in all spots from bottom to second. We hope they can report a few first places when they come to our Fabulous-Fifty-fifth Reunion. The Guilberts are still reliving their trip to the Orient, Hawaii, and Carmel, Calif, in May 1970. They relaxed in Maine with their daughter's family last summer, and hope to "shoot" Africa next year. Another active oilman is Thomas R Jones, still representing Mobil Oil Corp. in Eagle Pass, Texas. His trips are mostly limited to., the state and an occasional visit in Los Angeles with one of his two daughters. His grandchildren now number ten. In Rome, NY, Dr. Edwin P Russell's retirement interests are. fishing, golf, hunting, and yardwork. His travels are to church, hospital, and bank. Our able class sec, Robert P Willson, has just returned from an extended semi-business trip to Europe. After visiting London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen, he flew to Moscow. There he attended the International Agricultural Congress, where he read a scientific paper on—you guessed it—honey. Dr. Walter Denslow Way spent the winter in Phoenix, Ariz., where he could continue his golf-playing without interruption from the snow-storms of his home town, Westport. Den's daughters, Jean '41 and Barbara '49, operate the PR business of Dudley, Anderson & Yutzy in NY, Jean being pres. and Barbara executive VP. His son Walter ('£0) is with Continental Can Co. The Ways have nine Hospital Director/ Engineer/Cornellian It has been announced that the late I Ellis Behrman ΊO, one of the first non-physician directors of a major US hospital, bequeathed approximately half a million dollars to Cornell for construction of one or more buildings for the Biological Sciences Div. As an undergraduate, Behrman met expenses by playing the violin in several orchestras in Ithaca. After graduation, he was a city engineer in Baltimore until the First World War, which he finished with the rank of Colonel. After the war, he was a US technical adviser in Czechoslovakia and other Balkan nations. G J Requardt '09 reports Behrman's wife Maxy was a Hungarian princess met during this period; other reports indicate she was a Polish opera star. He left no children. He was chief engineer for L Bamberger & Co. in Newark, NJ from 1928 to 1936, when he was appointed executive director of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark." Behrman had previously been a trustee of the institution. In the years before his 195.9 retirement, Beth Israel under his leadership inaugurated one of the nation's first hospital blood banks, an early RH center, and other advances including the construction of a clinical and research laboratory and a cobalt building. grandchildren: five girls and four boys. William J Wheeler's corporation, the Main- tenance Co., not only maintains the elevators in the elegant new General Motors building in NY, but also services the window-washing power-scaffold. Among other activities, this Long Island City based company has recently finished the complete modernization of the elevators in the Biltmore Hotel. Retired in Akron, Ohio, E Sherwood Post spends most of his time reading. In season, he raises flowers and vegetables. 18 MEN: Stanley N Shaw, 16689 Roca Dr, San Diego, Calif. 92128 My faithful volunteer correspondent Bob Spear '19 continues to supply me with valuable tidbits of courrent news and fine morsels of reminiscent comment on our undergraduate days. His latest letter reports on a visit with Kingsley Maynard in Elmira and with Pete (Nelson) Cornell in, Chemung. Pete has just retired and with his wife has moved to the old family homestead a few miles from Elmira, where he was born. Kingsley, who was alsα due to retire July 1, was honored with a surprise dinner at the Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira arranged by the Chemung Co. Medical Soc. That organization's presgave Kingsley a scroll signed by 350 doctors, staff and other friends in testimony of his 50 years of devoted medical service in Elmira and nearby communities. More tangibly, Kingsley and his wife received tickets for a long trip to Africa and a fancy Konica camera to record their adventures, on that tour. Kingsley has other credits than his medical record; he is a devoted mountain climber, a member of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and the successful climber of 47 Adirondack peaks. Bob sent me pictures, but sadly the NEWS no longer has space for such presentations. More correspondence piles up on the subject of that '18 class memorial gift at our 55th Reunion in 1973. I am KΌping that mention of the letters that have passed between Joe Granett, Paul Miner, George H Healey for the Libraries and Thomas W Leavitt for the Museum has stirred up some real interest and will produce some more concrete ideas as to the form that project should take. Prof. Healey's idea of a class memorial which would add to the Library's funds for the purchase of valuable books on American literature and history appeals most to me, but others may have varying views. Les Hearn had promised to visit me on his Spring '71 visit to California but developed congestion in a lung, experienced some rough weather which made it worse (though that weather wasn't, of course, in California), and has been doctoring ever since, though making good progress. Talbot Malcolm also reports progress in recovering his prowess on the golf course and the bowling alley after a setback last winter. Row Wagner (Thomas Rowan, that is) advises he, has moved from Village of Cross Keys, Baltimore, to 6005 Hunt Ridge Rd in the same city. No further personal news, but it's to be assumed all's well, or he'd have said so. Belatedly I find a note from Harold Kinney of Gouverneur reporting a happy visit with Harrison P Hood and his wife Marie from Corning, famed world travelers. And hopefully I'll have a full report next month of the activities at the annual class picnic at Harry Martin's, an affair that always draws a fine crowd. And now for a month hopefully of soaking up English sunshine and history, headquartering in London. WOMEN: Irene M Gibson, 119 £ Main St, Holley, NY 14470 We mentioned Marian Selden Graves in our July column, saying she was still teaching. But June saw Marian enter the retired status. We ask: Is anyone of us still holding a paid job with regular working hours? If not, Marian and Harriet Hosmer win the prize for the ones longest in harness! The Rome Sentinel of June 26 carried a three-column article with a photo of Marian and much praise for her work as teacher of home ec at Rome Free Academy, "who, in her half century as an educator, has built a legacy of love, respect and admiration among her students. Mrs. Graves jokingly refers to herself as a 'hard driver,' a taskmaster who draws out of her students the best they have to offer . . . whose two bywords are 'courtesy' and 'culture,' and she sincerely believes in both; whose dedication to. her profession has prompted her to snowshoe to school during heavy snows . . . Her memories of days gone by are richly laced with anecdotes about . . . her struggle to teach farm boys bigger than herself when she first graduated from Cornell . . . her two years as teacher at the Stanwix village school and the baseball games during recess; the offer she turned down to join the faculty at the U of Virginia . . . " We wish we might quote the whole article, especially her plans for the future, to "have afternoon teas" at the home she. and her sister, Eίoise Selden, maintain "for colleagues and former students," and to leave behind a living gift: "a memorial garden with spring lilacs and summer roses . . . planted in the enclosure near the auditorium for students to see and enjoy." We do hope your plans are working out, Marian, and wish you the best. As for myself, I've made several short trips this summer, two to Albany and Columbia County, doing research for a short family history, and most recently to Chautauqύa. October 1971 • 49 Alumni Notes ^Vhile in Albany I lunched with my nephew, Alfred D Bruce '61, who works in public relations as a VP of Darcy Associates, in charge of their Albany area office. Our Aug. 1 family reunion on Keuka Lake brought together several Cornellians: my sister, Harriet Gibson Bruce '31, Alfred's mother; my brother, H James Gibson '30; and my niece, Helen June Gibson Pendleton '53, with her husband, Everett B Pendleton '53 and their three children, David (14), Linda (12), and Jeffrey (6). One family arrived by boat; my brother Jimmΐe took up a rented plane for a bit of practice; the kids went in swimming; and a good time was had by all! 19 MEN: Colonel L Brown, 22 Sierra Vista Lane, Valley Cottage, NY 10989 Our fall luncheon will be held Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Cornell Club of New York, 155 E 50 St, at 12:00 noon. You will get a letter about it from our president, Mike Hendrie. If by any chance the date has to be changed it will be announced in the letter, and Mr. Hendrie's word rather than your scribe's is in that case to be regarded as Gospel. These semi-annual luncheons are always pleasant affairs, and a great opportunity to reminisce swap experiences, stories, et cetera. And there is invariably an excellent lunch with beverages befitting the occasion. By all means, plan to attend. Barnet Nover, who for 23 years was chief of the Washington Bureau of the Denver Post, was honored upon retirement by the Colorado Soc. and presented with a handsome desk set. Sen. Gordon Allott of Colorado in the Aug. 4, 1971 Congressional Record gave an extensive resume of Barnet's career from the time he graduated from Cornell up to the present. According to a letter from Barnet to your scribe, he is not yet ready to hang up his typewriter. Actually, he is semi-retired from the Denver Post and with his wife, Naomi, has set up the Nover News Service. It's a safe guess the Novers will not have much idle time on their hands. Here's wishing them the best of luck in this new endeavor. We received a most interesting resume of reviews of Tin Ensign by Jack Corrigan of Miami, Fla. There were reviews by book reviewers of newspapers and magazines, and letters from a large number of high ranking naval officers, mostly admirals and captains, and also many well known Cornellians. We have read and re-read the book and want to say again that it is a valuable historical record because it was written by someone who was there where the action was. The Wilbur Simonsons live in Bethesda, Md., but usually spend some of the winter in Florida. Wilbur is active in highway development and has attended all but two of the 30 annual Ohio Short Course on Highway Development meetings. At the meeting last October he addressed the delegates from more than 40 states on "The Sensitive Seventies—A Backward Look and a Forward Glance." He traced the basic part that application of the principles of ecology has played in the evolution of roadside development in highway engineering to conserve, protect, and develop the environment of our highways. "Few of us realize," says Wilbur, "that our now vocal sensitivity to environment started back in 1886." At that time a few socially minded citizens became interested in cleaning up the Bronx River in NY, Wilbur continues deeply interested in ecological affairs. Harlo P Beals writes he and Mrs Beals spend the winters in Florida and the summers in Ithaca,, a perfect deal if you can arrange it. Just suppose you had to spend your winters in Ithaca and your summers in Florida? Harlo says, "believe that we oldsters should let the younger generation try as we did to make things right." Leland T Shafer of Brockport writes he doesn't know anything to report and that he is just grinding away. We take this to mean he is keeping busy. Daniel H Heller of Fuera Bush is another of our classmates, like Harlo Beals, who goes south with the robins and returns north with the swallows. In other words, the good life the year round. Don Robinson finally made it to Florida last fall. He- says he probably crossed paths with Cornell alumni, even Ί9ers, but saw no one wearing letter sweaters, old Reunion costumes, or smoking class pipes, so he could not distinguish them from the natives. It just goes to show how conservatively Cornellians dress these days. 20 MEN: Orville G Daily, 901 Forest Ave, Wilmette, 111 60091 Old McDonald had a quack-quack farm! No, that's not it—it was a Big Mac Hamburger stand! No, no, that's not it either—it was a long line of Scotch ancestors named John McDonald! But we're talking about young John McDonald of the 1920 generation, the one who makes Dubuque, Iowa famous. Last summer John made an interesting tour of Scotland with a small group sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC, in co-operation with the National Trust of Scotland which owns and supervises many historic properties. Its purpose was for the US Trust to learn from the experience of a similar group in Scotland. The group was entertained in Edinburgh by city officials and those of the Trust, their itinerary including various castles, mansions and homes in the vicinity of Aberdeen, Inverness and the Southern Hebrides in the Oban area. (OGD note: By a recent act of Congress the Abraham Lincoln home in Springfield, 111., now owned by the state, will be purchased by the federal government, designed and preserved as a national historic site.) Both of John's grandfathers emigrated from Scotland as young men and he planned to visit the two small islands of Gometra and Ulva where Grandfather McDonald spent his boyhood years. These small islands are south of the Island of Mull and near the Island of Iona where the Christian religious effort was started in that part of the world. John chartered a helicopter out of Oban and followed the exact itinerary of his grandfather who had revisited the. islands in 1888 after an absence of 35 years. He found the scenery extremely beautiful and the pleasant people most hospitable and helpful. The present owners of Gometra had prepared a fine luncheon and later helped John locate certain tombstones in the. old graveyard and the ruins of the grandfather's family dwellings. The owner's wife is the daughter of Lady Congleton, who now owns the adjoining Isle of Ulva. From the McDonald records, John furnished them with more information of the early history of Gometra and Ulva than they previously had. He also flew low over the Island of Staffa to view the famous Fingel's Caves. It was a memorable trip which he and his family will re-live from the many pictures and tape recordings he made. On his way over John stopped in NY long enough for a visit with Dud Nostrand, whom he found deeply immersed in his real estate business as board chmn. of Cross & Brown. Real estate is so fascinating that realtors find it hard to let go: It's the best preventative therapy against useless retirement we know! And we know! Latest travel news is that about this time W E (Ed) Richmond and Pauline with another couple are winging their way to Spain and Portugal to visit places they've missed before. Ed usually lands where the action is and following our aggressive VP will probably include Morocco and Algeria. Summer news has been sparse indeed, and we urge all who wait for this column with bated breath to send some personal news items with your dues. Don't say nothing ever happens to you—use your imagination if you must, but write! I guess we ought to admit that in August O G and Kathleen Daily celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at a memorable affair arranged by their children in the family home in Wilmette. This romance started at the tender age of eight and has continued unabated since. Sometime later this month they will leave Pompano Beach for a cruise among the islands of the Caribbean on their Golden honeymoon. Ain't love grand? WOMEN: Mary Donlon Alger, 3024 E 6 St, Tucson, Ariz. 85716 It is with great regret that we learn of the death of our classmate, Karin White. She died April 26 in a. hospital at Portsmouth, NH, not far from her Maine home. She had written, last year, her hope she might be with us in June at our 50th Reunion, but her doctor counseled against the trip for reasons of health. Karin, as you all know, was the daughter of Cornell's first president, Andrew D White. It was an honor and distinction that we, the women of 1920, were privileged to have Karin as our classmate. I know you join me in expressing to Mildred LaMont Pierce gratitude for her class columns in recent issues of the NEWS. Personally, I was somewhat overcome on reading her account of my wedding last April. It was really a very quiet affair. It has not been possible to write each one of you a personal "thank you" for your messages to me. Please know that I do thank you, each of you, from the bottom of my heart. And I thank you, too, for the charming gift (a picture) which Prexy Alice Callahan Jensen sent in behalf of the class. Martin and I had said "no gifts," but evidently the sound of our voices did not reach everyone. Several Cornell friends sent contributions to Cornell for the Mary Donlon Scholarship endowment; and these will be useful, down through the years, to Cornell women whose financial needs can be met, in part at least, by the scholarship endowment income. Alice reports she is now feeling much better, and this is welcome news. At the Lake Placid Club, where Martin and I are spending the summer, there are a number of Cor- 50 • Cornell Alumni News nellians but thus far no one from 1920 has arrived. Naomi Jones Price and husband Walter ('20, MS '21, PhD '25) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 14 in Wisconsin, with their two daughters and their grandchildren. In tribute to Naomi and Walter, the daughters have planned a "book of memories" and ask that friends and classmates who wish to do so send a one-page letter to be bound in the book. They say it doesn't matter if letters come after Sept. 14. They should be sent to Mrs. Henry F Harder (one of the daughters, the other lives in California), Route 4, Whitewater Circle, Manitowoc, Wis. 54220. Congratulations to you, Naomi and Walter, and our best wishes for many happy years to come! Alice Erskine came north from her Atlanta home to spend the summer in Rhode Island and visit en route with Staten Island friends. Dorothy Koch Post, who was vacationing on Cape Cod, expected to have a visit from Alice in August. I have not heard whether this came off as planned. Do send me your news. We all want to hear from you. 21 MEN: James H C Martens, 317 Grand Ave, Highland Park, NJ 08904 Henry L O'Brien has retired as a dir. and member of the executive committee of Cities Service Co., NYC, after more than 50 years of service with the natural resource company. He has been named an honorary dir. He first became associated with Cities Service in 1921 when he joined the predecessor law firm of Frueauff, Farrel, Sullivan. & Bryan, counsel to Cities Service. Mr. O'Brien was elected 1st VP, a dir. and a member of the executive committee of Cities Service in 1940. He was elected general counsel in 1950. Emeritus chemistry Prof. Albert W Laubengayer says several alumni have responded to his request for material on the history of chemistry at Cornell. He is continuing work on this project and will arrange a display in one of the rooms of Baker Lab. He can still use old photographs or other historical material, including some items which have been promised but not yet sent. Cornell Reports for April 1971 has a picture of the Swan collection of old musical instruments, arranged around music professor T H Hsu. The collection, as already noted in this column, was given to Cornell by the late Verne S Swan. It will be housed in the Center for Contemporary Music in remodeled Barnes Hall. Cornell Reports for May tells that Morris Bishop '14 received on his 78th birthday a special edition of the Library's "Bookmark" series with an introduction by E B White, a former student and long-time friend of Bishop's. Allison Danzig has apparently been working hard since his retirement. He has written a book, scheduled for publication in October by MacMillan Co. of NY. The. title is Oh, How They Played the Game. It is about the early days of football—the evolution, of the American game from soccer and rugby; the people who brought about the evolution and originated techniques, plays and formations. The emphasis is on the great individual players, teams, coaches and games for the first half of the century from 1869. Most of the material is first-hand account, including interviews with and letters from Stagg, Warner, Willie Heston and others, down to Dwight Eisenhower, who in 1968 told Allison about his football days as a cadet at West Point. Earl W Phelan suffered a moderately severe heart attack in the spring and his doc- tor would not let him attend Reunion. However, as of late July he had recovered and was planning a round-the-world cruise for the fall and winter. The Phelans have two daughters and seven grandchildren. Albert J Hugger retired from NJ Bell Telephone Co. in 1963. During the next two years he attended 547 Lions Club meetings, while serving as a district officer of that organization. He worked for four years as a communications consultant in many widely separated countries. The Huggers have 16 grandchildren, all living within six miles of grandparents. WOMEN: Gladys Saxe Holmes, Bethlehem Pike, Colmar, Pa. 18915 My trip to N Africa and Europe was a fabulous one for me. To see the Arab world is an experience not soon forgotten. On the road to Rabat we were held up by the traffic going to King Hassan's garden party for his 42nd birthday. A few hours later the shooting took place. There were demonstrations in Casablanca that night, but we were unaware until the next morning that a revolution had almost succeeded. There were so many highlights in the trip it is hard to single out a few. Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia is like a medieval town come to life. The old walled city is still inhabited, has its own churches and shops, and is very clean. All of central Europe appears prosperous. We reached Interlaken, Switz. in time for their Aug. 1st national holiday and watched the fireworks from the hotel balcony with the Yungfrau, majestic and clear, in the background. Now back to Cornell Reunion news. The officers elected to serve for the 1971-1976 term were installed in a ceremony conducted by Sara Speer Miller (Mrs. Peter P ) . The officers are: Pres. Hazel Dates Schumacher (Mrs. John); VP, Iπna Greenwalt; sec, Lucy Maltby; treas., Donna Calkins Williams (Mrs. Clarence); Reunion chmn., Elizabeth Cooper Baker (Mrs. Andrew); Class Fund rep. Marie Reith; and yours truly as class correspondent. May Regan was chmn. of the nominating committee. Those of you who attended Reunion will remember Alice Martin Fitch (Mrs. Kenneth W) fell on the steps of Bailey Hall and broke her arm. You will be glad to know she is recovering. She had to have four different casts, but by the time this goes to press she should have the last cast off and feel like herself again. Mary Morgan Nordgren, wife of Carl Nordgren '21, finds her job at the Little Falls Public Library (only part time now) involves two of her favorite things—people and books. After the death of her husband in 1954, she was in school library work until 1962. She lists her interests in the following order—1) People in general and three grandchildren in particular, 2) Music, 3) Flowers, 4) Books, 5) Family Antiques. Margaret Kirkwood Taylor (Mrs. J Laning) has a new grandson, born July 22, to her daughter in Little Rock, Ark. Agnes Meehan Hallinam (Mrs. Francis J) still holds the record with 19 grandchildren. Agnes has only one great grandchild so far, so maybe someone can beat her in that category. Who knows the origin of our class colors? At Reunion several asked me about the colors of our scarf. Why did we chose red and black? Is there any significance or meaning to these colors? Does anyone know the answer? 22 MEN: Frank C Baldwin, 102 Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 It may not be too late to make your reser- vations at an Ithaca hotel (not the Ithaca Hotel however) for Homecoming weekend on Oct. 29 and 30. Please inform your correspondent at once if you can come! After the game with Columbia we all plan to meet at the Statler Inn. Some of you may not have read Joe Motycka's latest Newsletter which was mailed to you early in August. There are a large number of items which are. of interest and bear repetition. Chris Christiansen, formerly of Hammond, Ind., is now living in Naples, Fla. He recently traveled through New England where he stopped in to say hello to Joe Motycka in Coventry, Conn. The records show that John Klobasa and Frank Guisti joined the Madrid Escapade last spring, along with a number of other Cornellians. They flew to Spain on a special plane chartered by our Alumni Assn. and arranged by Frank Clifford, our congenial Alumni Secretary. It was a great trip, we understand. Ross Anderson travelled to Europe and Africa. While in Casablanca he visited Bob Cambemale and family. Bob retires soon and plans to move to Spain. Having four or five grandchildren in the USA should be an added inducement for him to return for our 50th next June. Other travellers, to mention only a few, were: Bill Hill—England and Switzerland; Ed Kennedy-Portugal; Bill Dodge—European countries; Rollin McCarthy—Mexico; Walt Knauss—Barbados and Canada; Wilfred Rothchild-Ireland. You can almost assume that the wives were along on these various journeys and probably even planned them well in advance. There are still a few Cornell '22 enthusiasts in the San Francisco area who meet and send in reports occasionally. Among them are Bob Fisher, Sandy Wood, George Gillies, Sam Greene, and Harold Evans. There are some less fortunate classmates who have recently undergone various operations and might even enjoy hearing from some of you. Roy Spencer had an operation for a detached retina last January. He recommends an occasional .„ visit to your opthamologist. George Teare had a double cataractemy and, we understand, is well on the road to recovery. John Breen in Columbus, Ohio has also been under the knife and is doing well again. For a week in August, Jim Trousdale and his wife Ruth (St. John) of Sarasota, Fla. entertained their son Robert '44, MEE '47, his wife Gladys (Binns) '51, and their two sons, Bill, 17, and Dave, 15. Following their visit they went to Miami for two days, then flew home to Santa Ana, Calif. We are all pleased to learn Caesar Grasselli and Dick Kaufman have recently been elected Cornell Council members emeriti. Also elected for a three year term was Bill Williams. We shall soon be publishing a new '22 Men directory, so if you have changed your address lately, or know of others who have, won't you please send us word. We shall look for many of you at Homecoming! WOMEN: Evelyn Davis Fincher, Apt. 715, 2000 S Eads St, Arlington, Va. 22202 Lydia White Cooley has lived in Ada, Ohio for 15 years. Her husband, Oscar, teaches economics there at Ohio Northern U. That institution is celebrating its centennial this year. The faculty wives made costumes for a pageant; Lydia made one for the year 1925. They have two sons, one a CPA in Indianapolis, the other with a pharmaceutical Company in Morris Plains, NJ. Of their five grandchildren, only one is a girl and Lydia's real hobby is sewing for her. They recently purchased records from Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology, "Songs and Bird October 1971 • 51 Alumni Notes Songs in Literature." She is enjoying them immensely and has hopes of really seeing Cornell in June 1972. Grace Morris Race reported that Gladys Purdy died, April 22, 1971. She had been ill a long, long time. Betty Pratt Vail had a thrilling trip to Malaysia this past summer. Ruth Irish spent July with her sister, Marion Hodgkiss-, in Michigan. Earlier in the year Ruth was on one of her trips to Europe for the International Federation of University Women, of which she is asst. treas. After the meetings she revisited several places. She writes, "My trip was interesting for I could see- so many changes that had been wrought in five years. Spain is beautiful. The trip through the countryside indicated much more machinery being used in cultivating the olive groves. They have also built some satellite cities and provided factories to try to keep people from leaving the country. Many of the factories have been established by our own American corporations. Madrid had a great many new apartments. The country seemed very prosperous. The Costa del Sol had grown tremendously. Five years ago there were about two high rise hotels; now they are a dime a dozen, luxurious ones. I enjoyed seeing the Algarve which is much more primitive, but even there foreign capital is building large luxury hotels. But in Portugal one saw a great deal more primitive farming methods and many donkies and carts in the coutryside." Only seven months till you have to decide what you will pack in that bag you take to Reunion June 8-11, 1972. 24 WOMEN: Vera Dobert Spear, 218 Ayr Hill Ave, Vienna, Va. 22180 Traveling still continues to be the way of life for many of us. Vera L Peacock spent the early spring months in Mexico, hunting for the remains of the 16th century architecture. Tell us more, perhaps you might inspire others to enjoy Mexico's spring weather. Martha Kinne Palmer and husband James B '21 spent the months of January through April touring Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, then back to the US via El Paso, Texas, and home to Vermont and spring. Helen Nichols VonStorch and husband Searle H '23 also got away from winter, with a trip to Australia. Enroute they stopped at Hawaii and Tahiti, then a week of trout fishing in New Zealand. After two weeks in Australia, they returned home via Fiji, Pago Pago, Hawaii again and Disneyland! Nicky also enjoys the frequent visits of their eight grandchildren during the ski season and for weekend holidays. Like many of us, she writes she is learning a new language from the teenagers. Last November Kathryn Myers Albertson and husband Nicholas A '23 journeyed to Providence, RI to see. Cornell beat Brown, and to see their grandson (on Brown team) in action. Enroute home they stopped in Ithaca. Kappy wrote the new campus store "is great." In March, they relaxed in the Caribbean, St. Thomas and San Juan. Ellen Nydegger Bryden (Mrs. Colby W) has many interests: Great Books discussion groups, adult school classes, and various women's club activities. She also keeps in touch with nine cousins in both hemispheres, as well as friends in many foreign countries. Some of you readers may wonder what happens to the good news items you send in with your dues. Be patient and be assured that some time during the eleven columns in a year you may read about your life! Unless, the same news was used in previous columns in last year. Your correspondent does not want to be guilty of repetition—just to fill a column. Up to date activities and travels make the best reading. 25 John K Brigden, 1822 N Gate Rd, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 Joseph H Wells, formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa., last November married Beatrice Coleman '35 (Mrs. Chuckrow), and they are living at Apt 312, 5701 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Fla. Julian G Everett, permanently located at 55 Center St, Nantucket, Mass., is doing some architectural consultation for the renovating of 18th century houses. Howard E Sternau, 15 Midchester Ave, White Plains, on June 1 changed the name of his CPA firm to Sternau and Shulman; otherwise he is still "plugging along." Mallory K (Mike) Cannon and his wife Jessie left June 11 for a tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. David W Punzelt, 50 Charlton Hill, Hamden, Conn., last December attended the annual football night of the Yale Graduate Club in New Haven. Carmen Cozza, Yale football coach, presented movies of the 1970 Cornell-Yale game and said he believed Cornell was one of the most promising 1971 season Ivy League teams. Henry M Chestnut, 148 Hewett Rd, Wyncote, Pa., spent last winter living on his boat in the Stuart area of Florida. John B Cooper, 221 Holmes R4, Pittsfield, Mass., and his wife Agnes returned from a six week trip to Paris and the British Isles. Their son Craig is an attorney in Newark, NJ, and son John graduates this year from MIT with naval architect and business admin, degrees. Ellias R Markin, 15 Parkview Dr, Rochester, spent seven weeks last winter at Sarasota and Chockoloski Island, Fla. He commented, "Sure beats winter in western NY." A note from Francisco Corria de Silva Jr., Rua Saboia Lima 48, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, indicated he intended to be at the Waldorf Astoria, NYC the latter part of August. 26 MEN: Hunt Bradley, 1 Lodge Way, Ithaca, NY 14850 John Marshall, 5304 Albermarle St NW, Washington, DC, who was unable to return for the "45" due to injuries from a fall from which he is recovering, spent "seven delightful weeks in Spain and Portugal" with his wife last winter. Another who missed Reunion was W Stewart Beecher, 106 Collingwood Dr, Rochester who wrote "Will be attending my son's graduation at Fordham. He is a Phi Beta Kappa which certainly disproves the old adage 'like father like son'." Nancy and George Hall report they had a most enjoyable trip to Alaska a year ago to visit their son Terry. The Halls live at Buel's Gore, Starkboro, Vt. Another traveller was Herbert L Nickles, 6488 Riverside Ave, Riverside, Calif, who visited Greece in April with Mrs. Nickles. John R Zehner advises he retired from the Turner Construction Co. in NYC on March 31. John's address is 11 Central Ave, Nyack. Another retiree is A Elkin Millar, 4612 Clairmont Ave, Birmingham, Ala. Also joining the ranks is Frederick E Wollmer, 30 Winslow PI, Liberty, who pens "Old enough to retire and enjoying it very much." Yet another is Edward A Moran, 500 Apache St, College Park, Md. who is unable to get around very well because of hip trouble. Ed has been retired for almost 11 years from US Dept. of Agriculture. D Boardman Lee, Ithaca attorney, is running for mayor in Ithaca this fall. Boardie, who was recently elected pres. of the DeWitt Historical Society, resides with Mrs. Lee at 711 E Seneca St. Mark L Morris DVM, 2900 Plass Ct, Topeka, Kans. devotes most of his time to the Morris Animal Foundation which was founded in 1948 and is supported by a thousand contributing members. It supplies funds for research at some 20 universities including Cornell. Mark attended the 38th annual meeting of the American Animal Hospital Assn. last April in Miami. He was the founding pres. of the association, which has grown from eight members to more than 2,000 at present. It was a pleasure to bring Marc Becker up to date on Reunion and many classmates in a telephone conversation when he called your correspondent to report the sad news that Arvine (Ήank') Bowdish had passed away in Clearwater, Fla., a week after his return from Ithaca. Marc is a retired physician and lives in the same Florida city at 804 Horizon House. Tis the annual season for class dues and news! Your prompt response and cooperation in both categories will be most appreciated by Messrs. Bentley and Bradley! WOMEN: Grace McBride Van Wirt, 49 Fort Amherst Rd, Glens Falls, NY 12801 Nitza Schmidt, the new chmn. of the class subscription plan to the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, met Geraldine Thompson and Elizabeth (Tommy) Vogt in Buffalo the first week in August. Nitza's letter to the women of '26 concerning class dues and class subscription to the NEWS was read and approved. This letter should have reached the class members (women) soon after the September issue of the magazine was received. Over the weekend of August 6-9, Geraldine and Nitza were guests of Elizabeth Vogt at her cottage at "Rose Hill" on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. 27 MEN: Don Hershey, 5 Landing Rd, Rochester, NY 14610 We salute Charles Werly, former trustee, for his faithful and distinguished service to Cornell. Charlie was most effective in his advisory capacity relating to finances. One of Cornell's major problems! After serving the five year stint he chose to sidestep to allow younger talent to come aboard. Also it gave him an opportunity to face retirement witji ease. We enjoyed his welcome and complimentary long hand letter which initiated retirement—no secretary. However, his interest in Cornell continues at high speed, like his famous quarter mile runs in our day. Together with Hunt Bradley '26 and Charles Treman '30, he hopes to attract track talent to Cornell. We can get in on the deal too; just by referring good talent to track coach Jack Warner. Charlie is also interested in the Cornell Isle of Shoals- Project headed up by Professor John Kingsbury, an outstanding and remarkable person. We enjoyed Prof. Kingsbury's presentation of this fascinating project at the Cornell Club of Rochester. It was a feature event of the year and created much interest here. We agree that some day we will be relying on the sea to save the world from depletion. Charlie says he's down to running condition at 156 pounds and keeps fit gardening, golfing (20 handicap), motor boating, and deluxe traveling. He spends several days a week in his private office at 44 Bromfield St, Boston in order to keep out of his lovely wife's (June's) way. Last spring he saw Norm Davidson and wife in Bermuda. Both looked 52 • Cornell Alumni News chipper and ready for the big 45th in June 1972. Charlie had a good golf game with Brad Reed at Kiltamett Golf Club but won't divulge the score for fear of a reprimand. Michael Rapuano, landscape architect and land planner, continues his many honors and activities. President Nixon appointed him to the very important US National Highway Committee. We congratulate you, Mike, and know you'll do well to help improve our much needed environment. Mike has offices in NYC but resides on his 100 acre farm in Newton, Pa. where he enjoys nature at its best! May we pay special tribute to. a great Cornellian and friend Walter Todd '09, former trustee and presidential counselor of Cornell, brother of George Todd '26 and cousin of Conway Todd '26. We attended his memorial service July 29 in Rochester and was pleased with the large turnout of Cornellians, especially the representatives from the university. Acting Pres. Robert Plane (Pres. Dale Corson was in Africa) VP Richard Ramin '51, Hunt Bradley '26, and Barlow Ware '47. This fine testimony was paid to Walter for his life long enthusiastic interest in Cornell. He made many contributions in all areas of the University's needs and .ended it graciously with his last words—"In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Cornell Club of Rochester's Scholarship Fund!" Cornell loses another loyal friend, but his endeavors and contributions for her benefit -will be long remembered! See you at Homecoming-Red Barn. Cornell's playing exciting football and to boot you'll enjoy the beautiful campus! While you're at it—Write us! We welcome hearing from you. Your classmates enjoy reading. .CU '27—45th 1972. WOMEN: Harriette Brandes Beyea, 429 Woodland PI, Leonia, NJ 07605 Time again to catch up on class news. You'll have to forgive .that it's not all brand new! Morris and Polly Enders Copeland now own a condominium apartment, 401 Venice Sands, 633 Alhambra Rd, Venice, Fla. "This is a new building." writes Polly, "and we bought the north end of the 4th floor. We have three exposures, one on the Gulf, one to the north where Sarasota is visible along the coast, and one to landward where there is a very pleasant tree-filled community of large homes with beautiful gardens." Morris retired from teaching at SUNY at the end of the spring term. For November, they plan a freighter trip up the Amazon to Iquitos, Peru. On the return trip, they expect to leave the ship at Belem, "for more of a look around South America." Cecile Shoemaker Mills, still teaching, may retire next year. Alice (Shoemaker) and Albert Kurdt '26 (Cecile's sister and brother-inlaw) were in, Seattle in December for the wedding of Cecile's younger daughter, Sarah, U of Washington '70. Herbert and Dorothy Miner Rathbun visited Norway again last June, with the best excuse there is: son Howard '55 is living in Oslo for a few years with his Norwegian wife, Inrid, and their two children. He is a field sales engineer for Hewlett-Packard. She writes, "with Howard and Inrid in their car, we had a delightful tour through Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Had a few days jn London, and returned home on the Queen Eliz. II. Retirement is great!" Our condolences to Mabel (Tommy) Ruhl Hallagan, whose only sister died Oct. 28, 1970. An interesting note to Sid from Erva Wright Smith: "we continue to run our summer campground here (Old Nine Mile Point, Webster), while prodding the younger generation to support the church and political activities, and encouraging our own generation to be more in fraternal and civic organizations. The Webster Theatre Guild is still Spring Day 1928: Roman gladiators in mortal combat. active after all these years, having started with Cornell's old Farm and Home Week productions many years ago. We vacation in Florida, Arizona or California in winter months." June, 1970, Clifford and Adelaide Kistler Corbett attended a convention of petroleum geologists at Calgary, Alberta. "We then drove through Banff National Park to Lake Louise, as well as Yoho National Park in British Columbia, and our own Glacier National Park in Montana—6400 miles in all. The trip through Glacier was made more interesting because Cliff had traversed much of it by pack train with the US Geological Survey years ago before the area was a park." Note Helen Huston Shedrick's new address —3 Millrace, WiHiamsville. She enjoyed a five week cruise last fall which took her to the Azores, Lisbon, Spain, including Santiago, Seville and Granada, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh and Dakar, Canary Islands, Madeira and Bermuda. She was home just in time to help with the Buffalo clubs' annual Scholarship Cheese Sale. Helen A Smith enjoys her involvement in NYC "in spite of pollution, crime and taxation." She is busy with activities of the centennial year of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a subscriber to .the Metropolitan Opera, NYC Opera, Phila. Symphony, and recently traveled in Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Retirees now include: Jeannette Fowler, from Binghamton Schools; Junia Woolston Root, from teaching, as of June; Beatrice Pringle Spear, January, from her work at the College of Forestry, Syracuse U. Her son living in Rochester now has a son, upping the grandchildren to seven. A report from Jessie M Snyder, retired since 1966, indicates she continues to find retirement life "most enjoyable." She gardens at her cooperative home and continues her interests in bridge and photography. Constantly learning is the key to her happiness. Get out and let the brilliant color of this season work its wondrous therapy! 28 MEN: H Victor Grohmann, 30 Rockefeller Plaza W, New York, NY 10020 Among the fine Cornellians honored by the American Inst. of Architects at the annual convention in Detroit was our classmate Trustee Philip Will Jr. Another change of address: Kenneth A Connelly formerly of 2840 Pine Grove, Cincinnati, now lives at 1338 Deliquia Dr, Cincinnati, Ohio. From his home at 83 Stewart Rd, Short Hills, NJ before he and his wife left for their summer home in South Harwich, Mass., John W White (photo) wrote to ::^ bring us up to date. After John left the campus he entered Otis Elevator Co.'s training program, remaining in their employ until 1941 when he entered the Navy In 1936, he married the former Claire Faitoute of Short Hills, NJ. They have a son and a daughter, both married, and three grandchildren. From 1941 to 1945, John was in the Navy, entering as a lieutenant and ending with the grade of commander. While in the Navy, he was plant officer for the production dept. and had charge of tooling up the doubled New York Ship Yard (Brooklyn) as well as the Navy Yard Annex at Bayonne, NJ, where he was shop superintendent, representative of the industrial mgr. and Comm. 3rd Naval Dist. At the death of his father-in-law in 1941, John and a partner purchased the Faitoute Iron & Steel Co. When the war ended, he became active in the business. Later, upon the death of his partner, he became owner and pres. of the company. In 1969, John sold the company to two of his younger executives. He still remains active, on the national level of the Service Center Industry, and is currently national chmn. of the Industrial Relations Committee. John has a long service record in community affairs. He is a former trustee and was chmn. of the first building program for the enlargement of Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ, he was pres. of the board of the Short Hills Country Day School at a time wheririt was engaged in a building program, has served for years a vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church in Short Hills, and was senior and junior warden twice (during which time he handled an extensive building program). John certainly seems to be enjoying his state of retirement, as the last time we October 1971 • 55 Alumni Notes saw him at our class dinner in NY he looked great. Don't forget the five great Big Red football games this month of October. At home: Princeton the 9th, Harvard the 16th and Columbia the 30th (Homecoming). Away: Rutgers the 2nd and Yale the 23rd. You'll see a fine All-American, Ed Marinaro, in action, with a great fighting team. 29 MEN: Dr. A E Alexander, Suite 1107, 18 E 48 St, New York. NY 10017 Gleanings from my files: D C Stowe writes in re his reason for not attending the off year reunion—the one which never materialized— "I spent a short time at Cornell, so feel like an outsider—would have difficulty relating to your group, which is cozy, a circle I am unable to penetrate." There are a number of '29ers, DC, who spent even less time on the campus than you did. These fellows relate, and actually thoroughly enjoy getting together with what you refer to as a cozy circle. Let me assure you that it is all very friendly and congenial. I would be the very last to say it was "cozy"! From Jamestown comes word from Robert Tiffany, who mentions breaking a leg back in February but, like "Hoist the Flag," he is on the mend. I always remember Jamestown as the place for the Chautauqua, and even more important, as the yearling years of our great fisticuff expert Ken Baker. A "thanks for asking" note from Robt. R Northrup. His name brings to mind the other '29er, Howard S Northrop, of Westfield. One long hot, summer weekend in the very early '30s I was the guest of the Northrop family on their farm. I still remember trying to make friends with a Northrop cow, said beast promptly turning its head, with horn attached, sharply smacking my forearm. After 40 years, I still recall the incident and retain keen respect for lowly bovines. In case you have forgotten, Westfield and vicinity is great grape country. Harry Case, of East Lansing, Mich, said since he made it in 1969, he will try very hard to try again in 1979. A lot of us hope to be around then, what with the years slipping by quickly now that the hair has turned to silver. 1979 will be upon us before we know it. From the other Case—Ed, of Gouverneur, who remarked he would be attending the 40th Cornell Law School Reunion, and "that will be all I can take." I am still trying to figure out this last statement. Jacob Greenhausen, San Antonio, added a note to Mike Bender, our distinguished class sec, about Ben Newell, who "hastily removed his moustache back in the late '20s. Do you remember the occasion? I still get a kick out of recalling the incident." Now all we have to do is hear from Newell, Mike or both as to wh^t the moustache business was all about! Carmel, Calif, comes up with '29er Herbert Walter Schull reporting in, "Too far, and it would foul up my golf foursome." Our CRC chief, Howie Hall, was looking forward to being in Ithaca again. Howie was recently out of the hospital, but said he was coming along nicely. Another ex-hospital '29er is Frank Laudislaus Sapora—"Surgery and 73 days confinement. Hopes to return to Ithaca some time, just to hear the chimes again." Not everybody w^s enthusiastic about the bells of old Cornell! Ferris Kneen is resting after a six week tour of the Orient (he threw in Australia while on safari). Typical Ferris observation: "Hope the university is in better health" FK, there is still a miasma hanging over the campus; it still isn't all fish and chips. From New Haven, our old Yale based architect Hank Pfisterer sends word that had there been a 1971 reunion he could not have made it. Hank and his bride would be in Europe. A PS from his report: "Have fun!" Also in Europe, West Germany to be specific, will be L Hastings Lyon, of Wilmington, Del. "Will be visiting our son, who is an Army Lt." Lucky lad to see service in the land of the Rhine. One of our lads, Bill Burbanίc of Rehoboth Beach, Del., fumes: "Your total emphasis, (reunions) is on swilling booze—I am not interested in paying good money for you bums to drink it up—when you change the stress, I might be interested." Bill, I cannot imagine what NYC would be like at the end of the day, without a good, very dry Beefeater martini. If this is swill, here or in Ithaca, I am all for it. WOMEN: Constance Cobb Pierce, 716 Edgemere Lane, Sarasota, Fla. 33581 This will be a short column, but I promise that next month I will give you a full description of Alumni University and all the doings of our classmates who attended. I recently had a card from Margaret Reed Graves (Mrs. Donald) who lives at 746 Main St, East Aurora. She and her husband who has been retired for nine years keep busy buying, selling and refinishing antiques. They also make appraisals for estates. They have four grandchildren "whom they enjoy visiting. Margaret expects to visit Florida again next winter and promises to call me. We had a delightful summer in Florida, ending the season with a trip North to visit our children and Northern friends. 30 MEN: Daniel Denenhoh, 250 E 65 St, New York, NY 10021 Roger Geer, for 32 years prof, of mechanical engineering at Cornell is now prof, emeritus, having retired on July 1, 1971. A specialist in industrial engineering, he received the 1971 Education Award of the Int'l. Soc. of Mfg. Engineers. He also received the 1967 award of merit of the American Soc. of Tool & Mfg. Engineers. In 1967, he served as consultant to the Hampton Institute at Hampton, Bequests The university has reported the following new bequests: $500 from the estate of Edwin G Bishop '14; $10,000 from the estate of C W Floyd Coffin '12; $2,000 from the estate of Court H Reventlow; and $15,000 from the estate of David C Schilling. And $150,000 from the estate of Robert Paul Butler '05; $12,450 from the estate of Norris I Crandall '14; $1,000 from the estate of Erwin S Jennings; and $1,000 from the estate of Natalie Wasch. And $1,000 from the estate of Raymond R Dise, AM '31; $2,000 from the estate of Donald A MacKenzie '17; $2,000 from the estate of Francis Norwood Bard '04; $100,000 from the estate of Ruth Chipman ΊO; and $1,000 from the estate of Edward R Cushing '18. And $50,000 from the estate of Mary M Greenwood; $59,978 from the estate of Editha L Jacobs; $4,875 from the estate of Ethel M Mohr '27; $1,000 from the estate of John R Schwartz '18; $2,500 from the estate of Samuel H Woods '06; and $1,000 from the estate of Gilbert R Blehdon '15. Va., in developing new teaching services for manufacturing engineers. He is active in the Soc. of Mfg. Engineers. Roger and his wife, Ruth Rawley '31, plan to remain in Ithaca at 105 Clover Lane. Stan Miller, 75 Payne Ave, North Tona- wanda, a loyal correspondent, reports his wife Norma died last June; son, Richard '65, MA '66, PhD '70, a Navy It., is now a project officer in the Office of Naval Research, Wash- ington, DC, after serving aboard the USS Shangri-la in Vietnam waters; and daughter Karen, SUNY (Buffalo) '70, is teaching in North Tonawanda. As mentioned previously, I am sending questionnaires to classmates whom the col- umn has not heard from in several years, asking to be brought up-to-date on what's what with them. Response from the first mailings require me to handle it in install- ments. I'll start with responding retirees. To save space and avoid repetition, I will use the following sequence for each individual: Name, address, date of retirement, position and company, post-retirement activity if in- dicated, family: M—Married, S—Son(s), D—Daughter(s), GS—Grandson(s) G D — Grand Daughter(s). H O (Ike) Aigeltinger, 12 Spring Lake Way, Silver Spring Shores, Ocala, Fla., July 1967. Pilot, Eastern Airlines. M; S, Edward '63; D, Ann. Curt Akin, Oak Knoll, RD 1, Sewickley, Pa., March 1970. Mgr. defense products, Ambridge Works' electrical div., HK Porter Co. M, 2 S, 1 GS, 2 GD. Cliff Baker, 417 2nd St NW, Stewartville, Minn., April 1970. Advance engineer, IBM. M, 2 S. Dale Beattie, Box 305, Hahnville, La., Dec. 1970. General mgr., Hahnville Fleet, Oil Transport Co. M, 1 D. Frank Bissig, 267 Stephens Rd, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., July 1971. Salesman, construction products, Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Detroit. M, 2 S. Dr. Malcolm Bouton, 1547 Regent St, Schenectady, Nov. 1969. Dir., Bureau of Medical Manpower, NYS Health Dept. M. Mur- ray Buell, Itasca Biological Station, Lake Itasca, Minn., July 1971. Prof., Rutgers U. Now teaching ecology at U of Minnesota. Received 1970 eminent ecologist citation from Ecological Soc. of America. M, 1 S, 1 D, 3 GS, 1 GD. Robert Crane, 7670 Transit Rd, Williamsville, March 1965. Owner manager R L Crane Machinery Co. M, 1 S, 1 GS, 1 GD. George Ehrhart, 233 Frederick St, Hanover, Pa., April 1971. Engineer designing book manufacturing machinery for Double- day & Co. Now a professional engineer spe- cializing in industrial machine and building design. On York County, Pa., planning com- mission and Hanover, Pa., building code committee, M, 1 S, 2 GS. Fred Elder, 37 Ball Rd, Mountain Lakes, NJ, July 1962. Sr. ap- lication engineer, power & process equipment div., American Locomotive Co. Still active as mgr., power plan equipment, Industrial Process Engineers. Member of Mountain Lakes Board of Health. M, 3 S, 2 GS, 3 GD. BCuhrinnoa,rdCaElifr.r,inDgteocn. ,1# 96143.40A3ssoPciipateiloinne Ave, veteri- narian for Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. Now operates a horse-breeding ranch. M, 1 D. George Finley Jr., 611 Olympia Rd, Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 1971. Mgr. of industrial engineering, glass div., PPG Industries. M. Continued next month. WOMEN: Eleanor Smith Tomlinson, 231 SE 52 Ave, Portland, Ore. 97215 Anna Asmus Bedell, R D King Ferry, retired as of Aug. 1 from the Sage Graduate Center at Cornell. She plans to move to Arizona this fall to enjoy a life minus alarm clocks and the daily grind. Phillis Brill of 3310 Swann Ave, Tampa, Fla., attended a . dinner meeting of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Cornell Club, an informal, unofficial organi- 54 • Cornell Alumni News zation in Tampa. A good time was had by all, but Phil didn't see anyone else from '30 or even near it—older or younger, Phil? Another Floridian, recently retired Elsa Weigand Dickinson of Sarasota, is busy with local activities including bridge. She reports, "We are running the Coral Cove Bridge League and a large evening game, an outgrowth of Welcome Wagon." Elsa and husband Al have acquired a new family member, a boat. Hope it's all smooth sailing, Elsa. Emily Blood Difϊenback, our accomplished gardener, has been occupied this spring in having a terrace put in. We'd love to see it! She has been doing a lot of speaking on horticulture and flower arrangemens. Emily and her husband George live at 1003 Berkeley Rd, Wilmington, Del. Ruth Shuckowsky Hartley (Mrs. Eugene), 3511 Dalahaut St, Green Bay, Wise, is currently chmn. Growth and Development Program, U of Wisconsin at Green Bay, where her husband is dean for educational development. The Hartleys became grandparents through the adoption of Rebeca Dipti Alderson in June 1970 and of Kai Hartley Alderson, Feb. 19, 1971. Frankie Hauslein Heath, reversing the popular trend, has moved from Key West, Fla., back to her family and friends in the Boston area. Her new address is 165 Walnut St, Brookline, Mass. She's looking forward to retirement. Hilda Irmschler Hagan (Mrs. David), 115 Duncan Ave, McDaniel Heights, Wilmington, Del., had a superb trip to Africa last winter. Another traveller, Hazel Ide, had planned a trip to Jugoslavia and the Dalmatian Coast late last spring. Peg Schultz Kirk (Mrs. Adam) and her husband retired from teaching this June. They'll miss their involvement with the young, but will enjoy freedom from schedules and bells. The Kirks live in Highland Mills, NJ. Betty Irish Knapp and husband Arthur, of Houston, travelled to England this summer, flying from Toronto rather than NY after a bad experience at Kennedy airport last year. Marion Whipple McClellan has a new address, 1530 S Chicago Ave, Freeport, 111. She lists her activities as sec, Stephen Co. Commission on Reapportionment, tutor, Laubach literacy program for adults, the Human Relations commission, as well as church activities. It must be an interesting and meaningful life, Marion. The same is true for Caroline Dawdy Bacon, very busy with her volunteer hospital work— she organizes the volunteers and writes them thank you notes, not form letters. She reports Walter is recuperating nicely from surgery in early August. He'll need to rest for a month, but by the time this goes to press he should be back in circulation. Due to the emergency, the Bacons have had no summer visitors. Their son and daughter, with their respective spouses, .have been travelling in Europe this summer. We all are wishing Walter a most speedy recovery. Has anything happened in your life recently? Please keep the news coming in. 31 MEN: Bruce W Hackstaff, 27 W Neck Rd, Huntington, NY 17743 We continue our coverage of some Reunion features which, we feel, will prove interesting. At our Class dinner, we had five couples where both husband and wife were members of the Class. Paul and Mary (Sloan) Dohan are the first couple, alphabetically. To the best of our knowledge, Paul is a partner in Hutchkin & Dohan, CPA. George and Helen (Wetzler) Michaels are next. George is an attorney and a former assemblyman in NYS. He is probably best known for his vote on the state abortion law, that vote costing him his reelection. He had suffered a serious injury from an automobile accident but seemed to have recovered completely. Donald and Ella (Miller) Moore, Ithaca residents, may be remembered from these columns almost two years ago when we ran a picture of the old Eagles Club Building in Ithaca which had been transformed to a storage warehouse of T G Miller. It still is so used. Francis and Dorothy (Hopper) Sears are our fourth couple. Unfortunately we have misplaced our record card and cannot recall any background. Joseph and Esther (Weiner) Swire had to leave after the first night to attend their second son's wedding in Michigan. Joe kindly sent us a slide showing us "front view." This was most kind as profiles are not too good. Also at our Class dinner three who travelled long distances were also honored: Dr. Alexander L Raebone, a resident of Antigua, BWI, retired from government service in 1965. He was the resident veterinarian officer of Tortola and relief veterinarian officer of Antigua. Arthur R Tobin, of Goleta, Calif, was the second so honored. Arthur is new to these columns and we have no data for him. Malcolm L Cropley was the third. Mai lives in Seattle and is with the Puget Sound Power and Light Co. We had an interesting discussion on the continual demands for their system expansion. We recently received an announcement of the marriage of Constance Adelaide Russell and Henry Herbert Rachlin on June 28, 1971. Henry was at Reunion. He retired in March 1970 from the AEC and is living in retirement in Fairfax, Va. One who traveled a long distance to the Reunion was omitted from the list. George Knight came to the Reunion from Bellflower, Calif. So ends our Reunion reporting. WOMEN: Tina Olsen Millane, 85 Birch Tree Dr, Westwood, Mass. 02090 Our 40th Reunion was a great one as many of you have heard. The weatherman cooperated beautifully and brought many '31 women from near and far. We would love to have seen even more of you. One of our special events that week was the Home Economics breakfast and annual meeting. Some of those who attended were: Katherine Rummler, Ruth Liable Tallmadge, Ellen Kuney Whetzel, Helena Perry Kelsey, Regis Illston Venable, Gertude Andrews Small^^lma Ward Fisher, Frances Young, Jean RosbrTf Nicols, Marion Brctch Burbank, Ethel Bache Schmitt, Katherine Coe Green, Mary Evans, and Lillian McChesney Kemp. Sorry if I missed any of you. The All Cornell Womens Breakfast at Willard Straight was quite an attraction, and Dorothy Sarnoff '35 was a most fascinating speaker. Other members of the Class of '31 present, in addition to those mentioned above, were Katherine Ganzenmuller, Jan Blakeslee Smith, Mary Shields Emert, Mavis Dymott Dalton, Alice Shade Webster, Doris Brown Hodge, Ruth Levy Horowitz, and Evelyn Fineman Kay. Other 3Γers seen on campus during Reunion were: Dorothy King Dillingham, Helen Lautrop, Olive Worden MacNamee, Dorothy Hopper Sears, Wilhelmina Barton Kraber, Helen Nuffort Saunders, Geneive Meagher Lang, and of course Gertude Goodwin. Who did I miss? Do write, so we can keep you all posted. 32 MEN: James W Oppenheimer, 560 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202 Alfred D Sullivan gives his forwarding ad- dress as 325 Newton Rd, Wyckoff, NJ, but the following note is datelined Chichester Yacht Basin, Birdham, Sussex, England: "First of all, herewith is check for $10 to cover Class dues. I've been out of the country since early May and apparently your 1st notice was lost in the shuffle of departure. Right now we've been living on a 33' ketch I chartered in Marby Hants. We sail up and down the Solent and the South Coast in general, a day or two in some ports and up to two weeks in others where the environs promise something of interest. "How come I'm over here, you indignantly ask, while you're still chained to your desk? Well, I just decided to take a year off and wangled a leave of absence from my firm. There's so much mobility .in the consulting engineer business that a good man can pick up where another leaves off, provided the records are meticulously kept and this is indeed the case with major consulting firms. "We're off to France next with stops at Jersey Island, St. Malo and about a month in Paris moored in the Seine. See you in '72." Jacques B Crommelin has been awarded the senior appraiser designation by the Int'l. Soc. of Real Estate Appraisers. Jacques has been appraising residential and commercial property for 39 years. He also holds an MAI ticket from the American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers and is qualified as a CRE by the American Soc. of Real Estate Counselors. He headquarters at 1087 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, Calif, and, like Al Sullivan, expects to attend next June's reunion. J Douglas Colman, pres. of the Associated Hospital Services of NY, has been elected a dir. of the Hospital Bureau, Inc. Edmund N Bacon of Philadelphia has been elevated to Fellow of the AIA. 33 MEN: Garwood W Ferguson, 315 E 34 St, Paterson, NJ 07504 Warren B (Blumy) Blumenthal was awarded the 1971 Jacob F Schoellkopf medal "for creative contributions to the chemistry and application of zirconium and its compounds" last May. He is chief of the chemistry div. of research for the titanium alloy mfg. div. of the National Lead Co., Niagara Falls. The award, made annually, was presented by the Western NY section of the American Chemical Soc, in Buffalo. He has been awarded a number of patents covering a wide variety of commercial applications of zirconium compounds and has published over 30 technical articles, the majority of which are in the field of zirconium and its compounds. In addition, he is the recipient or co-author of 14 patents in the same area of technology. He.is a former chmn. of the Niagara section, American Inst. of Chemists, and has served on various committees for the American Chemical Soc. Zirconium is used among other things, in plastics, floor finishes, paints, new kinds of glass, and in a poison ivy remedy. Bertram T (Bert) Brooks reported last May: "Moved to Panama City, Fla. in 1965 from Deal, NJ. Joined in partnership with cousin from Selma, Ala. and now operate seven retail stores in women's apparel. Oldest daughter, Barbara, graduated in Dec. 1970 from U of Southern Mississippi and is teaching special education in Panama City. Son Ken is a sophomore at U of Florida majoring in journalism. This is a great casual life in NW Florida—a far cry from the hectic life in metropolitan NJ and NY. Louis L (Ham) Otto wrote Ted Tracy as follows, in June 1970: "Where are the members of the '33 frosh crew? I can account for myself and you; Le Page is at Syracuse U and lives in Liverpool; Norcross is somewhere in October 1971 • 55 WHOEVER SAYS HAPPINESS CAN'T BE BOUGHT, HAS NEVER OWNED A CORNELL ROCKER Cornell Rocker, $43 Cornell Child's Rocker, $21.50 If you don't believe us, try one. Sit back. Relax. Admire its design, so classic it has remained unchanged since Colonial days. And while you do, held in the chair's sturdy Northern hardwood comfort let the Cornell Seal evoke thoughts of other times, other pleasures. But we wouldn't want guilt to intrude on your new-found happiness—so there's a Cornell Child's Rocker, too. Same fine quality, same handsome satin black hand-rubbed finish and gold striping. Order one or more for your children, your grandchildren or, if you're a doctor or a dentist, for your waiting room. The big one? Go ahead, surprise your friends with this most personal of gifts. And get one for yourself, of course. Cornell Alumni Assn., Merchandise Div. 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 14850 For payment enclosed, please ship the following chairs, Express charges collect (or enclosed) : Cornell Rocker (s) @ $43 each (plus tax, if any) Cornell Child's Rocker (s) @ $21.50 each (plus tax, if any) Name Street & No (PLEASE PRINT) City State Zip New York State Residents Add 3% Sales Tax Plus Any Local Sales Tax Chairs will be shipped directly from the makers, carefully packed and fully guaranteed. If you wish to send them as gifts, add Railway Express shipping cost from Gardner, Mass, (shipping weight of the Cornell Rocker is 30 lbs.; shipping weight of the Cornell Child's Rocker is 15 lbs.). Your card will be enclosed, if sent to us with your order. Payment must be enclosed to Cornell Alumni Association, Merchandise Division. Allow three weeks for delivery. Place Your Order NOW! Jersey near Newark (Bloomfield); Andy Haire is probably at Brightwaters on Long Island. Beyond that, I know nothing. What do your records show? I am too far west (N Muskegon, Mich.!) to attend your NY meetings. Cornellians are scarce out here." Herbert W (Herb) Saltford advised on May 18: "I 'retired' in March after superintending our city's parks for several years, and now I'm devoting considerably more time to writing and bird watching. Arose at 2:30 last Saturday morning to help with the annual spring bird count; and took a fast hike in the Catskills yesterday to photograph trailing arbutus. All very stimulating!" Robert H (Bob) Mehnert reported on July 8: "I'm afraid you won't find me here (Buffalo) next year. I'm going to hit the open road in retirement." As you know, the Class is planning on making a gift to the university (in June 1973) to be used as a revolving scholarship fund for deserving students. On July 7, the widow of one of our classmates who passed away this year sent Ted Tracy a generous check in her husband's memory. This was most kind and thoughtful of her. Your class officers suspect others will share their opinion that this is a particularly fitting way to help Cornell. Our thanks to all of you who have sent in your 1971 dues and mine to all of you who have included news of yourself, your family, or others—to keep this column filled every month. WOMEN: Eleanor Johnson Hunt, RD#1, Newport, NH 03773 Life for us has been very hectic, for we are not really settled in yet as I write this in NH. I've spent part of the summer in NJ. My oldest, Sue, and her children, spent a week with me at Cranberry Lake. With Jier was her guest for the month of July, a delightful Swiss girl here for the secretarial program of the Experiment in International Living. While in NJ. I missed an invitation from Edith Woodleton Githens, a near neighbor in Vermont. She wrote there would be news of AΓs retirement—her long hours of practice—their recent six weeks trips to England and Paris—grandchildren. Well, I'll have to learn details later! I was at the right spot at the right time to get to a party for a group of '33s at Elinor Ernst Whittier's, who had just returned from California. Marion Ford Fraser wrote: "How do you like Newport? We were through there last fall on one of our trips to see daughter Janet at UVM. She has transferred to Ithaca College for this fall so we hope to get to Ithaca more often. No earth-shaking news to report." But good to hear from you, Marion. Others of you may have gotten Portia Hopper Taylor's "Christmas in July" newsletter, part of which tells that last September John flew to Rome and Lake Como for two weeks of worκ and play. In January, Portia went by boat to Yucatan and enjoyed two weeks of sun and .Mayan ruin climbing. Walter is still in Boulder, and he and his wife Frances have bought a home, although she had to leave it to use her three month study grant in Honduras. Twin Herbert had a good year at Yale Art School as student and assistant, to which he returns this fall. "John still works all the time. He had 5 PhD degree getters this June. The new building has good and bad points. Yesterday one of his wilt-free tomatoes wilted, and that was real tragedy! Always needles, pots, the iron, garden tools, a paint brush in my hands, with sometimes cards. (This was all in pictograph; hope I deciphered it correctly! EJH) I also took freshman Spanish at U of L this year and studied constantly—got an A, but every time I try to speak the verbs come out with an Italian ending! Our one unusual venture this year was the buying of a beautiful lot on the shore of Lake Barkley. We planted pine trees between the oaks, but beyond that have no definite plans." That's it, folks, so somebody get busy with the pen pronto so there will be news for next month. 34 MEN: Henry A Montague, 4025 Blackthorn Ct, Birmingham, Mich. 48010 Brig. Gen. Quintino J Serenati has assumed command of the Malcolm Grow US Air Force Medical Center, Andrews AFB, Md. This is the largest AF medical facility on the East coast. Congratulations, Quint. We've just learned Doug Watt, 27 W 86 St, NYC, has been named senior drama critic of the Daily News. Doug started as a copy boy 35 years ago and joined the drama department of this newspaper in 1940. Congratulations Doug. Max Dercum, operator of the Ski Tip Ranch in Dillon, Colo., has just realized a long time dream of making a ski area out of Keystone Mountain. Max and his son Rolf are running the ski school at Keystone. Good luck in your own venture, Max, and perhaps some of our more adventurous classmates will stop by for a few lessons. Received a note from Ralph Schwartz, 190 Argyle Rd, Brooklyn, that he is currently chief of obstetrics & gynecology at the Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn. Ralph is also the immediate past pres. of the Brooklyn Gynecological Soc. and currently is preβ. of the Kings Co. Medical Soc. and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn. Received a short note from Wiliam Richter, Star Route, Bunnell, Fla. stating he has spent the last 21 years operating the Snack Jack Restaurant on A1A near Marineland, Fla. Bernard J Scheib is now dir. of dairy technical services for West Agro-Chemical. He was in La Costa, Calif, a few months ago and ran into Dr. Joe Gaster '34 and Jiis wife, Toby Pecker '34. Ben lives at 267 Warren Ave, Kenmore. Chester Lee and his wife Doris returned in Sept. 1970 from a year spent in India with the Peace Corps. They lived in a "most interior place" in central India in a tribal region and life was pretty primitive, but challenging. Chester and Doris report they got a good picture of a developing country and its problems. The Lee's can be reached at Route 1, Dester. Earlier this year Doug Williams moved his office to 6 E 43 St, NYC and will again be sharing office facilities with his long-time friend, Walter Barlow '39. They will be combining their efforts on certain research and consultative activities. J Raymond Concklin reports his eldest son, Peter, is running a fruit farm at Glencoe Mills. Daughter Linda graduated from. Cornell last February, and his other son, Richard, is a junior at Cornell. Ray reports he is still at the fruit farm in Pomona. John Branch is pres. of National Planning Data Corp., a computer tape processing center dealing in data derived from the 1970 census. The company uses computer services from the Cornell Computer Center, producing; specialized census tapes and microfilm. John also practices .law as a partner of Branch, VanVoorhis & Wise. John's wife, Caroline (Wilbur, LLB '37), is a Monroe Co. family court judge. The Branch's live at 65 Broad St, Rochester. WOMEN: Barbara Whitmore Henry, 342A Hackensack St, Wood Ridge, NJ 07575 Elsie Cruikshank Wells and "Line" (Horace Wells '35) are enjoying their freedom from tuition payments. Their children are working, on their own, and, Elsie says, "This is a great time of life!" Despite the exodus, the Wells' are still at home at 24 River Ave, Riverhead. Elsie Miller Betty has a daughter, Pauline, entering her junior year at Cornell, and sent along a clipping from the Wilmington (Del.) Journal, a letter to the editor, written when Pauline, a freshman, expressed her concern over strikes that prevent students from getting thedr education. Elsie notes that her other daughter, Barbara, has moved to Wilmington* and "life cannot be dull with five grandchildren popping in and out the door." Elsie leads an exceptionally busy life, for she took over the family business after the death of her husband in 1969, in addition to keeping up their home at 302 Becker Ave. Alice Mclntyre Webber is, according to custom, deep in her annual course on "chair seats," which she gives during the fall term adult education series in Concord, Mass. Then she and her family head for Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. for the winter, and, like the robins, return to Bedford, Mass, for springtime nesting, prior to spending the summer in East Ridge, NH. Our treas. Alice Goulding Herrmann, describes herself as a "doting grandma," happily doing extended babysitting while her daughter Evie completes studies for certification by the American Speech and Hearing Assn. early in 1972. Evie ds living with her parents at 34 Reid Ave, Babylon, until that time. A new address for Bessie Eisner Hermann: 1221 Bayside Dr, Corona del Mar, Calif. This makes her practically a neighbor to the President. 35 MEN & WOMEN: George Paull Torrence, 1307 National Ave, Rockford, 111 61103 Dr. Estelle Brodman, 4464 W Pine Blvd, St. Louis, Mo. was awarded two honors by The Medical Library Assoc. at their annual meeting. She delivered the key lecture and received an award for distinguished contributions. She is a past president of the Medical Library Assn. and editor of its bulletin. Frank H Briggs, 46 Crane Court, Middletown, NJ retired July 1 as sr. VP of The Equitable Life Assurance Soc. Frank began his career in the hotel field and at 32 was pres. of a 17 hotel chain. He has been connected with the Shamrock in Houston and Pittsburgh's Gateway Center. Daniel Lind, 104-40 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, writes that his son Richard '70 married Karen Greenspan '70, daughter of Ezra '39. They have been attending Fordham Law School. Based on some comments heard during our 35th Reunion, you will be interested in a note from Frank Albanese of 1324 Elmira Rd, Newfield. "While attending the winter meeting of Reserve Officers Assn. in Washington, I was proud to learn that only Cornell and Pennsylvania of the Ivy League have ROTC on campus. Cornell sent three outstanding students." From Norman F Baldwin, 900 Harbor Dr, Key Biscayne, Fla., "Son John lead champion small hunter pony for 3rd year, daughter Leslie (13) lead champion large pony hunter for 2nd year in the Junior Hunter Assn. I've qualified as top tail washer." Dr. Francis A Barry, Bellport, now has a son in Cornell Ag School, another son in graduate school at Drew, and a daughter at Skidmore. Marjorie McAdoo (Mrs. John Rankin), 8 Park Dr, Plandome, reports all four children are married and there are ten grandchildren, all of whom are fun to be with. Florence Mattison (Mrs. L E Terhaar), 179 Forest Ave, Paramus, N J, started a new career after her daughter reached high school age— October 1971 • 57 Alumni Notes children's librarian at the Westwood Public Library. George L Summons, 92 Sheridan St, Glen Falls, is responsible for production at both the Prussiate and Bichromate plants of Hercules. He has been active in Boy Scouts, Little League, and Church. Their son George is also a Cornell graduate, now with IBM. 36 MEN: Parker C Wright, South Short Rd, Sodus Point, NY 14555 Next gathering of the clan will be in Ithaca on Sat., Oct. 16, when the 1936 Class Council holds a breakfast meeting at 8 at the Statler Inn. Pres. George Lawrence will conduct a post mortem on our June Reunion and Treas. Deed Willers will report whether we are still solvent. Later that day, the Big Red Team will show whether it can beat Harvard on poly- turf. As usual, the fall gathering is timed to coincide with meetings of the Board of Trus- tees and the Cornell University Council. These groups include about a dozen '36ers, including trustees Charlie Dykes and Joe King. At its June meeting, the Board elected two class- mates to serve three-year terms on the Uni- versity Council. Named were Harry E Bovay and Adelbert P Mills, both of whom have served on the Council in past years. Alumni University, held on campus during the summer, attracted two '36ers and their families. Herb Hoffman and Walt Grimes at- tended, and it is becoming a habit for both of them. It was Herb's third visit and Walt's second. Anybody interested in enrolling next summer could get a testimonial from either man. Anybody planning a trip to Pacific islands? If so, take note of the fact that James P Duchscherer is the new VP-hotels of Conti- nental Airlines, with headquarters at Interna- tional Airport, Los Angeles, Calif. Conti- nental has hotels, inns, or lodges at Honolulu, Kona Coast, Kauai, Okinawa, Truk, Guam and Palau. Jim will direct these establish- ments and plan new hotels for the airline. The September column reported on our 35th Reunion but space did not permit com- pleting the list of those in attendance. Here are the names not previously mentioned: Mr. and Mrs. Jim McArdle, Bob Price, Boxy Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stoddard, Mr. and Mrs. Art Schwab, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Parker Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wiss, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wurst. One sad footnote to our Reunion. Mrs. Marian (Potter) Kitts wrote from St. Paul, Minn.: "After a wonderful, perfect '36 Re- union, I came home to mourn the passing of my husband and classmate, Harry W Kitts, June 16, 1971. He was unable to come to Reunion as U of Minnesota's summer session started that same weekend." Dr. Kitts had many Cornell friends. Our deepest sympathy to Marian. After more than ten years of meeting dead- lines for this journal, Pick Mills has finally succeeded in resigning as class correspondent. , His successor is Parker C Wright. Good luck, Parker! Pick Mills 37 MEN: Robert A Rosevear, 80 Banbury Rd, Don Mills 406, Ontario, Canada After being retired for two years and thoroughly enjoying it, Albert W Hartman is back in business again. The-new venture makes both electro-mechanical and electronic controls for battery operated vehicles, fork-lift trucks, and electric automobiles. Al has been driving an electric car for over three years. He lives at 58 • Cornell Alumni News 560 Overlook Rd, Mansfield, Ohio. John Hough's office will be an even busier place as we head towards 1972 with a class Reunion and a national election both on the horizon. In addition to handling class dues and forwarding news to your scribe, John will be working enthusiastically as chmn. of the Wisconsin Republican state committee, a post he assumed last January. He has been spearheading plans for election campaigns at local, state and national levels. Prior to assuming the chairmanship he was GOP national committeeman for Wisconsin for two years and since 1948 has held a succession of offices in city, county and state GOP organizations. John's "second job" is as pres. of Hough Manufacturing Co., makers of folding doors, operable walls and movable partitions. He joined the family business after graduation and has headed the business since 1946. He is also active in local and state chamber of commerce and Rotary and' a trustee of Milton College. John's familiar address is 1901 Ruger Ave, Janesville, Wis. Warren C Smith and his wife Eugenia (Kershaw '38) now spend most of their time travelling to direct the efforts of US Plywood in solving environmental problems. For many years Warren was engaged in building and managing wood product factories. Elder son Briton K '62 and daughter-in-law Carol (Kohlmeyer '62) have two sons, while Conrad F and his wife Nancy, both Michigan State '66, have one son. Daughter Marna Gene is a student at Ferris (Mich.) State College. The Smiths operate two farms and can be addressed at Box 119, Rt. 1, Gaylord, Mich. Although William Bassett's new address— 2644 Main St., Bethlehem, Pa.—sounds like the middle of the city, Bill writes it is a farm house built in 1842 on a winding road at the edge of town! J Frank Coneybear, Box 30336, Bethesda, Md., is now mgr. of eastern operations for Time-Zero Corp., a developer and fabricator of spacecraft equipment and computer peripheral equipment. A partner in the firm of Hinman, Howard & Kattell, Clayton M Axtell Jr. practices law in Binghamton at 724 Security Bldg. He writes "so far three Cornell children—Margaret '66 Home E c , Clayton '70 AB and second year law and Karen '74 College of Human Ecology." Your correspondent and his wife Clara (Rhodes '38) spent IV2 weeks this summer in East Africa—Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Accent was on animals, birds and scenery so lots of Kodachromes and super-8 film taken. The variety was amazing—headwaters of the Nile, fabled game reserves, snow clad mountains, a few days relaxing on the Indian Ocean, the rugged beauty of Ethiopia and its ancient Coptic churches and monasteries. For most of the trip we were on personal itinerary, picking up tours here and there. It was a long-time ambition realized and, incidentally, a great way to get away from it all after a very active winter—which included being co-host for the Toronto convention of the American Bandmasters' Assn. last March. Keep the news coming and keep the reunion dates—June 8-11—circled on the calendar. See you in June! WOMEN: Carol H Cline, 3121 Valerie Arms Dr, Apt. 4, Dayton, Ohio 45405 This is being written at Fran White McMartin's home on Lake Willoughby near Barton, Vt. on Aug. 10 during the annual '37 Mortar Board houseparty. Jim McMartin Jr., who taught economics at Simon Fraser U in Vancouver, BC last year, is painting the house in Vermont this summer. Host Jim McMartin has just taken Kay Skehan Carroll, El Raynor Burns and her daughter Cathy, Esther Dillenbeck Prudden and yours truly on a boatride around the lake, the moonlight is shining on the calm water and the beautiful white birch trees, and all seems right with the world at the moment. I flew to Boston to meet Kay and we visited her older son, John Carroll, in Bedford, Mass, before driving to Vermont. John is an electrical engineer with American Science & Engineering in Boston and had the thrill of going to Cape Kennedy and going up into the "white room" which surrounds the space capsule to check equipment designed by AS&E for two of the experiments carried out by the Apollo 15 astronauts on their recent trip to the moon. John and his wife Fran have produced two charming granddaughters for Kay —Ruth is three, Kathy is 14 months old. We also saw Kay's daughter Martha, who got her masters in education at Harvard in June and will be teaching kindergarten in Brookline and living in Medford, Mass. Kay's son Warren is living in Arlington, Va. All the Carroll clan had just had a reunion in July. El says she and young Cathy are involved in 4-H and Girl Scout activities in Watertown. In addition to her law practice, EΓs special interest is working with the League of Women Voters. Dilly reports her son Doug is in Lima, Peru for the summer. He spent last year in Boston doing some interesting photography. Son Gary will be a senior at U of Buffalo this year. Daughter Anne and her husband Mike D'Attilio just moved to Delmar, and Mike will work on his doctorate in student personnel services at SUNY in Albany. Dilly's South American "daughter" Lourdes, who lived with the Pruddens in Lockport ten years ago as part of the International Fellowship Student Exchange, brought her husband and small son and daughter from Ecuador to visit in July. Dilly is godmother to Lourdes's son. Our beautiful-as-ever class pres. also reports she attended the class officers meeting and breakfast in Ithaca in June and had a delightful day with Pete Cantline, '37 men's class president, and Army Goldstein, '37 men's Reunion chmn., making plans for our 35th REUNION next June. (I hope they print that word REUNION in caps all the time so none of you will forget we have a date on campus in June 1972.) Mickey Capewell Ward writes her daughter Lynn and husband Khairy are in Tripoli and "they seem to like it. They have to space their dinner invitations—the food is so spiced it takes them several days to recover. Daughter Robin and family are at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Daughter Beth stage-managed "Trial of Catonsville Nine" in April in New York . . . then the rock opera "Tommy" in Seattle, and from there to San Diego and the Old Globe Theatre and "Play It Again Sam." In August she comes to New York to start rehearsals for "Beatrix Cenci," the new opera written by Alberto Ginastera for the opening of the Kennedy Center on September 10—as stage manager, of course. . . ." 38 MEN: Stephen deBaun, India House, 37 India St, Nantucket, Mass. 02554 Is the summer already 2Δ over? Will you really care whether it is (or was) when you read this? Is there any way I can relate August gin & tonics to brown October ale? No. (Also it may be November ale, as I'm pressing the deadline again.) Anyway, let's rip off some news. George Batt reports his two daughters are carrying on in the family tradition of florists. One daughter, June Heidi, is working for Valley Gardens in Accord. Daughter Wendy is a 5th generation Batt florist working in the family business. From Martin Beck: "Just opened radio station #3—WBLI-FM, Pachogue, sister station to WGLI-AM, Babylon. Also own and operate WKMF, Flint, Mich, as pres. of Beck-Ross Communications." Bob Breckenbridge writes: "Since we have been living in California, we have been trying our own hand at many of the famous golf courses that are shown on the TV tournaments. I enjoy watching the pros, but I still feel the game we play is more interesting." Emil Dahlquist has been made the master of Hiram Lodge No. 1 AF & AM, which was instituted in 1750 and is the oldest in Connecticut. Otis McCollum advises he's "moving to another sales district for DuPont. Never thought I would be sorry to leave Chicago, but I am. Will be closer to Ithaca, and that's something!" Poignant news from Carl Wilson: "Just slipping into upper middle age with a dull thud!" All because he can't dribble a basketball the length of the court any more. What rot! And so farewell from the Isle of Perennial Youth, represented with high spirits this summer by Bob and Ruth (Ballard) Klausmeyer and yrs. trly. 39 MEN: Ralph McCarty Jr., Box 276, Fairfield, Conn. 06430 I want to thank Bob Mann for taking over for me last winter and spring. I am sure all will agree he did a grand job. Kitty and I had a wonderful winter in Mexico and Arizona in our trailer and have decided to lead the travel trailer life on a full time basis. In July we sold our home of 25 years and headed for the National Holiday Rambler Travel Trailer Rally in Bemidji, Minn. After that we visited relatives in Wisconsin, and this column is being written in a campground in Eagle River, Wis. in August. We will maintain our PO box in Connecticut as our permanent mailing address. Bob Brown writes he met with Bill Lynch, Ken Kroker, Bill Fuerst, Ben Dean, and members of the Class of '38 and '40 to plan a get-together brunch before the Columbia homecoming game in October. Bob also reports the class finances are in the black and thanks all those who paid their dues. Richard G Kinscherf Jr. lunched with John Furman and Walt Foertch in Boston in March. Dick has relocated at 52A Chestnut St, Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass. After 17 years in the trust field of banking he has embarked in a completely unallied but exciting field of production of budget feature films and TV commercials. John T Moir 3rd, Box 3470, Honolulu, Hawaii writes that after nine years in Puerto Rico he has been transferred back to Hawaii as VP of Administration, Inc., a subsidiary of C Brewer & Co., dealing in land and tourism development. W Harry Johns made national news in February and March by completing a bicycle trip from Denver, to Washington, DC in 16 cycling days—about 100 miles per day. This was the first leg of a trip he hoped would resume in Europe and Russia. At the urging of Transportation Dept. officials, Harry completed a scholarly treatise on what should be done to assist cyclists on cross country tours, and many of his ideas are being or have been seriously considered by the department. Let us know, Harry, of your further adventures. Bill Page, Box 871, Kinston, NC, reports that in the summer of 1970 he accompanied a group of college age volunteers to work for a month at a church mission in the South Pacific. His son, Bill Jr., and daughter, Mary Gayle, were in the group and father and son took an amateur radio transceiver along to keep the group in contact with the folks back home in North Carolina. During the few hours Cornell Cyclists Take to the Road The first Cornell bicyclist the ALUMNI NEWS learned of wasi W Harry Johns Jr. '39, who hit the newspapers last spring by logging 1,600 ' mileess on his elderly bicycle. He started from Denver at the end of February, in clothing that included ski underwear and plastic food bags over his gloves and between his two pairs of nylon socks, and arrived in Washington a short 16 days later. "I was almost sprayed by a skunk in Pennsylvania, almost run over by a deer in Colorado, and followed by police through most of Indiana," Johns told a reporter for the Washington Evening Star. "For the first time in my life I got to smell, and see, and hear this country at close range," he said. That was only the "test run" for a trip planned to resume in Europe and Russia. When he last wrote the NEWS, he was still seeking sponsors for that jaunt and, more difficult, visas through the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Johns, who describes himself as an itinerant engineer, is working on designs for cycling clothing and on "sets of traffic layout sketches with universal hints to municipalities . . . to help them get ready for bicycling in the new era. Things like detail sample designs for sewer grills" that would not entrap the new narrow wheels. Johns also recommends "clamp-on" bike bridges he says could easily be constructed along highway bridges1—"the most unnerving part of cross-country cycling." "Did I pass on," Johns concluded one letter, "that I B Potter was a Cornellian who edited the magazine of the League of American Wheelmen in the '90s? A lawyer who got interested in good cycle roads, a CE who bcame one of the best posted men on roads in the United States." A member of the Class of 1874, the NEWS learned, and also a notable sprinter. In 1937, Potter was reported as a healthy 87 years old and staff commodore of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Balboa, California. Michael F Dirnberger Jr. Όl was another early Cornellian on the cycle circuit. "In early life," reported the NEWS in 1932, "he was a crack bicycle rider and at one time held the world's record for the mile. He and a partner also established a world's record for tandem riding." A more recent Cornell cyclist is Lucius Kingman, LLB '39. When he was a small boy, he is reported as saying in the Washington Evening Star, he had trouble convincing his parents to buy him a bike. As a result, he said, he always felt a psychological need to ride one. Today he continues to satisfy that need: In August, he completed 30,000 miles of riding a bicycle to his job. An attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, DC, he has made the 24-mile round trip almost daily since the late 1940s. {He keeps a wash-and-wear suit at the office so he can change if it rains.) He reports a number of minor adventures:' "Once I almost pedaled into a big blue heron standing about 4 feet tall on a towpath in the early morning." And once his brakes failed coming down the hill on the Virginia approach to the Key Bridge, and he had to turn up another hill in order to slow down. Last fall, the Cornell Daily Sun sent student engineers out to compute the comparative diameters of local pizzas. Perhaps this year Sun readers may learn the exact slope of each Ithaca hill, and the ALUMNI NEWS will be able to analyze the relationship between Cornell cyclists and the Ithaca hills. Is it the case that Johns, Potter, Dirnberger, and Kingman all lived for four years at the bottom of Buffalo Street, and that the daily hikes strengthened their legs and gave them heart to tackle distance and speed cycling? Or does Seneca Street produce equally good results? NEWS readers are invited to contribute names, histories, and undergraduate residences of other members of the Cornell bicycling fraternity. —EH October 1971 • 59 Cornell Hosts A guide to hotels and restaurants where Cornellians and their friends will find a special welcome. 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Dial 1-800-257-7960 VIRGINIA AND W.VIRGINIA Tuckahoe Inn An Early American Restaurant & Tavern Route 9 & Beesley's Point Bridge BEESLEY'S POINT, N. J. Off Garden State Parkway 12 Miles Below Atlantic City Pete Harp '60 - Gail Petras Harp '61 Bill Garrow '58 Mm INN U. S. 202, BERNARDSVILLE, NEW JERSEY Ray Cσntwell '52, Inn Keeper Cornell Hosts A guide to hotels and restaurants where Cornellians and their friends will find a special welcome. Pennsylvania BOOKBINDERS SEA FOOD HOUSE, INC. OOnrilgyinhaelreB—o3orkdbiAnd4etrh GReesntearuartaionntsFoafmthily 215 South 15th St., Phila. SAM BOOKBINDER,HI '57 Midwest and West WORLD FAMED FOR STEAKS AND IRISH COFFEE! Bill PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA Your hosts: DICK AND BESS HERMANN CUSS OF'34 Southern States New England Area Code 4 1 3 - 773-3838 Bermuda DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 01342 James S. Venetos '65, Innkeeper Ten 18th Century Houses Open to the Public A celebrated summer resort 1 hour north of Boston with the MOST SPECTACULAR OCEANFRONT GOLF COURSE in the East. Heated, Olympic-sized pool. Nightly entertainment. May thru Oct. Write Dept. 29 James Barker Smith, Pres. (class of '31) .PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03801 I Middlebury Inn Middlebury Vermont ttwCiiqoaountmeiinnrfsoggpr,.toaMrbFtlsuie.nseeurComofhosma,ordsAm,uwinciLtgtihoouncTnso.gVlelDe,agAenVndIeDataoriwbBrynEc.AogCnAodHnlif--,, MANAGER CONRAD ENGELHARDT ('42) always stays at Inverurie. Naturally. Because he likes to get around. Because the hotel's right across the bay from Hamilton's many attractions. Because at Inverurie he can swim, dance, play tennis, dine, and enjoy Bermuda's finest entertainment every night And because he's part owner of the hotel. The Hotel at the Water's Edge χΓΠΓTyκ 1NV^ImWϊm/R' I6 PAGET. BERMUDA Hong Kong GORNELLIANS will feel at home in THE CAROLINA INN at the edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Golf, tennis, horseback riding and other recreational facilities nearby. Wonderful food in main Dining Room and Cafeteria. All rates very reasonable. A. Carl Moser '40 General Manager Owned and operated by the University of North Carolina Cornell Hotelmen . . . owning or operating Hotels, Inns, Motels, Resorts, or Restaurants can easily become CORNELL HOSTS. Write or phone for special low advertising rates. IMPRESS HOTEL Hong Kong Jack Foote '64, General Manager San Juan HOTCb Antigua BOX 442, ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES PHONE 32005 Jacques E. Lafaurie '50 Owner/Manager Cornell Alumni News 626 Thurston Ave. Ithaca, N. Y. 14850 (607) ,256-4121 801 PONCE DE LEON AVENUE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907 SPECIAL RATES FOR CORNELLIANS SHIRLEY AXTMAYER RODRIGUEZ '57 MGR. Hawaii FRIENDS GOING TO HAWAII? Let us greet them with flower leis Sena' for folder GREETERS OF HAWAII LTD. Box 9234 Honolulu 96820 Pete Fithian '51 October 1971 • 61 Alumni Notes when the mission generator on Aoba Island, New Hebrides, was operating, they made more than 500 contacts with other amateurs throughout the world. Bill says, "It was great to see these young Americans do their thing in volunteer service overseas, and it was hard to settle down to the hum-drum life of the broadcasting business back home!" Carl Harger has been promoted to chief engineer of the Eastern construction div. of the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh. Carl went with Dravo in 1939 and most recently served as asst. chief engineer of the division. WOMEN: Annie Newman Gordon, 23 Dillon Dr, Lawrence, NY 11559 Gertrude Cantor Hofheimer is now administering the adult education program for the Scarsdale school system. Gert is recently a grandmother again. I believe this is her third grandchild. I checked with Edy Myers Meyer recently to see if she still likes life on her boat. She said she and Max still think it's just great and don't at all regret thedr move. Edy is doing a remarkably fine job as coordinator of housing and relocation for the Town of Hempstead. 40 MEN: Wright Bronson Jr., 789 N Main St, Akron, Ohio 44310 On Tuesday, Aug. 3, Don Weadon (see picture) spoke to our Rotary Club, giving his opinions, ideas and predictions on the Middle East Situation with particular reference to Russia's influence. All Don needed was a couple of maps as props and launched into a dynamic and interesting talk—his words flowed like wine. (It's a darn good thing he was good because as pres. of Akron Rotary Club, I introduced him.) As you all know, Don is assistant to the publisher of Time-Life. While we are on the subject of travel, I must report a most interesting letter dated June 7 from Art Galston who returned recently from Vietnam ^nd China. Art said, in brief, "We saw Premier Pham Van Dong of N Vietnam, Premier Chou En-Lai of China and Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. We found them to be reasonable men, interested in peace and in the development of their countries. Neither they nor their people bear any hatred or enmity toward Americans as people, though they do disapprove of our present policies. I regret that we have no formal relations with any of them. I am sure that it is in our best interests to terminate the war in Vietnam . . . and to learn to live in peace with these governments and with the Peoples' Republic of China." Art hastened to add that although his remarks sounded political, he was writing the facts as he saw them. I hope that Art, who is a prof, of biology at Yale, will send us more details, and I would sure like to have him in Akron sometime to speak to us. Art lives at 307 Manley Heights, Orange, Conn. Robert Sproull, pres. of the U of Rochester, was named a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bob was recognized for his achievements in educational and scientific administration and Was one of 117 leading scholars, scientists, statesmen, and artists elected to the learned society. Some may recall that from 1946 to 1968, Bob taught physics at Cornell and was a dir. of Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. It never ceases to amaze me what outstanding men we have in our class. By the way, Bob and his family live at 692 Mt. Hope Ave, Rochester. BIoss Vail writes he has been working with Murray Death, the Cornell regional rep in Chicago, on Cornell estate planning for alumni. They plan a seminar in October. By the way, Murray Death played hockey with Ken Dryden. Victor Aleck advises he is living at 3188 Laurel, Studio City, Calif. Bill "Bumper" Baird has a change of address. Please note: the Bairds live at 6 Schoen PI, Pittsford. Dick Brown and family reside at 101 Loyola Dr, Ormond Beach, Fla. Bob Fischer is living at 3700 Country Club Rd, Endwell. Dr. I B Harrison lives with his family at 159 Soundview Ave, White Plains, and Dr. Melvyn Johnson lives at 205 Governor St, Providence, RI. Roland Graham Jr. joins a very small minority of us (I was the first one) to vote against the combined class. I guess the weaker sex is not so weak after all, and I must admit I am looking forward to this new thrust for the Class of '40. Roland lives at 1133 Sunrise Dr, Pittsburgh, Pa. A final note on Homecoming Week-end— October 29th and 30th. If you haven't made plans, get busy immediately as it looks like a good group is coming! WOMEN: Ruth J Welsch, 37 Deerwood Manor, Norwalk, Conn. 06851 Sorry to say, this October issue will be the last one you receive if you haven't paid your $10 dues for current year. Indeed, a few of you are remiss in your past year's dues ($5); you gals by now have received a personal note. You can always be reinstated on the NEWS mailing list; if you have any doubts, send Priscilla your check and you'll have "credit" for next year! During Reunion weekend I was on campus as our class sec./correspondent and chmn. of the class liaison committee, so attended Friday morning's breakfast meeting of the Assn. of Class Officers. Saw Pete Wood there briefly; wonder if he won a golf prize this year? At luncheon Saturday in Drill Hall (oops, that dates me!) I enjoyed chatting with Martha and Bill Fine and our '40 Ithacan honorary member Marv Freedman and his wife Sis. Both couples have new cruisers and were going off in Marv's for a ride on Cayuga that afternoon. Even tho they are "stinkpotters" and I'm strictly a sailor (Happily, it's auxiliary), I like them! Other classmates registered were Neal Stamp and Bob Storandt —didn't happen to meet them. Your officers voted to make a modest contribution to the scholarship endowment fund of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs to express the spirit of the Women of '40 in memory of their Classmates who have died. As treas. of the Federation, I notice more class and personal memorials are being received each year, in addition to the continued interest from the Clubs; it is a wonderful thought and for a very worthy cause. Kay (Anderson) and Ed Pfeifer '38 are first-time grandparents; Spencer Maynard Mack Jr., 9 pounds, 2 ounces, born May 31 to eldest daughter, Katherine, Mrs. Maynard Mack, who graduated from Mt. Holyoke. Her husband has his PhD from Yale and is asst. prof of English literature at Harvard; they are living in Cambridge. I'm sure young Kay must have the same sunny and happy disposition as ours; she fit into faculty life completely and actively, so much so that young "Spanky" has a Harvard sweater, Maroon "H" and all, size 2, knitted by Mrs. Pusey, wife of Harvard's president. When our Kay called me, she had just seen their youngest son, Andy, off to camp in Bangor and remarked how lonesome it was going to be without any children at home. Marge Baker Tummons says she's really enjoying life in Joliet, 111., but finds the landscape uninteresting, flat and windy. Having done so much of it while she and Bob were in Europe, she still enjoys bicycling in the park adjacent to their home. Well now, Home-Coming is Columbia game on October 30th and by now you probably have received further details of our combined Class plans with '38 & '39 for luncheon, game, dinner, and onward. Let's hope we have a good turnout, a starter on our combined-class activities. 41 MEN: Robert L Bartholomew, 51 N Quaker Lane, W Hartford, Conn. 06119 Richard E Holtzman (picture) of New Caanan, Conn., pres. of Rockresorts, a NYC- based resort hotel management company, announced the establishment of an annual student scholarship of $1,250 at the School of Hotel Administration. The amount of $1,000 will be used toward tuition and fees and $250 for traveling expenses. Each scholarship will be awarded on the basis of scholarly achievement and financial need. Rockresorts was founded by Laurance S Rockefeller, who retains controlling interest in the firm owned in part by Eastern Airlines. Dick recently moved his office to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC. With the football season upon us once again, it is time to remind you of Homecoming Weekend. This year it comes at the end of this month, Oct. 30, with the Columbia Lions lining up on Schoellkopf Field's new polyturf against what summer sports forecasters considered a serious contender for the Ivy crown—a strong Big Red Team. By thumbing through our Class Directory, one can see a built-in nucleus of a Homecoming celebration for '41. Residents of Ithaca include Bob Mueller, Bob Tallman, Stu Cobb, Charlie Ostrander, Ben Nichols, Jean Leinroth, Ed Hipolit, Bob Eastman, Bernard Goodman and "Our-man-in-Ithaca," Jerry Wanderstock. For details, you can reach "Prof" Wanderstock at the School of Hotel Administration on the campus or at his home at 101 Klinewood Road. When you return for Homecoming or other games in the Crescent, don't be surprised to see Honorary Classmate Frank "Doc" Kavanagh back in action. Although officially retired, he continues to lend a helping hand. His experiences as head trainer range from days of the famous end-around, the statue of liberty and the rule to punt on the third down on to today's era of girl cheerleaders, shoeless kickers and man-made turf. Although "Doc" became a '41er back at our 25th Reunion, he has been considered one of 62 • Cornell Alumni News us since we descended upon the campus in 1937! If you live in or around NYC, New Jersey, or New England, you should need no reminder of Oct. 23 and the Yale Game in New Haven, plus the traditional finale at Franklin Field this fall on Nov. 20. Walter Scholl Jr. (picture) of Manhasset can be seen in action on some ten gridirons this season wearing the traditional cap, striped shirt and baggy white pants as a referee of the MS v Eastern College Athletic * Conference. Here are several of "Pop's" asi ^ ^ ^ f c signments this fall: Oct. ^ ^ " i ^ f l H l 9, either Boston U-U Mass. at Boston or CoI l l i ^ ^ ^ ^ H lumbia-Harvard in Cambridge; Oct. 16, PennLafayette at Franklin Field; Oct. 23, Boston College-Pittsburgh in Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Nov. 6, Colgate-Bucknell at Hamilton. Walt may not dash across the line these days with the pigskin under his arm, but he is every bit a sixty-minute man on the field just the same. Weekdays Walt can be found busy on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as a VP of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. WOMEN: Virginia Buell Wuori, 596 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 As I write this (in August), I realize the summer with its wonderful memories of Reunion is soon coming to a close. We here in Ithaca always look forward to fall and the Cornell football season. It sounds really promising this year, and Leo and I hereby issue an invitation to any and all of you that attend any of the games to please call us. Remember, Homecoming is Oct. 30. To return to news—from some who made Reunion and from some who couldn't make it. Rosemary Sullivan Dunn was unable to come because she was in the midst of getting her new house in order. Their new address is 7317 Camp Alger Ave, Falls Church, Va. Previous to their move she had been office mgr. for the Fairfax Co. Republican Committee Headquarters; she started as part-time for three weeks and ended up full time. Presently she is busy with her responsibilities as treas. of the Richmond Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, treas. of the Arlington Deanery Council of Catholic Women, and financial chmn. for the local Chapter of Church Women United. She says, "Needless to say I am kidded a lot and try to wear the same old clothes as much as possible." Shirley Richards Sargent and her husband Ed came to reunion from their home in Delmar. She enjoys her half-time "career" as a planning aide in trie Education Dept. in Albany. Their youngest children finished their sophomore year at SUNY, Plattsburgh and the other two have graduated, but no married children or grandchildren yet. Speaking of children and grandchildren, we wonder if anyone can top the record of Jeanne Deckelman Bowen and Ted. They had three boys and three girls, four of whom are married. They are grandparents of ten— five boys and five girls. Their oldest child is 28, their youngest 13, and their oldest grandchild is 11. They haven't changed a bit despite their busy life. Both Ted and Jeanne teach. They live at 122 Munson Street in Syracuse. Allene Cushing Knibloe (Mrs. Wells) of 215 Lakewood Pkwy, Buffalo came down for Reunion. She does part-time work as a flower arranger in two local stores. She has a son in American .U in Washington and a daughter about to enter a local college so she can "continue to teach skiing." Two other daughters are in jr. high school. Betsy Nisbet Young (Mrs. Gerald) came over from Cortland where she lives. One son graduated from Cornell this year, and her daughter (Wellesley '73) will be an exchange student at Dartmouth this coming year. The Youngs took another European "Farm Tour" with their 15 year old son in July. Their address is RD 1, Cortland. Martha Cross Durfee (Mrs. Arthur) of 125,2 Ellis Hollow Rd here in Ithaca was one of the local helpers on Kay's committee. All three of her daughters are married—the eldest, Connie, teaches nursing at Syracuse U. Her husband (Roland Marion) is an engineer with GE and they have a son. Middle daughter, Ruth, teaches 2nd grade in inner city Philadelphia while her husband (Kenneth Gilbert) attends med school at Temple U. Youngest, Marjorie, teaches home ec. at Pharr, Texas while her husband pursues a PhD in conservation at Texas A&M. Martha keeps busy with church and community work and is a lay counselor for suicide prevention. Dorothy Newman Seligman had a daughter gjgiduate from Cornell this June so she was heje "too early for reunion." 42 MEN: Dick Young, 900 Bay Dr, Miami Beach, Fla. 33141 Joseph C Littleton has been elected VP and appointed general mgr. of the newly formed science products div. of Corning Glass Works. Joe is also pres. of Cormedics Corp. and Diagnostic Research, Inc., which are Corning subsidiaries. Dr. Edward H Mandel has been elected pres. of the Dermatologic Soc. of Greater NY. Ed is dir. of the dermatology section of the Dept. of Medicine at NY Medical College and a clinical prof, in that department. He also directs the dermatology sections at Metropolitan Hospital Center and Bird S Coler Hospital, where the college provides medical services. Dr. Mandel resides in Manhattan. Ray E Dague has been appointed general sales mgr. in charge of Allis-Chalmer's agricultural equipment div. At the 55th annual meeting of the American Gear Manufacturers Assn, John R Dingle was named pres. emeritus. John is general mgr. of Cleveland Worm & Gear Div., Eaton Corp., Cleveland, Ohio. Bob Findlay sends a brief note and reports that he and Lynn Timmerman attended Reunion in June. Both are CRC. Bob saw Jack Stone, who is our anchor on campus and always active, and Bill Templeton, who was back from the coast. He was particularly encouraged by the full participation of Art and Dottie Kesten '44, who have the role of general Reunion chairmen for all classes. They are making concrete suggestions to; Frank Clifford '50 (Alumni Secretary) who will hopefully improve our opportunities for 1972. As you know, Dick Graham will be our Reunion chmn. next year. 43 WOMEN: Hedy Neutze Alles, 15 Oak Ridge Dr, Haddonfield, NJ 08033 At this writing, a sultry rainy-ish July 31, the lack of letter writing classmates is overwhelming. So, here's some itsy bits, and it's all your fault, as YOU read this. A note from Rutgers News Service announces that Phyllis Dittman McClelland received her master's at the 205th anniversary commencement .exercises at Rutgers, the state university of NJ. Congratulations to Phyl from all of us! Jane Legg writes that Mary Morgan Smith of Ithaca is a proud grandmother, via daughter Patricia. Mary's husband is Dr. Robert S, a prof, in Agr. Ec. Jane's daughter Wendy attends the U of Maine and loves it. And that's it. To see your name in print you MUST get word to me somehow. 44 MEN: / Joseph Driscoll Jr., 8-7 Wilde Ave, Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026 Since the at-the-moment TV advertiser is an automobile manufacturer, it seems appropriate to report that the pres. of the Greater New York Long Island and Westchester Automobile Dealers Assn. is our Robert E Dillon. Bob is pres. of Ruckle Pontiac Co. and Ruckle Toyota of Yonkers. Bob and Tuck's home address is Purchase St, Rye. No mention is made of Bob's golf handicap. Has the one-time low suffered from too much attention to work and too much age? Or is it still in the five range? Concerned with transport of an earlier era is Dr. Donald D Delahanty, prof, of veterinary surgery in the Vet College. He was one of a team of four who performed a five-hour operation on Hoist the Flag, one of the top three-year-old racing horses of the year before, who suffered breaks in two leg bones last spring. North and west of Ithaca, George Durham has spent 20 years with Eastman Kodak. He has been appointed program mgr., operations, in the business and professional products group of the Kodak apparatus div. George had previous assignments in manufacturing engineering, tool engineering, and parts manufacturing. Another classmate makes no reference to his engineering education or experience: "Am pres. of the Cornell Club of Delaware this year, so see lots of Cornellians but not many from '44." That note is from Philip C Collins, my 30-years-ago competitor for football mgr. Most vivid recent memory of Phil is his Sunday morning departure from the '44 dorm in 1964. I think he took 15 trips to gather all the Collins' belongings, while the milk punch crowd watched and counted. Returning to Rochester (column-wise, that is), Allen J Albright is VP of Security Trust Co. and manages the mortgage dept. His oldest son received the MBA at Cornell in 1970; middle son was a senior when Allen wrote in March. The Albright address is 450 Knickerbocker Rd, Ontario. An older note is from a February issue of the New York Times about Jerome Levitan, Jerry had been appointed to the new position of VP-marketing of Revlon. My years as class columnist haven't tidied up my techniques of data recording. So, who were the '44's seen at Reunion '71? Art and Dotty Kesten, of course; Lou Daukas, Gordon Clement, and Ed Carman helping their wives celebrate; Dan Morris, who usually manages an Ithaca assignment in early June; and Charlie Williams, in his official capacity. Did I miss anyone? The Carman tradition at Cornell continues, with Edward H IV a '70 Hotel grad and James S '75 in engineering. Melvin L Hirsch has been elected pres. of the Assn. of Commercial Finance Attorneys. Mel is sr. VP of A J Armstrong Co. He specializes in corporate financial law and lectures on the uniform commercial code. The home address is Wenwood Dr, Brookville. We reported recently that Jack Halpin was to be reassigned from his AID mission assignment in Buenos Aires, probably to Washington. Another classmate expected the same. Harrison Parker had been in the USAID Mission in Djakarta, Indonesia, for three years. He administered the donated food projects in the aid program. His permanent address is Singing Brook Farm, Charlemont, Mass. October 1971 • 63 The Diary of a Freshman Going to Cornell is like getting a polio shot—once you have received the shot, everything is fine; thinking about getting the shot is the part that hurts. So it was as I climbed my first (but definitely not my last) set of steps up Noyes Student Center to stand in my first (but definitely not my last) line. "You must have your temporary ID to get your permanent one," intoned the photographer's helper, and a freshman jokingly replied, "Would you mind repeating that?" When I heard that, I knew I had nothing to fear from Cornell. Tuesday, August 31 In the midst of a crowded dorm hallway came a cheerful voice, "Hi, I'm Marty. What's your name?" So I got acquainted with the girls across the hall from me while I figured out how to fit the key in the lock. The door finally opened into a room that was big, hot, and painted prison gray. (My fifth floor ivory tower I call it.) I couldn't wait to unpack and rearrange the furniture. Everybody in my family started offering suggestions at once, but eventually I sent them off amidst the sound of clicking cameras and a round of hugging and kissing. After the family left, I went to dinner; when in anxiety, eat, I always say. Wednesday, September 1 Rise and shine! (Forget the shine part.) I must say it had been an eventful sleep—what with almost falling out of bed several times and then being awakened by the sound of ringing chimes. I wanted to be first in line to pick up my registration materials, so I hurried to Lynah Rink—only to find a very long line. It seems that half the freshman class had had the same idea. When I did get in, I picked up my ten IBM cards, bought a CUAA book, and left. Naturally, there was now no line at all. Oh well, so much for freshman psychology. To get my chest x-ray, I somehow managed to walk from Lynah Rink to Triphammer bridge and then back to the Gannett Clinic—not what you would call a short cut. I ate lunch at the famous (or infamous) Straight. The cafeteria seemed so very collegiate; I guess that's why they call it the Ivy Room. I found the "Rites of Passage"— the 1971 answer to freshman convocation—a good try at best. Song leaders tried to get people to sing songs they didn't seem to know, several speakers talked somewhat lengthily, and a dancer provided entertainment that was a little heady for freshmen and parents not used to intellectual performances. Up until now I couldn't believe I was actually a freshman at Cornell, but singing the Alma Mater made me realize that I was really here—if not for good, for four years at least. Tonight, all the Artsies met at Statler Auditorium. Dean Kahn addressed us and immediately set us at ease with his easy, joking manner. He answered many gnawing questions and made us feel .there was a way to get around the necessary bureaucracy of Cornell. All of us had something in common and the "name, school, major, hometown" line of conversation was shortened by one category anyway. Thursday, September 2 I handed in my IBM cards today, peered inquisitively at the tables of people urging me to join their organization, and left Barton Hall in a flurry of flyers—only to wait in a line that stretched from the outside steps of Roberts Hall to the third floor of the building. This afternoon I signed up for most of my courses, making sure I had no conflicts. My steps have slowed considerably in the last two days and my gait up the Balch Hall steps was not quite so energetic. Tonight I attended a discussion on sororities. To join, or not to join, that is the question. Friday, September 3 I headed for Goldwin Smith early this morning and talked with several professors about my problem with scheduling a French class. We finally solved it, but with a 9:05 Saturday class. All other nights I had mainly stayed in my room, but tonight I happened to meet a nice boy. We talked for quite a while. I was amazed at the number and variety of places on campus that are open for entertainment or recreation. Saturday, September 4 Ah! Blessed sleep. I registered for my dreaded swim .test today; I don't know whether I can hold out for four lengths of the pool. When I went to Goldwin Smith to sign up for my freshman humanities course, almost all courses were closed out—including the one I wanted. Panic-stricken, I asked the secretaries that were left what courses were still open; I would have taken anything by that time. Finally, I found a course. Tonight, I went out with some boys from my hometown and we toured University Halls—the "cinderblock zoo." I fell into bed exhausted, but it was so hot, I couldn't sleep. Sunday, September 5 I decided to fix breakfast in niy room; powdered milk, instant oatmeal, and canned fruit are OK, but I couldn't live on them. I also decided to go to Sage Chapel today. I was very much impressed by the program, the church itself, and the choir. The sermon was a little difficult to follow, but it was at least interesting. For lunch, I treated myself to Sunday dinner and then went back to my room to rearrange the furniture to where it was originally. I also made out several different lists of things to do, did my laundry in a room that can only be called a sauna bath, and called Mom and Dad. I went to bed early, for tomorrow would be the first day of classes. I slept fitfully—dreaming of aching feet, getting lost, being late for class, and . . . Thanksgiving recess. by Ann VanValkenburg '75 [Daughter of Priscilla Axtell VanValkenburg '46, Granddaughter of Clayton M Axtell, MD '09] 64 • Cornell Alumni News The news is getting sparse.. If you don't write soon, I'll ask Art Kesten to get out the news (and dues!) notice early. 'Nuίϊ said? 45 MEN: John B Rogers, 511-A Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 The Dept. of Maps, Microtext, and Newspapers in Olin Library is trying to supplement their microfilm holdings of the Cornell Daily Sun by filming the Cornell Bulletin. Those of you who were on the campus any time during World War II might remerrφer that the Bulletin replaced the Sun. The library is in need of copies and is particularly looking for the last issues of 1945 (June 8th to the end). If any of you would care to donate to the Library copies you may have stashed away, please send them to Mrs. Jean Payne, Olin Library, Cornell. They would t>e appreciated. Warren E Rosati has recently joined General Offset Printing Co. of Springfield, Mass, in a sales capacity. He was previously employed by Connecticut Printers of Hartford, Connecticut, for 7 years. Warren's sales activities have been and will continue to be concentrated in western NYS, serving such clients as Cornell, Syracuse U, and Corning Glassworks. He has worked on a number of Cornell books and catalogs which won top national awards. He will make his Ithaca office at No. 1 Sheraton Dr. Warren's son, Ramon, is Cornell '69 and received his MS in EE in 1970. He is now asst. editor of McGraw-Hill's publication Electrical Contractor and Maintenance Magazine in NYC. W S Rose has had a very nice promotion from VP of Armco to pres. of the International Div., which employs more than 10,000 people in 30 manufacturing plants and has 75 sales offices and warehouses in 21 countries. Our classmates joined the International Division in 1948 and served in various overseas positions before being assigned to Paris as pres. and general mgr. in 1962. In 1967 he was transferred to the corporate headquarters in Middletown, Ohio, as assistant to the president and was elected VP of Armco and managing dir. for the div. in 1970. William entered Cornell in 1941 and received his AB with a major in economics in 1948. 46 MEN: Dick Goll, 3875 Sidney Rd, Huntingdon Valley, Pa. 19006 This column will conclude my report on our 25th Reunion. A survey taken during our main class dinner in Noyes Lodge revealed some rather interesting answers. Coming furthest distance to attend Reunion—Pete Verna from North Carolina (perhaps this is one of the reasons Pete will be our next Reunion chmn). Most recently married—Tom Miller, two years. Longest married—Sewell Shugar and Harry McGurk (incidentally, Harry has been active in Maryland politics as a state congressman from Baltimore). Most grandchildren—Tom Miller. Youngest child—Tom Miller. Classmates who have children who are undergraduates at Cornell now—Whit Simmons and Jerry Finch. Person receiving most degrees—Dick Shineman. Sewell and Ginny (Garfink) Shugar have a child who recently graduated from Cornell. Bob Hubbard left Saturday afternoon to drive to Liberty Corner, NJ to attend his son Jimmy's wedding. (Lucky that Bob was not the father of the bride, or we would not have had the pleasure of his company during the Reunion.) As mentioned in last month's, column, Reunion was a genuine success. Keep this in mind five years from now, and plan to attend for a great time. Just one more acknowledgment: Bill Blackman, Ruth (Critchlow's) husband and a Princeton man, did a yeoman job in pitching in to help at both dinners and general all around service. Further general news items we were unable to publish in earlier columns: Sheldon Yasner, 33 Edgemere Rd, Livingston, NJ has recently disbanded the 51 year old family business (jewelry) to go out on his own in the field of jewelry design and trading in gem stones. His wife Jean "is helping as always." Their daughter Ellice is on the editorial staff of the Newark, NJ Star Ledger, son Douglas is a freshman at Marietta College in Ohio, and daughter Dena is at home. Joe Gottlieb recently spent a vacation in Puprto Rico and Aruba and writes he is building a new 15,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant. His eldest son Raymond is in first year grad school in finance at Spracuse, son Geoffrey, is in third year pre-med at Cornell, and youngest daughter Lisa is a freshman in high school with high hopes she'll matriculate at Cornell in '74! Please send any news items on you or your family directly to me—your classmates are interested. WOMEN: Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503 Morris PI, Shillίngton, Pa. 19607 I received word from Rutgers in NJ that Charlotte Liemer Gandler of PlainfielcJ, NJ received her MEd at commencement June 4, 1971. Those of you who knew Jane Ketcjium might be interested in dropping her a note at 44 Hawthorne Ave, Delmar, NY 12054. Her parents wrote Jane is totally paralyzed by MS and has been confined to bed for 13 years. I'm sure Jane would appreciate hearing from any former classmates. For those gals who missed our Reunion, we gave out folders in the shape of nutshells for information concerning what happened to classmates in the past 25 years. In the next few months, I'll be using excerpts from "25 Years in a Nutshell" to write this article. There's still time for you to write a synopsis of your last 25 years and mail it to me. Our new VP of the combined class, Mavis Gillette Sand, wrote that her husband, Seaward '45, is now research geneticist with Roswell Park Memorial Inst., Orchard Park Lab. The Sands and their six children have been living in East Aurora (near Buffalo) for the last six years. Their fourth daughter will matriculate at Cornell in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1972 after a year in Latin America with the International Christian Youth Exchange Program. Their sixth child was born in Ireland in 1963 while Sandy was lecturing at Trinity College in Dublin on a Fulbright grant. Mavis is doing dietetic consultation for a small nursing home nearby. The Sands also have a daughter at Illinois Wesleyan U and one at the U of Rochester. Our Women's Reunion chmn, Marianne Michaelis Goldsmith, also has a Cornellian husband, Karl, '47 class pres. The Goldsmiths live in Plainfield, NJ with their four children. Michael is Cornell Architecture '72; Laurie is Eisenhower College '74; Jonathan David (Jody) will be 17 November; and Melanie will be 14. Marianne graduated in Oct. 1945 and worked as a social worker until 1950, taking time out then to have a family. She then returned to school and is certified as a school librarian and school social worker. She wrote, "Just thrilled with new (spring 1970) summer cottage on Lake Cayuga. Summer house mostly result of Cornell Alumni University (attended first sessjon and all thereafter—Karl on Advisory Board) when I fell in love with Cornell and its surroundings all over again." I've been fortunate to have our new Alumni Fund rep, Mim Secmann Lautensack, keep us up to date with news of her family. However she did add that Robert, age 18, their oldest, was arriving home from Helsinki, Finland on July 20 after one year there. He visited their AFS son in Norway in February, went to Russia, including a Sputnik Youth Camp in June, to Lapland and the Netherlands before coming home. David, age 17, will enter Cornell this fall (our officers are well represented with Cornell children) Anne will be a senior in high school; and Philip enters 8th grade. Her husband Bob, a Lafayette graduate, is presently working in Morristown, NJ after having commuted to NYC for years. Mim also wrote she is taking diet therapy at Rutgers and hopes to begin work on her masters. 47 MEN: Peter D Schwarz, 12 Glen Ellyn Way, Rochester, NY 14618 Herb Roth and wife, Silena Turnbell Roth, are moving to Nashville. Herb has a new job with the Clements Paper Co. Until he gets settled you can write him c/o the Clements Paper Co., PO Box 7069, South Station, 1111 Foster Avenue, Nashville, Tenn. Herb was formerly with the Mead Paper Co. in Dayton, O. Barlow Ware bought an island or part of one in the Thousand Islands. His shack, which he hopes to improve into a camp, is on one acre of land on Picten Island near Clayton. John P Gnaedinger, 160 Sherridan Rd, Kenilworth, 111., has received a special award from the American Soc. for Testing and Materials last June for his preparation of Special Procedures for Testing Soil and Rock for Engineering Purposes, 5th Edition. John has also served on many engineering and professional societies in the Chicago area. In addition he received a special award from the Western Soc. of Engineers for his work in the location and development of the proposed Chicago Engineering and Science Center. Allen B Reed has been appointed mgr., manufactured housing, for the home building products div. of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. He will be responsible for marketing fiberglas products to producers of modular, sectional and panelized housing systems and will be located at Owens-Corning corporate headquarters in Toledo, O. Your correspondent understands that Carl and Connie (Foley) Ferris, our reunion chairmen for our 25th, have found us a clerk. We are interested in knowing who the mystery man is. WOMEN: Joan Mungeer Bergren, 137 Monroe St, Easton, Pa. 18042 Lillian Tubbs Seefeldt, 745 Sherwick Terr, Manchester, Mo. writes "we moved to St. Louis in June (1970). Clint '51 is eastern region dairy product mgr. with Ralston Purina Co. Jack is a freshman at Cornell College in Iowa, Dan a basketball and baseball player at Parkway West High School, Gary specializes in basketball at Parkway South Junior High, and Randy is a trombonist in the band at the same school. I started working again part-time in December at the local weekly newspaper. We like the Mid-west better than we expected to, especially the mild winter." Jane Coolican Sopp "began a new job as social worker at Schuyler Hospital in Montour Falls in June 1970, after nine years as a case worker in the Schuyler Co. Dept. of Social Services and 12 years as a NYS home ec extension agent. Home address is Mud Lake Rd, RD 1, Watkins Glen. Celeste Roof Hendershot lives in Newton, NJ. Oldest daughter Peggy graduated first in her class last June and started at Gettysburg October 1971 • 65 Alumni Notes College in elementary education. Celeste hopes her other two daughters will consider Cornell! Margi Schiavone Berens reported on her brood. Donnie is at Harvard Law, Liz hopes to teach junior high science this fall (having just graduated from Mt. Holyoke), Mary is at Cornell, and Julie has been accepted into William's first class of coeds. Pat Grabb Schneider sent a card from Germany. "We are in Europe for five weeks, about to leave for five days in Sweden including the midnight sun trip north of the Arctic Circle, then 10 days in Romania. I feel very much at home except for the language and Burkhard takes care of that." 48 MEN: Robert W Persons Jr., 102 Reid Λve, Port Washington, NY 11050 Dr. James I Hudson has been appointed dir., planning and evaluation, of Project HOPE. He had been project dir. of the comprehensive child care program of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and assoc. dir. of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Hudson served aboard the hospital ship S S HOPE in 1965, is married and has three children. He will devote much of his time to Project HOPE's health career training programs in the US and land-based medical programs abroad. Lindsey Grant has been promoted to Class 2 in the US Foreign Service. In the Service since 1949, he has been stationed in Washington, DC, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is presently assigned to the National War College in Washington, DC. Mr. Grant speaks Chinese and French. His wife Helen graduated from the U of Maryland, and they have two children, Anne (18) and Gordon (16). Al Molowa joined Revere Copper & Brass Co. in 1957 as asst. general counsel, was elected a VP in 1970, and last June was named general counsel. Before joining Revere, Al was associated with the law firm of Wirdels, Merritt & Ingraham. Dr. Richard C Devor was chaplain of Emory U in Atlanta until last June, when he was appointed pastor of the Central Methodist Church in Detroit. The church has pioneered in interracial and inner city work for the past 25 years. Before moving to Detroit, Dr. Devor was on leave from Emory for one year while he studied at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Neal Hospers, gen. mgr. of the Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, is pres. of the Tarrant Co. Motel-Hotel Assn. this year, in addition to being pres. and board member of several other hotel and chamber of commerce organizations radiating out of Texas. Neal should just be returning from Germany and France as this column is printed. It is rumored he is thinking of getting involved in a new hotel in Fort Worth, but we have a better idea. How about a "really big" hotel or motel in Ithaca, without all the frills, just plain quiet rooms? (There's always that "hole in the ground.") Right now, we are all living in the middle of the 90 day wage-price, freeze. You should be able to come to Ithaca for the Oct. 30 Homecoming game and pay the same price for a steak dinner or a motel room as you would have paid last July. Take advantage of this government decreed windfall. The autumn colors should be at their best. Hope to see you all then. 49 MEN: Ron Hailparn, 79 Whitehall Rd, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 The class of '49 did well at the Annual Ivy League Club Golf Championships held on June 22 at the Appawamis Club in Harrison. Walter Peek with his usual sound game and a hot putter won the low gross award with a 76, and your class columnist, playing way above his head, won the low net for the Cornell Club of NY with an 82-14=68. The Cornell Club of NY finished third in the competition behind Princeton and Yale. This month we feature our class pres. as guest columnist. Don Geery, an unabashed enthusiast of the Alumni University, has written the recollections of this summer's session which appear below: Flying into Ithaca Sunday morning, July 11, Mohawk Airlines made me wait till almost midnight for my baggage. It was the only disappointment of the entire week. Afterwards, Mohawk apologized, made amends, and declared that my inconvenience was their embarrassment. From now on, I'll fly only Mohawk to Ithaca! Sunday evening orientation covered details for the coming week: classroom location, meals at North Campus Commons, university facilities available, and provided a chance to look at each other. About 110 adults were in the "class"; and with accompanying offspring, the group numbered 200. Incidentally, most of the kids were taken over by Cornell counselors (headed by Jack Warner). Our dormitory was Mary Donlon Hall (unairconditioned). The unusual cool/clear weather made the nights bearable. Our group became friendlier each day, as we were togather for meals, coffee breaks, "happy hours" and the mundane experience of scuffling down the halls to bathrooms in various stages of undress. The class day was structured around a lecture (9-11:30) followed by a seminar discussion (another hour). The curriculum was topical and required no specialized background, except an interest in what's happening today. But, of course, all students were expected to have read the four books previously mailed by CAU in preparation for: Green Revolution: super harvests from new rice strains. Our Law and its limitations/effects in changing society. America's foreign policy and today's dilemmas. Teenagers today, extended adolescence and new life styles. Faculty members (who were uniquely excellent) attended each other's lectures so that the material covered was interrelated. The dialogue among the faculty at the final lecture (panel discussion) was the essence of the whole week's effort. Just great! Everyone, it seems, had his. own reason for attending this continuing education program: the remembered lure of the Cornell summer campus, the university program geared down for the Summer School adagio, the reintroduction to a life almost forgotten, exploration of new facilities, such as Teagle and Helen Newman Halls, Olin Library, and perhaps just a chance to get away for a vacation with purpose. I particularly enjoyed my "classmates" who were not necessarily the leaders and joiners of their respective classes, but good solid citizens concerned about today. Classes, represented ranged from 1913 to 1970 with the heaviest concentration falling between 1940-1960. All in all, we got along well together. In addition to seeing and chatting with the Cornell regional directors, who had gathered for their annual meeting, I remember spending time with Shelly and Herb Berman '49, Evelyn and Wendel Kent '49, Marianne and Karl Goldsmith '47, Ruth and Pete Metz '50, and Marilyn and Bill Gere '51. The week was an exhilarating adventure. But I don't think I'll return next year . . . CAU could not possibly duplicate for me the pleasure of this past July. However, next year is 1972, 'and a whole year away. Don Geery WOMEN: Mary Heisler Miller, 2201 Ridley Creek Rd, Media, Pa. 19063 Ginny (Wylie) and Bill Barber '49 moved to 1595 Howell St, Beaumont, Texas a year or so ago, leaving their oldest daughter Angie in California to finish her senior year in H.S. Bill is superintendent of industrial relations in Union Oil's Beaumont refinery. They're finding the weather hot and humid and the Texans very friendly. Before their move they had a wonderful trip to Hawaii, camping in a rented truck on Maui and Kauai. Jean Budd Falconi's sons are both CornelHans, making three generations at Cornell and proud of it: No. 1 son graduated in June '70 and is now at Princeton Graduate School; while No. 2 son entered our hallowed halls this fall. Jean writes she has been divorced for many years, but maintains close ties with her family in Ecuador. They lived there for three years and have been back to visit in Quito several times. Jean works in office management, keeps up with politics and government, and plays golf at least five times a week in season. She's looking forward to much travel in the future, from her home at Star Route, Honesdale, Pa. From 1515 Hanover Ct, Ann Arbor, Mich, comes news from Louise Lohr Malefyt. In Dec. 1970 she completed her masters degree at the U of Michigan School of Social Work, and is presently employed as a social worker at a consolidated school in a rural area outside of Ann Arbor. Her husband Calvin is a minister and is currently very involved with problems of the poor in the country, due to sit-ins in. the churches. Their family consists of three children—teen-agers and a court ward as a foster daughter. .Elinor Polachek Bleyer is doing volunteer work at the White Plains Hospital, interviewing patients for clinic eligibility (that last word has as many "eyes" in it as Mississippi!!). She finds it most interesting. Home —31 Murray Hill Rd, Scarsdale—has become strangely quiet, with the twins both in college. Jan is pre-med at Ohio Wesleyan (in spite of his Cornell acceptance—much to Elinor's dismay) and Dick is a music major at Tulane. This leaves Jim, who is in HS at Rye Country Day School. Marcia Hedberg Wilber's (Mrs. MC) new address is 1127 Ball St, Galveston, Texas. 50 MEN: Albert C Neimeth, Cornell Law School, Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850 October is truly beautiful here in Ithaca. Why don't you all come up for the Homecoming game with Columbia on Sat., Oct. 30 and enjoy the changing colors and clean fresh weather here at Cornell? John W Mellor, the old track star, continues circling the globe for the agricultural economics dept. During fall 1970, John did research in East Pakistan, West Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan for a book he is writing. The book will deal mainly with the agricultural sector of Asian countries and its implications to other sectors of their economy. John also worked on a research contract concerning employment and income distribution for AID. Theodore Eskild, 270 Vienna St, Palmyra, continues to be with Garlock, Inc.—"Find life busy with three teenagers (Amy 15, Tad 14, and Kirk 13). Back teaching a church school class after having been, church 66 • Cornell Alumni News school superintendent for a number of years." Jonathan S Ayers, 31 School Lane, Huntington, is now asst. to the VP Operations, Grumman Data Systems Corp., a spin-off from Grumman Aerospace. Most of Jon's nonworking hours are spent sailing on Long Island Sound or getting the boat ready for another racing season. Wife Cynthia (Smith) '52 is now running her own nursery school, which she enjoys very much. Owen H Griffith, 3416 W 229 St, Torrance, Calif., is now a member of the intergovernmental board on Electronic Processing, representing public education by appointment of Gov. Reagan. He is a program mgr. at Northrop Corp., electronics div., Palos Verdes peninsula, where he has been for nine years. Before joining Northrop, Owen was with Lockheed, TRW Systems, Sperry Gyroscope Co., and the Signal Corp Research Lab. Most recently, he was named to a task force set up by the educational committee of the American Insti. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles chapter, to investigate possibilities of applying aerospace systems analysis techniques to education. Norman J Smith, 33 Chestnut Ave, Vineland, NJ, gave a talk June 1970 at the International Agricultural Plastics Conference in Paris, France on the use of aluminum foil to repel aphids, thereby preventing virus diseases of summer squash in South Jersey. Wife and daughter joined Norm in Paris for a visit to London and Germany. Ralph R Smalley, Box 451, Cobleskill, has kept quite busy since graduation. From 1951 to 1958 he was asst. prof, of agronomy at Farmingdale Agricultural and Technical College. From 1958 to 1961 he was a student at the U of Florida obtaining his PhD in soil fertility & ornamental horticulture. In 1961 and 1962 he was asst. turf technologist at the U of Florida, doing turfgrass research and from 1962 to date he is prof, of plant science and dept. chmn. at SUNY Agricultural and Technical College at Cobleskill. His oldest daughter Patricia graduated from Home E c , Cornell in 1969, son David attends SUNY at Brockport, and son Tim is a high school senior. Wife Dot keeps busy with a local insurance firm. WOMEN: Sally Stroup De Groot, 1801 Armistead PI S, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33712 Pat Gleason Kerwick is very enthusiastic about the response to Alumni Giving and writes to congratulate all fund givers! Pat says, "Remember, it's never too late! Certainly since more of us have college students in the family we must realize the importance of supporting the old Alma Mater. Everything we can do to help makes our Cornell that much stronger." Many thanks to Pat and her workers for doing such a great job! At high school reunion this June Pat saw two old home town Cornell classmates, Lee Argana Pella, (Mrs. Joseph) of Trenton, and Esther Artman Hammer (Mrs. Paul) of Rochester. Both girls looked just great and they all had a good time reminiscing. Esther's husband is prof, of New Testament at Colgate Divinity School and Esther has been working on her masters in social work at Syracuse. The Hammers have four children and formerly lived in Minnesota. Six busy Kerwick children keep Pat and Tom on their toes. Ann, a junior at Cornell and winner of the Women's Rochester District Golf Tournament, represented Cornell at the National Girls' Collegiate Golf Tourney at the U of Georgia. Tim attends Oswego State where he played freshman hockey, a team that beat Cornell Frosh in February. Pat says both students love their respective schools. Another son who loves Cornell, according to his mother, Libby Severinghaus Warner, is Michael Dingle. Michael just finished his frosh year and Libby finds it a wonderful excuse for her to return. She says she is spending a quiet summer at home coping with the pool and garden, although she found time to visit with Bob Nagler in NYC. Sally Wallace Murray writes enthusiastically about purchasing property in the Adirondacks near 13th Lake where she and Ken '49 are putting up a ski house. They will work on the house this summer, with Ken hoping to do the interior work. Sally says her children are growing quickly and very involved in Jr Hi and Little League and keep her at the wheel of the family bus. She has found time to volunteer at phone answering for a youth hot line that is operating in Poughkeepsie. Sally finds it very rewarding and thinks she might enjoy social work when all the little Murrays are grown. News is very slim and I have to thank old roomies for coming through. Would like to share your involvement with other classmates! 51 MEN: Bill Eustis, 102 Park Ave, Greenwich, Conn. 06830 The class soared past its 20th reunion fund goal of—appropriately—$51,000 but in the usual cliff hanger. The spadework was well done by co-chairmen Bill Phillips and Mary Ann Doutrich. But some last minute footwork was necessary to push it over; so was the challenge grant credit. This shouldn't be. Those of '51 whom talent, luck, inflation (and perhaps a Cornell education) have rewarded with the world's things do not seem to be pulling the weight that members of other classes do. The class has nothing but praise for the numbers who gave (75%) and the many who assisted Bill and Mary Ann in their efforts. Steady Eddies deserve even greater due than this last column—they gave to the Alumni Fund and paid their class dues in each of our 20 years out. The Splendid Six Steady Eddies are Jim Stocker, AI Glassenberg, Jerry Kinne, Tom Gill, Moose Miller and Charlie Moore. '51 has another special place in art at Cornell—Stan O'Connor has been named chmn. of the dept. of history of art in Arts and Sciences and prof, of art history. Another academic promotion was Dr. Arthur Prensky to assoc. prof, of neuroJbgy~at Washington U School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. Honors to Wybe Kroontje, assoc. prof, of agronomy at Virginia Tech from its Alumni Association—the Wine Award for outstanding teaching. It's not clear whether oenology is involved. Honors also in the art of architecture to George and Maddy McDowell, AIA, for their firm's designs of the Rutgers Medical School and South Huntington Public Library, Long Island, by the NJ Soc. of Architects. George observed on the state of current campus architecture that he was "getting to like the book store better—but not the doors." A less complimentary opinion was that of a vandal who sprayed "Abandon hope all ye who enter here"— in Italian—on the doors on the occasion of the store's opening. Commercial kudos to Bill Ferguson, Trane Co.'s new mgr. of reciprocating refrigeration sales, Stuart Campbell, promoted to VP of marketing at Ethicon, and Bob Fitzner, appointed construction mgr. for Dravo Corp.'s Eastern construction div. Lenore and Burton Gold mentioned at Reunion that they are active in museum and other art circles in Atlanta—now Tom Leavitt, A. D. White Art Museum dir., writes they have given the museum the pick of several graphics for the '51 Collection, with which it will "glister" even more. WOMEN: Dudie Krause Thielen, 320 Drew Park Dr, Lake Charles, La. 70601 This is to introduce your new ALUMNI NEWS correspondent. I graduated with a major in English, married a urologist from Tulane, and except for my four years at Cornell have always lived in Louisiana. Jack and I have two children—a daughter who is a sophomore at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and a son who is a senior in high school here. I could not attend our 20th Reunion this summer because I was one of those "age over-forty members of the establishment" who were attending the AMA convention in Atlantic City, NJ. I am certain those of you who were in Reunion had some thoughts along that line, too! I will be writing to some of you each month to gather news for our column. But until I have a class file and begin to receive items from you, I'll make do with some gleenings from my personal mail. Helen Wilson Ely (Mrs. Frank), 8 Locust St, Montrose, Pa., writes to me of skiing, Frank's high school ecology classes and his hobby of aerial photography, and the activities of Ann (11) and Dave (15). They are an outdoor family and enjoy visiting wilderness areas at vacation time. From Canada there is news from Sondra MacLennan Cornett (Mrs. Robert), 182 Buckingham Dr, Hamilton, Ontario. Bob has a new job (he was an internist in private practice) as a prof, at McMaster U in Hamilton. Sondra serves on four community boards and produced a series of children's concerts for the Philharmonic orchestra last year. The five children are all in school and range from 2nd grade to senior high school. This family skiis, too, almost every weekend in season. Virginia Noyes Bartholow (Mrs. E W, Jr.), 1234 Mt. Vernon Rd, Charleston, W Va., writes she and Bud ('44) are both playing a lot of tennis. They have two children, Brad (14) and Betty (17). Brad, already over six feet, plays football and in his spare time tears down engines. Betty is involved in all kinds of school activities and is beginning to think of college next year. I heard from Patty Williams MacVeagh (Mrs. Charles), 229 Rosemont Ave, Webster Groves, Mo., that she was planning to attend Reunion to "get a better idea about things in general by going than by reading things, many of which are so unsettling, in various publications." She and Pete have two children and after several years at the U of Alabama have returned home to Webster Groves. Susy Brown Έntenman (Mrs. Robert), 2350 Middletown Rd, Hudson, Ohio, wrote that although she would not be at Reunion, she and Bob ('50) and the kids had signed up for Alumni University in August. I hope they made it. All of you who have been on the campus this summer, please share your experiences with the rest of us. I'm particularly anxious to pass on details of our 20th reunion. Let me hear from you. 52 MEN: David W Buckley, Lever Brothers Co., 390 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022 John Lankenau wrote us sometime ago (and we apologize, John, for not having acknowledged this before) with the good information that he and his wife Alison had their second daughter, Amy, on Feb. 9, 1970. And they have added "another partner to October 1971 M'67 Alumni Notes their law firm," which is now Lankenau, Kovner & Bickford. If the "other name" is John's, our congratulations to him. Barbara Copeland Birkhimer notes that her husband Edwin (Cornell PhD '64) is doing research with Dow Chemical Co. What with four children, church, Boy and Girl Scouting, skiing, swimming, and occasionally other sports they have been kept pretty busy at home. The Birkhimers live in Midland, Mich, but have made several trips to California, Texas and Colorado—so obviously they are keeping busy. Tony Bryant writes his company (Century Fence Co.) is now in an eight state area and has opened their third office, in Omaha, Neb.; in addition, they have formed a new affiliate to sell a new line of fiberglass play equipment. On a personal note, they have four girls in the family and live in Waukesha, Wis. Ingersoll-Rand Co. has announced the promotion of Erwin Broida as mgr. of marketing research in their planning and marketing dept. Erwin has been with Ingersoll-Rand since 1966. Mrs. Robert (Nancy Radick) Lynk sent us some interesting news on a number of classmates which I would like to repeat in full: "February 7—Last night enjoyed a party at the home of Monte and Harriette (Scannell) Morgan—the Perle Mesta of our neighborhood. Last summer classmates Gus and Jo (Smith) Nykamp dropped by our cabin on Crystal Lake. Martha (Bliss) Grogan, Joey (Dutton) Halloway, and Helen (Stewart) Friderici and children joined the festivities. Bob and I spend a week in Ithaca each June. He attends the summer institute at the Vet. College. (This one is in Albany County, atop the Helderbergs Mountains.)" Walt Harrison tells us he returned around the first of the year from five months at Cambridge U in England, where he took an early and short sabbatical from Stanford as a Guggenheim Fellow. Evidently his research did include some travel, including a trip through Russia. This activity has not prevented Walt from being master of their local Stanford, Calif. Boy Scout Troop. Joyce (White) Cima writes that she is an assistant in Cornell's Board of Trustees office; her husband is a developmentor and home builder in the Ithaca area—and their oldest son is applying for college entrance. They are evidently all hockey fans with three sons and Mr. Cima active in last winter's Ithaca pee-wee hockey league. John F. Craver has been named general mgr. of the Plaza Hotel, a unit of Sonesta International Hotel Corp. Our congratulations to Jack. 54 MEN: William J Field 11, 47 Great Oak Dr, Short Hills, NJ 07078 William F Waters was appointed the Baltimore resident VP of Merrill, Lynch et ah Bill, wife Jane and four children plan to move from Rhode Island to Maryland sometime this fall. Dr. Robert A Levine is now prof, of medicine and head of the gastroenterology div. at the State University Hospital, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse. Bob was assoc. prof, of medicine at Downstate Medical Center for six years. Robert D Kennedy and his wife Sally plus four small Kennedys have moved to Geneva, Switzerland and can be contacted at 32 Rue Agasse, Geneva 1208. Bob was recently appointed dir. of marketing-carbon products for^ Union Carbide Europe. The new president of Metropolitan Wire Goods Corp. is Richard Maslow. Dick, who is located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. was treas. and industrial sales mgr. of the company. Dick has been active in Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, National Assn. of Food Equipment Manufacturers and Material Handling Inst. activities. A news release from Drexel U announces that John G Williamson received an MS in library science. No details of future plans were given. Richard C Ten Eyck became VPmarketing and sales for Bathey Manufacturing Co. of HITCO, a subsidiary of Armco Steel Corp. Dick will be located in Plymouth, Mich. SIDE THOUGHT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: During a recent estate planning review, my wife and I, after a good deal of soul-searching and serious thinking, decided to donate our bodies after death to the Cornell Medical College. I realize this is a very private matter and you will never find the Medical College conducting a big campaign on this subject, but, in the interests of medical education, you may wish to give this possibility some thought. Contact the Dept. of Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College, 1300 York Ave, NYC, for procedural details. I painfully realize that this column is a thin one, but the news items are coming in very slowly. Plenty of space is available: please let me have your news. WOMEN: Janice Jakes Kunz, 21 Taylor Rd, RD-4 Princeton, NJ 08540 The Barnard boys, Mark, now a 7th grader, and Alan, in the 4th grade, have an advantage over the other kids in school—their mother runs the library. It apparently isn't a paying position, but it keeps Ann Maxwell Barnard busy between taking courses at DeCordova Museum and performing board duties at her church. The Barnards still live at 747 Main St, Wakefield, Mass. Anita Bittker Dushay says she has finally graduated from the diaper washing stage of her life to the chauffering stage. She has two daughters, Miriam (7) and Joanne (3), and in addition to all the driving she also assists her husband occasionally in his ophthamology practice, as an "underpaid and overworked secretary." Anita's address is 21 Towpath Circle, Rochester. This interesting note comes from Lorraine Niedeck Gardner, whose current address is 72 Heathwood St, East Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. Lorrie writes: "The 'Gardner Puppet Theatre' is still very alive in the primary schools of Melbourne, and this keeps me very active. I run the theatre with the help of my father, Jim Niedeck '22. We travel throughout this large city of Melbourne about three days a week performing in schools as part of the entertainment and craft/drama work. My three children seem to be growing up fast. Henry is 12, Jenny is 10 and Gayle, 8. My husband, a scientist, has hopes for an overseas trip in 1972. We are trying to organize a job in America so we can all come for at least 6 months in 1972." 55 MEN: David G Sheffield, 76 Parker Rd, Wellesley, Mass. 02181 Dick Pew, wife (Sue Weston '57) and three children finished what seemed a very short sabbatical and have returned to the U of Michigan. Address: 1703 E Stadium Blvd, Ann Arbor, Mich. While Dick and Sue were here in the Boston area, we exchanged some class correspondence notes; see also her '57 women's column. George Cohen is the dir. of of the Johnny Cash TV show, while his wife Phyllis (Goody) '57 is a very successful part of three woman interior design firm, "Design III." Phyllis was recently featured in,a Los Angeles Herald Examiner article. Dr. Paul Blaksley is an internist in group practice in Geneva. He and his wife (Joanne Field '57) and four children live at 45 Hillside Dr, Geneva. Sue also passed on news from Anders Kaufman, who is just closing out his sabbatical in Denmark. Andy writes of a fantastic year of picture taking and brief tours into Europe. Andy, wife, and three children have returned (by this issue) and he is no doubt plugged back in at the Clemson College architecture dept. Address: 410 Rock Creek Rd, Clemson, SC. Bill Laube writes his new house was ready just in time to receive twin girls born in January. He is still busy as dir. of purchasing for Saga Food Service. Address: 19508 Vendura Ct, Saratoga, Calif. Lee Fingar sent me a short note and a clipping noting the new book Amen by classmate Rabbi Martin Siegel. The book has received wide acclaim and excellent reviews. Let's all get a copy of Amen; the diary of Rabbi Martin Siegel, and maybe Marty will hit the list. This past spring George Shear dropped in at our architecture office in Cambridge, unannounced, looking great and a thoroughly welcome sight. George was the first guy I met just before getting on the bus to freshman camp. George has just been appointed partner in the well known architectural firm of The Perkins and Will Partnership. He has been with P & W's White Plains office since 1964. Address: 4 Old Barlow Mt. Rd, Ridgefield, Conn. Paul Bans writes he is taking a leave of absence from Berlack, Israels & Liberman, Counselors at law, where he is a partner. Paul, his wife Sharon-, and four children are living in Israel while Paul will be a visiting prof, at the new law school of Bar-Ilan in Ramat-Gan. Address: Rehov Rozen 18, Ramat Chen, Israel. WOMEN: Judy Sίlverman Duke, Box 307, Scarborough Manor, Scarborough, NY 10510 Nancy Hillyer Rumsey writes that her husband Edwin '54 has been promoted to full Colonel in the Air Force. The latest address we have for the Rumseys is 2115 College St, Montgomery, Ala.; however, they expected to move to Hampton, Va., during the summer. A letter from Mary Lu DePuy Whitlock (Mrs. Richard G), 31302 Fairwin Dr, Bay Village, Ohio, says she is planning to work on her local Cornell Club's secondary school committee this fall. Laura Weese Kennedy (Mrs. J Ward), 3710 39th Ave S, Seattle, Wash., is working on the local board of the League of Women Voters and will chair a study of the state legislature next year. Ward is chief of cardiology at the Seattle VA Hospital and in July was promoted to assoc. prof, in medicine at the U of Washington. Laura writes, "Our kids are growing. Willie at 11 is showing signs of preadolescence; e.g., interest in girls! David is 9, and he is mainly interested in the Top 10 on the local rock music station. Celia is 7 and liked the pottery class she took this summer." Marilyn Hecht Mandelstam was planning to move to Cincinnati this summer along with her daughter Debby, 9, and their dog Prince. Marilyn had been living at 333 Jesselin Dr, Lςxdngton, Ky., and working as a part-time secretary to the Kentucky Juvenile Defender Program, which provides legal counsel for indigent juveniles over a seven-county area, and also continuing the same work at a law firm. Marilyn would love to meet Cornellians living in Cincinnati or who happen by. 56 WOMEN: Rita Rausch Moelis, 916 Lawrence Court, Valley Stream, LI, New York 11581 Catherine Welch Wiesenhoft is entering her 68 • Cornell Alumni News third season as proprietress of the riding school she and her husband Harry '55 started on their return from Ireland. This will be her last season at the school, for Harry expects a masters from George Washington. He has been attending the Naval War College at Newport, RI. They expect to move to Norfolk, Va. in November, but can be reached at The Wandering W, Center St, Bowdoinham, Me. until then. The Wiesenhofts expect to make Maine their eventual home. Arlene Podoll Glovin is living at 175 School Lane in Lido Beach. "Never thought I'd do it," Arlene writes, "but I'm back to school." She is working toward a masters at Post U on Long Island. She still finds-time to be PTA pres. of the local kindergarten school. The Glovins have two sons, David Laurence (9) and Martin Tev (5). Mary Martin VanBuren is a busy mother of five. Jimmy is 12, David 10, Elizabeth 7, Chris 4 and Mary Virginia 2. Her husband Jim had been working with a group in internal medicine, but last summer opened his own practice. They have a new plot of land just waiting for them to finish plans for their "dream house." Their address in Atlanta, Ga. is 1059 Mason Woods Drive, NE. Lorna Jackson is married to Eric Salzman, music director of WBAI-FM and director of Quog, a multimedia theater group. The Salzmans do serious bird-watching and mushroom hunting as a hobby. In summer 1969 Lorna accompanied Eric on a professional tour of South America and assisted at mixed-media performances in Columbia, Equador, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Brasil. Lorna is now editor of The Township, a community newspaper for the Brooklyn Heights area dedicated to local government. She helped organize the Brooklyn Bridge Festival held May 2224. In addition, Lorna was chairman of a workshop on future neighborhood government for a city-wide conference on block association and local government for NYC. The Salzmans live at 29 Middagh St, Brooklyn Heights. Sandra Rodetsky Slipp moved during this past year. She is still in Englewood, NJ, but now at 220 Chestnut St. The Slipps have a daughter, Ilena, who was one year old in Sept. 1971. Diane CaroII Malstrom Matchette lives on 8923 N 18 Ave, Phoenix, Ariz. The Matchettes adopted son, Peter William, was one year old Feb. 4. "He is," says Diane, "the favorite toy of brother, Joe (4V6)." In April, Diane and family returned from a two week vacation in Hawaii which was their home years ago. They stayed with Diane's sister and brother-in-law, saw other relatives, had a quick visit with Mary Moragne Cooke '58, and also traveled to Maui to see Nan (Harper) and Jack Morris '55. Thanks to Diane we have the following news about Nan and Jack: The Morris family have just built a beautiful home on the Lahaina side of Maui. Their front yard is the Kaanapali golf course and the ocean! Jack practices with the Maui Medical Group and is fast getting involved with Island politics. They have five children, Brenda (12), Karen (11), Lisa (10), John ), andPia (7). 57 WOMEN: Sue Westίn Pew, 1703 E Stadium Blvd, Ann Arbor, Mich 48104 Wouldn't you know? Last month I informed you of the move of Dori (Goudsmit) and David Albert to Buffalo, but forgot the address which is: 9 Concord Dr, Orchard Park. The Alberts are literally a stone's throw from our Reunion Chairman Betty Ann Rice Keane at 66 Meadow Rd, Orchard Park. And although you may find it difficult to believe, our big 15th is only eight months away—June 7-11, 1972. Now, ladies, is the time to line up the baby sitter for those dates, get those days x-ed out in your hubby's office calendar, and to write to special friends wherever they may be and urge them to attend. Betty Ann is feeling the crunch of planning YOUR Reunion without having heard from you. What do you want to happen there? Please let her know SOON. A good Reunion doesn't just happen. It takes months of planning and that's where your ideas are needed. Marilyn Hester Ridgley has written from Portland, Ore. that she plans to attend. Ditto for Jan Charles Lutz, our class pres., who would also like your Reunion ideas at 521 Fox Rd, Glenside, Pa. During this past year she has been doing volunteer teaching as prescribed by a reading specialist, and has found it thrilling to see youngsters with reading problems respond to more individualized instruction. Bill is VP of marketing in a small company, so does much traveling, such as Tokyo and Osaka last spring. Sons Chris and Bill are 14 and 12, and Amy is 8. Roberta Grunert DeVries, our class sec, will be there also. In addition to teaching kindergarten, she and John '56 (who is with Rohm and Hass days, and studying nights at Temple U for a masters) are remodeling a big old house on SVi acres at 1260 Gravel Hill Rd, Southampton, Pa. Soon they'll be getting out ice skates on their pond. Bob is 12 and active in competitive swimming both summer and winter. Peter is 10 and doing well in his first love—football. Bert is proud of the fact that 182 of us '57 gals paid dues last year. So when Eddi Carroll Skoog sends her yearly appeal soon, do send your dues to help with Reunion, whether or not you might attend. Was happy to hear from a busy Anita Wisbrun Morrison who is on three Boards in Poughkeepsie-PTA, Children's Theatre, and Community Ballet. Bob '56 is serving a five year term on the school board, right in the thick of it as the district is building a new high school. Laurie has entered junior high, Ken is a 5th grader, and Linda an into-everything-two. The Morrison's address is 32 Fair Way, Poughkeepsie. And was delighted to hear from Mrs. Darold Rinedollar (Thalia Nungezer), 200 W Hononegah Rd, Rockton, 111. Thalia teaches underprivileged children in Rockford, is on the board of the Christian Business and Professional Woman's Club, and is English Editor for a popular area magazine, The Horseman's Review. (See last month's column re: Georgia Freeman Messemer and M J Tumpane Lachowicz). During the summer months, the family including Anne (8) and Molly (5), attends many horse shows. Their Morgan horse Cajun Pepper was Grand Champion Stallion at the 1970 Indiana State Fair. They also own four Morgan broodmares, and two dozen carriages which they enjoy driving in shows. Anne has won in the pony class with her Welsh mare. Sorry to miss Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 30. Hope lots of you are there to see the Big Red shellac Columbia. 58 WOMEN: Dale Reίs Johnson, 2229 Potrillo Rd, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. 90274 In June, Dave and Ann Steffen Bradley gave up suburbia and their market research business (see May 1971) and sought out greener pastures. In other words, they are the new owners of the Sullivan Country Club in Sullivan, NH, which is west of Concord and north of Keene. The club is located on 80 acres of land of which 50 have been developed into a nine-hole golf course. On the property are the Bradley's home and the club- house. The remaining 30 acres, presently undeveloped, will probably ultimately become homesites. The Bradleys would be delighted to see any Cornellians, and they offer a variety of memberships for local residents and out-ofstate golf enthusiasts. From Ann's description it sounds like a gorgeous spot located in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, an area also offering fine skiing. Ann and Dave may be contacted at the Sullivan Country Club. Do write them for more details about their new venture. Good luck! I only wish we lived nearer. Dr. Mary Ellen Cooney Bowes and husbond Alan (ChemE) who is a patent attorney reside at 455 Woodacres Dr, Mountainside, NJ. Several months ago Al became a partner in the NY law firm of Kenyon & Kenyon, Reilly, Carr & Chapin, 59 Maiden Lane. Mary Ellen is an anesthesiologist. They have a son, Teddy (8). The Naglers, Carolyn Haring and Bob, are fellow Californians living at 1185 Pine Bluff Dr, Pasadena. Their sons Geoff (2) and Chris (4) keep Carolyn on her toes, and Bob is in his second year in pursuit of a DBA at USC, plus working full-time at the Jet Propulsion Labs at Cal Tech. The Naglers had summer visitors, the Nytches (Carolyn King and Tom). Millie Sanchez Lucek is active in the YWCA and was a delegate to the national convention in Houston, Texas in 1970. (I wonder, Millie, if you met my mother, Jo Mills Reis '29, who is on the national board?) Millie hopes to go to the next convention in 1973 in San Diego. She and husband Emil spent their second winter teaching skiing on weekends at Okemo, Vt. Millie also squeezes in a few sets of tennis each week in the non-skiing season. They are remodeling their home at 72 Bowers St, Manchester, Conn, where they and their three children live. The Kents, Carol McKeegan and Tom, are hooked on western living in Boulder, Colo, where they are located at 2310 Linden Ave. They can see the foothills of the Rockies from their kitchen window, but Carol is quick to add that CU in Ithaca is more beautiful than CU in Boulder. Tom is mgr. of the video systems dept. for Ball Brothers, a subsidiary of the "Ball" mason jar company. The McKeegan children are three in number, Tom (8), Paul (7), and Alison (6). Nancy Foth Frey became a proud mother last October, with the birth of a son, Kerry Todd. She and her spouse, Bryce, and baby reside at 8606 Forest St, Annandale, Va. Nancy has returned to work in Washington, DC in the personnel div. of the Office, Chief of Staff, Department of the Army, as an employee relations specialist. She says "the job is interesting and challenging and Kerry goes off to a very nice babysitter each day." 59 MEN: Howard B Myers, 24 Fairmount Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960 The ALUMNI NEWS and your class officers have reluctantly agreed that our class group subscription plan must be cut down to only dues payers until such time as our dues income under the plan is sufficient to cover the costs of mailing, etc., to all members of the class. This means that effective with the December issue only dues payers will be able to receive the NEWS under our group subscription plan. Accordingly, unless you have a separate NEWS subscription, the November issue will be your last unless and until you become a dues payer again. Robert M Chase has been elected assoc. prof, of properties management of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell. Chase has been a member of the faculty since 1962, and specializes in architecture and engineering of October 1971 69 Revson Shuns BS for MA "I should have been at freshman orientation, but they were running the US Grand Prix at the same time, so I cut out and missed the first three days. Maybe that was ominous." Peter Revson '61 managed to complete two years plus a session of summer school in the College of Engineering, but it was clear from the first few days that much of his real learning would take place 25 miles to the west. Now 31, Revson, athletically built, his brown, fashionably long but wellgroomed hair streaked with blond, and owning a friendly but shy smile, could still pass for an undergraduate. He is one of the most promising young Americans on the sports car circuit today, with international stardom seemingly just around the next corner, or at the end of the upcoming straightaway. Revson's biggest break came this year, when he signed to drive for the British-based Team McLaren. One motorsport journalist likened such a break to ". . . being picked for a seat on the Wall Street Exchange while still a junior in college." Revson made the most of the break, winning Can-Am races at Road Atlanta and Watkins Glen, and finishing second in the Indianapolis 500. Before he could get into racing, however, he had to get out of school, and it didn't take him long to realize that engineering at Cornell was not for him. "I stayed in mechanical engineering for a couple of years, but it was more than I cared to do." Most of the time he should have been in the libraries was instead spent over beer at the old Zinck's Tavern, watching race cars at Watkins Glen, or on trips home to New York City. He decided to return to the city for good in 1959 and enrolled at Columbia, where he took courses in liberal arts for a semester before dropping out to do "research" for Seagrams Distillers. "We used to go to bars and stores, posing as independent researchers, to find out what different types of people drank." Another stint at school, this time at the U of Hawaii, preceded his going into racing on a parttime basis, beginning with a Morgan Plus-Four in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) races. Shortly after, he moved up to Formula Junior racing, and then, three years after he had begun, he turned professional and went off to race After triumphing in the Canadian-American series race at Watkins Glen this summer, a happy Revson sprays the press with champagne from the winner s bowl. Formula Juniors in Europe. Ever since he first achieved some notoriety in the world of auto racing, Revson has been trying to live down the image of the little rich kid whose playthings were paid for with Daddy's money. Although he is a member of the well-to-do Revlon cosmetics family, there was never any family money put forth for his racing. "The idea of racing repulsed them. The most money I ever spent in one season was eight thousand dollars, and that was my own money. Much of it I had saved while working, some was meant for my school tuition and to keep me going at college, and the rest was from a bank account I got when I turned 21." The money he has earned this year has assured him complete financial independence. But in addition to the $200,000 in purses (of which the average driver usually gets about 40 per cent, with the rest going to the car owner), the handsome bachelor has also won the friendship and loyalty of thousands of racing fans with his friendly manner, and his willingness to give time even to small boys. One of Peter Revson's goals is to win one of the major 500 mile races. His second place finish at Indianapolis this year, after qualifying for the pole position with the fastest time ever recorded at the old speedway, seems to indicate his aim is well within his reach. Another milestone Revson has set his sights on is the Grand Prix Circuit. Although he returns to Watkins Glen each year to compete in the Can-Am and Trans-Am races, he has not yet driven in the race he skipped his first days at Cornell to go watch. "I hope to get a shot at Grand Prix racing sometime in the near future." Looking back to his first experiences with auto racing as an 18 year old freshman watching the races, it can probably be said that "graduation" for Peter Revson will be when he finally gets a ride in one of those world championship cars. On that blustery, grey October afternoon, Cornell freshmen at the Glen Circuit will be watching HIM. —JAY J. LEVINE '69 * Master of Autoracing 70 • Cornell Alumni News hotels and other facilities in the hospitality industry. Major Dennis D Friiik has. received a masters from St. Bonaventure U in Saint Bonaventure. The announcement was made by the dir. of public relations. Air Force Capt. Thomas B Kempster is on duty at Ubon Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Tom, a B-57 Canberra tactical bomber pilot, is with a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the far East and Pacific area. Before his arrival in Thailand, he served at Ubon Royal Thia AFB, Thailand. William L Babeock received the MBA degree with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration on June 17, 1971. He placed in. the top 14% of a graduating class of 750. Paul J McCarthy has been appointed pres. of Keene Corp.'s fluid handling div. Paul will be responsible as well for the pump & meter div. in Greeneville, Tenn. He had previously served as pres. of the Keene coin handling div. in Chicago. The Rev. David B. Callan has been named Roman Catholic chaplain at Cornell succeeding the Rev. David W Connor who has been chaplain, since 1966. Father Connor plans to do research in alternate life styles under a grant from the newly established Centre (cq) for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell. Tom Golden called me recently and we spent some time bringing each other up to date on various developments of the past 12 years. Tom is an assoc. prof, at Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, NJ, in psychology. Tom and his wife and their children live in Teaneck. I took voluminous notes of our conversation then*, lost them, so I don't have Tom's address, wife's name, or the names of their children, etc. If you are. reading this, Tom, I apologize. Would you please write me or call me again so I can make amends. Judy and Kenny Riskind were in NY recently and called to. say hello. The Riskinds live at 1428 Greenbay Blvd, Highland Park, 111. Because of some conflicts, I wasn't able to get to see them this time around. Kenny is venturing into literary areas and we wish him luck. 60 WOMEN: Gail Taylor Hodges, 1821 Murdstone Rd, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15241 The new address above is an indicator of an exciting move, for the Hodges. Jim '60 accepted the position of asst. treas. of PPG Industries in Pittsburgh on July 1, and we moved to a charming new home here in early August. Jim is enthusiastic about his new job, and I am enjoying the more leisurely pace of being at home and doing freelance writing. Our home was built by Thomas Kaveny '26 and his wife Mary about 30 years ago. Their planning and care created a house and gardens that are a delight. We'd enjoy seeing Cornell friends in the area. I'm sorry to have to fill up the entire, column with my own news, but I have simply had no class mail at all since April. Please write! 61 MEN: Ken Blanchard, 33 Hickory Lane, Am- herst, Mass. 01002 The next five years should be very enjoyable for me as I try to keep up with all of your activities. Frank Cuzzi should get a big thanks for the terrific job he did with our column. I hope I can keep up his good tradition. This depends on the news from you, so as Dean Martin says, "Keep them cards and letters coming." Margie (McKee '62) and I and our children, Scott (6) and Debbie (4), are beginning our second year in Amherst. We have really enjoyed being back in New England and being so much nearer to so many close friends. I am teaching courses in motivation, leadership and change in the Center for Leadership and Administration, School of Education, at the U of Massachusetts and am enjoying this innovative school. We recently added a guest room to our house and would love to see Cornell friends passing through the area. As Frank told you, our 10th Reunion was a roaring success. The arrangements Vance Christian made were "outasight" and produced an enjoyable environment in which to talk with old friends. Ron Hall and Jan Johnson, the newly elected Reunion chmn, have a tough act to follow after Tom Gittins and Vance, but I look forward to '76 already. Mike Gatje has recently transferred to Chicago on special assignment with the FBI. He is living at 3950 N Lakeshore Dr, Apt. 2330, Chicago. It was enjoyable seeing Dave Friedley and his wife Carol at Runion. The Friedley's have two children, Mark (6) and Kimi (4), and live on 16 Beverly Rd in Acton, Mass. Dave is a product marketing mgr. for General Radio Do. Jon Fairbanks is an asst. prof, of English at SUNY, Potsdam, and for the past two summers has been instructing at the Colorado Outward Bound School in Marble, Col. Larry Murray is pres. of Murray, Lind &" Co. investment bankers with main offices in Jersey City and branches in NYC and Boston. Larry, who lives in Ramsey, NJ, recently wrote the book The Organized Stockbroker (Pagent Press, 1971). Tom Stover has been named Los Angeles area administrator for the Labor-Management Services Administration. In his new post Tom will be responsible for enforcement and administration of the law on labor-management reporting and disclosure, welfare and pension plan disclosure, veterans' re-employment rights and federal labor-management relations. George Roberts, an Air Force captain, was a member of the 1974th communications group in Thailand which earned the outstanding Merit Award with special "V" device for valor in combat. His group is a component of the Worldwide Air Force Communications Service which operates throughout Thailand to provide communications, navigational aid and air traffic control for USAF combat operations. Bill Onorato is now with Chrysler International SA in London with their corporate legal and tax dept. David Waks was recently elected VP of Applied Data Research (AMEX) a computer software and service company, in Princeton, NJ. Pennsylvania Co. has appointed Charles Lee VP-finance. "Chub" graduated from Harvard Business School and joined US Steel Corp. in 1965, and advanced to become mgr. of business records. He served as asst. treas. for Penn Central Transportation Co. before accepting his new position. Don Young has been named VP in the investment management group of First National City Bank. Don and his wife Karen and their son live in Upper Montclair, NJ. Remember that Homecoming is planned for the Columbia weekend, on Oct. 30. From talk at Reunion, there should be a good group of '61ers present. If you haven't seen Ed Marinaro play you have a treat ahead. See you at the Statler after the game. WOMEN: Barbara Lester Margolin, 437 Scarsdale Rd, Crestwood, NY 10707 My husband Arthur and I just returned from a glorious Caribbean cruise on the Leonardo DaVinci. We enjoyed every minute of it, but we're glad to be home! In April, Arthur was promoted to Metro NY mgr. for Calvert Distillers -Co. He has been coordinating the sales activities of^ the local Calvert distributors as well as being responsible for the promotion and sales of Calvert Extra, the soft whiskey, Canadian Lord Calvert, Calvert Gin, Passport Scotch and Canadian Masterpiece. Gloria Georges Brown and Reginald completed their basketball team with the arrival of Kimball Sol on Sept. 9, 1970. Kim joins twin brothers Adano and Mark (8) and twin brothers Edward and Edwin (6). The Browns live at 438 Vernon Rd, Philadelphia, Pa. Joshua (EP '63) and Betty Schultz Goldberg welcomed a daughter, Nancy Joy, on May 25, 1971. Aaron (6), Michael (4) and Benjamin (2) are delighted with the new addition. The Goldbergs make their home at 304 Dickinson Ave, Swarthmore, Pa. and spend much of their free time at their farm near Ithaca. Herbert and Amy Chasnoff Finkston and their two children, Neil (5) and Karen (born June 19, 1969) enjoyed camping out at Lake George this summer. Herbert is the asst. divisional dir. of federal taxation for the American Inst. of Certified Public Accountants. Their address is 8 York Dr, Great Neck, LI. The Finkstons have visited with Marvin and Iris Figarsky Litt and their son William. Iris has just completed a book, The Handbook of Adolescence, by Dr. Marvin J Gersh and Dr. Iris F Litt. A chapter from the book, dealing with obesity, appeared in the August Parents Magazine. David Forester (Grad '61) and his wife, Joan Carrigan Forester welcomed a son Daniel on March 14, 1971. Daniel joins Debby, Greg and Lisa in their beautiful home on two wooded acres at 8 Sparkling Ridge, New Paltz. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dutcher (Patricia DeWitt) and their three children (Michael, Timothy, and Elizabeth) can also be found in New Paltz, at 12 Cherrywood Rd. Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Tobias, DMV '61 (Teryl Rosenblatt) and their sons Todd and Kenneth spent a fascinating vacation exploring our country. They covered 2,200 miles by car through the national parks and finished with an exciting week in Las Vegas. Terry and Jerry live at 15 Valley Greens Dr, North Woodmere, LI. When Jerry isn't home he can be found at the Tobias Animal Hospital, 139-54 Queens Blvd, Jamaica, Queens. My brother Howard E Lester 966 has received his masters in film-making at UCLA. His award winning film "Airplane Glue, I Love You" has been shown on many campuses in the US and Canada. Howard is now on the staff of the film making dept. at UCLA and is working on a film entitled "The Nose." Please send me information about your activities so we can have a long and interesting column each month. 62 WOMEN: Jan McClayton Crites, 445 S Glenhurst Dr, Birmingham, Mich. 48009 Several classmates have changed their addresses recently, and there must be more of you out there who haven't yet notified us. There's only one more jssue of the NEWS before your friends address their Christmas cards; send your new address or other news soon. In July, Barbara Woll Jones (Mrs. Michael E) moved from Boston to 38 Locust St, Falmouth, Mass. Ken '61 and Margie McKee Blanchard now reside at 33 Hickory Lane, Amherst, Mass. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Greenblatt '61, MD '66 (Judith Shapiro) have both a new address and a new son. Daniel Edward arrived last October 1971 • 71 Alumni Notes Oct. 12 to join his parents and big sister Rachel, IVi, at 7 Jones Circle, Norwich, Vt. Diana Gunther Hynds (Mrs. John) writes she, with Diana and Marc (both 5Vi), has been living at 5443-D LeMay Ave, Otis AFB, Mass., during John's tour of duty in Vietnam. He was with the 39th Air Rescue Squadron at Cam Ranh Bay and was due to return in August. In John's absence, Diana kept busy teaching 2nd grade at a base school. San Francisco truly seems to be everyone's favorite city, and Elizabeth Pomada is no exception. She has moved to a Victorian house at 1350 Pine Street there. Adds Elizabeth, "I am writing—and getting published—and having a great time as a free lance artist's agent and promotion specialist. California is wonderful." Have just learned Heather Fowler received her PhD in history from Cornell last December. Heather earned her MA from the U of Toronto. Her doctorate dissertation is entiled "The Agrarian Revolution in the State of Veracruz, 1920-1940: The Role of Peasant Organizations." It seems impossible, but it's not too early to arrange your vacations and baby sitters for the best tenth Reunion we'll ever have. Plans are underway in Ithaca, so do write your friends and make your plans now to attend our Terrific Tenth, June 8-11, 1972. 63 MEN: Jerry tίazlewood, 7346 Countrybrook Dr, Indianapolis, lnd. 46260 On a recent trip to Houston, I ran into J W (Whip) Gunn who is a sales rep for the Wayne Broyles Engineering Corp. Whip spends 50 per cent of his time traveling to South America selling his wares to the petroleum industry. Blair Crum has been transferred from Indianapolis to Cleveland by the Norton Abrasives. James R Billings (c/o Interactive Data Corp., 486 Totten Pond Rd, Waltham, Mass.) reports he is a regional mgr. attempting to work his way through the business world as a bachelor. Charles Wheeler DeRose of 677 North Farms Rd, Northampton, Mass., is the advertising mgr. for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. He reports the birth of a daughter May 26, 1970. Ronald D Dockser is with the Boston law firm of Grabill & Ley specializing in corporate and tax. Ron graduated from Yale Law School in 1966. He and his wife, the former Enid Deborah Linskey, have two girls, Pamela Lee (2V£) and Cynthia Jill (10 months). They live at 56 Lawmarissa Rd, Boston. When this issue reaches you the outsome of Jules CrolΓs bid to become a councilman at large for the city council of NYC will be known. Jules lives in Hollinswood, Queens with his wife Lynn and his son Jeremy. Charles (Mike) Edgar is. the proud father of Sharon Patricia. Mike and Connie live at 21 Fairwood Rd, Madison, NJ, and Mike works for Needham & Grohmann Advertising in the city. Oliver D Finnigan III received his MPH from the U of California at Berkeley in 1970. Oliver is working on Taiwan family planning program as population council advisor. He and wife Monica Yamamoto have one boy, Davy (2V^). David M Dornbusch moved to San Francisco in September. David heads the economic & financial planning div. of a multidisciplined consulting firm. Most of his work is in developing countries, but recently his activities have expanded into environmental economics research in the US. David lives at 331 Filbert Street # 3 , San Francisco. John E Augenstein is still teaching at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn. In his spare time he does volunteer tutoring with the Brooklyn Center of Aspira. He works on the Brooklyn secondary schools committee and recently became a member of the board of governors of the Cornell Alumni Assn. of NYC. Last year John completed a term as pres. of the Physics Club of New York and he is now serving as a delegate to the executive board of the Federation of Science Teacher Clubs of NYC. John takes prospective applicants from the high school to the Cornell campus two or four times a year. He resides at 119-02 234th Street, Cambria Heights Station, Jamaica. Stephen J Balsam, MD is starting a two year child psychiatry fellowship at Kings Co. Hospital in Brooklyn. As soon as he finishes the fellowship, he plans to move out of NYC. Steve is married and has two children. His family lives at 420 E 72 St, NYC. Stephen Rogow, MD, has completed two years on an Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. At the present time he is studying to become an orthodontist and will graduate in May 1972. Steve, his wife Joan, and his daughter Debbie live at 2805 N 47 St, Apt. 1209, Philadelphia, Pa. Harry W Robinson was recently promoted to accounting program specialist in the manufacturing controller's div. of IBM in Kingston. Harry and wife Mary Ann reside at RD 1, Cold Spring Rd, Clinton Corners. Ezra P Mager is the new exec. VP and dir. of Seider & de Cuevar Inc., an institutional stock brokerage firm. He lives at 24 E 82 St, NYC. Edwin W Fraser is an account exec, with the Forest Hills office of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Edwin resides at 1 Pinewood Rd, Old Westbury. Robert F ftakowski is in his last year of work toward a PhD in physiology at the U of Rochester Med Center. Robert lives at 226C Conont Rd, Rochester. WOMEN: Dee Stroh Reif, 1649 Jarrettown Rd, Dresner, Pa. 19025 Joann Weber was awarded a PhD from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard this June. Another June PhD recipient was Patricia Reed, who earned hers in English from Rice. Helen Perry, who lives at 32021 Waterside Lane, Westlake Village, Calif., is working as a marketing rep for IBM at the Systems Development Corp. in Santa Monica. Cathy Karr is teaching German and Scandinavian lit. Cathy's address is Dept. of Modern Languages, U of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Calif. Lanna Friedman was married to Aaron Klapow on Dec. 27, 1970. Cornellians who attended the wedding were Judy Braun Gathard, Elizabeth R Amson, Robert and Toby (Willner) Sklarew and Lynn Zicht Wurtzel. Aaron is a marketing rep for IBM and Lanna is working as a computer programmer for NBC Election News. The Klapows are making their home at 784 Columbus Ave, NYC. Bill and Jennifer Patai Wing announced the birth of a daughter, Jessica Grace, on July 24, 1971. The Wings, who also have a son, Benjamin, age 20 months, live at Grey Lodge Rd, Short Beach, Conn. Stu and Judy Weinstein Kaplan are living at 43 Harper Dr, Pittsford. Stu is practicing anesthesiology at Rochester General Hospital and Judy keeps busy caring for her three children, Richie (5), Carolyn (3), and Michael (1). Judy sees Ken and Heidi Frieierich Payment, who live at 1817 St. Paul St, Rochester. Jack and Judy Cohn Bloch also live in Rochester at 300 Council Rock Ave. The Blochs have three children, Steven (7), Randy (3), and Danielle (1). And Judy reports that Chuck and Diane Steele Love and daughter Vicki are living at 4237 Longridge Ave, N Hollywood, Calif. Roslyn Applebaum Segall lives at 6949 Rosewood St, Pittsburgh, Pa. Roslyn has three children, Benje (7), David (5), and Jennifer (3). Warren and Nancy Bierds Icke were recently transferred to Holland where Warren is operations mgr. of the Johnson Wax Enro- plant in Mijdrecht. The Ickes' address is Jonkerlaan 67, Wassenaar, Netherlands. Before leaving the US, Nancy visited Ruth Morgan Kaufman in NY and spent an evening with Elaine Gerber Webster and her two children. The Websters live at 33 Pinewood Dr, Cumberland, Me. Fern Goldstein Schair, of 119 DeHaven Dr, Yonkers, writes she is on the board of directors of the Yonkers Community Action Program. Rolf and Mari Bingham Wesche would love to hear from Cornellians who might be in the area of their home at 98-A Carling Ave, Ottawa 1, Canada. Both Mari and Rolf teach at the U of Ottawa. Larry and Margaret Musgrave Bennett have settled on their own five acres of land on Reindeer Dr, Fairbanks, Alaska. Larry teaches evenings in the engineering management program while also keeping tabs on staff in three locations as head of his department at the U of Alaska. Margaret is working in the university relations office full time, while working part time on a masters in journalism and home ec. Also residing in the "Great Land" are Thomas and Nancy Coles Hallinan who can be reached c/o the Geophysical Inst., College, Alaska. Tom, who received his MS in geophysics in May 1969 from the U of Alaska, is working with low light level TV systems principally for use in studies of the northern lights. 64 MEN: Jared H Jossem, Suite 1512, Λmfac Bldg, 700 Bishop St, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Nancy (Dunhoff) and Bart Mills had their second child on Britain's lovely National Health on 26 May 1971: Kevin Howard. "On 19 June we left for a month in the States—a perilous venture with two kids under two. We saw Tom Moore '66 in Chicago, a front-page reporter for the Sun-Times, and new wife Barbara." In Milwaukee, Jean and Dennis Casper '63 had an 8-month old, Kathleen. Dennis teaches Greek philosophy at the U of Wisconsin at Madison. In NY Barbara Klopper is still helping Lenox Hill area people avoid eviction at the hands of property developers, though her duties are more executive than casework. Gordon Brostrom '63 works at McGraw-Hill in the finance dept. and recently bought a house in Glen Rock. Don Gould '63 is teaching ancient history and coaching freshman basketball at a Boston area high school. Enid Cantor Goldberg is publishing this fall a book on how to run a school newspaper, send orders to Lippincott. Allan Goldberg '63 starts teaching this fall at Rockefeller U. •Miss Alita Louise Bell, of Blakely, Ga., and Capt. Thomas Reid Jones, captain of the wrestling team in 1964, were married this summer. A PhD in physics was conferred on Richard H Price of NYC by Cal Tech. A PhD in- ME was also conferred by Cal Tech. on Charles A Willus of Freeport, Calif. Miss Ann Liese Bronfenbrenner and Morris J Stambler were married on June 10, 1971, in the garden of the Big Red Barn on the Cornell campus. Washington, DC—The US Senate has confirmed Pres. Nixon's recent nomination of Terry L. Leitzell of 840 High St, Williamsport, Pa., for promotion to Class 5 in the Foreign Service of the US. New addresses of '64 class: Robson T Young, Holly Hill Fram Rt, 3, Clarkesville, Ga.; Jack R Wittman, 1395 Marconi Bldg, Copiague; Robert L Tracy, 3532 Chesapeake St NW, Washington, DC; Horace W Stimson, 525 Park Ave, NYC; Roger C Stuebing, 1717 Beacon St, Cinn., Ohio; William J Sibal, 1243 Wellesley Ave, Los Angeles, Calif.; Dr. Edward Lee Smith, 424 Sixth St, Manhattan 72 • Cornell Alumni News Beach, Calif.; Robert W. Rusek, 603 Gunderson Dr., Apt. 102, Carol Stream, 111.; Douglas H Purinton, 1018 23 St, Santa Monica, Calif.; Daniel K Livingston, Pickwick Apts. K-ll, Maple Shade, NJ; James I Maresh, 15500 Van Aken Blvd, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Harry M Elliott, 112 D Vintage Dr, Richmond, Va.; William A Fintel, 2824 Glen Oaks Dr, Donelson, Tenn.; James H Cohen, 1880 Columbia Rd NW #601, Washington, DC; Arthur T Abend, Rt 174, Marietta; Gary B Freebenα, 7703 Circle Dr, Normandy, Mo.; Richard Miles Berman, 230 73 St, NYC; Glen A Anderson, 24 Beattie Ct, Huntington; George C Fretz, 1636 25 St, Cuvahoga Falls, Ohio. WOMEN: Judith Chuckrow Goetzl, 3580 Lome Ave, Apt. 1205, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Phyllis Rickler Stein, husband Jack and son Howard "are ensnared by the Army here at Fort Bragg. Jack is a psychiatrist, I am an English instructor at a Black university, and Howard is a terror at two and a half. Living in the South has proved to be an eye-opening experience; forcible participation in the Army defies description. Our address is 6418 Newcastle Rd, Fayetteville, NC." "In 1967-68, Bob '62 was in Vietnam as a captain in the AF and I spent my time working with the Community Action Group (Headstart) in Warner Robins, Ga., the AF Family Services, and the Officers Wives Club," writes Peggy Maguire Bernard. "As a result, I was chosen by the local AAUW branch to be in Outstanding Young Women of America, 1968. When Bob returned, we came to Knoxville where he joined the food service dept. at the U of Tennessee. Now he is the food service mgr. of the Student Center. Elizabeth Anne was born March 16, 1970 to join Billy who was four years old ten days later. Betsy is a delight to us all. We are enjoying our life in Tennessee and welcome classmates in the area to stop by." "Since moving three years ago, I have 'retired' from teaching and keep busy taking care of my 28 months old adopted son, Jim," pens Malvina Jacknis Abbott. "My husband, A George Abbott, MD '62 has just opened a general practice in La Jolla, Calif." Their address is 4718 Saratoga Ave, San Diego, Calif. News from Lois Weyman Dow is that she has just finished a first-year residency in medicine and is now a research fellow in the dept. of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in NY studying hemoglobinbiosynthesis and continuing work in the clinics. Her husband Alan, PhD '67, is enjoying his position as a research chemist with Union Carbide, Bound Brook, NJ. The Dows spent the month of May last year visiting friends in Paris, Belgium and Sweden and touring Italy. Lois commutes across the Hudson each day from her apartment at 355-1 River Rd, Nutley, NJ to the hospital. Diane E Dubrule, 2660 Norberry, Apt. 717, Ottawa 8, Ontario, Canada, is still teaching philosophy (ancient and medieval) at Carleton U in Ottawa," but now most of my classes are at St. Patrick's College, an intimate liberal arts college of sprawling Carleton." Marcia Goldschlager Epstein, husband Paul and Amy are enjoying their stay in Philadelphia. She is presently teaching education at the Philadelphia Community College in the evenings and enjoying Amy during the daytime at 2805 N 47 St, Philadelphia, Pa. Sally Greenstein Hanelin writes her husband Larry is currently working for the US Air Force for two years ("ugh") as a radiologist while she cares for their son Michael. Their address is 1406 Madison St, Bellevue, Nebraska. Ann Wilson was married last August to Thomas Rounds in Guilford, NH, and they now live at 555 W Buena Vista, San Francisco. Etcetera: Mrs. Michael (Diane Betcher) Trister, 1663-45 St NW, Washington, D C ; Mrs. Andrew (Nancy Regal) Klinger 68 E 86 St, NYC; Mrs. Laszlo (Nancy Davis) Nyitrai, Hampton Arms, Apt. 1-D, Hightstown, NJ; Mrs. David Hayden, DVM, Route 87, Columbia, Conn.; Mrs. Mark (Joanna Lefϊ) Pinsky, 1223 Grant St, Evanston, 111.; Donna Pond, 48 W 73 St, Apt. 5B, NYC; Mrs. Richard (Lillian Berger) Cooper, 105 Carlisle Rd, Westford, Mass.; Mrs. Robert (Ann Beard) Hallock, Hannacroix; Frances Anne Harrington, 1555 Stanford Ave, Palo Alto, Calif; Mrs. Walter (Susan Lamme) Laessig, 2615 Spencer Rd, Chevy Chase, Md.; Mrs. Eli (Stephanie Doborty) Silvestri, 225 Hacket St, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. Stephen (Judy Reichert) Newton, 5000 Hook Tree Rd, La Canada, Calif.; Kathleen Williams, 633 Pearl St 302, Denver, Colo.; Ronay Arlt, 753 Delaware Ave SW, Washington, DC; Mrs. Howard (Barbara Haas) Abbott Jr., 207 Sturbridge La, Southport, Conn.; and Mrs. Marshal (Nancy Whiting) Case 2325 Burr St, Fairfield, Conn. 65 MEN: Howard A Rakov, DDS, 58 Bradford Blvd, Yonkers, NY 10710 George Arangio, MD married Judith Lynn Besemer in June 1969 following graduation from Cornell Med. 1970 was used for an orthopedic research fellowship at U of Penn; 1971 a residency at the U of P Hospital. George is now active in varsity football recruiting in eastern Pa. A nice letter from Gerry Griffin: Gerry, wife, Alice (3), & Page (2) do a lot of bicycling at their home in Coronado across from San Diego where Gerry works for Uncle Sam as Navy sub board of inspection & survey in the Pacific. When Gerry is in Cal. between trips to the exotic South Pacific Islands, the Griffins see Jim Ramsey & wife Barbara who live in LaJolla. Jim is staff engineer with the Naval Station there. Gerry also sees Ann Dubiel '64 and John Gemmil '63; and Jim Dempsey who is supply officer on a San Diego based destroyer; and Gary Fenstermacher who is1 a prof, at UCLA. Gerry's only gripe with life is the ever worsening smog pollution spilling down from LA. Jim Walzer and wife Penny are in a two family house in Long Beach, LI. Jim started his own business called JP Computer Systems which specializes in setting up commercial time-sharing systems for small biz. Their first child was two years in April. Jim reports John Minor is living in Palos Verdes, Cal.; & that Lou Adler & wife Evie have a new son, David. Henry Nave Jr. is still with Peter Kiewit Sons where he is being transferred from field supervisor to a newly created estimating office. Henry is keeping the Rochester bile at a boil during hockey seasons by touting the wins of Cornell. JV Mofϊatt & wife Betty (Bowler '65) have daughters Sidney Elizabeth (3) and ICirsten Ashley (1) to keep Club Elects David G Miles '65, VP of The Hartman Group, realtors in Southfield, Mich., has been elected pres. of the Cornell Club of Michigan. He succeeds Robert Kasle '48, VP of Kasle Steel Co. Other officers elected are Miles Franklin '64, 1st VP; Ed Devinc '39, 2nd VP; Carole Tuft Rubiner '58, sec; and Richard Grove '62, treas. them busy. Clarence Jentes sent a Bank check unlike any I've ever seen: from the Cam Ranh Military Base Bank! At last contact, wife and daughter Amy Elizabeth (1) were awaiting Clarence's home leave this summer. Dennis Fisher reports an "uneventful 1970": first son, John Merlin born in June: PhD completion in Dec. at the U of Mich; and a move to "sunny(?) Livermore, Cal"; a new position at the U of CaΓs Lawrence Radiation Lab. Fred Naider just completed his PhD in Chem at Polytech in Brooklyn. Fred & wife Anita will leave the USA in Feb. to begin a two year post-doc at Weizmann Inst, of Science, Rehovat, Israel. There they hope to see Dicky Kury '65 who is on a three year work contract with Israel Aircraft Ltd. Dick reports that meeting of Cornell Alumni in Israel drew over 50 people! Dr. Howie Marton & wife Clara had a girl Dina in Jan. Jim Goodrich announced the birth of Charlene Ann in Oct. Jim went PCS from McClellan to Mather AFB in Cal., which meant a move to the other side of Sacramento. Jim is now instructor in Undergrad Navigator Training School so at last he will use his teaching major from Cornell. Barb (Garmirian) and John Hirshfeld were in West Haven where John is a first year resid. in medicine at Yale. John & Barb have two daughters, Catherine (2) & Amy (ιΔ year). They are now in Bethesda for two years while John completes a research fellowship in cardiology at the National Heart & Lung Inst. Joel Sussman has been living in "fun city" for the past few years & finishing up his PhD dissertation in molecular bio. as to the molecular structure of carcimogenic materials. Don Kenyon & wife Sally report the birth of a son, Brittan in Feb. Don is working as VP & gen. mgr. of Woodbury Fruit Farms in Dunkirk. Those of you who have not yet to see your names & info in print, please don't despair: I still have quite a backlog from this past year. I only hope I can get caught up before the 1972 dues notices come in!!! More duespayers' names will be in our next column. WOMEN: Doren Poland Norfleet, 20 Greenway S, Albany NY 12208 Two classmates received advanced degrees in June. Judith Benedict Steίfens, Colchester, Vt., was awarded an MA in English from the U of Vermont. Tanya K Dietrich, 336 Central Ave, Wilmette, 111., received a JD "with honor" from John Marshall Law School. While in law school Tanya participated in the criminal appeals program and served on the staff of the John Marshall Journal of Practice and Procedure, a law review. Nancy Day Freedman reports she is one of those contentedly "non-liberated" females. She has become very domestic by learning how to cook without frozen, canned or packaged food—"trying to return to natural foods." Sounds interesting! Nancy's husband is a CPA, but his "real thing" is as a poet and playwright. "We put together and produced two plays in '69-'7O. He directs and puts together sounds which I play on the violin to go with the emotional score of the play. Very exciting to participate in these productions. Right now we're working on a third play." Nancy has requested that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Fran Grace, Faye Duchin or Claire Trehub Latham please contact her at 2512 University Ave, Apt. 3E, Bronx. Kathryn Nohle Moyer completed her MS in industrial administration at the U of Michigan in June 1969 and celebrated with a camping trip to the west coast. She and husband Mike '63, ChemE '64 became the parents of Jeffrey David on July 16, 1970. Their address is 3610 Leonard Lane, Midland, Mich. Stephanie Schus is still living at 414 E 83 St,, NYC, and still working in marketing develop- October 1971 • 73 Alumni Notes rrient for Butterick Co. She is also working for her masters in marketing at Baruch. Luckily she was able to escape from the polluted skies of NYC to the sunny skies of the Caribbean for a fall vacation. Another classmate can also be found at Butterick. Janet Walker DuBane has just finished as asst. editor for the new Vogue Sewing Book and is now editor of the new Butterick Sewing Book, for which her husband JeanJaques is the art dir. Sounds like a good husband and wife team. Their address is 305 W 13 St, NYC. A new address comes from Marilyn Brewer Lhuillier. She, husband Robert and daughter Anne Louise, born July 22, 1970, are now living at 30 Rue Waldeck Rousseau, St. Brieuc, 22 France. Anita Meleshka Cody writes that after leaving Cornell " I completed an MS in geology at the U of Colorado, where I added a unique rock to my collection—it came with its own geologist. We moved to Ames, Iowa, where Bob is a prof, at Iowa State and I've worked supervising a water pollution analysis lab, completing a teaching certificate, and now supervising the growth of Elizabeth, born in July 1970." Anita reports many Cornellians on the staff of Iowa State. Among them are Bruce Menzel, PhD '70 who is an asst. prof, of fisheries and wildlife. Karen Bruner Hull '63, MS '65 keeps busy writing the ISU home ec. extension publications and keeping house for husband Bruce (DVM '65) who teaches at the Vet School. Anita adds that George Rabchevsky, a former geology instructor at Cornell, has completed his PhD and now interprets satellite photographs for their economic and ecological information. He and his family live in Bethesda, Md. Thank you, Anita, for the news filled note. By the way, her address is 232 Welch Ave, Ames, Iowa. Claudia (Schneider) and Mike McLaughlin '65 have bought an old colonial home at 21 Washington Rd, Scotia, not far from General Electric Co. where Mike is a research engineer. Hope we will get to see some of you at Homecoming this month. Have a Happy Halloween! 66 MEN: John G Miers, 8721 Ridge Rd, Bethesda, Md. 20034 Last month was another dry one as far as news from you people is concerned. Wayne Pulver writes from FNCB, Box 555, Panama 9A, Panama: "In July I was appointed an officer at First National City Bank, NY, and assigned to the world corporate group for Panama and Central America. This means I'll most likely be located here in Panama for the next couple of years. My wife Betsey Ann is teaching school here. My sister Mrs. Tracy Pulver Gates '69 recently spent several weeks here, with her son Albert Henry Gates III. Her deceased husband was our classmate and MBA '67 (killed in action, Vietnam, March 1970)/' John N Myers is an asst, treasurer in the Latin America group of the Int'l. Banking Dept. of Bankers Trust Co. You can write to him care of the bank in NYC. Recent graduations: H Hawood Hunt got an MA from Cornell in area studies, and Jerry Siegel got an MBA. Richard Weiss got his MD last May from George Washington U, here in Washington. He will serve a rotating internship at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Ezra Sutton has received a JD from Washington College of Law. W Jefferson Tester has joined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Lab in New Mexico to work with the chemistry and metallurgy div. He received his PhD in ChemE from MIT. Peter Salinger told me happily the other day he will be getting an early-out from the Navy. He hasn't decided just what to do yet—more next month. Also next month—Sandy and Bob Hamilton have bqught a house and will be moving soon—address to come (they weren't home today). Please write! WOMEN: Susan Maldon Stregack, 9981 Good Luck Rd, Apt. 201, Seabrook, Md. 20801 Lots of news, so here goes: Judith Harvey graduated from U of Penn. vet school in May 1970, and since September of that year has "bounced around Montana" working in mixed practices and practicing "cowboy veterinary medicine." Write to her at 26 Clayton Park Dr, Glen Mills, Pa. Lorraine Ponzi Johnson (8 Centennial Dr, Syracuse) is working as acting div. leader of the home ec. division, Onondaga Co. Cooperative Extension Service. Just an address from Susan Higgins: 601 W 176 St, NYC. From Judith Cramer Fendelman comes this news: After a year spent teaching English at Temple U, while husband Earl taught English at Lafayette College, the Fendelmans are in Rome, where Earl is a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the Facolta' Di Magistero of the U of Rome. Judy is studying Italian and finishing her dissertation. Alice Katz Berglas reports her husband Peter is a resident in opthalmology at Beth Israel, having recently finished his medical internship at Metropolitan Hospital Center. Alice has been keeping busy taking art classes. Alice and Peter can still be found at 305 E 86 St, NYC. From Marie Lewis Oakleaf comes the news that husband Donald has just completed his active duty and they are back in Rochester. While Donald was stationed in Texas Marie kept busy working part-time as the therapeutic dietition in the local hospital. Marie lists their address as 395 White Springs Rd, Geneva. Ann Newman (RD2, Sam Adams Lane, Auburn) has recently returned from Japan, where she spent a year teaching home ec. in a town about 45 minutes from downtown Tokyo. Other Cornellians in the area are Ann Eckfeldt '65 and Bob McNaughton '62. Ann spent time traveling through Japan and Southeast Asia while she was abroad. From Carol Citarella Whalley comes a wealth of information: She met her husband, David, in Boston in 1967 and lived in Worcester, Mass, until they moved to the NY suburbs in 1969 (M-3 Wilshire Lane, Oakdale). Carol was dir. of Huntington Head Start until June 1970 when Tood Matthews was born. David works at the Bank of NY. Pat Mulhearn Sotichros and husband Spyros live in Arlington, Va. while Spyros attends schools in DC and she teaches in Arlington. Mary (Bethel) and Peter Binder are the owners of a home in Acton, Mass. Mary is a buyer for Filene's and Peter attends Suffolk Law School. Toni Peckhame Olshan and baby Judd are living with her parents while Mark '67 is overseas. Bonnie Bossart is working in Boston. Alice Page Eyman is teaching at the U of Delaware. Husband David is a full-time student. Carol and David would like to see Cornellians in the Long Island area. More next month. Don't forget—Homecoming '71 is coming up! 67 MEN: Richard B Hoffman, 58 W 84 St, Apt. 3A, New York, NY 10024 Bruce Wilson writes he's still single and having a great time working and traveling in Turkey; he's planning to drive farther East this summer. Mail via his family: 212 Main St, W Seneca. David YewelΓs working for Hewlett Packard Corp. in Germany as a product mgr.; 703 Boblingen, Ernst Reuter Strasse 27, Germany. Mitchell Koch graduated from Cornell med school in June. Rick Fricke, wife Carol, daughter Laura and son Richard Louis (born April 2) all are living 24 Keeler Close, Ridgefield, Conn. Rick's a lawyer in Wilton, Conn., with the firm of Gregory & Adams. Don Buch is now group management services dir. in Johannesburg, South Africa, with Southern Sun Hotel Corp. (Pty) Ltd. If you happen to be in Madagascar, Mauritius or the Seychelles within the next few years, you'll be able to board at one of his concern's newest hostelries now under construction. Thomas N Wood III is an instructor in agricultural engineering at SUNY Agricultural and Technical College at Delhi. Wife Veronica and he celebrated the birth of daughter Natalie Ann last Feb. 5. All would enjoy hearing from any old friends, at 59 Main St, Delhi. David Sherf and wife have moved to their first house, at 8331 SW 156 St, Miami, Fla. Nick Ponomareff married Letitia Ann Lyons in San Diego, Calif, on Aug. 11, 1970. After a honeymoon in Hawaii, they travleled in Europe this summer. Address: 5154 Dawes St, San Diego. Alan Paller advises that the corporation he founded, Applied Urbanetics, is alive and well in Washington DC where "business is booming." Address: 5800 N 1st St, Arlington, Va. Duane Merrill is now a partner with his father on their home dairy farm on RD # 1 , Walton. David Lampila is flying C-141 transports out of McGuire AFB, NJ, where he'll be for two more years. "I'll get to see a lot more of the world from here—which really means a lot of airports." Stanley H Klein, 135 Riviera Dr, Los Gatos, Calif., returned from Mexico where he started up a new plant for Memorex. " I screwed up so badly down there that I was promoted into a manager's slot." He invites "those who desire to escape the Northeast for California to contact me." Medical memos: Ronald Altman graduated from Cornell med school, heading for internship at U of Washington Affiliated Hospitals in Seattle. Barry L. Strauss received an MD from George Washington U med school and will intern at Beth Israel Hospital, NY. Joseph Russo was awarded his medical degree by NJ College of Medicine and Dentistry at Newark. He and his wife Karen, who graduated in same med class, will intern at NYUBellevue medical center and live in Irvington, NJ. Carl Rosenberg is also a NJ med college grad and will intern at St. Vincent's Hospital, NY. More medical notes next column. Matthew Goldberg, a 1970 grad of NYU law school, is now with the San Francisco office of the National Labor Relations Board. He's living at 2717B Hillegas, Berkeley. Charles Picarrellί earned an MS in Plant and Soil Science at the U of Vermont. E Wallace Small received his PhD in chemistry from the U of Oregon and is working as a research assoc. there. Larry Reich received his DDS from NYU and is interning in Worcester Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Address: 36 Oak Ave, Apt. 32, Worcester. He hopes to be back for Reunion next June, which reminds me to remind you that James Jackson, 345 E 72 St, NY, our Reunion chmn. awaits your ideas on how to make our Reunion a better one, or at least how to make our beer tent a bigger one. Drop him a line. And drop me one too. For news, I bite. 68 MEN: Malcolm I Ross, 6910 Yellowstone Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375 Steven W Siegel, 15-40 Pollitt Dr, Fair 74 • Cornell Alumni News Lawn,, NJ, writes enough to fill nearly a full column. Here is what he says: " I am presently working as an insurance inspector in north Jersey. I quit my engineering position with Western Union in May 1970." Then he reports Larry Kahn, DVM '70, is a veterinarian with the Bellerose Animal Hospital, and his wife Clara Tauber Kahn is working at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. The Kahns live at 32 Middle Neck Rd, Roslyn. Also, Bill Wise has started his last year of med school at the U of Pittsburgh. He lives at 5521 Wilkins Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa. Gary Schwarz is working in his family's business, General Industrial Diamond of East Orange, NJ. He received his master's from the Annenberg School at the U of P in fall 1970. Now Gary lives at 403 Ogden Ave, Teaneck, NJ. John Simonds is working for the NY Telephone Co. and resides at 341 W 87 St, NYC. Bruce Singer, 2403 E 8 St, Tulsa, Okla., is doing graduate work at that city's university. All the above information is from Steve. Lt. Richard C Beals, 878 # 2 S Clubhouse Rd, Va. Beach, Va., is stationed at NAS Oceana, Va. as an F-4 Phanom II pilot in fighter squadron 101. Dick was expecting a cruise to the Mediterranean around this time. AHan G Stone Jr., Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile, has been in the Peace Corps since graduation, working in a program of fisheries as a marine ecologist in northern Chile. He has taught at the U of the North and, more recently, has been working towards the artificial cultivation of two commercial molluscs. Warren L Franz, Box 531, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., married Helen Riefberg in April and honeymooned aboard the cruise ship Europa for two weeks. Liking the weather down South so much, the Franz's chose to move to Florida. Larry Ericksen attended the wedding. Stuart Ockman married Carol CapIan on July 4 in San Mateo, Cal. Stuart received a master's from Stanford in 1969. Most recent degrees conferred to classmates include: Robert M Brandon, 750 Kappock St, Bronx, MCRP degree; Joel I Kurtzberg, Crestview 2-2J, Parlin, NJ, MS; Roger S Pincus, 12-210 Madison Garden Apts,, Old Bridge, NJ, MS; Those three degrees were earned at Rutgers. Ralph T Samuelson was awarded an MA in world music by Wesleyan. Also, David B Singer received a JD from the Washington College of Law. Paul Chίu, 2320 Le Conte Ave. # 1 , Berkeley, Calif., regards his July 1970 layoff at Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth, Tex. as a "blessing from heaven." It gave him the opportunity to work for Airco Vacuum Metals as a quality control metallurgist. Besides, he just loves the Bay Area. James Michaels served as the rabbinic assistant to Mt. Zion Temple in St. Paul, Minn, this past year, a position he enjoyed greatly. This came as a break in his studies in Cincinnati. "To my knowledge, I am the only rabbinical student in the country who has ever taken on full time responsibilities in a congregation," James writes. After a summer in Israel and touring Europe, he transferred to the NY branch of Hebrew Union College. Two classmate weddings have come to my attention via Ithaca's afternoon newspaper, The Journal. Michael Kerr married Marcia Hine on May 7. Mike had served in the army from graduation until 1970. Mark Anderson married Elizabeth Ryan on Aug. 7. Mark is currently a PhD candidate in biochemistry at Cornell, studying under an NIH fellowship. His bride is an editorial asst. at the university press. Lastly, Richard Johnson, 2220 Wardwell St, Stamford, Conn., is "still at CBS Labs—in spite of numerous layoffs." WOMEN: Mary Louise Hartman, 119 Marlborough St, Boston, Mass. 02116 Sandra Parise writes she is teaching at Fayetteville in a high school and has just moved to 108 Roxboro Circle, Mattydale. Her new roommate is Demetra Dentes '70 who teaches in Phoenix. Sandra saw Marsha Meyer Albats at Christmastime in Cleveland, Ohio. Marsha is married to Paul Albats, PhD '68 and has a daughter Lisa. Recent visitors of Sandra's included Donna Vandepall Westbrook and her husband Ron Westbrook '67. Ron is a capt. and pilot in the AF stationed in £lattsburgh now, after Texas and California. Donna is working in a laboratory at SUNY at Plattsburgh. Other news included in batch I received from those who paid their '71-'72 dues includes news from Thea Fischer. She relates she is an information scientist at the SquibbInst. for Medical Research, and is seriously thinking of taking courses in computer programming. Her address: 1050 George St, New Brunswick, NJ. Margery Dik is living now at Clinton Rd, Antrim, NH and during 1970-71 was enrolled in a program for an MLA at the U of Michigan. Gail Murphy has been out in Portland (4935 SE Naef Rd, Milwaukee, Ore.) since graduation and just loves it. She has even become used to rainy winters. Gail spent the first two years there working for Fred Meyer, Inc.—nineteen super shopping centers .in Portland. The last year she was asst. mgr. in the apparel section of one of the larger stores. Then after a three month vacation funded by unemployment checks, she joined White Front, Inc. a discount department store chain where she has forsaken the merchandising end of retailing for operations. Gail is currently head of the validations dept., which handles the paperwork for the store. Marion Wong Chew wrote to say she and her husband Richard have two daughters now, Diana Marie born last November and Lisa who was just two. Richard '66 is still working at Link-Singer. Marion heard from Marie Melluzzo, who received an MS from Northwestern in materials science. Frances Swanton was married in Aug. 1968 to George Gotcsik. Since then George has been working for Kodak and Frances has been working on a PhD in cell biology at the U of Rochester. At the beginning of July George was transferred to Kodak's plant in Harrow, England for one year. They are living in a house furnished by Kodak and are very excited. Plenty of room for visitors at 24 Belmont Close, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. Bernice Bradin is still happily single and living in Cambridge. Her job is that of a manuscript writer for Xerox College Publishing. Her address: 287 Harvard St, Cambridge. Janet Berner Dewart received her MAT degree from Cornell and has been teaching secondary school for the past two years. Her husband Alan (MBA '68) and she are living outside of Buffalo at 3817 N Freeman Rd, Orchard Park, where Alan is heading up a home building and land development firm. Adele Diamond is living in Portland, Ore. now as a staff nurse at a Portland hospital. Her mailing address is 2124 NW Flanders. Mary Zahrt completed a dietetic internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Sept. 1969 and has been working as chief dietitian at the Benedictine Hospital in Kingston since then. Mary lives at 326 Washington Ave, Kingston. '68 PhD-In March, Indiana U Press published a book by Mrs. Barbara Hinckley; asst. prof, of government at Cornell, entitled The Seniority System in Congress. Senator Mark Hatfield has called the book "a perceptive analysis of the functioning of our system of congressional leadership. Mrs. Hinckley confronts many of the myths about the seniority and raises some interesting ques- tions for further study." Senator Vance Hartke calls the book "an admirable job of setting out the basic facts." 69 MEN: Steve Kussin, 812 E 22 St, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Many marriages to report: William B Howell and Judith H Hart were married in Ft. Monmouth, NJ on May 29. After honeymooning in Bermuda, they returned to Ft. Campbell, Ky. where Bill is stationed as a second lt. Teddy Coviello wed Pamela Whitaker on June 12 in a candlelight service at Sage Chapel. They honeymooned on a cross-country trip. Also married on June 12 were William R Shaw and Gail Naylor, in an outdoor garden ceremony overlooking Lake Cayuga. The couple spent the summer in Washington DC where Bill worked for the Dept. of Environmental Research. He is now in his third year of grad school at Cornell's B&PA College. Bruce MacDonald married Anne Bartlett Lehlbach on June 18 in Cortland. After a Cape Cod honeymoon, the couple is living in Palos Hills, 111. It's just a matter of time before I'll be reporting PhD's. Any bets who'll be first? In the meantime, many have earned their masters. Four classmates graduated from Rutgers: John Berkoben, Robert Brandon, Joel Kurtzberg and Roger Pincus. Philip Callahan received an MS in physics from Cal. Tech. Hugh E Worden received an MAT (teaching) from the U of Vt. Andrew Blauvelt is doing grad work at Princeton. H Robert Milder writes he is attending UCLA on the Chancellor's Fellowship. He received his masters in Dec. 1970, and is working on a PhD in automata and formal languages, and also serving as a research associate. After receiving an MS in EE last year, Ramon Rosati is working as an asst. editor of McGraw-Hill's publication Electrical Contractor and Maintenance Magazine in NYC. From Joseph Cervasio: "Was married on July 26, 1969 to Maria Corino, a 1st grade teacher. We have moved to 3 St. Mary's PI, Belleville, NJ. I will be receiving my MBA from the NYU School of Business and am presently job-hunting." From John R Adams: "Married Margaret A Tuttle '68 in Sept. 1970. Margaret was graduated with a BS in conservation ed. She worked for the Natl. Audubon Soc. for two yrs. I am a field engineer with Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co." From John M Babbitt: "On Feb. 28, wife Paula and I became parents of a son, Jonathan." From Stuart G Hunt: "Currently stationed as an artillery intelligence and operations Asst. at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam." From Allan B Kolber: "I'm now a 2nd yr. grad student at NYU doing research in aerospace physiology. I will receive a commission in the Air Force in June and will probably go on active duty this summer. Also working part-time as a teacher." From Cliff Leonhardt: "I'm now in the 2nd year at Harvard Law School. Last summer, I worked as a legal aide for Charles Evers in Fayette, Miss." From Michael Scherer: "Continuing for my PhD at U of Mass, at Amherst. I'd like to hear from Paul Harmon and Don Oliver." From Lloyd Newman: "Still working for Hazeltine Corp., and am now developing an automatic vehicle locating system. I keep off the streets at night by attending LIU bus. school. Just heard from Dave Schodt. He seems to be enjoying his 2nd year of fanning for the Peace Corps in Ecuador." From David J Halpert: "I work as a govt. securities trader for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Also attending NYU bus., school at night, studying for MBA in quant. October 1971 • 75 Alumni Notes analysis. I see Bruce Zurinsky who is in his second yeaf of law school at NYU." From Arthur M Phillips III: "Wife Barbara and I are both in our 2nd year of grad work at the U of Ariz in Tucson, working toward PhD's in botany." From Roger Moak: "Glenn Ducat has resumed his study in nuclear eng. at MIT following a round-the-world trip during semester break. George Teich is hard at work on PhD thesis at Rutgers." WOMEN: Deborah Huffman Schenk, 2790 Broadway, *7J, New York, NY 10025 A long newsy letter from Laura Miller Tufford was lost in moving but has since been found, and I am happy to report the many goings-on of the Tuffords. Laura and Pete '69 have two little boys, Peter Timothy (2Vi) and Matthew Tyler (13 months). Timmy is taking after his daddy (Cornell hockey star) and manages to skate around Lynah Rink. Pete is working for Cornell in personnel and in the winter "he keeps his skates sharp skating for the Syracuse Stars." He was selected most valuable player in the 70-71 season. He is also active in the new chapter of NIHOA (hockey referees) in Ithaca. Laura also reports the wedding of Kathy Kohles and Bob McGuinn, which I noted in my last column. She adds however that Susan Little Jansen '66 and husband Ferguson have a new daughter, Sara. Sue and Rick Oliver are in Wilmington, Del. (81 Harbor. Drive, Apt. 4) where Rick is working for Dupont and taking night classes at the U of Delaware for his MBA. They have a daughter Kim (2Vi). And finally she writes that friends, Bruce Pattison '69 and wife Harriet are in Oakville, Ontario (1230 White Oaks Blvd, Apt. 905), close to Toronto where Bruce recently took a new job with Corning Glass. Another former Cornell hockey player, Bruce has been skating in an industrial league in the winter. Laura and Pete are living at 16 Forest Lane in Ithaca. The other lost letter was from Ellen Gross Landau. She writes to say she has been working as a research asst. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. On Dec. 20, 1970, she was married to Howard Landau (Ohio State '67). Best man was Steven Asher '67 and also present was Evelyn Neuhaus. This fall Ellen is planning to go to George Washington U on a teaching fellowship and get her master's in history of art. She reports Judy Ruchlis Eisenberg and husband Herb MS '69, are living in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Judy is doing management training work at a bank and Herb is working for Hughes doing cable TV development. Mary Clark Hess recently wrote to report the marriage of her former roommate Barbara Daetsch to Garth Nelson on May 8 in Ithaca. Mary noted Barb and Garth wrote their own ceremony and it "was beautifully done." Mary was matron of honor and ushers included Jesse Jenner and Bill Daetsch '73, Barb's brother. Barb and Garth both plan to teach school outside of Syracuse where Garth taught last year. As for Mary and John '69: John is "working long hours" for Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard, Mass, and has been enjoying it. Mary has been working off and on in secretarial positions. Barry Weeks lives nearby and also works for Digital. The Hess address is 121 Great Rd, Apt. C. Acton, Mass. Another Cornell marriage—on June 28, Frances Anne Novarr became the wife of David Sheldon Strayer '70 in Ithaca. Frances is the daughter of Prof. David Novarr. She taught French at Whitney Point last year, but will be living in Chicago this year where David is a sudent at Pritzker School of Medicine at the U of Chicago. They will live at 5220 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago. 76 • Cornell Alumni News A note from Emily Parke reports the good news she has been officially assigned to Wycliffe Bible Translator's Mexico branch where she will be entering a tribe and translating the bible into their language. She spent the summer teaching future Bible translators at Gordon College in Massachusetts. And finally, more degrees to report. Lynne Beyer Sagalyn received her MCRP from Rutgers in June. Janice D Willis has been awarded a Danforth Foundation Kent Fellowship, one of 35 graduate students in the world to be so honored. She received her masters in philosophy from Cornell in June and intends to use her fellowship to earn a doctorate in Sanskrit and Tibetan at Columbia. Please write. 71 MEN: Ron Hayhurst, 5331 SE Thiessen Rd, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 We've now received confirmation of a number of weddings of classmates. Connie Ames and Bob Molzahn were married June 8 in a ceremony in Ithaca performed by the Rev. Jack Thomas in Anabel Taylor Chapel. After a reception at Connie's home in Ithaca the couple honeymooned in the Adίrondacks. Bob will be working for Ichthyological Associates in Pottstown, Pa.; the Molzahns will make their home at 213 Old Reading Pike in Douglassville, Pa. On June 19 in Anabel Taylor Chapel Bruce Hardy and Kristin Mazza '70 were married. Their honeymoon was spent at Cape Cod; they're now living in Ithaca in Lansing Apts. West. Josephine Lapetina MS '71 and John Swanson III were married in another wedding which took place in Anabel Taylor Chapel. A reception was held at the Stone House Inn following the June 26 wedding. The new Mrs. Swanson is an extension specialist at Cornell, and the couple will live in Interlaken, where John is in dairy and grain farming. Marjorie Benson and David Randies were married June 26 in the Lansing United Methodist Church and honeymooned in Canada. She will be employed by Grand Union in management, and he will work on the family farm in Argyle. I received a postcard in August from Naval Ensign Don Reinertsen, who's submerged somewhere in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet. He'll be transferred to Mare Island, Calif, sometime in the near future. Letters written to Don at home (8815 Ridge Blvd, Brooklyn) will be forwarded to him wherever he may be. Edward Riefler and wife Kathy are going to Liberia as Peace Corps volunteers. In Ed's words, "Kathy, a registered nurse, plans to work in the JFK Memorial Hospital an Monrovia, training nurses, and I will be working in the Dept. of Agriculture as an economic advisor. We hope to spend an exciting, intensive two years or more working with the people of Liberia, understanding their problems, and helping them to overcome them." You can probably get in touch with the Rieflers by writing them at 3834 Eckhardt Rd, Hamburg. William Aiken will be living at 96 Pfohl PI, Williamsville, where he's a computer programmer. Tom Masie is an asst. innkeeper with Holiday Inns; he gives his address as 156 Furnan St, Syracuse. And, a bit further west, Kenneth Wiens is ranching beef cattle in Trenton, Mo. (RR 4). By this time one hopes, many more of us have definite plans, e.g. school, the military, etc., than was the case in June. Let the rest of us know what you're doing. You can send the information either to the Alumni House in Ithaca or directly to me in Oregon. Just one request: please indicate your nickname, alias, or whatever. It will help classmates identify you (and it will make it look as though I know each of you on a first name basis). Thanks. WOMEN: Betiy Mills, 1215 Virginia St E, Charleston, W Va. 25301 I have a fat stack of news from Alumni House to write about this month—mostly marriages. Come on, you all, there must be something else going on. Meredith Hill married Joseph Kwiatkowski on June 6 in Owego, and they are now in Colombia, South America, serving with the Peace Corps for two years. Linda Sue Horn became the bride of John Lee on June 5 in Sage Chapel. Linda is a graduate assistant at the Syracuse School of Journalism. Joanne Engelhardt was married to Peter Johnston on June 19 in Bermuda. Pamela Whitaker married ex-Cornell hockey ace Teddy Coviello '70 on June 12 in Sage Chapel. Connie Ames and Robert Molzahn tied the knot June 8 in the Anabel Taylor Chapel. Their address is 213 Old Reading Pike, Douglassville, Pa. Now to the other news. Denise Flynn is working in Newark as a trainee in public relations for Sara Coventry, Inc. Frances Dogan writes she is at Yale Law School. Marilyn Ross Yorinks is a music teacher for a class of mentally retarded children in New Rochelle. A handout from the Public Information Office that Diana Daniels won the 1971 John F Kennedy Memorial Award—sponsored by Cornell's Class of 1964. The $400 prize is awarded annually to a student planning a governmental or public service career. Diana will pursue graduate study in law, planning and ecology for a career as a planner-lawyer. Alumni Deaths '95 M ^ C h a r l e s R Sanderson of Box 67, Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 16 1971, investment counselor. Sigma Phi. '96-'97 Sp Agr—W Arthur Saltford of 35 Flower Hill, Pougkeepsie, July 30, 1971, retired florist, first dir. of Florist Trans-World Delivery Assn. Όl ME(EE)-Howard W Riley of Oak Hill Manor, 602 Hudson St, Ithaca, Aug. 19, 1971, prof, emeritus of agricultural engineering at Cornell, one of two men for whom RileyRobb Hall was named, past pres. of American Soc. of Agricultural Engineers. '03 AB-Francis H Hiller of 2 Prospect St, Cobleskill, March 19, 1971, retired field consultant, Nat'l. Probation & Parole Assn. '03 FE-Asa S Williams of 1358 W 17 St, North Vancouver, BC, July 31, 1971. Ό3-Ό4 Sp Agr-George H Truckell of 1606 Naudain St, Harrisburg, Pa., June 30, 1971, assoc. editor of several dairy publications. '04, ME Ό5-Frederick W Poate of Ovingdere, Ashwood Rd, Woking, Surrey, England, July 2, 1971, retired managing dir. of Mac- kenzie & Co. in Shanghai, China. '04 AB-Evangeline D Rose of 4 Shipman Lane, Stony Brook, Jan. 1971, retired teacher in NYC. '04 CE-Bernace B Weber of 17 Madison Ave, Maplewood, NJ, March 17, 1971, retired city engineer of Oil City, Pa. '04 AB-William W Yothers of 826 Alameda Ave, Orlando, Fla., July 10, 1971, retired entomologist with US Dept. of Agriculture, pioneer in insect and mite control programs for Florida citrus growers, first pres. of Florida Entomological Soc. '05 ME-Francis S Adams of 900 W Abriendo, Pueblo, Colo., March 4, 1971, retired supt. of power dept. of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Zeta Psi. '05 CE-A Cary Hutson of 4620 Meadowbrook Dr, Forth Worth, Texas, May 1, 1971, retired sr. asst. chief engineer with Natl. Board of Fire Underwriters. '05 AB, LLB Ό7-George J Nelbach of Parks Lane, Dorset, Vt., April 20, 1971, retired public health exec. Delta Chi. Ό5-Richard Roseneranz of 320 W Water St, Newburgh, Ind., Jan. 25, 1971, retired treas., Roseneranz Realty Co., previously bd. chmn. of Farm Tools Inc. '06 AB, ME ' 0 7 - Harry E Carver of 10606 Tropicana Circle, Sun City, Ariz., Aug. 8, 1971, retired executive of several public utilities firms. Ό6-William E Crosby of 1630 43 Ave E, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 9, 1970. '06 AB—Mrs. W H (Alice Prince) Coogan of Box 98, Almond, April 4, 1971. Alpha Phi. '06 AB-F Van Thompson of 108 Patroon Dr, Guilderland, May 21, 1971, retired court reporter. '06 ME-Arthur S Wardwell of 1725 Dorchester Rd, Brooklyn, Nov. 29, 1970, retired tool engineer, NY Telephone Co. '06 ME-LeRoy Woodland of 2801 NE 51 St, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.. April 28, 1971, retired treas. of Chicago Park District. '07 LLB-Hiram H Babcock of 502 Park Ave, New York, July 21, 1971, attorney, chmn. of the Madison Square Boys Club. '07 Grad-Leon Haim of 75-02 Austin St, Forest Hills, June 2, 1971. '07—Mrs. E M (Pauline Merrow) Baker of 4611 S Versailles, Dallas, Texas, April 14, 1971. Ό7-Dr. David W Park of 740 Fair St, Berea, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1970, physician. '07 ME-Col. George Ruhlen of 1826 Upas St, San Diego, Calif., March 13, 1971, retired Army officer. '09 BS Agr-Arthur W Sweeton Jr. of Humphrey Rd, Canton Center, Conn., June 13, 1971, retired appraiser for Federal Land Bank and Farm Credit Adm. '09 AB-Walter L Todd of 22 Creekside Lane, Rochester, July 26, 1971, owner with his brother George L Todd '26 of Widmer's Wine Cellars, partner of Todd Associates, former pres. of Cornellian Council, Presidential Councillor and former trustee of Cornell. Zeta Psi. ΊO-Mrs. Donald (Margaret Gayden) Derickson of 1311 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans, La., May 11, 1971. ΊO, CE 12-Edward H Leggett of 7-D Weis Rd, Albany, July 22, 1971, in insurance. Delta Tau Delta. Ί0-Ί1 Grad-Mrs. Clyde H (Fleda Straight) Myers of 870-Q Avenida Sevilla, Laguna Hills, Calif., Aug. 15, 1971, hand book-binder who restored many books for the Cornell libraries. Husband, the late Prof. Clyde H. Myers, PhD '12. '11 Sp Med-Dr. David H Orgel of 51 E 90 St, New York, May 2, 1971, physician. '12 BS Agr-Lawrence D Bragg of 1200 Mira Mar Ave, Medford, Ore., Aug. 6, 1971, retired fruit grower. '12 CE-Alfredo B Codas of 25 De Mayo 342, Asuncion, Paraguay, Dec. 10, 1970. '12 BS—E Wright Peterson of 46 E Welling Ave, Pennington, NJ, March 10, 1971, dir. of Mercer Mutual Ins. Co. Alpha Gamma Rho. Ί2-Ί3 Grad—Thomas H A Neelin of 1220 Ridgemount, Ottawa, Ont., July, 1970. Sigma Xi. '13 ME, MME '15, PhD Ί7-Ralph Bown of 85 Pine St, Millburn NJ, July 29, 1971, retired VP of Bell Laboratories, past pres. of Inst. of Radio Engineers. '13 AB-CarrolI H Hendrickson of 301 Upper College Terr, Frederick, Md., summer, 1971, partner in Hendrickson's, a department store. Phi Kappa Sigma. '14 CE-Burton W Brodt of 24641 Republic Ave, Oak Park, Mich., Aug. 9, 1971, retired sales engineer. Alpha Sigma Phi. '14 ME-Harry G Cisin of Oak Lane, Amagansett, Feb. 4, 1971, author of engineering handbooks. '14, CE Ί5-Thomas F Danforth of 109 Lexington Ave, Buffalo, Feb. 5, 1971, engineer. Sigma Phi. 'l4—lames E McCreery of Lawrence Farms, Lawrence Dr, Portsmouth, RI, June 18, 1971, retired distributor for International Truck. Delta Kappa Epsilon. '15 LLB-Winslow R Cuthbert of 2091 E 17 Ave, Eugene, Ore., July 21, 1971, retired employe of Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. in Bombay, India. '15 AB, ME Ί7-Louis Ets-Hokin of 999 Green St, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 10, 1971, board chmn. of Ets-Hokin Corp., a marine electrical contracting firm, civic leader. '15 AB—Henry Gund of 120 Brett Lane, Fairfield, Conn., Nov. 3, 1970. Chi Phi. '15 AB—Walter P Phillips of 11 Morse Rd, Newtonville, Mass., April 15, 1971, retired businessman. Alpha Chi Sigma. '15 MSA, PhD Ί9-Roy G Wiggans of 315 Comstock Rd, Ithaca, Aug. 19, 1971, prof, emeritus of plant breeding at Cornell, specialist in hybrid corn. '16 ME—Enos H Baker of 28211 Pebble Beach Dr, Sun City, Calif., March 31, 1971. Ί 6 - J Buford Edgar of 2908 Shepard Dr, Rockledge, Fla., June 18, 1971. '16 BS Agr-Louis E Freudenthal of Box 118, Las Cruces, NM, June 30, 1971, mgr. of Freudenthal Farms Co., past officer of several farm associations. '16 ME-Charies L Funnell of 3030 SW 13 Ct, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Aug. 6, 1971, retired advertising executive. '16 AB—Charles Greenwald of 84-09 Talbot St, Kew Gardens, April 13, 1971, former 1st deputy commissioner, Dept. of Investigation of NYC. '16 ME-Thornton W Howard of 1394 Regent St, Schenectady, May 18, 1971. '16 BS Agr-Mrs. Jennie Minnick Otis of 525 Dolphin Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Fla., June 2, 1971. '16 LLB—Ramon Siaca of Avenida Corrientes 456, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 1970, attorney. Ί6-Ί7 Grad-Lindsay K Dickey of 406 Hobart Blvd N, Los Angeles, Calif., March 31, 1971, attorney and Los Angeles commissioner. Zeta Psi. '17, WA '20-Wayne C Selby of 832 Omaha Nat'l Bank Bldg, 1620 Farnam, Omaha, Nebr., April 4, 1971, self-employed realtor. Beta Theta Pi. Ί8-Donald V Ferguson of Box 457, St. James, April 1971. '18 BS Agr-John L Finneran of 410 Worth, Ithaca, Aug. 20, 1971, salesman for NY Life Ins. Co. '18, AB '20-John A Rodger of 86-80 102 St, Richmond Hill, July 22, 1971, retired pres. of Rodger-Palliser Press. '18 BS Agr-LeRoy E Rofe of Preble, Aug. 15, 1971, dairy farmer. Ί9-Dr. Philip Weintraub of 860 Grand Concourse, Bronx, July 8, 1971, physician. '20 AB-John D Blanchard of 419 Spring St, Groton, Aug. 10, 1971, retired college teacher, poultry farmer. '20 M D - D r . Samuel Z Levine of 345 E 69 St, New York, July 14, 1971, prof, emeritus at Cornell Medical College, pediatrician in chief at NY Hospital, pres. of American Pediatrics Soc, pres. of Soc. for Pediatrics Research. '20 AB, MD '23-Dr. William A Walker of 583 S Main St, Geneva, July 12, 1971, retired attending orthopedic surgeon at Bellevue and Goldwater Memorial Hospitals, former assoc. clinical prof, at NYU Medical College. '21-George P Roess of 749 Franklin Ave, Wilkinsburg, Pa., Jan. 5, 1971. '21-Dr. Phyllis L A (Wuest) Holden of 210 Midland Ave, Wayne, Pa., July 7, 1971, osteopath. '21-Ί3 Sp Agr-Maurice E Selleck of 339 Shore Rd, Venice, Fla., June 21, 1971. '22 BS Agr-Charles W Backus of 1150 New York St, Long Beach, Calif., May 3, 1971. '22 CE, MCE '23-Frank E Conkling Jr. of October 1971 • 77 Cornell University offers employment assistance to alumni. Write to: John L. Munschauer, Director, Cornell Career Center 14 East Avenue Ithaca, New York 14850 Jαnsen Noyes Ί O Stαnton Griffis Ί O Arthur Weeks Wαkeley Ί l Tristan Antell Ί 3 Janseπ Noyes, Jr. '39 Blancke Noyes '44 James McC. Clark '44 William D. Knauss '48 Brooks B. Mills '53 Gilbert M. Kiggins '53 John A. Almquist '54 Fred S. Asbeck '55 Paul Coon '56 L. E. Dwight '58 Charles H. Fromer #58 Daniel F. Daly '63 James Fusco '63 Irma L. Tenkate '66 HDRNBLDWEfl & WEEKS HEΓMPHILL, NDYEB 8 Hanover Street, New York, N.Y. 10004 INVESTMENTS Stephen H. Weiss '57 Roger J. Weiss '61 MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 120 Broadway, New York 10005, (212) 349-6660 410 Royal Palm Ave, Clewiston, Fla., May 1971, retired engineer. '22 BS Agr-Darwin C Smith of Lodi, July 25, 1971, retired teacher of mental retardates, officer of Ithaca BOCES, which recently named the special education building in his honor. '23-George H Bremer of Witherbee Court, Pelham, July 20, 1971, real estate broker. '23 ME-William Hannigan of 8412 Manchester Rd, Silver Spring, Md., March 21, 1971. '23-Edward D Hill of 3632 Gleneagle Dr, Silver Springs, Md., July 1, 1971, retired Army capt., chemical export-import officer in Commerce Dept. Kappa Delta Rho. '23-Robert Spitzer of 35 E 84 St, New York, July 13, 1971, sr. partner in NY Stock Exchange firm, Spitzer & Co. '24 AB-Carlton S Frantz of 72 Elmwood Ave, East Aurora, July 1, 1971, owner/pres. of Frantz Furniture Inc. Wife, Mildred Rockwood '28. Pi Kappa Alpha. '26 BS Hotel-Arvine C Bowdish of 605 N Fort Harrison Ave, Clearwater, Fla., Aug. 1, 1971, hotel and restaurant mgr. Pi Kappa Alpha. '26 AB-Warren D Devine of Boyne City, Mich., July 6, 1971, businessman. Phi Kappa Theta. '26 EE-Francis Kearney of 88 Lawrence PI, New Rochelle, June 6, 1971, retired engineer of the City of New York. Wife, the late Martha Carpenter '26. Pi Kappa Alpha. '26 CE-Schuyler G Paterson of Cove PI, Hemlock Farms, Hawley, Pa., July 26, 1971, retired spvr. with NY Telephone Co. '26 CE-Scott Perry of Parade Hill Lane, New Canaan, Conn., July 27, 1971, partner of Gordon, Graves & Co., NY investment bankers. '28 MD-Dr. Harry J Greene of 855 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, Aug. 14, 1971, obstetrician and gynecologist. '28-F Daniel Leary of 469 Arch St, MeadVille, Pa., Aug. 11, 1971, executive with American viscose άiy. of FMC. '28 AB-Thomas A Moellmann of 9886 Balboa Dr, Sun City, Ariz., June 27, 1971, retired officer of Continental Lithograph Co. Alpha Sigma Phi. '28 EE-David J C Werner of 186 Brevard Rd, Asheville, NC, July 6, 1971, retired employe of NY Telephone Co. in Syracuse. '29 AB-Dr. Abou D Pollack of 32 Olmsted Green, Baltimore, Md., Aug. 1, 1971, pathologist in chief of Baltimore City Hospital, pathology prof, at Johns Hopkins U School of Medicine. Wife, Leona Pearlstien '28. '29 AM, PhD '35-John M Raines of 1116 Caddell Lane, Norman, Okla., July 24, 1971, prof, emeritus of English at Oklahoma U. Wife, Ann Herrick '31. '29 AM-Theodore Schwartz of 230 Enterprise St, Nanticoke, Pa., .Jan. 30, 1971. '30 AM-Arthur G B Bouquet of 285 N 35 St, Corvallis, Ore., May 19, 1971, emeritus prof, of horticulture at Oregon State U. '30 BS Agr-Ralph W Hadlock of 6535 Evans Rd, Rome, May 5, 1971, retired construction spvr. with Agway. Wife, Stella Smith '30. '30 AB—Mrs. Roland (Jean Munson) Leclercq of Old Hebron Rd, Colchester, Conn., July 17, 1971, retired history teacher in Yonkers. '31 AB-Dr. Edward J Calhoun of 2 Shoreview Rd, Port Washington, July 7, 1971, surgeon and inventor. '31-Howard F Leun of 275 Garfield Ave, Mineola, May 19, 1971. '32 AB—Mrs. Joseph R (Christine Schίldwaster) Brezniak of 23 Vernon Dr, Cheektowaga, March 1, 1971. '32 AB-Roland J Parker of 3200 W 30th St, Indianapolis, Ind., July 19, 1971, research chemist with Eli Lilly Pharm. Co. '33 AB-William R Lockridge of 12 Sea Spray Dr, Centerport, June 11, 1971, executive for Servo Corp. of America. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. '34 BS Agr-Frank M King Jr. of 4372 33 Ave N, St. Petersburg, Fla., July 1971. Chi Phi. '35 AB-John L Lewis of 5622 Buffalo Ave, Niagara Falls, May 4, 1971, dentist. '36 BS Agr-Harold F Nunn of Fairmount Rd, Hunting Valley, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1971, board chmn. of Lamson & Sessions Co. in Cleveland. '37 MS-Arthur G Crafts of Physics Dept., Auburn U, Auburn, Ala., fall 1970, retired prof. '39 BS Agr-Ralph H Everett of 443 NE 103 St, Miami, Fla., May 1, 1971. '39 AB-Eric D Schwarz of 17036 Roundhill Dr, Huntington Beach, Calif., June 2, 1971, pres. of Fortnighter Tours. Delta Psi. '41 BS Hotel '42—Fredrick K Knack of 936 Beryle Dr, Virginia Beach, Va., May 3, 1971. Wife, Carrie Hunt '40. Sigma Pi. '42 AB, LLB '48-Mrs. William J (Dorothy Dunn) O'Connor Jr. of 84 Highland, Ave, Buffalo, Jan. 11, 1971. Husband, William J O'Connor Jr., LLB '48. Delta Gamma. '43-Leonard E Pawlowski of 128 Park St, Nanticoke, Pa., June 28, 1971, area public welfare dir. '43 DVM-Dr. John W Richards of Oak Summit Rd, Millbrook, Aug. 6, 1971, veterinarian. '47 DVM-Dr. Edward I Neserke of 1125 Cowpeus Ave, Towson, Md., July 13, 1971, owner/dir. of veterinary hospital. '48-'49 Grad-E Franklin Barnett of 15833 Stonebrook Ave, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Aug. 10, 1971. '49 BS HE-Miss Virginia M Steele of 25 E 9 St, New York, Aug. 5, 1971, editor, The Ladies' Home Journal Needle and Crafts Magazine, member of the New York Fashion Group. '50 BCE-Robert J Reyna of 1306 N Lotus PI, Anaheim, Calif., June 1971. '50 AB, PhD '56-Frank Rosenblatt of 119 Middaugh Rd, Brooktondaίe, July 11, 1971, in a boating accident, assoc. prof, and dir. of cognitive systems research at Cornell. '57-Miss Alice M Jung of 215 W 90 St, New York, June 9, 1971. '70, AB '71-David R Bean of 827 W 63 St, Kansas City, Mo., July 19, 1971, aboard USNS Bartlett, administrative asst. for the Ocean Floor Analysis div. of Naval Oceanography. '70-Dennis L Marantz of 1002 Sunset Trail, Omaha, Nebr., Aug. 7, 1971, accidental fall in Taughannock State Park near Ithaca, student at L of Nebraska. '71 MS-Jayvivek N Prabhu of 207 Linden Ave, Ithaca, July 4, 1971, suicide, graduate student in operations research at Cornell. '74-Michael J Shelmidine of RD 2, Mannsville, July 11, 1971, Agriculture student. 78 • Cornell Alumni News Professional Directory f Cornell Alumni JHE ΓΎβRiEN MACHINERY QQ* 9th & Church St. Wilmington, Del. 19899 SINCE 1 9 1 5 BUYING — SELLING — RENTING EXPORTING Boll r , Air Compressors, Trαnsformors, Dl s l Generators, Pumps, St αm Turbo-Generators, El ctrlc Motors, Hydro-EI ctric Generotors, Machine Tools, Pr ss s, Brak s, Rolls-Shears Chemical and Process Machinery. "Complete Plants Bought—with or without Reel Estate" Appraisals. 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The campus was extended to Six Mile Creek by the use of the old city hospital, more recently an Ithaca College dormitory, as a living unit for transfer students. "It may end up being a good facility for graduate students," was the prediction of Dean of Students Elmer Meyer. Student special-interest groups with a wish to live together are being granted blocs of rooms in campus dorms. "Thirty-six students in search of more personal sensitivity have banded together . . . to form an experimental living unit for personal development," the university reports. Its resident assistant said, "We don't expect people to strip themselves of their normal defenses," but "he added that participants . . . will be expected to examine openly their reasons for participating or not participating in group activities." Barnes Hall now houses student counselling offices and a new Center for Contemporary Music that hopes to have an electronic sound synthesizer when money can be found to buy one. The Arts college now has a program for students to spend their junior year at the University of Bonn, Germany, and Agriculture a sophomore year at the University of Reading, England. But probably the harshest change of all is a crackdown on that institution of institutions, the campus dog. Tompkins County has strengthened its enforcement of leash and other dog laws, begun breaking up packs of unattended student-owned dogs who have come to plague school playgrounds and campus eating places. The Ivy Room will never be the same. Ken Kunken '72 was back in school, taking three Engineering courses, and with a room in Sage College. Ken was paralyzed in a 150-pound football injury last fall. He is using a wheel chair and an arm brace, and has an attendant, David McMurray '71, a former 150pound footballer. On Campus The ChemE school has announced plans to establish a professorship in honor of its legendary director from 1938-57, Fred H. (Dusty) Rhodes, PhD '14, now retired and living in Florida. The rigor of the school's program and his own courses earned the healthy respect of generations of chemical engineers. The university found itself able to put into effect its tuition, fee, room, and board increases for the fall, despite President Nixon's freeze, because they had been instituted at the end of last academic year. Salary raises that went into effect with the start of the fall term were withheld, those starting July 1 were allowed. Employe representation on the 132member University Senate has increased from five to thirteen, bringing the Senate to 140 members. Student groups, includktg-the Movement for a New Congress, sought to register students in large numbers in Tompkins County, without early enthusiasm on the part of either students or election officials. People Dean Charles E. Palm, PhD '35, will leave administration in the College of Agriculture at the end of the academic year, to resume work in his department, entomology. He had served 13 years as dean, 2 as director of research, and 19 as head of entomology. Prof. Howard W. Riley '01, founder of the Department of Farm Mechanics, died August 19 in Ithaca. He was head of the department, later named Agricultural Engineering, from its organization in 1907 until 1944, retired in 1947, and was honored in the naming of Riley-Robb Hall. Prof. Roy G. Wiggans, PhD '19, plant breeding, emeritus, died the same day in Ithaca. He was on the staff from the time he earned his degree, retiring in 1958. He was a pioneer in breeding hybrid corn for New York State. The ashes of Karin A. White '20 were placed in the crypt of the CornellWhite Memorial Chapel of Sage Chapel August 23. Miss White, daughter of Andrew Dickson White, the university's first president, died April 26. The Teams In addition to its new Poly-Turf playing field, the varsity football team will be playing in front of a Crescent this year that is at last undergoing major repairs. New seats, and work on the deteriorating concrete, are part of a two-year program designed to save the structure and make it safe. Early practice sessions turned up the expected scramble for quarterback, with Barrett Rosser '73 given first shot at the opening position. Soph star Mark Allen and Cliff Hendry '72 were in contention as well. The rest of the offensive backfield was set with Ed Marinaro '72 at running back, Co-Capt. Tom Albright '72 at flanker, and Bob Joehl '73 at fullback. The offensive line had Keith Daub '73 at split end, Gary Henderson '74 at tight end; Jack Cushing '72 and Craig Lambert '72 at tackles, Tony Orel '72 and Mike Phillips '74 at guards, and Paul Hanly '73 at center. Ed Shay '72, expected to go at guard, was unable to because of a chronic knee injury. The defensive team had one early battle, for the end spot opposite CoCapt. Bill Ellis '72. In the running were Dick Fauntleroy '72, Matt Olesnki '73, and Bruce Bozich '74. At tackle were Tom Guba '72 and Tom Rakowski '72; guard, Rich Miller '72; linebackers Bob Fleming '72, "monster," and Bob Lally '74 and Ray Van Sweringen '73; halfbacks, Don Jean '72 and Danny Smith '72, and safety, Peter Knight '73. 80 • Cornell Alumni News let CaPnraodt Gerald, 12: "If I were prime minister of northern Ireland, this is how I would solve our problems. First I would split northern Ireland into two parts and I would put prodosons on one side and catholίts on the other side" David, 14: "1would pass a law saying that any Roman Catholic who set foot on the street to start trouble would be shot instantly and without mercy. I would starve them like rats until there wasn't one left in Northern Ireland.^ To find out how two years of religious riots have affected them, Newsweek asked the schoolchildren of Ulster to write essays on the subject. With startling candor, they made it all too clear that the sins of the fathers have already been visited upon the sons. The mood of hate, fear, and violence in Northern Ireland is so infectious that "even Jesus could hate here." Instead of "Cowboys and Indians," the children of Ulster play "Protestants and Catholics." Often they play for keeps. They make nail bombs; they squirrel away secret arsenals. Urchins turned urban guerrillas, they roam the streets late at night looking for trouble. Many of them are not yet in their teens. British troops patrol nervously, aware that at any time the taunts of the children can escalate into a barrage of rocks, bombs, and gunfire. A disgusted shopkeeper says, "It's sad to see grown men held at bay by wee kids." 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