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job is the afternoon shift, from one to three; "I take care of the ladies for those two hours," he says. He is much pleased with the amount and quality of his equipment, which includes a whirlpool bath, a baking oven, an assortment of sun lamps, several electrical gadgets for treating sprains and bruises, two rubbing tables, and a limitless supply of liniment. Altogether, he says, his new quarters are much better equipped than his former Schoellkopf rubbing room. And Frank manages to keep most of the equipment in constant use. It's a slack hour when he hasn't got four or five boys in his room, all being restored to health by the Sheehan touch, seemingly at once. In the midst of everything, with one boy having a bruised finger gone over with what looked like an electric egg-beater, while another was having his tired feet washed in the whirlpool bath, Frank found time to talk proudly of his son, Technical Sergeant John T. Sheehan '40, who enlisted before Pearl Harbor and is now in North Africa, or points north. FRATERNITY DEBATE (Continued from page 81) them, however, have found rooms together, and occasional informal chapter meetings of civilians and members in uniform are held. Under a ruling that any member of a chapter may act as its delegate to the Interfraternity Council, fortyone fraternities were represented at the last Council meeting. FIVE NAVY CAPTAINS Information has come to the ALUMNI NEWS of five Cornellians who hold the rank of captain, Civil Engineering Corps, US Navy. They are Robert E. Bassler '17, John J. Chew '15, John C. Gebhard '19, John J. Gromfine '17, and C. Reid Johnson '13. Captain Bassler, whose home address is 6117 Sixty-eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, received his appointment as captain June 11, 1943, and is on duty at the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Va. His son, Robert E. Bassler, Jr., was a member of the Class of '45 in Civil Engineering. Captain Chew, of 1912. H. Street, N.W., Washington, D. C, was also appointed last June xi, and is assigned to duty in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, t). C. Captain Gebhard, of 8x83 167 Street, Jamaica, was appointed October 3, 194:1. He directed construction of the Sampson Naval Training Station on Seneca Lake, and is the husband of Hazel Jean Hall Gebhard '19. Captain Gromfine, of 80 North Parade Avenue, Buffalo, appointed last June 2.1, is also on duty in Washington in the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Captain Johnson, of 3700 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md., has worn his four stripes longer than the others, having been appointed January ix, 1942.. LETTERS Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the sentiments expressed^ and disclaims any responsibility beyond that of fostering interest in the University. " . . . REASSURING ..." To THE EDITOR: The ALUMNI NEWS is more welcome than ever under present chaotic conditions. It is a tie that is somehow reassuring, that the old University is still there and will come back to its own after this is all over. Put in as much University news as you can, and let the current phase be secondary except as news and as the big part the University is playing in the war effort.—RALPH BOLGIANO '09, President Cornell Club of Maryland HOLD RUSSIAN WEEK "Russian Week" at Willard Straight Hall, August 2.2.-2.9, inaugurated a series of lectures, exhibits, and special events designed to arouse interest in various foreign countries. Lectures by Sir Bernard Pares, Vladimir Kazakevitch, Dr. Henry W. L. Dana, and Dr. Corliss Lamont, all teaching courses in contemporary Russian civilization this summer, were given during the week. A student recital in the Music and Art Room, and the weekly women's tea in the East Lounge both took on a Russian complexion. The week was concluded when Professor Ernest J. Music FOR THE STRAIGHT Recorded dance tunes, symphony orchestras, radio broadcasts, and speakers within Willard Straight Hall are amplified through this control board in a basement room. Here, Jerry Sou-Chun Tseu '44 of Shanghai, China, operates the controls for a dance upstairs. Roichel '46 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Simmons read selections from Russian literature at the regular Sunday evening reading hour in the Library. News of Cornell's Russian activities this summer has reached Russia itself. Captain Paul S. Hall '41, assistant military attache at the US Embassy in Moscow, sent Professor Simmons a copy of the May 2.7 "Moscow Evening Paper," in which the Cornell courses on Russian civilization are described and the teachers are mentioned. TO OPEN OFFICERS' MESS The old Town and Gown Club on Stewart Avenue at Cascadilla gorge, which for forty years provided a social link between residents of Ithaca and adult members of the University, is to receive a military lease on life. Plans are announced to open there an officers' mess for all services. Early in October, the doors which have opened to unnumbered visiting celebrities and for well-remembered sessions of the famous "round table" will admit Army, Navy, and Coast Guard officers and their wives. Lounge rooms will be outfitted with furniture borrowed from the Beta Theta Pi house, and the billiard and table-tennis room, card rooms, grill, and squash court will again be put to use. A temporary board of governors is composed of officers of the various services now on duty at the University. After the Town and Gown Club closed, the building from 1936 until last year was occupied by the University Tutoring School directed by Harold H. Schaff, PhD '31. Recently it has been vacant. TWO OF FACULTY DIE Professor John Hall Barron '06, Field Crops Extension, Emeritus, died August 10 at his farm home near Dansville, after a long illness. He was the first county agricultural agent of the State Extension Service and one of the first in the country when he entered the employ of the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, the Lackawanna Railroad, and the College of Agriculture in 1911 for work in Broome County. He had been agronomist at Pennsylvania State College and a lecturer in the old Farmers' Institute in New York State. In 1914, Barron became assistant professor of Farm Crops and he had been a member of the Extension Service of the College of Agriculture since 1915, travelling about the State and advising farmers on the growing of crops and improvement of pastures. He received the rank of professor in 19x0; was retired because of ill health last March 1, and was appointed professor emeritus. Son of the late Milton M. Barron '74, Professor Barron received the BSA in 1906. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Sigma Xi. One
SEPTEMBER I, I943 of his two sons is Vincent J. Barron '44. Professor Claude M. Pendleton Ί8, Structural Engineering, died August ΊJL of a heart ailment, at his home in Forest Home. Since he received the CE in 1918, he had been a member of the Civil Engineering Faculty, as instructor until his appointment as assistant professor in 1938. He was a member of Chi Epsilon and Pyramid. Mrs. Pendleton survives, with their five children, of whom one is Richard F. Pendleton '42.. ROCHESTER WOMEN Newly elected officers of the Cornell Women's Club of Rochester are Mrs. Erwin J. McGuire (Helen Durham) '2.9, president; Mrs. Leonard D. Booth (Eleanor Bradley) '33, vice-president; Loris M. Jeffries '42., recording secretary; Mrs. Robert Norris (Betty Long) '40, corresponding secretary; Elizabeth Erb '42., treasurer; and Mrs. Walter Schlotzhauer (Selma Christensen) '33, publicity chairman. FOUR MAKE ARMY MAPS Four alumnae who studied military map-making at the University last spring are now at work for the Army Map Service of the War Department in Washington, D. C. Professor Paul H. Underwood '07, Engineering, was in charge of the fifteen-week course given in Lincoln Hall as part of the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training program. He has learned that Mary E. Frank '43, daughter of George S. Frank Ίi, University Manager of Purchases; Winifred F. Brown '41, formerly employed in the Graduate School office; Mrs. Kermit Kruse (Shirley Ruckaberle '43); and Virginia L. Witmer '41 are now helping to make the 4,000,000 maps a month needed by our armed forces all over the world. GIFT FROM NEW GUINEA First Lieutenant William H. Webster, Jr. 'Δβ. wrote in April from his Army Air Corps bomber base "in the jungles of New Guinea" to enclose his contribution to the Alumni Fund. He speaks of receiving an Alumni Fund reminder and says: "Just the postmark, Ίthaca, N. Y.,' and the Cornell seal immediately drove the cares and worries of combat flying, coupled with bad grub, monstrous mosquitoes, and all the hardships from my mind. In their place came pleasant memories of Frosh year, winter snows, house parties and fraternity life at the Chi Psi Lodge. Yet it is a far cry from there to here, but travel only serves to convince me how much more Cornell means to me now and how matchless a life I led there. "I hope this little message finds you in as good health and spirits as it leaves me. Will see you all at Reunion time after the final and inevitable victory." NOW IN MY TIME! By Romeyn Berry What this place needs is a Tribune of the Plebes. We haven't had one since Davy Hoy died. Davy abused students shamefully, himself, but he wouldn't let anybody else do it. He figured his Number One philippic was a sufficient penalty for any student felony. The punishment having been administered, he became the felon's advocate and in dealing with the Faculty Committee on Crime in the boy's behalf, was not above suppressing evidence in the interest of justice and conniving at a little venial perjury. Many a Cornell man who is now vestryman at St. Thomas's, a director of the First National, and chairman of the Republican County Committee, would still be doing time instead had it not been for Davy Hoy! There is always need of a Tribune of the Plebes in a large, impersonal university. There will again be peculiar need for one when the war is over and the boys come back. They'll again find it almost impossible to readjust their minds to Thermodynamics, Aristotles' ideas about poetry, and Plant Breeding 51. It takes a little time to make that change. Some sympathy, understanding, and patience is required in high places and is not always forthcoming. Harrassed professors who have seen scholastic standards relaxed a little in war time naturally want to get things tightened up and speeded up at once. It's not easy to do that when a third of the class can't clear their minds of what they've just been through and have a tendency to dive under the table at any sudden noise. Your reporter returned to Ithaca in the fall of 1919. At that time, no inconsiderable number of students in the shower baths at Schoellkopf carried blue shrapnel scars on their bodies. Not a few of them had at home medals and citations of the better sort, and could not keep from jerking all over and bursting into tears when somebody slammed a door behind them. Some of these boys didn't do too well in their studies. They found it difficult to concentrate, impossible to memorize, that first year out. The printed page before their staring eyes might bear formulas and diagrams and dates, but what they saw was—something they did not want to look at or think about. Their minds wandered in class, and naturally enough their inattention annoyed their instructors. Most of the professors were sympathetic with these cases, but a considerable minority honestly believed that the only efficient thing was to get rid of the adolescent veterans who couldn't keep the pace, as rapidly as possible and regardless of the cause. To your reporter it seemed that busts, probations, warnings, and scoldings were being dealt out lavishly that first year, and sometimes with a degree of cruelty that wasn't MARCHING MEN CROSS CASCADILLA BRIDGE Piloted by the ever-present Campus dog that leads every possible military formation, a company of Army students marches up Central Avenue to morning mess at Willard Straight Hall from their quarters in Cascadilla Hall.
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