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258Cornell Alumni News
VOLUME 61, NUMBER 8 • DECEMBER 15, 1958
Cornellians Come From All the World Cuba, eighteen from Venezuela, and
nine each from Colombia and Mexico.
The University has fifty-one students
MORE STUDENTS from abroad are at the nam. The second largest group, 138, from the Near and Middle East. Iran is
University this year than ever before: comes from Europe. With the exception represented by eighteen: Israel, ten;
709 are enrolled in the Ithaca divisions of Portugal, all countries of Europe out- Iraq, seven; Turkey, six; Lebanon, five;
from seventy-nine foreign countries. side the Iron Curtain have students at Jordan, three; Syria and Saudi Arabia,
This is sixty-nine more than last year's Cornell and there are even four students one each. Forty-seven students come
record foreign student enrolment, 169 from Communist Poland. (For the last from the continent of Africa. Egypt has
more than in 1956, and 404 more than two years, there have also been several thirteen here; Ethiopia, nine; and South
in 1948. These increases show a trend Hungarian students who escaped from Africa, eight. Two of the world's young-
that has become strikingly evident since the Communists during the Hungarian est nations, Ghana and the Sudan, are
World War II not only at Cornell but uprising of 1956; but since these stu- represented by seven and two students,
at many American colleges and univer- dents are here on parolee status and in- respectively. Others have come from
sities. Where once the foreign student tend to remain permanently in the Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, and Nigeria.
was comparatively rare on the Campus United States, they are not counted as This by no means completes the list, for
here (in 1936, there were only 189 for- foreign students.) England ranks first there are always sizeable groups from
eign students in a studentry of about among European nations with twenty- countries like Australia (with fourteen
6000), he is now a member of a sizeable two students registered, followed by students this year) and Jamaica (with
minority. Greece with eighteen and France with twenty), and students come also from
This year, foreign students comprise fifteen. places with such romantic-sounding
approximately one-fourth of the Gradu- Ninety-three students come from Cen- names as Aruba, the Netherlands An-
ate School, with 468 registered, and tral or South America. All of the Latin tilles, and Tobago.
about 6 per cent of all students, both American nations are represented here
graduate and undergraduate. They except Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Uru- Assist International Understanding
study in all divisions of the University. guay. Nineteen students come from With such a large representation of
The College of Agriculture has the men and women from so many different
largest number, 269, followed by Arts lands, it is obvious that Cornell (along
& Sciences, with 121; Engineering, 115; with other American colleges and uni-
Architecture, fifty-four; Home Eco- versities) has a tremendous opportunity
nomics, thirty-five; Industrial & Labor to spread throughout the world a true
Relations, thirty-three; Business & Pub- picture of America, its aims, ideals, and
lic Administration, thirty; Hotel Ad- way of life. The role played by Amer-
ministration, twenty-one; Law, eight; ican colleges in the world-wide struggle
Education, four; Nutrition, three. The between democracy and totalitarianism
Divisions of Unclassified Students and cannot be underestimated. Often, in the
of Extramural Courses each have one more isolated regions, it is the returning
student. alumnus who leads the only effective
opposition to the hate and distortions
Far East Leads Other Regions of the Communist. According to David
The Far East accounts for 239 stu- B. Williams '43, Counselor to Foreign
dents at the University, almost twice as Students at the University, this good
many as any other part of the world. impression of the United States brought
Although Canada, with ninety-five stu- back by the foreign student to his native
dents here, has the largest representa- land is "perhaps our most valid excuse
tion of any single nation, the next five for having these students, if we need an
countries are all in Asia. Sixty-five stu- excuse."
dents come from India, forty-one from East Meets West—Foreign students at Cor- Almost invariably, Cornellians go
Nationalist China, twenty-seven from nell chat with Vice President for Student back to their own countries with a
Japan, and twenty-five each from the Affairs John Summerskill (left) and Coun-
selor to Foreign Students David B. Wil- friendly impression of America and of
Philippines and Thailand. Other Asian liams '43. The students are (from left) Thu the Americans they have met, not only
nations represented include Burma, Ba Truong and Tran Truong from Viet- at the University but in travels around
Ceylon, Indonesia, Korea, Malaya, nam, and Vimla Swani from India. All the country. Often they retain a strong
Nepal, Pakistan, the Ryukus, and Viet- are PhD candidates. C. Hadley Smith interest in Cornell, as evidenced by the
259many letters Williams gets. Typical is a off-Campus community in response to
recent one from Francis Shaxon, MS requests for international programs,
'56, who came here as an exchange stu- while the orientation committee handles
dent from University of London and is the arrival and housing problems of
now teaching at the Imperial College new foreign students. Interoc publishes
of Tropical Agriculture in St. Augus- "Internationally Speaking," a monthly
tine, Trinidad, British West Indies. newsletter distributed free to foreign
Shaxon wrote in part: students and to anyone else who is in-
Tonight I was listening to the LP record- terested. CURW sponsors the One
ing of the Glee Club, the Cornell Band, and World Club, a group of 200 foreign and
the Chimes, and I felt yet again how much I American students who meet every Sat-
enjoyed and profited from my time at Cornell.
If even some of the foreign students now back urday to hear speakers on world affairs,
in their home countries feel this sense of and an annual International Week End
gratitude and achievement due to Cornell, it for foreign and American students at
has gone a very long way to fulfilling what I Hidden Valley Camp in Watkins Glen.
feel is the chief purpose of foreign student ex-
changes: the development of better under- Visits Benefactors—Kwaiπe Owusu 61 υi Various national groups include the
standings between the peoples of the world. Ghana talks with friends at Cornell Club Arab Club, Chinese Student Organiza-
It is by the development of friendship and of New York, where he was the elevator tion, Filipino Club, and Israeli Student
the memory of worthwhile, satisfying achieve- operator. When Owusu won a tuition schol- Organization.
ments that this link is indissolubly forged. As
arship in Agriculture, members of the Club
for me, it most certainly has been. Of course,established the Kwame Owusu scholar- And the University, through the
I don't agree with everything American, just
as you don't agree with everything British, arship Fund to help him defray expenses in Counselor to Foreign Students, does
but I have discovered a deep friendship, with Ithaca. Pictured with Owusu are Charles much to make the foreign students' stay
its give and take, with individuals, with a M. Chuckrow '11 (left), chairman of the at Cornell as pleasant as possible. It
people, and with a country that are part of Fund committee, and Club President Max helps students with their housing, social,
the brotherhood of our two countries. F. Schmitt '24. financial, and immigration problems, to
name but a few. How complex these
They Adjust Well Here Vegetable Crops, Entomology, Rural problems can become is seen in the Uni-
Sociology, and Plant Pathology. In Arts versity's highly successful clothing ex-
What is the foreign student like and & Sciences, nearly half of the ninety-six change for warm country students, es-
how does he react to Cornell? Williams foreign students are studying Econom- tablished this year. The project was con-
says he is likely to find life at the Univer- ics, Physics, and Chemistry. ceived when Williams noticed the same
sity somewhat unsettling, at first. He is old brown Army coat showing up each
not, for one thing, used to the many or- Alumni Give Help year on a different Philippine student.
ganized social and athletic events; nor, Occasionally a foreign student will "Each winter I'd see this old coat com-
more importantly, is he prepared for the come to Cornell through unusual means. ing toward me on the street," Williams
"objective" aspects of American educa- Kwame Owusu '61 came to this country says. "I'd recognize the coat, but each
tion, with its emphasis upon prelims, from Ghana (then the Gold Coast) in year it was worn by a different student.
recitations, and weekly papers. For 1956 and got a job as elevator operator One winter, the coat appeared on a
many of them at home, course work has at the Cornell Club of New York. The friend of mine, Mike Tamano [LLM
consisted of discussions with professors next year he was accepted for a tuition '58]. I asked him where he got it. He told
and writing long essays. This unsettling scholarship in Agriculture, but found me that a departing Filipino student
effect holds true even for European stu- that he would need more money than he would leave the coat in a friend's apart-
dents. Since the University maintains had been able to save. To help with his ment and tell another Filipino student
the same standards for foreign students expenses at Cornell, a Kwame Owusu where to find it." As a result of Wil-
as for others, the foreign student is Scholarship Fund was established by liams's efforts, Africans, Central Ameri-
usually asked to take a reduced load members of the Cornell Club, under cans, and Asians now have warm gar-
during his first term while he becomes chairmanship of Charles M. Chuckrow ments given by Ithacans for the price of
adjusted to his new environment. For '11. When Owusu graduates, he will re- cleaning. At the end of the year, they
the most part, lack of knowledge of Eng- turn to Ghana and offer his services to will turn them in to the clothing ex-
lish is not a major problem among for- the government. change for other students to use.
eign students, since they are required to Although foreign students have an
have a good working knowledge of Eng- earnest desire to participate more fully
lish before being accepted by the Uni- in Campus life, the great majority are Draft Hospital Standards
versity. Nevertheless, some students still limited because they are graduate stu-
take advantage of courses in English for dents and carry heavy study-loads. In SLOAN INSTITUTE of Hospital Adminis-
Foreigners offered (for credit) by the this they are no different from American tration in the Graduate School of Busi-
Division of Modern Languages and of graduate students. Undergraduate for- ness & Public Administration has con-
adult courses in English given in down- eign students join fraternities and Cam- tracted with the New York State Board
town Ithaca. pus organizations in about the same pro- of Social Welfare to develop standards
Many foreign students come from the portion as do American undergraduates. for regulation and supervision of hos-
upper economic classes of their coun- There are several organizations at pitals in the State.
tries, although this is becoming less and Cornell devoted to the social life of for- Professor Robert A. Anderson, Assist-
less true with the increase of govern- eign students. The largest of these is ant Director of the Institute, is directing
ment scholarships, Williams says. The Interoc (International Organization of the drafting of a code of requirements
students sent to Cornell by their govern- Cornell), established by students last and standards, based on research in hos-
ments tend to be graduate students in year to fill many of the foreign students' pital administration and a survey of
fields vital to the modernization of their needs. The international activities com- hospital practices in New York and
native lands. For example, among for- mittee, a joint Willard Straight Hall and other States. The Institute's recom-
eign students majoring in Agriculture, Interoc committee, sponsors cultural mendations will be reviewed by an ad-
Agronomy has the heaviest enrolment. and social events and encourages par- visory committee of hospital administra-
Large numbers are also majoring in ticipation of national groups. Commu- tors, doctors, nurses, and laymen before
Plant Breeding, Animal Husbandry, nity service committee works with the they are adopted by the State Board.
260 Cornell Alumni NewsPoet-Philosophers of Dorset hand as she gathers her frock about her out
of the dew. Yet the very substance of hap-
piness, the delicate hoar frost of happiness,
BY ARTHUR P. SWEET, Acquisition Librarian is made up of nothing more stable than an
intense awareness of such things. The reality
of such happiness, the reality of this height-
"FEW CONTEMPO- the appeal of mountain and fell, of lake ened awareness, descends upon our spirits like
RARY WRITERS pos- and cataract, Dorothy Wordsworth's small rain, like sunlight through the veined
sess as wide a range deepest allegiance remained in Dorset. leaves of a forest of enchantment; and it is
of literary and cul- 'Racedown,' she once wrote, 'is the place in its presence that our poor lost souls, faith-
ful still through lonely betrayals, touch for a
tural reference as dearest to my recollections upon the moment the linnet wings of the eternal.
this good epicure, whole surface of the island; it was the This strain, which runs throughout
and few couch their first home I had'." the writings of the self-styled "pagan,"
experience in a prose with a finer seven- It is the nature of that early home life finds something more than an echo in
teenth-century deliberateness and ca- with which Powys is principally con- Wordsworth's lines:
dence." Such was the critical comment cerned in this essay. "To any one like To her fair works did Nature link
of Paul Rosenfeld concerning the Eng- myself who, for the sake of leisure and The human soul that through me ran
lish essayist, Llewelyn Powys, whose first freedom, has lived poor in Dorset, adopt- And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
fame and publication was achieved in ing the short coal of the philosopher,
this country during the 1920s. the domestic economy of this household,
The Cornell University Library can- nay the whole manner of life of the
not be said to have a special Llewelyn brother and sister, is of the greatest in-
Science for Children
Powys "collection," as yet; but it does terest." He comments upon their financ-
es, their household routines, their daily RURAL SCHOOL LEAFLET, published by
own each of the thirty-some published
occupations, and their visitors. the College of Agriculture for fifty-one
works of this author, in at least one edi-
years, now has the new title of "Cornell
tion; and to these holdings there has
Science Leaflet" and is designed for use
just been added an unpublished manu- Mental Bond With Wordsworth in city schools as well as those in the
script by Llewelyn Powys on "The
But if this geographical-occupational country. The change has come about be-
Wordsworths in Dorset." Since the Uni-
relationship was the primary cause en- cause of increasing demand for the Leaf-
versity Library does boast a very distin-
gendering this manuscript, there was let and new emphasis on science in ele-
guished Wordsworth Collection, this re-
surely operative another bond that drew mentary schools. Professor Verne N.
cent acquisition is an especially attrac-
Powys inevitably to the study of Words- Rockcastle, PhD '55, Rural Education,
tive combination of author and subject.
worth : an affinity of thought and spirit, editor of the Leaflet, notes that a re-
The ostensible and immediate reason
whether real or imagined. cently enacted State law requires science
for Powys choosing Wordsworth as a
"I remember once asking my brother to be taught in all schools, grades one
subject for essay was their common in-
John what he considered to be the espe- through eight.
terest in and association with the Dor-
setshire countryside. For Wordsworth, cial value of Wordsworth's poetry. He The Cornell Science Leaflet is written
of course, this association was brief; but answered without hesitation that his for fifth-grade pupils and teachers.
Powys considers that 1795-1797 period greatest gift was his power of expressing Three issues a year are for students and
one of special significance: "Students the quality of patient endurance, one is for teachers of science. Subscrip-
of the life of William Wordsworth have and he went on to say that Wordsworth tions may be ordered at fifty cents a year
always regarded the year and a half that teaches us not to require beauty, or love, from Cornell Science Leaflet, Stone
he spent in Dorset as of the greatest im- or passion, or glory, but to derive an Hall, Ithaca. Circulation of the Rural
portance; for it was at Racedown that old-animal sort of pleasure from the School Leaflets had grown to 15,000
the poet first put to a practical test his mere sensation of being alive, alive to teachers and 45,000 pupils, many in
native disposition for simple living and feel the warmth of a cottage fire upon other States and in seventeen foreign
high thinking." our knees, alive to feel the sun shining countries.
down upon the village street." If John The Rural School Leaflet grew out
Cowper Powys was correct in his inter- of a mandate "to encourage nature study
Idylls of Dorsetshire pretation of Wordsworth's work—and in rural schools" when the College of
For "L. P.," the Dorset attachment undoubtedly Llewelyn believed that he Agriculture became State-supported in
was far deeper, and more prolonged. was— , then we have here two authors, 1896. Dean Isaac P. Roberts turned over
Not only was he born in Dorchester and a century apart in time, expressing much the responsibility to Professor Liberty
educated at Sherborne School before go- the same theme: one in narrative poetry Hyde Bailey, then head of the Depart-
ing on to Cambridge, with subsequent and the other in poetic prose. For it was ment of Horticulture. The first Teach-
brief periods of teaching at Sherborne L. P. who wrote, of "The Poetic Faith" er's Leaflet, "How a Squash Plant Gets
Preparatory School; but when, in 1925, in "Damnable Opinions": Out of the Seed," by Bailey, was pub-
after five years of professional author- The ultimate justification of life in earth, lished December 1, 1896. Junior Nat-
ship in the United States, he decided to air, and water is to be found always in the uralist Clubs in schools were directed
simple primeval happiness of the immediate by Professor John W. Spencer and a
return to England with his American experience of being alive. It: is this very ex-
bride, it was at the "White Nose" on the perience that we hold cheap in these depraved Home Nature-Study Course for teachers
Dorset coast that he settled. Dorset re- modern times. We have forgotten how to re- was started in 1899 by Mrs. Wilhelm
mained his home and base of operations spond to the poetry of life. The hollow, tink- Miller (Mary Rogers) '96. Mrs. Anna
for the ensuing decade, until ill-health ling facade of life put up by noisy and trivial Botsford Comstock '85 directed the
people stands between us and our deepest
forced him for the second time to take wealth. We give scant heed to the earth mur- course from 1903-11 and was assisted
up residence in Switzerland, where he mur, to the sound of the sea breaking against by Ada E. Georgia.
died in 1939. solid land, to the sound of wind passing over First editor of the Rural School Leaf-
corn, to the sound of rain upon a roof, to the
"Those of us," says Powys, "who claim sound of fire burning. We look at the coulter let, from its start in September, 1907,
Dorset as our 'peculiar nook of earth' of a plough, and no race-memory stirs in our until her death in 1915, was Alice G.
are proud to remember that William hearts; a shoal of fish darting through clear McCloskey '08, and Edward M. Tuttle
and Dorothy Wordsworth began their water is to us no exceptional glimpse. There Ί 1 was co-editor and editor from 1912—
is nothing extraordinary in the light from the
life together under Pillesdon Pen sun touching a girl's wrist; nothing uncom- 18. Professor Roland M. Stewart, Rural
And we cherish the fact that, in spite of mon in seeing moonlight on the flesh of her Education, published a teachers' number
December 15, 1958 261in 1918-19, and the next year Professor retired in 1952. From then until 1956- wright Voigt '21, Wilbur C. Sutherland '28,
E. Laurence Palmer '11, Rural Educa- 57, the editor was Professor Eva L. Gor- John P. Batchelar '35; ROCHESTER, Robert
A. Antell '43, John C. Little, Jr. '28; STATEN
tion, became editor and served until he don '29, Rural Education, Emeritus. ISLAND, Stuart H. Richardson '25; UNION
CITY, N.J., Melvin J. Koestler '28; WASH-
INGTON, D.C, Felix E. Spurney '23, Mat-
thias P. Homan '30, Adelbert P. Mills '36;
Men's Club Federation Meets Here WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, Paul F. Beaver
'24, James A. Mullane '35; YORK COUNTY,
PA., Martin P. Ebbert '30, Michael A. Lagun-
DELEGATES from twenty-one Clubs at- Clubs of Pittsburgh, Ithaca, Philadel- owich '47, H. DeForest Hardinge '53.
tended the annual meeting of the Fed- phia, and Western Massachusetts were
eration of Cornell Men's Clubs, Novem- also commended for effective programs.
ber 14 & 15. An afternoon "workshop" University Vice-president James L. Russians Return Visit
in the Big Red Barn was devoted to dis- Zwingle, PhD '42, outlined the respon- DELEGATION of six Russian veterinarians
cussion of the contents of a forthcoming sibilities of his office and told the status ended a month-long stay in the United
Cornell Club Manual that is being pre- of numerous projects and plans. States with a visit to the State Veterinary
pared by a committee headed by Ed- College at Cornell in October. This was
ward M. Krech '27. He presented a an exchange visit with that of six Amer-
preliminary draft of the Manual and Delegates of Clubs ican veterinarians, headed by Dean Wil-
the Club representatives discussed it in Club delegates at the Federation liam A. Hagan, MS '17, who spent
sections and suggested changes and ad- meeting were: thirty-four days in Russia studying the
ditions. The Manual is expected to be BERGEN COUNTY, N.J., Edward M. Car- Soviet livestock industry.
ready in February. man '14, Edward M. Krech '27; BUFFALO,
Speaking through an interpreter, A.
Members of the University were in- Herbert R. Johnston '17, Richard H. Wile
'26, William H. Harder '30, John H. Gridley A. Boiko, leader of the delegation and
vited for dinner in the Barn with the '44; GHENANGO COUNTY, I. Richer Mitchell chairman of the All-Union Veterinary
forty-six delegates and their wives, and '43; CHICAGO, I I I . , Strabo V. Claggett, Jr. Collegium of the Soviet Ministry of Ag-
President Deane W. Malott told of his '43, Anthony W. Bryant '52; CLEVELAND, riculture, praised American veterinary
visit to Russia last summer. After din- OHIO, Harry L. Martien, Jr. '38, Cornelius
L. Lawton '49 ESSEX COUNTY, N.J., Weight- practices, particularly at Cornell. "I like
ner, the alumni had a general discussion man Edwards '14, Charles F. Hendrie '19, your attitude toward animals," he said.
of ways and means of operating their George H. Stanton '20; ITHACA, R. Selden "You try to make all animals healthy. I
Clubs. Brewer '40; LACKAWANNA, N.J., Donald E.
Maclay '17, Samuel M. Coombs, Jr. '20; like very much the laboratory equipment
LEHIGH VALLEY, PA., Noah E. Dorius '39; and the buildings, especially the veteri-
Re-elect Federation Officers MARYLAND, David H. Belt '43, Joseph F. nary school here at Cornell. You have
At the business meeting in Statler Davis '45, Guy T. Warfield III ' 5 1 ; NEW
ENGLAND, Stuart B. Avery, Jr. '32, Franklin everything new, wisely built, and com-
Hall Saturday morning, William H. W. Carney '47; NEW YORK, Walter A. fortable. Students in this country have
Harder '30 of Buffalo was re-elected Davis '24, Charles A. Norris, Jr. '24, Carl everything good for study. I think we will
president of the Federation for a second Schraubstader '24; NEW YORK CITY ALUMNI use some of this in the Soviet Union. I
ASSN., Haig K. Shiroyan '24, Richard J.
year, along with Donald Danenhower Keegan '50, Howard David '53; PHILADEL- think Cornell's veterinary school is one
'17 of Philadelphia, Pa. and Krech of PHIA, PA., Donald Danenhower '17, Eugene of the best in the world." Asked to com-
Bergen County, N.J., vice-presidents. A. Leinroth '19; PITTSBURGH, PA., L. Wain- pare American veterinary schools with
Alumni Field Secretary D. Harvey
Krouse '25 was elected secretary-treas-
urer. As president, Harder is a director
of the Alumni Association and the ex-
ecutive committee of the Federation re-
appointed Krech and Adelbert P. Mills
'36 of Washington, D.C. and appointed
John H. Gridley '44 of Buffalo to the
Association board for two years. J. Bent-
ley Forker '26 of Cleveland, Ohio, and
John P. Batchelar '35 of Pittsburgh, Pa.
were elected to the Federation executive
committee for two years.
Harder reported that the watch given
by the Federation each year to the out-
standing Senior was awarded last June
to William R. Hazzard '58 and he serves
this year on the Federation executive
committee.
Washington Club Gets "Best" Award
Vice-president Danenhower reported
that the Cornell banner given each year
to the outstanding Club had been voted to
the Cornell Club of Washington, D.C,
principally for the successful dinner it At Club Federation Dinner—Faculty members and others of the University and their
arranged in Washington last December wives were invited for dinner with delegates and their wives to the Federation of Cornell
Men's Clubs annual meeting, November 14. From left at the head table in the Big Red
for the new US Attorney General, Wil- Barn are Alumni Secretary Hunt Bradley '26, Mrs. Harder, President Deane W. Malott,
liam P. Rogers, LLB '37. The award William H. Harder '30, president of the Federation, Mrs. Malott, and Mrs. Bradley (Marg-
entitles the winning Cornell Club to aret Cornell), Sp '27—'28. President Malott gave an entertaining and informative report on
name a member of the Federation ex- his and Mrs. Malott's trip last summer with a group of college and university presidents to
ecutive committee for a year. Cornell study higher education in the Soviet Union. Coryell '59
262 Cornell Alumni Newsthose in Russia, Boiko said that they After corn had been automatically cut,
were much alike except in size. "In Rus- for instance, a dozen women with bas-
sia, we have larger schools, as many as kets would carry the corn to the animals
800 to 1000 veterinary students in a by hand." Dean Hagan believes that the
school," he stated. "Here you have about Russians do a good job when they con-
250 veterinary students to a school." centrate on one thing, like Sputniks.
Boiko also felt that more American vet- "But other areas are neglected," he ob-
erinarians should be employed by the served. "People have trouble getting
government, instead of engaging in pri- food. They stand in line, waiting for
vate practice, since "private practice hours. Stores are crowded from morn-
makes the veterinarians too much like ing to night. The Russians are short on
businessmen" who work "not for eradi- consumer goods because they're putting
cating disease but only for making their energy into military products.
money." Their housing projects are extensive, but
Upon arrival, the Russians paid a the workmanship is poor. Much manual
brief visit to President Deane W. Malott, labor is done by women, and this in-
who had recently returned from a trip cludes things like road building and
to the Soviet Union, then went to the ditch digging." Earl Atlee Visits Cornell—Clement Atlee,
former Prime Minister of Great Britain and
Veterinary College, which they were present member of the House of Lords, is
shown by Dean Hagan and members of pictured at the conclusion of his speech to
the Faculty. They also visited the Veteri- some 3000 persons who packed Bailey Hall,
nary Virus Research Institute, the Uni- November 22. He stands between President
versity's McDonald Farms near Cort- Malott and Governor Averell Harriman,
land, and other points of interest in and
around Ithaca. The Soviet visitors
intelligence who introduced Atlee. —Rison 360
showed special interest in American Tories, fearing contamination. He told
methods of communicating new infor- them that he might well contaminate the
mation to farmers and in how the Uni- Tories. In fact, he thought he had, be-
versity coordinates teaching, research, cause much that Tories now preach
and Extension work. would have been considered rank heresy
Dean Hagan after his return from the IT WAS QUITE AN EXPERIENCE to at-
tend the Clement Atlee speech in Bailey then. He probably had that very thing
Soviet Union in July also had praise for in mind when he argued against isolat-
some aspects of the Russian livestock in- Hall. The crowd itself was
Thrills in a show, in its size and its ing ourselves from the Commies. This
dustry. He found that Soviet breeds are didn't mean that he was easy on them,
improving so fast that Russian farmers Bailey Hall friendly good manners: it
stood up three times in sa- and if any of the youngsters came ex-
could turn out some record breakers pecting softness because he is a Socialist,
within the next few years, although in lute to the distinguished visitor. Just be-
fore the start, about 300 of the throng they were disappointed. His story of a
general United States cattle are still far Hyde Park soap-box orator's conception
superior to Soviet breeds. "They have an outside were admitted and sat in the
aisles and in a semi-circle on the floor of of liberty took care of that point. He
extremely efficient system of obtaining urged the free world to stick together
foreign technical publications, and of the stage behind the speakers. President
Malott got a laugh when he said he had for protection and to try to win the un-
translating the articles into Russian," committed nations over to their side.
said Dean Hagan. "This, coupled with planned to present Governor Harriman
(who introduced the former Prime Min- I was much interested that Atlee
their practice of crossing Western bulls stressed the political diversity in Europe
with Russian cows, is rapidly improving ister) by saying that only these two old
friends were coming together on our Bai- and in his saying that he would not want
the over-all quality of their cattle." to change it, except on the economic
ley Hall platform. To cap it off, some-
Dean Hagan observed that competi- body must have stepped on a dog which side. He paid tribute to the United
tion with the United States is a domi- yelped bloody murder, and a roar of States for taking people from all those
nant theme throughout the Soviet Un- gayety went up, with Atlee semi-con- countries and making fine Americans of
ion. "Trying to surpass us seems to be a vulsed. Harriman added his bit by call- them, but he was all for nationalism in
passion with them. Radios everywhere, ing the president for saying the Court each of the variegated countries of Eu-
even in railroad sleeping cars, hammer of St. James, instead of St. James's. He rope itself. As for Britain, he made one
a 'beat America' theme into the people. went on to talk about that Court during major point for which I have never
There are charts all over the country and after the war when he was Ameri- really consciously given her full credit
comparing Russian production with can Ambassador and had occasion to ap- before. It is her service to the world in
United States production." But they are preciate Atlee as leader of the loyal op- inculcating in her former colonies, now
frequently misleading. "For instance, a position and then as head of the Labor free members of the British Common-
chart may say the Soviet Union in- government. wealth, the mechanics and spirit of dem-
creased production of an item by 100 ocratic government. That is something
per cent, while the United States in- to bear in mind amid prevailing talk
crease was only about 25 per cent. The about the decline of Britain.
actual figures may show that Russia's Earl Atlee was a delightful speaker,
production increased from 2000 tons to using no notes. I sat off to one side and
4000 tons while the United States in- could see the rather slight I'd like to share the memory of an-
creased from 30,000 to 40,000." British little man clasping the lee- other speech by a British Prime Minis-
Leader tern and frequently teetering ter I once heard. It was in the House of
The Russians are extremely proud of Delightful on both heels or wrapping Commons in February or March, 1915.
the mechanization of their farms, Dean one leg around the other as I went hoping to hear Lloyd-George
Hagan said. "When we visited collective he conversed with us. He was particu- speak. He bumbled along, to my increas-
farms, the managers sometimes said they larly amusing when he told how, in his ing disappointment, until all of a sudden
had complete mechanization. But what early days, some of his Socialist friends he came out with these electrifying
we saw was only partial mechanization. questioned his associating with the words: "What we need is not 'business
December 15, 1958 263as usual,' but victory as usual." It was
one of the memorable moments of my
life!
Scholars Get Research Aid
TWELVE FACULTY members and twelve
other Gornellians are among the 322
persons awarded John Simon Guggen-
heim Memorial Fellowships for this
year. The Fellowships are granted by the
Guggenheim Foundation to men and
women who have demonstrated the
highest capacity for original scholarly
research and artistic creation.
Members of the Faculty who have re-
ceived Fellowships and their fields of
research are Professors John M. Ander-
son, Zoology, the digestive tract of star- Cornellians Call on Pope Pius XII—These US officials and their wives were granted
an audience with the late Pontiff at Gastel Gondolfo, August 19, shortly before his
fishes; Michael H. Gardozo IV, Law, last illness. From left with Pope Pius XII are Mrs. Findlen, Paul J. Findlen, PhD '37,
European international organizations in assistant agricultural attache in Rome, Donald Paarlberg, PhD '46, then Assistant
their relations with member govern- US Secretary of Agriculture, now economic adviser to President Eisenhower, Mrs.
ments; David B. Davis, History, the Paarlberg, Mrs. Whipple, and Clayton E. Whipple '25, US agricultural attache.
American antislavery movement; How-
ard E. Evans, PhD '49, Entomology, the
solitary wasp William Hansel, PhD '49,
Animal Husbandry, estrogenic hormones concepts of moderation and proportion Medicine at the Medical College in New
in the blood and tissues of experimental as cardinal virtues in Greek thought; York, the Institute Bordet, Belgium.
animals; James Hutton '24, Classics, the Everett W. Jameson, Jr. '43, associate
concept of peace in Renaissance litera- professor of zoology at University of Cal-
ture; William R. Keast, English, Sam- ifornia in Davis, the fleas of Japan;
Teachers Study Here
uel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets Helen A. Stafford, Grad '45-'46, assist- T H E UNIVERSITY is participating with
Joseph A. Mazzeo, English, Dante and ant professor of biology at Reed College, some 200 others in an experimental tele-
medieval culture; Stephen M. Parrish, biochemical studies of formation of vision course sponsored by National
English, the poetic theory and technique lignin in plant tissues; Paul M. Naghdi Broadcasting Co. "Physics for the
of William Wordsworth John W. Reps, '46, professor of engineering mechanics Atomic Age" is being televised nation-
MRP '47, Gity & Regional Planning, at University of Michigan, the theory ally Mondays through Fridays from
city planning before the Chicago World's of elastic-lastic solids of work-hardening 6:30 to 7 a.m. and may be taken for Uni-
Fair of 1893; Albert Silverman, Physics, materials; Stephen Prager, PhD '51, as- versity credit by persons registering with
production of elementary particles by sociate professor of physical chemistry the Division of Summer Session & Extra-
high energy x-rays; and Bruce Wallace, at University of Minnesota, the statisti- mural Courses. Tuition is at the regular
Genetics, probable genetic structure of cal mechanics of transport processes in rate of $32 a credit hour or $96 a term.
natural populations of Brazilian Droso- liquids; and Thomas W. Whitaker '55, Tests, additional readings, and special
phila. geneticist at the crops research division, discussions supplement the television lec-
Alumni and their fields of study are US Department of Agriculture, La Jolla, tures and demonstrations. The course
Frederic G. Lane '21, professor of history Cal., the c u l t i v a t e d Cucurbitaceae. will continue through the second
at Johns Hopkins, the economic history Gregory Vlastos, formerly professor of term and at Cornell will be the equiva-
of Venice; David B. Tyler, Grad '30-'31, Philosophy who is now at Princeton, re- lent of the regular six-hour General
professor of history at Wagner Lutheran ceived a fellowship for studies of mysti- Physics course. Although the televised
College on Staten Island, the history of cism and logic in Greek philosophy. program is designed primarily for high
the Wilkes expedition in the South Pa- Professors Cardozo and Silverman school teachers of science, it may be
cific, Antarctic, and Columbia River re- have also received Fulbright awards in taken by any person desiring academic
gion, 1838-42; Dr. Ellen Brown, Grad addition to Guggenheim grants. Profes- credit. It is being taught by Harvey E.
'34-'35, associate professor of medicine sor Cardozo is at University of Brussels, White, PhD '29, professor of physics at
at University of California School of Belgium, and Professor Silverman is at University of California at Berkeley, and
Medicine in San Francisco, physiology University of Rome, Italy. Other Fac- by other internationally known scientists.
of small vessel circulation and tempera- ulty members who have received Ful- Professor John W. DeWire, Physics, is
ture regulation; Carl G. Parrish, MA bright awards and are lecturing and do- the local coordinator and adviser.
'36, professor of music at Vassar, nota- ing research at foreign universities are The'Extramural Division is also oper-
tions employed in the vocal music and Professors Mario Einaudi, Government, ating training courses on the Campus
instrumental tablatures of the Renais- at University of Turin, Italy; Myron G. evenings and Saturdays for elementary
sance; Milton J. Steinhardt, Grad '37- Fincher '20, Veterinary Medicine, Uni- and secondary school teachers of science
'38, associate professor of music, his- versity of Salonika, Greece; Robert H. and mathematics. The fall term courses
tory, and literature at University of Kan- Foote, PhD '50, Animal Husbandry, will be followed by more advanced
sas, the music of Jacobus Vaet, sixteenth Royal College of Agriculture, Copen- courses in the spring term, and students
century composer; Chester G. Starr, Jr., hagen, Denmark; William W. Lambert, are expected to continue. Their tuition
PhD '38, professor of history at Univer- Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway is paid by the State. Each term carries
sity of Illinois, early Greek civilization, Friedrich Solmsen, Classics, Frankfurt three hours of college credit and may be
1100-500 B.C. University, Germany; Lowell Fitz Ran- used for teacher certification. Courses
Also, Helen F. North '42, associate dolph, PhD '21, Botany, Aligarh Uni- and their instructors for this term are
professor of classics at Swarthmore, the versity, India; and Dr. David Kanofsky, "Our Physical Environment," Professor
264 Cornell Alumni NewsPhilip G. Johnson, PhD '33, Rural Edu- Erickson, Acting Director of Electrical awarded the Civic Medal of the Roch-
cation: "Chemistry for Teachers/' Pro- Engineering; and "Basic Concepts of ester Museum of Arts & Sciences. Last
fessor Robert A. Plane, Chemistry; "In- Mathematics," Professor Walter B. Car- month President Eisenhower appointed
troduction to Electronics/' William H. ver, Mathematics, Emeritus. her one of twelve vice-chairmen of the
1960 White House Conference on Chil-
dren and Youth.
Gannetts Give Historical Material Morse '14 Gives Flag
PAPERS of the late Trustee Frank E. was made up of twenty- two newspapers
UNITED STATES FLAG for the Big Red
Gannett '98, founder of the Gannett in four States, three television stations,
newspaper chain, and those of Mrs. and four radio stations. Barn was presented in memory of S.
Gannett were presented last month for Gannett was active in Republican pol- Hibbard Ayer, Jr. '14 by Clarence F.
the University Archives and Coljection itics, both in the State and nationally. Morse '14 at the annual meeting of the
of Regional History. For more than fifty In 1936, he was considered a possible na- Cornell Club of Ithaca, October 3. Ή i b -
years, Gannett played a leading role in tional Vice-Presidential candidate and by" Ayer, who died last March 15, was
the newspaper business and in the poli- in 1939-40 he was a candidate for the composer and author of "Cornell Vic-
tics of New York State and the nation. Republican Presidential nomination. As torious." Morse also gave a movie screen
The collection has personal and busi- founder and chairman of the Commit- for the Barn. He has previously presented
ness correspondence, photographs, and tee for Constitutional Government, he flags to the University for Day, Statler,
other items relating to the lives and fam- was credited more than anyone else with Barton, and Teagle Halls, Jack Moakley
ilies of Gannett and his wife, including the defeat of President Roosevelt's move House, and the White Art Museum.
films, tape recordings, medals, memoirs, to enlarge the Supreme Court, a meas- The flag will be flown from a staff on
and scrapbooks. It will furnish much ure Gannett considered destructive of the west wall of the Big Red Barn near
original material on the period and re- Constitutional principles. In 1942, he the entrance when the building is open
gion and on many facets of the Univer- was assistant chairman of the Republi- for alumni gatherings.
sity. can National Committee.
Gannett and Mrs. Gannett sent word Engineers Take Top Prizes
of their decision to give their papers to Mrs. Gannett is Active
Cornell a few days before the dedication
Mrs. Gannett is widely known for her JUNE GRADUATES of the College of Engi-
of the $500,000 Gannett Medical Clinic
work in child welfare. During World neering won the three principal awards
on the Campus in September, 1957. He
War II, she was a member of the State in the annual competition for design of
died December 3, 1957. Besides the gift
War Council and served on the commit- structures and machines sponsored by
of the Clinic, the Gannett Newspaper
tee for child care for working mothers. The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding
Foundation supported studies of nutri-
Until recently, she was a director of the Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio. This is
tional problems of Cornell students with
Convalescent Hospital for Children and the first time in the eleven years of the
annual grants. Gannett was elected
vice-chairman of the first aid depart- competition that students in one institu-
Alumni Trustee of the University in
ment of the Rochester chapter of the tion have made a clean sweep of the
1926 and served continuously, becoming
American Red Cross. She has been a three grand awards. The three top
Trustee Emeritus in 1949. He was a for-
member of the State Board of Regents awards brought the winners a total of
mer president of the Cornellian Council
since 1947 and is the only woman serv- $2750 and five scholarships of $250 each
and a member of the Cornell Clubs of
ing on the Board. Mrs. Gannett is vice- to the School of Civil Engineering and
Rochester and New York.
president and a director of the Frank E. two in the Sibley School of Mechanical
Gannett Newspaper Foundation, Inc., Engineering, named for the winners, for
Publisher Had Wide Interests which Gannett created in 1935, and is a total of $1750. The designs submitted
Born on a farm near Bristol, he en- chairman of the board of the Frank in the competition were projects that the
tered Cornell with a State Scholarship in Gannett Newspaperboy Scholarships, students undertook as part of their
1894 and received the AB in 1898. In Inc., which grants scholarships to boys courses in the two Schools.
his Junior year, he gained his first news- who deliver Gannett newspapers. In Richard L. Jarvis '57 received the
paper experience when the Ithaca Jour- 1955, she was the first woman to be first grand award of $1250, including a
nal, which he was later to own, hired first award of $500 in the structural di-
him at three dollars a week as its Cam- vision, for his design of a triangular sec-
pus reporter. Following a year as re- tion footbridge. His name is on four
porter on the Syracuse Herald, Gannett scholarships in Civil Engineering. Sec-
became secretary to President Jacob ond grand award of $1000, including
Gould Schurman when he was chairman Because of the Christmas recess $500 first award in the mechanical di-
of a commission to help establish govern- and mid-year examinations that fol- vision, is shared by John M. Jenner '57
ment in the Philippines after they were low soon after, news will be scarce in and Ephraim R. McLean III '57 for
ceded to the United States by Spain. January and February. For this rea- their design of an automatic welding ma-
Upon his return from the Philippines a son, our schedule of eighteen issues a chine, and two scholarships in Mechani-
year later, he became city editor of The year calls for only one issue in each cal Engineering are named for them.
Ithaca News and from October, 1902, of these two months. The January Third grand award of $500 includes the
through June, 1903, he was also editor ALUMNI NEWS will be mailed Janu- second award of $250 for structures. It
ary 22 and February issue, February was won by Gordon L. Kraus '57 and
and manager of the ALUMNI NEWS. In
12. Thereafter, beginning March 1, Robert G. Spicher '57 for their design
1906, he acquired a half-interest in the we shall resume publication the first
Elmira Gazette, his first venture into and fifteenth of every month through of a display arboretum, and a fifth schol-
publishing. The next year he merged the June. arship in Civil Engineering bears their
Gazette with the Elmira Evening Star The ALUMNI NEWS staff wishes all names.
and began the first of the numerous our subscribers a very merry Christ- In addition, four other students in
mergers that marked his newspaper mas and a happy New Year! Civil Engineering won a $25 sixth award
chain. When he died, the Gannett group for their design of a pedestrian foot-
December 15, 1958 265bridge. They are William P. Burke '57, performance of Sophocles' "Oedipus
David F. Davis '57, Lewis Freiderich '57, 55 Rex" given in the Ithaca College The-
all June graduates, and Harry E. Schlaf- "Alma Mater at Sea ater by Players, Inc. of Catholic Univer-
man '54, who received the BCE in Sep- RETURNING from the summer in Europe, sity in Washington, D.C. Professor Mary
tember. one evening on the SS America our cor- E. Duthie, Rural Sociology, Emeritus,
respondent Emerson Hinchlifϊ '14 was was in charge of arrangements for the
surprised to hear the "Alma Mater" be- conference. Mrs. Anne Ketcham Blod-
Press Offers Varied Books ing sung by passengers in an adjoining gett '27 of Ithaca is executive secretary
lounge. It drew him to investigate and he of the Association.
found as No. 9 in the United States Lines
FALL CATALOG of the University Press,
song sheet the words of the first verse
"Books from Cornell/' contains descrip- under the title, "Far Above Cayuga's
tions of thirty-four books published in Waters." So he brought us the booklet;
To Train Executives
1958. It is an interesting and varied list, Cornell's is the only college song among
classified into books of general interest its 78 "Everybody's Favorites." SEVENTH annual Executive Develop-
and those in the fields of history, govern- ment Program of the Graduate School of
ment, and law; economics, sociology, Business & Public Administration is an-
anthropology; literature and classics; nounced for June 22-July 31, 1959. The
nounced in Washington, November 6, its six-week course is for senior executives in
philosophy; education; and science. intent to license a dual-core reactor at
Three of the new titles are in the paper- business and government to help them
the University for student instruction prepare for positions of greater respon-
bound reprint series of Great Seal Books and research. It will be in a specially-
of recognized worth. sibility. Theme will be "A Top Manage-
constructed building back of Upson and ment Approach to Meeting Changing
Books from Cornell, Fall 1958, may be Kimball Halls near the brink of Casca- Conditions/' with leadership by mem-
obtained from Cornell University Press, dilla gorge. The reactor will be operated bers of the Faculty and from industry
124 Roberts Place, Ithaca. by the Department of Engineering Phys- and government. The Program will be
ics. It is being designed under direction limited to sixty participants selected by
of Professors Trevor R. Cuykendall, PhD the School from applications received by
To Extend Atomic Studies '35, and David D. Clark of the Depart- April 1. A fee of $1500 covers tuition,
ment and will be developed further by board and room, and materials for the
A RESEARCH BUILDING for the recently- Vitro Corp. of America, of which J. course. Participants will live together in
established Laboratory of Radiation Bi- Carlton Ward, Jr. '14 is president. Vitro the east wing of Balch Hall.
ology will be erected next summer on a Corp. will supervise construction of both
A booklet describing the Executive
tract east of the Campus near the the reactor and its building. AEC has
Development Program may be obtained
County Airport. The US Public Health granted funds to the University to obtain
from the director, Professor Frank F.
Service has announced a grant of $45,- nuclear equipment for the reactor.
Gilmore, Graduate School of Business &
000 for this, to be matched by an equal Public Administration.
amount from the University, and more
funds are expected from government Give Fall Degrees
agencies and others.
The Laboratory of Radiation Biology
was established a year ago in the Veter-
T H E UNIVERSITY conferred 279 degrees
in September, after the Summer Session
LETTERS
inary College Department of Physiology eighty-one first degrees and 198 ad-
under direction of Professor Cyril L. Co- vanced degrees. The BS was awarded to Questions Business School Site
mar. He had been chief of bio-medical thirteen in Agriculture, three in Home EDITOR: The University recently an-
research at the Oak Ridge Institute of Economics, five in Hotel Administration, nounced a decision as to the location of
Nuclear Studies. The Laboratory has and one in Industrial & Labor Relations. a possible new building for the Graduate
support from the Atomic Energy Com- The AB was granted to twenty students, School of Business & Public Administra-
mission, US Department of Agriculture, the BCE and BME to five each, the BEE tion. During the last few years, Cornell
and the Surgeon General's Office, De- and Bachelor of Engineering Physics to has been adding many new buildings at
partment of Defense. It is concerned three each, the BArch and BFA to two a fast rate. True, if a University is to
with investigating how nuclear fallout each, and the BChemE and BAgrE to keep abreast of the times, it must be
may contaminate animal feeds and hu- one each. Seventeen women received the modern. This has placed a burden on
man foods and prevention of ill effects BS in Nursing in New York City. those who plan where these new build-
on the body and nutrition. It will also be The PhD was awarded to sixty-seven, ings must go.
a coordinating center for use of radio- EdD to five, and 126 students received Their selection for this building is on
active materials in biological studies. Master's degrees. Garden Avenue and Tower Road where
Several graduate students have been sent for the past many years has been one of
here by government agencies and others the beauty spots of Cornell, the Floricul-
are coming from abroad with support Community Players Gather ture flower garden. Visitors and students
from the Kellogg Foundation. pause to admire the fine flowers, a spot
A grant of $10,685 from the Public NEARLY 400 delegates attended the an- unequalled by any other university.
Health Service will help to equip a Sani- nual conference of the New York State There is no other spot better suited for it.
tary Engineering laboratory in the new Community Theatre Association on the As an alumnus of Cornell and life-
Civil Engineering building now being Campus, October 11-13. Featured long resident of Ithaca, I would suggest
erected on Central Avenue. It will pro- speakers were the noted British director, that the rightful spot for this building
vide facilities to expand research on con- E. Martin Brown, who staged the Lon- is the green in front of the recently va-
trolling radioactive substances in water don and Broadway productions of T. S. cated Veterinary building on the lower
supplies and industrial wastes, and for Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" and "The Campus where it belongs. It would tie
the other work of the Department, such Confidential Clerk"; Kermit Hunter, in with Statler Hall and the proposed
as water and sewage systems, treatment, professor of drama at Hollins College; I&LR building. We realize that brick
and disposal. Professor Charles D. Gates and Professor George A. McCalmon, and mortar are more lasting than just a
is head of Sanitary Engineering. Speech & Drama, Director of the Uni- few flowers, but must these flowers go
The Atomic Energy Commission an- versity Theatre. The delegates saw a now?—DAVID O. FLETCHER '23
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