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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.
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