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Swinging for the Fences:
The 1983 Eastman Philhannonia Tour
ByJeremy Schlosberg
The 109 members of the
Eastman Philharmonia took
baseball star Willie Stargell out
on the road-and they hit one
right out of the ball park.
[ have a dream. . . . The dream is oneof
equality of opportunity. . . . A dream of a
land where mendo not argue that the color of
a man 's skin determinesthe content ofhis
character. . . . A dream of a country where
every man will respect thedignity and worth
of all human personality, and men will dare
to livetogether, as brothers.
Dr . M artin Luth er King, Jr.
@ in M ontgom ery, Alabama (1955)
To th e 218 eyes on stage, the
Eas tman Theatre had never looked as
crowde d .
"They say it 's sold out," one woman
in a heavy fur remarked as she adjusted
to the warmth of the theater and
inched her way down the aisle to her
sea t . Sh e was right. By the day of the
conce rt, tickets for ev ery seat in the
house-3,09 4 of them-had been
taken . And th at night, January 19 ,
1983 , the Eas tman Theat re would be
filled-filled with people th ere to
witness both a conce rt and an Event.
M an y of them had never before been
to the Eas tman Theatre, but they wer e
th ere that ni ght. For th ey had read
abo u t it in the newspaper; they had
heard abo ut it on television . And as the
lO9-piece Eastman Philharm onia
began its adve ntu ro us program of
Ameri can music, most of the m listen ed
atte n tive ly, poli tely , patiently-but
they had only on e qu estion in their
minds: Would the big man hit a home
run or would he strike out?
Anyone who had been following th e
intriguing story of how Willie Stargell ,
th e six-foot-three former Pittsburgh
Pirates star, had ende d up, in white tie
and tails, on sta ge at th e Eastman th at
night already kn ew what the answer
would be . Will ie wouldn't stri ke out.
Ne ithe r would he hit j ust a sim ple

home run. Willi e would go farther.
Willie would hit a grand slam .
From the beginning , the Eastman
Philharmonia' s five-night, five- city
tou r was special. T he Phil harmonia
-the Ea stman School of Music's
premier student orches tra- was
to play in some of the nation 's most
prestig ious concert halls. The program
of music it wa s to play-featuring N ew
Morningfo r the W orld ( a. . . Daybreak
ofFreedom . . . 'j, a new work by
Pulitzer Prize-winning compose r
J oseph Schw antner and based on the
wri tin gs of Dr. M artin Luther King,
Jr.-was designed to ca pt u re the attention
of the entire count ry .
" Realistically," T ed DeDee comme
nted later, "we kn ew it was going to
have a nati on al impact , quite a bit of
one ." De Dee is the manager of
Eastman conce rts. Since 1978, his job
h as been to organize all Eastm an performan
ces. Never before , however,
had he worked on a proj ect like thi s.
No one had .
Not even Robert Freem an, director
of the Eastman Sch ool, and mastermind
of the 1983 Philharmonia tour.
Freem an is a personabl e man with ingratiating
enth usiasm , a man devoted
to music, humanity, R ochester, and
baseball-not necessaril y in th at orde r.
T he story he tells begins in the spring
of 1979, whenJoseph Schwantner, a
professor of composition at Eastman ,
was awarded the Pulitzer Pri ze for his
Aftertones ojInfinity.
Freem an now jumps ah ead a few
months to a seemingly unrelat ed
event-the 1979 World Seri es. "The
Pirat es were down three games to one
and ca me bac k to win th e Series fou r to
three," Free man recalls. " Stargell was
nearin g the end of his ca reer and was
the sta r of the Series. It was theatrical
and wonder ful. But wh at was particularly
wonderful was that TV ga ve
him a chance to air his views-his interest
in the you nge r players , his pride ,
his conce rn for th e problems of black
peopl e . That impressed me. "
An idea began to per colate in
Freeman ' s mind. " I could immediately
see th e possibility of reach ing a
much broad er conce rt audience
through Willie 's charm and
charisma ."
Add to this scenario Freem an's dee p
adm iration for the wo rk of Marti n
Luther King, and wat ch a light bulb
appear prominently above the
Eastman School director's head. H e
C on gr atulations: Eastman School director Robert F re eman , th e man who put it all in motion, and
Willie Sta r gell , the man who turned it into a grand sla m.
approache d Joseph Sch wantner .
" I sa id, 'W hy don 't you write a
sym pho n ic pie ce for orchestra usin g
the wo rds of M artin Luther King as
text and Willie Stargell as narrat or? ' "
T he idea was nothing if not interesting
to the composer. The subjec t
ma tter exc ited him. "To a ch ild of the
'60s such as I was," Schwantner
declares, " K ing was an important
figure. H is ideas were ones I sha red ."
Schwantners he sitation conce rne d
the othe r guy . " I didn't kn ow who
Willie Stargell was," he ad mits . "My
son, Christophe r, wh o 's thirteen , said ,
'Dad , don 't you know ? H e 's M r. Pittsbu
rgh !' I th ink it was largely becau se
of Ch risto phe r's enthusias m th at I
decid ed to pursue it. "
Freem an pick s up th e story . " I got
out of Rush Rhees Library all of the
writings of King that had eve r be en
published . I gave them all to
Schwantner and had him read them
and pick ou t the texts he liked ." In the
mean tim e , Freeman met with Stargell ,
wh ose int erest in the p roject wa s im ­
mediate. " I d idn't have to be persuaded
to do this, " Stargell would later
say . "I acce pted the opportunity
gratefully."
"T here's no qu estion I was exploiting
Willie ' s cele brity as a baseball
pla yer for the future strength of
music," Freem an readily adm its. "But
I 'm too mu ch of a music lover to do
some th ing that' s not in its best interest.
"
Su ch a statemen t is mad e in true
Eastm an Scho ol sp irit. George
Eastman himself founded the school in
1921 with a devout belief in the
necessity of introducin g serio us music
to th e mass public. " I have come to see
that we need a bod y of trai ne d listeners
quite as much as a bod y of trained perform
ers, " Ea stman told the New York
Times back in 1922 . " W itho ut appreciati
on, without the presen ce ofa
large bod y of people wh o under stand
and who get jo y out of it, any attempt
to develop the musical resou rces of a
city is doom ed to failure ."
Thanks to a gra nt from th e
Ame rica n T elephon e and T elegraph
Co mpany, Schwantner ' s work was
co m m issione d- along with a work to
be en title d An Eastman Overture, by
George W alk er, a leading contem ­
porary American com po ser and an
Eastm an School graduate (1956).
Althou gh Schwantner ' s man y
commitme n ts would delay the writing
of his piece until 1982, planning for the
debut tour be gan immedi at ely .
"Robert Freeman's idea was to have
the Ph ilharmonia play in major halls in
each of the cities chosen," says T ed
DeDee . T he tour was to happen in
earl y 1983; it became obv ious th at the
time and place to start would be right
on M artin Luther King D ay, right in
the n ation's capital. There was only
one problem.
"Tentati ve a rr angeme nts had
alread y been made to rent th e K en ­
n ed y Center to some bo dy else on

J anuary 15,1983," DeDee recalls.
O nce he explaine d the nature of the
Eastman project , however , the Kennedy
Center ag reed to change its
plan s. The tour was even tually arrange
d as follows: Washin gton,
Jan uary 15; the Academ y ofMusic in
Phil ad elphia, January 16; Carnegie
H all ,January 17; Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh,
J anuary 18; and th en home to
the Eastman Theatre onJanuary 19 .
T o help arrange the special eve nt s
that would surround the tour, as well
as to help publicize it, a speci al " tas k
force " ofEas tman School and U n iversity
admin istrators was asse mbled by
Roger Lath an , vice president for
U n iversity relation s. "T h is became
mu ch more of a University-wide project
than the usual Eas tman tou r ten ds
to be," acknowledges Eastman's
public relations director Robert Krau s.
"The decision was made at the ou tset
to try to make th e tou r spec ial in a way
that previous tours have not been ."
The maj or private underw ritin g for
this grand, and costly, tou r would
come from the Ri ch ard U. an d Elaine
P . Wilson Foundation, ofR ochester .
The perfo rm ances in each of th e five
cit ies were spo nso red by C IT IBA NK/
C ITICOR P .
Important support of a different
kind ca me fro m the Urban Lea gue in
each ofthe tour cities, which assi sted in
see king out and attracting minority
aud iences. WilliamJ ohnson , of the
Rochester Urban Leagu e, was helpful
in thi s en terp rise, providing Eastman
offic ials with Leagu e con tac ts in th e
othe r cities. T he Co n gress ional Black
Caucus Founda tion furthered th e project,
Lathan says, through its invaluable
assista nce both in
W ashington and in New York.
Peo ple who wouldn't ne ed to be
sought ou t and brought to the con cert
halls were the media folks. "T he y
came ou t of the woodwork to cover
th is," says Rob ert Kraus, who had th e
formidable jo b of coordinating medi a
coverage. " It became a 'big event.'
T his was partially due to the timing
with M artin Luther K ing Day, but
mostly du e to the presen ce ofon e man:
Willie Sta rge ll."
" Ifyou took a poll ofall 650 majorleagu
e players, " San Francisco G ia nts
Co n ference: Cond uc tor Da vid Effron a n d co m poser J oseph Sch wan tner discuss a fi ne poi nt in the
p er forman ce of Sch wan tn er' s New M orning for th e W orld during one of th e endless reh ea r sals that
preced ed th e performances in eac h of th e five tour ci ties.
second baseman J oe M organ has said
of Willie , "there wouldn't be a guy
who didn' t like him . H e is car ing and
understanding both as a play er and as
a friend ."
" I've seen W illie sta nd out there at
the batting cage," reports Pirates
sho rtstop Dale Berra , "and offer tips to
guys on the other teams. H e just wants
to help mak e everyone a be tter
player. "
R aised near Oakland, California ,
Sta rge ll began playin g pro ball in
1959. In those days, blatant racism still
abounded , particularl y in the minor
leagu es. His white teammates went to
one set of hotels, restaura nts, and
bathrooms. W illie had to use separa te
ones.
"The re were nights when I cried
my self to slee p, " he says. " It wa s like
Go d say ing, ' I want to kn ow if you
really wan t to be a ballpl ay er.' "
R ather than turn bitter, Willie turned
to th e cause ofth e underdog. In th e
process, he learned a great deal from
the teachings of M artin Luther King.
" He had co mpassion for any kind of
su fferin g. When you have th at compassion
for othe r peopl e , you become
color blind."
W hile his lon gtime dedicati on to Dr.
K ing's ideals initially ins pired Willi e to
join the Eastman project , h is lack of
background in classical music would
quickly give him cause to doubt
himself. H e recreates an early scen e:
"The fir st tim e I went to rehearse
with the orchestra , I walked in from
th e front of the hall . And when I saw
that huge hall and heard that highcal
ibe r orche stra , I thought: 'What am
I doing here? How did I allow myself
to get into this?' I was a frightened
man. "
Starge ll wa s not the onl y one with
some momentary willies, so to speak.
Compose r J oe Schwan tne r likewise felt
a tw inge or two of uncertainty. After
he had read all ofKing ' s wr itin gs and
cho sen the words he would use , one
thou ght played prominently in his
mind . " I wondered," he confesses, "if
I could pull itoff."
H is worries, however, soo n
retreated. " As I began work on it , I
became more and more en thusiastic,
and the pie ce turned out the way I
wanted it-a celebratio n of M arti n
Luther King. "
It was also, in a way, a celebra tion of
Willie Stargell, sin ce Schwantner
shaped his piece to fit th e man whose
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The first people to hear the piece,
then , were the stude nts . What did they
think of it?
" Peo ple wer e cry ing the first time
we heard the work ," says viol ini st
Melanie Dexter '8 4.
"The pie ce is totally unlike any th in g
else," re marks C hris Norton '83. a
timpanist. "It's a th rill to play."
"T here 's a part in the middle with
th e percuss ion and the strings . . .,"
begin s violist Nan cy Holland '83 . She
sto ps, and shudde rs. " I can't really
descr ibe it. But I wish I could be sitting
out the re and listening to it. "
The orchestra rehearsed alone at
first; Stargell joined them in ea rly
December. M ost stude n ts were cur ious
a bou t Will ie ; some were init iall y ske ptical.
" I though t this wa s just a promotional
hype," admits cellist M ark
Stewart '8 4. " 1 thought it wasjust a
way of drawing cro wds . But he won us
ove r at the first rehea rsal. "
What Stargell did at his first rehearsal
was sim ple , but effect ively ca st
as ide all doubts. " He came ove r to
me ," recall s David Effron, "and asked
m e for my bato n." Willie too k the
baton and waved it knowingly at the
orchestra. T he stu de nts, as if on cu e,
broke loudly in to the wron g piece
-Beethoven ' s Fifth . Willie laughed.
The ice was brok en.
Still, Stargell would not have won
the stude nts' hearts had he not, first
and foremost, been thor oughly
de dica ted to the task at hand .
" I ' m not afraid of it, l'mjust ex ­
cited ," Stargell said a t the tim e . "I'm
ex pecting a lot of myself and I'm working
extrem ely hard at it. " Alone in hi s
hotel roo m eac h night afte r a rehearsal ,
St argell would review and critique a
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tape of his performance th at day.
A good part of Willie's pr ep aration
included sessio ns with Ben Sh ak tm an,
founder and former director of the
Pittsburgh Public T hea tre, wh o was
acting as text director. " He's a wonderful,
natural performer," Shaktman
quickly discovered , " an d h e is ver y
serious abo ut learning something of
the cra ft needed in performing the
spoken word.
"The challenge ca nnot be understated.
After all , this is a conce rto written
for the spo ken voic e. Stargell is
really the solo ins tru men t. This is a
task th at wou ld challenge a n experienced
actor. "
Stargell wa s comm itted from the
outset to interpret the text in th is own
way. "I ha ve mad e it a point, " he said
during the reh earsals, " not to listen to
King's speeches. I don 't wan t him in
the back of my mind . I don 't wan t to
try to duplicate him . I want to be able
to do his readings, but to do them my
way and in a way that complem ents
what he wa s all abou t. "
After five December reh earsals
together , Stargell and the orchestra
were int errupted by Christmas break.
By thi s time , they wer e getting along
like old friends. When ever yon e
returned to the stage on January 10,
th ere wa s only one more R ochester
rehearsal to go befor e the W ashington
debut. " It was go ing to be," as Robert
Kraus put it, "a frantically bu sy
week. "
Composer Schwan tner watched the
week's reh earsals from a seat in th e
middle of the house, holding on hi s lap
a large brown fold er conta in ing the
score- h is score. Ben Sh aktman stood
in various places, all th e whil e
scru tin izing Stargell's every utter an ce.
Alternately sitting on a stoo l and
stand ing , David Effron conducted the
young mu sicians, talking and coaching
along the way.
At one point, th e conductor, afte r
addressing his orchestra , turned away
from the stage and ask ed out loud:
" C an you hear eve ryth in g you want to
hear, Joe?"
Schwantner, in respon se , sugges ted
a couple ofminor alte ra tions . T he
rehearsal cont in ued.
Many composers, to be sure , do not
get the op portunity to watch their work
come to life under the kn owing hand of
a good friend . Schw antner and Effron,
6
however , are getting used to it; they
hav e collabo rated before . Schwantner
prefers this arrangem ent in gen era l. " I
like to write for peopl e I ca n rely
on - who will do th e righ t thing for my
music. . "
Effron enjoys working with
Schw an tn er as well , bu t declines to
gen er alize on the su bject of working
with co mposers he kn ows. " I didn't
kn ow Beeth oven ," he reflects, " b u t I
still feel really special conducting
Beethoven ." More im portant, he
stresses, th an merely kn owing
Schw antner is liking him a nd liking his
necessary for ca rting around a
109-piece orchest ra performing in fiv e
cities in five nights were checked and
double-ch ecked . There wo uld be three
bu ses for the studen ts, and one fortyfoot
truck for the instru ments. H otel
accom modations in each city were all
set, as were arra ngement s fo r the
alu mn i reception s that were to be
given in eac h city after th e conce rt.
Ab ou t the only detail of the logistics
th at could not be tak en care of in advance
was the weather ..Ianuary is not
u sually th e easiest month in whi ch to
tr avel around the Northeast in gene ral
Sta rgcll and stu d en ts: " T h is has been more th an a n a ssign m en t to me," W ill ie Stargell sai d when
it was all over. "The stu de nts tell me how much they've enjoyed working with me. Wbat th ey
do n 't kn ow ," he added , "is ho w I've com e to enjoy and care about them ."
music-the latter being " the crux of
the matter."
As Effron worked the Philharmonia
thi s fin al week, he emphasized the importan
ce of loosen ess a nd spo n ta ne ity .
" Let's please look up," he adm
oni shed . " You' re buried in th e
music over there."
" In spite of the rh ythm," he in ­
stru cted , "play with abando n ."
" Freedom !" he blurted . " We can 't
be hung up on every littl e note . That's
not the point ofthis piece ."
" L isten to it! " he exho rte d. " P retend
you're sitting in the balcony.
Listen to it. . . .",
As the orchestra geared up for th e
b ig trip, all the a rrangeme n ts
and around upstate New York spec ifically.
T ed DeDee , who has arran ged
many a tour an d knows of all th e little
things that can go wro ng , was worried
mo st abo ut th e wea ther.
" We looked in to the possibility of
gett in g ca nce llation insu rance . But we
found th at the cost of the insuran ce was
barely less th an the cost of pu tting on a
whole performan ce." They d idn 't buy
any .
T he be st insuran ce the tou r could
h ave had might well have been a little
paperweight that De Dee bou ght in
Washington and kept on his desk for
the last two months before the tour. It
was one of th ose globes with littl e

snowflakes inside th at fall on the
Capitol wh en you shake it. " I equated
it with garlic for vampires-somethi ng
to ward off evil. Whether it worked or
not, we'll never kn ow. But it didn 't
snow ."
At long last , it was tim e to ro ll.
DeDee wat ch ed as th e Philharmonia
piled itself int o the bu ses th at stoo d
waiting on Gibbs Street. It was Friday
morning, J anua ry 14.
" H av e a goo d trip , don 't party too
much , and ge t a good night' s sleep,"
were DeDee' s words of wisdom. H e
casually strolled back int o the school's
main hall a nd saw, sitting th er e , a su itca
se belonging to one of the dep a rting
orchest ra member s. DeDee got it to
the right bus before it left.
From then on, th e tour proceed ed
without a hitch . " It's th e fir st situation
I ' ve ever been in wh ere eve rything
worked exactly as we expected it to ,"
says DeDee . "There weren't any
eme rge nc ies or unusual problems."
U nIess, that is, you count a minor traffic
violation incurred the day the
troops headed down that grueling
stre tch of highway from New York to
Pittsburgh: "T hat was th e day on e of
the bus driver s who was lagging behind
decided he would try to ca tch up . He
got a speeding ticket. "
It seem s appropria te th at no logistical
snags deflected atte n tion from the
music and th e performances. The entire
pro gram wa s exhi la ra ting,
Schwa nt ne r's drama tic, swirli ng work
sparkled, and Stargell's strong, deep
voice richl y compleme nted th e music.
New Momingfor the World was prais ed
in every city wh ere it wa s pla yed . The
Eastman Philharmonia was highly
com me nde d . Willie Sta rge ll, a man
who said he was un comfortabl e in a
tuxedo, was practically deified .
The Washington Post wrot e that
Starge ll spo ke " with q uiet dignity and
a n im posing presen ce-with su pe rb
p ace, expert ph rasin g, and carefu lly
calcula ted em phasis."
" H is diction was clear, his manner
one ofdeep convictio n and co mm itment,"
decreed Th e New York T imes
two days late r. Even Th e New Yorker,
whi ch had some reservations abo u t
othe r parts of the p rogr am, found
Sta rge ll's recital "m agni fice nt." The
cri tics in Pittsburgh heape d still more
prais e up on their tow n 's hero.
In Washington , the Post declared th e
Philharmonia to be possessed of "t he
power a nd precision of a profe ssional
ense m ble." The T imes ca lled th e orches
tra "abso lu tely first-class. "
Schwa ntne r's piece was well received
critically, with only a couple of
exceptio ns, one of them th e revi ewer
fro m th e Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who
found it a " d isappo in tme nt . . . designed
obv iously for a mass audience."
Considering th e nature a nd purpose of
the pro gram , how ever, Schwantner
hi m self wo uld be th e first to plead
gu ilty to th e " crime " of accessib ility .
" A simpler kind of music see me d right
for thi s proj ect especially ," h e had said
ini tially. " Robe rt Freeman's ide a for
th e piece was to expand the concert audience,
to try to bring people to the
conce rt hall who mi ght not o the rwise
go."
T ho ugh critica l acce ptance is always
ni ce, audien ce fav or a nd enthusiasm
was fa r a nd away the tru e goal of th is
tour-as well as the reason for its
greatest triu mph s. Roger Lathan was
at four of th e performan ces. H e
remember s "t he great involvem en t of
the aud ience with the pi ece" a nd " the
warm feelings that flowed th ro ugho ut
th e hall s an d the recep tion s. Everyone
h ad th e same feelin g a bo ut th e
Schw antner piece-that thi s was a
great work ."
" T his was one o f the most fant astic
eve nings my wife a nd I hav e ever ex ­
perien ced ," declared R epresentati ve
Carl Stokes, a D emocrat fro m C leveland
and a member of the Congressional
Black Caucus . " Willie was fantastic.
A real sta r ."
" I th ou ght it was great," exclaime d
Pirates pitching starJim Bibby . " It
gave yo u a different per sp ective on
Willie-but it wa s still very much
Willie Stargell, his back ground and his
intelligence ."
University alumni were, perhaps,
even more excited. "All of th e alum n i I
spoke with," reports associate director
ofalumni relationsJohn Braund '53 ,
who traveled with the Philharmoni a ,
" were uniformly thrilled with the concert.
What's more, in each city-and
th ey said this quite independently of
each other-alumni remarked th at this
wa s the first tim e the y'd seen blacks
and whites together in th ese halls."
What more could R ob ert Freeman
h ave wanted? Aft er th e tour was over,
th e Eastman School held a dinner for
Sta rgell a nd th e orches tra. Free ma n
was visibly overw helmed by the emo ­
tions inh erent in singular accomp lish ­
ment and fulfillmen t. It was a triumphant
ni ght, capp ing a sensa tional
tou r. " Here he was, " says N an cy
Holland, th e violi st, "this man with an
idea-and it worked out more wond
erfully than he probably could hav e
imagined ."
For Willie Stargell , it was a once -ina-lifetim
e expe rie nce. " I surprised
myself," he sa id . "Thisbiglug cannot
only swing a bat but he can also stand
up and chime in with beautiful music
and say something with a direct
meaning.
" It' s probably th e fine st thing I 've
eve r done in my life ."
On Friday the 2 1st-a mer e week
afte r the or chestra h ad load ed its instruments
an d its anticipation and
headed for W ashington-the tour' s
last officia l piece of busin ess took
place . Willie and the gang wer e back
on stage in th e Eastman Theatre , th ere
to record th e Schw antner a nd W alk er
pieces for a major record label. As the
stage was bein g readied, Eastm an
stage man ager Merritt E . Torrey,Jr.
look ed a t Stargell a nd put int o words
what everyo ne th ere was assuredl y
thinking. " Gee," he sighed, "isn't
th ere a wa y we can keep this guy her e
forever? "
U'hen he isn't writing about college students,
J eremy Schlosbergedits a biweekly newspaper
aimedat upstate N ew York undergraduates.

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backed by an impressive
buildup in mater iel. Here is the
computer illiterati's guide to
some ofthe action .
Computers. So me humans hail
them as mechan ized messiah s. Others
watch th eir steady adva nce into home
and workplace with di strust and
resentment. Eit her wa y, there the y
are, a fact o f life.
It is already evident th at a certa in
B
conve rsance with com puters will be
ne cessary, not just for co mp uterscien
ce major s, but for airy college
graduate-if only for self-protection.
So wh at is a university to do?
Some schools, like Dartmouth, require
co mput e r literacy before a student
can graduate. Some, like Harvard,
hav e included co mpu ting in their
core cu rriculu m , substituting it for
other requirements. And then there
are th e sch ools like Clarkson, Carnegie
-M ellon , Drexel, and R ochester In ­
stitute of T echnology th a t have announced
plan s to require all freshmen
to buy th eir own per son al machines.
R ochest er takes a some wha t different
a ppro ach . " W e prefer to giv e
our stude nts the ab ility to use com -
H
E
S
T
E
puters as each of them ne eds to-offe ring
the m a 'custo m fit , ' so to speak , in
the level of comp u ting power required
within their individ ual dis ciplin es, "
says David Sto neh ill, vice p ro vost for
co m pu ting . " I don't like to refer to it
in terms of 'compu ter literacy,' wh ich
ca n be pretty vagu e . That's a designation
th at ca n refer to knowing a computing
langu age , understanding th e
hardware, or just bein g able to sit
down a t a terminal a nd send a message.
What we're aiming a t for our
stude n ts is ex pos u re to the kind s ofenvironmen
ts they a re likely to fin d after
they gra duate . "
At Roche ste r, the enviro nments in to
whi ch co m pu ters ha ve be en poki ng
th eir' te rmi nals hav e become inc reasingly
va ried in recent yea rs.
No longer do th e wired behemo th s
snooze only in th e air-conditioned
isolation of the Computin g C enter,
cru nch ing ca lcul a tions for th e ha rd
sciences. T erminals sta tio ned all over
the University tie their use rs in to
libraries and in form ation netw orks na­
100 Data, Gr a duate Scho o l
of Education a n d Human
Deve l opment: Ha s o wn APPLE
microcomp ut e r lab ; of fe r s
courses in teach i ng with
computers, c omp ut er
literacy (f o r t e a c hers and
other adults), admini s ­
trative and r e s e arch appl i ­
cations of com p ut e rs; s po n ­
sors computer c a mp f o r k i ds .
tionwide , whil e self-con tai ned mi crocom
pu ters cro p up in eng ineerin g and
scien ce labs, med ical resea rch
faciliti es , a nd faculty offices.
What, for in sta nce , do fre sh man
co mpositio n , ca lculus, geo me tric
modeling, ca nce r trea tme nt , ric-ractoe
, Very Large Scale In tegrat ion,
music composition , medical diagnosis,

industrial qualit y control, CA DI
CAM , and mu sicology have in common?
You guessed it. Our littl e (and
getting littler ) binary buddies .
T hese days the Comput ing Center,
where lights burn and termin als glow
sixteen hours a day, is one of the
bu siest spots on campus . Bruce V an
Atta, its director, notes that instructor s
and stude nts in more th an 200 cou rses
use some part of th e Computing
Center reso urces in some wa y. " And
that's not counting their ow n syste ms
or tie-ins to externa l computers," h e
adds.
An d the re 's more to come . T he recen
t report of the "Intermedi ate
R an ge Pla nning Task Force for Unive
rsity Comput ing Services" defined
six major a reas to be emphas ized in
planned expan sion . T hese incl ude
ha rd wa re enhance me nt (buy ing new
machi nes, bi g and small), improvement
ofcomm un ica tio ns bet ween the
existing facilities (ins talling a data
switch and add ing more term inals),
an d working to int egrat e com pu ting
more fully in to the u nd er graduateand
graduate-cu rriculu m (ne w tech ­
niques and softwa re) .
So far, Rochester's com plete d shopping
list for add itions to Computing
C enter resources available to all
stude n ts and faculty includes two big
new time-sharing machines-a VAX
11/78 0 a nd a DEC -2060 ; six ty new term
inals; expans ion of its collect ion of
micros with th e addition of fifteen
APPLE II s and twenty IBM per son al
compute rs; and th e newly in stalled
data switch that perm its any keyboard
around th e U niversity to talk to almost
any compu ter it wa nts to .
110 Data, Graduate School
of Management: Brand new
Hewlett-Packard 3000 Series
64, three times previous
capacity, can now sustain
100 concurrent interactive
users·
"One big advantage at R och ester,"
Stonehill rep ort s, " is the variety of
hardware available: ou r five large
compu ters, more than a score of megam
in i co m pu ters, at least a hundred
m in is, and well over that number of
m icros. From micr o to mainframe, our
goal is to ge t students ex posed to th is
diversity .
" W ith th e facilities we hav e now ,
a ny stude nt wh o wa nts to get to a
keyb oard ca n do so . T he micros, for
ins ta nce, are availa ble sixtee n hours a
day, seve n days a week . Some stu ­
d en ts, of course , want to h ave th eir
own machines, and we 've worked it
o ut to make it as easy as possible for
the m (a nd facul ty too ofcou rse) to acqu
ire personal com puters at a twe nty
to thirty percent dis count."
120 Data, Medical Center:
DEC-10 mainframe interactive
facility; small computers
in specific labs.
Two examples: Ultrasonic
display of pregnant
no t har t s abdomen digitized
:0 diagnos e growth retardation
in utero; VAX 780
to digitize display of cancerous
organs and simulate
alternative radiation
treatments. Eastern Cooperative
Oncology Group
(E.C.O.G.) links Cancer
Center with >25 other inst
i tut ions to share treatment
resul t s . Innumerable
research appl icat ions of
small c o mput e r s in
laboratories.
So mu ch of th e research at the
M edical Cente r uses com puters that it
mi ght be easier to list wh ere th e
m achines are N O T in u se , rathe r than
where they are. " Everywhe re yo u tu rn
a co rne r over there ," remarks co m ­
puter- science professor Christopher
M. Bro wn, "you'll find a research
progra m usin g co mputers ."
In the Perinatal C omputing Facility ,
for exam ple , Vasant Sain i an d D .
M aulik a re pion eering research in
ult rasonic measu re me n t ofblood flow
in the umbilica l co rd. They us e th e
dat a to d etect the effects of clin ica l
trea tme nts on th e transfer of nu trients
and oxy gen across th e cord . Paul
Schloerb (to cite anothe r example) is
com puterizing th e Nutritional Support
Service, to th e ben efit of pat ien ts who
a re fed intravenously . From complete
data on the pa tien t 's diagnosis, height,
wei ght, and other vital statistics, the
com puter calc ulates ene rgy needs, and
th e amoun t and kind of nutrition
ca lled for.
But the eyes of the new s media-if
no t those of the general pu blic th us
" me d iated"- focus on computers in
ed ucation these days. So let' s turn our
atte n tion to wha t the Rochester undergra
d uate ca n look forw ard to.
For one th ing, the U n ivers ity plans
th is fall to introd uce two new un dergraduate
degrees (B .A. a nd B.S.) in
co mputer sciences, offe re d throu gh the
Dep artmen t of M a thematics. T he
new degrees will broaden the existing
range ofcompu ter concen tratio ns th at
have been av ail able for some time
through programs in eng ineering,
manageme n t, an d ed ucation, as well as
in math .
Teachers see a vast poten tial for the
co mputer within th e libe ral arts curriculum.
" Computing, as a formal
discipline , has substantial intellectu al
a nd aesthetic content," notes Willia m
Arcu ri, who holds the title of U n iversity
co mp uting fellow. "Computer
literacy conno tes mi ni mal com pe tence
in a progra m mi ng langu age, bu t compu
ting concer ns muc h m or e than
merely th e syn ta x a nd sema ntics of
langu age . It enco mpasses an appreciation
of the power as well as th e lim its of
symbolic processes. " M an y faculty
members are beginnin g to share Arcuri's
en th us ias m fo r co m puting as
" a n in tellec tually worthy to pic of
study."
130 Data, undergraduate
course' 'Computer Arts and
Intellectics," F. William
Arcuri (instructor); students
program game strategies
for computer, engage
in computer' 'tournaments'
': Programs play each
other to decide best program·
"Computer Arts' '=
art of computational technique
and its relationship
to problem solving, "Intellectics"
=" Athletics
of the Mind," computer as
critic of students' problem-solving
strategies.
An easy d istinc tion is that be twee n
hardware (that whi ch lies beh ind the
gla ss pane ls, in the midst of mazes of
wires and Ligh t-Emitting D iodes), a nd
software (the an im ating force with in the
hardware-the plan th a t contro ls the
manipula tion of in pu t). So let' s look at
hardware first.
The central po rt ion of Taylor H all,
the Comput ing C en ter' s Ri ver Cam­
9

pus facility, houses the brand new
DEC-2060 and the VAX 111780 megamini.
There are also three terminal
rooms linked to an IBM 3032 two
blocks away at the Towne House facility
and to the DEC-10 mainframe at the
Medical Center.
T o house all its new micros, the
Computing Center expanded last fall
in to two new spaces: a large area next
to Rush Rhees Library's Reserve
Reading Room and an added facility
for engineering students in the
140 Data, Laboratory for
Laser Energetics CCo Ll e qe
of Engineering and Applied
Science): (VBER 175, "Number-(runcher"
(5-10
million instructions per
second), simulates laser
implosions, records detai
led images (one image=
2400 f t . of magtape), models
stars for Dept. of Phys ics
and Astronomy.
Hopeman Engineering Building. In
addition to the customary number of
users from the center's many minicourses
(more than a dozen each
semester) and from the four credited
introductory courses in computing, the
Co mputing Center anticipates a growing
number of students from other
courses whose professors have
designed homework for them as CAl
(Computer-Assisted Instruction).
Students in freshman calculus, for
instance, do homework on Computing
Center micros. Professors Arnold
Pizer, Richard Mosak, and Richard
Mandelbaum began using PETs in
their classes back in 1981. "We started
with an experimen tal class in differentia
l equations," says Pizer. "Dr.
Mosak developed software that allows
stude n ts to go in a nd solve the equation
s and then see the results graphed
on the screen . This computer lab is offered
as a on e-credit addition to the
regula r course."
As students graph their problems,
they m ay vary certain values, says
P izer, just to see how the curve will
change. "The idea is to give students
the feel of interac tin g with mathema
tics-in a way, to treat it as an experimental
science." Mandelbaum
re ceived an assist on software for the
ca lculus lab from T ony Arcuri, F.
10
Micro-user: Users come in all sizes and ages. This one is enrolled in the summer Computer Camp
run by the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
William's son, currently ajunior at
Rochester.
The device that places the power of
Rochester's computing system at a student's
fing ertips is the new data communication
switch, installed by the
Computing Center in 1982 . "Communication
is the key to computing
power," says Computing Center director
Bruce Van Atta. "With the data
switch-as long as you have the proper
account number and access code-you
can turn on any terminal anywhere on
campus and tie in to whatever machine
you need to do [he job. "
" W e plan to set up some micros as
'intelligent terminals' as well." In this
case, students will use the micro's
handy "stand-alone" qualities but will
have available also a mainframe's
capacious memory and disk storage
150 Data, library automation:
card catalog converting
to computer files, computerized
book check-out in
the offing. Time-Line:
hardware, mid-1983; catalog
on line, 2-3 years; new ID
card, this year. Project
director James Wyatt, UR
1 ibrary he ad, hopes eventually
to join with other libraries
in developing a national
data base.
when necessary . Users will calculate on
the micro, so as not to waste the mainframe's
time, but will use the billions
ofbytes of storage when they need
more than a micro's floppy disk can
provide. "The power I see in a micro, "
says Van Atta, "will be in its ability to
handshake with other systems while retaining
its independence."
"The whole University is reexploring
the meaning of 'liberal
arts,' " says English professor Kenneth
J. Wilson, " and it's finding that computers
apply to textual scholarship as
well as to laser physics." With the help
160 Data, chemical
engineering: innovative use
of pets in the lab, data logging
(measuring t empar at
ur-a- concentration, fluid
flow rate), controlling
analog equipment, made
possi ble by cheap interfaces
designed from popular
hobby 1 i terature; profs.
Richard Heist and Howard
Saltsburg; great interest
from around the country;
more than 100 visitors, representatives
of universities,
business, and professional
societies have
toured labs so far.
of a grant from the Arthur Vining
Davis Foundations, Wilson is developing
a computer program that helps
composition students learn to revise
their own writing.
Using the program on an APPLE,
the student enters an original text,
then asks for an analysis. The program
counts the words per sentence, graphs
the relative sentence lengths, and spots
proliferations of prepositions, "to be"
verbs, "tion" words, and generalized,
nonspecific words. When the user
signs off, the program offers the admonition
"GO THOU AND SIN NO
MORE."

Computers have even poked their
digits into the realm of that most
"liberal" of liberal arts, music. At the
Eastman School , for example, the electronic
mu sic studio co nta ins a "dedicated"
(i.e ., for music-studio use only)
PDP-II , which assists in realizing,
analyzin g, and, to some exten t, even
composing musical scores.
"Since the CPU will be running all
night anyway ," say s R ob ert G ross' s
introductory manual, " we might as
well use it to make music. " A former
doctoral cand ida te in compositio n who
now head s a large com pu te r system at
the Univer sity of California, Gross has
written mu ch of the software for the
digital facility.
" C ompos ing with a co mpu ter gives
us a new element ofcon tro l," he says.
" W e ourselves can construct the
sounds, without using any in stru me n t
but the com puter. " On the other hand,
he adds, instrumental sounds can be
very effectiv e in computer mu sic. " I n
fact, mo st o f the pieces that come out
of the Eastman stu dio begin with live
performances or other familiar sounds
tha t are then transformed by the co mputer."
An example: Some com posers working
in computer music experiment
with the pr ecise "movement" of
sound , adding Doppler sh ifts that
make the music seem to move and
swirl around the concert hall. " You
ca n ' t very well ask a string quartet,
while it' s playing, to pick up its instruments
and sidle aro und with
them ," Gross remarks with a sm ile.
" Rep resen ting sound , thou gh , is
com plicated . You need about 40,000
digital characters per second to do it.
The Eastman system,w ith eightymegaby
tes ofadded memory, ca n
handle twelve minutes of continuous
sound. Longer pieces a re spliced together
from these sho rte r sections. "
Currently the system supports abou t
two dozen u sers: stud io director Allan
Schindler, fellow p rofessors Alexander
Brinkman and Robert Morris, a handful
of advanced composition students,
and a class in " Co mputer Applicati ons
in Music ."
"My recent work," says Brinkman,
"has been setting up software tools for
musical analysis. " Brinkman's program
"Score-l l , " for instance, helps
make the comp uter more friendly to
the com poser. It allows the user to
enter no tes in a form th at is more like
music than like machine language .
" We're fin ally getting some real
music out of the machine," Schindler
exults. " It's close to where you won't
put on a separate hat for compu ter
music and say, ' H mm, that's interesting
,' and then go to hear a symphony
a nd say, 'Ah , that ' s beautiful.
' "
All composition majors at Eastman
study computer or electro nic music
techniques, or both . "It's part of the
In stant reg istration: Students in the Graduate School of Management register by computer. "It's
common en ou gh to enter reg istrations into a computer," says GSM's associate d ean Richard
West, "but it is usually done by staff people after stu d en t s have m ade out all their forms. This wa y
is qu ick and con venien t for everybody, and re cords are always up to the minute. " The co mputerized
sy stem al so allows for phoning in a re gi stration from a home or office co mp u ter via
telephon e lines.
equ ipmen t you 're expected to have as
a composer . The co mpu ter is a ba sic
element of the technology ofou r age, "
Schindler says, " a nd we're working to
170 Data, University's
computer science department;
founded 1974, devoted
primarily to graduate
education and to research;
individual courses as well
as an introductory course
avai lable to undergradua
t e s . Primary research
areas: Artificial Intel-
I igence, computer systems,
and theory.
pu t this technology at the service of the
im agination and feelings of mu sicia
ns ." It is com forting, nevertheless,
upon leaving his office, to notice there
is still room for his practice piano and
met ronome in the corn er. The compu
ter ca n cr eate new worlds of sound ,
bu t most of these sounds have a
familiar origin: a co mposer plinking
out a few strands of melody at the
plano.
M eanwhile, back at the Ri ver C ampu
s, the visual arts ha ve also begun to
explo it computer technology. O ver the
course of the last year, two "com pute r
artists" from the U n iversity of Pari s,
wh o were visiting at the electrical
enginee ring department's Production
Au tomation Project (PAP), created
three-dimensional art using FOR­
TRAN and 3-D com pu ter-gra ph ics
techniques. As Science News reported
last fall , one of their ex perimen ts
resulted in a model of a dinosaur based
on measurements taken from a bal sa
wood kit, its su rface deformed to
sim ulate a furry coat. The hai ry hybrid
wa sn 't beautiful, recalls PAP' s
Arist ides Requicha, " bu t it was cu te ."
U su ally, how ever , the Production
Automation P roj ect , whi ch is directed
by professor Herbert Voelcker , is cited
in national medi a for its involvement
in more practical proje cts . Computer­
AidedEngineering in its February issue
cited th e " strong influen ce" of
Voelcker and PAP on the direct ion of
the " most sophisticated U.S. solidmodelin
g systems." Earlier, a popular
magazine, in an article on the use of
compu ters in desi gning "everyt h ing
from oil re fine ries to tennis shoes,"
referred to Rochester as "the recognized
lead er in Computer-Aided
II

Design research ." M or e recently , a
Fortune survey of the C AD field noted
that a cho re as seeming ly sim ple as
designing a ca r tr u nk for maximum
storage capac ity had pro ven " pes ky
and time-consu mi ng" for Ge neral
M otors technician s un til they began
a pplying computer pro grams developed
in collaboration with the Rochester
research ers.
PAP ' s " PADL" software has also
formed th e basis of the " U n isolids "
commercial C AD package recently an ­
nounced by M cD onnell-Dougla s
Automation Co mpa ny. Bu t undergrads
get to work with it as well. In the
geo metric modelin g cou rse, they learn
the th ink ing necessary to solve problem
s of two- and three-dimen sion al
graphic represen ta tions.
" T he course began in 1975, " notes
Ari stid es Requicha , wh o is PAP' s
associate director. " W ith the twenty
new 'G IG I' (intelligent gra p hics) term
inal s and the V AX, the students
have the advan tage of a mod ern progra
m me r 's environment. "
180 Data, NASTRAN (commercial
CAD program) in mechanical
engineering courses:
UR one of only two universities
nationwide teaching
undergraduates f ini te-element
representation using
NASTRAN. Mechanical design
course project: Design basketball
hoop that will break
away wi thout shattering
backboard.
What's a computer withou t silicon
ch ips? At Ro chester, these miniatu
rized circu its are design ed by electr
ical engineers with a specialty in
VLSI (Very Large Scale In tegra tion).
Sta rting as an experime n t four years
ago, R ochester' s V LS I cou rse has
blosso med in to a two-se mes ter series
ta ug ht by co mp ute r-sc ience p rofessor
Gershon Ked em and electrical
engineering professor Edwin Kinnen .
In 1979 , stude n ts fro m R ochester
mad e up one of twelve university
gro ups involved with X erox P ARC 's
Multi-Project Ch ip program. X erox
enco ura ged courses in VLSI design at
th ese colleges, th en receiv ed the
stude n ts' com pleted designs-over the
AR PANET com puter network-and
fabricated their ch ips. K edem, who
coo rd in ated th e pro gram both for 1979
12
and for the following year, still keep s a
few of these ch ips in his desk dra wer .
"To under stand th e sca le of the
devices we' re usin g in int egrated circuits,"
Kinnen says, "you h ave to
real ize that a sing le tr ansistor is abo ut
five microns wide-smaller than the
diame ter ofa red blood cell. When
tho usands of these tr an sistors a nd their
connec ting wires must be placed on a
one -m illimeter-sq uare piece of silicon ,
deciding whi ch trans isto r goes wh er e is
beyond the ca pability of a design er.
T hat's where Com pu ter-Aide d Design
comes in. "
Occasion ally the des ign ofone o f
th ese ch ips permits some extra area.
When I was exam in ing one of
Kedem ' s own chips under a microscope,
I told him I tho ught I saw a
chessboard near the circu it outline.
"Tha t's right," he said. "It's a mat ein-
two problem, just for a littl e side line
en tertain me nt. "
So far, we've been looking at th e
com puter as a too l, and we have
noticed that it is used in designing new
circ u its, new hardw are-in short new,
better comp uters . But com puters are
not only a lon g way fro m selfpropagation-
they're also a long wa y
fro m " thinking." T hi s is on e of the
goals for that branch of research called
Arti ficial Intelligence. Before we
launch into this fro n tier, let ' s look at
one instan ce in whic h enginee ring u ses
at least "pseudo -in telligent" computin
g , for the practical job of sorting.
At th e In stitute ofO ptics, professor
N icho las George has been help ing his
students set up sorting games, usin g
opt ical-electronic hybrids. An opticalelect
ronic hybrid is co mpose d of a
" fro n t end , " con tain ing optical instru
me nts, which is co upled to a digital
co mpu ter . " T he thin king end," her e ,
is in the rear.
190 Data , chemistry instruction:
computer
searching, finding chemical
reactions, organic compound
structures via computer
data b s s e . Librarian Arleen
Somervi lIe and prof. A. S·
Kende (instructors) received
1980 NSF grant. Rare
in undergraduate chemistry
curricula: Students actually
on I ine to networks
themselves·
" T he first thing you need is a good
sorting ga me," says George . H e
started ou t with sorting ca ts and dogs.
" Any four-year-old ca n do th at. And if
our syste m couldn't measu re up , why
go on to more difficult things?"
T he setup, in brief, is relat ively sirnp
ie. Ph otograp hic images of a ca t or a
dog are mounted so that laser light
sh ines through th em and in to a lens
tra ns form , a device that changes the
light in to a speci fic diffraction pattern.
A photocon du ctor array sam ples the
pattern and sends it, in di gital code , to
a com pu ter. The computer the n uses
its coded diffraction patterns to do the
sorting .
T he re are two parts to th e procedure.
First , the programmers test
out algorithms (" rec ipes" for p ro blem
solving) to dis cover whi ch ones are effective.
They send through a series of
" teac h ing" p ictures in order to ach ieve
thi s. Seco nd, the y test out the algori
th m s on a n ew set of pictures, to see
how well the machine performs on unfamiliar
data.
In the case of the cats and dogs,
George's setu p ca me ou t with a n inety
percen t degree of acc uracy, ind epen ­
dent of image size or background . An d
in one " tru th table" (listing the
mach ine's hits a nd erro rs) it mad e the
righ t cho ice among thirty dogs and sixtee
n cats withou t a miss . "To establish
greater accuracy," says Geo rge , " we
would have had to ru n through more
than a thousan d differen t pictures.
And I'd already been to more than
eno ug h an imal shows in orde r to get
th e cou ple of hundred photos we 'd
been u sing!"
R esearch has since progressed into
more com plex sorting . " T he in tent,"
says George, " is to set up a uto matic
quality con tro l-checking for breaks in
thread in textile manufacture , or for
faul ty con nections in in teg rated circu
its-all at a speed faster than human
vis ion is ca pa ble of followin g. "
Othe r sorting wit h diffraction pat ­
terns has had to do with judgin g the
roughness ofpolish ed metal , d iffere ntiati
ng among hu es of paint , and ide ntifyin
g as man y as thirty di fferent
samples ofh andwriting .
" We can env isio n applica tio ns in
fin gerprinting, for instance," Geo rge
suggests. " Possibly a sim ila r syste m
cou ld permit you to gain adm ittance to
yo ur company p remises by pressin g
your thumb against an iden tifyin g
p an el. "

USAirman
By Grover Heiman
Edwin Colodny '48 never
flew on a commercial plane until
he was twenty-eight years old.
Now he's regarded as one of the
best CEOs in the airline
business.
As a yo ungster, Edwin 1. Colod ny
delivered groceries. W he n he was in
high school, he wai ted on tables at
Adirondacks resorts during sum me r
vacations. And he was a short-o rder
coo k whil e a t Harvard Law School. In
every one of those jobs, he learned th at
customers "app reciate some fo rm of
attent iveness." As chairman, president,
and ch ief ex ecutive officer of
U SAir, he's still convinced that persona
l atte ntion is important.
" Manageme nt mu st be visi ble," he
says , "and that means yo u can no t sit in
a n office andjust shuffle pap er s
around . You have to be ou t dealing
with yo ur personnel and yo ur cus to mers
and kn ow wha t's going on ."
Co lod ny is determined that USAir
will pla y second fiddl e to no ot he r
a irline - and yet Co lodny himself
mi ght hav e wound up pla yin g second
fiddl e in a sympho ny orchestra if he
had not made a sharp tu rn in h is ca reer
plans while he was still in college.
A studen t of the violin since the age
of eight, Colodny decid ed agains t a
ca reer in music after th ree years a t th e
Ea stman Sch ool of Music a t th e
U n ive rsity of R ochester. " It became
appare nt to me ," he says, "that I was
not going to be a violin virtuoso , but
th at if I just wan ted to be one of th e
pack , I could mak e a livin g . So I
took my major in govern me nt at
Rochester" and applied to H arvard
Law :School. "
';
' Colodny maintains close tieswith his alma
mater. A University Trustee, he is a memberof the
Trustees' committeecharged with the selection of a
successor to President Sproull, who has announced
his approaching retirement onfu ne 30, 1984.
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H arvard accepted him and Colodny
put his violin away. H e has no t tu cked
th e instrument under his ch in in many
years, altho u gh he docs listen to a great
deal of music.
He listens m ost, howev er , to jet
airl iners, emp loye es, custome rs- and
th e cash register. While so me of his
competitors fight for surviva l, USAir is
more th an holding its ow n .
Over the yea rs, U SA ir has posted
gcowth rat es th at exceed th e industry
a verage . T oday it ranks seven th
among domestic sche duled airl ines in
passenger s carried-an estimated fourteen
million in 1982 - and tenth in th e
world . Sales in 1981 amounted to
$1.25 billion , and profits reached
$58.5 million, giving USAir the best
ope rat ing margin among domesti c air
carriers.
USAir began in th e 1930 s as All
American Avi ati on Company . It ca rried
no passen ger s a t first. Instead , th e
airline flew air mail on a 1,040-mile
route over tre ache ro us mountains in
Pennsylvani a and West Virginia .
The region lacked ade q uate airports,
an d to reach isolated communities
in th e hollows, the co mpany
dev elop ed a u nique a ir-to-g ro u nd
method for pick ing up th e outgoing
mail .
Flyin g a St inso n sin gle-eng ine
monoplane, the All American pil ot
dropped a m ail-fill ed pouch to a local
postmaster. Then he let out a cable
with a hook on the end . H e flew low
over th e pickup point, wh ere the
postm aster had hung th e ou tgoing ma il
po uch on a seco nd ca ble, strung between
two poles. T he pilot, after sn aggin
g th e ca ble a nd th e pouch with his
hook, hauled th e pou ch into the
airplane and went on to the next point
on hi s ro ute.
After W orld W ar II, airport con ­
struction acce lerated , and by 1949
many co mm un ities served by All
American's pickup system had ade ­
quate air fields. That year, All
Am erican began passenger service,
with DC-3s; it phased o ut its aerialp
ickup m ail service a few months la ter.
T he lin e ch anged its name to All
American Airways in 1949, to
Alle gheny Airlines in 195 3, an d to
U SA ir in 1979.
USAir' s suc cess can be tr aced in
part to Ed Colodny' s zeal to provide
service , an inhe ritanc e from his youth
in Burlington, Vermont, where he was
born in 1926.
" My father had a gro cery in the
d ays before th ere were su pe rmarkets,"
he says. "The housewife would give us
her o rder and we would deliver. H eck ,
we 'd even deliver an order forj us t a
bottle of milk.
" I sta rted out very young in th e
sto re. M y first job was to bag potatoes.
Then I became a help er on th e deliv ery
tr uc k, lu ggin g bags of groceries into
people 's houses. 1 learned at an early
age th at if you want to succeed, you
have to give service ."
Ed Colodny, wh o went to public
schools in Burlington, doesn't recall
a ny great pressure from th e family to
pursu e any particul ar vocation, even
th ou gh an uncle was a promin en t
law yer. His father's ca ree r adv ice was
simple : " I only in sist you don 't
become a retail grocer. "
While a t H arvard , Colod ny was a
sho rt-orde r cook at th e Midget, a wellknown
C ambridge restaurant. The
owne r , he re calls, " always sa id I was
the best counterman he'd ever had ."
C olodny never forgets acco lade s like
that. They reinforce his in sistence on
service. " Som e of those ea rl ier ex ­
peri ences rubbed off on me and shaped
m y view s on wh at an a irline has to
do, " he says.
Aft er grad ua tion from H arvard in
1951 , Co lodny went in to th e Army
Judge Advocate Gene ra l C orps. H e
served as a first lieuten ant at Fort

opening on the staff of the Civil
Aeronautics Board. It sounded pretty
good to me because I wasn't on the
Harvard Law Review and I couldn't
just walk in anywhere and let my
credentials get me ajob."
The doors were not open wide at the
CAB, either. The division director
who interviewed Colodny told him
bluntly that his chances were slim
because he had no aviation experience .
Colodny offered the man a deal: ajob
for six months and then, if Colodny
couldn't handle it, he would resign.
Colodny got the job and kept it. As a
trial counsel, he held public hearings
when an airline wanted to start a new
route, and he recommended action to
the board .
"I really liked the job," Colodny
says. "I like litigation, and I learned
some things that gave me great confidence-I
could think on my feet, and
I found I could hold my own with outside
lawyers from some of the biggest
law firms in the country ."
However, Colodny sometimes grew
weary of the lengthy hearings. "The
lawyers did all the testifying and the
expert witnesses did the lawyering. We
often developed lengthy records that
were ignored by the board when a
decision was made."
It was through a case involving a
route between Erie, Pennsylvania, and
Detroit that Ed Colodny first met
Leslie O . Barnes, president of Allegheny
Airlines, then a regional air carrier
that was vying with three other
carriers for the route. Colodny recommended
to the board that Allegheny
and Mohawk Airlines both be given
the route authority because they served
different regions. Neither airline was
happy, but in 1957 Barnes invited
Colodny to lunch at the Willard Hotel
in Washington.
Barnes, who had been impressed by
Colodny's performance as a CAB
lawyer, did the talking. The airline
business was growing rapidly, and
more and more CAB work was going
to be involved, he said . Allegheny at
that time was using a New York law
firm, but Barnes felt that the airline
had grown to the point-it was one of
the two largest regional air carriersthat
it needed an in-house lawyer.
Colodny thought about Barnes's offer
for twenty-four hours and said yes.
At the time, Colodny's government
job was paying $8,300 a year; Allegheny
offered him $10,000. "But money
wasn't the important thing," he says.
"It was the opportunity to be in on
something-the company was about to
submit an application to get a feeder
route up the East Coast from Washington
to Boston. We got that route in
1960; it marked the start of Alleghe­
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ny' s expan sion program."
At first, Colodny-Alleghen y' s oneman
legal department-focu sed on
C AB work. It was a few yea rs before
the company expanded the legal
department to handle some of Alleghen
y'sothe r legal work. Co lodnys
responsi b ilities also expanded; he was
put in charge of public affairs and
economic analysis as well as leg al
ma tters.
Colodny ca n 't recall th e exact yea r,
but in 1962 or 1963 hejoined Barnes
for cocktails at the rooftop lounge of
the W ash ington Hotel. In the course o f
a general conversation a bo ut the fu ture
o f the a irline, Barn es asked Colodny if
he had any interest in a ca ree r outsid e
the law . They disc ussed the subject for
an hour or so, and then Colodny told
his boss that he would be int er ested if
an opport unity presented itself. After
that , the subjec t lay dormant for yea rs ;
but in 1969, wh en Barnes reor ganized
top management, Co lodny was named
executive vice presid ent for both law
and marketing services.
The latter in volved all ground act ivity
, /light attenda nts, and in-fli ght food
service. Colodny was back in the serv ­
ice business, and hi s entreprene urial
instinct su rfa ced qu ickly. H e had the
/light attendan ts ' u n iforms redesigned
- Allegheny's ste wardesses became
the first to be ou tfitted in hot pants,
wea rin g them for two yea rs in the ea rly
'70s .
" O ur biggest pro blem was makin g
sure we had cou rteou s flight attend ­
an ts," he says. "T hen , you wer en't
com peting on price primarily, you
were competing on serv ice, gro un d
handling , and sche du les to get the
cu stomer in and out on tim e ."
Colodn y saw a lot of the people
u nder his direction in the next few
years. "I spen t a lot of time conductin g
sta tion me etings with personnel ," he
say s. " I still do , bu t it 's ge tt in g more
di fficult because we hav e many more
rou tes and stops."
M any a USAir employee has
reached his attentive ear. W h ile /lying
be twee n sto ps, Colodny is too busy
listen ing to passengers and cre w to
tackle paper work .
H e no t only listens, he marches
along with the pro bing eye of an inspector
general. A spo t on the carp et , a
chipped counter- th ese are the kinds
of th ings a stat ion ch ief hears abou t in
a memo .
Colod ny also ha s an eye on the
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clock . " In th e 1970s," he says, " we
learn ed that departu re an d arriva l
times were still the most im porta nt
aspect of ou r product . W hat we sell is
tim e . Much of ou r market is less in ­
terested in gla mour and more interested
in proper schedules at
rea sonable pri ces with down -to-ea rth
servi ce ."
Alleghen y began converting its
propeller-driven aircra ft to j ets in
1965. It merged with Lake Central
Airlines in 1968 and with Mohawk in
1972. Three years after that , Le s
Barnes left to become chairman of
R yder Systems, an d there were fou r
contenders fo r the pre sid ency- a
financial vice presiden t, two operational
types, and Ed C olodny.
Traditionally, the heads of airlines
had corne up through opera tions, bu t
in th is case the choice was Co lod ny,
the legal and marketing ex pert, wh o
was tapped for president and C EO .
When Henry Satte rwh ite retired as
ch airman in 1978 , the board named
Co lodny to that jo b, too . By th e end of
Colodny's third year as presiden t and
C EO, Alle gheny had bec ome all-jet
and had extended its system to T exas
and Florida. A year la ter, the route
system was ex tended to Alabama ,
Arizona, Louisian a, and North
Carolina .
It was tim e it sh ed the local-serv ice
image , and on October 28 , 1979, Allegheny
was renamed U SAir .
T oday U SAir has nearly 100 jets
and 11,0 00 em plo yees. Headquartered
in W ashingto n , it ope rates in twentysix
sta tes and also serves Toronto a nd
M on treal.
But there was a time when Ed
C olodn y th ought his airl ine wa s im ­
pe riled . T hat was in 1978, whe n the
indu stry was deregulat ed . Colodny
was not against de regulat ion as su ch ,
bu t he feared tha t without some p rotection
, sm aller airline s like USAir
would have a hard time against the big
ca rriers.
" I tho ught Congress should pass a
b ill that took in to accou nt the disparity
in size," he say s. " Fo r exam ple, by
giving smaller carriers a p riority in
achie ving ro ute expansion over the
larger carr iers for some period of
time ."
Ed Colodny recalls that battle on
Capitol H ill with a shak e of his head.
" W ha t we h ad not fully recogn ized
th en wa s that we had more pluses than
some of the large ca rr iers," he says.
" T hey had locked in to lon ger-haul
ro u tes with h igh er den sity requ irements,
particula rly for the wid e-bodied
jets. T hey didn't have the right equ ipment
to serve th e shorter-ha ul market.
O u r smaller jets had m ore expans ion
ca pability and gave us flex ibili ty.
" W e were abl e to get be tter utilization
out of our assets and im prove the
ea rnings picture to a much greater
de gree than the larger ca rr ier /leets.
T hat explai ns why, since de regu lation ,
sm aller airlines have done rela tively
well in com parison with the bigger
ca rr iers. "
T he lifting of m ore than forty yea rs
of regul atory controls from the airline
industry in 1978 forced manage ment
to ad op t a new mentality , ob serves
C olodny, a mem ber of the boa rd o f
d irectors of the U .S . C hamber of
C ommerce .
" We now have to m ake decisions in
m in utes, " he say s, " not mont hs or
yea rs, and with ou t going th roug h the
C ivil Aeron au tics Board, m uch less
th ro ugh sets of eco no mists, lawy ers,
and legal briefs."
Ed Colodny's lo ng-te rm p rogra m
for USAir is sim ple an d co ncise- for
the ai rline to co nt inu e to do wh at it
docs best and make a pro fit. His persona
llong -term plans are not as well
defined, excep t that whe n the time
comes to leave USAir, he wan ts to
move to a d ifferent career rather than
retir e . He notes th at he has two
sons- M ark , fifteen , and D avid, th irteen-
to ed uca te . (He also has a
twenty-eight-year-old da ugh ter fro m
h is first marri a ge, wh ich ended in
divorce in 1960 .) H is second wife,
N ancy , whom he married in 1965 , was
a systems en gine er for IB M . She now
has anothe r career go ing , as a com ­
put er consultan t.
These days, Ed Co lodny finds himself
with three fish ing fanatics on his
hands wh en the weather is good on the
Chesa peake Bay . No t a fisherman
hi mself, Colony skippers h is twentyfour-foot
cuddy-cab in Sea Ray for his
wife an d sons in sea rch of stripers and
blues . H is other sport is golf, and he
(continued on p 40)
R eprinted with permissionf rom NATION 'S
BUS IN ESS, December 1982. Copyright 1982
by NAT ION'S BUS INE SS, Chamberof
Commerce of the United States.

Public Practice
By JackJones
" Ninety percent of the people
in this country get their information
from TV-and medicine
is probably its most underreported
field," says H olly
Atkinson ' 78M , who has decided
to do something about it.
Dr. H olly Atkin son believes in
med icine for the masses.
That's why, after training to be a
doctor, she set up a p ra ctice in jou rnalisrn.
Atkinso n graduated fro m the Scho ol
of Medicin e an d D en tistry in 1978 and
com pleted an internship in int ernal
medicine at Strong M em or ial H ospital
in 1979 . Then she went to the
Graduate School ofJ ournalism at Columbia
Un ivers ity a nd in 1981 go t a
job as a reporter for C BS News.
She returned to Rocheste r recently
with a film crew to work on a story
about Dr. T aft Y. Toribara, professor
o f rad iat ion biology. A squas h player
who has twice held the na tiona l championship
in the men- over- age- sixty
ca tegory, T oribara has in vented a
mask to protect against eye injuries
that com monly occur durin g rac que t
sports (see Rochester R eview , Fall 1982).
While she wa s in R ochester, Atkinson
took some time out from cond uc ting
inte rviews to be in te rv iewed
her self.
M an y people, she says, have asked
wh y she forsook medi cin e for jo urnalism
. .
"I'm not sure wha t the entire
a nswe r is, but it has a lot to do with me
and a lot to do with the way medi cine is
b ein g pr acticed today.
" Med icine is a wonderful professio
n, but I felt that more sho uld be
do ne in terms ofpreventive med icine
and public health ."
Broad cast journalism is her veh icle
for acco mplish ing that.
" N ine ty per cent of the peopl e in thi s
country get their information from
television . And it's been a largely unta
pp ed source as fa r as medical information
goes .
"Ifyou stop to th in k about it,
medicine is probably th e most underrep
ort ed field th ere is. But wh at do
people always talk about and wa nt to
kno w ab ou t? T heir health ."
Du ring her in tern sh ip at Stro ng,
Atk inson says, she began to dread the
prosp ect of spendin g the rest of her life
sewing up wou nd s and diagnosing illnesses
that should have been
preven ted .
" I n th e eme rgency room here, we
would fix peopl e up an d then send
the m back out into the same social
system and lifestyles they cam e from. "
Often th ey would return a few wee ks
lat er with the same kinds of injuries or
illn esses from the sa me ca uses.
" I think you should be able to get
people to change th eir habits and
become healthy individuals ," Atkinson
sa ys.
After she finished her internship at
Stro n g, she had planned to pra ctice
pr eventive medicine in a more trad itional
way.
Sh e en rolled at theJ ohns Hopk ins
Schoo l of Public H ealth in Balt im ore
and took an adm in istrative jo b with the
Public Health Service in W ashington .
A year later , in 1980 , she still wasn't
comfortable about the direction of her
medical career .
She alwa ys wanted to be a writer,
she say s. And since reading a 1977
New Yorker magazine profile of W alker
Percy , a doctor turned write r, she had
p ondered the noti on of a ca reer
cha ng e .
She loved medi cin e, she sa ys, bu t
she also love d othe r things in life .
"To me it wa s, you do medicin e or
yo u do some thing else that allows you
to enjoy medicine without having to
(continued on p. 20)
Holly Atkin son travels across th e cou n tr y in the pursuit of a story. On a visit to UR's Medical
Center, she interviewed Rona ld W . Wood ' 75G about the dangers of akyl nitrates , which som e
h igh sch ool students inhale as "li q ui d incense." A specialist in the toxicity of inhaled substa nces,
W ood is assistant professor of r ad ia tion biology and biophysics.
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Toots Deli, the Megacookie Co.
& Other Enterprising Concerns
By Sara Schaffzin
You can earn extra money
during the school year by working
in the lib rary, or in the
bookstore, or in the dining
halls. Or you can create your
own job.
H ow do you succ eed in bu sin ess as a
ca mpus en tre pre ne ur?
By tapping into student lifestyles.
That , any ho w, seems to be th e a nswe r
for successfu l student-run businesses a t
Rochester, whi ch have been making
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profits for their operators since way
back in th e day s wh en D av e M uirhead
'58 cashed in on th e brand-new craze
for "pizza pie s" by makin g and sellin g
them from a seco nd-hand hearse that
rolled around th e ca mp us a couple of
ni ghts a week .
Food, clothing , mu sic, and
transportation have been prime
markets for campus ca pita lists ever
since . R ecord and stereo dealers ha ve
flourished, as have th e purveyors of
late-ni gh t eats. David Hirschlcr '83
and his friends M ark Douglass '84 a nd
Neil So lomo n '84, for example , run
" Toots D eli, " a pizza-and-sn ack sta nd
with bran ches in Susan B. Anthony
H alls, H oeing basement, a nd Wi lder
T ow er . " Toots" gets its fare from an
off-cam pus del icatessen and ret ails it at
its on -ca mp us locat ions, wh ich are
ope n every night u ntil on e or two in
the morning.
H irschle r admits to low start-up
cos ts, an adv an tage that bu sin esses in
th e ou tside wo rld don 't hav e. Student
concessions pay no licensing o r othe r
fees to the University. unless th ey a re

High flyer
Do student entrepreneurs keep
on in the same business after they
graduate? Here's one who did.
Pilot Bill Tarrasky 's passengers these
day s know where theplane is scheduled to
land, but that hasn 't always been the
case.
The more adventurous if Tarrasky's
classmates (Class of 1974) will remember
the "Mystery Tours " he used to offer to
thosefelloio studentsdaring enough tofly
offwith him in a rickety plane on oneway
trips to undiscloseddestinationsoutposts
like "Potato City, Pennsylvania,"
hidden valleysin theAdirondacks,
and "grassy landingj ields in the
middleoj nowhere, " he recalls with a
grin, "I'd tellthem they'd have tojind
theirown way back to R ochester, but they
were adventurous types and theyknew
what theywere getting into. "
Bill Tarrasky in 1974 as Yogi Airlines
captain
renting space , rep orts Sally Allison,
assistant director of student activities.
So, except for promotional expenses
and the nominal rent they pay for the
fully equipped deli , Hirschler and
compa ny are practically home free .
" W e didn't n eed any operating capital
to start," Hirschler say s. "That still
meant ge tt ing into debt with the supplier,
of cou rse, but we already kn ew
that the bu sin ess wou ld do well.
Students are alway s hungry at night. "
Running the deli provides pr actical
experience, which Hirschler and
Solomon hope will impress th e
business schools to which they have ap ­
plied . Hirschler spends two to three
hours a day on bookkeeping and
finan ce , whil e Solomon manages
op erations and Douglass handles
ad vertising and promotion . Hiring
-their part-time help and co mplying
with sales tax and sanitation law s give
More typicalpassengers on Yogi
A irlines, as Tarrasky called his enterprise,
were vacationing students orthose
just craving a spin in thesky. Tenyears
and thousands iffl(p,ht-hourslater, he
now ferriesexecutives to business meetings
in distant cities as a pilotfo r thefar-flung
Gannett Corporation. Equipped with
amenities like conference tables, handcarved
wooden decor, stereos, well-stocked
bars, and showers, thecompany planes
areajar cryfro m thedilapidatedcrafthe
rented or borrowed as a student. But
despite the "frequent malfunction of instruments
and radios" on those old contraptions'
his recordis accident-free.
Tarrasky startedflyine as a high school
studen t in Massachusetts and earned his
commercial pilot's license during his
fresh many ear at Rochester. The license at
that time required 200 hoursifflying,
which he accumulated as Yogi's captain.
His passengers shared theexpenses, earning
him a small profitplus invaluable experience.
Aft ergraduatingjrom R ochesterwith a
B. A . in psychology, he became a[reelancepilot,
latermarryingone oj the
skydivershe dropped. Othercredits includeprivateflight
teaching, trainingjo r
an airline transportpilot's license( "like
the Ph.D . ojflying "), and a stint with a
small commuter airline in Chicago befo re
taking his presentjob with Gannett.
further foretastes ofoff-campus
busin ess life .
Su ch lessons mean more than big
profits to some students, including the
founders of the Megacookie Co m pany,
whi ch for a couple ofyears sold
monster (twelve-inch diameter)
cookies in a variety of flavors . The
cartwheel cookies first appeared on
ca m pu s during summer orien ta tion
two or three years ago, when Lori Aks
'8 1, Carol Senensieb '8 2, and Marj
Little '82 baked a batch of them as
treats for the new freshmen . The three
of them enjoyed th e ex perience so
much they decided to go com merc ial,
opening a campus bu sin ess that sold
about thirt y Megacooki es a week ­
including special order s for "Happy
Birthday" messages spelled out in
raisins or chocolate ch ips, heart shapes
for the lovelorn, and "one, rather odd,
request to do moos e a ntle rs."
Times h ave changed, and so have
T'arrasky and his plane.
Despite thetrendtoward second
careers, Tarrasky says he'd ratherfly than
switch. "A nine-to-fiuej ob would drive
me crazy . And aft er all theseyears ojfly ­
ing it 's still a thrill-y ou never know
wherey ou 'regoing next. "- Sara
Schaffzin
The business eve ntually made good,
but the ben efit s went well beyond
do llars and cents, Sen ensieb says . "We
lea rn ed to work under deadlines, to
anticipate the inevitable late orders
after we'd alre ady bou ght our ingredients
for the week, and to adj us t our
prices on ce we saw what our actual expenses
wer e ."
When midnight munchies strike,
however, the quickest relicf is made
possible by the refrigerator re ntal serv ­
ice ope ra ted by Sam Morse '83 and
Ray Fantone '83 . Although relationships
vary between stu den t businesses
and their suppliers, franchises like thi s
on e seem to offer the least risk . " T he
parent compa ny provides the a pplian
ces, and we handle the rentals and
delivery to ea rn our commission,"
Morse says . About 200 refrigerators-ranging
from two to five cubic
feet in size-will bring in rents of $49
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to $69 apiece th is yea r, he report s.
Since the Univer sity doesn 't require
p aym ent of any fees for the franch ise,
the partner s' o nly investmen t is time .
St ill, th ey su ffered some hard kn ocks
in a pri ce war with a n unauthorized
rental company tha t ope rated from a
truck parked on Wil son Boulevard .
" We tried to ou t-advertise them and
slashed our prices to keep fro m bein g
undercu t," M orse says. An appeal to
Universit y Security even tually fro ze
out the riva l fridges by preventing th e
co mpetitio n fro m mak in g deliveries on
ca mpus , bu t " we did end up lowering
our co mm ission ," he notes.
Food busin esses remain per ennial
favorites, but oth er ente rprises fade
with fashions of the times. The
" g ru bby ' 70s" spelled doom for dry
cleaning , which has since re vived with
th e newly acce pta ble clean-cut look,
acco rd ing to George Barnes '84, who
runs the cleaning franchise this year.
Along with a steady supply of Ro chester-winte
r woolens, the service once
again sees a big increase in dress-up
duds b efore fraternity parties, sorority
dan ces , a nd the ROTC m ilitary ball.
While the ca re and feeding of
stud ents offers obviou s profit potential ,
getti ng th eir goods to and from campus
has reap ed rewards for luggag e
transpo rt services. The first of th ese
(name d, perh aps pragmati cally , "UR
Schlepp") served New York C ity and
Lon g Island ; runs hav e since been
added to include Ne w J er sey and
Public Practice (from p. 17)
sac rifice yo u r life for it."
In 1980, she en ro lled in Colu mbia ,
ea rned a master ' s degree in journalism,
a nd the followin g year went to
work as a researcher for W alt er
C ro nkite 's " U n iverse " sho w on C BS.
A few months lat er , th e ne two rk invited
her to be health a nd medical
reporter for the " Morn ing Ne ws."
Atk inson has rep orted o n issu es su ch
as the rights of parents and doctors to
term inate med ical care fo r severely
handicapped and brain -damaged
ch ild re n; illn esses such as hea rt disease
and cancer; and in novations such as
Toribara 's mask .
Atkinson says that she has been
cr iticized by some peopl e for ta king a
hard-to-get place in m ed ical school and
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Boston . The price tag for a one -wa y
load (a bo ut $45) is "c heape r than having
yo u r parents d rive up from Ne w
York , stay in a mo tel, a nd drive back,"
says Mich ael R osen '82, a 3-2 stude n t
in th e Graduate School of Manageme
n t, whoseJersey-M anhattan
Transport co mpany deliver s door-todoor
in M anha ttan and to design ated
sho pping malls in Brooklyn, Queen s,
Long Island, and New Jersey .
R osen ren ts tr uc ks from a leasing
com pany and charges $25 for th e fir st
hundred pound s of baggage a nd $10
for each add itiona l fifty pounds. Now
in its th ird year of operation, R osen 's
busin ess has gro wn fro m a clientele of
twe nty-five to some seve nty " haulees ,"
a nd en tails th e servi ces of three
employees a nd two truc ks. " It ge ts
easier every tim e I do it ," say s R osen ,
who must figure out th e maximum
number ofloads he ca n accommodate
without re nt ing extra tr uc ks, always
taking into accou n t the inevitable nosho
ws. Charg ing a dep osit help s to
minimize losses. " But yo u st ill ge t
ca nce llat io ns," he says . "The n there
a re those who ca n ' t be at the mall at
th e agree d-o n tim e, and we have to
m ak e o the r a rra ngeme n ts."
T he brunt of the work fall s a t final
exam tim e , bu t th at hasn ' t deterred
R osen , who is studying finance and
marketin g . " I didn't think thi s would
help m y ca ree r," he observes, "but job
in terv iewers see m to think otherwise ."
Other stude n ts have sold clo thi ng,
then turning aw ay from the practice of
medicin e for a " glamorou s" television
job.
" I ' m sick of hea ring that it is a
glamorousjob. There a re wonderful
moments in telev ision, but it 's a ver y
hard job."
Atkinson left Rochester on a Monday
evening to film interview s in
Washington, San Francisco , Los
An geles, and Portland, Oregon, before
she had to get back to New York on
Friday.
" As a reporter, I workjust as hard
as I did in medicine . The stress I feel
from th e re sponsibility is j us t as
severe ."
M edi cal reporting has been stig­
plants, and elbow grease (as in room
painting, racque t res tringing, and ski
waxing), with vary ing degrees of success
. But som etimes th e service is
worth more th an th e price, as in th e
cas e of singing valentines offer ed by
members of th e Women's Gl ee Clu b , a
steal at $1 .50 for a lyri cal love letter
delivered by a group of two to six
singers. Set to tunes like " Five Foot
Two, Eyes of Blue" and "Some body
Loves You ," they're "orde re d more as
a gag th an a love gestu re," says M ary
C lose '84, Gl ee Club president.
T he singers gen erally show up in
class, where recipients "are easies t to
find and m ost likely to be embarrassed,"
C lose says . An on ym ous
pranksters so me times send them to
faculty members, who usually receive
th em with a plomb .
T he tuneful tributes reached a
cre sce ndo a wh ile back wh en two
roommat es tried to ou t-valen tine ea ch
other, C lose recalls. " O ne of them
ende d up by send ing singers to every
single class th e other one attende d .
Fina lly, we thou ght the poor guy had
ca ught o n, because he d idn't sho w up
for his last lecture . Bu t no , he wa s just
late . Wh en he finally a ppeared ," she
rep orts with a remini scent sm ile , " we
le t him have it. "
Sara Schaffzin '73, who'is now assistant directoroj
University communications, say s that when
she was an undergraduate, she "just worked in the
dining hall. "
matized , Atk in son says, by some
publication s th at feature stories about
so-called cu res for ca nce r, heart
d isease, arthritis, and o the r chro n ic
a nd fatal illn esses.
Even th ou gh she finds rep orting as
stressfu l as doctoring, Atkinso n
do esn't expect to trade her not eb ook
for a ste th oscope.
"I don't see myself go ing back . . ..
M ayb e I went through my m id -life
crisis at a young age ."
Ja ckJon es is aJeatures writerJor th»Rochester
Democra t and Chronicle. f rom which this
articlewas adaptedwith permission.

Rochester
in Review
Technology center
The Co llege of Eng inee r ing and Applied
Science's int ernati onally known
In stitute of Optics has been designated
by Governor C uo mo as the N ew York
Sta te Cen ter for Adva nced Optical
T echnology.
R ochester is one of four universit ies
designated as centers that will foster
collabo ra tive university-industry programs
to develop tec hno log ies with
high eco no mic poten tial. (The others
are Co rnell, Polytechnic In stitute of
New York, and SU N Y Ston y Brook.)
BrianJ , Thompson, dean of the
eng inee ring college , sa id the designation
"reflects the importance of the
field of op tics as an ex tre mely productive
area for developing significant indu
stri al ap plicat ions . It also reflect s the
im po rtance of the Rochester area as a
world cen ter for optical science and
technology and of the In stitu te of
O pt ics as a pr e-eminent resource in
this field ."
A key elem ent, Thompson added , is
th e su ppo rt and particip ation of industry
, Co m pa nies that have alread y
ag reed to parti cip ate in the project are
Eastm an K od ak, Xerox, and Bausch &
Lomb, Other companies will b e joinin
g later .
An important component ofRochester's
pr ogram will be the cooperation
of the Division ofPhotographic Science
and In strumentation at the Rochester
In stitu te of Technology and of the
Department of Optical Engineering
T echnology at Monroe Community
College, wh ich will support an ed ucationa
l program in laser tec hno logy .
Ini tial programs will focu s on five
areas: int egrated optics and fiber optics
(U R ); op tical fabrication and testing ,
including gradient index optics (U R) ;
opto-electron ic syst ems for im age
recognition, medical optics, and
robo tics (U R ); optical materials, inclu
din g thin films (UR); and image
Curtain going down
This long view of the E astman School and Theatre was made vis ible when th e veiling block of
buildings on th e o the r side of th e street was torn down this spring. Clearing of the site was part of
a major restoration of th e area a ro u nd the school that will result in a new downtown M etro
Center for th e Arts. Impetus for the cultural district came from the school a nd its director Rober t
Freeman.
evaluation , di git al image processing ,
and color science (U R and RIT).
In-vitro program
This spring the M edi cal Center
became one o f the few medical centers
in thi s cou ntry offering in-vitro fertilizati
on (IV F) to ch ildless couples who
ca nno t be helped by other means to
have their own na tural ch ild . (The first
baby born as a result of do cumented
in-vi tro fertilizati on was Louise
Brown-celebrat ed , erroneously, as
the " test-tube" baby-inJuly 1978 , in
England.)
" IV F-emb ryo transfer represents a
natu ral extension of th e work of our
Di vision of R ep roductive Endocrinology
and Infertility, " says Dr. Henry
A . T h iede , professor and chairman of
th e De partment of Obstetrics and Gynecology
. " Fro m the experience of
other centers wh ere this procedure is
performed , we believe there is a
significa nt need for thi s service." At
the time the R eview went to press, the
M edi cal Center had received over 500
inquiries abo u t the procedure and had
accepted its first fourteen couples for
p articip ati on in the program .
In-vitr o fertilization is still largely in
the beginning stage. The procedure is
su ccessful in only ten to twenty per cent
of couples . Since IVF is for many patients
the only hope for conception by
natural mean s, an importa n t elemen t
of the Rochester program will be to increase
its ra te of success. The number
of procedures will be limited during
the first year to provide an oppo rtun ity
for care fu l evaluation of the program.
New trustees
Thom as C . M acAvoy, president
and di rector of Corning Glass Works,
has been elected to the University's
Board of Trustees, and Everett S.
Ascher '57, president ofEmil Ascher,
In c. , has been named to a six-yea r
term as an alu mn i trustee.
M acAvoy also is president and
chairman of Corn ing International
Corporation . Since join in g Co rn ing
Glass in 1957 , he has serve d as vice
president of the technical products and
th e electro n ic products divisions, director
of ph ysical resea rch , and manager
ofelectro n ics research . He is a former
nati on al president of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Ascher has for the last five years
been president of Emil Ascher, Inc "
the nation's largest distributor ofprerecorded
background music. A
founder of the Lo s Angeles Philharmonic
Association, he is a member of
the citizens ad visory com mission for
the 1984- Summer Ol ympics. He has
been a member of the U nive rsity of
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Roch este r Truste es' C ouncil , th e
sen ior alum n i advisory gro up to the
Board of Trustees , since 1977 .
Presidential search
David T. Keams, ch airman of th e
U niversity's Board ofTrustees, has
a nno unced th e members of the
T rus tees' C ommittee for the select ion
of th e Un ive rsity's new presid ent a nd
of the Facu lty Ad viso ry Committee to
th e T ru stees' Committee .
President Robert L. Sproull, who
was na me d chie f exec utive of the
U niversity in M ay 1974 , anno unced
last year th a t he would re tire from th e
post on J une 30 , 1984 .
W alter A. Fallon is chairman of the
T rus tees' C ommittee . Se rv ing with
him as members of th e com m ittee a re
Edwin I. C olod ny '48, An gelo A .
Costa nza '5 1, V irginiaA. Dw yer '43,
Pau l R . Gross, Elliott W . G u maer,
J r. , Geor ge E . Pake, Ernest I. R eveal ,
O . Ce d ric Rowntree , a nd K earns.
H a rmo n S . Potter '3 7, secre ta ry of th e
U nivers ity, serves as secre ta ry of the
co mm ittee.
M embers of the Faculty Ad visory
Comm ittee a re Carole A. Anderson ,
asso ciate professor of nursing
(associa te chairman); GeorgeJ .
Bcn sron , p ro fessor ofbus iness administration;
George H . Ford, Joseph
H . Gi lmore Profe ssor ofEnglish ; W aiter
I. Garms, pro fessor ofed uca tion
an d hu man de velopment;J ohn R .
Huizen ga , Tracy H . H arris P rofessor
of Che m istry and Physics;J . Pa ul
Hunter, dean of the Colle ge ofArts
an d Scien ce (chairm an) ; R obertJ .
J oynt, M .D., EdwardA. a nd Alm a
Voller tsen R ykenboer P ro fesso r of
Neu rophysiology ; Abram Loft, professor
of chambe r music; Albert Si mo n,
professor of mechanical eng ineering;
and Frank E . Young, M .D., vice pr esiden
t for health a ffa irs a nd dean of the
Schoo l ofM edicine and Den tist ry .
Scholarship program
The U nive rsity and the R ochester
affiliate of the U rba n League ha ve an ­
noun ced th e first phase of a nati onal
scho larship program in whi ch they are
colla bora ting .
U nder the program 's provisions, the
U n iversity will offer ann ual scholarsh
ips ofa t least $2, 500 to two stude nts
in next fall's entering class, th e win ­
ner s to be selected fro m a group of ten
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nomin at ed by th e U rban Leagu e of
R ochester. Beginn ing next yea r, the
U n iversity will invite th e 118 Urban
League affiliates n a tionwide to
nominate stude nts for the schola rsh ip ,
and will select up to fifteen winners.
Nomi natio ns will be based on academic
achievement a nd leadership
q ual ities shown in extracu rricula r or
comm u ni ty ac tivities. Fina l selection
will be m ade by a U niversity
co m mittee .
The scholars hip p rogra m is bei ng
establis hed in conjunctio n with th e m ajor
Campaig n for Ad mission s, a nnounced
in th e las t R ochester R eoieui ,
th rough whi ch th e Univer sity has
mounted an intens ive recruiting effort
to co mbat the projected declin e in
numbers of poten tial college students
ac ro ss the country . U nde r the chairmansh
ip of U niv er sity Trustee G .
R obert W itmer '59 , th e ca mpaign is
see king to increase the di ver sit y of the
undergraduate student bod y whil e
maintaining its tr adition al base of
quality .
Vice president
Paul W . Lewis, ass istant vice preside
nt for investments since 1981 , has
been named U niversity vice preside nt
fo r investments .
Lewis succeeds Phi llip H orsley, who
h as beco me a princ ipal in Horsley
K eogh & Associa tes, a new firm
formed to manage ve ntu re -ca pital in ­
vestme nts m ad e by the Universi ty of
R ochester a nd th e Eastm a n Kodak
R eti rement Plan .
Lewis has responsib ility for the
overall m an agement of th e Unive rsity's
endo wme nt fund of over $575
m illion, one of the la rgest in the co untr
y . Before join ing th e U n ive rsity in
1971 , he was an assis ta n t vice president
at C itibank in Ne w York Ci ty ,
wh ere for ten years he managed pen ­
sion a nd profi t-sh a rin g fu nds in th e in ­
st itu tio na l investmen t division .
H onors
One ofou r readers commented
awhile back th at practicall y every issue
of the R eview seemed to feature
some th ing about Anthony H echt,
J ohn H. D eane P ro fessor of Rhetoric
and Poetry . H e wa s right. Practicall y
every issue does seem to feature
so methi ng abo u t H ech t. T he reason is
sim ple . H e see ms forever to be doing
some th in g newsworthy . During the
last yea r , for example , th is Pulitz er
Prize-w inning poet wa s a ppo inted consulta
n t in poetry in English to th e
L ib ra ry of Congress, a post ro ughly
equ iva len t to th a t of the Br itish poet
la urea te , a nd a few mo nths lat er was
elec ted to the board of tru stees of the
Am erica n Academy in R o me .
Now H echt has a new hon or. In
January he was na me d co-winner
(with John H olla nder) of the Bolli ngen
P rize in Poetry of Yale University
L ibra ry , considered one of the na tion 's
most distingu ished literary hon ors.
H ech t is, ofco urse, by no means the
o nly R ochester faculty member to be
sing led out for hon ors in recent
mo nths . Fo llowing is a selection of
some of the othe rs:
H istori an MacGregor Knox was
awa rde d the America n Historical
Association's 1982 George Louis Beer
Prize for "the best work on Eu ropean
in te rnational history since 189 5. " T he
book so hon or ed is M ussolini Unleashed,
J939-J94J. Politics and Strategy in Fascist
Italy 's Last War , published last yea r by
Cambridge University Press. Knox ,
an associate professor of history , is a
specialist in th e political, d iploma tic,
and military history ofE urope since
1789.
Presiden t R eagan has announced
his intention to appo int W alter Y. Oi,
Elmer B. Milliman Professor of
Economics, as a vice chairman of th e
Presiden t's Commission on Em ploymen
t of the H andicapped . A forme r
staff eco no m ist for th e Presid ent's
Commission on an All-Volunteer
Armed Force, O i is a n a uthori ty on applied
eco no m ic th eo ry a nd on la bor
and transportati on eco no m ics. H e
ca me to R och ester in 1967 as professor
of econo m ics in the G rad ua te Sch ool of
M anagem ent. H e was nam ed chai rm
an of the Department of Economics
in the College ofArts a nd Scien ce in
J uly 1976 and held th e post un til 1982 ,
when he ret urned to full-time teach ing
and research .
Dr. Se y mour I. Schwartz, professo
r of surgery, has bee n named
p resident-elect of the Society of
C linical Su rge ry . H e will tak e office as
president in 1984 . A n in tern a tionally
known teache r, research er , and practitione
r ofsurgery, Schwartz is ed ito rin-ch
ief of th e defmitive 2, 150-page
tex t, Principles ofSu rgery, an d a uthor of
th e textbook Su rgical D iseases qf the Live r.
A specialist also in ca rtogra phy ,
Schwartz is co-autho r of T he M app ing of
A merica, a vo lu me tracing the hi story of

the chartin g of the contine nt from the
sixtee n th cent ury to the present.
Dr. T. Franklin Williams h as been
named d irector of the Nationa l Institu
te on Ag ing of the Nationa l Instit
utes of H ealth , effective July 1.
Wi del y kn own and highl y res pected as
a specialist in the ca re of the elde rly
and chro nically ill, Wi llia ms is
J . Low ell Orbison Alu mn i D istingu
ished Service P rofessor and is also
professor of medicine and o f preventive,
fami ly, and rehabilitation
medicin e . H e is in addi tion co-di rector
of the University's C enter on Agin g .
Amon g eme ritus professors who
have been hon ored recently is
A . William Salomone, W ilson P rofessor
Em eritus of Hi story . A special
session of the America n Hi storical
Association 's December convention in
Washi ng ton was dedi cated :0 him.
Ea rlier that month he was chai rman of
an int ernat ion al sympos iu m commem ­
orati ng the centennial of G iuseppe
Gariba ld i.
T he life and work s of a highly
respected former professor, the lat e
Hyam Plutzik, awa rd-win ning poet
and John H . Dean e Professor of
Rhetoric and Po etry, have been
celebrated over the la st few mont hs in a
display in Rush Rhees Library . The
exh ibition coinc ides with the twentieth
a nn iversary of the University' s Plutzik
M emorial Poetr y Series, fou nded in
Plutzik's hon or . Since 1962, mo re
than 150 noted write rs have read from
their works in the ser ies .
Hear , hear!
Ala bama: WB HM, Birmingh am;
WHIL, M obil e . A laska: K SKA , Anchorage;
K UA C , Fairbanks. California:
KPC C , Pasaden a ; KPRN, An gwin
; KQED, San Fran cisco ; KC SM,
San M at eo ; KUSC , Los Angeles . Connecticut:
WPBH , H artford . Florida:
WHRS , Boyn ton Beach ; WUFT,
Gainesv ille; WUWF, Pen sacola. Il ­
linois: W IUM , M acomb ; W SIE, Ed ­
wa rd sville ; WS IU , C arbondale. Indiana:
WFIU, Bloomington . Iowa:
KTPR, Fort Do dge. K entucky: WFPK,
Louisville ; W MKY, M oreh ead . L ouisiana:
WWNO, New O rlea ns. M ichigan:
WCMU , Mt. Pleasan t; W GGL,
Houghton. M innesota: KC CM,
M oorhead ; KLSE, R ochester ;
KRSW, W orthington ; SKJN, St.
Paul-Minneapolis; KSJR , C ollege ­
ville; K UOM-AM, Minneap olis-St.
P aul; W CAL, Northfield ; W SCD,
Duluth. Missouri: KC UR , Kansas C ity
; KXCV, M aryville ; KS O Z , Po int
Lookout; K UMR, R olla . Ne braska:
KIOS , Omah a . N ew York: WAMC ,
Alban y; WXXI, R ochester. No rth
Carolina: W FAE, Charlo tte . N orth
Dakota: K EJM-F M , Gra nd Forks.
T his ph ot o of fourth-year med ical students K atie Eel s an d Joe MaGee wa s made in th e Medical
Cen te r post office a few moments aft er noon on " M atch Day ," when th ey, simultan eously with
other medical stu den ts across the country, found ou t where th ey will be doin g their resid en cies
afte r they gr aduate. The matching is done b y a natio nal co m p u te r ized process that ranks stude n ts
and hospital s in th e order of their mutual preferences and comes u p with the assignments. It was a
goo d mat ch for K atie andJoe. Their notifications told th em they will continue to team up as
resid ents at th e Un ivers ity of California at Davis.
Oklahoma: K O SU , Stillwa ter . Ohio:
W CBE, Co lumb us; W C SU, Wilberforce.
Pennsy lvania: WIT F , H arrisburg
. T exas: K KED , Co rp us Christi.
Utah : K U SU , Logan ; KBYU , Provo.
Vermont: W VPR, Wind sor. Virginia:
WHRO , No rfolk ; WMRA, H arrisonburg
. Washington: KPLU , Tacoma.
W isconsin: W UWM, M ilwaukee.
What do th ese fifty-one PBS affiliat
es have in com mo n? T hey all
carry the " Ea stman in Co nce rt " rad io
series featuring solo a nd ense mble
presentat ions by Eastma n School
faculty and stude nt performers.
If you receive an d enjoy the program
ove r you r local sta tion, you
might want to express you r appreciation
to the m anagem ent. It will help to
keep "Eastman in Co ncert" coming
your way . Conve rsely , if you r region al
PBS outl et doesn't carry the program , a
word to the sta tio n concern ing its
av ailability mi ght do the trick . It is
produced a nd syn d ica ted by R ochester's
WXXI-FM.
Book note
Vested I nterests, a collection ofessays
a nd sa tires, has been publish ed by its
a utho r, R alph A. R ai mi , professor of
mathem ati cs. R ai mi is well kn own to
man y readers of the R eview , who will
remember a number of th e essays th at
made their first appeara nce in these
pages.
In the media
R ead ers of national publicat ion s, as
well as of scientific and professional
jo u rnals, regularly come across reference
s to th e scho larly ac tivities- a nd
profession al judgm ents-ofpeopl e at
the U n ive rsity . Followin g is a cro ss
section of some of those you mi ght
have seen withi n recent mon ths :
.Heavy hitter: In what tu rned ou t to
be the University 's biggest media
eve n t in some yea rs, newspap er s, n ational
magazines, wire services, and
network rad io and televi sion carried
th e word acro ss the cou ntry wh en the
Ea stman Philharmonia premi ered
J oseph Schwa n tn er's N ew Mo rningfor
the W orld with bas eball great Will ie
Sta rge ll as n arrator. (See lead art icle in
this issue .) Among those that cove red
th e story were Time, T he New Yorker,
Sports Illustrated, H igh Fidelity , T he New
York T imes (inclu d ing two feature
stories in one day , one on the spo rts
pages and one in the en tertain me nt
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section), USAir, UPI, AP, USA Today,
National Public Radio ("Mornin g
Ed ition" and "The Sunday Show"),
"Goo d Morning America" on ABC­
TV, Voice ofAmerica, and CBS 's
" M orn ing News" and "Nightwatch."
• Onjoint r esearch : In designing
connections between universities and
ind ustry, it is wro ng to " cla ssify o r
otherw ise control access to un iversity
research, includin g that joint with
industry," argued P resident Sproull in
a recent Scienceeditorial. "The adversary
process," he wrote, "was never
in tended to apply to joint programs,
where th e outpu t is also joint . .. and
the accomplishmen ts for all part icipant
s are fa r grea ter if speed and
simplicity ofnego tiations take the place
ofexquisitely detailed legal contracts."
Primary re sponsi bility for funding
basic research in universities should
fall no t on industry, b u t on the government,
Sproull said, add ing that "no
company or ind ustry can harvest the
res u lts soo n enough to justify any
inv estmen t larger than keeping a window
on bas ic research and a conduit
for the movemen t ofbright young
people int o th e company."
Ideally , cooperat ive projects with industry
ca n help attract " so me of the
ab lest you ng peop le to those fields that
can make a differe nce in th e su rv ival of
our society," Sp ro ull wrote. In that
respect, " university-ind ustry interaction
should not be looked upon as support
at all, but as an ab solu tely necessary
part of the su rvival bo th of
Am erica n in stitutio ns and of the
American econo my ."
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Henry Clune's 'I Always Liked It Here'
A newly minted Rochester alu m ­
nus, H enry W. Clune, is the author
of a new book published by the
Frie nds of th e U niversity of Rochester
L ibraries. C lu ne , who celebrated
his ninety-t hird b irthday
ea rlie r this year, wa s, as the Review
went to press, sla ted to be accorded
hon orary alumnus status (Class o f
1912) at a re ception on April 22
marking the day ofpublication. T he
awa rd ho nors his literary ca ree r and
hi s association with the University
a nd its su rroundi ng community .
A lifelo ng R oche steria n , Clune is
well known as a novelist and rae­
. Not so bad: More ink for Bruce
] acobs's views on th e so-called plight
of the elderly came in a lengthy
U.S. News & W orld R ep ort fea tu re and
in a syndicated column, both on
govern m ent spending fo r the elderly.
] acobs, associate professor of political
science and co-author (with form er
Rochester faculty me mber Alv in
Rabushka) of the book Old Folks at
Home, argues that the vast m ajority of
America's older citize ns a re neither
poor nor seriously ill.
.Heavenly host: "An angelic concert"
is the description Chicago Tribune
cr itic Robert C . Marsh gave to a performance
by the Eastm an Brass in Orchestra
Hall. "When I get to heav en ,"
Marsh wrote, " I don ' t want a brigade
of harps. Get me a brass band like this
one." Ensemble members, all on the
Eastman faculty , include trumpeters
Barbara Bu tier and Charles Geyer,
French horn player Verne R eynolds,
trombonist]ohn Marcellus, and tuba
player Cherry Beauregard .
. Optical: Preparing for ca reers in
optics-especially in laser technology
-was the subject of a re cent feature
story in The B lack Collegian. The article
pointed ou t that the College of Engineering's
Institute ofOptics offers the
o nly B.S. degree in op tics in the
United St a tes and is one of only two institutions
nat ionwide to gran t M.S.
and P h.D. degrees in op tics .
• Fever pitch: Fever may serve a
positive purpose as th e bo d y's way of
fighting illness, recent studies suggest.
New views about the benefits of fever
onteur of Rochester history. 1
Always Liked It Here: Reminiscences of
a Rochesterian is his twelfth book,
following six popular novels, The
Rochester 1 Know, a history of the
city, and The Genesee, his contrib u ­
tion to the R ivers ofAmerica series,
among others. Liv ely as ever , in th is
book he recounts numerous anecdotes
of Rochester lore , including
ta les of the rich and fam ous-like
Tallulah Bankhead, Babe Ruth,
Clare Boothe Luce, and]ean Harlow-whom
he met during the
course ofhis long career as a
Rochester newspaper reporter and
were reported in American Health, in
which Dr. Norbert]. Ro berts,]r.
no ted th at fever may hea t the body 's
im m une system cells and spur them
into action . Re search by R ob ert s,
associate professor of m edicine, has
shown that when temperatures rise ,
whit e blood cells are mobilized agai ns t
invading and dam aged cells .
. L aser lab: Laser re sea rch at
Rochester has received co nsiderable
coverage lately as the res u lt of two
wire-service stories. The firs t, an AP
report on the su ccessful record in g of
the briefest even t ever d irectly
measured , has appea red in major
newspa pers na tion wide . T he tea m
m easuring the event-which was fourteen
billion times briefer th an the ey e
can see-was led by Gerard A .
Mourou , sen ior scien tist a t the Laboratory
for Laser Energ etics of the
College of Engineering and Applied
Scienc e .
T he second story is a j ust-released
feature o n the laser la b that we nt ou t
over the UPI wire .
• Anti-n a u sea : T he n ausea an d
vomiting that canc er patien ts su ffer
when anticipating chem o ther apy trea tment
can be fought off wit h a
be havioral technique ca lled syst em a tic
desen sitiza tion , R ochester researchers
have shown. T he fin d ings of Gary R .
M orrow, assistant professor of o ncolo
gy in psychia try , and a re search
associate were published in The N ew
En glandJoumal ofM edicine and re ported
by T he New York T imes, U PI , and other
m edia.
chronicler of the the a ter and sports
worlds.
The book is available in two ed itio
ns: hardcover, with dust jacke t,
$15; and a signed, lim ited ed ition,
slipcased a nd specially b ou nd in
buckra m and boards, $30 . If you
wish to order a copy , you m ay do so
by sending your check or money
o rder, addin g $ 1 for postage and
handling, to Friends of the University
of Rochester Libraries, 325
Rush Rhees Library, U ni versity of
Rochester , Rochester, New York
14627 .

. L ow cal: M ed ical Cente r researchers
have developed a supplemented
high- p rotein , low-calori e
preparation that seem s to avoid the
sometimes fa tal heart problems lin ked
with ot her liquid protein die ts, U P I
recen tly reported . T he new prep ar ation
, available on ly to ph ysician s, was
described at an Amer ican H eart
Association conference by D r . Dean
H . Loc kwood, professor of medicine .
.In the know: At tempt s by colleges
to wipe ou t " scientific illite rac y "
amo ng non science majors was th e
focus ofa N ew York T imes article that
noted as an example the U niversity's
" In troduction to Modern Biology"
cou rse for non scien tists. T he course's
con ten t includes topi cs ofcurren t interest,
such as cloning, evo lut ion , and
gene tic screen ing. " We want stude nts
to be able to understand th e scient ific
issues they read abou t in newspapers
and to make informe d political decisions
about them ," K arl A . Drlica ,
assistant professor of b iology, told the
Times.
. Atten tion , r eaders : The Officeof
University Communications is asking its network
of alumni readersfor their help in compiling
clippings oj published references to the
University, itsJaculty members, and its
alumni. U'hen you come across such items, if
you would take a minute toclip out thearticle,
identify it with thesource and date oj
publication and send it along to the Review
(108 Administration Building, University
of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627),
the office would begrateful. A numberoJy ou
didj ust that after our last request, and we
thankyou all.
Sports
A str ing of record-setting performance
s (both tea m and indiv idual) has
b rought the seven -sport winter varsity
program to an emine ntly sa tisfactory
conclusion, with six team titles in invitational
cha mpionsh ips and an overall
record of 56 win s and 36 losses in
head-to-head competition .
So fa r in the 1982- 83 year, Yellowjacket
squads, competin g in seven tee n
winter and fall sports, hav e compiled a
total of 120 wins, 90 losses, an d 4 ties,
along with eleven inv itationa l team
titles.
Co ach M ike Neer 's men 's basketball
team recovered from a slow 3- 7
start to post a fin al 15- 11 record ,
spiced by attai nmen t of the champion ­
sh ip in the Lincoln First Bank Schola rsh
ip T ourn ament and a first-ever postseason
appea rance in th e EC AC 's
Division III Upstate New York Tourname
nt (in which the 'J ackets were
defeated at the bu zzer in the finals by
host H amilton College). R ochester,
whi ch will lose just one squad member
to graduation (ca pta in Don D eC olyer
'83), was paced by forwa rd Creg Blu e
'85, who led the squad in scoring ( 15 .9
ppg, su ppo rte d by 50 .7 per cent accu
racy fro m the field with 7.4 rebound
s per contest). Blue was voted
the MVP of the Lincoln T ou rn ey, and
along with guard Terry Fitzgerald '86,
who popped in 12.2 pp g, gained a
berth on the ECAC All-Tou rn ament
Team .
Poin t-guard T om Lowney '84 set
the Alexander Palestra single-game
reco rd for assists (16) and , whil e he
was at it, esta blished U niversity
records for most assists in one seaso n
(2 18), pe r ga me one season (8 .4), and
career (481) . Forward J oe Aug us tine
'8 6 ( 11.4 ppg) converted forty-five of
h is fifty foul-shot attem pts for a new
U R accu racy record of 90.0 pe rcen t.
H e also led R ochester in field-goal
shootin g at 56.6 percent. DeC olyer
twice collared eig hteen rebou nds in a
single contest at his cen ter position,
and fin ished the season with 225
caro ms for an ave rage of 8. 7 per game .
All three of these reboun d ing figu res
ma rk the best record by a Rochester
player since the 1974- 75 season . Forward
Larry H ok aj '8 5 tot aled 11.8 ppg
and was elected to the L incoln AIl­
T ou rn ey T eam befo re an eye inj u ry
forced him out of the secon d half of the
season .
H ighlights of the bas ketball sea son
were the wins over R IT (44- 43 in the
semifinals) and St. J oh n Fisher (70-68
in O T in the finals) in the L incoln
T ourn ament played at the Palestra;
ho me-cou rt decisions over Nazareth
(8 1- 65), LeM oyne (61 - 50), and
Elm ira (77-69); and a 90- 76 thrash ing
admin istered to Alban y State in the
semifina ls of the EC AC tou rn ey before
the 'J ackets fell to H amilton 59-56 in
the title game.
Coach Pete Ly ma n 's squash team
compiled a fine 11-5 mark that included
decisions over Leh igh (8- 1),
Colga te (7- 2), Colu mbia (7- 2), Cornell
(6- 3), and M IT (6- 3). Seniors
Dav e D u ryea (13-3 record at N u mber
four) a nd]oe Purrazzella (13- 3 ma rk
a t Num ber six) pa ced the Yellow -
j ackets' individual playas Rochester
fin ished in the Number twelve slot nation
ally in the fin al regula r-season
ran k ings and the n wen t on to tie with
Army for twelfth place in the thirtythree-team
Nati on al In tercollegiate
Ch amp ionships held at Princeton . As a
result of their reve rsa l from last year 's
6- 7 record , the Yellowjackets were
voted by the National Squash Coaches
Association as winners of the
prestigiousJ ack Barn aby Award ,
given annually to the natio n's mos timproved
inter collegiate tea m.
Under the direction of coach Pat
Skehan, the women's swimmin g team
posted a 5- 2 dual-meet record , took
team titles in the R ochester Area Colleges
and UR Sprint Champion ships,
placed second in the Division III State
M eet, and qualified seven comp etitors
in twelve even ts a t the N C AA Division
III Nationals. Left in the 'Jacket wake
were thirteen new scho ol records and
All-American hon ors for UR' s
400-yard medley relay quartet (H elen
Stolka '86 , K arin M iller '86, J ean
Zarger '85, and Barb Bliss '86) tha t
placed nin th at the NCAAs with a
clocking of 4: 13.26- a R ochester
record .
Coach T im Hale 's men's an d wom ­
en's indoor tra ck and field p ro gram
P ole -vaulter M ik e O felein '8 6 soar s to a new
meet record in th e twenty -fi rst an n ual UR
Rel a ys in the Fi eld H ou se .
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enjoyed a successful wint er season.
The Rochester men compiled a 7- 1
du al-meet mark, pla ced second in the
UR R ela ys and Union In vita tional,
and finish ed fourth in the C onfer en ce
C ham pionsh ips . Co-captain G lenn
Lamb '83 set a new school record in
the 3,000-meter ru n (8 :22.1) and won
the Conferen ce 5 ,000-meter run with a
meet-r eco rd clocking of 14:40 .41 .
Excep tional team dep th backed up
R oche ster's winning formula, which
provi ded impressive road win s over
Colgate, St. Lawren ce, H amilton, and
Q ueen 's Un iversity of O n tario ,
C an ada.
The women's track and field squad
finished 4-1 in dual mee ts, won the
UR Invitational, and pla ced eleventh
at the Division III Eastern C ham pion ­
sh ips, sett in g fifteen school records in
the process. M ichelle M azurik '86
established U R marks in th e 45-meter
(:06 .0), 55-me ter(:07.1), and
300-meter (:43.2) dashes, and Lisa
H ardy '86 chalked up schoo l-record efforts
in th e SOD-mete r (2: 26.1) and
1,ODD-meter (3: 13 .0) eve nts to pace the
yo uth fu l Yellowj acket team .
C oached byJ oy ce W ong, the women
's basketball cr ew closed their
season with a 14-11 record, highligh
ted by a 57- 54 conquest of Al ­
leghen y in the title ga me of the UR Invitati
onal. Ce n ter Kristan R adak '85
paced the Yellowj acket attac k with
I S.2 points and 12.7 reb ounds per
game , earni ng All-T ournament Team
hon ors in in vitationals at Rochester,
Ston y Bro ok, Manhattanville, and
R ochester Ar ea Colleg es. Forward
Tracy H aswell '84 ch ipped in 10 .2 pp g
to the 'J acket offense, whil e guard Ann
Emmons '84 set UR assist records for
a single game (15 against LeMoyn e in
a 77-62 Palestra win) and per game in
one season (5.5) .
The m en ' s swimming team su ffered
th ro ugh its 0-5 season dual meet , but
coa ch Bill Boomer's tankmen carne on
strong at season ' s end, taking the team
title a t the UR Sprint Invitational,
placin g fourth (amon g fifteen sq uads)
in the Upper New York State Cham ­
pionships, and qu alifyin g five swimmer
s for the N CAA Division III National
Championship s. T odd Barth '8 4
set school records in the 1DO-ya rd
(:54.11) and 200 -ya rd (2:0 1.72) backstro
kes, whil e Georg Nad orff 'S5
esta blished a new U R sta ndard in th e
500 -yard freestyle at 4:54.94.
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Alumnotes
R C - R iver C ampus colleges
G - G rad uate degree, Ri ver
ampus colleges
M - M .D . degree
G M - G rad uate degree, Medicine a nd
Dentistrv
R -Medical 'residency
F - Fellowsh ip, M ed icine a nd
Den tistry
E - Ea stman School of M usic
G E - Graduate degree , Eastm a n
N - School of Nursing
G N - G rad uate degree , Nursing
U - Uni ver sity Co llege
G U - G rad uate degree, U n iversity
C ollege
River Camp us
1936
GilbertB. Forbes ' 40M , j. Lo well Orbison
D istingu ish ed Alum n i P rofessor of Ped iatrics
an d professo r of ra diation b iology a nd biophysics
at th e M edi cal C en ter , has been awa rd ­
ed the 1982 Gold M ed al of the M edica] Alumni
Association at Rochester. . .. M a rg are t
Waasd0'1' ha s bee n app ointed to a three-yea r
term on th e Boa rd of O verseers of Stro ng
M em orial Ho spital .
1937
Robert H . Dicke ' 41G, p rofesso r of physics at
P ri nceton U nivers ity , is a mem ber of the Co m ­
m itt ee on Ballistic Acou stics of the National
R esea rch Co u ncil, which studied th e meth odology
in the evaluations o f th e record ed a cou stic
d ata at th e time of the assa ssina tion ofj ohn F.
K en ned y. H e is also a m em be r of the Panel on
Scient ific C om m u nica tion and National Security
of the Na tion al Acad em y of Scien ces. H e was
awa rd ed an hon orary degre e from R och ester in
1981 . . .. R ob er t P , L ar son has re tire d a s chief
exe cutive officer of G len Fal ls (N .Y .) N ational
Ban k a nd Trust C o . H e will co n tinue to serve as
chairman of th e ban k' s board of directors.
1940
John R . Thirtle ha s be gun a new ter m a s a
member of the American C hemi ca l Society
Cou ncil.
1941
J . D on a ld H an au er ha s retired as executive vice
presid en t of the Los An geles Area C ha mber of
C ommerce. H e will cont inu e to serv e a s a consu
lta n t. . . . A retrosp ective exhib ition of pa int ­
ings, collages , an d wa te rcolo rs by the lat e
R ob ert Rei ff was held at M idd lebury C ollege ,
where R eiff was p rofesso r of art histo ry un til his
dea th in j un e 1982. . .. David W. Stewart,
p resid en t of the R och este r-area Blu e Cross Plan ,
h as been elec ted to the board of d irectors of the
na tional Blu e C ross an d Blue Sh ield
Association .
19-13
M y ro n " Mike" lV. K lei n was elected m ayo r o f
Sanibel, Fla., an islan d com m u nity in th e Gulf
of M exico n ea r Fo rt M yer s.
19,16
Beve rly Bish op G , p rofessor of p h ysiology a t
S U NY Bu ffalo, has been awa rd ed honor ary
m em bersh ip in the Am erican Ph ysical Therapy
Association .
1950
A critical study by Williamj. Martz, Th e Place
oj "M easurefo r M easure" in Shakespeare's Universe oj
Comedy ; was rece nt ly p ub lished by Coronado
P ress. M artz is cha irm a n of the English de pa rtm
en t a t R ipon (Wi s.) C ollege . . .. Irwin M iller
has bee n pro moted to sen ior engi neer in the system
su pplies di vision of IB M in Princeton , N .J ­
. . . L aura E . Root '51G , director of the H ylan d
Center In stitut e of St. Anthony ' s M edical C en ­
te r in St. Lou is and an alumna of W a sh ingt on
U niversity , wa s hono red at that school ' s
Fo u nders D ay Ban q uet. . . . The Nur sing
Ed uca tion Alumni Assoc iation of T eachers Co llege
, Columb ia U niversity, presented Ret. Col.
Ruth P . Satterfield a n Awa rd for Di stingui sh ed
Achi evemen t in Nursi ng Pr acti ce for her con ­
tribu tions in the a rea o f n u rse a ne sth esia
p ra ct ice.
1951
Angelo Costanza , chai rm an of Cen tral T ru st
C o., presid en t of the R ochester Downtown Develo
pment Co rp. , and a member o f the University
Trustees' .-xccu tivc com m itte e , was na med
to New York G overnor M a rio C uo mo's T alen t
Search Co m m ittee , charged with sea rc h ing for
ca nd id a tes to fill posts in hi s administrat ion . H e
wa s also recen tly named to the Trustee s' com ­
m itt ee for th e selection of thc Un iversity 'S new
presiden t. .. Former Rochester athletic di recto
r Dav id Ocorr ha s be en named assistant to
th e pres iden t of St. j ohn Fish er College.
Madeline Petrillo, a pediatric mental-health
co ns u lta n t based in New York C ity, is co-a uthor
o f the widely u sed text , E motional Care of /he
H ospitalized Chil d.
1953
An article b y Barry K. Beyer '62G , p rofe sso r of
ed uca tion at G eorge M ason University , appea
red in the O ctober issu e of Instructor
m agazi ne.. . _Rev. Charles L. Wilson , who
special ize s in provid ing in teri m m in istry serv ices
in New England , ha s bee n selected in ter im min ­
ister at the Unita rian U niversal ist C hu rch of
M arblehea d , Mass.
1954
J oa n C . Farna ha s been appo in ted di recto r of
developmen t at the H a rley School, an indepen ­
d ent , co -educationa l college prepa ra to ry schoo l
in Rochester . . . . Margaret D . Sovie has bee n
ap poin ted to a th ree -yea r term o n the Boa rd of
O versee rs of Str on g M em or ial H ospital.
1955
Arch itect Bruce C . Bower was elected city comm
issione r in W in ter H av en , Fla .. . . Bern ard
W . H arl eston G , presi den t of C ity College of
N ew York , was th e keynote speaker a t a Foun d ­
ers Day convocation at O ld Do m inio n U n iversi ­

y. . . . W . C. Brian Peoples ha s been elected to
the board of partner s of Arthu r An dersen and
Co . , Societe C oopera tive , a worl d wide pub lic
accou nti ng firm . . . . R ober t Stern '56G E ,
'62 E, p rofessor of m u sic a t the U n iversity of
M assa ch uset ts, has recei ved a 1982- 83 ASCAP
Award from the America n Society ofComposer
s, Author s and P ublishers.
1956
H aroldJ. Abramson , a ssociat e professor of
sociology at the Univers ity of C on nec ticu t, is
resea rchi ng a project titled"A Comparati ve
View of Italians and]ews in Amer ica ." .. .
Patricia WeiJ King, a faculty me mber of the
Doro thy T au bm a n Sch ool of Piano, wa s selected
the first-p rize win ne r of the Ith aca College
C horal C om positi on Co ntest, co-s po nsored by
Theodore Presser publishe rs . H er win ning wo rk
was perfor med at Ithaca Co llege . Last su m mer ,
K in g wa s th e fea tured composer of the Amher st
(M ass.) M usic Festival. . .. Carol Lenhardt
has been appo in ted p resident of the Science
T eache rs Associa tion of New York Sta te .
1957
Everett S. Ascher, presiden t of E mil Asch er ,
In c. , has been named to a six-year term a s an
al um ni tr u stee of th e Univers ity . .. . Wa lt er
Cooper, of Kod ak R esear ch Laborat ori es , ha s
been awarded th e H en ry A . H ill Lectu reship
Award fo r 1982 from the Nort heastern Section
of the Amer ica n C hemical Socie ty.. . . Robert
A. Gardner '59G ha s been named presid ent of
Comet R ice and vice president of Early Cal ifor ­
n ia Industries, its pa rent com pany... .John W.
Sewell is president of the Overseas De ve lopment
C ouncil.
1958
Maude Ack erman is d irector of the newly
formed company Enrech , the Computer Skill s
Center, in Commack , N .Y . . . . Adrian
Anthony C ollins ha s esta blishe d a private la w
pra ctice in th e Wo rld T rade C ent er b u ildi ng in
New York Ci ty . . . . Robert H . Stone is vice
p resid ent a nd ope rat ions ma nag er of Becht el
Energy Co rp . in Mem phis.
1959
Elaine K at z Bobgrove has received a ma ster' s
degree in ed ucation from Ru tgers U nivers ity .
. . .John Burgess was p romoted to senio r vice
pres ident of cor po ra te finan ce at Kinney Drugs
in Go uve rn eu r , N .Y . . . . Bruce D . Wolfanger
' 71G ha s been prom oted to ass oc iate tre asurer a t
R och ester.
1960
Carol yn Cummings teaches thi rd grad e in
H ar risville , N .Y. . .. Friedrich]. Grasbcrgcr
G ha s been p romot ed to directo r o f th e Cen te r
for G overnme n tal Resea rch in Rocheste r. ...
Artworks made of hand made p aper , flower
pet als , and plexiglass by Barbara Hancock
were exh ibited at the Low er M ill G allery in
H oneoye Fal ls, N .Y . ... Robert C . Sharp,
ma na ger of profe ssional and fini shing ma rket s at
Eastm a n Kod ak, add ressed the fall sem ina r of
the Photo M a rketing Associa tion Inte rn a tional 's
fall sem ina r in New Orlea ns. . . . Rev , James
Wo od s has been ap po inte d rector of T rini ty
Epi scop al Chu rch in M elro se, M a ss.
19 61
Donald P. Barra. cond u cto r and mu sic directo r
of th e johnston Symp ho ny O rchestr a a nd assistan
t mu sic d irector of the Bedford Sp rings (P a .)
Holding court
That' s John Braund '53, and Bill Scouler '55 in front ofhim, a t the far left of this "Miller' s
C ou rt " j u ry box . Braund, who is asso ciate director of alumni relations, and Scouler were am on g
those attending a Boston a rea alumni r ecep t ion preceding the taping of the popula r TV show
modera ted b y H a rva r d L aw School professor Arthur Miller '5 5 (at right). For the third consecut
iv e year the show has b een awarded an Emmy by th e National Academy of Telev ision Arts
and Sciences, New England Chapter, as best public affa irs ser ies . In addition, Miller wa s awarded
an Emmy in the individual achiev ement catego ry a s ho st. (For a photo of Scouler in a n other
ca p acity , see page 35 .)
Summer Music Festiva l, is the author of the
book The DynamicPerformance, A Performer's Guide
10 M usical E xpression and Interpretnnon ; publish ed
this yea r by Prent ice-H all. . . . Robert M . Doty
G is d irecto r of the C urrier Gallery of Art in
M an chester, N .H .. . . RonaldJ. K arpick, a
specialist in pul mona ry d isea ses and in ternal
med icin e , has b een elected to fellowship in the
Amer ica n College of Ph ysician s. He is on the
sta ffs of Al exand ria and Nort hern Virgin ia Doctors
hospital s .... Geologi st Marion Weaver
'6 5G presen ted a tal k on glac iers a t a m eet in g of
th e M ama ron eck H isto rica l Society. . . .Jackson
M . Young ha s m oved from O ttawa to be ­
come director of market in g at B tz E ur op e ,
Inc. , located in Laguna Niquel, Calif.
19 6 2
W illi a m E . J ack so n , an atto rney in W ashingto
n , D .C ., ha s become cou nsel to the firm of
Larson and T aylor.
1963
Ann Francis is a fas hion consultan t for Sibl ey's
in R ochester. .. . Neu rol ogi st J ero me Goldstein
has be en na m ed d irecto r of the Sa n Fr ancisco
H eadache C lin ic. . . . Comdr. Bru ce H opkins
has assumed com ma nd of th e Defen se Co ntract
Administr a tion Ser vice in San Diego . . . .
An gel yn Forbes Mitchell reports that her
l l -yea r-old son. Stephen , is officially adopted .
. . . Robert], Sok ol '66 M ha s bee n appoin ted
chairm an of the departm en t of obste tr ics and
gynecology at W a yne State U n iversit y M ed ical
School and obstetr icia n gynecologist-in-ch ief of
the D et roit M ed ical Cen ter a nd Hutzel Hospital.
. . . Pa intings by George Wingate were exh
ibi ted a t th e Eve rson M u seum in Syra cu se .
Winga te resid es in New York C ity.
1964
J ohn E . Bes ser , gene ral cou nsel and secreta ry of
th e Bar n es Group, Bristol, C onrr., was elec ted
t reasurer of the Connecticut Society to P reven t
Blindness. H e serves also as chairman of the
society's budget com m ittee. . . . Phyllis Budka
is a Ph .D . candidate in ma teri als engi nee ri ng at
R en sselae r Polytechnic Institut e and vice p reside
nt of Stan Welding Sup pli es in Schenec ta dy .
. .. Geraldine H . C ohen has com pleted a
ped ia tr ic resid ency at the Un ive rsity of T exas
M edi cal Branch in Gal veston and ha s est ah­
Iish ed a pract ice in ped ia tr ics in Lea gu e C ity ,
T ex .. . . Joseph P. DeOrdio '68G was p rom
ot ed to associa te dea n of stu de n ts at North
Ad ams (M ass .) St at e C ollege.... Alan].
Gu tter m a n , a pa rtn er in th e W estfield, N .J . ,
law firm o f G utterman and W olk stein , is serv ing
a second term On the W es tfield T own COLI neil.
. . . Rajind a r Koshal G , '68G is p rofessor of
eco no m ics at O hio Unive rsity... . K en neth
W ydro is a m an a gement tra in in g con sultan t
and com m u nication s specialist. . . . Married :
J ohn Edward M ol is and S ue Ann a Yarborough
on Dec . 21 in Fayetteville , Ark .
196 5
Elizabeth Capaldi, p rofes sor of psy chologi ca l
scie nces at Purdue U ni versit y , ha s been named
in add ition as sistant dean of the Gradua te
School. . . . Richard DuFre sne, a flavor chemist
in the research de partment a t Lorillard in
G reensboro , N .C ., gr ows 400 herb va rieties in
his ya rd at home and ha s do nated his he rb s to
suc h well kno wn gardens as the Biltm ore H ou se
a nd Gardens in Asheville. . . . Ri chard English
is manager of technical service and product
a ssu ra nce at A pplied M aterial s, In c. Ca r ro ll
English has ret ired fro m 15 yea rs of pra ctice in
occ upational thera py and reports tha t she is con ­
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templ ating plans for her next career .. .. Miles
Southworth G , a facul ty member of th e Schoo l
of Printin g of R och ester Instit ut e of T echnolo ­
gy, is th e author of Color Separation T echniques a nd
the Pocket Guide to Color Reproduction . Both book s
are availa ble from R .I.T . . . . Atto rn ey R ich a rd
G. Young ha s be en elec ted a vice pres ident of
Lincoln Firs t Bank in Rocheste r.
1966
Gera ld and Marjorie Rude Cook G ha ve been
n amed pastors of W ichita M ission C hurch in
An ad ark o, Okla. . .. Harrington E . Crissey,
Jr. is an assi stant coordinator of ed ucation al
services at the Nation ali ties Se rv ice Ce nter in
Philadelphia. . . . Ellis and Su e Ellen Kraff
Liebma n h ave adopted a daughter, Robin
Lau ra , bo rn A ug . 30 . Su e Ellen is a coadjutan t
inst ruc to r in history at the Community Co llege
of Philadelphia an d at De laware Co unty Comm
u nity College. . . . Lewis R . Morrison, a de ntist
in C lifton Pa rk , N .Y . , has bee n elected
p reside nt of Co ngregation Bet h Sha lom ....
M a rried : Derek J ohn W oodman a nd L ynne
P amm en ter on Aug. 1 in La Jolla, Cal if.
1967
Wayne R. Cohen ha s been nam ed associa te
pro fessor of obstetr ics and gynecology at Albert
Eins tein C ollege o f M ed icine an d d irector of
obst etrics an d per ina tology at N orth C entr al
Bro nx H o spi tal. . . .Joseph Francis Cunningh
am G has formed the law pa rtnershi p of H aggerty
, Donoh ue and C unn ingh am in Washingto
n , D .C . . . . Iris F . M itga n g G, for me r na ­
tion al chair of thc Na tional W omen 's Politi cal
Ca ucu s, ha s becom e a pa rtner in th e law firm of
Dodge, Re yes, Bro rb y, Randall and T itm u s in
Lafayette , C al if. .. . Bria n Pecon G is senior
vice presid en t of fligh t a nd intern a tiona l opera­
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tion s at Fed eral Express Corp . . . . Edward
Spencer ha s been named director of hou sin g
and resid ence life at Virginia Polytechnic Instit
ute and State U niversity in Black sbu rg , Va.
.. . Suzanne M . Timble is an atto rney with the
firm of M cB ride a nd Ba ke r in C h icago .
1968
Lucy Chernow Brown was app ointed assista n t
sta te attorney of Pal m Bea ch C ounty, Fla.
Thomas Cottrell G ha s joi ned the staffofthe
Gene va (N .Y .) Agricu ltural Experiment Station
a s an a ssoc iat e professor of enology. H e resea
rches winemaking techn iq ues an d new wine
variet ies and wo rks also with a rea wineries a s an
extension specialist. Co tt rell, who also has
d egrees in e nginee ring and physics from Cornell
U n ivers ity and a doctora te in laser optics fro m
R och ester , fou nd ed C uvaison vineyards in the
Napa Val ley . . . . Peter Flass has been ap ­
po inted director of compute r se rv ices at Empire
State Co llege (S U N Y) in Sa ra tog a Sp rin gs..
Sharon Gerber ha sjo ined the staffof the]ewish
Community Ce nt er in Hou ston . . .John L.
Simon ha s been n a med di rec to r of consumer
heal th ed uca tion at Johnson &Joh nson in New
Bru n swick , N .J . . .. Marr ied: Howard Raab
and Arid Sal nyon J u ne 14, 1981, at Lake
Mohonk , N .Y .
1969
Stephen D . Benin ha s bee n named chairman of
t he Jewish Stu dies Pr ogram of th e Sch ool of In ­
ternati on al Stud ies at the U n ivers ity of W ashin
gton , Seatt le. . . . William Glasner won the
Best of Show Award for his blown glass in th e
La ke C ou ntry Craftsmen exh ibition in R ochester.
. . . A. Robert Maurice G is assi sta nt dean
for cont inuing ed ucation at Loyola U niversity in
New O rlea n s. . . Henry Nicholas Muller III
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G is preside nt of Co lb y-Sawyer Co llege in New
Lo nd on, N.H. , senior ed ito r of Vermont L ife,
ed ito r of Vermont H istory , a nd cha irm a n of the
Vermont Cou ncil on H istori c Preserv a tion .
Sylvia Salenius has been promoted to a ssocia te
vice president and director of en vironmental
studies at PRC T oups, a consulting , pla nnin g ,
and engi neering firm ... . Russell E . Stingel G
is exe cutive vice pr esident, ge neral m an ager,
and corpora te secre ta ry of TEC Elect ronics in
New ark , N.Y. . BennieJ. Wilson III G, a
studen t at the Na tio nal War Col lege, ha s been
appointed a sen ior resea rch fellow at National
De fen se Un iversity . . . . Born : to Edgard and
Di ane Plassey Gutierrez, a daughter , Me lod y
D iane , on Nov. 20 . . . . to Kevin Br acken '71
and Sylvia Salenius, a daugh ter, Saara Liisa ,
onJan . 10, 198 1.
1970
Joseph A. Amato G , p rofessor of h istory at
Sou th wes t State University , is the author of th e
book Guilt and Gratitu de: A Study ofthe Origins of
Contemporary Conscience. T he book wa s pu blished
la st yea r a t the sa me time h e co mp le ted hi s
Eth ics: Living or Dead.' . .. David L. Ch rapkiewicz
'72G has won a C ertificate of M erit in
V iolin at th e int ernation al compet ition sponso
red b y th e Violin Soc iet y of America . In add ition
to per formin g , he bu ilds violins, violas, and
balalaikas in h is Iow a C it y stud io . ... Laura
Maidman Gordon is prima ry investigator for a
study at Ru sh Colleg e of M ed icine in C hica go
sponsored by the Nati onal Cancer In stitu te,
" Assessin g the Effects of C ounseling C an ce r Patient
s." . . . Deborah H . H arris , a th eater student,
performed in a T em ple Un iversity prod uc ­
tion of R omeo and J uliet . . .. Carl T . Helmers,
Jr. , for m e r ed ito r of B YTE m aga zine , h as
donated a sy nclavier music synt hesizer to th e
Co llege of En gin eering a nd Applied Scie nce. He
is presid ent of North Amer ican Technology ,
In c. and publish er of Ro botics Age magazine and
Bar Code New s. Student s in the Depa rtmen t of
Elec t rical E ngineering will use the syn thesizer
and its Able/60 com puter for investiga ting d igita
l signal processing and speech synthesis... .
Alan Radin has been ap pointed m edi ca l d irec ­
to r of the R egen cy of W estp ort (C onn .) .
C. Woodrow Rea,Jr_ has been named presiden
t of Ultratech Step per , a unit of Ge neral
Sign al that mak es semiconductor pr oduction
equipmen t in Santa C lara , Calif. .. . M arried :
Benjamin Hal e C heev er and J anet Maslin on
Dec. 24 , 198 1, in Ossining, N .Y . . . . Bo rn : to
G er a ld '7 1 a nd Laura Maidman Gordon , a
son , Alexander D avid. on Nov. 15.
1971
Laurel Anderson ' 73G received a Ph .D. in
cli nical psych ology fro m the C aliforn ia Schoo l of
P rofessional Psych ology in Lo s An geles. .
Pamela Hill Coogan is an assoc iate regional
cou n sel for the En viro nm ental P rotection Agency
.. .. Fran Cruikshank G ha s been named
edi torial as sist ant at Br ador Pu blication s in
H on eoye Fall s, N .Y . . . . Gerald Gordon is a
clinical a ssista nt pr ofessor of m edicine in the infectious
diseases sect ion of Geisinge r Medical
Ce nter, affiliated with H ershey Co llege of M edi ­
cine . . . .John H ammond ha s been appointed
d irecto r of th e Dorch ester (Md .) County Library.
. . . Peter H. Sch oln ick , forme r planner
at Ab t Associates in Cambridge , has j oined the
Tou ps D ivision of Planning R esearch Co rp . in
LaJolla, Calif., and is wo rki ng on new tow n
pl an ning in San D iego and in develop in g nations
overseas. . . . Frederick Seidenberg h as

voice facul ty at Waync S ta te U n iversity in
De tro it, sa ng the role ofJ ulia in the P iccolo
O pera C om pany's production of H o rvir's Adventure
in Space. . . . Ross P owell G is assistant professo
r of clar inet at Meadows School of the A rt s
in Dallas.
1966
Barton M cLean GE , a facult y member a t the
U niversity of T exa s at Austin , has been awarded
a composer fellowship from the Nati onal En ­
dow ment for the Arts an d a Norl ing-M acDowe ll
Fellow ship that su ppo rts h is resid ency a t the
M acD owell Colony. He and his wife, Priscilla ,
have released two alb ums on Folkw a ys Re cord ­
ings, ComputerMusicfrom the Outside In an d
Mcl.ean: Surrealist Landscapes . The M cLeans h ave
completed several national tour s as the electroni
c m usic -aco us tic p" rlo rming duo , T he
Mc Lea n Mix.
196 7
Si ster Grace Ann Geibel CE has been appoint
ed acting dean 01C arlow College .
F rank K owals ky , cla rinet ins tr ucto r a t In ­
terlochen Am Acad emy and principal clarinetist
ofthe No rthwood Symphonette, was in vited to
perform on a record ing with pian ist Alan
H ovh an ess an d colo ratu ra soprano H inako
Fuj ihar a Hovh an ess. . . . Gu ille rmo Sea rabino
C E, de a n of the School of Arts at Cuyo University,
has begun his seven th season as music
d irector of the M endoza (Argentina) Sy mphony .
H e was a gues t conductor at the XII Inter ameri ­
can M usic Festival in Washington , D .C ., at
Puerto R ico 's First Performing Art s Festi val and
is sched uled to cond uct the Bu-nos A ires Phi lhar
mon ic in T ea tro C olon 's celebra tory 75th
annive rsa ry seas on . Jim \Voodward C E,
' 75CE has been appointed head of the mu sic
departm en t a t Okl aho ma Stat e U ni versity.
1968
Karen Pfouts Au stin , chor al d irector at
neKalb (111.) Hi gh School , was a clin icia n at the
IM EA con vention in Sp ringfield in February.
. . . Cha rl es Dec k er is professor of tru mpet at
T ennessee Po lytech nic Institute and a doctoral
can d ida te in trumpe t performance a t th c Un iversity
of Texas . . . . John Kuzm a ha s been
named mu sic di rector of the Am erica n Boychoir
School. .. , Ca ro l A . L ucas C E , ' 7I C E con ­
d uctcd a fall tour of the Barberof Seville , spon ­
sored by Co lum bia A rtists Communi ty C oncer
ts. .. . Stephen Paulson , pr incipal bas ­
soonist of th e San Francisco Symphon y, was a
soloist in tha t orchestra 's perfor man ce of
Mo za rt 's Bassoon Concerto, with gues t cond uc tor
K ur t M asur. . . . H arp sicho rd ist Web b W igg
in s G E is a me m ber of the m usic facult y at
C entral Piedmon t Co m munity College in C harlot
te , N. C .. , . M a rri ed : Lawren ce R . O wen
andJoanne Hiller GE in J u ly.
1969
Doris Salis GE has been nam ed director of contin
ui ng ed uca tion a nd gra d ua te stud ies at
Plym outh (N .H .) S ta te Co llege.
1970
D en n is Herri ck is a doctoral cand idate a t North
Texas Sta te University an d director of the R esound
ing Bra ss of C race Co llege in Winona
Lake , Ind . . . . Violinist Elizabeth Gorevie is a
member of the Sar an ac Lake C ha m be r Pla yers.
. . . John Longhurst C E is orga ni st at the M or ­
mo n T abern acle in Salt Lake Ci ty an d accompa
nist for its cho ir. . . James Setapen ha s been
ap point ed associ at e con duc to r of th e D enver
Sym phony Orchestr a and music ad viser for th e
D enver C ham ber Orche stra. ... David
Willoughby C E , dean of the college of fine art s
at Ea ste rn New M exico Un iversity , was re ­
elected to terms on the execu tive board of the
C ollege Music Society and on th e music panel of
the New M exico Arts Division . Arti cles he has
writte n appea red last yea r in '[ he CollegeM usic
Symposium and the Music Educatorsjournal,
1971
Bonnie G ilm an CE teaches string ins truments
to grades one th rou gh 12 in the mu sic prep ar ­
ato ry d ivision of St ephen F . Au stin State
U n ivers ity in Nacogd oches , T ex . . . . Violist
Robert L au GE is chairm an of the mu sie
d ep artment at Leb an on (Pa.) Val ley C ollege
an d a membe r of th e Ea ken String Q uartet. .
Arnest M uzquiz C E is head of th e per cu ssion
d ep a rtmen t in the School of Music a t Syracu se
U n iversi ty, directo r of its Percu ssion En semble,
ass ista nt conduc tor of th e Sy racuse Sym phony
O rchest ra , and conductor of the Symph ony's
You th Orche stra .
1972
J ohn Bern thal CE, or ga n ist at T rini ty
Lu thera n Church in U rba na, has rece n tly performe
d on a conce rt tou r in sou theastern
Wi scon sin with h is wife, Ann , an organ ist at
Un ivers ity L uthera n Chu rch of the University
of Illinois . . . . Kurt Gilman, a third- yea r violin
a n d viola instr uctor and conductor of the
U n iver sity Symphon y O rchestr a at S tephen F .
Au stin Sta te U n iversity, is a doctoral ca ndi da te
a t the University of T exas at Austin . , .. Recent
com pos itions by Lorett a Jankowski '79C E include
Reverie, for clar inet and piano , Die
Sehnsuchten , for mezzosop rano and or gan , an d
Praisethe Lord (Psalm 148), for flu te, clarinet ,
viola, harp, an d pian o, pu blished by Co nt inuo
M usie Press of ABI Alexand er Brau de , and
Sonatafor B Flat T rumpet and Piano published by
Dorn Pu bli cations. T he New J ersey C ha m ber
M usic Society has commissioned J a n kowski to
write a wor k for its 10th annivers a ry season . .. .
Michael Luxner CE, '78CE was nam ed assi stan
t conductor o f the Savannah Sym ph on y Orchest
ra .... Richard Alan Strawser C E , '79CE
ha s been named assistan t cond uc to r of th e
H arrisbur g (Pa .) Sy mphon y. ... O rgan ist Barbara
Thomson C E wa s appoint ed mu sic d irector
of th e Refor med Church of Hi ghl and Park
(N ..J.) Sh e is on the m usic faculties of Rutger s
U n iversity and West m inster C hoir C ollege . . . .
A solo record album b y N an cy Vseher , cop
rin cip al violist of the J erusalem Symp hon y O rchestra
o f Israel, has been released by M usical
He ritage.
1973
Julianne Baird '7 6C E is an adj unc t faculty
member a t R u tge rs U niver sity and the U niversity
of Pen nsylvan ia. .. . Ronald L . C aravan
C E , ' 75G E is a m ember of the music facult y of
Syracuse Un iver sity, soprano saxophon ist of the
Aeoli an Saxop hon c Quartet, and concertm aster
of the Saxo p ho ne Sinfonia . . Bass-barito ne
James Cou r tn ey CE appea red in nine M et ro ­
pol ita n O pera produ ctions last season .
Ri chard C. Res ch GE is o rga n ist and d irector of
mu sic at the K ra me r Cha pel, Concord ia Theological
Seminary , in Fo rt W ayne , Ind., an d conductor
of the Sem inar y Kan torei. . . . Brian
Schob er , ass istan t p rofessor of mu sic at T exas
Wes leya n Co llege an d orga n ist at Peace
Lu theran C hu rch , received a gr an t from th e Na ­
tional E ndowmen t for the Art s to crea te an orchestral
wo rk .
19 74
Dorothy Darlington plays ob oe and English
horn in th e U .S . M arine Band "President's
O wn ." H er hu sb and , C ha rle s Fi ndley , play s
clarinet and saxopho ne in the ba nd . .. . Tonio
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De Paolo sang the role of Bep pe in the Houston
G rand O pera ' s production of Leon cavallo 's
Pagliacci . . . . Rober t H. Freedman GE has been
a ppointed can tor of the Jewish Community
C ent er of Princeton , N .J . .. . Cons tance A .
Small has been elected stu de nt rep resen tative on
the board of trus tees of Bristol Community Col ­
lege, where she is majorin g in busi ness. . .
Allen V izutti ' 76GE has be come a perfor m ing
artist for Yam ah a M usical Prod ucts. H is new
fusion grou p , Re d Metal , is named for his
special red -metal Yamaha tru mp et .. .. Mar ­
ried : Dorot h y S . D arl in gton and C harles F.
Findley on Dec . 24
1975
Fern Glass-Boyd, assistant professor of mus ic at
the University of Montan a , is pri ncipal cellist
for the Mi ssoula Sym phon y O rchestra and pe rforms
with the Mon ta na Baroque Ensemble an d
the Montan a String Q ua rtet. .. . Flutist
P atricia Green ler perform s with the M idd lesex
Wind Ensemble.. .. Di an e Hulin g recently
comp leted a year as an instr uctor at the Vermont
Conserva tory of th e Art s... . D avid
Morga n is a memb er of the Manor House T rio,
concertm aster of the C hr istian Sy mphony Orchestra
of the Philadelphia Co llege of Bible, an d
first violinist of the O rch estra Society of
Philadelphia. He also teac hes string music in the
Wi ssah ickon , Pa ., schoo l d istrict. . . . Stephen
Rapp is organ ist-choirma ster of C hrist' s C hurch
in Rye, N .Y . . . . Barb ara Sauer G E plays piccolo
tr umpet in the chambe r en semble, O rchestra
da C am era .
1976
Ed ward Castilano , p rincipal bass player of th e
Syracuse Symphon y, also plays electric bass
with the Syr acuse Symphony Ro ck E nsemble .
. . . Jewel D ir ks GE , ' 77GE is coordinator of
theory and com position at R ad ford (Va.) College
and director of the M usica Nova and the
Compose r's Fo rum . H er com pos ition , A us Dem
H andbuch, for flute, piano, and cello, was per ­
fo rm ed at a me eting of the Fed erated Mu sic
C lubs of Fort Collins, Co lo. . .. Robert R .
Dw elley G E has been appointed m usi c direc to r
of the Hornel l (N .Y .) Symphony O rchestra and
will contin ue as musi c di recto r of the Finger
Lake s Symphony Orchest ra , the Brighton Light
O pera Com pany , and M adrigalia .... J oel
L ev in e is associate cond ucto r of the O klahoma
Sym phon y Orchest ra .... Pian ist P amela
P res ton is a doctora l can d idate at the Universi ty
of M aryl and .
1977
Pianist David Abbott lives in New York City,
where he is heard frequently in recital and
ensemble performances . . . . Dea n Billm ey er
has been ap pointed assista nt pro fessor of music
at the Un iversi ty of M inne sota . . .. J effrey
I rv ine G E is pr incipal violist of th e Westm o relan
d Sym phony O rchestra an d performs regularly
with the ew Music Ensemb le and the
New Pitt sburgh Chamber O rchestra . ... Am y
Krin iek is cho ir director an d in stru cto r of vo ice
at Shelby Stat e Comm unity Co llege in Mernphi
s.. . . Steven Lan d gren has estab lished an
element ar y and m iddle school instru mental program
in the O swego city school di strict .
Stephen Lee G E received honorable me nti on as
a finali st in th e In ternational O rgan Competition
in Brug ge, Belgium , last su mmer. He is
organ ist and choir di recto r at Trini ty Church ,
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New ton , and on the mus ic facu lties of the
Me lros e and Wooster schools. .. . Soprano
E llen M ar k us G E teache s at the U nivers ity of
Nort h Carolina at G reens bo ro . . . . D avid M a r ­
tins teach es cla rinet an d conducts ensembles at
Lowell (N .H .) U niversity an d is currently perform
ing in the Boston Opera Company O rchestra
.. . . Co mposer Cleme n t R eid hasjo ine d
ASCAP as a writer member. Five of his works
wer e recent ly published by See saw M usic
Corp .: Meditation, for gu itar ; Theater Piece No.1,
fo r cello ; Distances, for cha mber ensemble;
Epigrams, for piano; an d Sons of theDesert, for
piano and four ha nds . . . . D av id Sabin is a
member of the Syracuse Cam erata . . . . L ee
Teply GE , d irector of mu sic at Lewi ston Fir st
Presb yter ian C hurch , was guest cond uctor of
the Nia ga ra Fal ls Ph ilharmonic Orchestra .
M ar ried : Lloyd D . Altman and Naok a
Kurosak i '79E on O ct. 3 1 in Brooklyn .
1978
Ce llist Meredith Reddick is a m ember of the
J ohann es T rio and a facu lty member at Ste tson
Un ive rsity.
1979
T he University of M issou ri-K ansas City, has
appointe d John Ditto G E adj unct associate professor
of m usic ... . An article adapted from the
bo ok SacredCantatas: An Annotated Bibliography
1960-1979, by M arga ret R. Evan s GE, assistan
t professor of music at Sou thern O regon State
College, appea red in the September American
Organist. T he boo k was published by MeFarland
in 1982. . . . J am es K osn ik GE has been nam ed
assi stan t professor of or gan and mu sic histor y at
O ld Dominion U nive rsity in Norfolk, V a . . .
Sop ran o Abbe Sh er won first pr ize in the 1982
Boston O pera aud ition s and was a summer apprentice
art ist at the Sa nta Fe O pera H ou se.
1980
L isa D . Clark received a master's degree in
piano performance an d litera ture from the University
of Notre Da me . . .. J a mes Co ch ran G E
is director of mu sic at First Baptist C hurch in
R ochester and a do cto ral student at th e Eastm an
School . Louis Gold ste in G E is professor of
music at W ake Fo rest Univer sity .. . . O rganist
Karl E . Mo yer GE has been named mus ic cri tic
of the Lancaster Sunday News. H e has recently perform
ed in Lanc aste r , New York Ci ty , Brid K

Back in court
Bill Scouler '55 (front and cen ter ) had h i s day
in cou rt ("Miller's," see pag e 2 7), and th en
had another on e on the ball co u r t a t this
winter's first alumni ba sketball game.
Scouler, who is a p h ys icist at MIT's Lincol n .
Laboratories, was one of si x tee n former varsity
players who retu rn ed to Ro chester for the
contest , Also visible in the p icture are John
Mattioli '79 (dark shirt) and M ike O ' Brien
' 78.
Iiams D isti ngu ish ed L eadersh ip Aw ard for 198 2
from the Endocrine Soci ety .
1947
Patrick F . Bray M has been named presid ent o f
th e Am erican Boa rd of Psych iatry and Ne u rology
. an d has receiv ed th e H ower A wa rd fro m th e
C hild Neu rology Society . . .. RichardJ. Collins
M has been appointed to a three-yea r term
o n th e Boa rd of O vers eers of Stro ng M emorial
H ospi tal .
1948
Burton M . Cohen M wa s promoted to clini cal
professor of medi cine at the Unive rsity of
M edicin e and D entistry of New Jersey-New
J er sey Medical School.
1952
Thoma s Nau ss R was named vice p resident o f
the M ercy Hospital m ed ica l staff in Scran ton .
Pa.
1953
George P . Vennart M , cha irma n an d professor
of the department of patho logy at Virginia
Co m mo nweal th U niversity, has been appointed
southea st reg ional com m iss ion er for the C om ­
mi ssion on Laboratory Accreditation of the C ol ­
lege of Amer ican Pathologists . . . . Kenneth W.
W ood w a rd M ha s been appointed to a th reeyear
ter m on the Board of O verseer s of Strong
M emo rial H osp ital .
1957
C . M cC ollister Ev arts M , ' 64R , D o rr is H .
Carlson P rof essor and ch ai rm a n of orthopaed ics
a t the M ed ical C ent er , ha s been chosen p resident
of the Associati on of Orthop aed ic
C h airm en .
Alumni n ewsmakers
. Star: Don ald W in get '8 1G and
three of his collea gues at the
University of Texas are cred ited
with the discovery of a new class of
pul sat ing wh ite dwar f stars tha t may
p rovide so me clue s to the wa y the
u n iverse was formed . The d iscovery
of the star GD358 confirms a th eory
that W inget had worked ou t with
Rocheste r scientists wh ile he was a
doctoral stud en t of H ugh Van
H om. Van Horn, Rochester' s
cha ir ma n of the Department of
Ph ysics and Astronomy, had this to
say abou t his studen t' s find : "This
is the first typ e of pulsa tin g wh ite
dwarf star to be pred icted mathematically
before it was discov ere d .
Up to this po int, theoretician s had
been trying to expla in what
obse rve rs had see n . Bu t th is time ,
theory predicted someth in g that we
have now fou nd to be tr ue . "
• Do uble d ip : Peop le pursu ing two
simultane ous careers are not all that
u ncommon , but this is a combination
tha t we 'v e never run across
before: F rederi c Joyce ' 73 writes
tha t wh ile he was go ing to med ical
sch ool at th e Uni versity of Aarh us,
Den mark, he was also establishi ng
an ice cre am facto ry and a cou ple of
ice cream -sand wich restau rants.
Now th at he's graduated , he is look ­
ing toward a career in card iovascular
su rgery on the one hand,
an d , on the other , is beginn ing the
ex pansion of his ice cream busin ess
th roughou t the coun try. "I'm
sure ," J oyce writ es, "t hat no one in
m y class ever guessed I would end
up in De nmark fixing hearts and
coronary ar teries and maki ng a
chain of ice crea m stores . I never
wou ld have guessed it either ."
H ere's an other: Elizabeth V .
Steinbach '56, who go t her
bachelor' s degree in general science
, has co mpleted work toward a
second bachelor' s degree- th is one
in art (she paints)- at M oravi an
College. In between , she earn ed an
M .D . from Women 's M ed ical College
of P ennsylvania and fou nded
the de partmen t of nuclear med icine
at Sacred Heart H osp ital in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania . Althoug
h she gave up her practice
some years ago after he r famil y
grew, she keeps her hand in by
teaching me dical parisitology at
M oravian College and conduc tin g a
series of sem inars at Sa cred H eart .
. Honors: Vir gin ia Radley '52G
was named one of eigh t " unsung
heroines" by th e Nat ional
O rgan ization for W omen . The first
wo man president in the State
Un iversi ty of New York system ,
R adl ey rece ived th e T rail bla zer in
Ed ucation Award. She has been
president ofSUNY Oswego sin ce
1969 .
T he O ptical Society of America
has elected to the post of vice presid
ent Ro bert R . Sh an non '54,
'57 G . He will beco me presidentelect
in 1984 and president in ' 85.
Shan non is a pro fessor at the O ptical
Sciences Ce n ter of the University
of Arizona .
Ronald A. H o mer ' 71G is
preside nt-elect of the Nat ional
Ba n kers Associati on, th e trade
o rganization represen ting the
nati on 's minority-owned banks. He
is executive vice pr esident and ch ief
opera tin g officer of Freedom
N ational Bank of Ne w York Ci ty .
. Ar m s co n tr ol: H e rbert Scovill e ,
Jr. '42G, a former CIA o fficial
(d ep uty director for research) who
became pres ident of the Arms
Control Association , appears in
J oan H arv ey 's new an ti-war
docu me nt ary film , America- From
H itler toM -X. In 1981 he won the
U n iversity 's fourth H u tch ison
M ed al for outstanding achieve me nt
by alu mni , and a few months la ter
was one ofeigh t men and wome n
ho nored with $10,000 Rockefeller
Public Service awards. Scov ille was
recogn ized for his wo rk in pro moting
world peace through ed ucation
in arms reduction . Du rin g his lon g
ca reer in governmen t service,
Scoville was also assistant d irector
for science and technolo gy of the
U .S . Arms Contro l and Disarma ­
ment Agency , among other posts.
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1960
Cleaves M . Bennell M is medical di rector of
Inne r He alth , a new preventive med icin e progr
am that teaches nut rition , stress man agement ,
and exercise. He is also director of the UC LA ­
Harbor General Hospital Hypertension Clinic ,
which honored him with the O utsta nd ing C linical
Faculty T eaching Awar d for 1982.
1961
Rober t K raunz M has been named chief of ca rd
iology at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N. Y.
1962
Norman W att 11,1, director of emergency services
at Vassar Brothe rs Ho sp ital, has been
na med president of the board of directors of the
Ame rican Heart Association of D utchess Co unty,
N .Y.
1963
H a routun M . Babigian , chairman of the De ­
part ment of Psych iatry, has been appo inted to a
three-year term on the Board of O verseers of
Strong Memorial Hospi tal. . . . Albert Lee
Wiley , Jr. M report s that he was an un suc ­
cessful can didate for Rep resentati ve from the
2nd Congressional D istr ict in Wi sconsin . H e
ma y ru n agai n in 1984 , he says.
1965
M oniq ue F reshman GM is genetics editor of
the Ophthalmic Photography Society and works with
her husband , M ich ael Freshma n '64M , in the
eye diagnostic cen ter at Seton Hall of St. Mary' s
Ho spital in T roy, N .Y.... E dward R . Silver ­
b latt M has a private practi ce in gas tro ­
enterology in Palo Alto, Calif. , is clinical
associate professor of med icine at Stanford
U niversity School of Me dicine, and is de puty
chief of the department of medi cine at Stanford
University Hospital . . .. Davi d A . Steven s M is
associate professor of medi cine at Stanford Un iversity
Medical Schoo l. chief of the di vision of
infectious diseases, hospital epidemiolog ist, an d
co-director of the microb iology lab oratory at
San ta Clara Valley Medical Center in San ] ose .
1966
Frank W . Schult z M ha s been named medical
director of the M edical Sou th Commu nity
He alth Plan , a new health maint enance organizat
ion in Brai ntree, M ass.
1968
E dward O. Re ite r M ha s been nam ed chairman
of the pediatric depart men t at Baystate M ed ical
Center in Springfield , Mas s., affiliated with the
University of Massachu setts and Tufts University
med ical schools. He is also di rector of
ped iatric endocrinology and co-director of the
endo crinology laboratory a t Baystate.
36
Med ica l School Reunion
October 6-7
Save these dates for:
• George Hoyt Whipple Lecture
• Gala Reunion Banquet
• 1983 Gold Meda l Awa rd
• Reunion class events
• Speci a l honors to Class of
1933-50th reunion class
1969
Rob ert Chapman R has been named dir ecto r of
psychiatric serv ices at Mt. Ascu tney Hospital
and H ealth Center in Windsor , VI.
1973
Steven Gort on M has been name d head of onco
ogy at SI. J ohn 's H osp ital in Longv iew,
Wash .
1974
P hilip G reenl and M , ' 78R , assistan t professor
of medicine at the Medical Center, is onc of five
ph ysicians in the count ry to receive a three-yea r
teach ing and research sch olarship from the
Am eri can College of Ph ysician s.. .. Ravindra
Kan d uIa R has establ ished a practi ce in general
surgery at St. Luke's Me dical Ce nt er in Bethlehem
, Pa . .. . Steven A. Sch on feld M has been
appo inted a ssociate director of the pul mon ar y
division and director of the pul mon ary function
lab oratory at Sinai H ospital in Baltimore.
1975
William Craig-K u hn M , '79R h as been named
ph ysician director of th e emergency departme nt
a t Os wego (N. Y.) Hospital. ... H en ry Nasralla
h R is the co-edi tor of Schizophrmia as a Brain
Disease, published by O xford U niversity P ress in
1982. He is assoc iate professor of psych iat ry at
the U niversity of Iowa College of Med icine and
chief of psychiatri c services at Iowa C ity
Veteran s Administrati on M ed ical Ce nter.
1976
Gail L. Bro wn M received the O utstanding
Young Alumna Award from H art wick Co llege .
She is a practitioner in internal medicine an d
hemarologv-mcdical oncology, attending physician
, and instru ctor at Brigham and W omens
H ospital, and a facu lty tu tor at Harva rd
Medical School. . . . J on ath an M oldover R has
been ap pointed med ical dir ector of the new J ohn
H einz Institute of Rehabilit ation Medicine in
W ilkes-Barre, Pa. He is also an exa mining
ph ysician for the National W heelcha ir Athl etic
Associati on and served on the finish-line
med ical team of the 1982 Boston Wheelchair
M arathon . . . . Do nato A. Viggiano M received
the Best R esident Award at the ann ual meeting
of the South eastern Society of Plastic and Re ­
constructive Surgeons. H e is in privat e practice
in Port Saint Lucie, Fla.
1977
J ames S. P owers M has been appoint ed inst ruc ­
tor in the division of intern al med icine at
Vanderbilt U niversity.
1978
John Stewar t R ichards, a n ophthalmologist,
has been ad mitted to medi cal and sur gical
pri vileges at the Franklin (N .H.) R egional
Ho spital.
1979
Robert R . Alexand er R ha s been appoint ed
hea d of the psychi atry dep artment and chief of
the psychiatry service at W inthrop (M ass .)
H ospital. . . . Rob er t R. Barood y M has
esta blished a pr actice of famil y medi cin e at Blu e
Hill (M aine) Memorial Ho spi tal. . . . L ou is
Ga lb iati III G M has been appointed assistant
pr ofessor of art s and sciences at SUNY Coll ege
of T echn ology at Ut ica-Rome. . .. Steven
Lu ger M has jo ined the medical office of
More newsmakers
. New j ob s: Secretary of State
G eorge P . Shultz has asked
R ich a rd T. Ken n ed y '41 to concent
rate full time on nuclear nonproliferation
and en ergy ma tters at
the State Depar tm ent, under the
title Ambassador for Nonproli feration
. Kennedy had been wearing
two hats at State as U nder Secretary
for Management and U .S . representative
to the In tern atio nal
Ato mi c Energy Agency in Vi enna .
Be rnard R . Gifford '68G, '72G
is the new dean of the School of
Ed ucation at the University of
C alifornia in Berkeley. U n til April,
Gifford had been vice presid ent for
student affairs and professor of
politica l science at Rochester.
Among previous posts he has held
are presid en t of th e New York C ity ­
R and In stitu te and deputy
hancellor for the New Yo rk City
Public School System.
.Sh ow b iz : J eff Tyzik '73E,
' 77GE seem s recen tly- among
othe r , no doubt greater, distinction
s- to have become composer to
ice skaters. At the W orl d C u p
Figure Skating C hampionships in
H elsinki, a Belg ian skater perfor
med to the stra in s of T yzik ' s
Prophecy, from the alb um of the
same name, and two others glided
a bout accompanied by Being #1,
whi ch T yz ik co-wrote. NB C , in ­
cid entally , frequ en tly uses Being #1
to introd uce its ne twork broad casts
of sports events.
The las t issue of the Review- in
referring to the d irector and
playwrigh t George Abbott ' 11 as
re cip ie nt ofone of the an nu al Kenne
dy Cen ter Hono rs-mad e
mention of the op en ing in W ash ­
ingt on of a rev ival o f his On Your
T oes, whi ch he was di rectin g . The
production has sinc e mo ved to
Bro adway. Time happily reported
that Abbott " has retu rn ed to direct
on e of the liveliest revivals in
years," wh ile Newsweek de creed that
he " has directed the new version
with all his patented virtues ofcla ss,
pace, and style ." M r. Abbott, you
should kn ow- in cas e you thou gh t
his class n umerals up there were a
typo- is n inety-five years old . And
still going strong .

G rego ry Kundrat in the pr actice offamily
med icine in O ld Lyme, Co n n. . . . Bruce Warshauer
R , a special ist in dermatology, ha sjoined
the staffof Point Pleasant (N .J .) Hospital. .. .
Born : to Thomas H . '72 RC and Claudia
Cherney Stewart G M (' 73R C ), a daughter,
Au drey May, on May 20.
1980
Married : Timoth y J. Huddle M an d Linda
Profetta on Sept. 5 in Rochester.
1981
John F. Bridges M is a reside nt in psych iatry at
the Uni ver sity of Co lorado He alth Scien ces
Center, , .. Brian Dailey M is in general practice
in Albion , N .Y. . .. Richard L. Doolittle
G M has bee n appointed assistant pro fessor of
anato my at the Un iversity of New Engla nd Co llege
of Osteo pa thic Medicin e.. . . Born : to J oh n
F. Bridges M, a daughte r, Por tia Cornelia , on
Feb . 4. . . . to Christa l and David Conrad M , a
son , Alexander, on Au g. 17.
1982
Jeffrey D. Reynolds G M is preside nt ofM & R
Rent -the-Latest, a bu siness which sells and ren ts
alb ums. video tapes, and game ca rt ridge s in
Rochester.
School of Nursing
1968
A memo rial fund ha s been establ ished by Mrs,
C . R . Kerri gan in memo ry of her daugh ter ,
Caroli ne M. Kerrigan '68GN , who died Nov.
20. 1981 , in Rochester . T he memo rial fund will
be used to pur ch ase boo ks, journals, and
refere nce materials in the field of nursing for the
Edward G . Mi ner Library in the School of M ed ­
icine and Den tistry.
19 76
Kathleen Craig-Kuhn GN has been appointed
director of nursing at M yers Communi ty Hospi ­
tal in Sod us, N .Y. . . . He ather Spear-Zino
gradua ted mag na cu m laude with a master 's
degree in nursing from Yale U niversity .
1977
Candace Gilligan GN complet ed the program
in hea lth -care adm inist rat ion at the Un iver sity
of Penn sylvan ia and joined the facult y of the
Medica l College of Virgi nia. Com monwealth
Virginia Univer sity, in the graduate p rogram in
nursing administrat ion, . . Born : to Cliff an d
JaneJohnston Balkam G N , a son, M atthew
R ichard, on Aug. 24.
1978
Mark Andrews is a certified registered nurse
anest hetist at St. Lu ke's Hospi tal in Clevela nd .
Melissa Crowe Andrews received an M .S .N . in
pediatr ics and is a staff developm en t coo rdinator
at Rainbow Babies & Chil dren's H ospi tal , also
in Clevelan d, , . . Nancy Kalagher has been appointed
nurse practitioner of the Northeast
Chapter of the Planned Paren thood League of
Co nnect icu t in \Villimantic, Co nn ... . Lt.
J anelle Repair received a master's degree in
man agem ent from T roy (Ala .) Sta te University
and is sta ff nurse at Nava l Re gion al Medical
Center on Su bic Bay, Philippine Islan ds. . ..
Married : Ann M . Gallagher an d Brian K .
Thomp son on O ct. 16 in Greece, N .y. ...
Born : to Mark an d Melissa Crowe Andrews, a
d aug hter, Amelia Faye , on Nov . 3.
1979
Born: to William D. ' 78RC an d Ann M.
Weiss, a son, Christopher Will iam , on J uly 22 ,
1980
Married: Elizabeth Buzawa and M ichael
Tyson on Nov. 6 in Roch ester .
1981
M arried : Lynne Gaiser and W. Frederick
Lascheid '82G on Sept. 18.
University College
1950
Peter Tubiolo , principal of M ulh all Schoo l in El
M onte, Calif., rece ived the Col umbian Awa rd
of the Fed erate d Italo-Ameri can s of Sout hern
Californ ia and was hon ored by the Itali an
govern ment wit h the insignia of Co mmendator e
in the O rde r or Merit of the Itali an Republic.
1962
Da vid Sutliffis vice preside nt or Salomon
Brot hers an d a mem ber of the boa rd of directo rs
of the New Yor k Society of Security Analyst s.
1963
Carl Pilletteri is senior lub rication eng inee r at
the Roch ester Products Division of Gen era l
Motor s and cha irman of the Am eri can Soc iety
of Lu bri cation Enginee rs, Roche ste r Sect ion, for
1982- 83.
1972
Clarence " Chuck" Bassett has been na med
di rector of pub lic infor ma tion and com m unication
s for Monroe Cou nty .
1978
Gail Wiseman Cahn G U ha sjoined the R ochester
office of Mo nro e Ab stract and Ti tle and was
elected pr eside nt of the Rochester Wo men's
Net work .
1979
Bonnie F . H adden, adm inistrato r of the cardi
ology unit of the Med ical Center, has been
elected president of the Gen esee Valley C hapt er
of the Amerir.an H eart Association .
1980
Nan cy Hess has been appointed to a three-yea r
term On the Board of Ov ersee rs of Str on g M emo
rial Hospital .
On track
Back in the '30s, when track star
Phil Chamberlain '38 was earnin g
his varsity letters, he establishe d a
school record in low hu rdles with a
time of 25.6 seco nds . The hurdles
he has been overcoming since then
in his professional ca ree r as a lawyer
hav e been of a d iffer ent kind, but in
the Universit y's books, Philetu s M .
C ha mbe rla in is still a trac k star: H e
has recently esta blished the
C ha m be rla in Fund to help su pport
the track program by providi ng for
" u nus ual expe nses outside the
realm of normal budgeta ry co nce
rns," as coach T im H ale puts it.
C ha mbe rla in has long been a
friend and supporter of the University
. H e is a life me m ber of the
U n iversity Associa tes and the
Presidents Soc iety, an hon ora ry
member of the T rustees' Council ,
and a former preside n t of th e Ri ver
Campu s Alumni Association. A
member of the titird gene ration of
his family to en ter law (with a fourth
ge neration now followin g su it), he is
senior partner in the R ochester firm
of C hambe rlain, D 'Am anda , Bauman
, Chatman , and Oppenheimer .
Rush Rhees Library steps: Wh en th e sun is ou t an d the breeze is balmy, who says you have to rush
in sid e to stu dy ?
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InMemoriam
Charles H . Holzwarth '06 (Mancha ca, T ex ,)
on j an . 5,
Richard R . Powell ' 11 (Pa lo Alto , C alif.)
on Nov , 13.
Helen P arker Smith ' 13 (Ro chester)
on Nov , 10 .
E. Virginia Martin ' 14 (Hu ntingdo n Valley,
Pa .) on Nov . 12.
Llo yd D . Somers'14 (St. Peter sbu rg , Fla.) On
Feb. 18.
Ruth Anthony ' 16 (Pitts ford , N .Y.)
on Dec. 9.
E sth er Ol san Hyman ' 17 (Roc he ster)
on N ov . 20.
Elberta Hudson Reeve ' 17 (M att ituc k , N. Y.)
in October .
Lel and F . Burnham ' 18 (Sar asota , Fla .)
on Nov . 12 .
Ruth B. Chamberlain ' 19 (Rochester) on
Dec. 22.
Paul S. Kreag ' 19 (Rochester) on Dec. 3.
George P . Marshall '20 (Little Rock, Ark .) on
J an . 14,
M argaret Lamb H opkinson '22 (Coc oa , Fla.)
onIan . 2,
Paul W . Lyddon '22 (Roc hester) on Feb. 15.
Luc y Gay Pirnie '22 (East Lan sing,
Mich .) on Dec, 2,
Richard D. VanDeCarr '22 (Rochester) on
Jan , 2+.
Ru th Lawrence Walkley '24 (Sl. Petersbur g,
Fla ,) on Dec , 23 .
Claude L. Wallace '24, '38 G (Roc heste r) on
Dec. 23.
Ru th Snider Crossland '25, '29G M
(Ro chester) on Nov , 27,
Julia Peck Wickham '25E (Montou r Falls,
N .Y.) on Oc t. 8 .
CharlesJ.Jacobs '26 (Bridgeport , Conn .) on
Jan , n .
J oseph Rock '26 (Ro chester) on Nov , 12.
Dorothy Fleming Schlenker '26E (Rocheste r)
on Nov . 22,
Marion Houlihan Brown '27 (Rochester ) on
Feb . 11.
AnnetteO'Neil Reed '27 (Ca rmel, C alif.)
on March 30 . 1970 .
Ev ellyn W. Da vi s '28E (Me di na , O hio) on
Dec, 13.
Ruth Schwolsky Dw orski '28 (Roc he ster)
on N ov . 16 ,
Carrie M . Turner '28E (Lyn do nv ille, N ,Y .)
on Oct. 3,
38
Samuel Shulsky ' 29 (Silve r Spr in g,
M d, ) on Apr il 21, 1982 ,
James S. Chapman '30 (Roc hes ter) on J an . 13.
H oward F. Kubik '30 E (Ne w Yor k C ity) on
June 19, 1982.
F . Turney Gibson '3 1E , '35G E,
Edward D . Seeber '3 1G (Bloom ington , Ind .)
onIan . 23,
Marian Jessica H all Smith '3 1 (Chatham,
N .j ,) onIan . 21.
Helen C . Addicott '32 , '38G (Penn Yan , N,Y.)
on Jan . 16.
Clarabell Quick Conn ard '32E (Bath ,
Ma ine) on O ct. 16,
Fred H . Denker '32G E, '5IG E (M urphy sboro,
11I ,) onJan , 2,
H ow ardJ. Hoste '32£ (Watertown , N ,Y.) on
J an 24,
Julius Bland '33 (M iam i, Fla ,) on N ov, 12,
Dorothy DeGroote Cla rk '33E (Bakersfield ,
C ali f.) on June 10, 1982.
J ohn E . Eisold '33 (Bal timore) onjan. 12,
William B. Kimmel '33E, ,35G £ , '42G E (New
Yor k Ci ty) on Dec , 11.
Roberta Wilder Brockway '35 (Fai rpo rt , N .Y,)
on J an . 16.
J ohn Philip Dwyer '35 (Bu ffalo, N ,Y ,) on
Feb , 6,
Elizabeth Mangan '35 (Ro chester) onjan . 15,
Donald A. VanStone '35 (Ro chester) on
Feb . 14.
Duncan E . Cameron '38 (Macedon , N ,Y.) on
J an , 17,
Robert E. Ingersoll '39M (Key Lar go,
F1a,) on N ov . 6 .
Bonnie Marston M arsh all '40 (R ento n ,
Wash, )onJuly 9,1 982,
John B. Miale '40M (Coc oa Beach , Fla .) on
De c. 23,
Vera Baker Rosencrans '4 1N (L a Mirada ,
C alif.) on Dec, 17,
Marcella Littlefield Stauffer ,42E
(Po rtland, O rc.) on Nov . 2,
Malcolm D . Strong '42 (V ictor , N ,Y ,)
on Feb . 2,
Austin H . Truitt '42GE , '53GE , (Saraso ta,
Fla .) on Feb , 3,
Henry Freund '43R (M ilwaukee, Wis.) on
J un e 19,1 982,
JosephJ. Martin 'HG (Ann Arbor, M ich. ) on
Dec. 13.
Margaret Wagner Bob sein '+5N (Gowanda ,
NY).
John R . Conway '45 (R edondo Beach , Calif.)
on O CI. I , 1981.
Jean Cla yman Tyrrell '4 5N (Virgin ia
Beach , Va .j on Au g 2.
Newto n H offmann '46 E, '49G E , '55GE
(Munc ie, Ind .) onJan. 27.
Morris W. Lambie '46.\1 (Faye tte ville, N .Y ,)
on O CI. 18.
David E . Kennedy '47 E, '48G E (Ce da r Falls,
Iowa) in 1982 ,
Sumn er B. Kingsley ,47R (It haca, N.Y,) on
Feh , 13.
Nat alie] , Leonard '48G (Ro chester) onIan . 5.
Bruce C . Fr ey ' 50 (Ro ckawa y, N .J .) on J uly 4,
1982,
Rev. David H. Baker '51U (Honeoye Fa lls,
N ,Y, ) onja n : 9,
Rh ona MacNeill Bigwood ' 51 (Ed inburgh .
Scotlan d) on Au g, 22,
Edward T. Fiorelli '5I E , ' 58G E, (Peckville ,
Pa.) on Aug, 18,
DonaldJ. Bittner '52lJ (Pittsford , N .Y, ) on
J an , 20 ,
Fred M . O 'Brien,Jr. '52lJ (Roc hester) on
J an , 23.
Rudolph von Unruh,Jr. '52E , '66 GE (Lake
Par k, Fla.) on Dec. 21,
Ern est N. Boettcher '54R (Wa lnut C reek .
C alif.) in M arch 1982,
Fred G . Conrad '55M (Spring, Te x.) on
Dec. 17.
Ronald B. Moir '55G (Dedham , Mass.)
on O ct. 21.
Laverna M. Con e Traber '57 G (Brockport ,
N .Y,) onNov, 2 1,
JosephJ. Folk '6 1, '69M (Kensington,
Co nn .j onjuly 29 , 1982 ,
Gordon F . M cNaughton '6 1U (R ocheste r)
on No v . 10 ,
David Platnick '6 1G , '65G (Don Mi lls,
Canada) on Sept . 19 ,
Philip B. Taylor '65 (C ornwells Heigh ts,
Pa .j on Sept. 23 .
Stephen E . Borst '67 (Ne w York Cit y) on
N ov . 30 .
Gary L. McCartney '6 7GE (Hopewell
Junction , N .Y ,) on Dec. 26.
Theresa Porreca Bocka '68U (Penfield, N ,Y .)
on Dec, 19,
Sister Mary Irene Gardner '69G (Rochester)
on J an . 11.
FredJ. Hitti '69 G (R ochester) on j an . 14,
Richard A . Bell ' 76M (New York City) in
J anuary.
Linda Hastings Hirschey ' n G N (Edina ,
M in ri. ) on J une 4, 1982,
Stephen A. Lewis ,n G (Arlington , Te x.)
on Ma y 13, 1982,
L ydia M. Hrechanyk '8 1G (Roc heste r)
on Dec. 9.
Obituaries
Ruth B. Chamberlain '19 , who traced the
lives of Rochester women for forty years in her
" Arou nd the T own" colu mn , died in December.
She bega n her newspape r career as a correspo
ndent for the R ochester D emocral and Chronicle
wh ile still a stude nt . After she completed a
mast er 's degree in jo u rn alism at Co lum bia
U niver sity, which she at tend ed under the first
scho lars hip ever awarded by the Women 's Press
Cl ub of New York Ci ty, the D & C hired her as
o ne of only two wome n in general assignmen t
report ing positio ns. She joined the Times-Union
as wome n 's ed itor in 1933, a position she held
unti l ret iring in 1974 .
Hilda Alt schule Coates, award-winning artist
and wid ow of p rofessor Wi llson H . C oates of
the histor y departme nt, di ed J anuary 31, She

was a founding me mber of the Arena Art Group
and wo n th e U niversity's L illia n Fairchil d
Award in 194 5 . For a number of years in the
'50s and '60s she taught a co urse on aes thetics at
th e Unive rsity .
Rich ard R . P ow ell ' 11, Dwigh t Professor
Emeritus at Co lum b ia University School of
L aw , died November 13 in San M at eo , Californ
ia a t the age of n inety-two. Powell wa s the
au tho r of the six-vo lume Powell on Property Law ,
considered to be a leading work in the field of
rea l property, a subject he tau gh t for fifty-li ve
years be fore retiring at th e age of eig h ty -seven.
LloydD. Somers ' 14died February 18 .
A lways an enthusias tic supporter of his Alma
M ater, he was one of five Somers sibl ings to
graduate from R ochester (the others were
F ran ces ' 10, Leland'17, Leslie ' 18, and
M a rga ret '2 4), and one of twenty-th ree family
mem bers who have been associated with the
University.
A C ha rte red Life U nderwr iter for many
yea rs, Mr. Somers still went to the office every
day until well into his lat e eigh ties . A fter W orld
W ar T wo he spent a yea r an d a hal f volun tee ring
overseas in rehab ilitation work.
H is fa vorite co u rse as an un dergraduate, he
said, was German , taught by the "ebullient"
Ke nd rick P . Shedd , who, Som er s recall ed ,
started off his classes with a rousing German
songfes r. In lat er years, one o f M r. So mers 's
mos t act ive p roj ect s was a ca mpaign to clear
She dd 's nam e, afte r he was - unjustly , Somer s
firmly believed-let go by the U n iversity in 19 12
am id conside ra ble controversy . As lat e as la st
fall , M r. Somers was st ill engaged in amassing
and su bm itt ing evidence attesting to P rofessor
Sh edd' s charac te r an d ab ility as a teacher.
Travel
Corner
University of Rochester Alumni Tours are planned
with two primary objectives: educational enrichment and
the establishment of closer ties among alumni, and between
alumni and the University. Destinations are
selectedfor their historic, cultural, geographic, and
natural resources, and for the opportunities they provide
for understanding other peoples: their histories, their
politics, their ualues, and the roles they play in current
world affairs . Programs are designed to provide worry ­
free basics such as transportation) transfers) accommodations,
some meals, bag,l!age handling, and professional
guidl'J, and still allow for personal exploration of
individual interests. Escorts, drawn from the University
faculty and staff, provide special services and features
that add both personal and educational enrichment.
All members ofthe University community are elIgible
to participate in these tours. Non -associated relatives
Enrich your summer at
ROCHESTER SUMMER
UNIVERSITY
• Challenging lecture ser ie s:
MIND & MACHINE: TECHNOLOGY, AESTHETICS, COGNITION, POLITICS.
Four distinguished facu Ity members bring their minds and expertise to bear
on t he information revolution: Patrick J. Hayes, cognitive sc ience; Allan W.
Schindler, composition (music); William H. Riker , political science; Herbert
E. Voelcker, electrical eng ineering.
• Optional afternoon workshops in a variety of lively subjects:
Writing memoirs; fishes of the Genesee; microcomputers at work;
wine and wine tasting ; the fate of the English language.
• A choice of programs for your young peop le: Summer University Youth
Prog ram; Sports Camp; Computer Camp; Tennis Camp; Swimming Camp.
• Continuing medical education program for physicians.
• Access to Zorn ow Sports Center.
• Plus an inviting array of cultural and social activities in the evening.
• Local residents may commute.
• COST: $150 tuition for adults; varying fees for youth programs. Housing and
meals available at extra cost.
Call or write Jim Armstrong, Director of University and Alumni Affairs, Fairbank
Alumni Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
(716) 275-4627.
Rochester Summer University July 10-16,1983
For alumni, parents, and friends
and friends are welcome aJ space permits . Those -other
than spouses, dependent children, or parents of alum ­
ni-who have no di rect connection with the University
will be requested to make a lax-deductible donation of
$50 to the University .
L ate additi on:
Waterways o f Western Europe­
June 22-July 4
A fter two d ays in Li sbon a t th e R itz, boar d
the MTSJason (Greek) and cru ise to Sa nt iago de
Compos teJa (S pai n), th e Loi re R ive r in Brittan y
(s tops in Nant es and Angers), Brest, th e Seine
Ri ver in No rmandy (stops in Ro ue n a nd
j u m ieges), and then to Amsterdam via the
No rth Sea Canal. Focu s on routes ofCrusaders
a nd pil gri ms of the Middl e Ages, med ieva l sites,
Frenc h chateaux and vineyards, and th e art and
wa te rways of the Nethe rlan ds . A histo ric and
sce nic adventure combined with the re stfu l
tra vel of sh ipboard acco mmodations . F ullyescorted
, plus historical lecturer. All meals aboard
ship, breakfasts ashore, transfers , lu ggr,,(e
handling. F ro m New Yo rk , $2, 195 -$2,b95;
$ 1,7 60 for thi rd person in room. Group a rrangeme
nts from Roches ter. R eserve quickly with a $ 700
per person deposit
Previou sly announced:
Mediev al England-August 14 -26
Two wee ks ofbrowsing in regions rich in A rth
u ri an and m ed iev al hi story , wit h P rofessor
R ussell Peck , UR 's "medieval schola r-teache r
extraordinaire." Includes stays in W in ch ester ,
Bath , Ruthin Castle (Wales) , York , H a rr ogat e ,
C am bridge , and London, and visi ts to historical
sites, museums, and ga lle ries in the se a reas. Full
b reakfasts and di n ners included (except d inners
in London ), as a re baggage h andli ng and transfers.
$1,895 fro m New York. Group arr a ngeme
nts from Rochester or ass istance wit h connections
from home city available.
C h in a - Se p tem be r 11-0ctob er 1
Three nig hts in Ho n g K on g (Mandarin
H ot el); fourteen nights in C hi na, incl uding
Shanghai, Suzhou, G rand Canal, Wuxi, Na n ­
jing, X i 'a n , Beij ing (State Guest House); two
nights in T okyo (Hotel Okura). All mea ls in
C hi na, full breakfasts and sightseeing in Hong
K ong and Tokyo, baggage ha ndlin g, transfers,
and la rge Oight bags included . $4, 050 from San
F rancisco, 51,350 from New York . Non-stop
747 trans-Pacific fligh ts to Hong Kong an d from
Tokyo. G rou p arrangements fro m R och ester or
ass istance with connections from ho me city
availa b le. Full; walt list only.
Forfurther Information or detailed mailers (as they
become auailable) on any of the trips announced, contact
John Braund, Alumni Office, University ofR ochester,
Rochester, New York 14627, (716) 275-3682.
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