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THE LUNCHES PUT UP TODAY for those who labor on the "home front" or for persons
who go to school or otherwise help in the WIN THE WAR effort should pack a real health
lunch. If it does, your lunch box can help win the war.
PATRIOTIC LUNCH BOXES do the following:
1. Provide plenty of the right kind of food.
2. Should contain about a third of the day's food. .
3. Should contain protective foods, as: fruits, vegetables, and plenty of milk.
Here is a sample lunch box menu from our Home Service Dept.
Mixed vegetable soup, salted crackers, Peanut butter sandwich, Baked bean sandwich,
Oatmeal cookies, fruit, and milk.
ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC
Table of Contents
Change and Achievement Mark Year, Review of 1942 Happenings Reveals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
University, Eight Rochester Firms, Join in Million-Volt X-Ray Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Zero Cold Marks Commencement Day as 92 Receive Diplomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Humanities Key to Peace and Freedom, Valentine and Canby Tell New Yorkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
British Women Toil at Heavy Tasks; Few Blitz Traces Left, Nurse Finds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
War Minors for Women Arts Students Furnish Preparation for War Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Grid Coaches Establish New Trophy at Alumni Dinner Honoring Players. .. 10
Wide Opportunities for Service Found by Medical Worker in China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12
Library Makes Use of Ancient Skills in Binding 5,000 Volumes Each Year " 13
The Compass Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. 14
Waldron, Wounded in Action, to Wear Major-General's Stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14
Editorials " 15
Historian Sees No Early Victory; Russia Weakened, Dr. Perkins Says. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16
Employers Shun Liberal Arts Men; Placement Office Seeks Grad Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16
University Offers Two-Year Courses as Special War Service to Students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16
U. S. Scorns Non-Metallic Coins Suggested by Rochester Graduate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 17
Court Men Win All December Games; Wyoming Breaks Long Victory Skein. . 17
Colgate Swimmers Take Bad Beating as Speegle's Team Wins Four Meets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19
Meanderings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Military Intelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 22
Your Classmates-College for Women. .. 25
Your Classmates-College for Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26
In Memoriam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27
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Change and Achievement Mark Year,
Review of 1942 Happenings Reveals
The University ofRochester had a notable year in 1942.
It was a year of profound change, of accomplishment.
The war made its influence felt in the classroom and in
the executive's office, and affected the lives of hundreds
of alumni and alumnae. Here is a brief review of some of
the major University news of 1942:
Accelerated Schedule-To enable students to complete as
much as possible of their college work before entering
military service, and to train physicians and to make
technically-trained men available to the armed forces and
to war industries as rapidly as possible, the University
inaugurates an accelerated program, with a summer term,
that places the colleges on what is virtually a year-round
basis. A student can now obtain his degree in two and
two-thirds years instead of the traditional four years.
University Mobiliz.es for War--Research facilities of the
science departments and the School of Medicine and
Dentistry are placed at the disposal of the Government.
Specialists in various research fields are given leave to
carryon vital projects for Army, Navy, and Air Forces.
New Fund Plan-Alumni and alumnae associations
adopt plan of seeking direct contributions to the University
to replace former system of membership dues;
graduates accept plan heartily, send in record amounts
in support of scholarships and other educational projects.
Perfect Basketball Season-Lou Alexander's quintet
makes University history by defeating all of its 1941-42
opponents, scoring victories over such formidable foes
as Princeton, Yale, Michigan State, Vermont, and Colgate;
and in December topples Cornell, Harvard, and
Ohio State to make it an undefeated year.
Military Intelligence-Approximately 650 alumnigraduates
of the College for Men, Eastman School of
Music, and School of Medicine and Dentistry-were in
uniform in 1942. Alumni Office sends out special biweekly
bulletin to service men. Alumnae enlist as
WAAC's, Army nurses.
Best Glee Club-University Glee Club wins national
contest sponsored by Fred Waring, and is awarded silver
cup to signify its triumph over all of its collegiate rivals.
Exclusive Circle-The University of Rochester is admitted
to the select company of members of the Association
of American Universities, in recognition of its excellence
in research and in graduate teaching.
New Dean-The Division of Graduate Studies becomes
the Graduate School of the University of Rochester,
with Donald W. Gilbert, '21, as its dean.
Women Sleep in Cutler Union-Forced to provide sleeping
facilities for half of the students at the College for Women,
authorities converted the third floor of Cutler
Union into a dormitory, accommodating thirty-three
out-of-town undergraduates.
John R. Slater Retires-ProfessorJohn R. Slater, beloved
chief of the department of English, retires after thirtyseven
years of teaching at the University. Alumni and
alumnae honor him, and an entire issue of THE ALUMNI­
ALUMNAE REVIEW is dedicated to him.
Trustees Become Alumni-All trustees holding degrees
from colleges other than Rochester are officially adopted
as alumni, made life members of the Association, presented
with bottles of dandelion wine, "Vintage of
1850."
Alumnae Sell Securities-Women graduates staff booth
at McCurdy's, sell record number of War Stamps and
Bonds.
DeGroot Does it Again-The Rochester football team
wins seven of eight games, losing only to Amherst and
rolling up 242 points while holding its foes to eight
points; Jim Secrest is high scorer in East, second in
nation, with 133 points.
Golden Anniversary-Alumni of Hobart and Rochester
hold joint dinner in observance of fifty years of football
rivalry between the two institutions, the banquet being
held on the eve of the Hobart game in which the Genevans
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THE ROCHESTER
ALUMNI-ALUMNAE REVIEW
ALUM I REVIEW-VOL. XXI NO.2 ALUMNAE NEWS-VOL. XVII NO.2
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
University and Eight Rochester Firms
To Join in Million-Volt X-Ray Project
Another major project involving close co-operation
between the University and local industries will be
launched early in 1943 when a giant million-volt x-ray
unit, installed in a special laboratory in Crittenden
Boulevard. is put in use. The new unit, one of the most
powerful in the world, will make possible the internal
inspection of heavy steel castings, reducing from hours
to minutes x-ray examinations of metal shapes weighing
three tons or more and with thicknesses up to five inches.
Eight industrial plants, and one anonymous individual,
provided the funds for the purchase of the equipment
and for the erection of the laboratory building now being
completed next to the River Campus heating plant.
Alumni will recall that the University's atom-smashing
cyclotron, erected in the John J. Bausch-Henry Lomb
Laboratory seven years ago under the direction of Physics
Professor Lee A. DuBridge, was likewise built on a cooperative
plan, with various parts of the apparatus being
contributed by industries interested in various phases of
atomic research.
President Alan Valentine, in announcing the new
project, pronounced it one of the most striking instances
of University-industry collaboration seen here or elsewhere.
Over a year of planning preceded its inauguration.
The speed with which local industries will be able to
complete the inspection and testing of war materials is
only one advantage that the new x-ray laboratory offers.
They will also be able to accept for the first time certain
war contracts which stipulate x-ray tests. X-ray inspection
has been an established industrial practice for many
years, but until recently the most powerful tubes operated
at 400,000 volts. With tubes of this potential it
required three and one-half hours to examine a piece of
steel five inches in thickness; the million-volt apparatus
here will cut this time of exposure to five minutes.
Similarly powerful equipment is already in use at
various navy yards, at the Ford Motor Company plant,
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
and elsewhere. Important savings in metal and labor,
as well as in time, will be realized when the local equipment
is put to use. Large castings can be examined
quickly, and possible flaws discovered before the heavy
masses of steel are machined. The exact location of these
flaws may make possible the repair of a casting by the
use of welding procedures. Further, the x-ray films can
be used to point the way for the correction of faulty
foundry techniques; porosity, shrinkage, blowholes, and
sand inclusions will be revealed, and proper steps taken
to eliminate these defects.
The sponsoring firms include the Consolidated Machine
Tool Corporation; Delco and Rochester Products Divisions
of General Motors; Eastman Kodak Company;
the Pfaudler Company; Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation;
the Rochester Brewing Company, and the
Symington-Gould Company.
The General Electric X-ray Corporation, of Chicago,
is designing and manufacturing the x-ray tube, and will
advise on the housing, installation, and maintenance of
the equipment. The University will act as co-ordinator
of the project, will supply the technicians and scientists
who will man the laboratory on day and night shifts,
and will make tests as requested by the industrial patrons.
Prior to the opening of the laboratory here the staff will
spend several weeks at the General Electric Laboratories.
The project will be under the direction of Dr. Stafford L.
Warren, chairman of the department of radiology of the
School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The tube used in the million-volt unit is only thirty
inches long and three and one-half inches in diameter.
It is of the multi-section type, gas-insulated, with twelve
sections. Electrons to produce the rays emanate from a
heated filament at the top. As the electrons pass through
each section, a voltage of about 84,000 is applied, giving
them an added push, so that by the time they reach the
other end of the tube they have been "boosted" by a
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total of-a million volts. The electrons then hit a. tungsten
target, and x-rays result. It is completely shock-poof,
with freon, a gas used in modern refrigerators, serving
as the insulating medium; 100 pounds of this gas is as
effective in insulating qualities as six tons of oil.
The new laboratory building is of special design, with
extra thick concrete walls to protect the operating staff
from radiation generated by the powerful tube. The War
Producton Board has approved its erection. In addition
to two x-ray rooms, it will house a special research
laboratory to be operated by the Eastman Kodak Company.
Its outer door, of concrete and steel and weighing
twenty tons, is x-ray proof, and when opened provides
an entrance ten feet square so that large castings can be
brought into the building. This and the door into the
x-ray control room are electrically interlocked with the
control panel so that the x-ray machine cannot be operated
until both doors are closed. A ten-ton crane will be
used to handle the castings within the building.
While the new x-ray laboratory will serve strategic
wartime purposes, its usefulness will, of course, continue
beyond the day of peace. Machine tools for non-belligerent
purposes will still require heavy castings, and these
will be inspected and tested at the laboratory. In addition,
it will be available for deep therapy and for continued
scientific research by Strong Memorial Hospital.
The University's new x-ray facilities will be of direct
value to students enrolled in the new metallurgy curriculum
to be launched in September, 1943, by the department
of engineering.
This curriculum also is a major co-operative project,
with Rochester industries contributing $100,000 in cash
and equipment to provide a teaching and research program
in a field of immediate importance to war production
and to post-war development. Only two colleges in
New York State, Columbia University and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institure, now offer courses inthe fabrication,
processing, and use of metals, leading to the degree
Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering.
The new program will be headed by Professor William
J. Conley, '18, acting chairman of the department of
engineerng. Metallurgy has been one of his major interests
for many years, and he has worked in close cooperaton
with Rochester industries in arranging undergraduate
and special courses in this field.
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Zero Cold Marks Commencement
Day As 92 Receive Diplomas
For the first time since its founding in 1850, the
University of Rochester had a winter Commencement,
with ninety-two students, participants in the accelerated
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year-round study program, recelvmg their degrees on
December 20th.
The coldest December day in the city's history accented
the contrast with the customary springtime graduation
ceremonies; there was no outdoor procession, the academic
ranks moving from the Lower Strong Auditorium
to the more spacious upper hall. No honorary degrees
were given at this Commencement. The procession was
headed by President Alan Valentine and the Commencement
speaker, President H. J. Cody of the University of
Toronto.
Sixty-three men and twenty-nine women were graduated.
Many of the men, members of the reserve forces,
immediately exchanged their academic gowns for Army
olive drab or Navy blue; others from the River Campus,
and some of the women, have entered research, engineering,
and industrial fields.
While war dictated the December Commencement,
both President Cody and President Valentine urged the
graduates not to forget the challenge of peace. Dr. Cody
proposed that the British Commonwealth, and the
United States, continue to stand together in peace as in
war. These two nations, he said, "are probably the only
two powers which unite the command of great resources
and a belief in liberal ideas.
"If we fail to remain the United Nations, we shall
fail to win the peace."
"War is either degradation or crusade," President
Valentine told the departing seniors. "It cannot be both.
You must help see to it that this is a war of crusadethat
we fight for some cause higher than holding what
we have. You must fight not just to defeat enemy nations,
but to defeat the roots of evil from which this barbarism
grew. Even in us those roots of evil lie. We must tear
them from ourselves as ruthlessly as we wrest them from
others. "
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Another academic precedent was shattered on January
4th when the College for Men admitted thirty selected
high school seniors as the University's first mid-year
freshmen. This action was taken to give these men as
much college work as possible before they are called
into the armed services. It is possible that another group
will be admitted in May, when the post-Commencement
"Intersession" begins, but probably the greater share of
the next freshman class will be admitted, as usual, in
September.
Most of the new students are taking science courses,
including engineering, optics, chemistry, and pre-medical
work. Were they to be permitted to remain in college,
they would, under the accelerated program, complete
their college work of eight terms in August, 1945. Under
the normal program they would have completed their
high school work in June, and then would spend four
years in college, being graduated in 1947.
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Humanities Key to 'Peace and Freedom,
Valentine and Canby Tell New Yorkers
Liberal arts, now eclipsed by science as the colleges
join in the grim task of winning the war, face opportunity
as well as challenge in the years ahead, University
graduates in the New York area were told at the December
7th meeting of the Greater New York Alumni
Association.
The crisis that confronts the arts colleges was underscored
in a message from President Alan Valentine and
in the address given at the meeting by Henry Seidel
Canby, associate editor of THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF
LITERATURE. Both agreed that the teachers of the humanities,
and their disciples as' well, can have and must
have a vital part in winning the peace.
In spite of transportation difficulties and the frightening
metropolitan dimout the meeting drew a record
crowd of over 140 as the New York alumni, in a precedent-shattering
move, invited alumnae, and alumni
wives, to join them. Jacob R. Cominsky, '20, Association
president, performed a topnotch job as chairman. President
Valentine's prepared speech was ready by Alumni
Secretary Charles R. Dalton, '20, who added his own
brief review of recent University happenings. Welcomed
for the third successive year was Dud DeGroot, football
coach; Bailey B. Burritt, '02, presented alumni merit
keys, awarded annually by the New Yorkers, to University
Trustee Martin F. Tiernan, '06, president of
Novadel-Agene Company, and to Hugh D. MacIntyre,
'18, of Gorton High School, Yonkers, chairman of the
Association's Scholarship Committee. Helen Ancona, '38,
alumnae secretary, outlined new war courses at the
Prince Street Campus. Greetings from the Central Alumni
Association were transmitted by James B. Forbes, '99.
Free governments cannot flourish where liberal studies
decline, President Valentine declared in his special
message to the group.
"The necessities of war will impair the teaching of
the liberal arts and sciences in the colleges," he said.
"But nothing is to be gained by simply tearing our hair
and weeping about it. The first way to save liberal arts
is to win the war. The second way to save them is for
our professors to fight as hard and intelligently for liberal
culture as we expect our armies to fight hard and intelligently
for their country, in Tunis and in the Pacific.
"But professors must learn a lesson from our armed
forces. Our soldiers cannot win wars with the already
antiquated weapons of 1917. Nor can exponents of liberal
arts win their case unless they improve their weapons
too. They must adapt to the problems and environment
of 1942 the content and appeal of their teachings of
classics, literature, languages, philosophy, history, and
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
economics. They must make those subjects appeal to the
youths of 1943 in terms of the problems and interests of
the world of 1943.
"If professors of classics would spend half the time
they now spend futilely deploring the decline of the
classics in intelligent efforts to make the classics appeal
to the youths of 1943, there would be no decline in
classical learning.
"The war has forced a fundamental re-evaluation of
the content and method of higher education. It took a
world war to make us college folk face some of the
realities of the world we live in. We have not faced all
of them yet. It is not that we are unduly sheltered, or
unwilling to make sacrifices, but simply that like everyone
else we find it difficult to do fresh thinking. When
we recognize that necessity, and when the highly intelligent
members of college faculties really get to work on
their job in that respect, higher education will function
with renewed life and effectiveness."
Mankind must learn how to control science as effectively
as it has learned to apply science, Mr. Canby
declared in a vigorous and scholarly appeal in behalf of
liberal arts.
"Nothing is more certain than that this war is a
result of science got out of hand and used for destruction
rather than construction," he said. "Nothing is more
certain than that its terrors and dangers for all civilization
are a result of scientific anarchy-the immense
powers resulting from our new control of nature become
the most efficient weapon evil, anarchy, and personal
ambition have ever had presented to them in the history
of the world.
"Now, so far as we know, only three great forces can
be used to restrain this anarchy of science. (I say restrain,
for obviously science is not an evil. It is our greatest
potential good.) These are religion, morality, and education.
Religion is a passion, which in itself has been
often used to increase fanatical violence. Morality is a
general term. Predatory nations, like Germany and
Japan, make their own moralities. What we do in the
last analysis, is dependent upon an eduation in good will
instead of bad will. Education must teach us how to live
so as to use religion, morality, as well as science, to make
a good world instead of a bad one....
"Our danger now is that in yielding (as we must) to
the stern necessities of war, which require first of 'all
skills in the technologies, we shall warp our education
and never get it straight again in our time. Which means
that, after the war, we may spend all our energies in
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preparing for another war, instead of preparing for peace
and a liveable world. The process is probable but fortunately
not inevitable. This much can be said, that only
public opinion, and public opinion of the educated man,
most of all the university educated man of this generation,
who has been given, however imperfectly, some
knowledge of world history and world culture, can
prevent such a disaster."
Jacob Cominsky was re-elected president, along with
Rev. Harold Pattison, '91, Rev. Willard S. Richardson,
'94, and Elmer C. Walzer, '23, vice-presidents; and
Harold E. Truscott, '26, secretary-treasurer.
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British Women Toil at Heavy Tasks;
Few Blitz Traces Left, Nurse Finds
Marjorie B. Storey, '2I, formerly assistant director of the
Visiting Nurse Association, Rochester., is an Army nurse, with
the rank of second lieutenant, and is serving overseas as a
member of a General Hospital Unit. Present whereabouts of
the unit are unknown, but her address is: APO 8I3 NAC, c/o
Postmaster, New York City. Here are extracts of letters written
home to her sister, Norma Storey Spinning, ' I8:
" ... We have joined forces with a group of Red Cross
people who are going to work with the troops overseas.
It includes medical social workers and secretaries to be
assigned to hospital work; a group of recreation workers
who are to organize clubs in the big centers where the
men go on leave; a number of men, most of whom have
been doing physical education work with high school
and college age groups, and who are to be assigned to a
task force later. To our surprise we found two New
Englanders going to the Harvard Unit with us and also
in our uniform. They were being sent over by Harvard
Medical School as replacements, one as a laboratory
technician and the other as a secretary.
"Our Red Cross group and the Army nurses on board
are in comfortable quarters. On the first sunny day we
were so pleasantly sunned and blown on the top deck
that I made up for any arrears in sleeping. This has been
like a prolonged vacation, an unlimited variety of interesting
people with a nucleus of men and women that
we knew well before we started, and all the fascination
of an ocean trip. The nights on deck without a light
showing and the August shooting stars in full view; or
an overclouded sky with only the phosphorescent waves
breaking near the ship. The days are like Adelaide
Crapsey's verse-
'Wind and wave and beat of sea­
White sands stretching endlessly.'
only of course we weren't looking for white sands but
for whales or porpoises.
"This has been an uneventful trip. If you want to
travel with speed and efficiency, plan your trip with the
Navy at sea and the Red Cross on land. Far superior to
Cook's Tours!
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" ... We are now in London at the Nurses' Club which
is an 'on leave' residence sponsored by the Red Cross
and Mrs. Biddle (wife of the ambassador) for American
Army nurses and Red Cross workers. It is a fine old
residence in the Mayfair district not far from Berkeley
Square.... The city was so much lovelier than I had
been prepared to find it. I didn't dare hope that it could
have all the charm and interest that you have talked
about for so long. The longer we stay the more aware
we are of the good cleanup job that has been done.
There has been no 'proper Blitz' since May of '41 here
and the Londoners pride themselves on making everything
as shipshape as possible.
.'Thursday we visited a district nursing settlement in
the Limehouse section in East London. It is near the
Pettycoat Lane district. The nurse with whom I made
rounds is a Danish nurse who was in London when the
Germans occupied Denmark. She is a fine little nurse,
bright and interesting. We saw some of the families that
survived the nine months of the worst raids and they
are just as matter of fact and plucky about it as the
accounts you read in magazines and books. And always
so entirely unselfconscious. One woman of 91 prided
herself on never leaving her apartment for a Shelter.
The British insurance and relief funds seem to be efficient
and adequate. The organization of dispensary and home
medical care and of medical supplies seemed to be very
well set up.
" ... I never expected to be as comfortable, or as well
fed. You can forget all your worries about poor food.
Even the British rations are better than they were and
the hospital, patients, staff, etc., are very well satisfied
with Army food.
". . . You can't put in words the courage and determination
the English people are showing. And entirely
without heroics-very matter of fact and working hard.
The women are marvelous-in the different services for
the Army, the Air Force and the Navy, but also hauling
heavy luggage trucks in the railroad stations, cleaning
streets, working as guards in the underground railroad
and on the farms. We visited one factory to see what
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industrial nurses were doing and saw women factory
workers carrying on in every part of the plant.
"... We had our first glimpse of English fields today
coming down through gardens and meadows to London.
The countryside is beautiful and green. It's as peaceful
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as New York state wherever we have been and has all
the flowers from June through September blooming at
once in the gardens. I haven't investigated the fishing
but from the evidence (kippered herring for breakfast)
some one is successfuL"
War' Minors for Women Arts Students
Furnish Preparation for War Tasks
THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR with emphasis on
the minor is a matter of immediate concern to undergraduate
women-even without Ginger Rogers in the
picture. The ..minors" are part of a concerted plan to
gear the preparation of women students to the needs of
the country at war as well as to offer the resources of the
University to alumnae who with some additional training
would be able to take positions in industry.
Women will be needed in Rochester industry in 1943
as never before. Although there will be many calls for
untrained women, there will be great need for technically
trained chemists, physicians, and engineers.
As one step in filling this need the College for Women
is instituting the war minor. Students majoring in the
liberal arts will be strongly urged to take minor courses
in mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, economics,
accounting, or statistics.
The women's campus is already well organized through
its War Activities Board for community service along
the lines of Red Cross work, salvaging, selling War
Stamps, physical fitness, and volunteer work squads.
The election of a war minor is being presented to women
students as another logical step in anticipation of direct
service to the country.
Mapmaking, which is one of a series of courses to be
offered to seniors graduating in May, has been included
in the war minor curricula. Women completing the mapmaking
course are guaranteed jobs as engineering aides
in the mapmaking division of the War Department.
After the war 10 per cent of those employed are promised
continued employment. The University is one of ten
colleges to have this mapmaking course.
One vocational course recently instituted as a service
project is proving popular with twenty women students
on the Prince Street campus who are not afraid to get
out and get under-the course in motor mechanics presented
in co-operation with the Board of Education.
Harold DeMay, instructor of motor repair at Vocational
High School and instructor in the Aviation Ground
School at Jefferson High School, hopes to turn out a
group who can take care of, check, adjust, clean, and
repair all parts of the automobile.
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
To provide an understanding of basic fundamentals for
women whose previous college training has been in the
field of arts or other sciences, the University is offering
on the River Campus a full-time pre-employment course
in the elements of engineering. The beginning date of
the course has been postponed pending a larger registration.
Women who desire positions in industry and
who could at this time take advantage of the training
offered are invited to call Monroe 269 for further details.
In co-operation with the Federal Security Agency,
United States Office of Education, the University has
also made available two other intensive training courses
designed especially for women already employed in industry;
principles of drafting, and production planning
ARTS STUDENTS TAKE UP "WAR MINORS"
Lucille Butler, Alice Reilly, and Ruth Diller (left to right),
all of the ClaJS of I944, add the practical techniques of chemistry
to their liberal arts work.
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JIM SECREST GETS WALLACE TROPHY
Doctor Edwin Fauver presents the Gordon Wallace Memorial
Trophy to Jim Secrest, sophomore halfback, at the Touchdown
Dinner. Jim, who comes from Galion, Ohio, rolled up I}}
points in I942 to eclipse all Eastern scorers and to take second
place in the nation. Doc, responsible for the University's fine
sports equipment-gymnasium, field house, and stadiumreceived
a warm ovation from the alumni at the victory banquet.
Dud DeGroot, whose comments at the 1940 Touchdown
Dinner led to the establishment of the Gordon
Wallace Trophy and the Ball-Keating Cup, came up
with another happy surprise when he announced the
brand-new Coaches' Trophy, awarded to the outstanding
non-letter man of the year. Not so surprising, of
course, was the revelation of the name of the recipient­
Johnny (Rugged) Murphy, perennial candidate for tackle
post, member of the football squad for three grinding
seasons, whose superabundant college spirit is already a
part of River Campus legend.
Rugged Murphy, Dud told the alumni and students
gathered at the Touchdown Dinner, was left behind
when the squad journeyed to DePauw and to Amherst,
but he managed to get to both places just the same,
largely "by rule of thumb."
Dud pronounced the 1942 Varsity "the best defensive
team I ever coached." Lou Alexander, basketball coach
and director of intercollegiate athletics, seconded this
tribute. Parenthetically, Dud holds the boys themselves
largely responsible for the stellar defensive play of the
past season, which saw only 8 points scored against the
Yellowjackets. Last summer, in one of his regular ininstruction
letters to members of the squad, Dud wrote
that he wasn't worried about the 1942 team's scoring
abilities, but that he was concerned about its defensive
qualities. The team, under the inspiring leadership of
Co-Captains Dick Secrest and Moose Kramer, set out to
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
KERR AND DeGROOT BID HUBBARD GOODBYE
Andy Kerr, Colgate football coach and guest speaker at the
Touchdown Dinner, examines the handsome shotgun that is
Dud DeGroot's farewell gift to his longtime assistant, Bill
Hubbard. Bill is rejoining the physical education staff at
San Jose State, California, while awaiting action on his
application for an Army commission. He and Dud, in three
years, achieved seventeen victories as against five losses.
prove that Dud was wrong, and in g?-me after game
played over their heads to protect their goal.
Raymond N. Ball, '14, presented the Ball-Keating
Cup-given by himself and Kenneth B. Keating, '19-to
Rochester's brilliant tackle, Greg Thomas. Greg-one of
Sam Havens's boys from the Chicago area-for a time
outscored Jim Secrest during the 59 to 0 Hobart game,
twice blocking punts and downing the ball behind the
Hobart goal. No small college in this area, Ray Ball
declared, and few big colleges, could boast of a better
linesman than the big but lightning-fast Thomas.
Walter Menegazzi, a fair quarterback in 1941 and an
amazingly good end in 1942, received the Raymond G.
Phillips Cup from the hands of Matthew D. Lawless.
This trophy, the gift of the late Ray Phillips, '97, is
awarded each year to the man showing the greatest
improvement during the season, along with loyalty and
team spirit, and Menegazzi, whose exploits at end kept
pace with those of the redoubtable Chopper Carman in
1942, was the logical recipient.
Dud DeGroot paid high tribute to the spirit of the
team, members of which maintained their morale and
their scholastic work on a high level in spite of the
stresses of a wartime year.
Dud bade formal farewell to Bill Hubbard, and bestowed
upon his long-time partner his going-away gifta
handsome shotgun. Ezra A. Hale, '16, in behalf of the
alumni gave Bill a pair of sports binoculars.
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Wide Opportunities for Service
Found by Medical Worker in China
Dr. Adele Cohn, '27, first American physician sent to
China by the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China,
chose that oriental land .'because millions of Chinese die
each year from tuberculosis just because there are not
enough doctors to help them, and few are trained in
tubercular work."
Dr. Cohn received her M.D. degree from the University
of Pennsylvania, and served as interne at Thomasville,
Georgia, and at Newark, New Jersey. She specialized in
tuberculosis therapy, and was staff physician at the Sea
View Hospital and at Montefiore Sanitorium; she was
chiefresident physician at Bedford Hills Sanitorium when
the opportunity to serve in China came. Her patients
expressed their appreciation of her work, and their regret
at her departure, by purchasing a $150 pneumothorax
apparatus for her.
She left for China in July, 1941, accompanied by "six
trunks ofmedical supplies and two suitcases ofclothing."
The trip from San Francisco to Hong Kong required two
months; she flew from Hong Kong to Chungking, and
with Dr. Robert K." S. Lim, director of the Chinese Red
Cross, her superior, traveled by automobile and rickshaw
to the mountain city of Kweiyang, in Kewichow Province.
In this city, 3,500 feet above sea level, is the fiftybed
sanitorium of which she is director.
The number of clinic visitors and patients has increased
so greatly that Dr. Cohn has been obliged to take over
many extra duties in addition to teaching modern
methods of tuberculosis treatment to native doctors. She
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DR. ADELE
COHN, '27
has started clinics in obstetrics and gynecology. There are
no interpreters, and she has had to begin the serious study
of the Chinese language-at the same time teaching
English to many of her staff.
The location of the hospital is such that it has been
quite free from Japanese air raids. Dr. Cohn saw little of
the actual fighting fronts during the trip.
"You would be disgusted with the filth and poverty,"
she writes. "So would I, if I hadn't been gradually prepared
for it at Manila and Hong Kong. There is a great
deal of suffering and very little complaining.
"Soldiers continue to pour in here from everywhere,
and it is pitiful to see them come in after walking ten or
twelve miles. They look like walking skeletons, clothed
in rags, and barefooted. Their bodies are usually covered
with infected sores. Some have swollen feet three times
their normal size, wrapped in paper or rags. Some are
unable to walk and are carried on the soldier's backs.
Many die along the road, and lie there until someone
takes them away. Most of them have dysentery and
malaria. A few of them have tuberculosis. All of them
are suffering from malnutrition."
The staff at the hospital has enough food but the prices
are exorbitant. White and sweet potatoes, noodles, and
spaghetti are common. Sugar is $13 a pound, coffee $6 a
pound, and bread is $5.50 a loaf!
Because of the outrageous food costs, Dr. Cohn is
boarding some of the doctors in her home, which she
built herself with the aid of the Chinese. She has become
accustomed to the highly seasoned Chinese food. At
Kweiyang "ping pong" isn't a game, but the first course
at dinner, consisting of cold cuts. She has been invited to
many dinner parties, and was surprised to learn that the
wives of the Chinese staffmembers are not included in the
invitation-possibly because the women know very little
English.
The China she has seen so far is made up of a few very
wealthy persons, a few of the middle class, and millions
living in poverty. She says, "they are amazing in their
persistence and endurance and their ability to get along
under all sorts of trying conditions."
There have been several calls for part-time secretarial
assistance at the Prince Street Campus this
fall. Young married alumnae who find that a small
apartment is not very time consuming and wives
and mothers whose husbands have gone into military
service are invited to get in touch with the
Placement Office.
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pages, must be thus cut. THE READER'S DIGEST, because
of its bulk and its narrow margins, is a headache for
the binders.
The University binds its book in stout buckram
covers, tailor-made for each volume. There is no sewing
in the cover; it relies upon glue and paste and the
strength of the fabric to hold it together, and to hold it
to the sewed p'ages within. A well-bound book will
take plenty of punishment, and he who attempts deliberately
to destroy it will require plenty of muscle.
The library doesn't usually bind magazines of the
The
Compass
Points
NIAGARA FRONTIER alumnae held their first meeting
of the year on October 15th. Mary Chamberlain Bahler,
'29, is the newly elected president, taking over the
position so capably held by Leone Reeves Hemenway,
'34, last year.
CHICAGO alumnae, according to reports of Anna
Munson Parkin, '10, are keeping in touch with the
wandering fold through correspondence. The recent wave
of marriages among the younger alumnae in that area
has taken them to all parts of the country.
NEW YORK alumni and alumnae held a meeting on
December 7th at the Town Hall Club, at which Dr.
Henry Canby spoke. Dr. Canby is the Associate Editor
of the Saturday Review of Literature, and Chairman of
the Board of the Book of the Month Club. Dudley S.
DeGroot also spoke on the recent football season.
Executive Secretaries Charles B. Dalton, '20, and Helen
A. Ancona, '38, were guests at the meeting.
ROCHESTER and vicinity alumnae devoted October
31st to a study of current problems in Rochester. In the
morning a Symposium on "College Planning for Women
in a War World" was held for girls' advisors, and two
alumnae teachers from each of the city and vicinity
high schools attended. Dean Janet H. Clark, Dr. Isabel
K. Wallace, '16, Florence Dunn, '39, Helen Rose, '42,
and Alumnae Secretary Helen Ancona, '38, spoke at the
meeting. Speakers pointed out that students must not
only meet the present war demands, but also prepare for
the reconstruction period to follow.
--R--
popular variety. When LIFE first appeared as a magazine
of news pictures, the University authorities weren't
quite certain whether or not it should be bound, and
allowed quite a few loose magazines to accumulate
before deciding that it was worth a permanent set of
covers. Librarian John R. Russell is now debating
whether or not to bind THE NEw YORKER. A copy
comes to the Rush Rhees Library, and back numbers are
wrapped and stored away. There is a great deal of very
sound material even in this somewhat frivolous publication,
Mr. Russell believes, and some day the bundles
may journey to the bindery.
Following this meeting the high school guests joined
the alumnae at a luncheon meeting that was followed by
a panel discussion on "Women's War Responsibilities."
Professor Dexter Perkins was the moderator and the
participants were: Mrs. Stafford Warren, Dr. Isabel K.
Wallace, and Russell C. McCarthy, District Supervisor
of the U. S. Employment Service. Itwas stated thatwithin
one year Rochester will need 20,000 women in the war
industries. The problems to be solved in selecting women
workers, the care of children while mothers work, effective
running of their homes, and continuing of volunteer
services were all presented. An active discussion period
followed.
--R--
Waldron, Wounded in Action,
To Wear Major-General's Stars
Albert w. Waldron, '12, decorated by General Douglas
MacArthur with the Distinguished Service Cross for
gallantry in action against the Japanese in the Southwest
Pacific, is now a major-general. Wounded in his frontline
encounter with the J aps, General Waldron is recovering
in an Army hospital in Australia, it is reported,
and is anxious to rejoin his troops.
Sam Foulds, '13, close friend and fraternity brother of
General Waldron during the three years that the latter
attended the University, recalls that the general was a
substitute on the basketball squad for two years. He
went to West Point in the fall of 1911, and when the
Varsity played West Point that season the two old
friends were pitted against each other.
General Waldron married the former Helen E. Stone,
'13, now living at Rockville Center, Long Island, where
she taught for three years following her graduation.
The general served in France in 1918 as major of artillery,
with the famed First Division, and participated in some
of the major actions, including the Aisne-Marne, St.
Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
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THE
ROCHESTER
I-ALUMNAE REVIEW
December 1942 - January 1943
Published by-monthly, August and September excepted
To All Graduates in Uniform:
Your civilian classmates send you greetings for 1943.
Their good wishes follow you, wherever you may be;
and also their prayers that God will guard you in danger,
grant you an early victory, and bring you safely home.
--R--
Our First Casualty
This is an appropriate time, perhaps, to revise and
correct an editorial written in 1938 whenJohn Field, '35,
was killed in Spain, fighting with the Loyalist forces.
At that time we wrote:
"... Johnny Field died in a stranger's quarrel. He
died in his own personal crusade, opposing a force and
an idea that he believed menaced the welfare of the
world. We cannot condemn, but must rather envy, the
final logic of his idealism. So few of us have loyalties,
far removed from our own personal interests, that we
are willing to die for. Johnny Field did have. He must
have known ... that he was to fight for a losing if not a
lost cause."
In the light of what has happened since 1938, it is
apparent that John Field was the first lonely volunteer
in a war that now sears the whole world. His enemies
in 1938-the Axis powers that aided in the crushing of
the Spanish Loyalists-are our enemies now. His perception
was keener than ours. He recognized those enemies
sooner than we did.
It was no lost cause for which he died, no stranger's
quarrel. Johnny Field should have a place, and an honored
place, on the University's list of casualties in this
second World War.
--R--
Something to Remember
The history-making Yellowjacket eleven, coached by
Dud DeGroot and Bill Hubbard, trampled Hobart 59 to 0
on November 14th to win seven of eight games and run
its 1942 scoring to 242 points, 72 above the best previous
record.
The Varsity closed the year with one of the best defensive
records in the country, permitting only Amherst
to cross its goal line, while Union salvaged a two-point
safety from the wreckage of a 40 to 2 defeat.
Sophomore Jim Secrest, elected co-captain of the 1943
Varsity (if any) along with Casey Scholar Irv Baybutt,
won the touchdown crown as the East's high scorer by
galloping twenty-two times across enemy goal stripes.
Jim packed most of his scoring punches into the final
four games, against Hamilton, Allegheny, Union, and
Hobart; he rang up six touchdowns in the Hobart game
alone, and added a point after touchdown, to send his
total to 133 points. Until he broke away for five scoring
bursts against Hamilton at Clinton, Galloping Jim had
amassed only four touchdowns.
He carried the ball 117 times during the season, according
to the statistics demons, and showed a net gain
of 1,002 yards, an average of 8.5 yards. The backfield
had a wealth of ball-carrying talent in 1942, advancing
2,254 yards by rushing in the eight games, with Co­
Captains Dick Secrest and Dick (Moose) Kramer; Sophomores
Bob Murphy and Frank Walter sharing honors
with the younger Secrest. The Varsity had air power
too; with Moose Kramer doing most of the pitching, it
completed forty-seven passes in 121 attempts, a percentage
of 38. Opponents completed only 28 per cent of their
total passes, the brilliant Rochester defense holding the
airline assaults of its rivals well in check.
Grandstand experts had emphatic praise this fall for
Rochester's rugged line, which was outweighed in many
contests but never outplayed. The forwards showed the
form that one might expect from a group that had had
three years of DeGroot teaching; and that, of course, is
just about as emphatic a compliment as can be paid.
The season's single defeat, at the hands of Amherst,
lost some of its sting when the Lord Jeffs went on to
finish their fall campaigns undefeated, whipping the
powerful Williams team to annext the Little Three
championship. Williams itself, of course, had had a
1;>rilliant season, beating Princeton in its opening game
and bowling over all other opponents until it faced
Amherst. Lou Alexander, who saw the Rochester­
Amherst game, said on his return to Rochester that
Amherst was strong enough in 1942 to hold its own not
only against its Little Three rivals, but against the Big
Three. Comparative scores can be used to prove practically
any thing; they certainly show, however, that the
Rochester Yellowjackets, who outplayed the Amhersts
only to lose the decision, could probably have made a
creditable showing against many of the big-name teams
this past season.
The material was good, but the coaching was superlative.
It is only necessary to go back to the gloomy years
prior to 1940, to seasons in which hapless Rochester
teams were battered week after week by almost uniformly
victorious foes, to realize what the DeGroot-
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Hubbard regime has meant to Rochester football. Some
of the University's most loyal alumni were urging, then,
that football be abandoned. Nobody but Rochester's
1941-1942 opponent, now, regrets that the "Chicago
Plan" was not adopted. President Alan Valentine
launched the Rochester Plan instead. It has paid big
dividends in victories, and in student and alumni morale
at Rochester.
--R--
Historian Sees No Early Victory;
Russia Weakened,Dr. Perkins says
The Ameriran people are not justified in expecting an
early end to the war, Dexter Perkins, professor ofhistory,
told the City Club at its January 9th meeting.
He warned against a too optimistic view of the
Russian campaign, while conceding that the Soviet
forces are carrying on a brilliantly directed offensive.
The strength of Russia will be severely diminished when
she enters the third yeotr of war this summer, he said,
and America cannot expect to win this war "by other
people's blood and other people's efforts."
He pointed out that American offensive plans are immensely
complicated by the enormous distances involved
in transporting men and equipment to distant and widely
separated fronts. In this connection, he declared, those
who ignore the ban on pleasure driving are" defying the
interests of the war in their own interests.
"It's far easier to walk or take the bus to the theater
than to fight Japanese snipers in jungle country or man a
ship that moves through sub-infested waters," he said.
.. 'Sacrifice' is too melodramatic a word for the comparatively
slight inconveniences that the war has brought to
Americans. We're going to find in the coming year that
total war carried on at a distance of 5,000 to 7,000 miles
is going to call for substantial curtailments."
--R--
Employers ShunLiberalArts Men;
Placement Office Seeks Grad Data
. War conditions in general, and Selective Service regulations
in particular, are sending liberal arts graduates into
the armed services while their technically trained classmates
are being sought for jobs in war industries or in
war-related research, according to Thomas J. Gorham,
'35, the University's vocational counselor.
It is difficult to find jobs for the arts majors, companies
being unwilling to hire these men because of the virtual
certainty that they will soon be called to the colors.
Most arts students in the class graduated in December
anticipated this and had enlisted in the Army or Navy
Reserves; many of them are already in training camps
being prepared for commissions.
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The aviation industry took the largest share of the
thirty-eight graduates granted engineering and science
degrees, nine entering this field. Research and development
work with petroleum called for eight men. All of
the technical graduates are now in industries engaged in
war production, and are scattered from Massachusetts to
California, and from Rochester southward to Louisiana
and Texas.
The vocational counselor reports that his problem this
year has not been to find jobs for the graduates. There
have been more jobs than there were men to fill them,
and all but one of the seniors had been placed prior to
Commencement. He was therefore able to concentrate on
the task of helping each student select the job for which
he was most suited so far as interests, abilities, and circumstances
were concerned, and where he could make
the maximum contribution to the war effort.
Counselor Gorham is receiving, at fairly frequent intervals,
inquiries about older men. He would be glad to
talk with alumni who were graduated some years ago
and who have not yet found exactly the sort of position
they have been seeking.
--R--
University Offers 2 -Year Courses
As Special War Service to Students
New flexibility is given the University's teaching programs
with the inauguration of special two-year courses
planned to meet specific war needs.
As announced by President Alan Valentine late in
January, four new courses will be offered, beginning in
May, at the opening of the Intersession. They will not
replace, but will supplement, the traditional four-year
degree program.
One course, a two-year basic curriculum in arts, is
available to men under eighteen years of age. The other
three are primarily for women, and include:
A two-year course in business administration.
A two-year program in laboratory techniques. Those
completing the course satisfactoriJy will be awarded
certificates for laboratory technicians.
A two-year course leading to the certificate for technical
aides.
It should be noted that no degrees are awarded. President
Valentine points out that many high school graduates
do not find it expedient to plan a full four-year
college course, even under the accelerated schedule that
makes possible the attainment of a degree in two and
two-thirds years. Most men students anticipate a call to
military service shortly after they become eighteen;
women students are increasingly anxious to participate
in useful war activities as soon as possible after completing
high school.
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A male student entering the College for Men at sixteen
-and many do-can complete the basic arts curriculum
before entering the armed forces. Even a seventeen-yearold
has a chance of finishing his curriculum, because
under the accelerted plan it requires only one and a third
years.
Students choosing the two-year plan may, if they
wish, and if circumstances permit, apply the two-year
course toward the attainment of a bachelor's degree,
electing a special field of concentration for the final two
years, President Valentine announced.
--R--
U. S. Scorns Non-Metallic Coins
Suggested by Rochester Graduate
The proposal of a Rochester alumnus to replace coins
by postage stamps as a medium of exchange-a scheme
that, its sponsor believes, would save tons of criticallyneeded
copper and other metals-has apparently been
shelved by Washington authorities.
THE REVIEW has learned that the alumnus, whose
identity cannot be revealed, submitted his plan to the
White House, and that President Roosevelt, himself an
ardent stamp collector, was interested, and passed the
proposal along to the Treasury Department. The Rochesterian
has received a polite note from the Department
informing him that his letter "has been filed."
The plan as suggested to the President was that two
ordinary postage stamps be inserted in a small sealed
envelope of transparent plastic. (As a loyal Rochesterian
the alumnus, of course, suggested Kodapak.) Two Ucent
stamps would be the equivalent of a penny; two
1U-cent stamps would be a perfect substitute for the
government's proposed 3-cent piece. A 2-cent adhesive
and one of the 3-cent denomination would form a nonmetallic
nickel.
--R--
The alumnus inventor dangled before the President's
eyes the alluring fact that stamp collectors-and coin
collectors too-would immediately purchase tens of
thousands of the wartime tokens for their albums. This
would be clear profit, and would compensate for the
slight expense involved in manufacturing the transparent
envelopes. Further, there would be no necessity of setting
up a specie reserve to redeem the tokens; postage stamps
can always be used on letters, and they are accepted in
lieu of cash by mail-order houses and others.
The government, however, apparently plans to stick
to metal coins.
--R--
Another alumnus has been elevated to an important
executive post in the Rochester newspaper field with the
appointment of A. Vernon Croop, '26, as managing
editor ofTHE ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE. Vern's
assistant will be Norris W. Vagg, '26.
Vern became neWs editor of THE DEMOCRAT in 1941,
after more than fifteen years with THE TIMES-UNION,
where he was night financial editor, city editor, and
assistant news editor. Red Vagg began his newspaper
career as a DEMOCRAT copy boy while he was still in
college.
Joseph T. Adams, '22, is managing editor of THE
TIMES-UNION.
--R--
William Davidson, River Campus junior, has been
awarded a gold medal by the Rochester Safety Council
for his rescue of a woman from the Genesee River last
October. The rescue took place at the Elmwood Avenue
bridge when Davidson was on his way to college. The
University recognized his heroism with the gift of a
gold watch-to replace a timepiece stolen during his
plunge into the icy river-and the Board of Trustees
made the gift of a trip to Clinton to see the Hamilton
football game.
Court Men W in All December Games;
Wyoming Breaks Long Victory Skein
Lou Alexander's basketball squad, which attained a
perfect season last winter, was victorious in all of its
December games to remain undefeated in 1942, but on
New Year's night fell victim to the superior power of
the University of Wyoming.
The wins over the alumni, Cornell, Harvard, and Ohio
State brought Rochester its longest unbroken string of
victories, twenty-two in a row. The alumni were battered
for a 68 to 19 count; Cornell was beaten by one point in a
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
freak overtime contest, Harvard crumbled before an improving
Varsity attack, and Ohio State, decisively outplayed
until the final minutes, turned the tables in a
wild drive that brought the Buckeyes up to the final
gun a single counter behind the all-but-stampeded
Varsity.
Co-Captains Jim Beall and Dick Baroody, and Johnny
Baynes, juniors, have been playing the full forty minutes
ofmost of the games. Beall and Baroody have contributed
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some top-notch floor play, with Baynes accounting for
plenty ofVarsity baskets to lead in the Rochester scoring.
Mitch Williams, captain of the 1941-42 yearling team,
probably will carry the major burden of pivot work for
the rest of the season, since Freshman Neil Culhane has
been declared ineligible. Ken Flowerday, another freshman,
has been a regular starter.
ROCHESTER 68, ALUMNI 19
The alumni scored first on Wes Van Grafieland's hook
shot, and Tuck Faulkner scored shortly thereafter to tie
the count at 4-all, but thenceforth the Varsity's sharpshooters
kept the graduates toiling far in the rear. The
floor wizards of former years-including Jap Apperman,
showing in his fourteenth straight alumni-Varsity contest;
Bud Spies, Pete Kelly, Russ Craytor, Lee Henehan,
and Pete Stranges-couldn't halt the stampede, and they
scored nine field goals while the youngsters of the Varsity
poured thirty-three through the net.
ROCHESTER 36, CORNELL 35
Outplaying the Varsity through most of the game,
Cornell though it had won, 33 to 31, until the referee
called the two teams back for an additional six seconds;
Rochester had asked for time out just before the final
gun, and the timekeeper had missed the official's signal.
Substitute Carlos Chapman snared the ball on the tipoff,
and passed to Dick Baroody, who sank a twenty-footer
that was in the air for the tying basket when the second
half ended. In the overtime period Rochester collected a
foul shot and a field goal to edge the Big Red by a single
point.
ROCHESTER 45, HARVARD 36
Showing an aggressiveness lacking in the Cornell
game, the Varsity scored a decisive win over the previously
undefeated Harvards, with Jim Beall and Mitch
Williams dominating the scoring for Rochester. Neil
Culhane, in the pivot slot, turned in a good performance,
but it was Rochester's superior playmaking skill, in
which Dick Baroody and Johnny Baynes starred, and
the ball-stealing abilities of Freshman Ken Flowerday,
that spoiled the evening for the Crimson. Rochester
needed all its marksmanship from the field, for the entire
team had a poor evening from the foul line, missing all
but three of a dozen free throws.
ROCHESTER 53, OHIO STATE 52
The tall and rugged Buckeyes, outmatched in team
finesse and marksmanship by the Varsity, were decisively
checked by their opponents until the final few minutes
of play, when they launched a stirring rally that threw
the Rochesters off balance and all but overcame the
locals' II-point lead. They came up with a rush to tie
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the count at 50-all with seconds to play, and added
another basket while Jim Beall was sinking a free throw
and Johnny Baynes a field goal. The rattled Varsity lost
the ball just before the gun, but a long Ohio State steve
failed to connect.
Johnny Baynes played topnotch ball to lead the scorers,
making good on eight of fourteen tries at the basket and
netting three from the foul stripe for 19 points. Mitch
Williams was impressive as pivot man, garnering 10
points, and Co-Captains Jim Beall and Dick Baroody
contributed their usual stellar floor play.
WYOMING 68, ROCHESTER 46
The University of Wyoming Cowboys brought along
Milo Komenich, six-foot, seven inch center, and Ken
Sailors, one of the most skillful courtmen ever to show
in the Palestra, and the two of them scored a total of 48
points-enough to beat the Varsity. The towering
Komenich was practically unguardable as he tossed in 30
points to break the Palestra record set by Bob Collett in
1940. Wyoming led throughout; Johnny Baynes again
topped the Varsity in scoring, notching 18 points for
the losers, Dick Baroody scoring 10 points.
BUFFALO 45, ROCHESTER 40
Art Powell, who used to coach the Varsity before and
during the first World War, achieved no little satisfaction
in seeing his Buffalo team trim the Varsity, that failed,
in its first post-holiday game, to show the finish and
accuracy that marked its play against big-time foes met
earlier in the season. Rochester managed to gain brief
leads during the first half and came up to intermission
with a 27-all deadlock, but the Bulls upset tradition by
outscoring the home team in the final half and were
particularly destructive in the closing ten minutes. Dick
Baroody surprised the fans by leading the Rochester
scorers with 13 points. Corriere starred for the visitors
with 21 points.
It was the first Varsity game following the announcement
of the OPA ban on pleasure driving, but over 1,500
persons journeyed to the River Campus by bus to see the
contest. This was in contrast to the Wyoming game on
New Year's night, when over 3,000 spectators jammed
the Palestra and an equal number were turned away
because all of the seats were sold.
The basketball and swimming schedules will be completed
as planned, unless travel is further restricted by
OPA edict, according to an announcement made by
President Alan Valentine. University policy is that these
sports are primarily for the participants and for the
undergraduates, and the drop in attendance due to restrictions
on the use of automobiles will not affect this
policy until "it is clear that the holding of such games
is against the public interest."
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Colgate Swimmers Take Bad
Beating As Speegle's Team
Wins Four Meets
The swimming team, again coached by Roman (Speed)
Speegle, won its first four meets with comparative ease,
with Oberlin alone furnishing tough opposition. Graduation
clipped four tank stars from the Varsity roster in
December, but other colleges probably will be similarly
handicapped during the balance of the season, which will
see the Varsity pitted against Cornell, Syracuse, Fordham,
and other top-notch foes.
Hamilton was a brand-new opponent this season,
initiating the water sport in 1942. Hamilton and Niagara
fell in one-sided contests; Colgate was the victim of a
60 to 15 drubbing.
ROCHESTER 51, NIAGARA 23
The Eagles' Jack Donahue notched three firsts, but
that was just about all for Niagara. Coach Speed Speegle
found winning combinations in Dick Kriebel, Dick
Schwanke, and Herb Lockman for the medley relay,
and in Bob Billett, Jerry Meyer, Bob Platt, and Freshman
Helmut Onusseit for the 400-yard relay. Skip Page, frosh
diving star, edged Captain Lowell Burke in his springboard
specialty. Warren Hennrich was first in the 50 and
Bill Platt in the breaststroke.
ROCHESTER 42, OBERLIN 38
Oberlin outswam the Varsity in five events, Rochester
A good many people were surprised
to learn that the Rochester Brewing
Company is one of the eight firms
financing the new million-volt x-ray
laboratory in Crittenden Boulevard,
described on Page 5 of this issue. It
is reasonable to assume that foundries
might be interested in this project;
but why a brewery? Ale is reasonably
transparent, and can be tested by
taste, or by simple chemical processes;
no x-ray is needed, at least not
a tube of such high potential.
As a matter of fact gratitude, and
not a desire to look through kegs of
beer, prompted the Rochester Brewing
Company's gift, according to one
unofficial account. The brewery,
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
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Meanderings
some months ago, asked the University
to suggest possible uses for
spent yeast, formerly permitted to
flow into the sewer. One of the members
of the School of Medicine and
Dentistry suggested that the yeast be
used in making vitamin products.
This was done, and very substantial
savings to the company resulted:
Grateful, the brewing company officials
forwarded a generous check to
the University, and it was used to
help finance the building of the x-ray
laboratory.
Dud DeGroot is telling everybody
about two letters he received this fall
from the Abbott Hall School for
offsetting this advantage by a profusion of second and
third places. Captain Burke took first honors in diving,
Johnny Cranch in the backstroke, and Bill Gavett in the
breaststroke, with Cranch and Gavett teaming with Herb
Lockman to win the medley relay.
ROCHESTER 48, HAMILTON 27
Hamilton chose Rochester as its first opponent in its
first swimming season, and came up with a one-man
team featuring Dave Mead, who ran away with three
first places. It was graduation eve for four Rochester
seniors, Jerry Meyer, Johnny Cranch, Herb Lockman,
and Lowell Burke, who received their diplomas the
following day in Rochester's first December Commencement.
Cranch and Lockman, with Bill Gavett, won the
medley relay, andCranch added another five points for
the winners in the backstroke. Skip Page again won in
the diving. Bob Rosborough won the breaststroke, Dan
Campbell the 440, and Bob Platt, Billett, Harrington,
and Campbell the 400-yard relay.
ROCHESTER 60, COLGATE 15
Rochester not only won eight of the nine events, but
in five contests placed first and second to make the meet,
in Colgate's pool, one of the most one-sided in Varsity
tank history. Bob Rosborough, Helmut Onusseit, and
Howie Bacon won the medley relay, and the 400-yard
relay fell to Bacon, Chuck Harrington, Bob Billett, and
Paul Hanks. Dan Campbell won the 220, Herrick the 50,
Skip Page the diving event, Harrington the 100, Rosborough
the 200-yard breaststroke, and Costich the 400.
Midshipmen, in Chicago. The 1,500
middies in training there were divided
into three battalions of 500 men
each, and the outstanding man in
each of the three units is designated
battalion commander.
First a letter came from Bill
Bruckel, '42, co-captain of football
in 1941, reporting that Fred Gehlmann,
the other co-captain, had been
named a battalion commander. A
day or so later a message arrived
from Fred Gehlmann-telling nothing
about the honor that he himself
had achieved, but announcing with
great pride that Bill Bruckel had
been appointed commander of his
battalion.
19

Ethel Bloom Gorham, '31, has not
only done plenty of thinking about
her husband's going to war, but has
written her thoughts down in helpful
form for sisters in the same boat,
in a new book, "So Your Husband's
Gone to War."
The book was reviewed in the
NEw YORK TIMES magazine section
on October 5th, and was acclaimed
for its humor and common sense.
More recently, LIFE, in its December
21st issue, illustrated the major
recommendations, using twenty photographs
spread over six LIFE-sized
pages. Its editorial comment was
that the author "reviews all the
practical devices which sensible women
have always known" to resist
loneliness and the other tribulations
of temporary wartime widowhood.
Ethel writes with an authoritative
background, for her husband is a
member of the R.C.A.F., she has a
small child, and she is now working
as the head fashion writer of a smart
5th Avenue department store. Included
in the fifteen chapters are her
comments on the problems a war
wife has to face, and competent,
level-headed suggestions on meeting
them. Humor, too, has its place
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throughout the book and she deal s
most effectively with the matter of
telling an admiral from a head waiter
and other such essentials. "What you
want," claims Ethel, "is a grain of
humor, two grains of salt, and a
barrel of routine."
THE REVIEW has many uses it is
known, but never before has it found
itselfin the capacity ofthe arbitrator.
The occasion was the Thanksgiving
recess . New alumnae teachers from
the Class of '42 had gravitated to
Judy Furman Harris' for their first
real gossip session since graduation.
June Baetzel, Betty Corbett, Winnie
Martin, Ruth Chapin, Mimie Senzel
-a goodly gathering. Conversation
got so involved, so many talking
about so many different things, so
rapidly and so loudly, that they
finally had to call a halt to the whole
thing. Then using THE REVIEW as
the source book, each member holding
the floor was checked for accuracy.
Whispering and interrupting
were dealt with severely. Wonderful
thing a college education.
The traditional Boar's Head Dinner,
held the evening of December
10th, emphasized the fact that the
College for Men of the University of
Rochester is a singing college. The
Glee Club, national champions in
1942, was impressive in its program
of Christmas carols; but the entire
company of students, who packed
Todd Union to pack their stomachs
with Boar's Head viands, sang
throughout the long meal with an
unstudied fervor that was delightful
to hear.
Glee Club members, in authentic
mediaeval costumes, acted as waiters,
and spiced with song the courses of
the feast; they brought in the soup,
the boar's head, and the flaming
pudding to the accompaniment of
chanted verses, some in Latin, some
in English.
The Boar's Head Dinner is the
undergraduates' own function. Some
members of the faculty were invited,
and they serve as carvers at the
various tables. Occasionally an alumnus
is bidden to the ceremony; this
year Ezra Hale, '16, president of the
Associated Alumni, was thus honored.
Also at the "high table" were
President Alan Valentine, Assistant
Football Coach Bill Hubbard, soon
to leave for Army service, and
Lieutenant Leroy M. Deering, USNR,
one of the officers in charge of the
Navy unit now housed at the River
Campus while its members study
photography at the Eastman Kodak
Company.
The dinner has been an annual preholiday
affair at the University for
nine years, and has become one of
the most popular events at the River
Campus. It was borrowed from the
Middle Ages, when long and elaborate
banquets were among the major
Christmas observances. There is a
legend that Oxford University students
originated the boar's head feature
of the feast to celebrate the
deliverance of one of their fellows,
who was attacked by a wild boar
while strolling in the forest. He was
reading Aristotle when the beast
charged, and he saved himself by
thrusting his book down the boar's
throat. The boar was unable to
swallow the Aristotlean philosophy,
and choked to death.
Fame of the Boar's Head Dinner
has traveled far. Fox Movietone
wanted to film it for newsreel release,
and asked Armin Bender, '33, head
of the University News Bureau, to
arrange a special rehearsal, some
weeks in advance, so that the film
could be distributed in time for the
holidays. Movietone wanted a complete
rehearsal, too, with real pork
and fixings being consumed by several
hundred students. Even Armin quailed
at the task, and suggested that the
1941 event be photographed for distribution
in 1942. So far, this proposal
hasn't been adopted.
Wilma Lord Perkins, '18, made
radio broadcasting her main activity
ROCHESTER ALUMNI-ALUMNAE REVIEW

when she was in New York City
recently, for on November 27th she
was a guest on "Information Please,"
and on November 28th did some recording
for short wave broadcasting
for the Office of War Information.
The first and only graduate of the
University ever to be invited to
participate on the program, she reports
that "Information Please" is
really completely unrehearsed. The
guest star arrives at the Radio City
broadcasting studios a short time
before the program goes on the air.
About 1,500 people are sitting in the
audience and standing on the fringes.
All of the people concerned with the
program, from the program sponsor
to the tobacco auctioneer, bustle
about the platform. A few minutes
before broadcasting the experts run
through about six questions to
familiarize the guests with the procedure,
and then they are on the air.
On the program with Wilma were
Franklin P. Adams, John Kiernan,
and the other guest, Leon Henderson.
It was tremendously interesting to
meet Mr. Adams and Mr. Kiernan
after hearing them on the air, she
reports, and fascinating to see Clifton
Fadiman in action. Two microphones
are shared by the four experts
so each has to be on his or her toes
to respond to a question, taking
command of the mike before anyone
else slips the answer through.
In spite of a bad head cold at the
time, Wilma claims that it was not
nerve wracking. It was a great relief
to all alumnae and alumni listening
to find that not one encyclopedia or
war bond had been paid out during
the program, which proves that even
in realms other than food and vitamins,
Wilma was right in there with
the experts.
The next day she made a record in
Carnegie Hall that will be" broadcast
by short wave to Austraila, translated
for broadcasting to French West
Africa, and used for rebroadcasting
all around the world.
The Office of War Information is
sponsoring a tremendous educational
DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943
program through the world.
Questions come in from people in all
parts of the globe that the OWl has
their experts tackle. Wilma's question
was "Do Americans really live
entirely on food from tin cans?' ,
Some people may think questions of
that type are simple and silly, but
they are the ones that peoples of the
world wonder about. The OWl is
attempting to break down prejudices
against the American people and
teach others what Americans are
really like.
Her answer dispelled the idea that
all the food we eat is from tin cans,
and showed how important such
foods are at this time. She told how
most of the food we were sending to
starved countries and to the very
peoples listening to the broadcast
could be sent only in tin cans. She
further pointed out that the nutritious
elements of the food could be
much better preserved by using the
tin cans.
The recording for these short wave
broadcasts is all done at Carnegie
Hall. To get into the building you
have to show your badge to the
guards. The offices are regular bee
hives and the desks are so close together
that one literally squeezes
about the office. Cots have been set
up in the building for the staff to
catch cat-naps, for some of them
work amazing hours since the broadcasting
goes on twenty-four hours a
day. It was a thrilling thing to have
experienced, according to Wilma.
On top of all of that excitement,
the "Fanny Farmer Junior Cook
Book" came off the presses the week
before. For the benefit of younger
alumnae, Wilma Lord Perkins is the
wife of the nephew of the Fanny
Merrit Farmer who established the
Boston CookingI School and who
published the famous cook book.
Wilma is now the editor of the
booK:. and revises it constantly to
keep it current.
The "junior" she has written
specifically for children over ten, but
not for adults. It assumes that the
child knows nothing about cooking.
Basic rules of good cooking, terms,
a few tricks of the trade, some labor
saving devices, and a table of equivalents
and oven heats are included in
addition to about 120 basic recipes.
The book has been cleverly illustrated
by Martha Powell Setchell
and will fill a long needed gap for
youngsters who are not quite ready
for the "pinch of salt" theory.
Japanese beetles make life miserable
for gardeners in the New York­
Long Island area, devouring vegetables
and choice flowers with true
Nipponese ferocity. Elmer (Bud)
Walzer, '23, financial editor for the
United Press, has developed a successful
counter-attack against the
voracious Jap menace; he plants
Nicotiana freely in his Westchester
County garden. Nicotiana, a relative
of the commercial tobacco plant, is
an attractive annual with pink or
white flowers, and an odor pleasant
to human nostrils; the Japanese
beetles don't like it, however, and
not only leave it alone, but make
only half-hearted assaults upon
neighboring foliage.
College professors won resounding
praise from Henry Seidel Canby,
associate editor of THE SATURDAY
REVIEW OF LITERATURE, when he
spoke before the Alumni Association
of Greater New York on December
7th. Because they know the past, he
said, they can forecast the future
more accurately than members of
other professions.
A study made of the writings and
addresses of various groups in the
1918-1942 era, he told the graduates,
shows that the professors scored
highest in the accuracy of their predictions
in the field of international
affairs. Second best as forecasters
were foreign correspondents. Business
men and bankers were a poor
third, while professional military
and naval leaders were at the bottom
of the list.
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Dr. Edwin Fauver, college physician,
offered his own list of Rochester's
football immortals at the 1942
Touchdown Dinner, when he presented
the Gordon Wallace Trophy
to the nimble Jim Secrest. His roster
included the late Carl Paul, 'OS,
Rochester's only All-America candidate,
and Walter (Jack) Forsyth, '14,
who had a son and two nephews on
the 1942 Varsity. Others, whom Doc
saw in action, are Bunny Harris, '19,
whose three second-half touchdowns
against Colgate in 192Q-when the
Raiders were leading 14 to 0 at intermission-is
still regarded as one of
the most brilliant feats in the University's
football history; Johnny
Sullivan, '23; Merce Brugler, '25;
Austin (Pete) Bleyler, '28, first to
win the Raymond G. Phillips Cup;
Punch Oppenheimer, '23, stellar diagnostician
of enemy plays, likeJohnny
Sullivan an alumnus of the fabled
East High Midgets; the three Hummel
brothers, Frank, '18, the Durable
Dave, '23, who threw blocks ahead
of Bunny Harris, and Mickey, who
came to Rochester during the S. A.
T. C. interval in 1918; Jerry Mc­
Guire, '31, who played two years at
center until Tom Davies made him
into one of the Varsity's greatest
fullbacks; Bert Van Horn, '29, who
led the Varsity in its epic defeat of
Hobart and George Barna in 1928;
Barney Smith, '33; Bob Babcock,
Rochester's only Rhodes Scholar; and
Bill Bruckel, '42.
Doc recalled that when the late
Gordie Wallace wanted to go to
Alaska, he went to San Franciso and
got a job as quartermaster on a coastwise
ship. A quartermaster is sup-
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posed to steer his vessel, and Gordie
had never stood a turn at the wheel;
but he went ahead and steered the big
boat anyway, and with no little assistance
from a kindly fortune
brought it safetly to Alaska and
back again.
While Gordie was still in college
the ROCHESTER EVENING JOURNAL,
then struggling to establish itself in
Rochester, offered a prize-a Ford
car-to the best story sent in daily
by amateur reporters. Gordie and
Chet Kirchmaier, '23, tried to manufacture
their own news story by proceeding
to the Four Corners and
offering to sell dollar bills at 50
cents each-with no takers.
When Doc was coaching baseball
he had the job of making a catcher
out of Johnny Sullivan. Johnny was
green but willing. He knew he was
supposed to throwaway some part
of his equipment when going after a
high foul; and Doc will never forget
the time Sully heaved his mitt to the
ground and kept on his mask while
in pursuit of a high-altitude tip from
the batter's club.
Deke Allen, '24, whose efforts led
to the establishment of the Gordon
Wallace trophy, was another catcher
of Doc's manufacture. Because he
couldn't throw a baseball as far as
Gordie Wallace could throw a football,
he had strict orders, according
to Doc Fauver, never to attempt to
peg to a baseman unless he ran at
least half-way to the receiver before
hurling the ball.
In introducing Dud DeGroot at the
Touchdown Dinner, Toastmaster
Neil Wright, '09, said the Rochester
football coach had been likened to
the Moses who led Rochester football
out of the wilderness, and to
David who selw the Goliath of grid
defeat.
"With all the miracles Dud has performed,
I'm surprised that those who
praise him confine themselves to the
Old Testament," the toasmter continued.
"There's one miracle,though,
that I never want to see Dud perform;
I never want to see him take up his
bed and walk-away from Rochester.
Neil Wright was president of the
Associated Alumni during the great
pre-DeGroot twilight, and alumni
officials in those days were obliged
to equip themselves with carefullyprepared
alibis to explain the weary
succession of football defeats. Victory-famished
alumni used to write
angry letters to the alumni office, and
during the autumns of that epoch,
Neil said, "Chuck Dalton, the alumni
secretary, looked like an undertaker
all fall, and Mrs. Valentine
threatened to leave her husband unless
he worked out some scheme of
winning some football games."
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Military Intelligence
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In 1942 five alumni died in the service of
their country, one is listed as missing, and one
has been wounded seriously in the Southwest
Pacific. THE REVIEW sorrowfully records the
alumni casualty list:
Lieutenant Commander Arthur Edward Loeser,
'23, killed in action, November, 1942; a
graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, in 1927,
he was serving as chief engineer aboard aU. S.
battleship in Southwest Pacific.
Ensign Robert Hopkins Zwierschke, '39, killed
in action when the aircraft carrier Lexington
was sunk in the Coral Sea battle, May 8th,
1942.
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Ensigns Donald T. O'Keefe and Franklin Robert
Parske, both of the Class of 1941, killed in an
airplane crash at Pensacola, Fla., on June 22nd,
1942.
Ensign Marvin E. Lee, B.M. in Public School
Music (awarded posthumously, December
12th), killed in an airplane crash near Moultrie,
Ga., November 19th.
Lieutenant (junior grade) Gordon K. Lambert,
'32, M.D., 1935, of the Navy Medical Corps,
reported missing in Manila Bay area, July,
1942.
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Second Lieut. Harry M. Taillie received his
commission in November. He was assigned to
806th Chemical Co., A.a., Army Air Base,
Hunter Field, Savannah, Ga.
Second Liez/t. Charles F. Wicks received his
commission in October and was married on
October 28th to Miss Imogene Wyllie at the
Deke House on the River Campus. He is with
the Field Artillery Replacement Training
Center at Fort Sill, Okla.
1937
A thoughtful and much appreciated letter
from the parents of Benjamin J. Beach has given
us the following information about his activities.
Serving with the Marine Corps Reserve,
he went as a captain to Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, last February and in August received a
temporary promotion to major. He is apparentlyon
duty somewhere in the Pacific. Mail is
forwarded from his home, 906 Main Street,
East Rochester, N. Y.
Second Lieut. Whztfield]. Benjamin, Ordnance,
128th M. S. & L. Reg't., Pine Camp, N. Y.
Ensign Leonard C. Buyse, U.S.N.R., was commissioned
on November 27 and is at the Princeton
Naval Training School, Princeton, N. J,
for a 60-day training period which began December
11. Address: 451 Elizabeth St., Oneida,
. Y.
Lieut. (j.g.) John H. Craft, Jr., Naval Training
Station, Radar, Harvard, Cambridge,
Mass. He will be stationed there until June 1st.
Second Lieut. Philip F. Fisher is in the synthetic
training group, A.A.F. Navigation
School, Monroe, La.
Lieut. Edwin Hammond, U.S.N.R., U.S.S.
Columbia, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Edward H. Leighton, 3401 A Street, S. E.,
Washington, D. C., is at the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory.
Cpl. Tech. Garson Merimsky, Reg. Headquarters
Battery, 602nd C.A. (A.A.), Flushing,
N. Y.
Lieut. Frederic C. Moll, M. c., CantoQment
Hospital, Mitchell Field, N. Y.
Lieut. Edward Parkin, M. c., A.P.O. 1284,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Ensign Peter Prozeller, A-V(S), U.S.N.R., is
attending the Naval School of Photography,
U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.,
where he expects to be until Mach 1.
Pvt. Edward H. Walworth, B-6, T-1019, Fort
Eustis, Va.
Second Lieut. Gerald Zornow, U. S. Marines,
on duty in Washington, D. C.
1938
Ensign Norman]. Ashenburg, H-V(S), U.S.N.
R., who has been on active duty for almost a
year as laboratory officer at the Training Station
Dispensary in Norfolk, Va,. has recently
changed his address in Norfolk to 630 New
York Avenue.
Lieut. Franklin O. Baer, promoted from second
lieutenant, is now with the Ordnance Officers'
Replacement Pool, Aberdeen Proving Ground,
Md.
Pfc. Robert Cantrick, 26th Army Air Forces
Band, Sheppard Field, Tex.
Ensign Pbiletus M. Chamberlain, Hollis No.1,
Naval Training School, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
Second Lieut. Edwin Douglas Danfelt (Eastman),
U.S.A. Air Corps, is now Special
Services Officer for the 20th Fighter Group,
Paine Field, Everett, Wash.
Pfc. Fred I. Price, 32028148, 201st Q.M.
Platoon, Service Ctr. (Avn.), A.P.O. No. 502,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Ensign Harmon S. Potter, U.S.N.R., was transferred
from Washington to Cleveland in November
under a new assignment as billeting
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officer. His address is: University Club, 3813
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, O.
Lieut. Elbert L. Scrantom, recently promoted,
A.A.T.C., Fort Sheridan, Ill.
Ensign James O. Shetterly, Patrol Wing Ten,
c/o Fleet P.O., San Francisco, Calif.
Lieut. Ross G. Weller, 87th Signal Corps,
Camp McCain, Grenada, Miss.
Cpl. Munro Will, Anti-Tank Co., 151 Inf.
Reg't., A.P.O. 38, Camp Carrabelle, Fla.
Air Cadet Robert H. Kaley, 8397, A.A.F.T.D.
104 Holman Hall, M. 1. T., Cambridge, Mass.
Bob was married on Christmas Day to Miss
Marian Woodside, '39, at Canandaigua.
1939
Pfc. Raymond Bailey (Eastman) has been
transferred from Madison Barracks to Windsor
Locks, Conn., where he is a member of the Air
Corps band there.
Ensign Lorron G. Caryl, U.S. ., is on duty in
the Field Services Section of the Administrative
Division, Bureau of Ordnance. Address:
AD1-Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
Lieut. (j.g.) Frank L. Gliottone, U.S.N.R.,
was in Rochester on furlough for Christmas
and reported afterward to the Submarine Base,
New London, Conn.
Sec. Lieut. John Harttk, Batt. B, 362nd F.A.
Battalion, A.P.O. No. 96, Camp Adair, Ore.
First Sgt. Arthur E. Jones, Jr., 32134322,
Btry. C, 301st C.A. Bar. Bln. Bn., A.P.O., 827,
c/o Postmaster, New Orleans, La.
Pvt. Joseph Kline, U.S.A., 2nd Provisional
Trg. Brn., D.1.R.R.T.C.C., A.P.O. o. 846,
c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Lieut. George Prescott Lane and Joanna Adams
Lane, '40, have a son, Robert Prescott, born at
San Antonio, Tex., October 20. "Prep" has
been advanced to first lieutenant and is at
headquarters as Transportation Officer, San
Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio.
Capt. Leo A. MacSweeney, U. S. Marines,
Headquarters, Amphibian Corps, Pacific Fleet,
Camp Elliott, San Diego, Calif.
Pvt. William L. Madden (A.S.N. 32211993),
45th Signal Co., A.P.O. 45, c/o Postmaster,
New York City.
Lt. (j.g.) Newcomb Prozeller, U. S. Com.
Forces, S.W.P., c/o Fleet P.O., San Francisco,
Calif.
Ensign]. Alden Snell, Jr., U.S.N.R., B.O.Q.,
Rm. 217, U.S.N.R.A.B., Grosse Ile, Mich.
Lieut. Harold Wakefield, -0-1043531, Armed
Service Btry. C, 82nd C.A., A.P.O. No. 836,
New Orleans, La.
Pvt. Gordon K. Wright, Hq. & Hq. Co., 2nd
Eng. Amphib. Brig., Fort Ord, Calif.
1940
Lewis V. Chapman, 340th Q.M. CO. (Depot),
Camp Campbell, Ky.
Aviation Cadet JohnQ. Curtin, U.S.A., recently
completed his pre-flight navigation course at
Selman Field, Monroe, La.
Pfc. James P. Eksten, 32039812, Med. Det.
133rd Inf., A.P.O. No. 34, U. S. Army, New
York, N. Y.
Lieut. Vernon G. Gebbie was promoted in December
from rank of second lieutenant, Camp
Stewart, Ga.
O/C Paul Goverts, Squadron 31, Group F, Air
Forces O.C.S., Miami Beach, Fla.
O/C Frank M. Jenkins, Squadron o. 10,
Group "B," A.C.A.O.C.S., Miami Beach, Fla.
Frank expected to receive his commission as
second lieutenant on December 9. Mailing
address: 13 Vienna St., Rochester, N. Y.
Second Lieut. Milton Karchefsky recently received
his commission from the 4th O.C.S.
Battery, Camp Davis, . C.
Second Lieut. George D. Leighten, Group 4,
A.A.F. Navigation School, Monroe, La., has
been assigned to that post as a classroom
instructor.
Lieut. (j.g.) Albert Mattera, c 0 U.S.S. Cockatoo,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Louis Carl Nosco reported for Naval Aviation
Flight Training at the University of orth
Carolina, Chapel Hill, on October 14.
John O'Brien is also with Naval Aviation
Flight Training, University of North Carolina.
Lieut. Samuel P. Nixon, M. c., Corps of
Engineers, North Atlantic Div., 270 Broadway,
New York City.
Pfc. Theodore Petersen (Eastman), with the
Air Force Band, Bradley Field, Conn., and
Miss Agnes R. Hasbrouck, of Elmira, were
married on October 25th. Mrs. Petersen is a
graduate of Elmira College.
Pvt. Douglas H. Parks, A.S. . 13143204, c/o
Personal Adjutant, Headquarters, Camp Butner,
N. C.
Pfc. Walter C. Paul, U. S. Marines, was one
of 35 Marines who landed at Safi, one of the
points of Allied attack in Africa on November
7th. At the end of the month he was in Rochester
on a 72-hour leave.
Lieut. Robert F. Paviour, 0-724938, 321 Bombardier
Sq., 90th Bombers G.P., A.P.O. 705,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Pvt. Charles C. Perry, A.S. . 11056408, 24th
Base Hq. & A.B. Squad., A.A.F. Advanced
Flying School, Stuttgart, Ark.
Ensign Thomas C. Pryor, U.S.N.R., is in air
ordnance. According to recent information he
was stationed at 801 JB.O.Q. o. 202, Naval
Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., until December
1. Lieut. Lloyd Z. Purvin, Ordnance Dept.,
U.S.A., requests that mail be sent to him c/o
119 Laburnum Crescent, Rochester, N. Y.
A recent letter from Lieut. Jack Corris, '36,
indicated that Bill Souers is now in the Navy
as a Chif Specialist (A) (physical and drill
instructor). We have had no confirmation of
this from Bill.
Second Lieut. Charles J. Stauber, Armored
Force, U.S.A., wrote in October that he was
then stationed at Co. G, 35th Arm'd. Regt.,
A.P.O., 254, Nashville, Tenn.
O/C Norman Wall, recently back from Ireland,
is at Btry. 17, A.A. School, Camp Davis,
N.C.
Second Lieut. John A. Wyckoff, F.A., U.S.A.,
received his commission from O.C.S., Fort Sill.
Now attached to 16th Bn., 5th Trng. Regt.,
F.A.R.C., Fort Bragg, N. C.
Second Lieut. Robert Collett, Baumont General
Hospital, El Paso, Tex,
Second Lieut. Lester A. Peterson, 368th F. A.
Batt., A.P.O. 98, Camp Breckinridge, Ky.
1941
Ensign Alfred Bush, U.S.N.R., 4909 Hampden
Lane, Apt. 201, Bethesda, Md. He was married
on October 21 to Miss Antoinette Weiner, '42.
Pvt. Emerson Chapin, Co. E, 391st Infantry,
A.P.O. 98, Camp Breckinridge, Ky.
Lieut. Charles H. Dawson, Signal Corps,
U.S.A., is officer in charge, Signal Corps Repair
Shop, 1 East Forest Ave., East Point, Ga.
Pvt. Charles H. Miller, Jr., U.S.A., Co. E,
1213th R. c., Fort Niagara, . Y.
Ensign Arthur]. Mirkin, B.O.Q. 662, Rm.
151, U. S. aval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
William M. Reid, Sp.(P) 2/c, has returned to
Rochester with the U. S. Navy Film Processing
Unit, studying at Eastman Kodak and living
on the River Campus.
Pvt. Josiah Sand, Platoon 7, 733 T.S.S.Sp.,
Fort Logan, Colo., is studying at the Air
Forces clerical training school.
Lieztt. Theodore B. Steinhausen, connected with
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ing, for her work is l::oncerned with very important
North Africa.
Nancy Gay Winn is now working for the
British Ministry of War in the Department of
Transportation which handles exports and
lend lease contracts in the Pacific area. Nancy
is living at 1528 Jackson Street, San Francisco,
California.
1940
Her classmates will be happy to learn of the
marriage on October 30 of Eleanor Stewart and
Kenneth H. Bloss at the Rochester Colgate
Divinity Chapel. They will be at home at 190
Village Lane, Rochester.
Ma('Y Sutton Smith writes that she is spending
a few weeks at home, having followed the
army for the last eight months. Her husband,
Thomas W. Smith, has been promoted to
Captain and is now at Morris Field, Charlotte,
North Carolina, where Mary expects to join
him soon.
Helen R. Gordon is now nicely settled in her
new position as Membership Secretary for the
Rochester Museum Association at the new
Rochester Museum.
Mary McCarthy Pickett is now living at 400
East 53rd Street, New York City.
Lorraine O. Smith is now working as an assistant
to Miss Clare Dennison at Strong Memorial
Hospital.
1941
Suzanne Judd Sanney and Donald Roth Good
were married recently in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
On November 28 Katherine Lapham and
Frederick McCrossen were married in Cornhill
Methodist Church in Rochester.
Hyla Jane Hadley is now Mrs. Strieby of
R. D. 0.2, Box 468-D, Indianapolis, Indiana.
The marriageof Esther Cramer and Lieut.(j.g.)
William Abrams, USNR, recently took place.
Lieut. Abrams is an alumnus of Princeton
University and Temple School of Dentistry.
Barbara Greeno Leighton may be reached at 305
South Fifth Street, West Monroe, Louisiana.
Mary Frances White writes that she has done
"some wild moving around since hitting New
York City-managed to work at Macy's on
the Executive Squad for just one short week
before heading off for the real thing-American
Airlines in the Personnel Department. After
almost two months there I still start the day
eagerly, for work (calling it that is a big
misnomer) is really as close to perfect as any
job could be.
"We have almost enough people at the Airport
with American to start up a special
alumnae chapter, for Bonnie Jean Marston, '40,
has been in the personnel department for the
past ten days, Vivienne Manary, '43, came in
about a week ago and started in at the Stewardess
School, and of course Monica Kelly, '41,
and Marion Lee, '41, are both here in the
Reservations Department ... it's getting to
be a U. of R. Annex." Mary Fran is now living
at the Belvedere Apts. 7-D, 37-05 90th Street,
Jackson Heights, Long Island.
1942
Josephine Battaglia is working on securities
in the Lincoln-Alliance Bank.
Jane Beale is a private secretary at Delco in
Rochester.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Herbrand are receiving
congratulations on the birth of Elizabeth
Sherwood Herbrand on November 8, 1942.
Mrs. Herbrand is the former Virginia Biret.
Alice Boyer has a position with the Rochester
Council of Social Agencies.
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Barbara Carpenter is a secretary in the Testing
Department of the University.
Betty Corbett is teaching at Plattsburg, New
York.
Harriet A. Davis was in Rochester on a brief
furlough from Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where
she recently became Lieutenant Davis. "Wig"
said that all recruits in the WAAC's enter as
privates, but that no limit is made to the rank
which one may finally attain. She also believes
that "life in the women's army is much the
same as college dormitory life, but everyone is
much more intensely aware of her responsibilities.
"
Dorothy Mae Deane, M.S., was married to
Henry Harrison in September. They are living
in Cromwell Drive, Rochester_
On September 19th, Geraldine A. Deni was
married to James H. Jenkins of Rochester.
The engagement of Jane Histed to Charles
Davis Oughton has been announced. Mr.
Oughton is a graduate of DePauw University
and received his master's degree from the
University of Michigan.
YOUR
1899
News has come to the University that the
Wyman-Gordon Company, Ingalls-Shephard
Division, of which Samuel H. Havens is vicepresident
and general manager, has been
awarded the Army-Navy "E." Withal Sam
still finds, or rather makes, time to continue
an equally distinguished job as chairman of
the Central Alumni Scholarship Committee.
1907
Herman M. Cohn has been elected president
of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce for
1943 and will take office at the annual dinner
meeting on Monday evening, January 18th.
1911
Thomas H. Remington, member of the Rochester
law firm of Remington & Remington,
was named chief legal adviser for the Rochester
Ordnance District in December. Mr. Remington,
who holds the rank of colonel in the Army
Reserve, will serve as a civilian in his new
appointment.
1913
Swaylze P. Goodenough, vice-president of the
Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Company of
Rochester, has been elected a director of the
Financial Advertisers Association.
1915
Ward O. Griffe1Z, formerly superintendent of
the Curtis Bay Plant of the United States Industrial
Chemicals, Inc., has been appointed
general production manager. He has assumed
the duties of the late Arthur A. Backus, '13,
with headquarters at the company's executive
offices in New York City.
1920
Paul McFarland has a son, Thomas Michael,
who was born on November 4th.
1926
H. Merrell Benninghoff, former second secretary
at the American Embassy in Tokyo, gave
the address at the annual Phi Beta Kappa
lecture of the University in December. His
subject was: "Japan As I Saw It."
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CLASSMATES
College for Men
Margaret L. Kershner recently became engaged
to Stephen Crane Weber, a graduate of
Deerfield Academy and Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University.
Announcement has been made of the engagement
of Helen Jean Lincoln to Harry J. Hart,
also a graduate of the University.
Ruth E. Meyer is working at the Burke Steel
Company as a secretary.
Betty Jane Sharp is now working for the
Ritter Dental Company in Rochester, doing
part time secretarila work and co-ordinating
the company's musical programs. Betty is living
at 2436 Culver Road, Rochester.
Beulah Irene Spencer is engaged to Joseph
LeRoy Myers of Rochester.
Mildred R. Stanbro recently became engaged
to Lieut. Thomas E. Pammenter, U. S. Army,
Hamilton Field, California.
Mary Lou Stroup is teaching in Weedsport,
New York.
Betty Walrath is aiding the war effort by
helping to make maps for the government at
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Ralph C. Yeaw has a son, Scott Cady,
who was born on OctOber 2nd. Dr. Yeaw is
an instructor and does research work at Presbyterian
Hospital, New York City, and practices
medicine at Paterson, ew Jersey.
1931
George W. Coomber, formerly connected with
the Rochester Welfare Department, is now
serving in New Zealand as an assistant field
director of the American Red Cross.
Dr. Andrew J. Giambrone and Miss Alice
Louise Hooper were married in Rochester in
November. Mrs. Giambrone is a graduate of
Mechanics Institute. They are living at 203
Pearl Street, Rochester.
1932
Sam Feldman took an active part in Rochester's
scrap-sorting bee, serving as co-chairman
of the Junior Chamber of Commerce
committee.
1933
William DeCamp is director of civilian protection
of the Livingston County War Council
at Geneseo.
Dr. Anthony Joseph Mitrano, who has been
inducted recently in the Army and whose
address is listed in the "Military Intelligence"
column of this issue, has changed his name to
William James Morgan.
1934
In a Christmas greeting, George H. Alexander
presented the name of new daughter, Phyllis
Jean, born on December 1, as a new candidate
for the class of 1963. George is with the War
Production Board in Washington.
1935
Lee A. Whitney is superintendent ofPetroleum
Chemicals, Inc., located at Box 1637, c/o Continental
Oil Company, Baltimore, Md.
Robert Bunting, who is with the Rochester
Y. M. C. A., has a daughter.
1936
Dr.John G. Broughton, instructOr in geology at
Syracuse University since June, 1940, has been
appointed assistant state geologist of New
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