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The Faculty University Trustee H. Edward Babcock has been named by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to represent agriculture on the New York State Committee to Assist Displaced Persons. University Trustee Frank E. Gannett '98, publisher of the Gannett Newspapers, has been elected a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Founded by officers of George Washington's staff in 1783, the Society limits its membership to descendants of the charter members. Gannett represents Lieutenant Silas Goodell. Work of Alumni Trustee Matthew Carey '15 as financial consultant to Dearborn, Mich., especially his preparation of a prospectus for the $1,- 175,000 offering of the city's water supply system revenue bonds, is commended in the September 27 issue of The Investment Dealer's Digest. "This well-prepared prospectus is ample evidence of the thoroughness with which Matthew Carey of Detroit handles bond sale details in advance of the date set for competitive bids," the writer says. Biographical sketch of Alumni Trustee Jacob G. Schurman, Jr. '17, Judge of the Court of General Sessions in New York City, appeared in the October 27 issue of The Harvard Law School Record. Editor for that issue was Alvin Silverman '46, now a law student at Harvard. Provost Cornells W. de Kiewiet spoke on "New Ideas for Old in Foreign Policy," November 26 at the annual convention of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in Atlantic City, N. J. The Washington Monument "will never possess the full dignity it deserves until the entrance is completely redesigned," Dean Gilmore D. Clarke Ί3, Architecture, told the annual meeting of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings in Washington, D. C., November 5. He described plans of the US Commission of Fine Arts, of which he is chairman, and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission for improving the setting, entrance, and interior of the Monument. Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, Agriculture, Emeritus, and director of the Bailey Hortorium, received the bronze Medallion of Honor of the Women's International Exposition for "outstanding achievement and contributions to the field of horticul- 202 ture." Elizabeth Arden, well-known beauty authority who grows flowers as a hobby, made the presentation on behalf of the Exposition and the Society of American Florists in New York City, November 7. Professor Walter B. Carver, Mathematics, Emeritus, has been recalled to teach for this year. Professor Emeritus Benjamin M. Duggar, PhD '98, of the University of Wisconsin, formerly at Cornell, was given recognition by LOOK magazine, November 23, in its feature "LOOK Applauds." "Starting on a new career at seventy-one, he's produced aureomycin, a vital new weapon in the war on disease. This powerful new drug, also known as Duomycin, is made from a fungus or mold. It proved highly effective during recent epidemics of 'Q' fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Dr. Duggar's discovery climaxes five years' work with the Lederle Laboratories. He took up research work there after nearly half a century of teaching. His last post: professor of plant physiology and botany at the University of Wisconsin. ..." Professor E. Franklin Phillips, Entomology, Emeritus, was elected second vice-president of the New York State Association for Crippled Children at its recent conference in New York City. Arthur S. Cotins Ίl, president of Moser & Cotins, Inc., advertising agency, and a member of the ALUMNI NEWS advisory board, was made vice-president. University of Rennes conferred the honorary degree of Docteur Honoris Causa on Professor Morris C. Bishop '14, Romance Literature, during a two-day ceremony at the French institution, November 29-30. The degree was conferred with the endorsement of the French Ministry of Education. Professor Bishop flew to France and back. Professor Halldor Hermannsson (above, left), Scandinavian Language and Literature, Emeritus, retiring curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection, confers with his successor, Kristjan Karlsson. Professor Hermannsson was the original curator of the Collection, which was established and endowed in 1905 through a bequest from the University's first Librarian, Willard Fiske, and has been acting curator since he retired in 1946. The Collection is now the largest library of Icelandic materials in the world, containing some 23,000 items. The new curator is a native of Iceland and a graduate of Akureyri College there. He was formerly with an Icelandic publishing house. Granted a four-year government scholarship to study abroad, he received the AB at the University of California in 1944 and the AM at Columbia in 1946. The United States would do well to watch "more carefully" important constitutional experiments taking place in Europe, Asia, and South America, says Professor Harrop A. Freeman '29, Law, writing in the current Cornell Law Quarterly. "The world is witnessing another important stage in constitutional history" with basic changes in fundamental political documents being dictated by "adjustment to a new order," he wrote. Professor Burton W. Jones, for eighteen years, until July 1, a member of the Department of Mathematics, became professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, this fall. He came here from the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor and was made professor in 1944. Professor Dwight F. Gunder, Mechanics, has been appointed acting head of a new Department of Engineering Materials, coordinating the two former Departments in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. For the present and until the projected Materials and Metallurgy Laboratory is built, the Engineering Materials equipment and teaching remains in the laboratories of the separate Schools. Vegetable Growers Association of America has elected Professor Homer C. Thompson, Vegetable Crops, an honorary member. Professor A. Gordon Danks, PhD '33, Veterinary Surgery, resigned August 1 to become professor and head of the department of veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois college of veterinary medicine, in Urbana. He was appointed instructor in Veterinary Surgery in 1936 after teaching at Kansas State College; became a professor in 1945. For several years, Professor Danks has been editor of The Cornell Veterinarian. Cornell Alumni News
Personal items and newspaper clippings News of the Alumni about CornelUans are earnestly solicited '99, '00 ME—Testimonial dinner and program of tribute, attended by several thousand, were given September 28 in Altoona, Pa., in honor of Frederick G. Grimshaw, manager of the Altoona works of the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1925, who retires December 1. '04 ME—Lloyd B. Jones, engineer of tests at the Altoona, Pa., works of the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1937, retired November 1. '05 LLB—Hale Anderson retired November 1 as vice-president of the Fidelity & Casualty Co. in New York City. His address is RFD 2, North Stonington, Conn. '07 AB—Martin L. Wilson, administrative assistant at James Monroe High School in New York City since 1944, became principal of Christopher Columbus High School in New York this fall. He joined the New York City school system in 1917 as a high school history teacher after being principal of Mauch Chunk, Pa., High School from 1907-12 and then a history teacher at Elmira Free Academy. Wilson received the AM at Columbia; is the author of several history texts and was for many years representative for New York State on the resolutions committee of the National Education Association. '09 CE—The 1948 John M. Diven Award for highest service to the American Water Works Association went to A. Clinton Decker, sanitary engineer with Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., Brown Marx Building, Birmingham, Ala. Decker was chairman of the committee which revised the Association's Manual of Water Quality and Treatment and it- was this service which brought him the award. Illness prevented him from going to the convention in Atlantic City, N. J., last May, but the award was made in absentia and presented to him in Birmingham with ceremonies later. Decker is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a past president of the Birmingham Engineers Club. '09 CE—Arthur W. Engel's son William is director of publicity at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., has a year-old daughter, Jane. Arthur Engel lives at 708 Hill Street, Sewickley, Pa. '10—Friday evening, October 29, a group of thirty 1910 men met for a dinner meeting at the Cornell Club in New York. While the majority of December i, 1948 those present came from the metropolitan New York area, the list also included men from Washington, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, and New Haven. George Dutney was chairman of the New York dinner committee and serving with him were Harold T. Edwards, Bradley Delehanty, and F. H. McCormick, Class secretary. The main purpose of the dinner meeting was to start making plans for the 40th Reunion in June, 1950, and as part of this program it was proposed that 1910 men in other cities organize similar dinner meetings. Following the recommendation of the Class Secretaries' Association, the New York group acted as a nominating committee and selected a slate of Class officers and committees which is to be voted on by the entire Class. A vote of thanks was given George Dutney for his efforts in organizing such a successful and enjoyable meeting. —F.H.McC. Ίl AB — Parchment scroll for achievements in journalism was presented last spring by the Pennsylvania State College department of journalism and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association to William P. Rose, editor and publisher of five weekly newspapers in northwestern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Bulletin carried an article on him in May. Rose's newspapers are in Cambridge Springs, Union City, Girard, Waterford, and Edinboro. Ίl ME; '12 AB—Munroe F. Wagner is a consulting engineer with American Zinc Lead & Smelting Co. in St. Louis. He and Mrs. Warner (Margaret Mandeville) '12 live at 111 Aberdeen Place, Clayton, Mo. '12 BS—James L. Kraker, fruit grower in Beulah, Mich., was awarded early in October the Silver Beaver of the Scenic Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America. '13 ME—Stanley J. Chute is chief engineer of the heat transfer division of The'M. W. Kellogg Co., a subsidiary of Pullman, Inc. He lives at 312 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J. '13 ME—Sterling W. Mudge, supervisor of training for Socony Vacu-. um Oil Co., Inc., 26 Broadway, New York City, conducted a panel discussion on industrial training for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations this summer. '13 ME; '13 AB—J. Byrd Norris of 1120 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, Md., and Carroll H. Hendrickson '13 of 42- 46 North Market Street, Frederick, Md., were lay delegates at the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of Maryland this summer. '14—George H. Barnes helped organize Southeastern Foods, Inc., manufacturers, under the "Donald Duck" label, of mayonnaise and salad dressing and is now chairman of the board and treasurer of the new company. His address is Drawer 350, Andalusia, Ala. '14—Kenyon L. Reynolds, formerly vice-president of the Pacific Gasoline Co. in Los Angeles, CaL, has entered the Benedictine order and is now studying for the priesthood at Westminster Priory. '15 ME(EE)—Ira E. Cole of 15 Columbus Avenue, Montclair, N. J., is engaged in telephone research at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N. J. His daughter Rosemarie entered Keuka College this fall. His other daughter, Catherine, Connecticut College '47, is married to a Brown University man, William R. Peek. His son Frank is in the sixth form at Morristown School. '16 ME—John S. Hoffmire was recently made manager of Sonotone of Binghamton, 905 Press Building, 19 Chenango Street, Binghamton. He was transferred from Pittsfield, Mass. '16 ME—Like Frank Sullivan '14 (See May 15 ALUMNI NEWS, p. 424), John M. Benore is the godfather of the son of a Columbia man. The youngster, whom Benore has robed in a Cornell '68 sweater, is Bruce Bingham, son of Addison B. Bingham, Columbia '25, and the former Jean Buchanan '30. The Binghams live at 50 East Ninetieth Street in New York City, where he is with the Manufacturers Trust Co. and she is with Colliers. Benore heads Huebel Manufacturing Co., Inc., hardware specialties, 103 Monroe Street, Newark 5, N. J. '18, '20 WA—Champ Carry, president of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., possesses an array of custom-made neckties executed in railroad style. Wherever he goes on business, even when attending a meeting of the board of directors in New York, he wears a tie to fit the occasion, always with the railroad touch. '18, '19 ME—From Professor Willard Hubbell of the University of Miami: "Last March my daughter, Rosemary (Mrs. L. V. 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