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Volume 47, Number 15 February i, 1945 Price 20 Cents

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Fraternity Houses Ruled Taxable 

APPEALS to exempt from taxes 

-£*• the Psi Upsilon and Sigma Phi 

fraternity houses were denied in an 

order written by the late State' Supreme 

Court Justice Ely W. Personius 

'98, received in Ithaca January 17. 

Certiorari proceedings were instituted 

by the fraternities and the University, 

protesting the inclusion of the 

houses in the 1943 Ithaca tax roll on 

the grounds that they are owned by 

the University as part of the dormitory 

system. 

Justice Personius, who died December 

12, 1944, wrote in what is 

thought to be his last official ruling: 

"Controlling is the fact that the buildings 

in question are not used exclusively 

for educational purposes, any more 

than a fraternity off the Campus. We 

(the court) hold that these buildings 

are used as private fraternity houses, 

the same as fraternity houses, either 

on or off the Campus, which are not 

exempt." 

The court discounted the argument 

of the University that it owned the 

land and had ordered construction of 

the fraternities as a part of the dormitory 

system by pointing out that the 

University's title to the buildings is 

limited, at least so far as beneficial 

use of the buildings is concerned, because 

the University could rent rooms 

in the houses only to persons designated 

by the fraternity. 

"We have seen that in a case of 

doubt, an exemption statute is strictly 

construed," the opinion continued. 

"Was there a doubt in the minds of 

these parties (the University and fraternities) 

when they provided by the 

contract that the occupants should 

pay an amount equal to any tax lawfully 

levied or agreed to by the University?" 

Justice Personius explained that 

two conditions are involved in an exemption: 

1. That the realtor (Cornell) 

owns the property, and 2. That it be 

used exclusively for carrying out its 

purposes. "While there are certain 

limitations or conditions on the realtor's 

absolute ownership, we consider 

mainly the question whether the 

property is exclusively used for the 

realtor's educational purposes." 

The order recalls the history of the 

fraternities which were originally lo- 

cated on the Campus but removed to 

make way for Myron Taylor Hall. 

Both received from the University 

the appraised value of the properties. 

Subsequently, the fraternities negotiated 

with Cornell for permission to 

erect new houses on the Campus at 

their own expense and then "by gifts 

the units became the property of the 

University, but to be used only by 

undergraduate members of the fraternity." 

Differentiating between dormitories 

and fraternities. Justice Personius 

said the allocation of students to 

dormitories is made on a scholastic 

basis while the allocation of rooms in 

the fraternities is made on the basis 

of membership in the fraternity and 

by the fraternity on no scholastic 

basis. "The former allocation is for 

educational purposes, the latter is 

not exclusively for educational purposes," 

he continued. "Can it be denied 

that the latter allocation is not 

exclusively for educational purposes 

but is made upon a social basis?" 

In the Supreme Court proceedings, 

University Attorney Allan H. Treman 

'21 and L. Nelson Simmons '12 

represented the University; John M. 

Parker '96 and Judge Nathan Turk 

of Owego represented the fraterni- 

ties; and Ithaca City Attorney Truman 

K. Powers '30 was counsel for 

the City and board of assessors of 

which Henry C. Thome '10 is chairman. 

In the ALUMNI NEWS for July 1, 

1943, Edward R. Eastman, chairman 

of the University Trustees' subcommittee 

on government relations, explained 

the circumstances of the tax 

proceedings then being started. He 

pointed out that for many years the 

University had made annual contributions 

to the City of Ithaca to 

recompense the city for services rendered, 

such as police and fire protection 

and sewage disposal. The previous 

year, the University contribution 

was $10,950. But the preliminary assessment 

roll for 1943 had added to it 

taxable valuations of University property 

totalling $475,000 including besides 

the Psi Upsilon and Sigma Phi 

houses, parts of Willard Straight Hall 

and Barnes Hall, the Johnny Parson 

Club, and five University-owned residences. 

Friendly conferences between 

University and city officials brought 

compromise agreements for that year 

on payment and foregoing of taxes on 

all the properties except the two fraternity 

houses. It was agreed also 

that whatever taxes should be paid 

on University properties would be 

deducted in future from the customary 

University contribution to the city, 

SIGMA PHI AND PSI UPSILON HOUSES BELOW MEN'S DORMITORIES 

State Supreme Court order rules that these University properties are not exempt 

from taxation.

ut that the question of exemption 

of;,the fraternity houses should be decided 

by the courts. Treasurer's Report 

for 1943-44 shows that last year 

the University's contribution to the 

City of Ithaca was $4,718.40. 

The Psi Upsilon and Sigma Phi 

houses on Forest Park Lane have been 

leased by the University and occupied 

as Navy dormitories since 1943. They 

were built in 1932-33 under agreements 

made by the University with 

the respective fraternity corporations 

whereby the cost of buildings, approaches, 

utilities, and landscaping 

were paid by the corporations. The 

agreements provide that the fraternity 

chapters shall select students to live 

in the houses as long as the chapters 

exist, and that the individual residents 

pay to the University the costs' 

of services, maintenance, insurance, 

an additional sum as return on the 

University investment in land, and 

whatever taxes should be levied 

against the properties or sums paid 

in lieu of taxes. Until 1929, both fraternities 

lived in houses they owned 

on land leased from the University on 

the present site of Myron Taylor 

Hall. 

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Hinchliffon Road 

OUTHERN New York branch of 

the American Association of University 

Women, meeting in Binghamton 

January 9, heard Professor Emerson 

Hinchliff '14, Assistant Alumni 

Secretary, speak on Latin America. 

150 members attended the meeting. 

Next day, Professor Hinchliff represented 

Cornell at the annual college 

night conference of Bronx High School 

of Science in New York City. Nearly 

100 prospective Freshmen and their 

parents crowded the room assigned to 

Cornell. 

Engineers Hear of War 

/CORNELL Society of Engineers, 

^-* meeting January 16 at the Cornell 

Club of New York, heard Leon 

Swirbul '20, vice-president of Grumman 

Aircraft Engineering Corp., tell 

of the Grumman Hellcat's contributions 

to the Navy's air wan in the 

Pacific. A Navy Air Corps ace with 

twenty-four Jap planes to his credit, 

and the Navy air commander in the 

Marshall Islands invasion were on 

hand to enjoy a preview of the technicolor 

film, "Fighting Lady," which 

opened in New York City the following 

day. 

The meeting began, after a chicken 

dinner in the Club's grill room, with a 

talk by N. L. Rae of General Electric 

Co. on the experiences of foreign service 

engineers. Battle stories, including 

the Philippine invasion, were told to 

the 150 persons present. 

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Time Was . . . 

Forty-five Years Ago 

February, 1900—Memorial tablet 

to the late Clifton Beckwith Brown 

'00, given by the Class of '00, has 

been placed in the University Library, 

awaiting its ultimate location in the 

future Alumni Hall. Corporal.Brown 

left the College of Architecture at the 

outbreak of the Spanish-American 

war, joined the 71st New York Volunteers, 

and was killed in the charge at 

San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898. Speaking 

at the unveiling ceremonies, President 

Schurman said, "With the death of 

Clifton Brown, Cornell has entered 

upon a new era. He is the first Cornellian 

to die for his country." 

Twenty-five Years Ago 

February, 1920 — Jacob Gould 

Schurman, President of the University 

for twenty-eight years, has resigned 

and will retire next June, after 

thirty-four years service to Cornell. 

Automobile Show, with fourteen 

dealers exhibiting as many as sixteen 

models each, opens in the new State 

Drill Hall; dancing is provided until 

10:30 nightly. 

Alpha Omicron Pi has purchased 

the three-story stone house on The 

Knoll, built twelve years ago by Dean 

Eugene E. Haskell '79, Civil Engineering. 

Only one other sorority, 

Delta Gamma, owns its own house, 

the former residence of William H. 

Sage on East Seneca Street. 

Junior Week boasted thirty fraternity 

houseparties, shows by the Musical 

Clubs and the Masque, and the 

Sophomore Cotillion and Junior 

Promenade in the gaily bedizened 

but rather crowded Old Armory. 

Busch LittlefS^rnphony 

T 

HIRD University concert was 

given by the Busch Little Symphony, 

January 20 in Bailey Hall. 

Season tickets held by townspeople 

and members of the University community 

were augmented by-a brisk 

box-office sale which nearly filled 

dress circle, orchestra, and balcony. 

The audience was rewarded with probably 

the finest concert in the present 

series. 

Adolph Busch conducts his group 

twenty-two strings, two oboes, two 

horns) in the manner of the old concertmaster, 

indicating tempo with 

nods and gestures while playing a very 

fine first violin. To make his position 

as conductor even clearer to the uninitiated, 

he wears tails, a sartorial 

distinction shared only by the soloist 

of the evening, the seventeen-year-old 

pianist, Eugene Istomin. 

Busch's program began with the 

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G 

minor, by Bach, the high spot of the 

evening for this reporter. It was followed 

by Hayden's Symphony No. 49 

in F minor, Beethoven's difficult 

Grosse Fugue in B flat major, and one 

of those smoke-filled intermissions in 

the corridor and lobby, memorable 

adjuncts to all Bailey Hall concerts. 

The second half of the program included 

Dvorak's Nocturne for Strings, 

two Negro spirituals arranged by 

Busch, Samuel Barber's Serenade for 

String Orchestra, and Mozart's Concerto 

in E flat major for piano and 

orchestra, which earned Busch and 

Istomin a half-dozen curtain calls and 

sent everyone out in fine fettle. 

Birthday Remembrance 

IFT of $400 came to the Univer- 

" sity from the children of Julian 

A. Pollak '07 in honor of their father's 

sixtieth birthday, December 27. It is 

designated the Julian A. Pollak Servicemen's 

Grant, and is to be used by 

the University to assist veterans who 

come to the University and need additional 

aid besides that received from 

the Government. 

Donors of the gift are David A. 

Pollak '39, for more than a year 

prisoner of war in Germany, Julian 

A. Pollak, Jr., Betty Pollak Rauh and 

Morton A. Rauh, Ralph G. Irvine '45, 

and John M. Irvine '46. 

Michigan Turns Out 

/CORNELL Club of Michigan in- 

^ augurated a new series of monthly 

dinner meetings January 17, when 

seventy-nine members and guests 

gathered at the University Club in 

Detroit. Speaker was Professor Dexter 

S. Kimball, Engineering, Emeritus, 

whose subject was " Adult Education, 

Past and Prospective, and Its 

Impact on the Next Fifty Years." 

Among the invited guests were J. 

C. Zeder, chief engineer of the Chrysler 

Corp. and chairman of the educational 

committee of Chrysler Institute 

of Engineering; Harry T. Woolson, 

Chrysler executive engineer and president 

of the Institute; P. E. Searle, 

superintendent of Ford Trade Schools: 

Arnold Lenz, assistant general manager, 

Chevrolet Division, General 

Motors Corp., and president of General 

Motors Institute; R. H. Spahr, 

chairman, cooperative engineering division, 

General Motors Institute; 

Allen Crowe, president of the Economic 

Club and manager of the Detroit 

businessmen's committee on 

cooperation with education; and David 

Henry, executive vice-president of 

Cornell Alumni News

Wayne University. Some of these 

took part in the discussion which followed 

Dean KimbalΓs address. Also 

present from Ithaca were Walter C. 

Heasley, Jr. '30, Acting Alumni Secretary 

of the University and executive 

secretary of the Alumni Fund; and 

Garner A. Adams '35, assistant Alumni 

Fund secretary. 

Dinners are announced by the Club 

for the third Wednesday of each 

month, each with a speaker from the 

University or elsewhere and with 

prominent Detroit guests invited, to 

discuss varied phases of the University 

and educational development. 

Program committee consists of'Club 

President Linton Hart '14, Philip J. 

Kent '14, H. W. Peters '14, and 

Matthew Carey '15. 

Pianist Entertains Club 

ORNELL Women's Club of Ithaca 

C enjoyed a musicale January 8, in 

the recreation room of Balch Hall. 

Claire James, Music, a student of 

Egon Petri, University Pianist-inresidence, 

played Scarlatti, Brahms, 

Shostakovitch, and Chopin. 

"Whittier and Winter" 

U P to now, we have always regarded 

"Snow Bound" as a firstclass 

poem by a second-class poet. It 

has been our custom to read it aloud 

at least once every winter. It managed 

to express for us observations, sensations, 

and emotions that stuck inside; 

that could not quite emerge and take 

form without expert assistance. Whittier 

did the job for us. This, after all, 

is the true function of the poet. 

But this year, "Snow Bound" failed 

to touch the spot. In comparison with 

what has been going on for months in 

the Swamp College School District, 

Whittier's storm was just a minor 

episode. 

The snowed-up Whittiers, you recall, 

were plowed out on the third day. 

They had no electrical life line to go 

down in the blast, no gas engines to 

sputter and die. After the stock had 

been fed and the wood-box replenished, 

all the Whittiers had to do was 

sit around the fire, crack nuts, and 

tell stories. 

But there is an epic quality in the 

current Swamp College winter which 

takes it, as a literary topic, entirely 

out of the Maud Muller class. The 

excellent Whittier isn't quite up to the 

assignment. It would take a Dante to 

handle it, or anyway a Milton. One 

hears above the tempest the cries of 

demons; the shouts of demigods are 

smothered in the whirling drifts. This 

is no time to crack nuts and tell 

stories.—Romeyn Berry '04 in "State 

and Tioga," Ithaca Journal. 

February /, 1945 

Business School To Open July 1 

UNDER DEAN PAUL M. O'LEARY, PhD '29 

DEAN PAUL M. O'LEARY, PhD >29 

Heads School of Business and Public 

Administration at the University. 

A 

SCHOOL of Business and Public 

Administration at the University, 

to open next July 1, and appointment 

of Professor Paul M. O'Leary, 

PhD '29, Economics, as Dean of the 

School were approved by the University 

Trustees, January 20. 

Following recommendations of a 

special committee of the Faculty appointed 

by President Edmund E. 

Day, the School will "provide training 

for leadership in private enterprise 

and in public affairs." Students will 

be accepted after three years as undergraduates 

at Cornell or in other 

accredited colleges, and will be eligible 

for the Bachelor's degree after one 

year in the School, the Master's degree 

after two years, and the PhD 

after further study. Students who 

specialize in Public Administration 

will be prepared to enter government 

service as economists, trade analysts, 

statisticians, and economic specialists 

with State or Federal agencies. Those 

who specialize in Business Administration 

will be trained for careers as 

research economists with concerns 

in foreign and domestic commerce, 

with management companies, banks, 

investment houses, business-research 

agencies, farm-marketing cooperatives, 

or as accountants. 

Until the curriculum and Faculty 

of the School are fully organized, the 

Department of Economics, of which 

Professor O'Leary is chairman, will 

administer a course in Business Administration 

for returning war veterans 

and civilian students. Beginning 

next November, students in Arts and 

Sciences may elect to major in Busi- 

ness Administration toward the AB, 

their studies to include prescribed 

courses in Ar4)s, in production management 

and control given in Engineering, 

in marketing in the College 

of Agriculture. 

The President's special committee 

reported in April, 1941. Professor William 

I. Myers '14, Agricultural Economics, 

now Dean of Agriculture, was 

chairman; with Professors Martin P. 

Catherwood, PhD '30, Public Administration, 

now on leave as New 

York State Commissioner of Commerce; 

Howard B. Meek, Hotel Administration; 

Homeyn Y. Thatcher 

'08, Civil Engineering; John R. Bangs, 

Jr. '21, Administrative Engineering; 

and O'Leary. Its report was approved 

by the University Faculty in December, 

1941, and January 24, 1942, the 

Board of Trustees authorized establishment 

of the School when it should 

be feasible. 

Dean O'Leary says: "Relations between 

government and business are 

now so close as to require little comment. 

They will continue to be close 

in years to come. My own experience 

as an economist and administrator in 

business and in government has convinced 

me that both business and 

government have a desperate need for 

men and women trained in economics, 

business operations and practices, and 

in the processes of government." 

Directed OPA Rationing 

Professor O'Leary received the AB 

at University of Kansas in 1922 and 

after receiving the AM at Harvard in 

1924, came to Cornell as a graduate 

instructor in Economics. A sprinter 

at Kansas, he assisted Coach John F. 

Moakley for several years; .was appointed 

assistant professor in 1929 

and professor in 1936. In 1939, he was 

chief economic analyst in the US Department 

of Commerce, and in February, 

1941, was granted leave to join 

the price stabilization division of the 

advisory committee of the Council of 

National Defense. When the Office of 

Price Administration was organized, 

he became price executive for textiles, 

leather, and apparel; then assistant 

director of the price division; and in 

February, 1942, was put in charge of 

rationing as deputy administrator. 

Resigning from OPA in October, 1943, 

he was director of the Washington, 

D. C., office of the Research Institute 

of America, an advisory service for 

business management, until last April, 

when he returned to the University, 

becoming head of the Department of 

Economics July 1. 

(Continued on page 804) 

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G.L.F. Gives $200,000 for Building 

For School of Nutrition 

IRECTORS of the Cooperative 

D Grange League Federation, Inc., 

meeting in Albany January 18, appropriated 

$200,000 to Cornell University 

toward the erection of a headquarters 

building for the School of 

Nutrition. The gift was made of 

"$ 100,000 available on call by the 

University and the second $100,000 to 

be made available over a period of 

not to exceed four years." The GLF 

board suggested that the new building 

be named Savage Hall in memory 

of the late Professor Elmer S. Savage, 

PhD '11, Animal Husbandry. At Cornell 

for thirty-six years until his 

death, November 22, 1943, Professor 

Savage became widely known for his 

development of feed formulas for 

dairy cattle and was a member of the 

Faculty -of the School of Nutrition 

from its beginning. 

The GLF directors also invited the 

School of Nutrition to use for research 

the extensive facilities which the GLF 

controls in downtown Ithaca and nearby 

for processing, freezing, baking, 

and retailing foods. 

James A. McConnell '21, genera^ 

manager of the farmers' cooperative 

with headquarters in Ithaca, which 

serves 150,000 farm families in New 

York, New Jersey, and northern 

Pennsylvania, wrote President Edmund 

E. Day that the gift was in 

furtherance of a long-time program, 

formulated by the GLF directors this 

winter, "of research and action in the 

interest of farmer and public welfare. 

This program is based upon the concept 

that the farmers of the Northeast 

have a mutual interest with industry 

and labor in a better diet for 

Wffif ER BUSK ON 

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the one-third of the country's population 

which lives in the Northeastern 

United States," he said. "The natural 

products of Northeastern farms— 

fresh milk, fresh eggs, meat, and fresh 

fruits and vegetables—are essential 

to an optimum diet for Northeastern 

people. Efficient production of these 

foods is also necessary to maintain a 

satisfactory standard of living on 

Northeastern farms and the conservation 

of Northeastern soil resources. 

The Cornell School of Nutrition is 

capable of furnishing much needed 

leadership in the improvement of 

human diet in the Northeast, provided 

it is adequately staffed, housed, and 

equipped with research facilities." 

McConnell pointed out that "it is 

the long-established practice of the 

GLF as a farmers' cooperative to cooperate 

closely with the Land-grant 

universities in its territory in matters 

of research."* Last year, the GLF Exchange 

provided $6,500 to the University 

for investigations in cereal 

breeding, dairy feeds, farm products, 

poultry, and farm seeds, and $1,650 

more was used for work on dairy 

cattle from a previous GLF grant. 

H. Edward Babcock, chairman of 

the University Board of Trustees, was 

the first manager of the GLF, organized 

in 1922, and since 1940 has been 

director of the GLF School of Cooperative 

Administration in Ithaca. 

Gift toward a School of Nutrition 

building was accepted by the University 

Trustees, meeting in New 

York City January 20. President Day 

said of it: "For a great farmers' cooperative 

to have engaged in such 

statesmanlike planning and in con- 

nection therewith to have contributed 

to the scientific work of the University 

is of great import for the future of our 

national economy. The combination 

of these new facilities for the School 

of Nutrition will establish a firm 

physical foundation for the School's 

leadership in the farsighted program 

of improved human diet and more 

efficient agricultural operation which 

GLF is projecting, particularly for the 

Northeastern section of the country." 

The School of Nutrition was established 

in June, 1941, "to mobilize all 

University facilities for development 

of a program of teaching and research 

aimed to cover the field of nutrition, 

both animal and human, in its 

broadest sense." 

Its Faculty comprises forty-nine 

members of the Colleges of Agriculture, 

Arts and Sciences, Engineering, 

Home Economics, and Medicine, and 

the facilities of these Colleges are used 

for its work. Professor Leonard A. 

Maynard, PhD '15, has been director 

of the School since its organization 

and Professor Leo C. Norris '20 is 

secretary. Students are admitted at 

the beginning of the Senior year in 

Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, or 

Home Economics, or from other colleges 

if they have had equivalent 

preparation, and are eligible for the 

MS after two years' work in the 

School and for the PhD after further 

study. Research is being done in the 

School on varied phases of nutrition, 

with a number of investigations supported 

by grants from outside the 

University. Offices of the School are 

now in Fernow Hall. 

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Alumni Win "E" 

ISSISSIPPI Valley Structural 

Steel Co., of which Ilollin D. 

Wood '06 is president, received the 

Army-Navy "E" December 28 at its 

Maplewood plant in St. Louis. There 

and in its plants at Decatur and Melrose 

Park, 111., the company has fabricated 

for the first time in this country 

railway bridges and portable airplane 

hangars which are shipped abroad in 

standard units, for quick erection. 

Special tools,, jigs, and production 

line procedures were developed for the 

close tolerances required in the standard 

bridge units. 

Quincy Barge Builders of Quincy, 

111., a joint venture of Mississippi 

Valley Structural Steel with two 

other companies, flies the "E" burgee 

with three stars for sustained excellence 

in production of Navy vessels. 

Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. of 

Rochester has a fifth star added to its 

Army-Navy "E" flag. The company 

is one of the first to be granted a fifth 

renewal of the production award. 

Theodore Bausch Drescher ; 18 is 


vice-president of the firm, and fifteen 

other Cornellians are employed there: 

Charles C. Nitchie '05, sales engineer; 

Ernest L. Baker '09, inspection; Carl 

E. Bahn '16, engineer; Raymond 

VandeVate '17, assistant advertising 

manager; Frederick W. Armbruster 

'18, designer; Ray L. Bolinas '25, 

process engineer; Leslie E. Culver '26, 

production control; B. Francis Wright 

'26, inspection; Paul T. Erickson '27, 

inspection; Norman Horn '30, set-up; 

Robert D. Keller '30, engineer; Kenneth 

G. Kugler '31, inspection; Mrs. 

Alfred W. Folsom (Elma Shaver) '37, 

laboratory technician; Herbert J. 

Mault '41, designer; and Francis S. 

Reed '41, safety engineer. 

S 

Fifty Year Reunion 

IX members of the Class of '95 

celebrated a Fifty-year Class Reunion 

January 8, at the luncheon 

meeting of the Cornell Club of Southern 

California, in Los Angeles. 

Present were William F. Atkinson, 

Senior Class president; Burt Harmon; 

William W. Hoy, brother of the late 

Registrar David F. Hoy '91; William 

E. Schenck, secretary of the Class; 

Harold L. Stevens, who is at Lockheed 

Corp. doing contract termination 

work for the US Army; and John 

R. Woodbridge. 

A 

Fund Does Well 

LUMNI FUND to January 10 

totalled $79,409.87 from 1925 

contributors. This compares with 

$47,610.73 received from 1975 contributors 

in approximately the first 

six months of the 1943-44 Fund, according 

to Walter C. Heasley, Jr. '30, 

executive secretary. 

This year's half-year total was considerably 

increased by a number of 

substantial year-end contributions to 

the unrestricted Alumni Fund made 

by individual Cornellians and by 

their business firms. 

A post card mailed to all alumni 

November 18 suggesting that Series 

F and G War Bonds be purchased in 

the name of " Cornell University, A 

Corporation," to aid the Sixth War 

Loan, has thus far brought to the 

Fund 129 Bonds with maturity value 

of $13,200 and 21 checks totalling 

$544.25. 

Both War Bond gifts and contributions 

from firms are credited in the 

Alumni Fund to the Class quotas of 

the persons responsible for them. 

Fifth place in the down hill race at 

the women's collegiate ski tournament, 

December 30 at the Lake 

Placid Club, was won by Virginia 

Rogers '47 of Washington, D. C. 


Trustees Propose Labor Members 

BOARD TO ADMINISTER STATE SCHOOL 

BOARD of Trustees of the University, 

meeting at the Medical College 

in New York January 20, approved 

amending the University Charter 

to enlarge the Board membership 

from forty to forty-five by adding the 

New York State Industrial Commissioner 

and Commissioner of Commerce, 

ex-officio, and three Trustees 

elected to represent labor. This action 

was taken to implement administration 

of the New York State School of 

Industrial and Labor Relations which 

was authorized at the University by 

the 1944 State Legislature. 

The proposed Charter amendments 

will shortly be offered for approval 

of the Legislature and the Governor. 

Besides the five additional Trustees, 

they provide that the Board shall include 

in its membership at all times 

at least three Trustees each from 

agriculture, business and industry, 

and labor. "This provision," President 

Edmund E. Day says, "should 

enable the University to broaden its 

services in the public welfare." He 

points out that the present Charter 

includes as University Trustees the 

president of the State Agricultural 

Society and the State Commissioner 

of Agriculture, ex-officio, and a Trustee 

elected annually by the New York 

State Grange, and that the Board has 

always included members from the 

professions, business, and industry. 

The proposed amendments also standardize 

the terms of all Trustees to 

begin July 1. 

The Trustees formally accepted the 

State School of Industrial and Labor 

Relations and agreed to administer it 

as part of the University. Assemblyman 

Irving M. Ives, chairman of a 

joint committee of the State Legislature 

on industrial and labor relations, 

introduced a bill last February 18 

providing for restablishing a State 

School of Industrial and Labor Relations 

at Cornell University and setting 

up a temporary board of trustees to 

report to the Legislature plans for 

"the control, supervision, organization, 

structure, and administration of 

the School." 

The bill was passed by the Legislature 

and signed by Governor Thomas 

E. Dewey, March 15. It stated as the 

objects and purposes of the School 

"the teaching and instruction of students 

concerning: 1. The history and 

(Continued on page 302) 

How Well Do You Know Cornell ? 

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS PICTURE ? 

THIS sculpture decorates a Campus building. Do 

you know what it represents and where it is? A 

I prize copy of Professor Becker's book, Cornell Uni- 

1 versity: Founders and the Founding, will be awarded 

j by the Alumni News and University Press to the sub- 

| scriber who submits, by February 15, the most com- 

| plete and accurate identification of this "Campus 

I close-up." 

I Persons who live within twenty-five miles of Ithaca 

w J are not eligible to compete. Staff of the News will 

judge entries, and their decision shall be final. If two 

or more entries are judged to be equally complete and 

accurate, winner will be determined by lot. Winner's name and correct description 

will appear in the Alumni News of March 1. 

RESULT OF JANUARY 1 CONTEST 

COPY of Cornell University: Founders and the 

A Founding has been mailed to Professor Alfred Van 

Wagenen '30 of Ohio State University, who correctly 

described the object at right as the base of the light 

standard in front of Bailey Hall. It is the easterly one 

of the two bronze standards which adorn the low walls 

at both sides at the foot of the Bailey Hall steps; has 

been passed by all who have attended University concerts, 

Reunion rallies, Commencements, Senior Week 

and Junior Week shows, football rallies, Class smokers, 

or the many other events held in the University Auditorium 

since it was built in 1913. 

All Cornellians enjoy Professor Becker's book about the early days of the University. 

It may be purchased at $2.75, postpaid, from Cornell Alumni Association, 

3 East Avenue, Ithaca. 

299

Slants on Sports 

/CORNELL teams fared well in ten contests January 9 through 20, 

V_> winning seven. Swimmers splashed to their seventeenth and eighteenth 

consecutive victories, and the basketball team scored three successive triumphs. 

The wrestlers and Junior Varsity basketball team broke even in 

two contests apiece, and the hockey team lost its only engagement. 

Swimmers Splash On 

TANUARY 9, 1942, the swimming 

J team dropped a 39-36 decision to 

Columbia in New York. Since then 

the team has been undefeated in dual 

and triangular competition. 

On January 13, 1945, Cornell swimmers 

visited: New York again',and 

handed Columbia a 49-26 defeat. The 

victory was No. 17-in-a-row. 

Cornell won five first places, including 

the two relays, as Richard M. 

Holsten, USMCR, took the 50-yard 

freestyle in 0:25; Paul Klein '46 won 

the 150-yard backstroke in 1:49.9; and 

Paul C. Murray, USMCR, captured 

the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:39.2. 

The relay winners were: 300-yard 

medley, Klein, Murray, and Joseph 

R. Di Stasio '48, in 3:19.5, and 400yard 

freestyle, Wallace White, US 

NR, Ralph Riehl, Jr., USNR, Di 

Stasio, and Holsten, in 3:54.6. 

Holsten placed second to Rogers of 

Columbia in the 100-yard freestyle, 

and Riehl was second to Rogers in the 

220-yard freestyle. Other point winners 

for Cornell were Clarence F. 

Urban, USNR, second in diving and 

the 440-yard freestyle (Rogers won 

this one, too); John D. Holmes, US- 

NR, second in the 50-yard freestyle; 

Charles Reynolds '48, second in the 

200-yard breaststroke; Norman C. 

Merz '48, third in the 220-yard freestyle; 

James R. Del Signore, USNR, 

third in diving; Benjamin D. Wright, 

USNR, third in the 150-yard backstroke; 

and Johji H. Muller III, US- 

NR, third in the 440-yard freestyle. 

At Rochester January 20, Cornel- 

Hans set two new pool records. The 

medley relay team—a new combination 

of Donald Iseman '46, Reynolds, 

and Holsten—opened the meet with 

a 3:12.6 effort for the 300 yards. The 

old record of 3:14.5 was set this season 

by a Sampson Naval Training Center 

trio. 

Placing one-two in the 200-yard 

breaststroke, Murray and Reynolds 

both bettered the old fecord of 2:38. 

Murray was timed in 2:33. 

Other winners were Urban, 220yard 

freestyle, 2:30.4, and 440-yard 

freestyle, 5:24.4; Iseman, 150-yard 

backstroke, 1:49.5; 440-yard freestyle 

relay team of Frederick J. Hammond, 

300 

USNR, Riehl, Di Stasio, and Holsten, 

3:55.6. 

Other second-place point scorers 

were White, 50-yard freestyle; Holsten, 

100-yard freestyle; Riehl, 150yard 

backstroke; and Muller, 440yard 

freestyle. In -third places were 

Merz, 220-yard freestyle; Holmes, 50yard 

freestyle; and Di Stasio; 100-yard 

freestyle. 

Cornell was forced to withdraw 

from the diving event when Del 

Signore was injured, not seriously, in 

striking the board. Cornell was awarded 

one point in this event. 

fending Eastern Intercollegiate League 

champions, 46-28, to tie with Pennsylvania 

for the League lead as of that 

date. 

Cornell's zone defense puzzled Dartmouth 

so successfully that the home 

team could score only a single point— 

on a free throw—in the first twelve 

minutes of play. Meanwhile, Cornell, 

paced by John G. Kimball, USNR, 

at guard and Edward T. Peterson '48 

at center, picked up 18 points and finished 

the first half with a comfortable 

—if somewhat unbelievable—23-5 advantage. 

The teams battled on even terms 

the second stanza, each scoring 23 

points. The new forward combination 

of Alterson and Way, with Peterson 

at center, worked well. But Kimball 

came out the high scorer with 17 

points. Peterson scored 12 and Alterson, 

9. 

League standings, as of January 20: 

W L Pts OP 

Cornell 2 1 143 118 

Pennsylvania 2 1 149 140 

Columbia 1 2 129 142 

Dartmouth 1 2 111 132 

Take Three on Courts Wrestlers Win, Lose 

B 

ASKETBALL team started its 

three-game victory string in Barton 

Hall January 9, winning easily 

from Pentathlon Military Academy, 

a division of the University of Mexico, 

52-37. It was strictly no contest, 

despite Cornell's unusually ragged 

play. With every advantage in height 

and reach over the smaller Mexican 

players, Cornell found it extremely 

difficult to execute plays properly. 

The Mexicans outclassed Cornell in 

floor work and passing. 

But fair shooting by William W. 

Matchneer '48, forward, and Walter 

D. Way '48, center, put Cornell in 

the van. The visitors held Cornell to 

a 5-point lead at the half, 23-18, but 

could not match Cornell's second-half 

spurt. Matchneer wound up as Cornell's 

high scorer with 14 points. Way 

scored 12. Both are discharged \var 

veterans; Matchneer the son of William 

W. Matchneer '10 and grandson 

of Carl J. Hoster '94, Way the son of 

Dr. Walter D. Way '17 and Mrs. 

Way (Hilda Greenawalt) '19. 

January 13, Cornell entertained 

Hobart in Barton Hall and scored an 

easy win, 55-33. Captain Irwin Alterson, 

USNR, forward, and Way, playing 

at forward and center, were the 

top Cornell scorers with 10 points 

each. McCaslin, Hobart center, scored 

11. 

Way was used at center because of 

an injury to Matchneer in practice 

during the week. Matchneer hurt his 

knee and had not recovered for the 

Dartmouth game at Hanover January 

20, when Cornell defeated the de- 

RESTLING team scored its 

Wsecond victory of the season 

January 13 at Bethlehem in defeating 

Lehigh, 18-12. Falls scored by Captain 

Rodney G. Stieff, USNR, and 

Donald B. Campbell '48 in the last 

two bouts settled an issue that had 

been in doubt because of a mix-up in 

the opening contest. 

In the 121-pound bout, Hinleun of 

Lehigh was declared the winner by 

decision over Phineas P. Kuhl, US- 

NR. Coach Walter O'Connell '12 protested 

on the ground of a time advantage 

for the Cornell wrestler, and 

it was disclosed that one of the timers' 

Scores of the Teams 

Basketball 

Cornell 52, Pentathlon Military 

Academy of Mexico 37 

Cornell 55, Hobart 33 

C®rnell 46, Dartmouth 28 

US Military Academy Preparatory 

(Cornell) 35, Cornell 

Junior Varsity 30 

Cornell Junior Varsity 51, 

Waterloo Rotary 26 

Swimming 

Cornell 49, Columbia 26 

Cornell 51, Rochester 24 

Wrestling 

Cornell 18, Lehigh 12 

Penn State 14, Cornell 12 

Hockey 

Dartmouth 10, Cornell 1 


clocks had stopped during the bout. 

O'Connell and the Lehigh coach then 

agreed that if the bout were needed 

to decide the meet's outcome, it 

would be wrestled again. 

James Q. Wynn, USNR, lost a decision 

in the 128-pound class. David 

H. Huntington, USNR, son of Lowell 

S. Huntington '19, former Varsity 

heavyweight, won a decision in the 

136-pound class. Clifford Steinbach, 

USNR, lost a decision and Lehigh 

led, 9-3, in the first four bouts. Benjamin 

G. Smith, USMCR, came through 

with a fall over Turner and 5 points in 

the 155-pound division. He pinned 

Turner with a half-nelson and body 

chancery in 2:40 of the second threeminute 

period and scored another fall 

in 2:25 of the third period. Lehigh increased 

its advantage to 12-8, as Jack 

T. Rakoski, USMCR, dropped a decision 

in the 165-pound class. 

Stieff, however, threw Gerb in the 

175-pound class with a double bar arm 

in 1:35 of the second period and repeated 

the fall in 0:10 of the third 

period. This put Cornell ahead, 13-12, 

and Campbell clinched the victory by 

throwing Koran, Lehigh heavyweight, 

in 0:46 of the third period with a body 

press. 

A week later, January 20, in Barton 

Hall the wrestlers suffered their first 

defeat in three engagements as Penn 

State won a close one, 14-12. 

Only one bout was decided by a 

fall, the extra 2 points scored by 

Smith of Penn State in pinning Rakoski 

in the 165-pound class winning 

the meet. Smith threw Rakoski with 

a crotch hold in 2:40 of the third 

period, just twenty seconds before the 

bout's end. 

Five points are awarded for a fall. 

All other bouts were decided on decisions, 

worth 3 points apiece. Winners 

for Cornell were Kulh, 121 

pounds; Huntington, 136 pounds; 

Stieff, 175 pounds; and Campbell, 

heavyweight. 

Stieff and Campbell are undefeated 

in three bouts this season. 

Coach Cointe Returns 

G 

EORGES Cointe, former fencing 

coach and assistant athletic trainer, 

has been honorably discharged as 

a lieutenant in the French Army, and 

returns February 1 as a member of the 

physical training staff. 

He designed, built, and oversaw 

much of the operation of the "commando 

course" on Kite Hill for civilian 

students in 1942-43, and during 

football seasons he was on the field 

assisting Trainer Frank Kavanagh. 

Varsity fencing was discontinued when 

he left. 

Cointe joined the French Army 

July 9, 1943, and completed training 

February /, 

at Fort Benning, Ga. He went to 

Casablanca as liaison officer and 

served in Morocco and Tunisia. He 

was next stationed in Scotland and 

England before he returned to France 

in the Normandy invasion. He saw 

action with the US First and Third 

Armies on the Western Front. 

In the first World War, he served 

as an underofficer in the French Army 

and won the Croix de Guerre at 

Verdun. 

H 

Hockey Team Loses 

OCKEY team lost to Dartmouth, 

10-1, on Beebe Lake, January 

20. It was Dartmouth's forty-sixth 

consecutive hockey victory since 1942. 

Edmund Cranch, USNR, right wing, 

made the Cornell score when he 

slipped behind two Dartmouth defense 

players for a clean shot at the 

goal. 

F 

No Board Track 

OR more than fifty years, CornelΓs 

indoor track squad has 

practiced on an outdoor board track. 

Not so this season; too much snow. 

First heavy snowfall came before the 

track could be erected, and continuing 

heavy falls have prevented the 

work. Now it won't be put up at all. 

The track squad is practicing on a 

circular track laid out on the dirt 

floor of Bacon Cage. It is approximately 

fourteen laps to the mile. The 

men will run on dirt in one meet, in 

the US Military Academy's field 

house at West Point, but in other indoor 

engagements at New York and 

Boston the runners will be at a disadvantage 

on boards. 

P 

Veterinary Honors 

RIZES were awarded to eleven 

students of the Veterinary College 

at "Honor Day" exercises January 

12, in Willard Straight Memorial 

Room. Dean William A. Hagan, MS 

'17, of the College presided, and Professor 

Hadley C. Stephenson '14, 

representing the Veterinary Faculty, 

made the awards. 

Horace K. White Prizes of $75 and 

$25 were won by Grayson B. Mitchell 

of King Ferry and Joseph C. Shaffer 

of Rosedale, who maintained the highest 

averages for the entire Veterinary 

course. The White Prizes were established 

in 1872 by Horace K. White '87, 

brother of President Andrew D. 

White, and increased in 1928 by his 

three sons, Andrew S. White '88, 

Ernest I. White '93, and the late University 

Trustee Horace White '87. 

Mitchell also won the first Mary 

Louise Moore Prize of $25, given by 

the late Dean Veranus A. Moore '87 

in memory of his wife, for the best 

work in veterinary bacteriology; second 

prize of ,$15, going to Gilbert 

Lewis of Jamaica. 

Addison D. Merry '80 Prizes of 

$.30 and $20, given by his son, Dr. 

Albert E. Merry '06, for the best 

work 1 in Veterinary Anatomy, went 

to Henry M. Doremus of Towaco, N. 

J., and Robert W. Kirk of Stamford, 

Conn. Anne Besse Prizes of $25 and 

$15 were awarded to Ralph F. Wester 

of Clinton and to Shaffer, for the best 

work in Medicine and Clinical Diagnosis. 

For humaneness in handling 

animals, with special reference to 

anaesthesia, the James Gordon Bennett 

Prizes of .$25 and $15 were 

awarded to Harrison J. Wilcox, Jr. of 

Binghamton and to Wester. 

Wilcox also won the Alpha Psi gold 

watch, as "the member of the graduating 

Class who has shown by his 

scholarship, character, and breadth 

of interest that he is best equipped to 

advance the standards of veterinary 

science." 

Jane Miller Prizes of $25 and $15 

for Physiology went to Michael Rothblatt 

and George H. Herlitz, both of 

New York City. Charles Gross Bondy 

Prizes of $25 and $15, for the best 

work in Practical Medicine and Surgery 

of Small Animals, were won by 

Charles S. Duncan of Binghamton 

and Andrew S. Ritter of Hudson. 

Doremus and Kirk are Sophomores, 

Rothblatt and Herlitz are Juniors, 

and the other seven prize-winners are 

Seniors. 

Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engineering, 

Emeritus, spoke on the history 

and development of Cornell and the 

Veterinary College. The program was 

concluded with a dance sponsored by 

the Cornell chapter of the American 

Veterinary Medical Association. 

War Letter Published 

E 

TTERS HOME, a new book 

edited by Professor Mina Curtiss 

of Smith College and published by 

Little, Brown & Co., contains a 

stirring letter from Sergeant Samuel 

Allen, Jr., US Tank Corps, written 

May 15, 1943, from North Africa to 

his family in Hudson, Ohio. Sergeant 

Allen's tank company is credited with 

the capture of Bizerte, Nazi stronghold 

in Tunisia; his letter describes 

this action. 

In the summer of 1940, Sergeant 

Allen came to Cornell from Miami 

University to take unit courses in 

Hotel Administration. He was manager 

of the Southland Hotel in Norfolk, 

Va., at the time of his induction. 

After Bizerte he was sent to Italy, 

where at the age of twenty-three he 

died of wounds received in action. 

301

Books 

By Cornellians 

Manufacturers' Manual 

Production Handbook. Edited by 

L. P. Alford, late professor of administrative 

engineering at New York 

University, and Professor John R. 

Bangs '21, Administrative Engineering, 

on leave as director of industrial 

and personnel relations, Edward G. 

Budd Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, 

Pa. Ronald Press Co., New 

York City. 1944. 1,700 pages, $7.50. 

Everything factory operators and 

executives ought to know. 

Among the ninety contributors are 

Professor Dexter S. Kimball, Engineering, 

Emeritus; Alfred Marchev, 

president of Republic Aviation Corp. 

who thirty years ago worked for 

Thomas-Morse Aircraft in Ithaca, is 

the husband of Martha Bovier Marchev 

'12 and the father of Lieutenant 

George B. Marchev '43, AAF; and 

the following eleven alumni: A. Griffin 

Ashcroft '21, product engineer for 

Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.; 

Ralph M. Barnes, PhD '33, professor 

of industrial engineering, University 

of Iowa; University Trustee Thomas 

I. S. Boak '14, works manager, Winchester 

Repeating Arms Co.; William 

B. Cornell '07, professor of management 

and industrial relations, New 

York University; Carlos D. Hart '06, 

superintendent of lead covered cable 

and station apparatus shops, Western 

Electric Co.; Harold B. Maynard '23, 

president of Methods Engineering 

Council; Allan H. Mogensen '23, industrial 

consultant; Charles A. Norris 

'24, chief engineer, Phenolic Molding 

Material Service, Bakelite Corp.; 

Jack E. Walters, PhD '34, principal, 

McKinsey & Co.; J. Carlton Ward, 

Jr. '14, president, Fairchild Engine & 

Airplane Corp.; and Lieutenant Colonel 

Kendall C. White '34, AUS. 

Labor Relations School 

(Continued from page 299) 

development of industrial practices 

of employers and employees; 2. The 

history and principles of sound industrial 

and labor relations and organizations; 

3. The rights and obligations 

of employers and employees; 4. The 

history and development of laws relating 

to industry and labor; and 5. 

All other phases of industrial, labor, 

and public relations of employers and 

employees tending to promote unity 

and the welfare of the people of the 

CORNELLIANS MEET IN CHINA 

Twenty-three Cornell alumni, their wives, children, and guests, met recently at a 

Red Cross Club near an American air-base in Southwestern China. Pictured above by 

the US Army Signal Corps are (front row, left to right): a guest, Lung Fu Wang, PhD '38, 

Jung Hsiang Lin, Grad '23-24, Lieutenant Frederic Burroughs, Jr. '35, Major Teh- 

Chang Koo '40 of the Chinese National Army, and two guests. Second row: Lieutenant 

Colonel William E. Jennings '31, Jen Chow '14, a guest, Dr. Tsung-Tsong Nyi '28, three 

guests, Master Pond and Mrs. Ben L. Pond, Mrs. C. Y. Hui,|Mrs. T. Shen, and Chung- 

Lo Liu '22. Third row: Chien Ting Chwang, MME '26, Polixenes Leo Yuan, MME '25, 

Shao Tseng Yang '22, S. Shee Wang, MCE '36, Tung Shen, PhD '39, Chin-Jen Luh, PhD 

guests, T. Y. Chang '36, and a guest. 

302 

State." Temporary trustees are President 

Day, chairman; William B. 

Groat, Jr., counsel of the joint Legislative 

committee, secretary; Assemblyman 

Ives; Louis Hollander, head 

of the State Industrial Union Council 

of the CIO; Thomas A. Murray, 

president of the State Federation of 

Labor, AFL; Frederick E. Hasler as 

president of the State Chamber of 

Commerce; Mark A. Daley, executive 

vice-president of Associated Industries 

of New York State, Inc.; and George 

D. Stoddard, State Commissioner of 

Education. 

President Day expressed the hope 

that the University Charter amendments 

would be approved and that 

the Legislature would complete the 

organization of the School so that it 

may be opened next fall, the first of 

its kind. Its administration by the 

University, he said, will parallel that 

of the present State Colleges of Agriculture, 

Home Economics, and Veterinary 

Medicine at the University. 

Of the new ex-officio Trustees, Edward 

Corsi is the present New York 

State Industrial Commissioner and 

Professor Martin P. Catherwood, 

PhD '30, on leave from Agricultural 

Economics, is State Commissioner of 

Commerce. The President said that 

the Trustees would consult labor organizations 

in the State before electing 

the other three new members of 

the Board. 

Women's Meetings Off 

A 

NNUAL luncheon of the Cornell 

Women's Club of New York, 

scheduled for February 3 at the Waldorf 

Astoria, has been cancelled in 

compliance with the Byrnes order. 

Also a casualty is the annual meeting 

of the Federation of Cornell Women's 

Clubs executive committee with presidents 

of the thirty-eight active Clubs, 

which was to have preceded the annual 

luncheon. 

At Work in Near East 

N 

EAR EAST Foundation lists 

twenty "carefully selected and 

fully trained men and women" on its 

overseas staff; seven of them are 

Cornellians. 

Dr. Wilson F. Dodd '20 is overseas 

director of the Foundation's medical 

program and medical supervisor in 

refugee camps for the United Nations 

Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. 

Paul H. Allen, Grad '34, with 

twenty years' experience in rural extension 

work in the United States, is 

now agriculturalist and administrator 

of the Foundation's program in Lebanon 

and Syria. 

Merrill N. Knapp '35, Extension 


Teaching, on leave as agricultural 

statistician for the Near East Foundation, 

is loaned to the Foreign Economic 

Administration. 

F. Irvine Elliott, PhD '44, formerly 

Extension instructor in Animal Husbandry 

specializing in artificial insemination 

of cattle, is director of the 

Foundation's livestock rehabilitation 

project in the Balkans. 

Helen L. McCune '43, nutritionist 

for the New York State Food Commission 

last year, is now supervisor 

of home welfare in Lebanon and 

Syria. 

Mrs. Margaret Johnson Florea, MS 

'43, and Marietta C. Henderson, 

MS '43, have been assigned temporarily 

to UNRRA for work in Greece. 

Ora S. Morgan, PhD '09, professor 

emeritus of agricultural economics at 

Columbia University, has been a director 

of the Near East Foundation 

since 1930. 

Speaker From Pacific 

M 

ASTER Sergeant Frank W. 

Macy '36, AAF, of Rochester, 

home on furlough after three years in 

Australia, New Guinea, and the 

Philippines, addressed the regular 

Wednesday luncheon meeting of the 

Cornell Club of Rochester, January 

24, on "Our Friends 'Down Under'." 

January 31, the Club heard Elmer 

Lawton, district engineer, New York 

State Department of Public Works, 

talk on "Bringing our State Highways 

Up to Date." 

T 

Re-elect Trustees 

WO ex-officio members of the 

University Board of Trustees 

have been re-elected as statutory 

librarian of the Cornell Library in 

Ithaca and president of the New York 

State Agricultural Society. 

Harry G. Stutz '07, general manager 

and editor of The Ithaca Journal, 

was re-elected librarian January 16 

by the Cornell Library Association. 

He is chairman of the Trustees' audit 

committee and Trustee-Faculty committee 

on Fine Arts, and is a member 

of the Board executive committee, 

government relations subcommittee 

of the planning and development committee, 

Library board, and the Board 

on Student Health and Hygiene. 

Harry Bull, dairy farmer of Campbell 

Hall, was re-elected president of 

the State Agricultural Society, January 

17 in Albany. Seventy-two years 

old, Bull was an organizer and director 

of the Dairymen's League and has 

been since its organization in 1920 a 

director of the GLF Exchange, the 

only original board member still serving. 

He is a member of the Agriculture 

College Council. 


Now in My Time! 

By (_^*^ 

UIS AGASSIZ never spent 

E much time at Ithaca. But you 

can still find his fingerprints all 

over the place. He left his mark on 

men, and on attitudes of mind. 

Where that mark remains, academic 

snobbery cannot flourish. 

A Campus dweller with a lively 

curiosity is constantly being shocked 

to learn how much has been going 

on, is going on, that he didn't know 

about. The latest revelation comes 

from Professor E. Laurence Palmer's 

most recent leaflet on "The 

Cornell Nature Study Philosophy." 

They still call them "leaflets" although 

this one runs to eighty 

pages of compact substance. The 

continued use of the term is doubtless 

part of our traditional striving 

for ostentatious simplicity. 

Next to the White Autobiography 

and the Becker Book, this 

Palmer opus offers the most promising 

clues to those still trying to 

isolate and describe the peculiar 

essence of Cornell. 

To many graduates, Nature 

Study suggests bedtime stories; an 

excellent thing, no doubt, but 

scarcely possessing the dignity that 

would entitle it to University recognition. 

Nor can you blame the 

alumni for this attitude when you 

recall that it was not until 1899 

that a Cornell professor dared to 

announce a course called Nature 

Study. Until that time, the custom 

of the trade required you to call it 

Ecology or Oecology. 

"Bosh!" said George F. Atkinson, 

the mushroom man, from the 

head of the table at the boarding 

house patronized by your reporter 

in his Freshman year, "I call it 

Nature Study." And he wist not 

that he was passing down the spirit 

of Louis Agassiz along with the 

alphabet soup. 

One day, writes Professor Palmer, 

a little boy fishing in Cascadilla 

was startled by a man standing in 

the middle of the stream. "Come 

here, little boy," said the man, "I 

show you something." The man 

was Agassiz, and what he showed 

the boy was a minnow pushing 

pebbles together into a heap. 

That's all the story, except that 

the boy went on from there to become 

Curator of Botany at the 

Field Museum in Chicago! 

That first lot of searchers and 

teachers—Wilder, Hartt, Dudley, 

Comstock, Gage, Jordan—had felt 

the touch of Agassiz. The influence 

stayed with them, and passed 

down through them to their students 

and successors. It was still 

the Agassiz touch that you got so 

casually from Louis Fuertes '97. 

It is still the Agassiz touch that 

you get on a bird walk behind 

Arthur Allen '08 through the Renwick 

woods in the blue mists of a 

May sunrise. 

"Come here, little boy, and I'll 

show you something." That's the 

pedagogical attack at Ithaca, and 

it's all the same to the Agassiz 

crowd whether the boy be six or 

sixty! 

Post-war education? The word 

goes 'round now that post-war 

education will deal also with the 

proposition that the bread of the 

labor unions and that of the farm 

bureaus is all buttered on the same 

side, and that both groups had 

better start getting together. Fine! 

as long as the student never forgets 

he must get his facts from his own 

observations, form his own conclusions 

from his own thinking. 

And he isn't likely to forget that 

as long as the Agassiz influence 

remains! 

Nature study belongs in a university. 

But it should be pursued 

to a point where the student gets a 

chance to find out that Aristotle 

made some pretty shrewd guesses 

in the field of science; that Socrates, 

too, left his mark on teaching 

methods; that America has not 

yet caught up with Greek thinking 

except, perhaps, in the matter of 

plumbing fixtures and such like. 

Over the main entrance of Willard 

Straight appears a Latin inscription 

that might be broadly 

translated, "Everything that relates 

to the well-being of mankind 

is intensely interesting to me." It 

comes pretty close to what Ezra 

Cornell had in his mind. It lets in 

Nature Study, Labor Problems, 

Greek Thinking, Rural Sociology, 

Russian Civilization, English Poetry, 

Nutrition, and Flying Machines. 

It rules out all traditional, 

academic snobbery in connection 

with the curriculum. 

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committee composed of Phillips Wyman 

'17, chairman, R. W. Sailor '07, Birge W. 

Kinne Ί6, Clifford S. Bailey Ί8, and John 

S. Knight Ί8. Officers of the Alumni Association: 

William L. Kleitz '15, New 

York City, president; Walter C. Heasley, 

Jr. '30, Ithaca, secretary-treasurer. 

Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 

Assistant Editors: 

JOHN H. DETMOLD '43 

RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 

Contributors: 

ROMEYN BEERY '04 W. J. WATERS '27 

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Printed at The Cayuga Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 

Welles Lecture 

SYNDICATED column, "The Lyons 

Den," by Leonard Lyons in 

The New York Post January 22 

opened with the statement: "Orson 

Welles' lecture at Cornell University 

this week was cancelled by order of 

the university's regents. Welles was 

told that the regents disapproved of 

his political leanings." 

Fact is that no lecture by Orson 

Welles had ever been scheduled at the 

University. Edward K. Graham, PhD 

'38, Secretary of the University, received 

a telegram from the William 

Morris Agency which had gone to the 

Department of Music December 9 inquiring 

whether the University would 

book Welles on the Campus, the nature 

of his performance unspecified. 

Graham referred the matter to the 

directors of the University Theatre 

who, after discussion with students 

and others of their group, wired 

Welles •« agent December 15 that the 

University Theatre would be unable 

to sponsor his appearance here. 

Secretary Graham wrote Lyons 

these facts January 23, saying also in 

his letteί: "The Board of Trustees has 

never forbidden a lecture by Mr. 

Welles, nor does the Board act in the 

position of censor for public events 

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on this Campus. ... So far as I have 

been able to find out, no question of 

Welles's political beliefs came up, and 

I rather doubt that anyone here would 

regard them as carrying much weight, 

one way or another, so far as an appearance 

on this Campus is concerned." 

In a telephone conversation with 

Graham, Lyons said he was glad to 

have the facts and would publish 

them. 

Letters 

Subject to the usual restrictions of space and 

good taste, we shall print letters from subscribers 

on any side of any subject of interest 

to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS 

often may not agree with the sentiments 

expressed, and disclaims any responsibility 

beyond that of fostering interest in the 

University. 

"Grossly Exaggerated" 

To THE EDITOR: 

My copy of the ALUMNI NEWS for 

January 15 arrived late. No wonder 

it was so long on the road, loaded 

down as it was with the burden of 

Patterson '95 and his grandfather's 

desk. 

It was startling—and made me 

feel over-exposed—when I seemed to 

see my name and backside featuring 

a whole page of the NEWS. But then 

I observed with relief that a good 

share of the page had been allotted to 

Rym and his backside: a legitimate 

feature. 

If any reader complains that the 

space given to my exit exceeds the 

decent limit, you may promise that 

the ultimate obituary, when its time 

comes, can be cut to the bones, thus: 

"See Vol. 47, p. 282." 

It was a happy thought of the 

make-up man to offset those receding 

rumps with a stickful of "Coming 

Events."—WOODFORD PATTERSON '95 

Cover Picture 

Sage College completely 

occupied by the US Naval 

Training School and with more than 

2,000 women students on the Campus, 

they are quartered in eleven fraternity 

houses which the University has 

leased for this use, and in four other 

rented houses and nineteen University-owned 

residences, besides the 

women's dormitories. 

In addition to the Kappa Alpha 

house at 2 Central Avenue, pictured 

on the cover, undergraduate women 

occupy also the former homes of Phi 

Gamma Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon 

south of Fall Creek gorge, and 

across the gorge Delta Chi on The 

Knoll, Seal and Serpent, Phi Kappa 

Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, and Theta Xi 

along Thurston Avenue, and Alpha 

Gamma Rho, Tau Kappa Epsilon, 

and Kappa Delta Rho out Highland 

Avenue and Westbourne Lane. 

Dean O'Leary 

(Continued from page 297} 

His book, Questions and Problems 

in Economics, written with Professor 

Sumner H. Schlicter, was published 

in 1931; Corporate Enterprise in 

Modern Economic Life, with John H. 

Patterson '25, in 1933; and An Introduction 

to Money, Banking, and Corporations, 

in 1937. He is a member of 

Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa; 

served on the Willard Straight Hall 

board of managers and the University 

Board on Physical Education and 

Athletics. Mrs. O'Leary was Harriet 

Barton '24, daughter of the late 

Colonel Frank A. Barton, Commandant 

of the ROTC, and Mrs. Barton. 

Coming Events 

Notices for this column must be received at 

least Ύve days before date of issue. Time and 

place of regular Cornell Club luncheons are 

printed separately as we have space. 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 

Ithaca: Junior Week 

"Pep Rally" and skating party, Beebe 

Lake, 7:30 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 

Ithaca: Basketball, JV vs. USMAP, 2; 

Varsity vs. Pennsylvania, 3:30, Barton 

Hall 

Swimming, Sampson Naval Training 

Center, Old Armory, 3 

Josh Wliite and Libby Holman, "Early 

American Blues and Other Songs," 

Bailey Hall, 8:15 

"Winter Wonderland" Dance, Barton 

Hall, 10:30 

New York City: Wrestling, Columbia 

Hanover, N. H.: Hockey, Dartmouth 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 

Ithaca: Ice Carnival, Beebe Lake, 2:30 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 

Hamilton: Basketball, Colgate 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 

Bethlehem, Pa.: Wrestling Intercollegiates 


Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. 

Sampson Naval Hospital, 6:30; Varsity 

vs. Dartmouth, 8:15 

Bethlehem, Pa.: Wrestling Intercollegiates 

New Haven, Conn.: Hockey, Yale 

Philadelphia, Pa.: Swimming, Pennsylvania 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 

Syracuse: Basketball, Syracuse 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 

Sampson: Basketball, Naval Training 

Center 


Ithaca: Basketball, Barton Hall, JV vs. 

Midshipmen's School, 6:30; Varsity 

vs. Columbia, 8:15 


On The Campus and Down the Hill 

Tribute to Cornell University for its 

war contributions, including " 18,000 

Cornellians in service," the Army and 

Navy programs on the Campus, and 

the training of 22,000 persons for war 

industries throughout the State by 

the Faculty in the ESMWT program, 

was paid by Hal Mclntyre on the 

nationally broadcast Eversharp program, 

January 23. Mclntyre l§d his 

band in a stylized version of the 

"Alma Mater." 

"Jam session" arranged by the fledgling 

music committee of the Student 

Council packed the Willard Straight 

Memorial Room, January 16. Piano, 

trumpet, bass, drums, and vocal, 

handled by civilian and Naval students, 

gave enjoyment to the multitude. 

Strains of "I Can't Get Started" 

recalled the shade of the great Bunny 

Berigan to the vaulted room where he 

played for the '38 Senior Ball. 

"Early American Blues" sung by 

Josh White, guitar-picking Negro 

minstrel, and Libby Holman, the 

original torch girl, will be the music 

committee's first big venture, February 

3. Josh visited Cornell January 

15 to test the accoustics and lighting 

of Bailey Hall, a far cry from your 

intime night club, his usual milieu. 

He was sure, however, that "Libby 

can holler loud enough," and departed 

well satisfied,, stopping only to 

sing for Professor Harold Thompson's 

class in American Folklore. 

Captain Arthur S. Adams, USN, University 

Provost-elect, addressed 208 

graduates of the Midshipmen's School, 

January 24, in his second commencement 

appearance in Bailey Hall. The 

following day he was to speak at the 

annual schedule-making conference of 

the ICAAAA in New York City. 

Cornell for Victory's new "Meet 'em 

and Date 'em" committee arranges 

open houses in sororities, dormitories, 

and cottages every Sunday afternoon 

for service men. Ten such shindigs 

were well attended January 21. 

The committee's present goal is a 

date for every service man February 3, 

at Winter Wonderland in Barton Hall. 

Cornell Dance Club held open house 

January 16, in the recreation room 

of Risley Hall. An audience of perhaps 

100, including interested members of 

the Faculty and not a few roommates 

of the performers, watched beginning, 

intermediate, and advanced groups 

February ι y 1945 

demonstrate their barefoot agility in 

the modern dance. Garbed attractively 

in brief blue tunics, the girls 

climaxed their presentation of rhythmic, 

spatial, and dynamic movement 

with an antiphonal interpretation of 

"Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up?" 

Cookies and root beer were also served. 

"The Cornell Widow announces with 

pride the forthcoming selection of the 

most beautiful coed of the Freshman 

Class by John Robert Powers, president, 

Powers Models." The Widow 

has elected Myron E. Mendelson '46 

of Woodmere, associate editor, and 

Caroline M. Steinholz '46 of New 

York City to the art staff. 

Letter published in The Widow for 

Christmas points out the time and 

paper wasted by ending letters "Yours 

truly." It is signed "Yours truly, Jay 

Kay, Ltd." and has been attributed 

to James K. Fraser '97, a founder of 

The Widow in 1894. 

Andrew H. McPherson, contractor 

and builder, died January 12 in 

Ithaca. With his son, Donald McPherson 

'31, he built many Faculty houses 

in Cayuga Heights and Forest Home. 

His daughter is Mrs. Charles E. 

Barnett (Ellen McPherson) '27. 

Lucy Prather, beloved cook at the 

Seal and Serpent house for thirty 

years until she retired in 1938, died 

January 6 at her home in Gaithersburg, 

Md. During Lucy's reign, it was 

the established custom of many generations 

at Seal and Serpent to strike 

up in the dining room after one of her 

fine dinners with the song, "Here 

Comes Our Lucy" in appreciation, 

whereupon she always appeared, 

beaming, at her kitchen door. 

JUNIOR WEEK, the first since 1942, 

begins February 2 with a "pep rally" 

and skating party on Beebe Lake. 

Saturday the fortunate HPQ will be 

escorted to an afternoon of basketball 

in Barton Hall, a blues concert 

by Josh White and Libby Holman in 

Bailey Hall, and back again to Barton 

for a "Winter Wonderland" ball with 

Johnny Long and orchestra. Sunday, 

an ice carnival on Beebe Lake. Junior 

Week, which according to The Bulletin 

used to be "an all week affair," 

was replaced in '43 by a Victory 

Weekend, and last year by a Liberty 

Ball and variety show. 

Hindsight picture of Patterson '95 

and Berry '04 in our last issue was 

by Second Lieutenant Jay B. Leviton 

'44, Signal Corps, the print made and 

sent to us the night before he left the 

country for overseas. Our former 

cameraman, whose covers and other 

Campus pictures since 1941 have 

brought universal applause to the 

NEWS, was last reported in Florence, 

Italy, recording the northward trek 

of the US Fifth Army. 

Charles E. Cornell, at eighty-nine the 

eldest surviving grandson of the 

Founder, was re-elected president of 

the Cornell Library Association (downtown), 

January 16. He is a life Trustee 

of the University under the Charter 

rule of primogeniture. Other grandchildren 

of Ezra Cornell are Channing 

B. Cornell '96, Charles H. Blair '97, 

James H. Cornell, Mary E. Cornell, 

Mrs. Arthur Goodspeed, and Mrs. 

Daniel 0. Dechert. 

Tau Beta Pi, honor society in Engineering, 

initiated Leroy R. Grumman 

'16, president of Grumman Aircraft 

Engineering Corp., and sixteen undergraduates 

(fourteen of them apprentice 

seamen in the Navy V-12 program) 

at the society's annual banquet, 

January 12 in the Victoria Hotel. 

Professor Julian P. Bretz, American 

History, Emeritus, was after-dinner 

speaker. 

Snow Ball, ninth annual edition, returned 

to the Willard Straight Memorial 

Room January 20, sponsored 

by CURW. Anna C. Babcock '47 of 

Prattsburg, escorted by Apprentice 

Seaman Henry W. Wittman, was 

chosen Snow Queen by popular applause 

from among seven highly eligible 

candidates selected by the chaperones. 

Debate: "Should American Citizens 

Favor the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals?" 

sponsored by the public 

affairs committee of CURW, January 

24 in Barnes Hall. Professor Walter 

F. Willcox, Economics and Statistics, 

Emeritus, upheld the affirmative 

against Albion Beverage, legislative 

secretary of the National Council for 

Prevention of War. 

Sunday afternoon recitals in the Willard 

Straight Memorial Room: January 

14, Carlos Vazquez, Mexican 

pianist, a student of Egon Petri, University 

Pianist-in-residence; January 

28, Radiana Pazmor, contralto. 

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The Faculty 

President Edmund E. Day was 

moderator at a conference in New 

York City, January 9 on "Conflicting 

Beliefs in American Education," sponsored 

by The New York Times and 

Public Education Association. Speakers 

were Professor Eduard C. Lindeman 

of the New York School of Social 

Work, Mark Van Doren, author and 

historian, President Constance Warren 

of Sarah Lawrence College, and 

President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton. 

Robert E. Treman '09, Alumni 

Trustee and president of Cayuga 

Motors Corp. in Ithaca, has been appointed 

to the board of governors of 

the Smaller War Plants Corp., Region 

2. 

William D. P. Carey >23, Uni- * 

versity Trustee, procurement executive 

of the Western District of the 

Air Technical Service Command, Los 

Angeles, Cal., has been promoted to 

lieutenant colonel. He was commissioned 

in 1942 and assigned to the 

headquarters of the then Materiel 

Command at Wright Field, Ohio. 

After duty in the legal branch and the 

executive office of the procurement 

division at Wright Field, he was 

transferred to Western District headquarters 

in February, 1943, as chief 

of the contract section. He became 

procurement executive in July. He 

lives with his wife and daughter at 

435 South Bedford Drive, Beverly 

Hills. William D. P. Carey, Jr. '47 is 

a V-12 student in Marine training at 

Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, 

Agriculture, Emeritus, and Director 

of the Bailey Hortorium, was elected 

honorary president of the New York 

State Horticultural Society at its 

ninetieth annual meeting in Rochester, 

January 11. 

Professor Morris G. Bishop '14, 

Romance Languages, on leave as a 

civilian with OWI, writes December 

29 from overseas: "This morning I 

took on a new job. I reported at 6 a.m. 

and did a broadcast in German. It 

was evidently a success, and the result 

is that I will report every morning at 

6 a.m. and probably won't get a 

morning off or a leave to Paris until 

the war is over. I am pleased, however, 

as I have previously broadcast 

in French, Italian, and Swedish, and 

it seemed a shame not to let the Germans 

listen to my German. Maybe it 

will bring their surrender a little 

closer. Unfortunately, after my broad- 

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cast I am not through, as I am in 

charge of recordings, prisoners of war, 

and anything else that occurs to someone 

who wants to impose on someone's 

good nature. 'Impose on Good Nature 

Here,' is the sign over my door. 

But I am lucky in having the assistance 

of Corporal Joseph W. Eaton 

'40, who prepared for his present assignment 

by specializing in Rural 

Sociology. ... I live very comfortably 

in a handsome house, with heat and 

hot water, excellent food, and admirable 

service. About twenty of us 

have two housemen, a cook, two 

maids, and a local policeman who 

waits on table in full uniform, including 

hat. It is true that the nights 

have been pretty noisy." 

Coach Nicholas Bawlf was elected 

to the soccer rules committee of the 

National Collegiate Athletic Association 

at its annual meeting in Columbus, 

Ohio, January 13. James Lynah 

'05, former University Director of 

Physical Education and Athletics, 

choice of the nominating committee 

for a three-year term as president of 

the NCAA, was beaten in a threecornered 

race by Wilbur Smith, athletic 

director of Tulane University. 

Smith and Dean R. W. Aigler of the 

University of Michigan law school 

were nominated from the floor. 

Howard S. Merritt, son of Professor 

Ernest Merritt '86, Physics, Emeritus, 

and Mrs. Merritt, AM '26, has been 

promoted to first lieutenant. He is 

with the US Ninth Army in Germany. 

Professor Joshua A. Cope, Forestry 

Extension, has received a letter from 

President Roosevelt. Both grow Christmas 

trees. Last fall, Professor Cope 

was asked to look over the Hyde Park 

plantation and wrote to the President, 

suggesting improvements. Next time, 

said the President, he hoped he would 

be there in person to benefit from 

personal advice. 

Stephen E. Rawlins, two-year-old 

son of Professor W. Arthur Rawlins 

'30, Entomology, and Mrs. Rawlins, 

died January 3, 1945, at the home of 

his parents. 

Professor Richard T. Gore, University 

Organist, received recognition 

in the December issue of The American 

Organist for his current series of 

fifteen Campus recitals devoted to 

organ music by Bach. The leading one 

of the four separate articles: on the 

series is entitled "Complete Bach in 

Fifteen Programs." The recitals are 

described in the following words, 

"One of the most inviting presentations 

of the organ music of Bach ... in 

a program arrangement that has much 

to recommend it, with program-notes 

that add values of their own." 

A third daughter was born December 

26 to Ralph M. Wardle, instructor 

in English from 1940-44, and Mrs. 

Wardle. Dr. Wardle is associate professor 

of English at the University of 

Omaha. 

Necrology 

'80—Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, a 

pioneer of modern surgery and author 

of books on medicine for the layman, 

January 9, 1945, in Stamford, Conn., 

where he lived at Merribrook Farm, 

Westover Road. One of the first to 

urge antiseptic methods, his most 

widely known surgical accomplishment 

was the appendix operation performed 

with one and a half inch incision. 

Although his practice was in 

New York City, he operated frequently 

in Ithaca and was the first to 

perform an appendectomy in Ithaca 

City Hospital. Professor of surgery at 

New York Postgraduate Medical College 

from 1898 until his retirement in 

1917, he was Alumni Trustee of Cornell 

from 1905-15. Among his books 

are Microbes and Men, Nut Growing, 

in which he told of his hobby, the 

culture of nut trees on his 430-acre 

farm, and Fifty Years a Surgeon, his 

autobiography. Alpha Delta Phi. 

'88 PhB—Charlotte A. Foster, head 

of the Ithaca High School Latin department 

until her retirement in 1909, 

January 11, 1945, in Ithaca. She was 

the daughter of the late Luther C. 

Foster, superintendent of schools in 

Ithaca from 1875 to 1895. 

'92 AB—Dr. Clyde Augustus Duniway, 

retired educator and since 1900 

an elector of the New York University 

Hall of Fame, December 24, 1944, in 

Palo Alto, Cal. After serving as instructor 

at Harvard and Radcliffe 

College, he went to Stanford University, 

where he was a member of the 

history faculty from 1897 to 1908. He 

was president of the University of 

Montana from 1908-12, the University 

of Wyoming from 1912-17, and 

Colorado College from 1917-24. After 

that he was director of the American 

University Union in London and 

taught history at Carleton College for 

a short time. Retired from active 

college work, he made his home on 

the Stanford University campus. 

'93 ME (EE)— William Allison Harris, 

former general superintendent of 

the Canton Roll & Machine Division 

of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., November 

18, 1944, in Canton, Ohio, 

where his home was at 255 Twentyfirst 

Street, N. W. Son, Jonathan W. 

Harris '25. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 


'94 CE—Arthur Harrington Place, 

consulting engineer, who was associated 

for many years with the Detroit 

Bureau of Governmental Research, 

January 1, 1945, in Detroit, Mich. A 

past president of the Cornell Club of 

Michigan, he was presented at its 

fifty-fourth anniversary an engraved 

scroll honoring his! services to his 

country as "city planner, engineer, 

and member of the armed forces." 

His wife, Ruth Mosher Place, garden 

editor of The Detroit News, lives at 

2519 Sheridan Avenue, Detroit 14, 

Mich. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

'00 MD—Dr. Anna Christeseft de 

la Motte, who practiced physical 

therapy for many years, October 22, 

1944, at her home at 27 Schermerhorn 

Street, Brooklyn 2. A lifelong cripple 

who walked with the aid of two canes, 

she came to this country from Denmark 

as a young woman to study 

medicine. 

'01 CE—Marion deKalb Smith, Jr., 

of 119 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, 

Md., January 20, 1944. He was 

supervisor for the Pennsylvania Railroad 

Co. until 1924. He advised the 

Maryland State Roads Commission 

and helped to organize and build civic 

buildings in Kent County, Md. 

'05 AB—Arthur CarsonErtz-Berger, 

January 8, 1945, in East Greenbush, 

where he lived at 1 Park Avenue. He 

was in the lumber business with C. T. 

Hubbell & Co. Son, First Lieutenant 

Archibald Roger Ertz-Berger '40, 

with the Army on Leyte. 

'07 CE—Henry Dennison Darrow, 

Jr., superintendent of the Kingston 

water department, January 9, 1945, 

in Kingston. Daughter, Marjory S. 

Darrow '32. 

'07 CE—Thomas Ringland Stockdale, 

April 24, 1944, in Memphis, 

Tenn., where he lived at 30 North 

Auburndale Street. He was with the 

US Engineers office in Memphis and 

Little Rock, Ark., until his retirement 

a short time before his death. Delta 

Psi. 

'10—Paul Louis Reinhardt, art 

dealer and former owner of the Reinhardt 

Galleries, 730 Fifth Avenue, 

New York City, January 13, 1945, in 

New York City. He was among the 

first American dealers to recognize 

the significance of modern French 

painters and brought many of their 

outstanding works to this country. 

He lived at the Hotel Salisbury, 123 

West Fifty-seventh Street. Phi Sigma 

Kappa. 

'13 BS—Leroy William Long, manager 

of the Newark Milk & Cream 

Co., December 19, 1944, in Pennsyl- 


vania Terminal, New York City, 

from a heart attack. His home was at 

12 Clearman Place, Belleville, N. J. 

Son, Leroy W. Long, Jr. '42. Brother, 

Alvin E. Long '17. 

'13 ME—Durbin VanLaw, consulting 

engineer and former official of the 

US Veteran's Bureau, December 21, 

1944, at his home, 366 South Gaylord 

Street, Denver, Colo. He was president 

of the Durbin Surgical Supply 

Co. and consulting engineer for many 

years for the Rio Grande Railroad. 

'14 ME—Brower Cox Spransy, of 

Route 4, Oconomowoc, Wis., December 

14, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wis. He 

had returned to war work at the 

Cutler-Hammer Co. after retirement. 

Sons: Charles H. Spransy '43, Lieutenant 

George B. Spransy '44, Army 

Signal Corps, and Lieutenant Jack 

W. Spransy '46, AAF. Sigma Alpha 

Epsilon. 

Ί5—Roy Schuyler Dunning, supervisor 

of real estate sales for Union 

Properties, Inc., and for the Daisy 

Hill Co., December 27, 1944, in 

Cleveland, Ohio. His home was on 

RD, Daisy Hill Farm, Chagrin Falls, 

Ohio. 

'16—Myron Isaiah Granger (Goldberg), 

stock broker, February 29, 

1944, in New York City, where he 

lived at 885 Park Avenue. He was a 

member of the firm of Sulzbacher, 

Granger & Co. 

'18 DVM—Dr. Fred W. Cruickshanks, 

December 12, 1944, in Hagerstown, 

Md., where he had practiced 

veterinary medicine for twenty-five 

years. Mrs. Cruickshanks (Emma St. 

John) '19 lives at 15 Cypress Street, 

Hagerstown, Md. 

'18, '20 BS—Lieutenant Colonel * 

Francis Cressy Wilbur, of 199 Aldine 

Street, Rochester, December 17, 1944 

in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 

where he was serving as headquarters 

commandant. A veteran of the last 

war, he was called to active service in 

1941 and assigned to duty in Australia. 

He was formerly secretary of 

the Joseph Harris Seed Co., Rochester. 

Son, Rodney S. Wilbur '44, AAF. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

'26 MD—Dr. James Lewis Winemiller, 

pediatrist, October 1, 1944, in 

Great Neck. He was on the staff of 

Nassau Hospital, Mineola, and Meadow 

Brook Hospital, East Hempstead. 

'28 PhD—Professor Howard Adams 

Do Bell, head of the mathematics department 

at New York State College 

for Teachers, Albany, December 8, 

1944, in Elsmere. Delta Upsilon. 

'38 DVM—Dr. James Edwin Helyar, 

field inspector for the Rieck- 

McJunkin Dairy Co., Pittsburgh, 

Pa., January 12, 1945, in Meadville, 

Pa. Alpha Zeta, Alpha Psi. 

'38 ME—Captain Pilot Richard 

Wescom Marchant, China National 

Aviation Corp., subsidiary of Pan 

American Airways, whose plane was 

reported missing May 27, 1944, while 

flying from Calcutta to Dinjan, Assam, 

India, presumed dead July 5, 

1944, by the US Consulate General in 

Calcutta. He had requested a transfer 

to India in September, 1943, to be 

connected with the transport service 

over "the hump" of the Himalaya 

Mountains. His home was at Scarsdale 

Manor House, Garth Road, 

Scarsdale. Theta Delta Chi. 

'39 MD—Captain Herman Law- ^ 

rence Jacobius, September 28, 1944, 

in Holland, where he was with a 

medical detachment of the 82d Airborne 

Engineer Battalion. He had 

taken part in the glider invasions of 

Sicily, Italy, Frnace, and Holland. 

His home was at 23 West Seventythird 

Street, New York City 23. 

'40 AB—Lieutenant William * 

Christian Houck, AUS, killed in action 

over Germany, December 14, 

1944. He was the son of Christian T. 

Houck '15 of 169 Dearborn Street, 

Buffalo 7. Alpha Chi Rho. 

'42 MD—Captain Henry Bertull, * 

Medical Corps, August 28, 1944, in 

France, of injuries received in action, 

August 27. His home was at 414 East 

Sixty-fifth Street, New York City 21. 

'44—First Lieutenant Louis ^ 

Joseph Koch, Jr., AUS, killed in action 

in France, in August, 1944. A 

former student in Engineering, he 

was in a tank destroyer battalion. 

His home was at Highwood Farm, 

Sproal Road, Box 307, Swarthmore, 

Pa. 

'45—Sergeant Henry Gund Gor- ^ 

don, killed in action in France, November 

29, 1944. A former student in 

Arts, he was the son of Robert D. 

Gordon Ίl and brother of Robert D. 

Gordon, Jr. '44. Chi Phi. 

'45—Sergeant Irwin George -k 

Saville, AUS, killed in action, July 19, 

1944, on Saipan. He left Agriculture, 

became a tank commander, and 

fought through the battle of Guam. 

His home was on Webster Road, 

Orchard Park. Alpha Gamma Rho. 

Brother, Robert Saville '43. 

'46—Melvin Donald Josephson, * 

AUS, killed in action in Holland, 

November 4, 1944. A former student 

in Agriculture, his home was at 1160 

Cromwell Avenue, New York City 52 

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News of the Alumni 

'78 BME—Ben Johnson, retired 

mechanical engineer, lives at 523 

Capital Street, Salinas, Cal. 

'96 ME—William A. Gordon has 

been admitted to membership in the 

firm of Coverdale & Colpitts, consulting 

engineers, 120 Wall Street, New 

York City. He has been with the firm 

since 1930. 

'97 ME—Perley S. Wilcox, of 

Kingsport, Tenn., was elected January 

16 vice-chairman of the board of 

directors of Eastman Kodak Co., 

Rochester. He continues as chairman 

of the board of Tennessee Eastman 

Corp. 

'02 LLB—Harry R. McClain has 

given up juvenile court work and law 

practice to devote his frill time to 

teaching speech and theatre arts at 

office. The Γuchses live at 5420 Con- 

Rooftop Community Theatre of St. 

Louis, Mo. He lives at 412 North 

Union Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 

'02 AB—The Right Rev. G. Ashton 

Oldham, bishop of the Episcopalian 

Diocese of Albany, who has recently 

returned from conferences with the 

Archbishops of Canterbury and of 

York, delivered a message from Britain 

at Saint Ann's Church in Brooklyn 

Heights. 

'03 LLB—James J. Clark is assistant 

to the president of Liggett Drug 

Co., Inc., 71 West Twenty-third 

Street, New York City. He is an industry 

member of the regional War 

Labor Board. 

'06 ME—Howard L. Aller was 

tendered a testimonial dinner January 

9 in recognition of his decade as 

president of American Power & Light 

Co. The dinner, at the University 

Club in New York City, was given by 

several of the directors and counsel of 

the company. Guests included leading 

public utility officials of the country, 

prominent attorneys, and others. 

'07 CE—Alwin W. King was elected 

January 9 a director of the Maplewood 

(N. J.) Bank & Trust Co. He is 

a partner of King & Shepherd, sales 

engineers, 50 Church Street, New 

York City. 

'07 LLB—Winthrop Taylor, trustee 

and counsel of Kings County Savings 

Bank, Brooklyn, was elected January 

11 to the newly-created chairmanship 

of the Bank. 

'09—Syndicated column, "On the 

Line" by Bob Considine, which appeared 

in the Providence, R. I., Journal 

January 4, carries the name of 

Edward L. McCallie, who is now plant 

expediter for a boiler company in 

Chattanooga, Tenn. Considine says 

that James A. Farley, former Postmaster 

General, was being shown 

around Chattanooga and happened 

to stop at the boiler plant where 

McCallie is employed. "Jim walked 

right over to him, shook hands and 

said, Ύou were ail-American at Cornell. 

Thirty-odd years ago, I saw you 

play against Army. You scored a 

touchdown in the right-hand corner 

of the field, then later you got hurt 

and were carried off the fieldV ; 

Mc- 

Callie was right halfback on the 1907 

Cornell football team which beat 

Army, 14-10, at West Point. In the 

last few minutes, with Army leading, 

10-6, McCallie caught a long pass 

from Quarterback Fred E. Gardner 

'09 to win the game against an Army 

team that had not previously been 

scored on that season. There is no 

record of McCallie being injured in 

that game, nor of his selection as ail- 

American. 

'10, '12 ME; '38, '41 BS in AE * 

(ME)—Elmer D. Spicer, vice-president 

in charge of apparatus manufacturing 

for General Electric Co. in 

Schenectady, has been appointed a 

member of the president's staff with 

headquarters in "New York City. He 

is in charge of employee relations and 

consultant on general manufacturing 

matters. He is the father of Captain 

Elmer F. Spicer '38, AUS. 

'11 ME, '15 MME—Herbert B. 

Reynolds, until recently superintendent 

of motive power of the IRT Division 

of the New York City Transit 

System, is now superintendent of 

power generation for the entire system, 

which is a consolidation of the 

Interborough Rapid Transit Co., the 

Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. 

and the Independent System. He has 

charge of all power stations in the 

system which have a combined capacity 

of 600,000 Kws. and produce 

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within the United States, cannot be published. 

Designations of military units and 

the addresses of Naval ships, although 

required for postal delivery, may be of 

great value to the enemy if published. 

If therefore, you wish to correspond 

with Cornell friends in the services whose 

names appear in the News without complete 

address, the Alumni News will 

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bearing the full name and rank or grade, 

if known, of your correspondent, your own 

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Mail this to us hi another envelope and 

we will add the last-known address and 

forward your letter. 

Personal items and newspaper clippings 

άboul all Cornellians are earnestly solicited 

over 1,600,000,000 Kw. Hrs. of electric 

power a year. His office is at 600 

West Fifty-ninth Street, New York 

City 19, and he lives at 3430 Eightyfirst 

Street, Jackson Heights. 

'11 CE '23 AB —Charles0. Rhodes, 

banker, father of Professor Leland S. 

Rhodes '11 of State College, Pa., and 

Dr. C. Everett Rhodes 7 

23 of Schenectady, 

died December 22 in Groton. 

'12 AB—J. Harry Letsche has been 

elected vice-president of H. J. Heinz 

Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been 

personnel director of the company. 

'13 CE; '45, '44 AB; '34 AB— * 

Abraham W. Fuchs is engineer-director 

in charge of the milk and food 

section of the US Public Health Service 

in Washington, D. C. He ranks 

with captain in the Navy. His daughter, 

Erma Fuchs '45, is a research 

analyst in the European section of the 

Military Intelligence division of the 

War Department. She writes that 

Stanley Wilcox '34 works in the same 

office. The Fuchses live at 5420 Connecticut 

Avenue, Washington 15, 

D. C. 

'13 ME—Commander Claude L. * 

Turner, USNR, is with the Industrial 

Command, US Naval Repair Base, 

San Diego 36, Cal. One of his daughters 

is in the WAVES and another is 

an occupational therapist at an Army 

hospital. 

'14 AB—Dr. Hu Shih is given 

credit by the John Day Co. for their 

recent publication of the juvenile 

book, The Adventures of Monkey, 

taken from an ancient Chinese legend. 

In 1943, when John Day published 

an English translation of the complete 

legend under the title of Monkey as a 

book for adults, they asked Dr. Hu 

to write an introduction to the American 

edition, as he had for an earlier 

edition, published in Shanghai. It was 

Dr. Hu's suggestion that the first 

seven chapters be published as a book 

for children, since they had always 

been popular with children in China. 

'14 ME—Harold W. Sibert has * 

been promoted to lieutenant colonel 

at Headquarters, Air Technical Service 

Command, Wright Field, Dayton, 

Ohio. He is chief of the compressibility 

unit, which he formed in 1943 

in the aircraft laboratory. Professor 

of mathematics and aeronautical engineering 

for twenty years at the University 

of Cincinnati, he was called to 

active duty in 1942. His brother, 

Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert 

'18, is overseas with the First Army. 

'16—S. William Barnes was elected 

308 Cornell Alumni News

December 28 chairman of theTompkins 

County committee of the Agricultural 

Adjustment Agency. He operates a 

farm near Ithaca. 

'17 AB—Karl P. Schmidt, zoologist 

at the Field Museum of Natural History, 

Chicago, 111., has a star added 

to his name in the 1944 edition of the 

biographical dictionary, American Men 

of Science, indicating outstanding 

achievement in various fields of science. 

'18 ME—Mayor George T. Manasian 

has been elected a director of the 

Glen Ridge (N.J.) Trust Co. He is 

distribution engineer for Consolidated 

Edison System, New York City. 

'20, '21 CE—Paul E. Fitzpatrick, 

chairman of the New York State 

Democratic State committee,conferred 

January 5 with the Democratic leaders 

of the State Legislature, Senator 

Elmer F. Quinn and Assemblyman 

Irwin Steingut, and William J. 0'- 

Shea, chairman of the law committee 

of the State committee. Fitzpatrick 

described the meeting as "the first of 

a series I will hold as State chairman 

looking to the development of a program." 

'20, '21 ME—Edward H. Lewis is 

executive vice-president of Western 

Insulated Wire, Inc., 1001 East Sixtysecond 

Street, Los Angeles, Cal., 

manufacturers of rubber insulated 

electrical wires and cables. He lives at 

424 North Harper Avenue, Los Angeles 

36, Cal. 

'22 BChem—Harold O. Merz is 

assistant vice-president of the United 

States Mortgage & Title Guaranty 

Co. His address is 355 Turrell Avenue, 

South Orange, N. J. 

'23 AB; '24 AM—Walter E. Flumerfelt 

has been named vice-president 

of the vegetable oil and protein division 

of General Mills, Inc., in Belmond, 

Iowa. Mrs. Flumerfelt is the 

former Helen Loring, AM ; 24. 

'23 AB; '25—Louis E. Reed is secretary 

to Senator Chapman Rivercomb 

of West Virginia, with offices in 

Room 344, Senate Office Building, 

Washington, D. C. Mrs. Reed is the 

former Ruth Baldwin '25. 

'23 BS; '19, ; 21 BS—William J. 

Wigsten of Horseheads was elected 

president of the Pioneer Dairy Cattle 

Breeders' Association at its annual 

meeting in Wing Hall, Ithaca, December 

18. New York State Assemblyman 

Harold L. Creal '19 of Homer 

was re-elected secretary-treasurer. 

'24 BS, '28 MS; '26 BS—Leslie R. 

Hawthorn, horticulturist for the ITS 

Department of Agriculture, is studying 

vegetable seed production in the 

inter-mountain area at the Utah Experiment 

Station, Logan, Utah. Mrs. 

Hawthorn is the former Ruth Reynolds 

'26. 

'24 MD—Colonel William C. * 

Menninger, head of the Army psychiatric 

division, has received the first 

annual Albert and Mary Lasker 

Award for the greatest contribution 

to American psychiatry. He was director 

of the Menninger Clinic of 

Topeka, Kans. Recently returned 

from an inspection tour of the German 

front, he says that sixty per cent 

of mental casualties there are being 

returned to combat duty within a few 

days, after resting up at clearing stations 

close to the front lines. 

'25 Sp—Mrs. Alice Thomas, mother 

of C. Wesley Thomas '25, died December 

20. Thomas is a former mayor 

of Trumansburg and manager of the 

Trumansburg branch of the Tompkins 

County Trust Co. 

'26 EE—Donald F. Ayres is in the 

research and development department 

of DeLaval Separator Co., 

Poughkeepsie, where he lives at 28 

Meyer Avenue. 

'26, '27 BArch; '21 AB—Earle * 

W. Bolton, Jr. is regional manager of 

the compliance division of the WPB 

in Philadelphia, Pa., where his address 

is 315 South Fifteenth Street. His 

brother, Captain William W. Bolton 

'21, Medical Corps, US Army, is 

overseas. 

'26, '27 AB—Mrs. Richard D. 

Gross (Rachael Childrey) of RFD 1, 

Temple, Pa., is legislative chairman 

for the Berks County League of Women 

Voters, treasurer of the school 

lunch program in the local consolidated 

school, and a member of the 

board of the Guidance Institute, a 

community mental hygiene clinic. 

She and her husband have an adopted 

son, Richard Childrey Gross, now 

twenty-one-months old. 

'27, '30 CE; '30 BS—J. Paul 

Blanchard, aircraft service engineer 

for General Railway Signal Co. of 

Rochester, is working on B-29's at 

Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Mrs. Blanchard (Edith Nash) '30 and 

their three children, John, eight, Bill, 

six, and Peggy Lou, twenty-one 

months, live at 16 Barone Avenue, 

Mount Morris. 

'27 AB—Mrs. Richard Bookstaver 

(Harriette Brandes) has arrived in 

India as an American Red Cross 

hospital recreation worker. She taught 

French and Spanish at Roosevelt 

Junior High School, Westfield, N. J. 

'27-'28 Grad—Herbert A. Dalmas, 

former English instructor at Cascadilla 

School, Ithaca, is co-author of 

the film "An American Romance." 

Mrs. Dalmas is the former Lucy E. 

Bradshaw '31. 

'27, '26 BS, '31 MS in Ed; '25 MS— 

Emma Davis and William M. Phipps, 

MS '25, were married December 24 

in Sage Chapel. Mrs. Phipps teaches 

in the Ithaca public schools and 

Phipps is a research chemist in the 

University. They live on RD 2, 

Ithaca. 

'27, '28 AB—Captain Alice G. * 

Gordon, WAC, is studying Japanese 

at the Civil Affairs Training School at 

Northwestern University, Evanston, 

111. She is one of twenty WAC officers 

who are being trained for Far Eastern 

duty. She was previously at the School 

for Military Government in Virginia. 

'27—Lieutenant Colonel Carroll ^r 

K. Moffatt has returned to the United 

States after twenty-eight months in 

the Southwest Pacific Area, and is 

now at Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, 

Wash. He wears the Bronze 

Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster. 

'27 PhD—Mary L. Willard, associate 

professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania 

State College, has been elected 

president of Sigma Delta Epsilon, national 

fraternity which recognizes 

women in science, affiliated with the 

American Academy for the Advancement 

of Science. 

'28 AB, '31 MD—Lieutenant * 

Lyman R. Fisher, Medical Corps, 

USNR, and Class Secretary, writes 

from the Mariana Islands that "the 

place is alive with Cornellians. We 

have had some extremely interesting 

surgery as well as lots of it, and, although 

things seem a little primitive, 

we are getting the work done and I 

certainly like it." 

'29 BS—Charles A. Krieger, * 

liason officer with the Mediterranean 

Air Transport Service in Italy, has 

been promoted to major. Mrs. Krieger 

and their two - and - one - half - year - 

old daughter live at 1545 Kelton Avenue, 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

'29, '31 BArch—First Lieuten- * 

ant Joseph W. Wells, USMCR, is in 

the Pacific. His home address is 4030 

Bute Street, Norfolk 7, Va. 

'30, '31 BArch; '01; '32 BS, '40 * 

MS in Ed—Lieutenant Malcolm C. 

Use the CORNELL UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT SERVICE 

Willard Straight Hall H. H. WILLIAMS '2.5, Director 

February I5 1945 309

If SALESMEN were 

ADVERTISING 

MANAGERS 

they'd say: 

The salesman's job is easier when 

advertising to the buyer precedes 

him. Get your name before the buyer 

in his own departmental magazine 

— the specialized Haire paper he 

studies and lives with. 

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Mattice, USNR, commanded a naval 

construction unit of the Seabees 

which sustained a severe bombing 

attack by Japanese planes on Christmas 

Day, two days after reaching its 

port of destination in the Philippines. 

Three men were killed, a dozen seriously 

wounded, and much equipment 

was destroyed. By New Year's Eve, 

however, the unit was reorganized 

and under tents or tarpaulins. Lieutenant 

Mattice is the son of Paul B. 

Mattice '01 of 528 Stewart Avenue, 

Ithaca. His wife is the former Gladys 

M. Wafler '32, who teaches home 

economics in Ithaca High School. 

'30 EE; '30 AB—Lieutenant * 

Colonel Eric R. Osborne is signal 

officer in the 16th Armored Division, 

Camp Chaffee, Ark. Mrs. Osborne is 

the former Doris VanDerhoef '30. 

'31 AB, '33 LLB; '28 AB, '30 LLB 

—Jacob N. Blinkoff, law secretary to 

Governor Thomas E. Dewey, married 

Jessica Berkman, January 6 in Albany. 

Samuel Blinkoff '28 was his 

brother's best man. 

'31 BS—Lynn M. Bookhout has 

resigned as Madison County agricultural 

agent to become public and 

producers' relationship officer for Sheffield 

Farms Milk Co. 

'31 AB; '96 PhB, LLB—Oliver * 

D. Burden, Jr., son of Oliver D. 

Burden '96 of Orchard Brook, Highbridge 

Road, Fayetteville, has been 

promoted to major at Wright Field, 

Dayton, Ohio. Deputy administrative 

assistant to Colonel Bryant L. 

Boatoier, acting chief of the procurement 

division, Air Technical Service 

Command, Major Burden is in charge 

of personnel matters for 3,000 officers, 

enlisted men, and civilians who carry 

on the division's functions of buying 

aircraft equipment for the AAF. 

'31 BS—Captain Carl A. Dell- * 

gren, AUS, is officer in charge of the 

QM Market Center, 177 Denargo 

Market, Denver 5, Col. 

'31—Edward A. Richardson, comptroller 

and personnel relations director 

of GLF Farm Supplies, Inc., was 

elected January 15 president of the 

Ithaca YMCA. He has been for several 

years chairman of the boys' work 

committee, a director, and a member 

of the camp committee. He lives at 

637 Hudson Street, Ithaca. 

'33 CE—Lieutenant Oliver B. * 

Ackley, Army Signal Corps, married 

Grace J. Schippers, January 6 in 

New York City. He is stationed at 

Fort Monmouth, N. J. 

'33 AB—Marion I. Glaeser is director 

of students at New Jersey College 

for Women. From 1937-42 she was 

clerk in the American Embassy in 

Tokyo, returning on the Gripsholm in 

August, 1942. She was district repre- 

sentative of the Women's Land Army 

with headquarters in Ithaca from 

April to October, 1944. 

'33 BS, '37 MS—Christine A. Heller 

is nutrition consultant for the 

Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, 

Department of Public Health, San 

Francisco, Cal. 

'33 AB—First Lieutenant John + 

F. Wager, Jr. has arrived at AAF Redistribution 

Station No. 2, Miami 

Beach, Fla., after twenty-one months 

in the Central Pacific Area as automotive 

and maintenance and repair 

officer. Mrs. Wager lives at 1912 

Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 

'33-'34 Grad—Isabel D. Phisterer 

has been appointed president of Cazenovia 

Junior College, Cazenovia. For 

the last three years she has been the 

administrative dean. 

'34, '35 DVM—Major C. Dexter * 

Ebertz is chief veterinary officer with 

a headquarters group of Y-Force, the 

American liason mission which trained, 

equipped, and supplied the Chinese 

Expeditionary Force for its reopening 

of the Burma Road, attached to a 

Chinese Group Army in Southwestern 

China. Sent to purchase the pack animals 

necessary for an army operating 

in the almost trackless wilds of the 

10,000-foot Kaoli Kung Mountains, 

he bought about 800 horses in six 

weeks and set up permanent buying 

stations in that area. When the Salween 

campaign opened, Y-Force sent 

liason teams with each attacking 

Chinese unit to render medical and 

technical assistance. Major Ebertz is 

quartered in a tiny Chinese village 

within range of Jap artillery fire. 

'34 AB—Gladys Fielding is chief of 

the reports and analysis division of the 

War Manpower Commission of North 

Carolina. She lives at 3306 Hillsboro 

Street, Raleigh, N. C. 

'34 BS, '37 LLB—Lieutenant * 

(jg) Robert S. Grant, USNR, former 

assistant football coach and Ithaca 

lawyer, is radar officer aboard an attack 

transport in the Pacific. His home 

address is 114 Heights Court, Ithaca. 

'34 BS—Lieutenant Frederick * 

Kazan, USNR, and Mrs. Hazen have 

twin daughters, Anne and Alice Hazen, 

born December 13 in Annapolis, Md. 

Lieutenant Hazen has been in charge 

of the armed guard on a merchant 

ship for the last two years; address, 

Armed Guard Center, Brooklyn. 

'35 CE, '38 MCE; '41, '43 BS— * 

Quentin W. Bernhard, AUS, has been 

promoted to first lieutenant at the 

Transportation Corps School, New 

Orleans, La., Army Air Base, where 

he is an instructor of officer and officer 

candidate classes. Mrs. Bernhard 

(Eleanor Norris) '41 lives at 409 West 

State Street, Ithaca. 


'35—Lieutenant Colonel James + 

P. Schwartz, commanding officer of a 

Field Artillery battalion in the US 

Third Army, has received the Bronze 

Star "for meritorious service in connection 

with military operations 

against the enemy in France between 

August 6, 1944, and October 31, 

1944." The citation stated: "Giving 

untiring attention to the functions of 

his organization, he supervised the 

dissemination of accurate survey and 

meteorological data to the Artillery 

Corps, and directed the establishment 

of forward flash bases from which 

valuable information on the location 

of enemy gun positions could Be obtained." 

Mrs. Schwartz and their children 

live at 112 Linn Street, Ithaca. 

'37, '38 BS, '39 AM—Private * 

David Heilweil designed the sets and 

directed the production of "Three 

Men on a Horse," which the Army 

Special Services presented in December 

at Maxwell Field, Ala. Technical 

director of the University Theatre 

while at Cornell, he toured with the 

Chekhov Theatre Studio for two years 

and then went to Hollywood where he 

worked with the Actors' Laboratory 

putting on plays for-service men. His 

address is 12121394, Section A, 2132 

AAF Base Unit, Maxwell Field, Ala. 

'37 BChem, '38 Chem E; '38 BS * 

in AE (ME)—Rolf H. Hemmerich is 

acting chief technologist for Shell 

Chemical, Dumas, Tex. His brother, 

Captain Karl H. Hemmerich' 38, Ordnance, 

is in the Pacific. 

'37 AB—Melville Shavelson, who 

conducted the "Berry Patch" in the 

Cornell Daily Sun, is one of the three 

authors of the current Bob Hope film, 

"The Princess and the Pirate." 

'38—First Lieutenant Stephen ^ 

J. de Baun is in the Army School of 

Military Government at Princeton, 

N. J., where he lives at 84 Blair Hall, 

Princeton University. 

'38 AB—Virginia Grant is in her 

last year at the School of Nursing, 

Yale University. She lives at 350 

Congress Avenue, New Haven, Conn. 

'38, '37 BS, '40 AM—Leon F. 

Graves was promoted last July to instructor 

in meteorology at the Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology, 

Cambridge, Mass. 

'38, '39 AB—Marshall P. Hoke * 

has been promoted to major at AAF 

Training Command Headquarters, 

Fort Worth, Tex. He is assistant to the 

head of the training division in the 

pilot section, specializing in fighter 

gunnery training. 

'38, '39 BS; '13 CE—First Lieu- * 

tenant William F. McClintock, son of 

Ward G. McClintock '13 of the University 

Department of Buildings and 

Grounds, has won the Distinguished 


Flying Cross "for extraordinary 

achievement while participating in 

aerial flight in the European and 

North African theaters of operations. 

... While flying as lead bombardier for 

his formation on a high altitude mission 

over Tunis March 2, 1943, a close 

burst of anti-aircraft fire shattered 

the nose of his plane at the commencement 

of the bombing run, throwing 

Lieutenant McClintock from his seat. 

Although dazed and partially blinded 

by flying glass, he returned to his 

bombsight and expertly directed the 

B-17 in a highly accurate and destructive 

bombing of the target." He 

holds the Air Medal with nine Oak 

Leaf Clusters for participating in 

fifty combat missions. 

'38 BS in AE(EE)—Vincent A. 

Pardo is service and field engineer for 

Moore Products Co., instrument and 

control manufacturers. He lives at 910 

Mongomery Avenue, Narberth, Pa. 

'38 BS, '39 AM, '43 PhD—Lieu- * 

tenant Harold Trapido, AUS, is stationed 

at the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory 

in Panama, doing research in 

anthropoid diseases in the tropical disease 

control division of the Surgeon 

General's Office. 

'38 AM—Cerelle H. Warfield is * 

principal of the Victoria Schools, 

Buckhannon, W. Va. Her brother, 

Second Lieutenant James O. Warfield, 

Field Artillery, who was a 

candidate for the AM before his induction 

in 1943, is overseas in New 

Guinea. 

'39—Alfred E. Atkin was pro- * 

moted January 13 to captain at Air 

Technical Service Command, Wright 

Field, Dayton, Ohio, and assigned as 

project officer of the test unit in the 

photographic laboratory. 

'39 BS—Captain William S. Bar- * 

rett has won the Silver Star for gallantry 

in action, September 7, 1944, 

in France. An armored Field Artillery 

battery commander, he was engaged 

in personal reconnaissance near Maizieres-les-Metz 

when he suddenly encountered 

a group of strongly-entrenched 

Germans. "Drawing his 

pistol, he organized a small group of 

volunteers, and advancing at their 

head under the protection of coveringmachine 

gun fire, charged the enemy 

position." The ferocity of the assault 

so unnerved the Germans that they 

surrendered. "Determined to ferret 

out the remainder of the enemy 

strongholds, he proceeded to scout 

along the boundary of the bivouac 

area." Advancing, he was repeatedly 

pinned down by fierce machine-gun 

bursts poured down upon him from 

concealed positions. "Deducting from 

the staccato rhythm of the guns their 

approximate location, he crept forward 

until he came within a few yards 

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A LL the old-timers agree that 

*•*- Ithaca is having the hardest 

winter in many years and 

you will remember that Ithaca 

winters were no prize at any 

time! The skiers have been 

right in their glory and the 

Co-op has had a bull market for 

Ski Equipment, Ear Muffs, and 

Warm Clothing. There's a long 

winter still ahead! 

The most popular item at the 

Co-op right now is St. Valentine 

Greeting Cards. One Navy boy 

just bought nineteen cards; it 

just doesn't seem possible that 

one fellow could have so many 

girls. That's a real manpower 

shortage! 

We've had a modest response 

to our special offer in 

the January 1 Alumni News 

and the returns are still coming 

in. Remember, all we need is a 

post card with your name, address, 

and Class. 

Our best Valentine gifts for 

girls are those Sterling Silver 

Barrettes with Cornell Seal. 

They are $2 and $3 and we 

have them without the seal for 

$1.50. Or she might like a 

Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet 

(from $3.50 to $5, depending on 

the number and variety of 

charms.) 

And so, we've filled another 

column without saying a great 

deal—but just reminding you 

that we are still around after 

fifty years. 

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of an ingeniously-concealed network 

of trenches occupied by snipers and 

machine-gun crews. Withdrawing silently, 

he returned to his battery 

position, organized a gun section, and 

led them to a point overlooking the 

entrenchment. Carefully adjusting his 

fire, he directed a devastating barrage 

upon the position and successfully 

neutralized it." His sister, June E. 

Barrett, is a Junior in Agriculture, and 

another sister, Mrs. William L. Chapel 

(Winifred Barrett) '34, lives at 512 

Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, while her husband, 

Major William L. Chapel '32, 

is on duty in the South Pacific. 

'39—Captain Edwin F. Bennett, * 

of 80 Oceanside Park, Oceanside, 

Long Island, is executive officer of a 

Peninsular Base Section ordnance 

depot in Italy. Overseas ten months, 

he wears the American Defense Ribbon 

and the Mediterranean Theatre 

Ribbon with two Battle Participation 

Stars. 

'39—Staff Sergeant Seymour + 

Friedman has spent the last thirtyfour 

months in the China-Burma- 

India Theatre as a correspondentphotographer 

for Yank, the Army 

weekly. His home address is 1950 Andrews 

Avenue, New York City. 

'39 AB—Waldemar Kops, presi- ^ 

dent of Mount Sinai Hospital, and 

father of Captain Daniel Kops, AAF, 

died January 13, 1945, in New York 

City, where he lived at Ritz Towers, 

Park Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street. 

He was also president of Kops Bros., 

corset manufacturers. 

'39, '40 BS—First Lieutenant * 

Barry Nicholls, last heard from in the 

Belfort sector in France, writes that 

the German version of the jeep, the 

Volkswagen, is not to be compared 

with the qualities of the jeep. He has 

captured two; the first he called 

"Kitty" in honor of his wife. When it 

succumbed to hard driving, he captured 

another and named it "Kitty 

II." Previously stationed in Africa 

and Italy, he went into Southern 

France as a member of a bomb disposal 

squad with the Seventh Army. 

He is the son of Colonel J. C. Nicholls, 

USA (Ret.), former Commandant of 

the University ROTC. 

'39 AM—Alma F. Potts is in the 

department of social sciences at Fisk 

University, Nashville, Tenn. She had 

been doing graduate work at the University 

of Chicago, where she was the 

recipient of a Rosenwald Fellowship. 

'40 ME—Major William Dixon, * 

Army Air Corps, is in a Tactical Air 

Command unit supporting General 

Pattern's Third Army in France. 

'40 BS; '11—Warren W. Hawley * 

III, son of William W. Hawley, Jr. Ίl 

of Batavia, is in an armored tank division 

with General Pattern's Third 

Army. He was quoted by a war correspondent 

in Normandy in the Syracuse 

Post-Standard as saying: "We 

go barreling down the road destroying 

everything in our way." 

'40 BS—Lieutenant Curtis W. * 

Lafey is an ordnance training officer 

in the Air Service Command in England. 

Mrs. Lafey and their two children, 

Curtis, Jr., and Marion, reside 

in Lansdowne, Pa. 

'40 AB, '43 MD—Lieutenant * 

(jg) Richard S. Osenkop, Medical 

Corps, delivered the seven-pound boy 

of a Guam native, whose husband 

wept with joy at the kindness of these 

so-generous Americans. Lieutenant 

Osenkop is quoted as saying: "The 

only trouble I had was when the 

kerosene lamp burned out. However, 

mother and child are doing well." 

His home address is 380 Riverside 

Drive, New York City. 

'40 ME—Lieutenant (jg) Rob- * 

ert F. Pigage, USNR, has been overseas 

since last April aboard a repair 

ship based in North Africa. His son, 

Thomas Pigage, was born late last 

year. His home address is 102 Elmdorf 

Avenue, Rochester 11. 

'41—Second Lieutenant Ells- + 

worth F. Anderson, Army Air Corps, 

has been a prisoner of Germany since 

March 18, 1944. First pilot of a Liberator 

bomber with the Eighth AAF, 

he received the Air Medal for meritorious 

service. His wife, the former 

Barbara Brown, is a Junior at the 

University. 

'41 BS in AE(ME)—Captain * 

Calvin O. English, USMC, fighterbomber 

pilot, veteran of fifty-three 

raids, has returned to the United 

States from the Pacific. Mrs. English 

and their nine-month-old daughter, 

whom he met for the first time upon 

his return, live at 313 Lenox Avenue, 

South Orange, N. J. 

'41 BS—Virginia M. Jones has 

arrived in England as an American 

Red Cross staff assistant. Before 

joining the Red Cross, she gave explosive 

safety training to supervisors 

in ordnance establishments handling 

high explosives. Her home is at Pine 

Hill Farms, Sharonville, Ohio. 

'41 AB; '44, '43 AB—Milton Kaplan 

and Mrs. Kaplan (Terese C. 

Newman) '44 have a daughter, Nancy 

Eileen Kaplan, born December 20. 

They live at 63 Randolph Avenue, 

Waterbury, Conn. 

'41 BS—Sergeant Leonard B. * 

Morgan of Truxton has won the 

Bronze Star "for meritorious service 

in connection with military operations 

against the enemy in France." The 

citation states that he "performed his 

manifold duties as assistant to the 

forward observer in an outstanding 


manner. He maintained the Battalion 

Observation Post located near Brest 

in constant operation, despite a continuously 

changing military situation 

which often brought his position near 

or under enemy fire. Sergeant Morgan 

directed accurate and effective fire 

upon German positions and materially 

contributed to the success of his battalion's 

fire mission." 

'41 AB—Dr. Nancy V. Rider is interning 

at Cambridge (Mass.) Hospital. 

Her engagement to Lieutenant 

Ronald C. Bishop, Army Medical 

Corps, an interne at Massachusetts 

General Hospital in Boston, has been 

announced. 

'41 BS in AE(ME); '02 BArch; * 

'02 AB—Thomas C. Shreve has been 

promoted to major at Air Technical 

Service Command Headquarters, 

Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, where he 

is assigned to the analysis and institutions 

branch. He is the son of R. H. 

Shreve '02 and Mrs. Shreve (Ruth 

Bentley) '02, who live at 50 Euclid 

Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson. 

'41 BME—Raymond S. Watson is 

a planning engineer with the NACA 

at Langley Field> Va. He and Mrs. 

Watson and their year-old daughter 

live at 38-B Elizabeth Road, Hampton, 

Va. 

'42 AB—Lieutenant (jg) Herbert * 

D. Bliss, USNR, is at the Small Craft 

Training Center, Terminal Island, 

San Pedro, Cal., training for duty on a 

small refrigerator ship. He has returned 

from fourteen months in the 

South Pacific on a patrol ship. 

'42 BS in AE(ME); '43 BS— * 

First Lieutenant Donald L. Bundy, 

pilot of a P-38 Lightning bomber, has 

reported for reassignment to AAF 

Redistribution Station No. 1, Atlantic 

City, N. J., after eleven months 

in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre. Mrs. 

Bundy (Laura Sigman) '43 lives on 

Rice Road, Elma. 

'42 BS; '42 BS—Lieutenant * 

John A. Burditt, USNR, writes: 

"Met Lieutenant (jg) Frank Eldredge 

'42 in Naples in October. Frank is 

supply officer of a flotilla of LCI's. I 

had a chance to take a couple of 

liberties with him before splitting up: 

a few drinks and many reminiscences 

of Cornell and the good old days 

when. . ." 

'42—Lieutenant (jg) John H. * 

Coyne, Naval Air Corps, instructor 

and fighter pilot, has been missing in 

action since August 21 over southern 

France. He is believed to be a German 

prisoner of war, for his parachute was 

seen to open when he bailed out of his 

plane after it was hit. 

'42 BS—Lieutenant Arthur N. * 

Foster, AUS, has been transferred 

from England to the China-Burma- 


India Theatre. His home is in Enfield, 

N. H. 

'42, '43 BS—Ensign Harold D. * 

Haslett, USNR, is engineering officer 

of an LCI in the Pacific. His home 

address is 804 East State Street, 

Ithaca. 

'42 AB—Captain Raymond Jen- + 

kins, USMCR, (above) has been 

awarded the Purple Heart for a bullet 

wound in the left arm which he received 

in the assault upon Saipan 

June 21 when a Japanese machine 

gunner opened up on the reconnaissance 

party he was leading. Another 

member of his party was killed and a 

third was wounded. After two months 

in the Hospital, Captain Jenkins was 

able to resume active duty with his 

artillery unit. Mrs. Jenkins lives at 

7326 Lindley Avenue, Philadelphia, 

Pa. 

'42; '43—Captain William H. * 

Kleppinger is organization commander 

in charge of half of the airplane maintenance 

personnel at the Altus, Okla., 

Army Air Field. Mrs. Kleppinger was 

Jeanne Moorman '43. 

'42 AB—David F. Mendelsohn, * 

Jr. is a junior in medical school in the 

Navy V-12 program. He married 

Joan Kaufmann, June 19, and lives 

at 630 Clyde Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

'42 MD—Captain Walter J. * 

Sterling, Jr. is with a Ninth Division 

medical unit in Germany. His home 

is at 29 Oxford Road, Montclair, N. J. 

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Underwood, born December 31, 1944, 

in Paducah, Ky. Underwood is the 

son of Professor Paul H. Underwood 

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(Eva Humphreys) '03; Mrs. 

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Underwood is the daughter of George 

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Drive, Paducah, Ky. 

'42 BCE—Richard L. Wagner, * 

with the 31st Infantry Division on 

Morotai Island, has been promoted 

to captain. Overseas eleven months, 

he has participated in two campaigns. 

His home address is Box 616, Napanee, 

Ontario, Can. 

'43—Robert D. DeLong, AUS, * 

stationed in Panama, has been promoted 

to first lieutenant. His home 

address is 48 North Eleventh Street, 

Reading, Pa. 

'43 AB; '39 B S—Lieutenant Wil- * 

Ham T. Dunn, Jr. of 84 Maple Drive, 

Great Neck, is assistant executive of 

a Field Artillery battery in France. 

He writes that Major Kenneth C. 

Holgate '39, who is plans and operations 

officer of his battalion, received 

special commendation from the battalion 

commander at a Christmas 

Day ceremony. Major Holgate was 

adjusting artillery fire on an important 

target when the enemy placed heavy 

artillery and machine gun fire on his 

position in an attempt to prevent him 

from adjusting on the target. He continued 

his adjustment, however, and 

destroyed the target. 

'43 AB—Daisy J. Greenberg was 

married December 3 to Norman M. 

Goldstein, AUS, stationed at Walter 

Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

They live at 609 Garland Avenue, 

Tacoma Park, Md. Mrs. Goldstein 

has received the AM in industry and 

vocational guidance at Columbia University. 

'43—Edward H. Hansen, AAF, * 

pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress, has 

been promoted to first lieutenant. 

Veteran of more than a score of missions 

against the enemy, he is with 

the Eighth Air Force's Third Bombardment 

Division in England. 

'43; '18 BS—Lieutenant George * 

E. Hiebeler, Jr., navigator, AAF, 

son of George E. Hiebeler '18, is in 

England. Last February he married 

Lillian Francis at the chapel at Selman 

Field, Monroe, La., where he received 

his commission as a second lieutenant 

June 10, 1944. He took officer's training 

in Rapid City, S. Dak., before 

going overseas. 

'43; '16, '17 CE—First Lieuten- * 

ant William J. Hunkin II, AAF, has 

been awarded the Air Medal with 

three Oak Leaf Clusters for operations 

as pilot of a B-25 Mitchell bomber in 

France and Italy. He had more than 

thirty combat missions before being 

hit over the Gothic Line when a burst 

of flak tore off the nose of his ship, 

wounded critically, his bombardier, 

and ripped the side off the pilot's 

cabin. A second burst set one of his 


two engines afire and tore off the tip 

of one wing. Without radio communication, 

he was led by his wing man 

across the Mediterranean to northern 

Corsica where he managed to crash 

land. After several weeks' rest at 

Capri, he was assigned as private 

pilot to the commanding general of 

the Sixth Army group. Son of Samuel 

E. Hunkin '16, his home address is 

2200 Lander Road, Gates Mills, Ohio. 

'43 BS—Lieutenant Gordon E. * 

Jones has been in England with the 

17th Division of the Airborne Artillery 

since last August. He had trained 

for thirteen months. He writes that 

England is a scenic place, but' he 

thinks they could manage with a few 

less showers. 

'43 AB—Eugenia McCrea was married 

December 17 to Willard E. Ledding. 

She is a claims adjuster for the 

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in 

Buffalo, where she lives at 45 Park 

Street. 

'43 BS in AE(ME)—Ensign J. * 

Parker Ketcham is assistant engineering 

officer aboard an attack transport 

in the Pacific. His home address is 

208 Centre Avenue, New Rochelle. 

'43 BEE—Raymond V. Pohl is an 

electrical engineer with the General 

Electric Co., in Schenectady, where 

he lives at 230 Robinson Street. 

'43 BS—Barbara A. Potters is 

teaching home economics in East 

Hampton. Her address is 67 Bismarck 

Avenue, Valley Stream. 

'43 BS—Patricia A. Rider is a nutritionist 

with the Connecticut Dairy 

Council, Hartford, Conn., where she 

lives at 65 Wethersfield Avenue. 

'43 AB; '43, '44 BChemE—Shirley 

Shapiro and William E. Woods II '43 

were married November 28 in New 

York City. They live at 124 West 

Seventy-ninth Street, New York City 

24. Woods is employed by Columbia 

War Research Laboratories. 

'43 BME—Alfred D. Sullivan is a 

refrigeration development engineer 

with Carrier Corp. He lives at 474 

Midland Avenue, Syracuse 4. 

'43 BS—Mrs. Carl E. Nelson 

(Alison Torrey) has a daughter, 

Pamela Nelson, born September 28. 

She lives at 50 Churchill Street, 

Milton 87, Mass. 

'44—Second Lieutenant Anthony * 

L. Ach has been appointed special 

services and orientation officer of the 

Unit Training Group at the Army 

Service Forces Training Center, Camp 

Lee, Va. 

'44 BS—Norma Alessandrini is 

studying occupational therapy at 

Columbia University. She writes: 

"When this beautiful snow flourishes, 

I do miss those hills!" She lives at 417 

West 120th Street, New York City 27. 


'44; '17 ME—Samuel T. Brown, * 

Jr., son of Samuel T. Brown '17, is a 

cadet at the US Coast Guard Academy, 

New London, Conn. 

'44 DVM—Lieutenant Robert * 

J. Byrne, Veterinary Corps, is on 

duty at Station Hospital, Fort Du- 

Pont, Del. 

'44 BS; '01 AB—Helen J. Couch, * 

daughter of Harvey J. Couch Όl of 

Odessa, has enlisted in the WAVES. 

She is a hospital aide, second class, 

stationed at US Naval Hospital, St. 

Albans. 

'44—Latham F. Jones graduated ^ 

recently from the Naval Air Training 

Bases, Corpus Christi, Tex., and was 

commissioned ensign, USNR. His 

home address is 8505 Meadow Brook, 

Dallas, Tex. 

'44 BS in CE—Lieutenant Don- * 

aid R. Lueder has completed student 

officer training in automotive maintenance 

at Aberdeen, Md., and is assigned 

to the 381st Ordnance Medium 

Automotive Maintenance Company, 

Fort Bragg, N. C. 

'44—Lieutenant Alan T. Mickel, -k 

B-25 medium bomber pilot, has been 

ordered to AAF Redistribution Station 

No. 1, Atlantic City, N. J., 

having completed sixty-eight combat 

missions in the Italian Theatre. Of 

the D-day invasion over Southern 

France in which he took part, he says: 

" Whoever planned it must have managed 

a three-ring circus. We were all 

given our special targets and told 

where to be at all times. We were 

given the exact minute for dropping 

our bombs to avoid hitting planes 

beneath us. There we were, with heavy 

bombers over us and dive bombers 

below, weaving in and out and everybody 

knowing what to do." 

'44 BS—Wynn Ogle is assistant 

dietitian at Mary Washington College, 

Fredericksburg, Va. 

'44—Private First Class Leonard ^ 

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Air Force "Bridge Busters" in a 

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'45 and their son, David, visited 

Scoville's parents, Professor Gad P. 

Scoville '10, Farm Management, and 

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'44—Lieutenant Allen Webster, * 

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'45, '44 BS; '17 LLB—Ruth E. 

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'45; '07 AB; '44 B S—Lieutenant * 

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'45; '44—First Lieutenant Ken- * 

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'46—Sergeant James R. Hyatt, * 

aerial photographer, AAF, who was 

missing after a mission over Yugoslavia, 

is reported a German prisoner 

of war. He is the son of James M. 

Hyatt '18 and Mrs. Hyatt (Alice 

Rothwell), Grad Ί8-'20, who live at 

1380 Walnut Street, Newton Highlands, 

Mass. 

'47—Private Israel D. Powers * 

was wounded in September, 1944, 

and recently flown back to the States. 

He is reported making good progress 

towards recovery at England General 

Hospital, Atlantic City, N. J. He was 

in France with an armored division 

of General Patton's Third Army. 


Every branch of the Armed Services uses the telephone. No. 14 of a series, Field. Artillery. 

JLiong Toms—blasting unseen targets—are directed by voices flashing through this 

artilleryman's radio telephone "switchboard." Using its 10 channels, he connects the 

commander with spotters up front and in planes; then with battery commanders 

who focus tremendous firepower. He is helping soften up the long, hard road ahead. 

Western Etectric 

IN PEACE...SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE BELL SYSTEM. 

IN WAR...ARSENAL OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. 

Message for YOU! 

Every time a 155mm "Long Tom" is 

fired, it costs Uncle Sam $37.78. Our 

leaders believe in using vast num 

bers of costly shells to prevent losing 

priceless American lives. Help provide 

the ammunition—invest all the 

dollars you can in War Bonds!

"Custom" Blended for those who can afford the so smooth...so mellow...it has never been produced 

finest . . . Lord Calvert has been for years the most except in limited quantities. Each bottle is num- 

expensive whiskey blended in America. So rare . . . bered and registered at the distillery by Calvert. 

LORD CALVERT IS 86.8 PROOF, 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. CALVERT DISTILLERS CORPORATION, NEW YORK CITY.

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