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Rochester 

Review 

University of Rochester 

Winter 1980-81 

Challenging the Whirling Wheel 

of Change 

An interview with 

Provost Richard D. O'Brien 

Page 1 

Lighting a Sun on Earth 

Laboratory for Laser Energetics 

Page 8 

The Great 'Removal Project' 

Conclusion: A Dream Attained 

Page 10 

Wall Street's 'Riverboat Gambler' 

Profile of Guy Wyser-Pratte '62 

Page 16 

Aaah, Cheesecake! 

Including recipes for same 

Page 19 

Departments 

Rochester in Review 21 

Alumnotes 27 

Travel Corner 38 

In Memoriam 39 

Photos in this issue illustrating the 

University's past were lent by the 

University of Rochester Library and 

Northrup, Kaelber and Kopf, architects. 

ROCHESTER REVIEW. Winter 1980-81; 

Editor: Margaret Bond; Copy Editor: Ceil 

Goldman; Staff Photographer: Chris T. 

Quillen; Staff Artist: Shirle Zimmer; 

Alumnotes Editor: Janet Hodes. Published 

quarterly by the University of Rochester and 

mailed to all alumni. Editorial office, 108 

Administration Building, Rochester, New 

York 14627. Second-class postage paid at 

Rochester, New York 14692. 

USPS 715-360. 

Opinions expressed are those of the authors, 

the editors, or their subjects, and do not 

necessarily represent official positions of the 

University of Rochester. 

Letters 

Mt. Hope 

Rochester Review is always worth reading, but 

the Fall 1980 issue was of special interest to 

me because of the fascinating article about Mt. 

Hope Cemetery. 

My father, the late Arthur Cowell '03 Cornell, 

head of landscape architecture at Penn 

State from 1915 to 1926, took his graduating 

class each spring to see Highland Park and 

Mt. Hope Cemetery. He later designed the 

lovely Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery in Erie, 

one of the early ones that prohibited large 

monuments in the belief that cemeteries should 

be parks for the living. It was the money 

earned from this work that kept me at the 

Eastman School during the Depression years. 

I am sorry to admit that I have never visited 

Mt. Hope but I shall do so when I attend my 

fiftieth reunion soon. 

Jane Cowell Krumrine '32E 

State College, Pennsylvania 

I'm bewildered by the rapturous exaltation 

of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rowland Collins's 

essay "Our Quietest Neighbor" in the Fall '80 

issue of the Review. Surely there is no political 

reward to be harvested from such praise, and, 

although he points to some picturesque architectural 

delights (pardon my necrophilia), 

Mr. Collins must be aware of what all my 

teachers, friends, and acquaintances at UR 

felt about Mt. Hope: It is solely responsible 

for causing the necessary but unfortunate cluttering 

of the campus since the 1960's. 

It is too late in this or the next millennium 

to change this situation, and it is "nice" that 

we have made the best of it, but such effusive 

praise seems forced to this reader. Come on 

now: Wouldn't there have been much happier 

ways of preserving "the quiet and beauty of 

the campus"? 

Roger Silver, '60 

San Francisco 

Warfield remembered 

The Eastman and Warfield articles (Summer 

1980) combine to revive metnories of my 

pre-UR days. Growing up, I dressed for 

school to the stentorian blast of the old Kodak 

Park whistle, which must have awakened 

hibernating animals for miles around. It was 

probably inevitable that Rochester public 

school curricula included music using Eastman 

School techniques. William Warfield also grew 

up in this atmosphere, although not as close to 

that whistle! 

Rochester Senior Inter-High School Choir 

rehearsed Saturday mornings in the basement 

tuning room of the Eastman School. (I can 

still recall the crowd of teenagers stoking up on 

nickel White Tower hamburgers behind the 

school during rehearsal breaks.) The 1937-38 

choir chose Warfield as its president. For the 

sake of younger readers, it should be added 

that in those years racial integration was pretty 

much in the future. But Warfield's personality 

and talent overcame the prevailing attitudes, 

and he was by far the most popular person in 

the choir. 

During the following season, when Bill was 

a freshman at the Eastman School, he often 

sat in the back during Inter-High rehearsals 

and almost always was asked to sing for the 

choir. 

When the choir held a twenty-five-year 

reunion, Bill Warfield was there, although it 

is likely that he had barely known most of us 

by sight twenty-five years earlier. 

Despite the extent to which he has become 

known in music circles, there are many of us 

who feel that his phenomenal talent has not 

received the public recognition that it so richly 

deserves. 

Harry C. Wiersdorfer '43 

Hamburg, New York 

More theater lore 

My husband and I felt a personal identification 

with the article "Mr. Eastman's Theatre" 

(Summer 1980), especially the paragraph that 

began, "The oddest feature of the restoration 

was probably also the least noticeable," and 

went on to tell the story of the two metal 

washtubs metamorphosed into light fixtures by 

"an ingenious artisan." That person was my 

father-in-law, Thillman F.J. Fabry. Our family 

has always relished the tale of the tubs as 

he related it to us. 

We remember another favorite anecdote 

connected with the theater. The statue of a 

small, naked boy graced one of the corridors 

near the mezzanine. When a strait-laced but 

influential dowager complained about its "indecency," 

Mr. Fabry was consulted. He suggested 

a simple solution-the proverbial fig 

leaf. After taking a plasticine impression, he 

carved and applied the requested cover-up-a 

far cry from his carvings in Kilbourn Hall! 

Many buildings and private homes here and 

in other cities attest to his talents as a wood 

carver. He was a truly remarkable man and 

we, his family, revere his memory. 

Marion Fleck Fabry '25 


Unaccountably, in my earlier letter (Fall 

1980) about visits to the Eastman Theatre as a 

child during the twenties, I forgot to mention 

the goldfish! In the main lobby, just off Main 

and Gibbs streets, there was a large, centrally 

located, built-in table that stood about four 

feet off the floor. Marble-topped. Heavy 

metal legs, bronze or brass. In the center of 

the marble top stood a giant urn-shaped glass 

aquarium. The top of the urn, which was 

enclosed with the same metal as the table legs, 

(continued on p. 40)

ticularly well known, other than for 

absolute excellence in music, and 

with a fine medical school. I would 

have said it had a quality academic 

image, but that I didn't know much 

about what was going on there. 

Historically, for the first 100 years, 

the University of Rochester was a 

small place, without a strong national 

reputation except in medicine and 

music. Immediately after World War 

II, growth was planned with the 

specific object of making the rest of 

the University nationally recognized. 

Now I would say there isn't a college 

on the campus that should not 

aspire to this kind of reputation. 

Our University motto, after all, is 

Meliora: "better things." 

Where do you think the University 

stands at this point? 

In some ways, our natural tendency 

here at Rochester is to be a heavy 

science, heavy technological school. 

"I believe that freshmen must be exposed to senior faculty." Noted scholar and chairman of 

the fine arts department Diran Dohanian-his face veiled in a projection of a northern 

European landscape-discusses concepts of art with a small group of first-year students in a 

freshman preceptorial. 

"I am interested in maintaining and improving the balance between the humanities and the science and technological departments." 

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The College of Engineering and Applied 

Science, for example, is steadily 

increasing its activities; there is a 

definite reorientation in that college 

toward a very strong job market, and 

its students are doing fantastically 

well after graduation. 

I am interested in maintaining and 

improving the balance between the 

humanities and the science and 

technological departments. We don't 

want a good reputation only in the 

technological areas. The fact is that 

we have super departments of 

English, history, and philosophy. I 

think we can improve the perception 

of the University as a heavy 

technological school. We must, to 

survive the future. 

How do you think we can do better in 

academics at Rochester? 

My hope for improvement in a 

number of areas comes in redirecting 

their focus. Take clusters, for example. 

I am interested in pulling diverse 

disciplines together in the total educational 

process. It is possible to take 

philosophers, anthropologists, 

neurologists-all faculty, in short, that 

have been well trained in their own 

areas-and have them talk together, 

teach together. Clusters of faculty 

gathered together, you see. There is 

an excitement generated when people 

who know their own disciplines cold 

bounce their ideas off professionals in 

other fields. This excitement is just 

terrific, it really adds juice to student 

life and diversity to the educational 

process. Some very exciting things 

happen when you have faculty well 

trained in disparate disciplines contributing 

to one another. Not melting 

old disciplinary lines, but mixing 

them together so that new ideas are 

generated. 

We've talked some about faculty; what 

about students? What kind of an education 

does the University owe them? 

A university should prepare 

students for a lifetime following 

graduation. University of Rochester 

graduates should have a marketable 

professional skill plus an education 

that will last long after facts are 

forgotten. 

I believe that freshmen must be exposed 

to senior faculty. Of course, 

there is a certain amount of basic 

knowledge that must be gained by 

freshmen, and yes, we do that here in 

large classes. But these large classes 

are taught by the best faculty, by the 

most qualified faculty, so that 

students are exposed immediately to 

the best academic minds. 

For some years now we have been 

having a great deal of success with 

freshman preceptorials, which place 

senior faculty in direct contact with 

small freshman classes. Preceptorials 

are interspersed with the larger, 

necessary freshman classes so that 

students are challenged both 

individually and in groups during the 

first year of their exposure to university 

life. 

This interaction between faculty 

and students applies to interaction 

between the graduate and 

undergraduate programs as well. 

There is a widespread belief that 

graduate programs and graduate 

students do not contribute to a 

university as a whole. 

This simply isn't true. It just won't 

Another kind of faculty-student interaction. Intramural sports will get a boost from the new 

sports and recreation complex scheduled for completion late this year. "I would like to see 

the entire student body involved in the athletic center." 

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"It is important for students to live and work together in small groups. A university should provide a basis for friendships that continue past 

graduation." 

do to have a senior faculty that has 

established a separate, independent 

cadre of research professors and 

graduate students, and here at 

Rochester we do not have any such 

separation. The value of a graduate 

program comes as much from the 

contribution made to undergraduates 

as from the national reputation its 

research brings to an institution. The 

whole vital force of an operation 

comes from interaction. We intend to 

make every effort to keep a lively 

graduate program. 

What are you doing to ensure an 

atmosphere of quality in the classroom? 

The ferment and challenge 

necessary to a quality education are 

achieved by a fine faculty. The question 

of the quality of teaching, and of 

having senior faculty teaching 

students, is much in the minds of 

people who are concerned about the 

kind of education a student receives. 

The usual way of checking the 

quality of a particular course is by 

student evaluation. But I think the 

value of student evaluation is 

overstated. One of the things I keep 

pushing is getting the faculty to 

evaluate each other's teaching. I 

would like to have a small evaluation 

group of professors who would sit in 

on faculty, particularly junior faculty, 

and provide feedback. A student 

can't know if he or she is being 

taught rubbish. You need professional 

evaluation. To sit and read 

what students say about a course isn't 

going to work. I've seen the 

improvement that results from this 

kind of feedback between faculty in 

action. It is extremely valuable. 

One of the first efforts you made toward 

evaluating the University was to talk with 

freshmen in relatively small groups. Your 

intention, apparently, was to make the office 

of the provost accessible. How effective 

were these meetings? 

It was a valuable experience, talking 

directly to freshmen. However, I 

don't think I will do it again this 

year-perhaps once in a while in the 

future, to test the waters, so to speak. 

My function as provost is administrative, 

and the questions of most of 

the freshmen concerned problems 

that could be readily solved by a student 

advisory board or by the faculty 

and the departments directly in touch 

with the students. 

Didyou come to any conclusions about 

student concerns? 

Absolutely. I met with the 

freshmen - and indeed with almost all 

undergraduates who were interested 

in talking to me-in part because I 

wanted to know if we could improve 

the quality of student life. Every 

aspect of a university needs to be 

looked at all the time; changes need 

to be made. I observed soon after 

coming here, when I talked with 

those students who were unhappy 

with the place, that the unhappiness 

was rarely directed toward the 

academic side of things. The picture

"A freshman is assigned someone-a staff member, a faculty member-who will talk with 

him, take him out to lunch, show him things." Rochester Connection, as the program is 

called, is purely voluntary, but many freshmen-and their connections-enjoy the opportunity 

to make a new friend. 

"In terms of the quality of student life, we found there were areas where we could improve, 

and we did so." One of the newer traditions on campus is Yellowjacket Day, a day of fun 

and games celebrating the start of the school year. 

that was coming across from all of 

these conversations was that of a 

competitive institution that overly 

stressed academic things to the exclusion 

of an adequate social life. 

Now, of course, one has to take 

into account what kind of group one 

talks to. But, if any substantial 

number feel they are having a bad 

time, then we have to pay attention 

to it. Education is a matter of taking 

a human being and then being with 

that individual for four years. We 

wanted to get away from the 

Kafkaesque perception of a large and 

anonymous institution, .to break 

down the attitude that the administration 

is on a different level from 

anyone else. Here at Rochester we 

are a "bottom-up" institution, not 

a "top-down" institution. 

Given that, my meetings with the 

students were sheer common sense. 

In terms of the quality of student life, 

we found there were areas where we 

could improve, and we did so. With 

its main campus bounded by the 

Genesee River and Mt. Hope Cemetery, 

the University lacks a college- . 

town atmosphere. We started a bus 

that runs around town on a regular 

basis; it goes the rounds of the discos 

and the shops, and that gives student 

life more zip, makes the students 

feel, "Gee, someone does care 

about us." 

It is easy for students to feel a sort 

of uncaringness in any institution, 

and we do a lot to try to eliminate 

that. When a freshman comes in, if 

he wishes, he is assigned someone-a 

staff member, faculty member-who 

will talk with him, and not about 

academic things necessarily, but will 

take him out to lunch, show him 

things. 

Are you attempting to balance the 

academic and the social sides of a student's 

life? 

Absolutely. We are promoting 

education for life, not just for a 

period of four years. It is important 

for students to live and work together 

in small groups. A university should 

provide a basis for friendships that 

continue past graduation. Now, it 

may be a general sort of truth that 

this happens automatically in the normal 

course of events. But whatever 

the truth is, the plain fact remains 

that an important network of both 

professional and social relationships 

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"Now there actually is a great deal going on here." Indoors, outdoors, organized, and otherwise. 

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should be made in a university and 

the university should assure that it 

does. 

Specifically, we addressed these 

matters by beginning a student 

advisory committee composed of 

students who have direct access to 

faculty and who can tell us about 

things they think need looking into. 

One of their major concerns was the 

perception of an inadequate social life 

on campus. Now there actually is a 

great deal going on here, so we 

began a daily list of activities that is 

posted all over campus so that 

students can know readily what is 

happening. 

The daily listing was a small matter, 

but it has been most helpful. On 

the larger scale, the University must 

concern itself with broader ways of 

fostering among our students the oncampus 

friendships that continue to 

enrich their lives long after graduation. 

For example, we are interested 

in seeing that the fraternities remain 

viable. 

How is the new athletic center going to 

contribute to campus life? 

We are, of course, very proud of 

our new athletic center. It will have 

magnificent facilities and will provide

Lighting a Sun on Earth 

Portrait of a man-made sun: Exposed to trillions of watts of laser light for less than a 

billionth of a second, heavy hydrogen atoms are compressed more than thirty times, 

resulting in fusion. This photograph of the moment of implosion .was taken by an X-ray 

pinhole camera at the University's Laboratory for Laser Energehcs. 

In 1972, the College of Engineering and 

Applied Science began the Laser Fusion 

Feasibility Project at the Laboratory for 

Laser Energetics. This project is a unique 

partnership of the University, industry, and 

state andfederal governments. Its members 

include Exxon, General Electric, Standard 

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Oil of Oh£o, Northeast Utilities, Empire 

State Electric Energy Research Corporation, 

and the New York State Research and 

Development Authority. The United States 

Department of Energy allocated funds for 

building the OMEGA laser system. 

If we could imitate the 

process by which the sun 

generates its energy, we might 

be able to solve all of our 

earthly energy problems for 

all time to come. Some 

think the answer lies in 

harnessing the powerful light 

of lasers. A team of University 

of Rochester people is trying 

to find out. 

Every gallon of seawater, believe it 

or not, packs the energy potential of 

350 gallons of gasoline. 

That's because one in every 30,000 

atoms of hydrogen in seawater contains 

a neutron in its nucleus. When 

two of these "heavy hydrogen" atoms 

are squeezed together and heated, 

they fuse into the element helium and 

liberate enormous amounts of energy. 

That's the way the ·sun makes its 

energy, and scientists are trying to 

develop systems to mimic the solar 

process on earth. Fusion has been 

hailed as the ultimate answer to our 

planet's energy problems because 

there's more than a billion years' 

supply of heavy hydrogen in the 

oceans. 

Fusion research is in its infancy. 

While we can make hydrogen atoms 

fuse, we can't yet get as much energy 

out of the reaction as we put in. 

The University of Rochester's 

Laboratory for Laser Energetics has 

recently taken two giant steps toward 

the break-even point, stimulating 

visions of fusion plants making steam 

to turn turbines. 

The laboratory is using highpowered 

lasers to blast dust-speck size 

spheres filled with deuterium and 

tritium, two forms of heavy 

hydrogen, creating temperatures of 

up to 67 million degrees Celsius. Exposed 

to trillions of watts of laser 

light for less than a billionth of a 

second, the atoms are compressed

new complexes of music school and 

theater and medical school and 

hospital that had come into being as 

the result of Mr. Eastman's extraordinary 

generosity to the University of 

Rochester. 

So it is not surprising that, in 

1921, when Oak Hill was first considered 

as the site for the University 

of Rochester's proposed new campus, 

the firm of Gordon and Kaelber 

should prepare preliminary sketches 

of how it might be laid out on this 

axis or on that, with now the library 

and now the arts buildings or perhaps 

a future graduate school as the central 

feature. 

With the architectural firm of Gordon 

and Kaelber came other Eastman 

retainers. Landscape artist Alling S. 

DeForest drew up the no. 1 planting 

plan (from which the architects traced 

their varying schemes), laying out the 

paths and fountains for the main 

quadrangle as an enlarged version of 

the 1902 plans for Mr. Eastman's 

formal gardens. 

A.W. Hopeman & Sons, active in 

many Eastman projects, were the 

general contractors. 

Associated architects McKim, 

Mead & White, who played that role 

for Eastman's house, theater, and 

music school as well as for the new 

medical school buildings-but who 

were usually in conflict with Mr. 

Eastman's ideas of simplicity, utility, 

and economy-were also part of the 

original package. This relationship 

survived only until 1927, however, 

when Charles Platt took over as 

advising architect. 

But, although MM&W had 

departed from the scene, the firm left 

behind an important legacy: architect 

Philipp Merz, whom Philip Will, 

Jr., then a rookie draftsman with 

Gordon and Kaelber, recalls as a 

major influence on the design of the 

project. 

Philipp Merz was a dedicated 

classicist who understood the Greek 

root of his name better than did 

University publications of the time, 

which consistently left off the final 

"p." He was also a master of classical 

detail. "It was his claim, which I fully 

accept," Philip Will writes, "that 

you could take him to Florence, 

blindfold him, let him feel the 

molding of any of the city's great 

Renaissance buildings, and he could 

tell who the architect was." 

The details that Merz designed for 

the River Campus buildings were 

drawn full size on brown wrapping 

paper and rendered with white and 

purple crayon. (He was color blind.) 

One of Philip Will's jobs was to trace 

these designs as a record to be kept 

while the original went to aNew 

York City modeler, whose plaster 

maquettes were then copied by stone 

masons. "Merz drawings were works 

of art in themselves," Philip Will 

writes, "well worth framing and 

hanging." 

Indeed they were. Especially fine are 

the wrought-iron details for the triple 

doors of the library and the flagpoles 

at the entrance to the quadrangle. 

From Merz's facile pencil, pen, and 

purple crayon came the new U niversity 

seal "to correct a misimpression," 

as Rush Rhees noted, 

"naturally derived from the date 

1851'" on our old seal.... A new 

design . . . by Mr. Philip [sic] Merz 

of the staff of our University 

architects . . . incorporates the old 

motto Mcliara from the old seal and 

symbols of Liberal Arts, Music and 

Medicine. The date has been put 

back to 1850 ...." 

The maquettes for the two carved 

stone female figures representing Art 

and Industry, to be placed above the 

twin grand staircases of the library, 

evoked widespread protest because 

Industry was depicted holding a 

Kodak camera in her outstretched 

hand. "Too crass," declared the 

detractors. A representative faculty 

protest committee of two-Memorial 

Art Gallery Director Gertrude Herdle 

and Professor Dexter Perkins-was 

dispatched to the office of the president. 

What was said is not recorded, 

but the finished, full-sized statue 

holds a strange, boxy, lamp of learning. 

There is no evidence that either 

Edwin Gordon or his partner William 

G. Kaelber ever touched pencil to 

paper in creating the design of the 

campus, although Gordon's pudgy 

hands belied a rare sketching talent. 

He would stand looking over 

shoulders in the drafting room, ostensibly 

to critique a design or two; but 

soon, edging a draftsman off his 

stool, Gordon was observed completing 

the piece himself. Will 

"'Referring to the year the seal was adopted 

rather than to the year the University was 

founded. 

Kaelber kept the office pencils by his 

drafting board so as to watch who 

took what. "Ed has his peculiarities," 

the draftsmen used to say. 

"Will has his pecuniarities." 

Before the architects' designs 

could be translated from pencil sketches 

to solid reality, contractors were 

required to move, if not mountains, 

at least one fairly hefty hill to prepare 

the site. Instead of emulating the random 

American campus on a rolling 

hill, the plans called for shaving off 

the top of Oak Hill to receive the 

quad-a somewhat artificial arrangement 

for the location, some have 

said. Considering this, and the quantities 

of earth that had to be moved 

for the extensive underground 

systems, and the tunneling that had 

to be done under the railroad 

separating the campus from the new 

medical school, followed by grading 

and planting-not to mention construction 

of eleven buildings-the 

three-year schedule seems 

miraculous. 

"M and M: mud and misery" was 

how some members of the construction 

crews remembered those years. 

To Charles Urlaub of A.W. 

Hopeman it was just another job, 

albeit a big one. Instead of the usual 

"half dozen men on the job, who 

would certainly have been lost" in 

the massive undertaking, as many as 

800 workers were involved, Urlaub 

estimates. This beehive of activity 

necessitated traffic controls and signs 

identifying as yet unindividualized 

steel frames as "LIBRARY," 

"CHEMISTRY," etc., so workmen 

could find their posts. In lieu of 

modern Caterpillar equipment, surefooted 

horses, playing out their last 

act as construction workers, joined 

new Mack trucks in the task. 

George Eastman's special pleasure 

was to watch the giant trees being 

moved about (one crashed to the 

ground and became fireplace wood 

for the W elles-Brown Room in the 

library). The young elms that would 

eventually shade the quad were growing 

in soil removed from Oak Hill to 

a nearby nursery. 

The pride and goal of the 

Hopeman company was to have the 

campus ready by September 1930. 

Despite delays and setbacks and a 

particularly lengthy strike that final 

summer, the dedication was delayed 

by only a month. Thirty years to the 

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day after his inauguration, President 

Rush Rhees led an academic procession, 

representing 170 educational institutions, 

that, to the strains of the 

Eastman School band, snaked its way 

through the eleven buildings of the 

new River Campus as prelude to 

three days of speeches and conferences. 

In the stone lantern atop the 

186-foot tower of Rush Rhees 

Library, a 17-bell chime played in 

jubilation. The chime had been 

placed there as a gift from the 

children of Arendt W. Hopeman in 

memory of their father. 

The building crowned with that 

great tower was named, over his 

vigorous objections, for the third 

president of the University. 

"It seems wholly appropriate," said 

the Rochester Alumni Review, "that the 

dominant architectural and structural 

feature of the new campus should be 

honored with the name of the dominant 

personality behind the entire 

development." It was not always 

thus. Earlier plans showed other 

features to be dominant, but plan no. 

45, "made at the suggestion of Dr. 

Rhees," clearly honors the library. 

"The library," agreed the student 

newspaper, The Campus, ". . . is 

always the heart of a college.... 

Not often, however, is the physical 

equipment as closely in keeping with 

this principle as is the case with the 

new Rush Rhees Library, with its 

commanding position at the head of 

the upper quadrangle, and its 

massive tower of brick and stone. 

Nor is it often that the beauty and 

idealism in a university can be so 

well concentrated as they are here in 

inscriptions and carvings." 

The names on the frieze on the 

front of the library were "specially 

arranged." Those on the west, 

"Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, 

Newton, and Kant, are scientists, 

realistic in outlook." On the same 

side is Dr. John Slater's inscription, 

"Here is the history of human 

ignorance . . . recorded by human 

intelligence for the admonition of 

wiser ages still to come." On the 

east are "Plato, Virgil, Dante, 

Shakespeare, and Goethe, representing 

the spiritual, idealistic side of 

life," along with Slater's words, 

"Here is the history of man's hunger 

for truth." Four centuries of printers' 

marks were wrought in iron for the 

main doors and carved in Indiana 

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False front: To determine how patterns of walls and windows would look in situ, full-scale 

samples were erected and photographed. Architect Leo Waasdorp couldn't resist posing in 

front of one of them. 

limestone along the balustrades of the 

grand stairways inside. 

Those stairways are indicative of a 

period when the accessibility of 

buildings was seldom considered and 

when, in the words of Richard L. 

Greene '26, "you had to wind 

yourself with a long flight of stairs" 

before reaching the catalog room and 

handsomely decorated main reading 

room on the second level. 

During 1925-26, Messrs. Gordon 

and Kaelber and their associate Leo 

Waasdorp, accompanied by the 

University librarian, Donald B. 

Gilchrist, had visited public and 

university libraries throughout the 

country (including a number 

designed by Charles Platt) and 

returned laden with sketches, 

photographs, and recommendations 

from consultants. 

The quartet then met with Dr. 

Rhees, who critiqued everything from 

the height of the ceilings and locations 

of the stairs to the shape of the 

lecture room and the advisability of 

locating the browsing room in Todd 

Union. The architects wanted a 

passenger elevator; librarian Gilchrist 

did not; arbiter Rhees said, "make 

provision but do not install." 

One of the final decisions was the 

shape and garb of the stack tower. A 

dozen sketches made in 1922 show 

proposals ranging from descendants 

of Independence Hall to the Pharos

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Rolling Oak Hill became a flattop when its summit was shaved to receive the quadrangle. The library was the last of its five buildings to be 

enclosed. 

of Alexandria to Jefferson's rotunda. 

Someone ordered up a wooden model 

of the library with a hole to be left 

where the tower was to go. Keith 

Marvin, then a young architect with 

the firm, recalls a scene, glimpsed 

through half-open doors, of members 

of the building committee circling the 

model, placing now one tower and 

then another on the model as they 

contemplated the proper pinnacle for 

the dome they knew would dominate 

the southwest skyline of Rochester. 

When it came to naming the 

other buildings, the designations 

chosen were largely reminiscent of 

University life on the old campus. 

The chemistry building honoring 

Professor Samuel A. Lattimore, the 

first to be built, was enclosed a scant 

three months after groundbreaking. 

The five-story liberal arts building 

beside it was named for "Uncle Bill" 

Morey, the late professor of Latin 

and history. 

The biology building, namesake of 

former chemistry professor Chester' 

A. Dewey, was billed as "one of the 

outstanding buildings of its kind in 

the country," with "apparatus 

representing the last word in modern 

science." (It may have been the last 

word in security, too. The same 

source adds that "cloak rooms are 

built to face the laboratories so that 

students may keep watch of the property. 

Buzzers are being attached to 

the cloak room doors to further this 

insurance of property. . . . The 

laboratories . . . will feature a new 

combination locker and cupboard to 

be placed at the very elbow of the 

student.... A fireproof vault for the 

safeguarding of expensive specimens 

and other valuables will be installed 

on the third floor.") 

The Alumni Gym was so 

designated not because the alumni 

gave it; the name was simply 

transferred from the building on the 

Old Campus on the reasoning that it 

would have no meaning for what was 

now to become the women's campus. 

The new gym incorporated "the 

finest features" of the best athletic 

facilities visited by "Doc" Edwin 

Fauver (professor of hygiene and 

physical education) and the architects, 

while Varsity (later Fauver) 

Field, seating 6,000, was so in the 

vanguard among football fields that 

for years it was inspected, praised, 

and emulated. 

Fifteen buildings, apart from 

fraternity houses, were envisioned on 

the final working drawings for the 

River Campus. Only eleven were 

constructed, however, as two dormitories 

and an administration 

building were postponed and a 

boathouse deleted. By groundbreaking, 

the chapel, president's home,· 

law school, and architecture school 

seen on earlier plans were gone as 

well. 

When the contractors moved 

out the students moved in, and during 

the last week in September, 

two weeks before the official dedication, 

the 600 students in the College 

for Men began classes on their newminted 

campus. 

•Rush Rhees knew, although no one else did, 

that George Eastman planned to bequeath his 

mansion to the University for the president's 

home. 

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The two residence halls that were 

the first to open were named for 

Henry F. Burton, professor of Latin, 

and George N. Crosby, a selfeducated 

Rochester businessman who 

had left a substantial legacy to the 

University. Each cubby of a room 

came equipped with washbasin, 

wooden wardrobe, and maid service. 

The first occupants were members of 

the Class of 1934 attending Freshman 

Camp and some uninvited 

housemates-furtive, nocturnal 

visitors displaced by the construction, 

who left teeth marks on the bars of 

soap in the washbasins. George Darling 

'34 theorizes that this was the 

origin of the nickname River Rats, 

given to those who had abandoned 

Prince Street for the new campus. 

"Though the campus was completely 

new and very plain, there was 

great exhilaration upon leaving dark 

and moldy Anderson Hall and the 

rest of the old and shabby plant 

behind," Richard Greene says. 

Not much shade was provided by 

the newly planted elms, but generous, 

terraced lawns interspersed the 

limestone-trimmed brick and slate 

campus. 

"Happy is the university that has 

no history," Professor Greene 

paraphrases, noting that the years he 

taught (English) at the University 

(1930-42), and was resident dorm 

adviser, were "as utopian as any college 

scene I've been in." And he's 

been in a number in the course of a 

long and distinguished academic 

career. There was strong feeling for 

tradition on this new campus, which 

enjoyed a student body characterized 

as responsible and cooperative, a fine 

faculty, a well-running plant, and an 

absence of theft, vandalism, graffiti, 

congestion, and campus police. There 

was even ample parking on the site 

where the library addition now stands 

and in a long-gone garage beneath 

the stadium. Dorm rules were quaint 

but rarely in need of enforcement: 

1. No alcohol. 

2. No disturbances after 8 p.m. 

3. No women after 6 p.m. (No 

exceptions for mothers or 

sisters.) 

About the only misdemeanors The 

Campus found to scold about were 

towels deposited on the locker room 

floor and failure to remove hats upon 

entering Todd Union. The traditional 

undergraduate proclivity for furniture 

Pioneer "Sons of Rochester," members of the class of 1934 during the first Freshman Week 

on the new campus. 

smashing was taken elsewhere. 

George Darling recalls an incident 

when sophomores broke up a 

freshman banquet at a downtown 

restaurant with the resulting damages 

to the premises assessed at the sum of 

$750. (That may not sound like 

much, Darling writes, until you 

remember that a year's tuition in 

1930 amounted to $250.) 

"Gracious living" was the hallmark 

of both campuses in the early 

1930's. The fraternity houses were 

beautifully furnished and initially well 

kept. Todd Union offered cafeteria 

service at noon and full-service 

dining in the evening, as would 

the soon-to-be-built Munro Hall for 

the women at Prince Street. 

The Faculty Club, on the other 

hand, housed on the main floor of 

Burton, ran into financial difficulties 

because so many members were 

brown-bagging it-an accurate 

measure, Charles R. Dalton '20 says, 

of faculty incomes. 

To foster a feeling of tradition, 

Glee Club director Ted Fitch 

gathered students on the steps of 

Todd Union for a twilight sing of 

"old" University songs. ("The 

Genesee" was written in 1894, thirtysix 

years before the campus was 

nestled in the arm of that river.) 

In the words of those who have 

shared their reminiscences about 

those days, the River Campus was a 

"very pleasant" place to be. Much of 

the euphoria, one suspects, relates to 

the unusual leadership qualities of the 

undergraduates in the early 1930's. 

Dick Greene cites a sampling: 

Xerox's Joe Wilson, Kodak's Gerry 

Zornow, Sybron's Don Gaudion, 

Rhodes Scholar Bob Babcock, Congressman 

Sam Stratton, and the 

University's Harm Potter (successively 

head of admissions and alumni 

affairs and now University Secretary). 

All were marked as campus 

leaders headed toward future achievement. 

So was Henry Brinker, a fine 

athlete who later became president of 

A.O. Smith; Robert Wells, who 

was to be head of Westinghouse 

operations in Europe; William F. 

May, future chairman of American 

Can Company (now retired and dean 

of the College of Business at NYU); 

Robert Brinker, future editor of Sports 

Illustrated; and William P. Buxton, 

future vice president for advertising 

at The New Yorker; and many others. 

Of this list, which could be further

expanded by including Thomas 

Forbes, John Frazer, and John B. 

Goetsch, all of whom went on to 

distinguished careers in the field of 

medical science, a surprising number 

came as scholarship holders from the 

Chicago area, recruited by Samuel 

Havens '99 (brother ofJames 

Havens, who with George Todd was 

instrumental in urging the River 

Campus site). 

Finally, the building of the River 

Campus brought both advantages 

and disadvantages to the women of 

the University. No longer were they 

confined to "Katy" Strong Hall or 

the silent rear of recitation rooms. 

Women could now use the main 

stairs of Anderson Hall. All the 

buildings of the Old Campus (the 

designation officially adopted by the 

trustees, which fortunately gave way 

to "Prince Street Campus") were 

renovated for their special uses. A 

new dormitory was constructed. So 

was the beautiful Cutler Union, from 

funds bequeathed by trustee James 

G. Cutler, whose interest in 

women's education was 

long-standing. 

(Legend has it Cutler was overruled by 

the rest of the building committee in 

his espousal of Collegiate Gothic 

architecture for the River Campus 

and achieved his posthumous revenge 

when Gordon and Kaelber were 

allowed to give free flight to their 

Gothic fancies in this $750,000 

structure.) 

Following the removal of the men, 

the women were free to develop their 

own traditions, leadership, and esprit 

de corps. The consensus of those who 

recall this twenty-five-year period on 

the women's campus affirms that 

these qualities saw their greatest 

flowering then. Also, the percentage 

of woman members of the joint faculty 

was higher in this segregated 

period than before or since on a 

single campus. 

On the negative side, almost the 

entire library was removed to the 

River Campus, accessible but to a 

lesser degree (129,003 volumes went; 

22,213 stayed). Women who wanted 

a scientific concentration had to find 

ways to reach the River Campus as 

efforts to establish laboratory facilities 

at Prince Street went unrewarded. 

Scheduling difficulties became legion 

and the four-mile trip back and forth 

between campuses several times a day 

sorely tried tempers. Eventually, the 

maintenance of so many duplicate 

facilities became an unbearable financial 

burden, and in 1955 the experiment 

in "coordinate education" came 

to an end as women students joined 

the men on the "new campus." 

All this was in the future in the 

early fall of fifty years ago when the 

student newspaper, recalling the days 

when the Old Campus was the site of 

Deacon Boody's cow pasture, bade 

"Farewell to Boody": 

"There is no use being sentimental 

about it. . . . But though we . . . try 

to preserve our nonchalant equanimity, 

we cannot honestly feel the stolid 

bovine indifference of Deacon 

Boody's kine. There are too many of 

us that have grown to love the old 

campus. 

"And we must now grow to love 

the new one. We must readjust 

ourselves to the strange environment 

and lack of shade. We must breathe 

into the fresh buildings life, traditions 

-all that will make our river campus 

a living force, a true 'alma mater.' A 

task for time, perhaps." 

Author's note: Special thanks for first-hand 

remembrances, long-range perspectives, wellturned 

phrases, and assistance in ferreting out 

materials to Charles Dalton, George Darling, 

Kathrine Koller Diez, R uhard Greene, Karl 

Kabelac, Carl F. W Kaelber, Jr., Keith 

Marvin, Charles Urlaub, and Philip Will, Jr. 

Arthur May's unedited manuscnpt of the history 

of the University was most helpful, too. 

Betsy Brayer, a frequent contributor to the 

Review, is preparing a book about George 

Eastman. 

One of the first events on the new campus 

was the freshman- sophomore flag rush, 

witnessed by a hillfull of interested 

observers. The rules proscribed 

"all missles [sic] other than those provided by 

nature," a handicap that did not prevent 

the freshmen from winning. Had they 

also won the frosh- soph push ball contest 

they would have been allowed to "wear 

knickers the rest of the year, a privilege otherwise 

denied them." 

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16 

Wall Street's 'Riverboat Gambler' 

By A.F. Ehrbar 

Tender offers, takeover battles, and corporate 

mergers that may-or may 

not-succeed are the stuff of 

everyday life to Guy Wyser 

Pratte '62. He is one of the 

handful of Wall Street 

professionals engaged in the 

heady business of risk 

arbitrage. His arcane 

profession has made him a 

celebrity on the Streetand 

his company's 

biggest profitmaker.

For six years now, acquisition-minded chief executives 

have been making unfriendly tender offers for reluctant 

merger candidates with unprecedented frequency. 

Takeover battles for companies like Babcock & Wilcox, 

Carborundum, Fairchild Camera, and Mostek have provided 

unaccustomed drama for the nation's ordinarily 

mundane business pages, and unexpected profits for investors 

lucky enough to own stock in target companies. 

They also have made an unlikely celebrity of Guy 

Wyser-Pratte, an executive vice president at the 

brokerage firm of Bache Halsey Stuart and a 1962 

graduate of the University of Rochester. 

Wyser-Pratte is one of a handful of Wall Street professionals 

who engage in what is known as risk arbitrage. 

As the word risk implies, this type of arbitrage is very 

different from the classic variety. Traditional arbitrageurs 

try to make small, essentially riskless profits by simultaneously 

buying and selling securities whose values are 

linked but whose prices are momentarily out of sync. 

Risk arbitrageurs, in contrast, are the riverboat gamblers 

of the stock market. They specialize in betting on 

whether planned mergers and takeovers will go through, 

chancing enormous losses for a shot at smaller, but very 

quick, profits. 

Acquirers always pay premiums for the companies 

they buy, but the market price doesn't usually rise all the 

way to the acquisition price as soon as a merger or 

tender offer is announced. After all, the deal may fall 

apart. That's where Wyser-Pratte and his fellow 

arbitrageurs come in. If they think the odds are in 

their favor, they buy the stock at the higher, postannouncement 

price in hopes of reselling it to the 

acquirer at a still higher price. When he sizes things 

up correctly, Wyser-Pratte can reap profits for Bache of 

ten percent in as little as a month, and two or three percent 

overnight. But if he's wrong and a deal falls through, 

the stock may fall back to its preannouncement price or 

even lower, and he can drop thirty percent or more of 

what he puts up. 

Those formidable risks may explain why there are only 

six major players in the arbitrage game. Aside from 

Bache, they include Ivan Boesky, who runs his own firm, 

and the arbitrageurs at Salomon Brothers, Goldman 

Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner 

& Smith. Their high rolling brought commensurately 

high returns during the heyday of the sixties, when conglomerates 

seemed to be buying up anything with a 

balance sheet. But those profits were merely a prelude to 

what was to come. Since 1974, arbitrageurs have been 

some of the biggest money makers in lower Manhattan. 

Wyser-Pratte, for instance, is the highest paid 

executive at Bache. As published in the firm's proxy 

statement, his compensation, which includes a portion of 

the arbitrage profits, came to $865,000 in fiscal 1978 and 

$1,374,000 in fiscal 1979. The arbitrage department, in 

turn, contributes significantly to Bache's earnings. 

Wyser-Pratte brings in his hefty contributions to the bottom 

line with a staff of only ten-himself, three other 

professionals, and six secretaries and clerks. 

Arbitrage has been so wildly lucrative in recent years 

because of the proliferation of unfriendly takeovers. The 

initial spreads between market prices and acquisition 

prices usually are higher in tender offers than they are in 

the friendly mergers that predominated during the sixties. 

The higher spreads give fast-acting arbitrageurs the 

chance to reap larger profits if they move in right after 

offers are announced. In addition, many of the companies 

making tender offers have come through with 

second, higher offers to overcome the resistance of the 

target companies' managers. 

The most important change from the sixties, however, 

has been the entry of second companies, and sometimes 

even third and fourth companies, into the competition 

for many of the targets. The resulting bidding contests 

have turned some takeovers into genuine bonanzas for 

the arbitrageurs. Wyser-Pratte's biggest winner, the one 

that may have netted more than $4 million, was the bidding 

contest for Babcock & Wilcox. 

United Technologies started the action in Babcock in 

March 1977 with a tender offer at $42 a share, $7 more 

than the market price. The arbitrageurs began buying at 

$40, the first trading price after the offer, but their gamble 

began to look like a poor one as Babcock tied up 

United's offer with suits in state and federal courts. The 

action picked up in May when J. Ray McDermott & 

Company announced that it had bought 9.9 percent of 

Babcock. With that the stock went to $44. The stock 

made another big move in early August when United, 

having cleared the legal hurdles, upped its offer to $48. 

On August 14 McDermott responded with a $55 tender 

offer. 

By then Wyser-Pratte's stake in Babc:ock came to 

about $15 million, the largest arbitrage position Bache 

had ever taken. In the midst of that frenzied activity, 

and with so much at risk, he went on vacation. He spent 

a week in Martha's Vineyard and a second one in 

Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The sojourn by the sea was 

interrupted almost hourly by frantic phone calls from 

New York. Top executives at Bache urged him to take 

the profits and run, but Wyser-Pratte held fast. 

The patience paid off. A week after he returned to 

work, McDermott made the final, winning offer-$65 a 

share. Wyser-Pratte won't say precisely how much he 

made on Babcock, but he admits to at least $15 a share. 

If the estimate of a $15 million investment is correct, he 

had around 300,000 shares at an average cost of about 

$50. A $15-a-share gain works out to a profit of $4.5 

million. 

Tender offers don't always produce large profits, of 

course. Wyser-Pratte and his compatriots take a drubbing 

whenever a target company successfully fends off a 

would-be acquirer, and that has happened often enough 

to keep the fainthearted out of the arbitrage game. 

Gerber, for instance, beat back a takeover attempt by 

Anderson Clayton, Marshall Field stymied Carter 

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Hawley Hale, and McGraw-Hill defeated a tender offer 

by American Express. 

It is the drubbings, rather than the huge winners, that 

have contributed to Wyser-Pratte's new-found celebrity. 

It turns out that he is a very hard loser, and he has been 

waging holy war on chief executives and boards of directors 

who manage to defeat hostile acquirers. The first 

object of his wrath was John C. Suerth, the chairman of 

Gerber. Anderson Clayton offered Suerth $32 a share in 

December 1976, and then made a tender offer at $40 the 

following April. In July, while the takeover battle was 

still on, Wyser-Pratte showed up at Gerber's annual 

meeting in Fremont, Michigan, to inquire, noisily, why 

Suerth was trying to prevent his shareholders from making 

money. 

Wyser-Pratte bought only a small amount of Gerber 

stock for Bache and thus his loss was insignificant when 

the takeover attempt failed, yet he still persisted in his 

attack. He found a shareholder in Ohio to sue Suerth 

and the Gerber board for violating their fiduciary duty, 

and Bache picked up the legal fees for the lawsuit. 

Wyser-Pratte says he kept after Suerth simply because he 

wanted to make a point. 

"The heavy-handedness involved here makes a 

mockery of free enterprise," he says. "It's incredible the 

lengths managements go to protect their sinecures. If 

companies aren't for sale at any price, they should have 

a surgeon general's warning to that effect. I'd like to see 

what would happen to their cost of capital then." 

Wyser-Pratte did buy a significant amount of 

McGraw-Hill stock after American Express made its 

tender offer in 1979, and he lost about $220,000. In that 

case, he's been trying even harder to make a point. Just 

after the tender offer collapsed, he joined a shareholder 

committee in a highly publicized attempt to poll 

McGraw-Hill owners on whether they wanted the board 

to reconsider the American Express bid. The object was 

to sway the board or, failing that, build ammunition for 

a court fight. The plan fell apart when McGraw-Hill 

made it clear that it would ensnare the shareholders in 

costly lawsuits if they persisted. 

But Wyser-Pratte still isn't through with McGraw 

Hill. He bought 100 shares of the company's stock in his 

own name so that he could put a proposal in its 1980 

proxy statement. He wants to amend the bylaws so that 

the board will be required to present to the shareholders 

any offer, by a financially responsible entity, to buy 

more than forty-five percent of the stock at a fortypercent 

premium over the market price. The bylaw 

would also prohibit the directors from spending any company 

money to contest such an offer. 

"The shareholders own the company and they can 

read," Wyser-Pratte says in explaining his proposal. 

"They are capable of making their own decisions about 

whether to hold or sell shares." The Securities and 

Exchange Commission ruled that McGraw-Hill didn't 

have to include the proposal in its 1980 proxy statement 

because Wyser-Pratte bought his shares too late to be a 

shareholder of record on the last day for filing material. 

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Subsequent changes in the price of the stock would indicate 

to anyone else that the matter was closed. But not 

Wyser-Pratte. He is still thinking it over. 

Wyser-Pratte openly revels in his self-assumed role as 

the shareholder's protector, but his actions haven't been 

all that popular among other arbitrageurs. They dislike 

losing as much as he does, but they lick their wounds in 

private. In their view, the glamour of takeovers and the 

enormous profits they've made have already focused too 

much attention on the arbitrageurs, and they don't need 

one of their own stirring up even more trouble. 

Ironically, the one attracting all the publicity is the only 

major arbitrageur who was born into the profession. 

Wyser-Pratte's father, Eugene, started out in classic arbitrage 

in Paris and moved to New York in 1948. Guy 

went through grammar and high school in Westchester 

County and enrolled at the University of Rochester in 

the fall of 1958. He now looks back on the four years in 

Rochester as "the greening of Wyser-Pratte." The intellectual 

climate, he says, was a radical change from the 

know-nothing attitude that prevailed at his earlier 

schools. In addition to majoring in history, he was an 

original member of the University of Rochester hockey 

club, rising at five o'clock on winter mornings to slap 

pucks on the frozen Genesee. He attended Rochester on 

an ROTC scholarship and was the only one in his class 

to opt for a Marine commission instead of one in the 

Navy. 

The other variety of greening didn't begin until 

Wyser-Pratt left the Marine Corps in 1966. He joined 

his father's company, which by then had shifted from 

classic to risk arbitrage, and started night courses 

towards an M.B.A. in finance at NYU. (His thesis for 

the degree, which he got in 1970, was on risk arbitrage.) 

In 1967 he and his father sold the business to Bache and 

both went to work there. Guy has been in charge of the 

arbitrage operation since his father retired in 1971. 

Running the arbitrage department entails keeping a 

constant eye on the ticker and fielding nonstop questions 

from his subordinates as he makes the final decisions on 

the twenty to forty situations that Bache has investments 

in at any given time. For lagniappe, Wyser-Pratte 

manages investment portfolios for eight European banks. 

With all that, he is able to take two months off each year 

and spend time with his daughters, Joelle, eleven, and 

Danielle, seven. He also gets back to his native France 

four or five times a year. The allure isn't Paris, but the 

countryside. Wyser-Pratte would rather be walking 

through the vineyards and farmlands of France than 

anywhere else. Unless, of course, a big tender offer is in 

the works. 

A.F. Ehrbar, who received his M.B.A. from Rochester in 1974, is a 

senior editor at Fortune, specializing in feature articles on public policy 

matters.

Aaah, Cheesecake! 

Dana Bovbjerg promises that you, too, will go ape over his Chimpanzee Cheesecake. Turn the page for the recipe. 

What do cheesecakes and neuroscience 

have in common? 

Dana Bovbjerg, that's who. 

Bovbjerg is a former professional 

cook and baker who is now a 

graduate student in neuroscience at 

the University. Described as a man 

with "many a cheesecake under his 

belt," Bovbjerg, with considerable 

local fanfare, recently launched The 

Joy of Cheesecake, a new cookbook of 

which he is co-author. The book offers 

a sumptuous selection of over a 

hundred recipes for what he 

characterizes as "this most sensuous 

of desserts." Among them are formulae 

for Ginger, Apricot, Passionfruit, 

Snow White, Angel, 

Inscrutable, Lunar, William Penn's, 

Aunt Anita's, and an international 

array of Danish, Hungarian, Italian, 

Polish, Russian, and Swedish 

cheesecakes. 

The author has chosen the following 

sampling to share with Review 

readers. Note: These are recipes for 

fillings only. You're on your own for 

the crusts, unless you want to buy the 

book (published by Barron's of 

Woodbury, $11.95 clothbound, $9.95 

paper). 

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Chimpanzee Cheesecake 

Your friends will go ape over this one. The 

flavor of bananas is subtle but pervasive. If 

you want a more pronounced banana taste, 

you'll have to monkey with the recipe a bit: 

Eliminate the sour cream and/or top the cake 

with a layer of sliced bananas. 

Recommendations: 

Basic crumb crust 

9-inch springform pan 

Ingredients: 

1 pound cream cheese 

* cup granulated sugar 

2 teaspoons lemon juice 

4 large eggs 

1 cup sour cream 

1 cup mashed bananas (approximately 

3 medium bananas) 

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 

2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the 

cream cheese, sugar, and lemon juice. Add 

the eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly 

after each addition. 

3. Stir in the sour cream and the mashed 

bananas and blend well. 

4. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust 

and bake for 1 hour. Cool in the oven, with 

the door propped open, until the cake is at 

room temperature. Chill. 

Cider Cheesecake 

What could be better than apple pie and a 

wedge of cheese? Try this fall favorite and find 

out. 


Flavored crumb crust made with cinnamon 


Ingredients: 

1 cup apple cider 

2 large eggs, separated 

1 envelope gelatin 

1 pound cream cheese 

Y2 cup confectioners sugar 

1 cup heavy cream 

1 cup applesauce 

Y2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

1. In a small saucepan, boil the cider rapidly 

until it is reduced by half. Remove from 

the heat, then gently beat in the egg yolks. 

Add the gelatin and stir to dissolve. 

2. In a large bowl, beat together the cream 

cheese and the sugar until light. Slowly 

add the gelatin mixture and beat until 

blended well. 

3. Whip the cream until stiff, then stir into 

the batter. 

4. Beat the egg whites until they form soft 

peaks, then fold them into the cheese 

mixture. 

S. Stir together the applesauce and cinnamon, 

then swirl into the batter. 


and refrigerate for 4 hours, or until set. 

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Dark Chocolate Cheesecake 

Is it cheesecake or fudge? Call it what you 

will, it is delicious. 


Basic crumb crust made from vanilla wafers 


Ingredients 

5 squares (5 ounces) semisweet chocolate 

1 Y2 pounds cream cheese 

* cup granulated sugar 

3 large eggs 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 cup sour cream 


2. Melt the chocolate in the top of a double 

boiler. 

3. Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, beat 

the cream cheese with the sugar until the 

mixture is smooth and light. 

4. Beat in the eggs and the vanilla. 

S. Stir the melted chocolate and the sour 

cream into the cream cheese mixture and 

blend well. 


and bake for 1 hour, 15 minutes. Turn off 

the heat and allow the cake to cool in the 

oven. Chill. 

Low-Calorie Cheesecake 

By our calculations, there are about 1,900 

calories in this cheesecake, so if you cut it in 

ten pieces, it's only 190 calories per delectable 

slice. More corners could have been cut (like 

no cream cheese) but at a sacrifice of satisfaction 

(and we all know that means bigger slices 

taken or two slices polished off when one 

would do). If you dust the pan with crumbs 

after greasing with margarine you can avoid 

the better part of 600 calories in the crust. 


Low-calorie crust 


Ingredients: 

2 cups (1 pound) low-fat cottage cheese 

Y2 pound low-fat cream cheese 

3 tablespoons skim milk 

2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten 

3 large egg whites 

Y. cup granulated sugar 


2. Press the cottage cheese through a sieve 

and drain. 


cottage cheese, cream cheese, milk, vanilla, 

and egg yolk until smooth and light. 

4. Beat the egg whites slowly, adding the 

sugar gradually until the whites form stiff 

peaks. Fold the whites into the cheese 

mixture. 

S. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust 

and bake for 1 hour. Turn off the heat and 

leave the cake in the oven for another hour. 

Chill. 

Pumpkin Cheesecake 

This one puts ordinary cheesecake to shame. 

Served hot or just warmed, it's much like 

pumpkin pie, but much richer. Served cold, 

it's an unusual and delicious cheesecake. The 

cake will easily serve twenty people (or even 

thirty after a heavy Thanksgiving dinner), so 

for once you can have your cake and eat it 

too-serve it warm the first time around and 

enjoy the leftovers cold. 


Shortbread crust 

to-inch springform pan 

Ingredients: 

2 Y2 pounds cream cheese 

1 cup granulated sugar 

4 large eggs, lightly beaten 

3 egg yolks, lightly beaten 

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 

1 teaspoon ground cloves 

1 teaspoon ground ginger 

I cup heavy cream 

1 tablespoon vanilla extract 

1 can (1 pound) mashed pumpkin 



cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and yolks. 

3. Add the flour, cinnamon, cloves, and 

ginger. 

4. Beat in the cream and the vanilla, then add 

the mashed pumpkin and beat at medium 

speed on an electric mixer until just mixed 

thoroughly. 

S. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust 

and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven 

temperature to 275 degrees and bake for an 

additional hour. Turn off the heat, but 

leave the cake in the oven overnight to cool. 

6. As indicated above, serve the cake either 

warm or chilled, with whipped cream.


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Eastman in Germany 

That's no stage set behind the 

Eastman Philharmonia here; that 

castle in the background is the real 

thing. The picture was taken during 

the Philharmonia's six weeks in Germany 

last summer as orchestra-inresidence 

at the Heidelberg Castle 

Festival. 

The Philharmonia was the first 

choice of festival officials after a 

representative visited several major 

music schools in the United States 

last year. And after a series of performances 

under conductor David 

Effron that inspired one German 

newspaper to describe the group as 

the festival's stellar attraction, the 

orchestra-made up of the Eastman 

School's finest student talent-was 

invited to return to Heidelberg next 

summer. 

"The real star of this year's Castle 

Festival is the young Eastman 

Philharmonia, an orchestra that has 

great competence, can master any 

kind of technical difficulty, and personifies 

freshness and joy in its playing," 

wrote a critic for the Rhein 

Neckar-Zeitung. "Anyone who heard 

The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Student 

Prince, or Gazzaniga's Don 

Giovanni knows how extraordinary the 

orchestra that came to Heidelberg is. 

Take the precision of the Stuttgart 

Chamber Orchestra, the talent of the 

Young German Philharmonic and 

some of the temperament of I 

Musici, and you have about the right 

order of magnitude for the Eastman 

Philharmonia. " 

Triple play 

Imagine a major symphonic work 

that combines the talents of a Pulitzer 

Prize-winning composer, a worldfamous 

civil rights leader, and a 

major-league first baseman. Well, 

you won't have to rely solely on your 

imagination for long; in about two 

more years you will probably be able 

-- - - ------- 

to buy the record. 

The Eastman School of Music has 

commissioned just such a work, 

based on the writings of Martin 

Luther King, Jr., narrated by the 

Pittsburgh Pirates' Willie Stargell, 

and written by Joseph Schwantner, a 

member of Eastman's composition 

faculty who won the Pulitzer in 1979 

for his Aftertones of Infinity. 

Eastman School director Robert 

Freeman, who arranged the project, 

expects the work to be premiered in 

1983 at the Kennedy Center in 

Washington, with subsequent performances 

in New York City and at the 

Eastman School. It will be performed, 

naturally, by the school's 

crack student orchestra, the Eastman 

Philharmonia. 

The idea of commissioning a work 

based on texts by King arose from a 

benefit concert given last spring by 

bass-baritone William Warfield '42E 

for the benefit of the school's 

William Warfield Scholarship Fund 

for voice students. Warfield has 

agreed to assist Stargell in preparation 

of his narration. 

Twenty years with the Pirates, 

Stargell is president of the Stargell 

Foundation, a fund working in behalf 

of research in sickle-cell anemia. 

"Perhaps Mr. Stargell's sincere interest 

in music will attract more 

baseball fans to the concert 

hall-and, perhaps, more concertgoers 

to the baseball stadium," 

says Freeman, who is frequently to 

be found in the baseball stadium 

himself. 

Useful freebie 

"Surviving Academic Pressures in 

College-How to Study Better and 

Fight Pre-Exam Panic" is a free 

bulletin recently published by the 

University that you can send for. 

Designed both for high school and 

college students, the brochure includes 

tips on when, where, and how 

to study; motivation; relaxation; getting 

ready for exams; test-taking 

strategies; and fighting test-taking jitters. 

It was prepared from advice 

supplied by counselors in the University's 

Study Skills Center. 

Free copies are available from 

Dept. RR, Office of University Communications, 

University of 

Rochester, Rochester, New York 

14627. Please accompany requests 

with a self-addressed stamped 

envelope. 

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Inauguration 

Walter I. Garms gets a handshake and a plaque from President Sproull (at lectern) on the 

occasion of his recent inauguration as dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human 

Development. The third member of the trio is Faculty Marshal Richard F. Eisenberg '45, 

'48G, associate professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, who as University 

marshal carries the mace at ceremonial University functions. A nationally known 

authority on educational financing and administration, Garms has been a member of the 

Rochester faculty since 1972. 

African visit 

President Sproull was in Africa last 

fall as a member of a delegation that 

was, among other concerns, charged 

with investigating ways of sharing 

U.S. technical, scientific, and educational 

expertise with developing countries 

in that continent. 

The twenty-eight-member delegation 

was headed by President 

Carter's Science Adviser, Frank 

Press, and included heads of such 

federal agencies as the National 

Science Foundation and the National 

Institutes of Health. Sproull and 

Harold Enarson, president of Ohio 

State University, represented private 

and public universities, respectively. 

In reporting about the visit, 

Sproull said, in part: 

"The result of our trip was both 

encouraging and sobering. It seems 

clear that not all of the fifty countries 

in sub-Saharan Africa are likely to 

survive with independent and 

democratic governments, or to attain 

such if they do not already have 

them. 

"There are particular reasons why 

the four we visited [Nigeria, Zimbabwe, 

Kenya, and Senegal] can 

become especially strong and why the 

United States should be a part of 

that strengthening. Each of the countries 

has its own special opportunities; 

each has its special and 

serious problems." 

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Birds of a feather 

Why do certain birds prefer to feed 

in groups? And what determines the 

size of those groups? These are questions 

Thomas Caraco, assistant professor 

of biology, has been asking 

himself. 

By observing the behavior of a 

group-feeding bird, the yellow-eyed 

junco, over long periods of time, 

Caraco has been able to develop 

mathematical models that predict the 

size of such groups under a given set 

of conditions. He found that as flock 

size increases, each bird is able to 

spend less time on the lookout for 

predators (in this case, mainly hawks) 

and more time on feeding. However, 

aggressive behavior and territoriality 

tend to increase, keeping the flock 

size in check. 

Environmental factors, such as 

temperature and food density, also 

playa role. Temperature is critically 

important: Birds must eat more in 

cold weather to maintain their body 

heat, so they have less time available 

for aggression. Thus, as the weather 

grows colder, the flocks grow larger. 

By studying such simple animal 

groupings, using mathematical 

models, ecologists hope to develop 

techniques for analyzing the interactions 

within more complicated animal 

societies. 

William F. May '37 

New professorship 

The William F. May Professorship 

in Engineering has been established 

at the University with support from 

the American Can Company Foundation 

in honor of William May, 

recently retired chairman of the 

board of the corporation. A Phi Beta 

Kappa graduate of the University's 

class of 1937, May is chairman of the 

executive committee of the University's 

Board of Trustees and chairman 

of the Trustees' Visiting Committee 

for the College of Engineering 

and Applied Science. 

May joined American Can Company 

in 1938 as a laboratory technician. 

Following his retirement from 

the company in October, he became 

dean of the New York University 

Graduate School of Business. 

A national leader in cultural, 

business, and philanthropic organizations, 

May holds the National Conference 

Brotherhood Award of the 

National Conference of Christians 

and Jews, the Humanitarian Award 

of the Association for the Help of 

Retarded Children, and the National 

Collegiate Athletic Association 

Award. 

He has served on numerous 

boards, including those of New York 

City's Lincoln Center for the Performing 

Arts, the United Nations 

Association of the United States, the 

American Museum of Natural 

History, the Council for Financial 

Aid to Education, and the Committee 

for Economic Development.

A good bet 

Is college still a good investment? 

Hal Cline, assistant professor of 

economics at the Graduate School of 

Education and Human Development, 

thinks so. But although the investment 

of time and money in a college 

degree still provides a good return, 

Cline says, recent studies indicate a 

slight drop: The rate of return is 

probably about nine percent now, as 

against ten percent a decade ago. 

Compared to other investments that 

have not kept pace with inflation, 

however, such as a savings bank 

account, college is still a good bet. 

According to Cline, studies by 

other researchers showing that college 

doesn't payoff the way it used to 

have ignored the way the composition 

of college students has changed in recent 

years. 

"Colleges have become more accessible 

now to a larger proportion of 

the population," he explains. "The 

1960s were a time of great expansion 

in the number and kinds of colleges, 

a time when important legislation improved 

equality of educational opportunity. 

"Some studies have lumped 

together very different kinds of 

students to make their comparisons. 

The decreased average salaries for 

college graduates relative to other 

groups do not indicate a decreased 

rate of return to an individual; they 

indicate expansion of educational opportunity. 

" 

These figures shouldn't affect an 

individual's decision to go to college, 

Cline advises. The important question 

is, "If I go to college, what will 

it do for me?" 

In the media 

Readers of national publications, 

as well as of scientific and professional 

journals, regularly come across 

references to the scholarly 

activities-and professional 

judgments-of people at the University. 

Following is a cross section of 

some of those that you might have 

seen in recent months: 

o Eastman School student William 

Eddins '83 grinned proudly in a 

photo in a recent People magazine. 

As well he might. William, fifteen 

and a sophomore, is the youngest 

undergraduate to enter the University 

in recent memory. He gained this 

distinction by skipping second and 

third grades-and by being a firstrate 

piano player (he was one of 

twelve pianists, out of 200 applicants, 

selected for places in his class at 

Eastman). Now a student of David 

Burge, professor of piano and cochairman 

of the keyboard department, 

he ended his first year on the 

honors list. So much for what one of 

his friends wrote, in affectionate 

salute, in his high school yearbook: 

"To the shrimpiest boy in the class." 

D "Medication and diet aids may be 

all right for the short term [if you 

want to lose weight], but eventually 

you are going to have to change your 

eating habits," says Dr. Robert 

Campbell, an endocrinologist and 

professor of internal medicine at 

Rochester. He was quoted in the October 

1980 issue of Science Digest in an 

article on how to control appetite and 

Chase-Riboud 

Prize winner 

Barbara Chase-Riboud (above), a 

sculptor and poet of American and Canadian 

descent, is also a novelist of note: 

Her 1979 work, Sal[y Hemings, has won 

the most recent Janet Heidinger Kafka 

Prize, given each year by the 

University's annual Writers Workshop 

and the Department of English. The 

prize honors a work of fiction by an 

American woman. Among Chase 

Riboud's predecessors as winners of the 

Kafka Prize are Mary Gordon, author of 

Final Payments (a portion of which was 

reprinted in the Spring 1980 Rochester 

Review), and Judith Guest, whose Kafka 

Award-winning novel, Ordinary People, 

was made into one of 1980's most successful 

films. 

eating behavior. In the article, he explained 

the limitations of over-thecounter 

diet aids containing bulk. 

D Do pretty girls get more dates? 

The answer is no, according to an article 

in Seventeen magazine. The article 

cited a study-written by associate 

professor of psychology Harry Reis, 

professor of psychology Ladd 

Wheeler, and John Nezlek of the 

College of William and Mary-that 

found no correlation between 

looks and social life. 

"Beauties are supposed to be incredibly 

desirable," Professor Reis 

told Seventeen. "But men paint an 

unrealistic picture of such women." 

Men are afraid to be rejected by 

them, so beauties may lose out, he 

says. Reis also discussed attractiveness 

and dating in a "Today" 

show interview. A report about his 

findings has been syndicated to 

newspapers around the country. The 

study had been mentioned in an 

earlier Time magazine column. 

D How to get the most out of 

freshman orientation week was the 

subject of a recent column in 

Glamour. The column quoted advice 

from Miriam Rock '42, associate 

dean of the College of Arts and 

Science at Rochester. Her suggestions 

to incoming freshmen included getting 

to know their advisers, other 

faculty, and administrators; selecting 

courses carefully; becoming familiar 

with the campus and community; 

solving any last-minute financial aid 

problems; and checking out college 

athletic facilities. 

D "The director is blind and uses a 

braille script, but he has an eye for 

drama," announced the headline on 

an Associated Press story about 

David Richman, assistant professor 

of English and director of the U niversity's 

Drama House. The article 

described Richman's techniques in 

directing Macbeth, presented this past 

summer by the University of 

Rochester Summer Theatre. 

DThe nausea, vomiting, water retention, 

and irritability that characterize 

premenstrual syndrome can be 

treated medically, Dr. Anthony 

Labrum states in an article in Science 

Digest. Dr. Labrum is associate professor 

of obstetrics and gynecology 

and of psychiatry at Rochester. Most 

premenstrual symptoms are 

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associated with an overproduction of 

hormone-like substances, called prostaglandins, 

Dr. Labrum told Science 

Digest. Prostaglandin inhibitors have 

been used successfully as treatment, 

he says. Changes in diet also can 

relieve some premenstrual symptoms, 

he adds. 

The myths and fears surrounding 

miscarriage were the focus of a New 

York Times article that cited Dr. 

Labrum's research on that subject. 

Working with forty-two women who 

had miscarried and eleven of their 

husbands, Dr. Labrum found "few 

knew anything about frequency and 

causes, nor did they know of others 

who had been through a similar 

experience," the Times reported. 

Miscarriage is a "far more common 

and more emotionally devastating 

event than most people realize," the 

Times noted. 

DKnee injuries top the list of runners' 

ailments, and a Rochester 

researcher has proven the effectiveness 

of a new diagnostic tool, 

Runner's World magazine reports. 

Dr. Kenneth DeHaven, associate 

professor and head of athletic 

medicine (orthopaedics), used an instrument 

called an arthroscope to 

look inside injured knee joints 

without making the major incisions 

previously needed for internal examinations. 

The arthroscope 

diagnoses were more accurate than 

initial diagnoses based on clinical examinations, 

Runner's World notes. 

Earlier, Dr. DeHaven discussed his 

findings in an interview on the 

"Good Morning America" show. 

DThe two-and-a-half million gifted 

children in the United States need 

special attention in school in order to 

realize their potential, a Harper's 

Bazaar article states. But we tend to 

forget that these gifted youngsters are 

still children, despite their remarkable 

abilities, and we form unreasonable 

expectations of them based solely on 

their intellectual performance, Dr. 

Rita Underberg told the magazine. 

Cognitive skills have nothing to do 

with emotional development, says 

Underberg, clinical associate professor 

of psychiatry. 

DToo much stress will make you 

sick-right? 

Maybe so, but no one knows 

precisely how, according to an article 

in Newsweek. Dealing with the farfrom-understood 

relationship between 

stress and health, the article cited 

research by professor of psychiatry 

Robert Ader exploring the ways mild 

stress affects the susceptibility of rats 

to disease under varying conditions. 

The results of moderately stressful 

circumstances-in this case, the stress 

produced by human handling-are 

not all that predictable, Ader's study 

showed. "Rats handled by humans 

before they were weaned got fewer 

ulcers as adults than unhandled rats, 

but only if they were raised in cages 

with other rats; rats whose mothers 

had been handled while they 

themselves were in the womb got more 

ulcers, but only if they were individually 

caged after birth, " 

Newsweek reported. Early experience 

and social environment seem to 

influence the onset of disease, Ader's 

research indicates. "But what experience? 

What disease?" Ader's 

conclusion: "The world is very 

complicated. " 

Appointments 

PatrickJ. Hayes, formerly of the 

University of Essex, England, has 

been Henry R. Luce Professor of 

Cognitive Science at the University 

of Rochester since January 1. The 

professorship was established last year 

with a five-year grant of $250,000 

from the Henry Luce Foundation. 

Cognitive science brings together a 

number of disciplines that bear on 

human thought and action. It 

includes such areas as perception, 

learning and memory, thinking and 

reasoning, the use of language, logic 

and philosophy, and the capabilities 

for intelligent activity. The University's 

program is one of the first of its 

kind in the nation. 

Hayes was most recently a fellow 

at the Center for Advanced Study in 

the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, 

California, where a group of 

distinguished psychologists, computer 

scientists, and philosophers has been 

assembled for a special program in 

cognitive science. He is an authority 

on the application of the principles of 

consistent reasoning, as developed in 

traditional philosophy, to machine 

reasoning. 

Sidney Shapiro, professor of electrical 

engineering, and Hugh M. 

Van Horn, professor of physics and 

astronomy, have assumed new duties 

as chairmen of their respective 

departments. 

Shapiro is an internationally 

known authority on superconductive 

tunneling and the Josephson effect. 

His research has been instrumental in 

developing understanding of these 

complex physical phenomena, which 

are expected to play critical roles in 

future superfast, large-capacity computers. 

He succeeds Professor Charles 

W. Merriam III, who is continuing 

his teaching and research at the 

University. 

A specialist in the structure and 

evolution of stars, Van Horn is the 

author of over sixty scientific publications 

on astrophysics and has been invited 

to lecture widely in Europe and 

North America. He succeeds Professor 

Harry E. Gove, who is continuing 

his teaching and research at 

the University. Gove also remains 

director of the University's Nuclear 

Structure Research Laboratory. 

Among new appointments at the 

Eastman School of Music are these: 

Alfred Mann, since 1962 music 

director of the celebrated Bach Choir 

of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has 

joined the faculty as professor of 

musicology. 

Appointed as associate professors 

are: Rebecca Penneys, piano, 

Charles Geyer and Barbara Butler, 

trumpets, and Atar Arad, viola. Penneys 

is pianist of the New Arts Trio, 

which won the 1980 Naumburg 

Chamber Music Award, and has also 

been chairman of the piano department 

at the Wisconsin Conservatory 

of Music. Butler is a former coprincipal 

trumpet of the Vancouver 

Symphony Orchestra, and Geyer was 

principal trumpet of the Houston 

Symphony Orchestra. Both are now 

members of the Eastman Brass, 

founded at the Eastman School in 

1961. Atar, a native of Israel who 

until this year had been living in 

England, has succeeded Martha 

Strongin Katz as a member of the 

distinguished Cleveland Quartet at 

Eastman.

Roller Derby 

Team efforts like the tire-rolling contest and a mock "Family Feud" television game were 

highlights of last fall's Derby Day sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity. Proceeds from the 

annual event go toward sending a group of inner-city children to summer camp. 

Sports 

The last hurrah 

It was the last hurrah in Yellowjacket 

football for seniors Nick Colucci, 

Rich DeCantis, Eric Thames, 

Tim Szczerbinski, Bryan Frantz, 

Dave Orrico, Tony Cipolla, and 

Buddy Iannone-and they certainly 

had their share of glory in the 38-20 

victory over Union College in the 

season's closer on November 15. 

Cipolla added three extra points to 

put his career mark at 38-for-40. 

Late in the game, he was inserted as 

a split end and scored a touchdown 

on a twelve-yard sweep, which 

brought the entire squad onto the 

field to congratulate him. 

Early in the game, after Union 

(winner of only one game in eight 

tries) led 7-0, DeCantis scored on a 

thirty-two-yard touchdown pass from 

George Rau. Thames scored on a 

ten-yard run; Iannone rushed for 

fifty-five yards in eleven carries, and 

Orrico had fifty-six yards in five 

receptions. Thames, who rushed in 

eleven yards in twenty carries, upped 

his season mark to 664 in 171 carries. 

"I was very proud of the way all 

our seniors played in our last game," 

coach Pat Stark said. "But many of 

our younger players did exceptionally 

well, too. We have the nucleus of a 

solid team for 1981." 

Stark, who has had only three 

losing seasons in twelve campaigns as 

the Yellowjacket gridmaster, emphasizes 

that he approaches season 

No. Thirteen confidently. The 1980 

record (3-5-1) might have been 

rewritten into a 5-4 record but for 

field goals-made or missed-in the 

dying seconds of two other games. 

The Jackets lost to Buffalo on a late 

field goal and then failed to beat rugged 

Alfred when Cipolla's eighteenyard 

field-goal try was blocked on the 

last play. Stark's last losing season 

was in 1974. 

In beating the Dutchmen, the 

Jackets amassed the highest number 

of points in a single game for the 

season. 

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National meet 

This is the vanguard in the field of 270 runners who competed in the 1980 NCAA Division III Cross-Country Championships to which the 

University was host last fall. Rochester finished tenth (among seventy competing colleges representing all fifty states). Senior Doug Abeles was 

the thirty-second runner (out of the 270 entrants) to cross the finish line. Dave Moller '75M acted as starter of the meet, which took place in 

hilly Durand-Eastman Park. Moller won the 1974 national race on his way to All-America honors. 

Soccer misses ECAC berth 

University of Rochester soccer 

players just missed a berth in the 

Eastern College Athletic Conference 

Division III playoffs, but they were 

good enough to come in with a 7-5-2 

winning season, largely as a result of 

another year of outstanding effort by 

goaltender and co-captain Frank 

Mobilio '81. 

"He doesn't have the physical 

ability or skills of top players," says 

his coach, Steve Janczak, "but he 

sure uses everything God gave him. 

I've never seen a more knowledgeable 

player in all my years of 

playing and coaching." 

This is Janczak's first year as 

Rochester soccer coach after nine 

seasons at Lewis University near 

Chicago. Janczak achieved a successful 

record in his first try with the 

Yellowjackets and is quick to credit 

Mobilio. "He's a great leader who 

has anchored our defense," he says. 

"He gets the job .done, either by 

directing the defense or by coming up 

with the big play, and he does it in 

big games. When we played 

Brockport, we were up against a nationally 

ranked team, and they were 

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putting pressure on us late in the 

game. Frank pulled us through. He 

did it again against Ithaca, also nationally 

ranked at the time, coming 

up with at least two great saves to 

keep us in the game, which we won 

in overtime." 

Mobilio has a goals-against average 

of 1.14 per game. 

Another senior who enjoyed a banner 

season is forward Tom Pimm. 

Pimm led the Yellowjackets with ten 

points-five goals, five assists. 

Sophomore Scott Norris scored six 

goals and had three assists. 

The final 2-0 loss to Union College 

might be attributed to "one who got 

away. " Young Bernie Zeifang, son of 

Dr. Bernie Zeifang '55, scored both 

Union goals. Young Bernie decided 

to go away to college, but he came 

back to haunt the Jackets. 

Fall records 

Men's Tennis 

Men's Cross Country 

Women's Volleyball 

Women's Soccer 

Men's Soccer 

Women's Tennis 

Football 

Field Hockey 

Total: 55-39-2 

4-0 

6-1 

20-9 

7-4 

7-5-2 

5-5 

3-5-1 

3-10 

Spring schedule 

Baseball: April 4, Ithaca; April 8, at 

Geneseo; April 10, at Lemoyne; April 12, 

RIT; April 15, St. Lawrence; April 16, 

Hobart; April 17, at Colgate; April 18, at 

Hamilton; April 20, at RPI; April 22, at 

Canisius; April 23, Clarkson; April 26, at 

Eisenhower; April 28, at RIT; April 30, at 

Bucknell; May 8, UnioiI. 

Men's Lacrosse: March 24, Alfred; April 1, at 

Buffalo; April 6, Oswego; April 8, at Colgate; 

April 11, at RPI; April 14, Eisenhower; April 

18, Hamilton; April 21, Clarkson; April 23, 

Hartwick; April 25, at RIT. 

Women's Laaosse: April 7, William Smith; 

April 11, at Ithaca; April 15, Colgate; April 

18, at Hamilton; April 21, Syracuse; April 24, 

at Clarkson; April 25, at Wells; April 28, Cornell. 

Men's Tennis: April 7, at Cornell; April 8, 

Alfred; April 15, at Colgate; April 18, at 

Hobart. 

Golf: April 13, Eisenhower; April 15, 

Buffalo-Hobart; April 20, Elmira; April 24, 

Colgate-Fisher; May 6, RIT; May 8, 

Rochester Tournament. 

Track: April 8, Fredonia-Alfred; April 11, 

Hamilton; April 20, at Colgate; April 22, at 

St. Lawrence. 

For times and places, write to Dave Ocorr, 

Director of Athletics, 202 Alumni Gym, 

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 

14627.

Alumnotes 

RC -River Campus colleges 

G -Graduate degree, River 

Campus colleges 

M -M.D. degree 

GM -Graduate degree, Medicine and 

Dentistry 

R - Medical residency 

E - Eastman School of Music 

GE -Graduate degree, Eastman 

N -School of Nursing 

GN -Graduate degree, Nursing 

U - University College 

GU -Graduate degree, University 

College 

River Campus 

Colleges 

1926 

Married: Elizabeth Sullivan McGill and Edward 

Sullivan in Florida in 1974. 

1932 

Now retired, Helmut Dymmel is ministering 

to hospital patients in Salem, Ore.: preaching, 

playing the organ, and occasionally volunteering 

in the translation of foreign documents. 

1933 

Married: Edgar Van Buskirk and Norma 

Somers on July 11 in Vineyard Haven, Mass. 

1934 

Roscoe Steele Phillips was presented with the 

Second Wind Hall of Fame award by the 

Hendersonville (N.C.) Chorale. He is the 

group's director. 

1935 

Anthony Murabito, retired principal of 

Oswego (N.Y.) High School, has been elected 

president of the Oswego board of education for 

1980-81. 

1936 

Joseph Dembeck retired in March after 40 

years with United States Steel Corporation. 

. . . Joseph Iannaccone has retired as an administrator 

in the Monroe County (N.Y.) 

social services department and is pursuing interests 

in property management, the development 

of computer billing systems, and the antiques 

business. 

1937 

Jane Stevens is an associate professor of 

library service at Columbia University. 

1938 

Col. Clyde Sutton has been chosen 1980 Man 

of the Year by the Atlanta Clean City Commission. 

1940 

Robert Weiner, director of the Greater 

Washington Jewish Community Center, has 

been named to the Maryland Commission on 

Ethnic Affairs. 

1947 

Thomas Bonner ('49G), president of Wayne 

State University in Detroit, was the recipient 

of the 1979 Distinguished Achievement Award 

1930 1980 

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 

Earn a medal 

Those who contribute to the 

University's Alumni Annual Giving 

program deserve one, and this 

year they'll get one. Struck in 

commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary 

of the River Campus, 

this bronze coin bearing the insignia 

reproduced above is being 

sent to all River Campus alumni 

donors for 1980-81. 

It's not too late to earn your 

medal. Watch for a fund appeal in 

the mail, or write to Alumni Annual 

Giving, University of 

Rochester, Rochester, New York 

14627. 

of Pi Kappa Alpha, national social fraternity. 

... Roy Hunt (G) is a vice president of 

Spencer Stuart and Associates, a multinational 

executive search firm based in New York. 

... John Phillipson has been elected 

treasurer and a trustee of the Thomas Wolfe 

Society. He is editor of the Thomas Wolfe 

Newsletter. 

1949 

Robert Van Reypen (G) has been appointed 

executive vice president of Industry Search, 

Inc. in Pittsford, N.Y. 

1950 

Ray Johnson ('54G) has been appointed 

Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering 

at Rochester Institute of Technology. 

1951 

Richard Durkee has been elected chairman of 

the board of the American Heart Association 

in Los Angeles. He is a second vice president 

of Occidental Life Insurance Company.... 

F. Dow Smith (G) has been named president 

of the New England College of Optometry in 

Boston. 

1953 

Dr. Jules Cohen (,57M) was guest speaker at 

the annual meeting of the Rochester region 

Hemophilia Center in June. 

1954 

Frank Hetherington ('64G) is dean of admissions 

at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis. 

. . . Harry Messina has been elected to the 

board of directors of the Rochester Philharmonic 

Orchestra. 

1955 

Gunars Reimanis ('60G) is acting dean of instruction 

at Corning (N.Y.) Community College.... 

Frances Fuchs Schachter (G), assistant 

professor at Barnard College and director 

of the Barnard Toddler Center, is the author 

of a book, Everyday Mother Talk to Toddlers: 

Early Intervention. 

1956 

David Benedict is personnel director for 

Organon, Inc., a pharmaceutical company in 

West Orange, N.J.... George Gold, director 

of news publication and information for the 

American Bar Association in Chicago, is listed 

in the 1980 edition of Who's Who in the 

Midwest. ... Donald Messina ('57G) is a 

booking agent for Stay-Away Sailing Tours of 

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and is writing articles 

on Rochester's Hispanic community for 

Vega-Orozco Communications. 

1957 

N. Stephen Castor (G) has been appointed 

superintendent of the Haverling Central 

School District in Bath, N.Y.... Robert Potter 

(G, '60G), senior vice president and chief 

technical officer of International Harvester, 

has been elected an advisory director of First 

City Bank of Dallas.... Marine Midland 

Bank has appointed G. Russell West officerin-charge 

of personal trust activities in New 

York. He is senior vice president of the bank. 

1958 

Dr. Martin Abbert is clinical director 

of Northeast Michigan Community Mental 

Health Services.... Dean Crebbin has been 

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Rochester Alumni University 

If you had gone 

to Alumni University last summer, 

you could have . . . 

. . . And even sent your kid 

to summer campright 

on campus. 

Explored the 

Genesee Gorge on a 

geology field trip . . . 

If you didn't-you've got another chance this summer: 

Rochester Alumni University happens again-with an all-new program-July 5-11. 

Taken in 

a seminar . .. 

Watch for details in your next Rochester Review. 

If you can't wait, write or phone Jim Armstrong, director of alumni affairs, Fairbank Alumni Center, 

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, (716) 275-4627. 

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Institute, National Institutes of Health, in 

Bethesda, Md.... Dr. Peter Robbins received 

a medical degree from Temple Univer· 

sity and is a resident at Temple University 

Hospital. ... Robert Scher is an associate 

with the law firm Blades and Rosenfeld, P.A , 

in Baltimore.... Patricia Miller Schultz is a 

podiatrist in Washington.... Arthur Sinen' 

sky manages administrative services for the 

New York office of Arthur Andersen and 

Company.... Married: Mark Flanagan an i 

Laurie Ann Gamble on June 28 in Wellesley 

Mass.... Peter T. Jablonski and Jill Scott 

on July 26 in Northville, N.Y.... Joseph 

Zino ('77G) and Heather Spear (,76N) on 

Sept. 22, 1979.... Born: to Pok (G) and 

Helen Mi-Ying Leung ('77), a son, Andrew, 

on Dec. 15, 1979. 

1975 

Alice Askins has been appointed director of 

Constable Hall, a historic mansion in 

Lowville, N.Y.... James Bonfiglio receive i 

a law degree from Loyola University of New 

Orleans in 1979 and is practicing in Palm 

Beach, Fla.... Catherine Burack is studen t 

services coordinator and director of the 

women's center at the University of Missour 

in St. Louis. . . . Dr. Mary Ellen Drislane 

received an M.D. from Albany Medical Col· 

lege in May and is a resident in internal 

medicine at Albany Medical Center.... Dr. 

Andrew Garber is an intern at Misericordia 

Hospital Medical Center in New York. 

. . . Barry Mattes has received a degree frOI n 

Illinois' Institute of Technology's Kent Schocl 

of Law in Chicago.... Lynn Chasen 

Metzger is a psychiatric social worker in 

Washington and teaches at Marymount Col· 

lege in Virginia.... Married: James Barre It 

and Susan Rudolph ('76) on July 12, in 

Syracuse.... Born: to Jerry and Lynn 

Evensen Carnegie, a son, Jerry York, on Jl ly 

6.... to Richard and Harriet Schippers 

Marisa, a son, Michael Paul, on Nov. 20, 

1979.... to Philip and Lynn Chasen Mebger, 

a daughter, Sarah Emily, on May 19. 

1976 

Dr. Mary Alfano received a degree from th,: 

SUNY Upstate Medical Center in May. 

... Dr. Paul Anisman received a degree 

from George Washington University School ::>f 

Medicine and is a resident at the University of 

Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital. ... Dehbie 

Berk is an account executive for Beman I 

Howard Radio Sales in New York.... 

William Brodows (G) has been elected vice 

president and treasurer of Lincoln First Ban es, 

Inc. in Rochester.... David R. Brown COl lducted 

a concert of baroque orchestral music 

at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta. 

He is a postdoctoral student in the departml nt 

of physiology and pharmacology at the 

University of Chicago.... Dr. Deborah 

Cabral has received an M.D. from SUNY at 

Buffalo and is in house-officer training at 

Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake 

Forest University.... Kokila Doshi (G) is on 

the economics faculty of SUNY at Fredonia. 

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· .. Stephen Elgert has received an M.D. 

degree from New Jersey College of Medicine 

and Dentistry and is a resident at St. Joseph's 

Hospital in Syracuse.... Jan Gillespie has 

received a doctorate in clinical psychology 

from Southern Illinois University and is an intern 

at the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center. 

· .. Lt. Joseph Long was awarded the Navy 

Achievement Medal by the Secretary of the 

Navy in Kiel, Germany.... Dr. Fredrick 

Marra received a degree in dentistry from the 

University of Pennsylvania in May.... 

Donald Millinger has had articles published 

in the March issue of the George Washington 

Law Review and the autumn issue of the Journal 

of Communication. He is a lawyer practicing in 

Philadelphia.... Holly Nacht is employed 

with the law firm Stein, Simpson, Rosen and 

· .. Elizabeth Jayne and Benjamin Shepard 

on May 31 in Sidney, N.Y.... Roger Ney 

and Ann Preston on Oct. 20, 1979, in Hartford, 

Conn.... Stephen Silverstein and 

Susan Sadinsky (,78) on Aug. 3 in Rochester. 

· . . Mary Sutton and Robert Sweeney in 

August in Rochester.... Janis Robin Wyner 

and Paul Sheinkopf on June 28 in Sands 

Point, N.Y. 

1977 

At the annual Black Achievers in Industry 

Awards ceremonies in September, Walter 

Adams (G) was honored for his contributions 

to community improvement in the Buffalo 

area. He is a supervisor at General Mills. 

· .. Rev. Juanitaelizabeth Carroll has been 

commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. 

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Ohrenstein in Manhattan.... Ruth Passow 

is on the staff of the Wellesley-Harvard Community 

Health Plan in Massachusetts. She is a 

gr'aduate of the physician's associate program 

of Yale University School of Medicine. 

· .. Lt. Joseph F. Rub is assigned to the 

Naval Ships Parts Control Center in 

Mechanicsburg, Pa.... Mary Sutton 

Sweeney has received a master's degree in 

speech pathology from Purdue University and 

is employed at the Rochester Hearing and 

Speech Center.... Esther Widowski received 

the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing 

Company Book Award from the University of 

Michigan Law School. ... Married: Amy 

Jodine Feuer and Jeffrey Levinn on July 13. 

Air Force. She is the first black female 

chaplain in that branch of the service. 

· .. Daniel Kimmel has received a law degree 

from Boston University and has accepted a 

position with Barron and Stadfeld in Boston. 

· .. Karen Litman received a master's degree 

in creative arts therapy from Hahnemann 

Medical College and Hospital. She is 

employed at the Northwest Center in 

Philadelphia. . .. Dr. Patricia Mahoney is a 

dentist in Ogdensburg, N.Y.... Dr. George 

Reskakis received a degree from New York 

University College of Dentistry in June.

· . . Scott Robbins has received a degree from 

Harvard Law School. He is an associate with 

Cahill, Gordon, & Reindel in New York. 

· .. Paul Shen has been named a manager of 

Citibank, N.A., in Orange, N.J.... Ens. 

David Weaver has completed the officer indoctrination 

program at the Naval Education 

and Training Center in Newport, R.I. 

· .. Lisa Spring Weinstein has received a law 

degree from Yeshiva University and is practicing 

in New York.... Phyllis Zerbini (G) is 

a senior auditor at Price Waterhouse in Hartford, 

Conn.... Married: Dr. Joseph Abate 

(G) and Margaret Callanan ('79) on Sept. 13 

in Watkins Glen, N.Y.... Darice Goldstein 

and Richard Bailer ('78G) on Aug. 10 in 

Rochester. . . . Robert Remstein and Rona 

Horowitz ('78, '79N) on March 9 in West 

What gives? 

Or rather, who gives? 

One of the goals of the $102 

million Campaign for Rochester 

(begun in 1975 and recently successfully 

completed to the tune of 

$105 million) was doubling of the 

$450,000 in annual support 

received from alumni giving. As 

indicated in the chart below, this 

1979-80 % Par- 

Total Total Total Amount ticipa- 

Institution Alumni Solicited Donors Contributed tion 

Princeton University· 39,265 37,338 20,214 $5,143,368 54.1 

Massachusetts Institute 71,315 58,908 23,595 $6,317,674 40.0 

of Technology 

Yale University 87,185 (ALL) 34,002 $6,575,453 39.0 

Cornell University 152,600 100,022 30,650 $6,063,616 30.6 

University of Rochester 50,959 46,563 14,201 $ 884,884 30.5 

Stanford University 137,469 122,433 35,602 $8,057,831 29.1 

Johns Hopkins Institutions 59,890 55,000 15,950 $1,720,584 29.0 

Carnegie-Mellon University 40,387 34,179 8,435 $1,807,336 24.7 

Columbia University 147,782 108,282 22,985 $2,935,804 21.2 

Northwestern University 123,000 120,000 23,482 $5,743,764 19.6 

·Undergraduate alumni only 

Hempstead, N.Y.... Randy G. Soderholm 

and Terry Williams on July 19 in Mattydale, 

N.Y.... Sharon Tanzman and Marshall 

Fishman on Aug. 16 in Roslyn, N.Y. 

. . . Bruce Truax and Theresa Ann Szabo on 

June 7 in Old Bridge, N.J. 

1978 

Susan Harter is establishing retail outlets in 

Taos, N.M., for Alti ski clothing.... Donald 

Hendel received an M.B.A. from Cornell 

University in June and is attending the 

University of Connecticut Law School. 

... Ranta Liders has received a master's 

degree in Russian and East European studies 

from George Washington University in 

Washington.... Becky Lindquist Robbins 

(G) is an instructor at St. John Fisher College 

in Rochester.... Mark Weintraub received 

a master's degree in history from the University 

of Iowa and has entered law school at Lewis 

and Clark University in Portland, Ore. 

· .. Lt. (j.g.) James Westfall is serving with a 

naval air squadron in Kingsville, Tex. 

· .. Married: David Asencio and Myrna Santos 

on Sept. 27 in the Bronx.... Barbara 

Berman and Daniel Bass ('79) on May 25 in 

Sharon, Mass.... David Butler ('80G) and 

Kathryn Geier ('79G) on July 5 in Rochester. 

· .. Michael Corp and Karen Tripi on July 

12 in Lewiston, N.Y.... Michael Crittenden 

and Leslie Ryan on July 19 in 

Syracuse.... Sherri Feldman and Howard 

Davis ('79) on Aug. 10 in Livingston, N.J. 

· .. David S. Hart (G) and Celeste Cassidy 

goal has come within a hair of 

being achieved. 

Some other facts about alumni 

giving at Rochester, and a sampling 

of other private institutions, 

can be gleaned from the chart, based 

on the 1979-80 fiscal year and 

presented in descending order of 

percentage of participation. 

on Aug. 2 in Schenectady Jon Hiller and 

Ida Nicotra in Minoa, N.Y Jonathan 

Lewis and Michelle Fiore in Auburn, N.Y. 

· .. Christopher Lord ('79G) and Judith 

Hastings (,79) on Aug..2 in Albany. 

· .. Philip Rossetti and Jennifer King ('80) 

on June 14 in Rochester.... Audrey Shapiro 

and Mark Robinson on May 24 in Newton, 

Mass. 

1979 

Ens. David Archambault has been designated 

a naval aviator.... Mahmoud Ashrafi (G) 

received the American Academy of Pedodontics 

Graduate Student Research Award for 

1980. He is director of the graduate pedodontic 

program at Marquette University.... 

Robert Bly has been appointed manager of 

marketing communications at Koch Engineering 

Company in Wichita.... Tod Brown is 

coach of the University's gymnastics club and 

manager of Underground Sound, a stereo 

equipment supplier.... Ens. Edward 

Matricia is communications officer aboard the 

USS Yosemite, stationed in Mayport, Fla.... 

Married: Anthony Albanese and Ann Thorpe 

on July 26 in Oneida, N.Y.... Michael 

Ferro and Martha Holloran on June 28 in 

Cornwall, N.Y. . . . Mary Ellen Lally and 

John Saunders on June 28 in Rochester. 

... Martin Norman and Tamara Schanwald 

(,80) on June 21 in Potomac, Md.... Joseph 

Snyder and Patricia Motolo on July 19 in 

Westvale, N.Y. 

1980 

Daniel Edes is the recipient of a 1980 

Fulbright-Hays grant for study in Romania. 

... John Kasckow, an M.D. candidate at the 

University's School of Medicine and Dentistry, 

will spend a year in Japan as a 1980-81 

Henry Luce Foundation Scholar studying 

Asian medical practices and world health planning.... 

Lynn Raymond has been awarded 

a scholarship in a six-year training program 

for medical scientists at Einstein Medical 

School. . . . Ens. Robert Winneg has completed 

the Navy's Aviation Indoctrination 

Course in Pensacola, Fla. 

Eastman School 

of Music 

1933 

Beth Miller Harrod ('39GE) is founder of the 

Rocky Ridge Music Center summer festival, 

which last summer marked its 38th season in 

Estes Park, Colo. 

1934 

Wayne Barlow (,37GE) was commissioned by 

the New York State Music Teachers' Association 

to compose a work for performance at the 

association's convention. He is emeritus professor 

of composition at the Eastman School: 

1936 

Composer Gardner Read ('37GE) is an 

emeritus professor at Boston University. He 

has composed over 100 works, many of which 

have been performed by major symphonies 

throughout the United States. 

1940 

Nevin Fisher gave a piano recital in the Pittsburgh 

Civic Arena last summer. 

1943 

Thomas Donahue, an associate in theory at 

the Eastman School, has been awarded a 

master of divinity degree by St. Bernard's 

Seminary in Rochester. 

1945 

Madeline Bramer Ingram is artist-inresidence 

with the San Mateo (Calif.) 

Chamber Music Society.... Ruth 

Wadsworth Sullivan is a member of the National 

Guild of Piano Teachers.... Ward 

Woodbury (GE, '54GE) received the national 

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Tech University.... String Quartet #1, a composition 

by John Davison (GE), was featured 

in a concert by the De Pasquale String 

Quartet at Haverford College. He is Ruth M. 

Magill Professor of Music at Haverford. 

. . . John Glen Paton (GE) is a professor of 

voice at the University of Colorado. 

1960 

Gordon Howell (GE) was adjudicator of the 

National Piano Guild Auditions last spring. 

... Henry Miyamura has been appointed 

assistant conductor of the Honolulu Symphony.... 

Stanley Sussman is associate 

director of the Cleveland Ballet. . . . Robert 

Washburn conducted the Symphony Orchestra 

of the Universidad Autonomo de 

Guadalajara in Mexico in two concerts featuring 

his compositions. 

1961 

Margaret Brooke has received a doctoral 

assistantship from the University of Iowa. 

1964 

Robert Cowan's (GE) engagement schedule 

for the 1980-81 season includes a concert and 

master class at the University of Colorado and 

two appearances with the Victoria (B.C .) 

Symphony Orchestra.... Joan Groom 

Thornton (GE, '73GE), associate professor at 

North Texas State University, presented a 

paper, "Non-Harmony: A Vital Element in 

Ear-Training," at the 1980 National Educational 

Computing Conference.... Edward 

Wood was appointed to the judges' panel for a 

young performer's competition sponsored by 

the Wellesley (Mass.) Choral Society. 

1965 

Robert Morris has been named associate professor 

of theory at the Eastman School. 

1966 

Michael Webster ('67GE) is first clarinetist of 

the San Francisco Symphony for the 1980-81 

season. 

1967 

Raymond Egan is organist and choirmaster of 

St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, 

Va.... Paul Eickmann (GE, '71GE), 

associate in academic affairs at Syracuse 

University, was named acting vice president 

for student affairs in June. 

1968 

Steve Gadd was featured in the August issue 

of International Musician and Recording World, 

published in London.... Anthony Pasquale 

served as principal clarinetist of the Blomstedt 

Institute for Conductors at Loma Linda 

University in California in July. He is a 

member of the music faculty at Union College 

in Nebraska. 

1970 

Clive Amor is associate concertmaster of the 

San Antonio (Tex.) Symphony.... Gerald 

Hansen (GE) is chairman of the music department 

at Schenectady (N.Y.) County Community 

College. . . . Arthur Michaels is 

managing editor of Music Educators Journal. 

Shawnee Press has published his concert band 

selection, Quintapentacle (Arrest the Rest.'). 

... Saxophonist and flutist Gerry Niewood 

has signed a three-year contract with the 

Radio City Music Hall Symphony.... Nancy 

Herman Virkhaus (GE) and her husband, 

Taavo ('57GE, '67GE), former director of 

River Campus music, performed in a Mozart 

mass at the summer music festival in 

Salzburg, Germany. 

1971 

William Crimm staged the Chautauqua 

Opera Company's production of Porgy and Bess 

at the Eastman Theatre in August. He is 

director of the William Crimm Institute of 

Music in Rochester. 

1972 

Pianists Elizabeth Gordon Martyn and her 

husband, Timothy, performed Poulenc's Double 

Concerto with the Ridgewood (N.J.) Symphony 

Orchestra.... Cecile Wright Saine 

performed at the Downstairs Cabaret in 

Bassoonist of note 

Zubin Mehta,* music director 

of the New York Philharmonic 

calls bassoonist Judith LeClai; 

'79E "one of the finest talents I 

have heard." 

Next fall, when she finishes her 

year as principal bassoon of the 

San Diego Symphony, LeClair, 

23, will assume the same position 

with the New York Philharmonic, 

one of the youngest musicians to 

be appointed to a principal position 

at that orchestra, and (with 

the exception of Christine 

Stavrache, briefly principal harpist 

some twenty years ago) its first 

woman principal. (It is believed 

also that LeClair will be the only 

woman ever to hold the principal 

bassoon position in any of 

America's major orchestras.) 

She says, however, that she 

auditioned purely as a musician, 

without regard to the fact that she 

would be the orchestra's sole 

female principal. "I never really 

thought about that," she says 

matter-of-factly. "I just wanted the 

job. " 

Although LeClair has achieved 

notable "firsts" in several ways, in 

one other respect she is coming in 

second: She is the second woman 

in recent years to sign with the 

New York Philharmonic a short 

time after graduation from the 

Eastman School. She was 

preceded by Mindy Kaufman 

'78E, a flutist who joined the orchestra 

as piccolo player in 1979. 

"'For word ofMehta in another capacity, see 

page 30. 

Rochester in October.... Sherry Zannoth 

(GE) sang the role of the Countess in the 

Glimmerglass Opera Theatre's production of 

The Marriage ofFigaro in Cooperstown, N.Y. 

1973 

Kathy Dodge has written and recorded four 

songs during the past year. 

1974 

John Zeigler is a member of the Midlands 

Woodwind Quintet, the resident ensemble of 

the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. 

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1975 

Mittler Battipaglia (GE) is a pianist with the 

Con Brio Ensemble in New York.... 

Deborah Bendixen was a chorus member in 

last fall's Broadway production of Brigadoon. 

· .. John Larrere (GE) was ordained a priest 

in June. He is associate pastor of Holy Cross 

Church in South Eaton, Conn.... Bradley 

Nelson (GE) has received an Artist Fellowship 

from the Indiana Arts Commission.... 

Nadia Pelle, a member of the New York City 

Opera, was guest soloist with the Rochester 

Philharmonic Orchestra in August, with Bruc: 

Hangen (,70), music director of the Portland 

(Me.) Symphony, as guest conductor'. 

Eastman School professor Barry Snyder ('66, 

'68GE) also performed.... Violinist Peter 

Van Scozza traveled in Switzerland last summer, 

presenting recitals in a number of 

villages.... Born: to James and Marilyn 

Musiker Roth, a son, Daniel Joseph, on July 

26. 

1976 

David Liptak (GE) is assistant professor of 

theory and composition at the University of 

Illinois.... Eileen Moreman was a fmalist 

in the 1980 Erwin Bodky competition for excellence 

in early music. She is a member of 

the New England Baroque Ensemble. 

1977 

Violinist Stanley Chepaitis (GE) teaches at 

the Hochstein School of Music in Rochester. 

· .. James Higdon (GE) has been named 

assistant professor of organ at the University 

of Kansas.... Brian Preston ('79GE) participated 

in the 10th Chopin International I 

Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, in 0

Get-together 

Some reunions are long and 

carefully planned. For example, a 

University of Rochester class reunion. 

And some reunions are 

purely fortuitous, as much a surprise 

to the participants as to 

anyone else. For example, a recent 

scientific meeting at the Forsyth 

Dental Center in Boston, which 

unexpectedly reunited a Rochester 

research team of three decades ago 

that had worked in the investigation 

of fluoride as a practical 

weapon against tooth decay. 

Among the "reuners" were Dr. 

Harold C. Hodge, former head of 

the department of pharmacology, 

in which the research was conducted; 

Dr. D. Allan Bromley 

'52, head of the Wright Nuclear 

Structure Laboratory at Yale and 

president-elect of the American 

Association for the Advancement 

of Science, who as a graduate student 

produced the samples of 

radioactive fluoride using the 

University's "baby" cyclotron; 

and fellow students Dr. John W. 

Hein '52, director of the Forsyth 

Center; Dr. Finn Brudevold '52, 

head of the department of inorganic 

chemistry at Forsyth; and 

Dr. Kanwar L. Shourie '49, 

former dean of CEM Dental 

School in Bombay. 

1976 

Married: Dr. Kelly Wright (M) and Karen 

Baumgartner on June 14 in Richland, Wash. 

1977 

Dr. Gordon B. Glade (M) is a member of the 

pediatric staff at American Fork Hospital in 

Provo, Utah. 

1978 

Dr. John Richards (R) has established an 

ophthalmology practice in Plymouth, N.H. 

... Married: Dr, David Kwiatkowski (M) 

and Kim Warner on June 14 in Owego, N.Y. 

At last! 

Some realistic soul once 

observed, "Everything always 

takes longer than it does." She 

(or he) might well haye added, 

"Especially if it is an alumni directory. 

" 

Be that as it may, the longawaited 

Rochester alumni directory 

has at last been published and 

distributed, with apologies for the 

long waiting period. If you're entitled 

to one and still haven't 

received it, please write or call Jim 

Armstrong in the Alumni Affairs 

Office, Fairbank Alumni Center, 

University of Rochester, 

Rochester, New York 14627, (716) 

275-4627. He'll'be happy to track 

down your copy for you. 

1979 

Dr. Kenny Bock (M) is a resident at Lancaster 

(Pa.) General Hospital. 

School of 

Nursing 

1958 

Joyce Burlingame Shwabe received an award 

from the Bell & Howell Education Group as 

the top admissions representative for 1980. 

1960 

Jane Lefever Gunn, clinical coordinator of 

obstetrical and gynecological nursing at Hartford 

(Conn.) Hospital, received a master's 

degree in education from the University of 

Hartford.... Marjorie White (GN) is a professor 

of nursing at the University of Florida 

in Gainesville. 

1962 

Married: Kathryn Bannigan and Dr. C. 

Stephen Connolly on June 25 in New York. 

1963 

Karen Lyons Taylor is chairman of a study 

of the national health care system conducted 

for the Clackamas County (Ore.) League of 

Women Voters. 

1970 

Nancy Heller Cohen is author of an article, 

"Three Steps to Better Patient Teaching," 

which appeared in the February 1980 issue of 

Nursing. She and her husband, Richard, are 

the parents of a son, Paul, born in July 1979. 

1971 

Wilma Brigham has been appointed director 

of nursing services at Lockport ( .Y.) 

Memorial Hospital. 

1975 

Born: to Sanford and Cheryl Peck Gerber, a 

daughter, Allison Ann, on May 7. 

1976 

Veda Hoffman Boyer is mental health consultant 

and staff development coordinator at Indiana 

University. She and her husband, 

Clyde, are the parents of two sons. 

... Heather Spear-Zino is enrolled in the 

master's program in psychiatric-mental health 

nursing at Yale University. 

1978 

Fern Drillings received a master's degree in 

nursing, with specialization in women's health 

care, from the University of Pennsylvania. 

1979 

Ellen Anllo is an R.N. in the newborn 

nursery at Children's Hospital of Buffalo. 

University College 

1951 

Arthur Beane has been elected a director of 

the Rochester Ad Club. 

1952 

Neal Passarell has been named sales manager 

at SenDEC Corporation in Rochester. 

1967 

Patricia Bertozzi is a second-year student in 

the M.B.A. program at Boston College. 

1969 

Married: Scott Warburton and Patricia 

Cashman on June 21 in Pennsylvania. 

1970 

Dennis Geraghty is director of network functions 

for United Telephone Company of Ohio 

in Mansfield. 

1973 

Married: Stephen Bartlett and Linda 

Bardenstein on Aug. 9 in Rochester. 

1976 

Rachel Rappise DeVries is author ofAn Arc of 

Light, a book of poems. 

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I 

Travel 

Corner 

Last Call for London-March 7-15 

Seven nights at the Kensington 

Hilton, convenient for shopping, 

Buckingham Palace, and Westminster, 

and only seven minutes from the 

West End. Scheduled BAC 747 frorl 

New York and return, continental 

breakfast daily, special DR alumni 

reception, baggage handling, 

transfers, and hospitality desk to he) p 

in obtaining theater tickets, local 

tours, restaurant reservations, etc. j, 

perfect chance for London-lovers to 

be comfortably based and do what 

they like. Very special added attraction: 

program at Westminster just for 

Rochester alumni, and London-bas( d 

Rochester students, to meet with 

members of Parliament. $875 per 

person from New York. Group arrangements 

from Rochester. 

Portoroz (Yugoslavia)-May 15-23 

An unusually beautiful location on 

the Adriatic. Seven nights at the 

Grand Hotel Emona, where all rooms 

have a balcony overlooking the sea. 

Full breakfasts and dinners daily. 

Scheduled wide-body air service from 

New York via Yugoslavia Airlines, 

with transfers and baggage handling. 

Half-day tour of Istrian Peninsula 

included. Easy access to Venice (by 

hydrofoil) and to Trieste. Additional 

optional trips to Dubrovnik, Lake 

Bled, Lipica, Postojno Caves, and 

other areas of Istrian coast available. 

$968 per person from New York. 

Group arrangements from Rochester. 

Lucerne, Moselle River, Paris 

-August 16-28 

Three nights in Lucerne (Palace 

Hotel), four on the Moselle and 

Rhine rivers, and four in Paris (Paris 

Intercontinental). Breakfasts in 

Lucerne and Paris, all meals on 

board ship (KD Rhine Line's M.S. 

France). Scheduled air from New 

York via Swissair. Sightseeing tours 

in Lucerne and Paris, motorcoach 

from Lucerne to Strasbourg, first- 

A side trip to Dubrovnik is one of the opt1ional extras on the Yugoslavia tour. 

38 

class train from Trier to Paris, 

transfers, and baggage handling included. 

Optional tours in Lucerne, 

Paris, and river ports available. 

$2,345 from New York. Group arrangements 

from Rochester. 

Italy-October 25-November 9 

(Tentative) 

Two weeks, a choice of northern or 

southern itineraries. Both include 

Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii, and 

Capri. The northern tour also includes 

Venice, Florence, and the Alps 

region, with visits to Padua, Verona, 

Milan, and Pisa. The southern tour 

also includes Sicily (Palermo, Taormina) 

and Bari and side trips to 

Syracuse, Agrigento, Messina, 

Calabria, and other scenic and 

historic sites in Sicily and the lower 

"boot." First-class hotels, breakfast 

and dinner daily, licensed guides, all 

transfers in comfortable coaches. Approximately 

$1,500 from New York. 

Group arrangements from Rochester. 

An unusual value. 

For further information on alumni tours, 

write or phone John Braund, Alumni Affairs 

Office, Fairbank Alumni Center, 

University of Rochester, Rochester, New 

York 14627 (716) 275-3682.

Lettersl (continued from inside front cover) 

stood probably seven feet or more from the 

floor. Water bubbled into the aquarium fror 1 

concealed inlets in the bottom. The glass of 

the aquarium was very thick; it was almost 

like looking through an old-fashioned glass illsulator, 

the type used on utility poles of thal 

era. Inside the great urn giant goldfish swan I 

among varieties of waving green seaweed. 

Soft interior illumination gave the display a I 

fluorescent quality. I remember the goldfish 

better than any show I ever saw there on thl: 

stage or screen. 

Richard E. Hawes '49 

Oxford, Pennsylvania 

The table is still jirmly planted in its place, but 

the goldfish have long since swum off to their 

piscatorial reward-Ed. 

Faculty news 

I do enjoy much of Rochester Review, whid 

comes to me because I received a master's 

degree in 1941, .having been a part-time stu 

dent from 1939 to 1941. 

However, I feel that my real connection 

with UR was my twenty years (1938 to 1951:) 

as a faculty member in engineering: instru( tor 

through full professor. I wonder that you de 

not have a section of news about former faclllty 

members; I would certainly read it with i 1terest. 

Charles H. Dawson '41G 

Menlo Park, California 

We're game. If anybody wants to send us news oj 

jormer jaculty, we'll be happy to print it-Ed. 

False alarm 

It has been erroneously reported that I he ve 

shucked off this mortal coil. Fortunately or mfortunately, 

it was another, older, Norman ,::;. 

Wall in the same area who decided to depal t. 

Please, then, do not report my demise in the 

next issue of Rochester Review. However, if ir 

the meantime you get inquiries as to where :0 

send condolences or money, please refer the 11 

to the Norman C. Wall Retirement Fund al 

14059 Starboard Drive, Seminole, Florida. 

Norman C. Wall '40 

Seminole, Florida 

Passion Play 

I read with regret and dismay a letter in 1he 

Fall issue of the Rochester Review criticizing tJ le 

University for sponsoring a trip to Europe ij I 

June which included the opportunity to atte Id 

the Passion Play at Oberammergau. 

Surely, a university of all institutions cam lot 

be expected to submit its activities to prior 

approval by any individual or special group '. 

It seems more appropriate for a university t.) 

provide a chance for students and alumni t 

evaluate controversial questions firsthand, il 

possible, and arrive at a reasoned judgment 

I am under the impression that the Univ( rsity 

of Rochester continues to produce 

graduates well educated and competent to 

analyze a given situation and draw their ow 1 

conclusions independent of propaganda or 

pressure. 

That I did not become anti-Semitic becau se 

I went to Oberammergau or communist 

because I went to Prague is scarcely notewo :thy. 

It is important that the University made 

available a chance to attend and draw one's 

own conclusions about a unique event whicJ l 

happens to have become controversial. 

Eugenie Smith '33,'34G 

Bethesda, Maryland 

40 

Perpetrated by fine feathered fiends? 

How about a story on the Eastman 

Theatre's feathers-as mentioned in a footnote 

in the Summer 1980 Review? Such a 

story would include which orchestra was on 

stage, who was conducting, what else was 

on the program, who loosed the feathers, 

what happened in the rest of the concert, 

what, if anything, happened to the students 

involved, "where are they now," etc. At 

least one version states that the feathers 

fell, not during the first cannonade but at 

the start of a chromatic, descending string 

passage, which was written to remind the 

listener of the snow in Russia. 

(Unsigned postcard recently 

received in the Review office) 

The Review does not as a rule print unsigned 

letters. But our self-effacing correspondent has 

presented an interesting idea. Anybody want to 

'Jess up? 

The Review's version oj the jamous jeather 

story (they came gliding down from above at a 

mischievously appropriate moment during a performance 

oj the 1812 Overture) originated from 

Jon Engberg '54E, '56 & 'lOGE, now an 

Eastman School administrator, who was in the 

theater at the time. He admits his memories mayhave 

become a little fuzzy in the nearly thirty 

years since he was a student, but he recalls the 

quantity ojjeathers as approximating "a bale, " 

quite enough to cover several rows oj the audience 

in a heavy dusting oj duck down. The conductor, 

Erich Leinsdorj, was Not Amused; neither was 

the local music critic, whom Engberg remembers 

emerging jrom the theater mantled in ruffled 

feathers, rumbling like a frosted thundercloud. 

Leinsdorj, on the other hand, according to 

Eastman School Librarian Ruth Watanabe '52G, 

gamely stuck to his conducting "to the bitter end. JJ 

A "morning-after" newspaper account 

(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, February 

15, 1952), affirms that the feathers jell, "timed 

to the second, JJ simultaneously with the jirst cannon 

shots in the concluding selection on the program, 

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. (In 

answer to our correspondent's question: The program 

also included songs by Mahler and Brahms, 

and a Mozart symphony.) 

Who were the culprits? Both Engberg and 

Watanabe say it was never officially determined, 

but, although Watanabe says it was jelt it was 

not "current Eastman students, " Engberg says he 

knows ojpeople who to this day, whenever the 

subject comes up, smile enigmatically-and say 

nothing-Ed. 

A kind word 

As a colleague (editor, the Harvard Law 

School alumni magazine), I empathize and 

happily send you a mere pittance as a Voluntary 

Subscription. 

The Review gets better and better and the 

design is terrific. . 

Meliora! 

Ellen Joachim Miller '55 

Belmont, Massachusetts 

Challenge 

There seems to be much discussion in the 

Rochester Review relative to class members of 

the late '30s: past deeds and achievements, 

retirements, nostalgia for the old days, news 

about the grandchildren. We are still alive! 

Why don't we-class of '36 through '40-in 

the spring, have a field day on the campus? 

Possible events: 100-yard dash, one-quarter 

and one-mile run, 100-yard swim, broad 

jump, perhaps fencing and a chess game. 

Since I began with the class of '37 

(graduating in '39), just to spark this up a bit, 

I hereby challenge any members of the classes 

of '37 through '39 to participate in the above 

events. I will donate $50 to the Alumni Fund 

for everyone with a higher score in those 

events, with of course the stipulation that if 

that contestant is lower, he will contribute 

likewise. 

J. Robert Wells '39 

Fair Haven, New Jersey 

Stratton, squirrels, and Valentine 

Thank you for a genuinely excellent publication; 

right or wrong, we enjoy getting it. As 

pittance-proof-positive, my additional Voluntary 

Subscription check for $8.54 is enclosed. 

Please oblige me further by not spending it all 

in one place. 

Never differ with Congressman Sam 

Stratton ("Letters," Fall 1980). When he 

matriculated on the River, you needed much 

more than tuition money and/or green stamps 

to get a degree from our University. Dogs, 

women, squirrels (and the nuts upon which 

they fed) were, for the most part, confmed to 

Prince Street, and "the first ofJune" was truly 

"the end of May" for all River Rats. 

Prexy Al Valentine was also quite a man, in 

many more ways than your comprehensive 

obituary was able to mention. I remember his 

sitting down for a game of penny ante poker 

with a few of us freshmen back in the fall of 

1937, when Sam Stratton was my history instructor. 

The occasion was an Eastman House 

reception for Rochester Prize and Genesee 

Scholarship frosh. Prexy played only a few 

hands before being reminded by Mrs. Valentine 

of his duty to his "other guests." We did 

get some of his money. While regarded as 

austere and unapproachable by most of my 

generation, he has remained anything but that 

in my memory of a real man. 

James F. Bradley '41,'46G 

Cheektowaga, New York 

The Review welcomes letters from readers and 

will print as many of them as space permits. 

Letters may be edited for brevity and clarity. 

President's Report 

Copies of the Report of the President 

for 1979-80 are available on 

request from the Office of 

University Communications, 

107 Administration Building, 

University of Rochester, Rochester, 

New York 14627.

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