VOLUME 41, NUMBER 31 JUNE 1, 1939 Lehigh Valley Service for Cornell Class Reunions June 16, 17, 18 Commencement June 19 Affords a real opportunity for informal get-togethers, renewal of friendships, etc., while enroute to and from Ithaca. Special Cars for Class Groups THE CLASSES REUNING '69-72, '73, '74, '75-'79-'84-'89-'91, '92, '93, >94-'99-Ό4'09, ΊO, Ίl, '12,'13, Ί4-'19-'24-'29, '30,'31,'32-'34-'37. LOW ROUND TRIP FARES FROM TO ITHACA New York Newark Philadelphia Rochester Buffalo Cleveland Chicago *Plus Pullman fares, ROUND TRIP Coach Travel *Pullman Travel $12.38 $14.90 12.06 14.50 13.80 16.60 4.46 5.26 7.22 8.70 16.30 19.60 33.30 40.00 AIR CONDITIONED gg£g'»aSMciϊ SERVICE Daily Trains—Standard Time Lv. New York (Penna. Station) 7:15 A.M. 9:10 P.M. Lv. Newark (Penna. Station) 7:30 A.M. 9:25 P.M. Lv. Philadelphia (Reading Ter.) 7:35 A.M. 9:10 P.M. Ar. Ithaca 2:55 P.M. *4:5l A.M. RETURNING Lv. Ithaca 1:37 P.M. *10:40 P.M. Ar. Philadelphia (Reading Ter.) 8:55P.M. 7:45 A.M. Ar. 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XLI, NO. 31 I T H A C A , NEW Y O R K , JUNE I, 1939 PRICE 15 CENTS GIFTS TO UNIVERSITY State Reduces Cuts Two additional gifts to the University were reported by Comptroller George F. Rogalsky '07 recently to the Trustees' committee on general administration. From Lincoln A. Passmore, Jr. '41 of Narberth, Pa., the son of L. Alan Passmore '17, has come $5,059.68, ,to be added to the John Faxon Passmore Memorial Fund of $2.5,000 which was established in 1917 in memory of John F. Passmore '13 by his father, Lincoln K. Passmore, the income for unrestricted use. The recent addition is the proceeds of an insurance policy left by Mrs. Lincoln K. Passmore. Receipt was also reported of $5,000 to be added to the Alumni Endowment Fund, with income unrestricted, in the name of Charles Y. Lacy '73 and Mrs. Lacy. This amount had been left in trust by Mrs. Lacy, who died in 1932., and came to the University following the death of her husband, last December 5. At its meeting the Trustees' committee ratified the appointment of Dr. Norman S. Moore '2.3, of Ithaca, as research associate in Psychology for the year 1939-40. The State Legislature last week, in a supplemental budget of $5,000,000, restored something more than one-fourth of the reductions that it had previously made in recommended appropriations for the State Colleges, as reported in the ALUMNI NEWS May 18. This will make possible, according to Professor Ralph H. Wheeler '09, Assistant Treasurer of the University, retention of some of the research and teaching positions which it was thought would have to be abolished. The College of Agriculture will receive under the supplemental budget $38,000, bringing its total for next year to $1,843,713. To Home Economics is restored $10,000, for a total of $319,900. Addition of $3,500 to the Veterinary College appropriation brings it to $191,005; and the Experiment Station at Geneva will receive an additional $4,000, bringing its total to $353,155. REGISTER AT POUGHKEEPSIE Poughkeepsie Junior Chamber of Com- merce will again this year conduct registration for alumni of all colleges who are in town for the Poughkeepsie Regatta June 17. Robert P. Stieglitz '31 is again chairman of the committee. Separate registration booths will be set up in the State Armory at 61 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, for each of the rowing colleges, and another for alumni and students of all others. The building will be open from about 10:30 a.m. Regatta day until just before the first race. Registration lists will enable visitors to locate friends, and the building will serve as a general meeting place for all. FOR WESTCHESTER WOMEN Organization meeting and election of officers for the new Cornell Women's Club of Westchester County will follow a picnic supper, June 6, at the home of Mrs. R. H. Shreve (Ruth Bentley) Όi, 50 Euclid Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson. All alumnae of Westchester County are being invited to attend. '39 SUPPORTS FUND Memorial Fund of the Class of '39 has taken a new form this year: that of enrolling Seniors as active members of the Cornellian Council pledged to make annual gifts to the Alumni Fund, to be used at the discretion of the University Trustees. So far, the Class committee under the co-chairmanship of Thomas I. S. Boak, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., and Madeleine B. Weil of New York City, has enrolled 789 members—seventy-five percent of the Class-—and February graduates and others who have left Ithaca are now being invited. A week's campaign of personal calls by Seniors upon members of their Class was inaugurated with a dinner for the workers in Willard Straight Hall. President Day spoke of the University's need for continued financial support from alumni and from his own experience of ten years as a Dartmouth class agent. He urged that Cornell beat Dartmouth's record of alumni giving, and stressed the need of every man and woman, through the years, of something permanent and of high achievement to "tie to," such as a great university, to get the most from life. Jervis Langdon '97, University Trustee, and former president of the Council, spoke briefly of the importance of the Class Memorials to Cornell, and Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30, executive secretary of the Council, outlinedprocedure. Calls were made by seventy men of the Class, divided into teams under the leadership of Sylvan Cole, Jr. of New York City, John F. Farr of Elmira, Alan E. Hermance of Webster, Charles V. Jeffers of Buffalo, George L. Kalb of Grosse Point, Mich., Jansen Noyes, Jr. of Montclair, N. J., and Richard M. Teachout of Beverly Hills, Cal. Fifteen women also called on their Classmates, led by Diana D. Dibblee of New Rochelle, Florence D. Dixon of Little Neck, and Margaret Paddock of Pittsburgh, Pa. CAMPUS "WILD WEST" For A Gala Spring Day More visitors seemed to be here for Spring Day this year than for some time past. Twenty-five or more fraternities had houseparties, with the usual breakfast-, dinner-, and supper-dances, .and just dances; there were said to be 1500 couples at the Navy Day Ball; about 3,000 persons were estimated to be in the stands at Hoy Field for the baseball game; and nobody has attempted to estimate how many got to Tombstone Gluch on Alumni Field, or went on picnics, or saw the crew races from the many boats along the course and the shore. First official festivity was the Dramatic Club's performance of "The Cardiff Giant," and it played to a crowded and appreciative house in the Willard Straight Theater Friday night, albeit apparently not a predominately Spring Day crowd. Some lines were interpolated in the play, one suspects, to fit the occasion, as undoubtedly will be again when it is given twice during Class Reunions. The show lends itself excellently to such gatherings. The Drill Hall was decorated appropriately with Indians and cowboys along the walls above the fraternity "rancho" boxes, and a huge tepee adorned the center of the dancing space. An enlarged orchestra platform was necessary to accommodate the "floor show" of nearly an hour given by Horace Heidt's orchestra, whose "smooth" rhythms for dancing alternated well with the "hot" music of Woody Heiman, according to several youthful experts. The Ball was opened with Cornell music played by the ROTC Band in uniform, to whose expenses the proceeds go. Another innovation was a singing contest which Bandmaster Heidt conducted, decided by vote of the audience in favor of John S. Thatcher '40 of Ithaca. The other con- testant was Alice M. McFall '39 of New York City. Saturday morning the Campus was fairly alive with girls and boys dresεed in sombreros, colored neckerchiefs and plaid shirts, six-shooters, overalls, and boots, to see the Spring Day parade of Wild West floats and riders. This year again the parade started downtown, came up State Street and along Central Avenue, to be judged from a reviewing stand in front of Wizard Straight, and on up to the Wild West town of Tombstone Gulch on Alumni Field. Of the thirty or more floats entered by fraternities and others, a red-boilered, bellstacked locomotive built backwards on a truck body by Alpha Tau Omega, its 406 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S bell ringing as it was driven in reverse by a driver who couldn't see the road, won the prize. Among others were a Gnu-D Ranch of cavorting cowboys, which later became a sideshow at Tombstone Gulch, two effigies swinging on gallows, and the "Hawvahd" crew dragged along by oxen. Tombstone Gulch was full of Spring Day attractions, including balloons, hawkers, duck-the-clown,hitSambo, and break-the-dish throwing games, and a greased pig race for fraternity aspirants. One of its features was an amusing softball game played by members of the Sun and Widow boards and others, riding and pulling burros. All these and the official Spring Day Scoop, published by the journalism students of Professor Bristow Adams, kept the crowd amused and swelled the coffers of the Athletic Association. Another innovation this year was a challenge swimming match and aquatic carnival at the Beebe Lake swimming pool between the "Water Lilies" (women's swimming team) and the "Little Fishes" of the men's swimming team. Earlier, the ROTC polo team played a team composed of the officer-coaches and Clarence C. Combs '39, of past Varsity teams. Rain held off through the baseball game and until the Varsity crew race on the Lake, but then it spoiled many a picnic if not the motley costumes of Spring Day revellers. Saturday night, dances were the vogue all over the Hill, and Sunday was mostly devoted to resting up in preparation for final examinations, soon to start. ENGINEERING STUDENTS taking the course in Industrial Marketing under Professor Harry J. Loberg '2.9 last week turned salesmen in a novel practice period. For three hours they did their best to sell a variety of industrial supplies and equipment to R. W. Appleton, purchasing agent of Morse Chain Works, and George S. Frank Ίi, University manager of purchases, who had agreed to act as test subjects. About ATHLETICS CREWS DO WELL In a storm-ridden Varsity race, Cornell defeated Harvard, Syracuse, and Pennsylvania on Lake Cayuga last Saturday. Thus ended a Harvard string of ten straight victories begun after a defeat at the hands of Cornell in1936. Cornell's victory gave Yale the Eastern sprint championship in rowing, an honor won by a scant ten feet. For that was the margin by which Yale defeated Cornell the week before in the Carnegie Cup regatta. The Spring Day race was rowed in abominable weather. A light squall blew down the course during the Junior Varsity race, won by Harvard, and Referee Julian W. Curtiss immediately ordered the Varsity eights, just coming out of the Inlet, to return behind the breakwater. The delay proved to be unnecessary, for the lake flattened out immediately. After a delay of some twenty minutes, the Varsity shells started again for Esty's, even as a storm gathered. Wind, rain, and lightning struck just after the starting signal. The shells were blotted out, but they kept going. The storm scattered thousands along the shore, but the oarsmen pulled through without a halt, rowing in virtual darkness and a pelting downpour. When the shells reached the last quarter-mile, the storm let up for a moment to reveal Cornell in the lead, with Harvard and Syracuse deck-to-deck a length behind. They finished thatway, the judges ruling a dead heat between Harvard and Syracuse for second place, with Pennsylvania some two lengths behind. The shells were water-logged as they crossed the finish line. The Varsity time, due to the storm, was the slowest of the day for thetwomile races. Cornell finished in 11:2.2..*, Harvard and Syracuse in 111x8.5, ^an< Pennsylvania in 11:35.9. The Lake was perfect for the Freshman race, won by Cornell, although a light breeze from the south slowed the shells. Cornell, undefeated, won from Pennsylvania by nearly four lengths, with Syracuse three lengths astern. The times: Cornell, n:ι6; Pennsylvania, 11:31.1; Syracuse, 11:43.5. Harvard did not row in the Freshman race. The wind shifted to the north and kicked up a bit of a sea as the Junior Varsities started down the course. Harvard rode the wind to win from Syracuse by nearly a length, with Cornell third, a half-length behind and nearly four lengths ahead of Pennsylvania. Harvard's time of 10:31.6 was the fastest of the day. Syracuse was timed in 10:34.4, Cornell in 10:35.8, and Pennsylvania in 10:51.6. Cornell boatings: VARSITY: Bow, Arthur A. Moak '39 of Brooklyn; i, John W. Kfuse '41 of Davenport, Iowa; 3, William E. Fisher, Jr. '40 of Stevens Point, Wis.; 4, Robert J. Harley '41 of Westfield, N. J.; 5, Commodore John R. Furman '39 of Elmira; 6, James A. Young, Jr. '40 of Angelica; 7, Clay R. Davis '39 of Scarsdale; stroke, Richard K. Collins '40 of Ithaca; coxswain, George A. Sears '40 of Brooklyn. JUNIOR VARSITY: Bow, David R. Longenecker, Jr. '41 of Rockville Centre; i, Peter C. Foote '41 of Milwaukee, Wis.; 3, Benjamin E. Dean '39 of Owego; 4, John Weikart '41 of Baltimore, Md.; 5, William D. Lotspeich '41 of Cincinnati, Ohio; 6, John C. Perry '41 of Ithaca; 7, Stanley W. Allen, Jr. '40 of Glendale, Ohio; stroke, Christian J. Haller '41 of Ithaca; coxswain, Charles E. Boak '41 of New Haven, Conn. FRESHMAN: Bow, Charles C. Leigh of San Diego, Cal.; i, Daniel Schwartzkopf of New Rochelle; 3, Edmund G. Miller of Pelham Manor; 4, William W. Paty, Jr. of Honolulu, T. H.; 5, Franklin P. Eggert of Westfield; 6, Harry M. St. John of Detroit, Mich.; 7, John G. Aldworth of Garden City; stroke, W. Nicholas Kruse of Davenport, la.; coxswain, Fred H. Guterman of West Newton. In late morning races on the Inlet, Cornell's i5o-pound Varsity lost to Pennsylvania by four lengths over the Henley distance of a mile and fivesixteenths. The times: Pennsylvania, 7:55; Cornell, 8:10. ^ϊjpί "WILD WEST" SPRING DAY OF 1939 Left: The parade passes the reviewing stand in front of Willard Straight Hall, on its way to "Tombstone Gulch." Center: Alpha Tau Omega's prize-winning locomotive of the "Union Soot Railroad" makes its way up State Street. Έjght: The varsity race at the halfway mark, Cornell leading, then Harvard, Syracuse, and Pennsylvania. Photos by Joyce '40 JUNE I, 1939 407 Cornell's i5o~ρoιmd Freshman crew won from Pennsylvania by the same margin in a mile race. The times: Cornell, 5:50.5; Pennsylvania, 6:06. SICKLES MOWS ΈM DOWN The baseball team continued its record- setting pace last week, winning two games and clinching at least a tie for its first Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title. Behind superb pitching by Walter J. Sickles '41 of Pearl River and James A. Young '40 of Cherry Creek, the team de- feated its closest rivals, Harvard, by 4-0, and Dartmouth, by 5-3, to set a1 new League record of nine consecutive vic- tories. At week's end, Cornell was in first place, Harvard second, and Dartmouth third. A victory for Cornell in its final game with Dartmouth at Hanover June 17, or one defeat for Harvard in its two remaining games with Yale, will assure Cornell the championship. If Cornell loses and Harvard wins twice, the two will tie for the title. The standing of the teams: W L PC Cornell Harvard 9 2. .818 73 .700 Dartmouth Princeton Yale Pennsylvania Columbia 74 45 35 37 2. 9 .636 .444 .375 .300 .182. Last week's two games drew unusually large crowds to Hoy Field. Some 1,000 saw Sickles shut out Harvard with four hits, May 2.4. On Spring Day, 1,600 saw Sickles and Young combine in another four-hit performance against Dartmouth. Sickles turned in his sixth straight win against Harvard, and Young won his third straight start against Dartmouth, although he pitched only four innings. He was not, however, forced to retire. Batting stars of the two games were George F. Polzer, Jr. '40 of Staten Island and Michael J. Ruddy '41 of Alden, Pa. Polzer's home run in the third inning of the Harvard game gave Cornell a 3-0 lead. Against Dartmouth, Polzer drove in two runs with a triple and a single, and Ruddy hit a home run that gave Cornell a 1-1 advantage in the second inning. Sickles struck out seven Harvard batters. No Harvard player reached third base. Cornell scored in the second inning on two Harvard errors. Polzer's home run, with Charles S. Bowen '40 of Bing- hamton on base, made it 3-0 in the third. In the fourth inning, Frank K. Finneran '41 of Harrison singled, advanced on Sickles's sacrifice, and scored on a hit by Kenneth G. Brown '40 of Millerton. Dartmouth scored first in the Spring Day game, Broberg counting on a single and a series of stolen bases. In Cornell's half of the first inning Brown singled and scored on Polzer's triple. Ruddy's home run put Cornell ahead for good in the second inning. Bowen doubled and scored on Polzer's single to give Cornell a 3-0 lead in the third inning. Dartmouth scored in the fourth on a walk to Urban and Linden's double. Walter Scholl '41 of Port Richmond opened Cornell's half of the fourth inning with a single, and Wonson, Dartmouth's star pitcher, retired in favor of Lendo. A passed ball put Scholl on second, and Ruddy scored him with a single. Ruddy moved to second on a wild pitch, to third on a infield out, and scored, after the bases had been loaded by a hit batsman and a pass, when Dartmouth trapped Brown off first base. Sickles started pitching in the fifth and blanked Dartmouth for three innings. In the eighth Orr's double and Urban's single produced the visitors' final run. The scores by innings: Cornell Harvard 012. 100 ooo—4 ooo ooo ooo—o Cornell Dartmouth in 2.00 oox—5 loo loo oio—3 TRACK TEAM SIXTH The track team placed sixth in the Intercollegiate AAAA games at Tri- borough Stadium, New York City, last week end, as the University of Southern California retained its team title with the record-breaking total of 71J/£ points. Other point scores: Pittsburgh, 16; Cali- fornia, 16%; Michigan State, 15; Co- lumbia, 143/2; Cornell, 13; Brown, n; Yale, 11%; NYU, n; Maine, 10; Penn State, 10; Princeton, 10; Manhattan, 7; Alfred, 4; Pennsylvania, 4; Boston College, i; Fordham, i; Dartmouth, %; Marquette, %. Five of Cornell's thirteen points were scored by James B. Pender '39 of Lawrence, Mass., with a second place in the no-yard low hurdles and a fifth in the loo-yard dash; three by Captain William W. McKeever '39 of Wayne, Pa., with a third place in the hammer throw; three by the one-mile relay team in third place, and two by Walter W. Zittel, Jr. '40 of Buffalo with a fourth place in the 2.2.0- yard low hurdles. Two other Cornell finalists failed to score. John H. Nevius '39 of Flemington, N. J., finished sixth in the 440-yard dash, and Donald A. Weadon '40 of Garden City finished sixth in the no-yard high hurdles. McKeever's third-place throw in the hammer went 171 feet 8 inches, his best performance of the season. Pender won a preliminary heat in the loo-yard dash in 0:10 and placed third in a semi-final heat. In the low hurdles, Pender also won the preliminary heat in 0:14.4 and placed second in a semi-final heat. Vickery of USC broke the meet record of 0:13.1 set in 1937 by J. Hamilton Hucker '37 with a 0:11.8 performance in the final. Zittel placed second in a preliminary heat and won a semi-final heat in 0:13.7. LACROSSE SEASON OVER The lacrosse team finished its season at Philadelphia last Saturday, losing, 10-5, to Pennsylvania. The season's record was one victory, one tie, and five defeats. Robert L. Case '40 of Rochester scored three of Cornell's goals. Richard L. Campbell '41 of Towson, Md., and James R. Riley, Jr. '40 of Hopewell, N. J., each scored one. WIN TWO AT TENNIS The tennis team wound up its season last week end on the Cascadilla courts, defeating Toronto, 5-1, on Friday and Harvard, 6-3, on Saturday. Cornellians won nine singles and two doubles matches. Kennedy Randall, Jr. '41 of Staten Island, Robert J. Schwartzman '40 of Bayside, and Captain Edward D. Devine, Jr. '39 of Detroit, Mich., won their singles matches against both Toronto and Harvard opponents, and the doubles team of Randall and William E. Gifford '41 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, won in both meets. Louis C. Boochever, Jr. '41 of Ithaca defeated his Toronto singles opponent, and Giffbrd and Jerome S. Affron '40 of Beacon won their Harvard singles matches. FRESHMEN WIN AND LOSE Freshman teams won one and lost two contests last week. The tennis team defeated Mansfield State Teachers, 5-4; the baseball team lost to University School of Cleveland, Ohio, 4-3; and the lacrosse team lost to Gow School at South Wales, 4-3. The tennis and baseball contests were played in Ithaca. ODDS AND ENDS Cornell will row in lane No. i (second out from the west shore) in the four- mile varsity race at Poughkeepsie June 17, and in the same lane in the three- mile junior varsity race. In the freshman two-mile race, Cornell will be in lane No. 4. Drawings were in New York City May 2.6. * *# Charles Burns, Jr. '40 of Hartford, Conn., has been elected captain of the ROTC pistol team. John B. Pratt '40 of Marion is the new manager. The team won nineteen and lost fifteen matches during the season. * ** Cornell Rugby Club has elected William H. Worcester '40 of Aurora, 111., president; Frederick G. Jaicks '40 of Hinsdale, 111., treasurer; and John H. Osborn '41 of Warwick East, Bermuda, secretary. The Club plans to affiliate with the Eastern Rugby Union next year. * ** First of the annual Potter cup cross country races was won last week by Robert A. Beck '42. of Milton, Mass. 4o8 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS FROM FAR BELOW . . . By Robert L. Bliss '30 A week ago Sunday was Cornell Day in the Court of Sports at the World's Fair, and the flag occupied ranking position for the day. The Fair started calling up early in the week. Were we going to send out a band? Could they have the crew on its way back from Princeton? How about the baseball team? The Glee Club? And a good representation of Trustees? Those fellows don't fool! We told them a little sadly that we were afraid the flag that had been sent down from Schoellkopf would have to do. First they tried to shame us into doing something. Manhattan College had had tumblers, a swing band, and a splendorama of gymnasts. We said we'dsee what we could do, knowing full well there would be nothing a New Yorker would want more than to get away from the Fair on a hot Sunday in late May. It was a time when Frank Sheehan would have been much in demand. It all worked out all right. Seems there was a baseball school being run next door in the Sports Academy, right beside the Court of Sports and the lucky flagpole. The Cleveland Indians were putting on some sort of a demonstration. As the crowd dispersed they arranged to have them stop a moment and act like reverent Ithacans as the flag slid up the pole for its day in the sun. * *** We told you about the Class of fZ9's ambitious plans for Reunion, their key- note being a certain commercial enter- prise sometimes known as the Flushing Fantasy. Well, they're strutting an emblem, now. It's a silver lapel pin of a trylon with the two perispheres at the base—double vision reuners may rest easy—and the perispheres are pool balls in miniature. One's the solid blue "z" ball, the other the gold striped white "9" ball. Get it? It makes a perfect masse' using the trylon as the cue—no doubt right to the eight ball in the corner pocket! * *** The Varsity baseball team and crew still continueabsorbing topics of interest, and as we go to press half of New York is buttoning itself into the sedan and muttering about Spring Day weather as they start up Route 17. People who al- ways thought of crews in terms of hair- cuts have suddenly become oar-mad, and even the Yankees haven't come a long way from Cooperstown when the Big Red nine is being aired over the coffee cups. * ** SHOTS OF THE WEEK: Kay Ford Ίo, in from Detroit, reporting that his behaviour was no%—10% to squander at the Fair....The L. D. Clutes '13 and Jervis Langdons '97 down from Elmira with their families, saying that Lew Henry '09 would come out of China in time to get back for his thirtieth this June....Ned Johnson 'z8 planning an oldfashioned beefsteak for the annual Club golf outing at the Sands Point Golf and Polo Club in June....Sonny Clute '35 making the area a little more Watkins Salt conscious....Seniors down on long week ends, looking around at employment windows....Fabe Kunzelmann '38 trying to sell them all on Phelps Dodge as the spot, and succeeding with Al Van Ranst and Bill McKeever ('39) who will be sorely missed in the pillar-of-granite department on the gridiron next fall.... Britt Gordon '33 getting his crew ready for the Spring Day sail from Seneca into Cayuga CHICAGO WOMEN ELECT Cornell Women's Club of Chicago, meeting May zo, re-elected Mrs. Franklin N. Corbin, Jr. (Margaret G. Arronet) 'zi as president for the new year. Eunice Stebbins '97 is vice-president, andMrs. Ferdinand A. P. Fischer (Rosamond H. Wendell) 'zz is secretary-treasurer. Annetta M. Dieckmann '09 is official delegate to the Ithaca meeting of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs June 16. For their work during the year Mrs. Corbin especially thanked Mary B.Livingston '93, former secretary, and Mrs. Karel Sevick (Consuelo Holmes) 'zz, Federation Scholarship Fund chairman. The Club sends $z68 to Ithaca as its contribution to the Fund. NEW BELLS READY FOR THE CHIME They will ring for the first time at Class ReunionsJune 16-18. The two bells were given to the University by Charles K. Bassett '14, one in the name of his Class, the other in the name of his fra- ternity, Delta Upsilon. Standing behind them in the arch of the Clock Tower are Robert M. Gifford '39 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, chimemaster; H. W. Peters, University Provost and secretary of the Class of '14;and Professor Paul J. Weaver, chairman of the Department of Music. Photo by Fenner NOW, IN MY TIME! By Romeyn Berry The death of Ben Gifford marks the passing of the last of the old Courtney coterie at the boathouse. In the summer of 1919 when your reporter took over the command (to use an expression more conventional than accurate) of the Athletic Association, he had a wholesome dread of Mr. Courtney. Mr. Courtney was credited with a gift for making life miserable for Graduate Managers he didn't approve of, which was practically all of them. In this situation, one of our first official acts was to appoint Ben GifFord our confidential boathouse signal man. As confidential signal man, Ben reported each day through a secret code worked out with the boathouse flag. The flag drawn up snug to the peak expressed, "Old Man feeling fine. Good day to drop down if you want to talk to him about anything." A foot short of the peak and loose halyards spelled, "Nothing really wrong but he's looking dangerous. Better keep away and let me handle him." The flag at half-mast was a pretty dreadful sign under our code. It meant, "For Heaven sake get down here as quick as you can. Hell's to pay, and the Old Man is on the rampage again." We used to go to Schoellkopf every morning by way of Morrill Hall, which in all seasons commands an unobstructed view of the Inlet. Each day that Old Glory rode at the peak, we went on to the office with a light heart and a feeling of affectionate regard for Ben Gifford. Each day it was below the mark, the hours were anxious. The first time the flag was at halfmast we descended the Hill on reluctant feet, to find Ben Gifford hiding in the launch house and John Hoyle blue with indignation. But to our astonishment, Mr. Courtney had worked himself into a good humor by the time we got there and was highly pleased with himself. That was the day he had flown into such a terrible rage because the Faculty had »placed his stroke oar and Number 6 on probation. He had barred all newspaper men from the boathouse for all time and had forbidden the publication of the boatings. "Now," he said, greeting us with unprecedented smiles, "I won't have any more trouble with busts and probations. It was the reporters that did it, by putting the names of the combinations in the paper, but I've got that stopped. Answer me this. How the hell are the Faculty going to put the oarsmen on probation any more if they don't know who the oarsmen are?" There were other days, however, when Ben Gifford's flag at half-mast JUNE I, 1939 409 didn't work out so pleasantly. Remind me to tell you sometime about the occasion when the lady engaged to run the training table was reported to have said she "rather dreaded it because Mr. Courtney is a hard man to get along with." He chased everybody out of the boathouse that day, and wouldn't let them in again until all had assured him that he was probably the easiest man in town to get along with. Poor old Ben. First the Old Man, then John Hoyle, and now Ben! UP-STATE WOMEN MEET About sixty women attended a joint luncheon-meeting of the Cornell Women's Clubs of Buffalo, Rochester and Batavia May 13 at Harvey's Tea Room in Batavia. Olive Northup Snyder Ίx was the principal speaker. Aline Jokl '30, president of the Buffalo Club, presided, and Mrs. George D. Crofts (Frances Johnson) '05 spoke briefly on the Federation Scholarship Fund. MARK FOUNDER'S HOME Cornellians from Syracuse, Ithaca, and elsewhere gathered May 2.0at the site of Ezra Cornell's boyhood home east of DeRuyter, near the hamlet known as Quaker's Basin, and with simple ceremonies dedicated blue and gold iron tablets erected by the State of New York. Among those who stood at the foundation of the house, long since torn down, that the young Cornell erected, was his grandson and present Trustee of the University, Charles E. Cornell. An opening prayer by the Rev. A. L. Briddon and the singing of "Alma Mater" were followed by a brief address of welcome by A. L. Smith, supervisor of the Town of DeRuyter. Then Professor Albert W. Smith '74, Engineering, Emeritus, told of having seen the Founder as a Freshman and of having watched at his bier when he died that year. Dean Smith read two of his poems, "Ezra Cornell" and "The Hill." Walter W. Edwards '93, chairman of the committee for the Cornell Club of Syracuse, read a message from President Edmund E. Day of the University, and the ceremonies closed with the "Evening Song." One marker, placed in the village of DeRuyter on Route 13, has an arrow pointing eastward along the road to Otselic and below it: 3^ Miles Site of Boyhood Home Ezra Cornell Founder of Cornell University. The other is at the foot of the hill up with runs a wagon track to the site of the homestead. It says: EZRA CORNELL 300 Yards Up This Lane Stood His Boyhood Home. In 18x8 he Walked to Ithaca Where He Later Founded CORNELL UNIVERSITY. ENTERTAIN HUDSON VALLEY Cornell Women's Club of Middletown entertained alumnae of the Hudson Valley at a dinner-meeting May 18 at the Storm King Arms, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Helen E. Watkins '2.5, president of the Middletown Club, presided. Guest speakers were Mrs. R. C. Osborn (Agda Swτenson) '2.0, president of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, and Mrs. R. H. Shreve (Ruth Bentley) '02., chairman of the Federation Scholarship Fund. Colored moving pictures of the Campus and of the College of Home Economics were shown, and Cornell songs were sung. At the close of the meeting the Middletown Club presented Mrs. Shreve with a check for $100 as its contribution towards the Scholarship Fund. ΦBK ELECTS THIRTY-EIGHT Cornell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society, has elected to membership Phyllis B. Arlt and Anne H. Epley, both members of the Class of '38 who are now in the Graduate School; twenty-four members of the Senior Class; and twelve Juniors. Seniors elected are Barbara E. Babcock, Ithaca; Walter G. Barlow, Ames, la.; William N. Cohen, Brooklyn; Ronald E. Coleman, Olean; Justin J. Condon, Yonkers; Mary J. Davison, Staten Island; Bernard Didinsky, South Fallsburg; Milton J. Esman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bruce M. Esplin, Dansville; Frank A. Graceίfo, Auburn; Charles W. Hagen, Jr., East Orange, N. J. Howard R. Houston, Newfield; Bernard J. Hyde, Brooklyn; Lawrence I. Kaplan, Brooklyn; Victor H. Kaunitz, Brooklyn; Austin H. Kiplingery Bethesda, Md.; Florence Morgenstein, Brooklyn; Mervin G. Olinger, Bloomfield, N. J.; Frances W. Rendell, Utica; Beryl M. Salsbery, Batavia; Dorothea M, Shanks, Forestport; Jules Silver, New Rochelle; William L. Spalding, Jr., Westfield, N. J.; Herbert L. Sultan, Brooklyn. Juniors: Marian R. Colden, Richmond Hill; Robert D. Deans, Ridgewood, N. J.; Ellen Ford, Birmingham, Mich.; Francis Greenspan, Perth Amboy, N. J.; Isaac N. Groner, Buffalo; Wilhelm W. Krakenberger, Nuremberg, Germany; Morris O. Locks, Brooklyn; Jack L. Ratzkin, Brooklyn; Samuel Rosmarin, Brooklyn; Edward H. Rothstein, Far Rockaway; Natalie R. Silverston, Brooklyn; Leon H. Tykulsker, Brooklyn. ALBANY WOMEN ELECT Twenty-four members of the Cornell Women's Club of Albany attended the annual meeting, May 9, at the home of Mrs. Milton G. Nelson (Helen M. Stearns) Ό8. Outgoing officers reported, and Dr. Ethel L. Cornell '14, chairman of the nominating committee, presented a slate for the year which was accepted: president, Mrs. Howard E. Salsbury (Helen L. Jaquish) 'XT.; vice-president, Mrs. Authur G. Pellman (Helen A. Weber) 'z3; corresponding secretary, M. Genevieve Coon '2.9; recording secretary, Mrs. George C. Vroman (Marion A. Fitzpatrick) '07; treasurer, Mrs. William Streets (Ruth M. Luscher) '2.2.. Mrs. Frederick D. Colson (Edna M. McNary) Όo gave an impromptu and spirited account of the trip to Ithaca for Cornell Day for Women. She has been nominated by the Club for vice-president of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs. Guests were later entertained with motion pictures of Nassau, B.I., taken by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson on a recent vacation trip. CORNELLIANS AND NEIGHBORS AT SITE OF EZRA CORNELL'S BOYHOOD HOME Professor Albert W. Smith '78 speaks of the Founder at the dedication of State markers commemorating the spot at the brow of the hill near DeRuyter where the young Cornell designed and built a house for his family, and from which he set out for Ithaca. Inset: The Cornell home just before it was torn down about thirty years ago. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS FOUNDED 1899 Published for Cornellians by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly during the college year; monthly in July and August: thirty-five issues annually. Subscription: $4.00 a year in U. S. and possessions; Canada , $4.35; Foreign, $4.50. Single copies fifteen cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance and are renewed annually until cancelled. Editor _ Managing Editor R. W. SAILOR '07 H. A. STEVENSON '19 Assistants: RUTH RUSSELL '31 FLORA DANIEL GLASS '37 Contributing Editors: ROMEYN BERRY '04 F. M. COFFIN Ίi L. C. BOOCHEVER Ίi W. J. WATERS '17 Printed by The Cayuga Press ITHACA, NEW YORK NEXT ISSUE JUNE 15 The University is getting ready for final examinations and Commencement. Athletic schedules ended with Spring Day, except for baseball games at Cooperstown June 15 and 16 and the final League game at Hanover June 17, and the Poughkeepsie regatta. Next week the Campus will be deep in finals. Thus the ALUMNI NEWS suspends publication for one week; the next issue to appear June 15. We shall be represented in the "Cornell Today" exhibits in the Drill Hall during Reunions, and our office downtown will be open for the convenience of friends and subscribers. We hope to see you. PICTURES WANTED The ALUMNI NEWS solicits pictures of alumni and Cornell groups, taken at Reunions and elsewhere. For use in our Reunion issue June zz, we must have prints not later than June 19, with individuals identified if possible. Please address pictures to us at Box 575, Ithaca. Credit will be given to the photographer, and prints returned if desired. DISCUSS JOBS FOR YOUTH "Youth and Occupational Adjustment" will be the subject of a Summer Session conference, August 3-5, sponsored by the Graduate School of Education and the New York State Education Department. It is planned for teachers and members of school groups, others interested in community service, and workers in such organizations as the National Youth Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, public employment services, and other social and civic groups. The conference will discuss its subject from the point of view of organized labor, employer, and the school; will consider technological change and its bearing upon employment; and will hear representative youths express their own views. Among the speakers will be James S. Thomas, president of Clarkson College of Technology; Nicholas Hans of London, England; Oscar R. Lebeau, PhD '36, research agent of the American Vocational Association; and Howard M. Bell, associate director of the American Youth Commission. Chairman of the committee for the conference is Professor William A. Smith, PhD '37, Rural Education. KANE '34 TO ASSIST LYNAH ROBERT J. KANE '34 (above with Coach Moakley) has been appointed assistant director of athletics at the University, effective July i. He will succeed Henry S. Godshall, Jr. '36, who has resigned to take employment as an engineer in the production department of the Scott Paper Company in Chester, Pa. Kane entered the College of Agriculture in 1930 from Ithaca High School, where he played football, baseball, was captain of basketball and track and State interscholastic champion in the 100- and zzo-yard dashes. He was a member of the Varsity track team three years and holds the University record for zoo meters and 400 meters; went to England in 1934 as a member of the Cornell-Princeton team against Oxford-Cambridge and later competed throughout Europe with other American athletes. For three years he wore the colors of the New York Athletic Club and was captain of their track team in 1934. He was president of Spiked Shoe, secretary of the Student Council, and is secretary of his Class; a member of Sphinx Head and Beta Theta Pi. He received the BS in February, 1936, and attended the Law School a year and a half, at the same time assisting Coach Moakley; has been Freshman track coach the last two years. As an undergraduate he was Campus reporter for the Ithaca Journal, and recently he compiled the booklet in honor of Moakley, "Forty Short Years." Godshall has been assistant to James Lynah '05, Director of Physical Education and Athletics, since he received the BS in Administrative Engineering in June, 1936. As a broadjumper he too was a member of the Cornell-Princeton team which competed in England in 1934. He also won the football "C"; was president of Spiked Shoe and of the Student Council and a member of the Willard Straight Hall board of managers, of COMING EVENTS Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. Contributions to this column must be received on or before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 New York City: Medical College Commence- ment, 1300 York Avenue, 4 THURSDAY, JUNE 15 Cooperstown: Baseball, Virginia Class of '13 pre-Reunion FRIDAY, JUNE 16 Ithaca: Reunion registration and "Cornell Today" exhibits, Drill Hall, all day Alumni luncheon, Drill Hall, ιx-2. Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, an- nual meeting and reception, Willard Straight Hall, 2. Organ recital, Professor Luther M. Noss, Sage Chapel, 5 Senior-alumni singing, Goldwin Smith portico, 7 Musical Clubs concert of Cornell songs, "Trial By Jury," and other selections from Gilbert and Sullivan, Bailey Hall, 8:45 Dramatic Club presents "The Cardiff Giant," by Professor Alex M. Drummond and Robert E. Gard, AM '38, Willard Straight Theater, 8:45 Cooperstown: Baseball, Illinois Wesleyan SATURDAY, JUNE 17 Ithaca: Registration and "Cornell Today" exhibits, Drill Hall, until 3 Alumnae breakfast, Willard Straight Hall, 7-30 Civil Engineering breakfast, Sibley, 8-10:30 Architecture breakfast, White, 8:30-11 Association of Class Secretaries annual meeting, Willard Straight, 9 Cornell Alumni Corporation annual meet- ing, President Day, Alumni Trustee election results, amendment of by-laws, Bailey Hall, 10 Alumni-Faculty-Senior luncheon and parade, Drill Hall, ii-z Cornellian Council annual meeting, Drill Hall, 2. Baseball, Class of '09 vs. Class of '14, Hoy Field, 2.:3o Law School open house, Myron Taylor Hall, 4-6 Class dinners, as announced, 6 Dramatic Club presents "The Cardiff Giant," Willard Straight Theater, 8:30 Reunion Rally, Bailey Hall, 9:30 Poughkeepsie: IRA regatta, freshman 4, junior-varsity 5, varsity 6 Hanover, N. H.: Baseball, Dartmouth SUNDAY, JUNE 18 Ithaca: Baccalaureate sermon, the Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor, Collegiate Church of Si. Nicholas, New York City, Bailey Hall, 4 Senior singing and Class Day, Goldwin Smith portico, 7 Women's Senior singing, Balch Halls court, 8:15 MONDAY, JUNE 19 Ithaca: Seventy-first Commencement, Drill Hall, ii MONDAY, JULY 3 Ithaca: Summer Session begins SATURDAY, AUGUST 12. Ithaca: Summer Session closes Tau Beta Pi, and winner of a McMullen Scholarship. He also is secretary of his Class, and is a member of Quill and Dagger and Kappa Sigma. JUNE I, 1939 ON THE CAMPUS AND DOWN THE HILL MEMORIAL DAY item: Ohio State University's war record volume, recently published, points out that Ohio State was second only to Cornell in the number of men who served in the armed forces during the World War; and that in number of war dead Cornell is first, University of Illinois second, and Ohio State third. No memorial services were held this year for Cornellians who died in service. SIGMA NU four-oared crew defeated that of Alpha Gamma Rho to win the interfraternity rowing championship, and their track team amassed the most points in the two-day track and field meet. Score of the track meet was Sigma Nu 30, Chi Psi 2.1,and a tie for third place (10 points) among Alpha Delta Phi, Theta Chi, and the Latin-Americans team. STUDENT COUNCIL at its organization meeting last week elected Ward H. Goodenough '41 of New Haven, Conn., its representative, with President West Hooker '40 of Winnetka, 111., to the Council on Physical Education and Athletics. CHI OMEGA has awarded its annual prize for the Senior woman who has done outstanding work in sociology to Joy Agrons '39 of Ventnor, N. J. Miss Agrons is a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi. TWO SORORITIES have new chaperones this year. At Pi Beta Phi, Mrs. Mary Ames Bloss of Leonia, N. J., has replaced Mrs. Lelia Mylander who now lives in Columbus, Ohio. Emily Knapp of Binghamton is the new chaperone at Chi Omega, succeeding Mrs.Ida Keyes Lawlor, who is living in Memphis, Tenn. Both the former chaperones resigned because of ill health. 300 FRESHMEN had some difficulty burning their caps, as scheduled, May zz because after a mass meeting in Bailey Hall and snake-dance through Willard Straight, they found the wood they had gathered for the cap-burning behind the dormitories all burned up. Finally, however, kerosene and enough fuel were collected to make a blaze, and then they serenaded Sage College under the watchful eye of Walter H. Foertsch, president of the Student Council. GARDEN LOVERS of this region have enjoyed the spring beauty of the attractive rock garden along the brook south of Willard Straight Hall. Last week, too, the blooms of several thousand Holland tulips at the South Hill home of H. B. MacNamee, University grounds superintendent, and Mrs. MacNamee, attracted visitors. This week, many went "HELP WANTED—Talent for Gnu-D Ranch burlesque, Tombstone Gulch. Requirements: Masculinity, Sobriety, and Levity. Fun for all. Phone Ed Kudlich, 2095." This from the Sun's classified advertising columns May 26 describes succinctly but accurately the general impression made by this year's Spring Day. to see the iris gardens of Colonel Jesse C. Nichols, former ROTC Commandant, on Kline Road north of Forest Home. REFEREE of the Spring Day regatta was Julian W. Curtiss, Yale '79, who has officiated for many years at the Poughkeepsie Regatta. NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS sent to Ithaca to cover the Spring Day crew races Robert F. Kelley of the Times, Everett B. Morris of the Herald Tribune, and John Aspinwall of the Associated Press. Morris had been in Ithaca since Wednesday, when he came up to report the baseball game with Harvard. LUANA L. MESSENGER Memorial Prize of $2.50, awarded annually since 1902. for the student essay "giving evidence of the best research and most fruitful thought in the field of human progress or the evolution of civilization . . .," was won by Claude T. Bissell, Grad, of Toronto, Canada. His essay is entitled "Evolutionary Ethics in George Eliot and Samuel Butler." TABLE TENNIS and pool championships of the University were decided in the Willard Straight game room last week. Harold Goldenberg '41 of New York City defeated James J. Bettmann '40 of New York City with the racquets, 3~z; and Fred H. Morris '41 of Rochester outplayed Carlton H. Sheely '39 of Syracuse, who last February won the intercollegiate billiard championship. BARNES SHAKESPEARE PRIZE of $50 was awarded to Marian Putnam '39 of Larchmont for her essay, "Romeo: A Tragic Hero." The Prize was founded in 1887 by Mrs. Alfred S. Barnes, whose husband was the donor of Barnes Hall. NEW YORK FARMERS, composed of downtown professional and business men who operate farms, spent their annual "day in the country" May 17 at the College of Agriculture. They arrived in a special Pullman, had breakfast and were welcomed at Willard Straight Hall by Dean Carl E. Ladd Ίz, inspected the University farms and talked with members of the Agriculture Faculty all day, and returned to Willard Straight for dinner and a discussion of what they had seen. BENJAMIN C. GIFFORD, caretaker, weather prognosticator, and general handy man at the Varsity boathouse for many years, was fatally injured May Z5 when his car was struck by another as he turned off the Trumansburg road just outside of Ithaca. GifTord came to Ithaca in 1914 as a carpenter to work on Schoellkopf stadium, and remained as an employee of the Athletic Association, being assigned to the boathouse in 1919 at the instance of Coach Charles Courtney. He worked with John Hoyle at building and repairing shells, and of late years had been in charge of the boathouse shop and equipment. Hewas sixty-nine, a widower; lived at 118 College Avenue. '86 MEMORIAL PRIZE in Public Speak^ ing, of $86, was awarded to Robert M. Rublee '41 of Ellington, who spoke in Willard Straight Memorial Room. His subject, "The Battle of Experts," he criticized the American system of retaining expert witnesses in court actions, and advocated the French method of experts paid by the state. Judges were Professors Julian L. Woodward 'zz, Economics; James Hutton 'z4, Classics; and Royal E. Montgomery, Economics. Professor Herbert A. Wichelns Ί6, Public Speaking, presided. ROMEYN BERRY '04 has been elected second vice-president of the Tompkins County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and delegated to compile ahistory of its loo years for the centennial premium book of this year's Tompkins County Fair, which the Society runs. He has issued an appeal for old premium lists and other memorabilia. SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER June 4 is the Rev.Frederick M. Eliot, president, American Unitarian Association,Boston, Mass. SEVENTY-FIVE SCIENTISTS and engineers from eastern universities and industrial laboratories attended the ninth semi-annual photoelasticity conference here May 13. One of the speakers at an all-day session in Baker Laboratory was Trevor R. Cuykendall, PhD '35, Civil Engineering. Bausch & Lcmb Optical Co. sent down a special exhibit of the newest polaroscopes, in charge of Charles C. Nitchie '04, to supplement demonstrations given in the Engineering and Physics laboratories. GUESTS at the President's House last week were Trustee Maxwell M. Upson '99 and Mrs. Upson, and John L. Mott, for two years assistant to the Dean of the University Faculty and director of the International Association of Ithaca and now director of International House in New York City, and Mrs Mott. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Concerning THE FACULTY FRANK E. GANNETT '98, University Trustee, spoke at a meeting of the Buffalo Rotary Club May 18, stressing that America's most serious problems are at home rather than abroad. FOUR MORE OFFICERS who have been detailed here with the ROTC, besides Captain George M. Williamson, Jr. whose going we noted May 18, have been ordered to new posts for next year. Lieutenant-Colonel James I. Muir receives the rank of Colonel June i, and will command the 2.6th Infantry at Plattsburgh Barracks. He has been senior instructor of infantry with the ROTC since 1935. Major James O. Tarbox, coach of the ROTC rifle team four years and adjutant of the Corps this year, has been assigned to the nth Infantry Brigade at Fort Sheridan, 111. Major Charles E. Boyle, F.A., successful coach of the ROTC polo team for four years, is detailed as instructor with the Oklahoma National Guard, at Tulsa, Okla. Captain John R. Pitman, Jr., who came in 1935 and has been assistant polo coach, will join the 3d. Field Artillery at Fort Sheridan, 111. To REPLACE these officers, the War Department has assigned to Cornell Major Walter L. Mitchell, who comes from Fort Meade, Md., as senior instructor in Infantry; Major Jesse B. Matlack, F.A., transferred from duty in Hawaii; Captain Edward H. Barr, from the 9th Field Artillery at Fort Lewis, Wash.; and Captain Edward H. Lastayo, from the 6th Field Artillery at Fort Hoyle, Md. DEAN S. C. HOLLISTER, Engineering, read a paper on the possibilities and limitations of welding at a meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute May X5 in New York City. DEAN ROBERT M. OGDEN Όo, Arts and Sciences, lectured at Vassar College May 19 on " Phychological Values in the Conservation of the American Landscape." His was the last lecture of a series on "The Conservation of the American Landscape." BERNARD F. GOODRICH '37, instructor in Extension Teaching, has a son, born May 17. Goodrich lives at zog College Avenue. THE REVEREND HUGH A. MORAN, Presbyterian student pastor, attended the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. Reverend Moran received a citation from the Board of Christian Education for distinguished service in Christian education, the first time this award has been made to a university pastor. NECROLOGY '91 BSArch—RAYMOND FRANCIS ALMIRALL, May 18, 1939, in New York City, where his home was at the Gramercy Park Hotel. He was president of the architectural firm of Almirall and Almirall, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. After graduation he studied in Paris for four years. In 1910 he designed the Brooklyn Central Library. Later he was a representative at the restoration of Versailles, the Trianon, Fontainbleau, and the Cathedral of Rheims. Brother, Juan A. Almirall '91. Chi Psi; Bench and Board; Mermaid. '98 ME—RICHARD MARCUS KLEIN, December 19, 1938, in New York City. He was at one time an electrical expert in the Navy Department. '14 BArch—GEORGE WALLACE RAMSEY, May 19, 1939, in New York City. He was a partner in Lazard Freres and Company, investment bankers, New York City, and had previously been a vice-president of Harris, Forbes and Company, vicepresident and director of Chase-Harris, Forbes, and a director of the Lincoln Building Corporation. During the War he was a major in the Ordnance Department in France. Kappa Sigma; Tau Beta Pi; Gargoyle; L'Ogive. Ί6 DVM—DR. RUSSELL CONKLYN RUTAN, October 2.0,1938, at his home, 45 South Street, Goshen. He had practiced veterinary medicine in Goshen for many years. Omega Tau Sigma; Society of Comparative Medicine. '19 AM—MRS. MARSHALL HERTIG (EDWINA MARIA SMILEY), April 19, 1939, in Lima, Peru. Mrs. Hertig was an assistant in Plant Pathology at the University during 1916-17 and an instructor during 1917-10. The next year she was an instructor in botany at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. She later travelled extensively with her husband, Marshall Hertig, Grad ΊS. '2.0—WALTER THOMAS PAINE, March 15, 1939. His home was at 639 Forest Avenue, Westfield, N. J. He spent one year in Mechanical Engineering. He was at one time a commercial engineer with the Brooklyn Edison Company. '40—THOMAS SHELDON DUNHAM, May 2.0, 1939, in an automobile accident near Ithaca. The son of Clarence L. Dunham '12. and Mrs. Dunham (Rhoda F. White) Ίi, he was in the Administrative Engineering Course. His sister is Rhoda B. Dunham '41. He was a member of the Telluride Association, chairman of the Cornell branch of the American Student Union, and holder of a John McMullen Scholarship. Concerning THE ALUMNI Personal items and newspaper clippings about all Cornellians are earnestly solicited. '94 AB—Mrs. Herbert D. Brown (Harriet C. Connor), author of Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, protested against the sanctionist policy of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, at its annual meeting in Washington, D. C., recently. The Conference approved collective action against aggressors, increased cooperation with the League of Nations, and a government embargo on Japan. Mrs. Brown drew a parallel between the course followed by women's leaders in 1917 and the course being followed by the leaders of the Cause and Cure group now. The Christian Century says, "Despite the near-unanimity of the Washington conference, we have an idea that Mrs. Brown may have been speaking more truly for the mothers of America than did the executive officers who drove the conference with such a tight rein." '09 AB—Annetta M. Dieckmann lives at xcα North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. She will attend her twentieth Reunion in Ithaca June 16-18, and while in the East will also attend conventions of the National Conference of Social Workers and the National Association of Employed Officers of the YWCA. Ίi LLB—Francis P. Cuccia, Jr., son of Francis P. Cuccia '12., has been named stroke of the Navy varsity crew. He was moved up from the junior-varsity, which he stroked to victory over the Cornell Junior-Varsity May 6. Cuccia is a field auditor in the Internal Revenue Agent Division, Brooklyn. "1913 AHOY—HOP ON"—Remember how we used that slogan many years ago on our cars at Reunion? Well, this time it means "Step on the gas" because June 16 is just around the corner. Without mentioning any names (except that of Pfeiffer of Ί6) there are a number of men from other Classes who are going gunning after any Reunion records that 1913 makes. Well boys, if there's going to be any shooting, let's all make'them aim damn high. Let's hang up a "Dix plan" record that they'll all have a tough time hitting. '' We were the cream last year"—let's do it again and meet everybody with a 1913 loyalty that can't be beat. Start that good habit now, "Back to Ithaca every June," and don't let anything stop you.—M. K. S. '13—The Class will hold a pre-Reunion in Cooperstown June 15, and will attend the baseball game between Cornell and University of Virginia which will help to celebrate the centennial of baseball. They are invited by Rowan D. Spraker '13, mayor of Cooperstown and editor of the Freeman's Journal there. JUNE I, 1939 413 June 16Ί8 RE Nearly one-fourth of the members of the Class of 1914 have promised to be back for the Reunion. If you have not yet been able to make up your mind, please do so now. Look up that letter we sent you last week. Sign your name on the appropriate slips and send them in right away. If \ve get your order for one of our white flannel blazers, jaunty but refined, in the next mail, we will try to fill it for you. But this is your last chance for a blazer. If you wait much longer you won't even get a hat that will do you justice. But what the heck (as we used to say in 1914). Even if you can't decide until Reunion Day, come anyhow.—M. B. '14—Alex J. Gillespie has been with the Thew Shovel Company, manufacturers of power shovels, cranes, and draglines, Lorain, Ohio, for thirteen years, since last September as assistant chief engineer. He lives at 430 Glen Park Drive, Bay Village, Ohio. He writes that he will be in Ithaca for '14*5 Twentyfifth Reunion in June. '15, '30 BS—Christian F. Hagemann is in the landscape department of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. CO I? WE I. •- 1916 — 25 YEAR REUNION The Metropolitan Reunion Committee of the 1916 Class met at the Cornell Club of New York for dinner on May 19. Sam Howe, the General Reunion Chairman, came down from Buffalo to preside and at first blush, we all thought that Anthony Eden of England had arrived for a bit of propaganda. Bill Kleitz of the 1915 Class was a welcome guest for the evening and Arthur Mellen of the 1917 Class joined us before the end, looking so fashionable in his formal attire and no end impressive with that Metropolitan Life Insurance air. Tentative plans for a large Class dinner were discussed and the date will shortly be announced.Verbosity was the order of the night and practically everyone obliged with some personal remarks, both sacred and profane. The songs were exceptionally good with Len Hicks, the old Glee Club leader, and George May Stevens, the Class thrush, carrying the choral burdens, ably abetted by Collie Collins, Frank Thomas, and an itinerant miscellany of part-time harmonizers. The Class, by happy fortune, is well rep- resented in the world of spirits, and George May, not to be outdone in hospitality by Bay Hunter and his Ballantίne, obliged with a rare old mixture known as Old Angus, and both brews were well treated. It would appear to be a battle for our favors from now on between National Distillers and Ballantines, and we do not care much who wins, since it is obvious that we cannot lose. The following were present: Bill Kleitz, Art Mellen, Sam Howe, Pat Irish, Bub Pfeiffer, Harold Bache, Allen Frick, Ted Jamison, Hal Thorne, Fred Potter, Dave Freudenthal, George Stevens, Shep Lyon, Collie Collins, Grant Schleicher, Bob Dahn, Joe Inness, Frank Thomas, Len Hicks, and Harry Byrne. Messages of regrets were received from Rus Welles, Paul Sanborne, George Amory, Bill Willet and Buddy Fay who were unable to attend. It was a real swell evening and a most successful Class Dinner is looked for in the near future. By way of epilogue, lest you forget— ADOPT THE 1916 PLAN.—H. F. B. '17—Cyrus W. Merrell is assistant sales manager of the Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Mo., where he lives at 510 Overhill Drive. Ί8, '2.3 WA—G. Whitney Bowen is president of the Stewart National Bank of Livonia, Livonia. He writes, "Recently returned from a trip around South America on S.S. Bremen. A. Graham Miles '97 was also on the trip." '19 LLB—Clyde Christie has a daughter, Jane Christie, born last August i. He writes that he has a renewed interest in aviation and hopes to receive a private pilot's license this year. He lives at 2.4 Cleveland Street, Bergenfield, N. J. '2,0—Lewis B. Mallery is with the National City Bank of New York in Tientsin, China. Ίi PhD—Dr. Marjorie S. Harris is head of the philosophy department at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She was recently elected president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. '2.x ME—Asher D. McCowen has a second son, Scott Dougherty McCowen, born last October 3. '2.2. Grad—George H. Gilbert, Jr. is principal of the Senior High School, Ardmore, Pa., where he lives at 2.2.1 Kent Road. '2.3—Henry F. Miller is sales manager of the Hershey Machine and Foundry Company; lives at R. F. D. i, Manheim, Pa. '2.3 BArch—John S. Parke is vicepresident and a director of Vermilya Brown Company, buildingconstruction, formerly Marc Eidlitz and Sons, 100 East Forty-second Street, New York City. He lives at 70 Pine Brook Drive, Larchmont. 15 Here's the first country-wide report on reuners, hot from the mail pouches in Grand Central Station, relayed to Ithaca on Daylight Saving Time by courtesy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Sixty men from twelve states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, had their minds all made up when the postcards reached them and smacked the cards right back at the mailman. Their names go in the paper as bait to the rest of you There must be somebody here you'd like to see again. Make up your mind and climb aboard the '2,4 Steam Roller now! Late comers will have to hang on the smokestack. Keep off the hot-spot by writing Max Schmitt today! The early birds are: Ashley, Bassett, Beaver, Bennett, Brothers, Burnett, Burnham, Corwith, Davis, Egbert, Felske, Fillius, Frost, Fuller, Gerbereux, Givan, Godley, Green, Hall, Hearne, Howes, King, Kirby, Kline, Lautz, Lincoln, Lintz, Ludlow, Ludlam, Mahoney, Molenberg, Montgomery, Newstead, Norris, Nixon, Philips, Post, Rauch, Rinck, Robinson, Rogers, Rose, Sack, Schmitt, Snyder, Steele, Stevenson, Sullivan, Sundstrom, Tannhauser, Thompson, Todd, Uhl, Watkins, Wedell, Wehle, Williams, Wood, Woods, Yates. '2.4 AB—Florence Daly has taught art for three years, two years at Greenport, and this year at Haverstraw, where she lives at 105 Hudson Avenue. '2.5 ME, 'z6 MME—Robert P. Mason of Attleboro, Mass., has a daughter, Berthe Ellen Mason, born May 7. 'z5, '2.7 AB—Paul W. Seagers teaches at the Cato Central School, Cato. '2.6, '2.8 BS, '38 MS; '2.9 BS—George H. Salisbury and Mrs. Salisbury (Kate C. Seager) '19 have a daughter, born May 9. They live in Myers and Salisbury teaches at the Ludlowville High School. '2.7 BS—William E. Jordan is with the Brooklyn Botanical Library, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. He lives at 351 Marine Avenue, Brooklyn. '2.8, '2.9 ME—Theodore C. Ohart is eastern New York State district sales representative of the incandescent lamp department of the General Electric Company. He writes "Have been specializing in fluorescent lighting applications—the new highly efficient tubular mercury vapor lamps—giving the public more light for their money than ever before." He lives at 109 Catherine Street, Scotia. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL HOSTS A Guide to Comfortable Hotels and Restaurants Where Cornellians and Their Friends Will Find a Hearty Cornell Welcome ^REUNION Siouffer's Restaurants HOSTS N. TOWNSEND ALLISON '28 Pittsburgh ERNEST TERWILLIGER '28 Detroit B. F. COPP '29 Cleveland R.W.STEINBERG '29 New York L. W. MAXSON '30 New York H. GLENN HERB '31 Philadelphia W. C. BLANKINSHIP '31 Cleveland ITHACA DINE AT GILLETTE'S CAFETERIA On College Avenue Where Georgia's Dog Used to Be Air Conditioned the Year "Round CARL J. GILLETTE '28, Propr. CENTRAL NEW YORK DRUMLINS At Syracuse, N.Y. OPEN ALL YEAR AROUND CAFETERIA DINING ROOM TAP ROOM GOLF TENNIS WINTER SPORTS L WIARD'30 Restaurant Manager R. S. BURLINGAME '05 Owner NEW YORK AND VICINITY John P. Masterson, '33, Assf. Manager PARK AVE 51st TO 52nd STS-NEW YORK ADIRONDACKS For Vacations— STAR LAKE INN STAR LAKE, N.Y. Unrestricted Clientele A Large Comedian Staff 630 5th Ave., N. Y. C. 410 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, N.Y. until June 15th NEW ENGLAND Stop at the ... HOTEL ELTON WATERBURY, CONN. "A New England Landmark' Bud Jennings '25,Proprietor OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS CORNELL CLUB OF NEW ENGLAND PARKER HOUSE Boston's Most Famous Hotel Cornell Luncheon Every Monday at 12:30 J. S. FASSETT '36 A. C. HILL '37 SOUTH V I R G I N I A ^ B E A CN CAVALIER CAVALIER BEACH CLUB CAVALIER COUNTRY CLUB VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. ROLAND EATON'27. ManagingDir. ' CORNELLIANS will be particularly welcome at The Stratford Arms Hotel 117 WEST 70TH STREET TRαfαlgαr 7-9400 NEW YORK Thirty Minutes From The World's Fair (Write for reservations) ROBERT C. TRIER, Jr. 32, Resident Manager BERMUDA THE CORAL ISLAND CLUB BERMUDA'S BEST 122 E. 42nd St. New York City MANAGED BY JACK BATTEN '37 In Beautiful Bear Mountain Park . . . BEAR MOUNTAIN INN Palisades Interstate Park Commission A. C. BOWDISH '26 Manager Phone Stony Point 1 for Reservations Cornellians EAT and TRAVEL Five Thousand Loyal Alumni Prefer to Patronize the CORNELL HOSTS Whose Ads they Find Here For Advertising at Low Cost write: BOX 575 ITHACA, N.Y. Please mention the NEWS '2.9 AB—Henry W. Sheward is with the Brandywine Oil Company, 1406 Market Street, Wilmington, Del. His address is c/o Gordon B. Young, 4 East Third Street, New Castle, Del. '2.9 AB—Catharine M. Curvin is in the statistical department of the American Radiator Company, New York City; lives at 135 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. She will be in Ithaca for her Reunion June 16-18. 'z9 AB—Eugene J. Sullivan is with the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. '30 BS; '38 MD—Helen H. Rice, daughter of the late Louis A. Rice Όi, is engaged to Dr. Robert C. Nydegger, MD '38.Miss Rice is assistant to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Nydegger is an interne at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadephia, Pa. '31 MD—Dr. Herbert E. Heim is on the staff of the State Hospital, Harrisburg, Pa. '31, '32. BS—Gilbert S. Powell is with the U. S. Department of Forestry; lives at Upper Lake, Cal. '32., '33 AB—Curtice M. Aldridge is with the Newark Museum, Newark, N. J.; lives at ^Ί.Durand Road, Maplewood, N. J. '32,, '33 BS—Robert W. Horstman is with the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, Box 413, Fulton. He lives at 855 Nott Street, Schenectady. '33 BS—Helen M. Cotter has been since last September an associate 4~H Club agent for Chenango County, with headquarters at the 4-H Club office, Norwich. She had previously been associate agent in Orange County for three years. '33 CE—Gordon A. Lanterman is in the engineering department of the Insurance Company of North America, 99 John Street, New York City; lives at 161 North Maple Avenue, East Orange, N. J. '34 BS, '37 LLB—Robert S. Grant has been transferred from the Boston, Mass., office of the United States Casualty Company to the Omaha, Neb., office. JUNE I, 1939 Cascadilla Summer School If you need To earn one or more entrance credits— To become better prepared for college courses— To improve your technique as a student— DIAL 2014 CATALOG July ιo to August 22 Cascadilla Schools Ithaca ON CAYUGA LAKE SHORE THE NEW G L E N W O O DH O T E L 6 Minutes From Ithαcα On New Cαyugα Lake Blvd. LAWN SPORTS SWIMMING BOATING DINING COCKTAIL LOUNGE DANCING Pleasant Rooms and Cottage Accomodations AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER Address, Ted Howes, Mgr.,Hotel Glenwood, Ithaca, N.Y. '34—Richard H. Mitchell is an aviation cadet with Torpedo Squadron VI, U.S.S. Enterprise, c/o Postmaster, New York City. He is a licensed pilot of airand seaplanes. '35 BS—James P. Schofield is with the Kohanki Nurseries, Painesville, Ohio, where his address is c/o Hamlin, R. F. D. i. '35, '38 BArch—Roger H. Ayala is with the architectural firm of Lagos and De La Torre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, S. A., where his address is Callao 1307. '36 BS—William S. French married Laura F. Grain of Etna April 2.8. Mrs. French, a graduate of Cortland Normal School, teaches in Etna. French is with the Laymor Poultry Farm, Etna. '36 AB—John F. Forsyth is a special representative of Sun Valley resort, Sun Valley, Idaho. He is engaged to Anne Titus of Binghamton, a graduate of Wellesley. They will be married in June. Forsyth lives at 2.10 Mayhew Drive, South Orange, N. J. '36—Robert N. Avery is with the United States Gypsum Company, 1112. Investment Building, Washington, D. C.; lives at 2.06 Madison Street, Bethesda, Md. '36 BS in AE—William D. Kyle, Jr. is with the Line Material Company, South Milwaukee, Wis. His home is at 80 Greenbay Read, Lske Forest, 111. 415 Civilized Vacationing In the wilds of the Adirondack^ A visit to the Sagamore, Long Lake, N.Y. will make your summer complete . . . THE HOTEL SAGAMORE Famed for over 25 years for cuisine and service—Has a wide diversity of attractions: Qolf, Tennis, Boating, Swimming, Fishing) Riding, Dancing HENRY HOFHEIMER JR. '38 Co-mαnαger Hotel opens June 29— Accommodations for 250—For information and rates apply to Mrs. E. Falk, Proprietor 590 West End Ave. New York City Don't Miss Reunions June 16, 17, 18 This Year You Can Combine a "Circle Tour" to Both Fairs at Low Cost With Three or Four Pleasant June Days on the Campus at Ithaca Special Reunion Exhibits - "Cornell Today" Help to Start the New Cornell Alumni Association Hear President Day's Report on the University All Cornellians Welcome These Classes Will Be Back Officially: '69, '72, '73, '74, '75, '79, '84, '89, '91, '92, '93, '94, '99, Ό4, '09, '10, Ίl, '12, '13, '14, '19, '24, '29, '30, '31, '32, '34, '37 If you Haven't Heard of Plans From Your Class Officers, Write At Once to: ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE 3 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N.Y. 416 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CAMP OTTER FOR BOYS Selected Counselors All growing, aspiring folk need— must have, will have—heroes, Realizing the importance of this hero worship we select counselors at Camp Otter with utmost care. This year's staff has proven versatility and leadership qualities of the sort that will make your boy's summer both pleasant and profitable. Old Counselors Herb Livermore, Cornell '40, son of Prof. J. R. Livermore, returns for his third year as counselor and sixth at Camp. After last summer in Europe, he should be even better in lulling the boys to sleep with his famous stories. He will teach canoeing and assist in canoe trips, hikes, naturestudy. Bob Chamberlain, Cornell '40, son of Prof. R. F. Chamberlain, stroke of Freshman and Varsity crew, third year and a natural at outdoor life, will direct canoe trips and teach boating. Bill Fuchs, Penn State '40, third year, life-saving, archery,directs fishing trips. Bruce Crewson, director of the riding academy, with seven horses, will teach horseback riding to all campers. ! New Counselors Preston Ditty, M.A. University of Pittsburgh '35, several years' experience at camps in Ontario. Director of physical education, High School, Monessen, Pa. and coach of all sports; will teach athletics. John Thompson, Oberlin '41, son of Prof. H. C. Thompson, a former Otter camper, winner of swimming and football letters at Oberlin. Swimming and life-saving. Edward Holcomb, Cornell '40, University champion in epee and Varsity fencing team. Fencing, dramatics, and will direct sailing program. Gerald Rogers, Cornell '41, a Camp Otter alumnus, specializes in ornithology and will direct nature study. Charles Ambellan, Buffalo State Teachers College '40, boxing champion at 155 pounds and swimming champion at sprint distances, specializes in industrial arts; will direct handicraft program and teach swimming and diving. AND DON'T FORGET Bill Crewson, colorful licensed Canadian guide, will be there for his twentieth year and will guide canoe trips; that the Director in his sixteenth year is active in the daily program; and that Dr. E. C. Show acre in his tenth year will not only care for the boys' health but teach first aid, hygiene, health education, and photography. All inclusive fee, $175, for season July 3 to August 2.6. Two-week post-season Camp for adults and particularly boys with hay fever. Reasonable ratesΛ H. B. ORTNER, Director 109 Irving Place ITHACA, NEW YORK '37—Enthusiasm reached new heights at our meeting last week when Louise Odell announced that to date fortyseven '37 women will positively be at Reunion, with twenty more undecided. And this a month before Reunion! At this rate we will be the biggest and the best. Margaret Kincaid, our president, was fittingly the first to send in her reservation. Elizabeth Godwin is trekking from California, Mary Chancy from Minnesota, Helen Fry from Michigan. And the list swells every day. So add your name, send in your reservations, and join '37 in Ithaca on June 16. You Ithaca gals are nearest and yet few of you have been heard from. Check a list, lick a stamp, write a check, and a grand week end is assured. We'll be seeing you!—R. L. '37 AB; '37 AB—Judith R. Marx has moved from East Cleveland, Ohio, to 2.566 Kemper Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. She writes, "I just returned from a cruise to Nassau and Havana. Went with Ann Fried '37, and the Cornellians we met both on the boat and in Havana are too numerous to mention. We at last sensed the reality of 'All 'Round the World Cornell'." '37 AB—Edmund L. G. Zalinski is engaged to Matilde Mittendorf of New York City. He is an agency organizer with the New York Life Insurance Company. The wedding will take place in June. '38 ME—George E. Grimshaw, Jr. is a student engineer with the Combustion Engineering Company, in the shops at the Hedges-Walsh, Weidner division, Chattanooga, Tenn. He lives at 117 Ochs Highway, Chattanooga. '38 BS—Owen L. French married Hilda E. Spencer of Canaan, Vt., May 6. French is manager of the Ralston Purina Company store in Bellows Falls, Vt. The Bill of Rights deserves a place in every real American home, office and school. You can now get copies for yourself and your friends. Beautifully printed in blue, red and black on vellum paper, 12 x 16 ready for framing. Send $1.00 each for as many copies as you want, to THE CAYUGA PRESS 113 E. Green St.7 Ithαcα, N. Y. Please mention the NEWS For That First Year Your own experience at Cornell tells you that the first year here is most important. The friends a boy makes then, the habits he forms of study and play, and his happiness in living conditions will affect his whole life. For thirty-six years, here at Sheldon Court, we have been welcoming new Cornellians and helping them to be comfortable and happy. We have learned to know boys, and what they need as Cornell students. Those who live in Sheldon Court are carefully selected —the ones you would want your son to know. Our rooms and suites are comfortably and completely furnished; some have woodburning fireplaces, and all have ample light and air. The building is quiet, warm, clean, and virtuallyfireproof. In the same building are a good restaurant, bookstore, barber shop, and physicians' offices. We have our own tennis courts, and ample parking. Nowhere at Cornell will your son find a more comfortable, convenient, and pleasant place to live than Sheldon Court, just off the Campus on College Avenue. Reservations are still available for next year. Information, prices, and room diagrams will be mailed promptly on request. Address: SHELDON COURT A. R.Congdon, Agent ITHACA, N.Y. Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. Members New York Stock Exchange 15 Broad Street . New York INVESTMENT SECURITIES Jansen Noyes '10 Stanton Grjffis '10 L M. Blancke '15 Willard I. Emerson '19 BRANCH OFFICES Albany, Chicago, Harrisburg, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Trenton, Washington NOTICE OF CHANGE OF BY-LAWS Cornell Alumni Corporation NOTICE is hereby given that at the annual meeting of the Cornell Alumni Corporation to be held at Bailey Hall in the City of Ithaca, N. Y., on the iyth day of June, 1939, at 10 a.m., amendments to the By-Laws of the Cornell Alumni Corporation will be presented for consideration and adoption. It is proposed to amend the By-Laws of the Cornell Alumni Corporation at the regular June meeting of the Corporation in the following particulars: (i) To substitute for the name "Cornell Alumni Corporation,"wherever it appears in the present By-Laws, the name "Cornell Alumni Association;" (x) To make specific changes as shown below, so that each numbered Article and Section of the present By-Laws is amended by substituting in lieu of the present provisions the following: ARTICLE I—NAME AND OBJECT SECTION 1. Name. This association shall be known as the Cornell Alumni Association. SECTION 2. Object. The purpose of this association is to promote the interests of the University and to foster among its members a sentiment of re-* gard for one another and attachment to their Alma Mater, and the ideal of service to humanity. Without limiting the activities of the Association to the purposes stated, it is nevertheless intended to serve as the general alumni organization of Cornell University, embracing in its membership all alumni of the niversity and performing such services as are of interest to all alumni.. It has the further purpose of providing the administrative agency and executive personnel needed to provide for a continuity of alumni activity and interest. Insofar as specialized Cornell alumni agencies authorize it to do so, it has the further purpose of coordinating the activities of such agencies. ARTICLE II—MEMBERSHIP SECTION 3. Members. Every graduate and every matriculate of Cornell University whose entering class shall have been graduated, and every candidate for an advanced degree not a member of a regular class, is a member of this Association. ARTICLE III—DIRECTORS SECTION 4. General Powers. The entire charge and control of the association, and of its affairs, funds and property shall, except as hereinafter provided, be vested in a Board of Directors to be constituted in the manner set out in Section 5 hereof. SECTION 5. Board of Directors— How Constituted. There shall be a Board of Directors selected in the following manner: Seven directors shall be representatives of geographical districts, known as district directors; one director shall be the representative of the Cornellian Council and shall be elected and certified as such in any manner that may be determined upon by the said Cornellian Council; two directors shall be representatives of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs and shall be elected and certified as such in any manner that may be determined upon by the said Federation; two directors shall be the representatives of the Association of Class Secretaries, one man and one woman, and shall be elected and certified as such in any manner that may be determined upon by the said association; one director shall be the representative of each of the regularly organized College or School Alumni Associations of the University, and of the duly organized Alumni Association of any Department of the University whose alumni are not eligible for membership in the Alumni Association of the school or college in which the degree for such Department is awarded, and said representative snail be elected and certified as such in any manner that may be determined upon by such association; three directors shall be elected at large by the directors chosen above; provided, however, that all directors who are representatives of the organizations mentioned above shall be elected by their respective organizations in such manner that their tenure of office shall correspond with that of district directors. Upon the adoption of these by-laws, the term of office of all of the present directors except the directors at large shall forthwith terminate. The remaining directors shall then elect a district director of each of the new districts to hold office until the next biennial convention. In each case in which more than one of the present district directors reside in a single new district, the election of the new district director shall be by lot from among such persons. SECTION 6. Eligibility. All nominees for the office of director must be members of the association, and nominees for the office of district director must be residents of the districts for which they are nominated. SECTION 7. Districts. One director shall be elected from each of the following districts, to-wit: District No. 1. Central and Western New York. The Counties of Tompkins, Schuyler, Chemung, Tioga, Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming, Living- ston, Ontario, Yates, Niagara, Orleans, Monroe and Wayne. District No. 2. Metropolitan and Eastern New York. The Counties of New York, Bronx, Richmond, Nassau, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Hamilton, Fulton, Saratoga, Montgomery, Schenectady, Otsego, Schoharie, Albany, Delaware, Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange and Rockland. District No. 3. New England. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and all the European countries. District No. 4. Middle Atlantic. The States of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. District No. 5. Southern. The States of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, and countries of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. District No. 6. Central. The States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. District No. 7. Western. The States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and all foreign countries and territories, excepting the Dominion of Canada, not included within one of the foregoing districts. Members in the Dominion of Canada shall be included in the district immediately south of them, as for example, the City of Montreal shall be included in the Eastern District of New York, and the City of Toronto in the Western District of New York. SECTION 8. Nomination of District Directors. (No change). SECTION 9. Election of Directors. (No change, except the title of the section should read, "Election of District Directors," and subparagraph B should be eliminated.) SECTION 10. Vacancies. Vacancies in the office of district director or director-at-large shall be filled by the Board of Directors for the balance of the term. A vacancy in the office of a district director shall be filled by the appointment of a resident of the district in which the vacancy occurred. Vacancies in the office of representative directors shall be filled by the organization represented by such director. SECTION 11. Meetings. (No change, except in paragraph B special meetings may be called by the president or by seven members of the Board of Directors.) SECTION 12. Transaction of Business. (No change except a quorum shall consist of eight members of the Board of Directors.) ARTICLE IV—OFFICERS SECTION 13. Enumeration and Eligibility. (No change.) SECTION 14. Election of Officers. The officers of the association other than the secretary shall be elected by the directors as hereinbefore provided. SECTION 15. Terms of Office. Every officer of the association except the secretary shall hold office for two years, or until his successor shall have been chosen. SECTION 16. Vacancies. The Board of Directors may fill, until the next biennial convention of the association, any vacancies in any office except that of secretary, and officers so appointed shall hold over to the same extent as regularly elected officers. SECTION 17. Duties of President and VicePresidents. (No change.) SECTION 18. Duties of Secretary. (No change, except that the following paragraph shall be added: When approved by the Trustees of the University, the office of Alumni Representative shall be merged with that of Secretary of this Association, and when merged the Secretary shall also hold the office of Alumni Secretary of Cornell University. In such capacity he shall be the full-time executive head of the Alumni Office and as such shall supervise, under the direction of the Board of Directors of this Association, all of the activities of this Association. The Alumni Secretary shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University upon the nomination of the Board of Directors of the Cornell Alumni Association and the approval of the President of the University. The Alumni Secretary may be removed from office by the Board of Trustees of the University with the approval of the Cornell Alumni Association. SECTION 19. Duties of Treasurer. (No change.) ARTICLE V—COMMITTEES SECTION 20. Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive Committee elected in the same manner as the officers are elected, constituted as follows: The President of the Association, one district director, one director representing the Cornellian Council, one director representing a college alumni association, one director representing the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, one director representing the Association of Class Secretaries, and one other director. The Executive Committee shall have the power and authority between meetings of the Board of Directors to carry out the policies determined by the Directors. It shall act as an advisory committee to the Alumni Secretary and in all respects perform the same functions with reference to that office that have heretofore been performed by the "Committee of Five" for the Alumni Office. SECTION 21. Alumni News Committee. Upon the adoption of this amendment to the By-Laws, the President of the Association shall undertake to complete negotiations with the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, looking towards the acquisition by the Association of the Cornell Alumni News. In such negotiations the President shall act in accordance with instructions from the Board of Directors of the Association. If the Alumni News is acquired by the Association, the Executive Committee of the Association shall appoint an Editorial and Business Board to continue the publication of the Alumni News until the next succeeding meeting of the directors, at which time a committee on the publication of the Alumni News shall be appointed. Such committee shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be appointed for the term of one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Thereafter, all members of this committee shall be appointed for three-year terms of office. This committee shall have full power and authority to arrange for the publication of the Alumni News, including the right to make such contract with an editorial and business manager as it may see fit, including the right to contract for the services of either of such persons for a period of not exceeding five years. SECTION 22. Committee on Election for Alumni Trustees. (Will be old Section 20 unchanged.) SECTION 23. Auditing Committee. (Will be old Section 21 unchanged.) ARTICLE VI—REPRESENTATION OF CLUBS (Unchanged, except the section numbers shall be changed to correspond with the new numbers.) ARTICLE VII—FINANCES (Unchanged, except the section numbers shall be changed to correspond with the new numbers.) ARTICLE VIII—MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION (Eliminate the words, "beginning with the year 1930," in Section 30. Otherwise unchanged, except the section numbers shall be changed to correspond with the new numbers.) ARTICLE IX—ALUMNI TRUSTEES (Unchanged, except the section numbers shall be changed to correspond.) ARTICLE X—ORDER OF BUSINESS (Unchanged, except the section number shall be changed to correspond.) ARTICLE XI—QUORUM AND RULES OF ORDER (Unchanged, except the section numbers shall be changed to correspond.) ARTICLE XII—AMENDMENTS (Unchanged, except the section number shall be changed to correspond.) KEEP PACE WITH YOURSELF It is smart to measure one's life insurance protection by one's income. Wisdom dictates that as a man of family improves his position, with consequent increase in salary, he should devote a portion of such income to acquiring more protection. The reason for this is obvious. An expanding exchequer improves a family's mode of living. Their protection should as nearly as possible be adequate to maintain that standard if the bread winner fail to survive. Home Office, NEWARK, N.J. Please mention the NEWS