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Howard A. Stevenson '19 Editor Emeritus July, 1967 VOLUME 70, NUMBER 1 An independent magazine owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Association under the direction of its Publications Committee: Thomas B. Haire '34, chairman; Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey '18, Howard A. Stevenson '19, and John E. Slater Jr. '43. Officers of the Cornell Alumni Association: Charles J. Blanford '35, Scarsdale, N.Y., president; Hunt Bradley '26, Ithaca, N.Y., secretary-treasurer. John Marcham '50, editor; Charles S. Williams '44, managing editor; Mrs. Tommie Bryant and Mrs. Elise Hancock, assistant editors. Editorial and business offices at Alumni House, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850. Issued monthly except August. Subscriptions, $6 a year in U.S. and possessions; foreign, $6.75. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless cancelled. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, N. Y., and at additonal mailing offices. Printed by Hildreth Press, Inc., Bristol, Connecticut. Sixty cents a copy. All publication rights reserved. Member, American Alumni Council and Ivy League Alumni Magazines, 22 Washington Square, North, New York, New York 10011; GRamercy 5-2039. Form 3579 should be sent to Cornell Alumni News, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Cover Architecture freshmen try out toys made from junk on a tough jury— faculty children. Story on page 14. Photo by Sol Goldberg '46, Cornell University. An Evening To Honor Harry Caplan • As a newspaperman new to the alumni business, I approached my first alumni speaking job with real apprehension. What would men thirty-five years out of Cornell want to know from a youngster like me? For the talk itself, I fell back on a journalist's who-what-when-where and some color slides. But before the dinner I was to have lunch with the dinner committee charman, alone, for two hours. What in heaven's name could I use to bridge the twenty-five-year gap in our Cornell ages? Lunch time came and with it the alumnus, an advertising man most of his life, an on learning this I knew I was sunk. The lesson his first question taught me about never judging alumni by their labels has made life much easier since. The question was simply a very warm, "How's Harry Caplan?" For what must have been nearly the full two hours of lunch the alumnus told me what Professor Caplan had meant to him as a student, as a young person, as someone making a life for himself since graduation. Not only did I have a much greater regard for what a university means to its former students, but also very soon came to realize what one particular professor has meant to a legion of Cornellians. The evening they retired Harry Caplan just had to be packed full of everything that goes to make up Cornell. Harry long ago became a romanticized symbol of all that alumni remember they wanted in a university professor—scholar, teacher, personal adviser and confidante. The fact Harry really is all these things is what has allowed him to become a sort of national historical landmark, of the College of Arts & Sciences. Harry Caplan '16, the Goldwin Smith professor of classical languages and literature, was retired formally on June 30. Was retired, because he never would or will retire himself. At age 71 he had already been reappointed to the active faculty several years beyond the automatic retirement age. A dinner in the Statler Ballroom on May 15 was arranged by the Department of Classics to give his friends a chance to take note of the formal aspect of Harry's retirement. Prof. Gordon M. Kirkwood, chairman of classics, explained as master of ceremonies that the department had wanted to have a nice little dinner for Harry's friends to mark the termination of his active teaching career at Cornell. As the department explored just who should be invited, it became apparent Barton Hall would be needed to accomodate them all. "It turns out Harry Caplan has quite a few friends." The 150 or so who attended May 15 was "a considerable contraction" who must serve as "representative friends" of Professor Caplan. The evening consisted of a receiving line, reception, dinner, and "no formal testimonials. You, folks, are the testimonial." However, a classmate, an administrator, a faculty colleague, and a former student did deliver what must be termed non-formal testimonials. Something of the problem of sorting Prof. Caplan, with the inevitable cigarette, speaks to former student Helen North '42 of Swarthmore. —C. Hadley Smith photos Caplan myth from fact was demonstrated in two stories told. One came in a letter from Harry's brother Louis Caplan '21. Louis recalled that a third brother, Sam, was accosted by a farmer on a fence in their home county, rural Rensselaer, in Upstate New York. "Ain't you one of the Caplan boys," the farmer asked. "Why I remember your brother's christening." The fact Harry was assumed to belong to the farmer neighbor's Christian ethos isn't too surprising. Harry is everyone's. His brother also noted that the Albany newspaper columnist C. R. (Tip) Roseberry answered the question, "What is Hoag's Corners known for?" with the answer, "For a rent rebellion July 1967
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