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University of Rochester
Spring 1981
Howard Hanson Remembered
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A Testament to Hope
The University's Cancer Center
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The Herdles Go A-Hunting
Building the Memorial Art Gallery
Collection
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The Case ofthe Far-Flung Feathers
After twenty-nine years: A solution to the
Eastman Theatre Feathers Caper
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In Memoriam
Cover: Howard Hanson, 1971 photo byJim
Laragy for Upstate magazine. Opposite page:
Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman
Philharmonia in 1958.
Many of the photos illustrating" Howard
Hanson Remembered" were lent by the
University of Rochester Library and the
Eastman School of Music public relations
department. Photos illustrating "The Herdles
Go A-Hunting" were lent by the Memorial
Art Gallery. Credits: p. 2, Alexander Leventon;
pp. 6, 7 (top), 8, Louis Ouzer; pp. 9,10,
11, 13(top), Royal Chamberlain; p. 12 (bottom),John
Truini; pp. 12 (top), 13 (bottom),
Susan D. Smith; p. 15, George Lodder; p. 16,
JackJordon; p. 17, Richard Margolis.
ROCHESTER REVIEW. Spring 1981;
Editor: Margaret Bond; Copy Editor: Ceil
Goldman; Staff Photographer: Chris T.
Quillen; Staff Artist: Shirle Zimmer; Alumnotes
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Letters
When all was new
I have read with great interest Betsy Brayer's
article on the fiftieth anniversary of the River
Campus. I well remember as a boy being very
much aware of the fund-raising campaign with
the slogan "Dad, Give For Me."
Most vividly, though, I remember the fall of
1930 when the football squad under Tom Davies
moved onto the campus for pre-season training
two weeks prior to the opening ofcollege. I
believe we were the first undergraduates to occupy
the dorms and make use of the new
facilities.
The walks on the quadrangle were still
wooden boards, the graceful elms had not yet
been planted, there was not a sprig of ivy on any
of the buildings, and we even had a new trainer
named Spike Garnish. We used the cafeteria at
Strong Memorial for our training table and took
unauthorized dips in the half-filled pool trying to
cool offon those sweltering September afternoons.
Our second game was the Fauver Field
opener against Oberlin (Dr. Fauver's alma
mater). As I remember it, we beat them.
It does not seem possible that it was fifty years
ago.
Donald S. Frost '33
Southport, Connecticut
Misc1assified
The picture on page 14 of the Winter 1980-81
issue is ofmembers of the class of 1937, I feel
sure. However, I have no idea what the occasion
was.
James N. Phillips '37
Washington
Correct. Several sharp-eyed members ofthe'37 class
recognized themselves and their classmates in the picture,
which had been misidentified as the class of '34-Ed.
Goodbye, golfers
On receipt of the Winter 1980-81 issue of
Rochester Review, I pulled out of my library file
the 1949 October-November issue for comparison.
I was impressed with the fine appearance of
the current publication. The typography and articles
were excellent. The fact that my mug appeared
on the earlier issue didn't improve the
magazine. (I had been appointed chairman of
the trustees' centennial committee.)
One article in the older issue stated that tuition
was being raised (now an old story), and
that the enrollment of full- and part-time
students was 6,500. [Now it's a little over
8,000.]
The Betsy Brayer article, "The Great
Removal Project," in the current issue was a
vivid portrayal of the seizure and occupation of
Oak Hill a half-century ago. But what a shame
to evict golfers for higher education!
Ernest A. Paviour '10
Rochester
Reader Paviour doesn't admit it here, but he had a
great deal to do with the eviction ofthose golfers. He
worked long and hardfor the Greater University Campaign,
which raised the moneyfor the ugly deed. An
honorary trustee ofthe University, Paviour keeps his wit
honed by writing a weekly columnfor the Brighton­
Pittsford Post-Ed.
Fan mail
Even though I was only at River Campus as a
Marine officer trainee during World War II, I
would like to hear from any fans or teammates
who remember the "glory days" of Rochester
football, when we beat Colgate and all the other
teams. Write Bill Adler at 677 Main Street in
River Glen, Barrington, Illinois 60010.
William A. Adler '45
Barrington, Illinois
Pat on the back
I subscribe to about fifteen different
magazines and periodicals. None of the others
gives me more pleasure than the Review.
The photos, naturally, are first rate, and I admire
the quality of the writing just as much. The
article on Mt. Hope Cemetery was a delight.
John E. Tobey '42
Alexandria, Virginia
The Review likesyou too, Mr. Tobey-Ed.
The tale of the tubs
Reading "Letters" in the Winter issue, just
arrived, reminds me that I, too, had a little
something to say about the article on Mr.
Eastman's Theatre in the Summer 1980 issue.
The penultimate paragraph, about the gilded
washtubs-as-chandeliers, together with the note
about a "surprise or two" in the article heading,
suggests that no one-at least no contemporary-was
aware of the washtubs. However,
at least one classroom-full ofus freshmen in the
early 1940s was told about them-as an amusing
anecdote about the theater and Schoolprobably
by Charles Warren Fox or perhaps by
A. Irvine McHose. A real LOOK at them while
one was in the balcony revealed their true nature
quite clearly. The characteristic rings on the
bottoms, the scissored-out pasteboard "leaves"
in three or four layers around the tops, all
covered with gilt paint, made their origin obvious
to anyone who had heard the story. My
point is merely that the "discovery" should have
been a surprise to NO ONE.
Ray Graunke '44E
Albuquerque
The article suggested that most Eastman Theatregoers
were unaware that two chandeliers in the balcony
are gilt-painted washtubs, installed as hasty substitutes
when time ran out before the grand opening ofthe
theater. George Eastman was so pleased with the
replicas he canceled his orderfor the real thing-Ed.
(continued on p 40)

Howard Hanson Remembered
By Margaret Bond
From the 1928 Eastman School yearbook: Rare picture of Howard Hanson without the
goatee-proof that it did not (as Hanson facetiously said George Eastman had feared) "hide a
weak chin."
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Robert Freeman once called
Howard Hanson, his
predecessor as director ofthe
Eastman School, "a wonderful,
serious, dedicated, witty
man." Following are some
glimpses of that wonderful
and witty man, gleaned
primarily from his own
speeches and writings, and
above all, from the personal
stories that he took such
delight in telling on himself.
The Rochester Times- Union of
September 15, 1924, announced the
arrival in Rochester of Howard Hanson-lanky,
blond, six weeks shy ofhis
twenty-eighth birthday-"to take up
new duties as director ofthe Eastman
School of Music. "
It was the beginning ofa remarkable
association between the young man
and the young school that was to continue
until his death on February 26 of
this year and was to bring worldwide
distinction to them both.
In 1924 both man and school
showed great promise.
The imposing grey stone complex of
Eastman School and Eastman Theatre
had been lovingly built and lavishly
appointed by George Eastman (Time
magazine sniffily referred to it a few
years later as "a $17-million school of
music ... somewhat grandiose for a
town ofRochester's size") and, three
years after its opening in 1921, it had
already begun to attract a distinguished
faculty.
Its new young director had in 1921
become the first American composer to
win the coveted Prix de Rome, having
earlier established a successful career
as a music educator (at the age ofnineteen
he had been appointed a full professor,
and three years later a dean, at

the College ofthe Pacific in
California).
The son of Swedish immigrant
parents, Hanson was born in Nebraska
on October 28, 1896, in the town of
Wahoo, a name he customarily pronounced
with a gleeful long accent on
the second syllable. "That name was a
memorable help to us in making up
yells for the football team," he liked to
tell people. He also relished his tale of
the Wahoo superintendent ofschools
who once advised him, "Young man,
you don't have to be a musician; you
have brains. "
It was his brains, as well as his musicianship,
that brought Howard Hanson
the invitation from George
Eastman and University ofRochester
President Rush Rhees to take over
their fledgling school of music, which
was in search of a permanent director.
In 1923, following a guest-conducting
stint with the Rochester Philharmonic,
Hanson was invited to pay a social call
at Eastman's home. The conversation
quickly turned serious as Eastman and
Rhees questioned him, at length and in
depth, on his theories of music education.
Hanson's responses-concerning
the need for a professional school,
under a university umbrella, which
would train "creators, performers,
scholars, teachers, and administrators"-indicated
the kind of thinking
his hosts had been looking for.
"It took a lot of nerve to appoint a
young sprout like me, " Hanson admitted
later. But, he recalled, Eastman
had had only one reservation about
him: that the Hanson goatee, a European
import from his years in Rome,
might be hiding "a weak chin." It
wasn't. "The Eastman School in those
days was no place for a man with one
ofthose. "
In summing up the Hanson career
at the time ofhis death, Newsweek
magazine called him "perhaps the
most influential educator in American
music. " Few would disagree with that
verdict. Among other innovations,
Hanson introduced the concept of a
Doctor ofMusical Arts degree in creation
or performance, and saw it
adopted, in spite ofstrongly expressed
divergent views, at institutions across
the country. The only doctoral level
degree previously given in music had
been in musicology. One critic, he
remembered, accused him oftrying to
establish"a doctorate in piccolo playing."
"That's right," Hanson agreed,
"but only for good piccolo players. "
"At least," he recalled later, "we
ceased creating bad musicologists out
of good performers, which should
prove a boon to both musicology and
to performance."
"A great teacher, " Hanson wrote on
one occasion, "must be immersed in
his subject; he must know it intimately,
he must love it and must believe in
it, and believe in it with enthusiasm."
Hanson met the qualifications. He
prided himselfon being a "teaching
dean." "I've always gloried in it," he
said, noting that he regularly spent
many hours a week working directly
with his students.
A visitor to the School in 1939
described the director's room as a
Decked out in patriotic trappings for a Fourth
ofJuly celebration in Wahoo, Nebraska,
1907. By this time Hanson had already composed
his first piece of music.
"large office, with a rather littered desk
and two grand pianos" and commented
about its occupant, "He hears
all exams, knows every student personally,
knows where every dollar
goes. He has six pipes in which he
smokes tobacco imported from Boston.
He looks a bit like the traditional college
undergraduate while doing so."
There was no question about who
was in charge ofthe School. Hanson
was. "When you are a pioneer, you
have to take the bull by the horns," he
once said. "I'd make up my mind and
I'd do it."
But this "benevolent dictator," as he
called himself, had his own way about
how he did it. "Such a charming
man," said one charmed colleague.
"You came away from an appointment
positively elated, and only fifteen
minutes later realized that your request
had been denied."
Ruth Watanabe '52GE, head ofthe
School's Sibley Music Library,
remembers from her student days that
"we always called him Uncle Howard
behind his back. And that'sjust what
he was, a wonderful uncle to all ofus. "
The hundreds ofstudents who wrote
to him at his retirement recorded
similar sentiments: "You knew each
student's background." "You called
me by name the first time you met
me. " "You took time to care about me
in very personal ways and on more
than one occasion." "You were a king
to a little girl from Georgia who was illprepared
but willing to work like a
horse. "
Another former student wrote firmly:
"In the long view of the history of
music, no composer has done so much
over such a long period oftime in
behalfofother composers."
Before he came to Eastman, Hanson,
unlike many of his fellow
Americans, had had ample opportunity
to hear his own works performed. It
was his realization that most other
American composers did not have this
opportunity that led to the establishment
ofthe annual Festival of
American Music, which he conducted
for forty years, and the long series of
recordings by the Eastman-Rochester
Orchestra.
When Howard Hanson died last
winter, Donal Henahan, writing in the
New York Times, observed that he had
made ofRochester a "boom town for
American music" and remarked that
Hanson had been "a progressive
educator whose special province was
American music." "It is safe to say,"
Henahan continued, "that nearly
every American composer after World
War I was in his debt to some degree. "
This champion ofother American
composers was, ofcourse, a composer
ofconsiderable note himselfwho wrote
prolifically all his life. He once playfully
told a reporter, "Writing music is a
sort ofdisease; ifyou can avoid it, do."
Hanson was infected early and per-
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manently. He had composed his first
piece ofmusic by the time he was
seven: "a short and sad work in threequarter
time," he recalled. His seventh
symphony, A Sea Symphony, received its
Rochester premiere in December, just
two months before he died.
Hanson once said, gleefully
acknowledging an entirely human sentiment,
that he was a great admirer of
the music ofthe masters of the past,
but for his own sheer enjoyment, he
suggested, "give me the music of
Hanson."
It was an occasion when he was
savoring the sound ofhis own music as
played by the world's most celebrated
conductor that produced the famous
"Toscanini story":
The fiery Italian maestro had invited
Hanson to sit in on a rehearsal of
the Hanson Second Symphony by the
New York Philharmonic. When the
work was finished, Toscanini politely
asked the composer ifhe had any suggestions
about the interpretation.
Hanson said no, he'd liked it just the
way the maestro did it. "No, no, no,"
Toscanini replied, on the verge ofone
ofhis celebrated rages, "don't make
me compliments, just tell me what you
want." Again Hanson protested that
he wouldn't change a thing; it was
perfect. "Aha," said Toscanini, fixing
Hanson with the piercing eye with
which he had skewered so many musicians
before him, "I was listening on
the radio when you conducted this
work in Berlin, and you played three
bars in Section E at too fast a tempo.
Remember, young man, always playa
work the way the composer wrote it!"
Meekly, the composer agreed.
Once when he was asked to name
some ofthe high points in his career as
a composer, Hanson recalled the fifty
curtain calls elicited by the first performance
ofhis opera, Merry Mount, at
the Met. One ofthe other notable
moments, he added, was getting the
phone call from the reporter who asked
him how he felt about winning "the
prize." "What prize?" he said, and
that is how he heard about his Pulitzer,
awarded him for his Fourth
Symphony.
But his most successful work, Hanson
always said, was the Serenadefor
Flute and Orchestra, "because it persuaded
Peggie to become my wife." Hanson
had met Margaret Nelson during
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Scores by the score: From that mountain of manuscripts on the desk, Hanson (center) and his
fellow judges (from left: Selim Palmgren, professor of composition; Eugene Goossens, conductor
of the Rochester Philharmonic; and Eric Clarke, managing director of the Eastman Theatre) are
selecting the works to be presented during a 1925 concert devoted to new American music, the
beginning of a long series of such programs.
Hanson's opera, Merry Mount, based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, received fifty curtain
calls at its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1934. Lawrence Tibbett and Gladys
Swarthout were in the cast.
the 1940s at Chautauqua, where he
was conducting during the summer. It
was a courtship that had proceeded
"mostly by telephone," until, as he put
it, "I dedicated the serenade to Peggie
at Christmas, and she married me the
followingJuly." That was in 1946, and
they remained constant companions
for all the years that followed.
Peggie Hanson was with her husband
on the Eastman Philharmonia's
triumphant overseas tour during the
winter of 1961-62 and it was she who
coached their Russian interpreters in a
letter-perfect interpretation of "The
Mickey Mouse Song" during the orchestra's
daily recreational songfest.
Hanson took pride in the contribu

1938 cover photo, Northwestern University alumni magazine. Hanson was an alumnus of
Northwestern (class of 1916), which in 1925 awarded him the first of his thirty-six honorary
doctorates.
A pioneer in radio broadcasting, Hanson went on network television in 1956 as host of a series
explaining how a composer thinks. The announcer was Don Lyon, now senior public affairs officer
at the University.
tions he was able to make in the field of
international relations. (Although he
may not have done all that much to cement
them on the occasion in 1933,
when, hastily crossing a hotel lobby in
Berlin, he collided with the small dark
man with the Chaplinesque moustache
who had that day been named
chancellor ofGermany. Hitler, the
more flustered of the two, accepted
Hanson's apology, wishing him a
"good evening." But his glowering
guards were another matter. "I was
lucky they didn't arrest me," Hanson
reported.)
In 1939 Hanson was appointed a
musical consultant to the State Department.
Among his proposals was the
suggestion that student musical groups
on tour abroad could make very effective
ambassadors for their country.
In 1961 Hanson was chosen to make
such a tour himself, as conductor ofthe
Eastman Philharmonia, the School's
topnotch student orchestra he had
founded three years before.
"The friendliness we encountered-notjust
in Spain or Portugal,
but in Poland and Russia-was
fantastic, " he recalled. "The last encore
was always Sousa's Stars and Str£pes
Forever, but we were told by the State
Department man to omit it in Russia. I
said no, I was a tax-paying American
citizen and I wanted to play it. And we
did. The Russian audiences after that
would shout for what sounded like
'Amerikansky Marsh! Amerikansky
Marsh!'" As he said later about the
tour: "I wouldn't have traded that experience
for a million dollars!"
Hanson was a man offirmly held
opinions (flouting the advice of
friends, he bought one of the last ofthe
Edsels), and inveighed regularly
against the perils ofboogie-woogie,
jive, rock and roll-whatever was the
current musical choice ofthe very
young-and once gave a widely quoted
talk to the nation's leading psychiatrists
citing its potential psychic
damage. Rock may still be with us, but
he lived to see vindicated his other
crusade-for the preservation of
tonality in serious music.
After Hanson's retirement as director
ofthe School in 1964, the
Rochester Suburban Directory, in a fit
ofconfusion, listed him as "ofc wkr,
Eastman School of Music. " And in a
broad sense it was true. Hanson was
still an office worker at the School:
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1957: With Mercury Records executive Harold Lawrence, a perspiring Hanson listens intently
to the playback of ajust-recorded work by Lyndol Mitchell (left). An important element in
Hanson's vigorous championship ofAmerican music was the longstanding recording program
that made hundreds of American compositions readily available on discs.
"I glory in being a teaching dean," Hanson said. Here he pauses in his conducting to discuss an
interpretation with Ralph Winkler '60E, who later went on to be a conductor himself-ofthe
Great Falls (Montana) Symphony.
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From an office in the School's Cutler
Union he carried on his duties as director
of the newly established Institute of
American Music and continued to
direct the Festival ofAmerican Music
program until it was concluded in 1970
at the end ofits fortieth year. And
always ofcourse he continued his composing.
Among the many works he
completed during his years of retirement
was the ballet Nymph and Satyr,
his first essay into that form, given its
premiere at Chautauqua in 1979.
New interests entered his life. At the
invitation ofthe Rochester Times- Union
he embarked on a series of bi-weekly
columns ofwide-ranging commentary:
on the musical world, on politics, on
his island, on his dogs.
Hanson's "succession of brown
dogs" (one ofwhich, resoundingly
named Brian Boru Beowulf, was with
tongue-in-cheek seriousness reported
to be a Mozart-lover who "hates contemporary
music") and his seventyacre
island off the coast of Maine,
which he inherited in the mid-1950s
from an uncle, were increasingly important
themes.
Bold Island, the Hansons' very
private retreat, offered one major advantage:
The telephone worked only
for outgoing calls. This idiosyncratic
phone system offered blissful seclusion
for weeks at a time, but inevitably
caused occasional difficulties. It was
once, for instance, responsible for
Hanson's appearance at the Eisenhower
White House shod in bright
blue boat shoes, the result of an unexpected
summons from the President
that took three days to crack his insular
sanctuary, leaving no time to invent-from
among the odds and ends
ofwardrobe kept at a summer retreat
where one neither makes nor expects
formal visits-a complete costume appropriate
to the solemnity of a White
House visit. This being twenty-five
years before Midge Costanza was
photographed in her White House office
wearing blue jeans, the Hanson
sneakers attracted sidelong glances
from the presidential aides in their pin-

striped formality. But what they really
wanted to talk about was the marvel of
owning a sanctum where even the
President couldn't get at you for days at
a time.
When he was seventy-fouT, Hanson
acquired a sailboat and learned to sail
it. He described the resulting adventure
in one ofhis columns: "1 decided
to come about one way, but the
sailboat had other ideas. The sailboat
won, and I slipped quietly into the blue
North Atlantic. " Rescue, fortunately,
was at hand, in the person of a
youthful houseguest. "I could see him
proceeding toward me in 'Clara,' the
rowboat, at a speed which could only
be described as allegro con brio. ... The
young man proceeded with complete
coolness to act as though he had been a
sea captain since the age ofthree. I
served as an underwater link between
his rowboat and my sailboat and we
proceeded under his oar-power to
move adagio rna trionfale to the nearest
land."
Howard Hanson received his share
ofhonors from the world over. But he
always appeared as appreciative ofthe
home-grown variety as he was of his
international laurels. He used to point
out that Wahoo advertised itself as his
birthplace with a billboard that listed
its five famous sons (Darryl Zanuck
was one ofthe others) and had proudly
named a thoroughfare"Dr. Howard
Hanson Symphony Street." Rochester
never named a street for him (he
sometimes remarked that he thought
the alley separating the School from
the Rochester Club, where he frequently
lunched, would sound nice if it
were named Hanson Alley), but chose
instead to honor him by designating an
area in a new downtown park
"Howard Hanson Plaza." "It's
unheard of in this country to name
anything for a composer instead of a
general or a politician," he said,
touched.
The Eastman School-which earlier
had commissioned a bronze bust of
Hanson in honor ofthe School'stwentieth
anniversary (he listened to the
Retirement dinner, 1964: Among the gifts, a bound volume oftributes from hundreds of musicians
around the world and, for Mrs. Hanson, Stanley Gordon's pastel sketch ofher husband, a
preliminary study for the oil portrait that hangs in the Eastman School.
The "drip-dry diplomats," as Frederick Fennell'37E (third from left) called them, land in
Madrid, second stop in the fourteen-week, fifty-concert tour made by the Eastman Philharmonia
during the winter of 1961-62. Dr. and Mrs. Hanson and their troops were welcomed by
representatives of the American Embassy (far left).

"Lone Ranger" on the radio while he
was sitting for it) and later dedicated a
chapel in Cutler Union to him-chose
in his eightieth year to commemorate
his name in the new Howard Hanson
Recital Hall at the School, created
from an area which, Hanson recalled
in his remarks on that occasion, was
once Classroom 406, where he had
taught freshman theory fifty years
before.
Hanson birthdays were annual
causes for celebration, and clipping
files carry frequent references, during
the years when he was director, to parties
given him by his students. In later
years neighborhood youngsters took
over in marking the day, and on at
least one October 28, the Hanson
house and garden were festooned with
balloons and pumpkins as an affectionate
Happy Birthday to "Uncle
Howard."
An eighty-fifth birthday concert had
been planned for this year. With
regret, this concert will now be
presented instead as a memorial
tribute. It is scheduled for the Eastman
Theatre on Wednesday evening, October
28.
When Howard Hanson retired, an
old friend, CliffCarpenter, at that
time editor ofthe Democrat & Chronicle,
presented a talk at a farewell dinner
that ended this way:
"It is not simply that in his own
book ofvalues Dr. Hanson places a
violin above a sports car, a symphony
above a barbecue pit, and a prayer
above the latest sex movie. What
counts is that he pronounces his values
openly and unashamedly. So he
becomes a standard bearer to whom we
can rally when and ifwe too answer the
cry in our souls for something more
than the sports car, the barbecue pit,
and the sex movie.
"As a society ages, it justifies and
equivocates and excuses the worst
under the heading ofmaturity and
sophistication. We so terribly need the
passionate voice and the almost
unreasoning stubbornness ofthe
idealist. We have been lucky to have
had Howard Hanson with us for so
many years.... He gave us a song
and a prayer; and we cannot live
without either. "
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"It's unheard of for them to name anything for a composer instead of a general or a politician,"
Hanson said when the City of Rochester named this plaza for him in 1975. At the dedication, he
conducted Eastman School performers in the amphitheater overlooked by a hundred-foot space
frame.
Eightieth birthday celebration, October 28,1976. Members ofthe Eastman Philharmonia,
whom Hanson had led on the European tour fifteen years before, carne back to play for him at
the birthday concert.

A Testament to Hope
A young cancer patient and her mother share family snapshots with R.N. Helen Stutzman as an
entertaining distraction during a chemotherapy session. Cancer Center staff members know
that a cheerful, relaxed atmosphere is an important factor in lessening side effects of treatment.
At the University Medical
Center cancer patients are
learning how to fight back.
"The fears and myths surrounding
the treatment of this disease can be as
debilitating as any tumor, " says Dr.
Robert A. Cooper, Jr., director ofthe
University ofRochester's Cancer
Center.
Cancer. A disease more feared than
any other, whose very name has the
power to weaken. At the University
Medical Center, the dread is treated
side by side with the cancer itself, in a
new $6.8-million facility for research,
education, and, most emphatically,
patient care-a building that Dr.
Cooper calls "a testament to hope."
"Having cancer changes a person,"
says Roberta Strohl, a clinician with a
master's degree in oncology. "It affects
job, lifestyle, family." Strohl says that
the cancer patients who respond best to
treatment are the fighters, those who
are best equipped to deal with what is
happening to them and who are
capable of integrating their illnessand
its treatment-into the life they
carryon outside the hospital. One of
the most important things the Center
does, Strohl says, is to help patients acquire
the knowledge and understanding
that will help them to fight back effectively.
The Center had its origins in 1972,
when Dr. J. Lowell Orbison, then
dean ofthe University medical school,
asked Cooper to write a proposal for a
cancer center that would provide the
best possible treatment for patients in
the ten-county region surrounding
Rochester. Cooper, a fair, slender man
now in his late forties, decided very
early that a primary principle would be
that patients should have their lives inhibited
as little as possible by the
disease. "We are geared to the concept
ofmaximum recovery," he says, adding,
to underscore Strohl's words,
"And we are intent on merging the
therapies used in treatment with the
patient's accustomed lifestyle." .
Something else that Cooper decIded
in those early days has produced a contradiction
in terms: When it comes to
caring for patients, the Center is
decidedly decentralized. Unlike any
others ofthe network ofsome sixty
cancer centers established nationwide
during the 1970s through grants from
the National Cancer Institute, the
University ofRochester facility treats
patients in a system offive community
hospitals dotted in separate corners of
the metropolitan Rochester area. In
addition to Strong Memorial Hospital
at the University Medical Center, they
are Genesee, Highland, Rochester
General, and St. Mary's hospitals. All
ofthem, like Strong, are affiliated with
the University medical school as
-teaching hospitals.
"We didn't want to become a referral
facility in competition with other
hospitals, resulting in duplication of
resources and equipment," Cooper
says. "Instead, we envisioned a coordinated
community effort that greatly
increases benefits to the patient." How
well is it working? Says Cooper, "The
cooperation from physicians and
hospitals has been absolutely
fantastic. "
The combined hospitals ofthe
Cancer Center treat more than 3,500
patients a year, from all over the
world. More than ninety percent ofthe
Center's funding is specified for
research. Despite that limitation, the
range ofservices offered to patients
and their families is wide. "Not to
have access to all the choices of
treatment-surgery, chemotherapy,
radiotherapy-is self-defeating,"
Cooper says. "And if, as often happens,
a team decides that more than
one ofthese kinds ofcare is needed, a
facility like the Cancer Center here at
Strong offers choices all under one
roof. "
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mined by the patient's own decisions.
Roberta Strohl is coordinator ofthe
graduate program for University of
Rochester nursing students. An intense,
articulate woman, she is
wholeheartedly concerned with the
patients' need to know and to understand.
"The myths and misconceptions
that surround the treatment of cancer
are incredible. But a good nurse can
help to fight the battles that are really
important, by talking to a patient who
has heard things about cancer that are
not true. Some patients refuse treatment.
I call that the 'leave it alone'
syndrome: 'Leave it alone and it will
go away by itself.' 'Leave it alone and
I won't have to think about it.' But
they have to think about it. They have to
know about the side effects oftreatment,
and they have to be able to
restructure their lives around their
illness.
"My concern for the nurses I train is
not only that they get a superior education,
but that they also acquire the
tools they need to deal with patient
problems technically unrelated to
medicine. "
"Modes oftreatment do pose problems
for patients," says Cooper. "But
there is an urgent need for compliance;
without it, there is a substantial falloff
in the cure rates. It is very important
Kathy Reich, a researcher in experimental therapeutics, is one of over a
hundred investigators who are at work on basic research projects in a
six-story building adjoining the patient-care center.
that the Center provide an environment
that sustains the patient and the
family unit. This goal of compliance is
achieved by better understanding of
the course of the disease and its treatment,
by the best support we can give
in terms offamily counseling, comm
unity services-even such things as
transportation back and forth to the
Center. Optimal cures are obtained
when we do everything we can, in the
broadest sense, to eliminate fear and
aversion to the treatment program."
"Cancer has not yet come out ofthe
closet," affirms Bette Mullaney. "People's
lives can be destroyed by reaction
to the disease as much as by anything
else. "
Mullaney, a combination of
M*A *S*H's Major Houlihan and
your own mother, calls herself a "patient
advocate." Her function is to
manage the ambulatory care clinic and
to coordinate the services ofthe Center
so they all work together. "I guess you
can say that I am assertive about enforcing
policy for the good of the patient,"
she says with a smile. "The
Center is a perfect example ofthe
working ofpatients' rights. Sometimes
a husband will ask, 'Will they give my
wife chemotherapy before they talk to
us?' No. We will not. Nothing is done
here without the patient's agreement
and complete understanding ofwhat is
going to happen. "
One ofthe main problems in obtaining
patient compliance revolves
around the side effects of radio- and
chemotherapy. Says Strohl, "They've
heard things-that your hair falls out,
that other unpleasant things happen,
that the treatment is worse than the
disease. A large part ofour function
here is to convince the patient and the
family that ifhair can fallout, it can
also grow back in again; that unpleasant
side effects can be mitigated-in
sum, that the treatment most definitely
is not worse than the disease. "
John Loughner, head ofthe pharmacy,
is engaged in another kind of
battle against the side effects of
chemotherapy. Modest, gentle, and
concerned, Loughner has a doctorate
in pharmacology and, among other
elements in his background, a period
spent in Alaska caring for the Eskimos.
Three years ago he moved from the
pharmaceutical department at Strong
Memorial Hospital to the Cancer
Center. He finds his current position
"ajob with emotional fufillment." "I'll
never have another one like it," he
says. "This is the real challenge for
me."
One of Loughner's functions is .
establishing the viability ofdrugs that
John Loughner, head of the Cancer Center pharmacy, doesn't just pass
out pills and let it go at that. He considers patient education an important
function of his job. Here he and a patient are discussing the
benefits of a medication that will help relieve symptoms of nausea
associated with her treatment.
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have not yet been marketed. "These
are drugs that have been approved by
the National Cancer Institute but for
which we need further data on effectiveness.
We are trying to provide
answers to questions like 'Is this drug
workable by itself, does it need to be
combined with other drugs, or does it
work best with other modes oftreatment?'"
"One ofour vital concerns is researching
ways oflessening the effects
ofchemotherapy," Loughner adds. "It
is true that there is some nausea and
vertigo associated with anti-cancer
drugs. But there are a number ofsimple
things that work very well in helping
to alleviate them: giving the patient
hard candy, or playing tapes ofsome of
the patient's favorite music, for
example."
One ofthe most important ways in
which the Center works to insure the
cooperation ofits patients is through a
well-staffed social-work unit. Jim
J anetakos, a large, ebullient
psychiatric social worker who heads
that service, describes his unit's role
this way: "In a sense, we are advocates
against the system-the system of
isolation, the system of the physician
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being the sole person concerned with
patient care. We feel that cancer must
be treated by non-medical means as
well as medical. In our unit we aim
toward cure, stabilization, and prevention.
"
Early on, during the second visit to
the hospital, a new patient meets
J anetakos or one ofhis colleagues, who
takes a psycho-social history and consults
with family members, all the
while working toward establishing an
atmosphere oftrust. "Often, a patient
will hesitate to ask a doctor something
because he or she doesn't want to take
up the physician's time or maybe worries
about sounding stupid. Well, in
cancer treatment there's no such thing
as a dumb question. We work with
these questions and with these fears
both in and out ofthe hospital. We
work on returning patients to nearnormal
functioning. We try to help
them deal with a life-threatening illness
while maintaining their equilibrium.
"Cancer is unique. It's not like having
a chronic condition like heart
disease, nor is it like a short-term illness.
Always in the back ofthe
patient's mind, the family's mind, the
employer's mind is that thing.
A case of adoption (above and facing page):
Students at Craig Hill School in suburban
Greece voted to "adopt" the Cancer Center as
the object of their community service activities.
Dr. Robert A. Cooper,Jr., director of
the Center, was on hand to greet the
youngsters when they delivered Halloween
pumpkins. Staff member Bette Mullaney took
on the job of stringing up their handmade
Thanksgiving decorations.

"Take a DEEEEP breath, Doctor!" Dr. Martin Klemperer, head ofpediatric hematology-oncology, had just been examining this young patient
when the tables got turned. Easy give-and-take between patients and staff is an important principle in the operation of the Cancer Center.
"We make home visits, and we have
a home hospital program. Ifwe are involved
in end-stage disease, we have a
program that continues to follow family
members after a death has occurred,
so they don't have to deal with
strangers. We also offer financial
counseling (and, by the way, we have
never turned a patient away because of
inability to pay). I guess you could call
us facilitators, coordinators. And
yes-I love myjob."
Giant strides are being made at
Rochester and at other institutions
across the country toward finding the
cures for cancer. In the meantime, the
Cancer Center at the University of
Rochester is tackling the immediate
problem of dealing with the disease in
all its facets. Taking the fear and anxiety
out of the closet, fighting the
hopelessness that surrounds the
diagnosis of this most "dread disease"
is an essential element in the Center's
philosophy. It is perhaps best summed
up by the recovered patient who said:
"Cancer? Yeah, they told me I got it
and I remembered a fella I knew who
had the same thing. Spent ten years
dyin' and then went back to work."
Mary W. Stanton
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the Herdle sisters. (He once escorted
Isabel through the medieval collection
ofthe Metropolitan Museum, an area
heavy with]. Pierpont Morgan's personal
holdings. He described each object
in turn, pronouncing on its
authenticity or lack thereof in a husky
whisper that penetrated the galleries
beyond. Some works evoked a gleeful
"It's a fake! It's a fake!," others a
respectful "intact," his paeon of praise
for works untouched by restoration or
repair.)
He had been a friend ofthe Gallery
for many years before his sudden death
in 1949 catapulted the last such notable
and wide-ranging art collection onto
the market. There was a time, before
soaring prices and prohibitions against
exporting national treasures cut offa
flourishing market, when a knowledgeable
dealer could be the best ally
an art museum had. Brummer's value
to the Rochester Gallery lay in several
areas. He knew the gaps in the collection
(they were legion) and suggested
works that were suitable and affordable-sometimes,
it is suspected, even
putting them aside and not showing
them to competitors until the Herdles
had had a chance at them. Before 1938
the Gallery had no endowment for acquistions,
yet Brummer cheerfully accepted
extended time payments. Most
important were his catholic taste as a
collector and his knowledge and integrity
as a scholar, as evidenced by
the fact that he was once offered the
The Memorial Art Gallery has an unusually
distinguished collection of medieval art. The
Brummer sale, from which the Herdles purchased
this rare and valuable French fresco,
helped to make it so.
directorship ofthe Budapest Museum
in his native Hungary.
Part sleuth himself, Brummer knew
how to engage others as unlikely allies
in his quest for art. The rabbit hunters
ofprovincial France, for example,
were alerted to be on the lookout, in
their forays into deserted fields, for'
anything that smacked ofcarved stone.
It was through tactics like these that
Brummer was once able to reconstruct,
from a seemingly miscellaneous group
offragments, an almost complete,
richly sculptured apse (a semicircular
projection ofa church building), which
he then presented to the French
government.
Brummer sometimes went on these
hunting expeditions himself, and on
one occasion invited Mrs. Moore and
Miss Herdle to accompany him on an
excursion memorable, iffor nothing
else, for its marathon quality. The party
offour (Brummer's secretary was
with them) traveled day and night
throughout France in two cars with
four chauffeurs, eating and sleeping in
the vehicles as the two sets of chauffeurs
spelled each other at the wheel.
The sleeping may have suffered, but
the eating did not: Brummer was a
gourmet cook.
The auction ofBrummer's vast collections
that took place after his death
was actually three sales oftwo to four
days each, scheduled over a period of
three months in the spring of 1949.
They were attended by representatives
ofevery major museum in the world,
as well as by wealthy collectors in
search ofbibelots for the coffee table.
Although competition was intense, the
end ofthe season was approaching and
acquisition budgets were nearly exhausted,
creating opportunities ofa
lifetime at prices never to be seen
again. The result was a bonanza of
bargains, not just bargains in terms of
today's inflated market, but bargains
compared with the price tags Brummer
himselfhad placed on the works.
(Since he considered each object an investment
on which a certain return was
expected, his practice was to raise the
price each year an object did not sell.)
One of the biggest beneficiaries of
this collector's paradise was the small,
modestly financed university museum
from upstate New York represented by
the Herdle sisters. Years of intensive
study under experts like]oseph Brummer,
coupled with years ofintensive
struggle against the inadequacies ofa
scanty budget, had taught the Herdles
how to recognize-and take advantage
of-the unsuspected treasures that
others might overlook. They were past
mistresses, par excellence, at getting the
most for their money.
The magnitude ofthe Gallery's coup
may be gleaned from the fact that its
representatives headed homeward
from the sale with almost every artwork
they had set their sights
on-fifty-four pieces in all-for a total
expenditure ofa mere $13,865, the
price ofa minor trinket or two today.
The book value (a realistic, average
appraisal at the time they were purchased)
came to more than $180,000.
Isabel Herdle estimates that those
same fifty-four objects would fetch
over $2 million today, assuming they
were available at all. The time span
covered by the acquisitions was from
the tenth century B.C. to the seventeenth
century A.D.
Even for bargains, cash in 1949 was
hard to come by. Fortunately, the
Gallery had two angels waiting in the
wmgs.
One, a tall man customarily garbed
in all but the coldest weather in a white
suit and Panama hat, was R. T.
Miller, who on occasion would visit the
Gallery and ask to be shown around.
As he prepared to leave, the scene was
invariably the same: "I'm going home
now and scrape the bottom ofthe barrei,"
he would announce. A few days
later a check for $5,000, or sometimes
$10,000, would arrive, accompanied
by the single stipulation that the
money be spent "immediately" on objects
ofan educational nature. It was
some ofMiller's "educational money"
that the Herdles took to New York.
The other angel was]ames Sibley
Watson, a long-standing patron,
whose late wife, Emily Sibley Watson,
was donor ofthe original Gallery
building. Mrs. Moore was able to borrow
the rest ofthe funds from him.
When, months later, she went to pay
back the loan, Watson waved her off
with, "I guess I can give it as well as he
[Miller] can."
Modestly lined purse in hand, Mrs.
Moore and Miss Herdle set offfor the
first ofthe three Brummer auctions. It
is perhaps not surprising that their
haul from this first sale was chiefly
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medieval. Both Herdles were
medievalists by background and inclination
and besides, there was that
marvelous space, the Gallery's Fountain
Court, patterned after a medieval
great hall, in which to display artworks
ofits own period.
Following the Brummer sale, the
medieval collection was the strongest
department among the Gallery's
holdings, and today is considered one
ofthe finest among university art
museums in the country.
Typical of the Herdles' bargains
(although atypical in being from a later
period) was a pair of seventeenthcentury
Portuguese chairs, mates to
those in the Victoria and Albert and
the Metropolitan museums. When the
gavel fell and the chairs were the
Gallery's at $120 each, Perry
Rathbone, director of the St. Louis
Museum (and later ofthe Boston
Museum of Fine Arts), leaned over to
murmur, "We paid a cool $16,000
apiece for the ones we have."
Among others ofthe cache ofobjects
the Gallery acquired at that first sale
(all but one at a price ofless than
$1,000; most are now valued in the
five figures) was a small red alabaster
pyxis, or toilet jar, purchased because
it was intact and "looked like a good
one."
The sisters were right; it was a good
one. In 1974, G. Kenneth Sams, a
classical archeologist from the U niversity
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
visited the Gallery. Upon spotting an
ambiguously labeled "Babylonian
Toilet]ar," he exclaimed enigmatically,
"Oh, thatJs where that is." Thejar,
it turned out, had been well known to
specialists in the late 1920s as "the
Herzfeld Pyxis, " a splendid example of
the Neo-Hittite culture of North Syria,
dating from the tenth to the seventh
centuries B. C. Later researchers had
lost track ofits whereabouts but still
knew the pyxis through drawings,
photographs, and articles. Until Sams
recognized it, it had not been known
that the famous Herzfeld Pyxis had
passed quietly in 1944 into the extensive
collections of]oseph Brummer. In
a recent issue ofthe Gallery'sjournal,
PorticuS J Sams writes a definitive article:
"The Herzfeld Pyxis: North
Syrian Sculpture in Miniature. "
Part two of the sale brought much
the same results: an !talo-Byzantine
fresco panel; a set of thirteen Coptic
textiles; a marble sculpture ofthe
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Virgin and Child, of the school of the
Florentine artist Nino Pisano; a silver
chalice and paten; more furniture; and
a seventeenth-century French portrait
of a lady, once attributed to Mathieu
Le Nain.*
"It was a matter ofbeing aware of
every object as it came on the auction
block," Mrs. Moore recalls, "because
many times the order ofsale was
changed and sometimes an item would
appear that wasn't even listed in the
catalogue." After each major piece was
auctioned, the specialists would
depart, leaving only those who, like
Mrs. Moore and Miss Herdle, never
budged.
"Do you need a Roman sarcophagus?"
the director of the Walters
Art Gallery in Baltimore asked them
during one ofthese lulls when an
unheralded specimen went on the
block. Mrs. Moore put in a test bid of
$60 and the sarcophagus was hers. It
cost more than that to transport the
heavy limestone coffin to Rochester,
she remembers.
Among the lucky catches was the
large twelfth-century fresco of a
Madonna and Child that appeared on
the block among the classical rather
than the medieval objects. The Gallery
had had a reserve on the fresco for
several years but the price, particularly
as it escalated, according to the Brummer
custom, was out ofsight. When
the fresco came trundling out amid
Roman senators and Corinthian columns,
Isabel Herdle nudged her sister.
"Look what they're bringing out!"
Miss Herdle was not the only surprised
observer. The Boston Museum
of Fine Arts already owned companion
frescoes that came, like the Madonna
and Child, from a church, later
destroyed by American bombing during
World War I, located in the small
French village ofAudignicourt, near
Laon. Boston's curator was taken
aback to see the center panel ofthe
series appear without warning, particularly
since he had already spent his
allowance. He scooted from the auction
room to telephone Boston for
more money, but on his return the
centerpiece was gone, gaveled down to
the bidders from Rochester.
The Boston curator was a graceful
•Brummer ordinarily didn't like painting, except
forfresco, but this particular work hung in his
bedroom.
Also from the Brummer sale: painted wood
representation of St. Crispin, patron saint of
shoemakers. Thirty-three inches high, it was
once carried in religious processions.
loser. :fIe later sent a monograph and
photographs, accompanied by a pencil
sketch made of the church by a German
prisoner ofwar, to the ladies who
got there first.
Among the pieces that got
away-but not forever, it
developed-was one ofthose Roman
senators. As the close ofthe heady auction
neared, a young couple seated
next to Mrs. Moore and Miss Herdle
asked their advice about bidding on a
full-sized, toga-clad figure as an ornament
for .their Long Island estate. The
Herdles told the couple the only reason
they weren't bidding was that they were
almost at the end of their funds. The
last the sisters saw ofthe togatus was a
glimpse ofits head resting on the
tailgate ofa station wagon setting off
down Fifty-third Street on its way to
Long Island. "!fyou ever want to sell,
give us first refusal, " Miss Herdle
called.
Twenty-five years later, the togatus's
owner, now a widow, appeared at the
Gallery. The sculpture, which had
most recently spent a number ofyears
greening in a mossy South Carolina
garden, was once again for sale.
Restored to its original milky marble,
the togatus now greets all visitors from
its position ofhonor at the head ofthe
grand staircase sweeping up from the
Gallery's lower floor.
Sometimes the greatest finds are the
ones you just stumble upon. Such was
the case with the "Doubting Thomas"
capital, which Isabel Herdle bumped
into near the very end ofthe sale, when

This life-sized Roman sculpture, carved in the
second century A.D., spent years greening in
a mossy garden before the Gallery purchased
and restored it.
time and money were growing equally
short.
Some ofthe objects were simply too
heavy to be moved easily to the Parke
Bernet Galleries on Madison Avenue,
where most ofthe sale took place, and
prospective buyers were invited to inspect
them in Brummer's own gallery
on Fifty-third Street. Ofparticular interest
was a lively sculptured depiction
of The Legend ofSt. Thomas. Originally
carved to decorate the top of a column
(or as some researchers now think, to
serve as a bracket supporting a cornice)
in a medieval French church, the
sculpture was sitting, blanched and
dusty, on the crowded floor. Now,
even the most carefully trained and
conscientious scholar has the occasional
accident. Isabel was horrified at
the small clink she heard as she was
moving around the capital, and more
horrified to discover that the origin of
the clink was a detached fragment of
the sculpture now lying at her feet on
the floor. Examining the fragment,
figuring how she might be able to
relive the last five minutes and have it
all come out differently, she noticed
that the broken-off piece appeared to
be part ofa subsequently added
coating, and that underneath were
traces ofthe brightly colored paint with
which almost all medieval sculpture
was covered when it was new.
A twelfth-century sculpture bearing
its original polychrome is a rare find
indeed. Miss Herdle quietly dropped
her raincoat over the capital. Then she
sat on it. (At two feet high, with a nice
flat top, it made a reasonably comfortable
seat.) Thus began an extended
ploy designed to head offwould-be
competitors.
With less than $3,000 left in their
kitty, Mrs. Moore and Miss Herdle
knew the only way they were going to
keep the Doubting Thomas within
their reach was to discourage undue interest
on the part ofother bidders. The
best way to do this is not to appear too
interested oneself. "Whenever anyone
came by to look at the capital, we'd
start talking about something else.
There was a silver processional cross
nearby, and most often we'd pick on
that to talk about, " Miss Herdle
recalls. "Finally, Charlie Cunningham
ofthe Wadsworth Athenaeum, who'd
been watching us very carefully, offered,
'We'll stay offyour capital if
you stay offour cross. ' That narrowed
the competition to Wellesley, which
also wanted the capital badly, and
Honolulu, which would ofcourse have
a shipping problem with the heavy
limestone piece, as we helpfully
pointed out to them."
The bidding advanced $100 at a
time to $1,600, then by fifty-dollar increments.
Unexpectedly, the attendant
taking the bids misconstrued a nod and
raised the ante by another hundred.
This discouraged Wellesley and the
capital was Rochester's at a modest
$1,950.
Isabel and Gertrude passed much of
the summer of 1949 painstakingly dabbing
and pecking with orange sticks at
the powdery surface ofthe Doubting
Thomas, until at the end the sculpture
stood revealed in a brilliant coat of
remarkably well-preserved
polychrome. The Doubting Thomas is
now one ofthe Gallery's prized possessions
and enjoyed a recent moment of
glory when it was borrowed by the
Metropolitan Museum ofArt for its
landmark exhibition, "The Year
1200," and given a featured spot both
in the exhibition and in the film
documenting it.
But the moment ofglory didn't
come until after the sculpture had
passed a stringent test that was also a
nail-biting cliffhanger: A twentiethcentury
doubter questioned the
authenticity of the Doubting Thomas.
During the summer of 1967, when
the Gallery was closed for a major construction
and renovation project, the
art historian Leon Pressouyre wrote to
Susan E. Schilling, research curator at
the Gallery. In the course of investigations
at the Biblioth'eque Nationale in
Paris, Pressouyre had become convinced
that the Gallery's Doubting
Thomas had come from the church of
Saint Martin de Candes at Indre-et­
Loire-which now had an identical
capital in its place. One or the other
was surely a fake. And Pressouyre
suspected it was the Gallery's. The
church had been renewed in the 1880s
during a wave ofovereager restoration,
sparked by Viollet-Ie-Duc, in
which "worn out" originals were often
replaced by spanking new reproductions.
The twelfth-century sculpture
would be identifiable by characteristic
fossils in its stone that would be missing
from a copy. Upon compietioll of
the course he was teaching at Yale,
Pressouyre would detour through
Rochester to check out the capital.
Checking it out wasn't as easy as it
might seem. The Gallery collection
had been dispersed for the duration of
the construction. Many ofthe paintings
were on loan to other museums.
Some ofthe other pieces were stored in
bank vaults; still others were in the
hands ofconservators. Only the largest
and heaviest remained, protected inside
a huge crate the size ofa small
room that had been constructed in the
middle ofthe Fountain Court. The
Doubting Thomas was deep within the
crate. On the morning Pressouyre arrived,
Isabel Herdle and Susan Schilling
were both in attendance-"holding
our breath the whole time," as they
later recalled-while the maintenance
staffopened the big box to allow their
distinguished visitor, flashlight in
hand, to crawl inside its darkened interior.
After what seemed an eternity,
the verdict resounded from within:
"Eureka, I found a fossil! You have
the original! "
Joseph Brummer would have known
that all along.
Betsy Brayer, afrequent contributor to the
Review, is writing a history ofthe Memorial Art
Gallery.
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ing BROADCAST as one ofa series
honoring various countries. (I believe
we played the Korean national anthem
for this part ofthe program.)
It was during the second halfof the
concert, while the soloist was singing
"Four Serious Songs," that I looked
over at Ed in the percussion section.
Ed was looking pretty serious himself,
standing there pale as my pillowcase,
like someone in a trance. He stared
back at me and slowly shook his head.
His lips formed "No."
But ofcourse it was too late. Gerry
was up in the rafters, beyond the recall
ofsecond thoughts.
At the "right" moment (that is,
when the first cannon shots went off),
Gerry did his stuff. He slid open the
case and let the feathers fly.
Now then, what we DID NOT take
into account was the heat given offby
the stage lighting. The feathers went
UP instead ofdown, and wafted out
over the audience. Those of us who
were on stage heard the clamor
BEFORE we saw the feathers. What
we DID see was Leinsdorftrying to
crank his head around to find out what
all the noise was about while at the
same time still trying to conduct.
Those same stage lights that had
sent the feathers up in the air also lit
them beautifully when they finally
came into the view of the orchestra,
which slowly began to break up.
By this time most of the audience
had caught the joke, and those who
weren't fleeing the feathers were just
sitting there laughing out loud as hard
as they could. Professor Charles Warren
Fox was seen rushing up the aisle
with a handkerchiefover his face, guffawing
helplessly. (This was one
reason Howard Hanson-then director
ofthe School-called Fox in the
next day to see ifHE had had anything
to do with the incident. He hadn't, except
that one ofour group had dropped
him a little hint a couple ofdays
earlier, which he immediately said he
had never heard.)
As the feathers continued to fall,
fewer and fewer members ofthe orchestra
were still playing: Wind
players can't blow and laugh at the
same time. As the" 1812" ground to a
halt, the disarray was complete, and
the feathers were all about.
LeinsdorfSTORMED offthe stage!
I was frightened. I don't think any
ofus had expected this much to-do. He
soon reappeared with a GUN (Was it a
toy? Was it real?) and went directly to
concertmaster Millard Taylor, and in
a bit ofbusiness that looked like a
handshake passed the gun to Taylor,
who took it and put it to his temple in a
gesture of suicide. I believe it was at
that point that I glimpsed the beginnings
of what might have been a smile
on Leinsdorf's face, and I began to feel
a bit relieved.
After the concert we all regrouped at
Macalousos for a lot ofbeer and a lot of
talk about what had happened. NOT
ONE PERSON suspected any ofus,
and you can believe we never gave any
indication we knew anything more
than anybody else.
The next day, Dr. Fox, as I said,
was called in to Dr. Hanson's office,
and also, I believe, Professor Charles
Riker, who was under equally unjust
suspicion.
Dr. Hanson found it necessary to
announce that it was UNTRUE that
the orchestra had scheduled the Water
Music for the next concert.
A couple ofdays later I was standing
by the bulletin board when I overheard
Dr. Hanson mentioning that all they
found up in the ceiling was "a bag and
a pillowcase." Too bad they didn't
check inside the case. Neatly sewn
there-just the week before by my
mother's loving hand-were the initials
R.H.S.!
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Winter Carnival
What do you do about winter in the snowy Northeast? You meet it on its
own ground and have yourself a Winter Carnival. This year's midwinter
celebration, which was open to the entire University community,
encompassed such varied events as dances, magic shows, films, a
B.S. degrees awarded." In addition,
he said, not all students with B.S.
degrees in engineering actually entered
the profession; an estimated ten to fifteen
percent go into other careers such
as law, business, economics, medicine,
and dentistry, among others.
A shortage of engineers in the
private sector, where new programs
are started only if manpower is
available to staffthem, could produce
"some erosion in the commercial sector
and a further downturn in innovative
programs that lead to increased
productivity, " Thompson
said.
The solution, according to Thompson,
"will require the best consortium
ofacademic, industrial, and federal
minds to apply the necessary
resources," including more funds for
basic research.
Infant mathematicians
For the past ten years, Professor
Herbert Ginsburg has been exploring
"the secret intellectual life" of
preschool and elementary school
mathematicians.
Working under a grant from the
National Institute ofEducation,
faculty story-telling hour, a gymnastics demonstration, an indoor
baseball game, and among the outdoor events, a hotly contested dogless
dogsled race without the sled. Those who made it through to Sunday
morning got to go to the Survivors' Breakfast.
Ginsburg, professor of education and
ofpsychology at the Graduate School
of Education and Human Development,
is trying to understand why it is
that so many people have trouble
learning math in school.
In earlier research, Ginsburg found
that children from a variety ofcultural
backgrounds have certain inherent
mathematical abilities.
Mathematical thinking begins early
in life, even in infancy, he concludes.
Young children already know some
arithmetic before they start school and
may continue to use their own techniques
even after the teacher has
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taught them the "right" way.
Before schooling begins, children
possess several kinds of intuition concerning
numbers. Ginsburg found that
from age three they know the concepts
of "more" and "less." In one ofhis experiments,
he placed four or five pennies
in random fashion on a dish. A
different number of pennies was placed
on an identical dish and the child was
asked to point to the dish with "more"
penmes.
According to Ginsburg, a surprising
n umber and variety ofchildren performed
this task well, including
middle-class American children,
lower-class American children, and
children from two illiterate cultures he
studied on the Ivory Coast of Africa.
Preschool American children
showed that they also know something
about addition and subtraction and
that they can solve simple addition
problems by making sensible use of
counting. Similar addition strategies
were used by the unschooled and illiterate
African children in Ginsburg's
cross-cultural research in Africa.
Once in school, young students continue
to use their own invented
strategies, often ending up with a
hybrid ofinformal methods like finger
counting and schooled procedures.
Often these intuitions and invented
strategies are so fundamentally sound
that they can be used as the basis for
formal instruction. The teacher can
build on what the child already knows.
The implication ofthe cross-cultural
studies, Ginsburg points out, is that
"certain basic cognitive abilities are
present in all people, regardless of
culture. "
That being the case, how come some
people have problems learning math
when they get older? That's what
Gi.nsburg is trying to find out.
New trustee
Edward E. David, Jr., president of
Exxon Research and Engineering
Company and former science adviser
to the President, has been elected a
trustee of the University.
Previously, he had been a member
ofthe electrical engineering advisory
committee of the College ofEngineering
and Applied Science.
An executive of Bell Telephone
Laboratories from 1950 to 1970, he
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joined Exxon Corporation in 1977.
From 1970 to 1972 he was director of
the U. S. Office of Science and
Technology in Washington and
science adviser to the President. In
1973 he became executive vice president
for research, development, and
planning of Gould, Inc.,
and president of
Gould Laboratories.
David has been
elected to membership
in the country's
most prestigious
societies for scientists
and engineers: the
National Academy
of Sciences and
the National
Academy of
Engineering.
He is a fellow
of, among other
organizations,
Edward E. David,]r. the American
Academy
ofArts and Sciences and the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, which he served as a director,
president, and chairman.
David also is chairman ofthe Board
ofTrustees ofAerospace Corporation
and the U.S. representative to the
NATO Science Committee. He holds
six honorary degrees.
On dressing philosophically
You think university departmental
newsletters are academic, highly
technical, and dull and stuffy to boot?
You haven't seen the one published by
the Department ofPhilosophy, a copy
ofwhich has fallen into the Review's
collective hands.
Along with news notes on publications,
lectures, and similar matters, the
newsletter included a memo from the
department secretary citing the
University's dress code for employees,
which, although "intentionally
broad," does give departments leave,
where deemed necessary, "to establish
rules and regulations regarding dress
specific to the function they perform. "
"In keeping with this mandate," the
secretary observed, and "not wanting
to overburden our already overburdened
acting chairman, I have
taken it upon myself. .. to make the
following observations and recommendations....
This list is not meant to
criticize but only to guide and instruct,
as should be the purpose of all U niversity
departments. Initials have been
used to protect the innocent:
"L.W.B.: Neat, but will improve
when marigolds once again replace the
current dandelions in his lapel.
"R.E.: Impeccable. No doubt
spends far too much ofhis meager
salary on clothes.
"R. F. : A little preppy but acceptable.
Can't say much else since one
never knows what he knows.
"R.L.H.: Ditto for preppiness.
Needs only a white dove in his sports
jacket pocket to complete the image.
"H.E.K.: A little squarish but is no
doubt the well-dressed man on his
farm.
"R.M.: Much improved since he's
donned real shoes over sneakers.
"R.T.: No comment.
"C.M.T.: Tidy. Despite
philosophical interests, displays no
mind/body conflict.
"P.W.: 'Aesthetically' pleasing.
"Graduate students (in general):
Tee hee.
"Office staff: Strives for proper
blend of University policy and
philosophical thought. Often succeeds.
"One should be reminded that in
keeping with'dress specific to the function
they perform,' it is recommended
that, in the best oftradition, proper
philosophical garb is the flowing toga.
Please see to it that the department
keeps up with the times."
Seward papers
In the spring of 1840, the"great
Sachems and Warriors of the Senecas
or Six Nations ofIndians" applied to
N ew York State Governor William
Henry Seward (later to be Lincoln's
Secretary of State) for advice in setting
aside the treaty in which they had two
years before ceded to the United States
government the last oftheir lands in
the state.
In the flowing copperplate handwriting
ofhis private secretary,
Seward wrote back sympathetically,
noting that "I have sometimes seen
with regret the sale oflands by Indian
tribes who having adopted the customs
ofcivilized life were beginning to experience
its advantages and enjoy its

"I've got it! I've got it!" What these children have come up with are possible solutions to some
ofthe problems they-and everybody else-are likely to encounter in everyday dealings with
their fellow human beings. The problem-solving session is part of a program conducted by the
University's Primary Mental Health Project that is designed to teach children how to resolve
conflicts with their peers without either fighting it out physically or running to an adult for intervention.
Chris Composto '83 (above) is one offour Rochester undergraduates enrolled in a
course in community psychology who are participating in the program. The problem-solving
technique they are teaching their young clients is based on a series of steps that successful adult
problem-solvers usually go through automatically: defining the problem; deciding on the goal;
stopping to think before acting; coming up with as many solutions as possible; thinking ahead
to what might happen next after applying a solution; and, after hitting on a really good solution-trying
it out.
comforts. I have, moreover, always
lamented and condemned the frauds
practised upon such tribes by agents of
the Government and parties interested
in procuring the relinquishment of
their lands. "
Seward concluded, however, that
the treaty "has become the law ofthe
land. It does not rest with the State
authorities to question the fairness of
the treaty much less to resist its execution....
!fyou contemplate an appeal
to the justice or magnanimity ofthe
Federal Government ... I certainly
shall not interpose any obstacles to
such a measure, and I earnestly hope
that ifyour People have suffered any
wrong in the negotiation that wrong
may be speedily and effectually
redressed. "
Two years later the treaty was
renegotiated, and the Senecas were
able to retain two tracts ofland, the
Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations.
This glimpse into N ew York State
history-on an issue that is still being
debated a century and more latercomes
from one of the documents
preserved in the University's collection
of the papers of William H. Seward.
Some 150,000 items in all, constituting
the major Seward archive in
existence, the Seward collection is being
published this spring in a
microfilm edition to make it more accessible
to scholars throughout the
world. Included in addition to some
50,000 letters are Seward's papers as
Governor of New York, abolitionist
Senator, and Secretary of State. (It
was while he held the latter position
that he purchased from Russia, for the
sum of$7.2 million, what was then
known derisively as Seward's Icebox
and is now considerably more respectfully
called the State ofAlaska.)
The Seward papers were presented
to the University some thirty years ago
by gift and bequest of William Henry
Seward III, grandson ofthe first
William Henry. The collection is in the
Department ofRare Books, Manuscripts
and Archives at Rush Rhees
Library.
Support for the humanities
The humanities are very much alive
at Rochester, says]. Paul Hunter, new
dean of the College of Arts and
Science. Speaking to an alumni luncheon
meeting in Rochester recently,
Hunter said that he sees hope for a
renewal of interest in the humanities
after a decade in which students nationwide
have been turning to studies
that are more demonstrably career
oriented.
Among the straws in the wind that
Hunter cited as auguring a healthier
future for the humanities were two new
grants specified for the support of
humanistic studies at the University: a
$750,000 grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and a $150,000
gift establishing an endowed scholarship
fund.
The fourth major award to the
University made by the Mellon Foundation
since 1975, the most recent
grant is intended primarily to support
the appointment ofoutstanding young
faculty members in the humanities.
Part ofthe funds may be used to provide
mid-career training for present
faculty members in their own or
related fields. The grant is one ofsixteen
made by the Mellon Foundation
in a new program to aid major independent
research universities.
The new scholarship program
honors the memory of Fred]ohn
Galloway, whose"abiding personal
interest in the study ofEnglish
literature" inspired his daughter,
Elizabeth Galloway Smith'37, to
establish a fund to assist undergraduates
majoring in English.
Initiated with a gift of$150,000, the
Fred]ohn Galloway Scholarship Fund
is the University's first endowed
scholarship program for undergraduate
study in that field.
Mrs. Smith is the wife of George
Graham Smith, a 1911 graduate and
honorary trustee ofthe University.
Writers Workshop
The eleventh annual Writers
Workshop, sponsored by University
College, is scheduled]uly 5-11. The
intensive week-long program includes
daily classes, individual counseling,
lectures, discussions, and evening
readings.
This year's faculty includes:
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poetry, William Meredith and
Stanley Plumly; fiction, Toni Cade
Bambara and Keith Mano; and nonfiction,
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.
Among guest lecturers will be
novelists Harry Mark Petrakis and
R.V. Cassill, poets Dolores Kendrick
and Earle Birney, and editor Matthew
Stevenson.
More information is available from
Dean Robert F. Koch, University
College of Liberal and Applied
Studies, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York 14627.
Two new freebies
Rochester Research Review is a twicea-year
newsletter designed to
highlight some of the research projects
being undertaken at the University.
The first issue r:eports on some
research in the basic sciences,
medicine, engineering, education,
and management. Later issues will
cover other areas as well.
Ifyou're curious about ways the
campus has changed since your student
days, A Walking Tour ofthe River
Campus will answer some ofyour
questions. Designed primarily for
visitors and new members of the
University community, it offers a
detailed map and capsule descriptions
ofcampus buildings.
Both publications are available on
request to interested alumni. Write to
Office of University Communications,
107 Administration Building,
University of Rochester, Rochester,
New York 14627.
In the media
Readers of national publications, as
well as ofscientific and professional
journals, regularly come across
references to the scholarly activitiesand
professionaljudgments-of
people at the University. Following is a
cross section of some ofthose that you
might have seen in recent months:
.Advice for the PM: When British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
wanted advice on how to beat inflation,
she sought it from economist Karl
Brunner, whose Shadow Open Market
Committee has been trying to tell the
Federal Reserve how to solve the same
monetary problems Britain faces. The
Wall StreetJournal recently reported that
Thatcher asked Brunner to suggest
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British economists as possible advisers,
and she subsequently named one of
Brunner's choices-Alan Walters-as
her personal economist.
.Laser Lab: "Experiments run at
Rochester in October indicate that
university researchers will soon be
ready to demonstrate the scientific
feasibility oflaser fusion. " So declared
Discover magazine in an article on fusion
research around the country. The
article referred to major advances at
the University's Laboratory for Laser
Energetics in converting infrared light
to ultraviolet light with high efficiency.
This advance, also cited in the Britannica
Yearbook ofScience and the Future
(1980) and in a United Press International
feature, encourages Rochester
scientists to believe that by 1985 they
will be able to achieve energy releases
near the break-even point in the
balance between the amount ofenergy
required to achieve a reaction and the
amount that is then released.
.Clever computers: Reporting on
the use ofofcomputers to help design
"everything from oil refineries to tennis
shoes," Popular Science pointed to
the University ofRochester as the
"recognized leader in computer-aided
design research. "
"Dr. Herbert Voelcker heads the
University ofRochester team that is
the most advanced in the field, " the
magazine says. "Working with grants
from ten private companies [and] the
National Science Foundation,
Voelcker's team has developed an advanced,
and still experimental, method
of programming called PADL-1
(Part and Assembly Description
Language)." There is more to come,
the magazine adds, with an even more
sophisticated version to be completed
this year.
• To market, to market: When
Alison McGrath ofthe Graduate
School ofManagement insisted that it
pays to practice what you teach, she
proved she knew what she was talking
about. What McGrath, who is the
GSM placement director, meant was
that the marketing practices taught at
the School couldjust as effectively be
applied to selling graduates as to selling
other kinds ofproducts. At her suggestion,
the School sponsored a reception
in New York City to which corporate
recruiters were invited to meet
members ofthis year's graduating
class. Held inJanuary at the New
York Hilton, the reception was a resounding
success, Associated Press
business analystJohn Cunniff
reported. He added, "Rochester's
decision to go out and meet the market
rather than wait for the market to come
to it is praised as innovative and
maybe even unique, but it is just good
, marketing practice, says Ms.
McGrath.
"The School, she explains, knows it
has something to offer, even if some
timid recruiters have avoided the campus's
winter snow and ice. With enthusiasm,
she points to a ranking of
business schools that puts M.I.T. first,
Rochester fourth, Stanford fifth, and
Harvard tenth."
Representatives oftwenty-four companies
that had previously"avoided
the campus's winter snow and ice" attended,
along with a delegation of
GSM professors and administrators,
and thirty students who paid their own
expenses.
.Welcome, stranger: Another AP
feature that was circulated in
newspapers across the country was a
report on a phenomenon that the
writer, Terry Kirkpatrick, refers to as
"the autumnal rite ofpassage: the first
reunion with offspring freed from the
nest. "
Based on an interview with Ronald
Jackson, dean ofstudent life,
Kirkpatrick discusses the culture shock
felt on both sides ofthe generation gap
when college freshmen come home for
their first Thanksgiving vacation.
Jackson explains that "family
customs agreed to for eighteen years
are opened to question in late-night
dormitory bull sessions, in dining hall
conversations with new friends from
other regions and nations, in the
classrooms of professors who see the
world idealistically. "
As a result, Jackson says, "attitudes
toward other races, religions, politics,
even bedtime and dinnertime, go up in
the air."
Not to worry, says Jackson, who
sees this happen every year with each
new freshman class. It's all perfectly
normal. And, he adds, citing himself
as an example when he was a freshman,
"It all works out."
.Stress: Before the fifty-two
American hostages came home in
January, Time magazine ran a story

Something to cheer about: While the Yellowjackets were enjoying their "winningest" season ever, their rootin' tootin' fans were enjoying the
opportunity to give vent to a newly revitalized attack of school spirit.
end of the schedule couldn't dampen
spirits-or destroy a winning record.
The]ackets finished with a 20- 7
record, the most wins ever by a
Rochester basketball team. And, if
they ended up in second place in postseason
playoffs, the Yellowjackets and
their rootin' tootin' fans could glory in
their first-place standing in two other
tournaments: the Lincoln First Tournament
in Rochester in December,
which included victories over Roberts
Wesleyan, Geneseo, and Nazareth,
and the Washington and]efferson
tournament in Pennsylvania, in which
the]ackets defeated Washington and
Lee and Swarthmore.
The result ofall this winning was an
attack ofbasketball fever that, as the
season progressed, raised temperatures
inside the Palestra to dizzying heights.
Fans with long memories were put in
mind ofthe palmy days when Lou
Alexander used to ambush Division I
opponents confident they would have
the Yellowjackets for lunch and when
Lyle Brown, his successor, won the
Downeast Classic by beating out Division
I Columbia for the championship.
For Mark Wadlinger, a six-foot six
engineering major who has lived
through the lean years when the
basketball program was being rebuilt,
this season was redemption. "Now I go
into Wegman's next to the campus and
I hear people say 'nice game.' They
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know me! Before, I'djust get remarks
like 'Hey, you know you're tall enough
to be a basketball player. ' "
Captain Dave Bence, a senior guard
majoring in political science, suffered
through 6-18 and 8-13 records during
his first two years at Rochester after
starring on his high school team. "It's
nice to hear people saying 'hello'
again," he says. He lays a lot ofthe
credit for Rochester's current success
to his team's "sixth man"-the fans.
"They really help us," he says. Ryan
Russell, ajunior who combines basketball
with a studio arts course, concurs.
"When I feel all that support behind
me when I'm playing, I really get
pumped up. It's great."
Winning has turned it all around for
coach Mike N eer. "Basketball success
gives us something to hang our hat
on," he says. "Now we've got bragging
rights. "
Now in his fifth year at Rochester,
Neer has always believed that
Rochester wasn't receiving the
recognition it deserves. This year's
basketball success has begun
generating some of that recognition,
both in the polls and in the press. In a
story that was picked up nationally by
the AP wire, for instance, Democrat and
Chronicle sportswriter Greg Boeck
wrote:
"In the desert offalsified transcripts
and recruiting scandals that has
become, sadly, big-time college
athletics, I offer a welcome oasis-the
D niversity of Rochester basketball
team.
"These guys are different, and not
only because they aren't playing with
the big boys in Division 1. The
pressure to win-financially as well as
artistically-may not be the same at
the Division III level, but even in their
own family, the scholarship-based-onneed-only
family, this team is
something, a step above even its own
Division III brothers.... This team
has so far combined athletic excellence
with academic achievement, so often
the exception rather than the rule these
days....
"The players aren't, to be sure, the
reincarnation oftwelve Bill
Bradleys-none is Rhodes Scholar or
National Basketball Association
material.
"But there are no physical education
or recreation majors among them­
DR doesn't even offer the majors. Instead,
on this team, you have
mechanical engineering, political
science, history, math, and economics
majors, some with higher grade point
averages than scoring averages....
"Ofcourse, academic excellence is
nothing new at DR. This is the school
that has steadfastly refused to go Division
I in basketball mainly because it
wants to keep athletics and academics

sidiary ofLehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. in
New York.... Rabbi Thomas Liebschutz
holds an endowed lectureship in Judaism at
Tufts University.... Alan Stone is vice president
and account director at Backer &
Spielvogel, an advertising firm.... Nelson
Whipple has been appointed assistant vice
president and trust investment officer at First
Union National Bank in Charlotte, N.C.
1959
John Burgess has been appointed to the
Gouverneur (N.Y.) office advisory committee of
the National Bank of Northern New York. He is
vice president ofcorporate finance for Kinney
Drugs, Inc.
1960
Anne Loveland Edmiston is author ofthe book
Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order,
1800-1860, published by Louisiana State
University Press. She is professor ofhistory at
Louisiana State.... Dr. John Flavia is practicing
dentistry in Norwalk, Conn.... Thomas
Grubb has written a book, Singing in French,
published by Schirmer Books ofMacmillan and
Company....John Heurtley ('66G) has been
named head ofthe systems test and evaluation
division at the Federal Aviation Agency
Technical Center. He is responsible for testing
and evaluating new communication, radar,
navigation, and guidance systems.... Alan
Hilfiker is a partner in the law firm ofHarter,
.Secrest & Emery in Rochester.
1961
Sofia Pappatheodorou has completed a Ph.D.
in chemistry at the University ofMiami and is
employed by the Papanicolaou Cancer Research
Institute in Miami.... Vincent Swoyer (G)
has been elected vice president ofcorporate
systems at Ryder Systems, Inc. in Miami.
1962
Dr. Joan Cook Chesney is associate professor of
pediatrics at the University ofWisconsin
Medical School. ... Col. Arthur Creighton (G)
was named Military Man ofthe Year at Wright­
Patterson AFB in Ohio.... Richard Glerum
(G) has retired as professor ofcounseling at
Genesee Community College in Batavia, N. Y.
... Cmdr. Michael Lynch, USN, is special
assistant for supply operations at a U.S. defense
fuel supply center in Alexandria, Va....
Richard Monty (G), chiefofthe behavioral
research directorate at the Human Engineering
Laboratory in Maryland, is the co-author ofan
article, "Disparity or Synthesis: A Premature
Choice," in the November issue of Contemporary
Psychowgy. ... The Rev. Kenneth Ofslager is
pastor ofSt. Peter's Lutheran Church in Evans
City, Pa.... Ernest Plummer has been appointed
research associate in the agriculture
chemical group at FMC Corporation in Middleport,
N. YO-••.. The board ofdirectors ofthe
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has elected
Peter Waasdorp ('69G) its vice president for
planning.
1963
Dr. Paul Bloustein has been named to the
clinical laboratory staffatJewish Hospital in
Cincinnati.... Roger Snell ('68G) is a consultant
toJ.D. Carreker and Associates, Inc. in
Dallas.
1964
John Corris is a regional security affairs officer
at the American Embassy in Brasilia....
George Flagg has been appointed executive vice
president offinance and administration at
Servomation Corporation, a food services company
in Greenwich, Conn.... Bette Gross
Hirsch was awarded a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to develop a
foreign language curriculum at Cabrillo College
in California....Jerome Lysaught (G), professor
in the University's Graduate School of
Education and Human Development, has been
named to the board oftrustees ofD'Youville
College in Buffalo.... Married: John Corris
and Virginia Henderson in January 1980....
Born: toJudith andJohn Cabaniss, a daughter,
Margaret Catherine, on Sept. 13.
Son ofTwinkies
When the sponge cake confection
known as Twinkies reached the
golden age offifty last fall, their inventor,
octagenarianJames Dewar,
stoutly refuted the waspish allegation
that his caloric brainchild
might be the "quintessentialjunk
food." "Nonsense," he said in
essence, and proved it by announcing
that he had fed them to all four
ofhis kids and two ofthem grew up
to be football players.
One ofthe football players was
Robert (then known as Bobby)
Dewar'53, who so thrived on his
Twinkies that he played safety on
Rochester's undefeated football
team in .1952 and was shortstop on
the baseball team for good measure.
Dewar, who is now president of
Youngs and Linfoot, a real estate
and insurance firm in Geneseo,
New York, says he doesn't eat
Twinkies much anymore, although
there's usually a box ofthem
somewhere around the kitchen.
That's not like his student days.
Other guys' mothers sent them
cookies. Bobby Dewar'sfather sent
him Twinkies. Once a week.
1965
Dennis Bowler is director offinancial accounting
at Fisher-Price Toys in Medina, N.Y....
Gilbert Henner has been named a certified purchasing
manager by the Purchasing Management
Association ofRochester. He is employed
by Schlegel Corporation in Rochester....
Hope Liebersohn is a senior lecturer in
linguistics at Hatfield Polytechnic in England.
. .. Tom Miles is an associate professor and
coordinator ofthe writing program at West
Virginia University. He was recently named a
fellow ofthe National Endowment for the
Humanities Institute on Writing.... Barbara
Berg Schlanger, who writes professionally as
Barbara Goldberg, is author ofthe book Nothing
to Cry About, published by Seaview Books....
Linda Suter has received a master's degree
from MIT and is employed by Shepley,
Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, Architects in
Boston.... Lt. Col. Gary Van Gysel, USM, is
executive officer ofa Navy fighter attack
squadron stationed in Lemoore, Calif.
1966
David Chen (G) has been named visiting
associate professor ofengineering at Widener
College in Chester, Pa.... Dorothy Conley
Cooper (G) is president ofRochester Sightseeing
Tours, a professional sightseeing and guide
service.... Lois Borland Hart is author ofthe
book Moving Up! Women and Leadership and is
president ofLeadership Dynamics, a Coloradobased
consulting firm....JohnJ. Kelly (G,
'70G) is superintendent ofthe Beaver River
Central School District in northeastern New
York State.... Kay Levi Pomeranz received a
degree from the DePaul University College of
Law inJune.... W.James Steen has joined
E.F. Hutton Financial Services in Englewood,
Ohio.... Born: to Rebecca andJack Thaw, a
son, David, on April 26, 1980.
1967
Ronald Grieson (G, '73G) has been appointed
professor ofeconomics at the University of
California in Santa Cruz.... The American
Association ofCommunity andJunior Colleges
has appointedJudithJeffrey Howard director
ofa project to strengthen humanities studies in
occupational education curricula.... Peter
Koehler (G) has been appointed director ofthe
research division ofthe Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.... James
Laird (G) is co-author ofa chapter on individual
differences in the self-attribution ofemotions in
the book Thought and Feeling. He is associate professor
ofpsychology at Clark University in
Massachusetts.... Lauren Conner Taylor has
been appointed a lecturer in the department of
hotel and restaurant management at the U niversity
ofMaryland, Eastern Shore.
1968
Victor Chira (G) has been named associate
director ofdevelopment for annual giving at
Haverford College.... DonnaJurdy is an
assistant professor ofgeophysics at
Northwestern University.... Dr. Stephen
Swartz has been elected a fellow ofthe
American College ofPhysicians. He is a
member ofthe staffs at Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital and Harvard Medical School. ... R.
Alan Zito (G) is superintendent ofthe Fairview
School District in Erie, Pa.... Married: Eric
Hanin (G, '77G) and Elsbeth Quimby on Sept.
27 in Plainfield, Vt.... Born: toJack and
Karen Nicholson Paine Hewett, a son, Joshua
Adam, on Oct. 3.... to Jean-Pierre and Aileen
LutzkyJabart (G), a daughter, Isabelle, onJuly
15 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
1969
Melvin Beal (G, '70G) is an attorney in the office
ofthe general counsel for the University of
California Board of Regents.... As executive
director ofthe Women's Campaign Fund, Ranny
Cooper was among American feminist
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leaders whose comments were included in a
feature on women legislators that appeared in
the New York Times on Election Day.... Vivian
Horner (G), vice president of program development
at Warner Amex Cable Communications,
was the subject ofa feature story in the October
issue of Videography magazine.... Lawrence
Kudlow is chiefeconomist and manager ofthe
economics department at Bear, Stearns and
Company in New York.... Married: Richard.
Wade (G) and Anne Tredway in October in Little
Falls, N.J.... David Mallach is associate
director ofthe committee onJewish-community
relations for the Philadelphia Council on International
Concerns.... Born: toJulie and
Albert Choate, a son, Antares, on Oct. 23....
to Lynne and William Ferrar, a daughter, Kate
Bradshaw, on Aug. 5.
1970
Dr. Sylvia Betcher has received an M.D.
degree from the University ofMiami School of
Medicine and is an intern at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.... Richard Dybas
(G) has been appointed director ofagricultural
Enduring justice
After a long (thirty-five years)
and distinguished career on the
bench, G. Robert Witmer '26 has
retired as a justice in the appellate
division ofthe New York State
Supreme Court.
But Witmer, it seems, is not a
retiring man. He has now taken on
thejob ofadministrative officer ofa
newly established court program for
pre-argument conferences.
All three of his sons, incidentally,
are also Rochester graduates: G.
Robert Witmer, J r. '59, an attorney
who is a University trustee;
John R. Witmer, D.V.M. '60, and
Thomas W. Witmer, M.D. '65.
research for Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research
Laboratories in Elizabeth, N.J.... Prints by
artist Robert Kirschbaum were exhibited in a
one-man show at Wabash College in November.
He is an assistant professor at Montclair (N.J.)
State College.... Malcolm Mosley has been
named a vice president at Texas Commerce
Bank in Houston.... Danny O'Neil is an optometrist
in Staunton, Va.... Born: to Donald
and Bette Sue Siegel, a son, Micah Philip, on
Aug. 18.... to Robert and Diane Chapman
Willis, a son, Carl Alexander, on Oct. 2.
1971
Esther Friedman received an M.B.A. from
George Washington University and is a contracts
administrator for Kappa Systems, Inc. in
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Arlington, Va.... Francesca Galluccio-Steele
is a lobbyist for the National Education Association
and is working toward a Ph.D. in education
at Harvard University.... Perry Gould is a
partner in the law firm ofGordon, Feinblatt et
al. in Baltimore.... CarolJohmann ('75G,
'76G) is a reporter-researcher for the new
monthly science magazine, Discover. ...
Deborah Barton Keammerer is an ecological
consultant in Boulder, Colo....Joseph
Klimschot (G) was an official at the Army-Navy
football game on Nov. 29.... Kenneth
Kretchmer has been named chiefofpulmonary
services at Akron City Hospital in Ohio and
assistant professor ofmedicine at N .E. Ohio
University College of Medicine.... Clayton
Press is a member of the administrative and
editorial staffs ofCresap, McCormick and
Paget, Inc., an international management consulting
firm.... Carlo Scaccia (G) is co-author
ofan article on heat exchangers that appeared in
the October issue of Chemical Engineering
magazine.... Thelma Harrington Uter has
been named Teacher ofthe Year for 1981 by the
Rochester City School District. She teaches first
grade.... Married: Esther Friedman and
Bruce Lewin onJune 29 in Lawrence, N.Y....
Born: to Phil and Francesca Galluccio-Steele, a
son, Zachary, on Nov. 17.... to Warren and
Deborah Barton Keammerer, a daughter, Linnaea,
onJune 10.... toJanet and Kenneth
Kretchmer, a daughter, Emily.
1972
Rita Black is manager of internal communications
at ClBA-GEIGY Corporation in Ardsley,
N. Y.... Robert Boykin (G) was named Man
ofthe Year by Equitable Life Insurance of New
York.... Chemical Bank in Albany has named
John Finley (G) vice president in charge of
government business. He was recently elected
vice chairman of the St. Peter's Hospital
Associates in Albany.... Elinda Fishman­
Kornblith (G) has been elected state committee
representative from Pennsylvania's 6th
Senatorial District and holds a position on the
Philadelphia Democratic city committee. She
is president of the Philadelphia Women's
Political Caucus and vice president of the committee
on city policy.... Melinda Gros performs
with the Kathy Duncan Transition Dance
Company of New York.... Eugene Provenzo
has been cited by Phi Delta Kappa, the professional
educators' fraternity, for his "research,
leadership, and service in education." He is an
associate professor at the University ofMiami.
... Christine Berg Rummer received a Ph.D.
in developmental psychology from the U niversity
ofHawaii in December. ... Mara Sapon­
Shevin ('nG) and Mayer Shevin ('74G, 'nG)
are members ofthe special-education faculty at
Cleveland State University. They are the
parents ofa daughter, born in August 1979....
Carole Braun Shutzer is a librarian at Helix
Corporation in Waltham, Mass.... Kenneth
Shutzer is an attorney with Ogun and Ogun in
Lynn, Mass.... Dr. David Stein has been
named director ofthe respiratory care department
at Rockville General Hospital in Manchester,
Conn.... Donald E. Strebel was appointed
assistant professor ofmathematics at
The Sweeney Triangle
There's no chance ofdisappearing
mysteriously into the Atlantic
Ocean ifyou approach this triangle,
but ifyour name is Mary Sweeney
and you graduated from the
University in 1976 there's a
possibility you've already been the
victim ofsome mysterious disappearances
and appearances. Actually
they're not so mysterious-it's
only because there are three of you!
This coincidental tripling up on
the name came to the Review's attention
as the result ofan error in
the Winter issue. To set the matter
straight, here is current news ofthe
three Mary Sweeneys:
Mary Ellen Sweeney is a law student
at Gonzaga University in
Spokane; Mary Lee Sweeney is a
computer programmer at Eastman
Kodak Company in Rochester; and
Mary Minto Sweeney is a speech
pathologist at the Rochester Speech
and Hearing Center who recently
received a master's degree from
Purdue University. (It was Mary
Minto's news that was erroneously
credited to her classmate Mary O.
Sutton, for reasons we'll get to in a
minute.)
The three Marys say they were,
inevitably, aware ofeach other's existence
while they were at the
University but didn't really know
one another. "I did receive Mary
Ellen's paycheck from the dining
services once," Mary Minto
remembers. She also remembers
that "she got $50 more than I did."
"I lived in the same dorm with one
ofthe other Mary Sweeneys for a
while. I used to get a lot of her
messages and I'm sure she got some
ofmine," Mary Ellen said. Mary
Lee's only encounter with the other
two was an Eastman School course
she never took that appeared on her
transcript.
But the story isn't over yet. There
was an addition to the Sweeney
Triangle (the Sweeney Rectangle?)
in August. Mary Sutton, also of the
class of 1976, married a man named
(what else?) Robert SWEENEY.

Reserve after completing ground school training
at the Naval Aviation School in Pensacola, Fla.
... Steve Sussmann has been named East
Coast professional manager for Arista Music
Publishing Group in New York.... Married:
Richard DiBlasi and Nancy Harter on Oct. 11
in DeWitt, N.Y.... Phyllis Riker Connaughton
and David Gripe on Oct. 18 in
Gladstone, N.J.... Karen Heilberg and Neil
Sivek on Aug. 24 in Pittsfield, Mass.... Craig
Johnston andJane Carpenter on Sept. 27 in
Falmouth, Mass....Judith Serling and Peter
Sturm on Aug. 23 in Albany, N.Y.... Ronda
Shapiro and Donald Hendel on Oct. 11 in
Needham, Mass.
1979
Jeffrey Coriale has received a master's degree
in electrical engineering and is a senior device
engineer at Harris Semiconductor in
Melbourne, Fla.... Diane DePalma has completed
a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in
adult clinical psychology at the University
Medical Center and is assistant director ofthe
George Washington University Counseling
Center in Washington.... Noreen Mastro is
an engineer at General Motors in Rochester.
She received a master's degree in applied
mechanics from the University ofMichigan....
James Megna is studying toward a Ph.D. in
pharmacology at Upstate Medical Center....
John Mesiti received a New York State
Superior Scholarship Accounting Award from
the Society ofCertified Public Accountants. He
is studying for an M.B.A. at Rochester Institute
ofTechnology.... Francis Pirozzolo (G),
neuropsychologist at Minneapolis V A Hospital,
is author ofa book, The Neuropsychology oj
DeJ)elopmental Reading Disorders. ... Stephanie
'Tesch (G, '80G) is acting assistant professor of
psychology at Rider College in Lawrenceville,
N.J.... Married: Russell Dickson and Andrea
Senick on Oct. 18 in Lewiston, N.Y.... Karen
Oliver and Daniel McCarthy on Aug. 15 in
Seekonk, R.I. ... Douglas Perot and Carol
Douglas on Sept. 7 in Gasport, N.Y....
Michael Wischhusen and Lisa Lewandowski
('80) onJune 21 in Newark, N.Y.... Marilyn
Yackel and Edmund Eaves on Aug. 2 in Mattydale,
N.Y.
1980
William Bradford has been commissioned an
ensign in the United States Navy.... Robert
Cannan (G) is general manager ofthe building
products division at Schlegel Corporation in
Rochester. ... Susan Feldman (G) has been appointed
assistant professor ofphilosophy at
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.... Doug
Hadden (G) is assistant to the director of
Rochester Area Colleges, Inc.... EnsignsJ .
Christopher Legg and Allan Berke have completed
the Surface Warfare Officers' basic
course in Newport, R.I. ... Richard Legum
(G) has been named visiting professor of
philosophy at the College ofCharleston in South
Carolina....Jeffrey Passick is a student at
Albert Einstein College ofMedicine.... Susan
Seccurra (G) is manager of financial analysis in
the business forms division ofBurroughs Corporation
in Rochester. . . . Married: Cosmo
DiMaggio and Cynthia Long on Oct. 11 in
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A winter's tale
You think Rochester winters are
cold?
Emily Binger '80 has a message
for you: Try North Dakota.
Binger, a field engineer in training
with Dresser Industries, spent a
good share oflast winter in
Wheelock, North Dakota, a hamlet
with a population of thirty-three
people and a housing shortage. So
she rented a place with "no heat, no
water, and no sewer." And no
fridge in which to keep her food
from freezing stiff. That's right;
that's what happens when your
wood stove goes out because you
weren't home during the day to
stoke it.
Thanks to her thirty-three
neighbors, who kept her woodpile
heaped high and cosseted her with
hot dinners, Emily survived in good
shape and is now warming up in
Houston, to which she has been
posted for three months in training
school.
Love at second sight
Ifyou ask them, Doris Gazda
Petranek and William A. Lee will
probably be glad to tell you that
there's nothing like a college reunion
for getting people back
together-permanently. They sent
the Review a wedding announcement
recently, giving full credit to
the twenty-fifth reunion of the class
of ' 54 for renewing old acquaintance
after a quarter-century lapse.
The Lees live in Ijamsville (pronounced,
in case you were wondering,
I-urns-ville), Maryland. Doris
('55E) maintains an active schedule
teaching and conducting. Bill ('54 )
does management consulting.
And they think University of
Rochester reunions are great.
Solvay, N.Y.... Rhonda Epstein and Todd
Federman ('77) on Aug. 17 in Whitestone,
N.Y....John Gallant and Deborah Sussman
in October in Windsor, N.Y.... Maryann
Pocock (G) and Gary Rinkerman on Oct. 11 in
Clifton, N.J.
Eastman School of Music
1923
Lois Dunbar Reid is a volunteer music
therapist at Noble School for the Retarded in
Indianapolis.
1932
James McBride is clarinetist of the Fayetteville
(N.C.) Symphony Orchestra.
1940
Alfio Micci ('41GE) has retired as a member of
the first violin section of the N ew York Philharmonic.
1941
Composer Scott Huston ('42GE, '52GE)
presented a master class and lecture at Columbia
College in South Carolina in November....
Harold Meek has been named an honorary
member of the International Horn Society in
recognition ofhis contributions to the "science
and art of horn. " He is editor ofthe society's
journal, Hom Call. ... Donald Stauffer ('42GE)
is director ofthe Samford University Community
Band and teaches music in Birmingham, Ala.
1943
Emily Oppenheimer is principal harpist ofthe
Greater Bridgeport (Conn.) Symphony and
teaches at the University of Bridgeport.
1945
Composer RichardJohnston (GE, '51GE),
chairman of the music department at the
University ofCalgary, was the organizer ofa
meeting ofAmerican and Canadian composers
and music critics in Alberta.
1947
Charleli Strouse is composer of the score for a
projected Broadway revival ofthe 1964 hit
Golden Boy.
1948
A commissioned work by MaryJeanne van Appledorn
('50GE, '66GE), Danza Impresion de
Espana, premiered at Texas Woman's University
in October. She is chairman ofmusic theory,
composition, and graduate studies there....
Dorothy Merriam Happel is concertmaster of
the Greenwich (Conn.) Philharmonia.. _. St.
Luke's United Methodist Church in Chattanooga
has commissioned an anthem honoring
Earl Miller (GE) for his 20 years ofservice as
the church's organist and choir director.
1949
Joan Mack ('62GE) has been appointed
associate professor of music at Brescia College in
Owensboro, Ky.... Alfred Mouledous
(,52GE) is pianist ofthe Dallas Symphony Orchestra,
1950
Robert King (GE) is an assistant professor of
music at Winona State University in Minnesota.
1952
Donald Bollinger ('56GE) is author of The Band
Director's Complete Handbook, published by Parker
Publishing Company.... After four years as
dean at the University ofthe Pacific in California,
Ira Lehn ('53GE) has returned to full-time
teaching there.

(while enjoying
one of the
biggest
vacation
bargains
around)
Enrich your summerin
Rochester
o Challenging lecture series on "Time": perspectives on the passage of time as it
affects the thinking of astronomers, musicians, psychologists, and playwrights.
o Optional afternoon workshops in a variety of lively subjects: sculpture; computers;
book collecting; ecology and evolution; and personal financial planning.
o Active sports and recreation programs for kids 3-17.
o Special "Directions After High School" workshop f,?r high school juniors and
seniors.
o PLUS an inviting array of leisure-time activities for the whole family to choose
from.
How much: On-campus housing, three meals a day: $285 per adult, $160 per child
($55 additional for "Directions" program). Reductions for commuters.
For information: Write or call Jim Armstrong, director of alumni affairs, Fairbank
Alumni Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, (716) 275-4627.
Rochester Summer University
July 5-11
for alumni, parents, and friends
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Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Steve Gadd
(,68E), Lou Soloff ('65E), Katherine Moses,
and Mangione.... Mary Bahr Park is a
member ofthe cello section ofthe Long Island
Symphony.... Daniel Perantoni, a professor
at the University ofIllinois, is a member ofthe
Illinois Brass Quintet, the Spoleto USA Brass
Quintet, and the Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz
Consort. ... Violinist Linda Snedden-Smith
was guest soloist at the opening performance of
the Oak Park Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham,
Mich., in October.
1964
Herbert Spencer has returned from a European
tour that included recitals in Belgium, England,
and Ireland.
1965
FlutistJoyce Catalfano is on the faculty ofWest
Virginia University and is a member ofthe
Laureate Wind Quintet. ... Laura Mann Dexter
(,72GE) was guest soloist with the Corpus
Christi (Tex.) Symphony in October. She
teaches voice and German in Corpus Christi.
· .. Edith DiBartolo was faculty soloist in a performance
by the Central State University Symphony
Orchestra ofOklahoma.... Robert
Ellinwood ('GE, '79GE) performed the role of
Horace Tabor in the Southwest Virginia Opera
Company's production of The Ballad ojBaby Doe.
· .. PianistJames Ruccolo was guest soloist
with the Arizona State University Symphony
Orchestra in the 1917 revised version of
Rachmaninofrs Concerto No.1 . ... Pianist
Robert Silverman (GE, '70GE) has made the
first Canadian piano recording that employs a
high-technology digital process.
1966
Victor Klimash ('68GE) appeared as Zuniga in
the New Orleans Opera Production of Carmen.
He is director ofchoral activities at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge.
1967
Wayne Kallstrom (GE, '71GE) has been appointed
instructor in organ, piano theory, and
music history at Northwestern Oklahoma State
University.... Gerald Lloyd (GE) has been
named director ofthe Ohio University School of
Music.... HarpsichordistJohn Meszar is
director of music at Central Presbyterian
Church in Summit, N.J.... Jason Weintraub
('72GE) has been appointed director of the
Atlantajewish Community Center School of
Music. He performs with the Chautauqua Symphony
during the summer.
1968
Paul Burgett ('72GE, '76GE) has been appointed
dean ofstudents at the Eastman School.
· .. Leora Martin Kline (GE) is a member of
the string section ofthe Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic
Orchestra.... Bassist Anthony Levin
toured with Paul Simon last fall.... A work by
composer Daria Semegen, Musicjor Clarinet Solo,
was premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall in
November. She is associate professor ofmusic at
SUNY at Stony Brook.
1969
Jerry Brainard (' 70GE) is scheduled to appear
at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center this
spring.... Donald Hardisty (GE) has been
elected to a second two-year term as president of
the New Mexico Music Educators Association.
He presented a lecture at the International Double
Reed Society meeting in Edinburgh,
Scotland, last summer.
1970
Donald Bick is principal percussionist and
assistant timpanist ofthe Richmond (Va.) Symphony
Orchestra and assistant professor of
music at Virginia Commonwealth University.
... Robert Coccagnia is assistant conductor of
the Meriden (Conn.) Symphony. He is also
director of the Meriden Youth Orchestra....
Donald Freund (GE, '73GE), associate professor
ofmusic at Memphis State University,
has been awarded a $4,000 Composer
Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
He has also received a grant from the
American Society ofComposers, Authors, and
Publishers.... Dennis Herrick has joined the
music faculty at Grace College in Warsaw, Ind.
... RobertJordan (GE) has been named
associate professor ofmusic at SUNY at
Fredonia.... Married: john McNeill and
Phyllis Contestable on Sept. 14 in Rochester.
David Lennox Smith /{
Collection
David Lennox Smith, organist
and candidate for the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree at the Eastman
School ofMusic, was killed in Los
Angeles early in 1979. His tragic
and unexpected death not only
shocked his friends and colleagues,
but also deprived the musical world
ofa young artist already well on his
way toward significant achievement.
The Eastman School awarded
him his.D.M.A. degree posthumously
in 1979.
David Smith was a musical
scholar as well as a performer. During
his comparatively short lifetime
he was able to amass an extraordinary
library of scores and books
about music, focusing upon compositions
for the organ and upon the
history oforgan playing-a collection
of some 1,200 volumes of scores
and 500 books.
This comprehensive library,
quite literally encompassing the entire
active organ repertoire, has
been presented to Sibley Music
Library by David's grandmother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Day, with whom he
had made his home. The working
library ofa young professional artist,
the David Lennox Smith Collection
contributes measurably to the
richness of the Eastman School's
world-famous library.
1971
Julia Lovett sang the title role in Victor
Herbert's Naughty Marietta with the Civic Light
Opera in Pittsburgh.
1972
Kathleen Hickey Arecchi (GE) has been appointed
a lecturer in music at Plymouth State
College in New Hampshire.... Richard
Decker is a member ofthe horn section of the
Syracuse Symphony.... Ted Piltzecker has
been selected as the Alcoa Affiliate Artist in
Arkansas. He has served as assistant director of
jazz studies at the Aspen Music Festival for
several years.... Flutist Linda Christensen
Wetherill performed at the National Gallery of
Art in Washington in November.
1973
Ronald Caravan (GE, '75GE) has been appointed
instructor ofsaxophone and woodwind
methods at Syracuse University.... Carole
Terry (GE) is an assistant professor at the
University of Washington and has been traveling
throughout the state presenting recitals and
workshops.... Born: to Terry ('75GE, '80GE)
and Laura Angus Yount ('75GE), a daughter,
Amelia Louise.
1974
Drummer David Mancini has been touring
with the Maynard Ferguson Big Band....
Margaret McGlinn composed the score for an
Eastman Kodak Company travelog, "Scandinavia-Land
ofPictures, " which is being
shown throughout the United States....
Sharon Peer is organist and choir director at the
First Baptist Church in Red Bank, N.J....
Chris Vadala recorded the soundtrack ofthe
Burt Reynolds film Cannonball Run with the
Chuck Mangione Quartet. He has toured japan
and Hawaii with the quartet. ... The
75-member Winters Chamber Orchestra,
founded and conducted by George Winters
(GE), presented an Anton Bruckner festival in
San Antonio in September.
1975
Franck Avril (GE) is artist-in-residence at the
Conservatory ofMusic ofthe University of
Missouri.... Gary Dranch has received a doctorate
from the University of Illinois....
Dianne Goodspeed ('77GE) was organist for
the All-Colleges'-Community Chorus presentation
ofHandel's Messiah at Hobart and William
Smith Colleges in December. The concert was
directed by Ronald Cox (,48E).... Clarinetist
David Harman (GE) and pianist David Liptak
(GE, '76GE) presented the world premiere of
Logo by Eugene Kurtz ('47RC, '49GE) at the
University ofIllinois. Injanuary, Harman was
clarinet soloist for the BBC in London.... B.
David Neubert (GE) teaches double bass and
electronic music at Wichita State University and
is principal bass ofthe Wichita Symphony Orchestra....
Craig Westendorf has been awarded
a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst to study early 17th-century
German choral repertoire.
1976
The Colden String Quartet (Andrew Dabczynski,
Marshall Meade, Michael Meade, and
Mary Ann Sabato Meade) is the resident
ensemble ofWestern Michigan University....
Robert Dwelley (GE) has been appointed music
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director of the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra
and ofthe Brighton Light Opera Company
in Rochester. He was a participant in the
Second International Hans Swarowsky Conductor's
Competition in May....John Ferguson
(GE) is minister of music at the American Central
Lutheran Church in Minneapolis....
Katherine Fink has joined the faculty ofthe
Center Music School at theJewish Community
Center in Yonkers, N.Y.... Overda Page
teaches flute at Ohio State University.
1977
Dean Billmeyer was awarded second prize in an
organ competition staged during the First International
Organ Festival in Dublin.... Gary
Bordner (GE) is principal trumpet of the St.
Paul Chamber Orchestra.... Laura Boyd is
concertmaster ofthe Colgate University Concert
Orchestra.... Adele Cutrali has joined the
music faculty at Victor (N.Y.) High School.
· .. Salvatore LaRusso is director ofthe band
program at Weston High School in Connecticut.
· .. Nelson Wagener is a private music instructor
in Waldorf, Md., and plays tuba in the community's
Smithsonian Recital Series.... Married:
William Woodworth and Sharon Artley
on Aug. 16 in Wenatchee, Wash.
1978
John Alfieri (GE) is director of the percussion
ensemble at the Interlochen (Mich.) Arts
Academy.... Thomas Crawford is director of
music at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fairfield,
Conn., and leader ofthe church's four
choirs.... Paul Rowe (GE) and his wife,
Eastman student Nicole Philibosian, were
featured vocalists in a Rochester Oratorio Society
presentation of the Brahms German Requiem.
· .. Paul Silver has been chosen to perform with
the President's Trio ofOakland University. He
is a member of the viola section of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.
1979
Mike Davison is a member of "Toaster," a
jazz-rock band currently playing throughout the
Midwest. ... Married: Philip Sinder and
Carolyn Sitts ('80E) on Long Island in October.
1980
Judith Klinger (GE) was a soloist in
Opera/Omaha's November production of
Mozart's Cosijan tuite. . . . The Chester String
Quartet (Peter Matzka, violin; Melissa Matson,
viola; Thomas Rosenberg, cello; and
Susan Freier '79GE, violin) is the quartet-inresidence
at Indiana University in South Bend.
· ..Jonathan Sherwin is bassoonist ofthe Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra.... A work by
Richard Wargo, commissioned by the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, was
performed in the orchestra's opening concert in
September. Wargo received the 1980 Belin Arts
Scholarship.
Medicine and Dentistry
1939
Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone (M) has received
the Margaret Sanger Award ofthe Planned
Parenthood Federation ofAmerica and the Edward
W. Browning Award ofthe American
Public Health Association, both in recognition
ofher success in promoting sex education. She is
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president ofthe Sex Information and Education
Council of the United States.
1943
Dr. Leonard Fenninger (M) is group vice
president ofmedical education for the American
Medical Association.
1944
Dr. Robert Coon (M) is vice president for
health sciences and dean ofthe medical school at
Marshall University in West Virginia.
1952
Dr. Adele Hofmann (M) directs the adolescent
unit ofthe New York University Medical Center
at Bellevue Hospital. ... Dr. Bernard Winter
(M) has been appointed to the medical staffat
St. Peter's Community Hospital in Helena,
Mont.
1953
Dr. Kenneth Woodward (M, 'nG) received
the Charles TerreIl Lunsford Award from the
Urban League ofRochester for his "distinguished
achievement in community service, exceIlence,
and humanitarianism."
1956
Dr. J ames Bostwick (M) has been elected to the
board oftrustees ofJohn Muir Memorial
Hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif.
1959
Dr. Michael Sporn (M) recently reported
research indicating that a synthetic form of
vitamin A appears to magnify interferon's action
against cancer. He is chiefofthe National
Cancer Institute's chemo-prevention
laboratory.
1960
Dr. Ronald Pimpinella (M) has been elected
president ofthe otolaryngology section of the
Connecticut State Medical Society.
1961
Dr. Dougla",Craig (GM, '64GM) is director of
the toxicology department at Litton Bionetics in
Maryland.
1963
Dr. Albert Wiley (M) is professor ofhuman oncology
and associate director ofradiation oncology
at the University ofWisconsin Medical
Center in Madison.
1966
Dr. Frank Schultz (M) is a member ofthe staff
at Holyoke Hospital in Massachusetts.
1968
Dr. Sam Hessel (M) has joined the radiology
department at Scottsdale (Ariz.) Memorial
Hospital.
1970
Born: to Pat andJon Dehner (R), a daughter,
Elizabeth Marie, on Oct. 13.
1973
Dr. M. Guven Yalcintas (GM, '75GM) is
chairman ofa committee on nuclear medicine of
the American Nuclear Society.
1974
Dr.John Bandeian (R) has successfuIly completed
the certifying examination ofthe
American Board ofSurgery. He is chiefresident
in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the
University ofKansas Medical Center.... Dr.
Janet Olson (M) has been appointed clinical instructor
in the department offamily medicine at

REUNION
HOMECOMING
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Old Friends,
New Sights,
Serious Seminars,
Bounri ful Banquers
Ferocious Football (Rochesrer-st.Lawrence ), and
Class Reunion Events
the University ofWisconsin Center for Health
Services.... Dr. Barney Stern (M, '79R) is
staffneurologist at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore
and assistant professor ofneurology atJohns
Hopkins University.... Born: to Barney (M,
'79R) and Elyce Geller Stern ('74RC), a
daughter, MelissaJill, onJune 15.
1975
Dr. Howard Foye (M) has been appointed
assistant professor ofpediatrics at the University
Medical Center and director ofthe pediatric
continuity clinic at Strong Memorial Hospital.
. . . Dr. Morris Swartz (M), assistant professor
of medicine at Temple University Hospital, has
been appointed director ofemergency medical
services.
1976
Dr. Magdi Credi (R) has been elected a fellow
ofthe American College ofSurgeons.... Dr.
Rafik Muawwad (R) has been named a
diplomate ofthe American Board ofOrthopaedic
Surgery.... Dr. Beverly Ray Love
(M) is obstetrician-gynecologist at the Peekskill
(N.Y.) Area Health Center.
1977
Married: Dr. Helen Morgan Hollingsworth
(M) and Dr.John Reed (M) on Aug. 9 in North
Andover, Mass.
1978
Dr. Katharine Lloyd (R) directs the radiation
oncology unit at Bassett Hospital in
Cooperstown, N.Y.
1980
Dr. James Rooney (F) has joined the
hematology staffat Newark-Wayne Community
Hospital in New York.... Married: Dr.
Heather Coolidge McKee (R) and Dr. Joseph
Castellano on Aug. 23 in Scarsdale, N.Y.
School ofNursing
1945
Dorothy Docktor Benner has received a
bachelor's degree in behavioral science from
Notre Dame College in Belmont, Calif. She is a
community health psychiatric nurse in
Roseburg, Ore.
1950
Heleti Tranter Carrese is a senior staffnurse in
the medical department at IBM Corporation in
Bethesda, Md.
1962
Ginny Perun Mellen is administrative assistant
for student concerns at Lakeview Medical
Center School of Nursing in Danville, Ill....
Married: Ginny Perun and Tom Mellen on
Aug. 19 in Danville, Ill.
1967
Linda Taylor directs the Visiting Nurse Service
in Huntington, N.Y.
1974
Marsha Garfinkel received a master's degree in
community mental health nursing from the
University ofTennessee in Knoxville.
1975
Born: to Sandy and Cheryl Peck Gerber, a
daughter, Allison Ann, on May 7.
1976
Carolyn Cunningham ('78GN), assistant professor
in the School of Nursing at the University
ofLouisville, is the author ofan article, "Professional
Nursing Practice in the Hospital Setting,"
published in the August issue ofSupervisor Nurse.
1977
Married: Joanne Skelly and Harry Gearhart on
June 21 in Rochester.
1978
Fern Drillings received a master's degree in
nursing from the University ofPennsylvania
and is now coordinator ofmaternal-child health
education at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
1979
Karen Tobey has been appointed assistant head
nurse of the family-centered care unit at Prentice
Women's Hospital of Northwestern
Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
University College
1950
William Bristol was elected in November to
serve a nine-year term as a City Courtjudge in
Rochester.
1952
Ralph Ames is a sales representative for Roessel
& Company, a distributor ofair-powered equipment
based in Rochester.
1953
Jay Oakwood is the author ofa book, And There
Shall be Light, which examines the origins ofthe
universe. It is published by Vantage Press.
1955
Leslie Stroebel ('59G, '74G) and Richard
Zakia ('60G, '70G) are the authors ofa book,
Visual Concepts for Photographers, published by
Focal Press in London. They are faculty
members at Rochester Institute ofTechnolQgy.
1957
Robert Briggs has been elected executive vice
president and treasurer ofthe Valley Oil Division
ofBriggs Corporation in Portland, Me. He
is also president ofScot-Rick Corporation in
Clinton, Conn.
1958
Ralph Pascale (GU) has been appointed dean of
career develoment in the academic services
center at SUNY at Brockport.
1963
D.A. Carr has been named assistant director of
training at Tennessee Eastman Company in
Kingsport, Tenn.
1967
Dr. William Brown is a general and thoracic
surgeon in Harrisburg, Pa.... William
Perkins received the Outstanding Technical
Paper Award ofthe Fifth International Conference
on Radiation Cured Polymers. He is a
senior scientist at Celanese Chemical Company
in Summit, N.J.... Edward Thoma has been
appointed corporate assistant treasurer by
Oneida Ltd. in Oneida, N.Y.
1977
Married: Terry Gurnett and Mary Ellen Munn
onJuly 14 in Spencerport, N.Y.
1980
Married: Jay Mower and Patricia McSorley on
Sept. 27 in Rochester.
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Travel
Corner
Taking our freedom for granted is something
of which most of us, unfortunately, are guilty.
Travel behind the Iron Curtain is usually a
sobering jolt to complacency. The reaction from
travelers on last summer's Munich-Prague­
Vienna trip gives evidence ofsuch awakening
and demonstrates once again that an alumni
tour has provided an educational experience
that is more than superficial.
The visit to Prague generated comments like
the following: "The three days behind the Iron
Curtain were not pleasant, but they provided an
element ofeducation every American should experience."
"We would have liked more time in
Munich and Vienna, but the visit to an Iron
Curtain country was an experience that couldn't
be comprehended just from reading about it. It
was disheartening and sad and made us appreciate
the U.S.A." "I felt that the opportunity
to visit Prague was something every American
should have. The oppression of the people and
the sense of not caring were very obvious.
Maybe, if they were given the experience of this
visit, fewer Americans would sit back and let
others do for them and would get more involved
in their country." "After visiting Prague, we realize
how lucky we are to be Americans-free!"
On another, happier, note, a first-time
traveler wrote a testimonial which we could not
pass up the opportunity to share: "The tour, as
a whole, deepened my appreciation for the antiquity
of Europe-to see and feel first-hand
those far-away places where we came from gave
me a feeling ofcontinuity of life beyond what I
know from my grandparents, my parents, me,
and my children. This was my first tour ofany
kind, so I have nothing to compare it with, but I
have nothing but praise. I felt that the tour staff
was knowledgeable, helpful, patient, pleasant,
and experienced. The three cities we visited
were close enough together, yet so different from
each other that we got a broad idea ofthree
countries. The tour was well planned, so the
bumps were few. It has been said that no one
can please everyone all of the time. It seemed to
me that sixty people were well pleased for two
weeks of 1980. And I was one of them. "
With that encouragement, we invite you to
join one or more of the alumni tours described
on this page-J .C.B.
Portoroz (Yugoslavia)-May 15-23
An unusually beautiful location on the
Adriatic. Seven nights at the Grand Hotel
Emona, where all rooms have a balcony
overlooking the sea. Full breakfasts and dinners
daily. Scheduled wide-body air service from
ew York via Yugoslavia Airlines, with
transfers and baggage handling. Half-day tour
of Istrian Peninsula included. Easy access to
Venice (by hydrofoil) and to Trieste. Additional
optional trips to Dubrovnik, Lake Bled, Lipica,
Postojna Caves, and other areas oflstrian coast
38
available. $995 per person from New York.
Group arrangements from Rochester.
Paris, Moselle River, Lucerne-August 16-28
Four nights in Paris (Paris Intercontinental),
four on the Moselle and Rhine Rivers, and three
in Lucerne (Palace Hotel). Breakfasts in Paris
and Lucerne, all meals on board hip (KD
Rhine Line'sM.S. France). Scheduled air from
ew York via Swissair. Sightseeing in Paris and
Lucerne, first class train from Paris to Trier,
motorcoach from Strasbourg to Lucerne,
transfer, and baggage handling included. Optional
tours in Paris, Lucerne, and river ports
available. $2,345 from ew York. Group travel
from Rochester arranged.
Italy·-October 25-November 9
Three choices: Northern tour, Southern tour
(both including Rome and Sorrento) or Three
Cities tour (Rome, Venice, and Florence). All
include first-class or higher hotels, breakfasts
and dinners daily, licensed tour guide and coach
driver with group the entire time, Pan Am air,
transfers, and baggage handling. Similar to the
program that was so successful in 1979, but with
more variety ofchoice. $1,590 from ew York.
Group arrangements from Rochester.
Forfurther information on alumni tours, write or
phoneJohn Braund, AlumniAffairs Office, Fairbank
Alumni Center, University ofRochester, Rochester,
New York 14627, (716) 275-3682.
The Eastman School of Music
of the University of Rochester
Presents
A MUSICAL TOUR OF EUROPE
Join John Santuccio, Eastman's assistant director for administration, and his
wife, Mary Jo, in a unique tour of music festivals in Austria, Germany, and
Switzerland this summer-including a visit to the Heidelberg Castle Festival,
where the Eastman Philharmonia is the resident orchestra.
Wed., Aug. 19-1eave from New York City.
Thurs., Aug 2D-to Munich. Tours. Munich Hilton.
Fri., Aug. 2l-to Salzburg. Tickets included for Vladimir Ashkenazy and
Mozart Matinee concerts. Tours. Winkler Hotel.
Mon., Aug. 24-Lucerne (via Arlberg pass and Vaduz, Liechtenstein). Tickets
included to concert performance at Lucerne Festival. Tours. Schweizerhof
Hotel.
Wed., Aug. 26-Heidelberg. Tickets included for The Student Prince and
Eastman Philharmonia concert. Bonus: buffet reception with orchestra
members after concert. Tours. Europahof Hotel.
Fri., Aug. 28-to Cologne (via Rhine cruise from Mainz). Tours. Excelsior
Hotel.
Sun., Aug. 3D-leave for New York.
$1,995 per person from Kennedy Airport (based on double occupancy). Includes
transportation, lodging, all taxes, gratuities, continental breakfast each
morning, transfers to and from each musical event and airports, concert
tickets as indicated above, and half-day of sightseeing with guides in Munich,
Salzburg, Lucerne, Heidelberg, and Cologne. Also included: buffet reception
in Heidelberg following Eastman Philharmonia concert, and a dinner in
Cologne. Travel arrangements by Red Carpet Travel, Inc., Rochester, N.Y.

In Memoriam (continuedjromp. 39)
honor. Friends may send checks to the Scholarship
Fund in Memory ofRuth A. Merrill, in
care ofthe University Gift Office, 105 Administration
Building, University ofRochester,
Rochester, New York 14627.
.Dr. William F. Neuman '43GM,Joseph
Chamberlain Wilson and Marie Curran Wilson
Professor and former chairman ofradiation
biology and biophysics, and an international expert
in the biochemistry ofbones, died suddenly
and unexpectedly onJanuary 4. He was sixtyone.
President Sproull said, "The University comm
unity is deeply saddened to learn ofDr.
Neuman's untimely death. His most obvious
contribution was as chairman of the Faculty
Letters (continuedjrom insidejront cover)
L. Alfreda Hill
Two tributes
Ralph W. Helmkamp
I am grateful that the late Alfreda Hill was my
teacher and friend for more than thirty years.
She was a unique person, who will affect eternity.
No one can say where her influence will end.
Julian Kaplow '50
Rochester
As a former student ofthe late Ralph
Helmkamp, long-time professor oforganic
chemistry at this University, I would like to pay
tribute to the excellence ofhis teaching and the
great enthusiasm which he had for his subject.
Not only was he an outstanding teacher but a
fine person as well.
Anna B. Bridgwater '43GM
Pittsburgh
Soot stained?
While I feel that the development of the River
Campus and the subsequent move to coeducation
were great advancements for the University,
as a member ofthe class of 1949, College
for Women, I resent the implication in the Fall
issue ("The Great Removal Project") ofbeing
sooty and smelling cabbage smells. The Prince
Street Campus was a nice place to be.
Juliet Tillema Brace '49
Short Hills, New Jersey
The reference to cabbage smells and soot stains at the
Prince Street Campus originated during the early 1920s
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Senate Steering Committee and Research Policy
Committee. In addition, over and over again
his leadership made the difference between the
success and failure ofa number ofUniversity
projects. "
Dr. Frank E. Young, dean ofthe School of
Medicine and Dentistry and director ofthe
Medical Center, noted that "for decades
William Neuman has been an outstanding
leader not only in his field of research on bone
but also as a statesman in the Medical Center.
"As chairman ofradiation biology and
biophysics he helped to build the field of
biological science to a position ofexcellence
within the University."
A native of Petoskey, Michigan, Neuman
graduated in 1940 from Michigan State University.
Hejoined the Rochester faculty as an instructor
in biochemistry in 1944 after receiving
Prince Street Campus, 1940s: a pleasant place to be
in the columns ojThe Campus, the men students'
weekly, and can probably be ascribed to undergraduate
hyperbole. It was included in the Review article as an
illustration ojthe lordly dismissal..oj the sensibilities oj
jemale students by their male counterparts during that
period. Prince Street was indeed a pleasant place to be.
The editor, jor one, will happily attest that during the
jouryears she spent there her complexion remained
his doctorate from the University.
In the 1940s Dr. Neuman helped create the
field ofhealth physics (the protection ofpeople
exposed to radiation, such as that received in the
Manhattan Project). He was one ofa team of
scientists that studied the effects ofspace travel
on the muscle and bones ofastronauts Frank
Borman andJames Lovell during the fourteenday
flight ofGemini 7 in 1965.
Neuman served as a visiting professor and lecturer
at universities and scientific institutes
across the United States and around the world.
He was the author or co-author of more than
200 scientific publications and winner of
numerous professional awards.
Those who wish may contribute to the
William F. Neuman Scholarship Fund, University
ofRochester Medical Center.
unblemished (by soot anyhow), and she can recall smelling
no urban scent stronger than that oj
dandelions-Ed.
The Review welcomes letters from readers and
will print as many of them as space permits. Letters
may be edited for brevity and clarity.

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