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The Obedient River
By Patricia Anderson
In 1834, Rochesterville, one
of the New W orId' s frrst boom
towns, was incorporated as a
city, impelled to that status by
its placement along the Erie
Canal, the great manmade
waterway that opened the
American wilderness to technological
advance.
In tribute to the city's Sesquicentennial
observance, the
Memorial Art Gallery mounted,
during the early months of the
summer, a major exhibition
tracing "The Course 0 fE mplre ."
from the point where it started
its westward journey.
H ail
GEORGE HARVEY
Pittsford on the Erie Canal (detail), ca. 1840
New York State Historical Association
to thee, New York! Thy
genius was worthy this gift of
heaven. Roll on fair state, thou pride of Columbia.
Erect new wonders, and the old repair,
and roll obedient rivers through the
land.
Anne Royal, 1828,
on first seeing the Erie Canal
In the words of the contemporary
historian]. C. Furnas, the Erie Canal
"did for upper New York State what
the later Western railroads did for the
plains states."
Other early turnpikes, canals, and
railroads in the region east of the
Mississippi River were built to connect
established commercial centers, such
as Albany with Boston, or Philadelphia
with New York City.
The Erie Canal was an exception.
When it was officially opened to traffic
in 1825, most of the 363-mile stretch it
traversed was still wilderness. But the
canal virtually ensured that the woodlands
and fertile river valleys along its
towpaths would become the province
of farmsteaders and empire builders
and that its terminus at the mouth of
the Hudson River would become a national
focus, eclipsing Boston, Philadelphia,
and New Orleans as this
country's principal seaport. Boom
towns sprang up across the northwestern
frontier as the canal facilitated
the import of people, manufactures,

and civilizing notions from the commercially
and culturally rich eastern
seaboard, and the export of local goods
from the fast-growing territory now
made accessible by this newly created
"obedient river" that went where no
waterway had gone before.
For the unprecedented temerity of
building what Governor DeWitt Clinton
called" an imperishable cement of
connexion and an indissoluble bond
of union" across the wilderness, the
Erie Canal's importance to settlement
and commerce was short-lived. By the
eve of the country's Centennial, it was
the transcontinental railroad and not
the great canal that was celebrated for
linking America's ports and inland industrial
centers and for bonding together
a union that stretched beyond
the Great Lakes to the Pacific. W estward
the course of empire made its
way as the frontier exerted its hold on
the American imagination.
Yet, in its day and in its region, the
canal had singular impact: For it was
in the era of-and in the land touched
by-the Erie Canal that American art
and literature first asserted what would
be an enduring belief in the symbolic
significance of the American landscape
and of the changes wrought upon it by
technological progress.
In 1829 the young landscape painter
Thomas Cole joined the throngs of
travelers who, for curiosity if not for
convenience, traversed upstate New
York on packet boats on their way to
Niagara Falls. It is noteworthy that at
this time Cole was contemplating a
plan for a painting cycle, "a series of
pictures illustrative of the mutation of
earthly things," he wrote in a sketchbook
of the period. Cole'sjournal of
his canal travels extols the wonders of
commerce and industry along the
manmade waterway. It seems unlikely,
however, that the symbolic significance
of the canal-its breach through
the wilderness and the seeming
triumph of man's will over nature'scould
have been lost on one then
ruminating on the "progress of
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mankind from barbarism-to cultivation
and destruction. "
Few observers connected the canal
with doom, but several of Cole's contemporaries
were sensitive to the
sacrifices yielded by the upstate woodlands
to this instrument of civilization.
J ames Fenimore Cooper for one saw in
THOMAS COLE
Genesee Scenery, ca. 1846-47
Private Collection
the rapidly changing landscape of the
Mohawk Valley the dynamics of life itself,
as applicable to nations as to mankind.
"There is no pleasure ... that is
commensurate with that we enjoy, who
have seen the birth, infancy, and

WILLIAM COVENTRY WALL
New York and the Erie Canal (detail), 1862
Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery
WILLIAM RICKARBY MILLER
Erie Canal at Little Falls, New York, 1884 (based on 1849 drawing)
The Museum of the New-York Historical Society
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JAMES EIGHTS
Aqueduct Bridge at Rochester, 1823
Albany Institute of History and Art
MARY KEYS
Lockport on the Erie Canal, 1832
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art

youth, and who are now about to become
spectators of the maturity of a
whole country," he declared in 1828.
Alexis de Tocqueville came closer to
Cole's vision of the course of empire
when he wrote in 1831 of his visit to the
wilds of America:
"The facts are as certain as if they
had already occurred. In but a few
years these impenetrable forests will
have fallen ....
"It is this consciousness of destruction,
this arriere-pensee of quick and inevitable
change, that gives, we feel, so
peculiar a character and such a touching
beauty to the solitudes of America.
One sees them with a melancholy
pleasure; one is in some sort of a hurry
to admire them. Thoughts of the
savage, natural grandeur that is going
to come to an end become mingled
with splendid anticipations of the
triumphant march of civilisation. One
feels proud to be a man, and yet at the
same time one experiences I cannot say
what bitter regret at the power that
God has granted us over nature .... "
Such evidence suggests that the
Canal Age fulfilled the prophecy of cyclical
history set down by Cole in
1833-36 in his series of paintings The
Course of Empire: That is, that
America's bountiful natural resources
can but give rise to a great civilization
which ultimately must consume the
Edenic New W orId landscape.
The Memorial Art Gallery's exhibition,
The Course of Empire, The Erie
Canal and the New York Landscape, seeks
to point up corresponding themes in
New York landscape painting that
developed in the period between 1825
and 1875. These themes quickly transcended
regional bounds and found
WILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT
Genesee Falls, Rochester, New York, ca. 1836
The Museum of the New-York Historical Society
currency in the second half of the nineteenth
century in broad, national concerns
for a vanishing American
wilderness. But the themes are given
form and become firmly established in
the American artist's mind during the
heyday of, and in the region changed
by, the Erie Canal. •
Patricia Anderson is associate curator for
American art of the University's Memorial
A rt Gallery.
This essay, in slightly different form, appears
in the catalogue of the exhibition, The
Course of Empire, The Erie Canal and
the New York Landscape 1825-1875,
© 1984 Memorial Art Gallery of the
University of Rochester. Anderson was
curator of the exhibition.
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Playing for Keeps
By Jeremy Schlosberg
There's always room at the
top for a good string quartet,
and that's where this Eastman
student group is heading.
At the end of a quiet hallway
tucked into a fourth-floor corner
of the Eastman School of Music, in a
practice room crowded with two grand
pianos, an assortment of creaky chairs,
randomly placed instrument cases, and
a half dozen music stands, the Meliora
Quartet has just finished doing what it
spends most of its time together doing
-practicing. Its members are now undertaking
what comes close to being
their second most time-consuming activity-scheduling
their next rehearsal.
Before their instruments are secured
in their cases, all four players have
pounced on their appointment books.
As Ian Swensen, first violinist, and
Maria Lambros, violist, study their
calendars, Calvin Wiersma, second
violinist, proposes meeting the next
morning, a Saturday, at ten-a suggestion
that elicits a groan from the
cellist, Elizabeth Anderson (known to
friends as Betsy).
"I've got to sleep, Cal, or I'm going
to get pneumonia or something," she
says. After a few minutes of haggling,
they settle on a rehearsal at three
o'clock, at the conclusion of which, of
course, the foursome will go through
their scheduling act all over again. No
one said playing in a quartet was going
to be easy.
Winning the Cleveland Quartet
Competition in April of 1983 has allowed
the Meliora Quartet the enviable
opportunity of studying for two
years at the Eastman School with the
internationally acclaimed Cleveland
Quartet, which has been in residence
at Eastman since 1976. "I remember
The Meliora Quartet at the top of Wilson Commons: Elizabeth Anderson, cello; Calvin Wiersma, second violin; Maria Lambros, viola; and Ian
Swensen, first violin
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coming to Eastman hoping that I could
work with the Cleveland Quartet for
even one semester," says Maria. "So
we've gotten awfully lucky."
Maria may call it luck. But to the
judges of the international competition
it was rather more than that. "They
simply happened to be the best," says
one of the jurors, J on Engberg,
associate director for academic affairs
and associate dean for graduate studies
at the Eastman School.
Dating back to 1976, when the
Cleveland joined the school, the competition
reflects that well-established
group's desire to nurture younger colleagues,
something it believes in
strongly.
Eastman stages the competition
biennially, when it invites quartets
from around the world to audition.
The winning ensemble, which receives
tuition remission and a stipend, is invited
to the Eastman School for a twoyear
period to study with the Cleveland
and other members of the string
faculty. "The winner comes as a
quartet," says Engberg, "and its first
order of business is to study, rehearse,
and perform as an ensemble. This
group occupies a special place at
Eastman."
More than equal to the task, the
Meliora players have, by the end of
their first year, rapidly blossomed into
one of this country's most promising
young chamber groups, which means
three things: They have talent, they
have a flair for performance, and they
get along with each other. The value of
that last part cannot be overestimated.
"Successful, professional chamber
groups are very hard to keep
together," Engberg notes.
"There's an old cliche," says
Cleveland Quartet cellist Paul Katz,
"that says that a quartet is like a fourway
marriage, with all of the disadvantages
and none of the advantages. "
"You get to know somebody musically,
and that individual's personality
is going to come out too," is the way
Calvin puts it.
"That's what the rehearsals are
about," says Betsy. "Just as much as
they are about learning the music and
understanding the composer, they're
also about understanding the people
you're playing with well enough so
that all four of you can understand the
composer."
Playing, therefore, isjust part of
what being a quartet is about. Yes, the
Meliora Quartet won the Cleveland
Quartet Competition; yes, it has twice
been accepted to participate in the
Aspen Music Festival's Center for Advanced
Quartet Studies; yes, it tied for
top place in the Fischoff National
Chamber Music Competition in South
Bend, Indiana, in April of this year
and then went on to win the Coleman
Chamber Ensemble Competition in
Pasadena later that month; and yes, it
will make its New York City and
Boston debuts this fall. But kudos
alone does not a quartet make. In
many ways, the Meliora Quartet's
most notable achievement is the
maintenance and development of the
positive chemistry existing among its
members.
"They have an attitude and enthusiasm
that is consistent among all four
of them, which is unusual," says
Engberg. "Very often, you will find
one or more of the people in a group to
be somewhat of an outsider. But everybody
in this group is really dedicated to
one another. "
Their spirited interrelationship is
best on display in rehearsal, where
they might be playing only half the
time, discussing and critiquing individual
and group performances the
other half. Give and take is fluid, comments
and suggestions readily requested
and received.
"Did the tempo seem slow?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, I liked it. "
"J ust a touch faster-the whole
thing. "
"But it has a grace to it. "
Short, explosive instrumental examples
punctuate many of the discussions
about particular passages. Likewise
anyone of the group members may
spontaneously sing a bar or two to illustrate
a musical point.
The playing itself is dynamic, energetic,
assured, even in the rehearsal
room's inevitable fragments. Heads,
shoulders, forearms, elbows dip this
way and that. First violinist Ian is
animated facially-his eyebrows darting
up and down, his eyes and mouth
evincing the effort of playing, as if he
were yanking the notes he plays from
somewhere deep within. On all four
faces is written one word, in bold letters,
and underlined: concentration.
For in a quartet, you must not only
play-you must listen to three others
play at the same time.
"You're always reminding yourself
to listen," says Maria.
Betsy elaborates. "Sometimes you
find yourself getting so involved in
your own part that you realize you're
not playing with the other people. At
other times, you're sort of sinking in
with the sound of the group so much
that you don't really play your own
line as convincingly as you could."
This constant playing off from one
another extends beyond the strings and
bows. Even in conversation, sentences
are sometimes started by one, completed
by another, and interpreted by a
third, each member's voice intertwining
with and augmenting other voices
much as their instruments do when the
talking stops. One might wonder if this
compatibility developed gradually or if
it just clicked.
"There's always something of an adjustment
time," says Maria.
"I think there really should be,"
adds Calvin.
"But there's both things happening
all the time," Ian points out.
"There's also a click, there really
is," concludes Betsy.
Call it harmony at first sight-just
an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl-meetsboy-meets-girl
story. Calvin attempts
to unravel it.
"Two summers ago, at the Aspen
Music Festival [a summer music
school held annually in Aspen, Colorado],
Maria and Ian and Betsy
played in a string quartet together.
The following year, Ian and I both
came here to Eastman, where Maria
and Betsy were both already
studying." Ian, originally from Pearl
River, New York, transferred from
Juilliard, joining Maria, a Missoula,
Montana, native, in the junior class.
Calvin, from Grand Rapids, Michigan,
went to Eastman for his Master
of Music degree, after graduating from
Oberlin College. Betsy, the celloplaying
pride of Sacramento, California,
received her Master of Music

degree and her Performer's Certificate
at Eastman in 1982; she is now working
on her doctorate.
"The first semester oflast year,"
Calvin continues, referring to the fall
of the '82-'83 school year, "Ian and
Betsy played in a quartet together. The
following semester, they decided that
they'd like to play in another group-a
group that would tryout for the Cleveland
Quartet Competition, which was
to be held in April. They asked Maria
and me to play in that. I knew Ian
because I had met him at a couple of
chamber music parties."
"I'd never met Cal," Maria interjects.
"I knew Betsy's sister," Calvin
adds.
The Meliora Quartet was not officially
formed until January of 1983,
just four months before the competition.
They didn't even have a name
right away.
"We thought about it on and off,"
reports Maria. "We'd get together and
have dinner, and say, 'Hey, you guys,
we've got to think of a name.' "
Robert Freeman, the director of the
Eastman School, was the one who suggested
the University of Rochester
motto. The quartet members liked the
way the name on the one hand related
them to the University, but on the
other hand didn't tie them to a specific
location (as has happened, for example,
to their mentors, who, although
they haven't lived in Cleveland for
thirteen years, recognize the inadvisability
of attempting a name change
in the middle of a resoundingly successful
international career).
"We can take this name anywhere,"
says Maria. "And we like what it
means-to do better, to achieve higher
goals. "
"It's a nice sentiment," Calvin
agrees.
And if the old adage about practice
making perfect is true, it's a sentiment
that couldn't be permanently attached
to a more appropriate group. The Meliora
Quartet practices an average of
three to four hours a day; they take
only one day off a week.
"If we can," says Maria.
"Sometimes there's just too much to
do," Calvin admits.
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As students at the demanding Eastman
School, the Meliora players have
established this rigorous group schedule
on top of the individual work each
of them is engaged in.
"There's a lot to do on your instrument
apart from the quartet," Calvin
says. "And that's really healthy. If
playing together were the only thing
we did, and if this were the only time
we played our instruments, or these
the only pieces we practiced, I don't
think it would be very good for the
quartet.
"We're still learning how to play the
instruments," he continues. "We want
to become better violinists, violists,
and cellists. "
"Your own, private work is really
important," Maria says, to which Ian
adds, "You have more to bring in."
"Right," says Maria, "you have
more to bring in, and you grow yourself.
"
No one recognizes the Meliora drive
to improve better than their coaches.
"They're quite exceptional," says the
Cleveland's cellist, Paul Katz. "As
musicians, they're all incredibly motivated,
very very serious, hardworking-all
of these things. And beyond
that, there is something in each
of them ... " and here he pauses, striving
to communicate his exact meaning.
"I can only define it as 'artistic.' Each
of them, as a performer, has great
communicative ability. "
This ability, Katz adds, is specialnot
every musician has it. "It has to do
with imagination. One can teach it,"
he asserts, "only if the potential is
there."
Something else Katz finds special in
the Meliora Quartet is its depth of
comprehension. "When I'm coaching
them, I can talk to them about the
problems of quartets much on the same
level I would talk to one of my own colleagues."
His pupils, he says, "are
concerned with the same high-level
technical questions. I don't have to
simplify or water down or clarify."
The Meliora Quartet could spend
hours, in turn, praising its mentors.
"It's hard to know where to start,"
starts Betsy.
"They're great. They're wonderful"
says Ian.
"They're very giving with their
time," says Maria. "Just very
generous people, and they really care
about us. They give us coachings at
very inconvenient times for them.
They come to our dress rehearsals.
They're very supportive."
The younger players, as a group,
are visited by members of the Cleveland
Quartet twice a week. "When
they coach us," says Calvin, "they do
it individually; it's not as if all four of
them together sit around and hear us.
And that -working with each of them
separately-is very interesting."
"You get different ideas," says Ian.
"It's a real learning experience,"
says Calvin.
The Meliora Quartet appears ready
to learn from any experience it has, including
the potentially disastrous. A
favorite story around the Eastman
School concerns an outdoor concert the
quartet played last summer at the
Botanic Gardens in Denver. Some
3,000 people were gathered, an audience
far larger than most string
quartets might ever play for. The concert
was amplified-also an unusual
circumstance for a quartet-and being
broadcast over the local National
Public Radio station.
Naturally, it began to rain. The
quartet was forced to stop in the middle
of the performance-"our instruments
being worth what they are," explains
Calvin, "and water being about
the worst thing for them." As the quartet
began packing up, however, several
people from the audience came on
stage with umbrellas, offering to hold
them over the musicians so the show
could go on.
"After about ten minutes with her
arm up in the air," says Calvin, "the
woman holding the umbrella over Ian
fainted. Fell right on top of him. " The
quartet immediately feared the worst;
the woman, however, was revived after
thirty seconds or so. "We managed to
finish the concert," Calvin says.
Such a bizarre incident is shrugged
off by the quartet, which remembers
the day most for the thrill of playing
outdoors before so many people.
"It was exhilarating," says Calvin.
"It was really fun," agrees Betsy.
"We loved it," adds Ian. "We're
just trying to give what we have to give
in the music."
The music. Given the compatibility
exhibited by this talented foursome,

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The Passionate Steward
By Margaret Bond
Frederick T. Gates, Class of
1877, chose a UR education out
of respect for the high moral
philosophy of i.ts president,
Martin B. Anderson. It was this
same high moral philosophyleavened
with gusto and fortified
by a superb business
sense-that guided him in the
philanthropic distribution of
John D. Rockefeller's awesome
riches.
I n
1923, toward the end of his life,
Frederick T. Gates retired from
the board of the Rockefeller Foundation,
which he had served for many
years in his capacity as "confidential
adviser" to John D . Rockefeller,
known to practically everyone as "the
richest man in the world."
Flaunting his still magnificent head
of white hair and shaking his fist at a
somewhat startled but respectfully
attentive board, Gates thundered his
farewell message to his fellow
directors:
"When you die and come to approach
the judgment of almighty God
. . . what do you think he will demand
of you? Do you for an instant presume
that he will inquire into your petty failures
and your trivial virtues?
"Will he ask, 'How did you do as a
husband for your loving and dutiful
wife?'
"As a captain of industry, 'How did
you discharge your duties to stockholders
and employees?'
"Or to those of you who serve in the
noble profession of medicine, 'How
did you carry out your sacred obligations
to the lame, the halt, and the
dying?'
"No! No indeed! He will brush all
these matters to one side and he will

ask but one question: 'How did you do
as a trustee of the Rockefeller
Foundation?' "
This story, recounted in 1974 by
Robert Swain Morison in the first
Gates Lecture at the University, summarizes
the style in which Frederick T.
Gates, "the architect of modern American
philanthropy," supervised the
charitable distribution of untold millions
of Rockefeller money.
A man of vivid personality, enviable
self-confidence, and a highly developed
sense of moral duty (fortified by
an equally highly developed sense of
practicality), Gates worked closely
with Rockefeller for over a generation.
As his confidential adviser, Gates introduced
into the Rockefeller charities
what he called "the principle of scientific
giving," effectively transforming
private philanthropy from haphazard
"retail" benevolences into a system of
planned, "wholesale" giving.
It was largely through Gates's vision
that the General Education Board, the
Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research
(now Rockefeller University) came
into being. With another Rochester
alumnus, Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed,
Class of 1863, Gates was instrumental
also in founding the present
University of Chicago.
Brought up in a farming community
in Upstate N ew York, a preacher who
had followed his father into the Ba:ptist
ministry, Gates would seem an unworldly
candidate to engineer the scientific
disposal of hundreds of millions
ofturn-of-the-century dollars. (Once
asked how much money Rockefeller
and his son John D. ,J r. had given
away, Gates allowed cautiously that it
might be as much as "a thousand million.")
What attracted Rockefeller to
the younger man was, as he later conceded,
Gates's "great store of common
sense. "
The two men shared, in addition, a
common adherence to many of the
sterner aspects of a nineteenth-century
Baptist upbringing, and complemented
each other in their contrasting
modes of expressing it: Gates with the
gusto of passionate eloquence and
Rockefeller with the gelidity of taciturn
stoicism. (The voluble Gates once
summed up the Rockefeller turn of expression
this way: "Ifhe was very nice
and precise in his choice of words, he
was also nice and accurate in his choice
of silences. ")
Their extraordinary partnership
originated when Gates, as corresponding
secretary of the newly formed
American Baptist Education Society,
had occasion to ask Rockefeller for a
contribution to the proposed new
university in Chicago.
"To this end," The New York Times
reported in Gates's 1929 obituary, "he
called on Mr. Rockefeller early on a
May morning of 1889 at the old-fashioned
private house of the oil man at 4
West Fifty-fourth Street. After breakfast
the host and his visitor walked up
and down on the sidewalk outside.
"The proposition discussed was
what proportion of the needed sum of
$1,000,000 for the projected University
of Chicago would be contributed by
Mr. Rockefeller. The amount offered
was $400,000; the amount asked for,
politely and insistently, was $600,000.
When Mr. Rockefeller finally yielded,
it brought Mr. Gates' a thrill that I
shall never forget.' "
Apparently impressed by the acumen
of a man who knew what he
wanted and how to get it, Rockefeller
began asking Gates to look in on some
of his farflung personal business enterprises
whenever Gates's travels for the
Baptists took him into their vicinity.
By 1893 Gates had moved to New
York and joined Rockefeller's private
office staff, serving eventually as president
of thirteen different Rockefeller
corporations that operated in areas
other than the oil industry. (In the
autobiography he wrote for his
children, Gates recalled with relish the
trips he made to visit these companies,
traveling "luxuriously" in
Rockefeller's private railway car.)
It is not, however, for his considerable
success in business but for his
work as Rockefeller's representative in
the field of charity that Gates is remembered
today. "In this he combined
the roles of spiritual adviser and
practical man of affairs with the sagacity
of a secretary confessor to a Renaissance
prince," Robert Morison observed
in his Gates Lecture.
"Your fortune is rolling up, rolling
up like an avalanche," Gates would
UR senior picture: Gates taught himself
Greek, studying sixteen hours a day over a
period of three months, in order to qualify for
admission. As an undergraduate, he was most
impressed by the character and teachings of
Martin Brewer Anderson, whom he referred
to in his autobiography as "the prince of college
presidents."
thunder at his patron. "You must keep
up with it. You must distribute it faster
than it grows. If you do not, it will
crush you and your children, and your
children's children."
Assigned to review the Rockefeller
charities, Gates was appalled by the
multitude of personal appeals for
money to which Rockefeller was subjected,
"hounded almost like a wild
animal," in his home, at his office, and
even "in the aisles of his church."
Reviewing the flood of petitions (he
once counted 15,000 received within a
single week), Gates observed that the
great bulk of these pleas for sums of
cash "Mr. Rockefeller would never
feel" were either immediately discernible
as unworthy ("often for luxuries
such as pianos ... and wedding trousseaux")
or, at best, undocumented appeals
from splinters of local charities
"wholly without endorsement or recommendation,
or proof of need. "
He proposed, sweepingly, that
Rockefeller divest himself of his private
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charities and "form a series of great
corporate philanthropies for forwarding
civilization in all its elements in
this land and in all lands . "
The first of these broad philanthropic
agencies to come into beingand
the one that was probably closest
to Gates's heart-was the Rockefeller
Institute, established in 1901 and
dedicated to medical research.
"Disease is a prolific root of every
conceivable ill, physical, economic,
mental, moral, social ... the main
single source of human misery which
has not hitherto been intelligently,
widely, and scientifically studied, nor
with adequate instruments and resources,"
Gates wrote with resounding
conviction. Some years later, meeting
Harvard's President Eliot in the street,
Gates asked him earnestly if he did not
think the Rockefeller Institute was
"the most interesting thing in the
world. " Gates remained its president
for the rest of his life.
Admitting the difficulty of measuring
such things, Morison summed up,
in his Gates Lecture, the accomplishments
of this foremost research center
by noting that" it is at least close to the
truth to say that the output of really
significant high-quality research per
person, per dollar, or per square foot
at the Rockefeller Institute has been
higher than that of any other medical
institution in the country. "
In 1902 Gates engineered the establishment
of the General Education
Board, organized to make gifts to educational
and research activities, and in
1913 initiated the Rockefeller Foundation
to promote public health and to
further the medical, natural, and social
sciences. The first of these great philanthropies,
among other early achievements,
was responsible for founding
over 1,600 high schools in the American
South and, some years later, issued
a celebrated report that revolutionized
medical education in the entire
nation. The second, the Rockefeller
Foundation, began its life by
launching a massive attack against the
international scourges of hookworm,
malaria, and yellow fever.
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It may be worth noting here that in
fathering the General Education
Board, Gates can be credited with
grandfathering a pivotal move in the
transformation of his undergraduate
college into "the University of Rochester"
in substance as well as in name.
At the time when the fledgling Eastman
School of Music was beginning
the University's development from a
single, liberal arts college, the General
Education Board turned its attention
to Rochester with another proposal for
expansion: Dr. Abraham Flexner, the
board's secretary, decided that Rochester
would be the ideal location for the
establishment of a first-rate medical
school and that George Eastman was
the ideal candidate to supplement a
grant from the General Education
Board to establish that school.
Flexner met Eastman, and prevailed.
(Eastman later facetiously
claimed that Flexner "put up ajob on
me and cleaned me out of a thundering
lot of my hard-earned savings." )
Rochester's School of Medicine and
Dentistry-instigated by Gates's General
Education Board-opened in
1925.
It should not be assumed that, because
of any sentimental attachment to
"dear old Alma Mater's halls," G ates
exerted any of his considerable influence
over the General Education
Board in its selection of the site for the
projected new medical school. H e was
too practical for that. He did, however,
display a cordial regard for the U niversity.
In his autobiography, Chapters in
My Life, he wrote warmly of his years
at Rochester, and glowingly of its first
president, Martin Brewer Anderson
("the prince of college presidents"). In
Arthur J. May's History of the University
of Rochester, Gates is credited with helping
to secure General Education Board
funds in 1908 toward a new science
building and, in 1912, as a start in initiating
a dormitory system.
The University early recognized
Gates's ability (it made him Phi Beta
Kappa as an undergraduate), and in
1888, just eleven years after his graduation,
invited the youthful Minneapolis
minister to succeed Anderson in
the University presidency. Gates
writes in his autobiography that he was
flattered by "these sincere and kindly
overtures" but declined on the practical
grounds of youth and inexperience:
"I was young, a full generation
younger than the distinguished professors
in Rochester who had been my
teachers, and would now serve under
me." (Typically, after having later met
a great many college presidents in his
work for Rockefeller, he decided the
job wouldn't have been so difficult
after all.)
He embarked instead on his position
with the American Baptist Education
Society that would lead to the breakfast
meeting with John D. Rockefeller and
a wider service in the cause of
education.
In 1974 Rochester honored its distinguished
alumnus with the establishment
of the Frederick Taylor Gates
Lectures on subjects relating to philanthropy
and the University. That same
year Gates's children, for whom he
had written the autobiography quoted
in this essay, presented the manuscript
to the University, with permission to
publish it. This was done in 1977 by
the Free Press, a division of the Macmillan
Company.
In the foreword to that book, John
Romano, Distinguished University
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry,
wrote, "There is no parallel in modern
times to Gates's contributions to the
character of philanthropy and its remarkable
influence on American education
and science. "
Frederick Taylor Gates died in
Phoenix on February 6, 1929, prepared,
one is somehow assured, to deliver
a well-documented report on his
dedicated and passionate stewardship
of John D. Rockefeller's awesome
riches .•
Margaret Bond is editor of Rochester
Review.

The 1984 Gates Symposium
Last spring the Frederick Taylor
Gates Lecture at the University
took the form of a symposium, "Private
Foundations, Their Roles in
American Society and in Higher
Education," planned to honor
President Sproull on his retirement
at the end of June. Participating
were the presidents of four major
private foundations and a distinguished
congressman who has
worked closely both with universities
and with foundations.
Following are some excerpts from
what they said.
Albert Rees
President, Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation:
Starting something
new is the
principal business
of foundations. The
Sloan Foundation is
one of the few foundations
whose
grants are made overwhelmingly to
support higher education. Yet we
cannot make grants to sustain wellestablished
activities in higher education,
because their costs are far
beyond our means. In the total budget
of a major research university,
private foundation grants are a
small source of revenue relative to
tuition and fees, endowment income,
alumni giving, and government
contracts. Foundation grants
may nevertheless be an important
source of support for new initiatives.
Margaret
Mahoney
President, The
Commonwealth Fund:
The overriding
need today-the
need that overarches
all the specific
problems we face,
from arms control
to health care of the poor and elderly-is
for leaders who with "a
thunder clap" can see things whole.
We need leaders to weave together
the fragmented segments of our
splintered society, to establish and
articulate common goals, and to revitalize
and renew our institutions.
We need leaders to set out the vision
of what might be and the effort and
restraint, drive, and discipline to
achieve the great performance.
Universities and foundations
have, in my opinion, the same
agenda: to make the world a better
place to be-to instill a sense of
meaning and purpose in modern
life, to reconcile factions that would
tear apart society, to prepare future
generations to welcome and benefit
from change, to encourage the creative
leaders who will be born
--..."..,.-
among us.
DavidA.
Hamburg
(.1':'II1II .......
President, Carnegie
Corporation of New
York:
Universities can
mobilize talent over
a wide range to address
complex and
difficult issues in a
sustained, effective, and fascinating
way.
Universities can help us to get
complex facts straight. They can
clarify different options and do it in
a way that's credible and even intelligible
to non-specialists.
To deal effectively with multifaceted
problems of high-policy significance
we have to find ways of
achieving novel conjunctions of
knowledge and talent. Real-world
problems don't come in packages to
fit traditional disciplines. We have
to have specializations, but we have
to link those specialties to each
other. Crucial social purposes-the
pieces-have to be made to fit together
in some way.
I think that kind of inquiry will be
increasingly important in the future
and will require more stimulation of
the great capacity of universities to
address the most critical issues of
our time.
Barber B.
Conable, Jr.
Congressman,
Thirtieth District:
I believe that
foundations are
uniquely qualified
to make long-term
contributions in our
society, and that
government, almost by its nature, is
bound to concern itself primarily
with instant gratification.
If the public and the press have a
love-hate relationship, so too do
government and the foundations.
From the time the Congress rejected
the charter for the Rockefeller
Foundation in 1915 until the present,
about every fifteen years there
has been some sort of convulsion in
the relationship between these two
institutions. Interestingly, it was fifteen
years ago now that perhaps one
of the most significant convulsions
occurred, in the tax reform act of
1969.
It is one of the unfortunate things
about our government that there is
not a great deal of continuity there.
The mistakes of the past are bound
to be repeated in the future. Foundations,
on the other hand, are
blessed by remarkable continuity.
Eugene C. Dorsey
President, Gannett
Foundation, Inc.:
All of the resources
of the Gannett
Foundation,
and possibly those
of all other foundations,
could not by
themselves assure
the future of quality higher education
in America.
But foundations can and do have
their special areas of interest-in
medical education and research, in
improving the teaching of science
and engineering, in coping with the
exponential increase in computer
classes, in keeping the humanities
strong, in many other vital fields. If
they pursue those special interests
with single-minded purpose, backed
up by sufficient dollars, the sum
total can make a significant difference
in the overall quality of
American higher education. And
that difference is needed now, more
than at any time in our history.
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Larger Than Life
Dexter Perkins, 1889-1984
By Richard C. Wade
Dexter Perkins-internationally
known authority on
American diplomatic history
and one of the great teachers in
the University's history-died
on May 12, after a long illness,
at the age of ninety-four. A
distinguished former student
and colleague writes this tribute
to him.
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T he last twilight years of Dexter
Perkins's illness will never dim
the brightness of his life and the glow it
spread to all of us who knew him.
His career, by any standards, was
unmatched. He was the author of almost
a score of books, the president of
the American Historical Association,
the Watson Professor of History at the
University of Rochester (where he
taught for thirty-nine years until his
retirement in 1954), the Senior Professor
of American Values at Cornell
University, the Pitt Professor of
American Institutions at Cambridge
University, and the president of the
Salzburg Seminar of American Studies
in Austria.
Anyone of these honors would satisfy
the most ambitious scholar, but to
Dexter Perkins they were only a part of
a larger duty.
He believed that the study of history
was too important to be entrusted to
professional historians alone. It was,
instead, the common heritage of all citizens
and existed for their enjoyment
and instruction.
At a time when the profession
turned to smaller and smaller topics
and highly specialized monographs, he
urged the return to the large, enduring
themes of the American experience.
Long before it became fashionable, he

argued that teaching was at least as important
as research for the historian.
In his 1956 presidential address to
the American Historical Association he
threw down the gauntlet to his colleagues
in a speech entitled "We Shall
Gladly Teach." And he did so himself,
gladly, with flair and elegance.
He was easily the most polished platform
performer of his epoch. Indeed,
he was so much a part of the life of the
University that when students were
asked their field of concentration, some
replied simply, "Dexter Perkins."
N or did the responsibility of the
scholar end at the campus edge. Dexter
Perkins touched Rochester's civic life,
as was said of Philadelphia's Benjamin
Franklin, in "every wholesome spot."
He helped build the City Club into
an important forum for the discussion
of public affairs; he created the Rochester
branch of the Association for the
United Nations and made it the largest
chapter in the country; he was the
city's first official historian, the first
Friend of the Public Library.
With his wife, Wilma Lord Perkins
'18, he was always a patron, and a
paying one, of that wonderful mixture
of ideas and movements which makes
Rochester such an unusual and arresting
place. He even demonstrated his
boundless optimism by seeking to
elevate local journalism with the contribution
of editorials and columns. In
retirement, the City Council, in a moment
of uncharacteristic statesmanship,
awarded him its highest citation.
Above all, Dexter Perkins was an
unabashed, though not uncritical,
American patriot. His adult life embraced
two World Wars and a Great
Depression, the rise of totalitarian
governments, the breakdown of international
order, the fragile accomplishment
of the League of Nations and
United Nations, and the erosion of
American supremacy around the
globe.
But he never wavered in the conviction
that the United States, with all its
faults and failures, was still "the last
best hope of earth," that it remains the
most reliable repository of democracy
and the values of free peoples everywhere.
He often referred to the" American
spirit" in international affairs; he
lavished time on building the Salzburg
Seminar of American Studies into a
center for disinterested dissemination
of scholarship and information about
the United States to most of Europe;
and he volunteered his counsel to the
State Department and War College
whenever they had the good sense to
ask for it. He always believed that, in
the long run, this country would redeem
the promises it made to the world
two centuries ago in Philadelphia.
Despite all these public achievements,
what those of us who knew him
cherished most was the wonderful
abandonment that Dexter brought to
everyday life. Anyone who rode with
him in an automobile at his steady, unremitting
forty miles an hour around
Rochester streets learned early that the
sporting life was not confined to the Indianapolis
500.
Between the River Campus and the
old Prince Street Campus, as he careened
along Alexander Street, he
would instruct me on the proper
behavior of a junior faculty member
while the constant danger led me to
speculate only on the slim prospect that
I would live long enough to be
anything else.
When he had a small ailment, he
prided himself on locating a doctor
who, after diagnosis, concluded that
his cigars and cocktails supplemented
each other and, indeed, each needed
the other. His parties, and in fact departmental
meetings, had a spontaneity
and effervescence that sprang from
his own personality rather than the
occasion.
In short, Dexter Perkins always
seemed larger than life. He was chairman
of my department, yet he was also
a commanding figure in the historical
profession. He was the most popular
teacher on campus, but he could also
fill any auditorium in the city for a lecture.
He wrote for fellow scholars, yet
he also engaged the general reading
public. He enjoyed academic company,
but he was also completely at
ease with those of economic power and
political influence. He explained
American history to his countrymen,
but he also interpreted it to an international
audience.
He is still larger than life .•
Richard C. Wade '43, '45G is Distinguished
Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City
University of New York.
This essay appeared originally in the Rochester
Times-Union and is reprinted with permission.
The accompanying photo was made in 1952 by
Ansel Adams.
In 1975, at the inauguration of President
Sproull, the University awarded
Dexter Perkins one of the first of its President
's Medals for distinguished service.
He had earlier received a UR honorary degree,
in 1956, the same year he got one
from Cornell.
Cherished as much for his boundless
good humor as he was respected for his
uncommon achievement, he received, in
1970, an Alumni Citation to Faculty,
the penultimate paragraph of which offers
an illuminating illustration:
"Former colleagues still recall a stated
faculty meeting in which, mirabile dictu,
the {old business' was disposed of in
fifteen minutes. Dean Hoffmeister called
for {new business. ' There was a moment's
silence, a shuffling of feet, and
then afamiliar high-pitched voice: {We
might engage in a little group singing. ' "
The ultimate paragraph stated that the
University's alumni presented their highest
award to Dexter Perkins "with deep
appreciation of a great man and an unconquered
spirit. "
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Mr. Hecht finds it a creative challenge to write in forms
that other poets, some from other centuries, have used. But
he says that many poets today-including some who regard
themselves as highly original-avoid that challenge.
"It's risky to do what somebody else has done, and if you
want to avoid comparison, you play it safe," he says. "But
you don't necessarily write the better poetry.
"One of the great pleasures in reading John Donne or
George Herbert is surely admiring the skill of their prosodic
technique. There are few poets as eminently deft as
they are, and I would be happy if I could do what they
succeeded in doing so skillfully. "
Not content with being a practitioner of verse forms, Mr.
Hecht actually invented one. With John Hollander, a poet
and professor of English at Y ale University, he devised a
comic form, in the tradition of the limerick, called the
"double dactyl."
The inventors published a compendium of double dactyls
under the titleJiggery-Pokery, a second edition of which
was published last year.
A double dactyl is composed of two four-line stanzas
written in dactylic feet-one stressed syllable, followed by
two unstressed. It must begin with a nonsense line-for
example, "Jiggery-pokery" -followed by a proper name in
the second line, and, somewhere later in the verse, a line
made up of but a single word. A sample, composed by Mr.
Hecht:
From the Grove Press
Higgledy-piggledy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wroth at Bostonian
Cowardly hints)
Wrote an unprintable
Epithalamion
Based on a volume of
Japanese prints.
Anthony Hecht andJohn Hollander) ((From the Grove Press"
from Jiggery-Pokery. Copyright ©1966 by Anthony Hecht and
John Hollander. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum
Publishers) Inc.
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Application for a Grant
Noble executors of the munificent testament
Of the late John Simon Guggenheim, distinguished bunch
Of benefactors, there are certain kinds of men
Who set their hearts on being bartenders,
For whom a life upon duck-boards, among fifths,
Tapped kegs and lemon twists, crowded with lushes
Who can master neither their bladders nor consonants
Is the only life, greatly to be desired. '
There's the man who yearns for the White House, there to
compose
Rhythmicalljsts of enemies, while someone else
Wants to be known to the Tourd'Argent's head waiter.
As the Sibyl of Cumae said: It takes all kinds.
Nothing could bribe your Timon, your charter member
Of the Fraternal Order of Grizzly Bears to love
His fellow, whereas it's just the opposite
With interior decorators; that's what makes horse races.
One man may have a sharp nose for tax shelters,
Screwing the IRS with mirth and profit;
Another devote himself to his shell collection,
Deafto his offspring, indifferent to the feast
With which his wife hopes to attract his notice.
Some at the Health Club sweating under bar bells
Labor away like grunting troglodytes,
Smelly and thick and inarticulate,
Their brains squeezed out through their pores by sheer
exertion.
As for me, the prize for poets, the simple gift
For amphybrachs strewn by a kind Euterpe,
With pei"haps a laurel crown of the evergreen
Imperishable of your fine endowment
Would supply my modest wants, who dream of nothing
But a pad on Eighth Street and your approbation.
Freely from Horace
Anthony Hecht, ((Application for a Grant " from The Venetian
Vespers. Copyright © 19 79 by Anthony E. Hecht. Reprinted with
the permission of Atheneum Publishers, Inc.
Mr. Hecht is fond oflight verse. "I know a lot of
limericks by heart, and have even written a few," he says.
"I find it very easy to be lighthearted and frivolous from
time to time. Even in my moods of gloom."
The subjects Mr. Hecht has taken for some of his poems
have led critics to occasionally describe him as a poet "of
darkness. "
An infantryman in World War II, he fought in
Czechoslovakia and Germany, where his unit discovered
mass graves filled with thousands of charred bodies. He
was one of the soldiers who liberated Flossenburg, an annex
to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He has written
about the Holocaust in a number of poems.
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"The subject matter of poetry is the experiences of our
lives, both the most terrible and the most wonderful," he
says. "What I experienced in the war was not anywhere
near so terrible as having been a prisoner in one of those
camps, or having died or lost a family in one. So even I am
considerably distanced from the calamities that happened
to so many there. Yet my sense of it is much more alive
than that of the average American citizen, and I feel
somehow under an obligation to not let anyone forget how
terrible that was.
"So I write about it, but not obsessively, I hope. It comes
up from time to time, and probably will never entirely
disappear from my own consciousness whether I write
about it again or not. "
From the number of students enrolled in creative-writing
programs to the number of small presses and journals
specializing in poetry, it appears that more poetry is being
written now than at any other time in our history. Does the
Consultant in Poetry think that we have more good poetry
to show for it?
"I would suppose, on nothing more than vaguely informed
instinct, that as much good poetry is being written
now in the United States as has ever been written," says
Mr. Hecht. "Whether any of it is as good as Emily Dickinson
or Walt Whitman is another question. But there's a
great deal being written, and as much good stuff as was
written in the modernist revolution of the twenties.
"Now it may be that in 200 years it will be decided that
America has really only produced three or four great poets,
and that two of them may still be Whitman and
Dickinson," he adds. "But what is being done now is not
shameful. T he best of it is extremely good. And the quality
of the work will continue to be high, simply because poets
establish their own high caliber and keep it there, and
anybody who gets into the field must know who the best
poets are and hope to be able to do as well."
Mr. Hecht acknowledges that the audience for poetry is
not very large, as some of his experiences while Consultant
in Poetry have demonstrated. The only disappointment
during his term that he admits to is the poor attendance at
some of the literary events at the Library of Congress. He
does not expect the audience for poetry ever to be much
bigger than it now is. But he praises that audience.
"Though small, it is a faithful and a good audience,"
Mr. Hecht says. "Well-educated and conscientious. And
undoubtedly committed in a very special way-the way in
which the special audience for chamber music is committed,
for example.
"It's not the great, mass public," he adds, "but it's a big
enough audience to keep art going at a very high level of
performance and of practice. "
Copyright © 1984 by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reprinted
with permission.

The Calderone Way
By Gary L. Stockman
"Truth can never go too far,"
says Mary Steichen Calderone
'39M, "pepperpot" greatgrandmother
and one of this
country's leading authorities on
sex information and education.
During a recent campus visit
she brought with her a collection
of home truths about
raising children.
T eaching
kids about sex the
Calderone way," read the headline
Campus Times staffers gave to a
report on a talk by Dr. Mary Steichen
Calderone.
And what is "the Calderone way"?
Let's just say it starts informing kids
early.
"Children are born sexual,"
Calderone told a crowd of attentive
listeners at Hubbell Auditorium in
Hutchison Hall. The talk was one in a
number of presentations Calderone
gave before students, health professionals,
campus counselors, faculty,
and the news media during a visit to
the University earlier this year.
Calderone has been talking about
sex, frankly and in public, for over
thirty years, since she first started
working for Planned Parenthood.
N ow one of the world's foremost
authorities on human sexuality,
Calderone, after her graduation from
Rochester's medical school in 1939,
went on to take a master of public
health degree at Columbia University
three years later. She was named
medical director of Planned Parenthood
in that group's fledgling years,
then left to found the Sex Information
and Education Council of the United
States (SIECUS) where, as executive
director and president, she became one
of the country's leading advocates of
sex education for youngsters. ("She's
one of the great figures of our era who
opened people's minds," says Dr. Karl
Menninger, chairman of the famed
Menninger Foundation.)
She also, as more than one journalist
has pointed out, "made the words 'sex'
and 'sexuality' OK to say and OK to
print. "
Calderone returned to Rochester
with a substantive message to students,
many of whom would be starting their
own families within a few years.
Parents, she said, must take charge
of their child's sexual education early.
"The commonest question is, 'How do
I get over my embarrassment?' Well,
that embarrassment was laid on them
by their parents, who had had it laid on
them by their parents.
"What's more important to you,
your embarrassment and its protection,
or your child's. future welfare as a
husband or. wife?"
With that understanding, Calderone
went on, in her presentations, to touch
on a wide range of subjects, including
the development of her own sexuality.
"I was about two or three, I think.
And I grew up in a world that tried to
stop my growth, which did me a lot of
damage."
In her adult life, Calderone said, she
has maintained that "children are entitled
to the truth about everything,
and they're entitled to it when they
need it. And when they need it is in
childhood. It's too late in
adolescence. "
Though critics of her approach insist
that such attitudes breed promiscuity,
Calderone demurs. "They [the critics]
have said I'm advocating sex. Sure I
am! I'm advocating the basic sexuality
of every human being, and the right to
knowledge about it.
"But I'm not advocating free sex,
heaven help me. That would be
stupid. "
Instead, Calderone told audiences,
she favors an open, truthful attitude.
That way individuals can develop the
confidence to be selective about their
sexual experiences.
"The very first time you begin really
informing your child about sex is when
you are naming the parts of the body
with the child, and you carefully skip
from the umbilicus down to the knee
-and you never name those intervening
parts of the body. "
In a short time, she said, a child of
four or five may point to that area and
say "That's not me."
"But everything changes once you
accept the initial premise, and the initial
premise is, 'My child is born sexual
and has been sexual in the uterus.'
This is part-and I say this now as a
believing Quaker-this is part of
God's plan, if you will.
"This is the way babies are. Who
are we to deny it? How dare we?"
Feisty-some people call her a
"pepperpot"; a colleague puts it more
gently: "Mary tends to be a very
positive person" -Calderone has
continued on page 43
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Rochester
inReview
New provost
Brian]. Thompson,
internationally
known optical scientist
and engineer and
dean of the College of
Engineering and Applied
Science, became
provost of the
University] uly 1. He
succeeds Richard D. O'Brien, who has
been named executive vice chancellor
and provost of the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
The position of provost is the second
highest academic and administrative
post at Rochester.
Thompson, who joined the University
in 1968 as director of the Institute
of Optics, has been dean of the engineering
college since 1975. In 1982 he
was named the first William F. May
Professor of Engineering in recognition
of his achievements" as a scientist,
as a teacher, and as an educational
administrator. "
A native of England and a graduate
of Manchester University, where he
also received a Ph.D. in optics, he has
served on the faculties of Manchester
and of the University of Leeds.
The winner of numerous awards for
his contributions to optics, Thompson
is a leading researcher in the fields of
coherent optics, holography, phase
microscopy, and image processing.
His experimental studies on partially
coherent light and its effects are the
standard works in the literature of this
field. His illustrations of these and
other optical phenomena are widely
used in optical texts and monographs
dealing with coherent optics.
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Thompson also developed and pioneered
an important branch ofholography
that led to the first direct applica,tion
of holography-dynamic particle
size analysis-now used in a variety
of fields.
He is the author of more than 150
scientific and technical papers. His
book on physical optics has been translated
into Russian, Polish, and
Chinese.
Thompson's many awards include
three from the Society of Photo­
Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE): the President's Award, the
Pezzuto Award, and the Rudolf Kingslake
Medal. He is a fellow and former
director of the Optical Society of
America; a fellow, life member, and
past president of SPIE; and a fellow of
the Institute of Physics and the Physical
Society of Great Britain.
He is serving or has served on the
editorial boards of many international
journals and is chairman of the Honorary
Advisory Board and the International
Advisory Board of the Marquis
Who's Who Directory of Optical Scientists
and Engineers.
Active in national and international
scientific organizations, Thompson
has twice served as general chairman
of the Biennial International Congress
on High Speed Photography and
Photonics and has been a member of
the National Academy of Sciences­
National Research Council (N AS­
NRC) Committee on Vision and on
the NAS-NRC Dimensional Metrology
Evaluation Panel. He also has
served on the U.S. Army Scientific
Advisory Panel, the U.S. Committee
for the International Commission on
Optics, and the Technology Advisory
Council of the N ew York State Urban
Development Corporation.
Medical school deanship
Dr. Robert].] oynt, chairman of
the Department of Neurology and Edward
A. and Alma Vollertsen Rykenboer
Professor of Neurophysiology at
the School of Medicine and Dentistry,
has taken over as acting dean of the
school.
He succeeds Dr. Frank E . Young,
who recently was named commissioner
of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Young will be on leave from
the University as professor of microbiology.
He has been at Rochester
since 1970, when he was appointed
chairman of the Department of Microbiology.
While serving as dean, a post
he had held since 1979 , Young developed
a laboratory engaged in research
on the cloning of genes used in industrial
processes and on the development
of vaccines to eradicate a number
of infectious diseases.
Recognized for his leadership in
neurological teaching, practice, and
research, Joynt came to Rochester as
professor and chairman of neurology
in 1966.
The author or co-author of more
than 150 scientific publications, he is
known especially for his work on dementia,
metabolic disorders of the nervous
system, neuroanatomy, and medical
history. He is the principal investigator
on a million -dollar research
project on Alzheimer's disease supported
by the National Institute on
Aging.
Former president of the American
Academy of Neurology and the American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology,
] oynt is chairman of the Board of
Scientific Advisors of the Office of
Biometry of the National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative Disorders
and Stroke.
of George Dennis O'Brien
as Eighth President of the
University of Rochester
September SO-October 1, 1984
Culminating in the formal inaugural
ceremony in the Eastman
Theatre on Monday evening, the
events of the inauguration will include
also a reception and brunch
for student representatives, seminars
on "Prospects for Undergraduate
Education" and on "Graduate
and Professional Education and the
Career," and a gala inaugural concert.
Watch for an account of this
memorable occasion in the next
issue of Rochester Review.

een a member of the Board of Overseers
at Strong Memorial Hospital
since 1981 and is a member of the
Trustees' Visiting Committee to the
Medical Center.
Elected to the Trustees' Council in
1975, Collins served as its chairman in
1980-81. In addition, he was a member
of the University Medical Center
Alumni Council from 1971 to 1973.
Elevator glances
In the close confines of an elevator,
how do two strangers react to each
other?
Most likely with "civil inattention,"
a ritual (first described by Erving Goffman)
that has been studied in the environment
of elevators by Rochester psychologist
Miron Zuckerman. According
to this ritual, strangers first exchange
brief glances and then look
away, says Zuckerman, who is an associate
professor of psychology. "It's a
way of acknowledging the presence of
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others without turning them into objects
of curiosity. " This ritual is so accepted
in our culture, he adds, that
when we violate it to either extremeeither
by totally ignoring other people
or by staring at them unblinkinglywe
risk their disapproval.
In Zuckerman's study published in
the Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, about half of the subjects
followed this rite when they were observed
by research aides who shared elevator
rides with them. About a third
of them added one or two glances to
the initial look-" indicating perhaps a
renewal of acknowledgement or a certain
interest in the other person"-but
without intruding on his or her
privacy.
Two subsequent studies showed
what happened when this behavioral
norm was breached. In these studies, a
research aide either entered an elevator
that was already occupied by an unknowing
subject or else waited in the
elevator until a subject entered. The
aide then did one of three things:
glanced at the subject and looked
away, avoided all eye contact, or
stared continuously.
Reactions were measured by an experimenter
who waited at the exit floor
and handed out a short questionnaire
asking subjects to grade the pleasantness
(or unpleasantness) of the ride and
the politeness of their fellow rider.
Sure enough, riders that were stared
at didn't like it very much, and neither
did those who were ignored, confirming
the premise that behaviors that
break the rule of civil inattention are
generally not well received.
According to the student researchers,
all this riding, staring, and ignoring
wasn't all that easy. "It was a
crazy experience," Marianne Miserandino
'82 remembers. "In the beginning,
it was hard not to crack a smile.
We were worried that the salespeople
at Sibley's [where much of the research
took place] would get suspicious of our
going up and down in the elevators all
the time, so every once in a while we'd
get off and pretend we were
shopping. ".
The research also produced some
unexpected side results: "You can imagine
what it's like to be a guy in an elevator
and have a girl staring at you
the whole time. I got a couple of offers
for dinner dates out of this," Miserandino
reports.
Commencement
Some 2,200 new graduates joined
the ranks of alumni at this year's
Commencement, which marked,
among other occasions, the twentyfifth
anniversary of the founding of
the College of Engineering and Applied
Science, the Graduate School
of Education and Human Development,
and the Graduate School of
Management.
Among honors presented at ceremonies
on May 6 were honorary degrees
to Barber B. Conable, Jr.,
member of the U .S. House of Representatives
for twenty years ("His
command of federal budgetary matters,
fiscal policies, and the intricacies
of the tax laws has combined
with his intellectual grasp of
the democratic processes to produce
a superlative Congressional statesman");
Juanita M. Kreps, professor
of economics and former U. S.
Secretary of Commerce ("That
Juanita Kreps has shone light on the
consequences of an aging population
and on the economics of women
at work is a tribute to her confident
knowledge of facts and theory
and to her ability to use both in
analyzing important questions");
Frederick Seitz, president emeritus
of Rockefeller University ("It was
[Rochester's] good fortune almost
fifty years ago to attract to its faculty
a young physicist with a newly
awarded Ph.D. degree from Princeton
University. Although Frederick
Seitz remained here only two years,
this University can take pride in the
career it helped in a small way to
start and in the Physics Department
he helped in a large way to start").
Two weeks later, at Medical
School Commencement exercises,
University honorary degrees went
to Dr. Leland C. Clark, Jr.
, 44G M, professor of research
pediatrics at the Children's Hospital
Research Foundation and Medical
College of the University of Cincinnati
(honored for" pioneering
and highly creative contributions to
biomedical research and patient
care" and as the inventor of a
number of medical devices, one of
which made possible the use of the
heart-lung machine in bypass
surgery); Dr. Joan A. Steitz, pro-

fessor of molecular biophysics and
biochemistry at Yale University, a
leader in genetics research (cited for
her "record of continuously outstanding
research" that has provided
"new insights into the translation
of genetic information into proteins
and ultimately into cellular function");
and Dr. S. Marsh Tenney
'50MR, Nathan Smith Professor of
Physiology and former dean of
Dartmouth Medical School and
former Rochester faculty member
(cited for his "rigorous, quantitative
approach" and for his "acknowledged
world leadership in research
on comparative cardiorespiratory
physiology") .
OnJune 10, just a month before
his scheduled resignation as chairman
of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers, Martin S.
Feldstein received the honorary
doctor of laws degree at Graduate
School of Management Commencement
ceremonies. He was awarded
a citation that read, in part: "In the
complex and fast-changing world of
the late twentieth century, the
health of our economy depends
more and more on the soundness
and timeliness of the advice given to
the President of the United States.
The nation may consider itself fortunate
that the only source of
economic wisdom near the President,
the Chairman of his Council
of Economic Advisers, is Martin
Feldstein. "
Other Commencement honors
included the aw,ard of the sixth
Hutchison Medal for outstanding
achievement by alumni to Arthur
R. Miller' 55, professor at Harvard
Law School and host of the television
program Miller's Court.
"By all accounts," read the citation,
"Arthur Miller is one of the
nation's leading teachers and
scholars oflaw. His many books, his
service on the faculties of Columbia,
Minnesota, Michigan, and
Harvard, and his associations with
government study groups and councils
in Massachusetts and Washington
all give ample testimony to his
high place in the academic world.
"Not content within the confines
of the classroom, Arthur Miller has
found the means of making arcane
legal learning available to a large
audience through the medium of his
award-winning television program,
Miller's Court, and through a book
with the same title. If our rights and
duties as citizens are clearer to
many of us, it is Arthur Miller's
national teaching that we can
thank."
Continuing a tradition of twentythree
years, the $2,000 Edward
Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching was presented
to a faculty member. This
year's recipient was Abram Loft,
chairman of the Eastman School
string department, whose citation
read, in part: "A splendid soloist,
he has devoted himself not merely
to teaching his own instrument but
to coaching string quartets and
chamber music groups, and has
won the devotion of his students for
his erudition and teaching skill, his
cheerful willingness to work early
and late in behalf of Polyhymnia
and her devotees."
Always very much a family affair,
Commencement this year was a little
more so than usual, with the simultaneous
graduation of three
sisters: Kathleen King, who
received one of four Ph.D. 's
granted in nursing;
Theresa King-Mattioli, who received
an M.S. in mechanical engineering;
and Ursula King, who received
a bachelor's degree in healthcare
policy. A fourth sister,
Maryann King, got there a year
early, with a 1983 degree in statistics
and math. Just to keep it in the
family, when their mother, Sara,
graduated on May 18 from Cayuga
County Community College,
Kathy King was the Commencement
speaker.
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students for these scholarships, which
are based on academic achievement
and community or school leadership.
This year's seven winners, who plan to
enter the University as members of the
Class of '88, hail from Rochester, Buffalo,
Syracuse, New York City, and
Tacoma, Washington.
The Committee on Geographic
Representation is making plans to host
receptions for prospective students in
Chicago and Pittsburgh, and, closer to
home, in Jamestown and Binghamton,
New York. In addition, "mini-college
fairs," focusing exclusively on Rochester,
are scheduled for October 3 in Buffalo
and October 4 in Syracuse.
College-bound children of alumni
are again invited to attend Reunion­
Homecoming, on October 12 to 14, for
a series of special programs designed to
acquaint them with the University.
Planned primarily for high school seniors,
the activities will include plenty of
time for social events and an invitation
to stay overnight in residence halls.
Athletic recruiting kicks off on September
29 with a training workshop for
interested alumni, who will have time
out to meet new coaches and some of
the student-athletes that were recruited
by alumni last year.
The Committee on Diversity in
Non-Academic Talents continues to
welcome participation from alumni interested
in helping to recruit studentathletes.
If you're one of those interested,
you are invited to contact
Jean Conway, Office of Admissions
and Student Aid, University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York
14627, (716) 275-3221.
In the media
Readers of national publications, as
well as of scientific and professional
journals, regularly come across
references to the scholarly activitiesand
professional judgments-of people
at the University. Following is a cross
section of some of those you might
have seen within recent months:
.New York Times: The term "sherpa"
-originally referring to the rugged
Tibetan guides who lead climbers up
Mount Everest-has taken on a new
meaning in the world of modern
economics, the Times noted, profiling
former UR Chancellor W. Allen
Wallis as an example. "Today's sherpas
are the seven key government aides
who lead their nations' chief executives
in their ascent to the world's economic
summit," the Times explained. Wallis
fills this role as U. S. Under Secretary
for Economic Affairs.
.Boston Globe: Reviewer Richard
Buell called the Eastman Philharmonia
"a well-trained, professional-sounding
group, trim and efficient in its ensemble
doings, blooming in overall sound"
in comments on the Boston premiere
last spring of Joseph Schwantner's New
Morningfor the World, narrated by
Willie Stargell. (Stargell, of course, is
the Pittsburgh Pirates' former star,
and Schwantner, also of course, is the
Eastman School's Pulitzer Prizewinning
composer.)
• Nursing Economics: When a registered
nurse quits, it costs a hospital
between $2,500 and $12,000 to replace
him or her. How hospitals can minimize
turnover and thus reduce costs is
the subject of a cover story by
Margaret D. Sovie in this nationally
circulated journal. Sovie is associate
dean for nursing practice at the School
of Nursing and associate director for
nursing at Strong Memorial Hospital.
.Fortune: An article on "greenmail"-corporate
moves to buy back
stock from unwanted investors-cited
the opinion of Michael C. Jensen, La
Clare Professor of Finance and
Business Administration at the
Graduate School of Management,
about the possibilities of ending this
practice. "I'm convinced that the
SEC's proposed rule restricting these
payments will only end up harming
shareholders and strengthening the
hand of entrenched managements," he
told the magazine. Jensen also was
quoted recently in articles on proxy
wars (Business Week), top executives'
pay (New York Times), corporate
takeover myths (AP), corporate
mergers (USA Today), and buying vs.
exploring for oil (New York Times).
.Town & Country: Strong Memorial
Hospital and eleven physicians on its
staff who are also members of the
medical school faculty are listed in the
magazine's biennial" directory of the
best medical specialists in the U. S. "
Also on the list are two faculty members
who are on the staff of the affiliated
Genesee Hospital. Selection was
based on the judgment of physicians,
who rated their peers' reputation for
research and for skill in patient care.
.Business Week: Although drug
companies spend enormous sums on
research and development, it takes
many years before profits from new
drugs are realized, according to
Business Week. "Simply bringing a drug
from the clinical, or human testing,
stage, to market now takes seven
years," the magazine noted, citing an
estimate by Ronald W. Hansen, associate
director of the University's Center
for Research in Government Policy
and Business. In another article,
Business Week quoted Herbert B.
Voelcker, professor of electrical engineering
and director of the Production
Automation Project, on a breakthrough
in computer-aided design .
.N ational Geographic: Two different
areas oflaser research at Rochester
were described in an article on
laser technology. One concerned the
use of lasers to screen women for cervical
cancer; the other had to do with
laser fusion at the Laboratory for Laser
Energetics.
.Wall Street Journal: In the
"N otable and Quotable" section,
Dean Emeritus William H. Meckling
of the Graduate School of Management
offered a radical solution to the
growth of government and the resulting
decline of capitalism: "My first
preference . . . is to get rid of representatives
in the legislative process by
abolishing Congress and the state legislatures
.... There is no reason why all
statutes, including budgets, couldn't
be submitted to a ... referendum."
Meckling's second choice "would be
something along the lines of the Swiss
political system, where any law passed
by the federal parliament can be
brought to a referendum" and the
right to tax is limited to the cantons. In
the speech from which these views
were drawn, Meckling singled out legislative
bodies-Congress in particular-as
major culprits in the expansion
of government ownership and regulation
of the economic pie.
.United Press International: An
anti-viral drug in capsule form significantly
shortens the length and severity
of recurrent genital herpes, UPI reported.
The drug study, published in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association, was conducted by Dr.
Richard C. Reichman, associate professor
of medicine, and colleagues.
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Front runner: Michelle Mazurik '86, earned All-American honors in the 100-meter dash for the
second year in a row. She was one of thirty-one All-American student-athletes at Rochester last
year, the highest number ever named during a single year.
UR attack with 25 goals and 12 assists for 37
points, with midfielder Brent Sweredoski '87
(18-9-27), attacker Doug Plassche '85
(11-15-26), and attacker Mark Felix '87
(16-5-21) lending plenty of support. Goalie Mike
Sackey '85 and defender Jeff Brown '85 were
UR's best defensive players.
Year-end scoreboard
Fall sports
Football
Women's soccer
Men's soccer
Men's tennis
Women's tennis
Men's golf
Women's volleyball
Men's cross-country
Women's cross-county
Women's field hockey
Ten-sport total
Winter sports
Men's basketball
Women's basketball
Men's swimming
Women's swimming
Squash
Men's indoor track
Women's indoor track
Seven-sport total
Spring sports
Men's golf
Baseball
Women's outdoor track
Men's outdoor track
Men's tennis
Women's lacrosse
Men's lacrosse
Seven-sport total
Win
4
13
14
2
6
o
40
5
1
10
95
18
21
5
7
9
7
6
73
5
14
7
6
5
3
2
42
Loss
5
5
5
o
5
o
17
1
6
45
9
5
1
2
8
4
1
30
o
8
2
4
7
6
9
36
24-sport
composite total
(65.2 percent winning record)
210 111
Tie
o
2
2
o
o
o
o
4
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
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Fall sports schedule
Football: Sept. 15 , Union, 1 :30 p .m. ; Sept. 22,
at SUNY Buffalo, 1 p.m.; Sept. 29, Canisius, 7
p .m.; Oct. 6, at Hobart, 2 p.m.; Oct. 13,
Hofstra (Homecoming), 1 :30 p.m.; Oct. 20, at
St. Lawrence, 2 p.m. ; Oct. 27, at SUNY
Brockport, 1:30 p .m .; Nov. 3, Alfred, 1:30
p .m .; Nov. 10, Denison, 1:30 p .m .
Men's soccer: Sept. 14, Fourth UR Flower City
Invitational: Wooster vs. Hamilton, 5:30 p .m. ,
MIT vs. Rochester, 7:30 p .m.; Sept. 15, Fourth
UR Flower City Invitational: Consolation final,
5:30 p.m., Championship final, 7:30 p .m.;
Sept. 19, at Colgate, 3 p .m .; Sept. 22 , Ithaca, 2
p.m.; Sept. 26, Hobart, 7 p .m .; Sept. 29, at St.
Bonaventure, 2 p.m.; Oct. 3, at RIT, 3 p.m.;
Oct. 6, at WPI, 11 a.m. ; Oct. 7, at Clark, 3
p.m.; Oct. 9, at Westfield State, 7 p.m.; Oct.
13, Buffalo State (Homecoming), 7 p .m .; Oct.
16, Alfred, 7 p .m.; Oct. 19, at St. Lawrence, 3
p .m .; Oct. 20, at Clarkson, noon; Oct. 27, at
Union, 1:30 p.m.; Oct. 31 , Nazareth, 7 p.m.;
Nov. 3, St. John Fisher, 7 p.m.
Men 's gal]: Sept. 10, at Gannon Tri-State
Tournament, noon; Sept. 14-15, at Elmira
Tournament, 10:30 a .m .; Sept. 22 , at Cornell
Tournament, 10 a .m. ; Sept. 27 ,at Allegheny
Tournament, 11 a.m.; Sept. 28, at Brook-Lea
Collegiate Invitational, 9 a .m. ; Oct. 4, at
ECAC Northern Qualifying Tournament, 8
a.m.; Oct. 13-14, at ECAC Championships, 8
a .m.
Men 's cross-country: Sept. 15, at Hamilton,
TBA; Sept. 21 , at Colgate with Canisius, 4
p.m.; Sept. 29, at SUNY Cortland Invitational,
11 a.m.; Oct. 6, at LeMoyne Invitational, 11
a.m.; Oct. 10, at Hobart, 4 p .m .; Oct. 12, at
Cornell with Canisius, 4 p .m.; Oct. 27 , at
SUNY Albany Invitational, n'oon; Nov. 3, at
NYSCT&FA Championships at Siena, 11 a.m.;
Nov. 10, at NCAA Div. III Regional Qualifer at
Hamilton, 11 a.m.; Nov. 17 , at NCAA Div. III
Championships at Ohio Wesleyan, 11 a.m.
Men 's tennis: Sept. 7, Edinboro State, 3 p.m.;
Sept. 15, SUNY Buffalo, 2 p.m. ; Sept. 17, at St.
Bonaventure, 3 p.m.; Sept. 21-22, at SUNY
Albany Great Dane Invitational, 9 a.m.; Sept.
28-29 at ECAC Div. II-III Tournament at
SUNY Albany, 9 a.m.; Oct. 12-13, at St.John
Fisher Cardinal Invitational, all day; Oct. 20,
RAC Mixed Doubles Tournament, 9 a .m
Women's cross-country: Sept. 15 , at Hamilton, 1
p.m.; Sept. 29, at SUNY Cortland Invitational,
TBA; Oct. 6, at LeMoyne Invitational, TBA;
Oct. 12, at Cornell, 4:45 p.m.; Oct. 20, at
Canisius Invitational, TBA; Oct. 27, at
NYSAIAW Div. III Championships, TBA;
Nov. 10, at NCAA Div. III Regional Qualifier
at Hamilton, noon; Nov. 17, at NCAA Div. III
Championships at Ohio Wesleyan, noon.
Women 's soccer: Sept. 15, at SUNY Albany, 3
p.m.; Sept. 18, SUNY Geneseo, 7 p.m.; Sept.
22, Second UR Invitational: Westfield State vs .
Nazareth, 5 p .m., Villanova vs . Rochester, 7
p .m .; Sept. 23 , Second UR Invitational: Consolation
final, 1 p.m., Championship final , 3
p.m.; Sept. 26, at LeMoyne, 4 p.m.; Oct. 2, St.
Bonaventure, 4 p.m.; Oct. 5, at Hartwick, 4
p .m.; Oct. 7 at Boston University, noon; Oct. 9,
at Westfield State, 5 p .m.; Oct. 14, Princeton
(Homecoming), 2 p .m .; Oct. 17, Cornell, 7
p.m.; Oct. 19, at St. Lawrence, 3:30 p .m .; Oct.
22, at St.John Fisher, TBA; Oct. 25, at Ithaca,
3:30 p .m .; Nov. 2-4, at NYSAIAW Tournament,
TBA.
Women 's volleyball: Sept. 17, at St. Bonaventure,
7 p .m.; Sept. 20, Houghton & St. John
Fisher, 6 p.m.; Sept. 22, at Nazareth Invitational,
all day; Sept. 26, at SUNY Fredonia with
SUNY Brockport, 6 p.m. ; Sept. 28-29, UR Invitational,
all day; Oct. 1, at Ithaca with Alfred,
6 p.m.; Oct. 3, at RIT with Buffalo State, 6
p.m.; Oct. 6, at Alfred Invitational, all day;
Oct. 9, SUNY Binghamton & SUNY Oswego, 6
p .m.; Oct. 16, Cornell & SUNY Brockport, 6
p.m.; Oct. 20, at SUNY Fredonia Invitational,
all day; Oct. 26-27, at St. Lawrence Invitational,
all day; Nov. 8-10, at NYSAIAW Div.
III Tournament, TBA.
Women 's tennis: Sept. 12, at Ithaca, 3:30 p.m.;
Sept. 15, at SUNY Buffalo, 1 p.m.; Sept. 20, at
RIT, 3:30 p.m. ; Sept. 24, Wells, 4 p.m.; Sept.
27, SUNY Fredonia, 4 p .m.; Oct. 2, at William
Smith, 4 p .m .; Oct. 6, St. Lawrence, 2 p .m. ;
Oct. 7, at St. Bonaventure, 2 p.m.; O ct. 9, at
LeMoyne, 3:30p.m.; Oct. 17 , Mercyhurst, 4
p.m.; Oct. 20, RAC Mixed Doubles Tournament,
9 a .m .; Oct. 25-27, at NYSAIAW Div.
III Tournament, all day.
Women 'sfieldhockey: Sept. 14, Hamilton, 3
p.m. ; Sept. 17, at Houghton, 4 p .m .; Sept. 22 ,
Wells, 11 a.m.; Sept. 25, at SUNY Buffalo, 4
p.m.; Sept. 28, Union, 4 p.m.; Oct. 2, at
William Smith, 4 p.m.; Oct. 5, at Hartwick, 4
p .m .; Oct. 6, at SUNY Oneonta, 11 a .m. ; Oct.
9, at SUNY Brockport, 4 p.m.; Oct. 12 , St.
Lawrence (Homecoming), 4 p .m .; Oct. 13 ,
SUNY Potsdam (Homecoming), 10 a .m.; Oct.
16, at SUNY Oswego, 4 p.m.; Oct. 18 , Cornell,
7 p.m.; Oct. 23, at SUNY Cortland, 3:30 p .m .;
Oct. 26-27 , NYSAIAW Div. III Tournament
(Parents Weekend), all day.
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Alumnotes
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- River Campus colleges
-Graduate degree, River
Campus colleges
-M.D. degree
-Graduate degree, Medicine and
Dentistry
- Medical residency
-Fellowship, Medicine and
Dentistry
-Eastman School of Music
-Graduate degree, Eastman
-School of Nursing
-Graduate degree, Nursing
-University College
-Graduate degree, University
College
River Campus
1925
"Lee Ashenberg, who taught at Oakdale
(Calif.) High School until 1968, has refused to
let retirement slow her enthusiasm to help
others, " says the Modesto Bee. The paper notes
that Ashenberg has instituted mini-courses for
the American Association of Retired Persons
and founded "Lee' s California Poppies," her
own travel group for older persons.
1928
Rochester resident Wesley F. Ashman, who recently
attended the graduation of his granddaughter,
Ellen Bullock '84RC, has had a
special relationship with Ellen through her college
years, writes Anne Bullock. Living in Rochester
has allowed Ashman to audit courses and
attend Ellen's swim meets. "Perhaps this relationship
between grandfather and granddaughter
can demonstrate to others the absence of the
generation gap, as well as the value of passing on
educational goals from one generation to another,"
Anne wri tes.
1929
Mary C. Bahler writes that she is making no
news, nor is she moving, but that she enjoys the
R eview. "The development and changes which
have occurred since June 20, 1929, are wonderful
to consider, and fascinating to learn about."
1934
50th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, &14
1936
Helen Hawelka Ashe' 37N produced a brochure
to help people in Brevard County, Fla.,
select a nursing home. In her "spare time" she
narrates science master tapes for the Library of
Congress and the Florida Division of the Blind.
Husband Art '35RC, not only has the best garden
in Florida, writes Helen, but also acts as
financial adviser to the Ashe's village-the only
one with no tax increase.
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1939
45th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
1940
The 550-member Rotary Club of Philadelphia
elected Alan H. Martin president. Martin is
company office personnel manager for Acme
Markets . . .. Donald L. Smith '48G, vice
president and general manager of the central
division of Westinghouse Electric Supply Company
(WESCO), retired after 37 years of service.
1941
David W. Stewart, chairman and chief executive
officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
was named recipient of the 1984 George
Washington Goler Award, given annually by
the Genesee Region of the New York State
Public Health Association in recognition of
distinguished contributions to health care in the
Rochester area.
1942
An article appeared in Public Utilities Fortnightly
under the byline of George R. Darcy, president
of Darcy Associated Counselors, a management
consulting firm specializing in public affairs,
strategic planning, and issues management. The
title of the article: "In Well-managed Companies
Public Affairs Is Participative."
1943
Richard E. Fang retired from Westinghouse
Electric Corp. after 37 Y2 years as a special sales
representative in eastern Pennsylvania and the
Delaware peninsula.
1944
40th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
Gardner Stacy, a Washington State University
professor, is chairman of the American Chemical
Society subcommittee on energy.
1945
John M. Baird, former owner and principal engineer
of Baird Engineering, was named director
of mechanical engineering for the Hope Consulting
Group .. . . Edith Kates is professor of
social work at Concordia College. She made the
news recently when she reviewed Erma Bombeck's
latest bestseller at a college book series.
... Chemical Engineering Education proflled Hank
Van Ness '46G, recently appointed Institute
Professor of Chemical Engineering at RPI. . ..
Ben Ward is research director at Westvaco Corporation'
s Charleston research center.
1947
Joshua Gur G , minister counselor at the Embassy
ofIsrael in Washington, D .C ., spoke to
members of the South Florida Council of Pioneer
Women/Na'amat . . .. Andrew H. Neilly,
Jr., president and chief operating officer of John
Wiley & Sons, was elected to the American Antiquarian
Society.
1948
USAir chairman Edwin I. Colodny and his airline
continue to collect accolades, like this one
from The Wall StreetJournal: "USAir is the most
profitable airline in the industry, with 1983
earnings of$80.6 million and a return on revenue
of 5.6 percent. " The WSJ also noted that it
was Colodny who determined that mustard, and
not barbecue sauce, should be served with the
airline's roast beef sandwiches. . . . Alvin C.
Foster, who recently marked his 30th anniversary
as minister at the First Baptist Church and
the Fairport (N.Y.) Baptist Home, was elect
chief executive officer of the Fairport Baptist
Home Corp . ... E. Richard Smith '48G joined
the Syracuse accounting firm of Green & Seifter,
CPAs . . . . Elliot Wineburg was selected for the
third year to serve as president of the New York
Clinical Hypnosis Society. He is assistant professor
of clinical psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai
School of Medicine, and has taught hypnotherapy
courses at Mt. Sinai for the past 20
years.
1949
35th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
1951
Seymour Fogel was elected to the new post of
senior vice president and chief administrative officer
at The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing
Company, a Rochester-based publisher oflawbooks
and related legal reference information.
1952
Virginia R. Brubaker was guest missionarymusician
at a church in Lancaster, Pa. She
returned recently from a term as missionary
with OMS International, serving in Seoul,
Korea . ... Virginia L. Radley, president of
Oswego State College, spoke in Lockport, N. Y. ,
at the International Women's Decade Luncheon.
1953
Alan Adler, professor of chemistry at Western
Connecticut State University, is a member of
the group investigating the Shroud of Turin . ...
Edgar W . Pattison was promoted to executive
vice president of the American United Life Insurance
Company.
1954
30th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
Eugene F. Lilly was named treasurer and head
of the Finance Division of The Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing Company ... . M. Donald
O'Neill, proprietor of the Spring House
Restaurant in Pittsford, N. Y., is chairman of
the board of the New York State Restaurant
Association.
1955
The Rochester Life Underwriters Association
presented its Rachel May Swain Memorial
Award to Daniel W. Hemming. The award
honors "unquestionable ethical standards, professional
proficiency and continued involvement
in the insurance community and the Rochester
community. "
1956
Albert Barr is a vice president at First Interstate
Bank of California . . . . In a keynote speech to
representatives of two continuing-education
organizations, Robert Kirkwood G , executive
director of the Commission on Higher Education
for the Middle States Association of Schools
and Colleges, urged the groups to strive for excellence
in continuing-education programs.
" Continuing education is finally coming into its
own," he said . . .. David B. Skinner, chairman
of the department of surgery at the University
of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, spent time
as a visiting professor of surgery at West Virginia
University.

1957
Paul Kingston G, a consulting industry
specialist with IBM, spoke before the Management
and Operations Research Society of Central
New York . ... Married: Marian Doskosh
Merker and Neil Evans '58RC on Dec. 3,
1983, in Birmingham, Mich.
1958
Lawrence Chesler '81G, a Rochester attorney,
was elected to the executive committee of the
corporate counsel section of the New York State
Bar Association .. .. A.]. James was named
vice president of operations for Del Monte Corporation's
dry grocery and beverage products
division in a move that relocated two regional offices
to San Francisco . . .. Thirty-three-year
Eastman Kodak veteran WoodliefThomas,]r.
G announced plans to retire from his post as
assistant director, Photographic Technology
Division, Manufacturing-Materials .... Barry
I. Warshaw, president of District 10, Los
Angeles County Medical Association, is also
president of the Division of Medical Quality
Assurance, BMQA, State of California.
Potter fund
In honor of Harmon S. Potter
'38, who is-more or less-retiring
from the University this year (we'll
get to that in a minute), the Class of
1934 is planning to make its fiftieth
reunion gift in the form of a contribution
to the newly established
Harmon Potter Scholarship Fund.
The first of the Potter Scholarships
will be awarded in the fall of
'85 to entering students who have
shown potential for following in
Harm Potter's footsteps, that is, in
being leaders in their service to
school and community. The scholarship
fund has been initiated by the
Fred L. Emerson Foundation of
Auburn, New York, which has
made a grant of$300,000 with the
provision that the University raise
two-for-one matching contributions
totalling $600,000. The Class of' 34
gift will be part of the match.
About Harm's retirement: Although
he is retiring as University
secretary (a post he has held along
with a succession of others over his
long career at the University), Potter
will be staying on for a while at
the request of President O'Brien to
handle, among other projects, the
arrangements for the upcoming inauguration.
1959
25th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
Raymond Aronson, a limited partner in Bear
Stearns & Company, is associate director of the
legal department. . .. Nancy Bidwell Barcus is
assistant public relations director at Baylor
University, where her husband chairs the
English department. Nancy' s most recent book,
The Family Takes a Child, chronicles her family's
adoption of an older child . ... Robert].
Gustafson, director of gas research and projects
for Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation,
was named a fellow of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers . . . . Michael W. Lodato G
is the author of Selling Computers and Software: The
MASTER Method, a book designed to help salespeople
increase their effectiveness. The publisher,
MWL Inc., distributes the book directly
from offices at 32038 Watergate Court, Westlake
Village, Calif. 91361. . .. Barbara Nechis,
a faculty member at New York's Parsons School
of Design, has given watercolor demonstrations
in Massachusetts and Florida .... Paul Dean
Webb was named director of the Office of
Foreign Sturlent Affairs at Eastern Michigan
University .. . . Born: to Linda and Raymond
Aronson, a daughter, Sara Elizabeth, on Dec.
22,1983.
1960
Nancy Bult Rogers is president ofNBR Publicity
in Lancaster, Pa. The firm specializes in
media contact work, brochure and newsletter
production, and speechwriting.
1961
Pianist Phyllis Alpert Lehrer presented a concert
at Southeastern Massachusetts University.
. . . Robert A. McCaughey, professor and
chairman of the history department at Barnard
College, addressed the Barnard College Club of
Fairfield County, Conn .... Seneca County
(N.Y.) District Attorney Stuart O. Miller
received the Republican party endorsement to
run for county court judge in November. He has
been D.A. since 1977 .
1962
Glenn O. Brown G is marketing communications
director, instant products, at Eastman
Kodak Company ... . ] ames O. Monroe was
appointed general superintendent of engineering
in NFG Supply Corporation's office in Erie, Pa.
... Gary B. Ostrower, professor of history at
Alfred University, is the author of an article on
the League of Nations appearing in the book The
League of Nations in Retrospect, published by
Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. The article grew out
of a paper Ostrower delivered at a 1980 symposium
in Geneva, Switzerland, convened to
commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
League of Nations . . .. Pennwalt Pharmaceu tical
Division named Carl]. Richane manager,
R&D Compliance in the Regulatory Affairs Department.
. .. Werner von Pein was named executive
vice president of the Planter's division of
Nabisco Brands Inc.
1963
Ira Gedan G, nationally known motivational
speaker and distributor of personal motivation
programs, was named national sales leader for
1983 by the Success Motivation Institute.
Gedan, who received the same distinction in
both 1980 and 1981, has been a distributor for
SMI in Miami since 1974 .. . . Bob Yanover
writes that he is still with Eastman Kodak Company
as Business Imaging Systems district sales
manager, responsible for central, south, and
west Texas-"and enjoying each and every
day. " (For more news, see below.) .. . Robert
A. Young, a senior investment officer at Provident
National Bank of Philadelphia, was part of
a roundtable interview published in a leading
Wall Street weekly .... Born: to Darlene and
Bob Yanover, a son, MichaelJoseph-Alan
Yanover, on March 11.
1964
20th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
Budd R. Catlin was elected vice president of
wire drawing machinery at Morgan Construction
Company . ... Susannah Alden French is
seeking election to the Maine House of Representatives
. . . . Lois B. Hart, cited in Who's Who
in the American West and Who's Who in American
Women, has completed her second self-published
book, Saying Goodbye: Ending Your Group Experience.
Hart heads her own firm, Leadership Dynamics,
in Lyons, Colo .... Judith G. Lucas,
vice president of the Casco Northern Bank of
Portland, served as a volunteer adviser for the
American Bankers Association. In Tampa, she
advised would-be farmers on their creditworthiness
.. .. Marlene G. Nicholson '69G
discussed "the woman in business" at a College­
Business Symposium in North Carolina ... .
Judith Lehman Ruderman '66G is director of
continuing education at Duke University. Her
book, D. H. Lawrence and the Devouring Mother, is
being published by Duke Press. Ruderman
writes that a Myelodysplasia Endowment Fund
has been established by the Duke University
Department of Surgery in memory of Robert] .
Ruderman '63RC, '68M .... Newton (Mass.)
North High School students heard Rochelle
Ruthchild G , '76G, a teacher at Norwich (Vt.)
University, talk about the status of women in the
Soviet Union. Though 69 percent of all doctors
in the country are women, she notes, no women
hold positions of power in the country's ruling
board, the Politburo.
1965
The University's Pi Kappa chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi national education honor fraternity invited
Dennis Murphy G, professor and chairman
of the division of education at Keuka College,
to participate in its spring program ... .
"People in rural areas often bemoan the passing
of the traditional general practitioner, the family
doctor who didn't specialize, but treated everyone
in need," noted the Waterville, Maine, Sentinel.
"In Bingham, there shouldn't be any
moaning," the paper said in reporting that Cynthia
R. Robertson has joined the Bingham Area
Health Center. .. . Rev. Willa Baechlin
Roghair will serve as co-pastor (with her husband,
James) of the Memorial West United
Presbyterian Church, Newark, N.J ... . Cdr.
Jim Zayicek is working in the office of the Chief
of Naval Operations in the weapons systems acquisition
branch.
1966
MarkJ. Atkins joined the medical staff of
Newton (N.J.) Memorial Hospital as a pulmonary
consultant. . .. Dorothy]. Lebachjoined
Seagram Distillers Company as national product
manager for new products .. .. Walton Corporation
president Roger D. Ochse G was
elected to the Cumberland College Board of
Trustees at its meeting in Lebanon, Tenn.
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1967
Beaufort Technical College, S. C., named
Gerald R. Binns G dean of continuing education
.... Meanwhile, at the University of
Arizona College of Arts and Sciences, Myles
Brand G was named dean of the faculty of social
and behavioral sciences ... . And Jerry Green
'70G was appointed chairman of the economics
department at Harvard University . . .. Donald
O. Hewitt was named vice president and
general manager of the R . T. French Food Division
in Rochester .... In other higher education
news, Calvin S. Kalman G is a full professor of
physics at Concordia University, Montreal. He
has been chairman of the physics department
since June, 1983 .... Harvey J. Palmer,
associate professor of chemical engineering at
the U ni versi ty, is also associate dean for
graduate studies at the College of Engineering
and Applied Science .. . . Donald Plank, professor
at Stockton State College, Pomona, N.J.,
is chairman of the Department of Mathematics
there . . . . David M. Sadowsky was elected corporate
vice president and manager of secondary
marketing at First Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Rochester .. .. Pianist Robin
Stone, concertmistress for the Pioneer Valley
Symphony, performed with violinist George
Soulos .. .. Cmdr. Richard Uris, who received
an L.L.M. in criminal law from the University
of Michigan, now serves as a general courtsmartial
military judge in San Diego . . .. Born:
to Lowell C. ' 68G and Mary Jean Thorndon
Patric '68RC, '72G, a daughter, Kathleen
Joyce, on June 23 , 1983.
1968
The American College of Physicians elected
Lester J. Lifton a fellow of the 60,000-member
medical specialty society. Lifton, of Camp Hill,
Pa., is a specialist in gastroenterology ....
James McDevitt G is a senior vicy president,
group financial services, New England Mutual
Life Insurance . . . . WilliamJ. Rapaport has
been appointed visiting professor of computer
science at SUNY Buffalo. He is also the editor of
the American Philosophical Association's
Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy.
... Jeffrey P. Roberts was appointed director
of development at the Morris Arboretum,
University of Pennsylvania . ... Dataproducts
Corporation, Woodland Hills, Calif., named
David L. Rosenbloom manager, public relations
... . Xerox Corporation named Deborah
K. Smith vice president of personnel for its
business systems group, which markets copiers
and duplicators, personal computers, electronic
typewriters, and other office products.
1969
15th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
To All Gentleness, a biography of William Carlos
Williams by Neil Baldwin, was published by
Atheneum this spring. Baldwin currently is at
work on a biography of artist and photographer
Man Ray. Baldwin and his wife, Roberta Plutzik,
also a writer, live in Brooklyn Heights,
N.Y., with their two children .. .. Sandra
Cullen Brunson is attending pediatric cardiologist
and director of electrophysiology at
Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island
Jewish Medical Center. Husband Lloyd is
department manager, software engineering, at
Gould Incorporated, Melville, N.Y .... David
Mallach, director of international concerns for
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the Jewish Community Relations Council of
Philadelphia, discussed" A Congressional Trip
to Israel" at a meeting of the Sisterhood of Germantown
. . . . The American College of Physicians
named Thomas Nostrant of Ann Arbor,
Mich., a fellow in the 60,000-member medical
specialty society . . . . Rick Pugach, director of
planning and development for the Philadelphia
Health Plan, has as his boss Howard Veit
'65RC, who serves as executive director of the
plan. Pugach also consults in health planning
and rate setting for Hancock-Dikewood (the
health-care arm of John Hancock), the University
of Pennsylvania Dental School, and Temple
University. His wife, Leslie Kardon Pugach,
teaches at the Akiba Hebrew Academy while
working toward her Ed.D . at Temple. She has
taught at Temple and Swarthmore, and has consulted
for a project on sex-fair curricula .. . .
"Communication regarding sexual attitudes is
at the root of everything," H.Jayne Vogan G
told an audience at Westmoreland County (Pa.)
Community College. "The only thing is we
don't talk about it. We don't even have the
vocabulary. We still call sex' it.' " Vogan is an
associate professor of counselor education at
SUNY Brockport .... Russell Ward, who has
seen printed the second edition of his book, The
Aging Experience, is associate professor of
sociology at SUNY Albany and is a fellow of the
Gerontological Society of America . .. . Born: to
Lloyd and Sandra Cullen Brunson, a son,
Christopher William, on Nov. 13, 1983.
1970
Gary A. Goodman was elected a partner in the
real estate department of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby
& MacRae .... Subject ofa profile in the Keene
(N.H .) Sentinel, Carl T. Helmers,Jr. "is in the
forefront of high-tech America." He owns North
American Technology of Peterborough, a
22-employee company that publishes three
magazines . ... The Ithaca Board of Trustees
awarded tenure and the rank of associate professor
of English to Kevin Murphy G, '75G.
. .. Robert H. Neems, who received his Ph.D.
in clinical psychology from St. Louis University,
has established a practice in clinical psychology
in West Hartford, Conn . . .. James G. Warner
is vice president of Cortex Corporation ....
Born: to Gary and Susan Schachter Goodman
'73RC, a son, William Seth, on Feb. 2 .... to
Donna and James Leven, a son, Benjamin
Nathan, on Feb. 29 .
1971
Abbott Laboratories named Irene M. Capp
business manager for anesthesia and small
volume parenteral drug delivery systems in the
hospital products division . ... BarbaraJ. Coffey,
associate director of ambulatory services in
child psychology at the New England Medical
Center, received a Faculty Development Award
from the National Institute of Mental Health.
She will expand teaching programs and develop
research in pediatric psychopharmacology at the
medical center. . .. Maurice Cucci is a senior
petroleum geophysicist with Esso Exploration
and Production Norway .. . . Hooker Industrial
& Specialty Chemicals of Occidental Chemical
has promoted Frank D' Antuono G to director-finance
and planning .... Joan Lucks
Feinstein is a partner in the New York law firm
of Baskin and Sears . ... James Gadsden is a
member of the Wall Street firm of Carter,
Ledyard & Milburn . . .. Father John S. Hayes
G was named chaplain to the Dominican Nuns
of the Monastery of Mary the Queen .... Begin
with the premise that alcoholism is a physicalnot
psychological-disease, and you'll see why
Under the Influence and Eating Right to Live Sober
are considered noteworthy references in the
treatment of the disease. One book describes
alcoholism and helps the layman to understand
and overcome the dependence. The other suggests
a nutrition program to help recovering
alcoholics stick with it. Both books were cowritten
by Katherine Ketcham . . . . John R.
Musicaro,Jr. is a partner in the law firm of
Cummings and Lockwood . ... Melissa P. Upton
is a research fellow in pathology at the Harvard
University Children's Hospital Medical
Center . . .. Born: to William S. and Renee
Bergmann Andrews, a son, DavidJames, on
January 9 .... to Michael Brandt and Dorothy
B. Tyler, a daughter, Alexandra Tyler Brandt,
onJan. 20 .... to Christopher J. Cryders and
Melissa P. Upton, a son, Andrew Upton
Cryders, on Feb. 2.
1972
Rev. Alexander Golubov G, '78G was appointed
pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Russian
Orthodox Church in Scranton, Pa . .. . James
R. Hashim, a Massachusetts dentist and oral
surgeon specializing in periodontics, became a
diplomate of the American Board of Period ontology.
He is the only such specialist in Western
Massachusetts to become a diplomate . .. . Jeffrey
M. Krupnikoff is a partner in the
Meriden, Conn., law firm of Solomon & Stanton
. . . . Carl B. Schwait is a member of the City
Commission of South Miami, Fla ... .
Stephen Wall G is on the faculty at Cal Tech
and is a member of the space imaging team at
JPL. .. . Born: to Herb Laube and Lydia Roth­
Laube, a son, Justin Graham, on Mar. 1 . . .. to
Cathy and Bob Quirk, a son, Adam Douglas,
on Mar. 28.
1973
"Rochester, N . Y., may be the center of the
snow belt, but it will always be a warm place to
Charlene Berger [G, '75G]," reads a story in
the Bethel, Conn., Home News. Charlene and
husband, Mitchell, are new arrivals in Bethel,
where Mitchell works for the Sealed Air Corporation
.... Paul R. Brown G is a vice president
at Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM), Boston
environmental consultants . . .. Karen
Zemanek Byers and her husband, John, live in
Missoula, Mont., where they research the
development of behavior in pronghorn antelope
at the National Bison Range .... The United
Jersey Bank elected Christina M. Clausen
assistant vice president, Asset Based Lending
Group, New Jersey Banking Division . . . . Ellen
Gillespie Galo works in the business office at St.
Lawrence University. Her anthem, " Lessons
from Philippians 4," was performed by the
Trinity Episcopal Church Choir, Potsdam,
N.Y . . . . Craftsperson Joan Goodman Ganz
spoke at a sisterhood luncheon in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y . .. . In a rare mid-year commencement,
Pamela Mary Piateski Hufnagel received a
Ph.D. degree in cognition from the University of
Delaware ... . Leonard S.Joy '74G is manager
of business unit planning at United States Gypsum
Company, Chicago .. .. Jeff Kimble G,
'78G, a faculty member in the Department of
Physics at the University of Texas at Austin,

Newsmakers
.Projectionist: On primary evenings, he's
one of the guys charged by ABC News with
telling us-if possible before anyone elsejust
what it was that we did.
He'sJohn Blydenburgh '59G, chairman
of the Clark University government department
and consultant to ABC. He was hired
during the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1980
that Blydenburgh started to do polling, including
the controversial exit polls, as a way
of predicting the behavior of voters.
Though he believes in the educational
value of early network projections, he favors
ABC's policy of not releasing exit poll projections
before the voting booths close.
"To me [consulting with the network] is
an opportunity. I've had lots of opportunities
in my life," Blydenburgh says. "This
one is an opportunity to be an educator in
another dimension."
.March master: A recent inductee into the
Winber (Pennsylvania) Area Hall of Fame
had women, and men, marching to his tune
years before achieving such civic celebrity.
Louis Saverino '38E, who retired about five
years ago after being with the U .S. Marine
Band since 1939, composed twenty-six
marches and nine concerti during his hitch.
His best-known work is the "March of the
Women Marines," written in 1943 for a
special occasion and later adopted as the official
march of the group.
Always a prolific composer, Saverino took
just a day to write that march: He thought
up· the theme on his trip home from work,
spent the rest of the day arranging it , and
saw it rehearsed and performed the next day.
Along the way he completed another march
and sketched three more. He later received a
Marine letter of commendation for his efforts
, and the march was officially adopted
by the Women Marines.
Saverino, who played principal tuba,
principal string bass, and contrabass clarinet
in the Marine Band, is rumored still to be
playing with ajazz combo in a private club
on Capitol Hill. He was the first tuba soloist
to graduate with a performer's degree from
Eastman .
• Honors: The smallpox virus, once the
cause of the most feared disease known to
humankind, is now confined to glass vials in
seven laboratories under conditions of high
security. One of the key figures in that victory,
DonaldA. Henderson '54M, was
recently honored by the Gairdner Foundation
for his work as chief medical officer of
the Smallpox Eradication Program of the
World Health Organization. Henderson,
now dean of the Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health, received the
foundation's International Award of Merit.
The Gairdner prize, which carries a stipend
of$25,000, has been awarded only
eleven times since it was established twentyfour
years ago. Henderson is the first recipient
from the field of public health.
In 1978 Henderson was named co-winner
of the University'sJoseph C . Wilson Award
for Achievement and Promise in International
Affairs. His account of the WHO
smallpox eradication project appeared in the
Spring 1980 issue of Rochester Review.
Arnold B. Grobman '41G, '44G, former
Rochester faculty member who is now
chancellor of the University of Missouri -St.
Louis, has been named recipient of the 1984
Distinguished Service Award of the American
Institute of Biological Sciences, a federation
representing more than 60,000 biologists
nationwide.
A herpetologist and professor of biology at
the University ofMissouri-St. Louis, Grobman
has published more than 120 articles
and has written a number of books on biological
topics. For a number of years he was
director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum,
which produced the biology textbooks
for secondary schools used today in
most American high schools and in about
forty other nations.
Todd A. Watkins '84 received one of just
twenty-nine Tau Beta Pi graduate fellowships
awarded nationwide. It was the fourth
year in a row that a student of the College of
Engineering and Applied Science has won
the award.
Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society
with chapters at 189 colleges, awards
fellowships to students who demonstrate
scholarship, campus leadership and service,
and the promise offuture contributions to
the engineering profession. Watkins plans to
study public policy at Harvard.
Meanwhile, another '84 graduate, composer
James Legg, who received a bachelor's
degree from the Eastman School, will be in
Italy, concentrating on the composition of a
projected full-length chamber opera based
on Henry James' s The A spem Papers , a novel
set in Venice. He has received a Fulbright­
Hayes Grant to study with European opera
composer Hans Werner Henze. Before he
begins his work in Italy next spring under
the grant, Legg will hold an internship with
Thea Musgrave and the Virginia Opera Association,
awarded by the Institute for Music
Theater at the Kennedy Center.
.No Nessie: The tabloids of the British Empire
certainly have a way with a headline.
"Nessie KO'd," read the
one-inch letters
above an Australasian Post article on Rikki
Razdan '80 and Alan Kielar ' 80, a cou pIe of
electrical engineers who say, based on
evidence they have collected, that "there is
no monster living in Loch Ness."
The pair base their findings on the results
of a search of the loch conducted fromJ uly 1
to September 15 last year. The search, carried
out with the help of a twenty-five-metersquare
floating sonar grid, was designed to
track, with a television camera, objects
larger than six feet. The system also would
have fired a "biopsy dart" at any moving object
it detected in order to obtain a tissue
sample.
But the sonar search was to no avail. "If
anything had swum underneath our screen
on the lake, we'd have known immediately,"
Razdan told the Post . "We could have taken
whatever action we needed to find out what
it was.
" We think our technology was the best
ever devised for a problem as unique as finding
and tracking the Loch Ness Monster. "
Razdan and Kielar are the founders and
chief executives of ISCAN Inc., a research
and development company specializing in
the real-time analysis of television pictures.
.Fanfare: Among those who helped to get
the Olympic Games at Los Angeles off to a
good start was John Krance '55E, whose
Regalia Fanfare was performed by the U . S.
Army Herald Trumpets at the opening ceremony,
which was televised live worldwide.
Writing Olympian music may be becoming
an Eastman tradition. Four years ago, for
the winter games at Lake Placid, ABC
Sports commissioned Chuck Mangione
'63E to write the theme music for its television
coverage.
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eceived a five-year grant from the National
Science Foundation. He was one of20 physicists
among the 200 awardees selected . ... Michael
Levitin resigned as a trial attorney with the
Cook County (Ill.) State's Attorney's Office to
found the Chicago law firm of Levitin, Sufie and
Weiss .. . . Joseph T. Mark G was named
academic dean of Castleton State College, Burlington,
Vt. He succeeds Rose Marie Beston,
who became president of Nazareth College in
Rochester on July 1 . . . . Jonathan D. Mayer,
associate professor of geography and adjunct
associate professor of family medicine at the
University of Washington, Seattle, was chosen
to participate in the W . K . Kellogg
Foundation's National Fellowship Program.
Created to help the nation expand its bank of
capable leaders, the program helps individuals
increase their skills and insights into areas outside
their chosen disciplines . . . . Kristine A.
Mayer is controller at Charles River Data
Systems, Framingham, Mass . .. . The Town of
Shutesbury, Mass., appointed David S. Ross
town counsel. ... Suzanne Roni Sawada is a
partner in the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin
& Waite .. .. Northeast Utilities, Hartford,
Conn., named Robert C. Thomas senior
engineer. .. . Married: Anthony Chifari and
Elizabeth Elias, on April 28, in Coconut Grove,
Fla . ... Born: toJohn and Karen Zemanek
Byers, a daughter, Anna Alexandra, on Aug.
12 , 1983 ... . to Barbara and Raymond
Garber, a son,Jonathan Barry, on April 22.
1974
10th Class Reunion, Oct. 12, 13, & 14
David G. Anderson' 75G resigned as partner in
a Buffalo law firm to become secretary and
general counsel of Acme Electric Corporation, a
public company listed on the NYSE. The company
manufactures power conversion equipment
for the electrical and electronics industries.
Anderson is married to Sharon L. Hauselt, an
attorney in private practice with her father in
Wellesville, N.Y . . .. Shelley Brauer received
an M.S.W . in 1977 from the University of
California at Berkeley and now has established a
psychotherapy practice in Oakland, Calif ... .
Liberty National Bank named David B.
Callard G assistant vice president and officer-incharge
at Liberty's Getzville, N.Y. , office ... .
Peter Giles G is manager, business and professional
products, at the U .S. Apparatus Division
of Eastman Kodak Company . . .. Bill Johnson
is a pilot for Alaska Airlines .. . . Stephen L.
Newman, assistant professor of politics and
government at Ripon College, is the author of
Liberalism at Wits' End: The Libertarian Revolt
Against the Modern State, forthcoming from Cornell
University Press . ... Jeffrey S. Wisch, a
hematologist-oncologist, was appointed to the
medical staff at Newton-Wellesley Hospital,
Newton, Mass . . . . Married: Ellen Shapiro and
David Buzawa onJune 26, 1983, in Saratoga,
Calif. . . . Born: to David '74RC, '75G and
Sharon Hauselt Anderson, a son, Kevin, on
June 8, 1983 . . . . to Bruce and Gretchen
Andersen Goulding, a son, Erik Fadum, on
Jan. 28 ... . to Bill Johnson and his wife, a
daughter, Lauren Marie, on Feb. 2.
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1975
Mark Charles Bartusis was awarded the
Fulbright Scholarship and Harvard-Dumbarton
Oaks Grant to complete his thesis. He now has
received his Ph.D. in history from Rutgers
University .... RandallJ. Essex was promoted
to senior project engineer with Woodward­
Clyde Consultants, and is providing underground
design expertise for a deep nuclear waste
repository in Irvine, Calif. .. . After five years
in California, Eric D. Horodas moved back to
New York City, where he joined Arbor House
Properties-a real estate investment and syndication
company-as a principal and senior
vice president. . . . Steven M. Levy took one
master's degree in electrical engineering and
another in biophysics of physiology, both at
Stony Brook. He designs software for Vermont
Microsystems. Susan Saferstein-Levy received
an M.D. degree from SUNY Stony Brook and
completed her residency in family practice at the
University of Vermont. She recently opened a
private practice in Georgia, Vt .... Rev.
Timothy J. Riss, recently-appointed pastor of
Franklin United Methodist Church, was ordained
an elder during the annual New York
Conference of the United Methodist Church.
. . . Pay attention-he may have your life in his
hands the next time you fly to the Flower City.
Jeff Romig is an air traffic controller at the
Rochester-Monroe County Airport. . .. Samuel
P. Sarraf, assistant professor of engineering at
Penn State-Behrend, was named to the honorary
position of consultant to the U. S. Department
of Energy ... . Married: Remy Fenster
and Marilyn Fain '80G on Nov. 21 , 1982 . ...
Born: to Robert and Pamela Dunlap Derkey,
identical twins, Alan Robert and Karl Richard,
on Apr. 4 .. . . to Sharon Blinder and Douglas
Edwin Hill, a daughter, Pamela Anne, on May
30 .. . . to Andy and Linda Friedman Keesing
'78G, a son,Jeffrey David, on Apr. 23 .... to
Gino and Karen Gargano Masci, a son, Christopher
John, on Apr. 17 . .. . to Rita andJeff
Romig, a daughter, Melanie Ann, on Mar. 31.
.. . to Steven and Susan Saferstein-Levy, a
daughter, Emily Ruth, on Dec. 22 ... . to Karen
and Leonard Webber, a daughter, Ashley
Rose, on May 4.
1976
Alan Bell is a resident in neurology at the
University of Texas at Dallas . . . . Mark W.
Conley, who received a Ph.D. in reading from
Syracuse University, became an assistant professor
of reading at the University of Alaska at
Anchorage. He is involved with in service programs
for teachers in Native Alaskan villages
north of the Arctic Circle . .. . Melissa Dlin was
named regional account executive for WCPX­
TV, channel six, in Daytona Beach, Fla .. ..
Norman Eckhardt develops software for
military navigation products at LTV -Sierra
Research Division in Buffalo .. . . Michael
Goldman is a research associate in medical
genetics at the University of Washington , Seattle
. . .. Among the three Ph.D. candidates at
the University to receive the first annual Edward
Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching
by a Graduate Student was Lee M. Gray,
Department of Geological Sciences. Each winner
received $500, with an additional award of
$350 going to the department in which the
teaching was done, fot improvements in
undergraduate course materials or laboratory
equipment. .. . Alan Kent, who received a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from DePaul
University, now serves as director of emergency
services at N. W. Dade Mental Health Center in
Miami, Fla .. .. Trudy A. Nowak is a founding
member of the Rochester law firm of Boyd,
Nowak, Pfeiffer & Williams .. .. Navy Lt.John
Edmund Surash was awarded the Defense
Meritorious Service Medal while serving as officer
in charge of a Seabee Detail in Honduras.
He is now stationed at Cape Canaveral, Fla ....
Steven Sussman, who graduated from the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been
chief resident in radiology at Beth Israel
Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He and his
wife, Nancy, will be moving to North Carolina,
where Steve will begin a fellowship in vascularinterventional
radiology at Duke University
Medical Center. . . . Married: Desiree Kagi and
Norman Eckhardt on June 25 , 1983, in
Rochester .... Born: to Diane and AlanJ. Bell,
a daughter, Amanda Frances, on May 21 .... to
Karen Mary Sangmeister and Michael Lewis
Tunison '73RC, a son, Kyle Vincent Tunison,
on Apr. 15, 1983 . . .. to Nancy and Steven
Sussman, a daughter, Sara, on Apr. 25 .
1977
David Alper is in his first year of an orthopedic
residency at the Truman Medical Center in
Kansas City, Mo. , and has been accepted for a
one-year fellowship at the Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem during 1985-86 . ... Hugh Bryan is
a staff consultant in the management services
division of Arthur Young & Company, Philadelphia
.. . . "Would you avoid professional care
for a physical illness? " asks the Mobile, Ala.,
Register. "Many people do each day by attempting
to cope with major life events alone, according
to Robert D. Felner [G, '78G], who has just
released his first book, Preventive Psychology:
Theory, Research and Practice." Felner, director of
the clinical community psychology program at
Auburn University, stresses early identification
and prevention of psychological illness ... .
Sandra Brown Hill '82G spoke on faith, trust,
and learning to cope with life's problems at a
South Jefferson Fellowship dinner in Adams,
N.Y . . .. After receiving her Ph.D. in computer
science from Stanford University, Amy L.
Lansky went to work as a researcher for SRI International.
.. . Lori Kalika Mahler was
promoted to senior fuel clause analyst at Northeast
Utilities, Hartford, Conn .. . . Emily J.
Moskowitz G is an associate of two Simsbury,
Conn., physicians. She is a specialist in child
development, child rearing, and educational
counseling .. . . Ruth G. Passow is an instructor
in the Department of Orthopaedics at Brigham
and Women's Hospital in Boston ... . Chuck
Zoeller joined the photography staff of the
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader . ... Married:
Drew A. Shulman and Fern Ginsberg on
December 4, in Short Hills, N.J .. .. Steven M .
Rubin and Amy L. Lansky on Apr. 8 . ...
Naomi Rae Halpern and Samuel L. Schlagman
on Oct. 16 .... Theodore Segal and Joyce
Wasserstein on Mar. 25 .. .. Born: to Michael
and Karen Levine Weitzner, a son, Andrew
Howard, on Apr. 14.

1978
Lisa Artenstein has begun rotations at the
George Washington University School of
Medicine and Health Services in Martinsburg,
W. Va . ... GCA Corporation named Louis F.
Bieck G vice president of manufacturing for the
GCA-IC Systems Group in Andover, Mass . . ..
Riki Connaughton sang the part of the high
priestess in the Opera Theatre of Rochester production
of Verdi's A ida . . .. Renee H. Gelblat is
enrolled in a Ph.D. program in geology at Bryn
Mawr, where she is also a teaching assistant. . . .
Elizabeth H. Ginkel, formerly catalog librarian
at the Cornell Law Library, is assistant law
librarian for technical services at the University
of Maine Law Library in Portland . ... Georges
G. Grinstein G starred in several computer
language short-course videotapes produced by
the University of Massachusetts .. . . Melissa
Townsend Klauberg is an associate attorney
with Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City.
Salute to alumni
During festivities celebrating
Commencement this year four
Rochester graduates received the
Distinguished Alumni Award,
presented in recognition of outstanding
achievement. These four
were the initial awards in a new progam
that will recognize the accomplishments
of alumni of each of the
University's schools and colleges.
The first of the Distinguished
Alumni citees are these:
• College of Engineering and Applied
Science
Robert A. Gardner' 57, '59G,
president of Comet Rice, Inc. His
citation read, in part: "You have
contributed significantly to the
research, development, production,
and also to the management of technical
and manufacturing organizations
and industries with which you
have been associated-including the
U.S. Air Force, Procter & Gamble,
Coca-Cola Company, and now as
president of Comet Rice."
Gardner has been president of the
Texas-based Comet Rice firm since
1981. The company is one of the
largest rice millers in the United
States, with major milling facilities
in California, Mississippi, Texas,
and Puerto Rico.
Gardner is a member of the Manufacturing
Council of the American
Management Association and of the
board of directors and the executive
committee of the Rice Millers'
Association.
She practices in the firm's real estate department
. ... Gov. Vic Atiyeh reappointed
Patricia Oliver-Lane to a three-year term on
the Oregon state Board of Nursing. She is the
project director of Southern Oregon State College's
extended campus nursing degree program
. . .. Paul Ritzel was appointed president
of Design Resource Associates of Circle Floors
contract dealership, with headquarters in
Boston .. .. Molly Uline moved from Pittsburgh
to Boston, and now is studying at the
University of Pittsburgh .. .. Married: John G.
Klauberg and Melissa Townsend onJune 4,
1983, in Buffalo .. .. Born: to Howard ' 79RC
and Sherri Davis Feldman, a son, Jason
Michael, on May 31 . ... to Richard and Nina
Sheiman Goldweit, a son, Daniel Nathan, on
Feb. 15 . . .. to Georges Grinstein G and Janet
Lee Coutu '76RC, a son, Aaron Raphael, on
June 26,1983.
• Graduate School of
Education and Human Development
Paul E. Julien' 54G, principal of
Dake School in West Irondequoit,
New York. In nominating Julien
for the award, the superintendent of
his school system remarked, "I wish
he could be cloned. " Julien's school
was recently selected by the State
Education Department as one of
nine secondary schools to represent
New York State in a national "exemplary
school" competition sponsored
by the U.S. Education Department.
A teacher and administrator in
Rochester city schools before
becoming principal of West Irondequoit's
Iroquois School in 1967,
Julien has been principal of Dake
School since 1979 and coordinator
of middle schools since 1975.
Josephine Scortino Kehoe' 59,
'7 4G, supervising director of secondary
and continuing instruction for
the City School District of Rochester.
Kehoe, who began her career as
a high-school English teacher in
Corning, N ew York, joined the
Rochester city school system in
1964. She rose through the ranks of
secondary-school administration
1979
5th Class Reunion, 'Oct. 12, 13, & 14
Photo Lab Management magazine printed an article
on "Wash Water Heat Recovery" written by
Brian C. Barbo, a chemical engineering group
leader at CPAC Inc .. . . Jeffrey Byers, who
received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth
College, accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at
the University of Utah . ... Kathleen A. Doris
received her doctorate in physical inorganic
chemistry from Northwestern University . . ..
Jeffrey P. Friedman, now entering his second
year of residency in internal medicine at New
York University-Bellevue Hospital, graduated
from the NYU School of Medicine . .. . Michael
A. Hall works as an engineering services
representative in Danvers, Mass .... James
Megna will receive his Ph.D . in pharmacology
from the SUNY Upstate Medical Center in
Syracuse, after which he will enter medical
from department head to school
principal before she was named to
her present position three years ago.
She has received previous awards
from Phi Delta Kappa, the New
York State.English Council, and the
N ew York State Administrators in
Compensatory Education.
• Graduate School of Management
Jeffrey Tai '78G, senior vice
president, products group, of Computer
Consoles, Inc. Tai's citation
singled him out for "his efforts as a
co-founder of Computer Consoles,
Inc., and for his vital contributions
to the growth and success of that
organization." Rochester-based
Computer Consoles is a supplier of
applied computer systems to the
telephone and office systems
markets. It is the world's largest
supplier of salt-tolerant computer
systems to the telephone industry.
Tai is a graduate ofGSM's Executive
Development Program.
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· . . Three Greek Lyrics, a new composition by
Richard Willis GE, '65GE, was given its
premiere at Stephen F. Austin State University,
Tex. The work is based on ancient Greek texts
and is scored for mixed chorus with piano, oboe,
and percussion.
1952
Cellist Warren Downs performed in Oshkosh,
Wis., with Ellsworth Snyder, a concert pianist.
· .. Cellist Ira Lehn is a member of the faculty
at the Conservatory of Music at the University
of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. He returned to
full-time teaching after a four-year stint as dean.
· .. "The Music of Ron Nelson ['53GE,
'57GE]" was the subject of an article in the
American Organist . .. . Angeline Kafcas Schmid,
an instructor at Mansfield University, gave a
recital at the Waverly Community House,
Scranton, Pa . ... The Blair Quartet, from
Vanderbilt University, counts among its
members cellist David Vanderkooi '53GE.
1953
Raymond Wheeler GE wrote an Instrumentalist
article on "High Note Fingerings for Saxophone.
"
1954
George Buckbee GE, conductor of the University
of Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Stockton,
Calif., conducted 154 of the most talented student
musicians from 54 Pennsylvania high
schools in the District I Orchestra Festival . ...
Pianist Arno Drucker '55GE closed the New
Haven Symphony Orchestra Sunday Night
Pops at Teletrack series with selections from
George Gershwin .. . . The Covington, La.,
News Banner talked to Karen Maesch Makas as
part of its series on veterans of the New Orleans
Philharmonic Symphony. She has been principal
cellist since 1965 . ... Nancy Bookout
Wolcott was elected president of the Toledo
Chapter of the Choristers Guild, and is coordinator
of its biennial Junior Choir Festival. She
is also music director at Ashland Avenue Baptist
Church.
1955
Eastman professor John Beck '62GE penned an
article for Instrumentalist called" Sonata for Timpani-The
Composer's Concept." ... The
musical group Con Viva Musica performed
compositions by Leonard Moses, who lives in
Annapolis, Md. The music was commissioned
by the Maryland Park and Planning Commission
and funded by the Maryland Council of
Arts.
1956
Judith Clark Esch teaches piano at Indiana
University Southeast .... Violinist Allan Fuller
GE gave the world premiere of Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra, a composition by Keith
Gates of Lake Charles, La .... Doris Nicole
Gaver took a year offfrom the Williamstown
Elementary School system to study electronic
and computer-assisted music, contemporary
music, and improvisation .... Jean
Eichelberger Ivey GE, coodinator of the composition
department at the Peabody Conservatory
and founder and director of its electronic music
studio, was the subject of a profile in the
Baltimore Sun. "The modern composer has an
unusual wealth of resources to draw on," she
told the paper. "We not only know a lot about
the past, but we know a lot about the music of
cultures all over the world. A composer today
can and possibly should be eclectic."
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1957
William Decker '60GE was guest conductor for
Pennsylvania's District XI Choral Festival. . ..
Thelma Chock Diercks G E celebrated her 20th
year of collaboration with Carolyn Victorine
with piano recitals at Hollins College in
Virginia .... Ronald R. Sider '60GE, '67GE,
professor of music at Messiah College, directs
the Grantham (Pa.) Oratorio Society .. . .
"There will be no playing down to the youth
who attend the annual Young People's Concert
to be presented by the Duluth-Superior
Chamber Orchestra this month, according to
conductor Taavo Virkhaus [GE, '67GE]" and
the Ashland, Wis., Press. "This is the type of
music we play," says Virkhaus, "and the youth
will hear it as itis."
1958
Pulitzer Prize-winner Dominick Argento GE
had his opera, Postcardfrom Morocco, presented in
Baltimore. "Putting it all together is the fun of
it," he said of composing. "By the time the
critics get a hold of it, all the fun is gone. Once it
leaves your hands, it's no longer yours." .. .
Robert Buzak GE, a string teacher in the
Tarrytown, N. Y., school district, conducted the
area's elementary school All County Orchestra
and Band .... Guy Frank GE was to retire as
chairman of the Creative Arts Division at
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W. Va ... .
Helen Bovbjerg Niedung '59GE was guest
soloist in the Naples-Marco (Fla.) Philharmonic
Orchestra's production of "An Evening of
Opera." The Ft. Myers News Press called the
event "a concert that will be remembered and
talked about for years to come .. .. remembered
above all for the wonderful artistry and sheer
love of music displayed by the unbeatable team
of soprano Helen Bovbjerg Niedung and conductor
Walter Hendl. Hendl was director from
1964 to 1973 of the Eastman School of Music,
the same school where Niedu"ng received her
bachelor's and master's degrees in music." . ..
Bernard Rubenstein, associate conductor of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has also conducted
the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra ....
Richard Skerlong GE is principal violist in the
Seattle Symphony .... Marilyn Smith Sandness
was installed as president of the Great
Lakes Region of the National Association for
Music Therapy in Chicago. She is an associate
professor and coordinator of the music therapy
program at the University of Dayton .... Larry
Smith GE, chairman of the Indiana University
organ department and nationally recognized
concert organist, gave a performance at Ohio
Wesleyan University . .. . Shirley McGaugh
Zielinski gave a vocal performance with her
husband, Czeslaw, at East Central College,
Washington, Mo.
1959
"In West Texas, where country music reigns, a
soft-spoken outsider has introduced the flowing
sound of harp music to the High Plains," says
the Houston Chronicle . Who might this stranger
be? Gail Guseman Barber; who became a music
instructor at Texas Tech in 1967 .. .. The de
Pasquale String Quartet performed the world
premiere of "Windows," a work by Haverford
College music professor John Davison GE.
1960
Frank Bencriscutto GE directs the University
of Minnesota Wind Ensemble .... The piano
duet of Vincent '63GE and Mary Ann Wydra
Lenti '68E, '70GE, '79GE performed at Coker
College in South Carolina . ... F. Donald
Truesdell GE is professor of music at the College
of William and Mary.
1961
Paul E. Droste GE, assistant professor at the
Ohio State University School of Music and
director of the OSU marching band since 1970,
was the guest speaker at the annual meeting of.
the Belmont County Chapter of the Ohio State
University Alumni Association .... Doris
Wilson Sellards is principal flute of the Kansas
City Symphony . ... James Willey '63GE,
'72GE, chairman of the music department at
SUNY Geneseo, performed his "Some Connections"
with the Capital Chamber Artists in
Albany.
1962
Paul R. Chenevey GE was appointed music
director and conductor of the Greenville (Pa.)
Symphony Orchestra ... . Diane Wehner Gold,
a lecturer in music at Bucknell University, is a
member of the Pennsylvania Chamber Players.
... Richard Heschke GE is chairman of the
organ department at Concordia College ... .
Pianist RobertJordan opened the Great Performers
Series at Delaware State College . . . .
WilliamJ. N. Stokes is organist and choir
director at All Souls Parish in Biltmore, N .C.
1963
"His may be the only office in town with a splendid
walnut Chickering piano, circa 1911, next to
his desk," begins a feature in The Light, a San
Antonio publication. "But when you are Robert
Finster [GE, '69GE], parish musician for St.
Luke's Episcopal Church and music director for
the Texas Bach Choir, this is indeed a fitting
furnishing. Equally fitting is the stereo whose
needle touches only the likes of Vivaldi, Hummel,
Britten; the 'Get off my Bach'
paperweight; the American Organist
magazines, and the wall of musical scores." ...
Byron Hanson '68GE is resident conductor of
the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra . ...
Daniel Perantoni served as brass clinician with
the 1984 TMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble Adjudication
Panels. He is a professor of music at
Arizona State University.
1964
Lynne Priest Bujak is a member of the faculty
at the Darlington Fine Arts Center in Wawa,
Pa .... Judith Caldwell G E sang a soprano solo
in a New Haven (Conn.) Symphony Orchestra
pops concert, "An Evening of Rodgers and
Hammerstein." .. . Donald Greene GE is
chairman of the music department at the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He also
directs the wind ensemble there .... David
Pinnix GE, '69GE received a master teacher
certificate from the Music Teachers National
Association. It was the first such certificate to go
to a North Carolinian . . .. Gerald Shapiro
directs Brown University's MacColl Studio for
Electronic Music-and has since 1968 .... Viet
Nam Songs, by Edward Wood, was performed at
the Boston University School of Fine Arts in a
concert featuring American composers and
poets.

1965
Robert Ellinwood GE, '79GE sang the part of
Jesus in a performance of the St. John Passion by
the Bach Choir of Southwest Virginia ... . A
picture of James Ruccolo embellished the cover
of TV magazine, a supplement to newspapers in
Bissbee and Shasta Vista, Ariz. He was to appear
as part of the Cochise Concert Association
series.
1966
Elizabeth Bankhead Buccheri GE, '79GE, a
pianist, was the guest performer at the annual
meeting of the Winthrop College Alumni
Association. She is an associate professor of
music at North Park College, Chicago . .. .
"Audiences and even musicians frequently
operate under the assumption that a 'serious'
composer is dead or lives 1,000 miles away,"
says the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post. "Elizabeth
Hodges Raum is one composer who is very
much alive and living in Regina." Her latest
composition, says the paper, is an opera based
on the Alice in Wonderland story .. .. Steven
Winick '68GE, '74GE, principal trumpet with
the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, also is a member of
the Georgia State University Brass Quintet.
1967
Joan M. Ringerwole GE is professor of music at
Dordt College in Iowa.
1968
Guido Ajmone-Marsan is music adviser to the
Orchestra of Illinois, the Chicago area's "other"
symphony .. .. Glenn Block has completed 10
years as director of orchestras and opera and
professor of conducting at the Conservatory of
Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City. This past season, he conducted major productions
of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (in a
critically acclaimed performance that presented
Beethoven's original metronome markings),
Beethoven's Missa Solemn is , and Bloch's Sacred
Service . .. . Charles Decker, professor of
trumpet, directs the Tennessee Technological
University Trumpet Ensemble .. . . Pianist and
composer Bradford Gowen '69GE performed at
the College of Eastern Utah .... Carol Lucas
'71GE spent time in Reykjavik, Iceland, preparing
for the Iceland Symphony production of
Lucia di Lammermoor. She also served as pianist
for the Wolf Trap Opera Company .. . . Anthony
A. Pasquale wrote that he planned
recitals for Grand Island, Neb., and the University
of Kansas. He was to present a recital to
benefit a South African hospital for black
children with crippling diseases ... . Susan
Foye Smith, an instructor in the music department
at Colorado College, is a member of the
Colorado Springs Symphony Trio . . .. John
West, bass, performed at the St. Paul's Festival,
South Nyack, N.Y.
1969
Xylophonist Bob Becker '71GE appeared with
the University of New Mexico Marimba Ensemble
. .. . Frederick Boyd ' 71GE has been
featured on the euphonium with the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra .. . . Harpsichordist
Charlene Brendler GE performed at Modesto
(Calif.)Junior College ... . Lt. LewisJ.
Buckley directs the Coast Guard Band ....
Steven Wasson '71GE premiered his latest composition,
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of Music, where he is a parttime
doctoral student in composition. Wasson's
latest work is dedicated to Margaret Hanson.
1970
Carol Eshelman Allen GE is organist at the
West Hartford (Conn.) Unitarian-Universalist
Church .... George Del Gobbo conducted the
East Texas Symphony Orchestra in a series of
children's concerts .... Elizabeth McCleary
Gorevic is the founder and manager, and a performing
member, of the Sara-Placid Chamber
Players, a group that plays at the Lake Placid
Center for the Arts. She also has her own group
of violin students in the Plattsburgh, N. Y. , area.
.. . Gerald Hansen GE performed on the organ
at Schuylerville United Methodist Church. Built
in 1756, it is believed to be the oldest pipe organ
in use in the United States .. .. Mary Henderson
served as artist-in-residence in voice at
Washington University at St. Louis .. . . Neal
Larrabee, concert pianist and professor of piano
at the University of Connecticut, attended the
Music Teachers' National.Association Convention
in Kentucky . . . . Kay Roberts McAfee GE
is assistant professor of music at Henderson
State University . . .. Gerard Joseph Niewood
appeared as soloist with the Central College Jazz
Band in Iowa . . . . James Setapen guestconducted
the South Bend (Ind.) Symphony
Chamber Players. He is associate conductor of
the Denver Symphony Orchestra . . . . Chris
Vadala has appeared on the Merv Griffin Show,
Solid Gold, the Tonight Show, and Dick Clark's
Salute to the Stars as a member of the Chuck
Mangione (,63E) Quartet. Vadala was a guest
soloist, representing the Selmer Company, at
the Gambrills (Md.)Jazz Festival, and has had
some of his classical transcriptions and compositions
published by Medici Press.
1971
Eastman faculty member Bonita Boyd was the
subject of an article in Rochester Women magazine
titled "World-renowned Flutist, Tripletime Accelerando,
Right to the Top." . . . Jean Henderson
Dodworth '71GE received tenure and was
promoted to associate professor at Nebraska
Wesleyan University .... Carolyn Kuban, a
harpist, helped the Arvada (Colo.) Center
Chamber Orchestra celebrate its fifth birthday.
... Time Magazine music critic Michael Walsh,
a winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award
for music criticism, spoke to a women' s club in
New Britain, Conn. The title of his talk: "Who's
Afraid of Classical Music."
1972
OrganistJo Deen Blaine ' 74GE, assistant professor
and chairman of the Sterling College
music department, accompanied Roger Stoner,
trumpet, in the Sterling College-Rice County
(Kans.) Arts Council artist series . .. . Michael
Luxner '72GE, '78GE, as assistant conductor
of the Savannah (Ga.) Symphony, was profiled
in the Savannah News Press. He will conduct 22
concerts this year. ... David Owens, assistant
editor of the fine arts and literary page of the
Christian Science Monitor, won the ASCAP-Deems
Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism.
Owens also is a composer. ... Jim Pugh
'75GE, former trombonist with both Chuck
Mangione and Chick Corea, appeared with his
quartet and the Glassboro Jazz Lab Band at
Glassboro State College in New Jersey . . . .
Soprano Judith Dickison Rhodus appeared in
pops concerts with the Springfield (Ohio) Symphony
Orchestra . . .. Pianist Kimberly
Schmidt '75GE performed Liszt's "Totentanz"
in the Jackson Symphony's tribute to Arthur
Fiedler. ... Born: to David and Candace
Baranowski Sundby' 7 4G E, a son, Julian
David, on Mar. 19.
37

1981
Pianist RandallJ. Fusco '83GE gave a solo
recital at Youngstown (Ohio) State University.
. . . Samuel Headrick G E is director of electronic
music and co-director of the Contemporary
Collegium at Boston University, where
he has been assistant professor of theory and
composition since 1981. Headrick served as
guest composer for the annual Festival of Contemporary
Chamber Music at SUNY's Crane
School of Music, where he conducted the Collegium
in a concert of his music .. . . William F.
Picher GE plays trumpet in the United States
Navy Band .... MichaelJ. Puleo is a security
analyst at Standard and Poors .. . . Soprano
Teresa Ringholz won top honors in the 1984
Kathleen and Joseph M. Bryan Young Artists
Competition .... Violist Alicia S. Rosolowski
is a member of the Queens String Quartet, resident
quartet of CUNY's Aaron Copland School
of Music. The quartet won the Artists International
Competition and will make its Carnegie
Hall debut in April 1985 . . .. Married: Michael
J. Puleo and Meta Lau '80E on May 19 in New
York City.
1982
Cellist Elizabeth Anderson GE performed with
the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in California.
1983
Pianist Richard Bado GE and bass-baritone
Bradley Ellingboe G E performed as part of an
Edvard Grieg Symposium held in Brookhaven,
Mass .... Emily Controulis won an audition to
play principal flute with the North Carolina
Symphony . . .. Deta S. Davis GE informs the
R eview that she now works at the Library of Congress.
"Also," she writes, "a book that I wrote
has been published by the Environmental Protection
Agency. Ti tIe : Environmental Protection
Agency Headquarters Videotape Catalog. October
1983." .. . William Eddins was selected to participate
in a seminar for conductors at
Tanglewood, Mass.
1984
Michael Torke won a BMI Award to Student
Composers. Torke of22 winners in the 1983-84
competition. His winning composition was
"Vanada" for mixed ensemble, including two
synthesizers.
Medicine and Dentistry
1934
50th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1939
45th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1944
40th Class R eunion, Oct. 18 & 19
At last report, Robert W. Coon M, dean of the
Marshall University School of Medicine, had
announced plans to retire. "We're losing one of
the best," said Marshall president Dale F . Nitzschke,
"and we're going to make every effort to
recruit a person of similar qualifications and
abilities. "
1949
35th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1952
John L. Goble M has had published Visual
Disorders in the Handicapped Child, a book concerning
visual system findings in children with
developmental disabilities.
1954
30th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb appointed
JohnJ. Salley GM interim director of a proposed
Center for Innovative Technology. Salley
is vice president for research and dean of
graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth
University. The center would coordinate and
promote research activities among the state's
major research institutions.
1955
Saul S. Milles was appointed associate company
medical director-clinical medicine at General
Electric's corporate headquarters in Fairfield,
Conn.
1956
Three former residents ofLusk, Wyo., returned
to town to perform some classical music. Among
them, clarinetist Walter Reckling M .
1957
Wade W. Sherwood M , an internist at Merritt
Hospital, Oakland, Calif., was installed as
medical staff president.
1959
25th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1960
Burton M. Meisner M, a general surgeon, has
been elected president of the Hartford County
(Conn.) Medical Association.
1961
Carol Cooperman N adelson M spoke on the
"Long-Term Psychological Implications of Sexual
Abuse" at the University of Texas Health
Science Center, Dallas. Nadelson is a professor
of psychiatry at the Tufts University School of
Medicine in Boston.
1963
W. Barton Campbell M , co-director, division
of cardiology, St. Thomas Hospital, was the
guest speaker at a dinner to benefit the Wayne
County (Tenn.) Heart Association .... Raymond
Roth GM, formerly dean of the faculty at
Rollins College, was elevated on retirement " to
the permanent rank of Archibald G . Bush Professor
Emeritus of Mathematics."
1964
20th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
Col. Robert T. Wangemann GM has command
of the U .S. Army Environmental Hygiene
Agency. He had been a radiological hygiene
consultant in the Surgeon General's Office.
1966
William T. Carpenter,Jr. R , a researcher in
the tre·atment of schizophrenia, received the 21 st
annual Strecker Award of The Institute of Pennsylvania
Hospital. Carpenter, director of the
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and professor
of psychiatry at the University of
Maryland School of Medicine, was honored at a
reception in Los Angeles .. . . Julian M. Earls
GM, chief of the environmental health office at
the NASA Lewis Research Center, was the
guest speaker at the 73rd annual commencement
at Morris College in South Carolina. Earls
also is an adjunct professor of mathematics at
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland . .. .
Arthur Sherwood M was elected to a two-year
term as chief of staff at Tyler Memorial Hospital,
Tunkhannock, Pa.
1968
Bernard Gifford GM, '72GM, dean of the
School of Education, University of California at
Berkeley, was a featured speaker at the National
Conference on Higher Education .. .. Thomas
E. Sumner M was promoted to professor ofradiology
at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine
of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
N .C. Sumner is a pediatric radiologist.
1969
15th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1972
Steven Poole M is associate professor of pediatrics
and family practice at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine and is director of ambulatory
services at the Denver Children's
Hospital .. .. Clarence L. Trummel GM is
head of periodontology at the University of Connecticut
Health Center.
1973
Lawrence A. Brain R was appointed director of
child and adolescent services at the Psychiatric
Institute of Washington. He will oversee the
hospital's diagnostic and treatment programs.
1974
10th Class Reunion, Oct. 18 & 19
1976
William N. Brodine M was elected to fellowship
in the American College of Cardiology, a
12 ,500-member nonprofit professional medical
society and teaching institution ... . George W.
Fouse,Jr. GM has received his M .D . degree
from The Medical College of Pennsylvania.
1977
J. William Parke M moved his family practice
into the Mountville (Pa.) Business Center.
1978
Jeffrey H. Charen M opened an office in Burlington,
Mass. , for the practice of orthopedic
surgery .. . . Married: Sarah Lynch and George
Disney M Sept. 10 in Lowville, N .Y.
1979
Kenneth Bock M joined the medical staff at
Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck, N .Y.
. .. Elizabeth D. Warner M works with Rochester
Gynecologic and Obstetric Associates,
P.C .... R. Patrick Wood M was granted a
fellowship in transplant surgery at the University
of Pittsburgh. Wood is the chief surgical resident
in the five-year program at the New York
University Medical Center. ... Born: to Philip
Fileri and Elizabeth D. Warner M , twins,
Philip and Paul, on May 31.
39

1980
Daniel Sastic M opened offices in Elmer, N.J. ,
for the practice of family medicine.
1981
John C. Gouse M is chief resident in diagnostic
radiology at the University of Virginia Hospital,
Charlottesville . . .. Eric K. Noji M completed
his residency in emergency medicine at the
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of
Chicago. He will become attending physician,
department of emergency medicine, Johns Hopkins
Hospital. . . . Married: Henry E. Hudgins
and Linda C. Vickery M onJuly 9, 1983 in
Mechanicville, N.Y .. . . Born: to Patricia and
Thomas Foels M , a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth,
on Nov. 29 . ... to Rebecca '80N and Robert
Olsen '81M, a daughter, Courtney Kathryn, on
June 6.
1983
Edward A. Thibodeau GM, assistant professor
in the departments of dental research and microbiology
at the University's Medical Center, was
awarded the Edward H . Hatton Award of the
International Association of Dental Research.
40
Medical Alumni Reunion
Thursday and Friday, October 18 and 19
October 18
9 a .m ., Reunion Run
10 :30 a.m., Grand Rounds
11 a .m., Medical Center tours
12 noon, Reunion-Welcome Luncheon
1 :30 p .m ., "A Perspective on the Future of
Medicine": Seminars featuring alumni and
faculty
4:30 p.m. , Reception for alumni sons and
daughters
4 to 6 p .m ., Hospitality Suite for all alumni,
Rochester Plaza
7 p.m., Dean's Reception and Reunion Banquet,
Rochester Plaza
9 p.m. , Entertainment and Dancing
October 19
8 a.m., Continental Breakfast
9 a.m., "New Approaches to Coronary
Artery Disease" : Seminars featuring alumni
and faculty
11 a.m., Financial Planning Seminar on Investments
12 noon, Alumni Association Luncheon
2:30 p.m., George Hoyt Whipple Lecture:
"Immunological and Genetic Factors Influencing
Pregnancy," ThomasJ. Gill III,
M.D., University of Pittsburgh, School of
Medicine
4 p .m. , Medical Center tours
4 to 6 p .m ., George Hoyt Whipple Museum
open; Hospitality Suite for all alumni,
Rochester Plaza
6 p .m ., Dean's Reception in honor of the
Class of 1959
Evening, Reunion Class Events:
Classes of 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954,
1959, 1964, 1969, 1974
Call the Alumni Office, (716) 275-5553,for
more information.
School of Nursing
1934
50th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1939
45th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1944
40th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1945
Evelyn Case Dickel, nurse at New Jersey's
Allen Middle School, contributed some insight
to an article in the Cherry Hill News Chronicle.
Middle school-aged children, she says, "are a
real challenge, for they change so much between
fifth and eighth grade. They enter middle school
as children; they leave as adults in body,
although not quite yet in mind."
1949
35th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1954
30th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1959
25th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
Rose Medwick Crupi received her master of
education degree at St. Lawrence University.
1964
20th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1965
Catherine Searles Dashevsky was named vice
president of nursing services at Rahway (N.J.)
Hospital.
1969
15th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1970
Jane Ann Soxman, who completed specialty
training in pediatric dentistry at Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh, opened a practice in
Allison Park, Pa.
1972
Married: Daniel F. Leonard and Jan-Louise
Cooper, on May 19 , in Southbury, Conn.
1973
Susan Griffey Brechin received a master's
degree in public health from the Tulane U niversity
School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine, and also was awarded the 1983-84
Outstanding Student Leadership Award. "After
four years in Niger," she writes, "we are being
transferred to Bangladesh. My husband works
with CARE-International and we move very
frequently. "
1974
1 Oth Class Reunion, Oct. 12
1975
Born: to Patricia Fallon Van Brunt and Peter
Van Brunt '77M, a daughter, Margaret Fallon
Van Brunt, on Apr. 25.
1977
Born: to Nancy Paganelli Chernak '82GN and
Jon B. Chernak '77RC, '78G, a daughter, LindaJean,
on Aug. 16, 1983 .
1978
Fern Drillings served as author-hostess on an
instructional videotape, The Breathing and Relaxation
Workoutfor Prepared Childbirth . The tape
featured Howard '75RC and Cathy Miller
Stein ' 75RC, '76N, who delivered a daughter,
Nicole, inJanuary .. .. Diane Lauver G
published articles in Research in Nursing and
Health, and in Nurse Practitioner.
1979
5th Class Reunion, Oct. 12
Christine R. Wilmot received a master's degree
in public health from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her specialization
was occupational health nursing . . ..
"Since graduating in 1979," writes Susan
Wilson, "I have worked in public health nursing
in Manhattan and Boston, earned an MPH
from Boston University in 1983 , and am currently
attending Northeastern University School
of Law, expecting to receive my J.D. in May
1985. Any career opportunity tips for this combination
would be appreciated. "
1980
Suzane White is a primary care nurse practitioner
at the HMO of (Newark) Delaware .. . .
Married: Carl D. Villarini '79RC and Suzane
White on May 14,1983.
1981
Susan A. Flow was promoted to the rank of captain
in the U .S. Air Force.
1982
Married: Paula Marie Lejman GN and Louis
Joseph Cianca ' 76RC, '78G on Sept. 24 in
Pittsford.
University College
1950
Rev. Robert Hoag, senior pastor at Abington
Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania, celebrated
the 25th anniversary of his ordination as
a pastor of the United Presbyterian Church.
1958
John B. Lesure, formerly technical service
manager at Appleton Mills in Appleton, Wis. ,
was named vice president.
1965
Joseph N. Skwish GU was elected chairman of
the council of chapters of the American Statistical
Association. The recently-formed council is
composed of one representative from each of the
association' s 68 chapters, and acts as an advisory
body to its Board of Directors. Skwish is a
senior consultant for the DuPont Company in
the broad area of quality control and applied
statistics. He also serves as the University's
chairman of the alumni scholarship committee
in Wilmington.
1966
William E. Murray wrote on "Video Display
Terminals: Radiation Issues" for the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

1967
Russell]. Ferris II is awaiting publication of a
historical novel, tentatively titled Crescendo, to be
published under a pseudonym. He also is working
on a romantic saga with the title of Icon.
1968
DonnaJean Howard Guldenstern is assistant
director of the New Hampshire School Volunteer
Program.
1972
Margaret Pace Lausin was appointed head of
the Monroe County (N.Y.) Child Support Enforcement
Unit. ... Ralph R. Whitney, Jr.
'72GU, vice president of Hammond, Kennedy
& Company, spoke at the 21st commencement
of Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.
1973
Eastman Kodak Company named Peter Derry
industrial relations coordinator, comptroller's
division and industrial relations, in its U.S. Apparatus
Division.
1974
Patrick]. Hill was named sales engineer of DJ
Instruments, a North Billerica, N.Y., manufacturer
of strain gauges, sensors, and related
devices.
1976
Bruce A. Kulp was appointed sales manager for
the Doyle Group, one of the largest independently
owned protective-service organizations in
the U .S.
1977
Laura F. Clements is an assistant vice president
at the Branch Banking and Trust Company,
Wilson, N.C.
1979
Victor Jenkins was appointed district controller
for Xerox in Syracuse.
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soon became over-boisterous because of the
(non-approved) liquid spirits. When the party
was over, the Marines discovered that they had
broken most of the pieces of furniture in the sitting
room.
Penalties for such infractions were severe during
Roch's wartime military atmosphere. What
to do???
Yankee ingenuity took over. The Marines
went out and bought as much chewing gum as
they could buy on such short notice during
rationing. Everyone was put to work chewingand
chewing and chewing-until they had accumulated
a veritable sculptor' s mound of the
sticky goo.
Using the gum as glue, they reassembled all of
the furniture and swept and polished with
typical Marine Corps spit and polish, finishing
just in time for their final inspection.
The Marines turned the fraternity house over
to the incoming sailors, meanwhile being extremely
careful not to touch, sit on, or even get
near, any of the furniture.
Within forty-eight hours, the sailors living in
that house were disciplined for breaking up so
much furniture (it probably happened the first
time anyone sat down). They were restricted to
quarters and made to pay for all of the damage
out of their $21 a month Navy pay. It was a
mystery to everyone as to how such "nice" sailor
boys could wreck so much furniture so quickly
after the "rough" Marines had lived there for
months with no (visible) damage. (Incidentally,
the actual culprits all originated from Canisius
College.)
Bill Adler '45
Barrington, Illinois
Source of wisdom
I think that the Minerva statue (Fall 1983
Rochester Review) is freely adapted from the statue
(forty feet high) of Athena, by Praxiteles, placed
in the Parthenon of the Acropolis in Athens at
about 442 B.C. The shield, the hat, and the
figure held in the right hand all fit.
I wouldn't have known this twenty, thirty, or
forty years ago, but I have been living in Athens
for seven years.
Marcus Minkler '45, '49G
Athens
Mind and body
I have just gotten around to reading Vicki
Zeldin's interesting article on heart functioning
(and dysfunctioning) in the Winter 1984 Rochester
Review, featuring Arthur Moss. Throughout
the article technical aspects are emphasized, yet
-in the background-the psychological, nonmechanistic
dimensions are very visible. Moss is
presented as very savvy psychologically, perhaps
without full awareness of his own wisdom, but
the impact of the article is that heart functioning
is a matter of computers, genes, and chemicals.
One example: the four physiological conditions
predicting a second heart attack-nothing about
mental conditions producing the physiological
symptoms.
I bring this to your attention because scientists
and the man on the street both think only
body in the ancient mind-body dualism, granting
the importance of mind, in some cases, then
hurrying on to mechanistic concerns. I am glad
that the author's portrayal of an eminent and
aware practicing scientist like Dr. Moss revealed
Do you know
where it is buried?
Dan Kimmel' 77 and a group of
classmates are coming back to Reunion­
Homecoming this fall to dig up their
"1984 Time Capsule" buried with considerable
fanfare just ten years ago this
fall. In the next Review we'll give you a
report on what they found encapsulated
there and how accurately it foresaw the
future of a decade later.
There'sjust one hitch: Nobody is absolutely
sure just where it was buried.
Photographic evidence places it near the
rock in the circle in front of Anthony
dorms. If you were present at the interment
and can help to pinpoint the location,
DianeJenkins in the Alumni Office,
(716) 275-5230, will be happy to
hear from you. Better yet, if you can
come back for the" Unearthing Ceremony,"
please do. It's scheduled for
11 :30 on Saturday morning, October
13.
his recognition of non-mechanistic factors in human
functioning even while she was subtly and
probably unwittingly putting down their importance.
Robert Bird, '43
Manlius, New York
Usage
Rochester Review, Spring 1984, page 19: "Now
that he' s graduated .... "
Heavens to Betsy! What would President
Robert L. Sproull say in "Some house rules"
(page II)? He would probably say, "Now that
he has been graduated .... "
I. Manson Scull '48
Rochester
Being a strict constructionist, he probably would. All
of our office dictionaries, however, now give the other
usage unqualified approval, and the New York Times
Manual of Style and Usage (1976) has this to say:
"A person may either graduate from or be graduated
from. But revoke the diploma if he writes like this: John
graduated high school. They graduated college in the
sameyear. "-Editor
Reminder
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you would like to share with present andfuture students?
Ijyou'lljot it down and send it to the Review, we'll
see that it reaches the people in the undergraduate Meridian
Society who are interested in collecting all kinds of
Rochesteriana in an attempt to build and preserve a body
of Rochester tradition. We may also, unless you specify
otherwise, consider itfor inclusion in the "Letters" section
of the Review.
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UR Where You Are
Regional Activities Report
Area Alumni Associations
Southern California
Contact: Dr. Phoebus Tongas )58)
(818) 783-0557
The group's first meeting on March
22, a dinner featuring UR Astronaut
Ed Gibson' 59, drew a fine crowd of
about sixty people. Dues-payers are at
the 100 mark and growing. Coming
events include a brunch on Sunday,
September 23, a dinner meeting on
42
INTRODUCING
Dennis O'Brien
The University's new president
wants to meet you.
Accordingly, he's starting out on
a cross-country series of meetings
that will give him the opportunity
over the next several months to talk
with as many of you as possible.
(And he'll have a lot to say, too.
He's a lively speaker with some important
things to talk about concerning
Rochester's future. )
As presently scheduled, President
0' Brien will be in the following
cities on the following dates:
Washington, D.C., October 24
New York City, November 15
Boston, November 28
Chicago, December 12
Los Angeles, January 8
San Francisco, January 9
Miami, February 20
Tampa, February 21
Buffalo, March 13
An invitation is being mailed to
each of you living within these
areas. Should the mails-or
something-fail and you don't
hear, just give the Alumni Office,
(716) 275-3684, a call and another
one will be sent out, post-haste.
Wednesday, October 24, and a kickoff-the-holidays
program on Thursday,
December 6. Alex Mazzia, Sr.
'45 has been elected president pro tern.
Bay Area (San Francisco)
Contact: Andrea LoPinto )80)
(415) 775-3491
Taking their lead from their
southern colleagues, members of the
Bay Area Association also featured
Astronaut Ed Gibson' 59 as the
headliner for their first program, also
drawing a fine crowd. Dues-paying
members of the association now
number some eighty alumni. Next
meeting: a Filoli House tour in late
September, followed by an appropriate
post-tour social gathering.
Applejackets (NYC)
Contact: Mary Beth Egan )82)
(212) 549-3190
Spring events (well, late winter) included
a financial forum, cocktails with
several UR professors, a tour ofCentral
Park, and a gathering at Q. D.
McGraw's.
Coming events include these: The
Art of Cocktails on the Upper East Side at
the Tumble Inn, First Avenue at 89th
Street, Wednesday, September 19,
5:30 p.m. (DJ after 8 o'clock), contact:
Martha Post' 81, (212) 288-8020;
Dancing and Open Bar at the Danceteria,
30 West 21st Street, Thursday, October
25,9 p.m. to midnight, contact:
Jean Smith '78, (212) 222-1630; Q. D.
McGraw)s Revisited, 60 East 41st Street,
Wednesday, November 14,5:30 to
8:30 p.m., contact: Mary Beth Egan.
Washington, D.C.
Contact: Craig Evans )55)
(301) 340-1437
Recent events have included a private
tour of the White House, lunch
with Rochester professor Anthony
Hecht, an Orioles-Tigers baseball
game, and a flashlight-and-hiking-shoe
exploration of the caverns under the
Lincoln Memorial. Coming up are the
annual Dandelion Day Picnic and a
boating party on the Chesapeake.
South Florida
Contact: Rick Katz '72)
(305) 661-1342
A spring meeting, featuring the
Meliora film on the University and a
visit by the Alumni office's John
Braund, was the start of a reorganization
process that has resulted in an incorporation
of the association and a
modest dues structure. Those of you
who live in the area will be receiving
details together with plans for coming
events.
Metroplex (Dallas)
Contact: Bruce Forman )80)
(214) 373-6881
A spring program brought some
twenty people to Bruce Forman's
apartment complex to see the UR
Meliora film and to meet with Joe
Eberly, professor of physics and optics.
A fine time, it is reliably reported, was
had by all.
News from other areas
Boston and St. Louis alumni attended
spring performances of New
Morningfor the World by Eastman composer
Joseph Schwantner, narrated by
Willie Stargell. Each program featured
a post-concert alumni reception. The

Boston concert was presented by the
Eastman Philharmonia; the St. Louis
performance was included in the
season series of the St. Louis Symphony.
Tampa Bay alumni gathered at
Merilyn Burke's (,69) to see the Meliora
film and to meet John Braund
from the Alumni Office. Efforts are
now under way to find a concert site
for the UR Glee Clubs for next March,
possibly at the Museum of Science and
Industry, where John Karn '68 is curator.
Interest is building toward establishing
an area alumni association.
Contact Merilyn at (813) 962-4421 if
you are interested or if you wish to help
recruit students.
Richmond alumni enjoyed an evening
at Frank Wood's (,51) viewing
the Meliora film and discussing current
UR happenings with John Braund.
Frank, reachable at (804) 282-0686, is
Alumni Admissions Committee chairman.
He would be happy to hear from
potential recruiters.
Music to your ears
Beginning on page 6 of this issue of
the Review, you can read about the
Eastman School's wonderful Meliora
Quartet. If you live in Boston or New
York, you can also hear them when
they come to your city this fall, performing
in a concert in which they will
The Calderone Way (continuedfrom page 19)
roused plenty of controversy during
her years of advocacy. The John Birch
Society, for instance, labeled her "an
aging sexual libertine, " an epithet, she
says, that was a great help to her in
raising money from anti-Birchers.
She has also earned her share of
honors. Over the years Calderone has
received eleven honorary degrees and,
among numerous other awards, a
University Citation to Alumni from
Rochester.
Now an adjunct professor in the
Program in Human Sexuality at New
York University, she has written prolifically.
Her latest book-one of two
published last year-is Talking with
Your Child About Sex, co-written with
James W. Ramey and published by
Random House.
be assisted by the world-celebrated
Cleveland Quartet.
The dates are October 13, Boston,
and October 14, New York City.
The New York concert will open this
year's Eastman-Botsford series in
Tully Hall. Other Eastman performers,
and the dates on which they
will appear, are as follows:
December 9, Zvi Zeitlin, violin;
Barry Snyder, piano
January 27, Arthur Haas, harpsichord
March 10, Gerardo Ribeiro, violin;
Robert Spillman, piano
Information on how you can get
tickets will be mailed to Boston and
New York alumni shortly.
Athletes on the move
Buffalo area alumni can cheer in
person when the UR Yellowjackets
play the SUNY Buffalo (UB) Bulls in
football on Saturday, September 22, at
Rotary Field on the Main Street Campus.
Game time is 1 p.m. and tickets
are available at the gate: $5, adults;
$3, children.
Soccer fans in the Boston region
have two chances to see the Yellowjackets
in action on Sunday, October
7. The women's team plays Boston
University at noon at Nickerson Field
(285 Babcock Street). The men play
Clark University at 3 p.m. at Clark's
The daughter of photographic pioneer
Edward Steichen and niece of
poet Carl Sandburg, Calderone as a
child lived with her father in France for
some years. After receiving her A.B.
from Vassar College in 1925, she spent
three years as an actress with the
American Laboratory Theater and was
married and divorced before graduating
from Rochester's medical school
in 1939.
In 1941 she married her second husband,
Dr. Frank Calderone (he is
former director of the World Health
Organization) and began her current
career twelve years later at age fifty.
Calderone, who recently celebrated
her eightieth birthday, was once asked
by a reporter to share the secret of her
apparently boundless energy. "I have
Granger Field (Beaver Street) in
Worcester.
Both soccer games are free. And, at
both locations, refreshments will be
served at the game site for players,
coaches, .and alumni immediately after
the games-a great opportunity to
meet players and coaches.
Note: These are just two of the locations
in which the twenty-four Yellowjacket
varsity squads will be playing
during the 1984-85 season. The sports
section of "Rochester in Review" in
this magazine carries complete listings
for upcoming seasons. For more information,
you may write or call Tony
Wells, Sports Information Director,
University of Rochester, Rochester,
New York 14627, (716) 275-5955.
Glee Clubs in Florida
The Men's and Women's Glee
Clubs will be performing with the
N aples-Marco Philharmonic on
March 16. An alumni reception will
follow. Efforts are currently under way
to locate concert sites also in Tampa
Bay and other Florida locations. If you
live in one of the areas where the Glee
Clubs will be singing, you'll receive an
invitation closer to the date.
good genes," she told him. "My father
lived to be ninety-nine. It kind of
knocks people off their feet to see a
great-grandmother who is interested in
sexuality, who understands it, and who
says all the words. "
Calderone still holds fond memories
of the University, but mentioned that
"I did hear some scuttlebutt, about ten
or fifteen years ago, that the University
of Rochester kept wondering what it
had done wrong to produce, almost simultaneously,
two sexpots like Calderone
and William Masters ['43M, of
Masters and Johnson fame] .
"But that's just scuttlebutt. ".
Gary Stockman '83 is the Review's Alumnotes
editor.
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InMemoriam
Willard L. Pryor' 16 on Mar. 29.
William Hugh McKee '22 (Rochester) on May
24.
JohnJ. Zeeb, Sr. '22 (Buffalo) on May 1t.
Saul Moress '24 (Rochester) on May 11.
Donald B. Warren '24 (Syracuse, N.Y.) on
June 15.
Margaret Neun Horton '25 (Williamson,
N .Y.) on May 2.
Norman W. Howard '25 (Rochester) onJune
to.
Margaret Cornelia Conklin '26 (New Haven,
Conn.) on Mar. 24.
Helen E. Murphy '26E (Rochester) on Mar.
3t.
Gerald A. Lux '27 (Toms River, N.J.) on Apr.
9.
Vincent H. Ewing '29E (Rochester) onJune 6.
John G. Grant '29R (Ames, Iowa) in February
1983 .
Frances Napes Benson '30E (Canandaigua,
N .Y.) on May 30.
Norman Lewis Peterson '30E (Rochester) on
May 19 .
Travel Corner
University oj Rochester Alumni Tours are planned
with two primary objectives: educational enrichment and
the establishment oj closer ties among alumni and between
alumni and the University. Destinations are
selected jor their historic, cultural, geographic, and
natural resources, andjor the opportunities they provide
jor understanding other peoples: their histories, their
politics, their values, and the roles they play in current
world affairs. Programs are designed to provide worryfree
basics such as transportation, transjers, accommodations,
some meals, baggage handling, and projessional
guides, and still allow jor personal exploration oj
individual interests. Escorts, drawnjrom the University
jaculty and staff, provide special services andjeatures
that add both personal and educational enrichment.
All members oj the University community are eligible
to participate in these tours. Non-associated relatives
andjriends are welcome as space permits. Those-other
than spouses, dependent children, or parents oj alumni-who
have no direct connection with the University
will be requested to make a tax-deductible donation oj
$50 to the University.
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Ruth Blumstein Rabinovitz '30E (Miami
Beach, Fla.).
George M. Suter '31, '34M (Port St. Lucie,
Fla.) on May 13.
Joseph A. Scarlett '33, '35G (Port Charlotte,
Fla.) on Mar. 1t.
George D. Brown '34M (Auburn, Calif.).
George Dacks '34M (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) on
Apr. 7.
Grace Tuttle Hanks' 34 (East Rochester, N . Y.)
on Apr. 26.
Helen Hart '35M (Santa Barbara, Calif.) on
Mar. 27 .
Charles H. Kosmaler '36M (Elmira, N.Y.) on
Apr. 1.
BrynolfLundholm '37GE (Rock Island, Ill.)
on Apr. 3.
Nathalie Coward Snow '37E (Auburn, Mass.)
on Mar. 19 .
Leon C. Friel '38G (Rochester) on May 22 .
William K. Fulkerson '38G (Stuart, Fla.) on
Apr. 15 .
Marie Bessey Boardway '39 (Tully, N .Y .).
Lewis W. Bradley '39G (Canandaigua, N.Y.)
on May 15 .
Classic Greece
September 27-0ctober 8
(Last call)
Eight days cruising the Greek coast and isles,
two in Athens. UR Professor Howard Merritt,
resident lecturer. Shore excursions, classic site
visits, all meals on ship included. NYC departure;
group arrangements from Rochester.
Caribbean Cruise (with West Indies Lab)
February 10-20
Ten nights, Nordic Prince (Royal Caribbean
Line) with stops at St. Thomas, Antigua, Barbados,
Martinique, and St. Croix, with special
program with faculty and students at URaffiliated
West Indies Laboratory for marine
sciences. From-and return to-Miami, with
free air from 133 cities, including Rochester.
$1 ,800-$2,600 range, with attractive rates for
third and fourth.
Sven Lekberg '39GE (Indianola, Iowa) onJan.
1t.
F. Gordon Grant '40M (Akron, Ohio) on Feb.
18.
Owen F. Sellers '40GE (Tallahassee, Fla.) on
Nov. 5, 1983.
Guy T. Bondi '41 (Webster, N.Y.) on Mar. 29 .
William V. Gioseffi ' 42 on Mar. 29.
Martin S. Barnes '43M (Burlington, Wash.) on
Mar. 26.
Carolyn Holley Britton '47 (Painted Post,
N .Y.) on Apr. 24.
Marjorie Stern Nussbaum '47 (Deal, N.J.) on
Mar. 9.
Mary E. Malcolm '49GE (Worthington,
Minn.) on Dec. 14,1983.
Catherine Halleck Schantz' 50G (Rochester)
onJune 28 .
Frank P. Rodgers '51G (Rochester) on Apr. 28.
Jeanne Springer Shelanskey , 52N (Canandaigua,
N .Y .) onJuly 7,1982.
Albert Bradford Wing '52G (Annandale, Va.)
on Apr. 13.
Mary Friend Richardson '54E (Rochester) on
Apr. 1t.
GerardJoseph Winterkorn ' 54 (Penfield,
N.Y.) on Apr. 7.
Robert S. Clark '55 (Hamburg, N.Y.) on May
23.
Nellie M. Love 'SSG, '68G (Whitesboro, N .Y.)
on Apr. 16.
Samuel E. Rosenzweig '55, '59M (San Diego,
Calif.) on May 16.
William D. Mize ' 58M (Fairview Park, Ohio)
on May 5.
Robert F. Nettnin '61 U (Rochester) on Apr. 7.
Michael G. Mason '77 (Newark, Del.) on Apr.
26 .
Family Vacation-
Maho Bay, St.John's, U.S. Virgin Islands
April 7-14
Camping with comfort. Compartmented, permanent
platform-tents with screened eating
area, cooking facilities , and private sun deck in
wooded area touching on spectacular beaches.
U .S. National Park nature trails, rangers, and
programs. Tent or cabin accommodates pair or
couple and allows for third and fourth. Space
limited. Price TBA, but approximately $650
from Rochester. Less for third and fourth.
Cote du Rhone Passage
June 3-16
Three nights Paris; five nights cruising Rhone
River from Lyons to Arles, visiting Vienne,
Valence, Viviers, Orange, and Avignon; Monte
Carlo three nights. Art, architecture, and
history back to the Romans. Lecturer en route.
$2,295 from NYC. Group arrangements from
Rochester.
Historic East Germany and Prague
August 11-22
Berlin three nights (stay in West, visit East),
Leipzig two nights, Dresden two nights, Prague
three nights. Visits to Potsdam, Wittenberg,
Weimar, and more, plus two cruises on Elbe.
Meet the ghosts of Bach, Luther, Schiller,
Goethe, and Liszt. UR lecturer en route. $2,295
from NYC.
For jurther injormation or detailed mailers (as they
become available) on any oj the trips announced, contact
John Braund, Alumni Office, University oj Rochester,
Rochester, New York 14627, (716) 275-3682.

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cotton/polyester, white with navy trim and
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18_50
15.95
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6_45
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embedded in the crown . Brushed
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10_95
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